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FAIRBANKS, Alaska '(AP)—A twin-engined plane erashed Tues-
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e. day night in a storm, killing six ( saad TEETH CLICK: » their crew chief, and the pi- hed - TO ATTENTION = ; _ Dead are C. W. (Bud) Priest : a. * ; LONDON (CP) — “Atten- of Anchorage, the pilot: C: A shun!’ ro aged Maj. John - ess , a Bailey. 35, of Seattle, who had S ! iV F Dicksee. a ior charge of the group: Rose-Johi : em ea Forty pairs of boots clicked @0h, Minneapolis; Diane_ Nelson een in unison on a parade ground Fargo, :N. D.: ‘Shirley “Salazar, WASHINGTON (CP) — Canada| He said the “‘geappeed unilateral! in Cumberland BY BRUCE RUSSELE men in different parts ot : tase Hawaii; Cathy Clark, Cheyenne we poe os : the ae aed derogation from the existing re] ——Someding on ia VIENTIANE, Laos ee In ee ,the main bows > ot We ee neeitiad . , ate Wednesday hight as the cham- <| Small object glittered on the | Pro-Communist rebel_ forces Wed-|Muong Het, Communi forces Seattle * ae — . ber reversed itself, voting 54-34 vo| gime erates srrectens, Strioes parade square. nesday night were reported to| were covered by 105 - millimetre ee, one . MeKaliep. end the Chicago Great Lakes|¢oncern in Canada.” “Troops: ready for inspec- | have captured Moung Het. the | howitzers with an eight - mile “The t . water diversion bill to the foreign| The Senate foreign relations tion sir."’ the major mumbled principal Loatian. fortress in|range. Ban-Da is near Xiengk- ar aes neneing relations committee for study. | committee, as. result)'of Wed- indistinctly. northern Sam Neua province houng in North Viet Nam, Ratti ee aes careevest This, in effect, killed the bill’ Stiffly the commanding of A senior defence department of-| kone said. Muong Het is only six ” when the pilot repo: is, in ec 1 e bill nesday night's vote, would give, ,. ; h bee y ried for the current session of Con-|aprniteg C ficer stepped over the object | ficial also said anti-aircraft guns| miles from the North Viet Nam <330:12 p.m. that he was lost in gress. It also could bring Jong pe-| 4 ee ere and inspected the troops. — and mortars used against Laotian | border. @torm and running low on fuel. riods of delaying committee study bas (os —. 7 ee — yas Behind his back, the wanyer Royalist forées came from Com-| In fighting for another army- ‘Twat was bis last report. - in the new session next year. ch . ere a ae a bent over and retrieved @ | munist North Viet Nam held fortress at Muong Son, Com- SIGHT WRECKAGE The snap vote to send the bill mit ee against comy complete set of false teeth Royalist forces have’ evacuated | munist forces used 120-millimetre
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Bishop Urges Christianizing | Of Orientals_
STE. ANNE DE BELLEVUE, | Que. (CP)—Rt. Rev. Ivor Norris, bishop of Brandon, Man., Wed- nesday a ed to the Anglican Church of Canada—and all Chris tian Canadians—to ‘“‘face up to the task of christiontzing” the’ Or-
in an didbeen which olprinealy
: delegates to the church’ general synod deeply. Bishow | Norris described—his- recent tour eo Anglican om in the Far’
and urged a much greater | Kisenhower opened ‘talks wii! preters present for an hopr Wed | waved his ecknontetqunedt:
Ike, deGaulle Begin Talks
AsCheersResound|nParis
sy JOHN HEFFERNAN PARIS ‘Retters) — President
re: Sas: ate Sa ' _ ‘ ee = GIRLS DELIGHTED WITH CAKE These two youngsters are ob- viously delighted with the qual-_ | ity .of this prize winning cake ; | aked by Mrs. Walter Dixon of work of it. On the left is Helen
East Baltic for the Souris” Ex- hibition yesterday. fie two girls are q sure bet to make short
Eisenhower and de Gaulle met im private with only their inter-
seeaweon: from the Canagian} Gen. de Gaulle here Wednesday | nesday.morning. After kinch they
OTe dtticull it is for new na tions to achieve self-government “cticers from morning until migtt.|
without the foundation of decency |
honesty. and respect for women and children which Christianity supplies,” he said.
