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Of Arms Dangers

By JOHN E. BIRD MONTREAL (CP) — Prime |Minister Diefenbaker warned Monday of the dangers involved |in the arms race and said that |any sense of failure developing at Geneva could have grave | consequences on the prospects | oe world disarmament, told the Canadian Club of

clear tests could create a nega- tive atmosphere at the disar- ;mament talks, and, by raising tensions, prejudice progress to- wards the solution # other in- nesses problem: iefenbaker ade no ref- | erence Z growing indications of /an early federal election. He flew to Montreal in the morn- ing from Ottawa and returned to the capital in the late after-

noon. The prime minister said no substantial progress has been made in easing East-West ten- sions but that friction has di- minished in some of the main areas of difference. The inter- | national situation was in a state | that gave most people some de- gree of hope for the future.

| CITES BOASTS

aware of the supremely dan- |gerous possibilities inherent in the arms race. Premier Khrush- lchev had recently boasted of a

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lost his right leg in the Bay of | wife (left) on arrival at the Valdes. (AP Wirephoto)

Rusk, DobryninOpenTalks On Knotty Berlin Problem

WASHINGTON -(AP)—Ameri- can. State Secretary Rusk and Rak da Ambassador Anatoly

rynin met for an ae Mon- in. ss inaugurate a new round of United States-soviet discus- | sions on the Berlin issue.

Neither side Tepotiod any pro- | gress, except to say they would | meet again soon. The Russian | described the talks as fruitful |

but would not i Sty liga "hy new series of Neither the Soviet envoy nor

discussions came a few hours ||US: | officials disclosed what after the state department had | | matters besides eat were dis-

| etal - vg _ 'No Trace Found , Of Seal Hunters

r som — about other East: West com

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. ‘CP)— | any document outlining the U.S Three seal hunters se st position at this stage. The the northeast coast we | meeting is seen as a prelimin- foundland failed to turn up vs |ary contact following Rusk’s | day despite a six-hour RCAF | agreement with Foreign Minis- search of the area er Gromyko at Geneva last RCAF Search and Rescue Leeaett to continue the U.S.—

Soviet discussions.

While there has been a les- | sening of tension over Berlin re- cently because of a letup in| Coammntiot harassments, U.S. a feel Rusk’s paired by some last-min- o bickering backstage in the

| sized the challenge facing all | governments — how to halt the intensified competition in arma- ments before the world is en- gulfed in an uncontrolled wave

of Boye said Canada's proposal for 4 terinetion of the orbiting or denectna of atomic weapons in outer space was a measure | < ~ gud significance. It would race was | down reports t the While the U.S» proposals were | | eae me crea to a new dimen-

us had offered to vediiee its | described as not new and as | sion

troop strength in Commuvist- | having been shaiibiogae to both surrounded West Berlin.

| Diefenbaker said he the Western allies and the So- | confident of the future of at Rusk aides said the taiks viet Union before, there was no/|ada’s foreign trade. If a- ber mostly with procedure— concealing that U.S. trust in the | dians made a determined effort and when to get negotia- | West oe had been shaken |to find new markets for Cana- ioe Sais aad very little with | by the dian goods they would be suc- | the query of the knotty Ger- (continued. on page 2, cessful,

Three Die As Fires

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| OTHER DISCUSSION

< is understood Rusk did not give the Soviet ee ee

By THE CANADIAN PRESS | quent explosions blasted out a Three persons died and de-| glass front and cement-block struction was heavy Monday as| wall.

fire struck two Maritime centres Damage to the Sackville during a cold spring storm. building was estimated between The three bodies were re-| $150,000 and $200,000 by the covered from the ruins of a two-| owners. A spokesman said re- storey wooden tenement build- ance was to start im- ing in Sydney’s Whitney a mediat

district. Firemen repor

flames shooting from canes FIREMEN DRIVEN BACK

and roof as they approached the Sackville Fire Chief Chester |

50-year-old building on Tupper| Eutonbrooks said he believes}

the fire started in the super- |

Monday without finding a trace of Robert and Percy, Bath and Edwin Greenham, all of the Horse Islands, about 200 miles | northwest of here.

The. men went seal heiatiaa | Srtieee cam Street shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday with a 20-foot motor | \ pone American au-| A few minutes earlier in the| Market boiler room. As he and boat with 10 similar boats. The | | thorities were incensed over a university town of Sackville,| ther firemen opened the boiler N.B., fire was discovered in a| 00m door, a blast of smoke and

jem 7 were scattered by a vie- | leak in Bonn of a series of Ber- The crews of | lin settlement proposals that the the. other 10 boats turned had circulated in advance

up | U. pete Saturday and Sunday at} |e Rusk's meeting with Dobry- ree ports

fire drove them back. Later, one of the explosions almost |

recently renovated supermarket with two upstairs apartments. The two families fled, losing all

their belongings. Two subse.| Water through windows. The |

blast drove the cement blocks | above five feet outward. |

Six families were evacuated | from the Cole Block, adjoining | the supermarket, ceived water and smoke dam- | age. No one was injured.

Two victims of the Sydney fire were identified as Mrs. Lucy

MacLean, 48-year-old mother ot | five, and Mrs. Margaret Robt-| | chaud, 27-year-old mother of)

in the area.

3 Segregation Leaders Excommunicated In U.S.

communication to those who | interfered with the archbishop’s order to desegregate parochial schools next fall.

Perez claims he never ceived a letter from the arch- bishop. been s a CNR sec- Archbishop Rummel reserved | tionman in the Antigonish, N.S., to himself any appeal from the | area and was in ae during excommunication order. | en off-duty period WON'T PASS ON | About 30 people made their

NEW ORLEANS (AP)—The simply a move to frighten or | Roman Catholic Archbishop TS a the parent New Orleans excommunicated | 15, aera — children which will three segregation leaders Mon- "The excommunication order day, invoking a rare Catholic | | said the three had shown “flag- Church penalty only he can lift. | | rant disregard of his po gn arch-

order from bis! s) fatherly counse!

a Arehbishop | fy - in personal foiers ~ Joseph Francis Rummel o> | ee March 31.

Pelled Louisiana political boss,| Mrs, Gaillot acknowledged Leander H. Perez Sr.; Jackson | the letter and asked for an

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Police said late Monday the third victim was identified as 27-year-old Kevin Dalton of Har- bor poe Nfld. Dalton had

to safety from the ee an 3 former lqudience with the 85-year-old apostolic delegate to the W4Y dane le Mrs. B os Gaillot | arch nited States er ce oe Included was the owner of the ; we ae | Ricau answered the arch- he would not sch | building, Fred Reid, es Is Ti-year-old Perez was | bishop's letter with a public appeals to the Vatieen or "the a co Seca” a store on district-attorney \}Jetter of his own and contended Pope: grow! at & Sates eee | the archbishop exceeded his The statement did not define aes TO WARN ‘Counties), which New | authority by threatening ¢x- Te P ot pe gs egg te The flames were discovered & ® os _ denies the sacraments and by aw as ons gee other graces while the other adds the additional opty of canals rx a baadk faa ho forbidding Catholics to asso. CUPam , P a qr wate, vee Her son William said a . jumped out of bed when I hea The March $i letter warned: Ser scream, 1 Meqpened

He | Montreal that resumption of nu- |

However, no one should be un-

Strike Iwo Centres =

which re-| sits

, prov | to the st People were rush- ak pante a ole @ around in all directions. | rebellion against the church, “I ‘t know how many will you to excomme- | people there wire in the build: | nication. This censure will be | ing. This was as the Kind of house ee by virtue of a ne Oe were coming and go-

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PM Wams Heav

y Snow Bogs Traffic,

Cuts Power, Phone Lines

Hees Says ‘Hopeful

Of Spud Sale To UK.

CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — P. is strictly up to the British Government whether it will eo its present ected to permit the im- port of potatoes. This was made clear in the House of Commons Monday by Trade Minister George Hees in reply to a question from Heath Marc- quarrie, MP for Queens. ees pointed out that for

the past Nea years the Brit- |

ish government has prohibited the importation of table stock

potatoes from North America for

tato shortage in N Ww Europe including Britain, officers of my department in both London and Ottawa hav

‘able stock potatoes, sought the most sympathetic consideration,’’ Mr. Hees to 1d the Hi

ouse. He said that his es has been advised that the British Ministry of Food and pee was giving the closest cons

ation to thes tothese representations

which have hase carried on over several wee “While

we are “anche that

the strong representations we

ceiv mind that the decision is one

for the determination of the

British Se: Mr. Hees

explain

ee the House, Mr. Mac- quarrie said that while he was in P.E.I. last week he held dis- cussions on the subject with Premier Walter Shaw regarding tke possibility of having P.E.I. potatoes admitted to Britain, En- quiries were initiated at both |

| London and Oshawa in this con-

nection and the Island MPs have renewed discussions with trade and commerce officials in Ottawa on the subject.

A trade department spokes- man said the U.K. has had the import restrictions in effect be- cause of fear of spindle tuber and bacterial ring rot and thus, except for one occasion in 78 past has refused to certif North American potatoes. view of the arora shortage | there, it is thought they might | ease the restrictions at this time.

PM, Green Den Test Ban Chang

OTTAWA (CP) — Statements by Prime Minister

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Suterand Affairs Minister Green an Mr. Diefenbaker denied it.

The government jis ‘against tests, period,” Mr. Green said

Mr. Martin quoted statements |

attributed one to Mr. vo Z enbaker which said ‘‘any policed test ban treaty would be dangerous to the survival of Wee ae world.” ould be a reliance upon

a wend of the U.S.S.R. without there being means to assure that their being carried out,"’ the quota- | tion continued.

The Liberal spokesman, member | East, and Opposition _

foreign

Parliament At A Glance

By THE CANADIAN PRESS MONDAY, Apfil 16, 1962 External Affairs Minister

Green denied a Liberal sug- |

gestion that there has been a (dred salaried office change in the government |jaid off two weeks ago, will be | ang ‘th

stand against nuclear tests. The Commons approved r tification of the cabvereal

endorsed by the Senate. TUESDAY, a 17

The Commons meets at 2:30 p.m. to debate govern- ment legislation. The Senate 3 p.m.

| full production will resume at ated Oh Cee

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affairs overwhelm for Essex | three-year caeeive nt a

_Leader | ‘

Pearson contended this state-

Diefenbaker ment indicated that the govern- about aiclaa testing mark a ment has shifted from opposing

shift in government policy, Paul | all nuclear tests to opposing “Martin on Monday in the | them unless there is adequate

PROVIDES PLATFORM

The discussion came during gran Commons study of supplemen- | anti-trust investigation tary spending estimates for the American

external affairs department, 6)

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‘Chrysler Corp. Strike Settled

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — An

undertakings were | eight-week strike at Chrysler of

oes ended Monday when triking ary work . oc s endorsed a

Roy ogre of the secret baliot-

g by most of the 3,000 strik- | ers were not announced, but a |union spokesman said the new contract received 99 per cent support.

A company spokesman said Chrysler's passenger car, true | and engine plants starting Wed-

nesday morning.

Some employees have already | gone back to work. Three hun- workers,

Pee later this week. e Burt, Canadian direc- foo of the United Auto Workers

caught five firemen pumping| copyright convention, already | ynion (CLC), said the new con-

tract, which will run until Nov. |15, 1964, was satisfying to the

| union.

helps to of t the

“This settlement meet the economic needs workers at this time,”

Books Are Free In Effort To Save Boston Tradition

‘AP)—Books were on Monday—

BOSTON free in Bost

mostly because a bookseller |

was trying to save a Boston tradition

People came with wicker clothes baskets, shopping bags and briefcases to George Gloss’ Brattle Book Shop. He had announced he was giving away all the 12,000 second hand books left in his store. One youth staggered out of the basement store with a burlap potato sack crammed with books.

The shop is in the basement

of a building put up in 1816. | book | cent. Write city hall.”

There has been a store there since 1827.

But the old brick building with others in the neighbor- hood is doomed Just about

Hill. Everything must give

| way for a new government | centre.

POETS WALKED THE AREA | There once was an old li stable across

the way. Poet John Greenleaf Whittier used to come down from Amesbury in a coach that stopped there, as he

| headed for the Cornhill book-

shops. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe walked those streets to the stores. And later Thomas Fdison, the telegrapher, came books.

Why onday’s give - away gesture? The story was | by a pathetic hand-painted sign inside the shabby, book- piled basement. It read: “Save Cornhill’s Sears Cres-

George Gloss has no hope

Brattie Street, windows of

Gloss says the store in 1825, is the oldest. continuous

antiquarian book «hom in the

United States

ae PETER near e Guardian Staff Writer

the wind and s | drifts changed their Blin of and S. Summerside termed it ‘‘the

worst snowstorm of the win- | ter’, as they had 11 inches of the white stuff down last night at 8 o'clock, with 60- mile winds to pile it up waist

The Charlottetown Meteoro- logical station reported at 8

IS CHAIRMAN

Arnold D.P. Heeney,

retir-

ing ambassador to the United o'clock that nine inches had States, has been named Can- fallen in the Charlottetown adian chairman of the Inter- area. Winds were from the national Joint Commission. north, northwest at 35 mph, ~ in Montreal in 1902, Mr. gusting to 60. The temperature

hovered near 30 degrees, just

Jow enough to prevent the snow

from turning to rain.

SNOW PLOWS OUT The plow despatcher in Char-

ce ted tha

eney is a graduate of the iy ieaaity of Manitoba and an Oxford University Rhodes scholar. He succeeds General A.G.L. McNaughton who retir-

West, Central Areas Get Brunt Of Storm

the city drifts were two feet high.

