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VOL. LXXV. N0. 303

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W E A T H E R Sunny with cloudy periods; cold; winds northwest 15 shifting to southwest 15. Low-high, 8 and 17.

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1962.

fieigh’rer African Pilot Sails With 923 Relatives Of Freed Cuban Prisoners

By GEORGE ARFELD

HAVANA lAP) ~ The freigh-i fer African Pilot. packed with 923 Cuban emigrants. sailed Wednesday night for Florida.

Released by a “christmas bo-. nus." deal with Cuban Premier Castro. they will rejoin their close relatives. the Bay of Pigs pi.son-ers freed this week from Cuban prisons in exchange for $53,000,000 worth of food in med- icine.

Their voyage across the Flor- ida straits is normally'a “about

trip.

it was thought earlier that about 1.000 relatives would be cleared to leave. But after the‘ long line. moving slowly under a hot sun. boarded the African Pilot. Cuban Red Cross officials said the tally was 923 and no more would arrive. ‘

An old man and three young sters were the last to walk the| long gangway onto the deck of. tlic 10.000-ton freightm-ahur-l ricdly converted to makeshift passenger accomodation after.

.a trip here with $11,000.000

north of merchandise. The relatives included the

ransomed men‘s mothers, fa-‘

fliers. wives. children, brothers and sisters.

After passing a customs checkpoint the emigrants were

.left with little but the. clothes

oi. their back. The; were not allowed to take out any Cuban money.

For many who accdpted Premier Fidel Castro's offer of permission to leave it meant forsaking every thing they own-

.ed in their homeland. as well as

friends and relatives.

SIPRRENDERED HOMES

The terms were that in cases where whole families went. they had to surrender their homes and everything else in Cuba. But property and possessions

could be held in their names!

provided one member of the family stayed.

American Red Cross officials rushed to convert the freighter —with regular accommodations

.for only 46 crew members and 1 ozen others—into a make-; ishift passenger ship.

Hundreds of blankets. cats; and sanitary items were flownl :here to outfit the freighter with

NOTE!ng SEVEN CENTS 16 PAEES}

Crack Train InBritain

‘her mercy cargo for the 14-hour lvenusl Days

‘sca voyage to Florida.

.n M' '. Red c — 1 mm weary ed .May 38 longer

wclf are workers rush

rations for the arrival of the lThan o."

African Pilot today.

' ‘After processing. expected to; take about three hours. the ex? ties were to be loaded into buses and escorted to an aiudi-i torium in Miami to be reunited l jwith the prisoners. . 1 Sailing of the African Pilotl ‘would be the second lainge exo-‘ dus from Havana in two days. Late Tuesday. a Soviet passen-i ger liner left here with hun- .dreds of Russians who had been lstationcd in Cuba. I ‘ The Russian men and women ’ were among an estimated 20.000 sent to Cuba from Iron Curtain 3countries last summer. 'l‘heyl [may have been workers on i missile sites.

Rush Job On Collection

Kept Prisoner Swap Going.

NEW YORK (AP) —« A swift.[

Castro indicated some prison-

l lion lawyer. .I o h n E. Nola-n, ‘

npur-of-tihe-moment collection of‘crs would be. held back unlosswwoi'king on the project in Mi-i

nearly 53.000000 prevented a last-minute bitch in the opera- tion to free the‘Cuban invasion prisoners. it was recounted Wednesday. The money. was" raised in 24 hectic hours. ending . in mid-aftermn Monday. as the return of captives was ini progress. 1

A New York Times News} Service dispatch from Washing- ton told how the issuance to Fidel Castro of a 52.900.000 cheque. drawn on the. Royal Bank of Canada. kept the oper- ation going.

it Miuen'pmmlsal him for the. release last ' April ' of" 60' “minded prisoners. and never had been paid. He insisted the need for showing "good faith" as the first flights of re leased prisoners began Sunday.

A that time. the extraordi nary money-raising effort also started. with private and cov- ernment officials wor i [2 against the clock.

