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74,000 HOMELESS AS FLOOD MENACE GROWS IN MIDWES

Theatre Al: Borden Badly Damaged B

EXPERTS of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

Nations (FAO) show Haitian farmers how to produce fish in their

ponds. to increase the food supply of that Caribbean eountr,.j

Heartbreaking Tragedy And Epic In Failure Is

Reported From Korea

By James A. Miehener (Author of "Tales of The South

Pacific.” Pulltser prize winner. Dis-'

trlbutod by the Associated Press.)

WITH U.S. TASK EDRCE '17 IN KOREAN WATERS, April 14- (AP)- Heartbreaking tragedy and an epic in failure followed young ensign Marvin Broomllead after he look of from the aircraft carrier Valley forge and reared over Communist Korea to blast a bridge

-It was not his day and his plane was destroyed by enemy fire.

In a crash landing among moun- tains Broomhead was severely in-

Coming Events-

"seedsl send for Free Catalog. Arthur Vesey. York.

"Crushing grain Mondays only. Thomas Carragvhcr. Lot 05.

"In stock oil cake and soy- abean meal. McGulgan ti: Boyle.

"Booking orde:s for clover and timothy seed. Beaton A: Macllae. Phone 2214.

"Unloading car bluk wheat to- day ind Wednesday. 5335 OWL Bring bags. Dillon dc Spillett.

"Brooklleld Grain Cleaning Plant now operating daily. Cash or toll by order of shareholders.

"Farmers. ask about the shut Gain Feed Finance Plan. For part- :cula.rs contact your local feed mill

"Come in and talk over our Purina finance plan for feeding your chicks and hogs. Dillon 6; Spiliett.

"For snapshots that will not fade. mail your Films and Nega- tives to Garnllum Photo Studios. Charlottetown.

"Reserve Saturday. April lilth. 2 P. M. white Elephant and Rum- mage sale. Holy "edeeme Com- munity Centre, sponsored by Altar Society.

"Booking orders for Strawberry Plants. Dunlap, 31.00 per hundred 37.00 per thousand. Otto Curtis. Bedeque.

"Just arrived, Floor-Ever, non- porous plastlc tiling. See the beautlful shades now in stock. Simpson's Agency. '

"The Annual Meeting of the Eastern King's Exhibition Associa- tion will be held in the Town Hall, Souria. on Saturday. April 19th. at 2 P. M.

"Starting to clean grain and timothy seed April llith and con- tinuing throughout season. Bring your grain early and avoid last mlnuto rush. Robert Cairns. Baltic.

"In stock-two cars Brsntford shingles. siding and paper. Un- loading car cedar shingles. To arrive. two cars cement. Early booking assures special prices. Am buyin potatoes and turnips daily. P. . Noy and Co.

"Collecting Hogs for Canada Peters Ltd. each hlosday at Orapabd and Carleton. when room are itstpasssbls-farmers are

to deliver begs to our nuoks It sad. and Carleton. u until it A. It. each Tuesday. unrier the skate arrangement as last year. R. 7' hwsou. Phone No. ll-at or 17.

jured and pinned in the plane. ills mates concluded that he had been killed but 10 minutes later they saw him crawl painfully onto the crushed wing. His legs had been broken and he collapsed as enemy gunners began to draw a head on him. '

A squadron of antiquated cor- sairs established a canopy of fire over that unconscious" Broomhead and held back the approaching cncmy.

send Helicopter

The others moved out to sea. to escort in a slow helicopter from the cruiser Manchester, but either be- cause of enemy fire or the incred- ible bad luck of an evil day, this helicopter crashed.

The crew. Lieuts. Ed Moore and Kenneth W. Henry. got out safely and went about their business

Grenade Kill-sid Montreal Youlh

firemenlfing Blaze Under Control In Hour

Fire which broke out shortly af- ter noon yesterday gutted the Eco Theatre at Borden. causing heavy loss. The town's fire department had the outbreak under control in about an hour.

