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Fire roars through the roof of the Market Building early this morning as City Firemen fight a
losing battle. The blaze broke;
Separate Talks I-n Moscow Is I O 0
Big 3 Decision
PARIS (Reuters) — The Mos- cow ambassadors of the Western big three will hold separate talks with Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Gromyko ra-ther than accept “the principle of parity" in East- West negotiations, a French for- eign niinistry spokesman said Tuesday.
Britain, the United States and France had objected to the time-
consuming separate negotiations‘
which the Soviet Union insisted on in preparing for East-West summit talks.
Russia A last Saturday insisted either on separate talks or an en- larged conference, suggesting the addition of Poland and Czecho- slovakia for a round-table prepar- atory conference.
The French spokesman said the Western powers are not hostile to other powers attending.
“But we will never admit par- lty,” he said.
Veteran R. N. Admiral Dies
LONDON (Reuters) — Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, third oldest admiral in the Royal Navy. died here Tuesday aged 90.
His great - grandfather fought with Lord Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Sir Sydney entered the navy in 1881 and for some time was a fel- low midshipman with the late King George V. He retired in 1923. _
The navy’s oldest admiral‘ is Sir Dudley de Chair, 93.
Dr. Andrew Stewart of Edmon- ton. Alberta. chairman of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads of Food Products along
through the roof about 1 a.m., an hour and a half after the alarm was sounded. Shortly after this picture was taken the peaks of
Flashing ' rnulti-colored tartans and ballet skirts and the colorful costumes of square dance teams contrasted sharply with the so- ber black and white minstreal costumes of the youthful tap dancers, as the first section of the 13th edition of Prince Ed- ward Is1and’s annual Musical Festival swung into action yes- teuday.
Thirteen of the dance classes scheduled for this week were completed in three sessions, the first commencing at the auditor- ium of Birchwood High -School at 9:00 a.m. ‘and the last ses- sion at Prince of Wales College shortly before midnight.
Highest mark earned in the day”s competitions went to the Junior Square Dance team re- presenting the local Y.M.C.A.
,for their performance in Class
234A, restricted to competitors 12 years old and under, the “Y” entry was awarded a mark of 95. Other groups placing in the night session competition were St. Groupe B, second, with a mark of 91, and the Celtic Square Dancers of Charlottetown, third, with a mark of 88.
All classes were adjudicated by Mrs. Roger Fink of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
BEST SEEN
Speaking of Class 234A, Mrs. Fink said that for this age group, they were the best she
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BAT THE HEIGHT OF THE ILAZE
Music Festival Classes Begin
Vincent’s Oirphange, ,
both the east and west ends col- lapsed. Fireman Claude .,Fie1d was injured in the fall of mason- ary from the east end. He was
careful not to crowd themselves on the stage, she said. They should observe “good spacing” and center themselves properly in the stage area. They should exhibit a happy, carefree spirit, and not be “over-anxious. Tap dancers performing in pairs of groups should pay par- ticular attention to their “tim- ing”, the adjudicator said. '
“When one of a group or a
"Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958
taken to hospital said to be suf- fering from injuries to his lower back.
Big Traffic Jam In Halifax
HALIFAX (CP) -—- Thousands of motorists tangled in one of Hal>ifax’s worst traffic jams dur- ing the evening rush hour Mon- day. 'Dhe s-nail resulted from clos- ing of the‘ Kemrpt Road exit to the city by an overpass construc- tion job.
Drivers trying to get home over detour routes blocked streets in the northwest end of town. Some said they were an hour travelling a distance they normally do in 15 minutes.
Police said things will be tough until the overphiss is completed in about five months.
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Strike Faces C.
P. R. Within
Two Weeks, Union Says
{MONTREAL (CP) —- The fire- men’s union Tuesday threatened a nation-wide strike of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway ‘‘_within two weeks” over the long-standing diesel-firemen dispute.
The threat came after CPR president N. R. Crump said flatly the railway will start re- moving firemen from diesel en- gines in yard and freight serv- ices May 11, as previously an- nounced.
The 9,000 - member union claimed it would get full support from other railway unions if a strike is ordered, crippling the railway from coast to coats as it did for nine days in January, 1957.
had seen in Canada. I Square dance groups must be
are: Howard MacKichan, Hali-
Cleve Kidd. Toronto; Mrs» DOW .thy Walton, Toronto; Dr. Andrew Istewart, Dr. W. M. Drummond,
ifax; Romeo Martin, Montreal;
The union’s threat-cushioned
P'R|C.E SPREADS OMISSION ARRIVES
the Commission. Hearings of the Commission have already been held in all provinces except Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Only two briefs will be heard by the
only by the possibility of further
problem—was made after a 95- minute private meeting between Mr. Crump and H. E. Gilbert of Cleveland, Internation-al president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (CLC).
