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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 9, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index classified 20 to 32 movies. 13 comics 9, 10 radio to 12 deaths 4 sports 16 to 19 finance 6, 7 women 11 final edition phone we 3-9331 vol. 70 no. 269 34 pages Price Loc Winnipeg Friday August 9, 1963 Sun rises . Moon rises . Trntjtrr1 a of torm Vrtar or j or sets . Moon sets . Forecast 55 and 85 Juk s son Dies private funeral set for saturday heart fails in struggle to keep breathing baby is third lost by mrs. Kennedy Boston a the newly born son of president and mrs. Kennedy died this morning from a lung ailment. Private funeral services will be held saturday at a. Time and place to be announced later. White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger placed the time of death at . Edt . The struggle of the baby boy to keep breathing was too much for his Salinger said. The president spent the night at the medical Centre Here with him when the baby dec was his brother attorney Gen eral Robert f. Kennedy. The president went to his wife s bedside in Hospital a Otis air Force base. He looked weary and strained. Doctors announced that the baby died of a disease in which a thin membrane forms Over the microscopic a sacs of the lungs and inhibits the ability to pass oxygen to the blood. Today the president went to forces leave Yemen Nasser withdraws troops after note from Thant by Arch Parsons Washington special tons the United Arab Republic has begun finally a withdrawal of its forces from revolution torn Yemen informed sources said Here thursday. It is estimated that approximately troops have been returned to Egypt since the be ginning of this month the total . Military Force in Yemen is believed to be about men. In addition . President Gamal Abdel Nasser is expected to announce in a speech scheduled for next monday a further withdrawal of troops. It is hoped that the number announced will be at least More men. Real withdrawal reliable sources Here emphasized that the present action Anc the forthcoming announcement represents a distinct reduction in . Military might in Yemen and not a Mere rotation of troops there As the practice seems to have been in the re please see Yemen Page 4 May go higher Otis air Force base Hospital to be with his wife. The baby was christened Pat Rick Bouvier Kennedy shortly after birth by caesarean Section Early wednesday afternoon. The baby 5% weeks premature weighed four pounds 10 ounces at birth. Patrick lived Only 39 hours and 12 minutes. This was the third child the resident and mrs. Kennedy Ost. She suffered a miscarriage n 1953 and the baby was de Vered stillborn. Another child died after premature delivery in 195s. Please see baby Page 2 ilk. Bandits May have flown take away from nearby unused Airstrip London a known losses in history s greatest train robbery an preached the million Mark today. Scotland Yard and police of 14 counties hunted the gang that ambushed the London Glasgow mail. As Bank after Bank reported on thex Cash shipments seized by bandits at a Rural Junction thursday the total climbed t unofficial estimates placet the loot at a Pound is Worth about Canadian. Two London loss adjuster put a further on the re Ward for information leading to the arrest of the thieves bring ing the total to Scotland Yard was reported probing suggestions the Looi might have been flown out of the Hijack area by a Small red plane seen taking off and land ing at a disused Airfield. Police visited airfields and Landing strips in a wide area around the robbery scene. Most of the loot in the Holdup near Cheddington 40 Miles Northwest of London comprised used banknotes British paper currency. The currency still negotiable was being shipped by Banks to London to be destroyed. Losses the Midland Bank said its loss ran around the Oss ran Aroun e National commercial Bank of Edinburgh estimated its loss at Viet Nam buddhists Star fast Hue South Viet Nam a group of 108 buddhists began a 48-hour hunger strike in this Central vietnamese holy City thursday to protest policies of president Ngo Dinh diem s government. Supporting them nearly half the shops in the City closed Down. Hunger strikers demanded tha the government punish police and troops they claim killed one Buddhist and injured 56 others in hitherto clashes july 27 and 311 the strike began on the eve of a National conference of roman Catholic students at which archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc the president s brother was expected to speak in Saigon 400 Miles to the South police geared for trouble As a Young unidentified Monk announced plans to Burn him self to death in the continuing Buddhist struggle for what they consider their civil rights and religious Liberty. In 3 minutes Ward a suicide . Jury finds by Godfrey Morrison London seven member jury at a Coroner s in quest today found that Stephen Ward Central figure in one of Britain s most sensational scan dals of the Century killed him self by taking an overdose of nembutal sleeping pills. His death last saturday was attributed to softening of the brain tissues because of deprivation of oxygen. Ward 50, divorced son of an anglican Clergyman was to have been buried this afternoon at a private funeral ceremony. But his lawyer Jack Wheatley said the funeral May not be held today after All. Ward burst into prominence this year when ormer War min ister John Profumo resigned his office Over his affair with one of Ward s proteges pretty red head Christine Keeler. Ward introduced Profumo and miss Keeler. Ward died saturday after 80 hours in a deep coma without blowing he had been convicted at a London trial of living on he of the prostitution of miss Keeler 21 and Marilyn Mandy Rice Davies. 