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DAKOTA WRECKAGE LOCATED NEAR MUSSO'S EX-MISTRESS Phoney

CNAC Plane Missing

Shanghai, Jan. 26. A CNAC C-47 carry- "ing 16 passengers and piloted by veteran Am- "erican Jack M. Black-

more is reported missing| since yesterday after- noon when it was on the last.lap of its Canton to Chungking flight. „--

Three CNAC lanes are en- kaged in a search which started yesterday when the plane "dis- appeared" after Being in radio communication with Chungking at 2 pm.-}] quarter of a hour before its scheduiéd nirival.

A CNAC officials, fearing the plane may have possibly crashed or force landed, are also sending

ground search

. Chúng ding

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The plane jest Hong Kong at 8 a.m. yesterday with one nassenger ¦- and picked up fitéen at Canton. These lave mu yet been identi-; fed but..they included one infunt,¦ The plane additionally corried a Chinese co-pilot and a Chinese radio operator.

Flew "The Hump"

Blackmore flew the "Hump"

350 times and previously flew "the

Pan-American coastal route 13 Juno, Alaska.

TOP OF MT. PARKER

Gold Bars, Coins Scattered Over Hillside

Crew Of Four Found Dead

Mount Parker (off Island Road facing Lyemun) was a miniature "El Dorado" yesterday as a strong detachment of the Police Emergency Unit worked feverishly throughout the daylight hours trying to locate and remove some 23 tons of gold bars and coins spewed from the wreck- age of the P.A.L. "Dakota" which crashed into the hillside Saturday afternoon. The machine exploded when it hit and the crew of four, in- cluding a woman, are believed to have been killed immediately.

TURKISH BATH ROBBED

Are Yurk, Jan. 23. Flourishing in, seven huis dil todny entered a Turkish hair building i

which 200

grants, were astrez äut state 150 steel deposit boxes con- taining relate and condi extime ted

$25.00

and $50,000,

beten.

They trap the, maangel and they spent half an hour carrying the strong hopes to a care viting outside.-- Center.c

Al Capone Dead

six

Miami, Fla., 26. The first reports of weather Al

Capone, for conditions were contradictory. A CNAC. Shanghai official said the years "king of American weather was good around Chung- gangsters" died last king at the time of the plane's night here. disappearance but a Chinese pilat who arrived here today after a "last cup of coffey with Blackie"

Local consignees of the bullion are reliably re- ported to be the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation; the Chase Bank: Americat. Express Co.: Belgian Bank; Bank of East Asia and the Salt Industries Bank. The whole car- go. despatched to the local consignees from Mexico via San Francisco and Manila, was insured: Original reports had it the total cargo United was valued at US$15,000,000, but a Press message from Manila quotes a PAL spokesman there as saying the gold "was worth only 4,000,000 Pesos," while Associated Press. Manila, reports it was valued at

US$5,000.000.

DARING HOLD-UP

Colombo," Jan, 25. Five armed EEN, aflet threathning

clerks ut the Army Command Ordnance Depet here, remourt 12 bugs of money, containing 73,000 rupees, in a daring daylight hold-up.

The robbers escaped in u waiting car and have not yet been traced-Reuter,

Japanese POWs Shocked

woman

ON WAR CHARGE

Paris, Jan. 25. Described by the prosecution as "Helene, Agent 808", the former mistress of Benito Mussolini, Magda Fontagnes faces a military tribunal at Bordeaux next Wednesday, charged with “in». telligence with the enemy."

The accused. a Frenchwoman, whose-real nanic is Madeline Coraboor, is being tried on the strength of captured German service docu- ments which, says the prosecution, will identi- fy her as. "Helene, Agent 808."

Devonshires

Disembark Today

The 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regi- ment will disembark Transport from H.M. "Devonshire" this morn- ing.

Their coming will complete, ogether with the previous ar rival of the 37th Field Regiment.

R. A. and the 2nd Bn. The Buffs, the replacement of 150 Indian Infantry Brigade.

Tate wor saw active service in

India. They entered

Frontier cf

Secret Explosive

a

Montreal, Jan. 26. The alleged sale of shares in a non-existent company producing "secret explosive" which would bring an early end to the war with Ger-. many has led to the ar- rest of Leo Trudel on

According to police records;

charges of defrauding " she entered the German secret Citizens of approximate- service in 1940, after being re-ly $30,000, according to a

by the Nazis from police report.

Bayenne prison, where the French boriler police had im- prisoned her when she entered France illegally from Spain-

So far, few details have been released about her alleged ac tivities na Helene, Agent 808," and the opening of the trial is waited with great interest in France.

