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The Sons, numbering more than 750, left their homes more than two weeks ago, vowing to ré-unite with 63 of their men- folk who are jailed in Mountain Prison near Agassiz for terror- ism. _.ihe march bogged down after three days, and for more than a, week the: Freedomites, from 25 persons sentenced to death : BEIRUT w—A Lebanese mili- tary court today imposed 25 death sentences in the mass trial of army officers and poli: ticians for attempting. to over- throw the government. last new year’s eve. - Bo, \ “Charges were brought against 287 of the leaders of the. at- tempted coup that never got off the ground and more death.sen- a . tution has’ ;démanded® that “177 . pe executed) po «: Some of: the ’ac at large. They were tried in ab- sentia. ‘Col. Jamil Husami pronounc- ed the verdicts. a None. of the defendants ap- peared in the dock as the first sentences were handed down, ranging from 10 years imprison- ment to death. :« Spectators packed the court- room in. the heavily guarded auditorium. Outside, troops stood behind sandbagged machine- gun positions and soldiers check- ed the identities of spectators before passing them through barbed wire barriers, , “The mass trial began in June. The sentences may be ap- REAled to the high military court, Execution orders must be slened by President Fuad Chehab before being carried out. wCapt. Fuad Awad, who Ied eTkht armored cars in the Beirut New Year's Eve coup and was captured af ew days later in the trunk of a taxi, was the first sentenced to die, Another con- d&mned was Capt. Shawki Khairallah, who was freed from Yflson by rebels after being caught, ‘Three political leaders, Abdul- Jah Sanadch, Mohammed = Bnaal- baki and Assad Ashkar, also were sontenced to death, $1,823 collected by Salvation Army A total of $1,823.83 was col- lected yosterday in the one-night “puta Red Shicld campaign of the residential arens, i was re- ported this morning by Capt, Voetor MacDonald, local carps officer of the Salvation Army, Capt, MacDonald sald that the business establishments wero be. 4ne canvassod this week, The quota for tho elty 18 $6,850, Gon. ‘eral convener. for the campaign dg. Thomas Dahlo and = Mra, Mahle was in charge of the 126 ‘house canvassoers, . vi Anyone migked in. the drive and wishing. to donate, amay eave thoir contributions at the Salvation Army Citadel at Gron. Ville Court or at tha Canadian IMpoerlal Bank of Commerco, Gapt, MacDonald. sald, ORMES., J, DRUGS LTD, J : DIAL _ 2151 . cused ‘still are " ete 2 2 babies to the very old stopped over near Grand Forks in a muddy field. Attorney-General Robert Bon- ner, in a statement at Vancou- ver, said Monday night police had been. ordered. to stop the marchers camped now near this mountain centre. He said officials at Kent, the municipality that contains Mountain Prison, had passed a bylaw during the day making it unlawful for the trekkers to en- ter Agassiz. “It appears that a continua- tion of the march in these cir- cumstances is likely to lead to a breach of the peace,” he said. He said that pending clarifi- cation of the Doukhchors’ inten- tions, the RCMP had been au- thorized to bar their highway route west of Hope, 100 miles east of Vancouver. Police form- ed a road black during the night. There was no immediate re- action from the camping Free- domites. Kent council solicitor Frank Wilson said a “high police of- ficial” recommended that the bylaw be kept secret so the Freedomites could not circum- vent it by arriving before it was passed, ue waihe: prose- Agassiz said earlier the Free- ‘domites . were -not..welcome ‘and passed ‘bylaws to stop disorgan-" ized squatting. ‘Extra police were sent .to the Princeton campsite Monday and the. RCMP force was increased at Hope. C of C seeks to legalize lotteries VANCOUVER « —- A recom- mendation that the federal gov- ernment amend the Criminal Code to permit lotteries in Can- ada was passed Monday night by the policy committee of the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce, , ~The recommendation said lot- teries should be held “under StricL government supervision.” The chamber debated the is- sue a year 'ago and voted to take a referendum among the 850 chambers and boards of trade that make up the Cana- dian body. Chairman G, Egerton Brown of Montreal reported that 48.5 per cent of the boards and