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L. LXXVII. NO. 270

By THE CANADIAN PRESS At least 17 persons met vio- lent death in the Atlantic prov- inces during the weekend, six- en in auto accidents. Anot‘ier person was accidentally shot.

Nova Scotia recorded 10 traf-‘

fic deaths and an accidental shooting.

Brunswick and New- foundland each had three traf- fic deaths. Prince Edward Is- land was fatality free.

A car carrying 13 passengers plunged off the highway near

e Annapolis Valley town of Middleton. killing two men and four c ’ n

_Dead are. Stewart Garven Oliver. 35. of New Albany. N.S..

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Authorised as Second Class Depart

" .s. HAS GRIM RECORD Atlantic Accident Toll For Weekend Reachesl 7

and his four - year - old son tGerald John; Warren Clifford 'Milbury. 36. of Nictaux. and his children. Cynthia Lou, 6. Robert Wayne. :t‘iree months. Middleton hospital officials said Mrs. Milbury, three other of her children and seven-year- old George Oliver are in satis- factory condition. Mrs. Oliver and two children escaped un- injured. ‘WENT OVER BANK Herman‘Sandford. 15. of Bur- lington. N.S., died early Sunday .when a car went over a bank at Kempt Shore, Hants County. John Davies. 69. of Mi e

Former Pol

ice Chief

Birtwistle Dies At 88

The death occurred suddenly Sunday morning, at the home of his son Kenneth. Cavendish, of Archibald S.C. Birtwistle. North River Road, Charlottetown and former chief of police for the city. He was in his 89th year.

' The oldest of a family of 13

born to the late Mr. and . Thomas R. Birtwistle of North- chli. England. he spent 33

years of his life in police work.

In 1906 he enlisted in the Roy- al North-West Mounted Police and retired on pension from the RCMP in 1927. That same year he accepted the post of chief of the Charlottetown Police Force and remained as its head until his retirement in 1949.

During his s e r v i c e With

RNWMP. which became the RCMP in 1920, he served with the Cavalry Draft Canadian Ex- peditionary Force) overseas dur- ing the First World War fromi May 1918 to March 1919‘ On his return to Canada he was ’ successively stationed at Mel- Sask.. mm. Ont.. and Niagara Falls. Ont., from wncre he took his retirement from the RNWMP. Prior to coming to Canada 1* 1906. Chief Birtwistle served one year with the Cheshire Cons stabulary and four years in the Scots‘ Guards.

ATTENDED CORONATION Also while serving with the

3, and David.;

(11 i Margaret

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“Covers Prince Edward.Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1964.

the Post oltlae

Hall by meat. Otta .a. and for payment of outage in can

tSackville. near Halifax was lkilled Saturday night when lstruck by a car on an inter- Echsnge at Bedford.

N .S.. and Eugene Delaney.

.mond. Yarmouth County. The?

boy died after he was struck ,hy a ca when his car left the road.

Keith Raymond Mitchell.

17. ‘of Margaretsville. N.S.. ‘

Saturday from a IZ-guage shotg

The accident home.

Connors. 13. col- lecting Hallowe‘en treats Satur- day night, was struck by a car as she walked along the high way near St. John's. Nfld.

Two otiers died Friday night on Newfoundland‘s northeast coast. Patrick Carew of Bish- op's Falls and Molly Dicks. 17. of Lascie were killed when their

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las in his

tear left the road and plungedl

into pond. Two others es- caped from the vehicle and swam ashore.

In New Brunswick, one woman died five others were taken to‘ hospital following a two-car collision in Lancaster Sunday. Dead is Mrs. Sylvia Babineau. 55. of Westminster. husband, Romeo. was reported in critical con- dition in Saint John hospital.

Allan Ernest Wardell. 35. of Jordan Mountain. Kings County was killed Saturday night when a truck left the highway and struck a power pole near Sus- sex. His ltyear-old son, Menel. and nine - year - old daughter June. are in serious condition in

hospital. Eustache McGraw, 37. of Hacheyville, N.B.. died Satur-

day in Tracadie Hospital after he was struck on the highway near Upper Bertrand.

Accidents Friday night took

r. Delaney was killed;

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i MICHIGAN’S Repu i Gov. George Romney, shares a job! with Sen. Barry Goldwater. Republican presi- dential candidate. and Michi-

MR. BIRTWISTLE

Also surviving are three bro- thers: Frank. Horace and Fred. all residing in. England. and two sisters. Laura in England and Blanche in Scotland. Five brotn~ ers and two sisters predeceased

him several years ago. 1

His remains are resting at tho Cutcliffe Funeral Home until noon Tuesday, thence to at.

, Poison Pellets .Given As Treats iBrisg Charge COMMACK. N.Y. (AP) -—- A

47-year-old mother accused of handing out pellets of ant poison

i to Hallowe'en trick - or-treaters

was ordered committed t h pital Sunday for psychiatric

Paul's Anglican Church for ser- examination.

vice commencing at p.in.

