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Friday, August 16, 1963

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 16, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index classified 28 to 41 movies 15 comics .16, 17 radio to 14 deaths .2 sports 22 to 27 finance 41 women .18, 19 Winnipeg free press final edition phone we 3-9331 vol. 70 no. 275 44 pages Price Loc August 16, 1963 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun . Moon sets . Forecast sunny and warmer 50 and 80 tories win in . But slim Edge in by election cheers labor Stratford on Avon England a Reuters the ruling conservative party retained resigned War minister John Profumo s Canada agrees to get a arms custody and control arrangements protect Canada s interests Pearson says Ottawa up prime minister Pearson announced today that Canada and the United states have reached agreement on the conditions under which Canadian forces will acquire nuclear warheads. . Whisks 5 to hearing Angus slim win Maude for tories seat in the Stratford District by election thursday but the tory margin was greatly reduced. Conservative Angus Maude 50, a journalist was elected to fill the seat left vacant when Profumo resigned from the government after he disclosed to the House of. Commons that he had lied about having an affair with Call girl Christine Keeler. Official figures announced to Day showed that Maude was elected with a majority of votes compared with the whop Ping majority Profumo gained in the 1959 general elec Tion. Please see election Page 4 up from a Reuters Linslade England five hooded figures were hustled into a Small country courthouse in this tiny Buckinghamshire Vil Lage today and formally charged with taking part in Britain s great train robbery or receiving part of the millions of pounds in loot. One of the men charged with robbery William Boal denied the charges. But a detective told the court that Boal had told him during questioning i am silly to get involved with this. I should have known the five suspects William and Rene Boal Alfred and. Mary Pilgrim and Roger John Cord Rey appeared before a mag Istrate in this town of per sons 42 Miles Northwest of Lon Don. It lies four Miles from Cheddington where a gang of bandits ambushed the night mail train from Glasgow eight Days ago and escaped with in British currency. The three men and two women were ordered held by the police until aug. 24 while the nation wide Hunt continued for Cash and confederates. Amount recovered the amount of the Money re covered Rose today with a police announcement that it to talled the police draped hoods Over the five suspects lest they claim at their trial that newspaper owners with mrs. Boal of a Gay Little Florist shop at East mole sey South of London. Roger John Cordrey arrested with Boal wednesday night in the South coast resort town of Bournemouth after a Street fight with detectives. Please see robbery Page 4 in effect., Adenauer Era Over by Sterling Slappey Bonn special tons Kon Rad Adenauer puts Down the few remaining duties he still per forms As Chancellor of West Ger Many monday to go to cad Bia Italy for a Long vacation. For All practical purposes that ends the Active Era of the mod Ern Day Iron Chancellor. When he returns from his Utal Ian Villa in mid september Only two to three weeks will remain Maiore he is forced to hand Over the government to vice Chancel at their trial Tuiai Lor Ludwig Erhard and or. Or photographs of their faces might _ prejudice a jury. The hoods were removed during the 10 minute hearing and revealed Boal and his wife Rene parents of three Young children. Mary and Alfred Pilgrim co 2 Viet Nam cities under martial Law up from a Reuters Saigon South Viet Nam j president Ngo Dinh diem s government clamped martial Law on two major vietnamese cities today in the Wake of another Buddhist suicide by third this week. Martial Law was imposed on the Central Viet Nam capital of Hue where the latest burning occurred Early today and on the coastal City of Nha Trang where vietnamese troops quelled a big demonstration with tear Gas. All vietnamese in Hue except civil servants and troops were ordered to stay indoors. Tension reached a new pitch when a 71-year-old Buddhist Monk Thich Tieu Dieu burned himself to death at 4 . In Hue s biggest Pagoda. It was the fifth such ritual suicide in two months i the Buddhist Campaign against the govern ment of diem a roman Catho Lic. Several Hundred government thousand buddhists gathered in front of the railway station. Two Hundred soldiers drove to the scene i fire trucks. When the demonstrators re fused to disperse the troops scattered them with tear Gas. Roads leading into the City were closed. Please see buddhists Page 5 troops ringed the to dam Pagoda but did not try to enter the building where buddhists guarded the Monk s body. Organized the burning apparently was organized by the Buddhist Hier Archy. Two Young buddhists who burned themselves to death this week acted independently. The old Monk announced Over a Loudspeaker from his Pagoda thursday night that he would commit suicide in support of Buddhist demands for civil and religious rights they claim Are denied them by diem. Tieu Dicu also said his