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Wednesday, August 14, 1963

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index Bridge Horoscope crossword. .26 classified 27 to 40 movies. 49 comics .50 radio to 48 deaths. 5 sports.42 to 45 finance women 15 to 19 leg free press final edition phone we 3-9331 i first Section pages 1-14 vol. 70 pages Price Loc Winnipeg wednesday August 14, 1963 forecast sunny and warm 55 and 85 fewer seek work unemployment t figures drop Ottawa up unemployment in Canada fell to in mid july a drop of from the june figure and under the total for july 1962, the Federal labor department and the Dominion Bureau of statistics reported today. The joint press release noted that the heavy summer influx of students into the labor Force which was evident in june continued in july. The unemployment rate for july was 4.2 per cent of the la Bor Force compared with 4.5 per cent a year earlier and 5.2 per cent two years ago. In june the rate was 4.4 per cent. The jobless rate is the number of unemployed As a percentage of the labor Force. The monthly report is based on a Survey of House holds across Canada during the week ended july 20. Since it is a sampling Survey All figures Are statistical estimates and Are not Given As precise totals. Employment Rose Between june and july by an estimated to an above average increase for this time of the report said. At the same time there was a Large increase of in the labor Force bringing the total manpower count to against these increases unemployment showed its slight de Cline. The lbs labor department re lease said the labor Force expansion Between june and july was characterized by a very Large influx of Dur ing the month an estimated teen agers Between 14 and 19 years of age entered the labor Force and an equally Largs number got jobs French Congo rioters win concessions president postponing one party Rule Brazzaville Congo Republic a Reuters president Fulbert Yoi Ilou jolted by a riot of strikers who charged graft and corruption announced today he will form a new government and postpone establishment of one party Rule. Valachi hideout in . Fort m 0 n m 0 u t a . A this heavily guarded army Post was disclosed today As the secret hideout of Joseph Valachi the former mobster re ported to be facing an under world death sentence for in forming on a United states wide crime Syndicate called Cosa Nostra. Valachi s presence Here under heavy guard was confirmed by army information officer Peter Hoffman after the new York daily news reported it in a copyrighted Story. It had been reported that Val Achi might be hiding in Western Canada Valachi for More than a year has been telling All he knows about the . An la crime Industry to Justice department agents. They have sworn to keep him alive despite a reported underworld offer to whoever alls him for violating crime s code of silence. Anti Nehru crowd protests food Cost new Delhi Reuters about opposition party supporters swarmed to the main Gate of parliament Here today demanding the resignation of prime minister Nehru and pro testing against the High Price of food. The demonstration came a Day after All opposition parties except the communists succeeded in introducing a motion of no Confidence against the government unprecedented in Nehru s administration. Riot on birthday of Wall Berlin Reuters Calm returned to West Berlin today following rioting tuesday night by hundreds of youths demand ing the Wall must come the communist erected Wall dividing East and West Berlin was two years old tuesday and for most of the Day there were no incidents. Feature of the Day was a formal Wreath placing on the Western Side in memory of persons who died trying to escape communism. But later in the evening a group of youths broke through a police Barrier at one Point near checkpoint Charlie the crossing Point for foreigners go ing into the Eastern tried to tear Down the Wall with their hands while other demonstrators hurled rocks Over squads armed riot police had the crowd dispersed by Midnight but before they brought the situation under control rocks were hurled at an american military police car and a car bearing an East Ger Man diplomatic plate. A Side window was smashed in the East German car. The police used truncheons to break up a crowd of 300 West Berlin youths who tried to stage a sit Down strike in the approaches to checkpoint Charlie. Several youths were arrested. While the anti Nehru demonstrators were at the main Gate a group of supporters of the ruling Congress party were outside another Gate shouting slogans backing their Leader. Police closed both Iron Gates and stood guard with Metal tipped wooden Staves. The opposition demonstrators handed out copies of an open letter to Nehru accusing his government of corruption and inefficiency and ending with the demand quit Nehru the no Confidence motion tuesday was the first the government has faced in 16 years in office. It will be discussed in parliament next week. Observers said the motion has no Chance of passing be cause of the overwhelming majority held by Nehru s Congress party. But they saw the motion As being a gauge of rising opposition strength and Unity. Nehru told parliament today there is no question of India considering the internationalization or division of the Kashmir Valley with Pakistan. He added that India was As anxious As Ever for a Settle ment with Pakistan Over the disputed territory of Kashmir but said Indian offered conces Sions now must be considered As withdrawn. India and Pakistan have been in Contention Over Kashmir since they were granted Independence by Britain in 1947. Look for sounds warning against quacks Page 3 Gallup poll Page 22 free press readers write Page 24 . Circulation pity zone. Total you Lou thus buckled under to the main demands of his opposition following Savage fighting tuesday and further disturb ances today i will open consultations with All political tendencies for the formation of a Small team of technicians and men of Good will whose essential task will be National he said. The president had intended to dedicate the Celebration