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GEMINI 7 SETS RECORD

Cool Gemini 6 Pilots Save Day For New Space Rendezvous Iry

By JOHN BARBOUR

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) -Two hard-luck Gemini 6 pilote—their

balked by rocket shutdown Sunday—stifled disap- pointment and aimed at a new try as soon as possible. Mean- while, target ship Gemini 7 set @ -world endurance mark, 4 lonely victory

It was the cool judgment of the Gemini 6 astronauts that saved the chance for a new try for Gemini 6.

Had they panicked and ejected themselves from the troubled rocket, the mission would have been lost. As it is, flight exverts

Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad. That mark was 190 hours, 3% minutes. Gemini 7's goal is 14 days.

GAVE FALSE SIGNAL

Tt. was a two-inch plug that fell from the rocket and gaye a false ‘signal of lift-off. ;

Pink-tinged exhaust billowed from the 90-foot Titan [1, but the safety system sensed that something had gone wrong and quickly shut the engine down.

As it was, launch experts said; it looked like the Gemini 6 could have flown successfully anyway if the shutdown command had

,are confident damage can be (not come. repaired and.a—new try made,| Experts first said they would

perhaps by Wednesday At 1:26 P.M., Gemini

ticked off a world space endur- jits pilots, Capt. Walter the mark Schirra Jr. and Major Thomas

ance record,

shoot for Thursday as the next

7's clock |chance at orbitting Gemini 6 and

passing vet by. Gemini 5 pilots L. Gordon P. Stafford. But after.a review—

De Gaulle In Close Race:

With Socialist Candidate

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| contradictions | Taking up the Gaullist theme, |former prime minister Michel

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(AP)—A_ gang of

tique silver Sunday in the latest of a series of such crimes.

Police believe a gang of ex- perts is at work in Britain un- der the leadership of a man Silver.

The latest raid on one of

MR. MAUGHAM

Reported Dying -

NICE (Reuters) — Somerset

| Maugham’s octors said Sunday

called Silver Spider or King |much longer, 24 hours or %

night-the 91-year-old author is dying in hospital here and he can not last much longer.

Maugham’s personal physi- cian, Dr. Georges Rosanoff, said: —‘‘We- fear he—cannot—last

hours. perhaps."’

Maugham, author of The washed overboard when they req.

London's biggest SS eee | Moon and Sixpence and Of Hu-

dealers, took . place

between lunchtime Saturday end early Sunday. The burglars entered the shop of S. J. Shrub- sole opposite. the British Mu- seum.in the one-time literary known @s

Bloomsbury ‘They first broke into a_vacant premises next door and got

through to the offices over the top of the antique dealer’s shop, Then they sawed and chipped through a 10-inch thick joist in the ceiling—making sure that no heavy >ieces fell an. set off a pressure alarm connected @irectly to Scotland Yard.

USED PLANK

‘man Bondage was visited by |don ship.

three doctors Sunday night. Dr. Rosanoff: told. reporters “T am terribly sorry to have to say that things are going badly. We have noted a marked deter-

oration, with a rise in tempera-

ture ‘and a worsening of the pul- monary condition.”

He agreed the author's condi- tion was. “‘without hope.”

a sheer drop.

In London, the Thames River returned to near normal and the danger of further flooding

and turned to the southwest,

Veteran Author ° 2%: they have little effect or

Thames tides.

Crippled Ship» . | Reaches Port

The crippled 7,201 - ton Greek |freighter Costantis was towed jinto Brest harbor Sunday after

jspringing a leak in heavy seas ipritain las not crushed the jSmith regime by then, but most.

west of Ireland Thursday. Three of her crew of 29 were

\tried to lower lifeboats to aban-

|. The Costantis reached Bres' without further mishap after be- ing towed by a West German itug, the Atlantic, for almost 48 hours.

Her crew jthe. Atlantic Saturday morning after British Coast Guard sources said they refused to stay aboard any longer.

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They used a builder's plank | to slide down, avoiding the -car- |

pet. They nullified: the burglar @tarm system by bending back the striker on the alarm bell and ripping out the wires.

Police were called when a earby pub operator reported

three men loading heavily laden sacks in a truck Outside Shrubsoles.

More than a year ago £33,000 worth of old silver was stolen from the home of Earl Fitz- william at Milton Hall near Peterborough. Antiques valued at £10,000 were stolen in a Mayfair raid last August, An- other. £10,000 worth of silver was taken from the country home of Lord and Lady Brad- bourne in Kent a year ago.

Robbers took £100,000 worth of gems from a jewelry shop Saturday

YANKS USE HATCHETS —

IN VIET NAM.FIGHTING

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By HORST FAAS

BEN CAT (AP)—Hatchets replaced- bayonets in the hands of some U.S. soldiers Sunday in a hand-to-hand Viet Nam jungle fight.

