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‘annual St. Patrick’s _,Parade. members of Charlottetown gauwolent Irish Society were " iigpanied by members of the Ememld branch. , Inching. up. in front of the So- .’ Hall’ on Grafton Street, . in charge of Chief - William W. Mccarron, aded by the band of the 1. Regiment (17 Recce.). ' 1 to the Cenotaph ‘wreathf was laid by Ray Ambrose Smith, with d Reyeille” being ifingfii--David Mills. Vthe. Cenotaph, t par- along Gra ton to "thence via Kent, Queen, and Great George [to ‘St. Dunstan’s Basilica, embers of the Society an .eleven »o’clock Mass, jBasilica, Solemn High .,.Was celebrated by Rev. nce Landrigan, with‘Rev. ce Roche as Deacon and lter Reid, Sub-Deacon. sermon was preached by .~Thomas Chidlow, C.Ss.R., Patrick’s Church, Toronto. -Following the service at the Eéasilica, the parade re-formed “’§,}1d'ret11rned‘ to their Grafton ftteet headquarters by way of t,George, Richmond, Prince,

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OTTAWA (CPI — CCF Leader . ,Wgell' has been pronounced fit able to carry on his election mkaign as planned.

" .‘ Coldwell said Saturday he

a medical examination ’ all night and that his physi- ijDI‘. T. L. Fisher, Ottawa fill specialist, told him he -flljfld continue. ; Except for being tired I am my well.” Mr. Caldwell/' said in llllllerview. “I shall be able to lillfllinueythe campaign until elec- “nlay. March 31."

WEEKEND REST

ah I6? a weekend rest at home, - C_01dwe1l will resume his

~ I’313'1’mig in Montreal Tues-

3)’ and Hamilton Wednesday.

fearson Wind

“_“S°1l»has wound up his At- ext” campaign with a pledge to 95051 national hospital insur- ce into a full medical insur- Scheme, covering major 31. dental and surgical

‘medic osts,

,f,:“‘Ii Pushing his way through mm?‘ the districtfs worst snow- uchs Saturday night, he M red on the “tight - money” °"°1‘Sy. saying the Progres- Conservatives must feel a d133D.Dointed” that Gov- , Jamfés E. Coyne of the giwith £5‘ Canada did not agree as Elf views on the cause of recession.

dial‘? Itaiberal leader urged Cana- ioretho me, but to think he- "nothael Voted. He saici-he did ;_ that P‘;e the command of cnglish . htftllevlltllhistcr Diefcnbaker vb’ oers should not be dr;:lbooled” by the “exciting, ‘Dec

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B.I.S. PARADE ARRIVES AT BASILICA

ity And Emerald B.I.S. old St. Patrick's Parade

Kent and Queen Streets.

After the parade a short pro- gram was held in the B.I.S. Hall, presided over by J. Pius Calla- ghan, president of the organiza- tion. Telegraphic greetings were read from various Irish_Societies in North America, by the secre- tary of the Society, Everett Bea- gan.

The Recce Regiment band was commanded by W01 Charles

MacGregor.

Acclamaiions Expected As lN‘?"l.I!19'II°flS..A'9 .T9day.

byelection following the! death of

By THE -CANADIAN PRESS

The field of candidates for the March 31 dominion élection takes final shape today. -

One acclamation, for a Pro- gressive Conservative, was in prospect, and indications were for a total entry of possibly 830 can- didates, lowest since 1940 when aspirants numbered 672.

Candidates have until 2 p.m., local standard time, to file their nomination papers with constit- uency returning officers and pay their 200.dep-osits to qualify for the race.

A candidate forfeits his deposit if he polls less than half the vote of the winning candidate in his constituency.

FEWER CANDIDATES

As the deadline approached, a C a n a d i a 11 Press compilation showed 813 candidates had al- ready indicated th ir intention of contesting th«e_26, constituencies, two of which return two mem- bers apiece. Only a last-minute flurry of entries would take the final total over 830.

