If it's Good For the Island The Guardian is For it

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

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t“ ‘ v DOOR Fournel. key crown witness in

the Santa Claus murder trial. ( CP Wirephoto)

Evvoue SEARHIED A COU'TROM Ouimet ordered the QPP to ‘ everyone entering the

courtroom because of threats against the life of Jean-Paul

Two Quebec Provincial police

courtroom. Mr. Justice Roger

Road Traffic Gets Moving

U.S. Hails Surcharges

m ah“: w- CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY; FEB., 21, 1963.

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Witness Has ‘BombsheII' In Montreal Murder Case

Decision

WASHINGTON (CPI h rhel Canadian government‘s decision‘ to remove more of the special import duties imposed last June won state department praine Wednesday.

“This is a step in the right direction,’ an official said. “We hope the remander of the Ca« .nadian restrictions will be re

moved shortly." an Ottawa announcement Tuesday. the Canadian govern- ment removed the special tariffs on goods which made up ,-‘. 000.000 worth of 1961 imports and I reduced the special levies on , . worth of imports. This left the surcharges onI some 31.000.000.000 worth of an. nual imports. about one - third of the total covered when the government launched an auster- ity program to plug the drainI on Canada's official monetaryI reserves. ‘ A wide variety of consumer goods. including cars. clothing. wine and liquor. still are sub- .‘Iect to import surcharges.

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Q 0 Diet To D‘Ine 1 LONDON (CPI—Prime Min.I ister Macmillan has invitedI Prime Minister Diefenbaker to a "working dinner” at Ad‘mi-I .ralty House Saturday night. itI I was learned Wednesday. I I The Canadian prime ministerI will be in London to receive (the ; freedom of the City at a care-I many Monday. The two prime,‘ ministers also will be present at a Guildhall luncheon afterI

LARGE ATTENDA

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Nominated In Kings

MONTAGUE BUREAU

OF T GUARDIAN

‘Mrs. Margaret Macdonald.

member for Kings in the last

parliament, was

nominated last night to repre-

sent the riding for the Progres-

sive Conservative Party in the forthcoming federal election.

The over 400 peosons in at

tendance at the nominating con- I vention gave her a tremendous.

ovation when she entered the Montague Regional High School auditorium. and again when she appeared on the stage following her nomination.

Mrs. Macdonald told the audi- «rice it was unfortunate that the country should be involved

in another election at this time‘ of year. She said an election,

British Defence Bill w Heads For New Record

unanimously .

at this time was unnecessary. “but the three opposition parties and the United States con-gross were able to bring it about.“ “This will not do the oppos- ‘ition any good. You people are intelligent and know what has been accomplished since 1957 by our party. We had much more to come. and the oppos- ition did not want us to get new and beneficial business done." she said. adding that one of. lthc party's accomplishments nad beer. the formation of tho Atlantic Development Board. of, fwhioh Melvin M'acouaid. QC ‘ was appomted a member. LISTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS She listed some of the ac- complishment; of the. Dicfen- r ICon'tin‘ucd on Page 3 Col. 6)

ISLEEPWALKER Mus 30 can

Mrs. M. Macdonald

conference to discuss range of dairy. lcms begins here today.

‘ 1‘10llltlll‘9, I crs' Dairy Council of Canada.

AUCKLAND. N.Z. (CPI A youth who said he had mghtmare after eating hamburger walked in his sleep and fell 30 feet from a fire escape in Auckland Wednesday. Laln' James Hailoran. l9 - year - old la-

borer. was taken to hospital. but doctors could find nothing wrong but a bruised thigh.

Dairy Talks Open Today In Ottawa

OTTAWA lC‘Pl -— A national the full industry prob-

Thc two-day session will be

u d provincial governments, he Canadian Federation of Ag-' National F rm-

Union and the National

By BERNARD DUFRESNE l

MONTREAL (CPI—The star: crown witness at, the murdcr trial of Georges Marcotfe testi- fied Wednesday a defence law- yer “instigated” a bank holdup I last to uy a bankrupt restaurant.

te IJean-Paul Fournel. 40, who has

named Marcotte as the SantaI: 'Claus gunman involved in then ’

slaying of two policemen dur-

ing a bank robbery last Dec.‘ " I14. ’

1 Four I murder l and a third alleged accomplice,‘ .lulcs Reeves. 29, testified un-‘ der protection of the court.

He said he had held up the, same bank—a branch of the Ca-i

nadian Imperial Bank of Com-; 5 dosed, About 35 rmcmauve, lmerce in suburban St. LaurentI are expected from the federal .“mree a

lmes. once late last May or early June, a second. time in September. and again,

last Dec. 14. During cross-examination by Yves Mayrand, Marcotte's law- d

September to obtain money‘

stimony was given byI /

nel, charged With capitalI" I on): w' Marcottel g

I Lawyer Blamed g: In Bank Holdup

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THREATS against the life

of Jean-Paul Fournel, key witness in Montreal's Santa Claus murder trial. were re- ported today. The trial judge.

