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TUESDAY. APRIL 6,

1954

Eisenhower Sees Fear Keeping Reds From Starling War

WASHINGTON, (AP)-— Presi- dent Eisenhower said Monday night that as long as Russia

knows the United States can re- taliate the men in the Kremlin won't lightly start a war.

Whenever the men in the Kremlin start a war. he said. "they run the risk of losing“ their power.

"We‘re not going to start a war," regardless of the U. S. ad- vantage in atomic weapons.

And as long as thcy know Am- erica can retaliate. war is not a course the Russians would em- mark on lightly.

Yet, "They might do this, in a fit of madness or of desperation," and the United States must be vigilant.

' Source of Weakness

Commander of the French forces at Dien Bien Phu. Indo-China. Brig.-Gen. Christian de Castries, centre, has issued an nrdcr to his troops to die rather than yield an inch. Communist troops advanced to within a few hundred yards of his headquarters in attacks that ignored casualties inflicted by machine-guns firing into masses of men at close range. The French hoped that air support would save the fort from capture but bad flying weather has kept planes grounded.

20.000 Fresh Communist Troops Rush To Bolster Assault On Dien Bien Phu

THANOI. Indn - China, (CF) Twenty thousand fresh Commu- nlst troops were reported pouring down from northern Indo - China

Asserting the Russians have satellites. the president said that kind of system, in a war of ex- haustion. could be "a very great source of weakness,"

in a "let's be calm" talk to the country by radio and TV, Eisen- howcr also discussed what he de- scribed’ as “the fear of depres- sion and the loss of jobs."

Unemployment figures, he said. show "every sign of is-veiling off." but the government "is ready to act whenever necesiiary" to head off any big downturn.

Turning in Communist penetra- tion into American institutions-— governmcnt, schools and othcrs—- Eisenhower said while there are

‘Copter Picks

Monday night to strengthen the o 0 only some 25.000 known Commu- glctmlnh rcbel forces attacking :“.iSlS, the Communists still are

ion Bicn Phil. ~ Fnl1t‘i‘0U-N1 Long convoys were reported up. For protecting civil liberties preaching the buieud foptreu while comhattlng the Reds. Eisen- glong golonin mu“ “_ “,9 ml". _ hnwer said "I admit that there mm from the chin“, border‘ can be very grave offences rom- TRACADIE. N-B.. iCP)—-A miited against" an inoffensive

French air attacks earlier had set back the progress of the rein- forcements. But for 36 hours bad flying conditions had halted any effective bombing or strafing along

seriously ill priest was flown to hospital here from isolatoti Mtsoou Lsland off New Bruns- wick‘: north coast Monday by a naval helicopter from Summer-

c.tizen who is falsely accused.

But he declared public opinion will correct any "reai violence" to reputations.

the roads, side P E I - - - - Threats Everywhere Gzmvo C§":“‘::“l‘lGl °°m:““‘g°’~ Rev. Romeo Lanleigne, at ’ 3 y "p- “ ° "5 nltiye of Caraquct, l\'.B.. be- The nation sees threats "from

i‘9D0i‘i?i'l 10 WW9 Cllled ‘-0 D19“ came ill during the week-end all angles, internal and external"

Bien Phu three Vietminh hattal- d g H t P - 3°05 “'l"‘lCh had 59"" “Rhl-"I8 Thfll llililm tgrmiliigalcgdildsfallzd ll Nfallsldl hydrogen bombs have Kueflillaa in northwestern Indo- ; snowmobile bogged down in hten exploded. and this swift de-

china.

The Vietminh. turned back again and again in their desperate fight in overwhelm the garrison, called on the reinforcements to biuld up an attacking force which last nine or ten thousand killed and prob- ably double. that number wounded in six days of battling. The origin- al nbel force attacking Dien Bien Phu was estimated at about 40.- ciutnumbering the defenders

slushy ice between the island and the mainland.

