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sifNDLY SERVICE . MAKES I >TRUCKS! -s Nova Motors Ltd. THE DAILY NEWS &* Vol. 64. No. 278 ST.JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957 (Price J cents) ChsHCS HllttOH & SOIlS [Cyrus Eaton 74, Jakes Bride Age 35 CLEVELAND (AP) - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-bqrr. in- who will be 74 next week, and Mrs. Anne Kinder Jones, married Friday in a private ceremony. ; "t's a most wonderful wedding", the new Mrs. Eaton said .lhe exchange of vows before a score of relatives, including ',3.year-old daughter, Alice, who wept during the ceremony. r|m very happy", Eaton told reporters on the terrace of the ,American farm house of his son. fl,. bride wore a pale blue jersey dress and matching blue JeV. Harold C, Phillips of the First Baptist Church of subur- (hoker Heiohts officiated in the large living room, decorated ,white orchids. bovt. Wins Vote Of Confidence Un The Missile Bases Decision Jn Sale Slowdown lompts Industry Layoffs j ■issia .ria riN >IN rrier rings) «ing- Ltd and has interests also in steel, Iron ore and coal, with holdings In the U.S. and C His first marriage, to Mi House, ended in divorce i and she died in 1956. The couple plan a shorl wedding trip to an undisclost tination. I IniiR shutdown* arc planned Bul s uiorarv s GM plant managers hove .the op- lis holi- tion locally of adjusting- work Wi aulo' schedules, lies be- i THOUSANDS AFFECTED o 1 car.-! The Chrysler shutdowns ,in Det- ms in-'roit will affect at least 50,000 trees. I hourly employees. Chrysler, Det- ' roit's largest single employer,, has some 100.000 employees In thc hourly rated and salaried ranks. The company declined to give an exact figure on the number to be made idle. In Detroit Chrysler Is closing its Dodge plants from the end of work Monday until Jan. 7, ils De-1 I Soto production from Monday til Jan. 6; its Chrysler division I plants from Monday until Jan. " and its Plymouth plants from Tuesday noon until Jan. 2. Among the smaller makers, American Motors said work full time through days with the exception of Christmas and New Year's Day. Studebaker (Packard), al cady producing at only about on thi ' the rate of a year ago, plans work two days next week-Thursday and Friday. ' . ' said the same schedule probably will apply for Ncw Year' iviet Scientist Says Behind U. S. T EFFORT NEEDED ' increased al a rale fasler tl p< im all; But he said the launching of J;cd for iwo Russian earth satellites joh. ! pointed out the superiority of ncyanov.' Soviet rocket techniques. Great .i-arlcmy. progress also had been made "ln nlscrs of' (he realm of mechanics, math- ] s id par ematics, chemistry, radio nf com- niqucs and automation." HAVE MORE SCIENTISTS the work' Russia had 240,000 sclent sis— !><■ said, i "morc than any other country"-: sifl morc hut still needed more "to extract amount the maximum from our i-<." and Nesmeyanov stressed thit •produce though Soviet investmen ; science' will be increased in 1958 hushed bv 10 per cent to 18,200,000,000 ■uncil ol1 rubles $4,530,000,000 at the of- he harm-! ftcial exchange rate—slill mores scientific' money is needed. "Investment in science m !§sia: arno Begins Nded "Leave" ((/""''Med leave tf^VJsDr.Sar. »is indoncsian *| looked „„ during K "™ w another h«L Parnamci was part of a trade agreement signed in September, 195(1. A Japanese shipowner in Kobe has offered to lease 13 freightrs lo Indonsia to replace those1 taken out of service by KPM c" ing thc Indonesian take-over. , Another firm has offered five tankers. But the Japanese govern-, ment said Tuesday it would f- fuse to lend ships or sponsor a shipowners' association move supplv Indonesia with ships BATTLE REBELS Indonesian troops in the Sou Celebes were reported Friday be fighting rebels of a fanatical HCRussia i° >>i Wtf those whi! ■S_!"eKP ^Qvessels are MS? y moth R;1' , P-, inter- stand '"«ual land- The rebels were reported to have plundered and razed a huge area of rich farmland, Air travellers arriving here from the area said army combat units have flown to Ambon, capital o the Moluccas, another eastern island "roup, to help quell the uprising. An army spokesman refused to | confirm ,the reported troon move- ments and said local military an Ihos-ilics are in control of the sit- The United Kingdom Commons Approval For Macmillan By JAMES F. KING LONDON (AP) -, Prime Minister M«- millan