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years was given at this week‘s meeting of the Provincial Execu- tiye Council.

The cheque for the Relief Fund and our expression of sympathy to the many Springhill families whom. have suffered bereave merit in this latest disaster will be sent immediately," The Premier started.

To Test Railiner Sun. Between Borden—Ch’town

WON —- A Canadian Na- fl Railways diesebpropelled will niahe a test run on Prince Edward Is- b'dween Borden and Char-

1VI Gondér. Vice~president "W81 manager of the C. » album Region, said Fri- _ in; railiner will be ferried it x. from Cape Tormen-

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Charlottetown and back to Bor- den. Representatives of various C.N.R. departments will form the test group.

The test run will be conducted by J. M. Provost. Regional Transportation Engineer.

Mr. Gonder said purpose of the Sunday runs by the railiner is purely exploratory in nature, with a view toward determining what schedules are practical should railiner service prove {usltiified in Prince Edward Is- a .

finer’s Daughter Weeps As

Gives His Autograph

by IAN DONALDSON

f 1 Press staff Writer

. :w :nn , N. S. (OP)—

? V Philip brought tears to the

k, 'l miner’s daughter here ‘ ‘ night when he gave her 9, ’na at the side of her _ hospital bed.

’ prince. who visited sur- cf Springhilll’s mine disas- ‘_ l pen from Levi Milley hole the one word “Philip” V long stroke beneath it on ~ piece of paper.

i 1- y blue-eyed Judy Milley,

; crying when she showed ' a reporter. “I’ll always

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i» mg of autographs by . ,g in; unusual—almost un- ' «v -- There is an unwrit- .. v- There is an unwrit- . ' In the United Kingdom “81189115 of the Royal not given because f mt be copied or faked. * ' "=8 thefew precedents re-

; ,0 Killed 5 'I‘Accident

‘2" 3 pg: i»: ROCK, N.AB.,—— .. fif‘l‘wo Victoria County men _ hr and two in hospital Zia accident near here ‘ ,ul'hiday, when a car skid- .- lie road. Joseph Gillespie, m We Settlement, was .,It the scene. Donald V- 21. M Carlingford. died “*5 -‘*‘ here two hours later.

g; HARRY CALNEK Press Staff Writer . =1" ,N.S. (up) — It in}. at least a Week to reach til trapped in the H No. 2 mine. Rescue . Enid Gordon said Fri- ivmials said this ends al- l”?! any more men will :3": . ’ Was the eighth day since ar' caved in Oct. 23. with III the pits. gm spokesman Arnold _"<y».' Passed on the gloomy " Mr. Gordon, who spent *4 ‘Wground.

corded occurred while Queen Elizabeth and her husband were visiting the United States last fall. At a football game, both autographed the ball. ,

Philip went first to the hospital where 12 men given up for dead are resting and healing. The men were found six days after the bump turned the mine into a jumbled ruin.

Milley, the miner who has kept reporters chuckling with his

Philip laughing _ atfiterthcy shook hands. “It’s good to see you." Milley

After Philip signed the piece of

, paper, Milley said: “I hope you

have a 300d trip home.“ Philip looked back and smiled.

Relief Fund ' Has Passed $400,000 '

MONTREAL (OP) — Pledges and contributions to the Spring- hill Disaster Relief Fund now total more than. $400,000, Fund Chainman K. M. Sedgewick re- ported Friday.

“It is indeed reassuring to see such public support." he said, “but a great deal remains to be done to alleviate t hemimeitead done to alleviate the immediate distress of the families involved in this dreadfuldisaster.”

Mr. Sedgewick said provincial representatives were being ap- pointed to set up organizations to place the fund appeal before the public across Canada. The fund was established by Premier Stan- field of Nova Scotia.

Sedgewick. general man- ager of the Royal Bank of Can- ada, said donations could be given to any branch of any char-

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unaccounted for. Ninety -’three have been rescued, including 12 found alive Wednesday after Six days burier. under walls of rock. The unending struggle to reach the missing continued. One crew made faster progress, another re- ported trouble.

