Daily News, 1955-12-30

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Vol. 62.   No. 293
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND,  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
Reds Blast West; Attack Eisenhower
Boast   Of
H-Bomb
Soviet
Potential
j»n Mf/<'/i/\s Christmas Message Called
"Crude Intcrferance^
MOSCOW—Routers — Russia's two top leaders
Mrint thc West here Thursday in the sharpest terms
,:_fd h\ tlie Russians since last July, when the Geneva
-.u.vmii" conference brought a partial truce in the
;ibal-
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n'!i.
.i-hchc\.  Com muni il!:     ,	
an.    reminded   lhe! ->nr P^h.enis Mich   as
*::.\  .-ticce-js  in  H   am' disarmament was
:i\n
1
Xp
Vour Drar
,".rcenrn«
\~h Your
Social
..Jr-a
in
■ . t: i r»   condemned   :i
,:>>a^o   from   Pres-
".t to the Commu
.   »f eastern  Europe
.n'.crferrnce."   Eiscn
.»32e  wished   (or the
■ rati ii n nf iheir libertv.
• r ha*, been practical'y
-' pcr.v'-n.'.l attack by
■ -..- >,? rccv.mc a,sesidet|i
.  c'lfcrv   Khni.-hrhcv
r:>mo S-iviot—llussUV
-*.i.:   Pu*>ia   diH   not
-:   of   hor   mihtarv
■   nu>t     remind  the
"> >ir. ;cn  b^mh  r.-
3.  *,cnu:v;.!cnt ;>
: r.- >«( ordinary on-
• i_:i ho increased.'
\>1\N BLASTS
.i    and   Kus.-tsn   pro-
Ru";anin   b;ith   do-
.■.■■^i-liC'; tliey made (tn
-•  ■ ■..-.   uf Asia—which.
■:''    t*:'i:ici»m in the!
■■• >ic  no   attempt   U1'
.:■-:. denunciations    of
. . ?. ;n*Mcd that 19.i3
:-.-.  r:i;nt  in  the  re-'
■ --. vi," and uoMern.
• !   -. :   interpret   tlio ■
. /.. :.-M:na a drama'ie
. i ■var tactic*.
:■ m."ide n.> direct r<v
■ ...r <'he:!"lcd visit to
v %pr;n;:. But Khru.V
•-.d .r;?n'Uhip for the
"'■: and denied savin:
. • :vc t^w\ the Bnt
-'-'.; fir sr<ln2 to stir
•■■iv.ecn V.*c.;t;rn and
Germany
indicated.
Uip!timat.s here think the Russians
will try to maintain the idea i-f
peaceful coexistence and the "Geneva spirit" while seeking to ex*
tend their iuflutuce among colonial and formerly-colonial peoples.
The Kremlin diplomatic gallery
was crowded for the occasion.
On Ihc floodlit da i.s facing the
1,34" deputies were President KH-
menti Voroshilov and five deputy
premier., among them ex-premiw
Georgi Malenkov,
Bulganin   received   a   standing
ovation.
CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE
He said Russia's success in developing friendly relations wiih
India, Burma and Afghanist-ia
was a great contribution to world
pence.
Guilt   for   Asian   backwardness
rested with the colonizers, he sa;d.
He attacked SEATO and the Bash
did Pad as aggressive colonic |
i.m in a nc«' form. '
He reaffirmed Russia's support
for India's case in Kashmir and
her demands for the return ot
Portuguese Goa. In Burma he
wished to see an economic system
independeni of foreign powers.
Bulganin urged an end to tne
arms race and a ban on nuclear
and intercontinental weapons.
Ho :;aid lhat "the outgoing year
will ?o down in history as one of
a definite shift n the strained in-
ternatonal situaton wheh has d<-
veloD?d over the past period."
'The shift is due in large mea:.
"Gil Eannes" Serves Canadian Fishermen
Portuguese    Offer    Is
Accepted With Thanks
New U.S.  Citizens
OTTAWA—CP — A big. whito hospital ship flying
;he Portuguese flag will minister to Canadian deepsea
fishermen on the cod banks off Canada's east coast.
