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ELECTION FEVER SWEEPS HOUSE

Rumors Of Dissolution OnWeekendDiscounte

By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (OP) — Election

fever swept throygh the House of Commons Tuesday, but well- : qualified sources outside the ;chamber discounted a wave of rumors that Parliament may be dissolved this weekend.

Finance Minister Fleming seemed to give credence to the -fumors when he announced a long-awaited move by the gov- ernment to start issuing all its cheques - on bilingual printed forms.

But when prodded by opposi- tion MPs about election and dissolution dates, Mr. Fleming asserted everything is going along normally.

‘Prime Minister Diefenbaker gat beside him with’ a Mona Lisa smile, obviously enjoying the fun but giving no clear indi- ¢ation of his real intentions.

CAUCUS TODAY

The Conservatives hold their regular weekly caucus today. The back-benchers will be lis- tening carefully .for any hints from the prime minister and his cabinet colleagues in the secret session. about < their lection plans

Rounds of applause from Con- _servative and opposition benches greeted Mr. Fleming's announcement that the govern- ment will use bilingual. cheque forms for all its payments as soon as present printing stocks are exhausted. Informed sources said this may be in about two months.

Lionel Chevrier noted the gen--

eral expectation of an early election and the enthusiasm of Quebec Conservative MPs on the bilingual cheque issue when he told the House, in French, that the government's announce- ment ‘‘seemed to point to com- ing events.”

Paul Martin (L—Essex East),

who some time ago predicted in”

a public speéch that the eléc- tion would be held April 9, asked Mr. Fleming for an assurance there udget before voting day.

“ALL MORMAL'

Mr. Fleming—with no out- ward sign of recognizing that to give such an assurance would ‘be tantamount to saying an

founded, mt may no longer exist at t time. Mr. Cardin obvi-

election date is still a long ‘way off — replied that everybody “seems to be Behaving nor- mally around here except the official opposition.”

yet started the intensive of meetings they would mally be having at this ti of year if they were preparing for an early budget.

J. W. Pickersgill (L — Bona- vista Twillingate) asked

- whether Mr. Fleming's ‘ignor-

ance of the dissolution is as great as it was of the cabinet shuffle”

Speaker Roland Michener ‘said that question did not seem to be in order. The question was an obvious reference to re- ports that Mr. Fleming was to be shuffled out of the finance ministry last December - |Move that did not materialize

.. Diefenbaker

| Sidestep Election Query

OTTAWA (CP) = Prime” }

Minister Diefenbaker declined in the Commons Tuesday a sly invitation to. disclose his ‘election plans. ; Lucien Cardin (1. Riche- lieu-Verchers) asked the prime minister whether Brit- ish Prime Minister , Macmil- lan will be asked to address Parliament when he visits Ottawa towards ‘the end of April. . If current election specula- tion proves to be well the present Parlia-

ously was fishing for indirect confirmation of the’ specula- tion.

WIFE’S NAGGING. BRINGS FORTUNE

LONDON (aP)-—aersy Bog- gust, 54 - year - mainten- ance man, learned Tuesday

| he has won $267,111 because of his wife’s nagging.

Boggest hit the jackpot on a one-penny bet in the —

when the cabinet held its Dec. pools. The winnings are

| 28 meeting in Quebec City. He didn’t want to mail his

Senator George Barbour.

‘DOUBTS EXPRESSED - -coupon last week because Dissolution this weekend workers were on a slow-

would mean that election ma- 40wn strike and he feared it

chinery could be put in motion might not get delivered in

for voting on Monday, April 9. ‘ime. But his wife Kathleen

| The following Monday, April 16 kept nagging. ,

is in holy week before Easter. “Go on, send it,” she in-

It is regarded as doubtful . sisted. “Never mind the strike.

whether, the government would lH you won't fill it in, I will.” |

want the election campaign to So she did- and he mailed

i stretch over Easter weekend. the coupon. |. A minimum of 57 days is re- After Mrs. Boggust heard

quired between the issue of their ship had come in she writs for an election and the ‘commented: | actua) polling day, to provide “Oh, mate. That's a hell of ‘enough time for all the election lot of money.” processes. The “Boggusts picked eight Qualified observers expressed soccer games to end in ties. doubt that the government. “Their handicapping was fan- would dissolve Parliamentjugad— tastic. There were only eight call the election until all the an- ‘ies in the entire British soc- nounced ‘welfare bills-have been Ce! league program and they written into law. picked ther all.

