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Rawalpindi And Karachi
By CONRAD FINK
NEW DELHI ‘AP) — The In- dian Army invaded Pakistan in the far north and deep south Wednesday, posing potential threats to the capital of Rawal- pindi and the major naval base at Kroaht:
Without meationi ak the new invasions, a Pakistani source in Rawalpindi said~all Indian sol- diers’ had been driven from Pakistani soi] on the Lahore front between the two new cross- ing points. The Indian Army crossed into Pakistan on -this western front Mopday.
Air battles still were being fought, but apparently on a re- duced scale. Pakistan clawed two India planes shot down and India claimed a transport plane ‘ws shot down in an attempted air raid on New-Dethi, A Pekis- tani spokesman denied there was any air raid on New Delhi.
Naval power came into: play for the first time with a Pakis- tani bombardment of the west coast port of Dwarka. ..
CHINA WARNS INDIA
On the diplomatic front, China
fired off a note to New Delhi
claiming Olndian troops were
guilty of crossing the Chinese |Wednesday not 'Chamb front of southwest. Kash-
border four times —in July and five times in August. Peking ac- cused New Delhi of “‘expansion-
ist action." a day after a Peking ygovern- ment statement accused India of aggression against Pakistan and announced an alert along the Sino-Indian border.
United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral U> Thant, on a peace; mis- sion to Pakistan and India, said in a stopover in Geneva he will put his own proposals for a ceasefire before the govern- ments of India and Pakistan
However, was not one favoring a ceasefire but-of pushing. ahead with at- tacks. to destroy Pakistan's of-
fensive_ potential. Defence Minister Y. B. Cha- van told Parliament here the
Indian Army driving into south-
east Pakistan Wednesday had captured Gadra* and was still moving ahead. Gdra_ is six miles inside Pakistan and 220 miles :east of Karachi. CLAIMS ADVANCE
The defence: minister said a
second force about 600 miles to the north had broken out of the
‘disputed border state of Kash-
mir. and was advancing Chavan said the second force crossed the northern frontier far from the
mir, where fighting between the two countries had broke out last
New Delhi's mood |
The note was issued (week. This would place the front |
‘about 100 miles southwest of Rawalpindi. He-—asseried the Indian’ ad-
vance on this front was forcing
Pakistani troops to drop back |
in the Chamb area. A govern- *ment spokesman-in- Rawalpindi; jhowever, said Pakistani had beaten back attacks on the
Chamb sector and many tndian~
soldiers had been captured. The multiple Indian attacks
jin Kshmir and other fronts to imeet the threats in the north and south. Chavan said they
;were to teach Pakistan a lesson‘
that ‘“‘aggression’’ does not pay. Indian reports ifsisted heavy fighting was. still going on the front near Lahore, 15 miles in- side Pakistan. Punishing aerial
combat and
ground strikes by air forces of | both countries continued for the | third consecutive day as each |
struggled for air supremacy.
DESTROY BOMBERS
Chavan claimed that in the last two days Indian pilots de- stroyed 21- American -—made bombers, fighters and transports of the Pakistani air. force. |Pakistani ‘fadio broadcast said India had 400—first-line—_planes and that 60 already had been destroved.
Broadcasting Industry Committee
-|s Scheduled To Report Tonight |
. OTTAWA * (CP)—After more than a year of suspense, Can- ada’s broadcasting~industry gets the word tonight on how its fu- “ture Is likely to be directed. The report of
committee, set up 16 months
AaB to take a searching look at'
“the whole field of . ‘broadcast regulation, is to..be made public at 8 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. ADT)
State Secretary Lamontagne. It will set out a series of rec- ommendations to the govern- ment, the main one expected to deal with the sensitive issue of how broadcasting should be con- trolled and who should handle such control.
Head of the special commit- tee ‘is Robert M. Fowler of 4 Montreal, 58-year-old president of the Canadian _Pulp and Pa-
the Fowler.
per Association who also was chairman of the
are Marc Lalonde, 35. -Montreal
1956-57 royal) commission. Serving with hin!
licly-owned system. and the prt
vate. broadcasting stations. Another major issue .is the
firlancing by Parliament to re-_
lawyer, and Ernest” Steele, 45, undersecretary tagne’s department.
During thier study they heard a wide range of views from broadcasters, read
more than 30 briefs, travelled
te Europe and the United States ‘cra;
and put a team of researchers to. work on specific problems.
