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english weather tales read like arctic romance tanks and airplanes are used to assist storm bound sections cold and snow continues prince caught bircham eng dressed in hunt- thames floods from old windsor to ing costumes tho prince of wales and the duke of york had a hair- raieing motor ride over the snow bound roads friday night to the an nual hunt ball the duchess of york garbed in a cream colored evening frock was in the automobile which plugged through drifts and skidded tlap unprecedented duration over icecoated stretches threatening at any moment to plunge into a ditch number of the guests at the ball walton show little sign of subsidence bleak tales of suffering in all the snowburied counties of southern england and wales were told in lon don while weather experts are not yet abls to foresee immediate relief from cold which has gripped great britain and parts of the continent of on sea tempestuous tho sea too violent easterly j gales have prevailed causing distress made detours of 30 miles to avoid tho 1 6 great piles of snow rendering the roads almost impassable other snowbound never arriv party aipplanes used london airplanes and armored to shipping in varrying degrees for six days many rural villages arc u still cut off from supplies by snow ed at tne dtih repovtcd t0 b6 from jo to 14 feet high which block the roadways other towns in tho storm area have gained access to teh out-ei- world after tanks are playing relief roles in eng- heroic efforts to push through and lands great storm the fiercest bliz aid in some parts that england has known in a score of years bread and butter were dropped over vast white barricades meeting the emergency caused by tho suspension of the mail trains lord tomplemore has for two days from the sky into westerham andjafriod tho mails from winchester to neighboring villages in kent whosellresford hampshire over a route inhabitants are snowimprisoned j of 5cvcn miles and tho peer has vol- two airplanes from an airdrome near london carried supplies but were unable to find a safe landing in the beleaguered towns the food was placed in bag3 and dropped by para chutes tanks from two army stations in hampshire were employed to crush a pathway through the roads piled high with snow for four days three villages grosmont llavcntherine unlcered to do this work until regular service is resumed travel resumed an aged farm laborer of somerset shire missing in the blizzard was found dead frozen in tho mud and snow it wa3 necessary to chop the body out with hammer and chisel the imperial airways service to paris was resumed friday after a canadas national war memorial canada outdistances all previous records and llangattock lying near thofoot twodays suspension there were a of the black mountain monmouth- j number of babies in arms among the and unless i passengers for the french eapi- shire have been isolated a thaw comes soon it is- feared the villagers and cattle will suffer se vere privation floods too floods are adding to the distress they are widespread in the ouse val ley in huntingdonshire while tho tal the southern railway has re opened its folkestoneboulogne ser vice but the dovercalais service is still suspended for the fourth day be cause of heavy seas in the channel hundreds of expectant travelers are stalled in both french and english channel ports fire marshall clears fireman explanation of action atjhos- pice fire accepted saving papers quebec que canadian press de- opatches say that the fireman under suspicion as the result of testimony during tho inquest into the hospice st charles fire has been absolved of all blame by fire marshal lcclerc the government and mexico ottawa droit lad if the mexi can government wore persecuting the protestants as they are persecuting the catholics would tho prime minister have permitted sir henry thornton to go to mexico would he not also have objected to henry thornton undertaking an official mission to soviet russia it appears that the wholo angloprotestant press ot the country without consid eration of party is going to support the prime minister what a lesson for our frenchcanadian press some of whoso members have been forced to forget tho poor mexican victims and to take their stand alongside injustice or what is still model of canadas national war memorial with mr vernon march the sculptor tho memorial will be 60 feet high 36 feet long and will cost 200000 it is being made by the march family seven brothers and one slater lost roll adds dawn search abandoned hope gone us authorities withdraw dirigible and destroyers definitely listing foolhardy flyers as lost mining output for 1927 will set mark to shoot at while future was never brighter ottawa survey new jiigh record reaching a value of 3970000 in 1927 stone sand and gravel were pro duced in greater quantities to meet the steadily growing demand for ma- terialso of construction building permits issued in g3 citis f cndaoaeo aeatslwton fi3o0daj nd c cnl fl permits issued in 63 cities of canada during tho first eleven month of 1927 to a value of 112175268 showed