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Design

Of Wood islands Ferry

OITAWA (Special) - Senior of- ricfsls and naval architects of the Department of Tl-ansport have still not reached a final decision of the dimensions. tonnage and vehicle cgpacity of the new ferry planned for the Wood Island-Caribou run. rhe Guardian learned here Friday.

It also is understood that there no to be further discussions be- tween the Department. Northum- berland ferries Lunited. who will operate the craft when completed. and the people of Prince Edward pland as represented by its mem- tiers of the House of Commons and senate.

Originally the craft. which will supplement. the service now being given by the ”Dun.nlng" and the 'Prince Nova." was planned as ii so-vehicle vessel. Representations -were made to former Transport Mznister Cllevrlcr and his succes- sol. Transport Minister Marler. lhat this was insufficient to meet f'li'.hCI' the regular commercial or the summer tourist traffic. Archi- inctfs plans for the ferry were re- examined to see if I. 40 or even an-vehicle vessel could be built and mil dock at the present Wood Is- lands and Caribou terminals.

Latest. report here is that a 50- vehicle ferry is favored. although

Coming Events

"Christmas concert. Vernon flail. Dec. 20

"Pownal Christmas Pownal hall, Dec. 20th.

"Concert, Tracadie Cross Hall. December 21st.

"Regular Saturday night Dance. at. Peters Hall. Messer's Orchestra.

"Clyde River school Christmas concert on Wednesday. Di-"G 2'1-

"Hamilton Christmas Concert. Monday. December 20th.

"Wheatley school concert in Wheatley River Hall. Dec. 20th.

"Christmas Concert. Orwell Cove. Tuesday, December 21st.

"Concert and Films. Hampton Ilall, Wednesday, December 22nd.

"Kelvin Grove school concert Wednesday. Dec. 22. Curtain 74.5.

"Christmas Concert, Fort Aug- ustus Hall. December 22nd.

"nilrview Christmas December 20th.

"Bonshaw School Concert. Mon- day. 20th.

"Christmas Concert. 1'allv-y Hall. December :l2nd. "Mt. Mt-lllck Christmas cell in Pownal Hall. Dec. 23

"Springton School. Christmas Concert, December 22nd.

"Kellyla Cross Christmas Con- cert, Wednesday. December 22nd. Time 8.15. Dance after.

"Spring Brook School Concert. fl-cember 20th. in French River Hall.

"winsloe North Christmas Con- cert. winsloe Road 1-fall. December With.

"Annual Meeting Kingston Tele- phone Company. December lath. non p. m. Edgar Newson. Secretary.

"Holiday dance St. Mary's hall. hurls. Monday. Dec. 27. Goo music. Regular admission.

"Come to the Christmas Concert at. Stanley Bridge Hall. Wednesday night, December 22nd.

"Reserve December nod for New Glasgow School Concert in Hall.

"Christmas Concert. Emerald Hall. Tuesday. December 21st. at 0.16 p. m. .

"Brookvale Christmas Concert.

concert in

Concert.

Wilmot

COIP

Monday. December 30th. 8.15 p. m. Dance after. "Christmas Concert Aibcrry

Plains School. Monday night. Dec- ember 20th.

"Dance. West Royalty Hall. Wednesday. Rollie MacKen7.le's ?2r;l)1estra. Canteen Service. 9.30 to

"Buying daily. good quality straight and mixed grain. Market prices. Clark's Feed Service, Mt. Stewart.

"Bingo. Geese and Chicken. North Rustico, this Monday, it p. m. 50 cents for 20 Blngos. Special Tur- he Bingo 10 cents.

"Handling complete line of Bhut- Galn Feeds. also Custom Grinding "id mixing daily. Bhur-Gain Feed Service. at. Peters.

”Oh1'lsl.mas Bingo. St Andrews Hall. Mount Stewart. Monday Dec- -mber 20tf.h. '15 lbs. Christmas Candy.

"P. I. I. Protestant Orphanage Christmas Concert will be held on Monday evening. December 20th. at 7.30. instead of Wednesday, the "lid as previously advertised.

"Our Stores will be open each evening beginning December 20th, lintii Christmas and closed Monday. December 27th. We will be closed "0?! night except Saturday. be- sinnins January srd. 1955. until iiiriher notice. waddell area. and Parker Csnfiold. Crapauil.

