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ff WE U! EIOIIONB IN DEATH WATCH

J a P ' U o In John Isndolph

TOKYO. (AP)-Igbty million J5pq.nC6e, drawn together in their 51,;-onguf. national feeling eincathe second World War. kept a death watch today over the bedside of an unconscious fisherman.

The sick man is Aikichi Kubo- vama. radio operator dusted with radioactive ash along with 22 others aboard the Lucky Dragon March I when the United States set off a hvtirogen bomb explosion at Bikini atoll.

Kuhoyama. racked by radiation sickness and jaundice. clung feebly in life in a deep coma.

Across Japan's four main islands the hi.-ickcst headlines proclaimed: 'i1ikim victim near death."

l' Kubnyama dies. it is certain tha' U. S.-Japanese relations will .l1l'llt to the lowest point since the Pacific war ended nine years ago.

JAPANESE SHAKEN

Nothing has shaken the Japanese like this since the war.

At Kuboyamas bedside there is the spectre of the tens of thous- ands of men, women and children who died in the atomic fires at Hiroshima and Nagasaki". The of- .':"i.'tl toll of these Pacific war bombings is listed as 152.034. but Japanese-scientists have estimated that more than 300,000 persons died

if Kuboyama dies. Japan will have. an atomic martyr whose death cannot be blamed on the misfort- unes of war.

This emotional storm has nul- lzfled almost all the goodwill ges- tures the United States has made tr. the Bikini case.

I-IX PECTED APOLOGY

The Japanese expected a deep Aprilrigv. when they did not get if. many accused the U. S. of in. sincerity.

The l'. S. has not

list insured Storm. toss

NEW YORK. (AP)-The amount of lnVlll'Cfl damage done by the hurricane in New York. New Jer- sev and the New England states was estimated Wednesday at 333.. Wl.m0 hr the National Board of Ff" Underwriters.

rhe board made no estimate of

We uninsured loss. V The breakdown given by the imsrd. Ii national association of Mmnnnles handling property in- surance. follows:

Rhorlc Island, 58,000,000; Mu. Wlllllllsftfts. 020000.000; Long Is- iarlri. -35.000.0.00; Connecticut. 32.- 'Wl.000: Maine. 31.600000; New H-mnshlrc. 31,500,000: and New -ifF"f'.V. S-700.000.

Coming Events

"Dance in Mlllview Hall, every

challenged

Friday.

"Danae. Iris School, Friday, September 3.

"Reserve Sept. 22nd., for It.

Teresa's chicken supper.

"Dan Murray Harbor North Friday. ept. ard. xiii,

"Dance in st. Andrew's Mt. Stewart, every Thursday.

"afitulnr dance Lot 05. tonight. -DOlrOn'l orchestra. canteen.

"Festival and dance St. Peter's Harbour school Friday, Sept. gm.

"Buying and cleaning timothy '”"i'- MCGuisan .9; Boyle.

"Iona chicken supper. Sept. 6. :;i'r;r;er served 4 to 8 jun. Dance

q"Danc.e in Mcxenns Bros. New 2-niziero 48 Road, Cardigan. Sept.

"Kelly's Cross Parish chicken Slipper. Monday, September 0th.. -Wale beam at too.

"U"103dlHRp car binder twine and baier twine today. Mcculgan '9 Boyle.

"Just arrived today another Par hinder twine. Kensington Fred Service Ltd.

T"D5"C!. Harington Hall. every Cliursday evening. 0.30 until 1.00. wood music, canteen service.

l"Dance South Itustlco Hall 1”??? Thursday night. music Roi- le MacKenzIe's Orchestra.

"Dont miss the 'ri-acme Rodeo at Queens County Plowing Match, tdnesdny. September 8th.

' "WW OIL - Quaker oil bum- '-I"-If Kitchen Ranges and Floor Pur- ”""- Brysmnnt as McKay.

r"Haze,lhmok Women's Institute Fintry Sale Moore and Mscinods. "Wrd-r. Sept. 1th.. three p.m. '”.VilIl1t time.

R"D)mclns. MacNeiu'a Warehouse. I”.”.5'"lZt0n. every Thursday night. -Noll Huesiis and his Orchestra.

