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An aged farm laborer of Somerset -
shire, missing in; tbro bliziaid wits
a'es are Used to,As�i5t Sto _rn F3ollild Sccisctns. I`+'onnd dead,:, ±o.ei isr rtilbe crud
r
Cold and Saiow Corttin.txes aow. "It ryas s,eoossa to hap t b,
a
body oats -with hammer arid chisel.
' The ,imperial :9i wirys ger, to
PRINCE, CAC. GlIT
g, Die,.sed.;in-hunt- and L1angattoc.r,,lying near the foot
ing, costumes, the PI ince of Wales o1 the Itlacic Mo -un ern,
rk had' a hair- sh re, have been isolated, and. unless
d the Duke ° a thaw cues soon it feared the
ising motor ride over the snow" villagers and cattle will suffer se
hound rows ;Friday night to the an- eb e,inivaticu.
dual hunt ball. The Duch•es of York; 3'i:,C?01� Z'O0.
garbed in a cream colored evening
Floods are adding to the distress.
frock was in the automobile, . which T},„ arc tvidesPtcad iri tite'Ouse Val
plunged through drifts ,and skidded ley in Iluntingdonshir'e, while ' the
over ice -coated .ols,Lches, threatening Thames floods, from Old. Windsor to
at any moment to •Plunge into a ditch. Walton, show little sign of subsidence.
A number :of the guests at the ball Blealk tales of suffering in all the
made detours of 30 miles to avoid the
snow -buried counties off " "Southern
England and Wales were'told in Lon-
don,
ondon, while weather experts are not
yet able to foresee immediate relief
from,cold, which has gripped Great
Britain and parts of the Continent, of
almost unprecedented duration.
SEA TEMPESTUOUS..
On the sea, too, violent easterly
silos have prevailed, causing distress
Bread and butter were` .dropped' to shipping in varrying, degrees for
from 'the sky into Westerhant and six days. Many rurall
'villages are
great piles of snow rendering the
roads almost impassable. Others,
,snowbound, never -arrived at the
party:
AIRPLANES USED. e'
armored
Airplanes and a•ored
tanks are playing relief roles in Eng-
land's great storm -the fiercest blit
rased in some parts that England, has
"known in 'a score of years
neighboring villages in' Kent,. whose- still cut off from supplies _ by snow
inhabitants are •. ,snow -imprisoned. drifts reported to be from 10 to 14 There t ey are placed, a steady ben'.
To airplanes frons an airdrome near feet high, which block the readways. coin light
London carried. supplies. licit wore Other towns in the .storm -area have To guide Two 'Travellers on this
'unable to find a safe landing in the gained access to teh outer world after blessed night.
• beleaguered` towns The food was heroic efforts to ,push ''through -and -.-
Paris Was tc..urned Friday afler:.t
two -days' suspension. Thei-.,e were a
number of babies in arms among the
erst Passengers fo the French cam -
[al. Tho 13o Li hern Railway has re-
olrened itS F011ceetone-13(htilogne ee2-
171ec bi-t tine Dover-CaMis' service;be
tilltspent" d tor the fourth day, be -
cause of heavy seas in the channel;
hundreds of expectant travelers are
stalled in both 1! rcnch and English
channel ports.
An Irish C;hristsrlas Eve
As the blue Celtic twilight falls"
And ends ti'e, lnrg-ring
Upon the little iis0i:ng towns
By Galway Bay.
Trout every cottage Window" beams a
11ght
Of welcome Christmas candles burn-
. big bright.
Bright a$ -their-light of Faith .
And hope, so brave,
Those ilsher people of the. Wes ern"
placed in bags and dropped by intra- over vast white barricades.
chutes, ' I Meeting the emergency caused by
Tanks from two armystations in, the suspension, of the mail, trains,
iiatnpshire were employed to crush `Lord Templemore rias for two days,
a pathway through the Toads piled carried the nails from Winchester to
high with snow. For four days three-Alresfoi d, Hampshire, over a route
villages, Grosmont, Llaventherine' of seven, utiles, mid the peer has vol-
And every cottage shows a guiding
light,
.And there God's foster fattier and
His Mother mild
May find a shelter for Their .: Iioly
Child. .
—A. W., Montreal.
Two, Travellers who two thousand
years before
Unwanted, weary, went from door to
door,
And so .no Connaught door' is closed.
to -night
A Fatal. Toss
French Go After
Lindbergh Record
See Coste's Plane as Redoubt-
able Rival to Spirit of
St. Louis
Has Flown 13,000 Miles.
