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The Prince Edward Island Leg- ymamre opensfor business today, iii, members apparently not in- terested in a full-time campaign “battle for the March 31 general election.
' Premier Alex Matheson, whose Liberal government holds 26 seats _|nthe 30-seat legislature, said ear- ‘ lier he had no plans to recess for , the election campaign. House ‘leader R. R. Bell of the Conserv- me party, holders of the four seats, also said he was
PREMIER MATHESON
prepared -to carry on.
SEARCH FOR FUNDS
The session, third of the 23rd legislature, will be faced with the job of finding money for the na- tional hospital plan expected to cost this province more than $1,000,000 annually.
A proposed causeway across the Northumberland Strait, first introduced in the House three years ago by Premier Matheson, likely will be raised again during
Motorcade Greets Pearson
- On First Visit To St. JoI1n’s
‘ sr. JOHNS, Nfld. (OP) — Les- -; lei-.3. Pearson predicted Monday lint eventually the people behind ‘thelron Curtain will smash their ‘chains of slavery and begin a revolution towards freedom. , llie Liberal leader urged the West not to despair; and‘not to sit ' its diplomatic trenches, g complacently for the Sov- ,to line new diploma-tic mis- was trying to destroy of freedom. The West to seize the diplomatic initi- 'Inda-Nml‘kito..'negotiate--an airing of tensions so that the en- hzed may find it easier to get I ;‘ former external affairs Minster gave the Rotary Club a . gm-political luncheon speech dur- i in! a day of stiff electioneering. GREETED BY PREMIER _P9rinz his first visit to pro- ) capital, he was greeted by Premier Joseph Smallwood who I Iillllehed him on what the prem- ier described as the biggest I “‘0I_0l'cade ever seen in the city. liberal officials estimated the ‘,“1°I9rcade at 250 trucks and cars.
'1‘ Open convertible and waved L Ellie scattered crowds. , 0 was drenched by the time Hflved at the Newfoundland " .1- Mile!‘ changing clothes, he kc briefly from a balcony to ,9 300 Persons on the streets
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(the luncheon, he complained
$51 that his right arm was
‘ for every time Mr. Small- w‘.’°‘I.saw a face behind a cur-
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the luncheon, packing the hall to capacity. Mr. Pearson observed there were both Liberals and P-rogressive C 0 ii servatives. It was a “wonderf ” thing about democracy that both sides could “f.ra-ternize” even during an elec- tion campaign.
Then he switched to the inter-
national scene; told of how he learned much about the British as a private overseas in the First World War and -how he grew to appreciate their great qualities of steadfastness and courage. ‘ learned of -the Americans,’-flaps; a"y‘ou"th wli-iil beeing employed in a Chicago stockyard — “perhaps not a bad place to learn about Americans." -
COMMONWEALTH A BRIDGE
Over the years he said the Commonwealth h as been re- shaped to become a bridge be- tween Asia and the West “at a time when there are too few bridges.” The U.S. had changed, too. In old days the West was worried because the U.S. would not accept leadership. Now it was worried how she was carrying that leadership out.
Canada had problems with the U.S. bu “if we c-an’t work out these problems between our- selves, what hope is there for ob- -taining peace on earth?”
Now the need for world nego- tiations for peace had -become es- sential. The diplomatic stakes were high. Atomic war could erase the human race. Someone might fire off the “atomic pistol” accidentally bringing an end to the world.
Surely, said M. Pearson, there is a better basis for peace than military power. It was time to negotiate differences, to get out the diplomatic trenches to avoid
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, ha3I{1§ITTINGGI, Central Suma- ‘ M 1’) —Ii_1donesian warships hmhlglanes lightly shelled and Mi Padang Sunday after shng ‘I7-"OOPS in some areas in . °Wdown with the rebel re-
based in this mountain cap-
Eh: American oil company Cal- '. inezught in the middle of what at ckgege (tihe outbreak of civil - own operations a ' :1“ $:25v°90,000 installations and . - °me employees’ families to 0 ii?°r°' . g0::V0I'llIl0llaI‘y regime said as ore Frliment troops swarried ifgengkrifiay on the east‘ coast -Goa‘? 15- _D1uggm_g one of Cal- rebglal 0lI terminals. MI Platoon on the island. . clulme Chinese sinugglers’ ’ fished with the troops and
,6" W1thdrew.to the jungle.
. Cliusonsiiir “lg _niil1tai-y CCllS0l‘SIll'[) \vas nesialln force in .laka1'la, the cone Capital. But the Ja- spam Sboiident of the Dutch dam saidr Vrlle Volk in Amster- 3.500 ‘Indonesian troops inst 3 three—pronged attack (He
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a possible atomic disaster.
