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p a n y G a s L i n e “Tapped.” Funerals Of Many Child Vic- tims Held.

NEW IDNDON. Tex”. March ri-(Am-Testhnony that a. gas line serving the explosion-shatter- ed london Corlsolfdated School had been connected to a gas company 1ine“with0llt knowledge or con- p-m" was heard by a. military in- quiry today while the funerals of the 465 child victims proceeded with tragic sequence.

l). Clark, field foreman for the parade Gas Company. gave the testinlony.

"I know that no person had per-

‘ mission to connect the school line to the Parade Gas Company's re- sidue gas line,’ he related.

Citzlr said first knowledge he had of the connmtion came about sx o'clock ‘Thursday afternoon. sev- mil hours after the explosion.

"I learned the schcol was being furnished {rem the residue inc when ivord came to me we should shut it off. I found a ditch dug. apparently. from the locks cf the ground. about 60 to 90 days trfcre. l closed the valve and disconnect- ed the line."

Clark explained that. frequently in the gas fields connections arc made to company lines. sometimes

by homes, rind gas is drawn off. ‘ ‘ehorcd off Castle Island in Boston‘ illlrbour.

l-fe said the companies have men hired to walk the lines and scck out any such connections.

When the connections are found. he said. "we file a n"tl‘c-: notifying them we are going t0 disconnect them." ‘

While other Fast Texas communities cx- pressed fear of sim‘l:r tragedies. General compliance wits cx"ect d for Governor James Allreds rc- quest that heating systems in all schools be examined f:r suffty be- fore use.

Clrlssts will be susricndcd in the entire secfion toniorrolv "l defer- ence to the dead. for mm" of ‘whom funerals could not be held today. -

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"Killgotox. t; 3. t...s vs. Wiltshire Cornwall Rink tonight. Sudden death playoff game. L-TSO.

"McLean Mills at Stunchel will opell for sawing about Apri. 1st. L497-3-11-l5-l9-22.

"See "Noble Outcast" in Sum- merfleld Hall by GTRHVIIIQ play-

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"Borden Rink tonight, MacFar- lane's. Summerside vs. lvr Roger: Trophy. G31 ice.

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"lflaldit-Brookfield Hall. Brad- llbane Pay-Todds Orchestra — Fflmlly Album. Pictures and songs- Lluiches. L-144-3-22-li.

"Dance Cardigan Hall Easter Monday. March 29m. Webster's Orchestra. Also drawing for Rug.

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_"Institute Dance in French River Hall on Tuesday 1118m- blmch. Admission 25 cents.

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"Loading live hogs at Kenslns- km all day ‘Thursday, March 25. Nicholson Bros. loading at Hunter River Flt-lay until noon. sgd, M - Ewen and Campbell. L-‘IB .

"Don't misg the play “For the [We of Johnny" by Tracadie Dramatic Club in Tracadle Hall hater Monday. March 29th- L471.

“Requesting all Milk Producers lnd Venom to watch for general meeting next week. Date in be en- "Wnoed through the prcea.

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"Liveltock Marketing Board ‘Ming livestock it Railway Stock-

Ila foot Prince Street", Char- "tietown. ‘Iueodey, Marcifal. un- til a o'clock and every l eaday thereafter until further notice. We 11° not load on Friday of any week.

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OTTAWA, March Il-A crowded program of Government legislation and budget resolutions faces Par- liament in a week that will be ab- breviated by the recess next Thurs- day night for Easter.

Members will attack a variety of Government bills and the remain- ing tariff schedules, with one eye on the still long legislative agenda and the other on Coronation steamship schedules.

‘T110113 are still five weeks before sailing time of the last ves"el which the parliamentary delegation can take to reach England in time for the Coronation‘ May 12 and the Imperial Conference to follow:

Much work can be accomplished in that period. but the mills of Parliament ground rather slowly last week and there were some gloomy‘ predictions legislation would have to be curtailed for an early prorogation.