an advance of about 20 per cent over tho figures for the same period in tho preceding year magnificent progress looking backward over tho yeai in comparison with tho totals forj c tho student must bo im- 1020 was noted in tho outputs cf pressed with the magnificent progress arsenic cobalt copper gold cad by the mining industry of tho nickel platinum metals zinc coal dominion states tho survey never natural has petroleum gypsum pr- before has tho outlook for tho future r quartz clay products cement appeared brighter in the light of lime stone sand and gravel the advances made durg the past at 112238100 metals showed a two years and considering particular loss in aggregate value in compari- the extent to which preparatory son with tho total for 1926 duo to wor was dono in so many fields dur- the prevailing lowor range of prices the past twelve months he would fur copper lead zinc nnd silver in- be a pessimist indeed who could not creases in the outputs were not suffi- see a brilliant future immediately ottawa a new high record for mineral production in canada was set in 1927 when tho value of the output reached 241773000 making a gain of one and onethird million dollars over the previous years rec ord total of 240437120 according to the official estimate compiled by the dominion bureau of statistics in tha most recent parliamentary report new output records for all time were established in 1927 in gold cop per lead zinc cement gypsum and lime and in tho value of natural gas and petroleum increased production warned against trip the fireman came under suspion as the result of a report that he had error and been seen in a room of tho institution worse to keep a criminal silence not affected by the blaze while hu fellows were fighting tho fire i tho fire marshal said that he had accepted the mans explanation that canirose albertatho public sale ho was endeavoring to save valuable school lands by the department of papers for the mother- superior of the interior a canrose the other day tho home disposed of almost 500000 worth of i lands the largost salo yet thero were 220 parcels of land offered and it seems that the armistice was 200 sold comprising 30000 acres tho signed in a diningcar no wonder rvalue of the land totalled 190000 the the world war turned out to be so ex- average price per acre boing 1041 pensive sau diego- union land tho highest 50 a fatal toss new york everything that could be done by searchers of the sea and sky had been completed tonight and still no sign had been found of tho plane dawn ad its crew of three mon and one woman commander r r stewart direct ing tho naval search for the dawn received permission late thursday to abandon the search and tho destroy ers sturtevant and mahan were ex pected to reach boston by mid-after- noen friday further search useless during the day lieutenantcom mander rosendahl of tho dirigible los angeles announced that further search would bo futilo unless now clues developed the only clue to guide searchers for mrs frances grayson lieuten ant oskar omdal brice goldsborough and fred koehler consisted of two broken wireless messages pickod up at sable island ns and believed to have been sent from tho dawn tho entire region from which those mes sages could have come has been dili gently searched and no traco was found of plane or crew back in its hangar the los angeles js back in its hangar at lakehurst nj and by another day it wa3 expected the two naval and three coast guard destroy ers would have returned to their rou tine duties a sharp lookout is being kept by coastwise shipping for any signs of tho lost amphlbion plane warned not to start the meteorological dcpt at wash ington warned mrs grayson not to start so she actually flew in the face of scientific facts and her loss was looked for by tho experts cicnt to offset the loss in value due to lower prices gold and silver gold production amounted to 1- 825421 fine ounces valued nt 37- 731080 as compared with the pre vious record value set in 1926 of 36263110 canadas silver production at 22- 210986 fine ounces showed a slight advance over 1926 but tho value dropped to 12488000 only as com pared with 18894531 in 1926 nickel production from tho sud bury district increased to 66435799 pounds valued at 15105361 indi cating satisfactory progress in this industry copper output copper mostly from the treatment of tho nickelcopper ores mined near sudbury in ontario and from the coppergold ores of british columbia and quebec reached an output of 140223717 pounds in 1927 british columbia mines yielded 91910274 pounds ontario 45652721 pounds and quebec 2020722 pounds lead output increased to a new rec ord at 308742826 pounds worth 16456877 and zinc also rose to 160- 108800 pounds thus exceeding the record set last year values in lead and zinc were restricted due to low er prices fuels show advance ahead in canadas mining industry miss megan lloyd george who plans to follow in her fathers footsteps sho will run for parlia ment as the candidate of a welsh con stituency at the next general elsciioa in great britain french go after lindbergh record see