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charlottetown yesterday hon- .red one of its best known citi- tens, Mr. Von Clure Gay-, on the occasion of his hundredth birth- Iay. At hishome on Upper Prince st, Mayor Edwin C. ’ Johnstone
(left) presented the distinguished
Authnrizeo on Second Clasg Man
Depart: em. Ottawa
by the Post Office
‘CE-NTENARIAN HONORED
centenariank with a hand-colored and fishing, and a lover of good view of Victoria Park. The work music, Mr. Gay is widely known
was produced by the Cleve Cras- as
well Studio, the inscription being added by Sister St.‘Linus of Notre Dame Academy. A life time de-
“the man with the green thum ”. One of the City’s out- standing florists, he continues to take an active interest in the hot-
CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1953
house operated by his son. Mr. Johnstone — was accompanied by_
two members of the City Council, F.G. O’Neill and Harry I-Iyndman, and City Clerk, James’ A. Fuller- ton. Guardian Photo
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) Premier _.A-bdullah Khalil said Sunday night a Sudanese advance post has sighted a company of Egyptian troops in a “distant part” of the (border area claimed by both countries. _
No ‘action was taken by Sudan- _‘_ese troops, he added. , _ , , _ .
“since 1fii,ufied°Egypfian"forces‘ have entered ‘Sudanese territory despite all that has been said in the last days, a message is be- I118 sent to Sudan's representa- tive at the United Nations with instructions to request the Secur- IIY Council to resume its meet- ing on the Egyptian-Sudanese dis- pute,” he said.
The premier said there was “no question at the moment of with- drawing any of the troops we have sent to the border area."
His statement threw down «an @116? lleport by a government Sllolfiesman that reinforcements mbably would be withdrawn jl‘°m_the borders before Sudau’s elections next Thursday.
SA formal protest was handed baiurday. night to Egyptian Am- assador Mahmoud Seif K11-alifa °g"m5'3 EgYPt’s delay in notify-
I:iiiIie~ Hope For Missing Airmen /
ST. JOHN’S, Nfldr (CP) — A ‘P0ke§man at the United States W31 base at Argentia, Nfld., ~smd»§‘lnday night “very little We remains for the survival of th _men who disappeared with 9“ Super Constellation Thurs-
‘The North Atlantic.
nA‘l"°l1i 50_ search planes and 39303’ 20 ships were “frustrated” may by bad weather. Visibil-
3i’ 011 a ruotine radar flight over '
votee of the ‘twin sports: of hunting
ing the Sudan of its decision to postpone further action over the border dispute until the forma- -tion of a new Sudanese govern- ment March 20. ,- The protest was made at a lower level than first contem- plated “in order not to aggravate ..they.s,it.uati0n.” g o v e I-pm.e..nt sources said. ‘ - The Sudanese opposition Na- tional Unionist party leader, Sayed Ismail el Azhari, sent a telegram to Egyptian President Nasser saying “your wise de- cision has delighted us.” But the Umma party and the independent newspapers here continued to criticize Egypt’s delay in for-
Recls Test Nuclear Weapon
WASHINGTON (AP) —-Russia, conducted a weapons test Su-nd_ay the Atomic Energy Commission announced.
The commission m a d c this terse announcement:
“Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. stated today that the Soviets had conducted a weapons test today in Soviet territory.
....“’I‘he yield of the test was in the megaton range.” _
A megaton is 1,000,000 tons, in- dicating the weapon tested was a sizeable one. \
The commission did not spec- ify the nature of the Russian weapon tested but the reference to it being in the megaton range indicated it might have been a thermonuclear weapon, such as
werzvas Door and surfacewaves flhan 15 feet high.
