' .3 ST Maxims of I More Main i.eueornsnon--whenyou . yfallhmrolsm dust Kb 16 H1 have one WN. CANADA, WAY. IKUAH I. I Prlaeo Idward lsland Lie Tlso Dow Ii. Peior' s 'l'l'iroaionocl A Service Station, Warehouse Burn lie wHah throatued an-ious dasnaaa I he Villalo of It. Fet- us last ni&t. was brought under genial eerb his morning by Is combined efforts of he Hor- all and st. Peters Fire Depart- ments. The Bourls Department came to the scene and loot u- usunu II letting the an is in has stages. 153- Plllwall. who Iva h Mario had left to servioo stadon an hour boloro smoke was dis- WVIWI by Mr. Dan MacDonald. Piillflll from the rear of In lM1dlIIl- A llrla lumber of poo- Dlo gathered at the scene of the fire which could be seen for n considerable distance. The area in which the ire took like is thickly sottlod1nd many lumodb to ground was sofa, modern IA. service station opor- their RfuIil'lrliut.u.rlAolllo.r:itoh.s(ld:.li:mll.ilel sued by Mr. Kenneth Dingwell. A road in axpocta' of . scuating large Warehoule It the rear of theirldwclltng. The lack of wind Clark's store was badly damaged was in the favor of th. firemen Ind "10 content! consisting rnIin- who worked valiantly in sub-um is of feed Ind Noflns supplies ” Their efforts so noun; Vm 5' ' ""1 1”" l0 ll" ""1" - Prevented a major conflagrntlon. Tenders Called For Boat Harbour At Howard's Cove OTTAWA. Feb. I-(Special)-A call for tenders has been tuned by the Public Works Department here today for construction of a boat harbor at Howard's Cove in Prince County. Estimated non of the work as listed in main par- lianu-ntary estimates last week was SM0,000. J. Watson MacNaught. Liberal ll.P. for Prince. said he was llilhll Phased at the call for tondera for the Howard's Cove protect an speedily alter decision to build the boat harbor had been taken. He told The Guardian that the new boat harbor specifics. hons call for a structure that will jva complete protection for a very considerable lobster-fish-' lllloetandthatthcrewillba seven feet of water in the new harbor at low Ede. Materials to be used so tho project will be lllrlaly concrete and stone. Ten- dcrs are returnable at of Wed- nesday. March 3. Howard's Cove is on the north. ern coast of Prince County about half way between West Point and Minimegash and is loomed close to one of the most prolific lobster-fishing waters of the con. tlnent. Construction of the harbor will greatly aid the many fisher. men who have made it their headquartu. for nearly a cen- tury. lce Breaker To Escort Oil Tanker To Ch'town The Canadian Government ice- breakar Saurcl. lately stationed at Sydney. is to attempt the es- aort of an Irving Oil Co.. tanker which was diverted to Sydney when it was found that ice-floes in the Northumberland Straits pro- ventedltfrommaklnghcrwagto Charlottetown. Mr. Neil A. Matheson. M.P., yesterday contacted at Ottawa, the Deputy Minister of Transport. Mr. John Balwin. who made the necessary arrangements for the escort of the tanker. Mr. W. R. Connolly. local man- Iiler of ire Irving Oil Company, states that a tanker had left Hal- ifax for Charlottetown several days ago and had proceeded as far as the mouth of thc Hillsboro Bay where it encountered honvy packed ice. The ship was ordered to return to Sydney and negotiat- ions with the Departm nt of Trjport were begun. M. Con- nolly could not venture an opin- ion as to the success of the mis- sion. "The matter is now in the tin of the Department of ansport." he said. so-. Connolly states that the Company had allowed its storage stocks to become lowered in an- ticipation of the arrival of the tanker but when some doubt arose as to whether the trip could be made. nuangcments were made to replenish the supply of fuel oil by railway tank oar. Commons Defeats CCF Non-Confidence Motion OTTAWA. (CPI-The Commons Wrdnildly defeated a CCF non- oonildonce motion in the govern- ment and then heard a new one from the Social Credit group. The Liberals. Progressive Con- servatives. social Creditors and l"d9PGndents voted solidly against the CC! motion. The vote was IN to M. C oming Events "Auction and dance. Vernon I'll. Feb. 7f.I. "fiance Ilount Stewart st. An- Ircws hall on Thursday. lrd. "Crchinole Party. Whaatley River. Friday. February 4th. "Dance h Vernon Hall on Fri- day. Feb. 6th h old of Vernon 500'!!! loam. Isle ol,oahes. E! the North mn- hsl. 