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I   Vol., 62... No. 185
St. JOHN'S,i NEWFOUNDlAND,  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER!, 1955
(Price 5 cents)
ISRAEL
ays l
^ribute
To
Synod P
Canada's Fighting Men
EDMONTON - CP -Tribute was paid to Canada's
fighting men overseas at
Wednesday's sessions of the
general synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Bi-hop I. A; Norris of Brandon,
who returned recently from a tour
of army and air force bases in
Europe, said: "Because those people have lived in Germany and
France the name of Canada stands
as high there as tljat of any country."
Ili-hop Norris was critical of
prc;s and radio reports of in-
ciiknts involving Canadian troops
in Germany.
"Si often these incidents arc
written up and as a result many
p-uplc in Canada think terrible
conditions arise among those serving overseas," he said.
•*.My experience is entirely to
thr contrary,"   .
He said incidents Involving
troops with civil authorities are
greater in number in Canada than
overseas.
The government has provided
excellent living quarters, schools
and recreational facilities overseas, he added.
"All Canadians return home
with a better understanding of the
old land and will be able to interpret this better to Canadians at
homo," he said.
Dr. W. H. Young of the United
Church and Rcv. John Murdoch
of the Presbyterian Church made
tho tour of a1*--' fictions
in Europe at thc same time.
R,*rS FINANCE POLICY
At thc morning session the investment policy of the board of
finance of thc church came under
fire.
A. E. McB. Bell-Irving of Vancouver ter med investment of
church funds in fixed-interest securities as "contrary to the Uw of
God."
"I feel it is tho duty of this
synod to' give consideration to the
subject of the law of usury as applied on fix-interest securities,"
he declared. •
Mr. Bell-lrving was commenting
on the report of the board of finance, given by chairman R. H.
Soward, QC, of Toronto.
Mr. Soward said tlie church's
net worth figure of less than $500,-
000 was inadequate to carry out
at Church House, the church headquarters, tlie tiings the church
wants to do.  .
llie ropojt showed the church
had assets of $10,338,893. Of this,
$7,238,250 was invested in stocks,
bonds and mortgages and securities pledged by thc Missionary
Society of Canada as security for
advances.
Both houses met Wednesday
night in joint session to hear and
discuss reports on the -various
phases'of church activity.
Dominion-Provincial
Agreements
Tax Rental
End
On
May
In Sept. '57
OTTAWA**-CP—There is a possibility that the Dominion-Provincial tax rental agreements may come to an
end in 1957, it was learned Wednesday.
However, this is only onc pos
ilblc .solution to thc sharing of
(nation among tha federal dnd
provincial governments now being
ii'cujsed hy federal authorities.
The officials said several
•ch^mrs are being "kicked
arounri'" in preparation for- thc
Dominion-provincial fiscal conference here starting Oct. 3.,
All provinces except Quebec
now rent their income and corporation tax fields to the central
government in returnf or certain
grants, and all but Quebec and On*
tario rent their inheritance tax.
The agreements, which this year
are costing the! ederal treasury
mors than $320,000,000 in rents,
ue scheduled to expire in lo57.
DOUBLE TAX AGAIN
If thc agreements are not renewed the provinces would renter thj income, corporation and
inhritancc tax fields. This would
mean double taxation for Canadian taxpayers, most of whom
nor arc uscd to filing only one
income tax return.
The federal government already
ha? established the policy that a
taxpayer can deduct 10 per cent
from federal income tax if he pays taxation.
provincial Income tax. In practice,
this applies only in Quebec, where
a provincal income tax has been
levied since last year.
Thc poorer provinces would take
in less, proportionatety, than the
wealthy provinces through provincial income taxes.
Thus tha poorer provinces, might
object to ending the tax1 rental
agreements. • The federal grants
are larger than the net amounts
which the provinces could raise by
.provincial taxation l?ss their. collection costs. . .
MAY MAKE GRANTS
One report here is to tlie effect
that the federal government "night
propose, if the tax rental agreements lapse, that the poorer provinces be awarded certain grants
to make up this dsficlency.
There, have also been published
reports that the central government may offsr larger grants to
the provinces in return for use of
their income, corporation and in
heritance tax fields.  •
It is believed in some quarters
here that Ontario and British
Columbia may ask for larger federal grants in lieu of provincial
WEATHER
Cloudy, . scattered     showers;
■aimer. High today 65.
Nfld. Sides
THVRSDAY; September 1
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Sunset ..........  6.43 p.m.
