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“VOL, LXXII NO. 233 artaseot 20 Gueet Gow te We Go CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1959 . aaa. eee 16 PAGES
Last Flight Puts Lass In Hospital
TORONTO (CP) — For Mrs. Christine Scott, the 22-year-old
RCAF AIDS RCMP
Scottish - born stewardess on a Trans-Carlada Air Lines Viscount which crashed Saturday night at Malton Airport, it was to be her last flight as a stewardess.
Next Friday she was to join the cast of the OBC television show Country Hoedown.
“My parting words to my hus-
Larkin And Finnan
Early Summit Talks Fight ls Promised By Macmillan
band in the morning had been, ‘I don’t think I should go to work today,’ ”’ Mrs. Scott said in an in- terview. “But I had gone, think-
Captured Last Night
fighting for early cusing us of dragging, our feet.” Summit talks. He denicd he 18; “Of course, Mr. Phillips’ state making a political football out of ~-ent today is pure prejudice,”
ing it was just a case of nerves.” However, the former Miss Scot- land of 1954 had cause to be ner- vous. She explained it this way: “The last time I had flown, Sept. 16, I had been thrown against the roof of the gallery over York when our Vis- count hit the jet stream of an ais- craft 20 miles away.
“That time I had been knocked unconscious and suffered a slight concussion. Saturday was my first day back at work.”
The plane, with 35 passengers and four crew members aboard, crashed fn a blinding rainstorm
William Wendell Larkin and Willard Finnan were re-captur-| From the time of their es- ed by the Royal Canadian | cape, they were the object of Mounted Police at 10.20 last night|an intensive search. All avail- ending one of the most inten-| abl members of the RCMP from sive manhunts in the history of Charlottetown and Summerside the province. }worked ‘round the clock, sleep-
Announcement of their capture img only when they.had a chance. was made by Inspector A.S. Mc-| Early yesterday, a’cordon had Neil, commanding officer of “‘L’’ been thrown around the Freder- division minutes after their ap-/icton area, later moving in the prehension on the road between direction of North Wiltshire and Loyalist and New Whiltshire a- | Loyalist. bout. ten miles outside Char-| lottetown. |PAIR SIGHTED
. The first real break came Larkin and Finnan ecaped shortly afternoon yesterday when
resistance.
YOUNG LIBERAL
Jean David, 27-year-old part- time reporter for Montreal La Presse, has been elecied presi dént of the Young Liberal Fed
eration of Canada. He succeed ed Roy Power of Halifax.
j
@ithe summit cali.
Both Macmillan’s— Conserva- m tives and the Labor Party led = by Hugh Gaitskell took up the
summit talks as a major issue in lhursday*s gencral election.
Labor leaders deciared that President Eisenhower gave Mac- jmillan the brush-off for trying to use the summit conference in the | election campaign. They cited a statemept from Eisenhower's va- cation headquarters m Palm Springs, Calif., that there had been no agreement yet to. hold summit talks.
Morgan Phillips, secretary of jpracticable,” he added.
{Macmillan <2'¢: “Everyone ‘tnows that the proper diplometic procedures will have to be gone through. Things like the date and the place, as I said. have to be settled. But I feel that these can be, and ought to be, fixed quite quickly.”
Macmillan said it was clear after Eisenhower's meetings with Fremier Khrushchev ‘‘that the way was open to the summit.”
KEEP PRESSURE
“T will continue to keep up the pressure for the date as soon as “That
ai the suburban Toronto airport. All aboard were shaken up,’ but only two crew members, includ-
from the Prince County Jail in
|Summerside last Thursday even-
ing. Breaks in the stores of mer- chants followed in their wake.
ing Mrs. Scott, were taken to_hos-
the fugitives were sighted by (CP Phote)
the RCMP about a mile away in the vicinity of an abandoned cottage in the Milton district.
the Labor Party, told a Londom|has long been my aim. It was press \conference “‘it is intoler-jone of the reasons why I went to able that Mr. Macmillan nowjMoscow last February.”
