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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press August 6, 1963 Hiroshima mourns aug. Terror by John Roderick Hiroshima Japan the people of Hiroshima paused today to mourn the victims of history s first atom bomb at tack made on their City 18 years ago today. But they took heart from the signing of the partial nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow. At exact time that the b-29 dropped the bomb aug. 6, swarm of doves wheeled into the air and the Hiroshima peace Bell began its sorrowful Tell. A crowd of stood with bowed Heads for a minute of silence before the simple arched memorial to the City s atomic dead. Mayor Shinzo Hamai dressed in Black referred to the mos cow treaty in his memorial address expressing great gratification that at Long last a pact for the partial Banning of nuclear weapons has been concluded by the United states the United kingdom and the soviet step Forward it is True that the pact still leaves some fundamental prob lems unsettled nevertheless we attach great significance to it As a fulfilment of our Earnest wish that a step Forward be taken toward an ultimate realization of a total he said. The memorial ceremony was Brief and restrained in marked contrast to the confusion and political bickering which broke up the opening Here monday night of the communist Domin ated ninth world conference against Hydrogen and atom bombs. Delegates from red China Russia and Many other coun tries were present at the commemoration today but they were relegated to the Back ground. The conference split Over whether to denounce nuclear testing by the Western Powers Only As red chinese and the japanese communists Der handed or testing by Allna tons As the russians and the japanese socialists proposed. Walk out i japanese socialists and labor unionists walked out of the open ing ceremony resigned from the conference and prepared to stage a conference of their own. The soviet delegation the ind ians and others turned their backs on a chinese Delegate who was condemning the nuclear test ban conference meetings scheduled for today were postponed and the Hiroshima chapter of the ban the bomb organization withdrew its sponsorship of the Congress. After the ceremony today hundreds crowded in front of the memorial. Its list of the atomic dead has been increased by the addition of us More in the. Last 32 Mouths. For though ans were officially listed As dead or missing in the 1945 atom blast there still Are thou Sands in or living out their quiet uves the scars of the radiation that the bomb produced. More about Exchange continued from Spage 1 the Canadian Dollar s Exchange value was pegged at 92v2 . Cents May 3, 1962. The government is committed to drawing on Canada s vital Exchange reserves to prevent it dropping below 91.575 . Cents. The repayment to the inter National monetary fund was the first made on a special loan to. Canada. President Kennedy s july 18. Announcement of the proposed . Tax on american purchases of foreign securities put Down Ward pressure on both tiie Ca Nadian Dollar Exchange rate and on the Exchange reserves As Canadian authorities sold . Dollars from the reserves to protect the pegged rate on the Canadian Dollar. The pressure stemmed from the Prospect that less american capital would be entering can Ada to offset Canada s balance of payments deficit on current transactions. Or. Gordon s statement said the greater part of the decline in reserves occurred july 18 and 19 just before the . Announcement that it would exempt new Canadian Bond and Stock issues from the proposed tax. The exemption would be accorded on the undertaking that Canada would not take advantage of the Concession to build up its foreign Exchange reserves. In essence the Canadian undertaking amounts to an. Agree ment not to increase the coun try s Exchange reserves. More about continued from Page i for two Days the Parry s 80 member Federal Council has worked on a restatement elaboration of the party s pro Gram on and co operative federalism. Or. Douglas told the. New democratic youth convention that canadians cannot close their eyes to the which has occurred on the que scene. English canadians will make a mistake if they fail to recognize that it is like an that you Only see tiie top. And that below the surface Are. Great feelings of resentment and -7 he. To take _ a rational and objective approach to the Quebec problem which for the new democrats has seen a shedding of ties with the fed eral party by one Quebec socialist group while another Aims at establishing the party there to participate Only in the Federal Field. Or. Douglas said party Mem Bers should guide their actions by three discard anything just because it s old Don t reject anything just be cause it s new and submerge individual interest in working for the Good of the. Whole he said the new party state Merit of federalism and Sicul Tural ism will at elaborating the co operative federalism Laid Down at the 1961 founding convention spelling out specific terms its meaning in economic planning and fiscal policy. Greater difficulties were involved in economic planning and fiscal relations Bette Eojen eral and provincial govern ments under a co operative sys tem involving two Levels of government he said. But it had the advantage Over centralized planning that it brought about better participation. The present program adopted in 1961, spells out cultural and religious guarantees and stresses provincial autonomy without going into detail on How Quebec s drive to gain control of the Quebec Economy fits into the Over All i economic planning and fiscal policies of the party. Or. Douglas told reporters that with Quebec delegates out numbered about 60 to 700 at the convention the is to acquaint English