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Telephone Employees Go On 5-Day Week In March

All full!-ltime employees otxlae Island IODMM Com . . will go on a five-day w eche- dule on March first. according to an agreement reached between the Company and the employees this week. '

This announcement was made yesterday by ML Wilfrid Mec- Lean, president of local Union iv... 1311. International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers. and

deal said.

tlssered" as is the custom in other utumgg where, service must be maintain- 9d- Emloyeeewillhevetwofull dlyl duly each week. and work five days."

Negodationa covering aevu-.1

confirmed last evening by Mr. D. M. Gass, manager of The Com- pany. Mia Evelyn Vatcher. presi- dent of the Women's local No. 1812 also reported that an agreement had been negotiated concurrently with their division. and the some mull reached.

Commenting on the possible of-

Hicks Promis

weeks were conducted by corn. Deny officials with Wilfrid Mac. -::!?mnI:ldthDonuUvinIllt't;n rep- I In 0 am and EVGIYII Vatcher and ATbert.auHlg- gins representing the . 31181"-ly more than one hundred employees are involved h the change.

es Effort To

Revive N.'S. Coal lndustry

HALFAX (CF) - Premier Henry D. Hicks promised the Nova Scotie legislature Friday his Liberal government will do every- thing possible to restore the prov- inrr's coal industry to ,"lts sc- customed vigor."

He said Nova Scotia would work with "any other level of govern- ment" to solve "a very difficult situation that tsanscends political interests."

Many of the province's 11.000 miners have been idled in a stag- gored program of pit shutdowns caused by sagging markets.

Tip premier also said "we will

listen to constructive views of the official opposition or the in any way, they can preted constructively." Mr. Hicks. speaking without a

repared text. said 1955 proapectg.

or the province. "except for the coal industry”. are "not too bad at ell."

it was the only reference made to the course of government think- ing before the premier moved ad- journment of the throne speech debate untili Monday. allowing members to return to their homes for the weekend.

The premier. melting hie first

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SAINT JOHN. N. B. (C?) -A

charges alleging "false banhin entries with intent to defraud” and

my should be relied upon."

The jury deliberated we and a hall hours before bring!-nl in its 'nnt gull " verdict which con- cluded a our-day trial. The

sive Conservative opposition.

MONTREAL. (GP) .. Potter of nearby St.

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forcing session and select lottery

Judge Reginald D. Keirsteed to

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Area Commanding Officer. Lieut.

or P. K. Wilton. R.C.N.,

Halifax. inspected the sea Cadets

:5” n.c.s.c.c. "Kent" last eve- it

After inspection of the ship's company by the Area fficer. the hands were detailed to classes in seem p and the Morse code.

Sea CadllCorps nl

Inspected

on by Licut. Com- C. Chaplain was also present dur-

and commented mander Wilton. ing the inspection.

Associated with Lieut. I. C. P. 0. Carl Riggs is Regulat- Smallwood, Commander of the ing Officer with Leading Cadets "Kent" in training the Sea-Cadets are Carl Wilson, D. MacAusland. are H. Thompson. First Lieut. H. S. Hughes. R. Mclfelgan, F. Trainor. Sub. Lieut. Division of- Mahar, and J. Profitt. ficers. Midshipman Ceuty. Supply Barter'a Film Lab.

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Navy To Use For Training

OTTAWA, (CPY-The navy next week will start using radio-com uoled pilotleea planes at: anti-

ea east

Officer. Rev. Allan MacDonald. R. No Truce Of Robot Planes Missing M."

Off Halifax Onloffinls.

T9DIll'ed. GOOSE BAY. Llhrador (CP)-

While the unit will launch the -drones from shore, the targets may also be launched from ships

silence surrounds the fate of two men lost in the vast reaches of Baffin island deep in Canada's

history.- already have least 10 lives.

WINNIPEG (CP) - Seven per- sons stranded on the wild northern barrena faced a fourth night of savage sub - Arctic cold Friday night as bitter winds whipped up the snow, obscuring their position from search planes hovering over- head.

RCAF headquarters here re- ceived unofficial word early Fri- day night that two Dakotas were circling the area trying to locate the party, stranded since Tuesday when their RCMP Otter was forced down on the tundra. 900 miles north of Winnipeg. by an unexpected storm.

