“
Ads. Dial 8506 ask for classified ad Cay We 5 ee eee
e taker, for quick results. ? : high at Charlottetown 10 and 20. , a ee “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” - | a VOL. LXXII NO. 6 ene 0 eS ase om = CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 : 16 PAGES i; “Tux FIVE CENTS
ee
>
* —
e Gaulle As Presiden
By CLAIRE McDERMOTT
PARIS (Reuters)—Gen. Char- les de Gaulle became president of France today while the nation prepares to face the austerity and reform program he has in- a@ugurated sincé returning to po- litical power in June.
Armed with sweeping powers the new constitution, the 68-year- eld de Gaulle will be the strong- est French head of state since
Napoleon III died in 1873.
Ceremony climaxed by a 21- gun salute will mark de Gaulle’s inauguration and end the interim period that started last May 13 when mobs in Algiers stormed government buildings and ’ touched off the chain reaction that led to the downfall of the Fourth Republic.
FIFTH REPUBLIC’S LEADER
The Fifth Republic's first gov- ernment, to be headed by 46- year-old Mighel Debre, a leader
of pro-Gaullist Union for the New Republic, is due to be in-| stalled Within a few days. a
The new'cabinet is expected to
e |s Installed
— os
Pet <a
~ adie
PRESIDENT DE GAULLE
t Of France
de Gaulle has headed since June as interim premier.
Socialist leader Guy Mollet, a strong factor in bringing de Gaulle.back into political life last Spring, and his party will not participate in the new govern- ment and have indicated they will form a “constructive oppo- sition” to Debre.
The stern that de Gaulle feels is necessary to bring France back to her place as a world leader is con- sidered too deflationary by the socialists and already has brought protests from some sec- tions of the labor movement. THREATEN STRIKE
the country’s four major unions —Communist and non-Communist
—have threatened to strike if their wage demands are not granted.
Miners and rail ‘aackiie also have said they plan to claim wage increases and 900,000 farm- ers decided to call for,mobiliza- tion to carry out “any orders, however -grave."’ in opposition to
be almost the same as the one
the removal of price supports.
Population Near
18 Milli
OTTAWA (CP)—Canada’s pop- tiation is well along the road to the 18,000,000 mark and likely
_‘will come within a few hundred} thousand of that figure by the end of 1959.
The final estimate for 1958 still; is being prepared by the bureau of statistics but there are signs! that this: country started off the! new year with about 17,275,000 people. .
This was a record high and compared with a population of 16,887,000 at Jan. 1 last year. LARGEST FACTOR
Immigration is likely to be the largest factor in population change. The rate of natural in- erease usually remains stable but the government tempers the im-
between 150,000 and 160,000—|
n Mark
migration policy to the economic ||
climate—raising< the number of arrivals in good times. and cur- tailing them in times of high un- employment and slowed business activity.
Immigration authorities expect;
slightly above the annual average of 153,000 over the last 10 years— will be admitted to Canada dur- ‘ing 1959. :
The increase from births minus deaths can be expected on the basis of past performance to be about 300,000.
These two figures jive an esti- mated increase during 1958 of about 450,000 ami would put the
population at about 17,700,000 by}
the end of this year.
Buried For 12 Hours, Calif. Man Emerges Little Harmed. |
tstruek=by a CNR freight train
BAKERSFIELD. Calif. \\AP)— Labore# Leslie Stafford emerged » smiling “ywednesday after 12'2 hours underground in a collapsed cesspool. **s«
While rescuers worked ging- gerly above and the 40-year-old Staford struggled to free his trapped right foot, fellow worker} Wayman Halsell stood in the pit | with him for seven hours in a/ ‘Tigid body brace against a new cave-in.
Stafford and-Halscll were ad mitted to hospitat with shock. Staffgrd a also swallowed a con- siderable amount of sand
But his first words to his Lgdia, on emerging were, ‘what are you crying about, ma? They ean't bury a good man alive."
austerity program _
Gas and electricity workérs 1n |
/
Says Farmers ‘Bottleneck’
In Agriculture
lem facing the agricultural in- is that too many farmers
‘Gov't. Seeks Quick Loan To Tide Over
OTTAWA (CP) — The govern- ment has decided to raise an extra $100,000,000 this-month through short-term borrowing.
