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The Guardians For It

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SHERWOOD PLOWMAN HAS REPEAT

Carl Willis, Sherwood, who goes to Europe next month to compete in the world plowing

_ competition, won, the Queens _a_tobal ‘of 88 points as he had story—on-page-5.)—-

~ Que. Leads In Accidents

As Holiday: Toll Counted"

By ‘THE CANADIAN PRESS At least @. persons met accl- dental deaths in Canada during the three-day Labor Day holi- day, 59 of them in highway ac- eidents. The Canadian Highway Safety

19 Accidental Deaths In 3 Atlantic Provinces

By. THE CANADIAN PRESS

At least. 19 persons met acci- dental death in the Atlantic Provinces during the three-day Labor-Day -weekend:———""-—

Thirteen of the deaths oc- eurred in New. Brunswick, where six died in traffic accidents. four persons were killed in a fire and three persons died in miscellaneous accidents.

Nova. Scotia recorded four traffic deaths and two persons were killed on the highways in Newfoundland. Prince Edward Island was fatality free.

A house fire at N.B. provided the most tragic single toll. Army. Cpl. Saxby Carter, 36, and his three soms— aged three to seven years—died in the fire. Two other Carter children escaped. The mother was away at work at the time of the fire Sunday

TWO DIE IN PLANE Two men died in the crash Saturday of a light plane on an

PM's Government House Visit. |

County Plowing Championship at Alexandra on Saturday af- ternoon. ‘The judges gave him

Council predicted 75 would die on the highways by midnight Monday.

Quebec's toll of 38 was more \than double that of any other province, a Canadian Press sur-

hest crown, furrow and finish. Sterling Moore, also of Sher- wood, was

Friday to 6 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. ADT) Monday _ showed. Quebee had 306 road deaths approaching last year’s record 35 for the holiday.

Accidental deaths in Quebec’

Oromocto, |

vey from 6 p.m. local times’on the Labor Day weekend in 1964 totalled 45.

| In addition to traffic mishaps jin Quebec, five persons were drowned, one woman was as | phyxiated in a fire, a man was fatally gored by a bull at a ro-

island in the St. John River %¢° 204 @ man accidentally shot

eight miles north of Fredericton eeeees oe ee see eed p. The victims were Richard. Hal- a

lett, 46, of Douglas, N.B.,. the: ONTARIO SECOND “pilot, of the plane, and his pas- Next on the list was Ontario

senger, Frank McKinley, 20 of with 17 accidental deaths, “11 Moncton. on the rpads. Two persons Rodey Meehan, 17, of Le-, drowned, one boy died when the

preau, about 30 miles west of wooden hut he was building! Saint John, was found dead im C@uht fire. Three persons died woods near his home Saturday, i" miscellaneous. accidents. night, the victim of. an accle Six people in Saskatchewan dently discharged’ gun he was ‘ied in an automobile of carbon carrying. monaxide poisoning.

: : 4 New Brunswick had «12 accl-

Beverley Ejlen Jardine, 3. dental déaths, five on the high- died Sunday night after she waS ways, four in fires’ two in a. struck by a cat near her home plane crash and one was shot. _in_Newcastle,-N-B: Taécidentally.

Philip Mitchell 35, of Penn- Alberta and Nova Scotia each field, N.B. died in a two-car col- had four highway deaths while lision about 15 miles. west of Newfoundland had two.

Saint John Sunday morning. In British Columbia one per

Benedict Murdock Duthie, 21, son died in a fire, one on the: of Quarryville, N.B.-died in hos- highway and one after falling pital in Newcastle Saturday down stairs. }

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY,’ SEPTEMBER 7, 1965.

‘Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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WEATHER Sunny with a few cloudy periods; winds northeast 20.-Low-high 45 and 69. Wed- nesday: sunny, seasonabie temperatures.

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NO 4088 SEVEN CENTS

LAMBARENE, Gabon (AP)— |The late Dr. Albert ‘ Schweit- \zer’s successors pledged Mon- \day to carry on his work in the jungle hospital bearing his name jon the banks of the Ogooue River.

“This hospital will continue in the spirit of my father,’ said Schweitzer’s daughter, Mrs. Rhene Eckert.

