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By ROBERT RICE

Press Steff. Writer AL (CP)—Two Cana- inland freighters will share honors as the first commer- Las te enter the new St. eaway Saturday.

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head a list of 27 Canadian officially

freighters Tuesday in Ottawa for eee me Sew seowny.

E ICEBREAKER Ernest La- Gir illais focus: the 81. Lawrence 2 egg paella Lambert | river at Montreal. The ice-break-

i of the St. Lawrence seaway | er spent the next few days break- " to become ttre first ship to enter ing up ice on Lake St. Louis. The

o Canadian Freighters Termed Seaway Firsts

The Simcoe is 1,783-ton ship built in Britain in 1923. The Pres- codec is 2,197-ton vessel built in Britain in 1929 and refitted here in 1952. Both are coal-burners. HAD PRIORITY

B. J. Roberts, president of Can- ada’s St. Lawrence Seaway Auth- ority, said the two ships were chosen for the opening honor since they had priority over other ships wintering in Montreal Har- bor.

He said the Simcoe and Presco- doc would be followed by two

Opinion

OTTAWA (CP) — Newspaper mnist Margaret Aitken Tues- charged in the Commons that proposal by a CCF member to wohibit publication of opinion ils before an election is a foot the door to infringement of of expression, opinion d the press.

ne Progressive Conservative P for York-Humber received a pulid of desk-thumping applause from her colleagues who backed wp her forthright denunciation of ihe bili by voting it down by 190 lo 6.

Twenty - eight Liberals sided with the Progressive Conservat- Wes. although none of the Liberal

s participated in the 4-minute te on the measure, sponsored yy Arnold Peters (CCF—Timisk- =. The vote was the first

Canada’s G

“TORONTO amily doctors, already taking ne out from their practices to

further training, now are em- jerking on a research program. The project was reported Tues- my at the annual scientific con- ention of the 1,900-member Ca- g@dian College of General Prac- ce. Nearly 1,000 physicians are ending the four-day confer-

fire. The college’s newly-established

rch committee, headed by

W. R. Fraser of London, has wunched a data-collecting study f the use of anti-bictics to revert complications in red jeasies.

Dr. Fraser said other research pojects will be started and urged at the convention to reg- - for participation in a sub- of interest to them. _ Fifty ave already registered. HYGICAL FITNESS ‘The physicians also heard an

(CP) — Canada’s Wart of Fredericton, N

Poll Bar

Is Seen As ‘Peril’

this session on a private mem- ber’s bill.

Mr. Peters said a similar pro- hibition against publication of straw polls has been in effect in British Columbia since 1939.

The polls gave an unfair im- petus to a tendency on the part of some voters to cast their bal- lot for the party picked to win instead of making up their own minds on the merits of the can- didate, platform and party.

Miss Aitken, who writes a col- umn for the Toronto Telegram said Mr. Peters ‘‘with arrogant superiority’’ is saying in effect that Canadians cannot think for themselves.

A ross Webster (PC — Mont- real st. Antoine-Westmount) ‘Said he does not think the prohibition is enforceable.

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dent of the Canadian Medical As- sociation, who urged them to pro- mote physical fitness programs

Chemical Blast Kills 3, Hurts 13

BILLINGHAM, England (Reu- ters)—Three men were killed and about 13 others injured — some badly—in an explosion Tuesday nigrt in one of the world's largest chemical plants.

An explosion, in the new $25,- 000,000 oil classification plant at the Imperial Chemical Industries works here, ripped out a wall.

The blast was believed to have been caused by an oxygen leak.

Two mén were killed and 14 in- jured at the ammonia ‘plant at Billingham in September, 1956. An explosion blew off the top of &@ compressor and broke a high

eneral Practitioners Embark On Program Of Research

first merchant ships are to go through the seaway this week and they are Canadian (CP Wire photo)

more Canadian canallers, the Cartierdoc a 31 - year - old coal- burner of the Paterson line, and the Hastings, a 36-year-old vessel owned by CSL.

The first ocean ship to go into the seaway is to be the Prins Willem George Frederik, a Ger- man freighter.

About 50 ships are awaiting to enter the international waterway leading to the Great Lakes and North America’s industrial mid- riff.

A marine queue of ships extend- img 140 miles downstream to Que- bec City, has formed to await the delayed opening of fhe sea- way, a $475,000,000 navigation system rivalling the Suez and Panama Canals.

DELAYED BY ICE

Opening of the seaway, orig- inally set for Monday, was de- layed by severe ice blocking the seaway entrance.

About 30 foreign freighters have joined the ever-growing line-up, representing British, French, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swe- dish, Finnish, American and Li- berian shipping interests. The rest are Canadian canallers that spent the winter here.

Selection of the first ship was made on a “first come, first serve” basis, with Ottawa and Montreal seaway and shipping of- ficials working closely together on the decision.

Since the Canadian canallers spent the ice - bound winter in Montreal berths, they were elig- ible for the opening honor.