At a press conference later, Mr. Crump also claimed loyalty —- and respect for contracts — from other railway unions if a strike is called.
CONTINUE TO OPERATE
“The Canadian Pacific will con- tinue to operate the railway if the heads of the firemen’s union order another strike,” he said.
Both sides said the door is still open to re-negotiate the diesel
problem.
that of the P. E. I. Co-operative Union, presented by Donald A- MacDonald, President. At 12.30 today Dr. Stewart and the mem- bers of the Commission W111 be guests of the Prince Edward Is-
- penses in determining rates.
negotiations with the CPR on the3
OTTAWA (CP) — The federal governm-.ent Tuesday cancelled in- ’ creases in railway and telephone rates recently authorized by the board of tran-spout commission- ers.
The cabinet action covered a 3.6 - per - cent hike in railway freight rates and a -three-per-cent boost for Bell Telephone Com- pany of Canada in local and long distance phone charges in On- tario and Quebec.
The cabinet, however, r u l e (1 against eight provinces who had asked that a four-per-scent freight rate increase, put into effect Jan. 1, 1957, also be cancelled.
The announcement also said the government has decided to direct the transport board in future to disregard payments into tax equalization reserve mndvs as ex-
A statement from Prime Min- ister Diefenbaakeris ,office 5 a i (1 this was done “lrecaiuse of the uncertainty as to whether and When such reserves will need to be drawn. down for the payment of taxes in future years and -the melluflvty of imposing upon r-ate P-ayveljs at this time the full cost of this distance and uncertain contingency."
INCREASED REVENUE
Had the increases gone into ef- fect. they would have meant about $12,500,000 to the railways annually and about $10,300,000 to Bell Telephone Company of Can. ada in Ontario and Quebec,
/The appealing provinces — all but Ontario and Quebec—h~ad ar- Sued that fie four-per-cent in. crease of Jan. 1, 1957, should also
Decision Is- Welcomed
MONCTON, — (CP) — How-, ard Mann, executive manager of the lylaritimes Transportation Commission. Tuesday night wel- comed the government’s decision to refuse a 3.6 per cent freight rate to Canadian railroads. “T-he decision means much to the Atlantic Provinces where, as in the west, rail transporta- tion costs are so important be- cause they are practically ines- capable.
“The railways and ourselves had a fair and thorough hearing before the cabinet. Both sides were able to state their case fully and the decision has gone
' scheduled starting time.
Russia Rejects Inspection Plan
be disallowed because in the transport board decision then it had taken into account similar payments to the tax equalization reserves. '
The prime mlnister’s statement said, however, that the cabinet “decided that the level of freight rates that went into effect at tha time, and is now in effect, was justif‘-ied on other grounds includ- ing the length of time it had been in effect before the petition was made” two weeks ago.
The cabinet has suspended the increases until May 1 pending the appeals. ‘
FIRST SINCE 1918
As far as freight rate experts here could recall, this was the first time since 1918 that a gen-
Selkirk Sailing
Sand which has accumulated during the winter at the entrance to Wood Island Honbour will pre- vent the new ferry, Lord Selkirk from going on the run as schedu- led on the first of May.
The Federal Department of Public Works in Chanlottetown discovered the small sand bar about ten days ago and on their advice, the ferry will be tied up until the underwater obstruction has been removed by :1 Depart- ment Dredge. ‘
District Engineer Clive Currie said yesterday the work of re- moving the sand bar will take only a couple of days and at the
Cabinet Cancels Increases In Railway, Phone Rates
eral rate increase had been sus- pended pending an appeal to the cabinet. There have been various appeals to the cabinet and to the supreme court of Canada, but none in which a board-authorized increase was held up pending judgment.
Of 59 appeals to the cabinet against transport board decisions since the board was set up in 1904, the cabinet has allowed only three before Tuesday. The last was in the early 1920s w-hen the cabinet overruled a board decis- ion on Crowsnest Pass grain rates. However, in 14 cases the cabinet has referred appeals back to the board.with instructions to alter its decision in part—the last such case being on a 21-per-cent rate increase in 1948.
Is Delayed
By Wood Islands Sand Bar
The Lord Selkirk draws 11 feet of water and the water over the bar at the present time is only twelve feet. With this situation in existence, it was thought in- advisable to risk navigation.
Northurnberland Ferries Limit- ed state that the M. V. Dunning will go on the run as scheduled on the first day. of May and should the delay in getting the Selkirk into operation be lon-ger than anticipated, the Prince Nova will be pressed into ser- vice.
