Daily News, 1955-10-31

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THE DAILY NEWS
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PRESENTS
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Vol. 62.   No. 234
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND,    MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
"Reefs Have Opened New Cold War
Crisis In Middle East At Snapping Point
U.S. Makes Strong
Protest To Russia
On Armament Deal
Expect Official Word
This Week Romance
Princess,   Townsend
Statement  On  Marriage Plam
?, ADRIAN BALL
Tvv;\rlKLD. England
,rc:c - -A:i official an-
.-;;■..;.,-;; t:u whether
r.v.vc- Margaret and
rj:v.:;> S.rx. Peter Town-
r-.-i -.-'.'. iv.arry is generally
nrre.*-^.i   iv.s week.
\--S :'
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slantty upheld the Church of England's attitude against remarrying
divorced people in church while
their partners are still ilive,
Sunday ni?!u the 23-year-old
Princess and Townsend were end*
ing their second country weekend
meeting as nuietly and as mysteriously as ihey began ii
The Associated Press quoted an
informant inside U ok field House as
saying Margaret was smiling, gay
and sometimes singing Sunday
night while Townsend. in contrast,
looked worried and preoccupied.
STRICT PRECAUTIONS
(The informant said lhey spent
most of the crisp fail Suiuiay alone
in thc lounge with a ro.tring log
(ire. playing records, wilh Marg.
■vr   *      left in settle the  aret singing occasionally in accom-
-;  uncertainty  before  the| paniment.)
! *i.\.Tfrd   airman    rc-j    When dusk fell over (he while-
- !i:-;-.p;i \*hcre lit is air1 porlicocd   mansion   at   L'ckficltl,
. !> - tie hack from leave police with dog* were still patrolling the 7-Vacrc estate keeping
watch for intruders — particularly
press photographers.
Neither the Princess nor thc airman had made a public appearance since they left London on Friday for their "weekend of decision" at thc home here of Lord
and Lady Rupert Ncvill, friends of
thc royal family.
The elaborate security precautions taken to ensure complete
privacy for the Princess and Town-
;mi Townsend con-
woken<t here inside
r oir.lnn «it 18th cen-,
, House, circles close
f\;irc--od belief lhey
; iheir final decision!
<t not to wed. j
(\;<.s.u\.-n of an ;.iin*Hincc-
< lv<»c.l on th'-  fact  that
:•".■(!• r."-   r,ntt then, he and
■ f p--.f-* \\M have unly a few
.*•■ -; :• -r< to talk o\er thcir
: ;-i ■   -..-r     Margaict   has a
■ z.y. n'. nfnrial engagements In
■t ; <r- week.
T0*V«*ENO   LOOKS   WORRIED
":- Prime** drove hero Friday
i'r:r i talk with the Queen. The
ti1 V:>-:e >he went to sec ;he
vrchii.-h^p of Canterbury, Dr.
Ct -iX;-   FMn-r, who has     con-
send underlined thc gravity of
their meeting. Police radio cars
kept on the move around Lhc lanes
circling Lhc estate while constables
checked up on the identities of all
callers lo the house.
NO PUBLIC SERVICE
Princess Margaret and Town-
send caused surprise and deepened
the mystery surrounding their
weekend by not attending any
known church service. They rarely
miss a Sunday service normally.
During thoir first weekend together—with friends at Blnfield,
two weeks ago—tho Princess interrupted her slr.y to drive 10 miles
to a private royal service al Windsor.
A crowd nf several hundred
sightseers and reporters waited aU
day in intermittent rain and sunshine in the hope of seeing them.
By nightfall the crowds bejan to
break up disconsolately.
atTc^r s:s £" u£* »»™ «™\~ -vr"" vtr!wci ,navcs ,,,c imvn ,,ousc
]lomPi *,r Mrs. John Wills in London after a dinner party whicii Group Capt.
MOUNTING TENSION ; 1>e,er Townsend also attended.   Woman in rear was nut identified.
Thc weekend drama wa* played
out against mounting newspaper
agitation that continued to call for
a statement. The mass-circula,,on
newspaper, The People, and Lord
Bcaverbrook's Sun day Express
Sunday spoke of a rift in the royal
family over the Princess' friendship with Townsend.
The People suggests Princess
Margaret is not campaigning for
the right io marry Townsend but
is only demanding thc right to
choose hcr friends.
