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The Sun Times from Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • 1

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leitii6a itamtamm tmm saummmmtm mm smm itiwrtih i irT- VVWMl 12370 The Weather CipiN a haue Mrf eelaitaa of Tha Daily Saa-Tii far August 1SM Clondy today ill Twriif Viw Teedy and win da V(kL 97TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION OWEN SOUND ONTARIO MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1950 LAST EDITION FOUR CENTS A COPY -1- i iY VI Alberta Forest Fire Smoke Darkens Owen Sound Skies 8 MACLEAN PUBLISHER OF-TORONTO DIES gl Americans Bite Deep in Seoul But No Sign Reds Cracking Airborne Troops Arrive Use of Paratroops at Seoul May Indicate Of fensive Build-Up 15(1 PLANE LOADS Parted By Adoption In 1933 Reunited As Brother ed the surnames of the couples adopted them The difference In names was the biggest obstacle Henry RoMtaUle 19 faced when he set out a month ago to find his brothers although he knew the youths lived here Through Children's Aid records and a faded photograph he traced Frank with whom he had been in touch from time to time and Anally found the other brother now TIMMINS Bept 38 (CP) Three brothers separated for many yean have been reunited because one of them wanted the other two attendants at his wedding today Only one Frank AsMlin 38 still bean the surname of the lather who turned the boys over to the Children's Aid SocMy In 1983 after deciding that he could not support them In his home at Lowther near Kapuskasmg about 75 miles nortf west of here The other two use i 16 on Crashed Bomber Are Sate Paratroopers Dropped To Aid Them a Mg moon the smoke steadily grew thicker until the skies were almost completely darkened shortly alter the noon hour Throughout (he day the skies took on many startling and beautiful hues which were reflected on various objects with strange and Sun-Times Staff Photo Above Is Owen Main Street it 130 o'clock Sunday afternoon The picture almost might have been taken at 150 in the morning from all appearance as skies ware darkened and street and store lights were on and motorists turned on oar lights Starting early in the morning when the sun took on the appearance of Smoke From Alberta Fires Cover Ontario EastUS Skies Street Lights are All On Here 17 and known aa Vital Deforge Woman Wields Bottle Foils London Holdup LONDON Ont Sept 35 (CP) A woman cashier wielding a battle failed aa attempt te held up the prink bonk Pavilion near here daring the Saturday night dance The woald-be robber eaeaped bat provincial constable For- rest Inch later arrested Beverly Friis If ef Leaden in connection with the attempt Investigation is eon tinning police nU and may lead te charges against ethers Frit was treated at hocpltal for a head laceration end severs I stitches were required te close wound He is scheduled te appear in eeonty sent today YUGOSLAVIAN CHARGES RUSS SEEKING WAR Attacks Those Supporting North Kore? Scores Border Incidents IN UN ASSEMBLY 'Sj fed fan All on Missing: Bomber Are Sighted Near-Goose Bay HALIFAX sept 38 Paratroopers have been dropped In the area 100 miles southwest of Goose Bay Labrador where 16 United Btates airmen are awaiting rescue the Fort Pepperell sir bare near St Nfld reported today A B-50 bomber crashed Thursday after taking off from Goose Bay for Tucson Aria on a training flight A helioopter meanwhile la to be used to move the airmen to a nearby lake where a Ganso amphibian will fly them out Search for tha missing aircraft carried out by scores of planes of the US and Canadian Air Forces ended yesterday whan an CAP Lancaster out of Greenwood NS located the 18 about 95 miles southwest of Goose Bay The only word received by aekieh end rescue headquarters here said all 16 men were alive Piloted by PO Wallace of Halifax ths lane was 30 minutes out of Goole Bay whan a smoke signal attracted it to tha area where the survivors huddled around a crudely-constructed shelter No sign of the bomber wu found and details of how the crew members escaped were not available at Goose Bay No medical supplies were requested T7m air force said an RCAF Lancaster from the search and rescue oentre at Greenwood N8H located the wreckage at 11 am (AST) Sunday The B-50 which left Goose Bay Thursday night on a routine training flight to Tucson Aria wu found about 100 miles southwest of the big northern base The UJB Army Air Force was making preparations to evacuate the 13 crew members and four all service personnel An armade of planes took to the air when the plane wu reported missing and 15 RCAF craft joined the hun over the barren mountainous regions around Goose The search extended over the UJB Middle West and the desert reaches of the Southwest the route the plane was to have flown Most of the ROAF search planes operated from Kapuskaalng Confesses He Set $200000 Blaze In Peterborough PETERBOROUGH Bept 38 Police say they are holding a man who claim to have set a 200000 department-stare fire in Peterborough in August 134S The man who Identified himself as the caretaker of the BA Kresge Company Ltd at the time of the fire walked Into the Ontario Provincial Police office