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, Only the chimney remains
standing after an early morn-
ing fire took five lives at
Berkeley, Ont., Sunday. Dead
are Mrs. Adam Bailey, 84, her
son-in-law, John MacLaughleén,
FIRE CLAIMS FIVE LIVES
6, her ee le tS eeee, Maver ~Mac-
woke about 8 a.m.
and found the house in flam-
es. He leaped out a second-
storey window and ran to a
neighboring home for help.
(CP Wirephote)
John Raywood, %
Raywood's two children, Kath-
arine, 2, and Sharan Phillis,
eight months. Mrs. John Mac-
Laughlin, 62, Beverly Marc-
Laughlin, 32, and Philip Walk-
Conservatives Launch
To Unseat Forestry Mi
Maurice Sauve: They began |Thursday in Perce, on the top
court action in a remote Quebec of the Gaspe Peninsula.
fishing village to have his elec-; A hearing will be held later
tion nullified. lin Quebec Superior Court at
If the legal gambit succeeds, | Gaspe, when Mr. Sauve will
the minister will find. himself have the opportunity to reply to
without âa Commons seat and the Conservative allegations and
forced to run again in a byelec- fileâ a counter-petition if
tion or-resign from. the cabinet. | chooses. .
Hull lawyer Lionel Motigeot | Reached at his Montreal home
disclosed Friday that a petition : ithe minister said he would study
HULL. Que. (CR) â The Con- alledging irregularities on and
servatives had a Christmas Eve \before election dayâ in Mr. |
surprise for Forestry Minister | Sauveâs riding was filed late |
he ;
A ft]
{the lengthy petition, filed under
ithe Controverted Elections Act.
âI can't comment when I
donât know what itâs all about,â
he told a reporter,
WON BY 392 VOTES
Mrâ Sauve, 42, was re-elec'
AS RUNWAY
NEW YORK (AP)âBecause
his passenger couldn't swim,
a 19-year-old pilot landed his
small plane on the George
Washington Bridge instead of
in the Hudson River Sunday
Both men walked away with
minor injuries.
As the Aeronca monoplane
landed in the centre of the
huge bridge linking New York
with New Jersey, its wing tip
tea | cought on a truck's tarpaulin.
Nov. 8 in Canadaâs smallest pra ee ne ee ee
constituency, Iles - de
Madeleine, by a margin of 392, damaged but nothing else suf-
fered.
votes, down from his 1,485-vote
edge in the 1963 election, The double-lane centre road-
His Progressive Conservative | way of the bridge's upper
nt, Dr. Mare Arsenault, eck was not open to traffic .
Cape Wolfe Safe
Reported Found
The break is being: invéstigat-
ALBERTON â A safe con-) the A
taining some $2,000 in cash, and
another $4,000 worth -of papers
and other valuables stolen
Thursday night from Costainâs |
general store aft Cape Wolfe, |
oes eee |
NO SIGN OF BACKING DOWN
7
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Story Of Peace Feelers
Will Be Told By Fanfani
JAMES M. LONG
Rome gro +. Italy's. fiery.
fittie foteign âminister. Amintore The
Fanfani, plans to tell his
parliamentary eritics personally jand right over whether Fanfaal y ig nalenwed he will tefl his |
affairs: commission . has been jas
âcalled for Jan. 5..to hear. him. âtions ~
âcommission will debate a einer ada
crossfire of charges from left backing down
A
-tapitdees V,
of the United Ne- :'
ssembly wold
has any intention ofâ
why he became middieman in jwas gullible. and whether he letities he is convinced he did |
the peace feeler that aroused
tkepticism in Washington and |
fenials in Hanoi.
An extraordinary session of
the Chamber of Deputies foreign
acted with the knowledge of the
Italian paring i
Nothing in the veteran politi-
ie warriorâs nature or his ac-
âtion since returning from his job oi La Pira of Florence.
iright in passing along the pur-
ported Hanoi overtures to U.S.
:
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Christmas weekend death
toll totalled at least 53 with one
day remaining before the holi-
_day_officially ends at midnight.
Monday.
A.Cross-Canada Survey by the
Canadian Press until 10 p.m.
EST Sunday lists 37 persons
killed in traffic accidents, 14 in
fires, one drowning and one _as- |
staried at 6 p.m.
: The Canadian fue Safety |
Council predicted 60 would die |
on highways during the
weekend. Last year's road ~
etality toll was 57,
SHARE LEAD
Ontario, where five persons
died in a house fire at Berkeley
and eight others on the high- |
Canadaâs Death Toll 53
With One Day Remaining
*
CHANNEL STILL OPEN .
Before coming home -he âcon-
\firted swith U.S. State Secretary
)channel between Hanoi and
|ways, shares the. highest provia- i's ggasi y A lag
cial death rate with British Co-
jlumbia. B.C. had 11 highway
âdeaths and two by fire.
| _ In Quebec, 10 persons died in.
\traffic mishaps and one man |
was asphyxiated.
and carries~~on crusades on
world affairs.
ound! Prince Ho Chi Minh of North Viet Nam i
Newh and and Ed itold him personally in Novem- 'Heinrich-Heine Strasse crossing
ber that he was willing to go point, a brutal killing.
âamywhere and talk with any- |. U.S. officials said Schoeneber-
phyxiation âsince the holiday one drowning was recorded in |Oody about peace, and that with-| ger drove the car
Friday
ward Island were fatality free.