The nature of his illness was - not known immediately. The ‘copter was piloted by Lieui. C. John Laurie of Dartmouth, N. S.. and Saskatoon. aask.

Second Explosion

Continued on page 1:i','.col._2"

Arctic Sealer Has 9.50l_i_Pelts

ST JOHN'S. Nfld., fOPi —Thc Arctic Sealer. one of three vessels left in the seal fishery this year,

French Confident

In Power Plant

TORONTO. (CPl—- The second 3.“; dew". ‘ha new "Imam geenrator explosion ill five days French sources voiced confidence '°"l‘°d ll" Rl“““"l 1- H93?"

the tide had turned in the battle for Dien Bien Phu.

A high command spokesman said the Vietminh lost "more than 1.000" men in their latest attempt to widen the northwest garp. French troopl. backed by tanks and artil- lery, plugged every new breach and moved down the attackers.

Late Monday all key points of (mt?! into the heart of the fortrosl were firmly in the hands of hard- iightinir lleepleu French Union soldiers.

An intense raid of shells starting lunday evening and continuing Monday was Vietminh General Cliap‘a answer to a French appeal to cease firing briefly so both :iddes could evacuate their wound-

'fl'ie Vietminh commander in chief was in no mood for humani- tarianiam as his heat shock troops were taking boating after beating from the counter-attacking French and losing thousands of casualties in killed and wounded.

SMOKE HAZARD

PENKRTDGE. England. tCPi -- Smoke from two factory chimneys “Completely blackened the wool on Vi sheep". a farmer complained to the parish council at this Staf- furdlhlro district.

Coming Events

jured. An working

Canada, was immediately down by Robert H. Saunders. On- tario hydro chairman, as a mat- ter of "life and limb" pending an investigation the blast.

waterfront. generators the electricity supply to the fast- growing array of industries in the Toronto area. Three of the four generators have been damaged by explosions since last summer.

Hand-’Mode Slllc Shirt For $100 ,

a A shirta. each carrying no worth of silver buttons for that price, and says they've sold five so far. The surprising thing, spokesman. is that buyers appear

steam generating electric station Monday, caused damage officially estimated at 8800.000 and brought a shutdown of the giant $67,000,- 000 plant.

Ontario hydro commission offi- cials prompiiy discounted sugges- tions sabotage might have been responsible for the blast and for fine $1,000.000 biow—up last Thurs- ay.

Two workmen were slightly in- estimated 58 others in the B0-by-300 foot building got out safely.

The plant. largest of its kind in closed

into the cause of The plant. on Toronto's eastern houses four 15'!-ton

used to supplement

-rorcoiv-m. iCP)—‘want. to buy hand-made, silk ahlrt—for I100? ‘Nronto store has the imported

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"In stock. bulk cm. Wt in be moatly modest-‘ fel- lawman. long.

"At Morell. Thursday April lth.. wmmpla (OP, _ one mm ‘mm. x‘ l” O‘ p"'""' “A 3"” wu slightly’ injured when two

iioncrmcn". A I Act comedy. our- tafn lill.

_"Variot¥ concert South Gran- ville School. Tuesday, April cm. ;hp.m. sale of candy. if not fine

Canadian National Railways dies- el-powored freight trains collided Sunday midnight on the CM! mainline at Norman. 10 miles west of Rivers, Man. Five cars were derailed.

arrived home Sunday night with 0,500 seals and an injured crew member.

Ca-pt. Sid Hill said he would not have returned so soon if the un- identified man, now in hospital, hadn't lost his finger while shoot- ing seals.

Capt. Hill said there was only one good day of hunting. the first day, when 6,000 seals were killed. However. about 5.000 of these were lost in a storm before they could be loaded on the ship.