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Indonesian Troops Begin 1 Showdown With Rebels
jong Pinaiig off Central Su- matra’s east coast. Medan in north Sumatra, and the Bintawai Islands off Padang on the west coast. He said they hoped to take the major rebel towns by March 23, the start of the month-long
Moslem observance of Rama- dan.) ‘ Rebel leaders said the)’ ex‘
pected landing attempts would be made in the neighborhood of Pai- nan and Pariaman, 50 miles on either side of Padang-
They reported 4,000 troops al- ready were crammed aboard transports for a lvanding at P11- mai, another Caltex oil terminal on the east coast about 40 miles northwest of B6n§kfi115-
SHIPS SHELL CITY
donesia’s biggest \\‘arship, mo Corvettes cruised close to Pa- id;-ing and hurled two "hells into I :'t I. th'€l‘h(rle.c3\ Mustang figlitcr-bombers attacked a bridge in.Padan.g but the revolutionary regime said its anti - air(:1'al't guns forced the planes to drop their bombs aim-
operations from rand-i day night All
lessly. , _ The warslii-ps still lurked in the
‘I-any darkness 0-ff Padang M071‘
The destroyer Gadla Madav In‘. and;
MR. R. R. BELL
House Gets Under Way; No Stops Before Election
this session because of federal government interest in the pro- posal. The federal, government announced last month at $200,000 would be spent on an engineering survey of the nine-cmile causeway to link this province with New Brunswick. 0 t h e r pre-limi-nary surveys have already been made and Premier Matheson said he was “encouraged.”
This will be the last official opening for Lieutenant-Governor T. W. L. Prowse who retires from office March 31. The new lieutenant-«governor, F.‘ W. Hynd- man, will prorogue the House which usually sits six weeks.
HOLDS FOUR POSITIONS
Premier Matheson goes into the session holding four portfolios. Premier and attorney-general, he tookover welfare and labor last week from Forrest W. Phillips who resigned because of his health. At the same time Dougald MacK-innon} gave up the portfolio of public works while retaining fisheries, industry and resources. The new public works minister is George MacKay who also holds the highways portfolio.
Some of the legislation expected to come up will clear the way for
the Plcovin-ce to increase its share
of old age assistance and blind-
in the- Workmen’s Compensation Act,
and the possible introduction of a Wage_Act.
SEATO Hears Warning Reds Are Unchanged
MANILA (Reuters) —- )Foreign Affairs Secretary Felixiberto Ser- rano of the Philippines t o d a y warned the opening session of the Southeast T r c a ty Organization that “international communism remains as relentlessly aggress- ive as ever.”
Serrano told the defence pact’s council of ministers that while SEATO had arrested the advance of communism in the treaty area, it had been unable to reduce the menace to the area's security “to harmless proportions.”
Communism “is on a constant probe for weak spots in the terri- tories and institutions of free countries,” Serrano said.
Delegates from the United States, B r it a i ii, France, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Thailand and Pakistan are attending the three-day meeting.
beaches rebel troops waited in camouflaged positions. In swamp- lands behind the east coast beaches other rebel troops also waited in the places of most likely attack.
Rebel Premier Sjafruddin Pra- wiranegara declared defiantly the .invasion would be “President Su- karno’s last breath—when it fails he has nothing."
THE BIG PRIZE
The rich Caltex fields, which produce 150,000 barrels of oil a day, appeared to be the prize sought by both sides in an eco- nomic squeeze.
Sjafruddin declared the rebel army would fight to defend Pak- anbaru and nearby Rumbai, 90 miles u-p the crocodile - infested Siak River from Bengkalis and site of Caltex’ chief installations.
Calling for both sides to declare the Caltex operations area neu- tral, Sjafruddin warned that if necessary the rebels would take drastic action to prevent the gov- ernment from getting control of the oil.
Both the Japanese in the Sec- on World War and the Dutch in
1943 bogged down in attempting to d:i\c to Pakanbaru up the
along the coastalimuddy banks of the Siak.
Summit Talk
This Summer Predicted ‘
BOSTON (AP)—The Christian Science Monitor says President Eisenhower and Soviet Commu- nist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrush- chev are engaged in highly secret negotiations pointing to an East- West summit conference late this summer.
A copyrighted dispatch from its United N a t i o n s correspondent William R. Frye, says some high- ranking UN sources are so confi- dent a summit meeting will be held they are naming the prob- able place as Nova Scotia.
