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Query Said

It ‘Market’ Still Exists

By DOUG MARSHALL

Canadian Prerss Staff Writer

l-‘rance's President de Gauiie is reported to have sent his ministers to Brussels not to destroy th Common Market but to find out whether it still

s . They appear to have decided it does and. at first gtance, the agreement on agriculture that emerged Christmas Eve means that the reality of the Euro- ean Economic Community never again can be doubted. What still can be doubted are the markets aims and direc- to rid. in particular. what manifest destiny de Gaulle him- self has in mind. The “package deal" worked out at Brussels amid clangings of impending doom proves that

the will to agree among the six. market countries is as strong as‘

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.. rhen the alarm bell sounded. a urvivor said Tuesday night. p a 36- e .d .-English company director. said in a telephone interview from me Canary Islands he aboard the Greek liner Lakonia. almost until the end. He said he left the bflazing liner but after spending some ' be water went back

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“People were dancing mer- rily. and then the alarms went at about eleven on Sunday night.

“We ran to our cabins for lifebelts

"You can imagine how the ‘ire increased as all the cabin ..oors were opened.

“The lifeboats that could be launched took women and chil-

dren. “And then there were none

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ing his St. Peters Basilica.

An estimated 100.000 persons applauded the pontiff as be ap- -peared ‘in a gold-embroidered white cope with a gem-studded silver and gold three- tiered crown on his head.

The Pope sat on a gilt and red throne in front of a red cur-

‘ lpeace with God which leads to _ lpeace in one’s soul and peace .* .with other men.

|in idleness. he said. but an tive peace that created good fruits and encouraged the es -tablishment‘ of peaccfu‘. rela- tions among men and nations. an he was praying for this. SHOWN ON TV

SOLO The ceremony was relayed to

Pearson. talking to Robin l-Ian- millions of homes in Europe by

nah. 3. in foreground. Looking‘ ‘television. ‘ . on at right is Ba,-ha,-3 Han. 1 Earlier at a midnight mass. m_ -Pope Paul tinged a divided

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1 By HAROLD MORRISON l WASHINGTON tCP)—A priv- ate meeting between Trade Min- ister Mitchell Sbarp and Agri- ‘culture Secretary Orville Free- -man has helped reduce Canada- lU.S. tensions caused by differ- ences in wheat-selling policies. a spokesman for Freeman said Tuesday.

The meeting took place here last Friday when,‘ the spokes- man said. Sharp opened the talks by acknowledging that Canada's export policies may have caused difficulties for the U.S. in the wheat-selling field.

Freeman. ‘ turn, informed

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derstand the reasons ‘for

Sharp that the U.S. intends to revise its own procedures in or- . der to compete with the Cana-l

‘It's Not Dad’ is Joyous Cry

LONG BEACH. Calif. (AP)- The funeral was ‘over and two mourning daughters of Chris Johanus W yn g.a nr t. 92. ap- proached the coffin.

Then they announced:

“That's not our father."

The funeral director. V. Jay sponberg. said the body was de- livered from Los Angeles County Hospital with records identifying it as Wyngasrt. The hospital checked again Tuesday and questioned drivers for an ambuiance s e r v i c e which brought Wyngaart there from a

re ome. The result. hours later: Wyn- rt is alive. one 541

.tution. Dead. said the hospital, lls John Collins, 80. whose bod ‘was in the coffin at Monday’: ‘funeral.

FIRST TIME SINCE '30s

‘ ‘ gaa - ing on a day-to-day 5 tients in the Los Angeles insti-

dian policies, particularly in the’ field of bulk forward sales at, fixed prices. - !

Differences between the twol countries were accentuated last fall when the United S ta t e s I learned that the Canadian wheat F board agreed to sell some 30.rl 000,000 bushels of wheat to Ja-i pan. to be delivered during a period of eight months at fixed! prices. This followed bulk ‘for- ward sales by Canada at fixed prices to Communist China and Russia.

CALLED UNFAIB

The U.S. agriculture depart-N merit maintained that this pro-l cedure constituted unfair com-l petition. Both countries compete l for many of the same wheat markets. American w h eat lsl sold m a l n 1 y through private | channels with prices fluctuat-;

Department spokesmen called} a press conference last October to voice threats against Cana-N dian wheat trade. Regutar con-l suitative

machinery between

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the two countries on wheat ex- port programs broke down and the state department .found it move in to I control the protests I rt 3 e n in the

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agriculture department.

