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\ : walls es ' : ei un- jiok acceptance ' of the lgov went's austerity policy | Wednesday in a move rated

the!pful to Prime. Minister W! son's effort to squeeze the coun- try along a narrow path to- wards econemic. health. | The Trades..Union Congress jat Blackpool gave Wilson's pay- lfreeve program _ majorities ranging from. 344,000 to more jthan 1,000,000 in. a total vote of almost 9,000,000 on a series of lresolutions. The voting figures showed strong opposition in parts of the i |union-movement and. a suspi- cious -reluctance to accept gov- ernment regulation: of pay, prices and dividends for a six- month -freeze followed by — at

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But the congress also slapped idown Frank Cousins, the leader-| ‘lof the powerful . Transport. and _General’ Workers’ Union and chief spokesman for the opposi- tion to government policy since he quit Wilson’s eabinet last duly.

foot ‘ahlp was built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1930. She. arrived .Tuesday with -700 passengers and was due to sail for France Wednesday morning with 300 [| passengers and 500 crewmen. | , ACP Wirephoto)—,

SMOKE iene aan the. Ger- man passenger liner Hansea- tic, at pier 84 on the Hudson

Has New

ABRAMS. VILLAGE ;biggest attendance ever was reported by officials in charge of the Egmont Bay-Mount-—Gar-

River at New York's 44th - Street, after an oil-fed fire engulfed its engine room Wed- Mmesday. The 39,600-ton, 666-

West German Liner Is Damaged By Fire

Village - yesterday. Hen, industry, and natural resources in_ the- provincial .-government represented Premier Alex Camp- | belt ‘at the exhibition and of- ficially opened the fai

Among _other distinguished visitors Opposition leader Walter Shaw, deputy minister of agriculture Stewart - Wright, {Senator Thomas Kicham: and ‘Henry Wedge, MLA for 3rd

NEW YORK ‘AP)--The West, The flames raged out of con-) Pri German ‘liner Hanseatic, origi-'trol for 642 hours. Buckled | rince. nally owned, by, Canadian...Pa- doors. made.it..difficult: to-reach;. Rev: Charles Gallant, curate,7

cific Steamships, was swept the centre of the blaze in the | Egmont Bay. was the master of

amidships by a roaring fire at engine room. So intense was. the | Ceremonies.

her Hudson River pier. Wednes- heat through the, five decks of { Emilian Bernard of St Philip day, less than four hours. before. the ship that the. topmost. deck | |placed first_in the grain exhibit

“ghe was due to sail for Europe: also” buckled. ———- jwith three firsts, a second and

Farly boarding passengers Sailing of the Cunard liner |third. Mrs. Glorice Cormier of went ashore safely and there Queén Mary was delayed 3'4 St. Philip was runnerup with were -no casualties among the hours to accommodate some of |‘siree firsts and a second. Mrs. créw. the Hanseatic’s 300 passengers. roe Shaw of Shocwntield also

ad three firsts. Alfred Arsenault of eensck pas bod the milking contest, ie MacNeill of Rich+ mond

Others found room aboard the} United — States,

Fire Commissioner Robert OQ. Lowery said the blaze began in liner the engine room when oil appzr- today. ently leaked from a ruptured The 30,000-ton- Hanseatic “was fuel line ora faulty -gasket and jbuilt in Britain for the Canadian or Pacific Railway in 1930 and was

depart

nard of Egmont Bay third.

came in contact with one more of the ship's six turbine christened the’ Empress of Ja- Robert Gallant of Egmont engines. Lowery said engine pan. During the Second World|Bay took top honors in the

showmanship competition under 13, with Roger Bernard second and Jean - Pierre Arsenault third.

