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Vol. 62.   No. 139
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND* ;'1 WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
PRESENTS
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Residents Escape
CLARKE CITY, Que. •(CP)—A raging forest fire,
pushed by fickle winds, Tuesday burned through the tiny-
village of St.- Margaret, four miles west of here.
 Officials of the Gulf Pulp and
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(Daily News Photo)
HIS HONOUR THE LIEUT. GOVERNOR is shown presenting First Aid Certificate to Miss Elizabeth Madden.
Mi<s Madden who is blind received awards in First Aid and Home Nursing, per escort in above picture is Mr.
Eiiir-st Nixon, who was also a recipient of a First Aid Certificate. ^^	
WHEAT DEAL:
Drew Asks Howe
Give Full Details
Claims House Told Matter Still
Pending While Agreement
Had Been Signed
OTTAWA (pP)—Hon. George Drew-demanded in
ihc Commons .Tuesday an explanation from Trade Minister Howe on why he had led the House to believe that the
wheat deal with Red Poland was still pending when
negotiations actually had been completed.
The opposition leader rose on a1	
PERON:
IKS
question of privilege, just before
th- House adjourned for the din-
wr hour, to read a Canadian Press
dispatch irom Winnipeg carrying
in nnnouncement by thc president
of Northern' Sales Ltd., that the
daily negotiations had been com-
plr-tcd.
Mr. Drew recalled that earlier
h thc day Mr. Howe had indicated
thai the deal would not be closed
unlit his department's estimates
came before the House and the
deal could bc debated then.
Members   are   entitled   to   an
KpbnnUon of what has happened,
Mr, Drew said.
Mr. Howe replied (hat he had
Riven ii" undertaking that the deal
'wniiW  be  pending  until  his  es*
timairs -amp down. All hc had
*ai<1. he maintained, was that the
fii'i-ttinn    would    be  . unchanged
■'hen lb-* estimates were consid*
trrii.
Mr. Drew  said earlier outside
the House, that he was. "aston-
fch-.l" by the Winnipeg report.
Tun-day morning he made an
unsuccessful move to launch an
tmerzency debate on the deal in
ia attempt to block the sale which
involves backing of a huge bank
loan by tha Canadian government.
Commons speaker Rene Beaudoin
lru.ee! him out of order.
I Mr. Brew appealed the ruling
but the Commons sustained the
speaker by a vote of *17 to 3**
The opposition leader main.
tainrd that if gifts or quasl-gifts
*ero to bc made lo foreign coun*
trie- liiey should bc made to
■nendlv ones, and not io Com-
munist' nations like Poland.
, Mr. Beaudoin said the matter
ptihl more properly be discussed
■rh-r* trade department estimates
V*m debated.'
In his Winnipeg announcement,
paries" S w a r t z, president, of
1-wUici'n Sales Ltd., grain dealers,
Offers Truce
Political Foes
Dinh Diem
Warned To
"Quit Stalling"
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP)
The National revolutional committee of South Viet Nam told Premier Ngo Dinh Diem Tuesday to
quit stalling and carry out the program it proposed to him two
months ago.
This includes deposing chief, ol
state Bao Dai and resignation of
Diem's cabinet because it was appointed by Bao Dai and establishment of a provisional republic.
.There was no immediate reaction from the oremisr'*- office.
The national revolutionary committee is an unofficial body ot ar*
dent nationalists — ' originally
Diem's enthusiastic backers—who
banded together to push the oust*
ing of Bao Dai when hi, remain-
in-' in France, sought to undercut
Diem's authority.
At a press conference Tuesday
the committee's vice-chairman, Ho
Han Son, and its secretary-general, Nhi Lang, made public a
committee letter to Diem and said
that if the premier fails to give an
immediate and' clear reply the
committee will appeal directly to
the people of South Vict Nam.
Ho Han Son added that the peo*
■'pte might decide to use force in
carrying out    "the principles of
revolution,"   *     *      .;
Wins Rocking
Chair Marathon
said negotiations had been com-
plcted for the sale of 1,000,000
bushels or Canadian milling-grade
wheat to Poland. Arrangements
for the sale had started seven
months ago in Paris and had been
consumated in Ottawa two weeks
ago by  himself  and  thc  Polish
embassy. 	
