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ART SOCIETY OFFICERS ELECTED

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New officers for the coming|College. Front, left to right. Miss, Mrs. P. A. Creelman, Mrs. Doris year were elected at a success-|Ann Matheson, secretary; Mrs. ful annual meeting of the Prince |B. B. Jones, president; Mrs. E.

d Island Art Society held

last evening at Prince of Wales

B. Ellis, past president. Back, to right, Miss Eleanor Lowe,

McKay, John Taylor, Mrs. a , Miss Gladys Tay- lor, R. George. Vice-

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Opposition Prepares Attack n Financial Policy Of

Bpposition is preparing to launca major attack in Parliament Sat pai the ee finan-

Game Tuesday both from Liberal

Leader Pearson oe CCF House

208 Conservatives, indicated in an interview that when he launches his throne speech attack Monday he will hit hard at what he terms

Ent, has already indicated ity line of defence.. Finance Minister Fleming told a Toronto audience earlier this month that the Cana- dian recession was part of an in-

ternational development that also

Mass Executions

By ROBERT D. CLARK HAVANA, Cuba (AP)-—-Cuba’s fevolutionary government Tues- day defended mass executions of Batista supporters, terming the death sentences necessary to pre- vent vengeful Cubans from taking the law into their own hands.

Obviously stung by criticism from abroad, Foreign Minister Roberto Agramonte declared:

“Tf the military tribunals did

not do what they are doing now, Moving’ quickly. to assure fast justice, the families of those who Were murdered and tortured Would take justice into their own Gands and many innocent would fall with the accused.” ' By unofficial count the execu- tions of the followers of ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista Reached 150. These _ included Police, soldiers, gunmen and in- formers accused of murder.

DENY HALT ORDER

Foreign ministry sources de- Bied that any orders had gone out to the six provinces to halt the trials and executions.

Reporters at Santiago were

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Given lists of names of 74 exe- cuted there Monday.

Said ‘Necessary

Executions also were carried out in Guantanamo, Bayamo and Holguin in Oriente province.

About 3,000 persons are esti- mated to be still facing trial.

Agramonte said there were es- timates that the Batista regime “murdered and tortured 20,000 Cuban men, women and children of all ages.”

“T would like to make it clear that the executions by military firing squads have been made under revolutionary law,’ Agra- monte -said in a press statement.

HUMANE BY COMPARISON

“It must be -pointed out for justice’s sake that this penalty is at least humane compared with the barbaric treatment accorded revolutionary soldiers when cap- tured by Batista men.”

He announced that the govern- ment of provisional President Manuel Urrutia is about ready to

'complete reorganization of the

supreme tribunal of justice, and that it will take over from the military tribunals.

He promised that the supreme tribunal will give each citizen @uarantees he never had under Batista.

Father Of Kidna

pped Baby

Talked Into Laying Charge

NEW YORK (AP)—Mrs. Jean Keavarone was held in $50,000 bail Tuesday in the kidnapping of a ‘Bewborn baby after the child's Peluctant father was talked into signing the complaint against

'_“We bear this woman no

grudge.”’ the father, Frank Chion-

Chio, said of himself and his 26-

r-old wife. Their baby, Lisa

, was found alive and un-

harmed Sunday in Mrs. Iava- fone’s Brooklyn apartment.

Police said Mrs. Tavarone, 43, @bducted the baby from a Brook- tyn hospital Jan. 2, only 2% hours after it was born, in a plot to m- duce her boy friend to marry her bby passing the infant off as their love child.

Chionchio, a B-year yer, at first ref to sign kid- Rapping c it agai ‘the tbuxom blonde widow, the ‘mother @f seven living children.

BE SUBPOENAED wae talked inte it, however,

in the chambers of Magistrate James A. Roe, Jr. He was told that if he didn’t sign the com- plaint he could be subpoenaed as a witness against Mrs TIavarone and forced to testify to the sub- stance of the complaint.

ping may have been Mrs. lIava- rone’s means of trying to regain her four youngest children, scat- tered in orphanages and foster homes by the breakup of her two previous marriages. She was re- ported to have. been told she

needed a home and husband be-

fore she could regain the chil- dren.

Mrs. Iavarone has claimed that Lisa Rose was her own child. de- livered unaided in her Brooklyn apartment Jan. 2. But authorities said medical tests proved this claim false.

