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5 SIGNALS MESS DINNER HELD

The annual mess dinner for the officers of the 5 Signals Regiment was held Saturday might at the Charlottetown

Hotel. Guest speaker was Li- —

Col, LD. Stewart, Provincial secretary who spoke on his

trip to the North American’

defence headquarters in Col- .orado Springs last year. Spe-

cial guests were Lieutenant- ‘| 2 Militia Group,

Governor F.W. Hyndman and Lt.-Col. J.G. Turney, CD, Com- mand Signal Officer, who re

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Nuclear Might For Cariada Claimed Available In Hour

By GRAHAM TROTTER

EDMONTON (CP) — Prime Minister Diefenbaker spoke con- fidently about the outcome of the next federal general elec- tion and spelled out Conserva- tive government policy on @ number of issues Safurday in a whirlwind visit to the heartland of Social Credit.

“We look forward with s7tici-» pation to the election. however gear or far it is,” he told the windup banquet of the Alberta Progressive Conservative con-

Earlier, at a press conference, he indicated that if war broke

out Canadian forces would be armed with nuclear weapons.

“Should war come, are we go- ing to arm Canadians with bows arrows?” he asked. Then he noted that Canada's 65 Voo- doo interceptors and Bomarc missiles will be more effective with nuclear warheads.

Asked whether this country get these warheads fast enough from the United States war if Canada already have them, he said he could not reply for se- curity reasons._But he referred

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At the same time, the prime minister reiterated that disarm- ament is Canada’s chief inter- national goal. “‘We don't want to do anything that will im peer the nuclear family of na-

ons.”

He dealt with a number of other subjects at the press com ference, ~~ <us .

1, Trade with Cuba: Canada’s desire was for multilateral trade to the widest possible extent. “We are not concerned with the ideological views of the cous- tries with which we trade.”

Canada was not st Cuba by trading with the Com- munist-oriented Caribbean fe publie in all but strategie ma

terials. “They are not the dollars; we are.” The trade balance was heavily in Canada’s favor.

2. Federal budgetary deficits: Sinde 1957 the Conservative gov- ernment had provided an extra $500,000,000 to the provinces. Without this ahd the heavy bur- den of the hospital program, there would have been its. “We'll be meeting the deficit situation in the very near future.” .

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battle ee Gar a vay tions at various gulf ports. Grant Taylor, streets divis- 3 - bawe' Captain Kelso said that under; jon director, said the men rence ice packs which. are| present conditions, a round trip were sent home ‘because threatening to become the bee | een could go as high as 800 they nome ea oe ow. viest in recorded history. mares, They Feut before a Captain Ed ‘Kelso, ice operat-|, Th escort job is a hazardous going out agein Sunday

t ing chief here, said Sunday the business at best and icebreak- night.” three icebreakers under his| °™® °8" operate only in daylight The men have been fight astro Appears direction were struggling to free "ours. | ing against the heaviest Feb- At Baseball Park smote: Sort se foal’ of about 39 Inches bas

throughout the gulf in ice that | ° 4 os na | ranged-up-to-30-feet-thick. Seized Ship fallen since the first of the HAVANA (AP) — Cuban Pre | on one of the icebreakers month. late Bei F may be called back here Monday ed In the latest storm,

— sai —— Sunday put 15 assist the CNR ferry William | $ Expect day and Saturday, about unannounced appearance Carson into port at nearby North | five inches of wet snow, driven | a Havana baseball’park. | Sydney. The Carson arrived [Tg Be Freed by winds of near gale force, | He went on television between | from Port aux Basques at 3 p.- was on the city.

