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Lemoine. Montreal; secre- tary-treasurer, David Kirk. Ot- tawa; and federation economist. Dr. E. C. Hope. Ottawa.

Five Children Die

In Quebec Fire

JOLIETTE Que. (CPl A Five children died Thursday when fire roared through a clapboard cot- tage on the outskirts of this town N miles north of Montreal. A

Monday to another year's term.

They were: President. H. H. OTTAWA (CP: - The federaii less than universal coverage -which the original federal PW

' lfannam. Ottawa; vice-presidents. W. J. Paker. Winnipeg. and .l.B. government's proposed national 1 . . . - ii i r. it likely would an hospital insurance scheme moved. Sgfamcihg ozma lt kast only u

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MORTGAGE being cremated at the annual banquet of the Char- lottetown Branch of the Canadian Legion held in the Clover Club last evening. Extreme left. Com- rade Charles Sinclair. extreme right, Comrade V.J. Bowlan. pres-

ident of the branch. Background, left to right, Lt. -Col. John A. MacDonald, Dominion representa- tive; Rev. R. Phelan. R.C. Padre: Comrade Charles Hogan, Provin- cial president: I-Ion. A.W. Mathe son. Premier of the Province.

Local Canadian Legion Branch Burns Mortgage At Ceremony

"The Canadian Legion is not a pressure group" stated Maior Norman Lowther. M.M., "but... with just cause... is not afraid to stand up to any government." Com rode Lowther was guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Char- lottetown branch of the Canadian Legion, held last night at the Clov- sr Club.

Highlight of the occasion was the eu monial burning of the mort- gage. This iiunl was carried out very effecilvtly by the branch President, C -nrado Vic Bowlsn. assisted by -Inrade Charles sin- clalr. Malor Lowther traced the his- tory of the Legion in Charlotte- town. commencing with the for-

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mation of the G.W.V.A. in 1917 to its present state of eminence in the community. He warned the

ember. to continue to maintain "good public relations". because fit is on the public we depend for support."

Comrade Lowther emphasis d the role that a legion branch should play in community affairs, citing Mount Stewart branch as an out- standing example of what could be achieved by duc attention to this phase of Legion effort.

In conclusion the guest speaker suggested that the branch could provide a '-"..c" needed commun- ity service by organizing regular visits to the aged and infirm per-

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Two British Auto Firms On Full Time

LONDON (Reuters) - The all- ing British automobile industry took heart Thursday in announce ments that two major manufactur- ers - Vauxhall and Jaguar-will return to lull-time working next Monday.

Full-time operating is being re- started because a new factory is about to start Pl t ” i

About 1,000 workers were laid off at Vauxhall's when the Suez Canal crisis and gasoline ration- ing hit sales. Jaguar Motors re- turns to full time shifts at Coven- try because of big export orders.

ISRAELI MINISTER ILL

NEW YORK (Reutcrsl - Mrs. Golda Meir. Israeli foreign min- ister. has been admitted to a New York hospital for treatment and observation, the Israeli delegation to the United Nation announced Thursday. Mrs. Meir was taken ill Wednesday. The nature of her illness was not disclosed.

Urgent Conferences Held;

On f:C..r.i.sis. ln,MicIdle East

UNITED NATIONS. N.Y (CPl - Secretary-Ghneral Dag llam- mifsklold held urgent confer- ences Thur on the Middle East crisis as nited Nations dip lomats were rhportod working on plans to give him more authority.

There was in air of anxiety among a number of delegates over a possible renewal of the conflict unless Israel hastens her withdrawal. ,

But Israel was reported stand- lng firm on hot resolve to keep her forces in the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqlba until the UN lives guarantees.

H-nun-rsltloldu latest efforts. on which he is to report today. are said to he reached an im- passe. He was rtod disturbed by Premier vii Ben-Gurloo's reiteration in Israeli parlia- ment Wednesday night that Israel will not withdraw her forces from the two key areas without guer- antees.

A number of leading delegates includins Ca is L. 1:. Pearson were reported king on a new resolution to priest to the Gen- Irli Asaesn utanding

Bank Interest This Week Unchanged

OTTAWA (CP)-The Bank of interest rate remained

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arskiold's powers.

This might take the form of the assembly authorizing the sec- retary-genersl to send the UN Emersency Force into Gaza and the Gulf to take over from the Israelis.

MUST MOVE AHEAD

Pearson said he knew of no new Nlollllioll. but his view has been all along that there must be no retire to border hostility.

Canada voted last week for the

n which reaffirmed t.hs

call for an Israeli withdrawal.

I-lammarskjold conferred Thurs- day with his Middlo East advisory board. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fswzl of Egypt. high ember of the United States delegation and Sir Pierson Dixon. the chief Brit- ish delegate.

