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ice and open water.
The icebreaker and supply ship Edward Cornwallis left the sealing vessel Curling in open water near the sealing grounds off Bird Rock in the Gulf of St. Lewrence. :
At the same time the Trans-
forehand. They also said that both the British and US. fleets have a special relationship to NATO, allowing them to be used freely a such as in Formosa
BAD. FAITH. ACCUSATION
Western diplomats have told the French this is, of course, true: However, they accuse the French of bad faith. Had France asked for a change of NATO as- signments in the Mediterranean, military spokesmen say, French interests certainly would have been met.
Militarily, the French . move will have little effect. The French Fieet in the Medtierranean is not formidable and France’s post- war naval reconstruction pro gram is far from completion.
SLAIN FOR REWARD
CAIRO (Reuters)—Col. Abdul Wahab Shawaf, leader of this week’s abortive Iraqi revolt, was killed with his own revolver by a hospital aftendant for a 10,000 dinar ($28,000) reward, the Cairo — Al Ahram said Satur-
Lieut.
42, and Halifax and Lieut Roger D.
c. Victoria,
“Since steel and lydro energy
are basic to all On- Sane, bathing’ Wee raises thee costs must ultimately nit consum-
ers in all parts of Canada.”
The text of Mr. Armour’s speech was given to the press be- fore delivery.
Stressing the vulnerability of Canadian manufacturing to out- side competition, Mr. Anmour said since he came to Hamilton 12 ago six knitting mills have ceased to function here.
“It is my cofftention . . .. that unless government at all levels takes cognizance of the import- ance of manufacturing to na- tional well - being, the seaway may bring to Canada not pro gress ‘and prosperity but retro- gression and stagnation.”
He mentioned the opposition of Premier Frost of Ontario to the imposition of tolls on the Welland Canal and said:
“In the case of the steel indus- try . . . increases in our costs’ because of canal tolls, or for any other reason, affect producers of every kind in every province.”’ SASKATCHEWAN AGREES
Saskatchewan in its submission to the federal government against Welland ship canal tolls empha- sized this point, ae said.
“Saskatchewan pointed out that if the cost of steel goes up, then the prices of trucks and agricul- tural implements and fencing and all thé. other Ontario products used by prairie farmers will go up too.” ;
Canadian manufacturers al- ready need’ protection adequate to their needs—a larger domestic market and a lighter tax burden.
But with the opening of the sea- way “our domestic market is
about to be curtailed by greater foreign competition and our costs will shortly be increased by Wel-
JOINING ROYAL YACHT
Stanley L. Foceman,,adian Navy have been chosen to (left) of New Westminister| serve on the royal yacht Britao-
jand Canal tolls.”
nia. Six Canadian saflors now afe serv:-~ c: tre B-itannia. and
Sweeny, 28, of Vancouver and| mo > will be selecied later this both of the Royal Can- | spring.
feed? .OUN
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
"CHARLOTTETOWN; CANADA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959
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dland Strike
Cabinet
OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker ‘says there will be no Royal Commission to inves- tigate the labor unrest in New- foundland.
He made the announcement Saturday after a cabinet session lasting nearly four hours. It ap- peared ‘a straight refusal of re- quests by Premier Smallwood’ of
lawlessness and violence” during
the decision against a royal com- mission ruled out any kind of in-
said Be wouldn't go beyond his orig- inal statement
‘He added, however, that it was a royal commission that Premier Smaliwood wai ‘ed.
NO REPLY SENT
The prime minister said “no reply” had been sent to Mr. Smallwood's telegram asking for an inquiry. The “facts will be placed before the Commons” to-
nouncement will be made ‘‘very,
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Asked by a reporter whether | lanc
Hits Ont
eral areas Sunday as rain and winds hit 92 miles an hour swept ecross southern Ontario followed by rain. -
Seven persons, two of them honeymooning Americans, were injured by flying glass in the Niagara Falls area:
Much of St. Catharines was left without power for 4% hours when a transmission line feil. Scarborough, suburban residen- tial section of Toronto, also—re- = power off during the even-
The CKEY radio tower was blown down in Scarborough, where the roofs of Link: Belt Company and -Hazencourt high school were damaged.
