North Bay Nugget from North Bay, Ontario, Canada • 1

A-WyliHt 5Wf affgur i i iS Weather October Hiiilj Aicrage 9212 Net Paid ft Cooler jers'-p-s NORTH RAY ONTARIO SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 1949 CUMItt Ceprrtcbied XU-Nn 105 Bo Fir EIGHTEEN PAGES 1'V rra 'i fll an -U 1 CPU Diesel On Text Dun iVcxl Week Tvi Mb 1S9 Wc Get a New omc Special Police Flown in Daiiy Nugget Buys Royal Theatre Bldg lATK HI IJKT1V OTTAWA 1ST 3 (CT) Ten inemlxT nf the ItC'MF him (urn dispatched to Nel-niiii to help quell dUturb-hihtn eaused hy lluukhuhnra lusliee MmiNter (anion announced today In the ('nnimona lie mild action to halt the recent aeta of terrorism Including the dynamiting of railway linen ha heen taken hy L'nin-iiiisNinner 8 Wood nf the IK Canadian Pacific Railways will begin tests of Diesel- 0 electric locomotives on the Toronto-Fort William lines next week Sunday night this giant 4500-horsepower engine will leave Toronto hauling the ('PR's crack transcontinental passenger train The rugged North Shore lines of the CPR will receive engines of this tyjK early in 1950 Inspecting the big GM unit here are left to right Crump vice-president and A Newman chief of motive power and rolling stock CPR and Rippingville Jr head of General Motors Diesel Limited Idiivlon Out MANIACS AT LARGE IN OREGON REDS PUSH ON REFUGEE CAPITAL Etna Eruption Threatens Town The employee-owned Daily Nugget will have a new home hy mid-summer of 1950 Negotiations for the purchase of the Royal Theatre Building on Main street west from the Famous Flayers Canadian Corporation have been completed The Nugget will come into possession of the building on January 1 1950 at which time a program of extensive alterations will lie launched The Nugget had originally planned to erect a new building on its property on the corner of Main and Fraser streets known as the old Hotel site After long and careful investigation however the employee-owned newspaper decided that it would be much more economical to move into an existing building Subsequently when it was announced that the Royal Theatre building was for sale The Nugget tendered the highest price and the purchase agreement has now heen signed The Nugget will sell its valuable property at Main and Fraser streets The Royal Theatre building will provide the increased space which The Nugget due to greatly expanded operations and increased staff and additional equipment badly needs Extensive renovations will convert the building into a large modern well laid-out newspaper plant Adequate facilities will be provided for every department A well known architect William Armstrong of A Armstrong and Company Toronto will arrive in North Ilay shortly to draw up the plans The fact that the building stands adjacent to the present Nugget quarters will facilitate the moving of heavy equipment The Royal Theatre will continue to show films in the building until it moves into its new quarters on Main street east later this month If architectural plans deem it feasible to provide space for tenants other tenants now in the building will he given first consideration Increased operations made it imperative for The Nugget to seek Larger quarters without delay The staff now totalling 6 I is twice as large as it was 10 years ago The Nugget now operates bureau offices at Sturgeon Falls and New Liskeard and daily trucks the newspaper to these and other district points We have 50 correspondents and 150 route hoys at the present time It will he the fourth big for The Nugget In 1922 the plant was moved from Cobalt to the toy site at Murray and Oak streets In 1933 the newspaper transferred to the Pacific Hotel building now known as the St Regis Hotel and a little later it was moved to another section of the present building The Nugget at the present time is a tenant Now it will he the owner of its own In taking this important step the employee-owned newspaper does so with confidence in the future of North Hay and district and in a desire to provide the best service possible for the public Handling the legal details for The Nugget in the purchase of the building were II Reynolds KC North Hay and Norman Robertson KC Toronto I Banner acted as the North Bay agent for Famous Players Canadian Corporation DIES PROTECTING John Gordon Fullerton 24 in uhown piling Handbags to protect his family's projierty as floods ravaged West Vancouver BC Minutes aTter Rill Cunningham of The Vancouver Daily Province made this picture Fullerton was swept to his death in the boiling Capihmo River His brother James tried unsuccessfully to save him CATANIA Sicily Dec 3 (AP) Fiery lavs from erupting Mount Etna today threatened the little Sicilian town of Maletto but an official source at noon (5 am EST) said the burning flow had "slowed considerably several kilometres from the town of 3600 inhabitants The police chief at Catania estimated