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The Sault Star from Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Canada • 1

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-fla imii Ml INI THE SAULT DAILY STAR TORECAST FIRE PREVENTION WEEK OCT 7 14 Partly cloudy wllh Important change tonight and morning about 94 lit and Friday Low in VOL 40 No 174 SAULT STE MARIE CANADA THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 1951 FIVE CENTS A COPY All Provinces Represented On Luncheon Menu Igyptions Re nev Demonstrations kgainst British CAIRO (AP) Shouting Egyptians demanding the ouster ol British troops from Egypt today demonstrated against Britain for the second successive day But this time there was no violence Heavy police escorts kept order as thousands paraded through Mustafa Kamel square then xndved on to the' larger Ibrahim Pasha square to hear speakers shout: "Down with Britain We want the British to get out of our country" Leading the crowd Sudanese there were two bunny blankets spun from the finest Canadian wool with the royal infant's royal coronet They were presented by Nicole Tardif 11 daughter of city Controller Paul Tardif The city patterned its menu as all-Canadian It Included these courses representative of each of the provinces: Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island maritime oysters Cream of peas Quebecoise Newfoundland salmon en belle vue Alberta elk Saskatchewan grouse New Brunswick potatoes noisette Manitoba wild rice Pacific seasonal salad Maple bom be chantilly British Columbia candied fruits Ontario cheese fleurons Coffee There was one item missing which had been served at other luncheons and dinners thus far in the royal cocktails Board of control decided that no alcoholic beverages would be served at any function at which the-city was host In a brief address Mayor Whitton asked the royal couple to accept warm allegiance of the citizens of She concluded: may all blessing attend upon your royal highness his royal highness the Duke of Edinburgh our little Trince Charles and our wee Princess Anne" 4 -J 4 The city of Ottawa paid court to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip today with a civic luncheon and sent the royal couple away laden with gifts for their children Ta the princess herself Mayor Charlotte Whitton presented a cheque for $1000 in Canadian funds contained in a hand-worked leather wallet to be used by the princess for the charities she personally favors The luncheon starting at 12:30 pm EST was held in the ballroom of the Chateau Laurier Hotel The guest list of 200 included high-ranking civic officials The royal couple going to the luncheon after a quiet morning at government house! were accompanied by Prime Minister and Mrs St Laurent For the royal children Mayor Whitton presented a truly Canadian maple sugar in a box fashioned of Ottawa valley maple and bearing the coat-of-arms The children the mayor suggested will expect something to be brought home the But that was not all for the youngsters Eleven-year-old Erie Goodwin son of former Mayor Grenville Goodwin who died suddenly a month ago presented for three-year-old Prince Charles a wind-breaker with the first new crest award of the city For one-year-old Princess Anne 4 4 In this brief simple ceremony at DorvaL the Princess saw her personal standard rais ed She then honor assigned inspected the RCJLF guard df to the tour Allied Tanks Drive Closer To Vital Ridge Only in Fourth Day But Royal Tour Already Triumphant Procession 35000 ATTEND INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH WOODSTOCK Thirty-five thousand persons turned out in bright autumn sunshine yesterday to watch the international plowing match at which 190 plowmen fashioned what alt Missouri competitor called the most furrows he had ever seen The plowmen competed in six tractor-plowing and three horse-plowing classes There was also a contour-plowing competition Leo Drake of Memphis Mo a slate and national level plowing champion said that Canadian plowmen "really do works of way they pat those first furrows with their hands and rut them up is really something We have anything like that in our matches" Mr Drake the lone United States entrant came out 11th in an open tractor-plowing class Agriculture Minister Kennedy officially opened the match at the Hargreaves farm outside of Woodstock Besides the plowing match the hundreds of spectators who walk-' ed up and down the corridors of the saw exhibits of the latest types ofTarm machinery- There was a -seed cleaning plant in operation a demonstration farm pond and aweldiog contest The Ontario lands department put on demonstrations of fire fighting high cut plowing farm safety and plowing with oxen To help the spectators about the tented city and to the fields where plowing was being carried on three junior farmer groups appeared with tractor drawn trailers The' trailers wound their way among the exhibits and around the sweating contestants all day long each with its load of critical onlookers The match will continue today and tomorrow ROYAL COUPLE GIVEN OTTAWA RIVER CRUISE OTTAWA Princess Elizabeth and her sailor husband went cruising down the river today in as colorful a nautical sight as you could care to see But their outing on the Ottawa as rugged as the cruise one of ancestors had 91 years ago She and Prince Philip sailed for an hour in a big privately-owned power cruiser the Wausau which became a for a day In 1860 the then