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in ararlottetowrr for . wee-day courtesy visit, the m Swansea tied up at the “My Wharf yesterday. The fip will be open to the public, 'edneaday and Thursday from “jun. until 4:30 pm.

‘Ihe Swansea, under the com- na'll d Lieutenant-Commander John A. Farquhar, is a modern- ised antiosu’mnarine frigate. She Was 2360 tons, is 301 feet in m and has a beam of 36 glut. Her complement is 130 of- fices! and men. The frigate is fluently engaged in training re-

force new entry seamen m Cornwallis Training Estab- W at Deepbrook, N. S. ‘ Tommy Lieutenant - Com- a-Jder Fa-rquhar made social at. on LieutenantGovemor Falter F. mwnan, Mayor Ed-

!II C. Johnstone, and Command- fi Officers of HMCS “Queen We”.

MPTION HELD “A; reception was held on

g the Swansea last evening

‘hnor of the Lieutenant—Gov-

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, Premier, and prominent

of Charlottetown.

_-'Msday evening the com-

t- officers and officers of 'Queen Charlotte will be 'tothe Commanding Offi- .. - Officers of the Swansea. ’- v. e of Halifax, Lieuten- ’ ‘ .--- r Mquhar, enter- , Royal Canadian Naval at Royal Roads in Sep-

1943 as a cadet. graduation in July, III as a midshipman he was

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to the cruiser Superb, ‘. he served until Dec- ‘ 1945. For the next two I“! he sen’ed —in ships and ' I in the United

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(or) — POssibility h raised Tuesday that Canada W, W to develop and produce I “commie. fig-lion delegation met with Prime Minister Green. .. Minister Pearkes and you Minister Starr. km. a member of the quoted Mr. Peaarkes as m the govermnent is in- . - possible development flavour-con or a missile which be unployed to destroy in intercontinental ballistic

’ .'.~ official commented later It durbted seriously whether could afford along a missile system but that

i" ANTI-SUBMARINE FRIGATE SWANSEA Swansea Arrives In City for 3-Day Courtesy Visit

f-PAmS ‘ “Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” l4 _. UNI-Ed ll beginpdar’i‘aesgnmsgaff. the Post 0:5" ,— ._ “I’CHARLOT’I‘ETOWN. CANADA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958 magma FIVE CENTS

From 1948 until late 1951 Lt.- Cmdr Farquhar served on board the aircraft carrier Magnificent, the destroyer escort Iroquois and the frigate Swansea. in the latter two as navigation officer.

RETURNS TO U. K.

After a year at Naval Head- quarters. he returned to the Uni- ted Kingdom for courses and in December 1952 qualified as a direction officer. He joined the Magnificent in March 1953 for 10 months and served in the des- troyervescort Huron in the Kor- ean campaign.

He was promoted to Lieuten- ant-Oonunander in April, 1957 and previous to taking command of the Swansea in November, 1957, he was commanding offi- cer of HIMJCS Portage. He attend- ed the navigation-direction school at HZMCS Stadacona, Halifax, for two years.

Lieutenant-Commander Farqu— har is married to the former Sheila Luger, of Bedford, N.S. They have two boys and a girl.

The Swansea was re-com-mis-

sioned on November 13, 1957, at H.M.C. Dockyard in Halifax, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy’s Sevaith Escort Squad- non. She was originally oonmission- ed in 1943, and was the second (if the frigate class to be built in Canadian shipyards. She served oontimromly on North At- lantic convoy duties and took part in two U-Boat kills in the spring of 1944, picln'ng up sur- vivors in both cases.

Following the war, the Swan- sea was active in training cruis- es ranging from the Bahamas to Greenland, Baffin Island and the

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V *MAw-A (CPI—An acute heart ,2' has put 66-year-old. Earl ‘2. " w of Tunis in hospital for in a!" time in more than 40

1‘ a Wartime field marshal,

" " general of Canada from .19 1952, is in “serious but '. ‘F’lfical" condition. a medical ' said Tuesday. He was ad- " . ' to Ottawa Civic Hospital

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t; i 8 Physician during his term ,Wernorgeneral, said it will ' -Masary for the Second ' War strategist to remain in

. » ED THREE TIMES last time Lord Alexander .lll hospital was during the World War when he was three times. He went the Second World War

.. ... rh'l l scratch, dos-pile strafing J“these planes in Burma and

in“ by German baucries at - e“lue. also is Lord Alexander's 1 .FEPlrience with a cardiac During his youth he . noted miler in Northern . and bomme an (‘Illllujl‘ (Hider during his term in '~ ‘ as governor—general. _ “NM medical bulletin Will

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Canada May Try To Develop And Produce Counter Missile

part or parts for it.

