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CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1958
N°?ml§%“ FIVE CENTS‘
BUSINES AT om STAND
QUEBEC — Former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent is back
in business at his old stand - his
Quebec City law office. He retir- ed from active politics before the March 31 election and after a
vacation re-turned to the firm he operates with his sons Renault and Jean-Paul. (CP Wirephoto)
Conference On Law« Of
The Sea Ended Sunday
GENEVA (AP) —- The world conference on the law of the sea ended early Sunday. Five new treaties on international mari- time law were adopted during the nine-week, 86-natio-n meeting.
The final session heard a warn-
ing from Iceland that it may soon .
extend its zone of exclusive off- shore fishing rights by unilateral declaration.
Disagreement over exclusive fishing rights was the main rea- son tor the failure of the-yo '
ence to attain its m»aj'oTr objective‘
-—a new universal delimitation of ternitorisal waters.
The conference a d o p t e d a Cuban resolution referring the problem of territorial waters and exclusive fishing nights back to the United Nations General As- semnbly.
NOT COMMITTED
Immeditaely after that action, Hans.G. Andersen of Iceland said reconsideration by the United Na- tions could not commit Iceland to take no action in the mean- time with regard to its claim for a. 12-mile exclusive fishing zone.
"We already have waited as patiently as can be expected in the circum-stances,” he said.
Throughout the conference British delegates contended a proposed 12-mile zone of exclu- sive fishing rights would have disastrous consequences for Brit- ain by barring British boats from traditional fishing grounds oft Iceland's coasts.
Most major Western maritime -powers offered -— as a possible cornpnomise—plans to extend ter- ritorial waters from the present three-mil-e limit to six miles. This was unvawc=ceptaabl«e to nations de- manding 12 miles or mo-re for territorial waters and exclusive fishing rights.
ONLY 3-MILE LIMIT
As a result of the deadlock, the major Western powers gave for- mal notice they will continue to
recognize only the traditional three-mile lirnit as universally applicable.
Chile, Ecuador and Peru as- serted that their claim for 200 miles of territorial waters and exclusive fishing rights “remain in full force as long as just and humane sol-utions are not worked out.”
following in international marl- time lanw:
1. The right of innocent pass- age of foreign ships through un- defined territorial waters of any nation and through stnaits used for international na-vigiation.
2.‘Genenal principles of inter- national law on the high seas, including action agaivnst piracy and slave trade and the need for a genuine link between Ships and the nation whose fl.-ag they fly. v ~ 3. Internationally agreed mea- sures for fishery conservation on the high seas. I
4. ‘Exclusive right of coas-tall nations to exploit and explore mineral and other resources. in- cluding oystens, in their offshore ocean beds. g
5. The right of landlocked na- tions to free access to the sea.
B§‘itain’s attorney - general, Sir 'Regin:al:d Man-ningham - Buller, spearheaded opposition to this demand. H.-e repeatedly told the conference a 12-mile zone would have diisas-trbuus consequences for the entire British fishing indus- try. The United States, Japan and most Western European na- tions held a slrniwlar view.
The conference thus was split into two almost eqauailly-balaznaced groups. This led to the adoption —+by small committee majorities —of several confilicting proposals on territorial waters and an ex- clusiv-e fishing zone. All were fi- nally rejected for want of the requisite two-thirds majority in a plenary session of the conference.
LED FIGHT Througliout the conference, Cannad<a’s George Drew led a
fight for a 12-mile zone of ex-
SURGEON’ RECORD
EPPING, England (Reuters)- Dr. Parmanand Sharma, 29-year- old surgeon from India, Friday claimed a world record by suc- cessfully operating here on Mrs. Elizabeth Dawkins, who will be 102 in August. She was operated on for a fractured hip this week after six hospitals refused the case.
GREAT EXPLORER
Henry Hudson was searching for a northern channel to Asia when he discovered Hudson Bay
The treaties seek to provide the
in 1610.