Mr. Swartz said his Winnipeg
firm completed Tuesday thc book*
Ing of 1,900,000 bushels of wheat
valued at about $4,000,000 with the
Canadian wheat board. Shipments
would start in September with the
balance of the grain not being
purchased for some months.
By FRED L. STROZIER
BUENOS  AIRES   (AP)—President Juan D. Peron
broadcast a message to the people'Tuesday designed to
silence rumours that his hold on the Argentine government has been seriously weakened by the brief revolt
against him June 16. ' " :
He -said the enemies who then
failed to assassinate him now have
becomp rumor mongers, attempting "sedition by telephone."
The keynote on the president's
11-minute address was an offer to
declare a truce with his political
adversaries.
Peron asserted the -revolt was
attempted by a few navy units
with thea id of small groups of
Bar Newsmen
From  Communist
Press  Conference
WEATHER
Mainly Sunny-, a little cooler.
«l«h 65.
Nfld. Skies
Sunrise
Sunset ,
..'4:10 a.m.
..8.01p.m.
WVf
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TIDES
8:21 a.m.
2:06 un.
1:16 p.m.
Tha refusal came after the com-
mand told the Reds In some of the
strongest language it ever used at
a Military Armistice Commission
meeting that their recent ''sweet
talk" and "peaceful propaganda"
was in marked contrast to "your
continued willful and flagrant violation of thc (Korean) truce •grce-
ment."
Maj.-G-sn. Harlan C. Parks,
senior allied delegate to the' commission, read a 17-page document
of alleged Communist truce zone
violations and told North Korean
Lt.-Gcn. Lc-b Sang Cho,' the top
Communist delegate:
"H stands as monumental evidence to the United Nations com-
mand and the free world of your
complete insincerity, dishonesty
and utter lack of Integrity; .
CREATE GRAVE SITUATION
i "The combat forces and particularly the air forces that you have
built up illegally and covertly
since the signing of the armistice
constitute a grave situation which
threaten seriously the very structure and stability of the armistice
itself."
Lee offered .jo hold a prGse briefing for-allied reporters after the
meeting. Parks discussed-the offer
with the 15 UN • correspondents Hr
almost   »n   hour.   He   said   he
PANMUNJOM (AP)—The United Nations command
Tuesday barred allied newspapermen, over their protests, from accepting a rare Communist invitation to a
press conference in the 1,000-yard circular joint security
area near here. j opposed it and couldvnot permi
it. •        ■
After two telephone calls to UN
head quarters in Tokyo and talks
with Lt.>Gen. Elmer J. Rogers,
Far East command chief of staff,
Parks told the  newspaper men:
"1 do not consider it appropriate
that representatives of the'enemy
side enter my camp to.atend my
press conference. Conversely, 1 do
no think accredited * correspondents of the United Nations command should enter their camp for
similar conferences."
BARS MEETING
.    A   correspondent   asked   Parks!
whether  ha   was   expressing   an
opinion of prohibiting.the meeting
between  the  reporters   ami   the
Reds. He said he was "prohibiting
it."   ■     ■
A Tokyo spokesman backed up
Parks, saying'
"It was a considered opinion of
ihe Far East command that to
publish the views of Lee Sang Clio
would be to extend Communist
propaganda a nd consequently
work against our side."
Communist reporters.later sent
word to allied, "correspondents
through a Japanese correspondent
for Kyodo news service that* they
.would "write many stories'* about
what thay termed "the so-called
-free press.*'
civilians.   But   he   absolved   the
major opposition political parties
of anv participation.
COME TO TERMS
Peron invited "responsible men"
from the opposition to come lo
terms.with him (or reunification
of the nation and called for" a
truce in the political fight" regardless of the rumors lhat might be
spread by "bad-intcntioned enemies."
Hc said lhc situation in Buenos
Aires is completely normal and
claimed the revolt never .extended
beyond its city limits.
