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BLOW SEEN TO P Tm ir OPE'S PROPOSED itl 7 ADM TRUTH. MAILIvi TOSSES CARDS INTO CANAL | Trave. Ban Placed CASSANO D'ADDA, Italy gentlemen, let's try to be On Polish Cardinal By VINCENT BUIST WARSAW (Reuters)--The Po-|cess to it. ' lish government's travel ban on} The Polish government, in Stefan Cardirial Wyszynski Sun-|accusing the country's bishops | day destroyed any lingering \of meddling in political affairs, | hope among Roman Catholics clearly feels that on this issue, | that Pope Paul will be able to, visit Poland in May for cele-| official representatives had ac- the clash with deep gravity. is The church leadership now is expected to hold conferences to to/it can command wide public|debate the present official at- support against the popular Car-|tack, and to prepare for a long | (AP)--A mystery about miss- ing Christmas cards was solved here today. Mailman Antonio Carlotti, 56, was ac- cused of dumping the cards in sermon Sunday that he will keep| @ canal because he got tired silent on the subject also shows| Of carrying them. that the church hierarchy views | "There was too much | work," police quoted him as saying. "T had been working like a mule during the Christmas period. I did my best to de- liver the important letters and sensible. Those damned post- cards are certainly not very important things. So I threw the lot into the canal. I cer- tainly never thought there would be somebody with the hobby of letter-fishing."" Investigation began last week when residents along Carlotti's delivery route in this north Italian town grew alarmed at the sight of mail floating in a canal, Carlotti was suspended from service and formally charged brations of the 1,000th anniver- sary of Polish Christianity. It also demonstrated anew d's | reputatlo Catholics and has the tute an overwhelming majority | extreme sensitivity of Poland's political relations with West *Germany, and indicates no one in official circles considers the time ripe for reconciliation. The Polish government ap- pears genuinely angered by the fact the letter of Polish bishops to the German church in De-| cember, inviting German bish- "ops to tome here in May, was first published in West Ger- many, before Polish press and Wyszynski Asks Flock "Have Faith WARSAW (AP)--Stefan dinal Wyszynski has been barred from foreign travel and Car-| the | propaganda siege. dinal Wyszynski, who | Many Catholics, | spiritual leader of the country's who consti-, parcels in due time. But, with destroying mail. reputation of being a resolutely | of the country's population, view | Pac Pa wich flows "ontat teecena weee| BOMDIng Respite End Stressed By Chairman nearly four weeks of press and|may. They are devout believers By CARL P. LEUBSDORF pressed the view that the North. | | | "T don't see any reason to|Premier Pham Van Dong that| In Me™ ski noted that Sunday news: | papers published a government statement that he was refused 3 : an exit passport because of Rhodesia Sunday as Zambia, public protest about the letter but also doubt that Nazi atroci- of the Polish bishops, has ties in Poland during the last brought church-state relations war can be minimized by an when Cardinal Wyszynski was} The one issue that unites all ifreed from the house arrest im- Poles is the finality of the fron,) n " oT lposed by the former Stalinist tier with Germany, drawn along, WASHINGTON (AP)--Chair- Vietnamese "'do not trust" U.S. regime. the Oder and Neisse rivers by|man L. Mendel Rivers of the) peace efforts. The cardinal's statement in a! the victorious Allies in 1945, House of Representatives} Staughton Lynd, a Yale Uni-| today '"'an early decision must/demonstrations here against| be reached' on ending the |U.S. Viet Nam policy, and pause in U.S. bombing of North|Thomas Hayden, a leader of a |Viet Nam targets. Two key Re-|Students for a Democratic 8o- In Rhodesia lciety, said they were told by areas continue to keep giving them|the United States had not been} ne By REUTERS this respite," said Rivers, ajin contact with Hanoi directly) Three more British parliamen-|couth Carolina Democrat, in an|since President Johnson said he tarians left for a study tour of|interview as the 89th Congress|would knock on any door to the|reconvened. "'They're not en-)seek peace. to the lowest point since 1956,/ exchange of letters. ----j|armed services committee said|versity professor who has led Wilson Aid publican congressmen agreed. | breakaway colony's northern titled to this holiday." "To those with whom. they THREE-TIERED WEDDING Felham introduces his fian- cee, 22-year-old Princess Farideh Farshchi Bakhitari, American producer David | charged with harming Poland's! alleged harm to Polish national announced it has) U.S. planes have. not bombed) spoke," Lynd and Hayden said| a cousin of ex-Queen Soraya Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Catholic primate of Poland who has been barred from foreign travel and charged with harming Poland's Polish Roman Catholics to have confidence in him. The government