“HEAR MANY PROPOSALS
On the question of control, the committee heard several pro- posals for diving the public and private fields. Both the CBC and the ®BG suggested the es- tablishment of separate bodies
to oversee —e of the pub-
66 Viet Cong. Said Killed
"When Marines Blast Tun nel”
{ AP) United States sweeping South Viet Nam's Batangan Peninsula in a massive hunt for Viet -Cong guerrillas blew up a_ tunnel Wednesday and killed 66 uni-
_SAIGON |
formed Viet Cong, a marine spokesman said. It was the = biggest strike
against the enemy made by the estimated 5,000 marines since- they and an undisclosed number oa South Vietnamese — troops launched a giant assault on the peninsulta-at- dawn Tuesday; The South Vietnamese killed 74 Viet Cong, military officials said.
The marine force continued to meet little resistance in their sweep aimed at smashing a re- ported Communist buildup in the area, 330 miles north of Sai- gon
Intelligence reports had. indi- cated as many as 1,000 guerril-
las’ were in thearea. But a US intelligence officer said he be- lieved the Viet Cong began pull- ing out three days ahead of the attack.
Twenty miles U.S. Lair. base at large South Vietnamese
south of the Da. Nang, a force
‘was engaged Wednesday in its’
fourth straight day of rugged
‘fighting with the Viet Cong.
TAKE CASUALTIES
An American with a ranger group, one of the dutfits engaged in the fight, said: “We have taken more casualties in the unit uring this operation than alto-
‘gether in the past three years.”
In another move aimed at smashing guerrilla troop concen- trations, 12 U.S. B-52 jet bomb- ers from Guam dropped nearly
~ 500,000 pounds of bombs ‘on a
suspected Viet Cong stronghold less than 25 miles. from Saigon.
in Mr. Lamon-|
throug’ television,
tro). of CATV systems and
place the present year-by-year appropriation. A 10-year-7period- "has been suggested.
Other items the committee was asked to study include color which the © govern- has since decided will. in 1967, . political ~ bro&d- casts and the system of grant- ing licences to private stations. |
Community antenna” TV sys tems were excluded from the terms of reference but the com- mittee is reported ‘to have taken an interest in this special field and may have some comments on it. The cofmmunity antenna | stations—known as, CATV—use | a large master ‘antenna to’ pick up broadcasts which are~then fed to subscribers by cable.
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QUEEN OF FURROWS CROWNED
rows’ Carolyn Campbell of Whim Road at Dundas Wed- nesday afternoon. Her princes- ses were Emma_ MacDonald, Poplar Point, left, and Audrey
President Leslie. Hunter of the Prince Edward Island Plowing Match Association places crewn on the head of smiling” “Queen of the _Fur-
Behind- Seenes Planners. MappingElection Strategy
By STEWART MacLEOD "grams that came in during. the OTTAWA ‘(CP)—With the ini- night. Like the prime minister, tial excitement of the election he is expected to get his cam- announcement gone, the back- paign rolling by late next week room planners of the various po-| after the party's national. cam- litical parties are mapping. the paign committee meets here istrategy that will usher in a this weekned to chart strategy. full - blown campaign. “The Quebec wing of the party On the, surface, Ottawa ap- Plans its strategy meeting in St. peared to settle into a lull Wed- Hyacinthe’ in the Sept. 19 nesday on the heels of the Tues- The Conservative party began
..The.. BBG...does__not.have._con-..day-—-night-—-.announcement—~by~-gearing --.itself....for...an... lection
Vale. broademsters” critical. of this.
Negro Actress Is Found Dead
HOLLYWOOD (AP)—Dorothy Dandridge, beautiful Negro .Singer-actress, was found dead Wednesday in her Sunset Strip area apartment.
‘have beet
The cause was not immedi- ‘ately learned. Sheriff's -deputies, who made.
the identification, said her man-
lager found the body.
Miss Dandridge, 41, started as a band vocalist and climbed to stardom in such films as Porgy and Bess and Carmen Jones. She won an academy. award nomination for the latter.
In recent years she had suf- fuered from financial troubles.
But she kept working.
- Pope May Meet Johnson
+On Oct. 4 Visit To UN
VATICAN CITY «AP)-—Pope Paul, already. the most widely travelled Roman Catholic pon-
tiff, will go to the United States, Vatican ‘that’
Oct. 4 to_address the United Na- tions and offer a public mass for peace.