The spokesman said Sharp caued on Freeman last Friday afternoon and said he could un-

U.S. reactions at that time. The spokesman quoted Sharp as saying there wo uld be no change in Canadian export pot- icies and Freeman informed him the U.S. intends to remain competitive.

In the past, the two countries had an arrangement whereby

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'avoid “the supreme catastrophe —-the recourse to arm ' Implicit in is message wa an appeal for negotiations to bring down the Communist wall

that separates Berlin. The Roman Catholic ruler. s 1

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lbeginning the first Christmas sDay of his papacy. ceiebrated lithe mas ' ‘ ine Chapel the U.S. tended to follow {the lg’§fi$2:‘l°mal5 accredlled *0 the di h t ‘ t . . E:|'i.?l8ta!e‘XP‘y)1‘tea])riCpe“slciel1{i;\aeQe\‘-pg“; In perhaps the most stirring - , any were ,peace- message slfice he became ,,,‘;“°‘;;,§'.}f,d?,,°,; iomats their governments must wheat price increased slightly sacrifice and I ‘undertake ev_en but the U.S. price remained un- P_°55‘l’]Y l‘“‘_’5“l‘3l‘“5 ”°3°l""" changed_ opening 8 gap tions to avoi war. about six cents a bushe’. in the {MUST MAKE SACRIFICES prices between the two coun-‘ ‘Apparently referring to Ber- tries. The spokesman said the lm, he told the diplomats: U.S. intends to maintain this. “ ot your mission. gen- gap although it is considered‘tlemen. to work to knock down here that the Canadian pricetthe walls \\'l1lCll'S€parat‘_3 P9 increase did t have muchtprles; is it’ not tyour mission) meaning since the wheat boardrto announce peace to all near had already completed bulk for- fand far?" . ward sales at fixed prices for‘ He followed these words with many of its major customers. .an appeal for diplomatic nego-

Sea Disaster Survivors Greeted In lear-Filled Reunion In london

LONDON rAP) — Tear-filled

family reunlo n.s welcomed home the first British survivors Wednesday from the tragic cruise of the Greek liner La- konia, billed in advance as “a hristmas you can never for- get." Two Royal Moroccan airlin- ers sped l5B survivors of the flaming sea disaster from Cas- ablanca to London.

Waiting relatives embraced 74 men. 64 women and 20 children with tears of joy. Oth- ers sought information on rela- tives still miss g.

Of the 1,036 passengers and crew members forced to aban-

Iloads of clothing available and‘.the ship had no water when all without funds were advanced: money to get home.

Returning passengers com- plained that fire hydrants on

don the liner‘180 miles north of Madeira Sunday. 935 survived.

73 died, and 28 were still miss- ing. the British admiralty In- nounced in Gibraltar. ABANDON SEARCH

The search in the Atlantic for the missing—llvlng or dead- was abandoned Tuesd y.

Most survivors spent Christ- mas Day waiting for passage back at Madeira, the Canary islands or Casablanca. Of the survivors scattered through MI- deira‘s holiday hotels. few were in a festive mood. some were

By J. WALDRON LAVI-IE8 Tuesday broke through several in hospital; A surge in traffic Inw thee inches of ice extending out I The 15; Survivor, flown so a dock in few hundred yards from the London arrived embittered by 5001‘ Day shore. Bo Gill‘!-Slma-S D8? Ill what they considered I lack of to mark ii-st tine inns the ice had left the harbor_. safety precautions on the 21,314- the 19tI)'I that bonding will start Fmdaor ton Lakonia. They also echoed were in port It the suns trhne. with the Hera takinlz an 500 other survivors charges of I The slips will tour purpwooa cords an $39. the panic amons the crew-

Nm n Lumber San John P. loading One passenger. Mrs. Helen Company Pulpysrd in George and the Atlas fairing on 2.200 Gartslde of England. said "the to in f av ts, ‘me curds d mend pulp. Lakonia crew were in life- Dug) bl: roned. sap-peeled boats befolre the passengers. It In - . Nai-weg- was terrib e." ian ship Hess Ind the when-.' But she said the LIkonis's I the Rd.“ 1‘. both docked captaiin. gsthllss was