should play party polities with Macmillan and Gaitskell
pital. When arrested, they offered. no
The Mounties gave chase and
"TRUCK
oa arrived. More serious- | results might have ensued but
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_ "Two men escaped unscathed when the above vehicle, a one-
UPSET AT CROSSING
the truck was registered to David Thomson, Charlottetown
By DON PEACOCK
|flushed the two escapees out in-| to the open before they had a
Wage Dispute Solution Tried
such vital world issues.”
clashed meanwhile on the issue
Jt can only anger and irritate if class distinction. Gaitskell said
our allies,” he said. lonly Labor could rid Britain of
No Hike Expected In Mortgage Rate
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ommendation to cabinet, which |
‘MAYBE WORSENED | snobbery and “indefensible ine-
A| “It would indeed be a tragedy | Qualities of wealth.” The prime minister said it was of strikiffg carpenters and. the ference were to_be worsened by hoAsense to revive this sort of Saint John Builders’ Exchange Mr. Macmillan’s clumsy at- talk in the second half of the 20th
Roval i ; was arranged for Monday night tempts to bring the issue into the |Century, and added: rrp valli opm egg wed ory mand Labor Minister A.E. Skaling final -stages—of—his—election—eam-|—"It might have heen all right jal si iadenee i. tin Charlotte. | 12 an attempt to solve the wage! paign.” 10 “years ago. but it is just not dau Felied Fores, brinslag the | “spute. Reacting quickly, prime ‘true today. We know that this inister told an audience injcid class-war stuff is dead and
chance to take their extra cloth- ing, a flashlight and some food from the cottage. :
Later in the afternoon some forty volunteer members of the |
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)-
meeting between representatives! if the prospects of a summit con-
en
the |- The strike by about 600 ie i
ton Ford, flipped over as it
for the durable signpost which
R.R. 7. But Mr. Thomson was
Canadian Press Staff Writer
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would have the final say. search parties’ strength to
hit the CNR crossing on the 4P- bers of Local 1386, United Broth-!Great Yarmouth the charge|people are gelting bored with it.”
Mount Edward Road last night. _Both fled the scene before the
prevented the vehicle from rolling into the deeps ditch im- mediately adjacent. Police said -
| OTTAWA (CP)—It appears un-
likely that there will be any in- {crease in the government’s mort- | gage lending rate, despite current
wards of 70 men. erhood. of Carpenters and Join ! ers Had it not been for the fact | of gece aay began on that darkness. gave cover to the | schedule at 8 a.m. Monday. More| two fugitives, their freedom than 80 construction projects—
Other sources pointed out that if the government should decide to raise the rate, it might run semewhat afoul of the Bank Act.
not in the vehicle at the time of the mishap.
high interest rates in other fields
The cabinet
would have’ been shorter lived. | mostly small—were reported tied |
Lunar Laboratory's Pace ls Slowed Nearing Moon
pected to make its rendezvous to-;whose location has not been re- poration board of directors met vealed, and most of it made pub-|here Monday and said it likely
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet lunar laboratory is expected to reach the moon today, curve around it and take man’s first pictures of the side always hidden from the earth.
The 614-pound space traveller ’ Monday night was on the last lap of its 238,857-mile journey. Its pace was slowed to a cosmic crawl by the earth’s gravita- tional pull. But the Russians said it was flying according to plan.
(Scientists at Britain’s rocket- tracking station at Jodrell Bank
day at 11 a.m. ADT and start fil- ing back electronic data immedi- ately.
TELL PUBLIC
This will be correlated at the |What's on the back of the moon? | increasing
central Soviet computing station,
ilic afterward. Thus man will have his first
and a decline in new housing starts this year. .
“I certainly know of no gov- ernment plans to raise the Na- tional Housing Act interest ‘rate,” Works Minister Walker told 2 Ca- nadian Press reporter Monday.
He noted that the 10-man Cen- Y-al Mortgage and Housing Cor-
would consider mortgage interest jrates among other matters.
answer to the question that has} But the cabinet is understood intrigued scientists for centuries: ||to have given no consideration to
(Continued on page 3 col. 3)
agreed. They said it was travell- ing close to the Russians’ pre- dicted position and could be said to be on course.)