It will be the first visit to the continent by a reigning pope and the longest papal voyage in his- tory—4,066 miles from Rome to New York.
Pope Paul has visited the Holy Land and he flew to Bombay, India. -a distance of 3,954 miles, last December:
His stay in New York will be less than 24 hours.
A tentative Vatican _ schedule said he will leave that same night, arriving back in. Rome next day.
His arrival, is scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT.)
“B federal After speaking fo the UN as-- may be. The premier at a press multi-national
olics in one of New York’ s huge stadiums
It was believed possible in the the. Pope would meet Président Johnson in New York. The White House in Wash- ington said there were no plans for a meeting but it did not rule out the possibility Johnson has! accepted an invitation to dine in New York Oct. 3 with Am- bassador Arthur J. Goldberg and ‘other members of the. U.S. delegation to the” UN.
Bennett Predicts Minority Gov't
VICTORIA (CP) Ww. A..C. Bennett predicted. a minority govern- ment for the winner of the Nov. election—whoever it
— Premier
Wednesday
Vatican officials make no se- cret of their hope that the trip may help bring about U.S.-Vati- can Hiptomatic relations.
The absence of these ties was obvious in the way the Pope dis- closed his acceptance of an in- | viattion from UN Secretary-Gen- eral U Thant
Pope Paul had his secretary of state. Amleto Cardinal Cicog* nani, call in diplomatic envoys accredited to -the Vatican and inform them of his decision to go to the UN.
The Washington government was not represented at the méeting in Cardinal Cicognani's -apartment.
Presumably Pope Paul’ Ss man- ner of disclosing his plans—by calling -in diplomats and having the Vatican press office then. |s- sue an announcement—reflected the character his visit to a world _ organiza-
sembly—apparently with an ap- conference here would not say) | tion. He announced his previous who he-thi
oe
celebrate mass for Roman Cath-.
government. i
ips in speeches al major
j church events.
pri- Prime, Minister Pearson that. a
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general election would be held”
TIDES HIGHEST SINCE 1926S
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sion" B Manding an i bombings of North Viet Nam.
s delegation
b Opens On
By WILLIAM NEVILLE
OTTAWA (CP)—United States policy in Viet Nam took a steady pounding from the Com- munist Bloc Wednesday as the 54th inter-parliamentary confer- ence opened 10 days of debate on world issues.
The U.S. offered only a pass- ing rebuttal ~ Iron Curtain nations domi-
nated the speakers list for the
| first general session and they took full » ord half a
vantage of it to rec: Ozen speeches con- demning American_-‘a gg r es- in Southeast Asia and de- immediate “end to
The U.S. delegation got its. chance to reply -in-the-day, bit leader Alexander |Pirnie, a Republican congress- man from New York, concen- ‘trated much of his 15-minuté ad-
dress on disarmament propo- a | sals ' On Viet Nam, he sald only
that the U.S. shares the general
| NEW HANDLES | RAISE SPARKS
soe BUCKINGHAM, Que.
MacDonald, De Gros Marsh. Events at the plowing match and agricultural fair contifiue today. ‘See also pictures and stories on pages 3 and 5.)
Broom handles mailed to “Quebec” mayors by -the--pro-« _vincial government almost caused several angry | breaks in provincial-municti- ~ pal refations Wednesday. The bropm handles ar- rived with a green tag ask- “Ing ‘the mayors to attach the suitable tool" and clean up their municipali- _ ties. Was Quebec City suggest- ing there was corruption in
some time ago, and national df- rector Richard Thrasher said he
had information ~ weeks their local governments?
sap that the date would be Nov. the mayors wondered.
“Mr. Diefenbaker has indicated - a a4 oo tae >
that he will do most of his cam- bail tae nee ae. -
paigning by train—‘I get closer sun ‘a : -
to-the-people:*’ mayors _ clean Bad eed municipalities or n-
T. C. Douglas. leader of the ideaithl Year that a. 7
New Democratic Party, is re sContinuod... on..page.. 3.Col...2)
Monday, Nov. 8... None of the party. leaders is expected to ™ mount’ a major campaign } as-
sault until next week.
