uy \ ” he aw ” m1 8 ‘ a bf ee I Me tate tnts eye Beene rT 5 WOrince Rupert Daily Meus Lev, | oe Wednesday, January 23, 1963 _ mo ° ° = MLA Cedric Cox denies criticizing party leader “VICTORIA © — Cedric Cox, He was quoted as saying that New Democratic Party member of the British Columbia legisla- ‘ture' for Burnaby, Tuesday night denied “categorically and com- pletely” published reports that he had criticized party leader Robert Strachan. _. In a Statement released to the “press on his behalf, but signed “by him, after a caucus of NDP MLAs, Mr. Cox said Mr. Stra- chan had given him advice and he “could not object to anything which Mr. Strachan said.” Mr. Cox, criticized by mem- _bers of his party for visiting «Guba al that country’s expense, vas quoted earlier Tuesday as ‘Convention of the International *Uinon of Mine, Mill and Sme vrorkers, oe nek err. Saat! aaa gs ae eal eek “hbaet ‘ i ’ ‘ ba nee pe eo? Vaewn ily flea toed Way sped andy vata pty ! “isd bet ead we ded dal a ttt Whe yohi 4 lhe thought Mr. Strachan was too right wing and that Ran- dolph Harding, MLA for Kaslo- Slocan, would be a better leader. DENIED REFERENCES In an interview Tuesday night lafter the caucus he specifically denied making those references, cither in a speech or interview. He said he had criticized in his speech the right-wing leaders of ,So0me trade unions. But he had also said all MLAs had confi- dence in Mr. Strachan. 1 ‘ START WINTER GAMES exercise involving more Iter 1,000 soldiers, an army spokes- from earth varies between 35,- 000,000 and 63,000,000 miles. 'man said. news agency Tass reported Tues- |day.$ The probe, launched No- BERLIN (Reutcrs)—The Uni-' vember 1, will be about 24,370,000 ted States Army’s Berlin brigade! miles from earth at a.m. EST to- vaviticizing Mr. Strachan during swung into action today at the day, Tass Said. HH is expected ‘to “and after a talk to the western start of a two-day winter field take seven months on the jour- than ney to Mars, Ten survive. «:, plane crash’: vie diees LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands (Reuters) — Rescue ships today picked up 10 survivors from a Portueguese military DC-4 which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Canary Is- lands, Three of the 13 persons aboard the plane are missing, the Span- ish news agency Cifra reported. The plane, carrying military personnel, disappeared Tuesday night on a flight from the Por- teuguese African colony of An- gola to Lisbon. LONDON (Reuters) — Soviet scientists have been in regular radio contact with Russia’s Mars space probe for the last week and all is going well, the Soviet whose distance Read, 78, an authority on chemy and historical chemistry, | Prairies died Monday of a heart attack land. He told a press conference | while bicycling from his home to all the major cities of the world post a letter. He was professor would be invitedambuild houses Freedomite m by son’s grave for first time VANCOUVER @& — A Sons of Freedom Doukhobor mother searched between rows of tomb- stones in a biting wind Tuesday for the unmarked, 30-year-old grave of her infant son. Mrs. Nelly Pestnikoff located the grave through cemetery rec-! -ords and, with 13 other sect members, knelt beside it for the first time. The group chanted in the chil] wind and sang Russian hymns and prayers for 30 minutes after Mrs. Marie Shlakof!, sect spokes- man, located three old graves through the record books of Mountain View Cemetery. Buried side by side are three SCIENTIST DUES GLASGOW (#—Professor John al- of chemistry at St. Andrew’s Uni- on the site typical ef those in 4 versity. ~ “universal city” in conjunction other kneels ieunts, all of whim died in July, oye. Mrs. Shiukoff LONDON (4 — Europe’s win- ter snowline moved relentlessly southward today and almost the entire continent remained locked in one of its most bitter winters in memory. Britain moved into its 34th straight day of freezing or near- jfreezing temperatures — long- est unbroken cold spel] on rec- ord, More than 50 major highways said the chil- dren died in a Vancouver hos- ‘pal oafter being taken from their parcnts. Tie parents were Moone hundreds of Freedomites Huprisoned for three years for Jhudisin on Piers Island, about j20 miles north of Victoria. Mrs. Shlakoff said all those jin:prisoned lost their children, | pans ~ayoRED” c PLANS “WORLD CITy” and hundreds of secondary | MONTREAL ( -~ A smalljroutes were impassable. The riv- Montreal suburb today announc- ¢d plans to buiid a grandiose er Yare, emptying into the North ‘Sea in Norfolk, froze and bot- tled up freighters. Hundreds of thousands of British homes were threatened the 1967 Destie, with OL ise World’s Fair. public relations iditector ef the municipality of with cuts in domestic gas sup-. Buvernay, said it’s site would be 112.000 acres facing Riviere des north of Montreal Is- plies. Retail coal stockpiles dwin- dled to 1,000,000 tons — enough for only two more weeks. The temperature dropped Tuesday night to three above, The snowline drifted farther south, piling up in the Italian Adriatic coastal towns of Foggia 4 their countries. ‘second reading — and Bari, where snow is a rare sight. In Italy the death tol! in the last three days reached 18. Ice-clogged harbors made idle fishing fleets, the ice on ite Venice lagoon widened and thickened, 80 communities in the high Appenines were marooned, and most of Italy was under Almost all of Europe remains locked in one of worst winters in memory snow for the fourth straight day. Rome shivered in sub-freezing temperature, Radio Sophia reported bliz- zards had buried Bulgaria under snow, paralyzing transport and culting the capital off from its suburbs. Temperatures plimmet- ed to near zero. Bulgarians:could not recall a winter so sévere. News Briefs APPROVES EMBLEM QUEBEC @— The legislature assembly Tuesday nght gave appreval in principle -— to a bill making the fleur-de-lys ‘(white lily) Que- kec’s official floral embiem. The bill was given unanimous. sec- ond reading after opposition leader Daniel Johnson said he accepted the flower as the em- blem because of its historiacl connection. He noted tnat some botanists had been against the flower aS an amblem because it was not native to the province. CHANGES PRESS DATE WASHINGTON (# — President Kennedy decided Tuesday to hold his press conference Thurs- day at 4 p.m. EST instead of to- day as originally planned. 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