The newspaper Paris Presse any

gave what it claimed cre details of Magda's past, 1rom the time she divored her French husband when she was niveteen..

dating back to before the war, The story of the alleged fraud, came out following the arrest of Trudel, described as the head of the fictitious company. The ne

used man was placed in police custody.

"invention."

Police said at least 25 Mon- "treal and district #sidents were "taken in" by the scheme after having been led to believe they "would profit $2,000,000 from the

Victims Informed the the hem told the "exulasive" was in the hands of Winston Churchill, then Britain's Prime Minister. Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts of South Afric

She was sent to Rome in 1956 as correspondent for the and Canadian Prime Minister

w defunct French newspaper Mackenzie La Liberte, and subsequently Press.

met the "man of her dreams”--- Mussolini.. But the joy stre derived from this bit of good,

tune led her to indiscre tious, the Paris Presse suid.

Musso's Pyjamas

King. Associated

MENACE TO CIVILIZATION

London, Jan. 25, "" Henry Underhill, 44-year-old forist, today was convicted at Worcester Assizes of knowingly buying Ave bottles of silen whisky and sentenced to five years penal servitude. world

not often caught, and termed ther The Judge said receivers were,

inited Perss

The aircraft was first reported to have crashed in-

Tokyo, Jan.-26. to Devil's Peak, Kowloon, at 3.20 p.m. on One of the first Japan-

The 1st Bn. The Devons, a unit Saturday as it was endeavouring to make the.

ese prisoners of war toe, the regular army, has been airfield at Kai Tak. The control tower.at Kai

return from a prison overseas for a e:nsiderable period, Tak had lost contact with it some 20 minutes

camp near Lake Baikal and prior to the outbreaks of the earlier, after having been in almost continu-

in Siberia was quoted by the disturbances in Shanghai and ous radio touch with the plane since it left

the "Nippon. Times" to-on the North West Makati airfield (Manila) early in the morning day as saying they were October 1943 and

"She gossipped tight and Burma ineft. Soon the while served with knew how the master of Italy Seisequently, during the. The first Police party to stripped naked for medi- distinction throughout the cam-looked in his pyjamas- Anti-metace to clvilization." sarly hours of Sunday, it was reach the scene of the disaster

cal examination and paign with the 80th Brigade Fascists throughout the world learned that the nlane had in had to fight its way up the

which formed part of the 20th made play of Magi's indis a fet

into crashed

Mount pathless mountain side 900 feet were stunned when

Indian Division Their assault above the level of Island Road. Russian

doctor on Windmill Hill was one of the of the Italian Government she

cretions and at the request THE WEATHER uniforms and Parker, about 300 feet un on

An intense anticyclone cavers all China the right side of Island Rad Evote.

limbs conducted the examina-bloodiest actions of the campaign was recalled to Paris, the at the Sea of Japan, Presure is als facing Chauhan day, and some were torn in the ascent and im

I for it was here the battalion cap- tion.

22:1, high E of The Bonins. „A, depresjon, mazge two miles from Shaukiwan medjate reinforcements - were

tured from, the Japanese their per says. asked for when it was found

"She made a big noice about the Kuriles in ociated with trough Once described as "one of the Polier Station.

which roam E of Jaoam and the Ryukyus positions. aller strongly fortifled

her adventure, and claimed them the Luann Strait and cross He biggest bootleggers in the United |

Lhat the gold had been scatter- States", Capone, who was suffer- - Two members of the Emer-ed over a wide area. Many coins

previous counter attacks had that, her brief encounter with thru the t ing from an apoplectic stroke ( gener Unit are reported to have | were found fused into the

failed.

In April 45 the Bn. was with Mussolini was, in fact, a per-utorial resións,

sonal sacrifice in the interests flare, strong shore: fair ty, cluuly and lung mogestión had a relapse į first Joented the wreckage, metal of the plane, which was ly," said the former POW, who drawn and flown to India where yesterday.

For eight years he has been the high there was a story erst hit when the police party

it was reformed with the British "f securing better relations tealght: contirading cold. Treat yesterday that some Chin- arrived at about 9 s.m.

for

"obvious reasons.".

