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as a new qua-nel between the two countries threatened to torpedo the

formation of a liuropean Army. The immediate cause of the tlareup was chancellor Konrad Ad- esnuefs blunt demandlikfdsy that France ratify the European De- fence Community treaty as it stands or face the possibility of s revived. independent German army. byswhat it considered

As-oused almost an ffultimatum." then-ench um

government postponed indefinitely the scheduled visit nest Wednes- day in Bonn of the goodwill mission headed by Foreign Secretary of State Guerin do Beaumont. He had planned to discuss with Adenauer the whole field of French-German relations with the reported aim of reaching a compromise formula on

Unless in-ance ratifies the EDC treaty which she signed 26 months ago. the carefully worked out pro- ject to re-arm Germany within the safeguarding framework of a six- nstlon army will collapse. other IDC members are Italy. Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.

BLUNT TERMS

Adensua said little in hk radio address many that he hasn't said in recent weeks. But his blunt terms roused a united cry of oppo- sition from the French govemmenl and press.

In Bonn. too. Adenauers address was regarded as the opening solve in a "month of decision” on me It was an obvious move to join Britain and the United States in

Coming Events

"Hope River Picnic. July ltih.

B 'Dance Vernon River Hall, Tuesday. July ii. "I. o w e r Monte regatta,

Wednesday, July 14.

"mauve Tuesday. July doth, for area Parish Picnic.

"Reserve Tuesday. 'July mth for Kinkora picnic.

"Dance Mereli slat Thursday. July 8th.

"Dance . Sununerville Wednesday. July 1.

"Hope River credit union meet- ing tonight. 0

school,

School,

"Dance llorell hell tonight. Burns Orchestra.

"Reserve Jury nut. risnieh

Picnic.

"Dulce, A Hill.

Wednesday. Burke's Orchestra

"Regular Deuce Orapeud funk. Wednesday night.

"Regular Dance lonsbaw Inn. Inesday night. ' '"Lagloni meeting. lit. Alblen' hall. Monday. July 5th.

"Long Creek Baptist Church Picnic and supper July 1th. Sup- per served at 5 p. In.

"Danes to be held in Lot 65 ball. Thursday. July 8. has been cancelled until further notice.

Valley Hall. 0;.

"Dance Lorne Tuggday, July 6th. Turner's chestra. .

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"Dance in wsrsmla school. Monday. Jul! 5th. !!aser's Orch- esle.

--st Peters any United Church chicken supper. Lesion Hull. Wed- DOCIV. July 7th.

5-Annual Meeting Mt. Herbert

in School- house Toaster. July 0th. at W0 o'clock.

"Dance. St. Peter's Lake school Tuesday ev nlnl. July 5"!- Bur-ka's Orch atra. Lunches. Spon- sored by W. I.

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applying massive prmlue on the French svvernnsent for ma ratifi-

nshind the saataappeosebing showdown is Premier Pierre Men- des--!'rance's new effort to find a compromise formula on the six- nation army plan. Adenauer said Friday any amendments to it must follow ratification.

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But Mendes-Franco already has set in motion machinery for find- ing a. compromise on which his nation would be united. Unless France is united on the issue. Per- iiament will never ratify it. he

Quarters close to Mendes-France said he has never contemplated any EDC revision which would prove unacceptable to the othcrl five member nations. At the same time. he is determined to-commit his country one way or the other on the EDC within the next month 01' two.

MIXED REACTION

Reaction in other EDC countries to Adeneuer's , h was mixed. Italian government quarters said it would help Premier Marlo Scelba's government in gaining ratifi- cation of EDC from Parliament.

In Brussels, however, it was fear- ed Adenaues-'s blunt tmns might harm the prospect of a proposed conference there of EDO nations to discuss ratification.

40.000 Mexicans Homeless In lilo Grande Floods

MEXICO CITY. (Reuters) Forty thousand persons are home- less. and three towns and five vil- ileges are in ruins after the disas- trous flooding of the Rio Grande, which forms the frontier between Mexico and Texas.

Deaths on the Mexican side of the frontier. estimated at s prob. able 40. "may amount to many more.

The town: of Piedras Nag as, Villacunha and Jimenez. and live nearby villages were left battered by the receding flood waters.

Sloop For Ocean Voyage Blessed

CHESTER. N. S., ((:P)- The no- man Catholic pariah priest blessed Sunday the 30-foot sloop in which navel architect Ian Nicholson hopes to sail home to England.

Rev. William P. Stone wore a

stole presented in him many years ago by Pope Pius X who since has been canon by the church. - Nicholson. 1!, said he hoped to ""5 "10 Willie next week and estimated it would take 8! days. He said he would go it alone if his ar- Tlnttments for a two-men crew fell through.

