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' n, ALAN HARVEY f" dian Press Staff Writer . AWA (OP) — Prince Philip 3‘ Wednesday that if the 20th- world allows too great a ' to grow between rich and “nations if will sow the seeds t.” own destruction. 4 g off the cuff, Philip “a an Englishvspeaking Union me that it used to be pos- for some peoples to live In " gone age and for others to advanced civilizations. gut today's improved commun- Ws meant that “all the . who live in the world have '. h accept the standards of the Z unitary." Economic differ- could no longer be ignored. prince, president of the ‘-. a Commonwealth section, " m London Wednesday to ' I chairman at a four-nation . symposium the same day. from Canada. Britain, "- mdedthe United States also " f .I QUESTIONS W set (speeches. the chair— — and the panel speakers in- duestions from the audience .‘me 900 delegates and oh-
fiver:
met questioning by delegates
‘ jKansas City and Chicago, 'l 's former chief of air staff,
f'John Slessor. said he doesn't
I it vital or even important
hold the off-shore islands of
and Matsu.
the afternoon's longest
its. Sir John said the crisis
,fiuld have been solved long ago
." the United Nations. v 'nce Philip appeared to go
. i“ there A tear was running
" Seamus RAPIDLY
' 'e'growers and shippers are, the Island potato market ,xlm arm in jeopardy. according
from one of the brokers you the product in Hamilton. pphone call to The Guardian - yesterday afternoon. Mr. ‘ -Bray, president of Bray’s
- complained that this Q . i had recently received a =w~ of shipments of Island -..u it done up in packages to contain 10 pounds
( of which was short of the I ' .' weight. : dads and measures do not
to be organized in your ‘ ," Mr. Bray said. “You I organization‘s) far as grow-
mociations. co—ops, and rail. are concerned but are ap- lacklilng in this important
shipped here are of quality. are clean, and are _ ill attractive packages.” cultured, “but in 1041b lots only one potato to short- abag.n
RESPONSIBILITY
, W0 buyer said that he
‘med Mr. Ellis. the chief
impector in this district
Ilhad been informed in effect
flute department was not re- - forshortweightinshjp-
A Bray who handles about 250 - of P.E.I. potatoes each - maintained that he was ~ : for a great many deal-
- with this unnecessary
, m "We are all going to ,buying PEI potatoes until
. 801 their scales fixed down v " he declared.
lpreacls Some
3! HARRY CALNEK Press Staff Writer
: HILL, N.S. tCP» * A -~ happened here Wednes—
realization came to a ': to hope held by this coal " 7.000 people that any of l . men sealed in shattered -:3 colliery would be found
. ‘ » were tears in many eyes A m mread through the grief- ‘ ‘- community that rescue had found 12 survivors M there might be more.
' “ ' Gordon. chief of colliery for the Dominion Steel Co“ Corporation and direc-
rescue operations. was at the mine office ‘* after word of the miracu- fll‘v'wal reached the pit- ' 'He smiled and nodded when
his cheek.
’ driver who drove a man to the mine was (verily.
of citizens swarmed their homes. A Crowd of gathered at the mine Where only a f cw had been word first came up.
. flowd at the mine .EN‘W as the news spread by
0' mouth and radio.
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fince Philip arns Dangers
along. He said international statesmen should be looking ahead and “removing the pits Ifrom the orange" before danger arose. ‘
Philip was an Impressive chair— man. He made sure all speakers handled a fair share of questions, made a few lighthearted remarks of his own and then summed up the discussion in concise fashion. He was never at a loss for a word.
Apart from Sir John Slessor and Prince Philip, participants or the impromptu discussion were Dr. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University; C. S. Venka- tachar, Indian high commissioner in Ottawa; and A. D. Dunton. president of Ottawa's Carleton University.
PHILIP SUMS UP
In his summing up. the prince pleaded for reasonable and corn- monsense efforts to solve prob- lems before they reached the danger stage and soldiers had to be summoned.
Several times, Philip spiced his remarks with a light wit.
