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CHARLDTTETOWN. CANADA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. 1956

DENY cvpnlor CHARGES

Briiish Take Newsmen On Tour Of Deleniion Camp

NICOSIA (AP)-Greek Cypriots Tuesday charged British author- ities with heating and torturing political detainees.

The British authorities 'PI'0l'nDi-ly denied mistreatment in detention camps. They also labelled as "un- true from beginning to end" Greek allegations that conditions in the cgmpa were like Nazi concentra- tion cam?!-

The exchange developed during .3 unprecedented tour by British and American newspaper men of Kokklnotrimithla detention camp, nine miles west of Nicosia, known as Cami! "K-"

The newspaper men were in- ymd by the Britons to inspect the camp for the first time since it was established last December and were permitted to talk freely with political detainees. The Na- hour tour at times was taken over by inmate leaders who heatedly protested detention without trial and living conditions in the camp.

it is one of two on Cyprus where the Britons hold Greek CYP- riots suspected of aidins 9" D8?- tlcipating in the violent campaign of EOKA extremists demanding union of Cyprus with Greece- Under the island's emergency rag- ulationts tsuclh persons may be held withou r a .

The tour was intended by Brit- ain to refute charges of Athena radio last week that Camp K is like Buchcnwald and Dachau of Nazi Germany.

ATHENS CHARGE!)

Athena radio also alleged the in- mates were housed in "miserable livinS conditions and lack of any care." '

The newspaper men. who were permitted freedom of movement in the camp, inspected huts where the detainees are quartered 16 to each. Some buildings were of 000- crcte and brick with corrugated roofs. The correspondents saw no evidence of undernourishment and the camp commandant said that "The quality and quantity of the food is much higher than English prison food."

A three-man committee of camp leaders complained to the corres- pondents oi camp conditions and demanded freedom.

Principal spokesman was Mich- ael Pissal. general secretary oi the right-wing Cyprus Trades Ulr ion Federation.

He" charged the detention was "contrary to all human rights."

"Why are we here?" he asked. "Have we committed any crime? We beg you to convey to the people the question 'Why are we here?"'

PLAGUID I! MICE

Replying to questions he said the inmates do not get enough food and claimed the Athens ra- dio claim of miserable and dirt! housing was true. He said the in- mates catch M mice a night ill the huts. Plsaas conceded he could speak without restraint or fair of punishment.

lll'l'i5Il VISIT

OTTAWA (C?) A- 17-man group of directing staff and stu- dents from Britain's Imperial De- fence College will arrive here Aug. 3 to begin a month-long tour of Canada and the United States. army headquarters announced Tuesday. After Aug. 10. the! Will visit Halifax. Sept-lies. Que. Al'- vlds. 9lIe.. Quebec City and Mont- real.

Impromptu Parachute Jump ls Thrill For Girl Glider Pilot

CAP-DE-LA-MADELEINE. Que. (CF) - People who tllink para- chute jumping is "crazy" I?! merely afraid oi the unknown. says green-eyed Lorraine Smith.

Miss Smith. a winsome 23, had "the most wonderful thrill" Sun- day when she hit the silk for the first time, in.an unscheduled lurnli on the eve oi the national wear- ing championships here.

Tuesday. the Shem-oke. Quc.. lass recalled with a smile that ale made the jump on lmmllli

d.

"i really didn't know what to expect. I thought. perhaps I'd keep my eyes shut tight like a kid diving into water for the first time.

"But no. I stepped from the wing oi the Tiger Moth at 1,500 feet cool as could be and found myself singing-in such a thrill- J”-ns Wly-high in sky.

IWOOSII. SWOOSII

"l though-my. how wonderful. "'Aiiar the parachute gave its first jolt on opening, it made a WWI! soft soundsgwoosh, swoosh. it was peaceful. almost tmnicai."

