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THEFT VICTIMS EXPLAIN LOSS

$442,500 worth of bearer bonds stolen Jan. 21 from her home in Joliette, Que., 35 miles

KHRUSHCHEV PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sov- fet Premier Khrushchev was reportedr Sunday night to have propos: an 18-nation summit meeting to open the March 14 disarmament conference at Ge- neva. Canada. is a member of the group.

The proposal-is understood to have been .made in a. letter Khrushchev sent .to President Kennedy and apparently was sending also to heads of the other countries involved.

U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk met at the state depart- ment late Sunday afternoon with ambassadors of Britain, Can- ada, France and Italy.

_ 18-Nation Summit Talks May Open Arms Parley

Those are the other NATO al- lies which would be involved in the Geneva conference.

Rusk is understood to have given the ambassadors a full ac- count of the seven-page Khrush- chev message to Kennedy. So far as could be learned none of the other Western governments had-at that time received the Khrushchev proposal.

Khrushchev sent the letter in response to a proposal made to him last Wednesday by Ken- nedy and Prime Minister Mac- millan for foreign ministers to open the disarmament confer- ence,

Khrushchev is understood to

panish, Portuguese

giants‘ in the world’s dwindling ranks of dictators — Francisco

Franco of Spain and Portugal’s .

Antonio de“ O ’ zar— were reported planning to. meet today to discuss possibte’ inte- gration of their countries into @ federation of the Iberian pe- ninsula. ;

Informants said the scheduled meeting in the western Spanish town of Ciudad Rodrigo, 15 miles from Portugal's border; was requested by Premier Sa- lazar.

The Portuguese leader, shaken by the loss of Goa to India, wants Spain’s military

-Talks Said Planned

‘VV MADRID (AP) — Two aging

support’ to strengthen his grip on Portugal’s remaining over- seas territories, the informants said.

Franco's well - equip) army of about 500,000 men, Salazar could move much more force- fully to smash nationalist up- risings in the seething West Af- rican territory of Angola and Portuguese possessions.

There was speculation that Salazar and Franco feel a Span- ish - Portuguese _ federation, bringing together nearly 40,- 000,000 people, might increase the chances of strong central rule continuing after they pass from the scene.

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Five Die |n Fire

NORANDA, Que. (CP) — Five! persons burned to death Sunday | when fire destroyed an isolated

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1962.

Charles Recovers After Emergency Surgery

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northeast of Montreal. At right is her sister, Amandine Lali- berte,, holding their cat Gris-

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| her children, Michel, 10, Rachel, | 6, and Angele, 5, and Yves Dia- | mond, a six-month-old baby. | Mrs. Charonneau’s husband, Raphael, 45, was taker to hos- .Pital along with two of his LONDON (AP)—A leader of a children, Lucille, 20, and Marie- pan - the - bomb movement in Claire, 1%, and Mrs. Clermont — Britain is trying to enlist’ sup- Diamond. port by a bam on love. Four more persons escaped The idea is to urge wives who injury. : favor disarmament to ‘“with- Firemen said an overheated | graw their love’”’ until their hus- home - made furnace appareM- bands agree to work for the | ly was the cause. abolition of nuclear weapons. The four children were be-- John R. Boyden, 45-year-old lieved to have died in their jnqystrialist and prominent beds while Mrs. CharbonneaU member of .-the Petersfield, died while trying to save them. Hampshire branch of the move- | ment, said: { ° | “A strike against husbands New. R R. has been discussed in London , or and it will come up for discus- sion at Petersfield. In Berlin Air | “I am going to talk to them i | about Lysistrata.” | Re ected Lysistrata was the heroine of | S | | an ancient Greek play who led | a women’s conspiracy for | BERLIN (AP)—A Russian id peace. She persuaded the Ath: | to take over two of- the three enian women to withhold their | Allied air corridors to Berlin affections from their | | for a couple of hours today—up Santa ed to a height of 7,500 feet—has| . been rejected by the Western Allies, a spokesman said Sun- day. Similar efforts last week also were rejected. age have objected that the issues in- | The Soviet contetiios it She volved in trying to end the nu- Berlin Air Safety Centre said) clear arms race are far too ser- ‘he Soviet Air Force wanted to ious to turn over to bureau- Teserve the corridors running crats—by which he made clear between Berlin and Hamburg he meant the foreign ministers. 2%4 Berlin and Hanover up to ‘ The known attitude of the 4 altitude of 7,500 feet from ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. Kennedy: administration, as well 10:15 a.m. to 12:38 p.m. today. Hundreds of | ‘as of the previous Eisenhower The Western spokesman said flattened and highways were | government, has been to oppose the Western Allies rejected the | clogged by drifting snow Sun-| full-scale summit meetings un- Soviet demand, saying they day night as a wild winter) less advance negotiations give would not accept any limitation | storm howled across Newfound- | some assurance of success when on freedom,of ‘flights to Berlin land. the heads of government get to- along the corridors. In eastern sections of the; gether. ; ne “Our aircraft wilt continue | province, rain and freezing rain Nevertheless, the position “ying as usual, including below taken by the U.S. would leave the 7,500-foot altitude set by the the way-clear for a later sum- Soviets,” the spokesman said. mit conference on disarmament if the first stages of negotia- saa are ; F | tions at Geneva opened up seri- Seo See ous possibility. af agreement be- and the United States intend to tween East and West. Thus * military transport planes) By THE CANADIAN PRESS cau be said authoritatively that ‘rough the corridors to — _Wind-driven snow piled into if the Geneva meeting makes ‘Tate their rights, as they did 1 aso ritime provinces from progress a summit. meeting la- i? the face of similar Soviet bids the Atianti hile th ter in the spring is possible. !ast Thursday and Friday. year sega The 18-nation disarmament |rest of Canada recorded an as- committee is under instruction ° |sortment of more gentle wea- to report back to the United Three Killed, | ther. ‘ ae storm es - Boe. Atlantic *sea t Five Injured . * In Collision