When Sir John drew a parallel between Formosa a nd what might happen if the Russians were parked on the Isle of Wight, dropping artillery shells on the British coast and saboeturs in Hampshire, Philip said gently he hoped the former chief of Brit- ain‘s air staff would not carry the analogy too far. '
At another point, noting almost complete silence on one side of the conference hall, Philip re- marked that it seemed “rather quiet on the far east."
He said that the Island people were warned about short weigh-t shipments last year and that while some looked into the mat. ter, others ignored it.
“Who is responsible?", Mr. Bray inquired. “The inspector: here are checking every day for weight. Why do the Idspectois on the Island try to pass the buck!”
CLAIM CHECK MADE
Island inspectors do check weights if there is an up—to-date set of scales available at the point of shipment ,an official of the Fruit and Vegetable Division asserted when queried yesterday. When they do a notation to that effect is placed on the respective inspection certificate, he said.
However the federal regulations did not require the inspection staff to carry a set of scales with them, he added. Scales were hardly even‘ available to railheads and most of those used in the shippers warehouses did not bear a ~1958 certification.
Both Hon. Eugene Cullen, Pr.- vincial Minister of Agriculture, and J. Lincoln Dewar. secretary of the Federation of Agricultuie termed the situation “extremer regretable."
Mr. Cullen said that a similar situation had been called to His attention while he was on a visit to Toronto last year. He added that in public addresses delivered both at Summerside and in Char- lottetown after his return he had urged growers and dealers to be much more careful of weight and quality.
GAP APPAREN’I‘
“There seems to be some gap in the enforcemen of the regula- tions." the Minister observed. “Certainly we cannot expect peo-
Hears In Many Eyes As Word
Miners Alive
cared. They stood in the open, their faces dripping wet, in.many cases from a mixture of rain and tears. .
Mrs. Goriey Kempt, Wife of one of the 12, said she never lost faith that her husband would come out alive. She said she kept thinking about things they would do when he got home. When she spoke that way her relatives “looked strangely at me," she said.
Mrs. Kempt declared she doesn‘t think Gorley will go back into the mine. Their children, Bill-y. 16, and Betty. 15. “are pretty nearly grown up now and there‘s no need to take a second chance. You don't always get a second chance."
DIDN‘T GIVE UP . Young Billie was standingnby this reporter Tuesday night Ma ain't given up hope yet, he said looking at the floor. He looked up. ‘ “And neither have 1. Dad s come out of there for.17 years. He's been hurt before. Twelve-year-old Sharon Hollo- wav. daughter of Joseph Hollo- way. J11. said Wednesday she had "en up hope. gly‘hly daddy will never go back into the mine again,” she said. “ know that." _. 1"He won’t get in unless its 'er my dead body. . mSharon. in grade six. has not been to school since Thursday.
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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” CHARID’I‘TETOWN, CANADA THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1958
WEATHER
Overcast with occasional rain or drizzle.
Not much change in
temperature. Light
variable Winds. Low-high 40 and 50.
NOT MORE THAN
Rescuers Break Through To 12 living Miners At Springhill
WASHINGTON (Am—hf Russia sets off more nuclear weapons ex- plosions after suspension talks start Friday, the United States will be ready to begin more tests of its own.
The chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, John A. Mc- Oone, gave this summary of the US. position Wednesday at his first press conference since tak- ing over in July:
AEC doesn’t believe in con- ducting tests just for the sake of
conducting tests and it would not undertake to match the Russians shot for shot. But if Russia ig- nores the Anglo-American pro~ posal for a year’s suspension
while negotiations to and tests are
hor’r Weight SaidThrea’r o PEI Potato Industry
'ple to buy our potatoes if the con- tents of the package do not meet all the specification set down on the label."
could bcome a very dan- gerous practice, whether inten- tional or otherwise," Mr. Dewar said. » -
“The people who check on qual- ity should be the logical choice to check on weight also.” the Is- land ag'riculturilst declared, add- ing that in his opinion shippers should be required to provide pro- per weight-cthecking facilities at shipping paint.
