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protesting continued aid to Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. Vietnamese police used clubs and tear gas to disperse the 2,000 or more demonstrators in a wild melee. SEEK! INTERVENTION Rebel forces hemmed into a defence perimeter near" two pagodas in Da Nang appealed to U.S. marines to intervene and threatened to blow up the big American air base on the outskirts of the city if the Leathernecks did not help. Fighting raged for hours through the day in Da Nang and at one point two government tanks opened fire) with 90 M.

guns pnjebelrjipers. The rebels and pro-Ky forces fought with machine guns, mortars and small arms fire. Civilians, including women and children, were caught in the crossfire and at least 20 were reported killed and sev- erai nunarao wounded in two days of fighting that seemed on the verge of erupting into all out civil war. MORE BLOODSHED Buddhist leaders demanded an end to the Ky government and said its continuation in power would only bring more bloodshed. Buddhist students blamed the United States for aiding Ky's "aggression" in Da Nang and called it an outrage comparable to the atom bombing of Hiroshima and the occupation of Santo Domingo.

The major threat to the country's security in the midst of the war against the Viet Cong developed in Da Nang where Ky rushed in five bat talions of troops Sunday to crush the rebellion. Policeman Dies on Way To Work Ottawa Police Sergeant Stuart Kettles. 48. a 20-year veteran of the force, collapsed and died this morning while walking to work from his home at 55 Beverley Avenue. A brother of Saskatoon Police Chief James Kettles, he is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy and an ex-prisoner of war.

He was promoted to sergeant in I95S and was in charge of paying accounts and purchasing. He is survived by his wife and a teenage boy and girl. Funeral will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Parkdale United Church. Radmore Stewart are in charge of arrangements.

Saturday's JOURNAL BLUENOSE COMES HOME! "A queen to sail, a tale to live, a yarn to tell That's Blue-nose II, an exact replica of her famous predecessor. And Ken Parks sailed aboard her up from the Caribbean to Halifax. Photostory in the Saturday Section. Ethel Chadwick, in another excerpt from her diary, describes the life and times Ottawa of Saturday Section. Pulling Strings Behind the scenes at last week's pinocchio puppet show at the Capitol Theatre.

Saturday Section. Face of Ottawa Bill Ketchum chats with Rear Admiral Charles J. Dillon, retiring Deputy, Generalat Canadian Forces HQ. Garden Page Something new in petunias and geraniums; and beware of useless gardening gadgets. Distinctive Home Helen Turcot te visits the Ottawa 'East of Mr and Mrs.

Alfred 1-Thivierge. Home Section. WEEKENtXPREDlCTION 56 Doomed to Die -Will You Be One? This first long summer weekend will mean highway deaths for 56 Canadians, according to the Canadian Highway Safety Council. That's 56 immediate deaths. There'll be another 1.620 who will spend the rest of the weekend, the rest of the week, or the rest of, then-lives recovering from acci-aent injuries.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars Weather Will Get Better The spring's first holiday weekend will likely be a good one for golfers, boaters and sightseers despite the fact it's going to get off to a bad start. The weatherman is calling for showers and a chance of a thundershower late this afternoon and tonight, but better things are promised for Saturday and Sunday. He's promising mainly sunny skies with some after-jioon cloudiness and temperatures near 70 during the day and dropping to around 50 at night. The National Capital Commission reminds us it's going to be a great weekend for looking at the flowers. But we're reminded the blooms are for looking, not picking.

No Journal Victoria Day As Monday. May 23. is Victoria Day. The Journal will not be published. The business office will be open from p.m.

io 9 p.m. only on the hcliday. spent repairing cars damaged in the estimated total 4,536 accidents. It's a good weekend to think about traffic safety. The Ontario Traffic Conference has just concluded a three-day meeting here, which ended with a sheaf of safety resolutions ranging from green tail lights for vehicles to compulsory safety warranties for used cars.

