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sr. LAURENT URGES OPEN MIND ON CHINA POLICY

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA. FRIDAY, MARCH 26. 1954

Shippers Bid To Break N. Y. Dock Strilcelfxletllaldlflalrs

Death Penalty Suggested For llnig llaoket Heads

UITAWA. (CP)-A woman sen- ator whose province is the home of many of Canada's narcotic ari- dicts has urged that the brains of the rings be put to death after being convicted.

senator Nancy Hodges. a Lib- rral from British Columbia. said Thursday stronger punishment than the proposed 14 years in prison is needed for "the higher ups in the drug traffic. those men who sit like bloated. obscene epid- us spinning a vile web in which to lure and enmesh the innocent victims of their bestlal trade."

Mrs. Hodges. a newcomer to the senate and former speaker of the B, C. legislature. spoke during de- hate on a series of changes pro- posed to narcotic lsws. She quoted police authorities as saying that in Vancouver alone 1,000 addicts are on the streets at all times and another 500 are serving jail terms

A physician. senator F. W. Ger- ahaw. said in ewiaining the pro-

posed changes that Canada has v

about 3,000 addicts. Harelier Sentences

The proposed changes would re- move fines and provide penalties ranging from six months to seven years for being in illegal posses- sion. But the maximum penalty for having narcotics and trafficking in them would. be boosted to 14 )cars from seven.

Whipping as a penalty for ll- lvaal possession also is dmpped bill it may be added by the judge to the penalty of anyone convicted of trafficking.

Senator Hodges said those at the hold of the narcotics traffic "are potential murderers. potential mur- fll"l'P.l'Xl of men's souls and in my estimation that infinitely worse than the homicide of one individ- ual". , She and that if hanging can be iustlfled at all it is justified in tha case of the top men in the drug rings.

"In fact. I think hanging is too -say for those people."

(YPTAWA, (CF)-Prime' Minister St. Laurent says that if India does not remain neutral in the event of war he expects that country will side with Western countries.

Appointment For Gmdr. Birtwistlo

Offer Wife Boost Plus Olher Benefits:

By ARTHUR. EVERETT

NEW ironx. (AP)- The ship- ping industry made a bid Thursday to smash New Yorks costly water- front strike. They offered a wage boost plus nearly tl.2-50.000 in cash mr a return to.work.

At the same time. the shippers said they will try to get a new Taft-Hartley labor law injunction against the strike of the old Inter- national Longshoremen'a Associa- tion Ind., which has cost an aa- imated t2'75.000.000. Such an in- junction ended an ILA strike last October.

pcommender Ken nirtwietle (above) who was recently promot- ed to that rank and transferred from Halifax to Ottawa has been appointed Deputy Director of Na.- val Organiptlon with heedquarb ers in the Capital city.

Commander nirtwist.ie,is a son of former Chief of Police Birtwlstle and Mrs. Birtwistle of Charlotte- town and continued his career with the Royel canadden Nsvy following active service in the late war. '

'l'0;l?ADO KILLS TWO

KANSAS CITY. (AP)-A moth- er snd her son were killed Thurs-

day when : tornado struck the Bendavis community. about 18 miles south of Houston. Mo. Vic-

tims of the blow were Mrs. Sarah

Maxwell. ill. and her son, Thomas. about 60. '

British Govit Avoids A Hydrogen Bomb Debate

LONDON. (AP) -Labor party members demanded of Prime Min- ister Churchill Thursday's state- ment ss to whether he will con- sult at once with President Eisen- hower and Premier Malenkcv on ; tponement of future hydrogen bomb tests.

The government refused a re- quest for an immediate H-bomb debate. But Labor member Wil- liam Wervey submitted this quee- tion to be asked of Churchill next "niesday:

"whether in view of the un- known and uncontrollable effects of hydrogen bpmb explosions. he will consult immedletely with President Eisenhower and Mr. Malenkov with s view to securing postponement of any further such

Coming Events

"Vernon iarnboree in Vernon Hall. April 7th. a PM.

"Card Party, Tracadie cross School. nidey. March 20th.

Beer's mu.

"Special meeting I. I. 8. Fri- g:y soul. at eight pm. .1. J. White, 81.

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"Oaks sale. Hlghifleld United Wit. 2 pm. aatdi-day, March it. Fennell and Qrendler.

"Card party every Friday. It. ::s:r'e Legion Hall. Dance psi-

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"Psrkdele women's Institute Glke dale. Moore b Idcbeod. let- ufdar. nerd: ms. at Mo.

"Reserve Beturdey. lurch ffth far hem and eoellop supper in gI'a':e.ud llell. Auspicee at John

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pending international discussions on control and abolit- ion."

The questions climexed a day of mounting demands by press and politicians for diplomadc efforts to banish the threat of atomic war.

leeks Meeting

Churchill told the House Mon- day he was still pressing his plan for an informal meeting of chiefs of government. including Runla. to talk over the "stupendous prob- lems and perils" of the atom race

The.l-I-bomb matter came to a head in Britain with reports that the United statee' latest test: in the Psclnc "surprised" scientists by their force and fury.

The Marquess of Salisbury. di- rector” ' to of the proposed atomic energy authority. told the House of Lords Wednudey night. that the "hideous reality" of the hydrogen bomb makes necessary a live-and-let-live understandinr be- tween Ruseia and the west. No one. he said. can win an atomic war.

Dr. Donald soper. president 0! lrltelnb methodist conference. is- sued aetatement calling onChrist- fans everywhere to petition their governments to ban or abolish atomic and hydmgen bombs.

Assaults Ont

HANOI. Indo-China. (AP) - French planes dropped streams of f:i-ebombe en Vletmlnh troops po- sitions around besieged Dion Blen Phu Th raday in a tremendous eerlel unit.

The French said their air arm

inflicted heavy losses on the Communist-led rebels and upset their timetable for renewal of

new attempts to crush the north- west lndo-Chine fortress with mass lnfantrytattacks.

In a political development. e former premier of Vlel. Nam celi- ed for s cease-fire now. Tran Van Huu. who held the premiership of fade-China's largest state from IQO to I52, appealed also to negotiators at the forthcoming Geneva conference to end the

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The .shlppers' retroactive wagi- offer was ridiculed by the ILA's executive vice-president. Patrick J, Connolly. who told reporters:

"They are trying to bribe people.

iwhat we want is a contract. We

resent it :very much. It will have no effect."

Deldllne March 81

To the port's 14.000 longshore- men. the shippers offered an eight- cent-an-hour wage increase. plus a two-cent boost in welfare ben- efits-all retroactive to last Oct. 1.

It gave the dockers until March 31 to accept the offer. .

The New York shipping Associa- tion. which represents 170 salt water shipping and stevedoring firms. said retroactve wages all the longshoremcn would amount to si.400.000.

The basic dock wage now is 02.27 an hour.

The list day of the ILA strike found the union. its strike lines holding shaklly. facing:

l. A slow but steady return to work by rival AFL dockers.

1. Refusal of ILA dockers in other cities to extend the strike along the east coast from Portland.

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Me.. to Hampton Roads. Va

3. A trial starting next Monday for contempt of a federal no-strike injunction in force when the ILA walked out Msrch 5. The union could be fined from 8100.000 up if convicted.

Seek Support

The ILA fought back Thursday by asking 4.000 tugboat men to honor its picket lines. The first effect of this. the union said. was a tleup of the Staten island yards of the Moran Towing Company. However, the only tugs effected were those in for repairs.

The most dramatic facet of a tugboat strike is always the del- icate berthing of the big transat- lantic luxury liners. The first of the big ones due in is the Queen Mary on Monday.

The 350 - mile waterfront was fairly quiet during the day.

Double Murder Charge trill

WINNIPDG. (CP)-A double mur- der charge was laid Thursday against an unemployed graveyard worker acused of killing his wife and step-son with a butcher knife.

The stabbing occurred Wednes- day nlght in the north Winnipeg home of the man charged-Gt year-old Anthony Woytysbyn. It tokk the life of Mrs. Martha Woy- tylhyn. so. and her 26-year-old son by a previous marriage. Ores: Oetepowich.

Woytyshyn was remanded a week without plea,

ABIIWOIITH DIES TORONTO. (CPI -- Edward M. Ashworth. 14. general manager of the Toronto Hydro Commission from 1024 until his retirement

three years ago. died Thursday.

French Continue Fire

V 'etminh

rune): army headquarters and American - supplied transport planes newly employed In the as- eeult. dropped im napalm bombs on rebels concentrated northeast of the heart of the fortress.

In addition to the bombers. squadrons of fighters hammered at the rebel gun positions and enirenchmente all around the oval-shaped fortress.

Despite the air attack. the Viet- Mlnh continued to bring fresh troops into the hill positions. in- cludln thousands of regional guorrlla forces rounded up in west end' northwestern Indo- China.

The grim French defenders ex- pect renewed attecke when the rebels feel they have supplies 'end what they consider

war. now in in eighth yssr.

overwhelming numbers of men.

All Prince Edward Island school teachers wil receive a straight salary increase of 35000 next year according to an amendment in the school Act which was given a second reading in the Legisla- ture yesterdsy afternoon.

