If It’s Good For The Island

VOL. LXXIX. NO. 20

MRS. INDIRA Gandhi _feads her ‘oath of office Mon- day whilé standing beside Pre-

The Guardian Is For It

in the prime minister's offi- cial residence in New Delhi. Thus Mrs. Gandhi, 48-year-

widow, ~ became _ India's first woman—prime—minister _

India’s Woman Prime

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ther father, Jawaharlal Nehru, held the office. (AP Wirephoto via cable- from New: Delhi) _

Minister

Optimistic Over Kashmir Issue

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’ climate can be extended to solve (brought on a series of protest

few prime minister expressed problems in the international ‘demonstrations in Pakistan.

hope Monday the Tashkent dec- laration ‘will. open’ up fresh |SPhere as well as between In-

avenues for India to improve re- idia-and Pakistan.

Nevertheless, the Indian gov- | ernment announced a high-

level ‘delegation will visit Pakistan

“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1966. “

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OTTAWA (CR)—A-group of 10

“amend its proposals in lights of |MPs’. objections or leave them |

Quebec Liberal MPs served n0- |

‘Heged victi

Liberal MPs Seek Debate } On Quebec Redistribution

iaatanies (Montveal Outremont- |somption. - St. Jean); Paul Langlois (Chi- Loiselle ‘Montreal

Montcalm) , Gerard St. Ann),

'-|tiee Monday they will force a jcontimi), Jean-Charles..Cantin) Georges .Lachance (Montreal \Commons debate on the pro- | (Quebec South),. former post- Lafontaine), Raynald Guay : \posed redistribution of federal | Master-general Rene Tremblay | (Levis), Marcel Prud’homme seats in Quebec. . (Matapedia - Matane), J.-Ro-| (Montreal St. Denis) and Mil- The group, led by Gerard Du- land Comtois (Jolielte + I’Ae ton Klein (Montreal Cartier). quet, freshman MP. for Quebec | a een East, objects only to a proposal | d Idi j e : e to change the mame of anebee | Heind-Holding During Trial -

Sparks Fireworks In Court

“TACOMA, Wash. ‘AP)—Legal Mary Boehme is the wife the fireworks over whether the al- doctor is accused of trying to should sit im the kill by injecting a toxic sub- courtroom and hold hands with stance i her right hip while

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NO PROBLEMS

Barrow of |

Premier Errol

med law after the new |

ithe husband accused of trying \to poison her marked the trial

= Dr. Robert E. Boehme ‘Mon- vy. :

The hand holders won — at least temporarily

“It is unfair to the prosecu- tion to let her sit at the counsel ' table holding hands with the de- \fendant,”” argued Prosecutor | John B. McCutcheon.

“he’s the victim.”

The verbal skirmish started - ‘when Dr. oe 45-year-old Orchard y sic tan,

marched into the coe court- iroom at the start of his trial

on charges of ‘first degree as- \sautt with intent to kill.

i\HOLD~ HANDS

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_ of attempting:to kill his previous |

Barbados expects no disrup- tion of parliamentary govern- ment when his Caribbean Is-

0 she van Ya a Tacoma hospital under treatment after an accl- ident in the family boathouse. —The-couple,_both_of whom_ say’ he is innocent;walked.-to the counsel table and talked quietly

land adjusts~to full indepen- dence from England this year. He is conferring with Cana- | dian government and business

with Frank August Peters, de-| officials in Ottawa to expla”) fence lawyer.———— ——_—|—_the—implication—of his coun-_ McCutcheon moved, that all! try’s forthcoming indepen-

dence. He declined to name a- specific date for independence. . (CP: Wirephote)

Arthur Sauve Is Sentenced

MONTREAL (CP) — Arthur

witnesses, including Mrs. Boehme, be removed from the small courtroom.

- Judge Hardyn B. Soule ruled | that it would be proper for Mrs. | Boehme to remain with her hus- band. ° This was the, pees time Dr. Boehme faced such a charge. He was acquitted in May, 1962,

OTTAWA (CP)—An las well .as industrial products jis needed to combat a growing limbalance of payments -situa- | ition, former trade minister

: | George Hees said Monday.