"The tension and tho sadness is
entirely due to the Princess defy
R)
aire
Killed
Claims    Shotgun    Slaying    Was
Accidental
         _       OYSTER  BAY.   N.Y.   lA.lM-WMiam   Woodward.
ing tiie Queen and her mother by [ millionaire sportsman, wa.s killed Sundav hv shot »un blast
continuing the friendship and be-! which police said liis wife fired when'she "ol up to in-
cause of    the   natural feclm*4 nf ,     ,. , .... . .   . ■'* ,    '
guilt lhat she has in doiii* .so," the vesicate  a  possible  prowler   in   their   swank   country
newspaper says. i residence.
John Cordon. Sunday £>:prc-^ Di-.tric1-Alloniry l-'i«nk A. (lu-
columnist, wrote of a sad-face:!! lutla said the dcniii vii, beiii:
Princess doing her routine ccre-j listed as "accidental pdulin
monial jobs "in the full slave of
television looking lost and uncomfortable because none of the family seem to wish tu speak to hcr."
WEATHER
Overcast, drizzle and fog, High
today 43.
Md. Skies
MONDAY, October 31st.
Sunrise 6:42 a.m.
Sunset 4:42 p.m.
TIDES
High 6:45 a.m.   7:1S p.m.
Low 12:44 a.m.   1:20 p.m.
U   .   ..... ....
H'.vr UKK OLD TIMKS—Presidenl EU-nhowur. si nine,
■■* wheek-hair at Ftt/.simons Hospital, Denver, wears his
■«::".('.;= smile in this first eloseup picture since his heart
SUDAN VQTR APPROVED
CAIUO. iWnti'rx—Kijijpi twit (old
; HStUtiu it iiwHtirex Suihiit'.s p----
j pa.s'ilf l/id! fl plebiscite Ue Mi! Io
j decide tiht'ttti')- the Smlim xiiunbt
i Ti'inuin peiuli'iil or initial iriih
L'i/!/pt. ll ha.* iisl.'cd for Utrthet
I ti cy olio (tons with Britain to ar-
' range for the vote.
"Provincial Rights" Program
Low  Predicts  Social
Credit Govt. By 1957
ther investigation,"
m sigx of Dtsvonu ■
Woodward's body was found
spi*awlc<l face down in the lover ot
his bedroom. One shotgun blast
had struck him in the head, and
a second blast had smashed the
woodwork.
The cmipl"'* Uu eliikln ;;. Vul-
liam III. U), ar.d .lamc\ R. .-lepi
Ihroitidi t'ic shoot in;;. Tliey un-
la!;en lo Nev: York Cily iwtnmit
being told of lheir father's doctli.
Oyster Bay is about 30 mile? out
from Ncw York City on the estate-
studded north shore of Long Island.
Pinnpll said the Woodwards IkhI
alU'iuled ;i party lor the Durlu'ss
ni WindMir ;it thf (ii'i*u".:i' !■', linker
estali'jn itfarliy'I.Hi-iisI \':illi-y ;nid
had li-ft \\iv liiiinc ;il>tiul I j.ni. A
quick i|iie>linuiiiy uf many uf tin-
.r)« jiLii'.sts ill the [>;n ty, tlie drier
live wild, .showed the Wdinlujinis
were in pood spiiils when they
lefl and lhat there had been nu
sign of phv discord.
The short  interview with Mrs.
Woodward, Pimirll snid. dischised
that on Friday  aud Saturday (lie
wealthy couple had found evidence ;
prowlers had been armmd the 15- '
room French provincial residence, '
Mrs. Woodward, Gulotta and
Pinnell said, told them she and
hcr husband retired immediately
after getting home and about two
hours later shc said shc was awakened by a noise, and seizing the
■"luil'-Mni. invrsliv'cd.
WHhrnil Uirnin^ a li^ht on, slir
stej-ped inlo thc dark hrll. sensed
some motion near the door of her
liusliaiKl'.s room and fired twice.
Only then. Pinucll said, did shc
realize that it might bc her husband.
By STANLEY PRIDDLE
GENEVA (Reuters)— U.S.
State Secretary Dulles Sunday delivered a strong protest to Russian Foreign Minister Molotov over the threat
to Middle Eastern peace posed by Communist arms shipments to Egypt.
Dulles gave Molotov the second
Western protest on thc issue in 24
hours during a one-nour visit to
the Russian diplomat's villa.
Then hc saw Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, who stressed
to him Israel's desire Tor armaments and a security guarantee
against a threat to "hcr very existence" by Communist arms supplies to Egypt.
The scries of rapid-fire developments brought the tense Middle
Kast situation lo thc middle of
Geneva's diplomatic stage as the
Big Four foreign ministers took a\
"Fre^rW'liir;
Operate Again j
Publisher Says     j
CORNER BROOK, Nfld. I
(CP)—The publisher of the
Corner Brook Weekly Free
Press said Sunday his paper
had eeascd publication temporarily. Publisher James
Browning Roc said in an interview hc is seeking ncw capital.
