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blame Poison - Laden Fog For 2O Deaths I_n U. S. City‘

Forecasts Give Dewey Victory In Tuesday’s United States Election»

Pick Next October As Election Ilate

By JOHN LQBLANU OTTAWA. Oct. 31 — (C?) -'—Th0

Capital's wise money is going on

Ociober, 1949, for general election.

Despite some predictions that the Government will play out its full airins into the summer of 1950. most informed opinion here leans aivav from this view.

Ar the moment, the question is Hill in the realm of pure specula- tion. since the Cabinet hasn't even discussed it yet. But the political w-eafhervane points to next fall. though the winds may have shift- ed considerably by the time it rolls around.

[l will depend on Rt. Hon. Louis Si. Laurent, who will be taking oier in November as Prime Minis- irr. plus such factors as the results of any by-election tests in the meanwhile and reaction to the (‘nncrnmenfs expected tax-cutting budget of next spring.

'I‘hose who suggest a 1960 election base their thinking on the ides iiial Mr. 8t. Laurent will want as long a tenure as he can get as Prime Minister before going to the country. He will want, they say, to get the electorate accustomed to the idea of a St. Laurent Govern- nient.

The Government's own political craftsman, Agriculture Minister

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Coming Events

"Come to the Dance at Boiishani.‘ liin. Tuesday.

Canada's next

"Hear Clyde River Play, North Wiltahlre, Tuesday, hbvember 2nd. closed on Peters re

"Our Store will be l\fciiita_v. November 1st. Gallant. Ltd.

"Dance, Lorrie Valley Hall Tuesday, November 2nd. Webster's Orchestra. -

"Pictures at Morell every Tues-

day- Friday and Saturday. Show 87in P. M

"This Store will be closed all day Monday. Novqmber 1st. J. F.

klorris. Kinkorn.

"lint Chlvkcn Supper. Hamp- ton Hall. November 3rd. Women's institute.

"Dance every TlIQSFIPIF‘. Si. Pei» Prs Legion Hell. Clifford's Orch- £5121.

"Bay Fortune Untied Church (‘hii-keh Supper and Bazaar in Fortune Hall. Wednesday night November 10th.

"Alllltll-LI Min; North wuz- slllfe Telephone Co.. in liali. Wen‘- nrsday. November 3rd, at 8 P. M

John Clark. Secretary. I

"York Concert Tuesday, Wellies- lav. Thursday this "week. so ilCketl available each night at door for those without reservations. Come early!

"Annual Sunday School Con- vention York District. will be heid in Brsclrley Church, November 5th, ma. Mr. Ralph C. Young. guest Weaker. Meetings 2.30 and ‘l P. M-

"A Committee Meeting of the imposed Hospital is to be held in New Glasgow Hail on Friday night. November 5th. A full attendance ii. Tlquested.

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l Jdeeting Kingston Branch Canadian Lesion. M01111!!- November 1st. at 0.30. Klndllml School. Arrangements for Memor-

‘ll 0w services. All Veterans please attend,

"buying pigs. fowl. and also number of Government - approved bullets are wanted Monday at Fredericton: Tuesday 0 mm. Broohlleld; 10, Milton: 10-m- York: 3. ledford; I. Mt. Stewart; i- Wetervale; s. Vernon River: H0. Pownal. Wednesday l a.m.,

‘NW Glasgow; l0. Wheatley River;

1i. Holmes‘ Oorner; l .pm.. New Elvin: I. lone-haw; I, Kelly's 0m»: 4. Iimerald: s, Clifton; no. Rlrrlngton. ruins ‘I! pair fer I006 Dill over l0 lbs. each. Will W! any also; boars and steam u "'1!- Qua Jainism.

By CLYDE BLACKBURN NDW YORK. Oct. 8i — (OP) -- Prcsident ‘Truman today rested in his Missouri home after a. final defiant claim to victory over what he called efforts of "character as- sassins" to ruin his standing with the people. His Republican opponent, Goy- ernor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, told a monster mass meet- ing here that he was on "the eve of victory." One of these two candidates is virtually certain to be president for the next four years.

