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THE DAILY NEWS
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HANDEL'S MESSIAH
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Vol. 62.   No. 2>3
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
U PAGES
Provinces Cold On Federal
ovt's. Direct Taxes Scheme
Ontario
Flays New
Planning
In Morocco
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OTTAWA [C.P.) - The
federal government Tuesday
iinveiled details of its direct
(ax plan for the provinces,
t,ut it left   many   of   the
^rentiers cold
-The provinces (eel the money
liticv *i*l receive isn't enough/
■Prime Minister St. Laurent told
IrcMrters on emerging from the
Iwtond day ol federal-provincial
|ji<cal conference.
There were reports that Ontario s
Irremrr Frost was critical be
|rtu«r the plan ™ild give his prov-
ljw a ni,siblc increase only of
hs.W.OW in annual revenue while
lit'ivoniri bwM Quebec's take by
K.iiiie sw.iD0.fl00 annually.
furrenllv  all   provinces  except
iQaehcr havr  tax   rental   agree*
Imenu villi Ottawa. The direct tax
J plan would bc n replacement of the
■pad* d'le 10 expire in March, 1957.
mmC "BONDS"
I Ontario's criticism is understood
Ito be based on thc understanding
Ilhal Ottawa under the plan would
hive Quebrc  a S4O,C0O,OQO*a-year
"bonus" and Quebec would have to
make no commitments or agreements on tax arrangements.
Premier Duplessis of Quebec declined comment on the issue except
to say he feels that "things are not
jioing badly."
Thc plan as outlined by inform-
mis is ih&t the provinces would
I levy provincial tolls on corpora-
I lion and pcrsotnl incomes and in-
Vritanecs ,-nd ;ct federal cqualir-
ithn pavments to bring per capita
rrvenues uf bu-income provinces
ti fop level nf ihe wealthier one?.
The yardstick would bc the aver- *
Uz? tax revenue ot Ontario and'
|P>r;iifli Columbia. I
oukhf-d (hoick I
Mr. Si. Laurent, at thc opening \
p-jbllc jc^inn Monday, offered thc '.
|pr.>\incf; the choice of renewing i
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Arms Deal
Is Scored
By Dulles
WASHINGTON (A.P.)-
S'ate Secretary Dulles disclosed Tuesday he has twice
told Russia that Communist
I arms shipments to Egypt
would not "contribute'' to
lessening of the world's
strains.
He oid American officials "still
hope it will bu possible to avoid"
wiling into any arms race in the
Middle East.
Dulles also said "there la.every
[eason to anticipate that before
lonR" it will be possible to talk
to President Eisenhower about any.
foreign policy matters that may
become urgent.
DulW stressed that Eisenhower'* illness has not interfered with
carrym? cut foreign policy.
""lies was appearing at his first
P^H conference in a month.
SPOKE TO MOLOTOV
He said he told Russia's Foreign
Minister Molotov In New York that
^>mmunist weapons deliveries to
Egypt •'would not contribute to
relaxing tensions."
Tjie secretary declined to reveal
Wotov's renlj but taid this prob-
l(Sm was discussed on two occa-
■■"J"" during the last two weeks
j^pn he was ir New York to at-
'Md fnited Npfnns meetings
'''SJ'Pl olans to " buv weapons
'Jim Red Cuchoslovakli in ex-
"anae for cotton.
"uIIm left open the possibility
1> the United States sending arms
m wae1 to balance any Co-pmu
n"t military shipments to Egypt'
™-| other Arab countries. He said
! "'ouhl depend on the amount and
"pe of Communist arms provided
^rat> countries.
jWcs hinted the United Slates
»<>u tl oppo?e m "padttge deal"
;J tw United Nations whereby
communist countries toould'be ad-
^ wd to membership, regardleaa
°> their recards. in return for Red
^reement to vote for western-
««cd countries such as Spain.
2.natjor'. he: said, should'be
t0MideKdonlU merits.
41   Years Later.... The   "Blue Puttees
Bitter Struggle
AsFrenchTrying
ToSubdueRebels
FEZ, Morocco (Reuters)—The French army was locked in bitter combat with heavily-armed Moroccan rebels
on two fronts in the embattled protectorate Tuesday night.