state- ment blamed a letter of Polish bishops sent to the bishops of West. Germany during his last trip to the Vatican. He had planned to leave for Rome Sunday night (AP Wirephoto by cable from Warsaw.) national interests, leaves the Church: of St. Carlo Boromeus in Warsaw to- day after services during which he spoke to the con- gregation about the govern- ment statement and asked AP Photographer On Viet Mission Associated Press photog-.. rapher Horst Faas ac- companied a battalion of the ist Infantry Division into the biggest American operation of the war, in Viet Nam. Here is his report. By HORST FAAS TRUNG LAP (AP)--A lone American spotter plane circled over a maze of camouflaged tunnels and Viet Cong fortifica- tions just south of the Saigon; River. | Only the pilot and a few! American officers knew the mission: To collect intelligence! for the biggest and most ambi- tious U.S. operation of the war in Viet Nam. An American combat force of just ended. A field of unharv- the draft of} some 8,000 paratroops, infantry- men and artillerymen was to converge the next morning on this. bomb-scarred, triangular shaped Communist stronghold of 15 square miles. The spotter pilot did not live to see it. A well concealed Viet Cong anti - aircraft gun shot down his plane. American units from three bases, each 30 miles 'apart, be- gan to converge at midnight Friday on the Viet Cong terri: tory 20 miles northwest of Sai gon. French ¥ a forces were never able to pen- etrate it successfully. FIRE AT DAWN American and New Zealand artillery took positions in the area and began firing at dawn at the same time a_ fleet of about 80 helicopters started to ferry several battalions of the ist Infantry Division, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and the Royal Australian Regiment into positions from which they could fan out to block off the triangle. The wide and swampy Saigon River north of the area was closed to all traffic. High Award For Constable TORONTO ¢CP) -- A provin- cial police constable who cap- tured an armed holdup suspect after being shot four times in the Jegs is to receive the force's highest award Tuesday. Constable John Frederick Fitzgerald, 22, of the Chatham detachment, is to be presented with the commissioner's award for valor by Commissioner Eric Silk The constable was shot as he chased the suspect from a 4 ana down, | One large houseboat set out down and strafed it. The craft floated free with the current with a dead engine. Three bodies toppled into the muddy water. As soon as the helicopters reached the southern bank small arms fire spat from the villages, paddy fields and plan- tations below. One helicopter was hit and plummeted into a field of tapi- oca. BUILDINGS BURN As the assault helicopters set the soldiers saw that i ested rice blazed; the many rotor blades fanned the flames 50 feet high. The troops rushed to the peri- meter of the landing zone to- ward a long-abandoned rubber plantation. As the first troops reached the plantation they pulled up short before a Viet Cong de- fence line -- a zig-zag trenc about 300 yards long, hidden un- der brush and trees A network of tunnels from the trench to outly chine -~gun emplaceme anti-aircraft pits As the troops pushed deeper into the plantation, they re- alized they were on top of an underground guerrilla camp They encountered four more of these intricate trench - tunnel networks, linked together smaller defence lines. "If the VC had stayed," said one infantrymen, "it would flowed ave been something like in the history books of the First World War, we never would have got out of the landing zone." SNIPERS OPEN FIRE The battalion's advance he- _ came painstaking and danger- ous. Sniper fire erupted, and the Viet Cong seemed to be all around, A Viet Cong popped up from . a hole and threw a grenade at two soldiers only 10 feet away killing one and wounding the other A guerrilla hidden in a tun nel detonated a Claymore mine that smashed into an American moving down a trail. He was killed on the spot Pursuit of the guerrillas was discouraged by -hundreds of wires with booby traps at tached, concealed holes lined with razor-sharp spokes, and mines. BOOBY TRAP KILLS national interests. He reacted by asking Polish Roman Catho- lics to have confidence in him. | "They charge me with the gravest, most-harmful wrongs; they charge me, who has served the people for 20 years,"' ithe Roman Catholic Primate of} Poland told 2,000 worshippers! Sunday at Warsaw Church of St. Carlo Boromeus "IT need not and [I shall answer them," he declared a firm voice. Completing a sermon on the Holy Family, Cardinal Wyszyn-' not in Wintry Blizzards Deliver 2-Fisted Wallop On Sunday |Armed helicopters swooped gy THE CANADIAN PRESS ,The main building at the ship Blizzards swept into Saskatch- ewan and parts of the Atlantic) provinces Sunday ina two-fisted| wintry wallop. Elsewhere in Canada the sting was mild by comparison, | Winds whistled at.80 miles an|freighters hove to in extremely|yember, Wall said the British|see that the suspension has ac-) mass murder in