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part in competition in this ee. He won the Cana-

diati~ Championship yesterday in British Columbia.

PEKING SHOWS NO ENTHUSIASM

US. Policy Towards Red China Seen Broadened By New Offer

ng — “the

a further broadening of eg Policy to- ward China, said Thursday that qualified mainland Chinese sci- entists and scholars will be al- lowed to come to study at)

WASHINGTON“

.American universities.

So. far Peking has shown aul enthusiasm about this offer, nor

—about—others—which_might bring

some thawing of the long freeze between the two countries, U.S. sources said:”

Some eight years ago the United States approved ‘ travel to China by U.S. correspondents. Last December it said U.S. health specialists could go. Last

~ month it cleared visits—by—U.S.-

States “American, universities to invite:

scientists and scholars. :

With few exceptions, however, the stridently anti - American Peking regime has kept - its doors closed in the face of the modifying U.S. policy.

The state department press officer, Robert J. McCloskey, said Thursday “the United is prepared to permit

Chinese ‘scientists and scholars

to visit tena universities, and| “the Chinese Communists ae been advised of this."

INQUIRIES MADE .... Without identifying the ‘TS. | jens he said.

several |

Charlotte — Stricken —

OTTAWA, (CP): Charlotte Whitton, former mayor of Ot- tawa, was rushed to _ hospital Thursday after sufferihg a weak spell at the wheel of her car. Her housekeeper;—Mrs:—Nina Williams, said she, received a telephone—call from the Civic Hospital saying Miss Whitton had been admitted shortly be-

fore 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Williams said she‘ was told Miss had been

found slumped over the steer- ing wheel of her car by a drug store clerk. The clerk called po- lice who took Miss Whitton to hospital.

have inquired of the ‘state de- jpartment in recent weeks about invitations for visits by Chinese ischolars and scientists.

He said also he knows of no |Peking response.

As for. Nationalist China |(Formosa), he said the matter has been discussed with U.S. ally. He did not give the

__|Nationalist reaction.

.|. And while Washington would; prefer that*mainland China act

according to the principle of

exchanging visits, he said the U.S. is not insisting on a one- for-one trade on each visit. While the U.S. does not recog- nize the Peking government, it holds—__periodic __ ambassadorial talks at Warsaw with China’s ambassador there and presum-, ably used this channel to out-

scientists and scholars.

But generally, U.S. officials say, the Peking representatives have rebuffed various U.S. sug- gestions unless the United States abandons its support of Nationalist China. This the U.S. refuses to do.

hsitetarice inhi ood Fight ls Federal Cabinet epic

By STUART LAKE OTTAWA (CP) — An agree-

ment to pay 75 per cent of the| Manitoba Premier Duff Rob- gestions are.

in discussions between federal and provincial officials.-

cabinet meeting Thursday.

cost of fighting the Red River lin also has asked for additional flood in Manitoba and consid- laid for flood victims and costs | eration of the Steven Truscott |of rebuilding. This is still-under | case took up most of a 22-hour |consideration, Mr. Pearson said.

i aay | A detailed report on Truscott |

Prime Minister Pearson told (wa 0 —-eabine

reporters that ‘‘a_definition of |Solicitor-General Pennell. Mr. what is included’: in fighting [Pearson said the report outlined | the flood is to be reached later several possibilities on what ae- :

Steel Framework Complete For Tall Toronto Building

By..JACK..GRAY ifeeder, passing some of the 497,- TORONTO (CP) — A gold- 954 bolts used on this job to |

painted. bolt Thursday pinned jother workers.

the final steel beam to the com-| The building was started |

tion could be taken wouldn’t say what these sug-}

|STRESSES IMPORTANCE The cabinet was not going to lrush into a matter of such im- \portance. It will- give it the lcareful consideration. it de- —announce—a—de- leision as quickly as possible. Truscott, now 21, was 14 when ‘he was-convictedof the stran- \gling death of 12-year-old Lynne \Harper at«Clinton, Ont. in late |1959. He now is serving a life jsentence at Collins Bay peni- tentiary in Kingston, Ont. Mrs. Isabel LeBourdais, au- thor of a book which casts doubt

Ottawa to learn first-hand of the ‘cabinet's disposal of the case.