Three Nova Scotia I Seaman Missing

(Al. By Guardian's Special Wire)

BOSTON, March 21 Police sought in vain tonight for three seamen missing suice Saturday

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Prime Minister Mackenzie King will be back at his desk tomorrow and is expected to make an 1m- mediate announcement of the new Alberta Lieutenant Governor to succeed Hon. P. C. I-I. Primrose who died last week. It is under- stood J- C. Bowen, Edmonton. once floor leader of the Liberals in the Alberta. legislature, has been selected for the post.

Opposition leader Bennett. who participated in the by-clection battle in Hamilttn East, will a‘so be back. Voting takes place in that traditionally Conervativc rid- t lng tomorrow as well as 1h Bon- aventure. which has been Liberal since before the turn of the cen- tury. By-elections were necessitated by the death of H. E. Wilton the Hamilton East member. and Hon Charle: Mareil. who represented Bonaventure for nearly four dc- caries.

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Workman Enjoy “Richfest” At German Embassy

IDNDON. March 20—(CP)-—0I1"

night from the Nova Scotla .u.rn- bcr schooner, "Irene Myrtle," an-

A rowboat. in which the men left forshore, was recovered, half full of water and minus one our, on the beach.

A hat, identified as belonging to Cnlpahl Calvin Merriam, 39, 0f Purrsboro, N. S.. one of the missing men, was found on the sand a half mile away. '

Police said they would start dragging tomorrow. Missing with Captain Merriam are Wallace Par- ker. 23, of Parrsboro, and George Surctte, 18 of Yamiout-h.

divorce Gases Show Increase

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire) - OTTAWA, Manh 2l-An upward trend was shown in the number of divorces grrnted in Canada dur- ing 193G over the prwceding year according to a. report issued today by tlzc Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics.

Divorces granted in 1936 number- ed 1,526, an increase cf 150 or about l1 per cent compared with I935.

Divorces by Rovinoes with 1935 figures in bracket": Prince Edward I laud nil (it, Ncva Scotia 41 (52).

(261, Ontario 511 (463) Manitoba 179 (1451. Szskatchewan 79 (60). Aiberta 209 (209), British Colum- bla 433 (384).

JERSEY CHAMPION

CALGARY — (C?) — Vestra‘: Future. owned by B. P. Ootterell. Calgary. has set an all-time 305- day record for jersey cows on the prairies and has been awarded the Canadian Jersey Club gold medal. She yielded 13,359 pounds o.’ milk. 760 pounds of fat tested 8.15 per cent.

qnnu-op played host, i0 40) British

zgrving the German custom of "Righfest," Ambassador von Rib-

and German workmen recon- structing the German Embassy.

“Rilzhfest” is a celebration for wm-kmen given by the owner of a house undergoing repairs. Th‘: gmng-gnasons, plastclers. carpen- ters and hand-ymen. trooped into exclusive Carlton House Terrace for a mea). of pork knuckles. sauerkraut and potatoes washed down by German beer.

Von Rtbbentrop rat beneath a b'g, garlanded photograph of Hit- ler. in a room hung with flags bearing the Nazi swastika. At the head of the table sat the Brtish and German foreman. beside inl- portant German Emhrrsy officials. The ambaswador made speeches in German and English and the workmen of both countries cheered

both lustily despite the fact they TIJTGEFILOOC only their native tongue.

Frau von Rbbentrop chatted,

with the British workmen whol were dressed in their Rvr~'~~t~=-st.| “nth national anthems were sung‘ and wh’le the German workmen‘ gave the Nazi salute, the English- men cheered. . Sedate Carlton House then saw. its unusual party devsvoo merry, proportions. British w ork m e n danced hornpipes WITIIC German workmen sang natolml songs. One

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Englishman produced n mouthy organ and the Gcmwn rem-Wren‘ were taught the music of"’f‘ippe-

rarv" and "Two Loimlv Black Ems."

Vital lt-atistlcs: Witlfn the first hour l0 barrle of beer o'er» con- sumed and bv the end of the cveningx300 gallons.

BIG PRICE FOR STAMP NEW YORK (CP) auction record for the M-cent. United States airmail stamp of‘ 1918, with the centre invert , was made when an unused specimen sold for $3.230 at a sale here.