The manoeuvre capped a com- i olex three-week sequence of; steps to bring about the huge} exchange of 353000.000 worth of l food and drugs for the 1.113 cap- lives.

the money was forthcoming.

BUSY 0N TELEPHONE Attorney-General Robert Kon- h .

nedy called a man e knew,‘

The Times related. and ex~ plained the situation. The man offered $1,000.000—on condition he remain anonymous.

At 5 am. Monday a Washing-

N.Z. HOWLERS. ARE UP TO PAR

, . - - The « . . AUCKLAND’ NZ (CH which h55”~a Havana office. is.'iFun'craT services will be held

The year-end examinations in New Zealand have pm- of bowlers

duced crop well up to standard. Among

hem.

The Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea are joined by the sewage canal

Prosc arc mcu who play for money. Poets are quite different.

ghost is an invisible object seen only at night.

Sulphur fumes can collected by holding a den- con over a flame.

:f ‘9

gram. telephoned to say that it; fiappeared Castro Would have to‘ ‘have the $2,900.000 by 3 p.m.‘ Gen. Lucius D. Clay made‘ lsome telephone calls from iWashington. In New York. an- !other lawyer. Robert H. Knight.

him

1 l i . l

and friends recru1

PHILADELPHIA (AM-«First

reports back from Mariner II's historic fly-by-Venus indicate that the. cloud-shrouded planet may have longer days and

nights than her sister planet,‘

earth. Scientists reported Wednesday to a conference of the American

Assocmtion for the. Advance-

.ment of Science on the only

data analyzed so far from the la e - recorded reports made when Mariner rushed by within 21.600 miles of Venus Dec. 14.

That data indicates that Venus has little or no magnetic field.

This could be because of a low rotation. Earth turns on its axis every 24 hours. giving us our 24-hour day. But Venus-—

about the same size as earth——

may take considerably longer.

The planet Jupiter. 10 times the size of earth. rotates twice in an earth day. and recent ra- nio measurements indicate Ju- piter has a much stronger mag- netci field than does earth.

he earth’s moon, which also rotates slowly. was found by a Soviet spacecraft to have a magnetic field less than one- third of one per cent as strong as earth's.

“The observations thus far suggest that planets and satel- lites that rotate much less rap- idly than earth have small mag- netic fields." the report said.

began telephoning possible con;

‘tributors. with promises of $50.- Fire Victims

000 and 5100.000 obtained

sight.“ The Times rel

ireach Premier Castro by 8 pm. i Bank A. Canada

tsued the cheque. The telephon- lm: went on.“

‘ By nightfall. the approximate igoal had been pledged. And the {Cuban prisoners got home for ‘= Christmas.

us. Holiday Toll Placed :At 837 Lives

! CHICAGO tAPI —— Traffic. ac-

Physician Diagnoses

Own Wound As Fatal

HOLLYWOOD APl ~—— Police said a prominent Beverly Hills physician shot himself Wednes- day. diagnosed his wound as fatal. and told police and am bulance attendants who came to

is aid: "1 have diagnosed my wound -

and it will kill me. My lung is filling up with blood. and I am dying. I wish to die at home. Please leave me alone. '

Officers and attendants Wilh- drew after vainly try‘au to convince Dr. E. Bertrand Wool- fan and his wife. Priscilla that the physician should receive medical care.

Minutes later. with his wife at his side. the doctor dled.

Del. Sgt. Robert Steven. said

Dr. Wooolfan. 67. had been suf- fcring from a back ailment which apparently caused great pain. He said the physician left a note indicating he planned suicide because the back injury had made him “a hopeless crip-

an Said Sgt. Stevens; "When a person is conscious. and appparontly of clear mind. there's no way we can force .1 person to accept medical treat- ment."

He said Mrs. Woolfan sup- ported hcr husband is \-.islies.

An ambulance attendant ad- ministered a pain-killing injec— tion to the doctor. who was shot near the heart with a .RS-cahbre pistol.