'Nations by June 1. A summit

conference along the: lines pro- | almost two- feet of snow on Gan- der, Nfid., and more than a foot '

posed by Khrushchev could con- (Confinued on Page 5 Col. 5) : on Cape Breton Island by noon {Pane ,

TIMMINS, Ont. (CP)—Three/ hit other parts of the east coast,

In B.C. Dwelling persons were killed and five| but strong winds drifted ‘ | snow to a depth of several feet

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP)—Mrs. ethers injured Tureday night wt parts of Nova Scotia, New Dorothy Lyons, 23, and her two @ two - car head - on collision Brunswick and Prince Edward daughters aged two and four,|@bout 50 miles southwest of} Isjand. died in their smoke-filled home here. at nearby North Kamloops Sat- _Dead are Arnold Tremblay, Newfoundland and wind gusts urday. ae eee mer Rss with reached 50 miles an hour in

. ‘ e Kirklan e ren’s Nova Scotia. | The family dog also perished | 4i4 Society; Raymond Schryer, /as fire broke out in the living 1S: and te Harwéed. 12 room and burned slowly through | 7°’, 2" ereaey Sarweess Z| Ommral

the floor. That was the only damage.

Canada children’s aid.

Air Of Mystery Surrounds | Return Of Pilot Powers |

By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

. WASHINGTON (AP)—U-2 spy ures who darted from an air the centre of a

oe ene Soe k home Sunday and was re- united with members of his fam-

lly.

The White House announced this much and only a little more about a chain of events that took place in an

have been. the two shadowy fig-

Force Base near here in the blackness before dawn this

Donovan was the lawyer for ‘Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Abel

phere of contrived oo as Vi phere ol recreey ani —_ Swe Story

They began when Powers dis- appeared from public view Sat-

* wrday morning almost at: the in-

A White House statement read by Assistant--Press Secretary Andrew T. Hatcher, merely:

“Francis Gary Powers is now in ‘the United States and is

IN GOOD CONDITION “Mr. Powers appears to be in|

good physical condition. As pre-

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Ban The Bomb Leader To Seek Love Tieup-

Said Boyden:

“I feel the Lysistrata idea could be part of the ban-the- bomb. campaign. Women would

not do anything at home. Love

would be just one aspect of the strike.”’ .

In fhe play Lysistrata. the Athenian women refused their husbands what English courts are pleased to cal! ‘‘their con- jugal rights.”

But Boyden said his plan was more sweeping.

“But missing their dinners would hit them much harder.

“At least a strike at home would make men think.”