The historic opening of the sea- way—a rival for the royal inaug- uration in June by the Queen and President Eisenhower—is to take place at 8 a.m. EST Saturday.

to reduce accidents.

He said better muscular co-or- dination among Canadians would “help reduce the terrible accident toll taken yearly on our highways and in our lakes and streams.”

Athletic programs improved the timing of only a fraction of the population. Much more could be .done in the home, starting with children.

ULCER MYTHS

In the scienti€ic lectures, some myths about stomach ulcers were shattered by Dr. Roland Gagne, an Ottawa specialist in gastro- enterology.

Dr. Gagne said ulcers are not caused by psychosomatic ail- ments or gastric juices rarely by food or drug allergies. Uleers, he said, are merely boils and they will heal of their own accord.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, en WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1959

n Tiger Saw Frowns At Ottawa

By PRESTON GROVER MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union warned West Germany Tuesday that its. position as a nuclear arsenal of the West in any future war would be ‘‘mili- tarily hopeless.” The warning was given in a note handed to West German Am- bassador Hans Kroll in a 15- minute call on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko here. The note re-emphasized previ- ous Soviet warnings that West Germany is laying itself open to dangerous consequences by arm- ing with nuclear weapons.

Such an action, the noté de- clared, “considerably increases the danger of a military clash— in the prevention of which the Federal Republic of Germany is not likely to be less interested than the Soviet Union and the

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Fleming Strikes Back At Budget's Attackers

OTTAWA (CP)—Finance Min-|¢

the Liberal Opposition as a party| production this year. without a policy, happy only when| ‘If this forecast is borne out the economy is lagging. ‘im the event, the Liberals will be “They are happy only when| disappointed,” Mr. Fleming said. they revel in what is bad news| They wouldn’t admit that recov- for the Canadian people,” Mr./ery is going on. Fleming said as he took the Com-| He spoke a few hours before a mon floor to reply to seven days |Commons vote Tuesday night on cohy uel n criticism in the bud-}a Liberal non-confidence motion accusing the government of “‘bad He said the Liberals have cast |faith” in producing a budget of higher taces, record expenditures : and a large deficit after having been elected on promises of lower taces, reduced expenditures and a balanced budget. Mr. Fleming said that neither the Liberal motion nor speeches by party members have said what

House Rejects. Liberal Move

OTTAWA (CP)—A Liberal non confidence motion accusing the government of ‘‘bad faith’’ in its tax increases and budget deficit was defeated Tuesday night in a Commons vote of 167 to 45.

The Léberals .received CCF

expenditures and large deficit were “im flagrant disregard” of Progressive Conservative elec- tion promises of reduced taxes

other states of Europe.

and spending and a balanced budget.

TREND REVERSED

OTTAWA (CP) — was on the upgrade in Canada during March, and unempiloy-

Both moves were slow, but it was significant that a February- March decline in jobless numbers reversed the usual trend for this season.

While March customarily pro- duces the high point of cold-

country, government

released Tuesday showed

the month period up to March 21 it had slipped to 525,000 from The March figure was , 72,000 lower than the post-war*peak of 597,000 a year earlier.

PERCENTAGE DOWN

March unemployment repre- sented 8.6 per cent of a labor force of 6,077,000 compared with 10 per cent of a force of 5,998,000 out of work in March, 1058. Besides the estimates of ab solute unemployment, the gov- ernment released National Em- ployment Service figures showing 795,547 registered as ‘looking for work at March 19. This was an increase from 791,210 in Feb- ruary but was down by 71,041 over a year.

bor Minister Starr was asked by J. W. Pickersgill (L—Bonavista- Twillingate) why the March reg-

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT

In a special section featur- ing home improvements to- day, the pages are numbered from 1A through 8A. Other main departments appear on the following pages:

Announcements, notices .. 7A Births, deaths, etc. 2 and 7A Charlottetown News .....

Classified section ...... 6A Comics, features ....... ll Coming events .......... 7A NONE on ee eis ic cas 4 Island News ...... Zand 3 MD Fai ssc hveneee Sand 9 Women’s page .......... 6

Late reports from Guar-

ddrese by Dr. Arthur F. Van yy

pressure steam main

Employment Picture Gets Slowly Brighter

weather unemployment in this

In the Commons Tuesday, La-|-

be used for pump - priming in communes and production bri- gades which are lagging behind. $435,000,000 \by Peiping’s reckon-

_| strained circumstances.

WIFE TREATMENT IS “REASONABLE*

Need Help

TOKYO (AP)—Red China dis- closed Tuesday its peasant com- munes are in trouble and will need both a subsidy and tax re- lief to bail them out.

Chairman Mao Tse-tung launched* the communes last year with th2 hope that these big camps, now harnessing the labor of a large percentage of China's 500,000,000 peasants, would give quick impetus to his program for a “great leap forward.”

Sober facts came out in a re- port of Finance Minister Li Hsien- mien on the 19591 et to the Na- tional People’s Congress, the rub- ber-sstamp parliament, in Pei-

ping.

