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... ...} ■> —--u. ,.-;,„.. ,^-, i^m i .--,,"■.'+*^■ Ji'^JJiCt I" ■:fl;7K^L*r-#***m^^ff^^^ 71 ' A 11-55 a.m.—G.E.'Barbour News. 5.00 p.m.-Junior Jamboree 7.15 p.m.-Dr. Paul, 11.00 p.m.—Pepsi Sportscast. 6-- *■ Vol. 62. No. 208 ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1955 (Price 5 Cents) PRESENTS THE MERRY. WIDOW available at Charles Hutton & Sons . ' ■*! I *.?i ■■ ■ M n ***".ir%'< ' *.' j *■•' * Tax Federal Govt. Provincial St. Laurent Says Provinces May Get Direct Taxing Back By HAROLD MORRISON OTTAWA (CP.)—Prime Minister St. Laurent said Wednesday federal tax objectives can be achieved without lax rental agreements with the provinces, . This slalemenl made to report To ers following a day-long cabinet session appeared to be in line with reports that ihe government is considering scrapping the tax pacts and allowing the provinces to g2t back into the direct taxing field. The cabinet is believed to have gone over the plan mapped out by Its advisers and accepted many of its general ideas. Discussion of details will continue today; Mr. St. Laurent said Ihc cabinet will go back.into session* in the morning allcr two sessions Wednesday. TACTS MAY GO "What wa arc contemplating dues not necessarily need tax rcn* ial agreements," he said in reply i*** questions dealing with the -pos* sible federal approach to thc meet- hs with premiers opening Monday. Under agreements wilh all provinces except Quebec, the central administration rents the direct tax field—personal and corporation incomes—in return for annual payments. It rents the succession duties field from ail provinces except Ontario and Quebec. The federal ■ provincial conference next week is designed to find an alternative or extension to the current five -year agreements which expire in March, 1957. The PKls have been criticized by some provinces on the grounds that the federal rants paid are. too low or that (lie agreements centralize loo much power in Ottawa. "We prefer lo achieve our objector* in a manner that will please everybody," Mr. Si, Laurent said, Even OutWealth - i-HMdly ,prykmg thc federal oh* j'*cti\cs arc lu distribute Canada's wraith mnre evenly among tha rich and poor provinces and at Hie •■mc lime safeguard federal rev- 'fiuies. to finance federal obllga< inns under lhe constitution. "We can achieve the objectives without the agreements and without limiting th? provinces' taxing powers" the prime minister added. But it may be, he said, that tht provinces may prefer some kind of agreements. Officials havc said that undar the new plan being considered, the central administration would allow the provinces to gel a share of direct taxes. Offer Guarantee ll would offer the provinces an exchange: A guarantee of - minimum revenues and federal tax- collecting machinery in return for provincial agreement to keep their tax rates uniform and limit yields to, say, 10 per cent of federal income tax revenue, seven or eight per cent of federal corporation income collections and 50 per cent of federal succession duties. The federal government then would reduce its levies by a similar amount lo prevent an increase In payments by Canadian taxpayers. For all provinces except Ontario the yields from such' direct tax levies would be lower than those received from tax rentals. The federal administration would make up the difference through "equalization" payments from the central treasury. Mr. St, Laurent indicated Ihe federal government will make no cut-and-driert approach to the sessions with the premiers next week. From other sources it was learned lhc prime minister will wait lo hear what each province may propose before tha federal suggestions arc outlined. The premiers, after a week of sccrcl negotiations with Mr. St. Laurent and his advisers, then might recess for a month or so and return with their final answers. nml h j Fleas, Owner m lb. t Caught MINCE ALBERT, Sask (C.P.)-An SO-pcnind eight** ounce take trout has been Dulled from Lake Athabasca by a commercial fisherman but will not go down in thc anglers* record book as lhc world's biggest troul calch. Tlu* fUh was taken with gilluets -jm! Hull's not y fair catch anum-* spurting fishermen. But it's still iVIieml lhc largest lake, trout ever taken. Tom Goodman, a worker with Mclnncs Products Corp. Ltd. of Edmonton, hauled In the 52-lnch tnmt while lishhig at the Hclnnes csntp on the north shore of Lake Athabasca, in the northwest o.'nwr of Saskatchewan, several ■tys a50. it was 16 inches wid* and 3h inches thick. the firm turned the fish over t-* the Saskatchewan government and it was flown to the Regina provincial museum where it will bs stuffed and put on display. Held and Stream magazine rec ognued authority on sport fishing records, toys the unofficial -eeord for a lake trout caught ty any method is an Sft-powidcr fn*en ol Mnefcinotc, Midi., in 1878. U doesi m< wy Ji'itc the fis'i h'bjc vaitght. i Feels Fleeced UNCLE GARGE GETS THF POINT Vni'le Garge wi** Unwn at the Hnuse of Assembly yesterday for lhc dosing ceremonies. Ue.great- >>' admires the Pol tee Guard of Honour. They were drawn up "Ith their white helmets, 'riflu "M bayonets. Uncle Garge wis Warding them proudly. Who should cone along bnf Aunl Hemmer, She looked at the bay on pts ap* PTfkrnUvrly, and asked . .Uncle r'»rxf. "Whal's them sharp tMnfi •»< thf end af the ium?" *W. wid Uncle Garge, "Itatt •■< CjQidlat Javelin*", LONDON (APMl's enough to* make a man hopping mad— someone with Itchy fingers has stolen the flea circus Maurice Cheepen has taken days to bring up to scratch. Cheepen, manager of the Troxy movie house at suburban Stepney put his miniature performers out mi display in llie lobby lo advertise a. coming circus film. Overnight Ihey disappeared. "You've no Idea how hard It is (o find a nice Juicy, flea in London these ■days/'.he said, "I've even offered a bub each, but had no lakers," Drop Pacts? Buchans Student Gets $2000 Scholarship At Mount A. HALIFAX (C.P.)