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Yanks Dety Red Order

By SEYMOUR TOPPING BERLIN (AP) — The Soviet Dnion warned the United States Wednesday to stop high-altitude to Berlin. The U.S. Air said it will continue them necessary.

Stepping up pressure elsewhere, _ the Russians issued an order in Moscow

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In the Balkans, the reported 100 Bulgarian jet

ee” frontier bases near Romania end Yu-

The sharpening dispute over the eir corridor to Berlin raised the danger of clashes between Ameri- can planes and Soviet fighters at a time when the Western foreign ministers are meeting in Wash- ington to lay the groundwork for spring meetings with Russian leaders. -

Allied planes flying to isolated West Berlin must use one of three corridors in crossing Com- munist East Germany.

Responsible Allied informants said the U.S. Air Force in West Germany i: awaiting. a go-ahead from Washington before dispatch-

ing a 130 transport that could be a test case.

The Soviet Embassy in East Berlin warned that any such flights above 10,000 feet would Jead to complications. The Rus- gians insist high altitude flights endanger Soviet planes crossing the corridors.

stress the importance of the nut-; Miss Hazel Roland, nutrition div-, aire, ritional value of foods, Si Nova Scotia department of | ional health and welfare, Ottawa;

cooking and the necessity

Budgeting for revenues total- ling $1,297,366 and expenditures of $1,295.661, City Council last night approved 1959 estimates that are forecast to produce a surplus of $1,704 with no change im the $2.75 tax rate in effect the past several years.

In bringing down his second

COUNTY GETS JOB gy Souris Building Contract Is Let

The new federal building at Souris will be built by County

is. Construction Company Limited,

it was announced last night by John A. Macdonald, M.P., for King’s County.

The Charlottetown firm got the contract on a tender of $119,933.

The building will be located on Main Street, just east of Church Street, where the old Lennox Hotel stands. The site was re- commended by the Souris coun- cil and the board of trade, Mr. Macdonald said.

It will consist of a basement

will occupy. the main floor. The second floor will house offices of the department of fisheries, agriculture and public works. OIL HEATING

crete reinforced with steel. The exterior walls will be of brick masonry with porcelain enamel panels. The windows and entry doors will be of aluminum. [It will be heated by an oil furnace.

The contract, Mr. Macdonald explained, includes the demoli-

tion of the old hotel. “I have learned from the company en-

Allies Express Sincere Wish To ‘Negotiate’ With Russians

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, Britain, France end West Germany Wednesday

~Srociaimed ‘ ‘a sincere desire to “pegotiate constructively” with Russia.

The aim: To ease international tensions over Berlin and other German problems.

At the same time, the four Ai- lies reaffirmed a determination to stand with their North Atlantic ee partners to block any So-

viet attempt to oust them from ‘West Berlin.

Their joint attitude was set out én a communique ending a one- day. strategy .meeting by their foreign ministers.

The four Allied leaders were reported to have narrowed differ- ences over proposals they will offer Russia in East-West talks to begin May 11 in Geneva.

Acting State Secretary Chris tian Herter, Foreign Secretary ‘Selwyn Lioyd of Britain, Frenca Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano attended the meeting.

. They were reported to have Tagreed on~a cautious negotiating

which calls on Russia to

they reveal what ‘adjustments they are ready to make. °

Some differences were reported to remain among the foreign ministers as the meetings ended, particularly over how to handle the Berlin crisis.

AGREE ON INSTRUCTIONS

A brief announcement said, however, they had agreed on in- structions which would guide lowertevel experts in drafting final proposals. The experts are to meet in London April 13 with the foreign ministers getting to- gether in Paris April 29 to con- sider their recommendations.

“AH these preparations are based on a sincere desire to ne- gotiate constructively with the So- viet Union in the interests of world peace,” the communique said.

Foreign and defence ministers representing the 15 - merber countries of the Atlantic pact al- liance arrived in the capital as the foreign ministers wound up their talks.

4 formal report, summing up the restlts of the diplomatic talks, is to be the highlight of the opening session today of a three-day Atlantic pact council

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budget since his appointment as;

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*The building will be of con-|

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of| public health, Halifax; Hon. Dr.

making hospital food attractive} M.L. Bonnell, P.E.I. minister of|of the P.E and appetizing. Left to right, are’ health; Miss Suzanne Saint-Hil-| course

chairman of the finance commit- tee, Councillor A. Walthen Gaudet said that the fact the Council was able to provide the City with the necessary services year after year without changing the basic tax rate was a credit to the citizens themselves.

By refraining from unreason- able requests, and showing their

gineer, Norman Stewart”, he said, that they will take immedi- ate steps to demolish the old hotel to avoid any further fire hazard.

Work on the new building will be started as soon as heavy equipment can be moved over the roads said Mr. MacDonald who added he had been assured that local labor will be used for the most part.

The building, he said, is design- ed by the architects of the de- partment of public works and

of the of nat-

Miss Clarke, dietition I. Hospital. The ends Friday.