Equally emphatic that some- thing should be done to solve this recurring problem was W.A. Mac- Lennan, chairman of the P.E.I. Potato Marketing Board.
DIFFICULT PROBLEM
“Without the cooperation of shippers and growers this short weight problem is very difficult to overcome." Mr. Maclennan asserted. He added that the Board intended to run and next Friday asking the producers and ship- pers to be more careful in this respect.
He said that the dealers had been asked to provide properly- inspected scales and that at last .t‘hose in the Albany district were now cooperating.
Correct weights were most dif- ficult to maintain early in each year's shipping season Mr. Mac- Lennan maintained. Many pota- toes were packaged when wet and muddy he said and this caused weight shrinkage later.
“The P.E.I. Potato Marketing Board intends, to do everythng possible to remedy this situa- he declared.
Queen's Message To Be Televised
LONDON (Reutersl The Queen’s Christmas message to the Commonwealth will be tele- vised again this year, the BBC announced Wednesday night.
Last year's message marked the Queen's first live TV per- formance.
EARLY SNOWFALL BOSTON (Apt—Light snow fell in parts of northern Vermont and New Hampshire early Wednes- day. Montpelier, Vt.. had light snow and Burlington. Vt., a mix- ture of snow and rain.
SPRINGHILL. N. S. — tCPl Dominion Coal Company's 74- vear-old chief medical officer J. G. B. Lynch snapped orders like a voungster Wednesday night as he” sent food and vitamins to 12 miners found alive in No. 2 colli- ery. .
The men. weakened from Six days in the dark depths without food or water were being sent black coffee with sugar and vita- mins.
“We‘re not sending solid foods." he said. “And they'll only be given small Quantities so there's ho danger of thcm being sick." DOCTOR IN PIT
Dr, Arnold Burton. who paid
US Will Resume Tests ll Russia Breaks Ban
tried, it wouldn't be long before the commission would be ready to go ahead with tests to improve U.S. atomic capabilities.
START TALKS FRIDAY
The United States, Great Brit- ain and the USSR. start talks in Geneva Friday about agree- ment on a system for policing a ban on weapons tests. The United States and Britain have said they are willing to suspend tests im- mediately, if the Russians do like- wise, while the negotiators have their chance.
Meanwhile it's two down and three to go today in the busiest test schedule ever laid out by the AEC at its Nevada test site.
'Iiwice Wednesday nuclear test shots lit up the atom - blasted sands of the desert. Before the night was over the AEC honed to set Off three more, including a, tremendous underground explo- sion.
Brisk winds may frustrate test officials, however, in their hopes to jam through as many tests as possible before midnight today, the dead'ine for a proposed world- wide test ban.
Three tests is the most ever conducted in one day here.
Lightning Smashes TV
TRURO (OP) ——- A lightening bolt crashed into the living room of Jeston MacIvor's apartment Wednesday smashing a television set, several windows and blacken- ing furniture before starting a small fire.
Mrs. Maclvor and her six-year- old son were in another part of the house. There was no estimate of damage.
Two "Of 12 Survived T956 Blast .
SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CPl—Two of the 12 men found alive in Cum— berland No. 2 colliery are surviv- ors of the 1956 explosion in an adjoining mine.
Hugh Guthro and Joseph Mc- Donald. among 88 men who came up alive two years ago after a blast wrecked now-sealed No. 4 coliiery. are alive at the 13,000— foot level of No. 2 where a great upheaval trapped 174 miners last Thursday night.
Six other survivors of the ex- plOSlOII are still trapped in No. 2 with no Word on whether they are alive. They are Chesley Har- rison. Frank Hunter, John Jack- son, Percy Rector, Lester Reid and Percy Spence.
Two of the No. 4 survivors are known to have died in the No. 2 bump—Charlie Burton, first or the men to emerge from No. 4 in 1956. and Gus Gillis.
LOOT STATION WAGON
HALIFAX. — (CPl — William Hogan of London, Ont, told po- lice Wednesday thieves looted his station wagon of $200 Worth of clothing while it was parked outside the home of friends he is visiting. He said the thieves took two suits, a dozen assorted shirts and a brown leather suit-
0359.
