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---- Sa 'Fire caused an estimated $125,000 damage y afternoon at Broadbent's Fur- niture Warehouse in downtown Saskatoon. Winds of up to 25 miles an hour hampéred fire- men as smoke billowed as much as 30 feet above the FIRE RIPS SASKATOON WAREHOUSE roof level. Owner Jack Broad- bent said $100,000 of the dam- age was to stock in the build- ing. (CP Wirephoto) MILITARY AIDE KILLED Ghana Leader Escapes 'Fourth Attempt On Life « CP trom AP-Reuters "ACORA, Sep d - tery Kwame Nkrumah esca; an- wher attempt on his life Thurs- as a gunman fired five shots in a vain attempt on the Ghana leader's life. A security guard was wounded but Nkrumah escaped injury. ~The assassination attempt was staff House five shots were fired at close range. The assailant) was arrested immediately and is in custody. "The incident happened while the president was walking to- wards his car, "One of the president's sécur- ity officers was seriously wounded and has since died at the military hospital. "The president. was unhurt.' BOMB EXPLODED kill] to On Aug. 1, 1962, a bomb ex- ploded near Nkrumah's car in a village 56¢ miles northeast of here, killing four persons and injuring 56 in a crowd on hand greet him, It was widely reported then attempt on the man whose fol- lowers call him "Osagyefo," or "The Redeemer." HAS LARGE GROUNDS Flagstaff House, where Thurs- day's attempt was reported, oc- cupies several acres on the out- skirts of Accra. It is among the world's most strongly fortified Palaces, surrounded by four walls, each patrolled by guards in bright red tunics and carry- ing submachine guns and auto- matic rifles. Nkrumah's per- sonal guard is hand-picked and comprises mostly the presi- dent's own Nzima tribesmen. For several months after the August, 1962 bomb attack Nkru- mah rarely ventured outside the Coast|that Nkrumah was injured butiiron gates of Flagstaff House. .Néws of the shooting spread quickly, Ghana radio inter- rly D to broadcast fash ving the fret deal This was by an offi- cial announcement. oon. "While he was leaving Flag- this was denied, although Nkru- mah was not seen in public for Since then, however, he has re- gained much of his old confi- some time. At a recent treasonidence and drives through the isters and a high party official, however, testimony was .given -|that former 'information .minis- ter Tawia Adamafio, one of the defendants, saw Nkrumah in hospital with a splinter from the bomb in his shoulder. Within a few weeks of that attempt, two bomb blasts were t hi Nkrumah escaped unhurt each time. On Jan. 8 last year an- other bomb attempt on his life was reported. In March, five persons were sentenced to death on charges arising from the August, 1962 For PT Boat a HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Cas- tro charged Thursday that Pres- ident J m is responsible for a Christmas Eve explosion that ' Castro Blames Johnson Explosion Castro declared the sabotage operation off the Isle of Pines was handled by U.S. Central In- telligence agents from Florida, hence President Johnson is damaged a Soviet-built t d oat and killed several Cuban|guil crew members in waters. off the Isle of Pines. Blasts at the United States a two-hour and 17-minute 8 by the bearded premier' 'in a celebration of the fifth an- of his révolutionary triumph over dictator Fulgencio Batista All-Night women prisoners were re- vealed in 1960. i ee we... i /the ity. (A Cuban anti-Castro . group called Commando Mambises claimed responsibility through a spokesman in Tegucigalpa, Hon- duras, a few hours after the at- tack. The spokesman said the raiders, reputed to have head- quarters in Central America, suffered no casualties.) Castro declared the U.S: Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress are doomed to fail- ure while "the Cuban revolution progresses." Castro said '"'we alone could not have resisted imperialism . .« the blockades, the aggres- sions, the economic strangula- tion," but boasted of Cuba's present military equipment. With those arms, he said, , can fight against the best and best-equipped forces of imperialist army of the United States." Castro declared Cuba's econo- mic situation is improving ex- traordinarily and reaffirmed that the island will more than double its annual sugar produc- tion to produce 10,000,000 tons in 1970. A military parade and Cas- the Plaza de la Revolucion ih cloudy and relatively coo! 60- degree weather. Tanks, artillery, self - pro- pelled guns, amphibious arm- ored cars, multiple rocket throwers and anti-aircraft rock- ets streamed before Castro's "irostrum in a review that lasted an hour and five minutes, Noth- ee new was shown, rhead, 'C Air Force weit flew:-Russian-made H-4 licopters, propeller - driven training planes, and MiG fight ers. With Castro enthusiastically showing his approval, MiG-2is buzzed the plaza with low passes. Militia. women paraded tight green pants, blue bi and olive green berets. They carried sub-machine-guns. a tro's speech drew thousands to)™med y trial of two former cabinet min-|streets of Accra with only a light escort. Since 1957, Nkrumah has re- lentlessly pursued two over-rid- ing ambitions--to unite Africa under a single government and to rid the continent of what he calls neo-colonialism. The dynamic son of a village goldsmith wields virtually dicta- torial powers over' his 7,000,000 subjects. Only Wednesday he prepared the ground for a ref- trendum that would have in- crease bie = nowers, particu- larly over the courts. New resentment was aroused among his political foes only three days ago when he an- nounced that he would seek tc have his Convention Peoples Party made the only legal po- litical organization in the coun- He recently fired Chief Jus- tice Sir Arku Korsah and threw out the verdict im a treason trial which acquitted three persons. two of them former cabinet ministers. Two other men were sen- tenced to death in the trial, in volving a previous attempt on Nkrumah's life. ADEN (AP) -- Would -. be assassins. fired shots from a passing car Thursday night a' Ali Salem Ali, who resigned as labor minister of Aden las! month, and injured two com- panions with him on the Khor- maksar Beach Road, police re- ported. They said Ali escaped injury. His group was reported sitting near his car when the attack came. | |contents were not released. : \disputes in peaceful ways." ~ LONDON (CP) -- Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev sent a 20-page letter to governments in several countries Thursday. discussing possible ways to settle peace- fully various territorial disputes, Copies were delivered to the United States, the United King- dom, Turkey and others, but the In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Cemal told re- porters that Khrushchev had sent a message concerning '"'an international agreement to solve 'In Was , State Secre- tary Dean Rusk told a press conference that the question of [aig erhe settlement of territor- jal disputes was, in general, the subject matter of the' message delivered to President Johnson through the state department by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin. The Turkish foreign minister said the message also contained an ""interesting proposal" about disarmament, but he gave no furthe# details. LEFT TO REDS Government spokesmen in London, said that it would be up to the Soviet Union to determine whether the note's contents would be released. Rusk told a press conference in Washington he had not had a chance to study the Khrush- chevy message. The letter was in' Russian and U.S. experts were working on a translation. Othér informants said Khrushchev's letter appeared to be a Krémlin bid for initiative in thé "peace offensive" of the new yéar,. Rusk said that if Khrushchev is proposing settlement of ter- ritorial disputes by peaceful means instead of war, that would be consistent with long- standing U.S. policy. But he de- clined to go into what specific territorial disputes might come junder Khrushchev's proposal, pending a more careful study. Khrushchev's message came hard on the heels of friendly exchanges of New Year's greet- ings between Johnson and. the Russian leader. In a cordial but short New| Year's exchange made public Wednesday, the president called for actions in 1964 to follow up past talk about peace. TO PRESS FOR PEACE A spokesman said the Presi- dent is determined to press a peace offensive in 1964 to ease a U.S. election year. Striking quickly in the diplo- matic-propaganda field, Khrush- chev dispatched what western sources said was an unusually lengthy message of some 20 pages addressed to government chiefs around the world. Dobrynin, brimming with New Year's joviality as, he delivered the message in' Washington, wished "a happy and interest- ing new year" to the American people but declined comment on the document. The Soviet envoy described it as a personal message from Khrushchev to Johnson, but a presidential press aide said "we do not regard it as a personal note."" Andrew T. Hatcher, as- sistant press secretary, de- scribed it as a circular note ad- dressed to the head of state. In London, where the Soviet| ambassador delivered a similar) message, sources said Khrush- chev had outlined Kremlin views on settling territorial dis- utes peacefully. They said Khrushchev took the theme that nations of differing politica) philosophies could work together peacefully in tackling threats to peaceful relations. AVOIDS CHINA FIGHT There was no indication that Khrushchev got into the ques- tion of Russia's dispute with Red China. Peking. has in the past made claims indicating boundary differences with Rus- sia, but has not pressed them. The Moscow-Peking New Year's exchange glossed over their ide- ological conflict. Khrushchev's renewed stress on the peaceful coexistence theme would be in line with the Kremlin. contention in its argu- ments 'with the Chinese Com- ists that atomic war is not Demonstrators Still Mourn -- Hair Theft SRINAGAR, Kashmir (Reut- ers) -- Demonstrators here Thursday demanded the release of former Kashmir prime min- ister Sheikh Atdullah and con- tinued to mourn last week's theft of a sacred relic--a strand of hair of the Prophet Moham- Abdullah is on trial in Kash. mir's