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"| THOUGHT FOR TODAY Those dots iw the modern novel usually mean to proceed at your own risque. _ WEATHER REDO ORT. pee cloudy 'and 'cool site" and Sunday. Chance of a few -- tonight and-early Sun- VOL. 92--NO.. 228 TWENTY. PAGES RUSSIAN VESSEL REPAIRED The fishing vessel Med- nogorsk (right) is tied up to the Russian Tug Stojkij off Truro, Mass., yesterday to mepair a leak in her stern and make rudder repairs. At left is a Coast Guard vessel which carried custom officials to the vessels. Russian ships were in the same _ general area for repairs Aug. 17 to 21 and Aug. 30 to 31. Ontario House Session May Start In January el namteiieeiaestste ta nes meson sion ran past Master, the pre- mier pointed out, One starting in January probably would carry through until May, djthe provincial ence in November might fit in toe with its legislative program. year's legislature ses- Premier Robarts and his vic- torious cabinet -- which came through the election intact -- 000,000 municipal development or ee iy lg tong gt ned adopt to enable' government to handle On- tario's allotment of the $400,- loan fund set up by Parliament. Premier Robarts also has said he wants the house to re- establish its committees on streamlining municipal law and dealing with interest rates on consumer credt. VANCOUVER. (CP)--With an election just a weekend away, British Columbia's Social Credit government has confirmed its ownership of the expropriated giant B.C. Electric Company. A government-backed cheque for $25,281,306 changed hands in the out-of-court settlement Fri- day with the B.C, Power Cor- poration, parent company of the BCE, an electric, gas and transportation. utility. The amount to B.C. Power represented the difference be- tween the compensation set ar- bitrarily by the government when it took over BCE two years ago and the figure of $197,114,358 negotiated as the final purchase price. A joint statement by the prin- cipals--the provincial attorney- general's department, the B.C. Hydro and Power Authority and the private - enterprise B.C. Power Corporation--said: "The . . . settlement confirms the ownership of the common shares of the British Columbia Electric Company Limited by the provincial government." RECALLS JUDGMENT The agreement shoves into the background the judgment of Chief Justice Sherwood Lett in BC, S overnment's apacity, in bringing government and/f: corporation together. He agreed to act as private mediator and the two parties agreed to ac- cept his decision as to final settlement. Attorney-General Robert Bon- B.C. Pays $25,281,306 To Own BC. Electric keeping its word in claiming means of a special conference in Ottawa. Chief Justice Lett had declared the takeover be- yond the jurisdiction of the leg- islature on the grounds the BCE operated inside and out- side the borders of.the province. British Columbians vote Mon- day in a general election, and the settlement once more brought *he tangled BCE affair into the spotlight, Douglas McK. Brown, B.C. Power Corporation counsel, ac- cused the government of not Holdup Suspect: Was Financing Secret Group MONTREAL (CP)--A 20-year- old bank robbery suspect has told police he helped rob a bank of $6,500 to raise thomey for a secret organization similar to terrorist groups, a police source said Friday. He was one of two persons picked up at a police roadblock upreme Court that thelda a ing family, told police in a state- ment that the secret.society was organized in small, separate] "ceiis," a structure similar to that of Le Front de Liberation Quebecois which has been ner hinted the constitutional question would be settled by blamed for terrorist bombings here last spring. The special session will be held after the results of the election are officially confirmed Ran come willingly to the bargain- ing table. On the contrary, they that this settlement has been and Bonner but in spite of rally in the interior city of Kamloops. solved," he said. Columbia flag is flying over the B.C, Electric Building." sued a statement saying the an- which could have been achieved two years ago without expen- sive court pi brought a pledge by Prime Min- ister Pearson that a system will victory in the case. He said of Premier W. A. C, tt and Mr. B "These gentlemen didn't were dragged there. The payment does not mean. that the damage to the fabric of this province has been repaired but only that a start has been made. It will remain indelibly im- printed upon those persons who are invited to invest in B.C. obtained not because of Bennett hem.' Premier Bennett made a fleeting but jubilant mention of the settlement at an election "The B.C, Electric issue is "The British B.C, Liberal headquarters is- nounced takeover price was not materially different from "that In. Vancouver, Bc. _ Power y For Cabinet OTTAWA (CP) -- Backbench pressure from