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"-1 Late News OTTAWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1946. cents. ON PAGE 6 61st Year 176 LI II 1 andSport tiJf Edit 1 on 1 HITC) BILL IFIUBE i I -4 1 List Names of 516 Sv 1 IN lorman i urner Who Passed Entrance Exams 1 25 Veterans Die in Crash OnWayHome I III III Award Princess Degree for Music LONDON, July 10. CP) Printess Elizabeth, 20, today received her first honorary degree a Bachelor of Music award from the University of London. )' Her great-uncle, the Earl of.

Athlone, former Governor Gen-' eral of Canada, awarded the degree in his capacity as Chancellor of the University. aeaaaaaaaaW aeaaaaaataa Dies Few Hours After Plant Closes 10 Scholarship Winners Announced Also Name 1,348 Recommended. 1 i 'Hi- 1 "Ten Entrance scholarship winners and the names of 816 pupils who were successful on the written; Entrance examinations held last jt June 24, were announced yesterday by Dr. McGregor Easson, secre 52 Rocket Rises 83 Miles Above Desert ys, it'- 1 5 1 -x 1 v-i- if 10 i lUMMnMlwMtellfet LEADING IN MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE Miguel Aieman, former secretary of the interior who, according to latest tabulations from various Mexican states and the Federal District, is almost a million votes ahead of "Ezequiel Padilla, his strongest opponent for the presidency. He I is shown in his garden with Senora Aieman with their dachshund and spaniel pets, Ottawa Pupils Board.

of 1,348 public and separate school Into secondary schools. candidates and the marks of unsuc to them during the month of July, i The Entrance scholarships of $10 each are awarded by the Collegiate Institute Board and they are conditional on the pupils winning the scholarships attend lng for one year, any one of the secondary schools In Ottawa under the Jurisdiction of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board. The scholarship winners are as follows: Scholarship Winners. Harmon Scholarships: English-speaking students: (1) Nancy Me-Dengal, Glashan School, age 14 years and 8 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. McDougal, 230 Percy street Continued on Page CoL 1. Greber's Report On New Ottawa In Final Stage A report on the Master Plan for Ottawa of the future together, with the most accurate and comprehensive map of the area yet drafted will be submitted by the National Capital Planning Office and its advisory committee to Prime Minister. King "in 'the near Jacques Greber, author of the Master Plan, told The Evening Journal Pointing to a huge map of the Ottawa-Hull area covering half the wall of his office In the Hunter Building. Mr.

Greber said with Ahead ef schedule. "When I came here last Decem ber, I estimated it would take a year to collect the data and com plete the plan. Thanks to the skill and activity of my Canadian associates, we are now far ahead of i-- Concluded on Page 12, CoL 3. i Girl Tells How Bear Tried to Break Info Lonely Cabin SUDBURY, Ont, July 10 (CP) Details of the fight between 18-year-old Alice Brabant of near by Azilda, and a' bush country btack bear thai tried to break Into a lonely prospector's cabin, 100 miles north of here, were re vealed today when the girl pre pared to leave, hospital. The girl was flown to hospital here after she had lain unconscious for nine hours on the floor of the cabin, -following the en Her employer, Charles Cle ment discovered her plight when he returned to the cabin Saturday night from an expedition to stake gold claims.

Huddled be side her was Clement's four-year- old son, Ronald.1 i Miss Brabant and the little boy both slept outside the cabin, Cle ment said. At 6.30 o'clock Saturday, morning the boy awoke and saw a black bear inside the cabin, Clement related. His cries frightened the animal "Alice then took the boy inside the cabin and bolted the door. After a few minutes the bear came back and broke one of the windows, "She fired one shot at him and he 'went away. About eight o'clock the bear came back for the third time and started clawing under the door, which bad been partly eaten away by porcupines.

"She took another shot at hint. On the second shot, the lock of the rifle flew back and bit her In the face," knocking her out In the Instant before the rifle, lock hit her, she saw the bear fall over, 'jy the time I got back, the bear was nowhere in sight." The girl's lip was torn and two teeth were knocked out "It was difficult to find out what happened as AUce could not talk because of her lip Clement said. "I got her to write out the details." AXMT OF $08,000. WASHINGTON, July 10. (BUP) Gen.

