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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, T HURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1954

Montreal Has Worst: Storm In Seven Yearslseimdsvgcliml

lied-Led Workers Oiash With Police In Sicily

To Attend Meeting

By WEBB Mc!CllN'l..l:Y

pnmm, (AP) -Communist - in- ,pirc-d violence pouring pressure nil Premier Mario sci-iba's new ,mm-nmcnt has spread south to smiy Tm-es women and a 16- ira:-old youth were trampled to death in s stampede flight from riiLPPl tear gas bombs Wednesday.

D'hcl' clashes occurred in indus- tii-'. northern Italy. where sever- sl persons were injured in strike uhsorders.

The Sicilian clash occurred at Miauomcli, town of 13.000 Author- 1:.rs said about 2.000 Red-led de- rnivtstraltlfs, mostly farmers iin-.i-.- stones at. police who were t'i ing to maintain order in a cen-

tral square. The demonstration ans aimed at the Christian Dem- ocrat mayor.

p.-lice retaliated with a. tear-gas iiui-igc. 'I'l'ie rloters stampeded in panic. and the women and youth iinrc trampled to death. The su- thorltirs insisted there was no gunfire. Twelve DCTSOM were in-

yurcd. l

Red Stronghold

I

xiiissomcll. centre of a sulphur

i'i:.itll'ig area, is a Communist vioiighold.

This ouiibreak was the most ser- iniis in the Communist campaign in give extra push to the Christ- !."i'i Democrat premier's imsteady gi vcrnment. which is heading for a! piirliamentary showdown in about a week in a vote of confidencel Scolba will start the ball rolling. in the political fray today when. he prcsciitsi his pro - Western, Iliilflly left-ofwcntre program to the Scnnic.

Al industrial Turin. automotive centre in northwestern Italy. mem- bora of the Communist - boned General Confederation of Labor ciashecl with police Wcdncsdnv. 'ilic demonstrators, trying to stop mi-at cars operating despite a bi- hcvur general strike. smashed win- doll": in about is cars and injured three motormen. Club - liir riot police intervened arr:-stint! ii on than M of the dt-monstrators.

Molotov Prop Co-operation

REZRJJN. (Reuters)-soviet For- Pilrt Minister Molotov Wednesday 'r.d before the Big Four confer- en. proposals for bringing about cinser oo-operation between East airi west Germany.

Britain's Antdiony Illden and John M-tor Dulles of the United statssl

wired to consider the Russian rvr-posais at today's mu-tine. srlicduled to be the last of the

l:ii-cnt conference which began' Jaw 2'3. . nnil-s said he considers Moi-. arms suggestions in "rather feeble m.h:titiite" for the What's plan for Griman unification by free eicc-l tzons I Molotov proposed an all-Germnnl oclmmittee be fonned to co-ordinate twin between East and West Ger-

many and to tackle financial, iraifif: and intcrzonal border prnb-i icnie Anotlu-r conimltlc would dvicirvp cultural. scicntific andi Ilpcris relations bet-wi-en the two. Gcnhanys, I

He also suggested the Big Four dcririe on the strength of poll" forces in the two harm of the d:- vinrri country. This later proposal followed an exchange of charges iiint police of Burt and West Ger- many no military forces in dis- lulae.

in addition to the German aimi- iinn. final arguments are ex-pecta-d today on the other two items on "V Iflcnda -- Austrian independ- riw and Asian peace.

Coming Events

"Dance in Mlllview Hall. Friday.

"Croklnols Party. in. Whestiey River Hall. Friday night.

"Jamboree at Afton Iilliit. Lunches sold.

Hall to-

In Mount

"Card Party. Dance. RV-in Hall. Thursday. Wh. Lunches served.

"Show. Mort-ll Hail. Friday. twhita Corridors." This is a good iiictiire.

"Annusi nos social. Binari- ham-i-. at. James Church-Town mill. Georgetown, Wednesday. Friv- "liIrv nth. If stormy, Thursday.

"C" hockey at

North River Rink tonight. Glas-

'"V' Road vs. Springfield at 7.3”

I'm: Long Creek vs. New AMI!"- I-IL aksu after.

"Intermediate

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Heavy inliw And Hoods in Ontario

MONTREAL. (CP)-- The worst storm in seven years left Moni- real atreeta buried under 15 inches of snow Wednesday night as it began to move toward the Maritime: and New England.

