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KITH f '7 1 / J Sf >N & COMPANY UNITED x 9,15 a.m.-No Lullaby for Use. 9,45 a.m.-Burtons of Banner Street. 10,30 a.m.-Adopted Son. 9,30 p.m.-Coma A-Calling, THE NEWS PRESENTS TOSCA by Puccini available at Charles Hutton & Sons Vol. 62. No. 245 ST. JOHN'S,'NEWFOUNDLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955 (Price 5 cents) Lonardi Resigns As Argentine President Landslide Hits Town In Quebec, Three Dead S Million Damage As Rubble Buries Buildings N1COLET, Que. (CP)- A huge section of embankment growled for a minute Saturday and then slithered inlo the bed of the Nicolel river carrying at least three onions to their deatn and redwing buildings valued al .M.nOO.OOO to rubble. Several other persons—including M*:r. Albcrtiis Martin, -Roman Catholic bishop of Nicolct—clambered to safety as thc ground cracked around Ihem and slid ■-ome 70 lect down thc river bank. The Bishop's ■ Palace, a commercial academy, three homes and a. aasolinc station crashed down the incline. Some 2,000 persons had to be evacuated from convents, hostels and homes near the landslide area, with civic officials fearing further cave-ins, Two bodies were recovered soon after thc landslide, which occurred shortly before noon. They were six-month • old Guy Lessard and Mrs. Alphonsc Bolsvert, 60. Brother Hcrmencglide, one of the Christian brothers who operated the academy, was known to bo dead in the rubble, He was seen disappearing wilh the college and heard crying out for help as thc building collapsed around him. MAY DE MORE BURIED Provincial police said there is a possibility more persons may bc buried beneath the tons of earth. Five or six cars, two trucks 'and a bulldozer were known' to have slid into the valley, but police did nol know If any were occupied. They said, however, lhat so far no one has been reported missing. The mass of sand and clay Was still shifting in the. basin Sunday and police and civil defence official's delayed attempts to investigate for further bodies. Engineers called in to test the safety of neighboring and determine the cause of the slide also' wcre decayed in thcir work. Maurice Bolsvert, Liberal member of Parliament for Nicolct-Yam- aska, speculated that thc slide has been building up since prehistoric times. At one time, thc Champlain sea covered the entire area, he said' and when It receded It left 30 to 40 feet of sand on a 150-foot clay- base. Over the years, seeping water ate away the clay and the sand on top eventually had to crash through. ■ A year-old baby, Gilles Biron, suffered serious head injuries in the slide and was taken lo hospital in Montreal. Four or five others were injured sliahtly. TELL OF TRAGEDY Survivors told of hearing a ■growling noise and looking out windows to see pine trees separating and drifting dawn into thc river basin. Although lhc river rises to thc embankment during thc spring, there is no water al this time of year where the houses went down. The slide struck the community across the St, Lawrence river from Trois-Rivieres while its 5,000 residents were still rebuilding from a fire thai wiped out Uie heart of the town's commercial jgection last March. ' .' Municipal officials said as many as 200 persons might have died if the slide had occurred during a week day. Some 225 students at L'Academic de la Sclc, where two persons were killed, were at their homes Saturday. A movie was scheduled to be shown at the school at 1 p.m., a litt'c more than an hour after thc slide. More lhan 100 children would havc attended. , Molotov Reports He Had 'Good Talk" With Dulles Agreement IS car On Increasing U.JV. Membership GENEVA (AP)—Britain's Koroign Secretary Macrnillan and U.S. State Secretary Dulles spent more lhan foui hours in leisurely confer* ?'ice Sunday. Earlier Dulles rnnterral for two hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, Afler the Me*.-Molotov confer "ne?, Moiolov himself, speaking lo reporters iu English, said "wo had a good talk." He had requested the meeting and went tn American headquarters to see Dulles. While American officials said n number of problems came up, :nosi of the time was .