He charged that camp guard threw stones at huts while the in- mates were alseep and called the detainees names. He also claimed one inmate was bayoneted and tower guards turned ns on de- tainees playing volley all.

Pissas charged that British se- curity officers took inmates on sev- eral occasions from the camp to the mountains, heat than "near death" and returned them with their backs badly bruised.

Camp commandant Tim othy O'Donnell denied mistreatment oi beatings in the camp.

O'Donnell showed the correspon- dents concrete floors of the living quarters to refute Athe'ns' charge of earth floors. He saidilb Athens claim the prisoners were ill fed was "perfectly untrue" and said the authorities tried to meet the detainees desires on food and the food menu was prepared by the inmates themselves.

See Signs Of U.S. Steel Strike ls Moving Towards Seiilemeni

NEW YORK (AP)-Steel negot- iators started bargaining again T J y and there were signs al- most immcdiately that they might be entering the final stage toward settlement of the 24-day country- wide United States strike.

Steel company and union offl-

cials issued a statement reporting "progress" after only a few hours of the new talks.

The union also ordered its in- ternational wage policy commit- tee, which usually passes on con- tracts after negotiators reach set- tlement. to stand by for a meet- ing Thursday.

Marilyn ls Hit With U. K. Press

LONDON (CF) - Is Marilyn voluntary wit, and an engaging

Monroe newsworthy?

The answer, broadly, is a thund- ering affirmative. Marilyn has been in town only a week or so. but already she holds much of the British press in thrall. The 30- ycar-old actress, here with play- wright husband Arthur Miller to make a film with Sir Laurence Olivier, is rating as much news- paper space as Russia's "two years," Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. received on their visit last April- I

But there's one his execution- That venerable institution, the Times, hasn't printed a line on Marilyn. and Fleet Street is mildly amused at its detachment. While the tabloid Daily Mirror proclaims "We saw Marilyn first and we're proud of it." the Times. individualistic as ever. prefers such items as a three-column story entitled: Some Notes of a Watermill Collector.

The Tlmes' blind eye for beauty, glamor girl variety. has not gone unnoticed. Francis Wil- liams. who writes a weekly col- umn on the foibles of Fleet Street for the New '" tesman and Na- tion, says he is sorry about the omission. After all. he lay! lflle Tlrnes is still a newspaper. in- deed, according to some of its readers, still the greatest newspa- per in the world-and I think a newspaper ought at least to men- tion an event which . . . has some place in the social history of our time."

11 Marilyn grlcves, consolation is close at hand. Some serious papers have given her the careful attention they might bestow on a thinkpiece about Atlantic union. The Observer. for instance. de- votes its weekly profile occIlPl9d usually by- prime ministers and such international statesmen as External Affairs Minister Pearson of Canada-to a diagnosis of the Monroe myth.

It says an innocent. almost in-

ment of power-less craft through the air. She plays the piano but admits she has little time to study music. settles for radio and the

opera.

A solo pilot on gliders. she also has taken training on powered craft and likes it despite the hor- rible noise of the engine."

Lorraine said her parents and two brothers. one, Kent. a mem- her of the RCAF. first considered

acceptance of all the facts of life are as much responsible for her success as the "appalling bio- graphy, the vital statistics and the radiant beauty."

The Observer is also intrigued with her "little girl's voice," her "wide - eyed, soft - featured baby

face and . . . sort of innocent paganism."

Columnist Winifred Carr. of the Daily T' , discussing the

way Marilyn wowed cynical Brit- ish journalists at her London press conferences, says it wasn't just glamor or physical propor- tions that did the trick.

''It was the way she broke all the modern rules for getting our man and played the lovable baby- girl role to perfection that won them . . . The way she took a deep breath and nervously licked her lips before answering ques- tions in a halting. little - girl voice . . . wriggled in her chair and raised her eyes to the ceiling when thinking hard . . . clapped her hands to her mouth when thinking out loud . . ."

