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VOL. LXXV. NO. 90

Department, CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,

POMPIDOU TAKES OFFICE TODAY New French Gov't Heavy With De Gaulle Backers

By HAROLD KING second to take office during the the council of ministers at Ely- PARIS (Reuters) — Premier | Fifth French Republic that be-|see Palace Saturday morning.

AWARDS GIVEN

FOR REDUCING

SS. (AP)— A who cyt

honored oater as cham- pion U.S.

Mrs. Kees McClure, who admits she formerly had to weigh herself on bag- gage ecales, accepted ‘he

Georges Pompidou formed) gan with de Gaulle’s election as a cabinet Sunday heavily | president in 1959, _ be offi- weighted with longtime support-| cially installed t ers and associates of President The eon "shift, Charles de Gaulle. dicted ever since de Gaulle Pompidou, named premier by de Gaulle Saturday after the resignation of Michel presented the names of his cab inet ministers to the president at noon The

Algerian policy from the Fre’

-| ing to schedule.

Debre handed in the officia ‘ resignation of his governmen Pompidou

pre- re- | ceived massive approval of est

public a week ago, went —

government, at an extraordinary meeting of

[aaeee GOVERNMENT

The Debre government had) Liga en in office for three years and 97 days—the longest life of | j}any French government since | the 18th century.

Pompidou, a 50 - year - old | banker who has never stood for

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t de Gaulle’s closest confidantes,

ters from the Longa govern-

Veteran Businessman. Dies In Charlottetown

A prominent Charlottetown business man, William Allan Stewart, died in the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital Saturday. He was in his 91st year.

Mr. Stewart, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stewart, was a native of Charlottetown | and lived here all his life. His |

the after its organization. me of his death he was honor-

W.A, STEWART

Cavendish, He was also a member of the | Also purviving are a son, Alan | ternal trade,

ntil 1935. | of who survives, cone for the 1939-40 term. He

Stew E, as a life inember of the | Read, Onis and a daugiter,

Owen |

ree in _* cabine those Nis retained "in ons were Foreign Minis- | ter Maurice Couve de Murville, ee Minister Roger Frey, Minister Valery Gis: be ‘@Estaing, Armed Forces | r nister Pierre Messmer and | Louis ir minister for Alger- | jan affai The st ministers include Pierre Pflimlin, leader of the Roman Catholic Mouvement Re- publican Populaire (MRP) and,

any elective office but is one of!

retained most of the key minis-|

honor at the national con- vention of T.O.P.S.—take off | pounds sensibly, | She lost the most weight | during 1961 of any of the group’s 30,000 members—150 pounds—and has taken off another 15 pounds since Jan. on her diet of 1,100 calories

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day. Here’s how her personal statistics dropped: Bust from 53 to 40, waist from 52 {o 36, hips from 64 to 50 and dress size from 52 to 20'2.

also. crowned Helen Sielaff of Chicago as KOPS queen. KOPS stands for Keep off Pounds Sensibly. She joined in 1955 weighing 26542 pounds and is down to 13442. She lost most weight among 84 women who reduc- ed to weights recommended by doctors.

briefly premier before de Gaull e took over the government June, 1958. Pflimlin was ma

| minister of state for co- fay tion.

Observers felt the presence of | five MRP party ministers in the new cabinet, three in the last, indicated a)

| small ‘“‘move to the left’’ in von context of the sometimes fusing French political | trum

spec-

|

| the new cabinet is the fact t

closely identified with the Gaul- | list cause,

| GAULIST MEMBERS

Eleven of the members e | drawn from the gnc union | for a new Republic party

Of the hath, Gilbert ‘Grand- val, secretary of state re 97

| the small leftist Gaullist art, }the Democratic Labor Union, |

Masonic eee a pest presi | tow ister of state for scientific, dent a charter member 0 atomic and space research, is f | iM ke he Charlottetown Rotary Olub, | The yeneel A eee. SSS one of de Gaulle’s oldest and

oon ene 17, from of trust: will, Most.Joyal .

