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Algerian rebel Vice Premier

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ALGERIAN REBEL LEADERS WELCOMED IN MOROCCO

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delegation from the peace

Moh: i Ben Bella, left, they stand in talks in Evian, France. , tnd. Premier — Yousset sckawiciging cheers of ihe | confer with the King and were | (ap Wirephoto via radio Khedda, right, flank King | crowd on arrwing in Rabat, | later joined by the Algerian | from Rabot)

Secret Army Commandos

Battle For Oran Control

CP from AP-Reuters ORAN, Algeria — French forees and terrorist Secret Army commandos battled over a wide

Navy Asks Frondizi To Resign

from AP-Reuters

BUENOS AIRES — The navy publicly called on President Arturo Frondizi Sunday night to resign immediately as the best solution to Argentina's worst political-military crisis-in seven

Then army Gen. Pedro Aram- buru, venerated leader called out of retirement in an attempt to mediate the crisis, told Ar- sentines they face the peril civil war if the crisis is not solved quickly.

fe urged a national effort to save the situation and called on opposing forees to end their sirife.

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who played a key rote in ousting exiled, former dictator Juan Peron in terved as. provisional eviigeet until Frondizi was elected three years later. rLECTS CABINET avy demands and Aram- “varaing came. al fighting desperately save his four-year regime, patched together a new cabinet he hoped would satisfy his foes. The eight - man cabinet in- cludes three members of Fron- s Intransigent Radical Party, two Christian Democrats and two indepen litical affitiation of the sighth member was not disclosed. Arambura and Frondizi their first meeting 4 cicht. Government sources the meet buru advising Frondizi to tign,

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Extensive Bomb Shelters Found In Russian Cities

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Soviet ss the signs of underground — above- air| the war builders laid an exten-|

cities now are

‘ing ended with Aram- .

area of downtown Oran Sunday, fighting for control of polis of western Alger

Angry European paliltes, des-

perately opposing Algerian inde- |pendence, blocked off midtown

Oran with makeshift barricades ‘and defied French mobile gen- darmes with a hail of bullets from rifles, pistols and sub-ma- chine-guns.

Gendarmes prepared to storm the area, but late in the after- noon the Secret Army said it had ordered its commandos to pull back and disengage to avoid

armed clash with French army draftees.

Provisional report, on cass. alties in the battle which raged for more than three hours said one gendarme was killed and three troopers injured. An ear- lier raid by Europeans on a Moslem quarter killed two Mos- Jems and wounded three others.

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two French Air en eit ‘twin-engined planes armed with machine-guns flew low over the area where Secret Army commandos had been fir ing on the gendarmes from roof. tops. The planes did not imme diately open fire

In Algiers, meanwhile, secur.

y officials announced Sunday night th ons have been

rested in the Secret Army rstronghold of Bab el Oued since froops, and gendarmes began a

jouse-by-house search following Taree, fighting Frida;

Thousands of Europeans formed a human chain nearly a half-mile long to pass food in

the 60,000 people isolated in the quarter, but otherwise Al- giers was relatively quiet

day, terrorists

killed elght persons, all of them Moslems, and wounded 11 them Moslems. RUN FOR COVER

In Oran the rattle of gunfire sent thousands of Sunday after- noon strollers scurrying for cover. In many cases their cars

blocked as Secret Arm; agents sealed off nearly every street in the area with comman- deered garbage trucks oe ter vehicles —" incloding

i "Philippeville, eastern Al- geria, firemen fighting a blaze fo the hold of a Russian ship

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duclear bomb shelters but there ‘a and a

are no signs that any new pro-

ram to offset a hydrogen bomb| The cuhiton aor that in

attack is under runes The underground pearst @ have, bees, fald. the Second World War "aod te to be designed to

Provide pi tion against atomic rahe tam than 8S

hydrogen bomb at Evi

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in port to load cork found a plastic bomb, a favorite wea- pon of the extremists, in one of the holds, Fifteen minutes after , the fire started a plastic bomb wreeked the car of an official of the company loading the

cork.

Military sources said 13 per- sons, nine of them Moslems, were killed and 20 persons of whom 14 were Moslems were hurt in knife, gun and bomb at- | tacks throughout Algeria Satur-

lay.