Two persons died on the high-
ways in New Brunswick and
ldrawal of USS.
iNova Scotia.
In_ the western provinces two
\persons
, four in traffic and one âtions
~ fire in Saskatchewan an@| La Pira âwas quoted as ques-°!
hree by fire in Manitoba.â tioning whether the U.S. dis- |
Three persons âalso died by âclosure of. the peace talks bid-!
fire in the Yukon. had been adroitâit
The survey does not include putâ Ho under hard pressure
natural or indystrial. déaths, fromŸ Peking.
Stormy Weather Marks;
Christmas Many Places |
By THE CANADIAN PRESS / âThere was a light: snowfall in
Three of Canada's four po- | Montreal
litical leaders were at homeâ for |
Christmas and, because of bad |
weather across the country, |
most Canadians followed âsuit, |
The only leader to escape the |
from snow |
Maritimes to |
snow and drifting snow in On- |
weather,
and rain
ranging
in. the
tario and intense cold in Wes-
tern Canada and T. âŹ. Douglas, | }
leader of the New Democratic |
Party who was in Jamaica.
Prime Minister
Pearson spent the day at 24
Sussex Drive in Ottawa. with
their son, Geoffrey, and _nine | Christmas Day. with snow. Tem-
grandchildren.
Conservative Leader John
Diefenbaker also spent the day |
at his Ottawa residence. Robert |
Thempson. leader of the Social |
Credit party, was at home in |
Red Deer. Alta.
In the Maritimes and New-
foundiand âit was generally |
warm and wet Christmas Day.
North New Brunswick and parts
of Prince Edward Island (re
ceived snow.
DELAYS REPORTED
Transportation officials âre |
~+|four were injured in a head-on
and Mrs. |
knownâ suicides slayings.
Christmas
The day was cloudy. Churches
reported large attendances
Christmas Eve,
Most persons in Quebec soem,
ithe day at home.
âSnow, which began falling
Christmas Eve, covered Ontario | '
by Christmas Day. Driving was
hazardous.
One woman was
morning.
killed and
lecollision near Ottawa
was
about
It cold -in Manitoba
peratures in Ws.
Temperatures dropped to @
| below in Alberta and Saskatche-
wan. Taxi companies were
busy and towing _ services
worked around tha clock:
Stow fell.on most of British
| Columbia. Temperatures were
jmild. Highway conditions were
hazardous as rain followed the
snow and overnight tempera-
tures. were low.â
Five members of one family
were killed Christmas Day im a
traffic accident near Haney in
âthe Fraser â
*
President Johnson through his
lold friend, former mayor Gior- |
| Dean Rusk and [Ptalian imform- âbeen
âacts said afterward the Fanfani Germans escape to the
channel was La Pira, who lives |
in a Roman Catholic monastery (plot, said the dead man, Heinz | [BLAMES WESTERN AGENTS |
âSchoeneberger
forces from âtween concrete slabs built into
South Viet Nam was not an-es- @ 2ig-zag course to slow cars |.
died on highways in Al- _â pre-condition to negotia- {dows
probablyâ |-
lof the wall.
EAST GERMAN truck in Berlin Wall where
stands as barrier at-Heinriche German guards shot and
Heine Strasse crossing point ed a man early Sundayâ
end near the âold town dump âat
Summerside.
The discov r was made by
papers in the
safe were said to. be intact. The |
cash was missing.
It was reported, but not con- | whi
firmed, that children picked up are
resulted in the Cape Wolfe
being named the centen-
pieces in the vicinity of the safe. |ward Island.
| attorney here
approximately $10 in 50-cent nial community of Prince Ee
complained that some Liberal 3Âą the time, although six other
supporters were guilty of irreg- | lanes were in use.
ularities during the campaign | |The pilot, pared Ippolito
and on election day. Bronx, polite he
pe a losing power and al-
Mr. ~â a ec oll we - set pe BEY sal pr
ao ne ver. But he changed his
mind when his passenger,
Joseph Brennan, 3%, told him
he couldn't swim.
Magdalen Islands in the io Galt of
\St. Lawrenee to investigate the
aallegations at the request of
Conservative Béodquarters in.
Ottawa.
Hostilities In Viet Nam
Are Resumed After Lull
BRIDGE USED | Truce Lasts
Some 6 Hours
From AP-Reuters
SAIGON â(CP).â South Viet
âNam was wracked by war again
Sunday after a brief Christmas
truce the Western world had
hoped would light the torch of
peace.
The -hour ceasefire by U.S.
and South Vietnamese forces
turned into a one-sided experi- |
ment. The 12-hour truce offered |
by the Vietâ Gang Ie lasted aout
six hours.
The US. state department
Was reported to have ng ong |
ithe military âcommand here to
extend the ceasefire if it ap-
peared to be providing the Com-
âmunists with an excuse to stop
âshooting and start negotiating.
| The Viet Cong seized the ini-
jtiative, however. The U.S. high |Âą
| command said the Viet Cong in- |
jstigated a total of & incidents |
âduring the Communist and Am- |
lerican ceasefire periods.
Allied forces were back âin ac- |
tion, but only in South vine]
He collected several affidavits
âand recommended legal action
to have Mr. Sauve âanseated.
|The petition was filed in Perce
âby notary Jean Bourget, acting |
for Dr. Arsenault.