prince of Wales HRH Albert Edward went cruising down the same river and got a big kick out of plunging through Chaudiere Rapids on a large raft of squared pine logs In 1951 there was nothing that spectacular Today there were lavish arrangements for security as 40 to 50 power 50 to 75 foot luxurious motor cruisers got their instructions of just where they should cruise in relation to the royal barge Dozens of smaller boats got Into the act unofficially Thousands of people watched from the shores from bridges and from the cliffs overlooking the broad river The royal couple both happy to get this outing went down the river on the Ontario side and back up the Quebec side their boat the centre of a diamond-shaped formation headed by four crash boats of the navy and air force Prince Philip former commander Royal Navy frigate watched with a eye as the owned by CoL Courtney and her satellites sailed in formation on the waters that separate the high cliffs pf the Ontario chore from the low green countryside of Quebec MAKE HEADWAY ON REOPENING TRUCE TALKS MUNSAN Korea (AP) United and Communist liaison officers met today and the Reds reported they made headway toward reopening truce talks They scheduled another session fpr 10 am tomorrow 8 nm EST ThufrdayV The fact that another meeting was scheduled was interpreted as meaning the liaison officers failed to reach final agreement on resumption of negotiations which the Reds broke oil Aug 23 Both UJf command and Red sources announced the third session The report of progress came from Red sources at Panmunjom Communist check point where liaison officers are holding their meetings Communist reporters said the Red laiason staff reported Ihe two teams agreed on most arrangements" for a meeting of armistice negotiators near Panmunjom Liaison officers apparently still had to settle on a neutrality agreement for the Panmunjom site The Communists have insisted hat the truce negotiator' themselves should decide on the boundaries of the neutral area and the conditions for jointly enforcing it The UN command takes the stand that liaison officers should draft the neutrality agreement and the truce envoys ratify it Communists want a large neutral zone reaching from the old site at Kaesong to Munsan headquarters of the Allied truce team The UN wants the zone to cover only the immediate area which lies between Kaesong and Munsan The two sessions of liaison officers today last 3V4 hours Meetings were held in a large tent erected by the Communists across the highway from four houses that make up Panmunjom students at two Cairo universities cried "Down with foreign domination we want one king one crown one After streaming past the palace and cheering king Farouk the crowds dispersed without incident Anti-foreign mobs yesterday smashed British and French business offices hurled bottles looted from American sod-drink trucks and set fires The demonstrations are the product of violent public support for the plan of Prime Minister Mustapha Nahas El Pasha to oust British troops from the Suez Canal zone and take full control of the jointly-ruled Angto-Egyp-tian Sudan Shopkeepers hastily lowered steel shutters as the crowds gathered today The huge crowd streamed toward mjjitafa Kamil square to hear speches delivered from near the statue of Mushfa Kamil an Egyptian hero Kamil led the nationalist party until his death in 1908 and spearheaded a fight for Egyptian independence from Britain which had obtained a protectorate over the country In Washington Slate Secretary Dean Acheson suggested that Nahas El Pasha jumped the gun in calling for abrogation of the Suez defence treaty of 1936 and the 1899 accord for Anglo-Egyptian rule of the Sudan He told a press conference that the Egyptian government had been informed that a plan for international defence of the Middle East will be submitted to Egypt within a few days He said the prime minister knew this when he presented the legislation calling for ouster Acheson said the plan would provide a for a solution of the dispute between Britain and Egypt and also contribute to the defence of the free world The proposals were expected to set up a middle-east Continued on Pago Three COMMlfcOOK BRIDE'S DEATH VILLE MARIE- Gerald Ryan 22-year-old Timiskaming Que chef yesterday was committed by Magistrate Camille Beaulieu for trial in the Sept 15 strangulation slaying of his 17-year-old bride Rose Marie Ryan The couple had been married only two months trial will be held next spring The murder charge followed an inquiry during which Leslie Kirgan a fellow-cook said Ryan told him Sept 15 that he was leaving because he killed his wife i Mrs body was found in the bathroom of their Timiska-ming apartment wedding gown clutched in her arms Isobel Webb a witness during the two-day preliminary hearing told the court of a party at the Ryan apartment the night before the body was found He said the couple started to argue and Kirgan stepped in Ryan knocked him to the flow Bond Jumper Starts Sentence TEXARKANA (AP) Gus Hall fugitive Communist party secretary started a five-year prison sentence here yesterday less then 24 hours after he was captured in Mexico City and shoved back across the border The husky Communist bond lumper heavily guarded by FBI agents was rushed' by plane to prison here He was one of the four Communist party officials who jumped 880000 bail and fled from New York last July to avoid imprisonment for conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the