TELEPHONE 8506 Buyer meets seller with Guardian Want Ads. Dial 8506 ask for classified ad COMMANDE Commander J. N. Kenny, Queen Charlotte, signs up his son, John Paul Kenny at the | | ¢ Edward Island Like The Dew” Blindness: NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)— Experiments wih a new drug to combat ‘glaucoma, the most com- mon cause of blindness in this country, have reaped positive re- sults in tests conducted with eight patients, Dr. Herbert Fitterman of Vancouver said Wednesday. Dr. Fitterman, who is doing 4 post-graduate work at Vancouver R SIGNS SON Naval Barracks on Water Street. The latest recruit to Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy Reserve is a student at St. Dunstan’s. | Assassins Slugs Hit Iraq Premier 2 Tras (Reuters)— Premier Abdul Karim Kassem ' popular leader to rise in Iraq’s recent history Whether Arab nationalist fol- lowers of President Nasser of | Egypt had anything to do with the shooting or not ‘they will be Lunik Soars Past Target By STANLEY JOHNSON MOSCOW . +AP) Tass.»’ an- nounced the Russians’ Lunik III soared to a point. 78,750 miles from the moon ‘and kept going) Wednesday on a course that will | swing it past the earth in J1 days. The little flying laboratory, | which some scientists had specu- | lated was due back this weekend, | will sail on in space until Satur- day and then turn back at a point 291.870 miles from earth, the Soviet news agency said. | This account added that the General Hospital. made the dis- closure in a brief at the opening session of the Canadian Ophthal- mological Society annual meet- The brief was compiled by Dr. WN, CANADA, Radiation Study Launched; Evaluates Effect On Health THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959 ‘J aps To Buy Canada Coal By DON Canadian Writer OTTAWA (CP)—Japan has de- ‘cided. to become a regular cus- j\tomer for Western Canada coal. W. E.. Uren, citairman of | the | Dominion Coal Beard, said in an interview Wednesday that repre- isentatives of three or.-four coal companies from:Ajberta and Brit- ish Columbia will open negotia- . ‘Z | Fitterman and Dr. Derek Simp. tions in Tokyo late next. month. son, also of Vancouver.” | He said the new-found market The name of the new drug ts Will give the sagging industry “a anthranilic. big lift." The federal government By using the drug to break | Monday set up a royal commis- down substances in acids ob- | 0" to investigate difficulties be- tained from the liver, the com- 8 ¢xperienced by coal produc- : ed ; te i throughout Canada. posite medication is utilized to n ee ; assist in relieving pressure on Tokyo talks will decide the the eyeball, Dr. Fitterman wit. | of next year's sales. It is this pressure which can cause eventual blindness in e@ glaucoma patient, he said. 300 Escape 3 There is no indication yet of how much this will be, although, Mr. Uren said it will be considerably ;more than Japan imported from ;Canada this year. The first shipment of Western coal went to Japan this year on an experimental basis. She took. 100,000 tons of coking coal and 62,000 tons of anthracite to test 1? Pavilion Fire their suitability for use in Jap- SOUTHEND, England (Reut-|2"'S 8 and growing steel mills. ers)\—A 30-year-old wooden pavil-| VERY PLEASED ion at the shore end of a pier! Mr. Uren said “they were very here was almost destroved by pleased.” fire Wednesday night but 300 per-| The coal boart—thairman esti- sons marooned at the seaward Mates that within the next 10 end escaped without injury. jyears Japan’s coal import re | Firemen from Southend - and “ulrements will grow to 1,000,000 neighboring areas fought’ for 90| ‘Ds annually. minutes before controlling the| However, he said, orders for blaze on the pier, longest of its [¢Xt year may not meet initial kind in the world. No one was | ®opes for two reasons: injured, a pier company spokes-| |. Japan is just emerging from man said. am economic recession; ‘ 2. United States producers are The 300 persons who had been wi . seoudine: the Gwenn ia dock selling coal at bargain prices be- i heir foreign sales are at a chairs at the end of the pier had couse t Although they were .in 10 ren long U.S. steel strike ss danger, most climbed downsteel| The steel strike also has af- Temperatures “much above normal’ and heavy precipitat- ion are forecast for our area by -the long-range forecast of | the. United