The snow was still falling heav- lly at 7 p.m. EST but weather forecasters at nearby Dorval air- port said the storm would end Wednesday night after dumping about three more inches of wet snow on the city and district.

The Texas-born storm swept in over the Montreal area Tuesday during a spell of mild weather that convinced people spring was just around the corner. It snaricii traffic. blocked all country roads and some highways. and disrupted train, bus and airlines schedules.

The storm was pushed by a wind that came in gusts up to 36 miles an hour.

Floods In Ontario

TORONTO. (CP)-Floods and heavy snow crippled parts of southern O n t is rl a Wednesday night while authorities worried

over what will happen when all the snow starts melting.

They received an indication Wednesday in flooding streams in central and western Ontario.

Miss Mollie MacLeon. second year student nurse at the Prince Edward Island Hospital has been chosen by the student council to attend the Canadian Nursea' Blen-

illiaxued by rain. sleet and snow. . Helghtening their fears was a lweather bureau prediction of un- l!0Hl0Mbiy hill! temperatures over itiie province. Many temperature records were broken Wednesday in northern Ontario.

Eastern Ontario was hit by an

f I , ti 1 Ba H, Albe l. . . iliiane ".I7fil.nxR(lS: Jcliean ll: All i "h'mgm' "Edgy "mwlan wlllrh daughter of Mr and M”. Jamesilsolated Cornwall. Prescott and

W. MncLean of New Glasgow, N. S. She began her training at the Prince Edward Island Hospital in September of last year. Previous to her coming to Charlottetown. Miss Madman was a -student of Ni-w Glasgow High School from which she graduated in the spring of 1963.

Total casualties were put at live The clash with police was the

swing second in two days. after a series i Iak,-..

of riots Tuesday in Rome. Milan and othcr cltlcs.

oses Oioser in GermaiiL

Veterans Building . On Ciiy'lois May I Qualify IE Aid

OTTAWA, (OP) -- Tho 80V9"i' mi-ht. is planning legislation which would permit veterans to build on city into and still qualify for a measure of assistance under the Vetcrans' Land Act. g

The new plan woiiid benefit vel- ernns who want to build their own homu and will put their own tinic and labor into oonstruction. On a rough estimate, s veteran would be able to build a 810.0(1) home for about 38.000 0? 1"-V

Veicrans affairs department of- ficials are drafting the new plan but it may be A month at least before it is ready for presentation to parliament.

NECESSARY SOCIETY

IAONDON f0P) -- J. A. Boyd- Carpenter. financial sccrctary to the treasury. told the Income Tax- Payers' Society he doesn't see 1n,V tax changes coming up "of such A drastic naturr" as to rr-ndcr the society unnecessary. His rr-mark won a headline: "Hollow laugh 0i

iothcr centres along the upper St. pl..oivrenci- River and brought bu- lsmcss and traffic to a standstill. IThe storm also struck Ottawa and Montreal.

In central and western Ontario. where temperatures reached thc mos, brimming streams flooded flriwlands, rut highways and pour. ed into cellars. forcing evacuation of some families. Conversely. riv- icrs that flooded Tuesday dropped .a.-1 the thaw eased lco jams into

At Cornwall, the hlankci. of snow smothered normal activities in the industrial city of 17,000.

The snow halted highway travel. stranded motorists and bus driv- ers. choked off normal business and school attendance and threat- ened food shortages in some cases.

Ccnlrcs affected beside Corn. wall and Prescott included Brock- YIIIP. Morrisburg and Iroquois.

One of the heaviest snowstorm: in the last 10 years, it reached l6 inches at Cornwall by late dny. Swirling winds piled it into drifts eight to 10 feet high.

iiisroarc lstaivb

Newfoundland was discovered by John Cabot in 1497. and was soiu frequented by European fisher- men.

lSt. Laurent Begins iVisit To Pakistan

By William 5!-evmrt. Canadian Press Staff Writer KARACHI. iCPi - Prime Min- iister St. Laurent arrived here

iwedncasday to learn, he sold, all

'little more about the people of lPaki.stan and : ado. '

On 1 globe-glrdlilng tour of 12

.world capitals, he was greeted at lthe airport by Moliammed Ali. 'Pakistan's prime minister, and a corps of diplomatic and military figures. i The Canadian leader said he brought Wll.ll liini Canada's assur- ances nf "our desiie to co-operate with the great people of Pakistan in the fight. for our common cause 4 of peace, so DITCIDUS to us all."