Interment will be in the People's t dercd the test for Mrs. Helen

ceme cry. 1

:‘RNWMP he was a member of the detachment sent to London for the coronation of K i n 5' George V in 1911, and was also a member of the detachment which Went to London in 1925 to represent Canada at the Went- bley Exhibition.

While serving with the Char- lottetown Police. he was called to Ottawa in 1943. where he was made a Member of the Britlsn Empire (MBEJ

Beside his wife. the former Alice Mary Powell of Wales. Chief Birtwistle is survived by one. son. Kenneth. of Cavendish and two daughters: Violet. (Mrs. Monty Montgo mervi, Charlottetown, and Rose, (Mrs. Eric Walsh). Brantford. Ont.

lengthy Flag Debate

Denounced

TORONTO (CPJ—A Progres- sive Conservative and a New .Democratlc Party member of the ‘Commons Saturday do» aounced the idea of any pro. tracted 'aow flag debate in Par-

Ilament

Gordon Falrweatner. Conseiv- ative I Royal, called the idea "intolerable" in the face of reports that party leader John Dlefenbalser is considering de—

a. vote on- acceptance of the report of the Common flag design committee.

Andrew Brewin (NDP —- Tol- onto Greenwood) said a filibua tcr would endanger Confeders. tion. Both spoke at a Univer ally of Toronto student-soon- sored conference on the due» tlon of Whether political parties foster or in: anadian na- tional unity.

Mr. Brewin said a current la- sua affecting national unity is the flag dispute. and he Illll seen reports that Mr. Diefen baker intends to contlnuc "filibuster" on the flag v0» and also on granting supply to the goveran

‘ "If this Is true." he said. ‘ - can’t imagine a cosine of ac tion better calculated to moon national unity.

"Further. it is hard to no. agan any course of action bel- ter to brlng Pal-Ila. meat mo. copulate and utter If the "filibuster" should lead to as election. then m be 1

Prank Blamed ‘ For Fatality

PETERSFIELD. Man. (CF)- A yout from this farm com- munity 30 miles north of Wl'l- nipeg died of a revolver wound early Sunday in an incident po- lice said resulted from Hallow~ e'en pranks.

An RCMP spokesman sa.d Neil Robert Sinclair. who would have been 211 today. and frieids

Judge Victor J. Orgera oi

feil. a Greenlawn. Long Is- land, housewife and mother of two teen-aged sons and a mar- ried daughter. rs. Pfeil was arrested Sat- urday and charged with en- dangering the health of a ni- nor after a parent recogni-red the pellets his youngster brought home in a candy sack. Police are still trying to alert parents in the Greenlawn area, although they say they have re- cover about so far. and believe that is prob- ably all that were dispensed.

By NEIL A_ MATHESON Farm. Provincial Editor

A beautiful Sunday afternoon brigh'. ifrom Atlantic Winter Fair neo- and Fair vice-presi-

lbrought smiles just as

[pic here, sident. Alex Lamond. estimat-

20.000 to 25,000 people would , pass through the rapidly click-g

ing turnstiles before the night

shows were over. It was an off-

day for Island exhibitors who were taking advantage of the last few hours before showtime to complete the job of fitting and tidying up their animals.

oday will be a busy day for Islanders with Allison Stewart and sons. Brian and Ralph. showing approximately 150 sheep. Lincoln Boswall and his father, Almon. will have some three dozen or more. Wilfred Stewart is also fitting sheep ’or the show which will run through . the day. Judge is Harold Kelmr Fredericton. NB“.

BIGGEST SHOWING

The biggest showing of beef cattle from the Island will be seen here today and Tuesday —

"were involved in Halloween pranks" at the Pctersfield farm of James Martin Stevenson, 64.

In the fracas. Stevenson was hit with a piece of pipe 111 Sinclair was shot. ‘

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an even greater danger to Con- federation.

No one could doubt that an election on the flag issue would arouse anti o French and anti-

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English sentiments and would

til you call dual purpose Short lhorns beef", actually they are dairy an f

Sterling Wood and Son, Ro- bert, Mt. Herbert. the show toppers last year in number of prizes won. are back for another crack at Atlantic supremacy.

His bid for the male g r a n c championship will be. with Cheapside Royal Lad. reserve

w. Three Arrested

In Jewel Theft

NEW YORK (CPi—Less than 540 hours after one of the Cell- tury's most s t a r t l i n g jewel thefts. three men were arrested and charged in connection with it

.TheFBl said the jewels have

gravely endanger goodwill be- tween the two language groups that was essential to unity.

