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Hedtoft, shown in

Copenhagen harbor during trial trip last|day when she struck an iceberg. since.

Danish Ship Has Vanished In Icy Sea Off Greenland

«+ HALIFAX (CP)—Two big U.S.

* Air Force patrol planes cruised above the stormy seas off Green- ‘land Sunday, searching in vain for a trace of the little Danish ship Hans Hedioft.

Surface rescue vessels were forced out of the immediate ares where the Hedtofi wa; believed lost with all 95 aboard after hit- ting an iceberg Friday. The search ships were fighting 40-foot waves and freezing 6-miles-an- hour winds.

Although hope has been virtu- ~ally abandoned for the Danish passenger-freighter, one of the search planes reported spotting an object it said could possibly have been an overturned lifeboat

Western Farmers Get Wheat Price Increase From Seaway

WINNIPEG (Cc) — The Cana- dian wheat board has announced @ new schedule of wheat prices aimed at giving western farmers the benefit. of freight savings to come from the operation of the @t. Lawrence Seaway.

Included in the move was an fncrease of 5% cents in the basic price of wheat stored at the Lake- head. This raised Friday's price for No. 1 northern to $1.69% a bushel.

The board said the increase will be offset by reduced shipping

7ecosts when deep - sea freighters will be able to sail to the Lake- head for grain cargoes. The sea- way is to open in June.

The board for thé first time quoted prices for St. Lawrence River and Atlantic ports. No change was made in prices of wheat for shipment from Van- couver or the Hudson Bay port of Churchill, Man.

Pacific coast prices Friday were 6% cents higher than Lake- head qudtations and Churchill prices were 7%s cents higher. Init- jal quotations for Si. Lawrence ports were 16% cents higher than ‘the Lakehead and Atlantic ports 18%4 cents higher.

The wheat board- said the new echedule extends the policy of quoting separate selling prices for wheat stored at the Lakehead, es and the Pacific coast,

to give flexibility in

_WASHINGTON ‘A) — The United States has four nuclear- powered surface ships under con- etruction, but Russia apparentiy is going to put one into operation @ year ahead of the Americans.

The semi-annual report of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issued during the weekend lists three atomic-propelled ship pro- jects for the navy and one for the merchant marine.

It notes that Russia has an-

unced its nuclear-propelied ice- ‘breaker will be ready ‘‘for actual use in the spring of 1959."

Not before next year will the first American atom-powered sur- face ships be ready. The nuclear merchant ship Savannah is scheduled for sea trials in 1960.

And about that same time the |

cruiser Long Beach should be completed, navy records indicate. The other two atomic navy ships —the 80,000 - ton carrier Enter- prise and a nuclear destroyer are scheduled for completion ia 1961

However, the U.S. continues to

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SMALL DANISH ship Hans , November. The 2.875-toa. vessel No trace has been found of her

carried a total of 95 persons Fri-

mear the Hedtoft’s last ‘eported Position in the North Atlantic. SIGHT OBJECT

The U.S. Coast Guard in New York said the plane geported the abject appeared to be a double- ended lifeboat with a lengthwise black stripe.

A spokesman for the Roya’ Greenland Trading Department , Copenhagen said the object de- scribed ‘could hardly have been a lifeboat from the Hedtoft. He said its lifeboats ail were made of aluminum and unpainted.

The US. Coast Guara cutter Campbell said the object was seen by the air force flyers oniy once and the next day’s air and

sea search would be conducted

pricing and te make Canadian wheat competitive on overseas markets no matter from whica port it is shipped.

Explaining the objective of the new schedule, a wheat board spokesman said the board is try- ing to anticipate what the ovei- all saving will be on gfain ship- ments from the Lakehead to St. Lawrence or Atlantic ports after the seaway opens. He said the saving would fluctuate with changes in the newly instituted quotations for the St. Lawrence and Atlantic.

Search Underway For 2 Men Missing On Ice Near Pictou

PICTOU, N. S., — (CP) —The

‘search will resume today fort

two men last seen early Sunday driving across harbor ice here.

