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U. S. AND SPAIN SIGN AID-FOR-BASES AGREEMENT
NATO Ships Battered By Severe'Storm
U. S. Cruiser Forced on By Damage
ABOARD H. M. S. VANGUARD. mp) - A North Atlantic storm pounced battleships. carriers and cruisers around like toys off Ice- land Sunday as a NATO naval force pushed through Exercise Mariner.
The U. 5. cruiser Worcester ra- dioed that several men had been injured in the heavy blow and the cruiser was forced to drop behind to repair storm damage.
Life rafts were torn away from
some U. 8. ships and furniture was -
smashed on the battleship Van- guard. r
The storm added tough realism to the NATO manoeuvres in which lhe task force is trying to run down an ”enemy raider" spotted by planes off the northern coast of iceland.
U, S. vice-admiral Thomas Combs from his headquarters on the bat- tleship Iowa immediately ordered the Vanguard and the U. B. cruis- era Macon and Des Moines to give chase. -
They took off on I zlig-zag course that should enable them to
intercept the raider during the night. The remainder of the force, including the U. 5. car-
riers Bennington and Wasp and the British ship Eagle, began I flanking action toward the Green- 'and coast.
The Canadian carrier Magnifi- cent is escorting fleets of tankers ".0 Iceland ports.
Rail Passenger Services Dropped
OTTAWA. (OP)-.-7. '1'h,I-. Bond of Transport Ooomiissioners an- nounced Saturday it has granted permission for the discontinuance of passenger train services affect- ing St. John's, Que.. Ind Montreal.
The Canadian National Railways and the Central Vermont Railway were authorized to discontinue all passenger service betwen St. John's and Montreal.
The board order follows hear- ings held at Montreal Wednesday.
Coming Events
"Regular Dance in Morell I-loll Monday night. Munroe's orchestra.
"Dance, Hermitage school. Tucs- day. Iilth. Fraser's Orchestra.
"Barn Dance .in Morell Hall, Monday night, September 20th.
"Dance Upton school Monday, September 20. 'mmer's Orchestra.
"Don't miss the masquerade dance in Stella' Maris Hall. North Rustlco, Wednesday, Sept. 30. Good prizes, good music.
"Notice: Ham and chicken sup- per in Belfast Hall, Wodneodsy, Sept. 30th., in aid of United Church. supper starting at 0 pm.
"Come to the Cornwall Concert in Wlitahiro I-fall. Friday. octcber znd. Ausplces Mission Band-
"Show. Moreil Hall. Tuesday. "Follow the Sun". This a weoipl feature, be sure and attend.
"Unloading car ,oil cake Mon- day. also car mixed feed, epocisl mice of! car. Central I"armerI' Co-op, Levitt Wsiehouse.
"Now crushing grain at York
mills Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, lac per cwt. Arthur Simpson.
"Mt. stewnr; Legion will hold an important meeting on Monday. September 28th, in Legion Room. All members please attend.
”l'enner's regular barn Brackley-Beach. Tuesday Prizes will he glyen for ticket on bus and at Buses leaving f.M.T. 9:30.
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"Hear 'Mr. and Mrs. Parent's description of their trip to the Coronation and European tour il- iustrated by slldu, in Whedtley
dance, night.
lucky dance.
River Wednesday. Dept. 80. Ad- miseign loo. including refresh- men .
"Buying live foul and ahfokenl Tuesday, I until 18. chickens must be well flenied. The price for poor 13 in very law. Please lotion your chickens before marketing. This chickens not wanted. 3. 1.. Dickinson. New Glasgow.
"Collie to South E13100 Bail. 'l1lIIO!. IQtlIlr Nth OM M1! the Qarlorttotowsi um d Laniss Mvmdngatsildonooth rwayinto your hearts. .You'll enjoy them. Dale of hostels alter-wards.
Above is shown an architect's sketch of the new Charlottetown Composite Junior High School
is now under construction on land immediately north of the Provin- cial Sanatorium.
Though the school building will be as modern as any to be found on the continent, in appearance it will not be elaborate. A feature of its plain exterior, however, will be exceptionally large windows. Walls will be finished in brick with a small amount of cut stone trim. The following details have been
Says Churchill Ready To Go
To M95934
NEWCAB'rLl.',.l:ng., (AP)-A top British labor leader who had lunch with Prime Minister Churchill a few days ago said on Saturday night that Churchill is "quite ready to go even to Moscow” in his quest for peace.
