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No Inflationary Crisis, Claims

throne speech debate closed Fri- day with a strong criticism from the CCF of the effect of United . States laws on Canadian com-

panies.

Hazen Argue, CCF house leader, said there is growing evidence that U.S. law is being used to curtail or control opera- tions of Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. parent companies.

He presented a motion—techni- cally one of non-confidence in the government—calling for a spec- ial Commons committee to inves- tigate the extent to whick “Cana- dian companies are made~ sub-

. ject to United States law and business policy.”

Speaker Roland Michener ruled the motion out of order, however, on’ grounds it did not ‘take the traditional form of challenging Canadian government policy.

END DEBATE

The House then ended the 10- day throne speech debate by vot- ing 176 to 6 in support of the customary motion for an address thanking Governor-General Mas- sey for reading the throne speech at the session opening Jan. 15. Only the CCF group voted against it.

The government forced the roll- call vote after a single voice from the CCF party said “‘nay” to the motion on a voice vote.

“Dare to be a Daniel,” said RB. W. Herridge (CCF — Kooteniiy West) as he stood to vote.

‘The Liberal Opposition’s posi- tion has been that the vote on the motion of thanks to the jov- ernor - Genera] does not imply confidence in ‘1e government.

DEFENDS CAMPAIGN

Finance Minister Flen ing, one of the last speakers in the de bate defended last summer’s huge campaign to convert $6 400.- 0,000 in wartime victory loan bonds into longer - term govern ment bonds. He said 90 per cent of bonds had been converted.

Canada now was “deriving great and timely benefits” from the conversion loan, he said.

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targets with pinpoint accuracy.

Governmem scientists who told this Friday to. inquiring senators also said the Russian space shot shows the Soviet Union has achieved substantially greater rocket thrust than the United States.

Dr. T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, cautioned against doubting Russia’s claim to have sent the Lunik past the moon and into orbit around the eun.

Boiler Blast Kills 8 Men

HELENA, Ark. (AP)—A boiler

Mr. Argue's main point of at-

missing and presumed dead, was Charles Anderson of Greenville.

riticism By C.C.F. Marks ‘Windup OfSpeech Debate

OTTAWA (CP)—The Cenlidane tack was the U.S. law which pro pened under nietaines prime

hibits U.S. companies—and their foreign subsidiaries — from trad- ing with Red China.

He said that last sammer Mr. Diefenbaker, after a meeting with Presiient Eisenhower, had as- sured that Canadian law would govern operations of these Cana- dian subsidiaries.

RED CHINA DEAL

That had been after reports that Ford ‘of Canada had been prevented from trying to sell 1,- 000 vehicles to Communist China.

But since then, Aluminum Com- pany of Canada had been unable to make a sale to,China, Mr. Ar- gue said. And the B. F. Good- rich Corporation of Akron, 0., had made impossible a likely sale of conveyor belting by its Cana- dian subsidiary to Red China.

He said it was “embarrassing and degrading” for Justice Min- ister Fulton to have gone to Washington this week after al the government assurances that Canadian law would govern Can- adian business.

ANTI-TRUST CASE

Mr. Fulton went to discuss Can- ada’s protest against a U.S. anti- trust case in which several Cana- dian subsidiaries are named as co-conspirators in an alleged at- tempt to restrict trade in radio and television receiving sets. The Canadian government has said the actions of the companies, through their patents pool, Cana- dian Patents Limited, are not contrary to Canadian law.

Mr. Fleming said the govern- ment has taken and now takes a

‘| serious view. of inflationary forces

in the economy and that it wel- comes evidence of the public’s concern about inflation.

But the danger was not new and what must be taken account of was the fear of inflation.

NOT COINCIDENCE ’

J. A. Richard (L—St. Maurice- Lafleche). said it is not just coin- cidence that economic problems come whenever there is a Con- servative government. .hat was happening now ab K had hap

Red Miss Tops, U.S. Told

ile Aim

He said he has seen some of the Russians’ scientific work at first hand and “I’m inclined to believe they did send this device ‘beyond the moon.”

,Glennan and several other sci- entists of the government space agency testified before members of both the Senate space commit- tee- and preparedness subcommit- tee, who are trying to find out how the U, S. is doing in the vital space and missiles races with Russia.

Giennan told the senators: “I don’t think we're back of the Russians at all, except in propul- sion. We’re at least as good as they are, except in propulsion.”

