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By HAROLD T KING

PARIS (Reuters)-France and Britain-at a crucial dinner meet. ing which lasted almost four houra-tried Tuesday night to talk U. S. State Secretary Dulles into supporting the Indo-China cease- fire terms being worked out be- hind the scenes at the Geneva eon- ferencl. .

When the talks-with Western unity as the high stakes--ended at 11:15 GMT ('l:1.'l p. m. EDT), Dulles told reporters: "There will be further talks tomorrow mor-

ni!Il1.;.. e three statesmen - Dulles. French Premier Mendes - France and Foreign Secretary Eden- omerged together from the Hotel Matignon.

Neither Dulles nor Eden would indicate the progress of the dinner conversations when they left the hotel shortly before midnight. But officials of the French premier's office said Dulles had met a strongly united Anglo-French view on the possibilities of ending the WEI”.

It was understood both the French and B r i ti s h statesmen

Coming Events

"Hope River Picnic, July 14th. "xtnkora picnic. Tuesday. July I0.

"Dance Whim Road. Thursday. July 10.

"Rollo Bay Picnic. Wednesday, July 28th.

"Regular Thursday night Dance, Emerald Hall.

"Reserve Parish Picnic.

"Danes cancelled Fort Augustus for tonight only.

"Regular Dance Cl-apaud Rink. Wednesday night.

"Reserve Tuesd.-ly.' July 20th, for Bree Parish Picnic.

"Dance Morell East Thursday. July' 15th.

"Ice cream festival Beechwood Garden. Cornwall tonight.

"Wiltshlre Jamboree in Long Creek Hall tonight.

July 21st, Tignish

School.

"L o w e r Montague regatta. Wednesday. July 14. .

--name iriilotvala-achooljrnuia. day, July 15th. Erasers Orchestra.

"Pantry sale at Rud. Cottoinna Friday, July lath at 2:30.

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

"Postponed Picnic at Kenning- ton will be held this evening.

"Auction ails at Wcstmoreland cancelled until further notice. Mrs. Katie Oakes.

"Dance at Covehead and Stan- hope Community Hall. Thursday night. in aid of Hall.

"Chicken and Ham Supper, Little Pond, Monday, July 19th. Dance. Chalsson's Orchestra.

"Unloading Tuesday and wed- nesday, cement. asphalt and cedar shingles. special prices. P. J. Noy dz

"Dance, Wat Royalty Hall. Wednesday. Rollie MecKehz.le'a Orchestra Canteen service 10-1.00 Daylight Saving.

"Lower Montdglie Regatta. -7111! 14. Entertainment for all the iamiLv. Chicken and ham supper. Big dance at night.

"lbhw Purina Oslf 5tartor-- none better. Get your tickets on Winaloe Roberts Beautena at Gil Henry's Purina Feed store.

"See Georgetown Players pre- sent "Betty the Girl 0' My Heart". Murraay Harbour Hall, July lath. Curtain 8.50.

"Big Opening Dance. MacNelll's Warehouse, In Kensington. Thurs- day, July 15th. Modern and old time dancing. Good orchestra.

"Clyde River. Thursday, July lath. final perforsrlance of play - "Uncle Josh Perkins." SIIO OI lunohee. Proceeds for hall.

"A meeting of the Stanley Brides school district, will be held in the school Friday night. July 16. at 0 o'clock to discuss the Pros Posed regional High school.

"Kelly's Gross Tea Party, Wed- nesday. July 14th. Bingo. vnrioul llamas and forms oi amusement. refralhmsnis. supper served from 4 o'clock. Sale of cakes. Dancins at night,

"Picnic, Immaculate Conception Church grounds, weuingtgn. Wed- ne-Ier. July 14th. Bingo. power What. various games and forms of Amusement. Refreshments. supp” served from 4 o'clock.

