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For-The Island

The Guardian Is For It

VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 116

AIRVIEW SHOWS. line of ambulances at pit head of the Cambrian Colliery at Tony- “pany, Hates, Monday area

gas explosion killed 31 coal miners and injured 13 others. Government-owned and operat- ed by the National Coal Board,

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United States Peace Policy

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Rejected By Dominican Junta

so SANTO The Dominican*Republic’s mili- tary civilian junta rejected United States peace moves Monday and _ pressed tanks into action for a house - by - house campaign to mop up rebel hold-

_ Outs in northern Santo Domingo. Brig. Gen. Antonio Imbert Barrera, junta president. said he reminded U.S. presidential

assistant McGeorge Bundy and other peace envoys sent: by “President . Johnsen _that/ the

stated mission of American armed forces here was to pre- ‘vent the Dominican Republic from falling under Communist -ddmination

‘<The U.S. mission was. re- ported trying to get the junta to resign in an effort to reach an understanding with the reb- els.

“I made it clear,” Imbert added, ‘‘we wotild: continue fighting for the same objective even if it meant the American

ae troops would have to be turned against us."

He also reminded the, Amer- jeans, the general added, that the Dominican armed forces “were solidly behind the junta."

REJECTED CEASEFIRE

Imbert said he rejected a call by the Organization of Amert- can States truce commission for

_..DOMINGO (AP) — \a ceasefire-_He—said—te—do—so

would give the rebels a chance to re-group and would ‘‘dely public opinion’’ which, he said, favors _a_clean-up—of—the—area:

The junta offensive is. aimed at wiping out rebel resistence in the largely industrial and slum area of northeastern Santo Do- mingo. It was estimated that 300 rebels were making a last-ditch stand against. 1,500 junta sol- diers.

‘Families abandoning the area continued to report. heavy. mili- tary and civilian casualties. Some bodies of civilians, includ-

ing. children, had been seen“put’

confirmation of was not possible.

A four-man U.S. team arrived unannounced in Santo Domingo Sunday and met immediately with Imbert.

Their arrival coincided with an avalanche of reports of a new peace formula calling i the resignation of Imbert's j and the installation of a s government headed by Antonio Guzman, former agriculture minister under exiled Sex-presi- dent Juan D. Bosch.

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the Dominican interior, is ac- ceptable to the rebel regime headed by Col.

Francisco Caa- mano Deno _

Imbert ‘said Monday that the

U.S. mission mentioned the. Guz- man plan as a possible solution to the three-week-old Dominican conflict.

“T told them,” Imbert told cor- respondents,« “that if they wanted to turn the country over to communism we would have no part of it."

Referring to the latest peace proposals, Imbert said: “It was because of such vacillations that Cuba fell under © communism. We are determined that won't happen here."

Before meeting with. the Americans. Imbert. obtained a pledge of support from the Do- minican military chieftains. Foremost among them were Brig.-Gen. Elias We sin, commandant of forces training centre, and Gen. Juan De Los Santos Cespedes, air force chief.

Meanwhile, in Washington, ‘the U.S. offered to put its armed forces already in the Dominican Republic into _ the ister Annet can military force being esta lished by the OAS. Elisworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to the

\ OAS, notified the ae soo It is known that Guzman, an, businessman from La Vega, -in.

Jose Antonio Mayobre

<idl representative for United ‘ations Secretary - General U

Thant, left New York for San

Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday en

route to the Dominican Repub- .

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Bill To Retire Senators: Passes 3 House Hurdles

OTTAWA (CP)—The_ contro- ersial bill to retire senators at age 75 cleared three hurdles in the Commons Monday and is likely to be sent to the Upper House today. —

The New Democrats ended their stiff battle against the Measure after the governmnt announced a last-minute change —the $8,000 annual pension for

retiring senators was made con- tributory.

The bill provides that all fu- ture senators must retire at 75. The, incumbent senators over. 75

, Can remain in the Upper House

drawing the $15,000 annual in- demnity or can retire voluntar- ily:

Originally, the~ $8,000 pension was to be paid entirely out of tax revenue. New Democrats

4DangerousMen Escape In Sask., |

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (CP)—An aircraft and a track- ing dog hunted Monday for four men who made a midnight escape over the roof of the Prince Albert Penitentiary in a shrieking storm.

