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3 J. PATRICK NOWLAN MEETS PRESS To Clear Father's Name OTTAWA (CP) -- J. Patrick} Nowlan, son of the late Con- servative revenue and finance minister, George Nowlan pealed to Prime Minister Pear- son and Justice Minister Car- din in the Commons Tuesday to stand up and "at least clear were involved in the Gerda Munsinger case, said nothing in reply to Mr. Nowlan's appeal jwas a security risk STATEMENT 'EQUIVOCAL' Outside the Commons, Mr Nowlan said he knows Mr MRS. 'MUNSINGER GIVES CBC TELE VISION INTERVIEW Never TURONTU (CP)--Gerda Mun-, singer said in an overseas inter-| |view Tuesday night that the | Russians had "ruined" her life |when she was a teen-ager, and) lshe denied that she had ever |worked for the Soviet Union. The blonde German woman, | central figure in Canada's sex-| jand-security scandal, told CB jinterviewer Norman DePoe that) ithe Russians ruined my life! . and I would never move |just a little finger for them." The interview, filmed in Mu- nich, was seeh on the hour-long |CBC TV program Newsmaga- zine. It took up slightly more |than 20 minutes. It was also} 'broadcast at 6 p.m. EST an the |Ontario and Hastern Canada| CBC radio network. Mrs. Munsinger consulted her lawyer in German at one point in the interview Mr. DePoe flew back to Can-} lada with the film, which was} 'telecast under world copyright. | j Probe Could Wreck Nowlan Asks PM, Cardin Some Big Careers By RONALD LEBEL | OTTAWA (CP)--The impend-| ing judicial inquiry into the 'Gerda Munsinger case could make or break several leading ap-|Mr. Cardin has said the woman! politicians, and Parliament. Hill is buzzing with conjecture Some political observers pre dict that the inquiry will lead to a leadership convention by the dead even though they re-|Pearson was a deep personal|the Liberal or Conservative par fuse to charge the living.' The MP for the Nova Scotia} riding of Digby Annapolis | Kings, the same seat his father held, said he will have to con- sider giving up the seat unless his 'ather's name is cleared im- mediately of connections with the Munsinger affair. Mr. Pearson said George Nowlan was his friend and had his admiration and respect Nothing he 'had seen or read would change that respect. in any way. Mr. Cardin, who has charged that "two or more' former Conservative cabinet ministers Ex-Ball Player his little But "a father been friend of his statement had equivocal." He said he would have thought that Mr. Cardin would have attempted "to clear the dead." Mr, Nowlan said unless his father's name is cleared he will stay away from the Commons unti] the matter is settled by the judicial inquiry He did not intend to resign, he said But he would resign if the in- quiry found that his father had been part of any security risk or "improper involvement." Says Gerda Followed Him To Many Areas MONTREAL (CP) -- Colum- nist Bruce Taylor writes in The Star of an interview with George Shuba, a former base ball player who said Gerda Munsinger followed him to Ot tawa, Florida and Tennessee Mr. Shuba, who played with] the old.Montreal Royals of the! International League and now works for the United States post| office in Ohio, told Mr. Taylor} he planned to tell the Federal] Bureau of Investigation about his friendship with Mrs. Mun-} Judy Refers - To Munsinger DETROIT (CP)--Secretary of} State Judy LaMarsh referred to the Gerda Munsinger sex and] security case before a Detroit) banquet audience Tuesday night,| saying: "Il wish she'd (Mrs.| Munsinger) get buried in aj hurry." Miss LaMarsh, in accepting an} award for outstanding public| service from a Detroit business} group, told dinner in cluding Michigan Governor George Romney and Detroit Mayor James Cavanagh, that 'I come as a Greek bearing gifts | guests, not as a German bearing--what- ever they are bearing to Can- ada." The reference to "a German" was aimed at Mrs. Munsinger of Munich, a one-time Canadian resident who has been linked in parliamentary debates with for- mer Canadian cabinet ministers and branded a security risk Miss LaMarsh was presented with a clock to mark her serv- ice in Canadian public affairs by the Detroit Central Business District Association, who annu- ally make 19 awards to out standing U.S. women. Miss La- Marsh is the first non-American to receive the award in its 1l- year-history. Her reference to 'a Greek, bearing gifts' was explained when, having received her own award, she presented Gov. Rom-/ ney and Mayor Cavanagh with! clocks marking Canada's 1967 centennial HEAT. WITH OIL DIXON'S OIL 313 ALBERT ST. 