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CASCUMPEC BOY. F ATALLY INJURED BY TRACTOR

Beport France To GetABuIIc OF United States Arms Appro

4 Drowned, 2 Missing In Inverness, C. B., Tragedy

Human Chain Rescue Attempt Fails; Four In Hospital After Grim Experience.

Ancient Fragments Of Old Testament Found

' lDNDONAug. 10 -—(CP) ~Brit- llh archaeologists have discovered tsgments of the Old Testament written hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. They are be- lieved to be part of ancient records hidden by s. lost monastic Jewish sect fleeing persecution. The frag- ments, in ancient Hebrew, now are under examination in London.

Coming Events

"Ioe Cream social. Miilview Hail. Thumda , August 11th.

"Mali your Films to Gsrnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

“Dance at new school Iona East, August 12th. Drawing lottery.

"Ice Cream and Dance, Donald- lton School, Thursday. August 11th.

"Ice cream social, North Gran- Illla Hall, Friday, Aug. 12.

"Glen Valley Ice Cream Social Ihursdoy, August 11th. in school.

"Dancing at "Skyline" Dance flail, New London, Friday.

"Reserve ‘Pilcsday evening, Aug. Bid, for Ice Cream Social, New Glasgow Hall. '

"Dame. Elliotvale School, Fri- dey; August 12th. Miliview Orch- Oetrs.

"Provincial Plowing Match and ‘l-lorseflhow at. Dundas. Wednes- IIJ. September 21st.

"Ice Cream and Dance in Kelly's hoes School. ‘lliursday. August 11th. Crown and Anchor.

"Dance Mt. Stewart Legion Hall every Thursday night, music II Al Blanchard.

"All Schools in School Unit No. a will open on Tuesday. September

i "Afton Hall-August 11th. Var- kty Concert, Refreshments and snoing to MacNeiPI Orchestra.

"Ice Cream Social at Kelly's Oroas school. Thursday, August 11th. Good music. Other games.

“Dance, Vernon River Parish Iisll. Monday, August 15th. Mill- Vlew Orchestra. auspices C. W. l... Hutches served.

"Como to bell game and lee ltelrn festival at Mutch's Corner. It. Herbert, Aug. 11th. Ball game

t 0 p.m.

"For your dancing pleasure Wery Thursday evening, come tn the Islanders Country Club. Travel- lI-s Rest.

"South Milton Festivhl ln Ham- ilton Home's Field. postponed from '.l'tiesday to Thursday evening. Augudt 11th.-

"Notioe-Our store, egg grading ltetlon and meat shop. will be closed from August 14th to August

d. 11.8. Mat-Lead d: Cont.

Oman River.

.,..__ "The Mt. Stewart branch of the bnsdian Legion will hold their monthly meeting Thursday. August th, at 8 P. M. sharp. Oliver tit. Secretary.

"Abogweit R. B. P. No. 905 ting at Kingston Friday night, eqiie and Summersids practit- es invited. All members please

lttend,

“Double feature show at New Magoo tonight. "Prairie Chic‘:- aad "The Last Three." starr- irlauny lingers and Marjorie

10pm for community canning m» and Wednesdays. Alao blueberries. Consumers Can- nary Cooperative Association. Mt. Ilewart. . "The Atiss Grain Ccmplnv- Dom! of Trade Building. Montreal. invites enquiries from buyers of assorted oars of whole and ground ins in bags. Cara of bulk oats. riey and American com. Bran. lhortl and Middilnga when avail- able, and satisfaction guaranteed. "special lobster rubber. 8i- Ierk Lot 7, Tuesday evening. A 23rd. Supper served from o'clock on. Camel. blfllll. l“ dream. various attractions. Iuppor. ‘l5 "m; peg plats, Dance that night. Come to the but iobaur

Raging Forest Fire Reported Near Keniville

KENTVIIIE, N.S., Aug. l0 -(OP)—A raging forest fire some 15 mlies south oi hers in central Nova. Scotia tonight had spread to an area estimat- ed at five miles long and two miles wide.