General opinion seems to he that Dewey will win at least 300 electoral college votes. He needs only 266 to win the presidency.

Those who are confident of a Republican victory claim the worst thing that can happen to the party is to lose control of the Senate.

Iii that chamber a Democratic gain of only four seats would put control back in the hands of the Democrats who lost it ln the 194C congressional election.

Both candidates have conducted the most spectacular campaigns in the history of the 40 presidential elections to date.

Trurnan travelled by special lraiii, plane and motor car through 36 states and made 2'12 speeches. Dewey was close behind lilm most c-f the time but made fewer speeches.

But through all the oratory there was little for the candidates to talk about except their opinions of each other and of each emera- vatiit-‘e. —~~ ~ ' The man elected Tuesday will

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Ice-Breaker Back From Arctic Patrol

QUEBEC. Oct. .11 ~—ICPI—~TIIG ice-breaker N. B. McLean returned Saturday from the Arctic where the big ship serves as grocer. p05‘.- man and medical adviser to the staffs oi six or seven Government posts in the far-north. At sea since early July. the stub- by. steel ship covered 9,000 mileson its voyage around Canada's East- ern Arctic coast and apart from its other jobs kept its radar eye open for mountainous icebergs that merchant shipping has to contend with. NB. McLean was in mmmalld r-f Capt. Charles Antoine Caron, 4T- year-old seafarer from L‘Isle.t Que. and a veteran of a half-dozen Arctic patrols. l He said this year's Arctic.‘ summer was mild ~ averaucl temperature 35 in 45 degrees-and‘ the voyage one of the most satis- fac‘ory for the ice-breakerls crew

l.t.-Col. C. C. If. Poake Named Vice-President

was elected president of the Cana~ clian Artillery

ceeds Brig. P. A. S. Todd of Hamil- ton, Ont.

Vice-presidents elected to rep- resent every army command in Canada included LL-Col. G. G. K. Peaks of Chnrlottetr 0n, P.E.l., Eastern Command.

Representatives of various bran- ches of artillery elected to the ex- ecutive included LL-Col. P. W, Olsnd, Saint John, N. B.. heavy anti-aircraft artillery.

Tignish a5. Reconstructed

Extensive reconstruction of both piers at Tignlsh was satisfactorily completed last week by the con- iractors, H. J. Phillips d; Sons, Charlottetown. under the supervis- ion of Mr. Edwin Doyle, ‘Tlgnish, the inspector appointed by the Dominion Department of Public Works.

Because of its importance as a fishing station, Tlgnisli has ex- tenslve works. The pier on the north side of the harbour or "run" l: 2.200 feet long and that on the south side is about 1.500 feet of timber pile bent-ivorkBeinga very old structure - the newest addi- lion is forty years old - extensive repairs are frequently required.

Using, in the main. creosoted materials which are expected to liast some ‘forty years, a 1-15 foot isection at the outer end of the isouth pier and an inner. length. oh . ‘. ‘soothers Zengthof the north pier. long. have received the attention of the contractors.

Many harbours on the north side have similar works. These are required because. in mrkt cases, sandbars obstruct the harbour, es- pecially where the feeding rivers are too small to maintain a satis- factory depth of water at . the entrance to the gulf.

At Tlgnlsih, Naufrage, North Lake and some nine other points. training works for guide piers have been built, to reduce the width of the outlet. thereby increasing the, force of the flow of the river. at the same time, giving permanence to the position of the boat char‘.-

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Canon Turner Fund To Close 0n Nov. 30

WINNIPEG. Oct. 31 ~ 1GP) -

riow standing at $19,100, will be closed Nov. 30. trustee Dr. RM. Speechly announced Saturday. The fund was started last Dec. 20 to provide assistance for the widow and children of the Church of

last year following a shooting accident at Molfct Inlet on the rim

of 5R.

of the Arctic Circle.