-.pent on dis- nissins a denl whereby 18 ncw members would bo admitted lo the I'nitcd Notions, Among these aro five Communist slates, including Albania and Outer Mongolia. The United States has objected to admitting Albania and Outer Mongolia, although'it is understood to be ready lo accept as members Ihe three other Red satellites on Ihe Ust—Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. It was reported Sunday ninlit Dulles made the American objections clear while Moiolov maintained his position in support of those two states. Nevertheless, hope persisted in some Western (luartcrs that agree* ment on at least part ot the list of IS applicants for UN membership wMild be reached jn a day or so. Speculation also persisted here that Mime kind of agreement would he reached hy the Big Four before the end of their current sessions Wednesday on holding another conference. There is a possibility that a decision might be made to hold another meeting next spring. Another possibility was thai the four ministers should leave the question of another conference open until llicy have reported l" their governments. coxrisn on mountain The DuUe.vMololov di»ut5:ionj ranged, informants said, over many of the world's problems including, briefly, thc Middle East situation. Several Issues apparently came up in his talk with Molotov that impelled Dulles Immediately to confer with Macrnillan. They drove 25 miles across the French frontier for confer and lunch in a restaurant deep In the woods above Evian. After lunch the two statesmen took a chair lilt to the top of thc mounain overlooking Lake Geneva, They remained together for more than four hours before reluming to Geneva, The United Nations issue centres around an eight-year deadlock he Iwcon Russia and lhc West ovcr the admission of new states to thc world body. It .has come before lhe Big Four ministers iiere outside the conference Canada—initially with the support of Britain and the' Soviet Union—moved recently In the gen West German Reborn BONN (Reuters)—German soldiers snapped to attention in a garage here Saturday beneath the gaunt black outline of an iron cross—and the West German army was born. These 101 men were thc first soldiers to begin their service in lhc federal republic, 10'.4 ycars after Hitler's forces were defeated. Two licutcnant-gwc'rals, 18 lieutenant-colonels, tiQ majors, -ifl captains,-five lieutenants and sis-noncommissioned officers clicked their heels and bowed stiffly as they wcre in turn handed Uteir certificates of appointment by West German' Defence Minister' Theodor Blank. Siamese Twins Back Home After Being Separated CHICAGO (AP) -The Andrews girls, first head-joined Siamese twins to survive separation, were home with their parents Saturday. The smaller'twfn, Christine Mary Radar Ship Explodes And Burns NEW YORK (AP)—An oil-fed fire raged with blow-' torch heat aboard a United States Navy radar warning ship 125 miles from New York Sunday, A sailor was burned fatally, two others were badly hurt and two more were missing. For five hours the blaze waxed and waned in the midships scction of the Scareher, a wartime liberty ship turned into a floating radar post at a cost of $4,000,000. Navy and coast guard ships and planes went to the scene in the Atlantic cast of Cape May, N.J. The injured were laken off and flown to St. Albans Naval Hospital here. One died a few minutes after they arrived. Tugs were dispatched to tow the scared and crippled shin to harbor. BltOKE OUT AT DAWN The fire burst out of the ship's starboard fuel tank wilh explosive force at 6 a.m., just as dawn was breaking across the gentle Atlantic swells, "There was black smoke billowing above thc ship, and I could sec flames shooting cut of thc starboard side," said lhc pilot of a rescue plane. Lt.-Cmdr. William E. Chapline. "The paint was all burned off by the engine room, an evidence of the intense heat.!' The two missing men were thought to have been trapped in the engine room, flooded in a desperate manoeuvre to stop thc j advancing flames. I Another explosion Jolted thc vrs-1 set and renewed thc fury of thc blaze for a time. The Searcher, crammed with cosily radar, equipment and spoiling a weired decoration of odd- shaped antennae, was left wallowing in the swells, without power. It is one of a number of radar ships stationed off the Atlantic seaboard to watch for ■ unidentified planev-.and carries a crew of The ailing leader of the September revolt against Juan D. Peron, after seven weeks of battling heavy political and economic cross-currents, gave up the presidency under prodding of the armed forces to a square-jawed fellow rebel, 'Maj.