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COMMONS HEARS CRITICISM

Pearkes Defends Joint

Defence Deal With U.S.

OTTAWA (CP)—Integration of the United States and Canadian air commands for continental protection has made possible a defence that would not have been achieved otherwise, Defence Min- ister G. R. Pea-rkes told the Com- mons Saturday.

“There would be no opportunity to call Parliament when enemy planes were over our territory" ‘Dd get its permission to send up defenders, he said as opposition members criticized establish-ment 0f the hint command without for- mal agreement.

Lester B. Pearson (L—Algoma East) said the present oral agree- ments between Canada aid the U.S. are "a very shaky basis" 50!‘ Putting Canadian squadrons under operational control of the lloint North American air defence headquarters — NORAD -— at Colorado Springs, Colo.

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In agreeing to establishment of NORAD without a political agree- ment setting out its operational Principles and its relationship with the Canadian and U.S. gov- ernments, the Canadian adminis- tration had made a “very no- table" omission.

Mr. Pearkes said a draft agree- ment already is before the Cana- dian and American chiefs of staff. When approved by the re- spective governments this agree- ment would confirm oral ar- rangements under which NORAD had been established-

He promised once ,more——wi-,th a reminder that such a promise had been given both by himself and Prirr. "Mister Diefenbaker on previous occasions—/that as the agreement was settled it would be submi/Jed t Parlia- ment for approval.

Stanley Knowles, deputy _CCF

leader, said the NORAD estab- lishment S0( r or later should be brought within the framework of the North Afantic Treaty Or- ganization or into a Canada—U.S. agreement t-hat Parliament could consider.

Mr. Pearke: said agrees that p o l i t ical authority for NORAD must be established. But “it is established," he added, by the fact the chiefs of staff in both countries must account to govern- ment ministers.

OONFINED T0 CONTINENT

He said the authority of the NORAD command extends only to the defence of. North America and does not include deciding whether to send planes to other parts of the world.

The joint air command issue which has been discussed several times e lier this session, arose as the Commons debated -the de- fence departments $1,723,000,000 budget for the current 1957-58 fis- cal year llhat ends March 31. The money was voted just before the Saturday adjournment.

Mr. Pearson, former external -affairs minister, was critical of Prime Minister Diefenbaker's statement a f t e r last month’s NATO summit meeting in Paris that NORAI is an integral part of the North Atlantic alliance’s military s-tru:‘.'.-.2:

Mr. Diefenbaker had been mis- leading in giving the upression NORAD had the same relation- ship to NATO as a regular NATO -military command.

Mr. Pearkes replied that NORAD is, “very definitely part of the whole NATO attempt to prevent war.” Should an attack come in the next day or two “the joint headquarters could render a- defence which could never have been -'*°h1,;;2g§,4;gpiih.9,t_=}.t3ls. .inte..

grated common ."

On other matters, Mr. “ea.-rkes said the militia’s new role in civil defence does not mean it is tak- i g over that responsibility. The militia in civil defence would merely be "an aid to ‘the civil power.” Civil defence was still within the control of the ‘prov- inces and municipalities.

But to fulfil this new purpose, the militia needed special train-

Civil defen-. was “a realistic role” for the militia, which would be involved in the “first battle for survival” should nuclear war ever come.

. In other Commons develop- ments, Finance Minister Donald Fleming said the government

tion against the recent U.S. re- strictions on oil imports from" Canada. '

He also sa-id it is “very likely" th at Commonwealth countries will agree to have the proposed Commonwealth trade conference this year held in Canada.

In the NORAD debate, Leonard T._Stick (L-—Tri..:ty Conception) said residents of Newfoundland, which could become “a second Pearl Harbor,” are anxious that the question of joint air defence command be settled ;quickly.

He did not care whether a Ca-

. nadian or American heads it. But

whoever it was should have full authority to act quickly on his own without having to confer with either the Canadian or American governments.

Mr. Pearkes replied that-U.S. Air Force elements '.:.-tioned in Newfoundland are under opera- tion control of the RCAF_eir de- fence com-mand at St. Hubert, Que., and can be ordered into ac- tion by the Canadian .omm-ande-r

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BELIEVED to have been the point of origin of the Saturday night blaze that caused several

thousand dollar’s damage to the lower floor of the former Post Office building, the burned-out

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stationery storeroom of the Royal Bank yesterday, presented this scene of destruction.

Blaze Causes Damage In

Old Post Office Building -

Fire caused damage estimated between ten and fifteen thousand dollars to the lower floor of the former Post Office building Sat- urday evening.