ACCURACY ESTIMATE

The estimate of-Russian mis- sile accuracy was made by Dr. Homer Lee Stewart, a scientist with NASA.

He said the Russians must have tried at least to come close to the moon. The distance by which the rocket missed the moon demonstrated guidan + “good enough for a use”

good enough to gui an intercontinental ballistic m | sile to a target with a 15- to 4, mile circle of error,’ Stewa.t

said. An ICBM is planned to jtravet more than 5,000 miles. A gaming “such & Weapon is armed With a hydrogen warhead, it could do heavy eo if it struck within 15 or 2 miles of its intended target.

GROTSWOHL IN MOSCOW

LONDON (Reuters) — An East German government mission headed by Premier Otto Grote- wahl arrived by air in Moscow, Thursday on its way hore from Peiping, the Soviet news agency

Tass reported.

ministers Bennett and even in the 1890s ore Lib eral prime minister urier de- feated the Conservatives.

Yvon R. Tasse (PC — Quebec East) said that years ago Que bec City lost its dominant posi- tion as a port because of con- struction of rail lines and the mjght regain its role as a term- dredging of the St. Law- rence River to Montreal. But it might regain its role as a term- inal port with. completion of the St. Lawrence Seav'ay and devel- opment of winter navigation on

Borden

ATTENDING THE annual

meeting of the P.E.I. Trawler Owners’ Association which con- cluded sessions at the Queen Hotel yesterday were L-R Seat- ed: Laurie Gordon, Murray Har- bour; George Roach, Souris;

Five Collieries Close In C.B.

SYDNEY (CP) — Five Cape Breton collieries worked their last shift for at least a month Friday and 4,100 miners began a -short-time—period that may Jast three months.

Dominion Steel and Coal Cor- poration, producer of about 90 per cent of Nova Scotia’s coal, closed the mines because of lack of markets. Mountainous stock- piles here and at St. Lawrence River terminals have left the com- pany with 1,200,000 tons of un- sold industrial coal.

A. | Rusticoville;

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tli dice ile WE i as

MacNeill, L. Outhouse, Souris: Doucette, Rusticoville and E.M. Gorman. Standing: P. H. Car- roll, Manager, Alberton Indus- tries Limited: Harold Doucette, Raymond Griffin,

Murray Harbour;

A. Montague; Francis | Harbour;

Jim Harris, Murray F. A. Campbell, Loan Board; John Proskie, Fed. Dept. of Fisheries; Premier A. W. Matheson; E.A. Gallant, Souris; Wililiam Harris, Murray Har- bour;- Richard Power, . Souris;

Roland MacDonald Of Souris To Head Island Association

Roland MacDonald of Souris was elected president of the Prince Edward Island Trawler Owner's Association at the an- nual meeting of the—organization held at the Queen Hotel from Monday to Friday of this week.

Richard Power of Souris pre- sided at the sessions.which were held in conjunctioa with a short course sponsored by the provin cial department of fisheries. Other officers elected for 1959

were: William Harris, Murray Harbour, vice president and

Four Countries

LONDON ‘Reuters) Thick fog covered four countries Fri- day, playing hzvoc with road, rail, air and sea traffic. In Britain, the fog and smog were widespread for the second straight day. A member of Par- liament announced he would ask the government on Monday to ex- plain the cause. West Germany, Belgium and Holland suffered. heavy fog Fri- In Britain, ufter+ting some tthe morning, the fog thick- ened again during the afternoon. The fog helped thieves to make, a good haul from a London de- partment store. With visibility near zero late on Thursday night, the, blew open two safes and es- caped with an estimated £20,000. TWO PLANES TAKEOFF The first airliner out of London Airport Friday after a 39-hour’

standstill was a British Overseas

the lower St. Lawrence River..

The Royal Yacht Britannia on which Her. Majesty -Queen

Elizabeth and His Royal High-

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Airways flight to Montreal. An-

In Europe

Are Covered By Thick Fog

other BOAC flight to New York left a few minutes later.

Hundreds of air travellers spent Thursday night in hotels waiting for the fog to lift.

British railroads cut their serv- ices by 10 per cent and automo- biles crawled along icy, fog- swathed highways.

Atmospheric tests made in Lon- don and “.iverpool showed the smog was worse today than gn Thursday.

WARNING ISSUED

Elderly people and those suf- fering from chest complaints were advised to remain indoors to avoid the-fate of some-3,500 victims of the “killer smog’’ of 1952.

