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NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION MANAGERS MEET HERE

Telegram. Toronto, and .I.M

Canadian newspaper circu- lation managers are holding their annual convention in Charlottetown this week. At

nadian Circulation Managers Association; Farrell. circulation manager of The Guardian and The Evening Patriot: Carl O‘Byrne of The

the registration desk at the Charlottetown Hotel are. left to right. Lyman A. Dormain. Moncion. treasurer of the Ca-

Hutchinson, London, Ont. first vice-president of the associa tion. Business sessions begin today. iSee story on page 5.";

EIGHT DIE IN SPRINGH‘ILI.

Biplane Crashes

Seven Victims Of Fire To Share Single Coffin

SPRINGHILL. NS. ((JP) Seven members of one family killed when fire destroyed iht‘il'

home at nearby Springhill Junc ‘;

tion Saturday are to be burieo In a single coffin here this afternoon. An eighth victim. a neighbor. was also to be buried this morning.

RCMP and firemen Saturday completed the grim task of re moving the charred remains of the eight persons—six of them children—from the ruins of a single-storey house. An RCMP Spokesman said they were burned beyond recognition.

Amie

...yersof. irst., iilo examined the bodies. lalt‘r

established the identities of tot children and adults.

The victims were Layton

Chisholm. 36. and his six chug.

di‘cn. Heather. 11; 10: Crystal, a; Thomas 3; Rob» crl. 2: and Richard. six months Barney Francis. 43. of Spring- hill Junction. a friend of Mr. Chisholm. was the eighth vic-

Margaret

tim.

Mrs, Chisholm. in hospital at Halifax at. the time of the fire. was taken back to Springhill Junction Saturday. She is ex period to return to hospital siicr the funeral of her family.

Meyers says an inqulrv ls unnecessary.

Cause of the blaze was not determined. borhood child told had visited the Chisholm home

aroundfls'uppertime andIemem- i an understanding-that “things,

Revived Heading

ward along thorNorth Carolina Coast Sunday. dumping -heavy rains and heading for possible hurricane status again.

The Miami weather bureau and Dora had I chance of becoming s burr. cane when she moved into me Oe- off Capo Hatteras Sundsy night. She was moving north figment at about 8! miles n

r.

The storm which had I 900“! defined «one was located s $221“! dgtggs west of this

0 Carolina cit at Mon EDT y

55"" “silent winds were 36 to m miles an hour In squalls over We! A“little Ocean extending " Wll'd some son to miles “9’” centre. the bureau said. “he” Winds were reported at '" "Id north of the centre. “file wot-ulna were displayed In Cm m: northward to

Cape May. NJ.

The 0.8. weather burosu It

glitch ordered gal. warnings stod

Mass. to . "mm u Island. Rn. “‘0 Mon outdoors would

3:80 beach was. flooding n loss o

However. is nigh? R

- damage along

per-cent M”

At U.K. Air Show

FARNBOROUGH (AP) — It 34 - year - old biplane crashed Sunday at the Farnborough Air Show. display case for British aviation. narrowly missing s crowd of spectators.

The pilot. James Williamson. 4|. emerged from the wreckage. of the Bristol Bulldog with cuts

s“:th and bruises. The plane stalled

lbored the one coal - burning lflames. with only

gstove that heated the entireistanding.

house was burning at that timeu Lloyd Rector. chief of tin.- “Ping a" “Wham dISpIay‘ Chisholm was reported to Spricghill volunteer fire depart “mm”! 03’" me. “tad-i "f spectators in a stdeslip and

Wave served in the Canadian men. said by the time fireme. iArmy and was believed uneln- arrived there was little that lployed and receiving a pensmr. could he done.

