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!$ffa®$S3i5^^ t VAUXHALL VICTOR ► Canada's Import Hu r Leader. THE DAILY NEWS y* r^ei Vol. 67. No. 144. THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,1960 (Price. 7 Cents) Charles Hutton & Sons Japan Braces For Mammoth Token Sir TOKYO-Fanatic members of the cxirome '.eft-wing Zengjkuren Students Federation dance around the official residence of Jupanese Prime Nrsisuke Kishi during their all-night anti-government demonstrations here 6 18-19. Deviant over the ratification of the controversial U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, lhe students chanted demands that Kishi resign and call nev/ election.-(UPI Radiophoto). Canada May Store U. Se Nuclear Arms Will Discuss Eichmann Case BRUSSELS (AP- An Israeli spokesman said Tuesday night Israeli Premier David Ben-| OTTAWA (CP-Nuclear weap-; ing of atomic weapons In Canada1 Guiion will meet here Friday ons for American jet interceptors: for the use either by United' w»th Argentine President Arturo likely will be stored at some Ca- States or Canadian forces." | Frondizi to discuss the Adolf .radian bases, informants said; This was the first announce-, Eichmann cose, Ihe Belgian ra- Tucsday. '"-' ""' -■•-'--- ...—-.. Thcso will be purely defensive! stored ta Canada will be for the; Al s;u conferenCM weapons similar to the nuclear \ use of American as well as Ca-; 300 mi, t earIler tod warheads for the Somarc anti- j nodian forces. , • I Wh Ben . Gurion and Frondizi I aircraft missile. Tucs would be. For Ins ance when Prime lsaid meeti might be good used only in event of an attack | Minister Diefenbaker announced: w on North America. j Feb. 20, 1939 that Canadian | Bl;t djplomatlc sourccs close| . u ... . , , „, >;0c?P5 ?U,d be eqU'?ped Mlthit» Frondizi, who is in Bern, Authorities Pointed to this, US nuclear weapons he sad: Switzerland / sald Argentina sUljl statement made Friday in the "The government is examining wjl, s it se -nst Israd Commons: defence committee by with the U.S. government qu-as- j ,n th(J Uni(ed Natj gecurit j Defence Minister Pearkes: tions connected with the ocquisi-1 c0l,ncji today "At the present time negotiation of nuclear warheads for Bo- Argentina accuses Israel o[ vI. ttJS Profcelin8 W"h, thc'mar? and ° ht;;;i.dcf«nsiv« violating Arg.ntine sovereignty m United States for the general use ,0ns for use by the Canadian for- hm ^mam mt ^^ by Canadian forces (of American ces in Canada, and the storage: coum ^ Israc, where the for. nuclear warheads and the stor-1 of warheads ,n f-nnnHn ■• i ■ ^ . ...... Patrice Asked To Form Govt. LEOPOLD VILLE, Belgian,thc chamber of deputies over Congo (Reuters) — African polit- Joseph Kasavubu, head of the| ieal leader Patrice Lumumba | rival Abako party. was officially asked Tuesday to Kasavubu was appointed to form th; first government of the j form a government by King! Congo, due to become indepen-) Baudouin of Belgium last week dent June 30. Lumumba, head ot the powerful Congolese national movement, was given the Job of government- maker for the second time after he scored decisive victories in Plane Crash FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. (AP—Four Fort Lauderdale business men, flying from Nassau ta hazardous weather, died when their small private plane crashed i«—»the ocean 30 miles southeast •(here. ...e dead Kenneth Clark, 29, owner of the Atlantic Crane Company; Robert Burger, president of the Aqua Pools Construction Company; Ricardo Blanco, 37 president of the American Lighting Company, and Chester Trowbridge, 33, an architect. "Success, like a diamond, is given to us by the Lord—but we have to dig it out and polish it ourselves." a few days after Lumumba was! relieved of the job, Lumumba announced he had! been re-appointed after a meeting with Ganshof van der Meersch, resident Belgian min-| Ister in charge of Congo affairs. Lumumba said he hoped to include as many party leaders as possible in his go eluding Kasavubu state. mer Gestapo official faces trial on charges of helping organize I the Nazi extermination of 6,000,' 000 Jews. The Argentine president told reporters he is prepared to meet; Ben-Gurion as such a meeting '" useful and necessary." GIANT GLOBE