ees: Orphan- age; a member of the Char- ea Club: and A ' member | the pens a ames Be a Seaway Opening He was ead 4 on Sept. 1904 to Eliza Blanche Simpson

Death Penalty Given Que. Man

MONTMAGNY, Que. (CP) Paul Bernier, 46, Saturday was MeCana said Saturday sentenced to be hanged June 14, McCann said the ’ opening, for shooting an off-duty provin- originally scheduled for Sunday, Id be set for April 29, bar- cial policeman while in an alco-| WU holie fury over a rook an. ring unforeseen difficulties.

MASSENA, N.Y. (AP)—The opening of the St. Lawrence | Seaway will be delayed at least | | two weeks by an 80-foot-long ae in the Eisenhower Lock,

way administrator Joseph

Kirk of James. Buriat be in the we eit Comma

“Delayed 2 Weeks ‘si

rs, Maurice Schumann, new min- — - delegate to the premier’s e for national development, made his a he during the Sec

War as the sain | Bansee flames destroyed Free) house.

‘orld e yer de Gaulle’s ench government in London. os Murville, Joxe and author | Andre Malraux, who retains his | | post as minister of cultural ate | fairs, also were wartime as- sociates and friends of de! Gaulle. The new cabinet has two more | professional politicians and par- liamentarians than the old. Un- der the French constitution they must resign their seats} when they take cabinet posts.

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But the outstanding feature of | ® hat |

The jury too find Pa ei guilty a. a murder, carrying auto Sate death sentence, and another | a any to neta against | recomm g clem Defence rf aw a er Gravel said he will appeal.

= Palms Are Distributed

's|Medical Care Act

Passed In Sask.

REGINA (CP) Saskatch-

compared with | Gwen's CCF government Satur-

day put into law amendments to the 1961 Medical Care In- | surance Act that tients insured under pulsory, comprehensive

the com

plan,

go into effect July 1

N.B. Girl Dies In Dwelling Fire

SAINT JOHN, N.B. elen Grace Northrup,

(CP)

east of Saint itead

John.

The two girls were spending | the Pg at the home of Mr jand Mrs. William Landrym. Six occupants escaped injury the

Miss Soaring was a son, we of Mr. and Sandy Northru of Belleisle. The Keirstead girl’s

are Mr. and Mrs, Ros- coe Keir Keirstead « of Norton,

Castro Frees

60 Prisoners

MIAMI, Fla. (CP-AP)—Sixty wounded and ailing survivors of bn Cuban invasion, still wearing

eir prison uniforms, arrived

here fe plane Saturday after

Fidel Castro released

Haims wits their indemnification 8 oe

ands of exiled Cubans

| smremned Miami Airport to greet

the first men released since Cas-

relieve pa-

nd

prepaid scheme of liability a ayments a t

more than half its members are | pen. drii nae ee

The costing $21,000,000

in its first year of operation, will

16, died Oddfellows: a member of ihe | Marjorie B. Stewart, Charlotte- | and Gaston Palewski, new min-| early Saturday in a house fire at Smithtown, 28 miles north- Sadie Keir- , 12, is in hospital here re- ing

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1962.

THER

snowflurries or rain

showers; northeast winds 20, gusts to 30, shifting to northwest. Low-high 30—38.

rum 6SEVEN CENTS

LORD AMORY

British High Commissioner to Canada, Rt. Hon. Viscount A

In Berlin

CP from Reuters-AP

BERLIN Gen. arrived x in | Sunday to wind up his affairs and told West Berliners: “I am not running away

Clay, due to return to the United States after seven months as President Kennedy's personal representative here, returned from consultations in Washington amid a new wrinkle in West German-American rela- tions—the controversial leak of details of a U.S. working paper on Berlin.

