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Congo Unity Hopes Suffer Setback
Kennedy,
Macmillan,
Wind Up
Talks
HAMILTON. Bermuda — AP — President Ken-
, and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed Friday
ill-,' United Slates will make the first ncw ap-
;ach to lhe Soviet Union on Berlin and that previous should bc made for resuming nuclear tcsts
ihc atmosphere.
After this windtip to llwir two-day conference
.Kennedy wished Bcrmudians a Merry Christmas
I j look off for Palm Bench, Fla., to Visit his ailing
,:;fo*-,-*--i*- nn Berlin and  ~~	
;- -,'nvi»phcric nuclear British ambassador to Moscow,
.. -tatcments on Thc r.*rank Roberts, would follow
,-;-.,!niiinicnt and tlic through whenever this would he
•::•:■ Kconomic Commun-: helpful.
cc liir features of a 600-: Kennedy and Macmillan fig-
•■miminique on Ihc two ,n-ed that President de Gaulle
•* private discussions at „f France, who doesn't favor
r.--.cnt House. ; negotiations with the Soviet Un-
Periin where thc United * >on on Berlin at this time, can
-ind R-itain have thc go- I'm approached after the two am-
i from their allies to sound ] bnssadors discover whether
:rc Ru-*ians on whether | East-West talks would be fruit-
_:ni«  arc   possible,   thc'fu'-
-*n .weed the U S am-: A spokesman said a direct
ife in" Moscow should meeting with Soviet Premier
, jjj jj-.. try ) Khrushchev  hy  cither  Kennedy
ol*   Macmillan   was   not   considered.
Perhaps   the   main   advance
from   the   Bermuda   talks,   al
Washington least from the U.S. standpoint,
■r so to iisiorlaiii was Macmillan's   agreement
tnreign   office wilh   Kennedy  thai     "prepara-
thc communique:tions should he.made for atmos-
onahlr basis for phcric   testing."     The   British
lie found." havc been cool about resuming
unused thai    thc  tests.
|UIT INMHl'CriONS
d o l*     Llcwclly:
scheduled
alls Load Of  U.  S.
Gifts An 'Insult'
R'AUIK.    N.B.    'CP)    -
•t Savoie. Liberal member
ne for Gloucester
f! Friday the  load  of   gifts
."••* nearby village of Brant-
i I'nited States  Air
fM. -**•**-' »"»•** 'in "insult."
'' "—'*- up  here  figure
Anne to be opened and sorted.
Father Trudel estimated the
value at about $20. Mr. Savoie,
on first look said: "Worth about
15 cents."
Katanga Govt.
Declines To
Approve Pact
LEOPOLDVILLE (AP) - Congo reunification
hopes suffered a major setback Friday when
the Katanga province cabinet declined to approve Katangan President Moise Tshombe's
agreement ending the secession of the battle-
| scarred province.
The cabinet claimed it lacked authority to
vote on the agreement and that it will have to
be submited to the provincial assembly.
Observers  in  the   Unitcd  Na-! —: —____
lions-controlled Katanga capital,: |)e taken •
Klisabcthvilc said ihe action; There was no explanation how
may he tho initial slcp leading ; any of Katanga's armed forces
o rejection of the unity pact; collld siaSe an Elisabethville
signed Thursday by Tshombe area massacre in the face of
and Congo Premier Cynlle * some 6,000 troops of the UN
Adoula. ! Congo command who   occupied
In Leopoldville Adoula warned : thc   city   after   bloody   {jghting
that   unless   the _ agreement   is j [ast weekcnd.
IN Acting Secretary General
Thant told the UN Security
Council in New York that, in a
agreement
honored by" next Wednesday, his j
central   government   will    take |
to  force   compliance i"
binding.
crvation."