I clusive fishing rig h t s, which could be closed to all foreign trawlers. He was joined by Ice- land, Norway, the Pacific coast nations of Latin America, the Communist bloc and most of the new nations of Asia and Africa.
CLAUDE WOOD Sp. Pk. Principal To Be Inspector
Mr. Claude Wood, Principal, Of Spring Park School has been ap- pointed supervisor of schools at a recent meeting of the Prince Edward Is'and Government. He will continue in his present cap- acity until the end of the present school term. _
Mr. W0od’s supervision terri- tory will .be that formerly cov- ered by the late Gordon Rife before he left to accept a teach- ing position at Summersi-dc. It includes what was ?:'o r m e My school unit No. 1 and the area east of Charlottetown to Mount Stewart.
‘Other appointments made by the Provincial Government are
Marjorie Hooper, Milton, sem- Igrapher to the Department of Pubic Works. Haze Miller, an employee of the Department of Welfare has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. ».
GREAT SPORT _ Curling, now a popular winter sport in Canada, has been played in Scotland for 300 years.
Foreign Shipping On Lakes Tied Up By Pilots Strike
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
The dispute between the Great Lakes Pilots Association and the Shipping Federation of Canada kept foreign ghtipping tied up at most lake ports during the week- end.
But one frclgliter made it to Montreal when a pilot crossed a picket line at Kingston, Ont., and another foreign ship was stuck in a sandbar for more than three hours after running aground at Stag Island in Lake St. Claire. There was no Great Lakes pilot aboard.
The shipping: federation wants 50 upse lake pilots only between Port Weller on Lake Ontario and Sarnia on Lake Huron. The pilots flemand they be kept aboard dur- "I8 8 ship's entire trip in and out of. the Great Lakes.
GERMAN SHIP AGIIOUND
The ship that went aground was the German ocean freighter. the Ciandra. Her 5 k 1 p p e r, Capi-
Worsch said he wanted a. P-ilm but was unable to get one as he en- tered the Great Dukes.
The Ciandra ran aground on a sandbar 500 yards south of the island Saturday morning. The ship was freed three hours later and continued on to Ch1c~a.g0- Oh" servers s-aid the normal water line where the ship Went 3*ST°““d was about 15 feet out of water.
River pilot George Downel/' went aboard the German ocean freig-liter Francesca Sarori at Kinvgeston and took it down the St. Lawrence River to Montreal- Downey crossed a picket line set up by the pilots association.
Earlier in the week he CI‘0SS€d picket lines to return the Norwe- gian freighter Rutenfjell down the river.
TYING UP LAKES
In Kingston, C‘a"PI1aI”- V» Make. secretary of the associa- tion, said the pilots are gradually
tying up Great Lakes ports.
Captain Make said he feels Kingston is strongly behind the pailots in their dispute with the federation. But he added he is disappointed in Downey’s actions. The river pilots association has not, as yet, given full support to the lakes pilots but is honoring picket lnies.
He said the pilots want a gov- ernment or a royal commission to look into what he termed the shipping federations “double bar- rel-l-ed dictatorship."
TRANSPORT DEPT. ORDER
1n Ottawa, Deputy Transport Minister Baldwin said he has wired each pilot in the St. Traw- rcnce pilotagc district that heis expected to carry out his duties and that he has no right to re- fuse assignment to a vessel.
The St. Lawrence pilots are under t1'ansp.ol‘t. departnient juris- diction.
St. John River Confinued To Recede Sunday
FORT KENT, Me. (AP)—T‘he St. John River continued to re- cede ,Sunday .from its record height of Friday. Fear of further damage was alleviated.
The Ma-ine-New Brunswick bor- der river, which reached 2. height of 24.6 feet above normal, its highest since 1933, slowly with- drew to its proper channel, leav- ing hundreds of acres of north- ern Maine fields wet and muddy and many cellars flooded.
At the peak, more than 30 homes were isolated and families were evacuated from several oth- ers that were endangered.
Falling temperatures Saturday aided the river’s decline. Traffic was ‘resumed on practically all roads that had been inundated, including about a mile of Fort Kent’s main street.