A “hatchet squad” of Bravo Company, Ist Battalion, 502nd Regiment, 10ist Airborne Di- vision, routed a Viet Cong unit after a savage encounter more like Indian frontier fighting.

Moving down a jungle ‘trail, 35 miles north of Saigon in Communist stronghold,; the company encountered the Viet Cong unit.

Sgt. Frederick Lopez opened fire. The Viet Cong ran into thick jungle. A half dozen men of the American urfit, some with their faces blackened, their rank insignia painted out, wunslung hatchets. and.

slipped into the underbrush in pursuit.

A grenade bounced onto the | trail, wounding four Ameri: cans as it exploded. |

In the hand-to-hand fight. one of the Viet Cong force | was, killed- The Americans | said he was the one who threw the grenade. ~The guerrilla, spotted be- | hind .a tree, was cut down in | the way frontiersmen and In- |

dians fought..

the jungle, their hatchets | sheathed. They bought the | hatchets themselves, paying |

war, the soldiers say bayonets which get caught in the heavy |

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From AP-Reuters | NAIROBI (CP) — President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya called

« |Sunday for an urgent meeting of

United . - Security sanctions on white-su ‘Rhodesia. He said the~ situation \there threatens ‘racial confron- itation on a world scale.”

| The council agreed to meet \this afternood. :

seemed over. Winds moderated | Kenyatta read out his tele- |

gram to, UN headquarters at an Independence Day ati

here, while political activity con-.

cerned with combatting

lsian Prime Minister Ian Smith’s |”

‘breakaway regime seethed around |Afriea. =

‘Its: main immediate object.

seemed to be avoiding a big-

_BREST, France (Reuters)— ‘gale diplomatic break with Brit- |.

lain, scheduled for’ Wednesday. The Organization of African \Unity threatened this action if

jmembers seem to have reconsid-

President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Rhodesia’s neivh oor. held an emergency meeting with \Tanzania's President Julius iNyerere. : IFLEW TO BORDER

He flew personally to the bor- ‘der town of Mbeya to explain

Meeting Is Called Secu rity Council;

By NEH. MATHESON Prince Edward Island’s Liber- als have a new leader today, and they'll have a new look in the near future,

gistered out of slightly more

were eligible,

Campbell and Dr. Bonnell, River physician to

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by BB. Jones, and seconded by Aubin Gallant, Tignish.

included fonmer leader A.W: Matheson, W.R. Jeo- kins, P.E.I. Liberal association

the convention Saturday. A wit- ness to the, exchange is -Alex W. Matheson, former leader who resigned last spring.

T-yes d Gerald Re- owing the former's ie party leadership

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ito Nyerere, who remains ada- Sunday only three, Tanzania, | lmant on the break-off, why he Egypt and Algeria, said they in- | ‘wants to maintain links with tended to go’ ahead with it,,~

|Britain. ~ Prime Minister Sir Abubakar |. Nyerere..told a press confer- Tafawa Balewa of Nigeria made ence in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania plans to meet British Prime | will go ahead, but he does ‘not Minister Wilson.in, London Tues- | lexpect all other African states dey Goes Oem jtion. He to follow. wants~an emergency! meeting oF |

| ‘Thirty - six African countries Commonwealth‘leaders next voted for the break, but as of month to. deal with’ Rhodesia.

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boy or girl.” - ; The point the project, said Dr. Gatch, is to learn the difference: between hu- man‘‘- reared and chimp- ~ reared chimps: - t

who issued a challenge

would be the first to™ present Progressive Governments. There were the suggestions of early one naturally hears at such a gathering, but Mr. Campbell -said the. Liberal party will be elected as a gov-

Wilson Ponders Vote In March

LONDON (AP)—Prime Minis- ter Wilson was reported Sunday to be considering the gamble of a national election next March to-hoost--his -House--of-Commons majority.

Political commentators said

George Street—this paper car- ried the story last week—and that some credentials had been taken.

| But, he assured the convent- | jon, the credentials taken did | not’ bear the identifying mark that is necessary before they are _accepted...as._valid._No _ ballots

were taken, he explained, be- |

| cause the baMots had been lock-

the prime minister had begua_ ed up in a safe and were not

to think about an early >olling date because -his Labor govern- ment may have to impose more harsh economic measures in the annual April budget.

Weather Halts Salvage Effort

NEWOASTLE, N. B. ‘CP)— Wintry weather Sunday halted on the schooner Golden Glow, aground on a gravel shoal. in Miramichi Bay since last Monday. .

Radio and electronic equip- ment has been removed from the vessel. A decision_on how to

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Tavern Customer.

Oak Island Hunt Aided By Cold Snap

OAK frost may be a bother to motor- ists, but it’s a boom to Los Angeles treasurer hunter Ro- bert Dunfield still scouring the fabled money pit on Nova Scotia’s Oak Island.

