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ooh rumours III All MPAWILMW umbshunmhm LOCAL WEATHER Ion3W Vllalledoedt Ia tamerr Little milder DIWSHMTIIM mannernun Icemancructh lib 96th YearNo ill TWINS EMERGENCY Abandon Ared TIMMINS Reeve Jack Residents Atkinson of Mountjoy Township declared state of emergency today and ordered everyone out of the suburban township as the floodswollcn Mattagami river be an speedy rise following the collapse of loggers dam 50 miles south of here Tuesday We cant risk lives any longer Mr Atkinson said The whole township will have to be abandoned to the flood Up to 11 am EDT today 1100 persons had been evacuated from their homu in Mountiey and many houses were surrounded by swirling water as tho Mattagami river climbed eight inches since dawn The reevc said he expected the flood crest from the upstream dam to reach the area by late afternoon 40000 LOGS LOOSE In Toronto spokesman for the IliilClarkirancis company huge northern Ontario lumber operator said the company dam at Muskiscnda Lake some so miles from Timmins went out Tuesday and an estimated 40000 logs broke loose into the racing water coursa However he said the company did not expect the logs to reach the Timmins area He said many of the escaped logs would be Iammed into bush along the way and others would be tossed along the bank In Timmias ing jam was el rcadypiilng up against the con crete bridge linking the city with Mountioy Township across the Mattagaml River But where the logs came from was not de termlned as logs from many log ging companies were reported loose in the rushing river Civil ef officials said there was possibility the Mat tagami might rise another foot before nightfall because of the broken lumber company dam on theMoimliby Rlver which the Mettagaml few hundred yards upstream from Timmins The dam which broke lucsday was on Musklsenda Lake at the headwaters of the Mountioy The rain stopped Tuesday after after dumping more than four inches on the Timmins area in the last week Today was sunny but fairly cool and officials feared new threat should tem peratures rise further Warmer weather would melt the snow which now lies up to three feet deep in the bush nwhile Mountioy Police Chief Justin Tallon warned to looting has been re ported in iiooded sections oi the township and that two men were arrested today in the act of loot ing an abandoned home He did not give names TheRed Cross sent in $5000 to refuses to leave his home at Timmins as flood Waters con tinue to rise He saidbe bad lay to be distributed as flood re Firemen Join an emergency zooyard hosellne across the river Tuesdaynight to pump Timmins water into the crippled Mountjoy system The Mountioy water system failed when threeinch crest of water struck the township region Tuesday burying roads boat houscs and some homes as well as the pumping machinery at the township waterworks centre Reeve Jack Atkinson and Dr Graham Lana medical officer of health for tha area said no con Floods Threaten Other Sections Rs Rain Continues For 8th Day Floods forced evacuation of two Northem Ontario areas Tuesday and other sections are seriously threatened as the province enters its eighth day of intermittent rain Most seriously hit is the Tim mins district where more than 1000 residents of suburban Mountjoy Township sought emer gency shelters as the Matiagami River continued its rise NEW LISKEARD SITUATION In the New Liskeard area about 60 miles south of Kirkland Lake residents along the Moat real River were told to evacuate their homes Tuesday night Hydro officials said they would have to open partially two dams in the area because log jam had broken loose The public weather office pre dicted light rain and drizzle would continue in southern areas today with snowflurrieg in north tern regions Cool winds may help the stricken areas Thursday Rivers throughout Ontario con tinued to rise dangerously but of ficialssnid there is no threat to life Rescue operations were cred ited with saving lives in the north ern regions The rains which began May in northeastern sections came when some spring runoffs were at their peaks Nearly five inches fell in the Timmins area By last weekendthe rain had become general over most of the province and re across Southern Ontario were all runs oiag high At Pembroke theOttawa River rose sixinches in 24 hours and is atrthe highest level since 1947 Aboutjs men were laid oifat local saw mill after the milis yards were flooded PAPER MILL CLOSED At Espanola 45 miles west of Sudbury floods from the Spanish River have closed the RV com panys paper plant for the second time in two weeks Peterbaroogh