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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,

CEILING ON HOUSING LOANS MAY BE BOOSTED 03,000

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1954

Engineer Found Safe Two Weeks After Crash

Eisenhower Forecasts Suwllesilfdeil Deficit Despite Cut In Proposed Spending

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WAS OTON. (AP) -President liisenbowu handed Congress a DM.iYf0.w0.000 budget Thursday that puts heavy reliance on air- power and an atomic arsenal.

This budget. for the 1055 fiscal Lear beginning next July 1. still

nearly I3,000.m0.000 out ot bal-

snot.

But it does call for a. reduction of more than s5.ooo,ooo.ooo in spending. as compared with the present fiscal year. This is I. out of '15 per cent.

Nearly iihree-iou.rths of the cut is in national securi items. Yet more than two out 0 every three dollars the government proposes to spend will be for national security.

The budget proposes the highest expenditures in history on atomic developinent. continental deience and military aid to allies, plus the biggest outlay for nirpower since the Second Wolrd War.

The military budget. Eisenhower said. aims at "full explolation of modem alrpower' and of atomic and other modern weapons. It is this shift in emphasis, he said, which permits lower military ex- penditures and less of a drain on manpower and equipment. '

Ag the striking power of our com- bet forces rises. he said, man- power will come down from the present 3.400.000 to 3.000.000 on June 30. 1056.

Greater Mobility

The entire national security budget tor the year ahead was gig. at 344.CKl.000.000, a .

.000 out irom this year. The biggest reduction is in the army and only the air force would re- ceive morr money."

The number of army divisions may be lowered, Eisenhower said. but increased in bllity and mod- ern weapons will give each div- lslon increasingly greater combat power.

The stresr on alrpower. he said,

(Continued on page ll, col. 4)

French Expand Brldgehead

SAJGGL Indo - China. (Reuters) French forces who launched a surprise suault Wednesday on a new front against the Communist- led Vietminh. expanded their ui”gehead Thursday on the An- nasn east coast.

mtimats objective of the drive, the rrenolii high command said Thisrsday night, is to open up 250 miles of fertile coastal land and free s.ooo.ooo.ooo inhabitants after right years of Communist domina- lion,

Coming Events

"Dance in Miilviow Hall. Friday.

"Reece on Vernon lea saturthy lard at 2 o'clock.

”"New Haven Jamboree” tonioht in Clyde River Hall, Don't mix it!

"Rummage sale. Clover Club. Friday. Jan. 22nd at 2:30.

"cud party every Friday. St. Peter's Legion Hall. Dance Sai- arday.

"Card party and dance Hope Iliver Credit Union Hall Friday. Jan.

"Come to r-l-an-ip-ton l-laii Jan. 22. 0 o'clock. and hear Dr. Lloyd siiaw lecture on Robert Burns.

"Dance South Rustico Hall. to- nlght. January 22nd. Roads and weather permitting. Alsx Mac- I.euI'l Orchestra.

"Double header at North River Rink fanlgibt. Hampshire vs. York 130: North River vs. Long Creek M0. hate after.

"Burns lecture. rnnrert and Scottish dances by the Misses Hart ot Victoria in Hampton 1-iall tonight. under auspices Lorna l... O. L. and Melville I..0.B.A.

"Showing at Mt. Stewart. Friday and Baturdvo nights; "The Desert Pm" with James Mason and Jea-

nioa Tandy. This is a lood one. the is at Gmeral Mum-iel in the can .