Tass news agency reported that at 2 p.m. ADT the satellite was 284,000 kilometres (176,364 miles) from the earth at a point over the south Atlantic.
The Soviet space station is ex-
By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA (CP) — The federal royal commission on railways will | start the first. lap of its trans- | continental inquiry at Quebec)
Psychologist Insists Monotony Is Exciting
Canadian Press Staff Writer , p.m. Sept. 23 and emerged: at WINNIPEG (CP) — Monotony 8:30 p.m. Saturday, - cheerful, is not necessarily boring, says|bearded-and two pounds lighter. the head of the University of The capsule and a series of ex- Manitoba’s department of psy-| periments to test conditions of ex- chology. He found 10 days of the | treme monotony, harsh lights or most rigidly enforced monotony | irritating noises were conceived exciting. by the doctor of physiological For 10 days Dr. John P. Zubek,' psychology. He interested the de- a 34-year-old bachelor, lay on his|fence research board which ig back in darkness. He did nothing, | underwriting the cost. except for a 40-minute battery of} ‘This is pure research,” Dr. aptitude tests he completed every | Zubek said. “We're not interested day. lin what applications may be * He heard nothing save for in-;made. But the tests could reflect structions concerning his tests. | difficult conditions to which men His diet consisted of balogna| might be exposed suchas in lon- sandwiches and coffee with one'ely Arctic postings, submarine highlight—a piece of pumpkin pic | work or even a space capsule.” @ sympathetic dietician placed on| In the capsule Dr. Zubek oe- tis tray once }cupied himself by trying men- He was enclosed in an insu-|tally , to rewrite a text book he lated plastic dome -prison seven) had written and attempting to -fir feet high. The dome itself was gure the financial budget for the enclosed in playwood walls. On | test program. He said he accom- the floor was a grey mat and a_ plished little on either project.
black air mattress. WHERE-TO-FIND-IT
He entered the capsule about
With the isolation came halluc-|
inations—a telephone ringing, a} i typewriter eclacking, amorphous ‘ Selored shapes ‘holes his pony ee = : = Coal Production nd on ay violent si irths, deaths, etc. .... 2, ved OAs Gay, VisleRt PRISON: Taman peaiion 14, 15 Drops Sharply Comics, features ........ 13 : METAL MUFFS Charlottetown news ...... 5 HALIFAX (CP)—Coal produc- The isolation was made more! Editorials ............. 4 |tion in Nova Scotia during the complete with heavy, metal-en-| Finance, markets ....... 15 |second quarter of 1959 dropped eased ear muffs which not only! Island news ......... . 2, 3 |432,044 tons from the same pe- deadened sound but prevented! Sports ...............«- 8,9 ‘jriod last year. Dr. Zubek from lying on his side. Women’s page ecueeeks 6 Preliminary production figures How did he ceact to 10 days of| |. Late reports from Guardian released Monday, by the Nova emotional torture which he him-| news bureaus in Summer- (Scotia mines department showed self conceived? side, Montague, Alberton and (production. during the January- “Those 10 days were the most; Souris, and from special cor- |August period at 978,182 tons,
rewarding and fascinating of my
respondents now appear on life.” he sad during a press con-
Rail Commission
IsHere Nov.12th
City Oct. 22. Hearings at Atlantic capitals are scheduled for November, followed | by a stand at Ottawa in Decem-' ber.The—seven—--man commis-| sion has not yet arrived at firm! dates for the remainder of its} sittings.
An announcement from conr mission headquarters today listed these dates:
Quebec City Oct. 22 and Mont- real Oct. 23, followed by a re- cess.
Fredericton, Nov. 9; Charlotte- town, Nov. 12; Halifax, Nov. 13, and St. John’s, Nfld., Nov. 17.
Ottawa, Dec. 4 for anywhere from 10 days to two weeks.
A western tour, it was ex-| pected, was to begin early in the! new year.
SEEK TO EASE BURDEN
The commission headed by Hon. | C. P. McTague of Toronto has} been called on to search out “‘in- equities’ in Canada’s freight rate structure and to recommend means of easing the freight rate burden on the more hard-pressed areas — the Atlantic provinces and the West.
