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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1953

AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR REFUSE INTE

-Christmas hail gtrilte Tlsreallensi Britons

commons To Tackle Tough Housing Problem This Week

OTTAWA. (OP)- The Commons this week will tackle and thorny problem of housing before it ad- mums for the Christmas recess.

The matter won't be cleaned up before adloumrnant Thursday or Friday but at least the House will get a start on what is likely to be one of the major pieces of legislation to come before this sea- 5i0n. I

The government will float place on the order paper a resolution proposing that it amend the Na- vional Housing and Bank Acts to carry out its intended legislation.

Debate on this resolution prob- ably will last at least

a C0” of days. Many members have s -

uificd that they have plenty to say about the housing situation.

Lower Payments The government plans to provide

for smaller down payments for homes built under the National

Coming Events

"Long Itlver December 21st.

School Concert,

"Regular weekly card Newton school tonight.

party,

"tn-clown School tonceri, Dec- ember 17-th.

School Tuesday. December 22nd.

Concert,

"Alexandra. School Christmas omcert, Friday, December lath.

"Come Wiltshlre School Concert in Hall. Decernlbcr 17th.

"Cherry Valley Christmas con- cert Dec. 31 at 8 o'clock.

"Dance Fortune Hall Tuesday. Um. lath. McEwan's Orchestra.

"North wlltshirs Christmas Concert tonight.

"Marshfield Christrnas Concert. Friday. December lath.

"I-familfon school concert in

Housing Act and for A hrxsr per- lod in which to repay loans. It also plans to permit banks to enter the mortgage lending field for the first time.

The contemplated legislation is believed to provide for down pay- ments of i0 per cent on the first 50.000 of the lending value of a new house and 80 per cent for the portion above 38,000. Builders now are required to make a. 10- per-cent down payment.

It is believed builders would have 25 or 30 years in which to repay loans on houses instead of the cur- rent 20. But interest rates would be raised from ii 1-4 to 5 1-2 per cent.

An example on s oll,000 house

compared to 32,200 how, that is, l6 instead of 20 per cent; monthly rc- paymcnts of 558.10 on a. 25-year mortgage compared to the present b5D.03 on a. 20-year mortgage.

Luw-Bracket Baneflts

The legislation is ciopected to benefit mostly builders who can put up a home for same. But; there would be some benefits for those building higher-priced dzwollings.

opposition members have lllrendy indicated they will seek a l0-per- cent down payment. on the first s10,000 with 30-year mortgages and no increase or drop in the interest rate.

Four AIEQEEITBE Santa Operation

MONTREAL. (CPL. Your a craft will take off today on Santa. Claus cperabion to northern outposts. the RCA)? announced Saturday.

Heavy cargoes of Christmas mall and supplies will be dropped to the men who maintain a. lonely vigil throughout the long Arctic night at Canada's northern front- ier, The plants will go as far as 2.500 miles from Montreal and

labor Palp7:r Calls llnion Heads "Sirooges"

LONDON, (Al?) -,- Britons who

war suddenly face the threat of a. railway strike on the eve of holi- day week. A Labor paper called the union leaders who ordered the strike "Sc ."

The National Union of Railway- msn has sent out a. call to its 400.- 000 members to walk out at mid- night Dec. 20 to press demands for wage increases.

The threat of industrial itrike cast gloom over this country,

-food and drink and shops packed with goods-for the first time since

would be: Down payment of 51,700 1930

Dom-ands for the government to step in immediately to avert a complete tic-up of the country's

Londc-.1 newspapers.

the timing oi the strike call. sharp- est denunciation of nail union lead- ers was voiced in the People. organ of the Labor party. under a ban- ner front-page headline

Christmas."

James Campbell. gencml sec- retary of mm, has announced his men are going through with the walkout. despite the trade unionist ranks.

