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The broadcast declared: _ “The war play of the United States, whose obvious purpose is to undermine peace, has been meee on uglier and provocative
j ( party from the U.S.
+ festroyer-type vessel Roy O. Hale made a 70-minute search above deck on the Soviet trawler.
MAY HAVE CUT CABLES
The leader of. the navy party, Lieut? Donald Sheely, said Satur- in Washington he be-
By Yanks
a broadcast beamed -to North America, said: —
“The circumstances. surround- ing this unprecedented incident of a search party boarding a fish- ing ship belonging to. another state out in the open sea in dicated it was a premeditated act of
“First there is ‘the fact that American planes have been fol- lowing the Soviet. — fleet’ for a long time.
TIMED EXACTLY :
“Then the search was timed exactly for a-momeént when the Novorossisk reached .an area’ where damaiged. American tele- phone and telegraph cables are located. %
“The American military fleet's action against the Soviet trawler had been preyipusly arranged with the U.S. State: Department.
“The order to make the search was issued’ by the commander-in- chief of America’s armed ‘forces in the Atlantic, Admiral Jerauld Wright, with the. knowledge of Secretary of Defence (Neil) Mc- The broadcast’ also: denied*that the Soviet el had anything to do with the ge. to the under- water communication lines. ;
“it goes without, saying,” "- the commentator asherted. Be the American search ‘party find anythirlg cn the-S:, ‘2! that could have barmed ies at cables.”
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Fair Decision Expected Today
AMHERST (CP) =- Maritime .| agriculture officials hope some
be reached at today’s meeting between the Maritime Stock Breeders’ Association and the Ambherst Town Council.
Eight months have passed since a July 6 fire destroyed the major portion of the Winter Fair plant in Amherst. But at the Jast meeting between, the two par- ties, there was no indication of
| concrete decision on the future | © of the Maritime Winter Fair will
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1950
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. Discoverer was the first of a series of shots from Vandenberg)’ intended to learn means of safely
your feet wet,” he said.
Born at Bonavista, Nfld., Cap- tain Kean has been skippering ferries since ‘he was 26. He first served with ‘the Newfound- ‘and Railway Ferries .and prior to that spent a number of years on sealing ships. .
His father too was a seafaring man and was master of the Vik-
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Ving, a sealer that blew up in
MANILA (AP)—The Philippine
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Fore'gi Secretary Fie ert: Serranc requested ‘the, -de‘ence. deparimem ‘fe detain “the véss2's
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and crew “‘for as long as neces-
iance with Serrano’s request. \ Kh was learned the trawlers left the Baltic Sea on Christmas Day for Viadivostik, trave'ling via the Md'‘errancan and Sucz Cana’, Red Sea, Catomb-, Singz-
- Ferry ‘Captain |Makes History
1928 killing 37. a her crew. The
eS Captain Kean survived the disaster and passed away
just a few months ago. ;
Although operating a ship that steering mechanism so damaged that it is impos- to use the rudder, he made
perfect job of docking by us- ing tis por and starboard engines to great advantage in manoeuvering his big ferry into the desired position. '
When the time came to head for Borden Sunday afternoon Captain Kean’ displayed the same skill in reversing the dock- ing e and joining the icebreaker Labrador to fight. the heavy ice%xin Northumberland oo . with a the destina-
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A party guest pulled the pin on a phosphorus hand g le early Saturday and rolied it into the liv- ing room of an apartment.
Lloyd A. Wilson, 23, clutched the grenade to his chest, dived onto a coach and absorbed the
Concern Over Berlin Mounts
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congres- sional ‘concern mounted Sunday over the possibility Russia might start a war over Berlin.’
Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana .voiced fear Soviet Premier Khrushchev might ‘“‘do something on the spur of the moment’’ that would ig-
.| sary to conplete a thorough inp) nite a conflict.
And Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York said the United States has to ‘run what- ever risks are called for’ by its pledge to keep troops in Germany = guarantee access to West Ber- iin,
Mansfield, assistant majority
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Moon Shot}
Imminent.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) —A break in the cold front over central Florida cleared the way Sunday for the U.S. Army’s ef- fort to blast a satellite past the moon and into orbit around the sun. i
Lights flashed around the tall r housing the moon rocket thefiring. crew worked over through the morning hours, making sure that it would be Teady when the go-ahead came from the weather man.
The time is right for the shoot and it could come at any time.
Saturday—the first day of a
-day period in which the moon
“in closest proximity to the earth, 221,000 miles away—passed without any attempt to get the
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LENINGRAD. Cheeteie) — An- astas Mikoyan, who flew here un- expectedly to greet Harold Mac- _|millan Saturday after criticizing him in an election speech, Sun- day night told the British prime minister Russia has “a passion- ate desire’ to preserve peace -with Britain.
At a dinner marked by oo proved atmosphere after reports of coolness between the British visitors and their hosts, the Soviet first deputy premier said Russia’s “peaceful coexist- “ence” slogan was really the same as Britain's ‘‘wise” old saying: “Live and let live.’
He .said he thought the British body wanted war and that the way out of the present/problems was peaceful coexistence and im- proved international relations.
Mikoyan noted that the British government and the opposition Labor party disagree about so- cialismi and capitalism, but the
lunar probe recket away
Labor party does not make atom
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Makarios Gets Hero's Welcome
NICOSIA, Oyprus (Reuters) —
turned out Sunday in a pealing, garland - strewn hero's welcome for “Archbishop Maka- rios, home from exile.
