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Prior to his retirement he was asmst-ant freight agent in Char- lottetown for 10 years.
Mr. Arsenau-lt is a member of the Order of Railroad Telegraph— ers.
Mr. Campbell was born in North Wiltshire and began with the CNR also in June of 1914. He ihas been assistant agent at Ken— smgton. agent at Borden, ticket agent in Charlottetown and for the last 11 years freight agent in Charlottetown.
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Traffic Death Toll Increased For September
OTTAWA (CW—Motor vehicle traffic accidents on Canadian highways in September caused 3?.3 fatalities, the bureau of statis- tics reported Tuesday.
. The number was five more than m September last year The death toll was higher in all provinces except Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Ontario but was unchanged in New Brunswick.
_ Number of fatalities by prov- lnces (“nth 1957 figures in brack- ets): Newfoundland 4 (3); Prince Edward Island 2 (5); Nova Scotia 10 ((18); New Brunswick 14 (14'); Quebec 91 (85); Ontario 1;8 (122); Manitoba 17 (1155aslcatchewan Manitoba 17 (11); Saskatchewan 21 (.16); Alberta 27 (23); British Columbia 29 (21); Yukon and
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The resolution was one of 12 passed at the Federation’s an- nual meeting held in the Masonic Hall, Hunter River
J. Lincoln Dewar, secretary of the Prince Edward Island Fede- ration, noted that as the Island’s products are very bulky and have to be shipped long distances, the
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The idea was developed Tues- day at the Ella—hour press confer- ence, attended by 300 Western and Communist newspaper men.
A reporter for Tass, the Soviet news agency, asked what anti- Soviet activities were being car- ried out in West Berlin.
J. V. Beburov, first secretary of the Soviet Embassy, turned the question over to an equoviet army officer who allegedly de- serted to the west but later de- cided he wanted to go back home.
The err-officer, I. V. Ovc-hin-ni- kov, said much of the activity stems from NTS, an anti-Soviet organization of Russian emigrees. With American backing, they are using West Berlin as a- base for a clandestine radio station,‘ a printing plant and the launching of balloons carrying leaflet-s, Ov- chinnikov said.
He said that after his desertion, the West German police had turned him over to American ul- tellig-ence agents who wanted to train him as an antiSoviet spy.
The U.S. mission in Berlin de- clined immediate comment on the
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The American plane left London 36 minutes after the Comet but the Pan American airliner picked up 26 minutes on route to Gander. The Comet beat the Boeing out of Gander by 15 minutes. but was overtaken by the American plane on route to New York.
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freight increase would affect Prince Edward Island all the more.
To COST PEI 2 MILLION
Mr. Dewar said “Freight and express expenses are the biggest bill we have to foot.”
He went on to say that the 17 percent increase will cost this Province an additional two mil- lion dollars a year.
Other resolutions passed at the meeting dealt with: express rates on livestock; potato weights; financing education; hog prices; vertical integration; Newfound- land trade; cattle promotion; 4- H Club work; Federal-Provincial mad building program; long term credit for agriculture and the lack of rest facilities in Char- lottetown.
Mr. R. C. Parent, superintend- ent of the Experimental Farm, gave a short address on conser- vation.
He noted that of the total area of P.E.I. 56 percent of it could be classed as land suitable for farming Agricultural production on Prince Edward Island has gradually declined over the past 50 years, he observed.
URGES SOIL CONSERVATION Mr. Parent went on to note that the soils on Prince Edward Island are exceptionally good but will gradually wear out if not properly cared for.
In regard to the agricultural situation on P.E.I. Mr. Parent said, “In the next 10 years we will be the “breadbasket,” the other provinces have not got the
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1958
Dredge Will Be Built For Use In P.E.I.
OTTAWA, (Special) —- A clam- shell - type dredge, estimated to cost about $150,000, is to be built for Prince Edward Island by the Federal Government. This was disclosed Tuesday with the calling of tenders for the dredge. It would be based at an Island port, but would be avail- able for Maritime operations ap- art; from P.E.I. the Island, ,how- ever, would have first call on it. Tenders close on Dec. 17 and work on the dredge is expected to start about mid-January. It will be completed in time for use nxef summer.
CCF National Secretary Here
SUMMERSIZDE —— CCF Natlonal Secretary, Carl Hamilton, arrived on Prince Edward Island Monday on a three - day visit during which he will visit various parts of the provmce.