The real job of the church is to spread the gospel, he told the delegates, and “winning the world for Christ -is one of the greatest tasks pagers the ehurch.”’
Later ,the synod diantinted. Ca-
‘ gadian missions, particularly the residential schools for more than 2,000 Indians and Eskimos run by the Anglican Church with the as- sitance of grants from the depart- ment of Indian affairs.
Death Count Is seen As 42
OTTAWA ‘CP) — At least 42 people will die on Canadian high- ways this Labor Day weekend, the Canadian Highway Safety Conference forecast Wednesday.
It predicted this many Cana- dians would be killed in traffic in the 78-hour period between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight next Monday night.
fn a blaze of public accl4matica that kept Pars ringing. with
Eisenhower’s every public ap-| pearance—when he arrived this | morning at Le Bourget Airfield, Wien he drove into the city, when he placed a-wreath Wednesday night at the tomb of the unknown soldier when he addresse] a massed throng before the city hall wherever he wert the. crowds were there jamming the streets.
Hundreds of thousands of peo- pie waved flags, cheered a shouted themselves hoarse with such slogans as “I Like Ike “—
Pronounced *‘Eek"’ by the French. |
But*ia La Courneuve. a “Red” fndustrial suburb along the pro cessional route,there were e!- most as many hammers and sickles as stars and stripes.
DOWN TO BUSINESS ’
The two presidents quickly got down to business on the real pur- pose of Ezsenhower’s two - day visit here, the last leg of -a 10- day European tour that already tias taken him to Bonn and Lon- don as 3 prelude to his meetings later this month with ‘Russia’s Premier Kbruchchév.
talked for another hour, this time with advisers present.
Eisenhower's press James Hagerty. the talks had begun and encouraging way.” dealing with’ French policy in ia, the Atlantic pact and larger issues of East-West relations
“in a good
De Gaulle himself said Wednes- |
day night: “Everything has gone well between us.”
THE SAME GROUND
Informed_sources said the al-| ternoon meeting covered the same | ground as the two presidents’. tete-atete during the morning but | in more detail. The subject em- ‘brated-—international affairs .in general and in particular tine problems of relations within NATO.
Paris’ loudest cheers were re- served for the late afternoon pro- gram that followed. —
The two presidents—de Gaulle Row wearing a uniform — drove through the city’s main thorough- fare, the board Champs Elysees to..the Are de Triomphe, aoe
|
which lies the tomb of France unknown soldier. Thousands jammed the troop-
lined avenue as the long caval-
PCGov't: To Assume Power On Island Within 2 Weeks:
Editor’s note: Don Hoyt, a Canadian Press staff writer, is the .
P.E.I. election and its after-
math. This is one of his re-
) By DON HOYT to Canadian Press Staff Writer
Liberal Premier . He said in an in-
of power to pa premier-elect Walter R. Shaw would be announced “after with my colleagues.’ But be within two weeks. In the meantime Mr. Matheson would attend no official functions.
Liberals, in power in Canada’s
were ousted Tuesday in a hard fought election that left the Pro ve Conse.Vatives . with 22
seats and, the Liberals with seven. One of the 30 legislature seats will ‘remain’ iindecided untf] dec- ’ Jaration day when a recount will be held in Kings Fifth to break
agriculture minister who led his party to victory two years after being named party leader. said in an interview his cabinet “‘won't be announced intil they are teady fo be sworn in.” He said that in the meantime he will rest, Meet in caucus with the Conserv-
-jative members and consider se-
lections for his cabinet. the first Conservative administration since
- | 1931.
NOT IMPRESSED Mr. the | paign to win back power in the next provincial election began Wednesday. He was not im- pressed by the Conservative vic- tory :
“When Diefenbaker candidates come before the electorate in three years they ll be wiped out prov.ded the Liberals put up ‘good candidates.. And when Mr. Shaw's candidates come up im four _years they’! be wiped out.” -
ernment is implementation of the party platform and becoming ac- customed to governing the prov- ince after 25 years in Opposition.