: Boggust works at the Olym- And Fleming

pia, London's leading exhibi- tion ‘hall... : : Betting is legal ip Britain. Wagering on the soccer pools is one of the most popular “pastimes ‘in the country.

Coalition - Expected In Finland

HELSINKI (Reuters)—A_ .mi- nority coalition government of

“budget before’ dissolution and an election. .

Lionel »Chevrier. ‘L—Mont- real Laurier) asked for the assurance. so that Canadians would know the state of the country's finances.

Mr, Fleming said Canadians know the -state of finances. which is ‘‘normal” for” this time of year. Less time than normally was the case had elapsed since the last budget.

Mr. Fleming added that “everybody seems to be be- having normally around here except for the official opposi- tion.”

Paul Martin (1 Essex East) said it is Mr. Fleming's responsibility to say whether there will be a budget before

Mr. Diefenbaker, fielding dissolution. three middle-of-the-road parties the question smoothly, noted Mr. Fleming said he. is_ is expected to be formed in Fin- that Easter falls near the end Sorry to see Mr. Martin in jong in the~wake of results of of April this year and “at. “such a state of agitation.” the : Sian:

© , ot Mr. ee allow his T said Tuesday. he maily is tn recess.” actions tp dominated. by he observers also thought

OTTAWA (CP) — Pinance * Mr

Minister Flemine Tuesd-v de- clined in the Commons to give any assurance that the gov-

~" government a statement

fear and foreboding. Martin said Canadians are entitled to have from the

President Urho Kekkonen's’ Agrarian party, now the largest single party in Parliament, would try to form a- coalition with the small Swedish Popular party and Finnish Popular

showing the condition of the country’s finances.

Old Age Pensions Hike Is Approved In Commons

OTTAWA (CP)—The govern- ment bill to increaseethe basic eld age pension to $65 a month from $55 received second read- ing -- approval in principal— Tuesday night in the Commons. Third and final’ reading was acheduled for today.

en passed, the legislation will be retroactive to Feb. 1.

Second. reading was given without. a recorded vote just be- fore the 10 p.m. adjournment. All members were in favor of the bill, though the debate on second reading was replete with partisan charges: and counter- charges.

After Health and Welfare Min- ister Monteith moved that final approval be deferred until the next sitting, Paul Martin (L— Essex East) shoutéd:

“Why don't we pass this right away, and get this money to the old age pensioners?” ~ Three government resolutions dealing with other social wel- fare measures will also be de- bated today, announced Veter-

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain will ‘very shortly” introduce legislation to dissolve the 10-is- land West Indics Federation.

Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling told the House of Commong Tuesday ‘that. Britain would set up an interim. organ- izatibn to run the federation.

Maudling. who said he re- gretted the federation’s dissolu- tion, added: “Jamaica has de- elared its determination to with- @ro< from: th ¢ i this decision has been accented by the British government.” .

He said Trinidad apd To} go also had decided not to > *tici- pate in any eastern Caribbean federation. |

“Finally, the premier of Bar- bados and the chief ministers of ihe Leeward and Windward

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agreed that the present one should be dis- | The West’ Federation, |

ernment will bring down @

ans Minister Churchill, govern- ment leader in the House. Just before second reading of the pensions bill, Mr. Monteith made a vigorous, shouting reply to charges against the govern- ment made earlier in the day by Mr. Martin, who held the health and welfare portfolio in the former Liberal government.

r. Mon sa ie Liberals had been returned to office in 1957, the country’s old age pensioners would all have received $468 less in the period since then than they did re- ceive. :

He said Mr. Martin had made a “very entertaining speech,”

‘and should be on the stage. Mr.

Monteith would see that he got a job in the Stratford Shakes- peafean Festival — Stratford, Ont., is in the. minister’s riding = Perth—after the coming elec-

Earlier, Mr. Martin’ belabored the government for an hour for not bringing in a contributory retirement pension plan during fe last four years.

