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OUR TELEPHONES For hammer Want Ad Tel bone PA Hut The telephone number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept ll PA 56531 98th YearNo 62 Involved Opium Gold Row OTTAWA CPISeven Cona dian soldiers and two Canadian civil servants have been impli catedin smuggling racket in Indochina Prime Minister Dieienbaker toitt the Commons Monday the smuggling involved movement ol gold and opium from one city in Indochina to another The two civiliansmale clerks of the external affairs depart menthove been sdspended and face dismissal Mr Diefcnbaker said they signed statements ad mitting they smuggled gold and opium on behalf of Chinese An officer and noncommis oned officer were engaged in gold smuggling while five other ranks appeared to have engaged in smuggling gold and opium INVESTIGATION GOES ON Disciplinary action was taken against some of the military personnel in Indochina said Mr Diefenbaker Investigations of the others were continuing The prime minister said the smuggling activities were dis covercd last year Those in valved who were still in Indo china were recalled to Canada The nine were serving on Can adas delegation to the interns lltional truce supervisory com lmissions in Indochina No names ware given Outside the Commons infor mants held out the possibility that the seven military men will be tried by courtsmartial It was understood the smuggling took place between Saigon and Hanoi capitals of South Vict Nam and Communist North Viet Nam respectively Mr Dleienbaker told the Ilouse the public interest de manded that the record he set straight In view of Inaccurate statements outside the Com mons by Erhart Regier CCF BurnabyCoouitlaml Under questioning by Mr Ito gier in the Commons last week External Affairs Minister Green refused to give any Information on the case beyond admitting that an officer had been brought home for wrongdoing FINDS N0 EVIDENCE Mr Dielenbaker said there is no evidence that Canadians serving on the trace commis sions smuggled narcotics into Canada Nor was there anything to indicate that the case was connected with recent traffick ing arrests In British Columbia Such suggestions had been made by Mr Regier Mr Diefenboker said some of those involved received sums of money in local currency but reports concemiag the amounts paid for smuggling were greatly exaggerated Answering demand by Herridge House leader of the COP New Democratic Party that criminal action be taken against those implicated Mr Diefeobaker said the Criminal Code does not cover offences committed outside Canada Exploit The Dollar Rosminsky Urges OTTAWA CPiln his first annual report asgovarnor of the Bank of Canada Louis Rasmin sky Monday called on Canadian business to exploit the opportu nities created by the lowered ex change value of the Canadian oliar This he said is clearly es senLial And the basic requirements were well trained energetic and adaptable working popula tion dynamic business leader in Canadas money supply wad of material assistnnccin en couraging economic recovery It was estimated that the gross national product rose seven per cent between the first and fourth quarters of last year Price increases had been mod erate The unemployment ratbnot including seasonal factorsdc clined from just under eight per cent of the labor force at the beginning of last to just under BLIZZARD RVIVOR SMILES i0 and Mabel Crane Bear 13 died All were residents of the Indian reserve at Glei chen 50 miles southeast of Calgary tCP Wirephoto ESpaceman Come To East When They Cash Cheques NEW YORK AP US as tronauts are committing their money to real estate ventures in Florida Washington DC and the Grand Bahamas the New York Times says They are using $500000 re ceived from Life magazine for the exclusive firstperson story rights to their space adventures The Times reports Perhaps the most elaborate of the land speculations is In Co coa Beach Fla few miles south of Cape Canaveral The astronauts twa lawyers an inn srthzs ascraish9iac°i°ii worth more than $1000000 Has Bad Night annLiN BeuterslAn RAF The astronauts are lso inv corporal shot by East German vesting in motel at Freeport border guards Saturday night passed bad night at the iH SONE East German hospital in Pets darn where he is undergoing WATEEBURY Conn treatment abritisb Army AWTho fruit cups looked spokesman said here delicious Sunday night at The man Cpl Douglas Day the annual St Patricks Day 25 was listed Monday as co Elevenyeaoold Geraldine Black Rider manages smile few days after surviving blizzard in