The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1955-08-06

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Vol. 62.   No. 164
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAULD,  SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1955
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PRESENTS
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Charles Hutton * c—
9 Million In Public Works Contracts
Local
Projects
Included
OTTAWA (CD-Contracts total-
lin? 59,057,068 were awarded by
the federal department of public
works during July.
Tho amount for new works was
$",243,938, the department reported
Friday. Of the remainder $826,988
went towards repair and maintenance ot existing government structures and $974,121 was for dredg.
inp contracts.
Largest contract, valued at $3,-
131,379, went to Ross,. Meagher
Ltd., Ottawa, for construction of
1 new chemical laboratory build*
j in*: for the mines department in
| Ottawa.
Quebec contracts include:
Stanhope, Que., combined ' bus
terminal, examining warehouse*
customs immigration building, Wil-
[rid Laroche, Magog, Que., $269,-
m.
-Dredging—
Batiscan river. Marine Industries Ltd., Montreal, 524,905 Lac
N'ominiguc, Cummins Construction
(X Toronto, $19,601*; Richelieu
River. Marine Industries Ltd.,
Montreal, $221,550; Ste. Anne de
S*-rc. Que., Lucien Lachapelle,
Sard. Que, $7,642.
-Maritime provinces —
— New projects —
St. Lawrence, Nfld., wharf construction, Gulf Maritime Construction Ltd., Matane, Que., $210,267;
Windsor, Nfld,, new post office,
Newfoundland Engineering and
Construction Co. Ltd., St. John's,
Nfld., $46,950; Poverty Beach,
P.E.I., breakwater and landing,
Morrison and McRae Lid., Sum*
mersirlc, P.E.I., $214,295; Yarmouth, N.S., Ferry Terminal,
Kenny Construction Co. Ltd., Yarmouth. N. S., $510,000.
Repair and maintenance—>
Ballantyne's Cove, N. S., wharf
■".tension, improvements to har-
tor. Chisholm Construction Co.,
Antigonish. N. S., $121,690; Dipper
Harbor, N. B„ repairs-improve-
ncnts tn breakwater, Colin R.
MacDonald, Ltd., Antigonish, N.S.,
1130.498.
-Dredging—
Catalina, Nfld., J. P. Torler Co.
Ltd., Montreal, $135,000; Graham's
Tend. P. E. L, Lloyd Evcrtt Well-
cer >Ir., Charlottetown, P. E, I.,
>a,M5; Naulrage, P. E. I., Lloyd
Everett Wellner Jr.t Charlottetown
81,300; Dalhousie, N. B., J, P.
Porter Co. Ltd., Montreal, $42,532.
iort Gregg
BeO.
ieut. Governor
OTTAWA (CP) - The Ottawa
fiii«n says reports on Parliament
*""" are lhat Labor Minister Gregg
•ill retire from the cabinet this
I'jiumn to become Hcutenant*gov-
"mnr of New Brunswick.
Mr. Gregg, member of Parlia-
■B-jnt for York-Sunbury since 1947,
.*.New Brunswick's representative
n the cabinet. Ha now is in" Eu*
■ope,
Jhe newspaper says Lieutenant*
wernor David L. Maclaren has
■*<*n in office 10 years, "an un-
wually long time." .Mr, Gregg, a
Victoria Cross winner, Is a former
urgeant-at-arms of the House ot
"cn 1 mons and president of thc
University of New Brunswick,
Before becoming labor minister,
■* v'as successively fisheries min-
J'er and veterans affairs minister.
Th- Cillien said: "The reports
Way were that Mr. Gregg was
CROWDS ATTEND DERBY—The annual regatta continues to draw the largest crowd of any sports event in Newfoundland as could be seen at the Derby yesterday.  President James D. Higgins estimated the crowd during the
peak hour at thirty thousand.
U.S. Plans  To
Farm Produce
One Dead In
3-Car Smash
Goulds Road
A man. presumed to be a U.S. serviceman, was
killed shortly before last midnight when a three-
car smash occurred on the Bay Bulls Road, near
Walsh's Tavern.