U.S. Roads
Death Toll
tsaid jin Ottawa Friday tifat a ec a
similar action . likely will be IsR or ; :
launchedâearlyânext- month im!" cincAGO (AP)âThe - three-
heffard riding east of Montreal
| where Liberal Louis Neveu
| edged Conservative Paul Trep- |
anier by 27 votes in a judicial
recount.
He_ saidâ the final decision is
up to Mr. Trepanier, who told
reporters Tuesday he will de-
day Christmas weekend edged
to a close Sunday night. leaving
arecord number highway
travellers dead in the United |
States.
j
|
In Wall Crossing Try
BERLIN (Reuters)âA West the car, staggered the short dis-
German in an old car was killed âtance over the border line and |
ge eda Shera eB lft âcollapsed. He died in hospital. |
| nday. Communist | report id three |
\East Germany claimed he had canâ tae in a at
trying to help two East jeg âin East Berlin. One man
West. was carried off on a âstretcher
The East German news ar-
agency ADN, describing the es awe} a man and woman were
âcape bid as a new provocative
1
, and another,
\West German with him had |
groups in West |
lants termed the incident, at the The agency coased: Went |
|German groups of using the!
Christmas period to create ten-
gai and unrest.
Lon Maj.-Gen. John .F. Franklin,
U.S. military gtr yy
jin a statement sup
st Psi gs ae te be oe and British colleagues:
East. German guards blazed âââIt is time that these sense- |
away. with submachine guns |less killings cease. The fact that
jand the car crashed
gay and jammed into one side ing the solemn Christmas sea-
ison makes the matter all the.
Schoeneberger jumped out of âthore shocking.â
through. this âisâthe second â confirmed |
the final wooden barrier at the shooting within a few days dur- |
cide early in January whether
|to proceed under, the Contro-
iverted . Elections Act.
After the allegations
Mr. Sauve~ were. pecans apr
minister Âąalled a. press confer- |
iewcats ey = homeward > eer
Byâlateâevening,_653-â-persons
had been. killed in traffic acel-
dents, surpassing the former
eeria of --609 oi a three-day
âthe at continued acting wp
Nam. The U.S. Air Force
ag, Meany tein tye Ng oe of
ae Relees.egapaet Te: Comores |
ist North.
As. a_result of Viet, Cong at-
tacks during the truce
at least 12 cans and up to |
'50 South FVietnamese soldiers
were killed. Many others were |
|
NO MENTION OF TRUCE
Communist
uper, Nahn Dan, said .the U.S.-is
iâtirelessly prattling about un- |
conditional discussionsâ for a
settlement in Viet Nem.
âThey (the Americans)
Put Hanoiâs official nemsne-|
levents during the unoffictal-
truce period:
from the field dur
ing the Viet Cong armistice and
the early part of the American-
Vietnamese ceasefire was slow.
ers had little ewe
âdence of infractions.
| The state department ta
|Washington apparently decided
jthe atmosphere was right to éx-
tend the truce and ge
for a negotiated peace.
| THINGS REPORTED QUIET
The U.S. command in Saigon
flashed to Washington word of
the series of Viet Cong cease-
fire infractions while their
spokesmen were telling report-
ers here that gp amg was
â_. This took place all day
bristmas.
we 4 a.m. Sunday, the com
âContinued on page 3 Col. 7)
Volcano
Stirring
HILO, Hawaii (AP)âHawanâs
|Kilauea Volcano quieted down
Sunday but gentle earthquakes
|kept scientists from
regarding
the Christmas Eve eruption as
rover.
Seismographs on the tipâ of
âKilauea crater recorded two of
âreach the surface, but a few -
sharper. jolts. were felt- in Hilo,
\30 miles away.
ge Quakes a minute were
felt at the height of the eruption.
oxo |" Ho. mabe -demege were
âacting as if they âreally wanted ported.
ence Dec- 15 to deny. that he |
wag personally guilty of any
wrongdoing.
He issued a 32-page statement
replying point by, point to 23 al-
|legations that had been reported |
Twin Girls
Separated
in various newspapers. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Sia- |
â mese, twin girls, tage Pes ol
surgery six hours after
âFormer UC
âModerator
Dies At.78
\life Sunday.
A surgeon who divided their
their intestines said th
little better than the 50-50
' IÂąhance given them poser sk
â| Sheila Norine and Lisa
ADN Said the attempted ©* | TORONTO _(CP)âVery Rew. _Mantonyaâwere- » tre inl
ne ecapeâwasâmadeâââunder- the in-
Wied aller te Waal Genial: tplanmed the estape for weeks. Isueoce of agent Alexander A. Scott, 78, a former. jstant care at Cedars of Lebanon
La*Pira repeated that President | Western military command- Berlin.â
moderator of the United Church | Hospital.
lof Canada, died in hospital | Their mother,
| turdey. A funeral service will (Mantonya, 20,
| be held Tuesday. ââgetting along very wellâ at
Dr. ° Scott, â moderator from another hospital. A doctor said
Mrs.
|1952 to 1954, was appointed af- he tad told her the twins were |U.S.-Canadian border from -The (Project
PPO! \âattached in @ small area and. Rockies to New England where Were almost full as thĂ© fesult of
|ter 40 years in missionary. work.
