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THE DAILY NEWS
Vol. 66.    No. 6
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
(Price-. 7 Cents)
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Charles Hutton & Sons
Inquiries Into Navy's Atlantic Command
X.M.P. Investigate Disappearance*^
ill Money And Supplies From Shipsh^*
completion   of the   (rigate lit- ]
HOYT 'quiry. being conducted by the
Staff Writer ! RCMP and Halifax city police.
• - lnvestiga-  STAYED IN PORT
prearances   of     Four 01 seven frigates based
'.ita from ships  herc sailed for exercises Wed-
:> of the Navy's  nesday.    The "Outremont" re-
■nd   continued '. ir-ained ir. port. Two others are
inquiries ar.'. in refit,
c siree 1955. Since early October, three |
•mar said thc petty officers and a leading sea-
•p .-(board the ' man have appeared before navy
:n" involved a : courts martial on theft charges.
• which vanish-; All but one petty officer were
! conv-cied and given jail terms.
rial  later said •   Two petty officers wcre con-
Stuart of Vic- victed of stealing nearly $2,000
rcr aboard the   from thc Stadacona naval base
i-ared Tuesday  supply stores.
■  judge on a 1   A leading seaman from the
involving liq- frigate "Lauzon"   was given a!
• • -<d SUM) 00.       '■ six-month jail sentence and dis-
from   the "Outre- charged from thc Nary for steal-
ir.c held "in naval • ing $385 in canteen funds.   A
pending 1 petty officer from the "Lauzln",
charged with theft, and posses-
siln of $2,750 in canteen funds,
was acquitted.
NO CONNECTION
The navy said Wednesday the
cases wcre unconnected. "They
arc all absolutely separate," a
spokesman said.
"As of today there are two
Investigations underway," he
said. "As of today there are no
more pending."
The RCMP is stil investigating alleged misappropriations of
an undisclosed amount if equipment from the navy's big fleet
reserve base near Sydney. A
police spokesman says a quantity of material has been seized but it has not been determined whether it belongs to
the navy.
"Our people have not gotten
anything from the RCMP at all
as to whether suspicions can be
substantiated,"  the navy  official said Wednesday.
COMMANDER MOVED
Meanwhile. Cmdr. Caeorge M.
Wadds, former commander of
thc Point Edward base, has been
posted to the planning staff al
Stadacona. He goes on retirement leave Jan. 31. His retirement is effective in June.
Cmdr. Wadds was succeeded
at the base Dec. 8 by Cmdr. L.
E. Simms, of Halifax "pending
the outcome" of the RCMP inquiry, a navy statement said.
By GUSTAV SVNESSON
MOSCOW (AP)-Soviet authorities said Wednesday night that
the cosmic rocket Mechta Has
swung into orbit around the sun
and started edging up toward its
top speed of aboul 72.0(H) miles
an hour.
Thcy said the peak will come
next Wednesday when lhe rocket
reaches its nearest point to
the sun—about 9Hi million miles
from il—on an egg-shaped course
as the solor system's first artificial planet, the news agency Tass
reported.
Major Reforms'In Canada's 60
Year Old Prison Parole System
"At. that moment it will reach
its maximum speed of more than
kilometres 'about 20 miles» a
Tass said.
iwplows Punch Through
To Snow-Bound Motorists
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.:-c when
rttrr ac-
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r - The little I All are southeast of Montreal.
•i.ie   breathed     "We have no milk and i
r.ighway plows < bread." said Mrs. U. Brossard
:« • foot snow- who lives in the area. "We have
r.,*-300 stranded our own well, but others are
I served by water tankers and res*
unities south of j erviors are running low."
5 a variety of |   She said one dairyman was
'--day's   snow I trying to melt snow o get water
r.op and gusting! for his cows. Children were kept
' -now into road- at homc and only a few adults
nswa *-.•*.. . braved the cold and sno\
•»■**< •*■• *een Montreal' r-.-ach their jobs.
«r_>i -*.: :,-.*. hordM-10' DOCTOR IN TIME
'■"it >.„.i—wen- slowly At Candtac, a new community
•>OTi>: the «now barri- across the river from Montreal
tc ivar„iored auto-mo-, Island, a doctor, nurse and a
police chief struggled by truck
and bulldozer to reach a mother
in time to assist in the birth of
a seven-pound boy.
