Daily News, 1955-10-20

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THE DAILY NEWS
PRESENTS
-    NICOLA!  GEDDA,  Tenor
available at
Charles Hutton & Sons
Vol 62.   No. 225
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1955
(Price 5 cents)       16 PAGES
-Gift By Rotarians
Delays Election
Security Council
Yugoslavia And
Phillipines In
Battle For Seat
Bodies Found In
Car; 15-Year Old
Mystery Solved
,   (Daily News Photo)
\T THE HOSPITAL for Mental and Nervous diseases on Tuesday  night Doctor  C. L.  Pottle,  Superintendent,
SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. (CP)—Police dragged a;
1938-model automobile containing two bodies from the St. ■
Mary's river here Wednesday and apparently solved a ;
mystery of 15 years' standing.
The 1910 licence plates with the; -
number 13W61 indicated the mud-
stained,   rusled   blue   sedan   be
took
way
a wrong turn in seeking the
to     the international ferry,!
Britons Still Baffled
On Princess' Plans
Margaret Dines With Church Leaders
LONDON (CP)—Princess
Margaret and other mem-
ters of the royal family
dined Wednesday night with
I ihe Archbishop of Canter-
I tory,
lie dinner in Lambeth Palace,
it archbishop's   London   home,
'jppd a round ol official duties for
', it princess who, for the first time
Jiii days, diu not see Group Capt.
Fr.fr Townsend.
Nw« ol the day's events helped
*i*VJ ai1y li;ht on thc question of
nnhcr Margaret will marry the
Ceroid divorced air ace.
Gwi* ai ilie dinner included
fcrfiiElijalinh. lhr Duke of Edin-
burgh,   Queen  Mother  Elizabeth
and the bishops of the Church of
England.
CHAPEL REOPENED
Arranged some time ago, the
dinner was to celebrate the rededl-
catlon of the palace chapel, restored after being damaged by a
Nazi Incendiary bomb in 1W1.
Margaret and the Queen Mother
drove in a heavy rain to the archbishop's palace, across the Thames
from the Houses of Parliament.
Both were dressed In white furs
and wore tiaras.
The Queen, who is temporal
head of the Church of England,
drove separately from Buckingham
Palace to the archbishop's homc;
With her was the Duke nf Edin
burgh.
Townsend, meanwhile, left his
London' apartment at about the
same time the royal family was
arriving at Lembeth Palace. He
drove away alone and declined to
say where he was spending the
evening.
RELIGIOUS PROBLEM
The Church of England frowns
on the marriage of divorced per-
sons whose former spouses are
still living. Townsend obtained a
divorce from his former wife in
1932. She since has remarried.
Their two sons live with her.
Thc 68-year-old archbishep, Dr.
Geoffrey Fisher, Is the Church of
England's primale. Both hc and the
See PRINCESS, Page 5
World News
— Briefs —
EDINBURGH (Renters! - Drillers working for the last live
months IU miles out in the Firth
of Forth announced Wednesday
lhat they had struck a coal field
on the seabed 2,000 Icct down.
National coal board officials said
they plan to run seams out into
the area from the big mine at
Seafield on lhe coast.
QUAKE SHAKES JAPAN
TOKYO (AP) — The Japan-
ese meteorological observatory reported a moderate earthquake on
northern Honshu island Wednesday. Police said the <iuakc disrupted railway service. Three
bridges wcre damaged and one
tunnel was closed in a landslide.
One Japanese was reporlcd injured. Thirty-nine houses were
damaged.
By JACK BEST
Canadian Press Staff Writer
_    (        UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP)—The UN General
longed to Mr. and Mrs. Earl D. ^oefc. "it is"thought they possibly i Assemblv struggled through nearly three hours of ballot-
Kirk of North Bay, Ont..who dis- ron[hcd t00 late that ir| (hc dark-i jn   ancf procedural wrangle Wednesday   before finally
driven  onto   the;,    . ,.       r    . ; .    .. , 11lL ,
Grat Lakes cruise | deciding again to postpone election of an llth member
to the Security Council.