2nd Division in preparation for ese coolies in the vicinity heard i The Dakota having originally He said they were "amazed" by the proposed invasion of Malaya, After several vain attempts Maximum: codes. Ifaty

to regain the Duce's favour. Bunshine: s.1 hours. was proceeding directly to Chung-side as the last rites of the Cathie explosion and reparted it to been reported as having crash the extent to which the Russians On the Japanese capitulation it

employing

and moved there in December 45 and

Paris Presse adds, she Rainfall: 18.7 m lie church were administered to the Police late on Saturday ed to the cast of Devil's Peak

herself

by power since then has been occupied with tried to avenge dumbfounded" The search follows four Chine short fat man who once ruled tight.

any of these women sway, add-anti-guerilla activities and with firing a revolver at Count de ing

French orderhefty, muscular and internal security in general. In Chambrun, Hong Kong and Kowloon. as

June it moved to Singapore and Alabussador in Rome at the r well as from the Royal Navy, are making every effort to instill has been doing ceremchial and time of her adventure and Be Humidity the Water Police and the the Communist doctrine into thether guard duties; among them was largely responsible for her wind Pirortion

the ceremonial guard for the re- rccal-Reuter. M. A. Lim, e-pilet, Filipino; R. The destroyer, H.Mus. minds of the Japanese POWs but the ceremonial &

cruised in Finisterre,

sur- with few exceptions the

Commander-in- B. Merza, radio operator, Pilipino: and

rounding waters in search of have become thoroughly anti-Chief of South East Asia Land Communist. He snid the Russians Ferees and of the Governor of Miss • Lourdes

Chuidian, the 'plane.

started by teaching the POWs the Malaya.

- at Canten said the weather was

bad with ceiling low throughout the region. He said that due to the low ceiling, 400 feet, Black-

Form of paralysis. more' did not make the scheduled victim of R

His wife, Mne, was, at his bed- stopover at Liuchow en route but

king.

Chicago'a underworld

ese commercial airline disasters the since Christmas Day, involving-

...Press.

tsar

and became

of the crime world. In 1920 Capone was a Cones

the loss of 113 lives, wan United Island barman. Twelve years Inter after waxing rich from bootlegging in the prohibition days he was head of a £25,000, underworld organisation.

“Mosquito" Crash In Yorkshire

and the

York, Jan. 25.

Gang wir which broke act cul- minated in the St. Valentine's Day massacre when seven mein- bers of a rival gang were mown down against a garage wali.

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The crew of four killed in the crash were:-

Captain D. T. pilet. American:

Weymouth.

flight attendant, Filipino.

The cargo of gold was strewn over a radius of about quarter

near Pak Hong Channel, search parties were sent out before down yesterday from both

Cordoned Off

Capone bought A yacht, air

The

wreckage was clearly planes and Several a mile on the side of the hill. vehicles. He wore £20 silk I had been packed in

aome visible from Island Road and A Royal Air Force Mosquito

Then Lis vicious kingdom 50 cases, which were completely officials from the Banks invol aircraft crashed at Kirby erashed. In

scene indictment smashed on Impact. an

flinging ved were early on the Fleetham in Yorkshire today charging him with owing 1250-

report Some of the gold high into the after the

had coine two crewmen were 000 in taxes was returned. II air and spraying it in all through that it had been locat killer. The plane caught fire was sent to prisen for eleven directions. The nose of the air- ed. The aren was immediately. after it hit and ground and years, as a result of a great social

craft and the wings were cordoned off by the Emergency the heat prevented rescue, at-

outery against hini

He emerged still wealthy but smashed and all that remained Unit and detachments from tenipts.

shrunken in health and stature in one piece was some 15 feet Shaukiwan Police Station, but of the fuselage with tail at the climb for the curious was tached.

Lan uninviting prospect in any. care. Bank cfficials watched as

An American Army aircraft and struck a high tension cable and | Reuter crashed 62 miles south of Ham- burg today, killing the pilot, American Air Headquarters in Europe announced.

The plane was bound from Ansback, in the U.S. zone, lo Copenhagen.-Reuter.

PLANE CRASH IN JUNGLE

Bogota, Jan. 26.

An Avianca aircraft Saturday reported it had located plane wreckage in the jungle country 45 miles south of Barranen, Colombia.

The wrecked plane is the machine belonging to the Colom-

no longer importaul.-

Convict Sues For

Damages

San Francisco, Jan. 25.

A suit claiming $400.000 damages was filed here today against Alice Dean Devine, 17-year-old school girl of Lodi, California, her father and mother, and three Loii policemen, by a law- yer acting for Earl Shelton, 40-year-old ex-con- vict, who had been suspected of having kid- napped her.

man."--Reuter...

