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Wives of the British para’. hushands on the boat in the Chay Blyth’ places his hands troopers who rowed the Eng- ~<a of Galway, Ireiand — on. the shoulders of ‘his wife, fish Rows. tI ‘uesday Capt. John Ridgway, Maureen,
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-Regional Issues Crop Up In Transport Bill Debate.
OTTAWA ‘TP The
gOV- areas wheie.- atherailways could |board
wouldn't *
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ernment got a taste Tuesday of boost rates without fear of los-. other bureaucratic colossus."
the regional issues that are sure.
ing business because theyhave
to continue cropping up in Com: jcaptive shippers—those without SEES HIGHER COSTS
mons debate on the oniassive | bill to revamp transport legis- lation
An Alberta wheat’ farmer .ex- pressed fear the bill _- would throw western farmers ‘‘to the wolves’ as far as rail freight tates. are concerned. A Nova Scotia lawyer expressed _siml-
far fears for—the -Maritimes;
And Creditiste Leader Caou- ette said the - legislation would mean higher costs to consum- ers
The big hill proposes to cut. Are Hen! —-s = “railway freight aperati nson_a. progressive scale, freéing the railways to set rates -competi- tive with other forms of trans- | port.
The railways: would be aki lowed th Scrap. uneconomic branch lines and money-losing passenger lines to improve their competitive position.
The bill also would create a
Sttery
any choice’ except,.to—ship—by- rai
Ht Russell MacEwan (PC — Pictou), a lawyer,-noted the bill would freeze ‘rail freight rates | jin the Maritimes es two years |pending a study.\'
“What happens at the end. of the two-year period? That's
what bothers me.”’
He asked for a guarantee that there would be no change after the had
jin’ Maritime | study until
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rates Parliament
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| general- objectives of the bil a hoped the proposed new iat a pad eee eres
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| By THE CANADIAN PRESS
|tives were
Mr, Caouette said there.will be “higher ests for consumers if the railways are going to in
he - added. H. W. Herridge enay West)
(NDP—Koot- said the railways
|should not be allowed to refuse needed passenger services yet |
still run profitable freight serv- ices on the same line. He-cited the CPR’s Kettle Valley line in ne Columbia a9. a0..exame. e 7 ple si i = bridge) said the government should have sent the bill to a committee for detailed scm nation before seeking second reading, approval in principle. Because —it—hadn‘t——Conserva- > left no alternative but to vote against it at second” reading. The bill” affected all parts of the country except the stretch
between Windsor, Qnt., and
new stiper-board to takeover =
all seeimata tila ot the ‘transport | | TU ESDAY, Sept. 6, 1966 (Montreal. The committee
field oe mediator Carl ‘should have heen set up to hear " , Golden ri i os Teste Hee _Jack Horner | an at ee bee head views of all. interested part.
(PC—Acadia) told” the Com- | work and allow a start on | Maurice Allard (Ind - PC—
mons Tuesday that the. bill's ef- fect would be to throw the West
meaningful negotiations in the contract dispute:
end. the Maritimes “‘to the He hoped to begin negotla- | wolves” as far as_ rail ship-| tion on issues that sparked the ments are concerned. national stfike in about a The railways already are free | week. ‘ to set rates {nm areas where | Opposition MPs questioned they have to’ be competitive | in the Commons a speech by with other transport, Mr.| Gen. Jean V. Allard favoring Horner said. service unification. | i Gordon €hurchill (PC—Win- S HIG P % a . Cire colar nice nipeg South Centre) referred y. earh ito him as Defence Minis- More money froin freight oper- | to, Hellyet’s . “'propagand ations, the only way they could | agent.’ oe ur Banca ‘do so would be by i si Y tittee wane| Andrew Brewin (NDP—Tor-
class and non-competitive rates for—such items as -wheat.
Such increases would be a blow to the Marifimes and the
West. These were the two main Seti filtration routes from North ‘Viet [> F aim | of the defence étaff Had the Nam Tuesday in a war sharing INS'DE TODAY | reek Gh. ee ee aa a stage again with political \ | f . Vi i ‘ i F | The Commons continued de- “a ON ee Island—wews’—.......!.... z | bate on the bill to recamp Fighter - bomber squadrons Summerside ............ 3 | transport: legislation. hammered trucks and trains In Weather es 3 Western and Maritimes MPs |North Viet Nam and hie B-52 WGOrIMle oS he oa, apy eee fear ,any change bombers from Guam rained tons Kings, Queens, City bie ; would result in higher rates of bombs on targets in the de > Women’s Bcc Giaviees 6 | in their areas. \militarized zone between North ONE ev aye e ey 7 | WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7 ‘and South Viet Nam. Bnert< hai eieiiees Set ME SPe a acces In the only major ground ac- IMBOIO a ie 16; 104 The ook ee meets at 2:90 ‘tion in South vin Ritts us, gFinance Markets 1.) pe a) Sanne debate marines pursued elements of a on the transport bill, The
onto Greenwood) said an‘ ad- miral was fired for publicly opposing unification.
