hes ) If It’s Good For The Island The Guardian Is For It * ’ Second Class Otttawa. and fer Pay VOL. LXXIX: NO. 18 a “alps woow onic wwenne y3¥. 24vN3S ~ nae d By JAMES F. KING 8 anks Res dee: Edward blank Like The Dew” tLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, JANU ARY 24, 1966. 60 a - THAN. Fig 4 me vrs i~ WEATHER Heavy snowfall; winds increasing to + easterly 30, gusts to. _ Low -high 23 and 27. SEVEN CENTS 35, then northwest.. ° 12 PAGES. : iting Brief Truce Eupires. o [Nam was reported Sunday by london Businessman Recruits Secret Army For S. Viet Nam 'British. volunteer legion bet he | SAUCER NESTS ARE REPORTED BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters)—Something new in flying saucers came Saturday from northern Queensland | “when a banana grower —re-— | ported the saucers have heen building nests. — Three . 30-foot nests -of dry : | | SAIGON (AP)—A_ funar new | year ceasefire ended today and | the United States resumed its war in South Viet Nam. Gifts Dropped — In N. Viet Nam — “Commanders told me the: morale of the American soldiers is not high and they do not wam _ to cisk their lives. They do not reeds in. the swamplands of LONDON (AP) —. Recruit-|a London businessman. must Yet official permission | There was. no indication of re- | have enough physical endurance. ment of a “secret” army of Paul Daniels, a Second World from the British government, | the Tully district, 950 miles gumption of air attacks on North They are not used to marcher | British volunteers ready to fight War veteran, said_U.S. embassy “When we applied last year | north’ of Brisbane, are baffling. viet Nam. | and hardships. alongside the Americans in Viet | officials show ibierest in his to send 700 volunteers, the Brit- "Vestigators. | U.S. and Vietnamese officials | ‘The American soldiers called George Pedley, 27, the ha- nana grower who found the first one, said: he saw a vapor- like saucer take off from it. Wednesday. The second: and say the Communists broke their | gor helicopters to cross. small ceasefire 82 times. They listed \givers. If the helicopters do not ‘a truce-period death toll of five jarrive in time, they sometimes Americans, six South Koreans, |have themselves carried over by ish government. refused permis | sion,” he said. “But -we are ap- | plying .again and have hopes of a. change of attitude.” Tits, BEB _ MESSY QUAKE AFTERMATH Grocer Joe Brooks a Dulce, — New Mexico, has a big clean- the state Saturday. ap job Sunday after an earth- mor toppled hundreds of cans quake which hit the commun- ity in the northern section of dications were the tremor was The tre- the strongest for the area but no injuries were reported. and bottles into the aisles. In- (AP Wirephoto) of Charlottetown, John P. Nigerian Shooting Details _ToldBy TorontoNewsman TORONTO 'CP) — Details of |gerian. capital of Lagos refused |gos where he. had covered the the early-morning. shooting of the prime minister, Sir Abuba- kev Tefawa Balewa, and other top government officials of Ni- geria during the military coup a week ago were disclosed for the first time Saturday.in The Star in a censor-delayed story by Mark Harrison. Government officials Harrison, filing: his’ story trom | ‘ment was overthrown. He was ported his death but gave no for several days to pass it, said (Commonwealth con ference a Balewa and three other officials ‘few days earlier. were shot by soldiers in three’ Balewa was_.missing for a. separate cities. during simulta- ~week after the military over- neous raids at 3 a.m. Saturday, ithrow of his government. Jan. 15. | Reuters news agency reported Harrison flew into Lagos from:|Saturday that his body had been 'The Congo last weekend, a few |found Friday 27 miles from hours after. Balewa’s govern- |Lagos London after censors in the Ni- | still in Africa after leaving La- | details of the circumstances. = - ways department warned of pas- | DESCRIBES SHOOTING - ee ag also described the picis oe Festus Oko- | tie-Eboh, whose body was found | with gunshot wounds Wednes- day; Sir Ahmadu Bello, 56-year-old Ontario, Quebec = Buried In Snow 2 a By THE CANADIAN PRESS would remain chaotic for some Chief Samuel Akintola, 55-year- | A savage snow storm whipped |time after the weather eased. old premier of the Western re-, into Ontario and Quebec during' “The weather might clear up gion. the weekend, seriously disrupt- but we won't have the equip-} Harrison gave these details of | ing airline traffic and causing ment and planes needed to get | the killing 6f the 53-year-old | dangerous __Conditions on the things rolling again,” he said. | Ralewa, prime minister since | ~highways.