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WA (AP) - Russia sug- Monday the negotiation of whale treaties on nuclear ’sispension despite Western that the banning of and the control of such a mist go together in a single t
Ii~ another international con- in Geneva, the Soviet , proposed still another _ — this one to prohibit carrying nuclear weapons ' flying over the territory of g , countries or the high seas. Western delegations Suspected ; traps in both Soviet
he and of a day of intense jllJI'i the three - country m on nuclear test sus- and the 10-country tech- Iallcs on surprise attack
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OITAWA (OP) -— A coroner's ‘ Holiday night found that “a _(’ losive gas-air mixture” the Oct. 25 explosion in Ottawa that fatally V one man and caused of dollars in damage.
The jury, investigating the of William Anderson, and , cause of the blast, said in its the “gas entered the through an uncapped gas to pipe” that came through basement wall of the Ad- Iremicron: — Multig-raiph building 9 the 65-yearold man was
BAN EULA HOOPS
,MYO (AP) —- National po- Il0‘Moni'lay/banued hula-hoopin‘g mas. They said the action I tilll‘fllbecause of an increase ‘ accidents, many in—l hulahooping youngsters.
om (am—~15. storm , the central United States
-M|83fico to the Canadian Monday with tornadoes, v 75110“ and iflow—(making
Weather bureau said the * “Will make weather his-
vim' Its large extent and un- " severe conditions so early
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3:30 Demons were known dead. i; a dozen injured, at
i. 37 missing and 50 more ‘ v . A C46 (W'go plane.
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W ' IR (-CP) —- Police ’ “I been able to find Flor- , lctoria Randall who left 'hn and and heir here 17 ll "380 to take a wartime job. in“ I well furnished home district, with a neat . garden and well - kept
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tlfiffihfi the house as a shrine "’3 eStranged wife. Nothing Med over the years, and :"cmnulated over onceafasll-
w‘urniture. died in hospital NOV. 7
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P.E.I. Tourist Association held of Cavendish, newly elected presi-
its first annual meeting last night. dent 0'5 the AS‘SOCiatiOH;
Left to right, director of the Provincial Travel Bureau Association. A.B. Lepage
A.A. Nicholson, .
Col. flames Malcolm, Montreal presi- Ident of the Canadian Tourist As- lsociation; J. W. Much, Southport, retiring president
P.E.I. Tourist Ass’n. Elects Officers For New Season
A.B. Lepage of Cavendish was elected president of the Prince Edward Isl-and Tourist Associa- tion last night at the association's first annual meeting held at the Charlotetown Hotel.
Cher. members elected to the executive included vice-president, Torn Lothian of Charlottetown, second vice-president, Gordon Shaw of Brackley and secretary
treasurer A. Walthen Gaudet ofI
Charlottetown who was re-elected.
The three-year board of direc- tors includes Frank Pellerin, Wil- liam Beer and Wallace Rodd, all of Charlottetown and Mrs. Lita Andrew of Cavendish. Those hold-
ing positions on the two-year board of directors are J .W. Much, Southport, Gordon W. Shaw, Brackley, Dr. J .A. MacMillan, Charlotetown and AB. Lepage.
The one-year board of directors includes Mrs. Pauline Jackson, Montague, Mrs. Dora Campbell, Charlottetown, Miss Mary Ste- wart, Cavendish and William Cun- ningham, Summerside.
The six associate directors for ‘ the coming year are Lt.-Col. E. W. Johnstone, Burlington, J .F. Arnett and Charles Hogan, Summerside, R. Earl Taylor and Tom Lot'hian,
ments, Montague.
Charlottetown and Gilbert Cle-I
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958
‘HuII Man Goes On Trial For Murder Of Wif‘e
HULL, Que. —— (CP) —— Gaston
Nicholas, 22, went on trial Mon- day changed with the drowning murder of his pregnant wife and medical witnesses said that a bruise over her left eye probably was caused before death. . Nearly 50 of the 60-member jury panel were questioned Mon- day before 12 members were ob- tained and 11 of the repections were made on grounds that the prospective jurors oppose the death penalty.
The Crown contends that Nich- olas, a steeplejlack, sought to gain $12,000 in insurance and deliber- ately upset the rented canoe July 26 in which his nonswimiming wife. 19. was the only other pas- senger.
