7" 3 -1 Clairson Lumber Yard Destroyed Spectacular Blaze Consumes 200,000 Board Feet Choice Lumber A spectacular fire destroyed the Clairson Lumber Company at 80 Carillon street, Eastvlew, this morning. No one was injured In the swlft-spreadlng blaze that sent smoke swirling hundreds of feet into the air. Damage was estimated at close to $300,000. Ted by 200,000 board feet of choice dressed lumber, shav Jngs and sawdust the flames took charge so quickly that em ployes working In the office at the front of the rambling structure did not hare time to save their overcoats and lunches. The Clairson Company is lso lated from residential areas by railway tracks on the south side, a large field on the north and the Dominion Bridge Com pany buildings west. The front of the building faces down Carillon and there is a space of about SO yards between the office and the homes on Carillon. Manager Rosalre Segulrf told The Journal he was in the office at about 9.30copenlng the mall. Smoke suddenly began to billow Into the office from the direction or the adjoining mill. So quickly did it fill the office that the men and women working there got down on their hands and knees and crawled out the front door. Seguln still had the mall In his hand while he watched the flames consume the lum-ber yard an hour after. LouU Champa me. a elerk. aid he turned on the furnace and the electricity. When Mrs. Don Pelletler tried to call Eastvlew rire Department' on thet office telephone the lines had been burned down. Mr. Seguln aald one of the men ran to the nearby home of Mrs. O. Lahatse. at 99 Carillon, to phone but there was no one there. He knocked at the front door then ran to the back and finally got In. Concluded en Pate 21, Col. Z. Ottawa Woman Stabbed Though the Clairson Lumber Company burst Into flamei in a matter cf TOomcnts, none of the 35 employes was injured. Some had to leave so quickly they lost personal effects such coats, umbrellas Gouzenko Ag rees to Quiz By Jenner Body SPECTACULAIV Fearful Question Churchill Asks If Problems Now Beyond Our Control STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10. Sir Winston Churchill. In a message accepting the 1953 Nobel Prize for literature tonight, EASTVICW BLAZE. and lunches. The $300,000 loss was only: partially covered by insurance, officials said. Cause of the. fire was not known but firemen said It ait1 have been smouldering Xor some time before It broke out. Dominion Wldi Photo The roll on which my name has been Inscribed represents much that is outstanding in the vorlrt' lltpratur nf iYk 'Si Moscow Sees Threats Of Atomic War Nine Roomer Crippled Mother And Three Children See Attack Minutes after a Lower Town woman was stabbed many times In her kitchen police last night arrested Sylvlo- Potvln. 48, a roomer at 383 Cumberland street, on a charge of wound ing with intent, to do grievous bodily harm. i Stabbed In the, presence of her crippled 81 year old mother, and three small children, was Miss Yvonne St. Amour, 55, the landlady at 363 Cumberland. I Potvih was remanded a week, without election or plea when arraigned before Magistrate Strike today. Bail is "being The victim was taken to hos pital with nine deep wounds from a razor-sharp hunting dagger In her arms and body. At midnight 1 her condition MISS ST. AMOUR, Stabbing Victim. passed the dangerous point and hospital authorities said today she was still improving. Mother's Story. Mrs. Exllda' -St. Amour, the victim's mother, told The Journal she and her daughter, along- with three young girls Faces Charge Of Wounding La Times Up to Parents Not the School Says MacOdrum TORONTO. Dec. 10 CP) Dr. M. M. MacOdrum. president of Ottawa's Carleton College, said yesterday schools can't do much it parents fail to bring up their children properly. He told the Ontario Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers 37th annuat convention 'that critics wrong when they say Ontario schools are not doing a good teaching Job. Lift Ban On Carleton FDC Abandoning Expropriation Of Dow's Lake Area Carleton College can go ahead with its long-term program to build ori Us 130 acres souh of Dow's Lake, between the Rldeau Canal and the Ri- deau River, and the Civil Scr- vice Recreational Association can buy part of the Carleton property for the Clark Memorial Stadium without any government interference. The Journal has learned that the Federal District Commission at Its next meeting will announce it has abandoned its plans to expropriate the Carleton site for a national sports stadium, zoo and botanical garden. But. the commission. It was Learned will take the position it will not be financially responsible for any, part the cost of extending water and semer services from Bronson avenue west to the Carleton site. Eventually the national sports stadium, zoo and botanical garden might be fitted Into the Carleton acreage with consent of the college authorities. Parliament College Site Bam-by-Barn Check For Girl Police Acting On Tip Body Is In One of Them TORONTO. Dec. 10. CP Suburban Scar bo ro ship police today began a barn by-barn search pf the northeast of the lovers' lane where Marion McDowell kidnapped, a 1 1 on anonymous telephone tip that her body was in one of them. The tipper did not specifically locate the barn, police said, wild it was "13 miles north east'" of the scene where 17-year-old 1 stenog rapher was abducted Sunday night by a hooded gunman. Police said the lead sounded authentic. Every other clue has "checked Police Chief Wilfred McLelland said. Except for the latest tip, the remained as far from solution as it was the night James Wilson, 19, came to the police station to tell of being slugged unconscious and his girl kidnapped. Wilson was taken to scene 'at 3 am. today to re-nact thf abduction. Police parked cars on slderoad off the lover'a where Wilson said he regained consciousness and saw Marlon being lifted Into the trunk a car parked 50 feet They were cheeking whether in the blackness night- Wilson could see gunman stuffing the girl the trunk of his car. "The trunk of the car be easily police A reward of $2,000 has offered for Information leading to the discovery dead or of the 'girl. A police of 11,000 was matched night by the girla glef-stricken father, Roas McDowell, Every lead led nowhere police quizzed dozens former school friends, colleagues and boy friends the blonde, blue-eyed girl. case is the biggest In Scarborough police history and 63-man force has worked around the clock, catching only brief periods of sleep, follow up every possible It has been deluged with and offers of assistance in search. High school. students. Scouts, and