"We hope to resume publication as soon as possible.
We're c;oiiif! to explore every
an2le."
lie said hr frcls sure there
i<; a sood market for a weekly
mi lhc west coast of Ncw*
fniindland. His company was
reorganised several weeks a^o
Lo publish the Stephenville,
Nfld.. Guardian and lhc Gander, Nfld., Observer, both to
bc printed al the Corner
Brook plant.
day off from scheduled East-West
nesotiatons.
The growing tension between Israel and the arming Arab states
is not' on the Big Four foreign
ministers conference agenda. But
Sunday it overshadowed other topics as Dulles expressed the Western view that Russia has actually
opened a new "cold war" front in
the Middle East while talking
peace at Geneva.
quarters  that   he  took the Hal
broadcast by Moscow radio Satur*
day night
V. S. IS SYMPATHETIC
This Russian rejoinder was that
the Czechoslovak agreement to
supply arms to Egypt was 1 hon
mai commercial agreemept/ Th*
radio laid the blame for Middlt
East tension on the Weil for pro^
moling the Baghdad Defence Alliance of Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan,
Western policy on thc issue will! Iran and Britain,
be finally formulated at a Big! Authoritative sources said DuV
Three meeting today after Shar-j les told Sharett the-United State*
ett has seen Molotov and passed! would consider "sympathetically"
on the results of his interview to. any Israeli request for defensiv*
tiie Western mrcisn ministers— arms but is not prepared further
Dulles. British Foreign Secretary! to encourage the arms race.
Macrnillan and French Foreign'
Minister Pinay.
Dulles' protest followed a similar statement lo Molotov Saturday
by Macrnillan.
Both Russian and Western delegates maintained thc closest secrecy about Molotov's responses to
lhe Western protests, But it was
taken for  granted    in conference
//
Sharett laid reporters after hl#
interview wilh Dulles;
"Israel considers hcr very existence now menaced by this massive increase of strength falling to
her strongest and most pronounced
enemy. If it is impossble to prevent lhat, then Israel's military
position should be strengthened ai
far as possible.
One   More   Spark
|       To   Ignite   Power'
!       BEIBUT, Lebanon (A.P.)—One more   spark   could
■ ignite the Middle Eastern powder keg.  That is the consid-
■ ored opinion held by most Arab leaders and Western
diplomats since Egypt made it's cotton-for-guns deal with
Communist Czechoslovakia.
j Nerves have been stretched to;—,—,—x\ , . ■ ■_* '»—TT-"
lhe .napping point by repeated;   m ^ las  fortnight Egypt h?S
.shooting affray:, and raids along-I*""*   ""'^   alhanccs    With
ithe Israeli-Esy,>tian and
Syrian frontics.
I An American diplomat described
the situation in these words:
i . «i- 'Svria and Saud! Arabia aimed at
Israeli- ,  ■  ,        .       . ...       ,      ,
j   Most  Amcricin diplomats   in
Ihis area do nol believe the A-rabi
i will provoke an incident which
|might louch off war at the pre-
"It's likf htiys tossing fireeiack- f>cnt time—if only for the reason
ers around in an oil refinery— "that  the promised Czech arms.
our banc al the riyht  place can planes nnd tanks are not yet in
blow tiie whoc thing up.    And the front lines.
there doesn't seem to he much  repelling possible Israeli aggrci*
Wc ean do ib'Ut il." ision.   These pads as yet are no
linore than paper so fax as joint
IIS  SICILY:
I akes
//JO
■""-***     i
Hand"    Again
To   Violence
The Soviet I'niun's bold entry
into Middle East politics has
aroused Arab passions and fanned Israeli featr The Czech arms
deal won friends among the normally nnti-Communist Arabs
Talk of Sovic economic aid
played up.
By HORACE CASTELL
PALERMO. Sicilv i Uontersi -The murderous "hhu-k
:uuui." sem-l ll;ili;m ^m^sU-r in^ani/atinn lhat mu-e hi'lil
Sit-ily in a strip X k'lTur. appears to Ik- on tlu* warpath
;::;ain after !V,iii- years of iiiaulivitv. t *
Tinvi- Killing.-,  jiini  ;i  kiduapiuiii;. " "*""       ~m	
hi\\i' )c,j to thi'. Ijclicl   lit.H ;i   iii'v.
outon-ak ul ^air'>li-f ti-rrui h iir-
iil^l en filler rod by tile ili'e;:d mi-
ficly, nH'iiibtTS of whii-h are said
1*5 have spearheaded gun^, crime in >
1i;p   L'nilei!  States.