Liberal MPs has JOSEPH VALACHI Lord Home Rebukes Indonesia UNTIED NATIONS (CP) Britain's Foreign. Secretary -- reply in the Sodeneala's Lambertus Palar blamed the crisis on Britain's idesire to maintain her influerice in the area. The Indonesian described Malaysia -- uniting Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo--as another example of a British technique of side- stepping genuine . independence General Assembly attec Metro Gangster 2 Valachi Accuser - By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON (CP) -- Mob- ster Joseph Valachi, who re- ceived Cosa Nostra's '"*kiss of once you're in you can't gét out," said the hoodlum who ad- mitted making $150,000 in a good year durifig the Second World War selling ration stamps on the black market. "They've (Cosa Nostra) been--let's say, bad to the soldiers (men in the Cosa Nostra ranks)." death" because a Toronto gang- ster said he was -.. informer, told congressional investigators Friday that the high commis- sion of organized crime has spread into Canada. Valachi named Vito Agueci, a convicted Toronto narcotics smugg a hog a member of the Cosa ra family that coy- ered the Buffalo area, taking in "all of Canada." Valachi declared '"'when I say Canada' I mean Toronto." In 'his first day in» the wit- ness chair before the Senate in- vestigations subcommittee, Val- achi said that Agueci, a native of Salemi, Italy, who came to Canada in 1952, wielded enough influence in Cosa Nostra, the high commission that runs the crime syndicate, to bring about the turncoat gangster's down- fall. It was Agueci, Valachi said, who put the finger on him as an informer while both were serving long prison terms in the same federal prison at Atianta, Ga., for dealing in narcotics. LABELS GENOVESE This led to the "kiss of death" _|--Cosa Nostra's death sente celin at Atlanta where the ly Scaled kingpin of Cosa Nostra (Our Thing) was serving a 15- year term for violating the nar- cotics' laws. Valachi said that Genovese picked him for his ¢cellmate. ' Valachi, a gravel-voiced 60- year-old dope pedlar and mur- derer who admits he acted as a Cosa' Nostra "executioner" in viously was getting his revenge Canadian organi pra ge Goiaee Judge Bruce Meedoneld, keen interest, return for business favors, ob- ha "I want to destroy them," re torted Valachi. aad "You get nothing but misery, But Valachi said he got little but protection from the crime syndicate. "What did you do for them?" asked Senator Jacob Javits (Rep, N.Y.) "T'd go out and kill for them'* snapped Valachi, bs ign § * = surprised anyone had as SAY OLD HAT While Toronto police officials maintained that much of what the stubby, publicly disclosed before the subcommittee Friday Tumpled Valachi regarding zed crime was ice } Insurance Plan's More Confusion after Oct. 21, be worked out to keep cabinet by federating territories. ea ype ogre hound with words \ Response Modest EDMONTON (CP) -- An Al- berta government plan to help an estimated 425,000 persons in low-income groups buy prepaid health insurance was re Friday to have received only modest initial response. An estimated 100,000 of those eligible were reported to have obtained coverage from ap- proyed medical care insurance panies, -- a prerequisite for j > seeking government help); in meeting premium payments. ose covered by policies is- by the Oct. 1 start. of Al- *s medical plan will get mediate help while later ap- wait three plicants must months. "The plan sets out a wide range of benefits approved companies must provide and also the maxi- mum premiums that may be as- sessed. It provides premium subsidies for those with less than $500 taxable income in the preceding year and ensures that no Albertan may be denied health insurance by approved companies. DOCTORS SUPPORT IT The plan is voluntary for ail concerned and has received sup- port from the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons and private health insurance com- panies. Dr. L. C. Grisdale, vice-presi- dem of the college and a mem- ber of the medical plan's co- ordinating directorate, said Fri- day it was hoped that at least half those in low-income brack- ets would be covered by ap- proved companies when the plan began. "But we are reasonably happy and not at all discouraged. We are certain more will join the plan in the next year. We made a couple of mistakes, the most significant being our failure to put across to the public the sim- plicity of the plan. "Its purpose is to provide aj: good standard of prepaid medi- cal care insurance, available to ported|don't understand the scheme. all with the added feature of government assistance for those that qualify. "Even some of the doctors Some people are trying to read into it complications that just are not there." ON LAW INCOME He said a college survey indi- cated there are about 325,000 persons in families who pay no income