‘we 2 "cryng ws to Just the Flnntdi rmriglm Ads: In- ‘.""°"m,_'°d°e':'.°,','_"‘ }, wandering around in tears mm in the bsdnr. Two of cl.u,}H " __ _ 1, streaming down his face." The

e dips were off the lIIr- C M """ " ll captain was the to leave ll:o: em-Ines Clirflsnss Eve E':n"'.mm ‘ titre stdlgkaelrzrnlgner. . in were mum gr. " ' A TOOK CHARGE «touissnowuniiirlin 6'" sport .....‘..d5... : 1: Line. owners or -yaw nu Janus uo.vei- “'3' °"'°".' _ the ill-fated Lshonls. hsl cars In luau‘: as. an. an 3'33"!‘ 7 and ambulances:-esdyto trans- lnto port mind by William w°"‘"" ““““ port passengers to their homes imiissmimoiusursoaien or Well The" wal-

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Harry Ryan. Charlottetown directly from the hands of old

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VATICAN ClTY—Pope Paul’tion must “know how to sacri- gave the first Christmas bless-'fice a part of its prestige or of t ‘ reign Wednesday its superiority" in the interests:

from a central balcony high on gof a “superior good." -'

Tireless and even humiliating negotiation. he tofd the diplo-r imats, must be pursued "to .avoid this supreme humiliation,l ‘which would be. in the present? conditions. the supreme catas-‘ trophe: The recourse to arms.".

It was his third Christmas‘ speech. Monday night he deliv-‘.

‘- _ _ , _ ‘cred his Christmas message to‘ 5P93‘k1“_8 hm‘-“Y b9f°l‘f’ €1"'“F the world. urging a peace with-.‘ his blessing. the pontiff said out an arms race of propel.‘ Christmas was the feast on “es y he ex.

a . d changed holiday greetings With‘ his cardinals and Vatican prel- s. I Pope Paul aiso celebrated an-. other Christmas Day mass in a‘ man workers district and‘

Ro ' prayed at the bedside of a bed-‘

,ridden woman and chatted with 300 crippled children. ‘i

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_ LONDON (Reuters) — Queen[ ;Elizabeth. in I Christmas Day} :'broadcast, said she was happyl l to know that the people of that rcommon-wealth had responded! ;so generously to the campa-ign lto free the world from hungar.l

said- “Much has been

to do, and on this day of re-

'glow of Christmas. let us re- member that many undernour- a

More Work Johnson Aim

SOUTH BEND. Ind. .Christmas Eve gift from Presi- ;dent Johnson aimed at whittling ;away the sudden bulge of un- employment in this city was greeted Wednesday by happi- ness, hope and a tinge of scep- t. .

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icism. Johnson, acting in the after- math of e Studebaker Corp- shutdown of auto manufacturing opera ' at five-point program for job re-‘ ltraining. help in attracting new, % industries. and food for the 5,000" lworkers left without jobs. ‘ = Civic leaders reacted with ‘gratitude. But Walkter Czeck. ii‘ metal finisher for Studebaker

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GIFTS FROM SANTA CLAUS APPRECIATED

Santa Claus. It happened at I Christmas party at the gar-

HERE

Donald Gordon, chairman of the Canadian National Rail- ways. will speak to the Can- adian Club here on March 31. Confirmation of the speaking date was received over the holiday by William Hancox. president.of the Club. The din- ner will be held at the Char- lottetown Hotel.

Hungry’ tQueen

ished people, young and old. scattered throughout the world." The '

h was recorded.

mes was broadcast this year ont sound only.

i. She She said: "Since my last mes- ‘rachieved but there is still muc ‘.5339 °f Clmstmas greenngs m

ing changes, but they are ready part of the long record of history.

“Now, as ever. the important time for mankind is the future: The coming years are full of hope and promise and their course can still be shaped by our will and action.

"The Ohristmas message of peace on earth. goodwill toward men. remains the same: But we can only achieve this if we are all truly ambitious for what is good and honorable.” the Queen said. “Humanity can only make ;progress by determination and concerted effort.

“One such concerted effort has been the campaign to free the world from hunger.

“i am very happy to know that the people of the Common- wealth have responded so gen- erously to this campaign.’

The Queen concluded

message; "Ail my family join

the coming year.

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ending every one of you would be 3 good idea. But rmt best wishes for Christmas and may God's blessing be with you

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CHARLESTON. S.C. (AP v~ ‘Twelve children in one family .‘died early Wednesday when an {oil heater exploded. turning t their crowded frame house into i an inferno.