"Buying pigs Monday at Fred- ericton. Tuesday. Brookfleld 9 am. Milton 10. York 1 p.m.. Redford 2. Tracadie 2.30. Mt. Stewart 3. Pis- quld 3.30. Fort Augustus 4. Water- Asia 430. Vernon River 5, Pownal '30- Wednesday. New Glasgow 9 "gm. Wheatley River 10. Holmes iornor 11, New Haven 1 p.m. Ronshaw 1.30. Desable 2. Kelly's Cross 3. Emerald 4. CH ion 5. K'f"liiIlton sso. Paying ,:2s.oo A Wilt for good pigs over 26 lbs. "fit Will also buy smaller ones.

Mud Jorgensess. Fredericton.

its motor car and truck capacity to 00.

Until some definite decision is reached. no figures of the craft'a exact dimensions are available. It is known. however. that experts have drawn partial plans for three or four types of vessel. each hav- ing different dimensions. tonnage and power.

One of the few definite decisions on the new link between P.E.I. and Nova acotla is that it will be of the ice-breaker or semi-ice-breaker type. This. of course. is not com- parable to such heavy ice-breakers as the Transport Department's ice-

mlghter "fbervllle." On a smaller scale. however. it will be something like the design of the ”Abegwelt,"

which will draw the water from

beneath large ice-flocs and the

weight of the bows will smash the e.

Latest U. 5. Potato Crop Estimate. Up'

The final estimate of this year's potato crop in the United States received yesterday by Donald A. MacDonald, chairman of the P. E I. Potato Marketing Board, shows a total production of 365.- 090.000 bushels. a substantial in- crease in the estimate nnnouucerl in the US. dllrlllg the mouth of November. which was 346,942,000

bushels. Mr. MacDonald said last night "that this unexpected increase

may have an adverse effect on po- tato prices at a time when market

short crop in Canada. the competi- tion of American potatoes on the Canadian market has a great in- fluence on prices in thl.s country and as long us such imports are allowed to enter this country duty free as at present. Maine price levels will continue to be an im-

ipriccs potato producers in cRStPrll Canada can expect to receive for their product."

C. Miller. business man and died Friday night other injuries

sports figure of burns received

crash.

CLEVELAND (Alli-Dr. Samuel Sheppard's first - degree murder jury was deadlocked for more than Ill hours Friday before it was sellt to bed, his file still hanging in the balance.

A decision on his gu.lt or in- nocence ill the .lllly 4 slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn. was put off at least until 9:l5',a.m. EST, today when the Jury will re- sume deliberations.

The jury was sent to a Cleve- land hotel at 10:39 p.m.-12 hours and 26 minutes after is began its idcliberations.

The Jury got the case at 10:13 am, EST. Friday after nine court weeks-6i calendar days-of the trial.

Testimony l.l15.000 words.

In a 38-minute charge Jury, common pleas Judge Edward Blythm outllhecl five possible ver- dicta and admonished the Jury:

"You are not to recommend mt-icy out of considerations of pre- judice. sympathy. or favor or for the purpose of avoiding what you may consider an unpleasant task or duty."

The verdicts possible and their maxlmlliii penalty were not guilty; guilty or first-degree murder with- out mercy. death: llllilly of f:rst- degree murder with mercy. liic inl- prisonment; guilty of second-degree murder, life with parole possible in 10 year. guilty of manslaughter. one to 20 years.

STORY VNCHANGED

If the jury convicted the osleo- path of first-degree murder and recommended mercy. the case would come up for review in so years. The governor of Ohio could then commute such a t making the convicted person elig- ible for parole.

Both the state and the defence finished their cases Thursday with their final arguments to the jury. The state called the 30-year-old osteopath the most vicious mur-

Gormon Irunotto Charged As Spy

BERLIN. (AP) - A voluptuous East German brunette was held here Friday. accused of charming top secrets from two American so- curlty officials as a sovm lpy.

The arrest. of frmgard Margar- etha achmidt. 25, was confirmed by chief U. 8. prosecutor Thomas 0. Lancian.

Charges of espionage have been filed in an American high oommia- sion court in Frankfurt. she will be arraigned in Berlin out Tisealay.