R.C.M.P. here refused to give any details on
the accident, but garage men who went to the
scene reported that an occupant of one of the cars
was dead when taken from the wreck.
The car, license No. 5207, a '51 Nash, is practically demolished. Nothing remains but a mass of
torn, twisted steel forward of the back scat. The
wreck bears a Pepperrell A.F.B. identification.
The accident occurred when the car collided
with a small English car which was parked by the
side of the road. This car also was very badly
damaged and thrown on its side. A pick-up truck
also was involved in the accident, and a telephone
pole was broken off.
Contacted early this morning, thc R.C.M.P. de-
tachment said it was the policy of the Force that
any information for the public must come from
"those in authority".
Sell Excess
To Russians
As World
Tensions
World News
—Briefs—
anxious to take the post of lieutenant-governor and that Mr. (prime
minister) St. Laurent might consent to releasing him from his
present duties."
Carmen Miranda Dies
Suddenly, Susan Ball
Succombs To Cancer
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
■U1.)—Carmen    Miranda,
ppery singer, dancer and
•tress famous for her fruit
•lad headgear, died Friday
■ her home.
The actress, born in Portugal in
?H. suffered a heart attack after
fishing a television film with
•nmy Durante Thursday night.
Hcr husband, film producer.Da-
"1 Sebastian, said" she apparenUy
■|« feeling well after a late supper
■■■towing.her TV performance. She
lapsed as she was going to bed,
said.
•0V1E STAR IN lHTi    *
Wsj Miranda; a star during the
»rty 1940s, had made only infre-
n*tnt appearances on the screen In
*f»l years. Her last picture '.was
**r3(| Stiff" with Dean Martin
'•) Jerry Lewis. Moat of her re*
LOS ANGELES (A.P.)~
Motion picture actress Susan
Bell died at 4:35 p.m. EDT
Friday in a private residence
to which she had been taken
recently from the City of
Hope Hospital, She succumbed to cancer of the
lung. She was 21 years old
and the wife of actor Richard
Long.
cent engagements were in night
clubs.   .
Her films included "Down Argentine Way," "If .I'm Lucky," and
"That Ni'ght in Illo."
, The diminutive-singer and dancer, five feet two inches tall, was
known for her sultry guralions to
latin rhythms and some of the most
exotic head **arh ever to escape
from the land of the pampas. .'
Young Mother
Missing, Find
Blood Soaked Car
KANSAS CITY (AP)-A blood*
stained automobile containing the
ripped and bloddy clothing of a
wealthy young housewife was
found abandoned on a busy thoroughfare early Friday.
Mrs. Wilma Allen, 34, wife of
William Allen, Jr., and mother of
two small boys, has been missing
since she left a beauty parlor
Thursday noon.
Her 1D55 convertible was found
parked under a viaduct.
Eugene Pond, chief of detectives, said the rear scat and floor
of the car were saturated with
blood and that all Mrs. Allen's
clothing—lingerie, .skirt, blouse
and shoes— was stuffed into thc
trunk compartment. Blood was
streaked along the chrome trim
one onc side ol the car nnd on the
rear bumper,
Hcr purse was missing. Pond
said, however, that because of lhc
small sum she apparently'carried
robbery *iVai not believed to have
been & motive.
YARMOUTH, N.S.-CP — James
K. Bullerwell reached to pick up
cn upset bottle ■ of milk while
driving 500" feet to liis home from
a local dairy.
.Results: A broken hydro pule;
a- hadly-damageri car, minor in*
juries for the driver—and uo milk.
RUSSIAN* ENTER FESTIVAL
t VENiCE-AP ~Jor [he, first,
'(fine, 'Rilsfm it-fancring' t.fc In-
tematioiuil Film- Festival wjiich
opens herein*-. 25. Officials 0/
the 1055 'festival mtno*mc<"ri Friday thc Russians have entered
three pictures in the annual competition, which they prcutowl-y
ignored.
HONOR INSTRUCTOR
LONDON (AP)-The Queen Friday honored her husband's flying
instructor. She invested Sqdn.-Ldr.
Caryl Gordon with the insignia of
the Royal Victoria Order. Gordon
has been the Duke of Edinburgh's
instructor since the duke started
flying.