Tom O'Brienfpsst president of the Trades Union Congress-cenb rs.l body of British labor move- ment - and a moderate Labor member of Parliament. labor union meeting:
"I can assure the British people that the Prime Minister has not. dropped his plans for his four- povser talks, he will not drop them. and he intends vigorously to per- suo them. and he is quite ready to go even to Moscow. But he cannot battle against American reluctance on the one hand and Russian rei- icenee an the other alone."
Heavy Fire loss Al Vancouyer
-VANCOUVER. (OP)-Two prem- lsu burned within two blocks of each other Saturday and damage to one may go as high as s30o,00o.,
Worst fire was at Wright's Cans- disn Ropes on congested Granville lllsnd, gutted by flames that sent black creosote is oke curling over the city's Industrial district.
Official damage estimsted was lacking, but unofficial estimates ranged to 0300.000.
The second fire broke out in an apartment block.
Twenty-five persona fled the apartment.
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'isoirriuuu.. (tori -- The hit body of five persons drowned ii week ago when their cruiser was upset by choppy waters on nearby Lake St. Louis, was recovered Sat- urday. Police identified the re- mains ss those of Lawrence Wilk- lnoon, 24. of Montreal. The bodies of the four other persons were recovered earlier.
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The building is U-shaped and extends 283 feet across the front on the North River Road. one wing at the north end extends back 1'17 feet, and the south wing which houses the auditorium ex- tends back 201 feet. The ground floor covers an area of 35,400 sq. ft.: the second floor an area of 3.800 and the basement l5.200 sq. ft. for a total floor area of 54,400 sq. ft. or iv, acres.
"Due to the slope of the ground. it was possible to place full height windows in the basement floor so
By William 1.. Ryan
MOSCOW, (AP) - A new deal announced Saturday for Soviet ipeasants dramatically underlines a campaign by Premier Georgi Mal- chk0v's government to focus the attention of the entire Soviet Un- ion on agriculture.
The peasants are getting sev- eral breaks by decrcee. chiefly, the 'government will pay them more for the milk. "butter, cattle and poultry they sell from their private holdings and. effective in the sec- 'ond half of I054, it will cut the iquotas of meat. milk, eggs and wool they are requlred'to deliver to the state.
Full of Meaning
The agricultural campaign is 'full of meaning for both the Sov- ist'people and the people outside the border.
The government has marshalled imposing forces in an effort to ram through on schedule Mslenkovs demand that consumer wants must be fully satisfied within two or three years.
It would be difficult to over- emphssize the importance of this drive. It is important for the ithe populsrlsing and solidifying of the Malenkov government. The goal is n prosperlng soviet Union- whose international authority would grow as its well-being increased in- ternally. Possibly the government looks to the time when the coun- try can serve as a model in propa- ganda for the Communist system.
Turn To Agriculture
While no brake was applied to
industry, it is acknowledged that the pace of Soviet industrialization interfered with agriculture. Now it is proclaimed that the industrial been achieved permits the country to turn its attention to the needs of consumers and to meeting the demands of agriculture. i This appears to be the most de- !termined and concerted internal .cnmpaign the Soviet press ever has embarked upon. In all papers. long editorials daily pound home -the message of the central com- mittee of the Communist party rallying both city and village to the cause of increased output.
, ...... By Frank Bristto
VA'1'.I.OAN CITY. (AP) - Pro- claimirig use I Marian year in honor of the Virgin Mary, Pope Pius has called the llornui cath- ollo Church's more then 400,000,- 000 momba-I to a world-wide crus- ade of prayers and penance. Itl-major oblootlvu. for which Iuppiication will be made especially to the mother of Jesus. include I return to fuller Ohrfltlan lifs, pesos. libs:-atim of the church in oountriu where it an and of hsu-eds. oontentlonl between lower classes.
is persecuted. dlflensions and upper "and
Pope Calls On Catholics To Observe Marian Year
The Pope made his plea in an encyclical to the church's hierar- chy establishing lit! a Marian year in honor of the first centen- ary of the dogma that proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. i
The l2-month period "will begin next December and end on De- cember. 1064. but its initial great. obeervanoes are. expected to take place on Dec. 0, anniversary of the dayloo years ago when Pope Pius Ix proclaimed the dognis. that
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived without the stain of original sin. ,
that it is in reality a ground floor. Also as the doors open directly on to grade; these rooms are as desir- able as classrooms as those located on the floor' above.
