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Si-IELBURWI. 11.5.. Aug. 24 _ ICP) —- A fi"v- which started in a berry bog a reek also dealt a cruel blow to the ordinary flshQr-ifofls who rve alone the shores of Jor-

iilfl Bay when it ieapt up during"

the week-em destroying the vil- latte church and fur homes and puttinl? 40-cd-i faml es to flight.

All across the lower end of the Jordan Bay Peninsula nelr this louth more tJWn farmers and fish- rfmen f‘ed, driving their livestock before them.

Along n roadside one Inmfly‘ lfilflpv/i to milk Meir cows while lizimcs ctaclrod 1n the woods be- hind ‘him.

At another place s fa 11y wluch ehoso tr remain was the ped by 01d women and young children carry- ing butkets oi water to drench barns Blili iisv. sheris.

Mrs. Evcrcm Butler pressed her son aid eight other men into scr- vicc protecting her no-me and those of her neigthonrs while shmcarried nets and UShWIg gear to the safe- ty of tlie shore.

Clinton TOWYZFBHG and his wife lied from thrlr bur-ting home. able to save nothing but the clothes on their backs. TI-eY waited ‘tniy long Inc-ugh to carry Mrs. Townsend's invalid brother Martin Thorburne to safe-i but ftrgo‘ to retrieve $35 iii cast. left in a pantry drawer.

Howard Derxer. aged fisherman. burned ‘lu- skm off his bards vain- ly trying to saverthe home of his dllltllltrl. ill‘?- Prcscott Locke, whose husband still was at sea ilshinP. unaware of his loss.

Lrcke: n1 ‘e and four young children were loft homeless and even a $77 faiully allowance cheque Ind S» in "ssh "was forgotten in '.ii(il' flight.

One cf the hear-test losers was Burns Lorine Ami-use new STJKiiThoene and n1. its ccntenls were destroy- ed. But his smrll grocery store less than 10') feet away was ic-ft intact while his car. parked near the ruined lnme hadn't even its paint Icorchco‘.

The tire which destroyed the home o.’ Bin-tr. Locke also destroy-

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In Sydney Mines

SYDNEY MINES. N. S». Aug. fl-tCPl-Inss was estimated st. 050.000 in a iire which swept through the one-storey brick Giliis Block on Main Street tonight and for n time threat- ened the principal business street in this North Cape Bre- ton County mining town oi 8.000.

Origin oi the fire. which was discovered in the basement of Thomson MacDonald's drug store about 0.30 p.m. ADT, was unknown.

Three other business estab- lishments. the order office of Robert Simpson Eastern Lim- ited, Dave Nichols‘ restaurant and D. A. Gilils’ tlilor shop, were, gutted while four others suffered damage by smoke and water. v

Firemen, who had just re- turned from fighting three brush fires in the area, exting- uished the flames liter a three- bour fight.

The building is owned by D. A. Gillis and J. II. MscLennan.

Killed Returning‘ From Fire Fighting

McADAl/l. 11.5.. A118. 24 -—- (GP) —Chest=r Waance. 60, was kited instants: ear-y today when crush- ,d against s, aelephcne polo [Elf Moor-es Mills after the brakes o! a truck "failed to function.

Mom-n: oi a Janadlan Pacific Rallwsv fire fighting crerw here he was returning ‘from n fire at Waweg. The truck was unable to go all the wry up a hill and 'he driver, “orced to back down when the brakes failed t-"i nor-i. told the passengers to jump. All leaped clear except Wallace. As i:e junip-

ed the wedrrng presents received by a (laughter, Mrs Mmray l-iam? llton of Dartrmiuth 10.5.. who was married in Jwrdan Bay last fnlli but left her prrsenta at ‘rune until the found n hcmc of her own. ,

One u! the stranerest things that‘ evacuees saw as ‘ohey left thelri tirmcs to iPKi! shelter with rein-f’ tires and fnetzds res-a were hun-I iireds of brrrvn snakes wriggfiing. out of ‘he path of the iire.

