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Photo by F. Weeks to the support of defence efforts _Itates,‘~has rejected a Canadian L appeal that oil from Canada be qrsniiitad from voluntary import requestedby the U.S. niinist!"'a7t1'on‘last Decern pr. ln smote handed to Ca adian “ dssador ‘Norman Robertson ashington, the U.S. govern- said it cannot limit imports fa manner ‘tliat-discriminates in I of’ countries or companies. The note. delivered to the Cana- __ ‘ssy Wednesday, was .. a statement by Fi- it w Donald Flemin aidfithe governmen "was W disappointed" that re- ifnchons applying to» Canadian .011 have not been lifted. . The U.S. note said present. Plans are to review its oil import . levels during the second quarter ,.0f'this year. The “views of the I Cinadian government will be fur- ‘ that considered at that time." ’ . lo JUSTIFICATION < U.S. communication was a ‘rtiI_1y_ to a sharp Canadian note dellvered Jan. 15 to Washington . llfotestxln-g the import restric- llons. At the time the Canadian Wrljmnen-t said it could find no illstification for American limita- _ lions on oil entering from Canada. American government said, curbs will. have relatively tle effect on current purchases lfijlanadian oil by companies Which have been buying in Can- ‘ - “,3; An iInDOI'tant portion of Ca- ‘ “$013.11 oil exported to the U.S. . $995 from Alberta into Pacific 1 Wfiihwestern states. . 2"” Theaction . . was taken to ~ With a problem of current . :“9_°1‘tS_so,great as to, threaten -°':11]\1Da1r the domestic industry «That area,” the U.S. said. hi 9 administration asked ‘ 9 American petroleum industry its oil imports by 15 per v‘,F1’en1ing said be under- ; - M {ls the__—re1uctance of the U.S. dlscrnninate in favor of par- ordered on the grounds of de- fence, however, and “the action appeared to the Canadian govern- ment to be contrary to the prin- ciples, of econonfic co-operation on defence m a but e r s formally agreed between the two countries in 1950 and still in full effect,” the finance minister said. The U.S. said it considers that strong petroleum industries /1_fi both countries contribute greatly‘ with which the two countries are associated. INDUSTRY THREATENED The note said the American government, just as the Canadian government had shown itself to be, is “firmly convinced” of the importance of maintaining a vig- orous American petroleum indus- try en-gagedi in an expanding ex- plorati,ion‘and development effort. \N age Demands Y L (CP) -.- The Brotherhood ‘of ocomotive Fire- men and Enginemen (CLC) Thursday-placed a demand for an 18-per-cent wage increase be- fore the publicly-owned Canadian National Railways. At the same time the brotherhood rejected a railway request for negotiation of the contentious diesel firemen is- sue. . The 9,000-member union placed the wage increase at the top of 16 demands presented -to CNR representatives at a’ meeting called to start negotitaions on a new collective agreement. The existing agreement expires March 31. The CNR notified 'the brother- hood Feb. 3 that it intended to renegotiate existing agreements so as to -give the company the right to assign diesel firemen at its sole discretion. “The union’ informed us that there was no basis for negotia- tion in our proposal to them," said a CNR statement following the meeting. "They (the brother- hood insisted that firemen are still necessary in all classes of service.” CNR STARTLED MONTRE es or companies. The statement referred to the < J’ .,}i°QUEBRUNE CAP MATIN, :fi§fl§R_eutv‘ars) — Sir Winston -3'1, 18 ‘bearing up well,” Robel‘_?t°§a1 -physician, Dr. David I . said early today. Ermyhsnunn CAP MARTIN, wins » CP) —.Stou-t-hearted Sir ate-fly Churchill made slow but i in . Progress Thursday night - ‘ ‘File against pneumonia ‘M llleurisy, . e Srea-.t wartime leader prop- , pstéd mS°1f_1_1D in bed and in- ,3, 1”“ Writing a stack of bus- An etters. raid: aiiernoon medical bulletin gre§gyWc“}‘l1St0n’s condition is not ,(wednesda,anEed since yesterday his «ten 63- _He is_ comfortable, the fever9_ 1s_mainta1ned, and The gm IS a little lower." unqisfimllfiiir-old ‘Churchill is an Svoume lmedical patient and prime m use to_ the former m mstel‘ Salglj “He's a In his m?;et° keep_1_n bed-even Chu. '{11 nt Condition." -grams V got comfort from tele- imm letters of good wishes 3“ over the world. *0 _DAUon'rx«:n NEAR mya._E him constant com- “Mn Winston Makes Slow But .,?i..5teady‘Progress, Doctors Say Sarah. In m e d i c al attendance are Chvurchill’s personal physician and his old