Arguments rage in government committees, office cafeterias and letters-to-the- editor columns over whether -i cars or drivers should be made safer. And still, about 56 people will die. The surest way to make sure you're not one of them rqight be to lock your car in the garage and yourself In the house from Friday evening until Tuesday morning. Another way might be to make sure you and your car are in top condition, and drive neither too fast, too slow or too far. Chances are you'll be around to read the next grisly highway fatality prediction.

Laugh With Earl When ft conies to marriage, most girl Eke to pick and choose. They choose a man and then pick on him for the rest of his Sfe Today's TV fan is somebody who stays home to watch a movie he wouldn't leave the boose to see 2t years ago A tax office displayed a sign over the entrance: "Watch Your Step. On the back, of exit side, it said: "Watch Yur Language" Most men have no imagination, we're told, and that's why women's fashion, designers are leaving so Gttle to H. (For more laughs sec Earl Wilson on Page .) Jack Campbell, counsel for Justice Minister Cardin, said Mr. Sevigny became a security risk, through his relationship with Mrs Munsinger and would have been fired from the cabinet had Mr, Diefenbaker or former Conservative justice minister Fulton eren the trouble to dig further into the police files.

Tie two lawyers- delivered finararguments before Jus tice Wishart Spence of the Su preme Court of Canada, who LAWYERS RAP PI EFEN BAKER'S HANDLING OF CASE 'Like Headmaster Reproving Schoolboy' (By The CP) Two lawyers at the Gerda Munsinger security inquiry called Thursday for-vr criticism-, of Opposition Leader Diefenbaker for his handling of the case as prime minister. J. L. O'Brien, counsel for the inquiry, suggested Mr. Diefenbaker cted like a schoolmaster reproving a schoolboy when informed of RCMP" reports that his associate defence minister, Pierre SeVigny, was involved with a prostitute and one-time spy for the Russians.

heads the inquiry. Ideas Urged Lamoureux Seeks MPs' Suggestions' After Bombing TORONTO (CP) An inquest was ordered Thursday into the death of Paul Joseph Chartier who added a page to Canadian history Wednesday with a bomb intended to "kill as many MPs as possible. Dr. H. B.

Cotnam. Ontario su pervising coroner, said Char- tier's death in a bomb explo sion in a washroom of the Par liament Buildings at Ottawa "certainly deserves an inquest to see how it came about and how better security could be in stituted. IChartier's plan to kuKf many members, of Parliament as possible "for the rotten way you are running this country" unfolded Thursday in a' 16-page speech written by him a la- cent notebook. The speech, rambling and of ten incoherent, said he planned for a year to throw the bomb into the Commons "to wake members up." In Ottawa. Commons Speaker Lucien Lamoureux defended past security procedures and praised the protective staff for their work after the explosion.

But nesai(TaTe view" would be conducted and invited MPs to make suggestions for improvement. "It is quite passible that im provements could be achieved in some way without undue in-! convenience to the visiting pub lic. I "With this in mind the whole bject of security will be re viewed forthwith and sugges tions proffered by honorable members or by anyone interest ed in the matter will receive every possible Tan Pas 4-SECUMTY 19,000 CStoGet Pay Raises Pay increases for up to Civil Service technicians will be announced Wednesday or Thursday next week, it was confirmed today. Treasury Board approved the increases at its Thursday meeting. Under jeview were approxi-; imatelv 16.500 technicians wholpage.

called oy ine 'are in the classified sector of! Union of Seamen when ship--. nmiers refused to meet a de- lilt i ii Jti uw Biinn.1 i 2.500 technicians who are Ior 5norI1' government agencies such the National Research Council and who are exempt from the Civil Service Act. The increases may not necessarily apply to all of the 19,000 under review, a Treasury Board spokesman said. The increases are retroactive to July 1. 1965.

Heart Patient Dies HOUSTON. Texas Walter L. McCans, the second patient in Methodist Hospital to undergo a partial artificial heart implant, died today, the hospital reported. The hospital bulletin said: "Methodist Hospital regrets to announce that Mr. Walter L.