Coming Events

"Show Malpeque Tuesday.

"Show Cezioc Cove Wednesday. "T051115 —- Malpeque, Tucsda . Night Editor. y

"Wednesday. A1111’. 2'1. Picnic at Mt. Carmel.

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o1 the. po1e's spikes pierced his head. The surviors included his son,

Sheldon also of M-fiAdam.

Family Parity” 0n Peace Settlement

CANBERRA. A113 24 -- (AP) -- Australizfs views m a Japanese peace settlement W711 he compared with tiir-sc oi i~il1er counlsies of the British Cimmorwriftih at the "Inm- ilv conference" on Japan sched-

, uled ‘o open here 'I'iiBSday.

Plans for t..e conference call for a frank exchange ui lie-s among

Drought Situation

In Europe

XDNDON. Aill- 24 -(AiP)— A large part of Europe today was in the illrroes of the worst drought in a decade, threatening severe dam- age to crops.

Unless it... fnils soon. European officials say, near-famine condit- ions will exist over wide areas again next whiter. In London Saturday rain ended a 17-day drought. _

This was the situation reported by Associated Press correspondents today:

Germany-the woo-st drought in 50 years than damaged n11 crops. The loss in the potato crop is ex- pected to exceed 25 per cernt gen- erally and range to nearly 50 per cent 1n some sections, agricultural officials say. The sugar beet crop has suffered comparably and pas- tures and fodder crops are badly affected.

France—most of the wheat crop was harvested before the drought, but last. winter's freeze had cut the harvest by 3.‘! per cent. France needs 5,000,000 tons of wheat a year and will have to import two-thirds of iihat amount during the next 12 months, The August drought will seriously affect the second fodder outtl-nE- Possibly wipe out, and cause a drastic shortage of food for livestock.

Italy-scattered rains over most oi’ ftaly last week ended a 42-year record heat wave and accompany- ing drought. There have been no reports of extensive damage to crrops.

Britain-there has been no gen- eral rain since Aug. 6, although rain fell Saturday in ILondon. Sugar

eels. late potatoes and vegatables have been damaged by the drrougiht but the 1947 grain harvest pros- pects are good. 'I'he biggest worry is milk production. which has fallen off sharply.

Austria-officials rear widespread damage to vegetable crops. Drink- tng water supplies l-n several sect- ions aire endangered. _

Scandinavian countries-Abe sum- imer-lorig drought in Sweden 1s ex- pected to cut wheat and rye crops by 40 per cent and Sweden will have to impart about 350,000 tons of girain to mal-ntalrn the present ration. "Drastic" slaugihterings of Danish cuitle have been ordered because of curtailed fodder crops.

Norway-drought in southern Norway ‘has cut grain crops sharp- ly and too much ruin in the north- ern part has damaged the harvest

there, Low water supplies are

hampering industrial plants. Ireland-officials forecast the

bcst harvest in 40 ycars with

strong prospect that bread ration- ing will be abolished. This country has virtually escaped the drought.

Pravda issues Mild Warning To lran,

MOSCOW. Aug. 24 — (AP) -- Pravdn said today ilin". Prcnder Ahmed Qavan of Iran was try-mg to break the ‘Hviet-Iratziiu. dll ag-

reement and “warned him against following

"thr" dangerous road"

D:m1n1oris to approach lwternuilbll- cl talks with '\ clear undrrstanciing of cbisctives.

The \ustral1i.n delegation. l~icad-, ed by rz-‘me Minister Cl-lfley and Dr. Halbert Evntt." is expected to propoviid the view thr-t Japan's war poenilal must. bu removed

(The pact. rezchad in 194i! while Russian trosp. were in Iinfl. would make Russia the rnajoitv stock- holder icr 25 years in .i Russian- Iranian nil‘ (‘flmiiary- Th? "W! Iranian prrflenient must ratify the tvreemnt to nrakc it effevlve, ‘Ilhere have bat-n reports of cPDPa-

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ltlon ivnung the legislatures.)

