If it’s Good for the Island
The Guardian 1s For it
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Looking over the agenda for today’s annual. meeting of the Provincial Red Cross Society are Mrs. H.L, Palmer, Provin- cial president of Charlottetown,
RED CROSS MEETING IS PLANNED
D. Bruce Shaw, national presi- dent, of Toronto, and H.R. Carruthers, honorary secretary for the P.E.1.. Red Cross, also of Charlottetown. The meeting
town Hotel, is divided into two sessions one at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 6:15 in the even- ing. i
| being held at the Charlotte-
Looting In British Guiana
Leads To Arrest Of Scores |
By GEORGE WILLOCK
GEORGETOWN, British Gui- -ana (Reuters) — British troops Sunday moved to stop a wave of looting sweeping this deva- stated capital in the wake of hloody anti - government riots that left at least five dead and 43 injured.
More than 100 persons have been. arrested for pillaging and police stations were ‘p'ad high with stelen goode ¢- fiscated by police.
by troops and police patrolling the fire - blackened streets of Georgetown where thousands were left homeless by fires that destroyed much of the city’s downtown area.
The city -was quiet following the declaration Saturday of a state of emergency by Gover- nor Sir Ralph Grey.
The declaration was coupled with an appeal for ‘calmness
i sebricty’’. from oa rs
i Jagan and the
The looters were rounded up of the two epposition parties.
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vernment Election Plans Are Outlined To Students -
OTTAWA (CP) — The govern=
ment gave a sneak preview dur- ing the weekend of the strategy and tactics it likely will use in tts campaign for re-election. The proud, enthusiastic aud- lence was a group of 300- uni- versity students from across Canada, They were in Ottawa for the 14th annual meeting of the Progressive Conservative
Btudent Federation.
The students tossed out their three-day program and forgot abou t
resolutions as ‘they got. “the word” from Prime Minister Diefenbaker and nine members of his cabinet.
They heard the party’s new war cries and slogans and saw some of the posters that will eonfront Canadians in the elec- tion expected later this year.
The same. theme ran through most of the cabinet ministers’ talks. It can be ‘summarized this way:
The Diéfenbaker government has continued the National Pol- icy envolved by Sir John A. |Macdonald and Sir Georges- |Etienne Cartier just after Con- federation, and consolidated by Sir Robert Borden.
They said ‘this policy found widespread favor in the past be- cause it was dedicated to the promotion of national identity, national unity and national de- velopment. ~*~ ai The Conservative government
* : aims since 1997-- and’. would achieve even more under a new mandate from the people. The government is composed of men
of integrity guided by sdund principles, they said. The governent leaders con-
centrated their attacks on the Liberal party, making only pas- sing references to the New Democrats and the Social Credit party.
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(Reports reaching Paramar- ‘ibo, in the neighboring Dutch colony of Surinam, said busi- ‘ness activity in the capital of the self-governing British colony was almost -“eompletely para- lyzed.’ They gave the number | of arrested looters as 700.
FOOD SHORT
(The reports said long lines of women were trying to buy food. G.orgetown’s hospital was. said to be obePating on an emer- gency basis because of a staff | strike. |. (The reports said volunteers | have heen enlisted to assist doe- tors in treating the injured; some of whom were in critical condition. )
Most of the casualties and damage occurred Friday when a general strike, now in its sixth day. erupted into anti-gov- ernment riots. |
Parliamentarian Dies At Age 87 _
VANCOUVER (CP) Tom - Uphill, who sat as an indepen- | dent member of the British Columbia, Legislature for a con-
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lovable’ characters in Canadian Parliamentary history, died Sat | arday at the age of 87. |
The veteran independent La- bor member for the Kootenay | riding of Fernie, who retired | from politics in 1960, died at his daughter's home in subur- ban_ Burnaby where. he had been convalescing after a heart attack.
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Russia Rejects Buzzing Protest MOSCOW (AP) — Russia re-
jected Sunday a Western pro- test against- Soviet buzzing of
| Western planes in the Berlin air
corridor.
A note delivered to the United States, French and British em- bassies was described bv ‘nfor- mants as “negative” and a re- jection of the protest filed Feb. 15 with the Sovie' rnment.
Hitch Delavs Peace Tolks For Aleeria
PARIS (Reuters) Aa Hitb- hour hitch has sent the secret Algerian > talks ista over- time, it was ned here Sun- day.
Sources declined to specify what the last - minute difficul- | ties were and government spokesmen even denied there
was any hitch.