. He will speak to a public meet— ing in Wellington on Thursday evening, and be the special speak- er at the CCF Provincial Conven- tion in Kensington Town Hall on Emday afternoon, and at a public meeting in the same hall at 8 p.m.
Sudan’s New Strong Man Has
Wide Powers
KHlAiRTOUlM, Sudan (Reuters) U.-Gen. Ibrahim Alblboud took over all legislative, judicial and executive powersin Sudan fillies- he declared that the armed forces did not intend to “hold power forever."
A day after seizing power in a bloodless coup, Alblbovud became chief of a Ill-man supreme mill- tary council and a separate 12- memlber cabinet.
But the 58 - year - old general stressed that Sudan would remain a “democratic republic" and told his'first press conference since taklmg power that he hopes the country will return to normal democratic life.
0119 Dead, Three Missing In B.C.
VANCOUVER (ClP) — One woman is dead and three men- were reported missing Tuesday after a day and night of snow Whi‘Ch swept across much of Brit— ish Columbia.
Roads in many parts of the province were snowed under.
Mrs. Neil MacKinnon, 70, of nearby Surrey was killed when hilt by a car during Monday night’s snowstorm.
Three firemen from Nanaimo are missing. Wilbert Jordan, George Command and Jack Bar- ton went hunting late Monday and had not returned early Tues- day.
Three inches of snow fell on the Vancouver area as a cold front was pushed back over the Coast mountains by warm Pa- cific air. Snow changed to rain late Monday and it was still fall-
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By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (OP)—Deepening con— cern over unemployment and the frightening spectre of inflation was expressed before the Liber- als' national advisory council con- ference Tuesday as delegates em- barked on a panel discussion of the role of the party in opposi-
tion. Paul Martin, former health minister, said the Diefenbaker
government should be indicted for not launching measures in time to prevent what he anticipated would be 1,000,000 Canadians seeking work by next month.
The “alarming” unemployment problem was not entirely due to governman policies nor could the government be expected to cor— rect the situation overnight.
But the Liberals had a legiti- mate right in Parliament to ac- cuse the Conservatives of failing to come to grips with the prob. 1cm; of failing to call the prov» inces together to initiate adequate schemes: of handling the unem-
dav was delayed by to: in Ire— ‘aud.
plovment problem in I “relaxed
WENNLPEG (CP) -— Winnipeg turned to the task of digging out Tuesday after the worst Novem- ber storm in its history swept northeastward into Ontario, leav— ing more than a foot of heavy snow in southeastern Manitoba.
The Dominion Weather Office
said the blizzard was expected to blow itself out over Hudson Bay after walloping the Kenora area of Ontario. It had raged into Can- ada from Minnesota and the Dakotas, trailing death and de- struction northward through the United States from Texas. RCMP reported no deaths in Manitoba but four big game hunt- ers were missing in the storm area.
Provincial works department snowplows fought to clear blocked highways in an area stretching as far west as Portage La Prairie, 58 miles west of Winnipeg. Police said some motorist-s were tempo- rarily stranded but managed to reach safety.
USE ALL EQUIPMENT
I-n Winnipeg, Mayor Stephen Juba said every available piece of road-clearing equipment was pressed into action to remove the wet snow which had turned the city's streets Into a hopeless tangle of skidding and stalled cars and buses. The weather office said the heavy snowfall, accompanied by winds gusting to 435 miles an hour, constituted the worst storm on its recordsmwhiclh date back to 1874. Total November snowfall? which started during the weekend, now is about 16 inches. Winnipeg’s normal snowfall for, the whole month is 8.7 inches. Thesnow stopped falling about 2:30 p.m. CST. Blue skies in the west gave a hint of the relief forecast by the weather office for today: Sunny with cloudy inter- vals. Winnipeg's overnight low temperature was expected to be 10 degrees and today’s high 25. The blustering snowstorm, to- gether with sleet and freezing rain in fringe areas, whacked hard at transportation and com- munication systems.
AIRPORT CLOSED
Drifting s n o w on runways forced officials to close down Win-
By LLOYD McDONALD Canadian Press Staff Writer UNI-TED NATIONS, N.Y. (OF)
A United Nations break-through on the question of outer space was in prospect Tuesday night following an unexpected Russian conciliatory move.
The Soviet proposal made this afternoon w a s interpreted by Western delegations as indicating willingness to break the East- West political deadlock which has
ing steadily Tuesday.
and easygoing manner."