The president's call for political
peace was echoed in congressional
circles. The Senate and House are
In recess until after Argentina's
Independence Day July 9. Leaders
of both reported that conversations
had been opened to settle all outstanding issues between Peron and
the opposition Radical party. »
The Radicals usually poll from
one-fourth to one-third of the votes
in. national elections and hold 12
of the 159 seats in the house of
deputies.
One congressional informant
said leading Radicals might be
taken Into the government as part
of Peron's love for "national
pacification."
NO REFERENCE,TO QUARREL
The president made no reference
to his quarrel with  the  Roman
Catholic church which' caused dis-
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. (AP)-
Ole rocking chair didn't get Mrs.
Hazel Wheeler. She rode It out for
72 hours and 13 minutes and won
a dollar for every hour.
Because of the heat, the 70-year-
old woman reluctantly stopped
rocking at noon Tuesday, more-
than two hours* after her nearest
competitor in a rocking - chair
marathon staged as part of this
village's firecracker fiesa.
The 'runners-up, Hoy Rogers ot
Saraiiao'Lake, fell asleep a $:'■&
a.m. and stuppetl rucking with
out knowing il. Seven rockers he-
gun the marathon on a platform
alimg Main. Street Suliirduy noon.
Mrs, Wheeler, who lives at Loon
Lake, was aiming at the nearly B0
hours rocked by a Canadian, Raymond Robitallle, in Lauzon, Que:,
last March.
Participants   are   given   a   5-
minute break every three hours.
Paper Company, on whose limits
five fires are burning in the area,
said they had no way of reaching
the village but they presumed
everything had been destroyed.
The 200 residents of the community were evacuated before the
fire moved In. The women and
children were taken to Sept-Iles
Monday night and the men made
it to Clarke City Tuesday after
putting up a futile fight against
the flames.
The fire almost surrounded the
village Monday night but a shift
in the wind from south to north
started moving the flames away
from   it* Tuesday.     Thc   wind
changed again to northwest Tuesday afternoon, howcvcr.and went
leaping toward the community.
REGROUP  FOR  BATTLE
' Firefighters regrouped Tuesday
night to wage a battle for this village of 800, some 350 miles northeast of Quebec City.  Gulf company officials said then*-, is no immediate danger but if forecasts of
further shifts in the wind and continued dry  weather arc  correct,
the community would be in a perilous position within the next few
days.'
Forecasts up to next Saturday
give no indication of rain, they
said. The wind is e*peced to shift
to southwest by today, putting tlie
village in direct line of one of the
fires.
A dense cloud of smoke hung
over   the   entire   area   Tuesday
night  Company  spokesmen  said!
the fires have burned out some
60  square   miles' of  bush, . scrub 1
pine and-balsam.
A company official, returning
from an inspection of the fire front
Monday night, described the situation as hopeless unless the wind
changed or it rained. The front
advanced steadily until a brief but
violent electrical' storm came up
during ■ the night, then retreated
when the wind changed.
The fires sprang up in the middle of religious celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of thc expulsion of tha Acadians from the
Maritimes. Some" villagers rushed
from Sepl-lles to their homes to
save their possessions. In St. Margaret, dozens of statues and medals, were placed on the doors of i
homes by t h e predominantly ;
Roman Calholic population.
Unions Move
Bar Communists
OTTAWA (CP)—A ban on the backdoor re-entry o*
outcast Red-dominated unions has been agreed upon by:,
leaders of the Trades and Labour Congress and the Cana-'-.
dian Congress of Labour.
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Queen Reprieves
Murderers
LONDON (AP) - Tlie Queen
Tuesday reprieved one of -two.murderesses awaiting hanging in Britain.
.The commutation—automatic on
the recommendation of thc home
secretary—reduced to life impris-
onmen 'the death sentence imposed on Mrs. Sarah Lloyd for
beating her neighbor to death with
a shovel.
In  Britain a  "life"     sentence
normally runs 12 years;
The Queen's mere y move
spurred hopes of petitioners seeking clemency for the other woman
still in a prison "death house"—
glamorous Ruth Ellis, 28. who was
convicted of murdering hcr lover.
Mrs. Ellis, a divorcee and
mother of two young children, has
refused to appeal the sentence. She
is duc to te hanged July 13.
