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THE DAILY NEWS
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND SATURDAY, JANUARY 31,  1959
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pany of -Canada had been unable
to make a sale lo China. Mr. Argue said. And the B. F. Goodrich Corporation of Akron, 0.,
had made impossible a likely sale
of conveyor belting by its Canadian subsidiary to Red China.
He said it was "embarrassing
and degrading" for Justice Minister Fulion to have gone to
Washington this week after all
thc government assurances that
Canadian law would govern Canadian business.
ANT1-TRVST CASE
Mr. Fulton went to discuss Can.
ada's protest against a U.S. antitrust case in which several Canadian subsidiaries are named as
co-conspirators in an alleged attempt to restrict trade in radio
and television receiving sols. The
Canadian government has said
the actions of the companies,
ihrouch iheir patents pool. Cana
dian Patents Limited, are not
contrary to Canadian law.
Mr. Fleming said he govern
mem has taken and now takes a
'criou<. vic» of inflalionary force
in the economy and hat il welcomes evidence of the public's
concern about inflation.
But the danger was not new
and what must be taken account
of was the tear of inf ation.
NOT COINCIDENCE
J. A. Richard (L-St. Maurice-
Laflcche) said it is not just coincidence that economic problems
come whenever there is a Conservative government That was
happening now as it had hap-
,pened under Conservative prime
ministers Bennett and Borden
ad even in the 1890s before Lib
eral prime minister Laurier de
i feated the Conservathes.
1 Yvon R. Tasse (PC — Quebec
East* said that years ago Quebec City lost its dominant position a$ a port because of construction of rail lines and the
dredging of the St. '
rence River to Montreal. But it
might regain Its role as a terminal port with completion of the
St. Lawrence Seaway and development of winter na igation on
the lower St. Lawrence River.
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Aboard, Rescue Craft
Cannot Get Alongside
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CHICAGO—Looking like « sea of broken v-jindow panes, transparent
sheets of ice form a jam-tip here Jan. 27th al thc Chicago River locks.
In the background is a Coast Guard station, and behind it loom the
skyscrapers of this city's famous loop, ke jams like this one have
tied up shipping on the Illinois waterway and the Mississippi River
during recent weeks.—-(UPI Photo).
aten Close All
MerWoodCamps
PI*OOK   CPi-A
T* rC'R THE STRIK
axx- Wwjuorkers
*'2f- pulirrf here
ii pi,-v.i<K<j cutting
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?5 » »»:n ot davs.
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^^•loundland
Development Company at Grand
Falls. Nf.d., entered its 30th day
with the IWA denying charges
its members had entered a Bowater's camp and Mooted the
cookhouse of every scrap of
food."
Leonard Martin, solicitor for
independent contractors cutting
wood for Bowater's, said Thursday that between 170 and 200
IWA men came Into the camp to
try to persuade the loggers to
join the strike.
Mr. Skinner said Friday he bad
more than 100 witnesses tc- disprove Mr. Martin's statement.
About 1,200 loggers struck the
A.N.D. Company Dec. 31 to back
demands Ior a wage increase and
other benefits.
Put Tn And The
By AND Co. Head
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Answer: "The answer is yes.
In a statement madc public on
December 21st. 1058, I said:
"We plan lo stay in business and
take whatever steps we consider
necessary lo ensure an adequate
supply ol pulpwood to operate
our mill, and to protect the interests of our customers, upon
whom, after all, the welfare of
all our workers depends."
Question (2) Is there any indication that the mill operations
will be affected If normal de-j
liveries of wood are not resum-1
ed within the next few weeks?
Answer:  "No." |
Question (3) What are the
conditions, if any, under which
the A.N.D. Co., Ltd. would be
prepared to resume negotiations I
with the I.W.A.?
Answer: "Events of the past
month here at Grand Falls make
it virtually impossible to dc-1
fine the conditions under which
this ompany could resume ne-,
gotiations with' the 1.W.A,"     !