Alexander Russell Ross, 50, of Abercrombie, across the harbor from here, and George Shearer, $1, of the Falls, N.S., were tak- ing a short cut across the ice to Ross’ home. They were fol- lowed in another car by Ross’ brother-inJaw Fraser Murray of the Falls, and his family, but they turned back.

Murray told RCMP he turned back when his wife protested

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like- The Dew”

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in the area where it wa; sighted —‘‘weather and sea conditions permitting.”

“The reported overturned life- boat was the only significant re- sult of the air search,” the coast guard said.

MORE HELP

The Campbell was joined dur- ing the night by two Danish ships, the Tiesten and tie Rink. Along with the German vessel Poseidon, which has already criss-crossed a wide area of ocean with the Campbell, they steered clear of the ice floes around the Hedtoft’s last known Position.

The 2,318-ton Danish motorship DUmanak, carrying 8 oassengers and 40 crew! was diverted from

its Greenlartj-Denmark run to/ the

join the seareh ~but later with- drew because of the weather, the Greenland trading . department said. iy ites

The air force C-S4s in the hunt have come from Goose Bay, La- brador, and Keflavik, iceland.

A coast guard spokesman in New York said the aerial search would continue al! night. An American search plane was over the area, he said, and a Royal Canadian Air Force, Lancaster was to go up later. The two air force C-54s have returned to their

"A Danish government plane has landed at Keflavik, he said, “and is ex ed to take up the search from tiere shortly."’ More planes

that the ice was unsafe. He — three occupants escaped un-

|ATOMS AND OIL

he drove to Abercrombie by the

iet Union Leads US. In Race To Build Nuclear-Powered Ships

hold an apparently long lead in the nuclear submarine field. The report notes that there now are 33 nuclear powered American navy submarines built, building or authorized by Congress.

Four of these 20w are operat- ing in the fleet. A fifth, the Sea- wolf, is laid up in a yard prepara- tory to a year-long project of re- placing the reactor plant.

To date there has ‘been no of- ficial word that Russia has com- p'eted a nuclear submarine

The AEC report, covering spe- cifically the last six months but generally all of 1958, contains only brief data on military weap- ons.

In discussing the latest test ser ies at the Nevada proving ground last September and October, the AEC said 18 tests were conducted to determine whether ‘projected weapons would be nuclearly safe

for handling and storage.” in a branch of the peacetul use

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highway around Pictou harbor, a distance of about 18 miles. When Ross and Shearer failed to show up, Murray raised an alarm.

Searchers led by RCMP re- traced the route believed taken by the two men. -An RCAF Search and Rescue Dakota from Dartmouth, N.S., “circled the harbor ; Sunday searching for breaks fn the ice.

RCMP. warned last week that the harbor ice was unSafe. Fri- day a car broke through - and plunged into 100 feet of water.

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of dtomic energy, the AEC dis- cusses the possibility of using atomic blasting charges for pet- roleum- production and mining. There has been talk of using such processes in northern Alberta’s tar sands.

“Nuclear explosives,” says the report, ‘‘can be used to fracture large masses of oil-bearing shale so that oil can be released or re- covered by in-place heating fol- lowed by conventional pumping.”

In-place heating means that the heat produced by an atomic ex- plosion would, release petroleum from rocks or tar sands while still underground.

The report gives uranium ore praduction in the U.S. during 1958

as 5,200,000 tons. compared with 3.700.000 in 1957. It notes that Canada, still a prominent: uran-

jum supplier, has virtually ceased to htint for further uranium, os- tensibly because its reserves now stand at a whopping 377.000,000

Lorrs American domestic reserves

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1959

15 Below Forecast For Today

Islander shivered in the cold- est temperatures of the winter over the weekend as a deep freeze cold air front moved into the Maritimes following Friday's thaw. ©

“Lowest temperature recorded at the department of transport meteorological station at the airport was a frigid 10 degrees below zero about 8 a.m. Sunday and that mark was expected to be lowered last night.