In the 1957 election last June 10, 867 candidates qualified.‘Su'b- sequent withdrawals cut the number to 862 by voting day. In 1953 there were 898 candidates.

The record high was 954 candi-

dates for 245-seats in 1945;‘ The acclamation was expected- in Lanark in the Ottawa Valley where the only candidate na-med by Sunday was Progressive Con- servative George Duocett. f01" mer Ontario minister of high- ways. Mr. Doubett won the seat by acclamation last year at a

$65,000 Fire At No. Sydney

NORTH SYDNEY, N. s. (CP)-

- Fire which levelled the office and

warehouse of Brennan and Com- pany Limi-ted here Saturday caus- ed an estimated $65,000 damage.

In the warehouse were $30,000 worth of toys and three 14-foot fibre class boats.

Firemen fought the blaze from 1.30 a. in. until noon. In the after- noon a bulldozer knocked down the ruined walls of the 80-year- old landmark.

. Millions In

Soviet Union Voted Sunday

MOSCOW (AP) — Minions of citizens turned out Sunday for parliamentary elections to the blare of martial music and get- out - the - vote slogans booming over loud. speakers.

Citizens over, 18 years of age lined u-p 'at polling stations to cast their ballot for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's two-‘house, Par- lia-mcnt.

They did not even have to fill out the ballot. The voter was handed a ballot from an election official after having his name checked from a master roster.

Then he folded the ballot and deposited it in a large box. Each polling station contains a closed booth where citizens who wish can cross off the name of the party-selected candidate and sub- stitute another. Thcse booths get little use.

The sun shone brightly in Mos- cow and by 2 p.m. 95.4 per cent of the eligible voters had done their duty. Similar reports came from other parts of the Soviet Union. I

Each ballot carries the name of only one candidate. Candidates were selected at pre - election meetings. There are 1,378 candi- dates for the same number of seats.

Says Fruit Can Be Supported

PENTICTON, B. C. (CPI- Agriculture Minister I-Ia/rkness

" assured Okanagan orchard own-

ers Saturday night that fruit can be supported under the govern- ment’s Agricultural Stabilization Act.

Mr. I-Iarkness said there had been “misconcep_:tions” concern- ing the scope of ,the act.

There also was a misconception that nothing could be done about the 1957 apple crop.

When final crop returns had reached Ottawa the government would be glad to consider the B.C. Fruit Growers Association’s request for‘ issistauce‘. 4 Mr. Harkness said an improved farm credit system would be the next major agriculture legisla- tion planned by the Conserva-

, tives ‘if they were returned to

power. Also under study was

Dr. William G. Blair whohad been member for Lanark since 1945. -

If the acclamation develops, it will be the first for the Conserv- atives in a general election since 1900—ex«c-ept for the 1917 war- time election when nine candi- dates of the union govern-ment, made up of both Conservatives and Liberals, were returned with- out opposition. The 1900 acclama- tion went to J. E. Seagraim in Waterloo North.

NFLD.‘ ACCLAMATION

In the 1957 election there was also one ac-cla-ma-tion but it went to Liberal Chesley W. Carter in Burl-n Burgeo, - Newfoundland. This time he faces a Conserva- tive opponent. ‘

The Conservatives have candi- dates in all 265 seats. The Lib- erals have named contenders for all but Lanark. Last year the situation was reversed, the Lib- erals contesting all, the Con-. servatives all but one.

The CCF has 166 candidates, four more than its 162 total last year. Social Credit has 82, down 32 from 114'. There are '36 others, compared with 66 a year ago, in- cluding I8 Communist Labor-Pro- gressives who had 10 starters last time.

The heaviest entry of candi- dates is in the far West. British Columbia has 93 candidates with Conservatives, Liberals, CCF and Social Credit contesting all its 22 seats along with five La- bor - Progressives. Alberta also has‘ an average of more than four candidates for each of its 17

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Medical Insurance Pledge

.left by ‘train Sunday for south-

eastern Quebec, with stops P1311: ned at Mont Joli and Rimouskl Monday.