FOR POPE VATICAN CITY (AP) - Popei John Tuesday received a big] globe showing the 2,200 dioceses and other ecclesiastical districts of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world. Outlined in red and black, it is four fart In diameter. The Very Rev. John Schuctte, superior general of the; Divine Word Missionaries, pr sented the globe to tbe Pope. 6,000,000 Will Walk Out Today f By SYDNEY BROOKS TOKYO Reuters-The Japanese government Tuesday held back on final formalities for ratification of the United States-Japan security treaty as the nation braced for a mammoth token strike today. Six million workers will be called out by labor unions and students to launch a new campaign against the treaty and Premier Nobusuke Kishi. The government, however, decided to wait for American Senate ratification before requesting cabinet consent and attestation by the emperor. Kishi was expected to resign : being called out: railmen have . government criticism. 100 schol- as soon as the ratification is com-1 been requested to stop trains and ar$ and artists published a state- plete. A special session of the ' delay 1,200,000 commuters and m:nt Tuesday in favor of the Diet (parliament) would be con-, picket lines are expected at rail < treaty and one senior Socialist vened to designate a new premier j terminals in Tokyo and other split with the party and pointed and the Diet then would be dis- major cities. out the peril of Communist in- solved in the fall for new elec- j Some ".000 Tokyo stores are, fluence in this country. tions. likely to close as an estimated j PARALYSIS HOPE I 200,000 demonstrators pour into j Shizue Kato, a veteran mem- Meanwhile, preparations con- i the streets. ' ber of the Diet, said in a news- tinued for today's mass demon-1 Zengakurcn students Tuesday, paper statement that Japan 'has stration which the organizers, the staged minor demonstrations be-' become a frontline battle be- Sohyo Trade Union Council and; fore the Diet and Tokyo's metro-' tween communism and democ- the left - wing Zcngakuren stu- j politan police station but there i racy." dents' organization, hope will, were no clashes and the crowd; ". . . If we have the courage, temporarily paralyze the nation, never exceeded 4,000. , to stand up and speak out today School teachers, coal miners, TREATY FAVORED we can still save Japan and. taxi drivers and storekeepers are' But against thc barrage of anti-, Asia." PCs Issue Plans For N. B. Future • The; cost about $350,000. Another pro- Transport Shutdown TOKYO Thousands of wingers stayed a four-hour transport shutdown on Japan today in TAlrci, rormosa—Mrs. Unang koi s.ie^ uanc. i.-.o ro President Eisenhower (L) as they strolled toward chops! services here 6 19. Avter the services, Ike bade goodbye to the Formosan PresidenJ and his wife and enplaned for Seoul, Korea.-UPI Radiotelephoto). m:5;!ll. S. To Offer flew FREDERICTON (CP Progressive Conservative party', posal would launch the govern-,a™pretadrto"n7tion-w7de strikes Tuesday spelled out its plans for,ment on a 10-year program of^ mass demonstrations The New Brunswick's future If given, spanning the major New Bruns-1 aim WM to prevent jj,e new a new mandate by the electorate j wick rivers with modern bridges, j Unjtt,d states-Japanese security- next Monday. ! The manifesto proposes the, treaty from taking eBect Much of the platform Issued at' 'SS^Z^JlZ^ „Masicd- /T^JT £| a nres<! conference her* hv Pre- acu.vu,es mrea7 unacr w7 ln Communist - tinged Sohyo Labor I mier^^t^ F&S wS^^-r."'^ goveTenre"iFederation and the radical *A mier nu„n jonn t lemming was, spons bihty. The word continue, -,■,„„,, ct„,ipn» FpH«ntion tnnk- discussed by him earlier in the aLearert '4 times «„ th„ in.,8,?1 , ,, federatl0n t0°k campaign on speaking tours plHrogram 10 contro of all major railway s a- around the province. I P°mt pr°gram- t,0!« ln Tok^ »nd ° her maJ°r I Plans unveiled for the first'PRINCIPAL ISSUE cities during Oie nifint- time Tuesday included a pro-1 A statement by Premier Flem-1 After brief fights with railway posal to pay half the cost of deeming given to reporters said j guards- they occupied 16 Tokyo termining the feasibility of a dominton-provincia! relations arei 2°Lf L?