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first place in the roadster class at the Alberton Fair on Wednes- day. The fair, said io be the

Vaz in history.

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Is contnning today. (O.her pictures and story on page 13.)

400 Experts In Plant Life Attend Botanical Congress

By GEORGE FRAJKOR Canadian Press Staff Writer | MONTREAL (‘(CP)—The Ninth International Botanical Congress | ‘Was formally opened Wednesday |

“

- with an outdoor ceremony | McGill University's foothall

Stadium.

Seme 4,009 plant - life experts from all parts of the world and thoth sides of the Iron Curtain are Bttending the 19 - day congress,

every five vears to discuss Subjects from the lowliest fungus to the lordliest fir.

The congress opened with an by congress president W | Thompsen. world authority on Sica and president of

y of Saskatehewan with the ee awarding of @ medal by the Cranbrook Insti- ‘tute of Science. Chicago, Tl. to @mother Saskaichewan botanist Dr. Kenneth W. Neatby Dr. Neatby, who at the time of hits deatif Oct > begs about to be @ppointed assisfant deputy min- fster in charge of research for the Canadian agricultural depart- Ment, was honored for his re gearch on the genetics of rust- resistance in wheat.

FIRST TO CANADIAN

It was the first time the award has been won by a Canadian.

The citation said:

In making its award this year to the Canadian Kenneth Neatby,

Coal Enquiry To Be Made

By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP The federal | Government is expected to an- | ounce today the*creation of a} commission of inquiry into prob- lems of the hard pressed coal in dustry. Prime Minister Diefenhaker told a reporter Wednesday there will be an announcement ‘‘on coal, ” but without specifying its . Rature Informants said later it is likely

he will be announcing the passage of a cabinet order-in-council set ting up a promised = inquiry, ‘mainly centred on the ailing Nova $eotia coal business

It is understood that cabinet ac fion up to now has been mainly | on general principle of —

wiry and that no personnel has yet been selected for the in- vestigating body. This is to be done in consultation with the Nova Scotia government One informant said ‘t has - et been decided whether the ry will take the form of a full. ay royal commission, which consume conside¢rable time, or SP eacther it will be a faster moving look into the coal siten- tion in view of the urgency of finding measures to prop up the sagging industry. NEED ACTION Some government advisers lean Miowards a one-man inquiry for quick action but consider getting @ man with all the necessary lifications might be difficult « Another question ‘is whether the favestization should ‘take in all operations in Canada. Originally, it was planned ear- this year as govering just) = Scotia, faced with a partic- wlar crisis because of a fall-down

on central Canadian markets and}

resulting heavy unemployment in the Cape Breton colliery districts But the government has heen | under some pressure to extend the investigation into New Bruns ck and Western Canadian coal fields, where the industry has been on the Wane, though less Grastically than in Cape Breton. It is known whether the cab- fnet has decided on the wider in- @uiry

the . . . institute recognizes a tal-

mind applied to research. It is a matter of deep regret .. . that! | the medal cannot be put in the hand that earned it...”

Dr. Neatby, born in Surrey, Eng.. moved to Saskatchewan, at the age of six. He was~-edu- cated at the University of Sas-

ent outstanding merit, an original| ied at Cambridge under a

University of Minnesota. He stud- fellow- | ship from the U.S. National Re- isearch Council before returning | to Canada as a cereal specialist for the agriculture department

Dr. Cyril H. Goulden, the de partment’s assistant deputy-min- ister, accepted the medal on be-

katchewan, Saskatoon, and at the! half of Dr. ‘Neatby

MACDONNELL IS

By DON PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (‘(CP)—Age caught up

Wednesday with 74-year-old J. M. Macdonnell. He resigned his cab- inet post as minister without port- folio to make way for a younger man.

The man expected to move into the cabinet today in place of Mr. Macdonnell is David Walker, 54 year-old Toronto lawyer and long- time friend of Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

Mr. Diefenbaker announced Mr. Macdonnell’s resignation Wednes- day following a cabinet meeting. On his way into the cabinet meet- ing, the prime minister said two new ministers will be sworn in to- day before Governor - General Massey

He said one of the new minis- ters will be from Ontario and the other from Quebec.

