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‘IPBINGHILL, N.S. — William nines, one of the draegermen
BY HARRY CALNEK :1Cmadian Press Staff Writer ‘j SPRINGHILL, N. S.. — (CP) ‘j The tragic end of Canada‘s ' minging disaster in nearly a century appeared near today as a steady tricle bodies came from the stricken / nland No. 2 colliery. .- By early morning, 16 bodies M been recovered from the My. rock-strewn deeps where a! below-earth surge Thursday fight Jammed passageways with tops of debris. Seventy-seven were listed as missing presumed dead. or the 174
the vicious "bump" 81 were ve, including 15 injured. he bodies were being brought the surfac; 1by ones and twos. \ were ed at the '13th a half hour wh’ile re- Iqbs were notified. Then the Mend stretchers were
ask for
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working to rescue trapped coal miners following the “bump” at
loaded in ambulances and hearses for the mournful drive to an armory a mile away.
Depressed draegermen and bare-faced miners continued their dogged tunnelling through the crushed rook and cracked timbers. Their progress was slow because of poisonous gas pockets.
There has been no official re- port on the progress of the pick. and-shovel search for the dead and missing since Sunday morn- ing. But it was believed almost inperceptible.
Hundreds filled the town's churches Sunday as Nova Sco- tians of every faith prayed for the trapped miners. While a miracle was sought, weary crews of coal - grimed miners were searching for b 'lies to bring to the surface. There has been no indication of life.
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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
DRAEGERMAN RE‘COUNTS EXPERIENCES l
Springhill’s No. 2 mine Thurs: day night, recounts experiences
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,IBodies Being Taken From ‘jSIricken Springhill Mine
slender thread, hung on the con- dition of the 13,000 - foot level where 50 to 55 men were believed working at the time of the “bump.” Their fate was hidden behind a wall of. rock being probed by respirator - garbed draegermen and bare-faced mi- ners lugging picks and shovels.
DOUBLE HAZARD
Officials, becoming more pen- simistic each hour. say that if the men at 13,000 feet from the pithead survived the roclcfalls they may have fallen victims to poisonous gas, now cleared.
Dosco coal chief Harold Gor- don, ordered to rest late Satur- day night after 24 hours in the colliery directing operations, has made no comment on the chances of the trapped men since early Saturday. Then he said there was
“a very remote hope” those at (Continued on page 2 Col. 4)
STANmNG on the lawn in front 'GWGmment House. Lieutenant-
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Rolled Back
I l l Almost 125 Years Saturday
kah the arrival of Dr. Aretas “mg 0f Hobart. Tasmania a‘ quemment House Saturday 2V "Ins. Island history rolled back ‘ “mm 125 years. ~Young’s grandfather. Lt. " 311' William Arctas Young 33 the sixth colonial Governor u“ Province. and the first ~ :l’egal. occupant of the present r“fibula-e.
was the Island Provinces administrator between 18.11
and dying while sllll in “nee, Was buried in tho vaull; (19.1.54- Paul's Church. A labld Widow memory. creclcd by 115 with .a'nd family. hangs on the
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he proceeded to London for pos'» ;graduate study. ‘ His course completed. be de- lcided to return home by way of - North America, spending 3 WEEK- , end here on his way.
Yesterday Dr. Young accom pauicd his IlOSi. Lieutenant-Gor-
eruor F. Walter Hyndman lo_ eleven o'clock service at ’ ‘Paul's. At noon time he was {.19 gucsl of honor at a luncheon
‘givcn at the Charlottetown Ho‘cl
bv the P.F..I. Historical Surlcrx. and in the evening was guest of honor at a small informal recen- ' lion sponsored by Governor Ilynd 1113'} w During the day he. was l on a tour of the Pl'm'l‘il'i‘ 1
.ing areas and north coasl brain
of Charlottetown’s Harbour and its surrounding farmlands.
es. Accompanying him and acting as guides on the short trip thrlugh the Island countryside were Mrs. W.M. Brchaut. Mr. ll. Earl Taylor. Mr B. Frank Tin- ncy. and Mr. L.C. Callbeck. all members of the Historical So- cicly. | Dr Young will leave the Pro- vinrc today. En route home he will visit Montreal, New York and San Francisco. Awaiting his ar» rival in Hobar are his wife and seven daughters.