Late Sunday night the ther- mometer was reading 5.2 below

season’ low of between 14 and 15 degrees below shortly after dawn this morning.

Four Of Family Perish In Fire

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. (CP)

one family burned to death Fri- day in a locked farmhouse 12 miles south of here.

Wieler, both about 29, and their sons—Edwin, 4, and- months.

Charred parts of what a funeral director described as ‘‘three or four bodies” were recovered from the basement of the five - room bungalow.

A 14-year-old boy who first no- ticed the fire said he found one door padlocked. Neighbors said another had been boarded up for the winter and a basement en- trance was closed.

2 Nova Scotians Die Accidentally

HALIFAX (CP) — Highway ac- cidents Saturday night claimed the lives of two Nova Scotiens.

Frank Andrew Spence, 20. of St. Croix, was killed when his car was struck by a Dominion At- lantic Railway diesel passenger train at Panuke Crossing near Windsor.

Earlier, 12-year-old Marilyn Ann Richards died after the bicy~-’ che she was driving to deliver newspapers was struck by a car near her River Herbert home.

Infantry Brigade are presently undergoing.win‘er training in Germany. Behind a@ snow-cover-

are estimated at 6,000,000 tons.

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ed wall in the ancient village

RCMP officials said Saturday they believed all four members of

Missing are Mr. and Mrs. Frank ld, 10

'|ters)\—Smog caused four hospit-

dustrial city to declare a state

persons

day throughout most of Britain,

sunshine.

LONDON (Reuters)-—The prob- lems of Berlin and German re- unification will dominate talks John Foster Dulles wil] have with British, French and German of- ficials on his flying visit this week.

All three Western Allies wel- come the visit of the United

Gtates secretary of state for the chance it presents to discuss again at the highest level West- ern action in the face of Russian pressure over Berlin and the fu- ture of Germany.

French officials are reported not as optimistic as those in Brit- ain over Western unity on the German problems. In fact diplo- ‘matic observers in Paris say Dulles will try to reconcile dif- ferences between the U.S. and Britain on one hand and France and West Germany on the other.

Bonn reaction to the trip was surprise in official circles.

Chancellor Adenauer would wel- Come the chance to discuss the situation with Dulles, but sources close to the West German govern- ment say that nothing in the re- cent and far-reaching consulta- tions between Bonn and Washing- ton makes a visit by Dulles ur- gently necessary.

TO BRITAIN FIRST

Dulles will meet with Prime Minister Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lioyd here Wednesday before flying on to Paris Thursday.

British officials have empha-

Fires Cause $47,000 Loss

SYDNEY (CP) — Two fires in sub-zero weather Sunday

caused damage estimated at $47,000. At New Waterford, 15 miles

from here, a family of three nar- rowly escaped when fire level- led the two-storey frame store operated by Benny Gaum. Mr. Gaum said the loss to his heav- ily-stocked store was $40,000. It was only partially covered by insurance.

At nearby Mira Road, a fam- fly of four went homeless when

troyed the home of Angus Muise. Firemen kept the flames from spreading to a nearby saw mill.

Smog Fills Beds In 4 Hospitals

MANCHESTER; England (Reu-

als in this northern England in-

of emergency Sunday. The hospitals are jammed with suffering from chest complaints. No more medical cases will be admitted unless\they are urgent. At another hospital in Manches- ter, 36 nurses are off duty with illness. Although fog—and smog—was severe last Wednesday and Thurs-

the weekend was clear in most areas. London, hardest hit by the 1952 ‘‘killer’”’ smog, enjoyed bright

P.E. ISLANDERS IN GERMANY

Members of the %th Canadian | of Korbecke, soldjers of the 2nd | River,” Cpl.

Battalion, The Regiment take up a

<pped ian Guards, . nee 9 Frém left are Gdsm. Ivan Hill of Hunter

sized that Dulles’ trip does nut},

$600 nearby Glen Falls, early Sunday morning. Ora Parlee had recent- ly drawn the money from a bank

of. Cavendish, and Gdsm.

signify any emergercy in the Western camp. Conversely, showed the importance the Allies attach to a continued unity of policy on the German issue.