US government The swift movement across the international boundary at Laredo Tex foiled an effort by the Mexican Communist party to have Mexico give Hall asylum as a political refugee APPROVE ROUTE OF NEW ROAD TORONTO Highways Minister Doucett has approved the route of a new road connecting Atikokan with Fort William and Port Arthur it was announced yesterday Atikokan is the northwestern Ontario community adjacent to Steep Rock Mines Tenders have been called for 72 miles of new construction from Atikokan east to a 17-mile road which in turn connects with highway 17 at Shebandowan Corners This junction point is 89 miles east of Atikokan and 34 miles west of the lakehead When the new highway is completed Atikokan will be 123 miles by road west of the head of the lakes 19 3 miles east of Dryden and 272 miles east Kenora The new highway will run along the northern limits of Quetico provincial park It will bt connected with the all-weather Trans-Canada highway for year-round automotive travel to all parts of Ontario RADIOOPERATORS THREATEN STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Marine radio operators angered by reports that the Wage Stabilization Board rejected their wage increase today threatened ar country-wide shipping tie-up In Washington- WSB spokesmen denied that a decision had been reached Vice-President Philip of the American Radio Association (CIO) said he was informed the board voted down two motions Sesterday to approve a $39-month-r raise That raise was granted by shipowners in June to bring the Radiomen on a wage par with deck and engineroom officers It is in addition to a 62-per-cent increase already approved by the WSB Base jay Is $352 a month Missing Four Hours Plane Lands Safely A two seater Fleet Canuck aircraft unreported for four hours on a flight from Toronto to London landed safely yesterday afternoon at nearby Crumlin Airport Pilot of the craft was A Stech a member of Toronto Flying Club He told airport employees he became lost but managed to find his way to the airport by following roads seaway and power project stated that if congress does support it new bill which has be eh introduced on the matter will in my opinion be of tremendous help economically and from the siand-oint of the defence of the whole P( Ni orth American contineit" Of the present state of Cana-dian-American trade Mr Sawyer said in part: exports to Canada during the first six months of 1951 amounted to $1400000000 while out imports were $1100000000! This deficit on the merchandise trade account cannot if not made up in other ways continue for a peat length of time without serious economic consequences and serious defence difficulties for both nations Continued on Page Seven I only in its fourth day but the 1951 royal tour has already swept Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip into the turmoil of a triumphant pro-cessipn People are turning out in the tens of thousands creating the greatest mass spectacles Canada has known since the royal tour of 1939 More than 350000 have swarmed into the streets of four cities three in Frenctv-speaking Quebec to shout acclaim for a young and fascinating couple who might have stepped out of a storybook If there was any suspicion that ties to the British throne are anything but strong this usually reserved and undemonstrative capital shattered 'it yesterday Under clear warm skies it went overboard Today they have a morning do themselves at the home of the governor-general and then start a new round of functions including a civic luncheon a boat trip on the Ottawa River and a buffet supper and square dance at government house at night They leave late at night for eastern Ontario points and Toronto Yesterday 200000 people came Into the streets sat on rooftops hung from the trees and stood in vast tight masses They cheered and waved and shouted They swarmed through police guards and on to the lawns of the home of Prime Minister St Laurent They lifted the magnificent Driveway on the route into the heart of the city like a solid human wall for more than seven miles They packed into Confederation Square for a war memorial ceremony They were happy crowds who obviously liked what they saw They saw a princess in blue and a prince in naval uniform who fulfilled all the objectives that have been heaped upon them What Ottawa did neighboring Hull Que did on as warm although not as large a scale when the royal couple drove there first day of greeting consisted of 11 official events that rolled off but not without incident The royal procession for instance swept up to the main entrance of the parliament building 10 minutes ahead of schedule and as the royal couple got out of the car there was no (me there to greet them officially Prime Minister St Laurent was supposed to be there but he was on his claim her Tens of thousands mouths talk about her Men like Viscount Alexander whom probably held in a teen-ager's awe- greet her with deference Mounties in the red jackets probably daydreamed about surround her They precede her on motorcycles They guard her in the hundreds They ride horses They hold back the tremendous crowds In the face of all this spectacle and turmoil Elizabeth conducts herself with a regal bearing with dignity and a pleasant unassuming charm When she smiles she has a beautiful smile but some people think she smile enough at the crowds and there are reports that this information has been passed along to her by her staff 4 4 