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JAMES PEND-ERGAST WINS l|SLANDER’ AWARD

James T. (“Big Jim") Peri- dergast, formerly of Kensing-

ton. now living in Charlotte.- town, been name "Is- lander of the Year" for 1968 and fifth winner of the annual award sponsored by T e

ening Patriot it was announc-

ed last night. A panel of three judges reached the decision following consideration of many nominations received through scores of letters nomination. The award will he presented to Mr. Ponder- gast by Lieutenant-Governor

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W.J. MacDonald as a high- light of the Rotary meeting of Feb. 3. In the above photo Mr. Pendergast and his wife ‘leaf through one of many scrapbooks which 1968's ls- iander has collected over the years. (See page 3)

Klansmen In Restaurant

Touch Off Racial Incident

ATLANTA. Ga. IAP) — Ten

robai.K.u.K.lux Klansmen en»-

tored a se ated restaurant while Negroes picketed outside, touching off a brawling melee and the worst racial incident in Atlanta in months. Twenty-four persons were ar- rested outside the restaurant Saturday night, and more were arrested a few hours later ouiside the city jail where they

had gone to protest the earlier '

arrests. Trials for all 73 were sched- uled for municipal court today.

Mast September. including one on»-talie state capitol grounds at Baton Rouge. ‘

0st of those arrested in the lAtianta incidents were Negroes, imem ers of the Student Non- lViolent Co-Ordinating Commit- itee an other integration groups. One white man was ar- rested when he allegedly pulled

a knife and threatened the demonstrators. The first group was charged

lwith disorderly conduct and the lsccond with disturbing the lpeace. Bond was set at $100 ‘each for all.

‘ f':5°‘Vh°I§] "3 the 5.°_“gd'' 3‘ One of those arrested in the V ledygu “as °‘|’“VL‘1‘l 5’ ‘first demonstration was John ‘‘°°°" 93'“ mans a”»“°' '”lLewis. SNCC chairman. Police

the shooting of a Negro bo_v Birmingham. A'.a., and about 20 crosses were burned in Baton Rouge. La., in what one source said was a revival of Ku Klux Klan activity.

At Birmingham, Larr_v .ioe Sims. 16. was convicted Satur- ria. of second degree man- slaughter in the Sept. 15 slioot- lng of a 13-year-old Negro. Vir- nil Ware. The jury fixed Sims‘

sentence at seven months in the I

county jail.

in Baton Rouge. an anony- mous caller told the Morning Advocate the burning crosses signalled a reactivation of the

Klan in that area. The caller.

dozen or more Louisianaii cities

ficers as he was shoved into a paddy wagon.

l Police officer '1'. R. Pierce :said he was kneod in the groin lwhile attempting to arrest sev-

leral Negroes. “I dont know lwho kicked me . . one of those igirls." Pierce said.

j The first incident began when

lNcgroes began to hurl taunts at

I INSIDE TODAY

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i Classified . . . .. 1. 11

l Comics

1 Editorials . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 = Sport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8. 12 Kings, Queens. City . . . . .. 5

l Summerside . . . . . . .. 3

‘ Women's . . 6

said 100 crosses would be 1 bumed. ‘ Crosses were burned in a

Sensations

In Holla Court Case

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. (AP) Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa moves from the bargaining table, where he

unprecedented master contract with the U.S. truckers last week. back to the court-

room today. Hoffa and five others go on trial in federal court accused

of trying to tamper with the iury in his deadlocked conspi- racy trial at Nashville in 1962.

Last Thursday Hoffa and the truckers agreed in Chicago on ii three-year contract that would bring more than 400,000 Team- Slera Union members and 400 local: into a single bargaining unit. The union. with 1,700. giembers. is the largest in the

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The Chattanooga trial gives every promise of being as sen- sational as the Nashville one- which included an attempt 0|! Hoffa’: life by an ex-mental pa- tient. mysterious secret court ’00l'n sessions and abrupt dis- missal of two jurors.