Speculation is that Mr. Macdon- nell] resigned, with the intention of continuing as a private MP for the Toronto constituency of Greenwood, to make it easier for |Mr. Diefenbaker to pame Mr. | Walker as public works minister. | TORONTO HAS THREE

Such an appointment Walker | raised a problem: of cabinet rep- resentation, He is the Progressive Conservative member for Toronto Rosedale and there were already | three cabinet ministers from Tor-

of Mr

would otherwise have|

74

Veteran Quits Post In Federal Cabinet

J. M. MACDONNELL

onto — Mr. Macdonnell, Finance

Minister Hees.

It ,is considered quite possible that \wr. Macdonnell will later be elevated to the Senate. Mr. Dief- enbaker could not appoint him a

senate openings are filled. Mr. Macdonnell might well | get the first new. opening

(Continued on page 5, Col. 4)

Mexican Mushrooms Cause Insanity, Cures

MONTREAL (CP) — Mexican mushrooms that drive men mad —for a while, anyway—can help make them sane again.

Dr. Roger Heim of the Museum of Natural History, Paris, de- stribed the weird plants Wednes- day in an interview at the Ninth | International Botanical Congress, | which opened here.

Dr. Heim said he and a co- worker in Paris have succeeded lin cultivating the mushrooms in |quantity, have discoverel the ‘drugs in them that produce their Strange effects, and have suc- seeded in making the drugs syn- thetically. ‘

The mushrooms, of the psilocybe and strophaira species, have been known and used in re-

‘gious rites for centuries by na- tives of Central America. They produce vivid hallucinations and a splitting of the personality. No one has hertofore tried to use them for medicinal purposes | Dr, Heim, following up the

work of New York anthropoligist R. Gordon Wasson, investigated the use Mexican Indians made of the nfushrooms for religious rites and took some of them back to France.

TOOK TREATMENT

Dr. Heim has taken the mush room treatment eight times.

“I saw the most vivid colors, colors that do not exist in na- ture,”’ he said,

“I saw scenes of the most splendid grandeur. It is almost impossible to describe adequat- ely. I remember that I was cons- cious all the time that I was hav- ing a hallucination.

“Ht is not like a dream, waen you actually believe what you are dreaming. I knew all along, with

hallucinations. The personality is

| stAlit. I felt a deep feeling of peace and satisfaction. Every- | thing was perfect.”

Minister Fleming and Transport |

senatof now since all the Ontario | currently |.

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‘WASHINGTON (AR) — Soviet Premier Khrushchev has offered secretly to give the West German government eontrol over West Berlin—with guaranteed access— in return for a pullout of Western forces, day.

Informed sources said Khrush- | chev sent his’ proposal to Pres: ident Eisenhower by way of Mil- ton Eisenhower, the president's brother

The Russian leader, due to visit ‘the United States for meetings with the president next month, | Was reported to have outlined his | plan to Milton Eisenhower during

‘the talk was held while Eisen- hower was in Russia recently with Vice-President Richard N Nixon

There was no immediate indi- cation of how President

of the Berlin problem.

He has let it be known he will | listen to any new idea Khrush- chev may put forward on the is- sue when they meet in mid-Sep- | tember.

SAID IN FAVOR

a private talk. The sources said!

talks between Khrushchev and: Eisenhower, the Russian teader denied any intention to draw West Berlin into the Soviet orbit. Khrushchev was reported to have said he wants‘a peaceful

it was reported Wednes-| solution of the dispute. But he

| was said to | to have _been a Vague

i

hower reacted to this Khrushchev} tipped Proposal for a long-term solution’ Wednesday

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont (AP}—A 50,.000.000 - ton mountain

hid ; how many died The greatemass cascaded from!

the

another mountair onto a camp- one-half mile long and a mini-| the mighty quake mum of 150 feet deep at the low-| vacation! est point and approximately 300 | \feet at a point over the road.”