Finance Minister Fleming an- mounced Wednesday the govern- ment’s weekly offerings of 91-day treasury bills has been raised to $135,000,000 from $115,000,000. There are five weekly offerings this month.
Officials said the government will revert back to the $115,000,- 000 weekly offerings in Febru- ary. Treasury bills provide a quick way for the government to} raise funds to tide it over for a! short period of time. The money
a has to be repaid in 91
The bills are purchased by
banks, investment dealers and other financial groups on the basis yield bids. The yields
TRURO (CP). — The big prob-|
Storm y a Fierce In Que. Area
CHICOUTIMI, Que. (CP)—The
Saguenay and Lake St. John reg-
ion is recovering from one of the worst storms in memory.
Winds up to 68 miles an hour and temperatures of 14 degrees below zero caused fires and ac- cidents, one of them: fatal.
At St. Prime, Mrs. Dydime Al- lars, 73, was killed when struck by an automobile as she crossed an intersection.
Three fires caused an“unestim- ated amount.of damage. A res- taurant on Talbot Boulevard, was destroyed by flames. The homes of Raymond Tremblay and Eph- rem Gagne here were destroyed. Two children were treated in hos- pital fer frostbite after having fled the burning Gagne home.
Transportation has been slowed by drifting snow. Eye ferry be- tween Baie Ste. Catherine and Tadoussac has not been able to operate for the last two days due to ice in the mouth of the Sague- may River. The ferry service to the north
pa conte
a
e
"5 Former Cuban Officers
By WHAJAM L. RYAN
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Revo- lutionary authorities announced Wednesday the execution of 15 officers of the armed forces of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
The executions ‘signalled the start of widespread trials by rev- oltuionary courts of Cubans ac- cused. of crimes- content the state.
Authorities said 10 ollieice, in- cluding Col. Areado Casillas Lumpuy, were executed in San- tiago de Cuba, capital of Oriente province and hometswn'‘of Fidel Castro, leader of the revolution.
Lumpuy was Batista’s. chief of operations in Or‘ente, where be- tween 200 and 300 prisoners were reported awaiting trial.
Five military men were exe- cuted in Santa Clara, capital of central Las Villas province. Among those reported sentenced to death there was Lt.Col. Cor- nelio Rojas, a police inspector. He was accused of torturing pris- oners.
MANY HELD
Havana police chief Aldo Vera said 800 prisoners are being held in the capital on political charges.
Camilio Clenfugos, commander of Havana province,- said plans
are under way for a drastic re-
A two-month sea voyage to the south is in store for Sea Earl . A son of
Hie
ae PEIREtE Hae
ed permission to se one of their
Dulles Back, Feeling Fine
WASHINGTON (AP) — State Secretary Dulles was back at his desk in the state department Wed- nesday after a bout with a virus infection. Aides said “he’s feel-
= Southern Cruise
number on the cruise, but due to academic commititments none of the corpsmen qualified found it possible to accept the Navy's in- vitation.
Winds Delay Sea Traffic.
NEW YORK (AP)—High winds has delayed ships on the Atlantic. Three passenger vessels sche- duled to arrive Wednesday—the
‘| United states liner America, the
Halian liner Giulio Cesare and American export liner Excalibur
|—won't get here until today or
Friday, officials ship.
Another ship, the Holland America liner Ryndam, due to- day, also will be late. Shipping sources said scores of freighters were being delayed two to five days in making ocean crossings.
LEGISLATURE OPENING ..
REGINA (CP)—The third ses- sion of the 13th Saskatchewan leg- islature will open Thursday, \Feb. 12, Premier Douglas announced
the last |
have ingreasd during ar from a low of nine?
half tenths, of one per cent last Aug-| ust to 3.49_ last -week.
To provide for the weekly rise in the treasury bill offerings, co cabinet increased the authorized | ceiling for such issues to $1,595,-| 000,000 from $1,495,000,000. Mr. Fleming said the amount at pres- ent outstanding is $1,515,000,000. This is the first boost in the ceiling in a year.
Four Killed On Crossing
KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) — A father and his three young chil- dren were killed Wednesday when
.
His right foot was crushed, two} tées were fractured. He was} bruised and cut*by tons of sami and metal sheeting. During the first four\ hours, rescuers had given him up for dead.