18. Three Minifie witnesses at the Brief inquest Inch ded a Scotland Yard offi Cial another of Ward s girl friends Julie Gulliver a Patho Logist and Noel Howard Jones an advertising executive. It was in Jones apartment that Ward was staying the night he took the to have been 100" sleeping pills. The Only three min utes to arrive at the verdict West London Coroner Gavin Thurston said it was impossible to say at what time last wednesday morning the drugs were taken but there was a letter that showed Ward intended to kill himself. Please see Ward Page 4 Man on Moon soviets . Consider joint lunar Effort Washington special tons word has been sent directly to the soviet Union that the uni Ted states is interested in Fol lowing up a soviet suggestion that could Lead to a joint . Russian Effort to get men to the Moon. This was revealed thursday in the release of a recent Exchange of letters Between British Astro Nomer sir Bernard Lovell and James e. Webb head of the National aeronautics and space administration. The letters were made Public by sen. Clinton p. Anderson Democrat new Mexico chairman of the Senate space committee. The British astronomer s letter to Nasa written after he returned from a visit to soviet space installations said that the rus sians have rejected for the time being plans for a manned lunar rather they want to explore Steps that could Lead to an International Man on the Moon project. Sir Bernard said that the so Viets in effect asked him to act As a Middle Man to convey then views to the appropriate authorities in the United states and the United kingdom. Scientific tasks replying to the letter or. Webb wrote that if the soviet Academy is indeed interested in the matters you describe in your letter we wiil look Forward to the possibility of further explorations by or. Hugh a Dryden and academician Anatoli a blazon Savov As their views and desire please see Moon Page 4 Bonn ponders a pact by Sterling Slappey Bonk special tons the West German government marked time thursday while scores of other nations rushed to sign the partial nuclear test ban treaty in Washington London and Moscow. No official decision on whether to sign the treaty was reached during a four hour meeting of. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s Cabinet in Bonn. After discussing the treaty and its ramifications the Cabinet agreed on several Points to be taken up with the United states arid great Britain in meetings to be held within the next week. A government spokesman declined out which Points Are giving Bonn the most trouble. A Quick succession of three events is expected to have considerable Bonn in re lation to the treaty . Secretary of state Dean Rusk will Bonn saturday and sunday in route to Washington from Moscow where he signed the treaty for the United states and where he negotiated further moves that could relax cold War tension with the soviet Union. What or. Rusk tells Chan cellar Adenauer and foreign min ister Gerhard Schroeder will have a bearing on the treaty and also on a possible East West non a please see Adenauer Page 4 the National provincial Bank bandits who robbed a Royal mail train of at least million thursday used a Highway underpass As an unloading platform. Sketch shows an artist s Conception of the robbers at work. . Tax Impact reduced by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Impact o resident Kennedy s interest equalization tax on Canada Wii e greatly reduced by an import clarification of the Concession made by the United states gov lament. The Canadian government was advised that its understanding o he concessions granted had been confirmed Early this week after . Authorities studied representations made in Washington one reek ago by finance minister Valter Gordon. Private business interests in Anada were alarmed Over interpretations they had received rpm . Officials As to the application of the concessions. The acadian authorities pressed for clarification in Washington Aric finally came through. Private business circles in can Ada regard this As additional important concessions by the us. But the. Canadian government sees it As a confirmation of what Ottawa thought was inner but hot specified Jyh the Ori Ginal concessions made by the . Or. Gordon in a 62-word state ment disclosed the clarification thursday night he simply please see Gordon Page 2 Jaitry recommends More signals Page 3 Lippmann on treaty opponents 8 . Circulation City zone s9.691 total May but we Are insured. Continued please see robbery Page 2 old hat in movies the Mastermind in Lavender Hill proposal new Democrat convention votes to support Western Alliance Regina up the new democratic party Friday adopted a new foreign policy statement after beating Down attempts to demand immediate Canadian withdrawal from the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion. The convention debating for eign policy for the second Day also rejected attempts to include by Flora London special tons Al the top and Many of the less elevated brains of Scotland Yard have been poring through the annals of British crime tonight in a search for clues to the identity of the that is the Only name so. A for the Leader of the gang which carried out the biggest mail train robbery the country has Ever known. Estimates of the Joss in used banknotes which can never be rebels take to Hills Santo Domingo Domini can Hai Ian exiles who invaded Haiti vere reported to have taken to he Hills to wage guerrilla War Are against the government of Francois Duvalier. Reports from port a Prince lie haitian capital indicated lie drive which exile spokes men had said the invaders were making across Northern Haiti and fizzled or. Been dispersed y Duvalier s forces. A spokesman for Esso stand re Oil said the american com any s two bulk plants near " Ort liberte were operating normally. Again. And american evacuees were returning to their Obs along the Northern coastal area. A defector from the haitian my who fled with 12 of his men into the neighbouring dominican Republic said Gen Cantave the rebel com Mander and the col m a of his Force had melted into the haitian mountains. The defector Marc Sylvain 0, said he was the adjutant of an Post at Derac in Northwest Haiti. He said can ave s invasion Force totalled bout 300 and picked up re mits on its March. Rebel spokesman Paul Verna estimated the guerrilla mow Tain Force at about 250. He. Said files in the dominican re pub c had rallied to their cause. The