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PRESIDENT

KENNEDY

President Gives 7-Point Program

WASHINGTON (AP! ~— Fol- lowing is the seven-point pro- gram enunciated. by President Kennedy in his radio-TV speech Monday night: _

1, The United States. “to halt this offensive buildup” in Cuba‘.

for Cuba are to be turned back

if they are found to contain car- goes of offensive weapons. This embargo also will be extended to “other carriers" if need be —meaning airplanes. ‘

2. Surveillance of Cuba and Its military buildup will he stepped up. and the U.S. armed forces have been ordered

gard anyinuclear missile launched from Cuba against any‘ country in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by Russia on the United ¢.~ quiring full retaliation against the Soviet Union. BIJILD UP BASE

4. The US. Naval Base at Guantanamo. on the eastern tip of b a been reinforced. U.S. dependents there have been evacuated. and additional mili- tary‘ units have been ordered to stand by‘ on alert.

Budget Speech Due Early '63

OTTAWA (CP)-Finance Min- liter Nowlan is not planning to present his next budget speech until early in the new year.

Opening‘ a financial statement in t Commons Monday. he said he would present a full- scaie budget with long-term ec- onomic measures “ln ‘the rela- tive‘ near lure."

'1' t of his speech. issued to reporters when he resumed his statement following the -supper recess. said the expected to pre- sent the ‘budget speech "early

An immediate meeting of

States has been called to "con- sider this threat to hemispheric security" and to invoke the in‘- ter-Arnerican defence pact pro-

ions "in suppo of all. nec- essary action."

6.> The United States is ask- ing for an emergency-/sheeting of the United Nation Security Council without delay. The United States will call for “the prompt dismantling and with- drawal nf all of in Cuba" before it lifts the na- val blockade.

7. Kennedy called on Soviet Premier Khrushchev _“to halt and eliminate this clandestine. reckless and provocative threat to world peace."

5. the Organization of American Ha

fensive weapons "

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“Covers ‘Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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American Blockade Of Cuba ls Proclaimed By President

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Well - informed neutralist sources in Havana predicted Monday night that the U.S. arms quarantine of Cuba will put Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the — and cause serious repercussions. They predicted a new Soviet blockade of Berlin and other strong Soviet countermeasures —perhaps at such world hot spots as Laos. South Viet Nam and Formosa. There was no immediate reac- tion from Premier Fidel Cas- tro’s regime. One neutralist informant c a I 1 e d President Kennedy's measures shortsighted. He said

It appeared likely nothing would be said about the Ken- nedy speech until Premier Khrushchev ‘had an opportunity to bring his advisers together for consultation.

TALKS OI-‘ DEBATE

Nearly an hour after a digest of the speech had been given to Moscow correspondents by their Western agency wires, Tass had carried nothing about the speech. It continued to give a running report of the debate in the United Nations over seat-

ing Red China. in London. the British foreign cffice commented ’ t ay that

President Kennedy's revelation of a Soviet build - up in Cuba “will come as a shock to the

that with “the hot potato hav- ing been thrown over to Khrush- c h e v." Kennedy's measures may turn the Soviet leader away from his avowed policy

peaceful co - existence to

war line of the Communist Chi-

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It appeared that the Kennedy announcement caught most of the Soviet bloc personnel in vana by surprise.

MOSCOW QUIET

K e n n e d y’s speech came through to Moscow on press olvices two hours after mid- night and found the city asleep. But violent Soviet reaction 3

evitable.

The Soviet radio and "official

press agency Tass Monday car- 1 reports of the U.S. opera- tions in the Caribbean.

" hington is once again raising its armed fist aver Cuba and once again threatening the peace and tranquility of the people," said oscow radio commentator some hours before the Kennedy speech.

Man Charged In Wife’: Murder

L'0RIGIN’AL. Ont. :CP)—A charge of capital murder was laid Monday against 30-year- bricklayer Berthold Thillmann of Ottawa in the slaying of his wife. whose blanket - covered body was found Saturday in the back seat of the family car.

Thillmann. father of a five- year-old boy and a three year- old girl. was remanded a week without plea. He is being held in this town 55 miles east of Ottawa. -

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FUND-REACHES 29 can cam

‘Twenty-nine per cent of the $227.487 Prince Edward Island United Fund ob

leci- ive or $65. .60 has been collected Brig W. W. Re sa' 1 t t. A break- down shows that 362.0161!) has been c in n-

County and $147 in Queens County.