which two of her friends Belinda Raw Eeater in the Grand Bahamas and in Washington housing project that may be called Friendship 7tho name given the capsule in which John Glenn Ir made his orbital flight The Cocoa Beach motel in be called the Cape Colony Inn will have 180 rooms including suites named after each of the astro haulsGlenn Virgil Grissom Alan Shepard Jr Scott Carpen ter Gordon Cooper Ir Walter Schirra Jr and Donald Sloyton ix Charge Collusion OIIAWA CPI Judy La Marsh Niagara Falls cbargcd Monday night there was obvious bareIaccd collusion between an employee and for mer employee of the citizenship department in the granting of licence to cut timber on th lsimpsean Reserve in British Columbia She also told the Commons It appeared that all the people con nected with the firm which got the licence are supporters of the Conservative party Citizenship Ellen Fairclough angrily interjected that she was not going to sit here and let her Miss La Marsh accuse members of my department of collusion The Liberal she did not clough knows MP replied that Lbinl Mrs Fairs the full facts of the case In my legal train ing said Miss La Marsh lawyer have never seen such an obvious barefaced case of collusion AFTER TIMBER AWARD The spat between the two women grew out of the award of timber licence to Shorline Lumber Company of Vancouver Miss La Marsh said the chief forester ofthe citizenship de partmeots Vancouver office Paul Brett is former associ ate and employee of Johnson one of Shorlincs direc tora IN ANUTSHEIJL On Timber Rights She said Benufort Industries Limited ofVancouver bid 52 237925to be paid in sh and kindfor me timbercutting cenca whereas Shorline bid only $792000 plus some triage benr fits Beaufort had offered to undelu take reforestation and to spend $500000 on logging road He sides it offered to harvest proportion of lowgrade timber which would have brought the Tslmpsean Indians an addi lional benefit The reserve is located near Nanlimo on Van couver Island Miss La Marsh said Mr JohnA son was formerly employed by the citizenship department to recommend rates to be charged for cutting timber on all Indian land in British Columbia She claimed he terminated his employment only few months before the Tsimpseon tenders were opened early last year And she charged that subse quently he offered timber corr panitson minimum fee basis confident information he had obtained while working for the department Miss La Marsh said Beaufort Industries was advised by the department Feb 13 1061 that it had been awarded the licence Eight days later the was informed by telegram that Shorline was getting the licence instead They were the only two banisrsubmittiog tenrlars New Approach To Automation OTTAWA CP automation aimed within reasonable control Labor Minister Starr told Qdebec union leaders today thatthe government at bringing plans new approach to technological dislocations Mr Starr dropped the hint campany LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy periods of light wet snow or driulc Snawflurrtes tomorrow Low tonigtt 23 high tomorrow 30 Summary page Gunman Wounds Orans Prosecutor ORAN Algeria ReutersiLA gunman seriously wounded the public prosecutor of Oran today as he was leaving his home in ethis western port city Prosecutor Yves Lemerlo was cutdown by gunfire outside his garage by an assailant who es caped Oran hotbed of European extremist sentiment has been the scene of violence for several weeks In Algiers nine persons were killed and 12 were injured be fore noon In one incident Europeans in car machinegunned group of Moslem workers in the Algiers suburb of Balselvoued killing three ran as and wounding four commando gang netted nearly 57000 in bank raid here The secret army has been carrying out such raids fre quently apparently to build up war chest Five plastic bomb explosions were reported from lloacvin Eastern Algeria Douithobdrs Prices Rise or from ReutersAP HAVANA Premier Fidel Castro announced Monday night that his govemment plans to im pose stringent rationing 01 food and other goods in Cuba later this month Castro told of the rationing plans in television broadcast in which he declared we have inherited hell ile also admitted shortcom ings In his revolution saying that at times we have not made an objective analysis We fell into subjectivism and promised certain things in few months when we were un able to solve the problem in that time Castro said The Cuban leader also called for great battle in the field of agricultural production Under the program there will be three categories of