speaking Dele Gates of the seriousness of que s problem. In fact you have to. Do a lot of talking even to get a Brit ish Columbia resident for example to admit there is a sub Bee he said. More about Germany continued from Page 1 Germany cannot take the position that it is All right to Poison the air with nuclear tests. Germany cannot allow her self to be lined up with the nations definitely opposing the treaty communist China France North Viet Nam North Korea and Albania. West Germany cannot stay out of the treaty group and allow the province of Manitoba requires a Hunter safety training officer for the department of mines natural resources this officer will be responsible for a province wide program directed towards Safe Hunting practices and gun handling. He will plan organize and supervise this program and License and supervise instructors to carry it out with various clubs and sportsmen s organizations. His duties will also involve wide Public Contact through lectures to interested citizen groups and demonstration of Safe gun handling practices. Successful candidate must be available to travel in the province and have a wide knowledge of firearms. 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He told a press conference that West Germany would pay close attention to the debate in the . Senate on the test ban starting aug. 12, and to the consultations in Moscow Between ., British and soviet foreign ministers. Special attention he said will be paid to discussions on a pos sible non aggression pact. The next step in the German Retreat is expected at mid week when another Cabinet session will take up the treaty . Explanations the Mcnamara visit and other possible East West moves to ease the International political atmosphere. Germany already Lias let Washington know that it disapproves of proposals for a non aggression agreement Between nato and the communist Warsaw pact nations or any thinning out of Allied troops in Central and Western Europe. In the past the United states also hag opposed such a pact. Or. Mcnamara reportedly was advised to Tell president Ken Nedy that Germany looks to . Negotiators to keep the German position prominently in mind when further talks take place on such things As a non aggression pacts. The United states Britain and the soviet Union have sent ambassadors and other emm Saries to or. Adenauer and government officials to try to answer their fears. The United states is pointing out to Germany that both nations must go through the legislative process before full ratification can be Given but that the thinks so much of the treaty and the possibilities it opens up in International affairs that it has gone ahead and signed. Of great significance through out the whole test ban episode has been the almost total Lack of criticism from foreign minister Gerhard Schroeder. Henrich von Brentano parliamentary Leader of or. Adenauer s Christian _ democratic u n i o a leads the forces opposing the treaty he outlined some of his reasons monday but it was considered significant that he never said Germany should not approve the treaty. Los Angeles time accidents Kiu by the Canadian press accidents claimed at least 78 lives in Canada daring the three Days that Rie arly half the country s population observed civic Holiday weekend. A Canadian a re s a Survey from 6 Morida local times recorded 40 of the deaths in Ontario Mani a Toba and a 1 b t a the three provinces where Jna Jorv cities declared monday Day off Road accidents took 48 lives across Canada there 19 drownings and 11 deaths from other accidental Ontario had 33 fatalities. British Columbia reported -12 deaths the total swollen by four persons presumed dead after a float equipped plane crashed into the Fraser River saturday. Quebec had 10 eight on the roads and two of the water. New Brunswick reported e Only accidental deaths in the five in traffic and two drownings. Saskatchewan had eight deaths a drowning and seven in Road accidents including five children. Burned to death when their family s car was in a crash near Elafros. Manitoba reported four deaths All in .traffic., Alberta had two drownings and two Road Fatali ties More about France continued from Page 1 it is hot a question of obtaining secret information on How to make an what is needed is information on experiments already conducted a sort of sharing of experience. The problem is to perfect a recipe since the ingredients Are already known. in this Field would provide Short cuts i time and a saving of expense. We have All the necessary theoretical knowledge to explode an a bomb. But since we have not exploded one we do not know the answers. It would save some Experiment ing if we know beforehand just what results to not immediate some informed French sources feel that an Unne Ces. Sary immediacy has been Given the problem of France s refusal to adhere to the test ban. These sources say it will be at least two years before France is ready for another nuclear test involving an a bomb. Installations Are being built on a South Pacific atoll Miles Northeast of new zealand and it will take at least that much time for them to be completed the sources said. Reuters French president Charles de Gaulle has replied to a recent letter from prime minister Macmillan Deal ing with nuclear questions an authoritative source said Here today. The source said the reply was received through the British embassy in Paris but he declined to disclose its contents. How dead is dead Vancouver up or. Justice j. G. Ruttan May Rule in British Columbia supreme court today whether a dead Utility can ask for a stay of its own execution. The Utility is the . Hydro and Power authority ruled non existent in a supreme court judgment last week of chief Justice Sherwood Lett. The authority is attempting to Appeal