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P in ' t courts. cabins; fld tourists

ml mu 3:50 : 2 ‘~ of Silverware. donated by R. T. WWI!!!" Rural Beautifl- in Queens County the prize of Ho _ . Ltd.. plus a cash prise than ’ announced sllv , onated by M. F. of sisal. was won by r. and 5,. ,3. ‘.3; 3_ mu1.'uh , 0d,, the Mrs. Bradley. Peakes ., .3 5. go.” .1 4|.-anon. "great arm home improve P. 0.{ while the secon prize 1 ‘qgfi 113. gun is with .me. among contestants of of siiverwu-e. donat im-

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I'll-‘ciasstspumso th thelwoa a cash award .00. ton . . -

Gnull of improve- In ind! County. the of The pri;e «if. ts:luve:';v‘:rl_:t.' £31,- ‘ s 875 on.‘ for the great-

year contestants in the farm

class. was won

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whole civilized world."

A spokesman said Prime Min- ister Macmillan was told in ad- vance of the contents of presidentis speech when U. Ambassador David Bruce called on him Monday.

The spokesman said the prime minister would call a cabinet meeting later today to consider the new Cuban situation in the llight of Kennedy's speech. ‘W/ELCOMED BY BONN

In West Germany. a spokes- man said Chancellor Adenauer’s government “welcomes e de- termination of the U.S.

E/‘E

arising from this situation."

Bulletin

VANCOUVER —- Early day with 200 of 210 polls porting in the Burnaby-Oo- qultlam‘ byelection the totals by candidates were:

Bu-rnham (Ind) 141; Clank (Ll 7,811: Douglas (NDP) . M2; Gamache (SC) 5.100; Greenwood (PC) 2,508.

l He added. , "The

. . president. with great seriousness, pointed to the

Soviet rocket launching sites on ulla " ‘ -

The spokesman said his gov- ernment alrcady has made sure no war material reached Cuba aboard German vessels.

dangers threatening the free‘ world through the reaction of-

In Swill Rescue

SITKA. Alaska 1AP)-A swift rescue at sea saved 102- persons aboard a military -,chartered

Causeway Job Not Started

OTTAWA tCPl——Northumber- land Consultants Limited have not indicated when they expect to finish engineering studies of the proposed nine-mile cause- way between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the Commons was informed Mon-

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Robert McCieave. parliamen- tary secretary to Works Minis- ter Fulton. said in reply to John B. Stewart (L—Antigonish-Guys- borough) t at the firm has not yet begun is studies.

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l CP from AP-Reuters

ier Nehru warned Monday night that India's independence as a

passenger airliner that was ditched Monday in the ocean off this southeast Alaska city.

The northwest Airlines DC-7C with 96 passengers — including

Sound.

The U.S. Coast Guard at Juneau reported four persons were injured.

T ng was so adept that the plane. stayed afloat \22

men. women children- came cl o w n with propeller trouble off the entrance to Sitka d

WEATHER

_ Sunny becoming cloudy in afternoon; light winds. Low-high 36 and 50.

N03,“-;,°== SEVEN CENTS

WASHINGTON IAP) —— Presi- “That statement was false," dent Kennedy proclaimed a U.S. Kennedy said. nay’ blockade against Cuba Then last Thursday while ev- Monday night. saying the So-;idence of the real nature of viets have started to turn Cuba .builr’;up already was available ’ an offensive military base ‘to this country. Kennedy said. capable of raining nuclear des- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei truction on all the Americas. !Gromyko personally told him in

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cast. Kennedy said the Unitedlwet help States would wreak “a full re- 5 for increasing “the defence cap- taliatory response upon the So- labilities of Cuba." viet Union" if any nuclear mis-. “'l‘l.-at statement also was sile is fired on any nation in ‘false-" the Western Hemisphere. A U.S. diplomatic note to Kennedy reported that within the last week the United States? has received "unmistakable evi- . encc“ that—contrary to Soviet?

capable Soviet jet_bombers are ‘

being established In Cuba. WASHINGTON (CPl

minutes. while those aboard calmly got into five 25-man life

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afts.

“Apparently there was no panic." sa ' aqua of lKSA-TV._ who reached the scene before the plane sank.

Nehru Declares

clence

ls Threatened

munistvchinese threw tanks into ‘I ,1 - .1 NEW DELHI —Prime .Minis- l battle in some of the world'si1ea' "me ma“ 1'0” ""’"“°“1 ihighest moligntains and exteéided i, their attac s to a sprea o .C C _ L F1” M - , .uat1on was threatened as Com- 1.400 miles along the Hima- oraggvem - -extlyclg ‘southeastern United States. Cen-

Fisheries Federation Asks

The Prince Edward Island Fisheries Federation will seek the establishment of the Province as a separate district for fish- ing and also for administration and inspection purposes.