'hmsdeg. Fob. s. us. ”Danoa. ea . louih Ewen nil. lliva lacltansio Clltlia. -co... V. ”vision Idoomer. I. A. McDonald. "337. Feb Ith, ot LU. The CCP motion. in the form of an amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne. said the government has "deliberately returned to the pol- icy of uncontrolled and ' ) private enterprise which resulted in the depression and unemploy- ment of the pro-war years." It also said the government has not undertaken "the economic planning necessary to eope with the serious problems now facing the Canadian people." Movn SECOND MOTION With the CC! motion disposed of. George Hahn, New Westmin- star. immediately moved the So- oialcrodit non-confidence motion. It said the government has "failed to take I to recommend the necessary fundamental econ- omic and financial measures to place Canadian producers and workers on a sound and prosper- ous basis, and to insure our econ- omy agalnstv recurring reces- alone" There cannot be more than two Continued on page 1! col. 1 By ALAN HARVEY IDNDON. (CP)-Prime Minis- and "his" hydrogen in xii Parliamentari OTTAWA. Feb. I. ispeclalie Director and senior executives of the Thomson group of news- papers which operates in Canada from coast to coast and also in the United States and Scotland were hosts this evening at the Chateau Laurier Hotel here to members of Commons and Sen- ate whose. ridlngs and districts are served by daily newspapers of the Thomson group. Among guests were members of the cabinet, a large representa- TAIPEH, Formosa (Reuters) -- Four Communist gunboats have attacked a Nationalist landing ship evacuating civilians from the island of Nan Chin. eight miles south of the main Tachcn group, Nationalist navy sources said Wednesday night. They said arrival of the 1.000- ton vessel at Keclung in northern Formosa has been delayed be- cause of the shooting. It had been ex clad to arrive Wednesday af ennoon. Warships of the U. I. TI fleet took over the task of escorting the landing craft following the at- Churchill Dominates Talks With Outlook On H-Bombg pr . Ila thinks there is a good chalice the ll-bomb might abolish i Fire Leaves A ' The Summerslde Town Hall; a two storey brick building was completely standing. The building, in addition to the town clerk's offices, where collection of taxes, bills are administered also contained the police office, the court room of the town magistrate, the Council and the Mayor's office. (See other picture and. story on page 13). (Photo by Wotton). ans Guests Of Newspaper Executives tion from the Senate headed by Senate Government leader Ross MacDonald, and some 40 mem- bers of the House of Commons. Patrick Nicholson. Ottawa cor- respondent for the Thomson group was master-of-ceremonies. All four members of the Com- mons from Prince Edward Island attended the reception, together with Senators J. P. Mclntyre and T. V. Grant. Senator Barbour was unable to be present on account of previous engage ts with out-of-town relatives. No Clash Willi American; Re cl s Atta c k Evacuation Ship ,tack. Nationalist sources said U. iS. vessels now are escorting levavuation ships and it looks as if the Communists are trying to lavoid any clash with the Ameri- cans. RENEW RADIO ATTACKS l Peiplng radio, monitored in ,Hong Kong, today renewed its at- tack on the United States and Britain for "plotting cease-lire trickery." It declared the Chinese peoples' will to "liberate" For- mosa is unshaknble. i U. S. Ambassador