Pearson told a UN correspond- ents' luncheon Thursday that next few days will be crucial.

"if we can't solve that pro- blem." he said, "then the future prospects are gloomy."

WINNIPEG (CPI - Agriculture Minister Gardiner has assured the Canadian Federation of Agricul- ture he will invest etc 1 recent sharp drop in the oor price for

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price considerably below the floor price. The difference would have to come out of the produccs' pocket. -

Mr. Gardiner replied that there was pressure being put on to bring down the price of eggs in

matter on his return to Ottawa today.

"' Princess Grace

Recovers Rapidly

Grace nursed her new baby for the first time Thursday and got out of bed twice. Her doctor said "delighted" to find that her trim figure has returned.

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sixth youngster was severely burned and the 43-year-old grand- mother of four of the victims had- to be treated in hospital for shock. The dead: Serge. Claude. Mannon and Francine Perreault. aged 5 .'i. 2, and 1, respectively, and Pierrctte Peloquin 8. Injured was Andre Peloquln 11. The Perreault children lived with their grandmother. Mrs. Arsene Perreault. who occupied part of the home of Leo Fleury. She also looked after the Peloquin chil- dren.

Police said the fire apparently was caused by an overheated stove.

TRANSFERRED

Flying Officer Dave Bentley of Charlottetown who has just been.

NEW HAVEN Conn. (AP) -A dry. dusty factory loft building of 19th century vintage burst into flames Thursday. At least four and possibly 10 persons mostly women. perished. Firemen said streaming women. some with their clothing and hair alire. bottled up at doors and-'fire escapes. Assistant Police Chief Raymond J. Eagan said 27 persons were burned tnd injured. "Some of them are bad shape.” he said. Two bodies clung in stark, black horror on a side fire escape where five women jammed up in an "t J rush for safety. Fire- men said they had to pull the three other screaming women from the fire escape after they got their legs caught between the

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is where two women burned to death from flames lick- ing out a door. Two others died later in hospital.

PULLED APART

Fireman James Curry said he was the firefighter who went up the fire escape to rescue the women.

"Their clothing was on fire and they were screaming," he said. "Their legs were caught between the steps of the fire escape and we had to pull thorn apart. I could

Strength Of Armed Forces

OTTAWA (CP)--Strength of the armed forces at Dec. 31, I956. stood at 117,171. a defence depart- ment spokesman said Thursday.

transferred from No. 412 (Trans- port) Squadron. Ottawa. to No. 4 (Transport) Operational Training Unit. Trenton. Ontario.

Flying Officer Bentley was edu- cated at Prince of Wales College.

the Charlottetown and was a radio op-

erator with the Department of Transport prior tojoinlng the RC AF in 1951. For two years he flew with 43 Transport Squadron on the Korean airlift Joining 4l2 Squadron in 1954. He will be car-

Top Lawyer To Defend Bomber

NEW YORK (AP) One

of New York's top criminal law- yers Thursday undertook the de- fence of mad bomber Gt-orge llietesky. HE is James D. C. Murray. As- sociated wlll be Hugh F. Spell- Illlln L pl of NEW Haven county.

Meanwhile. there was growing jptculatftm that Metcsky may never go to prison for planting Szwbombs in New York since

Before he can be brought to trill. he must be adjudged sane. If found inaene. he would be sent 10 an institution.

If he Is tried. he still could plead insanity. Then it uould be 3 to to state to prove him sans

the time be planted the bombs. Beyond that the state has no

to any of the crimes aim-sod against Metesky. The C!!! evidence against him is his admission and handwrit- tth letters be mailed over the

Win! out instructional duties at 1955 Trenton.

This number is 462 more than at Dec. 31. 1955. During 1956. navy personnel strength declined by 218 to 19.005 while the army's increased by 470 to 47.882 and the RCAI-”s by 210 to 50.540.

The services added some 1,200 men to their roll-calla in the last six months of 1956 to pull them up from a strength of l15,9il2 at the end of July. the lowest figure in two years. Peak peacetime strength is 118,017 set in March.

The manpower ceiling set for the armed forces is 1zo.ooo2o,- 000 for the navy. d9.(Xl0 for ths 81171? Ind 51.000 for the RCAF.

Find Body Of Missing Airman

SQUAMISII. B.C. (CPi - The body of F0 Roderick Atkins of Vancouver. one of two RCAF reserve airmen missing since the crash of two T-83 Jets near hers Jan. 13. was found Wednesday.

The body was still in the air- crsft seat.

A ground party of 15 men began a concentrated search of the area. seeking the body of Flt. Lt. Burton ll. Patltsu of Toronto and Vancouver. the other man aboard Aikins' plane.

