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INGWIYOPIC To Try Rain-Making". Experiment

Author Of Famous Tarzan Stories Dies

Find Runaway ~ Boys With $9.000 Roll In Jervis

By Gib ltalcy

PITTSBURGH. March 19 -(AP) — How do three kids feel when they're fancy-free and have a $0,- 000 roll of bills in their loans?

Let the kids themselves tell you:

Nick Palermo. 11: “Boy. it's really something. I never thought dad had that kind of doughi"

Paul Yoculan. 12: "Well. I ate so much I got sick. We bought everything we could—chop sucy, hamburgers. hot dogs — ‘every. thing.“

Michael Manning. 13: "I was scared. I was worried someone would hit us in the head and take the money."

The three youngsters. all resi- dents of Eric, Ps., were appre- hended early today in downtown Pittsburgh. '

And what makes boys ‘tome’!

Nick, the youngest of the trio.

acted as spokesman: ' "We all played hockey from school one day not long ago and we've been getting heck from teacher ever since. But, gee. mis- .cr. don't you say that or we'll .'ealiy get heck when we go back ;o school!"

Nick said the idea to run away tame to him and his young com- vzinions Friday.

Takes llpdfla Money

"I knew dad had some hidden in a closet but I know how much.

“I was supposed to leave the house to take my accordeon les- son. I put my accordeoh under the bed. took the case and got the money out of the closet. Then 1 put the money in the case and met Mike and Patti."

The boys travelled by bus to Meadville. 40 miles south of Erie, where they stayed at a hotel. ‘We got a good suite. and. boy. did we have a pillow fight!" said young Nick.

Sfiiutdfiy they went on to Ytmnzstown. 0.. where they got a portable radio for $36, and then proceeded to Pittsburgh.

After buying shoes. shirts and :30-ls. the boys checked in at a otel.

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‘They ‘were about to go to bed. Nick said. when he turned 0 his new radio. The news biared orth:

"Police are looking for $9.000 and three boys in Pittsburgh."

Nick said:

"30)’. we got out of that hotel in a hurry. We started to walk 3%“ of town. - - - A couple of cops Picked us up. - - - And that's that.“ '0fIlCel‘-S at Central Police Sta- tion counted what remained of the money. It added up to $9.005.

I Nicks father, a,tavern owner,

91! Immediately for Pittsburgh 10 Pick up his son. the two other :§l's—and his money. He declar-

‘h lm thankful they are okay and V at I have my $9.000 left. i be- .lcve I had between $9.100 and W00 S0 the boys dldn‘t spend too much when you come to think of

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. *0 mung Nick. And then I'm “"18 in put that money where it °Blonas-in the bank."

iauomo. Calif., March is _ (AP)—Edga.r Rice Burroughs. 74.

creator of the fictional Tarzan. died at his home today. _

His personal physician. Dr. Her- man Seal. said death resulted from a heart condition. He said Bur- roughs had been ill about three months. His daudhter Joan and his "V0 80115. John and l-lulbert, were st the bedside.

The prolific writer of fiction that featured the tree-swinging Tarzan of the lunglos was born in Chicago Sept. 1.1875. For more than 36 years he wrote the stories of his fabulous apeman that brought- such returns from books and films that he was rated a multimillionaire.

Until his recent illness, Bur- routine was still busy writing more adventures about his strong-limb. ed hero and the lungles of Africa a continent he had never seen.

For more than a quarter of a century the adventures oi Tarsaii continued to hold the fancy of the public. More than 36.000000 cop- ies of Burroughs’ books have been sold. Radio serials. motion pictures. cartoon strips, games. toys and candy bars added to his royalties. it is estimated that Burroughs

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Dui-in the second world war. Durroug beoarno a. war cor- respondent for the Les Angoles Times. He was credited with being one of the oldest . correspondents on duty..

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SAINT JOHN‘, N. B.. March 19- toPl—An early Sunday morning tire destroyed a ‘tool shed and up- per part of a large barn at st. Patrick's Industrial school at nearby silver Falls. causing loss of about 525.000.

The loss included all the fann- ing machinery used at the orphan- age. owned by the lbomnn Catho- lic Bishop of saint John. About 40 head of cattle were rescued from the barn.

The fire, of unknown origin. was thought to have started in the tool shed A barn on the ori>‘mn- age property was destroyed by iiru five years ago.

MORE "FLYING DISCS"

TORONTO, March I9 — (CF) - 'i'wo repair men said Saturday they

w four mysterious "flying

tsks" while atop a 300-foot radio tower near Aurora. Ont... last Tues- day. Art Gendron and Jervis Weir said the objects remained visible for 15 minutes at an esti- mated 1000 feet.