' Ichool hockey Cripaud rink Sat sy morning. Augustine Cove vs Victoria at 0; Keilyls Cross

vI.. Hampton at 10: North Tryon VI) Cape Traverse at ii. skating

FRENCH PRESIDENT - Rene Coty. new 1"renc'h President poses for his first official portrait since his inauguration. He wears the Grand Cordon and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and the Golden Necklace oi the Legion oi I-Ionor.-NEA Telephoto)

Re-Hearing Of ilale Zone Case On January 27th

OTTAWA, Jan. 21, (special) - Subsequent to requests from the Canadian National Railways mid the Mari-times Transportation Com- mision, it is announced today that the Board of Transport Commig. sloners for Canada wii meet in Charlottetown Court House on Wednesday. January 27. Purpose of the Charlottetown hearings as set forth in the notice. is:

"The re-hearing oi the applica- tion of the Transportation Com- mission oi the Maritime Board of Trade on behalf of the Prince Ed- ward Island Potato Shippers Advis- ory Association and others. for the establishment of a. one-rate zone on Prince Edward Island in re- spect oi rates described in the ap- plication dated January 15, 1940. and in the supplement thereto dated March i. 1949."

Chairman oi the board is Mr Justice J. H. Kearney.

Brotherhood;-ibach Agreement With cps

MONTREAL. (CP)-Two railway brotherhood: announced Thursday an agreement has been reached with Canadian Pacific Railway Company covering the payment oi union dues by employees in the railways eastern division.

The agreement was announced by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood oi Locomotive Firemen and Engine- mcn, both independent unions.

Details of the agreement were not disclosed but it was learned that the railway agreed to with- hold irom service any man who does not pay dues to the brother- hoods. The effect will be that all firemen and engineers will have to pay union dues whether they be- long to the union or not.

In S'nking By Robert Eiirison

INCI-ION. Korea. (AP) -- Navy crews groped today through icy. swirling ildewaters for missing bodies among the 2! us. marines who drowned Thursday after a collision of landing craft.

Quick rescue work saved 22 oth- er men from the treacherous cur- rents ot Inchon harbor. The 50 were aboard a small landing craft which was out In two and rolled over by is big IST landing ship. tank.

The LST was about in he load- ed with liberated anti-Red Chinese prisoners for a trip to Formosa and the lmlrlnes. heavily. laden with packs. were to go along as security guards.

Inchon harbor has one of the highest tldefalls in the world-30 feet--and water charges viciously

in Quebec Bush in 40 Belowjealher

ST. !'!.'LICIEN, Que.

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C 80-year-old Montreal engineer was

rescued from the bush Thursday, ltwo weeks after his plane crashed lnear an uncharted lake, 40 miles northwest of La Tuque, Que.

Rene Lecuyer. an employee oi the Quebec Mining and smelting Company, told rescuers he ielt ”linc" despite his ordeal in 40 be- low weather.

Lecuyer's single-engined plane crashed on a flight from Lac Tortue near Trols-Rivleres to Lac Dore in the Chlbougamau mining area 165 miles northwest oi Que- bec

Cause oi the crash was not im- mediately known.

Pilot I-Ianl: Hicks of Borel Air- ways, on a routine flight, sighted the stranded pilot standing near the wreckage of the plane and landed his ski-equipped aircraft on the lake.

"You're supposed to be dead,” he said.

Had Canned Food

Hicks flew him back to his base at st. Feliclen on Lac St. Jean. 120 miles north oi Quebec.

Lecuyer said he took off from Montreal ior Lac Dore. Jan. 8. He got into trouble after dropping his brother at Lac Tortue near Trots- Rivleres.

Airways ouiclals at St. Felicien said Lecuyer looked none the worse for his adventure. They said they believed he took cover in an abandoned woodman": cabin to escape the ireezing weather.

He had lived on tinned meat and cocoa but had only three tins of meat. left when they iound him. He collected firewood in the iorest

he had no sleeping bag.

Iecuyer was on his way to re- sume direction of the mining com- pany's explorstlens in the Lac Dore area when he crashed.

Train Wreck l Pakistan Kills Al least 60

KARACHI. Pakistan. (Reuters)- Unofficlal estimates said at least no persons were killed Thursday when a crack Pakistan express train hurtled into is derailed oil tank car and burst into flames on the main line between Lahore to Ksr.-ichi,

Many of the passengers aboard the six-car "Pakistan Mail" were bumrrl alive as the gasoline-filled tank car exploded and sent flames shooting half the length of the ex- press,

The crash occurred as the (X- press, drawn by two diesel inc- omotives. was nearing the end of its 24-hour run from Lahore.