Mr. Hellyer said the chief
Senate meets at 3 p.m.
Teacher, Editor Taken In By Four Canadian Convicts
TYLER, Minn. (AP) A ceekly newspaper editor and a whool teacher told Tuesday | tow they spent about an hour Jaturday with four men who
. urned out to be escaped Cana-
lian ‘convicts on a flight in a stolen plane. The four, captured later at Gary. Ind., told of stopping at Tyler to refuel, but found the gas pump inoperative
“We bought their sthry about being Canadian, cattle buyers.” Said Ralph Merchant, editor of the Tyler Journal, who took pic- tures of the visiting plane for his paper
“’That, Kenneth Leishman was sure a glib talker. They were all friendly and shook hands all around about three times before they finally took off."
Harald Peterson, science teacher at Tyler High School, na on the nearby golf course
landed He drove the quartet | jinto. Tyler and had coffee while | ithe others ate lunch at a tafe.
Leishman, %, is believed to have masterminded the daring | |break from Manitoba's Head: | lingley jail last Thursday. He told Peterson and Merchant he jand the others were cattle buy- jers heading for Olney, Texas, to look over some Herefords. They said they had “left” Edmonton about 5 a.m. that. morning.
Also on the international. es- jcape flight were Joseph Laforte, 25, Barry Duke, 21, and George Leclerc, 26.
“We wondered about them as they took off about them being cattle buyers,’ Merchant said. "One had a suit a couple sizes jtoo big, and Laforte had a shirt way too tight,
“They didn't fit the cattle ised Picture, but we didn’t get suspicious, They were friendly
Sere ee
|\Sherbrooke) said the Commons jtransport committee should be
authorized to travel from prov- ince to province to hear repre-
sentations. It would get a better understanding of the problems
involved in the bill.
t
“London Tal Wilson’
‘jicy four times with a knife be-
‘celebrated _ his:
crease their earnings. Such’ bills just “legalize— “inflation,”
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“Covers Prince Ediiavd Island
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1966
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PREMIER ASSASSINATED
In South African
Fiens AP-Reuters CAPE TOWN (CP)—A_ white man assassinated South African Premier Hendrik F. Verwoerd in Parliament Tuesday, stab- | hingthe chief architect of the | country's racial-separation pol- |
fore being overpowered. - Vetwoerd, .who would have 65th birthday iThursday,-was pronounced dead .on arrival in hospital where “he was rushed soon after the surprise attack.
His assailant was identified as_ Dmitri Stafendas,. a man af Greek extraction who came to Cape Town from Johannesburg and was employed as a parlia- mentary messenger less than a month.
The motive for the killing was not immediately known.
The attack took place in full
view of stunned members of eccee SCHOEMAN, — Parliarhent and a gallery _ of | [U0 — oe a spectators as the bells rang for 5 ah ale ced = the start of Tuesday’s session. |- “US i. os Many wept as Verwoerd was ruling party ‘ ohannes- borne out on a stretcher. burg. area is being talked of The assassination was the | ** one of the possible eucces- second attempt on the white |tion policy, apartheid, since supremacist leader’s life. I® |Verwoerd’s. ruling Nationalist 1960, David Pratt, a wealthy party controls Parliament by a
white farmer, shot Verwoerd at a fair in . Johannesburg. Ver- woerd recovered soapy a month and_—Pratt was si a_mental hospital where he. killed_ him- self. s : Verwoerd's death was
pected’ to bring mo chang
the government's racial-separa- |perimtendent
margin of almost $ to 1. Doctors who tried to save
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By Reuters “Verwoerd. and other members The assassination of South lot the family.” 'Africa's Prime -Minister Hen-| And in Ottawa, acting Prime} idrik... Verwoerd — Tuesday was icondemned by government leaders around the world—even by some of those who were the strongest critics of the ‘South African prime minister’s apar- theid policies. In a press statement Tuesday night, Prime Minister Pearson,
ing Prime Minister Theophilus Donges in which he said: .‘‘The Canadian government _ regrets this shocking act of’ violence.”
