Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 10, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Saturday edition first Section nobody wants to ban the bombers 13 Magazine Section 19-28 big Trees Are big business 19 Salt pork kept the West alive 21 background Church class. 27 Man who put the world on wheels 21 third Section 29-46 editorial classified fourth Section 47-56 30-45 comics 54 55 deaths 8 engagement 14 15 Feiker 22 finance 52 53 letters 26 lines on life 27 movies 25 the arts 23 science profile sports finance Meyer s column Page s3 sports travel weddings women s 13 youth Page 26 47-51 4o 28 Small Yard can be Beauty spot Plant your Lawn in August Barbecue desserts Book Homei gardens v recipes including to radio Section coloured comics leg final edition phone we 3-9331 All departments vol. No. 270 88 pages Winnipeg saturday August 1.0, 1963 Price Loe Sun rises . , Sun Sels ., Moon sets . Sunny 60 and 80 Interpol Hunts train robbers Yard has Lead on Kingpin loot set at London up flying squads from London s Scotland Yard raided Homes in London s East end today Hunting bandits who got away with in the world s greatest train robbery. An International search order also went out for the sus Poison Gas strikes 400 in . City chlorine escapes tank car Quick action prevents deaths Philadelphia a dense Clouds of chlorine Gas escaping through a broken pipe from a Railroad tank car billowed through a heavily populated Section of Northeast Philadelphia Friday sending More than 400 persons to hospitals. There were no fatalities. Five under arrest Many persons some vomiting and screaming because of the searing fumes tried to flee on foot and were overcome. Many of those stricken were unprotected firemen and policemen who went into the area on mercy missions. Police said the chlorine stored in liquid form in the tank car started escaping when a pipe broke. The car a Pennsylvania rail Road Tanker apparently was rammed by another car investigators said. The leaking chlorine turned to a thick yellow Gas. Heavier than air it was nudged through the neighbourhood by a 10-mile an hour wind. The incident marked the Sec Ond chlorine Gas leak in Eastern Pennsylvania in two weeks. A leaking chlorine valve in a private service for baby narcotics ring . Undercover agent helps trap gang v heroin Worth seized _ Montreal up a United states Federal Bureau of narcotics under Coyer agent working in Montreal was the key. Man in breaking up a Multi million Dollar International narcotics ring sending drugs from North America. Police in Paris Montreal and new York Friday announced the arrest of five men and seized 13 pounds of heroin with Pec Ted Mastermind. Most of the loot was those fiction writers by Flora Lewis London Spe Cial tons it took 22 minutes for a masked gang to pull off history s great est mail train robbery in lonely Buckinghamshire this week and another 20 minutes for the first alarm to be Given. All kinds of Bells have been ringing since. Alarm has been sounded at the casual Lack of Protection Given mail trains at the optimistic Way huge sums of Money Are shipped around the country at the Ultra modern efficiency of criminals and what seems to be the old fashioned bumbling of police. With All the Din. The most Seri Ous note of warning has been barely heard. But it is what really worries people Here who take most care about their worrying. Beneath the derring do and Devilish criminal calculation they see the real danger in the Way fact has suddenly taken to slavish imitation of fiction. There has scarcely been any thing in the headlines these past few months that Ian Fleming or Graham Greene or Alan Silli toe or the movies with perhaps please see Britain Page 6 dog eared but easy to spend paper currency that Banks were ship Ping to London for repulsing. The losses reached a new total today As Banks continued to re port on How much they had aboard the train. The amount stolen represents about for every Man woman and child in created Winnipeg children s mass said for son of president Boston a president Kennedy attended a private mass of the Angels today for his infant son Patrick in a Little Chapel at the residence of his Friend Richard Cardinal Cush ing archbishop of Boston. The president flew Here from Otis air Force base where Little Patrick was born wednesday. The child died Early Friday. The Cardinal said the special childrens mass. He wore White vestments unlike a regular funeral mass when Black Vest ments Are worn. When he smelled what he im-1 the main theme of the roman mediately recognized As Escap-4 