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By DAVE McINTOSH
OTTAWA ‘(CP)—Prime Minis- ter -Pearson volunteered his “immediate services’’ Friday to help arrange a ceasefire be- tween India and Pakistan in Kashmir,
Mr. Pearson, usually the ex- ponent of ‘‘quiet diplomacy’’-- his own phrase—issued a state- ment about -his offer without
first seeking the reaction of New
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Delhi and Karachi
The offer of Mr. Pearson's services was placed before the Indian and Pakistam high com- missioners here Thursday
Indian High Commissioner Bejoy Krishna Acharya told a reporter he transmitted the offer Thursday night to New Delhi but had not yet received any reply.
Pakistani ‘High Commissioner Sultan Mohammed Khan Saig~be had also transmitted the offer but that it would be hard to say when a reply might be expected
DIEF CRITICAL
Opposition Leader Diefen. baker said Mr “is a transparent device to es- cape the consequences of his-ill- advised election threats and rash indulgence in electoral! brinkmanship.”
He said the government had shown only passing interest in the Kashmir crisiss and Mr Pearson's -‘‘sudden decision to intervene has the appearance of an escape hatch from the {m- passe in which his government finds itself.”
‘Second hts have the un- desirability of calling an elec- tion, the result of which he fears.’ Mr. Diefenbaker added
Richard O'Hagan, Mr. Peas son's press secretary,
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Pearson's offer |
told ai
jhastily-summoned press confer- ence that the prime minister is
prepared to fly to Asia for mediation purposes “‘if neces sary.”
Asked whether a visit to Asia would cause any difficulty dur- ing an election campaign, Mr. O'Hagan said: ‘What campaign?”
Neither Mr. Pearson nor #x- “ternal Affairs Minister Martin was in Ottawa. Mr. Pearson was fishing at his cottage at Har- rington Lake in the nearby Gati- neau Hills. Mr: Martin was de- livering a speech in Montreal.
Mr. O'Hagan and d'Iberville Fortier. external affairs depart-
ment spokesnian, handled the. press conference.
Mr. Pearson's three para- graph statement said in part:
I would be prepared to '
Shastri Of Air
From AP-Reuters DELHI ‘CP: Prime Minister! Lal Bahadur Shastri said in-a sombre speech Fri- day night an “hour of serious crisis” is upon India and it may have to suffer damage from Pakistani air raids
The prime minister spoke in a country-wide radio broadcast at the end of a tense day in which India claimat. its forces shot down two Pakistani jet fighters and advanced in ground fighting in southwest Kashmir.
NEW
Army ‘Copter Downed
“By RONALD I. DEUTSCH
SAIGON (AP)—Viet Cong gun- mers shot down a troop-carrying U.S. Army-helicopler Friday as it flew toward a guerrilla centre previously bombed by B-52s, and a spokesman said all aboard were killed.
The helicopter, capable of car- fying a dozen men, burst into flames after plunging to earth on a run toward Ho Bo woods, 20 miles northwest. of Saigon.
Floods, Slides
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ROME ‘AP)—Drenching -rain poured on flood-stricken Italy for the third straight day Fri- day. Officials feared the death toll from flood and landslide might reach 60.
The’ skies opened up on other parts of Europe. Austria counted four deaths from flood, bursting dams and landslides. Heavy fains swept northern - Spain, parts of France. most of Ger- many, Switzerland and western Yugoslavia.
No relief was in sight for the next 24 hours in Italian flood disaster areas covering one- tenth__ofItaly'’s total territory...
Rome was almost entirely cut off from the north by road and rail-.and most of the tourist- crowded city is expected to be without drinking water until at least next Tuesday
ling All On Board
'Military authorities withheld the
number involved on security grounds, but said the easualties were heavy
A reinforced company of South Vietnamese troops, sur- veving the results of the B-52 bombing ‘was feported to have found caches including 126,000 rounds of small arms, ammunl- tion, 215 mortar shells, four machine-guns and about Viet Cong unifofms.
The spokésman said the troops encountered no opposition within the area. i
Swelling U.S. military ranks In South Viet Nam toward the 100,000-mark were about 1,400
1,000
_men__of. Marine .Aircraft Group
36. Equipped with helicopters and observation planes, they streamed ashore at Chu Lai, a marine beachhead between Da Nang and Quang. Ngai.
CLASH WITH MARINES
A marine patrol clashed with a Viet Cong band six miles west of Chu Lai. A spokesman said the patrol killed one guerrilla and wounded another.
Government troops wound up an overnight sweep against the Viet Cong south of Quang Ngal city, 320 miles northeast of Sai- gon, wil a _teport they had freed 150 refugees and 38 gov- ernment soldiers from Viet.Cong imprisonment.