Mr. Hees, speaking in

third ‘day ‘of the eight-day Com- ns throne speech debate, also d the government must. re-

“lax immediately its. “iniquitous jtight money_ policy.’

The Conservative ,member for (Northumberland said an exces- sive imbalance of payments and ‘tight money are the two factors ithat: can seriously check eco- jnomic progress.

Roland Godin (Creditiste— |Portneuf’ moved a motion of ‘non-confidence ment.'for “failing to take the |

His motion was <Gieows out by \Speaker Lucien Lamoureux,

who said he was unable to see lany relation.in. the Creditiste |amendment to @ Conservative’ | motion still before the House on lold age pensions.

‘ro VOTE ON PENSIONS The Conservative motion to lpotet pensions to $100 a month

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Throne Speech Vote Scheduled Tonight

immedi- | ‘ate“export drive in serioesene! |S

an ‘agricultural trade crusade” and said far more Canadian products could be sold abroad, .

The Conservative government had led the way in 1961: with |wheat sales to Communist coun- ; tries. ;

He listed for Trade Minister Winters these steps in the Con- servative trade drive five years ago:

’—Recalling 150 trade com-

missioners to an Ottawa con-

ference with Canadian bust- nessmen to convince ~.them (Continued on page 5, col. 4)

Parliament At A Glance

“By ‘THE CANADIAN PRESS MONDAY; Jan. 24, 1966-

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The Commons continued the throne speech’ debate after tabling of new spending estl- mates and introduction of new bills.

A Creditiste move to criti- cize the government for not revising family allowance. payments “was ‘ruled ~-out of © order. - aX

‘lations with its neighbors.” Mrs._Gandhi_spoke ata e-..next month to discuss the re- arr fog | Mrs. Mary Boehme, 33, walked wife, Dorothy. She died of nat- ¢ in her firet public appearance jception sponsored by ‘Moslem | lease of cargoes seized by each election ee See Pr Ee ai ae alin. Witt bien, locking ural: causes three saoutha’ alter oer’ eee a ho Ral ce ee Se oe Sitpplementary aon ¢ after being sworn organization ma their acad hi ; g |country._ during warlere | The petition sponsored by Mr. jat her husband and “emiling. the trial. inals, was sent i Monday to! Jean-Bades Dube (L--Resti- tabled, boosting planned

Indian government, Mrs. Indira }day of the new moon when Mos. | last September. e life j caeat ned ax fehl. aaa an ling to $7,825,903,439.

sigeed ot Tad wine Soviet inlet ere me The delegidion rie I 25 years for 10 armed | speaker Monday, Privai¢. MPs dropped 106 Union two weeks. Tate F decianation, | inelode : robberies. i, \ etter al goyernment should Bw billig into the Commons _hop- "Prime, Minister ye oe Peraan “Nine sraran nee aes ters “ Sauve 0; 4s altcady “serving |@- department of education” and-+ per. from -bieth. eo. Shastri. and Moham- of normal relations be- Shah’ and Sanjiva Reddy, min- a 19-vear cesta te a ee culture. trol to divorce, capital pumi: We in’ Montreal in.Nov. 1964, in | This would allow Ottawa to; ™ent to flag day.

@ed Avub Khan-/of Pakistan, |tween India and Pakistan, has lister for transport; aviation and

has Created “new climate.” She expressed hopes the new |

been. criticized by opposition |

leaders in both countries. It

“ACCIDENT CAUSE IS MYSTERY

Plane Wreckage, Bodies | Are Scattered For Miles.

CHAMONIX, France (AP)—A dents of this French aleiae te- was the crash of an Air France |

New York - bound Air India plane crashed near the peak of

heavy snowfall hit at the

isert said a \the area fiat 8 a.m.

mist-shrouded Mont Blanc Mon- |time the plane was due for a

day, killing afl aboard.

Wreckage and “bedios were | ecattered: for miles over the | snow - covered Alps. Scorched |

117 persons

stopover at Geneva's airport. {Geneva lost contact with the | Plane at_8:02 a.m.

| Local officials speculated: that jthe. .crash may

have _ been |-

mail from the plane was found caused by. the snowfall coupled

as far as five miles away on with a heavy mist on Mount

the Italian side of the peak. Blanc.

