Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press Bione number Whitehall 3-9331 All departments class fled ads final edition Winnipeg free press you will find Jumble Puzzle Page 24 comics 10, sports .20 to 23 radio to u classified .84 to 34 movies 15 finance .35, 3c women s if 17 deaths .36 vol. 68 23 38 pages simile Corv rub 10 cents Winnipeg tuesday october 25, 1960 Sun Ralea . Moor. . Sun its . Sur was . Forecast sunny 30 and 50 invasion of Cuba lot before in russians press for debate As Cuba alleges . Attack United nations new York up the soviet bloc was expected to press in the United nations steering committee today for Quick general Assembly debate on cuban charges that the United states is mounting a Large scale invasion against Fidel Castro s regime. In Havana monday night cuban president Osvaldo Dorticos warned an audience of Young people to be on guard against a .-sponsored invasion of Cuba in a memorandum accompany ing the charges cuban foreign minister Raul Roa cited the three americans executed recently for their part in an anti Castro expedition that landed in. Cuba s Oriente province. He also claimed that arms had been dropped in Central Cuba by a four engined plane with . Markings. The memorandum said cuban authorities had reliable information that a Large scale . Inva Sion against cuban soil would be launched soon. Such an invasion it said could Lead to a conflagration of unimaginable an apparent reference to soviet pre Mier Khrushchev s threat to use rockets to defend the Castro re Gime. See in Page 8 push for Spring Summit United nations . Up soviet Union virtually wrote off the current in disarmament debate tuesday by declaring that the Only Way of solving the arms problem is to Convene a Specia session of the general Assembly Spring at the Summit level soviet Deputy foreign minis Ter Valerian it Rin made a new Appeal to the Western Powers to accept the soviet approach by he said it is becoming increasingly evident that at present the United states is not ready to hold productive negotiations on Dis Zorin told the 99-nation Politica committee that if the Western Powers fail to heed his latest a peal to agree of a treaty for Gen Era and Complete disarmament we shall have no other Choice but to terminate our participation in the discussion of the Dis armament problem in the com Mittee. British minister of state Davic Ormsby Gore monday rejected the soviet approach. . Ambassador James j Wadsworth also had insisted ear Lier that the Western Powers were standing behind their own plan for a More gradual approach to disarmament with foolproof inspection safeguards. But can Havana pay Ottawa up the United states embargo on Trade with Fiel Castro s Cuba has presented Canadian businessmen with a Olden Opportunity to expand heir foothold in the cuban mar Ket observers Here say. They Are Quick to add How ver that much depends on Cuba s ability to pay. Some sus Lect that this ability will not Tretch very far. It has been nearly a week since Washington v i r t u a Fly severed Rade ties following a series of revocations and insults from Castro. Canada has followed a business As usual course. One government official said e has heard reports that Al Eady there has been a wave of new orders from Cuba mostly entered in capital goods and equipment. An official of a Large Export in Ranee firm said business in Ertain lines began picking up bout this time last year Appal Nutly As a result of reorientation n cuban purchasing dictated by lie expectation that the . Would take the action it did. Market wide open i think there will be requests for All sorts of said this official. For a Short while Al East the Market should be wide but his firm was recommend ing to businessmen that unless hey hold a traditional place in the cuban Market they insist on a letter of credit. And a letter of see cuban Trade Page 6 Job talks split briefs disagree i on answer to unemployment by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff there was general agreement at the con Ference on a employ. Ment that the Federal government had the Pri Mary responsibility for meeting the problem but disagreement As to just How Ottawa should go about providing More employment. Solutions put Forward were wide and varied. Some organizations advocated higher tariffs and others came out for reduced tariffs. Adjustments in tax policies o encourage More new industries was a popular proposal. See jobless Page 8 Roblin could face conflict with Ottawa strongly opposes proposal that provinces set own tax rates by John Dafoe Premier Duff Hoblin tuesday expressed Strong doubts about the value of proposals which would allow each province to set its own tax rate As an alternative to the present Federal provincial tax rental agreement. The Premier s attitude could bring him into Sharp conflict with the Federal government when fed eral and provincial representative re open their fiscal