won approval from the House of Com- omns Friday night for NAT's summit policies and the planting of U.S. nuclear missile bases in Britain. But the smallness of the government's majority—38 votes—fell 20 short of normal Conservative strength and brought shouts of "resign" from Labor benches. The test of strength came after a five-hour debate in which the Opposition again assailed the American missiles bases project and the flights of U.S. bomber patrols over Britain with H-bomb loads. LONDON, England—Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, are shown with Lord Astor of Hevcr, left, and John Walter, right, as thcy visited the British national newspaper "The Times" in London. Walter is director and co-chief of the newspaper.—IN Photo, Scientists Discover Satellite "Ghost" ■vative side. Among them were l e of the old "Suez bloc" who| re angered by the U.S. ntion in Egypt in 1956. Britain and the United States, ? reported to have vir ually' reed upon building four basis Britain—perhaps in Scotland— for medium missiles whose 1,500- mile range could reach Moscow. Macmillan wound up Friday's debate by quieting any doub that Britain will hold the veto on any trigering of a missile attack from We have complete, negative itrol." he emphasized. At the| ne time, he said, Britain could sboot them off on her own hout Washington's approval. NATO ... he said: "1 believ. together has been will strengthen oui decisions in Paris Discovery of a "ghost satellite" — a kind of invisible radio image of Sputnik I above North of the world—has been reported !by Dr. Harry W. Wells of the1 Carnegie Institution of Wa hing- Thal is, on several occasions, Huge Stock Swindled - British I VANCOUVER (CP) Columbia governm cials aald Friday a gas racketeers milked Uni Investors of about $875,000 from offices here and fled last week before they could be arrested. They said the ring operated as the "Kiwaijls Club of Vancouver Youth Services." The gang, be-' lieved 20 in number, carried on the swindle for seven weeks. Vancouver and Halifax police are attempting to trace the gang. The men sold stock by long-distance telephone to persons iving In rural areas of the eastern United States. BACKED IN HALIFAX The stock was in a company named Canadian Alumina Corporation Limited, said o be backed by a Halifax brokerage firm. The gang operated 17 telephones from three separate premises in Vancouver. One was a former bootlegging establish- Cost of the long-distance calls or billing paid from phoney the telephone comp purposes. Authorities said the salesmen split up $25,000 in commissions each week, representing about one • fifth of the tolal proceeds from the stock sales. The salesmen told Ihe long-distance operators to tell prospective stock purchasers in the V. S. that it was "Canada calling," wihout mentioning Vancouver. This was done The fact they were operating rom the Pacific coast, making sales in the east, was designed ' ALIFAX FIRM BARRED Victims of the swindlers were )Id to send payments to the Hali- six firm, which forwarded commissions to Vancouver. The federal securities and ex. change commission In the U. S. had told the Halifax firm to ; and desist" selling the in the U. S. Other state sec in the upper atmosphere half rid removed from the pois sere the satellite actually wi the time. NEW PHENOMENON Amplifying on a report he mac Thursday night to the Washington Academy of Sciences, Wells ' '' a reporter "it's a new Pheno-| menon itf radiowi He said it is anot : knowledge about the properties | of the upper atmosphere and j "lerefore is "potentially import- nt in the field of science.' Wells reported to the academy that the department of magnetism of Carnegie s tinuous recordings of megacycle signals from Sputnik " starting shortly after the first nnouncement of its launching " Oct. 4 st type of received on a few occasions have not bcen'explained definite-} but Wells offered this concept: Presumably there were a few occasions when conditions in the ionosphere — the layer ot the atmosphere which can reflect radiowaves—were extremely The Week's News in Review By JOSEPH MmSWEEN Canadian Press Stall Wr ler NATO held its summit conference, and one of the mos important delegates was the fellow t there. Russia, of .sented at the NATO Paris talks, but . ... " iing pair of party Secretary Khrushchev and Premier Bul- [ganln were much in the ac just the same. Khrushchev called again