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FEDERAL BY-EtECll0li iirriv - Will or HELD IN LATE ocronrn

OTTAWA (CP) - Ilsdcral by. elections to fill vacancies in the House of Commons are expected to be held in October. possibly Oct. 18 or 25. both Mondays.

New members of parliament will be chosen in five constituencies in Ontario and Quebec made vacant by two deaths and the resignations of three Cabinet ministers July 1.

Meanwhile. Prime Minister st. Laurent has made no move to fill the 19 vacancies in the l02-seat Senate.

TWO ONTARIO DEATHS

Two of the Commons by-elections will be held in Ontario constituen- cies whose previous members died: Rodney Av d a in so n. Progressive Conservative in York West in- the April 8 air crash at Saskatoon, and Leionel Conacher. Liberal member for Toronto Trinity at a Commons softball game May 26.

Former Defence Minister Clax- ton. one of the three resigned Cab- inet ministers, has not yet form- slly resigned from his Montreal tonstituency of St. Lawrence-St. George. but has said he will re- Iume private life following his ap- pointment as Canadian general manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

The other vacancies are in Mon- treal St. Antoine-Westmount held by former Finance Minister Abbott who became a member of the Su- preme Court, and Stormont. form- erly held by Transport Minister Chevrier yiow Canadian chairman of the St. Lawrence Seaway Au-

tlsority.- IIAT IOI KAI-LIB

A new cabinet minister. Hon. George Marler who has taken over the transport portfolio. is expected to be the Liberal candidate in Mr. Abbott's former constituency.

At the time of their resignations. Mr. St. Laurent said by-elections will be held at an "early date." but said enumeration of voters lists will not begin until after Labor Day Sept. 6.

By-election dates usually are announced about 45 days before POND: day'to provide time for the vote-taking machinery to be set up. The four-day 'enumeration of voters starts 35 days before vot- ing day-normally a Monday for by-elections. The formal nomina- tion of candidates takes place two weeks before the by-elections.

Party standing in the Commons. including the resignations of the three Cabinet ministers: Liberals 189; Progressive Conservatives 50; CCF 23; Social Credit 15; indepen- dent 3; vacant 5; total 265. SENATE SEATS

The death last week-end of Sen- ator W. A. Buchanan. Liberal member for Lethbrirlge. brought the number of Senate vacancies to ill. Liberals hold 76 seats and Conservatives seven.

Vacancies are five in Quebec. four in New Brunswick. three in Nova Scotia. two each in Mani- toba and Ontario and one each in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Is- land and Alberta.

Czechs Used Prison

Threats in Attempt

To Pry Secrets From Captured US Troops

By TOM STONE FUERTH. Germany (AP)-"AL ter a year or so in prison you

will probably give better ans- wers.” With that grim threat. Czech

Zommunists tried to pry military information from seven U. S. sol- iiers imprisoned 12 days in the Soviet satellite.

The seven, freed Thursday after being captured by a Czech patrol July 4. told a press conference here Saturday of their experience.

They said they had not been physically harmed. but all were questioned frequently and separat- ely by an English-speaking Czech who accused them of being spies.

Describing the persistent Com-

Coming Events

"Oor-ran Ban Picnic July 28th

"Ktnkora picnic. 'mesdey. July 20.

"Ian: July 27th

"Rollo Bey Picnic. weqmscay. ruiy ram.

Parish Picnic Tuesday.

"Dance. Fortune Hnil, every Tuesday night. "Ruerva July 21st, Tlgniah Pariah Picnic.

"Regular Dance. Bonshpw Inn. Tuesday night.

"Dance Vernon River Hall, Tuesday. July 20. "Dance Morell Hall tonight.

Burns orchestra.

"Regular Dance Crspsud Rink. Wednesday night.

"Dance Kellyb Monday, July iilth.

"Reserve Tuesday, July 20th. for Brae Pariah Picnic.

"Dance Grand View Thu sdsy night. Burns orchestra. l

Wrryon Baptist Church picnic. Wednesday, July 21st.

"For Custom Baling apply to Harold Gould, Dcsabie.