MOOSE RIVER THREAT’
Near Jackman in the north-. western part of the state, near- gale winds threatened to break up ice in Big, Wood Lake and send it crashing down the Moose River towards the town.
Part of Jack1man’s business dis- trict aiready has been subjected to small floods and the threat of . the early break-up at Big Wood has officials concerned.
One store and home have been cut off by the rising Sandy Stream, a Moose River tributary. Despite the chilly temperatures and even a few snowfllurries, the river has continued to rise. The river is threatening the interna- tional highway to Quebec but no plans to close the road have been made.
Officer Passes
rononro (CP)—Major Her- bert H. Muttart, 91, tlirougzhout his adult life an active Salvati.on Ar-my worker in the lvlaritimes and Prairie regions, died Friday.
A native of Prime Edward Is- land, Major Muttart entered the Salvation Army at Suummersdie, P.E.I., doing evangelical work there before going West. For 10 years he and his wife supervised operation of Booth Memorial Cll1il;I'::cn s 120‘ 5 in Calgary before he retired from active work 30 yeans ago.
IAgree;oIn rérméi‘ In B. C. Strike
VANCOUVER (CP) —— Agree- ment was reached Sunday on a formula for settlemaent of a team- sters strike which has idled 3,300‘ workers on‘ h‘ea~v«y construction projects throughout British Col- umbia for nine weeks.
An official of the Heavy Con- struction Association of BJC. said both sides will recommend ac- ceptance of the settlement pro- posals.
Managing secretary J. D. Lay- den of the employers organiza- tion said no details of the pro‘- posed new contract “will be re- vealed until the representatives ‘of each side have consulted their mem.bers.
Island - Born S. A.-
Premier A. W. Matheson will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the annual convocation of the University of New Brunswick to be held on May 15. The announcement was made yesterday by the Univer- sity.
Two other Atlantic Provinces Premiers will also receive hon- orary Doctorate of Laws degrees at the U.N.B. convocation. They are Hon. Robert L. Stanfield of Nova Scotia and Hon. Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland. Mr.
Smallwood is scheduled to re- ceive an honorary degree from Dalhousie University on the same day.
Receiving honorary degrees along with the three Atlantic Premiers will be Mr. David Low, famous New Zealand Cartoonist now of London, England; John Herbert Smith, president of Can- /adian General Electric ‘and Dr. James Stacey Coles, president of Bowdoin College, Maine, U.S.A.
Alexander W. Matheson was born at Bellevue, P. E. I., in 1903. He was educated at Prince of Wales College and after read- ing‘ law in his native Province was called to the Bar in 1933. He was created a K.C. in 1944.
Mr. Matheson was first elect- ed to the Provincial Legislature
Premier To Get LL. D. From University New Brunswick *
PREMIER MATHESON
in 1940 and‘ was re—elected in 1947, 1951, and 1955. He was Minister of Health and Welfare from 1948 to 1953 when he be- came Premier of the Province. At the present time Premier Matheson holds the portfolios of Attorney General,’ Welfare and Labor.
APEC Pleased
Prince Edward Island firms are well represented. at the At- lantic Provinces food show which will be officially opened in -Moncton this morning at 9.- 30. Premier Hugh John Flem- ming of New Brunswick will officiate. _
Already -businessmen from all '-tile" Ananuc‘ 7' Proviiices — as well as a good representation from the Eastern United States and Central Canada are in Moncton for the big show which is being held at the stadium. The Atlantic Provinces Food Show is not an exhibition in the same sense that exhibitions are usually held. Rather it is an attempt on the part of APEC to. pin point the food industry in the Atlantic Provinces so that business may. know what pro- ducts are available for sale.
It will give businessmen in particular an opportunity to study the economic value of the food industry at which 63 firms will show the products of the land the sea and the mines. Salt is the only product of the mines being shown: ‘
APE-‘C officials last night ex-
pressed pleasure at the nu.m-
ber of people who have up to
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)-An o='vernight search by RCMP, more than 100 volunteer searchers and a number of private planes ended near here Sunday when two eight-yea-r-old boys and the coll-ie dog were found lying in the grass about two miles from their Black River, N.B. home too exhausted from lack of food to walk.
