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CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1958

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ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY HOLDS DINNER

Representatives of three of the

Jranches of the Electrical Indus

try in this Province as they chat with the guest speaker previous

son. guest speaker;

to last ev_en1n_g’s dinner meeting Burke, Chairman of the League, and Mr. Connie LeClair, well- of the Electric Service League, representing the Electrical Con- are left to right, Mr. J .C. Nicker- tractors; Mr. Neil Maclnnis, of Mr. W.V. the electrical appliance dealers, story on page eight.)

known building contractor. (See

PLANS FOR FARMERS

Pearson Pledges Tax

uts,*Aid For More Jobs

OTTAWA (CP)—-Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson fired his first election salvo Monday, pledging immediate 25-per-cent tax cuts and virtually free education for 40,000 university students if his party regains the government March 31.

His election platform, outlined at a press conference, was centred on an “unemployment crash program," but it included a wide range of promises, from $400,000,000 worth of tax cuts to special aids for cities and towns and outlying regions.

The 60-year-old leader, making ~nis first bid for the prime minis- tcrshlp, based his proposals on the curren. “senious” unemploy-

ment situation. A Liberal govern-

ment‘ would increase or decrease

economic pump-priming, depend- ing on economic shifts.

The “great national works” pro- gram promised by Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker was worthwhile, he said, but it wouldn't create jobs fast enough. The Liberals be- lieved the fastest way to do this is by encouraging c o n s u m e r spending through tax reductions.

WOULD CUT TAXES

The Liberals would reduce per- sonal income taxes by four per- centage points on the first $3,000 of taxable income, roughly equiv- alent to 52 per cent for the major- ity of payers. This would cost the treasury a b o u t $250,000,000 a year.

»-Newly-married couples would have basic exemptions doubled to

Charged With Killing Two Mates,*Widow Got Little

=.lARROW, England (Reuters)—ered. Leonard’s body was dug up

A bespectacled, rosy-checked wi- dow of 06, charged with poison- ing two ‘husbands in little more than‘ a year, collected only £77

because of their deaths. the court-

trying her for murder was told Monday.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilson. "The Widow of Windy Nook," wore a-smart blue hat and trim trey coat on the opening day of her trial in this northern English town.

Mrs. Wilson married 75 - year- old Oliver Leonard in September, 1956. Two weeks later he was dead. Last fall she married 76- year-old Ernest Wilson. He, too, Ilicd within two weeks.

The court was told that in both

I cases the widow “lost no time”

In attempting to get the old men's assets. She collected about £50 af- ter Leonard’s death and £27 after Wilson died.

Both men were supposed to have died of heart trouble but pathologists decided after autop- sies that they had been poisoned, Crféwn Counsel P. Withers Payne sal .

DIG UP BODIES

‘Two weeks after Wilson's death, body was examined. Traces

°f Phosphorus and bran--ingredi-

“Ills of rat,poison—were discov-

and the same indication found. The lawyer said it was possible Leonard took rat poison by acci-

dent, but it is “beyond the bounds of credibility” that two men mar- ried to the same woman both made the same mistake in one year.

The Crown said Mrs. Wilson met Leonard while he was room- ing with a mutual friend, Mrs. Alice Mary Connelly. The widow asked Mrs. Connelly: “Has that old so-and-so got any money?” When told he had some, Payne said, she asked whether she could visit ‘Tthe poor old soul.”

Leonard later moved to Mrs. Wilson's home. ‘

Payne said after the wedding, Mrs. Wilson tried to take out life insurance on Leonard but he was too old. A few days later, she cal- led in neighbors twice during the night and said her new husband was ill and had fallen out of bed.

-TASTED TEA

She gave him a cup of tea that night. Payne said Leonard tasted it, spat it out and knocked the cup out of his wife’s hand. The next day he died.

When the widow married Wil- son last fall, Payne said, he was in good health and was able to play the piano at his wedding re- ception.

I Cyrus Eaton Calls State 5ec’y Dulles ”Petty Tyrant”

MONTREAL (CP) Cyrus E3't‘°D. Nova Scotia-born Ameri- W1 industrialist, lambasted State Secretary Dulles Monday as, a Wily tyirant in continually re-de- daring the cold war and called *0!‘ a new look at intennaitional relations.

Mr. Eaton reviewed the arma- ments race between the United States and Russia and found the ‘mil’ conclusion from all signs and Iiortents is that “the human race is hell-bent toward both bank- mmcl’ and suicide."

“I say all of this is incredible ‘filly. I feel we ought to move V1g0I‘0usly and immediately to Wert the impcndi. g catastrophe.