the Lett judgment which said the government s expropriation of the . Elec tric company aug. 1, 1961, was beyond the Powers of the legis lature. The chief Justice said the for mation of the Hydro authority the following year out of a merger of the Bce and the . Power commission was thus invalid. The authority is seeking a stay of proceedings on the Lett judgment pending appeals. The . Power corporation Parent of the Bce is seeking to have the giant Utility s assets handed Back to it. The supreme court proceed Ings on. The applications opened monday but Day was taken up in argument Over whether the Hydro authority is a Legal entity that for a stay and thus go on to make an Appeal. Or. Justice Ruttan reserved decision on the Power Corpora Tion s Contention that authority is in the words of its counsel dead and its application should be wiped out. He said he hoped to have his decision today and added that if he. Rules that the authority is non existent the Bce will be Back in business As a privately owned but m. M. Coun Sel for the attorney general in formed the court if that is the Deci Ilion government will forthwith file an application for a strip. I haitian heritage fear hunger blood by William l. Ryan associated press staff writer Haiti in Indian Means land of Hills. It should be called land of troubles. During the 160 Odd years of its tence it has known Little but woe. Haiti has been ruled by Kings emperors presidents and dicta tors. Nearly All came to violent ends Only six presidents ended their terms normally. A country of Haiti because of its Geo Graphy if the carib bears is the Western hemispheres Mediterranean Haiti 4is its potential Haiti shares Hispaniola Island with the dominican on its Northwest Corner is mole St. Where Columbus landed in 1492. From there it is 50 smiles across the wind Ward passage a Jarrow ship Ping Channel to Iguban. During the second world War a hand Ful of nazi submarines bottled up the passage. If Haiti were in Castro communist soviet bloc would have a Formi Dable position astride the North Ern tier of the Antilles ceded to France ceded by Spain to France in 1697, Haiti has known no rest since the French were driven out at the beginning of the 19th Century. Its indigenous indians had been exterminated and its population today is descended from. African slaves. A series of Kings and presidents ruled the coun try until 18591 when the Republic was restored. Meanwhile in 1844, Santo Independence and Haiti was confined to the Western third of Hispaniola. In 1915, after prolonged Hai Tian violence United states marines landed. The american occupation lasted until 1934. Even today some old peasants be Lieve the . Marines still run things. Haiti s Basic trouble is the extreme poverty of the negro majority coupled with their conflicts with the better educated mulatto minority. About 90 per cent of the people cannot read or write. Mountains make its habitable areas the most Den sely populated in the Western hemisphere. There is a grievous Lack of roads and other Means of communication. Coffee and some sugar Are the basis of the Economy which has Only a Small amount of Light Industry. If work was says the haitian peasant among the hemisphere s poorest the Rich would have taken All of talented flee talented people leave the country. It is poor in resources of educated men and women. Peasants struggling to stay alive show Little interest in politics. That has left government to the Small and often violent groups of educated arid Semi educated in the capital port a Prince. Over the years groups tumbled one government after another. The current troubles Date to december 1956, when an Al Liance of businessmen professional men and labor leaders knocked Over the dictatorship of col Paul Maglorie. Daniel fignole Leader of the movement of workers and peas ants became provisional presi Dent. Three weeks later the army kidnapped him and terror reigned. A series of interim governments followed. Two at tempts to hold elections failed. On a third try or. Francois Duvalier a Middle class negro physician was declared elected. Duvalier s chief opponent senator Louis Dejolie an industrialist economist claimed the ballot boxes were fled the country. Duvalier has survived strikes violence and a dozen plots against his office and his life. Duvalier disbanded the two House legislature in .1961. His main opposition had been in the Senate a one House legislature he called Legisla Tive elections picking All Candi dates himself including the opposition. Lier president printed on the ballot the voters had no idea what it meant until the voting was Over. Backed by a handpicked one House legis lature announced it had been a plebiscite and he had been chosen for a new six year extending until 1967. The United states Cut off its arms Aid because of the elec Tion rigging. Haitians said most of the arms had gone to Duvalier s rabble militia. The Arsenal is in the cellar of the enor Mous fortress like presidential fifth. Four other palaces were blown sky High by munitions explosions. Would you Welcome Legal lotteries Quebec s Premier Lesage has asked Ottawa to Amend the Laws Banning provincial lot teries. August Reader s digest weighs the. Pros and do government run lot teries act in the Public Good and relieve the tax Burden Lead the citizen sucker to moral bankruptcy get your copy of Reader s digest now on Sale. Canadian ice company and Mather decorating company extend congratulations to the Royal Alexandra hotel on of air conditioning and redecorating of the following meeting and function rooms Alexandra room banquet room a Crystal ballroom colonial room Tea lounge Coffee shop Selkirk dining room Selkirk lounge special Royal Alexandra features Economy rates sgle., Dale. 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