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Negotiations Re - opener In Railway Wage Dispute

MONTREAL. March fik-Wafle negotiations between the railways and leaders of their dissatisfied employees were reopened late Sat- urday, third day of a Union chiefs conference called to decide whether the workers shell strike for hill!"

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All railway and employees sour- nee refused to divulge Whit hid gone on at e secret. and suddenly- “ugd conference between Union Leaders and high railway officer!- but. a company oflic'al confirmed that there had been such a meet- ing. Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific reormnW-iv" m); pert, the some informant

id.

“The unexpected conference came about. the railway source

new development in rigid silence- "I have nothing to say on the subject." President S. J. Hunger- ford of the C. N. R. declared. The usual "no statement" was reiterated by all union officials.

But the reopening oi’ negotia- tions served to indicate more de- finitely that the rail union dele- gates. nmeeentlng an estimated 117.100 men. had arrived at n. de- cision, one way or the other, at their secret conference that ppened hare Thursday on the strike quea- tion. Even before. there had been signs that their attitude had been detrrmined.

On this point. though. none of the labor men would talk tonight. Howard B. Chase, general chair- man of the more than so delegates from cont to cout. merely and

said, at the request of the men.

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Federal ‘Ministers In- terviewed Last‘ Week By M a y o r Turner And Coun. MacLeodi.

EmDhasis on the urgent need of unemployment relief, and 0n the special claims of Charlottetown as the birthplace of Confederation for an extensive Federal programme of beautification of Victoria Park, was placed by His WOIEhIp Mayor Turner and Coun. George Mac- UBOd. chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council, in interviews last week at Ottawa with the Federal Ministers of Fin- ance. Labor and National Parks.

Attending the Dominion confer- ence of Mayors and Municipalities at Ottawa, from which they re- turned Saturday night, Mayor Turner and Coun- MacLeod took occasion to present the City's un- employment claims very fully be- fore the Federal cabinet ministers. Through Mr. Peter Sinclair, M. P., they had two interviews with Hon. Mr Dunning, two with I-lon. Mr» Rflisers and one with Hon. Mr. Crerar,

The rgfie representatives urged upon the Mini-tors that Charlotte- town. as the birthplace of Confed- eration, was entitled to special consideration in the way of a fed- eral grant for beautification of the city. A specific projeot was outlined for improvement of Victoria Park, including construction of a pmed driveway around the water front, which rnxzht be named Confeder- ation Boulevard, also recondition- ing of Fort Edward. erection of up-to-dcte bathing houses, football and baseball fields, children's playgrounds. and a general pro- gramme cf Park beautification. A map showing the planned improve- ments was left I th the Minister", t3 be submitted to the Prime Min- fulfil‘.

In addition, the City's serious unemployment problem was em- phasized. Figures giving a detailed rnalyrsis of employable persons li'.\'.‘ submitted. These figures howed unemployed in Charlotte- town numbering between 600 and

800. or a t: l, with dependents, of "W": 2.000 rsons in need of re- lief.

The briefs presented were prom- ised careful consideration.

Threatens To Sail “General Strike”

DETROIT, March ZI-Jrhreats of a "general strike" in the Detroit autolncble industry tomorrow heightened tension tMay and iri- CNB-Sfid prospects of a clilmx this week in the Chryrltr strike.

The day was quiet in the motor. city, but pickets fer 8,000 defiant trlkcrs in eight Chryder plants kept a close watch for any sign of an attempt to carry out. a court order to elect them forcibly.

Homer Martin. president cf the United Automobile Workers Union, who issued the “general strike" threat after police arrested 60 packing house strikers and routed about I50 women from a cigar fac- tory Saturday, asserted:

“We consider these attacks a bllild-up for an attack on the automobile union sit-downs."

iteny Knowledge 0f Plot Against King

LONDON, March 2l—-A spokes- man for Scotland Yard today u- serted police headquarters knew nothing about reports it was in- vestigathrg a suspected plot Ir- airlst the life of King Geofie VI.

The newspaper Sunday Referee reported such an investigation in progress. It said detectives had raided the room of an unknown man and found a. throwint Kfllffl wrapped up in a map ofthe route of the Coronation procession-

‘Illa newspaper asserted Scotland Yard was questioning an unnamed man.