Breaking out shortly before 7:00 p-. m. in the stationery store- room of the Royal Bank of Can- ada, the blaze was confined to the western section of the bank’s temporary quarters. where flame, smoke and water wrecked coll- Sidcrablc havoc before the fire, was broilgllt under control less '.han an hour after its dlsco\'('l‘_\‘.

Ml‘. L. I). l\lacI{a)'. manager of‘ lhe CIlEll‘lOliCl0\"Il branch of lhcl R‘).\‘al Bank, said last lll§.‘,lll that? the bank. in addition to the stores destroyed, had also lost Pquipmcnt. llL)\\‘€\'Cl‘, Ill‘.

repairs Since shortly after the fire was brought under control Saturday night, a spokesman for the building’s owners, the Prov- ince of Prince Edward Island, said last night.

MANY REPAIRS NEEDED Rendered unsafe due to the action of fire and water, it was indicated that the mezzanine area, constructed last fall to the rear of the ground floor level, would require extensive repairs.

_A large number of electrical cir-,

cuils were also destroyed in the‘ blaze and will require replace-3 ment. ,

A considerable amount of water '

ways and education departments, suffered smoke damage, but not sufficient to curtail the regular work of these government depart- ments.

In fighting the fire it was neces- sary for the city firemen to re- move the glass from several of the large windows in the fire area. These openings have now been sealed with plywood.

The fire was discove1'ed and reported by an employee of the Royal Bank.

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This is a picture of the M.V. Lord Selkirk. The ferry has completed its trial runs and will be ready to go into ser- vice this year on the Wood ls- lands-Caribou route when the

Four Kiddies - Lose /Lives In Blaze

VAUDREUIL, Que. (CP) — A pure - dawn blaze in a wooden house near this town killed four children Saturday. The parents and two other youngsters es- caped.

Rosario Legault, 45, is wife, Marguerite, 25, Aline, 4, and An- dre, four months, were awakened by the swiftly spreading flames and escaped into 15- below -zero weather. ' .. :' Gd, oise e, 3, and Louis,'2. . overheated stove was be- lieved to have started the fire around 2 am.

“I saw flames,” said the fa- ther, who suffered burns to the chest and hands in trying to res- cue his children.

“It was horrible. I grabbed my wife and the baby who was sleep- ing with us. I shoved her outside and ran upstairs. The place was a mass of flamespl could still hear the screams.”

He grabbed Aline from a bunk

« just as the, roof crumpled, but

managed to make his way out- side. Aline, badly burned about -the face and hands. was taken to hospital in Lachirne in serious condition. '

The house is some distance from water supplies. Vaudreuil is about 15 miles west of Montreal.

A police officer said the wooden structure was destroyed within minutes. “There was nothing any- -one could do."

Fuchs ‘Pinned Down’, By Storm

- WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reuters) A blinding Antarctic blizzard pinned British explorer Dr. Viv- ian Fuchs to a standstill 357 miles from the South Pole Sun- day, dealing a-nother severe blow to his hopes of becoming the first man to cross the frozen con- tinent.

Fuchs reported to Sir Edmund Hillary in a rhd-io message to the Pole that «the exped-ition was caught in a “whiteout" and could not move. He said he was also having trouble with his Weasel snow transports.

Meanwhile, Hillary prepared to fly from the Pole to New Zea- la.nd’s Scott base at McMurdo Sound, the spot he set out from almost three months ago in his drive to the “bottom of the world.”

The beekeeper explorer, knighted for his conquest of Mount Everest, said he planned to return later to join Fuchs ei- ther at the Pole or at Depot 700, a New Zealand base 500 miles from the Pole.

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PORTSMOUTH, England (Reli- ters)—Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, 80- "year-old founder of A. V. Roe, Ltd., and later president of Saun-

ders-Roe, Ltd., died in hospital here Saturday. — He was the first Englishlmanto fly a heavier-than-air machine over British soil. The colorful air pioneer was educated-as a civil engineer and

year at the age of 14 to learn surveying.

Later he spent two years as a marine engineer. While at sea he became fascinated by the flight of the albatross and started ex- perimenting with gliders.

BEGAN EXPERIMENTS

. Then by way of the motor dustry, he began flying eXP€_I‘l' ments with a machine fitted with a nine-horsepower motorcycle en-

gine. ,

In 1907 Verdon-Roe won a Daily Mail airplane competition and a year later built a full-size plane on the lines of the winning model and powered by a 24-horsepower engine.