White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, asked in Washington to commen-t on the story, said:
“There isn’t a thing to it."
The story says it is virtually certain the United Nations Secur- ity Council wil meet late in March or early April and encour- age East-West negotiations.
The paper said the private ex- changes between Eisenhower and Khrushchev have been blanketed from public view by the spectacu- lar letter - writing marathon in which the president and Soviet Premier Bulganin have engaged.
These letters, the story said, have served to bolster the Soviet Union’s bargaining position by building up pressure on the United States to meet at the sum- mi-t regardless of the shape and character of the agreement which would be ratified there.
Delayed By Plane Trouble
PORT LOUIIS, Mauritius (Reu- -ters) — Queen Mother Elizabeth Monday spent an o th er unex- pected day on this tny Indian Ocean island when a cyclone pre- vented a relief plane fro flying in spare parts for her airliner.
She has been here two days be- cause her Australian Qantas Air- line Superconstellation developed engine trouble while brngng her home from Australia. Monday the relief plane was forced ‘back to Cocos Island because of a cyclone.
(Reports in the Melbourne Sun- Pictorial said Monday that one engine of the big airliner ex- ploded while the plane was fly- .ing_ from :th.e.09°°s Island. to Mautirius. '
(But in London a Qantas offi- cial denied the report.)
The Queen Mother now is ex- pec-ted to leave today and reach London Wednesday. She is home- ward bound after a six-week tour -of Australia and New Zealand.
DR. MacK|=N-NON
French Cabinet Approves New Pact Suggestion
PARIS (AP)—The cabinet Mon- day night approved unanimously Premier Felix Gaillard’s plan for a Mediterranean Defence Pact and for an economic community to develop Sahara resources.
In-fonmation Minister E mil e Claparede announced the endorse- ment after a three-hour cabinet meeting under the chairmanship of President Rene Coty. The plan is still subject to scrutiny by the National Assembly.
Presumably France, Britain, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Italy and Spain would be eligible for
economic development pact. The proposal, originally suggested by the United States, makes no pro- vision for a change in the status of Algeria, which»the French re- gard as an integral part of France. '
Danger To Peace
Moscow Says
LON-DON (AP)-—Mosoow radio Monday night attacked French Premier Felix Gai1lard’s plans for a Mediterranean Pact as a danger to peace.
A broadcast beamed to Britain said it was “far from the truth” to call the pact a defence and economic community of the Medi- terranean states.
Moscow radio said the proposal for the pact was “contained in Mr. (secretary of state) Dulles’ secret message to Mr. (foreign secretary( Selwyn Lloyd two weeks ago."
FEW MOVIES ACCEPTABLE
ROME (Reuters) — Only 64 out of 493 new movies were found acceptable last year for showing to Italian Roman Catholics, a movie review board said Mon- dsay.
rnnoudn iibsrnoitus
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) Three Russian naval motorboats passed through the Bosphorus Monday to the Black Sea. They are part of a Russian flotilla which sailed to the Mediterran-
ean from the Straits March 2.
SPEAKS
MONTREAL (OP) -- A Mari- timer Monday night invited‘ the industrialists of central Canada “to share and join with us in our great national project of Atlantic regional development for an even greater Canada.”
Dr. Frank Macdiinnon, presi- dent of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, accompanied by about a dozen APEC directors and Premier Robert Stanfield of Nova Scotia, addressed a dinner sponsored by a s u p e r market chain and attended by food man- ufacturens and distributors.
His remarks were made avail- able to the press before delivery.
He said a “positive approach” with emphasis on overcoming economic difficulties is growing rapidly on the eastern seaboard. where business and professional men and organizations, with gov- ernment co-operation, are united in APEC. ‘
Stone Crusher
DARTMOUTH, N.S. (CP) — Police cars caught up with a portable stone crusher at Ship Harbor, 40 miles east of here, Monday ending an 85-mile trail of damage that began at Wind- sor, N.S. '
RCMP said the crusher, higher than usual highway vehicles, tore down power and telephone lines and snapped off four poles at various points along the route.
Parts of Nova Scotia’s eastern shore were left without power and telephone. Long distance phone service was restored after a four-hour break.
RCMP sent patrols from Dart- mouth and Sheet Harbor racing after the truck but more damage was caused before they caught it. ‘ Maritime Telegraph and Tele- phone Company spokesman said damage was extensive. The crusher ripped down service wires leading to buildings be- tween ,Windsor and Bedforrl. More service wires fell between Dartmouth and Ship Harbar.