residents were asked to use sewer facilities as little as possible Officials made radio and television appeal after reports that sewage had backed up in some cellars At Little Britain 20 miles west of Peierhorough flood waters heaved an ioinch metal culvert into the air and washed away hridges retaining wall on county road PRESS TIME FLASHES Russia Rejects Open Skies Bid moscow tReutersi Russia today rejectedPresident Eisenhowers latest appeal for an open skies agreementto prevent surprise attack Escape Westmorland MONCTON NB CP Five men eschped from the West roriand county jail at Dorchester early today RCMP re ported hero Roadblocks were set up 11hr Torrie Examiner BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA WEDNESDAY MAY 11 mo Told FROM Will Charge In York Probe TORONTO CP Attorney General Kelso Roberts said to day charges wiil be laid under the Criminal Code against four men involved in suburban York Township municipal affairs in tillll pl fo afraid His wife is staying with friends Mr Riard uses the pikepole he is coming to an hisfloating stock offire woo lamination or health hazardihad been uncovered Dr Lane said he did not anticipate any problems with polluted water Well be all right for few days with Timmias water connec tions Mr Atkinson said But there was some concern that the Hollinger Mines pump house which sits along the Tim mins side of the river might be put out of action if the water roan another 12 inches This pump house supplies water to 40000 pore sons in the Timmins area CLEARING LOG JAMS Emergency crews were work ing early today to clear major log jam which piled up between piers of the single bridge linking Timmins with Mouatjoy The logs floated down from broken booms Officials of the Ontario Hydrolt Electric Power Commission re ported Tuesdaythat the upriver storage dams could nolonger con tain thafloods and within two hours the Mattagami had burst its banks to floodmain roads in the township The river rose three inches in one hour in its biggest surge since the flooding started Sund night ay Inner Agree To Seek Truce In Trade Issue LUXEMBOURG Reuters Foreign ministers of the six Euro pean Common Market countries ended 20hour marathon session here early today by agreeing to approach the rival European free Trade Association for trade NICE But formal notification of the truce plan was delayed by an in ternal dispute The ministérs approved declt iaration of intent calling for talks between the Common Mari ket and the Outer Seven countries of the Britishled association The text of the letter to the EFTA suggesting rapproche ment meeting next month also was approved The talks would be held within the framework oil the iiicountry Organization for European Economic Cooperation with the United States and Carl ada included But the ministers agreed to hold up publication of the declar ation of intent and the sending Mrs Diefenbaker Launches Ship NEWCASTLE ON TYNE England CPiA new flagship for the Canadian Paciiio fleet was launched Tuesday by Mrs John Dlefenbaker The Loonpassenger liner Em press of Canada slipped smoothly down the ways few minutes after Mrs Dicfcnbaker wielding bottle of red wine christened the ship An estimated 15000 specators watched as the white hulled iinlr weighing 27300 gross tons went down the ways The Empress of Canadathlrd CPR ship to bear that name will go into service in mid1061 on the CanadaBritain service Mrs Dlefenbaker accompanied her husband to Britain for the conference of Commonwealth prime ministers Die In Crash 0i Truck iiui wagon and trailer transport collided on curva Tuesday near this village miles west of Perth killing the our two oolt cupants instantly The truck driver and his brother escaped with facial cuts and bruises in the accident on Highway One of the dead was identified as Frank Welch 58 of Osh awa Provincial police said Tucs day night they still had no clue to the identity of the woman killed in the crash The man and woman were hurled about so feet by the im pact and the station wagon burst into flames The cab of the tree tor trailer was crushed and the two men in it also were thrown to the highway They were identified as driver Sam Ballas 30 and his brother Included in the four men is Magistrate Bred ball former room of the township and now chairman of the Metropolitan oonio Licensing Commission fie Deputy Reeve William Graham andCouaclllor Harold Linden who submitted his resig nation Monday will be charged with corruption under Section 104 of the Criminal Code Mr Rob eris said BARBIE DISTRICT Eighty persons laid off by industry mowiily lax Barrie and Allistom acominia for heaps cent It