-Gen. Pedro Aramburu. Aramburu, who has been the army's chief of staff since Peron's downfall, took lhe oath of office in the government house at 5:40 p.m. Thc new president told the Argentines Lonardi "has returned to thc armed forces the mission of giving a new government to the country." "Only one spirit promoted the movement of the revolution and that is Uic democratic sentiment of our people," Aramburu said. ". . . Thc mission of returning the nation to democratic institutions is to be trusted to those whose background has well proved they are most able to fill it." FACED ULTIMATUM Lonardi1 s resignation climaxed Army Forces Out Leader Of Revolt Maj.-Gen. Aramburu Is New President BUENOS AIRES .(AP)—Tension within the fledgling government that succeeded the Peron dictatorship led- Maj.-Gen. Eduardo Londardi to resign Sunday as Argentina's provisional president. ~" 24 hours of tense negotiations between military and civilian political leaders in the wake of a split ■ between right-wing "Nationalists" and middle - of - the • road "Demo. crats" of the Lonardi government A government source laid Lonardi, 59, had been given an ulti. matum to get rid of "reactionary!' elements In his government or get out of office. Aramburu'* luccesslon to power was tabbed a victory ior the "pro- Democratic" forces. The shift in the Argentine political scene followed an all-night conference which broke off for a few hours' sleep and resumed again Sunday morning. "Ccrtain military and political" forces were said by one govern-, ment informant to have submitted the ultimatum to Lonardi, demand* ing that such key government figures as Foreign Minister Mario Amadeo, Education Minister Atilio' Dell Oro Maini and Manuel Villadi. Achaval, Leonardos brother-in-law and close adviser, be removed. TR.im-CAN/lDA ROAD Expect New Formula To Finance Highway Government To Offer New Plan To ..—,..-... Provinces OTTAWA (CP)—A new formula for joint financing of the 4,600-mile Trans-Canada Highway is expected to be offered to the provinces by the federal government at the opening here today of a two-day federal-provincial meeting. ■ j The I'oast-to-coast paved road | rj\ . was begun in 1950 undcr an agree-1 IClnpCrmUrCS of each state should be considered on ils merits. They'argued -that countries in lhe Red belt such as Hungary, Romania, ■ Bulgaria,. Albania and the Soviet Republic of Outer Mongolia did not conform with UN standards of social justice, human rights and political Independence. For these reasons they blocked their admission. Russia in turn vetoed membership applications of countries sponsored by (he West, a^MHB aiw«-as» , l$*A*U>A*KY ANNOWCKKAIO CON7IU •v ISUEt, CUtMS ut* WAS, ' IK «T*UATKm Ittt cavrmtt ATTACK ON 6tMtUTA«M» 20NC CHAWi WE gftttU PCKKIMaN Ktttlft. TH*« wotwof o, two umm >.«T».t*<^— (NEA Newsmap) TROlW|<n SPOTS—Newsmap locates area where Israeli forces wiped out nn Egyptian outpost. Israel announced it made thc foray in retaliation for an Egyptian attack at Nitzana in thc lOO-sfjuarc-milc Kl Auja demilitarized zone. Reds Have Long Range* Jet Bomber MOSCOW (AP)-Nlkita Khrushchev boasted Saturday that lhc Soviet's Union's twin - jet medium bomber has a 3,000-mile range which he said is enough to reach London, northern Europe, North Africa and Turkey. This was the first time tliat thc Soviet Communist party secretary had ever publicly discussed any technical aspect of a Soviet aircraft. He told reporters' th&t Russia has also developed a jet airliner modified from this bomber. Lt.-Gcn. Adnlf Hcusingcr and Lt..j Pijjl A^ .f\ ...... ...... A OI Gen. Uans SpeiifcK ■ • 'J1'? hos?!*?L^ '\XC oIaVM<r ' Hcusingcr, wartime chief of Cer; has been making normal proj Newsprint Profit Margin Is Slim MONTREAL (CP) -The Pulp: and Paper magazine says the cushion between production cost and selling price of newsprint "has diminished tn toss lhan a safe minimum.