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PAGE TWELVE FHE DAILY -TIMES-GAZETTE .« JESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1948 Tuna Run In Far North Bonanza To Canadians Vancouver -- (CP) -- Biologists can't explain it and fishernien don't care -- they are getting excite- ment, big money and heavy hauls. It all stems from the. fact that tuna fish have strayed a bit off their course--to the delight of Bri- tish Columbia fishermen. Tuna today are being landed by the thousands just south of Queen Charlotte Islands and heavy runs have been reported as far north as Southeastern Alaska. But while the biologists are puz- zled and intrigued, B.C. fishermen are getting $600 a ton for the sea food delicacy. Mistake or not, Vic- toria fisherman Elgin Neish de- scribed the heavy run as "the great- est thing that ever hit the tuna fish industry of this province." Various Theories One theory for the unexpected heavy north run of the tuna is that ocean currents are changing and' that food fish on which tuna subsist are migrating north. Biologists will not hazard a guess as to whether tHis year's heavy run will be an annual event. Meanwhile the tuna run has pro- vided B.C. with another industry. Major fish packers here have started large-scale canning of tuna, Previously only small quantities of tuna were canned here. The bulk was canned in the United States. $25,000 Shipment Yesterday the largset single ship- ment ever delivered here, arrived aboard a packing vessel. The ship- ment was worth about $25,000 to the fishermen and considerably more than that in processed form. At least 100 Canadian boats now are fishing off the Queen I= Jottes, including salmon troliers, trawlers, halibut boats and large packers, < Lights of the fortune-seeking boats are making the Islands' Skidegate Channel look like a city main street, fishermen report. A. J. Whitemore, Federal Super- visor of Fisheries, said indications are tuna fishing will be a million- |' dollar industry this year. Giberson's Gold Is Still Sought In Two Counties Woodstock, N.B. (CP).--Searching for gold is a favorite sport of some people in Carleton and Victoria counties, although government geologists say there is little chance of this area containing important deposits. Popular belief otherwise, how- ever, goes back to a lumberjack named Giberson, who turned up at Hartland more than 50 years ago with a chunk of quartz bearing large pieces of gold. He refused to answer questions about his find until he. could stake and register a claim, but he became a victim of typhoid fever.and died without: dis- closing the secret. ' John E. Stewart, a railroader, had the quartz assayed. It proved re- markably high-grade ore. Then Stewart, bitten by the gold bug, spent years of vain hunting fer-the source of Giberson's quartz, He imported experienced prospectors from Ontario who also searched fruitlessly. After Stewart's death there was a flurry of excitement. A guide and two United States anglers who had been camping on the Tobique River arrived at Hartland and announced they had stumbled on Giberson's gold. They took the first train to Fredericton to file claims. That was the last seen of them in Hart- land, A rumor came back that ANS _~ their ore had turned out to be iron i pyrites, or "fool's gold." - Giberson, however, was not the only one to find tie rea] stuff, Dr. C. A. Kirkpatrick, Grand Falls dentist and one of the many ama- teur prospectors, blew up an out- cropping of quartz and took some rich samples to Toronto. A mining man told him he was lucky if he had much of-the same ore. Dr. Kirkpatrick returned with enthusiasm, but further work show- ed the "mine" was only a small pocket. Another Hartland resident also discovered real gold but the ore was too low grade to be commer- cially worth while. Then there's the story of the ducks. A farmer's wife from a com- munity near Hartland brought two small nuggets to a jewelry store for examination. They were pure gold. Inquiry revealed they had been in the crop. of a duck killed for mar- ket. The people of Carleton and Vic- toria counties believe that if ducks can find gold nuggets human beings should be able to do as well, no matter what geologists say, so the amateur prospecting is continuing. BOAT TIPS, 8 DROWN Lakeland, Fla., Sept. 7 -- (AP)-- Seven children and an adult were drowned in little Lake Beeson yes- terday when their motorboat cap- sized because of overloading. Two children were saved by a brother who swam out 400 feet. Several others swam to the scene in a fu- tile atempt. to rescue others. ETERNAL CITY Some think the name of Rome is derived from the word "rumon" meaning river, so that Rome Would signify "city beside the river." Backache may be a signal your kidneys aes lafing Yo filles esciue acids and pisvn- from help Ontario