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Clear becoming cloudy with a few showers in the afternoon, warmer. low-high at Ch'tawn 45 and I0.

EFPAGES

PARLEY WITHIN A PARLEY

Canada's Foreign Minister L. B. Canada's delegate. turn to each'of NATO conference In Bonn. Ger- Pearson, left. and L. D. Wilgrcss. other for discussion on opening day many. May 3. (AP Wirephotol

Contiract

OTTAWA tCP)eContracts val- ued at si4.95ti.759 were awarded during April by the federal works department.

The total for new works was Jll.769.769. the department said Wednesday. Of the remainder 8534.785 was for repair and main- tenance of existing structures and 62.651205 for dredging.

Topping the list was a 85.415350 contract awarded to Poole u- struction Ltd.. Edmonton. for a

Borden Wharf.

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new school and two pupils' resi- dences for the northern affairs department at Aklavik. N.W.T.

Other contracts:

Borden. P.E.l., wharf construc- tion. .l.W. and J. Anderson, Ltd., Burnt Church. N.B., 3161.370;

Dredging contracts: Wine Har- bour. N.S,. Maritime Dredgins l.td., Charlottetown. Sl5,660; How- ard's Cove, P.E.l. Maritime Dred- ging Limited. Charlottetown. 518.- 020.

"Every effort will be made to put the Lord Selkirk on the Wood Islands - Caribou run this year." said Mr. J.B. Ferguson of Fer- guson's industry Ltd. Picton. in an interview with the Guardian yesterday.

Mr. Ferguson said the company had set a scheduled date for the shop to go into operation and that this schedule was well in advance of what they had planned. When questioned whether the boat would be on the run by the first of Aug- ust. he said. "We have the date set. but you are not far out."

He said a number of factors will determine the dispatch with which the ship can be put into service. The chief of those is the supply of materials but no delays are anticipated from this source.

The official o fthe ship building firm said there was some delay during the winter due to ice which prevented the builders from re- moving the ship from .the dock where it had been placed for bor- lng operations to the tail assembly but this delay has been more than made up for since that time.

in making observations regard- ing the progress to date. Mr. Fer- guaon said the machinery of the ship including auxiliary equipment has all be installed. The super- structure is complete up to the promenade deck and a great deal of the steel for the saloon and

BREAK RACIAL BAR NAIROBI. Kcnyr tlteutcrst City council broke with tradition Wednesday by recommending an Asian. Alderman Moham Singh of India. lhr election as deputy mayor. The office always has been

held by Europeans in the past.

AWARD FOR PILOT

LONDON (Reuters)-Test Peter Twlss has been awarded the 1090 sold medal of the Federation Aeronsutique for his world sir tverd record of H32 miles an hour In the Fatrey Delta If set March

10. I950.

Favourable Progress Reported On Lord Selkirk Construction

wheclhouse has already been pre- fabricated.

Most of the work to be done con-, slot! of outfitting in the saloon and in the crew's quarters.

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LONDON tlteutersl-A Moscow radio commentator will take part in an international radio discus- sion tonight with speakers from other world capitals on the hydro- gen bomb and the use of nuclear weapons. The BBC announced Wednesday that the Russian. AI- exander Alexandrov. will join in an exchange of views with. speak- ers in London, Paris. Frankfurt.

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WN, cmaoa THURSDAY. MAY 9.i 1957

Conference At Bonn ls . Concluded

BONN fAP) - Prime Minister Macmillan and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ended their private talks Wedncsdly night amid in- dicatlons they had some far in re- solving deep differences over Western defence.

A diplomatic informant said the two started their conference Tues- day ”mllea apart" but that they moved "much closer together" by the finish.

The difference was over the British plan-already under way -to withdraw nearly 30,000 men from Germany and trim the sup- porting tactical alr force by nearly half. The first instalment of 13,- 500 troops already has started moving home.

Adenauer appealed to Macmil- lan to hold up any more troop withdrawals until a searching NATO review of the European de- been com- pletcd.

Macmillan countered that Ger- man fcars were "exaggerated" and that the four British divisions remaining in Germany would have a much bigger punch with atomic missiles.

N.S. Forests Are Closed To Travel

HALIFAX tCP)L-All Nova Scotla forestland is being closed to travel today as warm dry air spreads the threat of fires.

The provincial lands and forests department announced Wednesday night that the woods will remain closed to travel until conditions improve. and after that travelling will be allowed only with permits

until the fire hasard completely ends.

Stockholm and Washington.

ll Forest Fires

SUDBURY. Ont. tCPi.-Threads of smoke from lit) fires trailed lazily across the Northern On- l-ario sky Wednesday and the lands and forests department said it will close the woodlands to pub- lic travel if the situation gets much worse.