The Boeing 707, named ‘‘Kan-

chenjunga”—the name of the |POPE'S CO-PILOT

world's third-highest mountain! The plane’s-piot, Capt. J. T.

~— crashed apparently. seconds | D -__after__receiving permission. to |most experienced pilots. When

land at Geneva's Cointrin air- | Pope Paul travetled-to-India-in-

port at 8 a.m. local time. Air |1964, D'Souza was co-pilot of his

D'Souza. was one of Air India's.

India, said the flight, originating

in Bombay, carried 106 passen- |-

gers and a crew of 1h. All except | 12 passengers were Indians. The foreigners were five -Britons, four Americans, one French- |

a

man, one Swiss and one British | aster, officials in Geneva said |

Guianese.

The pilot reported the plane on course at 19,000 feet. a safe Margin over the 15,781 - foot Mont Blanc, tallest in Western Europe. But the plane struck | 1,400 feet below the summit on the French side.

A pilot flying over the scefe , said it appeared the plane had lost altitude and crashed into

a..huge... boulder..

The weather was generally clear over the Alps when the

« plane crashed near the moun- tain refuge of Vallot, but there was a possibility the plane was

4 , Caught in a local blizzard. ~

“EVERYTHING PERFECT

Air India’s area operation Manager, Capt. K. R. Garzdar,: discounted _.this__after. ci circling __the ‘crash area, een He reported:

“The weather was perfect We have absolutely mo explana- tion how this could happen. Everything seemed perfect, the Weather and the plane's instru- ments, and a féw split seconds later all ‘contact was lost.” ‘

The victims included India’s noted nuclear scientists, Dr. Homi Bhabha, chairman of the Indian Atorfe Energy Commis- sion, en route to a meeting in Vienna.

It was a grim repetition of a 16-year-old disaster in which a chartered Air India Constella- tion carrying 48 Indian seamen crashed in the same area.

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iflight.

The circumstances of the lerash raised the possibility of ‘an explosion in flight. Although icharred bjects were recovered imiles fromthe scene of the dis-

|nothing: could be determined so far.

‘Mountain . winds could have carried letters and smaller ob- \jects after the plane-smashed- linto the mountain,” officials at Geneva’s Cointrin airport said. sania wreckage indicates the

ssibility. of explosion the crash but not in tie aie

As in the 1950 disaster, Mon- | day's. crash victims also in-

Paris en-route to Bremen, West: Germany, to take over @ new. iship for India. ;

| ‘The $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 {plane hit the mountain -at 4 ihuge rock shoulder called La’ ‘Tournette, not far from Vallot

‘would have cleared.

|\COPTERS ON THE SCENE ‘French mountain rescue heli-

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main wreckage about three

ae after the crash. They re no survivors. ,

The aircraft was scheduled to

don before heading for New York, the: last point of its jour- ney. ‘Bight passengers had tick- ets for New York.

Air ‘India officials said the crash was the first time it-had- lost a ee hoe on a regularly- schedu

The worst air disaster involv. ing a single passenger plane

cluded Indian ‘sailors. A’ contin= | gent of 46 sailors was flying to |”

the last Alpine hut before the |

lsuminit.. If the plane had been flying—a—few ya “higher it-

copter pilots landed near. the |.

land in Geneva, Paris and Lon. |.

tourism. An announcement said | (Continued on page 3, col. 3)

jet liner near Paris in 1962 that | | killed 130 persons. The second? worst was the crash of a U.S. Air Force Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953 that killed 129 military men.

Also ranking high among the major single-plane crashes was the crash of a Trans-Canada ‘Air Lines (now Air Canada) \DC-8 near Montreal. Nov. 29,

The .co-Signers are. former secretary Maaurice La-

Viet Cong. Hit At Base

SAIGON (AP)—The Viet Cong rained 42 mortar shells on the U.S. marine base at Da Nang early today, killing three Amer- icans.

Two Vietnamese soldiers also were killed, a US. military spokesman said, and 25 persons were ‘wounded—1l1 Americans, 11 Vietnamese soldiers and three

| 1968, in which 118 persons died.