Sporadic terrorist attacks plagued Algiers thraughout Sat- urday. A total of 12 pistol tacks were reported by polic most aimed against Moslems, But two Euwopedn women also were slain, apparently by Mos- lem gunmen,

Bush Pilots Spark

Alarm In Russia

WASHINGTON (AP)—A flight of Oakes bush pilots on a po- lar be: it flew too aasite to Soviet ‘territory last Wednesday and touched off a brief scram- ble of Russian planes, the fed- beans oe pies said Sal

Otten aaiue military plane was put up to counter the Soviet action, an FAA spokesman said, but the Rus- sian planes had turned back by that time.

He said he did not know ex- actly how close the bear-hunt- ing flyers came to the Soviet-

U.S. border, but it was “too close.”” The pilots, who annually fly

hunters out over the Arctic pack ice at this time of year, have been warned not to come that close again, the FAA said.

pokesman said ‘the i dent took plave in the of Diomede Island in the Bering Strait,

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Accidents Near Saint dake Kill 3, Seriously Injure 2

Saint John, N.B. (CP) —Two| weekend traffic accidents took | three lives and seriously injured two others persons in and near Saint John. | . 48, , and Mrs. Frank Stackhouse, 30 of Sus- | sex, were killed early Saturday | night when two cars collided at Nauwigewauk, 14 miles east of the city. Mrs. London, 47, and her sis- ter, Mrs, Hartley Mallory, 36, of | mmondvale, suffered serious injuries but their conditions were reported improving in hos- pital Sunday night. Ten-year-old Gary Gates was killed Sunday near the railway | station here when jammed be-| tween a truck's rear wheel and | a curb. He had been playing with) two other boys. The truck| driver, Leslie Watters, 41, was not immediately aware of the

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ident. | Arthur Edwin Bovaird, 36, ot Hampton Station, Seounis ee t ae e other car in the

seclteaty"wie ad bs ny ‘Kings County jail at Hampton for in-| vestigation. Mr. London, his wife and plher_ passengers were re. turni from

a construction program after

sive system of shelters located i ts of office and apartment

buildings: Ait was. purified by filters

and steel doors usually seated off the shelters, work of escape tunnels were laid, usu- ally running to courtyards and children’s playgrounds which are a feature of post-war Soviet

Grand Bay. The collision occur- red near a knoll o1 new stretch of no. 2 highway.

The London car, a 1962 sedan, was rammed against a steel guard rail along the incline. The Bovaird car, a 1955 sedan, struck it almost dead-on and then glan- ced to the left. Police had to use steel bars to pry open the doors of the London car to reach the occupants,

Dr. A.T. Leatherbarrow, Ham pton coroner, ordered the bodies to the morgue at the Saint John General Hospital. An auto

| Psy was performed Sunday mor-

ning.

A jury viewed the body and the inquest was adjourned indef- initely.

Sevenmembers of the Saint ‘fo aia, of the ROMP were called to assist at the accident scene. Mr. London and his sister, Mrs. Stackhouse, died in the crash. The injured were rushed to hospital by am- bulance.

* Heath Opens | Talks Today “|At Ottawa

OTTAWA (OP) — Britain's chief Common Market negotia- tor, Edward Heath, opens two days of talks with Canadian cab- inet ministers today in what could be preparation for a vital Phase of negotiations on British membership in in the European

san Heath, doety foreign see- retary, promised there ‘ould be “the fullest possible consulta- tion” ‘with the Canadian minis-

ters on his arrival Saturday. Speaking to reporters, scribed the two days of talks as a continuation of the close Anglo - Canadian consultations agreed on ae a similar two-day early in January.

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CANADA,

MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1962.

