Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba You will find you re the doctor. Radio. To movie 7 Jumble. 30 women 18u 20 claim fled 30 u 41 spirit z4 u m deaths final edition free press phone number Whitehall 3-9331 All Deparl mints inc dins classified ads forecast colder -10 and 10 Sun . Moon Sun . Moon March 23, i960 simile muck cents Wink Knob edition with comics poems vol. 67 151 head of striking local one of 2 charged in assault Brandon president of the Brandon local of the United packing House workers Union John Olver and another member of the striking local Joseph have been arrested and charged with assault ing 20-year-old Harry Cote outside a Brandon hotel tuesday night. The youth and two companions. He two men. Who Herter decries Summit big four meeting is a says . State Secretary by Rowland Evans Washington special Nyht . Secretary of state Chris Tian Herter tuesday bluntly described the Way 16 Summit Confer ence As a or. Herter surprised the . Senate foreign relations committee with his gloomy assessment of the forthcoming Heads of government meeting. His words were obviously designed to dramatize in Advance the possibility of no agreement at All with the russians. He was immediately challenged by a democratic senator. If we or. Herler said it will be serious Only if we Over exaggerate our Hopes of what May come out of curb Hopes it would be the height of foolishness to raise the Hopes of the that some great Advance May emerge from the pans Vereece he said and then have negative results dash those he said this will be Short meeting and it is extremely difficult will go to visualize just How it were attacked by two men said they were strikers As they left the Prince Edward hotel Beer parlor about . Tues Day. Cote is in condition at Brandon general Hospital suffer ing extensive facial lacerations and a possible broken nose. His two companions 23 year old brother Roland and Orton Miller a Friend did t need Hospital treatment. Olver and Tarnowski were to appear in magistrate s court charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm this after pair was arrested this noon. The morning As the result of descriptions Given police by the Cote Brothers and Miller and others who witnessed the disturbance at the Beer parlor. Continued see Brandon Page 4 minimum wage hike the Manitoba minimum _ memo on sugar is read shutting Down of it. Garry refinery was considered the holding company which allegedly con. Trolled Manitoba sugar Ltd., considered closing the c o m p a n y s fort Garry refinery in 1958 to increase sugar production in the sugar combines trial be ing held in court of Queen s Bench was told wednesday. F. O. Meighen prosecutor for the Federal department of Justice read a copy of an inter office memorandum from h. A. Dunlop treasurer of . Sugar refinery Ltd. And British Columbia sugar refining co., Ltd., the two accused companies to the presiden of the companies Forrest Rogers the memorandum involved the economic possibilities of closing the factory at fort Garry and supplying Manitoba sugar needs from Alberta refineries thus in creasing Alberta s production., not economic it stated such a move would not be economical and that there would be a danger of some bother company building a refinery in wage the province if Manitoba sugar Accord on tests near says Nikita de Gaulle warns abide by ban soviet pm in Paris attacks Germany Paris a soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today Russia is going to do everything possible to achieve disarmament and Only insignificant items Are preventing a nuclear agree ment in Geneva. The russian chief spoke at a reception after arriving in Paris for a 12-Day stale visit to France and opening talks Wilh president Charles de Gaulle on world affairs. Reviewing recent development at the three Power Geneva talks on a nuclear test ban Khrushchev said Only insignificant questions we Are fighting sincerely for p e a c Khrushchev said. I think that sometime in the future we will be Able to other reduction of our see Nikita Page 2 kill Bill on sport e Board in a report to the minister us was of labor has set a minimum rate of 66 cents an hour for All work see Herter Page 2 s. African negroes on strike Johannesburg a Vio Lence appeared on the Wane to Day in riot blooded South but militant negroes turned to the strike weapon in their Campaign against the hated passes they must carry As non Whites. More and More negroes were expected to stay away from their jobs particularly in Capetown and nearby vereeniging the Coal and steel Centre South of Johan Nesburg. Non White townships in those areas were the scene of the riots monday and tuesday in which police gunfire killed at least 72 negroes and wounded 180 or More. Thousands of police backed by armoured cars enforced a tense truce in most areas. The settlement of Langa near Capetown where at least six negroes were killed monday was the chief trouble Centre tuesday. Crowds burned at least buildings and stoned firemen Anc police. One negro was shot and killed. See s. Africa Page 2 ers in the Urban area. The Board established a differential of five cents in the mini mum As permissible Between Urban and Rural areas. The Board stressed the minimum a fair wage the _. The starting wage and any attempt to pay less Nan the minimum wage will make he employers subject to state Ory or civil present minimum rate in Man Toba is 54 cents an hour in Rural areas and 58 cents an hour in Arger Urban centres for females. He minimum for male workers s 60 cents an hour at present. Since the present Basic wage was set the Cost of living Index has gone up about eight per cent he Board said. The Board considered 27 writ in briefs in hearings Over the past rear at seven Manitoba centres. Nyasa land negroes riot Zomb Nyasa land used tear Gas and night Sticks tuesday to disperse a crowd of Stone throwing Negroe. Blocking a Road about 40 mile East of Blantyre in Nyasa land Southern province. Four negroes were