chambers replied to the ques- tionnaire and that most of them were in favor, Under Conadan chamber rules, the executive council was obliged to make the situation known to the membership in the form of a recommendation, - Tf the recommendation sur- vives Wednesday's plenary ses- sion, it will go to the federal rabinet as offielal chamber pol- Cy, News BRUSSELS (Reuters) ed S82 PORT CITY — Many old buildings can be seen, in this view of Montreal looking toward the city’s waterfront area. An ocean liner (background) can be seen moving toward its berth.. See — CP Photo Attempted murder trial. zer in Terrace March 15, opened at the court house. Gilbert Hogg, QC, welcomed Mr, Justice R. A. Wooton of Victoria who will sit during the Assizes, A. A. W. Macdonell is Crown prosecutor. Dilley, who is not represented by defence counsel was charged following the shooting of Con- stable Frazer after an abortive Bank of Montreal holdup at Terrace March 15, During the holdup $3,800 was taken but later recovered. Constable Frager entered the bank and was shot several times with a 303-calibre rifle allegedly fired by the accused, Dilley was arrested shortly af- ter the incident, charged the following day and appeared fn South Burnaby police court where he was held until the as- sizes. Frazer, who is 27 years of age, suffered abdomen, arm and lor injuries, One of his lees was amputated below the knee. Three witnesses appeared for the prosecution this morning, Paul Robert Birtch of the Ter- race area testified he saw Dilley walking north to Terrace the morning of tha offence, He said Dillay was carrying a “peeuliar pack” on his back, It was four feet long and about Briefs — Two men today were arrested and charged with “homicide by onrelessnags” in the collapse of pn governmont bullding here Monday In which at lenst 17 persons ware killed, Police named the two as Jean-Baptista Lecluse and Joan-Baptiste Manequoy, both 50, the builder and chief angincer respectively of a house under construction be- aide the government bullding. + + UNITED NATIONS |) — + Two Rusapan UN . employees charged with spying resigned and returned to the Soviet Union, the United Nations said in a carefully worded ay- nouncemoant Monday, * + + — LONDON 1) — Commonwealth prime ministers mot to- day for the difficult task of drafting a communi o eovor- ing tholr-woek of strained discussions on Britain's bid to join the Common. Market, * + 4 ° + WASHINGTON 1) - () — Three congressional groups havo fone to work distiiiing Into one deelaration what Congross thinks about the Communist military buildup in Cuba and what should be done nbout It. . | ¥ * + * ~ HOLLANDIA (®) — The Dutch are pulling out aa {ns as thoy ann from West Now Guinea —- thoir last colonial torri- a es aie Ih hy SA all evens fi fare eishe beef Ayer as tory 6f tha once great Dutch Foe ee inst larviles, opens 17 Supreme Court Trial of Charles Atetsta Dilley, charged with the attempted murder of RCMP Constable Gary Fra- got underway as the Fall Assizes of the Supreme Court of British Columbia four inches wide. He was also said to be wearing a long tan coat. John Russel Radeiet who works in a store across the strect from the bank said he saw the accused enter the bank about 9 am. on March 15 but did not pay too much attention to him. Later he said he saw a British Columbia Telephone truck come to a stop in front of the police station, Two men jumped out and ran inside. Ne said he then saw Constable Frazer running across the strect to the bank with his gun in his hand, saw him enter the bank and heard a volley of shots. He saw the accused bolting down Lakelse Avenue towards Emerson Street. “While running he was taking something off his face,” Radelet said, . He deseribed how Billey was captured by two men, held by them and then taken to the RCMP office by an RCMP ser- geant, Constable JW. Merka of the: i; RCMP Identification Braneh en- ,tered photographs and a map iOf the scene as exhibits in the cnse, The photographs gave the: jury views of the bank's interior . and the surrounding vielnity.: The photos were taken from different angles, One pleture showed the double- glass doors at the frant of the bank, Three large bullet holes were secon dn the left door, and two In the right door, Another phote showed ft portion ‘of the ground on which particles of glass and what appeared to be a blood