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CHARIJOTTETOirVN, CANADA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBPR‘ s, 1941

iiompton Dairy Barn Destroyed With Heavy Loss

Considered to be the best-equip- ped of its kilnd in the Province, a large llalry barn, the property of the Compton community at Belle River, \\'ent up in flames yesterday morning. The fire also destroyed two silos, directly behind the big barn, alld a smnllcr balrn. Also de- rirlrvud W115 the‘ season's hay crop, [lYtJ-lilllud of the straw, alld a large qualltrty of machinery, The lmain threshing machine was saved by 11100115 of a tractor which pulled it to safety.

The ihflflllCifli loss is estimated to exceed $10,000 and is only partially covered by insurance.

.\ll'. llerbert Cclllptoll said yes- terday evening he believed the fire caught from the cutting machine whtcil, in the process of cutting up tllc straw, probably developed sparks which were likely blown into the loft through the blower pipe. The fire was first noticed i-n

the loft. Ml‘. Compton said about i030. it developed with great reludilll

lmlncdlatt-ly the Community's

own ISO-gallon A.R.P. equipment was brought into actl-on. After the pumper had emptied the cisterns fronl three of the nealrby houses, it was shifted to the river from vrhtrc it continued to operate un- lil it. utls scen tllat there was no fllrtllo: dangor of the fire reaching Mr. Ccmpton‘: residence only about B0 fctlt from one of the barns.

in the mleantime. the fire-fight- ing equipment 0t‘ DE. Ross and Salts. Roscbcry, arrived and joined in lite struggle to plzvullt the blaze i'l'0lll spreading to nearby houses anti other buildings. Both fire- il“i"2lll; trams were assisted by tically all the neighbors in the \‘l‘ i._. Wl-tllcut their aid. Mr. Compton said, five other buildings would have been destroyed.

No livestock was lost, The cattle were ollt in pasture and all the horses in tlhe barns were driven

out and kept frrm returning to tho burning buildings. lllClflvloND. W. Va., Sept. 4 - i.»\l‘l—-'l‘vvctl1y-threc mcll were llulcuatccl today from tlllc Rich- rood-Sswell Coal Company mine

ablllt l2 miles from here after a conveyor belt became over-floated Bllfl b02811 smoking. mint- superin- tendent James Sadilla said.

Sadllla said there was no fire in the mlnc. but that when the con- Vl‘_\'ill" belt began smoking the men left for fear of entrapment.

First reports spoke of a serious blaro in the mine and police of- limlls were summoned from sur- rounding communities.

llowcvrr, when t firs on the belt was extinguished. all 23 mln in the mirlc walked out safely.

Coming Events

"Show at Cape- Traverse Hall, Friday. seat. 5.

"Dance in Lyndale School, Mon- dill‘. September 8th. Lunches,

"Reserve September 23rd and Itllh for Chicken Supper at South Matteo Hall

"Cardigan Hall, Chicken Sup- Ptl" and Dance, Tuesday, Septem- ber 9th.

"Kings County Plowing Match lad Horse Show at. Dundaa, Sept- Illlber 24th.

"Talkies — Wood Islands Mon- day. Gilda. ata/rrimg Rita Hay- worth.

"Dance, Orwell llali. Wednesday. September- om. Mfllview Orchestra. Lunches.

"Talkies - Murray Harbour North. Tuesday, Gilda. Starring Rita Hayworth,

"Until further advice-d ou- mill will close ouch Saturdl! It noon. llcGuigan b Boyle.

“Regular Hospital Dance. Mon- hnle Clarita‘ mall every Saturday Wilt. Webster's Orchestra.

"Collecting bog: fot- Canada Packer: Ltd by truck every Thur:- hr. Phone N. a Outclllfe. mu- astoo. or wrm mo. n. 1. McDow-

"IIDDRMIISJIIGOQIIII Cornwall I011 manila. an interested in 3x11: War I! Memorial, please

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A resolution viewing with alarm the increasing number of acci- dents at railway crossings passed at the Provincial conven- tion of the Canadian Legion. B. E51... held in Sullmerslde yes- terday. The resolution urged the Provincial and Dominion Govern- ments and Canadian National Railway to take "immediate action in improving all crossings by re- moving obstacles which prevent a full view of the same to traffic approaching and that wherever possible level crosslnss be done away with until such time as these level crossings can be elim- inated. We insist that warning signals be placed at these cross- ings."