“I am confident that every- thing will work out."

Echoing her words were Dr. Walter Munz, 32, a Swiss phy- sician who became head of the hospital, and Charles Michel, treasurer of the Dr. Albert | Schweitzer Hospital Association en Strasbourg, France, owner of the hospital.

' |his spirit,’’ Michel said.

But there was certain anxiety among the hospital staff —Mon- iday, the day after Schweitzer, iwho died Saturday ‘night, was {buried in the red African soil outside the hut which housed |him for more than 40 years. +FEAR CONTROLS

The staff wasn't sure whether. [Gabonese authorities would not jtry to clamp controls and im- pose new regulations in the hos- pital where until now the old

Funner-up. (Se® doctor's personality _kept-crities’-Miami—-and—the—rest~of “South *at_bay.

| Schweitzer defied certain |medical rules commonly applied jby Euro; “an African hospital for African patients." Mrs. . Eckert

“We want to continue work in |

pean doctors and ran {city may still get /hurricane-

spell out exact directives except to ask his successors ‘‘to con- tinue.”

ical side and I will take care

{President Leon M’Ba for an ap- |pointment to ‘discuss every- ithing:”’

“We count on the help of |\Schweitzer committees through-

out the world,” Mrs. Eckert of the administration,’ she said. added. “We haven't worked everything She said her father did not out yet.”

WIDE AREA THREATENED 7

Hurricane Aims Blow At Nassau

MIAMI, Fla. ‘AP)—Hurricane Betsy pounded across Great |Abaco Island in the Bahamas | Monday and aimed the full fury of her howling winds and tower- ‘ing tides at the capital city of Nassau.

The huge storm continued on a southwest course, which would carry the centre, with its peak

was expected to hit Eleuthera, New Providence, and ~Andgos IslandsMonday— night: ;

winds, south of Florida and pos- ‘of tourists, was buttoned up \sibly into Cuba in the vicinity against the storm. lof Hanava. Cuban radio alerted Monday night the centre - of

lall people living along the. north

hurricane Betsy was located | coast. .

near latitude 25.8 north, longi- “tude 76.8 west or about 215 miles due east. of Miami. It continued moving between south southwest and southwest at about eight, miles an hour.

Hurricane warnings were dis- played over extreme southern

{Florida —were—battened-—down tight as Betsy approached and jthe weather bureau warned the

force winds. Winds reached on Great Abaeo and the

140 miles an

‘Key Waal and northward op the

Perso

Two

} Gabon “Fatt Brunt ofthe niyasive storm

ns Killed

The present course would take the hurricane. to the north coast | of Cuba Tuesday night and the weather bureau said: small craft throughout the Florida Straits and between Andros Island and | Cuba should seek safe harbor, |

Pictures taken by the weather

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Florida from Palm Beach te | west—coast—-toEverglades’ City, |.

Successors To Schweitzer Round Trip

Pledge To Carry On Work

Abandoned

DOVER, England. (AP )— Greta Anderson, 37 - year -

lish Channel Monday after grinding through more than half of it.

Miss Anderson, of Los Alamt- tos. Calif., had swum from Dover to Calais, France, and was on her way back when she quit.

She made thé crossing from England to France—thé tough one—in 13 hours 51 ‘minutes. She -took a few minutes rest on the French side—allowed in the rules—and then plunged back into the channel in an effort to make the round trip.

Pearson Kept Dangling; _|

Channel Swim

old Danish-born American, gave up NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian; her round-trip swim of the Eng- tanks and infantry smashed inte Bahadur

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Indian Tanks, Infantry Invade West Pakistan —

Three-Pronged Strike

At Lahore

Indian Prime Minister Lad Shastri told his 499,-

West~Pakistan behind a’ screen'000,000 people they are in a

of

Lahore, one of Pakistan's larg- est cities.

As the fighting raged, Pakis- tan dropped paratroopers far behind Indian lines in Punjab

in northwest India in a daring.

night raid, an Indian spokesman said. He described the airborne assault as a possible prelude to an all-out Pakistani ground at- jtack across. the border in re- sponse to India's thrust inte West Pakistan.