"Dance Pembroke school, 'mes- day, July 20 Good music.

"Reserve Sept. 21 to 25 for Charlottetown Hospital Bazaar.

"Dome in Watervale school, every Monday. P'rsaer's Orchestra.

"Dance. Fort Augustus Hall. Wednesday. Burkeia Orchestra.

"Dance Summerville school. Monday. July 19. Boudreault's Orchestra.

"St. Teresa's picnic Wednesday.

Oroas school,

July list. supper served 4 till I. Gaines, dance. "Dance in Monticello School

Tuesday. July 2). Lunches. Chais- son's Orchestra.

"Dance to be held in Cambridge Hall, July 21. Sale of lunches by Cambridge Women's Institute.

"that-e Lorne Valley I-tall, Mon-

dllf. Ju 19th instead of mcsday. 3111! . Burke's Orchestra. "Dance. Oovel-read community

Hell Monday. July 19th.. North Rutico School. 1.

"Women's Institute Ice Cream Iocial Alexandra school Tuesday. lulu Qtln. nun. standard time.

"lee 8-act. l in Fort A gus- tua Hall prase,i,it.eb by south unus-

in Aid of

"Trial! Baptist Church Picnic Wednesday. July 21. on Church

munist interrogation. Capt. Jack Davis, 31, said:

"They questioned me on every- thing ranging from military sub- jects to American politics and Senator McCarthy."

He said they were captured when they went. to the border to "take a look" near the Bavarian town of Baernau. Suddenly about 20 armed Czech soldiers swooped down, firing warning shots.

Holding the seven at gunpoint, the Czechs took the men's garrison caps. turned them inside out and jammed them, down ovrr their prisoners' eyes.

PROTEST BHRUGGED OF

Davis said he protested to his captors that the men had been

ged off.

"I pulled my cap back up sev- eral times to see where we were going, but a guard jammed it back down over my eyes as they .led us away." Davis said.

That night an English-speaking Czech began interrogations which went on intermittently during their confinement.

When Davis refused to discuss U. S. military information, his in- quisitor warned:

"After a year or so in prison you will probably give better ans- wers."

The other men underwent sim- ilar threats and questioning.

Marie Dionne leaves Cloistered Religious Order

QUEBEC, (GP)-Marie Dionne. one of the famed qulntupleld "Om Callander. Ont., has left I. clots- tered religious order here after eight months.

A spokesman at the Roman Catholic Archbishop's palace here told The cansdien Press Sunday that 10-year-old Marie "left the cloisier of les Servantec du Tm! Saint-Sacrament Servants of thr Blessed sacrament recently for reasons of health."

He added: "It is not known at this time if she will return. al- though her depsrtura is described as temporary."

Authorities at the new Thabor -convent in east-end Quebec, which Maris entered as a postulant Nov. 3 last. confirmed that Marie left quietly "sometime Friday." but said they could give no further infor- mstion.

"Any information about Marie should come from her father." the mother superior said. The Quinta” father, Olive Dionne, was believed to be at their home at Calianrier. Ont Attempts to reach the Dionne home by telephone have so far failed.

LOST IN MONTREAL

Meanwhile, another of the quin- tuplcto-Emelie-was reported to hsve become lost in Montreal Fri- day, while travelling between ate. Agathe. Que. where she was be- lieved to have spent some time. and Quebec city.

Police paid lmilic became lost while walking on north-and Pine Ave.. while waiting for her bus. she asked a traffic constable for directions. identifying herself as one of the quintuplets.

she was taken to a police station where a sergeant reported she told police she had been staying for two ween at the convent in Ste. Agsthe of the oblate Missionary Blaine. r .

The er superior at an-. Authe enied that smile had stayed at the convent. later Emilie was entrusted to officials at the archbishop's palsce in Montreal who reportedly put her

lfoullds. Chicken. Ham and Salad ND!!! served from 4 o'clock.

onto a bus for Quebec. However, this could not be confirmed. H g

merely on a holiday visit to the . harder. but his words were shrug- '

The revised design and

Queen Street. the plan is L shape.

slabs.

