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'A few clouds and cold; light winds. Low~ high 5 and 18.

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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she radioed that her 1.000 pas- sengers and crew were aban-

high in the area with winds up

ed at 12:22 a.in. (7:22! pm. EST Sunday said: “SOS from the Lakonia last

Authorized as Second Class Department. Ottawa. and for pay-ans d

Guard cutters were speeding to

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963.

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than working day

i Lakonia's position.

sun. and more than 300 crew.

the area and small freighters in

gers seeking a Christmas in the

Its first call, reaching the Ad-

throng ever to cross throu the Communist wall—an esti- mated 25,000 West Berliners-—

Finance Minister GORDON

tax treaty may start within

newspaper publisher build a national press building in 0t-

TON suggested that Canadian 3,

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20 Seamen Are Picked Up After Long Ordeal At Sea

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CRAPAUI) ~‘~ Arthur Craig.

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VATICAN CITY tAlePope

Fires Destroy, Home A

nd Barn

smouldering for some time be-

}ELDERLY WIDow." In Storm wile DAMAGES; ReaCheS 25

DES has been awarded 554.300 by . a jury in her suit against the.

: By THE CANADIAN PRESS : ierts felt at sea for three days Arthur Murray Dance Studio

Mr. Craig had made a number} 0 cxtcns' renovations tol both buildings

‘ The message will originate in ithe studio of the Apostolic Pal- ace in Vatican City at 8 pin.