*' Commenting nn newspaper criticism of price increases, the magazine, described as an organ devoted to lhe paper and allied industries of Canada, says in Its current issue: "A fundamental rule nf Imslnejs is that ther? must he a cushion between production com and selling price on (Huh unit manufactured, whether |t be a motor ca»-, * ton nf newsprint, or n'INm«nrt newspapers. That margin In now?: Print has diminished lo Wm than » safe minimum and is-itlil.de- Ike Plays Golf WASHINGTON (AP)-Prcsident Eisenhower did a bit of putting on a White House green Saturday. The session on the green was lhe first time the president had a golf club in liis hands since .he played 27 holes ihc day before his heart attack Sept. 24. Aides reporlcd he tried only a couple of putts, Uicn sat in a chair soaking up the warm autumn sun for more than nn hour. creasing. Mills are runnin? at capacity now. and it Is widl known thai opt'i'iiling any. machine beyond normal speed ir.cn mu tin- cost per unit,'' , ■ The magazine lists labor eoMs, raw material costs air" i'.utsi fives * as among, reasons for thii price increase, ran sing [,om £3 io Familv Of Four Found Dead SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)- Manutacl'.iring executive Allison H. Sanger, his wife and their two young sons wcre found shot and stabbed lo death Sunday in their home. Police called their deaths murder ahd suicide. . " -| Police,said Sanger. 47, killed his wife, Winifred, and the two boys, Allison Jr., 14, and Russell, 9,. and Ihcn shot himself. r» many's supreme command opera tions division, now is chief of the defence ministry's planning section and is expected' to be West Germany's No; 1 soldier. Speidcl, who was'Rommel's chicf-of-staff on lhe western fru.it. is at present -chief West German representative at -Supreme Headquarter*, 'Allied Powers, K nope; He is likely lo become the Weft German member »I the t'hicfs-'H- starr committee in Washington The birth of this new force was, on a subdued note. There were no'l)lan band* and no singing in the garage, formerly a stable, now used bv thc defence ministry. OUTLINES DUTIES Blank told thc men they should neither condemn outrighi nor s'»m- orize the former German Hdicrly traditions. Speaking frnm * rostrum set directly in front of a huge void' iron cross, he told the men: "Ycur duty* is to contribute to securing peace by increasing preparedness for defence." Saturday's ceremony was the first slcp toward the goal of 12 divisions which Western Germany has promised to contribute to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Training stations for thc army, navy and air force are lo be opened about tlie beginning of next year enabling the- forces to expand to thc planned 500,000 men by thc beginning of 1M0. fince she returned to the home of her, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Andrews, of Chicago. New Fish Plant For St. Pierre GRAND DANK—A large eston- fi'um to the fresh fist plant at St. Pierre will he made shortly. Mr. Marcel Girartin, manager of lhe has advised that the contract for thc new extension has been given to Clayton Construction Co. Ltd., of St. John's, and the work will bc undcr the supervision of Ted LaCour of Harbour Main. The ncw addition is to meet expansion demands and requirements of the St. Pierre Plant and part of the government programme of concentration on fresh fishing operations. A new trawler built in TROIS-RIVIERES (CP) - Ovila Boucher was found guilty" Saturday of the axc-slaying of an alderly storekeeper in .1951 and sentenced to bc hanged next Feb. 3 in Montreal's Bordeaux jail. It is the third time Boucher has been convicted for tlie murder of Georges .labour- Jarjour at St. Henri de Levis, Que, Defence coun- .a'l Raymond Maher said h*: will appeal the verdict. "Twelve impartial jury members have found you guilty," said Judge Leon Lajoie as he donned the tri* enrnered black hat and black gloves to pass sentence on thc St, Henri blacksmith, "Your crime was atrocious. Ovila Boucher, you will be taken to the common jail of Uie district of Quebec unlil Feb. 3, 1336. and from there to the usual execution place, there to be hanged by the neck until dead," It marked the end of a five-day trial, the third for Boucher since he was first arrested for the crime Holland is expected to arrive al St. Pierrc shortly and wil! operate j early in 19.il. witli the dragger Galantry from i lhfi vl- Pearson In London ment with nil provinces cvjcpt Quebec providing for joint fiiianu- ing-on a j&*j9 basis with thc provinces doing tlie work. The highway now is little more than one-quarter completed and the federal, government is known to be anxious to speed the work. Works Minister Winters is expected to outline thc new formula in an opening statement to thc conference which will be attended by representatives of all provinces except Quebec. He> is expected to propose a boost in the federal contribution for work on uncompleted sections of the highway. It woti^l be put forward as an enticement to the