RCMP and city police main- |

tained roadblocks 15 hours after the escape and police and penl- tentiary personnel on foot and in cars scoured bushland and roads in this Northern Saskatchewan area

“We have no lead of any_kind and no positive indication they have left the area.” an RCMP official here-said ‘There are no

reports of stolen cars, clothing or grub.” The escapees, who, according |

to Deputy Warden John Norfield are dangerous and should be approached with ¢aution, are Yvon Lamarche, 29, serving a

“life term for attempted murder |

and armed robbery: Maurice Go8selin, 38, serving 22 years for armed robbery and the at- tenipted murder of a police of-

; Claude Pietre, 31, serving |

2% years for armed robbery; and Robert Savard, serving 25 years for armed robbery.

All were less than a quarter of the way through their long terms and had been transferred from St. Vincent de Paul Peni- tentiary in Montreal, where they were sentenced, during the last four years.

While 50- to 60-mile-an-hour

{winds lashed rain against the

flood-lit outer walls of the pent- tentiary Sunday night, the men cut through bars on the doors of their adjoining individual cells.

INSIDE TODAY

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Comics Wolmen's Finance, markets Fditorials Summerside or Kings, Queens, City seus Prince County 660

called this feature a ‘bribe’ to entice some senators to retire voluntarily.

Government House Leader

Mcllraith- introduced amend: ments Monday to require all Senators to contribute six per cent of their income ‘annually to- ward their pension plan.

SECOND READING

The house gave the bill sec- ond reading—approval in prin- ciple—and completed clause-by- clause study, leaving only third reading for today.

Second reading was approved in a voice vote after an NDP amendment to shelve the legis- a for the traditional six months was defeated 112 to 15.

The amendment was sup ported by the two Quebec inde-

pendents, Leon Balcer and Remi Paul, as well as 13 New Democrats.

It was opposed by 58 Liberals,

45 Conservatives, five Credit- istes and four Social Credit’ MPs

Commons standings are Lib [

erals 129, Conservatives 94. NDP

18, Credistes 13, Social Credit nine and independents two for a total of 265

Mf MclIlraith said % of the % sitting senators are over 75 and qualify for voluntary retire- ment

“I have reason to believe that a very substantial part will re- tire.’ he told Frank Howard (NDP—Skeena)

There are seven vacancies in the. upper chamber, scattered among seven provinces. They are Newfoundland, New Bruns- wick, Quebec, Ontario, Saskat- chewan, Alberta and British Co lumbia.

Reports are circulating that Prime Minister. Pearson enough new vacancies will he

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TUESDAY,

MAY 18, 1965.

WEA

Scattered showers:

15 becoming northwest 20 Low-high 42 and 52. Wednesday:

Portentious Royal Visit To Germany Begins Today

By CAROL KENNEDY . LONDON ‘CP; — The Queen leaves for West Germany today on what observers in both countries consider one of the

“most portentious royal tours of

modern times, comparable with the epoch-making visit of her gSreat-grandfather King Edward VII to Paris in 1904 that ce- Mented the “entente cordiale.”

She goes @ years to the

' month after the Zazi_ surrender,

in what Chancellor Ludwig Er- hard Monday calid the final sign from London to .Bonn that the Second -World War is over. | The Queen's 11 - day, 1,500. mile tour, touching most major cities in the federal republic. “thas caused such a jostle for places in the presentation lists that protocol chiefs have had to At Soest in Westphalia, the

; Canadian troops the Queen will |review May 26 are so popular they were given the freedom of - city—last-—-vear-- That could have happened in 1909

made the last British state visit to Germany with his wife Queen Alexandra.

Germans awaited the British royalty with a_take-it-or-leave- it attitude bordering on §ar- rogance. A Berlin newspaper commented curtly: - “It will not be the fault of the German nation if the stay of the British king in the German capital is not the beginning of a better understanding.

For such a delicate mission, it didn’t start too well. The royal train arrived a few min- utes early and at the wrong end of the platform in Bertin The Kaiser, his wife and their entourage had to rush with un- dignified--hast--to-meet- it. ELABORATE COURTESY °

With- elaborate courtesy, Wil- hetm' wore” the unifotim~of- a British field marshal; «° Edward that of a German hussar regi- ment.

As the state procession en- tered Bertin,” the horses draw- ing the landau of .Queen Alex-

P.E.1. Potatoes Expected — To Reach $1.49 For 10 Lb.