Veteran Doctor Sent Black Coffee, Vitamins To Trapped
his way through medical school by working in Springhill mines, is in the pit ready to aid the men when they are reached through 50 feet of rubble. Oxygen and stretchcrs have been sent down.
Dr. Lynch said the men will be taken directly to hospital when they are brought to the surface. Dosco mine chief Harold Gordon went into the mine to direct oper- ations.
“He shouldn't be down there," said Dr. Lynch. “He's got a very bad cold. But I cou‘dn't stop him. This wonderful thing that's hap- pened here only shows the great strength. courage and faithful-
ness of Harold Gordon."
This is an interior View of tne pithead at Springhill. A rescue worker returns to daylight from
STOCKIIOLM lReutersl—Rus- sian author Boris Pasternak with- drew his acceptance of the $41,— 200 Nobel literature prize Wednes- day as a leading Moscow Com- munist suggested he should go to the West.
The 68-year-old poet - novelist, reviled by Kremlin propagandists and expelled from the Soviet Writers Union Tuesday, cabled the Swedish Academy:
“Considering how this honor has been interpreted in the so- ciety to lwhich I belong, I am oh- liged to reject the undeserved prize I have been awarded."
Pasternak, who had accepted the award Saturday, added: “Do not look upon my voluntary re- fusal with disfavor."
His suburban Moscow home was reported under police guard.
Vladimir Semichastny, a Soviet
By WILLIAM L. RYAN VATICAN CITY (APT _ Pope John XXIII Wednesday design- ated next Tuesday as his corona— tion day and called upon the world's leaders to channel man's genius into paths of peace.
The new spiritual soverign of ' the Roman C a t h 01 i c Church quickly demonstrated his inten~ tion of being a vigorous leader. lnthe first full days of his reign the 76‘year-old pontiff took a ser» ies of decisions indicating his reign will DC a dynamic one.
His decision to broadcast a peace appeal immediately came as a surprise to many.
Then he decided that his coron- ation. the most colorful of all Catholic ceremonies, will be held Nov. 4 rather than Nov. 9 as had been forecast in some quarters.
HELD ON FEAST DAY
This will be exactly a week af.er his election. It is the feast day of St. Charles Bol‘romco, whom the Pope has long admired. More than 3,000 persons will
ceremony.
in his speech Wednesday the Pope took up the cause of world tranquillity c h am p 1 o n e d for nearly 20 years by Pitts XII, his predecessor,
John XXlll. the former Angelo Giuseppe (‘ a r d l n a 1 Roncalli,
voiced in Latin a challenge to the
Russian Au’rhor >
Reiecls Prize .
GLAD NEWS FROM THE MINEHEAD
|the darkened deep: of No. 1 lMine where 12 men were located
youth leader. said in a speech broadcast by Moscow Radio that Pasternak “should leave the So- viet Union and breathe capitalist air."
“I'am sure the Soviet people would applaud him if he did." the speaker added at a meeting of the all-union Young Commu- nist League.
“Even a pig does not foul its sty. If one likens Pasternak to a pig. then the comparison will be unfair to the pig. because it would never do what Pasternak did."
Reports from Moscow said it was believed Pasternak had been told that if he leaves the Soviet Union. he must stay out.
The torrent of trouble and abuse has been breaking over Pasternak's head since the Nobel acaedmy selected him for the
alive yesterday after they had virtually been given up for dead
PM Flies To London
NEW YORK (CPl-Prime Min- ister Diefen‘baker and his party took off from Ncw York‘s Idle- wild Airport Wednesday on the second leg of his globegirdling tour.
GOOSE BAY. Labrador {CP)—— The RCA’F plane carrying Prime Minister Diefenbaker from New York City to London was diverted to this Labrador air base Wednes- day night when heavy fog closed in the airport at Gander, Nfld.
The plane touched down here at 9 pm. AST and wa: to leave after an hour's stop.