'6 .—

ridean killed 645 persons during the four-day Christmas holiday in the United States. ‘ All accidcnts'cost 837 lives. including 107 lost in fires ant 8.3 in all other types of mishaps. l Severe winter weather llt much of the country was a para- 'Yleath tolls. i i The traffic count did not teach the pre-hoiiday any: of 650 to 750 estimated by the National Safety Council. It was wcll short of the 706 rent-id for :1 four-dav Christmas set in 10.36

INSIDE TODAY

Announcements. notice! 14 Births. deaths .

Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14 ,omics . . . . . . . 1.1 Editorials .

Finance. market! . . . . . .. 4

City. Queens . . . . . . . . . .. 5

Prince County . . . . . . . . . . .. 2

Summer-side . . . . . . . . . . . .. .1

Sport , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .. 11

Womens’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7

COUNT REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH

123 Canadians Killed

In- Holiday Accidents

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Christmas mount tragedy for the families of at least 123 Canldllua u the holiday fatall- tiea count to an all-time high. All records were shattend as blood sputtered the Christ- mas holiday coast to coast. Quebec la! the holiday ‘black list with a record 43 violent geathl during the four-day holi-

y. Tnfftc mldbapl alone took 79 live! and 14 other holiday deaths cent the accidental toll above the 122' death counted in the three-day domin- ion day holiday to 1900. Canadian: and at the rate of um durlns weekend and mo deaths were expected It build-yen beaded

Fire was the second greatest killer as at least 21 persons were counted dead ‘11 n Cana- dian Press survey from 6 pm.

the lives of nine children and their father.

24 DEAD IN ONTARII

Ontario celebrations were marred by 24 deaths in road mishaps. three in tires and another by drowning.

British Columbia accounted for 13 of the country-wide total. with seven dead to traffic acct. dents. three in tires. two by drowning and another In a

railway accident.

Nova Scotla's holiday had one highway death. ‘ New Bnmm‘ick had seven

road fatalities and one drown-: n . ,

Only two provinces. New-i foundland and Prince Edwardi Island were free of fatalities; mnnected with holiday weekend : activities. :

In Quebec. 27 persons died int traffic. six persons were! drowned. four asphyxiated and three burned to death. Another-i person died in a full. one diedi of exposure and another was. accidentally shot. '

Manitoba had four road deaths. Two persons In the province died of exposure and two others died in fires.

In Saskatchewan. four per- sons were killed in traffic accl- dents. two were and was killed by a train. Alberta counted five deaths in traffic accidents.

1"B_ M d_ .tih,t 'i t ' ‘ t. r "W r W ay;;‘,5nWill Be Buried tollfom:::‘na§.”:d.t‘;.ii“‘blh iln One Casket

GLACE BAY. N.S. tCPir-

here today for Robert. Bateman. 34. and nine of his ten children who died Monday in a pre-dawn

fire that destroyed their home? at Broughlon. 80 miles froml

here.

On Christmas Day scores of!

TeSldemS lmm the tiny mlnlngi MOSCOW APl —— The U.S {rejected the charge: as un— against American embassy em- embassy denied renewed Sovietifounded. S~

charges of spying Wednesday

community filed past the. single casket containing the victims‘ remains

The unemployed miner's chil-

dren ranged in age from five months to 11 years. Only sur- vivor besides Mrs. Hazel Bate-j man. 31. was Peggy. 13 visiting

in Halifax at the time.

MI‘S. B 8 t 8 m 8 0 Suggested lficial and demanded an end of ‘- c Eszdi’éugigulhew {2:91 "giemézilhe alleged spying by omhassy‘the latest developments. said caped from the flaming wooden} bungalow and staggered half a mile through 20 inches of snow

l mount. factor in both traffic and 1m summon help'

car New York Central freight train travelllal trom St. Tho-

POPE URGES SPACE'CO-OPERATION Pope John XX”! "0’: his hands to stress a point as he

called for' cooperation among speech at a Christmas audi- Radio from Rome‘

Sme liday Local

18 Die In Wreckage, . 60 Persons Injured I

CREWE. England (APl—The! Ice and freezing cold made mid-day Scot Express en route‘ rescue operations difficult.

