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18 1S SUGGESTED VOTING AGE

‘Diefenbaker Give.« Ykay

~ By. Island C- .

4 rhe position’ of John Diefen- baker, who has been strongly re- suked for mishandling the ‘‘Mun- singer Affair’, and. whose pos- ition as party leader is now

-—under—-question,--was—given—re-

assurance here John Kenny, president of the -P-E.I. Progressive Conservative Association.

Mr..Kenny, in opening the an- nual: meeting of the{Prince Ed- |

Saturday by

ward Island Progressixe Con. |

servative Association, stated: “We all know and can see

March By Seg Sparks Sachi

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)— ~ A mareh of segregationists put part of the Negro district into ‘turmoil Sunday night

A woman motorist was cut by shattering glass during a flareup | of -rock-throwing, _Mary—Glisson was treated and released. A} jozen automobiles were stoned.

The dozen marchers, includ- ing two women, had ~a, parade permit but-_were stopped short

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inthis —— “lL give «y fullest sup-*

port becaus-ar. Diefenbaker is

the best man P.E.]. has ever

we oe ss >» ¢ es -1ised constitution and pas- « of 14 resolutions. - ¥ amendment was put forth regarding the voting age to the effect that the Progressive Con-

Edward Island support the re- duction of the Voting age to 18 both on provincial and federa) levels.

had,"’ said: the outgoing presi- : dent. Opposition Leader — Walter. RESOLUTIONS Shaw, now 78, stated ‘‘if you |

| Highlights of the afternoon | agenda were the confirmation of

regationists nville Flareup-

of the danse: ~Negro district hy police escorting them when \the officers spied 100 or more ‘Negroes blocking the street ‘ahead.

|: The marchers. dishanded. No. ; us dare voter.**

jarrests: were made.

Placards, the...marchers car, ried criticized integration of a icity swimming pool ‘and assign- iment of Negro - policemen” idowntown beats.

etnamese

Are Left Homeless

CAN THO, South Viet Nam (AP) — Flood waters rose 50 high in the Mekong Delta Sun- day that even the rivers were ander water,

“We've got a flood on- top of 8 flood,” said U.S. Brig.-Gen. William. R. Desobry. “The Me- kong River looks as if it is 70 miles wide.””

“Desobry reported 20-000" View namese homeless so far, with thousands more facing evacua- tion. Desobry is senior U.S. mil- itary adviser to the Vietnam- ese army in the 4th Corps, which embraces the »Meking Delta.

“The delta people are used to living on water,” he said. “They get a flood every year and move on to their sampans. But ‘this year they've got an extra one. Most of them want to stay | in their homes up to the last moment.’

No deaths have been reported | so far in the delta’s flood, which started with the slow climb last week of the Mekong end Bassac rivers =

| Four provinces ° near the Cambodian border were hard- | est hit and some places were | reported under -10 feet. - wa- ter. or more.

Nearly ‘all “15 U.S. special forces camps, . which- maintain sexveence along the Cambo- diam frontier; were flooded. Sup-

helicopters which were forced to land on ‘floating—helipads.”

The flood waters are ex- to crese within the next

out vast areas of rice and sugar crops in the heaviest flooding since a major disaster in 196). |

The water reached the roof- | tops in some sections of the

jhard-hit provinces of Chau Doc, |

An Giang, Kien Phong and ‘Kien--Tuong.- These cover ~ an! area of 4,200 square miles with! ‘a population of 1,600,000.

Vietnamese and U.S. govern- ment agencies are mounting re-| lief efforts, flying in food, med- |

~jeine and other supplies. ©

Pilot Baise Is Seen Cause

In Elk-Hunting

RIGGINS, Idah& (AP)—Pilot

_ error was blamed Sunday for

van airplane crash which killed | five met; and added one more

name to the list of Kennedy | family members or close rela- |

air.

Four of those killed in the | plane-- “were prominent easterners on an elk;hunting expedition. The | fifth was the pilot, criticized by |

an official for “taking on more | They were killed Friday aft- WOODSTOCK, Ont (CP) _ than he was equipped for.” ernoon while attempting _ to Opposition. Leader Diefenba- Killed. ware: ; land at a small mountain air her's): dommaris ; : i parison of the Mun- istrip in the central Idaho prim- Pay . George Skakel Jr, 44, of itive ares, near the .Salmod singer investigation with the crn, Cron, bt o er * Seine? it Rerbert Norman com vat nato 0 enne iy’s | The plane, loaded with. hunt- |°. 2 ¥ wife, Ethel. ing-gear, overshot the runway nar by M. J. Coldwell, former Dean F: Markham of ‘icles: and crashed into a creek as the wa _national. leader. Va., 41, a friend of Senator ‘pilot attempted a climbing turn| Prime Minister Pearson,

Sennedy (Dem. N.Y.), and

Pope Paul

VATICAN CITY Paul, who was sickly as a youth, turns 69 today in appar-' ent good health. He seems to thrive under pressures as great as any that have been borne by a pope.

