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Oyster War In Potomac REMOTE HANDLING NORWAY PREPARES

River

TWO STATES QUARREL

OVER RIGHTS

Washington, Mar. 5.

With shot-guns, pistols, rifles, spotter- aircraft, and fast boats, men from Virginia and Maryland are fighting over the rich oyster beds of the lower Potomac River.

The Potomac,

Prisoners

One of the first incidents on

through quiet

meandering bont, estimated be worth green hills from 120,000 dollars (about £7,000) the Shenandoah Valley to the was rimmed und ita stern

Ocean, fcams Atlantic

the demolished, so that it sank after boundary line between Virginia limping into harbour. and Maryland. For over 170

Virginians and years.

Mary- landers have been squabbling, sometimes within gunshot of the nation's capital, over rights to the waters

of the Potomic, Chesapeake and the estuaries of Ch Bay into which it nows.

More recently the quarrel, once concentrated on shipping rights,

has become identified with rights to tho lucrative Potomac oyster beds, which can yield a skllied oyster Asherman up to 85 dollars (about £29) for one hour's work.

Bone Of Contention

The oyster war tween pirates"

and

wagod be- fron Virginia,

law-enforcement Iron Maryland.

officers

be-

record took place in 1894 whon the Virginian oyster steamer, Chesapeake, arrived in Pungot

1949,

疑

Was

Creek with two Mary- CARUC lund schooners and 18 prisonIOTS captured in a fight with oyster poachers. in the exchange, Cannon were used.

In

Asherman killed in a scuffle with a Virginia Fisheries Commission officer.

Maryland authorities say that they fear that, with oysters bringing in a record prica of over one dollar (about 7/60) a plest this year, thero will be more temptation for oyster dredgers lo faun Maryland laws.

Solution

The bone of contention

this: Under

Mr McKeldin's suggestion for tween them in

A

stopping what he describes aa Mary- compact signed us 1785,

"the

war" is the great oyster and confirmed rights granted by

creation of Joint Maryland- Charles I to the waters of the

to mark Virginia authority Potomac to the low-water mark

control on the Virginia shore.

fishing and navigation rights in Mary-

Chesapeake land law prohibits dredging for the Potomac and oysters, the authorities claiming that dredging rakes up and ruins the oyster beds, and that only longs should be used by fisher-

men.

Virginia, on the other hand, allows oyster dredging, and the fishermen of Virginia who operate near the Potomac think that they should observe only Virginia a law and

have developed a habit of acting accordingly.

In the most recent clash be- tween the Virginiun "pirutes"

undi the Maryland "Navy"

fishermen were

several

hit by shot-gun pellets, their boat was holed by riflo fire, ant the Mayor of Colonial Beach, Mr L. C. Costenbader, complained to the Maryland authorities

that about 50 shots, fired by Mary- land police, whined near women and children standing

on the river bank watching the excite- inent.

Protest

to

On

The Cloveror of Virginia, Mr Thomas Stanley, protested the Governor of Maryland, Mr Theodore McKeldin. But Mr McKeldin rejected the protest, enying sternly:

སོ༣ཎཾ ཙ

condone no caroless or promiscuous shooting, but when Lawbreakers

post lookouts the shore and then use the high spoeds of their extraordinarily cxpensive boats to escape arrest, use of the weapons at hand may necessary to bocomo

prevent maiming ur cscape not by killing anyone but by crippling. if possible, the vessel used in the illegal operation,

"Rarming becomes a legiti- mate means of stopping escaping boats, and the firing of shots to cripple the crait of criminals affout is well within the realm of necessity.

The central figure in the latest episode of the oyster war is Mr

King

realdent Harvey

of from which authorities

claim,

Colonial Beach, Maryland

about 40 oyster "pirates" optrate, Mr King owns 3 42-foot boat. named Miss Ann, which has a 225 horse-power engine and is capable of a speed of about 35 miles an hour.

and

Mr King said in an interview with reporters that he had given the slip to pursuing Maryland police in an exciting zig-zag chase through the creeks backwaters of the Potomac River. But at one stage, when he was buzzed by a patrol aircraft, two pursuing police Iaunches 1 close enough to open fire.

Buckshot

"Two rifle bullet's knocked holes in my boat," Mr King said. "Some of the buckshot hit me and my partners. It felt like a hard shove is the back, and if we had not had on oilskins, somebody would have got hurt.”

Virginia authorities fined King 20 dollars (about

201

on

a charge of concealing his boat Hcence number. But they flatly refused to hand him over to Maryland Lov trial therŃ DO MOKO terious charges wolving tho violation of the Maryland lawa against oyster drodging.