President Johnson called the assassination ‘‘a deplorable act, | a stroke of violence that shakes |
U.S. Planes
Put Pressure On Viet Cong
SAIGON (AP) — US. planes ‘kept the pressure’ on enemy in-
reinforced Viet Cong guerrilla thattalion they routed from ef- jtrenthments 18 miles southwest jof Da Nang.
A dispatch from the northern city of Da Nang said captives in. a marine operation. Sunday.
included a guerrilla chief be}
lieved to be the Viet Cong leader in Quang Ngai province.
| Negroes Protest In Atlanta, Ga.
ATLANTA, Ga: (AP)- ifired tear, gas to break up @ crowd of about 500 Negroes who poured into the streets Tuesday to protest the shooting of a Ne- \gro man'by police.
Tear gas was employed after |police fired their guns into the lair and rocks and bottles were jhurled at officers and Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. who was trying |to disperse the crowd.
Only a few missiles were jtossed before the gas was lobbed without warning into the street. The stinging gas blew jinto nearby residences.
Governor’ Carl Sanders or- \dered state police to aid in quel- jling the rioters at the request laf aity officiala
the sensibilities of men who be-| lieve in law: and order.”
in London for the Common- wealth prime ministers’ confer-
ence, said he was ‘deeply, Prime Minister Wilson of | shocked by this senseless act of /Britain expressed shock violence.”’
“‘At a moment like -this,’’ said | the Canadian government leader, ‘‘we can think only 'of the human tragedy such an occurrence represents. I offer
African government. , United Nations Secretary-
deep regret. Many African leaders attend-
No Change Is Expected Policie
.lably died instantly.
= Assassination |s Condemned By Leaders Around The orld
Minister Paul Martin sent aj message of condolence to act-}
and ‘duced a change in South Af- sent condolences to. the South lrica’s race policy.
tending General U Thant eereseed xconference expressed personal
N.S: House Will Meet On Friday
HALIFAX (CP) Premier Stanfield. of Nova Scotia an- inounced Tuesday.that a special | jsession of the legislature will be | | held at 3 p.m. ADT, Friday: \j The premier announced iast | Friday the unprecedented spe- iial session would be called to-| i\block— the “aggressive cam- jpaign”’ of Bell Telephone of Can- ada to acquire controlling inter- est in Maritime Telegraph and | Telephone Co. Ltd. unless Bell | representatives approached — the | government by Tuesday to dis- | cuss the’ situation.
“His announcement Tuesday fo- dicated that Bell had declined to discuss the matter with the government.
In Montreal, a spokesman for | the Bell Telephone Co. of Can- | ada said Tuesday that..Marcel Vincent, president of the com- pany has written a letter to Pre- mier Stanfield, dealing with. the Bell bid to take over two Mari- times telephone companies, in- cluding- M. T, and T.
Bell is seeking a Sipenceat control-of M. T. and T., whose board of directors already has advised. shareholders not to sell to the larger company,
Railway Rebels Return To Work
| By... THE CANADIAN, PRESS. After Verwoerd was rushed to| Railway. officials said~
sors to assassinated South African Prime. Minister Hen-
drik F: Verwoerd. Dr. The- ophilus Donges, financer min- ister, will be. interim prime minister. (AP Wirephote) where Verwoerd was taken, itold reporters the knife entered \Verwoerd’s heart and he -prob- |
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ering groups of rebellious rail by workers would &
laiciendatl Sock, into _session
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the senior cabinet member, Fi- {jobs by nightfall, five days after nance Minister Theepistes Pe hospital Continued_on_ page 3. col. 3
jament passed = tem m__back_to_ te to _¥
A oxted ‘that ‘freight: and ‘pailees: ger services were in full oper- ation coast to coast Tuesday afternoon for, the first time since 118,000 employees walked off their jobs at noon Aug. 26. A CNR spokesman said some employees were still on strike in Winnipeg but that these were shopcraft-workers’ who. are not responsible for the running of trains. The CPR. still had about 3,000 shoperaft employees on strike in Montreal but was also ex-: pecting these last holdouts to return to work by late Tuesday-
Bandits Rob Skylon Tower
Of $50,000
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP), Five ‘armed and. masked men held up five night employees at the Skylon Tower in the Nia- gara International ‘Centré* arly
coe eee:
-ence in -London__said__ violence iwould not solve the South Af ivican race problem. HAPPY ABOUT DEATH ~Jn=— Lagos, capital -of. Nigeria, jpeople shouted and jumped for jjoy in, the streets when they jheard of the .death of the apostle of apartheid. : The chairman: of the United |Nations special commitiee on apartheid, Achkar Marof of Guinea, said the international lcommunity should be grateful jto the assassin if his act pro-
|
But* many: African leaders at- the prime ministers
regret at the manner of Ver-
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Speech
Blockbuste
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Existing-Sanctions
By HAROLP' MORRISON
LONDON (CP)—Prifie Min- ister Wilson told Common- | |wealth leaders Tuesday he is \willing to discuss African pro- |posals of mandatory United Na- tions. sanctions against Rhode- sia. but added he feels the Ian {Smith regime can be toppled by igiving existing voluntary sanc- tions more time to work.