In the lower floor provision is made for four academic classrooms. sheet metal shop, lunch room and kitchen. carpentry shop and cadet room and rifle range. The boiler room transformer vault and switchboard room are also located on this floor. but are completely isolated from the other rooms by concrete walls.
The main floor contains 16 sca-
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Charged With Murder of Quebec Doctor
ROUYN. Que. tCPi-Mike Kozl ar, 26-year-old laborer. was charg- ed with murder Saturday in con- nection with the stabbing of s Rouyn doctor Friday night.
Police said Kozar stabbed Dr. Ancire Ozegoneski. 40, after the doctor refused to treat him be- cause he had no money. Dr. Ozo- gon-ski died on route to hospital.
Mrs. C. Czernisk. a. patient. was waiting in the doctor's office when the attack took place. She said she saw Kozar and the doctor fighting and then Kozar ran past her out of the office.
Kozar was arrested shortly sf- terward as he sat in a car talking with a priest. Rev. Luc Muenier.
Police said Kosar, previously em- ployed in Virginitown. about 2'! miles from here. had been in Rouyn for about 10 days without a job.
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sep3n”E?.."&i?aI.?I. Tough For Authors
WINNIPEG, (GP)-A well-known Canadian writer says if shake- speare was trying to sell his works today he would not have much success.
Dr. Hugh MacLennan. author and associate professor of English at McOill University. told the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Authors' Association Friday night that people are not reading as they once were. Among those who are, the demand for non-fiction is far greater than that for fiction.
People today are consumed with s desire for facts and not satisfied with the imaginary story, he said.
Asiat-ic-Elygphoons 'Take Heavy Toll
TOKYO, (AP)-Asiatic typhoons during the week-end killed from us to possibly 400 persons in Jam" and from 1,000 to 2,000 in central lndo-China.
phnon was li5 dead. 300 missing and 23!) injured.
The governor of central Indo- Ohins said nearly i.000 were known dead there snd that the toll may reach 2,000.
Homeless persons were counted in the hundreds of thousands both in Japan and Indo-China.
While the 00 - mph windstorm which struck southem Japan broke up Sunday out in the north Pac- ific, U3. servicemen pitched in to aid stricken cities.
The U.S. army estimated dam- age to its camp Ostu near Kyoto it nearly 02,000,000. In Tokyo as US, army buildings were dam- aged. six small buildings destroyed and three army sedans damaged.
The latest count of Japan's ty-,
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d-emit: classrooms located north wing and central section of the building.
The administration section ad- joining the main entrance provides for a. Principal's office, a general
office, two teachers' rooms. book storage, a nreprool vault, for re- cord. storage and the gym instruc- tor's office.
Over the administration section on the second floor is a library. with storage facilities for about 8000 books and a .librarian's office
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Fireworks Are labortMeeling
MARGATE. England. (Reutersi -Fireworks are expected during the Labor party's annual confer- ence which opens Monday.
Nearly 1.300 delegates. repre- senting the party's 6,000.000 official members. have descended on this coast resort.
The party hopes to show the World it. is undivided on the topic of foreign policy, (in which most sections of the party are agreed. But it may be a different story when domestic issues are debated later.
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Russians. Release German Prisoners
CAMP FRIEDLAND. Germany. (AP)-Conditions in Soviet prison camps improved considerably after” the death of Slniin last March,' but became worse again after the June 17 anti-Conimunist rebellion in East Germany, repatriated Ger- man prisoners of war said Sun- day.
These were reports from some of the 468 prisoners. including 18 women and eight children, who arrived at this West German tran- sit camp Saturday night. The group was the first to be released from Russian camps since Stalin died. Officials said 30 per cent were former officers, among them 30 colon:-ls.
The Russians announced that the release. of the prisoners, all
sentenced for alleged minor war crimes, followed an ngroenicni reached at. Moscow lasl August
between the Kremlin and a Soviet, zone government delegation. But women prisoners said they were brought to n repatriation camp at Kresnopol June 19.
"Apparently word came through then on the June 17 uprisings in East. Germany and our departure was delayed,” one woman said.
The total of German prisoners of war repatriated from Russia in the last 48 hours climbed to more than 1500 Sunday. West Ber- lin authorities reported.
Teach German National Anthem
MAINZ. Geirmany. (Reuicrst - Ail verses of the German national anthem, banned at the end of the Second World War. will be taught to children in the Westem German state of Rhineland Palstinato on orders of the state's ministry of culture.
A ministry spokesman said set- urtiay the anthem. ”l)eutechland Uber lilies." its history and its meaning will be taught again be- cause parento and teachers have declared their children should know the words.