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bw  12:29'a.m. 12:44 p.m.*
New Director
MONTREAL (C.P.) - Kalbert
Scott "Fraset* has been elected a
member ofthe board ef directors
of Sun Life Assurance Company
of Canada, it was announced Wednesday.  •• /   * ' •
Mr. Fraser js president of Eastern Trust Company,,a,director of
the'Bank, of Nova Scotia and gov-
eirnor of baihioinie.' University/
Halifax.' ::   ■*'•* .*''*' '- :  ■;
KIKE KILLER-wflliam Cat*-ni-*ht^
ir> -Stockton, Calif., afler shooting indkilUng his ^attied.wif-; Kill..
J-'artHTiKht shoVand killed hiV29-yea™id wife'4t^ '
ln restaurant where
"hildren.
she  worked.  She was
'tht. mother .ot, thlrec
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HUNT
SLAYER
OF 5
The hunt for thc slayer of a
family of five on a rural
Saskatchewan farm was intensified Wednesday night
as police advanced theft as
a possible motive for thc
mass slaying.
• Wanted for questioning is John
Petlock, 36-ycar-old itinerant farmer believed to have bcen thc last
person to see the victim's alive.
The first'solid, clue in the search
was uncovered .Wednesday when' a
late-model automobile owned by
Michael Petlock, brother of John
Petlock and one of the five slain,
was found .abandoned on a Regina
street 90 miles southwest of Fen-
wood; 22 miles .west of.here.
The car was seen In the yard
df the Petlock farm home on the
outskirts of Fenwood Monday.
Killed, apparently by bullets
from a .22-callbre rifle, were
Michael Petlock, 34, Mrs. Harry
Petlock," 72, mother of John and
Michael Michael's wife, Ange-
llne, 21, ahd their, two children,
Diane, 3, and Michaelien 1.
DIDN'T RETURN HOME
John, Petlock, missing from his
home here since Monday, is sought
because he is believed to havc
visited the Petlock farm, that day,
police said. The quiet, bespectacled farmer told his wife he was
going stooking but he did not
return home.
RCMP. said, he probaWy- is'
armed and possibly dangerous. •
The. Petlock house had been ran'
sacked. A-surn'ot money.,was miss
ing and police, noting stories' current in the .'town that Ihe'-Petlocks
hoarded ; their .savings'.'at'home!
said if was possible'theft.pl'ompied
the..miss-slaylngs.     ■■•;.,', •
*"' Police I said the two women had
been shot from - close' range' while
picjefng.potatoes. They. said-Mich-
ael apparently was not 'at home
but the' killer stood on- a chair in
ihe kitchen awaiting his 'entry.'*
Michael was' shot through' the
head' as 'he "came through .the
kitchen*door. Police' sald.th'at only
examination by RCMP- experts,
could, determine how ' the. other
four.persons were shot." .-'
. 'A'..22.callbre rifle'known to^'hayc
been in" the house was/missing.;
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TERMS
FIRe'TiAGES AT REFINERY—Smtkc and flame rise from thc Standard Oil refinery at Whiting, Ind.,
following explosions which damaged buildings live blocks away and brought death to two persons.
At least 40 persons were injured.
Ask  Royal  Commission
V
Justice,   Penal   Reform
Rehabilitation Of Prisoners One Of
Main Concerns
OTTAWA - CP'-Can
ada should have a royal commission on justice administration and penal reform,
the Canadian Bar Association was told Wednesday.
John Diefcnbakcr, Progressive
Conservative Commons member
for Prince Albert and a noted
criminal lawyer, said a main aim
of such a commission should be tn
find ways of rehabilitating prisoners and reducing thc number of
second offenders.
Mr. Diefcnbakcr, member of a
five-man panel discussing'criminal
law before a section of the association's annual convention, said
there should be a wids investigation of criminal justice.
The royal commission he proposed might be made up of nominees •' of federal and provincial
governments, social institutions
and other organizations.
. He said ho was sure a revision
of practices in handling prisoners,
such as had been undertaken ;in
California, would result in cutting
down the number of recidivists—
those convicted of more than one
offence.'
During a discussion on a score
of legal subjects, 'W. B. Common
of Toronto, director of public prosecutions in Ontario, complained
that the panel was largely made
up of defence lawyers and should
havc included a prosecution representative.
_ An impression-might bc'gained,
'he said, that the group was enn
ccrncd only with making it easier
for criminal law specialists to get
acquittals for clients. Unless therc
was a better balance between
prosecution and defence in future,
public opinion might be "somewhat contemptuous" of the bar
association. *
However, crown lawyers received some good words from the
defence specialists during the discussion.
Mr. Diefenbaker, who usually
appears for the defence, said hc
has generally found crown officials
fair in making available to the de-
ence the results ot scientific investigations in prosecutions.
SPLIT ON JUDGE'S RIGHTS
The panel split on the question
of whether a trial judge should be
tied downin his comments on the
facts of a criminal case.
A brief from inmates of Kingston penitentiary said the judge
should not be allowed to comment
at all in this respect.