In the showmanship competi- tion, over 13 and under 21 years.

room crew tried to extinguish War she was the Empress- of

the fire pets calling in help. Scotland, a name she kept until ~ —— Canadian Pacifie sold ner to At-

lantik Li d Cc of Thiee Arrested HMambure hk _ ompany

mel exhibitioh, held in ree

€:A. Miller, minister of |

second and Edmond’ Ber-"

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Emergency Debate Bid

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aa Souris Exhibition

Is Termed Marked Success

SOURIS .— The Hon. Daniel:

iof, Ayrshire calle were. Gavin

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head of cattle entered in this}

MacDonald, minister of-agricul- Reid of Montague and James class alone

ture, opened the 126th annual | iS uwri-s” Exhibition” yesterday

morning at 10.30. It was report- ed to be a great success with the

Mills of Morell.

The top Holstein of the show- ling belonged to Peter J. Mac- jAulay of Souris. Parker Newson |was the judge_of this class. Top |

{Wilfred Lockhard, principal of

UC Elects Moderator

WATERLOO, Ont. ‘CP)—Dr. United College in Winnipeg, was jelected Wednesday moderator

\of the United Church of Canada

The champion draft male. of |at the church's 22nd general OTTAWA ‘CP)—The Conserv- the Horse show was owned by jcouncil. ‘atives mounted their second Preston J. Bryenton of Rollo |. H€ sticceeds Dr.~ Erhest™ M. |furious Commoné altack” in two Bay. Howse of Toronto: who retires |days on Defence Minister Hell-

Big winners in the poultry “ex- |

Ayrshire showing ‘being excep- exhibitors of Guernsey’ and Jer- |hibition were Harold and Clay-

tionally good. Bright sunshine | greeted up to 800 spectators.

Bruce Under-

sey cattle, judged by 'MacDonald, was Ernest

ton Bulpitt of Roseneath. Lincoln Boswell was the judge

The. grand champion: female |hay of Fortune, who also_had the of the swine and sheep entries.

Keith Boswell, were owned by Robert .Rossiter of St. Peter's. |The reserve. grand champion male was owned by James. Ro- bin of Morell while the reserve \grand champion female was lowned by Robert White of Rollo

Bay. Other ee exhibitors

Attendance

Bernard second and Irma Gal- aan placed third.

| Leading in the roots and vege- } tables competition were Mrs.

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Parliament AtA Glance >

| By THE. CANADIAN WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7. 1966

A Conservative attempt to force an emergency debate on service unification was ruled out of order.

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bate on the bill to ~ redraft transport legislation, deciding to sit four extra hours in.a bid to make headway.

A motion. by William -H. A. | Thomas (PC — Middlesex West) that the ‘bill be .studied in committee before second reading. approval in principle, was ruled out-of order.

‘The Commons sat four hours | Past its usual 6 p.m. Wednes-

day adjournment’ time in a push to get the bill past ond reading:

This stage had not been

reached at adjournment. /

THURSDAY, Sept. .8 The Commons meets at 2:30 |

on the transport bill. ‘The Sen- ate stands adjourned until Oct. 18.

The _Commons_continued-de- jatound.-the: worldies eee

ishow.

| The best dairy~ bull belonged to

Robert Rossiter of St. Peter's. The showing of all beef cattle was reported -to he- very “good.

Cattle enteries were well: up

over last year with Ayrshire en-

‘tries topping” them all with 50

Egmont Bay-Mt. Carmel Fair

Record

J.P. Arsensuit, : Sylvere IF. |Arsenault, Mrs- George

; Arsenault, and Camille P. | Arsenault, all of Egmont Bay.

Simon Arsenault of Egmont Bay displayed many fine pon- ies—to take most honors in the | horse see veer section.

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SAINT JOHN, (CP)— Claude Dube of Quebec City used to dream about a trip

“T tried for awhile the money, but

to save anyone who's

jever tried it knows that it really

idoesn’t work.”