Fire was breaking through the doors of the one-storey frame building when discovered at 12:15. At first it was thought the build- ing would be a total loss but ef- ficient work on the part of the fire fighters brought the outbreak uder control after the interior was badly damaged. Two front rooms were completely gutted and the remainder of the building and its equipment damaged.

No estimate was made last night. of the amount of the loss, which

was partially covered by insur- once. The building, which was for-

merly the Union Hall. was pur- chased almost two years ago by Mr. Wallace Palmer and converted into an up-to-date theatre, with all modern equipment. including two 35-mm projectors, glass-bead- ed perforated screen. etc.

At the time oi the fire Mir. Pal- mer was en route to Tyne valley and he did not reach Borden un- til almost 4 o'clock.

Air Force captain Loses Flying Herve

SACRAMENTO. Callf., April l4 -(AP)-Air Force Captain lier- ome Schechter, 35. Springfield. N- J., said today he'd rather go to prison than fly.

The veteran of 35 wartime com- bat missions in the Pacific as a navigator is one of six reserve of- flcers at Mather air ilorce base who face disciplinary action for refusal to fly training missions.

Scllechter. in an interview, gave "fear of flying" as the reason for his action.

"I have 1,500 hours up in the air." he said. "This fear of flying is something that I've felt for a long time and has culminated since I came to Mather.

”My fear has reached the point where the fact that I would be on the ground. even in confinement, would be preferable to i.he nervous tensions of normal aerial flight."

Schechier. married and a sales- man in civilian life. was recalled to active duty last November and assigned to a radar observer course at Mather.

MONTREAL. April it - (CF) - Louis Bellerose, 16, died today from injuries suffered when a mud-en- crusted hand grenade exploded.

The grenade was found by Louis and his brother, Olly. as they mam. co the fields yesterday near their home in St. Jerome. Police bcllcvn the grenade was left there by troops in training during war days.

Louis unscrewed the top oi the grenade and the resultant explo- sion burned him about the face, hands and arms. '

300 I-lolicloyers Sleep On Beach

LONDON. April it - (Reuters) --Hotels at the coastal resort oi Brighton were so jammed with holidayers over the long. warm. Easter week-and that 300 persons slept on the beach last night.

Canadians Due Today From Korea

SEATTLE, April it - (GP) - A contingent of 205 Canadian troops. largest group of Canadians to return from Korea through this Dnrt. will arrive here tomorrow aboard the Us. Navy transport Gen. H. B. Freeman.

CHARGED WITH AIISON

OAGETOWN, N.B.. April 14 - tCPl -- A charge of arson has been laid against a youth who gave his name as Leo Jacobs. ii, of Cannonville. Que. He will be arraigned here tomorrow. The charge resulted from a s2o.ooo fire yesterday morning at Hampstead, where two barns and a granary were destroyed. Police said they had been. told that the youth spent Saturday night in one of the barns.

N.Y. Flea Circus Reason For Fleeing Yugoslavia

BELGRADE. April ll - (AP)- A blonde with a torch and a poet with a yen to see a United states flea circus were convicted with eight others today of trying to flee Yugoslavia en under the cars of the Orient Express. '

The defendants. who had them- selves sealed in metal battery boxes beneath the train for the 1,200-mil-. trip to Paris. were handed prison sentences of from six months to two years by a Belgrade court. Four others were acquitted.

The bizarre escape route was dis- covered last summer when four o: the defendants were spotted in their cramped hideouts by frontier guards near Trieste. It was not dis- closed how many others success- fully escaped before the ruse was discovered.

Details of the careful plan were disclosed during the tour-day trial. The escapees would crawl into the boxes during the confusion of mak- ing up the midnight train at lei- grade station and an accomplice would bolt. than in. They carried a jug of water. bread and pills to

keep them from causing durlna

the two-day journey. Another sc- complice waited at Paris to pry them out.