Hurt Nom of them seriously a government spokesman said. Sixty negroes were arrested. Some 300 negroes blocked the Road where the riot took place wage going j. J. Robinette counsel Lor the companies told the court he wished to Point out that the Docu ment involved was produced at his request. The rest of the morning session was taken up by the Reading of correspondence Between various Eastern and Western company facials from As far Back As 192b. The detailed Reading of Docu ments continued wednesday morn ing despite comments tuesday afternoon by chief Justice a. K Williams that he could not appreciate the relevancy of prosecution evidence up to that Point. Can t comply or. Meighen said wednesday morning however that he and his assistant in the prosecution Walter Ritchie had discussed the possibility and decided it Louic be difficult to change the theme of some of the documents he said would selves and an inadequate hit in death Vancouver Coroner s jury ruled tuesday that in adequate attention May have aggravated the condition of a woman suffering tuberculosis who died March 11 while being transferred to an Indian Hospital at Sardis . The jury was investigating the death of Eva Ada Harry 36, of Vancouver. The Womacl died of Advance tuberculosis and tuber Cular pneumonia 30 minutes after leaving a Vancouver Hospital City pathologist t. R. Harmon testified in mrs. Harry was too ill to be moved. In Ottawa health minister Mon Keith promised to order an investigation into the Case Oliver i Slick Driver of an ambulance Type truck used to transport the woman told the in quest that while the woman was being put on a Stretcher she was violently ill and in the jury heard testimony that speak Effort the Indian Hospital at Sardis was not advised of the woman s acute condition. Vancouver Hospital officials said mrs. Harry s Transfer was decided upon the basis of a medical diagnosis. There was no attendant in the truck when mrs. Harry died and the Driver said he had received made to be Brief wherever Possi we. Well do the Best you can with the problem you have before said the chief Justice. Mystery visit to Ottawa Ottawa due Roblin made a flying mysterious visit to Ottawa wednesday morn ing and on his departure at noon declined to discuss the reasons for his Quick trip. The Premier conferred with Hon Douglas Harkness minister of agriculture throughout the morning we were discussing matters e Mutual interest Vin agriculture. I was a very useful meeting. But can t say anything about the Rea sons Why i found it necessary to travel to Ottawa the pre Mier told the free press fore getting aboard a noon go Back to Winnipeg he. Had arrived in Ottaw shortly after 11 .. Tuesday. Asked if they discussed Defice ency payments for wheat Oats an Barley the Premier said the subject was not raised. It is understood the Premier a some Long term proposition to up before the agriculture minister. B no Hospital training. He added he had hot been instructed to take an attendant with him. Was trying it out on the Feder agriculture before Maing a statement in the Manitoba legislature. The Field Secretary of the lord s a Alliance asked the Law amendments committee wednesday. Kill the sunday sports Bill or at ast to Sot much tougher Condi on for sunday sports activity. The same time the greater Winnipeg minor hockey Assoc a on asked the committee to auth Rize Amateur sunday rights. The present Bill allows commercial sports Only up to a. These and. Other organizations appeared before the committee wednesday morning As it dealt with two sunday sports Bills. One f them authorizes sunday after Oon sports and cultural activities n local option votes the other permits the cily of Winnipeg to ave such activities simply on the authority of City Council. First to appear before the com Mittee was Noel g. Fibey presi Dent of the greater Winnipeg my r hockey association who asked or the sunday night Amateur games for players under 19. Already playing he said the minor leagues were for them already playing sunday night would be under the same magistrates Rui no that permitted professional hockey on. Sunday afternoon. But f this Bill were passed in its pre sent form the restriction would Stop the minor league Ames he said. Questioned by members he said hat some parents had refused to it their children play or sunday but that sunday play was not a condition of becoming a member of the team. Hon. Sterling Lyon attorney Jeneral indicated that the Legisla ure May Stop the effect of this magistrate s ruling by passing legislation to place hockey in the same category As other sports. Rev c a. Hill of the Alliance said the Bill would make sunday just another workday for players bus Drivers radio and newspaper it would also create in creasing pressure from theatres to open on sunday and after Hal from retailers. See sunday sport Page 11 reds against Berlin vote Bonn a soviet Ambas Sador Andrei Smirnov tuesday ruled out any Chance for rus Sian agreement to a proposal Hal West berliners vote on whether they want to end the occupation of their City. The occupation troops Are nol there at the wish of the Berlin Smirnov told the foreign press association. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has suggested a plebiscite of Roy Rogers 111 appear at Stampede Calgary up Calgary Stampede officials said tues Day Cowboy Star Roy Rogers is suffering from a heart condition and is unlikely to appear at this summer s Stampede. Stampede general manager Maurice Harl Nelt said Rogers has been advised to Lake a nine month rest. Rogers was slated to be the guest Star at the week Long outdoor show july 11 to 16. Jobless total up Ottawa special in Canada declined in february and the num Ber of jobless increased. Number without jobs and seek who Doe he look like above ing work was up from january and a year ago. The mid month Survey of the labor department and the Bureau of statistics shows at work Down from mid Jan uary although above mid february last year. The jobless figures in Brief february 1sw january 19w of february 537.0m january in agriculture there was a reduction in jobs of from year before and there was some decrease in manufacturing. The unemployed represented 8.9 per cent of the labor Force com r _ i. West their to. Determine f t1 1. In feb cent in Rucj. It. Pared with 8.8 per cent Rumary and 9.4 per february 1958. The labor Force was a year to year increase of 134, 000. This was the in about two years and exceed sea the increase in jobs. London new baby Albert Chris Ian britons Hap july bickering today Over whether he looks most like the Queen or Tinee Philip. Majority decided he s Mother s boy. Prince Andrew 33 Days old was making his photographic debut. He peeked out coyly for the first time from the pages of All but one of Britain s National newspapers. Exception the Day worker. That communist newspaper be gulled its readers instead Wilh a photograph of girls performing joyous youth exercise with White plastic hoops at a recent District Spartak Ade in see baby Page 4 pm to Mark 20 years As my saturday Ottawa minister Diefenbaker celebrates his 20th anniversary As a member of a Liam ent saturday. It was n 1939 the con Jerva lives made him their candidate in the Saskatchewan constituency of Lake Centre. Or. Diefenbaker entered the commons in 1940 As one of the three conservatives from Saskatchewan. For Many years later he was the sole conservative my from his province. But under his leadership. Conservatives cracked the Liberal and Kcf Federal hold on the province in june 1957, and in March 1958, they swept every seat but one in the three Prairie provinces he now represents the Prince Albert constituency. Legs Loire reports test cessation considered discriminatory by Gaston Coblentz Geneva special Nyht France served new notice tuesday that it does not intend to abide by the discriminatory nuclear test ban being negotiated by the United states Russia and Britain. The warning was delivered by president de Gaulle s disarmament representative at Geneva at a time of rising prospects for a lest ban agreement among the world s three leading nuclear Powers. The prospects suddenly improved last week end As a result of a major soviet move to break the test ban dead lock after a year and a half of tortuous discussions. The French reprise Lalive Jules Moch charged that the proposed ban simply Means Perpe lulling discrimination for the Benefit of the Powers which have already made a sufficient number of disregard Lull or. Moch defended the French its Ilion al tuesday s session of he week old 10-nation East West conference on general disarms nent. He argued thai a lest ban unaccompanied by other con rolled nuclear disarmament Mea sures will nol be sufficient to free Mankind of the in cat to nuclear War. He insisted that in order to achieve this goal the Lesl ban would have to be coupled Wilh Easl West agreements to cease producing atomic material for military purposes and to convert existing Mil diary nuclear stockpiles to peaceful uses. However diplomatic quarters at Geneva noted tuesday night that there is another Side to the mater and that immense inc National pressure would be brought to Bear n France if it continued to explode nuclear weapons after the conclusion of an american russian British test prohibition agreement. Sees no Dent risks Bill passes Sec Ond Reading. Page 27. Paulley plugs new parly. Page 27. Keep to the rules Liberal urges. Page 27.________ negro vote right Bill is passed by Don Irwin Washington special Nyht the . House of representatives approved 192-to-m tuesday the Eisenhower administration backed plan authorizing court appointed referees to safeguard negro voting rights and appeared virtually certain to Complete work wednesday on ils version of a civil rights Bill. Accepting of the voting referee amendment fills a Gap Hal will put the Bill in shape for referral the Senate probably on thurs Day. The Prospect of definite House action led the Senate s minority Everett dirkson Leader sen. Illinois Republican to venture inc Hope that the Senate May be Able to wrap up an Ole Clion year civil rights Bill by the end of a Cal week. Such a schedule appears to presuppose a two thirds vote to impose closure to Cul off Wordy Southern opposition to inc Bill. Sen. Dirksen sponsor of inc seven Point administration pack age now in ils fifth week before the Senate indicated that he would not be unhappy with the less extensive House Bill. Dynamite blasts workers Tokyo Reuters Twenty three workers were blown to pieces when pounds of Dyna mile exploded tuesday night a a Power station site in Western Japan. Seven other workers were injured. The explosion occurred in a dynamite storage Tunnel danger in a site by Victor Mackie Ottawa Slack there is absolutely no danger of contain nation of the Walers of the Winnipeg River from inc pc rations of the nuclear research station that is to be set up in inc while Shell j. L. Gray president of atomic Energy of Canada Limi cd Lold the free press wednesday. He was commenting on a report thai 17 summer residents and properly holders on the Winnipeg River arid Lake Winnipeg have Trillen a letter of protest to prime minister Diefenbaker saying they were alarmed at the possibility of contamination from the research Centre. Or. Gray said the huge Chalk River nuclear research Stalion was scaled on the Olla a River. The cities of Pembroke and Olla a draw their Waler supplies from that same River and there is no con lamination of the River by the Chalk River operations. Haven t moved summer collages located on the Olla a River Down River from Chalk River have nol sold their Lomes or moved away from their locations. The Only summer col Ages sold were those expropriated by uie Federal government in the in Mcdale Vicinity of Chalk River when the research Plant was being first established. See cottagers Page 4 looking for a washing machine this x want and. 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