~ eee ue er — at airport |, at this Lagos~ home: The Giesmational. shoots at | Montrea ernational. ai , Toronto and Montreal -closed after 9 a.m. Sunday end all, “Armed conspirators broke do- jinto the home .. .-o flights were cancelled for the ihis potice bodyguard: aud: cnr down Sunday morning as aitport ; i A personnebafought a losing battle tation storm. lriedait against drifting snow: | Ottawa's Uplands Airport was | _ oo regarded 7 An Air Canada official in Tor- |reported closed Sunday after- | onto estimated some 7,000 per- noon for all practical purposes. | “He, too, was shot dead bat sons_were affected as more than | __Meanwhile— | ihis ‘body-was—hidden- one of the most respected lead- "fers of the Commonwealth. STORM MOVING OUT.’ 200 incoming and outgoing |weather was reported.in West-| “Next door, another group of flights were cancelled. lern Canada—extreme cold on lsoldiers hauled finance minister The unexpectedly severe the Prairies and dull, wet | Festus Okotie-Ebph from his storm took the form of a back- weather with some snow in most bed. The quaking minister lash from a major storm mov- jof central -and southern. RPritish /pleaded for his life and offered ing northward along the eastern | Columbia. ' (Continued on page 3 Col. 5) seaboard of the United States. : = i Gusts as high as 65 miles an | hoor bwteter” 'xova”ccoun| Heavy Snow Is Dumped re areas = wind warn. 2 : ings were issued for the -| O W d U. S. S . time provinces: Four to. eight | n I e ection inches of snow was nas | ie parts of the provinces today.) NEW YORK (AP) —Thick wet |automobiles t sn Earlier forecasts called for 10-|snow borne on gale-force winds | | driveways. =o ere 12 inches, but a new storm in swept up the East Coast of the | Operations were severely cur- the _ Atlantic . was expected to’ United States... Sunday........The.| tailed... at. thé. Philadelphia. Air- force the disturbance further | storm stretching from Arkansas | port, although the city had only out into the Atlantic. |to .New England, piled up two three inches of snow. - | feet o a slowed road,| In New York City and Wash- ‘air and rail traffic. ington, the snow was mixed with ae storm was oe ne cn of | Lancaster, N.Y., a suburb. of |rain at times and only an inch fe Toronto area by mid-after-| Buffalo, recorded 24 inches of |or two of slush was, on the on Sunday . after dumping | snow, The Buffalo airport, closed |streets by mid-afternoon. more than 16 inches of snow on \by the storm, had 13.7 inches | : the city and suburbs. lin 24 hours, the heaviest fall FERRY SUSPENDED ,. Trains and buses out of Tor- cing December, 1961. _+ In the New York City area, onto were. reported to be run-| iy. men suffered fatal heart |however, winds whi up ning on schedule or not more. stances in western New York |above-normal tides which tem- than 10, minutes late. 'state Sunday while shovelling | Porarily closed coastal roads and However, the road. informa- snow or oe tu push their forced a two-hour suspension of tion sérvice of the Ontario high- | ee on the Staten Island , Sardauna of Sokoto, premier | he was educated at St. Dun- in 1916. Following, a short prac- tice in Newfoundland, Dr. Sweeney to Alberta where “he Cleveland and at ¥ork Gri ee again beckonéd and Dr. Sweeney d to private practice with the duties of deputy director of health Dr. Sweeney | British law hans _ private | armies, he ‘noted, but “‘not a military register, mine.’ such. as Daniels said what he meant | third “wéré sighted by cane | farmer ‘Tom Warren and | | school teacher Hank. Penning while out walking. three South Vietnamese, four ci- Saigonese (South Vietnamese) |Vilians and 56 Viet Cong. troops.” : , Sunday, marine guns firing | began at Da Nang, Chu Lai and | Phu Bai. The Da Nang Marine + | ‘The reeds were filattened in base reported its fire was aimed | Dies At Age 72 A longtime resident and doctor er 5 Sweeney, died