Petitions for clemency for Mrs.
Ellis are being circulated in railway stations, and market places
up and down the country. Members
of Parliament said they are receiving some 700 letters a day opposing the death penalty for the
woman involved in thc case which
has set tlie nation arguing "overj
''crimes o£ passion."
Tiie District of Columbia has
no status as a state, but is simply a Federal District.
The Statue of Liberty was un
veiled on Oct 28, 1887.
Each congress, under an arrangement made known Tuesday,
will refuse to let its affiliates tak»
in unions that have been expelled
from either of the central bodies.
With an impending TLC-CCL ,
merger threatening the eventual
existence of th-. left-wing-groups,
several of them evicted from the
congresses are.known to be trying
to work their way back through
amalgamations with congress-affiliated unions.
Congress officers said Tuesday;
the joint ban was arranged at a:
meeting Monday of the TLC-CCL:.
"unity" committee thatfcj making
arrangements for next year's
scheduled unification of tha two
congresses. It will be effective
until the merger.
WILL HAVE PROVISION
After that, the new 1,MO,000-
membcr Canadian Labor Congress
will have provision for dealing
with expelled unions, which will
be eligible for readmission only
when they show the original
causes for expulsion have been
wiped out.
Leftist-led unions with some 80,-
000 Canadian members—the great
majority of whom are not leftists-
come under the joint ban. They
were tossed out of the congress
'at various times during the last
six years in a housecleaning of
Reds.
Now, congress informants say,
their leaders are anxious lo bring
these unions back into the central
labor stream as a protection
against co - ordinated organizing
drives on their memberships by
affiliates of. the merged congress.
There are more than 7000
miles of tunnels and drifts underlying the area of Butte, Mont.
sention in Argentina  for  almost
eight months before the revolt.
High authorities of the church
said Tuesday they did not know
whether the two prelates the government expelled at the climax of
the controversy, could return to
Buenos Aires now. They added that
they thought it would not be prudent for them to do so.
The two prelates, Msgr. Manuel
Tato, auxiliary bishop of Buenos
Aires, and his assistant, Msgr.
Ramon Novoa, now are en route
from .Rome to Brazil for tiie
Eucharistic Congress at Rio de
Janeiro ■ July 17-24. The Vatican
secretary of state's office said
evidently they had been granted
permission to come back to
Buenos "Aires, but there is no official confirmation and no permit
was v relayed through the Vatican.
Log Raft
Making Progress
MATANE, Que. (CP)-A log raft
on which four adventurers hope to
cross the north Atlantic Tuesday
was reported sailing along the
southern shores of the St. Law
rence river, 310 miles downstream
from Quebec City.
- A distance' of approximately 70
miles has been covered since Sunday.
The raft left Montreal three
weeks ago and was towed as far
as Himouski, Que. The crew used
a sail to power the craft the 59
miles between Rimouskl and Ma*
tane.
The. sail was hoisted again Sunday after the raft was towed ou
of the harbor here.
One of the crew, French-born
Bernard Saurieul, was treated in
a Matane hospital for cuts.to the
left leg suffered when hit by a
, towing rope. He will rejoin the
Z*by-14-foot raft at Cap-des-Ro
slers at the end of the week.
The raft due to stop there to
take on supplies of dried cod for
the ocean' Voyage which the men
hope to accomplish with the .aid
of the Gulf stream.
Wife Testifies
At Trial Of
Soldier Husband
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' By JOHN DUDMAN
DUESSELDOR*1 (Reuters) — A slim, soft-spoken
German brunette denied Tuesday she had carried on a
secret love affair with British Sgt. Frederick Emmett-.
Dunne before he killed her first husband and made it
look like a suicide. ' "   :
The beautiful witness, who married Emmett-Dunne seven months
after the death of Sgt. Reginald
Watters, testified on ih^ seventh
day of her husband's court martial for murd-sr. The tall, handsome defendant claims he struck
the five-foot, on&-inch sergeant in
self-defence after Watters pulled a
gun on him and accused him of
seducing his wife.