Coal Miner Dies In Hospital

GLACE BAY, N.5. (OP)-Alex Mesween, a 64-year-old coal miner died in hospital Saturday from chest injuries received the day be- fore in the No. 4 colliery. Details of the accident were not available.

Makes Move To Reduce Tension

PARIS -- (Reuters) ”pr-arcmakcr premier" Pierre Mr-ndcs-Franc-c made his first major move Saturday towards re- ducing tension in the troubled French protectorate of Tunis. Amid a mounting wave of un- lionrtlist terrorism, Mendcs-Franrc ordered the transfer of Tunisian nationalist leader Hablb Bourgui- ha. to,thc Frenrh mainland from the Atlantic island of Croix, where he had beenrheld by Frenm au- thorities. '

The transfer, which took place at dawn. was hailed by Tunisisns as a "conciliatory move” to cairn the troubled protectorate where where acts of terrorism have been

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execution of the above

bulld-

providing accommodation to various Departments of the Federal Government in Charlottetown. The building has a in this building: frontage of 155 feet with its main elevation facing on (Income Tax - Customs). (3) Civil Service Commission. (4) The depth of the building is 323' - 7" and Trade and commerce,

This building is to be fire proof construction, having Labour, structural steel framing with reinforced concrete floor Act, The exterior will be limestone face. . The entrance Welfare, and main public areas will be finished in marble and col'- cries,

TRAFFIC RESUMES ON C. P. R. LINE AFTER WRECK KILLS 2. INJURES 45

KENDRA. Ont. (CF)-Railway traffic was resumed Saturday. less than 12 hours after an eastboud train packed with holiday-makers jumped the tracks on to carve on the CPR main line 39 miles west of here. Two persons were killed and 45 injured.

The victims were: James Szabo. 25-year-old brakeman from Nor- mun. Ont., and Mrs. Isabel Macon- ncli, 69. of Winnipeg. as passenger.

Several eyewitnesses expressed the opinion "it was a miracle" more lives were not lost when the iloccmotive and baggage car jump- ed the track, plowed up the iparallel westbound track. then plunged down a steep embank- ment. The other five cars skidded to a halt in the opposite ditch; the front three on their sides.

some persons recalled Manito- ba's and western Canada's worst railway disaster on Sept. 1, 1947. when the ONR.'s Minaki Camper.-l' Slieclal piled into a standing trans-coninental train at Dugnld, Man., it miles east of Winnipeg. Thirty-one were killed and is in- jured.

STEEL CAR-S

taking an almost daily toll of me!

, One veteran railway man. who requested his name not be used.

ridor floors and stairways will be of terrazzo. ing was carried out by the Chief Architect's office of the senger elevators and one freight elevator are included in Department of Public Works, Ottawa, for the purpose of the design.

Two pas-

The following Departments will have accommodation (1) Post Office. (2) National Revenue

(5) Citizenship and Immigration. .(6) Resources and Development (National Parks). (7) (8) National Film Board. (9) Veterans Land (11) National Health and

(10) Veterans Affairs. (14) Fish-

(12) Transport. (13) Public Works.

'Duplessis Praises Quebec Labor

By BERTRAND THIBAULT Canadian Press Staff Writer

"While there was no collision in

Britain And US Agree On Qui Action If Indo-China Talks Fail

Architectis Sketch of Chitown Federal Building I

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WASHINGTON, (AP)

the battered anti-Communist Geneva Tuesday.

ment yet as to what the actlo

free areas as Thailand.

These studies have been made in Washington during the last three weeks by representatives of the state department and British em- bassy.

CO-OPERATION NEEDED

London and Washington are also agreed that whatever is done must be done with the maximum co-op- eration and support of Asian coun- tries but beyond this point they disagree on how high a price to pay for the potential support of neutralist countries such as India and Indonesia. Washington is not

By BEN 1". MEYER.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Concern was expressed in responsible quar- ters Sunday over reports that Com- munists are gaining power in Chile.

