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VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 257

For The Island

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A BABY GIRL, unhurt, fests in the arms of Loretta Jones at Ft. Myer, Va., dis- Pensary Tuesday night. A man

identified as Norman son of Baltimore set fire to himself outside the Pentagon while carrying the child in his

Morri-

arms, Morrison died. The baby is reported to be his

daughter. (AP Wirephote)

Man Makes Himself Torch, Baby In His Arms Escapes

WASHINGTON (AP)—A man who carried a baby in his arms set fire to himself in front of the Pentagon Tuesday and died shortly thereafter. The child was not injured.

He was identified as Norman R. Morrison of Baltimore, 31, who was a Quaker.

Morrison turned himself into a human torch outside the Pen- tagon before the eyes of hun- dreds of defence department workers

An 18-month-old baby girl, whom he held in his arms as he set himself afire, escaped in- jury

Army officers are . trying ‘to

lve. into the reasons for..the spectacular deed. They. said a woman who answered son's home telephone number in Baltimore was distraught and

they, could get little information the big building just across the | anid:

from her immediately. A woman who answered a re- porter’s cali at the Morrison

Morri-

| telephone ih Baltimore said she could provide no_ information, but she did say that her hus- band and the baby were not at home.

| Raished to the dispensary at Fort Myer, Va., an army post near the Pentagon, Morrison

| Was pronounced dead on arrival.

|\CHILD SAFE

But the blonde - haired baby | girl, reported to be his daughter. went unscathed. An hour or so after the tragedy, the child, wrapped in a blanket, was sit- ting in the arms of a nurse at Fort Myer and smiling.

the river entrance said he had noticed the man walking up and ,down for some time. He said he carried what appeared to be a | gallon-sized jug in one hand and was cradling the baby in his other arm.

Army Maj. Richard Lundquist told a reporter he saw the man standing on a concrete abutment about a hundred yards from the river entrance to the- Pentagon.

“He yelled something,”. Lund- quist said, and then flames

man’s body. |WAS HUMAN

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A blue coverall, in which the | arrival,

marl was clothed on

Teported not even singed. | The-incident occurred in the dusk as defence. department workers were thronging Out of

river. from the US. capital at the end of the work day. | A guard who was on duty at

Fishing Compa

nies Alarmed

By Russian Fleet Off B.C.

-- VANCOUVER (CP) ~—Major fishing companies, concerned about the appearance of a 45

vessel Russian fisting fleet off the west coast, appealed. Tues- day to the federal government for help.

The Fisheries Association ot British Columbia wired | Fish- eries Minister Robichaud asking

for a change in the method of |mother ships and a tanker are | Morrison has for several years Guardian last night.

measuring the 12-mile fishing ‘limit.

It asked that the limit be . Measured from a baseline stretching from Vancouver Is- land to the Queen Charlotte Islands.

The effect of this measure would be to exclude the Russian fishing fleet from the Queen Charlotte Sound .between Van- couver and Queen Charlotte Is-

lands.” The. fleet can_fish there now because the 12-mile limit ‘is measured from the, mainland. | The Russian fleet ;ported.by fishermen: Monday.

| Fisheries department spokes- jmen said Tuesday the fleet is jbeing kept under observation by \two patrol vessels.

TORCH . oust He. was 4 torch.":Landquist . said of the man

| The ofticer (said people called out, “drop the baby” and the ‘child fell to the ground. Thes the man toppled over, Lundquist

Several people scaled the atvut- flames,

iment and smothered the

'was found on ‘nearby.———

he added. Lundquist said a container

| Fire equipment and an ambu-

|lance soon arrived and the man, |@ Cheque for $2,734 and he’s also

‘above blankets, was rushed te |

was fTre- |

his fire-blackened head showing

‘the army-dispensary at Fort Myer.

\fence Secretary McNamara at jthe time said the secretary. was |‘absolutely unaware” of the in- cident and the resultant confu- sion, which was in sight of his

| He said the 34 trawlers, 10 /Office.

| stretched between Cape Scott on |northern Vancouver Island and the southern trip of the Queen |Charlottes. The ships appeared ito he catching ocean perch ex- lclusively. oo

| The mother ships were - be- itween 3,000 and 15,000 tons.

| The department spokesman | said the Russian vessels are out- side the limit and within their lrights.