tax and qualify to re- ceive the full government sub- sidy while another 100,000 have less than $500 in taxable income and could qualify for half the Speculation continued Friday on a successor for Liberal Leader John Wintermeyer, who resigned Thursday after losing his Waterloo North seat in the lection. Lloyd Francis, who brought Carleton constituency into the Liberal fold for the first time eaq|since Confederation in last April's federal election, may be The 43-year-old MP who de- feated a Conservative cabinet minister in his second bid in federal politics is said to have been approached by a gnoup of eastern Ontario Liberals to seek the leadership. Mr. Francis, economist and former Ottawa controller and deputy mayor, confirmed he MONTREAL (CP)--The con- fusion sutrounding the 1967 Montreal world's fair intensi- fied this week with the res'gna- tion of Planning Director Claude Robillard for "personal rea- a candidate for the leadership.|sons Prime Minister Pearson and Mayor Jean Drapeau of Mont- real joined forces in an attempt)' to dispel this fog. In Montreal to address the Canadian Club Friday, Mr. Pearson said any suggestion that the fair be abandoned is "a counsel of despair." Turning to Mr. Drapeau, on subsidy. had been approached. the platform beside him, he said Warheads In Bomarcs 'Within Two Months NORTH BAY (CP)--Nuclear warheads are expected to be fitted into Canada's 56 Bomarc anti - aircraft missiles 'within two months," Air Vice-Marshal James Harvey, commander of the northern NORAD regon, said here Friday, He said it will be 'several months" before nuclear war- heads are available for the RCAF's 63 Voodoo jet intercep- tors. The planes are based at Chatham, N.B., Bagotville, Que. -- North "Bay and Comox, Air Vice + Marshal Harvey held a press conference "Top- side" after emerging from the electronic catacombs 500 feet! under Reservoir Hill which com- prise his combat operations headquarters. He is, as it were, the RCAF's senior troglodyte| here. Some 700 persons, military and civilian, work underground in three daily shifts in the new SAGE (Semi-automatic ground CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE. 725-1183 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 envir it) combat centre which becomes. operational Tuesday. Air Vice-Marshal Harvey said -- have been no cases of claustrophobia among workers in the underground buildings which look like giant stalag- mites in their five caverns, Some persons phoned topside He said he has a serious traf- fic problem because the sloping tunnels into the combat centre --one from the south and one from the north--accommodate one-way traffic only. "We may have to have traffic lights in the pit,' he said. The chambers were carved out of solid precambrian rock about 2,000,000,000 years old. The excavation took 18 months and cost $17,000,000. The SAGE unit, paid for and installed by the U.S. Air Force, cost $34,000,000. Essentially, SAG bles the com d of the air battle to have more information at his fingertips and transmit orders faster. Air Vice - Marshal Harvey said, however, he intends to re- tain part of the Second World War manual! system which RCAF air defence command 'has used up to now in case the SAGE computer fails, He said the delay in supply- ing nuclear warheads for the Voodoo is due to. the need for the $11,700,000 construction of storage dumps for them. The warheads for the Bomare will be fitted into the missile. MUST HAVE WAR Air Vice - Marshal Harvey said mo nucleat-armed intercep- tors will fly over Canada un- less war is imminent. The Voo- 800-pound Genie nuclear rocket, which can be fitted to the plane in less than 30 minutes, Wing Cmdr. Art Lawrence, commander of the 28 - missile Bomarc squadron here, said American personnel, who will have custody of the warheads, have begun arriving here. The other 28-missile Bomarc squadron is at La Macaza, Que. Wing Cmdr. Lawrence showed reporters how a Bomarc is raised from its flat-roof shed imbo vertical position for firing in about 15 seconds. He said a team from his squadron will take its one spare Bomarc to Florida next year for a test firing. The squadron's two previous test firings from Florida were both successful. CONTROL IS REMOTE Wing Cmdr. Lawrence said the Bomarc can be fired only by emote control from a SAGE centre and not from. the base itself, which is just outside North Bay. There are no spare Bomarcs--with one exception-- because it would take nearly a day to reload the launcher. Air Vice - Marshal Harvey said his command could exist underground long enough to get the defence job done in event of miclear attack and emerge for weather reports. 