thurs Day of the third anniversary of the Republic s Independence from France to his new party of the congolese which would please see Congo Page 9 Mac faces test Safe Profumo seat bellwether of tory Hopes by Flora Lewis London special tons the theatre at Stratford on Avon is pro Viding its daily performance of shakespearean history but at the height of the tourist season the town s cultivated 17th Century facade is plastered with the aftermath of a latter Day spectacle. On Stratford votes Tor a new member of parliament to succeed the one it lost in a modern political melodrama. The candidates for John Fumo s old constituency have quoted Shakespeare much More than the former War minister i their speeches but still it is the Quick and not the dead who color the scene. Please see Profumo Page 9 Mcnamara testifies anti missiles not hindered . Defence chief counters main criticism of pact says defensive system can still be built by Murrey Marder Washington special tons a Secretary of defence Robert s. Mcnamara tuesday challenged the main military criticism of the nuclear test ban treaty by declaring it will not prevent the development of an anti missile system. Even though the United states will be prohibited from testing in the atmosphere under water and in outer space or. Mcnamara said anti missile work can continue. But whether this nation or the soviet Union Ever will be Able to shoot Down enough opposing missiles to provide a real de Fence he conceded is unknown. The United states has an enormous military Force that is manifestly Superior to the so Viet said or. Mcna Mara. Please see . Page 11 British police Mill around the isolated Leathe Slade farm near Oakley after Dis covering it was the place used As Headquarters for the gang who stole Over from a mail train last week. The farm is located about 13 Miles Southeast of the spot where the Glascow to London train was halted and looted. Police believe the gang fled Only a few Days ago leaving stocks food two army Type vehicles and mailbag All empty. Errors irk . Vandiv London a newspaper today printed a letter seemingly from a member of the gang which staged Britain s Tram robbery disputing the official figure of losses Given in the theft. We really must protest at the dishonesty of High the letter says. Somebody is claiming Over from insurance companies. For your information and for anybody also inter ested the total gained from this exercise was exactly and a sprained please see errors Page 11 73-year-old Fisherman lands 595-Pound tuna St. Johns fld. Up Davis Burgess 73-year-old tourist from new York hauled a 595-Pound Bluffin tuna from nearby Conception Bay tuesday after a Battle that lasted an hour and 50 minutes. Bar backs negroes but raps violence by James e. Clayton Chicago special tons the american bar association Aba tuesday condemned both negroes who break Laws during demonstrations for equal rights and Whites who refuse to give them the rights that Are theirs under the Constitution. The association s House of Dele Gates quickly approved one dissent a report from a Spe Cial committee on civil rights and racial unrest. Its presiding officer Edward l. Wright of Little Rock Arkansas pointed out that the one dissent from a Mississippi Delegate was the Only opposition to the report made by any member of the special commit tee the Board of governors or the House of delegates. Presented by Alfred j. Schweppe of Seattle the report called upon All lawyers to work for peaceful settlements of racial disputes and recalled the duty of every lawyer to Stan ii willing to fend unpopular clients and causes. A special committee of the National bar association a negro looking for a baby Carriage this want and under miscellaneous articles for Sale 50 Gray and White baby Carriage. Cause 2-9829. 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. Group called the report a significant step in the right direction but indicated it did not think the nation s largest organization of lawyers had gone far enough. Please see bar Page 11 stranded 8 Days at Home Hull que. 73 year old Bachelor who lives alone in a farm House is re covering in Hospital Here from an eight Day ordeal. Fred Williams tripped on branches in his Orchard at Mayo about 30 Miles North East of Here and broke Bis hip and ankle in a fall. He crawled into his House but could not move without extreme pain. He was stranded in his Home for eight Days without food for the last four Days until a mailman found him saturday. The Fred Legault became suspicious when her noticed that or. Williams old age secur Ity Cheque had remained in the Mailbox for a week. The retired Farmer was taken to Hospital in bucking Bam a few Miles away then was transferred to sacred heart Hospital in Hull. His condition is reported satisfactory. Cut a stocks . Urges reds Geneva a the United states called on the soviet in dec backs a ban Washington apr. Glenn to Seaborg chairman of the . Atomic Energy com Mission testified today that underground testing will permit a wide Range of nuclear weapons development including War Heads for anti missile defence. As the third witness at sen ate hearings Seaborg strongly backed earlier testimony from state Secretary Dean Rusk and defence Secretary Robert Mcnamara that ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty would be in the Best interests of the United states " Seaborg also said it is the National policy to maintain a continuing dynamic program of weapons development a n d a state of readiness to resume atmospheric testing should the treaty be Ion today to follow up the limited test ban treaty with specific agreements to Stop the nuclear armaments race and re Duce the Stock of fissionable material used to produce atomic bombs. . Ambassador Charles c. Stelle submitted specific propos als on nuclear arms control to the 17-nation disarmament con Ference. They would put a Ceil ing on the capabilities of the nuclear Powers weapons and provide for a subsequent cutback by transferring significant quantities of uranium 235 to purposes other than nuclear weapon production. Stelle revealed that the United states