the lava now was flowing from at least 10 openings in the side At dawn exactly 24 hours afterO Etna began Its new eruptions mon CHENGTU China Dec Chinese Nationalist leaders today watched the Inevitable red shadow spread Into their last major main' land haven of western China ffbo Nationalists tried to get their government going again in this hopelessly overcrowded naw refugee capital But the Communists may not let them stay here long Tho Reds plunging deep Into western China cut the highway between Chengtu and Kunming 390 miles to ths south Thla official report followed information that the Communists also had cut the route between here and Chungking 170 miles southeast Chungking fell to the Reds Wednesday Speculation continued on relations between Acting President LI Tsung-Jen In Hong Kong and generalissimo Chlang Kai-Shek Chlang who in Li'a favor last January has taken over command of defence operations Ha la expected to resume the presidency (U who refused bid to go to Chengtu will leave by plane Monday for the United States It waa announced In Hong Kong He haa been In a hospital in the British crown colony for treatment of a stomach ailment) Three Students Die In Dormitory Fire SATEM Ore Dee 3 (AP) Apprehension over wer-iern Oregon tndny whrre three violent Insane men were at large lilies warned that the three who escaped from the state merit nl hospital her Friday night were "very dangerous" All nvoilnhl police were ordered eut In an intensive search Four actually hi ok old of tha hospital but police trucked one down In brush pHlrh two miles from ths hospital and subdued hint Except for another of the patient in the criminal ward insane might have escaped He tricked the escaping four and was credited with saving the life nf one of Ilia hospital guards The escape started with on patient feigning sudden illnena When attendant Fid Rollins went Into his cell he overpowered Rollins and seised his key-Ha unlocked the cell of thiee others One of them telephoned attendant Tom Smith that x'mii-thing waa wrong with Rollins When Smith rushed in he was choked from hnhlnd hy a towel that waa wrapped around hi neck "Everything started In go block Suddenly a fifth patient inn up and said T-et me finish the Joh I thought I waa dona for but he let up op the towel while pietending to tighten it" Smith said later The four gave keys to the fifth patient and told hint to unlock th cells of SI others in fh criminal ward Aa they lert running threw (he keys away shunning tha chanr to escape Smith said VICTORIA RC Dec (CP) Special police details were flown into Doukhobor country today as the government put the heat on the fanatical Sons of Freedom faction apparently to end the seemingly senseless violence in south-central British Columbia Six more details will be flown to the Kootenays Mon day and at least 10 officers wiil hev dispatched to the scene from other parts of the province the govern answer to threats from Nelson HCL that vigi lant action will he taken un less authorities art immediately Recent dynamite bombings 'of railway track near blamed on the Bonn of prompted this latest crackdown on the terrorism that has swept that Kootenay Valley since the Dnukhobors split into two factions shortly after their arrival in Canada from Russia SO years ago Homemade fuses a symbol of the Sons of Freedom were used a week ago to detonate two dynamite blasts that upped up 30 feet of Canadian Pacific Railway tracks east of Nelson Trainmen since then hsvt threatened to quit work in Doukhobor country unless soms protection is given them Today patrol cars precede all fralna travelling the Doukho-hnr routes and special railway guards have heen placed at strategic bridges Another track hnmhfiig two weeks ago was within 20 feet of a railway bridge The Sons of Freedom the radical faction of 12000 Doiikhobors have waged an incessant campaign againat their orthodox brothera and what they term lawa There are about 5000 nf them One of them convicted recently of deliberately burning a iew 327000 school at Tarry BC summed up their feelings by declaring: "I was fulfilling the will of our nlmighiy father I was free In my cnnscienre I am free now I am not guilty" (Conlipucd on Page 17) UN STUDIES FUTURE OF JERUSALEM NORMAN Okie IV-e 8 Firs whipped through a wooden dormitory on the University nf Oklahoma campus early today burning to death at least three student More than three hundred escaped the burning former navy barrack hut 19 were Injured two critically Tho three bodies were removed from the ruin hut were unidentified One of those listed as not seriously Injured was James Mclnyk of Big Valley Alla Damago waa estimated at ssno 1 strous flames shot toward the sky from the main crater A four-second earthquake jolted the area with a terrifying roar witnesses reported The flow advancing on Maletto no longer appeared to threaten Bronte a town