By a vote of 29 to 8 with 22
abstentions, the assembly approved
appeared in October, 1940, while
on a holiday motor trip to Winnipeg by way of Sudbury, Sault Ste.
Marie and the northern United
Stales, police said.
In tho car were  the badly-decomposed bodies of a man and a
had
by
ness they
dock uscd
ships.
The Kirks vanished in one of
Canada's strangest disappearance
cases. One of its   most   baffling
an American proposal that it ad
journ thc election and proceed with
angles was the lack of anv motive
woman. Authorities set about tn"- for a Maying or a suicide pact, ballotio'g for VheYconomic and So-
ing to piece together the skeletons i    Eavl Kjrk was a divisional sales
in the hope of establishing iden-  manager for an oil company. Hc
lificalion. was known and liked throughout
Dr.   W.   E.    Sullivan,   coroner,   ,he norlh country.
said lhe couple in lhe car died by j WINNIPEG-BOUND
accidental drowning. Hc said there!    The happily-married couple set
will be no inquest. out gaily for Manitoba Oct. 4, 1940,
Faced with a difficult problem, after kissjng u,rce oi ti,e f0Ur Kirk
ul identification, authorities said: children goodbye. The plan was to
they believe il is likely thc bodies; $T-lve to Winnipeg, visit the par-
in the car arc those of grcy-haircd! cnis 0[ both Mr. and Mrs. Kirk,
fiftyish Kirk and his attractive! (hen U|<e lhe jUISband's mother
blonde wife, Dolly. . back to North Bay with them.
FOUND HOOD FIRST \    A search started after it became
Police dragged thc river near1 known Kirk did not keep a busi-
the dock Tuesday night after re-; ness  appointment  here  Oct.  21.
ceiving a report that a Sault Ste.
Marie car might have come into,
the river Tuesday. Grappling irons; wetc    advanced,    but    no    one
Various theories as to lheir fate
brought up lhc blue hood of a carl
and police arranged for a diver to'
go down Wednesday.
When the car'was'haulcd'aGhore,
investigators found bones on lhe
mud-laden front scat.
Tolicc speculated that thc Kirks,
unfamiliar with this cily, perhaps
cial Council and the Trusteeship
Council.
In elections to the Economic and
Social Council which followed, Canada was successful on the first
ballot. It will occupy the seat being
Fourth Year Of
I *
Mau Mau Terror
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters)—The Mau Mau terrorist
|t"'-c:-:'.nc\ ^Miters its fourth year in Kenya today with
-w'Cl;> much brighter than 12 months ago, although
'-■■'Ai-tir.tih of ihe anti-white cultists are still at large.
i  .-utement  by  the
•*':a frivcrnmcnl said the outlook
J bitter than many had dared
I */*. * year ago. But, it added,
totfte enormous Mau Mau cas-
lr''v fibres in three years of
■'M*S "il must be recognized
W there arc still some thousands
* terrorists at large, hiding in the
■«*u, African reserves and set-
*! areas.'*
■a the three years, 10,800 Mau
*» have been killed, while 581
Jtfflbers ol the Kenya   security
X»i and 1.660 civilians lost their
;JJt J0.SOO Mau Mau dead in-
**k 962 Kikuyu natives who were
i waited  for   murder,   carrying
■J*, administering oaths or other
offences.
3ECRET SOCIETY
The Mau Mau, a secret society
among the Kikuyu tribesmen, was
first discovered in March, 1950.
Police, patrolling the white highlands,, stumbled on African farm
laborers taking part in a blood-
drinking ceremony.
The 30,000 white settlers In the
British colony, outnumbered by
175 times as many natives, refused lo take much notice at first.
Then Mau Mau terrorists started
to attack loyal African villages
and white settlers on their isolated
farms In orgies of savage butchery and murder.
