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Vol. 66.   No. 91
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959
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lehru Makes Move For Peace
tetween Reds And Dalai Lama
'No Solution
tut Of A Hat"
'!;i!     India    'AP'    — | Radio.
- .-.cr  Ncnru  made  a ;    Nehru was greeted by a cheer-
..-.> tor peace between \ in™ crowd as he an- ved for his
>,T.niimi>_) and Tibet's j talk wilh the Dalai Lama.
a  lie invi cd Chinese j    Nehru said the door was open
ifl'ro-cntativcs   nnd I for the  Chinese ambassador in
..n puppet,  the  Pan-1 India or any other Peiplng rep-
,   -n visit  thc  Dalai, rrsentalive lo visit the fugitive
. -.cme in exile here. I Tibetan leader here.
o'i-rnire   lo   Pciping I   The 21-year-old Panchen Lama
r. a pre?s conference   was placed at the head of a reg-
-o inferred for 'our   inie in Lhasa by Red China 3fler
rr :'3-ycar-olri Dalai   the Dalai Lama sided with rebel
Ti'Kian cod-king.      | forces and fled from the Tibetan
Nchrn said later, was j capital last month.
:e Po>?ibil ty ot creat-   PANCHEN LAMA'S VIEW
:v,cK-hcrc  that   might     The Panchen Lama, in a speech
■:i'x" He said the talk   to   the   National   People's   Con-
c ;■.:■„ but he expected   gress ia Peiping, accused India
i n-.it ol the hat" would   of expansionist  alms.  He  sup-
ks hs meeting with the  ported Communist charges that
lt.3 the Dalai Lama's sta ements de-
i:-.:-.;im :o the Panchen i nouncing Communist rule in Tl-
i no; tome .up in the   bet weren ot made by the Dalai
:..*■ ! Loma himself.
; \ttacK Nehru said the Panchen Lama's
\i.tj «;l»  making hi* , speech  "does not do justice to
y:.y.i India's Chinese i India.  China/Tibet o    the Pan-
IY,m*i: was opening a:i | then Lama."
- -..« tot ernment. The   Communist   charge   that
::'.i*!nment   Communist   the  Dalai Lama was abducted
>.- People's   Daily  said I and brought here under duress by
:;u-rnmeM had "pncii-   rebels is not so. Nehru said,
:.;> encouraged" Indian '   He expressed hope "the Dalai
papers now [ Lama can return some time or
rr Titian independence.
?t?j.- newspaper said
,»r,a abducted the Dalai
•ii receive- "an umisu-
olher — when, I cannot say—lo
Tibet. Surely no one wants these
tensions lo continue indefinitely."
Nehru  has  never condemned
■ji reception" in India i Rcd China for the suppression of
t Nehru government was i the Tibetan rebellion, but he has
wr: to discourage. As I said India is sympathetic to the
■■_ rut ions between the two Tibetans and that Tibetan self-
»ere being affected rule in internal -Affairs is the oqjy
broadcast  by   Peiping I ultimate solution.	
taught Farmers
In His Own Head
-. CP'—Paul Mirtin I more than they were able to■
>; that Agriculture Min- carry out after the 1938 election,
t-ic-s brought down on! All Mr. Harkness had done
fad the Western farm-! was "refine" Liberal government|
i on Ottawa and an ex- i agriculture policies and acts, he
ricjiture debate in the said. Thc Conservatives gave the
farmers no new deal as they had
1 'or Ontario's fc_scx  promised in the election.
Literals' agriculture I "You're quite wrong there," In-
i -vd the debate-in j tcrjected Mr. Harkness as Mr.
- dsy Friday—would be i Martin said the Conservative
h .-hortened if Mr. I agriculture policies made no im-
Emitted that the Pro-1 pression on the- farmers. "~
'rn'rrvatives promised I election proved that.'
INDEPENDENCE, MO.—Mingling with the crowd, former President Harry Truman (left center) serves
as honorary wagon master to start the Oregon Cente nnial wagon train on its way. The seven covered
wagons in the train were out to retrace the old Oreg on Trail, hoping to make the 2,000 mile trip to Independence, Oregon, in time for the state's centennial celebration in August. The wagon shown is the lead
wagon, carrying mail.—(UPI Telephoto)
No Retaliatory Strike
In Bell Island Mines
BELL ISLAND, Nfld. (CP).
Tha president of a Bell Islpnd
mine local said Friday there
would b( no strike in retaliation
of a layoff May 1 of 573 of its
members,
President D. I. Jackman of local 4121 of the United Mine Workers of America (Ind.) said a
'strike could serve no useful
purpose, . . ."
He had predicted Thursday
that if Dominion Steel and Coal I
Corporation closed its No. 6 Wabana ore mine here 1,000 men
would walk off in sympathy for
the 573 put out of work by the
shutdown.
