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Ge Cypriot leader, leaves London’s Dorchester Hotel with a British security officer for mearby Park Lane Hotel to con- sult with colleagues in connect- ‘ion with the conference on Cyp-
ania
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Bearded Archbishop Makarics, , rus. The talks began Tuesday
but today’s sessions have been postponed because of the crash of an aircraft carrying Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes to the conference. The’ Premier escaped with apparent minor in-
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AIR CRASH DELAYS CONFERENCE
juries. It is expected the meet- ing will produce a_ constitution that will make Cyprus an in-
dependent republic within the | Commonwealth ending 81 years |
of British rule.
Premier Sees Opposition
Chances Of Election Fade
Premier Matheson yesterday told the Progressive Conserva- Opposition their chances of aning the next provincial elect- were getting slimmer and mmer.
He said, “Six months ago you gave the impression there would be fo difficulty in getting 30 of candidates elected. Today I am sure you would be very happy if you could win 17 seats."
He accused the party leader, W. R. Shaw of making an about face in his attitude toward the frozen food plant and referred to a speech made by Mr. Shaw in 1955 wherein the PC leader was reported to have belittled the establishment of the plant, term- ing it a figment of the Premier’s imagination.
HAS SEEN ERROR
“TT am glad to_learn that the party leader has seen the error of his ways and he now supports our policy,” said Mr. Matheson,
who noted also that Mr. Myers |Phr
Was enthusiastic enough to sug- gest that a frozen food plant should be erected in each*of the three counties.
The Premier went on to say that, the frozen food trade has in- creased 1,000 per cent in the past five years and many of the large chain stores are installing new refrigeration equipment and purchasing refrigerated trucks to Ibok after the trade. “There is no end to the development that can take place im this direction.” the Premier said.
Returning briefly to PC poli- tics the Premier said the Cra- paud member was quite disturb-
ed at the outcome of the Bread- albane meeting.
R.R. Bell: “Why cause trouble again.”
Premier: “I have something to say about you too.”
Quoting from the Guardian, the Premier read where Mr. Bell said the present road policy and the rural electrification pro- gram would not continue on a
Island if it were not for the Die fenbaker Government.
“Can you imagge anyone who would expect the people of this province to believe such a state- mex. Our rural’ electrification program is well on the road to completion and as for the road program, I'll tell you about that,” the Premier continued. (Continued on page 5 col. 1)
NextMajorWarFought = In Outer Space, Belief
By DAVE McINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — “We've left
the comic strips behind,” is a ase which has been used by Defence Minister Pearkes.
In these words, he was giving expression to a belief held by some defence planners here that the next major war, if there is one, will be fought in outer space with missiles and counter-mis- siles, satejlites and counter-satel- lites and possibly manned space ships.
These planners feel that the era of such weapons is no more than a decade away. And they also feel that Russia would be utterly destroyed if the Soviets at-
:tempted all-out aggression in the
next two years.
Tragedy Unfolds
In Theft
TORONTO (CP)—A 35-year-old Toronto mother, whose husband said she was “‘driven to drink by the love for a dead child,” was charged Tuesday with a bank theft of $5,600.
Mrs. Mary Reinhardt is charged jointly with’ two men with stealing the money from a downtown Bank of Montreal branch where she worked as a teller.
* Joseph Sullivan, 22, and Bren- dan J. Noonan, 27, were arrested Tuesday when they returned to their home after a union meet- ing. They are also charged with receiving stolen money. All three were remanded to Feb. 24.
A tragic tale of a mother sep- arated from her children by the death of one and court action concerning the three others, un- folded Monday when Mrs. Rein- hardt was arrested at the Co- bourg police station 65 miles east of here.
CHILDREN WITH HER
She was with her daughter, Donna, 6, and son,. Paul, 3, when she walked into the station and complained that two men had stolen $2.000 from her.
Meanwhile, Catholic Children’s Aid officals had queried the bank about why Mrs. Reinhardt had not returned her children to their fosier homes. They had been al- lowed to visit their mother, dur- ing the weekend.
Bank officials found their teller had gone to luach and had not
Hearing
returned. A check showed $5,600 was missing.
Mrs. Reinhardt’s husband, Ray- mond, an unemployed photogra- pher, told police his wife began drinking heavily after a _ son, John, born an invalid, died in 1957. He said the drinking re- sulted in their three other chil- dren — Donna, Paul and seven month-old Joseph — being taken into custody by the Catholic Chil- dren's Aid Society.
WANTED THEM BACK
His wife desperately wanted to get the chitdren back, he said, and hated to have them return to the foster homes after week- end visits.