The victims. ranging in age

from eight months to 20 yearsl «old. were all sleeping in one‘

lupstairs room when the oil lheater exploded downstairs. :Flames and smoke immedi-2 «ateiy poured up a stairwell. ‘ trapping them in their beds. Eight boys and four girls died in the flaming room. Nine of

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;three were her grandchildren. 1 Mrs. Johnson, lwalter Johnson. 51,

icaily burned in a futile attempt to get upstairs to save the‘ l trapped children. ; OIL SPILLED l l Charleston C o u n t y coroner: Jennings Cauthen said Johnson.l Nathaniel and the unidentified; man were laying linoleum} downstairs in the living room; and either tried to move or ac-l cidentally tilted the oil heater.i l Burning oil spilled on the floor‘

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l them were the childrem of Mary‘, t ee Johnson, 47, and the other. her husband.l their son; Nathaniel. 16. and an unidenti-lg fied friend of the family (-5-- l caped. Waiter Johnson was crit-‘

anrl while they were trying to extinguish it the oil heater ex- ploded.

Firemen found the 12 bodies crowded into three beds and a

oset in the single upper room. Downstairs was a child's plastic rocking horse. melted by the heat and charred wagons. dolls. a football and other toys that had been laid out in waiting for the children when they awoke Christmas morning.

Several neighbors tried to reach the upstairs bedroom by entering it from adjoining roof- tops. but the heat belching into the small room from the raging fire below was too intense.

The Negro family was sleep- ing in the wooden house which was one block from Charleston’s

main street. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson who died in the fire

were Irene. 13: Benjamin. 12; Annette. ll: Ramond 10: Al- thamdes. 6 and Znraida. 3. Mrs. Johnson's children by I previous marriage who per-‘ ished were Mildred Wilson. 20; Leila Wilson. l9: and Thoma- sina Wilson. 17. The grandchil- dren who died. all named Wil-

son. were A nth ony. eight months: Jerome, 4: an Jac- quetta. 3.

NICOSIA. Cyprus (AP)——Arl, ‘“';military forces in battle-torn, ‘Cyprus — British.G reek andl §Tui-kish —— were placed underl

unified command headed by a British officer, it was an-3 nounced by the Cyprus presi-‘ dential palace Wednesday night.l official spokesman said? this was done to restore law. and order in Cyprus. . The action came after Greek Cypriot police and armed civi-L lians broke through into the Tur- kish sectors of Nicosia Wednes-l day and rouned up hundreds of Turkish men. women and chii-l dren. transporting them to. _reek quarters as hostages. About 500 were reported to‘ have been rounded up and locked away in detention camps’ used five years ago by the Brit- tish to hold Greek Cypriot resis- ltance fighters.

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iyou all. the world has witnessed, unions and festivities in the ‘"3"!’ great even“ ‘Md ‘“'°°p'j

President Archbishop Maka.r- ios went into conference with Turkish Cypriot officials in the presence of the British high commissioner. Sir Arthur Clark.

After nearly three hours of talks. a British spokesman said the two sides agreed to a new cease-fire c i.

The proposals were subject to approval by Fazil Kutchuk. Tur- kish Cypriof vice-president, spokesman said.

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Machine-Gun Shots

Shatter Berlin Calm

BERLIN IAPI — East Ger-.

iman guards shot and wounded ifatally Wednesday a refugee scrambling over the Berlin wal‘. fwhile E a s t e r n loudspeakers tpoured out Christmas music. The East German refugee.

about 18. died in a hospital after . ta long operation in a vain at-‘

.-tempt to save his life. He was .hit in the back by a bullet fired by Red guar was struggling to get through the wire fence on top of the wall.

The Christmas music was being pumped out by the Red ‘inudspeakc-r system long the wall as the fatal shooting inci- dent occurred.

The shots that wrecked the Christmas peace of Berlin were aimed at two youths escaping

,across the wall to the free lwest.

lSHOT IN CHEST

‘ Both reached American

sector. but the one who died had la bullet wound through his l chest. The other youth was also ttaken to a hospital and placed under sedation Police said he was too severety shocked to tell of the escape. ‘ West Berlin's deputy mayor‘. ‘Heinrich Alhertz. said the shoot- _ing was "an affront against “what now is going on in Ber- lin." ' He uas referring to the vast operation of reuniting Berlin families through the wall. The Communists have given West ‘Berliners with dose relatives in [East Berlin oneday permits to visit them duriniz the holiday season. ‘ The East German loudspeak- ters were serenading West Ber- liners with Bing Cl'n.<by's re- lcording of white Christmas