Two downtown buildings lost
brick cornice weighting several tons tumbled onto a sidewalk. In Grantham, near St. Catha- rines, the brick front of a church was blown down and in Chelten- ham, 25 miles northwest of Tor- nary a Baptist church lost its
The steeple of Cermral Presby- terian Church in Brantford, was reported to have toppled in the heatt of the city.
Heavy Storm
their roofs in Hamilton, where a]
V dw ws
came to Ottawa Feb. 2 at the head of a delegation seeking in-
Smallwood Says
HALIFAX (OP) Premier Gmallwood said Saturday in a speech tape-recorded for a Hal- ifax radio station the federal gov- ernment had “turned away from the opportunity to find out the true facts about violence and law- — in central Newfound-
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Windows were reported blown
out in Windsor, St. Catharines,
Toronto, Hamilton, and other areas, —
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS BANNED
been banned in’ the Iranian ministry of agriculture.
The order issued Saturday by the minister, Gen. Hassan Akhavi, ruled that ‘‘pretty” secretaries and typists should not be employed.
Under the new rule, a girl who came first out .of 110. ap- plicants for a typist’s job has been turned down because of
NEW DELHI (AP) —-Tens of thousands of sikhs marched through the streets of New Delhi Sunday with swords suspended from their necks in protest against legislation in Punjab state regulating the activities of their religious bodies. The hanging swords were intended to signify the peaceful nature of their dem- onstfation.
Saint John Gro
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)—The
Saint John Actors’ presentation of Miss Julie won the New
N.B. Regional Drama Award
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Harry McHarg, who played
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cabinet meetings can be held on a “normal basis” twice weekly. Meetings have tended to be more frequent than that lately.
NC FURTVER COMMENT
Mr. Diefenbaker declined to be drawn out on what the govern- ment plans to do about New- foundiand provincial legislation decertifying tae International Woodworkers of America (CLC), the union which went on strike Dec. 31.
Claude Jodoin, president of the CLL, has called on the federal government to disallow the pro- vincial legislation. .
Mr. Diefenbaker said a number items were con-
of Sarnia, Ont., now by an Indian reserve. Re-
Small Boy Is Drowned
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Thieves Steal Lime Co. Safe’
SAINT -JOHN, N.B. (CF) — Thieves made off with a smali safe from Snowflake Lime Limit- ed Friday night or early Satur- day but got less than $4 in s‘amp
monay for effort. The safe also record books LEAVE CUBA
HAVANA (AP)—Former prime minister Jorge Garcia Monies and four other ranking officials of the fallen Batista regime left for Colombia Saturday on safe
By IAN MACDONALD Canadian Press Staff Writer GRAND FALAS, Nfid., (CP)—
A group of five United Church clergymen in this strike-torn part of central Newfoundland an- nounced their support Sunday [or @rovincial government<policies in the dispute involving two logger.° anions and the Newfound- land Development pany.
Rev. A. J. Barrett,
Memorial . United Church here, told his congregation that he and four other ministers oppose state- ments made recently by United Church groups in Toronto.
He read a letier that he said was sent to the general council of the United Church of Canada over the signatures of himsel’ and the other four. ‘
It expressed regret at state- ments by the church's board of evangelism and social service and by Toronto west presbytery criticizing Newfoundland legisla- tion that decertified the Interna-
sale price was $6,.500.000.
DAMASCUS (AP) — President Arab Repub- threatened
NEW PEAK IN ATTACK
But Nasser reached a new peak in his attack on Iraqi Communists and Premier Abdel Karim Kas- sem. He described Iraqi Commu- nists as anti-religious. He said took no part in the revolt July in Iraq but came to
after others overthrew the regime.