Tun weeks   a'jo the   «m of   u
wrnltby  ;ir.{|  powerlul  landowner |
v-as ki'.lii.ippcd bff'ivi? ]\,\ fatli*?r':.'
'Hr-, by -i ma'-ked bund. !
Ir.-ir^n t'raii'.'','fn A2»el!'i tr:-.
marked s-, lir prpp^rpd In piy his'
tun's i;-.n(Hi,oof) pre (JSU'fHJi'r-in-1
■"in "Even the bandit kins Gin-1
Uano never r]ar-vj to ti'ouble mr. j
This cang must be powerful in!
deed." i
SNATCHKH FROM MORM'E       I
This kidnapping shatter^ police
hopes  that the  black  hand,  also
American influence among the
! Arabs—already at a low point
j because the Ar?bs charged United
States and American Zionists
wriv ri'spimsibie for snerificini*
Arabs in rivaling Israel--liu"
been pui on
DOWN  ON  U.K.
An tlie m-i/iTi' b.-l werk by
Bi'ilihli ollicei' -il tiun[i> of the
llui'iiiuii oaMs on tliL- itis|mti*(l
Sautlo Arubiaii bouudiiiy - wliciv
I here may be oil-.stepimt up Arab
.attacks on Bi'i'i.in.
known us tin* Malia, wja ilisbitml-
ing, Tiiey ^aiil Suiulay ilial "every-
iliing points to the Matin" iEI thf
A;;nello abduction.
A week ago a fur mer member of
the black hand, Carmao Napoli.j lector of an influential landowner'• for more than one million Anb
wns riddled with bullet, as he sip-] was murdered as he was about to'
ped effrc in a narrow tunc off one, cnicr   bir,   rmplovcr'-,   luxurimii
i.f Palennu":- mam streets. J villa.  The  man,   40-veai old  Vita
planning is concerned, but Egyp-
tion involvement in big-scal»
fighting would lead Syria and
Saudo Arabia into any conflict
It is obvious the Israelis hopt
Jordan would stand aloof in tht
is 'event of any big fighting.
Arab nationr Jistic ties are so
strong, however, it is likely Joiv
dan eventually may join up with
her Arab neighbors despite pressure from Britain. Britain, in fact
is bound by *i-aty with Jew dan
wbk-h would oblige Britain to aid
JonUui if she ir at lacked.
WANT U.S. SHIFT
j'i-ti-\Yp.-il<fru A rata, and thwt
arc Mill many Hi rrniiuii.tiblt position alllioiujli tliey rarely speak
up publicly -<.vll for a change ia
L.S. policy. 'Hn-y say lliis'miw favors Israel over the Arab states.
Theii' main •teinands have been
for repatriation  or compensatioa
Tli-ii pvfi)in-;, hr- hedv ivaS|
.-r.Ttchfd ftnm the mortuary, and,
villi it the list nf black hand
leader, h? v.as reported earrying.   j
On Monday, the tough rent col-:
Frenna, \eas kn««'n to move in Mali a circles, and ;*?me pojc* thought
he knew the nam?s of the kidnap,
pers of the baron's son and tbe
murderers nf Napoli.
refugees who lose their homes ill
what now is Israel and for ■ readjustment of present boundaries
on the lines of the United Ni:
tions Palestine plan—which would
mean Israel would have to glvt
up tefirtory.
Bv BRUCK LEVETT
^VANCOUVER   ' C.P.)
^■oii Low, in a major policv said
f*nh%    predicted
Mr. Low, terming Social Credit! Health insurance should be applied
"thc greatest movement ever con-! on a basis o[ dominion-provincial
reived outside Christianity itself,"* co-operation.
thc  Canadian  economy is. RESOURCES DEVELOPMKNT
Credit' scarC!' lu tilc farmcr- whose  in-!    3- He predicted a "new era of
.,.,»,      ..   .  .     r,,, i--ome has dropped 40 per tent since resources development'   to  keep
"J«.tia   roll   into   Ottawa-—   l93i. . »grcat grants out of the hands of
"'Crhap^ in  195?—on a pro-*   "When the Canadian hir mer is r heelers. The resources belong to
''rc:al  fiithte  nmnr-im ' not wohocnms, lhe rest oi us can-1 the people."'
•oiu' 3. Ll! ?!S._.. .* "ot hope  to be prosperous." he!    4. »We offer
rights program.
fools  make predictions     Kail|
> national party leader said, "bnt   '
'.Vi'l »ay wc arc Roing ter havc »^"The farmers of t'an.ula can't
^■ciai Credit government tin Can- he blamed for thinking the more
;*3 and we arc going In make a they produce the poorer lhey get."