Meanwhile, the Terra Nova, try- ing to get back to port here for a week. is still reported to be in heavy ice on the northern shores of the island. she freed herself briefly Friday. but the ice closed in again before she could move clear.

i Reds In

by TOM OCIIILTBII

LONDON, (AP)—Prime Minister Churchill said Monday that al- though the Russians are "well be- hind" the Uniud MIMI in develop- merit of the hydrogen bomb, they are making a closer race than they ever did with atomic I'M- pona He told the House of Commons that both countries have the dread }{-weapon in "large-Icalo produc- tion."

Churchill was armed for the parliamentary debate on the H- bomb with special non-security in- formation about the bomb supplied by President Eisenhower himself. Deterrent To War Crackllng with oratorical fire the Prime Minister also: 1.Declarad the H-bomb in the hands of the United ltates serves as a deterrent to war.

2. Refused to ask U. 8. authori-

FUNERAL OF LATE

The funeral of the late senator J’. Walter Jones who died at Ot- tawa on March 31, was held from the Charlottetown Baptist Church yesterday afternoon and was very largely attended. Services were conducted at the church and at the grave by Rev. J.D. Davlson, Rev. '1‘.1-f.B. Somcrs and Rev. A. S. Weir.

Many floral tributes bore testi- mony of the high esteem in which the deceased was held.

The Senate of Canada was of- flcially represented by Senator George Barbour and the Canadian Holstein I-‘riesian Association was represented by Hon. C. B. Sher- viood, Minister of Agriculture in the New Brunswick government.

The members of the Legislature attended in a body as did also the

LARGE ATTENDANCE YESTERDAY AT

SENATOR JONES

Club and representatives of the Civil servants Association.

The Baptist Church quartette sang “Haven of Rest" and the hymn "Unto the Hills" was sung by the congregation. Interment was in Cross Roads Cemetery.

Honorary pau bearers were: His Honour Licut. Governor T. W, L. Prowse, Hon. Dougald Macxinnon, J. Angus MacLean, M. P., Justice Mark R. McGuigan. Hon. 0. D. De13iois, Hon. Eugene Cullen, Jus- tice A. E. Arsenauit. Messrs. W. Chester 8. McLure. Neil A. Math- eson, M.P., John Clarke, and Dr, G. F. Dewar.

Active pail bearers were Dr, L. W. Show, Judge st. Claire Trainor_ Messrs. Frank Lea, Frank Mac- Kenzie, Austin Scales and Percy

Executive of the Women's ibberal

To Aggression In

N. S. Plans Heavy 1954 Spending On Highway Projects

HALIFAX. iCP) Provincial Treasurer Fielding said Monday night that Nova scotiii's public works program this year will in- clude more than $8,500,000 being spent on highway construction. paving and bridges and 81,000,000 on a mental treatment centre.

He asked the legislature for ii total capital vote of $15,733,877, of which more than half would be used for refunding purposes Nearly $0,500,000 alone will be needed to retire debentures that mature this year. some of the re- funding is included in the high- ways costs

The capital estimates provided for a $2,000,000 bridge - building program 3500.000 more than in 1053; 54,300,000 on road construc- tion and paving: 81,400,000 on the

trans-Canada highway, including two bridges: and the $1,000,000 trcatmentcentre at the Nova

Scotia mental hospital at Wood- side near Halifax.

The hospitals expansion pro- gram when completed, will cost about 32.000000 it will include the treatment centre. power house rnrl plan. staff dormitory, laui)di‘Y and workshop. Work will start soon on the new building.

Trans-Canada highway expendi- tures are higher than last year’s but the appropriation for provin- ciai l’1lKl‘l\\'i'l)S and paving work ex- clusivelv is down s7oo,ooo from the record-high in 1953.

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Nfld. Youth Dies From Exposure

BUCli.\l\'S. Nfld._ <Ci"> Alfred Fight. 16, f‘lif'd from exposure Sunday lifter straying from A hunting compansion about four miles from here.

Flight went -hunting Saturday with Kevin Mcl-sniic, lb, The boys separated and both got lost. Mc- lsnac returned home Sunday and his companion’: body was found

by searchers.

