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WEATHER

Cloudy, extremely cold; light winds in- creasing this afternoon to northeast 15. Low-high at Charlottetown Zero and 12.

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Big Storm Moves Up East Coast

BOSTON (AP)—A threatening northeast storm moved up the Atlantic coast toward New Eng- land Thursday night and snow- fighting forces were alerted for a fall of six inches or more with heavy drifts thrown up by 40- to 50mi1e-an-hour winds.

The storm, described by the weather bureau as a real north-

to travel in the six-state area.

The weather bureau predicted the snow would begin in extreme southern New England before

over most of the six states except northern Maine.

NEW ZEALAND WARSHIP SOUTHAMPTON, E n g l a n d Thursday launched the first war.

ship especially built for the New Zealand navy—~the anti-submarine

Authorized as Second Class Mall by III. Post Office

Department.

MARKING NEARLY 30 years of devoted service in the Char- lottetown Fire Department, De- puty Chief J. S. Walker (right), who retired recently, was we

Retired Deputy Tendered Reception At HoII

Described by his fellow col» leagues as the “best fire figh- ter the department ever had “James Walker, who recently resigned as Deputy Chief, was tendered a reception at' the Fire Hall last evening.

Mr. Walker was presented With a mantel radio and a GE. electric frypan, on behalf of his fellow members, by Gordon Stewart, captain of the Bose Company. 1

As a constant reminder of the occasion his associates attach- ed a plaque to the bottom of the radio bearing the inscrip-

tion : “Presented to Deputy 1Chief Walker from C.F.D., 958. ’ ’

In making the presentation, Mr. Stewart referred to Mr. Walker as “....oourageous, co- operative and always willing to help the younger men on the force” He also told the veteran fire-fighter that he would always be welcome “at a fire or a social event”.

Other speakers were Captain

frigate Otago.

SUMMERSIDE BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN A motion requesting a meeting with the Federation of Agricul- ture and the mayors of the city and towns of the province to dis- cuss daylight saving hime was approved at the annual meeting of the P. E. I. Village Commis- sioners held last evening at Mul— berry Lodge, Summerside. The banquet meeting, presided

1 over by chairman Earl Cannon,

Who was re-elected for another term, was also addressed by Pre-

‘ mier A. W. Matheson, Hon. A.A.

MWIW. minister of welfare and labour and director of town Planning Claude Smith.

_ The motion requesting the meet- mg followed considerable discus- sion on the matter, which was also referred to at some length by Premier Matheson in his ad- dress.

The Premier told the upwards of fifty commissioners present that there is a Uniform Time Act and there is no need to amend to “give you what you wan.” He W of the importance of the Federation of agriculture and 13191? opposition to Daylight Sav- 1113 Time, during which the Pre. mier stI‘eSsed that “no matter

‘ where we live we're dependent , 0n the farmer.” ,

Ottawa

sented with a mantel radio and an electric frypan by Gordon Stewart (left), captain of the Hose Company at a reception at the Fire Hall last evening.

Fire Chief

and City Fire Inspector Louis Ranahan.

VERY DEPRESSLING

In responding to the many complimentary remarks the form- mer deputy chief said; “It is very depressing leaving the depart- ment. not so much the department itself but the group of men with whom I have been associated.

“I could not expect, or hope to have, a. finer group of boys to work with. I have never asked one of them to do something that he did not do.

“I hope you will continue to douse fires with the efficiency that you have been doing in the past...the best of luck to all.”

Mr. Walker, a veteran of the first World War, and a prominent member of the Canadian Legion, first joined the Charlottetown Fire Department on March 31, 1931, at the time of the reorganization of the Chemical and Hose Company.

He ws promoted to 2nd Lieuten- ant in 1938, 1st Lieutenant in 1942, and Captain in 1945. In 1946 he was promoted to the position of

William Connolly, Louis Stewart

Commissioners Wan’rTaIks With Farmers On Time Act

The guest speaker added “what— ever it’s going to be, it’s going to be the same. There is not going to be two different times on P E. 1.

Earlier the Premier told the commissioners “I’m firmly conv- inced you are doing a good 30 .” The village are very conscions of what they can do to improve themselves, he said. “you have a very important place in the community—that’s why we in- creased your grant."

He told the commission’s that although in most cases the grant had been increased three fold, there was a rider attached in which the village had to match the grant. He told them that the government wasn’t interested in dictating to the villages, “but we will not pay the whole bill—you must do your part." he cautioned the representatives against over- burdening their rate payers with taxes and noted that some vill- ages already have high school taxes. He concluded that the grant was not a large part of the budget but hoped it would be of con- siderable help to the villages.