The prosecution charged me de- fendants belonged to a "Council of Liberation" with hostile intentions towards the Yugoslav Government. 'l'llo defendants denied it and of- fered various reasons for wanting to flee.

Veroslavs Kocic. buxom 21-year- old blonde. said she wanted to go to Parts because she loved Milodrag Novakovio. 22. economics student who made the trip to Paris and back before he was spotted. sic ad- mitted that his feellngs for Vere- slsva helped draw him back to Belgrade. She got six months. He was sentenced to la months.

Dragoljub lvosevic. M-year-old theology student and unpublished poet. said he wanted to see the world. including the nu circus in New York. ,

"Fleas!" queried the judge. "WI have them here.”

"Yes." replied Dragoljub. "but these are trained."

"Eighteen months." said the

Contracts Let For Two Large Projects in Summerside Area

Contracts for two projects in Summerside and at the Summer- side air station. costing approxim- nlely 81.550000. have been let, it was annuonced yesterday by Mr. J. Watson MacNaught. psruamentary assistant to the Federal Minister of Fisheries.

An official announcement is ex- pected within a few days that a contract has been let for the com- plete reconstruction of the Marine Wharf at Summerside. the build- lng of a. new frost proof warehouse and extensive dredging. Amount of the contract. let to J.P. Porter and Son, Ltd.. Montreal. is approxim- ately sl,250,000. Tenders were call- ed in October.

Mr. MacNaught said the steel had been allocated some time ago for the wharf.

The other large contract is for the construction of a permanent type building for the Mechanical Engineering Section of the R.C.A.F. at the Summerside air station. It will cost appromixately S300 000.

Wharf Project

The whole Marine Wharf will be rebuilt with interlocking steel pil- ing. the warehouse on the west side of the wharf will be dismantled, and a frost-proof building erected in its place.

Three years ago a new warehouse was built on the east side of this wharf. and it is understood that this will still be retained in its present position, and used in con- junction with the new one that is to be built.

Dredging around the wharf will be to a. depth of twenty-three feet. and ii. is expected that shipping out of this port it begreatly increas- ed witenfbdt Er-f , ' .

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5 Winnipeg Police Officers iiesign

WINNIPEG, April 14 - (GP)- Flve members of the Winnipeg City Police Department. including two men involved in an alleged beat- ing-up of Polish immigrants a month ago. have resigned, Chief Constable Charles Maclver said today.

The resignations were requested in a. tightening-up of discipline within the department. officials said.

Chief Maclver said two of the five men "just happened to be those involved in the case of the D.P.s, and their resignations had absolutely no bearing on the al- leged assault case."

They are Constables Angus Mac- Lean and Archibald Mclntyre. Damage suits totalling S-L000 have been filed against them by the new Canadians.

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llaly Plans To

Honor Great Man

ROME, April 14 - (AP) - Italy is ready tonight to pay homage to one of her greatest men -- Leon- ardo da. Vinci. painter. architect. sculptor. inventor. scientist and pil- lar of the Renaissance.

painted "Mona Lisa" and

be put to use and whose drawings

study.

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Tomorrow is the 500th anniver- Oman; of the New my of the birth of the man who Railroad today called the influx of "'1'"? Canadian visitors to New York dur- Lasb Supp!-'1'": Who lnVB1li-i-'11 3115- ing the lilaster week-end "one of the marines. airplanes and aell'-rropeI1- heaviest in recent years during a ed ships centuries before they could holiday,"

of the human Inlmmy IF9 m35""" traffic at Grand Central station was mecca of scientific Ind Irysilc reached Friday night and that "probably" the outbound top would be reached by tonight.