for an Jast-West summit conference, following up writing pro Buiganin. offered to m l earlier li The heads of government agreed to build up NATO's ar- ' "" American intermedi- missiles and nuclear weapon stockpiles. The decision was a compromise between the tough program advocated by the United States and Western fresh, top-level Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Eurorj-'s hopes for il negotiations with appearing for thc first time in NATO councils, placed emphasis on thc need for greater economic and scientific co-operation. A delegation representing thr peoples of Latvia. Estonia and Lithuania visited D i e f enbaker during the conference, and a paragraph of the plight of the 'captive" populations was later inserted in the communique at the request of the prime minis er. It saids "... Already in these'countries there is evidence of a growing desire for Intellectual and economic freedom. If the free nations are steadfast, the totalitarian menace that confronts them will evenually recede." FROM MOSCOW he NATO sessions in progress, Nikita Khrushchev ' . lagazine article raised " spectre of nuclear destruction for any West European country allowing American atomic bases n Its territory. Khrushchev returned to the leme that there must be a mee- ig a the summit between Eas| nd West. This would be to "dis- uss methods of coexistence." Thc Communist boss said thai ATLAS ALOFT The U.S., which has been fumbling on the threshold o the space age as compared with Russia, at last managed lo launch an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile that did what it was supposed to do. The feat took added importance in view of the fact that NATO talks were in progress when the 100-ton rocket blasted | off its base in Florida and followed thc planned path to its tar- Actually, the Atlas went only about one-third .. !'. "' range. TJe U.S. thus ma ched the claims of the Russians who ...... put mssiles] of more than 5,000-mile range and left much of the country i approaching Fapang, centre of the quake area, he saw on y "a large mound of rubble perhaps 35 feet high. . . . Wisps of smoke Indicated there wcre fires some- .•here below." MISSION FINISHED The 50-man Canadian tr mission to Britain finished month-Jong stay and returned home with a solid British promise that there will be no lag in Britain's export drive to Canada. Prince Philip paid warm trib- to the businessmen when he saids "The mission is ths lat has happened t< _y in 1957 and for before that." mission had demonstrated ... _ brilliant way" ths Commonwealth is a "co partnership. SANTA CLAUS Christmas was bursting out all i ovcr, and kiddies were wooing their old friend, Santa Claus. In Chatham, Ont., a blue-eyed, yellow-haired little girl was a little different in her coaxing. Said 'she to Santa: package arets and a bottle of beer out on | 'ie table." The little girl added: "Daddy said the Santa Clans 'ho comes to our house would ke those things better" than such items as cake and mdk. The showdown vote technically was on a Labor attempt ta reject a government motion to adjourn the House for the Christmas holi days. This was a device to bring up the debate on foreign affairs and not a direct attempt to ovcr throw the government on a vote Hinchingbrooke, charged t h a "American liberalism, with its many agents all over the uorll and in this country, too, is re morselcssly depriving us of on independence." Aneurin Bevan. Ihe Labo spokesman on foreign affair!, "ot one of the biggest ovations of h parliamentary career when lc it making force Princess Maragret Visit Canada In July OTTAWA (CP)-Princess Mar- aret will make her first visit . ■> Canada in July to take part in British Columbia's centenary celebrations. She will arrive in B.C., probably Vancouver, by Air from England and spend about two weeks in the province. During the following 10 days she will vi- " other parts of Canada, includ- _ Ottawa and perhaps Toronto, Montreal and other large cities. . 'Friday by the sake her first cross-country royal tour of Canada since be coming queen. It will be the second major tour scheduled for the Princess ear. In the spring, she will British Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America following a trip to the West In dies, where she will inaugurate merely that Princess Margaret h will "spend approximately two she will be the first me weeks in the province, after 0f the Roval Familv to ' • 'i Her Royal Highness will Guiana sinc"e jt was cefled to other parts of Canada dur-|ain jn 1814-15. 