Radio Peiping broadcast aul

news: By order of Mao and the Com

munist party central commniitee, |

a subsidy of 1,000,000,000 yuan will |

The subsidy—the equivalent of ing—indicates that many are in

In addition, the seven-per-cent agricultural tax of 1966 will be cut to 5.2 per cent.

With all this, the communes are expected to contribute a smalter percentage to Red China’s over-all revenue than they

did last year.

uadron Canadian air di- Europe with the Ameri- can Super Tiger fighter plane.

Informants said the govern- ment attitude appears to be that Canada at this time should not spend $350,000,000 on the air divis- jon—in effect, on the defence of Europe—after ditching the Arrow jet interceptor intended for Cana- dian defence.

This attitude is said to have al- ready resulted in the RCAF cast- ing about for a new plan for re- equipment of the air division sta- tioned in France and West Ger- many. The air force had been keen on the Grumman Super Tiger and had recommended its purchase to the cabinet. CHEAPER PLANE

Defence Minister Pearkes has shown interest in the cheaper Northrop 156 fighter plane being developed in the U.S. for NATO countries but one aviation expert described it as a ‘‘souped - up

Any further delays may cause open grumbling by some of Can-

Britain Moves For Ballerina

PANAMA (AP) — The British Embassy intervened Tuesday in behalf of famed British ballerina Margot Fomnteyn, jailed by the Panamanian goVernm ent for questioning about an alleged re- bel plot.

The embassy said it asked the government for a full report on the case and for permission for a consular representative to visit the 39year-old dancer, wife of Roberto Arias, prominent Pan-

amanian politician.

| unless allowed to make good their

ada’s partners in NATO, inform- ants said.

anaclege apapreg tin <4 ib alliance have privately com. plained that Canada is spending

fence than they are.

In the current fiscal year, the Canadian defence budget of $1,- 695,000,000 amounts to a little less

than five per cent of the estt mated gross national product. As a comparison, about nine per cent of Britain's gross national product

pect any major defence at least until the federal budget is

im balance, or close to it. .

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP)— Two convicts escaped from San Quentin prison Tuesday, then held off the law for six hours from the end of a fishing pier in San Francisco Bay by threaten- ing to kill a woman hostage.

They finally surrendered with- out violence after throwing away fishbait knives they had bran- dished at the woman's throat. They had threatened to slash her throat and then kill themselves

escape. °

They used a man hostage as a messenger to deliver their threats to officers clustered 100 yards toward shore from the end of the haif-mile-lgng open pier near the prison.

As the day wore on they be came calm and ceased pequdiett: ing the knives.

ASK CONFERENCE

Finally, shortly before 3 p.m., they promised to free the hos- tages if they could tell their grievances to reporters.

San Quentin Warden Fred R. Dickson and District Attorney William O. Weissich selected cor- respondents for three San Fran-

Convicts Freedom Bid Ends After Six Hours

cisco newspapers and went to within 25 yards of the pier end

Leaderless Western Area Hails Churchill Authority

By ED SIMON Canadian. Press Staff Writer A leaderless Western world lis- tened with nostalgia to the voice that rang with its old authority from a town hall in Essex.

Sir Winston Churchill could not have chosen a better time to

a message that echoed far beyond

Traffic on Grafton and Cumber- land Streets Tuesday evening en-

the form of a building 50x25x19 feet. The longest tie-up occurred |

soothing diet to reduce pain “and Souris from a ee eae ae ok cceummmienn ar todas pear to anything wi

; antes om the Island News Page.

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BUILDING MOVES THROU

gotiate the corner of Cumberland

and Grafton Street. The structure,

time Electric Company's garage, was being moved near the Bel-

break his long public silence with

en Bh ee Minitic* ot

owner Arthur Clinton, will re- model # for living accomodation.

countered an unusual obstacle in which formerly housed the Mari- As the building, being moved on

two rubber-tired trailers, was being turned into Grafton Street

GH city STREETS

the hearing of the 700 constitu- Perhaps the West owes a bit ents who gathe-ed to listen to|to Nikita Khrushchev, whose e their member of Parliament. vival of the old charge that Few of the things he had to/Churchill began the cold war say were new. But the old war-|stung the Styear-cold MP for rior has retained his knack of| Woodford into devastating rebut- putting ideas across with a force tal. and clarity unmatched by the | SINT TO US “It is not Britain who has ad- vanced her frontiers, absorbing many sovereign peoples who had made great contributions to his- tory.” And he was not talking only to the Russians when he added: “On the contrary, I suppose we are the only nation who fought throughout the war against

be removed in order to give suf- ficient clearance to pass a lamp standard located on the north east corner of the intersection. Motive power for the operation wa supplied by two three-ton’

as the movers attempted to ne-' vedere Golf Club where the new & projecting water spout had. to trucks

“With the sccm of the last war, Russian fears of a re- sungent Germany are reasonable, even if they are not justified. We must take account of them.

Queen Observes Lonely Birthday

WINDSOR, England (AP)—Th

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