rationing those opplying in Havana cnty these applying in cities and towns and those in force throughout the country SETS AMOUNTS The food rationing will mean that each Cuban will receive threcqnarters of pound of Ft at week two ounces of but tor month half dozen eggs NELSON or cm Two month and half pound of melnliers of thin fanatical Sam firh in is daysu to Freedom Daniholler sect In addition housewives will were to be art igned in Ctulli lizcto pay two cen hrro todayvoit charges oi set the dynamite wlilcht 31 beta here from Crrsfonftfi to the southbosf They Illttc batn charged wi pineC in mmlusivosnvith intent to cause damages tower was cited lhat crippled in gt Kootenays The tpmg and Smelt which operates eoniplpx in south two youngsters Tium so will be monthly lotments of one bar of washing soap one of toilet soap one tube of toothpaste and one me diumsized packet of detergent Black marketeers will face the longer of firing squad un der the rationing system Castro Id Speculators should be takm to the wall he declared ship the imaginative application of modern technology good marketing practices and per easternRC has laid off 1000 men and cut momma Attorney Gellvral bolted six per cent at the end of the year dinn er of the Waterbury siderabiy improved but doc without elaborating in reply to legislative brief from the IrishAmerican Club tor at the hospital in Potsdam Confederation of National Trade Unions to Prime Minister Diefenbaker and the cabinet Itatian books will be issued to lauds 01 families and persons Atop each was little hops above all the determina tion to be competitive At the same time Mr Bos minskywho succeeded James Coyne last July 24said it was also essential to avoid fresh upward thrustof domes tic prices and costs The real determinant of our prosperity and welfare will be our ability to compete in world of rapidly rising stand ards of economic productivity Ind efficiency he said in the leport which Finance Minister lleming tabled in the Com rnons WONT OBJECT Mr Fleming said the govern ment would not object to Mr Easminsky appearing before the Commons banking and com meree committee this year If the governor does appear it would be the first time since 1956 that this was done Some features of the report Last years ainepercent rise Total personal incomes rose 595 per cent between the first and fourth quarters of last year In the same period personal spending rose nearly five per cent and corporation profits 30 per cent noes non rrcnraiv Despite big increase in boro rowiog by government busi ness and individuals credit conditions did not tighten tilth of 53000000000 in not new borrowing was done last year through banks and secur ity market54000000000 more than in 1960 Federal govern ment borrowing was $450000000 higher The governor said he expects to appear before the royal com mission on banking and finance later this year when heindi cated he will deal with the ques tion of how the Bank of Canada sets its interest rate Until then he said he intends to keep an open on the issue today would only say there had been no further improvement Britain accused Russia Monday night of inhuman questioning of Day who was shot in the sto mach when the East Germans opened up with machine guns on British mission car Inspection P1011515 Dropped GENEVA AP The United iStates and Britain were re ported todayto have dropped proposals by President Kennedy tor sweeping intemaiionalin spection system to safeguard against secret preparations by the Soviet Union for nuclear weapon tests high WestErII source said US and British experts had green flag with the words Erin go bragh It was enough to warm the heart of any son of the old Emerald Isle He could even forgive the tiny print made in Japan tionaI convention handing the use of nuclear weapons pledge by the UnitedStates Britain France and Soviet Union not to turn overauelear weapons or information on how to produce them to other coun tries pledge bytbe non nuclear countries not toprpducs or acbuire nuclear weapons or allow their stationiag on their Kennedy To See Missile Sites WASHINGTON AP President Kennedy will inspect missile sites at Vandenberg Air Force Base iospectthe Minuteman week He will also plex Titan and Atlas sites lties the White House said California next missile silo com and the ThorDiscoverer facil Two Scalded To Death CHICAGO AP lva meniwere scalded to death Mon day when highpressure pipe supplying hot water for housing project burst laa tunnel of the heating lant They were working on steam and water tank in the heating plant Thousands or welsh