"Wo must bear in mind that the
Kingston inmates are all losers,"
said Joseph Sedgwick of Toronto,
a prominent.dc fence counsel.
"Judges often comment in favor
of the accused."
"No judge should be allowed to
speak of the facts in'such a way
as to take them away from the
jury," observed Hon. Lumen Gen-
dron, judge of the cour'. of sessions at Montreal and a panel
member.
The panel was in general agreement that any offence calling for
a sentence of more than six
months should be tried by a jury.
Egypt Must.
Blame For
Of   Border
Accept
Start
Fight
Egypt's Offer Of Peace Called
"Obviously Deceitful"
JERUSALEM-CP—Israel Wednesday held off agreeing to ah immediate -ceasefire on the Gaza front until
Egypt replies to its demand that the Egyptians acknow
ledge responsibility for starting the violence.
Egypt agreed Tuesday to a
cease-fire beginning at 6 p. m.
local time Wednesday. The Israeli
foreign office Wednesday night
called this an "obviously deceitful
announcement" and said that
Egyptian raiding parties "still arc
roaming the country sowing death
and destruction."
The phrasing of tha cease-fire
proposed by the United Nations
apparently aroused the Israelis. A
government spokesman here said
it put "Israel, which was being
attacked and invaded by terrorist
bands, on the same level as Egypt,
which is the attacker."
BURNS CALLS FOR HALT
Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of
Canada, chief of staff of the UN
Palestine Truce Observers Commission, proposed the halt to the
pitched battles, bombings, infiltrations and ambushes along the
Gaza frontier.
A UN spokesman said Israeli
Premier Moshe Sharett's government replied Tuesday night to
Burns' proposal with a demand
that Burns get Egypt's acknowledgement of responsibility for the
past week's outbreaks of terror.
A letter setting forth Israel's views
was signed by Arthur Lourie, deputy director-general of the foreign
office.
In addition to acknowledging responsibility,   Lourie's   letter   demanded that  Egypt give "guarantees  for  immediate,
and definitive cessation of all further hostile-nets."
BLEW UP STATION
. A communique issued in Cairo
said   Egyptian   commandos   had
cntci'ed Israeli territory and blown
up a broadcasting station six miles
from Tel Aviv and blasted two Israeli armored cars near Magdal.
Earlier Egyptian newspapers re
ported the commandos penetrated
Israel for aboul 25 miles Tuesday
to carry out "punitive action" and
had killed 15 to 20 Israelis.
While exact casualty figures
were hard to establish, reports
from both sides totalled up to at
least 25 Israeli and eight Egyptian
dead since, last Thursday. A score
or more others have been
wounded.   '    '
The Israeli foreign office statement issued Wednesday night
said:
RAIDS CONTINUE
"Despite the statement published this morning (by the UN
truce commission) that Egyptian
authorities have notified it of
their readiness to cease all firing
across the demarcation line, raids,
mining and sabotage, Egyptian violence acts have continued uninterrupted."
Despite the deadlock in getting
full agreement on  a  cease-fire,'
Gen. Burns continued striving to
get a truce ending violence in the .
tense border area.
At   Bludan,    Syria,    ropresent-
:.:iVv   of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon
and Syria issued a joint communique Wcdnr'day accusing Israel
of intentionally creating tension in .
the Gaza area to achieve agrcs-
sivc aims. The statement said the ■
four Arab states had approved
plan to frustrate "international incomplete, ! trigues" by Israel.
Resumption of violence in the
Gaza region last Thursday followed a breakdown of talks Aug.
24 between Egypt and Israel on
means nf preventing violence.
Egypt withdrew from thc negotiations blaming a border clash in
which three Egyptian soldiers
were killed and eight wounded for
its action.
Mayor
Payment
Welfare,
Want Govt.
For Public
Education
To Make Representation At Federal-
Provincial Meet
EDMONTON—CP—The Canadian Federation of Mayors
and Municipalities wants the federal and provincial governments'to pay the shot for education and public welfare. ,.'•..
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Delegates to thc federation convention adopted the policy Wednesday. It will he presented at the
federal • provincial conference in
Ottawa in October.by municipal
: representatives on provincial, del-'
egatlons."
At least seven provinces will
have municipal representatives on
thel*- delegations.
The plan adopted by the convention dealt with principle. How
the two senior governments should
pay ior, education and public wel
fare ,was not mentioned.
• But'Mayor Robert Simpson of
Arnprior, Ont.,; said the plan, if
accepted by the senior govern-
■ ments-, ..would reduce municipal
school boards to an advisory position;'!: •'•.*';.