1 i period of about 10 days." In Toronto Controller Jean Ne nan, acting mayor, wired Sta Secretary Ellen Fairclough th 'Toronto is most anxious to wi .ome Her Royal Highness." also was reported that Ottawa a '">s would extend the leng Exhibition Aug. 20. WORK ON DETAILS Officials of the prime minist- r's office said details of the vi- _it still are to be worked out. A federal committee to make plai for the visit is expected to be _ tablished next month. inccss Margaret was inviti ttend the B.C. centenary ci tions by the British Colur government. She will visit Voncouvern Victoria and other coastal and interior cities. After taking part in the B.C. celebrations she is expect d to love eastward across the Prair- ss and the central prov nces", laking a number of stops along ie way. In Ottawa she w 11 be ..ie guest of Governor - General Massey at Government Hou e. Princess Margarets sister, Queen Elizabeth, has- visited Canada twice, once as a princess in 1951 and last October as Queen. Her father, the late King George VI. and his wife. Queen Mother . sited Canada in 1939 .shortly before the outbreak of the I Second'World War. ; hit during her travels. Shc tie her first Commonwealth ir 10 years ago when she went South Africa with other mem I bers of the Royal Family. Since then, she has visited Southern Rhodesia, Mauntis Zanzibar. Kenya and Tangan yika. Two years ago. she made a one-month tour of thc West In dies. It is not known whether 'he visit the United States following her trip to Canada. The princess is known to have expressed a de sire to see New York. Killed In Crib ST. CATHARINES, Ont — ary Silverstein, eight-months | old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Silverstein, was suffocated on Friday when the drop side of lhis crib fell on his throat Weather Overcast with occasional ing. Cloudy with sunny in tervals this afternoon. Mild High 55. TEMPERATURES Montre. .. 43 54 Toronto ........ 45 mt. . Wi mr. ra _« L*t%
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Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1957-12-21 |
Date | 1957-12-21 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
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Transcript | sifNDLY SERVICE . MAKES I >TRUCKS! -s Nova Motors Ltd. THE DAILY NEWS &* Vol. 64. No. 278 ST.JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957 (Price J cents) ChsHCS HllttOH & SOIlS [Cyrus Eaton 74, Jakes Bride Age 35 CLEVELAND (AP) - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-bqrr. in- who will be 74 next week, and Mrs. Anne Kinder Jones, married Friday in a private ceremony. ; "t's a most wonderful wedding", the new Mrs. Eaton said .lhe exchange of vows before a score of relatives, including ',3.year-old daughter, Alice, who wept during the ceremony. r|m very happy", Eaton told reporters on the terrace of the ,American farm house of his son. fl,. bride wore a pale blue jersey dress and matching blue JeV. Harold C, Phillips of the First Baptist Church of subur- (hoker Heiohts officiated in the large living room, decorated ,white orchids. bovt. Wins Vote Of Confidence Un The Missile Bases Decision Jn Sale Slowdown lompts Industry Layoffs j ■issia .ria riN >IN rrier rings) «ing- Ltd and has interests also in steel, Iron ore and coal, with holdings In the U.S. and C His first marriage, to Mi House, ended in divorce i and she died in 1956. The couple plan a shorl wedding trip to an undisclost tination. I IniiR shutdown* arc planned Bul s uiorarv s GM plant managers hove .the op- lis holi- tion locally of adjusting- work Wi aulo' schedules, lies be- i THOUSANDS AFFECTED o 1 car.-! The Chrysler shutdowns ,in Det- ms in-'roit will affect at least 50,000 trees. I hourly employees. Chrysler, Det- ' roit's largest single employer,, has some 100.000 employees In thc hourly rated and salaried ranks. The company declined to give an exact figure on the number to be made idle. In Detroit Chrysler Is closing its Dodge plants from the end of work Monday until Jan. 7, ils De-1 I Soto production from Monday til Jan. 6; its Chrysler division I plants from Monday until Jan. " and its Plymouth plants from Tuesday noon until Jan. 2. Among the smaller makers, American Motors said work full time through days with the exception of Christmas and New Year's Day. Studebaker (Packard), al cady producing at only about on thi ' the rate of a year ago, plans work two days next week-Thursday and Friday. ' . ' said the same schedule probably will apply for Ncw Year' iviet Scientist Says Behind U. S. T EFFORT NEEDED ' increased al a rale fasler tl p< im all; But he said the launching of J;cd for iwo Russian earth satellites joh. ! pointed out the superiority of ncyanov.' Soviet rocket techniques. Great .i-arlcmy. progress also had been made "ln nlscrs of' (he realm of mechanics, math- ] s id par ematics, chemistry, radio nf com- niqucs and automation." HAVE MORE SCIENTISTS the work' Russia had 240,000 sclent sis— !