The convention noted that. "for some years there has existed in Prince Edward Island two zones for freight rate purposes. one be- tween Summerside and Royalty Junction and one for the rest of the Island." that these zones have worked to the detriment of ship- pers in the east and west of the Province. and resolved “that the Board of Railway Commissioners be urged to abolish these two zones and make Prince Edward Island one zone."

A number of other resolutions were adopted, which are given elsewhere in this report,

The election of officers resulted!

as follcws:

Hon. President. Robinson.

President. Major John A. Mac- Donald. M.I..A., Cardigan,

Vice President, 15.13. McKinnon, Montague, 2.8.1. ' “

Chairman. Harry Bishop, M M.,, Summerside, P.E.I.. vice chairman Roland Philipson. Sllmmerslde. P.E.I.; zone chairman for Prince County. Lester Jenklnfl. Summer- sldc; Queens County. Herbert Ves- sey, Charlottetown; Kings Coun- ty. P.A. MarLellan. Scllris.

Hon. Treasurer, MP. Titus, sum- mcrslde.

Chaplain. TE. McNutt, lotteiown.

The convention closed lwith a banquet at the Imperial Palace which was presided ovel- by R10- land Phlllpsorl, president of local branch. Seated at the head table

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Indian lliver Man Suffers

Senator B.W.

Chaf-

Severe Injuries

Jchrl Heokbert, Indian River fish dealer suffered serious injuries about 9 o'clock last night when the delivery ilfilCk he was driving crashed into the real‘ end of a truck parked on Central Street, Summerside. The accident victim was taken to the Prince County Hospital suffering f-som a severe scalp wound and it was understood last night that an operation would be ncccssrlry. Hospital authorities described his condition as “fair".

WES‘

Maj. J. A. MacDonald M. L. A.

who was elected President last night of the Prcvinclal Command, Canadian Legion.

Evy Damage In ilueen’s University Fire

KINGSTON. Ont... Sept. 4 — (OP) — Officnls of Q cell's Univ- ersltftodayWtei-e face ‘With-the. problem of feeding 400 students af- ter an early-morning fire dc troll- ed their dining hall and ciestrcyed

or heavily damaged other sections

o! the students‘ union building. ,

Heavy smoke ha-lllpcrel efforts

of fircnlell to fight the blaze. cattse l i

of which is unknown. Damage, covered by insurance. was estim- ated at betvxrn $50000 and $80.- 000.

Fire department officials believ- ed the firc bloke ollt on the main floor of the 1hr c-storcy structure. spreading to the upper floors through a dumb-waiter and a stairway. The main damage was confined to the central part of the building and the top floor, but heavy smoke and water damage was done to sections of the build- ing untouched by tile fire.

Besides tire dining ha l, the blaze destroyed a number of recreation- al and study rooms and the office of the Queens Journal. undergrad- uate newspaper.

A neighbor discovered the fire early this morning but firemen believed it must have srnouldered] for about two hours earlier. The heavy, acrid smoke ke:t them from the heart of the blaze for some time and when they arrived, a large part. of the second-storey flooring had burned away.

LONDON — (GP) —- Auctions of surplus gcwrllment stares and Ministry of Suppy plant, held dur- ing the last year, raised £1,053,755

(34215020) .

Canada Has World's Largest Atomic Plant

(By George Kitchen. Canadian Prep: Staff Writer)

OTTAWA, Sept. 4—(OP)—Ex- istcnce in Canada of the world's largest heavy water atomic plant and discovery in the Canadian northland of new uranium deposits were disclosed today by Recon- struction, Minister Howe at a pres: conference.