PM Repeats Forecast Of Liberal Majority .

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notified the U.S. internal rev- enue service he was donating $5

to the United Nations high com- |

mission of refugees and ‘‘we are withholding the like amount \from our final tax payment as a token protest of the current military budget of the federal government. Even though Wwe lare Christian pacifists we ap- preciate that our government has the obligation to prepare for ithe common defence: but under ithe present circumstance we ifeel our military budget is only \Preparing us for mutual -sut icide.””

\OPPOSE WAR

Quakers—formally called the Society of. Friends—disapprove of war. In fact, the group does not believe in violence of any form—and_ has__urged__non-vio- lence between nations.

| The 3l-year-old Morrison was |

$f °FORT' WILLIAM, Ont. (CP)—| and the late Liberal Fort Wil-.|4 native of Erie, Pa. After grad-

Prime Minister Pearson said’ Tuesday that the New Demo- cratic Party feels that wages and prices should be controlled. _ “You ¢an-—exercise complete control over all wages and prices and everything else —if

ing to Montreal for a Tuesday evening rally.

jliam MP Rev. Dan Mclvor, | Pearson said: ‘Do you think a ‘party with people like that

| could subscribe to corruption or |

| wrongdoing?"’ | “When I read some things be- jing said.

want me to.”

He said the Nov. 8 election |boy—Emily, 18 months, Tina,

Mr. |uating from Wooster College in

'Ohio he studied at New College in Edinburgh and later gradu- ated from Pittsburgh Theology Seminary. : He went to Baltimore —afier

Morrison and his wife, both were the parents of ‘three children, two girls and

Mr. Pearson spoke to about lis “critical” because minority jand Ben, nearly 7. .

1,000 persons at noon hour in the same auditorium where Op- position Leader Diefenbaker drew 1,200 at an evening meet- ing two weeks previously. Libera] candidates Hu bert Badanai in Fort William and Boh Andras in NDP-héld Port Arthur were on the platform. “IT can’t accept socialism as

| government is bad for the dem- ocratic process.

If Canada were not careful,

|parliamentary system where!

business was conducted by ne- 'gotiation among political groups Bis ; However, Mr. Pearson added, ithe subject was academic '‘‘be-

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it might lapse into the type of |

the hasis for political action,” |cause we are going to have a/| Mr. Pearson said. The ideals of | majority.”

“social justice’ were being rea- lized because the Liberals had a good program.

When the prime mentioned the NDP, someone in the crowd shouted ‘who the bell are they?” -

In referring to Mr. Badanal, an MP in the last Parliament,

minister | could

“IT don’t advocate a majority for the sake of a majority.” He wanted one so the Liberals continue the program they had put forward.

If Canada was to play its part.at the United Nations, “we've got to be a united na- tion at home”

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quiet, clean-cut man. One neigh- bor said he had served with the Peace Corps in Europe. |

INSIDE TODAY

vers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1965.

Work On Causeway Job | Due For Immediate Start |

CAPITAL BUREAU rimain Island and the present mates of the crossing comple. | OF THE GUARDIAN Canadian National Railways line tion is 1970. :

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Party Strength Is Split,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dem- jocrat Abraham Beame, with a

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then southerly. Low,

high, 18, 38. Thursday: rain.or snow,

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Early U.S. Count Shows

Democrat

Snatches

Lead In New York

for city council -president X Timothy Costello, the Liberal

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OTTAWA —First phase in the construction of the multi-million [dollar Northumberland Strait jerossing will get underway tm- |mediately, Public Works Minis- iter George Meliraith announced

, |here Tuesday

Diamond Construction (1961) Limited of Fredericton has been awarded a $1,696,660 contract \for the approach access high- lway and an approach railway lembankment on the New Bruns- | wiek side,

| The successful tender was the jlowest of three opened on Oct. 2%. Highest was $2,498,833. Access highway work will :con- {sist of grading, draining, laying jcourse and associated work be- jtween the outer shore of Jouri- jmain Island and the present |Trans Canada Highway for a idistance of about four and a half miles.

| ‘The new railway embankment \will extend for some five miles

ibetween the outer limits of Jou-

and will parallel the new access

But the minister warned that

|road. the project was so big and com- 2 plex that some bugs may devel- WORK ALL WINTER __ op later on to delay the comple