LEAVE IDEA: OPEN
■Whether." .a -federal •■ provincial-
municipal conference should fol
low the Ottawa meeting was left
open.. The. three-level parley, suggested by Mayor Nathan Phillips
of Toronto, .hattboiled into a controversy Tuesday. -•   • •
"Municipalities, strapped by lack
of money, Want a share of tlie fed-
eral-provinclal   tax- revenues   or
• anything else which    will fatten
'■ their -pocket books.
In adopting the suggestions of
'the Ontario Association of Mayors
and Reeves, the federation labelled the ideas "an approach to the
; solution of the .municipal _ finance
problem." ,.."•.
"Empress Of
Australia"
To Be Sold
The convention also' wants, the
senior governments to lake care of
subsidizing housing, civil defence,
administration' ot justice and prov-,
incal highways-rum*ing. through
municipalties.
LONDON (C.P) - Canadian
Pacific Steamships Ltd. annunc-
■ed-Wednesday it will sell the 19,-
000 ton linei; Express of Australia,
now sailing between Liverpool
and Montireal.
. Officials said the. 31-year-old
ship will be withdrawn from service soon and offered on the
world market. The.Express will
flrstfmake"seeral trips in the October rotation of Canadian troops
SEirving in-.Germany.
The Jiner; which accommodates
650, passengers,,was built in Brit-
ain^ip 1924:for the French Line
and named De . Ge Grasse. She
"was bought by Canadian'Pacific
lh: March, 1953, to replace the
-Empress;'of;'Canada, which: had
burned and .capsized at a •Liverpool berth a month earlier.
Canadian Pacific now has two
ticW lineirs under construction for
500-ton Empress o* Canada, which
the North AtltiUc run. The 22,-
had burned and capsized at a
Liverpool-berth n month earlier.
Criadian.' Pacific now has two
hew liners "under construction for
the North Atlantic run. The 22,-
500-ton Empress-of Britain was
launched last June by the Queen
a 'Glasgow, and will-make her
maiden voyage next spring; and a
sister ship, the Empress of England, is scheduled for launching
in September or October, 1956.
Newspaper And
Police Team To
Nab Criminals
CHICAGO (AP)—Teamwork between Chicago newspaper* and police resulted in quick capture of
two of the city's 14 most wanted
fugitives Tuesday.
The city's four major newspapers
printed pictures of the fugitives in
Tuesday's editions, and during the
day officers seized Edward Burgess, 22, who was No. 2 on the list,
and Richard Szurgot, 27, No. 4.
Szurgot was arrested by Sgt.
Joseph Meany, who said he saw
the man standing on a street corner and recognized him from a
newspaper picture. Szurgot *^'as
wanted for questioning about a robbery.
A few hours later Burgos?,
sought for questioning about robbery and use of narcotics and for
escape, was nabbed in a theatve.
Police said the tip apparently
came from a theatre employee who
had seen the newspaper pictures.
ANCIENT BROOCH
GODMEItSHAM, England (CP)
A': woman's brooch, almost 2,000
years old, has been unearthed in
this Kent town.
ONE WHO SURRENDERED—A Smaala tribesman advances to give
up weapons following his surrender along with hundreds of his comrades at Oued Zem, French Morocco. A total of 20,000 have laid
down their arms since tribal uprisings .last week. Thousands of others
have fled to mountain strongholds. -
BIG THREE
TO PLAN STRATEGY
WITH RED LEADERS
To Press Russians For Concessions
.WASHINGTON - AP -
The Western Big Three foreign ministers will-meet for
two days in New York Sept.
27 to.chart the joint strategy
that will guide them during
talks with Russia's.Vyache-
slav Molotov. .
' Slate Secretary Dulles is reported ready to insist that British
Foreign Secretary Macrnillan and
French Foreign Minister Pinay
agree'to press the Russians hard
for specific' concessions in Europe.
The state  department, in- an-1
nouncing the Western stralc;
conference, said Wednesday that
West Germany's foreign minister,
Heinrich von Brentano would join
the meeting Sept. 28, to discuss
German unity problems which are
certain to figure prominently in
talks wilh Russia.
' The Big rour foreign policy
chiefs, acting under instructions'
from their heads of government,
are to meet in Geneva Oct. 27 to
try to translate into agreements
the friendlier East-West relations
flowing from the. recent "summit'.'
meeting.
Dulles is known to regard the
meeting with Molotov as a critical
test of whether Russia will follow
gy up with deeds its professed desire
jat to live in peace with its Western
neighbors. Besides Germany, key
topics to be discussed are'possible
East-West -security arrangements,
more exchanges oi cultural visits
.arid the West's, demand that Russia relax Its grip on its Balkan
satellite "empire.
Dulles is .reported fairly optimistic oven the West's long- run
chances- of forcing Russia into
some kind of diplomatic agreement which would case Moscow's
iron hold on East'Germany. Top.
U. S. officials believe, however,
any such Russian move will ba
slow in unfolding.
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