«,I^£ r^S," canal through the Isthmus of. considered "the principal issue", ST^SnE^Srf' Chignecto separating Nova Sco- of the campaign which has the: "" lnternatl0nal« und« a sea of; tia from New Brunswick. Ottawa PCs pitted aeainst the Liberals red hanners- would pay the other half of lhe in a two-way fight for control of | At least tw0 persons were in- survey which would probably the 52-seat legislature. , ' jured at the outset. Labour Party Presents New Defence Policy LONDON (Reuters—A new op-i gnnization. for limitation and control of arms position Labor party defence pol-j The policy statement is a pr* in central Europe as a first step icy was put forward Tuesday in j duct of joint talks between the La-! toward disarmament. an attempt to close the rift in party ranks over unilateral nuclear disarmament. The plan calls for retention of the H-bomb by Britain but places, responsibility for nuclear defence on the North Atlantic Treaty Or-: Antarctica Keeps Its Christmas' ALLEGED MURDERER CLEVELAND, Ohlo—Leonan Eade is shown here June 18th after he allegedly made a confession to the strangulation mwr-j der of a Canadian woman whose bod; was found In a trunk. The police said that Eade told I he murdered Mrs. Marorla Scott In a drunken brawl. WELLINGTON, New Zeal- and (Reuters — There wereB strange goings ■ on Tuesday In Antarctica. Corks popped from champagne bottles and glasses of Vodka clinked ta the barren outposts of science held by 500. men of ll nations. Scientists, soldier? and sailors, assigned to the most desolate wasteland In the world, drank toasts to each other. The reason. Today was officially the shortest day ta the southern hemisphere now wrapped in the continual darkness of winter. The revellers made up for what they will miss Dec. 25, when, under continuous daylight, the outposts will be working at top speed. Orders for the night were masquerade clothing, with o nostalgic emphasis on women's costumes. At the American naval ice airport ta McMurdo Sound, 20 officers and scientists dropped all formality to serve as cooks, pot -. washfers and waiters for 120 men of lower ranks. Today, the Americans will drop over in ■suh • zero temperatures for a "ttffet dinner at the New Zealand base, where the men will be celebrating their "boxing day" holiday. Russians manning their huge, mile - long base at Mirny sent out "Christmas" greetings to follow outposters. From the outside world, greetings and good wishes poured in by radio for- the occasion. bor party and the Trades Union! 5. Communist China should be Congress, which have been feud-; included in disarmament talks ing over the issue. It stems from a reappraisal of! Britain's world position in the wake of the Paris summit collapse and Britain's abandonment of its program for a long-range ballistic missile. The plan was hammered out by I a nine-man joint Labor-Trade Union Congress committee, headed by party leader Hugh Gaitskell. and admitted to the United Nations. 6. By abandoning plans for its Blue Streak intercontinental missile, Britain can no longer hope to be an independent nuclear I power. All nuclear weapons should therefore be made in thei United States. 7. West Germany should not be j allowed to make nuclear weapons I stood today, the plan'and its troops should not be; made eight points j armed with them. j Britsin, "perilously depen-j 8. The Labor party continues to dent" on H-weapons, should never be the first to use them and looks to NATO for effective control of them. 2. NATO must be strengthened! so the West can negotiate peaceful coexistence from strength. 3. There should be no further I oppose the setting up of British- American Thor missile bases in j Britain. HOLLYWOOp (AP) - Swedish | actress Mai Britt's contract won't be renewed when the option falls due this summer, a spokesman thermonuclear testing by Britain for 20th Century-Fox said Tues- and urgent efforts should be day. He added that the decision made to get an agreement ban-1 has nothing to do with Miss ning all nuclear testing. i Britfs engagement to Negro en- 4. The government should press I tertainer Sammy Davis Jr. | sarm. ti MSSIS bit*, dravn from what the United Staios considers soma of lhe c:?