the inczfriase in unem oymenrt gum area sendced by the National Employment Service office in Seeking employment today are 1164 men and 608 wunen spokesman of CGE 5620 that 45 employees men women have had be laid off at the Benita pillarbig is hoped to WEB as soon osmium We According 60 001 manager ed the Bass ade tmamplowmcntwflleW labs are opening up slowly There is little construction work be ing done because hf lack of mad able money and this semis b0 affirct typu of jobs May 21 in the last thy for seasomlbeaciot payments and it is expected some $400 per sons will cane off the register These will still be unemploypd but many of them will hold jobs foridiemselvcs Tihnse seeking employment at one present time include boo peony general office workers of which there are 71 women anduez men also pet soos cooks card dhefs wanton and room kitchen work ers factory workersfmeny of them wellslniliad electricians construction and la banners boocklayats unspen Dave 83 both of Calgary Commonwealth LONDON CPThe Guardian says Commonwealth prime min isters during their conference here may discuss the possibility of Commonwealth passport The Manchester newspaper says the question was raised outside the conference by Ghana which isinterested in discussing some kind of laissez passer for South African political refu gees thatlwould be recognized by Rhodesian authorities Sir Roy Walenslw prima min ister of the Rhodesian federation issued statement saying that any Commonwealth pa rt would have to be one recognized illiliytvhing couldybe done unilater Tha napaper notes that there TORONTO CPLShortage of suitable Canadian stocks is send ing some Canadian investment money to the United States Lloyd Whittea manager of the in vestment department of the Montreal Trust Company said today Mr Whittea who addressed conference on pensions arranged by Montreal Trust referred spe cifically to the needs of pension funds and the supply of Canadian equity common stocks He said his company is includ ing purchases iromla selected list of us stocks for most of the pension accounts under its ad ministration of the letter because of DutCh Germandispute During the last 10 year Mr is Whitton statedgtha floating SW by all Commonwealth countries tera painters mute men taxi and truck drivers Passport Topic OflPMs For Political Refugees is at present no concept of wider nationality though in all Commonwealth countries except South Africa Pakistan and Gay lon there is coonnon clause whereby the individual is for example Canadian citizen and British subject This dual nationality gives the individual right to enter Britain as national but it does not af ford any such right in any other independent country of the Com monwealtb ATTENDS RECEPTION LONDON CHPrime Minis ter Diefenhaker Tuesday night attended reception at the Savoy iiotel given by the AngloUkrain ian Society Shortage or Stocks In Canada Sends InveStmeni Cash To US ply of good investment grade stocks available in Canada has declined considerably One rea son was the takeover of large proportion of Canadian in dustryby foreign interests GIVES EXAMPLES He cited the offer to purchase all the outstanding class Aand conunhn shares of North Staroil by shell Oil Company ata cost of over 0000000 purchas ast yearby Tate and Lyletof Brl tain of per cent of Canada HIGH ALTI SEES THE SEA BUT so worm MIDDLETOWN Ohio AP What heck oi note for boy to ioiatha navy to sea the world and then go around it underseasl This was the comment made Tuesday by Robert Dowrcy of Mlddietown when he heard that his son Gary 20 was one of the crew mem bers of the nuclear submarine Tritonthe first ship to go around the world under water 80 Layoffs Hike Jobless Figures Itisanidctpatedthatlam oiOaasadawiilbe it newplaaitinBanietowarda hheondoddunoandtbisis tootferempioyraent floomamyofthawomeinnnw seelcingjobs Warns Other P1911165 LONDON Reuters Soiet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko warned today that Russia will shoot down any foreign planes which poke their noses into Soviet territory gt He alsotold foreign correspond cats in Moscow that Russia can incapacitate foreign bases used bythe United States for espion age flights over Soviet territory Gromyko issued his warning at an exhibition of wreckage of the American UZ aircraft shotdown over Russia May while on an espionage mission He said that nation violating Soviet airspace were playing with fire and engaging in one of the most dangerous forms of brinkmanship We shall meet such uninvited guests in the same way as eg gressors have always been met by the Soviet people and only wreck age will remain of any planes which might