,,g:B0URG, Ont. (CP) —- Mike walslgn got ‘d‘own_to some side- mkm electioneering Saturday, 3nd Leg ‘Votes on_ street corners . g-ion halls in a fast-moving
* tour of four ridings in eight
.9 90.06 Was so fast that when “get suggested the Liberal may want to “dance all March 31, Mr. Pear- llgd it mag be a case of . n wan e -to sleep all if“ 3.“, all day before he did g danc ng_ B ESPUR, at Kingston, Napanee, e]1e‘t’}l]11e’2Trenton and Cobourg where En hushed on to Toronto mnaefaught a plane Sunday an fig?“ 01‘ Vancouver to open western ‘})‘1lfl%:)l;inr:aempaign in the < s. sueelhclefi he said, was not an is- wfiuld Ha?’ election. though voters and lead 6 to decide which party Can as" could do the best for adding 3 the search for peace, tit V Eiorea, Suez and '\}"SI at the endo01f]Ol\(:Iaii1pg-liecltalf
T AXCUT BEST IDEA
" e iiogooéflgued all day that his tax - Cut proposal
would ’ . Mlnistgf 3 10¢ better than Prime
the hydrogen bomb.
Pearson On Street Corners In Eleciionee-ring Campaign
000,000 publicworks p~rogra.rn for aiding unemployed. For example, he said, how could Canadians ex- pect to get -work fast from the proposed $100,000,000 highway in the Yukon th at might take months or years to get st‘arted-
“A freeway for the Eskimos!” one of his supporters shouted.
Mr. Pearson started the day by answering the questions of 800 Queen’s University students at Kingston.
He denied that Mr. Diefenbakcr was the first to propose an emergency United Nationspolice force_ for the Middle East as claimed by the Conservative lea.der’s cabinet colleagues.
He said also there is no likeli- hood of “Wall Street” dominating Canada’s _ economy——steps could be taken ‘to avoid that. What should cause concern was that foreign investment was declining, aggravating the recession.
It was true, he told the stu- dents, that Mr. Diefenbaker while in opposition had mentioned the police force proposal in 1950. Mr. Pearson, then external affairs minister, told him the proposal had already been offered to the United Nations secretary-general but it was relocterl b.V the 1S|”861l
Diefenbakerj $1,100,.
Report Egyptian Troops (Enter Disputed Territory
mally informing» the Sudanese government of its decision.
N0 JUSTICE ~IN ACT
The independent E1-Ray Alam El-Alam said: “Egypt, may god-
us to [forget the incident. For wben sheurignored the Sudan gov ‘émnaehrs 1-ighi§“s“iie‘“£oor<“a”n~ tion not approved by justice or by reason.” ’ . The elections begin Thursday but the results are not expected for somedays. It will be the first elections since the Sudan gained independence on Jan. -1, 1956. About 1,500,000 male Sudanese will cast ballots to elect a new House of Representatives of 173
partly nominated Upper House. Most voters will use tokens in casting -ballots. The tokens, dc- picting an elephant, giraffe, a _stick or "a bottle, represent the opposing political parties.
forgive her, has refusedto allow-‘(soul physician’ and Dr‘ Davld
-Winston’s progress continues to
members and 30 senators in the ,
Sir Winston's Temperature Is Normo'I
ROQUEBRUNE-CAP MART-IN, France (Reuters), — Sir Winston Churchill's temperature dropped back to normal Sunday.
‘The .83-year-old former British prime minister was stricken last Wednesday with pneumonia and pleuri-sy. Lord Moran, his per-
Roberts, his local doctor, said his ‘temperature now. is normal. .g,.,!I*heyrsaid-- in ,a m~ed_ical,..bu1letiu; “Sir Winston C‘hurchi1l’s temper- ature -is normal. Certain labora- tory investigations of a. routine nature which were carried this morning are all normal. Sir
be satisfactory.” .
Churchill’s private secretary, Anthony‘ Montague-Browne, said there will be another medical bul- letin today. ' b
He said Churchill has ‘not re-‘ ceived any visitors. Questioned about a reported visit -Saturday by in-laws of his daughter Mary, Montague - Browne said: “They visi-ted the villa but did not see
Sir Winston Churchill hlmself."
LONDON (Reuters) — Defence Minister Duncan Sandys will an- nounce to Parliament today the terms of an agreement signed be- tween Britain and the United States for the setting up of bal- listic missile bases in the, United Kingdom.