Sui cide was in protest against charges levelled against the buddhists by diem s politically powerful sister in Law mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu. Mrs. Nhu has said repeatedly that dissident buddhists Are traitors masking under religious Robes. She advocates that the government use Force against them. The Nha Trang demonstration erupted in protest against the. Suicide thursday of a 29-year of nun Dien Hien. Several Poland buys wheat Ottawa up the Cana Dian wheat Board has negotiated a new contract with Poland for Sale of Bush Els of wheat the office of Trade minister Sharp announced to hard s two closest advisers foreign minister Gerhard Schmo Der and defence minister Kai Uwe von Hassel. Only Konrad Adenauer in the Brief 14-year history of the Federal Republic of Germany has served As Chancellor. When he retires oct. 9 or 13 to the inauspicious three room suite of offices in the bund Shaus changes in the Way of operating Germany Are inevitable. The Way Germany does business with Ranee and with president Char is de Gaulle is expected to change the most. Such changes Are not Only of utmost importance to Germany but they also will affect German relations with the United states nato Britain and the common Market. Immediately gone from Ger Man French relations will be the warm Friendship and regard shared Between Gen. De Gaulle and 3r. Adenauer. It has been said n Bonn and Paris that the two old men 71-year-olr1 Gen. De Aulle and 87-year-old or. Aden Auer actually knew what each would say before they spoke. Or. Erhard or. Shroeder and or. Von Hassel will Rule by com Mittee. Each has much of the economist in him. With each of them French German relations Are far less important than Ger . Relations and relations with nato. Day. The order is to be shipped from St. Lawrence and Pacific ports Between August and november of this year. Or. Sharp said the terms Are 10 per cent on shipment with the balance to be paid in equal instalments plus interest at two 2vi and three years. The Deal is being financed under the exports credits insurance act. This Sale is in addition to a contract for a similar amount which was announced july 18. Looking for a piano this want and under musical instruments 49a piano. 1 year old. Good As new phone 253-5967. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified seer Tion. No matter you need shop and save in free press want ads. Or. Pearson said the arrange ments relating to custody and control of the warheads satisfactorily protect Canada s National interests and conform with the position Canada has taken internationally on the non dissemination of nuclear Wear in a prepared statement the prime minister said the . Will retain custody of nuclear stockpiles. Share control but Canada will share control in any use of the warheads he added. When the stockpiles Are established the warheads will re main in United states custody and for this units of United states custodial personnel will be stationed at the Canadian storage Sites at bases which will of course remain under Canadian command and or. Pearson s state ment said. With custody remaining with the United states the arrange ment does not add to the num Bers of governments having nuclear weapons at their Independent the statement said the agree ment provides for application at All times of the most stringent safety finally these nuclear War Heads cannot be used operation ally without the authorization of the Canadian the statement said. Joint control is thus As or. Pearson said the agree ment was reached As a result of negotiations begun three years ago and resumed by the present Canadian government after taking office in april. The agreement sets out the conditions under which nuclear warheads will be made Avail Able for Canadian forces engaged in North american de Fence As Well As those assigned overseas with nato. The weapons systems the carriers for the nuclear War the Bomarc anti air Craft missile and the voodoo interceptor in Canada and the honest John artillery rocket and the Cf-104 Low level Jet bomber both stationed in Europe. Details of the agreement were not released. Please see Pearson Page s ont. Vote called Robarts sets election for sept. 25 Toronto up pre Mier John Robarts today called an Ontario election for wednesday sept. 25. The Premier made the Long Etna Active Catania Sicily a mount Etna Europe s most Active Volcano erupted thursday sending a column of smoke and hot ashes High into the air. John Robarts Calls election awaited announcement at a Queen s Park press conference during which lieutenant Gover nor Earl Rowe signed a writ formally dissolving the ,26th on Tario legislature. The Premier told reporters that with important Federal provincial conferences ahead it is imperative that we be left in no doubt that we speak for the people of or. Said he had considered a provincial election in late Spring. But following two Federal elections in less than a year and the inconclusive re sults of the last Federal election held in april and the period of instability and uncertainty which followed in its Wake it was decided that in the Circum stances the late Spring election would have an unsettling effect on our Economy and would