The wreckage of the express was still burning eight hours af- ter the crash. hampering rescue tennis and delaying an accurate list of the victims. Officials said that in addition to the dead -19 persons were injured. and ii are in "serious" condition.

sir Mohamirned Zafrullah Khan. Pnklslmfs foreign minister. was travelling in a rear coach of the wrecked train and escaped with only slight bruises

LONDON (ClPl A burglar squeezed through an fl-inch gap between bare over a window in the Peckhun railway men and es- caped with 536. It was the seventh raid on the station in 18 months.

US. Navy Opens Probe Off Korea

painted within three hours after the collision, began questioning some at the survivors aboard the U. S. navy hospital ship Consola- tion.

Officers said the dead and miss- ing marines dropped under water like weighted stones. The larger LST later loaded aboard 1,000 For- mosa-bound Chinese and sailed. It was empty at the time of the acci- dent except for its Japanese crew.

One of the first men interviewed by the board of inquiry was Pte. John D. Gates. Jr., of Pensacola, Fla.. Coxswain of the smaller craft.

"The LST was at anchor." he said. "You always approach a landing against the current but the current was so strong it capsized my boat before I could move."

Although Gates was convinced the LET was t ndlng still as he appreeched for a bow-to-bow con-

in and out of its entrance.

Friday afternoon. I to 5. Admis- siea too.

An army board of inquiry. ap-

nectlon. officers on board a near- by. ship said the LS1 was moving.

and built a fire to keenwaiarm as.

Sudden Death Lieui. Colonel

Lieut. Colonel Keith 8. Rogers,' V.D.. Managing Director of radio station CFCY and one of the pioneer radio men in Eastern Can- ada died suddenly last night from a heart seizure.

A man of wide interests in the. life of the Province he had taken? an active part in practically every; phase oi Island life. He was born in summerside, a son or the late Mr. W. K. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers, on January 18, 1892. and received, his education at the school there; and at Prince oi Wales College. l

Entering the communication field in early life, Col. Rogers was com- missioned a lieutenant in the Can- adian Signalllng Corps in August, 1911. Successive promotions in the soi'vice carried him through the ranks oi captain, major and col- onel.

The late Col. Rogers. as a lieu- tenant. took over command of the local Signals unit on the retire- ment oi his late father. Lleut, W. K. Rogers and served tw) terms as commanding officer from 1911 to 1914 and from 1920 to 1928,

It was in 1911 that the late Col. Rogers built his first portable wireless set in the Canadian Army while he was serving at Petawawa.

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Iii civilian life he operated the first radio broadcasting in Eastern Canada in 1921 and 1922 on sta- tions VEBAK and VEIOAS and he

India Plans Appeal To Reds To Take Back Pows

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Cold Wave Passes Eighth Day In West

EDMONTON. (CP) - Western Canada was muffled in heavy win- ter clothing for the eighth straight day Thursday as a blanket of frigid Arctic air held the prairies and British Columbia in its icy grasp.

sub-zero temperatures have plag- ued the West slnrr. Jan. 13 and have claimed 11 livw, directly or indirectly.

The weatlicminn doesn't hold out any hope for immediate relief. He reported a band of warm air lurking over Alaska and the Mac- kenzie river delta in the Arctic,

but it hasn't shown any inclina- tion to move south. While the mercury hasn't

touched the 7ei'o mark on the west coast. residents there have had to contend with heavy snowfall. Eight inches, believed to be the heaviest fail in nine years, blank- eted the Vancouver arm.

The coldrst point was Val Marie, Sask.. where the mercury fell to 59 degrees below zero. Readings of 40 to 50 below were not un- usual.

