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"Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew"
Calif. — These industrial work- crs had no choice but to wade
THIS IS CALIFORNIA!
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. [off their jobs Thursday afterlstreet they are traversing is ap-‘suffered similar inconvenience [torrential rams left the streets propriately named Canal Street. ,:s a result of record rains.
of this city a virtual river.
The Many Bay Area municipalities.
Rebel Leader Declares . “Total War" In Cuba
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HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Rebel leader Fidel Castro has decla-rid a state “of total, implacable war between the people of Cuba and
the tyranny of Batista” as of one minute past midnight Friday night.
Ignoring a last-minute offer of amnesty by President Fulgencio Batista’s government to all rebels who down arms, Castro said his columns already are on the move throughout Oriente province of eastern Cuba. -
“The fight against Batista has entered its final stage,” the 31- year-ollad guerrilla leader said in
.-..Thousands...{)f Pilgrims I Throng Way Of The Cross
JERUSALEM (Reuters)-—Long lines of pilgrims retraced the route of Jesus Christ along the Way of the Cross in Good Friday services in the Holy Land.
French nuns with sta-rched white headrresses and brown- robed Italian monks joined thou- sand: of foreign visitors in the long -.1-ch from the first station at Rawdat Mare-ff to the tomb in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. .
Many of the faithful groaned under the weight of heavy wooden crosses '-.~s they edged over the slippery cobbles of the Via Dolorosa to Calvary Hill.
The silent procession along the ‘Way of the Cross was joined by Jordanian government officials and diplomatic missions.
Themanrch was divided into sections according to language. Sermons were preached in the different languages along the 14 :1 ‘ions of the route.
sombre Good Friday rites drew hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Rome where the Eternal City’s 300 churches muted their bells, stripped their altars and draped their cruci- fixes in purple.
BIGGEST SINCE WAR
a statement issued from his hide- out in the Sierra Maes-tra range in Oriente province.
Castro said Tuesday the first stage aimed at c u t t i n g the island’s communications a n d transportation w a s beginning. Batista on the same day obtained emergency p o w e r s from con- gress to smash the revolt.
TENSION GROWS
Since then tension h-as grown. some workers have left their jobs, the rebels have distributed arms to civilians and Batista has mobilized the 38,900 members of Ouba’s armed forces.
transport in one of the largest European Easter vacation pa- rades since thewa-r.
Uncertain weather was pre- dicted for the holiday with both showers and bright periods. Transportation in some Euro- pean areas was snarled by sleet and snow.
The early exodus from London packed rail station-s. Motorists prepared to join the expected 6,000,000 drivers on British roads during the long Easter weekend.
More than 10,000 traffic police patrolled French roads while 200,000 foreign visitors streamed into Paris despite the forecast of bad weather.
CASINO CLOSED
Prince R a i n i e r of Monaco closed the Monte Carlo casino in respect for Good Friday. Only four times in the past has it been shut on this day.
An estimated 100,000 visitors poured into Berlin for its busiest Easter since the war. other Ger- man holidayers took to the high- lands along with ot-rer Euro- peans. Ski resorts in Scandinavia and the Alps were crowded.
In Liverpool, England, the Easter season kept firemen busy dealing with the 18 street bonfire alarms reported Friday. The city
In other parts of Europe, vaca- tioners began the secular holidayl by jamming road, rail and air‘
Survivors OI Fi
Liner Call Rescue ”Luck”
ADEN (Reuters)-—*Survivors of the Norwegian m i-g r a n t ship Skaubryn Friday described their escape from their burning ship in the Indian Ocean last Monday as “fantastic luck.”
They said flames engulfed the side of the Australia-bound ship as the last of the boats carrying nearly 1,300 passengers and crew pulled away from her in the r."".i- die of the night.
The survivors arrived Thurs- day night at this British colony at the tip of the Arabian : mi - sula on board the 4.687-ton Italian liner Rmna. They spent their third night asleep on the covered Dortion of the Ro1na‘s decks. then §i3I‘ted to disembark this morn- mg. When the vicious cl. fire broke 011i in the Skaubryn’s 61121119 l‘00m Moud;-iy niglu the first sil- Iing at dinner had finished and,
(ht mmic s'uu\\' and .\L‘L'OlltI diu- ner were about to smart. ‘ CHlLl)Rl~1.\' 1.\' r.i«:us I
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300 under 12 and mg-:'.1,\' babl<‘%~‘i nd mm, .,., in-4, Tlwp rnoml was Il.~;.;v-3.‘, I'dI'1w "Had it not been c\'acrl\' like? It has inns’, of ill? Pl"‘3‘l7I9 “mlld have been mien,“ Said captain:
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Jump into the sea.
has a custom of burning effigies of Judas Iscariot on Good Fm- day.
re Aboard
Alf Faeste, master of the Skau- bryn. “S m o k e was pouring through all corridors and flames were coming out of the sh1?'5 sides as the boats pulled away-"
So well was the abandon-s-hip operation carried out that there was no serious casualty- 0119 passenger died of .1 heart at‘ tack.