Mrs. France Lent eat was in
labor when she sent her plea for
help. Police Chief Rosealre Slmo-
neau, Dr.  Leonard Gouin and
m on
■•utt1,h>>---of
-.nrhiding Bros-
.i-.d Lapinicrej
.* telephone.
SKADA-U.S.
free On Trade And
Mamie Affairs'
U1PMENT
d   MIRRLEES
., Ltd.
HAROLD MORRISON
«« Pr.-., staff Writer
P ■.«'  - The United
•'•ada's pt-rsuasion.
■■'■■■'r in attempts to
-it> •;>";:■. personality.
•« w:rc« said Wednes-
•f c-viopiiHr.t by two
* <■• a eom-n.,0 approach
''••*:,.«!.. (,:    l'.nronean in.
closer consultation on wheat, Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. firms!
and other Issues. There is high
hope here that American oil import curbs will be eliminated as
far as Canada is concerned on
the grounds that continental defence demands that cross-border
flow of oil should not be impeded.
"f hemostsig-|   Every threc mon*-s there will
nached at this ^ ta*u*s ^twecn Canadian and I
«• of the ioint American wheat experts, mainly |
committee I on aspects of the American wheat |
giveaway program and its possible impact on Canadian commercial wheat markets. This reg-
on in attempts j ular consultation should afford
- i.-verS'-M trade Canada a close look at U.S. wheat
•wwed by Britain and • giveaway negotiations and thus
£ *■*•• try to ste -r Europe h5*P safeguard traditional Cana-
Thc last major investigation
in the nas^-'s east coast command was nearly four years
ago. Three SBilors were court-
martialed as the result of a \ second,
methyl alcohol drinking spree i
aboard the aircraft carrier Mag- ■ This is nearly three times as
nificent that left 47 seamen j fast as the sor-cd of the launch-
;ticallv ill, '"8 Friday which threw the l's-
1 ton rocket clear of the earth's
gravity.
SPEED DECLINES
At the most distant point from
the sun of Mechta's orbit its speed
will decline to an average 27. "
kilometres '17.43 miles) n second,
it was added.
The rocket has passed a point.
621,000 miles on a direct line |
from the earth in its five-day
flight, Tass said.
CONGO:
City Back
To Normal
nurse Germaine Normandin set
out in a truck, then switched to
a borrowed bulldozer when roads
jammed tbe truck. Both mother
and child were reported in good
condition.
At NapierviUe, 25 miles south
of Montreal on the U.S.-Montroal
highway, travellers stranded
since Sunday began to drive
away. Most of them spent lhe
last three nights sleeping on
tables or on the floor of Fortin's
restaurant,
JUST A BED
"All 1 want now i  to get into
a bed," said one of the stranded
people,..Mrs.Gerald Lachance of.
Quebec City, who was Miami-1 NO DETAILS
bound with her husband when the I   There wore no immediate de-
storm caught them. tails on the three incidents.
"We slept on benches hcre in j Between 30 and 35 Africans
the restaurant and some of thc! were killed in the Leopoldville
people just slept in chairs, lean-1 rioting nnd another 100 injured,
ing over thc tables. It was so! Abou- 2I) Europeans were injured
' ' there wasn't room for' and 300 Africans arrested.
LEOPOLDVILLE, Bclgia
Congo (Reuters)—Minor disturbances occurred Wednesday in
three areas of the Belgian Congo
but this capital city returned to
normal. after 48 hours of riots
and looting.
In Thysville, a town 130 miles
southwest of here, rival African
groups scuffled Tuesday and
Wednesday. Native troops under
Belgian officers broke up thc
fighting.
Minor incidents also took place
Wednesday in the village of Ko-
sangulu near here and at Kimu-
nenza, site of the Congo's interracial university.
everyone to lie down."
Hopes for clearing the snowbound roads increased with word
from the Montreal weather office
that winds ware to diminish.
Temperatures were to rise today
and the sun was to appear.
tJ-% -A-orld trade.
^co-operation
J^ountries agreed to
* C0*7\TRY PARSOJT
i dian commercial markets.
Camel On
The Road
MUNICH.  Germany   'API
\ driver returning home in
•iiiiurban Hhicm Tuesday night
was startlcfl to sec a camel-
on lhe road.