"PIIIIR Road Picnic. Walnu- M August llth. on hutch grounds Diii'neuu-voanoailsnoonto'I

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urged Dulles to help establish peace in Indo-China by endorsing the terms of a settlement which, it was uneratood here. both Eden and Mendel-France considered to be honorable and acceptable. though no doubt liable to cause a certain shock to public opinion in France.

(An Associated Press London dispatch quoted an authoritative British source to the effect that the U. S. and Britain are "pretty well agreed" on a gartition of Viet Nam. This woul be between the lath and 18th parallels and was described as "demonstrably de- fensible.")

Alter the dinner. Mendes-France told reporters they would get a communique today on whether Dulles intended to go to the Gen- eva conference.

The talks began almost imme- diately after Mendes-France and Eden hurried here in a special French plane from Geneva. Dulles who had arrived 90 minutes ear- lier, was waiting at the U. S. cm- bassy.

WN. CANADA; WEDNESDAY, JULY 14. 1954

SAIGON. Indo-China. (Reuters) -vietminh rebel troops launched a new attack in aouthem Indo-China Tuesday as assault forces in the north increased their pressure around the French-held Red river delta redoubt.

The 30,000-population, city of Pakse, in southern Laos, was fired on by rebel mortars, the first time

in the. eight-year war it has come

Mr. Donald A. MacDonald, man- aser of the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board returned to the Province yesterday after ll motor trip to the potato growing areas of Eastern Canada and the United States which took him al- most three weeks.

Mr. MacDonald stator that the fruit and vegetable crop conditions in many parts are backward for this season of the year. "Temper- a.tures", he says, "have been run- ning below normal and this with a very irregular rainfall, tend to indicate that there will likely be a decrease in the total potato pro- duction for this season."

July production figures for the whole of the United States are now estimated to be about 345,000,000 acres. or a decrease of 28,000,000 from last year's level.

In Southern Ontario. they are now harvesting the early crop. Growers in the Leamington, Har- row and Bridgetown areas are get. ting only fair yields but prices have increased to over 33.00 a bag and they expect to have a profit- able return from their crop. They expressed satisfaction with, the quality of th'c..s0ed purohisod-kffgwm Prince Edward Island last year.

In Maine, potatoes were still be- ing planted toward the just of June. ''A cool wet season has been responsible for these late plant- ings." said Mr. MacDonald. "For this reason." he added. ”Maine production is going to depend to a greater extent than usual on grow- ing conditions during the next six weeks. Unless they are favorable. the yield cannot be expected to compare-with that of the last two years".

, Market Possibilities

Mr. MacDonald feels therefore that next year's potato market may have poslbillties which did not exist during last season. "Growers on the Island," he stated. "would be well advised to take the beat of care of their crop during the com-

POTATO BOARD CHAIRMAN RETURNS FROM VISIT T0 SOUTHERN STATES

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9. great asset to both the produo ers and the distributors in supply- ing the increasing food needs of metropolitan Toronto."

Farmers of Ontario are making definite progress in a successful operation of about twenty producer controlled marketing plans of which their hog marketing board is the largest and handles a tremendous volume oi business.

. The Ontario cheese producers have

been able during the past several weeks to obtain a market in Brit- ain for surplus cheese production. This should have a stabilizing ef- fect on the whole dalrying indus- try," observed Mr. MacDonald. He stated that "while there are many fine agricultural areas in Ontario. Michigan, New York State and the North Eastern part

ing weeks."

Mr. MacDonald had the oppor- tunity of visiting the new fruit and vegetable market in Toronto to which. in future. much of the P. E. I. potato crop will be deliver- ed. "Every faculty available has been provided at a cost of 84,000.- 000. to make this terminal market one of the most modern on the

of Maine, the general appearance of the crops in this Province are at least comparable with any that I have seen."

SPECIAL MARK

The cut-throat trout of western North America is so called be- cause of red markings below the

continent.” he states. "It will be

OTTAWA, (OP)-The army's re-

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The question:

"Will officers of the mgiment of Canadian guards wear bowler hats and carry umbrellas as part of their off-duly dress?"