Vietnamese civilians.

jetliner crashed on nearby Mont Blanc, killing all 117 per-

sons on board. The jet -

CONOMIC

MONTREAL

Takeover

(CP)—-Rene Le- nancial aid to. private enter- ter, said Monday French Can-/in Becancour.

ada will take over the economic, Mr. Levesque said the impor- life of Montreal in the next few tant thing is to control “stra. years. tegic fields."

Mr. Leves » Speaking to The minister said he believes | McGill University students, said the rights of the English-speak- | the “‘arrogant, ignorant’ busi- ing minority in Montreal should | nesses better getout of their be fully respected. But he does | “Rhodesian-like frame. of mind not accept the idea of ‘‘en- | while there is still time.” The trenghed privileges’ for minori- | reference was to the dominating ties any more than for a major- | English business. pasianay siecests. in the ity.

Min FIRMS IGNORE FRENCH

Levesque said, will settle ar He said it is an insult ° “any

question of French - language psohengertion. Parga se once and for all. He French ignore irms a

Sh be businesses which do business

peti by legitimate with French-Canadians. “French should be there as a | nate: aia the . “takeover” will compulsory...mark of respect,” mucive sabrmnietesive and fi- he said. When the takeover | —— comes, “it could happen that it ‘would only be human to take into account what came before in deciding what comes after.” “He flatly rejected the idea of |

will

said the ‘“‘takeoyer"’

only the same type of ‘‘narrow- mindedness and collective stu- | pidity’ which he said character- izes the other. provinces. :

On other questions of provin- cial rights, Mr. Levesque was adamant that the province will continue to run its own affa in its own way through opting out and fiscal adjustment.

“Quebec is no longer asking. | From now on it is demanding If the rest want to go to big brother (Ottawa) and end up with one government, that’s | their problem.”

He said this did not mean ifsolation for the province and | _that Quebec intends to co-opera- tive with thé other provinces: from which it has ‘‘much {learn."”

Ship Reports Out Of Danger | BOSTON (AP)—The 9,500-ton freighter South African Victory sent an SOS

in danger in mountainous seas 70 miles southeast of Boston.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter meanwhile reported the -master. of the disabled. vessel had been able to restore his rudder and swing the 455-foot ship head into the 20-foot seas.

The. cutter Acushnet eeporiee the freighter’s captain expected to ride_out the storm and com- plete the voyage.

The coast guard said the master of the eo said. with power restored he expected to” |he able. to prevent any further \ghifting of hie cargo,

ing permission to tied at Gen- eva aitport on a flight - Bm in New York —

(AP! Wirepote hy exible rom

vesqué, Quebec’s welfare minis- prise like the Sidbec steel] mill | pS

which a butcher was shot and wounded.

Judge Edouard Archambault fentenced Sauve to serve nine 25-year terms and a 10th of life jimprisonment. The sentences ‘ave to be served concurrently. Sauve had pleaded guilty to number of armed holdups be- 'tween Nov. 26, 1964, and Jan. 8 last year.

| Quebec Students Return To Class

MONTREAL (CP) — The 27,- | 000 trade and technical school students who went on strike Jan. 17 returned to school Mon-

~Tday--but~no developments were

reported in- the -province-wide ;

lead the fight against “poverty: and ignorance, to co-ordinate present measures and to prp- tect the constitutional rights. of minorities, he said.

Mr. Hees said when figures are released in mid-March, it might be found Canada. spent $1,000,000;000 more outside her borders in 1965 than foreign countries spent in Canada.

At the rate of increase-in the imbalance, the figure could reach. $2,000,000,000 for 1966. [RECOMMENDS VIGOR > He recommended vigorous and immediate steps, based on those taken by the Conservative government in 1960 ‘‘in a simi- lar situation’ to check the im- ibalance.._

The industrial “export “crusade |

\strike of 750 French-language eee Catholic teachers.

io that: a is. still paying off, he said. He called as well. for

Costs Of Viet Na:

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unilingualism for Quebec, say- | ing sucha move_would show. dent Johnson_ presented to the | pressures.”

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WASHINGTON-AP)-— Presi-_|

Johnson called it a. balanced, \responsible, flexible. ‘‘program |for action.” | The president pledged his ad- re to an incessant search for. peace. He called for a ee increase of $300,000.. {000 on international affairs. | He underscored references to costs of the Viet Nam war in ibudget table after table by tell- ing—Congress:......