Reinforcements   are   steaming
MARKING THE 41st ANNIVERSARY of their .sailing for overseas, members of the original "Blue Puttees" met at
Frost's last night for their annual reunion, which was attended oyt46 survivors ofthe famous "first 500". Comrade
F. W. Marshall, Chatiman of the event, is shown addressing the gathering.
Reject Final Appeal For
Life Of Wilbert Coffin
To Hang
Oct. 2ht
OTTAWA (C.P.)-Wil-
bert Coffin, convicted murderer of onc of three Amer-'
ican bear hunters in Quebec's Gaspe peninsula, Tuesday lost his final attempt to
take an appeal to the
Supreme Court of Canada.
The 43-year-old Gaspe prospector's bid to have his case reviewed
failed when eight members of ihc
court rejected a pics by his counsel, Arthur Maloney of Toronto,
against n recent decision of their
colleague, Mr, Justice Douglas Abbott. I
Mr. Justice Abbott on Sept. 2\
denied'an application by Mr. Maloney for leave to 'appeal to the
Supreme Court against thc murder
conviction. Mr. Maloney Tuesday
asked thc court to overrule that
"decision nnd grant leave to appeal.
NO JURISDICTION
However, the court said it has
no jurisdiction to hear an appeal
against Mr. Justieo Abbott's decision.
"In the circumstances ol this
case, we arc satisfied wc have no
jurisdiction to entertain the application, which is dismissed," Chief
Justice Patrick Kerwia said in announcing the court's ruling.
Mr. Justice Abbott, the court's
ninth justice, did not participate in
Tuesd'^j-'s hearing.
Mr. Maloney said there are three
precedents which Btate the Supreme Court does not have the
right to review a decision of a
single judge in criminal cases.
However, he argued that the revised criminal code which provides
that an appeal can be made! on
any point of law makes the pie-
Menon Asks End
Atom   Weapons
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.     (A.P.)—India's   V.   K.
Krishna Menon called on the world Tuesday to renounce
war and to throw away its atomic weapons.
"There Is only one way before"
the world and that is for the nations to renounce war as an instrument of national policy," Krishna
Menon said at the end of a two-
hour, speech closing the general
debate in the United Nations General Assembly.
"Disarmament is not the way.
We can establish peace only if thc
nations have decided to abandon
war. That is- possible once confi-,
dence is established. You cannot conference Is being held In Ot-
reconcile dreams with schemes." tawa at the same tlihc. He thinks
Krishna Menon  again urged a, probably* not. That would be Na-
halt on experiments with nuclear 1 tional Poor Fish Week, as far as
weapons ponding an international, tMiAin provlnccs are concerned,
agreement oirdlsarmamort.
APPEALS TO FRANCE \   Speaking of fish, did you know
Krishna Menon [was- one of thefts John Cabot, to whom wc havc
leaders.in obtaining the®1*27   lwayg ricdited thtf discovery of
FISH TALES BY
UNCLE GARGE
This is National Fish Week, and
Uncle Garge Is wondering if there
Is any special significance .to the
fact that  the  Federal-Provincial
vote last Friday by which the
General Assembly decided to consider the flaming Algerian issue.
As a rcsuli ol that vote the French
delegation walked out of the assembly. Krishna -Menon appealed
Tuesday to the French to'return.
* He said consideration' ot a subject )s not intervention-and India's
only aim is to help conciliate thc
differences between the French
government   -.rt the Alw'tan*.
Krishna Menon said it is in thc
world interest to seek an early
4
the cod abounding around our
shores, was alive as late as 1948?
At least that's when his ship sank,
according to yesterday's Evening
Telegram, Something fishy about
that, all right.
solution ot the problem of Hod
China entering the UN. He long
has advocated a seat for Peiping
instead of Ihc Nationalist Chinese.
The assembly of 60 nations now
breaky up into committee work.
cedents inoperative.
LAST RESORT t
Coffin's only other remaining resort to escape being hanged is to
seek a new trial through a petition
to Justice Minister Garson or obtain cabinet commutation of his
death sentence.