due to a lung ailment. “W e got there. there .MOTORIST NOTICE!) FIRE was nothing we could do to save

crashed into a barrier. Williamson. a test pilot, flew the Bulldog as a hobby. Thc

plane was the last of its type. I A passing motorist noticed thehouse‘ or the occupants." ht. . - "— lroom house about 1 a.m. ADT. “ e had to bring water from :Ilc. aroused neighbors Mr. and I three mil w a. w o . Mrs. Anderson said when she l Springhili J u n ctio it. about 1 looked out of a window the four miles west of here, has a I

lilames shooting from the four- sai . E t ' S k cs away. We did h s

IMrs‘ Ira Anderson. l "

.Chisholm house wasmarmassof' population of about I I I

f MONTREAL rcri M Experts

. I

combed the shattered interior 0‘ ‘ I Ian east-end subway tunnel du: l ‘ 'ing the weekend. seeking clues

. to an explosion that killed three construction workers Friday. They were atlempiinE to dis cover whether the blast was caused by gas. dynamite I ‘ something else. Their find .‘lfl the kingdom 0f 50" alwaysyings were not expected to be. I ‘made public until a coroner'sf 993"] ‘fn gamed SW'l'Iay- “I‘ The Roman Catholic pontiff : inquest is called. 19"" 0 9 “sump 0“ 0 .9 spoke. of no specific matter. ’ .Vatican Ecumenical Council. Ibm one “em on the council's a chfaggégrsailg122%?{93035 IagainSl “some “mules and agenda for the session opening have told an aI'nb‘ulan e H a Isome dreams” that its work of today has already sun-ed mme am that his tr k mca a n IrenewilII would be fell imme‘ disappointment. outside the | box and wiregucfen Inn 853]"; .diaiety council. It is a draft statement. I mite magazine‘ y words. to a crowd of-on relations between Romani . , ‘. I . in sun - drenched St. Catholics and Jews. I R‘Wv 19v .dIEd 1" hospital. The 'Peier's Square. amounted to a Even as Pope Paul spoke toIatzlf: A’Ifcfiéansvfluilcsg gawk": ' the St. Peter's crowd. Vatican. _ t . . plea for prayer and hope—and predicted the contrwismve Fllycsyk‘ w A" w versial document on Roman from the Montreal region. Catholic-Jewish relations would. be revised anew when the as-lmany of them rescue workersi semny takes it up. IOvercome by times as they l n was rewritten during the iscraInbled through the shambles recess a er the council‘s sec- IIOOkIPZ for YlCllmS- ond session. which ended last Andre Gisuere. 8 Dec. 4. Many Jewish leaders IMGnl-l'eal engineer assigned to! and some mm . Jewish circles I-the construction site. said thereI outside the council have viewed ‘WBS dynamfle in the tunnel “but the new version as a retreat none of my colleagues can fill . from the original document pre- ure out how it could have been i l Continued on me 3. col. 3) ignited."

I By BENNET M. BOLTON ; VATICAN CITY iAPl—Pope I come slowly and silently."

I His

OI! as

Dora .Nofih'

the northeast _. coast of Florida and the south- east coast of Georgia last week. However. she turned northeast ward gained force Satur- day .

Nine Armstrong College stu- dents were reported missing on a raft trip down the Savannah River from Augusto. Gs.. to Savannah. It was feared their rsft may have been swamped by Doro.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) Hurricane Ethel brus mods Sunday With )5 milocsn-hour fringe winds that gusted up to It!) miles an hour. The storm. whirling out at sea. felled trees. knocked out power and caused flooding in low- lying areas.

Most Bermudisns boarded themselves up in their homes . but. some bars remained open gr until 3 s.m. Some road wen . blocked by flood wsters and downed trees.

. A number of small boats in Hamilton harbor sank in tho

city of l

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1964.

mug“ SEVEN cams

Viet Nam Gov't Takeover

To No Rail

F. L. Butler. chairman of the P.E.I. Legislative Committee. International Railway Brothel

5. said yesterday citizens ol the Island should be opposed to any scheme for s causeway

cilities.