He must cope with problems of ‘peace, birth control, and vast change modernizing the 2,000-

year - old Roman Catholic Church. $ ‘ \The -pontiff was elected in

June, 1963, at an age when most men have retired

In--his three yeors on. the

_-Natican throne he has led the

church's -counet). of bishops threugh three buss made three major international | trips by jet. written. four on- urgent | global . problems with, leaders | froin scores of nations.

The tempo is swifter than ever but there are no signs that Pope Paul is tiring. Sources say the doctors who watch. his ac-

tives killed or injured in the

‘out of a steep canyon.

(AP)—Pope |

sessions, |

Plane Crash

,holder_of.-a- number of_ federal

appointive positions.

Louis Werner HH, 42, St, Louis ee and financier and) direc- tor of the St. Louis. regional of- ifice of the Central Intelligence |Agency.

Earl Ranft, 63, of Jersey City, IN.J.,. president of a trucking ifirm.

‘And: the’ pilot,

jforce base in Idaho.

Observing

69th Birthday Today.

Ispecial audience finds the Pope lmay appear-a bit tired at first. [He will start a speech slowly land in a soft voice. But by the jtime he has finished his voice 'has strengthened. his enthusi- jasm grown... his movements quickened—and often’ he runs jovertime by.*five or 10 minutes. | Pope\ Paul learned during a fragile boyhood, when he. was |Giovani Battista Montini in the northern village of Concessio, ithat he must be careful of his health while not letting it pre- \vent him from putting his ener- igies to efficient use.

goes on toward 70, he ‘will be japplying those energies to some lof the most difficult tasks any pope has faced—what new guid lance to. give Roman Catholics lon. birth control, how to proceed jin furthering his own efforts for peace in Viet Nam, which meas- jures to adopt in pushing for-

tivities have again given him a |ward Catholicism’s post-council

@lean bill of health.

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plies-and—-food- were sent-in-by

Vou Thi alvecdy bite ieed

Donald W. Ad-/ jams, 38, of Mountain Home air |

well. said. “They are ‘not cotm- . ” Many 8 visitor admitted tn eee. béhdieal was in Wood-

In the months ahead, as he |

put it back to 18, I'll have a vote | in the next election.”

Mr. Shaw expressed a desire to see younger groups express | their opinions on this matter, especially the Young Progres- sive Conservatives who’ he said, “should Bive a definite view of | opinion.’ |

With regards to ‘establishing | the voting age at 18, Mr. Shaw | commented: ‘‘our youth today, as far as-I'm concerned, .are quite capable of the responsth= ility, I'm in sympathy with this _amendment_and. in favor of the

OVATION .

The ‘resolution which drew a standing ovation. and --passed unaminously was the Shaw’ res- olution where the association ex- pressed its strong appreciation to Mr. Shaw for his leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island during the past eight years.

A resolution passed following the Shaw resolution was one to express appreciation. to John Diefenbaker for the manner -he has served his country and this

ince in the past,.both as ime Minister of Canada and leader of the opposition.

This resolution re-confirmed |Mr. Diefenbaker in his position as leader of the Conservative | party in Canada.

The text of the resolution fol- lows:

“That in as much as John G. Diéfenbaker.. has served. this (Continued on page 5, col. 6)

WED BROTHERS ST. FULGENCE, Que. (CP)

—Three sisters were married to three brothers in a family

| ceremony Saturday in this community “120 miles north- | east of Quebec City. _

All six will spend their honeymoon together in. the United States.

Married by parish ' priest

| Antoine. Gagnon were three brothers ‘of Martel family and three sisters surnamed | Harvey, -all of them coming from--the.-nearby--village of Sault-aux-Moutons. The happy couples are: Gerard, 32, and Marie-Jéanne, 34; Pierre-Paul, 29, and Aur- ore, 26, and Joseph-Gabriel,

‘| 25, and Marie-France, 24.