All Home Now ‘

- Dr_ James McCrathy New, left 14 seamen known dead. four :adyl‘r‘ene, lost his home and tween the lower ceiling and here. mundland.‘ h Pallh minister‘ missing and presumed drowned. ls prize warehouse-barn 1!! the second fl r. Mrs. Agncs Syester, 59. had , ' _ ' ' The Sir Humphrey Gilbert two fires yesterday and this A call was sent in for one sued for $81000. contending Sam sunday “‘9'” 2" mp" {mm ‘f‘onlinm‘d on DEE? 8 col- 4’ mfimqgiw t d "e Crapaud fii‘e departman which she was defrauded by the stu- the ill-fated French freighter -—--————— ’ . : yes or lay a. lrnoon arrived sometime. later, as it dlo. Which had sold her three Douala were alive and seven games levelled the Crang home. had been difficult to round up "lifetime" dancing courses. were known to be dead "t the Crapaud .Fu‘e Depafl— the volunteer firemen, 'h A Jury Friday awarded her i - '- ment was able to prevent the were attending the funeral of $141300 in compensation for‘ Dr' MCG’a‘h 53'“ 1" S" S P Spl-‘ead of flames to the ham a child who had been killed in what she had paid for 4.057 John's that 15 were in hospital ‘5” W L. “ ’erYillétrtlh altiaghatshgeéo rigletal roof. ,a highway accudcnt a few days hours “f lessons and “’th her at Channel, near Port Aux Bas. . . inf: the barn b .t Hills frinorm barhpr'. guual him“ “as and “(mm quesv tw" were award the “"5 ‘5 THE GREEK Which Sunday reported it was monitors sald the crew and —‘—‘"———'— a barn 00:11:11,530“. {:2}; (lows; a???“ we?! rhmagle m m plinltéxisflearmggfitsénded She freighter LudWigi and three . , . . y . , ~ .. ; lt' preven .e am - -- « ' cruise liner Laconia. the for- on fire in the eastern Atlantic Egiisengers “"9 abandonms qua,"th of p°t3wesv and “P'fl‘om engulfing the enticr: had Spe'lt more than 530'”) «idiom? gt‘e éigiigtersfagfelifji WASHINGTON (API «Demo- mer Dutch passenger shi 1! Ocean off Madeira. Radio . (AP Wire how, i Uf‘til the time of the afternoon jhomc due to a lack of water, for .dancmg 1655"“ “'“h the Miquelon . French, islands oft'cmnc made.“ or the- House 0' P fire, had contained severalland headway already made byl smd‘o‘ Part Of the money ‘Newfoundland's south c t ‘Representatwes “mad for“, o o . A race horses. Tile animals wereifhe names, They Wm, the a- 1 later was refunded. . He said the Ludwjg (Esd. oneiSunday and predicted passage lemoved to the barn of aiof neighbors managed to sal-l The sum“) cnmended mat lbody aboard. the Langlade had‘Of ? compromise. ‘nriighbor after the house bumping 0 a] 1 n h - the money she spent on dance - “Wigwam mone.‘ b1” tOday 0“ SATURDAYv Dec_ 21‘ 1963 led Th Bo d F_ V f'. mos a t 0 furniture n I V h Itwo bodies and three more were Tuesday The first session of the 25m I . e r en ire Depart-5mm the first floor. but nothing. 955“ ,5 “as ““ “Orse i a" still adrift in a lifeboat. ‘ v . I . . ‘ment answer“) the semd can Would be r ‘ 'ed f 1 spendmg the same mnney 0n _ t the Senates srhedule of . . parhamem elected m Am.“ .310“ Wm th C r ., emm rom the; an m an . [h I Dr. McGrath said another,token meetings every three 9 e was mm "ed b Ch-f 1 ._ l 9 “Wild depall‘l- Upper floor. ! u 5 "ms" .Or ,0 9“ man died on board the trans- ‘W ' ' D it y ie .us mam , g _ such useless mmgg v in.-. . - days until the, new sessmn tlce Robert TASCHEREAU ll ' The house fire was f' of dil- ‘ M rho tm‘" 0' "1“ We. both cause it provided her. with 5 port department ICEbTPakf-‘P 5"“ starts Jan. 7 leaves in doubt the 10:55 pm. EST. .covefed w W Cr ; If“ ouM d um. Craig were home: “gamfim {mm a we” ‘ lHumthl’ Gilbert about half an time of final approval of the ap- A government bill intended lattevmptinug i}, infigbh: in izglnhng “m1 their “W99 “9’”. loneliness and despair." :20“ gefore She arrived at Port propriafinn anii “5 ""“hdil' LONDON (CF-ReuterSI—Thel gers. most of them from Brad as 35 degrees north. 15.15 west as a. “WWW” 501mm“ to it" the second flmr- his Pafiliidfmefoyrlghm lgafndgnllynidi‘hied asques abom 5.30 pm commumSt trade amend- pmish ship Montcalm early “yam. —putting it roughly 130 mil" Parliaments divorce problem was blocked by heavy smoke} . Y llg. Th ' , . ‘i - - She has more than 1th crew ‘ north f th ' l d f M d ' “’35 km“! in the Senate after rand intense h f i" Spend Christmas with fun . 9‘ wry "f “‘9 m9" 5 5”“ day started mckmg up sum“ H r n _ .C t '4 M. N.{ R o e is an .o a eira. being passed in the Comma“ 5 H Id ea. parent... B “val at sea against staggering OI‘S from the blazing Greek‘ zgrbislas er '3 ap am ‘ ' ' Gbadllto repilgtshp‘cfked “p m The publicly , owned CBE :hase (golfbednm determine what; Mr. Craig estimated that the “dds began ‘0 "MOM early Sun" ROYGIW G‘athers cruise ship Lakonia in the A” . V i ra ar sal _ t e ire flashed came under he .t. . i 53} We b1319- Whlch‘loss to the house alone would' ' day When two lifeboais from the. 0 mm about 180 miles north of Three ships were reported through the ship. fr nbe 1 SW Crlmsm ,he believed to have beenim-aed 310000 and it was eappomfe Douala were found by RCAFlAi' Sandrmgham Madeira a Greek Line spokes. tmakmn (tier the dlasler scene at Most of the passengers were crg't'i‘c Eegbef: New Dem“ ‘Ejpamauy mom}, m 1mm“ 3 Argus aircraft. Two 'lifeboats man said here' 0p spee I beilde‘iggwtngnglt-htgnlsis Coast Commons completed ‘POPeIS M955“ 9 lNO further detain 00”“ he OTTAWA 'CP’ ‘— With "ne‘were bundled from the Sim, SANDRINGHAM' E "3'5 "d The. British ship steamed to SPEEDING T0 AREA Guard said th'ere we're. 13.20 passage of 1963:64 spending 9 illearned on the house and wan“ ‘gxcemiw' 3” the original mam. V Szgtrligsiiemrelas: sanitfii: m‘fle: (AP) “ Queen Elizabeth and aid the 20,238-ton Lakonia after " , ' H 1 i . . - ‘ - - ‘ 1 ‘ousc. but it was k v ii. . ers o the Atlantic Develo - ' ~ “ e". i. JUS v In addition US toast knot wmds m the area and sea, .snmates .m "5 12.1101“- mara- ‘To Be Broadcast novm halt mom 80am whose [arms expife ‘ after noon Saturday. Prince Philip formed the van-