‘Mr. Pearson also revealed he on ‘the

this

line its new policy on visits by!

But he |

on the guilt of Truscott, was in ||

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, “FRIDAY. APRIL 15, 1968.

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IsOttawa s March Report.

OTTAWA (CP)—There_ were more workers, more jobs, and

booming economy continued~-to whittle down unemployment across Canada. ‘

A federal report Thursday es- timated mid-March unemploy- ment at 341,000, a drop of. 15,- 000 from February and 46,000 below the Mareh;~-1965,—level._of 387,000.

During the month the labor force increased by 40,000 to reach-7,162,Q00:..But-another_ 55,- 000 jobs were opened up by ex- -jpansion in non-farm industries and_total__employment jumped to 6,821,000.

The national unemployment rate fell to 4.8 per cent from five in February. It was down significantly from 5.6 per cent

in March of 1964:-

Seasonally adjusted, - the March rate stood at 3.3 per cent, lowest figure for the month in more than 10 years. March employment was 300,- 000 higher than a year earlier, equal to a 4.6-per-cent gain. During. the last 10°years the av- erage March-to-March job in- crease has been 2.5 per cent. The report, prepared jointly by the Dominion. Bureau of Sta-

is e

QUEBEC (OP)—The - = health

in March of last year and 6.8)

Visit To Mexico —

: mmig pre oen S manpower said employment was

notice.

lably_ higher-in all regions dur-

Best job gains over the year- i to-year comparison: -were--shown.; by Ontario, up 3.9 per cent, | and British Columbia, up _ 5.7. percent.

Farm. employment, however, continued its long decline with |

Johnson Makes

MEXICO (Reuters) — Presi- dent Johnson arrived in Mexico | City by air Thursday night tor | an informal 22-hour visit, his | first to a foreign capital in his 29 months as president of the United States:

He flew in from Texas with |” Mrs. Johnson and State Secre- |

2 More Heavy Die From Heart Attack In Que. »

tary Dean Rusk. ie |

Beer Drinkers

¢ destroyed and réclaimed all of | Pe beer already on the market,

Analysis of the beer, ‘the com- |

of Pathology; the New York medical examin- ers office and the Institute of the National

n_de- 475.000 jobs in March as com-

‘ltaken over Thursday by Beira’s

Slayers Get

|econvicted slayers of Black na-

js. (parole after 26 years and eight

Local Entries

pa lier. As__ usual, Variations In 1 ployment rates with the Atlan- tic area showing 10.5 per cent of its labor force out of work and’, Ontario only 2.9. A year earlier the Atlantic rate was 12.5 and Ontario’s.3.1. ~ Unemployment rates in other regions, with the year-earlier|* figure bracketed: Quebee 6.5 iper cent (7.8); Prairies 3 (4.2); British Columbia 4.9 (5.1).

Tanker. Seized

there were ' wide

FORMER PLAYER

"Frank Nighbor of Pembroke, Ont., the ‘‘Pembroke Peach’ when he played with Ottawa’

First And Fifth _

—|3.4 more than Yvon Belisle of St. ‘| Dr> €arl Willis, 28, of Charlotte- Eustache, Que.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. -(CP)

plowing | championships day at this Fraser Valley com- | 60 iniles cast of Vancou-

“ver.”

. ODE. “Willis is a son of ‘Stanley Willis, Cornwall, who won the Canadian plowing championship at Caledon Ont,, in 1963.)

i i—Flowing in fertile soil damper- |

ed by overnight rain, Dr. Willis piled up 166.2 points to lead Cul- tus Lake farmer Tom Hickman |who won the B.C. plowing cham- pionship the day before. Hick- man had 164.2 points.