"Even if their-est of the unions

the country." Two e-mailer railway

the Associated Society of Loco-

day located the wreckage of a four-

body near the wreckage.

within 800 miles of the North Pole.

I-lnmilton I-Ioli. Dec. 21. ' ' '

"Kingston School Concert, 1 Thursday. December l'lt.h. ,

"Crushing and Mixing every SUVA. Fiji (Reuters) - some dey. N. Aubrey Cutciiffe. Fijisns may have to go without

"Children's concert and dance, I-at 86 hall Tuesday, Dec. 22nd, ll pm. -

"Donlt miss the Brookfieid Christmas concert in Bronkficld hall Dec. 29.

"Reserve Vtilileiy Concert and Dance in Lot. 65 Hall. 8 o'clock.

"Reserve Decetrlibsr and for Amzin Road school Christmas Con- Nlf .

"North Milton School Concert

in Hull. Friday. Decrmbcr lath. Curtain 3 p, M. "Come to St. Marys school.

ml or. Christmas Concert, Dec- rmber 1'lth.

"Game to Gt;-ndvlew school roncert in Orarldview Hail, Wed- !"-tsdhy. December 23.

"come to New Ar-mo Girlsfsnas concert in St. Catherine's school hull. Dec. 32nd. at 3 o'clock.

"Dollie to nunmtflnuu Christ- mll concert in Marshileld hall Tuesday. Dec. no.

"Come to st. Ignatius School

Concert In Maytiold Hall, Decom- bef ldtll. M 8.15.

"Danes new school in Newton. Monday mm, December ram. Good music. .

IIAn Ham 1. 0. 1. day. llth. All ltltdame requntod.

”HlhlU&I Ohrllllnss concert. Cllumh

' 9- X'. Isle of candy.

D"Danos in Afton Rail. Monday. ,owmbu- lull. in aid of Rocky aim Room club. Toola Orch- ultra. l

December 26th, for

mini Meeting of King Wil- lil or

Sunday school Haulbrook Thundsy. December 11th.

bread in a. day or two if the crowds keep coming onto the is- lands to see "Queen Ellaipeti” ,of Britain and her "duke nri Edin-lbars."

There are only four days to go before the royal visitors steam in- to Suva harbor on the liner Go- thlc.

But canoes and boats. jamfull of visitors from other islands. are pouring in at a rate which is ex- ported to double the 30,000 popu- tlniiorl of the capital, E-uva. by the time the Queen arrives.

They also are pouring into Lau- toita on the other side of the is- land. The only baker there, an Indian, already was having shard time making enough break tofeed the growing crowds.

Tilers was good news for the Fijians. though -no "beefle.-s Tuesday” this week, for the first time in four years. In 1049 the government introduced one best- less day A week to conserve and build up the herds of cattle darl- gerouslv dwletsd during the war

Newspapers

(By Watson Sims)

NEW YORK. (AP) -- A flood title of printed news, unique. probably, in all newspaper pub- lishing history rolled clown on New York Saturday night and Sunday morn"!!-

In the first regular publication of Sunday newspapers after an 11-day strike which had almost completely halted the city's presses. five Manhattan papcrs got out editions totalling 1,698 pages.

This lsrgantuan city normally noted for Sunday editions set records the Times. News and Mirror.

effort in a bulky for

The Journal American said its

,. --- , 160-page edition "war nne' oft

- Monday. list. or largest, it not i e Arlen . 8 WNW Mad Oobooi onrumn ever published.

Wt in Kydtld ihll. Oil in The .3)-page Herald Tribune

'13- also was one of the biggest ever.

i "so. Peters-Sr-Can Club

hit is vsuasrrliie it'll, in; 1'33 sme

December mo, stuung at

ll--at sin in It. more no all.

min or Chile.

This was in striking contrast to last Sunday. when only the Herald Tribune published and that newspaper contained only eight pages with no advertising.