?l:'i3icing9.00-1230. Canteen ser-

oiuT"""”W Seed. We now have ml: cl-anlnl mills in both Sum- -O raids and Charlottetown in Deratlon. We will custom clean nzur seed: also buying timothy

hllllut market price at our mmrih Summerslde and Char-

”W'l Inilll. Signed P. L.

5. Relations Cool

seriously the Japanese claim that the Lucky Drasont was outxide the fmoolaimed danger bones. U. 5. am- bassador John Allison has com- mitted the U. S. to pay compen. cation of up to 81,000,000. Medical aid has also been offered.

WN, CANADA. - TIIIJRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. I954

The ugly word "ma.rumoto”- g-uinea. pig-has been laud often in reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was revived after the Bikini incident. The newspaper Asahi, one of the largest in the world. ran a fimarumoto" cartoon.

Dr. R G. Lea, chairman of the Board of School Trustees for the City will lay the comer-stone of the Queen Charlotte High School at a public ceremony this afternoon at three o'clock.

Dr. W. J. P. MacMillan. the sen. lor member of the Board in point of time. will preside over the pro- ceedings wmoh will open with sing. ing 0 Canada. followed by remarks by Dr. MacMillan. Dr. Lea will then describe briefly the history and sequence of events leading to the erection of the High School.

Responses will be given by Chief Justice Hon. Thane A. Campbell. administrator in the absence of His Honour Licut. Governor T. w. L, Prowae, Hon. A. W. Matheson. Premier. Councillor P. R. Mag- Cormsc. representing His Worship Mayor J. D. Stewart, Clark. Minister of Education and D15 Lloyd W. Shaw. Deputy Min- ister of zducatlon.

Mrs. Lillian MacKenzle will pre- side at the piano. The ceremony will close with ”The Queen." As the entire building is not yet Oomplet. ed. a later date will be announced for public inspection of the school

Vaccination of N.

ST. ANDREWS N. B. .CP)c. Vaccination of New Brunswick children against polio may be started next year.

Dr. J. A. Melanson of Frederic. l0"; "10 Provinces chief medical officer. said Wednesday that if the Salk vaccine now being tested clsg. where is found effective "we ax. Dcct tn begin using it very early next spring."

He told the final business ses- sion of the New Brunswick Med- ical Society that the provincial dg. Dariment of health and society ser- vices has ordered a minimum of 00.000 doses of vaccine. More will be ordered if tests now going on produce favorable results.

The vaccine was administered as a controlled experiment this year in various sections of the U. 8.. and in Halifax and Alberta. Dr. Nfelanson said its merits should be discovered by the experiment.

The tuberculosis death rate in N. B.. continuing by its "remark. able decline. ' stood at the lowest Point on record. 12.0 per 100,000

mimnaf Suicide Reported From Halifax

HALIFAX (CP)-A young mill worker apparently hacked his teen- age wife and two children to death with an axe Wednesday and then committed suicide by breathing carbon monoxide fumes. police said Wednesday night.

When neighbors found the body of 27-year-old Leo Oliver under his car's exhaust pipe at nearby Luc- aaville they went to tell his wife. They found her dead in If pad- ioclted porch with the bodies of Martha. 3, and Sharon. 2, stacked stop her.

Mrs. Oliver was lit.

Mrs. Maurice Parson. a neigh- bor. said she saw Oliver leave his home early in the morning with the two children. He later returned. called the girls into the house and left a few minutes later.

Oliver's mother said he told her he did not feel well enough to go to work and wanted to use her garage in fix his car. His sister found him shortly after behind the garage's closed doors. The engine was still running.

Attiee, Party At Hong Kong

By FRASER. WIGHTON HONG KONG (Reuters) - The British Labor party's goodwill mis- sion to Communist China arrived here Wednesday aboard the first passenger train to cross the Hong Kong border since 1949.

Former prime minister Clement Afflee. leader of the eight-member Labor party mission. said on ar- rival "We had a most memorable visit to China. in which we made many friends."

He aded that he hoped the visit would lead to greater understand- ing between Communist China and Britain and help preserve world peace. He would say no more. but promised to hold a press confer- ence tnday.