TWO JUDGES OUT Already two federal judges

lilve withdrawn from the case. 0!!-trial legal arguments have

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000 ing are the jury-tampering case

Expected;

gone all the way to tire Su- preme Court and the mall moved here because of public-. ity generated at Nahsville by‘ the indictment of Hoffa's Nash- ville lawyer for allegedlv Lt?‘-

llie Klansmen. c a 1'.in 1.; them l ghosts"‘and sayln‘g“they were afraid to come out of the res- taurant. The restaurant was Iiocked. the lights went out and lthe Klansmen stayed inside.

‘ Police arrived but refused to larrest the Negroes without war- lran s

l More Negroes arrived and {the demonstration continued for ;two hours with the Ku Kluxers linside the restaurant before po- llice began to ask the Negroes ,to move on. They refused and ‘arrests began.

, melee started when I ;‘Ncgro being moved along by a ‘policeman fell to the ground ‘and had to be carried to a wa-

“ fsaid he kicked and cibowed ot- ‘son. Others threw themselves

‘under the wagon and were car- ried struggling to the wagons. ‘At least 150 Negroes were in- ,’volved in the incident.

iFive Persons jDie In Blaze

BARRIE. Ont. rCP) -— Five lpersons—four of them children l—died Saturday night when fire ‘swept through a downtown busi- ,ncss-apartment building.

The dead were identified as ‘

Douglas. 7. Susan, 5. Timmy, 4. and Sandra. 1‘/2. children of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Duff: and Leo Stead, 42. of RR 3 Cooks- town. Out. a taxi driver here.

Two other Duff children. Mi» chael. 10. and Danny. 9. es- caped. The children were reported to have been staying the night in an apartment occupied by Ken- neth Guest. Their parents were away 'me. Mr. Stead, who had been Via- iiing friends in an adjacent ment, was babysitting the children. police said.

The fir believed to have started in a ground-floor de- partment store, spread to the apartments above.

The blaze was being investi- gated by the Ontario Fire Mai- shal's Department.

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1964

PCs Fear leadership Squabble

By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (CP) Official spokesman for Opposition Leader Diefenbaker and Con- servative pariy headquarters are not nearly as worried about their chief's ability to win a confidence vote from his party next month as they are about the size of the dissident group and the end result of its activ- ity. The party’s 1.500-delegate an- nual meeting opens Feb.

and executive meetings, and despite efforts to head it off it iteill seems apparent there will meeting over the ‘leadership. The party is split four ways, if a meeting of the 21-member

weekend in Montreal can be taken as representative of the party as a whole.

There appears to be a major- ity which wants iefen- baker to continue as leader and declare support in stand - up - and - be -coun vote. There is a minority which wants to oust Mi‘. Diefenbaker, and to do so by voting against him in a secret ballot.

And then there is a scatter- ing of men who stand for Mr. Diefenbaker but for a secret ballot—and against Mr. Die baker and willing to stand up and declare it publicly.

SURE OF WIN With Mr. Diefenbakei"s dem- onstrated abilities as a parlia-

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the abse challenger for. his office, Mr. .Diefei1baker's friends and s

matter how it is held. He has said.himself the method of vot-

.‘mg_ is _up to the annual meetingi “A” we.” flying to do is to _ lbring the balance back where But what worries the party ll; used to l,e_'v sald George

to decide

ieadership, as represented b the party headquarters and Mr. ,Diefenbaker‘s office group. is the size of the dissident group. They don’t believe it to be more than 30 per cent at the outside, and it may be as small as 1 per cent.

The question worrying the party is how strong a vote against Mr. Diefenbaker can the leader and the party as a whole survive. If. for instance,

per cent of the annual meeting with him. can this be counted as more than a moral victory. they ask.

rinto the next election with 20 per cent of its representatives on record in opposition to it?

