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CLOUDY voMMf MUtual 4-7141 44 PAGES VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1963 FINAL PRICE 10 CENTS BY CARRIER 3.00 Ptr MunlR ft Ttetf EC. aBuUdl'ini rfeDi Ate Hail Stan led PRANKSTERS KIDNAP IOCY FOR CHARITY 137 Flee Flames In City Hotel Firemen believe one man's heart attack took three lives early Sunday in a downtown hotel fire. The blaze at the Austin Motor Hotel, 1221 Gran started in the sixth floor room of Morris Bernstein, 65, a tenant) for 10 years. Tax Office Bombed in Montreal Little Damage In Attacks By Fanatics MONTREAL (CP) A bomb tossed through an outside ventilator shaft exploded in the basement of the national revenue build He was killed, along with William Brandcr, 5j, who lived at the hotel 15 years, and a man about 50, also a long-time guest, whose identity was withheld. Chief Fire Warden Ken I A ST.

JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) Memorial University students today claimed they had kidnapped Liberal Premier Joey Smallwood in an April 1 prank. They offered: (1) to turn him loose for a $250 donation to the Red Cross or (2) to hold him indefinitely if the opposition Conservatives would put up $500. A radio station said Smallwood had phoned them to confirm he was being held and to order his office to pay up. A Conservative spokesman said the cause was worthy but the price was too high.

-f 1 saw iuuay oernsiein was known to have had a heart i Picture on Page condition and firemen believe he suffered an attack and! ing today. Slight damage was done to dropped a cigaret he was smoking In bed. The blaze smouldered In his room for about three burst through the walls and ceiling and spread through- 4Ua a locker room. Indications were that the PREMIER SMALLWOOD held for ransom blast was the work of a fan atic separatist group. ROOM EMPTY No one was Injured, Build.

Builder Called ing employees said no one happened to be In the room at the time. Det. Sgt. Leo Plouffe, police Angel for Gaglardi i bomb expert who led a squad of investigators to the scene, said the bomb was a high ex PAT COURTEPATTE reports fire Program Sponsor Alleged; Question Ruled Inadmissible Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA A member of the highways depart plosive one. He could not tell Immediately whether it was home-made.

Asked whether police had any idea who threw the bomb, rim saiu. SLX INJURED Firemen and hotel employees evacuated 137 guests. Six were Injured. As flames raced through the two upper floors, tenants in night clothes rushed into the hall and groped through heavy smoke for the staircase. Three tenants trapped In their rooms by flames and smoke screamed for help from their windows and were rescued by firemen on aerial ladders.

One man climbed down an outside pipe from his sixth floor window to a room one floor below. Another knotted bedclothes together and climbed down into an outside light welL BELLHOP CALLED Ctf rift X3lr of If I' fSt (1 rf K- J' J' iif i 5 if: ment inquiry board said today he has reason to believe a road contractor sponsored Highways Minister Phil Sgt. Plouffe pointed to a pile of torn metal, plaster and dust and said: "There's the only calling card they left." The bomb was tossed Gaglardf radio program. CIC kill I mkl The statement was made be. through a shaft above the out side steps at the Bleury street IN DOPE HELD entrance to the 10-storey building.

ANONYMOUS TIP i About an hour esrlier The Canadian Press received an Bellhop Pat Courtepatte, 22, reported the fire at 3:31 a.m. after he was called to the sixth anonymous telephone call saying a bomb was going to ex floor to investigate a report plode at the national revenue ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) A ton of raw opium worth an estimated $15 million has been seized tn Turkey, it was announced today. The haul is one of the largest on record. The opium was destined to be shipped to North America, via Syria and France, for use In the Illicit heroin trade, according to Joseph Arpaio, special agent with the U.S. treasury department, who co-operated In the seizure.

fore the board by James Rhodes, (NDP Delta). Said Rhodes: "I have some reason to believe Mr. Lym-burner was sponsoring a radio broadcast on Radio CFJC (This is the station in Kam-loops.) Burton Lymburner was president of the former and Logging which allegedly received $135,000 In extra payments from the government on highways project 819 in 1957. CAUSED FURORE Rhodes' statement caused a furor among the other 12 members of the inquiry Board. Rhodes was questioning witness Fred S.