Spotlight HILL'S TRIP A FLOP Niagara Falls," Ont., Sept. 7 -- (CP) -- Willlam (Red) Hill said last night his latest trip through the Niagara River rapids in a steel barrel was a decided financial flop. He estimated he will net $500 for the 4% hours of battering in the five-mile trip Sunday. He said the barrel alone cost him $1,100. INSTALL MACHINERY Hamilton, Sept. 7 -- (CP) -- British workmen Monday start- ed to install machinery in the new Austin Motor Car plant here, It is expected an assembly line will be complete by Janu- ary. The company has bought part of the former Canadian Army Trades School to convert into an automobile plant. MISS LONDON CROWNED London, Ont., Sept. 7--(CP)-- Beverley MacDougall, 18-year-old stenographer, last night was crown- ed "Miss London of 1948" by Mayor George A. Wenige. The honey- blonde also received a bouquet of roses from Windsor firemen, $1,000 worth of merchandise and a ticket to Windsor, where she'll represent London in the "Miss Western On- tario" contest. CHARGED IN ACCIDENT St. Catharines, Sept. 7-- (CP) --Police Monday charged Leon- as Lucauskas, 28, of Welland, with failing to remain at the scene of an accident. His auto- mobile is said to have struck down 63-year-old Arthur Porter Sunday. HAMILTON GANG WAR Hamiiton, Sept. T7--(CP)--About 25 policemen stood shoulder to shoulder around a local dance hall Monday night as a minor teen-age riot threatened to develop. Police said a member of the group known as the Inchbury gang was knocked cold by two members of the rival North End gang. CHAMPION GOATS Toronto, Sept. 7--(CP)--Fred and Rosella Cole of Stouffville really cleaned up with their Saanan goats at the Canadian Nationa] Exhibition. They brought a 'dozen Saanens to the show and took every prize of- fered for that breed. Toronto, Sept. 7--(CP)--Morris Burnstein, 19, employed in a sum- mer camp at Port Carling, died Saturday while being flown here to be treated for meningitis. No other case of the disease was re- ported in the Port Carling district. NEWSMAN DIES New York, Sept. 7--(AP)--Perley Howell Boone, 61, former news- paper and public relations man, died last night. Boone had been a news editor on the telegraph desk of the New York Times, director of publicity for the Airline Transport Association, city editor of the Chi- cago Tribune and first press di- felon for the New York World's injured. Retire Muskoka Locomotive to Museum' Making last runs over the Huntsville & Lake of Bays Railway, Porter locomotives built in 1888 are being ship- ped to the Chicago Museum to be placed on display in the transportation room and are being replaced by more powerful engines. New engines were built by the Montreal Locomotive Works. Railway has had only one accident. When a cow wandered onto the right of way, it was killed and the train derailed; no. passengers were --Globe and Mail Photo U.S. Government Buying Diamonds New York--Diamonds are more essential to war than to weddings. Supply Needed You can get married without first giving your girl a diamond engagement ring, but you can't wage war without first having a plentiful supply of diamonds. The American government knows this and is stockpiling diamonds. The kind the government is buy- ing, however, is known as industrial diamonds, in a different class from the luxurious gem diamonds used in jewelry. Diamonds are on the "A" list of 67 strategic materials that the U.S. Munitions Board is accumulating. The board was authorized to buy $3,403,000,000 of these materials under a 1946 law, and since then has completed about 18 percent of the stockpile. Top Secret The exact dimensions of the diamond stockpile is top secret. In fact there are some authories in the New York diamond trade who believe the government never will know when it has enough dia- monds or whether it has enough. That sounds as though the gov- ernment doesn't know what it is doing. But it does know, and it is faced with an extremely difficult problem. . Before the war, industrial dia- monds as 'a by-product of gem diamonds stacked up unsold in the vaults of producers and members of the British diamond syndicate, a cartel with a monopoly on the production and sale of virtually all the world's diamonds. One European authority says that before the war there was an accumulation of 40,000,000 carats of common industrial diamonds and boart, a type of widely used industrial diamond. That was six times today's annual production. New Uses Found When the war came, new uses were found for diamonds and new methods of using them also were discovered. Today there is no reserve, this European authority says. Why do we need diamonds for war? Here is one illustration. Dia- monds, as the hardest of minerals, are used in cutting the blades of turbines on jet engines. They also are used in one phase of uranium