$50,000 Voted To Start Project

By ED CIEAGII

NEW YORK, March 19 — (AP) — somewhere in the wooded wild- erness of New York.state's Catskill Mountains, a small band of scient- ists is about to begin an experi- ment. that may point the way to new life for vast areas of the earth.

They're trying —- for the first time on a. day-to-day. scientifically controlled basis —- to produce man- made rain.

Their immediate goal is to coax from the heavens enough water to fill New York city's half-empty reservoirs, and and a. shortage that threatens to bedovll the city for years to come.

But this may be only the be- ginning.

Might Be Par-reaching

"In a world not producing an- ough food. there are many places suffering from a continuous lack of moisture and rain," said a weather expert. '.‘lf science helps the New York City problem, its work might well sat av standard for almtlar problems . . . in various parts of the world."

some scientists pointed to the wonders irrigation bu wrought in dry country from Israel to New Mexico. They watched the New York project for a clue to the fut- ure.

The project, a strange new chain reaction. land-and-air oper- ation with borrowed equlpment and drugstore CI1EmIC‘IIS, was just about ready to go. New York's Board of Estimate voted 850.000 to start it. Dr. Wallace E. Howell. newly en- gaged chief rain-maker. scouted the lonely mountain region to the north for .a control station site.

Rain-nickel-. -Howell is I cheerful. 80-year-old Harvard professor. The city is paying him $100 for each day he works on ralnmaklng. I-Ie warns the taxpayers not to expect miracles for their money. .-

All sorts of devices —- from elec- trified sand particles to rain-in- voking snake dances — have been tried in recent years. But rain- makers turned mostly to dry ice

‘ sprinkled from alrplsries._

New Technique

They're going to use dry ice in the New York project. But they'll also use the newer ctechnlque of "seeding" clouds with silver iodide

Dr. Irving Langmuir. the Nobel- prize-winning scientist. says It makes ice crystals form in such vast numbers that the heat re- leased may be equal, to that of an atom bomb blast. It's released gl'l.- dually. however — not in one dead- ly whoosh.

To make rain by this method. It big. woolly cumulus cloud is usu-

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OSLO — (OP) -- Timber cut- ting in Norway is far behind sche- dule due to too much snow. lack oi labor, and a late start. far only slightly more than ha‘f 0 original estimates has been brought out of the forests. . -

Labor's Hopes of Holding Power In U. K. Brighter

By Alan Harvey

LONDON. March -is -—(OP) - Havtng survived the Ides of March wibhout disaster. la-bor new looks to the future with a little more confidence.

The Government that was virtually written off after the shaky majority it received in the Feb. 23 general election has al- rendy skirted three potential pit- falls and its life expectancy is the subject of revised forecasts.

All indications are that the clov- erftinsnt is determined to sta in of ice. despite its meagre ivo- vota Insjority. and that the 0p- position obobly wants to stay out. for t a time being at least.

whet may be the official oon_- lo

aarvattva view has been entranced by Osbert Peaks. member for Leeds Nbrtii. Windln Omimonslaat uasday.Peaka said: ‘We in bits I-louse have not somehow in this _ Parliament tb try to live together. whathar we like it or not. for a pal-local any l’ato.nporlod whlohissuratoba months and which may be for a

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' l'““.\lI:1|'adoauat preal- ad ‘_ :1» ,tlteLlbaralaarty.sa.ldtit housing

"We do not know how lo this‘ Government will ramain in mg ...so far as can be foreseen.

there is nothing which need dis- turb the Govcmmcnm power to administer she affairs of this country before next October."

(A Govornrnentowpolnt ‘ coun- mlsclon is to be named in -October to take over the iron and steal industry. The lost Parliament pess- ed legislation natlonsllalng the in- duatry but postponed the date on which it became effective to Jan. 1, 1061.)

so far, the varying attitudes of the Liberal Party's nine members have been a chief factor in determ- ing the use of the Oovsrnniant majority in rarilsmentary divis- na. -

In tlisflrat vou flat-ch"t‘.htbe“ own“!

a. on Lbbor sauaaaad home with 14 votes to spur. In last M y‘! vote on housiw. six Liberals voted with can oovernmtnt and fairs! alitsthalnad. giving Labor a majority 0 I .

Last Tuesday. in I division on suzlamentary estimates. the Lib- ar alltahl .

P. II.’ Escapes Heavy Snowfall; 22 Inches Reported At St. John

A recorded three and one-halt Inch snowfall at "Charlottetown whipped into ii ground drift by an approximately 24.mile per hour wind Saturday night covered Que_e_n's and King's County with A heavy blanket of fluffy snow for the week-end. Reports from west of Summer-side indicate that little snow fell in that area.

