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eG hgh Se iii 5 eae ae BERLIN WALL STARTS TO CRUMBLE ®tone slabs are puiled from aig they have West Berlin workers last week as the wall, East Germans since last Aug-

constructed by

ust, begins to fall apart. Rehind the wall is a roll

| barbed. wire. Three

y . Standing centre background,

They stand next to trench which parallels the wall at this point in the French sector

are East German Vopos-mem- | bers of the People’s Police. trees. View was made from a

men ! of Berlin. Behind the trench fs a section of land which has |

been stripped of houses and

banked railroad track which runs along the wall at this poin

U.S. Negotiator Declares McNaughton Is ‘Unfair’

By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP)—Elmer r. Bennett, chief U.S. negotia-

er on the Columbia River vo nee Sunday Gen, G aughton is ‘‘to-

. L. MeN lly unfair”’ ig suggesting the nadian Peron were ‘skinned alive” by “Gen uchaughen's oe is » real shame,’’ said Bennett, a

awyer who was undersecretary |

f the interior in the Eisen- lower i weapon

“The treaty was Pt a an conametaed as have | hoped for. We. ea the !

Canadians very clever bargain- }ers. Mr. (Davie) Fulton, the Canadian justice minister who | was chief of the Canadian dele- gation, was a tough negotiator.” In stepping down from the | Canadian chairmanship of the International Joint Commission, |

cNaughton last Friday said | Canada was “sold down the river’ on the 1961 Columbia Treaty and that he was re- moved from his post by the arbitrary decision of a ‘‘dicta- tor.

Bennett said in an interview McNaughton's views on the Co-

Dismissal Investigation Demanded By Opposition

OTTAWA (CP) — Leaders of he opposition parties in the | ‘ommons have called for an im- nediate investigation of circum- tances leading to the retire- nent last week of Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton as Canadian chair- nan of = International Joint Yommiss

CCF-NDP House Leader H. W

party

said will nove the House set aside

its

icheduled business Monday for | deba

» full-scale special e on

he matter, unless the Liberals it

sct first.

Liberal spokesmen said they had not yet decided whelbie to make such a motion

Meanwhile, the government | has maintained a silence broken nly by two short statements by Justice Minister Fulton.

The statements were made In mnswer to Gen: McNaughton's rharges Sl he was dismissed hécause of his opposition to the | eage- United States Columbia River treaty.

Mr. Fulton said Saturday ‘whatever reservations the pral now puts on it, the fact that when I asked him whether he was in favor of my r mending the treaty to an | - ernment he said y cannot op- ran the recommendation.’ aise, Mr. Fulton be Gen.

cNaughton had a veal against the Geoes vot the treaty. Ww. Pee tose

Lester aon said Saturday that rae

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Cas- ’s regime has convicted the 79 Cuban invaders of treason nd has offered again to swap | hem-—this time ee cash. Un- | up to must

time surely now has come

an examination of this treaty ed

| one ce, and also for an examina- |

tion of the Gacunmlanbas which |

have led to Gen. ee: s|

dismissal from offi

| “This certainly shoul ould be done

Le eae so that this matter |

bsg be cleared 7 oo pel S| e can have the trea

| tiated so it will be a baler ao

| for this country.”

| Gen. McNaughton, 75, was ap- i Canadian Se ania nternational Join’

pl a body Sadie ane:

US. boundary problems, in| | 1950.

Pearson Scoffs

‘At PC Charges

Of Obstruction WELLAND (CP) — Liberal

(aon Lester Pearson scoffed | turday at claims that the cp- | Soeieten has been obstructing | business in the Commons Addressing & nomination | | meeting here, Mr. Pearson said * | it was “quite a ession the government, when 207 Tory members couldn't get anything " | done, duo to 50 Liberals. The sition leader said

oppo @ ad: | that _ uring the past 57 days, |

pd of Parliament have

ge and this did not | leune out the charge that the. tees hear: of government had |

rice For Prisoners Iripled By Castro

eration, Havana newspapers re- oy Sunday.