Faeste said the fire broke out due to a misunderstandingin the engine room over the repall‘ Of .3 diesel auxiliary m o t o r. This caused oil to gusbinto the eniglne room and catch fire.
BLAZE SPREAD FAST
The blaze spread so fast and fiercely that most of the men In the engine room had to get Out along the propeller shaft tunnel and climb up aft. _
“The chief engineer said he re- garded it as h0P€19SS and, at 8:54 D.m. l blew the alarm su‘£‘Il N1‘ everyone to take to the boats and
the wireless 01391?‘-°‘r‘ Sent out S O S.” Faeste said. U _ The passengers “'01”? "elyw
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The captain said that 9* W“ 3‘ h... 1,1,,-xx no pa-.sc11,:crs had '0 altho~1.i;_,h 3.-(71116
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The hour set by Castro for total revolt marked the end of an ulti matum period. He had demands: that Batista resign by Saturday “to save Cubt from further bloodshed.”
All government employees and others who work for Batista after midnight will be prosecuted as traitors a n d criminals when Batista is overthrown, Castro de- clared.
The bearded guerrilla leader, whose forces grew from an 81- man nucleus that landed on the coast of Oriente province in De- cember, 1956, did not mention Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell’s offer of amnesty to any rebels
Castro said he still plans to call a general strike. He as- ser-ted that 50,000 young revolu- tionaries will pour into city streets on his signal to fight troops and police.,
Two revel columns w-.-e spreading destruction a r o u n d Santiago de Cuba in Oriente, where Castro has won his great- est support.
Governmen-t forces aipipa-rently were delaying an assault until the rebels advanced into more open territory, away from their mountain strongholds.
Guell commented in Havana that the government had made no all-out efforts to blast the rebels out of the mountains. He added that 50,000 peasants would have to be evacuated from the Sierra Maestra before that could be (10119. but he did not say whether evacuation was planned.
EASTER
When I see springtime blossoms On altars quiet and dim, And hear the bells of Easter, My thoughts go out to Him.
The gentle son of Mary Who went alone to die, Upon an eastern hilltop, Beneath an April sky.
Friendlines-s and despised was
He, Condemned by every one, Forgotten were the miracles, The kind deeds He had done.
In anguish on the Cross He died, That lovely day in spring,
The sky grew black in sympathy The birds refused to sing.
They buried Him in Joseph's tomb;
But e’er the break of day,
Came one in shining garments
And rolled the stone away.
And to the women seeking Him The Angel gently said: “Jesus who was crucified
Is risen from the dead." '
For there was no retaining
The Christ within the tomb,
And now in countless altars
The flowers of springtime bloom.
The giving earth remembers The wonder of that day. When He arose and angels came And rolled the stone away. Constance I. Heckbert.
Algoma Steel Steps Up Pace
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. 1CP)——Ai20ma Steel Corporation Fridav announced increased op- erations in two departments.
Douglas Joyce, vice-president of operations. said most of the 1.000 mer‘ laid off last year when ope1'atio_ri;-,, were reduced have been recal’ed. ‘The plant has been
members of the C1‘€‘“', did dive: mm the water alter climbing 011 mpough portboles.
..»perating at 1 per cent of capac.
for ‘ immediate
(AP Wirephoto). More Rain In Sight For California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Rain soaked California, soggy and
ipping after weeks of almost
cessant storms. faced the PI‘0S-
Jets of more rain today and of a stormy Easter.
Coastal areas were pounded by towering waves Friday from the Pacific.
In the interior valleys creeks and rivers vaulted their banks, flooding thousands of acres and driving more than 5,000 persons from their homes.
Twelve" persons have died in the storms the last few days.
Damage to property and to crops ranges i-nto the millions of dollars.
President Eisenhower Friday designated most of the state a major disaster area, qualifying it federal “‘ ' emer: gency relief.
San Francisco had 3.96 inches of rain for the first 31/2 days of April. The normal fall for the month is 1.49 inches.
In San Francisco, rain has fallen—generally heavily—on 55 of the first 94 days of the year.