Her facilities  are being  made
PEPPERRELL AFB.—Northeast Air Command bases and the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Station. Argentia, were
represented in the latest group of 20 new citizens naturalized here at Pepperrell. Among dignitaries attending the ceremony are (left to right);—U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Examiner William J. Kentville, U.S.
Consul General* William E. Flournoy, Jr., Pepperrell AFB Commander Col. G. S. Bond, and Newfoundland
Attorney General Hon. L. R. Curtis, Q.C—USAF-NEAC Photo.
Mother And Son
Die In Blaze
WOLSELEY,  Sask. (CP) -  a
young mother and hcr four-year-
old son  were  burned to    death
early Thursday following a coal-j fishing fleet at east coast porU.
gas explosion in their one-storey '■ Other fleets—mainly Spanish aad
are
available free to Canadian fishermen just as they are to memberi
of her own 5,000-man fishing fleet.
A Portuguese embassy .poker
man here said Thursday the fr**
service is Portugal's way of repaying Canada for services and
hospitality afforded the Portuguese
farm home.
The father, Maurice Hebert, escaped after throwing his two-year-
old daughter through a broken
window. In his bare feet during
sub-zero weather, hc ran with he*
through a half-mile of snow to a
neighbor's house.
Dead are his wife, 22. and son
Gerry. Hebert and his daughter
Shirley, suffering burns and frost-
bile, were taken to hospital in tfr.s
town 65 miles east of Regina.
French—will pay for hcr service
under an agreement recently concluded among the governments
concerned.
The Portuguese decision to prv
vidc Canadians with free care wa*
made known to the external ti-
fairs department reccnUy and thc
Canadian government sent g no'c
of thank..
The Portuguese have been fish-
ing thc cod banks off Canada*
east coast for almost five cenlur-
Police said Hebert awoke to find! ies. The Portuguese fleet consists
the house full of gas. He opened
the coal stove, causing the explosion.
An inquest was called.
Big   Expansion
Canada's Hydro
Announce TCA
Appointment
OTTAWA   (CP) - Canada's
capacity to generate electric
L«*
CO
•   < ;ie: jniiiative on nu-■ peoples.
<tlh\TlSTS~~S~AY
■ J* t0 «> ,efforls °Vh0 ' "juice" for power-thirsly consum-
! Lmon directed towards ensuring  J J b    We   *r        m
peace and lhe security   of   tne  m&    d        ._cd     *      fQ_tcr
hdio
Signals
Explosion   Of
Show
World
Vrvdivi Gigantic Milky Way
Explosion i
. ';A. Ga.—AP—Radio signals coming from a
;:>it-n nf two milky ways give new evidence
,c i.- bk-wing apart, two young scientists said
;hc-c radio broadcasts
mc Uini o; "red shhY'
■ wave, coming from
■■. The shill of distant
-.■] ran;? of wavchnSVn
^un ior believing thai
■:^   are   nishijis   awry
:::rrccliblc speeds., ii-v
■V farther away tlwy
research laboratory, Washington,
to thc American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
They tuned in with a radio telescope on the radio noise coming
from the mammoth collision far
out in space of two great galaxies
or milky     ways of tars.
The head-on   collision   involves
promised to grow
in the next two ycars.
The northern affairs department
in a year-end review of the powei
industry issucd Thursday, said the
195S increase ln generating capacity of 839.630 horsepower brought
total output to 17,531,536.
!    More than half the increase this
. year was accounted for by add'.-
I tion of five units with total outp::t
I of 525,000  h.  p.  at the  Ontario
| Hydro • Electric Power Commis-
! sion's Sir Adam Beck • Niagar.i
; generating station No. 2.
;    Projects still in the preliminary
j stages would provide an additional
; 4,000,000 h. P-, Including the missive St. Lawrence river power project which is scheduled to provide
1,200,000 h. p. by 1960.