“Our program- is there,” said Mr. Shaw. “We'll endeavor to
carry i out.” The Conservative pledges imcluded removal from
. {local school. boards of the respon-
Matheson said his cam-
The big job facing the pew gov-
salaries, an improved agriewitre program to market island farm products, improvements in facili ties for fish tandling, and closer cooperation with the federal gov- rmment at Ottawa, a theme which gave birth to the Conserva ive. Sogan: “Elect a wumited
Five Liberal cabinet ministers were defeated in the Comserva- tive triumph. The only members of the last cabinet left are Mr. Matheson. Health Minister—M: Lorne Bonnell and Highways and Public Works Minister J. George MacKay.
NARROW VOTE MARGIN
Despite the 15-seat: majority of the Conservatives, the winners outpolied the Liberals only 359 ballots im the Assemblyman count, the nearest approximation to a popular vote.
“On the basis of yesterday's election,”’ Mr. Matkezon said, “we should have had 12 or 13 seais."’ The defeat of his govern- ment would give bim a chance. to take it easy, Mr.. Matheson ‘said:
practice and give the Conserva- tive government “it’s best oppo- sition in 2% years,” the last time
the headed the parade celebrating secretary. announced that |
jmounted a flag-draped dais and!
He plans to begin his own law)
te committee was called amid a period--of - restlessness that fol- lowed the exciting announcement that a special Senate-House of Representatives conference had finally agreed on a compromise labor reform measure. rxOpponents of the bill — which ' | would allow Chicago to withdraw an extra 1,000 cubic feet of water
sewage disposal—had waged a seven-day battle to sidetrack the measure into committee to study Canada’s repeated protests. ~~ Ambassador A. D. P. Heeney said in his last note-delivered Aug, 21 that any additional Great Lakes water diversion would be Creamer, daughter of Mr., and inconsistent with existing Canada- Mrs. Bernie Creamer and on the U.S. boundary water agreements. right is Debrah McIntosh, daugh- | ; ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mc. Intosh. ‘(See story Page 3.)
DUCK CALLER
CHARLTON, Mass. ‘AP)— Aaron Burlingame got tired of youths blowing auto horns outside his house to attract his daughters
So Sunday, when he heard one. he rushed out with a shotgun Seeing nothing, he fired a blast into the air
Pelltic satrurk Qne- de Kuehl, 17, hidden in & tree Pélice said he had been play- ing bird calls on a duck horn @s a practical joke :
Kueh! was given hospital
-.treatment and Burlingame pleaded guilty to assault with a@ dangerous weapon., He was given a suspended six. months’ jail sentence.
cade | moved through watir motorevcle escort. Pentre
its, er, Ity was his first such trip up the avenue since June -14, 1945, when
the victory in Europe:
He was wildly cheered by thou- sands packing the great square in front of the building as he
took tis place on a gilt chair be-! (Continued on Page 3 Col. 3) |!
Veterans Minister Sees Changes In Pension Act:
Several important amendments | proven to be invaluable to’ the pension act are expected | bringing to the attention of gov- at the next session of parliament,| ernment veterans needs. according to Hon. A.J. a The minister said he could not minister of veteran's affays who| elaborate on what new legisla- visied the ‘province yesterday.} tion would be brought before par-
companying the minister] liament but predicted that one were his deputy minister, Col.| matter most likely to be dizcus- Lucien Lalonde; Dr. J.M. Craw-| sed would be an increase in vet- ford, director general cf treat-| erans’ pensions. : ment services and T.D. Anderson a
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By WATSON SIMS
NEW DELHI (AP)—India‘s de- fence command came through its Political crisis intact Wednesday.
Tension over the northeast fron- tier also relaxed somewhat with reports that Red Chinese troops may be pulling out of border posts they grabbed last week.
Prime Minister Nehru told: Par- liament that the defence com- mand will continue unehanged despite a dispute over army pro- motions .between Defence Minis- ter V. K. Krishna Menon and Lt.- Gen. K. S. Ttimayya, Ihdian Army commander.