"You can rest assured that our officers will never appear in any such get-up," an army spokesman said 'niesday. "Why, the civilians would laligh them off the streets." BOWLER OUT

Though the Regiment of cans- dian Guards. formed only last Oc- tober, takes its vogue of dress- soarlet uniforms and beareklna. for instande-from the British Brigade of Guards. the bowler hat and um- braila for Junior officers are not included. -

The Inritish now are steamed up ovu an order that members of the Horse Guards on sentry duty at the entrance to their parade square in central London must salute every man who passes wearing a bowler hat and carrying a tightly- furled umbrella. i

Bowler hats and umbrellas are the traditional off-duty garb for young officers in the British Guards. Officers dreued in civ- viee rate salutes if recognised. Thus the order that aantries salute all bowler-and-brolly-rigged men to avoid sllghting even one passing. off-duty officer who might not be recognized.

SALUTE REPORTER

The new Guerris' order was re- vealed by the London Daily Mir- ror, which published a o Dh

showing a guardsrnan utilllr 01"

lower Jaw.

No Bowler and Brolly Salutes For Canadian Guards. Army Declares

of the newspaper's reporters wear- ing a bowler and carrying an um- brella.

"You may be sure there won't- ba anything like that in Canada." the army spokesman said.

"We have just one saluting reg- ulation concarning officers in civ- vies. They may be saluted if rec- ognised. lf an officer isn't recog- nized and isn't saluted by a private and tries to bawl him out. the priv- ate can tell the officer where to get off.

"Our officers, when wearing civ- vies. don't expect salutes, whether or not they're recognized. In fact. it lot of them wear civvies when they can Just to get away from salutes."

New Fighting Breaks Out In Souihem lndo-China; City Of Paske Fired On

other Communist units am- bushed a French force south of the city. Details of the fighting and casualties were not available here, but damage to Pakae itself was said to be light.

The new assault in the south was regarded hge as an attempt by the Vieiminh stake a claim to con-

Jtrol over part of southern Laos

I under attack.

as the Indo-China truce talks go into the crucial stage at Geneva. Pakse lies on the Mekong river near the Thailand border.

ABANDON PO ST

Vietminh forces also continued their attacks against French mu. it-My posts in central Annarn where French troops abandoned a post near Quang Nam, about 10 miles south of Tourane.

Meanwhile, a growing force of about 80.000 rebels tightened their Bflueeze on the Red river delta. The main pressure was felt around Hunsyen. Iouthwestem comer bas- tiim 01' W0 cont-Noted French de- fences. where a first Communist attack was hurled back three days

ago.

About 12.000 Vietminh troops now are virtually ringing the any, formerly had a population of

Hlmkyen's defenders are mainly Viet Namese. but Powerful French forces, including armor. are stand- ing by to the northeast to strike back at the next rebel uggult,

ICIose Seam At Springhill Mine

SYDNEY (CF) -- closing of the "0- 1 mm at number Jun- Why and Coal coinpgnyz mm, .3, Sprinshill was announced Tuesday by Harold Gordon. chief of coal operations for Dominion Steel and Coal corporation.

He said 200 men new work in the mm and many will be placed in N0- 3 Colllery Where the output will be increased. But he said No. 2 cannot take III idle mom who will be laid off.

Mr. Gordon said operations in No. I recently have cguggd ggvey-31 upheavals of the tunnel floor which affected the main slope of the Underlying No. 2 eolllery. He said continued working of the No. l seam would endanger No, 2 slopes.

The No. 1 seem last year pro. duced 134,441. tons of coal and will remain cloaed' after the annual minera' vacation ends Aug. Id.