At present West Germany's of- ficisl anthem is the third verse only It does not contain the exiivnie, nationalistic sentiments of the first
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lster Alberto Martin Artajo Spain. wanted.
all the weapons they want and thoroughly rehabili- tate the nation's roads, railroads and communication lines that are military arteries in war would have been a heavier United States wanted to shoulder.
upon signature. agreement stated it would be in
Will Provide
Fallback Zone In Case of War
By Louis Nevin MADRID, Spain, (AP)
Spain signed a 20-year aid-for-bases agreement on Saturday that makesi them partners in the Western world's defence against Communist aggression. A
Long shunned by the victors of the Second World War, Spain is giving these bases in return for
:economic, technical and military
aid.
It was announced that aid total- ling 926,000,000 will be supplied Spain under the mutual security program in the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30. Of this, .tl41,0o0,000 will go for military equipment and the rest for defence support-meaning use in some way helping the development of mili- tary strength,
Reserve Position
The Spanish bases offer a serve position behind the forward lines of Western European de- fence, which are in Germany. Span- ish territory could provide a kind of fallback zone if those forward lines ever were forced to give way. An American operations mission is to be set up immediately in Spain under U. S. ambassador James C. Dunn.
Actually three protocols were in- volved in the ceremony at the Spanish foreign ministry that cli- maxcd 18 months of formal ne- gotiations and longer unofficial diickering.
These were a defence agreement, an economic aid agreement and a mutual defence assistance agree- ment-all set forth in big white documents bound with robbins in the Spanish national colors of red and gold.
Ambassador Dunn signed for the United states and Foreign Min- for Neither side got all it To supply Spain's armed forces and equipment
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Western Nations Welcome
Follow Hurricane
CHICAGO. (AP) - Torrential rains hll wide sections of the south- eastern United States bunday, a direct result of the Gulf hurricane that blew itself out over Georgia alter lashing the northwest Florida coast with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
The Weather Bureau said th-.1 creeping pace of the weakened storm. moving north at 10 miles anl hour Wllh winds reaching a top of 40 miles an hour, was respon- sible for the heavy rains.
Georgia. Florida. and the Car- olinas reported the heaviest fall.-if Columbia, S.C., had more than sixi inches in 24 hours.
The Weather Bureau said the storm's effects would be felt, ill the form of rain, as far north as the middle Atlantic slates.
Big Increase In Trade Between West And Jhina
By JOHN A. SCALI
WASHINGTON. (AP) - Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen reported a big increase in trade between the West and Communist China Sunday, but asserted it was not necessarily harmful.
At the same time. he said there has been ”con.sidersble improve- ment" in the Free Worlds drivel to stop strategic materials of ii! war-making potential from moving? to countries behind the Iron Cur- tain.
stsnsen's statement was con- tained in fl 96-page report to con. gress on world-wide enforcement of strategic trade controls under the U. S. Mutual Defence Assist- ance Control Act.
Tighten Ban
While reporting an increase in lion-strategic trade, Stassen said the Western nations have tighten- ed shipping controls and expanded
their list of banned strategic items. especially on goods bound for China.
Stassen disclosed that non-strat- egic shipments to the Chinese will be nearly 50 per cent higher than i952 if trade continues at the same rate as the first few months of
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iHas Atomic Artillery
By DANIEL de LUCE l-IEIDELBERG. Germany, (App- Gen. Charles L. Bolte, command- cr-ln-chief of the U. S. army in Europe, said Sunday it is doubtful the Soviet Union has atomic ar-
tlllrry. Six 280-mm. atomic guns, now being shipped to his forces in
West Germany, "won't be put on a shelf", the general added.
"I doubt that the Russians have such artillery. For our own pre- parediiess and training, however, we must alwavs assume they do. The worst military offence is to
"I don't think there's any im- niinence of war in Europe. But we have to keep on our toes. We
have to keep a sense of urgency and go on the assumption that
trouble could happen anytime-or else we are in danger of being surprised." '
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Gen. Bolte, 58-year-old veteran of two world wars, is leaving his headquarters here Tuesday to be- come the army vice-chief of staff in Washington. But he has pre- pared for. the integration of the new guns in Allied defence after his departure.
"Our training area at Graffen- woehr in Bavaria is large enough for them to engage in firing prac- tice with conventional non-atomic shells". he said in an interview.