The Island farming areas rc- mindcd him of certain farming jdlstricts in his native Island. Dr. Young remarked.
Down [here the chief farm pro— ‘ducts were shccp and apples he said. Tasmanian apples are fam- ous and bring in £4.000,0llt‘ pounds to the island annually he added.
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Known Dead In Spfinghfll Mine Disaster
SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP)-——Here is the latest official list of miners killed in the Springhill mine dis- aster:
Harry Halliday Cecil Cole Hiram Hunter Percy Bryan Eldon Stevens Clyde Corkum Ed McDonald Harold McDonald Clarence McLeod Thomas Marshall Bernard Miller Edward Robbie Hamid McNutt Isaac Holloway Willi-am Turnlbull Gus Gillis (Total—16!
Living, Pray Together For Dead, Trapped
SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CID—The living in this saddened Nova Scotia coal mining communllv prayed together Sunday for the dead and trapped in Cumberland No. 2 colliery.
“At such times as this we rea- lize how mortal and weak we are,” said Rev. Desmond McCon- nell at morning services in Wes- ley United Church.
The words were echoed from pulpits and altars in scores of churches throughout the province.
At early mass in St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church here, many of the parishioners wore black mourning clothe...
A child sobbed aloud as Msgr. T.J. Buchanan, the parish priest, said “it seems hard perhaps to understand why God permits sucn things to happen. The answer is that man was not made for this ea ."
CHARIJOTTETOWN. CANADA MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1958
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
VATICAN CITY (APl—The 51 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church present ballotted four times Sunday without electing a pope. A mixulp in smoke signals made it appear for about half an hour that Pius XIlI’s successor had been chosen.
For a time Z0000 Romans and tourists in huge St. Peter’s Square were certain the church had a new pontiff.
Millions of others ' "o listened to radios throughout Italy and Europe also were certain. They heard the Vatican Radio speaker shout exulltantlly:
“A pope is elected."
The scene around the Vatican was one' of incredible confusion.
White smoke from a little chim- ney atop the Vatican is the tra- ditional signal announcing the election of a new pope. Black smoke indicates failure.
Twice during the day smoke billowed from the slender chim- ney for a full five minutes. For all the outside world knew, a new pontiff had been chosen.
Clouds of the smoke were caught in searchlights trained on the Sistine Chapel chimney.
“Bianco! B i a n c o!" roared many in the crowd. White, white. OFFICIALS MIst
The Vatican Radio announced the smoke was white. Even high Vatican officials were fooled. Cal- lori de Vignale, governor of the oonclave, and Sigismondo Chigi. the oonclave marshal, hurried to take up the positions assigned to them. The Palatine guard was called them its barracks and or- dered to prepare to go to St. Peter’s for announcement of the new pope’s name. But the guard was ordered back to barracks be- fore it reached the square.
Priests and o t h e r s working within the Vatican grounds saw the white smoke. They started to cheer.
The crowd waited in an agony of suspense. Any pope elected would ordinarily appear on the balcony within 20 minutes. The crowd waited a full half hour, now wondering whether the smoke was meant to be black or white. Doubt set in swiftly. Many in
5-YEAR SENTENCE
SAINT JOHN, N. B., — (CPI — David Arnold Shore, 23, of Halifax, was sentenced Saturday to five years in the Maritime Penitentiary at Dorchester. N. B., when he pleaded guilty to breaking into a dwelling house.
The offence occured Oct. 19.