Canadians Told To Leave

By KEN KELLY

OTTAWA (CP) — India and Pakistan kept Prime Minister Pearson dangling for the fourth straight day Monday without a reply to his offer to help ar- range a ceasefire of their armed conflict.

As the conflict spread, ‘the some 120 Canadians in the La- hore and Amritsar danger zones were warned to move to safer areas. =

An external affairs depart- ment source said plans for evac-

Invaders Held,

uation of the Canadians, if such action becomes necessary, have been co-ordinated with British authorities by the Canadian high commissions in New Delhi and Karachi. S There are some 6 Canadians on either side of the India-Pak- istan border__in—the dan: zones, They include foreign workers, engineers and doctors and their families.

Action for removal of Cana- dians elsewhere in. India and (Continued on page 3 Col. 2)

Pakistan Claims

From Reuters-AP

An official announcement here

iters in New York the UN Se

strafing jet planes Monday in “full-fledged war.” a three-pronged strike aimed at!

Pakistan's President Moham- med Ayub Khan told his 110, 000,000 people: ‘We are at war. Go forward and meet the en- emy.”” . a

But there has been no formal. declaration. of war.

Though the Indians. shrouded their operation in secrecy, & New Delhi spokesman said Mon- day night the fighting was going “very well’ for the Indians.

SAYS 200 KILLED

But in Pakistan, the govern- ment claimed the Jndians were being driven back...Government spokesmen said 200 Indian sol- diers were killed on the Lahore front and that 22 Indian planes were destroyed in the air and on the ground. They admitted two planes lost. Pakistan said the front was |50 miles wide.

The fighting jolted world capl- tals. :

At United Nations headquar-

curity Council. met in emergency session. :

U.S. President Johnson was reported deeply concerned and British Prime ‘Minister Wilson called on India and Pakistan, {both Commonwealth members, jto halt the fighting immediately to save the lives of thetr_ews | people and... the - peace -of the world. : | An Indian spokeaman de- lscribed the Pakistani para- trooper. attack as an extra-

‘ordinarily difficult type of as

sault. He said they jumped ifs small groups near Patiala and

RAWALPINDI, (CP) — Pakis- said Lahore was bombed and Ambala, 160 miles behind Indian

In Ride Collapse

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -—- A sky 51, of Falls City,

Neb., and

ride collapsed while carryifig’James Perrie, about 50, of Hast-

gonolda passengers on a moving cable over. the crowded Ne braska State Fair midway Sun- day, killing two ‘persons .and injuring nearly” 50.

Screaming riders in cars some 30 feet overhead fell of jumped as two supporting steel towers toppled.

“The ground was just covered |

with people,’” said James An- derson of Houston, Tex., nearby ticket seller.

Mrs. Robert Morlan of Lincola said she counted 17 persons fall- ing ‘‘like apples.”’ ;

Other passengers waited in

stalled—gondolasas long as 45 minutes—until-firemen could” re move them’ with crane-like res- cue equipment-——'‘ |

Killed were John H. Stevens,

ings, Neb.

A daughter, Mrs. Martha Kershner of Hastings, watched in_horror as Perrie and his wife were flipped out of the gondola in which they were riding.

“After it was over, the car was still in the air, upside down,”’. she related.

The sky ride, pattenred after | mountain sky lifts, used four 4- | foot towers to support a moving | cable to which were attached the 30 gondolas, each holding two or three passengers, on a 1,100-foot- long overhead trip along the | midway.

William T. Collins of Minne-

satellite Tiros show Betsy has tani troops were reported Mon- one of the largest eyes ever day night fighting invading In-

photographed in a hurricane, dian troops along a 50-mile- some 60 miles across, the | wide front in the Lahore region | jman said Indian casualties were heavy as he claimed the ° Wins N.B. Title Sialkot-has been ‘‘halted, PLASTER: ROCK, N.B. (CP)— cornered and contained.” at the 14th annual provincial | diers were counted after one en- plowing match during the week-' counter alone in the Sialkot area Allison Briggs of Plaster Rock | The Sialkot area is northeast . \ finished runmer-up. lof the large Pakistani city of class for seniors, earned a berth | : : : in ‘the Canadian championships; Pakistan also claimed its air

weather bureau said. of Pakistan. Sere eae An official Pakistani spokes- Midland Man Indian invasion at three points -in- the Punjab—Wagah, Bedian™ and Gary Gray of Midland, N.B.,| The spokesman reported the was crowned champion plowman | bodies of some 200 Indian sol- end at tne Horace Sadler Farm,| which he said was recaptured four miles from here. \fom Indian troops. Gray and Briggs, competing | in the two or more furrows 0 |Lahore and south of the Ravi River. scheduled. for Chilliwack, B.C.,|force had destroyed 22 Indian Lin-April-of-next-year: They will Jet fighters in air action.