provinces to sign a new highways agreement to replace the present one which expires in December next year. QUEKEC INTERESTED Informants here said Quebec has expressed interest in the proceedings of the conference but is not sending an observer. Instead tlie Quebec^government will be kept informed* of developments by the federal government. Provincial delegations to the -meeting will be headed by the highways ministers of the various provinces. Some of tho delegations will include provincial experts on highway matters. The opening of the conference is to be Dublic. Bul after that*the TORONTO (CP)-Minimum maximum temperatures: Min. Dawson 9b Vancouver 11 Victoria 15 Edmonton 15b Calgary 23b Calgary 23b Regina 3b WEATHER Cloudy wilh intermittent snow flurries, and. windy. High today 37. •Nfld. Skies MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 .Sunrise . .Sunset ,. Hljth fi.4f) a.m. 7.25 p.m. TIDES , 7.1)8,a.m.; 4.26 p.m'. Low ■1:02 a.m. -Laa-pjn,- UNCLE GARGE TRANSLATES': Some critic,; ^checking-. up- on Uncle Garge, says thc ((notation "Pax Canim", which appeared in this column Thursday morning, dorsn't mean anything. It's not not the correct Latin, hc says. 'Who ever said it was supposed to mean anything, anyhow'.' And wbo said it was Latin? Nol Uncle Garge! Actually, it's taken from tlie ancient Eskimo. "Pax" translates as "Oh my gosh, here it's five o'clock ami -nothing done,1' "Caiilin" IS derived. from «'Ca", meaning "Joe strut pie", a nil" nl m", which means "Ugh, gcLaWay from here, yon ilirtyf brnlc". . ,' Anyone who, goes .about poking fhr meanings in Uncle GargeV column Is engaged in a pretly fruitrating^Uskj^wouldn't-youwy?- SUDBURY, Ont., CP—Two Canadian National Railways employees were killed 25 miles northeast oi here Monday when a track speeder they were riding crashed inlo a j|,at has taken htm lo Russia, India, | agreed to match provincial trans CNR freight train. Killed were: Pakistan, Singapore-and Egypt. "" Napoleon Laplante, 40, and Noel \\c \% [0 sce Prime Minister Rochon, 40, both of Field, 50 miles j Eden today. He declined any state- CONDON (AP)—L. B. Pearson, discussions will be held behind Canada's external affairs minister,' closed doors. arrived Sundav night from Paris; Under the present highways the homeward leg of a tour! agreement the federal government n India. I ..^ „ „ ___ , Canada outlays dollar for dollar up to a maximum of $130,000,000 by December, 193G. Winnipeg ..... Toronto Ottawa ■ Montreal Quebec Fredericton .. Saint John ... Monclon Halifax Charlottetown Sydney Yarmouth .... St. John'* .... lb 45 29 38 32 30 33 33 41 36 39 4.1 35 and Mai. 0 b 23 20 4b 4b ffb l R M 50 51 44 46 45 46 50 4S 44 50 31 it was hoped the highway would bt completed eoast-to-coa3t by neit year but the various provinces fai into weather and financing diffieul ties. Some sections of the highwaj in mountainous British-Columbia, for instance, cost more than $V 000,000 a mile to construct ONE-THIRD DONG Figures up to last August showed 1,223 of the total 3,455 mil«,i of highway completed to federal standards. These call for a paved roadway between 22 and 24 feet wide wilh 10 • foot * wide graded shoulders on each side. Up to last August another 405 miles had been graded preparatory to paving. . Up to last Oct. 1 provincial commitments for highway work totalled 5209,760,872. The federal,share was $104,880,436 and a total of $67.* 571,725 had actually becn paid tfl from cast of Sudbury. ment to airport reporters. When the agreement was signed! tlie provinces for apprnyed work. Prince Charles Is Seven, Decides Be Spaceman When He Grows Up gelled out that it was a fling! mature actions, he scolds her with outer space which tempts an "oh, Anne, don't be ■silly." h Ph.ni.lPc mnst. EXCITING YEAH LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles, who. celebrates his seventh birthday Tuesday, has decided to be a spaceman when he grows up—in ■ addition, of course to being king some day.' The heir t"> the throne gave first l>lui't! |n.a spaceman'!! suit on his 'birthday list of requirements whicii j.he handed»to'the' Queen andtthe iDuke of "Edinburgh^ last'Week, ■■■ A cricket>set:was-mentioned,'too, b.nd some Donald Duck'movies, but it was obvious.1 from ihengiant •fetters'.m-whi£h-"spaceman,stsuit" : Wila into young Charles most. ' Hc probably would love to wcari thc spaccsuif to his birthday party but even young princes know one must "dress" tor