In Bonn Sunday, a spokesman said the West German govern- ment plans to investigate the leak and would regret it if the | inquiry showed details of the | working paper dis- | closed through official ‘‘indis- cretions.””

But the spokesman denied a U.S. state department charge |that Bonn government sources disclosed details of the working paper that will form the basis of further Soviet-American ex- ploratory talks on Berlin start- ing in bss ono sa today.

U.S. officials have accused

est German authorities of a | breach of confidence and said |

CHATS PRIOR TO CLUB TALK

ing. The president, A.D. Cam

lo | - eron, presided. Lord Amory

Mrs. addressing a special

A.D, Cameron, prior meeting

h =, hl ee ey rere of the Prince Edward Island spoke on the Commonwealth, | it raised the question of how Tending hts wife or the Liev. | Canadian Club at the Charlo- | its past present and future. rn Ars pd government can tenant Gowernee left, and ttetown Hotel Saturday even- | (See story on page 5.) Tust its allies. HINDER RUSK? U.S. officials fear that the

_Sweepin

By Kennedy's Steel Actio

By ROGER LANE NEW YORK (AP) The crushing of an American steel gp bid for higher prices ashing, personal tri- Siok ‘iin Dreaiient Kennedy. The collapse may also have written a new page in the annals of United States presidential power.

sed new and sweeping

I hones about the exercise of

that power in the future and the! traditional American freedom of |

| business.

Some business sources here were asking these questions:

Will aluminum companies, which cut prices in September,

last-minute disclosure of West- ern disunity might seriously hamper U.S. Dean Rusk in his meetings with fon Ambassador Anatoly Do-

g Issues Raised

ae man Chancellor Konrad aed. was reported to have

!many and varied: They were; late’ Tuesday afternoon trom | pea poadie re Berlin which in

wielded with skill and lightning a Blough, chairman of U.S re view would move toward

speed. , who brought the news of a of Communist East In general, they clustered ay “mediate $6-a-ton increase’

around the concept of what La- in price The ‘Associated Press quoted

nt h elapsed before| Washington informants as say- bor Secretary Arthur Goldberg Only ours elaps g that Adenauer had made his

| ealled “assertion of the national| the price increase drive crum-

interest” in wage contract dis-| bled with cancellation of mark. | objection a - ‘entldaee:

putes. ups ordered by Bethlehem | # e terms and for considera- tion by President Kennedy.

The president swung into ac-| Steel, the No, 2 ee. in the

tion within minutes of a visit! wake of big Steel’s move

North NB. Digs Out

diplomats said he seemed to be Pole and upset by indica-

S. nego- tating plan that the Kennedy administration is willing to move toward at least a limited, ent recognition of East

| Four main proposals were set he U.S. working paper |

cane to Allied government. Adenauer is said to have ob-

State Secretary |

renuously to the U.S. |

From 19 Inches OfSnow :

be able to raise them again | without prior consent of the White House? What about indus-- wWatIrAX (CP) — A storm snow to Labrador. It struck try - wide wage agreements? Newfoundland Sunday in a

that pounded the Maritimes with

Ht th to Whit be oo ee > heavy snow and rain and hur-

House scrutiny and pressure?

weakened form but was able to deposit 15 inches of snow at

oe — rene things, to | or freezing the

pA he pamoaiian te lines which divide East Germany and Po- land, and East and West Ger- many, on the ground that this would give new prestige and re- spect to Communist East Ger- many.