They said they killed 25 Vet Cong, caiptured two and detained seven suspects. U Ss. military au- thortes confrmed 15 of the dead by body count
Bar Association |
Beats Retreat
TORONTO (CP) — The Cana-
dian Bar Association Friday a retreat from its official position favoring compulsory -al- fohol tests for drinking drivers, voting to withdraw a recom- mendation made to the federal government by its national coun- cil last April.
Under pressure from a group of younger lawyers during its week-long convention, the as sociation backed away from a stand which would have made it a crime to drive with a _.08- per-cent reading on a breath- analysis machine as well.as a crime to refuse to take the test.
Instead, the associations plenary session bowed to a de- mand from its criminal justice section and decided to have the question studied for a year.
The 150-man council had been under fire for two days before the criminal justice group for stepping into the controversial area without the 10,000 memhershin of the as @ociation.
first canvassing |
Lawyers from British Colum-
bia and Ontario led the fight to scrap the council's proposal. Association President Hansard of Montreal ‘voted against the move to repudiate the powerful council, though he did not speak against it. The council itself, at a private ses- sion .earlier, had agreed without comment to let the issue get to the floor of the plenary session.
Another controversial meas-| ure fromthe criminal . justice section comes up today and it seems to have somewhat less chance of passage than the sec- tion's drunk-driving move. This is a proposal to legalize abor- tions, mainly in cases of. preg- nancies from sexual crimes or where the mother’s mental or
physical health would be endan-!
gered.
The abortion recommendation
was passed by the criminal jus- tice group Thursday and almost reached the floor’ Friday but was deferred until today's clos- ling session.
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offer my immediate services to help bring about a ceasefire in| Kashmir and for such other pur. | poses as the two governments | ‘might agree would be helpful in| improving their relations in this situation.”
‘THANT WELCOMES BID United Nations Secretary-Gep- eral U Thant, who appealed
Wednesday for a ceasefire, said through a spokesman he wel-~ to bring | in-
comes all attempts about a peaceful settlement, cluding Mr. Pearson's initiative.
| In New Delhi, the Indian gov-
ernment made clear any cease- |
fire agreement.would have to
label Pakistan “an aggressor. Mr. Fortier said Canada had
ehanged its usual hands-off pol-
fey in India-Pakistan disputes
because of the gravity of the situation in Kashmir,
Warns Raids
_ Butgin Rawalpindi, capital of Pakistan, that coun- try's foreign minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, blamed India for the latest eruption of the fighting in Kashmir
Bhutto said if India wants to stage a war ‘against Pakistan, “nt will be‘ unleashing a tragedy of the greatest magnitude—a tragedy which will spell devas- tation.”
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Elsewhere, especially in Com- :
monwealth capitals, desperate efforts were being .made to. avert a war between the two ern |PM OFFERS SERVICES
Prime Minister Pearson of- fered his immediate services to ‘bring about a ceasefire.
From London, Prime Minister Wilson sent personal messages,
-Hto-both=Shastri-=and President: | Mohammed Ayub Khan ot Pak- | istan.
India declared Pakistan never would -have dared to attack in Kashmir without planes and tanks furnished bythe United States. It sent Washington a protest against Pakistan's use of U.S. war material.
Pakistan is a member of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organi- zation. India has no military al- liances. i
Shastri’s voice broke with emotion several times as he an- nounced.the home guard will be strengthened as part of Indian
civil defence measures to meet-
“Pakistani aggression.”’
The prime minister said he 1s calling on his 480,000,000 -people “to rise’’—to join the home guards, increase defence _ pro- duction...and..to _preserve..com-. munal peace between Hindus and Moslems.
“The country has to prepare itself for hard days ahead,"’ he said. ‘We may have to suffer damage from air raids."
No Paper Monday
Monday being the stat- utory Labor ‘ Day holi- day this paper will<not be published. The next edition of The Guardian will be Tucsday, Sept. 7.
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SEPTEMBER 4, 1965.
he Guardian
‘ors Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
HARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, om aea8 SEVEN CENTS
age Agreem Announced By Johns
~ ACTING PREMIER SIGNS SALVATION ARMY SCROLL
-Hon. Alban Farmer, acting premier; signs the Salvation Army's Centennial Scroit. The scroll is being taken to 100 ci-
ties. across Canada as one way of marking .the centen- nial of the founding of the Sal- vation Army. It has already been signed in parts of New-
foundiand and ~ Nova Scotia and gyes from here to. centres in New Brunswick. The trip, | which started 14 days ago in. St. John’s, will take 100 days, ending in Vancouver. Looking on are Councillor Dorothy Cor- rigan, left, Brig. W. Crozier, Toronto; Reg. Boyne, chair- man. of the local Salvation
Khrushchev Out Of Hospital |
MOSCOW (AP)—A_ daughter Nikita Khrushchev said Friday the, 71-year-old former premier -entered-+a- hospital~-for medical tests —Jast—month — but is" back home -now in- good health.