‘Mukden. Awaits Arrival“,

By Harold It. Mlle

NANKING, Oct. 31 —-(A.P) The last distant eoho of gunfire died in Mukden today. and the great Manchurian city lay in sil- ent foreboding. awaiting the entry of communist armies.

The Chinese Government con- tinued to assert officially that a "great battle“ was in PIMP!“ in the corridor leadlnl southwest to china-proper, but the highest of- ficials admitted privately:

"It's all over."

As the Reds closed in on Mulr- den at their pleasure, radio com- munication with Napkin: continu- ed untll 5:30 p. m. Sunday. The latest message told of the grad- ual fading of the sounds of bat- ile from the outskirts. followed by "death-like silence."

rt said the maiorltv of the stricken city's 2.000.000 residents stayed indoors. fearful of street violence which had not material- ised ‘

The broadcast broke off sud- denly with: "Goodbye."

A half-hour earlier. at I P- m- Oonaul-Oeneral Angus Ward of the miltad Btaiaa sent a radio report m the embaaa! in Nlhiina

"There are no disorders and the sound of gunfire has not been audible since 0 o'clock this flun- day) morning,” he related.

Ward said 10 American Goy- ernment personnel remained in

Of Communist Armies

Mukden. A naturalized Amlrlfll. he was born in Alvinston. Oni- An embassy spokesman said Americans living in_the Peipins and ‘Tientsin areas of North China would be urged officially Monday to get out while they could. Gen. Wei Li-Huanfl, Government l

‘OTTAWA, Oct. Ill-KJH-Irig. R. E. G. Rooms of Bedford. N. S.,

Association at the annual meeting Saturday. He suc- ‘

are feet i

The Canon John 1-1. Turner fund,‘

England missionary who died late.

tint. Conservatives Set Convention Dates

TORONTO. Oct. 31-_(CP)»— On- tario Progressive Conservatives will meet next April 25-27 to choose a successor to George Drew as Provincial louder.

This was (lecirlcd Saturday at a meeting of 496 delegate members of the Ontario Progressive Conser- vative Association \vhlch' voted down a proposal to hold the loader- ship convention Dec. 6-8.

Convinced Children's limergency Fund Properly Administered

PARIS. Oct. Ill-KC?! —Mrs. B. Sinclair of Ottawa said Saturday she is convinced the international children's emergency fund program its helm: properly adminisicreil in lPolnnd, Czechoslovakia and Italy.

Prime Minister King Sails For New

York

I SOUTHAMPTON, England. Oct. T31 -— ICP) — Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King today sailed for home aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth.

The Prime Minister. who mo- wred from London to Southamp- ton Saturday, spent a good night and is in good spirits. his staff reported.

The two-hour trip from Lc-ndon was the first time that he had been out since ordered to bed three weeks ago by doctors be- cause of an ailment of the blood circulation.

The Queen Elizabeth will dock there the Prime Minister will pro- ceed to Ottawa by train.

The Priirne Minister was accom- ‘panied hy Robertson on his lrip to Southampton. Mr, King took the journey well but was naturally

tired, the Canadian High Com- missioner said. As Mr. King left his London

hotel, a crowd of British and Can- adian officials and hotel employ- ees gathered to say good-bye

He walked jauntily out of the hotel, looking as well a5 when he was last out three wee-ks ago, and made his characteristic little bow, Then he shook hands with all ‘around him and with a firm grip .and said “kind, very kind of you

-.

i Back from a four-week tour of 8-11

ithe three countries, the chairman yo! the program committee of the ‘United Nrilions agency snkLin nn Iinlervievs‘ that she is satisfied that

"food is reaching the children and,

our conditions are being met." Since returning from her tour with seven other officials, every- body h§$lgeen asking the-Health‘ ,and Welfare’ ‘Department prriniah ‘whether there is any political in- ‘terfcrenrc with the aid programs, ;Pfll'lI('.llI?il'I_\' Poland and Czecho- , slovzikia.