The Martel brothers until recently were laborers at the

They lost their jobs during a recent strike at the project and are now unemployed. |

Dief Blasted — For Reference

then external affairs minister, accepted responsibility for, keeping Norman in his depart- ment. after.the U.S. Senate. pub- licly branded him a Commu- nist. Norman committed suicide in 1957 after the U.S. charges were repeated. ; "Iwas disturbed when I read that» Diefenbaker tried to group Pearson's attitude on this (the Munsinger affair) dnd that of Herbert Norman.!!..Mr2 Cold-

stock as guest speaker at a din- ner given by the Oxford New Democratic’ Party to honor for- Mer candidates and older party workers in the county.

‘Daughter Born To Churchills

LONDON. (AP)

-Mrs. Winston a girl.-great grand-daughter of | Britain's wartime prime minis | ter, * |

The -birth, which was prema- | ture, took place in Westminster | Hospital.

It, is the couple’s second child. The first, a son, was born pre-

maturely a few days _ before Churchill died in January 1965. Winston Churchill Jr. is thé

son of Randolph Churchill, the} late prime -minister’s journalist son. His wife is the former Min- nie D’Erlanger. They were mar- | ried in July, 1964.

servative Association of Prince|_

Churchill gave birth Sunday to! §

' Japan,

(x Price Probe

WINDSOR, Ont United Auto Workers Union Sunday called for an. investiga-

tionof—Canadian— auto prices, |-

costs and profits ‘‘to-elue the public in’. and help establish price parity between Canadian and- United States cars.

Following a weekend meeting |

at Port Elgin;—Ont.,. Canadian UAW Director George Burt. is- sued a statement Sunday night protesting the way in ‘which the

Canada - U.S. .auto pact was working. . a Mr. Burt said the 100,000-

member UAW was to. ask Fi- nance. Minister Sharpe: and In- dustry Minister. Drury to refer car prices to the joint Senate-

House committee of consumer prices for investigation.

U.S. Senator Sees China

Entering War

— Sen- |

WASHINGTON (AP) ~ ator. J. W. Fulbright says he believes Red China is convinced the United States wants war and he thinks Peking will react to an*expatision of the Viet Nam fighting by entering the conflict.

The Arkansas -Democrat, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said in an interview he has failed to con- vince President Johnson and other administration that there is grave danger of guch a development.

Downcast by the rejection by Moseow and Hanoi-of the latest U.S. proposals for peace talk,

|Fulbright made it clear he feels that an expansion of the fighting

is ‘almost certain after the No- | vember elections.

| Track Daincs ged At Auto plait

BRAMPTON, - Ont. (CP)

huge Hydro-Quebec. electricity |More than two feet of frack | projects being built on the |were blown up. Sunday on a north shore of the St. Lawr- |CNR spur line servicing the ence. nearby strikebound American

Motors plant.

CNR police said two empty

boxcars passed over the break ‘but did not leave the No one cause of the explosion was :not

tracks.

was injured and the immediately determined, -: - Meanwhile, a strike by Lucal

1285 of the United Auto Workers

Union’ continued Sunday against |must

the plant.

TYPHOON IDA FLATTENS-HOMES

Workmen clean up debris in the wake of Typhoon Ida which hit Yoshiwara City, 9 miles southwest ‘of Tokyo in central

a_devastating blow oe

(CP) — The |-

officials |

IVAN KERRY, RIGHT, new- ly-elected president of . the Progressive Conservative As- sociation of . this province, speaks with Walter Shaw

leader of the opposition, and ant Camp, pre side nt

By LORNE YEO Dalton Camp, 46; controver- sial president of the Progressive Conservative Association in Can- jada, told a large gathering of party supporters in Charlotte- town that the people of Canada cannot go-on pretending to them-

selves that they are united: Mr. Camp, in his address Sat- urday. evening te the annual meeting of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Association, stated ‘‘today the

'|nation knows we are not and we

cannot easily believe that we can be asked to unite the coun- try until” we have first united ourselves.” .

In citing Mr. Camp's career, Walter Shaw,* who _ introduced him, marked him as a man of good advice, intellegent and ex- perienced with his finger on the pulse of the people.

A veteran in the Conservative party_formerl)_from Woodstock, New Brunswick, Mr. Camp in- sisted that to achieve unity, ‘‘we agree on the following principles:

.