Prize-Winning
MOSCOW (APl — Pravda heaped abuse on Russian writer Boris Pasternak Sunday and said he would reject the Nobel Prize awarded him if there were “a spark of Soviet dignity left in him.”
The editorial in this official voice of the Soviet Communist party was written by well-known journalist David Zaslavsky who labelled the author of .the novel Doctor Zhivago—a best-seller in the West but unpublished in the Soviet Union - a “through and through bourgeois reactionary and through and through bourgeois in- tellectual."
(Zaslavsky was once a bitter enemy of the Bolsheviks but was converted to Bolshevism after a term in a Soviet prison nearly 40 years ago. He now and then is
BOIESTOWN, N. B.. — (CP) — Two youths were killed in- stantly Saturday night when the car in which they were passeng- ers was in collision with a truck on highway No. 8 about four miles north of here. Dead are Allan Hovey, 18 and Murray Mc- Donald. 17. both of Boieslown. David Green of Boicstown driver of the car, escaped injury.
along highway No. 3 towards McGivncy when it collided with a truck reportedly driven by Al- hcrt liunlcr of Astle. York Coun- ly.
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Author Is
Labelled Traitor, Judas
called on by Pravda when it re- quires a particularly acid piece
of character assassination.) Here are some of the vitriolic epithets Zaslavsky applied to Pasternak. “Malevolent Philistine libeller an extraneous smudge in our socialist country."
Pasternak was labelled a “trai- tor” and "Judas" in the Soviet but Pravda was of greater significance for it put the final seal of condemnation on
Literary Gazette Saturday, the attack by
Pasternak by the Soviet Commu- nist party. Since the attacks on him started
Pasternak has been in virtual iso~ lation in his country house at the village of ‘Peredelln'no, southwest
of Moscow.
Zaslavsky Slinday denied the i
Their car had been travellinl’.‘
inuucsl was ordered by. of;
author is being persecuted.
Brother Oi S’Side Man Is Killed In N.B. Accident
which later viewed the bodies and the scene of the mishap. The inquest was adjourned until an indefinite date.
The accident is being investiga- ted by the Doaktown RCMP de- tachment. both bodies are rest-
ing at the McPhail Funeral Home1
in Blackville.
Mr. MacDonald is survived by his sister, Mrs. Charles Calerin’, Boiestown, with whom he had been living for the past year. two sisters, Mrs. Vincent Valr year. Harvey Station, and Mrs. Gerald Astorino, McAdam; three brothers, Jack McDonald, Sum- mcrside, P.E.I.: Joseph McDon- ald. Camp Borden, Olll., and George McDonald, Harvey lion, and several aunts, uncles
ISlalllcy. \\I10 cmpallcllcd a ju.‘y..\’ieces and nephews.
away.
VOTE AGAIN TODAY
Only well after the time when a new pope should have appeared on the balcony above St. Peter’s
the vast crowd began to drift Square was it Cel‘laln that the vot—
ing would have to resume today at 10 am. (5 am. ASTl.
The crowd. now aware of this,\
dissipated quickly. Greyish wisps of smoke still spiralled from the chapel chimney.
SUMMERSIDE — The death of Mr. Martin Gallant of Urbain- ville. former member of the
ment 1935-1947, occurred Satur- day in the Prince County Hos- pital here. He was 85 years old.
Mr. Gallant was elected to the P.E.I. legislature in 1935 after being defeated as a candidate in 1927. He was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Liberal Lea Government and was re- elected in two successive elect- lons.
Mr. Gallant was born in Rus- tico in 1873 the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arcade Gallant. He was educated at St. Augustus School,
and St. Duns-tan’s College.
He taught school for a number of years in the province and later became Inspector of all Acadian Schools from 1910 to 1922 and again from 1927-‘3‘1.
As a member of the Legisla- ture for 12 years, Mr. Gallant was regarded as one of the pro- vince’s most authorative speak- ers on education matters. Although his speech-making was infrequent. his views were al- ways held in the greatest res- peot.