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there have been requests to extend"

breaker "C. D. Howe." or the still

with reversible propeilors in front

conditions in both Canada and the;

United States are a l r e a d y I dull." He points out fur- t h e r. "that while t h e r e is

MILWAUKEE. (AP) -Frederick prominent Milwaukee Prof. Riccardo Gale-nzzi Lisi. warn- .ing against over-optimism follow- snd lng several clarcd: "The condition of the Holy hours earlier in the crash of a pri-iFnthci- is serious because he grows vate plane here. His son and the pilnt and co-pilot were killed in the

Sheppard Jury Deadlocked 12 Hours; Sent To Bed

lo the;

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TBA AIRLINER CRASHES AND ALI. ABOARD BELIEVED TO BE SAFE

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DECEMBER 18. 1954

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Inspector W. H. Nevin. officer ,in charge of ”L" Division. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Char-.

lottetown, yesterday announced the promotion of three members of the force stationed in this City.

Doctors Divided On Treaimenl

Missing Man Dies Shortly After Rescue

derly man missing for two days. died Friday shortly after belngi

barely able to move his lips. p Searchers found 84-year-old Wll-j

to his home half a mile away. He was still able to move his lips feebly but by the time doctors

Cpl. Ray Stunden Cpl. John Olliphant

Promotions Announced

Sgt, D. R. George who has been S-Sgt. George served overseas with in charge of the Charlottetown De- lthe Royal Canadian Mounted Police taohmcnt since 1952 has been pro- contingent in the Italian and North motel to Staff Sergeant. He has Western European theatres of War. had 22 years service with R.C.M. life is married and has three child- P. in Ontario and the Marltlmcsfrcn. l Constable John Ollphant has been promoted to Corporal. He has had 13 years service with the Force in both Ontario and the

Become

Hy PATRICK GEOSSE VATICAN CITY (Reuters)-The

pnrtant factor in rlcterminiiig what-Popc Friday night was reported inlto which his heart is sllbjectcd".'5i,,.b1c sumd.-n

l"s0l'1f1llS condition" and growing- 'wcakcr, while his five doctors were reported to be sharply divided on how to treat him.

The pontiff',s pcrsonal physician.

cheering news. Thursday. dc-

constantly weaker." The Popes pulse rate Friday

dercr in the history of crime-com tending he beat. Marilyn to death Jilly 4 with 35 heavy blows after a' quarrel over his love affairs with other women.

Dr. Sheppard maintained to the- end the same story he told the morning of the murder - that a bushy-haired prowler found his way into the suburban Sheppard home the windy. cold pr:-dawn of July 4 and killed Marilyn. leaving the osteopitth unconscious and sorely wounded.

Mehdes-Fran-c-e Asks Showdown

PARIS (Reuters) Premier Pierre Menries-France Friday night challenged. ills opponents in the, National Assembly to a showdown vole after he rccelvedltwo rebuffs on Indocjlilin policy.

Thc nssclnbly as a whole rc- jcclcd the Indochina section or his 1955 budget by a vote of 301 in 291. Thcn the assembly”: finance icommissinn turned down is revised version of the Indochina budget by a vote of 22 lo 17.

Mcndcs-France, who will confer with British and American loaders .iorlny on Far Eastern policy. said ,ho will submit the revised budget ltu the filll assembly tonight as a vote of confidence.

nous-zrs-:n CHIMNEY

FULFORD. Que. (CPl - Mrs. Edsnn Davs investigated when a sticky substance dripping from the chimney almost put the fire out in hcr home here. She found a swarm of bees. setting up house. had packed about 40 pounds of

Pope's Condition

night. was understood to be hlgiherltn produce agreement on the mean---

Maiiitimes. Corporal Olipiiallt ls .Qliartel'nlast.cr at the Charlotte- town headquarters; he is married with no children.

Constable Ray stunden has had

Search for Mr. Lorette started af-

of his daughter, Mrs, Norman Adams. after leaving for a wall;

Anything Can Happen Now

MONTREAL (CP)-In Mon- treal's Christmas rush. any- thing can appen-like the fox that got into it furniture store Thursday night.

Nobody could explain how the fox got under the counter of Hartney Companyls furniture store but police were called to get it out.

Two constables laasoerl the fox and took it to the SPCA.

Ally shoppers who saw it must have thought it was a I clog. said police.

flown, 15 miles west of

Wmce Edward iitsali Like The Dew

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BRAMPTON. Ont.. (CP)-A Trans-Canada Air Lines. Tampa-Toronto airliner crashed and burned near this town 14. miles northwest of Toronto Friday night but all aboard. were reported by police to have survived. ,

Brampton hospital said brought there. '

"about" eight injured wera'i

Police estimated there were 50 passengers aboard liner. described as a Lockheed Super Constellation, TCA officials said their csiimate was that there were I

appeared accurate.