TALKED TO STARR
But Mr. Jackman said he had
reconsidered after consulting with
federal Labor Minister Starr. He
said Mr. Starr told him the fed-
eralgovernment could not avert
the shutdown and that there vas
no chance of receiving a gov
ernment subsidy.
Mr Jackman said a strike at
Wabana "wouldn't force Ottawa's
hand and neither'would it force
the company's hand'
"If the miners who are not to
bel aid off went on strike, they
themselves would be among the
unemployed and the 573 would
not be helped; therefore » strike
would only make matters worse."
SAID WOULD BE VOTE
He had said earlier in the week'
that if the layoff takes place
will hold a secret ballot on
question of a strike.'
About 12,000 people live 02
tiny island in Concep ion Bay, 12
miles from St. John's. Half of
them live in Wabana which is
entirely   dependent  on  the  ore
Dosco announced the shutdown
of one of its three mines ncre
several months ago for lack of
markets.
Says Federal
Govt. Has Set
Precedent
Other Provinces Could
Be Like Newfoundland
By IAN DONALDSON
Canadian Press Staff Writer
HALIFAX (CPl- Lib eral
Leader Henry D. Hicks of Nova
Scotia said Friday lhe federal
government had set a precedent
that could lead lo tlie discontinuance of the annual $25,000,000
special Atlantic provinces adjustments grants.
Mr. Hicks said at a press conference that the federal government's recent "notice" lo Newfoundland that special grants of
$8,000,000 annually, provided
under the 1949 Confederation
agreement, would not be continued after 1962, could indicate "a
financial crisis" for the other
three Atlantic provinces.
We all fear that this may be
Mr Hicks said the adjustment
grants amount., to 10 per cent of
Nova Scotia's revenue "and the
province's dependence upon tliem .
has become such that it would
bc extremely difficult .. . for
the Nova Scotia government to
manage without Ihem'.'
He said the provincial govern
ment shouldn't wait until I960 or
1961 to discuss "tlie renewal and
extension of these grants" with
the federal government. Premier
Robert L Stanfield sho.uld "press
for a declaration of the federal '
government's policies in relatior
to these grants."
He said thc decision of the
Dosco loan for a wash-plant 'Van-
not be lightly accepted by those
interested in the future of coal
a precedent which could result in 1 industry. The lack of this plant
the discontinuance of the . .. I may well cost Dosco some of ita
adjustment grants, the payments  markets." The plant would make
'hich has only been assured
until 1902."
SHOCKED AT DECISION
Mr. Hicks also said he was
"shocked and disappointed" at
the federal government's decision to turn down a $6,000,000
loan to Dominion Steel and Coal
Corporation for a coal-washing
plant in the Sydney area. He said
the outlook for the province's
industry "has not improved."despite one-year $4,300,-
000 subventions to help freight
into competit ve central
Canadian markets.
The adjustment grants, set up I
for four years, give Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Newfound- ]
land $7,500,000 each ayear and 1
Prince Edward Island $2,500,0001
table more domestic coal.
The latest subventions "maj
only be postponing the evil days.
We must someday produce coa!
more economically. Somebody
must give leadership in this matter. If we can increase coal sales
by 1.000,000 or 2.000.000 million
tons Dosco might be in a position
to reduce its costs."
He said the past two years had
seen "perhaps the mos\ serious
decline in the history of '.he coal
industry."
The short -term subventions
were announced six weeks ago
aftcr Dosco built up a 1,3000.00-
ton stockpile of unsold industrial
coal Thc company's mines face
.staggered shutdowns for the rest
of the year.
Ikstwood Cargo Burns,
Still Stuck By Strike
I* ORLEANS (AP)-Flre
wt Friday In the engine
* > strike-bound cargo
k»ded with 1,300,000
'al Canadian newsprint,
2 (-image   es imated   at
btr-Kt was confined to
Jf* room of the British
Jsuiwood as land and sea
units worked for
two hours before
■I the blare under con-
J* Scott, m engineer, said
"another sailor were in
"fee room to check on a
°' the ship's ighta when
1 Scott carried set fire to
■•illcd   drip   tray.   The
'Ptcad to the bilges be-
A skyrocketed.
^EN PICKETED
.Bestwood  arrived   here
foundland last Satur-
to have been un-
days   later.   But
the International
•'** of America ap-
" Uie dock, contending
*« being used ln ef-
break a woodworkers
Orleans   longshoremen
■f *_!_**the plck,t Une*
I **iprint wu manufao
[ fie Anglo-Newfound-
^'opment Corporation
falls, Nfld. It wu
B ' ty the Montmorency
t^wpany of New York
* QUESTIONED
^wood's New Orleans
1 *he would remain
4 »o«e word wu re-
* Washington on the
J*e Pickets. |
■_■_?* wtrt «P«rt*d In
£"■**■■*-*• out about
^,***Mt Nrt Chit!