The situation is regarded here as particularly dangerous because Chile, which stretches narrowly be- tween the Andes mountains and the Pacific for about 2.700 miles along western South America. is in a period of acute economic dif- ficulty. '

Unlike Guatemala's leftist pres- ident. Jacobo Arbenz, who was ousted from power recently with his Communist friends, Chile's President Carlos Ibanez is an avowed anti-Communist.

However, his administration has no control in the Chilean Congress. and his cabinets. drawn from nu- merous political parties. sometimes have been found fighting among themselves.

Dr. Francis 0. Wilcox. statf di- rector of the U. S. Senate foreign relations committee. told a re- porter that "recent events in Chile are a matter of very serious con- cern."

U. I. BLAMED

Only last week a time bomb was exploded at the Chilean-North Am- erican cultuarl institute. It came as the Chilean chamber of deputies was ending debate on an nnti-Com- munist speech made July 6 by

Indo-China peace negotiations

ck

By JOHN M. HIGHIOWER

Britain and the United

States have agreed quick action must be taken to bolster

front in Southeast Asia if finally fall through at

Officials of the two governments say there is no agree-

ns should be. But a basis for

prompt decision has been laid in British-American studies of possible moves-ranging from outright intervention in the Indo-China war to stepped-up reinforcement of such

willing to delay decisions or modify plans to woo the Indians. but Lon- don consider. Indian good will worth a high price.

Information from the highest quarters indicates the Indo-China crisis. with war or peace hanging in the balance. is measured here as follows:

The chances are probably a little better than even that the Commu- nists, led by Soviet Foreign Min- ister Molotov and Red China's Chou En - lai. will make an eleventh-hour agreement to end the

(continued on page 1. col. bl

Express Concern Over Reports Reds Gaining Power In Chile

Also. it was in Chile that some of the most violent anti-U. S. de- monstrations occurred when left- wlng elements in Latin America were denouncing Washington and blaming it for the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala. Observers here said I rash of strikes, many of them illegal. street disturbances. and other con- troversies in Chile bear many of the marks of Communist agitators. Chile's two major exports for years have been nitrate and cop- per. and lately both -industries have been in trouble. due to world market conditions.

lts agricultural production has declined on such basic items as wheat while the cost of living as- been going up between 60 and 80

Atcooo PAIR OFA -, BRAKES IS : . '9-lANtA coco” ” , Lawveniroa, , KEEPING 00120:;

U. S. Amhassador Willard Beaulac.

May Pull lied Tank Behind

this mishap, it could easily have been just as bad as the Dugald crash if these cars had not b(-en”, made of steel . . . The coaches at Dugald were wooden and they burned."

LABRIEVILLE, Que. (CP) rcmicr Maurice Duplcssis paid this iirgt visit to this cgntrcli of the 3 ugc ersimls power eve opmcn

cm or ?:;::”1z...:":. ??.?.'S"i...?”.?.””f.: mm"; was not deiermmed CPR MP iworid when given a chance to show- flciala. who started an imtncdiatclils quam;,.5.v-

investigation. said main line trai- .

fic was resumed at 8:55 am. CDT, mxfrforspstggcsatfnxihoa SMUNEV "R", wmk News "Om church in this St. Lawrence river Keno" and wllmlpek had KirUlI"nnrlh shore community, named in gleri overnight to clear the wreck- 1..."... of Most Rm, M5,...-A N, A. 089- Labrle, Bishop of the Grill of St.

There was no fire or explosion L-'IWi'0nC0-

and little glass splinterlng as the MI'- Dunlrssis said conrase.: all-steel cars ground to 3 half” patriotism and fnrsightorinoss were

-1119” was "cue or no Mme among, required to surmnttnt difficulties in some 200 passengers. mrmdlng n the. way of the project, but added:

large number of children bound Tm” M5 nm" 13”" 5”” ll".

. , i . cl diff' it s t - i:.keh:l!'d:r:,e 3:33: mound um c:,ri1nt:lu:i:rd"u'ilhlstiEli dggilzljiitcil aancdi

economy."

