Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday August 5, 1963 House damaged by fire fire heavily damaged the third floor and roof of a Home at 190 Braemar Avenue St. Boniface saturday morning. The fire was first noticed about . When neighbors saw smoke coming from the upstairs of the three Storey Frame House owned by Andrew Cha Bidon. Or. Cha Bidon and his family were away at the tune. Fire officials said the Blaze of undetermined origin broke out i a suite on the third floor occupied by Joseph Macquarrie. Or. Mac Quarrie was not at Home at the time. Firemen from both no. 1 and no. 2 fireballs confined the flames to the third floor. They fought the fire for nearly two hours. Fire officials said there was extensive damage to the entire third floor and roof of the House. The downstairs suffered consid Erable smoke and water damage. More about Ward continued from Page Goat for introducing former War minister John Profumo to miss Keeler who at the same time was seeing an assistant soviet naval attache. Their triangular relationship touched off the scandal that threatened to top ple prime minister Macmillan s government. Profumo resigned in disgrace. Seeks probe legislator Alice Bacon la Bor s chief spokesman on Home affairs said the whole of the happenings in this Case Call for an investigation by the Home concern mounted Over three aspects of the Ward Case circumstances under which evidence against Ward was gathered. Ronna r i c a r d o claimed police placed pressure on her to testify against Ward by threatening to remove her sister and her baby from her care. The police denied her claim. Mandy Rice Davies whose testimony helped convict Ward was questioned by police waiting on Ottawa crop insurance for All Farmers agriculture minister George Hutton says he is pre pared to extend crop insurance coverage to All Mani Toba Farmers by 1966 if the Federal government acts quickly on a Promise it made during the last election Campaign. Or. Hutton said in an inter View he recently reminded fed eral agriculture minister Harry Hays of a Liberal pledge to underwrite provincial crop insurance schemes to save them financial disaster in years of heavy claims. The progressive conservative provincial minister said he was Given no indication of Ottawa s plans but is still hopeful that this support won t be Long in he said or. Hays expressed interest in it. Under the proposal Ottawa would re insure the risk in Exchange for an annual Premium paid by the provinces that offer crop insurance to their Fann ers. Or. Hutton said the plan would Back up the crop insurance plans with the re sources of the Federal Treasury yet if the Premium paid by the provinces is soundly calculated put no undue Burden on Federal Manitoba already has experienced what can happen with out Federal underwriting. The province s plan was in its second year when the 1961 drought struck the Prairies. Claims for crop losses totalled that year. The crop insurance Agency had Only in the Bank and was left with a deficit of the Agency still is in debt about As a result of the drought. The Manitoba scheme covers almost banners this year against a maximum of 000 in crop losses. The Protection is offered in six test areas which embrace about 30 per cent of the province s Farmers. About 52 per cent of the farm ers eligible in these test areas Are enrolled. For an annual Premium the plan offers them Protection against wheat Barley Oats flax and sugar beet losses. Police break up protest Gadsden Ala. Enforcement officers equipped with shotguns and electric prod ticks broke up a mass Demon traction saturday by negroes ent on attaining equal rights downtown Gadsden stores. There were no incidents. Approximately 300 negroes including 75 juveniles were a ested on charges of violating state injunction forbidding demonstrations which interfere with Normal business or traffic. The negroes had marched singing As they went from a meeting place in the negro see on of town to a shopping Cen tre. Then they started to walk rough the downtown area Teir announced goal was to March Down the main Street rom the country courthouse to lie City Hall. Police officers were reported o have used prod Sticks of the Ype used on livestock in Dis Persing some of the Demontra Fri gets first hand briefing Washington where in a secret hideout Fri agents Are guarding an under world figure who has Given the Justice department the most de tailed information it has Ever had on an organization reputed to dominate much of the crime in the United states. The informant is Joseph Achi 60. The organization he has described is the Cosa nos sometimes called the Syndicate. And what he has spilled is described by a Justice department spokesman As an extraordinarily important intelligence breakthrough in the War against crime. Valachi s whereabouts Are a closely guarded secret and Wil remain so the Justice depart ment says. But he is to Appeal before the Senate investigation subcommittee when arrange ments can be made in connection with its investigations into the International narcotics tray Fie. Among other things Valachi has outlined the Structure of the Cosa Nostra s disciplined Ter ror Ridden organization and up the Finger on some top racketeers already under investigation. He has provided also an in Side View of what happened i the crime convention at apal Achin n.y., nov. 14, 1957. An he has named Vito Genovese 66-year-old italian born Narco is Boss As top Man i the cos Nostra. Genovese now is serv ing a 15-year sentence in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta while under a charge for de faulting on instalment payments. The charge was later dropped. Testimony by prosecution witnesses. Both miss Ricardo and miss Barrett admitted they had lied. Miss Barrett later de Nied she had lied but the jury discounted her testimony. Ward was cleared of the charge involving her. The secrecy surrounding the new evidence which resulted in the release of Aloysius Lucky Gordon by the court of criminal Appeal. Gordon was freed from a three year sen Tanece for allegedly beating up miss Keeler. The court did not disclose the new evidence including the contents of a tape recording miss Keeler had made. New. Issue new controversy was injected into the Case today when miss Bennett was reported to have denied she told a newspaper she had lied at the society Aster path s vice trial. Three newspapers reported miss Barrett s denial of com ments attributed to her by the London sunday Telegraph As an uneasy Britain wondered whether the ghost of Ward s sordid past would Rise to haunt More figures in British High society. Letters he left behind before gulping a fatal dose of sleeping pills last wednesday hinted at new embarrassments for those who travelled in the same Cir cles As the 50-year-old Ward who died