“Things always get tense in the last hours of any major ne- gotiations,”” one said.
A decision to continue the talks until all possibilities for agreement had been exhausted followed a telephone conversa-
tion chief Louis Joxe.
The peace talks began Feb. 11 at a secret meeting place near the Franco - Swiss border.
Russia Pledges
(Cuban Support
ane of the most colorful and) LONDON (Reuters): — Rus- | by
sia issued a statement Sunday pledging continued support. and aid to Cuba and condemning “aggressive plans” against the pro-Communist country. ~
U.S. Man-In-Orbit Program NowTrailing By 20 Months |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. which technicians find difficult (AP)—The United States’ man- to achieve. fn-orbit program now is a full In any event, most people
For all practical purposes, the army’s missile and space pro- gram has now been destroyed,
2 months behind the seem to have forgotfen that the absorbed into the air force or schedule. |U.S. army—once first in mis- assigned te NASA. Time was A delay of one more week im: siles and space achievements— lost. e } the around-the-world flight of | said four years ago it could put But before it went unde#, the ? astronaut John Glenn, pow set a man in space by 1959. army put*the first U.S. satellite | for Tuesday, would place the t into earth orbit. ; U.S. a full 10 months behind the AIR FORCE OBJECTED . The U.S. space program there- known Russian space effort. | It was just about that time ater was fragmented. The air Two of the most that the air force, which pro- force was charged with the mil-
frustrating Phrases in the U.S. space vo- Vides
it investigations of space, cabulary contain promises of boosters for the present Project NASA with the peseefal wee of things to be accomplished in the | Mercury , began object- space.
program space program “barring un- ing to the army's building of foreseen circumstances” or powerful, long-range missiles. Ste permitting.» r | The air force argued that this pace Kdministraion's dekh, the aerated, bombing, minsons James E. Webb, has said the assigned to it by then president £m lock, U.S._will send—two -astronauts - Fisenhower. jand — called around the world 18 times this ‘ ' year.
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NASA TOOK OVER In Octobe: 1958, one ~ year = bd irs pid, - » : NASA took: over. the ‘army: pro- stock and 1 it “Project
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| tion between President Charles | ; de Gaulle and French delega- |
“Covers. Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1962.
” OE SGe? SEVEN CENTS
WEATHER Sunny and colder; light winds. Low-high
zero and 15.
REGINA (CP)—Hazen Argu entary leader —of
for the party August, announced Sunday he has left the party. Mr. Argue, 41, has been a CCF member of Parliament - since 1945 when he was elected as the youngest member ever. He represented the rural south- eastern Saskatchewan constitu- jency of Assiniboia continuously and since 1958‘has been the only non - Progressive Conservative | member from the Prairies.
| Mr. Argue made the an ;nouncement at a press confer- | ence attended also by his wife. |
He said: “I have decided that IT can no longer in good con- science continue to support the NDP. I have regigned from all positions I held in the NDP.
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He is expected to the Lib- eral party but said he would not comment on ‘this now.
It was rned that vrovincial
Liberals will be inviting Mr. | Argue to join the Liberal party. |Mr. Argue will fly to Ottawa |today and said he hopes to at- itend the parliamentary session {Tuesday -when he will try to ;make a statement. ; He said ‘he is “not clear at |this time’’ on seeking re-elec- |tion when a general election is called.
“With my experience and knowledge of the House and Agriculture in Western Canada and with a thorough knowledge of dangers. within the NDP I feel it is my duty to present the strong views 1 hold at and on every public platform.”
Mr, Argue attended meetings at the two-day provincial CCF- NDP council meeting - Friday and Saturday, posed for a pic- ture with NDP Leader T. C.
Dormitory Burns In N.S. Town |
MIDDLETON, N.S. (CP) Fire destroyed a dormitory, | auditorium and dining room all, contained in one building at the! nearby Kingston Bible College Saturday. There were no injur-| ies as 60 students and staff
| members made their way to
| safety.
the International Christian Mission, an independent Baptist , group, estimated the 28-yeat-old building would cost $150,000 te replace. Many students also lost their possessions.
As Member Of NDP
CCF-NDP party and a candidate leadership last |
HAZEN ARGUE
Douglas and NDP federal candi- date J. L. Phelps and also made his: Parliamentary report.
His resignation was submitted to meeting of the Assiniboia Constituency CCF-NDP_ execu- tive immediately prior to the press conference.