In. the. meantime, the seaty workers—who have quietly been. at work for months on an ex-, pected campaign—brqught some — agpAg. Fla. (4P)—Hurricane, of their activities into the open. Betsy hurled its mighty winds Meetings were being _ called and a destructive wall-of water and ‘‘brain-stofming"’ ~ sessions. across the populous winter play- planned to get the party leaders ground of south Florida Wed- off on thé hustings. Prime Min- nesday, then churned relent- ister Pearson spent the day im jessiy on into the gulf of Mexico.
his east block office carrying on Three deaths were attributed to- with—official business. He at- Betsy.
tended—an—afternoon——cabinet+~[eaving dozens of big. rich meeting to get formal approval cities and small towns flooded for the proclamations that offi- ang battered behind it, the hur- cially dissolve Parliament. Gov- ricane began a slow turn toward ernor - General Vanier had al-'the northwest in the warm gulf ready given his.approval to dis- waters and headed for a new, solution. unknown target.
Mr. Pearson is not expected ag Betsy swept farther away to start campaigning until Sevt. from Florida, red-and-black: hur- 17 when ‘he goes to Espanola. ricane warning flags were pulled Ont., in his own Algoma East gown throughout the. peninsula riding, to attend a high school _ 915 qdavs after they were convocation. It was hoped that posted. ‘ t his nomination convention could The. tempest be scheduled for the next day. tions of Miami, Miami Beach and he would blast off the ¢am-—and Fort Leutdecdaie_as_well paign_in_his own riding. as_many_smallér. communities .in MAKE. SCHEDULES the Florida _Keys—flooded by
Party official’ were the highest tide since the dis-
left large sec-
working
| on schedules that would fly the astrous hurricane of 1926. Eariy
damage _ estimates ranged up to ore than $100;000,000 The small business - adminis- tration in Washington desig- Opposition Leader Diefen- nated all sections of Florida hit baker began his dav by read- DY Betsy © as: disaster areas, ing ‘ batch of well-wishing tele- clearing the way for low-interest — Tehabilitation loans to homeow ers, businesses and churches. Abandoned automobiles drifted crazily in a ‘crashing surf thaf reached far beyond Miami Beach's normally sunny.
prime minister back and_fort across Canada in an intensive campaign over the following. six weeks.
Cadets Register For Coast Guard
SYDNEY. NS. (CP)—Cadets S2ndy shore: Water surged from Canada’s 10 provinces ar- rived Wednesday night to regis- ter for the first class at the'. INSIDE TODAY new Canadian coast guard offi- n cers training college at nearby Classified
Point Edward ptcttseomnge eee About 40 students are ex- Deaths pected to arrive within the next Comics few days. college officials said Sport Wednesday. Wonien Although the fermal training Raral churches classes do not-begin until Sept.. Editorials 15. the students will take part Summerside ...-........3 in a number of sea cruises, ings. Queens, City .:.... 5 * Prince County ees 2
which will enable them to ob- tain a first hand look at coast
_will onvolve 300,000 square feet
= Secon by 1966
| guard WEUICE: = Saat
Betsy Damage M ounting.
three feet deep in Miami's Home- palm-lined Biscayne Boulevard. And Fort Lauderdale’s pictur- esque canals leaped over their banks.
The gigantic storm—600 miles from edge to edge—reserved its highest winds of 145 miles an
parent heart attack. at stead, south of Miami.
About 80 per cent of Miam! and Fort Lauderdale was * with- out electricity. :
An estimate: 25,000 telephones were out of service in Greater Miami. alone.
hour for the keys, the chain of At Key West, the U.S. weather
small islands curving away bureau said “water damage
from the tip of Florida. should run very high—into the Damage was tremendous, Millions of dollars along the
mounting hourly, and Governor keys.
Haydon Burns was expected to Some large shrimp boats were
ask President Johnson to de- sunk in Key West harbor.
clare all of southern Florida a Smaller pleasure ¢raft were de-
concern over this “ordeal” and wants an early pace: The John- t son administration. repeatedly has made clear its ‘‘uncondi- tional readiness’ to negotiate a peaceful settlement.
AIMS BLAME '
Apart from these brief re marks, the main defence of Western policy in Viet Nam came from Australian MP Wil- liam J. Aston. He placed full blame for the situation on the Communists and said his coun- try is not interested in anything less than a genuine settlement which would ‘pfotect the integ- tity of South Viet Nam.
