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20 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, December 33, 1058 Dickery's radio message appearance of Sonia's Eeki, os it bid Bs causes @ lot of excitement, | con youl | RITT LONDON (CP -- Some 10,000 Canadian men and wcmen service personnel in Europe, 'pieserving the peace for which all people pray," will celebrate Christmas at least as heartily as the homefolk and probably with far more vari- e e emphasis, regardless of the country, will be on church, chil- dren and good cheer. The occasion - was underlined Tuesday by Brig. W. A. B. Ander- son, command officer of the $00 mas 1st anstian gas y ade group al st, Germany, when he iso in a special! Christ- mas message that he shares the hope that 'our efforts in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Variety In Christmas For Overseas Forces ing the peace for which all people pra . Yims for the brigade and the Plai RCAF bases in Britain, Germany and France indicate that warm Canadian hospitality will be em- bellished by local custom and that hundreds of Canadians will cele- brate in French, German and British homes, or at the gay spots of Europe. More 'than 2,400 children have been or will be feasted and enter- tained § when Des. 2 passes, a sur- vey showed. Orphanages, grim re- minders of the Second World War throughout Europe, were priority targets for ties, visits by Santa Claus and general solid Canadian good-heart- community will result in preserv- edness. 'Auckland Jommed For Royal Visit Visitors surged into New Zealand's "Queen city" as preparations re | completed for the welcome to the | Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh, due Wednesday morning aboard the liner Gothic. Pictures of the royal couple and | signs of welcome took precedence over traditional Christmas decora- tions. Police were revising their plans as visitors crowded into Auckland at a rate far greater than they had expected. The Gothic is steaming from the Tonga islands on the last leg of its transpacific voyage. The royal couple will spend 39 days in New Zealand before re- joining the ship at the southern ishing port of Bluff for the trip | to Australia. From Auckland on Christmas Day the Queen will make the sover- eign's traditional broadcast to the people the Commonwealth, marking the first time this annual message has been broadcast from outside the British Isles. A highlight of the tour will come Jan. 12 when a session of the New Zealand Parliament will be opened for the first time by a reigning monarch. EXCITEMENT HIGH Newspaper, radio and features on the royal visit have pushed popular excitement almost to the bursting point. Price for a "room with a view" in Auckland has mounted to £50, and already the best tent-pitching spots and trailer sites overlooking Bluff har- bor have been snapped up for the royal departure Jan. 31. In Wellington Monday, members of Parliament went through a full- scale rehearsal for the state open- ing next month, with a young wom- an army- officer standing in for the Queen. Coming .of Christmas coincides here with the beginning of the southern hemisphere summer, and New Zealanders are delighted that the Queen will be touring their country at the best time of year. The weatherman, . however, is Predicting that it will be cloudy and windy when the Queen and | duke arrive. { Driver Sues Mayor Lamport TORONTO (CP)--Thomas Ross, Toronto taxi driver, issued a writ against Mayor Allan Lamport Tuesday, claiming unstated dam- ages for slander and libel. Ross was refused a licence to operate a taxi by the Toronto po- lice commission last spring. Mayor Lamport is commission chairman. The suit was sworn in connec- tion with statements made by the mayor at a subsequent court ac- tion Oct. 30. Mayor Lamport charged that Ross was "trafficking in cab licences." The Supreme Court of Ontario ordered the commission to give Ross a licence, The birch tree sheds its bark | every year. movie | To End Strike MONTREAL (CP) -- The Quebec Federation of Industrial Unions (CCL) Tuesday night asked the | provincial government to take di- | rect action to end strikes of miners {in northwestern Quebec. Noranda Mines, where 1,600 of the 3,000 striking miners are em- ployed, is reported to have offered an hourly pay increase of 10 cents, The United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL representing the men, has demanded 22 cents. Federation secretary Romeo Ma- thieu, in a telegram to Premier Duplessis and Labor Minister Bar- rette, said the conflict now is be- yond ordinary labor: t Quebec Rolling Back Frontiers By RICHARD DAIGNAULT Canadian Press Staff Writer QUEBEC (CP)--The race for! metals continued in the Quebec mining industry during 1953 al-| though lower prices for some met- als and a prolonged strike in north- western Quebec's gold mines are expected to cause a fall in pro- duction. Quebec mineral production, hov- ering around $92,000,000 in 1946, soared to well over $250,000,000 | last year .as the province's north-! west and portheastern frontiers | ac and the government should inter- vene. He said the four-month conflict is endangering the welfare of the province and of the 3,000 families involved and urged negotiations