"I believe we can and must “9_a0l'l a workable accommodation With the Russians. Certainly no ‘SW9 now dividing 3 world loom 5“ large as to warrent the de- fitruction of all that civilization

as Prod-uced . ‘ ’

“AZARDS PLAYED DOWN T_he Cleveland industrialist. airman of the board of the "-‘5<'iDeake and Ohio Railway in 9 U5. and of Sleep Rock Mines. -i in Canada. spoke before the

Canadian Club of Montreal.

The text of his remarks was released to the press in advance of delivery.

“Our statesmen plainly have been stalling,” said Mr. Eaton. “They have played down the haz- ards. to mankind of the insane ar- maments race. They have seized upon every occasion to fomenl popular hatied of Russia."

He said the U.S. 12 years ago declared cold war on Russia “aind that has been the cardinal prin- ciple of American foreign policy ever since."

BLAMES DULLEP

Dulles became “the self - ap- pointed Soviet-hate-manger" and is still “making a career of stir- ring up enmity and distrust be- tween the Western and Eastern worlds.”

“He takes a regular occasion to re-declare the cold war not only on Russia, a proud and pow- erful nation of 225,000,000 people, but also pii Red China, a new nation of 650,000,000 people under- going \a far-reaching industrial revolution and destined to occupy a position of prominence among the world‘; niaJor powers.

$4,000 a year for the first three years of marriage, saving about $900 in three years or a total of $25,000,000 for all couples. This would be made retroactive to Jan. 1, 1956.

The special 71/2 per cent excise tax on automobiles would be elim- inated. To encourage new factor- ies, offiqes and other projects, the rates of depreciationfor tax purposes would be boosted by be- tween 50 and 100 per cent, effec- tive next April 1.

some $25,000,000 would be spent annually on 2,500 Canada scholar- ships. and 7,500 Canada bursaries. The scholarships, h a n d e d out through the National Conference of Canadian Universities, -would be awarded for four years and be worth $1,000 a year. The bur- saries also would be for four years, valued’ at $500 annually,

ringing total grants to 40,000 in the fourth year.

STUDENT LOANS, T00‘

To these wouldbe added loans to students, repnyable in four years at four per cent. The loans would be interest-free while stu- dents were at universities and during the first year of gradua- tion.

The Liberals would promptly build a $60,000,000 rail branch to tap mineral resources on the shores of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. It also would pay the bulk of costs for trunk highways in the Atlantic provinces and in the West.

A municipal loan fund would be set up to provide municipalities with long-term loans at low inter- est. A national advisory board also would be set up to plan long- term government investment pro- grams to sustain full employment and provide-ways of re-training workers by automation. ~

PLEDGE BASE WAGE

Legislation would be provided for a national minimum wage and minimum working hours. Federal grants would be made to municipalities to cover the cost of winter projects. Regulations for National Housting Act loans would be relaxed. Some farm price supports would be in- creased.

The government’s price support for butter, now 58 cents a pound, would be boosted to 63 cents. The initial payment on wheat, now $1.40 for No. 1 _Northern, would be increased to $1.50, effective on the 1957 and 1958 crops. A farm development bank would be cre- ated to provide easier credit for farmers.

Unemployment insurance bene- fits would be expanded to cover

MONTREAL (CP) Exhibits mounted Monday before a board of inquiry which heard that the crew of an ill-fated airliner lost with 79 deaths last August com- plied with government operating standards.

Tattered flight documents were submitted to show manda‘ory maintenance procedures had been followed before the fatal charter flight, inbound from London. They were salvaged from the wreck in a Quebec bog about 15 miles southwest of Quebec City.

Transport department officials indicated the public hearing will turn today to the actual flight, headed for Toronto via Keflavik Iceland.

Norman Ramsay, 37, captain of the crashed Maritime Central Airways Dc-4, was in A-1 condi-

illness. The old age assistance pension of $55 a month, now available at 65, would be granted at 60 to unmarried women‘ and widows.

The family allowance payment would be granted to cover stu- dents up to the age of 18 years. It now is provided up to the {age of 16.

M.r. Pearson, elected Liberal leader last month, said there would be other proposals later.

nomination meeting at Espanola, 0nt., in his home riding of Al- goma East.

He will spend the first 10 days ‘of the‘ campaign in Ontario, de- livering his keynote address _Fri- day night at Hamilton‘. --

He will head into the Wester provinces Feb. 24; into Quebec March 5; into- the Atlantic area March 10 and then back into On- tario and Quebec March 17-31.

_ Election night will find him in

Ottawa. »

Lawyer Foils Attempt To Rob Office

A, report of the police phoned in by M.r. George McMahon, Bar- rister, apparently foiled any at- tempt to rob the office of Mr. Loring Rayner, Water Street, Summerside, about nine o’clock last evening.