The price for prisoners has

more than tripled since Premier | Fidel Castro offered last May te swap for 500 tractors the prisoners sei row so in last April's crushed invasion

of fi ranging from $25,

- . ty in the ranks to $590,- nm invasion leader. In

‘wea offer, all |

work, until the Senemaity which | | te each is assigned is satisfied.”

** Ceylon Hails on = Censorship End

| eens had ell been known to the ent.

U.S. gove “His cencaition . the Colum- bia aA to the Libby Dam in

| Montana created a virtual

| stalemate in the joint commis- | sion for many years," said Ben- nett.

HAD NO SUPPORT “He wanted the Kootenay | River in British Columbia de- veloped solely for Canada... se! ae discern no broad sup- t for his views. Many people in "British come said ace ideas would an floo

valuable land in Bertin |

Columbia, which they opposed. “T believe it was % 1959 that President Eisenhower a Prime Minister Diefenbaker de- cided that if they didn't get the Columbia project out of the commission, there never would Continued on Page 2 Col. 3)

Agriculture

Ships Feel Walkout Of Pilots

MONTREAL (OP) — Troubles piled up Sunday for ships thwarted by a er er in | its third day, of 278 Law. — River pilots.

one vessel attempted to | ane Montreal without a pilot the 6,000 - ton Canadian oo Eskimo, which ended aground a stone’s throw = sho! C. Michel, ship was | in no danger of Poconky | At Quebee City, the British) vessel Conseulo, reluctant to tackle the harbor’s tricky cur- rents on her own, damaged un- | derwater telephone cables when she anchored in the stream. The freighter’s anchor dragged across the cables, knocking out | | Some circuits.

Three ocean liners were also feeling the pinch of the walkout | ia began midnight Thursday | by pilots disgruntled with work- | ing conditions and with the

“negative attitude’ of ships! owner:

EMPRESS AT BERTH

The Canadian Pacific Steam- | ship liner Empress of Britain,

with 900 Europe-bound passen- gers aboard, remained at her Montreal berth for the third day in a row. 25,500-ton liner now is tentatively due to depart

Monday if she can locate a pi- | lot. ae were doubtful if the big ship co

Veteran pilots said the 15,000- ton Ryndam of the Holland- America line, en route to Que- bec City, should be able to berth {on her own without Se |The Ryndam, with 890 os - | gers from Europe, left | coumains, 140 miles ese ot | 8 | Quebec, without a pilot. The Polish liner Batory sa | for overseas cro oo p Bete so.-without a

A helfamnese cane. iabaes! were still anchored off Les Es- s coumains awaiting pilots. About | 25 vessels were standing idle in| | Montreal and Quebec ports he- cause of the walkout.

Officials

miles from here.

Are Blasted By Pravda

MOSCOW

oa members of the academy | agricultural sciences, which the paper criticized for failing o follow the new agricultural line laid down recently by Pre- mier Khrushchev. The Communist party organ’s

broadside attack on the work |

of the academy was interpreted

here as underlying the resigna- |

tion last Thursday of academy | President Trofim D, Lysenko. senko was a virtual Staiin- | ist Gacsee in od aa Bh ys id | ogy and agronom as , criticized -. tine | afte r Stalin’s death but returned = official favor in 1958. He was amed president of the agricul- tural at last August a oe resigned last week ‘‘for rea’ | of health.” He | is 64. Agrindare Minister Mikhail Olshansky, known a

“for many years not "worked on = a int problems in

of science and con- tributed nothing useful for pro- | ‘Tan

Laptyev was a former mem.- | ber of the academy and economics

tural scientists who, Krush.

COLOMBO (Reuters) — Cey- lonese newspapers Saturday

published editorials . welcoming} )

the end of year-long press cen- |sorship as the government moved to create a press council

(AP)—Pravda re-, chev has | ported Sunday the expulsion of |

acknowledged, are stubbornly opposing his

scribed cures for failing Soviet

=

Rolling In For

De

‘GOOD DEED’ PROVES COSTLY

LONDON, Ont. ns Some days it’s a risky busi- ness to be a good guy

Donald M. Sack, 35, ‘tried it Friday and it's going to cost him

He was driving along a one-way street when he met a car coming in the other direction.