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On the German questions Paris

backs Bonn in feeling that the West must maintain a firm line against the Russians, and should

not hold any conference until the

German Problems Feature Dulles’ Plans For Talks

Russian deadline of May 27 is past.

In a note Nov. 27 Russia called for the end of the four-power sta- tus of Berlin and proposed a free demilitarized city of West Berlin within six months, by which time Russia would hand over its ad- ministrative duties to East Ger- many.

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Circled . cross locates area where small Danish ship Hans Hedtoft with 95 persons aboard struck an iceberg. off Greenland Friday and vanished. Vessel was

Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on hear maiden voyage in 1912. The Hans Hedtoft was returning to Denmark from Godthaab on her inaugural Denmark-Green-

about 600 miles from where the! land run.

Two Bandits Rob N.B.. Owner And His Wife Of $600

fire of undetermined origin des-| .,

SAINT JOHN, N. B., — (CP) — Police are searching for two men who assaulted and robbed a motel owner aad his wife of in American currency at

Pair Escape Crash Landing

DORCHESTER, N.B. , (CP)— Two Halifax men escaped injury Sunday afternoon when their Tri- Pacer flipped over after making a forced landing in a field near here.

Pilot Samuel Ross and his pas- senger Walter Conrad were un-.

hurt. The pilot ftadioed the -Monc-

ton Air Traffic Control Centre at 3 p.m. AST he was going to cra: land because of engine trouble. : The Piper was originally owned

by D.L. Tanton of Charlottetown.

Albert Laird of John Garnhum of Montague.

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‘Motel

for a trip to Florida.

The armed robbery was _ the third in the province in as many weeks. None of the baadits have been caught.

. ll, two masked gunmen

a Doaktown, N. B., phy-

sician of $600 and an undisclosed

quantity of drugs. Jan. 17.a lone

gunman held up and robbed a

Saint John tobacco shop owner of $95.

The Glen Falls motel robbers were described as “big men” between 30 and 40 years old. They applied for a room and were told there were no vacan- cies.

They forced their way in and one struck Mrs. Parlee on the head with the butt of his gun. The other struggled with Mr. Parlee and fired a shot info the ‘loor.

“‘We mean business, hand over ‘our money,” he said. The pair took the money and flea.

EIGHT LEFT HOMELESS -

GLACE BAY, N.S. (CP) Fire Sunday destroyed the home of, Mrs. D. J. Boyd.Eight per- sons were left homeless. There was no estimate of damage.

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Deputy Premier Aiastas Mikoyan has in- vited. the United States to sign @ seven-year trade agreement with the Soviet Union, promising that Russia would place “large orders’ in the U.S: in return for Soviet goods.

Mikoyan was addressing the fifth day’s session Saturday of the Soviet Communist party’s 2lst congress. Another sessiow

“Twill be held Monday.

The congress of nearly 2,000 Russian delegates and leading foreign Communists is debating a Soviet seven-year plan aimed at producing a higher standard of living than that in the U. S.

Reporting on his 17-day Ameri- can tour last.;.month, Mikoyan said he no longer about “containment” and “retaliation” in his talks with President Eisen- hower, State Secretary Dulles and other American leaders.

NO DESIRE TO MEDDLE

-“I gained the impression that the. United States does not want to meddle in the internal affairs of the socialist (Communist) countries.

“From this, we might draw the conclusion that the American @overnment leaders are inclined toward a policy of peaceful coex- istence. If this is so, then words must be followed by deeds.”

Mikoyan, Russia’s leading

THE HAGUE (Reuters)—Once

| upon a time, a baby princess was) i

carried away to a far land to es- cape a wicked tyrant who stole her throne.

That was the fairy-tale begin- ning to the life of Crown Prin cess Beatrix of The Netherlands, and—as in all good fairy tales— it had a happy outcome.

Her country, long since freed of Hitler's oppression, was decked with» flags Saturday to celebrate her 2ist birthday.