><■ said, i "morc than any other country"-: sifl morc hut still needed more "to extract amount the maximum from our i-<." and Nesmeyanov stressed thit •produce though Soviet investmen ; science' will be increased in 1958 hushed bv 10 per cent to 18,200,000,000 ■uncil ol1 rubles $4,530,000,000 at the of- he harm-! ftcial exchange rate—slill mores scientific' money is needed. "Investment in science m !§sia: arno Begins Nded "Leave" ((/""''Med leave tf^VJsDr.Sar. »is indoncsian *| looked „„ during K "™ w another h«L Parnamci was part of a trade agreement signed in September, 195(1. A Japanese shipowner in Kobe has offered to lease 13 freightrs lo Indonsia to replace those1 taken out of service by KPM c" ing thc Indonesian take-over. , Another firm has offered five tankers. But the Japanese govern-, ment said Tuesday it would f- fuse to lend ships or sponsor a shipowners' association move supplv Indonesia with ships BATTLE REBELS Indonesian troops in the Sou Celebes were reported Friday be fighting rebels of a fanatical HCRussia i° >>i Wtf those whi! ■S_!"eKP ^Qvessels are MS? y moth R;1' , P-, inter- stand '"«ual land- The rebels were reported to have plundered and razed a huge area of rich farmland, Air travellers arriving here from the area said army combat units have flown to Ambon, capital o the Moluccas, another eastern island "roup, to help quell the uprising. An army spokesman refused to | confirm ,the reported troon move- ments and said local military an Ihos-ilics are in control of the sit- The United Kingdom Commons Approval For Macmillan By JAMES F. KING LONDON (AP) -, Prime Minister M«- millan won approval from the House of Com- omns Friday night for NAT's summit policies and the planting of U.S. nuclear missile bases in Britain. But the smallness of the government's majority—38 votes—fell 20 short of normal Conservative strength and brought shouts of "resign" from Labor benches. The test of strength came after a five-hour debate in which the Opposition again assailed the American missiles bases project and the flights of U.S. bomber patrols over Britain with H-bomb loads. LONDON, England—Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, are shown with Lord Astor of Hevcr, left, and John Walter, right, as thcy visited the British national newspaper "The Times" in London. Walter is director and co-chief of the newspaper.—IN Photo, Scientists Discover Satellite "Ghost" ■vative side. Among them were l e of the old "Suez bloc" who| re angered by the U.S. ntion in Egypt in 1956. Britain and the United States, ? reported to have vir ually' reed upon building four basis Britain—perhaps in Scotland— for medium missiles whose 1,500- mile range could reach Moscow. Macmillan wound up Friday's debate by quieting any doub that Britain will hold the veto on any trigering of a missile attack from We have complete, negative itrol." he emphasized. At the| ne time, he said, Britain could sboot them off on her own hout Washington's approval. NATO ... he said: "1 believ. together has been will strengthen oui decisions in Paris Discovery of a "ghost satellite" — a kind of invisible radio image of Sputnik I above North of the world—has been reported !by Dr. Harry W. Wells of the1 Carnegie Institution of Wa hing- Thal is, on several occasions, Huge Stock Swindled - British I VANCOUVER (CP) Columbia governm cials aald Friday a gas racketeers milked Uni Investors of about $875,000 from offices here and fled last week before they could be arrested. They said the ring operated as the "Kiwaijls Club of Vancouver Youth Services." The gang, be-' lieved 20 in number, carried on the swindle for seven weeks. Vancouver and Halifax police are attempting to trace the gang. The men sold stock by long-distance telephone to