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BERLIN (AP),—-Armed Soviet soldiers suddenly a-ppeared on East Berlin patrols but were pulled back Thursday night from main border crossings and down- town East Berlin intersections.
The patrols apparently were an attempt to stop Russian desert- ers from crossing through the Iron Curtain. Only one deserter was reported officially.
A tour of East Berlin early in the day showed Soviet troops guarding all border crossing points that lead to allied-occupied West Berlin as well as important street corners in downtown East Mrlin.
But reporters who toured East Berlin at 9:30 pm. were unable to spot such patrols. Some eyewit- nesses said Soviet armored scout cars cruised East Berlin during the afternoon. '
The night checkup was made at about the same time British offi- cials confirmed t‘ '. a Russian sol- dier had fled to their sector. The officials declined to reveal what the soldier told them, whether the soldier was h-anded back to the
Armeclkussialns Patrol E.
to West Germany,
NORMALLY GERMAN TASK ' The border crossing points nor- mally are manned only by East German police. It was the first time since the abortive East Ger- man uprising of June 17, 1953, that the Russians had, taken up guard and patrol duties in the
Eastern sector of the city.
Allied diplomats had speculaibed that the Russian ‘soldiers had been called out to stop deser-ters from Soviet Army camps in East Germany. ‘ _
One allied informanrt said the Russians have sent a note to Western 311.1». asking for the re- turn of a deserter—-or deserters —who may have already reached West Berlin.
The number of East German guards on the border was normal and they made their usual, rou- tine checks of cars that passed between East and West Berlin as the Russian guards lounged nearby.
_ Officials at the Soviet Embassy in East Berlin- declined com-
Russians or whether he was flown
ment.
Russians Face
For Drinks And Automobiles
MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet citizens learned Thursday it will cost 20 per cent more for vodkauand wines from now on and the cost bf automobiles and a few other items is going up, too. .
/Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, said the increases in tihe cost of tippling would help “in the struggle against the ex- travagant use of alcoholic liq- uors." -'
Other increases in consumer articles were aimed, Pravda said, at controlling “illegal traf- fic” and will help in “the strug- gle with speculators." This was public recognition of a black market here in consumer goods.
The price changes, announced by the Soviet government, in- cluded decreases for some types of television sets and some So-
viet caiiicras. The new prices were not given. The government said it was
munding off the prices of bread and bread products. with,’ most of the benefit going to the con- sunr...
The cost of automobiles will be 25 to 50 pcr ce..l llI'Tilcl. l‘fllSlllf.‘,
Higher Prices
rubles to the dollar but Western observers rate the ruble’s pur- chasing power at closer to 10 cents.
900 UBLES MONTH
Average workers’ salaries are about 900 to 1,000 rubles a month.
A check in the stores showed the best vodka-—the basic hard liquor in the‘Sovlet Uni-on—has gone up from 2‘.90 rubles to 30.80 rubles a half litre. At the official rate that would cost about $7.75 a pint.
Bread prices changed only by a matter of kopeks, from 2.05 to two rubles a pound loaf———50 cents at the official exchange rate.
The announcement broke a pattern of gradual reduction of the cost of living. Unlike the across - the - board reductions of the late 1949s and early 1950s, the new changes were limited to specified categories‘ a nd will have little over-all effect upon‘ -the cost of living.
The U.S.S.R. began its reduc- tions of food and retail prices in 1948. For six ‘cars thereafter price reductions were announced
them to 30,000 to 50.000 -rubles, from ‘1,000 to 40.000 riiblcs. The; official rate of exchaiige is fourl
annually. However. in the last ff‘\!' years, only sporadic cuts fields.
‘ Is Colorful
'Finds Carnival
NASSAU, The Bahamas (Reu- tgs) — Prime Minister Diefen- b er said Thursday he .fou.nd Nassau’s traditional jukanoo car- nival “a spectacular and colorful performance.”
He and ' Mrs. — Diefenbaker vis- ited Bay Street at "7 a.m. New Year’s to see the carnival which paraded through Nassau’: main shopping area.
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LATE BLOOM
KITCHENER, Ont. (-CP) -— ‘A pink rose bush was in bloom here
Above -- Normal Temperatures I Here Forecast
TORONTO (CP)-—Most of Cen-
tral Canada can expect below- normal temperatures and heavy snowfall during January, the U.S. weather bureau said Thurs- day. I In its monthly long-range fore- cast the bureau said Manitoba- and most of Ontario and Sask- atchewan lie in a cold belt stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic. A small area in Northern Ontario and eastern Manitoba will be much below normal. ,
On either side of this front—in- eluding Alberta, northern British Columbia, eastern Ontario and western Quebec —— temperatures will be near normal.