So Claude bought himself -a

he has seen almost every prov- ince in Canada and a part of | the United States. His next stops ;

p.m. EDT td continue debate \before leaving for England are |

Moncton, N.B., Prince Edward | Island, Halifax, Sydney, N‘S., and Newfoundland. ©

The West German company : : In Cheque Fraud changed her name to Scotland Eldon Gallant was first.-Alcide ote and later :to Hanseatic. |

TORONTO (CP) — Two mens Once the largest and fastest | and a Toronto woman have \jiner on the Pacific, she later been arrested in an Ontario- |switched to the Atlantic run. Qtiebec police crackdown on a} During the Second World swindle involving $500,000 In|War she was bombed by Ger- forged traveller's cheques man planes in the North Atlan- |

Police .-said the swindle {s tic but reached Britain under | highly organized with 100 forg- her own power. During eight | ers, composed of 50 teams of years as a troopship, she aiso two operatives each, fanning the /earried British troops to. Asia. eountry. So far, the forged!: In 1951, the 666-foot liner car- | By IAN DONALDSON cheques have appeared in Tor- ried the then Princess Eliza- | ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)—Pre- onto, Ottawa, Montreal and St. /heth and Prince Philip from mier Smallwood was Cathar ines, Ont New foundland to Liverpool

Local Woman Appointed... _-

inesday as he ended his cam- Paign for today’s Newfoundland _-{election,,.

~ The premier, seeking his ‘sixth leonsecutive term since. his Lib-

T C | erals formed the government 0 apital Commission after Confederation in 1949, CAPITAL BUREAU Said: ‘‘This is definitely my last

sea ae ae election.” Senin Uae See -| Mr.,Smallwood, who will be

66 next December, is the only man ever to serve as premier in this province of 503,000. After leading Newfoundland into Con- eration, he formed the first i rnment and has never been defeated. As the Progressive Conserva-

MacDonald of Charlottetown has: been appointed to a three-vear term as a member of the Na-| Honal Capital Commission.

Mrs MacDonald is the widow Of B: Earl MacDonald, who was |

a former provincial minister’ of |

health and welfare and provin- | tives—the main opposition party cial secretary and treasurer. j—continued to level sharp criii- Earlier, Mr. MacDonald had cism at the premier, Mr. Smal:-

“héen a member of the Charlot- tetown City Council] and Mayor of the city. He died last year.

The new commissioner is a

Past provincial president of the TODE ‘and is a member of the Historical Society of Prince Ed-

» \wood travelled to -his- riding on * ithe West Coast where he will |await the results of today’s vote ‘| More than 220,000 voters will. be eligible to cast ballots. Polls open at 8 a.m..NDT and close} sat 8 p.m. NDT. In order to pro- ‘vide “ uniform ~ hours, in

~ward Island) *For" many vears | : ‘ polls She was active in Girl Guide ac- | Labrador—which is on Eastern: tivities resigning as a member | Deyiignt Time—will be open of the Girl Guide executive coun- from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Cil of P.F1- last-year |MENTIONS SUC

Mrs.’ MacDonald has one dau- a r CESSOR

MRS. MacDONALD

ghter, Mrs. Gerald Barrett. of

Charlottetown appointed «by Parliament to be watld voc i loadin tee Lib | Her appointment fills the last |plan, develop and béautify Ot- jerals in the next election. :He

Vacancwin the 2-member com- tawA and surrounding . munici- isaid “Dr. Fred Rowe, his fi- |

mission which is respansible for jpatities in Ontario and Quehee ‘nance minister. | will succeed |

Making plans and_-policy for the |as: Canada's capital him as Liberal leader. “I have

development of the Ottawa-Hull' Commissioners don't receive been grooming Fred Rowe areas as Canada's national ca-ja stipend but are paid their out- succeed me, pital ’ f of-pocket expenses for their Grand Falls

The NCC is a federal agency jmeetings, usually three a year., The premier said after the

he told a rally in

Mr. Smallwood told the last |

to)

iwas his last. Observers here ex- |

talking |pect him to stay in office until |gissolved last August: jabout his retirement again Wed- jhis dream to aed» a the elec- /33° PCs six and three vacancies.

|trical energy . off Labrador’s iChurchill Falls is. realized. é

Dr. - Rowe, -54;is~a Coote of |

Mr. Named finance minister in 1956,

minister, education minister and highways minister.