Springhill Inquiry Ends
SPRINGHILL. N.S. (CP) - A i This hard - luck Cumberland
four . day royal commission in- j county town in northern Nova
quiry into the Springhill mine: Scotia was the scene of a 1950
disaster ended here Friday after | mine explosion in wh ch 39 men
37 witnesses told tbe story of how died. A spectacular fire
a cave-in took the lives of 75 men
last Oct. 23.
Commission Chairman Donald
Mclnnes of Halifax said "We have
a big task on our hands but we'll
deal with it the best way wc can."
He said the commission "is very
conscious of the three disasters
which hac struck Springhill, and |
of thc great spirit and tenacity ot • get Ihe fullest investigation
purpose of the citizens. We hope' sible."
that   good   economic   conditions j   His company proposed to "bore
wiped out half the town's
ness, district,
INVESTIGATE STRESSES
Harold Gordon of S'dney. chief
of coal operations for Dominion
Steel and Coal Corporation, which
closed its operations here after
the disaster, said "underground
stresses and their actions should
will be restored to you."
Police Blotter
Seven arrests were made last
night by the local police. One
city resident was removed from
his home for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. The other
six were common, drunks.
Two accidents were- reported
to the Police last night, one at
the intersection of Waterford
Bridge Road and Road Delux
witti both cars rece ving considerable damage. The other
occurred on Military Road when
a car stopped for the red light
and the trailing car s id into the
right rear side.
It you have a 1959 resolution
left that hasn't been broken
you still havt more than eleven
months left.
a hole in lhc pavencnt
bump are to determine how deep j
the strata was affected." A bump
—upheaval of thc mine floor-
trapped 174 men.
Mr. Gordon testified Monday
thai he opposed the reopening
of No. 2 on any grounds, even to
test for bumps.
Sieve Dolhanty. vice-president
of District 26 of the United Mine
Workers of America (Ind), said
Friday he hoped the decision of
the commission "may help decide
whether many million tons ofl
coal here will be extracted or I
not."
He said as "far as the union
is concerned we have developed
a theory and have submitted all
evidence to support it."
COAL FACE ALIGNMENT
Mr. Dolhanty was referring to
(he alignment last May of the
three working coal faces in No.
2 which miners and union officials said contributed to thc cause
of bumps.
Miner   Elroy Tabor  told  Ihe
Canada's First Rocket
Is Fired Successfully
CHURCHILL. Man.
Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft rocket
was successfully fired for the
first time in Canada at 2:41 p.m.
CST Friday at this launching
base on the frigid shore of Hud-
in Bay.
Col. N. J. W. Smith commanding officer of the Fort Churchill
joint services base said he believed the shoot was most successful.
The screaming rockel dropped
its booster motor within plain
sight of the spectators in the
clear and frosty sub-Arctic sky
and t'.icn left a vivid smoke trail
as it roared away to thc east in
a ground-guided hunt for a jet-
powered drone target launched a
few minutes previously by a four-
engincd Lancaster bomber from
thc air force testing establishment at Cold Lake, Alta.
The, missile successfully in-
tcrcepted the drone over the
tundra, cast of Churchill on the
southwestern shore of Hudson
Bay, 610 miles north of Winnipeg.
commission he fought "continu-
ally to stop the company from
lining up the coal walls." Mr.
Tabor said if the walls had oeen
worked 40 to 50 feet apart "-iven
with the bump, there wouldn't
have been- nearly half .as.many
men killed last October." He was
one of 10 miners who testified
Friday.
Other members of the commission arc Tom McLachlan of Glace
Bay, former president of U.MW
District 26. and Calgary mining
engineer Hairy Wilton-Clark.
NEW YORK (AP)-A small Danish cargo-passenger ship struck
an iceberg off Greenland Friday
on her maiden voyage. She began going down, and 130 persons
aboard faced an uncanny parallel
to one of history's great disasters, thc sinking of the Titanic.
"Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance, was the last
word late this afternoon from
the stricken Hans Hcdtoft, whose
skipper is reputed to be the
greatest of Denmark's Arctic
navigators.