The committee has been in session at the Charlottetown Ho tel preparing its annual brie to the provincial government.

"The increase in motor irai file that would be required to 'handle the annual crop of ap- proximately 10.000 carloads of potatoes alone would impose nl heavy burden on the taxpayers ' of the province in the building and maintenance of highways

capab of maintaining suc‘nI liramc," Mr. Butler said. . I He said the railways should

'be looking to the improvement of rail services which a rail link c useway would provide, and a full scale study of the rel .ative costs of handling traffic to and from the Island by rail and motor transportation should

Extremes Clas .CaIIed Danger

ny KEN KELLY , I-‘REDERICTON iCPi — Ca-

nadian historian W. L. Morton mu" negotiations but many re.

warned the Progressive Conserg vative conference on goals Sat-i .urday anada stands on; Ithe verge of a clash of ex~‘ ttremes. f French and English Canada, are necessary to one another. the University of Manitoba his-I lorian said. adding neither csn‘ exist separately. ,

"Only a strong central gov-. .ernment can assure our survl-‘ ’val." he said. Dr. Eu e Forsey. researchl director of the Canadian LaborI Congress. told the day-long as-I seSsment of confederation "vio-I lence. whether to win independ-!

ence for Quebec or to prevent f o

it. is out of the question."

CAN‘T STOP QUEBEC “If Quebec really wants to.

.get out. all the rest of us cani

is sit down and work outI with Quebec how it is to be d .. .

one. ‘ Claude Ryan. publisher Le

Opposition Is Urged I

Causeway

be made before the government ‘ in a private cause-

'participates way scheme.

Mr. Butler added that there.

were ‘many other social and economic implications"

I before at final decision was madi. to build a causeway without rail i facilities.

Canadian Dies In Great Britain

LONDON (APi — Maj. drew Holt, 71. wealthy Cans dian - born race - horse breeder died here Saturday.

Holt. son of the late Sir Het- bert Holt. who built the Cana- dian Pacific Railway. served in Britain's ministry of aircraft production in the last war.

His first wife died in 1958 and in 1961. at 68. he married his secretary. Miss Hope Messer. who was 28

h

Devoir. Montreal. said both English must prepare for long and dif-

sponsible. sober French-speak-

ing Canadians are. not ready to walk out if they do not get im-_. e

mediate agreement on points they raise.

At te same time.

for a definite change in some English - Canadian attitudes if the drift toward “psyc’iological sepa ation" is to be curbed. lawyer Marc La- londe said as a matter of so- cial justice the status of the French language is totally ln- adequate in the federal admi - istralion. the national apital and in New Brunswick and On- tario.

Marcel G

Montreal

Faribauli. president

said Quebec. living in a stani state of tension. wants re- vision of basic constitutional documents to guard against what it sees as a gradual dis- appearance of the rights of in- dividuals. groups and regions. 1Continued on page 3. col. 3i

Yank Soldier ls Hero In Berlin Wall Strap

Another 16 men were injured. i

By JOHN 0. KOEHIJSB

BERLIN (Apl—West Ber'in police and East German border guards fought a 40-minute gun battle at dawn Sunday and s 22 - year - old American soldier emerged as a hero to savmg the life of a refugee. ,

There were no deaths. but the refugee and possibly an East German guard were wounded by bullets Witnesses said they saw an East German guard carried away on a stretcher. A West Berlin woman and s man were injured by flying glass and splinters as sub-machine. gun fire from the East hit West Berlin apartments.

