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't THZ OTTAWA JOURN AC MASS DISMISSALS 'S Britain to NEW CMMM SOMAN CATHOLIC CBCBCH rom ATLMEB-Work will begin in September eo th Bt-Mrk1 Church for English-speaking Catholics of structure la In tht traditional of architecture. A rectory will be attached. Tba church hall wUl ba In tba basement Tha building will be aractad on a lot MO feet Reds to Explain Why Stalin Wasn't Stopped WASHINOTON, June M. VP) But Department officials ay they expect Communist ruler to attempt- a publle explanation soon of. why they did not stop Joseph Stalin's reign or terror.

na of them say they think tha stags was set for such anlments of the situation: explanation yesterday wnen Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published an arti cle In which the question was raised by Eugene Dennis, American' leader. Among top officials and ex-eerta here there I full agree- ment that the Communist world Is In ferment over this question. Tim to Answer. Experts on Russia hero said that Pravda may hare chosen ta mint the Dennis article be cause In their view It was the least minted In Its criticisms of th( present leadership. But the experts noted also that tha Pravda editors could have Ignored tha whole thing If they had wanted to do ao and suggested Its Dublication may In dicate that tha Soviet leader-Ship haa decided tha time has coma to deal with tha criti cisms.

Use of the Dennis article, they laid, could set the stage for a reolT directed not only to Communists outside Russia but also to those Inside and to the Russian, people gen erally. Demands Explanation. TORONTO. June Canada's Labor-Progressive (Communist) Party today de- manded that Soviet Russia give a fuller explanation aa to why former Premier Stalin was allowed to conduct a "one-man rule and commit "errors, ex; cesses and In a statement to the press the party's national executive committee said It does not consider adequate the explana tiont of Secretary Nlklta Khrushchev of the Russian Communist Party that Stalin's personal weaknesses and short coming alone were re sponsion. Reject City's Hospital Plan The Ottawa Municipal Service Association has turned down the city's hospital service plan, offered to all city employes In fulfilment of the directive of an arbitration board.

Presumably therefore, the city will be required to Institute the Blue Cross hospital plan, with physicians services, "for the I4M persons Involved. -The city would pay half the cost, the employe the other half. The board direc tive provided that if no "mu tually -satisfactory" plan were found, the Blue plan should be adopted, Two Ottawa Drivers Fined in Hull Court' Pleading guilty In Hull Magistrate's' court to a charge of driving while Impaired- by alcohol. Eldon 151 Gloucester street, was fined 4100 and coats and lost -his driver's -lloence for three tnonth. At th same court Raymond 5 by 800 fact on th south ildt of th Aylmer Road -directly oppotlW the Redemptorlst Bemlnary.

Tho drawing li by August Aylmer. Tho Martlnean and modern type model of tha new (tract or win on display at tha big, old-fashioned fair being held by St Mark's pariah in the Aylmar Apiculture ralr Orounda tonight, Friday and Saturday. FDC Cost Raises Questions The suggestion by Auditor Oeneral Watson Sellar that the city of Ottawa might pay for the upkeep of certain Federal District properties in local -rather than national use raise a number of questions retarding the distribution of coats between the city and the roc, city officials said today. Briefly, these were the ele- A number of streets ''Were built, for various, reasons, by tha FDC: Clemow and Monk land avenuee and Linden Terrace as part of a Driveway to tha Experimental Farm; Island ParT Drive as part of th Driveway, system. Paid Ma Omrgssr- Local property owner, al though they enjoyed the usual property owners rights on' these street, paid no local Im provement or maintenance In addition, six sizeable city owned parks.

Including Rock- cllffePark, Mafdonald Oardenst and Stratheona Park, were leased at nominal sums to the! FDC and thus maintenance; charges were paid by the com-ling Associate, architect. A Split Thls situation also applied to certain other properties. Including the lands around tha Elgin street sub way, and part of th land around Brown's Inlet. It was possible, city officials admitted, that these properties contributed more to local than: to national satisfaction. Dtductiea Per Sewfciea.

On. tha other handV in the negotiation between tha city and th Federal Government on the amount of tha Federal grant In lieu of taxation on Crown properties, there were deductions made in connection with Jhe services mad to these parks. Whether the deductions were appropriate was a matter of opinion. And the various deduc tions made because of RCMF traffic control. which tba city has said are too large on th Driveway system were also related to this problem.

City official agreed with Mr, Be liar's testimony, before the Joint Senate-Commons Com- mltte on the National Capital that the adjustment Involved might be only a matter of tidy- up the bookkeeping. --'3 RA Honors i Roy Kinsella Ray Ktnstlla. Immediate psxfepresident of CI vU. Service Recreation Association, last night was presented with an easy chair at a gathering of RA directors In the RA Lodge. The presentation, in recognition of Mr.

