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DISTINGUISHIED VISITOR HONORED

Governor Erricvk F‘. Willis, Manitoba, was presented with a special pin by R.J. Topping,

above. has an unusual distic- lion in -that besides being

A distinguished visitor to a trustee of the Macdonald‘s is also

(‘liar-Ioiictown was specially lionnrcrl at the annual curlers

lllll('ll(‘0ll and draw for the big president of the Dominion Brier Tankard. ' Brcr at The Charlottetown Curling Association. he vice-president of the Rcyial Manitoba governor. left Caledonian Club of Scotland.

34 Escape As lanker

Breaks Up

ll.-AIJIJFAX (OP) —- The de- Itroyer escort Athabaskan was to arrive here early today with 34 survivors from the Liberian tanker Amphialos which broke in two in heavy seas 220 miles southwest of here Saturday.

Two of the 15.800-ton ship's crew died during rescue opera- tions. One aboard Athabaskan.

in the sea.

The Athabaskan r e p o r Sunday night that five of survivors were injured. The navy said ambulances would be waiting to take the men to hos- pital.

The Amphialos

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY. MARCH 2, 1964.

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Variable cloudiness and a few rain show- ‘~’l‘S 0" SNOW flumesi southwest winds 15.

Low-high 24 and 35.

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U. S. Airliner Disappears With 85 Persons Aboard

' Search impossible

In Heavy Snow Storm

TAHOE \’ALLF.Y, Calif. (AP)

A four-engine transport plane g I I

, passengers and a crew of four vanished in a bliiid-_ ing High Sierra snowstorm Sun- day in the Lake Taho mountain

‘carrying 81

the big Constellation had been: reported.

neighboring Dartmouth from ‘

the Dutch island of Ar-uba in ‘ V H . J . -

me Carribea“ with 3 cargo °f Paf‘§IdrlrS:n.All“illle9sS'. iiilefikliicttriituleoril ..sei'vice based in Oakland andv

crude and bunker oil. appar- ently broke in two during a se-

vere storm which lashed Nova __

Scotia Saturday.

RCAF Search and Rescue and 1

the navy said no distress call had been received from the ship. ARGUS SPOTS WRECK

An RCAF Argus aircraft on a routine Lraining flight Sunday spotted the stern section of the ship around 11:30 AS after noticing a heavy coating of oil on the sea surface.

Flt. L . captain of t-he

clinging to the rails . A . t

_\’r‘~‘l(‘l'(lay when Lieutenant-

PARADE 'I'«H|S AFTERNOON

Brier Week is Launched A’rWeekendCeremonies

fly RALPI-I CAM%N ,toba in the first match of the trustee; and Premier Walter R. "Brier Wceiv is now officially week. Newsmen who follow the Shaw. iiiidci~u-a_v". I-ion. Thane A. Brier from ye r to year. hadlpmrgs pmgspuq-an rillllflhcll, trustee {Of the Mac- spedgl hancrafled plan; wag all

complete draw.

NEXT YEAR IN SASKATOON l It was also announced that next year's Brier will be staged at Saskatoon. R.G.L. Harstone said the trustees and directors‘ had heard splendid briefs from? . tvhree centres and their decision :‘ “X53; :3imu(:,stN3“:)'wl was difficult to make. Kc-lowna, “the winter lashed New_fmmd_ B'C" Md Edm°m°"' Ana" were land's Avalon Peninsula during “I” 3"" the “'V°"l I" “G5 the weekend and by late Sun- Presldmg at the l“"°he°“ yes’ day the area was nearly para- t°‘'d‘‘3’ “'35 R-'1' T°W’l"3' 9‘? 'lyzed under 15 inches of snow ‘idem "i “he D°ml"l°“ C‘“.""'3 One death was attributed to the Association. who introduced head sWm_ .135‘? K"95l-‘ Includlnfl Ll°“l°“" Wind gusts to 75 miles an hour ‘ant-Governor W..l. MacDonald. lswept in from the north mg 531. {of t-his province: Lieutenanb gm-day and highways and roads