WANTS  RATIFICATION
Tshombe    insists   the   signed
On the other hand. Thant's re-
mlaincd a Idler ir
declaration recognizing^  central  ^m^^old •ux"undersecre-
lary Ralph Bunche that he had
entered the Kitona talks without
had time to get author-
from "the compel ent au-
s  ill   Katanga"  to speak
IN  WRONG AREA
.   ,   Dr, U. W. Luce, president of
said alter in- ■ the  Tracadie  Board of  Trade)
., some of Ihc presents,    )was chieflv  eonccrned  because
-fii of the ,tuff was ready  ..tJ]c stuff was sent to the wrong
incinerator.   I  wouldn t   arca » He Rajd ..we don-t necd
to he poor ,that   stuff    That   should   have
'-e Sills were  flown  here.|Bone to Brantville anyway, lhat
is   in   Northumberland   County
and Ihis is in Gloucester
County."
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II will be heard here at 10 a.m. Christmas Day over CBC.   Tlrae
will be a repeat broadcast at 11.40 p.m. of Hcr Majesty's annual Christmas message.
Night On j Henri Courtemanche To
Resign   From   Senate
government  authority is subject
lo  ratification   by   his   g< tiiv_
ment and that such n process ^
will take at least 10 days-Hint .?.||i(||
is.  until  Now  Year'.*  Kvc. tliorili
Mosl   of   Katanga's   assembly-   o|) ,,,,
men   were   reported   to     have
taken to Ihc bush as a result of
the  UN victory in the  n*iilitar>
battle for Klisabcthvi.llc. Thr as-
ni 1 sentiment remains to
be determined.
The cabinet action came after
Ihe UN was told that Katangan '
gendarmes have staged a house-
to - house massacre of Negro ;
families hostile to Tshombe in
the Elisabethville arca. There j
was  no confirmation  of  this.
Four tribal leaders who mes-1
saged report of the massacre to •
"""*    headquarters   u A"-
.ICY
JAY
D.
nent
d.
miles   from
S! USAF base at Tampa,
"iff airmen at the base
Wes tied lo Christmas
The trees has bcen ex-
,;'i Irom this area.
I**- load (.-insisted of Iwo
ot oranges, one of grape-
«H box ol chocolate bars
£ cartons of clothing.
I "I SPOILED
U- Savoie said two boxes of
*t« completely spoiled
'w«t two dozen oranges-
« salvaged Irom Ihe lot,
*« Perhaps one box of
*■« clothing could be
'■* Irom the lot.
■^of lhe jeans had the legs
'•! and others had "had the
y right  out  of  them.
No Last
Year's
Turkeys
Town
LONDON (AW-For the first
time in 25 years, a Prince of
Wales woke up in London Thursday after a night on the town.
It seemed almost like old
times.
Prince Charles, the 13-year-old
heir to the tin-one, donned a
nalty single-breasted suit with
stylishly narrow trousers and
took a girl friend and two other
youAg couples to sec thc American musical The Sound of
Music.
Charles' dale was Marilyn
Wilis, daughter of the Hon. and
Mrs. John Wills.
Charles, thc complete host,
dcrcd chocolates for his guesli
not one box but two.
*«e a   lot   of
?» that couldn't be used.
*«t somc items that Mr. i
• "id "looked like under-
* something you might
. ""kr ski pants."
(*>lle has a population ot
tn- " is nicknamed
(3* City because of its
ly* of tarpapcr shacks
'ovepipes protruding.
f cartons vere delivered to
•*>- Trudel, Tracadie parish
/"io turned them over to
C!!?»t the Society of Ste.
MONTREAL   (CP)-Noe  Hen-
ault,   federal   poultry   official,
ladies  said Friday there are no unsold
"~"J 'turkeys from last Christmas
the Montreal market. •    •
Massacre
Reported
In Congo
manded punitive action against!    LEOPOLDVILLE   (AP)— Tht
the gendarmes   and   said   they i United Nations received reports
. -.-..I. ._ „„n,i , i_.!,i,,v «r a house-to-house mas-
were calling on Adoula to send j Friday of a  —
sacre  of  Negro tribal families
gendarmes, led by
By  ALAN  DONNELLY
OTTAWA (CPi-Senator Henri
Courlemanchc, accused of taking kickbacks from provincial
grants to a Montreal hospital,
is resigning from the Senate,
Prime Minis ter Diefenbaker
announced Friday.