Mr. McMahon, while working in his office, heard the sound of breaking glass and turned in the report to the police. On the ar- rival of officer, Ralph Hardy, it was found that an upper window at the rear of the building had been broken and entry made to Mr. Rayners office in this way. In order to reach this window it was necessary for the intruder to climb up on a shelter roof at the rear of the bus stop. Investi- gation revealed that nothing had been taken from Mr. Rayner’s office. Apparently Mr. McMahon had scared the intruder away when he came down the front stairs to reach a phone to call the police. Further investigation re- vealed that an attempt had been made to Jimmy the back door of the bus stop but this failed and it would seem that the man or men decided to try the upper of- fice when they were scared away.

TRADE INCREASE Since‘ 1954, Sweden's steel ex- ports have doubled in value and

tion, said Dr. W. A... Prowse of

the department of national health

volume.

and welfare. lie had failed to pass fitness requirements in 1956 because of a stomach ulcer but had been re-assessed as A-1 not long after.

PRODUCE LOG BOOKS

Log books for three of the four propellers and for all the engines, detailing dates of all checks plus hours flown, were read into the record by Don McLellan of the transport department. who as a first officer with Qutbecair had flown the DC-4 under investiga- tion.

MCA acquired the D04 from Quebecair, which in turn had bought it following, its extensive service with United Air Lines in the United States.

It was converted to charter pas- senger work from DEW line runs.

Tempers fla r e (1 Monday be- tween the opposing chief counsel.

WEATHER /.

Clear with a few cloudy intervals; 1ittI° change in temperature; west Winds 15- Low-High at Charlottetown 22 and 30-

NOT

THAN

Rail Strike Threat Hangs Over Talks At Montreal

EDMONTON, Alta. If plans made by Imperial Oil Limited bear fruit, Prince Ed- ward Island may add to its agri- cultural fame as Canada's “Garden Of The Gulf" the dis- tinction of being the country’s first eastern oil producing area.

A special Canadian National Railways train will roll out from this western city today bearing a group of more than 100 Imper-_ ial Oil drillers and their families to begin the seanch for oil beneath the farmlands near

Wellington, P.E.I. It's going to be a big oper-

He leaves Wednesday night for a j ’

presents Mayor J. D. ‘with a sterling silver rose bowl on behalf of the Council and the citizens of Charlottetown.

ation. Besides the passenger train. Canadian National is transporting to P.E.I. 25 car- loads of drilling equipment, and enroute also are two cal-loads of drilling mud from Wyoming and a C3lI‘I08d_ of chemicals from Toronto.

Arrangements for housing the dri’ling crews and their families and for school facilities for the children have been made at Summerside, about 14 miles from the first drill site. The first hole will be sunk about 1% miles from Wellington, and the rigs

and crews may shift to other

‘ ROSE BOWL FOR HIS EWORSHIPA

Councillor Edwin C. Johnstone, Council Chamber following last Stewart night’s regular monthly meeting

of the Council, and was made in

The appreciation of the Mayor’s con- presentation took place in the tribution to civic ‘betterment in

Imperial Oil Special ls Leaving Edmonton Today

locations in the area.

The drillers and their families, headed by party chief George Kirpatrick, will arrive at Cape Tormentine on the evening of Feb. 14 and will cross by the Canadian National ferry “Abe- gweit” to establish their new homes that night in Summer side.

The equipment for. the big oil search will also be handled by the C.N.R. ferries, and it may be necessary to make special arrangements for trans- portation of some of the larger

items.

the twelve years he was a mem- ber of the civic government. Mayor Stewart was also present- ed with a gift by the City Hall employees.

Work is starting today on a sur- vey for a new runway at the Charlottetown airport, ‘ it was learned here last night. A number

of local men are working on the survey which is under the direc- tion of two engineers from the dis- trict office at Moncton of the e- partment of Transport. They are J.L. Cormier and Don Logan.

The question of a new runway for the airport here is one that has been a live topic of debate for a number of years. It has had the support of Federal members of parliament as well- as the pro- vincial government in recent years and it has also had strong and consistent support from the Charlottetown Board of Tr fie.

Several months ago Hon. George Hees visited the Province and was taken on a tour of the air- port by Mayor J . David Stewart. Reporting later at the December meeting of the City Council, May- or Stewart read a letter from Mr.

Tempers Flare At MCA Crash Probe In Montreal

Ross Drouin of Quebec City forgbrink of economic disaster’

the transport department and A.

R. Paterson of Ottawa for the’

company.