Bell. He asked him If he had of smolce. Police and fire officials said Courtepatte probably saved several lives by crawling along the blazing sixth-floor corridor to rouse sleeping guests. Courtepatte, of 1220 Nicola, said he went to the sixth floor building. The French-speaking caller said he was a member of the Front de Liberation Quebecois (Quebec Liberation Front).

The organization said it was responsible for throwing Molo-tov cocktails (gasoline-filled MRS. JULIUS HAGEN smoke with night clerk Art Gallagher after Mrs. Julius Ilagen, in bottles) at three Montreal-area armories a few weeks ago. In other pamphlets, the Winnie Steps Out On Wife's 78th LONDON (AP) Sir Win- room 622, telephoned she had spotted smoke. "Gallagher rushed down to FROZEN group called themselves sui cide commandos and said they alert guests on the fifth floor," the bellhop said.

were prepared to destroy 'by ston Churchill ventured out of doors today for the first time "I grabbed a fire extinguish heard Lymburner say he spon this spring. The occasion wa er on the sixth floor and went down the hall there was a Lady Churchill's 78th birthday. systematic sabotage au symbols in colonial institutions, particularly the RCMP and armed forces." The leaflets also said acts of sabotage would be directed City Man Kills Self In Fridge The frozen body of a 41- sored a radio and television broadcast for Gaglardi. Bell, bookkeeper for and at the time of the project, iney arove to the home of their daughter. Marv.

for a Please Turn to Page Two See: "Fire" birthday party. towards English-language "I didn't hear that news organs "which hold us in contempt" and businesses myself. Not from my personal knowledge." year-old man was found sitting on a pillow inside a kitchen refrigerator Sunday. which discriminate against Ouebecers or do not use The question and answer was ruled Inadmissible by Fighting Pearson Ready for Sparks French as their first language, Police said it appeared to be suicide. commission counsel Lloyd Mc Kenzie on the grounds of hearsay evidence.

They identified the man as Before the ruling, Angelo Douglas Crawford Nelson, of 3726 Main. Anti-Castro Boat Seized Nelson apparently removed Branca, QC, representing Gag lardi and the highways department, described the ques tion as "most Improper." MAY BE CALLED the shelves from his refrigerator, turned the temperature control to the coldest position, MIAMI (AP) An exile group, the Cuban Anti-Com then crawled Inside with the Board secretary Dan Camp munist Arany, said today one Dan Bcott Photo pillow and shut the door, they of its boats was captured Sun said. Police believe Nelson had day night in Bahamas waters THIRD PAPER QUITS DM MONTREAL (UPD The traditionally Conserva i Montreal Gazette today withdrew its support of Prime Minister John Dief en-baker. The Gazette was the third prominent newspaper to bolt Diefenbaker. Earlier, the Toronto Telegram and the Toronto Globe and Mail came out in support of the Liberal Party.

by British and American crait. Another boat escaped and continued on toward Cuba, and "if it is taken it will have to been dead since Wednesday. He had not been to his job as elevator repairman for Canadian Pacific Railway since HAPPY COMMUTERS came to work over the Lions Gate Bridge today without making the usual stop at toll gate. Tolls were lifted at midnight Sunday. Traffic flowed smoothly and the crossing took about half the usual 25 minutes.

Bridge Traffic Goes Smoothly Because It's Free, Free, Free bell (Social Credit Comox) said he would issue a certificate to have Rhodes called as a witness. Earlier, a move by opposition members to try to prove forgery of a signature on an agreement to assign contract 1023 near Creston from Bonanza Construction Co. to Please Turn to Page Two See: "Builder" Tuesday. be taken by force," the an nouncement said. His body was discovered when a fellow employee called The captured boat was under command of Evello police after he found several newspapers outside Nelson Duque, one of the top anti-Castro fighters In Cuba's Es cambray Mountains.

apartment and could not get an answer to his knocking. ing traffic flowing and there i they passed through the gales TraHIc moved smoothly were no accidents as the flow the empty toll booths. over the toll-free First and NEWSPAPER STRIKE ENDS of cars 'and buses thickened between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Some motorists cheered as TRAFFIC LIGHT Reaction of others was predictable and A few drivers stopped auto Second Narrows bridges "at rush hours this morning.