A native of Carleton Place, had to be separated.â
/Ont:,. about 35 miles west of Ot- | The. father, Gerald Mantonya,
tawa, Dr. Scott did post-gradu- |20, is a Hollywood film labora:
ate w in Scot}and before lea- |tory technician. |
ving for India in 1912. The infants, weighing: a. total
Dr-. Scott leaves two daught- fof 12 pounds, -were-born by
ers, Mrs. Lyle H. Wilson of Tor- (Caesarian sec tion: Saturday,
onto and Mrs. David H Lewis of | Neither. breathed three. of
Bierut, Lebanon, and a son Don- four. minutes.
Ieee Cicadtuane thos, cimeg
Win in order to bfand the
namese people as belli-
teose, âsaid an article signed by |
[Pignter.
Moscow charged that the US.
Inad broken the Christmas céase
ifire.
U.S. military spokesmen ia)
|Saigos, gave this picture of
No populated areas were
threatened.
Aloi Crater; site of a three-
jday eruption in December, 1962
4s off the chain of craters road,
so ânamed because it weaves
through Kilevea's many craters
up to the 4,000-foot plateau built
tr Be. Are Pes
Arctic Weather
common. bladder and âTheit|
eir
chances of survival now are a!
Moves Into U.S.
LEWISTOWN, ° âMont. (AP)â
'Arctic cold invaded the United |
|low in central Montana.
| The cold was felt along the
sub-zero temperatures were ex-
pected to follow closely an un-
usually mild and rainy Christ-
mas.
| The weather bureau. issued
jcold - wave -warnings in the
plains states âas far south as
|\Nebraska, and posted cold wave
predictions for Sunday night in
âEast he tried to ram a car through
a the barrier. Heâ stumbled
across into West Bertin and
when died
âald- of Dunnville, Ont. | Plane ars
âSafely With .
| Engine.Afire
rep
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)âHoli-
day passengers missed their
\Christmas dinner aboard a To-
|kyo-bound Japan Air Lines jet
and escaped down an emer:
gency chute without injury af-
âter the damaged plane limped
ito a landing.
| The planeâs: outer left engine
âcaught fire four minutes after
ithe ,DC-8's takeoff from San
\Francisco Saturday. There were
5 passengers and 10 crew
âShe went blooie.â said Flight
Officer Harold L. Brown. the
only American crew 7° ~ber.
âThere wasn't any warning.â
Parts of the engine fell over
suburbanâ areas.
\Capt. Tsuneo Kato landed the
(plane at Oakland, across the
jbay from San Francisco. .
but the debris |
jeaused no reported damage...
parts of Minnesota and Iowa:
| The Christmas-weekend storm
which spread ice and snow from
the desert southwest to the Ap-
jpalachians lost its cold winds
and gave the Atlantic only rain
âbefore moving out. into the
Ocean early Sunday.
| But scattered snow or rain
coullneld to the Pacific acct
jwest, and there was a light
Robin States on a broad front Sunday, | snowfall in the central plains
wae reported dropping the mercury to 20 be- and some snow flurries in New
| England:
In Arizona, four Salt âRiver
lakes above Phoenix
snow melting, and. project offi-
cials said melting snow the next
few days could cause âthem âte
spill over.
This would send water rash-
ing down the normally dry Salt
River bed between Granite Reef
Dam. and Phoenix, and cut off
all but one or two roads con- *
north and south Phoe-
âA storm last week pelted the
state with record . a mts of
rain and snow and caused wide-
spread damage as the Gila
River in eastern Arizona and
the Rillito River in the Southern
part of the state over-flowed
their banks.
necting
nix.
Pope s Disappointed â
Over Truce
VATICAN CITY 4AP'âPope:
Paul ,isreported. concerned- and
disappointed overt the failure ec
the Christmas truce in Viet
Nam. bui determined to press
ahead with his personal peace
efforts. a
âHe has done everything he
could. and he will continue to
do everything possible to pro-
mote peace in Viet Nam.â a pa-
pal aide said Sunday night.
It was believed a: the Vatican
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Womenâs ....... eoevecees 6
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ed Christmas tree is visible immerside ........ ibevere
in background on East Ger- {| Kings, Queens, City ....5
man side. (AP Wirephoto by â " ene, Mee ee
cable from Berlin) - â
that the Pope's appeal a. week
ago brought about the ceasefire.
Papal aides said more papal
Failure
white the Pope was saddenerc
that âfighting had resume: ir
Viet Nam, sources. said he has
alsy been tremendously encour-
aged that _his public appeal for «
Christmas ceasefire »rought re-
sults, even if treagre.
The Pope also was disturbed
by continued unresf in the Do-
minican Repoblic. He sent a
Christmasâ message there call-
ing for âreciprocal confidenceâ
and reconciliation among - the
people .of the politically tense
Caribbean nation.
appeals onâ Viet Nam could be / At. his regular noon. blessing
expected, along with a continu-
ation of Vatican diplomatic ac-
'tivity at all levels.
In a Christmas speech in War-
isaw, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
stated what has hecome clear
hereâthat Pope Paul has made
a truce in Viet Nam the main
task of the) Roman *Catholic
âchurch at this point in world af-
of 15.000 persons in St. Peter's
Square, Pope Paul called -or
âpeace, concord and serenity,â
but did not mention Viet Nam
or the ceasefire.
