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TIIC LEADER-POST. RECINA, SAK. NOVEMBER 23, ldlil- LIVE CO NT I MING Hail profits CONTINUING Bribe probe is ordered (Continued from Page 1) Wife expresses faith in God would justify when his widowed mother told commissioner prosecution. him his father was murdered by Mr. Favreau said that apart from the persons mentioned by Mr.

Nielsen, the only other person besides himself associated with the government and men- leftist rebels in Stanleyville Tuesday. Mrs. I.ois Carlson, 3fi, along with her son Wayne and daugh-1 the report was Mr. I iui L.VIKHI-, i. iuuj.ni 1 1 tionecl in here at the beginning of The no yardstick (Continued from Page 1) farm group his government is 'determined the new federal-labor code will not interfere in any way with Western grain handling." He said the labor code bill i provides for averaging hours of I work over a period and the gov-j ernment is prepared to extend this period to a year.

I Agriculture Minister Hays, who attended the meeting with Mr. Pearson, predicted a shortage of dairy products in Canada within four or five years. i Dairy programs and labor problems were among those dis-! cussed by provincial agriculture i ministers at a federal-provincial conference in Ottawa this week and will be discussed at another conference Dec. 15 16. Congo rebellion in September.

I Mr FavrpM saiH hn a public inquiry BANGUI. Central African Republic (Reuters) "Mum. God always dues just the righl thing doesn't he?" These were the words of the 10-vear-'jUl sun of American missionary Dr. Paul Carlson Typhoon Louise kills 567 From Reuters-AP MANILA (CP) Typhoon NIELSEN ROULEAU DENIS lamontagm: When U.S. Ambassador Claude Ross broke the news of her husband's death she said: "Now Paul is in God's hands and we do not have to worry about his physical condition anymore." "It is my faith in God that enables me to receive this news with courage in my heart knowing that one day we will be re Cold air Key said Red enterprise likely damaged Mr.

Pearson said the man who would conduct the inquiry had not yet been selected by the cabinet. Mr. Diefenbaker said the whole matter "bears out what has been said in description of oppositions, that oppositions cleanse and purify those in office. We in the Opposition are the detergents of democracy." The former prime minister said there must be a complete investigation and that nothing should be hidden. Mr.

Diefenbaker said Mr. Favreau should, however, immediately answer these questions: Was Mr. Denis dismissed from office? If so, for what reason? Did he admit any By WILLIAM L. RYAN Congo developments strengthen Associated Press News Analyst an already strong impression The United States may take a i that the Peking campaign has been directed against the Soviet "liberation, movements" in Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique. They have sewed the initiative from the Russians in capitalizing on the name of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo leader slain in 1961.

Peking's plan appears to have been to entrench a usable Com- moves in A snow-bearing storm centre, that forgot to listen to the weather forecaster in the Regina area, moved east into Ontario Wednesday but it was being followed by muas of cold air that dropped temperatures steadily. Snow hit northern Saskatchewan areas, with Hudson Bay receiving an overnight snowfall of six inches, Vorkton two inches and Prince Albert three inches. From a high of 42 degrees Tuesday afternoon in Regina the temperature dropped steadily. It was not expected to rise above 10 degrees during the day and the forecast was for a leading of 10 to 15 degrees below zero Wednesday night. united asnin in heaven." KILLED IN MASSACRE Carlson was killed in a massacre of other wh'te hostages just after U.S.

Air Force transports dropped a force of Belgian paratroops on the rebel stronghold of Stanleyville. Carlson already had two stays of execution from the rebels who condemned him to death for allegedly being a spy and also a U.S. army major. Mrs. Carlson, a trained nurse from Menamenee, arrived in Bangui Sept.

4, 1964, after fleeing Wasolo village in the north Congo where her husband practised as a doctor. Carlson, 36, was a surgeon who volunteered tor missionary work in The Congo in 1963. Union as well as the United States and the West. This may explain why Moscow seemed slow in reacting to the events, which easily could have mushroomed into a big international crisis as soon as the Kremlin heard of plans to use U.S. transport planes to ferry Belgian troops to the rebel cap i I government in The propaganda beating in Africa, but the rout of Congolese rebels at Stanleyville likely has damaged a key Chinese Communist enterprise.