P..E.I. Premier Sees, Gov't‘ At Ottawa In Trouble
OTTAWA, —— (Special) —- The Diefenibaker government is get- ting into so many difficulties, and falling into so many pits, that it will soon be digging its own graveyard, Hon. A. W. Ma- theson declared here Monday.
Speaking at the opening of the advisory council meeting of the National Liberal Federation, the Prince Edward Island Premier recalled that he has always been blamed for criticizing federal ad- ministrations. He has blasted liberal governments as well as the “one of the present stripe.”
While he was reluctant to lash out at the Conservative govern- ment at the present Ottawa meet- ing, he said, he was convinced the Diefenbaker administration was having trouble.
“It won’t be long before it‘ll be digging its own graveyard,” he said.
As he began to speak, Premier Matheson drew a round of laugh-
ll'feou Reports U.S. Storm ' Weather History
Snows already on the ground ranged from 4% inches in nor- mally semiiatropical Tucson, Ariz., to 16 inches in the Dakotas. Sub- zero temperatures, :from 14 below in Montana, Wyoming and Colo- rado. Tornadoes and. high winds hit Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri ahead of the cold front. Snow and heavy rains up to 4.65 inches extended eastward through Kansas and Missouri, bringing flood threats to two states.
Two men were dead—a motor- ist killed on an icy highway in South Dakota and a Texas oil field worker killed when heavy winds blew an oil rig over near Odessa.
Elfinged Wife Is Heir Of
couver Recluse
more than a week after he was savagely beaten in his junk-filled basement. An iron bar used by the slayer was found b' police. A $2,000 reward was posted.
Randall, who operated a pros- perous downtown hydraulic jack business, left $10,000 in the bank, $1,650 in bearer bonds, the home, plus the assets of his business. The estate also included a flashy, $5,000 late model car. _
Florie is the heir but police have failed to find hc . h
“I just can‘t take any more. she told her best friend, a Van- couver woman, when she leit her home here in 1941. She offered no other explanation.
ter by pointing out he was one of those “rare people” left in Canada — a Liberal premier.
NOT PESSIMISTIC
Despite the fact there were only two left —~ in Newfoundland and P.E.I. — he wasn’t at all pessimistic about the Liberal Party’s future provinci‘ally as well as federally.
“We in Prince Edward Island have been in office since August, 1935, so we’re really the senior government in Canada,” he said. “And we’re well aware of what brought about the Liberals down- fall in Ottawa and intend to guard against that in our pro- Vince."
He felt confident the Liberals could carry on a worthwhile pro- vincial campaign in P.E.I. and in the other provinces. Pointing to Newfoundland, he said the Lib- eral party is stronger there to- day than ever before. The same can be done in the other provin- cos.
“I believe we can build sen— sible policies that can return the Liberals to power provincially as well as federally,” he said. “Many say it can't be done, but I say it can be."
Prince Edward Island has worked well with Liberal govern- ments in Ottawa in the past, he said. “I would rather work with the Liberals in Ottawa than with the present government.”
BOOSTS CAUSEWAY
Another Maritime speaker Mon- day was Liberal leader Louis J. Robichaud, of New Brunswick, who said greatly improved trans- portation facilities were needed throughout the Atlantic Provin- ces.
Specifically he referred to the proposed causeway across Nor- thumberland Strait, between PE. 1. and New Brunswick, and the proposed canal across the isth- mus of Ohignecto. It would run between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
“The benefits of the causeway would promote industrial develop- ment of the Island through more rapid transportation, availability of cheaper power from the main- land, and promote the tourist in- dustry," he said. . H
The oanal’s desirability was also evident, he said. lt would
ESCAPE BURNING
NEWCASTLE, N.B. (CP)—Six persons escaped with only their night clothing early Monday when fire destroyed their two-storey -me at Lower Newcastle. Mr. 23d Mrs. Bruce McKinnon, their three children aged three to seven and Norman Muzzeroll, 18, jump- ed to safety from the top of a porch just outside a second-floor
window.
act as an extension of the St. Lawrence seaway and thus pre- vent the loss of the Maritime’s contact with shipping to Ontario and Quebec.
22 FROM P.E.I.
Premier Matheson is heading 3 group of 22 official delegates from P.E.I. to the meeting. Ten men and five women represent the senior party organizations in the provinces. In addition, the young Liberals have sent five delegates. There are also several unofficial observers.
Delegates registered:
Young Liberals: Neil Mac- Leod, Summerside; Earle Mac- Leod and Alie Zakem, Charlotte town; Austin Bowman, Wiltshire; Bruce Clair, Montague.