Reports of at least six similar episodes have appeared in the press recently. In one case, or

gry Virginian rammed the floats of a Maryland patről - alga eratt which landed in the water beside him to arrest him for dredging. 'In. priofher clash, this year, a Colonial Beach oyster

waters.

Maryland's Legislative Assem- bly voted in favour of establish- ing such an authority in 1940. Dut Virginia has so far refused appeals to join such an arrange- ment-China Mall Special.

Hydro Resources Reaching Maximum

Toronto, Mar. 5. Dr A. Keys, president of Atomic

Canada End of Limited, predicted today that Ontario will be using all ite hydro resources by avaliable

ta supply 1902 and will have

needs through stearn gonerating plants.

further

Dr Keys told the Prospectors and Development Association's 26th

anmial convention that whether atomic reactors could be used in such stewn planta all depended on costs.

Το

with coal compete

and other fossil fuels, Dr Keys said nuclear power costs must be around five to six mille por kilowatt hour, In Europa, ho pointed out, such a limit would be around 10 mills.

Dr Keyn added that Canada's atomic power establishment at Chalk River, Ontario, was in- tensifying its research into the cost problem-United Prepa.

MANDRAKE THE MACICIAN

THIS MESSAGE

WAS THROWN OUT OF THAT FOG--

LOOKI

FERDINAND

NANCY

*

Fitrat demonstration of

researchĄ, Buclear

remote handling apparatus able to reproduce mechanically. all the movements of the human hand was given in Watford Wednesday. This

ap. paratus enables complex and delicate operations to be per- formed on radioactive, ma- terial while the operator is proiected by a wall or screen several feet thick, Picture left shows the "hand" being operated from the controlling side; picture right shows how the "hand" can be need to give good close shave.. Express Photo.

NEW REACTOR

APPARATUS TRIED

Bulganin Congratulates Nishi

London, Mar. 5. The Sovici Prime Minister, Marshal Bulganin, has sent

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TO COMMEMORATE

GRIEG'S DEATH

Oslo, Mar. 5. Norway is preparing to celebrate, in 1957, the 50th anniversary of the death of her greatest composer of the last century, Edvard Grieg.

Much of the programme for | studied ot the Leipzig the 5th Bergen International | Conservatorium and in Copen Festival of Music and Drama, | hagen, But he soon returned to be held from May 24 to June to Norway and became fred 7, will be devoted to his works. with enthusiasm for Norwegian For

whose homo, national music. Almost all his Troldhaugen,

ls just outside later compositions were clearly Bergen is generally regarded as inspired by Norwegian folk- that town's "irst cltizen."

muale, although at the The hous,

two-storey tima marked by his strong wooden building in late 19th

personality both in tune, rhythm century style, is preserved just and harmigniy,

when Grieg died there on September 4, 1007, at the age of 64. Htis turn was Interred in a grotto bullt into the rock in the garden.

aa it wns

PICTURESQUE LAKE

MET PATRIOT

simo

After an early period under the influence of the Mendelssohn and Schumann romantic school, Grieg met a great Norwegian patriot and musician, Richard

of composer

national onthem Grieg learnt

crusado

the

His home, garden and the Nordrnak,

Norwegian surrounding picturesque lake and mountain countryside which so Through him, obviously inspired much of the know the Norwegian folk tunes great composer's music, will be and started out boldly or a kind shown to concert-goers and of

who attend the sightseers Bergen Festival next summer.

Indeed, small intimate Com- certs of songs, plano and violin recitals and chamber music will place there every day at lunch time during the Festival, minor.

Grieg was born at Bergen and

of his life there will

much

iclegram to the daphness Pre conducting of period the

"on

He was

a

Harmonien

com-

home

for Norwegian

He has

been national music. referred to as the "Chopin of the North", and is particularly known for his musle to Ibsen's "Peer Gynt", his Holberg Sulle, and his plano concerto in A

The 1857

Festival Bergen open with n ble Grieg concert in the Bergen Concert Orchestra, Palace.

The last concert will mier Mr Nobusuke

Kishi con- Bergen

plano and gratulating him

the c-playing the

largely to casion of your election as Prime posing. But he was 42 years of also be devoted Minister and my sincere wishes age before he built Troldhaugen, Grieg's music.

Final details of the various which then became his for your success."

programmes have not yet been until his death,

Axed, but

among the visiting Marshal Bulganin said he was London, Mar. 5.

descended from a musicians taking part will be the normal that "Nero", a new experimental confident

Alexander Grieg (or the French Orchestre National, low energy reactos, e diplomatic relations established Scut,

between the two countries will Greig), who emigrated to Bergen the Little Chamber Orchestra, Musica Antiqua operation at the atomic energy

His research establishment at Hat continue to develop the spirit of after the Battle of Culloden in the

1740.

