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Eaton Charges:Fear GagsStatesmenPUGWASH, N.S. (CP)—Industrialist Cyrus EatonJ s( ‘'some of my good friends among American statesmen are afraid to speak up for better understanding between the United States andRussia,NIKITA KRUSHCHEV. . . man of hi# word(.ook Hvnrinn Toltl:Parents Shot,ChildrenMr Eaton told 25 scientists representing nine countries, in-eluding Russia and the UnitedStates, that some American political figures have told him we are afraid we will he hcaten in the next election if we advocate better understanding.” lt;The scientists are meeting at Mr. Eaton's summer home to discuss chemical and bacteriological warfare. I‘Kegketable’The Pugwash-born industrialist, who visited Russia last year and met Premier Khrushchev. said it is regrt table to say these things but I am compelled lo do so in the interest of humanity.He said the Soviet premier is the most influential single individual in the world a man of his word. I believe that he means what he says.’UHe was commenting on a cable from Khrushchev to the scientists saying that Russia strongly supports the prohibition of all types of weapons of mass annihilation.CYRUS EATON interest of humanityFish UniPledgedBludgeonedSTETTLER. Alta. (CPi Apathologist testified Tuesday that Mr. and Mrs Raymond Cook were kflled hv shotgun blasts and their five children were bludgeoned to death in a mass murder last June in this town of 3,500.Dr. P. W. Davey, pathologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, was the third witness of more than 50 to be called in a preliminary hearing on a murder charge againsi Robert Raymond Cook, 23Hie accused man’s father and step mother and I heir five children were slain Robeif Cook was the slain man's son by a previous mari'age.Magistrate C. W Craves interrupted morning proceedings to have the police court cleared of persons under the age of 1* in ih# interests of public moralsCOMMON SENSEI am convinced that the head of the Soviet Union, for obvious common sense reasons it for nothing else, wants to abandon the enormous expense ol armaments for the building of better schools and homes, the improvement of agriculture. the expansion of industry. ,Earlier Tuesday. Sir Robert Watson Watt, the British scientist who helped develop radar, told of a toxic substance weighing only eight ounces that “could kill off every human being on our planet if properly distributed.DANGER TO HUMANITYProfessor Mikhail Dubinin of the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow’, one of four Soviet scientists present, said new developmen# in bacteriological warfare allow us to define clearly the degree of danger that these kinds of weapons represent for humanity.VANCOUVER (CP) La bo Minister Lyle Wicks is re ported willing to conduct at investigation into the admin 1st rat ion of the United Fish erruen and Allied WorkerUnion which a Vancouver Island group says is run t; Communists.A group of fishermen a Kyuquot, on the west coast o the Island, organized recent I; to press for a cleanup of thlt; administration of the unioi which they say is not heinj run in (he best interests of thlt; union.Spokesmen for the grou| said Mr. Wicks acknowledge* a request for an inquiry anlt; said he will investigate.Meanwhile, Paul Ducharmf who resigned as vice presiden of the union during the recen fisheries strike, said in Princ Rupert he has been orderc-before a union trial Saturda for allegedly trying to hrin union officers into disreput and other charges.During the strike he sai the union was Communis dominated and had lost an semblance of democratic prii ciplea.The letter outlining thNOW!IcuulavLSTOREWIDIAUGUSTSALE• •
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Victoria Daily Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Wed, Aug 26, 1959
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