Wlietlier firing atomic or con- ventional ammunition. the 85-ton weapons have a ran e of 20 miles -just the distance in Grafton-
)efence -Pact
LONDON, (Reuters) - weaterr. nations Sunday welcomed the de- fence pact between the United States and Spain, but Moscow was quick to use the new agreement as a weapon in its drive to divide inc.- Allied powers.
To British and French diplo- matic quarters it was a case di having your cake and eating it too Political antagonisrns here and it Paris have ruled out any military co-operation with Spain. This war a. matter of regret to those purely concerned with defence.
The new arrangement-strictly bilateral-is seen as providing the necessary bases for Western de- fence without implying British and French approval of the France dictatorship.
The British Foreign Office par- ticularly welcomed the deniai in Washington that the pact was de- signed to lead Spain into the Unit- ed Nations or the North Atlantis Treaty Organization through the back door. I
British Reaction
British papers generally saw the pact in this light. The Sunday Dis- patch bannered: "Spain joins the West from." The headline in The People said: "Franco signs as ally of West." The Sunday Express headlined: "U. S. brings Spain into the Western defei'”t lme-up."
But Reynolds News. a iefttwlng paper published by the co-operah ive movement. took another view. Its headline was: ”.-imerica buys Spain for s226,000,000." The paper said the pact "will turn Spain into
a. gigantic United States stom bomb and naval base." Call It Aggressive In Moscow, the Soviet armed
forces paper. Red Star. branderf the agreement so "aggressive" and a swipe at Britain and France.
Red Star said the pact "betweer Wall street and Franco" wil. Slftnzthen the American position in that part of Europe and threaten Britain's Gibralter base.
Red star declared that the psci is bound to "provoke the resist- ance" of Britain and France, not- lng the American aid committ- ments to Spain, the soviet paper said Franco can even boast of gel.- tlng "better conditions for the sale of his country."
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BY GEORGE McAR.Tl-IUR
PANMUNJOM, (AP)-The repa- ration commission, headed by In- dis, was due to hand down an ex- plosive declsion covering rules for explanations to war prisoners balk- ing at returning home.
The ruling was expected to draw immediate fire from either the Communists or the United Nations command, and possibly both be- cause of sharp cleavage of how explanations are to be handled.
The UN command also called the top-ruling military armistice commission into session at 3 pm. (I p.m. lnsri to discuss technical details of the truce such as troop rotation. The full purpose of the meeting was not announced.
India. with the deciding vote no chairman of the five-nation com- mission, was squarely in the mid- dle on the explosive explanation
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Expect Explosive Ruling On War Prisoner Issue
been feeling their way in: an effort to get s. set of rules that would arouse minimum disagreement,
The Communists want. to con- duct individual interviews with the 23,000 nnti-Communist Chinese and North Koreans in iili.ef'fort to in- time them to change their minds and return.
The Allies would have is like op- portunity to interview one by one 23 Americans. one Briton and 383 south Koreans refusing repatria- tion.
The UN command has opposed individual interviews and urged group explanations in the belief this "would offer less chance for coercion or direct threats against the prisoners.
The UN command also has de- clared that anti-Communist cap-
TORONTO, rCPi-Minimum and maximum teniperaturcs: Min. Max Dawson .28 45 Victoria . 54 Edmonton .. 58 .Cal::iri 56 Regina 60 Winnipeg .. . .59 Toronto . . '10 Ottawa .. . 10 Montreal .. . 6.3 Quebec at Saint John . . . 66 Moncton 70 Halifax 63 Chaitlotietovin - 66 Sydney '10 Yarmnuth .. 5'! as St. John's. Nfid. 65 66
HALIFAX, (CF) -The WOIthPl ' Bureau here says there will be no improvement in the weather over the Maritimes Monday. due to 3 series of disturbances along the Atlantic coast. from the Maritime! to the Camlinss. .
Reglonsi forecasts:
Prince Edward island. Bay of ('nsleur: Variable cloudiness with little change in temperature. Light winds. Low-high at Charlottetown 56 and 02. Csnipbellton II and 80.
Eastern N. 13. counties, St. John river valleys: Variable cloudiness and cooler; light winds. Low-high st Moncton and Fredericton lid. and. 02. saint John 58 and Cl. Ed- munrhton to and 00.
High today at. Charlottetown at 1.83 A. M. and 1.54 P. M. High tide today It the Nortlf
tives who do not want to listen to explanations should not be forced.
shore at 10.11 A. M. and 9.10 P. M. Bun risen today at 0.01 A. Id. and sets at 0.00 P. M.