Keith Robinson of Cookstown, \Ont., placed third among the 14 ‘eompetitors from eight provinc- es ashe picked —up—161.2-points,

Pp. ese Senators in the National~Hoc- By ortugue: ; ‘key Association, forerunner of BEIRA, Mozambique (Reut-| the National Hockey Leazue,

died im hospital Thursday of cancer. He was 73. © (CP Wirephoto)

ers)—The Yoanna V, the state- less ship with oil. apparently destined---for~-Rhodesia;-—was.|_:

port captain in the name of the Poftuguese government. : The Panamanian flag, which ireplaced the Greek flag at the | vessel's stern only 48 hours be- fore, was lowered as Portugal assumed control. anama annouficed’ Tuesday it had revoked the Ionna V’s registration. It gave no reason ‘but said earlier it would cancel 'the- registration if the ship was using it as a subterfuge to break the United Nations oil

= Snow Sets Records In Euro

LONDON. ‘Geten —.the worst spring snowstorms in many years hit Britain, the Low Countries, northern Germany and Scandinavia . Thursday, ty-

ing traffic in knots and playing embargo against Rhodesia, the |havoc with timetables.

British ‘colony wifose regime.

rebel|~Atotal of 33 counties ia ae seized.in-|land _and Wales were alfecton: Sapenee ee last recorded

was struggling its way out of a blizzard that began [Wednesday night and buried most of the ‘country in nearly ~|six—-feet—of —snow.—It--was .Den- mark’s coldest April weather and heaviest spring snowfall in 80 years.

The howling spring blizzard blew across Northern Europe from Siberia.

Even along the channel coast

Life Terms

NEW YORK (AP)—The three

tionalist leader Malcolm X. were sentenced Thursday to life terms in prison.

of northeastern France, snow Mrs. Betty Shabazz, Mal-ifey in a sudden change from colm’s widow, was present |spring to winter weather and

when the third of the defend- ants was sentenced in a heav- ily-guarded courtroom.

The three will be eligible for

temperatures plunged below freez

In Britain deep snow lay over most southern counties and the heaviiest April snow for 30 years’ brought Bristol to a_ standstill, with its airport closed_and all roads blocked by abandoned

months.

Normal 3X Butler, |; 27, and Thomas 15X Johnson, 30, both of the Bronx, and Talmadge |ecars. (Thomas. Hagan) Hayer, 24, of Paterson, N.J., were , found

pleted framework of the 740- fent Toronto - Dominion Bank

wer, tallest building in the Commonwealth.

April 1, ° 1964: On completion it | jhas ordered a report

\000 Toronto-Dominion Centre be- spy George Victor Spencer. The itween Bay and York streets on |former Vancouver postal clerk

will be the hub of the $125,000,- 'RCMP's surveillance of alleged | :

i\King St.

Planned is 2% acres. of land- scaped plaza in front of the 56- |storey building. Flanking it will ibe: a 44-storey office. building land a single-storey banking hall.

Three floors underground . will | contain —a—shoppi concourse and parking for automobiles.

From the roof on a clear day you can see the other side of ranged by officials. '30-mile-wide Lake Ontario and

Iron worker Gary Poirier, 26, sightseeing “towers at Niagara of Vancouver guided the beam |Falls 10 miles father south.

into position in the open frame- INSIDE TODAY

The 2,500-pound beam, also painted gold, bore a Canadian flag on a welded flagpole as it came over the edge of the roof of the 56-story tower.

Fireworks went off when it passed every fifth floor on the | way up. From below, dwindled by distance, came faint strains from a band that played for a “topping off’’ ceremony ar-

work a short distance from | where guests stood on a planked |

floor.

