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Clansman L. W. fliaw is seen sddressing The Haggis at the St. ' dinner at the

Andrews Charlottetown Hotel on Satur-

_ ..._..._.._..-_...s..—.....

ADDRESSING day night. The dinner is spon- sored: by the Caledonia. Club. J.

. Campbell. chief of the club. k shown at the left. Next

THE HAGGIS

president of Dalihousie Univer- sity. who was the guest spea-

ker. the club. is shown between Dr. Kerr and Dr. Shaw.

W. E. Agnew. president of

Mayor Looks For Benefits’

To City From_Oiiawa Trip

liaiiuy and enthusiastic aboutinisad our need in this regard and the brief had been recognized in the result of his "visit to Ottawa [were most cooperative in their ,Ottawa. last week. Mayor J. D. Stewart Iattitude, the Mayor noted with; While in Ottnw a M ayor

discussed with this

paper last

night the benefits which he feel

are coming to nice as

the City and pros-

a result of discussion

in the nation's capital. First

1. Mayor Stewart the City hnrlottetown said “I sat in on the Doniinion- for a new 'l.tlXHoot runway

I appreciation.

RUNWAY B “While there I also presented a brief on behalf of the Char- Board of Trade and

ilottetown

,Stewart acting as chairman and :chief spokesman for a group of Maritime cities and towns. s presented a claim for grants in [lieu of taxes on railway property ‘in the Maritime Provinces.

Provincial conference reprenent- .our airport here. I had solid sup- lHon. George ing the cit . lwas most favor- port from all four of our aland ans rt; Hon. aid Flem- members of parliament on that ling, Minister of Finance: and by

ably impressed not only with the of

nae on the ,

eral Government. but with the a large

' the department of Transport on of Fisheries; Hon cl im ‘They

no ‘ val ty

aeration that they displayed to- ,saw that it

ward put pos Queens or

theFed-

tion. and our ro-

‘score

partlnlm

ofoura

l

lsnot Just County or

and I feel that that played lthe

a problem anus and Boo. Alfred Charlotte Minister of Veterans‘ Affairs,‘ as’: - “Fan-wgrtafn we‘ ' '

Hiallidtlli

three Maritime ministers.

. OW- lan. Minister of National Rev- Brooks.

Mime iuiiiiotonb ‘van is oi-saipioiamm "t was recogn vca W d this paper

that we should have m nail were or-outed night.

lglrants. §(;i_t_t'h:lt vl/:1 a.lta.ol N than is ti: vfi near WOULD MEAN $12,000

avc a itio a substan , ture. am in op Inbtle Ask w tit would mean to financial assistance in these the matter." the this city if the petition wce

Maritime provinces to bring

Mayor enthu . I He prdised the Board of Trade

for

granted. he said it would mean an additional revenue of $l2.0(ll $3.01”

cometo

anada. . the very fine brief they had ‘to Charlottetown. We get All of the other provinces reco|- lprepared and said the quality of ,now no we would get $15,000 if’

our request is granted. the Mayor stated

British Polar R8SOOl:Cl'l._ Ship Is Damaged By Iceberg

‘I' STANLEY. Falkland logical station broadcast special

I’ O R Islands (AP)—'I'bc British

research ship

temporary patc hall. limped slowly last Sunday night on a 500-mile 8)’ to Georgia in South Atlantic.

polar Shackleton, with hes in her torn through rough

‘forecasts every six hours for the lsbnckietoa. R e p o r t s reaching here from the Shackleton and her escort said she is making slow pro as and was still only a few

gre the miles north of Coronation Island.

one of the South Orkney Islands.

At present the Maritime Prov- inces are ring under the handicap of a situation which only permits a total of S1X)0.0(X) ' rants in lieu of

the old Intercolonial railway in ‘this area was government pro- perty. and as such should not be taxed. The Maritimes constitute the only area in Canada where this condition is in effect. His Worship noted.