Among Lhc officials present was K. P. Kirkviood, the Cnnadigm high commissioner.

The C.lmidi:in prime minister mounted a dais to take the salute as an honor guard of Pakistan

;Navy personnel marched past.

Diplomats were introduced to

him by Mohammrcl All and later

to let. thiem learn. A from him a little more about Can- i

xmrwood presented Tho-members pot the Canadian high commission in Pakistan.

I-Day Visit

l Then the Car.at.v'.a:i party drove to the house of the governor-gem oral, Ghulam Mohammcd. The Pakistan prime min:stei"s wife greeted Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell of Quebec, daughter of the Calla- dian prime minister. who lwill be luncheon guest of the be- . gum. I The Canadian loader and his party arrived in an RCA? plane fironi Balircin. Persian Gulf island 3 During his four-day vlszt here, .he villi fly more than 2.000 miles. 'He will attend a state banquet as lgueaat of the governor-general. During his stay here he will ldiscuss witli government leaders .Pakistan's food situation. Canada lh-as played a large part in ymcetlng this moslcm state's food . problems, donating 55,000,000 worth of wheat last year in addition to major aid in development pro- l jecis.

lDeath In Chicago Of

lRt. Rev. R.

Right. Rev Monsignor Riciiard R, St. John. P.A . Litt.D. died sud- idenly in Chicago yesterday. Word of his passing was received by his mother Mrs. Patrick St. John, Souris.

Moiislziior St. John for the past 25 yczirs nos coiuiectcd with the ycntholic Church Extcnsion soc- ;iety in the United States and at the time of his death was presi- dent and general secretary of that 'dapartmc-m. Born in Sourls. P.E.I. i58 years ago.

of Saint Diliisizitfs Uiilversiiy, i clam of '16 and entered Grand Semiiiary at Quebec City in the

same yciir. He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on December ; 2lst., 1919 at Saint Dunstan's Bas- lllica by the late Louis J. O'Leary. jBoship of Charlottetown. and was iappointcd sccrctary to Right Rev. iMonsignor Maurice McDonald. Re- ctor of the Bas.lica at that time.

File years later he became so- i crc-.t.ary to lilo-;t Rev. I-'i-aiicis Kelly, Bishop of Oklahoma and in 1928 was made secretary to the Presi- dent of the Church Extension Soc- iety witll headquarters in Ollie- yago. The next year he was ap- ipotnted Director of the Order of Martha, and in l940 he became vice president and general secre- ptary of the Extension Society.

In 1946 the Holy See conferred upon him the dignity of Domestic

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All Rationing Scheduled To End in Britain lit July

LONDON. (Reuters)-Within four months Britons will be able to

have ruled their lives for 14 years.

Meat and bacon. the last two foods to be de-rationed, may be sold freely in July. Dr. Charles Hill, parliamentary secretary to the ministry of food, told the House of Commons.

"This will be the final step in

the dismantling of the wartime rationing system," he said amidst. cheers from Conservative moir- bers.

Coal now remains the only lim- ited commodity under s system which dates back to two weeks af- ter war began with Germany on Sept. 8, liXii9.

the yes r"

Only butter and margarine atilii

Nlay Call Meeting On

Lumber Freight Ratesg

orrawa. i(7Pi-A special con- f-rcnce may be called soon by W! Board of Transport Commissioner! to discuss a new scale of freight rates for Canadian lumber.

Mr. Justice J. D. Kearney chief commissioner, made the DYOPOSII Wednesday at a board hearing of an application hy the British 00- lumbia Manufacture-i-s' Association for a reduction in tariffs on lumber ghipped fi-orn the west coast to points between Calgary Ind 70” William and Port Arthur. (hit.

Alex Hart. counsel for the ONE. and K. D. H. Spence. counsel for the OPE, agreed with the sugges- tion. Iiowev-r, they doubted that a single rate scale for lumbar could be made to work h Hill

country because of vsryinft 00011- omic situations.

Mr, Justice Kearney said a rnund-table conference of Cuna- disns interested in lumber rat-a might be sble to work out a rate scale that would be equitable across the eoimtry. He said the 3 C. snoclatlon might. have a grievance in its protest that rates on lumber moving from the w-st coast to eastern Osnsda are too Hch.

