VOL. LXXVI. NO. 317

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II It's Good For The Island The Guardian is For it

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHAHLOTTETOWN, CANADA. MONDAY. oacaiiifan 9. 1963.

WEATHER

Overcast, rain beginning in afternoon, much milder; light winds increasing to southeast 30. Low-high 23 and 48.

"",H’§‘§,“ SEVEN CENTS 16 PA(—fifs

Four of the dignitaries

Communist-led tin miners held four Americans, three ana- dians and 14 others hostage to bargain for the return of two arrested red leaders.

The presence of the cans- dians among those held became known Sunday when British Atm- bassador Gibson Holllday re-

technicians employed by the National Mining Commission. which runs Bolivia's mines. They were identified as Ray- Brousseau and Aurele Falardcaux, of Heap and Sher- wood Diamond Drilling. Com- pany in Ontario. and James McNames of Prospection Lim- ited. Montreal. he government of Presi- dent- Victor Paz Estenssoro called a cabinet meeting for to- day to consider emergency measures with which to meet the crisis posed by the seizure of the hostages and the antl-gov- crnment agitation of Vice-pres ident Juan Lechin. Lechin, a leftist, also heads

at the Charlottetown Hotel Sat- urday for a special Royal Ca- nadian Mounted Police recep-

Three Canadians Included In 21 Bolivian Hostages

LA PAZ tAP)—The Bolivian government concentrated 1,000 troops Sunday in an area where

ant-governor W.J.

the tin miners union.

One Of the hostage Amel'l' tavi. near Lake Poopo about M

cans, Thomas Martin,

officer, was again in touch wi the embassy by radio-telephone Sunday and said he and his ‘three companions were well. He added that they were under "strong militia guard." He did not elaborate. Martin made a similar call Saturday.

hostages an indefe esident Johnson offered full assistance by the United States in seeking their release. Interior Minister Jose An- tonio Arze said the Bolivian government would not give in to the miners‘ demands. Bolivian press dispatches.re- ported. meanwhile, that vio- lence broke out in the mining [district of Huanuni. A mob was

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said to have attacked the local police commander, his wife and children.

The four Americans. who were last reported unharmed, were said to have been taken

MOSCOW (AP) _ Premier Khrushchev rallies his Commu- nist lieutenants here today for another crack at easing the So- vi<;1t Union's agricultural head- ac e.

_ The Soviet leader's latest plan

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p_lus costly irrigation projects. arty's economic plan- llillg sr expected to fold details of their blueprint for the diversion of massive in- vestment resources into chem- istry. The new investment plan for the years 1964-65 was ap- proved by the government last week and the party central committee is expected to aflix its stamp of approval and lis- ton to pep talks on the impor- e

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The investment plan. will be made to the rest of the world at the session of the Su-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS’ Prince Edward Island was

without a tradfic f . Week ended midnight Saturday with 53 deaths reported.

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Quebec recorded the lugs.» total with 18 victims. five more than Ontario.

persons were killed in

British

blumbia. s etch in

oundl New Brunswick no Alberta. Manitoba

is a massive input of fertilizer.‘

Russians Open Talks Today Aimed Al Food Production

preme Soviet tparliament) be- ginning Dec. 16.

For Khrushchev. the opening ‘of the new drive to modernize and expand chemical produc- tion caps five years of wres- tling with economlc and politi- cal s.

This year's agricultural ca- tastrophe is believed to have put new pressure behind Kin-ushchev’s drive for a big investment effort in chemistry.

The vast virgin lands of Ka- zakhstan this year yielded their poorest harvest. Indications are that most of the arid steppe- lands, hit by bad weather this year. produced barely enough seed forvnext year's sowing.

The heat harvest forced the Russians to buy nearly $l.000,000.000 r of best‘ in Canada and other

‘W . Western markets.

P.E.|. Has Best Record In Safe Driving Week

each reported two dentin Satur- ay. provinces figured in the

- All 1962 toll. highest recorded since t

he observance of Safe-Driving

‘File Week started eight years ago.

Both Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland had clean rec- ords ln 1901 when 49 persons

I-‘dllowing is the day-to-day

- ‘record for Safe-Driving Week

this -year. with totals for the week in 1962:

Total

Dec. 12.1tsa7's3'o2 Nfld. 001011032 ~P.s:.t. oooooooot N.S. onioooois N.a. noioozosi Que.. ,4'.2.107.22iii‘la Ont. {4.it1n4nt3..z7 Man. 00.000101! Soak. zstooozvv Alta. oosooooaz ac. 001012049 l 10110101243370

New York, a U.S. information

OFFER AID In Washington, the White House called the seizure

nsible act a (T.

RCMP RECEPTION HELD FTERE

tion are shown here. .The y Superintendent are from left to right, Lieuten-

MacDon- ald and Mrs. MacDonald, and

A.S. McNeil, commanding officer “L" Di-

vision RCMP Neil.

and Mrs. Mc-

Ito a miners‘ radio station at Ca-

-miles south of Oruro. Oruro Iabout 150 miles southeast of La Paz.