One of the most controversial series of rates in the structure consists of the low statutory Crowsnest Pass tolls on grain moving for export within West- ern Canada, and the initial rounds in what is expected to be a bitter fight will come about at the first Ottawa hearings.
This commission will be launch- ing the first top - level investiga tion into the Crowsnest rates since a 1926 parliamentary stat- ute fixed tolls on a large propor- tion of Canada’s huge grain traf- fic, at pre-1900 scales.
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comparedewith an output of 1, 410,226 tong during the period in
the Island News Page.
ference Monday. i
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the NHA maximum ifrom its present six per -cent. i That is the top rate lenders such as the chartered banks can charge for government - guaran- teed housing mortgages.
CABINET’S DECISION
Mr. Walker said th the CMHC directors f an? rate ihcrease is warranted at this
ould
is empowered to raise the NHA mortgage rate by order-in-council. But should it raise it beyond six per cent, the chartered banks wovk! still be, limited tc the wsent 4 ™ax- imum by the Bank Act.
VITAL TO SCHEME
Since the chartered banks are vital lenders in the NHA housing scheme, the government likely
TWO DOGS WERE jup as other unions respected the
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Two dogs also gave a good Poe ee account of themselves during the |hoost to $2 an hour. Spo! oom eareh, “Lance”, a Truro RCMP |s ‘4 that a cc aciliation. byyrd had deg and another owned by De | recommended ‘increases of eight puty Chief Sterns Webester of cents an hour this year and seven Charlottetown. lcents next year and that the “Lance” picked up the scent | builders’ exchange had offered (Continued on page 3, col. 5) 'seven and five.
would have to ask Parliament— due to open next January — for necessary changes either. in the National Housing Act or the Bank Act.
Utilities Commission
And by that time the present |
tight-money situation might have eased to the point where such an increase was not necessary. Furthermore, these sources) point out, Prime Minister Diefen- baker himself has been saying
lately that the government has
Reports To Rossiter
Heretofore the Commission since its establishment in 1948 had
The Prince Edward Island Pub-
| The carpenters seek a 25-cent|
Tories, Liberals Split in Federal Byelections ~
By THE CANADIAN PRESS j|iarge part of the capital's east-
Progressive Conservatives and|ern and southeastern suburbs and Liberals split two federal byelet-jsome adjacent farming areas. tions im Ontario constituencies} Mr. Nixon, 45-year-old insurance Monday, the Conservatives re-|and real estate agent, went down - tainjng Hastings-Frontenac and to defeat against Mr. Gour in the the Liberals continuing their 72-|1957 and 1958 general elections, year hold on the Ottawa area} Denis Kalman, 33-year-old real constituency of Russell. lestate agent and CCF standard-
The byelections bring to the!pearer who was seeking his first Commons Rodney Webb,. 49-year-| public vffice, lost his deposit. old Conservative standard-bearer} y4-- Webb, reeve’ of Norwood, in Hastings-Frontenac, and Paul’ on: where he operates an elec- Tardif, also 49, an Ottawa city irical appliance and contracting
controller. i business, easily defeated Liberal Commons party standings after william Shannon, 45-year - old
no intention of enabling the/lie Utilities Commission in fu-
| By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Eisenhower's vacation headquar-
hartered banks to lend at more | than the statutory six per cen The NHA rate was increased to six per cent from 5.5 per cent on Jan. 22, 1957.
time, the idea would be passed on to him by the governmeny housing agency.
It would then be up to him to decide whether \to take the rec-
DOCK, STEEL STRIKES
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ture will report directly to the minister of industry and natural resources -Hon. Leo F. Rossiter. it was demonstrated last night by W.R. Shaw.
Strikes Are Called Detrimental As President Urges Settlement
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lters here declined comment on reports from Washington that Eisenhower shortly would invoke
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) President Eisenhower Mon- day called both the steel and dock strikes detrimental to the United States. He insisted on be- half of the American people that the shutdowns be ended quickly.
Eisenhower spoke through an aide as:
1. The east and gulf coast coast strike, which has tied up shipping piers from Maine to Texas for five days, was put of- ficially before the president by Labor Secretary James Mitchell.