Eisenhower -today predicted a peacetime U.S. Army of not less than 800,000 men for the next 13 or 20 years. SIDNEY HUXMAN, powerful CIO leader, who died suddenly today. CIO Leader, Dies Suddenly POINT LOOKOUT, NY, July 10. UP) Sidney Hill- man, 59, one-time Immigrant boy and garment cutter who became one of tie most controversial political figures of his.

time In the United States, died today. It was Hillman, national chair man of the CIO Political Action Committee," who became a political storm centre in the 1944 presidential campaign when the Republican charge of "clear everything with Sidney" swept the country. Republicans charged and Democrats and Hillman denied that the late President Roosevelt, passing through Chicago during the 1944 Democratic National Convention, -told Robert Hanne- gan, Democratic national chairman, to "clear everything Sidney" regarding convention strategy and choices. Concluded on Page 12, CoL 7. Arrest 1 ,000 in Egypt To Check Strike i r.

CAIRO, July 10. VP) About 1,000 persons, 200 of them des cribed by police as leaders of the youth groups of the Kotla (Waf-dist Bloc) and Wafdist political parties were arrested today while the. Government forbade a general strike tomorrow. The arrests were officially termed "a precautionary 'i Police Chief Sellm Zaki Pasha said the group would be detained until the threat of a strike subsided. Palestine Facing Double Threat! JERUSALEM.

July 10. iPi The threat of a Jewish campaign of non-co-operation wttn tne Palestine Government took, definite shane todav when the inner Zionist Council authorized1 the drafting of measures to implement the program. At the same time a spokesman for the Arab Higher Committee announced that that group already had drawn up a plan to tighten the Arab boycott of Jewish goods and to use non-co-operation as a "preliminary wesson" to flsht further Jewish Immigration to Palestine. Sidney Hillman HOLYOKE, July 10. UP) Twenty-five United' States Army Navy and Coast Guard men the entire crew andj passenger list of a converted Flying Fortress carrying the homeward-bound service men from Gander, Newfoundland were killed last! night when the 'plane crashed against Mount Salvage crews summoned to the scene of New England's worst air disaster, labored today on the mist-shrouded hill; that rises, -abrupt and alone, above the Connecticut valley not far from West-over field in nearby Chicopee, where the was to have landed at 921 EDT, last night 400-Foot Swath Cut.

The. broken bodies of the occupants, whose names were withheld pending notification of next-of-kin, were scattered among the 'plane's wreckage along a 400-foot swath shorn by the crashing B-17 through dense woods 200 feet from the hill-top. Army rescue forces who struggled up a steep, cobbles toned road, reported that by daybreak they had recovered about 20 bodies and had taken them to Holyoke funeral homes. Five bodies were believed still in the smoking, charred wreckage that was. spread in small pieces over the quarter-mile-square area.

Concluded on Page 12, CoL Z. Mr. King Leaving For Peace Parley Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced at the close of the Liberal caucus this afternoon that! he would be leaving within the next two weeks' for the Paris peace conference'. i Whether he will take the new Canadian flag with him is up to Parliament, Mr. King said Ithe' caucus was a xree-for-all.

Members had brought un many Questions ir. view of the fact that he was leav ing. PIG, BATS ALTVE. KWAJALEIN. July 10.

A pig found swimming in Bikini Lagoon after the atom bomb sank the Japanese cruiser Sakawa still isj So are three rats, born on the battleship Pennsylvania the day the aerial bomb' i I CrVrff FltVKK VlRY A CUX'U. 'la klAUCl NaJuru tier CM OHC 1. WEATHER FORECAST. MONTREAL, uly 10. tn Dominion weather office, 11.30 a.m.

EOT, report: I Ottawa region: Clear 'except for variable daytime cloudiness today and Thursday. Light easterly winds becoming It mph on Than-day. Not rnach ehaace In temperature. Low tonight and high Thursday Ottawa S4 and S3. Summary: Clear.

Temperatare Synopsis: Fair weather with light winds and normal Summer temperaturesj prevails oyer most of Quebec and Ontario. Some localities, however, have reported, early morning cloudiness. A storm centred near Winnipeg is moving very slowly eastward and is causing rain and thunderstorms in some sections of Manitoba this morning. i Temperatures. -Vancouver; 53, 72; Victoria.

51. 68; Edmonton, 40, 70; 48, 68; Prince Albert, S3. 77; Saskatoon, 51, 78; Winnipeg. 64, 88; London; SB, 84; Toronto; 56, 83 Ottawa, 53.177; Quebec, 57, 68. Moncton.