All possible pressure must be

put on the Progressive Conserv alive leader. Mr. Brewin said. so that the party claiming :0 have made the major contribu- tion to forming Confederation should not contribute to wreck- it. Mr. Palrwestber. who was not in Parliament for the new eruption of the flag issue last week. said he feels "very strongly that no flag design ls more important than the lost!- tution of Parliament."

"Renewal of a prolonged flag debate or. God forbid. an elec- tlon on the Issue would be ln~ tolerable and indeed ll traglc thing for the country." the New Brunswick MP said,

Forestry Minister Sauve and Gilles Gregoire. deputy leader of the Creditistcs. also were on the platform but did not discuss the flag issue It cropped up as a facet of a general debate on pelitles.aod national unity. one topic under discussion at a foul- day study on e an a Face of English Canada. Social Credit leader Robert n had been listed as a fifth panel- llt but cask! not make it.

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mom U.S. Ale Force m If: Mn slaidayvl‘i:

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gan Congressman Neil Staeb- ler. rirht. shares the spotlights with President Lyndon Johnson during recent airport appear- ances of the. national candi-

lchampion last year as a two- ; year-old, now a year later he's hitting for the top.

WOOd-S Sll‘OnEIESl OPPOSIUM '5 ‘ and several others that are aim- there's bee," 3 dmp 1“ feminine

a senior yearling being shown by i Dan Joseph Chisholm, Ashdal'a. Antigonish 00.. NS.

Dan Jewell, who has a strong show string here himself, told me "they may as well give that bull the grand championsh . n

in Canada several years 'go i when his Chestnut Royal Technl- 5 color won the grand ribbon at] the Royal Winter Fair. Toronto. !

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. -— P. unit at Frederlcton.

BIEN HOA, Viet Nam (AFL— A Communist guerrilla mortarl unit slipped away apparently unscathed Sunday with one of the Viet Cong’s biggest psy- chological victories of the Viet- namese wan-the pounding of a score of U.S. Air Force 8.57 jet bombers sent here after the Glllf of Tonkin crisis. .

Officials tightened security. around other U.S. air bascs. ?

The attack, described by one; American as “Hallowe'en int hell with all witches flying I. killed four Americans andl wounded 31. Two Vietnamese: were killed and five wounded 1

Three battalions of Vietna- meso marines and army troops set out at. dawn in pursuit of the Viet Cong guerrillas but made no contact and found no

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aaeaulton the Dlenifioe ThthethgshotmtIpuk- or U.S. Base in South Viet Nam. ed aircraft. including a score Wirephotol.

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......... ' . dates in Michigan. ey and Staebler oppose each other for the governorship of Mich— igan tomorrow. (AP ire- photo).

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The Woods nave Limewood tllassie Duchess. the junior fe- ‘ male champion at Charlottetown

| log to be class toppers: -

al Milady, junior champion here a year Ago, now showing as two-year-old in mi . Anothe 0 his good cows. Chestnut Royal Milady 3, was reserve grand

a now." Dan ought to know. For year ago and is out of the grand the he had the best dual purpose bull - Old COW Milady SHOWdl‘Op. m0. .

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ther of the Royal champion b 11, [ Hollis Newson. Kingston has his string of Holsteins ready.

They are under the name of 05- t De The hull is now is service in the ‘ Wald J Newson and 5011, HOlllS. {one Liberal and one Conserva.

grandson. ; l

Hollis is Oswald's {Continued on page 5 Col. 3)

‘ AIRCRAFT LOSS HEAVY Viet Cong Guerrillas Shoot Up U.S. Air Base

evidence they suffered majorI casualties, if any at all. .n 4 counter-attack from the air in predawn darkness.

The air base. 15 miles from,

lSaigon. is surrounded by thick midnight attack.

jungle.

A fifth American was killed; a few hours after the attack in. another mortar assault about. five miles north of the air base. But U.S. and Vietnamese offl-. cials doubted this attack was carried out by the same force‘ that pummelled the air base

TOLL NOW 219 t The. day‘s death toll brought to 219 the number of Amer-i cans killed in combat since llie‘ United States stepped up mili- tary help to South Viet Nam in ‘ December 1961.

BM W. (AP

iFewer Women. Run In U.S.

Island Showmen Prepare For Busy Day At Halifax

,rants for congress in years. . 3 After reaching a peak of 20, can. 60.4, in :women in the 117th Congress.‘

e i been trying to increase the role

W...er SEVEN CENTS

Barry Gol Scott: At

NEW VORK (APl—A nation- wide survey of presidential polls in the United tales, local. state and national, shows them pointing unanimously to a vic- tory for President Johnson in Tuesday's election.

The figures indicated that Johnson's percentage of the popular vote may approximate the record highs set in this cen-

tury.

Associated Press bureaus throughout the U.S. reported latest figures in surveys taken in_their areas. Some were for cities. some for countries, and some statewide.