âWe pray for families and
communities, and we pray te
jthe Lord that He give peace.
jconcord and serenity to al
homes. We pray especially for
mothers, and for every child.â
~
â
â~
The Guardi
\
ian Is For lt
na
rian
âCovers Prince Edward Island Like The Dewâ
\CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1965.
winds northerly
Be -20 by evening
t MORE SEVEN CENTS
WEATHER
ee wins erty aunty to 5,
Se oe
_ 12 PAGES
, Only the chimney remains
standing after an early morn-
ing fire took five lives at
Berkeley, Ont., Sunday. Dead
are Mrs. Adam Bailey, 84, her
son-in-law, John MacLaughleén,
FIRE CLAIMS FIVE LIVES
6, her ee le tS eeee, Maver ~Mac-
woke about 8 a.m.
and found the house in flam-
es. He leaped out a second-
storey window and ran to a
neighboring home for help.
(CP Wirephote)
John Raywood, %
Raywood's two children, Kath-
arine, 2, and Sharan Phillis,
eight months. Mrs. John Mac-
Laughlin, 62, Beverly Marc-
Laughlin, 32, and Philip Walk-
Conservatives Launch
To Unseat Forestry Mi
Maurice Sauve: They began |Thursday in Perce, on the top
court action in a remote Quebec of the Gaspe Peninsula.
fishing village to have his elec-; A hearing will be held later
tion nullified. lin Quebec Superior Court at
If the legal gambit succeeds, | Gaspe, when Mr. Sauve will
the minister will find. himself have the opportunity to reply to
without âa Commons seat and the Conservative allegations and
forced to run again in a byelec- fileâ a counter-petition if
tion or-resign from. the cabinet. | chooses. .
Hull lawyer Lionel Motigeot | Reached at his Montreal home
disclosed Friday that a petition : ithe minister said he would study
HULL. Que. (CR) â The Con- alledging irregularities on and
servatives had a Christmas Eve \before election dayâ in Mr. |
surprise for Forestry Minister | Sauveâs riding was filed late |
he ;
A ft]
{the lengthy petition, filed under
ithe Controverted Elections Act.
âI can't comment when I
donât know what itâs all about,â
he told a reporter,
WON BY 392 VOTES
Mrâ Sauve, 42, was re-elec'
AS RUNWAY
NEW YORK (AP)âBecause
his passenger couldn't swim,
a 19-year-old pilot landed his
small plane on the George
Washington Bridge instead of
in the Hudson River Sunday
Both men walked away with
minor injuries.
As the Aeronca monoplane
landed in the centre of the
huge bridge linking New York
with New Jersey, its wing tip
tea | cought on a truck's tarpaulin.
Nov. 8 in Canadaâs smallest pra ee ne ee ee
constituency, Iles - de
Madeleine, by a margin of 392, damaged but nothing else suf-
fered.
votes, down from his 1,485-vote
edge in the 1963 election, The double-lane centre road-
His Progressive Conservative | way of the bridge's upper
nt, Dr. Mare Arsenault, eck was not open to traffic .
Cape Wolfe Safe
Reported Found
The break is being: invéstigat-
ALBERTON â A safe con-) the A
taining some $2,000 in cash, and
another $4,000 worth -of papers
and other valuables stolen
Thursday night from Costainâs |
general store aft Cape Wolfe, |
oes eee |
NO SIGN OF BACKING DOWN
7
SERGE Ss Sas 129) RS Eres ee Sasa S
Story Of Peace Feelers
Will Be Told By Fanfani
JAMES M. LONG
Rome gro +. Italy's. fiery.
fittie foteign âminister. Amintore The
Fanfani, plans to tell his
parliamentary eritics personally jand right over whether Fanfaal y ig nalenwed he will tefl his |
affairs: commission . has been jas
âcalled for Jan. 5..to hear. him. âtions ~
âcommission will debate a einer ada
crossfire of charges from left backing down
A
-tapitdees V,
of the United Ne- :'
ssembly wold
has any intention ofâ
why he became middieman in jwas gullible. and whether he letities he is convinced he did |
the peace feeler that aroused
tkepticism in Washington and |
fenials in Hanoi.
An extraordinary session of
the Chamber of Deputies foreign
acted with the knowledge of the
Italian paring i
Nothing in the veteran politi-
ie warriorâs nature or his ac-
âtion since returning from his job oi La Pira of Florence.
iright in passing along the pur-
ported Hanoi overtures to U.S.
:
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Christmas weekend death
toll totalled at least 53 with one
day remaining before the holi-
_day_officially ends at midnight.
Monday.
A.Cross-Canada Survey by the
Canadian Press until 10 p.m.
EST Sunday lists 37 persons
killed in traffic accidents, 14 in
fires, one drowning and one _as- |
staried at 6 p.m.
: The Canadian fue Safety |
Council predicted 60 would die |
on highways during the
weekend. Last year's road ~
etality toll was 57,
SHARE LEAD
Ontario, where five persons
died in a house fire at Berkeley
and eight others on the high- |
Canadaâs Death Toll 53
With One Day Remaining
*
CHANNEL STILL OPEN .
Before coming home -he âcon-
\firted swith U.S. State Secretary
)channel between Hanoi and
|ways, shares the. highest provia- i's ggasi y A lag
cial death rate with British Co-
jlumbia. B.C. had 11 highway
âdeaths and two by fire.
| _ In Quebec, 10 persons died in.
\traffic mishaps and one man |
was asphyxiated.
and carries~~on crusades on
world affairs.
ound! Prince Ho Chi Minh of North Viet Nam i
Newh and and Ed itold him personally in Novem- 'Heinrich-Heine Strasse crossing
ber that he was willing to go point, a brutal killing.