For whom, or for what party,

a election? work at all? As -one of Mr. Diefenbakcr’s men put it: "No matter how small a bunch it is. if they reatly want to set out to do it,

after two days of committee,

a clash on the floor of the‘

P‘ l Chamber

NOT MORE THAN

l massive sea and

lmainland. :Mrs. Barbara Keith. Hartford, Conn..

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; inland. Coast g u a r d

’ planes had

l the night wit

;for Mrs. '

searched

No trace has been found of

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grandmother of 10. or her onion-shaped. or- Tange and white, hot-air balloon. , Six helicopters. 14 planes and lfive coast vessels combed a M- rmile area from San Clemente? . , lsouth to San Diego. Planes and‘ resolutions committee lastlboals ranged 17 miles out to

lsea, and aircraft swept 10 miles cutters and through h lights and flares uh.

A veteran of numerous bal-

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Lady Balloonist Sought Off Calif.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. ‘AP! —-— loon ascensions and parachute lnlk slum lg5{)‘ (lled Planes and ships conducted a Jumps» She “'35 the Only W0m-all ‘- at his 1 land search Sunday for a woman balloonist lwho vanished Saturday during :an eight - balloon race from lSanta Catalina Island‘ to the

a nine contestants who drifted across the choppy Cat- -alina Channel in the race to ‘Newport Beach, 30 mles ea .

Two participanis—actor Cliff Robertson, 37, and stunt pilot Frank Tailman. 50—were in one balloon.

Th y and five others had to be rescued—all of them at sea except one who crashed in cactus patch on a rugged hill- iside of Catalina Island and was rescued by firemen. w'

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l The only one to finish the race was declared the winner. .He is Ed Yost, . who set his lballoon down in the surf at San fclemente as hundreds o f spec- ltators lined hhe shore. He made the crossing in two hours and 40 .minures.

lax Setup Revision Is Urged By Chamber

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I By STEWART MacLEOD

__ _ OTTAWA ICPi - Contending «told exactly how much mental‘! and Pd-lllcal fighter. ‘that the Canadian tax system lpay in taxes. Dr. J. 3 M8 0f any Single -has been worked out of balance

:in recent years, the Canadian _ _ of Commerce Satur- porters are sure he will win the day {old the Royal commlsslon c°“l1denC9 V°l9 ll3"d5°m°lY. 110 on Taxation how the structure

lshould be rebuilt in lests of the econom

;chamber‘s executive cou lmission was land personal

l T en said Campbell : chairma lation committee,

illogical

lconsistcnt and reliable.

. Another view of the chamberl

Dies At 92

0 ‘ VANCOUVER CP)——Th . ,' ‘ ‘ , -‘ _' '_ f , would the 20 per cent work 11‘ ‘Huntley Crump. I92’ fathefinlii it might be possib‘e to estab lt'IeSiaS army o 2000 th ,

I P lsuperi lVa'lley division ryears in rail service.

M . Crump retired i

the inter- lment expenditures.

)7 l‘Keeping. past chairman of the

ncil.

The heart of the 150-page sub- that corporation i n c o m e taxes lshould be sliced down and more .emphasis put on sales taxes. Leach n of the chamber's tax- t the govern- ment should avoid any sudden. l or crisis-inspired . . ichanges so that the Canad Mr. Diefenbaker carries only 80 {system would be regarded as 1

Would the party be able‘ to go .ThO|‘fla$ cfurnp

0‘ W0Ul1'l file)’ lthe Canadian Pacific Railway‘sl lchairman and president. N. R Crump, died here Saturday.

‘n 1934 as - ntendent of CP-R's Kettlel

tax 5 ian l

was that Canadians should be they

the chamber's economic consul- tant. said: “I would like to see the taxpayer agitated because ,he might take some action at lthe polls to keep

down govern- ..

, ith growing weight on direc

mendmenis had resulted

in x - law complexities that

were “unintelligible to all save

e most sophisticated tax spe- cialists."

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l Back in 1929, only 15.7 lcent of Canada's total revenue was raised through direct tax- ation. Last year the figure rose 0 62.1 per cent. SEEKS ONE RATE 0 reverse the trend, the chamber, which represents 850 local chambers and boards of trade, suggested that the top rate of corporated tax be re- duced to 40 per cent from 50 per cent. The other rate—21 lper cent on incomes under $35,- — should remain in effect nless a metho lestablished to case the burden n small business. Eventually,

liish one single rate. With this. all the tax incen-

budget would be along with some of the older

1 to another.

ing to bribe prospective jurors.

Through it all the 50-year-old Hoffa has maintained his inno- He blames his troubles

cencc. on what he calls Attorney-Geir eral Robert Kennedy's "per- sonal vendetta" againsi him.

Federal grand juries _havo indicted Hoffa six times in as many years. . Twice he has been acquittedl and two times his trials havel ended in hung juries. Still pend-I here and one at Chicago wherel and seven others are ac-

$20.000,000 from a union _De|I-. sion fund of which he is a trustee.

The jury-tampering charges sprang from Hoffa‘: nine-ween trial at Nashville in which be was accused of conspiring to receive a $1,000,000 kickback from a Michigan trucking firm. That trial ended Dec. 23, 1963. with the jury will 1 to 5 for

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acquittal.

cused of fraudulently t a k l n 5 he

Dead are Alvin White. 27. a ldefenceman for the Bathurstl

Two Killed

'In Plunge llnto River

BATHURST. NB. tCPi — Two Bathursi men were killed Sat- urday when the panel truck in which they were riding went out of control and plunged off a bridge over the Nepislquit River

re.

Papermakers oekey team, and Reginald Chamberlain, 20. Reports said the truck flew

through the air about 00 feet and drop about 75 feet through thick river ice. The

RCMP here raised the truck and recovered e bodied which were still inside

they can wreck the party."

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Milfinl. I four-year-old potty. is shown here driven bv Richard of

17¢ ids ovmer, 12-year-old son r

and Mn: McGuigao'.

kflfi . '19..‘-5.

Hawthorne A v e.. Riding in the sleigh with

BOY IS PROUD OWNER OF PONY

Pukd.-iie.

Rach-

ard is its ten-year-old cousin

Bobby. son of Mr. and Leslie McGuigan of Belv

Mrs. edere

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Ave. Muftirs was purchased at a pony auction with

earned by Richard on his route as in Guardian carrier boy.

He Don Piccard, 38. of Sioux Fal*ls,~

city I. capit

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lBeoverbrook’s

lNephew Dies

, IPSWICH, England ‘~—Sir William Aitken. 58. Cana- of Parliament for the Bury St. Edmunds constituency in Suf- in his sleep pswich home early Sun-

Sir William. born in Ant"o-

IA nish. NS, and educated at Up- per Canada College and University of Toronto.

Feature Services.

Sir William was severely in-

jiired during the Second World War in a serving with the RAF as a re-

Siirvivors include his wife,

lihe daughter of Lord Rugby. recognition lo

and a daughter and son.

3I04 Killed In Formosan Earthquake

TAIPEI, Formosa IA?) —- A pail of shock and grief hung to-

y over the southern Formosa cities of Tainan and Chiaryi where an earthquake killed 104. injured 542, and left thousands lot homeless walking lthe littered

streets in stunned sience. Crying children and barking

dogs puctuated the mournful

quiet as soldiers and volunteers

R. Petrie. searched for more victims inrmeellng between

the rubble of hundreds of homes wrecked by the initial 30-second jolt Saturday night.

Rescue crews and relief agen- lcies worked past midnight and

l ‘ got an early start searching the taxation, the Canadian struc-‘!‘nbbl9 and Pl‘0V'ldll1E l00d and and de Slireéigg lie. cfo Ill: ineguitable. shelter for the estimated 20,000 fads, probably in Ottawa, after

e rie sai . an piece- homeless

in Tainan, Chiaryi and surrounding areas. 1 Of the 1.7.58 homes that col- lapsed and 2,671 badly dam- aged, most were in Tainan, a of 250,000 and the former at of this island nation. Fires apparently started by ‘overturned charcoal stoves de- ‘stroyeud 124 home at nearby Chiaryi.