Plows aftenwqrking Saturday night and throughout the day yes- terday hsd all main roads clear by last night. one plow preceded the S.D.U, hockey team home from Summerside Saturday night follow- ing the game in the Crystal Rink. Today the plows will be out on the roads again widening the cuttings,

Recordings at the Meteorological station. Charlottetown Airport. in- dicate that a 20 m.p.h. wind witii gusts up to 34 was blowing at 8.30 p.m. Saturday. Three hours later the velocity had increased to 24. mph. and the gusts to 42. This condition prevailed until well after midnight.

Record Mu-ch snowfall

SAINT J . N. B-. March 19 —-(CP)—southern New Brunswick bore the brunt of a record March snowfall Saturday. An official measured depth of 22 inches at saint John was 9. rec rd for the clty in March. Penn eld reported

18 to 20 inches.

The fluffy snow melted fast to- day. Aliliough many cars became stuck Saturday. most buses were able to continue operations.

The northern half of the Prov- ince escaped the storm. Streets at Bathurst were bare and “like sum- mer." Carnpbellton ' also reported mild weather. Moncton had four or five inches of snow but little fell at Fredericton.

SHIPS DELAYED

l\'E.’VV YORK, March 19 —(AP)-—- Gales larliied the northeastern sea- board nnd swept out to sea satur- day. delaying inbound ships in. cliiding the liner Queen Mary.

Ilcnvy snowstoims hit Maine and Upper New York state, causing six deaths

Winds reached 40 miles an hour in Man-hnttau.

The Queen Mary. due here to- morrow, now is expected a day late. The Ii‘ranconia. due Tuesday. also is a day behind schedule. _Atlantic winds centred around two stoi~rns—one moving out to sea from Portland. Mc.. and another sweeping northeast about 400 miles east of Newfoundla d.

In Maine, a blind ng southeast storm dumped up to 14 inches of

show. snowfall in upstate New York reached 41-Zlnches at Syracuse.

See Valuable Training In C_u_rren.t: V_V_o_r#(i::-1_mes

By James J. streblg

WASHINGTON, March 19—(AP) — Military officials weighing the gains and losses scored in Opera- tion Portrex—-the big Cpribbean war gamw—expreased belief Sat- urday the plua factors will add up heavily in favor of the defence team of the United States.

Despite some critical reports coming out of the manoeuvre area they said ‘the air-sea—land battles not only i-ovided a major test of inter-services co—ordination at the planning level. but also gave in- valuable (ield training to the 80,- 000 or more combat forces involv-

ed. The operations stretched from Norfolk. Va.. to Bermuda and

across to the vicinity of Puerto Rico where a big mock battle was staged for tiny Vieques Island.

It‘: still too early, officials add- ed. to judge what effect Portre): will have on future tactics. train- ing and equipment.

The actual military assessment will not be completed until about May by the army. navy and air force officers who put on the United States‘ biggest peacetime battle toot.-

Portrex assumed that an enemy known as "aggressor" held a vast land mass extending to Vicqucs Island. a hump in the Carlbbe n east of Puerto Rico. “Aggresso " had modern planes and submar- inea and an army of more than usual size for the area involved.

The United States forcea—80,000 men operating with warships. planes and equipment—had to cap- ture the peninsula represented by Vtequea.

To watching newspaper men the D-Day attack was unspectacular.

The ampliibioua assault on Red Beach on Viequee Island bogged down for an hour. No screaming jet fighter-bombers supported the invaders. Warships were just all- ent silhouettes on the horizon.

Military enperta knew that the invasion command felt the area was too small for air sxpport and had called for naval gu fire sup- port (simulated in silence). Air force pilots didn't know that and wars mighty unhappy.

Military people explain the D- Day picture this way:

The "aggressor" beach defences wars left intact, instead oi being smashed by dynamic to show what 10 days’ air and naval assault would hsva done so. as to area -the troops to push through i .

Air aunort was not used be- cause tha ground forces assumed the situation to be a real one. with a penlbillty their ‘own airborne troops dropped inland might be hit. Naval fire was assumed more ac- curata and called for. it list! to be simulated for obvious reasons.

One crltlclnn is«1lltely to‘ be foundin the airborne invasion.