Here at Moncton, where he was led to a local high school audit-. orium by a band and 92 - cal‘ motorcade, he spoke before a mid — afternoon audience of 800. And then in the evening. dI‘iVil1g through roads which ‘the RCMP warned were almost impassable, he found an audience of some 200 at Shediac and a relatively large crowd of 450 at Grand Djgue, a predominantly French- Speaking community. Both are about 15 miles from Moncton.

The medical insurance scheme. Mr. Pearson told the Moncton audience, would depend on co-op- eration of provincial. govern- ments, but a Liberal administra- tion “would be willing to explore any method of ensuring that henceforth no Canadian would be financially crippled by I1ln<=SS-

“One method of achieving this added social securit.Y.W0U1Cl be ;~G,- we g()V(:l'1’.I.lT1€l1I, to pay med- ical and other expenses “”1?".3h ex- ceeded either a basic minimum gr 3 reasonable PI‘0P0T'l-ion Of 3

matter ‘to I l:“ED QUEBEC 1- Flew into Moncton from W‘-ricton Saturday and then

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constituencies with total of 69. Of the four main parties, all have full slates except the CCF which has 15. The lightest en- try, is in Newfoundland, with 15 running for its seven seats.

At dissolu-tion Feb. 1, the Con- servatives held 113 of the 265 ‘seats, Liberals 106, CCF 25, So- cial Credit 19 and Independents two.

A BARGAIN BY ANOTHER NAME

TORONTO (CP) — Adver- tising gasoline at 36.9 cents a gallon, eight cents off the regular price, didn’t attract too many customers to Carl Wenborn’s service station in the current price War.

So Wenborn put up a big sign reading: “Gas — 23.9 cents per gallon plus tax.”

“We’ve been selling gas in cans to people who couldn’t get enough in their tanks," W e n b o r n said Saturday. “Business is terrific.”

Government tax is 13 cents a gallon. - y

LITERARY NAME Emerson, Manitoba town on the U.‘S. border, was named af-

ter the American author Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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crop insurance.

Nepal‘ in the Himalaya moun- tain region openedits first motor

Space C Talks Su

MOSCOW (A'P) -— The Soviet Union proposed Saturday that a summit conference c o n s id e r creation of a United " Nations body to police and control outer space.

A Kremlin statement lln ke d the proposal with a ban on inter- continental ballistic missiles and the liquidation of U. S. foreign -bases around Russia. President Eisenhower was the first to pro-- pose limiting outer space to peaceful uses.

(In Washington, U. Sfiofficials r e j e c te d the Soviet offer as “wholly unacceptable.” The state department said the Soviet state- ment “will require and will re- ceive the most careful study.")

The statement. issued at a for- eign ministry press conference, said the UN body would do these things: '

on’rroI ggesfed

program for the launching of in- tercontinental and outer space rockets, to study outer space and control‘ the program. . EXTEND IGY WORK

2. Continue on a permanent basis the research of outer space being carried out now in the ln- ternational Geophysical Year program.

3. Serve as a world centre for the collection, mutual exchange and dissemination of informa- tion on outer space. '

4. Coordinate national sci- -entific research plans on the study of ouetr space and co-op- erate in carrying them out.

(At the United Nations in New York, U. S. disarmament nego- tiator James J. Wadsworth termed the Soviet proposals in- teresting. He told a reporter they seemed similar to U. S. ideas on

.1. Work out an international

international space control.)

HALIFAX (OP) — A mid - March storm packed with gales, rain and snow swept the Mari- times over the weekend, disrupt- ing traffic and fouling power and communication lines.

Precipitation ranged from 12 inches of snow in southern New Brunswick to rain on Novo Sco- tia’s south shore. Two inches of wet snow caused several minor traffic accidents. in the Halfiax area.