Southern British Columbia, eastern Quebec and the Atlantic provinces can expect above-nor- mal temperatures. In Labrador the mercury will rise consider- ably above normal.
Canadians In Germany Active
OTTAWA (CP)—The 4th Cana- dlan Infantry Brigade is carry- ing out overnight schemes in snow-covered areas in West Ger- many, army headquarters. said Thursday.
This is the initial trainingstage for the 5,50-man brigade in-1958. It will lead to lmajor exercises next summer and fall. ‘, -
The new‘ FN (Fabriidue Na- tionale) Belgian .300-calibdre rifle
has replaced the Lee-Enfield .303.
Brig. Donald C. Cameron said the brigade could be required to enter intensive active operations without notice and that only highly efficient units could be suc- cessful.
Changes Made‘ In _N. S. Cabinet,
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Scotia cabinet portfolio and the administration of the provincial liquor control act changed hands Thursday“
The resignation of Hon. R. A. Donahoe as welfare minister was made public shortly after swear- ing-in ceremonies at Province House here in which Education Minister Leonard accepted the welfare job. ‘
Mr. Donahoe retains the,port- folios of attorney general and health minister.
Provincial Secretary S m i t h gave up his administration of the Nova Scotia Liquor Control Act. Agriculture Minister Haliburton takes over these duties. — Lieutenant - Governor Allistair Fraser presided over the brief swearing-in ceremony involving the changeover in the welfare
four days beforé Christmas.
ministry.
Former USSR Deputy Defence
Minister To Re
. LONDON (AP)—Marshal Kon- stantin Rokossovsky is returning from the trans-Caucasian "mil- itary command to assume his
old job as deputy defence minis- ter of the Soviet Union, Ra-: dio Moscow announced Thursday night.
The 60-year-old Polish-born of- ficer took command of Soviet, forces adjoining the frontiers of% Turkey and Syria in'October atl the time of the Syrian crisis and? the ousting "of Marshal Georgi‘ Zhukov, Rokossovsky’s boss, asl defence minister. Zhukov lost outl on the ground he had interfered; with Communist party operations" in the armed forces.
East-West tension over the Sy- rian situation since has eased. And political and ideological training has been made compul- sory for military officers under the regime of the new defence minister, Marshal Rodion Y. Ma- linovsky.
TAX DEPT. BEATS STORK
HALIFAX (CP) —— The in- ‘come tax department won out
in the race with the sirens and bells but the doctor who performed the midnight de- livery at Grace Maternity Hos- pital here had doubts right to the crucial moment.
The genial obstetrician who asked that his name not be used a (I m i t I. e d wondering aloud if “it was going to be a 1957 income deduction or a New Year's baby.”
Mrs. Emanuel Bowdridge of Halifax just smiled.
M o in e nt s later bells clanged. horns blew and ship whistles hooted to welcome the arrival of baby Bowdridge a seven pound three ounce boy. Officially the nation’s first 1958 baby arrived at two seconds past the stroke of
midnight.
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Rokossovsky was chief of Po1and’s armed forces from 1949 until October, 1956. Moder- ate Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power then as the leader of the Polish Communist movement and Rokossovsky, regarded by some Poles as a Symbol of Krem- lin domination, was sent back to Moscow. He became deputy de- fence minister of the Soviet Union a‘month later.
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WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reuters) —Teams led by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary ad- vanced Thursday night from op- posite sides of Antarctica tantal- izing close to’ their goal — the South Pole.
Both were hampered by bad weather that has brought trouble to other nationalgexpedition-s tak- ing part in the International Geophysical Yea; survey of the ice-bound continent.
Fuchs, leader of the British party, radioed Wednesday after a six-day silencethat he was 300 milesgfrom the‘-»Pole. The New Zeala d group. ‘led by Hillary’, co-conqueror of ,;Moun=t Everest, was only 45 miles 3from the Pole but having fuel'-- and mechanical trouble. _
Hillary said his team is ready
that repeatedly bog down in soft snow, and walk the restof the way. The five-day-trek would take about the some time ‘Fuchs would need to reach the Pole in his powerful .-treaded snow-cats
‘ - I O . $5 For Driving ' O ' . Car With. TV
HAMILTON, Ont. (CP) —- Har- old W. Smith was convicted Thursday. of operating a car equipped with atelevision set. He was fined $5.