Mrs. Rada Adzhubei told a re- porter the tests were normal ‘ones for a man of his age. but
i she declined to go into detail.
Reliable Communist sources \in the Soviet éapital say Khrush- ‘chev has been suffering circula- tory troubles and had been un- der regular medical observation since his fall from power ~last October. They agreed he was j back ‘at_the-country dacha out- "side Moscow where he went into
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seclusion after he was-ousted In a bloodless coup. ‘
Attempts to get official con- firmation for Khrushchev's hos- pital “confinement and news” of his present condition ran—up against the usual étone wall of Soviet silence. The press depart- ment of the Soviet foreign min- istry, which handles such mat- ters, declined comment, saying: “He (Khrushchev) is an ordi- nary citizen. We do not have anything to say about this.”
The Khrushchev dacha, about 15 miles west of Moscow, 1s guarded. The former premier is ~ reported to be living there on a pension of 462 rubles ($550) a month, with a car and chauf- feur provided for his use.
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CHICOUTIMI. Que. ‘CP)-—-De- ‘termined. farmers of this Lake St. John-Saguenay district” car- ried out their threats Friday slow- moving tractors and then called a halt to the demonstration for the night.
Local leaders of the Catholic Farmers’ Union said more. than 1,000. tractors were on the roads.
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Quebec City. reported no inci- dents and said they had re- ceived co-operation from union leaders.
Police said the farmers obeyed orders to discontinue two lines of traffic, but there were some minor snarls. and delays. iene
Union leatewe said ‘the: “voad- - blocking will_continue today = less there is a change in situation. | ~The farmers are demanding | $5,000,000 from the Quebec SS ernment as compensation crop loss and damage a heavy rains in the summer of 1964. They have also said they will not repay government farm loans until their demands - are met,
The union local, with 3,300 membres, said it was dissatis- fied with the Quebec govern- :Ment's announced $1,000,000-— aid grant.
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Lake On- tario Transportation Co., says
havea, Toronto and Hamilton at speeds up to 100 miles an- hour. The company is ceck'"Z , docking facilities in Toronto
‘FUTURE LEFT HANGING
| Lengthy Crisis Looms - “For Labor. Government
By GEOFFREY WHITEHESD
LONDON _ ‘Reuters! — The prospect of a lengthy political crisis looms in Britain with the Labor government facing the pos-ibility that its razor-thin | parliamentary majority will be
wiped out
Uncert?inty over the timing of —
a general election continued as Labor, Conservative and Liberal
‘party groups held intensive but
separate talks Friday on the sit- uation following the death Thursday of Sir Harry Hylton- Fester places Prime Minister Wilson's Labor government in danger of seeing its over-all ma- jority of two ig the House of Commons cut one,.or even eliminatec entirely.
No inter-partysoundings—on
| the situation are to be held until
after Hylton - Foster's funeral
' Monday.
The future of Britain's third | post-war Labor administration lnow hinges on a replacement, ,for the late Speaker and on the’
Fautcome of a byelection in a La-
bor- held seat. Neither Edward Heath's Con- servative patty nor Je Gri;
mond's minority Liberals seemed in mood Friday to help the government, already hit by sickness and discontent among some of its own supporters. But sources close to the prime minister insisted there was no
Schweitzer. , Condition Deteriorating
LAMBARENE, Gabon (AP)— An American heart speciatist joined in efforts Friday to save 90-year-old Dr. Albert Schweit- zer. ill since Sunday. Dr. Da- vid Miller flew into this jungle outpost after being summoned to tHe bedside of the ~ famous old physician.
Dr. Walter Munz, 32-year-old Swiss” physician who took over medical supervision at the jus-
gle hospital in February, de- scribed Schweitzer’s’ condition as. ‘gradually deteriorating,’>
though he had a quiet night
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Contract Would End Giant Strike Threat
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi- wage policy committee of the Johnson announced Friday United Steel Workers Union wil!
that negotiators ‘have meet soon in Pittsburgh to con- reached ‘essential agreement’ sider the proposed settlement. would = “T hope and expect they ‘will jerase the threat of a country- swiftly ratify this agreement,” |wide steel strike. he said.
Johnson, who made the an- MET HALF WAY?
in- a radio-televi- Reports were that the union
jsion address, persuaded indus- ltry and inion negotiators to had lowered its 50-cent-an-hour in wages and fringe
jmove their talks to Washington demand |last Monday and postpone a benefits over the three-year pe- scheduled strike. riod to about 48 cents. At the : t was He did not-disclose the basic #4™e, time, managemen |terms of the settlement but reported to have raised its offer anid: to about 43 cents.