In a blockbuster defence of ‘his policy that exhausted dele- gates and left Zambians disap- pointed, Wilson argued the -Rho- desian. issue has cost Britain. more in lost markets and profits than all other Cc amonwealth countries combined.
It was the Labor govern- ment’s earnest objective to end the illegality of the Smith re- gimé ‘and with time and effort —and more dedicated applica- tion of existing trade curbs by other members — the minority, | white regime -could be elimi- nated. :
But unlike last. January, when he predicted in Lagos, Nigeria, ithat the Smith group could be toppled in weeks, Wilson gave
no new forecast of a collapse.
He did suggest the crucial pe- riod could come next March when the new Rhodesian -to- bacco crop is to be auctioned.
Wilson spoke for 70 minutes in the first business “session of
|to give delegates time te stuap
ithe statement.
African delegates conferred | later following a glittering royat feast for leaders at St. James's Palace where the queeh and Prince Philip met the guests.
SPEECH FELL: SHORT .
The . speech, given. behind closed doors and with inform- ants later tipping reporters on some of the contents, -fell far short of African demands for
ousting _minority- white contra’ in Rhodesia. But. British’ “aides indicat
Wilson still has some cards up his .sleeve. They hinted th. in the end he may agree tr lim- ‘ited . mandatory UN sar Aions, such as on oil, if this eves not involve a_ direct conilict be tween Britain and South Africa, the source of the present off leak. The big issue is waether Wil- son can satisfy Zambia. and Sierre Leone and dissuade them
ee a
jfrom leaving the 23 - country
Commonwealth. A. storm. is still possible in the two-day Rhode- sian debate, but other diver,. sions are in the wings, includ-. ing the impact of the assassi- nation Tuesday of South Africa’s Hendrik Verwoerd, apostle ‘of apartheid (racial separation).
of the. fatal knifing
-10-day conference. Prest-
a
eee, said he suffered four | |hospital, MPs stood in the lob- jday they expected the last ling: dent Milton Obote of Uganda
then called for an adjournment.
; By CARL MOLLINS LONDON. (CP) — An atmos- phere of sunny cordiality at the | opening of the 16th Common- wealth conference in —Martbor- ough House made alarmist fore- casts of discord seem cynically | out of place:
At a lunchtime garden. party | given Tuesday by Common-| wealth Secretary - General Ar- nold Smith of Canada, the mood | mixed English courtesy and the warmth of renewed camara- derie.
It seemed. somehow ungra- cious for reporters to raise the question of antagonism within the 23-member club of nations over Britain’s failure to topple Rhodesia’s rebel government of Tan Smith.
Some of British Prime Min- ister Wilson's sternest critics— perhaps influenced by soporifie | sunshine, cool drinks and crisp |
'woerd’s death: today and escaped - with about
his difficulties, his. integrity, his |
| By | Cordiality _
during the next 10 days, include
day night at St. James’s Pak.
-Police |’
the deepest sympathy to Mrs.
DR. H.F. Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa whe was assassinaled im "Parlia-
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jing. the’ Commonwealth confer-.'
Continued on page 5 col. 4
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ment Monday. is shown with Scars on his face were left by his -wife after the. @ssassina- ‘surgery to remove two bullets
To Aid Canadians
eae safety laws will probably |cricket to ask Wilson to yield
dustry Minister Drury indicated the debat Rhod la: the. Codntiiéne: Tuseday. (Gating ie debate on esia.
Grafftey (PC — Brome - Mis- | sisquoi), Canada intends to follow in U.S.
sincerity. Those words were used by African’ leaders who! jhave employed harsher expres- | isions about Wilson in their cap-
‘itals. o| ob- Simon Kapwepwe,
$50,000 cash. Robert LeBosseur, niltnager of the tower, said the “money included the entire weekend re- | ceipts.