Tarts—Lindber'gll's Spirit of 'Et.
Louis has a -redoubtable rival in the
"lungesser-Coli" of 'C'ostes•-aud Lebrix,
which, according to ,lP rencli military
aeronautic officials has now covered
mare than 21,000 kilometers (12,000
miles) in alights front Paris to .Africa
and to',South America, where it is now
flying on the Paciile slope,
The distance does not include four
major- flights which the same plane
made before trying' the Atlantic hop
—011P or tite most spectacular being
the Siberian onestop flight to Djask,
where the plane had to circle around
for hours above. ice :and . snow before.
finding a shot to land.
In the present iligdst,'offCcials say,
the plane, 'Which is a. Breguet'model
with Hispano -Seita motor, has done
more than .150 "fours without accident..
The voyage of. Costes -and Lebrlx
has by no means terminated in Chile.
They probably will pile •up mileage
hours on the North American Conti.
neat, though Costes is quoted -bare
(as being against an immediate trans-
Atlautie hop on the Lindbergh. route.
There is no doubt that, Costes and
Lebrlx will be 'among the cotitestants
f
the spring,
n
o• in t o s g,
LIFE Oil D5 7 I P A 00 N! .rat is lumen p
A HON THE :TOSS O i 1t tt
fol
8.13. Taylor (right" and C. A. 13urrntvs ("aft) tossed a coin to see which „either front New York or from Paris,
slsoalti take the first ran ie a new United States mail plane for Cheyenne from bttt mast' likely. from. Paris. .
beurer, Taylor- won the toss and a•few minutes later the plane crashed
and burned, Burning binito death,
Fire Marshall . HON. JOHN BRACKEN.
Clears Fireman STRICKEN Bi ILLNESS
" VYinnipog.—lion. John Bracken,
of Action At "-los• .
Explanationitiianitob.t a Premier, is confined to his
rice Fire Accepted residence here suffering from appen-
--+ dicitis.
"SAVING PAPERS lir, Montgomery, Minister of
nnebec ire,,-Cesiadian press ,,de. Health .inthe Provincial Lepaelataure,
Q r t t under examined Mr, Bracken and anuoi e�s-
t:patches say that the fire t as oration would ratF
etl that itt o1:7'o
suspiciiia as the resplt or t sti'nl0ny
t 'n t(w lloePlee beef orated immediately ad that it was
during the itsquest into i tluite probable that an operation
St. Cholas circ, has been absolver" of might not be. necessary: A :further
all Wpm. by,I�it'e Marshal Leclerc,;, OX uination of the Prime Diinister
' The fireman came under euspsitm will lie, made of, to determine
as tie i'eeult of a report that he ledkthe physician's course.
been 5001 in a room of the instit'ttion.
Premier 'Bracken was preparing to
not altected by the blaze, trhile itis deport for the Legislative Building
follows -'cert fighting the 'are. I ,
The lire marshal said that he had lhtir^day when 'ha was stricken.
accepted the man's explanation, that!' Premier Bracken leas last repartee"
as restnnl e.y, ‘1%,(1 his 'furry
he was Otttliatvoriug to save vahitini
rs 'for the . Mother Su usual 000tl rstern 1 riends wish hint a speedy
lia pe 1 Irecotiery
the home,•
J
OfftheRocks at Last'
CO }l
L are
n$tr Cto a
DIOreOvef, French
greatly of;coitraged by the sudcess of
the flight and their coltfldence has
been restored.
Officials aro still investigatntg the
untimely death 01 Pierre' Corbu, wito
was on the Farman trans•Atlautie,
tears with Given in the 'Time Bird.
Collie's accident is' thought; to have
poen due to foolhardy unpreparedness
arid occurred after many of France's
beet, aviators had been lost,.
As a 'result of tisese fatalities, there
will be no freak planes leaving Le
I outget this' year -only authorized
and proven material will be permitted
to risk the lives of Ii'i'eeclt flier's,
Cantt'ose, •Alberta—The public sale
of school lands by 'tire, Department of.
the Interior at Camrme. the other day
disposed or almost 5000,000 worth of
lauds= --the largest sale yet. There
were 220' parcels of land offered and
200 sold, comprising 30,000 acres, The
value of the delta totalled $490,000; the
average.price per acre being $16.41
and the. highest 950.