of 18000 southwest of Maletto First reports today did not estimate the distance now separating the lava from Maletto The flow during the night reached a point 13 timlles from Bronte then deviated toward Maletto The fiery mass sowed destruction among rich fruit orchards aa advanced down ths slope of the mountain Wltneasea said fiery blasts nf air moving ahead of the lava started forest fires At dawn the 10758-foot peak waa hidden by a hugs cloud of ateam smoke and vapor Reaidenta of towns throughout the eruption area stayed up all night but did not begin to evacuate their homes A youth who saw the dawn eruption of the main crater said it looked like a "monstrous pyrotechnic "Geysers of flame and sparks soared out of the main he said "There was a great roar then silence It was like looking at a color movie without sound" Quc Hank Robbed Twice in 2 Weeks ST IIUGUES Que Dec CP Provl nrtiil police today guarded roads and bridges around (hie vUlage miles east of Montreal In a widespread search for gunmen who held up hank branch here and escaped with It was the second time In twe weeks that Mrs Jean Baptiste Vlgneault 73-year-eld manager of tho Banqun Canadlrnne Natlonale nub-branch here had heen held up Help Santa Claus Fund Christmas Can Mean Joy if LAKE SUCCESS NT Dec 3 -(CT) The United Nations neared the rlfclniv slag today on the prohlem of JeniMilem'a future The Holy City now la occupied hy Hashemite Jordan and Israel both of them opposed to International rule and determined to hold their respective parts of it Before Inking up the Issue of Jerusalem the General Assembly's special political committee is scheduled to review the Dutrh-Tndnnes-ian question Thla may delay It tart on the Jerusalem question Ths sprrlal committee Friday night sppruved a J'riDOOono relief-work project program for nearly IOnnOOO Pilcstlne war refugees Final adoption by the assembly was assured hy the lopsided vote of 48-0 In committee A 17-couulry sub-committee put final touches to its draft of an Aunt ralinn-RuaslH n-EI Salvadoran-Laban resolution in internatlon-elise Jerusalem and its holy places tinder a UN truelecship It was adopted to with two abstentions In go to the special political committee for further study Israel with ths hope of some hip-power support promises a bitter fight against International rule for Jerusalem but offers to yield to UN supervision of the holy shrines of ths Christian Jewish and Morlcm religions In the Israel area of Sand Sirova Across Dink ft The Story of the Savior In on section nf this city lives a woman with threa small children They live in a mall lll-furnixhed hoiixe that the woman struggle to support alone hy performing cleaning jobs It a poor family hut only in material wealth Underneath is a I rang spirit of self-respect that reflects in the cleanliness of the home and the neat scrubbed appearance of the children despite their often-mended clothing Through the year this mother (Continued on Page 17) 150 I6L7 j-' 140 BELIEVE PAJAMA-CLAD GIRL JUMPED OFF BOAT 4 -J 2 0 fWfcCAJ OF AU: C4' 11110 IN'tX W)PON pec 3 (AP A I Ji said Mies Mi'Ualluni cams withered red roe and a traylul "(inboard Sydney without nu'nrv rigaret stubs were the only cluen and stayed "either Hceidentullv or Britlxh authorities had today to deliberately" until alter it sailed Wjpo It- -'v -T-l i'v ft rjy-- Our Christmas Strip Starts Monday the mysterious disappearance of a pretty pajima-clad girl from a south-sens liner The girl was 20-ycar-old Gwendn McCallum of Sydney Australia who waa last seen in her cabin lata on the night of October 3d aa the Orient liner Orcadea steamed from Sydney to Melbourne on its way to Ipndon When the ship drhed hete last Wednesday Aiixter Cameron 30' year-old British rivjl servant in Ft- i Ha had met her at Sydney hotel He said he paid her fare as (ar as Melbourne Cameron told investigator he stayed with the girl until 1:30 after accompanying her to her cah-in and lending her a pair of pajamas 8he was missing the next morning Cameron said when he looked into her cabin the next morning he saw a withered red rose on a long i tContmued on Page IT 1 i Nugget Photo by Orfaakoe man claimed children had taken some of his wood for a bonfire near the rink Here Chief Constable Walter Hodgson inspects the sand-'attered ice surface while Melbourne Smirl and Harry Thompson look on The rink is completely ruined Youngsters at Callander and their parents were furious yesterday at the actions of an elderly Callander man who strewed sand across a cleaned skating area on Callander Hay and made it unfit for iic The COST INDEX DOWN official tost of living index declined during for the third kucccs-cive to 1G17 The record reached last July wax 1628 Lower f'Xd costa has been the chief reason for the gradual drop in recent month The top chart shows the trend of livinsr from to 1916 want to read all 18 chapters.