mining. The government in creating its stockpile is faced with two prob- lems. One is how best to buy dia- monds, and the other is how bést to use them. The source of supply is Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, head of the diamond syndicate. If he says there is no surplus for stockpiling, his state- ment must be taken at face value. There is no way to prove it. Prices Doubled - Prices now are double wartime but only equal to prewar. Sir Ernest cut the price during the war as his contribution to the war effort. There is a belief in 'some New York diamond circles that prices are on the verge of going up again. Certainly if the Ameri- can government started bidding strongly for the stockpile, prices would rise. American commercial users must be considered. There is no point in making their costs unnecessarily higher. RUHR STEEL UP Berlin, Sept. 7--(AP)--Ruhr steel production, now at its highest since the war, will be boosted an- other 2,000,000 tons in the next two years, the United States Military Government said today. To support this increase, arrangements already have been made to_ import from Sweden 3,400,000 tons of iron ore and other iron-bearing raw ma- terials. In 1868 Canada's forest prod exports amounted to about 1834 million dollars annually; today's annual forest produce exports are valued at more than 600 million dollars. Knitted wear designed for comfort and manufactured with close attention to quality, has gained for Penmans leadership in Canada's Textile Industry. The ability to forgee and fulfill the changing demands of Canadians has been a big factor in Penmans growth. It is one of the reasons why you will continue to find satisfaction in your purchases of Penmans Underwear, Hosiery and Outerwear. UNDERWEAR HOSIERY OUTERWEAR IN15-48 O'Neil Brothers Winners at CNE Toronto, Sept. T7--(CP)--O'Neil brothers of Denfield, Ont., with Majestic Domino, won the cham- pionship in fat cattle judging at the Canadian National Exhibition, of- ficials announced- Saturday. The farm also won the Canadian Short- horn Association special prize of $150 for the grand champion fat steer. Haig Farms of Thedford, Ont. which won the reserve champion ribbon with Haig and Haig, also gajned the association's prize of $50. In shorthorn judging, T. C. Amos, Moffatt, Ont., won the grand cham- pionship with Amostoa Sensation II, with the reserve going to G. E. Wiggins of Kemptville. The champion Hereford steer, pure bred, was Jarvis Type, shown by F. W. Reicheld, Jarvis, Ont, VIRGINIA FAIR DIES Hollywood, Sept. 7 -- (AP) -- Virginia Fair, 49, motion picture actress of two decades ago, died here Sunday. She had been retired for several years, 'FRIGHT FOREST FIRES 6 San Jose, Calif, Sept. 7T--(AP)-- Weary firefighters reported last nighs they had a disastrous six-day forest fire in the Santa Cruz moun- tains completely under control, but four separate bush fires were rag- ing unchecked near San Jose, miles from the Santa Cruz blaze. tion of its own power, catapult and New Jet Plane Sought For Atom Bomb Washington -- Military aircraft manufacturers, it was learned re- cently, have just been invited by the United States Navy to submit competitive designs and bids for the construction of a 100,000-pound jet- propelled atomic bomber to be used on the 65000-ton super-aircraft carrier now being built at Norfolk. Specifications call for the new aircraft--the largest ever contem- plated for shipboard operation-- to be completed simultaneously with the giant carrier in 1952. 3,400-Mile Trip They also prescribe that it shall be capable of carrying the atom bomb 1,700 miles and have suffi- cient fuel remaining to return safely to the carrier. Hitherto, the Superfortresses, owing to its great size and weight. and has been con- sidered an exclusive weapon of the land-based service's strategic air command. Some enthusiastic navy officers already are privately hailing the projected shipboard super-bombers as constituting the "strategic air force of the future" despite that the joint chiefs of staff twice in recent months have ruled that stra- tegic, bombing is the Air Force's primary mission. They maintain that such craft, operating from carriers in the oceans bordering Asia, could strike deeper into po- tential enemy territory than the heaviest American land-based bombers using airports that would be available if war came, Relative size of the proposed shipboard jet-bomber may be judg- ed from the fact that the Air Force lists the B-29's design gross weight at 105,000 pounds. The Navy's spe- cifications permit a. deck landing speed of 135 knots or more and call for launching the mew craft by a heretofore unused combina- Jato (jet assisted take-off) rockets slung on racks beneath its wings. Like the Air Force's jet bombers, the shipboard craft is said to be