early last night |’ in the Charlottetown Hospital |” sebontnn 4 beet Migene, Le ep Born at Cape Traverse in 1894, | ® stan'’s University and later re- |: | ceived a bachelor of medicine |/ from. Queen's University |: by ‘military register’’ was that he had compiled a list, of vol- unteers but they would not be formed into a unit until ork reached ‘the overseas - ‘at ~ destination. aot Rey This, he contends, comes | | within the law. | rector of a Polish manufactur- ing firm, said he has been | “spending all of my spare time and nearly all of my savings in this recruiting campaign for . |the last two years.” | : OPPOSES COMMUNISM ‘He declared “his” legion ~ | dedicated to . correcting tail | ure’’ of British politicians to Op- | pose world~ communism ade- | quately. | | “We believe in lai the | .|Americans are doing in Vi | Nam,’ ” he told an interviewer «| \“The democratic way of life is |at stake. In a true sense this | | movement could beg oes | gloryst?. murs P | Daniels, 49, and managing di- | a clockwise direction, and | surrounded by healthy oe reeds. The surrounding scrub .qeas:.untouched. HEARD HISSING .. “IT ‘was driving my tractor on my way to my farm-when I heard a loud hissing noise," Pediley said. “Suddenly I saw, a space- ship rise at great speed out of a swamp called Horseshoe Lagoon about 25 yards in front of: me. “Tt was blue-grey, about 35, feet-- across nine. feet high. It-spun at a terrific rate as it rose vertically te. about 60 feet. Then made a shallow dive and rose sharply. — - “Travelling at a fantastic speed, it headed off in a south- westerly direction. It was out of sight in seconds,” he added... So far, a check of the nests has- aigelosed no flying saucer Se - "tg SR ee ok pe TS 3 doctor back in 1939 for a New Mexico Shaken By Earthquake ’ DULCE, N.M. (AP)—A fright- | ening earth tremor struck this | small community and the surrounding Tegion, leaving cracked walls, shattered windows and shaken foundations. Authorities checking damage Sunday found it generally light but’ widespread. The shock was felt_in_two._New Mexico —coun- ties and in Colorado. Indications were that the tremor Saturday night was the strongest on record for the area, but -no~injuriés were reported. After-shocks continued far into the night. “Tremors were felt-as tar west as Farmington, which is near ithe Arizona border. Most of Dulce’s 1,500 popula-~ tion are Apache’ Indians and whet of Indian affairs person- : State Police _ officer . Robert Goke of Dulce said porches were. .moved..back.. from. houses, water: pipes broken, fireplaces cracked in half, foundations | broken, walls cracked. and doors of stoves and _ refrigerators | thrown open. 8 4 northern New Mexico | visit and'he later decided to return to his native province | where he had practiced in Char- Jottetown until -his death. TRIBUTE PAID High tribute was paid Dr. Sweeney by his medical con- | freres August 26, 1965 when he | ‘was presented by them for senior | membership in the Canadian | Medical Association. Only those who knew him jin-| timately appreciated -the person- | ality that had endeared Dr.| | Sweeney to his patients-Kind-; freres by the example of the physician’s art that he had ex- hibited at the bedside. CARED FOR AGED In his late years he had spent | most of his work caring for the | aged infirm. As thé attending cial homes for the aged he had brought to this institution a standard of devotion and of| ‘skilled care and medical service | seldom attained in the govern- ment jnstitutions-of this kind. In rtial retirement, . Pr. Sweeney lived with his books in an idyllic retreat he had built vs) king one of the most beautiful valleys in this province. Here he played at farming, here_ . entertained .his friends with a geniality that had ripened his charm year by year. Surviving are two sons: “Montreal™ and” Riehard | John of rot ; Truro His, wife and a daughter. pre- deceased him. Funeral arrangements had not | been cence last night. | Ress, patience,- sympathy —: he-ular had’ so often astounded his con- course, have Physician at one of the provin-| lees appeal for permission ‘to send volunteers. A spokes- man said a legion offer to send |200 non-combatant volunteers to i Viet Nam 1s being considered. { Daniels said the offer to send /non-combatants was: made some. time ago, after the government ‘refused to approve others, but \that his new group of volunteers +was intended for fighting. “These are not meant to be | mercenaries,” he went on. ‘But the financing—transporting the |men to Viet Nam,- uniforms, eacneeee and pay at the reg-. ‘soldier. rates—would, of to be borne by ‘the United States. “Our men: would be better ithan mercenaries. For all hava | their heart..in the cause and ‘most are experienced soldiers. And the value of the volunteer | units cannot_be underestimated | Look what 200 men:..did in The Congo.” Daniels said, his group is com-: posed mostly of veterans or ‘others with military training— “in their 30s and 40s, up to’ the rank of colonel. Ag | Hints ue ear ‘A-Bomb Located VERA, Spain (AP) — A con- centration of offshore activity Sunday produced reports that searchers may have located in the Mediterranean a_ nuclear ‘weapon reported missing since a here last Monday. ‘An official source confirmed later that an object had been foiind and said operations were under way to recover it. . Unofficial quarters said the ob- ject had been pinpointed at a ‘depth: of “about 1,000 feet mid- way between the Spanish coastal villages of Garrucha and Agui- las, and’ about 500 yards oft: \ shore. - vas coat op U.S. B-52 bomber crashed near with at suspected Viet Cong concen- | trations. | U.S; officials . disclosed. U.S. 30 Killed In Crash . ‘PORT AU PRINCE, Haut (AP) — A Haitian commercial airliner crashed near the south-— west. coast of Haiti Saturday, killing 30 persons, includiag UN officials, a an Romav Cathohe priest, a Baptist minis. ter and a textile tyenon. Five persons aboard the DC-9 eurvived. Air’ force chief; Col. Georges Donache, said Sunday President. Francois Duviier would issue @ the Viet Nam\war to the con- Australian Wilfred P. Burchett, who said American soldiers in Viet. Nam -lacked-- courage .and stamina. He wrote that the U.S. soldiers need the noise of heavy fire to offset their fears. Saying great many guards in my con- stituency.” Mr. Coates told a the didn't like the current un- certainty about capital ment. ‘‘I don't think the law being followed in the Cae case. - ‘This was ae need rf this article was based on ap- Ererich Scandal > ‘Grows To Storm. PARIS (Reuters)—France re- called its ambassador to Mo- Trocco Sunday night and the ris- ing gale of the Ben Barka scan- dal burst into a major interna- tional storm. INSIDE TODAY Classified wea eneees 10, il Death —av cisco cusiccieces: 3 Rirtha ri isaaeees il Comics ...- sere eeeees- 9 Sport: ob iccesesegeee 11, 12 Women’s —.... sees aee sees 8 “Editorials ..i.iasvaceves +. Summerside ........++.- 3 Kings, Queens, City .... ‘ Prince County | Ambassador Robert Gillet de- livered a note to the Moroccan foreign ministry in Rabat ear- Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir of organizing the kidnap- ping of Mehdi ben Barka in Paris: last October: Ben Barka ‘was an opposition leader exiled from.. Morocco... Gillet’s recall followed Moroc- co's rejection of an international warrant issued by French au- _ |thorities for the arrest-of Oufldir for ht art lier Sunday, accusing Moroccan |- praisals by Viet Cong command: , Burchett wrote: By GODFRBY ANDERSON ~ LONDON (AP)—It will be a year today since he died but his nm are obeying the command chiselled on a .com- ster Abbey: “Remember Win- ston Churchill.”’ “As yet, no monument has been raised in the capital where. a quarter century before Churchill broadcast his contempt for Adolf Hitler and defied Nazi bombers to do their worst. But there is the stone in West- minster Abbey, resting place of | Britain's. great, which was un-| veiled by the Queen. And his grave in the Oxfordshire village of Bladon has become an unoffi- - Cial shrine, which 1,000,000 per- | Death OFS Winn Year Ago ls Recalled -|memorative-~ stone- -in-- Westmin-~ ‘of a “heinious” - [zatied but no orn pone ay im. wants it for a Churchill museum, When members of Parliament protested, Johnson retorted: “After all, his. mother was aa American.” : The home..Churchill loved. best, ... Qhartwell Manorin Kent, now is nirs, which flourished after hie death, is down-to a trickle. Bat the specially struck 22-carat gold medals have more than doubled in value. - Last