4 way The commons speaker by brisk movements managed to get to the head of "the first flight steps as the young couple hit there too At Lansdowne Park where 14-000 school children shrieked and sang a welcome three-year-old Sheila Hamilton burst into tears only minutes before she was to a nosegay of flowers only woman mayor of Continued on Page Three' ROYAL COUPLE HOPES TO RETURN OTTAWA (CP) Princess Elizabeth just -launched on one long Canadian tour said today she and Prince Philip hope ttf come back soon Speaking particularly of the warm welcome they received in this capital yesterday she told a civic lunch gathering it made us hope that we may be able to come here again before too long has passed husband and I will never forget the golden beauty of Ottawa as we have seen it today and she said in a brief speech still more shall we remember the wonderful and inspiring welcome given by its citizens thank you (Mayor Charlotte Whitton) and them for it and I am sure I need not tell you how much it has moved us and how much it has made us hope that we may be able to come again before too long has BRITAiNTOfAND FIRM IN EGYPT Britain declared firmly today that she would quit neither the Sudan nor the Suez the two main points sought by Egypt in the current treaty dispute Official statements released by the foreign office said: 1 Britain will take all steps necessary to maintain her troops in the canal zone 2 Britain will agree to no change in the status of the Sudan without consulting the Sudanese maintaining the right to decide their own future Both these points are covered by the 1936 treaty which Egypt is moving to tear up The foreign office statement said the government will continue to give full support to the present administration of the Sudan headed by Governor-General Sir Robert Howe and to its policy of bringing Independence to the territory Ore Production Passes '50 Tonnage PORT ore production this year from the Errington pit of Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd today passed 1216-614 gross tons which was 1950 total production With the advent of colder weather the pit 100 miles west of here will gradually awing over to preparations for 1952 mining Additional lake tonnage will thereby be released to handle grain Handling of we for another month or so at a reduced rate will mine officials say put the total for the year of 1300000 gross tons UJS EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS KOREA (AP) United States tanks knifed up valleys on each side of heart break ridge in Eastern Korea today in a running battle with Communist artillery and mortars Behind the fire of the tanks the UR 23rd infantnr regiment again stormed the northernmost peak of heartbreak ridge Entrenched IRAN PREMIER TO MEET l)N ON DISPUTE MONDAY UNITED NATIONS (AP) Premier Mohammed Mossadegh meets the United Nations security council and a United States television audience next Monday but the ailing old man will make it brief The council will hear Iran contend its oil dispute with Britain is a domestic matter and no business of the UJf The meeting has been twice postponed first to give Mossadegh time to come from Tehran then to let him recover from the journey But Mossadegh who weeps and swoons during appearances before his own parliament plans to speak only for live or 10 minutes to the council Since his arrival he has been in a hospital under treatment for exhaustion After his remarks his official 40-page statement will be read by his permanent representative to the UNr All Gholi Ardalan Britain brought th dispute before the council after Iran nationalized the country's giant Britifh-owned oil industry and expelled British oilmen British spokesmen said that by tonight they hope to have ready the draft of a new resolution they will ask the council to adopt It will refer to the recent international court of justice ruling ving Iran not to complete the oil-nationalization progress and it will suggest methods of negotiating a settlement The Iranian spokesman Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi told reporters Iran still is willing to discuss with Britain how to pay off the expropriated company and still hopes for a settlement STEEL WORKERS BACK EXECUTIVE SYDNEY NR Sydney steel workers last night supported their union executive in breaking off wage talks with the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation They endorsed a recommendation that the dispute be referred to the national office of the United Steel Workers of America (CIO-CCL) Dosco has implemented an hourly increase of 14 1-2 cents including a cost-of-living bonus despite rejection by the union The workers had demanded contract parity with Ontario steelworkers Under their present contract which does not expire until March 31 the Sydney steelworkers are paid $117 and the increase brings ltto $131 1-2 Al-goma and Steel Company of Canada pay $129 but receive other benefits A second round of negotiations broke down Tuesday i Reds stopped the Americana In their tracks Other UR 2nd-division infantrymen over-ran Chinese troops and captured a dominating peak on nearby Kim II Sung ridge United Nations' troops also seized two other peaks in mountainous East Korea East of heartbreak ridge a battalion of the UR lst-mariiie division was flown to tha front in the biggest helicopter airlift in his-Utrr Nearly lj00 marines landed almost within sight of Red positions without incident In the hottest sector of the western