be viewed with Disfavour by our peo the progressive conservative formal term would have come to an Auto Matic end next june if allowed to run its full course. It will Mark the first time that Premier Robarts 45 year old lawyer from London ont., has please see Ontario Page 5 indians promised a better Deal b Bill Morriss revision of the Indian act in accordance wit the principles of Justice Freedom of Choice and human dignity was promised by Guy Favreau minister of Bert Ticehurst beats Alexander Saint John . Bert Ticehurst of Vancouver knocked out Keith Alexander of Calgary 1960 Canadian Amateur Champion in the Quarter finals j Indian claims commission today of the 1963 title Tournai a by establish the commis. Citizenship and immigration in Winnipeg thursday. Speaking to a banquet meeting of the National Indian Council of Canada or. Favreau who is also superintendent general of Indian affairs also Promisee that methods and procedures currently in effect in the Field of administration will be kept under constant review i an Effort to enhance efficiency wherever outlining the intentions of the new Liberal government on the fundamental Point s1 of Indian administration or. Favreau re iterated a pledge to set up an on a treaty reds rap . As two faced Senate testimony Sparks soviet charge chinese accused of provoking War Moscow a the military newspaper red Star accused ruling circles of the United states today of taking a two faced attitude toward the nuclear test ban treaty. The paper s accusation was obviously sparked by testimony before the . Senate hearing on the treaty. On the one said the military paper statements Are made about the great positive importance of the Moscow limited test ban treaty for the normalization of the International situation. On the other hand there Are plenty of diametrically opposite assertions to the effect that the United states will improve no Soldier calms Senate fears by Robert e. Thompson Washington special tons Maxwell d. Taylor pushed the nuclear test ban treaty a along the Road to Senate ratification thursday by clarifying seven major matters of Montro Versy emanating from concern Over the pact s effect on. . Security. Gen. Taylor chairman of the joint chiefs of staff appeared anglican Delegate hissed Toronto place of the Church in the race Issue provoked Sharp words thursday at the anglican world Congress. Southern segregationist fran Cis t. West of Martinsville Vir Ginia an Episcopalian Law Dele Gate denounced Church involve ment in the negro civil rights struggle after other speakers had called on the Congress to purge All traces of racialism from the Church. Lay Delegate Charles p. Taft City councillor in Cincinnati Ohio was one of several unscheduled speakers who pleaded for More Active support of the civil rights Campaign. We accused the Congress of failing to j face the Issue squarely in for-1 Mal addresses that opened the discussion. Angry hissing or. West s speech in which he accused the Church of be coming a Mere Handmaiden of the brought angry hissing from an audience of about in the crowded conference Hall although there was a smattering of applause when he sat Down. While or. West was speaking a negro Clergyman stood qui etly beside him waiting for a turn at the microphone. How Ever the meeting was adjourned after the West speech by the Moderator for the Day former Canadian governor Gen eral Vincent Massey. Please see Church Page 4 before the combined Senate for eign relations armed services and atomic Energy committees to reiterate the joint chiefs up port of the treaty. He made these Points the joint chiefs would have withheld a Mieir support had they determined that the treaty was not in the National interest. The moment the pact is found to be working against the National interest the United states will withdraw under the 90-Day withdrawal provision. The administration did not exert pressure on the joint chiefs to urge ratification of the treaty. During Moscow negotiations j on the pact the joint chiefs were kept constantly abreast of developments. They also were asked j for advice before during and after the Moscow meeting. In any Way prohibit the United states from using nuclear Wea Pons to defend itself or its allies in event of War. Please see treaty Page 5 Clear weapons build up its Mil itary might and in general is not going to take any Steps to end the arms provocation the paper also asserted the two most recent . Under ground nuclear tests were a a r a z e n provocation held while other countries were still signing the test ban treaty in Moscow London and washing ton. The newspaper also accused . Military officials of Devis ing plans to increase nuclear stockpiles in Allied countries. In a blast against red coins the official communist party Gan pravda asserted that the so Viet Union is seeking to reduce tension Between the Kremlin and Washington while China sought to promote War Between them. In fact not a single step undertaken by the soviet Union to reduce tension was approved Iii peking. The natural question is Why that normalization of relations Between the two great nuclear .s.r. And the United states such a sharply Nega please see Russia continued Page 4 draws line on