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Hope
Debate
Negotiations Proceed
Britons  Hope   For   Trouble's   End
Within 48 Hours
. By HOWARD WHITTEN
LONDON (Reuters)—Members of Parliament agreed
Monday to postpone debate on'the rail strike in order to
avoid upsetting delicate negotiations. ■
The agreement was in response
tn a plea by Labor Minister Sir toy had not been endorsed.
Walter Moncl;ton to forestall plan- , Monckton, after making his plea,
ncl seeches on the strike of 70,. *& (h,flLHouse to ■rejoin the talks,
fOO engineers and firemen which at which the strikers   eaders and
h-"an "lG davs ago : the chiefs of the commission which
T|..wcvct,  Labor   parly   leader runs the nationalized railways were;
e'ement Attlc-j emohaslzcd his fol- seeking a formula to get the trains
ri».rrs would call for a full-dress
ucb.ite on the strike after it is
settled.
Alt-hough Monckton' warned of
"substantial difficulties" still fac-
in*-*; the rail talks, prospects of a
settlement within 48 hours seemed
fairly bright Monday night.
SOUGHT PRESENT VIEWS
At issue are demanded by the
engineer and firemen to have their
traditional wage differentials over
l-.-s-'killed workers in the industry
rc-lorcd.
A- the members of Parliament
-tr-cmhlod for Monday's session,
several hundred strikers were on
hand to sec their MPs to get thair
views put directly before the
House.
AI most without discussion, thc
House approved the emergency
reflations decreed because of the
strike before Parliament had met.
Constitutionally, the regulations
would have lapsed Monday night if
running again.
FEAR OTHER DEMANDS
The biggest problem is how to
offer the engineers and firemen
enough pay for them to call off the
strike without bringing extra pay
demands by'the non-striking union
which represents less-skilled rail
workers.
The engineers and firemen's union, which providas   more   than
three-quarters  of  Britain's  train!
crews, rejected a weekend pay offer which would  have benefitted'
drivers but did not promise a raise!
for firemen. I
Meanwhile, a six-port dock strike
dragged through its 22nd day, lcav-'
ing 182 ships  and  nearly 20,000
dockers idle.
■ The acting general secretary of
the stevedores union, which called
the strike to-press its demand to
be recognized. as a negotiating
body at ports' outside London,
hinted Monday that he would ask
the minister of labor to intervene.
TORONTO, June 9—NEW MOD-
ERATOR—Dr, Walter T. McCrcc,
75, former minister of Glebe Presbyterian church, Toronto, who has
been elected, moderator of thc
Presbyterian Church In Canada.
He succeeded Dr. J. L. L. McLean
of Victoria.
On Washington Visit*
Adenauer Pledges
Support  To  West
Despite   Wooing   of   Soviet
WASHINGTON (A.P.)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
arrived Monday for talks with President Eisenhower and
declared he would turn down any Soviet move to neutralize
West Germany in the cold war.
''My countrymen -.re cc—Inced,"
h* said, "that a close and loyal
partnership with the peoples of lhe
frer- world on the hasis ot t*'.e
tri .tie- which have recently <■ "*e
lata fur:a is ths best means of
maintaining peace and freedom."
Adenauer, looking tanned >n 1
viiinrmis despite his 73 years, said
i!ii' peopU' consider their newly rat-
hied Atlantic pact alliance wilh
the West "the best means Jf obtaining the peaceful reunification
of Germany in freedom."
Adenauer's arrival aboard ,- Gorman commercial airliner coincided
**"ilh Russia's formal acceptance rf
plans for a meeting of the Big Four
heads of government in Geneva
Jul* 18.
PRIME TOPICS
The Big Four conference, as well
as a Russian invitation for Adenauer to' visit Moscow, are scheduled to bs the prime topics of conversation when hc meets this
morning with President Eisen-
.hower and State Secretary Dulles.
Later in New York Adenauer will
confer'with the Western Big Three
foreign ministers. In London nn his
■vay home he will talk with Prime
Minister Kden.