McCans expired at 8 a.m. today. The patient had developed complications in the past 48 hours. The probable cause of death was' pulmonary insuf ficiency." Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr.

Ful ton, withdrew their lawyers Wednesday, charging Mr. Jus tice Spence with a McCarthy smear" and Mr O'Brien with revenge-seeking libels. There will be no legal argument about the evidence heard on their behalf. WILL BE INFORMED Mr. Justice Spence said that if he makes any charges against them they will be informed before be submits his report and given a chance to answer them He adjourned the inquiry until The Ontario Municipal Board gave strings-attached approval to the permanent Sparks Street Mall today.

The Mall may be built if the city promises to keep costs within 10 per cent of the $578,000 estimated price, if the majority of Sparks Street property owners sign a new petition in favor of the promenade. City solicitor Donald Ham-bling said the city anticipates little trouble; in meeting either -condition. and the -mall will still meet its 1967' completion date. OMB approval was assured even before Hanover Estates, the only objector to the mall, withdrew its objection Thursday. Told of the withdrawal, the OMB said it had already made its report.

felt not enough parking would be provided' near the mall. But the OMB expected city testi-. mony that there would actually be a surplus of parking in the area after next year. cent of the estimates and recent tenders on city projects have tended to do so. there will have to be a new OMB hearing.

The new petition to be submitted to the property owners will have to be signed by at least 23 out of the 44 owners. Peace Hopes In UKStrike LONDON (Reuters) Hopes of peace in Britain's five-daylong seamen's strike rose today as 400 idle merchant ships clogged ports around the country. Spokesmen tor the seamen and shipping companies ninteai Thursday night they might wel- come a government or labor union initiative to areas uic deadlock. Ministers today planned to review the gradually crippling economic etiecis tne p- 1 IIC WWllti ments Thursdav. but withheld any sign of official action to settle or break the strike, which threatens to bring major trading ports to a standstill.

However, members of Parliament have been warned they may be recalled from a two-week recess, starting next Fri day, it tne governmeiu to declare a state oi emer- gency. A way lor peace moves was opened at a press conference Thursday night by a spokesman for the seamen union which has called out 12.000 of its members to back demands for a 40-hour working week, instead of the present 56-hour week. Turn to Page 4 PEACE CHARGES BRIBERY GRAND'MERE. Que. Separatist candidate Marcel Chaput said Thursday that Quebec's "Old parties" are buying votes for the June 5 provincial general election by the clever dis tribution of patronage.

Tuesday when Jules Dupres. counsel for Mr. Sevigny, will present final argument. Mr. O'Brien's argument at tached" no blame fa Prime Min ister Pearson and former Liberal justice minister Favreau who were informed about the case in December.

1964. He said "no affirmative action" could have been taken after early February, 1963. when Mr. Sevigny and former trade minister Hees 'quit the Conservative cabinet. Tnrn to fat 4 LIKE I f.

R1DEAU TRUST uisiuft aimllJuLAUlJ SUNNY, MILD Low, 45; High, 70 1HE OPEN 51 HOURS A Week 1-w 81st Yeor-136 Phone 236-7511 Seven Cents Ottowa, Friday, May 20, 1966 METKO FINAL Pages Threaten Ready for 1967-City OURNAL Security SAIGON (UPI) Heavy fighting broke out tonight in Da Nang after government troops used tanks for the first time and sent planes to strafe a rebel relief column marching on the 7 city from the south in virtual civil war. At least one VS. marine was wounded by mortar fragments. Buddhist students swept through Saigon in a wild outburst of anti-American rioting Air Base MLS Ma MALL OX THE MALL Shown above- is an artist's conception of the huge project planned "in two or three years" by Hanover Estate on the northeast comer of Sparks and O'Connor Streets. The building, covering-' half the north frontage of Sparks, between O'Con- nor and Metcalfe, would have'two floors of shops with eight office, storeys above.