The‘ Highway Traffic Act says -no -person shal1£.operate a motor vehicle equipped with a television set. (‘The set Smith installed under the dash of his car could not be operated unless the car was stop- -ped wife the gear-shift lever in park position and the ignition turned off-.
Defence Counsel D. S, ‘Steph- ens said because .of-these precau- tions it would ‘accupa-he to
ledge and the genius of Mr. Smith but my job~~is to administer the law, not to change it.”
Dollar Gap Narrows Again
NEW YORK (CP)—Tlie gap be- tween the Canadian dollar and its U.S. counterpart narrowed again Thursday.
The Canadian dollar was quoted by foreign exchange traders here at $1.0134% in U.S. currency. That means they considered it worth 1 11-32 cents more than the U.S. dollar. J, V‘
That's the smallest ‘premium the Canadian dollar has com- manded in more than a year. In Nbvember it was worth four cents more than the U.S. dollar and in August six cents more.
SOVIET MOVIES WIDEN
LONDON (Reuters)—The first Soviet movie house with a wide screen will open this month in Moscow, the Soviet radio an- nounced Thursday.
USSR GETS 34-nn WEEK
LONDON (Reuters)-—The work week at a Soviet metallurgical factory in the Republic of Uzbek- istan has been reduced to 34 hours, without any cut in pay, the Soviet news agency Tass reported
Thursday.
to dump its troublesome tractors _
and Weasels.
THIN AIR IS WORRY
Hillary radioed: “We have only four drums of fuel left which should get us there, but if neces- sary we will abandon one ve- -hicle.” The thin air on the 11,000- foot plateau they were struggling across has caused their modified farm tractors to use up fuel at .a fast rate. '
When the two partieslink up at the Pole, Hillary will take Fuchs back across his route to the New Zealand base on the edge of the continent.
A three-man Norwegian party reported bad conditions as they treked from their camp in Queen Maud Land to map the 2,500 - feet - high plateau of the Gruber ‘Mountains.
A cable received in Oslo from leader Dr. Sigurd Helle said, “we a-re moving five or six kilo- metres (about three to four miles) a night. Conditions are bad for the tractors. The dogs
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JODRE-LL BANK, England (Reuters) — Western" scientists speculated Thursday night on when the first Soviet Sputnik will come down--or if there is any- »thin left of the little metal .8 re. '
The giant radio-telescope sta- tion here has failed to pick up any trace of the 184-pound sphere ince Dec. 26.
“We have established that the satellite is not in the predicted
' ‘-“orbit.” said‘Pnofessor A. C. B.
dix'ec_tqr_ oi’. e.station,
‘"‘l‘h'u ency Tass gave no information on the‘ movement of hire first Spurt- lnik. Tass’ daily reports on the “baby moo..” started when it was launched on Oct. 4 and ended last Tuesday. During the last three days, Tass has reported only the path of» Sputnik II, launched Nov. 3 with the space dog Laika.
The Russians announced last
Flood - Stricken Ceylon Aided
. COLOMBO, Ceylon (Reuters)-— Three countries sped relief into flood-stricken Ceylon Thursday.
The United States aircraft car-
rier Princeton lay at anchor off the east coast port city of Trin- comalee. Its helicopters carried relief food and medicine to nearby towns. ' \India and Britain also came to the assistance of the island na- tion as it struggled to repair the damage caused last week when the floods killed an estimated 250 persons, left 300,000 homeless and caused about $1,000,000,000 damage.
The British destroyer Cockade also was at Trincomalee, former British naval base, with relief supplies.
Indian air force planes Thurs- day carried about 35 tons of food and 350 pounds of medical sup-
plies to stricken areas.
ParIia’men’rResumesToday With Estimates Top Item -
OTTAWA (CP) —- Parliament comes back from its Christmas holiday today. to resume a ses- sion filled with imponderables.
Like ‘a good many Canadians with Christmas shopping bills to pay, it will concern itself first in the new year with money. The government will ask the Com- mons to approve a month's in- terim money supply. ' p '
Works Minister Howard Green, government House leader, plans then to have spending ‘estimates of the d e f e n c e department brought under study again. Next is the ‘spending program of the finance department.