next Jan. 24 are being rea -‘ guard or a hi: my“! “mm vs ;1“ PICKED UP Christmas reunion here at

doning Ship. the heavily iIaVCiled Siiippillg‘:! 5 ‘ n ’ ‘ indicated lie 0 a .0 Q ‘ all ' V es E ‘ 3 P rs‘U] Hommbns- ‘ . I ' which tile i3 PXIWC‘H‘ . . g ti n. ("I F I ’1 8 Christmas m sage: Year or “X,” -( e . e 1 ' f H f I] I . ' Seas were reported genetaliy lane \Vere making SiCam for LDC I revision of the Canada-US. “'i” be broadcast today ‘5' 1‘ I I Sdtuldav ‘ 1 “1 b? a ‘ h bf) .t stark I . Au . ‘ . 5 mm: 8 U' . 3

report from Port Aux‘

' dio stations in 13 countries. in-‘ The e‘xce tiln involves the r —5 toAZO knots. t fr “h L Lakoma “left Southamp. On two weeks. ‘Ciuding Canada and the unkemFischer Quinfs 'placement :evzeral months ago‘Basqucs said another man waslabout Santa Claus. Rom 1:53 sen om e a- ton. Dec. 19 vulh 650 passen- BERLIN (MN—The biggest Speaker Alan MACNAUGH- istates. 1 of Dont Lalande of Moncton tank’st Mermaid WM” being» Fm" 0‘ the my.“ lam" 3"

Armand Cormier‘ of the same ‘ transferred from the lifeboat tolrtending are expecting babies in city Mr_ Cormler win 8150 be i] the icebreaker. The report said.the new yearnthe Queen. Prin reappointed for another term” is body was not recovered. leess Margaret, Princess Alex-

filizie.wlircefgotsfi%yonany$grea: gazel‘tlyt'sgoiiitalffg :Tifgllnelgngggi grading: italiiofizrl‘ivni t1Sulfide)! tawa, Rome time (2 pm. EST). FisAcEErRDquilfihpséa fulfil—T2? be state secretary said. -m;:e l‘iifeboit 23150 contained 811311;;ngth "1:11:35: ofofetzt. . l l _ , ,‘ . . . . e- . » . -> » . leaving the ship. Please imme- but made no appeal for help. Ones isolawd for.“ years. " ' " - ' [home for Christmas. " ' ” 1"“ mm‘m'he'm M“: ’dwmse adrift whitesthgtzilgrtwfireirhifii royal familr will be :7th; diate assistance. Please help." Then came word that the fire West Berlin pollce counted PARLIAMENT CLOSES The last two of the famousl "ms “‘9” ‘0 a” “We "9“ a full Speed for Port Auxlihe traditional get-together at spokesman for the Greek was spreading and all aboard 21.053 ViSilOlls mufflfll filial-nit quintet finally left hospitaf sfaf-igml'r’h are Ersank H' .SObey "ff Basques will, the survivors the 17,000-acre estate in the pine Line said in London the Lakonia were taking to the boats. the cold crossing over checlo Ema” d were “mad “"0 “he’isitzvgmgéotg‘s” 10: illmatnr i2: Meanwhile the Ludwig andfand moor counry of Norfolk. arrylng about 650 passeu- gave its position pomts by 1 pm- local nine. An- {I reataEstates Ltd. Melvin _ the Langlade rescued five men‘Thf‘ Queen and Prince Philip ‘ e . "

was c The Lakonla g, 3 , other 4.000 to 5.000 persons hold- from the second lifeboat. They arrived Saturday night

Mc ;Quaid. former provincial treas-l

RecriminationsFollow

CROSS INDICATES proud- mate location where the Greek cruise liner Laconla reported

By STEWART MacLEOD OTTAWA (CPl—lFour people were shot to death and another ed when two young inn-utters burst into the rectory of a tiny Roman Catho- lie church. apparently in search of collection boXea.