Willis (Sparky) Sparks, .65, of} Classified ........ 12, 13, i" Toronto, popped in the gold| Deaths ............... bolt. - BEN os wer as feces cs u GIVEN PENSION CHEQUE CONE: i vere eeeeiess 11

The action marked Sparky’s | SSS e rahe teats kN q

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retirement. He was immediately | > i k t 0 presented with his first pension | sauaeta ee ee : cheque and also with the gold| Editorials © ........... : bolt asa souvenir. Summerside .......:...... 3 . It was the first bolt driven| > ndllp-scchtreng Cy «s... . by the former fisherman and | Prince County ieee 2 miner. He had been a bolt |

~itoo early now to say just what

itive

jwas found dead Saturday night

jand police say he had been dead four to six days before his

was found by a. neighbor.

ASKED AROUT ORDER li

Mr. Pearson was asked: about | la report that the Mounties were |

ordered. to “discontinue Bh al é

lance over Spencer.

“It certainly wasn’t issued by me and I know of no such or- der,” he said.

But the watch over Spencer | wasn't necessarily a 24-hour | one, he said. It- had. been |‘adapted to necessity.”

Costs of fighting the Manitoba

ai flood could reach $20,000,000, the prime minister said. But it was

the’ figure’ would be.

‘Mr: Roblin had paid ‘‘a fine tribute’ to federal authorities | for aid his. province has re-

ceived so far. This included: help from the defence forces and the} Emergency Measures. Organiza-| ition.

“A fine eXample of co-opera. | federalism in action,” grinned Mr. Pearson. \

| were tnade last night during

NURSING ASSISTANTS WIN PRIZES

Highest average during pre- clinical period was awarded to

| three graduates of the Cen-

tral Schoolkfor Nursing Assist: ants of P.E.l. The awards

(FROM | THE

annual graduation exercises held at Riverside auditorium. Making the presentations was Dr, O.H> Curtis, -deputy—min- ister of health. Seen here LEFT) are

Red Liner Is Towed |

HELSINKI (Reuters) — The Montreal - bound luxury liner + |Alexandr- Pushkin, the Soviet

Union’s first big entry-in the *|transatlantic passenger shipping race, had to be towed through +{thick-ice_in the Gulf of Finland

Thursday.

-| Two Soviet ice-breakers were }|called in to clear a path through

a thick belt of ice off the south coast of Finland and one of i|them took the liner in tow.

guilty by a jury of three women | and nine men March 11.

Cattle Deaths Probe Asked’

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty. has asked the RCMP to investigate reports cattle are

starving to death on the Flying L Ranch, an experimental ranch

\land’s Burin peninsula. President Harold Duffett of the Newfoundland SPC said the

deaths of many cattle.on the ranch. Residents reported more than 60 dead and dying eows have been seen at one time and ees timated te one reeiers, rt” 90 “may fiave starved:

ae os ee ae

the jon the ranch.

MONTREAL (CP) -More— than $6,000,000 worth of exhib- its for the Canadian -govern-

ment pavilion at Expo 67 were previewed. Thursday by H:—Les- lie Brown, commissioner - gen- ‘eral, Canadian government par- ticipation.

He “used color slides to show reporters at a press conference at. Place Ville Marie rium the inside -of -the $21,000,- 000 federal pavilion and _ its huge inverted pyramid.

Models will portray the land, growth and people of Canada and “show the challenges which have shaped the nation’s achievements.” Mr. Brown | said.

“Over 100 exhibits have been designed for the pavilion and exhibit contracts valued at more than $3,000,000 have al- ready been awarded manufac- turers, ‘enginéering firms, film producers and other companies. ‘Many leading Canadian ar- tists have’ been commissioned to create other exhibits.”

Attractions will range from a ‘| revolving o—an_energy | court paved. with coal and oil sands lit by natural gas flares. Kinetic .scuptures, audio-visual devices and computers will be

Audito- |

Thurs- "hills of

two years ago on -Newfound- | __

Pecks “entry, mare Bay Fortune | fifth with 155.8 points. All competitors were allowed on two hours on stubb

| tor-drawn plows.