Dr. Edith Summerskill said one of her impressions of the tour was that Chinese women talked to her mainly about having achieved "freedom in the field of love." and the fact that divorce-d women were

i no longer despised.

To lay Comer-stone of New City High School At Ceremony This Afternoon

Hon. Keir .

Polio May Get Underway Next Year

Dr. It. G. Lea

B. Children For

of population for 1953, the medical officer said. In 1950 the death rate was 3l.H.,The infant mortality rate had also reached a record low. but was still "too high."

New Hurricane in Open Atlantic

MIAMI. ricane roared northward in the open Atlantic Wednesday with no indication it would strike anywhere along the coast. .

At 6 p.m. EDT hurricane Dolly was 460 miles east of Wilmington. N. C. The weather bureau said it would curve gradually toward the nnrtheast during the next 12 to ill hours.

The season's fourth hurricane was whirling along at 28 miles an hour with winds of 100 to 115 miles an hour near the centre.

Hurricane winds-75 miles an hourtextend outward about 50 miles from the centre and galas extend outward 150 miles to the eaat and 100 miles to the west of centre.

Shipping in the path of the hur- ricane was advised to use caution.

Grady Norton chief .storm fore- caster at the Miami weather bu- reau. said the storm offered "no threat to any land areas for 24 hours or more."

Heavy Crop Damage in Due.

GRANEY, Que. (CP)-The arm of hurricane Carol that swept: through Quebec Tuesday caused heavy damage to grain and corn crops in the Eastern Townships.

Farmers in the Oranby district reported that fields of oats and corn were flattened by the high winds. Roadside fruit stands also were damaged.

Tclephone and electrical wires were snapped by the storm wt all communications were back,to nor- mal Wednesday.

APPROVE HOUSING PROJECT

TORONTO. (GP)-Board of con- trol approved plans for a 30.000.- 000 apartment house project in central Toronto Wednesday. The four apartments houses will con- tain B94 suits.

OX ONIAN NAMED PRESIDENT

0XlN)itD. (AP) - sir Robert Rnblnain. Waynflete professor of chemistry at oxford University.

was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Wednesday. Sir Robert

Founded 1872

Sees Possibility For Wider Seed Potato Market

OTTAWA. (Special) Canadian certified seed potatoes. although known for their high quality in the United States could be sold even more widely there than they are today. This is the opinion express- ed by Kenneth Wardroper, Can- adian vice-consul in Los Angels in an article in "foreign trade" house organ of the Federal Department of Trade and Commerce in its Septem- ber 4 issue. Mr. Wardroper based this opinion on what he termed the "amazing growth" of southern California.

In addition to seed potatoes, the vice-consul writes that there is a market in the area surrounding Los Angeles for Canadian tested seeds of various types, fish fertiliz- ers and peat moss.

Last year there was a complaint from Potato-growers of British Columbia that the U.S.pota.te grow- ers of California and Oregon were dumping potatoes in British Colum- bia. It would be strange if the "dumped" potatoes came from cert- ified seed in the Maritime Prov- incee.

Speed Air To Victims Of Hurricane

BOSTON. lAPl-- A pi'esident'ial order to "cut through red tape" to aid hurricane victims brought. encouragement to New England

win. (AP)--A new lIUInmQa,bp!t1':..,d;w.dnuday nxduuwy

battled with the hprculc-an task of restoration necessitated by Tuesday's furious Atlantic coastal storm.

Inspections of damaged areas- particularly in eastern Massachus- setts and Rhode Island-unfolded a panorama o devastation :crum- bled summer homes, sea coasts and harbors strewn with splinter- ed yachts. cities and towns com- pletely without electric power and facing food crisis because of lack of refrigeration.

Nn central agency could esti- mate accurately the. full damage but newspapers placed the losses as between s300.000.000 and 5500,- 000.000.

The unofficial death list stood at 53. most of them from New England. 16 unofficially repnrted missing. About 1.000 suffered in- juries of some sort and 60.000 persona were evacuated.