The association hal proposed a new rate scale for coast lumber which would have the effect f re- ducing tariffs on long-haul t sfflc between Canary and the ukshead and incrnaslns some rates on short hauls. particularly in Albert;

the already

I-rt-quire ration coupons from yhousewivos, but it has

ybe released from control in May Gasoline First

Gasoline wont on ration first. on S6-pleiliber I6. 1939.

i Butter and bacon were the first foods affected -cut to four ounces a week in early Janu:iry 1940. Mar-

list in July of that year.

Tea, cheese. eggs. sugar. Jam. candy and even bread for a time ivcrc added to the list of foods Britons could buy only in strictly limited quantities.

Fish evnntiialiy rnmalned the only unriiiioncd basic food - .-i-iri this was expensive and hard tn get at ttnies.

During the wiir and post. V war years clothes and household linen were also rationed. and new fur- nituro could he sold only to per- sons with special needs-such as rcwly-weds setting up house.

These restrictions on normal shopping have steadily been whil- tlsd away. But progress was far slower than most poopie cxpccied when the war ended in 1045.

trol, the ration was 25 cents worth a person a week with half that much for children under six yr-irs old. But. the pricc was only a frac- tion or what it is today. and th-

or than can in bought for the pre- srnt .10-cent allowance.

with the end of rationing the British government is also going out of the food distribution busi- ness and handling control back to private. dealcrs instcari of bu:-ing

in bulk on a gov:-rnmcnt-to-gov-y

srnmant basis. g 4

he was a gl'8('Iiltil.E.

garine and cooking fat: joined they

when meat first came under con- 1

oiantitv actually was much gri-at-i

R. St. John

lileiiver -il6”NIiiVIliiiiilR iilheque For Bridge

p NEW YORK, fAPi--A chcqile of 596.400.033.33 to finance a five-mile bridge across the straits or Mack- linac was delivered Wednesday to ithe State of Michigan Mackinac bridge authoi'lty..

The cheque rcpri-.5:-nicd funds

from sale of revenue bonds issued to finance the project to link Mich- igan's two peninsulas which form the northern boundiirics of Lake Michigan. It is scheduled for com- pletion Nov. 1, 1957, and will re- place the present ferry service. . The bridge will be long. including approaches. and will have a roadway 48 feel. Wl(lP Its central span of 3.800 incl uiii rank second only to San Pi-niici.-co's Golden Gate bridge with a span of 4,200.

g iioyaltoupie Winds Up Visit To Canberra

CANBERRA. la-Pi--Qilf'Pli Eliza- bcth and the Diikc of Edliiburgh I attended a state ball at pl'Irli.'iIllf"lO House here Wednesday lll"llL yllnlllllg down thc curtain on tlicir v.sit to Australia's fcdvial capital

Neither driliccd. but they st.-ivcd .nt the bail for two hours and had ysuppcr there. i The Queen was a radiant figure in a full-skirted gown of white and

'l0lr ND iihe Tll-ion booim WW-Ciiibeen annozinced that these woulrl..silver lace over a skirt or silver

toifctxi, She wore a diamond and lemerald tiara and iiecklncc and the blue rihnnd and the star of inc Order of the Gnrtcr. I The Queen had asked that ill? ipublic be advised not to buy in"- mal divas for thc occasion. anti as a result sninp of the men gains?-. cvr-n turncri up in dinner stilts Othcrs worn dlnncnsiiits itistnnd yof "tails"-but the women drcssrl magniflceniii.

The royal couple obviously on- joycd themselves.

I Thcy worn rPCt"lVPd at. tho biili by Prime Minister Robe-rt Menzies and his wife.

They INIVF today by air for Swi- nt-y whcrc they are embarking on the TfH'ill liner Gothic for Hobart. Tasmania. Thcy arc expected to arrive Saturday morning.

Presented New Pnlorl

4 Enriicr Wednesday. the Qiiecn and Duke visited Australia's Roy- al Military College and stlcndcti a garden party at Govv-rnmr-zit Hciisc. .

; Tho Que-on presnntcd the college with new colors to rt-rilacc thnsr lhandcd over to them 20 years ago ybv King George VI whcn he was iDuko- of York.

Diiring the parade. the Queen noted a voting drummer who ric- PP!ITI5fl in he faint from the bin- inif but she pointed him out to line commandant. who had am- biilancn men lead the man from Vhe ground.