The Cumberland company is a subsidiary of Dosco. I

Her: Starts Smell Busll Fire

LIVERPOOL, NS. - (O?) -a A flare from an unidentified aircraft started" a small bush fire near here Tuesday and touched off reports the aircraft had crashed.

RCA! search and rescue in Hall- fax. however, said all aircraft were accounted for. The flare buried it- self about six inches into the around on the edge of a farm near the town's outskirts.

Sentenced To Be Hanged Oct. 29

PEI-ICE. Que. (OP) -- Fernand ciavet. 2'1-year-old lumberjlok. Tuesday night was found guilty of the 1953 slaying of Jean-Paul Pel- chat at Manche d'l0pee. Que, and was sentenced to be hanged Oct. 20.

The all-French-speaking jury de- liberated less than 10 mlnutu be- fore bringing in the guilty verdict.

Clavet showed no emotion as Mr. Justice Gerard Lacroix donned the traditional black hat and gloves and pronounced the death sent- once.

Fear Twelve Clsilelre Accident Wills Bo

By MEL

and nine others were listed pleasure boat filled with 17

west of Montreal.

Lawrence.

the spot where the boat overturned 200 yards from shore.

Police said they feared nine other bodies would be found in Lhe water. although no one knew ex- nctly how many children had clam- bered into the boat. Dragging op- erations were started.

IDENTIFICATION SLOW

The accident occurred within, sight of the lie Bizard EliOllflfISi' where 62 children from the Mont-. real Negro Community Centre. were taken by bus for a picniC.I Leaders of the group said only fl cursory roll call had been taken before the children ciinlbed aboard. the buses for the picnic. it miglll'

Flood Danger In-' B. C. Lessens' .

TRAIL, B.C. (OP)- Flood dan-

ger in this southern section of the province lessened Tuesday, with a drop in depth recorded on the swirling Columbia river. Revelstoke reported a drop of slightly more than one foot during the last 24 hours. and the Colum- bia. river gauge here remained steady.

, Lowllavel parts of Trail have been under as much as five feet of water since late inst week. The, river hit a peak rise of within four . feet of the 1948 flood level durirlgi the week.

Ford Workers Seek Pay Boost

TORONTO (CF)--Jack Taylor. head of the United Automobile Workers (CIO-CCLJ at the Ford of Canada plant at Oakville, 15 miles east of Toronto, said Tuesday Ford's drive to corner the motor- ear market is taking "bread and butter" from the children of Ford workers.

Speaking to a conciliation board meeting. he said:

"When the welfare of workers and the bread and buffer of chil- dren are 1) ing sacrificed for that kind of arailtion. we feel we are Justified in asking for a bigger share 'of this very wealthy and sppetizing pic that has just been cut at the recent shareholders" meeting."

MORRIS

(Canadian Press Staff Writer) MONTREAL, (CF) - Three children were drowned

as missing Tuesday after a picnic-happy Negroes over-

turned in Lake of Two Mountains, about 20 miles north-

Only two adults and three youngsters were known to have been rescued after the motol'-powered craft over- turned in the choppy lake, formed where the Ottawa river and Riviere des Prairies join before flowing into the St.

Three bodies-those of two glrlsi be some um... may "id, began; and n boy-were recovered near Vicnm, are jdentjfied.

The children were all believed to be between 0 and ii years of age.

The boat was owned by Jack Seligman. 44, of Montreal, who has a cottage near where the chil- dren were spending the day. As a goodwill gesture he offered to take the children in groups for cruises on the lake.

Eye-witnesses said Seligman. his wife and two children were in the boat and were among those res- cued. Two groups had been taken for rides before the accident oc- curred.

Witnesses gave conflicting ac- counts of what happened. Some said that the 'chiIdren'becamc panicky when a sudden gust of wind sent a large wave against the side of the boat. The children pushed to one side to avoid the spray aild the 15-foot craft over- turned.

HEARD SCREAMING

Other witnesses said the oili- board motor of the boat stopped just as a heavy roll struck. flipping the boat over. The boat was de- scribed as one that normally would carry a maximum of seven adults.