The plane was located Thursday afternoon but bad weather Friday halted any rescue attempts.

An RCAF Otter, piloted by F0. C. W. I Bounce) Weir. veteran bush pilot who flew the Duke of Edin- burgh from Rockcilffe. Ont. to the Chalk River atomic research sta- lion and return last summer. left Churchill Friday morning to at- tempt a rescue. -

However. an ice crystal haze

30.000 Square Miles Flooded In Australia

SYDNEY, Australia iReuterst- Debris-strewn floodwaters surged unchecked Friday night over a l!J.iJ00-square-mile area of New South Wales as thousands of homeless faced another night of terror.

The floods. worst in the state's cost at Fifty towns have

Police described Potter as I

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Present unemployment is seriously regretted by Commons : lowrnmcnt giving it constant at.- tentlon.

Howard Green (PC--Vancouver Ouadral pro 4 a national en- ergy policy be laid down-by a sea- tal hoard.

Trade Minister Howe said a board of experts on Canadian en- tritv sources would be a waste of mhllnwer and talent. g

Committee study of redistribu- tion and the Canada lleetioas Act is: decided u n.

Transport lnister Marler in- dicaied non-acceptance of opposi-

i ti d loc viaory clilnciiiimilin lsldfotllll ..."a..ii'i har- bors board.

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The Commons consider gov- ernmont business. The Senate is Idinurned until Tuesday.

Coming Events

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,"Rummage Iaie today. 8 '9l00k. Sons of England Hell.

"Dlnee Mt. Stewart Memor-

hl Hall tonight. Burns orchestra. 5

"Showing at Mt. Stewart Fri- 4-v and Saturday-Abbot and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll.

"Motorists opening March 1st Mr Texaco Firestone dealer. Corialfs Texaco. Southport.

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m"save March 11th for the Var-

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balls: were alee released on

In fining Fotter Hae 01,000, with the tioanf&day'ainjail.Judge Hen Monty utd he would not impose 3:.- con because it was Potter's first offence and Potter has a wife and family.

CHAIR IBIAII NECK

TORONTO (OP)--Ilse. Gordon MacDonald. 30. suffered a broken ""5. 7.?.'..."f.'. "if .... am un chair. As she reach: the

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will commanded by Lt.-Cmdr. M. I. II8endes of Dartmouth and Victoria. CPO. Norman Lambert of Toronto will he is char e of maintenance. Both were in - ed at the United States naval air technical El

In the case of the R.C.A.F. drones. which continue to be used by the air force. the targets may be controlled from a piloted plane. They can perform all the manoeuvre. of which a piloted plane is capable.

target practice he the n.c.A.r. for the last few years.

The drone targets have a wing span of 11 feet and are power- ed by an ll-horsepower piston engine. They have a..top speed of about no knots and an endur- ance ef 1 1-8 hours.

PROVIDE ' TARGETS

The mobile unit will provide targets for anti-aircraft practice by the east coast fleet. They will be controlled and recovered from a site at Osborne Head, east of the Halifax harbor approaches. llecb drone is equipped with a parachute which. when released. automa cally stops the engine. al-

chalr. her son Brian. 15. mm lowing a drone to descend. The on the chair to and shi it 'chute can be released at any by PAULINE KENNEDY forward, g on hia time during flight and the drone Canadian Press staff Writer mothers nec . recovered and any d ” parts TORONTO (CPJ - After four k of waiting and struggling for health. little Iggy Crotty at lau

Falls 14 Storeys, Lives

NEW YORK i )-A 11-year- old youth hurt! to the bottom of a 14-storey air shaft in a down- town buildfng during the night and remained wedged there for

urglary attempt. He was booked on charges of burglary and possession of bur - lars tools. Police said they thohsght he had broken into the bull ng .falled in an efbrt to san- seck offices on various floors, then fallen down the airshaft after re- turning to the skylight through

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it the alrshaft and summoned police.

saw his mother again Friday.

The reunion of the nine-year-old body who was partially paralysed when he came to hospital in To- ronto. and his mother who flew in Friday morning from Newfound- land. was wordless and touching.

They just flew into each ol.lier's arms.

"What are you going to do with all my letters now you are coming borne?" his mother asked.