Rosina!!! Blnette. 17. has been charged will capital murder. His brother Roger. . was found inside the rectory with a bulfet through his head. Police laid he shot himself. Shattering a quiet noon-hour mass in the little Church of Christ the King on Central Ar- sye Street, the burst of gunfire took the lives of Paul Mercier.

. of E Angus. Que. scoutmelter of the chumh'l boy scout troop: Miss Alberto Guldon. about 45. niece QM super of the parish Melt: and Dorlltse Bechard. i“. Who bed I second-floor martment in the rectory.

IIIM' IN BACK. Mlu Declined was shot in the back died '

. She Ibout so: hours later in hospital. Her sister Henedine Becbord.

Bl. In occupant of the some imminent. was wounded but re- lfilled from hospital follow“ lie church It the time was

In Notice Mint-tar Chevrier. e Ionic d In “HI and

_ rm .» it was on fire and radio mon- itors said the- crew and pa - sengers were abandoning ship.

distant cousin of its priest. Rev.

Guillaume Chevrier. e

the shots." said the justice min-

. “but when I went outsl c

after mass the crowd had goth.

ered and I didn‘t really see any- ins."

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The n mass was nearly finished the small church when the second house- keeper in the rectory. Agacbe Jensen, r u s h e d through the back door of the church to tell Father Chevrier that two men had broken into the rectory. Fu- -ther Chevrier was at the front of the church while Rev. Ger- ard Therrien was saying mass. RAN DOWN AISLE

He ran down the side aisle of the church and asked some male parishioners to come With him. He was followed out. by Mr. Mercier. .Iohn Horner, finger L a c r oix and another

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Mr. Lucroix said later:

"I thought it might be a fire or something. . . .

"I just got to the rectory door when I heard e first shot—I guess that‘s the one that khled Mr. Mercier." _

Police said Mr. Mercier was shot inside the front door near . A hat was fired

. Homer. they said. and he faked death, falling to the floor and waiting until he had

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numbed the holiday joy.

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Rectory Holdup Attempt 'Leaves4 Dead In Ottawa

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mare seemed so rest that he telephoned his physician and told him about it. c said h dreamed he had had a heart attack. After a brief conversa- tion. Trosper, producer and script-writer of Birdmun of A1- catraz returned Nex morning, his wife found him dead. Cause of death was listed as a heart attack. Trosper. 52, died Thursday night. Detang t is

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He ran back to the church.

tu‘d asked the male parishioners to

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surround the rectory, and to the women and children to stay away. About 5 men ran around the big three-storey rectory.

CALLED POLICE A commissionalre in a public building across the street called

police.

Deputy Chiefs George Stewart and Albert Cavan told reporters later that when his men arrived they found Mercier dead on the main floor and that the would!» robbers had gone upstairs.

One was ed " by

Detective Tom Flannlgau with some persuasion." He ap- parently tried to reach a third- floor fire escape in the hope of getting out through the rear. but by this time the rectory was surrounded. When pofice reached the sec- ond flo'or they found body of Miss Guidon. 0n the same floor. near the steps leading to the third floor. was the body of Bi- nette. shot through the head.

The two injured women it their third-floor apartment.

Police did not fire a shot. sold the deputy chiefs.

Deputy Chief Cum aid the two intruders c re- volven and a pistol in bolsters. Masks were found in their pockets.

e Senate action killing a govern-

1 Christmas and a

By ALAN DONELLY

’ OTTAWA (CPi—Exchanges oflsnTr‘rtl‘me

Christmas greetings a m o n g ' Commons members were fol- f lowed by angry recriminations }

Saturday night as the 26th Par- icomplete approval of spending i and a boy ranging in age. from Hi to B

liament wound up its first 505- i

sion in a burst of iast-minutol activity. In the of a surprise

ment hit], New Democratic Leader T. C. Douglas spoke of a i possible "double-cross" in a, governmentaNDP deal on par-T liamentary divorces. ‘