\STILL QUIVERING

ing area as rocked this heautiful area jate Monday night

The known death tol! stands at

Milton Eisenhower, president of eight. One woman was missing. |

Jones Hopkins University and at times an adviser to his brother, |; Was pictured as favoring the | Pronger proposal

Some state department officials |

were strongly opposed

For about nine months, Russia and the Western allies have been | at loggerheads over the future of West Berlin, a Western island 110 miles inside Communist - ruled Fast Germany

Khrushchev has demanded that the Dpited States), Brit France withdraw © their’

from West Berlin. The West has refused to do so, contending the Russian aim is to absorb the city into East Germany | East and West foreign min isters haggied for 10 weeks at Geneva this summer,

gress.

DENIES AIM According to _accounts of _the

Dead Airman Is Identified

OTTAWA

(CP) — Air force

trainer in France as LAC Alfred Edmund Pitman, 23, of Britannia, | Nfld.

airman's ejection seat failed to work. The aircraft crashed = hang 10 miles southwest of Murvaux, France. ,

The pilot. FO Gordon 0. Rice. | 28, of London, Ont.,

injuries.

Dr. Frank MacKinnon, | cipal of Prince

but broke broader up without any measurable pro-/| will

| we'll Authorities say they believe the | work,”

Twenty-seven of the scores of in jured still were in hospitals least six were in critical condi-| tion

survivors, , the death toll may g0|

Labor Pian lsBroaber

FOREST PARK, Pa. ‘AP)-— AFL-CIO leaders said Wednesday union political activity be the inevitable conse- quence of stricter labor controls

They pledged at a strategy |meceting of the federation's polit- ical organization to step up or- ganized labor's efforts to help the friends and defeat its enemies at the polls

The AFL - CIO chiefs frankly consider they have taken major political lickings in the separate labor control bills voted by the House of Representatives and

ter.

“What happened would indicate have to do much more

federation’ s president

about how West Germany would be-- guaranteed

Berlin

Dr. Eisenhower was understood | | to have interpreted Khrushchev’'s plan as involving a corridor link- ing the city with West Germany.

Mountain Slide Hides Mystery Of Death Toll

to at least 12. perhaps higher. |

“It is presumed that some peo- ,of rock, dirt and shattered trees ple may have been buried by the Eisen-|—loosed by the earthquake -that! ‘large land mass which slipped southwestern Montana—|into Madison Canyon,”’ said A. mystery of E. Zion of | highway department.

access

the Montana

to West

105th = Battalion

the association's last even'ng. Paimer of Charlottetown.

sixth state

“The slide is approximately | oy Page 5).

Searchers assembied equipment to claw at the great hill in a grim At} hunt for more victims delaved movements cease in the still-quiv- Bennett On the basis of reports from ering area Skindivers were

start

yore trapped between damaged | The premier said other mem-/ their vacations in Spain. slide

was

until

about

ebgen Dam and the 12

=“ ved Hebgen held back ifs 337,000 acr water. An acre-foot acre one foot deep. The owner of; Hon the dam. Montana Power Com-' Liberal federal’ minister of fish-| Jona hospitals hurried said it will be repaired as. eries and now president of the| scene but the flames from the

| pany,

soon as possible

“It was

help,

crying

for

horrible,”*

said Mrs Clarence Scott of Fresno, Calif.| public “The children were screaming for! Hugh L their mothers

eet of covers

PRESIDENT

Edward D. MacPhail of South- port was named president of the Association at

reunios He succeeds Cecil (Story

land’ VICTORIA (CP) — Wednesday

j headed by Dr 30 |

Energy Board ‘Named In B.C.

But their! Premier announced brought in to formation of a five-man British explore deep river holes where, Columbia energy board to be) Spain. bodies might be submerged All known survivors 'persons—have been brought out | 55 \of Madison Canyon, where they

Gordon Shrum. of | the University. of British Colum-}

| hers of the toard. which will ad- stl Fase. Tite-government on pi} pha

of ‘energy developments, pr ~ gn} tion and use, are

James Sinclair.’