Vaccinated CARDIFFfIWales AP Thousands of persons were and 22 smallpox cases special clinics In southern 15 suspected and seven confirmed have been taken to ho pital since the epidemic spread to Wales Isabella Holt Dies DETROIT AP Mrs In Detroit Isabella Holt Finnie 69a novel will be Iaoidden to shop around Bonner srntl in the legislature gm an items Castro said the Social Credit gn1lmttnt 7m prohib 9n winbc enforced has asked the federal by ban on shopping at stores ment to station army um more than four blocks from the Kooteaays for practical home training The attomeygeneral said the request was made in the belief the presence of troops would have favorable psychological effect on terrorists federal spokesman in Ot tawa said the ministers in volved have not had time to study Mr Eonaers request but indicated reply may be made in the House of Commons to day Ninetyfive members of the arrested since last fall when stormy religious sect have been the RCMP cracked down on terrorism which has plagued the Kootenays for almost 40 years There have been more than 800 burnings and bombings since 1923 and 30 attacks this Families lee Hemes BUFFALO AP Firemen evacuated seven families from their homes in nearby Elma Monday night after flooding put one section of the hamlet under three feet of water Melting snow and ice and heavy spring rains sent Buffalo Creek over its banks flooding cellars and knocking out elec tric power and furnaces In Alden about 20 miles north east of Buffalo water from Ca yuga Creek swollen by ice jams spilledinto cellars of 30 homes Norone as evacuated Scattered rninor flooding was reported in other sections of western New York but waters ist dramatist and magazine writer for 41 years died at her homa in suburban Grosse Pointe Monday Mrs Finnie who wrota under the name of Isabella Holt was best knoWn for three of her later novels My son andHeir Rdmpale year The Freedomites who num her about 4000 make their headquarters in the shack town advised US State Secretary Rusk and British Foreign Sec retary IIome thatthe proposal is impractical because of con territory and the designation bf Afriea and central Europe as zones from which nuclearweapi tonswould be barred new TRANSFORMER FOR Hydro workmen begin in stalling one of two giant trans formers whlch arrived at Barrie Transformer Station this morning They will pro vldathtee times as much hy dro power for Barrie and die BARBIE trict altithle station supplies now By July the station will be fully automated and will operate without any resident employee Each transformer weighs 187000 pounds See story P2 tinued Russianr opposition to widespread foreign 1nspectiun ing bout measures toentorce begin the EDVM itltlfiflil suchnuclear bans us Ianr omewere reporte co as they 11 Wham 3329 50 led the roster of Western ment provtdlng for some sort of mammal meeting Moimmw 51 WC mg tdday with Gromylro to dismiss areas Kennedy recently cited the mesmflim between need fr safeguardsagainstst cret test preparations because the Soviet Union caught the West by surprise when it broke its voluntary test ban mora torium lastyear At the time Russia was still negotiating in Geneva for test ban treaty Informants said the Russians in informal talksgoing onhera in preparation for the l7aation disarmament conference open ing Wednesday stood firm on their old positionthat ontha spot inspection is no longer ne cessary to detect nuclear blasts The Soviet Union contends that detection instrumehts now are so highly developed they can detect nuclear explosions anywhere Monday the Russians ralleased astetament on Soviet disarma ment proposals which Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is ex the Western and the Communist peeted to put before thedisarm ti ament conference Replying to questionnaires from Acting SecretaryGeneral Thant of the United Nations Gromyko call for an internag To Geneva GENE fairs Minisler arrive ere todayin an HCAF aircraft to attend the l7naiion disarma ent conference begin ning Wednesday Green said he considers that the presence igbt nonaligned armament talks will help prevent stalematafram developing Canada regards this confe ence as ofgreat importance he said and Canada illdo wbat hc try get re put forward by the Western and the Communist wo quite little bit in eo Gromykos letters said noth Green Flies tCPExternalAf Green of Canada additional codntries in the dia sultsto the plans proposed by two disarmament plans Place and Midpoint weregenerally receding policin of nearby Krestova said sneak as starring la AP Wircphoto mesram their marriage