Mr. Paterson attacked a trans- port department witnesses’ testi- mony that MCA had violated reg- ulations by lacking proper li- cences for the two first officers. PROPERLY LICENCED

He brought out an amendment dated November, 1956—which the witnesses said he had never seen -to show the first officers were properly licenced.

Mr. Drouin said the transport department merely wished to set out all pertinent facts. the Matter had been raised because the amendment was lacking from an MCA operating manual requested by the D.O.T. after the Aug. 11 crash, although the company had been asked for an up: to -date manual.

Hees which indicated his depart- ment was sympathetic toward the idea of building a runway in the city that would accommodate heavy planes.

The Minister stated in his letter that Departmental officials had included in the estimates for the year 1957-58 provisions for such a runway but the project had to be dropped “because of financial curtailment in that prcggam which was made necessary be- cause of limitation of expendi- tures.”

The Minister added: “we are

Survey Work Starting On New Civic Airport Runway

hopeful thatif we can obtain the necessary authority from t h e Treasury Board for the proiect, it will be possible for us to make a start on the construction some time next year."

Queried here last night, Mayor Stewart said he was not in a pos- ition to comment at this time on the survey that is now being made, although others who refus- ed to be quoted directly, say that

it is a preliminary move to pro-

vide the city with the airport it has been requesting for some years.

France In Dee

p Water After.

Attack On Tunisian Village

PARIS (AP) — Premier Fe‘;x Gaillard, under pressure from the United States and Britain, sum- moned his cabinet Monday night to consider repercussions of the attack by French planes on a Tunisian border village.

The cabinet was reported ready to take steps to see that military commanders are no longer al- lowed to stage such raids on their own authority. Reliable sources said the cabinet would also seek to Place blame for the raid.

Gaillard, the financial wizard who came to the premiership when France was tottering on the 1S faced with -his biggest diplomatic

task.

The French claim the attack was launched to wipe out Alger- ian rebels hiding in Tunisian sanctuaries and firing at French observation planes over Algerian territory. _

SEEN AS BLUNDER

But the venture is being viewed here as a military blunder that has pushed France’s back to the wall diplomatically.

The Tunisians claim 78 «persons were killed and 84 wounded as

twin-engined bombers unloaded

bombs and f i g h t e r planes swooped down with machine-guns blazing in the hour-long, daylight raid.

Roy Boates Honoured By S’Side Sea Cadet Corps

Mr. Roy Boates, Immediate Past Commanding Officer of the

Summerside Sea Cadet Corps was|

presented with a handsome desk

clock in the design of a ship's wheel at an inspection and pres-

entation corps headquarters

gion members.

The presentation was made by Cadet Petty Officer Jack Brown on behalf of the corps.

POSTPONE SUEZ TALKS CAIRO (Reuters) ~ An Egyp-

ceremony new in the -tian finance ministry spokesman at the High. said Monday the reopening of

School last evening. Also present talks in Rome on compensation was the president of the sponsor- to be ~Pa1d Shareholders in the

jug body‘ Mr_ Ben Champion of nationalized Suez Canal Company

the Summerside Branch Canadian had been P05390364 two day_s to

Legion as well an a group at be-

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MONTREAL (CP)—Union and CPR officials meet here Thurs- day to discuss the railway plan to remove helpers from its yard and freight diesels. ‘

The possibility of a strike simi- lar to last year’s nation-wide tie- up of the CPR hangs over the dis- cusslon.

The meeting will be the first since the Kellock royal commis- sion last Tuesday ruled firemen are unnecessary on freight and yard diesel locomotives. “

As a result, both the CPR and the CNR plan to eliminate from their working agreements with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (CLC) clauses applying to_ firemen on diesel trains.

Top union officials, including presidential assistant S. C. Phil- lips from the Cleveland, Ohio, headquarters of the union, began planning action‘ in the light of the Kellock report, and the railways’ intentions.

The CPR said it would accept commission recommendations but the union reserved judgment un- til the report was made public.

UNION STUDIES REPORT

"We are reviewing the Kellock

report now and going into all the

various phases of it,” said W. E.

gamble of Montreal, Canadian 'ce-president of the union which

claims 6,000 member - employees

of the two railways.

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The brotherhood discussion, at- tended by divisional chairmen from Atlantic, Central and West-

continue. No statement was ex- pected until its conclusion.

Union negotiators, however, are expected to go to Thursday’s meeting with the CPR prepared to seek clarification of the com- pany’s plan to dispense with die- sel helpers. The CPR employs about 2,400 firemen on diesel and steam - dniven locomotives on freight runs and in yard-switch- ing. Firemen on steam engines are not affected by the dispute.