The 1,100 - ton vessel. which The position is about 500 miles t Geor ‘a.

of Son h

rum, 5.,.,,..,,,,‘ W hem ,_ orrr-zit UP riuvicns

rorted by the British whaling ship Churches In P o rt Stanley of-

Southcrn Lily. The al Navy fared prayers during services for

this Protector was scheduled to the safety of the ship’: passen- slde late Sunday gen and crew.

' Aboard the protector. steaming (Radio rnorts received in Lno- toward the Shackleton. was Falli- ,:h:da i d tln Protector E P Arrow-

MOVIES HIGH IN SKY

PARIS (Reuters! ~ Nathalie» the latest movie starring curva- C@liS French actress Martine Carol. had its world premiere Friday l0.000 feet above France in a Super DC-7 flying at 375 miles an hour. The picture was a trial run for showings which the French private airline TAI wants to introduce next month on France-New Zealand service. The company hopes four movies will relieve passenger boredom on the

had lands Governor . . the lhnchldini and was smith. The Shackleton comes no- If aboard passengers from der his control. '5 crippled vessel. They said the The &iackleton‘s temporary re- Protector also hid . b

5

Report Glowing Obieci Falls I-n West Germany

HAMBURG. Germany (CP) — German police informed the Hamburg Observatory that an unidentified glowing object was lseen plunging from the sky into la moor south of this west Ger- man city Sunday night.

An observatory spokesman said “apparently there is some belief it could be the carrier rocket of Sputnik I. But it could as well be a meteorite."

Police who went to the scene found scorched "tracks” which I

A silvery substance was floating on the water.

The object measured about 3 inches across.

Scientina were sequester! h

the spot. .&ni:ow R111-v Iowrtrllfl actual carrier rocket of Sputnik l is 20 feet long but Sov- iet scientlsts have said the rocket could disintegrate before hitting tilie earth. -

Police said at least 10 persons saw the object plunging into a water-filled ditch in a moorland near the village of Grossmoor. south of Hamburg.

Hermann Pens, mayor of Gross- moor. said a yard - wide crater could be seen on the edge of the ditch.

A police search turned up no trace of the reported object but authorities said the hunt would continue.

Rebels Fight Spanish Troops In Morocco

RABAT. Morocco (APl—Rebel reports to the nationalist newspa- per El Alam Sunday said Spain has sent seven more shiploads of arms and reinforcements to Sldi lfni. capital of the rebellious lfni en

The paper reported intensive

Ait Ycmmour and Tleta. three villages near Sidi Ifni the rebels claim they have encircled.

The reports also said Spanish paratroopers have been ,dropped on Tlliuln which the rebels claim

tr pairs were reported holding up. ‘Vase scar and a iifpvlright although her No. 2 hold is ii- i

Shackleton to $0 with U} ported filed with water. Some of N-000~miI8 fliflht. “Y PUKIPI.)

‘V the ship's cargo was dumped as film left Elldlfl the crew labored to keep her W» 1 with I sup from si

in . . There was no indication when the ship would reach South Georgia.8helse edtoun-, dergo ‘repairs there and then pro lceed to Britain‘: Antarctic bases.

..Churcliill Fit, Sprighfly ' _At 83rd Birthday Party

;zhSTERHAK. Eng. (Ari-—slr carry them from this xeiit inu-

ttoii Churchill oelebra his hot town to nearby Cliartwell. l lllrtbday at the family flrr Every newspaper ran editorial NI! Ivithhrritnisesnees eulogles describing Churchill as ymbol of the Goal-

scientists 3598 bound for British Ilentiflc

address. rordsn Secretary Selina l-lard SIN!‘- dny night told millions of listen- m.

“From very full hoarts we sent tsh Winston) our warm on’ gretulatlom and affectionate postings."

h. garrison officers recelr d service awards du-Q yflsrdars eunmonini parade I

they occupied.