News Briefs From

LONDON (AP)-The Institute of London Underwriters Wednesday reduced to one-half per cent from one per cent its risk rates on ships

calling at ports on the China coast. MILLTOWN, N. B.. (CF) - A

petition asking the federal govern- ment to take over operation of the St. Croix cotton mill here was widely circulated Wednesday by door-to-door canvaascrs.

IONDON. Ont... - (CP) - The Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra charmed Londoners on Wednesday when they drove thr- ough three-miles of city streets lined with cheering crowds.

OSLO (Reuters) - The famous Kon-Tikl raft. which sailed across the Pacific in 1047, will begin an around the world exhibition tour October I.

IDNDON (AP) -- The mercury touched 84 degrees Wednesday. marking London't warmest Sep- tember day in five years and the hotteet day this year. Londoners. who had been shivering under umbrellas during the coldest. wet- test summer in a half-century. broke out their summer clothes and crowded the city's many

07, will take office Jan. 1.

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(By John E. Bird. Canadian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA, (CP)-The cabinet. has selected an arbitra- tor to settle multi-million dollar differences between Cana-

dian railway companies and employees.

their 145,000 non-operating

Prime Minister St. Laurent told reporters following a

cabinet meeting Wednesday. however,

that the name of

the arbitrator will not be announced until a decision has been made on the terms of reference under which he will

operate.

Mr. St. Laurent said the labor department now is working with the unions and the companies on the terms of reference. After they are decided an order-in-council ap- pointing the arbitrator will be made public.

Labor Minister Gregg said the terms of reference will be decided by correspondence with the rail- way companies and the non-op- erating unions. He said he has no plans to meet with the. disputants to discuss them.

DECIDE ALL ISSUES

The unions want the arbitrator to decide on all points at issue at the time negotiations opened last year.

At that time the workers sought eight paid statutory holidays a year. 18 days a year sick leave with pay, longer paid vacations and higher overtime pay for work on Sunday. The railways rejected all the demands.

During negotiations in mid-Aiig- ust between the companies and the unions, each side made conces- sions-they were not announced- on some points at issue.

There was no immediate indica- iinn here of who the cabinet has picked as arbitrator. However. government sources say he may be a member of the Supreme Court of Canada. - UP TO CABINET

During the August negotiations.

called after I previous collapse in-

June at Mr. St. Laurent's sugges- tion, the prime minister said he would agree to an arbitrator being narried by, the. unions and the com- panies. The unions. however. said they wanted no part of naming the arbitrator. dropping the appoint- ment in the government's lap.

N. B. Doctors Elect Officers

ST. ANDREWS. N. B. (CF)-DP Armand H. Sormany of Edunmd- awn Wednesday was elected pres- ident of the New Brunswick Med- ical Soclety. succeeding Dr. E. F. Wolverton of Woodstock for a one- year term.

Other officers elected to the ex- ecutive sre first vice-President. Dr. W. Ross Wriaht, Fredericton; second vice-president. Dr. J. H. M, Rice. Campbcliton; treasurer. Dr

G. M. White. Saint .lohn.

Home And Abroad

WASHINGTON (AP) - Surface warships. submarines and air- planes of three NATO nations will conduct a five day anti-subarmine exercise, "Newbroom II” this month off the Canadian and US Atlantic coast.

CAMP PETAWAWA, Ont. (C?) Mai.-Gen. John M. Rockingham formally took command of Can- ada's first peacetime division in A brief ceremony here Wednesday which he called a ”hlSl.i7l'lCRl day for the country and the most memorable day in my career."

FLAT ROCK. N C tAPt---Sen- ator Burnet Rhett Mavbaiik. 55. ii life-long South Carolma Dem- ocrat, died at his summer home here Wednesday of a heart attack.

o'l'rAwA. (CF)-Prime Minister St. Laurent indicated Wednesdav that federal by-elections to fill six vacancies in the House of Com- mons will not be held before ticv.

IDNDON. lRPuffi'M .. Rritain called Wednesday night for an eight-power conference at whim she will ask that Germany be. re- armed now and brought into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization following the death of the Euro- pean Defence Community plan.