Threat Of R

WEATHER | Cloudy with a few snowflurries or raine showers; northwest winds 15, gusts te 25. Low-high 30 and 35,

| Thirty-five head of cattle, a small payloader, a truck and barn equipment were destroyed Saturday night when fire roar ed through one of the largest barns in the province. Fire broke out in the 130 by 125 foot, three-storey barn about 8:30 and fire chief Keith Car- michael immediately called for highways department snow | plow to proceed to the scene In roads are blocked. ‘The plow was needed to open the road from the Brackley Point Road to the barn before | the engines could get to the scene Carmichael praised Sear eee tee blow operator in opening the

SAVE PART ~~ ee

e Sherwood department, working unier adverse, condlt: fons, were able to save one por- tion of the barn and remained on the scene until 6 a.m. to en- sure that the fire did not spread from the blazing ruins of burned portion into the portion that was save 6,000 fata oh ote neat combatting the flames ‘oad the department tank truck was re- loaded at the frosted food plant. The capacity of the tanker 1s 2,000 gallons.

Some 70 head of cattle had

been in the batn when the fire broke out. About half the num- ber th s turned loose into fields althongh some of the cattle. all of a y beet breed, “The cattle were aaa the saved portion of the barn, meas- uring about 125 s = feet, after the danger had pé

Loss was cottngted at 45,000 but is believed partially covered by insurance. Origin of the fire is not known,

|HUGE TRAFFIC JAM A huge traffic jam developed along the Brackley Point Road and the side road leading from it to the scene of the fire as flames lighted the sky ees caeoeed some two miles the

Brackley Point Road The road was only plowed to a width of one lane and in many places

was extremely rough because of snow on the

Chief Garmicoe va that it would have get more emerge: a Pet along the road if the need had arisen. “If the fire had been an airport hanger or oe of that nature, we could never have, got help through from the

got to as quickly, as_ they ould not have been able to

Explorer Prof. Piccard

there themselves, he said. Mo- ments after the engines passed, traffic coming from the city completely blocked the road, he

When it came time to refill the tanker ,a snow plow had to tow the truck through a field to the frosted food plant because of the traffic congestion.

‘The fire was st re ead has’ been fought by wood department ably Cae oe

Dies In Switzerland

By DORIAN FALK LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—Prof. Auguste Piccard, first to soar into the stratos-

phere and first to plumb the

Jackie Kennedy Has Camel Ride

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Sun- day met Bashir Ahmad, Pakis- tan’s famous camel driver, and went riding on his camel—side saddle in a tight skirt.

She met Vice-President John- son's camel-driving friend at the end of rather a hectic last day of her two-week tour of In. dia and Pakistan, She leaves for London today en route

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me. Hardly had the U.S. presi- dent's wife arrived from Pesh-

awar in the north than a fierce pros

sand storm blew up, and many of the thousands who lined the route of her motorcade from the airport couldn't see her for the dust

Riding in an open car, Mrs. Kennedy had to cling tightly to her pink beret-like cap to keep it from sailing off.

* Joon

great ocean depths, died Sunday

of a heart attack. He was 78 In a balloon gondola of his own design, he had soared more than 10 miles upward. And in steel ball he and his son fashioned he had gone down two miles beneath the sea. Active to the last and appear- ing i be in good health, he was ‘ork on a new diving ship

vith his son Jacques when death struck. The Swiss scientist began re-

search work with balloons in the 1920s, studying cosmic rays, the mysterious high energy rays from space. He made 19 balloon ascensions before 1927, In that year, at the: request of Albert Einstein, he made a ba ascension’ of more than two miles and confirmed some aspects of the famed sciéntist’s theory of relativity, inventor as well as scientist, Piccard made his own pr aluminum gondola for his first challenge stratosphere in 1931. ascent reached height never Spee oes viously by man, it came near ending in disaster. Control trouble d about the gondola as as (Continued on Page 3 Co.l 3)

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PROOF IS SEEN SPRING IS ON THE WAY

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60 Freedomites Are Arrested

NELSON, . (CP)—RCMP arrested 60 suspects Saturday in a roundup of leaders of the Sons

f Freedom Doukhobor sect

The arrests were made in a raid on seven Sons of Freedom strongholds in the Crescent Val- ley area of Southeastern British

Columbia

Some 150 RCMP constables who took part in the raid held warrants charging 72 Freedom-

ites with plotting against law and order. Ten members of the sect’s

fraternal council were already

in custody on other charges and two others are in South America.

ailway Strike Is Said Near a ig

|LOSS ESTIMATED AT $45,000

35 Head Of Cattle Lost In Sherwood Barn Blaze

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IN SMITH MONTREAL (CP)—The CNR and its engineers’ union Sunday night to have

| reached agreement on all issues

that have led to a threatened strike except when a promised wage increase is to be paid.

