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mwiMiM Mom Late News m. Sport, Stocks Ottawa, Friday, april 22, 1955.. i prick i crarrs 70TH YEAR 112 aut by aarrW to wweaiy, ON PAGE 38 1 fo) III TT TT TTTTN TVT -TT VPflATOMRR MM mm Ltd fl il) lalfo? Fire leaves Will Stand Nehru FT Solidly WftltMS. Moose Jaw Member Leaves Party NATO I nillllMIMVV av Mr Pearson denied Canada IIMVIIIUIUJJ I' Garage and three Apartment's Destroyed in Afternoon Blaze O'ClMfe KSIUM Senrtrt. External Affairs Minister Pearson' last night ended the long-drawn-out Common debate on external affairs with the declaration that independent Canada would stand solidly In coalition with the United 8tate.

Throuihout the debate. vl If Fire which completely gutted a garage and three apartments on ol i-aureni notuevara, at CyrvUle Road thla afternoon lert is person nomeieas and warned, chiefly by CCF mem-caused damage estlmsted at bers. about the dangers of S20.0O0. blindly following United States' was an unquestioning follower. No assurance hsd been given of support or willingness to intervene on behalf of or with the United States in any war, major or minor, on the continent of China or any other Place.

Whether support could be counted on (rom Canada would depend entirely on whether, commitments under. NATO were Involved or there was aggression under the United Nation If the alliance of the world headed by the united States broke up, then there which started on March 24 and has neeuoied four davs with many Interruption, the minls- ter has repeatedly policies. IN KOSS THATCHER. MF. Now an Independent.

PITCHED IWANCIAL. BATTLE. Fire broke out at 130 in the garage owned by Rosarlo Cyr, who live directly across the road (rom the service station. In the garage at the time were Mr. Cyr'a son Yvon, 14, who Immediately gave the alarm to the families upstairs.

Only Mrs. Alfred Oauthler was at home at the time. Yvon Cyr told The Journal that he was downstair the garage when he heard a crack ling sound and on Investigation found smoke. Lett homeles by the blase were Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Poulln and their three Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oauthler' and their six children, and Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Duprey.

Mr. Cyr told. The' Journal that some 3000 gallons of gas were In the- service station supply at the time of the Are but firemen were able to prevent it from catching-. There were no ears or trucks In the garage at the time but other contents of the station and of the apartments upstairs were believed to be a total loss. The building was covered by v.

Firemen from No. and No. fliw stations battled, the stubborn bias under the direction of district chief Fred Hoffman. The fire was still raging at press time. Fanatics Raid Conference City BANDUNO.

Indonesia. April 22 (Reuters) Fanatical Moslem terrorists struck for the third time In two dsys near the Asian-African Conference town of Bandung during the night. The bandits raided a Dutch-owned tea plantation at 8uk- kaatl. 40. miles isouthwest of Bandung.

They looted a part of the estate, but there were no casualties. NATO Officials To Visit Canada PARIS, April 22 WV-Top officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Council will make a 10-day trip to Iceland, Canada and the United States next month. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston 000 000 0, New York 000 101, NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnati 002 Chicago v.

100 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Toronto 200 Syracuse 020 4L 000,600 mall order urgent grave danger-to peace. Canada would do nothing to help disunity. There were atretics and strains on the coalition, especially over Far East i policies, but he warned again those who said they preferred peace to a United States alliance. Peace was not possible without that alliance.

It wss Canadian policy to stay out of the struggle (or Chinese off-shore Islands and other governments Involved would be wis to adopt the tama policy. Caadaded aa Page CoL S. 1l They confronted first tlma at the (Af Vriiwphsleal Sewell Avery Wins Early Skirmish CHICAGO, April Louis E. Walfswa virtually conceded today that his drive to gala central Montgomery Ward and O. had fallen short ef Its goaL CHICAGO, April 22.

V-! The Sewell L. Avery forces won the first skinnlxh over pro-l cedure today as the crucial an-1 cedure today as the crucial an nual meeting of Montgomery Ward and Co. shareholders got off to a noisy, quabbllng start. The Lout E. Wolf son group tried to block voting by stockholder while discussions were still on.

However, John Barr, Ward's vice-president. ruled that balloting eould pro ceed during debate, as scheduled. David Ooodklnd. a stock' holder from Woodmeer, NY, said "wide publicity" over the battle between Wolf son and Ward chairman Sewell L. Avery for control.

of the 1721.000,000 company had left a "great deal of confusion in the minds of stockholders; Ooodklnd demanded that discussions be held first and that voting follow. Canelnded aa Jage Wv Cat-T Win $500 Crossword If the sender Is a' regular home-delivery or mall subscriber to The Journal; Prise for a non-subscriber 'Will be a straight $300. Watch for the new Journal Prize Crossword in all editions Saturday. would business. -1 Florida Industrialist Louis E.