year, when tens of thous- jands turned out for the war leader’s funeral, Churchill’s name was everywhere. - | |SOLD PLASTIC BUSTS Stores offered blown plastie The sale of Churchill souve-_ Clearing skies following the LAWN MOWED sable but dangerous conditions, sons are estimated to have vis- busts with how-tie and cigar for * ditions in Western Canada. y in most parts of the provi The two CNR teanscontinental | storm in the South were accom- panied by intense cold. Rt was | trains and CPR's transcontinen- | DESPITE SNOW tal Canadian were reported run-., ning up to 15 hours late’ but rail- | ee aia tee ills way officials‘blamed this on con-| Neighbors a passersby did a double take when they saw a man mowing the lawn in front of a suburban Ga- two above at Fayetteville, Ark. Wheeling, W.Va., reported 18 inches of snow ‘and ~similar heavy falls hit the mountainous regions of. the ‘Carolinas. sed | western Maryland. Snow depths in: New England | A weather office official in| ited to pay homage. The Churchill Memorial Fund has nearly reached its zoal_ of '70 cents. One department store offered. silver tee by a likeness poons topped Churchill. for . 23,000,000 ($9,000,000) to set up | $4.9 . travelling fellowships in Churc- | hill’s name. Fund raisers can- | vassed the country door-to-door with the slogan: ‘Give gener- Bookshops had a vast array lof Churchill material including | commemorative cards with pie- itures and excerpts of his "In the record a Toronto said the Lake Ontario.) 2 | : ously—he did. | speeches. atea was hardest hit due to the nist of Saruraa's, ny ‘were around four inches. ‘Mock of. Churchill’s personal | Churchill was ninth on. the top Warmer ait crossing cold water: snowfall. Everywhere in the East, high. | 10 list, trailing only the most Lways were slippery and. dri was hazardous; * but © all - roads were open. i Elsewhere, bitter cold air lunged temperatures to record __.Niagara.__Falls...also__received , several inches of snow, but local residents, displayed some’ inge- nuity in the face of adversity. DOCTOR GOES SLEIGHING the -mower—was- James Dickson an employee of contractor Robert Salz- gaber. Salzgaber explained that he recently ‘sold the property, including the hloemee house Where Te died. ha mt under the auctioneer!s fsaennen, much ‘of it to souvenir collectors or to persons, who want to have a Churchill memerito, — pop-groups= not in the charts at all. | Memorial stamps came out on |May 24, Gommonwealth Day, \People criticized them because Dr. Howard Clement hitched i ws in the midcontinent. Tem- ithe portrait of Churchill was a mare to a 40-year-old sleigh | sectied jie. the men peratures were not expectd to LIMOUSINE SOLD jmany, times larger than the to get to the Greater Niagara go above zero in Minnesota and His 1954 Humber limousine, Queen. The United States pub- should ‘he mowed before the purchaser moved in. To comply, Salzgaber and Dickson heated a power “mower, _and despite more — than. two inchés of ‘snow on the ground, the lawn was cat. the Dakotas. Forecasters pre- dicted lows ranging down to below zero for northern Minne- sota : . - ’ Hieeion lows included 37 he- in. Thief’ River Falls, Minn. Tr wae % below in Williston, N.D., and Bismarck, N.D. General Hospital to attend his patiénts Sunday. Mrs. Rowena. Cooper, em- ployed in the dietary division of. the hospital, skied seven miles. from her home in Chippawa to get to work. An Air Canada. official pre- dicted that flight conditions . Minn., and 36 be-| VISITORS, including Amer- fean tourists, stand in. silent | homage jay before the ~ " grave of Sir Winston Chur- | chill in the graveyard of Bladon, land. Today fe the firet an- niversery of the death of the famed British statesman. “(CAP Wirephoto sable from Lon- don), om with an. out-size cigar ashtray in the back; was sold to a local dealer, who promptly re-sold it for nearly. three times what it «ost him. The railway baggage car ~ which served as his funeral car, was auctioned for $980 to Darivs Johnson of Los Angeles, who > Churchill's and sweat’ speech’ upon: ing prime minister. wie ; oui e Imperial, seum staged Churchill’s life pictures, and commercial | tions extended te cural lished its own Churchill ; on May 13, 25th tentvareay a Ay “blood, toil, tears