Health Ministers ” Wind Up 2-Day Halifax Meeting

HALIFAX. (CF) - A two-day. meeting of health ministers and. their advisers from the four At-i lantio provinces wound up here Thursday.

It was the first meeting of min- lslrra as an outcome oi the move ior a Maritime economic confer- ence. Deputy ministers have met: several times a year to iron out matters of policy.

Newfoundland Health Minister Forsey had been in Montreal and was unable to make plans connec- tions. Dr. Leonard Miller, the deputy minister. represented New- ioundlsnd.

In attendance were Dr. J. F. Mclnerney, New Brunswick health minister. Health Minister Earle MacDonald of Prince Edward Ili- land. and Health Minister Harold Connolly of Nova Bcotla.

A closed session was held Wed- nesday morning. and in the after- noon problems related to psychi- atry and mental health were dis- cussed. The past. year's work was reviewed and operating budgets for the coming year considered.

Thursday delegates sat In with Dalhousle University medical men and discussed public health nurs- ing, psychiatry. psychology and plychiatrlc social work carried out by the Dalhousie School oi Social

Ycsterdday Oi K. S. Rogers

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also had the first comm: ti.l broadcasting license east of Mont- real when he began the radio sta- tion which is still operating under the same name of CFCY. Col. Rogers also had the first television reception in the Province.

Among his varied activities he was president and managing direc- tor of the Island Broadcasting Company, president of the W. K. Rogers Agencies; Provincial Chair-

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SEOUL. (AP)rThe Indlancom- mand planned a last-minute ap- peal today to the Communists to take back 330 prisoners from a pro-Red camp.

If it fails, the camp will be thrown open and the prisoners al- lowed to go where they will at 12:01 am. Saturday.

The 21 Americans. one Briton

and 327 south Koreans would have been returned to the Reds Thursday when 21.809 anti-red

Chinese and North Koreans were turned back to the UN command. But the Reds refused to accept them.

The more than 14,000 anti-Red Chinese are on their way to Na- tionalist Formosa aboard 15 land- ing ships. guarded by U. 5. Navy ships and planes. They are due in Formosa Sunday or Monday.

More than 7,000 North Koreans went through initial processing an South Korean Army reception cen- tres. ,

All 21.309 will be declared civil- ians by the UN co End at one minute past midnlgh.

Lt.-Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commzssion. said if the Communists refuse to take back their .349 prisoners he will talk to the lien personally before withdrawing:.'. I n d i a ii custodial troops.

I Open The Gates

"First no will have to foil prisoners that their 'owners' fuse in take them back." Thimayva said.

"Then W." will open the galssl and we will tell our men to go back in their line."

It the 21 Americans still are determined to turn their backs on their homeland. the U. 8. Army will declare them "undesirable" and discharge them officially. it was announced in Washington.

This will cut of! their service my and make it difficult for them our to qualify for vetere.ns' -bene- i'i .

Three Childreh Bumed Tibealh

QUEBEC, (OP)-Three children have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed a. wooden cottage in the Matapedia counby town oi st. Leon le Grand, it was learned here Thursday.

Dead are Real Gendron, 5. his sister. Rejeanne. 4. and brotlier. lll-months-old Jean-Claude.

The fire of unknown origin, oc- curmi Friday Jan. 10.

Mr. and Mrs. Adelsrd Oendron and two other diildren. Diane. P, and Raymond. 0, were away when the fire started and Mrs. Gendron rrturing to find the house sibiaze was burned slightly trying to save the three children.

at Leon le Grand is 110 miles

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Winters Oiillines Proposed NHA Amendments

later Winters hinted Thursday that the 510,000 ceiling on government housing loans may be boosted by as much as 52.500 or 31.000 under proposed new legislation.

Interest rates on National llous-. ing Act loans currently 5 l”4 per cent. also may be inireased, but he said they will be held below six per cent.

In a 6.500-worrl statement in the

The measure met some criticism as it came up for second rcadingl -approval in prinviple.