Only 11 of the H) outbreaks being carefully charted at 1 pm. ADT were out of control. But they

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,includcd one of 8.000 acres whose

sauthtrn perimeter was. only eight miles northeast of Sudbury. At

Poultry Farmer Plans To Sail To Death In H-Bomb Protest

a British pacifist, kissed his three children , " Wednesday and set out to do his bit against what he regards as the evil of Briir ain'a scheduled I-I-bomb test.

A 63 - year - old retired poultry farmer who was a consclentlou objector in the'First World War. Steele said he is prepared if neces- sary to die alone on a Pacific atoll in protest against the plosiona British clcntists expect to touch off at Christmas Island next month.

Steele leaves London by plane today for New Delhi on the first stage of a trip he hopes will take him to the den er area in time to subject hlmsef to the hazards of blast and fallout.

"1 willingly sacrifice myself to proved to the world the boom of this devilish thing." he told report- ers.

MAY 60 ALONE '

He wanted to ship aboard a sui- cidal "peace fleet" which the Ja- pan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs proposed to send in. But the couhcil, in the face d Britain's warning to all shipping isestay clear. dropped the cruise

a.

Reporters here told Steele of the

ancell .

"Then if necessary I will sail alone into the Christmas "Island area.” he said. "I can still Ihndle a sailing craft. Or perhaps I could get some vessel to drop me on an atoll in the area where I,coulI sltouttheteatsandifneomry

Ice Eases Grip On Cape Breton Ports But icebreakers Active

Steele's wife Sheila. 40. accom- panied him to London from their home at Maivern. Worcestershire. She once ex, ” to accompany him, but plans for having their children looked after fell through. So she decided to stay in England.

''I feel the same as a soldier's wife when the soldier goes away." she said. "It has got to be done."

Two British students-Ian Dixon. 21. and David Graham, 25 - are meeting Steele in New Delhi. They will help him rally lndlan support for the project and may accom- pany him on his voyage.

BACKED BY QUAKI-IRS

The venture is backed in Brit- ain by an organisation. supported by the Quakers tsoclety of Friends); known as the emergency against nuclear war. So far it has collected the equivalent of 32.140. Steele is not a Quaker. but won- siillrgs in a meeting house of that f f .

Steele denied nny Communist leanings. In . sponse to a quee- tlon. he said he would be quite prepared to travel to Siberia, I! that were possible. to protest So- viet l-I-blasts. .

Veiled women in black began a daily vigil at the House of Com- mons Wednesday. They button- holed member. of Parliament and called for a ban on all nuclear tests "to prevent worldwide mas- sacre." .

In Tokyo. the Japanese Anti- Atomlc Council announced it will hold a five-day rally starting Aug. I1 and that delegates are expected from Britain. Beasts and the United ltatsa.

LONDON (AP)-Harold Stecle.'die in them."

Conrtol In Northern Ontario

last report, this fire was moving .

Rage Out Of

a away from the city in a north- eastnriy direction.

Thomas E. Mackey. the Ontario governments chief forest protec- tion officer. said a Toront that human tuelessnoss is beieved responsible for "almost all" the fires. Several consecutive days of warm weather and no rail will al- most ccrtsinly bring a ban on pub- llc woodlands travel. be said.

i”''' '”"i...'.':t iii. """' 1:05, "I. . tn! ,, and”;-l-v.a mm till! the lid" would remain in. force until rain the menace.

FIRE EARLY Till! YEAR-

Mr. Mackcy said the annual battle against forest fires is about two weeks early. New green growth had not yet begun and there was no natur resistance to flames sweeping through the dead leaves and tuanches of last season.

or the fires still classed as out of control, two are in Mattawan Township near North Day but clouds by mid - afternoon gave promise of rain.

The biggest fire out of contrd. the Garsoa Township blasa near Sudbury. destroyed 12 homes and one trailer-home Tuesday. The oc- cupants were put up for the night at a Garson hotel and were later taken in hand by the Canadian Red Cross and other relief agen- cies.

STUBBED TOE SPIl.lS BEANS

LONDON (Reuters) -- John Scabroolt stubbed his toe get- ting out of bed one morning and let out a stream of ripe English.

The familiar cusswords con- firmed his wife's suspicions that he was not a Frenchman.

Mary Nunn asked her two brothers to invite a French friend to the house to test the curious jargon Seabrook used. The French friend said that whatever gibberish Seebraok was using. it was not French.

Sesbtook was identified in court Tueaday as the son of as English junkman who at- ready has a wife and four chil- dt-ea. His esly claim to being French was a one -day trip across the channel to France.