Shown with Pooh. o.ao.. mob

ed to a ditch with water in it. in,

fighting is going on around Taras. in

RECEIVE LONG s

Ii-?;iiar&”<i.I.nsssis.s iliiitis Gave II¢.atsjoiii.it.ni.-iiauuy.lIe-

WELLlI\'G'l‘()N. N.Z. (CPL- Waiter Naslis Labor party was returned to hairline power in Sat- urday's general election eight years of National party rule and the upset gave Labor . likely

member House of Representa- tives.

v a 90-per-cent voter turnout. Labor won 41 seats. The National party took 38 and one seat is vacant due to the death of a candidate. The National party is expected to hold that seat.

In the last House of Represent- atives, the National party held 45 seats and Labor 35.

While the vote swept two Con- servative ministers from Parlia- ment, Prime Minister Keith Holy- oake retained his seat by a ma- jority of 3,824 votes. Nash's ma- jority was 4.256.

Holyoakc, 53. had been prime minister only since Sept. 20. He too over when

after ‘

majority di two seats in the 80- tr

reasons of health. The outgoing prime minister conceded defeat on the basis of incomplete r turns announced Saturday night and pledged the National party to lwork for the welfare of the coun-

G 09

y.

Nash, the 75 - year - old prime minister - elect who was finance minister in the Labor govern- ment of I935-49. said the new gov- ernment will try to make its voice heard more in the United Nations on the question of an agreement for the abandonment of nuclear warfare.

WILL SHARE COSTS

He added that New Zealand will continue to take her share of the legitimate cost of defence of the Commonwealth.

Discussing the need to expand trade, Nash indicated his inten- tion to open new trade posts in North America. Europe, Asia and

Labor Party Is Elected In New Zealand Voiing

narrow majority preventing him‘ forming a government. He added,

- there will be a special session of

The Social Credt League again contested all 80 seats without suc- cess. It appears now votes cast for Social Credit were almost en-. tirely at the expense of the Na-‘ tlonai party.

Labor polled 508.981 votes. Na-1 tional 458.301. Social Credit 75,135 and other 2.702. Thus labor got 48.5 per cent of the total. National 44.3 and Social Credit seven.

in 1954 Social Credit won 112,- 000 votes for 11 per cent of the vote. That year it also failed to elect a candidate.

Social Credit leader Wilfrid Owen said his party had "taken a licking."

were 1.045.619 votes counted. wtih eligible voters to- talling 1.244.000. Proxy votes are

lr Prime Minister Sidney C. Holland resigned for

FAIRBANKS. Alaska (AP)- e US. reported Sunday the Sputni 1 rocket was believed

to have fallen 100 miles southeast of here but scientists called the flaming object a giant fireball.

Al George’ of the Geophysical lnstit of the University of Al-

’ -atv“tlie*lfiIt tute saw the object. He said its direction and speed put in in the meteor class.

The institute described it as a "one in a million chance" that the fireball. or eor. passed over Alaska at “plus or minus five minutes" of the time the rocket satellite was due over Fairbanks»

High winds late yesterday afternoon caused a power ack- out in Prince County from Mis- couche west. A line went down at about 6.45 and service was not restored until 9 o'clock. The line was considered a menace to traffic and R. C. M P. patrolled the area until line crews from Summerside and 0'Leary completed repairs. Weather observers at R. C. M. P. Station Siimmcrside reported that abou the wind velocity was 45 miles per hour with gusts to 71. The gale was forecast to decrease to about 15 m. p. h. by 7 o'clock this morn-

g. Passengers on the carfeny crossing between Tormentine and Borden yesterday reported a rough passage. with many suf- fering seasickncss.

There were reports of damage elsewhere in the Pro-

srvics awhiios

. in parts

Africa. Nash said he has no fears of a

U.S. Army Says Rocket _ Down; Scientists Say No

Saturday afternoon. The sighting was reported by

the institute to the Washington 3 20

headquarters of the Office of Na- val Research which is in charge of tracking Russian earth satel-l

lites and their rockets. George said the occurrence of - of ' ‘ deserted‘

two or three are seen ut

the world each year.