Close Race Will: H - Bomb

New Boost In U. S. Coffee Prices

3. said that now—with the Gen- eva conference coming up April 26 —was hardly the time for a Big Three meeting with President liaenhower and soviet Premier Ilalenkov on disarmament or other problems.

4. Revealed in secret 1043 agree- ment he madc with the late presi- dent Roosevelt in which Britain and the United States pledged never to use the atomic bomb against a third country without each other's consent. e agree- ment also provided for achange of atomic information between the two countries and with Canada. The agreement is no longer in ef- fect because, Churchill implied. the Labor Government bungled things.

Books Calm Fears

Flashing with old-time vigor. Churchill tried to calm the fears missed in Britain by current Amer- ican l-1'-tests in the Pacific.

ties to call off their Pacific 1!- am -,_

Debate was on a Labor party

Sees Chinese Reds “Awful Close"

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indo-China

WASHINGTON, (AP) —— State Secretary Dulles said Monday we Chinese Communists. with a "ra- ther ominous" new combat role in lndo-China. are "coming awfu: close“ to the fresh agsre-salon that he has said could bring American retaliation.

iBut he told the House of Repre- sentatives foreign affairs commit- tee the U. s. has made no commit.- menls to send troops to Indo- China.

The secretary gave the first of- ficial word that Chinese Commu- nist anii-aircraft gunners are shooting down French planes at Dien Bien Phu. the besieged fort-

ress. He said ri "considerable num- ber" of radar-controlled 37-miili-

metre anti-aircraft. guns, which are "shooting through the clouds to bring down 1-‘rench planes. are operated by members of the Chin- ese military establishment."

He said a Red Chinese general and a score of technicians are as- signed to staff headquarters of the Communist-led Vietminh.

in addition to supplying the Vietminh with heavy equipment. Dulles continued. the Chinese Reds have technicians on division level and with specialized unite.

At Paris, a spokesman for the French foreign ministry said: “What Mr. Dulles said corresponds to the situation as we know it_ His statement is generally correct but incomplete." The spokesman did not explain what he meant by in- complete.

Replying to a question by Rep- resentative Albert Morano Rep. Conn, Dulles said that in a Sept. 2 speech at St. Louis "I said that if the Chinese sent their Red arm- ies into lndo-China it would be apt to produce action which might not be confined to lndo-China,

"Technically they have not done precisely the thing I defined They're coming awful close to it."

This exchange dominated the first of two weeks of hearings on a foreign aid program, expected to be about :3,.'>00,000,000 for the year ending in mid-1955. Dullm asked the committee to support the pro- gram.

The Communist threat to south- east. Asia should be “met, by a unity of will and. if need be. unity of action." Dulles said.

He elaborated on that point in a closed session which followed the

Ottawa Wants Sentences For Spies Revised

menl. wants to be less tough with] spies in peace time than in war" time.

Justice Minister Garson the government’: view Monday in‘ the Commons by proposing that

the maximum peace time penallyl for spying would be 14 years. In

wartime, the maximum penalty, would be death.

At present, the maximum pen-

aity at all times is death. l He proposed amendments to the: section on treason in the revised, Criminal Code. The section com-‘ plements the Official Secret: Act

by calling it treason to pass to a‘ foreign country military or scien-i tiflc information for a purpose pre-l judicial to the safety or defence of Canada. ‘

The amendments inter \\ci'~‘: passed. L Mr. Garson said the amend-p ments were recommended by ii

the cabinet whose‘

l

committee of members he did not identify.

Deep Concern

The government was deeply con- cerned about the appropriate pun- ishment for treason. , It was difficult to assess lhei punishment for disclosing mliitsryl or defence secrets to a foreign country.

The committee of the cabinet‘ had taken the view that there should be a distinction between a

adhering to the Crown's enemy in wartime.