It reported detectives found more than 100 newspaper ellpplnl giving details of the Coronation procession May 12.

- DetniLs covered by the clippinll. it said, included the position to be occupied by the King's carriage in the procession, the times when the procession was scheduled to purl

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MADRID, March 21—Govern- men forces extended their victory on the Guadalajara front today pressing forward in the wake of a rapid. insurgent retreat and occupy- ing several new towns. said Gov- ernment accounts of the operations northeast of Madrid.

Some reports placed the main Government army in the vicinity‘ of Almadronos, 32 miles northeast: a‘ Guadalajara on the highway to l Zaragosa. “ Recepture of that tovm. which‘ fell at the first inrurgent onslaught ‘ two weeks ago, would mean re-‘ covery of all territory lost in the

insurgent offensive that has been I rolled back. ‘ The Government reported it: ‘

troops reached Cogollor, on the road 1 from Cifuentes and eight miles- from Almadrones, and claimed capture of Yeia, a small village to the south of Cogollor Sixty-two more Italian prisoners were captured today, the Defence Junta announced. I l

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Seven Year Old Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Benjamin Weather- bie Loses Life In Stream.

Body of Lincoln Weatherbie, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Weatherbie, Valleyfield. was found in a stream near Suth- er1and’s Bridge Saturday, after he had been reported missing since late Friday afternoon.

Dismissed from school Friday afternoon. the boy started for the brook near the Maritime Electric " Plant where he planned to meet the farm man-servant. When he failed to make an appearance residents and R. C. M. P. officers began o search.

Mittens-and a sled. identified as owned by the child, were discover- ed on the bank where a small bridge, washed away by a recent freshet, formerly crossed the stream which gave rise to fears he had fallen into the water-

Dragging operations were con- tinued throughout the night and early Saturday morning the body was found by Bred Vuozzo and ‘Peter Johnston, near the old Suth- erland Mlll a mile from where his belongings were located.

Brewers’ Horses Draw One Coach

IJONDON. March 20—-(CP)—— Coronation Day will behold the appearance in the streets of West- l mlrlstcr cf the State Coach of the House of Commons.

Believed to have been designed originally for King William of Orange, the speaker's coach bears g certain similarity to the famous coach of the Lord Mayor of London, It weighs nearly three ions, and is mounted on "C" springs. which cause it took rook ominously when descending a hfl.

Although the State looks to the upkeep of the Speaker's coach, and; provides hamosl, it does not pro- I ride horses. For nearly a. century the privilege of horsing the coach has remained with the famous brewing firm of Whitbread, since the days when Mr. Speaker Shaw- Lefevre married a. Whitbreaxl. Prior to the late King's Jubilee the only time in the last 35 years whbn the coach had been seen in the streets was at the time of King George's Coronation. 0n that occasion the journey taken was merely from the speaker's house to the Abbey, about 400 yards.

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Parliament Faces CrowdedProgram

Legislation May—I:I-ave To Be Cur- tailed For Early Prorogation. Easter Rece§s_'l_‘_hursday.

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1\'I.C., V .D., To Com- mand Contingent. All Branches Of Service Represent- ed.

OTTAWA, March 2l—.-\ ioiui of. 2T3 officers and other ranks. re- 1 presenting all arms of the Canzv‘ dian militia, naval and air forces, will be commanded by Col. J. E. L. . Streight, Liberal House member for; York West, on the contingent ‘ which Canada will send this year I to the coronation. This is just slight- ' ly more than one-third of the party which represented this country at the coronation of the late King George V.

Second in command of the con- flngent, according to the announce- today by Defence Jlinisier [an MacKcnzie, will be Lt. Col. R. E. Fufard of Matane. Que.

More than half of the coronation personnel are lmen who have seen active service. A total of 156 out of the 273 are veterans of the Great War. The announcement said other members of the staff would be ap- ‘ pointed later. ‘

Nursing Matron E. F. Pcnse of‘ Kingston, and Nursing Sister E. A.‘ Pontlng of Montreal, are slated to. accompany the party.

