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Court sources said, however, that it does not mean the birth is imminent. ap photo) i Member France Case As Paris, Feb. l4-u-France, explosion, may now push her Of Atomic' Club Know-how of the United States and Britain. There were reports that France will follow Saturday's successful test of a tower device with the explosion of an operational A-bomb. The French defence minister said Saturday night that France will also build a striking force of nuclear weapons to assure her national independence." Two members of the French Atomic Energy Commission will visit Washington later this week to meet officials of the U.S.

Atomic Energy Commission. I. Traffic Jam: This was the confusion created last niqht at the entrance man G. Rickover says he fears the United States may lose its lead over Rus sia in nuclear submarines because of meddling by Pentagon higher-ups in the work of his team of naval atomic experts. "We must maintain our lead in atomic submarines and nu clear propulsion," Rickover said "If we don't, we will give up 10 years of advantage and that is what I afraid is going to happen to us, because of the vast amount of interference to which my organization is subjected." Rickover, sometimes called the father of the atomic submarine, appeared recently before the Se nate Space Committee and Pre paredness Subcommittee.

His tes timony, given in secret, was made public Saturday. 'Still Ahcod Of Reds' Asked about the over-all contest between Russia and the United States, Rickover replied: "We are ahead of them now technologically, but as far as the rate of progress is concerned, they definitely are ahead of us. "I am frightened by what appears to be a tendency in some quarters to prefer letting this country sink to second place. We cannot afford to be. second in anything that affects our security.

We must lead, or we must have parity as a minimum. If we don't have parity, we will lose our freedom." Rickover said he has to transfer younger naval officers who work with him or they would not qualify for promotions under the Navy rotation system. Asked why they were denied promotions under him, he replied: "Well they are not liked. They rub people the wrong way. They are not courteous in situations that demand courtesy.

As a result, he said, fewer able young naval officers now go into nuclear work. Engineer Killed In Rail Crash Hornepayne, Feb. 14 IT! A transcontinental passenger train and a freight smashed together Saturday on a remote bushland stretch of the Canadian National Railways mainline north of Lake Superior. Thirty-seven were injured. Engineer Albert Prairie, about 50, of Hornpayne, was killed when he rode the locomotive of the CNR's crack Super Continental into the crash.

Three members of the freight crew and the fireman from the passenger train were severely injured when they leaped for their lives just before the collision. Thirty-three of the westbound Super Continental's 67 passen gers were treated for minor in juries by doctors and nurses flown to the scene from other communities. Cause of the wreck is being in vestigated by railway authorities and provincial police. A spokesman said traffic on the line is ontrolled by block signals. Hornepayne is a CNR divi sional point 210 miles northeast of the Lakehead.

The trains met on a curve. 32 miles west of here, where the mainline's single track snakes through a rocky, wooded area dotted with lakes. St. pound. These trucks, part of a fleet of 50, will still be out this morning and anyone who leaves a parked car in the "snow emergency" zone may find himself in the same predicament that several hundreds of motorists did (Gaietle Photo by Mike Grvl) to one of the eight city parking lets.

The rapid rate the tow trucks take offending cars from the road can be seen from this photo of six trucks, laden with prey, trying to move into the Cathedral and St. Antoine I Pact Hailed Reds Pledge Moscow, Feb. 14-W) The leaders of the Soviet Union and Red China today hailed the 10th anniversary of their mutual defence treaty with renewed pledges to support each other in war or peace. The messages were exchanged as Premier Khrushchev visited India, deeply embroiled in a border dispute with Red China. The message to Peking was More Snow Due By JIM FERRABEB Fifteen hundred men and 800 pieces of equipment worked all night to try and dig Montreal from under the worst storm of the winter.

Upwards of a foot of snow drifted by 35-mile-an-hour winds hit the region all day yesterday. More i3 expected today. Snow emergency was oeclared by city snow removal officials at 1 p.m. yesterday sending some 50 tow trucks into action to clear the streets of parked cars. The emergency conditions were expected to continue until noon today, and maybe longer if the blizzard docs not abate.

The snow, that started at I a.m. yesterday, fell all day, turning into freezing, rain in the evening and early this morning back to snow. The forecaster predicted centrt 'Don't Drive' Police last night warned people to leave cars at home today tine snow wai expect to continue well inte thli fortnoon. of the storm had passed the region about 7 p.m. but light snow would continue until late this morning.

A high of 18 degrees above zero is forecast for today. Montreal Airport at Dorval reported flights leaving and arriving from points east were cancelled throughout most of the day. Scheduled arrivals from Toron to and points west were reported running on time, both in and out of Montreal. Provincial roads, some of which were coated with a thin layer of ice from Saturday's quick freezing conditions, pre sented a formidable hazard with visibility on open stretches at zero last night. Roads department officials said Saturday's normal overnight crews continued working when the snow started yesterday morning and as conditions worsened all available equipment was pressed into service.

The city's 1,200 men and 620 pieces of equipment were supplemented by about 200 men and another 200 tractors, trucks and graders from private contractors in the battle. The worst sections of, the city were hills where sanders and men working on the slopes were unable to prevent the pile-ups of private cars, trucks and buses. M.T.C. officials said traffic on level streets was running close to schedule but the hilly routes were unpredictable. Cars Towed To Lots The city's eight parking lots used for towing vehicles from "snow emergency" streets were a hive of activity all day with ax many as seven tow trucks at some of the lots.

In the "emergency" tone bounded by Atwatcr-Dclorimier, Craig-St. Antoine, and Sherbrooke Sts. cars parked anywhere on the street were towed promptly to the pounds. The offenders received the keys to their can with a $5 parking ticket. "Although Sunday, compared with work days, is usually a quiet day for traffic, all the trucks were kept busy towinj yesterday," a roads department official said.

Royal Automobile Club report ed last night that roads east of Three Rivers and Drummond-ville were almost impassable. The highway from Montreal to Albany, New York, is covered with hard packed snow, and from Albany to New York City freezing rain has further complicated the conditions. The storm moved in from the Ottawa region early yesterday and was reported headed east to hit the Maritimes early today and tomorrow. winds are following at 20 miles-an-hour with gusts on open stretches up to 35 miles-an-hour, The weekend weather presented a sharp contrast to balmy 45 degree readings enjoyed at the end of Inst week. is an important factor in strengthening the great family of peoples of the Socialist countries." A full page of anniversary statements in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda includes an article by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

Pierre Falquet of the French I commission's external affairs di vision and Philippe Gordien of tne military applications division, Insisted in New York that their talks would be merely exploratory. Reaction In Washington to the test was that one explosion does not entitle a nation to full membership in atomic councils. But President Charles de Gaulle is prepared to argue that much nu clear information is already known to Russia and should not be kept secret from a friend, Photos, Film Shown de Gaulle and other French men today got their first look at photographs of the explosion of the tower device, fired Saturday morning in the Sahara. An army documentary film showing pre parations for the blast and the lowering of the awesome mush- room cloud were flown to Paris, de Gaulle had a special showing at his Elysee Palace. The state-run television net work projected the film on each of its news programs.

Still photographs of the blinding explosion were splashed in newspapers. Police guarded the French embassy in Stockholm after anonymous threats that "on Sunday we will blow up the embassy." The embassy has received hundreds of letters protesting the test. In Syria, U.A.R. President Gamal Abdcl Nasser denounced the explosion. Thousands of Syrian students marched out of classes.

Demonstrators in Damascus chanted "Down with criminal de Gaulle." Premier Khrushchev said in New Delhi: "All I can say is that we regret this direction has been taken instead of a direction reducing such explosions." Bridge Clossified Comics Crossword Dink Carroll 30Howorth 26 31 31 (Obituaries 43 3rP.cc!-; 24 17 Radio TV 6 Editorio SiSociol 27 Facts-Fancies 29 Sports 17 Financial 34: Theatres 11 Fill 4, Women West Aid 'Means Slavery' Bhilai, India, Feb. 14 UrV-Premier Khrushchev said today Western nations give aid to India and other underdeveloped nations only to hold them "in capitalist slavery." "They openly state that India must be given economic aid otherwise it will pass from the free world into the Socialist camp," he told an audience at a banquet in this central Indian steel city built with Soviet aid. triumphant over an atomic lest case for a share of the nuclear lalks 'Urgent' Ottawa, Feb. 14. CP A spokesman for Prime Minister Diefcnbaker said today France's successful explosion of a nuclear device points up the urgency of pressing ahead with the Geneva talks on banning such tests.

The spokesman said Mr. Die-fenbaker feels that with more countries knowing how to make and set off atom bombs, it becomes more important to reach international agreement to ban them. Khrushchev is to arrive March 15 on a state visit to Paris. He seemed to be avoiding saying anything that might arouse de Gaulle's anger. Charles Ailleret.

chief of the French special wea pons division, said Saturday's successful test of a plutonium device at Tanezrouf, deep in Algeria near the Reggane Oasis, will permit us to construct swiftly a completely modern nuclear artns supply." (At a press conference Satur day right, French Defence Minister Pierre Messmer said France is considering building a hydrogen bomb. Asked at a press conference whether a French H-bomb was ready, he replied: "The problem is being The austere de Gaulle voiced his enthusiasm in a message to Atomic Affairs Minister Pierre Guillaumat, who directed the "Hurrah for France! Since this morning she is stronger and prouder. From the bottom of my heart, thanks to you and those who, for France, have achieved this magnificent success." France is known to have enough plutonium, a derivative of uranium 238, on hand for two atomic blasts and is slowly pro cessing more. rne frencn blast No. I ap pears to have been about equal to the lirst atormc bombs pro duced 1945 by the United States.

Their energy was rated as the equivalent of that packed in 20,000 tons of TNT. Hydrogen weapons developed since by the United States, Britain and Russia are far more powerful. At last night's opening Pre mier Barrette expressed best wishes for the carnival's success. He said the carnival focused the attention of the rest of Canada and foreign lands open Quebec and foreign lands on Quebec City. Mayor Wilfrid Hamel, carnival president.

Paul Chaput. Bon- f'homme Carnaval and other digm 'taries wrt present. -J 'S BEVAN Bevan Leaves For Country Recuperate London, Feb. 14 (Reuters) Aneurin Bevan left a London hospital today, on the road to recovery from a major abdominal operation seven weeks ago. Doctors said Bevan, 62-year-old Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, will be out of public life for "some months" while he convalesces at his country home.

Members of tne hospital staff turned out to wave to Bevan as he was driven away with his wife, Jennie Lee, also a Labor Member of Parliament. Miss Lee said later at their home west of London: "Mr. Bevan is still very weak and quite unable to receive visitors." question of warplanes with Cuban officials. He said earlier, however, the Soviet Union would supply warplanes "if we are asked." The Soviet credit, which must be spent in the Soviet Union, could be used for planes. Formal diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union, broken by ex-Director Fulgencio Batista, in 1951, are expected to be the next step.

CASTRO Gromyko again demanded a seat for Red China in the United Nations, the return Chinese Nationalist Formosa to Peking's control and condemned Japan for signing a new mutual defence treaty with the United States. The Soviet-Chinese treaty, signed Feb. 14, 1950, five months after the Chinese Communists consolidated their power on the mainland, was aimed specifically at Japan and any allies, in this case, the United States. He said he had read articles written by former New York Governor W. Averall Harriman after his tour of India a year ago, and by columnist Walter Lipp-mann.

He said these writers and others show "something akin to panic fear that India will like our socialistic methods better than capitalism and will come over to us." pound over the world market price. The agreement mentioned only the supply of agricultural and industrial equipment and the usual flow of Soviet technicians to assemble and operate it. Technicians also will be supplied for building factories and plants, the communique said. But the Castro Government is anxious to buy jet warplancs, denied by Britain and the United States, who have halted arm sales until the explosive situation in the Caribbean eases, Mikoyan told press conference be had not discussed the "Let them give you capital if they want. Let them return in some small measure the wealth they plundered from your country." The Premier said Communist countries are overtaking capitalist countries "and they are afraid and are fighting back" in such nations as India and Indonesia.

In this fight, the West is giving two rubles in aid for every one the Soviet Union gives. Under the trade agreement, the Soviet Union will buy tons of sugar a year for the next five years. It will extend to Castro's regime a credit of to be repaid in 12 years at an interest rate of 2Vi per cent. Of this amount of sugar, the signed by Khrushchev and President Klcmenti Voroshilov. The message to Moscow was signed by the four most powerful men in Red China Mao Tst-tung, Communist Party chairman; Lieu Shao-chi, president of the Government; Marshal Chu Teh, chairman of the National People's Congress standing committee, and Premier Chou En-lai.

Emphasise Soviet Leadership Repeatedly referring to the Soviet Union as leader of the world Socialist camp, Peking said both China and the Soviet Union "stand on advanced positions for the defence of peace." The message added: "Whether the easing of international tensions will continue in the future, whether urgent international questions will receive a reasonable solution will depend on whether the Western bloc headed by the United States is really striving sincerely for peace." The message from Khrushchev and Voroshilov declared that "Soviet-Chinese friendship penetration deep into the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Before he left by plane for Moscow at the end of a 10-day visit to Cuba, Mikoyan also indicated at a press conference that resumption of Cuban-Soviet diplomatic relations may be near. A final communique said: "Both governments approve the proposition of amplifying and reinforcing contacts in the field of economic co-operation, technical assistance and cultural exchanges to benefit their respective peoples. "They agree to discuss opportunely the renewal of diplomatic relations on a plane of complete equality nd Cuba, Russia Sign Major Trade Pact Havana, Feb. 14 I Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I.

Mikoyan Saturday signed a major trade pact with Prime Minister Fidel Castro making the Soviet Union Cuba's second largest customer behind the United States. Cuban leaders hailed the new trade agreement, under which the Soviet Union buys one-fifth of Cuba's annua! sugar crop, as the first step toward closer Soviet-Cuban relations. U.S. sources said the pact as- Blizzard Fails To Dampen Quebec's Carnival Opening Quebec, Feb. 14 CB Quebec's sixth annual winter carnival, an 18-day whirl of artistic, social and sporting events, was officially opened Saturday night by Premier Antonio Barrette.

More than 15,000 persons gathered on d'Youville Square in near-perfect weather for the opening of one of the city's greatest tourist attractions. Mikoyan 'Booed'. By Studenfafc Oslo, Norway, Feb. 14; Cfl Angry Norwegian students tonight booed and shouted down Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan after he asserted that former Hungarian freedom fighters now in Norway "are criminals." Mikoyan, on a two-. day stopover en route home from Cuba, addressed the Norwegian Students Association.

sures Russia of a firm foot in this critical Caribbean area from which it can extend its MIKOYAN I i A howling blizzard today, one of the winter's biggest snowstorms, failed to dampen enthusiasm and activities went on as scheduled. Seven duchesses representing seven districts of Quebec City and its suburbs parade on downtown streets in mid-afternoon. Onu of the duchesses will be crowned Carnival Queen tomorrow night at the Coliseum by Bonhomme Carnaval, symbol the festivities. Soviet Union will pay cash in dollars for 200,000 tons a year at the world market price, now three cents a pound. The remaining 800,000 tons of sugar will be exchanged for farm and industrial machinery Jt The United States about half of Cuba's annual sugar production of S.000,000 tons, paying fnm 3 to Itt cenU i.