He said the new atomic energy pile has been operating since last spring, converting rare uranium into even rarer plutonium, and i: “twice as big" as the low-energy atomic plant which Britain brought into production last month.

lie declined to ny where the new uranium deposits are or to estimate their lizc but said the Belgian Congo still is the world's largest. supplier of tho element, with Canada atill second as a source of supply.

The minilter made the disclos- urea during a press conference at which he and Dean C. J. Mac- kenzie, president of the National Research Council, detailed govern- ment plane to make radioactive ilotopeo. lay-products of plutonium

manufacture. available to medical

and other scientific researchers.

Dean MacKenzle, one of Can- adals foremost scientists. said the isotopes, made by bombarding ma- terial with radiation from an at- omic pile, could be used by medical science for study of disease and the very secrets of life itself.

Tile minute particles could be injected into the blood stream with other substances and. because they emit radioactive rays, followed through the body ‘with detecton. Their greatest use might be in the study of dreaded cancer for once they strike unnatural growth in their progress through the body they centre there and thus indicate the presence of malignancy.

In the field of agriculture. too, their use was limitless and they might revolutionize that industry.

Mr. Howe laid Canada will have no objection to selling isotopes to other countries, as also planned by the United States. and added that if a market for them develop: Canada will be in that market, lelllnq at world prices. At a guns, the price might range from It to 0100 a mlllicure-tha unit of rad- iation-depending upon the typo

of isotope.

Ehhsfleet Man Held After Shooting Affray

Elmer Ooataln, Ebbsflect, ll

a patient in the Prince County Hospital in a. critical condition and Merritt Leslie Hustler, 1B, of the name district ts 1n Prince County Jail on a chum of mul- lrlg grievous bodily harm. u the result of a. shooting ultra! which took place at llmineg L Run about nine o'clock Wcdnu- day evening. Costafn wan lhot in the abdomen with a .22 cal- libre rifle. The ‘bullet: penetra- ted his body and court alt at the lower part of his back.

He was immediately taken to the Western Hospital at Alberton but as there is no Opefflfing T0017! there he was rushed to the Prince County Hospital, Summer-side, vrhore doctors worked on him till the early hours of the nlomtng. His condition last night. was re- ported as improved but still crit- ical.

The incident occurred on or near the main road at Miminegasft Run near the Hustler home. Hustler was arrested later that night and yesterday afternoon appeared be- fora Magistrate R.S. Hinton in Summerslde and was remanded to jail for a week.

Details of the affair are scanty but as far as can be learned the disturbance started at a picnic that had been held in the afternoon. There was some drinking and in the evening a crowd gathered in the village near the Hustler home. Some stones were thrown at the residence and it was reported that one struck the mother of the ac- cused. Mrs. James Hustler on the hesd and that site was taken to the Albel-ton Hospital last evening for treatment. The shooting oc- curred after this incident.

There arc, reports also, of, salam-

ily feud but‘ these are only rumors and cannot be confirmed. -— S.

ti. SfSohool Teachers Get Pay Increases -

HALIFAX, Sept. 4 ~(CP) Nova Scotia school teachers have been awarded pay increases, ranging in most. cases about 35 pcr cent over last year's rates. and a raise in yearly increments for experience, the department of

education announced today. The new scale goes into effect im- medintely.

School boards will be paid ad- ditional grants by the provincial government to provide for the new scale. For the next year the grants will approximate $700,000. The total of additional payments to teachers since 1941 would be approximately $2,500,000 per year.

Increases in the minimum sal- ary scale ranged from $520 for academic license holders to $120 for class B teachers. Basic salar- ies for class C and D teachers will remain e same except for an increase of $50 to $60 in YEN”- ly increments. This applies in all cases where teachers are en- titled to the increase.

No change has been made in the extra remuneration for prin- cipals and vice-principals.

Another major alteration is the increase of the differential (paid for each additional year of academic or professional training) of $100, an $00 boost.

Teachers of industrial arts and household science. holding either a first class or superior firat class license, will, in view of the ad- ditlonal year's training required. receive 0180 more than the cor- responding scale for teachers of academic subjects.