The prime minister said hc
had asked the former secretary
of state for his resignation
"some months ago" following
testimony before a Quebec hos-
pital inquiry commission that hc
had accepted money from Jean-
Talon Hospital.
I Hc told reporters that Senator
| Courtemanche refused at thc
i lime, preferring   to   await   thc
Mr. Henault, district supervisor ot the agriculture department's poultry division, said
"there is no poultry in storage
here that was killed in 1060."
'Turkeys left, ovcr from 1
Christmas  were   sold   in   Jan- j
uary," he added,
Roger Lcblond, superintendent oof the Montreal Harbor Cold
Storage Warehouse, said he has
in storage no turkeys received
before September. None of the
turkeys on hand wcre killed
morc than six months ago.
The Canadian . Press erroneously reported Friday tliat Mr.
Leblond said some of the turkeys now being sold were left
ovcr from last Christmas.
Zorin Says USSR Will
Use Veto To Defeat
Colonial Powers
HALIFAX (CP) - Student
Marilyn Lingloy of Round Hill,
N.S. drove a bulldozer into
snow-covered earth Thursday to
turn the first sod starting construction of a $1,200,000 rest
dence, social centre and dining
hall at the University ef King's
College here. -»
UNITED NATIONS (CP) -
The Soviet Union pledged Friday that as long as it can wield
its big-power veto it will never
permit the Unitcd Nations to
help a colonial powcr hang onto
dependent territories.
Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin
made clear that his pledge included cases where force was
used such as in the Indian
seizure of Portuguese territories in India this week.
idc-ranging press con-
fcrente, the Soviet delegate declared:
"The basis problem is to assist in the liberation of colonial
people's and not to resist it. That
why we consider that  India
acted in the right way."
Zorin made these additional
assertions:
1. Thc United States, in arranging the Kitona meeting between President! Moise Tshombe
and Katanga province and Premier Cyrille Adoula of Thc
Congo, interfered in the internal
affairs of The Congo. The pilr
pose,    he . said,. was  to  save
Tshombe. .       •
2. The United Nations is in
good health, despite statements
by U.S. delegate Adlai Stevenson that the organization was
badly shaken by the Security
Council's failure to order a
cease-fire in the Indian invasion
of Goa, Damao and Dii
STILL WANT TROIKA
3. The Soviet Union stands by
its troika plan for a three-man
executive to replace the UN secretary-general, but whether it
will press the plan in 1963 depends on how Acting Secretary-
General U Thant carries out his
job.
4. The Sovifit Union will refuse
to buy any of the $200, .
in bonds which the United Nations will issue to stave off
bankruptiy. It also will refuse
lo pay any UN budget assessments to retire thc bonds.
The Soviet delegate agreed
with Stevenson that the 16th session of thc General Assembly,
which recessed early Thursday
until mid-January, had recorded
some notable accomplishments.
,    i
commission's report.
The report, issued Thursday,
accused the 45-year-old senator
of an attitude "unworthy of an
honest citizen."
Mr. Diefenbaker, grim-faced,
said hc has received a telegram
from Mr. Courtemanche stating:
"1 am sending today my resignation as senator to His Excellency the Governor-General."
The prime minister emphasized that Mr. Courtemanche had
no relationships
the hospital grants. The payments in question had been
made between 1053 and 1057,
and'Mr. Courtemanche had not
bcen a member of Parliament
between August. 11153, and June
10, 1957. But Mr. Diefenbaker
added:
'When there is wrong-doing it
1 not be condoned in any
way."
Diefenbaker said thc resignation would become final
when it was received by. Gov-
•nor-General Vanier, now at
his Quebec City residence.
There was no immediate indication here when this would oc-
in Congolese troops.