¢ The Liberal campaign ended | on the note on which jit began— | stressing the “foundation” aid | for the province's economy in the last 17 years and the gov- ernment’s plans for building on) that foundation. |

FOCUS ON LETTER

Meanwhile, the Conservatives | concentrated their attack on a letter which they..said’ the pre- mier “had written to ,the. voters of Portau Port constituency. The Conservative” leader, Dr. Noel Murphy said the letter of- fered an ultimatum to the vot- lers: Elect Liberal candidate William Callahan or, bring to a |halt the premier’s efforts to es-

Smallwood'’s cabinet. |

he had previously been mines |

Joey RefersTo Retirement

On Eve Of Nfld: Election

11962 election that he hoped {t tablish new industry in the area. ‘automobile industry will be pre- | The McLaughlin Motor Car

Standings when the house was : Liberals |

INSIDE TODAY Island mews ............ 2 | Summerside ............ a Deathe oS i eee i vedi 3 PRONNONTMNS Vi iipieeac caus 4 Kings, Queens, wa Pee Women's ° ‘ Ge Rural Churches Rg | Fimance- Markets "W OS Seah ees 14, 15 Comics oe eeeeS 7 Classified 18, 19

R. S. McLAUGHLIN, chair- man. of General Motors. of Canada Lid., celebrates his

“limit— resulting from engineer- | ing studies of each road sec- |

east half-a.year of restraint. and male Ayrshires, judged by (best all round dairy cow of the Howard Norton of Armadale was

a big winner in the sheep: re _{Continued on page 3 Col.

Meeting |

HALIFAX (CP) — Prettier road sign supports and varied highway speed zones were

“lurged during Wednesday's ses- |

sions of the Canadian Good Roads Association. W. E. Ewens,-former- traffic

“director for Hamilton; Ont., and \now director of traffic .opera- | itions for a private consulting \firm, -quoted a 1956 United | \States study, of safety which said—the highest accident in- | volvement rate on rural roads jtook place at a speed of 35 imiles an hour. The lowest in-

was at 65- miles an hour.

There was no reason to. doubt the same statistics applied™ to | Cahada.

The solution, he said, was not jto abolish speed limits but to establish speed zones as used in parts of Ontario. These were a departure from the base speed

tion.

ANNOUNCES PRIZES One of the things he wanted

‘Causeway Paper

lyer Wednesday. elected on

lafter a two-year term. Dr. Lockhart was

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They accused him of, contempt from _ five nominees the of Parliament for going ahead fourth ballot. 'with unification of the armed

The final ballot was between forces before placing any unifi-

‘Dr. Lockhart ‘and Elias An-¢ation legislation before the 'drews, — principal of Queen’s/Commons. . ~

Theological College in Kingston. | Speaker Lucien Lananae

yer = jruled out of order a motion by

Michael Forrestall ‘PC—Hali-

fax) for an emergency: defence

ears Hellyer.

The motion said Mr. had tampered with the evidence which Rear - Admiral li Landymore had intended to pre- sent to the Commons defence committee in June.

It- also said the minister is | pursuing an improper course without statutory or parliamen- tary authority proceeding with unification de- spite strong objections-

Mr. Forrestal said the minis- | ter had ‘‘created a further se- Tious decline in service morale and a_ state of widespread con- cern -about ‘Canada’s’ ability to) maintain an effective defence force.”

TABS AS JUNIOR Mr. Hellyer said Mr. Forres- tall “is a very junior member

$2,000 for designs that would imake such supports “‘a great | |deal prettier” than now.

Av report: to the association {Wednesday on the Prince Fd- jward Island Causeway said _al- though the causeway has not [been built, it. is expected that- |by 1991,. summer traffic will. be joperating at low speeds and i with heavy congestion.

