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Six‘ Killed.’ when Explosion Wrecks Catholic Church

More’ Food,

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Southern Labrador Areas;

Local Pilot Assistin

Says Allied Plans In Africa Aimed Ai SovieLllnlon 4

LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., April i0 - (GP) - Russia's Andrei A. Qfflmyko Saturday accused the Western Powers of developing beau in the former Italian colonies for nssreqllon i-ilroush the Atlantic Pact. ‘

In his first major public mach since his appointment as Russia's chief deputy foreign minister, Gromyko did not refer by‘ name to the alliance signed last Monday in Washington.

But he told the United Nations Assembly's 68-member political committee: »

"The United Kingdom, the ‘Unit- ed States and France seek to keep their hold on the former Italian colonies at all costs with a view to using the territory for bases for aggressive plans which lately found expression in forming military

blocs whose spwr Point is dlrect- ,

ed against the Soviet Union.‘

The Assembly has the thorny task of deciding what to do with the North African empire Mussolini lost,ln the Second World War, The Italian peace treaty provided "'53 i! u" B18 Foil! powers could

not‘; ram a settlement within q, NI ' ' i , “mo” of'the setrat e ‘.

One Men Killed, Two Injured In. Blast

LIVERPOOL, n. s. Agrfl 1 _ (OP)—Orre man was ' killed 0mg ‘W0 iniured Saturday in an ex- lllosicn at a power development on the Mlersey River six miles north of here. l.‘

Killed was Fbrman Whynott. M, of nearby Milton. Ernest Wam- ‘boldt and Joe Legg, both o! Milton, suffered minor injuries.

A ‘coroner's jury rammed a. vec- dict of accidental death. Whynott was carrying explosives at the time o! the accident. _.

Coming Events

"Mail your Films te Gairnhum PIlOtQ Studli). Charlottetown.

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"Virility ooncert- basasr. Canoe 00w, wedncdav. April 13th.

"Bhow Mcvrell, a Tuesday and Friday. show starts I o'clock.

"Regular shoot at Winsloe rifle rence tonight.

"Dance, Bonshaw Hall, ‘mura- hy. llith. m aid or women's In- stitute. MaoNeilPa Orcheatra.

"Wlnsloe plays postponed until April 2O and 21 on account of Holy Week church services,

"Expecting car of baled shavings Tuesday or Wednesday. Order now. MacKie l: Co. Phone M1.

"Now clsanins la and“!!- otho seed. authorised Coinins, 301W. lot ll.

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8T. JOHNS April 10 -<OP) _ The spectre of starvation disap- peared from southern Labrador to- day after mercy missions by R..C.A. F‘. and private planes.

A Mimi Canadian lr plane parachuted food to the vil- legs of 5t. Marys Bey Saturday. ‘this sllayed fears chat many per- sons there, including expectant mothers and baubles, would starve to death. .

Earlier, s, Newfoundland Airways plane. piloted by Freeman Planing of Charlottetown, flew from the northern tip of Newfoundland to Labrador Friday with nearly half a ton of food. Fleming landed un- der hazardous conditions caused by thawing ice. But he e his = tentlon of making at least one more trip. _

The Air mm plane took off from Ctocae Bay, Labrador, satur- dsy and swooped low over the at- fected area, dropping food by para- chute. Unable to return to Goose,

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A Force

about 10o miles rsorthwest of st. Marya. because o! th- er, <the plane anded at Gan er,

Nfid. where it ook on fin-thei- any» plies and parachuteo for another mission.

Weather interferes

The Air Force plane‘ today wu unable tn its mercy cargo be- cause of low o and flewbast to

Bay to await improved wash‘: auditions. It had bybefrn su ea aparachirtea a -

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~ v e - parachutes lawman??? ts "time? ous landing auditions for his twin- ‘engined plane but none were avail- able immediately.

Dr. Gordon Thomas of the Gren- feli blission all 8t. Anthony, flow with flelnirig, reported con- ditions on Lain-alder coast as "dee-‘ par-ate" in at'least three villages.

Babies were being fed on flour and water and molasses-water, and expectant mothers were suffering from malnutrition. Borne persona were bedridden from hunger.

He finished a distress message to Premier Smallwood by saying that “the authorities knew about this weeks ago but did nothing.’

"Although the doctor did not amplify this point, it was un ar- siocd he was referring to re a made by Newfoundland l Hangers during the last month indicating

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Communists Renew Fighting In China

NANKIIWG. April 10 -(WP) - Three powerful Communist almies hammered hard today at the gov- ernment's thin bridgeheads north of the Yangtze River. with the avowed aim of invading bout-h

Chine.