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Ailantic Premiers Demand Increased, Federal Help

Says Sta

St. Laurent Wednesday night de- scribed as a "downright lie” So-

statement that Mr. St. Laurent

minister Eden about the Suez cri- sis last fall.

He referred angrily to a news report quoting Mr. Low as saying earlier in Victoria that Mr. St. Laurent told Britain if it did not withdraw its troops from the Mid- dle East Canada might even go so

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Downright Lie

OTTAWA (CPI-Prime Minister liar as to ulthdraw irorn the Com- J

gironueallh. ''I can't imagine any justifica-

clal Credit Leader Solon Low's tion for Solon Low to make any'

assertion of that kind." Mr. St.

threatened former British prime Laurent told reporters on his ar-I

rival by air from Regina.

"in fact it amounts to a down- right lie."

The prime minister returned to Ottawa on a TCA flight -atier spending 12 days campaigning across western Canada for the Hun: I0 federal election.

HALIFAX (CP) - Pi'erm'cr Matheson of Prince Edward island said Wednesday he once tllollllli union of the Atlantic provinces would be a good thing nurse'- changed his mind.

Speaking at the Atlantic pra- miers conference. he said he feels the four provinces speaking toge- ther may exert more force at Ot- tawa than if they were one large province.

"I once thought Maritime union would be a good idea. but I'm less enthusiastic now. However. we must work as one unit. not as four."

He said annual or semi-annual conferences of the Atlantic pra- miers are very valuable.

"Of course. we won't agree on all points. That's understandable. But we can present a united front on matters of mutual concern.

"Some matters on the agchch might be of interest to only one or two pfovinccs but Prince Ed-

P.E.l. Premier Changes Mind On Atlantic Union Question

the benefit of all."

CAUSEWAY BENEFIT TO ALL

The proposed causeway to join Prince Edward Island to the main- land of Canada was of particular interest to his province but would benefit the whole area.

He was pleased with the prog- ress being made in the prelimin- ary englneering and economic sur- veys. An interim report might be ready in the near future.

The causeway would enable the island to get cheaper electric power from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

"We definitely need cheaper power in Prince Edward Island, but at present it's difficult to see how this can be achieved."

Mr. Matheson said the Atlantic provinces have come a long way in the last fewoyears.

"By comparison with other parts of Canada we may be lagging be-

Vlrd Illfwifltid tgosatonl for

lgui. We'll have a better future If we're able to co-operate."

Plan Extensive

Between two and three hundred Boy Scouts will start this Saturday on a clean-up of Cree Victoria Park area as a preliminary to "Clean Up Week" which Mayor Stewart has declared for next week. During the coming week the Scouts and Cuba will continue their efforts with each troop or pack taking a certain portion of the uptown area on each day of the week.

Last evening Mayor Stewart with Councillors Gaudet. O'Neill and Haslsm met with Scout and Cub leaders as well as representative of the senior and junior Boards of Trade in the City to discuss plans to make "Clean-up Week" a suc- ccss.

Representing the Boy Scotti movement were Dr. George C. Fisher. Gordon Kerr and Frank Gaudet. The Senior Board of Trade was represented by Ivan Sinclair and Clive Cudmore while the Jun- ior Board of Trade was represent- ed by George Scanilebury and Garth Crockett.

PROMOTIONAL WORK

The senior board will look after the promotional end of the venture and the Junior Board will visit the City Schools where they will talk to the school children emphas- izing the importance of keeping their City clean.

In addition to the trash barrels now in use in the City. twenty wire baskets will be placed at do signaled locations where the Boy scouts and Cubs may dump their trash. Mayor Stewart recalled that last year the Council had been ap- proached by Scout leaders volun- teering to do this work. He said the City was unable to accept then- offer at that time dnctothe fact

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Thousands Attend Biggest Rummage Sale In World

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"Clean-up Week" In The City

Program For

the purpose. WORTIIWIIILE EFFORT

Dr. George Fiisher speaking on behalf of the Boy Scouts said the boys would be very happy to par- ticlpate In this worthwhile effort without renumbcration noting that it was not in the principles of scouting to accept pay for good. deeds done. ' I

Dr. Fisher said he would like to take the opportunity of thanking the City for the use of Civic Centre during the Scouts annual Apple Day.

Coun. Hsslam noted that the pol- ice will cooperate by reminding unthinking citizens when they throw papers or other refuse on the street.

Mayor Stewart said he felt sure that all the Citizens of Charlotte- town would co-operate not only In the up-town areas but in the resid- ential areas as well. ''I feel confid- ent that all our citizens are inter- ested in keeping our town neat and clean." he said.