Kashmir, the world's other major trouble spot of the mo- of discussion, _but in _Renerally
Canadian Plane Destroyed
US. Policy In Viet Nam
Is Pounded At Ottawa * 10 Days Of Debate
lop Issues
less heated tones. Most of the ment, also came up for plenty days’ 2-odd speakers declined to take sides in the Pakistan- India war and settled for a gen- eral call for an end to hostili- ties and peaceful negotiations.
The major exception was In- dian representative Harish Chandra Mathur, whe accused Pakistan of ‘‘naked aggression” in Kashmir, congratulated his own country for unmatched re- straint, and issued a general in- vitation for efforts to find a peaceful solution.
All this came after Prime Minister Pearson, in his first ap- | pearance since his Nov. 8 — tion announcement
Se acres are on page 3 Col. 32>
| Fa mh Index Is Boosted_
OTTAWA (CP)—The index>ef prices received, by farmers for their produce stood at 271.9 is July compared to 267.3 in June, the Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday.
The boost was due to higher
__eiprices for livestock and pota-
toes. e The index, based of the 1935-39 averages equalling 100, had risen 27.2 points since Jan- uary. July's index level by prov- inces, with June comparison bracketed: Prince Edward I[s- land 469.9 (407), Nova Scotia 289.2 (276.5), New Brunswick 382.7 (380.9), Quebec 316.3 (312), Ontario 0.7 (276.5), Manitoba 239.2 (239.9), Saskatchewan 215.1 214), Alberta 244.4 (242.1), Brit- ish Columbia 904.8 (295.9).
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At Indian-Held Air Field
DAVE _ McINTOSH. ack
(CPi An RCAF
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‘ing for the United Nations in iKashmir has been destroyed on)
Consideration. is being given to halting the ‘aid program as
--\Caribou-—transport—plane.. -work-..longas_.the..war_lasts.. but,..ime_¢.
‘formants said, there is no im- itmhediate prospect of this and it
ithe: ground--—-by——-eannen— -and_|may—not-be—done. at.all......
crocker fire from Pakistani fight-- “ers, informants said Wednes- — s
‘he plane was empty: and none of the seven-man RCAF | crew was injured when, the at- tack took place Tuesday at | Srinagar in the Indian-held part of Kashmir.
Officially, the external affairs department declined to say how the plane was cause it doesn't want to take sides in the India-Pakistan war.
The Caribou, bearing UN markings, was set afire when it was strafed.
Meanwhile, the cahjnet. dered a review of Cana
or
destroyed be-’
"Prime Minister
The external the posting of some aid workers and teachers fo India and Paki- stan may be postponed.
Canada has never given Paki- ‘stan military aid and its mille tary assistance to India, com- pleted in 1963 after China's 1962 attack on northeast India, was mainly limited to transport equipment.
Indian High Commissioner Bejoy Krishna - Acharya saw Pearson for about 2 minutes” Wednesday and delivered a personal letter from Prime Minister Shastri.
There are about 1,400 Cana-
s in India. and about 465 in
lations with India and Pakistan, , Pakistan but only some 120 im
including the foreign aid pro- gram.
the danger zones of Lahore and Amritsar. '
federal disaster area. clearing posited in the flooded streets. the way for low-cost rehabilita- oa ae tion loans y a
THREE DIF
Three deaths were attributed to Betsy
4 woman. was electrocuted by, a falling power line—in-—-Miami., | Another was found dead in- the}
driveway of her West Palm Beach home. near the furiously- hanging doors of her garage.
The third Cictim died of an ap _
Moncton To Get $4 Million Shopping Centre
MONCTON (CP) —‘A $4,000,-. 000 shopping centre with more than 40 retail outlets will be butit on Main Street here, it. was announced Wednesday,
The stores, including an Ea-/| ton's of Canada Ltd, depart- | ment store and- a Sobey's Lid. supermarket, will iface on an}
enclosed mall The. development
of shopping space.
William Sobey. president—of Canadian Shopping Centres Moncton) Lid, told a press) conference construction would begin in October. i
4 spokesman for Eaton's said his firm hoped to have its store
Refugees from Hurricane Betsy in Miami, Fla, wade in knee deep water. carrying
odie ae escape
high tides that sent water seeping into their homes Wednesday. The a evac 1at-
ed_is a section of Coral Gab- (AP Wirepheto)
HURRICANE REFUGEES WADE TO SAFETY lee fronting on Biscayne Bag.
This photo was made by Joh Pneda of the Miamt Herald.
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