The Communists announced they already had boats waiting to make the crossing

They have set a deadline of Tues- day for the government to accept tenins sznountlng to total surrend- er and thus end the war. Acting President Li nUflI-Jfll and his top officials were reported drafting s statement they hoped would meet

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Open lAi Halifax

UITAWA, April l0 — (C?) _ A three-man board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate re- cent incidents aboard Canadian naval vessels. _

Naval headquarters announced Saturday that Rear Admiral E. R. Mainguy will be chairman of the meetings to open in Halifax Mon- day. Two Ottawa lawyers, Leonard W. Brockington, and L. C. Audette, the latter of the Canadian Marl- time Comnflssion, also will take part in the investigation which will be closed to the press and public.

The disturbances, ‘orrthe sir- eraft carrier Magnificent, the de- stroyer Crescent and the destroyer Athabaakan, involved what the navy described at the time as comparatively minor‘ breaches of discipline. However, the fact there were three incidents within a few weeks stirred reports that the dis- turbances might have been caused by subversive elements.

Into Pipe Friday.

Atomic Energy Scleniisjs Awarded Stalin Prizes

MOSCOW, April l0 -‘ (C?) — Russia Saturday awarded he high- est Stalin prime to twoscientists

W!“ for their work on atomic energy

and cosmic rdys.

Left unanswe ad was the quest- ion whether the scientists had -‘ in producing an atomic

The top prises are worth about 887,080. One of, them went to Georgi Latyshev for his investigat- ions into the‘ nucleus of the atom. Latyshev is head of the laboratory of the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute of the UASJZ. Academy oi Sciences.

Another was awarded to Sergei

Vernov, professo at Moscow Instit- ute, for experimental studies of cosmic rays in the higher layers of the atmosphere. A third top Stalin prise went to Trofim. D. Lysenko, ‘president of the Academy of Agricultural Science, for his work on. the Mighurnist theory in biology.

This theory says that traits acquired by plants and animals from environment in their life- time can be passed on to future generations. Moat western scientists holdto the Mendel theory that such traits are not inherited.

HONQII INDIAN BOTANIBT »

NEW Dflslrfl — (OP) -'— Di‘. Binbal Sahni, Indian botanist and geologist, has been elected. hon- orary president of the seventh litter-national Botanical Congress to be held in Stockholm. in July, i850. Bshni is the first Indian to

the Cmnsnunlst ultimatum

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Socialists See Danger . ripps Budget

nary.

Under the plan. anyone in Brit- ain - even a tourist — is altit- led to free ntsdieal and hoqsital treatment including wigs for the bald and spectacles for the short-

sighted. Conservatives too know that the

plan's beneiitflsre clearly appdr- enita pant-uteri! to the loner Pl - '

Their case generally has been shat people can't expect to get aomrthiogfer nothing and that

Sir Btaffordfi. word about a poss-

so" attitude. ‘ms service cost $000,000 csesccccooo» in the first nine

months of operation, dating from

‘ last July B. This was £50,000 more

than the preliminary estimates ‘but Health Minister Aneuriri Bevan pushed additional filnds through without a sriat outcry horn the

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Little Girl Trapped in Well Dead When Reached

locicr Bays Tlsy Tot led Shortly After Falling

For_sees Early Start l On National Highway

lobster Secson Officially Opens s A. M, April 3on1.

OTTAWA, April l0 — (Special) — Prior to leavingOttawa this week-end‘ for Summerside, J. Wat- son MacNaught, parliamentary as- sistant tc Fisheries Minister May- hew, announced officially that the lobster season for the North Shore of Prince Edward Island opens at

Belief that there will be an early start made on the Trans- Csnsda highway projects. was ex- pressed by Premier J. Walter Jones, who returned from Ottawa on Saturday. While the agree- ments between the Provinces and the Dominion have not yet. been signed, the Premier said he was satisfied from the progress made in the negotiations that the work would be uummQnOCd this summer. According to a statement made recently by Hon. G. H. Barbour, Minister of Public Works and Highways, this Province is asking for a 'total appropriation of 0000,- 000 for national highway construct- flv, o-cyock 1,, the morning o; 5n. ion. The payments will be made on “may. April 3m ML Mmyawm a fifty-fifty basis, but any work expects m spend some time in hyslalready done by Provincial Gov- constituency of Prince during the Qfnmemi 0n Wide 00mins under Bu", "c," o; Parliament the scheme will be credited to their account. This Province expects to obtain a Federal contribution o! 55 or 60 cents on the dollar. The Provincial proposal is that the new highway be routed from Borden through Bradford Road to the Albany Road at a pointmid- way between Albany and Tryon, to Bearltown through to a point near the Callback store at Bedeque, and from ’I‘ryon east through Bon- shaw to Charlottetown, thence to Wood islands, thus linking up the two car ferry terminals of the Province.