RUNAWAY INFLATION
Liberal Leader Lester B. Pear- son said the possibility of run- away inflation was one of the “most dangerous things" now fac- ing Canadians. Deficit financing—— borrowings by governments to cover heavier spending—was a sound way of fighting a reces- sion.
But instead of planned eflfort, the government was handling heavier pressures on the budget in a “hit - and . miss piecemeal fashion.” There was a danger that Canada would be hit by in- flation—“more than creeping”— while the recession remained.‘
During the day. in answer to questions from the floor. he touched also on such issues as agricultural price supports. the prospects of a new national party emerging and the Far Eastern crisis.
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dicating it would defend the off-
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nist Chinese had engaged in “bad diplomacy” that could involve Canada.
PRICE SUPPORTS
Touching on price supports. he maintained that “temporary ex- pediencies" in handling the farm problem would "not stand up in the long run." Some price sup- ports could do more harm than good.
As for a new political party springing from an alliance be- tween the CCF and labor, Mr. Pearson said the Liberals should have no fear of being replaced as long as they maintained their position of the party of the left, the party of reform.
Alexis Caron. Liberal MP for Hull, Que, charged that Quebec university heads lack courage. He urged them to fight Premier Du- plessis on the question of univer— sity grants. They said they were afraid to a c c e pt the fed-
lle suggested ll was time Chiang Kai-shell pulled his forces out of the offshore islands of Que- moy and Matsu. The U.S., by 111'
era! grants, fearing Mr. Duples- sis would cut them off from pro- vincial payments.
Soviet U For Outer Space Control
nipeg’s Stevenson field to air traffic at 3 am. The airport re~ opened as the storm waned at 1:45 p.m.
Highway traffic was impossible.
Railways were least affected by the blast. Both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways reported no major delays in
transcontinental service. There was some difficulty in starting lo- cal passenger trains and several extra freight runs were cancelled.
Both companies reported storm damage and interruptions to their telegraphic facilities. Longdis— tance telephone lines throughout the province were also affected:
Freighter Sinks In Lake Michigan
CHARLEVOI'X, Mich. (AP)— Stormy Lake Michigan hid the fate Tuesday night of a possibly doomed cargo carrier with her crew of 35 to 40 men. ,
One rescue ship reported spot- ting wreckage but no survivors.
A gigantic rescue effort was pressed for the 615-foot Carl D. Bradley, reported to have foun- dered and sunk.
Surface vessels and aircraft of the US. Coast Guard fought gale winds in an effort to locate the scene as the storm still raged.
Two hours after the search be- gan the German motorshilp Chris- tian Sartori radioed from the vi- cinity that she had sighted wreck- age but no survivors.
The Sartorl’s brief radio mes- sage had no other details.
NuclearCompromisels Rejected By Russians
GENEVA» (Reuters) — Soviet
delegate Semyo, v n Tsapapln'nmqes. day gave a pointed "no" to a Western compromise plan aimed at breaking the deadlock in three- power an ending nuclear tests.
He told reporters that Russia opposes simultaneous discussion of an agreement on test cessa- tion and on an international con- trol system.
The West suggested simultane- ous discussions alter Russia re- fused to talk about controls first. This which - comes - first dispute has deadlocked the conference since its start Oct. 31.
He outlined the Soviet stand as follow: The three nuclear pow- ers should first prepare an agree- ment on test cessation. They
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was taken up at the UN last week. V
Russia warned, however, that her compromise offer here was not to be linked with the continu- ing Geneva talks on cessation of nuclear weapons tests and techni- cal measures to prevent surprise attacks. The Soviet spokesmen made plain that the outer-space issue was to be regarded primar- ily from the scientific standpoint.
At a late-day press conference,
emphasized that his government will continue to press its demands at Geneva and indeed anywhere else where political considera- tions are at issue—such as the use of outer space for missile weapon develop) ent. PASS MINOR POINTS
But under the limitations of the UN’s study of outer space control, be indicated, Russia would not quibble with minor points which might stand in the way of agree- ment when the General Assem— bly’s political committee votes on the question towards the end of this week. I
At the outset of the debate last week Zorin himself tried to link outer space with American mili- tary bases on foreign territories on earth, but Tuesday he modi-
Springhill Fund P'asses Million
MONTREAL (CP) — Contribu- tions received or pledged for the Springhill Disaster Relief Fund now have exceeded $1.000,000, it was announced Tuesday.