Irritated by the glaring
headlights of the car, the
camel jumped onto the car
top and stamped and wrecked
it. Then it took off into the
darkness. c
.     Owner Jaroslav Janka who
I   was  returning from taking
e no more chaiw,0. "* part.in an-EP1Phan*y Day Pro*
. r than last   .a,'cn3m«| «*ssion.   finally  caught   up
I ***■*••- Progre« i   -,   ._"11 witb hls camel near *•** homc
,   *rea ' 'hould." I hours later.
I01) New
Years
Boost In Govt.
Borrowing
OTTAWA (CP) - The government has decided to raise an
extra $1-30,000.000 this month
through short-term borrowing.
Finance Minister Fleming announced Wednesday the government's weekly offerings of 91-day
treasury bills has been raised to
$135,000,000 from $115,000,000.
There are five weekly offerings
this month.
Officials said the government
will revert back to the $115,000,-
000 weekly offerings in February- Treasury bills provide a
quick way for the government to
raise funds to tide lt over for a
short period of time. The money
borrowed has to be repaid in 91
days.
The . bills are purchased by
banks, investment dealers and |
other financial groups on the
basis of yield bids. The yields
have increased during the last
half • year from a ow of nine-
tenths of one per cent last August to 3.49 last week.
By DON PEACOCK
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA i.CPi - A four-man
National Parole Board was appointed Wednesday to carry on
and expand major reforms in
Canada's prison parole system.
Justice Minister Fulton named j
■10 - year • old Magistrate Thomas
George Street of Welland, Ont..
as $lfi,500ayear chairman of the
he minister said "it is hoped
year, effective Jan. I. Thc appointments are for 10 years.
Thc new board will operate under the Parole Act approved by
all parties at the last session of
Parliament. Il replaces the
Ticket of Leave Act, under which
Canada's parole system had operated almost unchanged from its
inception CO years ago until about
five years ago.
CONCERTED EFFORT
Beginning then, a concerted ef-
that the new board will be in op-' fort was made by the remission
eration by Feb. 1." It will replace i service under director Allen J.
the justice department's 60-year-: MacLeod to provide at least    '
old remission service.
OTHER MEMBERS
Other members of the board
are
J. Alex Edmison. 55-yoar-oId
director of endowment and public
relations at Queen's University,
Kingston, Ont.
Frank Patrick Miller. 47, an assistant director of thc remission
service.
Kdouard Dion, 45. Crown attorney at New Carlisle. Que.
They  will   receive S15.000   a
gree of supervision by  trained
workers for parolees.
In 1940, of 907 prisoners released on ticket of leave before
completing their full prison
terms, only 67 came under supervision of social workers or provincial probation officers trained j
in the problems a parolee faces halfway mark,
in returning to society. j   The new board will have to
The   number   ha «   increased, bring this up to 100 per cent,
since then. In 1956. of the 1.423'   The board also will have "xeiu-
prisoners released on  tickw or; sive and final say over who gets
leave 1.037 were placed under' a parole.
supervision of probation officers
or social agency workers; 833 of
the 1,093 freed on ticket in 1957
came under this type of supervision.
INCREASE OFFICES
The remission service also be-.,
gan increasing the number of its.
regional offices, until now it nai
six at Moncton. N.B., Montreal,
Toronto, Kingston, Ont., Winnipeg
and Vancouver.
Thc.Ticket of Leave Act provided that a prisoner "may" be
considered for parole at the discretion of the solicitor-general, at
present Leon Balcer.
For years, only prisoners who
requested it had their cases reviewed. But for the last four or
five years, the remission sen-ice
has been trying to review every
prisoner's   case   automatically
hen bis sentence reached the
FRANCE:
"This figure will increase nt
terrific pace since the earth and
the artificial planet are diverging
in the cosmos."
The agency reported thc rocket
had* covered 14,560,000 kilometres
(more than 9,000,000 miles) since
it was fired. This refers to the distance from thc point in space occupied by the earth at the time
of the firing.
iDe Gaulle Becomes 5th
Republic  President Today
Cuba To Stay
Clear USSR
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Fidel
Castro, Cuba's revolutionary |
hero, indicated Wednesday the
island's provisional government
will steer clear of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and
other Communist lands.
The newspaper Diario de in
Marina quoted Castro as saying
in an interview it is his personal
opinion Cuba should not maintain
Mrican agitation for better living conditions and for independence were believed to have
been behind the rioting. Belgian
officials* said much of the dis-
sp-^._yjr»i*5-- •» -> *"-«*
cans living in Leopoldville's
crowded native quarter.