FIRE DESTROYS HOTEL
GLOUCESTER. Mass. IAPe— Fire Wednesday destroyed the five-storey Moorland summer ho- tel, a lilo-room wooden ocean- front structure. No one was in the building. Unofficial estimates indicated the 1055 would amount
crowd S". Peter's Basilica for the1
prize six days ago.
Pope Challenges Leaders To Establish World Peace
“leaders of all nations."
He told them their people do not ask for “those monstrous means of war discovered in our time. which can cause frater- nal massacre a nd universal slaughter.“
The people ask instead. he said. “peace in virtue in which the hu- man family can live freely. filour- ish and prosper . . . tranquillity and concord from which alone can rise a true prosperity."
FROM nvu. T0 GOOD
Dcplortnc the use of man's genius to develop “pernicious in- struments of death and destruc- tion.“ the new pontiff urged the world‘sdeadcm to find a way in which the wealth now poured into weapons of mass slaughter could he turned to the good of all peo- pic.
“We know, it is true. that in bringing about so laudable. so praiscworthy a proposition, and in levelling the differences. [hole are grave and intricate difficul- ties in the way. hilt these must be Victoriously overcome, even it by force.
“This is, in fact, the most im- portant undertaking, the one most closely connected with the pros- perity of all mankind."
Pope John showed no evidence of slaf‘lit’lllnfl the church‘s cease- less battle with atheism.
to $100,000.
goes out “to all the faithful who live in those nations where the Catholic religion has no freedom or enjoys it only in part. where the sacred rites of the church are rash-1y down-trodden. where the legitimate pastors are either ex- iled or confined, or prevented from the free accomplishment of their ministries."
ACTIVE DAY
The address was the beginning of a busy day.
A little later. at his first pub- lic audience to a reslrit-tcd group of about 30 persons in the Vatican Palace. the Pope declared him- self to be "just a simple soul."
One person received in the au- dience reported the pope won the hearts of those present when. with a broad smile. he apologized for his lack of experience and mur- mured. “I am sorry if I seem a little awkward but. you know, it is the first time."
One of his first acts Wednes- day was to name as pro-secre- tary of statcrethe Vatican's vir- tual prime minister and foreign minister w 70 - year - old Msgr. Domenico Tardini.
Authoritative Vatican Sources immediately said Tardiui would become full secretary r” state—~— and a cardinal—as soon as the new Pope holds his first consis~
Report
SPRINGHILL, N. S. tCPi .— Rescuens broke through to 12 liv- ing miners deep in the Cumber- land No. 2-colliery at about 12:30 a.m. AST today.
A Dosco spokesman said the men would be brought to the sur- face in an hour or about 1:30 am. AST.
The miners were trapped deep underground after a tremendous surge in the earth Thursday night. There was no immediate explanation of the suddeness of the breakthrough.
A Dosco statement issued a half hour earlier said the bare- faced rescue crews were five feet from the 12 trapped men. They were making a foot an hour in their belly - crawling movement toward the pocket where the men survived for 61!; days.
A Dosco official said “there might be other miners alive." But he added that there was no confirmation of reports that other trapped men had been found alive.
Thirteen words brought joy to the families of 12 of 67 miners trapped in the death - filled pit which has so far claimed 26 lives.
“Get us some water, you guys." trapped Gorley Kempt yelled.
“There's 12 of us here alive."
The message was shouted through a broken six - inch air pipe that kept the men alive 18,- 000 feet down from the mine en- trance.
Blair Phillips, one of two men credited with first hearing the mufifled yell from sixty feet be- hind the rock barrier, said the men seemed "in good spirits,"
FIVE CENTS
Others
May Be Alive
The knowledge that someone was alive “thrilled” him.
GATHER AT PITHEAD
But while the happy, crying
families of the 12 men gathered at the pithead, sparks of a perhaps futile hope were kindled in the hearts of others whose 55 and husbands were still unheard from.
new grief and
brothers, sons
S-‘nce Wednesday night pro-
gress along the l3.000»foot level has been steady and faster than
at any time since the rescue oper- ations began.
The discovery of the 12 living miners gave new hope that others might be alive. Only four bodies have been recovered from the 13,000—foot working area where 50-55 men were believed trapped.