-More than 40 scholarships totalling $16,000 for students entering Dalhousie University this fall were announced Wednesday* bv Dr. A. E. Kerr, President, A $2,000 scholarship was awarded T, L. Nclson Luscombe of Buchans, Nfld. Under a similar scholarship awarded last year, Sheila Ellman of Frcdericlon is continuing her studies. Other winners included: A. M. Mackay, Mcadowville, N, S., Pictou Academy scholarship T. A. Dowd, Val d'Or, Que.; Stan- Icy Epstein and Staph en Sherman, Sydney; Innis Christie, Amherst; Caroline Davies, Oxford, N, S, and John Curtis, Truro, entrance scholarships valued at $650 to $850. Sandra MacFarlane, Mulgrave, N. S.; Anna Cooke, Saint John, N. B.; Hugh Gorham, Campbellton, N. B.; Morton L. Brown, Fredericton; and R. M. Soberman, Toronto, special entrance scholarships of $100 each. Ike May Be Back At Reins Soon * "Janet" * Uncounted As Killer Dead Storm Hits At Mexico MIAMI (A.P.)—Uncounted dead and injured were reported Wednesday from the flattened tiny seaport of Kcalak as killer Hurricane Janet slashed across Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and moved back over open water still carrying winds of 100 miles an hour. A telegraph operator reported that only one house was left standing in Xcalak, a town of 1,000 in the southern part of Quintan a Boo province. It is on the southern tip of Yucatan. FLAM IS LOST Janet has killed hundreds In its week-long rampage over land and water in the Caribbean area—an estimated 200 in Mexico alone. It swallowed up the only hurricane hunter plane that has ever failed to return from a storm*scouting mission, t Scores of planes and ships have searched thousands of square miles in thc Caribbean' for lhe missing P-2V Neptune with "no results." The plane carried nine airmen and two Canadian newspaper men, reporter Alfred O. Tale and photographer Douglas Cronk, both of the Toronto Star, who were doing a feature story on hurricane hunter planes. GETS BIGGER The slorm, which lost some of its punch In moving over Yucatan, is expected to grow bigger again I and move toward the Mexican' coast between Vera Cruz and Tux- pan. Tuxpan is about 75 miles south of Tampico where Hurricane Hilda caused Hoods in which more than 300 persons were drowned nine days ago. At that time Tampico was struggling from under the debris of floods touched off by Hurricane Gladys.two weeks ear Her. Janet struck tiny Swan Island in the western Caribbean. Tuesday and destroyed many of the buildings. But the 35 U. S. employees of the wealher bureau and civil aeronautics authority were re ported safe. They apparently weathered the blow in a concrete shelter, a circling air force plane reported. Meanwhile, in Trinidad the Barbados government Wednesday introduced rationing in the southern Christ Church area, hardest-hit by Hurricane Janet which killed 178 persons in a devastating sweep over Barbados, Grenada, and Car riacou last week. Sultan Fired As French Try Reform In Troubled Morocco f P.Cs. To Meel WINNIPEG (CP)- Progressive Conservative party leaders will meet here Oct 15 to mark one of four "second century dinners" being held by the party across Canada. The dinners, celebrating the Conservative party's second century of participation in Canadian politics, are being held in connection with the cross-country tour of national leader George Drew. Attending the Winnipeg dinner will be 10 Progressive Conservative members of Partiament and one Senator as well as Robert Stanfield, party leader in Nova Scotia, Plunge Cily In Darkness A two-car colhsoin un the Gould?. Road was the cause of the bricl blackout in the.city early yesterday evening, v. The.two can. a 1955 Chevrolet; and a-1952 Chevrolet., were In head-on collision at- abou* 6.45 p.m. As;far.as Is Known, no in juries were sustained by the occu pants of the two cuts, though the total damage was estimated al $1,500.. .• ■ Apparently a.pole was knocker) down aa the city was plunged into, complete *' darkness for - a ' lew alnutei DENVER, Coin, (AP)-Moimting hopes lhat President Eisenhower may return to the helm of the gov ernment within a month were strengthened Wednesday, The 0x3 gen tent was removed from Mb hospital room, There was no thought of him assuming the burdens of a full White House schedule that soon. But bar- associales seem agreed he will be ring complications administrative able to make any necessary decisions from the calm of his farm* house at Gettysburg, Pa. The president will be 65 on October 14. An 11.20 a.m. MST medical bul* letln said: 1. The president slept this morning out of an oxygen tent for the first time'since he suffered a heart attack early Saturday, 2. His condition "continues to be satisfactory without compllea* dons," Whle House Press Secretary '.lames O. Hagerty also said a tape recording machine was brought into lhe president's room at his request and lhat he limned briefly lo soft chamber music. PresldenUal advisers abandoned Ior the time being any further consideration of how Eisenhower could delegate authority to others as another day passed without complications. ' The optimistic vlsw that the president soon will be able to start resuming ' his duties apparently shared by officials in Washington as well as here, was tempered by the knowledge that setback could chang*; the picture. Appoint Board Of Examiners For Nurses The following , have beer, ap pointed..by the.Lieutenant Gov' ernor as members.of the'Board ol Examiners for Registered Nurse.* for the current year: ' Leonard A. Miller. M.D., Ecpuly -Minister .of Health. G. Alain Frecker; B.A.,''B.E., LL.D., Deputy Minister of .Education; Mai or Hah. hah Janes, R.N.,, Superintendent, Grace Hospital; Phyllis Wyne Bar rett, R"N.( Director ol Nursingj.St! John's General '.Hospital;' Ell?abeth' R.-'Summers, B.N,| R.N.,'A^iiclate Director, Nursing. Sei vjces, Impart* menl of Health Sisler Mary Xaver- his,",. R.N.; Superintendent' 'of Nurses/. St; Clare's. '< Mercy Hos\ WULi :.'.-"■ ■ ',- Would-Be Mother j Surrenders Child Stolen From Home Just Had To Have ABaby SAN FRANCISCO (A.P.)