front the UR division renewed its attack northwest of Yonchon after mopping up Chinese stragglers in hills captured yesterday Red China's Peiping radio said Chinese troops inflicted 13366 casualties on UN forces last week It said nearly 9841 Allies were ki'Jed captured or wounded in their autumn offensive in the west during the week Allied losses for the period have not been announced officially The cavalrymen were continuing their offensive Thursday about 25 miles northeast of Panmun-jom where the Communists and Allies talked of reopening truce talks Liaison officers met for the second time Thursday In Panmunjom trying to arrange for the first armistice session since Aug 22 They scheduled another Continued On Page Three 16 SUSPENDED FROM HOCKEY FOR ALLEGED FIX KINGSTON The Ontario Hockey Association last night suspended the manager and the coach of a Kingston hockey club for life cm charges that the team threw a playoff series to Peterborough last spring It suspended two players for two years and 12 for one year The suspensions imposed by the sub-commiitee after a hearing are: Life: Manager McKnight manager of the Kingston Nylons Hockey Club Coach George Patterson Two years: Player's Rawlind Aitken and Edward Plumb One year: Jack Stone Ken Murphy Walter Gerow Ken Partis Jack McKeown Freddy Harrison George Watts Glynn Udall Robert Joyce Kenny Potts Douglas Patterson and Jack Armstrong Only two players Joey Caplin and Bob Lon dry who did not attend the meeting when arrangements to throw the series were made were exonerated by the sub-committee In a statement the sub-committee said it reached a unanimous decision that it had been proven that the Kingston team threw a four-game series to Peterborough so the Nylons would advance in A senior competition The winning club went on in the senior A Allan Cup playoffs The charges were laid by Player Douglas Patterson and Coach Patterson Additional penalties were imposed on players Aitken and Plumb because they repudiated statements to a sub-committee meeting in Kingston Sept 25 At that time they confirmed tljs charge The committee agreed that the Peterborough club had no know edge of the action SOVIET UNION BREAKSOFFTRADE TALKS WITH IRAN TEHRAN (AP) An Iranian newspaper said today Russia has broken off trade talks with Iran charging lack of good will There was no official confirmation A western economic expert said a break is not unlikely but that it may only be temporary The weekly Tehran-I-Mossav-var renorted that the talks had been broken off and said this would have an effect on the role to be played by Russia in the Iranian case now before the United Nations security council in New York The British banned export on such items as sugar iron steel and copper to Iran in retaliation for the Iranian action ordering British technicians out of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refinery at -Abadan Soviet Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov told the Iranians that Russia could step up shipments to Iran under an existing barter agreement between the two countries The pact will expire Nov 10 and talks have been under way for renewing and broadening the agreement Iranian-Russian trade has been lagging due to inability to fulfill its end of the barter deal by supplying rice and cotton THE WEATHER (Official report of the UR Weather Bureau) SAULT TEMPERATURES i Yesterday at noon 50 Highest yesterday 55 Today at noon 45 Lowest last nighf 31 Warmest on this date was 78 in 1938 Coldest on this date was 22 1936 SAULT PRECIPITATION Precipitation to 7:30 am 0 Accumulated during this month 72 Departure from normal this month Bun sets tonight 5:59 pm Sun rises tomorrow 6:49 am TRANSFER CpL Ken Denniss of the Brockville determent of the provincial police has been transferred to Lindsay it was announced today Col William Milton of Lindsay will succeed him here Prince Philip Reassures Princess Elizabeth Overwhelmed by Tour Commerce Secretary Advocates More US Purchases in Canada The princess is obviously a bit overwhelmed by It all She be human if she Even for a person of royal blood long schooled to absorb the triumphs and the tribulations of royalty this Canadian tour is overwhelming -So Princess Elizabeth acts sometimes as though she were mentally pinching herself to make sure she dreaming She forgets to smile Occasionally she looks hesitant sometimes even a bit scared sometimes just shy She turns to her husband and he grins and she is all right again She is a small young- and the women sweet girl of 25 caught up in an overpowering experience Tens of thousands of eyes rivet on her hour after hour Tens of thousands of voices ae- Sawyer United States secretary of commerce today advocated more American purchases in Canada and named aluminum as one of the items which might be bought here in greater quantity Addressing a luncheon meeting of the American Life Convention an organization of American and Canadian life insurance companies he said his own department is urging that each of the three defence services place $100-000000 worth of contracts in Canada during the current fiscal year It has for instance been suggested he said that Canada "take over a substantial portion of the manufacture of jeeps on the ground that this would relieve pressure in the United States and provide an alternative source of supply in case of atomic attack" He supported the St Lawrence il Conliauad On Page 17.

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