The fire started Monday night in the Salmon Tail Lake district. Fanlled by light winds. it ‘has spread through tinder- dry timberland and slasn areas.

More than 300 volunteers are battling the flames and more are expected to join the fight tomorrow. Fire-fighting equip- ment is on route to the area from the Central Lands and Forest Department station at Shubenacadle.

No buildings were in danger as the fire was some distance fro-m any settlement.

The Weather Bureau said it would be hot in the district to- morrow. without any sign of rain.

Harriet Opens First Session 0f European Parliament

STRASBOURG, France, Aug. l0 -(AP)-E1der statesman Edouard Herriot of France opened the first session of Europe's Consulta- tive Assembly today with the warning that “our minds are div- lded" on admitting Germany. Winston Chilrchill, expected to lead a movement for the admis- sion of Western Germany, was loudly cheered by thousands of Strasbourg cltlrlns as he strode into the chamber for the inaugur- al session of the Old World's first unified parliament.

llerrlot told 101 distinguished delegates from a dozen countries they must deal with problems of "life and death" urgency to Eur- ope.

The session closed after the Frenchman's inaugural address with the vir- tual certainty that Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium will be elect- ed first President of the " ' l’ tomorrow,

immediately 15-minute

INVERNESS, N. S, Aug. l0- (CFD-A gallant, 25~man human chain trying to rescue two youths was snapped by a treacherous undertow off this Cape Breton mining town tonight and gnu,- persons were carried to a chili d9"?! by drownlnit. Two others are missing and four are in hos- pita].

Drowned were: Malcolm Gillis. 17, Gerald MacNeill, 14, Simon while. 32. and his son, Melvin, 27, all of lnverness. Name of the two missing were not known immed- lately.

Four! persons, including an R. C. P. constable, were recover. 111R in hospital after the cour- ageous effort by miners and fish. ermen was thwarted by the suck. inlZ undertow and pounding breakers. -

On Weiner Rout

Giills and MacNelll were on a weiner roast with a dozen other teen-lagers on the beach at this Western Cape Breton Island town and went in swimming.

The)’ Bot into difficulty close to shore and the two Whites went

to their aid, They were them. selves caught in the dragging undertow.

One of the youths on the party rushed to the coal mine and soon after the dread disaster signal whirled over the village. It nor- mally is sounded only for acci» dents in the colllery,

The harsh scream of the signal brought townsfolk flocking to the shore. About 25 of them formed n human chain through the heavy breakers to attempt to rescue the struggling swimmers.

The chain grew taut as the sea swirled about the legs of the human links. Then the undertow grabbed the end of the chain. parted it and dragged some 10 persons out to sea. The chain's end was only few yards from the Whites.

Girl Ia Rescued

A girl in the chain,‘ Phyllis Skinner, was one of those dragged seaward. She was finally rescued by Angus MacQuarrle, a powerful swimmer who pulled her to safety through the crashing breakers.

Five others curried away itot back to shore, exhausted. Four others made it with help and were taken to hospital. One of those was RCMP. Constable Len Fraser.

Search parties combed the shore tonight for the two missing per-

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(By Sohyler Allman) PALO ALTO, Calif, Aug. 10- (AH-Herbert Hoover said today that through government s - ing and taxes the United tates "is blissfully driving down the hack road" to collectlvilm and is "on the last mile."

The former President ssld on his 75th birthday that while "we have not had a great socializa- tion of property" the result was being achieved by government spending of the people's savings. Hoover spoke at Stanford Uni- versity at uEPCHlOIIlQl honoring him on his birthday. In his ad- dress he lashed out at new Fed- eral and State proposals for spending taxes. \

“Along this road of spending," Hoover said,__ "the government either takes over, which is So;

"Ice cream festival Thursday, Aug. 11th, Central United Church grounds, Dunltaffnage.

t‘ omraties- Monthly meeting of ingston Branch Canadian Legion will be held Thursday.