TENSE, BUT CALM
The city appeared tense but
calm.
The colony's 13,000 000 Africans
and  100,000 white settlers
lower house of the Belgian Parliament will hold a special session today to discuss the Leopoldville outbreaks.
Next Tuesday thc Belgian gov- j participate in the new govern-
, ernment is due to announce its: ment  and  have  indicated they
looking to Brussels where the' new Congo policy. ' will form a "constructive oppo-
By CLAIRE McDERMOTT
PARIS (Reuters)—Caen. Charles de Gaulle became president
uf France today while tha nation
prepares to face the austerity
and reform program he has inaugurated since returning to political power in June.
Armed with sweeping powers
thc new constitution, the 68-year-
old ds Gaulle will be the strongest French head of state since
Napolon HI died in 1873.
Ceremony climaxed by a 21-
gun salute will mark dc Gaulle's
inauguration and end the interim
period that started ast May 13
when mobs in Algiers stormed
government buildings and
touched off the chain reaction
that led to the downfall of the
Fourth Republic.
FIFTH REPUBLIC'S  LEADER
The Fifth Republic's first government, to be headed by 46-
year-old Mighel Debre, a leader
of the pro-Gaullist Union for the
New Republic, is due to be installed within a few days.
Tho r..'*. cabinet is expected to
be almost the same as the one
dc Gaulle has headed since June
as in'.w'm premier.
Socialist L-ader Guy Mollet, a
strong factor in bringing de
Gaulle back into poli ical life last
spring,  and his party
MIKOYAN:
Appeals For Trade Between
Russia And United States
Debre.
The stern austerity program
that du Gaulle feels is necessary
to bring France back to her
place as a world leader is considered too deflationary by the
Socialists and already has
brought protests from some sec
tions of the labor movement.
THREATEN STRIKE
Gas and electricity workers in
the country's four major unions
—Communist and non-Communist
—have threatened to strike if
their wage demands are not
granted.
Miners and rail workers also
have said the y plan to claim
wage increases and 900,000 farmers decided to call for mobilization to carry out "any orders,
however grave." in opposition to
the removal of prico supports.
Fear aboui labor unrest caused
a sudden rise of gold prices on
the Paris Market Wednesday,
the one-kilogram '2.21- pound'
gold ingot jumped to 364.00C
francs Wednesday from 360.000
Tuesday—a rise of about $3—and
there also were increases in unofficial exchange rates.
U.S. A.
New Congress Is Open
By DOUGLAS B. C ORNELL
WASHINGTON (AP)-A ne-
and bigger Congres came into
being Wednesday, embroiled in
conflict over filibusters and the
choice of men to lead the election-thinned ranks of Republcians.
The Senate quickly took up
arms and waded into a scrap)
over proposals to curb the time-|
honored right of minorities to try
to talk legislation to death.
At the end of one ast, indecisive round, thc outlines of an intended compromise were emerging on this issue, tig! tly entwined i
with civil rights. The probable l
compromise To let two-thirds of
the senators present and voting
choke off debate rather than two-
NIGHT LEAD Mikoyan new bgt
By THOMAS P. WHITNEY
CLEVELAND (AP) - '"i _
don't trust us enough," Anastas
I. Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier, told an audience of business leaders Wednesday in an appeal for trade between Russia
and the United States.
"Trade can strengthen peace;
peace can make a proper atmosphere for trade," he said in a
half-hour talk to a selected group
of 60 men. Many of them are
heads of large corporations. .
It is a fact that we have some- ] here by Cyrus Eaton and ot'm
To provide for the weekly rise "''"2 -o buy and sell for each! Mikoyan said. "' will speak of
•profitable commerce would be a
further and broader path to
friendship" but that present restrictive legislation poses a serious barrier."
This was the first stop on Mikoyan's swing from Washington
across the U.S. It produced noisy
demonstrations from Iron-Curtain
nationality groups. Mikoyan ignored the shouts and signs, kept
smiling and repeated a doffed-hat
greeting to thc crowds.
"When I return, I will toll 'nc
people of the feelings expro
In the treasury bill offerings,
cabinet increased the authorized
ceiling for such issues to $1,595.
000,000 from $1,495,000,000. Mr
Fleming said the amount at present outstanding j $1,515,000,000.
This is the first boost in the
ceiling in a year.