friend, Lord Moran, and Dr. David Roberts, a British physician living on the Riviera. Doctors have not explained the type of pneumonia or whether it is in the right_ or left lung. They also have not disclosed how they are treating him, al- though there have been indica- tions. that antibiotics are being used. His past medical history shows he responds well to them. DOING WELL ' Dr. Roberts told reporters that Churchill was “doing well.” He declined to give his temperature. Asked about the fever men- tionedfor the first time in Thurs- day’s bulletin, Dr. Roberts said well have mentioned fever. be- cause fever is always associated with this illness.” “Get well” telegrams included messages from author W. Somer- set Maugham, who lives nearby, Prime Minister Macmillan and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Churchill had lunch on board Onassis’ private yacht off Monte Carlo Monday, the day be- re. _L3dy Churchill and the,fore the announcement that the I c t r c s s daughtenlhad been ordered to bed. “the first bulletin yesterday could‘ union's wage and other demands as a “startling proposition” that was ‘‘made known to us for the. first time during this morning’s discussions.” The CNR and the brotherhood agreed to resume discussions Tuesday, Feb. 25. The unions ne- gotiations with the Canadian Pacific Railway are deadlocked. “We are on the verge of a tre- mendous surge of Canadianismff said Douglas Jung, President of the Young Progressive Conser- vatives speaking at a Queens County Progressive Conservative nominarting convention last night. Mr.‘ Jung, who became the first person of Chinese extraction to be elected to the House of Commons. defeated Hon. Ralph Carnpney, Minister of National Defence in the Vancouver Centre riding with a majority of over 4,000 in the June 10th election.‘ Making personal reference, Mr. years ago he ‘was not allowed to vote. A person of his race could not become a member of the Canadian Bar. Nei-ther could he practice in the field of char- tered accountancy. STARTLIN G REALITY “When I became elected on June 10th, I felt for the first time in my life that I had really become a Canadian,” said the young lawyer from Vancouver. The ready wit and the ease and sincerity with which the speaker addressed his audience quickly won for him the admiration of his hearers and at one time during his speech, a spokesman from the Oxygen For Sir Winston? LONDON (Reuters) —— A ship- ment of oxygen equipment re- ported to be for ailing Sir Win- ston Churchill was to be flown to Nice early this morning. The equipment, including an oxygen tent, was reported called for by Lord Moran, Ohurchill’s personal physician. An official of the manufactur- ers, Oxygenaire Limited, said the equipment was merely one of their regular three-monthly rou- tine consignments. .3 “I do not know what the equip- ment is and I do not know to whom it is consigned,” he added. A technical representative of the firm is travelling to Nice with the equipment. I s ~ ;_. Thezmeetm Woman Is Acting P. M. OTTAWA (CP)——Canad-a Thurs- day had its first woman acting prime minister. K State Secretary Ellen Fair- clough, senior cabinet minister in Ottawa Wednesday took over the title in the absence of Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker who is calm- paigning in Newfoundland. She _laughed..out loud when ad- dressed as “madam prime minis- ter.” She is Canada’s first fed- eral woman cabinet minister. When the’ prime minister is away from the capital, a member of the ‘cabinet must be named acting prime minister -to sign doc- uments that can only be signed ' by himself or a designated min- ister acting for him. Russia Wants United Korea MOSCOW (Reuters) _—- Russia has proposed a conference of all interested states to discuss meas- ures to bring about a United Korea. The proposal was made Thurs- day in a government statement calling on the United States to ‘withdraw its troops from South Korea to facilitate reunification. The statement backed a Chi- iiese - North Korean declaration Wednesday announcing the with- drawal of all Chinese “volun- teers” from North Korea by the end of this year. At one of the largest conven- tions ever to be held in George- town, Mr. John A. MacDonald was nominated" candidate for Kings County for the coming Fed- eral election at the Progressive Conservative convention held yes- terday afternoon. His nomination -was moved by William Whiteway Murray River, and seconded’ by Richard Curley of Brudenell, and received the unanimous supportof all