Following his address, the Pre- mier, Hon. Mr. MaeIsaac and Mr. Smith answered numerous ques- tions pertaining to the Villages

Court Te-Ils Hoffa And Pals To Quit Blocking Reforms

WilSHIlENGTON (Apl—A federal cm’l‘t Thursday threatened to “St James R. Hoffa as president I" the teamsters unless he and Other bosses of the giant union quit blocking recommended re— forms.

F. Dickinson Letts. 83-year-old U-S. district judge, directed Hoffa and other teamstcrs chiefs to Pbey Orders of court-named mon- “01‘s t0 accomplish a general hollSecleaning of the 1.500.000- momber union.

, Letls threatened contempt pun- lshment if Hoffa and other team— SIQI‘S officials thuart the mono mrsi Saying: “Remedies are not

“king in our judicial process if

9 Orders of the court are H» Olated. disregarded or ignored."

He Ordered:

1' That Hoffa and the union Eric-fly obey all outstanding AHOY]- llol‘ reform recommendations and '11 W‘s ones in the future.

Among the unobeyed orders pending is one requiring Hoffa to bring ouster charges against one of his closest teamsters buddies Owen (Bert) Brenna-n of Detrmt. Brennan and Hoffa are accused, among other things, of maintain- ing a professional boxer they managed on a teamsters union welfare fund.

2. That the union promptly can- cel announced plans to hold a special teamsters convention next March. Hoffa had called it 1n 3 move to have himself re-elected and the monitorsliip ended. I

Judge Lctts agreed with chair- man Martin O‘Donoghue and Godfrey P. Schmidt, two of the three monitors, that Hoffa and the teamsters have not acted to clean up the union sufficiently to warrant a convention that soon. He ruled none should be held un- til he and the monitors give their

okay.

Deputy Chief of the entire Depart- ment. '

Service Act and problems arising in the various communities. As well several suggested amend- ments to the act were put for- ward.

Mr. Ian Webster, Parkdale pro posed the motion regarding the meeting reported on the new by- laws as chairman of that com- mittee. Commissioners were pre sent from a dozen villages from Tignish to Morel].

Elected to the executive with Mr. Cannon were (Kings) J.B. Jay, Morell, and Donald G. And- erson, St. Peters; (Queens) J. Gaudin, North Rustico, and A. MacLean, Parkd‘ale.; (Prince) Harry MacWi-lllams, O’Leary and Fred Coady, Kinkora.

Mr. Cannon in his opening re- marks started that almost all in- corporated villages were repre— sented and added that the meet- ing had the largest representation of any meeting he had ever at- tended of the organization.

When introducing Premier Matheson andVMr. Smith he de- scribed flhem as being “good

CHARLOTTETOWN,

PM Hurries To Bedside Of Mother

WELLINGTON, N.Z. (IA?)— Prime Minister Diefenbaker will leave for Canada tonight, cutting short his world tour by 2% days, because of the illness of his mother.

It was announced the prime minister and his party would leave t o n i g h t from Auckland aboard their RCAF plane. '

Prime Minister Walter Nash of New Zealand expressed deep sympathy with Diefenbaker and expressed regret at his early de- parture.

“Mr. and Mrs. Diefenbaker and their whole party all have been very welcome guests among us,” Nash said, “and we profited by their visit.

“We should have been delighted to have them stay a much longer period but at such a time we have only thoughts of sincere

sympathy . . . and We wish them Godspeed and a safe return home.”

Earlier the Canadian leader had motored 250~miles to the hot, springs resort centre of Wairakei for an intended 21/2 day rest.

Halifax Lawyer To Head Probe"

HALIFAX (OP) — A Halifax lawyer will head a royal commis- sion inquiry into the Oct. 23 mine cave—in at Springhill, N.S. which killed 75 miners, it was learned reliably Thursday night.

An inform-ed source told The Canadian Press that Donald Mc- limes had been chosen by the Nova Scotia government as chair- man of the three-member com— mission. Other members were re- ported to Tom McLachlan, for- mer president of the United Mine Workers District 25, and an un- identified British Columbia min- ing engineer.

N.Y. Readers Are Without Newspapers

NEW YORK (Am-Millions of [readers in and around New York were without newspapers Thurs day as major metropolitan ‘zail- ies were shut down in a delivery men’s strike.