costes plane as redoubt able rival to spirit of st louis life or death on the toss of a coini jb taylor right and c a burrows left tossed a coin to soo which should takothe first run in a new unltod states mall piano for cheycnn from danvor taylor won th tons and a few minutes lator tho piano crashed and burned burning him to death has flown 13000 miles paris lindberghs spirit ot st louis has a redoubtable rival in the nungessercoli of costos and lobrix which according to french military aeronautic officials has now covered moro than 21000 kilometers 13000 miles in flights from paris to africa and to south america whore it is now flying on tho pacific slopo the dlstanco docs not tncludo four major flights which the samo plane made before trying the atlantic hop one of tho most spectacular boing the siberian onestop flight to djask where the plane had to circle around for hours abovo ice and snow bofore finding a spot to land in tho present flight officials say the plane which is a breguet model with hispanosulza motor has done moro than 150 hours without accldont tho voyago of costcs and lebrlx has by no mcaii3 terminated in chile they probably will pile up mileage hours on tho north american conti nent though costes is quoted horo as being against an immediate trans atlantic hop on tho llndborgh route thero is no doubt that costos and lobrix will bo among tho contestants for atlantic honors in the spring oithor from new york or from paris but most likely from paris moreover french constructors aro greatly encouraged by tho success of tho flight and their confidence has been restored officials aro still investigating tho untimely death of plorro corhn who was on the farman transatlantic team with glvon in the illuo bird j corhus accident is thought to have been duo to foolhardy unprcpatedness and occurred after many of frances i best aviators had beu test i as a result of theso fatalities tiiero will be no freak planes leaving lo bourget this year only authorized and proven material will be permitted to risk the lives of french fliers hon john bracken stricken by illness winnipeg hon john bracken manitoba premier is confined to his residence hero suffering from appen dicitis fuels showed a general advance production values totalled 70660000 for coal gas and petroleum in 1927 t quebec h as against 68743933 in 1926 ne vjueoe rjoiaci1 preliminary figures for 1927 show- lemondo ouvrier hid ts ed the coal output from canadian number of fires in our educational el- mines as 1g722126 short tons val- tabllshnienls in our colleges and cpu- ued at 60258900 a3 against 16- vents is s high if one compares it 478131 tons worth 59875094- in lhcae wiici orc iniu3 j92g trial establishments and other public petroleum production at 495000 buildings that there can he no doubt barrels worth 1583000 and natur- that something is seriously wrong al gas at 21910000 cubic feet valued a a1 precautionary measures at 3819000 set up new record val- taken necessary to safeguard the se- ues for all times and showed im- curit aml lives q tils mtu children provement both in quantity and value packed together in more or less over the totals for 192g nonmetallic minerals modern edifices where thero is a risk of fire admitted that needs aro great and that funds aro limited but other nonmetallic minerals in- theso human lives the generation of dr montgomery minister of 1 eluding more than a score of differ- 1 tomorrow are more health in the provincial legislataure cnt commodities valued at 16874- all financial considers 000 in 1927 also reached a higher prcc ions ilijn the this examined mr bracken and nnnounci ivv aggregate than in 1926 amon od that an operation would not be ore imrortan members of performed immediately ad that it was j group thero may be mentioned nsj quite probablo that an operation i bestos gypsum salt quartz andj llv might not bo necessary a further j silica brick feldspar mica tnlr 3ch s3 examination of tho prime minister will bo made definitely to determine tho physicians course premier bracken va3 preparing to depnrt for tho legislative building thursday when ho was stricken premier brackon was last reported ns resting easily and his many eastern friends wish him a speedy recovery and j soapstone magnesitc pyrites and- graphite at 42000000 i bricks tiles etc and other structur al materials produced during tho plane production raac nev peak washington airplane production reached a new peak thui far in 1927 the department of commerce announced 113 it insti- tutcd an effort to make a statistical clay products portrayal of the industry i in 1920 american manufacturers 1 produced 1186 airplanes and during year attained a total value in excess- first u monlhs of m te of the figures for any previous year from n thir of tho ai lam in this field the gain in the output bnilders im a production of 1 525 fi l v ihn fc1 rt-l- f1llltohlinvl of cement was tho most outstanding feature lime output advaccd to a planes with 1239 unfilled orders on hand off the rocks at last 0 tho reecuod ship altadoo ico- coated on her way to have tho rip to her tde amidships repaired ql v