The skylon is a 520-foot servation tower overlooking Ni- sane agara Falls from the Canadian | foesar Sel aa ‘whes a
side. It contains three floors in aber that” Wilson estimated. in |
restaurants and third an ob
servation deck.
U.S. Auto Laws
should be. numbered in weeks.s | {not months. Kapwepwe _ said inow it’s doubtless —Wilson will | have to say years.
JUST NOT ‘CRICKET’ President Milton Obote of Uganda explained in effect it
ijust would not have been
OTTAWA. ‘CP)—United States
rotect Canadian motorists, In- |; ) »
conference chaifmanship Obote had been first to argue |
He was replying to Heward jin the opening session that Wil- |
who asked whether |
legislating ‘safety | auto manufactu- |
footsteps by standards for rers. “Mr: Drury~said it appears ‘the-| fety features made mandator Us. law ‘‘will also be avail TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) able in Canada” because of the |aret Sanger Slee, founder of the Canada-US. auto agreement.. birth control movement,
was 83.
Ocean-Going huapet as Margaret Sanger, had Tug Launched:
been the centre of controversy connection’ with the birth’
SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) —
The Irving Maple,
‘control pill since 1915 when she was indicted for: sending birth | i . | mails. cf antes eS ae tee hind | The indictment was dropped in Eastern Canada, was launch- | jafter protests were sent to Pres- | ed Tuesday at the Saint John ; wae TANS w re : Sh ilders and: Dock Co. friends 0 rs. Sanger and the re — Planned Parenthood Movement.
by Mrs. W. C. Chisholm, wife of |her case was appealed and the
after thé’ 1960: attempt. tion attempt “ih Apral, (cP
the division's senior eaptain. ijudgment against her was sus |
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foreign cans
ja | Smith
Minister brother fascists.
gro. Zimbabwe. African alist Union stood nearby with a placard proclaiming that “ZANU kills for freedom."
Marg- |tained,
on. birth ‘control, titled What Know. She was editor and pub
News
shocked Prime Minister Pear _
son and most. other leaders, Continued: on page $ col. &
\son’s offer to vacate pe chats [should be rejected. Kapwepwe |seconded= the — motion, — Forbes
Burnham. of Guyana and Prime
Minister Pearson of ~-Canada |spoke in support. : .
“It just wouldn't have beer fair,’’ Obote. said. “It wonld
have been like putting _him on trial.”
“The British people have shown they have faith In his tn tegrity—who are we to doutst that?”’
Pearson stayed only _ briefly lat. the reception--the first of 21 parties and dinners sch for the heads of government
ing dinner with the queen Tues
lace. DIFFERENT VIEW
For a sense that this confe®
lence. was anything more than ®
hors--d'eeuvres—were uncharac- {friendly get - together in the teristically magnanimous. about | Style of the old, all-white Com
monwealth, you had to leave the grounds of porta we
House and see the j ick. iets held reopecttullf Y across the stré Bh Pbrng
A dozen earnest young Afri- used sigms demanding tough action against Smith is
he |an attempt to cover up a ban-
ner held by white Rhodesians
jits. dome, two of them licenced (january Smith's days of power (Calling for the Commonwealth
“Stand by Rhodesia.” At the moment. that Hendrik
to
Verwoerd was heing. stabbed to ideath in the South African Parl-
a Negro youth waved denouncing Verwoerd, and Portuguese Prime Antonio Salazar as
iament, sign
A member of Rhodesia’s Ne Nation-
Pioneer In Birth Control Dies In Arizona At Age 83
the deciston noverthe- less opened the way for physi-
died cians to give hirth control ad- Tuesday in a nursing home. She |vice to their patients.
She organized the first Amet-
Slee, more commoniy lican birth control conference in {New York City in
1921. On a- |world tour in 1922 she took the ' gospel of planned parenthood te many nations and she organized - the World Population Confer-
a 420-ton (control information ‘through the jence at Geneva, Switzerland, in
1924.
She wrote a number of book including one Every Girl: Should
Ltd. lisher for many years of a pub- Built for the J. D. Irving Mar-| In 1916 she was arrested in ,.°). : :
ine Division, the vessel was |Brooklyn, N.Y., for conducting ea titled The vo
christened at a brief ceremony |a birth control institute. While r
She lived in Tucson for mos thas 3% years,