Reports from Copenhagen said
an American air force helicopter
was hovering above the ship
around 4 p.m. EST. Nearby and
Wieved en route to the scene
were a Danish nav> vessel, a
German trawler and a cargo ship.
BRIGHTER PICTURF.
Word of this aid brightened the
picture after Canadian and American air rescue attempts were
blocked during thc afternoon by
bad weather. Al that time the
nearest known vessel, a United
Slates coast guard ship, was some
230 miles—or almost 12 hours
steaming distance — from the
scene off Cape Farewell's Greenland's southern tip.
REPLICA OF TITANIC
The Hedtoft's plight was a
replica in miniature of ihe
Titanic, which was on her maiden
voyage in 1912 when she rammed
an iceberg 0ff Newfoundland. Of
her passengers and crew, 1,517
were lost in onc of the great
dramas of the seas.
Closest ship rushing to the aid
of the Hedtoft was tie German
trawler Justus Hasl nger. She
was not t0° for away and wa?
I hopeful of getting there by early
evening.
Also en route wa the U.S.
Coast Guard cutter Campbell,
which left ils Nor h Atlantic
navigatiihal patrol base some -'50
miles to Ihc southwest but was,
not expected to arrive at the:
scene before Friday morning,     j
TRAWLER
NEARBY
HALIFAX (CP)-Thc German
trawler Justus H a s 11 n g e r approached within a mile of the
damaged Danish ship Hans Hcdtoft off Greenland Friday night,
but RCAF rescue headquarters
here said she was unable lo gol
alonside because of fog and high
seas.
The 710-ton trawler reported
picking up thc Hans Hcdtoft on
her radar. However, 20 - foot
waves whipped up by a 35-mile
an hour gale prevented the two
ships coming within s ght of each
other, the RCAF said.
A report from St. John's, Nfld..
lhat the vessels actually were
alongside was later termed premature by rescue of iccrs here.
The 2,875-ton cargo - passenger
ship, bound to Godthaab. Greenland, from Denmark on her maiden voyage, carried 130 persons,
including 90 passengers.
The Hans Hedtoft radioed she
was taking in water after she
struck an iceberg about 60 miles
south of Cape Farewell about
noon Friday.
BARBADIANS SAY
The Canadian and American
planes sought to take to the air
from Newfoundland and Labrador, wilh survival gear to be
dropped to the Hedloft. But they
were recalled as they taxied toward takeoff.
LOW CEILING, ICE
Low clouds enshrouded the
bleak, icy seas off Greenland,
and icing conditions were reported.
The Hedtoft was built last year
and launched about a monlh ago.
ll was named after thc late
1 prime minister of Denmark.
I Thc ship left Copenhagen Jan.
j 22 with 90 passengers and 40 of j
| a crew under command of Capt. j
j P. L. Rasmussen. 50. She headed |
LATEST BULLETIN
A long range plane Irom
Argentia is exepected to reach
thc general area of thc sinking
Danish passenger ship Hans
Hedtoft around 8.00 a.m. this
morning. A second plane will
leave Argentia around 8.00 a.m.
to arrive in the area as thc first
plane is forced to return lo base.
This procedure will be followed
until thc weather near the vessel improves or the sinking ship
is sighted.
The area is believed to be ten
miles square, but high seas and
bad visibility is greatly hampering thc search. Three planes are
standing by at Goose Bay awaiting improved weather to aid in
the gcneral operations.
for Godlhaal), capital of Greenland, on a maiden voyage that
was her inaugural to Ihe Denmark-Greenland run.
Besides passengers, the Hedtoft carried a cargo of salted 3nd
dried fish.
Shc groped hcr way across thc
North Sea and out onto (he broad,
winter - gripped surface of the
North Atlantic. Hcr long voyage
was ncaring an end as she drew
abreast of, but a bit to the south
of. Cape Farewell. Now she had
but to skirt the icebound cape
and proceed a few hundred miles
up along the west coast of Greenland to her destination.
But it was at this point that
the iceberg crossed her path.
As a new ship, thc Hedloft presumably would be equipped with
radar. If she was. there was i.o
explanation why it did not detect
the iceberg.