LABELLED DISQUIETING   .   .   by  Katan-,. _..._.
back  on  provincial* government:    A   UN   spokesman   called   the ; white mercenaries, in Elisabeth-
grants he arranged for the hos- report disquieting,  but declined   "'""'" —**■■- -■■<•*■•«*
o say if punitive action v
. CPR Joins Attack
On Non-Op. Demands
MONTREAL  (CP)-The CPR : amicable settlement."
•ith the federal! Friday joined the attack on new \   The words echo the statement
native quarter.
Thc message received at UN
headquarters from the Katanga
province capital asked for immediate punitive action against
mobs of undisciplined troops.
The message was signed by
four tribal officials. A UN
spokesman said many witnesses
visited UN headquarters with
stories of killings.
But the UN declined to con-
Thc Quebe
headed by Judge Victor Chabot,
rejected Senator Courtema-
nclii's testimony that thc more
than $60,000 he received from
lhc hospital was for legal services only. It concluded that the
money was more likely
Canada's railways by their 110,-1
ion - operating employees, |
calling thc demands nothing |
short of fantastic.
The opening round of thc
criticism of the demands — including a unique freeze proposal
' \ call for an immediate 22-
i an - hour wage increase—
  Thursday from the publicly owned CNR several hours
after the proposals were made
public officially.
D. I. McNeill, vice-president
of personnel for the CPR, said
n a prepared statement Friday
hat as a result of the demands
if the 15 CLC-affiliated unions
'no possibility is foreseen of an
  here say whether Ihe punitive action requested was being undertaken.
The massacre allegedly occurred Thursday in the Elisabethville township of Kenia and
neighboring areas.
LONDON, Ont. (CP) -
sonncl,
the demands were staggering
and appeared to doom to failure
any hope of a negotiated settlement.
Mr. McNeill said thc cost of
the union's demands is incalculable. The job freeze plan would
mean the railways "would have
to continue to hire and pay employees  irrespective  of whether ;    ~— ,   .
there is any work for them or; ada's oldest regular force in-
not. j fantry regiment — the Royal
DEMANDS UNFAIR j Canadian Regiment — observed
"Such demands seek" to makc its 78th birthday Thursday. The
these railway workers a pre- regiment was formed Dec. 21,
ferrcd class above and apart | i883, as the old Infantry School
from Canadians in other walks ! corps, with companies stationed
of life" _J   v  | at Fredericton, N.B.; St. Johns,
Quebec; and Toronto. D Company, at London, was formed
, Aug. 18, 1887.
!     THE COUNTRY PARSON
Scientists Find
Ancient Sea Water
May Survive
Stroke
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
(AP)-A medical authority said
Friday Joseph P. Kennedy will
survive the' stroke which felled
him last Tuesday, .but saw
slight chance for full recovery
from the resulting partial paralysis.
It was the first authoritative
word that President Kennedy's
73-year-old lather is believed no
longer in danger of immediate
death.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Three
University of British Columbia
scientists displayed a jug of water Friday they say is the oldest trapped sea water ever discovered — between   7,300   **"**
,250 /
s old.
'The salty liquid was fished
from the bottom of freshwater
Powell Lake, near Powell River
about 80 miles north of here,
last spring. The scientists say
it proves tha* Powell Lake,
morc than a mile inland from
the coast was once connected
to the ser.
Fathers nf the discovery arc
Dr. George Pickard, 48. a physicist and head of UBC's insti
tute of oceanography, Dr. William Mathews,' 46, a geologist,
and Dr. Peter Williams, 34, a
chemist.
. The captured liquid looks and
fopms like beer. It smells like
rotten eggs.
The    scientists   trapped
salt, water from Ihe depths
thc fresh-water lake  in a I'
day   expedition   last   May.   Dr. I
Williams   said   the   water   ap- I
parently   was   trapped   in . the
lake somewhere   between   """" '
and   12,50n  ycars   aco.   It   i_n- i ...
tains no oxygen, which meant "H a HiinS can't be explained
no lite, olhcr than baclcria. | with simple words, most of us
could live in it. | will, never understand It."'