Wolfxon, left, and Sewell Avery, conservative head of Montgomery Ward and faced up today in a pitched battle for control of the Infected Guinea 'Growing Differences' With Leoder And Colleagues Reason Offered Ross Thatcher, (or 10 iftr CCF MP from Saskatchewan, thU afternoon resigned from his party. Speaker Beaudoln had only opened the Boom when Mr. Thatcher, representing Moos. iaw-Lske Centre, rose on a point of pergonal privilege, to report what he termed "grow Ing difference between myself, my leader an my colleague. These difference had been developing over the year and until recently Mr.

Thatcher had thought they perhaps eould hare been resolved. rata Hep. Event of Ibi session of Parliament had shown that to be "a tuUle i "So. In Justice to my leader, my colleague and myself, I resigning from the aid Mr. Thatcher, "and I will repreient the constituency ot Moom Jaw-Lake Centra (or the balance of this aeatton a an Independent, "And I must therefore ask you, Mr.

Speaker, to find a seat for me In another part of the Bouse." i A He would not be applying for membership in any other party; nor did he say what hi plan were beyond the end of thla session. 'A spoke. 'CCP Leader Coldwell turned around in his eat and watched him. Prim Minister St. Laurent, an the other side of the chamber, leaned toward Mr.

Thatcher and listened with, evident intense Interest, Oeerge Drew, Progressive Conservative leader1, looked occasionally at Mr. Thatcher but mainly kept his eye turned towards the Liberal benches and his left ear turned In the Saskatchewan member's direction. Social, Credit Leader Low, whose desk la lust about six feet from Mr. Thatcher's, kept his eye on the CCF member as he spoke, -Just before the Speaker called the House to order, Mr. Thatcher was In hi teat holding hi head In tils hand.

He toyed nervously with the sheet ef paper on which he had written hi Owen L. Jones CCF Okan- agan Boundary) held his head in his hands while Mr. Thatcher read the statement. Hasen Argue (CCF Asslnlbola) turn ed his back on Mr. Thatcher but switched around to (ace him when he finished reading.

After Mr. Thatcher completed his announcement. Mr. Coldwell nodded and pounded Bis desk lightly with the palm of hi hand. Stanley Knowle Concluded en Fag 38, CoL Morning Traffic Jam In West End The tightest traffic Jam of months, worse even than the eple pre-Chrlstmas storm tangle, up the West Znd this morning.

The "In" lane for east-bound going to work traffic was closed on the Wellington viaduct. The old span, which for weeks would have made a good proving groung for tantA, last was underiolnc remlr Why the -In" Instead of trie "out" Jane had to be closed this morning when (0 percent, of the traffic was city-bound, the Engineering Department (ore-man didn't know, Traffic from Scott, Arm-atrong and Wellington streets was detoured to the Somerset street viaduct, which on any day from am. to I m. has all It can do to handle Its own rush without faking on several thousand additional cars. The sm went Into the tra lc lights' st Bsyswster and Somerset like a cork Into the neck of a it backed up along Scott.

Armstrong and Wellington some IS blocks to Holland avenue and beyond. In the half hour from sn fo am. when traffic usually begins to thin out a little, it took IS minutes to get from Wellington, around the Somerset detour and a to Wellington. Asian Conference In Bitter RoW i Over. 'Communist Colonialism' BANDUNO, Indonesia, April 22 OP) Prime Minuter Nehn assailed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation today aa a protector of colonialism.

Ha; urged his own neutralist pol- Icy upon other delegates to) the 2ft-nation Aalan-Afrlcaa conference. We should not take any tides In the cold declared the Indian leader, who has been trying to keep the first international conference of the Asian-African countries from bogging down In an Ideological argument. Blasts Turkey. Nehru's blast tame In sponse to a statement front Turkish delegate Fatla Rusta Zoiia that "Turkey would not have survived (Russian ex- panslon) and we would not I at this conference today" if she had not joined NAT "We have heard what Tur key has to Ne "That Is one side of the ease. The other esse would be presented here.

But does not stand: for either side. We do not approve the Communist or the sntt-Comraunlst powers.We think that they are both wrong and that their policies are leading us to the brink of war." Oaeladed an Page Cat S. W.J. (Jack) Grimes Dies Suddenly -In His 60th Year The death occurred' la Toronto Thursday evening of Wilfred John (J a k) Orimea, member of a prominent Ottawa a veteran of World Was I and former all-round athlwte. Mr.