Confer ence in Ottawa wednesday. Re Poi to from Ottawa say the. Federal government might favor such a plan. See Ottawa Story Page 8 Premier Roblin said tuesday that the principle of equalization which Manitoba regards As a fundamental necessity is closely linked with a Standard tax see tax meeting Page 8 Boom alarms City no snap decision on pipeline Ottawa staff Trade min ister George Hees said today will be no snap decision on the Edmonton Montreal pipe lire Issue. He refused to set a Date but government officials said there is Little possibility of a statement of government Oil policy being issued until after the new year. Another suit in St. Vital a Winnipeg Newspaperman Daiming general and special damages totalling in a Defa mation suit filed tuesday in Cour of Queen s Bench against 10 defendants. Vernon Byfield. The plaintiff claims in general damages As Well As 000 in special damages from the St. Vital Lane and its publisher. Other defence ants named in the action Are five present or fonder members of s vital Council the municipality Secretary treasurer and two Mem Bers of the which under which 50 super de Gaulle wins test vote Paris de Gaulle Early today emerged from the biggest test of his two year old presidency with prospects of still More challenges Over his algerian policies. In a crucial debate. Extending past Midnight the National As Sembly gave 207 Short of the necessary absolute major a censure motion Osten Sibly aimed against his proposal for an Independent nuclear strik ing Force. There Are 551 seats in the Assembly. Failure of the motion saved the 21-month-old government of pre Mier Michel Debre and gave automatic approval to de Gaulle s plans for a French nuclear deterrent. Debre said parliamentary democracy is at stake in France. He Drew a comparison Between what he described As the present weakness of democratic states and the relative strength of totalitarian states. The note also strengthened the personal position of the 69-year-old president. Opponents of de Gaulle s Al Gerian policies found common ground against his proposal for a five year defence Shock Felt As planes pass Barrier the sound of Security As the . Air Force diplomatically describes the sonic Boom dealt Winni Eggers a Jolt tuesday morning from 50 Miles away. A flight of . Interceptors operating Over Pembina North Dakota created the window rattling thump As they broke through the sound Barrier. But due to freakish weather conditions Winnipeg and Pembina alone apparently experienced the Boom which broke some windows in Pembina but did no reported damage Here. Boards flooded Winnipeg police and game com Pany switchboards were flooded with Calls and police cars scoured the fort Rouge District in vain for the scene of an explosion reported by Many householders in that area. One woman phoned the Craf at thai Winnipeg Airport to report her House had been hit by a wheel i which fell from an aircraft. At the Airport one Kcal officer thought a desk had fallen Over in the office above him. See explosion Page 6 Nixon is stepping up his attack final strategy to Knock Kennedy out of ring by Robert Donovan aboard the Pat and Dick Nixon special special Nyht across Pennsylvania in the Snow monday vice president Nixon aggressively revealed his strategy for the final two week stretch to election Day. The strategy slug sen. John f. Wrecker of social Reform the municipality s Legal work. Sonic bombers would be built to the claim is in connection with carry French atomic bombs tie provincial government inquiry while development proceeds on into the Mulberry land bombs and missiles ment transaction in St. Vital and Debre and foreign minister two reports on the hearings in Couve de Murville de St. Vital or. Byfield Aenied that an Independent French j nuclear deterrent would Divide see byf1eld Page 6 it be Atlantic Alliance. Premier Duff Roblin apparently had baby sit Ter problems monday. He holds his son Andrew in his arms while signing the Register at the Advance polling Booth at City Hall prior to casting his ballot. Mrs. Roblin and a poll clerk look on. Or. And mrs. Roblin left tuesday Lor Ottawa where the Premier will attend the provincial tax conference. Gold Price is still climbing London Reuters leading dealers today fixed the Price of Gold for the Day at an ounce a dealers record for the London Gold Market and above the official . Price. But this was still below the Price of quoted in private deals at one stage last week during the continuing Gold fever. Fixing of the Price by leading dealers is Standard procedure. It is agreed on at a meeting place each morning and becomes the nominal official Price for the Day. Finch jury still out los Angeles up the jury trying or. Bernard Finch 43, and his mistress Carole tre Goff 23, for the murder of his wife Barbara continued deliberations monday without reaching a verdict. Creamery butter stocks decline in Winnipeg Ottawa but ;