rebels apparently hoped i mount a Campaign of raids and harassment that would eventually attract Public sup port and topple do Vader. Traced diamonds and registered parcels have ranged wildly from million up million. The robbery has already been christened the million Pound fan its closest rival for loot and effrontery in police records is the one million Dollar East Castle Street affair 11 years ago when a gang of seven looted a Post of fice truck full of used banknotes on then Way to be pulped. British papers speculated that it was the same Mastermind who had struck again but they could not guess his name. Any movie fan could have helped. It is obviously the double or the scriptwriter for sir Alec guiness the plot which has the press and police agog at its extra Ordinary and surprising cunning is lifted straight from two guiness films. Anyone who saw the Lavender Hill mob and the lady filers can easily imagine the precise planning details of the gang of 30 which so startle and mystify the authorities. Please see train Page 4 political firings charged federation Calls for policy against patronage the civil service federation of Canada caused the government Friday of sacking two government employees for political reasons and called for a definite policy against patronage. Officials of the or federation called a press conference to detail their Harges against the fisheries department. It is the first time he federation has protested publicly about specific cases of patronage. The federation said the two officers of fisheries patrol Vesel Cartia based in Souris .e.i., had been appointed by be former conservative gov rement and dismissed. July 31 without any reason being Given. They said the two officers ave been replaced by two lib ral appointees one of whom and been fired by the conserve Tive government after the 1957 Lection. The federation spokesmen Aid i 11 a r y Cheverie and Homas Batterby both of Souris and respectively Cap Tain and Engineer of the Small patrol vessel were replaced by capt. N. F. Macintosh and an unidentified Engineer. Exempt from act fisheries ship Crew Are among More than Federal government employees who do not come under the civil serv please see patronage Page 4 Winnipeg will Likely be High and dry Fine summer weather is on the books for the Winnipeg area this weekend with dry warm air moving in from the West. Skies Are expected to be sunny tomorrow with the temperature rising to a High of 85 after an overnight Low of 55. The forecast is for More of the same sunday. The forecast for Northwest Ern Ontario is for scattered Cloud and cooler tempera Tures today and tomorrow but 80-degree temperatures and Clear skies sunday. A Plank for world. Government and for recognition of East Ger Many on show of hands votes. The anti nato forces lost thursday by an estimated mar Gin of five to two indicating a dwindling of the i a strength since the nip s 1961 founding convention. Debate on the drawl proposal found one new democratic my and a former my opposing National Leader t. C. Douglas and two other nip maps. Or. Douglas asked the convention not to tie the hands of the parliamentary group with a get put of nato policy. Please see nip Page 4 Senate gets its turn by Robert e. Thompson Washington special tons president Kennedy dispatched the nuclear test ban treaty to the Senate thursday with emphatic Assurance that it will provide stronger Protection for . Security than continued unlimited testing by the major. Powers. Or. Kennedy asked the Senate to vote Swift ratification of the pact which was negotiated last month by the United states the soviet Union and Britain. Cabbie in Hospital beating suspected an East Kildonan taxi Driver Pas. Reported in fair condition in Winnipeg general Hospital Fri Day with head wounds which to ice believe May have resulted rom a beating. Donald a. Smith beating victim the Donald Allan Smith 31, of 449 Larsen Avenue East Kildonan has been Deliri Ous and unable to talk to police since the incident occurred be tween and 1 . Thursday. According to the East a Kildonan police or. Smith was dispatched to tache Avenue and Marion Street in St. Boniface by Duffy s taxi at . Thursday. Or. Smith cleared the eau at ., saying he was still in St. Boniface. Incoherent at about 1 am. Or. Smith was reported to have walked into his Home talking incoherently his head covered with blood. His wife and his Mother called the Duffy s taxi office and a taxi was sent to his Home. The Driver of the taxi took or. Smith to Concordia Hospital but there was no resident doctor at the Hospital who could treat or. Smith so the Driver took him Back Home the East Kildonan police report said. Please see cab Driver Page 4 for Story on yesterday s signings see Page 5. Although the treaty is but a Small step toward solution of per Ilous cold War problems the president declared it can reduce world tensions open a Way to fur ther agreements and thereby help to ease the threat of the president who is in Massachusetts with his made his Appeal for ratification in a special written message of about words. Please see treaty Page 4 Montreal paralytic polio up Montreal up three Montreal hospitals report a to Tal of 28 cases of paralytic polio All but six of them within the past few weeks. This could mean the Start of an or. Robert Ingram director of the Mont real children s Hospital said after ordering an immediate polio immunization program for his staff. All of the victims except one Are children and most had received no immunization shots. Public health officials Here re. Port no cases of paralytic polio in the province to Date and see no reason for the epidemic to spread West from Montreal. An estimated 85 per cent of Manitoba residents have been immunized with Salk vaccine and immunization clinics Are being held daily in Winnipeg. Sabin Oral vaccine was distributed in clinics last Spring and a second immunization program with a bin is scheduled for next Spring. Looking for a a adj and High chair this want and under Furni Ture 52 crib and High chair in Good condition. Hudson 9-7728. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads ;