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Caouette Ready To Fight Gov't Scandal, Economics,
By RONALD LEBEL
OTTAWA (CP) Creditiste wader Real Caouette said Tues- doy a November: federal elec- tion would be ill-timed, but his party was ready for an all-out campaign on scandal and eco- nomic” issues
“The people of Quebec don't want any more scandals or scandalous persons in’ politics,” he -aid in a telephone inetrview from Val d'Or, Que., where he was launching a three - week fence-mending tour of his Ville- meuve constituency
Halifax Plan
Scrubbing Is Denied
MONTREAL (CP) Douglas Blake, a consultant “engineer representing a British develop- ment firm. Tuesday denied’ a
teport that his firm's plans :for ~a, $35,000,000 urban renewal in Halifax ave ‘been dropped be- cause of financing _ problems.
The report” said that. another firm. called Halifax: Develop- ments Lid, has heen set up to
plan the redevelopment of the \7-acre area in downtown Hall- fax
Mr. Blake said: “'The report Says our scheme *was dropped yJast October but as far and as
1 and the British firm—Prov- inces, and Central Properties Ltd., of Woking, Surrey, Eng-
land—are concerned our plans haves been accepted and we are working on that basis.”
Mr. Blake said he spoke to the president of Provinces and
' Central Properties Ltd; Derek ° L. Osborne. by transatlantic Telephone Tuesday and the president made the following statement:
“The statement that the acheme proposed by Provinces
and Central Properties Ltd. was submitted and dropped is incor- rect. The scheme was submit- ted, approved and accepted. by both the city of Halifax and the Central Mortgaging and Housing C eepeeeOR
Mr. Caouette said his party will have a lot to say during the next campaign about the)
Lucien Rivard-Raymond ‘Denis | affair; the corruption charges against former minister without |
portfolio Yvon Dupuis; ‘boss Hal Banks’ escape from| Canadian justice; the resigna- tion of Guy Rouleau as a Lib-| eral MP and other ‘'Liberal scandals."
He wa’ confident his Rallie-
ment Creditiste would elect be- tween 35 and 50 MPs, up from the present 13
' SHOWS OPPORTUNISM
Mr. Caouette said Prime Min-
ister Pearson would “demon- Strate ‘‘pure political opportun- ism" if he called an election he-
fore redistribution of seats can be completed next vear.
“Our party is the only one in Quebec that is ready to fight an election. Within 10 days after the election is called, we will
nominate candidates in all 75 ridings in the province.” He said ‘good’ candidates
have heen lined up in most Que- bec ridings, about 15.. Fonstitu-
,encies in Northern and Eastern
Ontario and one or two in north- ern New Brunswick, all areas with large French-speaking pop- ulations
He pointed out that his sen Gilles, a 25-year-old draftsman in Montreal, is expected to get the Credifiste nomination — in rural) Labelle. The constituency is held b, Gerard Girouard, a
union | former colleague of Mr. Caou-
'ette who defected to the Pro- | gressive Conservative party last year.
The next campaign will be Mr. Caouette's first as undis- puted leader of his own party. He and his followers holted from Social Credit ranks six- months after the 1963 election.
STIMULATE SPENDING
About 4 per cent of Canada's unemployed are located in Que, bec. The Creditistes would ad- vocate interest-free loans by. the Bank of Canada to the = prov- inces, municipalities and school board to stimutate capital spending.
“lf the bank could afford to lend $268,000,000 to Britain, it can afford to lend money at no interest to our own institutions,” he said, referring to an emer- gency loan approved last fall to shore up the pound sterling.
He said he hopes to make his first inroads on the Liberal stronghold of Montreal and cap- ture four or five seats—Mercier, Hochelaga, St. Henri, Laval and possibly Verdun.
Greek Crown Council: Meets In Bid To End Political Crisis ~.
By “ALLAN JACKS +
ATHENS (AP) —. King Con- stantine called a meeting of the Crown Council for tonight but it appeared doubtful that the meeting could provide any im- mediate solution for Greece's marathon political ¢risis.
The council, comprising party leaders.-.and—such—former—pre-—- miers. and other political per- sonalities-as-the king chooses to invite, can only offer advice. And most possible and practical courses open to the 25-year-old monarch already have been proposed. They are:
1. A return to office of former Premier George —Papandreou, whose crisis a_ solution adamantly rejects.
2. Immediate elections-.a so- lution advacated by the popular
the king
Gov,t Decision Awaited On CNR Hotel Dispute |
cabinet is expected to reach a formal decision foday on the ace. tion it will take to resolve a wage dispute between the CNR
CP+The- acfesterci<make——a: joint. - recommendation:
to the cabinet.
Mr. Pickersgill said Tuesday ina telephone interview from St. John's that both he and Mr.
and-450-employees.of the-—rail- -MacEachen. are —‘'very--hopeful’-
way'’s Chateau Laurier Hotel. A wildcat strike at the capl- tal’s prestige hotel has been called for Labor Day, next Mon- day The issue is the CNR's refusal
to adopt the new federal labor; predicament.
code’s $1.25 hourly minimum wage in its hotel chain. It claims to have legal backing fer its stand that the hotels, unlike its railway operations, are out- side—federal—jurisdiction.
Labor Minister ~MacEachen and Transport Minister Pickers- gill discussed the matter. Tues- day in St. John's, Nfld., where they attended a conference of the national employment ‘com- mittee They are expected to
that, the ‘situation ‘can be re- solved before the strike date.
EMBARRASS GOVERNMENT
A Labor Dav strike at the Chataeu Laurier would put the government In;an embarrassing Nearly 800 dele- gates will arrive here this week- end for the inter-parliamentary conference. opening Monday in the House of Commons cham-
‘ouster touched off the |
‘Papandreou but rejected for the
present by the king and many politicians. The king fears elec- tions: in the present: climate of popular unrest and political an- tagonism. And many. politicians including some Papandreou sup- porters hate to face the heavy campaign cost.
MAY PLAY FOR TIME
A possible -compromise~ that could come from the Crown Council’. would be agreement among all parties to accept a caretaker government for a mat- ter of months, until tempers cool, and then hold elections. But Papandreou. commands a majority in the 300-member parliament, is con- sidered unlikely to accept such a_ solution.
Papandreow's- parliamentary majority has already twice thwarted Constantine's other ef-
forts to resolve the crisis. Two premiers--named by the king, both defectors. from Papan- dreou's Centre Union party,
have been voted down in par- liament. by a coalition of Pa- | pandreou’s Centre Union sup ae and members of the mmunist - line United Demo- ne left.
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The Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers ‘CLC) has backed the action of its hotel local in scheduling what would be an hus p legal walkout.
U.S.House Okays
Auto Agreement. > on, ee
% By ARCH MacKENZIE
WASHINGTON (CP) The United States House of Repre- sentatives Tuesday approved the auto-production sharing agree- ment with Canada by a_ handy Margin, sending -the bill to the senate for its decision.
After about two hours of de- bate, .a thinly attended session of the 435-member House gave formal — in a roll-call vote
The vote was 280 for the bill and 113 against
Earlier, by a vote of 62 to 23, the House had rejected an at- tempt to make the bill open to
- amendment. At the conclusion
‘ of the debate, it also rejected a motion to return the bill to the ways and means committee, which would have had the effect of killing it.
Opposition came from a few Republican and several Demo- cratic members.
The bill, first introduced March 31, implements the American. part of the bargain
signed_by--Prime_ Minister Peat-_
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Weeks Of Election Talk ‘Could Hurt Opposition |
Further
Avalanche Feared
SAAS FEF, Switzerland (Reuters) Rescuers Tuesday
searched for 91 men feared deed .
after they were buried by a glacier that roared down an al-
pine valley past a hydro-electrie |
construction” project Monday night
Earlier in the day neer-in-chief, Alexandre Verrey, said the number of men buried was 103.
But -later,.12-men. posted—miss-; sing were found safe. They had | not gone to work Monday. Some had been sick, some absent for other reasons.
Meanwhilé, there were for the safety of workers. who were threatened by an overhang of the glacier:
The jshelf of ice and rock was | bombed by a helicopter, but the | © - explosives failed to dislodge see-
tions that mountain guides’ feared might roar déwn on the rescue teams.
Outpost Taken; B-52s Make Two Strikes
Ry RENNIE ae SAIGON (‘Reuters)- —
ernment troops Tuesday te
+eecupied an. outpost overrun who__ still’ ¢he- Viet Cong- as bombs Sha fede!
In Effort To Stop India _
huge American B-52s_ rocked | two guerrilla — in South Viet Nam.
It was the first tithe the eight- engined planes had. struck twice in the same day.
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ject in-the Swiss Alps. Rescue operations went on yesterday asa. “Giant glacier hanging over the site threatened re scued ‘and rescuers. Dynamite
Some of the survivors of
1 “Monday: $ ice avalanche stand -in—front-—of—damaged .. equip- ment at the site of the Matt-
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SURVIVE BUT DANGER STILL LINGERS
failed to shake ‘aeuk the cia: ing danger from the Allalin glacier. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Rome)
- Pakistan Move Expecte
KARACHI CAP) Pakistan |his visit to the border state of
wounded and 14, including a
| By KEN KELLY OTTAWA ‘CP)—One effect of weeks of fall election talk is an janti-election attitude- in some Opposition parties which may cramp their style in Parliament if Prime Minister Pearson de- cides not to call a general elec-
tion. Since .Mr. Pearson's return Sunday from a_ western tour,
there are even a few whispers that this really was the whole object in the — prime minister lending ~ apparent support to | Speculation of a federal election this fall
The argument goes that the Opposition parties, which have strongly condemned. Mr. Pear- son for even thinking of an elec- tion now, may find it difficult to take any action in Parlia- ment. which would defeat the
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the administration on the me rality-in-government issue. Some of the Machiavelliee types are said to have started from this premise, then tried te fignfe out how toe block a de- feat without going to the polls.- A suggested solution was te
stir up much talk about ap election, wait for a wave of anti - election reaction from the
press. public and less-confident Opposition MPs and then bow as gracefully ae possible to the pressure
SEES TWO STANDARDS
As Mr. Pearson remarked a? one early press conference cen- tering’ on a possible fall elee- tion:
“Apparently, it ts Immoral for the government of the day to exercise its prerogative and
minority Liberal government 2Ppeal to the people for a vote
and thus risk an election.
of confidence. but not immoral
That there was real danger for the Opposition to defeat the
of a government defeat in Par- Z0vernment and force an elge- liament after its scheduled re- tion.”
sumption Sept. 27 is borne out Mr. Thompson tried to hare by the statements ‘of at least 200m this line of thought by te three Opposition party leaders marking that defeat of the gov-
— John Diefenbaker, T C. ernment ay Parliament does —- poe las and Robert Thomp- "cessaruy mean a _ genera . F eection. The government could
Bath Mr. Douglas of the New: take action which would satisfy ‘Democrats and Mr. Thompson the Opposition criticisms. of~-Social—Credit talked sternly — After-another_10-days_of -wide- of the need. for the government °Pe” election speculation, Mr. to clean-up—in- the-wake of the Pearson on arrival here Sunday Dorion inquiry, the Dupuis af- seemed suddenly reluctant te fair and the furniture deals, discuss the subject further.
a And Mr. Thompson issued @ THREATENED ACTION statement from his office here Progressive Conserva- Tuesday saying. in effect. that
| tive Leader Diefenbaker made Mr. Pearson woultin't. have ta jit plain his party would move wait another two vears for an formally in Parliament with a election if he passed up a vote
nt inquiry report.
It seemed to be accepted as pledge
motion critical of the govern- this fall. and based on the Dorion
minded Conserva- this as a cautious the prime minister
Election tives saw to
' President Ayub ‘Khan eut short swat Tuesday and returned to! major, captured at a cost of 14 a° foregone conclusion that the not to push his minority gov-
Rawalpindi | cabinet meeting.on Kashmir to-
Ass’ n Splits nis dash back coincides with
' reports from radio. Pakistan
for an emergency
On Breath Analysis Question t= buy tanior har troven
TORONTO, (CP)—Lawyers of; the Canadian Bar - Association split-Tuesday.. on-. whether. the
..peading.-of_a—breath + analysis. “machine should’ rendera-drink-
ing driver guilty of .a Criminal Code offence. |
The association'a annual con- |
_vention. heard considerable dis- |
sent from the association coun- cil’s official stand that a read- ing of .08 parts of alcohol for 1,000 of blood be made unlawful | “under the federal_legislation. Under the council proposal | sumitted to the justice depart- | ment last April, it would not
only bean offence for a-driver to“ have a .08 reading, but it would atso“be an offence ‘to re
out again between Indian and
Breath tests are voluntary in jAzed (Pakistani) Kaba mir
most paris of ithe country, the United though Saskatchewan and New line. . Brunswick make them_compul-|~ sory. However, there is no read- ‘tion Minister Khawaja Shahbud- ing level for automatic convic- din said in a speech Tuesday tion. night: “The time has come Patrick Hartt, a°Toronto crim- when Pakistanis -will have to inal lawyer, sled ihe ‘dissenters Mmake‘sacrifices to tiberate~ their against ‘the council stand. He Kashmiri brethren. from Indian said it would be a basic mistake imperialism.” to create crimes out of acts He said Pakistanis may be re- ithat most people think havemfje-auired for the assistance of moral stigma attached to them: ‘freedom fighters” any moment
Nations ceasefire |
He and Thomas H. Mont- taal ‘teal |gomery of Montreal agreed that a claimed, meanwhile, ‘tts army Ras accounted for at least
loss of a driver's licence should ibe enough deterrent without labelling hima criminal -be- jcause of his breath reading.
127 Pakistanis -trapped in the ‘Uri Salient’’ in Pakistani Kash- mir. =
The ‘bodies of 62 Pakistanis
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16 in Texas. The abolishes tariffs on motor vehi- cles and their original parts for the Noth American auto indus- try, whieh is dominated by the big four of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American) Motors: ‘
GOES TO SENATE The senate financial commit. | tee now will get the bill for |
|study before it goes before the |
full senate. No senate timetable | has been drawn up yet.
Bill that figures for the first five) months of 1965 already show ex-| panded U.S. exports. to a ie under the agreement, which, i effect, is operating although not passed by congress.
Canadian exports to the | United States also are up sub- | stantially, akKhough there has) t change in the) big Canadian auto-trade deficit, with the United States, which in| 1964 amounted to about $600,- 000,000. Most of this deficit iz accounted for by the fact that)
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[have been counted in posts cap- jtured by the Ingian army, an | official spokesman said in. New |Dethi, adding that 51 Pakistanis jare known to have _ been
‘forces outside Haji Pir Pass on |
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Indian casualties.
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The. spokesman claimed 115 Pakistanis have been killed and 18 captured in two other major clashes outside the Uri Salient in the last 24 hours.
Fighting was still going on in |the Slaient, just east of Haji | Pir Pass.: ‘
“About 1,000° Pakistanis “were™ reported in the Salient, when the Indians started closing! the trap ‘Thursday with two attacks across the-UN ceasefire line into Pakistan! territory; —jone.,south from Uri and the other North from Poonch sector.
New Delhi made no effort Tuesday; as in the past, to con- vince the world it is after ‘‘in- filtrators’’ or ‘‘guerrillas’’ in the Uri Salient. It called the fugi- tives ‘Pakistanis’’-——a clear in- dication that the fighting is oF in tween regular units of _.the In- dian and Pakistani armies.
Radio Pakistan, quoting re- ports from Muzaffanbad, seat of the Azad Kashmir government, said, Indian troops renewed their attack in a bid to capture the pass.
sy hr Que. zeal Wan Cro
CHICOUTIMI, Que. ‘CP) - Angry farmers of the Saguenay- Lake St. John region appear | headed for a showdown with the Quebec. and federal govern- ments over the~ farmers’ de- mands for $5,000,000 they claim should come to them because of crop damage and loss from bad weather during the last year. | They have declared them- 4selves ready to resort to. block- “™™ ing roads with tractors and 4 {trucks unless they have a favor- able reply from the federal and provincial governments.
In Quebec City, Premier Jean Lesage said his government will not ‘bow before threats of black-
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mail- and that he will not let the farmers cal! the tune. There are about 3.300 mem-
bers of fhe Catholic Farmers’ Union in the Saguenay-Lake ‘St. | John area.
Paul - Emile. Dore, assistant secretary of the local, said Tues- |day that’ the farmers are im- | | poverished and so fed up nobody can reason with them.
Alcide Courcy, Quebec agri- {eulture —minister,—recentiy—an- inounced subsidies of $1,000,000 |
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Ste !eome a suggestion that all farm-
Farmers.
Loss Aid
for distressed farmers in the Abitibi and the Saguenay- Lake St. John areas.
Of this amount, said Mr. Dore, the farmers:in his area will get $600 ,000
Mr. Courcy said “Monday ‘the Quebeé government is not in the habit of bowing to threats” and that if the farmers carry out their threats their actions could lead to seizure by the govern-
ment of. road-blocking equip- ment.
Mr. Dore said the Saguenay- Lake St. John local does not
consider there has been a black- mail threat in the farmers’ de- cision ‘which could be the start of a revolt bythe farmers of eastern Canada.”
“The .farmers~of the district are not separatists, but if ‘the federal government continues to act in such an intransigent way they soon will be,’ Mr. Dore said.
Meanwhile, from the federa- tion's union in the diocese of Anne de la Pocatiere has
ers in Quebec stage a general strike tniess They ‘obtain a bel- ter price for their milk.
Brera er
Opposition parties. number government would
supporters,
which out- ernment
too hard: if -no fall election takes place and Parlia-
line up solidly against ment assembles as scheduled
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Soviets Charge West- With ArmingGermany —
From Reuters-AP GENEVA (CP) — The Soviet Union’ charged Tuesday phere are signs of a new burst’ of militarism in West Germany and accused Bonn’s allies of seeking to place nuclear wea- pons in West German hands. Veteran Soviet. delegate Sem- yon Tsarapkin made the charges -the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 17 countries, now considering an American draft treaty to halt the spread of _nu- clear weapons., The draft was presented the conference Aug. 17. Tsarapkin told the conference the American draft is unaccept- able even as a basis for dis- , cussion. The Soviet
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delegate said current election campaign hee Germany shows a’ new
urst, of militarism, with in. lereased demands by Bonn’s rul- lers for access to nuclear wea- pons for the West German army.
Tsarapkin said Saseud Aden auer called any delay in satis- fying those demands a tragedy
He referred to statements last week by the former West Ger- man chancellor that the US.
Election
draft treaty was-a ttagedy- for ‘the Germans and would deliver Europe up toe the Soviet Union.
Tsarapkin said press reparts Tuesday quoting Adenauer as saying the Geneva negotiators should pack their bags indicate that West German ruling circles do not like even the fact that disarmament } talks are under: way. :
Harkness
Won't Settle Differences
CALGARY (CP) Harknessy former Conservative defence minister, rejected Tue:- day an appeal by Opposition Leader Diefenbaker to -settle personal differences im the in- terests of party unity
Mr. Harkness. one of three cabinet ministers who resigned from the Diefenhaker_ gov ment in 1963 over nuclear wea
Stall Berk At
OTTAWA ‘CP:—Election — jit- ters have stalled for the mom- ent work on Parliament's revi- sion of the bank act
Tuesday was the deadline for filing briefs with the Commons finance committee by those who want to appear before it during its heafings, originally sched- uled to begin early in October
Because of uncertainty now whether Parliament will resume its session Sept. 27 or be dis- solved for a new genera) elec- tion, the deadline has heen put off indefinitely.
A committee — source — said fewer Han a hal dozen briefs have been received, but Miss,
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ons policies, said in an inter-
view: és “My Pos'thioen remains the
same as it's heen.”
D F_ Ballantine. committee
slerk, has been notified that
others intend to file briefs
Larry Pennell, committee chairman who recently was ap- pointed solicitor general in Prime Minister Pearson's cahji- net. ¢ tentatively scheduled a meeting of the steefin z com-
mittee for next week.
DEADLINE NOT FIRM Mr. Pennell said the Aug. 31 deadline was set primarily as a convenience for the committee in preparing the schedule of hearings. It was not intended to be a firm one, after which no further briefs would be received. k 4
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