In the long view, interruption of Peking's plans to gain a foothold in Africa's most critical area may prove more important to the West than the bruised feelings of leaders of new African nations. The Chinese seem to have chosen to make Africa a decisive cold war arena. But the Congo, Africa's heart, and work I from there toward domination of other areas. If this was the case, the timetable now may badly upset. wrong-doing? If so, why was that, wrong-doing so carefully concealed until brought forth in the House by the member for Yukon? What statements were made by Mr.

Lord? Did he admit that he had indulged in any way in threats? Did Denis admit he had indulged in attempted bribery? Louise killed about 5I7 persons ai.d left 300,000 homeless in its devastating sweep through the central and southern Philippines last week, the Red Cross reported today. President Diosdado Macapa-gal toured stricken i danao llnnd in the southeast today and called the typhoon "the most devastating calamity in the Philippines in a long time. Earlier the president had declared a state of calamity in Durigao de Notre province, where 312 persons were killed, on the basis of reports trom a team of cabinet members. Ori Negros Island, also hard hit by the storm, a village leader described the scene at the? height of a flood to a Philippine news service correspondent 'Jt was a pathetic sight as hysterical parents lost all their children. It was a nightmare.

Drowning victims shouting or help, others clinging to rooftops as their houses were carried away by rampaging flood-waters or smashed by logs. Vter the flood, a tornado strficlc. It was reported to have lifted a Protestant chapel where thef Filipino minister and his family had sought shelter and smashed it against his nearby home. The entire family was killed. Mr.

Douglas said it was sur prising that the government had to be pushed by the Opposition into initiating the inquiry after the charges brought by Mr. ital of Stanleyville MOSCOW MILD Ordinarily, U.S. involvement against a left oriented rebellion would have produced clamor and threats from Moscow. This time the response was mild. The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia made the usual attack on "imperialists and their pup- pets" and commented that the Congo situation demanded meas-1 ures for elimination of a dan- gerous situation in Africa.

Time and again Peking has MP his explains resignation CONTINUING Nightmare described (Continued from Page 1) for GUislhuxa Commons Tuesday shortly be B1RKS Nielsen Monday. Mr. Douglas said the terms of reference for the inquiry should also include the whole procedure which was used by the minister and the government in dealing with the matter. Mr. Douglas said the justice minister had all the information before him Sept.

18, then decided on his own that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. The NDP leader said he didn't think the Montreal lawyer involved in the alleged bribe "had anything to gain by making his allegation." He said he was also shocked to hear that Mr. Pearson didn't know anything about the case until a short time ago. OTTAWA (CP) Guy Rouleau, Liberal MP for Montreal Dollard. said Tuesday night he resigned as Prime Minister Pearson's parliamentary secretary so that neither Mr.

Pearson nor his position as prime minister "may be in any way brought into question" in a judicial inquiry. Mr. Rouleau, chairman of the Liberal caucus of MPs, announced his resignation as parliamentary secretary in the and her 14-year-old sister in Stanleyville. One young Belgian woman fainted as she left the aircraft. Her companions said she lost her husband and three children.

Another woman stood alone. A friend said her three-months-old baby died of machine-gun fire in its cot Tuesday morning. A bov of 12 sat bewildered. waiting for Other sur challenged Moscow in Africa. Only last week in a violent attack on supporters of the fallen Nikita Khrushchev an assault obviously aimed at men still in power in Moscow China i accused the Russian of perfidy I in The Congo.

I This was an attack on the peaceful coexistence 1 i which the new Soviet regime i says it will continue. Under this policy, the Chinese insisted, Khrushchev meaning the whole Soviet leadership "instructed the Soviet delegate at the United Nations to vote for the dispatch of forces of aggression to The 1 Congo, which helped the U.S. imperialists suppress the Congo- lese people, and used Soviet transport facilities to move so-called UN troops to The Congo." AFRICA MAIN ARENA China, busy for some time trying to shut the Russians out of revolutionary movements in fore a government decision was announced to hold a judicial inquiry into opposition charges of attempted bribery by a former executive assistant to Citizenship Minister Rene Tremblay. Mr. Rouleau gave this account, in a statement issued outside the House, of his connection with the case: At his brother's request, he asked the justice department to look into the possibility of obtaining bail for Lucien Rivard, charged with a narcotics offence in the U.S.

and held pending extradition proceedings in Montreal. He informed Montreal lawyer Pierre Lamontagne of the step he had taken. Mr. Lamontagne was acting for the U.S. government but Mr.