'• 0 Mm   uid   tho I
blaze was brought under control
by 9 a.m.
Harbor lire boats joined city
units in battling the fire with
chemicals. Smoke bllowed for
two blocks along the wharf.
Every Stitch
Made By Queen
OTTAWA (CP) - Setting the
record straight: The late Queen
Mary worked "every stitch" ofj
the needlepoint carpe now in the
National Gallery of Canada.
Alan Jarvis, director of the
gallery, Friday released a copy
of a letter from the dowager
marchioness of Reading denying
a statement by Mr. Jarvis April
17 that Queen Mary employed
footmen and other personnel to
help her with certain work on the
carpet.
Published In the London Times,
the letter says: j
"I can state quite definitely
that every stitch on that carpet
wu done by Queen Mary herself
and that a moment when she
wu Ul and then were only two
or three inches to be finished on
the border and I offered to do
the work for her, she refused,
saying that aha wished every
stitch on the carpet to be bers,
her own work and hers alone, and
w« had to wait aome weeks for
the carpet to be completed because she wu not well enough
to do it at that time "
Mr. Jarvis made bis comments
after members of the Imperial
Order Daughters of the Empire,
which bought the rug and later
donated H to the gallery, com-
plained that tt wu not promi-
aantly displayed. 1
Ballerina Afraid
Husband In Danger
AND Company Expects
New Trouble On Drive
LONDON (AP) -Dame Mar-
got Fonteyn, first ballerina of the
Western world, aald Friday night
she believes her Panamanian
husband is In danger of death.
Where did the danger oome
from?
"Guns," she said.
Whose funs?
She pursed her lips and waved
away the question with a graceful gesture.
(Reuters news agency in a dispatch from Panama City quoted
Poor Poet
Worse Thief
LOS ANGELES (AP) -A
burglar ransacked the home
ot Edgar A. Patterson and
left this message, scrawled in
lipstick on a bedroom mirror:
"It Is with regret,
"Your goods I beget,
"But for over a week,
"I aii't won a bet."
Not much of a poet? He
isn't , much   of   a ■ burglar
either. He took a hi-fi set but
overlooked Mrs,   Patlerson'a
mink coat.   .
President Ernesto de la Guardia
as saying his government might
lodge extradition proceeding;
Dame , Margot "if we find we
have sufficient proof against
her," He cited a 1907 extradition
treaty with Britain.
Dame Margot came back to
London after a week in which
she was jailed by Panama for
questioning about an alleged plot
of her husband, Roberto Arias, to
overthrow the republlc'sgovern-
ment.
HUSBAND MISSING
She Insisted she does not know
where her fugitive husband is.
She had heard news reports that
Panamanian patrols were huntng
him and an armed band in the
hills around Santa Clara, west
of Panama City.
"I stopped over in New York
only because I thought he might]
get in touch with me " she said. I
"I have no idea what his plans
TORONTO (CP)—An official i working to abandon the drive,
Anglo - Newfoundland    De-'Mr.   Howell   said.   Defections
velopment Company said Friday
he expects an International
woodworkers of America (CLC)
attempt to block the downriver
drive of logs in Newfoundland
next month.
were always a possibility although the worker now are
members of the Newfoundland
Brotherhood of Woods Workers
(Ind.).
word—let's say we expect interference," said W. Thomas Howell, the company's superintendent of community relations.
Mr. Howell, here to attend the
annual conference of the Canadian Public Relations Society,
called a press conference and
showed reporters a copy of
threatening letter to the company   signed   "pickets"   which
said 'we are not through with
you yet."
Commented Mr. Howell: "It's
it a crackpot's letter.   We're
taking it as a general warning."
The trouble is expected when
the spring thaw begins around
the end of May and logs cut during the winter are floated down I
.the Exploits River to the com-)
She vetoed all questions about jpany's mill operating in Grand1
her husband's politics  and lhe Falls. ■
purported plot. I
"When did you last see your     The IWA, decertified after a
husband?" she was asked. strike against AND early this
"That," she said, "is precisely year, probably will Increase its
the sort ofq uestion I will not picket lines and attempt to per-
answer." ' suade the 1,200 men who will be I
,,„„,„„,  _,,„ .     .  l(,mj     'If a  man is carrying two
^tt?-^S_lt,l_SlT,l^l^^^ta5
which way he s going to jump."
Little Hope
Says Starr
OTTAWA (CP) - Labor Minister Starr says he hasn't mpch
hope that impending layoffs at
Newfoundland's Bell Isle iron
mines can be avoided.