Aug. 11, at 8.30 p.m. in ,ihe Leg- ion l-lome, Charlottetowni

"Regular fiance‘ Winsios Sis- iton Hall, Iriday. August 11th. ltestern Rhythm Ion Orchestra- Daneing 9.80 to 18.80. Admission 50c. Canteen service. Bus leaves I. M. '1‘. 0.16 and 10.

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monthly meeting Kingston Drench No. 30, Canadian atoll. will meet at the Legion

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Collectivism

cislism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which ia Fas- clam. "The American mind is troubled by the growth of collectivisin throughout the world.

"There ls a considerable group of fuzzy-minded people who are engineering a compromise with all these European infections. They fail to realize that our Am- erican system has grown away from the systems of Europe for 250 years. They have the foolish notion that a coiiectiviat economy cah at the same time preserve personal liberty and constitutional government."

But. Hoover said. the "auster- ity" in Britain should he "a suf- ficient spectacle" of what happens when countries try it.

Hoover aald the thinking of the American people was drugged by aucit slogans as "welfare state." He called this, term "a disguise for the totalitarian state by the routs of apendin ."

Hoover presented some figures. The average working United States citizen, he said, now must work 61 days a year to pay taxes supporting the government, local. atnte and federal.

He divided the days this way: 12 to pay obligat‘ from fortnt-r wars: 24 for national defence And the cold war; 19 days for other Federal expenditures and 14 days for state and local government.

Hoover did not mention what things he thought should be tie- fer-red.

Hoover remarked only in pass- ing that for the last two years

Strong french Army Aim Of Truman's_P|an

By MAX BOYD

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10-—(AP) —The strategy behind President Truman's 31.450.000.000 f o r e i g n arms program became clearer to- day as the United States military hish command disclosed that the bulk of assistance ‘to Europe would go to rearm once powerful France.

Gen. Omar N. Bradley revealed that a strong French army is at the heart of the Truman admin- istration's plan to build up forces in Western Europe.

Bradley said the $1.160,000,000 earmarked for European members of the North Atlantic Alliance will not give Europe the military strength to stop an attack by Russia. The United States army chief-of-stafl said it will take five

long“-—for Western Europe to build up her economic and milit- ary power to a point where she can do that. But he added that the aid proposed now will streng- then her to the point where there may be no attack.

Bradley said detail." of the plan to channel the bulk of European arms aid to France would have to be given to Congress secretly.

A recent Associated Press sur- vey by European members of the Atlantic Alliance showed that France now has the largest force of military manpower on the con- tinent outside of Russia. There are 469.000 men in the French army, 68,000 in the Air Force, and 53,000 in the Navy,

In explaining the foreign arms program to a House of Represent-

gativcs committee recently, he said

it was assumed that in event ol_

such an attack "the hard core" nf existing ground defences would come from Europe, “aided by

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Heal Wave Continues In Southern Ontario

(By The Canadian Press)

The record-breaking heat wave continued over Southern Ontario Wednesday and no relief is pro- mised for today.

Toronto's high of 97 degrees was a record for this date. There was no prospect of cooler air- moving eastward in northern re- gions—varying towards the South Thursday.

The general forecast is for a high of 95 degrees with the weather sunny and humid today in Toronto and Southern Ontario.

After touching 87 at Montreal, the mercury tumbled with thun- dar showers and a cooling breeze. One big ihermomet on a roof- top in downtown Montreal how- cvcr showed ‘104 degrees at the peak.

Ottawa reached a high of B4 but mid-afternoon showers sent it down to 73.

It was comparatively cool in the West, which had its hot spell last week. High for Winnipeg, Bran- don and Rivers in Manitoba was about 85 but a high of 00 was promised for Thursday.