““Taey are trying in Iraq to es- a Red dictatorship which enable a small minority of to rule the majority, and Kassem supports them because he hates the U.A.R.,” Nasser said. a
He said Communists “form a small minority of the great Iraqi
also said that after his
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It was the fifth consecutive day that Nasser attacked the Communists,
REDS WOOED NASSER
Nasser said. Communists tried to win over some leaders of the Egyptian revolution and, “I was.
“I refused to join them because I could not accept heresy and subordination,’’.-he said. “I un-
Jerstand their doctrine and know many of them.” Nasser said the Communists
. Landon “ident rf the International Weod- ars 's -f ‘merica ‘CLC) Dis- ict ?, . jae" F- an Tees
directed by Professor Alvin Shaw.
wrganizer, have becn descvibed
‘NFLD. STRIKE LEADERS
(right) pre-| by Premier
conduct passes.
New Uprisings In Iraq > Are Predicted By
Hunter Seeks Panthers Near City Of Montreal
MONTREAL (CP) — A lone hunter from British Columbia went into the bush of west-end Montreal island Sunday to taunt three panthers into stalking him.
John Fernandez, a quiet, deadly o serious cougar expert from Victoria, B.C., volunteered Saturday night to try his hand at hunting the beasts after a mass hunt failed to find anything but tracks.
Authorities pleaded with would- be hunters to stay out of the bush and let Fernandez have his chance. They were afraid eager- beaver young men who don’t know how dangerous a panther is—there hasn’t been a panther hunt in Quebec for half a cen- tury — will get themselves hurt by the big cats, or will stumble around shooting each other.
The Montreai Sportsmen’s Show, meanwhile, offered a county of $50 for each panther trapped alive.
SPOTTED PANTHER TRACK Fernandez, a professional skin- diver who has shot more ‘than 2% cougars, identified the tracks in the woods between Ste. Anne de Bellevue and Senneville —
Joseph Smallwood of Newf as. two of the nain le:
Nasser
only 20 miles from Montreal—as those of one large
Toronto Stand. Is Regretted
tional Woodworkers of America (CLC), on strike against the com- pany. rae
PREMIER BROADCASTS
Meanwhile, in St. John’s, Pre- mier Smallwood said the people of mainiand Canada seem té have “‘a complete lack of under- standing of what is going op Newfoundland.”
In a broddcast recorded far Halifax radio station CJOH he said the IWA is “superb, mag- nificently superb, in spreading © propaganda” and suggested that “some mainland newspaper men are on the IWA payroll.”
In Grand Falls, the weekend Passed in comparative quiet. A number of loggers belonging to the newly-formed Newfoundland Brotherhood of Woods - Workers (Ind) entered A.N.D. camps Sat- urday at Badger, about 20 miles west of here, without incident.
Badger was the scene of 8. clash between FWA loggers and police last Tuesday in which Constable William J. Moss, 24, of
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In Strike Disagreement
CORNER BROOK, Nfld. (CP)— Four editorial employees of the Corner Brook Western Star say they have resigned from the pa- per because of its editorial policy on the present woodworkers’ dis- pute in Newfoundland. —
The four—managing editor Ed Finn, Jr,,-wire editor Tom Cahill, news editor Tom Buck, and re- porter Alex Powell — issued a statement in which they said: “We have been dissatisfied and disappointed with the blatant Pro-company and anti-union pol- adopted by the St. John’s pub- of the (St. John’s) Even- and Western Siar
against the Amzglo-Newfoundiand Development Compapy has cent- red. It is the site of Bowaters Pulp and Paper Mills, Lid. Referring to Premier Smalk. wood’s legislation to decertify the International Woodworkers of America, the four newspapermen said: “Whether the charges of @angsterism and communism levelled against the FWA are true or not is no longer the basic is- gue. The basic issue is one of fundamental human righis ... ” The statement said the editor- ial staff had been allowed to pre- sent both sides’ of the story im the news columns and that “up to a point’ columnists Finn and
written in St. John’s were printed in The Star” and “a ban was im- posed on any further comment on
>. CM. ...* \After an interview with Mr. Me Kay it was agreed that tion with the paper severed through regular.
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