Nehru said Thimayya resigned | Monday, but decided to stay in ‘his post at the prime minister's |
matic troubleshooter for hi “great energy and enthusiasm. *
The prime minister's staie- ment that ‘“‘civil authoriiv =t remain supreme” quashed = reports. that Menon would leave the cabinet.
Nehru_ termed Thimayy# a gal lant soldier, but scolded him for resigning when India’s . borders! were threatened. ~ ;
Nehru did not Tefer to the am manders of the air force and navy who were reported to have re- signed with Thimayya.
REJECTED DEMANDS
A Socialist demand for a session to discuss the issue and a Socialist request to - see Them- ayya’s: letter to Nehru was re
mv-
ae ; jected by the House Speaker SUPPORTS MENON “>| The newspaper The Statesman Nehru. indicat tes complete |Peports thar the border troubles
qe THD. he Comnyaist Ohinese on j Wie northeastern Montier appara tly have @ased.and that the Chi- nese may be pulling oul How- ever, the paper says there have teen increased Chinese troop con- centrations along the frontier be- tween Tibet and Sikkim.. a semi- independent state west of India northeast frontier which Indti gy is pledged to protect.
‘support for Mow = {controversial m mimster “a i
Leads To Body;
VANCOUVER (‘CP) -. Police, following a telephone tip froma }man apparently involved in a kill- | inz. Wednesday found the body of a 69 - year - old watchman at ‘| storage warehouse near a safe
N.S. Premier - that had been blown open.
Police said Tt Be SOUS Harmony of su n rnaby was vi In M ritimes
ously dain but added they were unable to find any signs of vio |
Jence on the body. | HALIFAX (CP) —Progressive They said the body was discov-
: ;Conservative Premier Stanfield ered—at—the—Jchnson National told the tri-annual meeting of Storage Warehouse after an anon- the Canadian Federation of, Civil ymous telephone caller Said: |Servants here Wednesday” that “There is a watchman who needs the Atlantic Provinces are unit- help at Johnson's.” ed in a move to close the econ. Polige said the exact causre of omic gap between more prosper- death will not be known until an ous parts of Canada. — av opsy is held. “Politically, we are not all in The door of the office safe had|harmony.”’ he ‘remarked slyly. been blown open but the inner | “but today there is even more door y was still ingact. harmony.”
Chairman of the Canadian Pen-| sion Commicsion. Also in the par- ty were C.H. Scott, Rezional Administrator, Atlantic provinc- es from’ Halifax
While in- Charlottetown M:. Brooks ann unced tie ap- pointment of Lt. C ‘onel Kei‘h M. Johnsion as di:trict admnistra-} tor, succeeding ‘Lt. Colone! F.B.! Conrad who retired'scme months ago. .
During his visit to the Is'and, the minister conferred with of- ficia!s of the local office and met each member of the staff pe*son- ally. He also had a brief con‘er- ence -with a delegation from the Qanad'an Legion; visited several farm heldings and made a call on some fishermen at Rustico.
Mr. Brooks reported that s-me 183.000 veterans are at present in receipt of pensions. About 50 per cent of these are from the First World. War.
He noted that a great imomrove-| ment in the relations of veterans” orgapizations has-been exper.cn-|' ced since the establishment of a parliamentary committee on Vet- erans’ Affairs two years ago. __He_said this _ committee _hag
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Late reports from Guardian sews bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and Souris, arid.from special cor-
the Liberals were in opposition. Fourteen of the 22. Constrva-
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the fort and are fighting a guer- rilla action in the jungle, the of- ficial said
The rebels used anti-aircraft
rguns to fire on Royalist planes
and 120-millimetre mortars to at- tack-the fort, he said “They cer- tainly do not belong to the Pathet Lao. They came from Viet Nam.’
BIG INVASION FORCE -Brizg. - Gen. Ouan Rattikone commander of the Loatian army id earlier thatan estimated force of 3.509 North Viet Nam) troops—and /Pathet uxere moving southward in Sam Neua province. They were within 12 ‘miles of the Sam Neua town, he said Military observers said ‘the town, gurroundeg, by thickly for-
enemy could infiltrate almost into
the town before being sighted Rattikone said the Communists
had taken five fortresses along
south. But he expected the .rebels to swing west to take Sam Neua.