The fog blanket hit channel shipping. Two ships collided, but all aboard w_re saved.

Off Rotterdam a motor barge sank on Thursday: night after a Collision with a 692-ton \vessel.

Reginald Griffin of Montague, |

secretary-treasurer. The meeting was attended by

the captains and mates of the},

province’s 13 fishing draggers, John Proskie, market and éco- nomic services of the federal department of fisheries and Eugene Gorman, deputy minis- ter of fisheries for the province.

Among the topics discussed were: Fisheries regulations, in- spection regulations concerning boats and plants, the Condition of the fisheries resoures,~ gov- ernment assistance policies to fishermen and the economics of the fishermen's operations dur- ing the post year.

The total catch of ground fish last year ran over 10 million pounds worth over $300,000 to the fisherman. The average catch per dragger was over 750,000 pounds with a value of $22,600 per dragger. The boat owner spent an average of 112 days at sea for an average net earning of $4,400.

U.K. Tories Lose Member

LONDON (Reuters)—An irate Scot broke with fellow Conserva- tives in the House of Commons Friday and announced he would sit as an independent.

Sir David Robertson. 68, a Conservative member of Parliam- ‘ent for 20 years, said he was pro- testing the Conservative govern ment’s handling of unemployment in the Scottish Highlands. He has been demanding new industry in the area to check the drift south-

ward of unemployed Scots.

ROYAL YACHT SERVES IN PEACE AND WAR

velling to Canada fér their Royal Tour, was. built with a view to

ness Prince

serving SGrilam in peace -and war. Used w the nes Couple

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as a luxury craft in peace time,

Danish Liner Is After Strikin

Alfred MacDonald, Souris; and Roland MacDonald, Souris. Not present at the time photo was taken were Jacques Gallant, Souris; Art Peters atid Paul Gal- lant of Souris.

Queens MP's

Have Busy Week Ahead

OTTAWA, (, Special) — servative MP’s for Queens have important ~~ speaking ~~ engage- ments lined up which will take them both out of .Ottawa this coming week,

Hon. J. Angus MacLean, Fish- eries Minister and senior MP for Queens, will address the Miramichi Salmon Association in Boston on Wednesday. Mr. MacLean will deal with the

conservation of Atlantic Sal- mon.

The Miramichi Association is a sportsmen’s club’ which

has a number of multi-million- aires among its members.

Mr. Macquarrie left Ottawa yesterday for Texas where he will give eight or nine. lectures to the society of friends, the same organization he represent- ed when he went to Britain last year. The junior MP for Queens, a member of the Canadian dele- gation to the UN last fall, will discuss UN problems.

Fire Takes Nine Lives

GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) — A fire which quickly raced out of control destroyed a landmark sed as a nursing home and led nine persons Friday.

Eight of the dead, all patients, were trapped by a collapsing roof of the Glen Ellyn Acres nursing home on the outskirts of Glen Ellyn, a suburban community 30 miles .west of Chicago.

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Iceberg Ship's Radio Goes Silent

HALIFAX ish ship on her maiden voyage

(CP)—A little Dan-

smashed into an iceberg off Greenland Friday and radioed she was sinking slowly in the pitching, icy blackness of the North Atlantic. :

Ships within call moved swift!y to thé bleak area but were buffeted wildly by the heavy seas in a hazardous, suspenseful res- cue effort.

The U.S. Coast Guard in New York said messages it received indicated there were 130 persons aboard the stricken 2,875-ton Hans Hedtoft.

But Denmark’s Greenland de- partment said in Copenhagen there were 9% perséns-aboard the vessel—40 crew members and 55 passengers. The passengers were all Danes and Greenlanders, the department said.

THREE SHIPS IN AREA

Three ships were said to have reached the area of the Hedtoft but they were fighting 60 mile- an-hour winds and 20-foot waves in-their effort to aid her.

They were identified as the German trawler Justus Haslinger, the German cargo ship Johanna Kreuz and an unidentified Faeroe Island trawier.

The Johanna Kreuz was said to have a spotlight aimed ‘at the

of how close the rescuers

way of Copenhagen, but there was no actual confirmation that the ‘Hedtoft still was afloat.