An additional 0100 yearly will be paid teachers of physical edu- cation holding a superior first class " because of the ox-

tra one-year training period. The increment of the 11th. 1W1 and 21st years will depend upon attendance at. the Nova. Scotia summe fresher courses during each the prevlou: five-year period!-

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The Rt. Hon. J. L. Ilsley, Min. blot" of Justice, will pay a brld vfcit to the Province on Friday, September 12th. it. was learned yes- terday from Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught, M.P. He, will attend a complimentary dinner in Char- lottetown at noon and in the afternoon at about four o'clock will address the annual meeting of the East Prince Liberal Association in the Capitol Theatre. Summerside.

Mr. Ilsley is coming to the Mari- times to attend the nominating convention for the by-election to be held in the near future in the constituency of York Sunbury to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Hon. Bridges, Minister of Fisheries. The convention is being held on Sat- urday, September 13 and he has agreed to visit the Island while in the Maritlmes.

The last time Mr. Ilsley visited here was on the occasion of the opening of the National Park when he was Minister of National Rev- enue.

The Minister of Justice is one of the senior members of the Do- minion Cabinet and has been a member of the House of Commons continuously since 1926, represent-

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Will Visit A clveowa 6: S"side Next Week

RT. HON. J. L. ILSLEY

ing the Nova Scotia constituency‘ of Digby-Kings.

He will arrive by air on Fri- day morning and leave that even-

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Indian Leaders . lAre Fearful 0f A its?! iiliibfiiaks ,

By G. Milton Kelly

NEW DELHI, llldia, Sept, 4-- tAPi~Officials. of India and Pakistan, who went their lndc-

pendent ways 3,5 dclnlinions less than a month ago, today were 0-b- liged to undertake joint action as a. result of virtual anarchy which has engulfed the vast Punjab and threatens to spread into a Mosiem- Hindu war.

A new case of appalling butrlllcrj‘ ca-me to light with arrival of a courier from a remote section of Pakistan Punjab who said a small Hindu military force sent ‘mto Shakilrgarh district, 55 miles south- east of Sialkol.'to protect 120,000 Sikhs and Hindus had found only 1.500 known survivors and the roads. fields and villages li-ttercd with thousands of bodies of victims. Only 2,000 were known to have es- caped into adjoining Jammu State.

Mohandas K. Gandhi ended his fast at Calcutta, however. three days and one hour‘ after declaring he would go without food "until sanity returns to Calcutta." His physician earlier had reported he

TEHKETYioF TESl/si‘

Tells Jury 0f Father’s Admission

HOFIWELL CAPE, N. I. 4-—(CP)-A 15-year-old girl today calmly told a Supreme Court jury her father, Arthur Ginn of Monc- ton, charged with the murder of his housekeeper, Mrs. Rcesa Mit- chell, had admitted the murder to her.

Eileen Glnn, one of 13 witnesses heard today before Chief Justice J. E. Michaud, told of staying at

miles out of Moncton, with her father and Mrs. Mitchell.

Later, she said, she accompanied her father to Moncton where he visited the R..C.M.P. office. After leaving the lice office, Ciinn drew her aside and told her no had killed Mrs. Mitchell. the ac- ouud man's daughter said.

The one will continue tomorrow.

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Premier Jones Scores Over Ontario Minister

TORONTO, Sept. 4 — (CP) ._ Ontario Agriculture Minister Ken. nedy and Premier Jones of Prince Edllvard Island tlueled to a draw over the advantages of their re- spective provinces at a Canadian National Exhibtion directors’ luncheon yesterday.

Ill his address, Col. Kennedy said Britons had expressed surprise that calves could be vaccinated in Ontario for $1 a head.

Cnunfcred Mr. Jone: "In our Prcvinrc ac have so l:tlle tuber. t-lllosfis and Brad's disease that we don't have in vaccinate cattle.“

Regarding Ontario's system of agricultural l'I]’li‘€Sf‘l'liBiiV€§ in each county in advise farmers he said: "Vi/e jilflsi. let people do as they darn well plrase."

in Ontnltc, ‘Hid Col, Kennedy, ‘$72l?,000,!)fltl \ , h of iotd was pro- duced last year. Mr. Janos quipped that crmpazcd with P.E.l. on a per capitn basis tltai. wasn't "so hot." Ontario didn‘t have his Province? transport problems — “just, turn the country inside out and put us lll the middle and things would be different."