- ; ir.cnis of "common grciiiti" tin- The United States — with a tectable in the Russians' Juno 2 gentle push by her allies — is disarmament offer, , about to offer some ncw pro- MANV DIFFERENCES posals in an effort to koep Rus-. Tho "common ground-' is scri sia at the con.'jrence table at the in the way Russia se;ms 'o 10-power East-West disarmament agr:e. at least in'principle, nn talks. an international peace - keeping But well - informed authorities force. Th? Russians r.L;o have suggest these proposals, which suggested a study of way; nf may materialize in about a woe!;, Iialtin;! production of fissionable will in no sense be a drastic re- materials for military u:-rs. vision of the Western approach But wei'.'had against (lies? fea- to the disarmament talks. tures considered attractive by Nor would they involve any the United States and which may sacrifice of Western demands for bc emphasized in U.S. proposals, rigid inspection and control of arc features of Russian propos- disarmament steps. ; a's considered repugnant by the In essence they would be tid-1 West. Parties Ready For Voting Bay QUEBEC (CP-The Union Na-. official opposition for 16 >ear.=, tionale and Liberal parties, after seeks lo renain it. once dominant flexing their political muscles! position in Quebec politics. and showing off their form to! At dissolution the position of Quebec voters during seven Ithe parties was Union Nation,-*8 weeks of fast and furious cam-j"l: Liberals, 17; Independent, paigning now stand poised for i three; vacant, two. election day action. Today across the huge province the voters—an estimated 2,593.- 168 are eligible-come in to cast their vote. Polls open everywhere at 9 a.m. and close at G30 p.m., EDT. ' The voters wil! pick the 95 men who will make up' th? 2fith legislature from among 253 candidates in the running. The Union Nationale and the Liberals—the only two major parties in the race—each have a can-1 didate in each riding. The other | candidates are Independents represent splinter groups. They include two Communists. In power since 1944 and an easy winner in the last four provincial elections, the Union Nationale j seeks a fifth mandate. The Liberal party, forming the! Anti-Combines Bill Under Fire OTTAWA (CP— The government's Anti-Combines bill ran Into criticism Tuesday in sub-j missions by two national organizations whose views threatened! at times to become obscured in1 wrangling over procedure in tbe | Commons banking committee. Tbe criticisms were presented j by delegations from the Canadian Electrical Manufacturers I Association and the executive council of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce on anti-combines amendments being studied by lhe committee. Proposals regarding resale! price maintenance and promo tional allowances came under | fire in two lengthy committee hearings. The Chamber's executive council declined to express en opim ion about the government's proposal that thc current ban on resale price maintenance be modified. The Electrical Manufacturers reiterated their plea for a complete lifting of the ban. AS LOSS LEADER The government proposes that: anyone accused of practising resale price maintenance—requiring retailers to sell a product to consumers at a price determined' by the manufacturer—may offer as a defence tbe argument that -retailers are using the product as a loss-leader. Although no legal definition of loss-leader exists, it is regarded generally as selling goods at ori near cost to attract customers in the hope of selling other products as well. Under the amendments, the person accused of violating the resale price maintenance ban may win acquittal if he convinces the court that he refused to sell his goods to a retailer because he. had reason to believe, the goods were being used as loss-leaders or sales comc-ons of various kinds. The Electrical Manufacturers said they believe the manufacturer is in a better position to judge where efficient and aggressive retailing ends and unfair trade practice begins. • However, they said thc government's proposed amendments will bring a measure of relief to the. small retailer battling afairst loss-lender practices of more powerful outlets and corn- its "honesty and courage" in introducing thc amendments, 1 Charged Willi Slaying