OONFUSION PREVAILED
Confusion prevailed in first re-
ports on how the discovery was
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veal}:
Brother Of PEI Woman Is Survivor
Joseph Hollaway. Jr., a brother of Mrs. Ralph Vincent of Alma. P.E.I., is one of the 12 miners who were found alive in the depths of No. 2 Colliery at Springtiitl yesterday.
Mrs. Vincent‘s father, Joseph Holloway, was one of the first to be rescued following the up- heaval last Thursday that trap- men.
An uncle Isaac Holloway was
ONE or FIRST
killed in the same upheaval. His body was brought to the surface Sunday.
Joseph Jr. was one of the last miners rescued during the disas- ter of 1956 at Springhill that took 39 lives.
Names Of Men Found Alive
SPRINGHllLL, N.S. tCP)—Fol- lowing are the 12 men known to be alive in No. 2 colliery:
Hamid Brine. Z5, married, with daughter, Bonnie. 2.
Joseph McDonald, 38, married, with three children, Gary 16, Gordon, 11 and Michael, 4.
Joseph Holloway Jr., 35, mar- ried, with two children, Sharon, 11, and Jo-Ann, 4.
Larry Leadibeater. 22. married,
with daughter, Shirley, 2. , Wilfred Hunter, 48. married, 1 with two daughters, Marilyn, 17, and Brenda. 15.
Gorley Kempt, 37, married,
SPRINGIULL. N.S. (CP) Percy Weatherbie. one of the firm bare—faced miners to reach the surface with news of 12 men alive in the Cumberland No. 2 colliery, told of talking with his uncle.
Weatherbie was so overcome he was able to say only a few senten- ces to reporters. He told of talking with his uncle, Gorley Kempt, 13- 000‘feet from the pithead where the 12 were trapped behind a 60-foot layer of rock.
“I could hardly believe ears," Weatherbie said.
“I asked him how many were in there and Gorley said there were 12 of them.
“I said ‘Iiow are you?"
"Gorley said ‘ we‘re good but
my
with son.
ried, Charles and Henry.
14. months.
we need water badly."
Will Not Likely
NEW YORK (Reutersi — Sir Roy Dobson. head of a British company w h i c h operates the Springhill coal mine through a subsidiary. said Wednesday: “I don‘t think the mine will ever open again."
Dobson, managing director of the Hawker Siddeley Group Lim- ited, said that of the 7,000 people living in the town, 900 were em- ployed in the mine and the towns people wanted it kept open be- cause of the employment situa- tion.
“We wanted to close the mine last year but they peladed with
William, 16, and daughter, Betty, 15.
Caleb Rushton, 35. married. with two children, Arlene, 14, and David, 2.
Levi Milley, 47, married, with
daughter, Judy, 16.
Theodore with three sons,
Mlchniak, 59, mar- Harold,
Bowman Maddison, 42, mar- ried, with three children, Zora. Aldam, 12, and Deano, 4
Hugh Guthro, 31. married, with
two children, Linda, 7, and Ger- ald, 5.
Eldred Lowther, 46, married,
with five children, Mary, 16. R0- bert, 10. William, 8, Kenneth, 5, and Cheryl, 3.
Reports Mine At Springhill'
Be Re-openecl
before we owned it and was sub-
ject to the bumps (shifting of the earth stratai over the years."
Dobson said that, ironically, a government 5 a f e t y officer in- spected the colliery twv days be- fore the upheaval and said he had never seen the mine “in such good shape."
Dobson. who has made a six- week visit to Hawker Siddeley’l Canadian companies. was in Hall- fax when the Springhill disaster occurred last Thursday. He flew to the scene by helicopter the next morning.
“The rescuers will never leave
us not to do it.“ Sir Roy told re-
tory to strengthen the College of Cardinals. now at 53. 115 full es-
Hls special thought, he paid.
tablishment i5 70.
porters before sailing in the Queen lhlary for England. “It had had several disaster;
the job unitil every man is ac- counted for." Dobsc said in praising their courage and tr nacity."
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