TORONTO (CP) — Canadian potato prices have risen to the highest levels .19%2 be- cause of last year’$ small crop

the United States, Toronto potato dealers said Monday

The. poor U.S: crop has re- sulted in record shipments of Canadian. potatoes. fram. Toronta during the last year: taid @

an for Shey Hughes Co. Ltd. of Toronto He said the company is ex-

added to the usual winter and spring scarcity of potato sup- plies from the previous year's crop, raising prices even higher.

He said retail prices in Tor-

sin the spring of 1952.

onto can be expected to rise as high as $1.49 for 10 pounds of Prince Edward Island potatoes within three weeks. with smaller Ontario centres feeling the pinch even more. |

Current retail prices in Tor- onto range from 97 cents tn $1.99 for 10 pounds.

Monuaay’s wholesale prices were $4.85 for a 73-pound hag, up $1.75 a bag in the last month, said the spokesman.

The price {is the highest since 1952, just after the U.S. had an- other poor potato crop in 1951.

The wholesale price’of P_E_1\,

potatoes at Toronto rose to about $5.25 for a 75-pound bag

: side Liquor Outlet

The_ Prince Edward Island Liquor Control Commission will ; Move its Summerside _ retail | vending outlet from its present location on Water Street to a new building to be constructed on Granville Street North.

A_confMission spokesman said last night the commission s made an arrangement with Cap- ital Enterprises Ltd. of Sum- merside in which the firm will construct. the "building to comp-

To Move To New Site

ly —with—-commission—specifica- tions. The commission will rent the building for use as a retai. liquor outlet.

According to the commission spokesman, it is hoped that the new building will be ready for occupancy Sept. 1. An estimate of the cost was not available and the spokesman declined to say to what use tke present re- tail outlet building will be put after Sept. 1.

-last—-day*s~-functions

in her great - grandfathép, andra and the German empress_

jibhed at the brass bands and stumbled. The royal ladies had to find other seats in the parade The crowds marshalled be- hind heavy lines of troops raised only a thin cheer. Ger- map newspapers : said it. would have been warmer if the visit had not been long overdue. The round of stately cere- monial, in contrast to Queen ** Elizabeth*s hectic schedule, in- cluded one banquet. one. ball— where the Kaiser objected to the band playing foxtrots in- Stead of minuets—and one gala opera Bad bronchial

and . Edward's cancelled the and ~the™ Visit fizzled out with the royal couple leaving almost unob- served aif. automobiles.

last: Visp by Tar Bauish Sovereign to Germany—a ) ily occasion, not a state visit came in May, 1913, when King George \ and Queen Mary at- tended the” Berlin Wedding of Kaiser's daughter, Victoria, to

Weather

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the _ Duke of Bruaswiek_—_—___—- Mrs. “Taylor:

Now 72 and the mother of Greece's Dowager Queen, Frederika, Victoria may meet

Queen El:zabeth—on-——her —West German_,_tour..__ completing__.a symbolic circle of reconcilia- ton. |

Wage Rates At Park Here Said Lowest

OTTAWA CP)—Hourly rates paid for general laborers in na- tional parks range from $1.74 in the, west to $1.10 in the east, the resources department said Monday

In a reply tabled on behalf of Resources Minister Laing to a

written question by Robert Muir ‘ (PC—Cape Breton North and Victoria’, the department gave wage figures for 17 national parks

Banff ‘National Park, Glacier Nationa! Park. Kootenay Na- ttional Park, Mount Revelstoke National Park and Yoho Na-

tional Park topped the list with $1.74 ah hour. Jasper National Park and Waterton Lakes Na- tional Park were next at $1.65

Prince Albert Na-

Next was tional Park at $1 Riding Mountain National Park and Elk Island National Park at $1.55, Point Pelee National, Park and St Lawrence Island ‘Na- tional Park at $1.50. Georgian Bay Island National Park at $1.40. Cape Breton Highlands Nationa! Park and Fundy Na- tional Park at $1.30, Terra aa National Park at. $1.3

Prince Edward Island seneiau Park at $I 10.

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"ACTRESS AND FAMILY FACE NEWSMEN

Actress Patricia Neal and her family face newsmen and photographers at Las An-

| geles International Airport

Monday before leaving for London exactly three months after she suffered three mas-

Sive strokes. She is holding ber daughter, Opheha, 11 wm

months. Bese her are her husband. Roald Dah!. and her other children, Tessa. 8. and

Theo. 5. . (AP Wirephote)

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Winifred Taylor, wife of in- dustrialist E. P.. Taylor, was robbed___of several —thousand dollars worth of jewelry and a small amount of cash at her Toronto home early Monday Three masked bandits took a Jewel case containing a pear!