The increase will become effec- tive on July. Education Minister Hon. Keir Clark estimated there are about 770 teachers in the Province and the increase along with the new increments being paid out will cost the Government about 658,000 next year,

Increments of 550 each are to be paid to teachers at the commence- ment of the third, sixth, ninth. twelfth and fifteenth yeaiis in the teaching profession.

The increments will not apply to permit teachers. "Once they become regular teachers they will

get their increments." stated the

Dr. MacKinnon

Saurel Sails To Release Sealer

O'r'I'AWA. (C?)-The Trans- port. Department lcebreaker C. G. S. Saurel sailed from Syd- ney. N. 5., Thursday to go to the rescue. of the Newfound- land sealer Arctic Prowler. caught in the ice in Belle Isle etreit near Honing-ton Harbor.

The saurel must cover 300 miles of ice-obstructed water and is not expected to reach

the Arctic Prowler until late Friday. The sealer with '15 men

aboard has been fast in the ice for the last. 12 days.

Calls New Film lnsull To ll.C.M.P.

OTTAWA. (CPl-A former Mountie described Thursday the Hollywood film "Saskatchewan" as "atrocious. a travmty of historical fact and an insult to the RCMP."

Mal.-Gen. G. R. Pearkes. VC (PCeEsqulnialt-Saanlchi asked in in the Commons if any public money was spent on the produc- tion. filmed in the Rockies of Al- berta by Universal-International. It stars Shelley Winters and Alan Ladd.

Justice Minister Garcon said no public money went into the film and added that RCMP Commis- sioner L. H. Nicholson has told him that he agrees with Gen Pearkt.-s' opinion.

Gen. Pearkes said the film also is an affront to the memories of great Canadians who averted in- dlan warfare in western Canada.

The RCMP also never engaged in any murderous killing of In- dians nor did members of the force ever indulge in mutiny is depicted in the film.

Russia Claims Occupation" Of E. Germany Ended

BERLIN. (Reuters)-The soviet government Thursday announced the end of the occupation regime in communist East Germany and declared the Communist state a sovereign nation conducting its own internal and external affairs.

Soviet troops will continue to be "temporarily stationed" in last Germany. laid the soviet declaration. published by the last German news agency ADN.

The declaration said the Soviet Union would teteln in Germany only those functions connected with guaranteeing security and arising from the obligations of the four-pow: agreement on Ger- many concluded at Potsdam in 1045.

All soviet surveillance over the last German state organs. hit- herto carried out by the high commission. will cease. the en- neuncelnent. added.

Weeturn ollclele here have long easoeted this move. Under it. hat Gee-msny eminnee a position parallel to the other East Europ-

gufflclgnt nn ntclllfo stein with a com-

parable degree of freedom from Iloeeow oemlnetlon

Salary Increases For Allin Commons Island School Teachers

Minister.

Mr. R. E. Bell. Leader of the Opposition stated that he was in- cllned to think that a raise of 350.00 a year was not very much for a first class teacher. ”There has been of lot of talk about very little." he stated.

Mr. Clark replied that the in- creasea would cost the Government about 558,000 next year and that the increase was in line with the Government's policy of raising salaries. He recalled that teachers' salaries had been increased in 1949 and in 1952.

Mr. Bell stated he was not sur- prised there were l0l permit teachers in the Province.

The Minister of Education rc- plled that the schools were full but admitted the teacher situation all across Canada was not satis-

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Appears Again

Before Education Committee

A bit more fire was shown in the Ed-ucaticn Committee meeting

yesterday with practically all members snapping questions at Dr. Frank MacKinnon. Principal

of Prince of Wales College. who was testifying for the second suc- cessive day. The seven-man com- mittee is headed as chairman by Hon. Keir Clark. Minister of Edu- cation.

That the tempera of some rom- mittce members were slightly on edge was shown when Mr. Lorne Ma.ol"arlnnd. Fifth Prince, said they were making a mountain out of a molehlll. He was satisfied with the way the College was being run and inquired why t-be committee was asking so many questions. "I think the whole thing is a damn waste of time", he stated. The remarks were greeted with laugh- ter and desk thumping by mem- bera of the House present.

Mr. J. W. D. Campbell. First Prince. was inclined to agrre as he could see no reason for such a thorough investigation. Maj. John A. MacDonald. Third Kings stated that the hearing was of utmost importance and of great benefit to everyone interested in educa- tion.

Pnee Marks .