Donald Fleming IPC-'Iinmnin E lingionl. speaking for H10 offirini Opposition. said his party wiilp not oppose the measure but he, described some of its features as” inadequate.

The measure would admit hank: into the mortgage-lending firlrl and this was a '-tfuntlzimeniul do-i parture" from existing banking- iegislation. He assumed banks: will co-operate. but he hoped there will be no "pressure" put on them to get de.pnsitora' money, info long-is-rm liousinsz loans.

Joseph W. Nnscwni-ihy iCC1-2' York Soulhl said the legislaiinn' will not solve Canada's housing; shortage. It would not reduce the! cost of home building. but ihoi government. could reduce costs by making" money available to build- ers at a rain of not. more than two-per-cent interest.

Cut Down Payments

,Mr. Winters said the legislation will Open the mortgage-lending field to chartered bank: under a loan-insurance scheme aimed at maintaining residential housing construction in Canada at or near the 1953 peak of 104,000 housing starts.

It will cut down payments, ex- tend the lime to pay and provide maximum 15-your loans in encour- age. conversions oi large, old homes into duplexes and apart. ments.

The government's Central Mort- gage and Housing Corporation will' be armed with power in insure al maximum of 52.000.000.000 in loan: Without further parliamentary an-l proval. Cost. of insurance. two per!

cent in the case of houses for!

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Canada Orders 2.000 Belgian Automatic Rifles

orrawa, (CF) -- Canada i..." ordered 2.000 Belgian automaticl rifles for tests as a standard in-1 iantry weapon for the army. I

Defence Minister Ciaxton said: Thursday in the Commons that if. the rifle is accepted, it will be? made in Canada under licence; from Belgium. Meanwhile, Cena-. dian Arsenala will be ordered mi prepare its engineering so as to lose no time in starting produc-. tion. l

The rifle, the .30-ralibre FN-2. will be tested under Canadian con- ditions and Mr. Claxton indicated it will be accepted. '

FIRE I.l-IVELS BI'NKH0l'SES

CORNER BROOK. Nfld. (Cl"i---- A fire at nearby Taylor: Bi-nnk Thursday lei-piled iwn hllnkhnusflll of the Bmvaii-rs Pulp and Paper Mills, destroying the possessions of 22 woodsmen. Some 60 beds andl all the equipment were destroyed: No one was injured.

N. S. Legisla

(CF)--The first ses- sion of the Nova Sr-olla Legis- lature since the provincial elec- tion last May will open Feb. 34. Premier Mai-donald announced Thursday.

It will be "I! first session of the 45th general assembly.

Liberals will hold 22 seat: rim- of them in dIspuie-- Progressive Conservatives 12. and the C.C.l-I two. There is one vacancy owing

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to the resignation of former mines minister A. H. Mr.Kinnnn who became a county couri judge.

Liberals lost four seats in tho May election. all of them in this Progressive Conservatives. One nf those lost was held by highways minister M. D. Rawding. but neither his defeat nor Mr. M"- Klnnon's ieslgiiation brought new blood into the cabinet. Instead Premier Macdonald reshuffle-d his

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0TTAWA- (Cpl '- WWI” W” John B. C. Watkins as ambassador

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Iegialaiive speedy npprnvnl sn 'tI:lb,131a,S head of the European can be put into operation nexil IHSOIL .

sprint p Mr. Watkins is expected to as-

Vjninlng the external affairs depart- 'ment in 1946.

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Ambassador To Russia Appointed

OVITAWA. (OP) -Appointment of

to Russia was snouncecl by the gxternai aiiairs department Thurs- ay.

Mr. Watkins, new Canadian min- ister to Norway and Iceland, will be replaced by Chester A. Ron- rung. head of the Far Eastern and Commonwealth division in the ex- ternal affairs department here.

Robert A. D. Ford of London, Ont. now charge d'aiiaircs at Moscow, will return to Ottawa for duty in the department here, pos-

sume his Moscow post March 1.