TORONTO (CP-Detectivcs in suburban Scarborough Tuesday arrested Louis William Bradley Fisher of Toronto and charged him with the June 10 knife slaying of Mrs. Margaret Bennett. Police said the man was arrested at his home early Tuesday and charged after lengthy questioning. He will be formally arraigned today. The 3R-year-old woman's mutilated body was found in a scar- borough parking lot. She had been stabbed 1G times. The investigation tcok place as far as London Ont., where a man was detained and questioned because of suspicious red stains in his car. More t^an l.KO persons wcre interrogated ta connection with thc case. Weather \ Mostly cloudv. clearing J this afternoon. High 05. f TtAAPERARiRES \ Toronto 55 75 J Ottawa 51 77 i Montreal 52 77 4 Halifax 53 6B a Quebec « 80 } St. John's 37 46 ■ f ■■^\^(r^r.\^iW.:?^J''^X"^;^i:
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Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1960-06-22 |
Date | 1960-06-22 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
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Transcript | !$ffa®$S3i5^^ t VAUXHALL VICTOR ► Canada's Import Hu r Leader. THE DAILY NEWS y* r^ei Vol. 67. No. 144. THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,1960 (Price. 7 Cents) Charles Hutton & Sons Japan Braces For Mammoth Token Sir TOKYO-Fanatic members of the cxirome '.eft-wing Zengjkuren Students Federation dance around the official residence of Jupanese Prime Nrsisuke Kishi during their all-night anti-government demonstrations here 6 18-19. Deviant over the ratification of the controversial U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, lhe students chanted demands that Kishi resign and call nev/ election.-(UPI Radiophoto). Canada May Store U. Se Nuclear Arms Will Discuss Eichmann Case BRUSSELS (AP- An Israeli spokesman said Tuesday night Israeli Premier David Ben-| OTTAWA (CP-Nuclear weap-; ing of atomic weapons In Canada1 Guiion will meet here Friday ons for American jet interceptors: for the use either by United' w»th Argentine President Arturo likely will be stored at some Ca- States or Canadian forces." | Frondizi to discuss the Adolf .radian bases, informants said; This was the first announce-, Eichmann cose, Ihe Belgian ra- Tucsday. '"-' ""' -■•-'--- ...—-.. Thcso will be purely defensive! stored ta Canada will be for the; Al s;u conferenCM weapons similar to the nuclear \ use of American as well as Ca-; 300 mi, t earIler tod warheads for the Somarc anti- j nodian forces. , • I Wh Ben . Gurion and Frondizi I aircraft missile. Tucs would be. For Ins ance when Prime lsaid meeti might be good used only in event of an attack | Minister Diefenbaker announced: w on North America. j Feb. 20, 1939 that Canadian | Bl;t djplomatlc sourccs close| . u ... . , , „, >;0c?P5 ?U,d be eqU'?ped Mlthit» Frondizi, who is in Bern, Authorities Pointed to this, US nuclear weapons he sad: Switzerland / sald Argentina sUljl statement made Friday in the "The government is examining wjl, s it se -nst Israd Commons: defence committee by with the U.S. government qu-as- j ,n th(J Uni(ed Natj gecurit j Defence Minister Pearkes: tions connected with the ocquisi-1 c0l,ncji today "At the present time negotiation of nuclear warheads for Bo- Argentina accuses Israel o[ vI. ttJS Profcelin8 W"h, thc'mar? and ° ht;;;i.dcf«nsiv« violating Arg.ntine sovereignty m United States for the general use ,0ns for use by the Canadian for- hm ^mam mt ^^ by Canadian forces (of American ces in Canada, and the storage: coum ^ Israc, where the for. nuclear warheads and the stor-1 of warheads ,n f-nnnHn ■• i ■ ^ . ...... Patrice Asked To Form Govt. LEOPOLD VILLE, Belgian,thc chamber of deputies over Congo (Reuters) — African polit- Joseph Kasavubu, head of the| ieal leader Patrice Lumumba | rival Abako party. was officially asked Tuesday to Kasavubu was appointed to form th; first government of the j form a government by King! Congo, due to become indepen-) Baudouin of Belgium last week dent June 30. Lumumba, head ot the powerful Congolese national movement, was given the Job of government- maker for the second time after he scored decisive victories in Plane Crash FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. (AP—Four