MIG! TN SYRIA

JERUSALEM. TKSRAEL (AP) The Jerusalem Post said rhurs- filv Syria soon will have several squadrons of MIG-l7 Jet fighters and two Soviet-equipped armored divisions The newspaper said

hardly pull them apart."

men were tble to get women down but the other two died there.

The four-storey brick building was a shell and one wall was inl

idanger of collapsing when the fire ,a big step towards reality Thurs- Curry said he and other fire-iwas brought under control morei three than two hours later.

Five firms occupied the building in the centre of an outmoded ten- ement and factory section of the city's east side.

BONN (AP) - Li.-Gen Hans Speidel. dubbed "the charmer" for his ability to talk Hitler out of his tantrums. is about to assume a NATO lop command.

The West German defence min- istry said Thursday Speidel will become ” Atlantic Treaty Organization's central European land forces. lie will be the first German officer to hold such high rank in the Atlan- tic alliance. to which West Ger- many is pledged to contribute 500.000 troops.

While formal announcement had not yet been made at NATO's military headquarters near Paris. his selection was considered Q foregone conclusion.

The NATO council has already approved naming a German to the post, and West Germany had been asked to make nomination. All NATO defence ministers must give their approval.

NOT LIKE PBUSSIANS

Speldel. 59, is the reverse of the fictional picture of the Prussian officer. He is amiable. soft spoken and bespectacled. He looks mire llhs a scholar than a soldier, des- pite his broad shouldo 3.

lie was nicknamed the "charmer" by his fellow officers of the Second World War. They said he was even able to soft talk Hitler out of his rages. He is one of the few senior German officers who escaped postwar disgrace or oblivion.

lie was arrested in 1944 on sus- picion of being one of the plotters against Hitler's life. He managed to trick the Gestapo and escape execution. At the end of the war he was in hiding.

speidel served as-Field Marshal Erwin Rommel'I chief of staff on the western front during the Al- lied invasion in 1914.

He drafted the terms of France's 1940 surrender to Ger- many. and became chief of staff of occupied France.

FRENCH LIKE HIM But he is well thought of in

France because he is credited with saving Paris from destruc-

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tion by defying Hitler's orders to defend the city bridge by bridge against the advancing Allies.

He also saw service on tho eastern front. taking part in the German retreat from Moscow

At the war crimes trials in Nuernberg he was a witness in- stead of being in the dock. His older brother. ylilhelm. an air force lieutenant general, was con- victed by an American court of crimes against hostages and civil- ians in Nazi - conquered Baltic countries. His brother's m-year sentence was commuted in 1950.

That was the year Speidel was recalled by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to help plan the new West German army. Speidel was living quietly as a professor at Tuebingen University. He holds a doctor of philosophy t' , qulred during his garrison a young lieutenant.

Speidei is a master of the French language. He became the first German military represent- ative at NATO military headquar- ters. where he got along well with the multi-nation staff.

As central European com- mander. he will have under him (' J" . German. Amer- ican. British. French. Belgian and Dutch troops assigned to defence of Central Europe. He succeeds a Frenchman, Gen. Marcel Carpen-

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LONDON (CP)-Prime Minio- fer Macmillan Thursday ordered a complete overhaul of Britain's defence program.

He told Defence Minister Dun.

both will be ccaunnnoed by Rus- status.

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necds"-qhar unuld bring about a slash in expenditures and man- power.

Sandys also was told to pre- pare a plan to reshape and reor- ganize the armed forces.

Air Marshal Sir William Dick- son. a direct descendant of Ad- miral Lord Nelson. was named Sendys' chief of staff.

The prime minister made the announcemet in the House of Commons almost casually Vim" answering questions about mil- In-y service departments.

Behind the change in mllitsr! policy are three basic reasons. Acknowledgement that contro-

mllitgry practices are mit- bhd: Britain's shaky economic Qntlon: the realisation that Bni; Q can no longer ":0

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day with Premier Frost's an- nouncement that Ontario plans to participate in it. V But Ontario's acceptance mayi entail some modifications of the. original federal proposal for uni-ii versal coverage. ( The federal offer to share half the cost of a program of hospital care and diagnostic services re- quires that at least six provinces representing a majority of Can- ada's population accept it before it can become operational. Canadals three most westerly provinces accepted it earlier. leav-

i ing the scheme now just two prov-

inces short of the federal require- ment.

Premier Frost's announcement was followed by a statement in Halifax from Nova Scotia's Health Minister R. .A. Donahoe that his government will enter the plan if

i and when it becomes available.

In Quebec Premier Duplessis said he has no comment on Pre- mier Frost's statement. Since Quebec and Ontario combined have some two-thirds of Canada's population if is essential to the scheme that at least one of them

accept it.