persons iving In rural areas of the eastern United States. BACKED IN HALIFAX The stock was in a company named Canadian Alumina Corporation Limited, said o be backed by a Halifax brokerage firm. The gang operated 17 telephones from three separate premises in Vancouver. One was a former bootlegging establish- Cost of the long-distance calls or billing paid from phoney the telephone comp purposes. Authorities said the salesmen split up $25,000 in commissions each week, representing about one • fifth of the tolal proceeds from the stock sales. The salesmen told Ihe long-distance operators to tell prospective stock purchasers in the V. S. that it was "Canada calling," wihout mentioning Vancouver. This was done The fact they were operating rom the Pacific coast, making sales in the east, was designed ' ALIFAX FIRM BARRED Victims of the swindlers were )Id to send payments to the Hali- six firm, which forwarded commissions to Vancouver. The federal securities and ex. change commission In the U. S. had told the Halifax firm to ; and desist" selling the in the U. S. Other state sec in the upper atmosphere half rid removed from the pois sere the satellite actually wi the time. NEW PHENOMENON Amplifying on a report he mac Thursday night to the Washington Academy of Sciences, Wells ' '' a reporter "it's a new Pheno-| menon itf radiowi He said it is anot : knowledge about the properties | of the upper atmosphere and j "lerefore is "potentially import- nt in the field of science.' Wells reported to the academy that the department of magnetism of Carnegie s tinuous recordings of megacycle signals from Sputnik " starting shortly after the first nnouncement of its launching " Oct. 4 st type of received on a few occasions have not bcen'explained definite-} but Wells offered this concept: Presumably there were a few occasions when conditions in the ionosphere — the layer ot the atmosphere which can reflect radiowaves—were extremely The Week's News in Review By JOSEPH MmSWEEN Canadian Press Stall Wr ler NATO held its summit conference, and one of the mos important delegates was the fellow t there. Russia, of .sented at the NATO Paris talks, but . ... " iing pair of party Secretary Khrushchev and Premier Bul- [ganln were much in the ac just the same. Khrushchev called again for an Jast-West summit conference, following up writing pro Buiganin. offered to m l earlier li The heads of government agreed to build up NATO's ar- ' "" American intermedi- missiles and nuclear weapon stockpiles. The decision was a compromise between the tough program advocated by the United States and Western fresh, top-level Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Eurorj-'s hopes for il negotiations with appearing for thc first time in NATO councils, placed emphasis on thc need for greater economic and scientific co-operation. A delegation representing thr peoples of Latvia. Estonia and Lithuania visited D i e f enbaker during the conference, and a paragraph of the plight of the 'captive" populations was later inserted in the communique at the request of the prime minis er. It saids "... Already in these'countries there is evidence of a growing desire for Intellectual and economic freedom. If the free nations are steadfast, the totalitarian menace that confronts them will evenually recede." FROM MOSCOW he NATO sessions in progress, Nikita Khrushchev ' . lagazine article raised " spectre of nuclear destruction for any West European country allowing American atomic bases n Its territory. Khrushchev returned to the leme that there must be a mee- ig a the summit between Eas| nd West. This would be to "dis- uss methods of coexistence." Thc Communist boss said thai ATLAS ALOFT The U.S., which has been fumbling on the threshold o the space age as compared with Russia, at last managed lo launch an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile that did what it was supposed to do. The feat took added importance in view of the fact that NATO talks were in progress when the 100-ton rocket blasted | off its base in Florida and followed thc planned path to its tar- Actually, the Atlas went only about one-third .. !'. "' range. TJe U.S. thus ma ched the claims of the Russians who ...... put mssiles] of more than 5,000-mile range and left much of the country i approaching Fapang, centre of the quake area, he saw on y "a large mound of rubble perhaps 35 feet high. . . . Wisps of smoke Indicated there wcre fires some- .