Bpot. Mombors of the jury are: Otto Helnrich Kniepkomp, foreman, Willlam Patrick Elkins, dames Melvillo Porbes, Fredorick Wil- Ham May, Gordon Desmond Pol- fonroth, Andrew Watt, Clarence Donald Goodacre, Walter Aru son, Robert Allen Kelsay, Ray~ mond Ernost Sande and FPrede- Nick Wasloy Bench. ae ’ Prince Rupert has now gone 192 days without a fatal traffic accident and 613 days without a fire fatality, —_ Atprectes cores PRICE TEN CENTS in Usk area here today. According to the British Co- ‘lumbia Gazette, tenders for a; contract to reconstruct 8.07, miles of the Usk section of High- way 16 in Skeena West have! been called. Tenders close September 28. | This should complete’ the’ number of projects necessary to, bring the highway up to a| standard necessary for large! trucks to. travel Highway 16 safely between Prince Rupert and Prince George. More than $5,000,uu0 of work on the highway was promised by Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi at a meeting in Hazel- ton earlier this year. According to a memorandum from E. S. Jones, assistant dep- uty minister of the Department of Highways, the total expendi- ture on the Northern Trans-| Provincial Highway (Highway | 16) for this year will amount: to $5,600,000. Mr. Jones said that contracts have been let involving nine, miles of major reconstruction! and construction at an estimated cost of $1,458,000. Another contract has been, called involving 12.04 miles at. an estimated cost of $400,000 | and two further contracts, one; includes the work near Usk, were to be called shortly involv- ing an estimated cost of $1,200,- 000. Page These amounts, together with’ bling in the wings rather An 89-item work the most explosive issues : Monday although they are cer- ‘tain to figure in debate. , These include Berlin ana its .famed wall, the Soviet Union's buildup in Cuba and = Cuban charges of aggression by the United States. and Communist China’s border claims on India. For the first time in {} years there was no mention of Red China’s claim for UN member- ship, leading to speculation whe- ther the Soviet Union was plan- ning some new gambit in tht perennial debate on this ques- tion. A Soviet resolution to seat Pe- king and expel Nationalist China was defeated at the 16th as- sembly last Dee. 15 by a vate of 36 for, 48 against and 20 absten- tions. One big question mark was left standing Monday hy Acting Seeretary - General when he told a press conference he had not yet decided whether to make himself available as a five-year candidate for a full program | ‘faced the some 1.000 delegates from 104 countries but some of ' disarmament, nuclear U Thant. UN General Assembly underway amid tension _UNITED NATIONS Nations General Assembly opened today in an atmos- phere of uneasy tension—with global quarrels rum-| nancial (CP) :— The 17th United than roaring at the door, Such perennial questions as the main i Fassembly and its seven /committees busy. ! Thant, who recently ‘Brazil, the Soviet Union, Poland, 1 1 ¢ testing, | did} colonialism and a host of eco- not appear on the formal agenda: nomic problems will keep | He . ‘ wrong” charges from hospital visited | officials that they are not re- last year’s contracts being com- pleted, brings the total of $3,- Financial woes Tenders called for work of highway Tenders for one of the last sections of the recon- struction work cn Highway 16 have been called by the British Columbia government, it, was learned 218,000 in contracts and a fur-- ther total of $1,495,000 is ex- pended on approximately 15 miles of day work, “With two bridges being con- structed, and approximately six miles of pavement being laid, the total expenditure on the Northern Trans-Provincial High- way will be $5,600,000 for this year or approximately $5,000,000 | without the bridges.” Shriners 0 invade’ city tomorrow rN, Rrinée Rupert will be invaded tomorrow morn- ing by a special group of Shriners of the Al. Bahr Temple of San Diego, Calif., their wives and families, who are passing through here on a charter trip on the Canadian Na- tional steamship SS Prince George. . Heading them is Al Bahr's Il- lustrious Potentate, Lloyd M. Mitchell and cruise manager is temple’s past potentate, R. F. Quiggle. The nine-day Alaskan cruise slogan is “See the Klondike with fault of hospitals says Martin VICTORIA © — Health Min- ister Martin repeated’ Monday jthat