"Tear them up and throw them away." he said. "I don't need them anymorrnow you're here." "LOOKS so WELL"

Ilia words were music to Mrs. Leo Croity's ears. When Iggy left St. Johnia last October for brain operitions in Toronto's Hospital thing I remember I wasentangled for Sick Children he couldn't walk in these pipes." or talk-the result of a motor ec-

Fluid Missing .

which he had gained entrance to the building.

A building employee heard cries for help coming A J a wall of

Anderson told police that he and a companion bad climbed a fire escape to the roof Thursday night. "My partner held a .38-calibre tomyheadandtoldmeto aiuigp through the skylight." he so .

"He wanted me to get into the building and pass stuff up to him. I told him I wouldn't do it.

"My partner put. the gun to my head and I jumped. The next

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the raging waters. Extensive da-

iiu-tanowas.-ins rking .-waters.

northland.

the barren .landa R i Ca i Done and Frobishc Bay. now say hope of finding the men rests largely on the success of a ground search party.-

Donald Baird of Twilllngate. Nfld.. a 22-year-old Hudson bay company employee new to the ways of the Arctic, and Ootoke. a veteran Eskimo guide. left the little trading post at Cape Dorset Jan. 15. They were due to com- plete the 750-mile trek southwest along the windy wolf-infested trail by Feb. 1. Search parties were sent out when they failed to ap-

TAIPEI. Formosa, (AP)-strong reports persisted today that the Nationalist garrison which aban- doned Nanchlshan in a secrecy- guarded ll-hour operation was taken 60 miles south to reinforce the Matsu islands.

The Matsus. 100 miles west of

Nfld. Mother Is Reunited With Convalescing Son

icident in May.

rived his le

pun Formosa's northern tip. guard the

approaches to the big Red port of Foochow.

Although the United States has made no public commitment. the Nationalists have indicated belief they would get U. 8. help in de- fending both the Matsus and Que- moy. guarding the laws hes to

Weather Delays Arctic Rescue

covered the area. 35 miles south- east from the Ennadai lake weather station. and Weir was forced to continue on to Ennadei to await better weather. A second attempt was planned Friday after- noon but 2.0-mile-an-hour winds be- gan blowing from the north and churned up the snow on the ground.

Although no contact has been made with the stranded party. RCAF and RCMP officials were confident the seven were in no danger.

Britain Calls For Agreement On Arms Cut

By SEYMQUR TOPPING

LONDON (AP) - Britain called on the world's major atomic pow- ers Friday for every ounce of ef- fort to get an agreement on die- In Opening a closed conference of the United Nations disarmament sub-committee, British Minister of State Anthony Nutting declared:

"All mankind will agree that there is no hope of attaining real and lasting peace without real all- around disarmament . . . In this modern scientific age. none of us must spare one ounce of effort in the fulfillment of this trust."

Adiourn Probe Of Tug Sinking

SYDNEY (CPl -A transport de- partment inluiry into the Dec. 3 sinking of the tug Rouille off the Cape Breton coast was adjourned

Friday without a data being set for its decision.

Nationalists Reported To Be Reniforcing Matsus

Amoy.

Inability to get such help for de- fence of Nanchiahan. 140 miles northwest of Formosa. coupled

with Red landings on islands both north and south. apparently prom- pted the withdrawal begun at 7 p. m. Feb. 28 and completed at noon Friday.

SILENT ON Ill!

The Nationalist: were silent on the size of the garrison. estimated unofficially at 5.000. but said the evacuation drew no interference frorgl the Reds as close as 12 miles nor .

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DEFENCE DEPT. 00llSlllEllS POSSIBLE puss "zor Aiictic ISLANDS AS AIRANIJ SEA BASES

(By Dave Mclntoeh, Canadian Prose Staff Writer) OTTAWA. (CP)-The defence department is study-

ing possible use of Canada's Arctic islands as air and see bases, it was learned authoritatively Friday.

Little actual research into the problem has been car- ried out. Officials said Canada is at least 10 years behind the Soviet Union in Arctic research. The officials indimted

A recent Russian pamphlet ia- sued by the Soviet Arctic Research institute and entitled "New Soviet Researches. Explorations and Dis- coveries in the Central Arctic" has come into Canadian hands.