It was forecast a month ago that If tolls were removed there would be rush-hour traffic chaos. But there wasn't a hitch after the tolls ended at 12.01 a.m. today. Even a maze of traffic iybbly Plbivs Like Ocik matically at the booths. Others reached absent-mind By ARNIE MYERS A determined Mike Pearson invades Vancouver today for one of the most crucial meet ings of the current political campaign.

The Liberal leader fully expects tonight's giant rally at the Forum to be the roughest and, perhaps, the most hos-tile he has ever faced. In tonight's rally, Pearson will be fighting under a handicap. He developed a severe head cold late last week and had to spend the weekend in bed at a Vancouver Island retreat. To help him ride over the. hecklers tonight at the Forum, he will', have -a specially aug-mented public-address system.

Liberals expect at least people will cram the Forum and nearby Show Mart u5, wher Pearson be seen on closed-circuit television. Party organizers today were investigating the possibility of hiring stlli a third building, setUn UP noufc door television screen, in case the crowd is larger than tJwLiberals sy they are taking no special precautions. No special police have been hired, but city police are ex-pected to provide about 30 men. No placard-bearers will be allowed to enter either building. In skirmishes between demonstrators and Tories at last year's meeting of Prime Minister Diefenbaker placards were wielded like battleaxes.

The Liberals say they have no fo-sire to bar political Please Turn to Page Two See: "Pearson" edly fbr bridge passes still clipped to car sun visors. They1 grinned sheepishly as bridge patrolmen waved them on. Once on the bridge traffic moved at a brisk 30 m.p.h. The only delays were the Inevitable ones, caused by traffic lights on Georgia Street as traf fic headed into the heart cones on Lions Gate failed to stall traffic or wipe out the grins of motorists during this morning's rush. The cones guided traffic from five empty toll-booth stations into two bridge lanes for Vancouver-bound drivers.

SMALL ONE The merging traffic was a bottleneck but a small one for North and West Vancouver motorists who have faced regular morning delays to pay tolls for the past 25 years. Bridge police kept the merg Scoop Scored By Weekend The Sun's Weekend Magazine has won out in the biggest Yukon gold rush since the strike of '98. Editors of the weekly magazine today said they have acquired, in conjunction with Saturday Evening Post, exclusive rights for the survival story of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, Flores, 42, of San Bruno, and Miss 21, of Brooklyn, lived on water, alone for 42 of 49 days on a remote northern B.C. mountainside after their light plane crashed. Miss Klaben, who returned to Brooklyn after the rescue, had the five gangrenous toe3 of her right foot amputated today.

NEW (AP)-New Yorkers welcomed back their newspapers Sunday night with the glee and careful scrutiny of a family reunited with a long lost relative. All over the city's five boroughs, newsdealers reported readers were waiting and eager to see the first editions of morning newspapers published in nearly four months. But the big crush was in Times Square. There, where people gather by hundreds of thousands on New Year's Eve, hundreds gathered for a parly to celebrate the end cf the 114-day shutdown. The host was Henry Modell, president 1 1 the Smaller Businessmen's Asso- ciation of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, who also operates a store off the square, He had promised free newspapers plus champagne, noisemakers, con-lettl, balloons and party hats.

The reception was so enthusiastic that police finally halted it, fearful that the crowds would push through plate glass windows. One gleeful pedestrian drank his champagne from a cone-like folded copy of the Daily News with a photo of Mayor Robert Wagner, mediator In the shutdown, on the front pegs, Maria Carlucci, IS, of Please Turn to Page Two See: 'Tapem" or the city. On the six-lane Second Narrows bridge, police said traf: flc moved smoothly without mishap through the toll-booth gates. The tolls also came off this morning on bridges at Agas-siz, Kelowna and Nelson. U.S.

Drafts Doctors WASHINGTON (AP)-The U.S. announced today 1,350 doctors will be drafted thin summer for the armed Air Base Robbed RAMSTEIN, Germany (UPI) Burglars took in fur coats from the Ram-stein U.S. Air Force post ex- AP Wlrepholo NEW YORK PAPERS back on stands tho air force said..