TRYING TO MEET

All three groups of diglgprs are striving to reach a juncron a the top of a working level 13,000 feet from the mine entrance. Somewhere in this area more than 30 men were working. The rest of the missing were in other parts of the minfi. All have been ‘ven u as dea . gimme clf'ew working on the 13,- (MO-foot level ran into a Jam of fallen timbers so tight they could not be sawn.

Rescue men said they have to cut through the wood withrhlseI- bladed picks “almost a sliver at

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Prince Hears 0f PEISpuds

SPRINGHILL — Prince Philip heard about Prince Edward Is- land potatoes here Friday night when he visited a civil defence tent where meals are served to rescue crews.

.He stood amused as Harry Eisnor of Truro peeled potatoes.

“Big potatoes,” the Prince commented.

“They’re Prince Edward Is- land s-puds,” grinned Eisnor.

The Prince talked seriously with Glace Bay, N.S. draeger- men Shea McInnis and Frank McDougall.

He questioned them closely on their hours spent in the pit and where they renewed their air supply.

Prince leaves For Britain

MONCTON (CP) — Prince Philip left here for Britain at 10 p.m. AST Friday night in the Comet jet tin-liner that brought him to Nova Seotia for a visit to the Springfill mine disaster scene.

GANDER, Nfld., (CP) -— A comet jet airliner carrying Prince Philip home to Britain from a Canadian visit that took him to Ottawa and the Springhill mine disaster scene left here at 1 am. NST today. (Saturday).

Cubans Vote On Monday

HAVANA (OP) — Cubans vote for a new government Monday in the midst of a civil war. Hanging over the candidates and electors is the threat of being shot at by rebels who have been fighting rc~ tirirg dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Rdbel Leader Fidel Castro, un- successfiul in 3 months in trying to topple the Batista regime, says his troops will wreck the election for president, vicelpresident, sen- ators, representatives, governors and municipal officials.

Castro's , troops opened what they called a final blow at Ba- tista Wednesday. Trains and high- way traffic in Oriente province, at the eastern end of the island republic, were fired on without warning. Bridges were blown up and long stretches of railroad track and telephone and power lines were destroyed.

200 Families Face Drought

HALIFAX (OW—Two hundred families on the outskirts of Dart- mouth, N.S., will be without wa- ter service Nov. 10 unleSs they Pay UP-

Halifax County officials issued a warning Friday, giving the dc. linquents 10 days to settle their accounts. About $10,000 is in-

I”? ue men said. rescuers. a [mic " t ' h [mm the ad‘ lhrcc Ill't‘i'l'rms “ill: \nolllcr RPDHMC 1' I sllc’med lk‘r‘“ thelr slnu “3V .lficpm IZVGMMOM le‘ye ‘ wS I remaining section of better results. S a f el 3’ $.19 H ’ 7 Where mcn arc Il‘iljlj‘l‘flv,ICllDd'Yl as dI‘aL‘SCI'mM‘ 3f it.“ brought lln u'nm :lm‘llml'ocl 1:15 rm! Mull‘“ “1P ' ‘ nets F‘.‘l(":.l\ ".i.:cd out “at? - [Med AT,” ,T‘ u.,_

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They have 140 feet to go to reach the 13,000 level.

SEARCHED FOR BODIES

Another crew searched for bodies on the 13,4004foot level lower down. All hope of anyone being alive there has been aban- doned. ‘

Rescue Director Gordon re- turned to the mine Friday to lead

t operations again. His doctor or-

dered him to bed Thursday for a rest. Since the disaster the 50- vear-old coal company vice-pres]- dent has spent much of the time in the pits.

The men on the 13,000-foot level worked on their stomachs, cut- ting a tunnel barely large enough for a man to crawl through.

Every moment they faced the danger of another cave-1n or an outbreak of deadly gas.

Rumors spread Friday there was a shortage of rescue men, who have been working in Lli't‘c shifts around the clock. It was reported some men had declmed to go down until they had more J‘Csl. Tllr. Patterson said the re— port \\;i.~ t.‘"~(‘. “ ‘

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PRINCE PHILIP VISITS INJURED IN HOSPITAL

Prince Philip Shakes hands been a miner for 30 years. with Levi Milley in hospital at When the bump came he told

and that he had pulled Mr. Stevenson out. The Duke asked if that was how Mr. Stevenson‘s leg was broken and everyone laughed.