DOWN AT 3:20 P.M.

The army report. in a press re- lease telephoned to the Fairbanks News-Miner from Fort Greely 100 miles to the southeast. said the

High Winds Cause‘ Power Blackout In West Prince

vince.

in Charlottetown. weather observers at the Charlottetown airport said the wind’ velocity was 30 miles an hour with gusts

During the weekend snow fell of New Brunswick. Grand Falls reported 10 inches and Fredericton had four.

in Nova Scotia gale - force winds gusting to 54 miles an hour were reported Sunday to have destroyed hundreds of lobster traps off the south shore. The season officially opened Sun- day but traps were set Saturday.

A. .. Nicholson. Yarmoutli fish dealer. described the as a "calamity." ' affect the economy of the entire area. Lobster traps were strewn

orig the shore line even be- fore fishermen had made their first haul.

noun: r‘ The army‘ relayed from here was extremely rare and only mg througho

yet to be tallied.

rocket was believed to have fal- len on the military reservation at . central Alaska time (9:20 p.m. AS'l‘l. This was one minute after the geophysical institute said rocket would pass over Fair- banks. cold w e a t h e r and mountaineering test centre in in- terior Alaska by Pte. rt L. Gold. public information special- ist, this account: Victor Carrado. one of a num-

ber of eyewitnesses. the glowing object whistled down from the skies. hit a grove of

trees. ricoclieted off one of them and fell to the-ground. Carrado. a civilian who lives

said he thought the "thing" was going to hit him. and came so close that he ducked.

Darkness comes at 2 p.m. (ihese latitudes. so no search was possible until Sunday. At dawn, five men from the fort and Ladd Sair Force Base went aloft in a helicopter to look for the object but were forced to turn back be- cause of high winds.

The search will be resumed at day light today, weathsr'permit-

ting.

The army declined for security reasons to pinpoint eactly where the object — whether rocket or meteor—fell on the vast Greely reservation. which is 20 miles each way.

Fort Greely adjoins the Alaska Highway as it cuts through the Tanana mountain range toward the Canadian border.

3 Killed In Collision

FRI-EDI-‘.RlC‘I‘0N i(‘P~—An in- guest into the deaths of three per sons as the result of a head-on two-car collision early Saturday opens here today. wo others were injured in the accident.

Dead on arrival at hospital were Miss Elizabeth St. Pierre. lit. Bank of Nova Scotia employee here and Ronald Joseph Sweeney, 20. of Montreal. gcoiistruction worker on the nearby (lromocto bridge. Mrs. Gordon Dlmoek. 20. of Blackt'slHarbor. N 3 died late.-

a .

Mrs. Dimoek's husband. a 25- yearold medical doctor. was re leased

lous condition is Miss Aline St. Pierre. a I-‘rederlcton nurse. _________________

Bandit Gets

capital Sunday near the cabinet building

and were under guard of army tanks, armored cars and police with ma-

to discuss

at Big Delta near Forty Greely, -It Sunday.

At ’I-lalifox

HALIFAX (CP) _ A masked and armed bandit robbai the

ic.r.n.i: nnuao. Ibo. -as llellment. (c.ir.n.»

Iartc'a $5

north end Casino Theatre here of & Saturday night and apolo- gised to two bound and gagged

for liiconvenieaclns committee ciiairniaa. How.

. ml L. Bevin. DPQIIGOII-Glllerltlnl

Assistant is of Ohio State Uiiivsrsiu, said In a and theatre cashier Hana! Poole letter to Eisenhower-

lng rrevolver and open strnmrt ransr Gale's office about

said "this is a IIUIO-‘

us pm. A81‘ and 3

$606 In Theatre . ,.

