Russia Sends Notes To Big Three Asking For Talks On European Security System

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osoow, (AP)-The Soviet gov- ..-Unto: in notes to Britain. the United States and France Satur- ilay imposed calling a new confer- ence within a few months to con- sider setting up a system of col- iectlve security for Europe.

The notes said the conference ixould "include. of course, the United States" and suggested that it would be "useful" if observers

from Communist China were in- vited too.

All European countries inter- ested in attending should be in-

med to participate, Russia said.

The notes said the agreement yr-achcd at Geneva on - an Indo- (ihina cease-fire showed clearly that the way was open for agree- ments on other world problems.

U. S. state department officials ill Washington indicated the pro- posal would be rejected after con- suliatlon with Britain and France.

The new move was regarded by '..iese officials as an effort to kill the West's plan for a. European De- fence Community, now that French Premier Pierre Mendes- France, with an Indo-China cease- fire in his pocket, is in a position zii reach for a showdown on French ratification of the six-power Euro- giean army PEW-

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The new soviet move had been liireshadowed by an editorial in Pravda. the Communist party :imvspaper, last Thursday which as- serttd that the Geneva conference should be followed by attempts to

Evidence Of Saturday Morning Drinking Party Heard In Coffin Murder Trial

PERCE, Que. (CF) - Details of a Saturday morning drinking ses- slull iii a barber shop were among testimony heard Saturday in the murder trial of prospector Wilbert Coffin, charged in connection with the slaying of three American iiiiiiters a year ago.

Raymond Poirier, barber shop iiiiiier, and Oscar Montmagny, his assistant, testified that Coffin, 40. came to their place at Chandler, to miles south of this tourist re- tort, on the morning of June 13 last year. They said he shared I. bottle of whisky with eight other 3llSlOI'I18l'S.

Coffin is charged specifically iiith the rifle slaying of Richard Lindsey, 17. whose dismembered body was found last July in the fraspe wlnderness. Richard's fa- ther, Eugene, 47, and a friend. Albert Cinar. 20, all of Hollldays- burg, Pa, died in the same man- .-ier. Their renialns were gnawed or bears.

Angil Clement, a 36 - year . old lruck driver, told the court Sat-

in 1939 yname as a composite of the former iirday that at about 3 a.m. June ' 2nd and 8th Batteries which had 13 he stopped on the highway - TTT served os valiantly. He expressed about 13 miles south of Gaspe to VALE-IvrA (cmg-I-he Commong his sincere thanks to the other

pull Coffin's pickup truck from a ditch. He was paid in two 51 bills of United States currency.

WHISKY PASSED ABOUT

Oofiin smiled broadly in the prisoner's dock as a 64-year-old railway yardman. Semen Diotte. described how he, Coffin and other ciistomers in a barber shop de- molished a bottle of whisky later that day in Chandler.

A shoashine boy in the barber shop said he was given 01 by Cof- fin for a 10-cent shine.

The crown had called 4: wit-, HPSSES before adjournment Satur- day. It was estimated the total number at 105.

Coifin's sister, Rhoda. whose married name is Mrs. Felix Stan- ley. became the first of his family to testify during the nine-day-old trial. Mrs. Stanley, a slim attrac- tive brunette of 28, said Coffin knit York Centre at midnight June 12 without telling anyone.

she identified a grey suitcase as resembling one he had in his pos- session on his return from Mon- treal. The suitcase had been identi- fied as the property of the Amer- irnns in earlier testimony.

She said her brother also dis- played a hunting knife, which he Slld came from three American liiintcrs. He was quoted as telling his sister, who lives with Coffin's parents. he had brought an Amer- imm hunter out of the woods. taken him back and had been giv- an the kniit by the hunters.

TRIPS T0 MONTREAL

Mrs. Stanley said her brother often left suddenly on trips to Montreal.

Both the barber in Chandler and

settle other outstanding internat- ional muddles, including the dis- putes over atomic energy, Korea and European security.

The notes to the Western powers repeated the long-standing Soviet opposition to the North Atlantic Treaty organization as "an ag- gressive militsry grouping."

The system envisaged by Russia would admit the Soviet Union to NATO, while the United States would become a member of a Eur- opean security pact including the Soviet Union and East European as well as West European states.

The notes said: ”A European system of this sort would create genuine conditions for security in lairope. It would represent a ser- ious step forward in this important matter and create more favorable conditions for settlement of the German question on the basis of creating a united Germany as a peace-loving, independent, demo- cratic state."

These ideas first were proposed by Russia March 31. The Western powers rejected the suggestion May 7 on the grounds that if the Soviet Union entered NATO it could ex- ercise a veto and that, moreover. the founders of NATO wanted in their organization only ”like-mind- ed states.”

Russia argued, however. that Moscow's suggestion would "en- sure the neutrality of Germany" and "prevent the reappearance of, the source of war in the heart oil

Rt. Hon. Viscount Swi i retary of state for Commonwealth relations, will tour Canada early in October. The 70-year-old Briton was called to the Bar in 1908 and served in the British Army during

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the First World War. he has held many ininisterial posts including those of president of the board of trade, secretary of state for the Colonies. secretary for air and minister of civil aviation, and chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster and minister of materials.