K. M. S e d g e w i c k. national chairman of the fund and general manager of the Royal Bank of Canada. said donations are still being received in volume. He said it is hoped the ultimate total “will substantially exceed” the amount indicated to date.
ment on controls." These two
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should next prepare an agree-
agreemenlts should then be signed and a report made to the govern- ments concerned at the United Nations.
'UNACCEP'IIABLE To WEST
Diplomatic quarters said the Soviet stand is not acceptable to the West.
An East - West conference on ways to prevent surprise attack also failed alt'a morning session to resolve a deadlock on its agenda. Conference informants said the five Western nations sub- mitted an extensive report on the technical aspects of possible in- struments of surprise attack.
The report was said to cover missiles, planes, submarines and other weapons used for nuclear and non-nuclear attack.
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fled his position considerably. He dropped his previous de- mand in the committee that aboli- tion of U.S. bases abroad be tied in at the UN with the question of international control of the area beyond earth’s atmosphere. And in addition he went along with the Americanaled call at the UN for the setting up of a special committee to deal with all as- pects in the extraterrestrial field. In return, he asked the U.S. Bri- tain, Canada and the more than a dozen pro-Western powers who cosponsored a motion to that ef- fect to “show the necessary flex- ilbility and follow the path of mutual agreement."
QUICK REACTION
The Americans were quick to react to the new Soviet approach. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said in a statement following Zorin’s press conference that he regarded the move as “a sign that the Soviet Union may be will. lng to cooperate in some peaceful endeavor in outer space."
Canada's ambassador Charles Ritchie may make a policy speech in the committee Wednes- day. Originally the Canadian sub. mission was planned for Monday, but was postponed, according to a delegation source, “to await further scientific information.”
Tuesday’s information might give the Canadians, as co- sponsors of the U.S. resolution mentioned Tuesday by Zorin, a chance to speak for the West in reply to the new Russian over- lure.
FATALLY WOUNDED
MIDDLETON. N. S., — (CP) — George Mervin Corbett, 26, of Waterville, N.S., died in hospital here Tuesday from g u n s h o t wounds suffered while
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Cloudy with a few showers; milder:
easterly winds 15. Low-high at Char- lottetown 28 and 40.
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Unions
By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CH—Fifteen big unions threatening a Canada-wide railway strike in 12 days turned thumbs down Tuesday on a post- d-ated wage settlement offered by the railways.
Railway~unions talks were col- lapsed when the unions refused to call off their Dec. 1 strike of 130,000 non - operating raillWay workers. 110 new meetings were scheduled.
Tuesday’s deadlock tossed the whole problem directly to the fed- eral cabinet, already faced with an eightprovince appeal to cut off a railway freight rate boost of 17 per cent set for Dec. 1.
“The strike date of Dec. 1 still stands," said union spokesman Frank H. Hall after a half-hour session Tuesday with top railway officials.
“Negotiations with the railways have broken down."
OFFER l4-CENT RAISE
The railways had offered to sign an agreement giving wage increases amounting to about 14 cents an hour—(but on the under- standing the agreement would come into effect only if the freight increase is left untouched as of Dec. 1.
The situation is unique. The un- ions are agreeable to a 14cent hourly pay boost. The railways
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tend the increase to other rail- way workers at a total cost of $67,000,000 as long as they get the freight-rate increase to cover it.
Both the strike and the freight rate increase are set for the same day—Monday, Dec. 1.
The non-op workers are to wall! off their jobs at 6 am. regional standard time. The new freight rate schedule is to go into effect at 12:01 am. AST—provilded the cabinet doesn’t upset the increase in the meantime.
Thus the dispute could go right down the line—and still leave I few hours for a lastoninute settle- ment between the time the freight rates are to go up and the strike is to start.
SEE FAST ACTION
Observers don’t expect the squabble to get that far. Fast cabinet action. is anticipated on the provincial appeal against the rate increases. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is being kept 1n- formed. of developments and 10 said to be ready to return to Can- ada if the situation reaches a crisis level.
In turning down the railway suggestion, Mr. Hall pointed to higher wages recently given the workers in Canada’s steel indus- try and said railway non-op em- ployees View with “dissatisfaction and restiveness" the continuing deterioration of their wages in re. lation to those paid in other in-
are willing to pay it—even ex-
o'rrAlWA (CPL-Acting Prime Minister Green anno‘ unced Tues- day night that the cabinet will hear next Monday an eight-prov- ince appeal against the latest freight rate increase authorized by the Boa-rd of Transport Com- missions-rs.