Just before Prince Philip left he took a pen from Milley and write ‘Plhilip’, with a long stroke beneath it on a small piece of paper for Milley's 17-year-old daughter, Judy.

Prince

By JOE DUP'UIS Canadian Press Staff Writer SW5 N. S. (Ct?)—

Prince Philip mixed 1, cheery grin with an impression of deep concern here Friday night in bringing a royal message of hope to the people of this tragedy- filled town.

The royal visitor arriVed at 6:45 p.m. AST after a 90—minute drive from Moncton where his Comet jet airliner stopped on the way to Brita-in from Ottawa.

8:20 p.m. AS’I‘ after spending 95 minutes with survivors of the un- derground upheaval in Cumber— land No. 2 colliery where nearly 50 men are still trapped and 33 are known dead.

He traded jokes with the min- ers, spoke words of encourage- ment to saddened families and encouraged still-searching rescue workers.

The 7,000 residents of this rug- ged town in North- western Nova Scotia greeted the prince with restrained excite- ment.

BOUGHT MESSAGE I/

From the Queen, Prince Philip brought a message of sympathy and hope.

Mine survivor Don Ferguson broke through the crowd of hun- dreds near the mine entrance to thank the prince for the visit.

"Just seeing you has ‘done me a world of good." he said. “I'm glad to see you here.”

Prince Philip was accompanied in the first car of the ofificial party from Moncton by vam- ciai Lanor Minister ,Pyke, a na- tive of Springhill, and Lieuten- anthovernor E. C. Plow.

The prince is en route home to Britain after presiding over ses- sions of the English - Speaking Union at Ottawa. A Government House spokesman in Ottawa an- nounced the Duke of Edinburgh’s unexpected visit Thursday night. The official said there was no time limit on his Springhill visit.

Along the route fr' ' Moncton tiny knots of people gathered at the roadside to :tch the royal car go by. The prince had inside lights turned on and waved.

He was reported to have laughed several times at'children in Hallowe’en c 0 st um es who waved .gaily at the car.

THRONG CHEERS

A cheering. waving throng was waiting at All Saints Hospital en- trance as the lieutenant-gover- nor’s car moved swiftly through the hospital gate. The royal standard flew from a front fender.

The prince shook 'ands with doctors, nurses and officials of Dominion Steel and Coal Corpor- ation as he moved toward the wards where rescued men lay waiting.

The prince was conducted through the-wards by Mayor Ralph Gilroy of Springhill and MI". Pyke.

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men were with them and several times he made remarks to the sons and daughters of 12 miners saved from the pit a"‘?r being given up for dead days before. ‘FEtW had ever before seen a mem— ber of the Royal Family.

From the ward where the 12 brought out Thursday are rest- ing, the duke moved on to other miners rescued in the first 24 hours after the bump shook the town.

GIILROY ANNOUNCES PRINCE As Mayor Gilroy took the prince through the wards, he said: “boys—his royal highness, Prince Phi-lip.” A broad smile creased the 'duke’s handsome face. But a serious look came over his face as he talked with more-seriously injured miners.

The first miner he met was Eldred Lowther, one of the 12 saved Thursday.

“How are you feeling?" the prince asked. “I’m feeling very fine," Lowtber replied.

One patient to receive a royal handshake was Caleb Rushton. The prince was told by a nurse that Rushton was one of the min- ers who led singing during the 6% days entombment of the 12 miners.

“You’re in the choir I hear? Philip said. “That helps.”

ASKS 0F TREATMENT

The prince asked Rushton how the treatment was “they’re very good to us," the miner said.

Bill Stevenson, the first injured man recovered from the pit Oct. 23, told Philip his arm and leg were broken. “I was 40 feet from the wall. I tried to get in to see the other men but I was short of air.

The prince stood with his hands behind his back, nodding under— standingly. Stevenson said his leg was mendih-g all right.