âamywhere and talk with any- |. U.S. officials said Schoeneber-
phyxiation âsince the holiday one drowning was recorded in |Oody about peace, and that with-| ger drove the car
Friday
ward Island were fatality free.
Two persons died on the high-
ways in New Brunswick and
ldrawal of USS.
iNova Scotia.
In_ the western provinces two
\persons
, four in traffic and one âtions
~ fire in Saskatchewan an@| La Pira âwas quoted as ques-°!
hree by fire in Manitoba.â tioning whether the U.S. dis- |
Three persons âalso died by âclosure of. the peace talks bid-!
fire in the Yukon. had been adroitâit
The survey does not include putâ Ho under hard pressure
natural or indystrial. déaths, fromŸ Peking.
Stormy Weather Marks;
Christmas Many Places |
By THE CANADIAN PRESS / âThere was a light: snowfall in
Three of Canada's four po- | Montreal
litical leaders were at homeâ for |
Christmas and, because of bad |
weather across the country, |
most Canadians followed âsuit, |
The only leader to escape the |
from snow |
Maritimes to |
snow and drifting snow in On- |
weather,
and rain
ranging
in. the
tario and intense cold in Wes-
tern Canada and T. âŹ. Douglas, | }
leader of the New Democratic |
Party who was in Jamaica.
Prime Minister
Pearson spent the day at 24
Sussex Drive in Ottawa. with
their son, Geoffrey, and _nine | Christmas Day. with snow. Tem-
grandchildren.
Conservative Leader John
Diefenbaker also spent the day |
at his Ottawa residence. Robert |
Thempson. leader of the Social |
Credit party, was at home in |
Red Deer. Alta.
In the Maritimes and New-
foundiand âit was generally |
warm and wet Christmas Day.
North New Brunswick and parts
of Prince Edward Island (re
ceived snow.
DELAYS REPORTED
Transportation officials âre |
~+|four were injured in a head-on
and Mrs. |
knownâ suicides slayings.
Christmas
The day was cloudy. Churches
reported large attendances
Christmas Eve,
Most persons in Quebec soem,
ithe day at home.
âSnow, which began falling
Christmas Eve, covered Ontario | '
by Christmas Day. Driving was
hazardous.
One woman was
morning.
killed and
lecollision near Ottawa
was
about
It cold -in Manitoba
peratures in Ws.
Temperatures dropped to @
| below in Alberta and Saskatche-
wan. Taxi companies were
busy and towing _ services
worked around tha clock:
Stow fell.on most of British
| Columbia. Temperatures were
jmild. Highway conditions were
hazardous as rain followed the
snow and overnight tempera-
tures. were low.â
Five members of one family
were killed Christmas Day im a
traffic accident near Haney in
âthe Fraser â
*
President Johnson through his
lold friend, former mayor Gior- |
| Dean Rusk and [Ptalian imform- âbeen
âacts said afterward the Fanfani Germans escape to the
channel was La Pira, who lives |
in a Roman Catholic monastery (plot, said the dead man, Heinz | [BLAMES WESTERN AGENTS |
âSchoeneberger
forces from âtween concrete slabs built into
South Viet Nam was not an-es- @ 2ig-zag course to slow cars |.
died on highways in Al- _â pre-condition to negotia- {dows
probablyâ |-
lof the wall.
EAST GERMAN truck in Berlin Wall where
stands as barrier at-Heinriche German guards shot and
Heine Strasse crossing point ed a man early Sundayâ
end near the âold town dump âat
Summerside.
The discov r was made by
papers in the
safe were said to. be intact. The |
cash was missing.
It was reported, but not con- | whi
firmed, that children picked up are
resulted in the Cape Wolfe
being named the centen-
pieces in the vicinity of the safe. |ward Island.
| attorney here
approximately $10 in 50-cent nial community of Prince Ee
complained that some Liberal 3Âą the time, although six other
supporters were guilty of irreg- | lanes were in use.
ularities during the campaign | |The pilot, pared Ippolito
and on election day. Bronx, polite he
pe a losing power and al-
Mr. ~â a ec oll we - set pe BEY sal pr
ao ne ver. But he changed his
mind when his passenger,
Joseph Brennan, 3%, told him
he couldn't swim.
Magdalen Islands in the io Galt of
\St. Lawrenee to investigate the
aallegations at the request of
Conservative Béodquarters in.
Ottawa.
Hostilities In Viet Nam
Are Resumed After Lull
BRIDGE USED | Truce Lasts
Some 6 Hours
From AP-Reuters
SAIGON â(CP).â South Viet
âNam was wracked by war again
Sunday after a brief Christmas
truce the Western world had
hoped would light the torch of
peace.
The -hour ceasefire by U.S.
and South Vietnamese forces
turned into a one-sided experi- |
ment. The 12-hour truce offered |
by the Vietâ Gang Ie lasted aout
six hours.
The US. state department
Was reported to have ng ong |
ithe military âcommand here to
extend the ceasefire if it ap-
peared to be providing the Com-
âmunists with an excuse to stop
âshooting and start negotiating.
| The Viet Cong seized the ini-
jtiative, however. The U.S. high |Âą
| command said the Viet Cong in- |
jstigated a total of & incidents |
âduring the Communist and Am- |
lerican ceasefire periods.