. ‘ On the average, steelworkers “The settlement is a fair one. os , ‘s z is squarely within the limits ree about $4.40 an hour
bythe national wage-price In _wages and benefits.
The steel-settlement fashioned guideposts which are designed : to preverit the inflation which under presidential prodding
|would damage ‘our prosperity. _{Continued on page 3 Col is also within the guiding
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China Challenges
| ing.” >| Barely three hours before making the announcement, U.S. To Send | Johnson had sent Labor. Secre- p ,|tary W. Willard Wirtz and Com- Troops To Fight a} t J - }merce Secretary John T. Con By VERGIL BERGER » mor to present to the 10 ne- PEKING (R : Chi 4 | gotiators™ specific —administra- a hall a ger U na ma | tion suggestions aimed at com- ee = y troops — — |promising their differences and mori “better’’—to tight @
* wat ‘on the: Asian mainland and MET NEGOTIATORS warned it wotl!ld annihilate Thursday the president met them and ‘‘even give you--re- personally “with the company ceipts:” a union representatives ~The Challenge, eoiipled” with attacks on ‘Khrushchev : babor Day and to avoid-a strike tevisionists’’ who fear nuclear which he said could be more war, came in a 70,000-word ar- | damaging than a recession. ticle by Lin Piao, Chinese vice After Johnson moved the ne- premier and defence minister.
gotiations from Pittsburgh to Lin claimed the United States Washington, he obtained an is “in danger of being Lagreement to postpone the Swamped'’ in Viet Nam_ and
i Bi k |etrike deadline from 12:01 a.m. said the war there shows that ock Highways —
area was bolstered by. 100 “from rtors—six from the United Steel-
last Wednesday to 12:01 a.m. ‘what the Vietnamese people mext Thursday. — can do, the people in other Then he sent “the negotia- parts of the world can do, too.”
He said conditions now are
workers Union and four from 10 more favorable than ever. be- companies” which” make about forefor—waging~-a-—“‘people’s
80 per cent of the country’s “war” against the U.S. and he
steel—into intensive sessions in promised increasing Chinese aid
the executiv office building. for such wars as the country Johnson said members of the grows stronger.
T5 Deaths Predicted: During This Weekend
Many Canadians are spending The council said in Ottawa their last weekend at the cot- Friday each mile of highway in tage before school starts Tues- the country will have some 12 day and the Canadian Highway cars driving on-it this weekend. Safety Council has predicted’ 75 provincial. officials appealed persons will die in traffic and t) motorists to use common another 2,200 will be injured conse and. stay alive as. the during ‘the three-day Labor Day ¢ountry—faces another—killer weekerid. Last year. 101 per- sons died in traffic Labor Day weekend, 20 short of the record 121 killed in 1963 :
In line with attracting atten- tion to Canad-'s 7,400,000-mem- ber labor force, government of-
|ficials issued J.abor Day state- ; ments ‘QUEBEC WANTS ROOM
Premier Jean Lesage of Que- hec called for major changes 1n federal labor law to make more
room for independent Quehee reason why the government action. in the. field The prov- should be forced into an “early ince, he added, -is working out election’ They expres-ed confi-,@ labor policy -to-catch- up with
dence that the crisis vould be it) other forms of economic ac-
over by the time Parliament re- tivity. turns from its “summer recess
ae party leaders may Russia Orbits fu- Five Sputniks
{meet after Hylton-Foster's neral to discuss a replacement Mor the late Speaker who ran as a non-party candidate in last
October's general election MOSCOW ‘Reuters! — Russta By tradition, neither the. Friday launched five sputniks Speaker nor his two deputies into orbit around the earth,
at present one Labor and one Tass news agency ‘said Conservative—vote in Commons The satellites. numbers 90. 81, debates. There never has been 82. 83 and 84 in the Cosmos a Labor party speaker. series, carry scientific instru- ments for continued space re-
LABOR SPEAKER? search. They were fired from Dr. Horace King, Labor's sen--a—single rocket. ior Deputy Speaker, is widely All the five sputniks are on
expected to’-become the ‘party’3 almost circular orbits at an-al-
first Speaker and Sir Samuel titude of about 900 miles cire- Storey, a Conservative, is likely. ling the earth once every 116% to move up in his place minutes . Bui both Conservetive§ and Soviet scientists claimed ear- Liberal party sources -made lier this week that Cosmos sput- clear they would resist any gov- niks orbiting the earth thrée ernment pressure on them to years ago detected valuable
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