I been looking to this one to settle ; doiiald's Brier Tankard. declar- presented to members of it will get underway at three dmii for the coming week was o'clock this afternoon following|e“,| chairman of the champion. (‘rilll'll(‘l(‘(l at a luncheon at The ‘ (‘lt:ri‘l0tiet0wn. '-‘W19? 5 "Om The Chaflollel-Own l presentations to the trustees and A gasp went up when the luckllo the Forum. ‘ Dgcia] pin award to lrurii Saskaichflvan and Mani-lthis afternoon see P.E.l. againstlis also vice-president of the ‘ ' " ' lN.S.: -berta versus Britishlkoyal Caledonia Club of Scot- - olu Motoflst cl"¢"99d 31‘\"lSWl°k1 and ’-‘*'°l‘“1°l‘“ 0“'j The plates for the rinks were ltario tangles with I\'ewfoundland. 1 handed each skip by Doug”, TORONTO roPi William This “"°“l"§ ll I5 New 3“"‘~"l after they were called forward Rwn_ 31_ of Scarborough drove wick and Newfoundland: Nova‘ iconunued On page 3 cor Sr-oi-iiorough police station Sat- W8" and Quebec: Ontario and ..,- .1, an , 13;“. “,3, British Oolumbia: Manitoba and ,\-mr-olri girl an accident which the motorist did not si.op. from a Scarborough cross-walk .'l< she and her 12-year-old sister from a shopping plaza with a carton of pop and some oranges. dark car swept down and struck ~llIfl_\’_ The car did not stop onto police and homicide detec- tives later started. hunting for a “as found at the scene. Police said Ryan. fl carpenter riiiirl, went to the police station with a friend

tine issue on Friday. ccl icslcrday afternoon as the l,-inks by Gordon Bennett gm. the traditional parade of f.heiship5_ While Mr‘ Tapping made a. s, Lieut. 0-’ lltc draw Pl1l9d the MP rinks: Other matches scheduled forEGov. Willis. of Manitoba. who K mbla; Ontario meets Newiland. 0 ln Quebec drew the bye. rgaunders and Danny 0-Rourke his damaged 1956 car into a semi“ ‘ma Mberlai Sa5l53l°h°'l ohm-_-ed in the death of an 3. Prince Edward Island. Northern .lud_v Gough was hurled 48 feet Kathi. were returning home /is they crossed the road a Hundreds of Metropolitan Tor- Chrysler when s nameplate whose wife is expecting a third lie was charged under the

rrinii_nal code with failing to lGovernor_Errick F. Willis. Manl- ith r o u g h the peninsula were remain at the scene an itoba: Chief Justice Thane A. rclogged from heavy drifting "“‘-‘WP: _. 1F;=::mE£'_'~_ F. P,.'."?T-,T.“_."_l‘*_‘.“.“.'_ .*‘.*_v.*:3£h°r storms in the tart

A-II Aircraft ls Announced By Johnson

succeed the recently resigned Roger Hilsman as assistant sec- retary of state for Far Eastern affairs. Johnson said "this who (embracing Viet needs every bit of the manpower that it can get." —" been no meeting resolving the

in stringent secrecy because of I tip that a Cuban suicide pilot might try to ram his plane.

WA SH-INGTON (AP )—«Presi- flvnt Johnson took the wraps [off ii five-year-old military secret '*“'_"|”d3.V/. disclosing that Without being specific. he said United States has developed a he had been told there were l“¥l"”"lnrz interceptor that can “reasons for taking additional slirc through the air at more precautions." And e sad "*3" 3-000 miles an hour. followed suggestions develope

Johnson said this plane is by the secret service and Direc- cziiinhic of a performance tnat tor J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI lit" cxcccds that of any other -Th!‘ Pl‘€9ld¢l“- "id he ll“ lll"('l‘afl in the world today" neither discussed nor approved

Nam) best

sa States realizes that

- 10 miles away.

began waving frantically."

sage. to the Athabaskan which was on routine exercises about Lt Friesen said there ter. tossing about on 20-foot waves. He said he saw the Ath- abaskan pick up 16 men from the boats. then move close to the tanker's stern section.

d one man jumped or

n city fire departmen .