One of the ‘project require: tion until 1971. He said he had ments is that the work will pro- recently travelled over the ceed continuously throughout the crossing route in a helicopter

winter months with the contrac- and was able to get a very good

\tor being responsible for snow idea of the formation and the

plowing and sanding access and depths involved in the straig haul roads. Second: phase of the crossing’ The completion of the ap- |project is the road approach on proach highway is scheduled a8 the Prince Edward Island side. far as Jourimain Island by April Mr. MclIiraith said that tenders 30 and all remaining work under jon this wodld be ‘called some the contract by the end of July time this winter. Because of ‘the 1966. ieee lclay sotl, no work could be start- Public traffic willbe barred jeg on the P.E.I. side until the. from the work area except at spring. The department is still the points where the approach working on final completion of road and railway crossing cross the specifications for. this tender existing highways. Supervision cal]. ; of the contract is under North- The P.E.I. end will be cheap- umberland Consultants Limited er and simpler ta construct as of Charlottetown. the distance {s four miles, slight- Mr. Mcliraith said the award- ly less than in New Brunswick, ing of the contract is right on the and , the embankment for the governments target as far ag railway line will not have to be time is concerned. Best esti- | built.

York Point

By NEIL MATHESON HALIFAX — Pulton Sander-

an he took the Atlantic Winter Fair

class for the second straight year. With the championship ti- tle goes $5,063. :

“I’m so happy, I realy cannot express myself,’ he told The Guardian.

Irving MacDonald, York plac- led third in the final accounting which lists the points won’on ithe hoof, and those

Unprecedented Victory At Fair

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Exhibitor Scores

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d. But he ng Fulton told The Guardian he \on Bobby Sanderson’s animal. would probably go to the Royal \after judge W.C, (Bill) Bennett chace a really good Hereford through placing ‘the steers female, or perhaps @ few, he

ve. Dera : didn’t elaborate.

| But Sanderson's Hereford frying MacDonald is thinking jcame from fourth place on the o¢ getting a few top Angus-cat- hoof to take the major crow®. (4), :

: Both men called their wives 400 Refugees

ifrom the Winter Fair office. But Fulton couldn’t get through. The

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DIES IN B.C,

Austin C. Taylor of Vancou-

ver, miulti-millionaire busi- nessman and sportsman, died in hospital in Vancouver Mon- day night. Born in Toronto, he was a promoter of thorough- bred racing in British Colum- bia.

(CP Wirephoto)

Churchill Falls Outlook Bright

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Pre- mier Smallwood said Tuesday the present week is ‘‘the most

crucial and most favorable” j}since the idea of harnessing electric power at. Labrador’s

Churchill Falls was born,

Mr. Smallwood said in a state- meent that “the whole situation looks brighter than it ever did before.”

He said Consolidated Edison, ithe big U.S. power utility, had iTeceived a firm price offer for

the hoof to finish place steer on the hoof \Churchill Falls power from Que-

‘proved’ the offer, but hée did not say when he expected the

grand championship in the steer He was away down in 16th place | winter Fair in Toronto and pur- 28Teement to be signed.

|substantial margin in his home| party chairman who joined ‘the \borough of Brooklyn; wrested | Lindsay slate. jthe lead Tuesday night from Re-} O'Connor is a Democratic |publican John Lindsay in the prospect to run against Republi- tace for mayor. lean Governor, Nelson Rockefel- Conservative William F. — ler next year- ley Jr. was pulling a sizeable; comes vote, and it looked like the bit- BeBe Army psy ter battle would be as close a8 \ii0.. that saw New Jersey Gov- predicted. ernor Richard J. Hughes win his | The voters turned out in what |second term, while Virginia’s ‘could be record numbers on &| Democratic lieutenant governor brisk day. swept far ahead of a Republican Returns from 761 of 5,098 elec- ‘challenger in their gubernatorial tion districts gave Beame 160,- race. _ 552, Lindsay 145,340, Buckley Hughes defeated Republican 37,098. State Senator Wayne Dumont; Jr. to hold the New Jersey gov- eernorship for the Democrats for

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ABC had declared Lindsay the winner on the basis of less than one per cent of the returns, but |a fourth consecutive term.