She was depressed Sunday and
clung to the children all day, cry-.
ing. She kept reading the hospi- tal telegram about John’s death. Later ‘she left the house but re- turned with the children at 11 p.m. and took them with her when she left for work the next day.
Mrs. Reinhardt told police she stormed out of the house Sunday after an argument with her hus- band and was given a ride by two men. They told her to go back home and meet them on her way to the bank Monday.
She said the men met fier and took her children while she went to work. They met later and drove fast. They. stopped in Co- bourg for a meal and when she returned from the washroom they
had gone.
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These are the basic military reasons—there are also economic ones—why the government is not planning any major expenditures for weapons in the 1959-60 fiscal year.
The administration's attitude can be summed up this way: why spend hundreds of millions of dol- las on weapons which may be- come obsolete even before their production is well in hand?
The government realizes thr is grumbling by some armed forces officers about the 25-per- cent cut to $334,000,000 in the ap- propriation for weapons and equipment in the 1959-60 fiscal year. At the same time, the ap- propriation for operations and maintenance will increase by $47,000,000 to $1,097,454.000 in a defeneesbidget of $1,695,000,000.
‘| RADAR’ DOES JOB
Some R officers maintain that the air force needs a manned interceptor such as_ thie*-super- sonic Arrow for positive identifi- cation of any attackers, if for no other reason.
The government says the three radar lines strung across Canada were built for detection and iden- tification. The Russian bomber threat has been reduced and there is no proof that the Soviets are developing a new supersonic bomber. With the bomber threat reduced, adequate insurance can be provided by the anti-aircraft Bomarc missile.
With the increasing costs of weapons, Canada simply could not afford to make a mistake m procurement. Admittedly, this country was taking a calculated risk that present elementary mis- siles would not be needed now. But risks had to be taken in a
hot one.
CNR Denies Huge Layoff
MONTREAL (CP)—The Cana- dian National Railways Tuesday described as “preposterous” a report that the publicly-owned corporation plans to lay off 9,000 workers across Canada.
A railway spokesman said there ‘‘is no foundation” to a claim ina brief of the Transcona, Man., local of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men that layoffs of this magni- tude are planned.
J. S. Gendron, chairman of the Transcona local, presented the
: brief to town council.
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High interest rates, he said, wer making it difficult to finance provincial, municipal and indus- trial projects and may result in a further slowing down of the Can- adian economy.
of last year in which potatoes had to be dumped.
“Many of our farmers.” said Mr. Clark, “had expected the promised price supports would have sustained prices but the pit- tance franded our farmers was in
Sue? ietat Se. provieng sues a few months earlier.”’
He said # was also in sharp contrast to the $49 million grant given western grain growers in addition to a federally subsidized Prairie Farm Assistance pro- gram paying out acerage pay-
P.E.1. Farmer, Rail Official Debate Rates
SACKVILLE, N.B. ‘OP) — A Prince Edward Island farm of- ficial and a railway executive disagreett here Tuesday m a panel talk on the effect of freight rates on on Maritime industry.
J.L. Dewar, secretary of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture, said high trans-
in movements of competitive pro- ducts between Maritimes and) Central Canada.
Douglas V. Gonder, vice-presi- dent and general manager of the Canadian National Railways’ At- lantic Region, said
creases were to meet rising costs. He higher rates were applied n as-
solutely “Hecessary. The Mari- times ‘‘would be in a rather bad state’ if there were no rail trans- portation, Mr. Gonder said.
They spoke at a Mount Allison University forum discussion. The other member of the three-man panel was Bruce MacDonald chairman of the industrial con- mittee of city council in Sydney.
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ments as high as four dollars per acre where production was low- est.
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PUZZLING THING
“The rather puzzling thing
_| about last year’s potato support
program was not the small per bushel allowance but the fact that
j it took the local government and
jall the agricultural bigwigs and experts in the province, includ- ing the leader of the PC party to convince federal authorities that it was impossible to meet the original rigid inspection § de- ‘tmanrids,” he said.
“Finally the mesage was put across at Ottawa that we had few grade No. | potatoes in mid July and permission was. granted to pay 36 cents per bushel on 75 per cent of the crop provided the potatoes were properly trimmed of their summer whiskers,”’ con- tinued Mr. Glark.
PM’s PROMISES The minister of Education re- called the Prime Minister's
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Inflation Will Ruin Us, Says Education Minister
speech in Charlottetown in which he was quoted as saying, “The bill would insure the farmer a fair return on_his investment and the setting up of an advisory com- mittee of which Mr. Lincoln De- war was a member, would pro- vide the effecting of such re commendations as the committee would see fit to make.”
“The day will never come when
| | the farmer will be asked to accept
less than 80 per cent of the past ten year average.”