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 SERVING OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS | PRIME RIB singer, central figure in a sex-.and deal a body blow to the a member could be the instru-\day night from his visits to and-security in Parlla ment Mr. Taylor quotes Mr, Shuba as saying: "All she ever. said about herself was that she pvas a model. She never talked pol- itics or anything like that... ." STAYED IN OTTAWA He said that in September 1956, he was preparing to return to the U.S. and went to Ottawa to do some fishing. Gerda fol- lowed him there and '"'we stayed there one day or so and that was it." In the spring of 1957 went to the Royals' camp at Vero Beach see Mr. Shuba Mr. Shuba told Mr. Taylor he then went to Memphis, Tenn., where he got a cali from her He did not tell her to come down but she did From there, he said, she went to New York where he again got a call from Gerda who was upset because "her mother had died in Germany." He said this was sometime be- ' ua £::. Bae tween May ana wily, uproar Gerda training Fla., to 1957,-and it was the last time he heard from her my SWEET PEAMEALED TROUD FOOD MARKET, 34 SIMCOE ST. NORTH HIGHEST QUALITY MEATS 29 ROLLS POT ROAST Lean Meoty BLADE Economy 6 & 7 Rib PRIME R Lean Meaty SHORT RIB Short Cut lat 4 Rib 6 6 COTTAGE 39 63 80: ties or both The men whose future is most directly involved are two old) antagonists, Justice Minis- ter Cardin. and Opposition Leader Diefenbaker. Mr. Cardin told the Commons Monday he will resign his cab- inet portfolio and his seat if the inquiry. disproves his charges that Mr. Diefenbaker mishan- died a sex-and-security case when he was prime minister. The minister appears su- premely confident that evidence} at the inquiry will support his allegations and that Mr. Diefen- baker will be discredited in the | eyes of the voters, hastening his} | demise as Conservative leader. LEADER CONFIDENT Mr. Diefenbaker appears equally confident that the in- quiry will vindicate him, force) the resignation of Mr. Cardin| Pearson minority government. Several Conservatives and| other opposition MPs argue that if the justice minister resigns, Prime Minister Pearson will be compelled to resign too, he- cause he supported Mr. Cardin during the chaotic Munsinger debate that ended Tuesday. Mr. Cardin alleged last week that two or more former mem bers of the Diefenbaker cabinet were involved with the German blonde, that a security risk arose as a result and that Mr Diefenbaker hushed up the case in 1961 Here is a partial list of politi- cians whose careers could be affected one way or the other by the inquiry conducted by Mr. Justice Wishart F. Spence of the Supreme Court of Canada: --Davie Fulton (PC -- Kam loops), who has announced he will contest the Conservative leadership whenever Mr. Dief- --Davie Fulton (PC --Kam- loops), who bas announced he will contest the Conservative leadership whenever Mr. Dief- baker retires and died the Munsinger file while he was justice minister in steer Ben te Who nan OR HALF Fresh Pork C lb Fresh Pork vee ee Lean Tender STEAKS lb g g Ib ¢ | Time Not Ripe As Yet SHOULDER Fresh Pork 3-lb. Average Worked For Russ They Ruined Me-Gerda sians did what they felt like with; Asked if sit tad ever been me for three years. They ruined|refused admission to the United because of those three!States, Mrs. Munsinger said: I've had quite a lot o.|"No, not that J know of." She haps worked for the Soviets or operations . . . my whole life | said she entered Canada as a other agencies?" has been ruined with it." |domestic and worked that way Mrs. Munsinger: 'That is a, DePoe: "What do you plan to|for the required year. e. Let me say why. Those peo-|do with your life now?" | DePoe: Specifically, how did le harmed me so much in my| Mrs. Munsinger: "I may live! you come to meet Mr. Sevigny? oung life that I would never|in Canada after I marry... (Former Progressive Conserva- even move a finger for any one|d may even take a honeymoon in/tive associate defence minister of them. Tiucy have ruined my Canada, who knows?" Pierre Sevigny) whole life, especially when-1| At the start of the interview, Mrs. Munsinger: Well, after was a child, and I would never Mr. DePoe questioned Mrs. |I was finished working one day move a little finger for them." |Munsinger about her identity. |I went to a famous lounge in DePoe: '"'Why do you want to): DePoe: As a matter of fact Montreal where everybody met go to Canada?" a story circulated in Canada after 5 o'clock for cocktails and Mrs. Munsinger: "Because I\yesterday that you had a twin Sevigny was standing there. want to get away from all this.|sister named Olga who did | DePoe: Which lounge? You see there was so muchiin the East Zone a couple o ? ee iiss done to me-after the war) years back. Do you now declare CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 by the Russians I couldn't for-|that you are the Gerda Mun-|~ get what happened here." singer who lived in Canada trom | . " DePoe: 'How did the Soviets|1955 to 1961, that you are the er a 1 e harm you?" person named by Mr. Cardin Mrs. "I was 16| (Justice Minister Cardin) in the ¢ Removed am -- Douglas years old when the war was Canadian Parliament? iiere are eacerpis irom ihe interview: | DePoe: "Is it a lie that you|my life are a double agent who has per-| years. li Pp over... a farmer's girl with; Mrs. Munsinger: Yes, long blonde pigtails. The Rus- Gerda Munsinger and I las, leader of the New Demo- cratic Party Diefenbaker wa considered one of the. out- ter. standing newcomers in this Parliament, who told thejing a 1961, He denies there was any threat to aational security --Pierre Sevigny, former Con servative associate' defence minister, who has talked