Near the close of the Com mons‘ lastday drive toward] prorogation. the NDP f‘fted its; long-standing blockade of 147 (11- l vorce bills in return for House ‘ passage of a government bill making the Senate‘s new dl~§ vorce commissioner an exche-l quer com-t judge. -

MEASURE KILLED ,

But in the Senate, government . leader Ross Macdonald said it wouldn’t be lent to ush

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r ,. through the judgeship bill in the ', h

session’s final minutes. He pre- e motion killing measure for this session.

n afterward Commons members trooped into the Sen- ate chamber to hear Chief Jus- tice Robert Tuchereau. deputy to Governor - General Vanier. give royal assent to legislation pass in the last few weeks of the session and then declare the session prorogiied.

Weary MP3 headed home for sevenvweek breather before the next session

us in second week of February. The first session had toiled through 117 sitting days since it began May 16 following the April 5 election which put the Liberals in office without ma-

BUSINESS HOUR

The business office of The Guardian-The Evening Pa~ trlot will be open for sub» scriptlons and classified and display advertising on both Tuesday and Thursday this week from 8.30 to 1 pm. The business office will be closed Christmas Day. Re- gular editions of both pa- pers will be published on both Tuesday IN Thursday. however.

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There was a seven - wecki r recess. ‘ e Commons «put in a 124 hour working day« Saturday.‘ broken only by lM'O half-hour meal breaks. in the drive to;

appropriations for fisc year ending next March 31.

DOZEN BILLS LEFT

About a dozen government bills were left unfinished, to be reintroduced next session.

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left the hospital earlier. 1 The babies were born at St., Luke's Sept. 14 to Mrs. Fisoher, . whose husband is a {Nina-week1 shipping clerk. They have five other childi‘envraalso four girls

James Andrew, the only boy among the (pilots. left the hos- pital Nov. 30. Mary Margaret and Mary Magdalene joine him at the family home Dec.

One the 'last measures l 14' passed: an appropriation bill for some $ 23. . Most ofi i t government's expenditures; ! of some $7.300'ooovooo for the} Announcements, notices . 20 l fiscal year begun last April it BBB‘W‘S’ deaths - - ' ‘ -- 2' 20 1

had already been voted by Par-I Class'i'e‘i - - a v - - - u ' i 21 .

liament on an interim basis. | Comics - - - ~ - . . . . .. 19 1

It was the first time 'since; Editorials . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 l

1961 that a session ended with! por . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 i

all of the government's spend-i Kings Queens. City . . . . .. 5 ' llle eStlmateS approved in thel Smnmcrslde l .' norma way. he two sessions 0 , , . , _ ~ _ . _ . . , H 5 .

since then were both out off by ‘ dissolution of Parliament for the elections of 1962 and last

Commons d e b a t 0 Saturday ped rom foreign affairs to federal-provincial

relations to . broadcasting is s u e s as t e | House gave final approval toi ‘ili‘le spending programs of half 1

‘a dozen departments. . ‘For a Saturday sitting. atten-

dance in the 265-seat House was

Arelative‘ly good —— starting the.

‘day with 92 and ending with 60.

‘ A Christmas-inspired spirit ofl good felloWShip helped smooth‘

Ithe way over several touchy is- l _ I .‘ .

isues.

ne of the liveliest debates centred on the CBC and its plans to convert its Toronto ra- , dio station, C.lB(‘. to a French-i

language station to serv i rcnch - speaking people in Isouthern Ontario.

t Reid Scott lNDP —-‘Toronto

Danforth) 'said a widespread.

jorlty control of the Commons. lanfi_French feeling is growing |<

in Toronto. T c was a dan-‘ 1gcr the CJBC issue wou'id be lcaught up in this feeling beg cause of the way the CBC had e ' public~relationl ,handling of the matter.

tI’LEA FOR ENGLISH

i “We ave heard a lot about he French.“ he to make. a plea r the rights of the Englis ."-. Mr. Scott said the CBC hadn't l yet proved satisfactorily that there was no other way of pro- viding a French-language sta- tion than by depriving English listeners of one of the but sta-