A spokesman for Lord Rus- sell’s-rival and militantly paci- fist group, the Committee of 100, described the “‘love strike” idea as fascinating.

The Committee of 100 goes: in

| for acts of civil disobedience to

further its campaign against

nuclear weapons.

power circuits and disrupt road travel. No telephone or tele- graph communications were re- ported disrupted.

In central areas the storm which raced-in from the Mari-

Two Deaths Are Blamed On Maritimes’ Weather

son, with a low of 25 below zero

for Campbellton, N.B.

CAUSE TWO DEATHS

The weather was blamed for at least two deaths on maritime highways. A two-car collision east of Moncton Saturday took the life of George Richard Tay- lor of Tabusintac, N.B. Doyle Pulicover of Blandford, N.S: died when the car in which he was riding skidded off the road about 20 miles from his home.

A departing high - pressure

i retief from _be- low-zero temperatures in © On- but the new pattern was bringing a mixture of rain and snow.

A prairie cloud bank covered most of Saskatchewan and Al- keeping temperatures well above zero and above freez- ing in southwestern Alberta.

Southern British Columbia

A cold ‘front shifting east from | also was cloudy, with spurts of forced down drizzle or

Both boys were wards of the temperatures. Forecasts called ‘northern parts of the province ‘| for the coldest night of the sea- had it clear and cold.

light snow, while

WEATHER

Snow and bi evening; north wink, 45. Low-high 5 below and 10 above.

snow, clearing by 30 with gusts to

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ors FucHT | Condition Said

SET WEDNESDAY

CAPE CANAVERAL, FAL. AP — After several frustrat- ing delays, the United States plans to try again Wednesday to send John H. Glenn Jr. whirling into round-the-world orbit.

If everything goes precisely on schedule, an Atlas Missle will blast off at 7.30 a.m. EST that: day to boost the 40-year-old Glenn toward his long-awaited flight into space.

A perfect flight would take him three times around the world in four hours 50 min- utes at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour. Near the end of the third orbit, braking rockets would slow his Friendship 7 space craft and Dring it down for a para- chute landing in the Atlantic 800 miles southeast of here. Glenn, the Atlas, the capsule the world-wide tracking net- work, the recovery forces and other elements all were reported im ready condition Sunday as the seventh sched- uled date for the launching neared.

Major Storm Slams Blow. At Nfld. Over Weekend |

(CP) —|coupled with 50-mile-an-hour times was depositing crippling power poles were| winds combined to knock out amounts of snow.

By late Sunday night 24 inches of snow had fallen at Gander, the international airport in cen- tral Newfoundland.

ROADS WASHED OUT

Two roads to Argentia 90

miles southwest of here on ihe | Avalon Peninsula were reported washed out by heavy rain and freezing rain. Twelve to 15 in- ches of snow was forecast for | the area today

Washed out was a section 16 miles southwest of Holyrood on the Salmonier highway and a Markland on the

section near Colinet Road. United Towns Electric Com- pany reported a large area

around St. John’s had no power.

The company said about 300 power poles were down in the Conception Bay area, about 150 in the Trinity Bay South area and about 100 on Bell Island Power was expected to be back to Bell Island sometime today

High winds were blowing snow into drifts on highways as fast asrc Snow plew s_eould break through. Drifts of nearly four feet were reported on main streets at Grand Falls.

The full force of the storm by-passed Western Newfound- land which got only two or three inches of snow

Sheet ice floated into St John’s Harbor from the Water- ford River crushing small boats against the steamship Bacalieu causing damage estimated at $2,000 to the small boats.

LONDON (Reuters)—Doctors performed an emergency ap- pendectomy on Prince Charles early today and reported that it was ‘‘completely satisfactory.”

The 13-year-old heir to the throne underwent surgery after midnight after he was

rushed to a London hospital by

ambulance from his school 50 miles away at Cheam, Buck- inghamshire.

His condition was reported to be satisfactory.

The operation was performed by David Waterson, surgeon at London's Hospital for _ Sick Children, with four other phy- sicians in attendance

Prince Charles arrived at the hospital with suspected appen- dicitis shortly after midnight. accompanied by his school doc tor and the Queen's pediatric- jan. Hospital physicians decided to operate immediately

At 2:30 a.m. an official bul- letin was issued stating:

“His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales underwent an operation for acute appendicitis early this morning. His condi- | tion is satisfactory.”