(Note: While the Ontario CP correspondent claims this bout to have been a draw, it: i5 cbvioug from the context that Premier Jones sccred in every pctnt.)

Three Probes

Are Underway

DUGALD, Man, Sept. 4 —(CP) -Tlaree separate probes were un- derway today to determine the cause of Monday night's head-on collision of a Canadian National Railways‘ campers‘ special with a transcontinental express at this little flag station 20 miles east of Winnipeg,

Inquest. into the accident —the death toll from which has been officially estimated at 31 - will likely be held Tuesday, a spokes- man for the Manitoba attorney- generals office said today.

Maritime Eleetrie llead Dffioe ls Established liere

The head office oi.’ the Maritime Electric Co. Ltd. has been estab- llslhed in Charlottetown it was made known last night by Mr. A.G. Ley. assistant superintendent.

The head office was formerly in St_ Stephen. N.B., but when the property of the company there was sold to the New Brunswick Power Commission last August 1st the company decided to move i-ts par. ent office to Charlottetown.

The Maritime Electric has other branch which is located ‘Fredericton. NB. The move Charlottetown got underway middle of last month.

Among the personnel transferred here from St. Stephen are Mrr. R. A. Parker. accountant, and Miss Margaret Sullivan. secretary.

iWir. U. L. MacDonald Fatally Stricken While Driving Locomotive

With his hand on the throttle. C.N.R. Engineer Charles L. Mac- Donald suddenly slumped over in his seat and died at. 9 o'clock yes- terday morning as his Murray Harbour-Charlottetown train, No. 210. was running between Melville and Surrey stations. Death was due to a heart attack. He was 51 years of age.

Fireman J. P. Ellsworth immed-

iately stopped the train and with the assistance of Conductor M. G. Mooney and others removed the stricken engineer to the baggage car. . The train despatcher at Char- lottetown was notified and order- ed an ambulance tn proceed t0 Vernon to which station he also authorized Fireman Ellsworth to bring the train. Dr. 1-1. P. Stewart of Eldon was summoned to meet the train at Vernon and Engineer T. A. Doyle was sent to bring the train from that station to the City. Upon its arrival in Vernon. Dr. Stewart examined Engineer MacDonald and pronounced him dead.

The late Mr. MacDonald was horn at Pictou Island, NS, and joined the C.N.R.. at Pictou in Jan- uary, 1917. He was transferred to the Island Division in December, 1933, as locomotive fireman and was promoted engineer on Nov. 0. 1942.

He is survived by his widow, the former Lillian E. Murray. City, and five daughters, Betty. Elaine, Janet. Sheila, and Thelma, and one son. Ian.

2,200,000 Tons Wheat To Ullltod Kingdom

LONDON. Sept. 4—(CP) —Can- ado supplied the United Kingdom with 44,000,000 hundredweight of total wheat. imports of 54,000,000 hundredweight. in the first seven months of 1947. Board of Trade figures showed today.

The Canadian wheat cost £43,- 750.000 ($175,000,000). The United States, in the same period, receiv- ed £7,000,000 for 5,275,876 hundred- weight and Argentina £7,369,621 for 4,229,712 hundredweight.

Britain has increased her oats purchases from Canada with near- ly 2,000,000 hundrcdweight shlppd in seven months at a price of I.- 000,000 compared with 218,126 hun- dredweight costing 2303.000 last year.

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SYDNEY. N.S.,- Sept. 4 —(CP)— New wage demands by more than 16.000 Nova Scotia coal and steel workers appeared likely tonight,

Adam Scott, secretary treasurer of Dlstrrict 26 United Mine Workers (C.C.L.) saidtoday that the union

executive was "of the opinion" that its members should demand a $1.10 a day increase after its present contract expires Jan. 31,