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VOL. LXXVIIL NO. 104

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OF THE YEAR VISITS OTTAWA

Mrs. Henriette van der graph Melivery Association, ed in Venemela. She was ac-

Bregzen of Weyburn, Sask.. chosen Canadian Mother of _ the Year by the Florists’ Tele-

has friendly chat with Prime Minister Pearson while visit- ing in Ottawa Monday. Mrs. van der Breggen formerly liv-

companied by her husband,

Pieter van der Breggen at Various capital functions. (CP Wirephete)

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By 111- 100 In House Vote.

OTTAWA ‘CP)—With the help of seven Social Credit MPs and two independents, the minority Liberal government Monday night survived its second test on

tives criticizing the government

- income earners went down to defeat by a Commons - vote of Ill ta 100

Had the motion carried. ¢ government would have forced to resign and call election

Eleven New Democratic MPs and nine Creditistes joined with = Conservatives in supporting the non-confidence motion.

The government was sup- perted by 102 of its own mem- bers along with the Social Cre- dit and-independent votes.

was called but did not vote be- cause they were paired with ab- sent MPs. They were Paul Mar- timeau (Pontiac - Temiscamin- gue’. Hugh John (Victoria-Carieton). Baléwin (Peace River). R.G.L. eae (Royal) and Ches- ter MacRae ‘ York-Sanbury).

Party standings in the Com- mons: Liberals 129. Conserva- tives 9. NDP 18. i 13, Secial Credit nine|\ independent two .

A New Democratic Party mo- tien of non-confidence was de-

“feated 106 te 90 las:

During the afternoon sitting, Creditiste — Real Caouette

Gerald W..

noted only 14 Liberals. inchiding © one cabinet mimster. were in the Cemmons for his speech.

SEES NO INTEREST

“You would think they would at least be interested im bearing our criticisms,” he said.

Mr. Gorden. in a speech an- swering the Conservative mo- tien, said he detected no serious criticism of government aims in the budget. There. was a differ- ence only in “how /these aims should be brought about.

7 He said he could understand the difficulty the opposition was having in aiming broadsides at the budget.

In 194 the country had en- joyed its best year since 1957. Among other events there had been a great drop in the unem- ployment rate and the gross national preduct had taken a good rise.

Criticisms of budget measures had been “carping and ungen- erous, directed at the budget's

WAVES ARMS

Mr. Caouette waved his arms and slapped his desk during his 3%-minute attack on the budget.

Maritime Electric Co. Wins Income Tax Case’

OTTAWS CP Maritime Electric (Co. Lid. generating electricith in Prince Edward Is-

land and distributing electricity mm New Brunswick, has won an Imcome tax appeal beard case setting a mew precedent im the application of tax law.

The beard. im a lengthy judz- ment ritten by J.0. Weldon. ruled the revenue department was “rong in denying the com- Pany an income tax advantage Of $8.672.98 in 1962.

The judgment traced the tn- tricacies of electrical enzineer- mz. quoted historic law prvece- dents im both Canada and the United States. and even qu-ied Lewis ~ Carroll’s Throuzh The Looking Glass. ..

“Eletricity is clearly a com-

_Modity which is manufactured,

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tezularly boucht and sold com- mercially. and is readily sus ‘eptible, to being delivered to wuyers and te being measured Sy meter.” Mr. Weldon said.

The key questiod in the case. however, was whether electricity could be covered by income tax ‘aw Provisions referring to man- wactured “goods.”

The revenue department ar-

gued m the case that to be a

“good.” something had to he tangible. a corporea! thing. and capable of being feit

Mr Weldon said electricity ts completely unique

“It is a sleeping giant and is tangible: that is. perceptible te the touch as many a student electrical engineer or line-man can testify from sad expert- ence

Mr. Weldon quoted Lewis Car- rolls Hw 'y Dumpty as saying that when used a word. “It means just what I choose if toe mean

“The ques tios ss.” said Humpty Dunpty. “which is te be the master—that’s all.”

Mr. Weldon ruled that Mari- time tric. im generating. transforming, tramsmitting and distributing electrical energy m Charlottetown, and in purchas- ing electrical energy in New Brunswick and transforming and distributing it im the ci-y of Fred- ericton._is in the business of

be allowed a credit of $8,677.98 against its 1962 corporation in- come tax bill of $312,878.93.

Social Credit monetary pélicies. Eldon Woolliams ‘PC—Bow Rives) said editorial reaction from new spapers had oaiedan Mr. Gordon's * “sunshine budget” and his “war on peverty” ac- tually was a {war on the poor. At least-two thirds Pe 7 lation would get only a one-cent daily tax reduction.