“Sunday, Two typhoons struck Japan, but Helen quickly blew itself out. Ida packed 200-mile- , an-hour winds. It triggered village - burying landslides,

of the Progressive Conserva- tive party in Canada. Mr. Camp,. formerly from the Maritimes,~has introduced a proposal to examine the lead-

ership of John Diefenbaker and either confirm the 71-year-old

LITTLE TIME TO LOSE

Camp Urges Party Unity, ‘More Freedom In Policy

chief er replace him as leader of the party. Mr. Shaw and

- Mr. Camp were guest speak-

ers at the annual meeting of the Progressive- Conservative Association held at the Bas- ilica Recreation Center Sat- urday,

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a

“We must ‘agree to allow. ajporters are talking among them-

democratic expansion of views, openly sought and fully given, | on the major issue confronting | the party-leadership. . “We must, having had free ex- pression of view,. adapt the de- | mocratic principal that the will | of the majority must enjoy the | unanimous support of all con- | cerned. NEED NEW AGENDA “I believe,” he stated, ‘the nation needs a new agenda. We | cannot begin to prepare such an

obsolescent political: platform, debating the past, divided on their leadership and leaving the future to the fate of accident. “We need to reform our politi- eal party system. We ought as well tq reform parliament.

“It has been said I have chal- lenged the leadership of this party. We all know that both our

national parties are in” an. un-

comfortable position today. Decisions must be made, po-

sitions must be taken when sup-

sunk ships at sea, devastated thousands of homes and left _& toll of more than 300 per-

agenda so long as our! political |. parties are huddled about the |’

| selves. (Continued ” on ‘page 5,° col.

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-}1,000..injured.

Tol | In Twin Typhoon Reaches 314 In Japan

2000 Homes Lost

By TARAO TOMINAGA TOKYO (AP) — Troops -and police battled through mud. and debris today to reach survivors of twin typhoons that left 317 dead or missing. Damage ' was estimated in the tens of mil- lions of dollars.

_Police said reports from res-. cuers filtering in during ~the wight raised the death toll to 184, with 133. missing and nearly .

| Soldiers and airmen at US military bases in the Tokyo area got operations back to nor- mal, but dependent schools re- mained closed and many fami- lies moved into temporary shel- ters.

No casualties were reported at the U.S. bases although of- ficials put the damage figure at nearly $3,000,000, the highest figure for typhoon damage at U.S. installations since the Sec- ond World- War.

More. than 2,000 homes were destroyed, . buried or washed away, and 40,000 were , by: police count. parties pressed searches. missing and injured persons. Twenty-four hours after ty- phoonIda hit the Tokyo-Mount Fuji~-area; police “were still -re« ceiving reports of death and

inun- Rescue

for.

40,000 Inundated

_Ida_ registered the strongest winds in Japanese history with 202-mile an hour gusts atop Mount Fuji.

Landslides ‘triggered by floods in the path of typhoon Ida smashed two villages at the foot of Mount. Fuji, burying or de- stroying ,87..homes and leaving 37- dead “and: 70 missing. :

REPORT SECOND SLIDE

Another landslide swept away eight of nine-resort- inns at the —- Uegashima hot spring resort west of .Mount. Fuji,. Fourteen persons were killed and 18 miss-, ing there.

United States military instal- lations in the Kanto area, around Tokyo, suffered heavy destruction from - typhoon Ida. No injuries were reported.

Four. foreign cargo liners were. grounded by Ida’s howl- ‘ing gales and giant waves gen-_ erated by Ida. All the crew of the four ships were reported safe and unhurt.

_The 7,702-ton City of Welling- ton of Ellerman, Lines Ltd. of Britain was freed 12 hours after running aground. off the port of Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.

‘Damage was reporfed light.

Still stuck are ‘the 10,146-ton: Kawasaki, the 24,829-ton Golor

destruction from. outlying dis-. tricts.

Ida, which hit early Sunday, was the more punishing of the two storms that swept. Japan|’ during the weekend.—The other,

Jeanne-Marie.-of Liberia and the 3,635 - ton Thai freighter Srt Thep, both off Shimizu, 90 miles west- of Tokyo. The 1,193-ton Japanese coal

Maru sank

Kaiyu transport

Ever.--Sureness-of.. Taiway off. --. -

typhoon Helen, swept. southern joutside Yokohama. Her captain Japan Saturday night and early jand six sailors were_ reported

Sunday: Both were downgraded |déad or missing.

to tropical storms:as Ida headed northeast into the Pacific and Helen northward _into the Japan Sea.

Atleast nine coastal ships and numerous fishing craft were reported. sunk, capsized os _|grounded..

Anti-American Year For UN

By WILLIAM N. OATIS UNITED NATIONS. (AP)—

The Soviet Union appears to be

out to make this anti-American year in the General Assembly. The Soviet-bloc attack got’ un- der way the first week of the session that started Tuesday.