No one in high authority would venture a firm prediction as to when the session might end. Bu‘. there was El feeling it would not wind up before the end of Janu- ary and possibly mid-February.
There is mounting interest in the national Liberal leadership convention. It will be held here Jan. 14-16 to pick a successor to retiring Rt. Hon. Louis St. Lau- rent. 3 - PEARSON AVAILABLE
Former external affairs minis- ter Lester "3. Pear . and former health minister Paul Mar-tin have
announced their availability. Ma-
yors Don Mackay of Calgary and Rev. H. Lloyd Henderson of Portage La Prairie, Man, also are possible contenders.
It is considered likely Parlia- ment will adjourn for the three days of the convention. But there might be some horse,-trading by the government for this conces- sion.
In behind-the-scenes dickering, government leaders might try to gain some Liberal understanding toward speeding the sessional business to a finish so that a new session can be opened.
Biggest question mark is when the next election will come. It is
still considered likely in the spring. But with unemployment run-
ning higher than usual and the economy apparently levelling off the Progressive Conservatives are understood to be less con- fidept about their prospects in a new election now than they were last summer.
But even with a new leader chosen the question is will the Liberals attempt to defeat the minority government and thereby bring about an early election‘?
The government has plenty of
business to get out of the way before it can fold up the session.
17 DEP 'MEN'I‘S W .11‘
When Parliament adjoiirned for Christmas and' New Year’s 011 Dec. 21, there were still spending gstimates for the current fiscal year of 17 government depart- ments to win final p‘arlia_mentary approval. -
Only the post office and state secretary’s d e p a r t in ents had been taken care of, although the mines department has only two items to go and some considera- tion has been given to estimates of the trade, health, defence and finance departments.
There are still about a dozen items of government legislation to be put through, too. Several of these are minor and likely will be taken care of in short order.
But two items — the govern- ment’s price supports scheme and Prime Minister Diefen- baker’s measure to abolish the closure rule —- are expected to cause trouble.
Members-of all Opposition par- tic. have been highly critical of the price supports scheme, claim- ing that it does nothing": that the existing Liberal -established plan has enabled since 1944.
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Explorers Nearing Pole
because of night travelling.
A report from Australia’s Maw- son Base said blizzards, fog and 60 - degree - below - zero tem- peratzres have hr. .1-pered a six- man parity carrying out survey work 300 miles inland from the coast.
MOUNTAINS UNDER ICE
The team reported they ap- .-peared to have crosed mountain ranges 3,000 feet high xhich were submerged beneath 5,000 feet of ice. They said they found'it safe to traveloless than half the time.
The Soviet news agency Tass said a Russian sled and‘ tractor expedition had returned to Mirny base from the southern geomag- netic pole. The team made the .800-mile round trip in two weeks.
The Japanese expedition’s ice- breaker Soya broke out of Ant- -arctic sea ice packs and was re- ported m-a1.'.ig “good progress” toward the Japai 1 base on On- gul Island. The 2,700-ton ship was trapped off the Prince Harald coast on Christmas day.
Report Sputnik I
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Monday that the first satellite was expected to enter the dense areas of the atmosphere and would cease to exist Jan. 1.
In Canberra, Australia, Dr. Z. Przybylski said Thursday Sputnik I already may have fallen into the earth's a.tmosphere»and dis- integrated. The astronomer said the aluminum shell. of the 23-inch satellite would evaporate as it.de- scended and probably not even fragments w 0 ul d- reach the earth's surface. .
The Tass‘ ,a‘nnouncemenl:. of ‘ the --said the orbit of the sphere ha, ‘notice- ably reduced. Maximnm heightof the orbit then w_;s 198 miles com- pared with the 580 ,miles when it was launched.
By midnight on New .Year’s Eve, Sputnik I would have circled the earth 1,348 times covering a distance of about 41,800,000 miles.
PREDICTED DEATH PLUNGE
At Cambridge, Mass, Ameri- can astronomers at the Smithson- ian Astrophysical Observatory predicted the s 21 tel 1 it e would make its death plunge Thursday.
They based their prediction upon orbit calculations carried forward from observations made in late November and early De- cember.
But, director Dr. Fred L. Whip- ple_said: “We don’t know where it IS, so we can't say where it, may fall.” ’
The rocket which gave Sputnik I its final thrust into space is believed to have fallen out of its orbit the night of Nov. 30.