Liberal women: Mrs. MacDonald and Miss Velma An- drew, Charlottetown; Mrs. Olive Poole and Senator Esie Inman, Montague; Mrs. Marion Small- man, Summerside.
Senior Liberals: Glydon Willis and Keith Moore, Kensingiton; Robert Campbell, Alberton; Rob- ert MacLe-od, Sinclair Cutcliffe, J. Wallace Douglas and Hon. A. W. Matheson, Charlottetown; John Mulally, Souris; Gilbert Clements, Lorne Wigginton and John A. Annear, Montague; Harry MacLauchlan, Stanhope.
University student: Gerald Murphy, Georgetown.
B. E.-
CAlRO, Egypt pro - Western government fell Monday under a coup by army oflficers of varying political be- liefs. The East African nation seemed quiet a few hours later.
The coup, apparently bloodless, may have been set off over inter— nal matters rather than foreign affairs.
Reports from Khartoum, the capital, indicated a triumvirate of army officers was in charge.
Gen. Ibrahmin Aibiboud, 58- year - old commander - in - chief, ousted Premier Aibdullah Khalil, his Second World War comrade in arms in African campaigning against the Axis.
CO’NSISTORY IN
VATICAN CITY (.CP) — Pope John named 23 new cardinals Monday breaking a 400-year-old tradition by raising the total num- ber of princes of the Roman Catholic Church to 75. The pre- vious maximum was 70.
He announced that a consistory will be held Dec. 15-18 to give the new cardinals their red hats.
Named were 13 Italians, raising that country’s membership in the College of Cardinals to 29 from 1.6. Non~Italians will number 46, compared with 36 previously.
Mexico and Uruguay were given cardinals for the first time in their history. The United States got two and Britain, without a cardinal since the death of Ber- nard Cardinal Griff-in in August, 1956, one.
Canada’s membership in the college was unchanged at two— James Cardinal McGuigan of To- ronto and Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger of Montreal.
England’s new cardinal is Msgr. William Godfrey, 69,
There was speculation here that Khalil—~who has been under ex- treme Arab Nationalist pressure emanating from President Nas- ser’s United Arab Republic—may have approved the coup.
There was no word Monday night on his whereabouts.
A‘bboud relieved all cabinet ministers, dissolved the parlia- ment elected only last February; cancelled the provisional consti- tution; declared a state of emer- gency; appointed military gover- nors in all districts; halted the publication of newspapers, and imposed censorship.
Two religious leaders, who wield immense political power, broadcast statements of support
DECEMBER
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, who 20 years ago became the first papal envoy to Britain since the Reformation.
POPULATION GROWTH
When Pope Sixus V set the number at 70 in the 16th century, the total population of the world was smaller than the present 500,000,000 membership of the Catholic church.
The new American cardinals are Most Rev. Richard J. Cush- ing, 63. of Boston and Most Rev. John F. O’Hara, 70, of Philadel- phia. They .will join Cardinals Spellman of New Yo:‘: and Mc- Intyre of Los Angeles in bringing U.S. representation to four.
Many of the new cardinals are relatively young. The average of
, the 52 cardinals already in the
college is 73. The newcomers, al- though some are well into the 705, average 67. The youngest is 45- year-old Bishop Julius Doerpfner of Berlin. The average age of the whole membership will now be slightly more than 71.
KARACHI (CPl—Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker and his wife in- spected Pakistan’s largest hydro- electric power development Mon- day, a project being built by Can- ada under the Colombo Plan.
The prime minister and his wife walked into a 39-foot-hig-h power tunnel being carved out of rock behind the site of the poWer house, and then drove to the top of the still incomplete dam.
The dam will create a giant lake stretching 26 miles to the Afghanistan border.
Canadian supervisors and en- gineers working at the project snapped pictures of the prime minister wherever he went, in- terrupting their picture-taking only when Diefenbaker wen-t over
to them to shake their hands and
EDMUNDSTON, N. B. — (OP) —Two witnesses from the Atomic Energy of Canada research plant at Chalf River, Ont, testified Monday that a hair found in the hand of Gaetane Boudhard after her stabbing death is similar to hairs which the Crown'says were taken from the head of John Jacob Vollmann, Jr.
The 20-year-old resident of Madawaska, Me., is being tried on a charge of murdering the high school girl last May.