Fort Lauderdale business men, flying from Nassau ta hazardous weather, died when their small private plane crashed i«—»the ocean 30 miles southeast •(here. ...e dead Kenneth Clark, 29, owner of the Atlantic Crane Company; Robert Burger, president of the Aqua Pools Construction Company; Ricardo Blanco, 37 president of the American Lighting Company, and Chester Trowbridge, 33, an architect. "Success, like a diamond, is given to us by the Lord—but we have to dig it out and polish it ourselves." a few days after Lumumba was! relieved of the job, Lumumba announced he had! been re-appointed after a meeting with Ganshof van der Meersch, resident Belgian min-| Ister in charge of Congo affairs. Lumumba said he hoped to include as many party leaders as possible in his go eluding Kasavubu state. mer Gestapo official faces trial on charges of helping organize I the Nazi extermination of 6,000,' 000 Jews. The Argentine president told reporters he is prepared to meet; Ben-Gurion as such a meeting '" useful and necessary." GIANT GLOBE FOR POPE VATICAN CITY (AP) - Popei John Tuesday received a big] globe showing the 2,200 dioceses and other ecclesiastical districts of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world. Outlined in red and black, it is four fart In diameter. The Very Rev. John Schuctte, superior general of the; Divine Word Missionaries, pr sented the globe to tbe Pope. 6,000,000 Will Walk Out Today f By SYDNEY BROOKS TOKYO Reuters-The Japanese government Tuesday held back on final formalities for ratification of the United States-Japan security treaty as the nation braced for a mammoth token strike today. Six million workers will be called out by labor unions and students to launch a new campaign against the treaty and Premier Nobusuke Kishi. The government, however, decided to wait for American Senate ratification before requesting cabinet consent and attestation by the emperor. Kishi was expected to resign : being called out: railmen have . government criticism. 100 schol- as soon as the ratification is com-1 been requested to stop trains and ar$ and artists published a state- plete. A special session of the ' delay 1,200,000 commuters and m:nt Tuesday in favor of the Diet (parliament) would be con-, picket lines are expected at rail < treaty and one senior Socialist vened to designate a new premier j terminals in Tokyo and other split with the party and pointed and the Diet then would be dis- major cities. out the peril of Communist in- solved in the fall for new elec- j Some ".000 Tokyo stores are, fluence in this country. tions. likely to close as an estimated j PARALYSIS HOPE I 200,000 demonstrators pour into j Shizue Kato, a veteran mem- Meanwhile, preparations con- i the streets. ' ber of the Diet, said in a news- tinued for today's mass demon-1 Zengakurcn students Tuesday, paper statement that Japan 'has stration which the organizers, the staged minor demonstrations be-' become a frontline battle be- Sohyo Trade Union Council and; fore the Diet and Tokyo's metro-' tween communism and democ- the left - wing Zcngakuren stu- j politan police station but there i racy." dents' organization, hope will, were no clashes and the crowd; ". . . If we have the courage, temporarily paralyze the nation, never exceeded 4,000. , to stand up and speak out today School teachers, coal miners, TREATY FAVORED we can still save Japan and. taxi drivers and storekeepers are' But against thc barrage of anti-, Asia." PCs Issue Plans For N. B. Future • The; cost about $350,000. Another pro- Transport Shutdown TOKYO Thousands of wingers stayed a four-hour transport shutdown on Japan today in TAlrci, rormosa—Mrs. Unang koi s.ie^ uanc. i.-.o ro President Eisenhower (L) as they strolled toward chops! services here 6 19. Avter the services, Ike bade goodbye to the Formosan PresidenJ and his wife and enplaned for Seoul, Korea.-UPI Radiotelephoto). m:5;!ll. S. To Offer flew FREDERICTON (CP Progressive Conservative party', posal would launch the govern-,a™pretadrto"n7tion-w7de strikes Tuesday spelled out its plans for,ment on a 10-year program of^ mass demonstrations The New Brunswick's future If given, spanning the major New Bruns-1 aim WM to prevent jj,e new a new mandate by the electorate j wick rivers with modern bridges, j Unjtt,d states-Japanese security- next Monday. ! The manifesto proposes the, treaty from taking eBect Much of the platform Issued at' 'SS^Z^JlZ^ „Masicd- /T^JT £| a nresear.