US. officials said their to ports indicated members of an I American military patrol at the 3 scene fired no shots but at least three witnesses said they saw Americans firing at the East‘ Germans. ‘

“If it had not been for the Americans." one said. "the ref- ugee never would have reached . the West." I

CLIMBS ATOP WALL

The witnesses said a tail blond American military police- . msn. lster Hans uhl. 22. of East

mouth. Mass. climbed atop tth

identified as Pie [said in German: Wey- Iget away from b

U.S. ARMY Pic Hans Puhl, 22. of East Weymouth. Mass. emerged as a hero Sunday in saving tie life of an East German refugee at the Berlin Wall. The Army said Puhl was a German who had immigrated to the U n i t c d States. (AP Wirephoto VII

t. cable from Berlin)

The US. Army said Pith was

concrete Communist-built wall 3. German who had immigrated separating East and West while u, the Uni,“ sum. the

East German guards were

high sass kicked up by “I. n The woman—who asked not .0 om. AT 0 PM. last night tropi- slly increasing speed. There ”“‘~ be Identified—said the East St. Georges Island. s satellite "I “mm no" w“ “MN we“. we warning. from c.” "Two East Germans had ni- German obeyed Puhl and ran

on northwest berm s. sut- a m D‘ May. NJ. to Cape Fear. NC. ready reached the refugee: one away.

lend the heaviest blow. Elsc- “"r CM” ‘ n“ ‘ "‘0" Hui-clung Ethel, meanwhile, was pulling at him and the The US. soldier threw a rope

trlcity and telephones went out ins Whlfifll’d “ Mi 3 slong some too miles other one pointed his pistol us to the wounded refugee. identi-

osrly in the storm Bounds: mile per hour, the Miami north northeast of nor tho American." n woman re- fled as Michael Meyer. 21. The night sad the causeway linking weather buresu reported. and tag somewhat tutor than ported. "The American pulled refugee tied rope ground at. Georges loin: main island is extracted to continue on this it miles hour. ( his own pistol from the holster. himself and West Berlin police- was and. water. course or 13 hours at - ~ aimed at the East German and men pulled him across the wall.

t h a t I that would exclude railway fa- should be examined in detail

eneral Trust of Canada,i

‘Drop him and ere.‘ " ‘

BRIG. GEN. Lam Van Phat. Roman Catholic Viet Nam in-

terior minister fired last week

by P re m i e r Ngy Nguyen i Phanh. led 2.000 rebel troops and black|i=ted army officers into Saigon Sunday. Phat and the troops seized control and announced plans to arrest Khanh as a traitor but appar- enily the con was a failure as the Premier regained con- . trol of Saigon.

s

Doro Expected To Be Felt IIn N.S. Today

l

HALIFAX fCPi — Nova Sco- tia was expected to feel the ef- fects today of the first tropical storm of the season to reach the province. ’

Hurricane Dora was rolling up the Atlantic late Sunday and the weather office here said

and Fremh Canada high winds and rain were ex-1

pected to move in on the south coast this afternoon. The same was expected in the Halifax area tonight.

Winds up to 40 miles an hour were forecast by the weather

he called :‘office at 11 pm. ADT Stinday.l

UNTD Unit Here Set To Close

j HAMILTON ‘of the Canadian navy's Univer- ‘sity Naval Training Division will be closed "within a month." ommodore Pan-l Taylor. com- manding officer naval diVIsloi.s. said in an interview.

The units are located at St. Diinslans University. Charlotte- own; Acadia. Wolfville, NS; St. Francis Xavier. Antigonish. N 8.; University of Sherbrooke, 1Que; Ontario Agricultural Col- lege. Guelp ; d the Univer- sity of Alberta. ‘Calgary.

Commodore Taylor said the closing of the units is part of the d e to ' an~ nonnced last December.

‘We are reducing the number of UNTD cadets country by 50 per cent. Future intakes will be less in order to

"Cadets now in their second year will commissioned at the end of their training." he. said. “but the rest will have to be. released."

Hampshire sweepstakes, in its debut the only state-spon- sored sweepstakes in the United States. passed out nearly SL410.me in prizes to ticket- :‘iolders Saturday and among 1the winners were six persons who picked tip $100000 each. The top money went to per- ;sons who drew tickets on the 'favorite. Roman Brother. who .outdisianced a field of II thor- oughbred horses in the “25.000- addcd handicap of Rockingham

ark.