Dcvclopmenl of the hitherto ‘"'“'I' secret I was an- noiiiiccd at Johnson's first preli- ‘l“"‘!B1 Press conference to be ;a"rnricd live by radio and televi-

The conference C0ll""'fl!‘fl with N

the Pfld of his first 10" ii’-vs iii’

“"“'°—fl8.Vs which Johnson said

have‘ rircd-u(‘ed real Fl(‘f"‘m’\ll3l'|- (‘ll 1

(“°9Tly. the biggest "tl"V|f‘l5O Was word that the United States 20? has a needle-shaped olane “I! led the A-1:1. perfected under k nrograrm that was. nmazinely. “Di secret since the effort was launched in _

_glohf'r conference hlgbliglits

’ filnhnsnii passed up a chance a“ 'l°".V 8 report that his ‘Bitm- ay trip to Florida was cloaked

plans to carry South Viet Nam’; guerrilla war into Communist North Viet Nam. '‘I think that too much speculation has al- ready taken place." he said.

EEDS DESI‘ MANPOWER

INSIDE TODAY

Births, deaths 1.11 Chilled 12

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—«W'vl-liam B. Bundy. now an if 1- assistant defence secretary. will l.ro'fm: mm "m ‘

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treaty governing the status of the Panama Canal Zone must be modified from time to time "and perhaps would require adjustment in" . . . 1904 or

I .

—Johnson said the administra- is firm in support be civil Rights bill. passed by the House of Representa-

V85.

—As for politics. Johnson said on who might be his Republican oppo- nent in the November presiden- tial election.

Announcing development of the experimental A-141 Jet John-

said craft "has

more than 2.000 miles per hour and at altitudes In silicon 70.000

of Staten helicopter from the

He sai fell from the stern and appar- lent-ly drowned in the oil-cov- zered water. The Athabaskan later reported that a 17th man in the lifeboat had died. ‘ -

SEAS FOIL ATTEMP1‘

The destroyer - escort then launched a boat whic tempted to come alongside the stem to take off the remaining

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18 . a by high seas to rein

rn to Atha-

baskan. The destroyer - escort next launched liwo rubbcr liferafts

but an attempt to float these towaird the wreck failed. Aihabaskan moved alongside the stern section and shot a line across with a rocket gun. The IContinued on page 5, col. Rt

..Motorisis Stranded By Blizzard In Nlld.

nine weeks had dumped 108 inches of snow on the area

Scores of motorists abandoned their cars on city streets and exit roads as they bogged down in drifts. Paris of the two ma- jor highwayson the peninsula." the Trans-Canada Highway and

ont-eption Bay highways. were blocked.

Many minor accidents were reported and hundreds spent the night in cars waiting to be res- icued by plnvvs or policing ve-

Ihicles. Throughout the city liun- ‘

dreds more were forced to slay lat their places of emp'.o_vnicnt overnight.

STAYED ALL NIGHT

Night club patrons made it an all night affair after the storm blocked access roads.

William Tetford, 50. of Shears- town died in an ROMIP patrol car near Carbonear after he had been involved in a minor traffic accident. The patrol car became stuck in drifts and‘Tetforrl. tow truck operator and four ROMIP officers stayed in it dur- ing the night. Tetford died dur- ing the night.

Five gnant rushed to hospital

women \\'f‘l'!' here by the t

Two St. .lohn's youths. Patrick Henley and William Keath. were

3‘

miles south of here. while on a hunting trip, The boys—-who left St. John's Saturd y were dressed only in light clothes and shoes and spent the night in the open. H e a l e y suffered from snow blindness.

IECAME SEPARATED

A 13. of Argentia was found Sun- day after being reported miss- ing nearly 24 hours earlier on a fishing trip. He had become separated from companions late Saturday and bedded down in in hole in a mowdrift when he was unalie to find his way to safety. lie was picked up by a United f.

until naval base

Laurie Friesen of

He said he sent a radio nies- in

were. two‘ lifeboats in the \va- __

t was forced‘

notlier boy. William Farrelf. I

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directed rescue ships to scene. Canadian dcstroycr Athabas- kan saved all but two of the 36-man crew.

(CP Wircphoto)

Alberion Seal Hunters Head ForMagdalenlslands

CREW MEMBERS of Am-

Ampliialos broke in two in wild Atlantic storm 220 miles off Halifax. Picture was la- ken from RCAF aircraft that

phialos row away in lifeboat (lower right) from sinking stern section of their ship.

the ice nca.r their damaged heli- copier.

All operations were from the rtminucd on page 3. ool. 7!