at Cobourg Ont and said he had set the fire He win be questioned today by fire department officials Widely Known Publisher Attended Spoolin' Owen Sound 88TH BIRTHDAY TORONTO Bept 35 John Bayna Maclean founder of the Madsan-Hunter Publishing Company died today He had been 111 with a heart ailment for several months Mr Maclean would have been IS tomorrow Mr Maelean who served for more than 45 yean wUh tha Ca nadien militia was known even in civilian life military title Lieutenant-Colonel OoL in 1517 founded Canadian Grocer the first weekly trade paper published in Canada He later became head of eve of greatest publishing houses specialising in trade pa' pen and magasines It has branches throughout Canada and in Chicago and London He was widely recognised for the part he played through the publications his company sponsored ln fostering a spirit of Canadlanlsm He oocupied the positions of commercial editor of the Mall Toronto and financial editor of the Empire also published in Toronto Col Maclean was born in 1863 at Crieff Ont the son of Rev Andrew and Catherine (Cameron) Maclean He was educated at Toronto and University Kingston and also attended the School of Gunnery Kingston COL f-B MACLEAN After the initial publication Canadian Grocer OoL Maclean launched various trade papers and magasines from time to time the best known being probably Maclean's Magazine started in 1907 This publication under CoL guidance was always strongly Canadian In policy Hardly branch of business or industry remains unaffected in some way or other by a Maelean publication He married Anna Perkins Blade daughter of Daniel Slade of Boston Mass in 1909 Us wife being a direct descendant of Richard Clark the first United Empire Loyalist There was one son Went te Schoel Hera The late OoL Maclean spent part of his boyhood In Chatsworth and Owen Sound and always retained a keen Interest In this district Ha resided tat a number of years with an uncle Rev Mr Cameron at Chatsworth after Us father died and both he end his brother Hugh Maclean attended the old Gram' mar School here in the late Just prior to the opening of the Collegiate The grammar school building later became the old Strwthoona School At that time he and hie brother boarded at the Clifton House a large boarding house operated by the principal of the grammar school the late Henry De La Matter Show Many Paintings In Hamilton Stores HAMILTON Sept 33 (OP)-Ca nadlan paintings popped up in windows of lingerie stores hard wars shops and other business establishment! all over town Satur-day The Auxiliary of the Hamilton Art Gallery was promoting a Mile of Pictures sale to raise building funds for a new gallery The Weather Official foreeasts Issued by tha Dominion PwbHo Weather Office at 8:39 am EJDTt Bynayslsi Ontario spent anotliar cool night with (Net being reported far sonth aa tha Georgian Bey Hah-bartea and eastern Lake Ontario regions However steadily rising temperatures art la view far meet ef the province today and Taeeday Winds aloft continue te sweep moke from the forest fires eeroea nerthern Manitoba thence shonth eastward ever Ontario and lata the Eastern States a Journey at mere than 1868 miles Reports from aircraft Indicate that the moke Is located in layers at varies altitudes This condition will eentlnae te eanee weird diseelera-tleas ef the aky over Southern Ontario today Southern Georgian Bay and Lake Huron regions i Cloudy today and Tuesday with extensive amok hase aloft Warmer Tuesday Winds light Lew tonight and high Tuesday 45 75 3 as i By Leif Erickson) TOKYO Sept 35 (AP) American troop bit deep into Seoul today from four directions United Stales officers held hopes the Korean capital would fall to Allied force within hours But there were few sign that the stubborn North Korean defence was cracking up 1 An American flag flew from a hut on the highest point In Seoul' Tongmgksang district planted then by a marine company Sunday night Marines from this position could pour mortar fire in Seoul's srmy barracks and other Red strong- points Marines in the Tongmakmng rea searched one of several prisons looking for American prisoners: South Korean underground agents said the American had been moved out of the city several days ego Troops of the 7th division an American-South Korean outfit ware thrown into the climactic struggle for the city Monday The Division' 33nd Regiment swept across the Beoul-Suwon highway and crossed the Han River southeast of the city under cover of dawn mists It was the second Han crossing in two days and the third since last midweek Marines stormed cross the river Sunday near Yongdungpo southwest suburb of Seoul They linked up solidly in the west section of the city with another regiment of Marines who had crossed the Han Wednesday northwest of Seoul One Marine column was driving into Seoul froA the north where Red opposition was stlffest Reinforcements swelled the mam of Allied troops in the Korean second-front beachhead 3498 Airborne Troop Twenty-four hundred airborne troops aped from the US to Japan by sMp havw-beao landed-at Klmpo Field northwest of Seoul Within a few hours they were In action A fresh South Korean division was landed at tha Inchon