The defence research board for nearly three years has been con- ducting basic research into a counter-missile system.

The 151member union delega- tion was headed by Claude Jo- doin, president of the 1,000,000- member Canadian Labor Con- gress, and George P. Schollie of Montreal, general viceapresident of the International Association of Machinists (OLC) representing 30,0“) Canadian aircraft workers.

Mr. Scholilie quoted Mr. Pearkes as saying that the gov- ernment is investigating a long- term development program of a missile—from development stage through to prOductIion—to counter— act the intercontinental ballistic missile.

Alexander ls Seriously Fol-lowing Heart Attack

be issued early today.

Lord and Lady Alexander are in Ottawa to attend sessions of the English—speaking Union «1‘ the Commonwealth. Lady Alexander is join-t deputy chairman of the union.

WENT HUNTING

It is believed Lord Alexander suffered the heart attack on a duck - hunting trip. Mai-Gen. Harry Letson, who accompanied him. said the former governor- general was unaware of the at- tack at the time. He was in pain only after returning to Ottawa Sunday from the trip.

Lord Alexander is recognized as' one of the greatest British soldiers of his generation. He de- veloped the African and Italian campaigns in the Second World War and led the armies of many nationalities, including two Cana- dian divisions and an armored brigade. to brilliantly - executed

wiclores.

His term as governor ~ general of Canada ended in 1952. When Sir Winston Churchill was elected British prime minister. one-of his first acts was to summon his for- mer uariimc commander 10 Lon. don as defence minister served for two years and th entered private business.

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Prince Philip Reaches Ottawa For 4-Day Visit

OTTAWA (0P) — Prince Philip arrived here at 9:07 pm. EST Tuesday night by air from Lon- don for a fourday visit to the capital.

He crossed the Atlantic aboard a sleek Comet IV jet airliner and landed at nearby Uplands Airport in a light rain. '

While here he will stay as guest of Governor-General Massey at Govermnent House and take an active part in sessions of the Eng- lish-speaking union, now in con- ference here.

Expect Rod Kerr To Head

Commissioners

OTTAWA (OP) -— A new chair- man of the board of transport commissioners will be appointed shortly and he likely will be Rod Kerr, recently-appointed assistant chief commissioner, it was re- ported Tuesday.

An announcement of the 56- year-old former Cape Brtton law- yer‘s appointment to the $18,500- a-year post—one on” the top fed- eral government jobs—was be lieved imminent.

23rd Body Is Recovered From No. 2

SPRINGHI‘LL. N. S. —- (CP) -- The 23rd body was recovered from the grim Cumberland No. 2 mine here Tuesday night as the seemingly endless search for 70 other missing miners continu-

The latest official lists showed 81 miners rescued of the 174 trapped Thursday night by the underground tremor that racked the colliery. Seventy miners are missing and 23 listed as dead. Officials hold no hope of finding any of the men trapped beneath tons of rock and debris alive.

Miners early today were still trying to find an opening behind the barrier of rock in the 13,000- foot level where 50-55 men were believed working when the bump occurred.

Two bodies have been brought up from the level. No signs of life have been seen or heard. The other trapped miners were Work- ing at lower levels.

ByeIections To Be Held Dec. IS

OTTAWA tC-P) —- The Com. mons’ two vacancies — Toronto Trinity and Springfield. Man.— will be filled by byelecllons Mon- day. Der. 15.

The byelections were an- nounced Tuesday by Prime Mm- ister Dictenbakcr before he took off on his world trip,

The vacancies were caused by the death of the silt-ing Progres- sivc ()crvcrvati\'c members, each olcrlcd for the first time last " 1' ' ‘:1 Tl‘ill' 7‘ " "‘ Val Yacula. .u, Ultd Scpl, 24_

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Seek Bank Teller, $250,000

OTTAWA (CP) — Theft of al- most $250,000 in cash from an 0t- tawa bank sparked a manhunt Tuesday for ZS-yearold Boyne L. Johnston, a trusted chief teller last seen Sunday morning.

A warrant for his arrest was issued and the United States’ Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation was put on the alert for the seven- year employee of the Imperial

; Bank of Canada.

Police said it was Ottawa’s big- gest bank theft. _ Johnston vanished Sunday, tell- 1ng his wife he was going hunt- ing. Two hours later, at about 8:30 a.m., the janitor of his apart- ment block said he returned to borrow a key, claiming he’d for- gotten his own.

CAR IN GARAGE

His black and yellow car, full of hunting gear, was found Tues- day in his basement garage.

An audit in the Sparks Street branch of the bank, ordered after he failed to appear for work Mon- day, revealed that almost $250.- 000 had been taken. His wie tele- phoned police Monday afternoon to say he was missing.