There were no reported injur- ies among foreigners.

Troops Alerted .As N. Rhodesia Goes To Polls

l LUSAKA. Northern Rhodesia liReutersl No b o- troops :were on standby alert Sunday .night on the eve of general

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- liives announced in last year'xlelcctions which will bring self-Ivors keeping _ eliminaied,1jrule to this copper-rich coun- Russia without (‘Old-Sl‘lOllld€I‘lIlg‘ln

. try.

incentives that tended to pass‘, The vast British prnlectoratefliasi-West relations. following 44 line burden from one taxpaverlwas peaceful, however, and ‘ ‘ likely the

twas not considered larmy would be called out lcept to carry ballot

lacross rain-swollen rivers.

C!-

-l The government said it hopes

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l III lday. will be as free of incident las the last one in October, 1962. ‘ Under a new constitution. lNorthcrn Rhodesia has been lgranted internal self-riile. effec ltive as soon as a new govern-

e election, today and Tues

. !ment is formed

Three parties are fighting the election, but most observers be- lieve Kenneth Kaunda's United National independence Party will win by a landslide.

Blunt Lang ecied At Ottawa Meeting

BEN WARD OTTAWA vCl"i-—The 10 prov- along with spokesmen for fishermen and the packers, ’ tell the federal fisheries develop- lment program. 3 Some biiini language about ‘the state of Canada's fisheries was expected at the opening session of the week-long federal- provincial fisheries conference. first ever held in Canada.

More than 100 federaf. and lprovincial representatives are on hand for the talks. including [nine federal cabinet ministers and one provincial premier— Joey Smailwood of Newfound- land.

Opening day wilt be devoted lentireiy to the keynote address Federal Fisheries Minister Robichaud and the presentation of brief: from the provinces.

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SEVEN CENTS

the‘- was a

nephew of publisher Lord Bea-‘tam ‘verbrook. He was manager of the London Express News and‘

plane crash “'h“°.conferences with President Communist

conuaissance and fighter pilot.

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boxes

WEATHER

Clear. _ becoming cloudy in afternoon; mild; light winds increasing to southerly 20. Low-high 10 and 33.

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Canadian PM May Spark

Johnson-De Gaulle Talks ‘ French Action High

ICP-Apfl .dian-born Conservative Membcrl

: On Washington lalks

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. By KEN KELLY Peking hitherto has held out OTTAWA rCPi_Pr‘lme Minis- firmly for its claims to sover- ter Pearson returned late Sun- £'i.’£nl.V Over Nationalist - held day from a state visit to France Formosa. This has been a bar- n 3 position to pfiay an lnrlpmu FIG!‘ to SOITIP \VCSl9i‘ll nations role in F‘,-ench.AmE.,-l(.an which have diplomatic missions relations, ‘ Formosa giving diplomatic He leaves Tuesday for Wash- 1‘€‘C0i,1nili0n in ill? Pekiniz rP— ington where two main points Sim? stemming from his talks with l“l‘an(?9 aDl33F0nll.V ll-“S resident de Gaulle are ex—‘P£‘kll’lE'S agreement to recogni- Ipecled to play 3 big part in his ‘tion which would not involve ’ claims of sover- ,]ohnson_ eighty over Formosa.

One of these is France's in- Pearson indicated that tention to accord diplomatic the Peking claim to Formosa ommunist has been the chief barrier to China. a course consistently op-.C 8 n 3d 8 exlending diploma- -posed by me Unlled glale5_ tic‘ recognition to Communist 5 De Gaulle discussed France's Ch|na- U ‘linientions in iihis regard wit If French recogmtmn means