delegates. . -The meeting was notable in that the four Federal members for P. I.'were present, inclu ing a Cabinet; . Minister. and'distfnguished'-guests. , In his speech of acceptance Mr. MacDonald thanked all for hav- ing‘ confidence in him. He said that the Legislation passed at Ot- tawa in the last six months, by the Progressive Conservatives spoke for itself adding that “we are far from largest and most comprehensive program ever to take place this county has been formulated for public. works, starting at Savage Harbour and continuing to Little Sands. Mr. MacDonald said that although public opinion "polls. showed a strong trend to- Jung recalled that less than 10’ wards a Conhervative Govern- Douglas Jung Impresseis Nominating Corivention 0 rear of the hall came forward to request an increase in the vol- ume of the public address system so that none would miss what Mr. Jung had to say. Mr. Jung made it_ clear from the beginning that he did not in- tend to make apolitical speech. He ‘wanted to impress upon his audience’ the great possibilities which he saw in Canada which is the land of his birth and for which he served in the armed forces during World War II. MANY POSSIBILITIES He felt that no country in the world offered so many possibili- ties for young people and as- serted that this was one of the chief reasons why he was so intimately connected with" the work of the Young P. C.’s. He referred to the many great traditions that had been handed- down by the British such as law and order and a sense of value of the things that are moral and spiritual. (Continued on page 11 col. 4) U.S. Navy Patrol Missing Over The Atlantic Plane Is Sudan Asks U. N. Stop Egypfians KHARTOUM, Sudan .(Reuters) Sudan. hlaimlng Egypt has ma.ssed huge concentrations of troops on. its border, demanded Thursday that the United Nations Security Council meet “to stop 0 the Egyptian aggression." In a letter to UN Secretary- General Dag I-Iammarskjold, Su- dan said it is determined to de- fend its -territory. and warned that the present situation “could result in a breach of the peace, and if uncontrolled may develop into armed,conflict.” , Some 10,000 square miles or territory are invo1ved~—the Halbib area bordering the Red Sea and a small Sudanese enclave farther inlaiid north of Wadi Haifa. ‘Both African countries want to hold elections in the territories, 1; V ‘ if ’ U _f . who welcomed the {delegates ‘ throng as the’ in’ which are north of -the 22nd par- allel. Large Geo’town Convention N~ominates Mr. MacDonald .1. A. MACDONALD merit, party members should not become complacent but strive for an even better job at the polls to as-sure a working majori- ty at Ottawa. ' Mr Douglas Jung. former M. P. for Vancouver Centre and re- nominated candidate told the con- vention that in re-nominating John A. MacDonald, they had placed their affairs in good hands as Mr. MacDonald had already ermnent; that he was a diligent, hard worker and that all four Island Members worked together for the good of the Province. Mr. Jung spoke of the increas- ada in the Young Progressive Conservative Association and gave a vivid description of the first day of parliment when_ the newly elected Mr. L.. B. Pearson sat in the opposition leaders chair. - Other speakers were Hon. J. Angus MacLean, Mr. Heath Mac- quarrie, Mr. Melvin McQuaid, Mr. R. R. Bell, Mr. L. Rossiter, Mr. Chester MacDonald and the Provincial Leader, Mr. Walter Shaw. SINGER HAS SURGERY NEW YORK (AP) —- Singer Harry Belafonte was reported in “very satisfactory” condition fol- lowing an operation Tuesday on a muscle of his right eye at New will be released in a few days and go to Hollywood in March to complete a film. ;_. constructi contributed much to the Gov- ed participation all across Can-. York hospital. An aide said he The construction of a new wing and the remodelling of a part of the present structure will cost‘ an estimated $1,304,000 Dr. J. W. MacKenzie, chairman of the Board_ told an annual meet- ing of the Prince Edward Is- land Hospital last night. It will mean, he explained, that some $500,000 to $600,000 will have to be raised by selling hospital bonds. building plans had to be re- A. W. Matheson announced the province would participate in the Federal scheme of hospital insurance. It became‘ necessary to add enough patients beds to take care .of the increased num- ber of patients who would be seeking admission when the in- surance scheme comes, into effect. The new building plan “con- sists of a basement for power- house and laundry; first