The boys, Eric Hanson and Gary Sullivan, were immed«i"tcly -brought to hospital here for ex-
Find Boys Safe After 30 Hours Lost In N. B. Woods
amiIz.ation.
They had" left home Sztaurday ,a1b0«uI3 10 a.m. and were found about 4 p.m. Sunday. They slept on the ground Saturday night but had been 30 hours without food.
The trio was first spotted by a Fundry Flying Club aircraft and the word was passed to police. Ayn RCMP search dog led the party to the boys after word was received of their general loca-
Displayed In Food Show
lion.
With Interest
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the present registered to take part in the show. A cordial in- vitation is being extended to residents of Prince. Edward ls- land to vist the show at the Moncton Stadium either Tues- day afternoon or evening.
:;Re.po.r~t.' Q.ueen--
Is " Recovering
WINDSOR, England <APJ—Thc Queen, who is‘ under treatment
for a heavy cold, was reported
much better Sunday.
Trade Mission Sees Seaway;
Is Wonderful,
MONTREAL (CP) -— Sir David Eccles, president of Britain’s board of trade, joined a travel- ling troupe of British business- men Sunday to see them off on the rest of their cross-Canada trade tour.
Sir David, who heads‘ the gov- ernment erlpartment dealing with United Kingdom trade, arrived by air from London to spend three, days with the trade ‘Vs-sion in Montreal before flying n xt Tues- day to New York and Venezuela.
He meets today with Sir Wil- liam Rootes, chairman of the Dollar Exports Council delega- tion, and the Quebec regional committee of the Dollar Sterling Trade Council, headed by Mont- real executive Fred Rutley.
They are to discuss ways of improving trade between Canada and the United Kingdom, follow- ing last December’s visit to Brit- ain by 57 Canadian businessmen.
INSPECT SEAWAY
The British group, representing
major industrial, financial and mercantile i n t e rests, inspected the billion - dollar St. Lawrence Seaway and power project Sat- urday, meeting former U.S. pres- ident Harry S‘. Truman, also sea- way sightseeing, on the mile-long hydro-electric dam near Corn- wall, On-t. The project, which will open the mid-continent to world cargo ships and also produce 2,200,000 horsepower of electricity, was de- ,scribed as “wonderful” by Sir ‘William Rootes and "fantastic” by Mr. Truman.
OIL OUTPUT DOWN
CALGA-RY (C’P)—-The Alberta oil and gas conservation board said i-n its weekly report Satur- day there was a further drop in 0i1...output~.in..the province in the week ended April 21, compared with the ‘ output of the ore- vious week. Statilsticls showed last week’s output was 282,105 barrels a day, 32,953 barrels lower than in the previous week, and 155,480 barrels fewer than during_tl1e cor- responding week a year ago.
Yanks Propose Arctic Patrol
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -The United States Saturday proposed the United Nations Se- curity Council call for immediate discussions on aerial inspection
against surprise attack in the Arctic. U.S. delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge made public a resolution he -said the United States is sub- mitting which urges such action.
Lodge, president of the 11-nsa- tion council for April told a news conference he was consulting other membens about the time of a council meeting. Later he said
THIRD TAX CUT
LANCASTER, N.B. (CP) City Council here has reduced taxes for the third successive year. Reductions‘ range flrom one to five per cent in various parts of the city in proportion to services and available to the taxpayes.
AVM DUNLAP
New appointments for three high-ranking officers in the All‘ Force and Army were announced today by the Minister of National Defence. Involved in the three- way swithch are Air Vice Mar- shall C.R. Dunlap. now Vice" Chief of the Air Staff: An‘ Vice Marshall D.M. Smith. current
AVM SMITH
chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff, London, England; and Ma- jor~General G. Kitching, present Adjutant-General of the Canadian Army. AVM Dunlap is to take over as Deputy Chief of Staff, Op- erations, at Supreme Headquar- ters, Allied P o w e r Europe (SHAPE) on June 15 and will be,
HIGH - LEV.EI. APPOINTMENTS
MAJ. - GEN. KITCHING promoted to Acting Air Marshall.
