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PRIME MINISTER Pearson LEFT) is seen with Alex , the new leader of the nce Edward Island Liberal

Party ilteated ‘a 45-minute meeting in Ottawa Monday. (CP Wirephote)

Greene Accepts Invite

To Visit Thi

CAPITAL BUREAU | bell extended an invitation

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OTTAWA °— Alex Campbell | of Summerside, leader of the | P.E.I._ Liberal. Party, yester- day made his first official call on._Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson; in the latter's office on Parliament Hill. ~

Duting his talks with the | prime minister Mr. Campbell brought up’ a number of points which tended to provide Mr. Peargon witha good grasp of a@-number of Island problenis affecting the economy of the| eee ie

er the day, Mr: Ca _ bell called on Agriculture--Min- in ~---tster-J.-F.~ Greene ~with whom he took up a number of prob- lems involving the agricultural industry of the Island.

Among the problems discusseg were: the feed grain problem, cost of farm machinery, the mar- keting of Island farm produce and more adequate provisions for farm financing,

INVITES GREENE Before departing, Mr. Camp

‘Untouchable’

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| | Mr. Greene to visit P.E.I. which the latter accepted, and indicat- | ed that he will most likely be |able fo visit the Island in the early spring.

While on P-E.1. he will prob- — address a meeting of Is- land farmers in .Charlottetown | This will be the first trip to east- ern Caiiada to be made by Mr. Greene, who recently completed a tour of the prairie provinces.

Mr. Campbell also visited with Public Works Minister Mac- iIiraith. |MORE MEETINGS

Today Mr. Campbell will -re- Min-}turn to Parliament “Hill to keep

Minister Robichaud; Finance Minister Sharpe; Transport Min- ister Pickersgil; Industry Min- jister Drury and Northern Af- fairs Minister Laing.

| This afternoon he will attend the 3 p.m. opening of the House

With his official round of calls completed Mr. Campbell is scheduled to leave Ottawa Wed- a ct:

MP's Courted

For Support In PM's Election.

By PETER JACKSON ' NEW DELHT (Reuters)— Eighty ‘tuntouchable’’ members of Parliament are being courted for their support in Wednesday's election by Parliament of a new prime minister of- India. is

The 80 MPs, who «represent India’e@ 60,000,000 “untouch- ables” — hereditary sweepers, garbage collectors and other menial laborers among the country’s ~~ and humblest —could tip the balance in the election.

The election contest between Mrs. Indira Gandhi, 48, a widow and daughter of the late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru: and former Indian fitiance minister (Morarji Desai is formally for the ‘ruling Congress party's leadership which automatically means the premiership.

It is, considered almost cer-

tain here that Mrs. Gandhi will succeed Lal ‘Bahadur Shastri, who died a week ago at the end of the Kremlin-arranged Tash- kent conference in Soviet Cen- tral Asia between India and Pakistan.

High-Caste Hindus use to fear that a touch from an “‘un- touchable” would‘ mean _pollu- tion. But the untouchables now are officially known. as the Scheduled Castes. They hold nearly 15 per cent of the vote among the 551 party members of both houses and their leader, Jagjivan “Ram, has not so far committed them, to eitlier side. Desai said ‘Monday te ‘ex-

test and that he will make a direct appeal for support, to all members of the ruling Congress party’s parliamentary party.

Bandits Net $70,000: Police Fight Gun Battle

iene, (CP) =~ Police fought a gun battle with fleeing |a bandits Morday in one of two suburban bank robberies that involved an estimated total loss of $70,000. —

No one was hurt in either. The robberies occurred within an hour of each other, five miles apart,

Tree hooded bandits escaped

with about $60,000 from a Mount

Royal branch of the Bank- of

Montreal. “They were armed

* with a submachine-gun. and_re- volvers, ~

_Similarfy..armed___were

other three men. whose robbery

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one shot ini his car’s fadiater land another through the wind- shield. As he sped down Tasch- ereau Boulevard, he Tadioed for help.

Police roared to the. chase area, in, time to find the robbers switching to another escape var. The bandits opened -up with a submachine-gun and “revolvers, riddinig one police cart but in- juring no one.

They. managed to escape ia. the second getaway Car, which polite later found abandoned

‘with a utility pole:

_Later,officers.were. reported

questioning one man in connec- robbety. : °

of a branch of’ the Toronto-Do- ition with the

minion Bank in Greenfield Patk brought them $10,000 and hot pursuit by armed police.

Taxi dtiver Roger Boucher, saw the ‘three robbers bolt. to their getaway car.

int her: dashed to his |were

took off im pursuit, try- is . tam the robbers’ vehicle. Failing this, he. continued after the fleeing men who fired

Thieves broke into. the bank «with a crowbar shortly..before it opened. They held the staff

t bay. and ‘scooped up about 40° Rage @ ones, In Mount ‘Royal, no shots

fired, but staff members at the bank there said they were fearful that the member of the holdup trio armed: with a sub- machine-gun . would start firing.