night from injuries received in (Continued on page 3 Col. 2)

The only fatality-free province |}

was Prince Edward Island.

‘Watched For Election Action

OTTAWA ‘CP! — Governor- General Vanier has advanced hie return to the capital to

reach here Tuesday morning, it was-learned Monday.

Prime Minister Pearson was expected to call on him as soon as possible after he gets back about 11 a.m.

Prime ministers normally pay a call at Government House on the return of the governor-gen- eral but this visit will be watched with particular interest because 0° the rash of specula- tion on a fall election.

An official in the prime minis- ter's office said Mr. has given no firm indication whether his visit will be the normal courtesy call or whether he will be asking Gen. Vanier

to dissolve Parliament: for election.

Mr., Pearson himself ned | here at noon Monday m a

weekend at the Harrington Lake summer residence

ministers about 40 miles north af the capital: Gen. Vanier has been on holi-

Psar-on:

“of prime)

day at -Tadoussac, Que. Last week Government he was due to return here Tues- day at 7:30 p.m. There was no immediate explanation for the change of’ time for the return.

Mr. Pearson has promised to make. .known by Wednesday whether he plans a general elec- tion. He told a press. conference last week he would make an announcement earlier than that if possible.

Speculation, has mentioned & number of November dates for

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House said earliest possible date. Nov. 15)

also has been a favored date in-election speculation, “Federal elections by law must be held on Mondays.

The election question has been the hottest topic in political cir. cles for. several weeks since Mr. Pearson declined to say whether | his government will-face Parlia- | ment at the scheduled Sept. 27 resumption of the session. i

Mr.-Pearson appeared to add fuel to the fire of speculation on a swing through Western Canada during which he passed up several chances’ to nip the eléction talk in the bud.

Shortly after he left for Har- ringjon Lake, it was announced that ‘he had offered his immedi- ate services to attempt to bring about a ceasefire between India

8, 9 (and Pakistan over. disputed |

Kashmir. _. The “Atinouncement was

mediately interpreted by. politi-

‘val opponents as an indi

the prime minister now had no

jiptention of calling a fall vote.

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4 US. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, right, this month's

| president ‘of the United Nat-. | ions Security Council. speais | before recessing Monday's

apolis, Mina., veteran operator of | ajco compete in the Canadian carnival shows, said one tower ciiampionship match at Massey toppled and dragged a second Ferguson farms in Milliken, one down with it. Ont., in October.

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Beas Eee EMERGENCY GROWS. | gates. went Inte # series of |

privatetalksin--an—effort to

halt the expanded fighting be- tween the two countries. : (AP Wirephote) ~

one

emergency session over the fighting between India and

Pakistan. At left is Secretary- General U Thant. As soon 2# the session was recessed dele-

A spokesman said this brought the total of Indian planes cap- tured or destroyed since fighting broke out between India and Pakistan over the disputed ter- ritory of Kashmir four weeks ago to 29. _

ADMIT PLANE LOSS Pakistani spokesman gave ho Pakistani troop losses but said two of their U.S.-bullt Sabre jets were shot down. The spokesman said:

“Following thé invasion by ta dian—planes—“and~an~tndiscrime |

inate attack by the Indian Air Force against undefended land targets inside Pakistani terri- tory early Monday morning when one Indian Air Force Mys tere plane was shot down by

jour fighters, the Pakistan Air

Force though heavily outnum

India’ invaded West Pakistan

‘earlier in the day in a- three

pronged attack aimed mainly at Lahore, 15 miles west of the In-

dia frontier.

Johnson Concerned

JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP)= President Johnson, “deeply con- cerned” about expanded fizht- ing ‘between India and Pakistan conferred by telephone Monday with State Secretary Rusk and United Nations, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg.