Replying in the Commons Friday to questions from J. W. Pickersgill (L—Bonavista - Twillingate), Mr. Starr said "every step
has been taken" in an attempt to
avoid the layoffs.
There had been consultations
ith the mines n anagement,
"but I must admit rankly that
1 haven't much hope that the'
layoffs can be averted."
But Mr, Starr said every effort
will be made to avert any hardship as a result of the layoffs.
CLC To Request
Negotiations In
Firemen's Strike
Distraught Woman Accosts
Queen Mother Elizabeth
By JOHN LcBLANC
Canadian Press Staff Wrllcr
OTTAWA lCP)-The Canadian
Labor Congress likely will ask
the federal government to get the
CNR and the strike-threatening
locomotive firemen's union into
negotiations before the firemen's
walkout date next Friday.
A four-way session among gov-1
ernment, firemen, CNR and CLC I
officials appeared to be in prospect for Ottawa early next week
—possibly Monday—in the dispute
over withdrawal of firemen from
freight and yard diesel locomotives.
These developments seemed the
likeliest upshot of a closed meeting here Friday between heads
of the union and the 1.0OO.COO-
member congress, after which
there was nothing but a noncommittal statement from CLC
President Claude Jodoin.
COMPLETE REPORT I
The statement:
"We have heard a very com-1
plcte report from the representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-
men (CLC'i with regard to their
dispute with the CNR. We are
pleased to have this information
for presentation to the executive
committee and executive council
of our congress, which will be
meeting in Ottawa next week."
With the strike deadline next
Thursday midnight, these policy-
setting bodies are meeting ■ be*
tween Monday and Thursday-!
There was some prospect of.tha '
congress' permanent officers
here—a group of four headed by
President Jodoin - acting before
the general meetings start.
However, Indications immediately after Friday's meeting
were that the congress leader*
ship will not try to propose any
settlement formula to the gov-   *
ernment or to the publicly-owned
CNR but merely will try to get   ,
talks going between the disput-   >
ants. ,  •>
Soraya To
Wed Again
ROME (Reuters) — Princess |
Soraya of Iran and Italian Prince I
Raimondo Orsini are discussing |
details of their marriage, sources
close to the couple say.
Reports that they would marry
have been widespread in the last
month, but there has been no confirmation from either the princess
or the prince.
When she arrived in Rome at
Orsini's invitation a month ago,
Princess Soraya—divorced by thc
shah of Iran a year ago because
she did not bear him an heir-
said that she had made no definite plans for the future.
ROME (CP) - An hysterical
woman wjth a baby bundled In
her arms grabbed Queen Mother
Elisabeth Friday and screamed
'bread and work, bread and
rork."
Mayor' Urbano Cioccetti, city
officials and a crowd of too
stood aghast as the woman ran
forward and clutched the dress of
the Quqsn Mother as she stood
on the steps of the Campidojlio,
Room's ancient city hall.
Four policemen assigned to
guard the visiting Queen Mother
leaped into action. The woman
wu hurled to the ground, Police
clapped their hands over her
mouth to stop further outcries.
She wu dragged away, struggling,
UNRUFFLED
The Queen Mother was unruffled and the crowd in the square I
cheered "Long live   he queen." j
Tbe woman was identified as'l
Maria Pelliciutti, 29, out of a job
and mother of a six - month - old
baby.
Police did not immediately announce what they would do with
her.
Princess Margaret visiting
Rome with her mother, was not
present.
The Queen Mother later sent a
personal note to Mayor Cioccetti
asking him to give the incident
his "benevolent attention" and to
see the woman was shown clemency. Cioccetti telephoned the
British Embassy that he has passed on the royal request to police
Princess Margaret spent her
last full day in Rome this moving by riding a white horse
around an Etruscan cemetery
north of Rome with 31-year-old
Prince Henry of Hesse and a
party of friends.   ■
Consider Gift
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Min-
ister Diefenbaker said Friday the
cabinet is giving fullest consideration to the gift the federal government will give Queen Elizabeth on her visit this summer.
He was replying in the Commons to Opposition Leader Pearson who asked whether the gift
or. behalf of the Canadian people
might take the form of federal
scholarship?.
Make Plans
For Philip
OTTAWA (CP) - Final ap
proval of some planned events in
this summer's Royal Tour may
be reserved for Prince Philip in .
cases where he U particularly :
concerned, it was learned today ;
Buckingham Palace is in almost daily, contact on a variet)
of matters with the royal yacht:
Britannia, now in the West Indies
area bearing Philip on the final
stages of a world tour.
Weather
Overcast wit& light fog
nnd rain changing to snow
,n the evening: High 40.
TEMPERATURES
lontreal    37 67
ioncton     27 64
Halifax    34 54
Sydney     30 61
St. John's   27 50
m.