The sophisticated correspond- ents of the weekly magazines also capitulate to the charms of the sex - bomb - turned - intellec- tual. The columnist of the Spec- tator concludes that she is "as in- tclligent as she is pleasant as she is pretty."

"A great success. this Mrs. Miller, and I'm sorry for all those readers of the Times who

Clashes Mark British Auto P-lani Strike

BIRMINGHAM, Eng. (Reuters) Striking British auto workers clashed with non-strikers Tuesday outside factories of the giant Brit- ish Motor Corporation.

Both labor and management claimed victory as 23.000 out of 43,000 workers-1.0!!) more than Monday-ignored picket lines in Birmingham. Coventry, Oxford and Llanelly. Wales.

But leaders of the 1.30.000- memher Transport and General Workers Union Tuesday ordered Britain's doc k ers. mechanics, truck drivers'and bargemen not to touch the corporation's pro- ducts.

As the boycott enveloped the ports and inland waterways. the cabinet received a report on the situation from Labor Minister lain Macleod. Transport Minister Har- old Watkinson was also called to 10 Downing street for consultation.

The strike, now in its second day, was called in protest against the mass layoff of 6,000 workers by BMC becaus of falling home and export orders. The union claimed they were fired without sufficient notice or compensation. POLICE CHARGE PICKETS

Worst clash between strikers and non-strikers occurred Tuesday at the Austin plant in Birmingham where mounted police charged a mass picket line to clear a way for trucks and workers trying to enter the factory. Clothes were torn, but no one was hurt.

Hundreds of export cars began to pile up on dock wharves all over England. in Liverpool alone, 200 cars worth nearly 3300.000 were held up. In Southampton, Austin and Morris cars remained unloaded. Another 200 cars des- tined for Montreal stayed on the docks when longshoremcn" refused to load them (into ships.

Despite union claims that the strike is nearly it!) per cent ef- fective. the British press claimed it was.a "fiasco."

The Times, the Manchest Guardian and The News Chronicle all agreed that union leadership had been ierioualy. alarmed by in- ability to get more support for the IIODDIIEC. .' ., .

The Mancheste Guardian said: "The fiasco of this strike is

that official trade union leadership has suffered since 1926."

Report Swimmer

Injured In Fall

ROCHESTER. N.Y. (AP)-Wet ley Strublc Jr.. who last Satur- day swam handcuffed 12 miles across Lake Erie without mishap, went to hospital Tuesday after a fall at the University of Roches- ter swimming pool.

Struble, who was not swimming at the time. said he slipped and fell at the edge of the pool, lacer- ating his right hand on a metal railing. A hospital spokesman said his condition was good.

The 30-year-old swimmer has given no indication if he will accept the challenge of Capt. Clif- ford Stlnebring, 55, of the Niagara

haven't been allowed to learn of her arrival on these shores."

Falls, N.Y., police department to a four-mile race in straitjackets.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Canadian Army officers sent to Palestine as UN truce observers lay in serious condition in hos- pital Tuesday night with wounds ripped by a land mine explosion. The United Nations sent a call to Canada for the wife of one of them to come to his bedside.

Truce headquarters reP0l'i-ed 8

transatlantic call had been placed to the wife of Maj. George Alfred Flint, 44, of Outremont, Que.. al- though Canadian army headquart- ers ln Ottawa said earlier it un- derstood both wives were in Pale- stine. Flint and Maj. Marcel Breault. 37, of St. Hyacinthe, Que.. were severely injured Tuesday when a land mine exploded as they were investigating alleged infiltration of the Mt. Scopua demilitarized zone by Jordanian troops.

Investigation of the accident- both Aral..s and Jews agreed the mine was one planted during the i948 Arab - Israeli War - was started by truce supervisor Maj.- Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada as his countrymen underwent sur- gery in a Jewish hospital.

WOUNDS "VERY SERIOUS"

A hospital spokesman said Flint was the first to be operated on, for a stomach wound. He con- firmed that both officers were "very seriously" injured.