The sloop. the st. aluaheth, cu-- rles no engine and has an alum- ihurn mast. Her keel is weighed with too pounds of iron and she is designed so that she will right her- self if capslaed.

Nicholson said he planned to skirt the Alarm and put in finally at Weymouth. England. 4 -

Construction Worker Killed

HALIFAX (CP) - Construction worker Jean-Marie Belsnger fell 800 feet to his death Saturda from a violently swaying catwa be- tween the msintowers of the in- complete Halifax-Dartmouth har- bor bridge.

Fellow workers said Belanger. ii. of Shawinigan Fella. Que.. ap- arenllv became alarmed at the egrae of the sway produced by winds with usla up to 40 miles an hour an tried to reach the safety of the nearest tower. He, was hurled off the precarious perch by one of the swings. -Belanger. whose widow uves in

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which the thick steel suspension sfbles will be raised and put in pace. , The wind later broke loose a unk of the snake-like structure. It fell in the water clear of any vessels.

-A four-car autorall train travel-

on Saturday night with an on- coming freight at the outskirts of this village in southern France. Police said an inexperienced switchman who threw the wrong lever claimed the lives of at least 35 men. women and children setting out ,for a holiday in this grape- growing country.

for public transportation facilities in Europe and.elaewhere during the week-end. At Tetuan. capital of Spanish Morocco. a bus went over a cliff and killed 22 Moslern passengers. when a bus overturned near Val- encia. Venezuela. At Pinerlo. Italy. a train collision injured 11 per- sons. A similar mishap at Leiboch near Graz, Austria. injured l7 passengers.

may go higher.

Itlll tangled wreckage 24 hours after ihe crash. Twenty-seven persons were severely injured and were being kept in nearby hospitals. SWITCIIMAN HELD

been on the job only two weeks and didn't know how to operate the switches well enou

Andre Montelier. has been ar- rested. Police said no charge has yet been lodged against him.

mctcrcars and two trailers-was travelling when it met the big freight loco- motive. The locomotive picked up the motorcar and tossed it to the side of the right-of-way.

nose of the rlocomotive. The third ripped off part of the rear end of the second car and then shot right over the top of it.

54 Holiday Deaths in Canada

killed in accidents since the Dom- inion day holiday began. The toll includes the death of five persons in a two-car collision in Alberta.

fatalities. Quebec. six in British Columbia

in Nova Scotla and one each in Saskatchewan. New Brunswick and Newfoundland. a Canadian Press compilation show d.

highways accidents between 0 pm. Wednesday and Sunday night. have been drowned. five burned to death. three crushed to death. one man shot himself. one was elec- lrocuted and nine died from mis-

to rise still figures for the week-end are com- pl e

June Construction contract Awards

atruction contracts awards in June totalled 3333.'I4'I.400. an increase of 383..'il0.000 over June last year. lI&l Mar.-Lean Building Reports. a largely the first four months. and the cumulative total for the half you is t9.580,0il) or Sl5.Iil).000 below the six-montK'

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Halifax. had been workin with R:53'.l'":::.lm:."”:a'm:5." nil; crews completing the-satwa from "Amoco; mdulum ”o.331'0oo.

&'3l0,57l..a:liR;8l&r'togineering 330,700.-

CHATEAUBOURG. France (AP ing a mile-a-minute collided head-

caused the wreck which

The accident was one in a series

Six men were killed

The toll in the French wreck

some 400 rescue workers were picking bodies from the

Police said the swltchms had

'I'he switchman. 5:; year - old

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from Lyon to Nimea

The second car skidded up the

lly THE CANADIAN PRESS At least 54 Canadians have been

Ontario leads the list with 20 Thirteen are dead in

nd Alberta. four in Manitoba. two

Nineteen perso s have died in 16

ellaneous causes. Police said they expect the toll further when final

TORONTO (CP)-Canadian eon-

snd June increases have made up for decreases in

figures of last year. Ju e figures by categories. com-' with last year, were:

up . . Biggest lob of the month was sure quarrying development

Heavy Death Toll As French Diesel Train Crashes Shunllng Locomotive

The fourth car was not damaged. and 26 youngsters in it. all bound for a vacation camp in southern France, escaped severe injuries.

The freight was going onl 25 miles an hour at the time o the collision. railroad officials said.

Mayor Courbis of Chateaubourg said he was working in his vine- yard only 500 feet from the rail

e.

"As I do every night. I watched the sutornil pass by my vineyard and then I heard a tremendous crash. IIURLED INTO AIR.