Residents said the water is not more than seven feet deep where the craft capsized.

Leon Cl.-ling. 32, of Montreal. driver of one of three buses which took the children to the picnic grounds. said he was on the beach When he heard the children screaming.

”Thcy panicked." he said. "In the water they appeared to suffer from cramps or from panic-.010 perhaps they wereijust too afraid."

Claing said he saw Seligman bringing two children to shore. one under his arm "and the other he appeared to have held by his teeth."

Bodies of the victims were taken to the morgue pending identifica- tion. District cornner Richard Duc- kett said that if the death toll reached 12 the tragedy would be the worst mass drowning in Mont- real's history.

Tourist Figures

OTTAWA, (GP)-Fewer Ameri- cans visited Canada up to the end of April this year than in the first four months of 1953.

The bureau of statistics reported Tuesday that 219,228 foreign trav- ellers entered Canada from the U. S. in the January-April period. a drop of about one per cent from 1953's figure for the same period.

There was a slight upswing in April.

Mr. Taylor challenged the com- pany claim that Ford workers average wage is 371 a week. He said most auto workers are earning only 050 a week.

tion and will now hear in 250-page, brief from the company. y

The union is asking for n 30-cent; hourly increase. The company says the present average wage is abouti 51.70 an hour.

Airmen Buried With Full Military Honors

MONTREAL (GP)-Full nniliary, honors were accorded F0. Peter: A. Read and PO. George H. Grlf-. fin at a double funeral here Tuesday.

The two airmen-both members of the RCA!-" City of Westmounti 401 Squadron-were kiled at North say. Ont... in two separate air crashes during the continent-wlrlen

"Exercise Checkpoint" last week- end. '

Judge D. E. Lewis of Brockvlllei is presiding over the board which. Monday heard the union's pr!-Sonia-I

Boost Salaries Of Deputy Ministers

OVITAWA (OP)-The cibimt hill increased the salaries of 5003-9 deputy ministers to (20,000 from 815,000 a year. a treasury board official said Tuesday. The increa- ses. approved by order-in-council a few days ago. are retroactive to July 1.

At the same time, the cabinet increased the salaries of other de- puty ministers in the 313,500-class to a minimum of Sl5,000.

some of the deputies have not had salary raises since 1947.

srrvice,0thera have had periodic 1I”.f'.r238ClIll;lnl failed to come up Edna went (in the last seven years.

At the same time. salary readjustmenis are expected to be made shortly for senior civil servants in the 510.000-a-year group such as as- sistant deputy ministers and the cU.irn1en of various government boards.

I Sees Coal Production Cut In Hall: I

ANTIOONISH, N. l., (OP) -- A senior industry official said Mon- day Maritime coal production may be out in half, to about 3,000,000 tons a year, if drastic. steps are not taken to erase the inroads made by oil and other fuels.

Harold Gordon. chief of coal or eretions for the Dominion steel and coal com. was one of a panel of experts representing industry. unions and the government who took the platform at the biennial Rural-Industrial Conference to argue the llaritime cause in fields ;IolI.cI:I' from fishing to hydro

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Mr. Gordon said the switch by householders, tnduuq and the

railways from coal to oil 1040 has 450,000 tons of coal from the corporation's Mari. time market alone. An additional 400,000 ions was lost in Quebec.

RITARD TREND

He said the diaseliaaiion pro- dueti

grain of the Oanedtan National Reuways would cost the Maritime coal industry a market of at least 000,000 tone by 1000 i action isunot taken to retard the trend to o

air. Gordon said the Inriiinle market for coal mined in Cape Qlgsuizn andclsaillare in the Alp

Provinces could well shrink to

since by about 1.000.000 tons during the

next. few years.

He said it was even conceivable that Maritime coal would be driven from the Quebec market entirely and annual production be dumped