Rouleau said he had been informed Mr. Lamontagne was acting as a Crown prosecutor. ACTED FOR U.S. vivors said his father was cut to nieces with machetes. Debuisson said: "I'm never going bark to The Congo." But manv of the former hostages CONTINUING Troops look for missinir said thrv planned to return (Continued from Page 1) of whites killed by rebels Tuesday to 25, with 38 wounded now in hospitals in Leonoldville.

Eleven are in critical condi after jest and recuperation. "After all. it is nur livelihood." WAS FIRED UPON Rene Bragard of Brussels was one of those fired upon in the square, "Almost at once the paratroops appeared," he said. "The well armed rebels started running away shouting, 'the Americans. The Americans'." Bragard said the rebels feared Americans more than Belgians and thought the paratroops were American soldiers.

"They believed also that strafing planes (manned by Cuban refugee pi tion. It was believed the dead found "I would think any prime minister would take a dim view of an RCMP report, lying on the desk of his minister of justice, involving his own parliamentary secretary, not being transmitted to him." Mr. Douglas said. Later during the question period, Mr. Diefenbaker asked the prime minister to call the estimates of the justice department right away because "further disclosures" were planned by the Opposition.

Mr.Pearson said Mr. Nielson made certain charges Monday and that the government immediately set up an inquiry to deal with these charges. "I am quite certain that the inquiry will be wide enough that all relevant factors and the statements and allegations made will be covered in the inquiry," Mr. Pearson said. But the justice department estimates have not yet been nassd and will have to be called by the patrols were Belgians.

Asia and Africa, appears to have made Africa the main cold war arena. All Chinese embassies in Africa seem lavishly supplied with money to buy subversion. The Chinese appear to have their main operating centre in Burundi, next door to The Congo. The Chinese have adopted At least 19 persons were killed when rebels opened fire FROM FRANCE on hostages in front of the Patrice Lumumba monument in Weather A mass of Arctic air is now firmly entrenched over the western Prairies. Clearing skies in northern sections of the forecast district brought sub zero temperatures to many localities.

A disturbance from British Columbia wilt bring cloud cover and some snow to Alberta today and Thursday. This cloud will prevent a sharp drop in overnight temperatures. However in western Saskatchewan lows overnight are likely to range from 10 to 15 belwv. Highs on Thursday will reach only zero to 15 above. Recina- Weyburn Entevan: Sunny, clouding over Thursday afternoon.

Cold. Winds NW20; gusty today, decreasing to light this evening. Wind east 1 5 Thursday. Low-high 1 5 below and 5 abovt. Prince Albert Sxkaloon: A few clouds today and Thursday.

Cold. Winds NWI5 becoming light this afternoon. Low-high Prince Albert 1 5 elow and zero. Saskatoon and North Battleford 10 below and 5 aboe. Mplc Creek Moose Jaw: A few clouds today.

Sunny wllh cloudy Reripd Thursday and cold. Winds 'WJO dropping to 15 late this afternoon. Light Thursday. Low high Swift Current 15 below and 5 above. Regina Details Forecast high today 10 Tertfperature at 12 noon 7 Onai year ago 27 Relative humidity 72 Recerd high 19)4 53 Recerd low 1900 -27 Avsrage high 26 Average low 8.7 Average 17.4 Sunset today 5.04 p.m.

Sungise tomorrow 6-26 a.m. 1 Yesterday's Temperatures Max. Min. Precip. TWgina 4 2 6 Tr.

ose Jaw 45 6 Tr. saskatoon 28 2 Tr. randersley 33 1 Yirkton 32 6 .10 Bettleford 23 -2 .09 Prince Albert 21 4 .18 Broadview 37 8 Tr. Wynyard 36 5 .04 Estevan 39 12 Tr. Swift Current 47 3 .02 Hudson Bay 19 4 .48 Vancouver 50 34 .01 Victoria 49 44 .02 Calgary 12 5 02 Edmonton 23 -5 .08 Llthbridge 45 1 .29 Medicine Hat 45 8 02 Brandon 30 14 Tr.

Te Pas 18 5 .39 Winnipeg 29 22 .08 Trt William 34 32 .04 Ottawa 24 13 .0) Tbronto 43 24 Ivfontreal 27 18 Mr. Rouleau said Mr. Lamontagne explained he was acting for the U.S. government, not the Canadian justice department, and outlined the nature of the charges against Rivard and the icasons bail was denied. After the justice department relayed similar information, Mr.