Other results:

6. Robert Armstrong, Brant- 'ford, Ont., 151; *

7._Allison Briggs, Plaster Rock, N.B., 149.5;

8. Ange..Aime. Leduc, St. Clet, Que., -148.5;

9. E.R. Demman, High Bluff, Man., 143.2. -~~10,-Walley..Mars, ,Saanichton, B.C., 141.8.

11. Alfred J. Poole, Kemnay, Man., 135.6; : 12. Gary Gray, Midland, NB.,

13. Elmer Nelson, Prince Al- bert, Sask., 130.6; 14. Andy’ Oranchuk, Prince Al- bert, Sask., 119.7.

Dike Patrols Are Reduced

WINNIPEG (CP)—Dike

association had heard of the |northward

Federal Pavilion’s Exhibits Are Previewed At ‘Montreal

Mr--Bro said—-one—highlight will be a stylized maple. tree six storeys high whose 500 col-

nadians at work and leisure.

The revolving theatre, di- vided into six pieshaped seg- ments, will rotate audiences a more than 1,000 through a suc- cession of motion picture shows on a wide screen or three smaller screetis.

This production will last about 30 minutes and offer glimpses of Canadian ae

The maple tree use ramps to allow 30 ica at a time in its branches. Tis thenied are cultural adaptation, ethnic diversity, urban growth and

work patterns of Canadians.

Most of the exhibits pre- viewed Thursday were- designed for the challenges area, whose ‘ 90,000 square t is about 45 per cent of the pavilion’s total. They will dramatize uses of. energy in mining and industry and show methods of communi. cation used to move . goods, and people across Canada. Vis- itors will be able to inspect the- workings of a mine and walk

pipelines. Mr. Brown's announcement was released to the press be-

included.

VANCOUVER (CPraahieuaed spy George Victor Spencer died : a natural causes, a coroner’s |jury said Friday after hearing medical evidence.

The -jury’s verdict came after city pathologist Dr. T. R. Har- mon said Spencer died a nat- ural death. when a ~bloodclot choked the main artery to his only remaining Jung.

He said he believed..the clot: was the result of a major can- cer. operation in March, 1965, in which Spencer's left, lung was removed. ~

lof pulmonary’ thrombosis,

fore delivéry.

of the case, Prime Minister step—personally telephoned the accused spy at his ._ Vancouver home and asked him

wanted a judicial inquiry

Spencer said he did, and Mr

Pearson then announced an in- quiry would be held into the}

sal.

The jury at Thursday's in- | quest took only 15 minutes to reach its verdict: ‘‘We find he. came to his death as the result | sec: ondary to resection of the left lung We classify his death as

tember class; Paula Connolly,

Charlottetown, May class; and {his government job but was Paulette Grant, Souris; Jan- |never charged. uary class, (See story on page | “Following opposition demands

3) in the Commons for a hearing

| natural.”

Doctors testified Spencer ap- parently died about four to six | days before his body was found Saturday night.

They said no traces of poisons |

Spencer

Pearson—in an unprecedented { etter's

Dr. Harmon, quoting from written by Spencer's

doctors and a psychiatrist who

if he|treated him, told of a “fright- ‘ened

little. man" who appar- ently. abandoned — a pledge to stop drinking because of the

aspects surrounding his dismis- | Pressure. he was under.

Dr. George Saxton, Spencer‘s

chest surgeon, that Spencer, 61, had been a heavy drinker during the See- ond World War—he was dee. |orated during the war—but fer the past few years had limited ‘his drinking to two to five bot- tles of beer a day.

‘Any man who is over 60. and who has had an entire lung re- moved is living a precarious ex- listence,”’ Dr. Saxton wrote.

Dr. Harmon speculated Spen-

Russia. He was dismissed from | or barbiturates were found, but beer had suffered’ considerable id have a blood alco- 'pain shortly before his death as

hol level/ of 24 parts per 1,000, a restilt. of the moving blood well above the 15 usually con-jelot and drank heavily to ease

sidered the impairment level.

the pain’

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George Victor Spencer's Death Reported Caused By Blood Clot

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