—A childless-housewife who "just had to have a baby" remorsefully surrendered Robert Marcus to a piuest in*Slockton, Calif., early Wednesday nine days after the newborn boy was kidnapped in San Francisco. Happy Valley.. •. Labrador's City Newfoundland's most progressive town is in Labrador. .It's Happy Valley, once a wilderness shack-town, now*, an up-and-comirig :mimicipality, . Ron Roberts, Chairman of the Community * Council at Happy Valley, told the Dally News yesterday-that the settlement had 1,034 residents last time Ihey were counted, and it's growing daily. Mr, Roberts is visiting relatives here. Happy Valley is located on land taken over by thc Can* adian Government during World War II as part of the s-ile of Goose Airport. Now, the area has been passed back to the Ncwfourdland Government, a town has been incorporated there, and things are really booming, Mr. Roberts said the demand for building space is constant, and new homes are being built dail>. They belong mostly to workers at Goose, many of whom are native Labrador people. About 25 Eskimo families have moved in recently, he said. The Eskimo men came to Goose seeking work, and of course they moved their families and belongings with them. Now they are happily settled as new residents of Labrador's biggest town. Recovery of the healthy baby, now li days old, ended a countrywide hunt. Dr. Sanford Marcus, 34, and his wife, Hanna, 29, sped in a police car the 82 miles to Stockton from San Francisco in 75 minutes for a jovtul reunion with their son. Frightened by the earlier ques-j tioning of a sharp-eyed deputy i sherifE, Mrs. Betty Jean Bencdiclo, 27, plump and blonde, decided lo| give up thc baby she had so care*; fully tended while police and the] FBI hunted him from California to; New York. j Police were closin*- in on Mrs. Benedicfo when she -.e'ephoned the anxious Vr, Marcus, told him the infant teas safe and lhat she was leapt***- it at St. Mary's Reman Catholic Church in .Sfort.-l-.m'. Repentant Mrs. Benedictn, tearfully repentant, was taken away to be booked tor return to Sun Francisco. District altomey Bradford Crittenden of Stockton said lhc plump woman sobbed constantly as shc told of playing an elaborate game of deception upon her husband. "I just had to have a baby. 1 had lo have a baby!" he quoted her as saying. She was married last October to Marcos Benedicto, 52. She said that because of a Caesarean operation she had besn told she never could.have a baby. When she began to take on weight "my friends teased me and said they thought I was prepant," ' HubbyFooled Mrs, Benedicto (old her Unhand she was pregnant, 'cent to Riucr side in Southern CaKlornto to het mother, dieted then tetanici and told her husband the baby. had been born but was ill and in a hospital. Then, she ?,aitl, she went lo San Francisco's Mt. Zion hospital and took Robert Marcus because liis name was similar lo her husband's. Tuesday night she look lhe baby to a boxing match, where deputy sheriff Osvaldo J; -Vannuccl spot* ted her seated ■ with another woman, She fitted broadcast, descriptions. '-, -' ■ '/■ , 'Mrs; Benedicto showed Vannucci a-btrth certificate from' a 'hospital iff Lynwood, near Los Angeles. Suspicious, he cheeked the hospital found n" baby by the name of Benedicto had-been born there'. Then the hunt was on. Marie Dionne TAKES UP LIFE OF NUN AGAIN QUEBEC (C.P.)-Maric Dionne, one of the four remaining Dionne quintuplets, has slipped quietly hack into the lile of a novice nun. The mother superior at the convent of la Congregation de Servants du Tres Saint Sacivment said Wsdnesday the 21-year-old sir) : returned here Sept. 12 to take up" lhe life she dropped iu May, 19M. Her return apparently was a closely * guarded family secret. There was no Indication prior lo Wednesday lhal the move had been made. t Marie left tlie'convent in May 1854 and raturned to her home in Calla.ndar, Ont. Poor health w^s given as the reason for her departure and the . Ppssib^ity' of her returning was not denied. REASON NOT REVEALED A jew months later, however, her quint-sistei Emihe died during an epileptic seizure i' a re ligious home in Ste. Agqthe. Que... and thc Ufe of the Otomte famttu teas throicn into turmoil. Authorities'at the cloistered convent said Marie will be allowed to take up where she left off, which means she will not-"have .to start anew, as a postulant. Thoy .declined to comment on the reason-for her return. Marie- originally .- entered the order Nov. 3, 1953 and served the customary six-month term as postulant before balng elevated to the rank of novice. She must remain a novice tor two years before being received -permanently into the order.' BILLY GRAHAM Christians Whe Wave Sunday Flag Should Smarten Up TORONTO (CP)—Christians who wave Ihe flag for Christianity onl Sunday? and pull it down during the week were criticized VVcdncv* day by Evangelist Billy Graham.; Speaking to a crowd of 12.000,: *e asked Christians to stand up! for their religion and to display; more "moral courage." The flag-wavers are virtually breaking the third commandment and "taking his name in vain," the United States preacher said, "Lawsuits pre pending against magazines in the United States. accused of harming reputations. j We havc laws of libs! and slander. Lesage Agrees GOVT.-BUILT RAILWAYS HELP DEVELOP NORTH By HAROLD KING ' PARIS (Reuters)-Premier Edgar Faure Wednesday ordered Gen. Pierre Boyer de LaTour, Frances resident-general iri Moroccot to arrange for the replacement of Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa by a regency council b\ midnight today, or resign. throne; and'his replacement by ii council of three, is the first step in Ihe long-delayed French reform for the troubled protectorale. An official close to Faure said: "It lhe resident-general finds him« self unable to carry out the ex- plicit instructions of the government, he must resign, and someone else will be appointed to carry out thc government's decisions." The 16-day delay in giving effect to the autonomy plan, adopted .and announced by the government Sepl. 12, has undermined its prestige both among Moroccan Na* tionalists and in tha French Parliament Collapse? The ' national assembly reconvenes after its summer recesj next Tuesday. The Faure government, constituted last Fsb. 23, will lind itself in serious difficulties and may even by overthrown. A week ago the resident-general was instructed to carry out lhe government's plan, bul he mel organized resistance from the extremist French settlers' organiza*, tion, Presence Francaise and from thc Moroccan traditionalist Pashas who do not want homc rule in Morovt'O. Untimatum Th;' Krcnrli government's "ulli malum" lo Dc LaTour was apparently intended to strengthen hi: hand in dealing with recalcitrant sections of conservative opinion it) Morocco. Despite Uie govcnimcnrs tales* instructions, faw people in the French capital expect the sultan tc have left his throne by tonight. j rigidly enforced, to protect ourl Nation | names. God also is jealous of His; >» ; name and reputation and yet it is; aKc* i besmirched daily by profanity and] Ha also stressed thc need Ior a ! irreverence." I railway from northern Alberta lo QUEBEC (C.P.)