TO DELIVER CHEQUE

The Americans went into the sCatavi area Friday night to de- jliver a US. government aid Icheque for $15.000 toward the Ibuilding of a school for miners Ichildren. Tlhey were seized by ‘the miners after the govern- lmg in La Paz announced the

" ’ gamanunlst union lead- rs‘ i-tnleo Pimental and Feder- ico Escobar.

The Americans are Thomas M. Martin, 27. of New York, a U.S. Information Service officer .in the embassy here: Michael IA. Kristula. of Cadillac. Mnch.,

‘also an information officer: IBernard Rifkin, 52, a native ‘of I’Brooklyn. N.Y.. adviser

Ifor the U.S. Agency for Inter-

Inational Development; and Ro- bert Fergerstrom. a Pe ac e Coops volunteer.

I The other 17 persons held as

hostages were said to be Boll-

lvian and foreign technicians.

I Martin telephoned the U.S

Iemtbassy from Catavi Saturday.

IThe embassy quoted him

‘.saying he and the others were

Iwell and being well treated.

I e government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro has bee trying since August to break the Communist leadership of the Iminers. It the govern-

Iment-Iru-n mines would begin to

Ioperatte at a profit utvdlar a pro- gram sponsored by the United States, West Germany and the Inter - American development bank.

Found Dead [In Parked Car

WOODSTOCK, N.B. tCP)—- Three men were found dead in their car parked in field about three miles east of here

Sunday. Death was believed caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.

Names of the three were not released by RCMP. o we believed from the North Hamp-

. area just south of here. and- the third was believed to be from the Fredericton area.

The car was found Sunday by farmer Cha

rles Pratt. He said he first noticed car

lights in Ithe field Saturday night. I Sunday morning the car was still in the field. but he thought was probably stuck. When it still there in the afternoon, we ed. 4

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Coroner J 6. Blake sad so lnquest probably will be held this week.

Cuban Held For Threat To Johnson

NEW YORK (AP)—A Cuban citizen, accused of threatening to shoot President Johnson, was held in lieu of $25,000 bail Sun- day for illegal possession of I .22-calibre rifle.

The defendant was arraigned in court as the president was attending the funeral of former New York governor Herbert H. Lehman in the city.

Omar Padilla, who claimed he made the threat in Jest. was arrested Saturday. He was charged under I state in w it a crime for an alien to owns rifle without a permit

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.year. the biggest harvest sincel ions are l or New Brunswick.

‘I956. About 3,600,000 marked for home consumption, the rest for export.

Icial estimates Sunday predicted I land students have had Ian Argentine wheat crop of 15,-! Rhodes 500,000 tons for the 1963-64 crop I own, but may apply for the sch-

ITrans-Canada

is lHiker Gets

IFctre Home

I ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. Cross-Canada hiker G e o r g Whitbread will head for his Tor- onto home from St. John's day his

et money. Newfoundland tourist director O.L. Vardy said Sunday that the 51-year-old Whitbread ha been lodged and fed by the pro vinciai welfare department since his arrival in St. John's at the end of a 5.100-mile hike last

week.

Whitbread started his trek from Vancouver in May. 1962. and estimated that the trip to St. John's took eleven months walking time.

Mr.Vardy said he had been asked by Premier Smallwood to ask some of the premier‘: friends to help finance Whit- bread’s trip to his Toronto

home.

The collection brought enough for a railway ticket, a lower berth, meals enroute and “sub- stantial pockel money."

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to-‘ [are and meals sen by the Charlottetown lio-

paid for and Wm, B bu of pnck, tary Club to represent them in

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IN.B. To Vancouver Flight

3 from Calgary.

82 Persons Feared Killed In U.S. Airliner Explosion

City Boy Named :,A,,¢,',F,;g:I:,A.*. lightning Suspected Rhodes Scholar I In Fire’

MUNICH IAPI\»fhe smiling I young man took the my tank I of the little boy. put it down ,

. . I on the sidewalk of one of this C°l"‘ Jim?‘ M°Mlll3"« 21- ill‘ ‘ . . N ,t. West German cit ‘s busiest Charlottetown, senior arts stu- I. streets-—and smashed it In ESLKTON Md ,AP,_A bu dent at St. Dunstan's Universt- i pieces with 3 wooden ham. '. . . I . ' A I I ty, has been gmmedgthe Rhodes I met let airliner with 82 persons Scholarship for the province of The then handed the ‘aboard burst into flame and New Brunswick for I . it was boy a streamlined clockwork crashed near here Sunday night. learned here last ‘light 3“I°"‘°bII9- TI‘‘'_ 50)’ W35 Two hours after the first M-r. MclMillan is the son of l)r. equally happy with his new ..,Wd 0, me cram an Ema“

and Mrs. J.A. McMillan. 45 Greenfield Avenue, Charlotte- town.

andbiert.Ad. I.. .. _ the yougngg mao,;v__a cnenigeri: Iflre department official said: I

a German pacifist movement I“'l‘here are no survivors, as far .

