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ALLIED NAVIES ON MANOEUVRES IN MEDITERRANEAN The ships of six navies are re- prem in this lineup duting the Allied naval exercise * flek Baker," under the easy. «0° Admiral Mountbatten, com- mander-in-chief Allied forces, Mediterranean. The navies of Britain, France, Greece, Italy Turkey and the United States, with the aircraft of the, U.S. navy, the Royal Air Force, the Italian Air Force, and the Royal Australian Air Force, par- ticipated in the exercises carried out in the eastern and central Mediterranean. --Central Press Canadian Photo. CULTURE SPREE Montrealers Respond With Enthusiasm By PETER BUCKLEY Canauian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP)--For a few weeks each summer during the last .18 years Montreal has gone on a sort of artistic spree. This year the flow of culture promises to be greater than ever. In six weeks of August and Sep- tember Montrealers are able to sample offerings ranging from chamber music and folk dancing | to dramatic presentations of wide | geope. | A total of 16 separate even- | ings of entertainment will attract probably more than 30,000 persons. The current festival is the most ambitious series drawn up by the Montreal Festivals since ihe first festival was staged in 1936 at adja- eent Ville St. urent, EAGER AUDIENCES Montreal has responded with £are enthusiasm to the idea of its . own cultural festival, It blossomed during the war years and has been attracting bigger crowds every year. Last year's 11 presentations drew some 30,000 persons to much the same kind of offerings as this year. However, instead of focusing the spotlight on a musical offering as in previous years, The Montreal Festivals is going all out this year on the rapier-sharp works of a French social - satirist who por trayed the foibles of his contem- poraries in play after Flay during the reign of Louis XI The Theatre du Nouveau Monde --the only gli French-speaking pro- fessional theatre group in America--will re-enact five separ- ate works by Jean Baptiste Molier on five successive nights. For three nights, the Montreal group will stage three one-act plays --*Le Mariage Force", "Sganar- elle" and "La Jalousie du Barou- | ille." On the other two nights the | five-act Moliere comedies "Don | Juan". and "L'Avare" will be pre- sented. Almost all those taking part in this year's productions--from di- rectors to musicians to stage- Rands--will be Montrealers. Most of the affairs will be held on the grounds of L'Ermitage on mid-town Cote des Neiges Ave. A stage has been built outdoors and some 2,500 persons are expected at each performance. FOLK DANCING One of the most intriguing ideas on the program is the evening of folk dancing, about which one fes- tival official could only say in stunned surprise: 'They work." All that is needed for these even- ings is a small band, a singer, master of ceremonies and two pro- fessional dancers. The presentations start with a bit of folklore on the type of danc- ing to be featured on each par- ticular night. Then the profession- als demonstrate the differen dances and everyone joins in. Last year they were one of the most rth | popular events and festival di- frectors have scheduled four such evenings for this year. CHAMBER MUSIC There are five nights of chamber music on the program. An idea of the variation offered is the pro- (gram for Aug. 30, by a special group led by Ethel Stark, conduc- tor of the Montreal Women's Sym- phony. The featured offering will be Schubert's Mass No. 2 in G major, but the program also in- cludes "Transfigured Night," a jece written by Arnold Schoen- rg before he began dabbling in 12-ton composition. Also in the series is a symphonic psalm by Arthur Honegger, who wrote the oratorio from which last year's featured work, "Jeanne d'Arc au Boucher," was drawn. The psalm will be presented at the historic Notre Dame church on downtown Place d'Armes. Con- ductor will be Roland Leduc, leader of the Montreal Little Sym- | Bach Choir will accompany the four soloists. For the English - speaking ele- | ment there will be the oft-per-| formed Saint Joan, by George Ber- nard Shaw. staged by the Mont- real Repertory Theatre. 2,000 SCREAMING JETS United States Building Continent Defence System WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has about 2,000 jet in- terceptor planes poised to scream into the air within three minutes of an enemy attack warning. Robot - missile installation pro- jects: are under way at a dozen critically important metropolitan areas with more than a score more Plasged for other cities. Automa- ic anti-plane artillery rings many key points, A new, weird-looking row of warning radar, called "Texas tow- ers," is being staked in the coastaly waters off the Atlantic seaborad; the "Pine Tree" radar fence in the area of the Canadian border is almost 100 per cent complete and working; several automatic, radar warning stations are in operation scanning the Arc- tic skies up the edge of the North American continent, the" beginning of the distal 'radar warning line called "'Dewli COMPLEX SYSTEM The U.S. has far more and far better aerial defence ready than it