winter capital, Jammu, on Charges of conspiring to over- throw the government and fa- cilitate Keshmir's annexation by Pakistan. His trial was adjourned until today because he wished to mourn the loss of the hair, which vanished from a mosque near here. Stores were also closed in Jammu Thursday in protest against the theft of two copper idols of the gods Rama and Krishna from a Hindu temple. The demonstrators stopped government employees going to their offices 'and obstructed gov- ernment, vehicles. BaBnks were not allowed to function and hos- pitals worked with skeleton staffs. ' PMID Be Be Be DM Bo er tsa a a Pi ta Ba a Ns eo a inevitable, and that commun- ism can best be advanced with- out a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet leader may be seeking also to grasp the initia- tive at a\time of thaw in the cold war with the West. But so far no major East- West meetings are in sight ex- cept for the 17-nation Geneva disarmamént conference, sched- uled to resume Jan. 21. Britain's Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler plans to go to the Geneva ses- sion, but whether Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei Gromyko will attend is uncertain. Rusk has said he is not going to the opening. A number of U.S.-Soviet talks on sécondary matters are in the offing, however. These include the cold war even though this is| | Outlines | Peace Plans negotiations in Moscow starting Jan. 7 on. renewing the .U.S.- Soviet cultural exchange agree- ment, discussions on a New York-Moscow air route and on a U.S.-Soviet consular agree- ment, WASHINGTON (AP) -- State Secretary Dean Rusk said Thursday that the chief western allies will be consulting intens- ively in the near future on . sible new initiatives for agree- ment with Russia on German and Berlin issues. ° Rusk told a press .conference that the western powers are al- ready talking about possible moves for trying to keep gate- ways in the Berlin wall open for travel between East and West Berlin after the Christmas: holi- day season. Discussing 1964 prospects, Rusk also told questioners that he. thinks disarmament prob- lems are very high on the list of priorities for East-West nego- tiations. He expressed hope that "some further steps"--beyond the 1963 test-ban treaty--could be taken this year in the dis- armament field. Rusk did not hold out any high hopes for actual East - West agreement on German or Berlin problems, but rather stressed that allied restudy of the whole range of issues might disclose new possibilities for western peace initiatives. On other matters Rusk said: 1, Cuban Premier Fidel Cas- tre "was factually wrong" in saying that the late President John F. Kennedy foresaw an early improvement of U.S, re- lations with Cuba. Cuba is still trying to interfere with affairs of other countries in this hemis- phere, Rusk. said. 2. Improvement of U.S. rela- tions with Red China is not in sight because Peking continues to pursue a militantly hostile policy. 3. The U.S. is very much con: cerned about the trouble in Cyp- rus and hopes there will be no further violence. Washington feels it should not intervene di- rectly, but is urging moderation on the parties concerned. CP from AP-Reuters BERLIN -- May @r, Willy Brandt's West Berlin' govern- ment made preparatory moves Thursday to approach the East German Communists on keep- ing the Communist wall. open after the special holiday visiting period ends Sunday. Brandt had a round of meet- ings with officials of his gov- ernment and with Erich Mende, vice-chancellor and minister of all-German affairs in the West government, a city spokesman said. They «were reported. to have discussed what should. be cov- ered in a new round of negetia- tions with the East Germans. West Berliners hope the ar- rangement for passes to visit relatives in East Berlin during the holidays can be made per- t and broadened to in- clude visits to friends. About 44,000 Berliners beat the possible last-minute rush by hurrying to East Berlin. for re- unions with relatives Thursday. Only three days before the last scheduled visiting day, al- lied sources described the situ- ation as delicate. They said it was uncertain whether the visit- ing period would be extended. HAVE BEEN RULERS The Western Allies the within three atte es United States, Britain and France----have. been the rulers and protectors of Communist- surrounded West Berlin since the Second World War. e They have shown serious mis- givings about the deal West Berlin's city government made)! on its own with the East Ger- man Communists -for holiday visits across the wall -- and about the prospect of more such} bargaining with the Reds. The allied fear is that direct West Berlin-East German poli- tical negtoiations would under- mine the status of West Berlin and give East Germany some actual political recognition. Brandt has pledged to do nothing to compromise the city's status and insists that talks on wall-crossing are purely human- itarian and technicai rather than political, The East German Commu- nists. are showing in their pro- paganda, however, that they consider the wall arrangements) as