such occasions. Charles has invited 17 young friends to the party. With the ex^ ception of his five-yea Mid sister, Princess Anne, and maybe a couple of other girls,'Uie guests will-be iboys. Tlie-fasl-gi'owing.prince-will play .the host'-wilh: ease. He has:adopted ■many, grown-up * ways j in this' last year and handles'such occasions .with poise. Sometimes, when iiTit- ated .by-his .younser-sister'i.less ■ Far Charles it lias been an exciting year. Only six months ago tho Queen and' thc duke let Uic public know that they thought the time had come for their son to "take part in more grown-up educational pur- 'suits with other children." The Queen had in mind vi=iu tu museums andolher* public-places of interest. One of the-most thrilling extracurricular, activities-for lbe prince was his first" glimpse ot a noisy 'subway station. Unrecognised'by 'the.public, ne went?to busy Trafal gar Souare lube station with bis governess, Miss Catherine Peebles, bought tickets, rode the cscalatoi and watched the trains dash in and out of the tunnels. Gradually, the Queen is exposing Charles to the world outsidfi the oalace walls. And if thc Duks of Edinburgh has his way, Charles soon will be mingling more and more with youngsters outside th* small court circle. ■ Recently, the duke visited hia dN school of Gordonsloun, Scotland, and other Scottish'boys' schools. 'The visits have suggested ' that Charles soon will outgrow Ms-pal- ace. pchool ronm and be re^dyfoi a.school away from-homt. mm Mil m m m fe s m a\***K*| L&Htf?l fess?. :^ A| V, ,
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Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1955-11-14 |
Date | 1955-11-14 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
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Transcript |
KITH
f
'7
1
/
J
Sf
>N & COMPANY UNITED x
9,15 a.m.-No Lullaby for
Use.
9,45 a.m.-Burtons of Banner
Street.
10,30 a.m.-Adopted Son.
9,30 p.m.-Coma A-Calling,
THE
NEWS
PRESENTS
TOSCA by Puccini
available at
Charles Hutton & Sons
Vol. 62. No. 245
ST. JOHN'S,'NEWFOUNDLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
Lonardi Resigns As Argentine President
Landslide Hits Town
In Quebec, Three Dead
S Million Damage As Rubble Buries Buildings
N1COLET, Que. (CP)-
A huge section of embankment growled for a minute
Saturday and then slithered
inlo the bed of the Nicolel
river carrying at least three
onions to their deatn and
redwing buildings valued al
.M.nOO.OOO to rubble.
Several other persons—including
M*:r. Albcrtiis Martin, -Roman
Catholic bishop of Nicolct—clambered to safety as thc ground
cracked around Ihem and slid
■-ome 70 lect down thc river bank.
The Bishop's ■ Palace, a commercial academy, three homes and a.
aasolinc station crashed down the
incline.
Some 2,000 persons had to be
evacuated from convents, hostels
and homes near the landslide area,
with civic officials fearing further
cave-ins,
Two bodies were recovered soon
after thc landslide, which occurred
shortly before noon. They were
six-month • old Guy Lessard and
Mrs. Alphonsc Bolsvert, 60.
Brother Hcrmencglide, one of the
Christian brothers who operated
the academy, was known to bo
dead in the rubble, He was seen
disappearing wilh the college and
heard crying out for help as thc
building collapsed around him.
MAY DE MORE BURIED
Provincial police said there is a
possibility more persons may bc
buried beneath the tons of earth.
Five or six cars, two trucks 'and a
bulldozer were known' to have slid
into the valley, but police did nol
know If any were occupied. They
said, however, lhat so far no one
has been reported missing.
The mass of sand and clay Was
still shifting in the. basin Sunday
and police and civil defence official's delayed attempts to investigate for further bodies. Engineers
called in to test the safety of
neighboring and determine the
cause of the slide also' wcre decayed in thcir work.
Maurice Bolsvert, Liberal member of Parliament for Nicolct-Yam-
aska, speculated that thc slide has
been building up since prehistoric
times.
At one time, thc Champlain sea
covered the entire area, he said'
and when It receded It left 30 to 40
feet of sand on a 150-foot clay-
base. Over the years, seeping
water ate away the clay and the
sand on top eventually had to
crash through.
■ A year-old baby, Gilles Biron,
suffered serious head injuries in
the slide and was taken lo hospital
in Montreal. Four or five others
were injured sliahtly.