Stafford’s will to live never failed him frem the moment the cesspool collapsed on him at 4 p.m. Tuesday. So sure were dig-+ ging rescuers that Stafford was | dead that they called for the cor- oner when his gloved hand was | uncoyerei. But the hand wiggled.
. When rescuers removed a cur- ved piece of metal that had given Stafford breathing space, they. | four nd him not only conscious but
Cocky {
“Give me some ‘water,”’ he said. “Then give me a steak and
their half-ton pickup truck was
near Breslau, nine miles ‘north- east of here.
Dead are Howard Rudy, 4, a Breslau area dairy farmer, Nancy, 11, Phyllis, 6, ami Walter, 4. The accident occurred 400 feet from their Waterloo ownship
Police said Mr. Rudy had peicked up his two oldest children at a nearby school and was driv- ing them home when he ap- parently failed to see the ap- proaching train. at
The youngest: boy- had gone with his father for the ride. Only Mrs, Rudy survives.
The truck was dragged a half- mile by. ,the Kitchener bound diesel-drawn freight., All four vic- tims were ‘found pinned in the
ing fine.”
Wednesday.
organization of the country’s armed forces, under the supervi- sion of the revolutionaries. He added that regular army men in- nocent of misieeds will be per- mitted to take part in the reor- ganization. if
(Britain and the United States announced Wednesday they have
Are- Executed By Rebels
officially recognized the Cuban provisional government.) (Informed sources in Paris said Wednesday that France has de- ci to recognize the Urritia government also, but no official announcement has been ) (Several other countrieg have already extended recognition.)
so. National Head Will Address Agricultural Institute Here _
De. &.. Te Bolton, na- tional president of the Agricul- tural Institute of Canada, will ad- dress the Prince Edward Island branch of the institute this even, ing in the banquet rom of the Rendezvous Restaurant at 6.15.
Dr. Bolton is widely recognized for his work as a forage crop
(Lin)
came apperent when he wrote a thesis on seed-setting in alfalfa while studyimg for his M.Sc. de- gree which he sulies im 1936. In 1957 he received his Ph.D. de- gree from the University of Min- nesota, where his research work was devoted to and selection methods in alf.
While employed at the, Swift
Current Experimental ~F’a hm, from 1936 to 1942, Dr. Bolton's
from the forage crops laboratory of the Canada deepartment of agriculture at Saskatoon and in 1956 was placed in charge of the laboratory.
LONG SERVICE
Dr. Bolton Kas a long record of service in professional _agri- cultural organizations. He has. served as president of the Swift Current and Saskatoon branches
Haywii
.
DR. J. L. BOLTON
of the Agricultura] Institute and was the registrar of the Saskat- chewan Institute of Agrologists
from
At the, national level he has
dealing ae lel aes with profi
Dr. Bol- on is also an active ‘member of in-
ciety of Agronomy, and the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science.
Dr. Bolton was born et Piu- mas, Manitoba, and grew up on a homestead near Glenella, Manitoba. He is married and has three children.
ire Gamble Cost Life,
Jury Is Told At Inquest -
BURLINGTON, Ont. (CP) — An unemployed father of il, George Beck, 43, gambled his life on a piece of haywire and it snapped, a coroner’s jury in- vestigating his death was told.
Beck broke his neck Dec. 27 when he plunged through his car door, held shut by the wire, head- long into a fence.
His brother Lockhart, 4, thrown out the other door when the car skidded off the road and snapped off a pole, told the cor-
oner’s jury Llamsoned “The door
‘You Don’t Trust-Us Enough’ Mikoyan Tells US Businessmen
By THOMAS P.' WHITNEY
CLEVELAND (AP) “You don't trust us enough,”’ Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet deputy pre- mier, tohi an audience of busi- ness leaders Wednesday in an #- peal for trade between Russia and the United States.
“Trade can strengthen peace; peace can make a proper atmos- phere for trade,"’ he said in a half-hour talk to a selected group of 6 men. Many of them are
-| heads of large corporations.
“It is a fact that we have some- ‘thing to buy and sell for each other,’ Mikoyan went on. “We want to trade earnest and trade well—to get as high a price as we can for the goods we sell and pay as low as we can for the goois we buy.”