Heaviest damage was at Chcz-
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have much in com- mon, Dr. MacKinnon said, "and they know that four small prov- inces can pull together as one strong team and speak togethe with one big voice.” .
A NEW SPIRIT
“There is a new spirit in the Atlantic economy and APEC will do everything in its power to maintain and develop lt.”
Dr. MacKin-non said the prov- inces are not without natural re- sources, including open ports, fine fishing grounds, m-ining potential and world renowned agrictural products transportation and power were the keys to economic advance.
He said a $100,000,000 invest- ment in a causeway for Prince Edward Island, for example,
would “yield at least I50-per-cent
Tears Down
Wires In 85-Mile Swath
zetcook, 20 miles east of here, where the big machine cut through two heavy telephone cables and broke two telephone poles and a power pole. Another telephone pole came down at Jeddore. 35 miles from here. RCMP said the truck was owned by Havill Construction Company of Halifax. It was bound for Marie Joseph, 100 miles east of Dartmouth. RCMP said the driver, whose name was ‘not revealed. will be charged with operating a truck which exceeded maximum height limits. A special permit is re- quired to operate a vehicle
police said was 14 feet high.
inteiidant of maintenance for Maritime Telegraph and Tele- phone Company estimated dam- age to company lines and poles at $200.
Nova Scotia power conimission
officials said crews were still at \‘.: .. ‘me Monday. The commis-
membership in the defence and’
LIBERAL LEADER PEARSON
Fogged-In Airports May V- Change Pears-on’s Schedule
With every airport in the Mari- times fog bound yesterday and little possibility of a change in the weather today party support- ers are doubtful whether Liberal
Chieftain Lester Br Pearson will be, ablerto f1J1.fil1.his snea . .-,4‘-Br
‘ gageinents at "Sur'ri’m"ersi'e ‘and.
Charlottetown.
Mr. Pearson is at present at Argentia, Newfoundland where_ his aircraft was land bound be- cause of low ceiling. Party offi- cals here said a full schedule laid
higher than 12 feet. No permit was issued for the crusher which 5
S. E. Frederick, general super-
on for the Liberal Leader in Up- per Canada would have to be
Inclustrialists |nvitecI To Share Atlantic Projects
annual interest on the investment to the island and the rest of Can- ada.”
Financial aid, subsidies and subventions were associated with the Atlantic province, Dr. Mac- Kinnon said, but these were “like economic tranquilizers which are dangerous when taken alone in too large quantities and which can lead to over-dependence.
“Let us stop thinking of the At- lantic provinces in terms of aid alone, and regard them as a re- gion ready for, and worthy of, some of the same developmental
projects that all of us now sup- port in the rest of Canada."
"pl-‘anned.
maintained and is speaking en- gagement in this Province if any would not take place until the latter part of the lection cam-
paign.
If he is able to fly today. Mr. Pearson lands at Summerside where an afternoon -meeting is
lottetown Airport is scheduled for 6.00 p.m. -
The Young Liberal Association have planned a motor cavalcade from the airport to the Charlotte- town Hotel. On hand to greet their leader will be Premier Matheson and members of the Legislature; the Federal candid- ates for Queens and a large num- ber of supporters including the executive of the Liberal Associa- tion for the Provinces and the various counties.
Proceeding from the Charlotte- town Hotel to the Community Centre where he is scheduled to speak -at 8.30 this evening, a street parade will be formed up headed by a pipe band.
Citizens will await with inter- est the Opposition Leader’s re- marks regarding the Maritime Provinces. He will no doubt have some thing to say about Canada-'s trade relations, unemployment and his policy for world peace.
STRIKING BANKS REOPEN
BUENOS AIRES , (Reuters) - Aiigen-tina’s ban-ks reopened Mon- day. They had been closed by a strike in a pay dispute for six weeks. A government decree Sunday put all striking male em-
ployees under martial law. Reli- able sources said employees who didn’t return would be forced out of their homes; those not at home would be treated as mili- tary desenrters.
Ills" ‘arrival’ at’ the ’Ch’ai‘-"
U.S. Tax Cut Suggested If Economy
Continues Lag
Massive Public Works Program FrownecI Upon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice- President Richard Nixon said Monday he favors a “substan- tial” across-the-board tax cut if
the UJS. economy fails to show an upturn in the next few weeks.
Nixon told reporters, in what obviously was an expression of majority sentiment within the Eisenhower administration, he is opposed to any “massive” new program of public works. Nixon said that if the recession contin- ues he prefers to “go downthe tax cutting road rather than the spending road.”