In this plane, on June 8, he left the ground for flights of 75 and

HALIFAX (CP)—Arthur Morris and Len Jacobs, former Toronto car dealers, stayed close to their hotel here Sunday awaiting word from their appeal against deP01‘- tation from Canada.

Samuel B. Goodman, their Hali- fax lawyer, said the appeal to act- ing immigration minister Davie Fulton in Ottawa was handed to immigration officials here.

Missing from Toronto since last June, the two men and a woman believed to be Mrs. Morris at- rived here a week ago by ship from the Mediterranean area.

A. G. Christie, deputy immigra- tion chief in Halifax, said the three were ordered deported Fri- day for failure to meet immigra- tion requirements.

CHANGED NAMES’

Meanwhile, in a copyrighted story in the Toronto Star, Jacobs, 32, said his real name is David Plesner and that Morris, his “uncle,” is really his father, Jo- seph Plesner.

The three registered at their hotel here as Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Plesner and David Ples- ner.

However, Jacobs refused Sun- day to confirm the statements made under his by-line in The

IN THE MARITIMES

Star. .

GARAGE DESTROYED

MULGRAVE, N. S. (CP)— $40,000 fire Sunday destroyed the S. W. Digdon Motor Company garage and several road construc- tion vehicles and trucks.

BODY FOUND IN WOODS

SYDNEY (CP)— The body of a man found in the Loch Lomond district of Cape Breton Saturday has been tentatively identified as that of Wiley Wood, 52, a Sydney stccl,wol'kcr who disappeared Dec. 17, 1956. The body was foulfli near Heifer‘s Lake, about 30 miles

from Sydney by rabbit hunters.

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HUNTING ACCIDENT

FREDERICTON (CP)—- Mal- colm McCready, 33 - year - old woodsman of nearby Barker's Point was found shot to death in the woods near here Saturday. Police said only that be “ap- parently" was the victim of an ac- cident. -

FATALLY INJURED

Aricllat, N. S. (Cl7)— Michael John '.l‘_vi'l'cll. 78, dicd in hospital Sunday after he was st1‘uck'by a car while walking home from Church.

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NEW FERRY READY FOR WOOD ISLANDS-CARIBOU RUN

It is powered by two-Work- spoor diesel engines capable of developing 1250 brake horse power each. A feature of the.

gers and has a crew of thirty. ship is the varable pitch prop-

Pioneer

In Aircraft Dies

150 feet, nearly a year before the

better known flight made by Lord Brabazon of Tara. . Two years later he founded A.

brother,

airplane.

USED IN BATTLE , __At the time the war office was «m K '

were

could offer no encouragement.

started, Avro planes bombed. the zeppelin sheds at Fr1edr.1chs- haven in Germany and an Avro brought down the first zeppelin.

After the First World War, Ver- don-Roe bought an interest in S- E. Saunders Ltd., one of the few firms building flying boats, and the ,i'irm took its present title of Saunders Roe Limited.

He predicted in 1910 that there would be a regular Atlantic air service within 30. years, and in 1930 prophesied jet planes that would‘ approach the speed of sound.

Morris And Jacobs Sit Out Deportation Case At Halifax

Asked if he and Morris are really father and son, Jacobs said, “I can’t make any state- ment now.” _

Asked if they heard from their appeal to Mr. Fulton, he said, “I’m afraid I don’t have any comment at all at this time."

The three were joined here by a second woman believed to be Jacobs’ wife. She has refused to identify herself.

In his Star story Jacobs. says he voluntarily told Halifax immi- gration officials that “when we arrived in Canada in 1952 we came under assumed names.”

WILL PRESS CHARGES

Toronto police say that if Jacobs is admitted ‘to Canada they will press criminal negli- gence and bail-jumping charges.

The ngeligence charge was laid last June after police flagged down a speeding car on an On- tario highway. Soon after that Jacobs, Morris and their wives disappeared, leaving behind their big Toronto used car lot, their homes and other assets.

In their absence the car busi- ness was sold to the Colonial F1- nance Corporation, which held a $159,000 mortgage.

The three were released on bond here pending their. appeal after an immigration inquiry offi- cer investigated their case. They

' are not permitted to leave Hali-

fax.

MODERN HERO

TOKYO (Reuters) —— Japanese children have abandoned their space suits and Sputniks in favor lot" feather-lined hats -and dark glasses as they .dopted Sir Ed- mund Hillary as their new na- tional l..ro.

FLU DEATHS INCREASE

LONDON (Reuters) — Deaths from influenza in England and Wales totalled 3.820 last year, it was reported Suluwlay. This was three times the 1956 total of 1.216 and more than double the 1955 fig- ure of 1.596.