In a roundabout report, the

ship but there 4vas* ‘tio’

coast guard in New York said its cutter Campbell, about 280 miles southwest of the collision scene, had been in contact with the Kreuz at 9:55 p.m. It quoted the German ship as saying she had searched the scene and found nothing. “|

The Campbell said her last con- tact with the Hedtoft was al 4:08 p.m. EST.

The Faeroe trawler later re- ported she was running into dif- ficulty herself in the battering seas and asked the two German ships to be ready to assist her.

BLINDING STORM

Nine smaller ships set out from Greenland through a biiz- zard to try assisting the sinking ship ‘but the Greenland navy command said three of the nine had been forced to drop anchor because they fov-* it impossible to navigate in the blinding storm.

The weather station here said there was little hope conditions would improve before Synday. .

The Greenlard navy sat all radio contact with the Hedtoft was lost at 7:52 3.m. EST Fri- day night. Until that time the - Greenland radio station at Prins. Christians Sound had been in . contact with the ship.

But messages from the - gradually grew weaker and weaker, apparenthy indicating the - emergency transmitter wane ing out.

LAST MESSAGE? . Two radio operators in Green

land said they thought they heard (Continued on page 2 Col. 4)

CHURCHILL, Man. (CP) — A Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft rocket was successfully fired for the first time in Canada at 2:41 p.m. CST Friday at this launching base on the frigid shore of Hud- son Bay.

Col. N. J. W. Smith command- ing officer of -the Fort Churchill joint services base said he be lieved the shoot. was most suc- cessful.

The screaming rocket dropped its booster motor within plain sight of the spectators in the clear and frosty sub-Arctic sky and then left a vivid smoke trail as it roared away to the east in a ground-guided hunt for a jet- powered drone target launched a

Rocket-Firing Team Is Headed By Prince Edward Island Man

few minutes previously by a fout engined Lancaster bomber from the air force testing establish- ment at Cold Lake, Alta.

The missile successfully im tercepted the drone over the tunlra, east of Churchill on the southwestern shore of Hudsog Bay, 610 miles north of Winnipeg, The Canadian-American team Was trained last summer in Texas and New Mexico and took part in test firings last September, but this was the first time the Hercules was fired in Canada. |

The Canadian group, apout 7% members of the Royal Canadian Artillery, were headed by Maj. Varnon Gay of Prince Edward Island.

Miners See

SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP) — A four - day royal commission in quiry into the Springhill mine disaster ended here Friday after 37 witnesses told the story of how a cave-in took the lives of 75 men last Oct. 23. :

Commission Chairman Donald

McInnes of Halifax said **We have a big task on our hands but we'll deal with it the best way we can.” He said the commission “‘is’ very conscious of the three disasters which have struck Springhill, and

purpose of the citizens. We hope that good economic conditions will be restored to you:”’

This hard - luck Cumberland county town in northern Nova Scotia: was the scene, of a 1956 mine explosion in which 39 = died. A spectacular fire in 1957 wiped out half the town’s busi- ness district.

INVESTIGATE STRESSES

Harold Gordon of Sydney. chief of coal operations for Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, which closed its operations here after the disaster, said ‘underground stresses and their actions should get the fullest investi.ation pos- sible.”

His company proposed to “bore a hole in the pavement in the bump area‘to determine how deep the strata was affected."’ A bump

—upheaval of the mine floor—

of the great spirit and tenacity of! <

Lining Up OfCoal Walls A Mistake

caused the 1958 -cave-in i trapped 174 men.

Mr. Gordon testified Monday that he opposed the reopening of No. 2 on any grounds, even to test for bumps.

Steve Dothanty, vice-president of District 26\of the United Mine Workers of America (Ind), said Friday he hoped the decision of the commission ‘“‘may help. de- cide whether many million tons of coal here will be extracted or not.””' .

He said as*“far as the union is concerned we have developed theory and have submitted all evidence to support it.”

COAL FACE ALIGNMENT

Mr. Dolhanty was referring to the alignment last May of the three, working coal faces in No. 2 which miners and union offi- cials said contributed to the causé of bumps.

Miner Elroy Tabor told the commission he fought ‘‘contina ally to stop the company from lining up the coal walls.” Mr. Tabor said if the walls had been worked 40 to 50 feet apart ‘even with the bymp, there wouldn't have been nearly half as many men killed last October."’ He wag one of 10 miners who testified Friday.

Other members of the commis. sion are Tom McLachlan of Glace Bay. former president of UMW District 26, and Calgary minima engineer Harry Wilton-Clark,