REFORM SOLGHT

He said the ‘system of pro- gressive. income tax. must be reformed. The socialist tenden-

cies of the present covernmenf™

made it apparent party is the New Party in a hurry.” The budget also failed toe abolish the sales tax on produc- tion machinery and ignored the needs of aged pensioners. Present prosperity in Canada

“the Liberal Democratic

_Was not due to policies of the

Liberal government but rather to prosperity in the entire West- ern world and continuation of Conservative policies on long- term trade acreements.

The tax on production ma- chinery increased costs. Heavy tax rates im the upper income brackets did not leave any Ca- madian capital for investment to imcrease the nation’s gross na- tional product.

DEFENDS DECISION

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“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” — CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1965.

WEATHER

Cloudy, scattered winds 15. Low-high day: sunny, cooler.

“mAs SEVEN CENTS

Southeast Asia Issues Spark Split In SEATO

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‘El Salvador Earthquake

Kills 100, Injures: 300

Frem Reuters-AP

| SAN SALVADOR ‘CP) —_ At jleast 100 persons were killed in an earthquake in El! Salvador Monday, the national emer- ‘gency committee of this Cen- {tral American republic an- ' nounced. -

| More than 300 persons were | Teported . to have been seriously linjered and first reports said a total of 49909 houses were | wrecked. Villages on the outskirts of - this capital city were hardest hit. Half the houses in the vill- |age of El Cado were destroyed. | Hospitals ipacked with injured, and Presi- dent Julio Adalberto Rivera proclaimed a state of emer-

i Hopanze International Airport.

ton the outskirts of this city was

temporarily closed and nearby Lake Ilopango overflowed some. of its, dikes ‘and flooded a vil- lage.

BUILDING DAMAGED The airport termina! building

In the city. only four or five

buildings suffered damage. Treops. and extra police were

BR. go out to the “streets

te ‘prevent looting. Banks. shops

and all other businesses were

closed Other towns badly hit by the

in the city were’

,quake included Santo Tomas and San Marcos. -

The gavernment ordered wwith- drawal of citizens from those two towns as aftershocks de- veloped later. in the day. One tremor shook the region at 9:02 a.m. and another at noon.

The initial shock came about 6 a.m. EDT (7 a.m. ADT).

Frost Helps Control N.S. Brush Fires

HALIFAX ‘CP) Frost in many localities Sunday night and a drop in winds helped for- estry personnel in Nowa Scotia almost a score of brush in widely-separated areas

ial forestry depart- only two or three small outbreaks Monday morn-

ing. At least ® fires blazed in the province..Sunday.' more than a

the—dry

Southwestern, counties. . Heavy night frost was credit- ed with controlling three separ- ate fires in the McGill Lake ar- ea northwest of Shelburne. Fire- fighters maintained a patrol around the ‘smouldering _ peri- meters of the fires Manes.

The official residentdy of US. Ambassador Raul Castro suf- fered about $35,000 damage. A former judge in Tucson, Ariz., Castro told the Tucson Dafly Citizen in a telephone interview no Americans on the embassy staff were hurt, but two Salva- dorean nationals were injured.

The ambassador said he un- derstood 100 persons were killed

in levelled low-income neighbor- |

hoods. Adobe homes about three miles from the phew: were hard _ hit.

Expecting further aftershocks, Castro said he and his family and staff would have to sleep out of doors on cots- Monday night.

San Salvador, founded four centuries ago. was ruined by earthquakes in 1854 and 1873 and was jarred heavily in 1917.

Situated at the foot of a vol- cano, it has a population of about 160.000. It is the main manufacturing and commercial centre of El Salvador, 4 Pa- cific enast country of 8.2% square miles and about 2.500.000 people. The economic mainstay is coffee. -

In Ottawa, an external affairs a spokesman said

were no. reports of any ae a among the dead or injured. There are 21 Canadians registered as living in El Salva- dor. ;

Americans Cut Supply Corridor In Rebel-Held Santo Domingo

N Frem AP-Keuters SANTO DOMINGO ‘CP)— United States marines and para- troopers cut a supply corridor across rebel-held territory in the Dominican capital of Sante Do- mingo Monday. leaving the in- surgents with their backs to the sea.

A marine spokesman said the Americans: mét Tittle* resistance and suffered no casualties in the operation which linked an inter- Rational safety zone, which they established here previously, with San Isidro airport three miles away.

An official of the Organization of American States said the cor- ridor is needed “‘to meet human needs’~tfrespective of political affiliation in an unfortunate mo- ment in the history of the Do minican Republic.”