He said he had been consid- ering this decision for many
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BODY OF PILOT
ALGIERS (Reuters) — The body of a British Air Force pilot and his plane have been found preserved in the sands of the Sahara after 29 years, French military authorities said Sunday.
The discovery was made
patrol ip an area known 4s “the land of the thirsty,’ south of what now is the French nuclear base at Reggan. .
The body of William Newton , of Birmingham was found
nearly perfectly preserved un-
der the hot sands. Nearby was his de Havilland biplane, the tracks it~made while landing
still faintly visible. About 50 Sailons of gasoline still were “in its tanks.
A log kept by the pilot helped military authorities es- tablish what happened.
Newton, they said, was on a flight from Barcelona to Al- giers April 19, 1933, when he decided to survey the “‘land of the thirsty.”’-for some reason he decided to land in the des ert.
His plane came down and rolled along the sand for about 30 yards until its wheels got stuck and the aircraft over-
turned. Injured in the face, Newton crawled out of his aircraft and waited in the
shade of one of its wings for help to arrive.
For seven days he continued to wait in vain, writing notes until he ran out of hope.
FOUND IN SAND
last Monday by a camel corps |
Pope John Creates — Jen New Cardinais
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John appointed 10 new cardin- als Saturday, increasing the sacred college to a historic high
jof 87 princes of the Roman | Catholic Church.
The college was depleted to 77 from the previous high of 85 by three recent deaths.
None of the 10 cardinals-desig- nate are from the United States or Canada. The number of U:S. cardinals was reduced to five this week with the death of Al-
|oisius Cardinal Muench.
Three of the new cardinals are Italians, and two are South Americans: The . others were
red biretta of their princely rank from Pope John in a sec-
un consistory March 19, _the feast of St. Joseph. Two others, chamberlain apostolic nuncios in Spain and Msgr. Giovanni
Eight of them will receive the
‘Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, Bel-- Brussels;
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Portugal,.are expected to re- ceive their birettas from the heads of state of whose two countries, according to ancient custom.
Two days later. in a glittering public consistory that likely will be held in St. Peter's Basilica, they will receive the broad- brimmed, golden - tasseled hat or galero, the special emblem of th-'r cardinal rank.
The prelates designed are: Archbishop Juan _ Landazuri Ricketts, 48, Lima, Peru; .irch- bishop Raul Silva Henriquez, 54, Santiago, Chile; Archbishop Joe Jozef Suenens, 57, Malines- Father Michael
‘owne,
general of the Order of Preach-
ers, also known as the omini- cans; Msgr. Jose da Costa Nunes, 81, Portuguese. - vice- of the church;
Panico, 66,
Italian, nuncio to Portugal;
Msgr. Efrem Forni, 72. Italian, nuncio to Belgium; Msgr. Ilde- brando Antoniutti, 72, Italian, nuncio to Spain: Msgr. Gabrielle Acacio Coussa. 64, Syrian, prb- secretary of the Vatical Orien- tal congregation: and Abbot Anselmo Albareda, 70, Spantard, prefect of the Vatican library and a member of the Benedic- tine order.
‘Mr. Wilson’ Of Dennis Show Dies Suddenly
HOLLYWOOD (AP) Joseph 8. Kearns, 55, the harassed Mr. Wilson of the Dennis the Men- ace television series, died Sat-
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Worst Storm In Century Slams Wide
MAY JOIN LIBERALS ©
Hazen Argue Quits
erman Area 246 Dead, Missing;
loll Expected Higher
CP from AP-Reuters HAMBURG —
storm-whipped floods, the worst to hit Germany's North Sea coast in more than 100 years, receded Sunday and brought the toll: of dead and missing to at least 246.
The casualty figure was ex- pected to go much higher as the flood waters left behind what had the appearance of a giant battlefield
Hamburg police reorted that in the city alone 96 bodies have been recovered. with another 120 listed as missing and feared dead.
Thirty people were reported to have died in Bremen and on the North Sea coast of the state of Lower Saxony
Almost 500 persons were in Hamburg hospitals for exposure or shock. Tens of thousands were homeless.
Emergency crews all along
- the 400-mile North Sea coast ‘from The Nethertands to Den-
mark repaired dikes that had given way to the raging waters at countless points Friday night. WORST SINCE 1825
Hurricane - forced winds af up to 117 miles an hour whipped the seas into a raging fury, smashing the dikes and causing fhe worst floods since 1825.