His mother, Queen Elizabeth, was kept informed by telephone at Windsor Castle outside Lon- don where she was staying. A eable was flashed to his father, Prince Philip, at Caracas, Ven ezuela, where he is visiting on a South American tour.

‘Satisfactory’

Charles was understood to have complained he felt unwell Sunday morning and _ doctors were called in to the school te examine him. Appendicitis was suspected

The Prince is in his last term at Cheam before transferring to Gordonstoun, his father’s old school, in the summer

Sir Wilfred Sheldon. physician- pediatrician to the Queen, went to Cheam to examine the prince and came back to London with him

ILL AT CHRISTMAS

The Prince's last illness wag minor—he and his aunt. the Duchess of Kent, left a Christe mas Day church service neat Sandringham. the Roval faml- ly’s country home

He had colds last September and last April after recovering from measies in February. He had, a bout of chickenpox in April, 1959.

In_ 1957, when he was nine, Charles underwent a tonsil and adenoids oper ations following frequent attacks of tonsilitis. The operation was in Bucking- ham Palace.

The Prince is first in line for succession to the throne. fale lowed by his infant brother, Prince Andrew, who will be twa on Feb. 19. and his sister Prin

cess Anne, who ia V4.

Separatist Movement ls Described Threat

SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP Those in Quebec who advocate separation of their province from the rest Canada are a small group as yet, ‘‘but what is going on Quebec could tear this country apart,’ Emery LeBlanc of Moncton, managing editor of the daily newspaper L’Evangeline and president of the Canadian Managing Editors’ Conference said Saturday night.

He spoke at an organization dinner meeting of the Saint John Men's Press Club

Mr. LeBlanc said representa tives of news mediums have a responsibility to understand some of the reasons for the cur rent “separatist movemem -tr

of

in

Quebec. “None of the people who are preaching separatism are as

important as the: people of Que- bec think they are, but they are more important than most of you think they are,’ Mr. Le Blanc said. ‘‘As for what is go ing on there, you cannot take the responsibility of ignoring it.”

WINDS OF CHANGE

Winds of liberation

were

blowing across the world and

15 of the 40-odd nations created since the Second War were French - speaking. Quebec he

said, was in a better position to operate as an independent state than any of these °

He cited ‘many reasons why the separatists felt Quebee would be better off to leave Confederation They felt French was not really an official Jan- guage of government that much industry was controlled by English speaking ‘‘strang- ers'’; that French magazines had been bought up, closed down and replaced by French versions of English magazines, and that French Canadians were not sufficiently repre-

senicd in.the government

“In New Brunswick however,

you have no separatist move- ment among the Acadian people. Among the Acadians, it is different. We are conscious of the fact that we are a small minoritys -

“The Acadian Jikes Confedera- tion A separatist movement cannot grow among the Aca- dians. But in Quebec it is dif- ferent.”

Death-Dealing Blows

Are Struck

LOS ANGELES (AP) Na ture dealt weather blows to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States Sunday in the form of death-dealing rains and mudslides in California and bit ing cold in the east | A mudslide loosened by the | California rainstorms of the | last five days crashed into two | southern California homes. kil! | img a nine-year-old boy and an infant. The slides were among | hundreds on southern California | slopes during the night A traf | fle accident blamed on the storm teok another life for a death toll of 13. Flood waters periled homes

Frazier “Park, Calif. war partly flooded during the night when a rain-weakened spillway

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By Storms.

of Bakersfield However. no lives because the estimated

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20 families whose homes were in the path of the churning wa- ter had been previously evarte ated There was no estimate of damage to homes DAMAGE SOARS

But the spillway collapse added to the total damage caused by the storm that hag ravaged northern and southern California for five days. Dam age ‘0 property soared into the millions

Lox Angeles was soaked by nearly six inches of rain during the cownpour. while canyon and foothi! areas got as much as 14 inches of rainfall

In the east a cold wave spreatt from New England and north- ern New York State southward

to the guif States At Saranae Lake, N.Y. in the Adirondacks the thermometer skidded te 33

below, while Albany had 18 te low--a record for Feb. 11. New. port, Vt., recurded 24 below and readings far below zero were takeh In Maine and New Hampshire.

New York readings included Watertown 23 below, Glens Falls 15 below and Buffalo eight be low