TELL OF TRAGEDY
Survivors told of hearing a
■growling noise and looking out
windows to see pine trees separating and drifting dawn into thc
river basin. Although lhc river
rises to thc embankment during
thc spring, there is no water al
this time of year where the houses
went down.
The slide struck the community
across the St, Lawrence river
from Trois-Rivieres while its 5,000
residents were still rebuilding from
a fire thai wiped out Uie heart of
the town's commercial jgection last
March. ' .'
Municipal officials said as many
as 200 persons might have died if
the slide had occurred during a
week day. Some 225 students at
L'Academic de la Sclc, where two
persons were killed, were at their
homes Saturday.
A movie was scheduled to be
shown at the school at 1 p.m., a
litt'c more than an hour after thc
slide. More lhan 100 children would
havc attended. ,
Molotov Reports He Had
'Good Talk" With Dulles
Agreement IS car On Increasing U.JV. Membership
GENEVA (AP)—Britain's
Koroign Secretary Macrnillan and U.S. State Secretary
Dulles spent more lhan foui
hours in leisurely confer*
?'ice Sunday. Earlier Dulles
rnnterral for two hours with
Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov,
Afler the Me*.-Molotov confer
"ne?, Moiolov himself, speaking lo
reporters iu English, said "wo had
a good talk." He had requested the
meeting and went tn American
headquarters to see Dulles.
While American officials said n
number of problems came up,
:nosi of the time was .-.pent on dis-
nissins a denl whereby 18 ncw
members would bo admitted lo the
I'nitcd Notions, Among these aro
five Communist slates, including
Albania and Outer Mongolia.
The United States has objected
to admitting Albania and Outer
Mongolia, although'it is understood
to be ready lo accept as members
Ihe three other Red satellites on
Ihe Ust—Hungary, Romania and
Bulgaria. It was reported Sunday
ninlit Dulles made the American
objections clear while Moiolov
maintained his position in support
of those two states.
Nevertheless, hope persisted in
some Western (luartcrs that agree*
ment on at least part ot the list of
IS applicants for UN membership
wMild be reached jn a day or so.
Speculation also persisted here
that Mime kind of agreement would
he reached hy the Big Four before
the end of their current sessions
Wednesday on holding another conference.
There is a possibility that a decision might be made to hold another meeting next spring. Another
possibility was thai the four ministers should leave the question of
another conference open until llicy
have reported l" their governments.
coxrisn on mountain
The DuUe.vMololov di»ut5:ionj
ranged, informants said, over
many of the world's problems including, briefly, thc Middle East
situation.
Several Issues apparently came
up in his talk with Molotov that
impelled Dulles Immediately to
confer with Macrnillan. They drove
25 miles across the French frontier for confer and lunch in a
restaurant deep In the woods
above Evian. After lunch the two
statesmen took a chair lilt to the
top of thc mounain overlooking
Lake Geneva, They remained together for more than four hours
before reluming to Geneva,
The United Nations issue centres
around an eight-year deadlock he
Iwcon Russia and lhc West ovcr
the admission of new states to thc
world body. It .has come before
lhe Big Four ministers iiere outside the conference
Canada—initially with the support of Britain and the' Soviet
Union—moved recently In the gen
West
German
Reborn
BONN (Reuters)—German soldiers snapped to attention in a garage here Saturday beneath the gaunt
black outline of an iron cross—and the West German army
was born.
These 101 men were thc first soldiers to begin their service in lhc
federal republic, 10'.4 ycars after
Hitler's forces were defeated.
Two licutcnant-gwc'rals, 18 lieutenant-colonels, tiQ majors, -ifl captains,-five lieutenants and sis-noncommissioned officers clicked their
heels and bowed stiffly as they
wcre in turn handed Uteir certificates of appointment by West German' Defence Minister' Theodor
Blank.
Siamese Twins
Back Home After
Being Separated
CHICAGO (AP) -The Andrews
girls, first head-joined Siamese
twins to survive separation, were
home with their parents Saturday.
The smaller'twfn, Christine Mary
Radar Ship
Explodes
And Burns
NEW YORK (AP)—An
oil-fed fire raged with blow-'
torch heat aboard a United
States Navy radar warning
ship 125 miles from New
York Sunday, A sailor was
burned fatally, two others
were badly hurt and two
more were missing.