floor- kitchens; second floor - obstet- ric department: operating units: and fourth floor - general nursing beds. This new ‘ Wing will also extend east, from the east end of the main In addition, the present Wards and rooms of West Second in the main building will be re- modelled for a modern Pediatric Department. The North half .of the First Floor of the, main building will be remodelled to take care of enlarged X-ray and Out-Patient Departments, together with increased office space. This plan will give us 64 —. new patient beds. , ' “The estlmaited total cost of ’ ' ’ .. _$1,30-1,000,000. ‘ {acid "-'P1'o- ‘in the? vicinity of = . v. iv'fll;. . $300,000. This will bring our an- -ancial ‘resources- for building up to $800,000 - (expected total cam- ,, paign funds - $300,000 expected Government bed grant ~ $300,- 000. Reserve funds on hand - $200,000.) $500,000 to $600,000 will have to be raised by selling Hos- pital Bonds during’ the construc- tion period. We are hoping that increased playments for patients in the proposed Federal .Hos- pital Insurance Plan, will. help to take care of future retirement of bonds, plus interest.” , The chairman referred with regret to the passing during the year of Dr. J. Harold Shaw and Dr. W. J. P. Maclviillan.’ The ill- referred to and a warm tribute- paid to him for valued service Frcince,C|ciims I Atlantic Record _ MONTREAL (CP_)—-Air France claimed Thursday a North Atlan- tic air speed record has been set by one of its superstarliner planes which flew from Paris to Mont- real in 10 hours, 58 minutes. The previous record was held by a Super Constellation which flew the 3,490 - mile route in 11 hours, 23 minutes. PRINCESS HAS BIRTHDAY THE HAGUE (AP) — Princess Marijke celebrated her 11th birth- day Tuesday and was pictured in D u t c h newspapers without glasses. Two years ago she was the subject of a royal “crisis.” when it became .known Queen Juliana was consulting a faith healer about the child’s sight. Court officials said Marijke’s sight is not much improved but she has more confidence since coming under the care of a med- ical specialist. Tunisian Dispute Franco Flares, Up TUNIS (AP)—Tuiiisiar1 police expelled five French consuls from their posts Thursday night in the latest of a series of inci- dents which cast shadows over the conciliation efforts of Britain and the United States. ' Three of the consuls arrived under police escort but were re- leased when they reached the capital city. Two others, from Gafsa and Gabes in the deep south, were spending ‘the night at Sfax and were expected at the French Em- bassy today. TENSION MOUNTS Tension spread as French sol- diers surrounded a village on the Libyan border, a French military truck was destroyed by at land mine, and Tunisians .were seized by French troops. ' Georges Geara, the French consul at Medjez e1 Bab, was the first to be removed forcibly from his consulate. ' President I-la'bi=b Bourguiba or- dered the consulates closed 10 days ago but the French refused. Thelconsuls of Kef and Souk el Arba were brougli‘-t here after having been told to leave their posts within 24 hours. The remote village of Remada, where French troops earlier had held prisoner the deputy go nor, one T u ii i s i a n national guardsnieii and a villager, was the scene of added friction. TOWN SURROUNDED The Tunisian ministry of in- formation flew in reporters who With Again found French troops posted 20 feet apart in a circle around the town of about 700 persons, next to the French base. Tunisia charged French troops had broken out of the barricaded base and kidnapped the trio. A foreign ministry note to the French called the incident ag- gression. Tunisia also complained to the UN about it. The French said the three had been held overnight only for questioning about the blowing up of the French military truck by a mine planted on the base. Two French soldiers were wounded in theblast that left a 15-foot wide, eight-foot deep hole. The three prisoners were re- leased on direct orders of the French commander in Tunisia. Dr. MacKenzie explained that vised last spring when Premier third floor — ness of _Dr. R. F. Seaman was ‘ Expect Hospital Project To CostMi||ion And Third . over the years. The departure of Dr. Donald J. Brown and Dr. Neil Boyd for other places, was noted. The most difficult problem during the year was that of keeping enough trained nurses on hand to properly staff the hos- pital and instruct new nurses and tribute was paid to Mrs. Lois MacDonald, superintend- ent of nurses, and