None of those listed—includ- ing a survey taken in Arizona. Senator Barry Goldwater's home state - showed the Re- publican candidate leading

SCOFFS AT POLL

Goldwater has consistently scoffed at the polls. He. said Friday night: "I‘ve had a feel- ing for the last two or three ‘weeks that we're going to win WASHINGTON ram — Poli- “115, thins , 0' the Polls ticians aren't sure if it's faint dont agree "With me. but they heart or fading interest that's 1 never have; causing a decline in the num Record highs her of women running for the U.S. Congress nowadays. Only 21 candidates are Nov. lowest number of women aspi~ ‘ lar vote in 1936. Warren G.

the pr:

mecspil

. representation at levels 0

to . l a r Dan Jewell has Chestnut Roy- to f the “my 3 And, it all comes ime. wh n President a has

at a t J hnson of women in government

Political experts don't think? forthcoming election will‘

change the declining pattern‘

much. They k the womenl _ . , will be lucky to elect one or two} PHOENIX Anz' {Apifiwn‘i‘ water is conced-

newcomers from among the llilor 3,3"3' G0”. . his quest for

mocrats, ei ht Re bl' 5-img five Slates m ‘ g P“ 'ca“ ‘me White House. but he figures

ithe Republican ticket stands a {chance in all the rest.

' Goldwater’s view of his pros- ‘pects in Tuesday‘s balloting was learned Saturday as he neared the finale of his cam- paign against President John-

tive who are candidates for Congress.

son Goldwater, it was learned. thinks he will win California's 40 electoral votes, hopes the Republican ticket will surprise pollsters who forecast a lop- sided loss in New York—and. thinks the same thing could happen in Michigan. He argued the Republican ticket can be counted out only‘ Massachusetts, Rhode land. Connecticut. Hawaii and Alaska. These states have 33 electoral votes among them. takes 270 to put a man in the White House.

FEELS CONFIDENT ‘ Roaming the in the

Gen. William C. Westmore- land. US military commander in South Viet Nam, said 27 air- craft in all were destroyed or damaged in the 30-minute, posse

b—d tn I

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Westmoreland said that. of 20 13-57.: parked on the field. five were destroyed —— No or them reduced to ashes. Eight . _ were. heavily damaged and the windup days of his campaign, remaining seven slightly dam-,Goldwater has said it will take aged. lthe biggest political upset of the Th rec Vietnamese fighter- lcentury to at Johnson—and bombers were heavily damagedll'EDealedly forecast he will do

and a fourth crashed on tails-ill.

off during the attack. Officialsi Tile senator was said to feel said this was not due to thelhis prospects have improved in mortar fire. The VietnameSe the final week of the campaign pilot escaped. land are getting better daily. Four air‘lsca .lresgue helicopi The senator's views Were, tars were can)! amag 1known on these slate races: Officials said the Viet Cong ClmormB_Gnldwaler paints lobbed about 100 shells into the m a Do" take" for him_ air base with deadin aim. for,“ Du. his standing 3, 43 p" "‘9 ‘hnl‘ land“ in "In" 9" cent against Johnson's 32 per lel'ns amund “‘0 lei .mmbert- cent. This. Goldwater feels. re- h _Id.hg§9:;usianl;0Uagmitrsf’or flecls an upsurge that is still Ill 1 . i .- “.gomg on Egbyézflrk [1:“325: (nelfi'gedg'l Arizona—Another poll ln (told- ‘ .water‘s native state was said to TIGHTEN, PTCURITY 'reflect a 12-point increase for U-5 0mm“ ordered “Wm” the Republican nominee in the lighlem‘d around "the? a" In“ . last 10 days. it was said to put #:llatiozie‘nedsofizzrylegf Ngm' the race there at 46-46. with tie .V X 35 "1' rest uncommitted. 2" “£33” at D” Ernst a“; New York—While not optimis- Sa.“' 8 dm teas For ea.” 2 tic. Goldwater hopes for a sur- “Ron-V838 Ts rzgfiglrzggn prise showing here. He was said ‘ to feel that if the New York more vulngalge than Rains“? City Democratic turnout can be Fascdélma d“: 1:39. t‘f'i h" cut by three to five per com. "re? ’dd.:" .‘ ’9 t“ l‘ while Republicans score heavily firmnmbam ° other YD” upstate. he could win.

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Al Saigon airport there are

10 F4025, six RF-IOI jet recol- naissance planes and other U.S.

Air Force and army planes, in- cluding hundreds of helicopters 3W" ‘0‘“ ‘ “a .nd “wily “fer-R. CLIMIIIMI . ........-.. 12-" cane“ wit“ COMIC! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II South Viet Nam’s national in -. ' " "’ observance of the "fit “I, Women I .... . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 niversary of the remit that "m" ‘ overthrew the regime of Prea- ‘ ’ tdent Nlo Dink A na- :