He said Finance Minister Fleming is the apparent “stum-|

ederation

covers more than §,000,000 pers sons.

bot party led a vigorous cam-

paign culminating in a referen- decision last

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for the island to’ leave the fed-

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the federation’s population, was |

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The present minority Agrar- jan government is expected to resign Feb. 15 when the elec- toral college meets formally

negotiations for forming a gov- ernment will begin when the new Parliament meets Feb. 24.

In Ahe two-day election end- ing Monday, the Agrarian party increased its membership in the 200-seat Parliament to 54 seats from 47, displacing the Communists, whose total dropped to 47 from 50, as the | largest single party. }

ENOUGH FOR COALITION

TMe Swedish. Popular party Fine 12,. which

bling block” because he has op- posed such a plan in the past and faces a deficit in the com- ing fiscal year of possibly more than $1,000,000,000.

The finance minister was “still in charge of the govern- ment. still the boss.’’

The Commons battle of the

government bill to increase- old mish Popular party

age pensions by $10 to $65 a month. The pensions are paid to all at age 70—some $30,000 pen- sions at the present~ time.

OUTLINES “PLAN

Health Minister Monteith again outlined a government plan for a contributory pension

tion a total of 80 seats. In normal times the Agrari-.

a coalition with. she. Social. Rem. ocrats, whose 38 seats make them the third-largest party, but the strongly anti-Commu-

liked by the neighboring Rus- sians and therefore highly unac- the benefits. ‘ | ceptable to any Finnish govern-

Mr. Martin again sketched the | ment which wants to maintain

to pleted her fir: € he re-elect Kekkonen and the ,reat“throne. 4

| would ‘give a three-party coali-.

ans might be expected to form.

|mist Social Democrats are dis"

Home owners in the Co- Walter R. Shaw yesterday. operative Housing Develop- The souvenir of the occasion ment at Souris will have a is a hard covered guest book,

which the Premier presented to each of the 10 home owners following the ceremonies. The Souris group is the first Co-

lasting memento of the open- ing ceremonies of the devel- opment as the result of. pre- sentations made by Premier

Queen FEliz- prince's Britannia airliner took off for Georgetown, British Gui- ‘ana, yia Dakar.

Congratulations Are Extended . By Canadians

OTTAWA (CP) — Party lead-

ers in the Commons Tuesday

’ voiced expressions of congratu-

The Queen and her husband lation to the Queen on the 10th

drove from Buckingham Palace anniversary of her accession to to London Airport. Elizabeth the throne.

waved from the door of the Prime Minister Diefenbaker

airport's luxury lounge as the said he has extended to the

Queen on—behalf of the govern-

ment. Parliament and the peo-

LONDON (CP) abeth recBived good wishes Tuesday from _ her subjects around the éartli’as “she eom-

Amid the general rejoicing, the 35 - year - old Queen bid a wistful farewell to her globe- trotting husband, Prince Philip, as he departed on a two-month, 36,000 - mile tour of 11 Latin American nations.

SOURIS HOME OWNERS GET MEMENTO

to and was instigated by Father John

operative Housing group be started on the Island Cash of Souris. Here Premier Shaw presents a guest book to Mrs. William Pierce. wife of the president of the group. (See also story on page 4.)

————Senator Walter Ascltine im-

As First Decade Ends

Prince’ Phifip also will visit Venezuela, Golombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay. Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. The tour is expected to be a highlight. of a British campaign

r increase exports.

PAPERS PAY TRIBUTE

British newspapers Tuesday paid tribute to the Queen in editorials and special features.

Echoing a _ slogan used by Prime Minister Macmillan. Noel Whitcomb in the tabloid Daily Mirror says:

‘“‘We have probably never had a queen -so good.”

Under the _ heading ‘The Tough 10 Years,’ Whitcomb de- scribes what it was like at the

Dies Suddenly At Ottawa

Collapse Occurs After Speech

OTTAWA (CP) Senator George H. Barbour, 83, of Char- lottetown collapsed in the Sen ate Tuesday night vr making a brief speech

He died in the Senate cham ber

Senators Joseph Sullivan and F. W. Gershaw. both medical doctors. examined him es the sitting was hastily adjourned \s enator Sullivan pronounced | him dead within minutes of his collapse. apparently of a heart attack

“He was dead by the time we got to him." Senator Sulli ‘van told colleagues who clus tered around the rear aisle of the chamber where Senator Barbour was stretched out

Senator Barbour, Libera! | member of the Upper House since July. 1949, fell back in his seat shortly after speakinc on a government appropriation bill’ of © $82,392,900 for Prairie farm assistance. the winter works program .and aid to Newfoundland fishermen.