1 Halifax, 49. 61. The Journal thermometer, at noon registered 77 degrees. Sun Toee 8 43' a.m. Sun seta S3 et.

(Xastern DarUght Tloa) lit J4lJ fl i 350 Employes Lose Jobs At Hull Steel In one of the most sensational and dramatic business failures in years, Hull Iron and Steel Foundries! limited on Montcalm street, Hull, was shut down today and in bankruptcy to the reported extentlof more than 000. Nctbii Lloyd Turner. caJef avetaUorglst the plant, ii foswd dead In his office at six o'clock last sight, and Hall Police Inspector J. Maxhne LavigM said the fatality -was sVanitely linked with the crash mt the largest heavy Industry in the Ottawa and Hall region. The dead man left a note to his widowl and while its' contents were not revealed, it was said it dealt purely with personal matters.

Mr. Turner had been employed by the firm since 1938 and for some time past had been in Indifferent health. firm la Bankruptcy. A brief notice tacked up on the firm's bulletin board revealed I the bankruptcy of the firm which underwent immense wartime ex-paasfcm and was engaged in the manufacture of various types of war supplies and equipment The. note; reads: "The management is sorry to advise that the company has today made an authorized assignment under the Bankruptcy Act, to Meesrs.

Lucien Masse and A. Murray Milne i "AH wages due be paid accordance with the law. The plant jwill close at 1 pjn. this afternoon, July 9, until further no tic. The statement was signed by Harold Cop lan, president and manager.

j.Te Nasae Receiver. Mr. Coplan was absent from the city today and could not be reached. In the meantime the company comes under; the management of Mr. Masse, Mr.

Milne or their appointees, as custodians. They will notify creditors of the company to file their claims, and will announce the holding of a creditors' meeting shortly. An official receiver will be named to dispose of the company's assets, Journal was informed. -Chemical analysis of a glass found beside the body of Mr. Turner and containing a small quantity of colorless liquid is being made by Quebec provincial ana-.

lysts. This afternoon, Dr.j J. M. Roussd, medico-legal expert of the. Quebec Attorney' General's Department, is performing an autopsy on the body to determine the exact cause of death.

As blast' furnaces In the plant cooled and offices were locked, the company's 350 employes tem- porarily out of work filed to the Bull Unemployment Insurance office to file their claims to unemployment Insurance benefits. About 50 workmen called at the Lois street entrance to the plant this morning to find out what they could about the situ- atioo. All received the same word from a watchman at the gate, "Nothing doing. The slant is closed Coaclnded rage IX. CoL S.

i i XXDVCISO AtMT STAFFS. Reduction of armyi establishments in Ottawa is now being extended to the staffs of the var-. lous temporary buildings occupied by the Defence Department, ft was said today. The CWAC, almost entirely disbanded, will disappear completely fi unifocal of-: flees by the middle of next BERLIN STILL Br NOSNAN SdlTH. AwocliH Editor ef Til JoaraaL gERUN.

(By MaU)i It is 11 months since Grattan OXeary wrote to: The Journal from here that Berlin was a city almost dead. They were stirring, almost unbelievable despatches. No need for me to try to repeat What is. astonishing though, and perhaps news, is that In those 11 months the outward appearance of this great hulk of. a city has scarcely Unable to pick itself up from the it lies still a charred and Jagged thing.

tary of Ottawa High School Also annpunced are the names pupils recommended for entrance 1 The certificates of successful cessful candidates will be mailed 1 Mountie Tells From Hull Doctor Dr. J. Conrad Shnard, 209 St. Joseph Boulevard Wrightville, was committed for trial at the Quebec: Criminal. Assizes when he appeared before Judge Cadotte in Hull Magistrate's i court this morning for preliminary hearing on three charges of violations of the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act.

Bail of $1,000 on each count was continued. Dr. Simard is charged with "having sold drugs and prescribed for a person not his patient" on three occasions, May 8. May 29 and June 10. Charges were laid by the RCMP.

Corporal So raters' Evidence. In court this morning CpL L. Somen, of the RCMP criminal investigation branch, related how he had purchased a total of 207 heroin tablets and some pills from Dr. Simard, in return for $384 and a supposedly stolen outboard motor. CpL Somen first meeting with Dr.