Under the agreement, which has raised a political storm here, Britain will construct and pay for the establishment of the bases while the United States will pay for. the missiles.
The Labor party has displayed great anxiety about the British governmenfs veto powers over the use of these\ bases. Opposi- tion Leader Hugh Gaitskell un- successfully urged the govern- ment in last week’s foreign af- fairs debate not to go ahead with physical ‘preparations for estab- lishing the bases until after a summit conference with Russia. MAY SET PATTERN .
Details of the agreement were
MOSCOW (AP) —- Nikita ‘Khrushchev said Sunday night Soviet armed forces are being equipped with “the most terrify- ing weapons of all time . . . such weapons as have never existed before.”
The Soviet Communist party chief spoke at a Kremlin recep- tion celebrating the 40th anniver- sary of the Soviet Army.
He added: “All we want is peace, peace not only for us but for all peoples, peace to live without fear, and in friendship.”
Defence Minister Marshal Rod- ion Malinovsky, speaking at the same reception, said thensoviet armed forces are “strong in mod-
ern weapons and equipped with
and Arab countries at that time.the most modern military techni-
MissiIePaci To Be Barecl Today
completed Saturday in Washing- ton. The terms will be an- nounced in the House of Com- mons simultaneously with a Washington statement.
The agreement is expected to set the pattern for US. pacts with other European nations.
Under present plans, the Untied States will send the first squad next December. These missiles will be operated by British troops on British» bases. Thor, with a 1,500 - mile range, would be capable of delivering a—nuclear‘” warhead well inside the Soviet Union.
Under existing law. the United States will retain control of the
nuclear warheads for the mis- siles in Britain, but the British- American agreement provides for -a joint decision — thus giving Britain a form of veto over their
U.S. Snark G
Peron-Backed Leftist Is Argentina's New President
BUENOS AIRES (AP)—Leftist lawyer Arturo Frondizi Sunday Won the six - year presidential term in Argentina’s first free
election since Juan D. Peron’s dictatorship.
It appeared to be a landslide.
Shortly before midnight unoffi- cial tallies gave Frondizi, who ran with Peron’-s blessing, 662,552 to 392,505 for his’ moderate op- ponent, Ricardo Balbin.
Reronista supporters abandoned blank ballot protest tactics of pre- vious elections and swung their vote to give Frondizi an appar- ent smashing victory.
Fxrond-izi’s triumph was indica- ted when he took an early lead in the federal capital and in Bue- nos Aires province, B-albin’s home province.
His lead widened as the ing continued.
Official tallies lagged behind, but confirmed the trend and the fact that the Peronists were vort- ing for him.
N. S. Boy Is Lost I In Woocls ’
MIDDLETON N.S. (CP) -- Searchers Sunday night (contin- ued the hunt for a 13-yearold boy who left a, message in the snow aiitecr becoming lost in dense woods. .
Jimmy Bent of nearby Mar- garetsville wrote in the snow that he was going south couldn't ,“fimd my way out." The boy‘ was walking in the woods‘ with his brother Terry when they became separated. Terry arrived home at dark.
-cu; -Worried ’ By Growing. U. ‘S. Recession
LONDON (AP) —— Britain was reported Sunday worried by re- ports of a growing"‘United States recession and has been urging Washington to relax restrictions -on trade with the ‘ Communist bloc.
Prime Minister Macmillan sent three economic aides to Washingt-‘ ton to get _a first-hand report on; the U.S. situation. may are Sir Paul Gore-Booth, deputy under- secretary in the foreign office in charge of economic affairs; and Sir Leslie Rowan and Sir Rob- ert Hall of the treasury.
They are reported tohave sug- gested to the U.S. state depart- ment a review of restrictions still banning trade with the Russians and the Communist bloc in stra- tegic materials.
The first effects of the North American recession were shown .in_ a 15%-per-cent fall in United Kingdom expprts to the dollar area in January compared with the monthly average for the pre- vious quarter.