British Food t " Ration May Be Dut This Week

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LONDON, Aug. 24 —(CP)—Last -weck belonged to Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, with his announcement oi the suspen- sion of lterling convertibility and the freezing of the last £100.000.000 ($400,000,000) of the United States loan. This week will belong mostly to Food Minister Strachey and the British People will find out what the economic crisis means in terms of smaller rations. '

Everybody knows that something drastic happened to Britain's trad- ing ability last week_ but few profess to understand exactly what it was; but when Stracheyui de- cisions are made public the real meaning of world-wide dollar shortages will be unmistakeable.

Since Prime Minister Aiitlee a fortnight ago announced his plan to reduce food imports 212,000,000 monthly to save dollars, Flood Ministry experts have been pre- paring a detailed memorandum on what the plan means. Even fur- thér curtailment of food purchases may be necessary now.

A Cabinet meeting Monday-at which Sir Wilfrid Eady, head of the recent British Government's dollar mission to Washington, will give a detailed personal report on Anglo-American financial talks there-will probably hear Stra- chey's plans. If they are approved a public announcement will be made almost immediately.

. Progress has been‘ made with Government planning to trim Britain's overseas buying and to hoost exports to meet the dollar situation. and cheering news was announced during the week-end by Arthur l-forner, general secre- tary of the National Union of Mineworkers. He said: "We have offered to work fl_i.-3_h0lll',&. eve _ Saturday from “September” lipid May of next year" as a means of helping the Government in the crisis. Miners have been on a five- day week for the last four months.

Plans for higher agriculture out- put to reduce the need for food imports during the next few years have been announced by Tom Williams, Minister of Agriculture, but these bring no immediate re-

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Former Director 0f Citizen Passes

OFFAWA. Aug. 714 ——tCl’t-— Wil- son Miis Soutltsm, '18. d‘re:tor oi the Svuthnm Publishing Ccmpony and for m"n_\- years managing cctor ti," the Ottawa citizen, died

held pr-vatel.‘ in Ottawa tomorrow. Mr. scuffiam retired its publish- er of t-he Citizei in 1920 to take over the znrauagenicnt o‘. South- am Limited, at tho. time the hold- ing company r‘, Soithnm interests. Five years later he re‘lred from active business but ui-tLl a few months ago maintained close touch with the Citizen and other papers in the Ssutham group. He remain- ed a director c! the Soutliam Cem- pony.

His death closed an illustrious career in the printing and pub- fishing business which extended

Captured Naval Documents

Shed Light

IONDON. Aug. 2-1 - (Reuters) —A German U-boat commander "over-excited by tr-e sudden dec- Laration of war" was res-plausible for the sinking of the Anchor- Donaldson Liner Athenia 200 miles west oi the Hebrides 0n the tlrst. night. of the war. bcpt. I. 1939, nc- oordinq to captured naval docu- ments released Saturday by the Admiralty.

The Iulikihfl took Ill lives in- eluding 12 Canadians.

‘llhe making, the documents state. ‘was reported to Rtler who. on the advice of nis naval staff. denied German respons-bdlty and accused Winrton Churchill - then First Lord oi the Admiralty — 0! nttemptinl to engineer atrocity stories against Germany

The mystery was finally solved when. on his return to harbor. lt was ascertained that Lieutenant Lemp. commander oi the submar- ine U-JD, sank the Atherin.

He pleaded that he was over-ex- cited by the sudden declaration of war and had opened his sealed 5...... 01.1] a few hours teiore the torpedrinl

Britain's mllhty battleship, the amino-mi “Dill oak. ‘Ins stink by a German U-boat in home orat- en the accord month of the war

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enough" to switch on n11 coastal lights from 10 to 10:30 p.m.. the captured German naval documents related.

‘me documents disclosed that on the 1:1) Prime ivillnlstcr Neville Chamberlain rejected Hitler's ‘peace r-ropfrsms" the German sub- marine, U40. commanded by Lleut. Gnenther Prion. lay submerged ofi the Oriutcya waiting for a chance to sneak int» the nitherto impen- etrable Scapa Il"1ow huze British naval base off the Scottflrh coast.