Speaking' in German, Adenauer
told a throng of officials who welcomed him at the airport he is certain that these convarsations "will
prove fruitful."
Top American officials reported
afterward they are fully confident
Adenauer will stand by the West
firmly, during any visit' he might
make to Moscow to talk with Russia's leaders.
General Strike Follows
Rioting   In   Argentine
BUENOS AIRES (A.P.)—Argentina's General Confederation of Labor called a general strike after'new rioting flared Monday night between pro-Peron demonstrators
and supporters of the Roman Catholic Church.
The strike was called so work
ers could stage a mass meeting in
Hipport of ihe government in its
•'Rht with thc church.
M-undny night's clash broke out
■'"hen demonstrators shouting ''Pe-
r<-n yes. priests no,"' marched on
Metropolitan cathedral and the pal-
■m of Argentina's Roman Catholic
Primate in downtown Buenos-Aires.
Jhey tried to place an Argentine
'lag atop the cardinal's palace .but
■vcre driven back.
, •***« onc was reported injured ser-
"'usly in Monday's fighting in front
•nc t'hurch buildings in the Plaza
ta Mayo where weekend rioting
WEATHER
Kain this morning,   becoming
s«nny this afternoon, .High 60. '
WmVFOI/.VDLAtfD SKIES
TUESDAY, June 14th.
Sunrise ., .. ., .. 4:02 a.m.
SlJnsct  8:00 p.m. ■
TIDES
t& 12:56 *i.m.  1:34p.m."
Uw 7:38 a.m.  8:28 pm.'
between  government and church
partisans left 23 .persons injured.
ARREST 430 PERSONS '
Police raided tlie'cardinal's palace early Monday'and arrested 430
persons, A police 'source said at
least 37 other parsons-were- also
• seized Sunday night* and Monday.
The   government -has   charged
that Catholic demonstrators burned
an Argentine flag Saturday nigtit
•and destroyed a-plaque, honoring
Mrs. Peron. '/■■' J  '?
, The "women's Peronista party
also staged-a parade of "vindication" . through downtown. Buenos
Aires late Monday;'; They., marched
past the-.cafhedralVthrough reinforced lines ol federal police.    '
. A church spokesman formally denied that church' members were
guilty of violating, the flag or of
the other incidents of violence
charged;' by. the government,
MEETS CABINET
Police accused those.arrested of
plotting to. burn of damage, the
historic  cathedral  adjoining < the
cardinal'* residence ind:then turn
%eMam«.M.PeroriistM,  ■'■'.'    -■*
Soldier Injured
By Javelin,
Out of Danger
KENTV1LLE, N.S. (CP)-Doc-
tors said Monday a Newfoundland
army private whose chest was
pierced by a six-foot javelin hurled
by Y fellow soldier now is considered out of danger,   -
Pte. James Strickland, 24,..of
Wreck Cove, Nfld., survived
.-•gainst; "10,000-to-l" odds after
surgery performed by Dr. V. D.
Schaffner and Dr. J. J. Quinlan.
The doctors had to pry about two
faet of the steel-tipped spear from
Strickland's breastbone.
The soldier was walking across
the sports field at nearby Alder*
shot army training centre Saturday when hc heard a companion
yell and turned. The javelin,
launched by another soldier, whist-
lad into his chest.
Debate
Howe's
Powers
OTTAWA (CP.) - A
marathon Common debate
continued unabated Monday
on whether to give an indefinite lease of life to 'the
broad powers of Defence
Production Minister Howe.
J. M. Macdonnell (PC—Toronto
Greenwood) termed them "naked,
unashamed, arbitrary powers"'and
said the government has affronted
a free Parliamet in Its bill to eliminate the expiry date of July 31,
1956, on the present Defence .Production Act,
George Hees (PC — Toronto
Broadview) said tha statue should
be called "the thermostat act"—it
empowered the government to put
the heat on any firm whose support for the government cooled.