The over-riding problem is a yer or record» FWWEI lesmie Mr. Justice Roger Oulmet, I215,000.000 - pound butter sur- thatlhe septfimbel‘ ml?!)er “(33 said Wednesday threats [pl-"5‘ the mam Single farm carried off at the instigation against Foumeys life have ,hc-adache in the last sevrerl'al‘z’.f X0” coueague' Mr' cmsmn' been received. Everyone en- ycars. ‘ m' , t e' the courtroom during

n is hoped that me dimly ' Trajan Constantin. anoman- the trial will be searched for »

h _ . ran-born lawyer. is acting as a weapons.

510115 “’1” find some comm‘7'”.consuitant to Mr. Mayrand. (op Wit-em) .ground for agreement on the 'Ilhe remark almost passed ‘measures to take or maintain. .unnoticed at the time, but was WM H

reference to the St. k.

the ceremony. . . [I . . . . . . . . . l - w . . . Laurent I The work I By non cunam rm'lde all three services With. The Canadian Federam“ ° 5113's“ "it" under re examma . iMacmi-llan gfle;ealwmoppoglv:‘ LONDON (CPI—Defence Min-Iiiew and moreI sophisticated“grim”ure proposed the cm'lhon "w" pmsecmor Mr' consult“ was L" COM" 5 n a ‘ tlmit'V to test. Commonwealth. inter Thorneycroft Wednesday iequipment and weapons includ- I {Hence and, the federal govern' ‘ Claude w a g n 9 r wh" “ked ‘durmg "he enllrehtemmouyy and .rfactzions after the breakdownIpresented his annual statement Iing submarine - detection dc- I‘I’I‘O‘fgingpesdu: “£23132? géc’ggiIFoumd for detaus' wn;j;oredg,¥hhsgfmjufz SW2: ‘. . othB- " , ‘ l'i‘-., h ' i .th.: , ‘ ' 1 , 3 ‘~ . '

“y STAN BOWLES . I The .snow' ‘yh‘ICh started m" Icum-Fl‘led' in“ resumpuon 0‘ British ell‘tll‘iseilitonilglgmghfgpdgh iglc‘cortjdefegggccilige esdiclblghfitiilurZ‘TV'aib hzlricooptlhlggwhlcrlfeccign or: ‘Apm 8 may take some 0‘ me 1C‘T‘l'eLTeI:ilfII‘ledli‘ITllaI‘lNllle tdlllcd “on anm‘]: ~ filial-diml-Pfltl‘lm Staff Writer ‘vcr‘y light during Tuesday. sud- lservlces wail depend on road- Common Market. [of £1838 000000 in 1963“. I'emte from frigate; “thank Izing from the conference, but “n the robbery‘ with Andre‘ Mr. Justice Roger Ouimet Tho biggest blast of the win-Idenly began to increase early Iclcarmg progress during the Macmillan has been in Much! Th.‘ ,‘ 'l t £117 mom missiles and a varieéy “f smaudime remains for a new gov-13mfcenco whom hP qucribednemcd his request after the let to hit Prince Edward Island 1 Wednesday morning and by noon Inlght. _ ' with various mmmnweahh mom‘sthrn Sigrreviou! hud‘get Iguided missiles .crnmlem-l to act before the dairy as “my friend" and "a"! inn-HWY“ 5‘3“! he “"3”! '0 “’4'th rams (-1039 to paralyzing road Ia new 10 to 15 inch blanket MCA officials were hopeful {cadets mgh the usual dip” Iyear. I Another big hih “.1” h" for Iyear expires Ame 30. , mate mend" of Mr. Constantin. Im the grim“ moved for .