H. F. Angus,

one-time

Dr.

BARCELONA, Spain ‘AP) — A chartered airliner crashed into a ‘mountain peak Wednesday in a dense fog. killing all 52 persons aboard. Most victims were vaca- | tioning British students. i

The plane burned after smash-

ing head-on into the 2,400 - foot) high peak of man 25 miles north-} east of Barcelona. Flames drove! off rescuers who rushed to the scene from a nearby weather sta: tion. The plane. chartered by the, British National Union of Stu- dents. crashed minutes after tak- ing off from Prat de Liobregat Airport for London.

There were al first conflicting reports on the exact number of Passengers aboard, but authorit- ies said Wednesday night the pas- senger list showed there were 21 British students returning home| from vacations in Spain.

The three crew members—pi- lot, co-pilot and stewardess——also were British.

The British victims were 12) men and 12 women, officials said.

Others. were a German, two} Tranians, an Irishman, three Spaniards and a Malayan MOST ON BOARD YOUNG

The passengers were said to be; between 18 and 23 years old. The British group arrived in Spain) from London Aug. 5. Some of the | Britons had spent their ~foliday at Palma de Mallorca, while the others scattered throughout

The twin - engined Dakota air- liner of the Trans Air Company, arrived eartier Par netey: bring- ing in 20 other students to spend

The cavse of the accident could | ehae be ined immediately, hut a heavy fog covered the

mountains at the time. Ten ambulances from Barce- to the

B. C. Fisheries Association; Dr.| plane wreckage made rescue ef- chairman of the| forts impossible.

utilities commission; Keenleyside, chairman) crash site were burned beyond of the BC. power commission;

Bodies scattered around the

| recognition.

Husbands begged their wives to A.F. Paget, comptroller of water HIT “PEAK OF MAN”

answer."

rights in the province.

The plane crashed head-on into

today

Newfoundland’s Electors

By DON HOYT

Canadian Press Staff Writer JOHN'S, Nfld

ST

as

the people

‘CP )—

Pol-

government is seeking for re-| election for the third tame since 1949 and has entered 33 of a rec- said George Meany, the iticians step aside for the voters | ord. 95 candidates in the field for

zo to the|the 36-seat House of Assembly.

“I don't think any new direc-| polls in the most important por- | The opposition. Progressive Con-

tion is work, but we've got to do a bet- ter job to educate ovrownpeo-!

parachuted ter job to educate our own peo- to safety and suffered only minor, ple to the ' political activity.”’ |

value and need for

| landers 1949.

NDT.” Premier Smallwood" 6

became Voting begins

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needed for our political | vincial election since Newfound- | serviative party, Canadians in 'mer Magistrate Malcolm Hollett,

at &

a.m. } has 32 candidates.

headed by for-

For the first time a third party,

ea the labor-backed Newfoundland

CANADA COUNCIL MEMBERS

prin cil mémbers in front of the his- Wales College,|torie Provincial

Building prior

and the P.E.I. representative on|to a meeting. From left to right

the Canada Council, is \ above with several of the Coun-

shown | are, Dr. MacKinnon, Dr. Norman

A. M. MacKenzie, president df

the University of British Colum- Sir Ernest Mac- MacMillan,

bia, Vancouver; and Lady

Millan

Toronto, and. Very Rev.

Levesaue,

Quebec

City.

G. H.} ton, vice-} cause of illness.

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chairman of the Council, presided at yesierday’s meeting in the Confederation Chamber. The chairman, Hon. Brooke Ciax- was unable* to altend Be-

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Take Over Spotlight Today

Democratic, has enough can- didates-19—40 form a government if all were elected. The United Newfoundland Party. formed by dissident Progressive Conserva- tives, has entered nine men, in- cluding three in St. John’s ridings which the Liberals are not con- testing. There are two Indepen- dents, one backed by the Demo- cratics.