Radio and television stations expanded their news programs to help fill the gap created by the absence of the 5,500,000 daily newspaper copies published in Manhattan and Queens.

The New York Central Rail- road iSsued a handlbilldlike digest of events and distributed it on trains carrying office workers to their suburban homes. The news was supplied by The Associated Press as a public service.

Coffee Prices Cut In Canada

’I‘TORON’DO (CF) — Canadian housewives are getting their cof- fee at a lower price Thursday. Most brand-s were cut at least two cents a pound in the last week and some of the large chain stores’ own brands were reduced by as much as six cents a pound.

Main reason for the decrease in price is that production of cof- fee has been increasing over the last few years and Thursday there is a bigger supply than de- mand for coffee beans.

W. L. Scandrett, president of the Tea and Coffee Association of Canada said: “This is due to large over-production estimated to reach 6,000.000,000 pounds by mid-1959.

Power Stores, Dominion Stores, Loblaw Groceteria and A and P all announced price decreases, effective Thursday, on their own brands. Nationally - advertised brands were reduced by two or three cents a pound a few days

friends of the villages of P.E.I.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CF) The aftermath of the 1956 October revolution in Hungary boiled up again in the United Nations Thursday as the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in one of their bitterest verbal ex- changes of the year. In addition. Russia accused a Canadian army Officer of trying to foment gov- ernmental overthrows in eastern Europe. I

Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin told the UN General Assembly that "a certain Canadian Captain Goo-dspeed set himself the task of working out in detail questions re- lating to subversive activities against independent states and the organization of armed con— spiracies for the purpose of over- throwing the regimes existing in these states."

The allegation against the Cana- dian came into the UN for the first time, although it had been made in Moscow some months

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ity to hold a plebiscite on the question of fluoridating the City’s water supply, Commissioner E. E. ClaWSon said yesterday.

He added that the application would be made in sufficient time to be considered at the next ses- sion of the House.

Neither Mr. Bevan, the chair- man of the Commission, nor Commissioner W. L. MacKenna was available for comment. However, Commissioner Claw- son could give no definite state- ment as to the date on which the plebiscite would be held. “It will be at a time convenient to the public,” be said.

that he had no idea. STUDY MADE

Commission had fluoridation question “at length” during the past four years, but could not say whether or not the Commission intended to publish a full report on their survey.

In the Commissioner‘s opinion it would be “unfair” to release for publication the names of the various individuals who had ob-

Mr. Clawson admitted Kinsmen Club had sent the Com~ mission a letter expressing un- animous approval of fluoridation, "taping-its inimediate adopt»

ion.

He said that the cost of the survey made this fall was “not worth considering".

AUTHORIZATION NEEDED

K. M. Martin, Q. C., said yes- terday that the Commissioners cannot call a plebiscite without first obtaining authority from the Legislature of the Province.

Mr. Martin, who is solicitor to the Commission, added that this meant that the Commissioners, if granted the power, could call for a vote ontliis question any time thereafter unless a fixed period in which they must do so was set by the enabling enact- merit.

To date the Commissioners had not indicated to him that they intended to make such an appli— cation at this

Commissionerslo Seek uthority For Plebiscite

The Commissioners of Sewers and Water Supply will “very de- finitely” request the Legislature to provide them with the author-

Asked what cash outlay would be involved to conduct such a plebiscite, Mr. Clawson replied

Mr. Clawson stated that the studied the

House, the Commission solicitor asserted.

It was most likely that this authority would be requested in the form of an amendment to the Sewerage Act, one of the two Acts under which the Water Commission operates, Mr. Mar- tin noted.

HOUSE RULES

Under the rules of the local Hlouse all private bills intended to be considered at any particular session must be pre- sented within 14 days of the opening of the Legislature.

In addition the same rules call for notice of intention to be given the Clerk of the House and pub- lished in the Royal Gazette at least two weeks prior to the pre- sentation of any such private bill

IO Families

Home-less In Saint John

SAINT JOHlN. NB. (CP)—Fire Chief H. S. Knight said Thursday night he believed a fire on Main Street in Saint John’s north end

was under control after sweeping through the upper portions of three three-storey buildings.

The structures contained the Lansdowne Super Market, Stolar Tailoring, the Victory Shoe Re- pair Store, a fabric shop and un- occupied premises used until re— cently as Howard's Pharmacy. The three-alarm fire of un- known origin drove 10 families to the street from upper floor apart- ments in near zero weather. One fireman, James Barry, was overcome by smoke and taken to hospital.