Rouleau said "at that point I completely dissociated myself from the matter." Some time later, he said, he complied with an RCMP re lots) were American planes with CONTINUING American pilots. Walter de Lepper, a Dutch Catholic father of the Holy Heart from Eindhoven, said rebel leader Christophe Gbenye was responsible for the death of the whites who were shot Troops fight with students (Continued from Page 1) down. "There would have been little killing if rebel leader Gbenye again this week, since the House had agreed to finish all estimates by Friday. Mr. Diefenbaker said the terms of reference for the inquiry were so worded that "it could not be anything other than a whitewash Mr.

Pearson said the government wanted to make the inquiry "full and fair." Mr. Neilsen asked the prime minister about the possibility of "international crime organizations having infiltrated other cabinet ministers." Mr. Pearson said that if the Yukon member had any evidence to support his statement, he should produce the evidence so that necessary steps could be taken. had not said on the radio yesterday that all whites should be killed." Father de Lepper said. Christian de Greef, a Brussels coffee exporter, huddled under a blanket as he told how he, his wife and their three children had been confined to their home for a month.

"We stayed in the house when the firing started," de Greef said. "When the paratroopers came to take us to the airport, we saw about 20 bodies in the street." 'WANTED TO KILL' Serve your tea in style or surprise a favourite hostess with our charming new ensemble. Its radiant roses, glowing in gold on white china, will embellish any setting 10 3-plca mat (Teapot, creamer, covered sugar) BIRKS Stanleyville. McMillan, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was cut down in Lumumba square.

His wife and six sons, who were held hostage with him, were rescued. McMillan was a member of the Unevangelized Fields Mission, an inter denominational mission group. The other large Canadian family to escape were Dr. Mel-vin Loewen, 38, his 41-year-old wife Elfrieda and their five children, of Steinhach, Man. They are Mennonites.

HEADS UNIVERSITY Dr. Loewen is dean of the Protestant University of Stanleyville. Also reported safe were Miss Crete Olive Bjerkseth, 50, Three Hills. Miss Viola Walker, 59, Vinemount, and Mrs. Thelma Southard, 44, and her son, Larry, 4, Fort William, Ont.

All are members of the UFM. The fate of 13 other Canadians, including seven Roman Catholic nuns who are members of the teaching order of Lcs i 1 1 de la Sagesse (Daughters of Wisdom), could not be determined. Rev. George Thomas of Toronto, Canadian secretary of the UFM, said that although the exact whereabouts of four members of his mission group Rev. birrs) 1 JEWELLERS verse as the students charged them.

One truck was caught, its windshield smashed and its driver injured. By noon, the students had cleared all police, troops and paratroops from a seven-block area around the Buddhist headquarters. The students set up barricades in front of the headquarters, battered a car and an ambulance and beat up an am-bulance driver. The paratroops returned with reinforcements and tried to get the students to disperse. As about 200 paratroops, police and troops gathered, the students found some oil cans and began spreading oil on the ground.

As they started throwing stones again, the paratroops charged with gas masks on and bayonets fixed to their rifles. Shouting war cries and slogans, the paratroops swept toward the national pagoda firing tear gas. Meanwhile, the stu quest and supplied the RCMP with similar information. No further question was asked him by the RCMP. "At no time did I ever receive or transmit any offer of money, nor was any such offer ever brought to my knowledge.

"May I repeat that in my capacity as member of Parliament. I am frequently called upon to make representations to the department of justice on behalf of persons who claim to be the victims of unfair treatment." Mr Rouleau said he regrets his name was mentioned in connection with a matter on which he had no details and from which he withdrew as soon as the information was supplied by the authorities. I also regret that my intervention might have caused embarrassment to the prime minister or the minister of Ho said he is pleased the government has called for a judicial inquiry and will provide it any clarification required. "I am positive that the inquiry will enable me to establish beyond any doubt that I acted in good faith and in a manner that is entirely in accord with the integrity which must rule the conduct of any member of Parliament." Then Mr. Tremblay, under heavy questioning, said he was aware of the matter his executive assistant was involved in when he resigned, but didn't notify the prime minister.

Crown Staffordshire 3-TIER SERVER IB 595 Sled breaks iee, each dents set the oil afire. Road- and Mrs. Chester Burk of Calgary and Mr. and Mrs. David Grant of Saint John, N.B.

building equipment on the street also was burning. As the troons got opposite the pagoda, a concussion grenade was not known, they were reported to have escaped the LTD. ROSE AND 11 TH Trusses Elastic Hosiery Anklets Knee Caps Surgical Supports exploded and two soldiers were carried off with their faces De Greef said a crowd of whites had been rounded up in the street and younger rebels demanded that their officer give the command to shoot. The colonel held back. 'If you don't give the order, you'll get the first the young rebels De Greef said.