It has been explained that dur- ing a season of heavy ice’, sand does not accumulate at the Har-
most, the ferry should go into operation within a week after its}
hour mouth but this year the ab- sence of ice allowed“ about three «feet - to" pilot up.
UNl.'l‘F.D l\"-ATIIONS, N.Y. (CP); — Russia Tuesday rejected a United States proposal for mu- tual inspection of the Arctic re- gions as a “diversionary meas- ure,” and called instead for con- sideration of such ,‘urgent prob- lems” at a summit conference rather than within the United Nations.
An attempt by neutral Sweden
in our favor."
F>REIDE.RlICFI‘OiN (CP) — Mari- timers resent the fact that they get less for -their cattle and yet have t-o pay more for their beef than do Canadians living in the central provinces, spokesmen for Atlantic co-operatives said Tues- day.
Roy Grant, assistant manager of Maritime Co-operative Serv- ices Limited, told the royal com- mission on price spreads there is an “unfair price spread” being,
manitained “between this area and Upper Canada.” A.tl.antic livestock prdoucers
found that when they shipaped cat- tle to the packers they received less payment than did centr-al Ca-nadi-an farmers shipping to plants there. Yet Atlantic con- simmers were charged more for
to bring the two -opposing sides
Says Maritimers Resent Low Cattle But High Beef Prices
a bigger volume in livestock mar- keting, they could get farmers a
better price for cattle. Currently they did do a large share of the hog marketing but had not yet been -able to convince the ma- jority of cattle farmers to join the co-opertaives.
For example, last January a: pound of sirloin steak cost 97’ cents at Halifax and $1 at St.. John’s, Nfld., but only 89 cents at Montreal and Winnipeg.
RAISES QUALITY QUESTION
Commission memlber Malcolm Drumtmond to Guelph, Ont., ques-I tioned whether the quality of live-! stock produced in the Ma-ritimes had anything to do with the sit- uation. ,
“The price is stiil low here on‘ equal grades,” M-r. Grant said.
The Maritimess produced only about one4half of its livestock needs. The remainder had to be imported from other areas.
Mr. Grant siad he is sure that if the «co - operatives could get
HAVE MOST DOCTORS LONDON (AP) — Moscow Ra- dio said Tuesday the Soviet Un- ion now leads the world in total number of doctors and the ratio
together in the UN Security Coun- cil also found no favor with the Soviet Union, but. interest ex- pressed by” other council mem- bers indicated Tuesday night that the Swedish move might keep the issue alive in the UN.
And late Tuesday Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold step- ped out of his neutral role to throw his support behind the American plan.
The secretary-general took the floor in the Security Council to say he already had welcomed the Soviet decision to suspend nu- clear tests and added:
“In the same spirit, I wish to- day to welcome the initiative of the United States.”
CAIRO JET SERVICE
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) --Communist Czechoslovakia an- nounced Tuesday it will open di- rect jet airline passenger service to Cairo sometime this summer.
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Cloudy with showers, clearing In the evening; southerly winds 25. Low-high
at Charlottetown 43
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Fire spread through the Char- lottetown Market Building last night and at time of going to press, it appeared that the pro- minent landmark in the centre of the City was doomed.
Built in the early part of the present century, the market building was of sandstone con- struction. Within recent years it was completely remodelled to contain the P. E. 1. Travel Bureau, The Island M o t o 1' Transport Bus Terminal as well as Civic Centre. In the eastern end of the building were Roop’s Meat Market, the public market stalls and an egg candling sta- Eon as well as the City fish mar-
et.
The upper part of the building consisted mainly of the Empire formerly the Old Strand Theatre used in late years by Little Thea- tre Groups.
STARTED IN BASEMENT
The firelwas discovered‘ by em- ployees of the C.N.R. Telegraph Office who noticed smoke coming from the basement windows about 11:20. Firemen were on the job immediately but were ham- pered in their efforts because of the small openings afforded by the basement windows and by the dense clouds of smoke which com- pletely enveloped the lower part of the building.
Every available piece of equip- ment _was brought into service by the Fire Department but as time went by it became apparent that they were fighting a losing battle
BREAKS THROUGH ROOF
At one a. m. flames broke through the roof and the illumin- ation there from could be seen all over the city. A strong south westerly wind continuedto blow filldfor a time the old Post Office Build1ng_and the Public Ljbnary were in immediate danger.
As the the continued to rage out of control, firemen turned their efforts to protecting the adjacent buildings.