-North- ern Affairs Minister Lesage said Wednesday night that development of Canada's: to Pine Point in the new lead-zinc northhtlld "is thc xcrv real- area of Great Slave lake woyld of Canada's ' heril-: «* about S5L'mm Much, per* haps all. ot the capital costs would havc to be carried by the federal government. He said some people argue that "Sins wa used to call scarlet! open up a lead and zinc ore field governments should nol build rail- have faded to pink but in God's! on the south shore of Great Slave j ways to npcu now mineral deposits eyes they are still scarlet," No one in Canada would think of referring to Queen Elizabeth in a foul oath, said Graham, appealing for even greater reverence for "lhe King of Kings." At lhe end'of Ihe service 212 "decisions for Christ" were rae- orded. Ten Homeless Fire compleiMy (Ir*$lrayeri lhe home of Mr.'.lohn Walsh at the? Goulds- on Tuesday evenmj; and though firemen went to the scene nothing could be done to saic the homc, and len peonle were left homeless. Ko insurance wu carried. Canadian Red Cross were quickly on the scene and supplied necessary clothing for the immediate needs of the family. lake "which may turn out to be; until llwre is a demand for tlie miliar als which would make the railway profitable. DEMAND CHOWS The one of the largest deposits oi these metals in the world." Mr, Lesage, responsible for federal development of the Yukon and Northw?sl Territories, adrtressod ,„. „ D . . ,. i^...,,,..- dtlegatrs iron, provincial govern- The Pine 'Po,nt l.n*. However, th.ir animal trad, snd! *•».'••■ .d"n!",,pl1 ,J° °,K" ,,p/5! entire :.*i0,ftifl-square mile- t»t [li* Mackenzie bi?in and slinmlaft- fiirlhcr cxplorsiiiin. And uptfard-. oi lil yeaf; was needed to brliiE "The dereinpmen*. of rtr-riJiern j a mine into production attcr dls- Camida is wore 'tow jimt n mat i wvery '''' lhe deposit. There was little doubt Ilia. men Is al uiftr ;i* iiKiiMry council. cost problem ter af locttl ur reyianat ii'ipwNnirt • wore than juxi a question of o few new mines and an m reuse in our output of <jn!d or hnsc victats or oil. It is ihe rati real ixtion of Canada's herituuc" . Transportation cost was the main problem in developing the vast storehouse of mineral wealth in the north. ^really incn-ji.^d mineral prodHc- iion in Canada would ta needed in thc next ID. years or less-to meet growing world demand. "We would therefore ba courting the dangEr oi shortages and higher pricss il we failed to take step*, at this time to stimulate acUvs exploration ef our remote are as.'* The statement; were contained A railway from Grimshaw, Alta. j in a text of his speech issued to in Alberta's Peace River district, I the press before delivery. Poor Turnout, But CD. Planners Say "Ufesaver" Was Big Success Winter Draws On iUUFAX-!(CP)-irB later than you think: • . '. The BCN slartad winterizing Wednesday Iiy ordering 10,000 personnel, at ;lhis cast coast slatinn lo begin'-.wearing' blue cap.*1 Saturday instead of the white summer ones. CALGARY (C.P.)-Opcr- ationfLifesaver began and ende.d Wednesday and despite a light turnout civil defence planners described it a "big success." Unotlical estimates . were that '2,500 cars, carrying less than 10,- 000 persons, sped out of the city when. thc 'evacuation . test -.. was launched by the wr.ilingJ. air "raid sirens ait 10:50' a.- m. Civil defence officials had expected four times, as: many' cars and'people lo take paTt in the exercise. NO ACCIDENTS Planners hlamed (he light turnout on*, poor weather, loss of. enthusiasm when the operation waa postponed • week ago, lack of co-operation by some employers! much of the realism of a real at;[ and criticism of the operation by | tack. Smokehomhs were set off in- some officials. i lhe area as a make-believe enemy Wednesday was a dull day and In! f°rcc <* .planes roared overheard." some of llie reception points a| Reception centres in the 17. heavy snowfall was reported. Thej towns and villages, some as much, temperature ranged between 30: as 90 mites away, functioned; and 40 ds^rce^. ; smoothly. Their only trouble was- * " : that Ihey had anticipated a far, bigger lurnoul and had a great- But despite slippery and soggy roads the operation ran smoothly. No mishaps were reported during the evacuation. The ninc-squarc-mile northeast section of Calgary was deserted 2ft hours after the sirens sounded. Only a few official and" police cars moved along the streets. RCMP and city police, on foul and on motorcycles patrolled tha area lu prevent loolins*. * REALISTIC SCENE Lifesaver was carried out with ; .& *ii i 1. t surplus of supplies. Evacuees were;.. • served wiih'hot drinks and lunch*.", as they filed into the centres. :; * 1 Mayor D. H. Mackay.of Calgary; said, "His operation succeeded re*.l ma'rkabjy well in spile of almost.; inconceivable handicaps.'* -; , He said the psychological reao*;;'. lion to the postponement wai .a";; •;. leldown "twin which w<? coUla noif;} ; bounce back completely;*'>Weath-B*r:'; . rondllinn**, instead ot imf*woving,"£ , remained bad. *. •-* ' Vl it. • . ; 1 I >:t&< V'-tV.'^.1
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Title | Daily News, 1955-09-29 |
Place of Publication | St. John's (N.L.) |
Date | 1955-09-29 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
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■> —--u. ,.-;,„.. ,^-, i^m i .--,,"■.'+*^■ Ji'^JJiCt I"
■:fl;7K^L*r-#***m^^ff^^^
71
' A
11-55 a.m.—G.E.'Barbour
News.