III labor was by 3 one thousand paratrooper-a drop- vota: so only one can of pad inland an hour before the 33’ has but ma. J-mas uaberno strike. The 'chutl.Iis

I alien. amt jumped in a 15-min wind on Anthofl luau. ‘0'z”°D0lIi-IGI terrain um prowl to be 1: er. «I to ram votes}: - -and opotlod wiuiu tricky

‘Mactean Gels Three-Year Term ,

SYDNEY. N.B., March 18 ——(CP) — Dun Jack Macbenn, who rose from a hotel bell hop to mayor oi this Cape Breton steel city, tonight faced a three-yenr term in penit- entiary on a‘ manslaughter convic- tion’ following the death oi a long- time friend. _

The sentence was handed down in a hushed courtroom here sat-

who termed the case a “shocking story."-

MacLean was charged with mur- der following the Dec. 18 death of Joseph Macxlnnon. city registrar oi voters. He was convicted on the reduced charge by A Supreme court jury. Maximum sentence for manslaughter is life and the min- imum i.\\'O years.

Defence counsel Ross Ma.cKlm- mie urged clemency as the defend- ant: was 58 and a long prison term would make it difficult for him to re-establish himself. He said Mac- Lean wished to thank the Chief

Justice and the Crown for “a very fair tr1al.". .

"Excessive use of alcohol was re- sponsible for the whole thing," Mr. Mcxlmmie slild.

U. 5. Cities Advised To Prepare‘ For War

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- (AP) -. Tho United states Chain- her of Commerce today advised American cities to get ready in event of ii surprise war. It has prepared a booklet advising them on civilian defence steps whid they can take themselves.

- The Chamber oi F ce said all communities may not need a local defence program. depending on factors which might lead to at- tsck. but they might have to as- sist others which are more vulner- able.‘

A program should be designed to cope with ‘conventional bomb- ing and bacteriological or chemical ~ warfare" as well as the A-bomb. it

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N. B. Farmers May Vlsll Ontario

IPEEDHRIOTON. Manon 19 - (OP)—Now Brunswick farmers may return the visit of Ontario potato growers who toured this Province and Prince Edward Island last year to learn Maritime methods of potato grow . If they go. the New Bruhs ckcrs will study Ontario's methods of haying and her grass silage. pastures end live- stock.

The idea was broached at the an- nual meeting of the New Bruns- wick Livestock Council and Live- stock co-Operative, Ltd. individual opinions ill lia about making a 1 day trip in mid-June

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0pp0sillo—nVI0u|d Have Crown G010 Prince Baudouin

By Alfred Cheval

BRUSSELS, Belgium. March 19 —(AP)—The socialists. Belgium’: second biggest par-ty,dec1a.red today they will call waves of strikes until King Leopold ahdicates.

Partisans and opponents of the exiled King exchanged rifle and pistol fire in clashes at Leuden and Erps-Que. but state police forces stopped the fights without casualties. Ponce also announced discovery oi a large do-pot of arms cached in a garage.

Belgium. torn over the future of the -18-year-old Monarch who sur- rendered himself and his army to the Germans nearly 10 years ago, th-us plunged into deepercrisis and perhaps toward social strife.

Cabinet Resigns

The Cabinet resigned Saturday in deadlock over the royal quest- ion. which a popular referendum failed to solve a week aw.

Gaston Eyskens remained Prem- ier pending formation of a new government. Eyskens. leader of the pro-Leopold social Christian Cath- olic Party. acceptedtodny from re- gent Prince Charles, brother of the Kirrz. the role of "informant" to smooth negotiations for a new gov- ernment.

(Reuters news agency said Fernand Dttiausse. leader of the French-speaking Wolloons. who are opposed to Leopold, announced that the Walloon: will call for a new plebiscite ii the King decides to resssu-me the throne. The pleb- iscite would propose that Belgium be split intothree federal autonom- ous states: Flanders. where the population favors Leopqid‘s re-turn; walloonla and the bi-lingual Brussels area. Belgium's larguages are Flemish and French.)

A resolution adopted by dele- gates of all the Socialist Party's regional federations. sold strike action will be continued "un- til Leopold III. at last un- derstanding the country's - in- terest should prevail over his own.‘ has left the palace to the min king or Belgium." The fifth king would be Leopold's 19-year-old son, Prince Balu- douin.

A Socialist leader said "turning strikes" would take place "until a satisfactory solution is reached". By turning strikes he meant that 24-hour strikes throughout the country. one after another. will be called to maintain constant pressure on the King to abdicatc

Former Premier Paiul-I-lenri Spank told the socialut congress "we will never accept King Leopold III as king of the Bel-

skens said his outgoing KM" ernment of nine social Christians and eight Liberals was not _"com- pletely dislocated." This indicated he mlgilnt have hopes of reviving it with a few shuffles.

The Liberals caused the Govern- ment to collapse when they refus- ed to go along with the Social Christians in calling a joint sess- ion of the two Houses of Parlia- ment to invite Leopold to return to his throne in the wake of last Sunday's advisory plebiscite. In that poll Leopold won 57.68 per cent of the vote.