Continuing further Mr. Clark noted that when Mr. Diefenbaker Was questioned from the floor of a meeting at Summerside regard- ing potatoes, the Prime Minister replied, ‘‘They cam be included any time there isa request. Each
(Continued on page 2 Col. 3)
More Doctors Called In_ For Dulles
WASHINGTON (AP) — State Secretary Dulles’ doctors called in three more specialists Tuesday in the hope of defining and con- jtalwing his @idomival cancer, |and from the White House came indirect word that he will con- tinue as secretary of state at least for several weeks.
The decision apparently was left up to Dulles.
President Eisenhower was de- scribed by Representative Charles A. Halleck of Indiana as feeling that as long as Dulles “is
able and wants to carry on, the president of the United States will avail himself of his services.”
portation costs act as a barrier |
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Two Island high schools, Ken-
|sington and Alberton have stood
highest in the four Atilantic Provinces in the results of a
schools and colleges ability test sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation of New York and administered under the direc- tion of the Central Advisory Committee for Edueation in the four provinces.’ Adrhinistration of the tests in Prince Edward Island was under the direction of Mr. Malcolm MacKenzie, Deputy Minister of Education. The high standing of the two schools was announced in the
2 Island High Schools Stand Highest In Test
Minister of Education, Hon. Keir Clark.
Kensington school had a class average of 298.7 against the Atlantic average of 290. Their average in English was 50 com- pared to the Atlahtic average of 45. In mathematics they had an average .of 473.5 in compari- son to the four province ave- rage of 407.
Alberton had a class average of 294.2; English 49.1 and mathematics 428
Mr. Clark .said there were other Island high schools that. made high standings, but sing- led these two out as he spoke on the draft address.
Returns To Kill 2
‘NEW YORK (AP)—A brooding shipping clerk was fired Tuesday by a Madison Avenue textile firm. Thirty minutes later he re- turned in a murderous rage and killed two young office girls with a vengeful burst of gunfire.
‘The man, Ponell Johnson, 27, had 50 cartridges on him. He stopped firing only when his rifle —which he bought at a pawnshop with his office discharge pay— jammed.
Deputy chief inspector Thomas L. Burns said of Johnson, a Negro who painted water colors, dabbled at poetry, played jazz and effected bright shirts, a beret and occasionally a moustache: “The motive was revenge . . . He blamed everybody in the office.”
Johnson's wife, Mercedes, 24, mother of his five young daugh- ters; said of her husband:
“He has a terrible temper. rOnce he gets angry he is uncon- troliable.”’
FIRST IN LINE
Victims of the shooting were Lorraine Rosenberg, 21, a tele- phone operator and receptionist at the Marvin Fabrics Company, and Elaine Fallik, 18, a clerk and receptionist.
They were the first employees of the firm Johnson encountered when he returned to the office. In addition, police said, he bore tham a gfudge because-they had laughed at a surrealist painting he had once shown them.
A third shot went wild before three brothers, officials of the textile firm, rushed Johnson, overpowered him and seized the rifle. They were Alex Distler, 55, Harold, 50, and Edgar, 44
GOV'T QUERIED ABOUT REPORT
Dr. L. G. Dewar (PC 2nd Prince) asked Premier Ma- theson yesterday whether the Interim Committee on Hos- pital Insurance had submit- ted a report to the govern- ment and if so, would the re- port be tabled. The premier, in view of the fact that Dr. Bonnell was not in his seat at the time, said he would pre- fer to leave the answer to the Minister of Health.
Search For Trawler E
HALIFA P) — An air a sea search for the missing Ice- landic fishing trawler Juli and her 31 men has been abandoned, RCAF rescue headquarters here announced Tuesday.
The Juli disappeared -11 days ago northeast of Newfoundland after reporting she was in danger from high seas and heavy_icing
on her superstructure.
Dazed but still alive, Hardy
Hargrove ‘picture.at left) sits in front of his car after train rip-
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Legislature yesterday by the
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ped car in two. He said he didn't| Hargrove suffered cuts, hs wife Pitalized. The accident occurred
see train.
Rear of car ‘picture at right> landed 50 feet away.|internal injuries. Both were hos-| Ajamaba.
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By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON (AP) An American satellite carrymg a miniature mechanical weather observer flashed into orbit around the earth Tuesday.
The basketball-sized satellite is equipped to check up. and report back on the earth's cloud cover and thus help spot storm clouds or tornadoes.
The satellite, Vanguard Il, it- self may whirl on through space for years or even centuries. But the batteries for its weather eyes —a pair of photoelectric cells— can operate continuously for only a fortnight.
And it may take two weeks more to process the information relayed back to earthbound sci- entists by the 20-inch, reer globe.