LONDON (Reuters) — More
than 400 persons in England
and Wales were in road accidents during tbe Christmas holiday period—an increase of 805
•- tbe t967 Christmas.
other," Mikoy
want to trade earne t and trade
well—to get as high a price as
we can for the goods we sell and
pay as low as we can for the
goods we buy."
Both Mikoyan and Cyrus Eaton,
Canadian-born industrialist who
is host to the deputy premier for
his Cleveland visit, voiced a hope
the U.S. Congress would lifl barriers to trade.
SERIOUS BARRIER
Eaton introtliicid Mikoyan.
whose tall; was translated by an
interpreter. Eaton sa d "mutually
ords spoken here
dicate the hope of a peaceful coexistence."
Names of the two were linked
on signs paraded by pickets and
reading "Mikoyan go home and
take Eaton with you."
This steel city has a large pop-
One woman who charged toward the stocky deputy premier
yelling "Go home, murderer,"
was arrested for throwing a stone
at an escort car. She was booked
on a disorderly conduct charge?
as Mrs. Emma Halai, 19. and
said she fled from Budapest two
years ago with her husband,
Mike.
Hungarians spearheaded the!
picket groups protesting on be-1
half of half a dozen Iron Curtain;
countries. About "ton collected on
the squarr and were held back i
by mounted and loot police. Yell- j
ins and spitting, thcy pressed ■
within -i policeman's arm-length'
or the No. 2 Soviet leader and his ■ *;ol'co
capitalist host. f-"ckc(* "? hls uso-0,d*':
The protesters were thwarted at
the airport, where tl ey gathered
an hour before Mikoyan's plane
arrived from Washington at 1010
a.m. Police and security agents
Four Killed
In Truck And
Train Mishap
KITCHENER, Ont (CP) - A
father and his three young chil-
drsn were killed Wednesday when
their half-ton pickup truck was
struck by a CNR freight train
near Breslau, nine miles north-1
east of here.
Dead are Howard Rudy, 44, a
Breslau area dairy farmer.1
Nancy. 11. Phyllis. 6. and Walter.
4. Tlie accident occurred 400 feet
from their Waterloo Township,
home.
Ku-I\
ulation of Slavic origin and hun- roped them off from the con-
dreds turned out to protest Miko- course and observation deck, and
yan's stop. they had to carry their signs in [
The most vigorous demonstra-1 the main lAbby. The 15-car po-1
tion was ot Terminal Tower oiulice • escorted caravan deviated
Public Square, when Mikoyan I from tlu normal route downtown
and Eaton left (or the Union: to avoid clusters of pickets sta-
Club. ' lioned along thc way.
•hildrcn.
nearby school aid was driving them home when he ap-1
parently failed to see the ap- ]
proaching train.
The youngest boy had gone
with his father for t're ride. Only |
Mrs. Rudy survives.
The truck was dragged a half-
mile by the Kitchener - bound,.
dicsj'.-drawn freight. All four vie-1
lims were found pinned in rhe
crushed cab.
thirds, or 66, of the total Senate
membership as the rules now Dro-
vide.
Senate old • line Republicans
beat down a Liberal insurrection
and picked Everett M. Dirksen ol
Illinois as their new leader fot
the 86th Congress. Senate Demo
crats unanimously re-elected Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas as thcir
leader.
NINTH TERM
The House of Representatives
placed Democrat Sam Rayburn of
Texas in the Speaker's chair for
n unprecedented ninth term.
To resounding applause the Senate accepted two new senators
from Alaska. The House swore in
a new representative from tiie
tilth state. That lifted Senate
membership to 98 from 96, and
the House roster to 43<*. (rom 436—
the largest totals in history.
Democrats dominate both branches—283 to 153 in thc House and
64 to 34 in the Senate.
For the most part, feuding was
postponed at the outset of the new
session. Nor was the air of tension and foreboding over world
events, present so heavily a year
ago after Russia launched its first
Sputnik, much in evidence Wednesday.
Nevertheless, legislative battles
lie ahead, over spending, the stature of national defnee, and do-
mstic issues by the dozen. These
will erupt later, after congres-
commillee.'. swing into ?r
Weatha
cloudy, with (c-.v sn
flurries—little temperatt
change—High 25.
TEMPERATURES
St. John's   22     2'
Halifax     3     n
Sydney     5
Yarmouth     6
Toronto     6
Winnipeg  I
12