5.00 p.m.-Junior Jamboree
7.15 p.m.-Dr. Paul,
11.00 p.m.—Pepsi Sportscast.
6-- *■
Vol. 62. No. 208
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1955
(Price 5 Cents)
PRESENTS
THE MERRY. WIDOW
available at
Charles Hutton & Sons
. ' ■*! I
*.?i ■■
■ M
n
***".ir%'<
' *.' j *■•' *
Tax
Federal Govt.
Provincial
St. Laurent Says
Provinces May Get
Direct Taxing Back
By HAROLD MORRISON
OTTAWA (CP.)—Prime Minister St. Laurent said
Wednesday federal tax objectives can be achieved without
lax rental agreements with the provinces,
. This slalemenl made to report
To
ers following a day-long cabinet
session appeared to be in line with
reports that ihe government is considering scrapping the tax pacts
and allowing the provinces to g2t
back into the direct taxing field.
The cabinet is believed to have
gone over the plan mapped out
by Its advisers and accepted many
of its general ideas. Discussion of
details will continue today; Mr. St.
Laurent said Ihc cabinet will go
back.into session* in the morning
allcr two sessions Wednesday.
TACTS MAY GO
"What wa arc contemplating
dues not necessarily need tax rcn*
ial agreements," he said in reply
i*** questions dealing with the -pos*
sible federal approach to thc meet-
hs with premiers opening Monday.
Under agreements wilh all provinces except Quebec, the central
administration rents the direct tax
field—personal and corporation incomes—in return for annual payments. It rents the succession duties field from ail provinces except
Ontario and Quebec.
The federal ■ provincial conference next week is designed to find
an alternative or extension to the
current five -year agreements
which expire in March, 1957. The
PKls have been criticized by some
provinces on the grounds that the
federal rants paid are. too low or
that (lie agreements centralize loo
much power in Ottawa.
"We prefer lo achieve our objector* in a manner that will please
everybody," Mr. Si, Laurent said,
Even
OutWealth
- i-HMdly ,prykmg thc federal oh*
j'*cti\cs arc lu distribute Canada's
wraith mnre evenly among tha
rich and poor provinces and at Hie
•■mc lime safeguard federal rev-
'fiuies. to finance federal obllga<
inns under lhe constitution.
"We can achieve the objectives
without the agreements and without limiting th? provinces' taxing
powers" the prime minister added.
But it may be, he said, that tht
provinces may prefer some kind
of agreements.
Officials havc said that undar
the new plan being considered, the
central administration would allow
the provinces to gel a share of
direct taxes.
Offer Guarantee
ll would offer the provinces an
exchange: A guarantee of - minimum revenues and federal tax-
collecting machinery in return for
provincial agreement to keep their
tax rates uniform and limit yields
to, say, 10 per cent of federal income tax revenue, seven or eight
per cent of federal corporation income collections and 50 per cent
of federal succession duties.
The federal government then
would reduce its levies by a similar amount lo prevent an increase
In payments by Canadian taxpayers.
For all provinces except Ontario the yields from such' direct
tax levies would be lower than
those received from tax rentals.
The federal administration would
make up the difference through
"equalization" payments from the
central treasury.
Mr. St, Laurent indicated Ihe
federal government will make no
cut-and-driert approach to the sessions with the premiers next week.
From other sources it was
learned lhc prime minister will
wait lo hear what each province
may propose before tha federal
suggestions arc outlined.
The premiers, after a week of
sccrcl negotiations with Mr. St.
Laurent and his advisers, then
might recess for a month or so and
return with their final answers.
nml h j Fleas, Owner
m lb. t
Caught
MINCE ALBERT, Sask
(C.P.)-An SO-pcnind eight**
ounce take trout has been
Dulled from Lake Athabasca by a commercial fisherman but will not go down
in thc anglers* record book
as lhc world's biggest troul
calch.
Tlu* fUh was taken with gilluets
-jm! Hull's not y fair catch
anum-* spurting fishermen. But it's
still iVIieml lhc largest lake, trout
ever taken.
Tom Goodman, a worker with
Mclnncs Products Corp. Ltd. of
Edmonton, hauled In the 52-lnch
tnmt while lishhig at the Hclnnes
csntp on the north shore of Lake
Athabasca, in the northwest
o.'nwr of Saskatchewan, several
■tys a50. it was 16 inches wid*
and 3h inches thick.
the firm turned the fish over
t-* the Saskatchewan government
and it was flown to the Regina
provincial museum where it will
bs stuffed and put on display.