On the Pacific coast, Victoria was down to 57 degrees. Nancou- ver showed a top of 63, Peniicion 74 and Kamloops 75.

Australian‘ Coal Strike Scheduled To End-Nexilleeli

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 10 — (Reuters) — Australia's crippling mid-winter coal strike, which began A5 days ago, will end next week. the Miners’ federation announced today.

R. l-lannilton, acting president of the Miners‘ Federation, said union leaders Friday will order the country's miners to go back to the pits next week.

The announcement came a few hourl after the miners, idle since June 2'! over demands for higher wages and shorter hours. voted at mass meetings in favor of ending the strike.

The actual vote was on the quest- ion whether the Communist-dom- inated Minors’ National Cotmoil should sen new wage talks with the governments of Australia and of New South Wales, the ohief coal-producing state. The finl

he has been working on proposals ass eoonomled la easement,

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or 10 years-“No one knows how.

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cattle were in the lower part of the barn while the milking t-tlufp- merit and some machinery were in

By Kay Rex

OTTAWA, Aug. 10 —(CPi _Thc Canadian Teachers Federation will seek support of Provincial Govern- ments in its Fecierai-aid-for-edu- cation campaign.

The current drive which teachers are making for Federal education grants to the Provinces occupied most of the afternoon discussions at the C.T.F. convention in pro- gress herc. It followed a lengthy morning session which dealt with the Federation's position in world affairs.

Delegates moved to "intensify" the program for Federal aid and approved the setting up of a spec- ial C.T.F. committee to direct the ivork, which members will be appointed by the provincial or- ganlzaiions.

Summing up, a delegate from British Columbia said the policy- maklng stage was over, and now it was “simply a question of selling the idea. (of Federal aid) to the public."

C. T. F. secretary-treasurer George Croskcry of Ottawa, noted that a Dominion-Provincial confer- ence on taxation will be held by 1951. By that time he hoped to see the Provinces 001110 out deflnitdy in support of Federal Aid.

Dr. Bernice MacNaughton nf Mon-cton, N.B.. said tho Minister of Education for New Brunswick has shown himself in favor of Fed- eral aid. She quoted liim as saying it. was “the only way education could be financed."

Delegates were found to have

News In Brief

TORONTO, Aug. 10 -- (CF) —- Flrst, jet-propelled Airliner [iro- duccd on the North American con- tinent, the Canadian-designed Avrn letliner today passed auc- cessfully through initial flight tests.

OTTAWA, Aug. 10—(CPl—-Twa membcrs of the top advisory hoard on continental defence will attend a cabinet level military discussion here tomorrow. it was learned today. adding to conjec- ture about the one-day visit of Defence Secretary Johnson of the United States.

WASHINGTON, Airg. 10-(API-- Military and htomic ctr-operation havi- been added to the list of subjects scheduled for three-power discussion here in September. in- formants said todny. Originally. the Anglo - Canadian-American talks were to have centred mi Britain's tlollnr crisis.

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APOHAQUI. N.B., Aug. l0 - (CP) -— Delbert Duncan owes his life to his c108. which Jumped on his bed and aroused him at 1 AM. today. Duncan. alone in the two- stdrey house. found it filled with smoke and the upper part blazing. The building was guted and most

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Teachers Seek Provincial Backing In Campaign For Federal Aid. In Education

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imixtxi feelings about the value of Canadian Education Week in their various Provinces.

Inaugurated by the C.'I‘.I". in 1936, Education Week will be held March 5-11 next year.

H. D. Dee of Victoria, said that in British Columbia Education Week has been "not very satisfactory."

On the other hand. a. delegate from New Brunswick said that Province had "excellent results."

and “good ctr-operation" from all concerned. Delegates approved a recom-

prialtion

Picture Of Disastrous Fire At S. D. U.

and Malpeque roads. (For another picture 58B Page 5.) The pictures were snaptped 1v Leiih Tierney. City, amateur photographer who happened on the scene at the height of the fire.