Nixon said that after heavy government spending in the period from 1932 to 1940, there still were 10,000,000 unemployed in the early months of 1940.
MORE SPENDING MONEY
“What the economy needs at this time is primarily more spending by individuals and busi- ness, rather than more spending by government,” he said.
Any tax cut, Nixon said, would have to be “substantial.” But he declined to go into specific fig- ures. '
Earlier Mond-ay there was testi- mony that federal spending in the fiscal year ending June 30 may run $500,000,000 more than had been expected, largely because of
orts to combat the recession.
This testimony, by Robert E. Merri-aim, assistant budget direc- tor, coincided with a variety of moves announced or proposed in
the attack on the slackoff in em- ployment and business activity.
For one thing, the defence de- partment instructed the military services and their big contractors to get more defence spending into areas where unemployment has become most serious.
In other developments Monday:
1. Senator Lyndon Johnson of ‘Texas, the Democratic leader, ar- gued before the Senate public works committee for a speedup on $4,000,000,000 worth of civil construction projects.
“If we act right now we may be able to head off trouble before it gets out of contro," Johnson said.
2. The Eisenhower administra- tion’s’plan to finance an exten- sion of state unemployment com.- pensation benefits was reported to call for an additional 13 weeks of payments to people out of work. Most states now pay for 26 weeks or less.
Milton C. Lightner, president of the National Association of Manu- facturers, said Preiident Eisen- hower’: unemployment compen- sation plan is “most disquieting."
Lightner asked of the proposal:
“would it create a federal dole without end? Would it ultimately destroy the rights of the state to act in accord with their own con- ditions and economy?”
Support for Eisenhower came from Senator Richard Neuberger who has seldom found much to praise in the administration’:
economic policies.
Assistant Minister Called For Trinity United Church
‘An assistant minister for Trinity-,i.United.--tlhurch-~in *.Cliar- lottetown has been called and subject to the approval of the Church Courts will be named pastor in the Congregation. This has been announced following the report of the pastoral relations committee presented at a meet- ing of Trinity Congregation.
The assistant to Rev. A. Frank MacLean will be Rev. Robert Latlmer, B. A., B. Ed., B. D. of Orangedale, Cape Breton. Mr. Latimer is a young man who has
served in the Cape Breton charge rorrour years. He‘is a‘ graduate in Arts and Eductation from Mount Allison University and re- ceived his Bachelor of Divinity from Pine Hill Divinity Hall. He is married with one child.
He succeeds Rev. G. Howard Christie whose resignation, an- nounced last month, will become effective July 1. Rev. Mr. Latimer has been active in student activi- 'ties during his University career and has eiocelled in the Christian Education work of the Church.
Annual Smoker Of B.I.S. Greatly Enioyecl Last Night
The Benevolent Irish Society held its annual smoker last night in preparation for the com- ing St. Patrick’s parade to be held on Sunday, March 16, to St. Dunstan’s Basilica. The society also initiated six new members into its ranks in the persons of Linus McQuil1an, Leo Trainor, Alfred Doyle, John ‘McQuaid, Amos Curley and John Condon.
The president welcomed these new members and c-alled on P. B. McTague and the secretary, Everett Beagan for some re- marks. —
Ticket chairman. John Walsh stated that the tickets for the St. Patrick’s play “Red Headed Pat” to be held at the Community Cen- tre: on Saturday, March 15 and Monday, March 17 were going at
'3 rapid pace and it looked as if
tickets would be at as premium the latter part of the week.
William McCarron, chief mar- shal of the St. Patrick’s parade asked the members to be at the clubrooms by 9.30 a.m. and to wear dark coats and a white scarf for the parade.
Thomas Flynn, chairman of the shamrock committee stated that the shamrocks went on sale Mon- day afternoon.
Bob Bradley chairman of the transportation committee stated that everything had been arrang- ed tobring the children from both orphanages to the matinee of the play on Saturday afternoon.
Following the general meeting a short social period was held. Al Dowling and Earl Clinton en- tertained the members on the violin and guitar.
MANY SPECTATORS AT COUNCIL MEETING
A lay;-gc grotln of citizens listen are left foreground): Councillors Park Village Commissioners; Mr. Arsenault is Mr. G. J. Maddigan attentively to the deliberations of Gerald Foster and F. G. O’Neill; Art Burns ad Mr. J. Russell St. who addressed Council on the
the new City Council last night. (front row reight):
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{sign gave no estimate of damage..Among tliosc visible in the photo Arscnault, chairman of the Spring; ground Commission. Behind Mr.na.rki.ng by-law;