beachhead porl and moved up to fight Aa the war entered its fourth month events rolled swiftly for ths Allied offensive that kicked off Bept 15 on the old and new fronts Allied forces struck mightily out of the old southeast beachhead for big new gains The UJB 1st Cavalry rolled 68 miles In three days from Tabu to Poun 18 miles northeast of Taejon American and South Korean forces fought into Chlnju Hycp-chon Parallel 38 June 35 The two fronts were only miles apart from Poun to 30 miles south of Seoul Patrol of the UJB 7th Division stabbed into Own Sunday The North Korean fought tely to hold open an ecpe route to the north The battle centred around Kumchon Other crumbling Red division wen in danger of being sealed in the south when the two Allied beachheads converge The crossing of tha Han by US 7th Division troops was made under the guns of South Mountain 700-foot fortified height within Seoul' acuth limit From it Red gun command a wide stretch of the Han US artillery hurled barrage of hell at the peak for a half hour before the crowing Then am- phlMous tractors churned aero the Han 'upstream from ttuye ruined bridges Only Collingwood Retains Fast Time Tn eeaformance with the rest of Ontario all Bruce and Grey Cennty paints returned to out-' urn standard time at 3 am Runday However ColHngwoed In Blmeee County on the eart-ern edge at Grey County win remain on daylight saving time until next Sunday morning Although 3 am Sunday wae the official time for making the change as fee as moot citizen wen concerned the clocks were set back one how at retiring time Saturday night Thus the how "lost" last spring when dayBght saving time went into offset wu regained Due to the unusual atmss-pherle effects which prevailed' a Sunday attributed by xaet-rsrelogleal authorities to amdhe from Alberta musbeg fires It we difficult te make ss te the effect ef standard time on the apparent times ef sunrise and sunset Normally the meet noticeable effect of restoring standard Urn aa abrupt curtailment of evening daylight which specially noticeable when added te the normal ahertenlng of (he day during tha autumn aqulnox NEW YORK Sept 35 (AP) Yugoslav vice premier Edvard KardelJ called today for the tern-porary re-establishment of the 38th Parallel as the demarcation broke out with Red invasion across Kumchon Ha me hang Andong YongBok These gains virtually restored the battleline that existed ope month after the war JAIL GOVERNOR IS SUSPENDED IN NIGHT ESCAPES i Provincial Police Orderec to Take Over Jail Administration IN SOREL JAIL QUEBEC sept 35 Sus pension of the Borel Qua JaB governor wu revealed today by a high provincial government official following reports that prisoners were able to escape at night and return In tha morning The official said Lusien Badeau 48-year-old governor at tha Richelieu County Jail had been suspended and that the results of a full Investigation into reports of forties" by prisoners now was In the hands of Hon Antoine Rivard Quebec solicitor-general The official said Provincial Police In Montreal were ordered to take over administration of the Borel jail An Inquiry was launched after reports of a by three men one of them awaltng trial on a charge of murder The trio escaped twice it was reported and two of them returned each time but Fernand Dube 33-year-old De La Madeleine laborer decided not to go beck on the second trip away from the jalL He is still being sought Crown Prosecutor Paul Emile Ally of Bare! said Donald Watson 34-year-old Indian who Is charged with murder of hia grandfather confused to police that he Dube and Gaston RoMdoux Borel machinist serving five years for robbery "walked out of jail through an unlocked door" and took part in two burglaries before returning Mr Ally said It was his belief that the jail governor waa "too soft" with the prisoners whom he handled "with kid It was understood a final decision on the matter by the Quebec solicitor general may take a week or so INHUMAN KILLER OF BOY 8 SOUGHT IN DETROIT AREA DETROIT Sept 35 State and local police in the Lake St Clair area today will begin to round up "every possible suspect" In the brutal slaying of eight-year-old Joseph Housey Body of the boy missing for two weeks was found Saturday In a shallow grave three blocks from his home He had been criminally assaulted end apparently met his death of wounds from a thin knife-like object Police had searched for tha boy ever since hie disappearance Bept 9 He failed to return from a visit to an amusement park at a beach sear hi home Brantford Lad II Dies Due Accidental Shot BRANTFORD Sept 35 (CP) Lynn Patrick Adams 1 11-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Hartley Adams Brantford airport died Saturday In hospital two weeks after ha had been wounded In the abdomen In an accidental shooting in his home His older borther Ron aid 18 was showing a rifle to Lynn and two young friends when it accidentally discharged Weird Colorful Patterns in Skies Cause Many Strange Happenings ROUSED FEARS (By The Canadian Press) The wierd reddish amoks cloud thinned out over aouthwestem and central Ontario today and seemed' headed east The thick pall of smoke bom in northern Alberts where forest