=, tionale and Liberal parties, after seeks lo renain it. once dominant flexing their political muscles! position in Quebec politics. and showing off their form to! At dissolution the position of Quebec voters during seven Ithe parties was Union Nation,-*8 weeks of fast and furious cam-j"l: Liberals, 17; Independent, paigning now stand poised for i three; vacant, two. election day action. Today across the huge province the voters—an estimated 2,593.- 168 are eligible-come in to cast their vote. Polls open everywhere at 9 a.m. and close at G30 p.m., EDT. ' The voters wil! pick the 95 men who will make up' th? 2fith legislature from among 253 candidates in the running. The Union Nationale and the Liberals—the only two major parties in the race—each have a can-1 didate in each riding. The other | candidates are Independents represent splinter groups. They include two Communists. In power since 1944 and an easy winner in the last four provincial elections, the Union Nationale j seeks a fifth mandate. The Liberal party, forming the! Anti-Combines Bill Under Fire OTTAWA (CP— The government's Anti-Combines bill ran Into criticism Tuesday in sub-j missions by two national organizations whose views threatened! at times to become obscured in1 wrangling over procedure in tbe | Commons banking committee. Tbe criticisms were presented j by delegations from the Canadian Electrical Manufacturers I Association and the executive council of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce on anti-combines amendments being studied by lhe committee. Proposals regarding resale! price maintenance and promo tional allowances came under | fire in two lengthy committee hearings. The Chamber's executive council declined to express en opim ion about the government's proposal that thc current ban on resale price maintenance be modified. The Electrical Manufacturers reiterated their plea for a complete lifting of the ban. AS LOSS LEADER The government proposes that: anyone accused of practising resale price maintenance—requiring retailers to sell a product to consumers at a price determined' by the manufacturer—may offer as a defence tbe argument that -retailers are using the product as a loss-leader. Although no legal definition of loss-leader exists, it is regarded generally as selling goods at ori near cost to attract customers in the hope of selling other products as well. Under the amendments, the person accused of violating the resale price maintenance ban may win acquittal if he convinces the court that he refused to sell his goods to a retailer because he. had reason to believe, the goods were being used as loss-leaders or sales comc-ons of various kinds. The Electrical Manufacturers said they believe the manufacturer is in a better position to judge where efficient and aggressive retailing ends and unfair trade practice begins. • However, they said thc government's proposed amendments will bring a measure of relief to the. small retailer battling afairst loss-lender practices of more powerful outlets and corn- its "honesty and courage" in introducing thc amendments, 1 Charged Willi Slaying TORONTO (CP-Detectivcs in suburban Scarborough Tuesday arrested Louis William Bradley Fisher of Toronto and charged him with the June 10 knife slaying of Mrs. Margaret Bennett. Police said the man was arrested at his home early Tuesday and charged after lengthy questioning. He will be formally arraigned today. The 3R-year-old woman's mutilated body was found in a scar- borough parking lot. She had been stabbed 1G times. The investigation tcok place as far as London Ont., where a man was detained and questioned because of suspicious red stains in his car. More t^an l.KO persons wcre interrogated ta connection with thc case. Weather \ Mostly cloudv. clearing J this afternoon. High 05. f TtAAPERARiRES \ Toronto 55 75 J Ottawa 51 77 i Montreal 52 77 4 Halifax 53 6B a Quebec « 80 } St. John's 37 46 ■ f ■■^\^(r^r.\^iW.:?^J''^X"^;^i: |
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