The strong winds which had sent water swirling over hun- dreds of acres of fertile land and residential areas largely had abated Sunday. But many people still were trapped by the due Damage was estimated té run into hundreds of millions of dollars
The storm caused 11 deaths in Britain
Hundreds of the trapped »eo- ple -wet and half starved after 30 hours without food—were
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Noronic Skipper Dies At Sarnia
SARNIA, Ont. (CP) Capt William Taylor. 76. who never sailed again after his cruise ship |Noronic burned in Toronto Har bor with a loss of 119 lives 13 years ago, died in hospital here Saturday. .
apt. Taylor spent the last few years, until his retirement a
|vear ago, as a hotel clerk. A |diabetie, he had been ill for | years.
His Jast trip ended on the night of Sept 17. 1949. when he
brought his $5,000,000 vessel into Pier 9 in Toronto after steam-
ing from Detroit and Cleve- land. It was to Jeave for the Thousand Islands the next mor- ning
The Noronic, owned by the Canada Steamship Lines, was
the largest cruise ship on the Great Lakes. 3,935 tons and 385 feet of luxury for 542 passen- gers and 171 crew members Sarnia was her winter berth and her skipper. a veteran of %*® years on the lakes, lived in nearby Mooretown
SILENT START There was a dance aboard: the
fought down the crowded gang-
way. over rails or down a spid erweh of mooring cables More than |.000 firemen, po- lice and volunteers tried to fight the flames
An 85-foot aerial ladder broke, snilling firemen and survivors ine A pumper caught fire
Teen aged busboys knotted sheets together and saved 2 waitresses Two policemen dived into the hav and. pulled swimmers to safety USE HOTELS
Lobbies of nearby hotels be came casualty-clearing stations. The Horticultural Building at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion was converted into a vast
morgue, where ecmbalmers used spray guns on the dead Radio-
logists x-rayed 79 odies in 48 hours in an attempt to identify everyone--a chore that ended five months later
There followed a judicial In- vestigation that lasted three weeks heard 84 witnesses and
produced 1.000,.0W% words of tes-
timons
year-old ship that night and some time during the evening a small fire started smouldering in a linen cupboard
At 2:30 a.m. smoke billowed from both sides of the vessel
As alarm bells rang and the ‘ship's whistle blew, passengers
The Noronic’s owner, master and- second officer were -a9@- cused of neghgence. The mas- ter’s papers were suspended for a year
Capt laylor retired within the vear
Da vage suits execeded $11,- 000.000
Liz Taylor Recovers
From Food
ROME (AP) Elizabeth Tay lor, playing Cleopatra here in the costliest movie ever filmed was taken unconscious to Salva- tor Mundi Hospital Saturday night with acute food poisoning after eating spoiled fish | A hospital physician said the | poisoning caused her to faint partly due to her generally frail
urday from what his doctor said | condition because of the strain
| Wilson had jokingly willed his fered pneumonia. That |! | gold watch to Dennis in last Cost 20th Century Fox $5.00.
was a cerebral hemorrhage. Kearns had entered the Park
View Hospital Feb. 11 after sud-
Jenly going into a coma. Ironically, the harried Mr.
week's show because, thought, he was in {!! health.
Kearns was a frequent partt- cipater on the Jack Benny shows. He also had been heard as the signature voice on Sus- pense and appeared on radio’s Lux Theatre and many other Major programs.
of long hours and hard work on the picture
| He said she still is not strong since her bout with death last winter in London, when she suf- That illness
000 even before filming of the picture began. That and sub-
j > 4 The prog had. been _ sequent delays boosted the bu orier to Kearns’ illness. fet ot the film trom a planner?
$15,000,000. to an unprecedented This time, the doctor and f:im director Joseph Mankiewicz said, there probably will be no holdup in filming BACK WEDNESDAY The hospital said :he 29-.°ar
old actress could be hack at
“That is the next day she ~as
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scheduled to work,” a hospital official said. ‘“‘And we have as- sured her that she will be able to.”
A medical attendant said Miss Taylor had been working long hours under sizzling floodlights and that she had been addition- ally fatigued by everyday house- holt problems in running the t+ room villa where she and hus-
(CP Wireghete) ees, band Eddie Fisher, four chil-
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When word first broke that the star had been taken by am- bulance to the hospital, reports spread that her condition was serious. One newspaper said she had suffered a heart attack. The Italian news agency ANSA car- ried reports she might have had a throat hemorrhage. Another report said there was an entry —“paralysis’’ — in the ambusl- ance’s log for Miss Taylor’s case
Att these reports were dentest
Hospital attendants said her condition sever was serious.