But the young heir-apparent to the Dutch throne has no fairy- tale remoteness from her people.

BACK TO SCHOOL

try after five wartime years of refuge in Canada, Princess Bea- trix was plunged into the whirl of activity facing any Dutch schoolgirl.

Her parents, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, wanted no royal privileges in the education of the crown princess or her three younger sisters.

Princess Beatrix has matured into a gay, quick-witted woman with a love of sports and a warm identification with her friends— the Dutch people.

‘When she assumes the throne, she will be the third. queen in succession to rule The Nether- lands since 1890 when her grand- mother, Queen Wiihe!l mina, started her reign.

ESCAPED NAZIS

She was only 18 months old when Nazi troops marched into Holland in 1940. Her mother, then Princess Juliana, escaped to Canada with her family.

In an unpretentious Ottawa

home, Princess Beatrix sp~nt five

British Make First

By COLIN FROST

LONDON (AP)—British indus- trialists, fearful of an approach- ing trade war, announced Sunday counter measures against Europe's six - country Common Market.

After just a month's operation,

-|the market already is hurting

Britis manufacturers. Industry and government fear the outlook is bleak.

An influential group led by Ray- mond Gordon of Fairey Aviation announced it is forming an organ- ization called the Commonwealth Union of Trade. Its aim is to build up Commonwealth trade as an in- surance against possible loss of

_ | European markets. °

British manufacturers mames in the auio and engineer-

ing industries among them — ai- ready have lost sales outlets care- fully built up in Europe since the war. Continental dealers and merchants who had been import- ing British machines are switch- ing to German products, whicn they believe will benefit most from the Common Market scheme.

STARTED JAN, 1

The Common Market started operating Jan. 1 in France, Ger- many, Italy, Belgium, The Neth- erlands and Luxembourg. The six countries cut tariffs and increased quotas for imports from fellow members.

France ts the focal point ot

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British worries, since it has more against imports than other members of the six. That

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Trade Treaty With Russia

Mikoyan Gives iets At Red Party's Congress

trade expert, complained -about the 1951 repudiation of the Sov- iet - American trade agreement signed by the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Pointing out that Russia main tains trade relations with Brit- ain and France, he declared: “We are ready to sign a trade agreement with the United States for three, five or even seven years, should the U. S. govern- ment want it. ~ With dollars obtained through trading with the United States, we can place large orders i@ that country.

Dutch Princess Beatrix Observes 21st Birthday a

cated because of advancing age.

During her early Princess Beatrix—‘Trix"’ royal family, cycled to classes every day like any other aged Dutch girl. The only diffi ence was that she started’ out from a palace.

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her tour of duty as cook and dish- washer.

After high school, she followed her mother’s footsteps and en- tered Leyden University, founded by an ancestor, William the Si- lent, nearly 400 years ago.

The no-privileges policy is still holding today. Crown Princess. Beatrix is cramming for a de~ gree in sociology.

She has a flair for languages and is especially good in Eng- lish—the result of her early years in Ottawa.

Her favorite. pastimes are sports. Thé blue-eyed, russets haired princess is an expert rider and ha¢ taken honors at interna- tional events.

Occasional rumors of Possible marriages with eligible Eurepean aristocrats have been promptly denied.

The Amsterdam newspaper de Telegraaf, outlining the legal con- sequences of her coming of age, notgs she still will need the ap- proval of her parents for a mar-

riage until she is 30.

Move

Against ‘Common Market’

makes the tariff-reduced Germas - product an even bigger attraction for French buyers.

Britain still is pressing a rival scheme which would extend Com- mon Market advantages to all 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Co - opera- tion. France is the main objector to this all-European free trade area. One objection is that Brit- ain, while seeking equal treat- ment in Europe, refuses to give up preferential trade arrange- ments with the Commonwealth,

The newly formed Common- wealth Union of Trade will be largely an advisory group, poot- ing knowledge on ways to in- crease sales. Its basic aim is te remove tariffs and other trade barriers such as import quotas in-

side the Commonwealth,