Besides his wife, the former Mary Rose Arsenault, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Arsen- ault of Abram's Village, he is
Prince Edward Island Govern- .,
New Glasgow Grammar School ‘
Former Member Of Island Cabinet Dies In Hospital
THE LATE MR. GALLANT
survived by two daughters Mrs. Wellington Yvonne Gal~ and two sons, Anthony of Charlottetown
Virginia Arsenault. Station and Mrs. lant, Mont Carmel:
and Edmond at home.
The funeral will be held from his late residence in Urbainville
Tuesday morning for Requiem High Mass at Egmont Bay Church at 10 o’clock. Interment
wiII be in the church cemetery.
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (AP) — Two full - scale nuclear blasts were set off Sunday and fonr other shots were scheduled as scientists raced to complete their current test series before Hallowe’en.
Oct. 31 is the date proposed by President Eisenhower for a one- year Suspension of nuclear test- ing.
Sunday's first detonation light- ed the crags of the Nevada des- ert with an eery glo' that might have come from some giant witch‘s cauldron.
BOILED UP
Boiling up $000 feet through the night sky, a sulphurousdook- ing fireball threw stark shadows for miles across the desert floor
The sound and fury were felt seven miles away by observers
Atomic Enengy Commission of- ficials called a meeting for later in the day to set the hour for a smaller shot today.
Yanks Fire Two Alomic Blasls
Two detonations are scheduled Tuesday and a real Whopper is on tap for Wednesday. One or two others may be fired before the Friday deadline if there is time.
FIRED FROM BALLOONS
Both of Sunday‘s devices were in the 10 - kiloton range. That means they had the force of ap- proximately 10,000 tons of TNT each. They were fired from bal- loons anchored at 1,50“ feet, the first over Frenchman Flat, the second over Yucca Flat.
The AEC said Monday’s blast, code named Manama, would have a yield of less than one kiloton. It will be fired atop a 50-floot steel tower.
Another 50-foot tower shot in the sub-kiloton range is scheduled for 8 am Tuesday.
Two underground detonations, to be set ofif in tunnels in the side of a mesa, are due Tuesday and Wednesday.
WEATHER
Clear with a. few cloudy intervals. Not
much change in temperature.
northeasterly winds.
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Commission Urges Closer Q
Control Of Oil Industry
VOTE AGAIN TODAY
Cardinals Fail To Elec’r Pope On First 4 Ballo’rs
By HAROLD MOCRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CPI — The Borden
energy commission has urged that the Canadian oil and gas in- dustry be brought under closer federal scrutiny through the crea- tion of a national energy board with wide licensing and control powers.
The commission, in a 50,000- word interim report made public Saturday by Prime Minister Dief- enbaker, also:
1. Recommended that the gov- ernment allow exports of natural gas “under licence” for periods no longer than 25 years.
2. Reached no decision on one of the most controversial issues before it—the building of an A1- berta—to - Montreal oil pipeline. This would be taken up in a sec- ond report, to be prepared later.
RAPS PROFITS
The six man commission, hitting out at some top gas pipe- line officials for making heavy profits, partly with the help of public money, also urged that the board of transport commissioners be forced to regulate pipeline tolls to keep these charges “fair and reasonable."
It agreed Canada has plenty of oil and gas, sufficient to allow licensing of exports to the United States for fixed periods.
But the commission, headed by lToronto lawyer Henry Borden, urged the administration to lg— ' nore the commitment of the previ- ous Liberal government to Trans- Canada Pipe Lines Limited to allow it to export gas surpluses to the US. at Emerson, Man.
The request of this company, said the commision, should be treated on its merits. For one thing, the US. Federal Power had not yet ap- proved of unports, from Trans- eanada. And the mummy had not yet obtained permission from Alberta to draw off more gas to meet its heavier commitments.
A group of Canadian compan- ies had appealed to the commis- sion to recommend construction of an Alberta-ttoMontreal oil pipe- line to offset American restric- tions on Canadian oil. But the commission indicated it had dif- ficulty reaching a conclusion.