Francois Gravel, second counsel
for Coffin, indicated after the
court's decision had bcen announced that he will seek a new
trial by a petition to Mr. Garson.
Coffin is scheduled to be hanged
Oct. 21 for the murder of Richard
Undsey, 17, one of three Holidays-
burg, Pa., hunters in the Gaspe
peninsula two years ago. The other
two were Lindsey's father, Eugene
Lindsey, 47, and a companion,
Frederick Claar, 17.
During today's hearing Mr. Maloney said Mr. Justice Abbott exceeded his jurisdiction in not grant*
ing him leave to appeal the mur'der
conviction to the full court. He had
"failed" to consider questions of
law which could affect the outcome
of the case.
Truck and Train
In Collision,
Many Injured
WEST NEWTON, Pa. (AP)-A
runaway truck crashed into a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight
train at a grade crossing here today. The train jumped the track
and demolished at least two buildings. Police said they had received
reports of "many persons injured."
Persons at the scene reported
hearing screams coming from the
wrecked buildings.
West Newton resident* said the
train crashed into the two-storey
Casale building and fruit market
and the Fries Electric Co. building.
Killed By Car
FREDERICTON (CP)-Mitchacl
Boutilicr, 56. of Sydney, N.S., died
Tuesday night after a car struck
him while he was walking with
Ernest Goguen, of Humpherys
Mills.. N.B., on a highway at the
outskirts of Fredericton.
Police' said thc victim tried to
cross thc road in front of a car
driven by Cecil Hcrsey of Frederic-
ton.
Decision on an inquest will bc
made following an autopsy.
Temperatures
Dawson  ... ."  30 50
Vancouver  48 57
Calgary  tf 02
Toronto •:. 50 ,   77
Ottawa   ......:  '44 57
Montreal  49 ")7
Halifax  41, fi3
St. John's '..',  40 SO
Whose Goose ?
OWEN SOUND, Ont. (CP)
After the fall fair here last
week, one poultryman took
home a gander which he
thought was a goose and another 1 goose which he
thought was a gander.
Next day both took their
poultry to another fair. The
gander won a prize—as a
goose—but Tuesday the man
who showed it was accused
in court df stealing the bird.
He pleaded not guilty and
thc case was dismissed because of Insufficient evidence.
Prop Falls From
Plane, Crashes
Through House
.  PLEASANTON,  Calif.   (AP) -
Louis Koehl was awakened from a
nap on his living room sofa Monday by an airplane propeller.
The 150-pound prop whirled loose
from a plane 2,000 feet aloft,
crashed through the roof and into
the living p»m. Koehl, (K, was
unhurt.
Philip Mi'Namaniy, 46, reported
he was instructing a student in his
twin-engined Cessna when lhe left
propellor tore louse. He safely
landed the plane.
into Morocco from France and
neighboring Algeria to bolster the
armored columns seeking to break
through to the relief of besieged
garrisons in the Riff mountafhs
along the border of Spanish Morocco.
Other troops have gone to swell
the powerful forces sweeping the
rugged middle Atlas region in a
bid to crush rebellious Berber
tribesmen who stormed two French
outposts during the weekend, massacring European civilians and razing buildings. Thc death loll in thc
two attacks wa? estimated at 100.
[It was announced in Cairo Tuesday night that revolutionary movements against French rule in >lor
army" went into action against
French military installations in
North Africa for the first time
Saturday. This coincides with raids
on Immouzer and French outposts
on the Spanish Moroccan frontier.)
Reports from the Riff mountains
indicated the entire area north of
the town of Taz; was in ferment.
Road and telegraphic communications were crippled in the rebel
raids, and reports on the fighting
were only fragmentary.
BOURED ENCIRCLED.   ,
Boured, where two European officers and three Moroccan guards
arc known to have been killed, still
was encircled by rebels. The situation ground Tizi Ouzli  was con-
occo and Algeria have been uni- j fused. This outpost was believed to
ficd- undcr a single command in have been cleared of rebels, but
(,>"  "army for thc liberation of one report said the garrison was
the r   .     ...
North Africa from the foreign in
vader."   The   r-.  t  said
O :i:.v"      ■  .'ild fight for ntal
independence  and the return -of
exiled Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef of Morocco.