G. T>Clarke, chief engineer jof development engineering for |the federal department of pub- lie works, said provision for an lexpansion. of the causeway, \bridge— and tunnel. combination

Me:

William |

of. this House and for that one}

ommons

Conservatives Push ttack On

Hellyer

cage of his convictions and lay jeharge rather than slip a sires linto a motion of this kind and lattempt to take .advantage of |whatever publicity may accrue ito him by casting reflections jupon me in a way. which is not ‘im accordance with the facts and which 1 defy.:him to. substantt- late. Be

: Hellyer said unification cannot be accomplished until jthe- National -- Defence Act~is- jamended, This amendment ‘would ‘be introduced later this jsession and there would. be full jopportunity for, debate in the- Commons and in committee Opposition Leader Diefenba- iker said that since. the Com- imons adjourned July 14 Mr. |Hellyer has been going ‘‘faster hand faster along the road of uni- ification without regard to par- \liamentary | legislative’ author-

in dictatorially |it¥

Transport Minister Pickersgill interjectedt hat Mr. Diefenbaker was ‘arogant and — insuffer- jable.””

. George Chatterton (PC — Es quimalt-Saanich) said there was lno exodus of the most valuable lgervicemen from the armed forces until Mr. Hellyer had be- jgun_ the unification process.

COMMONS-~ AVOIDED ;

' The minister had laid all the groundwork for unification with- ‘out. approval. of.. Parliament. or:

from two to four traffic_lanes Must make some allowances.” | any hes mager oo in the. Com-

is included in the design. It Mr. Forrestall were see

{ Mr. Clarke® ELM) ious ahout his statement that he Loe: another motion by he ne ee (Mr. Hellyer) had acted ille- Mr.- Forrestall- seeking poblica-

\Gordon, general manager the Northumbérland ee ants Ltd., said such an er sion would be necessary maintain free - flowing traffic after -1991.

—They— believe—the—opening—of—- lthe Northumberland Strait) crossing will lead to a dramatic increase in tourist travel to the jisland. One million visitors jwent to Prince Edward ‘Island |

Rally,

ada’s auto-making pioneer and | |philanthropist R: S. McLaughlin | iquietly celebrates his 95th birth- day at his home here today.

| A spokesman for Mr. Mc- |Laughlin said the chairman of | |General Motors of Canada Ltd. .will dine at home with his three | jdaughters and two sons-in-law, ‘Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pangman of | Magog, Que... Maj. - Gen. and |

Mrs. C, C. Mann of Toronto and |

Miss Isabel McLaughlin.

.On Friday about 80 business |

associates will honor him at a reception at the Oshawa Golf |Club when an ‘‘extensive’’ col- Hection of technical books on the the

sented to Oshawa public |

library in his name. Mr. Mc- Laughlin built the-library and donated it to the city.

95th birthday at his home in Oshawa, Ont.. Thursday. The atito-making pioneer and phil-

iEnniskillen,

‘works after learning the trade

‘ anthropist is. shown here on ,

to see improved were sign sup- jin 1963. This. is expected to i ‘three - speed bicycle, a small . ; ( 7 By JOSEPH MacSWEEN jbox-shaped trailer to carry a nial id ae eott ee eae and exceed 4,000. ToNDON (CP):— An Asian itent and bike tools, went to Be. announced: Gores cul ing y. i prime minister stepped into the | Vancouver ‘and launched ‘his | Rhodesian. debate Wednesday 'trip. C di A Pi and counselled a degree of mod- Wednesday—one year, 7,000 na ian uto loneer. eration by his. African col- miles, two gears and 16 tires Sea io ihe illeget, caine later—he arriyed in this East C | b 95 h Bi hd ‘orce against t le rezime. (> ae elebrates 7oth Birthday sr tan'smm. : ; | Singapore's. Lee — Kuan Yew ao 27- -old s i ak madsty Ont aes eve OSHAWA, Ont. (CPy? Can. In ‘April this year the indus- urged enlarged economic sanc-

tions, backed by force, to over-

trialist sold most of his General Motors shares because of heavy succession duties in the United States. He disposed of 154,147 shares worth abou $15,000,000.