Nearly three years after he
Tus for alleged implication in amti - British terrorist activities, the bearded prelate landed at Nicosia ainport and made a triumphant entry into the capital. Makarios, leading candidate for the post of Cyprus president, paid tribute to the “glorious figitters” of the Greek Cypriot underground onganization ov its leader, Col. George Gri-
Grivas remained in hiding Sun- day, despite an amnesty declared by the British colonial govern- ment and-rumors he would meet with Makarios soon after his ar- rival.
fiery explosion with ‘his body.
He was burned seriously on his
ae arms and hands, and with blindness -in one cae
Police said Wilson and some friends, as a practical joke, took two grenades to a party given by Marlys Paulson, 24, in her apart- ment. _-.
When Wilson saw the grenade roll in, he said, he knew there Was a seven-secom interval be- fore explosion. He ran toward the apartment door but found it locked with a chain hatch.
“I was counting to myself,’”’ he told police at a hospital. ‘I had got to five and I knew I had only two seconds to go so I did what I knew I had to.”
He threw himself onto the
him.
FALLS 18 FEET
Burned and blinded, Wilson stumbled to a window and fell 18 feet to the ground. ‘.-
The explosion seated walls of
the only other person i She suffered minor burns.-
Police said it was a marine corps grenade of a type used for smoke-marking purposes. I: 2s- tigttors are trying to find out
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Peace’ Desire _Is Stressed
bombs) to throw at. thé Conserv:
atives, he said. . . Governments, he added, may
quarrel, if necessary, but they do
vor British-Rusgian co to preserve peace. and saying he was a forward to the re- sumption of today with Russian Premier Nik- ita Khrushchev in thé Kremlin. Macmillan ‘the dangerous “situation with which we may be faced” could. not be resolved without. negotia- ‘ tion, and his Russian leaders would be of great help to futute discussions. British officials said that while Macmillan and Khrushchev con fer in the Kremlin today other officials will draw up a communi- que on the 10-day visit. \ In another surprise departure ag the official program Sum y, Lloyd and Andrei Gromyko had a 90-minute meeting, suggested
not have to aten each other. Mikoyan wasifreplying to a speech by Macmilffian also calling
- “operation
“talks of substance’
said “he believed
“frank talks” with
foreign ministers Selwyn
TOURED LENINGRAD
While they talked, Macmillan and host Mikoyan toured Lenin
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SYDNEY (CP — An official of Eastern Telegraph and Telephone Company said Sunday a Scotland- Newfoundland transatlantic ;cble ‘“‘was- pulled up and cut.”
The official, who asked not to be identified, said it was possible the cable became tangled with fishing gear of a trawler. Iather than lose his gear, the trawler captain might have ordered the cable cut. Such things were known to have happened before.
CARRIES 2,500 VOLTS
The telegraph - ae aihtie |200 miles east. of Clarenville, Nfild., was repaired by. the cable ship ‘Lord Kelvin. Pieces of the damaged cable are aboard the ship and will be examined in the New York laboratory of Ameri- can Telegraph and Telephone
Company, parent company of Eastern T. and T.
MELBOURNE (Reuters)—Biily Graham and his American-style evangelism have caught on here like an Australian bush fire. The response has sunprised even Gra-
coach with the grenade beneath | ham.
He has thrown away hjs_ pre- pared sermons and ‘hammered home his message ad lib. The Australians love it.
The crowds attending the start of his 16-week Australian crusade
ave been twice as big as those
London crusades. The Aus- tralian crusade began Feb. 15. MANY “DECISIONS”
_Graham has spoken to more “han 200,900 persons at his meet-
the apartment. Miss’ ee beginning of his New York
which guest pulled the pin.
ings, not including other: thou-
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the rain — the meetings shifted to Melbourne's new Music Bowl in the heart of the city. |
But the crowds still overflow inte surrounding parklands.
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tons of coal on the lower reaches ~-.. of the Angara River in easters Siberia, the Soviet news agency Tass ee.
Cable Pulled Up / And Cut, Eastern Tel And Tel Says
The cable company source sald
that ‘‘whoever cut the cable must have received quite a jolt.” I carries 2,500 volts but*could have been severed by someone wear: ing insulated gloves. * _ The Lord Kelvin was reported »roceeding Sunday night through heavy ice to 2 break in a Westera. Union. cable 40 miles from me one repaired.
A five -. man party from a United States warship boarded 8 Russian trawler 180 miles east of Newfoundland Thursday) to deter- , mine if the vessel had anything to do with breaks in~four trans- atlantic tables. -
LA. Donald Sheely, who lead the boarding party, night that he believed the Rus sian trawler may have cut the cables ‘‘but it was most probable that it was accidentally cut.”
said Saturday
Response In Australia ls Surprise To Graham
sands he reached through radio and
The 40-year-old evangelist has inspired an average of 1,000 per- sons to come forward at the end of each of his meeting as to ‘make decisions for Christ.’
There has. been criticism—Out most of it directed at the crusade organizers by people who can’t squeeze into the packed meet- ings. ;
The organizers at first built an annex to the 10,000 + seat Mel- bourne Stadium and installed a television relay system. When the
television sermons.
ps still formed—frequently in
were