Normally,, the hreakoff of .the
big bergs from mainland ice floes
does not begin until the weather
begins lo warm up, but only this
very day the U.S. Coast Guard
had sent out its first air ice
patrol of the scason. The flicht
anged the North Atlantic shipping lanes—well to thc soulh of
thc Hedtoft's course—without detecting any sign of drifting 'ce.
Maritimes Fish And
Lumber Poor Quality
THE "TITANIC" AND OTHER
SEA TRAGEDIES  RECALLED
By DARCY O'DONNELL
Canadian Press Staff Writer
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CP)
The quality of fish and lumber
shipped from the Canadian Maritime provinces to the West Indies
Friday was criticized by Barbadian businessmen during a
meeting with the Canadian economic mission.
Frank Proverbs, Bridgetown
importer, told the businessmen:
"For years we have been the
dumping ground for the worst
fish available."
Senator C. C. Pratt, St. John's,
Nfld. fish exporter, said the quality, of fish is tied in with the
price. Top quality fish could be
obtained i f the importer was
ready to pay the price.
CRITICIZES LUMBER
Blair Bannister, ano her Bridgetown importer, said lumber ob
•tained from the Mar time provinces was not as good as lumber
obtained from thc Ottawa Valley.
Roy Halliday of Toronto, former -president of the Canadian
Lumbermen's Association, said
small mills which were noi members of thc association exported
inferior and imprope ly graded
lumber. Importers could be sure
of getting ihe right-quality if they
dealt with large mills.
The discussion occurred at a
committee meeting following al
brief formal opening session. The
Canadians were we corned by
H. F. Alkins, president of the Bar-1
bados Chamber of Commerce,
and M. E. Cox, Barbados
minister of trade, industry
labor.
In his speech Mr. Cox referred
briefly to immigration and said
he hopes members of the mission
will use their influence to make
it possible for more Baradians to
emigrate to Canada.
LAST ON PROGRAM
The meeting of businessmen
here was the last on a program
which has taken the mission to
Jamaica, Trinidad and British
Guiana during a 17 - day tour
aimed at boosting trade with the
Caribbean area.
The Canadians were to meet
later Friday to consider recommendations they will make to Canadian businessmen and Canadian governments as a result of
the trip.
A. R. Toppi of Bridget'
said Barbados would ike to buy
more from Canada but was unable to do so because of currency
restrictions imposed by thc
United Kingdom for the sterling
area, including The West Indies.
Other Bridgetown businessmen
said they would like to know
more of what Canada has to
offer. They asked if any Canadian business period cals were
available. C. Bruce Hill of St
Catharines, Ont. said that perhaps publishers of Canadian oe-
riodicals could come here and
find out if thcir publications were
the type wanted by businessmen.
Russia Ahead Of U. S. In Rocket Progress
By FRED S. HOFFMAN       I
WASHINGTON (AP)-The Soviet Lunik's performance indicates Russian intercom nental mis
siles could strike at American
targets with pinpoint accuracy.
Government scientists who told
this Friday to inquiring senators
also said the Russian space shot
shows the Soviet Union has
achieved substantially greater
rocket thrust than he United
States. .|
Dr. T. Keith Glennan, head of I
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration,  cautioned
Against doubting Russia's claim
to have sent the. Lun k past the
moon and into orbit around the
sun.
SEEING IS BELIEVING
He said he has seen some of
thc Russians' scientifc work at I
first hand and "I'm inclined to
believe they did send this device
beyond the moon."
Glennan and severe other scientists of the government sPace
agency testified before members
of both thc Senate space committee and preparedness subcommittee, who are trying to find out
how the U. S. is doing in the vital i
space and missiles races with
Russia.
• Glennan told the senators: "1
don't think we're back of the
Russians at all, except in propulsion. We're at least as good as
they are, except in propulsion."
ACCURACY ESTIMATE
The estimate of Russian missile accuracy was made by Dr.
Homer Lee Stewart, a scientist
with NASA.