Some of his fellow employees described the stocky Johnston as a banking “boy wonder." He is five feet eight and weighs 135 pounds.

Police said Tuesday that the bulky bundle of cash notes likely was kept out of the bank vault last Friday evening, hidden in a canvas bag and wished behind some vault lodgers.

It was then picked up Sunday by someone with a key, which Johnston as a trusted employee possessed. As chief teller, he handled the deployment of funds to other city branches.

First Commander Of North Novas

Dies At Sydney

SYDNEY, N.S. (CH—Truman S. McLanders, retired Dosco of fioial and the first commanding officer off the North Nova Sco- tia Highlanders. died here Tue:- day. He was 66.

Mr. McLanders was chairman of the St. John Ambulance As- sociation in Cape Breton and a memberil of the Nova Scotla Conn- c .

He joined Dosco 38 years ago and retired last year after serv- ing as executive assistant for 13 years.

He was general manager of coal sales in Dosco's Montreal headquarters for a number of years.

Surviving are his widow, a son and a daughter.

ANIBASSADOR FOUND

FOREST CITY. Me. (AP)—Kar1 Rankin, US. ambassador to Yu- goslavia. and a companion found their way out of deep woods near here while game wardens searched for them Tuesday. The 50-year - old diplomat and his brother-in-law, William Mitchell, 61, of Portland. Me., became lost while hunting partridge near East Grand Lake on the New Bruns- wick border.

Fresh At’rack On World Poverty Is Urged By P.M.

Cardinal Roncalli Becomes Roman Catholic Pope,

By PATRICK CROSSE

VATICAN CITY (Reutersl—An- gelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, 76-year-old patriarch of Venice, Tuesday night was elected Pope. He chose the name John XXIII.

The son of poor Italian peas~ ants. he is the 262ml pope since the Roman Catholic Church was founded 20 centuries ago with St. Peter as the first pope. He also is the 43rd consecutive Italian pope in 435 years.

Pope John—“Papa Giovanni,” as he will be known in the Vati- can—appeared on the high bal- cony of the great facade of St. Peter‘s after his election to give his blessing to the 250,000 wildly cheering people assembled below him in the square.

He was a short, stout figure in his magnificent papal robes as he raised his right hand in the sign of the cross.

CROWD JUBILANT

Disappointed in five other vigils —through 11 unsuccessful ballots in the last three days—the crowd broke into a joyous frenzy.

They roared “Viva ll Papa!"— Long live the Popel—over and over as the new pontiff slowly raised his arms in benediction.

No sooner had Tuesday night’s ceremonial come to an end than Pope John named as a cardinal Msgr. Alberto di Jorio, secretary of the conclave. This brought the total membership of the College of Cardinals to 53. Its full estab- lishment is 70.

The Pope's choice of the name J ohn—the most frequently used in the history of the papacy though it had been in nbey‘ance for 500 years—was a surprise. But not the nomination of Cardinal Ron- calli himself.

His choice had been widely forecast as the 51 cardinals sealed themselves in the Vatican palace Saturday night to elect a new spiritual leader to the world’s 500,000,000 Roman Catholics and a successor to Pope Pius XII who died Oct. 9 aged 82.

OPEN ELECTION

It was one of the most open elections of modern church his- tory. The new Pope emerged after what must have been a

Sask. P.C.’s Elect Leader

REGINA (om—Martin Peder- son, 36 - year - old farmer and Saskatoon insurance agent, was elected leader of the Saskatch- ewan Progressive Conservative party Tuesday night.

Mr. Pederson was elected on the second ballot at a party lead- ership convention here, defeating Gilbert D. Eamer, of Saskatoon, secretary of the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and M. A.

MacPherson Jr., Regina lawyer.

JOHN

Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected as the 26an Supreme ruler of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday. He is 76 years

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old. Immediately after the elec- tion in secret conclave by the College of Cardinals, the new you tiff chose the name John XXIII.

closely-contested election.

The final ballot gave him the necessary minimum majority of twothirds plus one—Mt the exact figure probably never will be known because of the stringent secrecy that cloaks conclaves.

The announcement of his elec- tion came in confusion that re- neted the false alarms and doubts of the last three days.

As dusk fell over Rome, the

rapidly - gathering crowd in St. Peter’s Square saw a trail of

black, e—the‘ for-fail.- nreto' ' tine M chimney. Then it

stopped and greyish and white smoke puffed upwards. Codusion and uncertainty ruled.

TURN ON FIDODLIGHTS Then, suddenly the floodights were switched on bathing the fa- (Contimred on page 13 col. 2)’

Former Ch'

OTTAWA, —- (Special) — A former resident of Prince Ed- ward Island, Charles Frederick Black, 51, has been appdnted secretary of the Veterans Af- fairs Department.