Headlight - high drifts were piled up by the winds and many cars were abandoned

| later took a turn at the plate.| standstill in the harbor entrance SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) — Castro's disappearance from! by nightfall. She will make/|The 1,800-ton converted lake public view two weeks ago had| another attempt at daybreak |vessel Sardiand, placed under |

ae him something of a mys a enter the harbor un- arrest here Feb. 16 pending set- : ‘a ee |tlement of a claim for $17,334 by i ptain Kelso said ice condi- HB. Willis In ated of Truro Boy Dies _| tis already had equalled last |Chartotiotown, is expected to | winter's grim record and were |be freed to sail for Sheet Har-

From Injuries | “bidding fair" te get even bor, N.8,, Tuesday.

TRURO (CP) — Paul Dry- var | wits sempany nd the, sr = den, nine-year-old eon of pir, | lf We don't get a warm spell oid vessel's owner, Skipper J. and Mrs. Louis Dryden, died | 800 there’ll be ice around here Farnsworth of Sherbrooke, Que., Sunday of injuries received when | ™ June,’’ he predicted. \amd associates, said Sunday a he was struck by a taxi With only three icebreakers settlement is expected shortly. |

tobogganing om a street os See the captain said) The company claims the ves- | CP from Reuters-AP ‘ becoming increasingly /sel's owners owe it money for 4rGieRs — Terrorist killings showed no sign of a letup Sun- day despite hopes for an early cease-fire in the seven-year Al- gefian war.

At least 21 persons were killed Sunday, pushing the week-

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HALIFAX (CP) — John D | Secret Army Organization slam- ; med bazooka rockets into @

barracks of French military po- lice Sunday night, setting rag-

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placing ing fires in gasoline storage dovdanenent record of | home. He was 58. tanks. of coos before the people | Mr. Weed was Helifex wen. | OTTAWA (CP)—Three young | built of wood walls insulated by Fire engines arriving at the For Mr. ‘ce and a director of Nesbitt | children and a 87-year-old man | Sawdust. scene in the Algiers suburb of turned = Gane! wae te | Thomson and Compan Limited | died in two Ottawa fires Sat Chief O'Farrell said that when Maison Carree were blocked % hours in eee ae of Montreal and vee: I ; os | firemen arrived they were told with machine-gun fire for nearly his first visit to the 1 Alberta cap | Nova Scotia Textiles Limited ? EL ye yao warned to | *. occupants of the building an howe waite fae shot ‘o about ¢ were burn esca . ward the sky. e was pu == at - eek er out after three hours.

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death when fire believed started | Shortly afterward there were

| by an exploded space heater | reports that children were in- i swept through a weoten, | Tite: but these were not. con-

cn] ‘family. dwelling at. Gati-' later. os daring and spectacular. actions neau, Que., 10. miles east of |

gcrrames ce Gets 22 Lost In Crash Near Venezuela

Fire Chief James J. O'Farrell covered mountain while making sons on board were not imm edi. fire ag | @ landing approach on the re ately known. The plane carried | sort island of Margarita Sun-| 19 passengers and a crew of three. Margarita island is in the Caribbean Sea about 15 miles north of the peninsula of Araya on Venezuela's east coast and | about 165 miles east northeast of Caracas.- . p from the island said | the plane crashed about three F | miles from the landing field at S| the principal resort city of Por- | lamar. Weather at the time was | bad, the reports said.

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\first American to orbit the

{earth — although occasional rain may fall during the cele- bration.

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| last-minute plans for the tribute 't@ astronaut John Glenn, offic- | jals closely watched the weather

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By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

but offers such a meeting by'|

| June 1—if worthwhile progress is made at lower levels.

This was disclosed Sunday in the text of a note the president | sent to the Russian leader Sat- urday. In it Kennedy said it would be going at things back- | wards to have heads of govern- ment open the 18-nation Geneva sessions scheduled to start March 14.

Kennedy firmly rejected Khrushchev's suggestion that U.S. resumption of nuclear test- ing in the air would be an ag- gressive act.

But he credited the Russian with sincerity in his moves for a summit session.