Kinsella' 'work In sports and 111 general contri bution to RA activities, was mad by vice-president Martin BAMBr JUMPS THE FENCE Th pet deer, Bambl, familiar to patron of WhltehUl Olade, Billings Bridge, caused her owner, Mrs. Kay McKenzle, some anxious moment this morning. Mr. McKenzle said Bambl, frightened by dogs, had Jumped the fence of her pen at about am. and waa finally coaxed back into it at nooiModay.

Neighbor and friends finally succeeded by using clover a bait. (Journal FlwU by Dominion WIQel Hydro Copper Wire Worth $3,800 Stolen at Perth PERTH, June 27. (Special) Nearly 6.000 pounds of copper wire valued at $3,800 were stolen from' the warehouse of th Ontario Rural Hydro Drummond street west near th town limit last night Th thieves cut a four-foot square 4n a six-foot chain link fence and carried th stolen good from the warehouse through the opening. The wire wa madjuup Into rolls weighing 275 pounds. Distance from whr-the-rlre waa stored at the front of the warehouse to the thieves' truck was 500 feet The truck entered a pasture owned by John Scott and was parked at the rear of the Carson Machinery Bupply Co.

A large quantity of farm Whlssell, 133 Nelson itreet was.chlnery stored on th Canon jv fined $50 and costs when he lot prevented the robbers' pleaded truck from being detected without a licence. He pleaded from Drummond street ot guilty to a second charge chief E. S. Thompson aa-f Impaired driving and wa ststed.by the OPP at Perth are remanded to July I for trlaLltoTMUfitlng th robbery- MOTHER FINDS CHILDREN DEAD IN FREEZER DALLAS. June Oh A mother returned from a part-time Job yesterday to find her two small children suffocated In a horn fleeter.

Mrs. Dorothy Jenkins found the bodies of Sandra, and Gregory, 8, after an absene of 11 hour during which she was -working at nearby Oread Prairie. Her husband, Peorge, also was working. Mrs. Jenkins had cleaned LONDON, June 2.

(Ren ters) Trims Minister Eden and his Cabinet are expected today to consider the crisis in the British automobile industry which was pin-pointed year tarday by the biggest mass dls- al of workers since the war. Union leader and workers era discussing anxiously today the. three blow which fell within a few hour. yesterday: Me Fired. 1.

The announcement by the British Motor Corporation that 1,000 of it M.OOO-strong labor force will be tired Friday and other workers will be placed on a three or four-day week. x. A statement from the Rover Motor Company of Bir mingham that nearly 1,000 workers will be placed on a four-day week, because of a normal seasonal recession In car purchasing. f. Ths-breaking off by 1 the Standard Motor.

Company of Coventry of negotiations over redundancy which leaders of nine union had hoped might save tha loos of 1.200 workers du for dismissal next week. Blamed cat Taxes. The British Motor Corpora tion blamed it dlimlsial on Increased government pur chase tax, new Instalment buy- Eisenhower Gains Weight WASHINOTON. June n-VT) President Elsenhower doc tors reported today the chief executive ha started to gain weight for tho first time sine his operation. This news came as th President, after making tha first publle appears nee of his hospital stay, prepared to leave Walter Reed Army Hospital Saturday morning and continue recuperation at nnOettysburg.

farm. An t.lt ajn. EST, medical Duiieun said: "Th President had a fine night's rest Ha slept almost continuously for run hours. "His temperature is his pulse Is 78, his blood pteasuia ill over 70, his respiration is la an of which are normal. "His- weight this morning showed a gain of one pound.

"His condition continue to progress satisfactorily. His spirit ana morale are certainly appeared high last night when the President popped his head through th open window of hi hospital room and waved salute to a tail crowd and tha army band, which had lured him into public view for the tint tima with a rendition of "Army White Bouse Press Secretary James Hagerty said In giv ing out tha morning medical bulletin that the President Is sending his compliments to the Band leader, Major Hugh Cur ry, for a "very fin perform ance. C. W. Lindsay Higher in Year MONTREAL.

June 38. CP) Net earning of $75,508 for tha year ended March 31, 1956, compared with $48,008 for the preceding year were reported by C. w. Lindsay and Co. Cross profit for the year wu'Beetrxold at bunches for 25 against.

$840,774 In leents, shallots at I bunches for 1854-53. Current assets werelaajeenta. et at "11,422,850, modeitelyTTjCT prices were unchanged higher than the previous year's $1,341,002. Current liabilities amounted to $74,078 down from Two U.S. Women In UK Golf Final SUNNINODALE, June 28.