The announcement was made

Tuesday by Hon. Alfred J. Brooks, who said Mr. Black began his duties Septem-

ber 22. He succeeded F. L. Bar

Springhill Buzzes Wi’rh Reports Mine Will Close

By IAN DONALDSON

SP-RLNGH-ILL, N. S. (OPI— Grimy coal miners shovelled away at fallen rock in the Cum- berland mine here Tuesday but found no vSign of any of the 71 trapped men still missing are alive.

They had tunnelled their way more than one-third of the dis- tance along the working area on the 13,000-foot level, where more than 50 men were caught by last Thursday's cave—in.

Two dead had bean taken from this part of the mine. One body was brought up Tuesday from a lower level. But no signs of life were seen. .

TO CLOSE MINE?

As the work went on Springhill buzzed with the report the town's coal mining days are over. No. 2 mine, shattered by an under- ground upheaval, was the town’s last operating collicry. it em— ployed almost 900 men.

The Canadian Press learned re- liably that a decision to close the mine permanently was taken after a meeting of coal company executives here Tuesday.

However, Crawford Gordon. president of the parent company. A. V. Roe Canada Limited, said in Toronto no decision has been made yet. The future of Spring- 117'l ricer-“"1”; ww‘d h: rl:.i.lc.l

when all the trapped men had

been found.

Mayor Ralph Gilroy said that as late as Saturday he had been assured by a high Dosco official that no decision would be made for some time on the future of the No. 2 mine.

HOPE FOR AID

“If a decision is finally made to close the mine, I would fer- vently hope that our governments in both Ottawa and Halifax would produce an imaginative program which would give us an alterna- tive industry of equal importance so Springhill can carry on as it has every right to." Mr. Gilroy said Tuesday.

The Cumberland Railway and Coal Company is the only major industry in this town of ahnost 7,000. The second collier-y was closed permanently after a 1956 explosion damaged the workings and killed 39 men.

Tuesday’s digging brought the number of dead recovered to 22, leaving 71 still unaccounted for. Eighty-one of 174 caught under- ground escaped.

HOPES ['NF‘ULFILLED

Mine officials, including rescue

director Harold Gordon, had ex-

pected the rescuers to reach the end of the 13,000-foot level some-

time Tuesday. llcn (":ml": In tho "-u'ln " <‘V the digging was going faster. But

late in the day more was still no

wordof‘chemoredianSOmen entomed there.

Company press spokesman Ar- nold Patterson said progress was slower than expected. Rescue teams ran into fallen timbers, rails and coal cars, some of which had to be cut throngh.

In most places the men worked on their bellies. They did not ex- pect to reach the main body of trapped men until today.

The diggers set an objective of no feet a shift, but sometimes it was less than that.

LOWEST LEVEL EMPTY

The lowest level at 13,800 feet was empty All bodies have been removed from there.

Five days after the disaster struck there was practically no hope any of the missing were still alive.

Picking away with short- handled s h o v e1 5, crawling on knees and elbows. the diggers backed away a tunnel more than one-third of the way along the too-foot “wall” 13,000 feet from the mine portal.

They worked in relays day and night in heat and dust and the growing smell of death. Some of the rescuers said they still had hopes some men might have sur- vived in a pocket in the rock. But

the hope barely glim-mcred.

In the grief-stricken Io-wn other 1dr: 1: were at work in the icemo'crics. Six more funerals Iwill be hcid today.

wn Man Is ,

Veterans Affairs Sec'v

row, who retired September 19.

The post pays abom $8,000 a year.

Mr. Black was born in Pug- wash. N.S., in 1907, the son of Charles H. Black. now of Char- lottetown. He attended Char- lottetown primary and second- ary schools and recdved his Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Allison Urdversity in 1930, with first class honors in mathe- matics.

graduation. he join- ed the head office of the Mutual Life Insmance Company, Water- loo. Ontar-io, where he was en- gaged in actuarial and claims work until his enlistment in 1940 as a Lieutenant in the 12th Canadian Field Regiment. R.C. A. Mr. Black’s lengthy military service began In Charlottetown in 1925 when he joined the N. P. A. M. as a gunner. In 1939 he joined the C.O.T.C. and obtained his conunission in 1940.

He proceeded overseas with the 12th Canadian Field Regi- ment, third division, in July, 1941, and remained with the re giment until his appointment as an artillery staff officer at head- quarters, First Canadian Army. with the rank of Captain. He served in this capacity in north- west Europe from July. 1944, to the termination of hostilities. after which his staff duties con- cerned the demobilization of the German Army and the repatria- tion of Canadian troops.