Held and Stream magazine rec
ognued authority on sport fishing
records, toys the unofficial -eeord
for a lake trout caught ty any
method is an Sft-powidcr fn*en ol
Mnefcinotc, Midi., in 1878. U doesi
m< wy Ji'itc the fis'i h'bjc vaitght.
i Feels Fleeced
UNCLE GARGE
GETS THF POINT
Vni'le Garge wi** Unwn at the
Hnuse of Assembly yesterday for
lhc dosing ceremonies. Ue.great-
>>' admires the Pol tee Guard of
Honour. They were drawn up
"Ith their white helmets, 'riflu
"M bayonets. Uncle Garge wis
Warding them proudly.
Who should cone along bnf
Aunl Hemmer,
She looked at the bay on pts ap*
PTfkrnUvrly, and asked . .Uncle
r'»rxf. "Whal's them sharp tMnfi
•»< thf end af the ium?"
*W. wid Uncle Garge, "Itatt
•■< CjQidlat Javelin*",
LONDON (APMl's enough to*
make a man hopping mad—
someone with Itchy fingers has
stolen the flea circus Maurice
Cheepen has taken days to bring
up to scratch.
Cheepen, manager of the Troxy
movie house at suburban Stepney put his miniature performers out mi display in llie lobby
lo advertise a. coming circus
film. Overnight Ihey disappeared.
"You've no Idea how hard It
is (o find a nice Juicy, flea in
London these ■days/'.he said,
"I've even offered a bub each,
but had no lakers,"
Drop
Pacts?
Buchans
Student
Gets $2000
Scholarship
At Mount A.
HALIFAX (C.P.)-More
than 40 scholarships totalling $16,000 for students entering Dalhousie University
this fall were announced
Wednesday* bv Dr. A. E.
Kerr, President,
A $2,000 scholarship was
awarded T, L. Nclson Luscombe
of Buchans, Nfld. Under a similar
scholarship awarded last year,
Sheila Ellman of Frcdericlon is
continuing her studies.
Other winners included:
A. M. Mackay, Mcadowville,
N, S., Pictou Academy scholarship
T. A. Dowd, Val d'Or, Que.; Stan-
Icy Epstein and Staph en Sherman,
Sydney; Innis Christie, Amherst;
Caroline Davies, Oxford, N, S, and
John Curtis, Truro, entrance scholarships valued at $650 to $850.
Sandra MacFarlane, Mulgrave,
N. S.; Anna Cooke, Saint John,
N. B.; Hugh Gorham, Campbellton, N. B.; Morton L. Brown,
Fredericton; and R. M. Soberman,
Toronto, special entrance scholarships of $100 each.
Ike May Be
Back At
Reins Soon
* "Janet" *
Uncounted
As Killer
Dead
Storm
Hits At Mexico
MIAMI (A.P.)—Uncounted dead and injured were
reported Wednesday from the flattened tiny seaport of
Kcalak as killer Hurricane Janet slashed across Mexico's
Yucatan peninsula and moved back over open water still
carrying winds of 100 miles an hour.
A telegraph operator reported
that only one house was left standing in Xcalak, a town of 1,000 in
the southern part of Quintan a Boo
province. It is on the southern tip
of Yucatan.
FLAM IS LOST
Janet has killed hundreds In its
week-long rampage over land and
water in the Caribbean area—an
estimated 200 in Mexico alone. It
swallowed up the only hurricane
hunter plane that has ever failed
to return from a storm*scouting
mission, t
Scores of planes and ships have
searched thousands of square
miles in thc Caribbean' for lhe
missing P-2V Neptune with "no
results." The plane carried nine
airmen and two Canadian newspaper men, reporter Alfred O. Tale
and photographer Douglas Cronk,
both of the Toronto Star, who were
doing a feature story on hurricane
hunter planes.
GETS BIGGER
The slorm, which lost some of
its punch In moving over Yucatan,
is expected to grow bigger again I
and move toward the Mexican'
coast between Vera Cruz and Tux-
pan.
Tuxpan is about 75 miles south
of Tampico where Hurricane Hilda
caused Hoods in which more than
300 persons were drowned nine
days ago. At that time Tampico
was struggling from under the
debris of floods touched off by
Hurricane Gladys.two weeks ear
Her.
Janet struck tiny Swan Island in
the western Caribbean. Tuesday
and destroyed many of the buildings. But the 35 U. S. employees
of the wealher bureau and civil
aeronautics authority were re
ported safe. They apparently
weathered the blow in a concrete
shelter, a circling air force plane
reported.
Meanwhile, in Trinidad the Barbados government Wednesday introduced rationing in the southern
Christ Church area, hardest-hit by
Hurricane Janet which killed 178
persons in a devastating sweep
over Barbados, Grenada, and Car
riacou last week.
Sultan Fired
As French Try Reform
In Troubled Morocco
f
P.Cs. To Meel
WINNIPEG (CP)- Progressive
Conservative party leaders will
meet here Oct 15 to mark one of
four "second century dinners" being held by the party across Canada.
The dinners, celebrating the Conservative party's second century
of participation in Canadian politics, are being held in connection
with the cross-country tour of national leader George Drew.
Attending the Winnipeg dinner
will be 10 Progressive Conservative members of Partiament and
one Senator as well as Robert Stanfield, party leader in Nova Scotia,
Plunge Cily
In Darkness
A two-car colhsoin un the Gould?.
Road was the cause of the bricl
blackout in the.city early yesterday evening, v.
The.two can. a 1955 Chevrolet;
and a-1952 Chevrolet., were In
head-on collision at- abou* 6.45
p.m. As;far.as Is Known, no in
juries were sustained by the occu
pants of the two cuts, though the
total damage was estimated al
$1,500.. .• ■
Apparently a.pole was knocker)
down aa the city was plunged into,
complete *' darkness for - a ' lew
alnutei
DENVER, Coin, (AP)-Moimting
hopes lhat President Eisenhower
may return to the helm of the gov
ernment within a month were
strengthened Wednesday, The 0x3
gen tent was removed from Mb
hospital room,
There was no thought of him assuming the burdens of a full White
House schedule that soon. But bar-
associales seem agreed he will be
ring complications administrative
able to make any necessary decisions from the calm of his farm*
house at Gettysburg, Pa.