Orlmes who wss In his sixtieth year had been In Indifferent health for several years but had shown remarkable Improvement after release from hospital recently and his death was most unexpected. Jsck Orlmes was a son of the 1st John Orlmes and Hannah Slattery Orlmes and although born In Toronto was educated In St. Patrick's School, Ottawa. Loyola College, Montreal and the University of Ottawa. He was a member of Ottawa College hockey and baseball teams In the days when Father William Stanton was the guiding spirit In athletics at of O.

Some of his team mates wera Redmond Quain, QC, Dr. Eddie Nagle, the Doran brothers. Ted Beahan and "Dink" Madden. Concluded ea Page CoL g. SUNNY MONTREAL, April Dominion Weather Office 11.10 ajn.

report': Ottawa i region: Cloudy with sunny-periods today. A few showers this evening. Mainly sunny on Saturday. Mild. Light winds.

Low tonight and high Saturday 40 and 65. Summary for Saturday: Mainly sunny and mild. Synopsis: Cloudy weather la I as tern Ontario and Westers Quebec will remain today although some sunny periods are expected. Saturday should be mainly sunny. Eastern Quebec- will be sunny today but cloudy tonight and Saturday.

A few showers will occur thla evening in the western regions and In the eastern rejlon on Saturday. Temperature wiU be mild again oa Saturday. Tern sera tares. Low last night and fcliU Thursday: Vancouver 43. Victoria 41.

Edmonton 38. 38: Calgary XI, 48: Saskatoon 38. 31: Retina 33, 38: Winnipeg 31. 38: North Bay 43, 85; Windsor 40. 74: Toronto 47, 88; Ottawa 4J.

Quebec 38, 47: Prederlcton 39, 58; Halifax 35, 58: St. John's 33. 37; Chicago 53. 78; New York 47. SO; Washington 58, 73: Jacksonville 85, 87; Oklahoma 53, 87; Denver 48, 73; San Francisco 48.

83. The Jmnal flMrmnwM mm toanv restnev4 ST 4gree. The mi rata a SOT sett at 111 n. WSS MttMa: midnight tf aj. tea dictionartJ Comersaitea Ninety per- i cent, talking and IS cent, Still Not Capt Fire Destroys Two Niagara Cruise Ships NIAGARA FALLS, Out, April xi buf a me.eee lira- tipped thraagh the twa fawMHss "Maid the Mist" safaris beats at drydeck today, aad Fire Chief Jaha Chaptaa Mtlapwd aad died after fighting it, Cfaaptaa, who was M.

fell 4a the greand as he waa dl-rectlag his men's frantic attempts ta reach the biasing ships with hoses. Ha died Jeas tbaa twa hears later la the Greater Niagara General Hospital. The famous craft, well known to visitors to this honeymoon mecca, plied from docks on either aide of the river to the base of the Horse. shoe Falls and then sailed down the river almost to the Rainbow Bridge. They car ried about SO persons a trip.

A welder's torch was blamed (or the fire. Frank Lablond. president of the Maid of the Mist Steam ship Company, said later only the hulls were left intact. He estimated replacement value at 1350,000 and said only 2S percent, of the. loss was cov ered a- insurance.

The boat had been due to start Summer operations early in May. The nrt may leave the Niagara river without its cruise service for the. first time ince 1846. Mr. Lablond said the only way ne can carry on the serv Ice thjs Summer will be to buy another ship and that might involve problems of trans por tatlon.

The two ship which were burned were built here in IMS and 1881. FIGHT ARRANGED. DETROIT, April (UP) Former welterweight and mid dlewelght champion Sugar Ray Robinson today signed to meet Garth Panter of Salt Lake City In a 10-round "bout at Olympla May 4. Set Watches Ahead Tomorrow Night Ottawa loses an hour' sjeep tomorrow night. Two a.m.

Sunday Just disappear, become three a.m. Instead when Ottawa, and most of the Test of Canada, set watches ahead one hour to Daylight Saving Tune. The relatively peaceful hour of a.m., or 1 a.m., la. chosen so that Saturday can get over and dona with, with minimum of confusion. Closing hours -of clubs, bar and bistro Saturday night follow the regular Standard Time.

Though Sunday will dawn an hour earlier. It won't actually. It will only seem that way. Actually, dawn will come an hour later, but rising time will be earlier. Confused? So are the farmer, the province of PEI and Alberta where DST la banned, railway schedules which stick to Standard, and a nt scanning empty pews.

i 'hit- Frost Bringing 3DT Delegates To Ottawa Talks TORONTO, April (BUP) An indication of the amount of talking Ontario plana to do at the preliminary Dominion Provincial Conference In Ot tawa next Tuesday and Wed nesday Wu seen today in the naming of JO men to make up the province's delegation. The conference will draw up an agenda (or a -major parley in the Fall. Ontario has made It clear that it will' spearhead demands that the program Include luch contentious problem as unemployment, taxation and (arm marketing. Premier Leslie Frost, who Is expected to seek a new mandate In a provincial election as soon as he returns, will lead the delegation. encluded an Page Col.