‘The budget for 1967 ‘beets the strong imprint of the’ troubled world we live in.’” .

The budget nevertheless man- ages to find extra funds for fa- vored domestic programs—anti-_ poverty campaign, war on crime, plans to help commuters get, rapid transit service, ex- panding .education and others.

3 ‘great- society’’ items, there was a net rise of $2,100,000,000.

DEFENCE SPENDING UP |

The president asked for bil- | |lions of dollars more for de- ifence. More than. 51 cents of every dollar in income tax col- lected from individuals will be funnelled into defence in the 1967

Furthermore, there were hints of possible tax increases—on top of boosts and adjustmnts the president already had announced he would seek — should .even.

more money be needed to fight | the Viet N war or to pune {

Con, reacted along lines ‘that _ $52,300,000,000 for all other of running the gov- ernment, including $12,900,000,- 000 for the “great society,” imight ‘stand some trimming,

| A ae if war costs go. up.

‘ery for cuts. Senate Democratic | |Leade Mike Mansfield of Mon-

‘tion that it will hand the presi-

fiscal year which begins July 1. |.

tu r e “unforeseen - fnflationary

Johfigon thus left open a possi- bility that any escalation of the |

war in Viet Nam also will esca- | late the cost “of it beyond the |

'$40,500,000,000 now contemplated | lin the new budget, | the total of $60,500,000,000 for na- tional defence.

as well. as |

Some Republicans sounded a

tana_ acknowledged there might be some.

‘But {s likely to go along with Mansfield’s predic-

dent everything he needs for the Viet Nam conflict.

LACKED SURPRISES

Much of the budget informa- tion was. worked into Johnson's state-of-t h e-union message to|

12, As a result, 000,000 from the budget generally lacked_ma- “now

This is the first time in hie. INSIDE TODAY 107 + president has ‘proposed e. , ‘budget that would . break: “the Classified “40, 11 | $100,000,000,000- mark. . Deaths Fercccsseicirs 3 | The budget as originally -~ BEANE Li, Fescnivees ase. 11 {mitted just a year ago stood at PRES Sect eaveus ss Mt 50 0,00 a GOR ic cicccceccess $ ins “é at Sport oeeeeesreeseeee: a z year. baa se saticia 2 (pending warn Viet Naam, Seah markets .....++- ime t Nase, seal ae... i : x ite ddieocaalll ars jong outa: City ..-- 3 | tor defence, — tt = revised amount

George. Hees ants - North- umnberland) said the govern- ment should change . its ‘tight money” policy: TRS

Jean-Eudes Dube (L-—Res- tigouche-Madawaska) said the government should form a de- partment of education and culture. oo

Jean Wadds (PC — Gren- ville-Dundas) said the. govern- ment should forget the Can- ada Development Corp. and act to spur private enterprise. John ™M. Reid (L—Kenora- Rainy River) said the CPR apparently is trying to dis- courage freight and express services in Northern Ontario.

TUESDAY, Jan. 25 The Commons meets—at- 11

‘a.m, ~EST—to~continue—the —

throne ~ speech -debate. The Senate meets at 8 p.m.

m War. Stressed_In LBJ Budget —

jor surprises. But the president

| did come Up with provisions-for:—-

—A_ second nuclear-powered -aircraft carrier the navy had thought might lose out in budget - trimming operations, It will cost about $400,000,000. —A--start on purchasing the Minuteman III. This is an ad vanced intercontinental ballis- tic missile with a’ vastly-im- proved warhead designed toe

+ penetrate enemy defence.

—The first cut in the space program since it began—to $5,300,000,000 from. $5,600,000,- 000. But it Still reaches for the landing of a man on’ the

moon by 1970. —An increase to six from five per cent in the atx on airline tickets until. Jan. 1; 1969. This is expected to“cost passengers $31,000,000 a year, if Congress goes along. Johnson also would impose a new tax of two per cent on air freight charges: now and another two per cent

Jan. “1,--1969.

In monetary terms, this is the broad sweep ofthe budget: Spending is goin =. $6,400,- the. $106,400,000,000

fiscal — en

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