Tenders For Savage Harbor Project Called

OTTAWA. April 14 -(Spccllill- Tenders are solicited today by the Department of Public works for construction work in conccilon with improvements to Savage Harbor on the north shore of Prince Edward Island in King's County at the border of Queen's. Plans and specifications for the project are available either at Ottawa. headquarters, the district engineer at Ch:lrl0t.t.etown or the post office at Mount Stewart. F. E. l. A deposit of S25 is required for blueprints and specifications for the work.

in this year's main parliament- ary estimates, cost of the Savage Harbor repairs is placed at 5156.- 000. -0! this total. 3129.000 is a revote from 1951 when 3130.000 was earmarked for the project and only 51.000 spent.

In France Now On The Downgrade

MONTREAL. April 14 --(CP)-- Maj.-Gen. George P. Vanier, Cana- dian amhassador to France, said to-

downgrade in France. "The hold of communism in Fran- ce" is weakening," he said.

of its recession are many. The Communist press at the end oi 1944 had a circulation of 2.600.000. In March, 1947. (circulation was)

500,000. Arecent figure given lag and Nebraska. and into Kansas

1,000,000-and this in spite of vig-

orous campaigns to increase circul- , , auongv flalilcd like a monster gone ber- d 1 set . Ad re” Hg the Canadian Club or To the east, in another rich

Montreal, General Vanler said Com- munist representation in the 62'1- scat Assemblce Natlonale, France's House of Commons, had dropped from 180 deputies to loo. Communist unions have control of less than half the workers they led in 1946 he said.

"The proces of permeation in various fields. begun quite method-

stopped and counteracted."

”ro BUILD moss SCHOOL

AMHERST, N. S., April 14 - (CPI-Cumberland County Coun- cll has approved plans for the con- sifuctlon of a consolidated region- al high school. clearing the way for Town Council to call tenders for the 5700.000 project.

The 29th annual convention of the Prince Edward Island Teach- ers' Federation will open at Wales College this morning wlih the report of the president, Miss Mabel O'Brien, at 10.30. to be followed by addresses by His Worship Mayor J. D. Stew- art and Hon. Premier .1. Walter Jones, Minister of Education.

The guest spenker at the con- vention will be Dr. C. E. Phillips, B.A., D.Pned... Professor of Edu- cation and Supervisor of Graduate Students. Ontario College of Ed-

ucation, University of Toronto. who will speak on two topics of vital importance to education,

"High Schools for All", and ”Ed- ucation for the Teaching Profes- sion."

A short meeting of the execu- tive of the P.E.l.T.F. was held yesterday afternoon M. P. W. C. when Miss Helen Yen gave her report as a delegate to the meet- ing of the Advisory Research Committee of the Canadian Teach- ers' Federation which was held in Ottawa in November. to discuss the inauguration of an indepen- dent rescnrch bureau for Canada. Thirty-two members and local presidents who had been invited to attend ,worc present at. the meeting of the Board of Cover- nors whlch followed.

Requests to Government

A report on the Superannuation Commission was presented by one

'”lcB'n'rlnuca of :37-Efraalf el-

Heavy Canadian Traffic To N. Y.

NEW YORK. April it --(OP)-An, York Central:

He said the peak of the inbound

The spokesman said there were

creature which has a body

To Press Theft cases At. Petawawa camp

0'l'!'AWA. April it ---(CP)- De- fence Department spokesman said today that .l.W. Pickup. Toronto lawyer. has been appointed to press charges against a group of army men and civilians involved in alleg- ed thetts of supplies from the Pet.- awawa military camp.

The spokesman said Mr. Pickup is reviewing the evidence obtained during an investigation. The camp is about no miles northwest of Of.- tows.

The Defence Department declined to give information on the investi- gation. It did not say how many men were involved.

ustwaek, the Defence Depart.- ment aaid hundreds of ions of sup- plies might be involved in the thefts. Belsuus by the R.0.M.P. were re- ported to include army blankets.

Will'-

clothlng and boots

several apparent reasons for the

heavy travel by Canadians into the

U.S. "in addition to spring. which

is an important factor," he said. "the

Canadian dollar recently reached

par with the American dollar, leav-

lng Canadians with more money, ini effect. to spend."