Bubonic Plague in New ldeitico

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SANTA rs, N. M. Aug. 1o_ Illness of two New Mexico resid- ents today was found to be Bu- bcnic plague-the Black Death of the Middle Ages.

Only 21 other cases of the dia- ease have been listed in the Un- itccl States during the last 25 years.

The diagnosis was reported by Dr. Vernon Link of the Western Contagious Disease Control Cen- tre in San Francisco.

The victims are a 10-year-old boy and a 37-year-old man. They are residents of two widely-sepa- rated villages in Northern New

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BLOOMINGTON. Ind, Aug. 10- fAPl-‘Fliteen persons . met fiery death as a Greyhound bus toppled sideways and burned after hitting a bridge abutment near here early today. \

No one aboard the bus escaped unscathed; 12 other passengers and the driver were injured.

The bus was on a run from Ind-

ianapolis to Evansville. The sc- cident occurred about 50 miles ‘southwest of Indianapolis.

The bus lavas roiling along a

straight stretch of state highway 37 in the ‘hill country Justynorth of Bloomington when the accident happened. it is one of the few straight soctiom of the winding road between Indianapolis and Bioomington.

Many of the passengers were dozing, as it was shortly after midnight. Others were looking out at the countryside lighted by s.

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bright moon.

Wayne Cranmer, 25, of Indiana-

polis. the bus driver. gave this vers- ion of the accident:

"It. seemed like the steering gear Either that, or we "had a tire blowout. I don't know what happened."

The bus. he said, banged into the three-foot-hlgh abutment. The right front wheel was sheared off.

The bus. out of control. cpreoned

150 feet down the highway, skidded completely around and finally roll- ed over on its left side. blockim an emergency exit.

A few passengers, probably two or three, the bus driver said, cs-

caped through the front door.

Others climbed through a roar

window booted out by Edgar Davis.

4.7. husky taxicab driver. some of the survivors crcdiicd Davis with heroic work in rescuing them. fie suffered back and shoulder injur- lea.

Changes Ann

FRIIDERICTON, Aug. l0 —(CP) -Isaac Melenson was sworn into the New Brunswick Cabinet today as minister without portfolio and chairman of the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission.

The Liberal n-itttnber for Kent County succeeded lion. J. G. Boucher, whose appointment as Provincial Secretary-Treasurer also was announced today by Premier J. B. McNair. The changes follow- ed appointment of the former Pro- vincial Secretary-Treasurer, lion. J. J. Hayes Doone, to the Canad- ian Senate.

Calling of a by-election will be necessary to fill the , Chsrlotto County vacancy in the Legislature left. by Mr. Doone‘s appointment. There was no offic‘a1 indication of a lay-election dale but it was con- sidered likely the seat will be fii.- ed before next year's session of the Legislature.

Charlotte elected four Liberals

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New ‘Brunswick Cabinet

Provincial general elections in June last year. The present party stand- ing in the 52-seat Legisiature: Lib-

crals 46, Progressive Corservetivc flvegacant one.

Mr. Bnticher. 52. first. elected tn

the House in 1935, is one of three members for Msdawaska and had been Electric Power

County chairman of the Commission since 1940.

Mr. Melanson, 65. has had long in municipal affairs. First cit-vied to the Legislature in 1939. he has sr-rved iis Government Whip for seri-ral yearn.

Other Cabinet members in ad- dition to Premier McNalr, who also is Attorney-General, are: Hon. J. Andre Doucet, Industry and Re- construction; Hon. A.C. Taylor, Agriculture; Hon. W.S. Anderson, Public Works; Hon. J. W. Brlttaln. Education; lion. F.A. McGrand. Health and Serial Services; Hon. $.21. Mooors. Labor; Hon. 3,1. Gill, Leads and Minn.