from Glasgow to London A - k n for Crews! Me- _.crashcd into the rear of a holi- morial Hospital said 25 casual day-packed local train in icy ties were taken there in the weather near here Wednesday. . first rush. Three were dead and

At least. 18 persons died in the four of the injured were in twisted wreckage of telescoped ‘ critical condition. coaches. An estimated 60 others The Casualties were taken .were injured. from the. rear two coaches of

Crewe is a imam railmad the Liverpool train and laid out junction for Southern Engiand in fields beside the tracks. The and the north. The crash oc- dead “'9” place“! i" 3 a"? curred a, Coppenhan Junction, stable. Ambulances had diffi- four miles north of Crewe' culty reaching the scene on my ‘ The dead included three boysh‘ghways- ’ ‘about four years old. a two- Power lines were downed and year-old girl. two women. and rescue workers searched for . seven men. . victims within a few feet of live I The Birmingham - to - Liver- wires carrying 25.000 volts. pool local. crowded with Christ- A passenger of the Liverpool mas travellers of the traditional train described the crash this Boxing Day celebrations. wasiway: halted at Coppenhall Junction “The train had been station- whcn the Express plowed into am. for. 1 mink. about 40 min. :its rear. The two rear coaches "1‘15 when the crash Occurred_, ‘Wf‘l‘f‘ lP'P-‘mnf‘d‘ The coach bounced. the. lights “"—'“”“”M " ‘went out and all the luggage ; shot on top of us. I don‘t. want.

ianother experience like that. I'

thought my end had come." - Are Freed lBuffcilo Raceway

t BURNABY. B.C. tCPl — PO-

i lice as far east as Manitoba are ion the lookout for suspect; in; BUFPWLOV NY (AP. wFire.

SW“ "1"" W "‘9 ’“pMmdm 9"; .lhe 5106.000 Christmas Eve run-1 hmke out in the main barn at: The Pope made his pica in a

yoys to the Vatican from 51

nations, (AP Wren“... via bery of a Canadian Imperial! Buffalo Raceway in nearby

Bank of Commerce here. Hamburg WEdnCsday night

.., , . i A r I uh Columbia's lower mainland Mme“ “he” "Smpd' “and they . . in 51 wars arr running all over the country

0 o a - ,. ,, after the theft were released The mam ham ls but” 0”” n l- a n a m n PM” Wednesdav. ihc backsirctch of the raceway 3N,_:... ,i __,. “we. track. and in neak periods

. v I . . _ American sources said the ‘ Through his suboidinate. hob ’ campaign did not apppear m jibe and accused the Russians Olllel‘ lOdged hls 0““ complaml‘lwith the Soviet posture of peace. Russians of cone They said the Soviet govern- iduding an ami_Ameri(~an mm. mcnl departments involved did The Soviet foreign ministry paign in their press and through bass), of- television. The Soviets said they Although the

waging an anti~American press‘ accusing the

assessing

they thought the spying episode. Ambassador Foy D. Kohlerimay be playcd out. But they nticipated the Soviet complaintivoiced puzzlcmcnt at the secm- crating in a s :and through his representativc‘ingly stepped-up press charges

‘ *3. ’is!‘

- \4 ports of casualties. ‘ . V \ Britain had its coldcst (‘hrist- (“OPS "AMM'PJ‘

22 FRIG

Twenty- two car-sol a 76- mas to Niagara Falls. Ont.

hundred feet of wrecked track

- - - i ’0 and 80 stand- Police said the alert is part. Wile” between 0‘ ‘

. of investigation routine in the i “fibre: horses flue hziw‘g‘th

idarinz robbery. largest in Brit-l ' 5”“ “man "3‘ mm 0 *

fairgrounds.”