'■rti 2(kkI effort lo jet il in there: Mr. bow outlined six policies
" 1137." which he said would tarry Social
^r- Uw made his prediction in Credit to Ottawa.
*J sfldrc>s lo a bano.ucl audience
*< *W whleh elosed the twoday^
JJ^mh annual nmvenlion uf lhe
f'Hi-li Columbia Social Credit
*«sue.
"If «e fail to form a govern-
1. "Social Credit will sec Ut it
that go long as 20 per cent of the
population is ativicultural, their
share of lhe Cumuliun economy
will be 20 per cent."
2. "We believe in a new era of
!Wn|  in  ihc next   few  years, ill dominion-provincial   cn-opcration."
"'ll hp he cause the people havc
wiiM-yo,, «nd I.
SCARED TO FARMER
Canada is "ready for a new jm*!
misratinn policy" in which the
provinces   would  have a  voice. |
a new concept- ot
social security,*' preserving prov-;
Incial rights. "Social Credit will!
preserve thc freedoms of thi1!
people intact." j
5. Ho said Canada needed a newt
financial and economic purty.      .
6. "We havc a new concept of
political organization." He said the
party must "train people In the
art of taking part in'lheir own
Kovei'iimenl. No more patronage,
pork barrel and skullduggery."
Thc national leader said unemployment- hit 140,000 in Canada last
fall and wnuld go "even- higher"
ilex I [all If. farmers are denied
their jusl income, ,
Canada's Atomic Sub World Leader
By BORIS MISKEW
MONTREAL. (C. P.I -
I Canada's first atomic-age
\ warship has been described
by Prime Minister St. *jaur-
I ent as "a world leader' and
i"one of the most complex j
; warships afloat.*'
!    The prime minister ;-jid Satur-
' day at the commissioning of the
i new anti-submi'.rinc destroyer escort, St. Laurent, that thc sole pur-
P'j.se of the 2,600-Um ship "is the  cost of S15.UQO.000 rath. Five more
the Canadian-designed warship wasl her crew Would need if uur efforts
built. I for peace should fail.
-We ^ee her tuday as a floating j    "We all must earnestly hope that
tribute to their accomplishments," i thc lime will come when the buf«
he added. "None is bettei equipped! den of armament can be lifted from
for her particular purpose." : thc shoulders of all people, but thjs
Jlr. St. Laurent said lhc ship; time is not yet," the prime mini*
holds promise lor the' future "be-- ter said.
caiisti shc is pari of our contribu-j "The fact that we have such
I tion to the defence of freedom un-. chips is part of the great and de-
j der lhe North Atlantic Treaty Or-t tcrminod effort that is being made
ionization."
Tho St. Laurent—named for the,
river—is Iho first *of 14 :.'Jch ships
bein;* delivered Io the n«vy at a
(NEA Telepholo)
YOUNGEST TO SWIM GOLDEN GATE—Nine-year old    Dick    Poe
splashes his way into swimming history as he becomes thc ynunscsl
.person ever to swim the Golden Gale al San Francisco.  He swam the
"chilly nine-tenths ef a mile in 38 minutes.
maintenance of peace ano the de
fence of freedom."
He praised the "magnificent
combination of Canadian skills."
which made it "possible for us to
produce in Canada a wutiu leader,
CHALLENGE-TO BUILDERS
"This vessel began as a sharp
challen&e to the skill of Canadian
shipbuilders and manufacturers,"
Mr. St. Laurent told more than
1.200  officials  and  imrtfj;  at   lhe
am'expected to be completed m
IHjG, five in 1957 and the remaining
three in tfljS.
NEED FOR TRAINING
Mr. St. Laurent.said the "great
^dvauetis of srienc-e lu'i^-.sihie a
high degree of skill in the operation of such vessels as this."
"Such skill could only be attained
through vigorous and continent
training." he said. "There is nn
ship in our fieri hctlcr equipped in
Canadian Vickev, shipyaid, where1 provide the kind of training thatt Canada."
to reinforce our efforts on behalf
of peace," Mr. St. Lament said.
Before the 356-foot-long vessel
vas officially turned over to the
navy by Vickers, the chief of Canada's naval-staff said the commissioning of lhc SL. Laurent marks, a
milestone in Canadian naval development.
Vice Admiral E, R. Mainguy said
the ship marks "not only the addition to the fleet of what we consider
lo be the most modern anti-submarine vessel in the world, byt
also the 'cominc of »s«' of naval
ship   design and construction   ia
.
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