if B.C. hospitals are in fi- ‘trouble, it’s their own fault. . There has been no delay and ino reduction in government | payments, he waid. “Hospitals this year are re- l ceiving more income than ever in history.” described as “utterly ceiving two-fifths of provincial ‘Czechoslovakia and Austria, de- 'sales tax revenue, -clared Monday: i ©] beHeve I reflect the con-; I science of the whole world when ‘I say that people of the world -are getting more and more im- ‘patient on disarmament.” One of the first tasks of Tu- “nisia’s Mongi Slim, 16th assem- ‘Bly president, in opening today's ‘session was to call for election of a new president. | Muhammed Zafrulla) Khan, | 69-year-old) ambassador from ‘Pakistan and = former foreign ‘minister of that country, was ‘reparded as the choice of the /assembly. ' Another priorily item was the ‘admission of four new countries to membership—Rwanda, Bur- undi, Jamaica and Trinidad. | ,Tobago—making atatal of 108, | ‘compared with 5t in 1946. Algeria: and Uganda are expected to be admitted later this year. term in the position, ‘ Lee cae q f ni raid KA gp ee Peg HE Oe eR eee Meee fee oe u sete 6 Ovmscmna nt tiated ents a ! LEADERS A'T COMMONWEALTIT CONFENE - left, chats with Canadian Prime ters’ conference hy London; ph. ene % NOR - Br Ve he erg 498 io gm BF ete gt When the tax was inereased from three to five cents in 1954 ithe government said the extra was to cover hospital insurance payments, Vancouver Island hospital of- ficials said at a mecting Satur-: day they weren't getting the full: two-fifths, ‘“} don’t think there’s any doubt we're not getting the two) per cent,” said Ian Dodds of: Beaver Cover, president of the: Vancouver Island council of the B.C, Hospitals Association, Mr. Dodds also said the hos- pitals are not getting the money allotted to them in the provin- cial budget, Mr, Martin said two-fifths of this year's estimated sgles tax reventia amounts to $35,000,000. The budget estimate for hospi- Laks ts $34,991,160 “that's only ‘a few thousand difference.” | oan esta te Ste SAE. ORE LARD AE EERE an} o A iu U ' itish Prima Minister Harold Macmillan, | Mintatei John Diefenbaker during the. British prime minis- _- AP Photo tt gta vo deh Qh by Lloyd”, but it has been suggest- ed that a more apt. one might be “Hi-jinks on the high seas.” When the ship docks here at 9 a.m. for a three-hour stay, the local Shriners plan to meet the party of 220 Americans with a welcoming committee, bagpipes and “gags”, J; F. Gregory, pre- sident of the Prince Rupert Shrine Club said today. He said there would be three chartered buses and several cars on hand to take the party on a tour of the city... As the Shriners have ex- pressed a great interest in Prince Rupert, the only Cana- dian port which is visited on the cruise, the local Shrine Club hopes that some of the locai stores will open for the three hours that the shp is in port, The “floating temple” will call in here again southbound for four hours Sunday night. When she docks at 8 p.m., the newly- formed pipe band of the Terrace Shrine Club will be on hand to “pipe” her in. As the tour has its own dance band aboard, members: of: the {local and Terrace clubs are in- vited for a social evening and dance on board the ship Sun- day night. This trip is the last regular tourist trip which the Prinee George will make this season, It has been the busiest cruise season for this ship since the tours were started n 1948, Nearly 4,000 passengers have made the pleturesque trip through the inside passage this year on 16 cruises, tt was. re- ported by CN officials. Another 1,500 passengers were curried between Vancouver and Seattle on speclal World's Fatr cruises In April and May, and the ship was also used In Seattle as oa “floating hotel’ during those months. She will make two more World's Faly cruises on Septem- ber 88 and October | before tle- Ing up dn Vancouver for the winter, WEATHER Overcast with Intermittent min tonight, Cloudy Wed- hesday with widely seatlered showers, Little ehange in tenperatiure, Winds south- west 18 Wednesday, Low to- Werht and high tomorrow 60 and 60, Daily News readings: Tomparature at noon... 45 Barometer, falling 30,86 Wad. Soptomboar 10 1962 (Pacifle Standard Time) High... we 08:05 18,8 feet WS 20,2 foet LOW sane DEO2 6.4 feet 23:51 4.5 feet AD AO a ee Mae Bs Be EN BBS hay Fo IE abit eae om Lie weer amen