By   August,   1952,   the settlers
WEATHER
Overcast with rain this morning. Clearing during the afternoon.   High today 48.
Md. Skies
THURSDAY, OCT. 20
Sunrise ,, ,, ,. ,, 6.26 a.m.
Sunset  ., 6.05 p.m.
Supreme
Montreal
Stores On
Court
Can't
Holy
Rules
Close
Days
TIDES
High
9.48 a.m.
10.23 p.m.
Low
8.36 a.m.
4.21 p.m.
barricaded themselves in at night
and went around armed at all
times. In October of that year, an
emergency was declared.
Since then, the death loll has
mounted. About 2,000 other Mau
Mau have surrendered to authorities and a like number has been
captured by security forces.
The active terrorism by lhe Mau
Mau has been effectively reduced
by British troops In the jungles
and mountains coupled with surrender offers.
By ALAN DONNELLY
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA (CP)—Montreal had no right under a 1951
by-law to order the city's 20,000 stores to close on six
Roman Catholic holy days, the Supreme Curt of Canada
said Wednesday in a unanimous judgment.
The court's nine members said
guessed lhat the middle - aged
couple might have been drowned
in the river here.
Considered more likely at the
lime wcre thc possibilities that Ihc
Kirks car had skidded off wet
pavement between Sudbury and ''■
thc Sault and had gone into a lake!
or sv-amp, nr lhat a hitchhiker had,
robbed and killed them.
Fur weeks police and volunteer'
searchers scoured (he hushlanrt,
wcsl of Sudbury to nn avail. When
winter forced intcmiplinn nf the:
search, the Kirk children were;
sent lo Winnipeg to live with rei-:
atives. ;
In 1947. seven years afler the
disappearance, the Kirks were declared legally dead and provision
was made for their children to
share their estate on becoming of
age.
Police said Wednesday thr question of what lir.npenctl tn the Kirks
lias probably been   answered    at
Ust.
vacated at the end of this year by.
Australia. !
Canada received 48 votes. AIsOi
elected on the first ballot were lhe|
United States, with 50 votes, and]
Indonesia with 44. Yugoslavia was|
elected on lhc second ballot with j
46- voles.
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
The United States advanced its
proposal  after  three  ballots—the I
seventh,  eighth   and  ninth  since
voting began last Friday—failed tOi
break the deadlock between Yugos-j
lavia and the Philippines. [
The election Is for the two-year,* *
non - permanent Security Council' t       m      •
seat being vacated by Turkey at; J£{  IniinCF
lhe end of 1955. ; "
Yugoslavia is sunnorted by Ru3- fjl T*,** _,_ *._ _-
sin and lhc Philippines by tbe U.S. f 13116 iTflSSJiljr
Britain lined up behind Yugoslavia;    ,,,..,,..,,„ v n ,rt)f A   •   .
and informed sources said Canada'    <»AIHAM. N.B- tCPl-A »insli>.
did too, Voting is bv secret ballot.. .<«1 ■ Sabrr jet fishier wa«_rcporfed
miasms on a mshl training exercise from Iho RCAF station hrr*
Wednesday, The name of the piM
is hnnz with-hcld pending inves'i
nations now being carried out.
the Security Council also—it hai
said it is a candidate for both—but
observers said Uie assembly might
bc less inclined to eicct Yugoslavia
if it already belonged to the Eco-
nomic Council.
The Philippines, which received
29 votes to Yugoslavia's 28 on the
final ballot Friday, led 31 to 27 in
the first ballot Wednesday. Its
margin slipped to two votes in
Wednesday's second ballot, but the
count was again 31 to 27 after the
third.
A two-thirds majority of those
voting, or 39 votes, was required
for election.
At issue in the election is a
"gentlemen's agreement" of 1946
which provided that eastern Eur-
ope be represented on the Security
Council. The United States con.
tends it was binding only for the
first election while Russia says it
is still in force. Brtain and Canada continue to observe it.