in the "500-mile-an-hour class." Up to now the heaviest aircraft launched from a standard carrier deck has been the long-range Lockheed Neptune twin-engined patrol plane using Jato rockets and its own engines. This craft has a normal gross weight of 60,000 pounds although a heavy over-load of fuel was carried by the Trucu- lent Turtle, a plane of this type, in establishing a world's non-stop distance record of 11235 miles from Australia to Columbus, O. "Combination" Bomber Ready The heavy all-jet Navy bomber is not to be confused with a new shipboard "combination" bomber, lighter even than the Neptune, re- cently completed by North Ameri- can Aviation, Inc. This craft is equipped with two conventional- type aircraft engines and propel- lers supplemented by a jet power plant in the tail for use on take- off and when emergency bursts of speed are required during combat. It is capable only of carrying ordin- Wednesday Morning PER PAIR d approx. 42x33. WEDNESDAY SPECIAL Special! PURE FINISH HEMMED PILLOW CASES You'll want to shop in Ward's on Wednesday morning for this rare value. pairs . . . regular price is 1.98 per pair. These pillow cases have a three-inch plain hem, will stand up under countless launderings. from snowy bleached pure-finish cotton, $1.49 (NO PHONE ORDERS PLEASE) 49 There are only 600 Made size 7 a BUTTERICK FASHION ADVISOR MISS HELEN LAWSON { will be at Ward's Dress Goods counter Sept. 7 and 8 trations at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 } Drop in and see g valuable sewing tips. pm. Discover the professional way to notch a collar, set a sleeve without shrinking, face a jacket and many other [ [ ( Corner Simcoe & Athol Sts. Shop in Air-Conditioned Comfort WARD'S Store Closes 12.30 Wed. ary bombs, torpedoes and other ar- mament. In addition to its call for bids on an atom bomber of its own, the Navy also is seeking competitive designs from the industry for a revolutionary jet-propelled 30,000- pound flying boat fighter. Its idea is to triple the size of this and pro- duce a "flying destroyer" with a terrific gun-power if the small pro- totype confirms present theories about the high speed available from this type craft. Theoretically, an extremely high speed plane can be built along these lines because the use of jet power plants will eliminate the heavy and cumber- some structure presently required to keep flying boat power plants and propellers at a safe height above the waves. Ontario Appoints 2 Publicity Men In Travel Branch Toronto, Sept. T7T--(CP)--As part of a stepped-up drive to lure tour- ists to Ontario, the Ontario Travel and Publicity Department Satur- day announced a reorganization of its publicity branch. The change will place supervision over publicity activities directly in the hands of Deputy Minister Tom G. McCall. Also announced was the appoint- ment of Ted Wright and Timothy Rogers of Toronto as assistant directors and the resignation, ef- fective the end of September, of Mary Ainslie, Director of the pub- licity branch since the department's inception in 1946, who plans to be married, | Travel Minister Welsh said there were signs already that Ontario would have to increase its efforts to acquaint prospective tourists with i its attractions. Competition was becoming keener and the free spending tendency of the immediate post-war years had started to fall off. Mr. Wright, a native of Petrolia who broke into newspaper work with the Toronto Globe and until recently worked for the Toronto Evening Telegram, will have chan of publicity, advertising and wd) relations. Mr. Rogers, who recen returned to Ontaric from England after serving with a British pub- lishing concern since the end of the war, will be in charge of publica- tions, photographic activity , and motion pictures, RAIN CAUSES LOSS Augusta, Ga, Sept. T--(AP)-- Damage running into millions of dollars was reported from a down- . pour of 4.85 inches of rain in less than four hours yesterday in neighboring counties in Georgia and South Carolina. Streets and other buildings were flooded. QUADRUPLETS RARE Birth statistics show that quadrue~ plets occur once in 658,403 births. STOPS HEAMOHE Even for double the price you can't buy anything better than SIRI greatest Wi in history ~ There are shows within shows at the Exhibition this year. There's . the Horse Show--with dozens of thrilling events. There's the Midway with laughs and thrills wherever you look. There's the Grandstand Show featuring Olsen & Johnson and a cast of singers, comics, and beautiful girls! You can see an oil drilling crew at work, watch the sports, listen to fine music, examine the wonders of Science and Industry. It really is the greatest C.N.E. in history! Canadian Natio Col. K. R. Marshall, President AUG.27+SEPTHI 4 nal Exhibitio Elwoed A. Hughes, General Manager Er e----