•
"Madel of Canada's:National War Memorial, with Mr. Vernon March the
sculptor. The memorial will be GO feet high, 311 feet Jong and will cost
1200,000 It is being matte by the 1MIarch family, seven brothers and one.sister,
"Lost" Roll Adds "Dawn"
Search Abandoned, Hope Gone
U.S. Authorities Withdraw Dirigible and Destroyers Definitely
Listing Foolhardy Flyers As Lost
WARNED AGAINST TRIP
New York. --Everything that could and Fred Koehler consisted of two
be done by searchers of the sea and broken wireless messages• picked up
and believed to
sky had been completed to -night and`at Sable Island, XS,
still no sign hast been found of the entire been sent from the Dawn. The
entire region from which ,those nes-
plane Dawn ed its crew of three men
and one woman.
Commander R. 11, Stewart, direet-
ing the naval search for the Dawn,
received permission late Thursday. to
abandon the search, and the destroy-
ers .Sturtevant and Mahan wei:e ex-
pected to reach Boston by mid-after-
noon Friday. •
FURTHER SEARCH USELESS.
-During' the day, Lieutenant -Cont,
mender Rosendahl of the dirigible
Los Angeles announced that further
search wouldbe futile- unless new
clues developed.
The only clue to guide searchers 'start. 'So she actually flew in the
for Mrs, Frances Grayson, Lieuten- face of 'scientific. facts and her loss
ant Oskar Ocala], Bruce Goldsborough was looked for by the experts.
"there could be nq„possible Justifica-
tion for making a change—quite apart'
from the "matter of future prospects.
While Montreal or Toronto would ear-
tainlyebe a muck more .desirable or
congenial location for the commis-
sioner, from a purely residential point
of view, he would certainly ,not be
eoneidering the interests of his coun-
try if he were at present to recorn-
9 it
(isi.pezt For 1927 Will Set. Mark To
While Future \Vas Never 3xifghte
OTTAWA SU1RVEY.
Ottawa.—A1 new high fecor'd for -
mineral production in Canada was
set in 1927, when the value of the
output reached $241,773,000, making
a gain eof ono and one -this'd million
dollars over the previous year's rec-
ord total of $240,437,120, according to
the official estimate ;compiled by the
Dominion iiureau.of Statistics in the
mootjrecent Parliamentary report.
New output t'ecords for all tithe.
were established in 1027 in gold, cop-
per, lead, zinc, cement, gypsum and
)RD
tot At"
the figures for the same period in t
preceding year,
MAGNIFICENT PROGRESS,
"Looking backward over the yea
just closed .the student must be i
pressed with the magnificent progres
made by the mining industry, of th
Dominion," states the survey. 'Neve
before has the.outlook for the futu
appeared brighter. In the light
the advances made during the pa
twoyears and considering particula
ly the extent to which. preparator
lime, and .in the value of natural gas work was done in so many fields dm
and petroleum,increased produrttoti ing the past twelve months, he woul
in comparison with the totals fol be a pessimist, indeed, who could 'n
023, was noted in the outgute a£ ,see a' brilliant future immediate)
arsenic, cobalt, copper, gold, lead; ahead in Canada's,mining industry.
iiekel, platinum metals, zinc, coal, :. _^hy.--•__,•;,,
mlttnal bas, petralenm, gypsum, lir Thi . Quebec Holocaust
rites. quartz, clay products, cement,
Time, stare, and' ravel. Le monde Ouvrior (Ind.): Th
At $112,238,Tsand00,,nietalsgshowed a nunrberof fires ittour educational es
loss in aggregate value in conrp•iri tablishsnents, in our colleges• and con
soil with "the total 'for .1026, due td vents,'is_ so high, it one compares • i
the ,prevailing lower range 'of prices witb. those which,oeeur in our Indus
tar •copper, lead,, zine and silvet•. In- trial establishments and other publi
creases;in'`the outputs were not sufft- buildings; that there can be no clotilr
cient:to offset the loss in value due to that. sometthlug , is seriously .wrong
lower Prices Aro 0.1"' the precautionary: measure,
GOLD AND SILVER, taken necessary to safeguard the se
curity and_1lves5 of the little childre
'Gold 'pzloduction amounted. to 1,- packed together in more or let
•825,421 fine ,ounces valued at $37,- modern edifices' where there' is a its
731,080,. as compared with the 'pre- of fire? Admitted, that creeds ar'
vious record value set in 1926, of .great and that funds are limited, bu
$36,268,110. ' these human lives --the generation
Canada's silver production at 22,- to -morrow -rare inure precious tha
210,936 fine ounces, showed' `a'slight all financial -considerations,
advance over 1926, - but the value -
dropped to 5'12,488;009 only as cum -
pared with $13,894,581 in 1926.