The announcement did not say when the coronation contingent would leave Canada.

Twenty-one officers and men have been chosen from M. D. No. 6 (Halifax). They are Col. C. A. Good, Aimapclis Valley; Lt. Col. O. G. Donovan, Halifax; Major R. T. Chisholm, Sydney; E. Rennie, G. Rollfe, H. A. Taylor, A. H. Kay, W. Caklwel. Sydney Mines; J. Green, Yarmoulh; P. McAuJay, Glace Bay; A. MacDonald. Stellarton and Fred FOX, Lurienburg:

Major T. B. Rogers, Charlotte- town. P. E. 1.; G. R. Brady, E. S. Skeffirlgton, A. D. ltlcMuster. J. A. McDonald and Chas. E. Praughl, all of Charlottetown.

Ten selections have been made from M. D. No. 7 (Saint John). as follows:

Lt, Col. G. G. K. Holder, Saint John; Major J. A.-l'ueger, Chatham; Capt. R. M. Clark, Woodstock; G.‘ Clynick, Fredericton; H. Foumer, Bathurst; P. Burgoyne, Saint John; W. S. McKnight, Fredericton; H.W. Campbell. Hampton; H. Steeves, Salisbury. and F. E. Derenne, Saint John.

Officers and airmen of the Royal Canadian Air Force numbering 18‘ ranks have been selected. They in- l elude:

Wing Commander

S. Personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy follow:

Lleut. Comdr. A. M. Hope, Ottn- wa, S. Taper. “Stadacona." C. M. olarlin. "Sngucnay," J. R. Joslhl "St.

E. Jones, "Naden," J. Bar-rick, “Fra- ser." G. F. Adam "Naden." F. Free- mlm, "Skecna."

Royal Canadian Naval Reserve:

Lieut. Comdr. J. J. Deslatlriers, Qulbcc: W. S. Woods. Vancouver; N. Julien. Halifax; H. W. McDon- aid, Charlottewwn: C. D. Smith, Montreal.

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve include:

Lieut. Comdr. J. P. Connolly, Halifax: Lleut. N. L. Pickersgill. Rclzina: sub. Lt. F. Brock. Saint John: L. Connolly. Charlottetown and B. A. Parfit-t. Saint John.

BERLIN, March 2l—(AP)—A.h open fight between Nazi Germany and the Roman Catholic Church appeared in prospect tonight as the result of e. vigorous Pastoral letter by Pope Pius XI circulated to Ger- man Catholics.

The letter. dated March l4. from the Vatican. which astounded elven German Catholics accused the Nazi regime of having violated the German-Vatican Concordat of 1933 and encouraging anti-christian movements.

Principles of the Catholic faith wire presented in the Holy Fath- er's pronouncement in such sharli contrast to the philosophical teach- ings of Naziism that Catholic cir- cles in Berlin fully expected Nazi Government to cancel the

= pasenger run to Manila, continued 1 of

H. Edwards and 50 wounded here today in a and W. G. Webber, Dartmouth, N. bloody

Pope ’s Letter Indicates Upen Conflict With Nazis

CRASH

Sudden - end I To Globe - girclling Flight Attempt

Amelia Earhart-End Two Com-

panions Uninjured In ‘Crack-up — Map Anew World Flight.

HONOLULU, March 2l--(.-\l’)—.\.rlu_v filers praised the cool nerve of Amelia Earhart today for averting pos- sible tragedy in the cracitup of her $80,000 "laboratory; plane” and said the real cause of the accident which spoiled her world flight plans might never be known.

‘Tye seen and participated in many crashes,“ said Bri- gadier General Burion Yount of the United Slates Army Air Force, who witnessed the hrellihillkiilg smashup. "but l never saw zinybody" come out of one so cooiy as she."

Yount said damage to the plane p1‘0I)11I)I_V would be sev-

‘ crai thousand dollars.

Aboard the liner Maiolo hound for Los Angcles, Miss Earhart and her colleagues planned another attempt to fly around the world, but details depended upon repairing 0f the plane, which was ordered back to its factory in Los Angeles. I