The News. a tabloid, alone to-

husaand the g

Royal Visit Crowds Double Capital gPopulation

years. when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh dine at government

Fijians and Indians among the 900

white. and 148,000 are Indians, de- ocendants of brought from India.

when the Queen arrives Suva. 15 specially built canoes will

she and her husband will see wel-

and the four-year-old daughflr of It Fijian chief will ourtsy with a bouquet for the monarch.

During the two day visit the Queen also will watch Fijian schoolgirls perform ll fairy tale in which "Queen Elisipeti" is the fairy queen and the "Duke ni liidlnbau" is the prince charming.

The Queen and Prince Philip will go on to Tongs. Australia and New Zealand in their 50,000-mils globe circling tour of 14 British Commonwealth nations.

Sunday Editions Of N. Y.

Set Records

tailed on pages, including number of regional sections. A spokesman for the News said this was some 130- pages more than the largest number published by The News previously.

In advertising, the News said. the edition contained some more lines of department-store adver- tising than on the comparative Spnday last year.

Newsboys tattered under The Times, each edition of which weighed in at five pounds and five ounru.

The Times said this was a weight record and said the moo.- 000 copies required 3,911 tons of newsprint.

The ink alone, the Times said, amounted to 45 tons, not Includ- ing color compound and special solvent used to print the book review and magsslne sections.

Also listed as Timer records were the MG columns of news and 615.0!!! lines of advertising.

The new: sections alone of the Times ran to 152 pages, another record. The Herald Tribune's news section totalled 112 pages.

have been lmhm forward to their gayest Christmas since before the

which had counted on celebrating with virtually everything plentiful

nationalized rail system came from

Labor appeared sharply split on

reading "Railway scrcoges call A strike for

division in do not support the strike,” he said, "it will be sufficient to paralyze un-ions-

motive Engineers and Firemen and Transport Salaried Staff As-

aticn with A total of 180.000 bers-have opposed the holl- day strike.

LONDONDERRY, Ireland. (Reu- ters) - A Royal Navy frigate Bun-

eugine RAF Shackleton airplane that crashed off the coast of west-

ern Scotland Friday night with 10 men aboard. The frigate found one

house here there will be about 100 uesis.

Of Fiji's 312,000 inhabitants, only some 15,000 are white or part plantation workers at

nose out toward the glcasrling Go- thic to escort her in. On shore

coming war club and spear dances

By WILLIAM 1.. RYAN

Moscow, (AP)-The soviet gov- ernment announced Saturday night it had promised in advance to give serious attention to President Els- enrhower's speech before the United Nations Tuesday concerning at- omic armaments.

The Moscow radio broadcast this foreign ministry statement:

"On Dec. 7 Mr. Charles Iii. Bohlen, allbsuador of the U.E.A. visited Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, U. S. S. R. minister of foreign affairs, and told him of a speech to be made Dec. 8 by President Eisenhower in the Gen- eral Assembly of the United Na- tions on the question of atomic armaments.

"On behalf of his government, the ambassador requested that at- tention be given to proposals which would be made in the speech of the U. S. A. president.

Having thanked the ambass- dor for lihe information. V. M. Mol- otov sald the question of atomic weapons was a. very important matter and that the soviet gov- ernment would give the speech of

To Select New French President This" Week I

PAR15.

the wide open race for the nation's highest office.

At least 10 candidates are in the running to succeed Vincent Auriol who ends his seven year-mm of office this year. Big narna in the contest are those of Joseph Laniel. the present prime minister. Georges Biclault. -his foreign sec- retary. and Henri Queuille, former Radical premier. But a. host of other entrants with strong political

runaway for any candidate.

majority vote of the upper and lower h-cllses of the Frencll Pur- liament. Formal advance nomina- tions are not required.

Vole Starts Thursday

The first ballot Thtllsdnay afternoon with a second scheduled for that evening, If these give no result the voting wil be continued the next day and as long as is required for s ciearcut de- clsion.