had in the most dangerous days of the Second World War. But the most optimistic defence expert doesn't dream that this vast, unprecedented, multi-billion- dollar system of continental de- fence would stop every Russian bomber from getting through the guard. & only hopes that most would be detected and destroyed. In this day of nuclear weapons, one bomb can destroy one great city. And with no trouble at all, far mightier ones can be fabri- cated. ' For that reason the U.S. is build- ing the complex system' called "'continental dcfence." It may not save every city, but it may save enough to keep the war effort going until retaliatory bpmbing by the strategic air fleet can strike at sources from which the enemy launches its aerial at- tack. That is the U.S. Air Force's ar ent. spite the already intricate and involved system of continental de- fence, there is yet no single, over- all command with full authority to direct it. STUDY NEAR COMPLETION At present some responsibility, but no authority, rests with the air force. But a long - standing study looking to establishment of a full-fledged, single continental defence command is reported near- ing completion. Recommendaions are currently in the hands of the joint chiefs of staff, from where they will go to the defence depart- ment, national security council and the White House. On the basis of available in- formation, here is how the con-|paged tinental defence system stands now and is Up along the lonely reaches of the Arctic is the beginning of 'D"ewline," the system of radar warning installations eventually intended to stretch eastward from Alaska across horthern Canada to Greenland. Part of that system will include the automatic sets, which flash alarms over radio when their radar antennas, operatiny under a rubber dome to protect them from ice and snow, pick up the image of approaching planes. The warn- ing will flash to warning filter centres and air bases within sec- onds. A thousand miles or so to the south, along the belt of farm land and cities of Canada and the northern states, is '"Pine Tree." It serves several functions in the radar warning system: to pick up enemy planes that might have eluded the distant warning radar sets in the Arctic and to give an indication of the course of the ap- Electricity Cost Higher OTTAWA (CP) -- The cost of lighting Canadian homes rose four per cent last year and the bureau of statistics predicts a further in- crease in 1954 In a report issued today, the bur- eau said the index figure for the cost of domestic electricity in- creased to 99.01 from 95.08 in 1952. However, Canada's over-all power rates are still among the lowest in the world the bureau said. It gave no rates. «The report said that since the 1935-39 period the price per horse- power of adding new capacity has more De on doubled and the operat- 980 transmission costs of hydro Sl Shmbing, Another factor contributing to Righes rates the bureau said, is the freq- uency conversion in Ontario. TWIN PURPOSE The Knights of the Sepulchre were apparently first sanctioned by pope aschal III in 1113 to pro-| tect Christ's burying to] | PEST CO-OPERATION WASHINGTON (AP) The 'House of Representatives Tuesday passed and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing the government to co-operate with Canada and Mex- ico to control emergency outbreaks of pests threatening U.S. crops. The bill would permit the secre- tary of agriculture to use con- tingent funds to assist Canadian or Mexican authorities in border areas. DONT ACT SHY ON SHIPBOARD Even if you're shy by nature, don't show it when travelling by boat. Most travelers--just like yourself -- are eager to make acquaintances. They'll appreciate your smile or friendly "Good Morning." Folks advertising in the Classified section are also mighty interested in meeting prospects for their offers . . . If you need a place to live, a car, furniture, appliances, anything, better turn to Classi- fied NOW. proaching aircraft and provide clues to their intended target. Down in the U.S. itself are the close-in detection and tracking radar systems spotted around mil- itary bases and big industrial areas. ° There is still another element of radar warning system, air- borne and seaborne. The U.S. Air Force and navy are adding to a fleet of big transport-type aircraft, able to fly far and stay long in the air. The radar search sets they carry have advantages over land-based equipment. e high altitude of planes extends radar range--lim- ited by the curvatures of the earth --several miles. And the planes can roam hundreds and thousands of miles beyond the fringe of land- radar stations, The navy has destroyers and submarines es- pecially fitted out 'for radar picket duty, their mission like that of the planes. Cne-Armed Trucker Saved LUCKNOW, Ont. (CP)--A one- armed Hensall truck driver was rescued from drowning Tuesday after his truck loaded with logs crashed through a wooden bridge and landed upside down in three feet of water in the Nine Mile river near this community about 50 miles north of Stratfol With water only about eight inches from the top of the cab, driver George Beer managed to stick his head out the window