Mrs. Ama Crowder, ruled an expert in neutron activation an- alysis, and William D. Mackin- tosh, a radio chemist in the de- veopment chemistry branch of the Chalk River plant, said the hairs could have come from the same individual.
Mr. Mackintosh said he and Mrs. Crowder worked out the results together in examining the single hair and hair samples iden tified as having been taken from the heads of Vollmann and the 16-year«old girl.
Another witness ,City Police Chief J. A. Roussel, testified he has known Vollmann for about a year as a reporter for a weekly
Atomic Energy Experts Give Evidence In N.B. Murder Case
newspaper at Mada-waska.
At 1 pm. May 13, the chief said, he had a conversation with Vollmann about pictures taken in a counterfeiting case then under investigation. I,
Chief Roussel added that when he had the pictures at 12:45 a. m. May 14 he called the M-adiaw- aska neWSpaper office and re- cognized the person whq answer- ed the phone as Vollmann. The witness said he told Vollmiann the pictures were ready and “he replied it was too late.”
(The Bouchard girl failed to return home from school May 13 and her body was found in a gravel pit at 1.05 am. May 14. A medical witness estimated she had then been dead less than five hours.)
Lawrence Boutot, 18, of Mad- awoska but working now in Mil- inocket, Me., testified he had a drive with Vollmanin in the lat- ter's car about the first week in May. He said he opened the car's glove compartment at that time and saw a "hunting" knife in a sheath.
Boutot identified the car as one now in court evidence.
P.M. And Wife Visit HycIro . Development In Pakistan
ask where they are from.
Later, he and his wife visited the 504bed hospital, headed by Dr. Donald Good of Fredericton, NB.
good to numb feet of Sgt. Walter P. Bigelow of Ogden after wading
Work Begins At Tormentine Stone Quarry
Exploratory work has begun at a stone quarry near Cape Tor- mentine, \l.B., to determine the suitability of the rock for use on the proposed causeway be- bween Cape Tormentine and. Borden.
The Diamond Construction Company of Fredericton, N.B., which has the contract of this particular work, proposes to test through a series of explosions if the rock will break into sufficient- ly large pieces for use in the causeway.
This year the federal govern- ment allocated $200,000 for an engineering study of the project, which will also invove study and experimentation with rock quar- rying near the site of the pro- posed causeway.
PopeJohn NamesZB New Cardinals To The Church
Austria, presently without a cardinal, got one. France got two more, raising her total to eight. Spain was given another, making a total of four. ,‘
Germany also got another, for a total of three.
NEW SECRETARY
Pope John also formally an- nounced the appointment of Msgr. Domenico Tardini, pro-secretary of state in the Vatican, as secre- tary of state. Msgr. Tardini was simultaneously made cardinal.
The position, an important one dealing with correspondence sent out in the name of the pope, was left empty by Pius Xll when the position fell vacant in 1944.
For the first time in 43 years, there will be two brothers in the sacred college.
Pope John surprised Vatican observers by not increasmg the representation from Asia and not creating a Negro cardinal from Africa, in view of the growing im- portance of these regions.
With the new cardinals the com- position (if the sacred college will be: Italians 29, French eight, United States and Spain four each, Brazil and Germany three each, Argentina and Canada two each, and one each from Belgium, Portugal, Portuguese M o z a m- bique, Armenia, Syria, Australia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ireland, India, Poland, Hungary, Yugo- slavia, Ecuador, China, Uruguay,
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MONTREAL (CP) — Crucial railway-union talks opened here \londay in an attempt to stop a :ountry-wide railway strike be- ore it starts.
Representatives of the CPR, CNR and 15 non-operating unions spent 27 minutes late in the day on “ground - breaking” negotia- :ions to settle their $38,000,000-a- year wage and contract squabble.
Adjourning amicably, the two sides agreed to meet again today at 2 pm. EST. (3 pm. AST).
The discussions, held privately at the CPR’s Windsor station, came 51/2 hours after the board of transport commissioners in Of. awa authorized the railways to hoist their freight rates by 17 per cent as of Dec. l—the same day 130,000 railway workers are threatening to walk off their jobs.
PRELIMINARY TALKS
Frank H. Hall, chief union spokesman, said 1L'ond-ay’5 meet- ing was “exploratory and prelim- inary."
Earlier he said that if a settle- ment of the big wage dispute is achieved the union can rescind its strike orders —— right up to within a few hours of tht‘ 6 am. regional standard time deadline on Dec. 1.
lnformants indicated the rail-
ays are willing to settle with the unions even though they got a. 17- per-cent freight rate boost instead of their requested 19 - per - cent, which they said would fully cover $67,000,000 anticipated wage bill.