Allied forces were back âin ac- |
tion, but only in South vine]
He collected several affidavits
âand recommended legal action
to have Mr. Sauve âanseated.
|The petition was filed in Perce
âby notary Jean Bourget, acting |
for Dr. Arsenault.
U.S. Roads
Death Toll
tsaid jin Ottawa Friday tifat a ec a
similar action . likely will be IsR or ; :
launchedâearlyânext- month im!" cincAGO (AP)âThe - three-
heffard riding east of Montreal
| where Liberal Louis Neveu
| edged Conservative Paul Trep- |
anier by 27 votes in a judicial
recount.
He_ saidâ the final decision is
up to Mr. Trepanier, who told
reporters Tuesday he will de-
day Christmas weekend edged
to a close Sunday night. leaving
arecord number highway
travellers dead in the United |
States.
j
|
In Wall Crossing Try
BERLIN (Reuters)âA West the car, staggered the short dis-
German in an old car was killed âtance over the border line and |
ge eda Shera eB lft âcollapsed. He died in hospital. |
| nday. Communist | report id three |
\East Germany claimed he had canâ tae in a at
trying to help two East jeg âin East Berlin. One man
West. was carried off on a âstretcher
The East German news ar-
agency ADN, describing the es awe} a man and woman were
âcape bid as a new provocative
1
, and another,
\West German with him had |
groups in West |
lants termed the incident, at the The agency coased: Went |
|German groups of using the!
Christmas period to create ten-
gai and unrest.
Lon Maj.-Gen. John .F. Franklin,
U.S. military gtr yy
jin a statement sup
st Psi gs ae te be oe and British colleagues:
East. German guards blazed âââIt is time that these sense- |
away. with submachine guns |less killings cease. The fact that
jand the car crashed
gay and jammed into one side ing the solemn Christmas sea-
ison makes the matter all the.
Schoeneberger jumped out of âthore shocking.â
through. this âisâthe second â confirmed |
the final wooden barrier at the shooting within a few days dur- |
cide early in January whether
|to proceed under, the Contro-
iverted . Elections Act.
After the allegations
Mr. Sauve~ were. pecans apr
minister Âąalled a. press confer- |
iewcats ey = homeward > eer
Byâlateâevening,_653-â-persons
had been. killed in traffic acel-
dents, surpassing the former
eeria of --609 oi a three-day
âthe at continued acting wp
Nam. The U.S. Air Force
ag, Meany tein tye Ng oe of
ae Relees.egapaet Te: Comores |
ist North.
As. a_result of Viet, Cong at-
tacks during the truce
at least 12 cans and up to |
'50 South FVietnamese soldiers
were killed. Many others were |
|
NO MENTION OF TRUCE
Communist
uper, Nahn Dan, said .the U.S.-is
iâtirelessly prattling about un- |
conditional discussionsâ for a
settlement in Viet Nem.
âThey (the Americans)
Put Hanoiâs official nemsne-|
levents during the unoffictal-
truce period:
from the field dur
ing the Viet Cong armistice and
the early part of the American-
Vietnamese ceasefire was slow.
ers had little ewe
âdence of infractions.
| The state department ta
|Washington apparently decided
jthe atmosphere was right to éx-
tend the truce and ge
for a negotiated peace.
| THINGS REPORTED QUIET
The U.S. command in Saigon
flashed to Washington word of
the series of Viet Cong cease-
fire infractions while their
spokesmen were telling report-
ers here that gp amg was
â_. This took place all day
bristmas.
we 4 a.m. Sunday, the com
âContinued on page 3 Col. 7)
Volcano
Stirring
HILO, Hawaii (AP)âHawanâs
|Kilauea Volcano quieted down
Sunday but gentle earthquakes
|kept scientists from
regarding
the Christmas Eve eruption as
rover.
Seismographs on the tipâ of
âKilauea crater recorded two of
âreach the surface, but a few -
sharper. jolts. were felt- in Hilo,
\30 miles away.
ge Quakes a minute were
felt at the height of the eruption.
oxo |" Ho. mabe -demege were
âacting as if they âreally wanted ported.
ence Dec- 15 to deny. that he |
wag personally guilty of any
wrongdoing.
He issued a 32-page statement
replying point by, point to 23 al-
|legations that had been reported |
Twin Girls
Separated
in various newspapers. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Sia- |
â mese, twin girls, tage Pes ol
surgery six hours after
âFormer UC
âModerator
Dies At.78
\life Sunday.
A surgeon who divided their
their intestines said th
little better than the 50-50
' IÂąhance given them poser sk
â| Sheila Norine and Lisa
ADN Said the attempted ©* | TORONTO _(CP)âVery Rew. _Mantonyaâwere- » tre inl
ne ecapeâwasâmadeâââunder- the in-
Wied aller te Waal Genial: tplanmed the estape for weeks. Isueoce of agent Alexander A. Scott, 78, a former. jstant care at Cedars of Lebanon
La*Pira repeated that President | Western military command- Berlin.â
moderator of the United Church | Hospital.
lof Canada, died in hospital | Their mother,
| turdey. A funeral service will (Mantonya, 20,
| be held Tuesday. ââgetting along very wellâ at
Dr. ° Scott, â moderator from another hospital. A doctor said
Mrs.
|1952 to 1954, was appointed af- he tad told her the twins were |U.S.-Canadian border from -The (Project
PPO! \âattached in @ small area and. Rockies to New England where Were almost full as thĂ© fesult of
|ter 40 years in missionary. work.