4 doo in emergency will carry an' without fear of radiation. ey For Worlds Fair "when we do anything in this country, especially in Montreal, we carry it througt, don't we, "The fair will be ready in time," the mayor replied. In an interview Thursday, the day his resignation was an- nounced, Mr. Robillard s aid 'extraordinary measures" wi be needed to get the fair ready in time for the scheduled open- ing April 28, 1967, NEED URGENCY He did not spell out the meas- ures but he had said earlier that what the fair needs on the part of alll concerned, besides official confidence, is "'a sense of ur- gency." Computer studies were being made of the work necessary to mount the fair. They have not been completed, Mr. Robillard said, but enough is known to make it clear that the fair can only be held in 1967 if the whole pace of preparations is stepped up and every legitimate short- cut exploited. Mr. .Robillard's resignation may have caused even more consternation in Montreal than those last month of Commis- sioner-General Paul Bienvenu and this deputy, C. F; Car- sley, for he was the main fig- ure connected with the techni- cal side of the fair and it is on this side that doubts have arisen. The fair site is to be two is- lands, one of them artificial, be- tween Montreal: Island and the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Although the choice and preparation of the site are the city's responsibility, the World's Fair Corporation is intimately concerned for it has to build on Ten persons were injured, one! high school night football game' which have caused several ci- ties to rule out night high school football games, also broke out in Pleasantville, NJ., post-game fighting among fans it. quired eight regular policemen ministers and government sup- porters in closer harmony: The pledge was delivered Fri- day night at the opening of an unprecedented round of meet- senators were to air their griev- ances and give detailed study to. the government's legslative plans and the party's political affairs. Guy Rouleau, chairman of the Liberal caucus of MPs and sen- ators, took the unusual step of giving reporters a briefing on the opening deliberations at which addresses were made by him, Mr, Pearson and James The am, Palar said, was to destroy the "Maphilindo" 'con- cept of an alliance among Mal- aysia, the Philippines and In- ings in which Liberal MPs and|donesia Home said in reply that the federation "was a Malaysian idea, in its conception .and ori- gin, and was in no sese a British plot." WANT TO JOIN Britain had carefully studied the wishes of the peoples im volved and found it was their "emphatic desire' to join the federation, he said, Unlike Al, Capone, who sought he limelight, Genovese, born ear Naples has managed to keep details. of his life a deep secret. After Valachi' put the heat on Genovese, he promised to drag the 10 or so other members of the high commission from the spot of public attention when the hearing resumes Tuesday. ASKS WHY Why was he doing this, asked Chairman John L. McClellan ticular interest. He wants find out what more Valachi knows about Vito and his ther, shadows of anonymity into the acme » Alberto, who was mur» (Dem, Ark). to "He apparently had been. tor- tured, strangled and his bo burned,"' said. The persons responsible have never been apprehended, Judge Macdona! E. Walker, deputy Liberal whip and MP for York Centre. "Mr. Pearson reviewed events of the (parliamentary) |¢ recess," Mr. Rouleau said. "He said that if any gap/has opéned between parliamentary govern- ment and the cabinet we can work out a system that will close that gap." Me re- ti, In reply to qi porters, Mr. Rouleau said ears has been a general feeling that a gap had opened between the backbench MPs and cabinet ministers. 10 People Hurt By Tear Gas Blast In Crowd DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- seriously, when a tear gas bomb was thrown into the crowd at a here Friday. Vandalism and rowdiness, where spread to the streets and re- Toronto Monorail Study Requested TORONTO. (CP) -- Norman , Teeve of suburban North York, asked Metropolitan Toronto executive committee Friday to study a proposed 100- mile monorail overhead transit system. He said. a $200,000,000. system could use existing railway rights-of-way and link up nearby Malton airport with all parts of Metro. and 13 order, Jay Michael Coffey, 4, and his sister Patricia, trapped in Des Moines as fams half time by an unidentified teen-age boy. head by the bomb, was in se- rious condition. His in good condition Police said 100 or more persons may have suffered some ili ef- fects from the fumes, but' most did not require hospital treat- ment. I officers to restore' P 18, were scrambled to get away from the gas bomb, thrown shortly before Jay, apparently struck on the sister was in hosptal. INNES IRELAND INJURED Innes Ireland, Scottish race driver, was. hurt yesterday F when his car went over a bank - tion where he was treated for a seriously dislocated hip, and hit a parked automobile. oa was sia | in fair condi- in .a Seattle hospital ob