The Chionchio child was siolen 2% hours after its birth fromthe

nursery of St. Peter's Ryspital in Brooklya.

Police sources said the kidnap-|

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had affected the United States

road to recovery, he said, the prospects before Canada were

“dazzlingly bright.’"’ He ees

the government's huge 1958 con- version bond issue as being es- sential to eliminate an “over- hang’ of soon-toamature victory bonds creating a drag on the bond market.

Government spending had been increased to fight the recession and create more jobs but now, he indicated, there would be no further major increase in the country’s money supply. There also would be a tight clamp on controllable federal expenditures.

However, the sag in the price of government bonds had contin- ued. At mid-November Canadian unemployment was up by about 22 per cent from that time last year, with job-hunters estimated at 361,000, a post-war record for this period of the year. Last weex the Bank of Canada interest rate of 3% per cent, while down from recent highs, compared with the record low of 1.12 per cent last August. ag

Bank presidents, in year - end statements, warned of the dang- ers of inflation. But demands on the féderal treasury were still heavy.

TAX INCREASES?

There were indications the gov- ernment might have to boost taxes if another major deficit for, the next fiscal year was to be avoided. The alternative seemed to be a further rise in the money supply, a move Mr. - Fleming agreed would be highly inflation- ary.

But there were indications not all members of the cabinet were in favor of higher taxes. Inform- ants said Mr. Fleming was 1look- ing to Prime Minister Diefen- baker for guidance and that the prime minister was holding off a final decision in the hope perhaps that a rising economy might make tax boosts unnecessary.

In the end Mr. Diefenbaker may have to settle for some small tax increases. Federal spending for the next fiscal year starting April 1, including old age pen- sions, was unofficially estimated to rise to some $6,000,000,000 from the $5,700.00, or so this: year.

ANOTHER DEFICIT?

_ Federal revenues, includ- ing those from pension tax lev- ies, may climb to some $5,30,- 000,000 from $5,000,000,000 this year. Within this range of esti- mates, it appeared the govern- ment would have anither deficit of $700,000,000 or so in 1959-60, similar to the one Mr. Fleming forecast for the current year end- ing March 31.

Without increased taxes, a def- icit of that amount could be fi- manced only by heavier borrow- ing. Under current market con- ditions, heavier federal borrow- ing might push interest rates higher and drop market values of government securities generally.

CNR Steamer Is Refloated

GRAND BANK. Nfid. (CP)— The CNR steamer Bar Haven was refloated Tuesday from a sand bar # miles from here where she went aground‘ Sunday night. She was towed to Bay l'Argent ‘for a damage assess- ment.

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Huuse Assent To Hospital Insurance Plan Predicted

Hospital insurance will be perhaps the most important issue to occupy the 4th Session of the 48th General Assembly which opens Feb. 10th in Charlottetown. The plan is expected to cost the province a million dollars a year ion a eee nero oat term, Matheson said Caen

hospital insurance and a draft of the legislation required will be NEW SPEAKER?

The Premier would neither confirm .or deny speculation that the House would see a new face in the Speaker’s chair. Sources close to the government have in- timated that Hon. J. Augustine Gallant, the speaker of the last

two sessions is likely to be suc-

Dulles BI

WASHINGTON Secretary Dulles Tuesday blasted Russia’s proposals for Germany as brutal, stupid and probably unworkable.

Coupling this harsh criticism with an implied promise of flex- thility, Dulles added that the U.S.

Britain and France to discuss the German problem.

He thus set the stage, at his press conference, for round No. 2 of Anastas I. Mikoyan’s Wash- ington talks about the future of the divided nation. Mikoyan, first deputy Russian premier, is due back here late this-week after a cross-country tour.

EXCHANGE %F VIEWS

Dulles said:

1. His and President Eisen- hower’s conferences with Miko yan on Friday and Saturday, re- ,Spectively, will amount to an ex- change of views and not two- power negotiations — something the Allies oppose.

2. Russia’s proposal to isolate the demilitarize German is not only brutal, as West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer con- tended Monday, but “‘it’s a stupid

Falling Tree Kills Logger

PLASTER ROCK, N.B. (CP)— Logger Walter Parrish, 49, of nearby Burnt Land Brook, was killed Monday when a tree fell and struck him on the head, 10 miles north of here.