The general said the Commu- nist North Vietnamese army. had taken part in the attack
{pro - who six weeks ago staged an up-
Rattikone asked
and my intelligence reports show
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VETERANS Affairs -Mint:‘er A | during a visit to Charlottetown Crawford, director general of Scott,
treatinent services; K.M. Johns- Hal‘fax: erease in veterans pensions at T.D. Anderson, chairman of-the ton, district administrator, Char-| Lucien Lalonde
‘Chinese Mi
Lao rebels!
ested hills. was indefensible. The
the Riva Ma and were moving,
“What forces have Pathet Lao/’ Communist’ Laotian rebels
rising’ got that could’ do this?” “Mes \have only 2.40-frione
there. are now 6,500 Meo fighting up .the
ould have come Viet Nam
mortars. These /only from = Nort said: ~
| The area between. the Nam Ma | River and the North Viet_Nam border was taken by the Com- munists in the first day of their mid-July offensive aad has not Tien retaken by the Laotian
army. The area varies in depth from five to 12 miles.
Vientiane, the ‘adniinistration’s capital some 200.miles from the front, remained calm Wednesday. | All’ government offices, incl ithe ministry of defence and jtary headquarters, were el | for the Buddhist festival of the ‘dead.
Communist North Viet Nam Wednesday celebrated its 14th an- niversary with a 200,600 - strong parade of military and civilian units in the capital of Hanoi, the | ported.
Gen. Vo Ngiyen Giap. defence minister and commander-imchief condemned United States policy in Laos as ‘‘an attempt to expand the civil war there.”
In an order of the day ealling on the army to become ‘2 ful, declared: “The United States and its henchmen, the Ngo Dinh Diem fpresident of pro-Western South Vie@ Nam) ‘caiaee, have stepped
massing armaments.”
nister Tabs.
US. As War Instigator
i By RONALD FARQUHAR
PEKING ‘Reuters! Red China's foreign minister, Marshal Chen Yi, Wednesday accused the United States of instigating “civil war" in Laos.
At the same time he denied that |
Communist China has ever <n- croached on-other countries and warned other countries against encroaching on it.
Chen was speaking at a North Viet Nam national day reception at which Indian Ambassador G Parthasarathy was present, along with Chinese Premier Chou En- lai
Chen made no reference to In- dia by name, but observers in-
mT read
AL
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administ rafor, Minister Col.”
regional Deputy
terpreted: his statement as “a re ference ‘to recent frontier- in cidents involving Chinese and Is dian troops.
NEHRU’S STATEMENT
‘India’s Prime Minister Nehru told Parliament last week that Chinese troops had encroached oa Indian_territory in the eee mountain area, capturing army post.)
“In international affairs we al-
ways stand for settlement of dir putes between nations through peaceful negotiations,” Chen de clared. ence and preaceful competition between countries with different social systems.’
“This is our steadfast policy which can never be obliterated by any rumors or slanders.”
Chen's reference to” “encroach- ment” came immediately after
'| and was menacing the security. of China and North Viet Nam.
COVER UP PLAN.
“In order to cover up their own aggressive activities and their ‘other ulterior motives, imperal- ists and reactionaries in varous countres are accustomed to ate cuse socialist countries of aggre» sion and intervention.
Bad Weather lHalts Harvest
OTTAWA (GP) — The praine
by two wecks ¥ | which also has-retarded the mas» | tunit y of late - sown field ercps over a wide area, the bureau. of sta c: said Wedne
About half the cereal grains have deem swaihed in Maricca and Saskatchewan, but ony 20 ner ceni or less has be=n com- | bined. In Alberta fair barvo tng procress has bece made in the southcest part of the orov but Ittle has been done here.
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Polio Moves © \To 603 Cases
MONTREAL_,(CP) — Montreal poe reported 13 new cases of polio during the last 24 houra, raising the total to 603 this year, One “death was also: repor!
bringing the polio death toll te &
, he.
New China news agency Te_
power- modern armed force,”’. Giap ~
“and for peaceful coexist>.
grain harvest has been delayed:
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is attack on the US. | ‘He said Washington “in- | stigated”’ the ‘civil \war” in Laos -