They spoke in th** fourth day of
debate, renewing opposition demands that a new time limit be
written into the act.
WRITE IN PROVISIONS
Mr. Howe announced at the
opening of thc day's silting that
the government is prepared to
write in provisions he said would
give an effective means "of ensuring prompt parliamentary control
of the exercise of the powers under
Ihis act."
The new provisions, hp. said.j
would require that orders made!
under the act by ihc cabinet nr
himself shall bc tabled in lhc Commons nnd Senate as soon as possible. They would permit a debate
on any order if 10 members-signed
'a motion asking for its repeal or
amendment.
Tho proposal would be introduced at a later stage, once the
motion now -under debate to give
the bill second reading—approval
in principle—is adopted.   r    - ■'
Mr. Ho-tfj-s's offer received a cool
reception. i
CARRY ON DEBATE |
Mr. Macdonnell said it is a
phoney olive branch offered "in
the hope We might be suckers and
take it and the debate would be
stopped."' |
George Nowlan (PC — Digby-
Annapolis-Kings) said that unless
the government admits tlie principle of putting a new time limit on
the powers "it will mean Uiat this
debate will have to be carried on
much longer than otherwise would
be the casa."   '
Thomas M. Bell (PC-St. John's-
Albert) said a filibuster is an effective way lo bring public attention lo high-handed measures. Ho
added that opposition objections to
the bill may delay the end of the
session until as late as July is.
GUuNG.UNDERGROUND—Looking over the entrance to
the H-bomb shelter in. which they'll live for three days
are Mr. and Mrs. John R. Christmas of Houston, Tex., and
their children, Stanley, 14, and Mary Lou, 11. They will
make notes on their experience, part of a civil defense
test.. The family was chosen from more than 200 volunteers and receive $100 a day.
Guaranteed Wage Sought Throughout
Auto Industry
DETROIT (A.P.)—The United Auto Workers CIO -
Monday obtained.from General Motors the same guaranteed wage plan it got a week ago from Ford.   Today-
the union turns to first 1955 bargaining with a member of
the auto industry's "little three"—American Motors Corp.
Walter P. Reuther, president of —"       - ■'
both the CIO and UAW, said a sim-j -^ each worker-member,
ilar guaranteed wage plan would The International Untor,-of Elec-
bc the union's No. 1 demand on trical Workers (CIO), which an
Chrysler, last of fee "big three" | *1(Hir later won a similar guaran-
unsigned. He declined to say what; teed wa,ge package for its 35,000
•would be asked from American' GM employees, declared it "pro-
Motors, Studebaker-Packard, and vides a splendid objective" for
Kaiser. bargaining  later this  year, with
However, L e o n a r d Woodcock General   Electric   and   Westlnf-
UAW vice-president-in charge of house.
its American Motors department,! The present hourly pay scale In
told reporters "yes, we are" go- the auto industry averages roughly
ing to ask the same of American. $2.10, with that of akilted worker*!
Motors, ' " " "
UNION GAINS BEACHHEAD
With his new threo-year GM
agreement, Reuther again established the principle ot employer-
paid benefits to supplement unemployment compensation of laid-off
workers. From this important auto
beachhead he hopes to spread it to
other industries.
The UAW has 375,000 workers in
Hospital authorities said Strickland probably owed his life to the
fact that he turned around at the
shout. Otherwise,, they, said, the
deadly missile well might have
gone through his heart from llie
back where there -Was no protection from' (he rib cage.
Strickland's wife .lane lives il:mnr, -_—. . rri „__.
Wreck Cove.on Portugal Cove in! I Ml Mfc A I fill
southeast Newfoundland. Til ey ; * liLj l"1^ *■ Vfl
have a seven-months-old son.
-The soldier was cared tor by
special-duty nurses up until Monday night. But by then his condition had improved to tlie point
where they were no longer thought
necessary".,
14-Year-Old
Girl Charged
With Murder
WHITEBURG, Ky. (AP)- A 14-
year-old girl, firing a rifle from
tiie doorway of her rural home
Sunday night, shot and killed a
man who she said "was coming to
shoot my daddy." .