For five hours the blaze waxed
and waned in the midships scction
of the Scareher, a wartime liberty
ship turned into a floating radar
post at a cost of $4,000,000.
Navy and coast guard ships and
planes went to the scene in the
Atlantic cast of Cape May, N.J.
The injured were laken off and
flown to St. Albans Naval Hospital
here. One died a few minutes after
they arrived.
Tugs were dispatched to tow the
scared and crippled shin to harbor.
BltOKE OUT AT DAWN
The fire burst out of the ship's
starboard fuel tank wilh explosive
force at 6 a.m., just as dawn was
breaking across the gentle Atlantic
swells,
"There was black smoke billowing above thc ship, and I could sec
flames shooting cut of thc starboard side," said lhc pilot of a
rescue plane. Lt.-Cmdr. William E.
Chapline. "The paint was all
burned off by the engine room, an
evidence of the intense heat.!'
The two missing men were
thought to have been trapped in
the engine room, flooded in a
desperate manoeuvre to stop thc j
advancing flames. I
Another explosion Jolted thc vrs-1
set and renewed thc fury of thc
blaze for a time.
The Searcher, crammed with
cosily radar, equipment and spoiling a weired decoration of odd-
shaped antennae, was left wallowing in the swells, without power.
It is one of a number of radar
ships stationed off the Atlantic seaboard to watch for ■ unidentified
planev-.and carries a crew of
The ailing leader of the September revolt against Juan D. Peron,
after seven weeks of battling heavy
political and economic cross-currents, gave up the presidency under prodding of the armed forces
to a square-jawed fellow rebel,
'Maj.-Gen. Pedro Aramburu.
Aramburu, who has been the
army's chief of staff since Peron's
downfall, took lhe oath of office in
the government house at 5:40 p.m.
Thc new president told the Argentines Lonardi "has returned to
thc armed forces the mission of
giving a new government to the
country."
"Only one spirit promoted the
movement of the revolution and
that is Uic democratic sentiment
of our people," Aramburu said.
". . . Thc mission of returning the
nation to democratic institutions is
to be trusted to those whose background has well proved they are
most able to fill it."
FACED ULTIMATUM
Lonardi1 s resignation climaxed
Army Forces Out
Leader Of Revolt
Maj.-Gen. Aramburu Is New President
BUENOS AIRES .(AP)—Tension within the fledgling
government that succeeded the Peron dictatorship led-
Maj.-Gen. Eduardo Londardi to resign Sunday as Argentina's provisional president. ~"
24 hours of tense negotiations between military and civilian political leaders in the wake of a split ■
between right-wing "Nationalists"
and middle - of - the • road "Demo.
crats" of the Lonardi government
A government source laid Lonardi, 59, had been given an ulti.
matum to get rid of "reactionary!'
elements In his government or get
out of office.
Aramburu'* luccesslon to power
was tabbed a victory ior the "pro-
Democratic" forces.
The shift in the Argentine political scene followed an all-night conference which broke off for a few
hours' sleep and resumed again
Sunday morning.
"Ccrtain military and political"
forces were said by one govern-,
ment informant to have submitted
the ultimatum to Lonardi, demand*
ing that such key government figures as Foreign Minister Mario
Amadeo, Education Minister Atilio'
Dell Oro Maini and Manuel Villadi.
Achaval, Leonardos brother-in-law
and close adviser, be removed.
TR.im-CAN/lDA ROAD
Expect New Formula
To Finance Highway
Government To Offer New Plan To
..—,..-... Provinces
OTTAWA (CP)—A new formula for joint financing
of the 4,600-mile Trans-Canada Highway is expected to
be offered to the provinces by the federal government at
the opening here today of a two-day federal-provincial
meeting. ■ j
The I'oast-to-coast paved road | rj\ .
was begun in 1950 undcr an agree-1 IClnpCrmUrCS
of each state should be considered
on ils merits. They'argued -that
countries in lhe Red belt such as
Hungary, Romania, ■ Bulgaria,. Albania and the Soviet Republic of
Outer Mongolia did not conform
with UN standards of social justice, human rights and political Independence. For these reasons
they blocked their admission. Russia in turn vetoed membership applications of countries sponsored
by (he West,
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