Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index classified 20 to 32 movies. 7 comics 8, 9 radio to 6 deaths 5 sports 16 to 19 finance 10, 11 women .13 final edition phone we 3-9331 first Section pages 1 14 vol. 70 263 pages Price Loc Winnipeg Friday August 2, 1963 Sun rises Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 55 and 75 youth hunted blast after girl assaulted 17-year-old escapes armed suspect in St. Vital a has been spread around the metro Politan Winnipeg area in an attempt to capture a Well tanned Good looking St. Vital youth wanted for questioning in the assault of a 17-year-old girl. Sukarno switches attack by Ted sell Manila special tons foreign ministers of three asian nations meeting in Manila thurs Day agreed on a Resolution to create a Loose federation of their countries but without agreeing yet to the formation the new nation of Malaysia. A meeting of presidents Dios Dado Macapagal of the Philip Pines and Sukarno of Indonesia and prime minister Turku Abdul Rahman of Malaya took place Friday morning to discuss organization of map Lindo designed to promote closer co operation among the three. At the meeting or. Sukarno objected to Malaysia s defence arrangements with Britain and demanded withdrawal of British troops from Borneo. The British defence pact rather than a referendum has now be come or. Sukarno s main objection against nascent Malaysia. Please see Malaysia Page 12 u Thant s regrets United nations new York special tons Secretary Gen eral u Thant sent word to the chiefs of state conference on Malaysia thursday that he could not meet their request to Sample opinion without approval of the uni Ted nations general Assembly. Hail hits Portage Hail stones As Large As Golf balls were reported to have pelted parts of Portage la Prairie Friday As thunderstorms Ham mered several areas in Western Manitoba. The Hail struck Portage and farm lands North of the City at about 10 . And lasted for at least 15 minutes according to one resident. Damage in the City was Gener ally Light. However in some areas 100 per cent damage was caused to crops and vegetable gardens. Roofs of several cars were dented by the Hail stones. Some of the stones ranged in size from a Golf Ball to a baseball. Some private planes parked at the Portage flying club were slightly damaged. No one was reported injured. The Winnipeg weather office said that Hail ran a Swath from Portage to Poplar Point to the East. Object of the Hunt spearheaded by St. Vital police and the ramp is Keith Gibbins 19, of 58 Rosewarne Avenue St. Vital. Gibbins has a scar on his right Cheek. He weighs about 185 pounds and is believed to be wearing Light coloured Slacks and coat and a ski Cap. Assaulted St. Vital police say the girl was held for some time thursday night in a Home on Avalon Road by a youth armed with a loaded Shotgun. Police say that she escaped after being assaulted and went to the St. Vital police Sta Tion. Please see Hunt Page 12 civic bribery alleged two men were charged with bribery Friday in Winnipeg magistrate s court in connection with what the Crown alleged was the disclosure of secret information on bids made for the Sale of City owned scrap Metal. The men Are Leo Joseph Gareau 23 of 1633 notre Dame Avenue suite 4, a clerk in the pity of Winnipeg signals depart ment charged with accepting a bribe and Nick Chubinski 38, of 17 Balmoral Street a Winnipeg scrap dealer charged with giving a bribe. Both men were remanded with out plea for a week when they appeared Friday. In Advance the Crown alleges that Chubin ski gave Money to Gareau so hat Gareau would Tell him in Advance what bids were made on crap Metal the department had or Sale. Chubinski the Crown alleges Hen bid High enough to get the crap. The Crown alleges the amount f Money involved was Between 50 and both men were charged under Section 368 of the criminal code. Chubinski s bail was set at year and a half Chubinski had been buying crap Metal from the signals de Arment for Vuk years prior to in time the alleged bribing tarted court was told. Gareau has been an employee the signals department for in years. He is out on bail. Kills six service station slows up like bomb Hanmer ont. Up two Small children their mothers and grandmother w e r a among six persons killed thursday in an explosion that Tore apart a combined ser vice station and rest Aurant engulfing the wreckage in flames. Police completed today their identification of the bodies of the almost beyond recognition arid the others who died in the blast believed sparked by gasoline leaking from a truck that was filling service station tanks. One girl was reported miss ing after the explosion de scribed by a witness As just like a bomb please see blast Page 5 i govt. Plans trusteeship for unions emergency legislation coming at september session Ottawa up the Federal government served notice thursday it will impose trusteeship on five Marine unions including the Maverick seafarers International Union of Canada to Root out lawlessness in waterfront labor. Parliament was told that trusteeship legislation will be ready for the fall session scheduled to begin late in septem Ber. Under this emergency Meas ure three would take Over and run unions represent ing some engr neers and deck officers on ships barges ferries and tugs on the great lakes and on both coasts. Their main task would be concerned with the seafarers Union in member Union that a Federal instigation pictured As corrupt Lawless and a threat to the Economy of Canada. Under the plan proposed to he government by or. Justice t. G. Norris after a year Long investigation of labor strife and shipping disruptions on the great lakes the trustees would be expected to fire Siu presi Dent Hal c. Banks and