. Nova Sootia Light and Power Co. Ltd. officials repented a

the city. Power failures were sporadic, and lights were out only "for minutes in most cases.

road to the outside world in 1953.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. (GP) -—. Prime Minister Diefenbaker has announced 8. cost-sharing agree- ment with Sask.atc'hewa.n which he says will enable an early start on the long-talked~of South Sas- katchewan River power and ir- rigation. project.

In a Saturday night speech here he also promised “sympa- thetic consideration” of another much - discussed form of aid to -the prairies. Federal deficiency payments on wheat, oats and

barley. . /'

Princess Grace of Monaco, left, Friday gave birth to her first son in Monte Carlo -— the new heir to

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Cost-sharing Agreement For Sask. Dam Is Announced I

Suburban Nedford and Saickville

such payments generally are considered to be a form‘ of sub- sidy to take up the slack between cash returns and the average cost of efficient production.

The Progressive Conservative leader concentrated his speech on iarm topics as he made his last campaign appearance in Saskatchewan.

He told reporters afterwards the estimated cost of the South‘ Saskatchewan River project. near Outlook 80 miles northwest of here, is $170,000,000.

,nun;»:be,x:. feeder-line. .br.e.a1:s.ic -hours ~'Snnday-*.*"'

I2 Inches Of Sn-ow Reporte-d"i In Soutliern New Brunswick

had lo 11 get- power.

POLES TOPPLED

At least seven poles in Bedford were /toppled by ice and snow. Halifax police issued warning bulletins to pedestrians to keep away from dangling wires.

The eastern shore of Nova Sco- tia had heavier power and com- muuications losses.

periods Without

The communities of East Clhe- .

etcook and Lawrencetow-n were Without power through Saturday night and most‘ of the daylight

Only one trunk telephone line between Halifax and Musquodo- boit harbor. was in operation Sa-t- urday night. Many feeder cir- cuits were still out of commis- sion Sunday.

SAINT JOHN, — (CP) — A mid-Muarch storm, «accompanied by strong winds, blanketed the southern portion of the province and Nova Scotia over the week- end, with snowfalls up to 13 in- ches recorded in some areas.

A .12-inch fall was reported in the Moncton area, sending snow. removal crews out all day Satur- day in an effort to keep the high- ways open. Long periods of power failure were reported in Sack- ville, where a similar amount had fallen.

In the northern part of the pro- vince only one inch of snow was reported in Edmundston Satur- day evening. Strong winds were reported in the Bathurst, Camp- bellton and Chatham areas.

ROYALTY IN THE News

the throne of the tiny principal- ity. The Shah of Iran announced his divorce from Queen Soraya,

right, because she failed to give him a son and heir to his throne. (AP Wirepmtgl

MR. GEORGE AULD

Winsloe Man Is 102 Today

A message of congratulations and good wishes from the Queen features the‘ celebration of George Auld’s 102nd birthday which takes place today in Winsloe.

‘ The message from Buckingham Palace signed by the Queen’s private secretary reads as fol- l0WS2'

“The Queen is much interested to hear that you are celebrating your 102 birthday and sends you warm congratulations and best wishes.” I‘

The Island centenarian was born in Covehead where his youth- ful days were spent assisting his father in the operation of a lum- ber mill. Following his father’s death, Mr. Auld, while still young, was required to assume full re- sponsibility _for this work.

His wife, the former Charlotte Hughes, whom he married in 1885, passed away almost five years ago. They had four chil- dren: Heber, a resident of Wes- tern Canada, who died four years ,ago;‘‘ Archie, with whom Mr. Auld‘ .:uesides;.-:Blanel1e,-isIvh-s.-‘-A-i- B. Roberts, Winsloe Station, ‘and Ira, who lives in Harrington.

A brother, Dr. J. W. Auld, "now retired, lives in British Colum- bia. '

Father And Two Children Blurnecl

PORT MAITLAND, N.S. ((1?) A father and two of his five chil- dren died early Saturday when fire destroyed their two - storey frame home.