fires era raging today had reached the weather1 station at KlUaioe neat Pembroke in Eastern Ontario There was atilt a fair concentration over Toronto shortly before noon but at Western Ontario points the sun was winning through The smoke had not reached as far east as Ottawa Meteorologists pranked the hase would not obstruct the view of total eclipse bf the moon ea long as there was no normal overcast The Ontario Hydro Commission reported power consumption had increased for the second consecutive day The sun-eclipsing cloud had caused Hydro oonsumers to burn lights almost all day long Hydro Chairman Blunders eald the commission was thankful" that Standard Time went into effect in many Ontario communities today thereby staggering peak loads Otherwise the drain on power sources as peak periods would have been A thick psll bf smoke wsfted to the stratosphere by freakish air ourrenta moved southeastward and descended to throw a midday Mack' out over the area some 3000 mile away Residents of the prairie provinces were unaffected But citizens of Ontario Iowa Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania and the Middle Atlantic etetei watched the sky break out in patches of yellow brown pink purple and blue-black Casaed Many Fears Their theories as to the cause of the phenomenon ranged from atom-bomb explosions and the end of the world to a el es trial upheaval brought on mysteriously by the switch -over from Daylight to Standard Time Cows demanded to be milked a- head of schedule Chickens took one look at the sky and headed for their roosts Power-short Ontario took a jolt aa lights were turned on throughout (ha affected area Consumption skyrocketed 180000 'kilowatt hours above normal Major league baseball parks turned on their floodlights At Cleveland where the blackout hit early an entire afternoon game was played under the lights for the first time in American League history Airline plloti felt their way cautiously through the thick clouds and reported that they extended from 7000 to 30000 feet Fight Series of Vitas At the source of the dltauibance firefighters battled 3fl separate biases touched off last week by aa unprecedented heat wave and reported aome success As temperatures dropped to normal and rain fell over part of the area the wont fire a SO-squire-mile Mam at Wanham 340 stiles northwest of Edmonton was brought Under oontroL Other firm ai also being contained by a Mice of ISO forestry department men aided by hundreds of volunteers And in the cast weather offl- clals promised that the last of ths All Lights on Here by i Noon as Skies Like Late Evening WEIRD SIGHTS Dud: fell early In Owen Bound on Sunday In fact it was dark by noon dark enough to warrant the use of street lights throughout the city dark enough for merchants to turn on their neon lights to draw attention to their store fronts- dark enough for motorists to drive with headlights on The unreal appearanca of the sky shortly after 10 aJn indicated come unique occurrence was taking place in the heavens but few were prepared for the ultimate result Everywhere there was a faded yellowish tinge to the atm os- phere It became steadily darker in color until the clouds overhead wore black shutting out the sun completely Much Speculation Opinions on the phenomena were varied Soma forecast a real rip-snorter of a storm complete with egg-slsed hailstones Some went so far as to suggest but not predict that tha end of tha' world waa at band Oddly enough there wu no general rush to believe that it wu the result of a sudden atomic attack Wiartcn Airport Gives Answer The affioej of The Dally Bun-Times and Radio Station CFOS deluged with calls seeking information First report that the awe some appearance of the heavens was caused by smoke from Alberta forest fires cams from the Wiarton airport A telephone call to the airport produced this Informs' tion and it wu later confirmed by a meteorological report from Makon Airport' The' phenomena caused little actual change in the district's everyday life with the exception of tha fact that families ate their noon day meal by electric light To the west it wu dark night at times while to tha eut the sky had a much lighter yellow lah-farown tinge 1 The Electric Department In Owen Sound wu forced to cancel plans to interrupt service In the southeast section of the city to change that part of Mb service over to 4000 volts When it became- apparent that all householders would need electricity at midday the lnterrup tion wu called off Street Lights Street lights were turned on and ty seemed to make a considerabla they difference two hours The phenomena started about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning and lasted throughout the greater part of the day with the darkest period being about two and a half hours Just after noon Late in the day rainfall nelped clear thn smoke but the ralnclouds were little different In appearance from what had been seen earlier In the day Hu same light yellowish tinge was apparent again on Monday morning in about the same intensity that was apparent at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning A band eoneert by the Owen Sound City Bend scheduled for Harrison