The fire is near the scene of a $100,000 blaze last Oct. 22 which destroyed three t e n- e m e n t s, gutted two others and spread to two buildings across the street,

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leaving 148 persons homeless.

Tempers

pers flared Thursday in the 10- nation conference on prevention of surprise attack.

At Geneva Talks

GENEVA (AP )—Russian tem-

Soviet deletgates angrily ac-

Flare .

Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslo— vakia, Romania and Albania have from the first tried to transform the talks into a general disarma- ment conference.

Thursday the Russians made it

jected to fluoridation or caution- ed the Commissioners against acting at this time. ,

that the

oused the West of trying to trick the Communist bloc by Trojan horse tactics into accepting es- pionage agents in the role of in- ternational inspectors.

of the deadlock that has persisted since the’conference opened Nov. 10th:

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powers—the United States, Brit- ain, France, Canada and Italy— came to Geneva to engage in a technical study of the problems of surprise attack.

Lake St Peter—a bulge in' the St. Lawrence River between Mont- real and Trois-Rivieres — froze

The West denied it. It was a dramatic illustration

The experts of the five Western

plain they were fed up.

“We raised hell in there," they told reporters.

Soviet Col. Gen. A. A. Gr-yzlov made the sweeping change that the West’s approach to the sur- mise attack . problem. an attempt In get militaryrsecrets from the Soviet bloc.

International warning systems outlined in Western documents would serVe as Trojan horses, he said, prying into all sorts of things behind the Iron Curtain and establishing the location of Soviet missile pads.

Western delegates challenged

But the representatives of the

Five Freighters Are Trapped In Lake St. Peter Freeze-Up

MONTREAL (ClP) - Sluggish

these allegations in detail.

German vessels Leabeth‘ and Es- ther Sehulte and the Norwegian ship Stringheim became stuck this afternoon.

Another freighter, the Luciana,

session of the

over Thursday and trapped at least five ocean - bound freight-

Vancouve-r Vole Proves Upset

VANCOUVER (OP) — Thomas Alsbury, 54year-old high school principal, was elected mayor of Vancouver in an upset victory over veteran Fred Hume Wednes- day.

Mr. Hume, 56, who had been elected mayor for four straight two-year terms, conceded defeat with about two-thirds of the 94 polls reported. It was Mr. Als- bury’s fifth bid for the mayor- ality. I

Final unofficial figures showed Alsbui'y, in his fifth bid for

ers.

One Norwegian, two Britiii and two German vessels making a dash for the open waters of the Atlantic crunched to a halt as they attempted to navigate east-

ward through the ice - clogged channel.

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the mayora-lty, received 41,948 voteS, Mr. Hume 29.934 3 nd Archie Proctor, a third candidate,

ago.

Hungarian Revolt Debate Flares Up Again In U. N.

ago and was explained at that time by the defence department in Ottawa.

Goodspeed, writing in the offi- cial NATO) publication General Military Review, posed a hypo- thetical situation in a 1957 article entitled The Secret Army. It dealt with the relationship between what became known during the Second World War as “cloak and dagger” efforts and the fighting role of the conventional military forces. Zorin Thursday — as did Moscow in the past——took the article literally and interpreted it as a handbook for subversive ef- forts by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Soviet delegate described the Canadian officer’s hypothesis this way to the UN assembly:

“Explaining the reasons which induced him to come out with such an unusual article, the aut- hor says that he had decided LU bridge the gap in the education

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of officer s of NATO armies. which lies in the fact that in the recent past two little military thought has been given to the technicalities of the coup d’etat’ and that ‘the coup has not been a subject for study in most staff colleges.’

“This article gives detailed in- structions for NATO officers and their agents in various countries how to organize underground work. how to supply conspirators with arms, how to maintain Iai- son (with outside forces)."

Linking this article with the Hungarian outbreak which pre- ceded its publication by several months, Zorin termed it “nothing less than the summing up of the results of an adventurist attacx of NATO adventurers against people’s Hungary, nothing less than direct instructions for sub» versive elements preparing new provocations against the Sovialisi

The British frei liters Carri- ntclair, the

was rescued from the ice Thurs- day by the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe which is at- tempting to break open a chan- nel.

The powerful lee-breaker d'lbervil-le was also ordered to proceed to the lake, but it was unable to leave Quebec City be- cause of the heavy vapor rising from the river in the sub—zero

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