"As long as they need milk as badly as they do they will keep the ‘rules? she sold. “There are some jidminlsirnfivo bogdowns, of course.

but from our investigation nothing that gocs any (locpcr than that.”

1 She is in Paris lo attend a meek‘

ling of the committee which Friday voted $6.000.000 for supplementary irellcf for nr-nrlv 25il,0i’ii'| child-and- moilicr refuge-cs from combat areas in Palestine.

Under ndminisirziiive difficulties Mrs. Sinclair listed equipment shortages and an untrained staff. One grcrit problem is teaching workers how lo "reconstitute" pow- dorcrl milk. shc said.

Twvnly x czvlintrics. including Ci-inndn. are prcseiiicd on the l. C. E. F. which iviis sci up early in 194T as the "child" of the disband- mrl ll.N.R.A. Canada has given $5,- 000,000 l0 the fund.

liiew Move To Force Allies From Germany

BERLIN, Oct. 3i - (AP) ‘The Russians began today a new ipropagandn drive aimed at forc- ‘ring the Wesiem Allies out of Germany. I They used the Communist Ger- ‘nian Peoples’ Council here issue a declaration demanding a peace treaty with an "all-German government" and withdrawal of nil occupation forces within a Iyear after the treaty is signed. - This declaration said that if the Western Powers "now hinder the ‘conclusion of an all-German peace -treat_v. the continued presence of

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lthelr occupation troops and ad- lministi-atfve organs amounts to colonial annexation of German

commander for Manohurla. wasfterrilory and colonial enslavement

reported at the South Manchurian- port of i-fulutao. He apparently. was on the return trip to Muir-- den after conferring with Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Pel- ping during the last week.

Nanklng and all Nationalist China were asking the unanswer- ed question: "What next?"

Gen. Pal Chung-Hal. former Na- tional Defence Minister, came to Nanking from his Central china headquarters at f-lankow. This prompted speculation that he might be liven a combined east- ern and central command to try to salvage some force to with- stand the Red advance.

Nanklng was filled with rumors ranging from a possible shift of the capital southward to creation of a new coalition government not including Generalissimo Ohiaru Kai-Shah.

Ohiang. on his 02nd. birthday, eonfernd privately with heads of his executive departments. Some official sources said he indicated

of the German people."

Western authorities called this a Soviet move to win over the Ger- rian people and embarrass the_West. They considered it an attempt to popularize the Russian proposal, made several months ago at the Warsaw conference of Eastern Foreign Ministers. for an early

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withdrawal of all occupying foroee. lrationing.

J As he left the hotel a tall door- man saluted. "Good to see you ‘again? Mr. King said and shook ‘hands with him.

VCHIICIC- Cali "Be 'tiivea‘*s;?;‘i 'o"tiiw

OTTAWA. Oct. 31 ~— iCPi A Justice Department said tonight that effective tomor- row verdicts in any Canadian courts may be handed down hy a1‘ ijury of 10. instead of the usual‘ 12. I

In Alberta, where Juries are“ composed of six members. an am- endment to the Criminal Code al- lows for a reduction of one.

The spokesman said this histor- ical departure in Canadian law procedure provides inr the jury reductions in cases where there. is illness or death h_v one or nwot members during criminal court- proceedings.

Both the defence and the pros- ecution must consent to the re- ‘duction.

‘I The aznendment to the Criminal ‘Code was passed at the last session l. ‘of Parliament.

szsaoou nit-ii“ Barbados Capital

BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Oct. v31 - 1GP» -- One man is believed idead tonight following a 8250.000‘ ~fire that i-iestiaoyed a foundry and gdamaged two Government build- ‘ings in this island Capitol Satur-‘ day. ‘ ' One live clgnret butt thrown hear some oil drums WJS believed re- sponsible for the blaze from which ia dozen employees on the top floor , the three-storey foundry es- =caped by leaping to the roof of an iacuoihihg building. ; The wife of Ernest Reid, 55-year- olsl foundry porter. said he has not ibeeii home since the fire. She said ,Reid was deaf and likely was trap- . iped before becoming aware of the- flaming peril. -

Mrs. Reid stood hy weeping tthroughout the day as demolition; lgangs hauled down tottering walls and varied away truck loads of ‘Smirking debris without finding any trace of the missing man.