Russia at that time maintained the rocket was still in space, but
territory. St.-ill later all reference to the rocket was dropped.
U. S. New Year Traffic Deaths Set Record
CHICAGO (AP) —— New .Year traffic deaths r e a c h e d the highest total on record -for‘ a one- day celebration of that holiday.
A tabulation Thursday showed 159 fatalities. There also were 20 deaths in fires and 22 in acci- dents of other kinds to raise the over-all total to 201.
The highest traffic toll rec- orded previously for a 30-hour observance of the New Year was 110. That was i. the transition from 1947 to 1948.
The heaviest loss of life in traf- fic in any 3-hour holiday in the records was 253 on Christmas Day, 1946.
The" New Year toll also fell short of ‘the 225 deaths reported during the 1957 Christmas observ- ance. Motor vehicle fatalities al- ways are fewer during the New Year period than during the Yuletide — due chiefly to less long distance driving.
The New Year boll went well b9yond.tlie 130 predicted in ad- vance of the holiday by the Na- tional Safety Council.
SIX-GUN TALK
LONDON (Reuters)--An Eng- lish educationist T h u r s d a y claimed American western films shown on British television are reaching children “six - shooter” English. School Principal C. H. G1-ilfiths said that “the vocabul- ary the children are picking up is very crude and limited.” The gpunoluatinn of the English is the Ipunc-Luation of the six-shooter.
later said it had fallen on U.S. .
~ WEATHER
Mainly cloudy with occasional snow- flurries; colder; westerlyrwinds 20. Low- high at Charlottetown 10 and 20.
_NOT MORE THAN
CARACAS’, Venezuel§<aAP) 1-- President Marcos Perez Jiminez claimed Thursday the govern- ment has crushed a rebellion of air force and army units with "a minimum of losses in life and material.”
The ‘president made a three- minute radio and television an- nouncement soon after govern- ment forces captured the rebel holdout point -at ’Los Teques, about‘23 miles from Caracas. Perez Jiminez said the sur- render of an artillery and ar- mored unit in Los Teques brought an end to the revolt, which began at dawn Wednesday while Venezuelans were still cel- ebrating the arrival of the new year.
LOYALISTS PRAISES
The 43-year-old president, who has ruled oil-rich Venezuela for nine years, praised loyal ‘mil- itary forces and said they in- cluded the country's best offi- cers. He_also praised the citizens for remaining calm. . With Perez Jiminez on the broadcast were Gen. Oscar Maz- zei, minister of defence, and other officers.
The government announced this morning that the rebel garrison at Maracay, the centre of the air force revolt 50 miles west of Car- acas, had been taken. Government troops then began stamping out remnants of rebel forces elsewhere.
SURRENDER AT NOON '
- Los Teques, the centre of the remaining opposition, was taken before noon. Lt.-Col. Sanchez Val- derama used a radio station there which had been broadcast- ‘ing rebel announcements all mor- ning to announce that the gar- rison had surrendered on the same terms as the rebels at ‘Maracay. There was no indica- tion of what‘ the terms were.
FIVE CENTS
a President Says There Was Small I.o§s.Of Life, Material
announced that the leader of the insurrection had been captured but he was not identified.
The capital was calm through- out’ the day. Troops were posted at strategic points, but the street: appeared to be normal. ,
AERIAL SWEEPS
Jet planes in rebel hands swept over Caracas at irregular inter- vals Wednesday and observers reported seeing several strafing attacks. Anti - aircraft batteries fired on the planes and the gov- ernment said one was hit and forced to land.
A government announctmenl said Thursday that all planes were again in government hands.
Gen. Romulo Fernandez, army chief of staff, said rebel leaders fled by air. He reported that Aurelio Ferrero Tamay, com- mander of the Maracay garrison and governor of the state of Aragua, had been freed from im- prisonment by the rebels and re- stored to his post,
Venezuela was relatively quiet three weeks ago when Perez Jim- inez won re-election in a nation- wide referendum. He had no op- ponents on the ballot and imme- diately after the polls closed -the government announced he had won an overwhelming victory. Many opposition leaders have left the country or have been jailed.
Thirteen Venezuelan rebel air force officers arrived by plane Thursday at Barranquilla, Co- lombia. The officers were taken to Colombian military headquar- ters for questioning.