saturday never hav ing known he had been convicted of vice charges. One of these letters was addressed to miss Barrett. Ware wrote i Don t know what in was or who it was that made you do what you did. But if you have any decency left you should Tell the truth. You owe to me but t everyone who May be treated like you or like me in the fun to Lief the sunday Telegraph re ported that miss Barrett after Reading Ward s letter broke Down and sobbed i did t want him to never thought this would Maki him die. I lied yes i miss Barrett was arrested for soliciting on the night Afta Ward was committed for trial in her notebook the police fount Ward s name. Sprung on the trial court a a Surprise witness she testified that she had gone to Ward apartment every week for 2v months to have Intercourse wit men provided by Ward. Shi said she also caned ant whipped some men. She said Ward promised to pay her a share of her earning but never did. He told her i was saving up the Money so she could buy better clothes and Al tract a better clientele she asserted. Refraction Ward described her evidence tissue of disgusting lie new York civil rights tors. In readers revised upward to 300 their estimate of Partick ants in the planned aug. 28 March on Washington. Tentative plans were made at a meeting of big six civil rights leaders for negroes in i Mississippi s. Delta area to Oard a special train leaving Stew Orleans. Farm hands and factory workers from throughout the jeep South would be Able to Ake a special Freedom train having Florida. In other developments 12 rickets were taken into custody n downtown Farmville va., seven pickets were arrested while singing and marching at a diner in Newark n.j., and 10 sit in demonstrators were arrested in a restaurant at ath ens a. Canoeists reach Churchill Churchill Man. Up a 17-foot Canoe slipped into this Northern seaport at the weekend to finish a trip Over River swamp rap ids and Muskeg. In it were three american University students who be Gan the journey at Ely Minn. June 7. On the final Lap Over the Churchill River they Slid through a school of Beluga whales encountered rapids so rough they had to Portage around them and at one Point in port aging they had Only swamp water to drink. The voyagers guides at Quetico National Park in Northwestern Ontario for Sev eral years Are Tom Ogle Louisville Tom Grun Waldi also of Louisville and Mike Smith Laverne Minn. The men took on a fresh Load of supplies at Norway House 275 Miles North of Winnipeg on Lake Winnipeg. When they arrived Here thursday on schedule had a can of Bacon and two pounds of Rice still uneaten. Churchill is 600 Miles North of Winnipeg on the Salt water Hudson Bay. From beginning to the daily Telegraph a Sta ble companion of the Sunda paper today carried her Denia under the heading miss bar rett retracts lies it quoted her As saying never said i lied in the court. Her denial was also Carrie by two tabloid newspapers to Day the daily Mirror and the daily sketch. She told the tabloid newspapers everything i said at the Tria was True. I cried when i hear that Stephen was dead. But h was wrong to write that not to i can t understand it. My conscience is Clear evidence was she Tol the daily Mirror. She said she was going 1 leave London and return to he Home town Birmingham. T get a she said. In a office named names miss Barrett was Concerne in one of the three procuring charges against Ward. He a acquitted on this count. But h was convicted of two charge of living on the earnings Christine Keele 21, and 18-year-old Marily Mandy Rice Davies. The controversy Over mis Barrett s assertions marked the Start of what Many believe i e further developments in the pro Case. There also was a chilling minder that Ward had talked nth lord Denning the judge investigating Security aspects of in sex scandal that rocked retain forced the resignation f War minister John Profumo and almost brought Down the government. In one of his last Conversa on with reporters the Man rho introduced important peole to his free and easy living irl friends declared i have during my Consulta on with lord Denning told urn privately some of the More important aspects of the affair have named names and made disclosures which i did not want 0 reveal in inquest Friday Scotland Yard detectives Eon need investigations of the Case rough the weekend amid re Orts of new revelations con earning High ranking persons. A Coroner s inquest into Ward s death was set for next riday. Authorities also were examining a Batch of 13 letters written y Ward just before he took the Rug overdose. They were to be Given to the Coroner who was expected to accept them As suicide notes. One of Ward s last letters was reported addressed to lord Jenning. Others were addressed to sir Archie Marshall he judge at Ward s trial and prosecutor m e r n Griffith tones. Miss Ricardo another prostitute said at Ward s hearing she served clients at his apartment. Jut at his trial she said police lad pressured her and she recanted. Ward left a note Hanking her and saying i understand and forgive what of had to do at police court. He left a Friend a note asking that miss Ricardo be left he left another to Sylvia Arker another witness for lira and another to Julie Gulliver his last girl Friend. Snubbed miss Gulliver threatened sat urday to Tell her Story to a government inquiry into the Profumo Case. There Are certain people whose consciences have been doubling them Over she told a reporter. But i Promise 1 will make their conscience rouble them even Ward went through the final Days of his life snubbed by his Noble friends and he died a Jitter Man. In the final hours the wrote several notes and left hem in the Chelsea apartment where he was staying with Noel Howard Jones a Young Adver Tising Man who testified in his defence. For 79 hours Ward Lay at the Brink of death. Surgeons Slit his Windpipe so he could breathe More easily and every breath was pumped in by a machine As pneumonia Deal Speed. His brother Peter who had spent the night at the Hospital was at his bedside when the end came. The third Viscount Astor named several times in court proceedings issued a statement saturday night which said Stephen Ward possessed re his brother Peter Viscount Astor issued a statement Satur Day night which said Stephen Ward possessed remarkable gifts of Healing which he exercised skilfully conscientiously and generously. Those who were so fortunate to have been treated by him will re Memler him with great gratitude. His readiness to help anyone in pain is the memory Many will Hurricane fizzles out Miami Fla. Arlene who popped up out of the South Atlantic and headed for the . Mainland As though she meant business lost her lethal punch sunday and was demoted to a tropical storm. 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