which every Christmas de- ‘as we know." byThT;rané|:3:;::n‘Seknllln“d::§ hrlelzlatlie °.""°5 “'3' °" '‘"’5'5 °' “"95" ; Pan American World Airwn.vs of the seven man committee _ _ said the craft was a Boeing 707 which selected the winner. Six‘ Th“ l"“"'I'5I§' “'I‘°5," head‘ bound from Puerto Rico to Phil- applicants were interviewed.. ' _ ‘luaners are I“ M‘”"°I‘- 39' adelphla Wm, 74 passengers and

proach any child carrying a warlike toy—-tank. rocket or lead soldier—and offer to ex Maryland, P°_lIt‘ 9 S-'lltl the change it for a peaceful toy. l’I‘"‘e~ gmpmg "5 W33’ tllmllflll Once the bargain has been 3 5t°”" ‘"1 3!‘ I"5t“}m9lll 313- made the pacifists smash up “pr°a°I' I” Phlladelphla-_ 39937‘ the miman, my in a public ently. was struck by lightning demonstration against com- and ".5 wrefiggge cantlflldolvtlll I? -~ . a rain-soa corn led a nu pulsory military service. bwn miles northeast of Elmo“. I The scene is some 54 miles Inortheast of Baltimore, where ‘the plane had made a stopover ‘moments earlier.

three from UN'B, one from ML! Allison. one from the University: of Moncton. and Mr. McMillan from St. Dunstan's.

Since 1925. Prince Edward is-

a crew of eight.

Scholarship of

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olarships in either Nova Scotial COLIN McMlLLAN

top ten in his class in each of the freshman, sophomore, and junior years.

PROMINENT IN SPORT

Mr. McMillan was born in: Charlottetown in 1942 and re- ceived his early education at Queen Square School and Birch- wood High, where he won the‘ pr - e I - ml I‘ _ M ‘ I _ .

"..;:.: ..::.:::' ........'....:.:::.2“1§:..::2:. ;. 1953- He also Played 0“ Ill‘?! football and basketball t ejcanadgan Drama Awards 0,-.Icrash occurred shortly before 9 s°h°°l basketball’ f.°°tba“' andt 1"lIV9F5lt-.V l€"€l Wlllle Still lll-ganizatlon Saturday announced!D-m- E llgcltey tt€3tm5- land lll 1957 W35I high school. Iflve professional and amateur‘: A _severe storm accompanied " C osen 0 rave m England m In his freshman year he play. Iactors as 1963 award winners. Ill)’ llglltlllllg ll8<l lllt the area.’

Drama Awards

Are Announced - TELLS OF CRASH

Th, I Mrs. Frank Ulmer, a resident

the I of the rural crash area. said the I

CAPT. GEORGE Knuth, I veteran Pan American World.

the Queen's Scouts Jamboree. fed varsnv baqketba“ but it wa , Alden Irving of Hams,‘ 1,,“ about time. 31Ir“;y5. I‘II°I'07“'a.5 caplfili“ I}: H lad d 11 d._ . - - 3: , -1 ' . ‘ e oeing 7 _ w c , 12 e gomp e 9”‘ 95 an ‘in football where he exce1led,:G35€°" 01 M°“tl'93l_5 _N3IJ1°“51, Mrs‘ Ulmer sald her 59"’ crashed near Elkton. Md. Sun 9 at t. Dunstans High School,IuSin his Si f t a d 200,-Itheam school Ch,,stm,e Lhclarence, saw the flaming . leading his class both years. In poufds to ggdogézgfinage in ”‘e‘G0ff of SI fgoniface Man Iwreckage of the plane plummet ' day mam’ (H, w. mow) ' A ‘ " n v 1 IN’

the summer of 1959 he was cho-

Robinson of Ooaldale, I"l'gt[: albigl balll of fire‘ "1 ry an pole? sat 9 re-

had begun after the

line with the varisty team for,IXI‘It‘"3-" d ‘ C h," fv

I the past four seasons. - 3” 3“ '03’ °3 I 0 3"‘ I .

‘ . . . ‘.couver's Holiday Theatre willI¢°Vl31'.V Of btlflles In ms Jumor year he w"‘°-receive the awards at 1964 re- lwltllln 90 minutes

awarded the Touchdown Clublgional Dominlon Dramas Fest]. CF3 .

“It was an explosion in the

the area and burning parts of ,the craft set some of the area aflame. '

“The whole field was on fire."

Ottawa in their annual "Adven- Iture in Citizenship" program.

I Since entering ll§ll'el'S.l_EY.M1'- trophy as the most improved;vals. 1 . ., . . Greemvald said. “All we could s1 McMillan has been among" the tflontinued on Page 5 Col. iii The winners. each of whom I35: .5]aId 3 9°I"~'° headquarter’ ’see was ruvbble." ' ‘I .l‘9C‘-‘IVES 8 diploma fllld ldl ma‘ I The area was soon asvwarm

I ’bar, were declded'at a meet- imoucnr or 3mm; Iwith fire trucks, police and mg of the governing commit-5 M,-s_ Helen wax-ne,-_ cashier at spectators who clogged tbs “*9 he” 9“ the P395 “I! 79°‘ la roller rink just across the bor- T0305 and impeded the P355890 ommendattons from regional Ider near Glasgow, n9l__ said of officials and rescuers.