PC Committee Gets Pep Talk

OTTAWA (CP)—Prime Minis- | ter Diefenbaker opened a two- day secret meeting of the Con- servative party national cam- Paign committee Sunday with an hour-long pep talk.

e told reporters after his speech, however, that it was a regular meeting of the commit- tee and that he just “dropped in to see them

ltanic Service Held On Coast Guard Plane

ARGENTIA, Nild. (CP) -

During service Sunday alter- fon a wreath was dropped from

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nC Gomnitne AS Holy Week Opens.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope; Easter Sunday with Christian-| ag John distributed blessed palms|ity’s great celebration of| Sunday, recalling the occasion | Christ's resurrection. nearly 2,000 years ago when) Here, the Palm Sunday ob- Jerusalem's people scattered| servance also recalled a sailor’s palm fronds before Jesus as he| death-defying cry of “water on entered their city. the ropes” nearly 400 years ago The Palm Sunday ceremony | in St. Peter’s Square, His cry— here and elsewhere in the world/ against strict pa order marked the opening of Holy! prevented the giant obelisk that Week—a period commemorating | has become a familiar a a

| tro’s forces rounded up the in- | Soe after the ill-fated Bay of Pi invasion nearly a year

The Cuban prisoners promised | help raise funds to free their sceaneubias still in jail. The} 1,179 prisoners were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison but with the understanding they | would be released with the pay- | ment of indemnities or fines to- talling $62,000,000. The fines of + initial group released came

One Republican, Senator Ro- Ticane-force winds Friday and qwillingate on the northwest man L. area of Nebraska, Saturday was dying quickly Sun- ooast, The weather office said summed up some of this feel. 4@Y night after delivering @ this report was “exceptional” in ; glancing blow at Newfoundland. | and most other parts of the

e The storm, which packed winds | vince: had received only a few

DEPLORES ACTION

Referring to defence depart- ment action ordering contract- ors to buy only from steel firms which had not raised prices, he | |said he deplores “the type of thinking, that unless companies do what a political leader says they must, retributions will be visited upon them

The instruments of power in-

ADENAUER OBJECTS Apparently Adenauer objected also to modification of a U.S. proposal for an international au- thority to operate the Berlin supply lines. Under this propo- | sition as it now stands the East | Germans apparently would have an important role to play, giv-

up to 76 miles an hour, left the

Maritimes surprisingly unscath- ed although some damage was, reported to fishing gear along the Nova Scotia southwest coast. Northern New Brunswick was digging out from under 19 inches of snow. Some snow also fell in

| ine The ‘weather office ae was quickly

said the losing its

Taese vessels were reported in trouble at the height of the storm but all were safe by Satur Mmornivg. One fishing "pont

nwa aR ER ee clak's i ee ba and | ing them a basis for claiming

The storm centre was in the the crippled freighter Markland | de facto a eee ve the Gulf of St. Lawrence Sunday was taken in tow and heading | Western powers lena is night é for St. John’s, Nfld. | opposed to any kind of conan:

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W. German Govt Denies

‘Leak Of American Plans

Disunity Is Feared

Discussion

tion for the German Communist

state The ee U.S. proposals in brief a ‘: The NATO and Warsaw

Pact military groups would is- sue non-aggression declarations coupled with enerennes against violations of present demarca- | tion lines on the cold war front- | ders. This would have the effect of freezing disputed German boundaries oe without a Ger-

man peace t 2. The big nuclear powers sign a treaty to prohibit the

spread of nuclear weapons so far as they can. This would as- sure the Soviets that the United States had no intention of turn- ing over nuclear weapons te West Germany. But it would not rule out a nuclear capacity for NATO as an international de- “—e organization access routes from

Want Germany to West Berlin would be placed under direct operational control of an inter- national authority essentially composed of the United States, Britain, France and Russia, but with roles for East and We Germans. The East Germans al- | ready control about 95 per cent of the traffic to West Berlin.

4. Creation of joint East-West German committees to work on such problems as eventual uni- fication of Germany under free elections, promotion of East- West contacts, economic rela- tions, and practical problems raised by the sealing off of East Berlin.

Clay. whose departure has prompted misgivings in some West German circles, told re-

ere | in trouble I will come back.”

Veteran Actress Stages Finale

HOLLYWOOD (AP)—Actress Clara Blandick, 81, carefully staged her final performance.

She fixed her hair and gowned herself in a blue robe.