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Survivors Critical Of Piano's Crew

CAN JUAN. Puerto Rico. April is - (AP) - District Attorney Boilo Dueno. investigating last Friday's Pan American Airways plane crash in which 53 of 00 aboard perished. ssid today if survivors claimed the crew did not help them adequate-

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Dueno told reporters that his probe enclosed the only warning given to the passengers before the crippled plane was dilohed in the Atlantic near here was "no smok- ing. fasten your belts."

The District Attorney said he will question crew members. I

Board Members Discuss Problems At Teachersi Pre-Convention Meeting

Speeding Complaint In Flooded City

SIOUX CITY, 1a., April it (AP) - Police in this flood- stricilen city got an unusual speed- ing complaint today.

shopkeepers along a flooded portion of Grand Avenue in the south-eastern section of the city complained that the backwash from motor boats zooming through the flooded street was breaking out their store windows.

New Uranium Find Reported In The U. 5.

WASHINGTON. April 14 -(AP! -Recent finds of uranium deposits in south Dakota and Wyoming, the government said today, "point to a whole new area. that is fav- orable for prospecting for uran- ium." Uranium is the metal. rc- latlvely scarce in this country,

I OMAHA Neb., April 14 - (AP) day that Communism 'is on the -Flood disaster hung by a slim

”Therei , 15 no doubt, about 1; The Sympmmalpoiltan area tonight as the Mis- zsouri River, disgol-glng I

1,- out let-up.

-and its Minncsni lcally after the liberation, has beeni 3

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Acres Of Rich Farmland Reported Under Water

and weakening thread over the Omaha-Council Bluffs, Ia.. metro-

history's greatest-llnov.'n load of spring run- off, lashed its rich valley with-

For South Dakota. through Iowa

and Missouri, the ”Muddy Mo"

mid-west river valley, the Missis- sippi sct new flood crest. heights, hitting Mlllllcsotn illld WiSCOnSln and pointing a fillgcr of future assault at Dounstrcam Iowa. St. Paul and Winona were getting it hard.

At the some time, Fargo, N.D.. twin. Moor- head. counted nearly 1,000 home- loss before the rising waters of the Red River of the north.

Worst Modern Flood

It all added up to one of the worst combinations of mid-west flooding ill modern times - a disaster which the Red Cross trans- lated into terms of 19,349 falnilics -perhaps 74,000 persons or more -made homeless in a nine-state area including Montana, the Da- kotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas and Missouri.

For frightful dcprcdations, the Missouri was taking the lead.

Army engineers reported 1,250,- 000 acres of land, some of the richest in the middle United States, under water.

The crest today reached Sioux City, Iowa's second largest. metro- polis. But capitulation already had come to Sioux City with its 84,035 residents.

As of noon. Mayor Ralph Hen- derson ordcred a shutdown of all Sioux City business places except drug stores and restaurants to ease the strain on sanitary sew- ers.

Downstream the river, normally only it couple of stone throws wide, spread out 10 miles and more.

Gobbled up were hundreds of

farms. Towns were deserted by all except a few hardy stay-bc- hlnds. For sheer drama. however, the situation at Omaha and Council Bluffs, about 100 miles down- stream from Sioux City, was un- rivallcd.

While wafer strained against dikes. river forecasters boosted by 1 1-2 feet the crest expected in the metropolitan area Thursday morning.

That means it 31.5 foot crest- 12 1-2 feet over flood stage, near- ly seven feet over the kllowll rc- cord high in 1881, nearly five feet over the crest which levees and

which is the raw material for atomlc bombs.

flood walls were designed to lc-ddllnued (lll.I;;Z;.5 col. 1)

Sea Monster

VANCOUVER. April 14 -lCP)-O ls Caddy dead? 1 Residents of Vancouver Island were staggered today hy reports; that an elephant seal pulled ashore at Ucluelet on the west coast of the island may be their beloved sea