220,000 MAY VOTE

Possibly 220,000 pecp'e are el- igible to vote. A voters list tab- | ulated over a 10-month period in | 1955 was not revised for this el- ection, presumably because of tne | shortness of time after the leg- tistature was dissolved July 28. |Many districts are believed to | have more or fewer voters than

‘there were in the 1956 election |

because of natural migration, @opulation growth and a govern- ment plan to move residents of coastal communities to popula- tion centres.

The weather is forecast to be gunny with some clouds

In the 1956 provincial election, more than 115,000 of the elibible 190,000 voters gave Premicr Smallwood 32 Liberal members. The Progressive won four seats but two members quit the party shortly before dis- solution to form the United New- foundiand after differing with Mr. Hollett and Rex Renouf, PC mem- ber for St. John’s South, over the financial terms of union issue. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)

WHERE-TO-FIND-IT

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‘Late reports from Guardian news bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris, and from special cor- respondents now appear on the Island News Page.

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“11132. Passengers Perish | As Big Airliner Crashes |

West German Government Gets Offer Of West Berlin.

Most Crash Victims Are British Stucents -

the Ture l'Heme — the Peak of Man—only about 100 yards from the Montseny weather olserva- tory station.

Fernando Garcia Castro, the weatherman on duty, gave this account:

“I heard a tremendous blast, and immediately afterward I saw a fantastic flash. I thought the

jentire station had blown to

it wat

the tot

pieces. Then I realized just 100-yards from “I urged the few men around and all of us rushed to «i. + It was awful to see. The fuel tanks of the plane were still ex ploding one after the other, send ing pieces of the plane all ovei the place. We could do nothing to resche the passengers for they obviously perished instantly.”

Polio Death

Toll Rising

MONTREAL (CP) three new polio cases diss > mitted to Monfreal hospitals \ im the last 24 hours bringing the number of cases being treated here to 351

One person died, death toll to 24

Montreal and suburbs have re ported 225 cases and ‘14 deaths. The remaining 126 cases and 10 deaths were among persons from

raising the

| eutlying distriets who were

here for Treatment

The outbreak has been offl- cially labelled a “mild epi- demic.”

In Quebec City Wednesday pro vincial Health Minister Arthur Leclerc said the Montreal situa- tion is far.from alarming. Out- side Montreal the paralysing type of polio had hit only two out of every 100.000 persons.

Dr. Leclere said he has every reason to believe that most of those hit by polio had not been vaccinated against it. He urged citizens to take advantage of the anti - polio inoculations available to ‘henee throughout the province.

NOT AT PEAK

Dr. Adelard Groulx, Montreal's city health director, said the out- break “has not vet reached ‘ts peak” but still must be consid- ered a epidemic.

Dr. Groulx said ‘95 per cent of all the cases being treated in Montreal hospitals were not im- munized with Salk vaccine be- fore being stricken.

PARIS ASHCANS ARE SILENCED

PARIS (Reuters! — One of the early morning street noises in the “symphony” .of Paris is heading for. extinc- tion

Police decreed that ashcans must be “fitted with a tem- porary silencing device.” By 1965, only noiseless ashcans of a police-approved design-will be seteiitiod

The decree follows vears of complaints: from Parisiang who claim the din of garbage being collected in the streets distrubs their sleep.

Irrigation Tried With Salt Water

MONTREAL ‘CP)—An Israel husband and wife botany has proved with experiments in Isracl’s Negev desert thar s2i water irrigation can be success ful in a desert region

Dr. Hugo Boyko and his wife Dr. Elizabeth Boyko, attending

the Ninth International Botanical Congress he said in an Yhter- view Wednesday their exveri-

ments are the first in the world in which salt water has been used to irrigate plants.

They discovered that salt water may be used on premeable or sandy soils but not on earthy dense agricultural soils.

They ‘said sand dunes and gravelly soil allows salt to pour down to depths where it doesn't affect the roots of plants which absorb what they need from the water.

The Boykos . started ~ experi- menting 10 years ago in Eilat, 9 Red Sea port which has summet temperatures as high as 110 de grees. They grew 180 species of plants over a broken debris of rocks with “brakish’” water— like that of the Baltic Sea, toe salty to drink but not as salty

as ocean water.

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