securities tax by Harold Morrison Washington up the . Government has closed the door on any further concessions i to Canada on the proposed ment and Veteran Nick Weslock of Toronto Sank a 20-foot Birdie putt on the 17th Green to take a 2 and 1 Victory Over Bob stamp son of Ottawa. Sion would be introduced in Par the end of the lament before year he said. Three dead in crash Birmingham England Reuters three Railroad men were killed thursday when the Birmingham London express crashed into an engine shunting freight cars at nearby Knowle. Please see indians Page 4 i no passengers were injured. Victim spills Block busting plot racist attack or bizarre hoax Walnut Calif. Tec Tives say the tarring and feathering of a Young Mother was part of a hoax organized by a White couple to bring negro residents into an All White neighbourhood. The victim mrs. Katherine Harwell 26, who was left in a burning House after she was tarred feathered and bound helped disclose to authorities s h e r Iff s deputies said thursday. They arrested the couple Robert Lewis 36, and his wife Eva 28, and another woman mrs. Dorothy Louise Driggs 25. Mrs. Driggs according to police set fire to the Lewis owned Home in which mrs. Harwell was voluntarily imprisoned. All Are White. The three were booked on suspicion of conspiracy and arson. Detectives said they would charge mrs., Harwell with the same offences. She is in serious condition in Hospital with Burns on 35 per Ceat of her body. 7 i 4 detectives said Well told them that the uses wanted to create the appearance of a racial incident in order to sell Noine v they the Walnut area to negroes. They hoped the incident would appear to be the work of segregationists and draw support for Lewis from the National association for the advancement of coloured peo ple and other Integrationist groups. Investigators say the Lew uses deny that the incident was a hoax. Detectives mrs. Har wee gave this account the lewites first attempted to get s negro Jimmie j a c k s o to go through with the tarring and feathering but he refused. When he declined to take part in the plot mrs. Har Well volunteered. Or. And mrs. Lewis tarred and feathered her tuesday night bound her hands be Hind her Back and left her in a House they owned. Then mrs. Driggs who lives with the lewites doused in flammable liquid through the House set it on fire and fled. I did t know the House was to be mrs. Har Well said. Mrs. Harwell Mother of two first told officers that three White men entered the Husij and tarred and Feath ered her when found her working there with a Handyman. She is separated from her husband. Ils. Gives up Jiminez Miami Fla. A a chartered Airliner took off from Miami International Airport at . Not today carrying former dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez Back to Venezuela to face charges of embezzling million while in office. His departure shortly after jus Tice Arthur Goldberg of the . Supreme court in Washington re fused to Block Jiminez s extradition. I find applicant s Perez Jim Enez s real claim to be entirely lacking in Goldberg stated. The applicant has been found to be properly extraditable and having exhausted All proper procedures under Pur Law is subject to said Gold Berg. I am therefore denying his application for a stay because after full hearings i find there is no Merit in his substantive contentions and his procedural contentions could Only delay and not end the ultimate sex the Justice said that in deny ing a stay he was assuming that Ferez Jimenez would be tried Only on the embezzlement charges and that he would be Given All his proper rights under venezuelan Law. This condition of my said Goldberg is confirmed by assurances from the venezuelan government to the government of the United Perez Jimenez originally had been accused of murders in Venezuela but a lower . Federal judge in ruling he could be extradited said that he should be tried Only on the embezzlement charge. Stock and Bond tax which comes up for examination before the House of representatives ways and Means committee next tuesday. Some criticism of the proposal has developed among . Security dealers and this Likely will be aired at committee hear Ings. A qualified authority said that while new Canadian Security is sues will be exempt from the tax the Kennedy administration is determined that the tax will remain on outstanding Ca i Nadian issues sold to Ameri cans during the period ending dec. 31, 1965. The proposed Bill As placed before the committee empowers president Kennedy to exclude by executive order new issues of any country from the Levy if it is found that the tax on that country would threaten stability of the world monetary system. Some excluded but the Bill gives the presi Dent no similar executive Power on outstanding issues. When the proposed Levy of up to 15 per cent first was announced last month the Cana Dian government sought special exclusions. Exemptions on new issues were promised and finance minister Walter Gordon said later he still hoped to get exemptions on outstanding is sues As Well. Please see tax Page 5 Northern typhoid epidemic feared Page 3 treasure Hunt at Herod s Palace Page 6 . Circulation City zone. 89.691 total 4 ;