;], POWER INTERRUPTIONS

J, hower, operating superintendent of Maritime Electric Co., said last night the situation was troublesome. The west end P.E.J. was without power most of the afternoon and early night. By mid-evening the Summerside a was supplying power toe

Alberton areas. Power to Wood Islands was off most of the afternoon, but w: restor- ed again about 8:30. The line was _ broken from Churchill to

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pered their operations. Mr. wer explained that in many cases the lines were not actually broken, but the ice and snow was — on cross arms and causing the power to rau He ese ee only relief for this er

warm weather cendiileas whereby tihe

(CP Photo) lottetown = + ition by snow

Pant wou remov these

He said that all. yi trucks ‘i

aN. S. Senator |from Charlottetown were out, ere ae man ao

some road graders it energy for the area from Sume

Dies In Halifax [tural areas. Many of the grad- merside to Mount Pleasant,

recently eir| on

HALIFAX (CP) nator Plows removed when spring ripplving the sernaaadar al” le John Alexander McDonald. a | seemed here oe The de- prominent Nova Scotia politict +n spatcher said ‘that graders

for more than 40 years, died i wit plows would not be nea DIFFICULTIES

equipped until this morning if

—— here Monday night. He necessary. Plows were out : through the night, but roads be > nator McDonald, Liberal were reported to be. drifting

pire for Kings since 1945 and a former Nova Scotia agri- culture err died after a long illnes:

U.S. Steel Probe Set To Continue

in YORK (AP)—A federal | id jury went ahead with its |

in just as ee as they were opened cars were stranded menehaaes Summerside and Miscouche, on the York Road and near the Charlotte- town Airport. Im Charlottetown itself streets were heavy but passable. In some sections of

of steel industry day. despite action by leadi steel] companies rescinding i. HALIFAX ( 4 : ALIFAX (CP)—A wild win- S-s-tom steel pi eel price imerenee. fer storm, the second in four

. pounded the Maritimes fe onday delivered a crip- pling blow to communications. Main highways in northern Nova Scotia, eastern New Bruns- wick and Prince Edward Island were plugged by drifting snow. | Dozens of communities were | without electric power. Others telephone communica- HALIFAX (CP) Halifax tions. Trains were running up Shipyards Limited turned the to six hours late and airline new ferry Confederation over to flights were cancell the transport department here The RCMP here broadc ast an Monday and the department | appeal to motorists to stay off turned her over to her operat- highways in northern Nova Sco- ors, the CNR. . Police were turning back The Confederation, to be oper- eastbound traffic at Oxford, Northumberland |N.S., because of six-foot drifts Strait eel ot Borden, P.E.1., | covering a highway through and Cape Tormentine, N.B., | Nova Scotia's Wentworth Val- built for about $3,000,000. ley. The main Nova Scotia-New She will carry passengers and | Brunswick road link between highway traffic but not railway | Sackville and Amberst cars. She joins the Abegweit blocked and plows were power- e Prince Edward Island less as winds up to 70 miles an

New Ferry Turned Over To Railway

was

which carry both trains and hour piled up huge drifts. cars. e CNR said trains were get- A spokesman for the CNR | ting ‘terough but were delayed

here said the Confederation is | by likely to leave here for Borden late this week and will in after some trials at Borden.

storm - damaged automatic signalling equipment between be put Truro and Springhill Junction, service on the nine-mile run |N.S., on the Halifax-Moncton mainline.

superintendent {sland Telephone Co. said the lines to eastern P severed at the

Mr. Cameron onaky to proper. (Continued on page 2, col. 3)

Roads Blocked, Power Cut ue As Storm Sweeps Mainland

Highest winds were reported at Moncton where one gust was po icnd at 84 miles an hour. THREE DIE

aes major fires. broke out at the height of the storm Monday morning. Three persons died in a fire in a tenement building in Sydney and a supermarket at Sackville, N.B., was destroyed.

The weather office said the storm, which picked up inten- sity as it sliced across the north- ern Maritimes, had headed inte the Gulf of St. Lawrence Mon- day night and was weakening quickly. .

It followed Friday's storm which deposited up to 18 inches of snow in northern New Bruns- wick and caused communication troubles with winds up to miles an hour

Numerous po wer failures ae reported Nova Scotia Cumberland County and New Brunswick's Albert and West- morland Counties. The CBC’s overseas radio transmitter at Sackville was Saas out when power failed. Radio station ta at Amherst was off the

‘No injuries were reported but several highway accidents ad- ded to road tieups.

aid of a pilot. A pilots’ wall out, which stalled

| @e river, has been settled. (cP

FREIGHTER SAILS RIVER WITHOUT PILOT The Dutch “ee —- 4 ighter was the first chip to sail on cuune ie mn ome o far wp the St. Lawrence ins Montreal Harbor. The fre | River this season without the