Karl L. Ran- kln called on G(?lIel'all33Sllli0 Chiang Kai-shak here and was re- ported unoificlally to have deliv- and "a vital message" from sldent Eisenhower. his-was believed to clarify whether or not the United States would defend Matsu and Quemoy islands. just off the mainland. ii the Nationalists pull their w.000 out of the Tachens. Earle Partridge. .com- Continued on page 2 col. 4 .23 side wn all Princess Hos Quiet Day PORT - OF - SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters)-Princess Margaret on- joyed a quiet, lazy day here Wad- nesdny before tackling the first official engagements of her one- month tour of the British West indies. Rested after her long night across the Atlantic and after a musing welcome Tuesday. the 24- ycar-old princess spent the mor- ning basking in brilliant sunshine. Later she went for a swim in the pool at Government House. where she is spending her four-day stay here. Then came the first big function of the day-an English-style gar- den party on the decorated lawns of Government House. Thousands of Trinidad people stood in lines to meet the princess. The garden party was due to be followed by a gay carnival. native dancing. calypso singing and fire- works. Trinidad, a tropical island of 1.864 square miles off the coast of Venezuela, in the first call in Prin- cess Margaret's tour of the British West Indies - islands scattered across the south Atlantic and Car- ibbenn for 1.500 miles. Saturday the Royal yacht Brit- annia carries her north through the Windward and Leeward is- lands, west of Jamaica and north again to the Bahamas. off the Flor- ida coast, which she leaves for home by air March 2. U. K. Gold. Dollar Reserves Up LONDON (AP) - Britain's gold and dollar reserves rose by 81,000,000 last month. standing at 2,763,000,000 on Jan. 31. the trea- sury announced Wednesday. Durlng the month. defence aid from the United States amount- cdto 813,000,000. Ten million dol- lars was paid in gold or dollars to the European Payments Un- ion for December. and s2.ooo.ooo was paid to creditors of the Un- ion In bilateral "laments. Eisenhower Clarifies Position A Thinks Policy Should Prevent War "T;iI"ypllI'DOIQ is honestly and hopeu to prove: war." He declined to say whether de- fence plans for Formosa also on- tend to the Guernsey and Matsu is- lands off the Red China eoalt. list he did say no recommendation -hasboen rnadetohimfor "corn- nsittlug of land -for-coo of the Unit- Itttas h this particular site- Hotrsanow IN LONDON ACCEPT INFORMAL ronmossu GEAgEmFiRE . r Wortlies light and power accoun fire department, Frei NEW YORK. (AP) - A Pans- manian freighter reported a cracked bull in the stormy mid- Atlantic Wednesday and radioed for help. The coast guard dis- patched its weather ship Chin- cotcague to the frcighter's aid. The S.S. Liberator, a 7.176-ton ship. on route from Halifax to England. carries nb cargo. The ship's New York agents said there was a crew of 31 or 32 men aboard under Capt. Pandclls Stanollos. The coast guard placed the freighter about 550 miles north of the Azores. The weather ship Chincotcaguc. out of Norfolk, Va.. was patrolling about 400 miles away. The Libcrntorls message said "ship cracked from deck hold number three to cargo line." The CBC Strike Vote Today MONTREAL. (CF)-CBC radio and television technicians across Canada vote today on whether to go on strike to back up wage de- mands. Union officials predicted a strike would seriously disrupt the corporation's radio and TV broad- cast schedules. Polls in Montreal. Toronto and 24 other centres with C in- stallatlnns were scheduled to open at midnight and ,close approxim- ately 12 hours later. Voting will be among some 650 members of the National Associa- tion of Broadcast Employees and T chniclans (Clo-CCLi, in dispute with the CBC since last spring over wage demands and other re- quests. Union officials in Montreal. where 50 member. are expected to vote, said results of the bal- lotting will be announced simult- aneously herc and in Toronto at about 3 p.