Shelton alleged that there was country road near Lodi on Thurs a conspiracy falsely to arrest hinday, she said: "That is not the

Mise Devine was stated to have Ing on Jan. 23 carrying 17 pas been bound, ragged, pushed inte sengers including rce Ameri-a trunk and driven off in a motor- ear on Monday, by a man who cans: Their fate is unknown.

bian Air Lines which was mies-

the police parties wound up a circular; roundabout ascent, feeling ahead for their footing and clinging to bushes fufla of grass,

and

The initial stages of the Bal- vage work were carried out by the Police themselves, though latin in the day officials of the Chase Bank and Hong Kong Bank took their own coolies up to help in the job. Shortly after noon, the first parcel of 31 gold bars brought down the slippery mountain side, w as loaded into a police lorry under the super. vision of Assistant Superinten- dent of Police E.C. Luscombe,

It was learned from a reliable Equrce that the greater part of! the cargo, estimated, at some had two-thirds of the whole,

The aircraft was reported mis- said that he way organising ON OTHER PAGES been collected by yesterday

ing while on the way to Bogota. beauty contest.

Her last radio message.

was

a point only 20 minutes' fylhy, time from Bogota.A ciated Press,

BEATEN TO DEATH

Rorne, Jan, 25,

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A ransom note reported to de: Basis For Anglo-Soviet Co- was thrown on the lawn of her Page Three mand $10,000 within 24 Hours operation.

home. She returned unharmed

on Tuesday, saying, that she had struggled free..

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Two Weeks Talking-Art.

Approved. Pugu Four

ut police headquarters in San Beret. The Yugoslav Consul in Naples, Francisco on Wednesday night Page Five Vicko Glunic, and the Consular saying that he had no ́ connection; Rebirth Or Nazilsin. Attache Vincovlx Bagel were with the case but had heard on Page Siz beaten to death today by anti-the redig that he was wanted for Tito Yugoslav soldiers in a comp questioning. near Naples. the Eome evening

„newspaper)

ported

"Momento Sera"

cor. The consul visited the camp to talk to the inmates, the paper hædded--Bouter.

"Imagine our embarrassment when a woman doctor walked in but she seemed completely indif. ferent and did her work efficient- asked that his name be withheld

were.

WGDETI

at the

The ex-POW said the Russians

EDW.

и

Fatter

Russian language and the best The Battalion is commanded by i students were then sent to MosLt-Colonel H. A. Borrodaile DSO.

"As soon AS the prisoners rensed what was happening they

and possessing many "genuinely all became dumb"." he said.

He said the Japanese prisoners praiseworthy characteristles." found the Russian people likeable! United Press.

Canada's Red Indians On Warpath

Victoria, B.C.,,Jan, 25. British Columbia's Premier. Mr. John Hart and his "pale-face" cabinet carried on business as usual here today, quite unruffled by the pre- clamation of the province's 25,000 North Am- erican Indians, dissolving the White Govern~. ment of British Columbia."

BY'S-

Chief William Scow, who tention of the monetary plans to form a North Ameri-tem until "we can establish con Indian Government and a currency on wampum stan declare the White men as durd" (Wampum is the term "wards of the state," overlook used to define bends made of ed nothing in his proclama-xells used by North American tion, "even promising the re-Indians a currency or cere.

monial pledgea).

Mustang's Record Bid

The proclamation protesting against the Provincial Govern- meat's "refusal to allow a rote to the North American Indian population, was drawn up at a tribesmen's Council, called after unofficial reporta that Chinese and East Indian enfran- Army Air Forces said today ninerities would be that the Army Twin Mustangchired. would attempt the longest fight. It declared: "This proclama- ever made by any fighter plane in tion will inform you that your A fair part of the gold con- carly February 5,000 miles from Government, which has not signment was in coins of varyHonolulu to New York

evening. A strong police guard remained on the mountainside overnight and the district was heavily patrolled.

Washington, Jan. 25,

seen fit to permit cwners

of

ing denomination; inclusive of j It said that two pilots, each in Pacific coast lands a colce, in Shelter appeared voluntarily The Weaters of the Green emalt ones, and the job of a separate cockpit, would take their control, namely, by vot

locating the scattered coins! turns in handling the controls.ing, has no longer

any legal over a quarter mile of moun-The-pilot, Licut. Col. Robert standing." tainside was likened by one Thacker, and Co-pilot 1st Lieut. The Provincial Treasurer, no ice officer to "searching for John M. Ard. hope to cover the Mr. George Pearson, chuckled Matteotti Death Ride Described needles in the proverbial hay distance in 10 hours at an aver-when he read the proclamation

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The Army said the flight is be will do a better job of ft than softened and covered with görse Wall Street On Bread And and there was no sunlight to fog made to test long-range fight we have."

Butter. Diet.

catch the glint of gold.

ers needed to escort 10,000-mile The total population of Bri- range super-bombers lise the tish Columbia ia about 818,000. (Continued on Pugo 8; Col. 6): ·B-45-Unitd Preis.

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· Miss Devine was reported in have positively identified". his photograph as that of the kidnap- ner, but when she -Baw Shelton Puge Etolie R himself at a accrot meeting on a

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