must. eventually|complished anything. The only} Nam piled into 12-foot drifts in south-| yp by the wind damaged water-| recognize Smith's Rhodesian re-|result has been that the other ' ern Newfoundland. But higher] front installations on Newfound-| gime as the de facto government |side has been able to collect hour in Regina. and snow was temperatures returned to Al-| berta and southern Ontario and [Quebec while more seasonable| rains continued to wash away| snow in British Columbia. under a snow slide The Saskatchewan storm was dying early today as it moved into Manitoba, bringing cold air and light winds. There was some drifting overnight In Regina Sunday the only vehicles capable of moving were motor-driven tobaggans as high winds drove powdery snow into drifts and cut visibility to zero niall air flights were cancelled CARS ABANDONED Twenty cars were abandoned in a one-mile stretch of road - near Moose Jaw and in Swift Current 9 ordered neonle off the streets, Many people were stranded but no deaths were reported in the Prairie blizzard Four children were killed in a -house fire near Halifax and another blaze in Liverpool, N.S., took. the life of a seven-year-| old boy and injured man Road accidents blamed on; weather conditions injured at least. 11 persons Seventy - mile-an - hour winds piled huge drifts on highways in Cape Breton, catching 400 troops and army vehicles en route from Camp Gagetown, N.B., to Newfoundland for a winter training exercise. They were split into two con- voys equipped with snow-clear- ing equipment but it was not i known how long it would take to cross Cape Breton to North Syd- ney for the ferry to Newtound.| land The storm intensified as it moved across Newfoundland a tunnels, and children's foot prints led toward them. Vietnamese interpreters shouted, 'Come out. We won't shoot you." There was ro re ponse Riot control gas was put into the tunnels with grenades and pumps to flush out the civiliaris Then people began to respond interests caused by the Decem-|neighbor, ber letter of Polish bishops sent) barred one British MP and de to the bishops of West.Germany clared three others unwelcome. during his last trip to the Vati-| The three who left can. Sunday with Prime Cardinal Wyszynski did nol) Wilson's blessing, were La London Minister mention the fact he had planned to leave Sunday night for a meeting with Pope Paul and Jan, 13 celebrations in the Vatican of the 1,000th anniver bor parliamentarians Christop- North Viet Nam since before alin a statement, "it appears that 30-hour Christmas truce as partithe United States knocks on all of President Johnson's efforts| doors except the doors of whom to convince Hanoi of U.S. sin-|it is fighting." cerity in seeking a negotiated) mm. third member ; , x of the settlement of the Vietnamese) joup, U.S. Communist Party} her Rowland, a parliamentary) "4: private secretary at the foreign His views, similar to those ex- office, David Ennals and. Dr. pressed Saturday by Jeremy Bray armed services committee Senate} |He added in a separate state- iment that President Johnson's Leader Herbert Aptheker, said| |he was in "'general agreement."' | sary of Christianity in Poland Rowland's visit will be the Chairman Richard B. Russell of} ray q Georgia, were echoed in separ- ae travel Long age -- first by any government party be rapist cy foun } a nim from making a_ planned s. es Avan "devastation" to Viet Nam. 5 member with any experience in/ti.. Leslie C, Arends of Illinois, tr Canada and the United i anhal . , sy dead sed d Wilson S administration SiNCe).ccictant house Republican, Vice - President Hubert H ' oe Prime Minister Ian Smith de- leader, and Senator Bourke B. Humphrey, asked in Buffalo policy is bringing "death to thousands of Americans' and jafter spening 36 hours between| Was Britain Noy, 11, jamid reports that BAR BRITISH MP Meanwhile in Lusaka, Zambian capital, President Ken neth Kaunda said British Con yard in Marystown, Nfld., was blown down. All highways in the eastern part of the province were blocked SHIPS HEAVE TO At sea, fishing draggers and been barred from the country. In a speech in England in No heavy seas. High tides backed) government land's south coast. | of the country. In St. John's, Nfid., fire de-) ,Kaunda also said stroyed Our Lady of Lourdes) pritish MPs who recently visite Roman Catholic school and! Rhodesia, whom he Seven families were e€VaCU-| egme"' historic Signal Hill in St. because of the danger of snow- slides on sheer slopes at the mouth of the harbor. There was no heavy snowfal in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island, but 70-mile-an is the legal authority." is ready with Britain, government negotiations crete-brick wall at Montague, ho have visited Rhodesia re- cently. agree that. such talks British Columbia, after a ser-| should be opened quickly to save| ies of blizzards, was having @| Rhodesia from economic col- return to more normal winter) lapse precipitation--rain. The Trans Canada Highway was reopened late Sunday in the Rogers Pass area_near the Alberta border