Assassins Fail In Aiiempi _On' Indonesian President

ru-itli-lover AFTER 3 YEARS

I0 Persons Are Killed,

I37

Indonesia

oody attempt

K R A. (APl— The death toll in Saturday nights to assassinate,from the four grenades showed

Injured By Grenades

One usually-reliable source said Ian examination of the fragments

President Sukarno with hand gre- ‘they were Western - made with

nades rose to 10 Sunday.

' cnt announcement said I37 persons in the crowd aroun him were Jakarta Municipal Central hospital for

. . treatment of shrapnel wounds fullamentgo Pmblably ‘eaI:3:)ol.n,I\I0st are small children. Seven .am“"y' ‘mp amen rsipcrsons. including two children. income tax rebate proposals. lwere k“ d

Sukarno escaped unhurt as his

bodyguards threw him to the ground and covered his body. Apart from a terse palace an- nouncement and an “all's well" radio broadcast by Sukarno. there has been no official comment. There was heavy censorship in Jakarta but travellers arriving in Singapore from the Indonesian said shooting broke out

as the cabinet went into emer- gency session. There also were re- ports that government buildings the Jakarta radio station

chine-guns.

SILENT ON MOTIVE

Government officials declined motives or the per- sons behind the incident. Military authorities have announced the arrest of two persons but they have not been identified.

four - second fuses. They were

thrown. apparently on sig- nal from a pistol shot. as Sukarno

;moved through a crowd outside

*a public school in Tjikini. The

‘president was taking part in the 15th anniversary of the school.

I A heavy guard was thrown round the school Sunday. Jakarta's chief military secur-

ity commander. Lt.—Col. Endong

IDuchjar. termed the grenade

lllirtiwing an attempt at political

Travellers arriving in Singa- pore from Jakarta said shooting broke out Sunday near the Royal Dutch Oil Company. only a short distance from the building where the cabinet met.

The travellers described the

group led by Col. Zulkifi Lubia. former agmy deputy commander in chief.

Lubls. reported hiding in West Java after failing last November to overthrow the government. in

Previous grenade thmwings and bombings of Communist head- quarters have been attributed to this movement.

Sure Rocket Has Crashed But Moscow Denies Report

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. (AP) — British and American scientists agreed Sunday that the rocket of Sputnik I must have plunged to

t '3 its death.

However. Russia. the country that launched man’; first artifi- ficial moon loot t. 4, says the rocket still is circling the world.

Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical

Observatory here. said he thinks

world Saturday night.

Professor A l f r e d Lovell. di- rector of the huge radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. England. says the rocket no longer exists. He says his telescope failed to spot seven possible passages

But Moscow Radio. broadcast- ing fu t u r e schedules for the

1“ rocket. says it made its 886th trip

around the world at 11 a.m. AST Sunday.

Dr. Whipple. a world authority on comets. bases his belief on t death of the rocket on its rapidly- shortening orbit in the last few days. This indicated that it was being drawn down into denser at- mosphere. hastening its end.

Saturday night the rocket was believed to be below l()() miles at its olw point. 50 miles lower than when it was fired into an orbit. N0 BODY FOR PROOF

The Smithsonian is in the posi- tion of trying to prove a death without the body. T e last con- firmed observation of the rocket was made by the radar telescope of Stanford Research Institute.

PAPER PRICE BOOSTED

BUFFALO. l\'.Y. (AP) -- The Buffalo I-Jvcniug News announced

forced an increase in the price of the newspaper to seven cents from five, effective Monday. The seven-cent price will be for both slrecl sale and home delivery.

Palo Alto. Caiif.. Saturday.

A member of the Smithsonian's moon watch team at Los Altos in California also reported a bright object in the sky about the same time. this was not the stun reflecting on a high flying airplane. ‘it could well have been the rocket starting to glow as it neared its end. Dr. Whipple said.

U. K. Professor Sure Rocket No longer Exists

JODRELI. B A N K. England 'APl —- Professor Alfred Lovell. director of the huge radio tale scope here. announced Sun night he must conclude the car- rier rocket of Sputnik I no longer exists.