“STARTED TO SPEAK

Senator William: Brunt | PC Ontario’ had started to speak at the time Senator Barbour collapsed. He stopped when sen- ators noticed Senator Barbour’s condition and Senator Sullivan, Ontario conservative, rushed across the floor of the chamner to give first aid

With the help of several sen- ators, he removed Senator Bar- bour from his seat and laid him on the floor.

mediately adjourned the night sitting of the senaté until 3 p.m. today.

| Senator Sullivan. stripped to his vest and shirt sleawves, worked over Senator Barfour assisted by Liberal Senator Ger- shaw of Alberta’ Dr. William Kucherepa. Progressive Conser-

vative member of Parliament for High Park. was summoned and was in the Senate chamber within minutes

After Dr. Sullivan pronounced the senator dead. Senator Ger- shawleft the ehamber-to co to Senator Barbour’'s room to

break the news to his wife

SEVENTH VACANCY

Officers of the Senate protec- tive staff placed the hody on a stretcher and carried it from the chamber about 15 minutes after the collapse. About a score of shocked senators and senate officers remained in the Cham- ber discussing the event

The senator’s death created the seventh vacancy in the 102-

" al with WHERE-TO-FIND-IT lthe hope that the next decade

oe. . notices 10 | Would be one of peace and pros-

perity. bo acon E mene ir ® = Lionel Chevrier (L—Montreal Fimancé, markets ...,... 31 | Laurier), speaking in English Comics, features ee . g | and French on behalf of the op- Moore ke is See... 8 position, associated the Liberals Editorials ie, g we. Diefen baker's re

Prince / marks. ak ee ee ee ; _ . Hazen Argue, house leader of Kings Co., ....... eee 4 the CCF-New Democratic Party City Queens ahs ee 5 | Sroup, said his group feels sure Women’s Seeatare _ | that in the years¢ahead the 5 ay i Queen will act in the interests of

her subjects.

‘beginning, when a carefree girl of 25, on holiday with her hus- band in a Kenya hunting lodge, suddenly found herself the sixth reigning queen of England

She was shy then, he says, and “nervous as a_ badger.” Now, after travelling nearly

500,000 miles on royal -tours, giving some 30,000 private aud- iences and braving the cameras and curiosity of half the world, she has matured into a person- ality as strong and influential in its way as that of Britain's

{Continued on page 4, col. 2) | the country’s independence. t

Sports luminaries swapped siorce and. jokes throughout | age, pointing ot the value of last evening at the annual sports to people, if Sportsmen's dinser at Sum- properly Some merside pleasure | of celebrities last night 1a- of the large stiend- | Sioded_ lel to right, Danay ing. Bul i additin Oe

general chairman for the dio- ner, held at the Summerside

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Canadiens organization, and | George R. Pearkes VC branch Alfred Groom, Bob Schurman | of the Royal Canadian Legion. and Jack Wright, all of Sum- | (See also story and picture merskie. Mr. Wright was| om page 3.)

first Quegn Elizabeth.

The Daily Telegraph says in an editorial: ‘The Crown can no longer provide a bond of un- ion between the kingdoms and républics of the Commonwealth. | "The Queen can.”

Hugh Ross Williamson in the

Upper House—and- Liberal representation there to 67. There are 25: Conservatives, two independents and one inde- pendent-Liberal.

Senator Barbour collapsed and died after a 2'2-hour debate on the appropriation bill. The bill was approved in the Com- mons Friday and it had been hoped that Senate approval would be given Tuesday night with royal assent coming later in the week ‘

Senate clerk J.

SHAW AGREES

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Yorkshire Post says the Queen |

| has interpreted her responsibil- ities as head of the Common- wealth in a more practical fas-

hion than her empire-ruling an- |

cestors.

He cites as one example the | 1957 Canadian tour, when Queen was in residence in Ot-

tawa to open Parliament as “Queen of Canada.” Williamson adds: ‘‘And again

fn 1959 it was the Queen of Can- ada who, with the president of the United States, jointl; opened the St. Lawrence Seaway.”