"Finally the colonel gave the order." Some of the refugees said youths of about 10 years were carrying rifles among the rebels. Inik Christian Marcotte, from Liege, said she was among Belgian women and children kept in a hotel while the men were taken to army camps. She said the rebels came to them everyday and said, "tomorrow we shall kill you." "Non-Africans of other nationalities, who were not arrested, brought us food and supplies," the woman said. "The rebels made no effort to supply us." Two elderly women, still in shock 24 hours after narrowly escaping death, apparently were unaware they were safe. A Red Cross worker kept telling them, "you are in Brussels here.

This lis Brussels, not Stanleyville." Also unreported were Miss bleeding. The students accused Muriel Harman, 64, of Victoria, and Mrs. 1 a Schroeder the troops of throwing the gren ade: the troops blamed the stu dents. Mr. Rouleau's statement did not identify his brother by name but merely described him as the chairman of the Mille-Iles school board.

An associate said the brother's name is Raymond. Brown, of 1 a i Sask. feature value Bv this time most of the They are members of the Worldwide Evangelization crowd had fled inside the pa goda. Buddhist and Catholic opposi Two Americans were killed in child, 5, drowns PRINCE ALBERT (CP)-Margaret Louise Augier, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James Augier of Gunnar Mines, was drowned Tuesday while crossing ice-covered Lake Athabasca on a dog sled with her father and older brother. The girl was swept away in open water after the sled broke through the ice. Her father and brother reached safety. Gunnar Mines is 450 miles northwest of Prince Albert. Calgary crew drills for potash WYNYARD (Special) A 15-man crew from Regent Drilling Company of Calgary moved into the Kandahar area this week and began round-the-clock test drilling for potash.

The drillng crew has been engaged by Northern Petroleum Consultants of Calgary, to test an area on the the massacre missionary Dr. Paul Carlson of Rolling Hills, and Christian Mission tion to the government began building up as soon as Huong took office three weeks ago because he did not include their representatives in his government of technicians and because "FREE" City-Wide Delivery 522-3833 Prompt Mail Order Service he called for the church factions to eet out of politics. Student demonstrators took to Accident victim buried Thursday ROCANVILLE (Special) Funeral service for William Jeffries Sheppard. 57. was held Thursday with Rev.

M. Ritett. of St. Thomas Anglican Church, officiating. Burial was in Memorial Gardens cemetery at Moosomin.

Sheppard was a victim of a car accident in Nov. 15. He was born in the Perth district near here where he farmed. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son. Garth; a daughter.

Willa. of Rocanville; his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sheppard of Whitewood: a brother.

Charles, of Rocanville. and a sister. Mrs. Ernie House, of Whitewood. the streets last weekend despite Huong's warning that they would be dealt with firmly.

A demonstration Sunday was put down with tear gas and a number of leaders arrested. The demonstrations have increased BROWN'S in violence ever nince. 1964 STOCK TAKING SALE Final Week Sale Ends Saturday, Nov. 28th at 6 p.m. Society worker Miss Phyllis Rine of Culver City, Calif.

EXECUTED CONGOLESE One evacuee said the rebels carried out thousands of executions during their occupation of Stanleyville. "Every day, any time of the day, some Congolese was being dragged to the Lumumba monument in the city centre and executed," he said. "They were tied, hands behind their backs, and hacked to death with machetes." Some 50 rebels were reported slain Tuesday in the dawn drop by the paratroopers on Stanleyville Airport. Rebel chief Christophe Gbenye and other leaders of the Communist backed "Congolese people's republic" have disappeared. They are believed to have fled north with remnants of the rebel force.

The United States told President Moise Tshombe's central government that rebel leaders must be made to answer for the murder of the two American missionaries. farm of Arnold and Alfred Lowenberger. The site, nine miles southwest of Kandahar, has been named NPC Touchwood. Shootiim victim's Kandahar is 100 miles north of condition fair ESTERHAZY (Special)-Ber 4 4'6" Continental Beds, Headboards, Smooth top quilted spring filled mattresses (all sizes). One of the largest bedding selections in Regina.

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