The 'department estimated thai
only 27 per cent of the country's1
total water power resources have
been harnessed "lo meet expanding Industrial needs and incrcas-
miles ? second,
Cygnus A was first detected and
ing consumption by business and
domestic users."
MARITIMES DEVELOPMENT
I tho Maritimes, the Nova
Scotia Power Commission completed its 6,240-h. p. development
on thc Mersey river while the New
Brunswick Electric Power Commission began development of the
Beechwood site on the St. John
river, which will provide 90,000
h. p. by lhe spring of 1958.
In Newfoundland, t h e initial
2,000-h. p. turbine of union electric
light and power company's Trinity
River plant was expected io be m
service by the end of thc year, A
second similar unit was to go into
operation in 1959,
Hydro ■ electric projects undcr
construction in Ontario, besides
the St. Lawrence development,
were a 74,000-h. p. generating station at Manitou Falls on thc English river scheduled for completion
next year and the Whitcdog Falls
generating station on lhe Winnipeg
river 12 miles cast of the Manitoba border, expected to provide
243,000 h. p. in 1957.
In Quebec, hydro-cleclric construction, stimulated by mining
developments  and growth in the
Townsend To
Leave RAF
BRUSSELS (API-Group Capt.
Peter Townsend, former suitor of
Princess Margaret, soon will vacate his job as air attache here
and leave the RAF, the newspaper
La Nation Beige said Thursday.
It said Townsend probably will
become a horse trainer on the
French riviera, possibly for the
stable of Prince Aly Khan.
In London, an air ministry
spokesman said that Townsend's
Find Ancestors
Had Fishy Eye
EYE, England (AP)-The citizens of this old market town
called off a civic celebration
abruptly Thursday when they discovered that their ancestors did
history in the Eye 750 years ago.
The townfolk had planned to observe the 750th anniversary oi
their royal charter. But on lhe eve
of the occasion  archivist Philip; tour ot duty in Belgium is due to'
Dickinson   announced   th-at   the; terminate in February '
town's charter was actually stolen]    Asked lf Townsend has intimated 1 !ea™* for tllCir homc pom emy
of both draggers and ban'ter.
which launch hand-line dories. The
draggers leave for the Grand
Banks in February and thc banks
in April.
SPECIALLY BUILT
Tlie fleet has bcen accompanied
by a mother ship for many year.:.
At first it was a Portuguese warship and later a converted merchant ship. The Gil Eannes, owned
by the Portuguese ship owners'
association, was specially built
for the job and replaces the old
merchant ves"cl.
Thc hospital ship usually joins
the fleet on the Grand Banks io
May and accompanies it in June
when most of the vessels sail norji
for the waters off Greenland.
Many of the vessels, accompanied
by the mother ship, subsequently
return to the Grand Banks in September for farther fishing before
from Hythe in County Kent, and
that the ancient citizens of E>e
had bribed the Lord Keeper of the
Great Seal with chickens and capons to say H belonged to them.
"We shall need a lot of convincing lhat our ancestors were such |
he wants lo resign, the spoke.-
man replied:
"We have not received any ap
plication f o r resignation from
Group Capt. Townsend."
in Oclober.
ing Wat our ancestors were sucn;»j| m     n
scoundrels',"  said  Mayor Georgi |V|OVP  10 rrOlPi't
Edwards, "but if wc can't ccle-j T v *    u    u
bcatcour,50c,,ar,cryear',ta foster Parents
we'll celebrate our 400th in 1959.;
We got a perfectly good charter
in that year."
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Trans-Canada Air Lines has an i
nounced thc appointment of G. J., fojIGTatUlateS
. •
WEATHER
Foggy wilh intermittent rain or
marl;, ihe fir.-t lime
hr., been mcasur*..!