DUCLOS OFF TO MOSCOW
PARIS —" Reuters —. Jacques
Dhc.os, deputy sccrefary-neneral
0/ the French Communist party,
left here'by air Friday for Moscow.
7,840 FOR GENERALS
BONN (Reulers)-The West German upper house Friday cut by
one-fifth the salaries which defence
minister Theodor Blank had proposed fur his 29 generals. Under
rates approved by the Bundesrat
a full general will receive 2,R00
marks a month, equivalent to
$7,4B0 a year.
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL TO
UNITED STATES
CANBERRA —Reuters — Lt.-
Gcn. Henry • Wells, Atistralian
chief-of-staff, mil visit the United
States as guest of the U.S. army
after flying to London Aug. 8
to attend the annual conference
of British Commonwealth army
chiefs, it teas annouHced Friday.
TWO EXECUTED
GUATEMALA CITY (AP)-Two
men convicted of multiple murders
committed during the last days of
the pro-Communist regime of Ja-
cobo Arbenz Guzman died before
a firing squad Friday. It was the
first execution under the government of President Carlos Castillo
Armas, a leader of the 'successful
revolt .which deposed Arbenz Guzman in June, 1954.
SHARK GROUNDS BOAT
SOUTHWEST IMRBOR, Me.—
AP—A 1,000-pound shark turned
on the boat irom which it was
harpooned here Thursday and
bashed a 10-inch hole below thc
water line forcing thc skipper to
run aflroMMl or sink. Capt. Lyndon H. Bunker ran ihe 32-foot
cmher, Thetis, aground near
Baker1.*; -island. A boat from Bar
Harbor sighting the Theth in distress, came alongside and shot
the shark.
FIRE DAMAGES LINER
LONDON (Reuters)-Flre broke
out lu a lower hold of the 20,4ii3*ton
British Hner Dominion Monarch
Friday, damaging lhe insulated
bulkhead. Firemen fought the
blaze for three hours before bringing it under control.*
WON UN NOT FOR  ADS
NEW DELHI (APi-"Woman is
an emblem of purity,   simplicity
' -By. OVID A MARTIN
' WASHINGTON (A.P.)—
Now that world tensions are
easing, the United States
may try to sell some of its
huge farm surpluses to Russia and satellites, officials
said Friday.
These government farm officials
said they expect the Eisenhower
administration to re-expiore soon
the feasibility of. resuming trade
with Iron Curtain countries.
The administration has been re
luctant to do this largely because
of a belief that American consumers would disapprove such sales
at prices below those prevailing in
the U, S. The lower prices would
be necessary under world competitive conditions.
A speech made at East Lansing,
Mich.; Thursday night by President Charles B. Shuman of the
powerful American Farm Bureau
Federation led the officials to pre
diet early review of the matter,
CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE
Hc suit! resumption of trade
relations with Russia would con
tribute to world peace and would
be a major step' in expanding
markets for U. S. farm products.
Olher developments which were
said to be exerting an influence
toward trade reopening included;
1.. Recent action of Canada in
selling surplus butter and grain to
Iron Curtain countries.
2. Easing of tensions between
East and West as a result of the
recent Geneva conference and the
exchange visits of American and
Russian farmers.
MOUNTING SURPLUSES
A third factor influencing government thinking is \he administration's desire to find new outlets for' the mounting farm surpluses. Russia, because of lagging
agricultural production at home,
is known to be in the market for
grain, butter and food fats—items
in the U. S. surplus supplies.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft
Benson .announced Friday he will
go to Europe this fall to confer
with U. S. representatives there
and-*with foreign governments on
disposing' of farm surpluses. The
trip was suggested by President
Eisenhower.
At the same' time,. the department announced that its exports
of wheat under tho International;
Wheat Agreement for the market-;
ing year ended Aug. 1 fell about:
55,000,000   bushels   short   of   its
quota of 195,000,000 bushels. Other
exporting countries also failed t*
fill their quotasvGood'crqps in \m
porting areas held down the Intel
national movement of tbe grain.