By FRANK WEEKS can pmve high Albei-ton Bureau. The Guardianr sometimes fatal Seal hunting prospects from Last year an Ontario pilot was‘ Prince Edwarnd island are not killed when his Norseman-flip-’ favorable. Albeirton seal hiunterl ped over on the ice near the Ma- .Glen Matthews stated yesterday gdalenes and in 1963 a large and .35 he made Plans to fly a expensive helicopter was lost. = man party to the Magdalen Is- through the ice in the gulf. The: ‘lands. .two occupants were rescued by‘ since i950 when the wesrcm Robert Mcllwaine and brought

1 pan of me m.m,im,e was meraluto the base of hunt.ii_ig operations

r Iy invaded by seal herds contain-‘ ma‘ year at Nmhh Cape‘ whlch in: thousands of valuable Wllltt.“was lat” movcd m p"["“‘

ranted pups‘ Islanders have my ‘Last year Mcllwainc rescued km an Wm. increasing intereslifrizht men who \V9l:SIFallfl(‘(lAfLll- in sealing by aircraft. This year

t least four groups from tine.Gre‘ek

a province are planning to oper- using more than 100 planes and heltr S b k copiers cliartered here. and in . l

liy profitable but

lI\'.\‘SBRU('l\' IAP‘--A black- ened. twisted heap in the snow. tlic wreckage of a British air- liner was foiriid in an Alpine gully near this Austrian winter!

are from the Magdalena

terms and s°al'h“"“"‘g expe‘ The special bulletin came as peak. exploded and slipped in

knee’. In parlilership Wm‘ 3“ a surprise here folloiving a . flames down thc slope into the °"p°r'°"°°d l"l°l- R°b°” M“ ‘bulletin last Frldav which said giillv The landing gear re- ftI]l]:::n;r0?’{p fggalgigggégein l:l'a"'lhis recovci'.\' after an operation maincd ncar the peak.

.iiuntin;.' since and has gl-iii.-"“i-° -weeks ‘am dim smmavh The nmcials Said the plane "ed much valuable experience inluildels was mliCllOt'mg qnnlilaliy was min: “mm "300 “W to “he hazardous vcnmre Wmohrglguely mm“ " 9”“ “ml 9 low, indicating something was

‘ iii the altimeter.

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Sunday morning are dwarfed

bound for Innsbruck from Lon- don for a holiday, died Satur-

ti British

the the fire-blackened wreck-

r hi‘

i snow and rocks on the side of day. some 0 the searchers age, The planc hit near the Mt Gamslahncr Spitze in who located the four-engined Mnk. exploded and slid down 1 Austria where in persons. tiir-bnprop. Bristol Ftnttania. a gully.

ii ‘at 11:25 a.m. that It .ing over Lake Tah

.SEAR(‘.fl IMPOSSIBLE Hamill” Mr F" H’ 9 R31” him the Constellation carried 81 passengers and

‘been

lroute to Tahoe Valley _

W35 en . . . 30:3; Cease-Fire Line Is Reinforced

other parts of Canada resort Sunday. Resiuers re-‘ . ‘W -— . '_ ll ll 83 h Ill Cl -"

u ':*.::'°i.:;..:. on rats‘ a “ *8 “Tin.” pli"%51- "'9 Mal““’W°;King Paul ofiflreclce is "‘suffcr- AllSll‘lZlll officials said the 2?]; -‘be: Erfliaeg hurl]: ,l‘"g°5i‘lflE from 3 blood. clot in a vein plane, groping in thick fog to ’q pp ° In ma‘-Of the rlf-Elli lellr land Saturday, hit a mountain

0 South African--were Britons

, Gamslahner | down into the gully between that.

-. operating between the San F‘ran- {fin '- .cisco Bay area and the Tahoe flAflClIC° V

p.m. - last

resort country. said at 4 that the plane had fuel to only to 2:40 pm, and “has to be on the ground."

h p!'0pClll(‘l’-dl'l\'(?ll lation took off from San Calif., at 10:35 a.ni. Sund four hours fuel on th line-mile flight to Tahoe Valley. Airport. which was obscured byl a driving snowstorm. lie air- port radioed the pilot that visi- bilit_v was “7.ero."

The pilot advised ilie airport e was "hold- 09.

(.‘onsiel- Jose

north Francisco sai

a weather was "bad and deterior- t

ating" with a new storm

idue Sunday night. The air res-

was so had over the l-fig where heavy snow fa lling all day. “search is impossible."