political and as gaining more of the recognition denied them by the West. WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) Soviet Premier Khrushchev ar- rived here unexpectedly Thurs- day night on an unofficial visit at the invitation of Polish Com- munist Leader Wladyslaw Go. mulka. There were rumors the Soviet leader would move on to other eastern European bloc countries after his Polish visit for an ex- change of views on Russia's ideological dispute with Com- munist- China. The Polish Communist party congress, due to take place here to four months, was considered likely to depate the implications of the Sino-So- 'viet dispute. It was thought the program of the comgress and the attitude it will take to the problem of Communist China's bid for lead- ership of the under-developed countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America would be the main topic of discussion be- tween Khrushchev and Go- mulka. A Gomulka, one of the staunch- est allies of the Russian leader, this week put forward a five- point peace program which in. cl a proposal for freezing nuclear weapons in Central Eur- ope and subsequently reducing the 'size of conventional forces in the area. This Polish initiative, stiij be- ing studied in the West, was also thought likely to be a topic for discussion between the two leaders. The Polish news agency said the Khrushchev visit would last "a few days." BELGRADE, Yugoslavia euters) -- Albani acpartly blamed its "great. difficulties" on a Russian, economic blockade as its leaders held talks with visiting Communist Chinese Premier Chou-en Lai Thursday. Radio Tirana said Chou and his delegation exchanged opin- ions with Albanian Communist party leaders on "political ques- tions of interest to both sides." A radio commentary from the Albanian capital on 1964 pros- pects said that during the last three years Albania had faced great difficulties. They were caused "not only by bad weather 'but by the pol- icy of economic blockade car- ried out by the group of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his followers." WEATHER FORECAST EST: SYNOPSIS: War air covers Lakes and southern Ontario while arctic air has advanced southward into, most of North- ern Ontario. The, boundary be- tween the warm and cold air is expected to shift a little southward and then become al- most stationary near the lower lakes and south of Lake Super- ior. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Ni- agara, Lake Ontario, Lake ton, Windsor, London, Hamil- ton, Toronto: , Variable cloudin- ess tonight, Saturday cloudy and urday, Timagami, White River, North Bay, Sudbury: Variable cloudi- ness tonight. Saturday cloudy with occasional light snow. and continuing mild. Winds light Saturday. Algoma: Variable' cloudiness tonight, Saturday cloudy and mild with occasional light rain. Winds light easterly. Cochrane: Saturday cloudy with snow in the afternoon, Not NET EARNINGS much change in temperature. Forecast Temperatures Canadian Breweries Lid., year ended Oct. 31: 1963, $17,- 146,472, 70 cents a share; 1962, $15,769,025, 70 cents. (net per share unchanged because of high preference dividend pay- t, high Saturday BAe Kitchener .. : Mount Forest...... ments in 1963). MAY TRY LEADER PARIS (AP)--Ex-Col. Antoine Argoud, a leader of the terror- ist. Secret' Army Organization, may be tried soon on charges of subversion, authorities have announced, He was captured in Munich, Germany, last Feb. 25. Wingham FOR PREFERRED ATTENTION PAUL isSTOW 128-9474 BReactor continuing mild. Winds light Sat-| Regi Mild Air Stays Over S. Ontario Forecasts issued by- the Tor-|Hamilton onto weather office at 5:30 a.m. 30 St. Catharines.,... Toronto Peterborough ..... the southern Prairies, the Great|Tr Sault Ste. Marie... Kapuskasing ...... White River....... Moosonee . ...... Timmins ee sdoeses Observed Temperatures Huron, Georgian Bay, Halibur-|Low overnight, high Ayareter Dawson Victoria ... Edmonton na . Winnipeg ....... Lakehead .... White River Sault Ste. Mari Kapuskasing Earlton North Bay... Sudbury ........ Muskoka .. Windsor .. London sere eeeees " Toronto ... Trenton ... Ottawa .... Montreal The first snow in. several years falls in Jerusalem, Jor- dan, early this week. Scene, near the Damascus Gate, is where Pope Paul V: will pass during his pilgrimage to the SNOWFALL IN JERUSALEM Holy Land. (AP. Wirephoto) LONDON (AP) -- The situa- tion was so calm while fire raged aboard the Christmas cruise liner Lakonia that some passengers sat down to tea be- fore abandoning ship, the Lon- don head of the Greek Line said Thursday. The 36-year-old shipping mag- nate, John Goulandris, whose family principally owned the lost Greek liner, told a press conference: "There were a number of passengers , . . who did not want to leave the ship. They felt the situation was very cain on board. There was absolutely, from what they tell us, no sense 'of immediate urgency among them to leave the ship. I under- stand they sat down in the Campbell Lounge and tea was served." Goulandris, who spoke slowly under obvious tension, strongly denied reports that there had been pl ring of passengers