The weather bureau said to- day’s rains will probably bring the water to “above danger level” in the delta area where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers converge to flow into San Francisco Bay.
Flood conditions were general throughout the northtm half of San Joaquin County, 60 miles east of San Francisco, with nu- merous roads closed by high water, and the San Joaquin River continuing to rise.
Water levels were receding, however, on the three main waterways in the area.
CHARLOTTETOWN CAl\TADA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958
LEGAL ACTION PLANNED
Movement To Bring End To
Nuclear BombT
Service Vote Due Today; New Session Likely May 8
OTTAWA (CPl—Res~ult of the
service vote, which could reverse some of th e tight election squeezes in last Monda 's civil- ian polling, will be announced to- day. The soldier vote, reported to have been heavy this year, was cast March 24-29 at various mil- itary establishments a-t home and abroad. The counting will not be completed until today when it will be known just how many servicemen voted. .
Fewer than a dozen seats, in which Monday's results gave win- ning candidates margins of less than 300 votes, could be affected.
In the June election last year, only one reversal was recorded as a Progressive Conservative victory for Eric Neilsen on elec- tion night was upset by the serv- ice vote. Liberal J. Au-brey Sim- mons was declared re - elected, but irregularities in vote - taking forced a byelection last Decem- ber, that was won by Mr. Neil- sen.
GOOD MARGIN
Last Monday Mr. Neilsen was re-elected with a good margin of victory over Mr. Simmons.
This year tight .n-tests involve five Liberal winners in Ville- neuve, Montreal Car-tier and Beauce in Quebec, and Kenora- Rainy Fiver and Fort William in Ontario; five Conservative win- ners in Inverness - Richmond, N.S.. Champlain, Que., Ren-frew North, Ont., Winnipeg North and Vancouver Kingsway, and a CCF victor in Timiskaming, Ont.
Meanwhile, P r i m e Minister -Diefen-baker flies to» to- day for a short holiday after hold- ing his first cabinet meeting Thursday since the election.
Fire Destroys Author's Home
WHITIEHORSE, Y.T. (C-P) Fire early Thursday destroyed the Yukon home of Robert Serv- ice, author of Sourdough Ballads.
No one was injured in the blaze, of undetermined origin. Loss was estimated at $50.000- The building, built in 1901, was used by the Canadian Bank of Commerce until two years ago when it was sold to the Elks Lodge.
Service, while in the Yukon, was employed by the bank in its Dawson and Whitehorse
branches.
After the long meeting, Mr. Diefenbaker said that the target date for the first session of Can- ada's 24th Parliament is Thurs- day, May 8, provided all the writs declaring legality of Com- mons members are received here.
He indicated it is possible the session might end by the end of July.
CABINET PROBLEMS
Between now and then, the cabinet, for which no new meet- ing date was announced, will con- cern itself with unemployment, farm price supports, the South Saskatchewan River Dam and ir- rigation project and spending es- timates for 1958-59.
Mile A Second
I/OS ANGELES (AP) — The ' X-15, designed to be the first air plane to penetrate outer space, will be able to fly a mile a sec- ond at altitudes above 100 miles, North American Aviation said Friday.
The plane, now under develop- Angeles division, is scheduled to
be test flown sometime next year.
vertivc al stabilizer.
ment at North Americans Los
Liberal Leader Lester B. Pear- son is in Florida for a short hol- iday. But the leaders of the two other Commons parties—bot=h de- feated Mon-day—a.re planning fu- ture action. _
CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell is back in Ottawa to prepare for a national executive meeting in To- ronto April 12—13. He said he will not be a candidate for re-elec- tion to his party’s leadership when the party holds its national convention in Montreal in July.
Social Credit Leader Solon Low, whose 19 - member Com- mons representations was wiped out last Monday, will hold a caucus with his defeated group here Tuesday.
Report New Plane Can Fly
I00 Miles High
cherry red when the plane re- enters the earth’s atmosphere, with a surface temperature of approximately 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
All‘. the same time, the spokes-
man said, liquid oxygen fuel for
the rocket engine must be kept at minus-300 degrees .fa=hrenheit.
An artist’s conception of the craft shows the rocket-powered plane has an unusually heavy
Engineers expect the stainless steel fuselagefof the X-15 to glow
Ripple Rock Blast Set ForToday
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wooden building at $5,000.
off power in the Junction, Tracy, Enniskillen and areas.
curred to an adjoining clu-broom and curling equipment.
BOMB RED OFFICE
PARIJS (Reu-ter.s)—-A bomb ex- ploded Friday outside 1: Com- munist party office in suburban Levallois. Damage was slight.