Little could be learned as to
AP'EC Directors Hold Meeting
MONCTON (CP) — A meeting of the severity - eight member board of directors of the At- lan-tic Provinces’ Economic Coun- cil was held in Moncton Tuesday.
Nelson Mann, executive man- ager of the council, said the In dustrial Development Bank, loan boards of governments, banks, trust companies and the credit unions have “caught the new feel- lng of confidence in the Mariti- mes."
He said they are working in a manner which “expresses a new feeling of concern and under- standing towards the economic neetwls of the Maritime region and the many individual needs of the people living in the Maritime Provinces."
The board’ of directors met in conjunction with the Atlantic Food Show and Convention which has been in progress in Moncton
during the past two days.
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Ch'town Market I Buiding Destroyed By Fire Today
Spectacular Blaze Broke Out At ll:3O In Basement
the amount of insurance cov- erage carried by the City which owns the building but Councillor Bill Boyles who is chairman of the public property commit- tee ventured the opinion “it is not enough."
The travel Bureau is reported to have had a _large supply of Literature in stock and the loss to this Department of the Gov- ernment will be great, especially at this time of year.
The loss to the Bus Terminal will be in its temporary dis- placement and in office equip- ment.
Fireman Hurt In Market Fire
Claude Field, one of the City Firemen suffered leg or hip in- juries when he was struck by flying masonry as the west wall of the Market Building crashed to the street at‘the height of the blaze this morning. He was rushed to the City Hospital for treatment.
Shortly after the west end crumpled, the east end also fell to the street. Just before going to press, firemen were keeping a close watch on the South wall which was expected to crash momentarily.
Scottish Tempers Hot" Over Haggis
LONDON (Reuters) — Scottish tempers in the House to Corm- mons flared Tuesday over a re- ported Canadian than on the im- port of haggis, a Scottish na- tional dish.
Lalbor member Hector Hughes of Aberdeen served notice he would demand government sect- ion to lift ban “so that Scottish tnade with Canada in haggis may be resumed and extended."
Hughes’-s demand will be an- swered ln an official government statement May 20.
The E-dinburgh Chamber of Commerce has’ already made representations to find out why Canada considers the dish, made of sheep’s insides and oatmeal. fails to meet health requirements.
In Ottawa, officials have said they know of no ban on importa- tion of haggis.
Sees Need For New Markets
MONCTON (CP) -—.H. Watson Jamer said Tuesday the Atlantic” Provinces must establish immed- iate trade markets abroad.
Mr. J amer, newly appointed agent of the St. Lawrence seaway will slice deeply into the trade of the Atlantic Provinces unless their overseastrade has been es- tablished previously.
He said initial reports indicate British firms are interested in the opening of Atlantic House in Lod- don and in learning details of the Atlantic Provinces’ industries and
markets.
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population. The broadcast said the Placing third with a mark of Shown on stage in costume are’ Murray, Keith C ff’ , H th ~ ‘ . , U.S.S.R. had 346,000 doctors at 38 in Class 234A, were the Celtic left to right: Barbara MacMil-I Burke and Tommy 1BIu‘rke.eaTlI:fIs.mn of yestflfihy S NIUWAI the end of 1957, or 17 per 10.000,".quai‘e Dancers, a young (l0l.lbl(1“1aI'I, Ronnie Thompson, Bonniefl2 team competition was ad- .mA3I ”""""’1“m'I_""“‘ hml "' I)‘°'”°' 3 of population ‘foursome from Charlottetown. Shaw, Garry Shaw, Geraldineljudicated during the evening ses- lot‘ Wales College aurj:rg;,u;n_
with the scwii other nienibei‘s.Guell3h. Om-? Bmiljlalj 82:17:55 of the Comiiiission arrived 1n~te. Montreal. D1“- - _ ‘Of Island Chrirlottetowii la-t evening. Tlieylottavwai. Dr.HE))ai\I:S;<)oII\11fCaVe from‘ v’ ~ .1’ ' : I i .2. _.c e. e ‘ , . . . ISIIII I‘.‘*I(‘.} I“‘;""~““m‘.I: :I%_.E1rIx§I8,£e?):§artment of Agriculture. President. Colin Waugh, Wilmot‘ 3*” . Il2’.'ll')’."'.'\ is 2‘. .1 . v ‘ . . at 10 o.c~1O(.k Sew left to Imhtiottawa to serve as Secretary of Valley. The second brief will be
Commission in Ch-arlotteto~wn. land Government at a luncheon of medical men I0 the Test Of the
The Federation of Agriculture to be held at the Charlottetown Brief will be presented by the Hotel. Next stop Wlll be Hall- fax and then_on to St. Johns. Newfoundland
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