UP) Margaret (Wlffl) Smith, of St Clair, Mich, and Mary Patton Janssen, of Charlottesville, Va made It an all- American final in the British Women's amateur golf championship today. Miss Smith defeated Polly Riley, of Fort Worth, Tex, and 4, in one 18-hole semi-final match and Mis Janssen thai last British player, Angela Ward, and a. Kenny on behalf of th direc tor. tAmgng- those present was Herve Prattte, chairman of the RA board. of trust.

President Len Hill presided. the fresernd put th lid up ao It could air out She Instructed the children to stay in th bo'jse while she Iras gone and had tried to phone them from work. Sh went home and noticed the freeser lid was down, then discovered th bodies Inside She ran screaming from the house. Police said the children must have climbed' Into 'the freeser and knocked th lid down. ustry leg restrictions wages and and rising Other factors Included the increased sales tax In Australia, for many year Britain' best car market, and Import licence cuts In New Zealand, the firm added.

The Standard Company which has already dismissed about 1.S50 men because of the Introduction of automation. last night rejected a proposal that a three-day week should be Introduced to save tha )ooo 01 another 1.200. 1 Widespread Anxiety. Newspaper editorials today reflect the widespread anxiety at the (tat of the car Industry. The Manchester Ouardlan says: The Important thing now la for trad unions and management In tha motor Industry to atop fighting each other and to do battle instead with foreign competitor." The Dally Herald say that the firing "add up to a threat and a challenge Pointing out that West Oer- many overtook Britain to become the world 1 leading exporter of ears In the last quart er of 1950, tha Herald aayi: "Tha time haa coma for the nation to Investigate the reasons for the present failure and tha prospect of the future." Sir Archibald Receives Key to City Tbl mayor and member of Board of Control last evening visited Sir Archibald Nye, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, at "Eamaellff to present him with a key to th city.

Sir Archibald is retiring this Pall to live In England. He ha been la Ottawa since August, no. India to Spend COO Million .5. Wheat sw vEuu, jun iajR India today announced it decision to open negotiation with th United States for the purchase of 2,000,000 tons of wheat worth more than 00000. Informed source said India hopes to obtain aa much wheat ss possible under th VM.

surplus program which would en able India to pay rupee and then borrow the money back ror economic development proj set. Strawberries: In Good Supply On By Ward Markel Potato prices remained at $3.75 per 35 pound bag on today By Ward Market Last week, prices were $3 JO. but supplies of good local potatoes were reported In abort supply. Strawberries appeared In good quan title this week at 25 cent per half pint, and' from S2 to $2.25 for quart basket at 85 cents per dozen grade A large, 80 cent for medium and 55 for small. An abundance of annuals, perennial and cut flower vendor stands.

Prices remained unchanged with annuals selling at 35-60 cents per down, and 50 cents and upward for perennials. 1 'i. I 1 Mrs. E. B.

Orsham, granddaugh'teY of the I from Britain. Left $200.000 by th Canadian lata Sir James Dunn, takes a shipboard peek I steel magnate. Mrs. Oraham may settle In at Montr! with her -hosoana 1 1 11 1 1 ,1 1 an 1 smwasssswrn "r-' fcl 1-. mmA.

COMING DOWN The thraa-atorey frame addition to the main stone warehouse of the M. Levinson Salvage Company, 211 St. Re- Hull Tearing Down Building Erected Without Permit Bull city workmen this morn ing began tearing down a three-etorey addition to the warehouse of the M. Levinson Salvage Company, 271 St. Re-dempteur street.

The demolition culminate) a long-fought verbal and legal battle which began last March when the company began the addition without a city building permit City council, after many 01- cussions, finally Issued an order two week ago that tha Levinson Company must tear down the addition within 4B hours or th city would do the Job. The order war served Morris Lsvlnson, president of the firm, Juno 20, and waa given until Tuesday to comply, bacaus of the holiday Monday. CUMBS 50 MILES Design New Nike Fof Missile Defence WASHINOTON. June 28. 1 Army spokesmen have saMJiroysd far and high 'they hope to counter the com ing menace of the lnter-con-tlnental balllatle missile with H-bomb warhead.

-They predicted such an antl-mlsslle system will ba ready In four or five year. Th Senate sub-committee Investigating relative TJA-Rus- alr power released last night previously secret testi mony by army's specialists In missiles and missile oei development''' Included was tha statement of the Chief of the Air Defence branch of, the army's missile division. Lt CoL Woodrow 81gleyr that the army la "confident" It will hav a. counter- weapon ready in time tot, "meet the described threat- of the inter-continental missile In 1080 or 1081. Censor deleted portions of th testimony which apparent ly dealt with details of army progress toward producing an antl-mlsslle ayitemA It" was assumed, however, that the army was describing its Nike missile.