V. Roe and Co. Ltd., with his and started building Avro airplanes. In 1912 he pro- duced the world’: first enclosed

, .. pio- neers and he and other pioneers told that the department “saw no possibility of using aero- planes for war purposes” and so

Yet soon‘ after the 1914 war

ellors. the engines run at a constant speed and the speed of the ship is controlled by varying the pitch or “bite” of the propellors.

See Showdown On U.S. Policy Due This Week‘

WASHINGTON (AP)——A show- down is expected in the National Sec-urity Council this week be- tween State Secretary Dulles and Hamid E. Stassen on future U.S. disarmament policy. It may come today.

St-assen, P r e s id e n t Eisen- hower’s chief disarmament ad- viser and negotiator, has pro- posed “liberalizing” the policy. His chief recommendation was reported to be that the United States drop its insistence on half.-

part of atwo‘-year ban on nuclear -testing.

Dulles is understood to oppose this, as does Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission.

BEATING WIFE RULED OUT ’

LONDON (AP)—A London court ruled once and for all Saturdgy that no Englishman has th right to beat his wife. Herbert Bartlett, 48, was sentenced to jail after de- claring his belief in a man’s prerogative to “chastise” his better half. , ' ,

“An utterly contemptible theory,” snapped Magistrate Harold Sturge. “It belongs to the jungles of pre-civiliza- tion.”

Bartlett specificallywas ac- cused of injuring his wife by tossing a dinner plate at her. He was told the length of his" sentence would be announced this week.

NEW FLAG PLANS

KITCHENER (CP) T h e Kitchener - W ate r 1 o o junior chamber of commerce wants any new Canadian flag to show Can- ada’s connection with the Queen and Commonwealth. They voted unanimously to reject a sugges- tion from the junior chamber in Shawinigan Falls, Que. that a new flag bear no emblem of alle- giance “to any other country.”

MONTREAL (CP)_—A powerful explosion that squashed a two- storey building with “one heck of a blast’? Saturday night sent 15 persons to hospitals, some with serious injuries.

The supper - time explosion demolished a northeast Montreal building containing a restaurant and three apartments, trapping at least four persons in the shat- tered debris. '

Force of the blast, a.pparently caused by leaking gas, threw the wood and brick w alls into the street and dropped the roof into the basement. A common wall with a next - door dwelling was ripped away, baring the rooms like a huge dollhouse.

“All I heard was one heck of a blast,” said a neighbor who de- clined to give his name. “When I looked out the building was no longgr standing."

N0 FATALITIES

The explosion brought police and fire department equipment roaring to the scene. A city-wide ambulance call was issued, and withlll minutes 11 a-m.bul'a11ces . Vere transporting the injured to four different hospitals. No one

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T5 Persons Hurt Saturday Night In Montreal Explosion

British P. M.

LONDON (Reuters) -— Britain intends to continue seeking an agreement with Russia for world

i disarmament and “for the relief

of tension in the world.” Prime

. Minister Macmillan std Satur- _ day night.

In a Conservative party polit- ical broadcast, Macmillan de- clared: “We could start by a solemn pact of non - aggression. This has been done before. It would do no harm. It might do g00d_n

(Russia has repeatedly pro- posed a non-aggression pact be-

= tween NATO and the Soviet-bloc

powers.in the Warsaw Pact.) The prime In i n i s t e r added:

. about the tests of nuclear weap- } ons, their manufacture, their use “We must reach agreement

and their numbers. But,we must also deal with what are called conventional arms. Peace cannot be secured just by words. We need deeds as well."

Point by point, Macmillan re- plied to a Labor party challenge that the government was too rigid in its foreign policy. He also replied to Labor protests about United States missiles and planes -on hydrogen bomb patrols in Britain. ’

SUMMIT CONFERENCE ‘ '1

"The prime minister said he would be prepared to participate in an East-West summit confer- ence, proposed by Russia, if pro- gress were made first at a lower diplomatic level.

“At NATO last month, we made it perfectly clear that we were ready to make a new ef- fort to break the deadlock," he said. “I don’t mind whether we make it through the United Na- tions or at some smaller meet-

ing.

“Whether it is done this way -or through‘ diplomatic channels or a combination of both, the ob- ject would be to elehr ‘away the rubble of ‘old controversies and disagreements perhaps to get the ,, _ready—,_.fer-., -heads‘“oF-' ,Russia has proposed either a special UN session ‘on disarma- ment or an inteuational confer- ence. '

FAIR WC RDS

The work -forlpeace is domina- ted by how well the West can get along with the Russians,” Mac- millan said.