her assis- tant, Miss B. Tweedy on keeping things. going despite mounting 23 Aboard; Was 1,000 Miles Out HALIFAX (CP) — The RCAF said Thursday a United States Navy aircraft carrying 23 crew members is missing in the North Atlantic. _ The Super - Constellation Was last heard from at about _4 am. AST when it was 1,000 1111195 0“ the Newfoundland coast. . It 'had taken off from the U.S. Navy base at A~rgentia,_Nfld., at 10:23 pm. Wednesday night on 11 routine patrol. difficulties. He had warm praise for N. D. MacLean, the part-time admin- is'tra~tor who often gave “full time” 3 service to the hospital. He has “ability, tact. a cool- head and the patience of Job." Dr; MacKenzie thanked the various auxiliary organizations which presented their reports. They included the senior and junior Ladies Aid_ the Wohelo Club, the League of -Mercy, the Men’s Association. _HON. MR. MACLEAN MacLean, And _.N,\cic,q Are -rNdminaiedi4?lec Keen enthusiasm was evidenc- ed at an overflow convention which last night saw the Pro- gressive Conservatives of Queens County 'again nominate Hon. J. Angus MacLean and Heath Nel- son Macquarrie as candidates to represent the county in the forth- coming federal election. Both candidates received the unani- mous support of the convention. Mr. MacLean’s nomination was moved by A. J. Haislam of Char- lottetown and seconded by Russell Driscoll of Mount Herbert strong- ly supported by Charles Mc- Guirk of Fort Augustus. Mr. Macquarrie’s nomination was moved by one of’ his former pupils Cecil MacPhai.l of Bon- shaw and seconded by Fred De- Coste, Charlottetown, Mr. Phillip Matheson, a former M. L. A. for second Queens, was chairman, Stirling Inman acted as Secretary. GUEST SPEAKER ' In the absence of the Hon. A. J. Brooks, Minister of‘ Veterans Affairs, the special speaker was Douglas Jung from Vancouver Centre, the first member of Chinese extraction ever to be elected to the House of Commons. Mr. Jung is at present on the Island in the interests of the Young Progressive Conservative Association of which he is National President. In addition to the two candi- dates, short speeches were heard from W. R. Shaw, provincial leader of the Party, R. R. Bell, Qi.C., M.L.A., Leader of the Opposition in the Legislature; John A. MacDonald, candidate for Kings County and Dr. Orville Phillips, who is predicted to carry the Conservative nomination in Prince. County today. RECORD PERFORMANCE Hon. J. Angus MacLean said that in no period of eight months since Confederation has been so much accomplished as that which had been done by the Diefenbaker Government. Enumerating some of the bene- fits which Canadians had realized since the Conservatives came to power, Mr. MacLean spoke of the increase in old age pensions, old age assistance, disability and blind pensions, war veterans’ al- lowances. He said 60,000 veterans had benefited as a result (if in- creases in W. V. A. allowances and 192,000 veterans because of general increases in disability pensions. The Fisheries Minister made re- ference to the extension of U. I. C. benefits from 16 to 24 weeks. He took the former Liberal Gov- ernment to task for what he re- ferred to as a concealment of facts when they we e aware of an economic recession which was not revealed to the nation until after the last election. REMEDIAL STEPS , “We know the situation was bad but we did not know it was as bad as it really was,” said Mr, MacLean,” so it was the first line-—enough to reach Montreal 4 i The Constellation, known in the na.vy as a, WV2_, is one of 15 such aircraft carrying out radar patrols over the Atlantic. This aircraft was due to return to Argentia at noon Thursday. BEGIN SEARCH Eighteen aircraft of the USN, USAF, coast guard and RCAF took off from Newfoundland and , the Azores Thursday to search. for the missing plane. A slight rain was falling and seas were moderate._ The last known position of the four-engine plane was not re- vealed. USN officials said only it was about 1,000 miles southeast of Newfoundland. The RCAF which released de- tails here said several U.S. ships were heading out to help in the hunt. Names of. the crewmembersv -are being withheld pending noti- fication of next of kin. These» patrol planes are re- ferred to as the Distant Early Warning Squadron and their flights” _ are c ii 11 e d “barrier ‘patrols?’ . ~ .No other details were available immediately. I . E , . . . ls Given Parole SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) 1-‘ Nathan Leopold received a pa- role Thursday, and he ‘-vowed to go out into the world_ and “justify the faith shown in me.” Officials estimated it will be three -or four weeks before ‘the prison gates open--time, needed to check and approve Leopold’s arrangements for a home and job. Leopold, 53 now and pallid and paunchy after serving almost 33% years for the wanton slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, did not see reporters or photographers. But he sent out a typewritten statement of thanks to the parole board, friends and newspaper men. HEATH Macaliaiinin .. ucirrie 0 . V, -~*‘ ‘ I S V duty of the Government to take remedialx steps to offset a‘ serious unemployment situation. We , made available $300,000,000 for housing projects and today- we find more homes under construc- tion than there have ever been in Canada.” . He spoke of the immediate benefits of $87,000,000 that have been made to the provinces and the special $25,000,000 grant that was given to the Maritime Pro- vinces. “When we speak of millions it is sometimes ‘hard to realizéthat it actually means but when we take Prince Edward ‘Island’s share of $2,500,000 per year or $10,000,000 over the next four years, it means that every seven days of the week we are receiv- ing in the vicinity of $7,000 a day‘ more than what we were receiv- ing before.” Mr. MacLean elaborated on some of the larger expenditures (Continued on page 11 col. 7)_ INDIAN LEGEND Five Islands, Nova Scotia. ac- cording to Indian legend are giant pieces of earth which the god Glooscap threw in anger at a beaver. ‘ REACH "SPACE SPEED TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (AP)--An airflow of 32,400 miles an hour. or twice the speed required to place a’ satellite into orbit, has been reached in a rwind-tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Centre here. A Spl k- esman said Tuesday the peak .in 1as(;:ed about one-tenth of a sec- on . MONTREAL (CP)—A veteran airline pilot testified Thursday that the Maritime Central Air- ways plane that crashed near Quebec City last August had enough fuel to reach Montreal- with 44 minutes flying time to spare. George Jarvos of North Burn- aby, B.C., chief pilot for Cana- dian Pacific Airlines, said his calculations, based on the speci- fic gravity of 100 octane gasoline, corresponded to radio reports from the pilot of the ill-fated plane. His testimony conflicts with evidence given Wednesday from two other aviation experts who figure the airliner did not have sufficient gas toget to its Mont- real destination. . The experts appeared before Canada’s first public inquiry into an air crash. EXPLAINS SYSTEM Captain Jarvos explained that his. endurance calculations are linked to a factor used in con- verting gallons of gasoline to pounds—a normal aviation prac- tice. The average conversion fac- tor, he said', is 5.8 pounds to the gallon, but he said the gasoline at Keflavik, Iceland, was rated at six pounds to the gallon. The pilot of the MCA airliner, Capt. Norman -Ramsay of To- ronto, apparently used the 5.8 factor in filing hisflig-ht plan. The difference between the two conversions, said Captain Jarvos, amounts to 807 pounds of gaso- Expert Pilot Testifies 0M. C. A. Plane Had Sufficient Fuel with 44. minutes to spare. The, plane plunged into a bog during a thunderstorm near Is- soudun,.Que., 15 miles from Que- bec City and about 135 miles northeast of Montreal. Another MCA pilot, Capt. Douglas C. Stults, who took off Aug. 11 from Keflavik 12 min- utes before Captain Ram-say’s plane did, said he used the six- pound conversion figure. His flight officer, however, used the 5.8 figure, testimony disclosed. EXPERT CROSS-EXAMINED Alastair Paterson, counsel for MCA, cross — examined Flt.-Lt. W. K. Bell of Ottawa, an RCAF expert who testified ‘Wednesday that’ his endurance reckc ' _:s showed the plane passed over Quebec City with fuel for 46% minutes of flying time——enough to go 103 nautical miles. Montreal is ‘130 nautical miles from Quebec City. At M.R Pa-terson’s insistence, he made further calculations on the basis the plane carried an extra 800 pounds in the form of blankets, life - preservers and commissary stores: The air force officer spent his lunch hour com- ’ pleting the. complicated compu- tations and finally reported that the extra weight would mean the plane would have flown almost 10 minutes longer. than his pre- vious estimate. This meant the plane had enough fuel to remain airborne for 13 hours and 151 minutes. He did not testify whether this would - have _ been sufficient time to reach and landiat Montreal." > .