transportation across the pro-Iwhlte covered the Island. Ithat flights would be able. to \‘Ylvl'f‘ yesterday before it beganI Heavy easimwmust wind, I rfesrhme schedqu thehsi morning. In blow itself out early in the, . ~ I to snow cogg runway! F\'f‘llln:. ":26 could be cleared during the

m ' ~ corded as 8;) m..p.h. while in"mg ‘

. . I , . All CNR Ilnes on the island

Mekhlolrls W‘Ife | Sciffiggtehgw; pgfe Th? ggzis were open. a despite the . Home of the was 4 m jheavy drifting all trams were

Dies In Her Sleep I

As a result a" New“ were EL?"Ir'lfé§Iinmiiis§32kicif§“f§. ms .\\'(‘.LF.S lAPl --~ Mrs. Harm \lclchior~ wife of Wa

[locked and automobile traffic. was for several hours brougth . , ~. - _ Ito a standstill. All aircraft were I mum/9d the" mg; gynduhgxm‘

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ce. He is said in haveI n ' y the messages of sympathy he re- cerved from his fellow states- men of the Commonwealth Britain's exclusion fmm Eu- rope.

lopcrate and many communities .

l‘V‘iECIliua re Plan Seen Outrunning

Most of the extra money will

Legislation IForeccrst IFo-r N.$.

HALIFAX (CPI—Highlights

Inew high-frequency communi-, I:

Expenditures on the PolarisI submarine missile, to replace Ilhe abandoned Skybolt air-to- Iground missile as Britain's nu-‘ fclear deterrent. will he s it

equipment being intro-I2oth Ils Charged

ma I ‘ h d Ibut are expected to rise steeply I

latter 1964 On: aspects of the report

. I . of ,hp most surprimhg KAPUSKASING. Ont. (CM-— is 1hat.A 20th man has been charged

the opening statement. usuaHy Iwich non - capital murder in the

‘T He said that last July or Au- j‘gust. lawyer Constantin ap- .‘proached him and Crafcenco Iwith a proposition to buy a Iharlkrupt restaurant. the Monti- ;ce . I He testified that Mr. Constan- Itin was an inspector of bank- ‘ruplcies and "wanted to use Crafccnco and me as a front." He said that between $5,000 and $10,000 was needed to buy lthe restaurant and that Mr.

imistrial Ithat the testimony of Foumel ‘about

in the case. arguing his defence aide was prejudicial to Marcotio.

DISMISSES MOTION

Mr. Justice Ouimet dismissed the motion on the ground that the defence had. by its own llna of questioning. brought. about the testimony of the crown witness.

Only Marcottc. 34, now is on

ml‘lan tenor Laurltz Melchior~ grounded :ISI‘PSG lat? 111 “he I ‘ , u n _ ' (hm. ‘wamtcdly Wednesday. - . The tram from the mainland . of the speech from the throne I a lengthy outline 0f govemmhhh I gunshot mum; of three men Constantln put pressure on trial for capltal murder for tho A spokcsman said Mrs. Mel~ IMOST SCHOOLS CLOSED I (COMIHUM 0“ Page 4 COJ- 2) PUblIC lat the opening Wednesdav of the Idefence policy. this year islduring a strike of buslhworkers I'hlm for a month ’0 “Ml the Slaying 0f constable _CIBUdI chm-- 59. died in her slcep. The Almost all schools in the pro- ” - INova Scotia legislature included. 'confined m 'nnly {our para. near here Feb. 11. Ontario Pro- ‘mm‘ey- , , Manned"- 34. and Dellls Br!- rnuplp, married more than 35 I vim-c were closed as well as a, I D ° h HAMILTON ICP) w Post-I to provide increased graphs stressing inter-service‘vulcial Police announced Wed~ VA" “"“,p°'"t- he “Sllfiled- Mr- ham, 31- 211111190 down When 'M-nrs. had planned to fly tornumbcr of business houses. POP" or anls mast” - General Ellen Fair-I grams in Who“ boards {0" ‘co-nrdination. nesday. ('nnstam‘m suggemgd I)?“ last‘they answer“ the bank alarm (thy-ago Wednesday {M 8 mm. Many of m... firms which duh - Iclough said Wednesday that! teachers‘ salaries and main- Members of parliament “.th Charges were placed Tuesday place that you did. adding thsl me‘ItIIIlIPd on Page 5 no]. 6) rcon'lposel' Dles I185? year's medicare dispute int imam" 0‘ SChOOl buildings. have been pressing Thorney- I night against Jean - Marie La-

mony honoring Mclchvior's 50th open were forced to operate I ' IsaSkaIChewa“ Showed that EOV‘ Stud" 0‘ m°ney ' lendmg craft. for a policy stat.ement.jrouchc. 32, a farmer - settler