above water until rescued. His companion, Douglas Dick of Hensall, who had left the truck to guide it across the narrow trestle bridge, waded into the water and pulled out Beer. Belgian Congo BRUSSELS (AP)--Belgium rules the greatest uranium - produci area in the World--the Belgian Congo--and the price she is getting for the atomic ore is a hot political issue at home. No one outside senior govern- ment officials knows what that price. is. Almost everyone else, from the Communists to extreme fignt-wingers, is convinced it is far too low. And the government is ac- cused of virtually giving away the precious ore. Much of the government's dif- ficulty arises from the secret agreements under which the ore is sold to the United States and Britain. Tne @ Bercements were first §ighed in 1 CLINES TN INFORMATION Uranium Is Sold At Secret Price party and one of the four Red Ing | deputies in Parliament, asked For- eign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak to outline the agreements and tell when they expire. Spaak refused. The foreign min- ister did say, however, that the pacts are still in effect. "Since 1948," he added, "we have been in contact with our patiners with the view of obtaining the reviSion of certain clauses of the agree- ment and to improve their applica- tion in our favor." This answer satisfied no one. The Antwerp Gazette, a Conservative opposition newspaper, commented: "What we are particularly con- cerned with is to know at what price the uranium ore is dissi- Edgar Lalmand, secretary-gen- pated. The financial damage we ave suffered through these agree- THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, August 4, 1954 ments will certainly reach fantas- tic figures." Spaak ran into opposition event within his own Sociol party ator Henri Rolin, a feaner of the "Socialist Movement for Peace," said the agreements "which were concluded without the parliament having been informed are evi- gendy in conflict with the constitu- on." "Theoretically," Rolin added, "the Congo uranium mines are private property but, in fact, it is the Belgian state which signs con- tracts with Great Britain and the United States." An indication of the financial re- turn on the gperation can be gained fom financial statements of the Union Miniere de Haut Katanga, one of the big uranium-producing outfits. Its ares have nearly doubled in price--from $722--since 1945. The company declared a divi- dend in 1953, $4 higher than the previous year. This compared with a dividend in 1945 of $4. TCA Ready In Case Of Strike CALGARY (CP)--Gordon Wooa of Montreal, Trans-Canada Air Lines vice-president, said in an ine lew Tuesday that TCA = or. ga trans-Canada airlift im event 135,000 railway non-operating employees striki Mr. Wood, visit TCA west. ern terminals, said TCA is "pre- pared down to the last detail" for any emergency which might arise out of a strike. "We would cut down our over seas service and put as many planes as possible on the domestio lines," he said. RAF SIDELINE Small complete farms. alo runways of RAF stations in gue Britain are operated by the air orce. Ruthor Of "Gigi" Dies In Paris PARIS (AP)--Gabrielle Colette, 81, one of the most famous of modern French novelists, died Tuesday night. She wrote under the pen name of Colette. Her novels, short stories and plays were popular in France and, in translation, throughout the world for more than 50 years. She was married three times. Besides being a novelist she was also a journalist, music hall star and an actress. One of her novels, "Gigi," dram- atized by Anita Loos, was a hit on Broadway and brought stardom to Audrey Hepburn. Last winter it was a big success in Paris, too. Her last book, "En Pays Connu," was published four years ago. East Bengal Badly Flooded DACCA, Pakistan (Reuters)-- Floods have inundated more than 15,000 square miles of land in northern districts of the Riverine province of east Bengal. Thousands of villages and small towns in Sylhet, Mymensingh and Ranpur districts, where more than 10,000,000 persons live, have been swamped by the waters of the Brahmaputra river and its tribu- taries. No details of casualties have been received, but radio re- ports said damage to crops and villages and towns has been ex- ensive. phony Orchestra, and Montreal's | | wi ship more than 60 Sabre, 'More Sabres Go To NATO | Mark 2 jet fighters to Greece and { Turkey within the next few months as part of her NATO agreements with both countries, the RCAF said Tuesday night. The aircraft--practically the en- ire stock of old model Sabres in service here--will be flown to Europe by pilots of the RCAF over- seas ferry unit, especially formed to supply European bases. Earlier Tuesday five Sabres left for Greece along with a flight of 20 late-model "Mark 5s" destined for RCAF Air Division bases in Britain, France and Germany. CANCEL COMPLAINTS JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thirteen hundred complaints tabled in the past by both sides were cancelled Tuesday at a meeting of the Is- raeli - Egyptian mixed armistice commission. The "reconciliation gesture" was suggested by Danish Col. 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