He stopped and told the driver she was going the wrong way.

She smiled thanked him, put her car in reverse and backed into his fender.

There was no damage to the woman's car

Bitter Debate Flares : As YPCs Debate Arms

went down to defeat 82 to 76 OTTAWA Re else wea- ae the unamended resolution pons for the armed forces threw was adopted without a recorded | the Young Progressive Conserv- | vote ©) atives of Canada into a hot and| In the debate preceding the | bitter battle here Saturday be- | vote, delegate Douglas Lether- fore the annual convention fi- | dale of Winnipeg characterized nally decided Canada should | the move for immediate acqui- have them if the world situa- | sition of nuclear arms as stab- tion deteriorates. | bing Mr. Green in the back. The nuclear issue, marked by He strongly backed J. M. | accusations that one group’s Macdonnell, MP for Toronto views amounted to stabbing Ex- | Greenwood, who suggested ad- ternal Affairs Minister Green in (Continued on Page 2 Col. 6)

ports. Anything with a flavor of inflation or an easy money pol- icy would undercut his own set f commandment

The Macmillan government already has promised to bring in a capital gains tax which, in Britain, is bound to arouse con-

tradictory resolutions were sub- | ons the flattered, if the chancellor were meas chancellor of only at their peril. The 26,000 - ton Hamiltonian, |

the back, centred on an effort to have the eee. peat i. motion which, in wo have urged immediate PPuicreo | of nuclear arm mitted—one e calling for a declar- ‘Foreseen In Britain ation against nuclear arms un- der any circumstances and a By ARTHUR GAVSHON second which the resolutions) LONDON (AP) — Treasury committee sent to the conven- Chief Selwyn Lloyd has won hould the world situa- the exchequer’s | to bow in their direction with tion Auararets further. eee accounting, to be pee a concession or two. Lo dry to the House of Com e Middle classes have been tae ee DEFEATED s today, may also hoist the chilling Prime Minister Macmil- n amendment to strike out ads high tax on tobacco. Jan and his Conservatives lately | the final clause and end the res- , " adel, os state of Brit- But any real eut available ain’s economy makes~it- pretty _ almost certainly wil! have to be - sure Lloyd will stick to his old | kept for 1963, when a general Philosophy. He has been fight- | election will be around the cor- ing for wage and profit re- ne built for carrying ore and 4 | S the Great Lakes, was ch tened at the Saint on ship- building and Dry Dock Saturday by Mrs. Helene apron

- term property and |

PARIS (Reuters) President de Gaulle received a massive “oui” vote—more than 85 per cent of all ballots cast—in final counting today in France in Sunday’s referendum on _ the Pumpoe Meccan peace pact.

Res ere to come

500,000 voters in overseas territories. Algeria did not vote on the issue.

The ‘yes’ vote of 17,505,209

represented 85.77 per cent of the 20, votes cast—or 90.70 per cent of valid votes. | Only 1,794,072 persons voted

against the pact. This was 2.79 of the total electorate.

Spoiled voting papers—asked | by the socialist splinter group

of former premier Pierre Men- | des-France—were handed in by

1,108,982 voters, 5.44 per cent of the total electorate.

There were 6,573,181 ahsten- ee: yn 24.36 per cent of r premier Pierre a des Loan handed i

1,108,982 voters, 5.44 per Bal 2 the total electorate | There were 6,573, 181 absten- tions, representing 24.36 per cent of the eligible voters. About

000,000 were eligible to vote. The ‘yes’ vote also gave de Gaulle power to apply the agreement without further ref- erence to Parliament and to sign treaties of co - operation with Algeria if Algerians choose independence in self-determina- tion voting.

VOTE ‘YES’

Long before the polis closed after 12 hours of balloting was clear that most French men and women were voting

it |

Massive Yes Vote Starts

aulle

Algerian Peace Plans Get French Approval

Yes.’ Returns from outlying areas showed a tiny percentage of ‘‘no”’ votes.