-m.. EST, today. An- other 150 CBC employees are ex- pected to vote in Toronto. the president said conversations are going on constantly with the Chinese Nationalists and "not al- ways do our views seactly coin- side." Astowhothar tel.I.'Ith Fleet is under orders to an age in "hot pursuit"-ovor Rod lnoia waters or the malnla f If its ships or planes are attacked by the Communist air force. Eisen- howc said he didn't think it best . to "pnt out any .spoc1fic blue- lisenhowar stood pat on his 5 Sell gutted yesterday by a spectacular pro dawn fire which left only the walls ghter Has Cracked Hull to and water and sewerage the chambers of the Town coast guard said it was not clear whether the crack extended below the water line. The coast guard said it assumed the vessel was in no immediate danger. FIRE SWEEP! SHIPYARD BAY CITY. Mich. (AP) - Fire swept through the main shed of the Defoe Shipbuilding Cc. early Wed- nesday. dostroying the plastic hull States Navy rninesweeper under construction. The fire wiped out 10 man BHINA WILL LONDON. (A-.'P)-A flurry of diplomatic activity here raised guarded hopes Wednesday light that Red China will accept on "unwritten" cease-fine in the For mosa strait. A day of urgent exchanges among Prime Ministers Churchill or Britain, Nehru of India and other ranking statesmen brought thme decvlopments: Informants said Red Chinals envoy in London. Hua.n Hsiang, delivered a secret message to Nehru from Mao Tze-tung's Chinese government about cease-fire moves. Later, well-infonned diplomsisw5lm'd;' I; pm of I ceubme said there were strong indica- tlons Pelplng woul go along withi Dihwmau "id H 6 Cum” Communists would rule out a' an informal ccasc- ire if Nationw alist Chinn surrenders the off-: of an experimental 57-foot United ing shore ialnnds- Mntus. Qucmoy and the Tachens. SUGGESTS MEDIATION The Indonesian ambassador in London. Prof. Radcn Supomo. in private meeting with Nehru. sug- gested that the five Colombo pow- ers mediate the Formosa dispute if peace moves by the United Na- tions Security Council fall. The Colombo powers are India. Pak-I istan. Ceylon, Burma and Indon- esla. Meanwhile Red China's propa- ganda indicated Mao was casting, about for a face-saving way of sending s delegation to the Sec- urity Council to discuss Formosa. only last week Peiping said a cease-fire proposal would be "ab- solutely unacceptable." But Mac's radio repeatedly reported on the Russian resolution before the Se- curlty Council inviting Red China to New York to talk about Ameri- can "acts of aggression” in the Formosa strait. The feeling was general in dip- lomatic circles here that Red China was getting ready to talk before the Security Council about the American role. In discussing that. the Chinese Reds would have to talk about a cease-fire. SEE INFORMAL PACT Diplomats were rivately peo- simistic about the writ! Coun- cil's chances of nrranlllll I fill" rnal cease-fire agreement. But there were hopes that an infor- mal, unwritten nuoement to quit shlokogting would grow out of the fa . Prime ministers of in Common- wealth meeting here already have plumpcd for a Chinese National- ist withdrnwnl from the offshore U. 5. Turning Butter Into Ghee WASHINGTON. (Raulua) -The United States today will tell a I)- country commerce conference that fine U. I. is going. ahead with plans for transforming part of a 34.000300-pound butter gsurplus into ghee, a butter dcrivnnve sued by Asians. g Countries interested I market- farm produce have been i- vlied to hear how the If. I. h- tends to reduce its vast surpluses months of work on the project. Navy Liquor Will Remain OTTAWA, (CPI-Canadian Navy regulations on shipboard consump tion of liquor likely will remain unchanged despite the recent one of methyl alcohol ,.poisonlng aboard HMCS Magnificent