Through, her 59 minutes on tht
witness stand, 29-year-old Mia Emmett-Dunne, a. former pight club
singer, did not once look at her
33*ycar-old husband.
Another defence witness will be
calted today and final prosecution
and defence speeches are expected
ined Walters' body when H *«
exhumed last February. The iol-
dier's death on Nov. 30,1953, orit>
inally was recorded as a suicide
after his body was foiled hinging
in his barracks.
Camps testified that a sideways
blow demonstrated by the defend*-
ant Monday could not have caused
Watters' death. He said it would
have to be a hard, "central blow"
across the throat.
He was immediately challenged
by defence counsel Derek Curtis-
Bennett who extracted Camps' admission that it was' "extremely
difficult" to get the positions exactly the same in the re-enactment
of the death scene..
Mrs.   Emmet-Dunne,   like   her
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and defence speecnes are ^£*-~"     Mrs.. Kmmet-Dunne,   like
to follow, with a verdict possible  ^^ iepeaMy denfed *
on Thursday. „ I rct  love   affair  before  Wai
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RULED AS SUICIDE
The last witness called Tuesday
was Dr. Francis Camps, a leading British pathologist who exam-
PROVINCE QUEBEC:
Holding Three By-d«^Todaj
_ . _   —    £-*-. «,„*.-i.»f-cf    (Wr,,,   and   St I be interpreted as a renewal of his out w province, and Id
MONTREAL (CP)—Three Westmount-St.
provincial by-elections will Hyacinthe.
be held Wednesday in Montreal district constituencies
in the wake of campaigns
fought largely on the record ot the Union Nationale
government.
The by-elections will be the first
since 1954 when premier Duplessis1 government introduced a personal income tax. Although the
tax is felt mainly by salaried wor-
.tars-in urban areas, .it has-not
i been a-jnajor campaign issue:
A total of 12 candidates were
nominated June 22 to contest the
by-elections in, Montreal Laurier,
George   and
Present standing in  the legis
latlva 'assembly:   Union Nationale
66   Liberals   21,   Independent   1
vacant 4,
The vacancy that will remain
unfilled following the by-elections
is in Shefford constituency. It was
made vacant by the resignation of
Gaston L u d o u x, Liberal; now
awaiting trial on a charge of
receiving stolen goods.
TAX.DISPUTE- FEATURED
Premier Duplessis' dispute with
the - federal government, over the
division of <tax. revenues has bean
a feature of the campaign. The
premier has said that the .election
of Union Nationale candidates-will
be interpreted as a renewal of his
mandate to seek what he has described as respect of the province's
rights;
Quebec is the only province that
has not signed a taxation agreement with the federal government.
Premier Duplessis plans to attend
the Oct. 3 federal-provincial conference, called in Ottawa to dis
-cuss renewal of the existing agreements. But he has said he will not
change his attitude toward the tax
pacts.
i Party'advertisements during the
campaign have indicated that he
wifi.seek a greater slice of Canadian tax' revenues." Many of the
advertisements have carried this
notation: "On every dollar you pay
rct  love .affair  before  Watters!
death and also denied saying .after
the funeral that she thought'Emmett-Dunne had "done it." ..,-.p.
Speaking in English with a Ger- -;;;hi
man accent, she told the court her. jj $
first husband "was a very Jealous 4v-h
man*" . " w
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out in taxes 77 cents go to Oltawa
13 cents to the province, and W
per cent to Uic municipality. It is
absolutely unfair!"      ^ ,
George Lapalme, Quebec Liberal
leaders, has charged the Union
Nationale government with waste
and extravagance with selling
Quebec resources to Americans
with adopting tax policies that dis*
courage industries from coming to
Quebec, and with following t a
course that keeps Quebec salaries
below those of Ontario.
Union National and Liberal candidates .have been nominated in
airUirac constituencies. Jhc Com*
muni=t Labor-Progressive pany
SS"has candidates in the three
ridings.
INSIDE
2—Statement on Mink Pre-
gram
3—Opening of S. A. Congress
4^Carter on C.N.R.
5—Trinity News t
6-HigHer Freights Conld..
Be Disastrous—Editorial
7,-Bcll Island Newi
11—Sport
13—Comics
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