States weather -of- i | fice for October. Cold weather | is Central predicted for the area of Canada. Map details | the 30-day forecast, and also | shows the precipitation ex- pected across the country. | Tables at- right give normal | readings for various centres | | during the period. Back-To-Work Order 24 PAGES —_—_— oe. Canadians Plan Described ToUN This would include, if neces- sary, the provision of technical UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) |ssistance to, member states. External Affairs Minister Howard |Canada would urge all states to Green Wednesday outlined Can-|co-operate with the meteorologi- ada’s plans for a worldwide study |cal organization in this work. of radiation and its implications | GENUINE CONCERN By JOSEPH MACSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer for human healtb. Stating that the radiation pro- posal has emerged as one of Can- ada’s main contributions to the | 14th’ United Nations general as- sembly, the minister said he hopes for co-sponsorship from 12 or 15.countries in this new move in the problems of the atomic era. Green said in answer to ques- tions it is too early to estimate probable costs but that scientists are generally agreed that the ra- \diation issue is of genuine con- 'cern around the world. | In a statement outlining two miajor objectives, he said the pro- posal seeks: Green told Canadian corres-| “To stimulate worldwide inter pondents at a press conference est in a problem that will be with Canada’s idea comprises inviting us though the atomic era and the World Meteorological Organi-|to encourage further scientifie in- zation in consultation with the UN | vestigation into the extent of the scientific committee to recom-j| hazard it may present. mend arrangements to ensure the | “To suggest_a method by- which worldwide collection by standard- standardized, “ comparable date ized methods of samples required!can be acquired to form~a solid _ for determining the amounts and basis for laboratory research into {genetic effects.” jrates of radioactive fallout. Atlantic Development Requires Co-Operation Developing the rich economic |potential of the Atlantic Pro-jby Miss Katharine vinees required the co-operation of all segements of the popula- tion—not just the business men and the politicians Dr. Frank MacKinnon said last night. + Guest speaker at the annual banquest which closed the two- Mother Loyola was introduced ‘Lennan, land Mr. MacKenzie by, Sister | Mary Irene, C.S.M. | Miss Mary Rayner; student of nursing at the Prince Edward |Island Hospital presented the 'honorary membership certifie- jate to Mother Loyola. Mr. Mac- the. Iraqi | blamed for it by the Communists. 6i40und vehicle will make e girders end were picked up bv itected sale of Western Canad hit rode in Bis sia- along Feishiy) ‘Streer, 4 @vente in Baghdad. Earlier reports said he had been injuries were super- ficial. The = The state of hiis health does | call for any worry. He is rest- ; Radio said one bullet the upper part of one arm broke a bone. Kassem was enough to talk on the radio. He said the attack was made by traitors but did not say how Many might be involved. OTHERS KILLED Meanwhile, reports Cairo, Egypt, from Beirut, Le- hanon, Wednesday said at least ERE Several other officers accom- panying Kassem were injured when a hail of bullets hit his ear. The driver of the Iraqi pre- mier’s car also was killed-dur- ing the attack, the reports said. All schools in Iraq were or- dered to remain closed today by the acting minister of education. Adding to a chorus of condemn- reaching | ‘'UNDREAMED OF WOES’ ations of the slaying attempt were messages from several smal] army units, several Iraqi government ministers and many government officials. In his broadcaist, Kassem, said: “I am well and with you. We shall win a victory over the) greedy band «. . I urge you ‘not to! divide so that you may become a single force because imperialism is still working in he darkness, as still working to liquidate this republic.’’ USUAL RIDE 5 The revolutionary leader has been driven dimost daily down Rashid Street, the dusty main- stem of the capital. While a jeepload of soldiers usually went ahead, Kassem was wide open for attack. But until Wednesday no attempt on his life had been reported since he came to power 15 months ago. A that time he led a military coup which overthrew the mon- archy, killing King Faisal and Premier Nuri Said. The shooting likely will stir up trouble for Kassem, the most Stand Regretted On Birth Control VATICAN CITY (Reuters) official Vatican circles Wednes- day expressed “regret” at re- ports from Geneva that a com- mission of the World Council of Churches, which groups Protest- ants and orthodox, had decided that contraception was morally permissible. The Roman Catholic Church has repeatedly declared all forms of “artificial contraception” im- Moral, admitting the use of the “safe period” in the woman “‘if justified by grave reasons’ as the only licit form of birth con trol besides total abstention. Un- The Reds are the strongest single political force in Iraq and con‘rel | most of the newspapers. | Kassem and Nasser have been | feuding fhitterly. i The Communists steadily have gai strengh in Iraq, but Kas- sem himself has given in to com- paratively few Commumist de-/| mands and continued o hold him- self aloof from any political af- filiation. The Soviet Union has called Kassem a liberator. Communist | China- has been supporting him in amy feasible way. Lean and hard-working, Kas- | sem is unmarried and has said he has no time for a family. He was an obscure brigade com- mander before the revolution of July 14, 1958. vide swing around t! erth completing the :round: trip it} started from a Russian rocket | base Sunday. | “The shortest distance from | the earth's surface will be about 40.000 kilometres (24,840 miles),”’ | Tass said. This is far. beyond the mini-| mum forecast by the Russians at the time of the launching. Scien- tists predicted then it might ap-| proach within 2,000 kilometres {1,240 miles)- of the earth. SWOOPS AWAY | The Tass report—issued after! radio contact was established at | 11 am. ADT—made clear Lunik’s | looping flight was carrying it} away from the moon more sharply than from the earth. Tenor Mar Dies Of Heart Attack ROME AP — Mario Lanza, a golden-voiced boy from Philadel- phia’s ‘“‘little Jtaly’’ who en- countered undreamed-of woes at the peak of his climb from rags to riches, died Wednesday at 38. Death was due to a heart attack. On the way up from the role of piano mover and truck driver, he made more than $1,000,000 in a ‘year. Toscanini called his the greatest voice of the 20th cen- tury. The tenor liked being called the reincarnation of Caruso. -His film The Great Caruso grossed among the highest financial returns of any musical motion picture. During his three years resi- dence in Rome Lariza was in hospital several times for illnes- ses ranging from a tooth infection to bad colds. He always, had dif- ficulty getting his weight down to an acceptable 180 or 185 pounds for movies and concert appear- ances. Friends said the constant reducing weakened his resistance. HIGH PRESSURE Lanza entered the Valle Giulia clinie last week with a blood pres- sure of 300. His illness was iag- nozed as~ hypertensive arterio- sclerotic cardiopathy. A doctor described the ailment as harden- ing of the walls of ‘arteries lead- ing to the heart. Lanza's family and friends had jnot regarded the illness as criti- jcal and a family spokesman said jthey were stunned when Lanza ‘suffered the sudden heart attack Wednesday and died at 12.50 p.m Lanza's wife, Betty, was in a state of shock at the Lanza apart- ment. The couple had four child- ren. The movie star's body will lie in state today at the apartment, on the ground floor of a villa formerly owned Marsha Petro Badoglio, premier of Ital after Mussolini. ’ His real name was Alfredo Ar- nold Cocozza, and he made his /of Rome in 1957, Lanza cut his io Lanza debut as a professional singer) in 1942. In the Second World War, when he was in military service, Lanza sang to troops as “the Caruso of the air force.”’ He| made an operatic debut in Puccini's, Madame Butterfly in New Orleans after the war but then went into movies. Before making The Seven Hills Aweight to 184 pounds from 240 on a diet of veal and salads. Counterfeit Bills Are Recovered MONTREAL (CP)—Detectives recovered five counterfeit $20 bills Tuesday while continuing their search for a counterfeit ring discovered last week, Three of the bills were turnéd over by Montreal banks. Another two came from Halifax. RCMP Supt. R. J. Belee asked all businessmen to hand in any fake bills received by them. He said some people may not hand them in for fear of personal loss. Kut, he said, they would also be breaking the law to pass them off on someone else. WHERE-TO-FIND-IT Births, deaths, etc., .... 