Under provisions of the (:0(‘l(‘. anyone conspiring or forming an intention to pass military or scien- tific informaiion to a foreign coun- try would be liable to the same punishment as a person who does in fact pass the secrets along.

In reply to a question by Davie Fulton iPC-Kamioopsi, Mr. Gar- son said that the death penalty would be applicable in wartime al- though the forcign country is not at war with Canada.

Under the revised code. the death penalty could still be im- posed in peacetime for:

1. Killing, attempting to kill or doing harm or injury to the Queen;

2. Starting or preparing to start war against Canada;

3. Assisting an enemy engaged in hostilities with Canadian forces, although Canada is not officially at war with the enemy;

4. Using force to overthrow the government of Canada or a prov- ince.

The government‘: View to make the penalty less severe for spying in peace time was criticized by Wallace Nesbitt (PC-Oxford) who

tude to present conditions.

Ontario Indians Get Voting Privileges TORONTO.

Indians in provincial elections was provided for in legislation intro- ducod in the Ontario legislature Monday.

Act. which would extend the franchise to approximately 20,000 adult Indians, was introduced by Attorney-General Dana Porter dur- ing committee consideration of the bill.

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opening hearing,

motion urging Churchil to call a= special meeting with Eisenhower and Malenkov on ways of ending the hydrogen race. The Labor members. however, decided not to press for a vote, after Clement Attiee declared he sought "no par- tisan advantage“ ln bringing the matter up.

The Labor motion was passed without a vote after Churchill ac- cepted in principle while insisting that the timing of any proposal for in Big Three meeting be left indefinite.

With jaw thrust out, Churchill lashed out at the neutraliat left- wing element in the Labor party Growing ovor interruptions from the Labor benches, churohlll said‘

"It is a delusion to aimpoae that a declaration of our neutrality would make us immune from dan- ger from Russia.

"These facts should be weighed by the House before the light- hearted and light.-headed sugges-

given the alightest countenance." secs No Threat Churchill said he did not believe the Pacific tests themselves threat- ened the health of the human race. He accepted in principle the call for British initiative to seek a Churchill-Eisenhower - Malenkov meeting. Churchill refused. how-

felt the time is ripe.

An opportunity to discuss H- bomb control might arise. he sug- gested. if the United states, Rus- sia and the British Commonwealth gathered at. is conference to talk lbolit Pi-eaident Eisenhower’: pro- proponi for an atomic pool for peaceful uses.

Attiee said there was no time to lose in calling for a Big Three meeting. "We are asking for the first stop" to save civilization from the threat of total destruction. he said.

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said it showed an unrealistic attx-‘Hi-'i'b€I't.

, COBALT, Ont, (GP) — Robert Progressive Conservative ‘member of the legislature for

Temiskaming. in a statement re- leased here Monday said he “has on good authority that one of the largest steel manufacturers in the Uri ,an ICPi-—1!:xtension or Lake which will supply work for full voting privileges to Ontario lillnfll'i"i’l5 of men."

did not elaborate on his written statement. '

The amendments to the Electioni licve he is referring to Dane, a settlement.

ix-nrl Lake where exploration op- tions about two years ago by the Domin- ion Gulf syndicate. Some work, trcnchin: has already been done.

Gulf Company had

and chain storm States announced new increases in coffee prices Monday amid predic-

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special senate sumed price boosts Leaders of the in- dustry will testify at. the hearings

Maxwell vances of six cents a pound at the level for regular coffee making the price 81.22.

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. boosted the retail prices of its ovin brands by a nickel a pound, bringing the range to from 3109 to I117 a. pound. Other were expected to follow

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The Guardian. l-‘lvo ceuo Ilorning Dally rounded 1ll1.

OTTAWA, (CP)-—The Federal Government estimated

and the smallest, in that time.

today it had a budget surplus of $10,107,000 in the fiscal year ended March 31. It was the eighth

straight surplus

Finance Minister Abbott gave the estimate in a white

paper tabled