Sheriff Robert Collins said Delia
Sexton was charged with murder
after, Hobart Combs,-about 35| was
killed at the'Sexton home after a
prolonged drinking party.
The shot, fired from a .22 calibre
rifle, hit Combs in thc left shoulder
and ranged down to tlie region of
his heart,-He fell about 50 yank
from the house.
A few hours-before the shooting,
the sheriff said, Combs and the
girl's father, Troy Sexton,. exchanged several'bullets as the re-
suit of an argument over, three 50.
cent pieces."
Sheriff Cdllins said Combs and an
unidentified man left tlie Sexton
home after thc first shooting hut
returned just before dark. That
was when the girl—fearful of her
father's life — fired, the sheriff
added.
THE MATTER
"What ts so rare as a day in
June?" tha poet asks. Around
here the answer Is any day, in
any month, that Is fine, ts pretty
rare. In fact, very few of our
days are overdone. We rarely
get drilled by the sun, and Wx
unheard of for our Joint*, to be
rossted, although ll his been
mentioned In high places that
many of our prominent cltliens
are fond of selling waffle Irons.
Possibly they're looking for some
of tha gravy, In any case, tha
Torbayman steaks his reputation
on another fine day this month.
He says a ham operator in Gander
told him. It may even be today,
so we ean't beef too much.
Doctors Say Young Mothe/s Experience
Was "Freak?'Case
The 34 year-old housewife from | Seven teeth had been extracted
Bauline whose heart stopped beat-.when the anaesthetist, Dr. Stenta-
ing while under ether at the'ford, noticed that the patient's
Sanitorium last   Wednesday   has pulse and heart were not beating.
now been unconscious five days.
Latest reports say, however, that
she is gradually, if slowly, improving.
Mrs. Leslie White, wife of the
school principal at Bauline, had
been a patient at the Sanitorium
for about sixteen months was
ready for discharge when medical »-«' already undergone two of the
advisers decided i! was,necessary more serious operations, Phrenic
to remove most of her teeth.        'and   Thoracoplasty,    without    a
Quick thinking was followed .by
quick action and the doctor made
the chest incision and restored the
heart beat by massaging.
What puzzles doctors familiar
with the woman's case was how
such a thing could happen. She
running up from a base of $2.50.
The   IUE   figures   its   member*
averaged $2,21 hourly before the
new agreement.
MUST BE RATIFIED
Both still must be ratified by
UAW local unions, as must that
with Ford, to become effective.
Dissatisfaction was expressed at
many   GM   plants,   with   wildcat:
.._„    strikes erupting   as  they  did in
GM plants, where it won an uh-j Ford factories a week earlier. In
conditional union shop along with' both cases, hiwever, most walk.-;
monetary benefits that it esti-- outs were hlamad on local issues,
mated were worth 20 cents hourly1 and international headquarters be-
— ^——  1 gan     applying pressure to local,
'loaders to get men back to "work.
I Similar pressure ended Ford wild*
I cats within three days.
j At one time Monday, GM esti-
malcd approximately 140.000 env
i ployces were idle at 50 of its UP
■ plants across the country because
! of work stoppages and resultant
■ parts shortages.
SIMILAR TO FORD
GM, like Ford, agreed to guaran-
tea laid-off workers 60 to 65 pel
cent of regular take-home pay, in«
eluding unemployment compensa*
tion,-tor a period' rf 26 -weeks. Tht
union originally- had demanded a
year's guarantee of 80 per cent ot ■
full pay.
GM, like Ford, will contribute
five cents an hour per worker to a
trust fund to finance the plan over
the next three years. GM's fund
will build up to $150,000,000 Ford's
to $55,000,000, because it employs
140,000 against GM's 375,000.
Complete
Woman
Threaten
Asian   Defence
FMers Killed In
Jet Crash
SINGAPORE (neuters'-A   dis-i
[Kite over six siispeclcd Comimi-j
nlsls today threatened to plunge!
this key southeast Asian defence
bastion into a  crippling general
strike.