RCMP said Parrish was cutting down another tree when it be- came entangled with the one that

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3. The Western Allies believe Germany should be reunited through free elections. But Dulles said — apparently for the first time in public—that a free #lec- tion is not the only pos- sible. He declined to elaborate, except to add: “There are all kinds of methods.”

4. The United States has no new proposals on Germany's fu- ture at present. It stands on the Allies’ Dec. 31 note proposing four power talks on the whole German queation. Such talks would embrace Berlin, reunifica- tion, a peace treaty and Ewurop- ean security.

5. “‘We are having constant talks with our Allies about the situation” —a hint that new pro- posals should not be ruled out.

6. Mikoyan made clear, in talks last week with Dulles and Vice- President Richard Nixon, that Russia's proposal to hand East Berlin over to East Germany and demand withdrawal of Western forces from West Berlin by next June was not “an ultimatum with 2 fixed tume limit.’

Two. SICKNESSES

It was Dulles’ first press con- ference since Nov. 26. During‘ the interval, he has beer sick twice —with a colon inflammation and later a virus.

Of his health, the 70-year-old Dulles said in reply to a ques- tion: “I feel able to carry on.”

Dulles also expressed hope Cuba's revolutionary government would conform to the ideals of liberty and justice and said new findings on the difficulty of de- tecting small nuclear tests are

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Duck Hunter's Body Is Found

LIVERPOOL, N.S. (‘CP)—The body of one of two duck hunters missing for several dayS was recovered Tuesday at Port L’ Hebert, 20 miles west of here.

RCMP identified it as that of Eugene Leslie, 36. Still missing is Gordon Teal, 4. Both were residents of Port Joli, N.S.

REDEMPTORIST DIES

SAINT JOHN, N. B., — (CP) — Rev. Charles McCormick, 87, oldest the Canadian English-speaking province of Redemptorists, died in hospital here bienge He. was in Saint John and joined order in 1896. ~

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Hon. Angus Will Open Jamaican Trade Fair

OTTAWA, — The Right Hon. John G. Diefenbaker. Prime Minister of Canada, has an- nounced that the Hon. J. Angus Maclean, Minister of Fisheries, will represent the Canadian Gov- ernment at the inauguration of the Canadian Trade Fair in King- ston, Jamaica, on January 16.

Mr. MacLean will be accom- panied by R. W. Blake, Area Trade Officer for Commonwealth Countfies im the Department of. Trade and Commerce and form- erly Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

Mr. Diefenbaker. said that, as fish is the principal single item of export from Canada to Jam- aica, it is particularly approp- riate that Mr. MacLean should participate at the inauguration ceremonies of this major promo-, tional project, sponsored by the Department of Trade and Com- merce.

Ships Ready To Make Dash

From Montreal Early Today

MONTREAL (CP)—Some 500 saltwater sailors, trapped more than a month in Montreal Har-

sail down the St. Lawrence River at dawn after being reached Tuesday by a pair of federal gov- ernment icebreakers.

Thirteen ocean freighters had been caught in the harbor by a sudden and early freeze-up and had sat frém early December waiting for the breakers to fight their way into the harbor.

One, the Poseidon, was freed Monday and spent the night off Trois - Rivieres. She docked at Quebec City Tuesday night to load cargo and was due to sail for Europe Thursday. ;

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The icebreakers d'Iberville and Ernest Lapointe reached the top of the harbor Tuesday after try- ing since Dec. 5.

The d’ Iberville remained in the harbor channel battering and bunting at ice piled 15 feet thick.

The smaller Lapointe concen- trated on keeping ice smashed by the d'Iberville moving freely through the 500-foot wide channel leading to the sea.

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Radium Is. Found 4er 26-Hour Search

Sailors, Defence Workers Aided Doctors And Police

HALIFAX (CP)—A dangerous erating room floor into a tash

radioactive radium tube, smaller than a paper match, was found

undamaged at the city dump here late Tuesday after a concen- trated 26-hour search.

Police Chief Verdun Mitchell said the tube was discovered by ‘technicians going over rubbish vith geiger counters.

A check of a Victoria General Hospital safe Monday afternoon revealed the cylindrical silver ttibe less than an inch long was gone. The discovery touched off

a search of the 300-room, 15- storey hospital.