.iiul sacrifice. She is not on artlcl
of advertisement."   On that not*
members of'the women's nrganlz:.
tion   Adarsh   Mahila   Sablia   ap
pealed   Friday   to   the   Indian
capital's businessmen to slop displaying women's clothing in win- j
dows   and   using, feminine   forms!
In Advertisement"-, calendars and.
olher commercial displays. I
Exchange Of Ideas
Peaceful Uses Of
Atom Planned By
Reds And West
Bank
Discount
Raised
Bank of Canada
Announces
BULLETIN
OTTAWA (CP.) - The
Bank of Canada announced
Friday night that the banl*
rate or discount rate has
been increased to two from
l'/j per cent.
"The Bank of Canada announced this evening that
the bank rate or discount
rate will be two per cent,
effective from the close of
business on Aug. 5. The rate
has been 1% per cent since
Feb. 14, prior to which it had
been two per cent."
The chartered banks
usually make little use 01
central.bank.loansr.butai;isfi
in the. Ottawa rate usually is
a signal for the chartered
banks-to tighten up on loans
to their customers.
This may be done by turning down requests for loans
by borderline cases or boosting bank lending charges to
discourage some borrowings.
WEATHER
Cloud*/ -with a few showers,
clearing in the late afternoon.
NM Skies
SATURDAY, August 6th.
Geneva Meeting Result
Of Ikes "Pool" Plan
GENEVA (Reuters)—The world's first full-scale conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy opens here
Monday before hundreds of scientists from both sides of
the Iron Curtain,
It could provide opportunity for
the first full exchange of scientific
information about atomic energy
since the end of the Second World
War.
Tlie conference stems from
President Eisenhower's idea for an
international pool of fissionable
material Ior peaceful purposes.
The idea was carried a step further by Secretary of Slate Dulles
in a speech to the United Nations
General Assemblv last September.
CONFERENCE APPROVED
Last, December the UN assembly
decided that an international technical conference of governments
should be called lo explore ways
of developing the peaceful uses of
atomic energy through international ro-opcration.
The UN resolution was sponsored by Canada, the United
State?, Britain. Australia, Belgium.
France and South Africa.
port on "the first atomic power
station in the Soviet Union and the
prospects of atomic power production" to an American report on the
"design and operating experience
of a prototype boiling water power
reactor."
TO SHOW U. S. REACTOR
Throughout the c 0 n f e r e n c t,
which will last until Aug. 10, an
American • built research reactor
will be nn show in the grounds of
the Palais des Nations where th*
scientists will meet. The world's
first international atom * power
-trade fair" will be held simultaneously.
Biggest exhibitor will be Britain, with a full floor in Geneva's
main hall of exhibitions in which
38 British industrial firms will dis-
plav ther atomic wares.
The size of the British exhibition
was seen as an indie-itinirthat *,h*»
is ready to enter the inisrmtional
More than SO government have  industrial atomic market in a big
.accepted Die invitation, and more! way. ...       ,1
than 1,000 papers on various as-i    The    Irade    fair    \*   ^rmm
poets of  atomic energv   will be  termed  the  International  Exhibi-
presentcd lo thc conference.        j tion for Peaceful Uses of Atomic
These range from a Russian re-1 Energy. 	
Sunrise
Sunset ,
High .. .
Low ..  .
. .. .. ., 4:42 a.m.
 7:29 p.m.
TIDES
. 9:01 a.m.   0:09 p.m.
. 2:47 a.m.   3:08 p.m.
Widen Hunt For
Bandit Sought In
Brink's Hold-Up
BUFFALO, N.Y. (A.P.)—The search for the missing
bandit in Wednesday's Brink's holdup spread throughout
New York state Friday.
Nearly 50 detectives besieged
the New York Central's "Knocker-
bock-er"   express   train   at   New
searched by police in Albany.
Poughkeepsie and Harmon before
it arrived in New York. Oivnes told
SUNDAY, August 7
Sunrise 4:43 a.m.
Sunset 7:28 P-In-
TtUtiS
High 9:36 a.m.   9:48 p.m.
Low ..... 3:24 a.m.   3:54 p.m.