2, 13 Classified section ...... 12, 13 Comics, features ..... iia Charlottetown news ...... 5. NIE ost il ctvendecs 4 Finance, markets ..... 13 Island news .........- 2, 3 ONE i hols os dictisnesd Dee Women’s page .......... 6,7 Late reports from Guardian news bureaus in Summer- side, Montague, Alberton and) Souris, and from special cor- respondents now appear on the Island News Page. boat© The pier maxiager said the pie should be opened as usual today. SPEAKER ceil in the U.S., but Mr. Urea Said producers are optimistic and some miners are on a full fWve-<lay week while others are working abbreviated two- or four- | day weeks. Aims at Dock Strikers WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-; The panel heard sharp conflicts | “If they ever settle the stee] dent Eisenhower's fact - finders | of testimony in its inquiry Wed- strike down in the states, they worked at top speed Wednesday; nesday. Then chairman, Guy | won't be in too bad shape,” said ™izht ! Mr. Uren. House a report designed to send “I'm sure we'll get. increased | 95,000 dock strikers back to work orders from Japan. Our coal fs | under a court order. : favorable and pretty cheap.” The justice department offi- 293 cials stod ready Taft-Hartley Act injunction today in federal district court in New York. The three - man fact - finding panel zipped through a public hearing on the week-old Interna- i Hoodlum Shot SevenTimes | tional Longshoremen’s Associa- | NEW YORK (AP) — The pop- | tion strike in one hour and 45 |}ping of a string of firecrackers | minutes. | Provided an eerie prelude early}; A yp-kesman said the three | Wednesday to a spray of lead | might toil into the evening or pumped from a moving car into | even later, but definitely planned = hoodlum Anthony (Bang - Bang)! to get their report to the White Brandofino on a Brooklyn Street.| House in time for the attorney- With seven bullet holes in his general to send his lawyers into body, he ran wildly down an alley} court today.- Under the Taft- and broke into an apartment, .sob-| Hartley law's emergency machin- | bing for aid. Police said the case| ery the fact-finders’ report must to deliver to the White) to seek the apparently was a bungled gang- land assassiation. The firecrackers were either to distract attention from the gun- fire or.a grim huzzah at Brando- fino who got his nickname years ago when convicted of selling fireworks to children, police said. |. The shooting came less than 24 D. Bruce Shaw of Toronto chairman of the national ex- ecutive committee Canadian Red Cross Society, will be the guest speaker at the semi-an- nual meeting of the P.E.I. Divi- sion. of the Canadian Red Cross at Mulberry Lodge in Summer- side, Thursday at 6 p.m. Judge precede—court action. WORK FRIDAY? ” If federal court agrees to or der an 80-day cooling off period, longshore work gangs may start Friday to move the piled-up car- goes which have been choking At- lantic ports from Maine to Texas for the last week. The injunction | requires the 80 - dav truce for working and negotiatios. Farmer, appealed to the parties to seek an early, peaceful settle ment. | But in New York, president William V. Bradley of the long- shoremen’s union said that since the Taft-Hartley machinery is al- day 38th annual meeting of the ; Kenzie’s certificate was pre sssanaiitel of nurses of Prince |Sented by Miss Mary Trainor, Edward Island. Dr. MacKinnon Student of nursing at the Char was introduced by Ruth I. Ross, |/ottetown Hospital. immediate past president of the) The following nominating com- | association, and thanked by |Mittee was appointed: Ruth L Sister Mary Stanislaus, C.S.M.