Levi Milley brought chuckles [from the prince but it could not

be learned immediately what he

Concern And

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said. The prince signed his auto- graph for Milley’s dau ter. As he turned to leave, ' ey shook his hand and said “I hope you have a good trip home.”

TALKS OF WAR

Leon Melanson talked about his war service with the royal visitor. ‘I‘d sooner go through a war, I’d sooner be an old soldier . . . .”

The prince told Peter Cum- mings “I guess you’re lucky to be here." Cummings told him he received a broken leg and trac- tured ribs in the cave-in.

“I’m feeling not too bad," Cummings said. “You‘re lucky to be alive, I guess,” the prince re- joined.

The next man he visited was Wilfred I-Iuntevr. The prince turned to Hunter’s wife and said “you have a good - looking hus- tband there."

Theodore Michniak, introduced by Mayor Gilmy as the oldest miner among the rescued, told the prince in reply to a question that he had been mining since 1918.

“I’m very happy to be here." Michniak said.

“You must have had a very anxious time,” the prince asked Mrs. Joe McDonald as he stopped by her husband‘s bed. She re- plied shyly, “yes sir."

“FEELS GOOD”

Hamid Brine. asked how he felt told the prince “good, I'm taking it pretty easy. It feels good to be here.”

“You're coming along well?" the prince asked.

Brine said he’d be all right.

From the hospital. Philip went to the armory converted to a make - shift hospital where he talked with more of the injured.

Then he headed for the grim pithead where many women still awaited word from underground rescue workers about the fate of husbands, sons and brothers still

Protestant Chu

WINNIPEG (CP) -— The Cana. dian Council of Churches is lay-i ing plans for a broad Protestant’ Christian movement in Canadian

universities.

The plan, approved by the coun. cil's week-long biennial conven- tion which ended Friday, would seek to unify the efforts of vari- ous denominations in ministering, to the spiritual needs of students.

Delegates endorsed two recom- mendations by a 194member com-. mission set up three years ago to‘ study the question. They recom-i .mcnded that a confcrcnce of‘ It'IlLll'CIl and university lcadcrs be lhcld to lay plans {or the move-' lmcm, and ~ct the stage for ai follow-up study by church and. university representatives at all levels.

l The 120 (Iclmulcs also (tilin‘mcrl u ruclut‘uu c..p:~r\,>iug 111.61" ap-l preciation ot' the L‘BC's rcligiousl

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Movement In Universities

Very Rev. George Dorey, a United Church minister in To- ronto, was installed as president by the closing session.

The resolution on a university Christian movement bogged down earlier in the week when some delegates expressed the belief that it might undermine the ef- forts of individual denominations on the campus. Rev. E. H. John- son of Toronto. a member of the commission which recommended the project. said the ()I'LizllllzflllOIl would acknowledge the need for many of the existing organiza-. tions.

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idea got an added boost Miss Laura Pclmn of To-, ronto. administrative secretary of‘ the existing Canadian student christian movement, said the SCM was fully in support of the

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missing underground.

The weather was cold and windy.

On the mine grounds the crowd of hundreds of people was quiet— gripped by the tragedy that‘s visited this town so often. Flood- lights set up for photographers and television cameras bathed the scene in light and flash bulbs exploded as photographers took picture after picture.

BABIES CRY

From the crowd, the occasional crying of a {baby could be heard. Before going into the pithead, he entered a mine building and chatted with miners, many of whom had just come out of the deeps. Mine oilficials showed him the plan of rescue operations.

The prince spent 30 minutes at All Saints Hospital, another 10 minutes at the armory and 10 minutes with the miners in the mine office.

Despite the chill of the air, the prince walked among the people on the mine grounds without a topcoat. He took off his coat when he arrived at the hospital and was wearing only a black suit and no hat.

WALKS WITH GORDON

Harold Gordon. chief of Dosco coal operations who has been di- recting r e s c u e work almost around the clock, escorted Prince Philip inside the pithead or en— trance to the long shaft leading a mile underground.

As the prince and Mr. Gordon walked to the shaft entrance, sur-

WEATHER

Cloudy with a few clear intervals; colder by evening; winds northwest 20. Low- high 37 and 40. Sunday: Sunny and cold.