STARTS NEW ERA
Dr. Richard Porter, head of the United States satellite panel for twe Infernational Geophysical Year, said the launching is “‘the beginning of a new era in weather research.” . President Eisenhower congratulated “all who participated in the success- ful launching.”
Out in the reaches of space, the new satellite is streaking along with Russia's huge Sputnik HI and three American satellites still aloft. Its two electronic eyes peer out of its shiny shell. Other delicate instruments are packed inside the sphere.
A remodelled version of the Vanguard rocket, which was a $100,000,000 fizzle in six or seven
New Faiseaas
fra Predicted
" earlier tries, shot the satellite-
intd orbit. Cape Canaveral, Fia., was the launching spot. The slender 72-foot rocket car-
hitch,
Then, two hours and 20 min utes later in Washington, the na- tional aeronautics and space ad- ministration announced that Vam guard HI was in orbit.
16-MINUTE CIRCLES
Director T. Keith Giennan told a press conference later that the the
artificial moon is circling earth every 16 minutes at alti- tudes varying from 335 to 2,050
ling faster when it is closer te th. earth.
Trailing along behind is the 30- pound third stage of the rocket.
The life of the satellite is com- puted at a decade at ‘least, and perhaps hundreds of years.
Vanguard HI isn’t as far out in space as Vanguard I, and hence is in glenser atmosphere. The first Vanguard, a grapefruit - sized moonlet launched last March, is expected to last perhaps 1,000 years.
With reference to\ the potential value of the system, NASA said scientists hope to ge more spe- cific information on the height and layers of clouds, on rain and on snow, and how to develop tech- niques for locating electrical storms.
12 ARE KILLED
Turkish
LONDON (OP)—A Turkish air- liner bringing Premier Adnan Menderes to the London Cyprus conference crashlanded Tuesday in a dense fog 28 miles from London. The Turkish leader stag- gered dazed and bruised from the wreckage. At least 12 others aboard were killed.
The four - engined Viscount, owned by the Turkish govern- ment, was carrying only Turkish officials and the crew—a total of 22.
It cdame*tiown in a wood on the approaches to Gatwick ainport in Surrey. The plane, coming in from Istanbul and Rome, had been diverted from London air- port because of poor visibility.
| Menderes, 60, spent two hours
at a nearby farmhouse and then was brought to the London clinic,
Lives In Crash
Premier
wrong with Mr. Menderes. All he wants is rest and quiet.” Taken to the hospital with Men- deseres were Sefik Fenmen, his private secretary, and another Turkish official.
The news caused an immediate adjournment of negotiations the future of Cyprus and it announced Tuesday night thet day’s session will be Arrangements for further sions will be made when ee er eee
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ministers had led the conferences Tuesday to pave the way for ‘Wednesday's scheduled session at
where a physici ~ “There is notiigg seriously
ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Resi- dents of the Avalon Peninsula to- day will continue mammoth mop- up operations in the wake of New- foundland’s worst winter storm that took six lives.
Snowplows and blowers worked round the clock to open city streets and provincial highways clogged with drifts 20 feet high.
Cars were stuck everywhere, some completely| covered with snow. A teen-age girl, Shirley Lush, died apparently of carbon Monoxide poisoning, in a car stranded behind Memorial Sta-
dium in the city’s east end of the
:|city. Police were investigating ‘| the incident.
Residents of Outer Battery,
were asleep when tons of snow, cascading down from steep cliffs at the harbor entrance, claimed the lives of five people and trapped 20 others. HOUSES TORN LOOSE
The avalanche shoved two houses 50 feet down the rocky slope. One house was demolished. The second storey of another was sheared off.
Bits and pieces of the houses tumbled into the harbor.
Rescue worker Alex Wells helped remove the body ‘of his 19-
year-old nephew Ted Wells from
the prime ministers’ level.
Huge Snow Removal Job Underway In Nfld.
the wreckage of one home. Alse found dead were Mrs. S. Vincent, 76; James Piercey, 42, and his, 38-year-old wife.
Isiah Dawe, 100, died two hours after being admitted to hospital
lanche.
Shirley Noseworthy, 16, was one of the rescued. She was buried under snow and wreckage for 12 hours before rescuers reached her.
Her condition was not immedi- ately known. Her mother said Shirley was “doing fime’’ in hos- pital. She asked reporters to let the girl rest a week before ask- ing questions.
{DIG WITH HANDS
“For fear of ‘hurting the trapped girl, the men dug with their hands, some without gloves, One rescue worker said the girl showed “remarkable courage.” About 50 men, most of them fish-
part in rescue operations.
At the height of the storm winds reached 135 miles an hour —the highest ever recorded in Newfoundland. The storm started Sunday midnight. Twelve hours later 21.6 inches of snow had
fallen om the city.
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