NATIONALISTS IN ACTION
(At a press conference called by
a leader of the Moroccan lstiqlal
(national) party and a leader of
the Algerian liberation front, it was
reported   that   the   "liberation
trying to link up with forces from
Aknoul.
Official French sources in Rabat said the weekend attackers on
Tizi Ouzli included well-trained and
disciplined fighters from Spanish
Morocco.
The French air force announced
that 24 Vampire jets from bases at
Meknes and Rabat helped in }he
defence of Tizi Ouzli- and Immouzer.
Premier Papagos
Of Greece Dies
Hunt Attaclter
WINNIPEG (CP)-A 16-year-old
Winnipeg' girl was attacked and
almost choked as she lay in bed
early Tuesday. Police are conducting a widespread search for het
attacker who fled without seri
ously injuring the girl.
The girl, Margaret McLean, told
detectives she had left the back
door of her house unlocked for her
mother who Was working late.
Suddenly a man appeared,
stepped over to her bed and began
to rip the bedclothes and her pajamas off. The man, described by
the girl as about 30 years old
then grabbed her" by the throat and
struck-her in the face..
ATHENS, (AP)-Marshall Alex-
ander Popagos, premier of Greece,
died Tuesday nighl, He was 71,
The marshal, a hero of Greece's
fight against Mussolini's armies
during the Second World War, had
been ailing for some time but his
death was unexpected.
Earlier Tuesday, the premier
appointed Minister Stephen Stepha-
popoulos as a provisional substitute
during his illness.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of death.
The aged warrior-politician has
been confined since January to his
Ekali residence with gastric
troubles that stemmed from his
term in a Second World War Nazi
prison camp, '
A photograph oE him published
last July showed a spent man with
sunken cheeks. The first picture of
him to he put put in months,-it
shocked Greeks.'
WEATHER
ARMED FORCES CHIEF
Tapagos was chief of the army
general staff when Mussolini
launched his invasion of Greece
Oct, 28, 1940. Dictator John Mc-
tcxas promptly appointed Papagos
commander of all armed forces.
Only sudden German blows from
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria by Hit'
ler's Panzer divisions in the spring
of 1941 put an end to six months of
Greek victories.
Ten yeArs later, Papagos took
command of the war against the
Communist guerrillas in the northern mountains of Greece. The
struggle had been going on for
three years. Papagos, grand chamberlain to the royal court at the
time, agreed to take command on
condition that he be given dictatorial powers and the authority to
keep politicians at home in Athens.
In six months—with United Slates
aid—tlie was was over.
A Smile
Grows In
Brooklyn
BROOKLYN (A.P.)-The
Dodgers won their fint
world series Tuesday but
frankly, Brooklyn acted like
it couldn't quite believe it.....
According to tradition, scenes 0*
wild and spontaneous abandon
should have swept the streets.
Brooklyn fans, however, have been
numbed by years of last-minutt
defeats and seven prior denials ot
baseball's world championship
crown.        v
Nonetheless, Brooklyn wore a
happy, smile as first baseman Gil
Hodges made the final out that
insured a 2-0 Dodger victory over
the Yankees in the seventh and
deciding world series game.
CONFETTI SHOWERS
In Brooklyn office buildings, confetti showered down and cheen
echoed through the halls as the
victory was clinched. The sound
drifted out to motorists in the
streets. They leaned on their horns
to swell the din.
Even staid Manhattan, whose
own world series victories are accepted with decorous calm, got excited at the Dodger victory. Ticker
tape streamed from skyscrapers
from Wall street to Central Park
Rockefeller Plaza was littered witb
torn telephone books and other
scraps of paper set adrift on higb'
by Brooklyn fans in alien territory.
Continue
Death Prohp.
CORNER BROOK, Nfld—
(CP)—RCMP Inspector Pen-
nock said Tuesday that Investigation of 15-year-old
Genevieve Whiffen's death
"will be continued" despite
reports to the contrary.
The young Corner Brook
waitress's body was found
last winter in the waters of
Humber Arm. She disappear-
ed on her way heme from
the restaurant where she
worked. The cause of her
death has ncver been announced.