The hearing will be attended by counsel for the eight provinces— all except Ontario and Quebec—— and the major railways. It will be held in the main Parliament building starting at 11 am. AlST. Asked by a reporter after the cabinet meeting when the minis- ters might reach a decision, Mr. Green said:
“I have no idea."
NEXT MOVE
Next move in the impasse be- tween the railways and their 130,000 non—operating employees threatening to strike Dec. 1 was dumped in the lap of the cabinet earlier Tuesday by the eight prov- inces. They filed a formal petl. tion asking cabinet to rescind the 17-per‘lcent rate boost.
The 15 non-operating unions of the railways threaten to strike Dec. 1 unless they recr' : a wage boost of 14 cents an hour reclin- mended earlier this year in the majority report of a federal con- ciliation board. . The railways have agreed to pay the wage increase provided there is no cabinet interference with the 17-per-cent freight rate award, also effective Dec. 1.
NOT PROPER PROCEDURE However, the provinces’ peti- tion states that if the railways need additional revenues to meet wage demands such funds should not be raised through a general freight rate increase.
“. . . If the railways require in- creased revenues to enable them to assume the financial burden of such in c r e a sed rates, some
dustries.
Federal Cabinet Scheduled To. Hear Appeal On Monday
must be falmd other than the 1m- position of general percentage rate increases upon the seriously imbalanced freight rate strum lure,” the petition said.
Acting Prime Minister Green said the provincial appeal will be heard by cabinet as soon as the parties are ready to proceed. He indicated it would not be neces- sary for Prime Diefen- baker to interrupt his world foul to be present at the hearing. Mr. Diefenlbaker, now in Pakistan,
was being kept informed of events.
The molesting provinces“ perti- tion described L7-pcr-cent in-
crease as “anhcilpatory, prema- ture, unjustified." The transport board had no jurisdiction to authorize the boost because the railways had not yet “paid or centracted to pay any increased wages.”
UNIUST, UNREASONABLE
The general increase authorized would be unjust and unreasonable and unjustly discriminatory” to eastern and western Canada.
Burden of the increase—or 73.58 per cent of it—onuld fall on classes of rates which provided the railways with only 32.03 per cent of their revenues.
. . It is manifestly unfair for the railways to continue to impose rate increases when such a dis- proportionately small share of the traffic is required to bear such an
I excessively large part of the
authorized increase," the petitiOn said.
FAVOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
SYDNEY (CP) —— Ratepayers voted 1.759 to 153 Tuesday to zip prove the city’s participation in a proposed vocational school for Cape Breton County. About one- third of the eligible ratepayers
method of securing such revenues
MONTREAL (OP) —— The tiny mother of 21-year—old J ean~Claude Perreault. whose torso was found last March in a roadside ditch, Tuesday told how she traced her son's car and followed the man later accused of her son‘s murder.
Mrs. Laurette Perreault, 54, was testifying on the second day of the trial of Hector Ponier, 51, charged with murder in connec- tion with the torso-slaying.
Mrs. Pcrreault said she last saw her son alive about 7 p.m. Jan. 23 when he left with 1on valises for a rendezvous in a sub- urban Jacques Cartier shopping centre with a man named Denis.
She said she later found a news- paper advertisement in his drawer offering $600 a month, plus expenses, for single man with a car who was wanted lo travel outside Montreal.
cidcnt were available.
Monday. No details of the ac-
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She saw the the accused dl'lVlllg
voted in Tuesday's plebiscite.
Mother Of Victim Testifies In Montreal Torso Slaying
her son‘s car one day and fol- lowed him to his Jacques Cartier home.
“I told him I was the mother of Jean-Claude Perreault.” she said. “He jumped. I asked him how he had my son‘s car and why he was using it. He said he was moving to the country and that my son was working in Granby."
She said she took down Poirl- er’s new address in Repentigny, Que, and the next day went there with relatives.
She said the accused came t! the door and said he would help find her son in Gl‘a‘nby. He was to have telephoned her the next day but didn’t. She tried and failed to see him a number of times after that.
Dr. Rosario Fontaine, medico ,lt-ca! (“(DCI‘I, said the victim”: ‘ wrist: had been. backed of! wt] i an axe and his head out off with l a knife and an axe.