Park on Sunday afternoon waa called off due 4o the cold weather and the dark skies smoke clouds would have vanished over the Atlantic by dawn Over Lake Hwren Uve smoke came rolling over Lake Huron and came into Southern Ontario through Windsor and Into the Georgian Bay area through Wiarton It crossed Lake Erie and the edge of Lake Ontario and wai sighted by the Melton weather office at about 11 am It drifted across the Toronto orison at about 1:45 pm It hung about 7000 feet above the city and lta depth ranged up to 17000 feet Weather men had every move of the wnoke cloud plotted Reporta on its progress were received from four provinces Maps of Its route have been drawn Only two elements will break up the main cloud of the smoke a heavy rain or shift in ths wind Forecasts indicate a wind shift within the next 13 hours which would carry some of the smoke north again and over the Ottawa area The rest would be broken up over the Northern United Estates In Northern Ontario rumors of a war with Russia raced across the country In pace with the long cloud As It moved southwest of Kapus-kasing RCAF bombers appeared in the greatest numbers seen since 1944 Residents of the area unaware that the planes were seeking a lost U8 bomber thought that the cloud wu caused by an atomic explosion and that the planes were moving to combat an invasion Meteorologists described the phenomenon! in terms of a lump of mud dropped into a fast stream A streak of mud will follow the current What had happened they said was that the smoke from the burning bush was caught up in a fast moving air current Speed of the wind kept the smoke cloud more or leas cohesive and it followed the current of the northwesterly wind Bo fast did It travel that by sunset the cloud was over New York City and was reported over Eastern Pennsylvania Frank McDougall deputy minister of lands and forests said such smoke clouds were not uncommon but were seldom ao far reaching FIRST SNOW FALLS ON SATURDAY EYE IN DUNDALK AREA DUNDALK Sept 36 Squalls of snow struck this district on Batur day afternoon and evening the first snow of the year Sunday morning found bam roofs and mxjt trees covered with a vary light blanket of snow which disappeared in short time Snow squalls made driving difficult on Saturday evening No 10 Highway Dorn Orangeville north to Chatsworth with the majority of the aquaHs being confined to ths Orangeville-Fleaherton area Marshal Smuts Ashes Scattered in Rite PRETORIA south Africa Bent S3 Field Marshal Jan Smuts' ashes were scattered at tht family menollth on a small hill behind the house on his farm at Irene yesterday The simple ceremony wu at-only by tended family Una In Korea He attacked those supporting North Korea's aggressive course In a policy speech before the UN General Assembly tha Yugoslav official declared that Marshal Ti government "considers that the present policy of the government of North Korea does not serve the cause of the true Independence and unity of the Korean people" In the same speech he qhargtd that the Russian bloc is Increasing the pressure on Yugoslavia by provoking border Incidents almoat dally Simultaneously Yugoslavia introduced two resolution designed to strengthen the efforts to prevent aggression One calls for the establishment of a permanent mediation commission made up of small powers The other requires a country Involved in armed conflict to liaue a cease-dire order within 34 hours and to withdraw Its armed forces from disputed territory Failure to dc so automatically would brand the country as an aggressor same cause ea tha red of auniela The sun's rays during this period of the eclipse will be shining directly behind the earth (as seeu from the moon) and will through the ring bf air all aroued the earth's edges This air is more than 300 mile deep altnough above the first 10 miles it is rarlfled The ring thus teen la a brilliant red near the earth shading off to lighter rad in the outward direction Ths red glow is enough to 11 luminate tha edges of tha earth slightly ao that they are pink ra ther than black The first stages of the eclipse begin at 950 pm EST This is the entry into the penumbra of the caritfs shadow That part of tht show merely darkens the entry Into the penumbra of the shadow That part of the show merely darkens the moon's fact slightly Usually only expert can detect the darkening Moon To Put On Real Show For Earth Monday Night Will Begin Here at 105 3 PM EST To Be Total at 1116 PM NBW YORK Sept 34 (AP) Monday night the harvest moon will be totally eclipsed The spectacle will be risible over nearly aQ North America part of South America Western Europe and Africa The northernmost region of this continent win not see It Gn Owen Bound the eclipse will begin at 1053 pm X8T Monday and end at 1159 am Tuesday At 1US pm Monday the eclipse will be total) Wherever the sky Is clear the moon win not be black but a copper eoton That color wiff come from tha earth Aa gecd from tha moon during an eclipse the earth is a huge perfectly round black disc by one of tha most beautiful haloa in creation The halo la rad and is due to Uta 1 fJ V7 -rir I yi- 4 rJ fT.

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