have the temerity to poke their noses into our terri tory He said the May flight was made from base in Turkey and that Turkey was ah accomplice in this aggressive actas is Nor way whera the plane was due to land and Dominion Sugar involving aboutsammshares and more than $13000000 purchase iast year yFord Motor Company of an 1a ditlonal 30 per centof Ford of Ca loapproximately 50 iimreu ageoix cow 5c per Copy22 Page ID Ike Denies Allies Provoking Action WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Eisenhower said today is somereason to bellav the American spy plane whi flew into the Soviet Union we not shot down at high altitude as the Russians claim The president also told press conference it isabsoluteiy ridicullt one for the Russians to contend that the United States or any of its allies is engaged in provoca tive action in the uaevof espionage planes Eisenhower said he still is hopeful that the Paris summit meeting starting Monday will no complish some good and help ease international tensions Eisenhower read prepared statement dealing with the Amer ican in plane which the Russians claim to have shot down from an altitude in excess of 60000 feet SOME DISCREPANCIES The president said there wera dhcrepnncles in the Soviet ac count of shooting down the plane and capturing the pilot Frauds Powers Thero is some reason to be Asked to elaborate Eisenhower reierréd to photographs which the Russian said showed the wreckage of the plane The 115 government behaves he said that the picturcs are not photographs of the UZaircraft After reading his prepared statement Eisenhower said he would have nothing further to say regarding the plane episode but he answered about dozen ques tion connected with the episode For example he was reminded that he has said many times he would not go to summit confer ence under Soviet threat or lilti matum repoflannted that the Soviet governmont Tuesday threatened to retaliate against the United States if it continued to read spy planes over Russia Asked whether he regarded that as threat in the category he had mentioned Eisenhower replied that he did not NEEDS INFORMATION In his prepared statement the president said no one wants an other Pearl Harbor The 115 lieve that the plane was not shot down at high altitude he laid needs information to protect its security Further Flights Might Trigger Bombs 0n IISMoscow Warns MOSCOW Russia he charged the United States gov ernment and not its military commodeiii Elan monslblliiy for flights over Soviet soil and indie cated that US spy pilot Francis Powers may stand trial for as pionage Moscow Radio today followed up the protest note to Washington with strong hint that further flights over Russia might trigger is SSoviet bomb attack on the broadcast beamed to North America recalled that Washing ton had repeatedly announced that at the first sight of enemy planes approaching the continen tal states American bombers would be ordered to deliver re turn blow Why then shouldnt the USSR do likewise when it finds US plane in its territory the commentatordernanded MOSCOWS NOTE Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko handed the Soviet protest note to 175 charge daffaires Ed ward Frears Tuesday It said Hostile acts of American avia tion which have taken place numerous times in relation to the Soviet Unionare not simply the result of the activity of the mili tary command of the USA in various areas but are an ex pression of calculated USA policy tlhese violations are premedi bated tbagovernment of tho USA instead of taking meas ures to stop such action by Amer lean aviation the danger of which has mora than once been pointed out by the Soviet govern meat officially announces such action as its national policy Military intelligence of one gt nation by means of intrusion of its aircraft into the area of one other country can hardly be called method for improving relations and strengthening such It is selfvevldent that the So viet government is compelled un der such circumstances to give strict orders to its armedfmce to take all necessary measures against the violation of Soviet boundaries by foreign aviation SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED The note snid Powers flight confirmed the correctness of Iiuso sias rejection of President Eisen howers 1955 open skies prolt posal on the grounds that it was intended tothrow open the doors of other nations to American reconnaissance Does all this mean that with the refusal of number of states to accept this proposal for open skiesthe USA is attempting arbitrarily to take upon itself the right to open foreign sky the Kremlin demanded