"1 saw the cars hurled into the air. I quickly called the authorities. My son and a servant and I dragged a ladder to the place and we helped free the slrrvivors from the first car."

From miles around, men and women pitched into the rescue work. Soldiers, firefighters and policemen worked side by side with doctors. nurses, civilians and rail- road men.

A big railroad crane was called down from Lyon to lift the mass of wreckage and aid re s c ue workers. --

Clalms To Have Sighled Snowman

NEW DELHI (AP) - Reports from Katmandu said Sunday that a member of the New Zealand Himalayan expedition claimed to have sighted the "abominable snowman"-the elusive hairy giant that supposedly roams the upper reaches of the lonely Himalayas.

The snowman story came out as four members of the New Zealand team rejoined Sir Edmondiiiillsry at Kstmandu Sunday after a 20- day trek from the Bsrun valley. Hillary. conqueror of Mount Ever- est last year. separated from the rest of the expedition several weeks ago to escort back an in- lured climber.

The Katmandu reports said one ember of the New Zealand team told of seeing the legendary half- human creature at a 17.000-foot altitude in the Choyang valley.

The New Zealandera had no time to deviate from their sched- ule and chase the "snowman.

the report said. '

J TRUNG CIA,

Five French and three

A series of French concessions marked the delayed first meeting of representatives from the oppos- ing high commands here. Most important of these was the fact that Trung Gla, though surrounded by is neutralized zone. is two miles inside Vletmlnh lines instead of in no-man's-land as first reported.

Courteous Vletmlnh officers rub- bed in the fact by lining up three Amerlcan- built jeeps and two American trucks outside the com- pound where the talks took place. Each vehicle bore the painted in- icgiption "captured at Dlen Bien

u."

MARKED BY COURTESY

Careful c o u r t c 5 y. however, marked the opening talks, held up from last week by haggling over the makeup of the French Union delegation. The negotiations were scheduled at the Far Eastern Geneva conference to supplement tap-level discussions there.

The talks took place in one of three sheds set up inside the truce compound for the conference and for separate accommodation of the negotiators. Communist guards and French mllltary policemen stood guard side by side outside the building.

Meanwhile. l5 Western corres- pondents chatted wlth 14 Vletmlnh journalists and one Russian news-

Jumps Off High W Bridge And Lives

NEW YORK (CP).-A woman jumped off the I35-foot-high Man- hattan bridge into the East river Saturday and lived. Police said her skirt apparently acted as a para- chute and slowed her descent.

Miss Constance Barnes. 30-year- old lawyer. said the jump was her second suicide attempt of the day. Earlier she had turned on the gas in her apartment and slashed her wrists before changing her mind.

Miss Barnes, who said she was tired of life. cculdnlt swim but her clothes were filled with air in her fall from the bridge and she was kept afloat until a passing tugboat picked her up.

By JOHN M. mosrrownsr.

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Eisenhower and State Secretary Dunes toldnritlsh leaders at their meeting this week that the United States will do everything within its power to block Red China's bid for membership in the United Na- tlons.

Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden indicated that Britain will do what it can to avert a showdown on the Red China problem this year. But they warned there may be very strong allied and home front political pressures on the government to support the Red bid actively.

U. S. Senator Republican leader William Kncwland said last week he will resign his position and fight for American withdrawal from the UN if Red Chins is admitted. Democratic leader Lyndon John- son in a follow-up speech generally gupportod Knowland's 0 position.

WRITE LEGISL TION

Knowland said Saturday that he D lievss Congress is ready to write legislation providing that. if Red Chins gets a UN seat. the United States shall automatically withdraw from the international organization. and cease to help fi-

nance i .

xlnq among American and British officials brought this in- formation about the trend of dis-

t uteb Settlement. N.S.. 00.000.-

Brllish leaders Informed U. S. Will Do AH Possible To Block China From U. N.

Churchill:

Both felt there was a serious possibility that the Mendes-France government of France will recog- nize Communist China as part of a deal for ending the Indo-China

war. FIVE BIG POWERS

Churchill and Eisenhower recog- nize that a change in the French position would alter the situation in the UN. There are five great powers recognizing the UN char- ter. They are the United States. Britain. Russia, France and Na- tlonallst China. if Britain, France and Russia all back Red China that would leave a minority in this power lineup of the United States and Nationalist China.

Churchill and Eden anticipated that the issue would develop that we this fall and Eisenhower and Duics gained the impression that the British leaders were prepared to go along with moves to give Red China the Chinese place.