Overnight temperatures in the —province— dropped close--to the zero mark in many localit- fies for the coldest night of tife

‘Held In Deaths

CHICAGO (AP)—A customer postponed a» hearing until Jan. of a West Side |6 pending a grand jury inves- | tavern for showing a knife re- ‘tigation.

turned. to the crowded place and Thompson said Lassiter. ad-

jset it ablaze Saturday night, mitted setting the fire because |

killing 18 persons and injuring he was beaten in a fight with 21, police said. the bouncer in the Seeley Club.

. : About 40 persons in the saloon ooo L. ee 26-year-old | wanicked when the flames Set aed ne by erupted. blocking the front door.

aa rt Thompson as ad- coven firemen were overcome mitting he poured gasoline just 1. smoke. Damage was esti- inside the doorway of the place — E

mated at $5,000. and touched it off. Doctors at Cook County Hos-

Lassiter Sunday was brought |pital said most of the victims before Magistrate Lionel J. Berc died of smoke inhalation.

on 13 charges of murder by All the victims of the blaze and \were Negroes. So is Lassiter.

season so far. ;

Dunfield said Sunday morn- ing the frost has strengthened a 140-foot deep and 13-foot wide pit and has dropped the dan- ger of a cave-in. —

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NO EFFECT ON VOTE

| “T assure the convention,” Mr. Planchard emphasized, “that nothing that was — taken

could have the shghtest effect

on this convention today.”

Mr. Blanchard said further that the information available | will be turned over to the P.E.1. | Liberal Association executive to ‘take what further steps they may feel have to be taken.” He had previously exonerated

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1,908 delegates re- |

ention previously that |

Island Liberals for..a race as’ to

New Look Due Campbell Says

“when we have earned ithe compet ons of

| and fisheries are a few evidene- es of the fact Prince Edward Is land needs a change of govern ment, and needs it as soon as ne can provide it,” he | said.

Calling for immediate atten- \tion, Mr: Campbell said is the itask of reactivating the Liberal association, to establishing, de ifining and clarifying lines of jecommunication between you, ithe people, and the leader of the

party. | Mr. Campbell assured the con- ‘vention the party under him !would have a provincial office, with a permanent staff, in the city of Charlottetown. Theré would be branch offices if Prince and Kings County if fi- nances permit, he stated.

Mr. Campbell said ‘‘we need an active finance committee... jours entire system of financing

ith a View. to help the district. Bi ne Tent qebtiied cantidatel” thay are available ‘who with | your help can be elected to the | Provincial Legislature." | “TY will endeavour to keep the Young Liberals organization ac- tive,-not—just—at_election_time, -

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Liberal Headquarters Break Action Demanded _

completely the two men wht were candidates, from any sus picion of any responsibility in Vous the chairman, Mr

N c n, : piascueee bal dealt very ef- fectively with''the alleged theft from the headquarters, Mr. Ma- theson emphasized his hope ‘‘the person or persons that were in- volved in this can be brought! to justice, the justice which they deserve.”

“Tn sure,’ he—added, ‘the Liberal party will look~ after that.” |° Tt’s not fair to expect the new leader, “he suggested,—the hal- | Joting had not been done at the time—‘‘to be responsible for this matter. The Liberal party must took after those responsible for the affair ‘that were talked of fn the paper the last few days.”

NO MEETINGS

Mr. Matheson also criticized sharply the fact that no public meetings had been held in Char- lottetown, for example. to name delegates for this nominating convention.

“How were the delegates chosen,” he = challenged.

“Did: poll chairmen call on some hand picked person, and name that delegate to attend here today."’, he asked. | ‘There is no surer way of | losing an election,”_,he warned “than to follow a pattern of selecting hand-picked dele- gates.’

| Race Challenge Issued

_ _ByN_.S. Liberal Leader

A challenge to see which Lib- eral party could—be-—elected first to form the government in their respective provinces was issued to the Liberal party of P.E.I. by Gerald Regan, the 37-year-old | leader of the Nova Scotia Liber- al party. : .

Mr., Regan, who was the guest speaker at the P.E.I. Liberal leadership convention held Sat- urday at the Confederation Cen- tre, issued the challenge in a speech to the delegates before Alexander Campbell had been elected the new leader. His speech was delivered as the bal- lots were being countd.

Mr. Regan said, “I attach more importance to the after. math of this convention." He urged the s to iinite around the new leader, to leav@ the convention determined to out-

organize and out-campaign the Conservatives. ~ “

“If you go«forth divided, em- bittered or discouraged, then the party is doomed to a long term in opposition."

“We-will win when we have in all ways deserved to win,” | said the Nova Scotia leader. ap- plying the statement both to his ‘own party and to the P.E.1 party. ‘

MAKES SUGGESTIONS

With the election of the new leader the first step has been taken, he told -the convention and he had a number of sug- gestions to make on the next | steps to be taken

“Build up your organization in every part of the province, paé ticularly in Charlottetown and ‘Summerside. | (Continued on page § (ol. a