More than half of this, how- ever, was in sales to Canada al- ways seasonally low in Januafy. Sales to the United States were down six per cent.
AUTO EXPORTS STRONG
Paradvoxically British automo- bile exports to the United States in January reached a record 14,- 076 cars--1,000 a week more than in any previous month.
count-
LANDSLIDES KILL . 14
LIMA, Peru (AP)-—Landslides caused by heavy weekend rains in the interior have taken 14 lives and caused considerable damage,
-reports reaching Lima said Sun-
use in the case of ag-gre,_ssion.
ques." He joined Khrushchev in praising the forces, espeically marshals and generals who rose from the ranks. ,
Malinovsky said army leader- ship is composed of 86 per cent‘ Communist or young Communist league members.
The reception, with search- lights stabbing the leaden skies above the gleaming onion domes of the Kremlin and with artillery salutes and city - wide fireworks displays, culminated a week of rallies, mass .m e e t i n g s and speeches.
H-BOMB ANYWHERE
Malinovsky said Saturday the Soviet armed forces have mis-
siles that can deliver 3 hydrogen
day.
Want Peace But Armed With Terrifying Weapons
charge to any point on earth. On the same program at the
huge sports palace in Lenin Sta- «.
dium Khrushchev put on his bright blue lieutenant - general’s uniform and heaped praise on the armed forces. ._ Khrushchev, who won his rank in the war, wore a blue, gold-em-
broidered jacket with shoulder
pads bearing the twin stars of a lieutenant-general. It was the first time in many years—some said since the war—he had appeared in military dress.
Premier Bulganin and Pres- ident Klementi Voroshilov, wear- ing the uniforms of Soviet mar- shals, joined Khrushchev in prais- ing the grgwth of the Soviet or- med forces.
wvcor of linking the two countries
and . stay on, however, until an exec-
public would be a
Frondizi claimed victory in a statement saying he had no com- mitments to any one and will rule for the good of all Argentiries.
PLANS AMNE STY
Frondizi said he would declare a political amnesty, particularly for political and labor union peo-
CAIRO (Reuters) — Egyptian» President Gamal Abdel Nasser with a near-u-nanimous; vote of
confidence, Saturday was pro- claimed head of the new United Arab Republic of Egypt and Sy- ria. « =
Egyptian Interior Minister Za- karia Mohieddin said only 386 votes were cast against the union and 452 against Nasser in Fri- day’s plebiscite. The total in fa-
was 7,414,987 and in favor of Nasser was 7,414,924.
The ballots offered voters only a “yes-or no” choice. The result of both votes was a foregone con- clusion. ’
-In Damascus, Syrian President Sh-ukri El Kuwatly and his gov- ernment resigned as the first step in implementing the union. The Syrian government will
utive council is formed for Sy-r-. -ian administration. '
Crowds outside Kuwatly’s home cheered the results of the plebiscite. He ufasgreeted asone ‘of ‘-the “heroes of unity") along with Nasser.
The Cairo, the 40-year-old Nas- ser was given an even more tu- multuous welcome as he told 500.000 supporters the new re- “great weapon” for the Arab ca-use.
There was near panic and al- most a stampede in the square as the Egyptian leader stepped outside Abdin Palace.
Twenty-one guns boomed a sal- ute, fireworks exploded ‘ in the sky and planes dropped par- achutes bearing pictures of a smiling, 40-year-old Nasser.
Nasser did not refer directly to Britain and France, but he said
ple. He said he would lift all bans meaning those that outlawed the Peronist party and barred Peron- ist era officails from participation in this election. _
The unofficial figures were be- ing g a th e r e d by newspapers, which took no sides in the cam- paign. . ‘
Nasser Heads -
New Arab FU.-ni on
nsnN ssu “against _ ,¢u.;,,_,,.,., V_
‘he I launched a “ ’zufie"c‘t*’ ‘attack Port Said”—-the port French and British troops surrounded during their Suez intervention in Octo- her and November, 1956.