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Phillip‘s square. (CP Wircpholo).
FREDERLCTON JUNCTION. (CP)—The Gladstone curl- ing rink here was destroyed by ‘. flames starting from a grass fire Friday night. A club official esti- mated loss of the one - storey
Burning of a transformer cut intervening
Smoke and water damage oc-
5 CAMPBELE: ‘RTVER, s.c. (CP)—The Ripple Rock blast, designed to eliminate the west ooa:st’s worst navigational haz- ard, is set for 9:31 a.m. PST (1231 p.m. AST) today. Fine weather was forecast.
A dress rehearsal Friday went off without a hitch.
Reporters and cameraman took up their positions in a bunker more than one mile from 'the blast site in Seymour Narrows, nine miles from this east coast Vancouver Island centre.
Ripple Rock has claimed more than 100 lives in marine disast- ers. '
Engineers, scientists and doz- ens of other connected with the demise of Old Rip, also took part in the dry run.
The explosion is designed to tear 40 feet of solid rock off the top of Old Rip’s twin pealcs. At low tide one of the peaks is only nine feet below sea level while the other is 20 feet below.
The enplosive—2,750,000 pounds of dynamite —- has been packed into the heart of the roc-k in an intricate sub - surface operation which took three years.
-No Sack For
Mrs. Eisenhower’
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House Friday denied em- phatically that Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower has 0 r d e r e d a
. trapeze-line sack dress.
This fashion item was reported from New York Thursday. Asked about it Friday, Mrs. Eisenhower's social secre- tary, Mrs. Mary Jan Mccaffree, said there is “absolutely no truth" to the story.
Does President Eisenhower’s wife like the new sack look? “No,' said Mrs. Mccaffree ve- temenrtly
Pearson To Speak At Williamsburg
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (CPI _ L.B. Pearson, leader of Canada's Liberal party, will deliver the principal address at ceremonies here May 15 commemorating the l82nd anniversary of Virginia's declaration of independence from the British crown, it was an- nounced Thursday.
Pearson will speak in the capi- tol buildings of this reconstructed 18th-century colonial town. Pre- vious speakers in the annual ob- servance have included President Eisenhower, State Secretary Dul- les and Dag Hammarskjold, sec- retary-general of the United Na- tionrs.
Virginia’s resolution of inde- pendence, adopted May 15, 1776, led to the final Declaration of In- dependence of the American col- onies six weeks later.
HIDDEN BULK
only one-ninth of an iceberg is visible above water.
WEATHER
Clear with a few little milder; light Low-high 25 and 38
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THAN
LONDON (C‘P)—A call for in end to nuclear test explosions boomed F rid a ;- from protest groups c a m p a i gning on the streets and in the courts of la-w.
Almost 6,000 persons demon- strated against hydrogen warfare in London and New York
About 5,000 strong, the British group started a four-day march on Aldermaston, where Britain conducts research on the H-bomb and other weapons. Monday, in a field near the research laborator- ies, they plan to adopt the follow- ing resolution:
“We urge the governments of Britain, Russia and America to stop testing, manufacture and storing of all nuclear wea1pons«i«m- mediately."
MARCH ON UN
In New York about 500 “walk- ers fior peace” converged on the United Nations headquarters to present a petition. Trey got 8. courteous reception from UN ai- thorities. Many of the marchers had spent five days on the road, coming from as far away as Con- necticut and Pennsylvania.
A number of scientists, church- men and other ind-ivid-ualis sued defence secretary\Neil M.cElroy and the five members of the Atomic Energy Commission in an extraordinary attempt to place judicial restraint on U.S. tests.
Nobody in the American legal community gave the suit much chance of succeeding. But the plaintiffs said they plan similar actions in Britain and Russia, the two other powers that have been setting off nuclear explosions.
CANADIAN SPONSOR
Dr. Linus Pauling,» Nobel Prize- winning scienti-st, Lord Bertrand Russell. the British , hi-losoplher Rev. Canon" L.'J1ohn Co in-s of St. Paul's Cathedral, London and Dr. Brock Chisholm of Victoria, for- mer directors of the UN World Health Organization were
cloudy intervals; a northwest winds. . Sunday: Sunny.
FIVE CENTS
es’rs Grows
Soviet Premier Leads The Chorus In Europe
among those listed as plaintiffs.
The suit filed in the U.S. dist- rict court in Washington contends among other things that the U.S. atomic energy act is unconstitu- tional.