Three Manitoba men airestcd . No one was iniurcd,

for questioning seven hours

houses up to 110 trotters and racers,

ployee

not seem to be fully co — ordi~ inated in their actions. UNITED NATIONS mp. __ some” (19' . Secretary-General U.Thant said mandcd an end to the purported in 3 Ne“. Year's message wed. Spyipg‘ “my (ml, “0‘ demand cx‘ nesday that. a halt to nuclear Eilii'i‘é'i.“.2'c'u§‘e‘gf l;;:.foTbfi§1fils’ testing still is the most urgent month in the Soviet press of op- “ED m pmgrpss mward ms-

y ring. Two of the five have left Mos- mw for "°'F“"°"" i‘wdwfid IE” I think. an ever greater aware- .:ZmLhehvsngli‘.éh°p£$£wwm ness. both among men of af- ‘ ‘ "“ fairs and ordinary men and Expulsion has not bccn do Women. that the alternativ'c to Emanded m" the ""99 "‘malnlng ‘ nuclear annihilation is progress ‘—the embassy doctor. Air Forceioward disarmament in my lCapt. Alexis Davison. III. of At-iview 'hp first and most urgent}. ‘lna‘nga- ((234 “300'?” :C‘igcilal‘y step in this direction is the. ban~‘ , s s . t o crt :crman. .5. o a as. ‘ . ._ M ’ n ‘ {Texu and embassy security 01- nn'lfila‘hft :liipiydiscsl:ilarbgli:i§tliat on if“??? Hugh Monlfloml‘l‘i'. 39. 0f the whole 1962 has witnessed a ISPl‘leleld~ Mass- perceptiblc relaxation of tcn- I. . ‘V ‘ ‘ t Soviet newspapers charged sion. He continued: MIS- llf‘m‘ Bal‘d hulam‘. "1' ithese five were part of a ring "I cxprcss the fervent hope. first Woman ovcr to head the land linked them with Ole: Pcn- that this process may bc con- llllfll'matlml dll’liiml Off! [fid- ‘kovsky. 43. a Soviet scientific‘tinucd in 1963. when we may “‘31 dCDathf‘nlWlle 'lsnif was zworkcr. and British business-r make further progrrss in the appointed chief of the inter iman Grevillc Wynn. both of right direction so that. even if malinn services diviSlon of the iwliom are waiting trial on spy the goal is not reached. it is at rot-thorn affairs department i charges. lleast a litttle nearer." lrtc in 1902. (CF Photo)

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"leRiTAiN HAS COLD WAVE

Europe Gets More Snow

‘ A

After White Christmas

LONDON rCl“ European: small houses collapsed under mas in «14 years. Today there i crunched through freezing snow the weight of lllf‘ snow. were blue skies and bright sun- 'chiicsdny nftcr a ('hristmas Dutchmen wcnt skating on shine that was storybook white from their frozen canals and tho (‘itriis crops in Spain's \‘alen. Scotland to southern Spain and whole country was carpctcd cia rcgion wcrc damaged by eastward to Siberia. with snow. frcczin: temperatures. ‘ An carlhquakc addcd to the In Germany the icy spell also Swiss Air rescue squad beli- : discomfort of the unusually bit- continued wtl h tcmpcraturcs coptcrs on Christmas Day para— ? ter cold in Portugal, Windows ranging from 10 to 14 dcgrccs. cliutcd brrad and milk to three {cracked and chimneys toppled Bavarian ski resort: were villages in the Mcien Valley. . E in Lisbon but there were no rc- packcd. central Switzerland. which wore ’ cut oil by soon for eight " t3, France hurl “hat was believed mas night for 18 years with a (‘old arctic winds soot tom. to have hocn its coldest Christ- ‘. low temperature of 111 degrees pcraturcs tumbling in Sweden mas in R3 years In the Jura i recorded at Birmingham. and brought DEnmark its first \lonntains thc temperature tell i Snow flurrics swept through white, Christmas in years. Nor- to 18 below zero. In the Swiss the almost deserted streets of ‘way. too. had snow and temper» .luras it was 29 below. central London as Britons (-ele- stores around zero. The cold weather and 19y brath Boxing Day. Horse rac- Light flurrics added to the al- driving conditions kept driver! lmz and dozens of socccr rcady thick layer of snow on off thc road in Britain. resulting matches were called off, Moscow‘s streets. Thousands of in a lower traffic accident x: An almost unprecedented fall Russians. nevertheless. flocked than last year. \linety - ac