POITULAR sronr

Curlinl. believed of Dutch or Flemish origin, has been played

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Proposes Aid Next Regional Conference

For Small Businesses

BROCKVILLE, Uni. I('l"i ohn Diefcnbaltcr Wedncxday .night proposed establishment of a. special government branch to .help small business. similar to, 'lhat in the United States govern- ment

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"Small businesses have re- ceived no favors from the pr:-sent' government," the Progresslvel yCon.-xervative leader said in a ;speech opening a six - day cam- paign tour in Ontario.

The Conservative party pruni- ised to set up a committee from ithe federal cabinet and smallt business associations to recom- lmend effective action in helping small retail, wholesale and man- ufactnring concerns to become established and expand,

Except for the Industrial De- in-lopnseni Batik established in .l944. he said, "the small business man has been all but forgotten by the federal government."

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Slight Change In P.M.'s Itinerary

OTTAWA tCP)ePrime Minister St. Laurent has made a slight change in his speaking stops for his election campaign swing through the Maritimes beginning May 2i. ..

A new itinerary issued by Lib- eral headquarters Wedesday shows that a scheduled stop at Lunen- burg has been dropped May 22. He now plans to motor from Hail- fax through the Annapolis Valley to Kentvllle for a luncheon meet- usg there on that day. returning for an evening meeting in Hell-

it. The following day he flies from

mating and than out to Freder- icton for an evening meeting as previously scheduled.

l.V(ill' Brunswick lined up with Lib-

PRICE 5s

Scheduled For Here In Sept.

HALIFAX (CPI .- Premiers of ('anatla's four Atlantic pi-oxiuces presented a solid front here W;d- nesrlay gin demanding greater fed- eral aid for the region.

Conservative Premiers Stanfield of Nova Scotla and Flemming of

eral Premiers Matheson of Prince Edward island and Smallwood of N.-wfoundland to ask:

1, Fixed annual federal grants for capital projects in the Atlantic area.

2. Construction of the Prince Ed- ward Island causeway.

ll. Subvention: on coal used in Atlantic region power plants.

4. Compensation for northern territories annexed to other prov- rnces since Confederation.

ESTABLISH OFFICES ABROAD i The conference-second of its kind in one year-agreed to es- tablish joint Atlantic provinces of- flees in the United Kingdom and possibly elsewhere abroad.

The premiers set Sept. 26 and 27 for another regional conference to be held in Charlottetown.

Results of the one-day ,meeting were announced in a joint state- ment issued at Province House after sessions ended. The talks were held behind closed doors ex- cept for an opening public ses- sion.

The Premiers. accompanying cabinet ministers and other of- ficials appeared generally pleased with confcrence results. They left the assembly chamber in jovial mood.

Premier Stanfield said. "We agreed on a surprising number of things. including Atlantic regional representation abroad. In my mind. that in itself was worth the day's work."

The meeting, presided over In Mr. Stanfield. ssrcsdgto. Ict upua committee to arrange for) gional office in London.

The committee will study proa-

si importance

Brunswick to approve the idea of federal subveniions Oil coal used in Maritime power plants. Premier Stanfield and Premier Flemming anid Ottawa's offer to build thermal power stations and transmission lines in the area will do little to lower power costs unless subventions are paid.

A committee was set up to study the question of federal com- pensatlon for northern lands added to the central and western provinces after Confederation, its membc a will prepare a submis- sion to Ottawa and report to the September conference. . Each province named a mem- ber to a four-man premiers con- ference committee to provide con- tinuing contact between the four governments and prepare an agenda for the next meeting. Members are Innis G. Maclscodg administrative assistant to Pram-v ier Stanfield; Kenneth G. Carlin. secretary to Premier Fie Robert. Maciseod. Premier Mat cson's secretary. and Gordon 3'. Pushie. Newfoundland economll director.

MUST CUT COST!

Power development. and Of.- tawa's aid offer drew lengthy

the four premiers. Premier Plena- ming sald federally-built generat- ing atations wouldn't in them- selves do much to reduce Mar- itime power rates.

Cost of the coal used in the plants must. be lowered. He said

by Ontario power plants.

ed. - "The main cost of thermal power is the the capital cost being of far less than in the cans of

pects for similar offices in the West Indies, the United States

Womanlvfayor ls Returned To Office

PORTAGE DU FORT, Que. (CPi - Mayor Elsie Gibbons. Quebec's only woman mhyor. re- turned to office for another two- year term as chief magistrate of this village of 500.

Then she promptly left town in help fight a district bush fire. No one opposed the mayor mother of a 21-year-old son, he- fora nominations closed Wednes- day at noon. it was her third sc- clamation.

Mayor Gibbons announced dur- ing Progressive Conservative L c a d e r Diefenhaker's swing through the area that she was switching her federal political al- legiance from the Liberals to Con- servative. .. Portage du Fort is about 45 miles west of Ottawa.