Both Mikoyan and Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-born industrialist who is host to the deputy premier for his Cleveland visit, voiced a hope the U.S. Congress would lft bar- riers to trade.°
SERIOUS BARRIER ~
Eaton introduced Mikoyan whore talk was translated by an
further and broader path to friendship’ but that present re- strictive legislation poses a seri- ous barrier.
This was the first stop on Miko- yan's swing from Washington across the U.S. It produce noisy demonstrations from Iron-Curtain
nality groups. Mikoyan ig- pein the shouts and signs, kept smiling and repeated a doffed-hat greeting to the crowds.
“When I return, I will tell the people of the feelings expressed here by Cyrus Eaton and others,” Mikoyan said. “I will speak of the words. spoken here which in- dicate the hope of a peaceful co- existence.”
LINK NAMES
Names of the two were linked on signs paraded by pickets ani reading: ‘““Mikoyan go home and take Eaton with you.”
This steel city has a large pop- ulation of Slavic origin and hun- dreds turned out to protest Miko- yan's stop.
The -most vigorous demonstra- tion was'at Terminal Tower on
interpreter. Eaton said “mutually
I'll help you dig me out.”
4
erushed cab,
_| profi
teble commerce would be a
Public Sque-e. when Mi*oyan and Eaton left for the Union Club,
7
‘
One woman who charged to- ward the stocky deputy premier yelling “Go \home, murderer,” was arrested for throwing a stone at an-escort car. She was on a disorderly conduct charge as Mrs. Emma Halai, 19, and said she fled from Budapest two years. ago with her husband, Mike. : SPEARHEAD PICKETS
Hungarians spearheaded the
picket groups protesting on be-| half of half a dozen Iron Curtain}
countries. Abput 300 collected on the square and were held back by mounted and foot p0lice. Yell- ing and spitting, they pressed within a policeman’s arm-length of the N¥. 2 Soviet leader and his capitalist host.
The protesters were thwarted at the airport, where they gathered an hour before Mikoyan’s plane arrived from Washington at 10:10 a.m. Police and security agents roped them off from the con- course and observation deck, and they had to carry their signs in the main lobby. The 1l5-car po- lige - escorted caravan deviated from the normal route downtown to~aveid cluste:s of pickets sta- toned along the way.
‘ .
on the passenger side had a habit of flying open on curves and rough roads.”
He said his brother had to get into the car from the passenger’s side because the other dodr was wired shut.
He said George had bought the 10-year-old’ car -in Saint John, N.B. and used it to bring seven of his 11 children to Burlington, near Hamilton, four months ago.
“My brother was a motor me- chanic but he just didn’t have | the money to fix up the car,”’ he said.
He added that he and his brother were unemployed and had ‘‘eight.or nine beers each” a few hours ‘before the accident. They were celebrating news thal ‘George had won a lottery prize.
Lockhart said he received three telephone calls from Saint John teling him a strange man would present him with a cheque for $4.500. The man never appeared, however.
Sir Winston Delays Flight
LONDON (AP) — Sir Winston
te ren
Churchill Wednesday night de-|’
layed his departure for a vacation in Marrakesh, Morocco, until Monday, Jan. 12. He was to have flown there today.
Better Business _ Seen For 1959
SAINT JOHN, N.B., — -(CP) — Indications are that this year will be a slightly better one for business than 1958, the vice-pre- sident of traffic for the Cana- dian Pacific Railway said in an interview here Wednesday.
George F. Buckingham of Montreal added that business is picking up slowly -and—car-load- ings on the CPR system show improvement.
Mr. Buckingham said it is dif- ficult to see what effect the St. Lawrence seaway will have o2 rail Araffic. ‘“‘“However, we must expect competition te become mui e severe.”
Question Of
yngress Opens Ary, dow Over Leaders
Filibusters
Also Prominent On Agenda
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON (AP)—A new and bigger Cungress came into being Wednesday, embroiled in ‘conflict over filibusters and the choice of men to lead the elec- ‘ion-thinned ranks of Republicans.
The Senate quickly took up arms and waded into a scrap ever proposals to curb the time- honored right of minorities to try- to talk, legislation to death.