* But the United States is turn- ing the other cheek. It has not

objected to assembly debate on

five anti-U.S. items proposed by the Soviet bloc and three anti- U.S. resolutions proposed: by the Soviet Union.

It bas even offered to co-| sponsor one of the resolutions— | against ‘‘actions hampering the conclusion of an agréement

the non-proliferation of nuclear |itary bases’ in the countries of | can hit the U.S oe

weapons.” Such co-sponsorship ‘tends to ‘make the resolution seem not to be what it. dctually is—a slap at the arrangements the United | States is promoting to share fire - control over its nuclear weapons with West Germany and others while. retaining an ultimate veto.

STARTED BY CZECHS .

Czechoslovakia foreshadowed | the onslaught on the eve of the’ session. It asked that the assem- bly debate an item titled:

“Strict observance of the pro- hibition of the threat or use. of ‘force in international relations

Appears Aim Of Soviet ie.

ister Andrei Gromyko méved to jin Geneva pease on- 8

turn it into a mass denunciation of.U.S. military aid to South Viet Nam.

HIT THREE AREAS

Gromyko announced requests for debate on three new items with resolutions. attached:

%. ‘Status of the implementa. tion of the (assembly’s 1965)

declaration on the inadmissabil- |

ity of-intervention in the domes- tic affairs of states. . .

2. “Renunciation by states of jactions hampering the conclu- ‘sion of an ome on the Poe nuclear

weapons.

me 3. ‘Elimination of foreign mil- \Czechoslovak item. Then they

sia, Africa and Latin Amer-!

thoes also said the US.

treaty against the spread vw nuclear weapons, was trying te leave. loopholes that would allow access to nuclear weapons te non - nuclear countries in the Western alliance, ‘‘particularly West Germany.” * The assembly Saturday put afl five Communist items on its agenda,_took—_the Czechoslovak no-use-of-force item to debate it self and sent the other four te the main political committee. That means that after the gen- eral debate ends about Oct. 21,

the Communists can go on talk- ing about Viet Nam in the as isembly while. discussing the

. again and again he political committee, re their items make up .one- third of the agenda.

Diefenbaker Due In Ottawa Today

OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition iLeader_ Diefenbaker was due iback in his Parliament. Hill of- fice today, probably arming for |

a new blast at the judicial re- |

jand of the right’ of peoples to |port Friday which accused him

| j

sons dead or missing. (AP Wirephoto by radio from ~ Tokyo)

self-determination.” Czechoslovakia did not name any names. But on opening day, the Communist countries un- veiled their ee United

| States.

Ten of them asked that the| assembly talk about getting

U.S. troops out of South Korea. The assembly's general bate began Thursday and on the

lsecond day Soviet Foreign Min- |

de- |

INSIDE TODAY

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of mishandling the 1960 Gerda

|Munsinger sex-and-security af- |

Ors:

His 1,200-word initial com- | ment Friday. issued by his of- fice as a_ preliminary state- iment, called the inquiry a po- |

jlitical hatchet job aimed at re- moving him from the Congery- ative leadership.

Mr. Diefenbaker was in the Boston area at the time on a visit to” Ottawa

itwo-day private wife. He returned late Saturday... -

An aide said he spent Sunday reading a backlog of mail and newspapers. But the copy of | Mr. Justice Wishart Spence’s 20,000-word report on. the Mun- singer case delivered to his of- fice Friday remained unqpened on his desk.

MIGHT COMMENT TODAY The Conservative leader was iplanning anormal office day

today with nothing special

vith his | with ns | SAID LITTLE

ite th However, tt was pos sible that _he-_micht— want—_te leomment further :on the Mun- singer report

Mr. Diefenbaker was. be- jsieged severa! times by report jers Friday and Saturday, but ldeclined to go beyond his origi jnal preliminary statement, ex- leept to stress that he had no in- tention of resigning because of ithe judge's criticisms

BY political sources said thaty« jin view of challenzes to his con-. tinued: leadership of the party, mad* before release of the re- iport Friday, he has only begun to fight mm

Meanwhile, Prime Minister |earson -who ordered the m- \quiry by Mr’ Justice Spence linto allegations that Pierre Sev- igny, while associate defence minister in the Diefenbaker government; had a liaison in 19690 with Gerda Munsinger, blonde immigrant from FEasé Germany, which constituted a threat to national security—has said the report speaks for it self. He had no comment after its releas.

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