zThaw Following Blizzard

ann versary as a concert mng- with reduced staffs. ‘ ‘ I I . I . , . _ t I N» ' All lM'l‘ bus services wereI COPENHAGEN ‘API " Ja‘remmems Should "0t '“lmducf; Name“ and “New” 8" fparticularly since the. loss ofI 0' Val Rita. Just west of this '(‘Ob Gadf‘. Popular Danish com- new. welfare. programs mm: film.“ "" .borrflwers by pro' Skvbolt. will no doubt question I northern Ontario Town. The .poser who became world-fa- public support has been dem I “"0181 legislation . him on this point when the Iotncl‘ 19 are held m jail at Hail- :T h d I d mOUS b90305? 0f one tango. died "muted: ‘ Plan I" “mum” Sl'bvem'nn report comes up for dchale‘cybul‘y for appearance. Feb, 26. S n .-

payments on Maritime coal consumed in electric power generating stations.

I Establishment of a commit- tee to consider possible legis-

,within the nex few weeks. I They were among a group 0 ——*—"—”‘—’w‘ independent pulpwood cutters :vr-hc clashed with union busil- workers on strike against the ISpruce Falls Power and Paper

By TIIE CANADIAN PRESS Development Company paper A hllzzard followed by rapid.mill was forced to shut down melting was causing flooding in‘when floodwaters from the Ex- jNewfoundland early today aslpioits River hit the mlll‘s gen-

. . c ‘ O I d Iwedhesday at his home village She said the COP governmentI ' of mg. He was 33. In 1925 Gide of Saskatchewan was nearly; Immmd Tango Jammie h "upset" when it brought in itsI

became a h“ and “in is played compulsory medical care insur- ahoveflhe world. Forty") years ance plan because it had not

ILiz Taylor Settle-s

S I a I U S in 1919-21. he was a resident of ensul‘ed "1;" the puéflic was [won concerning me Lord‘s IDamages Case I Company. The 3343113.)! strike ‘parts of the Maritimcs dug outieratlng plant. _ . . New York cqnvmced o the need or medl~ Dasy d .f th N . ‘ N 1 decd last weekend. 1after 'the worst snowstorm of The high winds were causing .c ll )1 0 9 cam 1‘ 9V3 Opp have charged 223 Strik- the Winter. severe drifting. Roads w o

I NEW YORK IAI‘I ~-- Actress; ‘El'i-zabeth Taylor's 56.000000 3 ms with rioting. and they were

are. I .' "I am not discussing here theI Scotia and legislation for a Road. rail and a,” traffic immacde and hams we“ "fly

I'Hlt'AGO ( AP) ~— An arctic I the plains, the Great Lakes rc. . . . . ("lid “'aVe. barbed with gustydflon and info weslern Peninsyb' Iggg‘i"orltlzadeI:-mlls If [nghl coggdnpnlhlflanih'fighce m. .damage suit as a result of the remanded Tuesday until April .Cenll‘al and WCSI-er" Newmund‘ "Ill: “"‘II hf‘hlnd SChRdUle 310"! Winds and blowing snow, fanned I vanl'a and New York. I Imecet'in m: °&"hibili?ati0:I ran" 9‘” Nos“ Sum.“ 82m. I hlahe erash death m 1958 of her 15 . after the winter haulage at land was hit hard by heavy‘Newfoundland's narrow gauze across vast regime of the Un-. Another storm that slammed. Announcements. notices . I4 IThera 2 Services of H8 mo” I g“ ‘husband. Michael Todd, was : pulpwood from the hush. “WW and Winds up to 60 mlleslllncs. . . nod Slates Wednesday .through the east Tuesday night: Births. deaths :i. 14 “mg; are tho e wh '3“ ‘ , ‘S'tud of water remurcfl in Hem“, Wednesday for I ‘ the charge agamsh Lamuohe I an hour. Late Wedncsday tcm- The ferry William Carson