The president will be 65 on
October 14.
An 11.20 a.m. MST medical bul*
letln said:
1. The president slept this morning out of an oxygen tent for the
first time'since he suffered a heart
attack early Saturday,
2. His condition "continues to be
satisfactory without compllea*
dons,"
Whle House Press Secretary
'.lames O. Hagerty also said a tape
recording machine was brought
into lhe president's room at his request and lhat he limned briefly
lo soft chamber music.
PresldenUal advisers abandoned
Ior the time being any further
consideration of how Eisenhower
could delegate authority to others
as another day passed without complications.
' The optimistic vlsw that the president soon will be able to start
resuming ' his duties apparently
shared by officials in Washington
as well as here, was tempered by
the knowledge that setback could
chang*; the picture.
Appoint Board
Of Examiners
For Nurses
The following , have beer, ap
pointed..by the.Lieutenant Gov'
ernor as members.of the'Board ol
Examiners for Registered Nurse.*
for the current year:
' Leonard A. Miller. M.D., Ecpuly
-Minister .of Health. G. Alain
Frecker; B.A.,''B.E., LL.D., Deputy
Minister of .Education; Mai or Hah.
hah Janes, R.N.,, Superintendent,
Grace Hospital; Phyllis Wyne Bar
rett, R"N.( Director ol Nursingj.St!
John's General '.Hospital;' Ell?abeth'
R.-'Summers, B.N,| R.N.,'A^iiclate
Director, Nursing. Sei vjces, Impart*
menl of Health Sisler Mary Xaver-
his,",. R.N.; Superintendent' 'of
Nurses/. St; Clare's. '< Mercy Hos\
WULi :.'.-"■ ■ ',-
Would-Be Mother
j
Surrenders Child
Stolen From Home
Just Had To Have ABaby
SAN FRANCISCO (A.P.)—A childless-housewife who
"just had to have a baby" remorsefully surrendered Robert
Marcus to a piuest in*Slockton, Calif., early Wednesday
nine days after the newborn boy was kidnapped in San
Francisco.
Happy Valley.. •.
Labrador's City
Newfoundland's most progressive town is in
Labrador. .It's Happy Valley, once a wilderness
shack-town, now*, an up-and-comirig :mimicipality,
. Ron Roberts, Chairman of the Community * Council at
Happy Valley, told the Dally News yesterday-that the settlement had 1,034 residents last time Ihey were counted, and it's
growing daily. Mr, Roberts is visiting relatives here.
Happy Valley is located on land taken over by thc Can*
adian Government during World War II as part of the s-ile
of Goose Airport.
Now, the area has been passed back to the Ncwfourdland
Government, a town has been incorporated there, and things
are really booming,
Mr. Roberts said the demand for building space is
constant, and new homes are being built dail>. They belong
mostly to workers at Goose, many of whom are native Labrador
people.
About 25 Eskimo families have moved in recently, he said.
The Eskimo men came to Goose seeking work, and of course
they moved their families and belongings with them. Now
they are happily settled as new residents of Labrador's biggest
town.
Recovery of the healthy baby,
now li days old, ended a countrywide hunt.
Dr. Sanford Marcus, 34, and his
wife, Hanna, 29, sped in a police
car the 82 miles to Stockton from
San Francisco in 75 minutes for a
jovtul reunion with their son.
Frightened by the earlier ques-j
tioning of a sharp-eyed deputy i
sherifE, Mrs. Betty Jean Bencdiclo,
27, plump and blonde, decided lo|
give up thc baby she had so care*;
fully tended while police and the]
FBI hunted him from California to;
New York. j
Police were closin*- in on Mrs.
Benedicfo when she -.e'ephoned the
anxious Vr, Marcus, told him the
infant teas safe and lhat she was
leapt***- it at St. Mary's Reman
Catholic Church in .Sfort.-l-.m'.
Repentant
Mrs. Benedictn, tearfully repentant, was taken away to be booked
tor return to Sun Francisco.
District altomey Bradford Crittenden of Stockton said lhc plump
woman sobbed constantly as shc
told of playing an elaborate game
of deception upon her husband.
"I just had to have a baby. 1
had lo have a baby!" he quoted
her as saying.
She was married last October to
Marcos Benedicto, 52. She said
that because of a Caesarean operation she had besn told she
never could.have a baby. When
she began to take on weight "my
friends teased me and said they
thought I was prepant," '
HubbyFooled
Mrs, Benedicto (old her Unhand
she was pregnant, 'cent to Riucr
side in Southern CaKlornto to het
mother, dieted then tetanici and
told her husband the baby. had
been born but was ill and in a
hospital.
Then, she ?,aitl, she went lo San
Francisco's Mt. Zion hospital and
took Robert Marcus because liis
name was similar lo her husband's.
Tuesday night she look lhe baby
to a boxing match, where deputy
sheriff Osvaldo J; -Vannuccl spot*
ted her seated ■ with another
woman, She fitted broadcast, descriptions. '-, -' ■ '/■
, 'Mrs; Benedicto showed Vannucci
a-btrth certificate from' a 'hospital
iff Lynwood, near Los Angeles.
Suspicious, he cheeked the hospital
found n" baby by the name of
Benedicto had-been born there'.
Then the hunt was on.
Marie
Dionne
TAKES UP LIFE
OF NUN AGAIN
QUEBEC (C.P.)-Maric
Dionne, one of the four remaining Dionne quintuplets, has slipped quietly
hack into the lile of a novice
nun.
The mother superior at the convent of la Congregation de Servants du Tres Saint Sacivment
said Wsdnesday the 21-year-old sir)
: returned here Sept. 12 to take up"
lhe life she dropped iu May, 19M.