Catholic ritual for the mass of ing chlorine Gas. J the Angels is everlasting life i grabbed a mask 1 keep to All the ritual was established Reading swimming Pool sick ened 59 bathers july 26. When unmasked firemen and police rescuers tried to enter the stricken area in Philadel phia Many fell in their tracks. William j. Eckles Deputy fire commissioner said the Gas was highly toxic. The leak started about At the wonder chemical company. The owner Arnold Lanza 50, was in his office just f o r emergencies called for my 15 men to leave the Plant and ran he re counted. Lanza said after he detected the escaping Gas he saw that a one Inch Copper pipe connecting the car and a vat had at both ends. The chlorine was spilling onto the tank car Over the track and into the Plant., which makes laundry bleach Scotland Yard described the i and detergents. Suspect As a master planner wfrn.in8s-As he Van i around the Plant he scrambled who would be Able to maintain up an embankment and turned i almost military discipline particularly for children who die before the age of seven years. Please see Kennedy Page 6 Hunt two in an underworld retail value of those arrested Are Roger la Violette 40, Alain Phaneuf 30, Roger Lapierre 40, All of Mont real Anatole Ethier 35, of Rockland ont., and wealthy Paris restaurant. Owner Roger Coudret. The arrests climaxed More than a year of undercover work Here and i Europe done by the narcotics Bureau the ramp and the French police. Nabbed at Airport one of the canadians Pha neuf was arrested wednesday at the Paris International air port where he was waiting to Board an Airliner for Montreal. Customs officers found 20 Small plastic bags of heroin under the false Bottom of Pha neuf s Sheet Metal trunk. The huge shipment was apparently destined for new York via a Montreal pipeline which was tapped by the . Under cover agent. The ramp said Friday the agent gained the Confidence of a Mon Trealer one of those arrested and discussed with him the possibility of buying heroin in Kuo lots and larger amounts. One kilo is two pounds two ounces. Please see drugs Page 6 among a gang taking part in such a stupendous theft. Detectives said the Man has not been seen in any of his usual haunts. They believe he May have sought to establish an Alibi by leaving Britain several Days before the Glasgow London mail train was robbed thursday at a lonely spot 40 Miles Northwest of London. Aids search Interpol the International police organization has been asked to search for the suspect in the Holiday resorts of South Ern France and Spain. And the possibility that three maximum Security Post office rail cars were sabotaged to Clear the Way for the robbery also was under investigation. Postmaster general Reginald Bevins announced extensive pre cautions against repetition of the theft. J please see robbery Page 6 off the valve. Guilty growing marijuana Calgary up three new York writer his wife and an guilty Friday to charges in connection with the growing of Indian hemp in a farming area near Here. Indian hemp is the Plant from which the drug marijuana is made. William Connaughton the artist who has had shows through out the world pleaded guilty to one charge of cultivating Mari Juana and trafficking in it. The writer Jackson Burke 48, and his wife Rosa about 35, pleaded guilty to one joint charge of possessing marijuana. There s More than one use for a Telephone Booth according to Don and Jerry Miller 909 Dugas Street is. Lion Fuce. The Hoys Are taking a High level and comfortable View of the 300 Man shrine Parade Friday afternoon. For a picture of the Parade see Page i. . Senate s Jovial Ontario crime fighter Dies Bank robbed Washington a Sena Pital and followed what doctors Tor Estes Kefauver 60, the tall Folksy tennessean who campaigned in a Coonskin Cap and once nearly we the democratic presidential nomination died to Day of a ruptured heart vessel. Death came i the pre Dawn hours at Bethesda naval hos red Rock ont. Lice were searching the Woods surrounding this Northwestern Ontario pulp Mill town Early to Day for two Bank robbers. Police estimated was taken Friday by the armed and unmasked men from a red Rock Branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Chief Hector Hartley said about 25 police officers had been called into the search. Roadblocks were set up around this town in the Woods North of Lake Superior 60 Miles Northeast of port Arthur. Chief Hartley said the men had a sawed off 410-gauge Shotgun and a revolver. He said there were five employees and at least four customers in the Bank