Hc said the Russians must
have tried at least to come close
to the moon. The distance  by
which the rocket missed the
moon demonstrated guidance
"good enough for a useful
weapon."
"It was good enough to guide
an intercontinental ballistic missile to a target with a 15- to 20-
mile circle of error," Stewart
said. An ICBM is planned to
travel more than 5,000 miles. As-.
siimlng such a weapon is armed
with a hydrogen warhead, it
could do heavy damage "f it
struck within 15 or 20 miles of
its intended target.
NEW YORK (AP)-The great-
est ship-iceberg disaster in history was the sinking of the Titanic
with a loss of 1,517 lives in thc
Atlantic on April 15, 1912.
The White Star liner, like the
Danish vessel Hans Hedtoft that
struck an iceberg today, was on
her maiden voyage.
The Titanic then was the biggest, most luxurious and believed
to be the safest ship afloat.
SIDESWIPES ICEBERG
The 852-foot liner, of 46,328)
gross tons, was en route from
Southampton to New York. Most
of the 2,224 passengers and crew
aboard had settled for the night
when shortly before midnight on
April 14 she sideswiped a huge
iceberg and ripped a long gash
in her side.
At 2:20 a.m. the next day. the
unbelievable happened. The great
"unsinkable" four - stacked >lid
beneath the sea.
The disaster played no favorites. Carried lo their doom along
with many steerage passengers
were financiers such as John
Jacob Astor, Benjamin Gttggcn-,
heim and Isador Straus. j
Thc Titanic sinking was one of i
the most dramatic sea stories of i
all limp. i
of Ireland.
A collision between the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of
Ireland and the Danish collier
Storslad in the St. Lawrence
River cost 1,024 lives on May 29,
1914.
A boiler explosion aboard the
steamship Sultana, carrying exchanged northern civil war prisoners, took 1,450 lives on tha
Mississippi River near Memphis,
Tenn., on April 27, '1865.
END TO EXCURSION
A fire aboard the excursion
vessel Gen. Slocum was fatal to
1.021 persons June 15, 1904, in
New York's East River.
The steamer Eastland overturned in Chicago River July 24.
1915, with a loss of 812 lives.
More recent disastershave included the burning of the American liner Morro Castle, off Asbury Park. N.J., Sept. 8 1934, with
a loss of 134 lives, and the sink-
ing of the Italian liner Andrea
Doriain a collision with thc Swedish liner Stockholm July 25, 1956.
Fifty lives were lost.
No Crisis
But it was not the greatest ii
OTTAWA <CP;-Fiuancc Minister Fleming maintained  today
that there is no justification for
6,000 DIE IN BALTIC j anyone saying there is an inflat-
Six thousand Germans died in  j0nary crisis in Canada,
thc Baltic in  1945 when Soviet'    ile'was replying in the Com-
torpedoes sent the German; mons t0 Paul Marti (L—Essex
transport Wilhelm Gustoloff to lhc
bottom. She was carrying Ger
man refugees, includng women
and children, from Po and as the
Russian forces advanced. Nazi
wartime censorship concealed the
disaster.
Six thousand Chinese were lost
in November 1918 in the sinking
of an evacuation ship off Manchuria.
The next month 3,800 persons
were lost when the refugee ship
Kiangya exploded and sank off
Shanghai.
HALIFAX DISASTER
More than 1,600 died in an explosion when the Belgian relief
ship Imo and French munition
ship Mont Blanc collided Dec. 6,
1917, in Halifax harbor.
Some other memorable ship
disasters:
The Cunard liner Lusitania was
„unk with a loss or .138 lives
by a German submari c on May ,
"   1013, oft the south ast coast I
sought goverment
comment on a statement by
James Muir. prcsident of the
Royal Bank of Canda, to the ef.
nect that Canadian prices are inflated to such dangerous proportions that Canadian goods are being forced out of world markets.
Weather
Cloudy and windy with
showers changing to flurries around noon. Hi 40.
TEMPERATURES
Yarmouth 26 39
Sydney    15 29
Halifax   25 39
Quebec     10 25
Monlrcal    23 32