The TCA said there "appeared",

liam P. Loretta of Frosty Holiowlm 1,, --a few mju.-ed.” pnlice Mid abmii 300 yards Off 3 mad 19-”idIii8-one man was taken from the scene! I

on a stretcher. g It. was llnvertaln whether the air- craft was about to land from

reached the scene he was dead. 1'1-,,mpn at Manon, seven miles east

of the crash scene. or had landed

tier he failed to return to the honielag Mannn and taken on again fury 1

Montreal. , Details of the crash were mcagrc.

Wednesday. (Ontario Provincial Police said thr-Il

plane crashed in a field near this Toronto. They said all 50 passengers appar- ently survived.

It was not known if the plane made an emergency landing or ac- tually crashed in the field.

Police said the aircraft was burn- ing so ”fiercely nobody can get to the wreckage."

The flight supervisor at Malton airport said the Constellation had been unreported "for .1 short time." It was raining lightly over the men when the crash report came in

TCA officials said only about 16I passengcrs were believed to bei aboard the plane but "lhis is sub- ject to correction." Police paid ear- llcr that some 50 were aboard.

7 1-2 years of service. His duties were in Nova Scotia before comlilgl to Prince Edward Island ill 1951.

s Serious

Normal pulse rate is 72. although I1 from Chicago where he attended an

Wide V3FlHii0l1 is Dflssiblii. ladvanccd traffic course at North The pontiff, who will be 79 in wc,5',9)'1) umv.-rsiiy Last fall he

March. also had a. recurrences of was mm-neg-1 to M155 Joan 5.3319...

the persistent iliccupa which sic- RN or 17-memwn and aha.-mug.

nailed his two previous attacks this gown.

year. last January and again oni

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POVDER TIIEATMENT - - - A 90-minute confcrcn.-e Frlda,vlK'"ed In Accldenf

night among his five doctors failed

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LIVERPOOL. N. S, (CP)-Wan . , g g , .ren conmbcs, 24. of nearby Milton 1"? ":jFi5tH(;'t5 Wk” Thiiisdlb ”,w...s killed Friday night when the "5 lm ff fl? ' V lcar in which he was a passenger ....”:.”:.”f..”i::..'.”.”.'.” .i..f"1':.l.l'.::.:. rm 3' .m':."'”i. gr "'.""8;d

. W noitroasle't . te' t. ;z;Ktii:m.stt1::mach. and also a form: cm. ,,...ped mJ.”l;l la n P

The two surgeons called in as pm-U-nr AppogNTED cglisliliants argued that the firsti 5A1N'1- JOIFIN. Np, tcpymagri. t crapeutic efforts should concen-Hum... Minute, cl 1;. ghe...,..,,,,d

cmlle "” "Tl"! '” 19559" We gtlannounced Friday the appointment

fects of the hernia.

But the three physlclansvone or them a gastric specialist-are said to. have urged that the gastritis must be cured first.

Sally Ann's Commissioner Retiring After 50 Years

of E. M. Taylor as acting deputy minister. effective Jan. 1. He suc- ceeds J. K. King who retires then. I Mr. Taylor has been a department iofficial since 1018.

ziel, 70, who started 50 years ago as a comet player and doubled on piano. is retiring Ncw Year's Eve as commissioner of the Salvation Army for Canada and Bermuda. At. a woichniizht service at the

lion Army reconstruction projects. He was appointed commissioner for Canada and Bcrmuda in 1951. The commissioner. a six-font, one-l inch man with flashing brown eyes . attended his fireal mccting of fuel army's Dnnfrirth Citorlcl hole that army's advisory board Thui'sd.1y.. night, he will step down from a On hand was Rt. Hon. Arthur. career full of aclivillcs be de- Mciglicn. fornicrprime minister of. scribes as ”fascin:itiiig and rcward- - Canada. as ch.-ilrmnu. ing.' ' "if I had my life to live over The commissioner loiiicd the Sal-.again. I would do cxricily what I vaiion Army in Great. Briiain as a ; have done." the cnnmiissinnr-r said.

cnrlci cornct playcr in 1904. Bcfnrcl ”l'Vilat career could he more fas- tlic First World War he rose to bc- cinating or rcwar(llng'.'" comc lezidcr of the Clilplilll I7ml- He recalled that he has been

grcss band. When war broke out llf?1ll0OlCfI at and jccrcd on street car- wns assigncd to the wcstcrn front I ncrs from Belfast in Mclbournc but and dircctcd the Salvation Army's;by persons unsympaihciic in that amblllnncc unit in Frnilcc. ysnlvatinn Army. He always rs-cnllerl'

After the war he was appoiniedltlic advice of his father. himself at national organizer in Britain for the Salvation Army man. never in let Salvation Army scouts and later more taunts touch him. look over division commands in Leicester. London and Liverpool.