Joseph Laitin, assistant White House press. secretary, said Johnson had nothing to say publicly about the powder-keg Kashmir dispute but ‘‘he is deeply concerned about it and is keeping in close touch with the situation.”

shelled before the Indians lines, and near Pathankot, a rat! crossed the border and that ‘terminus in northwest Punjab, there were civilian casualties. just to ‘the south of disputed The spokesman said the Pak- Kashmir. fstani army was “in full and * effective control of the Miatiah|” tar cebceaenere ‘wale prob. as fighting goes onto throw oat: “ ” the Indi Pak. ably on “sabotage missions tatani leer from Pak- bent on_ hitting roads, bridge! oe eee : ‘and lines “of communications . in WAR SPREADS the rear of Indian army units, The Indian invasion was seen he said. ‘ as a major extension of the hom The Indian forces jumped off tilities between India and Pakis- early Monday from three areas tan hitherto confined to Kash- in Punjab, near the cities of mir. The Pakistani cabinet met im Titsar. Indian officials said, the emergency session here and de attack was ordered because they clared a state of emergency. had word of Pakistani plans to

Night-blackouts were ordered in Sttike near Amritsar, holy city

Lahore, Karachi, and Rawal % the Sikh religion. pindi. An Indian source estimated President Mohammed Ayub there were one or two divisions

in_each of the three spearheads. New Delhi's military goals were not announced but the strike ap- peared headed at Lahore, a city of 1,500,000 about 15 miles from

Khan,» asserting—the—Indian—at- tack at West Pakistan's eastern border will be “crushed by our mighty armed forces,"’ told his fellow-Pakistanis ino nation: India’s northwest frontier. wide broadcast: India mounted fhe assault af- “We are at war. Go forth an@ ter Pakistani tame and infantry meet the enemy. columns penetra 14 or more “The hour of trial for 100.000,- miles in the Chamb area in the 000 «people of Pakistan has southwest part the Indian- struck.” controlled section »f Kashmir.

_Ferozepore, Athankot—and~Am-~

U Thant Planning Flight

UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General U Thant an- nounced Monday night that he will fly to India a Pakistan _to- seek peace between the two countries as soon as he can work out arrangements

|bered. retaliated wiht speed and— Thant acted quickly after the precision.””

Security Council . unanimously reaffirmed its ceasefire appeal to India and Pakistan and asked him to exert every possible ef- fort to halt the fighting.

He accepted the responsibility and then made known his. will- ingness to fly to the subconti- nent

“IT shall. exert every effort,” he said, ‘including a very early visit to the area in the Jight of consultations with the two gov- ernments."

The council's action came af- ter the fighting continued to ex- pand despite a council resolution adopted: Saturday night calling on India and Pakistan to stop firing and withdraw their troops which had crossed the 1949 ceasefire line in Kashmir.

Monday night's proposal was submitted by Malaysia’s Am- bassador Radhakrishna Ramani on behalf of the six non-perma- nent members—-Malaysia. dan. Uruguay, The Netherlands, iBolivia and Ivory Coast.

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*To India And -Pakistan

(‘AP)—UN.

French Ambassador Ringe? Seydoux, Jerdan’s Abdul Moner Rifai, and others expressed hove that Thant-would-teave as soon as possible for on-the-spot peace efforts

U.S. Ambassador Arthur J Goldberg, counci] president tor Septemher, convened the urzert Labor Day meeting at 3.38 p.m. EDT (4:38 p.m. ADT‘, after a 90-minute delay, and. immedi- iately recessed if until & p.m. te permit the private negotiation: to continue.

GETS NO REPLY

The secretary-general. mear while, reported that he had re ceived no official response from either India or Pakistan on the ceasefire appeal voted. by~ the council Saturday night.

“Indeed,"’ he said, “it is clear that*the conflict between India and Pakistan is broadening and intensifying.”

ommend

Goldberg told. the council that .

Thant’s report showed that the situation had deterioated since Saturday's meeting.-

Before calling the council inte session, he conferred by tele- phone with President Johnsas and State Secretary Dean Rusk, the UN secretary-general and imost councd members,

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