English Coal Mine
Fire Kills Eighty
CRESWELL, England, (JP) — A
raging underground fire trapped
and killed at least 80 men yester
day at the Cresswell coal mine.
Caught behind a wall of flame
from burning rubber and timber
roof supports, they were choked
to death by gas and fumes.
Another 120 men crept to safety
on their hands and knees.
An official death list issued yes
terday afternoon contained 80
names. Earlier, estimates of the
toll had ranged from 83 to 90.
Smoke and intense heat drove
back re'scuers and hope for the
trapped men was abandoned early
in the afternoon when the fire
had been burning for nine hours.
The decision to give up rescue
attempts and seal off the burning
section of the mine was announc
ed* by Sir Hubertt Houldsworth,
chairman of the East Midland Di
vision of the National Coal Board.
The flames broke out soon after
midnight in a conveyor belt. The
mine has’ an elaborate network of
more than 15 miles of such belts
—one of them 1,932 yards long—i
to carry coal from the coal face to
the main shaft.
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It was Britain’s second coal
Kills Self In Fit
Of Despondency
WOODSTOCK, N. Y. (JP)—Eu
gene O’Neill, Jr., 40-year-old son
of the famous playwright, killed
himself Monday in a fit of de
spondency after a broken engage
ment.
A classical student and a teach
er of drama, literature and ancient
Greek, he chose a form of suicide
traditional with the Roman stoics.
He sat in his bath and opened
the veins of his wrists with a razor.
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Ulster county coroner Ernest O.
Kelly, listed the death as suicide.
Before O’Neill died, the coroner
said, he staggered downstairs. His
body was found on the lower floor
by a neighbor who came to call.
Friends said O’Neill had been
in deep depression since Ruth
Lander, an artists’ agent, had
broken off her engagement with
him last Saturday.
mine disaster in recent weeks.
Thirteen men were killed and 116
others were entombed for two
days before they were rescued af
ter a cave-in Sept. 8 near New
Cumnock, Scotland.
The Creswell mine and collery, j
employing more than 1,500 work
ers, is the center of a community
of 6,000 persons.
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Sourdoughs Object
To Moving Capital
Of The Yukon
' DAWSON, Y. T., (>P)~The cap
ital of the Yukon is setting of a
howl that echoes through the mus
ty, empty saloons of ’99ers.
The word has got around that
the federal government intends to
move the capital from Dawson to
Whitehorse, some 250 air miles
south of here.
At a recent meeting, Mayor
Howard Firth and his three alder
| men threatened to resign if the
seat of Yukon’s government were
moved. So did Charles Lelievre,
Dawson’s representative on the
Territorial Council, the three-man
body that administrates the Yu
kon.
“We’ve been hearing about this
proposed transfer of the capital to
Whitehorse these past two years,
Mayor Firts said. “But a persist
ent rumor has given us real cause
for anxiety.”
“Why!” thundered alderman Jim
Mellor, “It’s like shoving our last
frontier nearly 500 miles to the
south.”
A general citizens’ committee
was formed on the spot to oppose
any such transfer.
From a roaring boom town of
25,000 at the turn of the century
when it was the centre of the
Klondike gold rush, Dawson today
is a village of a little more than
1,000.
It still hopes for another rush
and gold mining companies in the
district still dredge between two
and three million dollars worth of
gold each year.
But today the batwing doors of j
the haunts of Sam McGee and Dam
McGrew swing idly back and
forth on rusty hinges, patiently j
waiting for prospectors who never
come.
WASHINGTON — Poor corn
prospects, due to the cool and wetj
weather which has prevailed re-1
cently in the mid-western corn
belt, which prevents proper hard
ening of corn before killing frosts
arrive are threatening to keep a
lot of beef away from butcher
shops this fall and winter, with
consequent rises in meat prices.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON — The army
plans to call 9,770 reserve captains
and lieutenants, including 205
chaplains in November. Another
increment of 240 company-grade
army aviation officers will be
called up by the end of December.
The new calls will bring the total
of reserve officers recently placed
on active duty to 17,427 in the
company grades.
WASHINGTON—The navy has
; announced that the U. S. S. New
Jersey is being taken out of ‘moth
balls’ for reconditioning. The New
| Jersey, sister ship of the Missouri,
is rated at a displacement of 45,
000 tons. The Iowa and the Wis
consin of the same class still are
in mothballs.
WASHINGTON— Congress has
completed action on a bill contin
uing for a year the Government’s
program of buying specially equip
ped automobiles for amputee war
veterans. The measure authorizes
an appropriation of $800,000 for
j this purpose, with a limit of $1,600
that the Government could pay on
t any automobile.
Survival Training
Saved 16 Victims
Of B-50 Crash
HALIFAX, N. S.f (iP) —Ameri
can officials yesterday credited
excellent survival training with a
| major role in the escape of 16 U.
S. military men from the Labra
dor wilderness after their B-50
bomber caught fire and crashed.
Brought to Goose Bay for medi
cal treatment Monday, the men *
had spent three days in the chilly
wasteland before a Royal Canadi
an Air Force search plane spotted
their smokei signals.
The bomber was on a routine
flight from Goose Bay to Tucson,
Ariz., Thursday when two engines
caught fire and a third stalled.
The 12 crew members and four
passengers bailed out about 95
miles southwest of Goose Bay.
One man who landed in water
broke his leg.
Scattered when they landed,
some of the men lit huge bonfires
which attracted the others. All 16
had banded together again by Fri
day morning.
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