his chief lieutenants. Labor. Minister Maceachen declared the government s in Tention of imposing a trustee unprecedented action that will put the government i in charge of the internal affairs of a group of unions. I do this through a general Law that left details up to the Cabinet the govern ment decided to prepare special and specific com please see unions Page 11 South Africa hit diplomatic and Trade Boycott urged in in by Louis b. Fleming United nations new York special tons a sweeping Resolution which would bar Trade and Diplo Matic Contact with South was pro posed thursday to the Security Council by j. Rudolph Grimes for eign minister of Liberia. All measures of the Charte should be invoked against sout Africa Louis Rako Tomalla Madagascar asserted adding Tia he situation was a serious Tifrea to International peace and Secu Rity. The angry africans Are still please see in Page 12 jobless solution not easy solving Canada s unemployment problem is not As simple or easy As some economists apparently be Lieve. Bruce Hutchison writes on this problem on today s editorial Page. Passport swindle Sparks manhunt Montreal up the ramp Are looking for a daring Confidence Man who managed to steal even More passports citizenship papers and birth certificates than he had expected in his ingenious swindle. The documents were handed him by persons who answered an advertisement he placed in the Montreal Star for fictitious South american mining supervisory position with a year salary bait. Applicants did t have to have any experience i mining or speak Spanish but they did have to be patient with their native underlings. More than 300 persons an swered the advertisement at a Queen s hotel room rented by a or. he had to hire a downstairs Salon to accommodate the eager throng. He sure looked a hotel official said today. He mentioned he did not expect anywhere near the or. Neville then told the applicants their great numbers made personal interviews impossible at the time and suggested they make application to the hotel by mail for individual interviews on appointment. Asked for documents almost As an afterthought the imperturbable recruiting agent suggested the applicants bring along1 then passports naturalization papers birth certificates and details of their citizenship forms. Please see passports Page 11 Claudia to Bend policy metro May toss a three year old policy overboard and spend Public Money to Honor Claudia Mcpherson 17, of St. James the youngest person Ever to swim the English Channel. But metro s finance commit tee decided thursday the Mani Toba summer theatre Dominion drama festival and Canadian chess Champion people would have to sink or. Swim on their own they Aren t getting metro Grants. Councillors acknowledged that Claudia s Channel swim wednes Day brought recognition to greater Winnipeg As a however metro policy forbids spending Money on councillor Thomas b. Findlay former mayor of St. Suggested the swim was an event warranting special consideration. Metro should give Claudia a plaque or a dinner or some other suitable Honor. The committee decided to have its subcommittee on Grants con Sider the suggestion. Coun. Findlay said Claudia and her family. Made tremendous sacrifices in bringing this Honor to this otherwise Only one of four appeals for Money got the com Mittee s backing thursday. The children s theatre will receive but the summer Thea tre the drama festival and the chess championship were refused. The summer theatre wanted to pay for a temporary Ace Over Concrete Bri thei stage of Rainbow stage. Metro previously said it would consider a new permanent wooden floored stage next year when it had the Money. Six people including two children were killed thursday in a spectacular bomb like explosion that Tore apart a service station and an adjoining restaurant in Hanmer ont., about 15 Miles North of Sudbury. The blast was believed sparked by gasoline leaking from a truck that was filling service station tanks. Seven others were injured. Girl vows to name names if Ward Dies London Stephen Ward failed to respond to treat ment for an overdose of drugs and bronchial pneumonia and drifted closer to death today. Car head divides Cabinet by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff there is a division in the Cabinet Over the question of whether Donald Gor Don should be retained As presi Dent of the Canadian National railways it was Learned Friday. However it is understood that the matter will come to a head in the Cabinet discussions with in the next two weeks. It is expected that will be re appointed As a director and continue As president transport minister George my a Aith was reported speaking in favor of or. Gordon being re gained in his present Post while Justice. Minister Lionel Chevrier is said to be urging that he be replaced. One or two other French speaking members of the inet believed to be aligned with or. Chevrier s stand. There is apparently no criticism of or. Gordon s conduct of or its financial of aids. However he fire because he is said to have antagonized French Canada. Meanwhile his latest girl Friend promised to avenge him if he Dies. Julie Gulliver 23-year-old red haired Singer told reporters there s crowd of people right now praying for Stephen to die so that their names won t be if he Dies i m going to make sure that they a spokesman for St. Stephen s Hospital said Ward s physician has expressed increasing con Cern for his the society Osteopath has been in a coma since he took an overdose of drugs wednes Day shortly before he was convicted of living off the earnings of prostitutes. Ward was breathing with the Aid of an artificial lung and receiving nutrition and stimulants intravenously. He had shown no ment since thursday