Knightly Manner ran second

.ond the six persons with tickets on him collected 350.000 eac'i. I Coming in third was Purser. Iwho paid off 325.000 to each of .the six persons holding tickets on him

In all. 00 persons had prized

winning tickets on the horses.

'Hie 40 with tickets on the also-j

rans picked up $7,500 each.

The race. run under cloudy skies and in chilly weather. [drew a disappointing crowd fewer than i

0.000. I . Some of its top m0m’y-win-.

Incl-s were among the specta- s.

“ ' states .6 931‘ v enlistees!“-

iCPi—Six unlts ‘

across the .

bring the total number of cadets 1

SALEM. N.H. lAPi—The New.

_ Unded

From Reuters-AP SAIGON ICPI ~ A militarv Icoup against Smith Viei Nam's IPremier Nguyen Khanh ap peared to have collapsed early

to comment. seizure of this capital city Sun- listed by South Viet Buddhists.

Khanh returned to Saigon late Sunday night from Dala‘t. 140 miles from Saigon. He had fled Ithere Sunday. with air force co- ‘operaiion, when troops led by ‘an opposing faction of generals Itook over the capital and or .dered Khanh's arrest.

I After a meeting at air (our. headquarters here. Khanh ap- iparently left the capital again ' arly today.

He conferred with the United

Nam's

today after Khanh's air force.

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Fails As LoaI nits Rally

States

* Supports Khanh

lAlexis Johnson and leaders of loyal units. including Air Corn- . modnre Nguyen Cao Ky.

I DEPLOYED NEAR BASE After Khanii's departure for

:state. Mai-Gen. ‘Minh. about 20 tanks and arrm ored personnel carriers were deployed near the air base. Planes dropped flares. light- ing the capital throughout the .night to keep watch on ‘ forces. I Ky warned in a broadcast ms 3 men were against any coup and jsaid: “We are ready to act.‘ I lIn Washington, the state de« Ipartment declared Khanh ‘con- itinues to operate" as premier and the United States “fully s u p p o rt 5 " his government. President Johnson conferred I with his top advisers on the cri- isis which caused dismay and Iconccrn in Washington.) lContinued on page 5. col. 3i-

Nine Men Adriff

On Burn

I NEW YORK (AP) —— Storm itossed winds and rough scan .from hurricane Ethel forced a lU.S. Coast Guard cutter to cut adrift a burned - out freighter .hulk Sunday night, leaving nine

Imen stranded aboard the ver.

sel.

Seas were so feet high and ‘winds at» 25. to 30 knots 350 5mile5‘srflith of New York when ‘the coast guard cutter Cherokee ,cut the tow line linking it to :the freighter Globe Explorer.

The 13.790-ton Globe Explorer caught fire Friday. and its 37

members were removed. After the fire was extinguished. four crew members and five coast guardsmen from the Chet okee were put back aboard to help in the towing operation.

“The Cherokee is standing by :and there doesn't seem to be Itoo much danger for the nine men." a coast guard spokesman said. “The Cherokee is waiting

ed Hulk?

for seas to calm or else try to get the men aboard the cutter",

Hurricane Ethel was reported- ;about 270 miles southeast of the

two vessels. with gale winds .extending 200 miles. The coast guard cutter iOwasco arrived in New London, IConn.. Sunday night with. 33 of the men from the freighter.

Coast guard Lieut. James .Brody, an Owasco officer. said 'all the men were in good con- dition.

Brody said the outside of tho freighter was charred and its after-sections heavily damaged 'by the fire. which apparently started in the engine room an spread aft.

The Globe Explorer was cai- rying 20,000 tons of coal and coke from Norfolk to Amster- dam. Holland. when she caught fire. She was under charter to the military sea transportation service of the U.S_ Navy.