•here below." MISSION FINISHED The 50-man Canadian tr mission to Britain finished month-Jong stay and returned home with a solid British promise that there will be no lag in Britain's export drive to Canada. Prince Philip paid warm trib- to the businessmen when he saids "The mission is ths lat has happened t< _y in 1957 and for before that." mission had demonstrated ... _ brilliant way" ths Commonwealth is a "co partnership. SANTA CLAUS Christmas was bursting out all i ovcr, and kiddies were wooing their old friend, Santa Claus. In Chatham, Ont., a blue-eyed, yellow-haired little girl was a little different in her coaxing. Said 'she to Santa: package arets and a bottle of beer out on | 'ie table." The little girl added: "Daddy said the Santa Clans 'ho comes to our house would ke those things better" than such items as cake and mdk. The showdown vote technically was on a Labor attempt ta reject a government motion to adjourn the House for the Christmas holi days. This was a device to bring up the debate on foreign affairs and not a direct attempt to ovcr throw the government on a vote Hinchingbrooke, charged t h a "American liberalism, with its many agents all over the uorll and in this country, too, is re morselcssly depriving us of on independence." Aneurin Bevan. Ihe Labo spokesman on foreign affair!, "ot one of the biggest ovations of h parliamentary career when lc it making force Princess Maragret Visit Canada In July OTTAWA (CP)-Princess Mar- aret will make her first visit . ■> Canada in July to take part in British Columbia's centenary celebrations. She will arrive in B.C., probably Vancouver, by Air from England and spend about two weeks in the province. During the following 10 days she will vi- " other parts of Canada, includ- _ Ottawa and perhaps Toronto, Montreal and other large cities. . 'Friday by the sake her first cross-country royal tour of Canada since be coming queen. It will be the second major tour scheduled for the Princess ear. In the spring, she will British Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America following a trip to the West In dies, where she will inaugurate merely that Princess Margaret h will "spend approximately two she will be the first me weeks in the province, after 0f the Roval Familv to ' • 'i Her Royal Highness will Guiana sinc"e jt was cefled to other parts of Canada dur-|ain jn 1814-15. 1 i period of about 10 days." In Toronto Controller Jean Ne nan, acting mayor, wired Sta Secretary Ellen Fairclough th 'Toronto is most anxious to wi .ome Her Royal Highness." also was reported that Ottawa a '">s would extend the leng Exhibition Aug. 20. WORK ON DETAILS Officials of the prime minist- r's office said details of the vi- _it still are to be worked out. A federal committee to make plai for the visit is expected to be _ tablished next month. inccss Margaret was inviti ttend the B.C. centenary ci tions by the British Colur government. She will visit Voncouvern Victoria and other coastal and interior cities. After taking part in the B.C. celebrations she is expect d to love eastward across the Prair- ss and the central prov nces", laking a number of stops along ie way. In Ottawa she w 11 be ..ie guest of Governor - General Massey at Government Hou e. Princess Margarets sister, Queen Elizabeth, has- visited Canada twice, once as a princess in 1951 and last October as Queen. Her father, the late King George VI. and his wife. Queen Mother . sited Canada in 1939 .shortly before the outbreak of the I Second'World War. ; hit during her travels. Shc tie her first Commonwealth ir 10 years ago when she went South Africa with other mem I bers of the Royal Family. Since then, she has visited Southern Rhodesia, Mauntis Zanzibar. Kenya and Tangan yika. Two years ago. she made a one-month tour of thc West In dies. It is not known whether 'he visit the United States following her trip to Canada. The princess is known to have expressed a de sire to see New York. Killed In Crib ST. CATHARINES, Ont — ary Silverstein, eight-months | old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Silverstein, was suffocated on Friday when the drop side of lhis crib fell on his throat Weather Overcast with occasional ing. Cloudy with sunny in tervals this afternoon. Mild High 55. TEMPERATURES Montre. .. 43 54 Toronto ........ 45 mt. . Wi mr. ra _« L*t% |
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