| Ross, chairman; Katharine Mac Mrs. Vera Andrew MacDonald, | Lepnan and Mrs. Robert Pak presiient of the association, Pre-|' ‘seated at the head table were Dr. Frank MacKinnon and Mrs, PRESENTATIONS _~\jMacKinnon, Mayor Edwin C. During the dinner meeting hon- |Johnstone and Mrs. Johnstone, orary memberships in the assoc- | Reverend Mother Loyola, Cannom iation were presented to Rever-|J.R. Daives and Mrs. Davies, ready rolling, he could “see 0/onq Mother Loyola, Mother-Gen-| Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mac- reason why we should resume” negotiafiens, USELESS TALK “In the face of Taft-Hartley, it would be useless,” he said. The testimony at the fact-find- ing hearing was brief but acrid. EVEN CHANCE IN eral of the Sisters of St. Martha, | Kenzie, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas and Malcolm MacKenzie, deputy | Laidlaw, Miss Ruth L. Ross, Miss minister of education, both of Ida MacKay and Mrs. MacDon- whom were described as con-jald. , tributing greatly to the advance- | Dr. MacKinnon stated that t& ment of the nursing profession’ was up to the citizens them in Prince Edward Island. | (Continued on page 3 col. 3) POLLS Conservatives Favored By Bookmakers In U.K. LONDON (‘CP)—Public opinion 'polls give the Conservative and | Labor parties an even chance to] win today’s election. But the Tor- jies were favored by bookmakers JS. DesRoches of Montague, hours after the burial of mobster president of the P.E.I. Divi- Little Augie Pisano, shot to death sion will preside. iwith Mrs. Janice Drake Sept. 25 * ~ + A huge trailer truck owned by Lloyd Diamond of Winsloe, was in the Clyde River area last night and @ Charlottetown man, Sia aan a sa HUGE TRAILER TRUCK IS DITCHED way. The car was towed to Charlottetown and Mr. Mac-- Swain was taken to hospital for observation aliough he was be Malcolm MacSwain pital after his car demolish- ed by the big cle im an acii- dent on the Trans Canada high- Heved not seriously hurt. The trailer load was transferred to an@ investors to score a rare three-in-a-row victory. Bookmakers’ odds Wednesday night showed Prime Minister Macmillan’s government to be the hottest betting favorite since the war. g On the stock exchange, prices for a third time, it will be the first to do so in nearly 50 years. |The Liberals were the last to win three times in a row. The three week campaign closed with the opinidn polls im idicating the vote could go either way or result in such a close jumped in anticipation of a Con-/ finish that a small number of Lib- servative victory to a hich fe-|eral members could hold the bal- the year. The paper value of} ance of power. shares in steel companies—the) The Liberals held six seats Labor Party is pledged to na-|when Parliament. was dissolved tionalize the industry again !f it|last month. The Conservatives wins—increased by an estimated | and their allies had 339 and Labor £15,000,000 ($42,000,000). 278. There was one independent. At party headquarters, cam-/Six seats were vacant. Three had paign directors studied last-min-| been held by the government and ute reports from canvassers and| three by the Labor Party. provided assessments to their own; Labor Party secretary Morga® jtie as ever. THE OUTLOOK _ ; Conservative: They looked for C a margin of 40 seats over =" Banquet aps tion, they had an over-all ee | Lh ° of 60 seats but 40 would still) e e ration be a comfortable cushion. | ing the Socialists will win with)y aval University in suburban Ste. a 2V-seat edge, |Foy, Wednesday climaxed the What could throw all the eai-| city’s celebration in honor of the the “‘silent fifth’—7,000,000 of the) rounded the RomangCatholic sem- 35,000,000 voters who told opinion inary from which the university polis they didn’t know or wouldn't grew. advantage. | Phillips said he was as optimis-’ other parties. In the 1955 elec- Labor: Organizers are predict. | culations out are the decisions of | first pishop of New France who say how they planned to vote. |” High church officials from six Voting will take place between! countries and provincial and 7 a.m. and 9 am. (4 a.m. and! municipal government members 6 p.m. ADT). attended the banquet, celebrat- About 360 of the 630 seats wil!|ing the 300th anniversary of the be decided by 1 a.m. ADT Fri-/ arrival of Bishop Francois de day. The remainder, from rural) \fontmorency-Laval. Ht was held districts, will be reported during|jn the hall of the Grand Semin- Friday or, in the case of a few) aire, an ultra - modern building remote Scottish ridings, Satur-| finished last year. ~~. ss ai dh deens he Sea Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, , gate sent by Pope John XXIII outcome may not be known until the celebration, said in a Friday's counting in the prov-|.+ mass preceding the inces is well advanced. that filial trust in the Pope euother truck (Story on page 5). a HOPE FOR THIRD his bishops prevents Should Macmillan’s party win | temptation, QUEBEC (OP)—A banquet at