Communist bloc delegates protested vigorously against the American proposal to proceed with rice-
tions to the Economic and Trustee-
ship Councils. Russia's V. V. Kiu-
nctsov and Poland's Julius** Kal?-
Suchy claimed :t violated lhc order
of agenda items previously approved by the assembly.
BLOW TO CAMPAIGN
There was speculation that the
United States proposal was designed to take the steam out of
Yugoslavia's campaign by getting Blackville area, some 30 m iles
thc country named to the Econo-j south-west of the base, had been
mic and Social Council. | received they said, adding that a
This would not automatically dip-  ground search party had been sent
qualify Yugoslavia from serving on  out.
Air force aulhoriles said that a
radar -equipped    Neptune   was
searching Uie local area Wednes*
! day night, and that other aircrafl
I wcuid join in the search in daylight.
Reports
of flares  seen  in  the
the by-law is null—based on an invalid 1949 provincial statute which
the Quebec legislature had no constitutional power to pass.
Three justices went further, stating that only the federal Parliament can pass laws dealing with
religious observances.
be no further appeal. [
Since Montreal's city council]
passed the by-law by a one-vote
margin, hundreds of stores have
remained open each time four of]
the six holy days occurred: Feast]
of the Epiphany Jan. G; Ascension
Day 40 days    after Easter;  All!
The Fall Festival
'. Saints' Day Nov. 1, and the Feast •
The judgment, granting the ap-' of lhe Immaculate Conception Dec.
peal of six big Montreal stores 8. They closed on the other l»*o!
which had challenged thc by-law! days, Christmas and New Year's.!
and ils $40 fines, means lhe auto-! Numerous stores paid thc fine:
malic dropping of an eslimated! without a court fight. Wednesday's!
4,000 prosecutions launched, under\ ruling did not deal with whether:
the   by-law   and   then   postponed] they will get their money back.
pending the Supreme Court decision.
NO FURTHER APPEAL
The judgment is final. There can
Ung-Secret Documents Show McArthur
Wanted  Bring  Russians  Into  Jap  War
WASHINGTON (CP) -
P1* (kitence department
'* public Wednesday
I'^S-secret documents re-
Jn>ng that Gen. Douglas
peArthur favored Russia's
rtrV into the war with
nanaslate-as June, 1945
I;*55 than thrce months be*
'°:e the war ended.
"'cAnhur   has   said   he   was
■JW emphatically" against bring-
.J »e Soviet Union into the con-, -
Jcl >l the lime of the Yalta con- should "pay her way" by invading
^ce in February,   1945,  and1 Japanese-held Manchuria as soon
_{tove naid so if his advice
^ ^n asked. ■
The defence department account
uys MacArthur was told afterward
of the Yalta Decision—that Russia
would enter the war after VE-day
in exchange for territorial concessions. And it quotes MacArthur as
telling two official visitors shortly
after Yalta:
1, The United Stales should make
every effort to get' Russia into Uie
war before launching an attack on
tbe Japanese mainland.
2. lie felt il was Inevitable thai
Russia would,take over all of Manchuria, Korea and possibly part
df north China, but believed Qussia
JJe newly released document),
tf». Mef*nce»department study
J«u»wa's mh-hour entry Inlo the
X tontain nothing either to con-
J* »refute the former Far East-
li, ^wander's statement latt
Efiul,lul Ws views were-not io-.
*Kr lhe Val*a conference.
<»0VLD PAY WAY
as possible afler the defeat of Cer
many.
MacArthur himself Is quoted as
saying En a message tu Gen.
George C. Marshall,, then    army
chief of staff, in mid-June, J9ti, ference In the Crimea which pin
that "sooner' or later a decisive
groond attack ..must, be made"
against Japan and that:
VThe hazard and loss will" be
greatly lessened If an attack -ii
launched from Siberia sufficiently
ahead of our target date.to commit the enemy to major combat."
