Customs manager, said officers near the Montana border year and four in 1965 by the end of July. “There's been an increased emphasis (by Canada Customs) on weapons and our efforts at finding them are getting better,” said Delgaty. Mass murderer — Michael Ryan, the gun-loving loner who became Britain's worst mass murderer, won't be buried with the doting mother he killed and “almost certainly” won't be buried in the town he devastated before killing himself, his family said Saturday. Several relatives of his victims had expressed dismay that Ryan might be buried in the same grave- yard as some of the 16 people he killed in ‘Wednesday’ ‘8 The d in the small English country town of Hungerford, about 95 kilo- betres west of London. Rust trial MOSCOW (Reuter) — West German teenager Mathias Rust, who landed a light plane in Moscow's Red Square in May after flying from Finland, will be tried in an open session of the Soviet Supreme Court in Moscow starting Sept. 2, the official news agency Tass reported Friday. Rust, 19, who landed the plane after an un- authorized flight of hundreds of kilometres over Soviet territory, faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of violating international flight rules. REGULATIONS KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Investors with money tied up Principal More than half the 225 people who filled an auditorium here Thursday night signed a petition calling on the B.C. government to bale pay ry cesntvesble fees of two Prineipal Group Corp. and Investors of a of They also want the province to provide interest-free loans for people whose funds were forzen when the financial conglomerate collapsed but,,.who are in pressing need. “I think they owe it to us,” said Art. Charbonneau, founder of the Kamloops Principal Investors Protection Association. Charbonneau said he has compiled a list of about 150 Kamloops investors and the amount of each of their contracts. More than half are retired citizens who told him they were looking for security when they invested in the Principal Group. FEAR RIDICULE He said many are still reluctant to come forward. They fear ridicule, and charges that as investors they should have remembered the adage “buyer beware,” and shouldn't expect the government to bail them out. “That's utter nonsense,” said Charbonneau. “Just look at all the regulations for other parts of our society, like food and drug regulations. “It's like if you get on a plane and the wings fell off and then the government says, “Well, you should have checked the plane before you got on it.’ " he said, “We're the backbone of the community . . . and I think we have been left out to dry.” Several people at the meeting claimed sales agents for Principal companies had misled them into believing their pec ennai hab secure. They believed they were He also faces a possible five-y on charges of malicious hooliganism and three years for illegal entry into the Soviet Union, but sentences on different charges usually run concurrently in the Soviet Union. Rust is in Moscow's Lefortovo prison. Clinic for impotent MOSCOW (Reuter) — The first Soviet clii impotent men will soon open in Leningrad. Nedelya magazine, a supplement of the daily Izvestia, said Friday that doctors and engineers assigned to the clinic had successfully tried on a number of men a device that could help thousands suffering from male sexual inadequacy. The device was not described. “Good results have been achieved by drivers, pilots, and seamen — all types of men who, because of their work, spend a long time travelling and come home tired,” it said. Nedelya said up to half of all divorces in the Soviet Union are caused by a lack of satisfactory sexual relations. ic for Record bowl PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. (CP) — Efforts by this southern Manitoba community to have the world’s largest bow! of strawberries listed in the Guinness Book of World Records have proven fruitless. Local Kinsmen spokesman Dave Quinn, whose group spearheaded the effort last month to kick off the local strawberry festival, said Thursday he received a letter from the Guinness organization saying Portage la Prairie’s 515.9-kilogram bowl of strawberries was topped by a 565.2-kilogram entry from Kent, England. “Your achievement was certainly magnificent and Iam sorry to disappoint after all your hard work,” the letter read. “Who knows, maybe you'd like to give it another go.” Sydney, B.C., held the previous record of 387 kilograms. Fund shortfall TORONTO (CP) — The federal Progressive Con- servative party treasurer has issued a panic call for funds, warning that the Tories face a shortfall of nearly $900,000, which could increase to $2 million before the next election. In a July 24 letter, George Stratton told party members the projected shortfall could mean defeat in the next election. “Will you help forestall that tragedy today,” he asked, “by making an emergency donation of at least $75 to the PC Canada Fund the minute you have finished by letter?” Stratton said the party needed $193,000 within 15 days and included a page from a report by the party's comptroller. Two arrested TORONTO (CP).