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Since 1920

Friday night last Julie Coffin paid

wealth air forces memorial will unveied b Eli b th h . she niche); Quggetzieorg: Berg grit r their cooperation during his iiind of Malta in May. or 9 the names of 2,300 airmen includ- ing 286 Canadians who lost their

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island Artillery

The toast to Her Majesty The Queen. as Captain General of Ar- tillery, was proposed by apt. H. W. F. Hughes, while the oast to the Regiment was proposed by Lieut. Col. Rogers and responded to by Brigadier Peake. '

In proposing the toast to the

a Perce garage attendant said Coffin told them he was cnroute to Montreal after being called on

business. Regiment Col. Rogers told the He had told them he was a gathering that the Artillery was prospector. He asked the garage the oldest organized military unit

attendant to repair his brakes and give him a receipt because "my company will refund me." J Earl Tuzo, a York Centre labor-' er, said Coffin entered his home around noon June 12 or 13 and returned 310 he had borrowed. Tuzo said he returned a revolver he had been holding from the time Coffin borrowed,the money. Benny White. 54, manager or a hotel at Gaspe Harbor, said on a

in the city, having been formed about 1859. He hoped that the amalgamation would be of great benefit to the P.E.I. Regiment as it would be obtaining several ex- perienced officers. He also said the gunnery of the unit would be im- proved with Artillery men going into the tanks.

Col. Mccormack said that it was his second, and last din-ner as offi- cor commanding the regiment. He said that being the youngest com- manding officer in the Garrison the effect of the amalgamation would not be so great on him as it might be on older officers. He, too, pointed to the trophies which had been placed on the head table and noted that several of them had been won by Artillery units before he was born. He recalled how the regiment acquired its

for a case of beer with a 520 American bill which the accused had said some hunters had given him for repairing their car.

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beicommandihg officers and the offl- lccr Commanding the Armouries

Monday, July' 26, 1954

JOEGANIZATION MEETING- Souris Co-op, Monday, July 26th, Standard Time.

the changes being made and they were not losing their identity due to I poor record as Island gun- ners had been in the forefront in two world wars. He said it was simply a matter of electronics and guided missiles making the artil- lery almost obsolete. He stated that in going to the Reece Regi- ment the men would prove a help to everyone and he was especially pleased that they were going to the unit which fires guns. ' Brigadier Reid mentioned th ending here of the 21st Armoured

"Brigade when his term of omce

expires on September lst and thanked everyone for the oo-opera- tion he had enjoyed from all units of the Garrison. He wished Brig Peaks all possible success as he succeeds him as officer command- ing the Armouries, and as Officer Commanding Multiiiry Group Head- quarters here.

Lieut. Col. K. M. Johnston, Of flcer Commanding 5 Signals Regi- ment, expressed his appreciation of the invitation to attend the dinner and his regret at the pass- ing of the Artillery. He thought. things in the Garrison would not seem the same without them.

Other Speakers

Major Temple Hooper. who was taking the place of Lieut. Col. J. K.L. Irwin, Officer Commanding the 21st Field Ambulance, also ex- pressed regret at the passing of the Artillery. It was interesting to note that at one time Major Hoop-

er's father, the late Lieut. Col Parker Hooper, commanded the local artillery unit.

Speaking for the Navy Lieut.

Cmdr. Jack Kenny objected to the voiced belief that it was the final Artillery dinner and said he be- lieved that the future held bigger and better ones. It was his opln

Ion that artillery was highly nec-, ewary and said it uas the task of- the Navy to transport its artillery to where the guns could do the job required. For this reason he thought artillery was very import- ant. .

Capt. J. J. Connolly noted that he had not missed an artillery dinner since the war ended. He, too, hoped that the gunners going

to other units would transfer their

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.!Miss Norms White, souris, has returned home after attending the Atlantic Provinces High School Junior Red Cross Leadership Course in Wolfviile, NB. She was one of six Canadian delegates who took the course.

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riddling it with bullets and incen- diaries. Red Chinese were seen in small boats close by but they made no move to interfere with the res- cue.

RED CIRCLE MARKING!

Capt. Philip Blown, pilot of the plane, said the attack was made by "two cream-colored single-eri- gine propeller, straight-wing fight-

ers with red circle markings."

He said he could not definitely identify the planes as Communist Chinese aircraft but was fairly certain, they came from the Com- munist air bases on Halnan. He was certain they were not of Am- erican or British manufacture.

Both Blown and Thatcher said the Skymaster sank so fast it was unlikely that any other than the eight survived.

The plane was on a routine flight to Hong Kong from Singa- pore.

Blown stressed that he had been careful to give communist-held Hainan a wide berth and had kep: up his indirect flight around lt'

seven minutes longer than usual. before straightening out his course for Hong Kong, farther north. '

TOURIST aaovr QUEBEC (CP) - A prominent

group of business men has formed a temporary committee to work out ways to double this city's S40,000,000 - year tourist industry. The group, headed by Wilbrod Bherer, is working under the auspices of the Quebec City cham- ber of commerce.

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The election and installation of new officers during the second day; will feature the two-day annuolt Diocesan Provincial Convention of; the Catholic Women's League which opens here Wednesday. This yelifi the convention theme will be "Greati love and devotion to the Mother of; God. especially through the family Rosary."

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick McMalion., D.D., will celebrate the conventloni Mass and preach the sermon at the opening at St. Dunstan's Basil- ica Wednesday morning. This will, be followed by registration of dele-i gates at Notre Dame Academy with! the convention being called to ord- er by Mrs. Lorne Noonan, Pro- vincial president. Nomlnation and resolution committees will be ap- pointed pror to the reading of the reports of the Provincial secretary, treasurer and corcsponding secret- ary. A report of the national con-t vention will be given by Mi's.i Noonan. . ,

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