where 5% inches of new snow fell. KILLED BY SLIDE Two employees of the north affairs department, were killed in the pass Saturday night TORONTO when they were caught in a cadgwick, prominent slide while working to clear a criminal lawyer, says the sys- path through an earlier slide : The. same highway through tom St cents. a. : : g : 5" Counsel honors on lawyers has he Fraser River Canyon, 120 ceased to have meaning and miles east of Vancouver, was should be abolished, opened Saturday after a four- x Z distrib day closure. Trains began mov-| ,He said the honor is distri uted so freely to so many that ing through the canyon after the}! ' CPR's Canadian was trapped|it has become meaningless and for 17 hours and the CNR's|# mockery. Panorama was freed Saturday) Mr. Sedgwick, a QC himself commenting Saturday on snowslides the release the previous week Warming chinook winds were|of the 1966 list of QC appoint- to bring some snow and 30 above| ments for Ontario. temperatures to southwestern' The list contained 11 names Alberta today. Most of the rest} of new QCs. "I know very few of the province was to havelof the people on this year's above temperatures after days list' Mr. Sedgwick said. of bitter cold Henry L. Cartwright, a King- ids Gales cents benaen ston dae: ao ee : : '<\down a QC honor three times, and 40, but colder readings were) ..; forecast for today It was to continue snowing over Northern Ontario. with ern (CP)--Joseph d the practice is a farce, and ithe title worthless. "The inclusion of a fey emin- |clared Rhodesia independent of Hickenlooper of lowa,: senior| Their unexpected trip camel|ate foreign relations committee | the British! |sovernment plans new '"'peace| THERE'S A LIMIT terms" to end the Rhodesian crisis the going to have to be made un three ot dj 28 | did not) jchurch, with loss estimated at' name. would not be welcome Five persons died in two fires | $500,000 ' J every surrounding building was|during the Maritime storm and on fire from air strikes that had|in B.C. two persons were killed ated from houses at the foot of Kaunda said the.three "unwel-/Nam_ said, 'I think the pause MPs contacted. Smith's! noyld continue. | °'! party and not Rhodesian Gover- John's) nor Sir Humphrey Gibbs ,"'whol results from the bombing. This Liberal Peter Bessell returned if to London Saturday and said in|fewer people. a statement Sunday that Smith's| provement." for fresh He|Idaho, a foreign relations com-| and C.S, hour winds blew down a con-|<aiq he and other British MPs/mittee QC Title Now Mockery Should Cease: Sedgwick Toranto Saturday night whether the Republican member of the Sen-/peace offensive has borne any 'SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHES May Be Simply Sluggish Kidney Action put up with this comm: backache because you just don't ine the cause, and the medication that | may help you, You see, if kidneys become sluggish, urinary irritation and bladder discomfort may follow. The result can be an annoying, nage ging backache. This is when Dodd's Kidney Pills can help bring relief, Dodd's stimulate kidney action, help re lieve the irritated condition that causes the backache. 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"Some decision is -\less we can see some tangible -jresults -- some willingness on) (Reuters) | servative MP Patrick Wall has'their (the Communists') part to| North Viet Nam today accused) talk these things over." the United States of using toxic | Said Hickenlooper: "I don't) chemical and poison gas for South Viet thele forces." |statement quoted by the North Two Democratic senators dis-| et Nam news agency: reed. | "The U.S. aggressors are de- Alaska's Ernest Gruening, aj liberately pursuing the criminal leading critic of the Johnson ad-|path of the Hitlerite Fascists, and committing the most hein- ministration's policies in Viet ous crimes which cannot be tol {erated by the progressive man- kind," It said that since early last year the U.S. had stealthily in troduced into South Viet Nam |thousands of tons of new and |more dangerous poisons called of|C.N. (chloracetophenone), D.M.| | "1 don't think there were any has been at least as successful not more so. We're killing) That's an im Senator Frank Church member, agreed with} |Gruening. "We have to wait and |see what will happen," he said lful 'peace' campaign, the U.S hi J Fete i 'i yg petro " Peele tig ruling circles are increasing the L bisa aia vlaeab promt ™) massacre of the civilian popula- 'Hanoi Sunday night and €X-/tion in South Viet Nam by poi- }son gases." The statement added: 'While | drum-beating about their deceit- ent names, sprinkled with Lib- lerals and New Democrats, in |the annual list lends an air of jrespectability," he said. 'But it's a well - known fact that they're handed out as political favors." He said the legal profession jtends to fall into disrepute be-| |cause the title is handed out so freely. Since the title is imported from England, Canada should, abide by the rules set down in Britain, he said. 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