CANCER TREATMENT

Used in cancer treatment, - the radioactive tube is inserted in the body ‘of a patient~to™ destroy nalignant cells..

Hospital officials said there was

Stapleton, head of the hospital’s radiotherapy division, said the tube was probably dropped acci-

no suspicion of theft. Dr. Joseph |:

dentally and swept from the op-

trucking industry appealed to the government Tuesday against the use of further railway subsidies in the rail freight rate structure.

A delegation from Canadian Trucking Associations, represent. ing major trucking firms across the country, said in a brief tt Transport Minister Hees that sub- sidies could boomerang against the western and Atlantic prov- inces.

Thir presentation was prompted by reports that the cab- inet—after allowing a 17-per-cent freight rate increase effective Dec. 1—intends to propose treas- ury aid to the railways to enable them to bring western and Atlan- tic tolls more into line with lower ones in Ontario and Quebec.

After the meeting, an informant

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Dr. C. M. Bethune, hospital superintendent, issued a warning that anyone finding the tube should not pick it up. “This tube

-|is dangerous if carried on one’s

person,” he said.

Jack Wakely, aca at Vic. toria General.

Dr. Stapleton said persons handling the tube for a short time would not be affected by the radioactivity, -but prolonged con tact would be dangerous.

workers joined doctors and police in the search Tuesday. The hos-

Rail Freight Subsidies Opposed By Truckers

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s| said Mr. Hees told the delegation

its submission would be given careful consideration.

cases it is that trucking Gampenion chil sow oot ai ing would have te curtail their ethan ‘eeiiiie,

Forecast

QUEBEC (CP)—Finance Min-

ister John Bourgue Tuesday

down provincial govern-

ment estimates of $548.938,500 for

the coming 1959-60 fiscal year starting April 1.

The proposed expenditure pro- gram for the coming fiscal year is a record. For the currept year ending March 31, Mr. Bourque had ‘set his estamates at $506,537,- 400.

Tuesday Mr. Bourque also brought down supplementary es- timates: for the current year end- ing March 31 ttalling $12,024,500.

This means expenditures for the current term will be close to $520,000,000 but still $25,000,000 behind the expenditure’ program set out for the coming financial term.

Largest single item in the sup- plementary estimates for the cur-

year is $4,100,000 for school ants. The legislature during the last session had already voted $31,237,000 for grants to school corporations. There is no indication yet of

‘Record Spending

said an official of the channel |

In Que.

the revenue the provincial gow ernment anticipates for next year. This will be known when the finance minister makes hig budget speech within a few weeks.

Former Mayor Of Liverpool Dies

LIVERPOOL, N. S., — Edgar J. Wright,

‘CP) mayor of

after a long illness. He was 7

An undertaker, Mr. Wright was secretary-treasurer of he Nova Scotia Embalmers Assot- iation and district coroner for more than 10 years.

LEAVING FOR TRAINING

HALIFAX, — (CP) — The Navy's 870 Air Fighter Squadron leaves Shearwater air station here today for five weeks train- ing exercises with United States

navy fliers at Key West, Fila.

‘OTTAWA (CP) — The Opposi- tion’s opening guns won't be fired until Monday in the first major debate of the new parliamentary session.

Prime | Minister Diefenbaker, making public the timetable of the opening days in the session

party leaders will not speak in the throne speech debate until | Monday.

The speech from the throne, outlining the government's legis- lative program for the séssion, will be read by Governor-General

. | Massey at the opening ceremon-

ies Thursday afternoon. Friday afternoon will be set

gressive ConserVative members

starting Thursday, said an a

P.M. Makes Public Timetable For First Days Of Session

who will present the customary motion for an address in reply to the throne speech. Mover and seconder will be Warner Jorgen- son, Provencher, and Louis For tin, Montmagny-I'Isiet.

The actual throne speech de- bate won't open until Monday

when Opposition Leader Pearson

will lead off. He will undoubtedly present a motion of ' non-confi-

|denc@ against the’ government.

Mr. Diefenbaker and CCF House Leader Hazen Argue also will speak.

Normally on Fridays the. Com-

mons would meet in the morning

but Mr. Diefenbaker said Tues day he will propose that this Fri.

aside for speeches by two Pro-| day the House waive the morning

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