,In Washington, the state de- partment said, it had no reports of harm to any of the approx- imately 40,000 U.S. citizens living in Venezuela. U.S. investments in the country are estimated at $3,000,000,000. Many Canadians also work there. None was re-
Military authorities in Caracas
ported injured.
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) —— No charge of piracy will be brought against three teen-age rimaways who‘ commandeered a yacht and held a family c_aptiive—and state authorities are pondering what charge to file.
Solicitor Allan B. Cleare Jr. of Monroe (Key West) County inter- viewed the San Antonio, Tex., lads at length Thursday and ques- tioned Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sias and their four children.
The Sias family was held at gunpoint until a sea-going posse of sheriff's deputies ran down the yacht Wednesday midway be- tween Miami and Key West.
The boys —- Tommy Edwards, 15, Johnny Cox, 16, and Mike Mooer, 17—surrendered and were brought here. Cleare said they are being held for investigation of kidnapping and grand larceny. He said he could not indicate when charges will be filed but that he would rec- ommend $10,000 bond case.
The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami said piracy would not be a charge. -
NOT ON HIGH SEAS
Assistant U.S. District Attorney Richard Booth said “there has
Is Scheduled- To Speak Here
MONTREAL (CP) — Henry G.
Norman, president of the Mont- real and Canadian Stock Ex- changes, will tour the Maritime from Jan. 11 to Jan. 19, it was announced- Thursday.
He will deliver addresses’ in St. John’s, Nfld., Halifax, Saint John, N. B., Fredericton and Charlottetown.
in each
LONDON (Reuters) —-‘ ‘The French minister in Albania failed Thursday to arrange the release from detention in Albania of a privately-owned British‘ transport plane and its crew of six, a Brit- ish foreign office spokesman an- nounced Thursday night.
The spokesma said the French minister in Tirana, Louis Keller, consulted Albanian authorities, but had not yet been able to make arrangements for the re- lease of the aircraft and its crew.
A French foreign office spokes- man said in Paris that Keller Thursday had talked about the plane with ‘lbanian Foreign Min- ister S-h-fylia.
NO PROTEST ASKED Authoritative British sources said France has not asked protest to Albania over the de- tention of the six Britons and the plane, forced down by Albanian
,.Chcir9es From. Florida Yacht - Theft
been novshowing that the boys got the the high seas” and that-Vthe United States did not have jurisdiction. -
The commandeered yacht was captured at about the three-mile limit, deputies said.
Booth said even if the boys had got onto the high seas, the United States would not press piracy charges because‘ of their ages. The only J.S. charge, be ex- plained, could be violation of the federal Juvenile Delinquency Act which carries a maximum pun- lshment of confinement until age 21 instead of life imprisonment as in piracy.
Halifdx Woman 100 Thursday
HALIFAX (CP)—M}'s. Jane L. Johnstone celebrated her 100th birthday here Thursday by cut- ting a cake with ‘the sword her
‘grandfather wore during the bat-
tle of Waterloo.
from the Queen, Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Premier R. L. Stan- field, Lieutenant - Governor Alis- tair Fraser, and Rt. Rev. R. H. Waterman, Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia. Relatives gave her 100 roses.
A native of Pictou, N.S., she lives with her only surviving son, Dr. James H. Johnstone, profes- sor of physics at Dalhousie Uni- versity. .
BIRDS GROUND PLANE
MADRID (Reuters) '— A flock of marsh hens Wednesday piled into an Iberia Airlines plane as it was taking off, damaging the pilot’s window and forcing the
plane back to Madrid for repairs.
FciiI_To Obtain Release Of British Aircraft From Albania
fighters -New Year's Eve at Va~ Iona, on the southw .1; coast of the Communist state.
French diplomats in ’l‘iraim. Albania’s capital, are making in- quiries for Britain. France and Italy are the only Western coun- tries which maintain diplomatic relations with Albania. Britain has not been represented in Ti-
ish destroyers hit mines in Corfu Channel off the Albanian coast.
The plane, a DC-4 Skymaster owned by a private British freight and charter firm, Inde- pendent Air Travel Limited, was forced down after allegedly vi- olating Aliiaiiian air space and ignoring signals from Albanian fighters.
France already has Il1f()1'1‘n(\d Britain that the six detained Brit-
ons —— including an air hostess -.- lnrc safe and ‘we'll, agcofding gg ‘-Albanian officials.
Congratulatory messages came
rana since 1946. when two Brit-.