-Many shops would face interior arcades leading at the lower level from Sparks and. at the second or mezzanine Jevel from Wellington Street. The Hanover firm's Thursday p. iuu wjo-uwa uic permanent oparns aireei man maoe certain final approval of the pedestrian promenade. PLAN.

'INTERIOR Hanover Objection to Mall Ottawa, which 24 hours ago had doubts about getting even one mall, now seems destined ine way was ciearea, inurs- 1 (day. for long delayed construc- Massed Bands Concert Here On June 11 By The Canadian Press Fifteen armed forces bands will give a mass concert in the capital's Lansdowne Park on Armed Forces Day, June II. the defence department said Thursday. Six of the bands are stationed in Ottawa, tour come from Toronto, two from Hamilton and the remainder from else- wher(. Ontario.

They are: Roya! Canadian Air Force Band. HMCS Carle-ton, the Governor General's Foot Guards. Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa. 30 Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery and 3rd Signal Regiment Royal Canadian Corps of Signals of Ottawa: the Queen's York Rangers (1st American regiment), the 48th Highlanders of Canada, the Toronto Scottish Regiment and HMCS York from Toronto: the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders cf Canada and HMCS Star of Hamilton: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Band of Kingston: Canadian Guards Band of Petawawa, and the Lome-. Scots (Peel.

Dufferin and Halton Regiment) of Brampton. Musical director cf the concert will be Capt C. W. Adams of Oakvitle. inspector" of bands.

What Quebec Means By 'Revolution' This week in Montreal American newspaper editors were given an analysis by French and English Canadians of the Quebec "situation." The editor of The Journal a guest at the meeting, tells on page six today why he found the meeting of unusual value. I I 1 I 11JJ fllMl lv 1111 nWal MMWVt SHOPPING MALL' Estates Drops 'lion of the permanent Sparks Street mall when the second largest property owner, Hanover Estates, dropped its objection to the plan. And, at the same time, the Hanover firm revealed "long range" plans for an "interior shopping mall" in a proposed new building at the northeast comer oi Sparks and O'Connor Streets. A compromise solution to the permanent mall deadlock was i I juu.u. u.

'j i dem, Peter Anker, at a city hall press conference. TWO ASSURANCES The mayor explained the realty firm had withdrawn opposition to the mall plan after receiving "assurances" from the city on two points. Two years after the per manent man goes imo opera-; fion the city and its park ing 1 authority will "review" the I adequacy of parking facilities near the mall with an eye to possible expansion. The city will make arrange ments permitting trucks adequate access to Hanover's building site when its proposed new development goes u'n construction. Mr.

Anker explained his firm bad never been against WhaVs OPP brfin patrols from Separatists appear sane, Billy Graham IS Bridge 12 Careers II Classified Ads ..34,44 Comics 32, Crossword 45 Editorials Financial It, It Horoscope 12 Hi Plan the permanent man, in prin ciple, but had wanted to en sure satisfaction on these points before supporting the plan. Hsnmwr'c fotffrminml AhiM. tions at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing last week had 1 left the future of the pedestrian walkway in some doubt. The OMB had reserved decision. Aitaough 0MB approval now g1 seems assured, date for start of construction is undetermined.

Wg Turn to Page 4 MUW There's a Job Here For Ann Landers Says Diefenbaker MONTREAL CFI Opposition Leader Diefenbaker, addressing the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Thursday, drew rounds of laughter when be said: "Sex has reared its head in Canada. I think there is a job here for Ann Landers." Miss Landers, who writes an advice column for newspapers across the United States and Canada, was in the audience. Inside air two kithways straightforward. Pat 7 Ottawa Diary 15 Snorts 18-13 Tell Me 45 Theatres It TV. Radio 33, Weather 4 Women's News 26-31 Your Health IS A.S.C CkcMonoi n.m is He it it it if if.

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