Thousands of Singapore workers \
laid down their tools Monday in
response to strike calls issued by
leaders of three left-wing trade
unions.
The strike leaders Monday night
refused to end the walkouts until
the British crown colony's govern-
ment frees five Chinese unionists
and. a high school teacher, jailed
under emergency powers.
Government officials indicated
they would "not retreat," and more
workers were expected to join lhc
scattered walkouts today, moving
the colony toward a general strike.
EXAMINE DOCUMENTS
All the arrested are believed to
be Communist organizers of the
strikes. Security agents are still
examining documents seized in a.
raid Sunday on the offices of the
factory and shopworkers' union.
Military advisers took up stations
Monday night in police headquarters, ready to plan action should
there be riots like these which
only a month ago killed four persons here. All British troops were
on a dusk-to-dawn duty.   '
Lim Chin Siong, chief of (he lest-
wing unions, claimed more than
hitch. It was just a "freak" said
the doctor.
1
t   Mrs. White is the mother   of
■one son, Robert, age 9. Her husband has been staying in the city
: since Wednesday with   a friend.
I interviewed by the News, Mr.
White said it was a great shock
for him knowing as he did that
"Pearl was coming ^along so well,
it was indeed a miracle that she
came through." Although still unconscious, all indications now point
to a complete recovery. She is
now breathing normally, is not'
insensitive to pain aim1 at times
her eyeballs move. "All we can do
now is wail, say the "dudors.
France Puts Halt
To Auto Races
j ?ARIS (CP)—The French gov-
, ernment Monday night suspended
j all automobile racing in France
I until much stricter regulations
I were worked out following Sntur-
1 day's Le Mans crash in. which 82
1 persons were Killed.
A government spokesman said
1 new regulations to nuke racing a
safer sport will be studied. He
added the government hopes to
draw up the stricter rules in cooperation with other countries
where races are held regularly.
10,000 men were idle, but the government said only about 16,000
workers.had walked out. Independent surveys indicated that about
30,000 of the city's manual workers
were not at their jobs Monday.
So far there has been no sign of
student activity in the walkouts.
Appointment of
Judges Said
"Scandalous*
REGINA (CP) - Attorney-Gen-
eral J. W. Carman of Saskat-
ohewan said Monday the federal
SLtvtriu«ent is appohiUng judges In
a "scamhliHis way" and 'Mhe first
qualification ts politics and faithful service to the parly — no others need apply.
. Mr. Corman said in a statement
that representations of the Saskatchewan Law Society will be passed
on to the provincial government.
Thc society criticized (lis Saskatchewan government for appointing
ex-officcrs of the RCMP as police
magistrates.
Tlie  attorney-general  said:'
"The members of the Law Society would have strengthened a?
hand if they had followed
through and blasted Ottawa as they
have blasted us. They surely do
not believe in the political appointment of judges."
The society, at its annual meeting hers last week, should have
given proof of their sincerity by
"venting some of their indignation
on the Dominion government. for
the scandalous way in which federal judges are appointed."
Russia Agrees With ""Summit" Talks Plan
Granted Stay
Of Execution
TFREDERICTON (CP)-A slay
-of execution, until July .26, was
grafted- • Monday - In 'the case of
.Mrs,'; Lina ,Tl.ibodcau, 2&,. of, Upper
tS.cd*-5,.wbn.was.convicted in April
'of murdering her husband amlscn-
tenced*-to be^hanged June.29.
BELLEVILLE.  Ont.   (CP)-Two      -p,.. cTnNFV 1VFT T AND
RCAF   fliers   from   Trenton   air     ?;V^^„     ™.     ,U
base  wore  killed  Monday  when]    MOSCOW     (Reuters) —
their T-33 Silver Star jet trainer; Russia has notified the West
crashed in a bog 13 miles south- she whh proposals to
west of here.