■■"»\e„
Australian   ra dio   aslronmcr
0.07 also found it with thc 200-
. inch light Iclcscope. The Palomar
tremendoucs amounts of nydroge.i astronomcrs estimated Cygnus A
its position fixedf by British and j aluminum industry,  continued  lo
expand. Shawinigan Watcr and
Power Co. added 158,500 h. p. wild
installation   of  new  units  in ils
IT
MY
^    jas. As the gas molecules collide,
■n'ming to us' their energy of motion is turned
i. inlo energy of radiation, both light
'11 * KAItTHKR : vvavcs an(i rat,io wavM-
•nr p ,>Hbiiity that by' N0T T0° CL05E
- -■.:.-« Tk'iit.*, astronomers, This colliding star syslem is
■• '" "*o2" farther inii> known as Cygnus, A, and is 100,-
"   ■■' :th   rcr 000,000 light ycars away. A lighl
' '-.>:■ and Edward F.' year i3 the distance light travels
■.: I'ni'.ed Slate* n»v*I; in one year, at a speed of 186,000
is speeding away from us at 10,500
miles per second.
The discovery of Cygnus A by
radio telescope and lhc new radio
measurements mean that even
more distant galaxies might be
found by radio means, including
some beyond the range of optical
telescopes. This would greatly extend knowledge of our universe.
Churchill to the position of Dis-
trict Traffic and Sales Manager,
Boston. Mr. Churchill, formerly
Cily Traffic and Sales Manager in
Hamilton, Ontario, succeeds F. B.
Holland who retired.
A native of Halifax, Mr. Churchill was educated at St, Mary's College and joined TCA there as a
Traffic Representative in 1947.
Hc later held thc same position in
Chicago before being transferred
to Hamilton in 1953. He is a past jlions to *hc Engineer.
President of the Halifax Junior
Board of Trade and the Maritime
Junior Chamber of Commerce as
Reds Break OH Malayan Talks
And  Reject  Surrender  Demand
mi.;\i,
Malaya (APt — Talks? government won one poinl — tne
: i s 7'a years of gucr- j Red pledge to lay down arms whtn
an elected regime rules Malay
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*'*•" ■" IM abruptly Thursday.
»• U pledged in writing
-   n their arms when ail
(' s-'Tinmcnt takes over.
:' ■*. ru  broke  ofl   when
"•--•'  thief Chin  Peng  r«.
- * ;nvrrnment demand fir
"^:  itrfore stalking back to
•^,' jiin;le guerrillas, he dc-
'"'"'  'A> will never accept sur
'■'■'■- ir,d will continue to struggle
;'-* ia*t man."
*> "l;*cu>sions to end thc fight-
*h;ch has cost 10,000 lives,
U.?ice t*tueen Chen a"d two
L75un^i companion* on one side
r-J»1*yan Chief Minister Prince
•f Rahman  and  Singapore
* Minister David Marshall on
' Wb-r.
Tst Federation of Malaya now
J 'protectorate with an elected
Igbturc over which the British
Igcwnmisiioncr has veto power.
IS-_hli promised eventual
|[J*rf«nce   or   Commonweall'a
fcfWXT HON
'tfcile
neither  the   Communis1.
I Jj *wernmcnt scored a clear
1^ in the two-day talks, tho
Marshall opened Thursday's
mecling with a demand that ill
Communists surrender. Chin Peng
and his aides refused Then Marshall submitted a resolution for
Communist acceptance. It read:
"As soon as Ihc federation o0'
tains complete control»of lntcri.nl
security and local armed forces
we will end hostilities, lay down
our arms and disband our forces."
The Communists had said three
limes during the talks that when
an elected government took ovcr
they would lay down their arm«,
Marshall took their statement down
in pencil and passed it to them
for confirmation. Chin Feng said
he could not read English. One
of his assistants translated and
passed It back after adding two
bracketed clauses. This amended
It In read:
"As soon' as the (elected government of the) federation obtains
complete control of internal security and local'armed forces we will
end hostilities! lay down nnr arms
and disband our forces. (Does not
amount to accept (correct) of the
present amnesty)/'
three St, Maurice river plants..