Priest's log said the lzslf hour n! coastal iititts enabled him to obtain "the rrost exact firs." The following day, shortly before mid-

over 60 years wi'h sliori breaks when ne was an office in a Hamilton drygoods firm and a year on a rav-ch near Calgary. 1-1e was the eldest son of the late Wil- liam southam oi Hamilton found- er of Southern Entirprlres.

For years he urged monetary reform and social credit and as late as this year wrote the Com- mons committee on election en- deavouring, nsuccessfully, to pur- suade it to bring in recommends- tions for changes in Canada's vot- ing system. He wanted proportion- si representation and transferable votes which he thought would give s fairer interpretation of the voice of the people. He also be- lieved in single tax.

Mr. Southam was born in Inn- don. Ont.. Oct. 2. 1688 and moved

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Dalls For Facts In Dollar Crisis

OTTAWA, Aug. 24 —(CP)- Gauging the Federal Govern- ment with “mystificntlonfl J. M. MacDonneII, president of the Progressive Conservative Party and financial critic for the Opposition tonight called on the Government to “put its cards on the table" with re- spect to the dollar crisis, and to cease treating the Canadian people "as children."

Mr. MacDonneli, in a 600- wmrd statement, said the ser- iousness oi the dollar situation was not so apparent in Cannds as In Britain, “but let no one doubt that we in Canada are gravely involved."

“Canada is this year buying from the United States about 51.000.000.000 more oi goods than we are selling to them. Our stock oi United States’ dollars has been rapidly diminishing, and we ha c been hoping to help the situation by receiving payment for half oi our sup- plies to Britain in the form of American dollars supplied us by Britain out oi the U. S. loan. The present crisis makes it clear that, unless some new arrangement is made between Britain and the U. 5.. Britain cannot carry out this hoped- for a... ngement.

"The British Government, has taken the British people into its confidence and made a clean breast of the whole alt- untion. In addition it has called on the people for fur- ther cffort 1nd sacrifice. rem. iniscent of i940 and the days of Dunkirk."

iiov’t To Slinllmrt ll. S. Apple. Prices

OTTAWA. Aug. _24 — (CP) _ Agriculture Niinister Gardiner an. "llllmefi lonlrht tnc Agricultural Prices 511111101‘. Board has been iillthDlqzPd 1,, gqnymde qn a.m,e_ nient with the No.3 swgig Apole Marketirg Board io support the Price u! H1191“? from the 1947 crop, exocrine iri total 1,253,000 barrels.

H8 51nd tilt‘ main failings of the agreement would be these: ,

l. It will provide for the c:nt‘.n- "time 0f the Nova Scotia Apple Mflrliefing Board as the sole ma)‘. Retina evencv so. the um crop produced in Nova bolls Valley. ,

2- 1")"- Prlm Support Board will Qllliftllitne a minimmn “val-age ,e_ film '01 B11 Parleites and grades handled by the Marketing Board (‘f $2.25 a bar;e1 to the grower be- Icre puking costs. ,

l 3. Tit-c Prices Support Board will

Sophia’; Amm-

horg pr-ly today after three mouths Dfifvilfli: up i.) 2011000 barrels of, a; m Jealtl‘. The fungi-a; will be varieties. and grades which are not;

readily salezinle on this continent rand dispose o.’ them outside c-f the markets available to tire Apple iMarl-vilrig Bornd.

I Details of the agrremcnt, expect- ed to be completed within a few ‘days. will be nilTlOliTlCEd later.

[Texas (Millard liit By Storm

GALVEBION, Tex, Aug. 24 - (AP) - Texas City, hit only last April by a terrific ship explosion disaster which claimed more than 500 lives was struck late today by

a BB-mile-an-huur tropical storm that a few hours earlier raked Galveston with high winds and

torrential rain.