Modes¢ Surplus Forecast For Charlottetown In Year

willingness to wait. for supple- mentary services. and improve- ments until the City could afford to pay for them, the citizens made the Council’s financing task much easier, he contended. Council also apyroved a rese- lution empowering Texaco (Cam

ada) Limited to erect a bulk stor- | by

age plant on the harbor water-

To be able to keep the tax

will be of the most modern type.

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By IAN MACDONALD

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Pre- mier Smallwood gave notice in the legislature Wednesday that he would introduce an amend- ment to the Labor Relations Act that would “‘satisfy the democrats in Canad.’s Liberal and Progres- sive Conservative parties.”

The ~- provincial government March 6 passed dn amendment to the act which gives the Lieut- enant-Governor-in-+Council pow- er to disolve a union, if a sub- stantial number of its execut- ives continue to hold office -af- ter being “convicted of any hen- ious crimes.”

Teachers Trade Jobs With Reds

OTTAWA (CP)—The Oanaxtian Teachers Federation is consider- ing short-term exchange visits be- tween Canadian and Russian teachers.

George tess: secretary - treasurer of the federation, said Wednesday the plan, still in the prelimina-y discussion stage, is for five or six selected Canadian

to Russia and there be the guests of Russian teachers.

They would stay only two or three weeks as tourists, and would do no teaching.

Mr. Croskery said the Russians had proposed the plan several years ago, but suggested 20 to & teachers making it too costly.

British and Russian Teachers have already had a similar ex-

‘Labor Act Change Promised By Joey

The premier said in an inter- view outside the legislature the new amendment will make it

necessary for the attorney-gen eral to prove in Supreme Court (Newfoundland)* tat a substan- tial number of a union's superior officers have been convicted of such a crime.

Mr. Smallwood said the move was taken to satisfy Liberal and Conservatives on the mainland who felt the provincial cabinet

executioner.

SUGGESTS CHANGE .

J. W. Pickersgill, Liberal Mem- ber of Parliament for Bonavista- Twillingate, suggested the March 6 amendment should be changed, Mr. Smallwood said. Mr. Pickers~ gill did not suggest what change should be made, only that there should be a change.

The premier told reporters the change was not made to “quell the outcry of mainland labor unions.”’

He also said in a press con ference serious consideration is being given to a proposal to take action against the Canadian La- bor Council ‘for illegal swindle.”

The CLC planned to raise $1,000,000 a month to pour into Newfoundland. “For what, I don’t know.”

NO LONGER A STRIKE

He said there is no longer a strike of International Woodwork- ers of America (CLC) loggers) in central Newfoundland and “the +EWA's illegal strike in western Newfoundland has- been called

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WINNIPEG (CP) — Manitoba

Hood Toll Is Terrific

PARTS (Reuters)—The death tol ran into the thousands Wed- aesday in the wake of devastat- ing cyclones and floods in the French island protectorate of Ma- dagascar, off the southeast coast

of Africa.

| Madagascar Premier Philibert

Tsirinana told the ee

SS that the h higher than

toll would. be the orignal eatimate of 3.00

Big Fg six provinces, five had been h aa “Our only coutnitn aa them are by radio.”

FRANCE HELPS

France was speeding badly- needed food and medical supplies to the island. Some 50,000 per- sons were reported homeless. Tsirinana said: “Most of the towns and villages of the low- lying zones are entirely covered the muddy waters of rivers in floods.” In the south, hug’ numbers of people have been seen from the air, assembled on high ground. had lost everything.

“AN the trees were torn up by the wind. Houses were blown apart as if by the explosion bombs. Hundreds of thousands acres are under water.”

RCMP Clause To Be Probed

VANCOUVER (CP) —Justice Minister Fulton said Wednesday a forthcoming conference of pro- vette seldeueretdeneel O48 Go. cuss the controversial ‘‘emer- gency”’ clause in the agreement under which the RCMP polices eight provinces.

But in a telephone interview from his home at Kamloops, B.C. the minister declined to comment on a suggestion by Premier Man- ning of Alberta that attorneys- general should meet to clarify ae ee

is

He said he will not comment on the proposal until he has seen it in writing Premier Man- ning, who the suggestion n a letter to the attorneys- general of provinces

Mr. Fulton sait he will ask the provinces for g ‘postponment in the conference,§, cheduled for the end of this month, because of a reshuffi- in the RCMP following the resignation of Commissioner L. H. Nicholson.

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‘BITTERLY HURT’ BY CANADIANS

ST. JOHN'S, Nfid. (CP)— Premier Joseph R. Small- wood Tuesday night said

Newfoundianders are “un-

proud” and have been “bitterly hurt by the ack of understanding we have received from the rest of ‘Canada.”

The fiery orator spoke to 600 persons attending a ban- quet in honor of his 10 years as Newfoundiand premier and marking the first decade of Newfoundland as Canada’s 10th province.

“This is the corner stone of the greatest empire the world has ever known—the first of Britain overseas, the first British colony,” he said.

Funds Sought For Loggers

REGINA (CP) — Gordon Wilk- ins6n, regional director of the Canadian Labor Congress, says a number of meetings are being held across the Prairies to raise funds for Newfoundland loggers. The meetings are to acquaint the public with’ the* labor situa- tion in Newfoundland and raise money to help members of the International Woodworkers of America, Mr. Wilkinson said Wednesday.