"It's a shocker." one authority declared. He was referring to the big strides Russia has made in Arctic research. t

STARTED BEFORE CANADA

Russia started a systematic re- search of the central Arctic in the 1930s. As a comparison. the Arctic research section of Canada's de- fence department was not estab- lished until 1947. Up to then, the work was left to explorers, the Hudson's Bay Company and RCMP.

Last year. Russia established two permanent research stations on drift ice near the North Pole. They are equipped with planes. helicopters. tractors. trucks and mobile livin quarters. Canada has never establ shed a similar station that far north.

The Russian pamphlet says that in 1948 Russian scientists discov- ered a great submarine mountain

MONTREAL. (CPI - Canadian National Railways has notified the board of I : commis- ei that passenger service on two Quebec lines will be de- creased March 6 for "lack of pet- ronage," it was announced Thurs- day night. g

Affected will be the 45-mile St. Leonard de Nicolet-St. Hy-Iclnlhl line and the 30-mile Quebec City-

clded to take four trains, one

operating from each point. off the

service. JEEEJEJEILELSEE

More Sleet. Snow For Britain

LONDON (Reuters)-More sleet and snow was forecast for storm- battered Britain Friday night as snowplows battled drifting snows to reach stranded motorists and helicopters continued to bring food and medical aid to isolated vil- lages.

More than 1.800 main roads were blocked in various parts of the country Friday night by drifts up to 20 feet deep. despite warmer weather add thinning snows in the southern part of the country Fri-

day. i

Mrs. Crotty. e ey-haired moth- erly woman who six other chil- dren home in Newfoundland to make the trip. was so overjoyed by Iggy? recovery she could only repeat over and over:

"Iiwasn't prepared for this-he looks so well)

When he left Newfoundland for treatment even his dea- faired of his recovery. Mrs. Cfotty

not could not believe the change she found in her child who can run around unaided and talk halt- lngly again.

Mother and son will leave To- ronto by plane next Tuesday for another joyful reunion with lggy'a brothers and sisters and father. But first. Mrs. Crotty. whose hus- band is a payroll clerk in the muni- cipal government at St. John's. wants to see Toronto.

"I have never been outside New- foundland before," she said. ''I want to go shopping for the chil- dren and have a good look around se i can tell them all about the city which has been as good to

sue PLUCIK IIELPID lay. a bright-eyed boy in sec- ond grade at school. was hit by a car last May in St. John's on his way home from a fishing trip. The car didn't stop. I Iggy'a older brother. Walter. ii, and four other boys saw the accl- dent but things hgrened so fast they were never a to give an accurate description. Iggy. has said the car was eon. be questioned by the R MP when he returns home. The boy was unconscious for lie after he was struck and doc-

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donned apaper admlrenwereettaah

Garneau line. The C.N.R. has de- the uni

they feel a start on basic research is important. range in the Arctic basin. previ-

ously believed to have been a mas- sive water-filled depression.

The pamphlet - officials here said there is no reason to doubt its contents-says this range, in

to 10,000 feet high. extends from.

the new Siberian islands to the North Pole and beyond in the di- rection of Canada.

American scientists in i951 pro- duced some evidence. officials here said. that the ran e does ex- tend from the North Po e to Ellen- mere island. Canada's farthestr north Arctic island.

The discovery is important be- cause the undersea range actually divides the Arctic into two basins. The range determines the circula- tion of water masses and the dis- tribution and drift of ice.

The Russians have also made in- tensive studies of weather and magnetic factors in the Arctic. im- portant to navigation.

Officials said this country will need far more Arctic data before it can determine whether air and sea bases in the Arctic islands are fesible. In the hydrogen age, the problem may be pressing.

To Cut C.N.R. Passenger Trains On Quebec Lines

City-F u line which will be

DETROIT (A21-,-A day awarded Prof: . varsity of

dams!!! against

itualist he charged with lur hha into l.uv tr. inclu I I dry oil well.

Prof. Hymn testified Mu. Lillian Lee advised him after eeancee during which the "spirits" some- times answered Mrs. Ina through a trumpet she held.

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TORONTO icpi -Minimum and maximum temperatures:

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HALIFAX (CP)-The Dominion weather office says a pres- sure area centres over prev- iace of Quebec is may east- ward and sunny weather fore- cast for all regions deturday as dry air flows over the district. In-

dications are that show will fall

in. the northern regions Sunday while in the southern Meritlmee the weather will be cloudy with a chance of rain or snow late in the