The report came as the CNR joined the CPR and representa- tives of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers (Ind.) in an unexpected, emergency ses- sion aimed at heading off a strike at the CNR April 2, and the CPR 24 hours later.

‘The three parties went into the meeting at 9 p.m. EST. Forty - give minutes later nego- tiators for the two railways— led by Presidents Donald Gordon of the CNR and } Crump of the CER emerged for a private eaucus.

e emergency meeting, ar- ranged after a phone call from J. Travers, oe negotiator for the 4,500 - ber union, came only about 24 hours be. fore the CNR normally would issue embargoes on accepting further freight shipments. Ship- pers already have been reported turning to other methods of transportation in fear that their goods would be stuck by a@ walkout.

The unexpected meeting came after the union met for eight hours in what was unofficially described as a tough, bitter new gotiating session with the CPR.

Sunday's activities came on

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: Abegweit Inspected: “Old Ferry Is Tied Up

Ferry service between Bor- den and Cape Tormentine was badly disrupted over the week- end by heavy ice, The ferry Abegweit made five crossings of the strait since Friday evening when she tied up because of the storm.

The old ferry, which took 25 hours to make the crossing, finally docked at Borden at 4:30 Saturday afternoon, after the Abegweit broke a path for her from about two miles off Bor- den

The Abegweit tied up at Bor- den at noon yesterday and rail- way authorities reported an in- spection of propellers and machinery was being made. No mention was made of damage and it was reported the ship was expected a sail again at 10:05 this mornin;

‘Meanwhile the old ferry has

Bus Driver

been tied up at Borden and if was said she would not sail until ice conditions are ea: said the ship suffered some damage, but the extent was not known,

The Abegweit resumed vice at 8:10 a.m. Saturday, being ticd up at Tormentine since 6:11 Friday evening be- cause of the storm. The Saturday morning trip brought over the Friday evening train

All crossings Saturday and early Sunday were slow, with jee

said extremely heavy. Some trips took up to nine hours. Freight was reported to be

piling up at both terminals. The despatcher in Charlottetown said last night that there was 1 loads of freight and 58 reefer cars at Borden and 30 loads and 85 reefer cars at the Tormentine terminals.

Recounts

Experiences In Storm

By STERLING KNEERONE Guardian Staff Writer

Unaware that they were half a mile from a farm house, 12 Morell high school students, a bus driver, and two passengers. spent Friday night bus, stuck in a snow drift near Windon, about half way between Morell and Peake's.

in a school| plow

got there at approximately 6.49 but it was only there about 18 minutes when it too got stuck. Another plow arrived at 10.30 the same night but it too met the same fate as the previous Mr. Coffin said.

Help arrived at 9.30 Saturday morning when Sterling Mac: Swain of Morell arrived on the

Two snow plows attempted to| scene with a bulldozer and freed

free the bus but they, came stuck in the heavy drifts The students finally reached their homes late Saturday after: noon

In recalling the day's events bus driver Jack Coffin of Mor- ail, said last night that he le ft the school with 36 students at ap-

proximately 3.30 Friday after noon

He travelled to St. Peter's Harbour, Morell and Morell Rear, dropping students off at their homes.

BOG DOWN IN DRIFT

Tt was in Morell Rear where the bus with its 12 students, and two passengers whom Mr. Cof

fin had taken along because

too, be-| the two plows. The plows

broke the way for the bus and it got back to Morell at 11.90 Saturday morning.

GIRLS HAD BREAKFAST

Previous to Mr. MacSw: arrival some neighbors with a horse and sleigh got to the pus and took the five girl passengers to their homes, where they had

breakfast. They later returned to the bus. short time later another

horse and sleigh arrived and

|brought food for the remaining

passengers “That was the first food we

had since noon Friday”, Mr, Coffin recalled. After his arrival back in

their car had been stuck, Zot Morell at a = aoe

bogged down in a snow drift.

he had | “I got word to # plow and it! ‘continued on co Page 8 ok.

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