■ toad, are Flt.-Lt, Douglas A.
Bing of Middlclon, Ont., and Fo
John Paul Collins of London, Ont.
It was the first jet crash at the
Trenton RCAF. slation since T-33'**
were stationed* here more than two
ycars ago,
Thc high speed, single engine
trainer, crashed into a dense
marshy wood. The plane dug  a
hold a "summit" meeting- in
Geneva, Switzerland, next
month, but indicated she will
not discuss the status bf East
European satellite states or
the activities of international communism. ■ .
Acceptance of the  Western  ln-
crater 50 feet long  and  25  fcetj v-tation to a mcctlng 0f the heads
wide. Waler, which flowed into the  oC t*ie Big Four governments in
crater from the surrounding
marshy ground, made recovery
operations difficult.
' Chief Jnstice J.-E. Michaud of
the Queen's Ikneli Division, New
Brunswick Supreme t'ourt, granted! ment was tn the opening dale, hut
Geneva, opening July 18, was, announced in a 255-word note .delivered Monday , to the British,
American and French embassies.
The West'suggested'the dates
July 18-21. Russia's formal agree
an attorney - general department, kift undecided the duration-of the
application for the stay to give the1 conference. '.       *
Court/of Appeal time to,consider, MAY'EXTEND MEETING'.
an appeal for a haw-trial. Thc.ap-!    Western   observers   here '.'think
Russia may try, when the conference opens, to propose an'extension
peal was heard lasl Tuesday and
Wednesday.
1 of thc liin-a of the meeting, pre-,
1 sumabjy in an effort to go more;
deeply into some problems at the
' "summit" stage. j
The Western powers  want the
j Big Four leaders - to prepare the
I way for more detailed, considera-
! lion of the problems by the foreign;
ministers. The United States has
been reported particularly in favor-
of confining tlie Big Four meeting:
lo about four days. |
Russia's intimation of what she!
is not prepared to talk about at!
Geneva came in a 1,000-word state-j
ment issued Monday by Tass, thej
official Soviet ne>"s agency. j
The statement critici-zed U.S. 1
State Secretaryjohn Foster Dulles
.for his demand that the position
of Soviet satellite states be on the
agenda, together with.the "aclivi-
lles'o'f international communism,"
The Tass statement asked: "How
'would Mr. Dulles regard thc raising, at-the Four Power conference,!
for example, of the' o,ucstion ot 'the';
activities' of international'capital-j
ism?-'"   .... '' •
NO EAST EUROPE PROBLEM-
As to the east European (Soviet
bloc) states, the Tass statement
asserted: "It should be clear to
all that no 'problem of thc countries of Eastern Europe* exists because the peoples of these countries, .having overthrown the rule,
of the exploiters, have established!
in their countries a people's dem-|
ocratic government and will -not
allow anyone to interfere in their;
domestic affairs." I
The'formal Soviet note to the'
West   powers   raised   neither   of!
these Questions, but reiterated tlie
general-principles of tlie Soviet approach to the Big Four meeting.
It declared the aim of the conference is to "reduce international
tension" and to "strengthen mutual confidence In relations between states."
Since the Soviet note. referred
specifically, to a conference of
"heads ot government" or the Big
Four powers, it is assumed that
Premier Nikolai Bulganin-will represent.-Russia. Prim? Minister
Kden.'President Eisenhower and
Premier Edgar Faure.will be..the"
other leaders.
Earlier speculation had suggested that N'ikita S. Khrushch-av,
first secretary of the Soviet Communist party and the Kremlin's
No. 1 man, might attend. But
Khrushchev is not in fact a member of thc Soviet government.
INSIDE
3— Bocrd of Trade pretests
Saturday closing,
4t-C.L.B. Ntws.
6—"Newfoundland Dream
Port'1—Editorial.
8, 9—'VorW of Sport.
10, 11—Wornim'-. N*wi and
Chll Chit;
12—Movir* Revtiws.
13—Comlcj.
14—Stock Markets.
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