York CilVs Grand Central Station; police that the man he had ridden
to track down a tip lhat the fugi-| with refused to engage in conver
live "unman, James Sheridan uf! sahon. He said he had a scar lip
New C. was .board. The search: and ta otter ways **™«*"
was 'ti vain ! descriplion of the musing "stien-
■  Sheridan escaped as two of In**! "la".
accomplict's Mere caplured in a; jneamv|,i[|tf| rewards of tt,50Q
running gun battle in *llll,;ilui eac*, warc given the four Brink's
streets following their unsucews*! guar(|s xv]u, Xuilt-d the robbery at-
ful holdup of a Brink's armored j ,empL 0j]e of lhe guards, 27-year-
car carrying nearly $500,000 in^re- ol() Eugene c'lohessy, received his
ceipts  from  Ontario's  Fort  Erie    het.lie in a hospital where h* was
Many 1 small child was out on
the Conception Bay highroad yesterday, offering boxes of wild
strawberries. The price ranged
from 80 cents to one dollar and
there was a brisk demand from
passing motorists.
race track. Their loot of $150,000
was recovered.
Franklin Owens, a passenger
who got off thc train at Syracuse,
told Syracuse police that a man
answaring Sheridan's description
had ridden beside him on the trip
from Buffalo,
The  "K n i c k e r b ocksr" was
recuperating from a bullet wound
in the chest.
-Police also stepped up a search
of lhe west end section' of Buffalo near th* robbery scene in tiie
event Sheridan was still holed up
in a rooming house or possibly a
vacant building.
BROTHER OF SLAIN VANCOUVER
POLICEMAN PROMISES REVENGE
VANCOUVER (A.P.)-
Jack "Whelan promised Friday to avenge his brother,
51-year-old superintendent
of police Harry Whelan, who
was found shot to death with
■abullet from his own gun.
"I'll talk for my dead brother,"
Jack Whelan said.
The superintendent, second Vancouver policeman in six weeks to
bt shot by his own gun, died without leaving any known written explanation. .
Supt. Whelan—the third member
of his family to die by suicide-
A'as found wounded in the heart
shortly before 8 a. m. Friday.
\h was scheduled to reappear
three hours later at the royal
■ommlssion investigating. charges
)E corruption and graft-in the 15U-
man force. 1
PLEDGES FULL DETAILS
"My .brother lett mc with a job
In do and I'm going to do it," Jack
Whelan said later,
Tears glfclcncd in Im eyes as
hi? went on:
"He had a. lot lo tell and believe
me, had he told it, it would have
blown things wide open.
"But I will tell it. I will take
the stand and tell its. all."
Mrs. Whelan said her husband
had been restless Thursday night
after receiving a "mysterious"
telephone cal.
ll was reported tiie caller threatened to smear the superintendent's
personal lite if he continued testimony before'Reginald H.-Tupper's
commission.
Mrs. Whelan said shc was in her
bedroom and heard a shot. She
found Harry lying on the cjiester-
ficld, his service revolver beside
him and a bullet wound in his
chest.
Whelan died on the way to hospital.
CUTHBERT RECOVERED
SupL.Wheian's daatli foliowed""by
six .weeks linv suicide attempt bf
Del.-Sgt. -Len Cuthbert, who kit
with Whelan a confession of accepting bribes  from  bookmakers.
Cuthbert recovered and has testified before thc Tupper commission
l.hal he shared payoff money wilh
pnlice chief Walter Mullitgf-n r**-
otlvr officer:-. Cuthbert'*- HH to
end .'his Ilia June .24 was: lolloweil
by appointment of the commission.
Whelan's father took his own life
with Harry's service revolver several ycars ago and this was followed in October, 1953, by the suicide of Harry's daughter in Cab'*
fornia. He left two sons, aged 15
and 10.
Police officers seem stunned by
Whelan's' death and few would
speak about it.        ••'■
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3—Missing Longliner Tunis
Up
4—The Church Page
5—Wuuien'i    News     and
Chit Chat
6—Wayfarer coirnnenis on
.    the Regatta
l—Topsail Highway   Vacation
!), 10, 11—Beautiful Babie*i
12, 13—Sport
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