At. the garden party. attended by 4,000 guests. Elizabeth chatted

viih the biitrhcr and grocer who the 51-year-old Queen Mother. whni

scrve the governor-generals house- hold. g ,

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26.444 fr-ct-

Of Express Rams lFirsi Al Si. ciei

MONTREAL, iCPl - Ono. man -. uas killed and 73 other passengers. most of them from Toronto and

Montreal. were injured early Wed-

nesday when two Canadian Pacific

Raiiivay passcnger trains t.'0llli"lPd

at St. Ciel, 35 miles west. of here. i The victim, identified as W. E. Caselman of Toronto. was trappcri and killed in a ivasiirnom when the sccond section of the overnight Toronto-Montreal train plowed into the rear of the stationary first sec- tion.

Tiic first scctinn hail stopped 'n allow a freight to move on in a siding near this little farming com- munity. snow-bound by the season's worst storm.

Six of tile injurr-d were strctclicr C4505, must of the otilcrs ucrc ab'e to move about unaided. The illJill'Pd. treated first on the scciie, wcrn brought here by special train and some were transicrrul to hos- piiai.

More than A half Cans iicre among the

Behind Schedulo

dozen Ameri- iiljui ed.

The accident occurred about 7.30 am. Both trains were running slightly behind schedule because of the snowstorm that dumped more

vlCon'liliicdntinRPa,ge if; col.f:5i(R island ilecruiis For Active Army

The following personnel were enrolled in the Canadian Army Active Force for a period of three years and allocated to uiilt oppos- ite lllP.ll' names.

Manning Paul Myers -- Hope Rivcr. Royal Canndnan Dragoons; iJames Edward Kelly - Charlotte- town. RCASC School; I-icriry At- wood Duimviile -- Oibeary. RCA; Lloyd Harry Dalziel - Charlotte-

tovin, RCEME; Victor Adelibf-rt White Charlottetown. R101-IA: Er- nest. John Arsenault - summer

8ldE, RUEME; Vernon Edgar Grant -- Summerside. RCA: Joseph Eu- gene Hashie - Richmond, Royal Canadian Regt.

The following recruits are leav- ing today for Halifax for enrol- ment in the Canadian Army Ac- tive Force and will be allocated to various Af?lll'P Force units 8- Fl'0&i Canada. William Adolphus Williams Charlottetown! Roy Smith - Breadaibane; James S Hughes Charlottetown; James lid. Qulgley Victoria; James y E. Dugay - St. Louis; Earl J. Mc-

Aulriy -- Peakcs station; Albert

S. Duiivillc - O'Leary; Norman 5."

Clow Freetown; Patrick W icavanagh - New Haven; Joseph yRoy Doucetic - Rustico; Joseph Alfred P, Doucette -- Rustico; Jamcs R. Peters -- Riistico; .lnsc- ph V. Gallant - Rustico; Char- les Leonard J Perry -- Rusticci; Joseph C. Arscnault - Summer- sldc: Calvin V Caaford -- Char- lottetown; Harold J. Hogan --Char- lottlclown; Atliol G Vcsscy iciiarlottemwil: William E, Cham- pinii -- Margau-

Sgt H H Mzicl.eod the Canari- iori Ai'iily active force recruiting N C0 of the local Recruiting Station crimplricd a mobile rmruitin: tour of PEI. inst neck

Canadian Farm Group

Most acknowledge middling ones and re- pay great ones with ingrstltnde.

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The Guardian, rive Cents Morning Dally Founded 1881.

UEBEC TRAIN WRECK

lDrew Replies To Liberals lCharge Conceriliiiggigiit

i

and Albert. at homo and

n'rTAw.i. icpi -- Wnnmmoh leader Drew has described as tgrrxu. untrue and malicious" a charge by 3 Quebec liberal that

the isle Cnnsci-vative Prime Min- lstcr R. 8 Bennett ”created lin- cn1Dloyiiicrii" in 1929 to make moiirgv on the stock market,

He dcmnndcd Wedllcsday in tlici Commons lllal. Jean Francois Poll-ll

on ihP fall in price” on the stock markets.

Mr. Pouliot said that each time Mr Bennett. made a speech about unemployment, stocks fell in value and he made money. He said Mr. Bennett finally doubled his invest- mcnt and used ihc money to win the election in 1930.