Nickel ` production from the 'Sud-
bury district `increased.to 60,435,799
pounds valued : at 915,105,361, indi-
cating satisfactory,progress in this
industry.
sages could' have conte has been dili-
gently searched and no trace wee
found of plane or grew.
BACK IN ITS. IrA.NGAP.
The Los Angeles is back in its
hangar at Lakehurst, N.J., and by
another day it vois expected the two
naval and three Coast Guard destroy-
ers would have returned to their Ton-
tine duties.. .d. sharp lookout is being
kept by coastwise shipping fax any
signs of the lost Antphibion plane.
WARNED NOT TO START.
The Meteorological Dept. at Wash-
ington warned Mrs. Grayson not to
Tito rescued ship.Aitadbc, fico- coated an her
y to ltaea the rip in her -side, antldshipi, repaired.
No Change Yet
Removal of New York Office
To Canadian Center
• Opposed '
Cape Town,—in his latest• report,
111r10 H. ,Louw, iiniose Trade Cominis-
planer in the United States replies to
• COPPER OUTPUT:
Coppet, mostly from the treatment
of the nickel -copper ores' mined near
Sudbury, in Ontario, and from the
copper -gold ores of British Columbia
and Quebec, resehed an output of
140,223,717 pounds .in 1927. British
Columbia mines yielded 91,910,274
pounds; Ontario, 46,652,721 pounds;
and Quebec, 2,020,722 pounde. •
Lead output increased to a new Tee -
old at 308,742,826. pounds, worth
916,466,877, and zine also rase to 160,-
108,900 pounds,' thus exceeding the
record Set last year. Values in; lead
and zinc were restricted, due to low-
er prices.
FUELS SHOW ADVANCE,
certain criticisms that' have been di- menti tate cliange."
v concludes with the nssur-'
Ir Doti uc v
L c t e
rected against the establishmeirt of „
that thea nail ori end" of the
since C t i t
his °dice in New York rather than in ° 1
export business ie not being 'neglect -
Montreal or in sense other Canadian tb
ceater. This suggestion, says sae, ed by his, °Mee. He said: I hope the
Louty aai cat's to have been based on time will soon coma when it May be,
the grounds (1) that'rite "tisk tariff expedient to have a branch office, at
of the United States is not conducive
Montreal, ore even to have oe hide -
of
to th develdpmont'oI an import pndent office there. At present the'
(2) that the United States does 'not expense would not be lustified< Iu
Want South African products; (3) this connection it is at interest to.
that Canada is more sympathetic to point, out that Australia, with exports
South African products than the to Canada six times in excess of e the
United States. (( Union's, has not yet established a
° "With, to the tariffs Dir.l branoh Wilco in the Dominion, As In
regardthe, case of South Africa, the comtnis-
Louw saga, "there is eo doubt that {sionor is, located at New York,' and he
these are, generally speaking, antnng periodically visits Canada..
the highest to be found in _any coun-
wi
11
try, and tarifs aro and ahvays
be, an obstacle in -the way of develop-
Donbt1
eas there -will he nnn
reeel-
ant d
mental confusion if one of
Ing trade relations. I have frankly re -
these
cognized this fact, thess
e husbatid•calliug contests ie ever
cgs
The Teriif •Policy.
"But when people' in South Afrloa
point to the tariff policy in nuppor_t of
their argument that. the States :is, nn -
held in lioilywood.—Detroit Nowt.
-
It eeelns that, the Armistice waa
signed In a diising-oar. No weeder
the World War turned out to be,sO ex
synspathetts toward South Africa, petrslve.-San Diego Celan.
then I am obliged „o say that such a
statement i$`. neither fah, nor le it
correct. The tariff does not discs -Int-
ernee against Smith Africa, but oper-
ates against the products of every
country 'which is liable to conte into
competitiion with the, United Stetes:
• "These der• no .gyannid fol . the idea
that theUnitetl' States is unsymia-
tl'ietle toward South •Africa,-wn' the
cdn4tary, • 1 can ,ay wl(Ii :otnphasls.
that; 'since"my arrival I have, always
been' warmly eecetved,by commercial
men and Government officials..There
has been on allWee a lceea aPrecia-
tion of the step taken by the Union
Government in establishing an • office
here, and I leave been aceorcled every
asststarice in tnywot'lc of seelcing'rnar=
hets-for ear' products,
"This applies especially to ofi'icluls
of the Department of Commerce and.