Northern Quebec Power Company
addcd'34,500 h. p, to the capacity'
of its Quinze Rapids plant on the
upper Ottawa river.
Mother Feeds Sons ■
Aspirin Overdose
oidN™!,J°^Kh(Ari-A 4u*ycar-i ^^¥iddiviEa:r;oiTCyrs;
i^w, /?i    .   fablcts   *cd"??y  setbacks recently, will come ia-
^i* *aJ1d' buJ *™.n!.  ! when  Foreign  Secretary  Selwyn
cally summoned help when their Uo d confe£ w|th Brfl|Jh env.;,n
City Engineer Ron Martin and
the staff of the streets department received a bouquet from
Councillor Gordon Warren yesterday. Mr. Warren told his municipal colleagues that several citizens had mentioned to him the
speed and thoroughness with
which the City's snow clearing operation is being carried out, and
he passed along these congratula-
well as Past National Director of
the Canadian Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
TORONTO (CP)-Welfarc Mln-:drizzlc- Moderate easterly winds.
ister Cccile said Thursday foster;
parents will soon bs given the right:
of appealing any i we which takes'
thcir foster children away from'-,
them. i
He said the Ontario Child Welfare;
Act will bc amended at the Feb-!
ruary session of the legislature to;
provide such an appeal. j
The minister said thc legislation
was made necessary because of ar.; jT^JT
incident involving the York Countv'
Children's Ai.i Society, j
He said a two-year-old baby who
had lived in a foster home for U
months was suddenly taken from
the foster parents and given out f:r
adoption by another couple.
The fosler parents were told regulations frowned on permission lo
foster parents to adopt wards
placed undcr their care.
High today 40.
Nfld. Skies
FRIDAY, December 30th.
Sunrise 7:49 a.m.
Sunset .4:17 p.m.
TIDES
High 7:48 a.m.   fl:30 p.m.
..   . 1:53 a.m.   2.30 pm
Temperatures
Dawson
Vancouver  2-t
Toronto   30
Montreal   4
Halifax   23
Sydney   25
St. John's   21
7b
9
36
as
29
29
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Close Scrutiny Of Middle East Policy
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's
on the agenda: j arms deal  has   upset   lhe  arms
1. An assessment of     the new i balance the West has been trying
cold war front the West feeli Rus   to maintain between Israel and the
The government negotiators
maintained that by making these
changes in the resolution Chm
concurred. Bui he did not sign It.
Abdul Rahman sails for Britain
Jan. 1 tn begin talks with the
colonial office about Malayan independence.
LAYS bOWN CONDITIONS
Wednesday Abdul Rahman laid
down the amnesty conditions to thc
Communists who have been terrorizing Malaya in a war that is
costing Britain £225,000 a day. H s
conditons:
The Communists must surrender,
submit to detention and investign
tion by Malayan authorities.
Thursday, Chin Feng replied:
"The principle of Investigation
of our loyalty Implies stirrendei.
We will never surrender at any
time and will continue the struggle
to the last man."
Marshall Interposed: "As a hu
man being, I ask you to realize
there arc 7,000,000 people m Malays and 3,000 Communists. Tie
welfare of 7,000,000 must - come
fint."
Later. A*>dul Rahman said he
telt thc Reds wcre Irving to "saw
facc"-that most of them want V\
end the war.
suffering wrenched her heart.
The two children, Bruce Black-
well, 8, and Keith, 6, were taken
to a hospital In serious condition.
They wcre reported improving
later,    •
Police said the mother, Mrs.
Dorothy Blackwell, gave lhc
tablets to the children while upset
from a quarrel with her husband,
Joseph, a navy seaman, who le.t
home after the fuss. She was
quoted as saying she planned :o
lake her own life after the childro
died.
She told officers she fed each
of the children 95 aspirin table's
and lhat they lapsed into coma*.