cabins by the crew while the Lakonia burned. "We have not had a specific charge from anyone about loot- ing," he said. "This, of course. is a very grave allegation and the inquiry at Piraeus, (the port of Athens) will certainly: go. into ¥° IS IN MOURNING : Goulandris, in a dark suit and wearing a black mourning tie, spoke with obvious emotion of the 128 dead or missing among the Lakonia's total of 1,032 peo- ple aboard. ' "] know that nothing we can say will compensate for their loss," he said, "but we feel very, very deeply for them." Asked whether he had any idea why the fire spread so tap- idly, Goulandris thought for a moment and answered: "If you had asked me that two days before it happened, I would have said it was impos- sible." He said he could understand a fire getting out of contro] on a ship which was undergoing repairs with a skeleton crew aboard, but "it seems incon- ceivable" that a ship with 1,000 aboard could burn as it did. "They (the firefighters) seem to have fought this thing step by step and were not able to control it," he said. "It is something I cannot explain at oi." "Do. you rule out any chance of sabotage?" he was asked. Stiffer Bail, More Whipping Urged By Jury TORONTO (CP) -- A seven- man York County grand jury has recommended stiffer bail restrictions, more whippings and longer sentences in a re- port to Judge Robert "Forsyth. The jury produced the report after a three-week review, of som of the problems involved in law enforcement. The jury spoke with policemen and Crown attorneys, but did not in- terview social workers, psychia- trists or legal aid personnel. "We have no evidence for it at all," said Goulandris, "and I can't imagine anybody deliber- ately setting fire to a ship. That is a kind of charge which is so serious that, unless you have an indication of it, it is better not to think about it. There is Goulandris gave details about the fire-fighting and life-saving equipment-aboard the Lakonia, and said: "There is not the' slightest no point in speculating on it.'"|> Passengers Drank Tea While Lakonia Burned life-saving appliances on board " were in perfect order." Goulandris said the Lakonia" carried 24 lifeboats, although only required io have 20, and ~ had 400 lifejackets more than © the required minimum of one per passenger and crew mem-~ er. : He disputed allegations by passengers that some of the boats could not be released. ~ "I can assure you these life-; boats have been lowered again ., and again," he said, doubt. in our mind that all the INTERPRETING THE NEWS $ By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer President Johnson and Soviet Premier Khrushchev are slowly Soviets-U. S. Trod Wary Peace Path size of the Soviet military force. and therefore can judge in a> general way whether reducti this is increasing co and cautiously moving ino an diplomatic quarters era of friendly competition in take place. Accompan ying US. ab td that. the pursuit of peace, presenting a ewhat optimistic. augury' for further dismantling of the cold war during 1964. While U.S. authorities are not sure at this stage where the peace path will lead, they in- dicate there now is "active movement" in discussion be- tween the two ernments on new possibilities and develop- a communion of action "along lines of what Khrushchev de- scribes as "mutual example" to bring the arms race | under tighter control, The exchange of New Year's messages between the two lead- ers was more than an expres- sion of cordiality; it was an ex- pression of anxiety and hope to build a permanent barrier against nuclear war and a will to take unilateral steps, if nec- essary, to show good intentions by example, , REDUCT SPENDING Both sides have given indica- tions of reducing arms spend- ing and of tightening the inven- tory on military manpower and bases without formal bargain- ing or agreements on how the po mapa lames, desires a SOME APPREHENSION There also irs to some apprehension that : U.S. may be considered in the eyes of the world as falling be- " hind Russia in demonstrating a - ments, They say there is even), more active pursuer of js There is confidence i apes: can quarters that new steps will' Idevelop this year -- perhaps" even the beginn of major ~ steps such as the final solution to the highly-explosive Gegnan © issue--that can strengthen the ° prospects for a permanent * peace, While at this stage there is | no indication that a summit meeting would take place this year, U.S. authorities empha- -- size that Johnson would agree to a summit if Khrushchev , shows willingness to enter into . a. major disarmament. agree. ment on viable terms with which the U.S. can live. a cuts are to be made or the rea- |son for the reductions, The U.S. complains that until: the West can look at Soviet books, the world can never be sure whether the Soviet cuts are real, Yet there is less demand from the U.S. these days for international inspection on ev- ery disarmament move, There is even a hint in high places that previous U.S; positions may be reassessed if Russia is pre- pared to reassess its own. 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