is willing to Transfer a larger amount of fissionable material than the soviet Union should Russia feel this is needed to protect soviet interests. Stelle said he proposed this to the soviet co chairman of the conference Semyon k. Tsarapkin last april. At that Jime he said my delegation told the soviet Dele gation Fiat Transfer by the United states of kilo Grams pounds and by the .s.r. 6f pounds could be an example of such an arrangement please see Geneva Page 10 Cabinet studying nuclear agreement by Alex Young Ottawa staff prime minister Pearson today indicated his Cabinet was nearing approval a general agreement with the United states covering provi Sion of nuclear weapons to Cana Dian forces. As he entered a Cabinet meet ing or. Pearson told reporters that i. Detailed clause by clause study of the draft agreement was to be proceeded with. If it was not completed today he said it would be proceeded with tomorrow. In the event any changes were Felt to be Neces sary or. Pearson added discus Sions would be held with . Authorities. Or. Pearson said he expected the Cabinet would give approval in principle to the agreement take up consideration of specific details and then Deal with any verbal changes which would require Canada to consult with the . But he added did t anticipate any departure from the Basic principles of the agree ment. Final approval of the general agreement he said would not end the process of making the nuclear warheads available to Canadian forces chiefly to the Craf there would have to be the drawing up and approval of a technical agreement covering de tails of actual handling storage and use of the weapons the prime minister said. The agreement now being studied he said was one cover ing general principles. It amounted to a political agreement., As distinct from a technical one. Or. Pearson was asked if . Senator Henry Jackson of Washington was accurate monday when he suggested Canada would be getting Complete control Over the . Supplied warheads contrary to . Law. Or. Pearson replied that no agreement would be signed by his government which did not give the Canadian government control Over the operation of such warheads. It would be similar to other agreements under which the . Provided nato countries with nuclear weapons under joint control. Please see Pearson Page 11 watch for i boat feared swept Over Niagara Falls Niagara Falls ont. Up reports that a boat might have been swept Over Niagara Falls tuesday night remained a mys Tery today As Daylight showed no signs of a wreck. Police watch below the Falls. No Craft were reported missing. Two workmen at a dam above the Falls told police they saw what appeared to be a Small boat with a Light on it headed for the dam. Before they could close the Gates the object shot into the rapids just above the Falls. Crop report on thursday the final free press crop report covering Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta will be published in the afternoon edition thursday and the morning edition Friday of this week. For the past week staff members and special Cor a respondents have been travelling through the Prairie provinces to get a first hand look at the crop and to interview Farmers agricultural officials and others whose business is Canada s wheat production. The report third to be published during the crop growing season will give detailed prospects for the Grain growing areas of the Prairies. rail strike looms deadline near . Stalemate continues Washington a with rail negotiations at a stalemate and new doubts cast on legislative prospects aug. 29 seemed close today. That s the Day set by most of the United states railroads for new Job eliminating work move the five operating unions have pledged to meet with a strike. What makes aug. 29 s eem closer than 15 Days away is that a pall has settled Over the two major procedures for averting a .-wide for a settlement of the four year dispute and legislation to turn the problem Over to the inter state Commerce commission. Please see rails Page 10 cleric praises Marx Toronto up a leading British Churchman told the anglican world Congress wednesday the atheistic founder of communism and the unbelieving father of psychoanalysis have Strong claims to godliness. Canon Max Warren general Secretary of the Church missionary society in England said christians can claim no monopoly on god because his righteousness works through other faiths and even though atheistic science. He a p p e a led for More sympathetic understand ing among anglicans for other ideologies and science. He suggested to anglican churchmen at. The first working session of their 11-Day meeting that Christian concern for social righteousness owes not a Little under god to the stimulus of Karl christians conscious of the contribution of psychoanalysis to the Healing of spirits will humbly thank god for his Grace at work in Sigmund Freud no less at work because Freud did not acknowledge science serves Canon Warren launching Dis Cussion on How the Church can Best confront rival faiths and suggested that since re Ligion is a quest for under standing of life then a medium that i n c r eases understand ing serves religion. He described such contributions As godly the great role of science is to make men More religious because it is forever increasing our knowledge of the the trouble with religion he added is that it is in danger of denying reality by building on please see Church Page 9 Robarts shuffles Cabinet Toronto up Premier John Robarts wednesday announced a three Way Ontario Cabinet shuffle to fill a Post left vacant by the resignation of Brian Cathcart As travel and publicity minister. The shift leaves open the Post of chairman of the liquor control Board with the appoint ment of Allan. Grossman As minister of. Reform institutions. Transport minister James Auld becomes minister of travel and publicity. Irwin Haskett minister of Reform institutions will take Over As minister of transport. Or. Grossman was minister without portfolio As Well As chairman of the liquor control Board. Or. Robarts said the liquor Board Post will re main open temporarily ;