CREATED CONTROVERSY
MacArthur said in a statement
issued last March 23 that, at the
time of Yalta, he regarded the
Japanese as about to collapse and
"I would most emphatically have
recommended against bringing lhe
Soviet into tlie Pacific war at that
late date.1'
But seven of the biggest stores
carried the fight through the Montreal Superior Court, where Ihey
won thcir case. In the Quebec
Appeal Court, they lost on a three-
to-two decision.
They argued that the by-law was
a mask to enforce religious observance of the Roman Catholic holy
days.
RULING UPSET
The judgment, delivered from
the bench by Chief Justice Pat
. rick Kerwin, upset -the Quebec!
knew nothing about the conference Appeal Court's finding and restored
at the lime, and followed through the original ruling nf the Superior
with his statement that ha would I Court.
have recommended against bring*
ing in the Soviets if hc had bcen
consulted.
CHALLENGED STATEMENT
The Washington Post and Times
Herald challenged the general's
statement, saying he was "known"
        ,      *        .      i to have messaged lhc joint chiefs
He-said,  loo.  it  could    have! of staff "pleading for concessions
(teemed "fantastic" to him to make
"vital concessions" such as those
made, at Yalta to Induce -the Rus
Although tlie nine justices, three
of them Roman Catholics, agreed
on the ruling, they divided up in
Issuing three statements giving
slightly varying reasons for the
decision.
All thrce statements agreed on
one point: That the provincial
statute was beyond Quebec's pow-
slans to carry out their promise
to join the fighting.
A controversy over MacArthur's
views arose after the state department made public last March the
"Yalta papers," the record of the
British - American • Russian con
ned down the Soviets' promise to
enter the Japanese war after VE-
day.
MacArthur said after lhe "Yalta
papers"   were  released  that  be
ers because it entered the rculin
to get Russia into the Japanese! ;)[ criminal law, a field given cs-
war." Senator Herbert Lehman ; dusivcly lo the federal parliament
(Dem. N. Y.) accused MacArthur: by the constitution.
in a Senate Hoor speech of "try-' Mr. Justice Roy L. Kcllock, in a
ing to rewrite history." : judgment  concurred  in  by  Mr.
In Uie ensuing debate, which saw Justice C. 11. Locke, said even if
many Republicans rally to Mac-
Arthur's support, newspaper men
sought access to MacArthur's wartime dispatches. The army refused
at the time to release them and
put the question up to the defcuce
department, which finally resolved
the Issue by publishing some of
the dispatches as part of Wednesday's 15,000-word study.
the statute were not criminal law
It still would infringe on federal
jurisdiction "as legislation with
uspeet to freedom ui religion."
Mr. Justice Ivau Rand, in a separate judgment, said the provincial
statule "prescribes what is in essence a religious obligation." As
such U' was beyond provincial
powers.
the Fall  Festival last nighl and j lasl night and many line winnings
there were many   smiling ■ faces ] were noticed,
seen heading towards home, their
The Main Goods Wheel at the
Fall Festival . : . showing some
of the many valuable prizes which , ~w„ ... e ~ -..« ■    _.    .   .
are being offered. In conversation  arms full of prizes lhat included | '
with members of the Committee,  radios, lamps, dolls, games,  car-  l
petsf and chocolates.
it was learned that tonight some
very special prizes will be on display .... prizes that have been
put aside especially for Thursday
night.
The   biggest   attendance   since
Monday's opening was present at
Bingo 'again had a big night last
night aud tonight's Bank , has
climbed to $200.00. Hundreds of
people enjoyed several hours of
this relaxing game at the Festival
Door Prize number
night was 16841 and remains unclaimed. Monday and
Tuesday ui/M's Hoor Frizes, are
still unclaimed and the holders of
tickets numbered 20194 and 9157
may claim their $50.00 by contacting any member of the Festival Committee.
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