The United States, with its con- siderable resources and influence among UN members. indicated it will if necessary use its full powers to prevent the seating of Red Chins. That means that U. S. will veto a Red Chinese membership proposal. But there has been a long argument about whether the issue is subject to is veto and in the end of a decision might have to be made by the International

cussions between Eisenhower and

Court.

"(By Corley Smith) ' . Indo-China, French Union officers Sunday crossed into Vletmlnh rebel territory here to open on-the-spot armistice talks amid trophies of Communist victory.

five Vletmlnh officers in a bamboo hut for the first round of the "Southeast Asian Panmunjom."

(Reuters) -High ranking

Viet Namese officers met

reel cameraman and visited the Vietminh'a bamboo mesa hall, draped with American parachutes captured at the Dien Bien Phu fortress last May.

in a half-hour inaugural meet- ing before going into secret ses- slon, both sides expressed hope the talks would lead to peace. But chief French delegate Col. Marcel Lennuyeux stressed that the over- all question of peace or war in lndo-China would be decided only at the Geneva Far East confer- ence.

The chief Vletmlnh delegate. Gen. Van Tien Dung. said the talks marked "a step forward along the path of settling the Indo-China war."

Aulo Merger In France

PARIS. France (APO - Two of the largest French auto makers, Simon and the French Ford. an- nounced a merger Sunday.

The new company will be the biggest privately-owned auto firm in Dance. Only the govu'nment- owned Renault works will be larger.

An announcement by Ford said the new firm would continueto make its "Vedette" model--consld- erably smaller and cheaper than the Canadian Ford. Simca. has a similar model, the popular "Aronde."

simca will acquire the modern Ford plant at Polaey. 01-lttlde Poll!-

Princess Loses Shoe Al Wedding

OXFORD. ling. (AP)-Princess Mario-Ci-sbrille von Ursch-Wurb tember Saturday wed Desmond Walter Guinness while standing with one shoe on. .

The 21-year-old daughter of the Count of Wurttemberg. Prince Al- brecht von Urach. lost the shoe as she walked up the aisle at the oath- edral at Christ Ohurch College for Oxford's biggest social weddins of the year. More than 400 guests saw her hesitate slightly and then walk on. The shoe was taken in her at the end of the service.

Guinus. 22, is the son of Lord Mayne, vice chairman of the Gul- nsss brelery concern. he has been studying modern languages at Christ Church College for three years

Among the guests Saturday was a. lone Dublin garbage collector. Patrick 0'B.eilly, 00, who sent a letter of congratulations on read- ing of the forthcoming marriage and received an invitation. He

Top Brass 05 French Union And Rebel Armies Open Truce Talks

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Al Johannesburg. S.

JOHANNESBURG. South Africa (Reuters)-The best photographs ever taken of Mars were made here Friday night when the planet came within 40.000,000 miles of the earth for the first time since I939. scientists said Saturday.

Dr. William Stephen Finaen, in charge of operations at Union Ob- servatory here, said more than 500 color photos were taken. adding to a collection in the last few weeks

Will Review Defence Program

VANCOUVER. Minister Campney (above) said in a

(GP) - Defence

telephone interview from Ottawa Saturday that Canada's vast de- fence program will be reviewed to seek economies.

He will tighten up on the mtire 32.500.000.000-a-year defence struc- ture, Mr. Campney said.

"Every dollar is a dollar and it is nlsa someone's tax dollar," he added.

Mr. Os .7. appointed to the defence post Thursday. also said he intends to pursue energetically the re-organization of the reserve army.

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Awarded Contract

AMHERST. N.s. (CP)-Enamel and Heating Products. Ltd.. an- nounced Saturday its aviation di- vision has been awarded a con- tract to make parts for a new navy plane.

R. J. Healer. executive assistant to the president. did not ldenti.b' the aircraft or say how big the contract was.

He said it would take six months to tool up for the job and the labor force. already at 200 because of previous defence work. will be

knew neither family.

increased by I00.

Iran. Yugoslavia Wonder Al Russian Move To Belum Political Prisoners

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran and Yugoslavia both looked a Kremlin gift horse in the mouth this week- end-io decide whether it's a gen- uine glft horse or a Trojan horse.

For both the Arab middle east.- ern country and Marshall 'rito's anti - Kremlin Yugoslavia can't quite make up their minds why Russia suddenly has offered to re- turn political prisoners.

starting this week-end. on the Iranian-soviet frontier, 300 pol- itical prisoners of Iranian national- ity who have been held in Com- munist Jnlls and camps are being handed over.

And a few days ago Soviet Am- bassador Vasslli Vallkov told Tito the Kremlin is willing to release

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