Mr.

unthinkable an outright military encounter between white British and white Rhodesian troops.

Foreign Minister: Simon Kap- | wepwe of Zambia earlier told the 22-country Commonwealth | prime ministers’. conference the |

McLaughlin was born in Ont., in 1871 and iworked at his father's carriage

jin various U.S. carriage! com- | panies.

He was among the first indus- ltrialists to realize there would jbe a revolution in the transport lindustry with the horseless car- \riage replacing horse-drawn ve- \hicles.

bellion is for Britain “to force, because sanctions proved ineffective.

Jamaica's acting prime minis- ter, Donald Sangster, recalled that his. government had said from the beginning sanctions

use have |

\Co. began producing cars at \Oshawa in 1907. The company was sold to General Motors in 11918.

| | HIRTSHALS, Denmark, | Reut- ers!\—More_ than were rescued after abandoning m\a crippled Norwegian ferry in a b iNorth Sea storm’ Wednesday. Huge waves tossed lifeboats

sons ‘were tossed into the rag- ing sea.

But, after a giant rescue op- eration by merchant ships: and helicopters,. there were only two known dead Wednesday night.

There could be other victims because there was confusion about the exact number of per- sons, including many foreign tourists, aboard the 2:703-ton vessel Skagerrak when it was battered: and holed about 46 miles off this north Jutland fishing port.

The ship's master gave chilling order. ‘abandon and the passengers, | ab ‘around 100, and most of the crew of 70 took to the boats. 4But many soon were struggling for life in surging waves 30 to |45 feet high. said helicopter pl- jlots who flew over the scehe._ LEFT BOAT LAST | The master and some of the crew remained aboard the jheaving. helpless ferry for sev- jeral hours, but Wednesday night

the ship’ estimated

his 93rd birthday. Sept. 8&8, 1964. (CP WirephotoY

‘ a

“he should have the eour. |

throw Smith—but described as |

only way to end Rhodesia’s re- ¥

150 persons /nounced

about like corks and many per- |

(Continued on page 3 col. 1)

" Singpore’ s PM _

Asks Moderation

would not work. He added that the Commonwealth is entitled te ask Britain what it plans to oe next.

This was not clear, although Prime Minister Wilson made a speech at the opening of the 10- day summit meeting Tuesday. © If the problem went to the UN, Jamaica would—try to help with soldiers or money, although its iresources were not large.

Prime -Minister :Keith Holy- oake of New Zealand, while |stressing his country’s anxiety ithat Rhodesia be denied legal independence pending progress ltoward majority rule, rejected ithe force idea. |TO SPEAK SOON Lester B. Pearson of Canada said he expects.to speak today ior Friday on the Rhodesian de- bate ‘which is expected to last all week. | ‘ | “The situation - hasn't * quite ijelled.. yet,” “Pearson told a re- ‘porter.

150 Persons Rescued From Crippled Ferry /

the Danish naval commard an. that they had finally given up and left the vessel. The command said the Skag- erak was drifting helplessly to- ward the Danish coast. Organizers of the |rescue operation, ithe two deaths, said ships and jplanes “went to the area and jplucked 153 persons from” the istormy waters | DanisheAir Force Capte K. ¥. Willumsen, who. led helicopter yea pwhich_rescued. 60 passen- ers “and crew, Said’ the ferry- boat

massive announcing

was “a horrible sight. I have never seen anything like it.” ‘

“It was an incredible storm out there. When we first went /out to the Skagerrak it was im- possible’ to see what damage iwas done.”

Many of those rescued had jbeen knocked off life rafts by |the seas, he added | The Skagerrak was | bound from its home port of Kristian. lye for this fishing port when it foundered + Lloyds said the

shipping intelligence raging seas had ismashed thé ferry’s carports flooded the engine rooms and stopped the engines. \