AVM Smith will take over as Vice cmér of the Air Staff on June 20. Maj.-General Kitcliing will take over the post of chair- man, CJS Yondon in August. His
successor as Adjutant-General will be named later. Defence)
conveniences ’
(National [long - established three Western
it had been set for 11 a.m. ELDT Tuesday.
Lodge requested the meeting ostensibly for further debate on a Soviet cromlplaint that the United States is endangering peace by sending, nuclear bombers across the Arctic toward Soviet fron- tiers. .
Pair Burned To Death In N. S.
HALIFAX (CP) —— Two men were burned to death early Sun- day when fire destroyed a one- room log, cabin in the village of Hub=b*ar-ds, 20 miles west of here.
The victims were identified as Mitchell Meisner, a 56-year-old bachelor who owned the cabin, and his neighbour, Richard M. Miller, 48, the father of eight chil- dren.
Both men were believed to have been asleep when the blaze broke out just before dawn. There was no one else in the calbin at the time. -
WASHINGTON (AP) —- Presi- dent Eisenhower’s disarmament policymakers met in an extra- ordinary Saturday session amid| reports of a developing show-E
‘down between State Secretary
Dulles and Lewis Strauss ove-r suspending n u c l e a 1' weapons tests.
Dulles wants to change United States policy and take deter- mined steps toward ending tests by agreement with Russia. The agreement, if adopted, would call for inspection to guard against cheating. The suspension would become effective after the United States concludes its spring and summer Pacific test series.
Strauss, c h air m a n of the Atomic Energy Commission, has waged a long public campaign in favor of continuing tests unless a suspension can be achieved as part of a broad disarmament pro- gram which would end the manu- facture of nuclear weapons.
Dull-es called Saturd‘ay’s two- hour meeting at his residence with Strauss among those pres- ent. ~
Dulles is known to want some final‘dec’isions on U.S. testing pol- icy prior to the meeting May 5 in Copenhagen with other foreign ministers of N o rt h. Atlantic treaty countries. He leaves for the meeting at the end of this week.
SUPPORT FOR DULLES
Dulles gained a powerful ally in recent weeks, according to all available evidence. Dr. James R. Killian, the president’s science adviser, reported to Eisenhower
Extraordinary Session U.S. Disarmament Group Held
Report Showdown Shapes . Up Over Nuclear Testing
devised which would afford suf- ficient safeguards against any Soviet effort to cheat on the test ban.
The‘ final decision, subject to Eisenhower’s approval, will have to be made in the National Se- curity Council under the presi- dent’s chairman-ship. ,
I-n government circles the bet- ting this weekend is that Dulles and others who share his View that the United States must take vigorous action on the issue will win out over Strauss ‘llld the op- ponents. The impending series of tests of nuclear weapons in the Pacific may be the last series, at least for several years.
TWO-YEAR SUSPENSION
As plans now shape up the ad- ministration proposals may call for a test suspension of two years beginning Jan. 1, 1959, with an international inspection system under which dozens of scientific teams would guard against test cheating by any of the atomic powers.
Within two years the power: would negotiate on a cutoff of manufacture of nuclear explos- ives for military purposes, also - with an inspection system.
So far U.S. planning is based entirely on the assumption that Congress will pass legislation to- enable the president to share with Britain, at least, the results of U.S. tests so that the British c-an develop weapons without hav- ing to hold further tests them- selves. one point on which Dul- les has been insistent is that the interests of Britain. as an ally must -be fully respected in U.S.
that a detection system could be
DETROIT (AP) A plan whereby the United Auto Work- ers union will offer to extend con- tracts with the auto industry's "big three” producers for three months in return for a reduction in car prices and added unem- ployment benefits is expected to be proposed by the union today.