S necklace. worth $3.000 and a number of bracelets and pen- dants, as well as a purse and $37 cash. The trio forced their way into the home and de- manded the valuables from

ADB Grants For Island

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CAPITAL BUREAU OF, THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — Prince E-dward Is-

land has so far been. allotted.

less than $2 million of the total of over $59 million approved for the Atlantic Provinces by the At- lantic Deveiopment Board

This was revealed here Mon- day by Transport Minister J. W. Pickersgill in reply to a ques’ tion placed on the Commons or- der paper by Robert Coates, MP for Cumberland. Mr. Pickersgill said that as of April 23 the total amount of money approved by the government for the provin- ces from the ADB fund was $59.515,000. This total was. dis- tributed $27,250,000 to Newfound- land, $24,375,000 to New Bruns- wick. $6 million to Nova Scotia and $1.890,000 to P_E_I.

In addition, the board has ear- marked $20 million for the in- dustrial dev elopment program in Nova Scotia.

The board has so far initiated 18 studies of which nine are com-, pleted, Mr. pleted. Mr. Pickersgill said

Income On Farms

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CAPITAL BUREAU

OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA Prince Edward Island farmers never had it so good as they did in 1964, the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics re- ported Monday in its annual survey of farm cash receipts

P.EJ. Fa rs realized =e , 723.000 in 1 _before costs | production are” deducted tas compares with $25,764,000 and $24,929,000 in 1962.

Chief reason for the upsurge im cash flow was the higher mar- keting and higher prices receiv- ed for the Island's number one crop. potatoes. In Canada as a whole. potato receipts in 1964 were $55.1 ‘million, 31.4 per cent increase over 1%%,

On. the Island, potatoes ac- counted for $12,736,000 of the to- tal cash received. compared to just over.-$8 million in 1963 and

| just over $6 million in 1962,

Other big money earners for farmers were dairy pro- ducts which brought in $5:6 mil- lion, cattle and calves at $5 Million and hogs at: $4 million

McCain To Buil Fertilizer Plants

FLORENCEVILLF, N.B. CP) — MeCain Foods, Lid. Monday announced plans to build two j fertilizer plants

Construction of the first. a fully-afitomated $140.0) pliant, is expected to begin in the Florenceville-Hartiand area this summer. A second plant. pos- Psibly in Grand Falls, is to be constructed after completion of the first, next January.

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TONYPANDY, Wales ‘AP)— A gas explosion killed 31 coal miners Monday in a rrow

gallery deep under the™ rolling Welsh—country—-—side—made—fa-—

mous by the novel How Green Was My Valley.

The mine in the Rhondda Val- ley, one of the most mechanized in Britain, had been destined for closing soon.

Thirteen miners were brought up from the 850-foot depth suf- fering from injuries and shock.

“ have never seen anything {Hike it,” said one survivor.

' “It was as if the lid had been biown off hell itself.’

An official of Britain's Na- ~ tional Coal Board. ated the government - owned Cambrian Colliery, said the blast occurred in an area where the coal seam was only two feet eight inches’ high and the gal- lery nét much higher from floor to ceiling.

HAD LITTLE CHANCE

“The men workitt | area-had-littie-chance-

About 30 men were working at the coal face and SO were jelsewhere in the mine. The gal- rlery—itself-is about 200 yards Jong and. quipped with mech- anical diggers.

One of those who escaped was Myrddin Pritchard, 31, father of two children, who worked on the automatic cutter and loader.

His crew of six was taking a break at the gate to the gallery.

“We were talking about bingo,”” he said. “Then there was a rush of air down the coal face. The two standing up were

Homesick Strikes Bit

LOS ANGELES (AP” — Brian Robson, 19, who got this far in ac.o.d. crate, continued his jet- liner journey from Australia home to Wales Monday—as a regular passenger.

And his fare didn’t cost him a farthing.

George K. Rosenberg, district director. of the im ration and naturalization service; ‘said:

“He wasn't deported. Under the federal statute, a transpor- tation company that brings in a |stowaway is required to take the stowaway: out of the United | States

“We

in that

asked Pan American to comply, which it very gra- ciously did, and the man is on his way home.”