A native of Carleton Place, had to be separated.â
/Ont:,. about 35 miles west of Ot- | The. father, Gerald Mantonya,
tawa, Dr. Scott did post-gradu- |20, is a Hollywood film labora:
ate w in Scot}and before lea- |tory technician. |
ving for India in 1912. The infants, weighing: a. total
Dr-. Scott leaves two daught- fof 12 pounds, -were-born by
ers, Mrs. Lyle H. Wilson of Tor- (Caesarian sec tion: Saturday,
onto and Mrs. David H Lewis of | Neither. breathed three. of
Bierut, Lebanon, and a son Don- four. minutes.
Ieee Cicadtuane thos, cimeg
Win in order to bfand the
namese people as belli-
teose, âsaid an article signed by |
[Pignter.
Moscow charged that the US.
Inad broken the Christmas céase
ifire.
U.S. military spokesmen ia)
|Saigos, gave this picture of
No populated areas were
threatened.
Aloi Crater; site of a three-
jday eruption in December, 1962
4s off the chain of craters road,
so ânamed because it weaves
through Kilevea's many craters
up to the 4,000-foot plateau built
tr Be. Are Pes
Arctic Weather
common. bladder and âTheit|
eir
chances of survival now are a!
Moves Into U.S.
LEWISTOWN, ° âMont. (AP)â
'Arctic cold invaded the United |
|low in central Montana.
| The cold was felt along the
sub-zero temperatures were ex-
pected to follow closely an un-
usually mild and rainy Christ-
mas.
| The weather bureau. issued
jcold - wave -warnings in the
plains states âas far south as
|\Nebraska, and posted cold wave
predictions for Sunday night in
âEast he tried to ram a car through
a the barrier. Heâ stumbled
across into West Bertin and
when died
âald- of Dunnville, Ont. | Plane ars
âSafely With .
| Engine.Afire
rep
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)âHoli-
day passengers missed their
\Christmas dinner aboard a To-
|kyo-bound Japan Air Lines jet
and escaped down an emer:
gency chute without injury af-
âter the damaged plane limped
ito a landing.
| The planeâs: outer left engine
âcaught fire four minutes after
ithe ,DC-8's takeoff from San
\Francisco Saturday. There were
5 passengers and 10 crew
âShe went blooie.â said Flight
Officer Harold L. Brown. the
only American crew 7° ~ber.
âThere wasn't any warning.â
Parts of the engine fell over
suburbanâ areas.
\Capt. Tsuneo Kato landed the
(plane at Oakland, across the
jbay from San Francisco. .
but the debris |
jeaused no reported damage...
parts of Minnesota and Iowa:
| The Christmas-weekend storm
which spread ice and snow from
the desert southwest to the Ap-
jpalachians lost its cold winds
and gave the Atlantic only rain
âbefore moving out. into the
Ocean early Sunday.
| But scattered snow or rain
coullneld to the Pacific acct
jwest, and there was a light
Robin States on a broad front Sunday, | snowfall in the central plains
wae reported dropping the mercury to 20 be- and some snow flurries in New
| England:
In Arizona, four Salt âRiver
lakes above Phoenix
snow melting, and. project offi-
cials said melting snow the next
few days could cause âthem âte
spill over.
This would send water rash-
ing down the normally dry Salt
River bed between Granite Reef
Dam. and Phoenix, and cut off
all but one or two roads con- *
north and south Phoe-
âA storm last week pelted the
state with record . a mts of
rain and snow and caused wide-
spread damage as the Gila
River in eastern Arizona and
the Rillito River in the Southern
part of the state over-flowed
their banks.
necting
nix.
Pope s Disappointed â
Over Truce
VATICAN CITY 4AP'âPope:
Paul ,isreported. concerned- and
disappointed overt the failure ec
the Christmas truce in Viet
Nam. bui determined to press
ahead with his personal peace
efforts. a
âHe has done everything he
could. and he will continue to
do everything possible to pro-
mote peace in Viet Nam.â a pa-
pal aide said Sunday night.
It was believed a: the Vatican
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man side. (AP Wirephoto by â " ene, Mee ee
cable from Berlin) - â
that the Pope's appeal a. week
ago brought about the ceasefire.
Papal aides said more papal
Failure
white the Pope was saddenerc
that âfighting had resume: ir
Viet Nam, sources. said he has
alsy been tremendously encour-
aged that _his public appeal for «
Christmas ceasefire »rought re-
sults, even if treagre.
The Pope also was disturbed
by continued unresf in the Do-
minican Repoblic. He sent a
Christmasâ message there call-
ing for âreciprocal confidenceâ
and reconciliation among - the
people .of the politically tense
Caribbean nation.
appeals onâ Viet Nam could be / At. his regular noon. blessing
expected, along with a continu-
ation of Vatican diplomatic ac-
'tivity at all levels.
In a Christmas speech in War-
isaw, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
stated what has hecome clear
hereâthat Pope Paul has made
a truce in Viet Nam the main
task of the) Roman *Catholic
âchurch at this point in world af-
of 15.000 persons in St. Peter's
Square, Pope Paul called -or
âpeace, concord and serenity,â
but did not mention Viet Nam
or the ceasefire.
âWe pray for families and
communities, and we pray te
jthe Lord that He give peace.
jconcord and serenity to al
homes. We pray especially for
mothers, and for every child.â
~
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