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I BREAD IIATIONING T0 END BRUSSELS, Oct. 3i —- tReutersl - Bread rationing will end in the Benelux countries - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — ‘Nov. '1 ,it is In ounced. Belgium 1 ,wi]l then be free of all food

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Trains Crash In Fog,

‘mile south of here.

lMore Than 40C iReported Sick ‘In Ilonora, Pa.

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DONORA. Pa“ Oct. 31 -——(AP)— Twenty persons were reported dead in this bustling mill town to- day and officials at an emergency hospital said their deaths were caused h_v a smothering fog con- taining acid fumes.

Cause of the mass tragedy was not known. Although the town of 12.000 is heavily industrialized, Bur- gess August Z. Chambon said: "There is nothing to indicate the fumes came from any plant.’

Charles Stacey, chairman of the Board of Health. said:

"We're up in arms about it. The whole community's irate and some-

thing is going lo be done. We're going to appeal to late health authorities for help."

The fumes nnrl choking fog

which had hung over the town for five days lifted almost entirely af- fer dawn today.

Eighteen pcrsnns were reported dead up in Saturday night. A 19th victim, .1 man. died today in hos- piinl.

Mrs. Cora Vernon, executive dir- ector of the American Red Cross said an emergency hospital was let iup and severnl persons treated Sat- urday‘ night. Several hospitals in the arc-n were jammed to capacity. The emergency hid station was closed today.

Under Control

"I would say there's at least 400 or 500 persons sick from the smog effects." Stacey said. "However. l don't think the situation will be- come‘ ‘more critical-J believe it's ‘all under control now."

In Philadelphia. Dr. Norris .W. of "health. .sairl he had dispatched the bur-

Illeath Saturday Cf IMr. Warren Brenton

The Late Mr. W.L. Brenton

Many friends throughout the Maritimes will regret to learn of the death at his home Ln Charlotte- Iiown on Saturday of Mr. Warren L. Brenton, retired Dairy Superin- tendent for Prince Edward Island. Mr. Brenton had been in ill health lfor some years past, and took a. stroke on Wednesday from which he failed to rally.

A native of Brookficld. N. 8., Mr. Brenton was formerly senior dairy products grader for the Maritime: under the Dominion Department iof Agriculture. At the time he was resident in ‘Pruro. In i030 he was induced by the late Premier Lee to come to this Province as dairy superintendent. an office which he filled very competently until his retirement about four years

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Four Killed,

NEWBIYRY. Vt.. Oct. 3i--(APl»-— Four crew men were killed. five mail clerks were injured and 200 passengers shaken early Saturday ns two Boston-Montreal trains crashed head-on in a heavy fog.

The engineer and fireman on the trains were trapped in their en- gine cabs and died without giving on inkling of the cause of the mishap.

A spokesman for the Boston and. Mninr- Railway said the engineers hnd been given train orders io moot at Ne\vl\\ir_v—as is customary

- hut that the southbound train passed through this country com- munity.

The collision occurred about a

One of the trains normally pulls on a siding at Neuzhury to await the olhcr's arrival. Nevvhury is about half-why between Boston and hionlrei-il. The southbound train. on route to Boston, was operated h_v the Canadian Pacific Railway. The northbound train ‘was oper-

5 Injured

ated h_v the B. & M.

The locomotives were telescoped and mail and baggage cars of both trains were derailed.

Southbound passengers were re-

CCIDENT

Bus Bums After Striking . Gas Tanks

i l Service Station. Store l Ami Dwelling Are

Destroyed In Fire.

LAMBTON, Que” Oct. 3i -—(CP7

Four persons were killed and. l3 others injured early today when a Quebec Central Rail-way auto- bus. went out of control, struck two gas tanks at a service sta- tion and burst into flames near this Eastern Townships village M miles southeast of Thetford Mines.