Then. aftcr a icrm as assislalit chief secretary in the British com- mand. he came to Canada in 19.10 .3: chief secretary.

APPOINTED IN 195!

NAVY INSTILIICTOR l(ILI.El')

DIGBY. N.S. (CID--.lohn Bell of Kingston. Ont. a physical training instructor at the nnvy's Cornwallis shore station near here. was killed Thursday night when the car he

TORONTO (CF) - William Dal-lexiensivciy n r ga n 11. i ng Salva-' gmwmcnt

Halifax Office

He has been promoted to Corponll OTTAWA (CF)--A Iloyal Cans-l Division are worthy of the highcst

than 104 per minute. List said the tnnd pm in ohm.” of the mghway . dian Dcnlai Corps Officer has I)00IllCnn'llllPl1fl.1ilOn. -Iicldciibclualely ox. lhigh pulse rate "shows the slrnlnltl-amc squad m 4-L" Division. con. J commcutlccl by the deputy. com-I tcnclcd his service in Korea so that re.-emly rpturned . mancicr of American forces in K0-'IIWR5.”il1-DORE school could be com-I

rca for his ”untirlng work” in help- ing to rebuild the villages of Chili- Canadian sector of Korea, giiiiny said Fririay. i The commendation for Lt.-Col. Vi". M. Sinclair of Halifax was rcari schnolhnilse at Hwasars-Dong. says in part:

"The enthusiasm. sincerity and preseverance which Lt.-Col. Sin- clair clevoted in the rehabilitation of Korean settlement villages in the area of the 1st Commonwealth

By DAVE MCINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA (CP)-The slow, in- sidirwus pressure of i6 months in solitary cnnflncment in a Commu- nist Chinese prison caved in the mental resistance of Sqdn. Ldr. Andy MacKs-nzie.

The 34-year-old Montreal fighter pilot told a press conference Fri- day that after holding out for lmonihs he finally signed a false. that he had "invadedy Chinese air space" and had been briefed to do so.

Actually. MacKeiv.ie. flying with the United States Air Force. re- colved no such instructions. He was shot down and landed by paracilliiel in North Korea Dec. 5. 1952. He. was rc-leased at the Hong Kong. borricr last wcck.

MacKcm.ie. speaking slowly and dclibcratcly. said he even tried to. ruin his health so that he Cillilfll halt ”lns:iliable" interrogation by

:Servicemen F

OTTAWA (CPl- Legislation pro- viding maximum death Lenefiis of 55.000 in civil servants and mom-

was riding in left the highway.

He returned to London in 1946 as Four companions, also stationed at

honey info the chimney.

!Will Discuss Fate Of lmprisonedjiirmen

British commissioner and worked Cornwallis, were injured.

Red Chi

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (AP) UN Secretary-General Dag Ham- marskjold agreed Friday to direct talks in Pelplng with Red China's Chou En-lai on "pertinent ques- tions." He will urge Chou to re- lease ll American aviators held by Communist China as spies.

I-fammarskjold had suggested the face-to-face conference last Friday "after the UN assembly voted 47 to 5 for him to use "unremitting ef- forts" to effect the release of the aviators and the repatriation of hundreds of UN personnel. still

bcrs of the armed forces will come into operation Jan. I. I A gnvrrnmr-nt announcement said

na-U.N. Talks Are Arranged

held in China. In his reply received Friday mnr-, ning. the Chinese Communist pre-' LOST N9 TIME mler said the Peiplng position on Hammarskjold lost no time in the aviators had been sot forth in acknowledging the cable. saying: a cable to Hammarskjnlrl which in-l "I look forward to the opportun- dicated Chou regards the case asi lty of meeting you. In view of nec- cinsecl. Then Chou added: l'l.IlI')" practical arrangements, 1 "in the interest of peace and am not yet in a position to fix a relaxation of international tension. data for the arrival nor can I say I am prepared to receive you in definitely who will come with me our capital. Peiplm. to discuss I may get an opportunity for first with you pertinent questions. We contact concerning some of these welcome you to China. Please de- practical arrangements with your cide for yourself the date of your ambassador in Stockholm." visit and inform us of your decl- Hammarskiold was to depart