Winds of 35 to 45 miles anIand early Wednesday left partsI Classified . r . . . . . . . .. I4. 15 hue that the ubiic do; n'otili: the rzvince ' ' :thmdams in the suit were i came as a surprlsa The orhipcraturcs rocketed upwards. how to off Port aux Basques. IlOUl whipped some am and I of northern New mum“ bub! finance. market. 15 ways know bgst what {t needs Grgms to- assist regional Ayer Lease Plan Inc” owner of Iurinal 19 were an who were an ‘meltlng the: snow. I unable to complete a run from during the day temperatures I ied under a neck-high blanket of“ C0 ‘39 ~ - ~ - - - ' - - - - - ' ' - - n 3 huh I g“hm” that when u i; tourist Namath," “manila. Ihc piano. 'l‘rade-Ayer inc, and I rested at the scene of the shoot- M05" mm“ “OOd‘ng "'3 NM”? Sydnc-V'

curl \leIl below zero. lntema- snow. Edm'ria's ' ‘ ‘ ' ' ' " f the public that is paying the. lions: ;the Mich;ch Todd Company, I mg. All were charged originally I mgofifd Rh fiFaHngiILfilflrffieraI: ‘z'fiwfthmEnomne Tgrtligleil:

IIIIMI Pa“?- anw a 15'I H ston, Me, bad. 14 inches fig'fggfifiv ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " " bill. the public has every rightI Establishment of a Nova ‘Inc.. maintainers and. control-I with shooting with intent to,__ g g ‘ ' ‘ ' ' “

M“ “33de 34 “0011- Inf new snow that thickened the Pfifi‘e C "n" ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ ' " z to decide what servrces are re-l Scotla voluntary plan ning icrs of the twm-cngmed am 1 wound. and. this charge also

('old wave warnings went out ; b'anket on the gr to 5,7J Sumlcmrsde y ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ " 3 yquired." ' i one iwas lodged. against Larouche. I l

for a huge section of the coun- inzhcs. A ew 14..nc~h fall at‘ s ~ _ ' _ ' h ' _ ' ' ' ‘ "i0 ‘2 . ‘

'H' from tho TexaoOklahoma Bangor raised the snow blanket women'h'. ’ ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' h l ~‘ a S r EM eastward across; there to a height of 50 inches. i I I

NATO, Warsaw Pact Link llo Cut Drug Prices

o o S OTTAWA (CPI The fcderal .iuslicc hllnlslcr Fleming said e anti - combines agency railed the cnmmismon‘: recommends: Wednesday for radical changes firms will rcrcivr careful study (‘ENF , tin the law in an effort to lower and consideration. ' NA regards have come Close“ the drug prices in Canada Stanley N. Condor. general

m _ (Reutersi—The So- ”! Union confronted the 17- natlon disarmament conference

Irvt‘dncsday with a draft calling Ill‘ 3

treaty countries. 1 he draft. which received an £lllally cool reception from hesfcrnA delegates. called for 0th alliances to "refrain from attack. the threat or use any manner inconsis- the purposes and prin- rhamr the United Nations in m ' against one another or in err international relations scncral." “agile; American delegate Wile mt cater. said the Geneva Nncrcnce Is not the proper boater- to discuss such a treaty ,mxccn the two blocs. He con-

9 are many countries. clonal security is vi-

hr' mm - aggresm m ° “"30 NATO and the Warsaw b

“it would be better to have this proposal brought up in a more appropriate environment.‘

AIM IS CONSULTATION

chief disarmament delegate Vasily ‘Kuznetsov. provides that when dangerous situations arise both sides “shall consult to gather with a view to taking and

0‘ implementing such joint meas-

ures as. in conformity with the

United Nations charter. may be

c o n I l d e r e d appropriate for

peaceful settlement of such is- es."

Foster told disarmament dele~ gates earlier the disarmament gulf between East and West now is narrower but deeper than be-

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re.

"It is true that we appear to be closer together than we have been at least. since November. 1961." he said. “We are an be same time. however. in danger of a perhaps more difficult 1qu to bridge.

"For. as our positions in some

The Russian draft. prescnted‘

gulf between them seems have deepened. As a result, the last step across this gulf ap- pears difficult to take."

Foster spoke against a back- drop of press reports that the U.S. may move to bridge the gulf somewhat by slightly re- ducing its minimum quota of eight to 10 annual inspections on Russian soil to police a nu-

clear test-ban agreement. The Soviet has indicated it will agree to only two or three on-

site inspections. CANADIAN IN TALKS . Following the meeting, Kuz- netsov was luncheon host to the American. Italian. British and Canadian delegates. estcrn source said there was an extensive discussion of the nuclear fest-ban problem but no new ideas emer . Shortly after the luncheon Foster left for the us. to report to President Kennedy and State Secretary Rusk. Foster plans to

BLOW

Until yesterday, when more than 10 inches of dumped on the city. fighting equiwnent had little

return to Geneva Sunday night.

use since winter arrived of-