1.200.000 HORSEPOWER.

DOME CUT OFF

As the locomotive slithered off, Thaw...-k' underiakkn hy the ii; :l?lrb0llnld T-Tlirk-T ll: FUlld0WnlQiiobec hydro-electric commision. n u cur itegraph poles ri srupt- has been going on for more than ing communications in the arenia year. When finished, in 1960, for several hours. The steam dome the Br-rsimis river will produce was sheared off the locomotive as 1.200.000 horsepower through a it turned ova-, gending our . 1,135; 256-square-mile artificial lake and

said:

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PERCE. Que. (CP)-Ten mem- bers have been chosen for the 12- man jury that will try Wilbert Cof- fin on a charge of murder in con- nection with the deaths last sum- mer of three American belir hunt- CPS.

The remaining two jurors were expected to be selected Monday and it was considered likely the trial itself would get under way immediately after.

The burly. 48-year-old prospector from York Centre. so miles north of here in the Gaspe region of southeastern Quebec. is charged clfiealg with the Ila ng of Richard indsey, 17. of oildays- burs. Pa.

Young Lindsey's bear - gnawed

I I0 Jurors Chosen For Coffin Trial I

remains were found last July scat- tered about in dense Gaspe bush along with those of his father. Eu- gene, 41. and a friend, Albert Clear. 20.

SEVEN-HOUR SYITINGS

The selection of the ill jurors from among 90 talesmon exam- ined took place Fridsy and Satur- day during seven hours of sittings.

Make-up of the jury is to be six English - speaking men and six bilingual men of French extrac- tion. Two English-speaking jurors remain to be chosen from some O0 English - speaking fishermen. farmers and others drawn from the, length of the Gaspe coast.

The 10 selected so far are two fishermen. two farmers. two office clerks. an electrician, laborer. truck-driver and carpenter.

The trial will be conducted in English for the benefit of Coffin, who speaks no French.

indications are the trial will be a long one-from tree to six weeks. Every questio asked the lotl witnesses which reports say will be called. must be translated into English or French. All testi- mony will also be translated as well as the rulings of Mr. Justice Gerard Lacroix. Who is presiding, instructions and speeches of three defence counsels and three crown

TWO RULINGS AWAITED

Before the first witness is called by the crown, Mr. Justice Lacroix will have to rule on a defence re- quest that names and addresses of all crown witnesses he revealed.

He also will have to rule on It contempt of court motion lodged by the defence against the distrib- uinr of four American detective magazines accused of publishing "fictitious" accounts of the slay- ings.

Coffin, who helped police in the search for the hunters when they were reported missing. was held

criminally responsible, last August

liank in blast its way into Nazi

iron Curtain

By TOM ITEEDY

BERLIN (AP)--A controversial Soviet memorial-the first Red

Berlin in 1045-may soon be pulled back behind the Iron Curtain. The Russians apparently feel the dc- faced, wirc-shrouded tank has nut- livcd its usefulness as a symbol in the American sector of Berlin.

Soviet army headquarters asked- ihe Americans Saturday for per- mission to haul the tank memorial out of the U. S. sector. where it has stood as a constant reminder of the Red shadow. Negotiations will he conducted here to effect the removal.

Russian willingness to discard

the symbol came as a surprise fol allied quarters. West Berliners were pleased. ' The tank. atop a marhlr base. has been an eyesore since irate Germans defaced it during the Soviet blockade of i948-49. To pro- tect it from furthcr abuse. the Americans surrounded it with A chicken wire cage two years ago Work on restoring the memorial was interr'-pied by the June 17. i953 workers' rebellion in East Germany. Thereafter. U. 9. an- thorities forbade further work on a tank which represented the same armored forces used to quell the anti-Communist uprising.

rideiiilfr. Woman Passes

JACQUET RXVER. NB. (OF) - Mrs. Francis Pashie. 103. one of Nlw Brunswickh oldest residenta. has died at the home of a daughter here. Her husband died in mo. she is survived by two sons, four is r e a t - grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Jaoquet River is the home vil- lage of Mrs. Annie Pirlotte. who observed her 113th birthday last