In separate action. a third

U.S. marine was killed and two. were wounded by sniper . fire.)

Intense rifle shooting .broke out

to discusa_foture operations of

t the Gulf Garden Food Plant minister of

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Rossiter. minister of ces. Hon. Andrew B. MacRae, agriculture; Jens

at’ noon around the U.S. Em- bassy, which is in the interna- tional zone

The death of the third marine

City Resident Appointed To Fish Council

WASHINGTON ‘CP) — Eight

mew directors were named by’

the Fisheries Council of Canada Monday at a meeting held in conjunction with the North American fisheries conference. The. mew directors are K_ F. Harding. Prince Rupert. B.C., D. Millerd, Vancouver. Guy Le- blanc. Montreal: S.H. Burhoe. Charlottetown: D. F. Adams, Lunenburg. N.S.- B. J. Comeau, Saulnierville, N.S.: W. R. Mur- doch, Dartmouth, N.S.: William Morry, Ferryland, Nfld: and G. H. Mooney, Toronto.

brought to five the number of US. troops killed in action here since Friday. All of them have been picked off by snipers. The number of American wounded,

| increased to 38.

NOTHING OFFICIAL

There were no official figures on the number of Dominican casualties. Some estimates say 1,000 have been killed and 1,200

wounded since civil hostilities

broke ‘out here April 24.

In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pearson told the Commons he has no comment on United States policy in the Dominican Republic.

He said the situation is not comparable with the 1962 Cuban crisis, when direct Russian in- volvement was at issue.

Mr. Pearson faced a series of questions on the Dominican Re- public conflict.at the opening of the Commons. Opposition Leader Diefenbaker asked

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Moe, chairman of the board of Gulf Garden Foods Cyril A. Davis, president of the Gulf

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Garden Foods and E. H. Erik Matthiesen of Copenhagen, Denmark.

| court in Hartford, Conn., serve three months of a three- |

GETS JAIL TERM

John Christopher Doyle of St. John’s, Nfld., Monday was sentenced in U.S. district to

year sentence in federal pri- son for illegally -ending unre-

, Bistered stock for: sale or de-

livery after sale through the United States mail. He was also placed on probation for one year and ordered to pay a

$5,000 fine. (cP neg

Goes To Europe

WIESBADEN, West Germany (AP)—The fastest airplane in the U.S. Air Force, the RF-4C, will be assigned to European! duty next week. The European headquarters of the U.S. Air Force announced Monday 18 of the two-engine reconnaissance fighters will be based at Alcon- bury, England.

showers:

southerly 33 and 53. Wednes-

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French Action

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LONDON (Reuters)—France

' split openly with its allies over

Viet Nam. at the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization conference here Monday.

French Observer Achille Cla- rac told the SEATO ministeral | council there could be no agree- |ment among its eight member |countries on the graye issues of the area.

Discussions on Viet Nam jwould be as fruitless’ as“ they |were at the SEATO meeting in Manila last year, he told the first closed-door session of the conference. His remarks were

made public by SEATO offi- ' cials.

Britain’s foreign secretary, Michael Stewart, who presided, immediately expressed regret at the French attitude.

Earlier United States state undersecretary George Ball warned that Washington would refuse any “meaningless agree- fet. to end the Viet Nam con-

ict

-SEES AGGRESSION He, said the war was some by deliberate a

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Prime Minister Wilson whe called for honorable negotiated settlements in Viet Nam and in Indonesia's confrontation of Ma- laysia.

He called on the countries re the alliance—Australia. Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakis- tan, The Philippines, Thailand and the U.S.—to “insure the en- emies of peace do not make further headway” in Southeast Asia.

Clarac. French ambassador to Thailand, caucht ministers by surprise with his statement. He .had been expected to re- main. silent. to underline - French aloofness towards SEATO.

President de Gaulle refused to send his foreign minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, to the meeting.

Clarae re-emphasized French opposition to American policies in Viet Naam and said: “There is not, and experience shows that inevitably there cannot be, any common position and even less anv joint action of the member countries on. the grave issues which are at stake.”

He said France wants a a Saipan

pees ——— "against South Vi gotiated settle nen erence was sis of the 1954 and 192 Geneva Fa ane | farmally opened wt British | agreements on. Indochina.

Cambodian Relations With Washington Cut

Reefer Car

| Check-Up

Is Promised

CAPITAL BUREAU OF THE GUARDIAN * OTTAWA — Transport Minis- ter J.W. Pickersgill promised Monday to see if the CNR is ta-

king steps to alleviate the short-- | age of reefer cars in Prince Ed-

ward Island.