Key issue, it was understood, is how to sign a new contract that provides a wage boost based on
OTTAWA (CPl—Two Maritime premiers—the only Liberal pre- miers in Canada — Monday sharply criticized the 17-per~ceint freight rate incre* ‘ granted the railways by the board of transport commissioners.
Premier Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland, arriving from St. John’s, for the National Liberal Advisory Council meeting, said
MONCTON, —- (CP) —-Exective manager Howard A. Mann of the Manitimes Transportation Commission said Monday the new 17 per cent freight rate in-
eek to reach him was Cpl. Sestes Copeland parachuting (left). Taking notes is Sgt. Ted from stricken cargo plane. With London of Utah Highway aPtrol.
crease will give “business and
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FIVE CENTS
Begin Meetings Aimed At Heading Off RariI Strike I
Pro-Western Gov't Is Overthrown In Sudan
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Pay Hike Likely For Employees
a freight rate increase that won’t start producing revenue until after Dec. 1-and is subject to cabinet intervention between now and then.
S'UMMONS FULL TEAM
Mr. Hall has summoned his full 15-man negotiating team to Montreal to enter today’s talks at full union strength. Only nine members were available Monday when a railway representative telephoned Mr. Hall to arrange the meeting.
The unions have accepted the majority report of a federal con- ciliation board that offered wage increases of four cents an hour retroactive to last Jan. 1, plus three per cent as of Sept. 1, 1958, and another three per cent next April 1.
The railways promised to pay this—and extend the same com- pensation to other employees—if they got the full 19-per-cent hi- cnease in freight charges.
CUT TO 17 PER CENT
The board of transport commis- sioners Monday sliced this down to 17 per cent—effective Dec. 1— saying it should be enough to cover the Canadian Pacific Rail- way’s added wage costs and go some distance towards meeting that of the Canadian National Railways.
A board ofificial estimated it would yield about $57,000.000 a year.
The cabinet in April killed the last previous rate increase awarded the railways by the board. That one amounted to 3.6
per cent.
Rates Boost 'Terrible' For P.E.l., Premier Declare-s
the increase would be "a body blow to Newfoundland."
“Newfoundland is at the end of the line. We feel thes.‘ increases more than any other province."
Premier Alex Matheson a! Prince Edward Island, also at- tending the Liberal meeting, said: "I am terribly disturbed. This is terrible, as far as we are concerned.”
Most Additional Revenue To Come From Moritimes,.West
industry in the Atlantic and Western Provinces litle to cheer about.” ,
The increase was authorized Monday by the Board of Trans- port Commissioners.
The railways‘ original applica- tion for a 19 per cent rate boost was vigorously opposed by the commission. ‘We in the east and our friends in Western Canada opposed the railway request for higher rates simply because of the unfair burden which such rate boosts places on Canada's
outlying regions," Mr. Mann said.
He said a disproportionate share of the roughly $60,000,000 which the railways hope to ob- tain from the increase, which goes into effect Dec. 1, will
have to be paid by the Western and Atlantic provinces.
Steps to oppose implementa- tion of the rate increase are un- der consideration now, he said. Action which would be jointly taken by the Western and Atlan- tic Provinces might be in the direction of appealing the board‘s judgment to the Federal Govern- ment. . “What we are confronted with now is a severe distortion in the freight rate structure. We have
' now reached the point where
roughly one-third of the railway
_: traffic has to pay about three
quarters of the revenues which .- the railways expect to realize ’ from the 17 per cent increase.”
He said the increase will bear most heavily on the longhaul shipper in the east and west be-
. cause it is applied as a flat per
centage. Such flat or horizontal rate advances widen the differ-
, ential in freight costs as between , long and short haul shippers in
a common market and make it
, more difficult for the distant , producer to compete in the large ; markets of Central Canada.
He cited examples of freight rates on commodities moving into the Atlantic region. Agri-
cultural implements moving from ' Brantford, Ont. to Charlottetown * will go up to $1.53 per 100 lbs.
from $1.31 per 100 lbs. Canned
' goods from Toronto will cost .29
cents per 100 lbs. more in St. John’s, Nfld., as of Dec. 1. The added cost of an average auto- mobile from Windsor, Ont, will be $21.65 in Halifax and $30.17
in St. John?
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