In essence, the union would ex- tend present contracts with Gen- eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler from the end of next month until Sept. 8 and ask ‘that car‘ prices be dropped an unspecified amount. Supplemental unemploy- ment benefits would' be raised from the present 60 to 65 per cent of worker take home pay to 80 per cent.
DEVISED IN SECRET
The plan was reported by the Detroit Times. which said it learned the UAW’s executive board devised it last week in se- cret talks.
A The union served notice to the three auto companies ‘that it would lift a voluntary news ban on negotiations today.
Frank Winn, head of the UAW’s press relations department, said the union “can’t confirm the re- port until we offer it to the auto companies.” He then amended his statement to "we can't con- firm or deny it now.”
lf auto contracts were extended into September they presumably would run , out just as auto makers were about to introduce 1959 models—the busiest time of the year for auto sales and pro- duction.
ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION
It would give UAW president
Walter Reuther’s 1,350,000 auto
planning.
Expect Auto Unions To Offer Companies New Plan Today
workers a bargaining advantage as 450,000 workers are out of work and some observers‘ say a strike now would do little more than help the auto industry cut production on an already over- stocked market.
Chrysler and Ford gave an im- mediate “no comment” on the re- port a n d a General Motors spokesman said “the way it reads I don't think we'd go for it.“
Under the repotred plan, the union would join with the com- panies in urging the federal gov- ermmen-t to eliminate the present excise -taxes on cars In a move to snap a. slump in auto sales.
The -union’; conaract expires with GM May 29 and with Ford ‘ and Chrysler three days later.
Tito Calls On Kremlin To
Be Comrades
LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (AP) President Tito called on the Kremlin Saturday to accept his conditions for a settlement of their differences. But he was pes- simistic, and at times bitter.
“We should like to solve our differences and disagreements in a different manner in the future; in a more comradely manner, he told the closing session of the Yugoslav Communist congress.
Delegates cheered. applauded and cried “Tito, hero" as he ‘spoke. Earlier they had endorsed unanimously his program of Corn- rn-unism independent of the doc- tates of Moscow.
MOSCOW (Reuters)—Informed! Western observers here Sunday‘’ predicted the Western big three will tell Russia this week t.'.ey are ready to start pre-suu.- mit diplomatic talks in separate meetings of the three envoys with Foreign Minister Gromyko.
The United~~States, Britain and
France probably will decide to negotiate separately with the So- viet Union rather than agree to expanding the talks to include Poland and Czechoslovakia. Russia Saturday proposed the two Communist countries should join summit preparations. Acceptance of either choice means giving into R~ussia’s de- mands for parity at the confer- ence table — either one-to-one or three—to-three — instead of the
power; to the Soviet Union alone.
The West is likely to prefer Russia’s earlier move to estab- lish the one-to-one ratio, which started when Gromyko called in the Western ambassadors for sep- arate meetings in Moscow April 17.
Though the West has main- tained that whatever happens at the ambassadors’ talks would not fix a pattern for foreign minis-
Expect Pre-Summit Talks To Be On Separate Basis
Western power at a time. The im- plication is that the Soviet lead- ers would prefer to deal seriously only with the United States.
Observers said Western agree- ment to meet separately with Gromyko may be made condi- tional on some .~ new Western counter-proposals.
Saturday Gromyko summoned the Western big three envoys one
ters’ exchanges oltthe Summit iI-- at a time to the foreign ministry
self, the big three probably would not want to take the risk that Poland and Czechoslovakia would be included in the top confer- ence.
Inclusion of the two Communist states would have the effect of
‘reducing th'e status of Britain and
France, who were included in top post-war conferences as victors with the United States and Rus- sia in the war.
Russia is aclamant that the al- ternative would bc to meet one
I
and handed them identical notes. Moscow radio later broadcast the text of the notes abroad in Eng- lish. I The Western proposal for Gromyko and the three ambas- sadors to confer together “would amount to a four-power confer- ence representing three NATO powers and one Warsaw treaty mernber,” the notes said. “This can only complicate the negotiations and should be I avoided." they added.