— Two people were arrested Saturday while trying to prevent the arrival of a U.S. warship in Toronto harbor. Three dinghies carrying members of the environ- mental activist group Greenpeace were waiting for the frigate, the Oliver Hazard Perry, when it entered the harbor. The activists tried to prevent the frigate from landing by placing their dinghies in front of its dock site. On shore, 50 protesters from the Toronto Dis- armament Network held up a banner calling for nuclear-free waters. One of those arrested has been charged with the dangerous operation of a motorized vessel. Police didn’t release the names of those arrested. Mother arrested MIAMI (AP) — Police are not apologizing for arresting a mother who allowed her two hungry children to eat a can of sausages on a Metrorail train. “We are very serious about keeping the trains clean and pleasant for all people to use,” Metro-Dade Sgt. Richard Barger said Thursday Tobia Jinks, 26, who is to be arraigned next week, could be sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500 US if convicted of second-degree misdemeanor charges of eating on a train. “I saw the ‘no eating, no smoking’ signs,” Jinks said. “But my baby was hungry. We didn't get dinner.” An catienated 10,000 B.C. contract holders were affected by closure of the two Principal Group investment subsidiaries which were placed. in receivership June 30. Kamloops investors alone poured an estimated $2 million into i portfolios by the two The parent company, the Principal Group, declared bank- ruptey Aug. 10. Lyman Robinson, head of the University of Victoria law faculty and an investigator for the provincial inquiry into the Principal Group, conducted much of the meeting. He outlined plans by Coopers and Lybrand, the accounting firm handling the receivership of First Investors and Associated Investors, to pay out 30 per cent of investors’ money by the end of August, then develop a plan to liquidate the rest of the companies’ assets. “The objective of my inquiry is really to determine whether and what legal actions can be initiated against any of the named companies by or on behalf on the investors in B.C.,” Robinson added. Robinson said the Alberta government has picked up the $12,000-a-day Coopers Lybrand fee so far, but now wants to withdraw from paying the whole cost. U.S. wants no subsidies EDMONTON (CP) — The United States is pushing for an end to all Canadian government subsidies to industry as part of its price for a free-trade deal, a secret U.S. govern- ment document suggests. “A major U.S. objective in the free-trade negotiation with Canada is to bring greater discipline over the use of subsidies in Canada,” says the confidential U.S. Department of Commerce document obtained by the Edmonton Journal. The July 27 memo from William Cavitt, the department's co-ordinator of free-trade negotiations, con tinues: “At this point, the negotiations are focusing on those programs which provide financial assistance to a specific firm or industry. . . The U.S. negotiators are asking the Canadians to end these subsidies at both the federal and the provincial levels.” Critics of the free-trade talks reacted angrily Friday to what they say is concrete evidence that the U.S. wants an end to Canada’s tradition of using, as the memo states, “direct grants, subsidized loans, differential tax relief and equity infusions” to influence the country's economy. The federal and provincial New Democrats said the memo is confirmation that under a free-trade agreement, regional aid programs — like the recent $1.2-billion Western Diversification Initiative — will be jeopardized. University of Alberta economist Ed Shaffer said the memo means Alberta can “kiss all hopes of diversification goadbye, because we're locked ipto oi] and gas until the reserves run out.” DAMAGE INDUSTRY Removal of government-subsidies could be disastrous to Alberta’s oil industry, said Wilf Gobert, an oil-industry analyst for Peters and Co. of Calgary. “It would call into question a lot of the various incentives, grants and rebates that are provided . . . by the Alberta government to the oil industry,” Gobert said. The move would hurt the province's farmers as well, said Unifarm president Ralph Jespersen. He said the biggest problem lies in the definition of subsidization. If all U.S. and Canadian agricultural subsidies were removed “I'm quite convinced that we would be able to compete.” If the U.S. continues to subsi indirectly, while the Canadian government cuts off agricultural grants, “our farmers would just go broke.” The memo to the International Trade Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures rounds out the “brief overview” Cavitt gave state officials at a closed meeting on July 28. A tape cassette of that speech was given to the media earlier this week by federal NDP trade critic Steven Langdon. “This memo tells us more clearly than we've ever been told how high the stakes are in this trade deal for the regions of this country,” Langdon said Friday Mare Lorti spokesman with the Prime Minister's Office, said the aim of all trade talks is to reduce non-tariff barriers, but programs like the Western Diversification Initiative won't be affected because they are too broad-based to be considered subsidies. The memo reaffirms a confidential Canadian govern- ment document that said “constraints (resulting from a free-trade agreement) on the use of regional development ze its farmers, direetly or yadi