when he was said to be barely w. Mayne Butcher the Hospi Tal spokesman said at 3 . Today or. Ward s condition remains unchanged. There is no return to spontaneous control of breathing and All tests to detect such have proved negative. Ward society Osteopath and artist convicted As the Brothel keeper in Britain s governmental sex scandal Lay in St. Stephen s Hospital with a breathing machine keeping him barely alive. Please see Ward Page 11 China to buy More Ottawa up agreement has been reached with red China about further Grain sales Trade minister Sharp informed the commons today. He gave no details but said the Canadian wheat Board at Winnipeg will be making a statement later today which he Hopes to pass on to the com Mons. The announcement had been a forecast earlier this week with amounts of Grain running closer than had been anticipated generally to the bushels of wheat and bushels of Barley sold to red China in the agreement signed in april 1961, and now expiring. Or. replying to Reynold Kapp please see wheat Page 11 look for Road deaths up in Manitoba Page 3 Chiang s son could Settle with peking Page 4 . Circulation City zone 89.691 . Naid offered to France some help possible for signing test pact Juk by Murrey Marder Washington special tons president Kennedy said thursday that the United states has offered some nuclear co operation to France if she would sign a test ban treaty but he indicated that the two nations Are still broadly divided on major issues. Or. Kennedy said the United states has made some suggestions recently As to How that nuclear co operation could be More satisfactorily developed if there were a test but he added we have received no response from the French government other than the remarks of Gen. De Gaulle at his press president de Gaulle on Mon Day said France would go ahead with development of its own in dependent nuclear striking Force despite the .-British-soviet Britain endorses a offer London British government today supported president Kennedy s offer to share nuclear co operation with France. A foreign office spokesman said prime minister Macmillan As Well As president Kennedy lad sent letters to French pres Dent de Gaulle. The spokesman declined to discuss the contents of these Etters but stressed we Are in close touch with the United states government on the whole agreement on halting nuclear tests in the atmosphere in outer space and under water. When Gen. De Gaulle was asked if France would sign the treaty if the United states and Britain supplied France with All it needed for nuclear Arma he brushed the question aside. He described the question As a series of hypotheses none of which until now has even be gun to be that would indicate that Gen. De please see1 policy Page 12 president answers critics of test ban by Chalmers m. Roberts Washington special tons president Kennedy thursday responded to criticisms and anxieties Over the nuclear test ban Reaty and expressed Confidence that the Accord will win Senate ratification. He said that the treaty could not be used As a Back door be icle for . Recognition of communist East Germany. He de ded it would encourage nuclear development in Cuba. And he Aid it would not . Of Orts to create an anti missile missile. The chief executive told his Iress conference that while Lere was nothing wrong with senators waiting to get All the acts before deciding How to vote n the treaty he was certain be document would be approved. In repeated his View that the Reaty both protects . Security interests and offers some Hope or further Steps toward a peace us world. The president added that he in eed hoped that red China would Ign up along with As Many oth r nations As possible. But he indicated he has no such expect on. Indeed he described that Attoh today As a menacing actor on the world scene. Biggest danger furthermore he went on a de China with nuclear Wea on something which might of be realized for some years. Maybe a decade is viewed y the United states As Poten ally a More dangerous Situa than any we faced since the and of the second world War because the russians pursued in most cases their ambition with some China by contrast he described As a great powerful Force with mostly weak neighbors Fol lowing a hard stalinist policy please see treaty Page 11 race Biu has Hurt me Juk by John h. Averill Washington special tons president Kennedy acknowledged thursday that his Battle Over civil rights probably has damaged his prestige and popu Larity. But he said that in t go ing to make him change his course. The chief executive called the civil rights situation a National crisis of great proportions and said he is confident that whoever were president he would meet Lis or. Kennedy gave that response at his press conference when a reporter said there Are indications the civil rights fight Las Hurt him politically and inquired whether Cive rights Are Worth an Well i assume what you say is probably the president replied., please see rights Page 5 100 see East German slain in escape try Goslar West Germany 100 West Ger Iran wrists saw an East German lot and presumably killed thursday in an escape attempt and his woman companion Cap ured by communist Border cards police reported. Piece in this Community near in Iron curtain Frontier sail e tourists had come in buses the Western Side of the Borer to see the barricades., suddenly police said an eld East German Man and a Oman companion made a dash r the barbed wire from the astern shots from sub machine guns Ang out. The woman stopped her tracks and was led off communist Border the Manl raced on toward the barricades limping from what As assumed to be a leg wound suffered in the first blast of fire. 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