Fans In Prison
OSSINING,   N.Y.  (Al'i  -  The
Sunny, clouding over at noon. ; 1,706 inmates uf Sing Sing prison
High  today  52.    Low  last mid-■ got  the  afternoon off from ,their
nioht uj.c 10 I sh°P work Tuesday to listen to the
mgnt was du. final gz^ of the world gerieSi
I Prison schools also were closed.
New Moderator
Of Presbyterian
Svnod Elected
SAINT JOHN, N.B. <CP)-Re*.
John R. HumpherySi, minister 0!
St. Matthew's Presbyterian church
in Saint John, was elected moderator of the Maritime synod of th*
Presbyterian Church in Canada at
the annual meeting Tuesday night.
Presiding at the meeting was
Rev. II. M. BunUin, Pictou, N.S.,
the retiring moderator.
Mr. lluiiipht-rys is 1 native of
Pii-lou euuuly, N.S.,.ahd graduated
(rum Acadia Uni verity. He trained
for th* minis tery in Presbyterian
theulugical colleges.
His nomination was moved and
seconded by two former modera*
tors of the synod, Rev. Murray Y.
Fraser, Stellarton, N.S., and Re»,
Robert Allan, Lunenburg, N.5-
Fear Seaway Will Ruin
Canada's Shipping Firms
Commission On Coasting Trade Is Told
Pleads Gniltv to
$15,000 'Theft
WOODSTOCK, N.B. (CP) - A
Saint John youth,, Paul Cook, 18,
pleaded guilty here Tuesday to
stealing a cash box containing
stocks and bonds valued at about
$15,000 and owned by John Jackson
of Woodstock.
Cook was remanded for a week
' pending sentence. The theft-from a
desk , occurred Monday afternoon
arid he was arrested Monday night.
The box, with its contents Intact,
was fonpd hidden in bushes here.
The youth' had been employed
as a part-time potato picker and
spent the previous night in 9 Wood
stock hotel, scene of lhc theft. Hc
was arrested while walking,toward
Hartland.
MONTREAL (CP.)—Thc |
royal .commission on coast- j
ing trade was told Tuesday j
that a situation  could de- \
! velop with completion of the
j St. Lawrence seaway whereby Canadian shipping would
be driven from inland waters j
and the Canadian shipping !
industry ruined. |
The dour prospect was presented
to the three-man* commission by
the St. Lawrence municipal bureau
uf the city of Montreal.
The commission, headed by Mr.
Justice W, K^Sqenqe o( Toronto
opened a two-week sitting in lhe!
world's largest inland port, Other'
commission members arc. W. N.'
Wickwire of Halifax, and M*:;el
Pelangcr, of Quebec. \
The St. Lawrence bureau, estab-j
lished by the city to protect its;
interests in the seaway develop-j
ment, said British and foreign j
vessels will be able to operate in i
inland-waters al rates lower than j
those charged by Canadian ship-1
owners. . |
With lower wages and material'
costs, foreign groups could easily
underbid Canadian ftrms on contracts for this country's shippers.
PREFER CANADIAN
"All things being "equal or even
relatively so," the brief noted,
"Canadian shippers would prefer
to ship via Canadian vessels."
"But alt things are not equal,
wither relatively or absolutely. The
higher wages and material costs j
prevailing in Canada mean highj
production chj-Ls for (lie building ofj
Imance and operations costs to the;
ship-owner. i
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"in turn, these higher costs must
necessarily find reflection in higher
cargo rates."
The bureau asked for "appropriate action*' from the federal government and said application of
such restrictive and regulatory
measures as will,place Canadian
flag shipping on a fair basis with
its competitors was warranted. •.'
Thc majority ot seven briefs
heard called for a legislated "fair
deal" for Canadian shipping, but
an opposite tack was taken by
Consolidated Paper Corporation
Ltd.
In & one-page submission, Ton-
solidated Paper said coastal shipping should be free from restrict
(ions eliminating or hampering
competition and suggested that if
C?nadlan shipping needs help it
"be «iven in ,<uch a'manner as'nnt
to handicap Canadian exporters."
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