Gesine ensemble, mother,

and the well,

neighbourly United the

It is not devoted Kingdom good Atomic Energy

Authority and confidence, Moscow radio Hagerup, belonged, however, to Quartette,

Norweglan pensant entirely to Norwegian muzle and a pure sald tonight. nounced tonight.

and it is belfeyed that

last season's her that he ed at the In his reply, The reactor will be used to

Japanese is largely from

Prokofien, wero Mozart, "I would like, inherited his musical talent, investigate

design, Premier says; physico,

Beethoven, Brahms, my efforts was certainly from her that he Sibelius,

pollus, problem aodated with the with you, to apply

Strauss, firmer the began learning to play the plane Richard making stil more advanced types of graphite, to

His Arst Benjamin Britten and Vaughan age of six. moderated power reactor now friendly relations happily exist at the

ing between our countries."efforts at composition followed Williams. under study by the authority

at the age of nine and later he Router. China Mall Special.

triendship

By Lee Faik and Phil Davis

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

FEED

FEED

THE

THE

PRED

BIRDS

THE

FEED THE BIRDS

JOHNNY HAZARD

CIRCLE THE GLOBE. NON STOPT NOW, SCOTTY, WITH PROPER MIG-AIR REFUELING EVEN THAT 19 NOTHNG TO JUMP FOR JOY ABOUTI YOURS HOLDING

BACKI

YOWAS ON THE BALL, KITTY 146Z AMI BUT

– YOU'LL REAUZE LATER.

| WHY Z'M KEEPING IT

| A MYSTERY„EVEN TO

"YOU'RE A LOWA WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, ~ DOWN BO-AND-SO, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, KITTY¿ SCOTTY BLOCURI POR NOW, ACQUAINT YOURSELF. YOU'RE STRETCHING WITH THE CONTROL LAYOUT A GALE CURĪDEITY. IF YOU'RE REAL GOOD VILL LET | TO THE BREAKING / YOU SHAKE THIS JOB WITH,

JOHNNY

By Frank Robbins

NO MYSTERY GADGETS UP FRONT..... EVERYTHING FAIRLY STANDAROJ BUT WHATS THIS EMPTY CUTOUT WITH UNCONNECTED CABLING FOR? AN INSTRUMENT PANEL 7. FOR WHAT

PURPOSE 7

There's More than Magic in

CADBURY'S

На вигорі

DRAN MECK

THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF OF FULL CREAM IN EVERYBAN

CUTEX

LIPSTICK

IN THE

LATEST

SHADES

ROWNTREES

AIRO

...this situation

calls for

Sau Miguel

1t

Pro

Smetana

Among the cumposers **COUV

TOURS

The drama programme for the 1957 Festival is not yet certain either. In 1950, the big theatrical production was "Jeun do France, by the Bergen-born 18th century dramatist Ludvig Holberg, played by the Bergen National

Company. Theatre This was such

that

success

plans are now being considered to for inviting the company perform the same play at the Munich Festival in 1969.

A

number of bookings have atrendy been received for group tours

Bergen

to

and the

The

surrounding country during

period in 1957. These include "Spring Tour of Festival

Time arranged by Bennett's New York travel

bureau, and many others.

addition to

In

altending

Festival performances, visitors will be able to travel to the

Bogne Ford, which Some of Norway's

most

magnificent scenery, An added attraction at Balholm in 1857 will be a Viking village with a fleet of Viking ships, built by a

film company which will be

也 Feature

flming

Abn

costumers who buy.

about the old Vikings.

ono

tickets to

cent

or more of the Festival in performances will also, as previous years, be granted from 25 per cent to 50 per reductions in fares on the rail- ways and on most bus and boat services during the Festival period.

PRICES

Prices

seats

fog

the

Festival performances are

Tot

They

will remain

at from

throo

to be increased in 1957,

(3 shillings) for

a neat, at the

chamber

concerts to 20 kroner (1) for the most expensive scat at the orchestral concerts. Tickets to the concerts etcetera. at Grieg's home will cost 15

kroner (15 shillings), including bus transport and sightseeing China Mall Special

Dutch Cargo Confiscated By Egypt

Cairo, Mar, 5, The Egyption War Spolls Council ruled today to conflicate the cargo of the termel bound Dutch freighter Viedain.

The shipment of frozmy meaty hides and clothes were unloaded at Sucz on October. 28 because the shipment was bound to

to

Dutch vessel was allowed continuo ita voyago" Ime mediately, but was delayed following the blockade of thơ Suez Canal iritli January,!

The shipment will be suction el, the Council, said: -- United Frond.

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