IIINTED AT COMPLETION

Health Minister Martin dropped a strong hint in the common: that something is in the wind. Later, in Tomato. Premier Frost said legislation implementing a p. posed hospital insurance agree- ment with the federal government will be presented to the Ontario legislature Monday.

He declined to disclose details and Mr. Mn-tin said he had agreed not to discuss contents of use , ndence with the premier.

Later. however. Mr. Martin told a reporter,outalde the Commons he hopes to have something fur- ther to say on the matter today. He apparently was trying to reach Mr. Frost to agree on an an- nouncement.

He said he has had discussions with two premiers in the last week. Asked whether they con- cerned the hospital plan. he re- plied: "We discussed that among other questions."

He d to name the pre- miers. but it is known that Pre- mier Stanfield of Nova Scotla was in Ottawa Tuesday and Mr. Mar-

- iin indicated in the Commons ear-

lier that he has had recent dis- cussions with Premier Frost.

N0 LIBERAL: YET

Meantime. a reliable source said Premier Frost has proposed an agreement that would entail

Into Search For

FREDERICTON (CPl - RCMP threw a ground search force into the Grand Lake area of Central New Brunswick Thursday in the hunt for a provincial cabinet min- lster and two civil defence offi- cials missing in a private plane since late Tuesday night.

While policgc. government and army searchers sought the origin of smoke seen near the lake by a forestry offlcia. other searchers plunged into the woods at Haw.- iock. about 50 miles away. to check reports of "a crash" heard by two unidentified lumbermen about the time the plane disap- peared.

The hunt in the Grand Lake srea followed a report by Bill Ev- ans. department of northern sf- fslrs spotter. that "intermittent smoke" was rising in the vicinity

signal.

An RCMP spokesman in Fred- ericton seid the information ”wsr- ranted" an intensive search of the

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ice. liFrom these suspicious signs." he said. "it appears advisable to have a reconnaisance on the ground as well as in the air."

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He said Premier Stanfield is re ported to have listened to the pro posal with interest. Premlei Campbell of Manitoba also we! understood to have arliressad 1! terest.

So far only the Social Credit governments of British Columbia and Alberta and the CCF gov- ernment of Saskatchewan have agreed to the original federal pnr posal. With Progressive Conservn tive Ontario now apparent!) reaching agreement with the fed- eral government on a hospital in- surance scheme it is within sight of implementation without a Lib- eral province as yet accepting IL

Mar. Martin made his Com- mons statements in reply to ques- tions from Stanley Knowles (CC? -Winnipeg North Centre(. He asked whether Mr. Martin was aware that the Toronto Telegram reported Premier Frost would an- nounce the legislation Monday and introduce enabling legislation Tuesday.

He also asked Mr. Martin to comment on the report's state- ment that there have been certain modifications in the federal pro- posal.

N0 SOURCE GIVEN

The telegram. giving no source. said the Frost plan would cover persons on payrolls with eelf-em- ployod persons. farm workers. domestic workers and other groups being covered later.

It said Ontario has abandoned its demand that care of mental and tubercular patients be in- cluded in the hospital scheme. Both are provincial responsibil- ities and the federal government hasrefueedtosharointhenhtbl paper said.

It added that the Ontario deci- of a country-wide federal-provhr slon could lead to establishment eial insurance scheme by the end of 151.

Premier Mathoson

Is Non-Committal

CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) Premier Alex Matheson was non-

hls government will sign a hos- pital insurance agreement with

Ottawa. ' Told of Premier Leslie Frosts

announcement that Ontario is pre pared to enter an agreement Mr. . Matheson said he was "always In- terested" and ”we've discussed it." "That's all I'll say at the present time."

R. C. M. P. Throw Ground Party I

Lost Plane

left her for Moncton about 0 p.m. AST Tuesday on the 55- mile hop. Have-lock is about 2! miles southwest of the hub city. The ground search continued - throughout the night as lamp-. cgrrying searchers poured IMO woods in Central and Southeastern g ew Brunswick in hopes of fInd- ing the men before sub-zero tem-

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amphibians from Greenwood. N.S ; worked in the air Thursday night.

The ground parties were in con- isct by walkietalkie. snowmobiles

the raw Brunswick Electric. Power Commission and jeeps are y being used in many out-of-the way areas. - A report from the Ripples area - that two lights. presumably flarel. were seen early Thursday morn- were discounled by RCMP and Bruce Carter of the 17m flying Club in Saint John.

so 1 they understood the pine carried an flaree.

Liverpool Boy is Fatally Iniured

cornmlttal Thursday on whether '

peratures set in. Two RCAF Canoe 5 " s