Simard was on May 8, following an appointment by telephone. Before entering the doctor's office, he was given' $200 irf cash and a few other listed articles by RCMP Constables Donald Perks and H. Greaves. Using the name Larry Short, evidence revealed, CpL Sorrier had produced a Pper identifying him as a drug' and was given 62 tablets by Dr. Simard at a cost of $124, or- $2 for each tablet After leaving the doctor's office, CpL Somers was taken to the Justice Building in Ottawa by Constables Perks Greaves, where he was relieved of the tablets and pills.

tablets were later tested and found to contain a narcotic CpL Somers told court that on May 29 he used the same procedure to obtain 75 tablets. This time, however, had to pay $30 for 23 of the tablets and give Dr. Simard a 10-horsepower outboard motor for th other I Asked for Motor. Dr. Simard had previously asked CpL Somers, then known as plain Larry i Short, to get him such a motor "whether or not it was a itolea one" and promised him "50 or 100" for It Again accompanied by Constables Perks and Greaves and with listed money in his potses-sion, i CpL Somers visited Dr.

Simard Jun 10 and" obtained 70 tablets. "This time, however, the price had been, raised from $2 to $3 a he said in answer to queries from 1. B. Major, KC, Government prosecutor. Other witnesses heard this morning were Sgt John Batza, Constable Perks and Constable Greaves, all of the RCMP.

They corroborated evidence given by CpL Somen. Joseph" Ste. Marie acted as counsel forj Dr. Simard; DEMONSTRATION. PARIS.

July 10- (BUP) The French General Worken Federation with more than 5,000,000 memben today a nation-wide demonstration every day next week In support of Its demand for a blanket 25 percent wage increase. Nuremberg gangs are pulling down walls and moving rubble. In Berlin, once so proud and, truth to telL once so, beautiful for I saw it In 1834 when Hitler was merely a crazy dreamer almost no work baa been done or is being done io wipe chaos from the city's face. Offlcen who have been here 10 months confirm this impression; there is no construction work' save possibly small repair Jobs to buildings capable of repair; xthere is. Just a very' small almost unseen amount rubble clearing.

Coaeldded'ea Pag CeL 1. Of Buying Heroin Little Nipper Nipped Skipper Skipped Crew NEW YORK, July The Coast Guard sought today to learn how many nips a vodka-drinking baboon took aboard the zany Liberty ship Ada Rehan before he nipped the skipper, and started pushing up seaweed. The skipper said the mischiev ous monk nipped the whole crew. The crew said the little nipper nipped the skipper, but skipped the rest on board. The they said," lost his tern-, per and sent their drinking companion to a watery grave.

Two of the crew were 'to be sentenced today on charges of misconduct Five were made dryland sailors yesterday when their licenses were suspended three months. The Coast Guard said it. had several more questions' to ask Ada Rehan's master. Captain Frank H. Haas especially about three giggling' Iranian women on board when the ship made port ionciuaea on rage sv, uoi.

Selke Appointed To Succeed Gorman MONTREAL, July 10. (CP) Senator Donat Raymond, president oi the Canadian Arena Company the Montreal Forum announced here today that Frank Selke, former publicity director for Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, has been appointed general manager of the Canadian Arena Company. Mr. Selke's new appointment Includes general managership of the Montreal Forum and of the Canadians Hockey Club. He succeeds Tommy Gorman, who resigned last week to become president and general manager of the Ottawa' Auditorium.

POPE SENDS BLESSING. QUEBEC CITY. July 10. -4 SRUPl A message from Porje Tin VTT wa received bv Rod- rigue Cardinal Vllleneuve in hos-j pital here today, expressing re-f grets at his sudden illness and giving him the Apostolic blessing! The Cardinal's condition was con-f sidered good today, It was anj nounced. WHITE SANDS PROV ING GROUNDS, NM, July 10.

(BUP) American roc ket experts claimed a new world altitude record today when the seventh German V-2 rocket pierced unknown space 83 Vi miles above the New Mexico desert. The 46-foot giant of wartime terror and destruction roared away from its launching site yesterday amid an inferno of orange- colored flame and heat generated by the fuel mixture of alcohol and oxygen. Filled With Instruments. The 14-ton rocket crammed with scientific Instruments Instead of high explosives, left a trail of white vapor in its mad dash into the heavens. The rocket plunged into space at a elip and was aloft for slightly more than six minutes, The missile was tracked by- radar to determine the official height Gouging out a huge crater on its return to earth, the rocket was reported to have landed 63 miles due north of the launching site.