A team from the base

cue centre said the weather h Si-

ha that

CITH,

~vehicle to co or in-a ‘search. Standing by to start

‘lsearchring for the missing air- lcraft when we at h or permits ‘

iwere amphibious rescue planes ‘and helicopters and ground res- cue parties from Stead Air .Force Base at Reno.

e plane was making a Ca- sino flighi. as weekend air trips ‘to the gambling spots around ‘Lake Tahoe are nown.

Al Placerville. F‘.-l D or a do ‘County Sheriff Ernest Carlson said aviation officials had told

“Even 100 feel more allilutléi would have been enough for the plane to clear the mountain tops‘

‘and escape the disaster," said ‘Dr. Eduard Obrist. deputy seq

curity director of Tyrol prov- ince He was among the first to

reach the crash scene by hell- lcopter.

“lt was absolutely impossible that any of the 75 passengers and eight crew could have survived the disaster." he s.’-iid.. The passengers were skiing en- thusiasts headed for lnnsbruck on vacations. All but one--3

“We have searched the debris, which is strewn about in a‘ radius of 500 metres (about 1,500 feeti in a dccp gully. and we are certain that nobody came out

as 4

SLIPS INTO Gl7Ll.\'

The plane hit H.800-foot Ml Spitze. then slidl :moiiniain and MI. Glunsczei. southeast of Innsbruck. ihc re cent scene of the 1964 Winter ‘Olympics.

f A US. Air I-‘on-c rescue plan." ifrom Ramstcin in West Ger- ‘man_\' first sighted the black- cncd tail Sunday morning from an altitude of 2.000 foot. The

US. planc radioed lllf‘ report in two small Aiisirinn |')0ll(‘P plani-u wliir-h flew down among the lpeaks and confirmed the .<i':li‘.~ ing

“l'Ivcr_viliing wa .1 crumpled and scorched black from the burning fucl.“ Obrlst said

"Tlicrc was a stcncli n‘ hiirriul metal and human flesh cvcry w‘icrc. Part: of the fusclaizc and wings ucrc scatlcrcd ovcr the slopcs bcncarh thr peaks of W

o \ e r n l g h 1 son“ iiad covcrcd many parts of the wreckage.

Thc plane uas a l0ul‘-(‘ll2lll>' lflrislnl Britannia of the lnteriia tional Eagle Airlines: of London. lit was a turboprop craft «no lwhost‘ propcllcrs are driven by jet engines.

Its last contact with the Inns lbruck tower was at 3.13 pm Satiirdav. its captain. F.. Wil- ‘ was said to haw‘ Men

ifamiliar with the

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area and hours later no trace of ~

ay witli e 150 air- ‘l?

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ARROW SHOWS flight from San Jose. Calif. of a four-en- gined airliner wliioh is over- due at Lake Tahoe airport in heavy snowstorm.

(AP Wirephoto Mani

a crew of four.

After his initial radio ex-

change with the little airport at the

lake here. the pilot of the troubled airliner started to send another messa go. but only "Flight 901 . . ." got through before it faded.

C!’ from AP-REUTERS

KUCl~fI‘.\'G-.\lalaysia is send- ing troop reinforcements to its Borneo states of Sarawak and Sabah because of reports of re- ncwcd fighting along the cease- fire line with Indonesia. army sources said Sunday. Officials in this Sarawak capital described the slIllal'l-On as “rapi'rll_v deter- ioraling."

83 Persons Killed In Crash On Mountain Peak In Austria

area. He :avc his altimdg gt, the time of his approach as 10.000 feet. high enough to clear the peaks.

FOG HEAVY

Fog slirouderl the area but visibility at ground level was good

Dr. I.copold Kneliler, an of-3. vial of the Austrian civil avia- ion office. said:

"Apparently the pilot was prepared to land because he did not inform the control tower of any intention to divert to an alternate airport. The pilot was approaching undcr visualflight ‘ Kr-mpton beacon tin near- . west Gcrmanyt."

lfiidcr visual flight rules the pilot rakcs full responsibility for l)f‘lll'.‘ll‘lE rhc planc down. or. irisirumciii landing he wou'd havc been guided in by instruc- lions from the lower.

A spokesmaii for the air line In London said the plane} passciiucr list included lR maf-