One of four resolutions passed at its 17th annual meeting terday urged that such a change take_ place as being of a

Provincial basis. The first price i

district with New Brunswick

as pointed. out that last year the province -had severe ice conditions while New Bruns- wick d asked on these grounds but was

re ed. OFF CER8 ELECTED

Held at the Charlottetown Hotel. the meeting was chaired by Lorne L. Noonan. president of Charlotteto

secretary-treasu rer:

Directors; Harvey I-lutt. ‘Alber- '9

;

yes- 3°

id not. An extension was La

ton; Ulric Village. Prince County; Joseph

Gaudin. North Rustico. J.E. Burden. Charlottetown. Queens County. Thomas H. Fraser.

Murray Harbor. and Grant Gra- ham. Gaspereaux. Kings County. Stewart Ross. a Galla uris; and Leon Johnson. Mon- tague. are directors at large while L.L. Noonan and Eugene Gorman. deputy minister of fisheries. serve in an ex officio capa ty.

Another resolution asked that a certain area of the Gulf of St. whence he set aside for in- shore fishing. Other resolutions asked that the Fisheries Exhibi- tion held in Souris last year be made an annual event and that the canning course held in

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Separate P.E.|. District 0

year.

DINNER ls HELD

The meeting concluded with a dinner last night. Speaking briefly were: Robert L. Payne. Vancouver. president of the Fisheries Council of Canada: D.J. Parkman. -Ottawa. Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce; 1

ordon ' rlen. managcnl Fisheries Council of Canada; Mayor Gaudet and Andrew Mac- Rae. r of agriculture. Both Mr. Gaudet and Mr. Mac- Rae extended a welcome to the visiting officials. l Mayor Gaudet presented a set ; of cuff links to Mr. Pa ne. which I were engraved with t e City ofi Charlottetown crest. l

Poinier. Abram‘s ’ Souris last fall be repealed this

l WHERE-TO-FlND-|T

‘ layan frontiers. -f But the 72 - year - old prime lminister, who helped lead India 310 independence 15 years ago. 1 told his 457,000,000 people in a] -broadcast that “the final result . will be in our favor. it cannot< be otherwise. . . (The Associated Press re- ported from Tokyo today that !Red China has declared it is Heady to reo e negotiations with India for peaceful settle- "men! of the border conflict.) « Sounding tired after three ‘days of crisis during which Chl- tCon-tinued on Page 5 ol. 5)

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Noonan are. DJ J. Packman.

left, Ottawa. department‘ of trade and commerce. and Ro-

l tr . lbean area.

‘rent to Cuba were designed ex-

-_cused Russia and its foreignlcuba could come tonight, iminister of lying in denying that ‘

Speaking grimly in a sud- [his office that he had been in-. denly-caller‘ radio - TV broad- l slructed once again that the So-- for Cuba was solely-

l-iigh : ade. Climaxing Secret. feverish 80- state department officials saidl to crypp

tivity at the highest levels of the {Monday night a Soviet - United 5 craft.

U-5- S0\'€I‘I{I'nel1l1. Kennedy RC-?States military showdown over‘COULD START W

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)Seri'ous Repercussions Savedi Russian Missile Buildup

Expected By Neufralisfs, In Caribbean Revealed

l\'lnscnw. presumably containing the president's warning in for- m diplomatic language. was handed to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F Dobrynin shortly be- fore Kennedy went on the air.

‘N0 MILITARY ACTION

But Kenn in his dramatic- reporl on the hiensified buildup in Cuba. did not order any di- rect military action at this time. -

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H called upon Soviet mier Khrushchev to halt <Continued on Page 3 Col. 6! '

Pre- “this

Showdown With Russians :::‘;:a2:::..; ::*.:‘.“;.t.”:..3.2:*.é.=:l Said Possible By Tonight

shoot Soviet

the Americans will sink the

All Any attempt by the Russians

At that time President Ken- ‘to return the fire‘ could turn the

Cuba was being transformedinedy will issue his proclama-‘Cuban blockade into a shooting

linlo 8 base Capable of 1almch- ition putting his naval quaran- w

fiine into operation. the officials said.

- At the same time it was dis- ,closed that a group of Soviet -ships have been observed on the ‘'5 lhigh seas heading for Cuba.

ling “weapons of sudden mass ‘dest'u ‘on "

‘SAYS ONE PURPOSE

Kennedy said the-only pur-

pose of series of offensi t have been a

missile sites tha tablished in Cub can be fftomaued

pr vide nuclear strike capa-g . ... bility against the Western Hem- '. scmmed ispheretf --

_ _ ’ A ‘stop“or submit to the He said the first concrete in-

lthe first American action willj‘

man said t e .

sink every Communist

ship headed for Cuba that re-

fuses to stop and be searched. He said the American Block-

ar. A defence department spokes- h US. is ready to

“'5' lThesc‘ and other craft are to be ade fleet. now being deployed. ' by the (LS. Navy and...will order any ship of any na- for offensive weapons. 3 tion obviously bound for Cuban If the Russian ships refuse to 1 ports to stop and undergo search

search. ’ by a boarding party if necessary.