At least one life was lost in the storm in Galveston.

Three other persons were fear- ed lost on a fishing boat that left Galveston Pricey and sailed out. into the Gulf of Mexico.

Thousands of refugees huddled in public buildings here as the storm mounted in fury.

The storm. almost of hurricane force, uprooted trees, blew down signs and smashed windows in houses along the Galveston sea- wail.

night, Oct. 14, i-he ‘ 1..- moved in shently, dodging the cables oi the blockshlpi-

Biviftiy- the men under water

fixed torpedoes on three rhips and fired. .

"After three tense minutes comes the detonation Q1 tile nearest snip. There is a loud explosion. roar and rumbling. Then come columns of water followed by columns of fire and rpllnters fly through the air,” Prien wrote.

»"A battleship has been sunk. a smond damaged. and the other three trrpsdtns have gorse to hllll. A11 the tubes are empts. I doc.“

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because "the English were hind

to withdraw." \

Two Planes Slightly Damaged By Fire .

Two Maritime Central Airways planes ii 26-passeriger Douglas and B lo-Daeienszr‘ bocltheen were damaged by iii-e Saturday evening caused by cleaning fluid overturn- ing and igniting while one of me employees was checking the en_ pines, t

The blaze which burned an atl- eron off the Douglas DC-a and ‘he leads around the Sparkpiugg of the Lockheed was brought un- d" wmffll bi’ the presence of mind of Keith Taylor, M. c, A, engineer who despite a severe burn on his left forearm, suffered when the fluid ignited brought the airline's fire extinguishing Equip- "lei" "130 1111i’ and had the fire extinguished when City Firemen arrived un the scene.

Yesterday afternoon City iire- men we:e called out again to ex- llllsuish a grass fire in the or- chard of the Experimental Farm Station on Mt. Edward Road.

Pair Killed lit Maine Air Show

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HOULTON, iire., Aug, zit-tap) —A pilot and his 17-year-old com- panion died Saturday in the flam- ina wreckage of a former Army training plane beore 1,000 persons awaiting the start of the Northern Maine air show at the municipal airport.

The dead were George Bul1ey,24, and Lewis mnemore; 17.

Firlemoreb father was believed to have been among ‘the crowd

llse Drchartl Sprayers {To Fight Forest Fires

l xrzirrvimm. 1c. s. Aug. itcPi-Fanners turned out with orchard sprayers today to help |town firemen quell a blaze in pine woods at neanhy Greenwich. Fli- _teen acres of timber was burned |over before the flames were con- ‘ oiled.

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Ford Boosts Prices In The ilnited States

DETROIT. Aug. 24 —(AP) -

President Henry Ford II an- nounced today that prices on "most models‘ of Ford Motor

Company passenger cars and all truck models “are being raised

ately."

10th llome lind School Donvention Doncluilati

SACKV-ILLE. N.B., Aug. 24 - <CP)—The 10th annual convent- ion of the Canadian Federationof Home and &hoo1 concluded here Saturdaydollowing a tour of Prince Edward island Friday.

olrrawa Aus. 24 -(CP) Largely a result. of a sharp de- cline in cod and lobster landings on the Asrantic seaboard, total landings of sea fish by Canadian fishermen this year have fallen far below last year's level.

During the first seven months oi 1047, total landings dropped to 038,700,000 pounds from 59D.- 000,000 1n the same period last year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported today. During the same period, total value oi the catch dropped. 05,000,000 to 024,700,000 for the i947 period.

The Bureau noted that the de- cline on the Atlantic coast was the outcome of both lower prices and reduced landings in the cod ‘and lobster fields. particularly cod. Returns to British Columbia fish- ermen wera at a slightly higher level than last year.

This trend towards reduced prices plus a decline in export de- mands for frozen fish is reflected by fish landing figures for July. During the month, the catch of Atlantic cod dropped from 67,700.- 000 pounds in July last. year to 41,400,000 pounds. declines being sharpest in Quebec and Nova 5co- ti