Until this was dealt with in a
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Six-Man Group Hits Out At Profits On Pipeline
second report, the commissim said. nothing in the first repor should be construed to indicate “by inference or otherwise, who our recommendations may ultim- ately be with respect to it." However, it did suggest that oil imports be placed under control of the proposed energy board. These proposing an Alberta—to- Montreal pipeline had suggested that imports had to be restricted if the pipeline was to obtain a big share of the Montreal manket now served by imports.
The commission observed that Canada’s oil imports last year amounted to some $455,000,000. roughly eight per cent of imports of all products. It was time, if said, that the flow of this oil and the tolls and tariffs now be placed under import licensing control.
FAST ACTION LIKELY
Mr. Diefenbaker indicated to reporters that the government plans some fast action on some of the recommendations.
He made clear the administra- tion was not bound to accept any of them, but said the cabinet al- ready has given the report pre- liminary study and plans to con- sider “what legislation should be introduced at the next session of Parliameu .” ,
“Some recommendations, I think, would demand early ac- tion.”
The Liberal commitment to Trans-Canada was made in 1955 by former trade minister C. D. Howo in a letter saying that once the US. approved of Trans-Can- ada shipments to the American mid-west, the Canadian govern- ment would grant a 25-year ex- port permit covering 200,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily. URGE DELAY
The , ’ ed that Trans-Canada's gas market was greater than the amount it had authority to remove from Al- berta’s fields. Until it received permission from Alberta to get these additional supplies, the fed- eral government should take no action.
Top oflfiilcials of both Trans-Can- ada and Westcoast Transmission Company Limited came under scathing criticism 'from the com-
(Continued on page 5 Col. 7)
By STEWART MaoLEOD Canadian Press Staff Writer BROCKWOOD, England (ClPl—
The Queen unveiled a big white stone memorial Saturday that is dedicated to 3,547 soldiers who died in the Second World War and have no known graves.
It bears the names of 199 Cana- dians, most of them victims of the 1942 Dieppe raid.
The Brockwood memorial, a cir- cular colonnade with 16 name- bearing pillars, stands on a green lawn, surrounded by the graves of more than 7,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in both world wars. Facing it are the graves of 2,407 Canadians.
Nearly 8,000 people, many of them relatives of the honored men, came to this tiny Surrey community to see the Queen have her soldiers remove the Common- wealth filags that draped down over the pillars and covered the
Queen Unveils Memorial To Soldiers In Unknown Graves
names. She spoke to them tron a covered dias.
“This means more than name: written on a monument . . . Never think their sacrifice was in vain."
Prince Philip stood behind the Queen in the blue unifiorm of a field marshal. The Duke of Glou- cester wore a similar uniform. Other members of the royal party wore the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Kent and Prin- cess Alexandra.
With the completion of this memorial by the Imperial War Graves Commission, all 355,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Second World War now have a monument. The govern- ments of all the countries con- tributed to the cost.
Canada was represented by Veterans Affairs Minister Brook. and senior officers of the armed
services in Europe.
CORNERSTONE I.AID AT CITY CHURCH
Rev. H. L. Mitton, B.A.. B.D.. far right, officiated at the laying of t"c cornerstone of the New
laptisi Church yesterday . flan. (l 1-;-l'.~ seen in l.f' pi:
member of the building com- mittee; George Lewis, chairman “(mi of the Board of Deacons; Nelson 5,le Good. chairman of the buildlng I arc, IL‘ll to right, Dr. J..\. Clark. l committee; S. ll. Burhoe, mem—
pastor.
ber of the building committee and ways and means committee and Rev. Mitton, Baptist Church
The program included an invocation prayer. responsive
reading, hymn. Scripture read- ing, remarks by Mr. Good, plac- ing of a box containing numer- ous mementos, dedication pray- er and Benediction.