(. each other (or holders meetlni Welsh and were her 12-year-old Jean-Paul Mailer, 10-year-old Mar- eel Bourque. Jean-Paul and Marcel spotted a group ot "three or (our" guinea pig In brush on a vacant lot and captured twa Health officials who examined the two said they definitely were laboratory animals but were not dangerous. Presumably they had escaped from some other experimental, la boratorythere are four or five which keep guinea pigs In the district. The search for the four Slater street animals was still going on today.

Officials did not think the furry, (awn-colored animals could live outside their csges. They're used to being fed and there's not much greenery yet for them to' eat. Any eat could knock them AGREE ON TUNISIA. PARIS, April 22. (UP) France and-Tunlsla reached a stop-gap agreement early today on the most Important points of an accord to give home rule to Tunisia and lay the foundation for pacifying turbulent North Africa.

Now You Can Through Prize You can win (500 In the new Journal Prise Crossword published in all editions Saturday. Through a change la rules The Journal will pay a S200 borfus to the sender of the first correct solution opened Pigs wed ot MrsT J. J. captured by nephew nd Boucher Quits NY Health officials today pondered the case of the (our ab-sent-wlthout-lesve guinea pigs. The "potentially dangerous" animals escaped yesten from the regional labor of the Ontario Health Department, 4SS 81ter street Officials also studied "with grest surprise" two other experimental guinea pigs which turned up two miles away on Queen Mary Road before pro-nounclng them different Individual from the Slater street als.

(our Slater street ani mals have been Inoculated With germs of a disease. They are not "Immediately dangerous" but eould be dangerous to children who kept them' as pets and handled them over a period of time. Meanwhile, officials wondered where the Queen Mary Road guinea pigs came (rom. They turned up near the home He said Patrick would have complete authority in player administration, the development of the farm system. scouting force and in appoint ing a new eoaca.

Patrick had token over the Ranger coaching job Jan. 19S4. Production Costs Closing Coal Mine O-Cteck C4IUM Service. The high cost of production is the real reason for the dosing of Dominion No. I-B col liery at Olaee Bay, N8, Mines Minister Prudham said today Tftenlvln 1a tVt rnfflmmi 4n rDrew, he said he had received a number of telegrams about the mine closure.

Most hsd mentioned loss of markets a the reason but to hi mind the high coat ef production was re- sponsible. V( NEW YORK. April 22. (UP) Frank Boucher resigned today as manager of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, and Mux Patrick, who has been coaching the club, was named to replace him. Patrick said he would name a new Ranger coach In the near future.

Boucher leaves the Ranger organisation after serving 20 years as a player, coach or mansger with the club. "I feel I have been given a full opportunity to build the Rangers into- championship team and regret that their loyal followers have not been rewarded with a Boucher said In his statement of resignation. Oen, John Reed Kitoatrlck For Mangled Metaphors, MPs Offer Lots of Laughs Looking through the pages of Hansard. James McCook of The Journal find that over the year there ha accumulated a collection of classic examples of muddled metaphor. In The Journal' Saturday Section he digs up some of the better bits thst hsve reddened the faces ef the -unhappy Members of Parliament who have uttered them, and have left the House In gales ot laughter.

The pastoral shores of the St. Lawrence are speedily taking on an appearance quite unHke that familiar for, generations to Eastern Ontario residents. Charles Lynch writes ot development that already have changed the old river scene and special pictures by Jim Thomson of Dominion Wide photographers show the colossal scale of the Seaway Job. i Harry Walker tell of an old hostelry, still In existence near Arnprlor. thst boasted the original "Iron This was the "real McCoy" and was dropped down to shut off the bar when parties got too rough.

Vou'tl go with Ross Smith on a "driving lesson" with a driving instructor and a would-be driver. There's an Interesting; bit about witches, who arent necessarily alt ugly and rldlr.g brooms there are dosens o( other Interesting feature (or your Saturday reading. president of the Rangers. saw4qUestlon by Opposition Leader INSIDE THE JOURNAL, Mud-Clogged Roads to Hit Fishing Page 3 Waiting Llai Cut at Civic Page Parliamentary News Page 7 For and About Women Pages 12 to 19 Dodgers Set Hew Record Page 23 Other Sports News ps 22 to 23, 40. 41 Editorials (9): Bridge.

Crossword, Horoscope (26); -Amusements, Theatres 26, 27) Radio and TV (23); Comic (29); Markets (38). zy he- accepted Boucher's resign ine uon -with deep regret' "Muss Patrick will become the third msnager In the his tory of the Rangers and the second bearing the famous Patrick KUpatrick said, r. 7' ---tav tl A- -f A. M.M A. i.

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