Agrieultut•e, respectively. .Those of-
ficials Dave you out of their way to.
assist rte.' For instance, }then visit-
ing dtiforent centres, the'local repro,
sentatives of the Thsparttnent of Com-
mer'e have, u1t theis;$wu iailaativa, ria-
Tonged for me to meet- inn who
niigtit.ho inidrestsd in importing from;
Sdiitli'Africa.
No Robson for Change.
Mr. Lousy cart see no reason for
moving:tlre present 'office to Moutrea),.
either on the ground that the Untied
States is 'unsympathetic toward South
African products, or that 'tire actual
buetness.prospects aro hotter in 'an-
ada.
While the proportion of exports to
the United States and Canada, 1'e.
spectively, staiitls at 1.5 to 1, lie says,
Fuels showed a general advance.
Production values totalled $70,660;000
for coal, gas and petroleum itt 1927,
as against $68,748,938 in 1926.
'Preliminary figures for 1927 show-
ed the coal output from' Canadian
Miss Megan Lloyd George
mines, as 0,258, 16,722,126 short tons, val.. Who plans to follow in her father
478 at $60,258,900, as against 16,- footataps. She . will run for pari!:
478,181 tons, worth $59,875;094, in molt as the candidate of a Welsh col
1926•stitueney at the next 'general MediaPetroleum prodnetibn at 495,000 ill Great Britain,
barrels, worth 91,588,000, and natur- ;
al gas at 21,910,000 cubic feet, valued The Government and Nieldc
Ottawa Droit (Iud.): if the Mex
can covei'nntcnt 'were perseettting t
Protestants arstisey:are persecuttn
the Catholics, would the '. Prl
Miiltster have permittee" Sir flew
Thornton to go to Mexico? Wan
he' not • also have objected to Hew
Thornton undertaking au ollet
mission to Soviet Russia? It anima,
at $8,810,000, set up new record val
ues for all times, and showed im-
provement both in quantity alley:011e
over the totals for 19rG..
NON-METALLIC MINERALS.
Other non-metallic minerals, . in-
cluding more than a score of differ-
ent commodities, valued at 910,874,-
000 ' us 1927, also reached . a higher
aggregate than in 1926.: Among the that the whole Anglo-1?rotestas
more important membes ; of thio press of the country, without coati[
etation of party,
Is
going
to suppo
po
the Prime Minister. What a lease
for our Preach -Canadian press, sale
of whose members have been force
victim
or i4iexicatl v
to forget the poor
and to take their stand alongsid
error and injustice or, what is
worse, to keep a criminal silence.
Plane Production Reaches
New Peak,
Washington• --Airplane prodnetiol
in the 'United States readied a ne
peak thus far ]n 1927, the Depattmen
of 'Cor4cerce announced, as tt'iafsti
tuted an eii'ert to make : a statistica
portrayal of the industry.,
In 1926 'American manufacturer
produced 1,186 airplanes, and duriht
the first 11 months of this year, re
Ports from a third of the airplan
builders indicate a production of 1,52
planes, with 1,289 unfilled orders o
grout) there
Y
e e bo mentioned as-
bestos, gypsum, salt, 'quartz • (and
silica brick), feldspar, mica, tale and
soapstone, magnesite, pyrites and
graphite.
At 942,000,the clay products ,
bricks, tiles, etc., and other structur-
el -materials, produced during the
year attaitetd a total value in excess
of the 'figures for any previous year.
In this field the gain in the output
of cement was the ntost'outstandieg
feature. Lime output advaeed to a
new high record, reaching a value of
93,970'000 in 1927.
Stone, sand and gravel were pro-
duced in treater quantities to meet
the steadily growing demand for ma-
terials; of construction. Buliding
permits hawed in 63 °itis f Cndliaeoo
aeaTslwtou id3C0de. `ltd c ', eel fl
permits healed in 03 cities of Canada
during' the first eleven month of 1927,
to a vaiue of $112,175,268, shmvved an
advance of about 20 per cent, over hand:
An Australian Accident
Ti-lr. LASS i OF, FATAL FERRY
Oiie-half of ihn ferry boat "4eryclltTo" wlilair was cut in ttvo by the S.S. 7.'aliltl, In the ltathor:or Sydney,
-AA g
-Australia, Eighty-six'pereonc"host_their Byatt iri the disaster: The ferryboat is, being raised to 01Car 1180 harbor.
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