Khrushchev twice has called | | for the heads of all the 18 gov- |

Terrorism Unabated Despite Peace Hope

lof the European right - wing, terrorist group since it launched its desperate fight against Al-' | gerian independence.

TANKS MOVE IN

The French army moved six heavy tanks and a score of other armored vehicles into the area.

It was believed that the pres- ence of a newly arrived antl- terrorist squad in the barracks was the main reason for the attack.

Among those killed in Algiers was a French air force major identified as Bernard Chabelier, commander of an air force base He was shot point blank by a 22-year-old Moslem who was immediately captured

On the outskirts of the tense European suburb of Bab-el-Qued

police found the body of a Mos- lem killed by three bullets, each of a different calibre

night in that suburb, where a’ wave of violence killed more than a score of Moslems after the death of a European eab driver Saturday.

AGENTS ARRESTED |

Government sources sald the searchers had produced impor- tant results. They hinted a num- ber of agents of the Secret Army Organiation had been nabbed.

At the same time, the secret army spread word that Satur- day’s attacks were not ordered by its headquarters. The secret army, which opposes Algerian independence, said the Bab-el- Qued killings were the result of ‘local tension and passion and discipline problems in a difft- cult area.”

Insists On Start At Lower Level

ernments te start the discus- sions.

Kennedy insisted that the dis- cussions 6 begin among foreign ministers.

But he expressed hope that ‘developments in the conference | and internationally would make it useful to arrange for the per- sonal participation of the heads of government before June 1." RE-AFFIRMS STAND

In a message which Britain fs expected to echo, Kennedy {n large measure re-affirmed the stand the two Western powers have taken consistently. ‘The latest Khrushchev summit bid was rejected informally last week soon after it was received and the 1,000-word note released Sunday contained no surprises.

This second turn - down Khrushchev’s summit plans leaves it uncertain whether the Russian leader will go to Ge neva even if the Western lead- ers do not. He might be joined there by his Communist bloc allies.

Kennedy's reply, answering a 2,500 - word message received Thursday from Khrushchev, was less truculent in tone than the Soviet premier’s.

But Kennedy did object that Khrushchev had seemed to chal- lenge the motives of himself and Prime Minister Macmillan. And he said that “it is not true, as you- allege, that the United States is seeking to establish complete control over national armaments from the beginning of the disarmament process.’

The president brought up again the problem of nuclear testing and said it was strange that Russia, which first broke the truce on atmospheric tests, now is characterizing any re- sumption of such tests by the United States, as an aggressive act

Some Gains Set As Summit Key

LAGOS (Reuters) Nigeria's reply to Premier Khrushchev’s proposed summit disarmament conference says Nigeria wants to see an area of agreement on disarmament established ‘as e@ condition precedent to a meet- ing of heads of government,”’ it was announced Saturday night.

The announcement did not

‘Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's reply to the Soviet pre mier rejected his invitation te attend 18-nation summit talks at Geneva,

Macmillan Note Being Drafted

LONDON (AP)-—Prime Minis- ter Macmillan Sunday drafted a message rejecting in moderate terms Nikita Khrushchev’s re newed call for disarmament talks at the summit next month.

The British leader’s reply te Khrushchev was made in line with President Kennedy’s note which was delivered to the So viet foreign ministry in Moscow Sunday.

Missing Banker Telephaned Wife From Kingston, Ont.

MONCTON (CP) — Mrs Robert M. Watson, wife of the 82-year-old manager of the near- \by Hillsborough branch of the \Bank of Nova 6cotia who |\prompted a search when he lfailed to return home from a business trip to Saint John,

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When he was reported miss ing Mrs. Watson said she was sure something was wrong be cause he was always thoughtful.” Mr, Watson, who left Hillsborough Monday, call- ed his wife from Seint Joho upon arrivak to tell her te would be home Tuesday @

William Wood of Saint ‘John, bank staff supervieor for New Brunswick, Friday described a remark by an RCMP spokes man in Moncton that he under-

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