The negotiating committee of the non-operating unions agreed Aug. 18 at Ottawa to submit their de- mands for fringe benefits in ar- bitration after Mr. St. Laurent in- dicated Parliament would be called to pass legislation to head off I strike. The railways estimate that ihe fringe benefits sought by the unions will cost them about 060.- 0O0.f)00 a year

The decision of the negotiating committee will be reviewed by the 105-man general conference com- mittee of the rail unions at a meet- ing in Montreal Sept. 8. This com- mittee sets poiicy for the negotiat- ing committee.

Former Canada Packers President Dies in Toronto

TORONTO (GP) --James stan- lcy McLean. 78. who rose from 312-a-week abattoir bookkeper to

become a millionaire meat-packing '

industrialist died after a heart at- tack Wednesday at his '25 - mom stone mansion on the outskirts of Toronto.

only a month ago he relinquish- ed to his son, William, the presi- dency of Canada Packers Limited he had held for 27 years and be- came the company's chairman of the board.

One of Canada's wealthiest men, he also was a patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist.

His widow, Edith, is a niece of the late Sir Joseph Flavelle. Sur- viving. besides his son. are two daughters. Mrs. Douglas Stewart of Vancouver and Mrs. Clare Stewart of Toronto.

BORN ON FARM

Mi. Mc.i.ean was born on a farm north of Port Hope, 60 miles east of Toronto.

After graduating at 20 from the University of Toronto. Mr. McLean Joined the Harris Abattoir Coni- panv in 1901 as an accountant- clerk. Less than four years later he became secretary-treasurer and a company director.

In 1912 he married Edith Fla- velle. whose uncle was company president.

Ila found ways of iibbatinir processes and kept such a close rein on finances that the Harris company made money dur- ing the '20s when other packing- houses inst heavily.

A merger in 1927 between the Harris firm and three floundering competitors placed Mr. McLean at the head of an expanding mcaf- packing empire.

FIRM GIIIW The firm grew to include right

packing plants. three cold-storage plants, is creamariea. seven can-

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(3! Harold Morrium. Canadian Preaa staff Writer) OTTAWA. (CF)-The govern- ment hss reduced spending on arms and defence equipment. with Sabre Jet production and defence cnnslruction taking the biggest cut. informants said Wednesday. They said deliveries of CF-100 jet

fighters also have declined.

With world tension easing. the lovernrnenthi arms expenditures dropped to 325,000,000 in the first four months of the 1954-55 fiscal year. down see.ooo.onn from Sml;

' 1

000,000 in the April-July period

last year.

informants estimated biggest sirop was in aircraft where government paxmentl for the four months declined by 332.- 000.000 to 8l09.000.000.

N0 Flfilllllls

Nn figures on volume could be disclosed, but they said deliveries of Sabre Jets have been reduced to less than half the flow of last. year. and that Cl-"-I00 jet fighter deliveries to the RCMP also have declined slightly, On the other hand. deliveries of 1133 jet train-

that the

duced by Malian. Ont. No reason was given lfor the delivery slow-down. -

ers have increased.

Canada has produced more than l.000 Sabre lots at the big Canad- nir plant in Montreal and most of these have been shipped over- inn in Europe and provide con- trlbuiinns to the RAF and other overseas allies. About l20 of the Sahres have been made available

to the United States.

The CF-I00 jets are being pro- the A. V. Roe ('0. at

was to equip Canada's air div-iv!

less the general ed R drop of 3n.0fY)

l Gov't Cuts Spending For Arms

On other defence production fronts. there were sharp declines in the erection of new defence buildings and in purchasing of general maintenance materials.

f'ON8TRl'(”TION RFZDITED

Informant: estimated that gov- ernment payments on defence.

construction were reduced to 318.-

000000 in the four-month period. than half the 340900.000 in llmlllf period last year. The purchasing branch show- .O00 in hitting

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Arbitrator For Rail Dispute

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Announced By Sask.

REGINA lCPl - Saskatchewan has launched a gigantic program to care for its forgotten people. the

aged who live with the help of rel aiives or charity.

Welfare Minister J. H. Sturdy Wednesday announced a major housing project for old frilks, an entire village to cover eight blocks of park land in Regina.