at Halifax. F ' i Minister Camp- ney indicated Wednesday. He said in the Commons that the regulations. in force for genera- tions. were reviewed I few years ago by the naval board. which de- cided they should not be changed. In view of this decision further re- view now was not considered nec- csssry. Mr. Campncy replied to ques- tions by John Diefenbaker PCe- Prince Albert about the poisoning of 47 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier who drank surreptitiously a brew containing methyl alcohol. An official board of inquiry is in- vestigating the affair. Mr. Dicfenbakcr suggested that instead of punishing the sailors in- volved the department should con- sider equalizing liquor regulat- ions as between ratings and of- ficers. He asked whether it would be opportune now to implement rec- ommendations of the Mainguy manpower--s reduction which the army chief of staff. Gen. Matthew B. Ridllily. told Congress would jeopardise security to a degree. His own decision. Eisenhow said. was not reached lightly and represents his best judgment as to an "adequate defence structure." particularly on a long-term basis. Most of the conference centred around the Formosan and related situations. despite Eisenhower's reluctance to go into details on what he said is a delicate inter- national situation now being cin- al 140,000 in arrny.sldored by the United Nations. of dairy goods. Regulations written cease-fire agreement on the grounds it would prejudice what they consider their legal claims to Formosa and the Pes- endorse. a Under the envisaged unwritten agreement the ultimate future of Formosa and the Pescadoreo would be settled around a confer- ence table lntcr. Parliament At A Glance By THE CANADIAN PRESS Wednesd The Commons defeated by a vote of D4 to 23 a CCF motion of non- confidence in the government; Social Creditors then moved a non-confidence motion. CCF Leader Coldwcll's motion to have the Commons suspend reg- ular business to discuss Formosa was rejected by Speaker Rene Bcaudoln; The government said it knows of no fedesial officials. including cab- inet ministers. having been cuter- taincd by a contract-seeking com- PIIIY. Hon. larl Rowe. acting opposi- tion legdx. said I is strange that the government practises defence economy in time of world stress. William Hamilton (PC-Montreal sonata I. Enrnar (PC- :la.s.k.ateH&) llld lsolf.erars Cana- ll'C OCIIIIMIC I uon- titles of honor containing clrnqgs. hand I! and the senob willnlos he Irene speech di bate. lava.-bee has: so Unchanged royal Th sion, headed by Vice-Admiral II. R. Matnguy. new chief of the naval staff. had urged steps for ”Canadianlz.ation" of the navy. Mr. Csmpney said mature to think of deal with charges if and when Continued on page 1 col. 1 3 1-2 Inch Fall Of Snow In N. Y. NEW YORK (AP)-A low-prev sure area that spawned dcathdeal- ing twisters in the midsouth moved nosday. It brought New York city a traffic-slowing IV:-inch snowfall. heaviest of the winter. Bitter cold congealed the north east. Old Town. Ma.. had an over- night low of 88 below aoro; Beek- msutown, N.Y., an unofficial as be- low and Saranac Lake. N.Y,, If below. Boston's five above was the city's coldoat this winter. wide belt of snow foil & ; ville, NJ. The mrnadoeo that hit Arkansas. Mississippi and Alabama Tuesday caused an unofficial death tell 3). All the fatalities were It salppi. The United gates weather it 1. pm. Vancouver punishment. VlCt0l'll Service tribunals would have to were-is Dawson ls-rv northeastward to the Atlantic Wed- Y?” weather office hue says mtldor air is circling across Labrador and IRE llliil in soutbornpordoesalihe 3.,-.1 west.tiie'l'exao-NowIIexlcosroa.g; ”..'.'i""i'".." ..".': ww- I V O! Inga. riestoiot leowfhsrrieoswkiedoverle Igh northcentralstates.Il.iddavrood-townot. Ina! were below the ICi'.-ea markhm-wllauaedanlweat-atmlatc ward serosaihonerthssnaroet Daarisu Lakes. sataltlp.