Pan American unwittingly flew the homesick young Welsh- man the nearly 8,000 miles from Australia on an airliner that ar-

| rived here Saturday might. Rob- son_was_hidden_in-a_crate in the baggage compartment. “The airline could have re- turned Robson to Australia. But it had no flight there Monday It ‘did ‘have a vacant seat on a

flight-to England which is where the stowaway wanted to go

Robson travelled tourist class aboard Pan _American World

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knocked over. Everything went black because the dust was thick. The rush of air lasted only a few seconds, but it was

terrifying—Itknocked™ our hee

mets off.

“We didn't see a flash or any- thing, but the noise of the rush of air hitting us in the faces was enough. We couldn't even see the lights of our lamps.”

LLEWELLYN’S NOVEL

The colliery lies about a_mile-- from this grey old coal town in Rhondda Valley. It is the scene of Richard Llewellyn’s ‘How Green Was My Valley,” a story of a mining family’s fight to es- cape the misery of life here.

Tony pandy—is—the birthplace of heavyweight boxer Tommy Farr, who fought his way ont of poverty, and it was the scene of a riot of striking miners that was quelled by Winston Church- ill when he was home secretary in 1910. To this day it breeds socialists who speak bitterly of Churchill's use of police against the strikers.

_In...London, Power—Minister ———

Fred Lee promised an investi- gation. Labor and Conservative leaders in Parliament joined ir expressions of sympathy for the miners and their families. The Queen also sent a message of sympathy.

This >was the first serious mine disaster in Britain for three years. An explosion in: a colliery near Aberdare killed nine men in April, 1962.

In 1913, at another. Welsh pit in Glamorgan, 439 miners were killed. That was the worst mine disaster in Britain this century.

lowaway Of Luck

Airways’ Flight 129 on the 11%4- hour flight to London.

“It all turned out rather well, except_ my legs are still abit stiff.” the curly-haired, five-foot- eight youth said as he walked aboard the plane Monday after- noon.

Others in the tourist section paid $248.60 for the Polar flight. Robson travelled on a deportes ticket.

Robson, cramped and dehy- drated, tried Sunday morning to pound his way out of the crate. A airport cargo attendant and others got him out TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.

He told police the crate- 39 by 2% by 38 inches--was his idea of a way to get home to Wales as cheaply as possible

It had arrived in the cargo hold of a Pan American jetliner Saturday night and was in a hangar awaiting a flight to Lon- don..Monday.. Marked¢.9.4--and billed as an “Ajax Junior Com- puter... it was consigned to a British firm

“They sure didnt handle it like a computer.” Robson said “At one point they turned me upside down and left me that way for 22 hours. What a head- ache I had when they finally Fighted we

Amherst Man Wins Damnages

In Case Against Car Company

OTTAWA ‘CP: The Sw. preme Court of Canada rnled

Monday that Automobiles Re- nault Canada Limited has ma lictousty prosecuted Douglas Casey of Amherst. N.S. in 1960

by charging him with theft N

The wriften judgment. con- curred in by four of the five justices who heard the case. or- dered the Canadian agen: for French-made cars to pay Casey damages + $22,000

Renault laid the charge against Casey after a number of cars were removed from a stor age garage in Amherst and sold by Maritime Import Autos. a Renault dealer Casey was the Principal shareholder but not an officer or director of the firm

Officers of Maritime Import Autos said at the trial they were told by Renault they could use the cars from the warehouse provided they notified head of- fice in Montreal. This they had done, they said

They. said after the theft charge was laid against Casey, a representative of Automobiles Renault Can ted = had come te Amberst- and a deal

was worked out for payment of the cars.

The Amherst company said that the Renault representative had told him that the theft charge had been laid against Casey in order to get payment for the ears

After the agreement was made payment. the charge agains! Casev was wethdrawn.,

Case, broucht the actos against Renault charging ‘that he owed no monev to Renanit at time the charge was He also said his bast- ness and reputation suffered he-

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cause of the charge agatnat him

Renautt argued that hecadse the charge had net heen pro. ceeded with there Was nog

grounds for a charge of amli-

cious prosecution Mr. Justice Ronald Mortland,

who wrote the reasoris for the Majority of the court, said that as Renault “had caused every-

thing to be done which could be done wrongly to set the law ip Motion acainst the appellent an a@ criminal charge, an action for malicious prosecution lay” against the respondent.”