A spokesman. under a bar-

f0|‘m8l-i0fl 011 this Was l'€CeiVed the to fire a warning shot across y rage of questions. made it clear "19 U-5- Tuesday m0I‘ninE- the ship's how. If the Russians 1 that force would be used if nec-

by

Two -distinct types of instal- lations have been detected. he said. Several of them included- mcdium-range ballistic missiles.’ that. could send a nuclear.war--. lles—to such places as Wash-~i Ion. th Panama Canal.l other city in OTTAWA

l.o Cuba and the Carribbean

from landing at Canadian air \'fl('.

merican or the Carrib- He said additional sites. still i bases such as Gander. - under construction. apparently }External Affairs Minister Green are for interm ' e - range;said Monday night-

missiles that can go twice as. Green (old the canadjan

1‘ and hi! m0St Of the majfll‘ lPress in an interview the

fa ,

cities in the Western Hemis- .order was given “a few days.ag

ficuched 2

lJh€|'€ ago." He would_not say that it

In addition. he said. jet bomh- was made specifically because?

ers capablr of carrying nuclear of the buildup of Russian offen- wcapons now are being un- slve. power in Cu a

crater! and assembled in Cuba Russiawwhich is riot 8 Imm- I‘

while bases are being built. of the international Civil ' _ Aviation Organization and so N01 DEFENSIVE ocs not conform to interna-‘

'CPJ—Canada has flights ‘ stopped Russian planes en route Plan“ al 533591‘ 5°’ 5°""1°°v

still attempt to run the block~ cssary in any case. Canada Ba rs Airports To Red Planes For Cuba

-— has been landing its

and flying on to Cuba.

As: a courtesy. and Mr. Green said as a safety measure. Can- ada has been putting two RCAF‘ pilots aboard Russian planes to handle flight communications and technical procedures.

“We stopped that a few days " Mr. Green said. “We the opinion it was get-

tm to be a bad habit."

Mr. Greer. said. however. that

Canada was continuing-to ex-

tend the courtesy to diplomatic

flights. such as planes flying be-

tween New and Moscow

with senior Russian United Na- at

Kennedy Said all ll1iS- C0nll‘3- ltioual procedures on overseasltions diplcm s.

dicls repeated assurances of Soviet spokesman given pub-. he] and privately. that the‘

arms buildup in Cuba would bel defensive only. He said the size of the undertaking mak s it evident that it w planned - months last *

Scored By

V/iNCOU\’ER (C15) —-« T. Douglas. New Democratic Party =nalinnal leader. was elected to

as ago. Yet only it nth. Kennedy said. the So- viet government stated publicly. on Sept. ll. that the armaments

clusivcly for defensive

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pur-

185 member lquillam. where be defeated four othm‘ candidates in a byelec- tion. He will be able to take his seat. in Parliament Nov. 5.

The 58-year-old former kalchewan premier. defeated in ‘Regina in the general election llast June 18. won the byclection created for him in a w

From the first returns. he was far ahead of all four opponents and the trend of early counting indicated he would draw nearly as many votes as his combined opposition.

Thc Canadian Press reported Mr. Douglas's election 49 min- mes after polls closed at 7 p.m. EDT (ll p.m. ADTI

The constituency's returning officer said voting during the day was heavy. At many polls voters lined up before the noon ADT poll opening to cast a vote.

The temperature, 58 degrees by early afternoon. helped swell the number.

Mr Douglas could not vote. in the constituency—-missing the deadline by six days.

FOUR OPPONENTS

Mr. Douglas‘ four-fold mm- petition was:

Warren Clark. 29, Liberal. in Burnaby councillor and insur- lance consultant:

heft L. Payne. Vancouver. c Greenwood. 39. Progres-

presldent of the I‘-idisrtes

«politician. a mechanical engi- Ootrncil dgcamda. v

IIPCT;

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the Housc of Commons Monday. for Burnaby - Co-’

Sas- .

He failed to establish residency 8.

. sive _ Conservative. f r e s h man i

Sweeping B.C. Win (Douglas

Rene Gamache. 49. Credit. a lumber grader

Independent George Burn- ham_ ‘/2. who sold his restau- rant to finance his campaign.

The byclectlon was called

Social

.when_ Erhart Regier resigned

to give Mr. Douglas. former CCF‘ premier of ‘Saskatchewan. a chance to move into the Com- mons after an unsuccessful at- tempt in Regina in the federal election June 18.

Mr. Regier had held Burnaby- Coquitlam since it became a riding in l953. He won the seat June 18 for a fourth time and drew 19.050 votes—more than the combined total cast against