Then she lay down on a couch in her apartment, covered her- self with a blanket and pulled a plastic clothes bag ever her head.

Her landlady, Helen Mason, found her Sunday morning, dead | of suffocation. | A note on the table next to the couch cng

“I am now about to make the great abel, I cannot en- dure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impend- ing blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.”

A friend said Mrs. Blandick had been suffering from arthri- tis and that doctors told her she was going blind.

Mrs. Blandick was once a Broadway actress. Director | Henry Duffy brought her te Hollywood in the late 1920’s Un- til 10 years ago, she was a char- acter actress in motion pictures. Among her best remembered roles: we Garland’s Aunt Em in The Wizard of nl and Aunt Polly in "oon Sawy'

and was giving heavy

Christ’s suffering and death | millions of he cross and concluding on! from crashing into the coma. k brought

The obelis' | roan oe ee to Se by Cal- igula and placed in the Roman Circus. Under Sixtus V, in 1586, the obelisk was placed on rollers and oe ra the ae of St. Peter's

oa hegg of th the hoisting had decreed | solute “santo under pain of

STRAINED ROPES But the giant stone, estimated | to weigh 320 tons, strained the ropes, a threatened to snap. At that point Capt. Bene- detto Bresca of San Remo, of a

watertight | compart- ments, and was believed wun- cnkabi. But the iceberg tore open almost from end to A and she went quickly ‘o the bottom in 2.700 fathoms of water

several

throng of bystane

shouted “acqua alle funi’’ water on ¢ saved the situation. As a reward, Pope Sixtus gave Sie = de-

Memorial services for victims of the Titanic disaster have in the past been held aboard Coast Guard ships in the area, but air- craft have largely taken over from surfece craft = the — which provides pos

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VETERANS ATTEND SPECIAL COURSE

Among those attending a

| voked by the president were

ting work. Shown above teft | to right are, Dr. M.C. Black- wood, Halifax. chief of che fish inspection branch for the Maritimes of the department

(CP)

this town days

FORT FRANCES, Ont Triplets are thriving in Northwestern Ontario after having been born 13 apart in a medical rarity.

A boy and a girl were by caesarean section to Mrs Clarence Bujold Friday — 13 days after the first of the trip- lets, a boy, had been born at La Verendry Hospital here

born

tal a month before the first baby | arrived, and remained in hos- | pital under close surveillance | during the 3-day period after | the first child was born The first boy, born April 1, weighed four pounds, 14 ounces The girl, born first on Friday, weighed six pounds. followed by her younger brother who weighed five pounds, 10 ounces The babies still had not been named Saturday Dr. W. G. Boyle, the attending | Physician and a practitioner In : Fort Frances since 1937, said in an interview Saturday: ‘We had! lots x-Tay was taken two months be- fore the first baby arrived.”

as

of fisheries; Miss Vartha Gav . Mrs, Margaret Gallant. both of Rustico, and William a officer in charge of inspection laboratory is

Uharlottetown. More than 14

e triplets were expected to | arrive April 12, “and the Tirst | baby could be called oremature,

Mrs, Bujold entered the hospl- #

Triplets’ Birth Is Called One-In-A-Million Chance

although this was not indicated by its weight.” ALL HUSKY

All three babies, tn fact, were “remarkably husky.”

Dr. Boyle did not comment om the lengthy delay between the births, beyond saying that the

first baby arrived naturally, “then complications developed nd the caesarean operation

was later performed.”

“It's a one - in - a - million chance,” he said. He could not recall a similar case in Canada.

Mrs. Bujold, 31, and ae hus-

band Clarence, 33, have four other children — all quae

aged from 14 months fo siz years. They have been married eight years

Mr. Bujold, « $350-a-monih garage mechanic, said “the de- lay was a surprise, but we're happy.’ hg, ae is + of 13 chil-

of time to prepare, as an | oan

tal. “April hi Mr Bu Bud "Sein four

recall @ = in our families.

| babies in about twe weeks.