of a political comeback, acknowl edges he had a social rela tionship with Mrs. Munsinger and strenususly denies she was a Communist spy or se-| curity risk. --George Hees (PC--North- umberland), who says he took the German woman to lunch twice when he was transport minister denies any breach of security or any im- proper conduct. He is con sidered a leading contender for the Conservative leader- ship. --J stopover on a flight father, George Nowlan, for-|moval from mer finance minister, of any sources, security risk or improper in usually brought unfairly under sus-|coming judicial investigation picion by Mr. Cardin's allega-|into the Munsinger affair tions --Transport Minister Pickers:|had a duplicate of the file and gill, who was immigration/he felt sure Justice Minister minister when Mrs. Mun-|Cardin had examined it since singer was admitted as a/the case broke. landed immigrant in 1955; He! He also amplified a statement said Monday he is not in the|he made Monday in a Vancou- least embarrassed by that!ver interview when he said he fact, despite Mr. Cardin's| would take his. party out of the claims that she was once a House if the Liberals and Con- spy. servatives did not stop wran- ----jgling about the affair. "T don't mean the NDP will leave the House before proper |arrangements are made for the terms of reference of the judi- cial inquiry, But if the wrangl- ing continues after the terms of reference are arranged, we'll walk out then.' and (PC--| Kings), - Patrick Nowlan (Digby - Annapolis - For Truce Talk -- Ronning TORONTO (CP)--T. C. Doug-| said Tuesday the|(McClelland and Stewart). Al- RCMP file on Gerda Munsinger|ready questions about the case was smuggled out of justice de- partment offices by an unknown|of Commons and in the Ontario '|person while Opposition Leader! legislature. The United Church prime minis- Mr. Douglas, interviewed dur- to| mediate inquiry into the boy's House Tuesday he will resign,Ottawa from British Columbia, if the report accuses his late|said he learned of the file's re- reliable! Parliament. Truscott Not Guilty, TORONTO (CP) -- Twelve-| year-old Lynne Harper was strangled June 9, 1959. A boy of 14 was charged with tha \erime. convicted and sentenced |to be hanged. p Thus, says Isabei LeBourdais, was a second crime committed. | She contends that Steven Murray Truscott was innocent and that society perpetrated a jshocking miscarriage of justice. She demands a royal commis- sion of inquiry. | Little Lynne was murdered in |the sleepy southwestern Ontario town of Clinton, in Huron County about 45 miles northwest of London, It is the site of an RCAF station and the principals |were children of service per- |sonnel--Lynne the daughter of Flying Officer Leslie Harper and Steven the son of Warrant Officer Dan Truscott. For six years Mrs, LeBour- |dais, a Toronto writer whose |own son was 14 that year, has jinvestigated the case, studying |the 2,500-page transcript of trial evidence, interviewing the |jurors and witnesses, court of- jficials and legal and medical | authorities. She says: "Once I started investigating, I couldn't stop." Her | forcibly, The Trial findings are set forth and disturbingly, in of Steven Truscott have been asked in the House publication, The Observer, has called for either stern action against the author or an im- \trial. Mrs, LeBourdais has sent copies to all 265 members of The book is extremely critical] He said he expected that the/of what are alleged to be un- yolvement. He said his|person who took the file would|scientific methods by the| father's reputation has been|be identified during the forth- Crown's medical examiners in! setting the time of death--they| isaid between 7 p.m. and°7:45 Mr. Douglas said the RCMP} p.m.--from the condition of con-| tents of the girl's stomach. It | charges that police and Crown | prosecutor closed their minds to| everything but the determina- tion that Steven Turscott was guilty. Criticized, too, are the) }magistrate at the boy's pre- | liminary hearing, the trial judge jand, mildly, defence counsel for jlack of aggressiveness. 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The infantrymen killed 33 Viet Cong in a series of skirmishes that forced them southward, a U.S. spokesman said. The Viet Cong knocked out Woman Says Fight Guerillas three U.S. helicopters. Their crews were rescued. x The air war continued north and south of the 17th parallel. An air jorce ¥-4C Phantom jet with two men aboard was re- ported missing three miles south | of Dien Bien Phu, site of the fortress where France made her last stand in Indochina. . U.S. Air Force and navy planes flew 32 combat missions against North Viet Nam Tues- day, while other planes de- Stroyed several hundred build- ings and huts and three junks in raids on targets in the south, a U.S. spokesman' said. Helps Solve 3 Biggest FALSE TEETH Worries and Problems A little FASTERTH led tures does all thiss it) tren old fale teeth more firmly in 5 (2) Bol more : (3). Lets you bite up to 35% harder without discomt EET Powder is 4 up 'ort. FAST: cline (non-acid).Won't Favold embarrassment. 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