Several plastic bombs, favor- ite weapon of the terrorist Se cret Army Organization, ex- ploded during the night at various stations in the Paris area. Bot no serious incidents at the polls were reported.

In some Paris districts, two guards armed with tommy-guns joined police in guarding elec- tion stations

Voting was heavy despite the somewhat gloomy and overcast skies.

Interior ministry figures in- dicated that more people cast ballots than in a referendum in January, 1961, which gave ap- proval to the principle of self- determination for Algeria

De Gaulle and his its voted at Colombey - x -Eg- lises, where their ao home is located.

TREND SHOWS The trend of approval was first shown in tabulations from small villages that closed up voting stations when everyone had cast a ballot

In the tiny village of Saint Marin des Combes, southern France, it 15 minutes to complete tabulations. All votes were “‘yes.

At Tarte - Gaudron, south of Paris, there was a unanimous

“yes’’ vote from 10 registered voters. Only one of 58 voters at Thodesn east France said “no and unanimous or near-unani- mous results rolled in from other villages.

Mortars And Machine-Guns Stress Opposition By OAS

ALGIERS (AP) —- The right- wing Secret Army Organization | protested the French referen- dum on Algeria's future Sunday with mortar and- machine-gun attacks in Algiers and Oran

| However, a wat are | reached the convention Veneer issue was clear] : Tok which convention delegates mers | sharply split. Two mutually-con- | moe prion approval for a budget rains Sai NOTHING SURPR t id “Be it resolved that the gov- . roe - at ee, ney Nonetheless, Britain’s middle- jernment of Canada accept its stock market speculators with @ 1255 taxpayers would not be | Semmgnattities in acquiring nu-| mew capital gains tax. surprised, perhaps r ” ? r armed| Forecasters suggested luti ft h This would be a way of check- | with their voting performances | ole ion after the word forces ing British smoking habits. The | in byelections. A distinct swing ee jolted by rising from the Tories has become ev- /lung cancer figures, is cam- ident. Democratic governments rgest S ip | palening against heavy smok- can ignore these danger signals “Is Ch d | s Christene At Saint John: straint, higher output, more ex- BONG COM) ees ACE ee tre ee ees ‘De oe Piece Of Fire troversy. It will be aim at Strikes Truck | those who make quick profits | on short PO euonge weerege be a dare share deals. christidis Holde river Hubert Howe an — The 730 - foot Hamiltonian, po says his vehicle largest vessel ever built in the | py a “piece of fire” Wodseuney (REDS COMPLAIN read = — Gia a | | night about miles from near- | ‘uc o 0) ol Last- | | | Bi | ue eee SHIPS BUZZED LONDON (Reuters) — Two

ern Lake Carriers Ltd.

thre a with inree

agreed that the

owe, " along with the Papachristidis | ediae worke: 0. Ltd. of Montreal. Work on | opject a

appeared to be a big i the carrier has yet to be com- | | blue ball of fire. They d ib. See ar" rygar! ae - nt pleted. led the light it gave off as sim- ee decccan ta ae

A second lake vessel, also un- planes “buzzed’’ their ships

fe r to that of f ; fs der construction at the plant, alae. an electric are which areconducting an

At least killed and about 50 wounded.

Most of the victims were Mos- |

| lems. aturday Secret Army

men killed at least 15 persons including 11 Moslems, and wounded 16 Sioaee. all but two of them Moslems.