NBC and CBS said it was too! Virginia Lieutenant - Gover close to tell. \nor Mills E. Godwin Jr. was

U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits, far’ ahead in a state which has Lindsay’s campaign chairman, |had Democratic governors for ‘said it was “very tight but our /80 years’ He was out to succeed spirits are high and unflagging.” |Governor ‘Albertis S. Harrison

Queens District Attorney Jr., and the National Broadcast- Frank, O'Connor, running onjing Co. reported he had done Beame's ticket, was well ahead |so.

Island Showmen Grabbing Prizes

with the only animal -

By NEIL MATHESON | Coles once

HALEFAX — Island herds con- | he showed,

tinued to grab their share of the | “} spotlight Tuesday in -strong com-) shown by Gilbert Robison, | petition at the Atlantic Winter | vey Station, NJB., had ene

Fair. Highlights in the cattle | the best udders seen in a Ma

| Ting includéd one grand champ- | time ring for a long time.

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A visitor who was with De- |

line was down, the Halifax oper: ator said. Irving’s wife told him it was snowing at home, that KEY WEST, Fla. ‘AP)— the roads were slippery, so Is- | | George P: Kelly, Morell: plac- Stormy weather Tuesday angers here. were wondering jed fourth in the final accounting churned the waters of the Flor- iat the weather man is doing | i

and he pockets a'cool $1,098. ida Straits, corridor for “Cuban back home: :

< Robert Sanderson, Fulton’s refugees. trying to sail tiny The silent man back of this |

the Git grating, evi als home Reach Florida 'a happy man. 4

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| jonship and three reserve grand | was unable to show in the championship ribbons. terbreed udder class on E.A. -Myers, Hazelbrook took | day because she had not the championship rosette when | qualifying records in his herd sire, Myersbrook Acme | production tests to quali S. Pat took the Jersey “ male | The rules call for’ the championship: Mr. Myers went | the udder class to have at on from there to take the Pre-| 12 per cent of the mier Breeder's banner and he | duction of her breed takes home roughly $550 when

he leaves here the last of the | week. Miss Paula Coady, a WINS ALTHOUGH SICK

* ; : | The reserve grand Jersey was neighbor, is associated with Mr. . : Myers in the ownership of two | ear ike a Brown aad of the prize winning animals. ee Sen

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steer ‘I hav \Some exiles reported dramatic |. :

ion for $1,002. "Robert, 7 ig irescues atte voyages: of terror... 108 "i oan aes edt one __LONDON Cen ee \Prince of Wales College student. After one of the most-active rie a 2 “8 ree enittenk, jnorthwest Europe aes atid |The steer was’ his, and the mo. days since the migration began tok eer show committee. |day under the blows” of wild | is his.” F It m told The Oct. 7, Cuba was reported to Not only did his work result in gales which flooded towns, men- Goahtien ia ae ‘have ordered a halt in sailings fntastic prices for the top ami-aced shipping, left a trail of from the port of Camarioca be ™&ls, everyone got the benefit. \battered buildings and a mount- \SUPREMELY HAPPY cause of high seas. The six top steers averaged’ ing death toll.

$2:27 per pound. But the 24 steers! West Germany, Britain, Den-

The individuals were supreme-| Some 400 men. women and : s in the | chi sued it sold averaged a whopping 82% mark and Belgium all felt the \ly happy and Islanders in children arrived in 25 or more cents per pound. ice et tae ina.

[Forum roared their approval im |hoats and aboard the USS. : :

outbursts of pride as four Island (Coast Guard cutter McCullough, And back home in the Coli: North West German coastal steers were in the first six. In-|sent from Boston for rescue S¢um last August Buyers were ‘towns battened down Tuesday deed‘ the four top Island steers duty in the 90-mile waterway offering just a trifle over An | night as weather experts fore-

topped all other Maritime ani- | mals. The other ones that squeezed in were the CFRA ra- dio station steer from Ottawa that finished second and the E. P. Taylor steer from. Toronto that finished fifth.

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cents — I've forgotten the exact sum — on the rail — it would work ‘out to perhaps 32 cents on the hoof. Wish we could get Don reported Bishop to work some magic im captain Charlottetown next year. How about that?

that stretches between the U.S.