Dead are Willard Churchill Jr., 32, and daughters Rosalind, 2, and Meredith, 1. ,

Fire Chief Borden Hersey said the fire apparently started near an overheated stovepi-per at about 1 and.

Port Maitland, a community of

’miles across the Strait of Mal-

SINGAPORE (AP)—Troops in .north Sumatra turned on the Ja- karta government Sunday and seized the big military centre of Medan in seven hours of heavy fighting, ‘rebel broadcasts said.

If confirmed, this may mean the swing of all north Sumatra to the rebels in central Sumatra, as the revolutionary regime has been predicting. V

Medan was the Jakarta govern- ment’s only major stronghold in Sumatra. The city of 260,000 is believed to have been the launch- ing point for last week's airborne attack by government forces on the rich oil centre of Pakanbaru in central Sumatra.

Broadcasts from the central Sumatran cities of Pada-ng and Bukittinggi said Medan fell at noon and that 2,000 troops led by Maj. Boyke Nainn Golan were in full control by nightfall.

AWAIT REBEL MINISTER.

The Medan garrison was com- posed of Sumatran troops and soldiers from Java, site of Ja- -karta, the capital. The Sumatran troops rose up against the out- numbered Javanese, rebel ac- counts said.

Boyke and other insurgent offi- cers were awaiting the arrival at Medan of the revolutio ary re- gime’s foreign mini ter, Col. Maludin Simbolin, to hand over control, the broadcasts sad. No mention was made of what hap- pened to Jakarta military com- mander Col. Djamin Glntings and his Javanese troops.

Reports 1' e a c h in g Singa- pore said Boyke’s ‘troops’ at- tacked the Medan a lrport at dawn and swept down on bar- racks and army Posts occupied by Javanese troops loyal to Pres- ident ‘Heavy machinefl gun fire raked the

ualties was not given.

IMPORTANT RAIL LINK

Medan, largest city in Sumatra and an important rail on the largest of Indonesia’s islands, is on -the northeast coast about 100

acca from Malaya.

It is 300 miles through jungle fnom I-fakanbaru, the oil centre seied by Jakarta forces last Wednesday. It is about 350 miles northeast of Padang, the rebel centre on central Sumatra’s west coast. fl . The U. S. - owned Caltex Oil Oompavny has a 125,000,000 op- eration in the Pakanbaru area. Medan would be both a mi]. itary and economic prie for the revolutionary negime that pro- claimed its own government for

800, is about 11 miles from Yar- mouth.

clty’s streets. The number cas- V

Troops Of Jakarta ,Go,v't Join Rebels,

eize Base

All North Sumatra May Swing To Revolutionisis

give the rebels an important point for the entry of supplies by sea and air to central Sumatra, which has been blockaded by the Indonesian Navy. ‘

RICH AGRICULTURE

S-uk-arno’s troops now occupy Pakan-baru and the important ea.st coast oil ports of Dumai and Pakning. They also control the mouth of the Siak River, main highway for the transport of oil out of central Sumatran heart- land. _

North Sumatra is by tar the richest agricultural area of the island, with sprawling rubber, tea and tobacco plantations.

Boyke has been highly‘ re- garded by the Jakarta military command asa soldier. He is the former chief of staff of the north Sumatran army command.

The rebel broadcasts claimed that Jakarta warships steamed into Padang hanbor again Sun- day and shelled that port city, dmaging a hospital. The broad- casts said all patients had been evacuated. ‘ ,

Saturday rebel troops claimed to have shot down three planes and crippled an Indonesian Navy corvette in their fight to retain control of central Sumatra. '

HEAVY CASUALT-[Es

Padang radio, the‘ voice of the rebels, also claimed that govern- ment panatroopers who at Paicaiiotni Wednesday suffered heavy casualties. The broadcast said 150 olf 600 pairatroopeers were killed before they landed