The Provincial Government is al- so_ pressing for an extension of the proposed highway from Wood Isl- ands through Murray River and Montague to Georgetown. While

BAN MARJNO. Cslif., April l0 — (AP) — They found Kathy Iiscus dead. -

The Bli-year-old youngster fell down a steel pipeline late last

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grimed, volunteer workers 1a to rescue her. l ~ I

Dr. Paul Hanson, the family physician, announced tonight after the rescue squads had reached her that Kathy was dead _ “and has been dead since last heard from Friday afternoon.“

The search ended at 8:59 PST to- night.

The rescue workers were stunned and saddened by the news that Kathy had perished long before her body was discovered early tonight.

The plight of the child stirred not only ‘the United States but many other countries.

The Flsous family issued a state- ment, saying:

“There ls nothing we can say but merely thank all the people who have been helpful.”

Dr. Robert McCullock was in the rescue shaft, directing the removal of the body, when the announce- ment of Kathy's death was read by public address system to the crowd of several thousand persona gathered at the scene of operations.

There was a groan from the on- lockers.

Within a few minutes the crowd thinned out and the big array of flocdlights that had been centred on the rescue shaft had been dirn-

med.

Doctors said the child had died of drowning.

Kathy's body was still wedlefl grotesquely in a curvature in the well casing late tonight.

Dr. Hanson and Dr. McCullock, acting for Kathy's parents, re- mained long after the announce- ment of the child's death was read.

Kathy's last sound was about 6:80 p.m. last Friday. Sh; answered with cries the questions of her mother to‘ say whether she was standing up or lying down in the well.

The tot apparently gripped s

pa that was dropped to her late giday but aha lost grip er was not strong enough to hold on and she fell back against the sides oi her dark tomb.

Kathy cried for a while then. Suddenly aha stopped. Doctors estimated that this was -tlia time of her- death.

From all of Southern California men came with equgxnsnt to free Kathy from her cylindrical coffin.

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Lord Alexander To Speak _A_t_ Mt. A.

CACKVIIII, 8.1., April ll) -.- ‘ Viscount Alexander- will address tn." usduatiu cia- of Mount Allison University May l1. university pnsidmt W.‘l‘. Roar Harrington announced Saturday. Tito Governor-General will receive an honorary DBL. degree- The honorary degree of um. will b; corlsrred upon Miss Mar- jorie Haliett, heathnistress ct the Bermuda Bcihooi for Girls; lion. Robert Winters. Federal Minister of n and simply; as. M , Director cf Iducaticn fer New lraaswiea, and rm‘. Av- ‘ i! a Mount Al-

bored

Iridey. For M hours, sweating, be- ~h

o assurance as to Federal accept- ance of this latter proposal ad been received, it is hoped thbt e strongpmphasla placed on the _im- portance of Georgetown as s winter port in future transportat- ion developments will carry weight with the Federal authorities.

No Additional Berries

Quericd with respect to the pro- spects. of an auxiliary car ferry this summer at. Borden, Premier Jones said he did not. think there was any likelihood of this being obtained until docking facilities are available. Nor'did he see any hope of obtaining another ferry on the Wood islands-Caribou route this year.

While the dates of the sittings

of the Iboyal Commission on Trans- portation have not been fixed, the Premier said he was hopeful that the sessions here would be held in August. He attended meetings at Ottawa in which the agenda and proceedings at the hearings were discussed in detail. The Premier said there were many rumors afloat at Ottawa with regard to the coming Federal elect- ion. His personal opinion was that it would be held early in the sum- mer, but this would depend on the views expressed by Federal Liberal members to the Prime Minister on their return to the capital after the Easter holidays.

Albania Musi- Pay~ Damages To Britain

THE HAGUE, April 10—(AP\~ The International Court of Justice ruled '11 io 5 Saturday that Albania must poy Britain damages for the Corfu incident-~the mining of two British destroyers.

This was the first. decision an- nounced by the court. organized here under United Nations nus- picea April 18, 1946. The amount of the damages is to be fixed later. Britain sought £875,000 ($3,500,000).