In Algiers alone, at least 11 persons were killed during the

| agriculture will be chartered b: _ oceanographic study in the weekend. Most of the victims Core of the Khrushchev plans | Lake Carriers and quae | by ia dee ue un ae Atlantic, the Russian news | were shot down indiscriminately is the destruction of the grass-| the Papachristidis firm. ao load Of karnfies whee he Gest a Tass reported Satur- a lig pe - at | tand system of farming, by| Speakers hailed the work as noticed a bright glare coming al said a radio message te on ei cater which fields are permitted to| a revival of the Maritime prov-| from underneath the truck. trom the “indignant” ctews bg nt ook allablidi ‘dgiteahs ile aot, saaees meee in| inces’ ahippuilding industry and| He got out of the cab and of the two ships—the Pyotr | in elegantly dressed | women cycles to restore productivity. | a tribute to “the industry, im-| saw a “piece of fire” stuck be- fehedev and the Sergei Vavi- walked indifferently past. the The Soviet leader advocates | agination and courage” of K. C.| tween the cab and the body of joy--claimed that April 2 U.S. | hodies of Moslems struck dow plowing up these lands and Irving, Saint John and P. B. | the truck, When he ov—cla Pp ies of Moslems struck down

military planes flew over their

in the streets of the city centre.

eight persons were |

| with wide powers over newspa- per ownership and contents.

ae jan ~ sonit’s 0eN Press censorship and a state diet sal F of emergency imposed April 17, will to “90 years if | 1961, as @ result of communal

with obligatory physica and religious strife in Ceylon

| were ended Friday.

threw mud

planting them to productive | papachristidis, Montreal. Mr. | at the fire it fell off in blobs,

crops. Some Soviet and Western | Irving is board chairman of the | almost like jelly.

n-| specialists have gm vow peo shipbuilding company. object giving off a blue ms to exhaust soil :

resou His Eminence, poemenadae uot was seen falling through

ensicoopaabeccers does | metropolitan of the Greek Or-| the sky from several points in

ships at a low altitude and

shone searchlights on them. The next day, Tass said, a

U.S. Air Force plane flew low

The streets of all-European

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VANCOUVER (CP)—The par liament of labor—the week-long convention of the Canadian La- bor Congress—opens here Mon-

lay. More than 1,200 delegates are the convention

policy for the next two years.

The gathering—fourth consti- tutional parley since the CLC was established in 1956 — will tackle some knotty internal problems In the house of labor as well as set trade union policy on international and domestic | issues.

CLC President Claude Jodoin, | burly unionist generally hailed

Fe ia alli lee . as Mr. Labor in Canada, will

CANCER SOCIETY DRIVE DISCUSSED

Donald, and Mrs. Walter Mor-

Sk pa I

500 and the provincial $

Miss jam Mac- | week. Here from left to . The national aim is to raise + | tas, n Dense. coahtuetn of the boner: are Miss Bthe! J. Sutherland, | ‘CY. The local objective im | 95 519.009, (See story on page | Democratic Party sehoune canvass which ie JL. i the coast-o-coast drive # $3,- | 5.) j a general election fore-

districts blossomed with French tricolor flags, an organized pro- test by the settlers against the French referendum from, which voters in Algeria are ex- clu

NO VOTING

There was no voting in Al- geria itself and many among the European minority com- plained about their exclusion from the referendum and against the whole chain of events slowly leading the terri- tory toward a Mosiem govern- ment.

“The French people have abandoned us,” said a young European over his ice cream in oO cafe on elegant Rue Miche- let. ‘‘We have nothing more to hope for from France.” right,”’ added his girl . who whore a_ tricolor * sweater. ‘They are washing their hands of us.”

Titanic Survivor Dies At Age 83

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)—A Horswill, a crew member on the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage 50 years ago, died in a Houston rest home Saturday. Horswill, 83, was a quartermaster on the ship that took about 1,500 per- sons to their death when it sank after hitting an iceberg. Satur- day will be the 50th anniversary of the disaster.

CLC Convention Will Open Today

cast for June, the convention is expected to vote overwhelmingly in favor of giving all-out support for the NDP. established last year in Ottawa from an alliance of organized labor and the old CCF party.

A major internal problem ex- pected to loom large at the con- vention will be the feud between the 34,600-member International Woodworkers Union and the second biggest union in Canada --the 9 - member United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

The IWA has charged the car- penters union with raiding its jurisdiction in Newfound- land and violating congress pol- i¢y. Conviction on the charge— one of the most serious in ta- bor books—carries a sentence of suspension from the

Raiding charges led to the exe pulsion two years ago of the Teamsters brotherhood and the Seafarers International Union