“We feel it is our duty to help the loggers financially and to help them fight Newfoundiand’s anti«mion legislation,” Mr. Wilk-

inson said.

First Ship Arrival

Starts Se

By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) — The long- awaited era of the St. Lewrence Seaway opened Wednesday with a horn-honking arrival of a Ger- man freighter in Montreal’s thaw-

ing inland harbor.

The 5,000-ton Volumnia docked here to win for ber skipper, Capt. Horst Wille of Hamburg, Ger- many, his second gold - headed cane. It is awarded annually to the first salt-water skipper arriv- ing each spring.

Tugs tooted and horns honked as the flag-decked vessel tied up at shed 10 in the heart of the harbor

But the Volumnia,, made espe- cially for the new seaway route, won't hang around to see the deep - water international canal system opened later this month. RETURNS TO EUROPE

The seaway is to start opera- tions April 20, weather permit- ting, but the Volumnia is to sail for Europe April 6 or 7. The ship brought steel goods, glassware and general cargo for Canada. The trim German ship, of the Hamburg-Chicago line, is to re- turn to Europe with geuveral cargo. z

The arrival ended the shortest closed period in the history of the port of Montreal, one of the

world’s major inland harbors.

The port, straddling the river route from the Atlantic to the Lakehead, is 1,000 miles from the

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ocean and 1,400 miles from the western reaches of the Great Lakes.

An early, abnprmal cold spell caught dozens of ships in the Lachine and Soulanges canals, linking Montreal with Lake On- tario. Slowly, using elbow grease, winches, poles and flame throw- ers, the trapped vesrels were shoved through the canals into Montreal f@arbor and released for the final downriver dash to the ocean.

Thirteen freighters, however, were caught by an icy wall across the river and icebreakers battled for weeks to cut a chan nel through to them. They were finally freed Jan. 14—the latest date on which a ship has sailed from Montreal for the ocean in the port's history.

OTTAWA (CP)—Russian plans to make its already active north- east s@a passage a communica- tions lifeline linking the Soviet west with the Far East under a new seven-year program.

More icebreakers, more stout

Arctic shipping, more aid to nav-

By ADRIENNE FARRELL NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) The first real rift in India’s five

years of friendly relations with

Communist China appeared dur- ing ‘an unprecedented storm in Parliament Wednesday.

A spokezsman for Prime Min- ister Nehru heatedly accused the Chinese Communist Embassy here of “highly improper” behav- ior after ‘the embassy circulated charges that the -Indian frontier town of Kali served as & centre for launching an. anti- Communist revolt in Tibet last month. ‘

Nehru denied the charge in the Indian Parliament after it first appeared in Peiping newspapers.

Mrs. Lakshmi Menon, deputy external affairs minster, speak- ing in Nehru’s absence, declared amid cheers from all except Com- munist members that the Chi-

nese Embassy was guilty of | China

highly improper behavior in cir- culating the charge after it had been denied.

“Prime Minister Nehru’s integ-

Soviet Closed To Diplomats

WASHINGTON ZAP) — Without

Soviet Union from Western dip-| }

lomats. In retaliation, the United States posted a similar temporary ban on Russian diplomats

spring.

The Russian ban has one ex- ception—it allows Western diplo- mats to travel to Leningrad. MAY VISIT NEW YORK

to go to New York. . First word of the Russian move came from the Foreign Office in London. A spokesman there said Britain has no intention now of clamping down a retaliatory ban. Diplomats representing other Communist nations are not af- fected. This is not the first time Rus- sia nas clamped on temporary restrictions. But until now the

United States has not done so.

igation and more research into ice, currents and weather are en- visaged, says the Soviet news bulletin published by the Russian embassy here.

The logic behind the move 1s indicated by the fact that it is 5,800 miles from Murmansk

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Reds See Communication lifeline Via Northeast Passage

In 7 Years

Vladivostok by the northern sea route compared with 12,830 miles by the Suez Canal. One third of Russia, including regions under intensive development, lies north of the Arctic Circle.

Some details of the seven-year plan, as authorized by the Com- munist Party’s 2lst Congress, are made public in an article cred- ited to V. Burkhanov, deputy chief of the northern sea route Soviet’s

Transport depariment officiais interest and said it indicates that Russia plans to add to tremendous achieve- ments in northern shipping. Russia's northern route is much longer than Caneda’s and like Canada’s is blocked with ice about eight or nine months of the year. While Russia’s route lies farther south, it has the disad- vantage of little protection to ship

which in the Canadian archipel- ago tend to bear the brunt of polar ice driving with great pres- sure down on the mainland.

The Russian route, however, has the advantage of a number of navigable rivers connecting with it while Canada’s only such route is the Macken‘ie.

The world’s first nuclear-pow- ered icebreaker, the Lenin, will be operating during the next nav-

| |igation season as the Soviet Arc-

tic fleet flagship, says the news bulletin. An unspecified a

of diesel-electric ice breakers of

26,000 horsepower also are being

18,000-horsepower model is being built.

navigation from offshore is'ands _

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