STEEL TALKS BREAK DOWN
_ BY JOHN MOODY
PITTSBURG AP — Negotl- ations to end the 83-day-long steel strike collapsed Monday night. There were no indica- tions when talks would be re- sumed.
The abrupt break occurred after an extraordinary night session which lasted only five minutes. It came a few ‘hours after the United Steelworkers rejected an industry proposal for a 15-cent hourly package in a two-year contract.
David J. McDonald, presi- dent of the USW, angrily left the negotiating room at @ midtown hotel and told wait- ing’ reporters ‘‘they (the indus- try) broke off.”
The industry denied any breakoff but there was no doubt that the negotiations ‘had collapsed despite Presti- dent Eisenhower's insistance on a quick settlement.
injunction provisions of the Taft- Hartley labor law.
2. The wage policy committee (Continued on page 3, col. 5)
the White House, in Washing- ton as a part of his continuing effort to get steel production rolling again. With Ike are
operated independent of direct government supervision.
Mr. Shaw said that the move was decided at a meeting of the Executive Council held last week.
Under the Act passed in 1948, the Commission were given su- pervidion of all public utilities in the Province such as telephone companies and companies engag- ed the production transmis- sion of furnishing of electric en- ergy. :
Specifically excluded were town- owned electric plants except for that portion of their lines outside the corporate limits.
Since that time the province’s came under .the Commission's control, together with the power to license service stations.
Members of the present com- mission include Judge C. St. Clair Trainor, chairman, W.R. Bren- nan secretary, and Stewart Ives.
the voting were Progressive Con- seryatives 208; Liberals 49 and! CCF, which contested only Rus- sell, 8. |
In Russell where the toughest battle was fought as both major parties and the.Socialists threw in their big guns, Mr. Tardif took an early lead that indicated an increase in the 2,111 majority of the previous Liberal member.
The byelections resulted from | the deaths last March of exter) nal affairs minister Sidney) Smith, who held Hastings-Fronte- nac, and J. Omer Gour who represented Russell continuously | from 1945 until his death March 24.
THIRD DEFEAT
Mr. Tardif, an Ottawa store manager long active in civic af- fairs, defeated Wilbur T. (Wib) Nixon who was making his third | bid for the seat which takes in a
(from left) Joseph L. Block president Insland Steel; Arthur B. Homer, Bethlehem Steel
Roger Blough, U.S. steel board Chairman, (CP Photo)
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reeve of Marmora village, 3 miles north of Belleville. Mr, Shannon lost the 1958 election to Mr. Smith who had an 8,419-vote majority.
The byelections were the fifth and sixth since the Conserva- tives swept to a record Commons majority in the general elections March 31, 1958. The Conserva- tives held Grenville-Dundas in Ontario and Springfield in Man- itoba,,-won Montmagny-L'Islet in Quebec from the Liberals and lost Toronto Trinity te the Lib- erals.
Living Costs Hit New High
OTTAWA (CP)—Driven mainly by higher food prices, Canadian living costs -soared to unprece- dented heights during August, the bureau of: statistics reported Monday.
The consumer price index, based on 1949 prices, equalling 100, rose to a record 127.1 dur- ing the month from the previous record of 126.4 set in July and 125.6 a year earlier.
The bureau said that “as was the case between July and Au gust, most of the increase was due to a seasonal advance” in the food section of the index.
The food component rose 2.7 per cent during August to 122.4 from 120.5. Higher prices were reported for beef, eggs, coffee, lettuce and celery. Tomatoes and potatoes registered declines.
Clothing costs rose slightly due to somewhat higher prices for piece goods, ‘men’s hats and sweaters and it cost a bit more to run a household during Au gust than July as a result of higher prices for coal, certain furniture items and houschold utensils and equipment.
The only one of the consumer price index’s five sub - indexes that declined was that for.‘‘other commodities and services."’ It ine cludes new cars and reflected de creases in the prices of 1959 pas- senger autos, magazine subscrip- _ rates, gasoline and batter
s.
The price declines in this com ponent more than balanced higher prices for automobile re
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