The Soviet ambassador here extended his government’s for- mal recognition of": the new re- public. He was followed by the envoys of India, Japan, Den. mark, Czechoslovak-ia, Switzer- land, Belgium, Tunisia, Hungary, Sweden and Bulgaria.
The new republic has a pop-
dilation of 2,000,000 — 23,000,000,
000 in Egypt and 4.000.000 in Sy- ria’. The two provinces are sep- arated -by about 100 miles of 13-.
the republic would be a weapon
are being issued scientific instru- ’ments to detect nuclear radiation. I-Iere Pte. Jack Wight of Ottawa holds three of them. The one in
his left hand transmits static im-
raeli territory.
DETECT RADIATION
OTTAWA, — Canadian soldiers needle of a visual indicator in his
right hand. Two of the smaller types of equipment are seen in his top right pocket and around his neck (CP Wirephoto from Nation-
lpulses to the earphones and to it at Defence)
against us when he struck at,‘
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ui,cIed.A/mlflissile Has Range 6,300-Miles
Reporiecl ‘Able To Hit Any Target In Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) —— Man- ufacturers of the Northrop Snark guided missile said Saturday the weapon now has a range of more than 6,300 miles. It hereofore has been credited with 5,000 miles.
Able to cruise for 10'.hours at almost the speed of sound, the Snark is described as the only current United States w e a p o n capable of low altitude attack upon virtually any target in Rus- sia.
A powerful tool for “massive intercontinental deterrent” pur- poses is the way Northrop Vice- President John R. Alison de- scribes it. _ '
New or little known facts about the pilotless bomber were brought out by Ali-son and other Northrop Aircraft officials at a briefing here designed to correct what they said was “widespread misunderstanding” of the Snark’s mission and performance.
CAN ‘TRICK ENEMY
They said a new electronic de- vice, specially installed on the Snark, -can trick enemy radar in-to mistaking the “fighter - size missile for the largest of the jet bombers. Thus‘ Snarks can be flown ahead of a’B-52 bomber at- tack as-decoys to cut down enemy interception of U. ,8. strategic bombers.
A “big load carrier,“ they" said the Snark can plunge a 1 a r g e thermonuclear warhead into enemy targets with “truly amazing accuracy."
Once‘ it has left the ground, I
. Snark is on its own. A preset self
contaihed« inertial guiadauce sys- tem directs it on a straight, zig- zag or looped course.
Although the snark cannot be “jammed” by the enemy, it can go called. bag; from its ppssio:
ansuspect‘ enemy an act‘. ~-turns=lout~=to'ibe»'a-faise--~aiarm;W”
More than 50 Sna-rks have been launched from the air force mis- sile test centre -at Cape Canave- ral. Fla. "
To Liberal Tax
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. (CP)-
Prime Minister Diefenbaker has made his strongest reply so,far to the $400,000,000 tax-cut pledge of Liberal leader Lester B, Pear- son. - 7 Speaking to almost 4,000 per-' sons at a- $2-a-plate banquet Sat- urday night, he reiterated his ar- gument that the Liberals main- -staineda record-high tax burden a year ago despite warnings of ‘above-normal unem«ploym_ent.
The Progressive Conservative leader mentioned Mr. Pearson’s name more frequently than in. previous speeches. .
“He says the time has come to reduce taxes,” Mr. Diefen- baker said. “I ask him why he voted. against reducing taxes in March and April of 1957.”
The Liberals were warned a year ago there would be serious unemployment, a fall-off in busi- ness and housing, and reduced" exports.
“I say to Mr. Pearson: What did you do? There must be some reason why you waited until 1958 to unveil the policies you should have implemented last year.”
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He said the Conservatives’ cut taxes, reduced interest rates,, raised old age pensions, provided 300,000,000 in housing funds, sboepped up public works and ex- tended by two months the period for special wintertime unemploy-
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FIVE CENTS
Some of them, fitted with land- ing gear, have been brought back and landed and then flown again, as many as three times. A num-_ ber of them—“more than three” —have been flown all the way to Ascension Island, 5,000 miles from Florida "in the Sou-th Atlan- tic. If they had been launched in another direction, they c o‘ u 1 d have struck Moscow. 1
The Snark is 68 feet long and 15 feet high, has a 42-foot wing span, and weighs less than 50,000 ‘pounds or about the same as an F-89 intercepter.