At the end of one fast, indecis- ive round, the outlines of an in- “so 0 > ere: ing on this issue, tightly entwined with civil rights. The probable compromise: To let two-thirds of the senators present and voting choke off debate rather two- thirds, or 66, of the total te membership as the rules now pro- vide.
Senate old - line Republicans beat down a Liberal insurrec u tion
don B. Johnson of Texas as their
| leader.
The House of Representatives placed Democrat Sam Rayburn of Texas in the Speaker’s chair for an unprecedented ninth term.
To resounding applause the Sen-
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Warm air is waiting to” cOme into Canada from the. United States.
The Dominion weather office in Toronto said Wednesday a warm front with temperatures into the 3s is being held station- ary by an area of Arctic air that covers Canada from the Rockies to the Maritime provinces.
Arctic air has held Canada in its grasp. sipce last week. Kt is statiohary- and until it moves the warm air around its southern fringes cannot move. in.
Two of the warmest areas in Canada Wednesday were north- ern. Newfoundland and Labrador. Warm Atlantic air raised tem- peratures there to almost 30 de- grees. Another warm area was
the southern British Columbia coast where te ratures ranged to 40 degrees.
BELOW NORMAL -From-the “Prairies to the Mar-} itimes temperatures were below or well below normal. The fore- easter said they will remain that way for at least another day. Some temperatures expected Wednesday night: Montreal five above; Ottawa and Quebec City
\zero; Toronto 20; Winnipeg, Re-
gina and Edmonton 15 below. Quebec expected some moder- ation in temperatures today as a storm north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence weakened. But read- ings would still be below normal.
mestic issues by the dozen. These will erupt later, after congres_ sional] committees swing into ac- tion. :
STATE OF UNION SPEECH What the administration wants
of congress will be laid down
when President Eisenhower
x
government, of a confidence and will, 7 “exalting the static’ in these dynamic
that tore Republicans apart day in the House and left with unhealed scars. The heaval there resulted in the ous- ter of Republican leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts after 20 years of command.
MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR
Rep Charles A. Hal- leck of iana was installed as Martin’s successor by a 740-70 vote.
In the\House, a potential chal-~ fenge to the seating of integra-
ford be denied a seat pending a
fuller hearing.
January Thaw
May Be
Near
U.S. Steel Goes To Reds Via Halifax
HALIFAX — (CP) — United States steel is being shipped to the Soviet Union through this port in exchange for Russian scrap and pig iron and chrom- ium ore. :
R. J. Fisher, president of Pickford and Black Limited, local shipping agents, said Wed- | nesday night ‘one freighter” is now loading, a second is due Saturday and a third uater.
The steel, mostly sheets, came here by rail. Mr. Fisher said he believes it originated in Cleve- land. The ships will unload at Riga, in Soviet Latvia.
The first of the freighters, the Finnish ship Bore IX, arrived here Dec. 13 with a cargo of iron and chromium ore, Mr. Fisher said she was loaded “somewhere ia the eSoviet Un-
MCA Official Builds Plane
To Mark Flight Anniversary
MONCTON, (CP) A Moncton man, Donald B. Sim- mons, is building a homemade plane he hopes to fly from the ice of Cape Breton’s Bras d Or Lake next month on the 50th an- niversary of the first heavier- than-air flight- in the — British Commonwealth.
Mr. Simmons is assistant op- erations manager of Maritim Central Airways here and a f mer RCAF jet pilot. 7
J.A-D. McCurdy, former Nova Scotia lieutenant-governor, flew the first airplane off the ice at Baddeck, N.S... on Feb. 23, 1909.
Mr. Simmons started building ftis tiny single-engine plane in the basement of his home on New Year's Day 1958. He has
worked on K sifice them vi)
* spare time weekends and even ings.
He says he long dreamed of building his own plane right from the blueprints but it is just a coincidence that it will be finished in time for the anni- wersary of Mr. McCurdy’s his- toric flight.
When the sub-assembly stage
‘was reached he moved the plane -| out of his basement to a hanger
at Lakeburn airport here. There it—is- dwarfted —by—giant— four=- engine aircraft.
Mr. Cimmons hopes .to {test- fly his tiny plane for the Trans . port Department in a few wi If he meets his schedule he head ‘for Baddeek for the anai- verdary observance tribute te Canada’s first airman