Roosevelt arrange: ‘secret: convoys’
, ‘supplies, to. Britain inthe my, devs of the: Second World:

>. news release.

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; the secret.
ed Intrepid, .

(cP): _ : Sir Willian Stephense!
through the book A Man ¢

~ once told - Blaikie. Purvis: that the story of his father,
- ‘Canadian ‘businessman Arthur: ‘Purvis, should be told."
"Arthur: ' Purvis; -portrayed -in a - recently released

bigraphy.on Wi ton Chuechill Ja credited with helping the
ion: resident *:Franklin:.-
: American: ‘ALAS. ‘and’

West German police said today: _
- There was no explanation as to why the lines’ ‘snapped, It

oo was a clear summer” day with’ no strong winds when the
toy - basket crashed.

The two men were taking part i in ithe Gordon Bennett cup

soc} ¥ balloon, race, which began. in Paris on: Sunday, French
officials announced that two Poles — Stefan

“Ireneusz Cieclak — won the race, travelling 700 kilometres
-and landing in Bavaria.

_/{ Several policemen watched Anderson’s America 3: with

. binoculars before its basket crashed in a forest near the
“north Bavarian spa Bad Kissingen and the ballooon drifted

~ “on in the: direction of Coburg, a north Bavarian town near
“the East German border. - :

“Anderson, 48, of Albuquerque, N. M., was one of a trio to

"cross the Atlantic in the Double Eagle Il, the first balloon

flight across: the ocean, in 1976 and made the first balloon

'-erossing of the United States, with his son, In 1990. Anderson. 7
almost died in waters off Iceland i in an earlier, transatlantic

_ ‘challenge. "

Ida, 49, a Colorado tree farm o owner, had been Anderson's .

partner in two futile attempts to circle the globe in a
balloon.
“After Monday's crash, witnesses told police the helium

;balloon seemed to rip apart just before it crashed.

“| Schweirifurt police rushed to catch up with the balloon:

os ‘after the balloonists notified Frankfurt authorities that they.

“were going to bring the craft down just before they reached ‘

"+ cthe border'with East Germany, which forbids such flights in
its air space.

Deal extended |

- OTTAWA. (CP) — The federal government's: $3. 5-billion

‘semaby credit. deal with Canadian chartered banks, under

=: ’ “arrows money to bolster its foreign reserves, has |
; z. wea vacended by, two"years to June 29, 1981, Finance |
“Minister Marc Lalonde said Monday. ,

The interest rate at which Joans ‘can be made under the ;

arrangement ts being maintained at alow rate for an extra
two years as well.

-. The changes will give the government continued. access to
foreign currency reserves eat a good rate, Lalonde sald ina

mat eo

‘The government will continue to be able to borrow: money

under the deal at oné quarter of one per ‘cent over the

‘London Interbank Offered Rate until June 29; 1895. After .
that, the rate will increase to three-cights of-one per cent.
_. The increase in rate was to-have occurred June 29, 1993, «

_.. The London Interbank Offered Rate is the benchmark

rate for many. international syndicated loans. ~

rer orm ae

nt ligence during | the Second World War had: only pra j
i for’ io

Scenes Killed n fall

Bo ah SCHWEINFURT,- West, Germany tAP) ., Balloonists
. “Maxie. Anderson and Don Ida were killed Monday when

~. ropes holding the basket of their helium-filled bailoon -

S capparently snapped, sending the men Plunging to Earth,

Makne and .

ty

? His he son, “Blaikie Purvis: of, Montreal, ‘talked: in
interview Monday, of the man Churebill described’s
our devoted ‘gent moh os a

“Anyone.
 partleuleel Nhe iy} wetthr
iter a paid Purvis president of the Canadian
“bratich at thei investment management firm Calvin ‘Bullock
Mad.» a ves

“Blaikie Purvis; who visited Stephenson in ‘Jamaica
his father’ 8 death in. England. In 1941, ‘gaid the head of allied

is A father:

Anderson and Ida threw: some cargo averbuard before the:

Xerash. The cargo has not. been found.) .
owe could sce there were lines hanging down. from the .

, balloon,” police spokesman Stegfried Brendet said, “Then |

‘it crashed in the woods,: and police had to. seek: dt out An.

helicopters.”

Aspokesman for the race 2 said, ‘Anderson had tried to Jang:

once, apparently “missed his appoach"’ and was coming in .
‘or a second try. when the accident happened, ~*."';

-. Experts from the Federal Aviation Board in Brunswick ;
arrived at the crash site Monday: night to ein, crimipal -

police in an. investigation... _.

Kissingen, West German authorities said. today...
Both men were dead at the:scene, Brendel bald “te
Brendel said Police suspected the two men may ve been:

trying to avoid crossing into East Gekmany.

The ballocnista had lifted off from Paris 21 hours estlig

as part of the Gordon Bennett: ‘International Balloon : ‘Race,

The winner of the race is the team whose balloon travel

the farthest in any direction. .

Appeal. made:

NEW DELHI (Reuter) — indian Prinie’ Miniates’ Ladi :
Gandhi, moved by the plight of thousands made homeless .
by last week’s floods in the western state of. Gujarat, has -

appealed to all of India for help... .

Gandhi saidafter flying over the batiered coastal: areas of .
the state Monday that the loss of life and property had! bees .
‘colossal, the state-run All India Radio reported. 7

Officials have confirmed 428 deaths and said 414 people

_-were reported missing.. The disaster was worse than [nat .
year’s ‘cyclone which killed more than: 500 people: and: :
caused widespread destruction’ in the Bame. Saurashira

region. .
Floodwaters ~ continue - to engulf low-lying parts. ‘oF

‘Junagadh district; isolating almost: 190,000 people... S,
. Gandhi, who also toured some of the worst-hit areas such |

a8 Porbander and Junagadh by road, told reporters the

“destruction was 50 widespread that the government alone

would not be able to provide relief and rehabilitation.
_The news agency said more than 61,000 cattle died and
more than 50,000 houses or huts were damaged in the Odogs,
. Officials’ said many villages were still Anaccessible and
soldiers were trying to reach them ‘in boats. rE
Indian air force helicopters were dropping food and othr
relief to hundreds of people-who. were ‘stranded.,: :
- Officials sald a complete assessmeht was still to, be made
of the damage, ‘but ‘hundreds of. kilometrea of roads: ‘had

_ been washed away and power lines to 2, ea villag had :

been snapped. ~ oh
The floodwaters submerged vast 2 areas sof farrhland’ but

the damage to crops: was not known. The region is-a key |

groundnut preducer, but the summer.crop has already been

harvested. The state also grows rotton and coaree grains. .

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Purvis said he was not aware during his ehiidnood of his

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. His father’s. energy was especially surprising ‘since he *
lost thé usé of one Jung and a third of the other to

tuberculosis at age 2. “why he survived, that,.1 don’t

know," said Purvis. °

While he was récuperating in Saranse Lake, NCY., Purvis)”

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