at the time of the Holdup. Had described earlier As a mild heart attack after Kefauver left the Senate floor thursday evening feeling ill. Kefauver Tennessee s senior senator serving his third straight six year term was As Well known for his Senate investigations particularly one on crime As he was for his two unsuccessful campaigns for the demo cratic presidential nomination i 1952 and 1956. A big Friendly had a wide Campaign Grin and reached out to shake any hand in sight. Soft spoken voice seemed Al most surprising coming from his 200-Pound Frame. Twice outrun morning were questioning a Man in connection with the Early morning slugging of a service station attendant on St. Mary s Road. Two Young men in their Early 20s were involved in the slugging and attempted robbery saw Stanley Shier 62, which of 15 Lethbridge Avenue Transcona taken to St. Boniface Hospital with head cuts. His condition is reported As fairly Good. A series of visits by two suspects one tall and the other Short to Sid s service station 249 St. Mary a began. About 5 Friday police said. The two Young men entered the station at that time asked for change for the soft drink machine had soft drinks and then left. They returned later asked for change again and had another soft final visit was made about . When the youths again came in for a soft drink. Or. Shier alone at the station had just Bent Over an Oil can on a rack when one of the youths hit him on the head with a pop bottle knocking him out. In his dazed condition. Or. Shier heard the men attempting to open the Cash Register which was locked. Textile fac _ m "ww71 1 protests wheat Deal by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff complaints have been made to the Federal government by the Canadian Tex tile Industry that its future has been placed in jeopardy in or Der to make possible the new Long term wheat Sale to communist China. Senators question a treat by Robert c. Albright Washington special tons a Volley if questions concern no the effect of the nuclear est ban treaty. On the secur to of the United states was fired at the. . Senate Friday in preparation for hearings open a i j n u is next week on the historic when they found they could i agreement not open it they fled empty landed police said recovered found him dazed arid bleeding rom a Cut on the Back of his Lead. V May hit maritime new York Hurricane a r 1 e n a carrying Many voters seemed to like j winds up to 100 Miles an hour the easy going Folksy Kefauver 1 at her Centre headed for East 1 add Roach. Tii 1952 at the National approach. In 1952 at the National democratic convention in Chi Cago Kefauver led on the first two ballots. But Adlai Stevenson now a s. Ambassador to the United nations overtook him in storm was 650 Miles South of the the third. And went to win the Newfoundland coast about 400 senator Henry m. Jackson Democrat. A member of key committees Deal to Call police with nuclear and military letters said in effect that the administration must prove its Case that the treaty leaves the nation More secure. Sen. Jackson said the survival of the . Is involved1 and the j same Type and Range of Evi Deuce that was available to the executive Branch in reaching its announced must be Laid before the Senate. Senate armed services chair Man Richard b. Russell demo crat Georgia and sen. John s t e n n i s Democrat missis chairman of the preparedness subcommittee now please see treaty Page 5 pm Canada s Atlantic provinces today . Weather Bureau reported. A weather Bureau spokesman said at 5 . Today the circular nomination. Estes Kefauver please see Kefauver Page 6 Miles East of and Northeast at 50 Miles an Garden contest winners Page 9 the textile Industry is complaining about major adjust ments made by the National Rev Enue department a customs valuation which has the. Effect of opening up the Canadian Market for chinese textiles. Part of Deal this is part of the package Deal for the Sale of wheat to China. Trade and Commerce minister Mitchell Sharp announcing the Deal said in order to promote mutually advantageous Trade the chinese state trading corporations will of seek to maintain and develop their mar Ket in Canada for various items. It is in our Mutual interest to provide them with an Opportunity to do so subject to appropriate safeguards to avoid Market disruption and damage to Canadian producers. This please see textiles Page "6 eco replies to . Brussels c Reuters the six nation european common Market Friday challenged the United states Legal right to threaten retaliation in what has come to be