There was a great dilferciice of opinion between the chairman and Dr. MacKinnon on the method of listing pass marks. Mr. Clark maintained that a pass meant a "clear" pass with no failures and said that Dr. MacKinnon in his figures considered students to have passed when they were condition- ed in one or two subjects if they had the overall percentage. The

Arc Debaled

OTTAWA. (GP)-Prime Minister St. Lauren-t said Thursday it would be most unifortunets for Canada to tie itself down to a pledge not to recognize the Chinese Commu- nist government.

But. he added in an external aflaiis debate in the Commons. Canada. "should not" recognize the Chinese Reds at this time. The government was not con- templating or considering recogni- tion but it might in the future if conditions changed. 5

The prime minister's statement' was largely s. reiteration of views expressed in the Far East near

on there is only one step.

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The Guardian. Five Cents lld i Dally founded 1081.

To Present Budget On Tuesday Night.

Hon. W. E. Darby. Attorney- Generel and Provincial Treas- urer. anncunced yesterday thal- he will present his annual Bud- get In the Legislature on Tues- day night, March 30.

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the end of his world tour and at a press conference here on his re- turn. '

He said he came before the, House as a ”repentont offender", for his "regrettable transgression"; for saying in the Far East that China has the government the, people want. If he had used those: words, he had not meant them for; no such thought had entered hisl mind.

He said he had meant that.l despite dislike of the Chinese; Communist government, Canadai couldn't expect to be able to deali always with governments that ill would like to see in power.

Open Mind Policy

"I think it would be most un- fortunate to tie ourselves down by declarations and commitments that would make it impossible for us at any time to come to the conclu- sion that even the diplomatic rec- ognition of China would not be

helpful to peace and security in the world . . . "The policy of the Canadian

government at the present time is to . ..kecp an open mind as to when if ever conditions may be such that it will be in the interestl of peace and stability in the world to recognize diplomatically what. ever government happens to be in control of the forces of China."

Mr. St. Laurent said it was un- dcratood that the presence of Com- munist China at the Geneva con- fcrence to discuss Korea and Indo- China did not imply recognition of the Chinese Reds.

"But it does constitute an ad- mission that that is the govern- ment that is controlling the forces that we have been resisting...”

John Diefenbaker, Progressive ,Conservative external affairs spok- esman, contended that Mr. St. Laurenra statement would lflvej lencouragement to the Chinese Reds.

It would arouse Communist hopes that China would win rec- ognition despite aggression.

Recognition would in turn mean entry of the Chinese Roda into the United Nations with Canadian support.

"Retrograde Step”

"No international thug should be able to shoot its uay into the United Nations". he said and add- ed lhat Canadian recognition of Communist China would be a ret-

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QUEBEC. ICP) - Rene Mar- cotte. the man who refused l.o take a court oath. was placed in a cell Thursday at Quebec jail to start serving a one-year sentence he may end at will.

A court bailiff went in the Lac aux Babies home of the 38-year- old contractor Thursday and served mm with a warrant order- ing his detention. The bailiff accompanied him on the 50-mile trip back to Quebec.

Mucotte was sentenced March I for contempt of court after refus- lng to take an oath in a civil case or give any reason why he should not take the oath.

He will remain in jail until either his time is up or until he chenges his mind.

No Appeal

If he sticks to his refusal for the year. he could be put back in jail on the same charge for an- other yeer if he again refusm in court to take the oath. The pro- con could conceivably go on for the rest of his life. There is no appeal against the sentence.

The case developed but of Mar- cotte'e appearance in court Feb. 25 to testify as to his financial means. He had been entered to pay some IBM in costs to a motor- ist after a collision between his truck and the others car.

when he felled to pay tho1lem- ages. he wIa ordered in give an

Begins Serving One-Year Term for Refusingallath

tie the suit.

It uas on this occasion that. he, declined. despite arguments and' pleadings by lawyers and Judge. to take the oath. He was ordered for a second court appearanceand was sentenced to one year after he again refused to take the oath

To En.d Rule

By Gilbert ledlmn l

CAIRO. (Reuters)-President. Mo-. hamed Nagulb announced Thurs- day after a six-hour meeting of; end its rule July 23-two years merit swept King rarcuk from his throne.

Cairo radio declared: voliition is over.”

Nagulbis plan for an early return to parliamentary rule had been strongly opposed by his deputy premier, Lt.-Col. Abdel Oamai Nas- ser. and other army leaders.

But today. a month after Nasser and his followers temporarily forced him from office. Nagulb announced thet.ell political par- ties. including the Weld and the fanatical Moelem Brotherhood will be restored. .

He said the army leaders will withdraw from politics "elnce they

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OTIAWA. ICIP)-All fish im- ports which might have been con- taminatcrl by the huge March 1 atom explosion in the Paciiic will be inspected for radioactivity be- fore being: admitted, a fisheries department official said Thursday