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appointments —--with:—--Fisheries been —_pothiting.

pectes to win Wednesday's con- | :

and damaged from a collision |

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Police Seize Publications

QUEBEC (CP)—Police here jseized hundreds af copies eee ae va consider .ob-

the weekend and

‘Police ener Gerard. Girard ou Ine believes a plot involving [editors and printers has been uncovered

Most of the publications, -te- |cluding — Midnight, Minuit, He, |Defi and Zero, are pu in |Montreal. All except. jave French-language magazines. | Chief Girard said it appears ithat “newspaper . vendors who refuse to accept one or another publication are threatened with

st. (having all the magazines they handle taken away.” ‘He said newspaper are “held by the throat by propagandists .of immorality.”

LAUNCH CAMPAIGN Police, with city council ap- rae ve begun “a fight 4

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Joey Announces. Fish Plant, Fleet

By DAVE BUTLER __—_- ST. JOHNS, Nfld. (CP)—At- lantic Sugar Refineries Lid of Toronto plans to invest more than 13,000,000 in a fish plant and dragger fleet which will operate at ier Bay near

stown, Nfld, Premier Smallwood _ told the legislature Monday, _

He said Atlantic will build a $3,000,000 plant which will proc- ess about 60,000,000 pounds. of fish a year for the export trade. Part of the initial investment will be $5,000,000 for five new trawlers:—_Mr. ' Smallwood said | - orders for these have already been made. Another $5,000,000 will be invested when five more trawlers are ordered before the end of the year.

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TOUGH COP.

Johony~ (John J. ‘Broderick: a former New York City de- tective and later’ eres for former heavyweight champ- ion Jack Dempsey, died yes- terday at his home in Middle- town, N.Y., He was 70. Brod- etick was first named the “tworld’s ‘toughest -cop’’ by Jack (Legs). Diamond, then re- garded as one of. the world’s cipumest ne:

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MONTREAL (CP): —

educational officials: already oe iset with teacher strikes, found themselves with a new headache Monday—a strike by thousands of ‘students at technical and vo-

away from classes in of ex-

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onstration in front of the subur-

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spite the walkout. certain. schools, some were able to carry on; others were closed.

RECEPTION WAS MIXED .

Students’ Strike Adding To Woes

N, CANADA, TUESDAY,

Shipbuildis | Subsidy Cu By Ottawa

Reduction the federal shipbuilding sub-

¢\tion” from students when te | OTTAWA OE) =

treal. Young .demonstraotrs, ~ voca- tional students ~ among them,

cent for the next three years |was announced today by Tans- | pot Ministe’ Pickersgill.

the. principle of free education. ‘Teaches the. 17-per-cent level

There are 74 trade schools in | the

. (were shut because of the strike | ernment,

dem- jable. yolved are French-speaking.

Most of the students’ in- nounced that a review of \program had been ordered.

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Seer econ Rant tts ‘peace of [bait te. . SOae.

defence’ departmest ' ae another 115,000

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visited the University of Mon- sidy to 25-per cent from 35 per

| Beginning in 1969, the subsidy yelled and waved signs in sup- |will be dopped further by two port of the current strike and | percentage points a year until .

The subsidy of 35 per cent of “province, all operated di- the total cost. of new vessels || by the education depart- | built in Canada, introduced by | ment. One report estimated 60 the former Conservative gov- was suspended last it no exact figures were avail- | Feb. 2 when Mr. PicKersgill an- the

(AP )— The about $54,200,000,000—more than

on ending the peace drive have

TESTIFIES.

Morgan, a S7-year-

old ‘chartered accountant, who “was president of Atlantic Ac- ceptance

about five minutes yesterday at the Royal Commission in-

Drug Intensifies Leukemia Battle

TORONTO. (CP) cancer

eThe technique involves a com- bined drug treatment developed ‘by Dr: Robert. Bruce of the On tario Caneer’ Institute and was

In West

Mr. and Mes. Cliff MacPhee and family of three, West -Roy- “ . lost -all their belongings ‘a fire destroyed their one- ear dwelling yesterday after-

The blaze, believed to have erupted from an oil stove in a ‘bedroom,. was well underway before the Charlottetown Fire department arrived. The call

dren were at home at thé time

Winter Club.

Mr. Macianis said the fire was extinguished twice by snow and water but ignited a third time when, Mrs: MacPhee was at the {MacInnis besidence.

The third blaze was well un- ver before it ve noticed and

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of the fire. Mr. MacPhee was at | jwork at the Belvedere Golf and

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Assistance. was required from the North River Fire Depart- ment which arrived after the Charlottetown brigade with an additional supply of water to save a small workshop.

Reports indicated that there

Payments bled to-40 per cent-in more industrial space

Mac- jof England.

Sliss ahot Beene Phee's mother in Bonsha

The government hopes, higher

crane will attract industry away the congested southeast.

‘|The program will require legis- lation expected in the spring, but payments will be backdated toe over new investments: launched on or after Jan. 17.

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“quarrying. There will be |’ the new prograin payments to those buy-|may bring more North_Atheri- electronic | can capital to Britain Jay.

added the government hopes the incentives will give “further encouragement to investment in. British prosperity and _ will contribute to our economic growth.”

The program was outlined in a white paper issued Monday in the name of Jay as well as James Callaghan, chancellor of the _ exchequer, “and Economics. Minister George Brown. It

unemployed, such as all brought favorable reaction from was no insurance on the home. |land, Northern England, most of|the -.Confederation of — British The MacPhee family is stay- |Wales and the southwest corner Dhicwee though there -was

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