Tile French president solely as head of thd stale and plays no part in making govern- ment policy. Yet even though his office is considered non-political and heavily laden with ceremonial duties. the president wields heavy influence in France's complex pol- itical life.

lihodes Scholar for N. B. Chosen

SAINT JOI-IN. N. 3. (CP) -- Robert M. Mundle. 21. of Sack- ville. first year medical student at McGlli University, was chosen Saturday as the Rhodes scholar for New Brunswick.

Mundle. a Mount Allison Uni- versity graduate who holds a re- serve eomminion in the RNCis air arm, will be entitled to attend Oxford University for two- years.

Report Strange Llglrr Was Meteor

TORONGO. (UP)-- A greenish- blus light seen by dozens ct per- sons over Ontario and New York stats Friday night was A meteor, officials of the Dunlop Observatory sold satunlwy. An ROAM pilot de- scribed the light as being red. green and yellow and tnweiiing at about 000 miles an hour.

TRUCK Dllvlil. DROWNED PICYIOU. N. 8.. (OP)-Arthur De- vsux. 37. of Pleasant Bay, N. 3.. was drowned early Sunday whsn his truck failed to make a turn on the approach to the nearby Calo- donia bridge and plunged into a stream. His body was recovered.

Soviets Promise Serious. Attention A To Eisenhower Talk

m the U. B. president on that ques- tion serious attention, as it had

done in similar cases in the past.

"On Dec. 9. in a letter addressed to V. M. Molotov. Mr. Bohien sent excerpts from the above speech by President Eisenhower."

The broadcast did not carry the matter beyond that point.

The tone of the surprise state- ment marked a change from ear- lier Russian pronouncements -is- sued strictly for consumption abroad-which assailed the presi- dent's speech proposing an atomic pool for peace as belligerent and "threatening atomic war.”

A 11.8. state department spokes- man. asked for comment on the broadcast. said: "We consider this s. normal reaction and would nat- urally expect a proposal of as seriom a nature as this to get serious corlsideuation."

British officials said it raises "rather cautious hope." some quarters in London remarked, how- ever, that the statement left the door Wide open for the Russians to take any line they may want

(Reuterm -- With Francois presidential election only four days away there is scarcely a hint of who will be successful In

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Ground Observers Prove Capability In Exercise

Vmum. (or) - mantle murky weather, Nova scotia and Prince Edward Island ground observers proved Sunday they could out-fox attacking" plans that evade radar be-on by flying law.

"Operation Bluespud." the firs joint: exercise by observers in both provinces, was termed ”ve:ry suc- cessful" by officers at the RDA? filter stat-ion hene whim plotted the course of planes from information given by about 400 observers.

Actually there are 4,000 observ- ers in N. S. and P. ill. I. but over- cast weather prevented naval air- craft from Dartmouth, N. 5., and Summerside, P. E. I. testing most. of the observers by flying over all the territory.

New Bru'nswiok's fiitar station begins operations at Moncton in February.

The eight-hour exercise. second for the station here since it opened in June. saw the observers tele- phone yhe direction of the "enemy" planes. After plotting the course on it grid map. the inuformatlon was relayed to a radar station.

The ground observers corps was set up to fill in the "loopholes" caused by planes evading radar beams by keeping near the ground bel-ow the beams. Radar beams cannot bend; planes in a valley would be invisible.

SUIVIMIIISI DE AREA

Yesterday between the hours of 1l.00 a.m. and 7.00 pm. operation "Bluespurl" the first training ex- ercise of the newly formed Ground Observer Corps in Prince Erlwarrl Island and Nova Scctin went on, and a ch:-ck made last evening on the result of the oper- ation inrliratorl that as far as the area under the summcrside juris- diction wont. it exceeded all ex-

pectations. This area extends from Travellers Rent. to Portage with ten posts included, each

having an average of 15 observ-

(Continued on page 5, col. 2)

Bandits, Burglars, ssieoraoksrs In Montreal Got 320,000

MONTREAL. (OP) Bandits. satecmdkeri and burglars struck for more than oaoono in cash and goods during the week-end.