There was a sharp conflict in the Israeli and Jordanian versions of the events leading up to the explosion, in which one Jordanian officer accompanying the Cana- dians suffered leg injuries.

The Israeli spokesman said the truce observers arrived on the

Two Canadian Truce Observers Seriously Wounded By Land Mine Blast On Israeli Border

tion.

scene after Jordanian trops pen- etrated the zone and occupied a house there. refusing Israeli po- lice demands to withdraw.

As the Canadians arrived, the spokesman added. more Jordan- ian reinforcements the area."

into men hit the ,land mine as they approached the house.

He said other UN observers, who arrived on the scene later, pcrSll8dG(l the Jordanians to with- draw from the demllltarized nec-

,,,,, MATH AWARD

SAY ISRAELIS FIRED The Jordan version said while a Jordanian national guard patrol was passing near Mt. Sco- pus it found an uncovered mine Congress has announced that Hat- and a hand grenade near barbed W L0V9- East Royalty. has re- wire inside Jordan territory. , when me pat,-01 app,-oached The this fall when Mr. Love will be mine. Israel; Hadassah Hospital entering the Honours Course in guards opened fire, The pain); Mathematics at. Dalliousle Univer- fired back and one Israeli guard 8113'. was believed to have been wounded. Jordan. the said, lodged a complaint with the mixed armistice commission and College. He is the son of Mr. and panied by Jordanian police. left on the ill-fated investigation. Flint a paratrooper and a mem-

ber of the regular army, was as- S e

signed to Palestine in January dd P of from the 3rd Canadian Infantry u Brigade at Camp Valcartler. Que.

Breault, a militia officer. came ML

to Palestine in 1954. He enlisted as a private in Le Regiment St. Hyacinth, in 1933' was comm”. terday afternoon at the Charlotte- nioned in 1942 mg gel-ved in north. town Golf Club of Mr. George G. west Europe, during the second Wood. prominent Charlottetown World War.

spokesman honour standing in Science in the

He has two daughters.

The Canadian Mathematical

ceived a 5400 scholarship tenable

Harry Love graduated this spring with the Anderson prize for

Fourth Year at Prince of Wales Mrs. J.H. Love, East Royalty.

The death occurred suddenly yes

businessman at the age of 52 Death was attributed to a heart

MONTREAL, (CP) - One man was burned to death Tuesday when a two - alarm. explosion- rocked fire destroyed a three- atorey building in central Mon-

8.

probably the most serious reverse "9 1

Nine firemen were overcome by

fertilizer Council Elects Officers

AMHERST (CPl-Harold Stairs of Fredericton T u e a ti a y was elected president of the Maritime Fertilizer Council.

other officers elected at the an- nual sesion: F. P. Smith of Hall- fax, vlce-president: Ian Rankin, Charlottetown, Lloyd Horton, Moncton, John Gacey, Saint John. N.B., John Clark, Sackville, N.B.. J. E. Mulligan. Truro, and E. T. Goririg, Nappan, N.S.. directors; J. E. Mclntyre Moncton, secre- tary treasurer.

J. E. Shuh. field crop director

for Nova Scotla, told members grass offers "immense opportun- itics" in the Maritimes for beef- raising and milk-production.

One Man Dies In Montreal Fire

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smoke. The victim was id tifi d as ber f tn Shirley Goldner of Mdiytresl. 0 ye": on e execuuve 0! Police grapped inh thehbasement of the uidins w on t e fire broke out onlc Lodge in Charlottetown he was The building housed the importing t f firmlof I-icrdt and Charton Inc. M" H 0 that Lodge In 1937 nd Go dner's body was found two hours later near an iron-grilled gfsafs 1: (gags! Igzrlijg iizindow at the front of the build- Anglican Church ' g .

was this year was president.