(' In order to prevent destruction. the Instruments landed separately, protected by heavy cases. A radio signal "caused an explosion at the height of the flight which released the scientific instruments. Concluded on Page 12, CoL 8. Won'tRecognize Soviet Seizures O'clock Edition Sanrlct.

VIENNA i July 10. MV- The United" States Government announced today it would not recognize the Russian confiscation of German properties in the Soviet zone of Austria, which it said fall into the category of forced transfers as defined at the London conference of Janu ary, 1943. At that conference, the Allies agreed they would not recognize the transfer of properties to German ownership in German-occupied areas if such transfers were made forcibly, even if there was apparent willingness oh the part of former owners. Gen. Mark W.

Clark, United States Commander in Austria, announced at the same time that the United States was prepared to turn over to Austrian trusteeship all German assets in the American zone pending negotiations of the Allied powers on the United States proposal to renounce the American share In German assets in Austria. Supporting TJ.S. LONDON, July ,10. (CP) The Foreign Office said today Great Britain is supporting the United States in its' protest against Russian seizure of German assets In Austria. The Russians appeared today to have halted for the time being their deportation of Germans from the Soviet occupation tone of Eastern Austria.

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Phone i "Journal tnant ads brtna results." 51 Louis-Mauriello Bout Sept. 18 NEW YORK, July i Joe Louis will make the 23rd. defence of his world heavyweight title against Tami Mauriello of New York at Yankee stadium oh Wednesday, Sept. 18, Promoter Mike Jacobs announced today. Jacobs said thafboth principals had signed contracts for the bout which will be Louis' second title defence of the year.

The champion knocked out Billy Conn at Yankee' Stadium June. 18. Ticket prices will be scaled from i $3 to. $30, taxes included, Jacobs said. Although terms of the contracts were not announced, it was learned that 'Louis will receive his customary 40 percent of the receipts and Mauriello.

15 percent Concluded on Page 12, CoL 2. Scotland Yard Feafs Other Girls Killed in Same Area i LONDON, July 10. (BUP) Dainty bits of women's clothing found near the partially clad body of pretty Doreen Marshall, at Bournemouth, prompted Scotland Yard today to suspect that other girls may have been murdered in the vicinity. Already swamped by more than a score of unsolved murders, harried agents of the Yard began rechecking the records for reports' of girls who have disappeared under mysterious circumstances during recent weeks. Police searched wooded areas near Bournemouth for additional clues.

A fob watch, which Miss Marshall wore pinned to her black evening dress, the night she was killed, turned up yesterday in a Bournemouth pawnshop. The proprietor said it was pawned by a man who said, "I want five pounds for Police said a description of the man tallied with that of an unidentified hotel guest who went walking with Miss, Marshall on the night of her 'death. long-range planning forecasts the "ultimate range of guided missiles to 20,000 miles weapons capable of circling the These scientists told, a reporter that their dream rocket will circle the earth in about an hour and a half, at a 200-mile altitude. It was explained that the globe-rocket likely wilf be a series of rockets discharged in succession in the Thus the one that gets back to home plate would be the great-great-great-grandson of the one that took oft Could such a rocket carry a passenger? "Yes, in came the unhesitating "reply, "when rockets are modified with pressure chambers so that men can stand the high altitudes, the changes in altitude and the ter-rifle speed." I Seek Test Ground For World-Circling Rocket CITY OF GHASTLY RUINS WASHINGTON, July 10 If you think things are crowded in your neighborhood, pity the United States Army Ordnance people. Rocket scientists have outgrown the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico, where they are testing guided missiles with a potential range of 200 miles, and are now searching the United States, the Caribbean and Pacific areas for a test ground.

The Army Ordnance Department, announcing yesterday that such a search Is being made by a Joint Army-Navy Commission, indicated their next need will be -a private planet of their own, about the size of the earth. That was when, they said that Mud and debris litter the marble floors of the devastated Relchschancellery; bits of burned out trucks and tanks lie beside the 1 once proud parkway known as Unter deri Linden; hardly a fallen brick or twisted girder has been removed from any of the thousands and thousands' of homes and buildings hat make ghastly the miles and miles of Berlin's streets. Life marches on in battered London and the ruins are being cleared away to make place for new; Ill-fated Plymouth is busy with rehousing; even in old.

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