be started between management and strikers under the chairmahip of were push Quebec department of mines this year noted interest in rarer metals like lithium, found south of Amos in northwestern Quebec, and in| molybdenite, an ore used to harden [ steel. about p uran- | | | n TEHRAN, Iran (AP)--Ex-dicta- Mossadegh Changes Mind He Will Appeal Sentence the military court's com- lenged t 0 try him and had main- tor Mohammed M: degh today appealed his conviction by a mil- itary tribunal on _charges of treason and his sentence to three 300 miles north of Quel Ci ot Quebes Citutie years in solitary confin t spite his ouster during a bloody, royalist coup last August which {brought Premier Fazollah edi to power. t pie he still was premier, de- northwest and the Gaspe penin- sula, a vast, virtually untapped area. Authorities said it would take 20 days to set up an appeal court Industrially, the big develop- |of seven judges to review the case ments are the Iron Ore Company of the fiery old ex-premier who of Canada's gigantic project in Un- [was tried on charges of defying gava where construction of a 360- | the orders of the shah, attempting mile railway is expected to be [to overthrew the monarchy and completed next year, and ,Gaspe |dissolving the lower house of Parl- copper mines. {lament illegally. The railway will carry ore mined| In the preliminary stages of Mos- from open pits to Sept Tles, on the |Sadegh's dramatic trial--sparked St. Lawrence river North Shore, |DY the veteran politician's tirades, and will go by ship to United threats and capricious clowning-- States refineries. Construction of a mining town in Gaspe's wilderness was well ad- vanced during the year and pro- duction is expected fo begin next year. One big expansion was in the mit suicide if he were released and said he would not appeal if he were convicted. THREAT FORGOTTEN But as in the case of every other threat he made during the 35-day Enth ium deposits continued but so far Mr. Barrette and "if y in the presence of the premier himself.' Light Snow Snarls Road SARNIA (CP--More than two inches of snow fell in this area Tuesday and department of high- ways crews were busy with plows, sand and salt- to keep highways open. About three inches fell in some there has been no production. Hottest spots for prospecting re- mained the Chibougamau region, trial, Mossadegh reversed himself. tos industry in Quebec's east- He wrote his request for an appeal ern townships where new produc- tion facilities were build and new ! asbestos deposits placed under de- velopment. required by law. areas near Wingham and highway crews reported heavy drifting. In and about London, afternoon rain and snow turned to ice as| temperatures dropped, making dri- | ving dangerous. Police reported dozens of acci- dents in western Ontario. Three women were treated at Sarnia for | injuries suffered in separate motor accidents and three Chatham. Paper keeps fodds sanitary. TT an.o lon. emotional old nationalist also once SIAMESE TWINS BORN COLOMBO, Ceylon (AP) -- Sia- mese twin girls have been born |chickens for dinner. Well on in to a 27-year-old peasant woman of Dis 70s, he challenged the public prosecutor, a man much his jun- Dandagamuwa village, 50 , miles (jor to a wrestling match, He got from Colombo, it was reported to- up to walk out of the court several day. The twins are joined at the times, but nearly always collapsed head. A doctor in charge of the | after a few steps and allowed him- rural hospital where they were self to be dragged back to his persons suf- | delivered said they had a good seat in a near-faint. fered minor injuries in a crash at chance of being separated, but| Iranians S | personnel and facilities for such |table-pounding and dramatic tac. appeal | could expect similar tics when Mossadegh's ration are lacki in Cey-| ve ie 3 "hearing comes up. He had chal- the defendant threatened to com- | on the document containing the | court's sentence and signed it as| During the trial, the wealthy and | threatened to go on a hunger strike | but ended up by having three | ifts of clothing, par- S Gov't. Paid For Geisha OTTAWA (CP--Just call 1. Roland D. White of Grand Falls, N.B., lucky The Bo year-old ant with a's Korea recently spent a in Tokyo that included a party, paid for by the government. t wavy 3) Joave a but em porary duty." To top , he' soon appear on television. A National Film Board television movie team picked Cpl. White to appear in a picture of a typical soldier, on duty and on leave. The picture is for film board's roekly television show "On the medical assist 25th Brigade in leave" A Surplus in Reform Bosses TORONTO (CP) -- Superintend- ents of Ontario reform institutions are suff from a surplus of bosses, W. J. Stewart (PC--Park- dale), said Tuesday. . Mr. Stewart told the legislatures select committee on reform insti- tutions, of which he is chairman, that one superintendent had to watch public works department employees sit around in idleness Farmers once used barley grains |as units of measure, three grains | making an inch, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. | because he had no authority over their construction project. 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