The matter as raised in the Commons by Heath Macquarrie, MP for Queens, who was refer-

ring to a recent news story in The Guardian which reported that the shortage of refrigera-

tor cars in the province was one of the worst ever experienced by potato shippers at this time of year.

“*Will the minister make in- quiries as to whether the CNR has taken steps to: alleviate this MacQuarrie asked.

“T shall be glad to do so, Speaker.” ter replied.

Mr. the transport minis-

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| PHNOM PENH |Chief-of-state Prince Norodom Sihanouk Monday carried out a threat made last month and broke diplomatic relations with the United States. _

Foreign Minister Koun Wick received the U.S. charge d’af- | fai to inform him of the government's decision and said Cambodia would maintain con- sular relations if Washington wished,

(Reuters )— :

He said this was a “final and solemn warning to the Amertl- can imperialists.”

Sihanouk announced the deci- sion to sever relations with Washington after a eabinet meeting.

Sihanouk said the Newsweek

article was abusive to his mother. Queen Kossack. Relations between the U.S.

and Cambodia have grown worse for more than a year.

Authorized sources said the decision to break relations was motivated chiefly by an alleged bombing attack last week by

planes of South Viet Nam, which ‘the U.S. supports, Another reason was thought

to be an article in the April 5 issue of Newsweek | magazine

considered to be abusive of the queen. Cambodian authorities said

last” Wednesday four South Viet- namese. planes bombed two Cambodian border villages and killed a 13-year-old bog.

MAKES THREAT

March % Sihanouk said he would break relations with the Americans “if they caused the further loss of a single Cam- bodian life.”

Plant Operation Discussed At Meeting In Georgetown

GEORGETOWN Future operations of the Gulf Garden food plant were discussed at a meeting at Bathurst Marine Limited here Monday.

The meeting was followed by a tour of the plant.

E. H- Erik Matthiesen, Den- mark, is visiting Georgetown in his capacity as a consulting en- Zineer specializing in the plan- ing of fish industries plants and of new methods of storing fish to obtain the lowest vroduction costs combined with the highest quality products. 7

Mr. Matthiesen is working for the Danish Government and has planned all new government fish plants in Greenland, such as shrimp and filleting.

He stated that the government had built five new plants in Greenland, averaging one plant per.year, of nearly’ the same size as the Gulf Garden Foods

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He also worked on the con- struction plans and layouts of new fish plants in South America and Pakistan.

St. Pierre Is Tranquil.

ST. PIERRE. St. Pierre-Mi- quelon (CP) — The. atmosphere of crisis that gripped this

French colonial community fer:

most of last week seemed to have vanished and “the” people appear to have almost forgotten it.

The 130 French militiamen in the town, the object of several Protests: and demonstrations as well as.ia three - day zeneral strike, now can he seen mingl- ing easily with the people. This is in direct contrast to only five days ago when they drew only Silence and cold stares when

they first-appeared on the | streets The lull is thouzht to he due

Ito the population's agreeinz te

suspend a!! protests er deman- Strations word from Albert Briand. the island's representa-

ttve in the French Chember of

until

deputies. Mr .Briand flew , te Paris last week to seek recall of the militia unit

Prize Winners

Are Ann

NEW YORK (AP) Horst Faas of The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize Monday for

dramatic photographs of the Viet Nam war

The award recognized his “daring and courageous coin- bat photography.”

The Hutchinson Kan. News

won the meritorious public serv-

ice prize. It was honored for -its campaign to force legislative re ‘districting in Kansas Other newspaper awards:

International reporting—J. \. Livingston, financial editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for a series of articles describing ‘he economic defection of Russias

Eastern European satellites.

National reporting—Louis M Kohimeier of the Wall Street Journal, for enterprise and chor- ough research on the growth of the fortune of President Johnson and his family

Local reporting. general—Mel- vin H. Rader of the Hungry | Horse News, Columbia Fails.i

ounced

nz to collect

Mont., for contm and. share new inder most tax- inz and = danzerous conditioas wher disastrous fleed threat- ened his area last June

Local reportinc.. special—Gene Goltz_of the Houston Post, for an e<prer of invernment cor. ruption in. Pasadena. Tex. and the emedial actif that re- sulted

Editorial write — Iohn R. Harrison of the Gaine2eitle- Fla.. Daily. Sun. fer a successfa campaign to improve, housing conditions in his community

There was no award this year in the cartoon category

Faas award was the 2th Pulitzer for The Associated Press and its sixth for phote- graphy

The New York Times has wee 34 Pulitzer prizes

The journalism prizes ry awards of $1.90 each.” The newspaper receiving the public

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