Her return apparently was a
closely * guarded family secret.
There was no Indication prior lo
Wednesday lhal the move had
been made. t
Marie left tlie'convent in May
1854 and raturned to her home in
Calla.ndar, Ont. Poor health w^s
given as the reason for her departure and the . Ppssib^ity' of her
returning was not denied.
REASON NOT REVEALED
A jew months later, however,
her quint-sistei Emihe died during an epileptic seizure i' a re
ligious home in Ste. Agqthe. Que...
and thc Ufe of the Otomte famttu
teas throicn into turmoil.
Authorities'at the cloistered convent said Marie will be allowed to
take up where she left off, which
means she will not-"have .to start
anew, as a postulant.
Thoy .declined to comment on
the reason-for her return.
Marie- originally .- entered the
order Nov. 3, 1953 and served the
customary six-month term as postulant before balng elevated to the
rank of novice. She must remain
a novice tor two years before
being received -permanently into
the order.'
BILLY GRAHAM
Christians Whe
Wave Sunday Flag
Should Smarten Up
TORONTO (CP)—Christians who
wave Ihe flag for Christianity onl
Sunday? and pull it down during
the week were criticized VVcdncv*
day by Evangelist Billy Graham.;
Speaking to a crowd of 12.000,:
*e asked Christians to stand up!
for their religion and to display;
more "moral courage."
The flag-wavers are virtually
breaking the third commandment
and "taking his name in vain,"
the United States preacher said,
"Lawsuits pre pending against
magazines in the United States.
accused of harming reputations.
j We havc laws of libs! and slander.
Lesage
Agrees
GOVT.-BUILT
RAILWAYS HELP
DEVELOP NORTH
By HAROLD KING '
PARIS (Reuters)-Premier
Edgar Faure Wednesday
ordered Gen. Pierre Boyer
de LaTour, Frances resident-general iri Moroccot to
arrange for the replacement
of Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa
by a regency council b\
midnight today, or resign.
throne; and'his replacement by ii
council of three, is the first step
in Ihe long-delayed French reform
for the troubled protectorale.
An official close to Faure said:
"It lhe resident-general finds him«
self unable to carry out the ex-
plicit instructions of the government, he must resign, and someone else will be appointed to carry
out thc government's decisions."
The 16-day delay in giving effect
to the autonomy plan, adopted .and
announced by the government
Sepl. 12, has undermined its prestige both among Moroccan Na*
tionalists and in tha French Parliament
Collapse?
The ' national assembly reconvenes after its summer recesj
next Tuesday. The Faure government, constituted last Fsb. 23, will
lind itself in serious difficulties
and may even by overthrown.
A week ago the resident-general was instructed to carry out
lhe government's plan, bul he mel
organized resistance from the extremist French settlers' organiza*,
tion, Presence Francaise and from
thc Moroccan traditionalist Pashas
who do not want homc rule in
Morovt'O.
Untimatum
Th;' Krcnrli government's "ulli
malum" lo Dc LaTour was apparently intended to strengthen hi:
hand in dealing with recalcitrant
sections of conservative opinion it)
Morocco.
Despite Uie govcnimcnrs tales*
instructions, faw people in the
French capital expect the sultan tc
have left his throne by tonight.
j rigidly enforced, to protect ourl Nation
| names. God also is jealous of His; >»
; name and reputation and yet it is; aKc*
i besmirched daily by profanity and] Ha also stressed thc need Ior a
! irreverence." I railway from northern Alberta lo
QUEBEC (C.P.)-North-
ern Affairs Minister Lesage
said Wednesday night that
development of Canada's: to Pine Point in the new lead-zinc
northhtlld "is thc xcrv real- area of Great Slave lake woyld
of Canada's ' heril-: «* about S5L'mm
Much, per*
haps all. ot the capital costs would
havc to be carried by the federal
government.
He said some people argue that
"Sins wa used to call scarlet! open up a lead and zinc ore field governments should nol build rail-
have faded to pink but in God's! on the south shore of Great Slave j ways to npcu now mineral deposits
eyes they are still scarlet,"
No one in Canada would think of
referring to Queen Elizabeth in a
foul oath, said Graham, appealing
for even greater reverence for
"lhe King of Kings."
At lhe end'of Ihe service 212
"decisions for Christ" were rae-
orded.
Ten Homeless
Fire compleiMy (Ir*$lrayeri lhe
home of Mr.'.lohn Walsh at the?
Goulds- on Tuesday evenmj; and
though firemen went to the scene
nothing could be done to saic the
homc, and len peonle were left
homeless. Ko insurance wu carried.
Canadian Red Cross were
quickly on the scene and supplied
necessary clothing for the immediate needs of the family.
lake "which may turn out to be; until llwre is a demand for tlie
miliar als which would make the
railway profitable.
DEMAND CHOWS
The
one of the largest deposits oi these
metals in the world."
Mr, Lesage, responsible for federal development of the Yukon and
Northw?sl Territories, adrtressod ,„. „ D . . ,. i^...,,,..-
dtlegatrs iron, provincial govern- The Pine 'Po,nt l.n*. However,
th.ir animal trad, snd! *•».'••■ .d"n!",,pl1 ,J° °,K" ,,p/5!
entire :.*i0,ftifl-square mile- t»t [li*
Mackenzie bi?in and slinmlaft-
fiirlhcr cxplorsiiiin. And uptfard-.
oi lil yeaf; was needed to brliiE
"The dereinpmen*. of rtr-riJiern j a mine into production attcr dls-
Camida is wore 'tow jimt n mat i wvery '''' lhe deposit.
There was little doubt Ilia.
men Is al uiftr ;i*
iiKiiMry council.
cost problem
ter af locttl ur reyianat ii'ipwNnirt •
wore than juxi a question of o
few new mines and an m reuse
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