called the Chicken the United states threatened to raise duties on several goods imported from the common Market after the six announced an increase in Theu common Tariff on . Broiling death probed Mother held on Coroner s warrant a Hea Dingley woman is being held on a Coroner s warrant following the death of her four month old son in Misericordia Hospital Friday night. Mrs. Frank arts of heading Ley is in Vaugha n Street detention Home on a warrant issued by Coroner or. Trevor Kent of Kirkfield Park. Assiniboia police saturday re fused to comment on the death of Ronald arts. Reliable sources revealed sat urday that Frank arts returned Home from work late Friday and found his son suffering from head injuries and in a state of Shock. After questioning his wife Christine he took the baby to Hospital. It died less than three hours later. Or. Kent was to open an in quest into the death at 3 Saturday. It was expected to be adjourned until the Assiniboia police and the ramp Complete their investigation. Hanna comes Back Montreal up George Christian Hanna is Back in Canada. Canada s celebrated Man without a country who turned out to be a hoax and was de ported arrived at the newsroom of the Montreal Star this chg he wanted to five in Canada. Hanna telephoned Van Otiver lawyer Don s. White one of Sev eral lawyers who tried to help j him after he first entered can Ada illegally in 1956. Hainan said today he stowed away on a norwegian ship in Braz Al and managed to slip past customs and immigration when it do feed Here Friday morning. Please see Hanna pages 6 chickens. A common Market source said Friday night a note on the United states negotiating rights under the poultry agreement has just been circulated to the Market executive commission s offices in Washington London Rome Bonn Paris and the Hague. The source said the note contained an accusation by a com Mission spokesman that the . Erred in assessing the events which led to wednesday s Washington announcement of proposed Trade reprisals against the common Market unless the six lowered their Chicken Tariff. The negotiating rights conces Sion was originally granted by West Germany to Denmark be fore the common Market was formed and from which the United states benefited As a supplier country. Woos Adenauer state Secretary Dean Rusk arrived today to rally West German support for the limited nuclear test ban treaty and for further talks to ease War tensions. Rusk left Moscow in a cheer Ful mood following a Vade rang ing discussion with pre Mier Jiru Sychev. West German foreign min ister Gerhard Schreijer greeted rust Here. Rusk said in. An Airport state a ram delighted to accept the invitation to Here. I am looking Forward to fee Chance to disc Kiwi fury the to folks in Filos referring to s de Bate the treat in the . Senate the Secretary added please see risk Page 6 Senate okays record big space budget looms by Willlam Macdougall Washington special tons the Senate Friday authorized the spending of billion in tended to put the . Ahead in All phases of space activity by 1970. Approval of the record break ing budget for the National. Aeronautics and space administration was voted after a two Day debate in which democrats objected to provisions which would have benefited the private communications satellite corporation. The. Bill also survived an at tempted Economy drive squeak ing by in a 37 to 32 vote against Vimr filing the authorization by the led by sen. Wayne Morse Democrat Oregon and the late senator Estes Kefauver had complained that the corporation should entitled to make use without payment in the government of million it Ith of Nasa research in communications. A threat Hiat those objections might delay passage of the Bill until next week or later evaporated however after Thi Senate looking for a buds Rob i this want and under dogs cats Birds livestock 16 i i tame Budgie. Macje and stand us. I is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free want ads space headed by sea. Clinton 1 Anderson Democrat new agreed to a com Promise. Barred under that approved bar the Senate 60 to 11, Nasa will be barred from using any of its funds for he exclusive Benefit of any private Organiza Tion unless the costs Are reimbursed. Joining in the Day Long Dena satellite Corpora Tion Ereat Jed last year i despite Liberal prob3s ts0that a . Space system should be run by the government was sen. Russell Long Democrat f he charged that Congress last year space to like american Telephone and please Seii space Page 6
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