Unlike the Nik and Nike, missiles, which ars designee for opratlng against manned Jet bombers and other conven tional planes, the Nike II Is intended, to reach and destroy ballistic and guided missile with supersonic speed at great height and at more, than double the lateral range of the anti-aircraft Nike. Climes 18 Mile. Nik I being designed to climb at speed of thousands of miles an hour to a height of as much as 50 miles. The mass destruction hydrogen rocket p- r-: '1 ww r--" i 1 if ill Ij JIEIBESS MAT SETTLE IN CANADA. afier arriving Canada.

dempteur street, I down by the City I Tuesday afternoon and yes terday were taken up with dis cussions between legal counsel for Mr. Levinson and the city and when neither a court action to atop tha city nor demolition had been started, city workmen were ordered to begin tearing down the building this morning. They began by stripping sheet tin from a small. pent house-Ilk structure on top of the frame addition under the direction of Hull Building In spector Adeodat Lambert A spokesman lor Mr. Lam Den said late this morning that Mr.

Levinson might make some arrangement to complete demolition himself, but. until be doe so city workmen will carry on with th Job. must be countered and des- shove It Intended target to make defence practical. The army also gave the com mittee a new timetable for development of an American Intermedial range ballistic Lt Oen. James M.

Gavin, chief of research and development said "we will put a ballistic missile Into business very And Major Oen. J. B. Meda- ria, who bead the army bsl-Uatie missile agency at the Redstone. Ala- arsenal, dis closed -plans to fir a test devicefor range only more than $.000 mile.

Medarl said will do that Pre sumably, this is on of the reasons for the recent agreement obtained by the United Bute to permit extension of the test range extending southeastward from Florida into th Atlanic. New Secret Wesson. In testimony yesterday, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas said th navy ha "on hand" a new secret weapon "which will rev olutionize anti-sub manne war- He mad only brief reference to the weapon during hi1 ap pearance before the sub-corn- mlttee. tlowever, hi statement 'was considered because Soviet sea power Is concentrated In submarines. Thomas did not elaborate on the nature of the development Chairman Stuart Symington (Dem.

Mo.) said Russia's pro duction of far greater numbers of undersea craft "is not being recognised as It should be. by Thomas disagreed and said he It It Hull, which la being term of HulL -(jwni rkow 1 Wlss) Truman Ends SOUTHAMPTON, Jun 28. UP) Harry Truman ended his European. vacation today and said tho people of Western Europe ar definitely friendly to the- United BUte. Th farmer American preeK dent told reporters aboard thai liner United State that he had; found tha people of Western Europe "generally happy, and their countries are prosper A British reporter suggested that th good economic conditions Truman had seen wire due to tha Marshall Plan which sponsored.

"Let's get this Truman replied. "I didn't do and I dont take credit for That would be Th people of th United State did It They are tht one you want to To repeated question about President Elsenhower'a Ulnae th Democratic Party leader would reply only 'no- eon He told another ques tioner th high pot of his. trip was his visits to Britain "and getting degree Oxford 4 Cuts Imports, Jun 28. (Renter) -Australia today slashed her annual Import by 40.000.000 Australian pound (SSOJWOOQ) Including a 50 percent reduction In fully assembled automobile, $0 percent th chassis and a 25 percent cut In Scotch whisky imports. The import reduction cover a wide range of less essential goods' and revise th existing basis of granting licences, acting Trade Minister William McMahon announced.

Detail of th new restriction were given by McMahon a few hour after Sir Arthur Fadden, acting Prim Minister, announced the cut The acting Prime Minister said the --flow of Import at the present rat could exceed 1700,000,000 ($1,800,000,000) a yer, Th Government review of the situation had Indicated Im proved export prospects, but there waa still a need for a further restraint of imports, dded. Last year, Australia Imported 48,587 new ears from Britain at a cost of about $47400,000 and commercial vehicle at a cost of about $17,600 JM0. She Imported Scotch and Irish whisky worth gJJOO.OOO. the Navy I moving as rapidly aa possible to push its own pro gram of building stomlc-pow-ered auhs -j Th Navy Air Arm was "far more powerful than manyef us have Thomas said. Two Men Killed At Crossing WEST LORNE, Ont, Jun 2.

4C) Two men were killed to day when their half-ton pickup truck was In with a westbound Chesapeake and Ohio freight train. West Lorn is 25 mile southwest of St (Thomas. Killed were NeO O. (Bud) Walker, $0, and Henry Kocar, 2). of nearby AJdoorougb town had been on their way to work at the Erie Floor ing Company plant Part of the truck we carried more than 200 feet and cast off on th south sid at the track.

Both victim were riogl men. 4 Th tracks-are Well guarded with wig-wag signals, -fcr BAIL OCT. BONN, West Oermany, Jun 28-( Reuters The two-man crew of a British Jet aircraft hailed out tnrfav before thetv plsn crashed In Jhe. ouUkirta European Trip.

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