Forty-four British seamen were killed, 42 were injured and the destroyers Saumsrez and Volarigc werp damaged by the explosion of rninerin the Corfu Channel off the Albanian coast Oct. 22, 104d

The channel, which runs between the Greek Island of Corfu and the Balkan mainland, previously had been cleared of mines by the Navy. Britain charged the mines were laid by Albania, or with Al- bani'a'| knowledge, long after the

war. Albania denied having laid . the mines.

llopori- U. S. Develops Better Guided Missile

MELBOURNE. April 1O —-(Re'\lt- era)--A flying-wing guided missile. more deadly. more manoouvrable and more accurately-controlled than the German V-1 is being de- veloped by the Aeronautics Divis- ion ofthe conancnwealth Belon- tilic and Industrial Organisation,

lisenregeptfor years.

the Sunday llersld said today. ‘the Herald

Believe Gas In Basement Caused Blast

MARION, S.D., April l0 —(AP) —The Btl Mary's Roman Catholic Church blew up today while it was partly filled with. Palm-Sunday worshippers. Six elderly persons were killed and dozens of persons were injured when the roof and brick walls came tumbling down upon them as they knelt in their pews. Many more escaped injury be- cause they were standing in from of the church before entering to attend the services. About 75 per- sona were in their seats. - Rev. Joseph Zimmerman. pastor for the parish of Marion and Mon- roe, waited to enter the altar for 9 arn. mass. An electric f-an was turned on because the church was packed and hot. A Immediately there was is terrific explosion from the basement, where there was a furnace which used bottled fuel. , Eyewitneasca suggested that a. spark from a short circuit, attached to the fan, probably had set off fumes..-,._ _ The zmb of the blast caved in -the roof and blew out the walls. There wag a small fire. but it was extinguished quickly. The sound of the explislon. plus the screams of iniured and iiupped persons, attracted the attention oi’ nearly every person in this farm town of 715 population. The only part. of the lauilcling that remained standing was some oi’ the wall around the altar and the choir space. . Blather Zimmerman had been trapped by debris falling into the sacrlstybut lip was helped out and escaped’ with Ifhroken- rib and

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Bank In Nfld. Held Up By Lone Bandit

Refuse f? Sill With S. I. U. Crew On Three Vessels

BAIH‘ JOHN. NJ" N911! 1D or (OP) - Moat of the officers, era- gineers and radio operators of three ttrike-hound freighters at Saint John have refused to sail with mun-hers of the Seafarers’ International Union (A.I".L.) l apokeunan said tonight.

8H. Beer, chief officer of tilt 8.5. Oottrell and spokednen for a group said to represent 77 per cent of the officers involved, made the announcement after a meeting attended by about B men from the mree vessels. He said tho following telegram. was being sent to Labor Miniatgr Mitchell:

“We, the oilflqer-s of thg strike- bound vessel Ottawa Valley, Fed- eral Trader and Oottrell are not in agreement Iwith the tactic! carried out by the government-

. Nfid" April 10 — (OP) — Police here todll’ were conducting an extensive seas-ah for a man who Saturday robbed a Bank of Montreal branch at nearby Ourln-g of $800-

‘rh, unidentified bandit held up the teller at revolver-Col!" 119" closing time. He escaped into the woods surrounding Curling, a proa- porous west coast fishing village two miles from this lmip-and-pe- per town. ‘

Bank manager WM. Vsnters, an eye-witness, chased the bandit and gave his description to police.

Television Considered By CBC Governors

OTTAWA. April it) — (CP) -- The CBC board 0f gvvernors Bat- urda/y concluded a closed meeting which likely will have some bear- ing on the role of private comp- anies iri the field of television. p

No announcements were made following the meeting which stud- ied applications from private firms in Montreal and Toronto for tel- Wlsiarl broadcasting licences. The board’; i eriidetiona on the

ships vessels in Halifax and we, _ the officers of the nbovevmentien- ed vessels, will not be used as strike-breakers. Under no circum-

agppllcations ‘will b; made nubile stances will we sail with members either Monday or Tuesday through or the seafarers’ International A.D. Dunton, CBO Chlllflllb Union." '

Chief Officer Deer said th. meo- saga text also lwcilld be sent to the three otflcera‘ unions eonocn- ed, which lmve no connection with the striking Canadian‘ Seaman's Union (T.L.C.) or the 5.110.. Issues Statement

HALIFAX, April 10 — (C!) - Becretary-treasurei- David Joyce d the Canadian district, Beatarers’

D. an‘ Demonstrate Against Russia

acumen. Germany. Abs-ll l0 — AP) - Thousands of displaced. persons engaged in a riotous dem- onstration against Riuasia today.

United States military police dispersed the crowd by using M!‘ gas. An estimated 10.000 persona took part in the dentonstraticn.

German police said til, was protesting “Russian persecu-

herb tonight "lmlmiidadlfl threats sieves- will deter the 5.117..

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ow-had Canadian National steam-Q

flutes-national Union (AIL), said ,

tion 0t ‘ churches." The _ stratore marched through Municlfa streets and attempted. police laid. to break into a building hmseins a Soviet liaison mission.