Demonstrators

Heckle U.S. Attorney-Gen.

TOKYO (Reuters) — U.S. At- torney-General Robert Kennedy ; and his wife emerged unruffled

Tuesday from a brush with | shouting, arm-waving leftist stu- | dents at Waseda University

The outburst, first of the Ken- nedys’ Japanese tour, came as he started a question-and-an- |#wer program before 4,000 stu» | dents, most of whom threw the 4 demonstrators out of the hall in

a flurry of fistfights.

Kennedy said later ‘there was | a lot of noise; there are extrem- (ists everywhere.”

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OTTAWA (CP) Five vincial governments have signi- fied agreement with a federally- proposed amendment to the con- stitution to extend the scope of old age pensions, it was shown Tuesday in correspondence ta- bled in the Commons ‘

Prince Edward Island Scotia, Manitoba. Alberta Saskatchewan—with some ervations about drafting concurred.

As previously announced Quebec wants details of the fed era) plan beforehand but Prime Minister Diefenbaker opposed this request in a letter dated last Saturday.

There is no record of any re ply from British Columbia. On- tario, New Brunswick or New foundiand.

Under the proposed aniend ment to the British North Amer- fea Act, the federal government would assume an extended jur- isdiction on old age pensions to take into account the needs of windows, children and disabled

persons. Premier Stanfield of ‘Nova \ Scotia said his governmen: has

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seid it was the first time that a senator had died in the Sen- ate chamber with the House ia session Other senators had died in their rooms in the Parliament

building

Mrs Barbour was in the Sen- at the t'me her husband spoke. However, she left after he had finished speaking and didn't wit- ness [tts VIAPseE

Senator Barbour. appointed to the Senate in 1949 after 14 vears in the Prince Edward Island Legislature, had resumed his seat after delivering a five minute address —BRorm i Vma, PET. Sept 3, 1878 he was a farmer and fox an ints) 19 hen a coief prohibilion ‘inspector in the dry srevince until 1927 and a-cus- toms officer until 1932

He elected to the legis- lature in 1935 and re-elected at ever, subsequent general elec- tion unti! his appointment to the Senate He became minister of public works and highways is 1945. holding the post until 1949,

In addition to his wife he is suryived by a son, Wendel G. Barbour and a daughter, Greia. Mrs. Sheldon Duncan, both of Charlottetown

(The body will be sent to the MacLean Funeral Home in Char- lottetowr it was announced early today. Arrangements for

the fyneral had not been made then.)

Catholics Mourn Death or Cc

VATICAN CrRy— RAgters\ —- The Roman Catholie\ Church mourned Tuesday the deaths of

two cardinals within the space

of 24 hours 4 third cardinal,

Alo Joseph Muench, is ser. jou in a Rome hospital

Gactano Cardinal Cicognant, 80. prefect-of the Vatican's Sae- red Contrecation of Rites, died Monda\ and Teodosio Cardinal de Gouveia. 73, Archbishop of Lourenco Marques. capital of the Portuguese Fast African territory of Mozambique, died Tuesday the former in Rome and the jatter in Lourenco Mar- ques

The College of Cardinals now numbers 77

Cardina! Muench an Ameri- can who is a member of the “cabinet of the Roman Cathe lic Church. is seriously fl w _

Parkinson's disease

Influenza Closes” Group Of Schools

SAULT STE. MARIF, Ont. \P Twenty of the 29 primary schools in Sault Ste. Marie have heen closed by an outbreak of which health officials hit more than a third population.

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Okay Pensions Plan

no objections and Premier Shaw of Prince Edward Island ex. pressed agreement Premier Lesage -of Quebee was impossible to de thout knowing more de- of, the federal pension

said cide tails * phan.

DIEF;NBAKER REPLIES Mr Diefenbaker replied that all the provinces have been given the essential information and ‘the amendment is not one that diminishes in any way the powers of the provincial legis. latures. for it would provide that no law passed under it a affect the operation of any provincial law relating é»

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He expressed the Quebec will give additi sideration to the federal requ since “many persons in all parts of Canada are asking for the benifits of the legislation which would in no way affect the rights of the provinces.”

It would be ‘improper’ submit details to a te government and \egislotere st approval that it wag conte | plated Parliament would enact.

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