John Krausz. owner of a north- end for mop. was the biggest loser reporting a loss of tl6,000 in furs when burglars forced open a door in an adjacent laundry and cut through a well to enter his premises. They took 21 Persian lamb costs. 8 Persian lamb skins and six muskrst coats.

More than 03.000 in goods were also reported stolen from a at. Lawrence boulevard photographic studio owned by Fred Dosderleln. from ll car which was broken into. and from :4 Louis Hemon street home.

A Iona week - and holdup was llled by two armed youths who a at. Catherine street West. bowling alley Satur- day night.

This-vm fled with 8150 after A ssfcenaclflng at the David Mooill Company early Sunday and an un- determined amount of money was

sicim from a chain rt-sisllnnt suite and cash register. I

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"Come lldnle", Talks Were To Begin Today

PANAIMUNJOM, (CP) -,"Come

borne" talks with 22 unreupatriaited American prisoners of war, sched- uled to begin today. have been postponed because the prisoners re- fuse to leave their barbed-wire compounds. The six Americans who were to be interviewed today sent a. note Sunday night to the Neutral Na- tions Repatriaticn Commission say- ing they will not come out for face-to-face meetings with U. S. explainers until South Korean pris- oners end their boycoit of the ses- sions. The Indian command prompthr cancelled talks with Am- ericans scheduled to begin at 9 a. m.

The American action dimmed al- ready fair.-t hopes that any of the 22 would choose to leave commun- ism before Dec. 23. the deadline for attempts to persuade balky prisoners to change their minds and aospt repatriation. .

Earlier the Americans had told the Indians they would be willing to attend.

The South Koreans balked Fri- day at further explanations, de- msnddng assurances that they could give counter-explanations to the flux officers attempting to persuade them to come home. This was refused.

send Lon: Protest ,

The pro-Red South Koreans have

sent a 50-page protest to the five- nation neutral commission.

(Continued on page 15. col, 4:-

Lsudsrof Liberals ln.B. C. Arrested,

VANCOUVER, (OP) - Arthur Laing, leader of the British Gol- umbia' Liberal party. was arrested here Friday night and charged with being intoxicated in a public place. Police said Laing was charged after an automobile in which he was riding was stopped by traffic officers. lie is to appear in court Tuesday.

Sailor lost from Ship Escorling Liner Godlic

By GOMER JONES

ABOARD GOTHIC, (R.eutersl- The liner Gothic. carrying Queen Eizabeth and the Duke of Edin- burgh across the Pacino. spent six hours Friday night and early sai- urday searching for s. New zealand sailor missing overboard from the escorting cruiser Black Prince.

The two vemels turned back on their course when Ordinary Bea- man Peter Mar-ryat. about 20, was reported missing. But a long quest with the aid of searehligh-ts failed to locate him.

After the search was abandoned. Queen Elizabeth sent a menus of sympathy to Capt. John White- field of the Black Prince.

The Gothic has been driving through rainsqualls and grey seas.

Scottish Lord Janos In Maintenance Case

BRIGHTON, England. (Reuters) --Lord Glenorchy, 34-year-old son and heir of the wealthy Scottish Earl of Breadillbane and Holland, was jailed Saturday for failing to pay im maintenance to his es- tranged wife.

The divorce court had given him 3 days to pay the mainten- ance arrears or go to jail for a month. The time limit expired last Monday.

Bibylfliled IF

coped possible serious injury when a Canadian National Railways lo-

wooden piling on pier at Sunday and disappeared in 24 feet of water.

his fir:-man and brskoman jumped from the can as the yard shunter toppled slowly into the harbor. lo-

Mlsforiunes often put. us wise to our own carelessness.