Soon thev appeared to be suffering terribly, she said, and she
couldn't stand It any longer. Shc
called police and begged for help
Board To Meet
s The Dominion Fuel Board Is
scheduled soon to meet in thc
Maritimes, and Newfoundland Is
to have appreciable representation,
particularly from thc House of
Commons in Ottawa and (rom the
Newfoundland Board of Trade.
The meeting will concern the
current coal shortage here, loading
cargoes at Sydney, and other possible Dominion-wide coal matters.
in the  area,  diplomatic sources
said Thursday,
Lloyd, appointed foreign secretary last week in Prime Min-
ister Eden's cabinet shuffle, is
summoning British envoys fro;n
Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon,
Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and
the Persian gulf area for urgent
talks next Wednesday and Thuia-
day.
The foreign office siid Llovd
was "anxious" to discuss with
them personally the situation in
.the tension-packed area.
Diplomatft sources said the
talks will cover the whole range
of current Middle East problems--
particularly the recent Communist arms deal with Egypt; Bn^
ain's unsuccessful move to got
Jordan into the five-na'tion Bach
dad Pact, which resulted in vi
olent riots in the Arab kingdom,
and the continued Arab Israeli
tension.
WANTS CLEAR PICTURE
The talks are designed to give
Lloyd an up-to-date assessment of
thc critical Middle East situation
before he accompanies Eden '•'■
Washington later next month for
discussions with President Eisen
hower -and Stale Sscretary John
Fosler Dulles.
Diplomatic sources .aid these
arc Hkcly to be thc chief topics
sia has opened in the Middle East
with the Czech arms agreement
with Egypt and Soviet wooing of
other Arab states. Western diplomats  charge   that  the  Czech
Arab states since 1950.
The British envoys also will di>
sive Aswan dam on Dc Upper
Nile.
2. The violent reaction to Britain', proposal that Jordan join the
Baghdad Pact, which links Turkey
cuss the recent offer by the United Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain
States and Britain to give Egypt in the "northern tier" of Middle
financial aid in building lhe md.-l East defence.
Marie Too 111 For Journey
Quints    To    Make
Visit/   Attempt    To
New
Heal
Year
Rift
MONTREAL —CP-The
quintuplet   sisters  Yvonne.
Annette and Cecile announ-1 by their father's statements that
intruders"   had   come   between
from their family," Wr. Edwards i Edwards, adding:
said in an interview. |    "Their father has never tried to
The quints had been "perplexed 'i dominate   these   girls,   so   why
ced Thursday they are going home for New Year's
in an effort to heal a family
rift.".     .
Marie—fourth of the surviving
quints—will not be going because
of her health, the girls announced
through business spokesman L, M.
Edwards.
The announcement came after
the four held council Wednesday
night with Mr. Edwards following
a series of reports of a serious
rift between thc quints and their
parents.
"Thc girls are going to sec the-i
parents to prove that there is no
qucstion of <them drifting    awi<y
ihem and thcir parents*
COOLER AFTER 21
The father, Oliva Dionne, had
said in North Bay that the quints'
coolness toward the rest of the
family became more pronounced
after they each came into a $250 -
000 fortune on their 21st birthd..y
last May. They had not even sent
greetings at Christmas.
"The girls were so concerned
about that statement and that's
why they're going to see them,"
said Mr. Edwards.
Tlie quints and their friends tu1
been "amused" at ^reports that ro
mancc may have played 3 part h<
the rift. None of the girls ha? any
serious heart interest., said Mr. recovered.
should they bc resentful in any
way?"
It was not known immediately
when they plan to start for the 18-
room mansion at Callander. Ont.,
'their birthplace.
Yvonne and Cecile, both nurses-
in-training, were taking time off
for the trip.
Annette would loin them but
Marie, recently discharged from
hospital where she was treated for
a run-down condition, was still nol
well enough logo.
Marie, frailest of the four, .lefl
a cloistered convent in Quebec last
month when she found the Hfe too
rigorous for her strength. Aa<
nettc, a music student, also hii
bcen in hospital but now Is fuliy
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