In a separate statement the in- terested parties said suits against all three of the governments will prove that radioactive fallout from nuclear tests “causes im- mediate and future increase in genetic damage, tendencies to bone cancer and leukemia, and general shortening of the life span in the world population."
After studying the complaint, U.S. government lawyers said they doubt whether the Plain-tiffls have any standing to maintain the suit.
RUSSIAN DEMAND
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrusln - chev, visiting in Bularpest, led the chorus in Europe with a call aimed personally at President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan.
Referring to Russia's an- nounced decision Monday to stop testing nuclear weapons, he said:
“Follow the example of the So- viet Union, prove your good in- tentions. You would make men- kind happy and the memory of this noble step would remrin lac centuries."
Premier Chou en - Lai of Red China echoed Khrushchev in Pei- ping. Speaking at the Hungarian assembly there, Chou pledged Chinese support of the Russian test ban and said China “holds that the United States and Brit- on shoulddo the same." '
In Tokyo, a government source said Japan has proposed a com- plete prohibition of nuclear tests to the\United States, Britain and the ’Soviet'Union.
Prime Nehru of India at a press conference in New Delhi, asked other atomic pow- ers to follow Russia’: example. ,
OTTAWA (CP)—The external affairs department said Friday that Canada ,“welcomes" Rus- sia’s announced ban on nuclear tests "to the extent that it may result in a halt in the rise of radiation” over Canada. However, a statement issued by the department, said that the rest of the world could not be sure “in the absence of satisfac- tory arrangements for interna- tional inspection “that the Rus- sians were really - holding no tests.
.“The Canadian government has been concerned by the intensity of the nuclear weapons testing program of the Soviet Union dur- ing recent weeks," the statement said.
The Soviet testing program had “led to an observable sharp rise in the background radiation in the latitudes in which Canada is situated.” ~
FAVORABLE ATTITUDE
Canada ”WeIcomes” Russian Move ToEnd Nuclear Tests
to regard with favor any Soviet action which would modify their policy of intensifying the rate of testing.” ’
“To thevextent that it may re- sult in a halt in the ries in radi- ation which has been caused by the speedup in Soviet weapons development, the Canadian gov- ernment welcomes t‘~°. report that the Soviet Union intends to cease carrying out tests of nu- clear weapons.”
The statement reiterated that Canada’s stand on nuclear tests is that “while the ‘cessation or suspension of nuclear tests would be of considerable significance it would not alone halt. much less reverse, the nuclear armaments race and that some fundamental action must be agreed upon ”
The R u s s i a n announcement “would have merited a warmer welcome had it been presented less as a challenge to other major powers and more as a foundation of a wider agree-
“The government is disposed
Hope Sir Wins
WASHINGTON (AP) -— The White House said Friday Presi- dent and Mrs. Eisenhower hope Sir Winston Churchill will be able to make his scheduled visit to Washington later this month.
Churchill returned to London Thursday from the French Rivi- era where he was stricken by pneumonia Feb. 18. On his ar- rival a-t home he was described as pale but otherwise looking
Large Summer Home Destroyed BAR HARBOR, Me. (AP) — Brook End, summer home of Mrs. A. Atwater Kent of Phila- delphia, was virtually destroyed by wind-swept flames Thursday. wood house was one of the larg-
of the wealthy. pist, bought the estate in
of the Bar-Harbor -
the flames died out.
disa.<I.i'ous 1947 forest fire flu: ‘wiped out part of Bar liarbnr
T-he three-storey, stone a nd est a-t this summer playground
Mrs. Kent’s late husband, a ra- dio manufacturer and philauth1‘0- , 1928? SYDNEY for a reported $100,000. It is (ml Eden Street, close to the terminal Yarmou‘-.h ferry Bluenose, which sailed as'increase the mayor's salary to
The Kent place was one of the few big estates that escaped the in
ment."
ton Can Make
Scheduled Visit To The U. 5.
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In reply to questions, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said no word has been received yet as to whether Brit- ain’.-s former prime minister oould still make the visit here.
The plan has been for him to be on hand in Washington April 25 for the opening of a display of his oil paintings. Arrange- ments were made for Churchill to be the guest of the Eisen- h-owers at that time.
“Both the President and Mrs. Eisenhower are just waiting now to find out what Sir Winston’s wishes are, depending on his re- covery,” Hagerty said.
Before his illness. Churchill had accepted an invitation to re- ceive the freedom of the city of Toronto.
Sydney May Hike ,SaIary Of Mayor
(CPl~Cil.y council- lots will vote at thrir next ses- sion on a motion to double alder- men's salaries to $800 a year arid
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