Fire officials said the blaze started when an the basement of the old stone building in the heart of treal'a downtown shopping dis-

plosion rocked

Mon-

Heavy smoke, caused when the flames reached stocks of perfume stored in the basement. covered a large area of midtown montreal.

Traffic blocked for more than three hours. More than 75 policemen were called to handle about 2000 T h r e e ambulances were called to the scene.

spectators.

attack. He passed away before medical aid could reach him. The late Mr. Wood was born at Port Au Spain. Trinidad in 1904. He was the son of the late James Wood and Grace Nash Wood. in his early life he was employed for a time with the Bank of Nova Scot- ia but later went into the food brokcnase business for himself. An ardent golfer. he was for a Illliu.

the Charlottetown Golf Club, and

As a member of Victoria Mas-

fn 1948 became Grand Master of

Surviving are his widow, the former Kathleen Burke of Charl- ottetown and three children: Joan,

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Cloudy with widely scattered showers. A few sunny inter- vals. A little warmer with light winds. low-high 60 and 75.

Aim -ls

OTTAWA (CP)-The Commons Tuesday approved the principle of the government's new tax-sharing plan with the provinces after a cabinet minister said its main purpose is to improve the lot of less-wealthy provinces.

Citizenship Minister Plckersgill,

day debate, said there would be no need for tax arrangements

tax-raising capacities.

provincial purposes

country he

only purpose of this bill." John Diefenbaker

not give the provinces enough. TAKE "HALF-LOAF"

lord. denying

the alternative?

a half-loaf is better than onne."

arrangement was reading-approval on a vote of 128 to 45.

The Liberal majority was sup

provinces-and by -two independ

pointe.

Progressive lsocial Credit parties voted l t.

FIRST LIBERAL VOTE

Poor Provinces

speaking near the close of the lla-

with the provinces if all had equal

"It is not the business of this Parliament to raise revenues for except ,to equalize the situation across the said. That is the

(PC-Prince Albert) reiterated the Oppositionlsaiisfied-' stand that the five-year tax plan, to take effect next April 1, will

ported by the CCF party-which had urged . better dea1 for the cause of the exigencies of their

Conservative and

vet

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To -Aid

to collect money and hand it over to the provinces. That was the important reason it was more con- venient for taxpayers to pay to only one tax-collection agency.

WOULD NOT HELP EAST

The opposition's demand for a larger provincial share of the tax fields would not help the Mari- times and other less-wealthy prov- inces. The larger the provincial share, the better it would be for wealthy Ontario and the worse it would be for the poorer provinces. Mr. Pickersgill. refering to pro- vincial premlers' claims that they will not get enough, said: "Until the chips are down you wouldn't expect any premier to say he was

The Conservatives were wrong in saying no premier had accepted the plan. Premier Smallwood of Newfoundland-which Mr. Pick- ersgill represents in the cabinet-

He said the federal government had 9nd0PB8d ii in 8 SPEECH 11! has taken the position of a feudal March. when he said it was in the provinces a chance to negotiate terms. It had said the provinces did not have to central government could share accept the offer. But what was the money with poorer provinces.

the interests of Canada to safe- guard federal revenues so the

Mr. Dicfenhaker said the federal

'-The provinces are powerless to attitude at the last tax conference resist, believing as they must that this spring as arbitrary.

The measure would put hand-

The bill to lxnplement the tax cuffs on the provinces for the next given second in ppjncipb. sion. There should be more fed-

five years. limiting their expan-

eral help in the way of education

. and highway grants.

"If the vassals must accept bo-

. financial situation . . . then there

gut m , m b e rs. Rm"; pounm must come a responsibility on the Beau”, and remand G1.-am, L3. part of the federal government if

Canada and the other free nations are to take their part."

Fishermen End

The vote was the first in which

Ross Thatcher, who switched Mon- 9'Day BOYCQH

day from independent status to Liberal ranks, voted as a gov-