Winds whipped the waters into 10-foot waves,

Cmdr. Frank Barnett,

cast even fiercer weather than jthe hurricane-force _ winds: and lrain which lashed the region |Monday.

| The Elbe "iver raged almost 110 feet above normal and ‘flooded an area of Hamburg, \forcing a number of families to

Albert Boswall, Marshfield yaine far hee win’ thous de took the reserve male grand was far from her best. Mr: Rob- championship. inson told The Guardian she hag

The Island Jersey breeders— | been fighting sickness for sev- others. were George MacMillan, | eral days now, Cornwall; Turner Glydon and | morning of show day Tuesday Son, Kensington and’Fred Coles, | did he get her to eat her first Milton, dominated the male clas- | feed of grain. She was ganted ses. But they had Stormy going | up noticeably, and her hair among the females where no- | showed just a bit rough, but body got better than a third spot. | she still had enough to carry

Mr. MacMillan was in __ the | her through to the title. money in four classes, the Gly- Fulton Sanderson and Sons) dons on five occasions, the Bos- | York Point won a reserve wall herd eight times and Mr. ! (Continued on page 8% Col. 5)

Diet Visits Birthplace

Neighbors described him as a |

jevacuate their homes. Tuesday night troops were out

sahdbagging the banks of the \tiver and checking coastal \dikes

| The gales threatened to send lthe high tides surging inland.

| Floods in several north West |German fishing villages _dis- jrupted traffic and cut telephone lines.

\WIND LIFTED CAR

One fierce wind gust in the \Hamburg region Tuesday flung la car against’ a tree, killing a |woman occupant and_ seriously linjuring her husband

A hospital in Eckernfoerde lost its roof Monday night in an- other big gust. but there were no casualties.

Off the island of Terschciling, north Holland, the grounded freighter Paragathos was con stantly pounded. Tuesday by big waves.

\Leaders On _Hustings

| By THE CANADIAN PRESS

WEDNESDAY | Peearson—In Owen Sound and Lindsay, Ont. Diefenbaker — Whistle - stop- ping Sarnia to Malton;. night

rally in Montreal Douglas—In Montreal. Thompson.-In Red Deer and aes Ai... -Caouette—in- Granby, Que.

In Ont. Village OF1,200-

NEUSTADT, Ont. (CP)—Con- servative Leader Diefenbaker whistle-stopped through South- ern Ontario Tuesday, paying a nostaltic ‘visit to the house where he was born 70 years ago.

He was born Sept. 18, 1895 in Neustadt, 30 miles south of Owen Sound, now a village of 1,200

Mr: Diefenbaker was greeted by 50 persons at. the village sta- tion. A red-lettered’’sign on the wall_of_the little réd_ box-like station. read:

“Welcome home, John.”

Mr. Diefenbaker mingled with the group, shaking hands for a few minutes, and then an- nounced

“TIL be right back go and was born.”

I want to

Followed by reporters, he was driven. to an old two-storey ‘house of faded ellow-brown brick. He .walked around the house and-told reporters. he was born in if

His .father” tatweht-seheel nearby. The family moved away when Mr. Diefenbaker was two- and-a-half

“They've kept it in fine re- pair,”” he said

DIDN'T GO IN

Nobody came out of the house and Mr. Diefenbaker did not .go in

see the place where [!

jthere with her daughter, Leota. The older woman is im hospital. ,

Mr. Diefenbaker said his brother Elmer was born just across the street.

Back at the station, three eld- serly |school when it was taught by Mr. Diefenbaker’s father, posed for pictures with the Conserva- tive leader and his wife; Olive.

They are Henry Weber, An- gust “Lantz, and Mrs- Albert Glasser. The woman is 78.’

Mr. Diefenbaker, making his final election campaign foray into southwestern Ontario, “he- gan his day by. addressing 400 persons in front of the city hall in Owen Sound. He had come |to the community by train déver- night from Hamilton.

He repeated an appeal for the vote of all fhose who wanted’a $25-a-month increase in the old- age vension, which hig party has promised

Everybody who votes Libera! will be voting against an. in. crease fo S100 from $75: he said.

Then his train left for. a whistle-stop tour ft the countryside between Qwen Sound and Sarnia, oh

His whistle-stop crowds gea- erally varied from 30 te cept’ for the 600 he drew at towel, but the bulk of the- towel crowd were childres

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