It is powered by a Pratt and Whitney J57, the same jet en- gine used on the eight - engine B-52 heavy bomber.
SQUADRON TRAINING
It is launched from a mobile launching platform, by two 130,- 000-pound-thrust sol-id propellant rockets. _ ,
A Snark squadron is in.tr'ain- ing at Patrick air force base, Fla. The first squadron site is under construction at Presquo Isle, Me., 4,200 miles from Mos- cow.
“Development is essen- tially complete, the missile is in production and it can be opera- tional in 1959 and in the inven- tory in numbers in 1960," Alison said.
The Northdrop briefing officers said the Snark is “relatively in- expensive” — about a tenth the size and cost of the B-52. They said that since with a production total of 600 the B-52 cost will av- erage out at about $6,000,000 each, on production total of 600 snarks would yield a ‘unit cost of about $600,000 a snark.
DEATH TOLL RISE!
MANAMAH, Bahrein (Reuters) The death toll in an explosion aboard the British freighter Seis- tan Wednesday rose to 58 Satur- day with the death of Michael
neers.
P. M. Makes Strongest Rep-Iy
- Cut Pleclge
ment benefits.
It was Mr. Diefenbaker’s first major bid for Quebec support in the .March 31 election. He re- turned bo Ottawa Sunday. _
The" Conservatives held only nine of the 75 Quebec seats_in- the last Parliament and are hop-
ing to win more March 31 to ob-
tain majority representation in the .265-seat Commons. - Mr. Diefenbaker said it is “e - sential for our party and govern- menlt that the province of Que- -bee play a leading role hi the Progressive Conservative party.” In English, he asked the prov- ince to elect a Conservative rep- resentation “in keeping with the responsibilities of this province.”
SARCASM FOR. PEARSON
Mr. Di fenbaker heaped sar-‘ casm on . Pearson’s motion of non-confidence made in the Com- mons -a month a=go, which pro- \ posed that the Conservatives re- sign and make way for a Liberal government without an election;
"That is not the way govern- ments arp changed in Canada," he said, “even though they’re changed in Venezuela by similar methods”.
And he said that since Mr. Pearson has come up with so many new ‘ideas after seven months in opposition,‘ another four or five years in opposition would produce something even better.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Alta. (C-P) Social Credit leader. Solon Low said Saturday night the Conserv- ative government h-as no moral
- right to ask for a renewal of con-
fidence.
The . national leader accused Prime Minister Diefenbaker of placing “the welfare of the party above thewelfare of our coun- try” in calling the March 31 fed- eral election.
Mr. Low -told an election rally following his nomination as Social Credit candidate for Peace River constituency that Mr. Diefen- baker and his party “asked for the privilege of forming a gov- ernment.”
“They got it. Th e’ people charged them with the responsi- bility of safeguarding the welfare of Canada and they wantedthem to stay at their post until our country was out of danger, or at. least until they had demonstrated that they could. or couldn't carry
Low Declares G-ov’i. Had No» Right To Call An Election
But the Diefeubaker govern- ment was afraid it couldn’t meet the situation, it had no confidence in it’s abilities and so in the face of a few difficulties) Mr. Low added, deserted its post and ab- dicated its responsibilites.
SOCREDS USED GUIDANCE
The Progressive Conservative minority government, however, under the careful nursing and guidance of the Social Credit group in the House of Commons, Mr. Low, “is a pretty good gov- ernment as has been proved since Oct. 13.
“But a Tory government on its own would be like a runaway Bennett-buggy on a steep side of a hill with no steering wheel and no brakes.
_“Without the Social Credit to give their pitiful efforts vitality, the Conservative endeavors in the Commons this time would
on through a dangerous
have been downright pa.-than and )l10l>r0ductive._"’»
Parer, one of the vessel’: engi-