Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 17, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday August 17, 1963 Fri disaster squad seeks clues among the debris when a disaster takes a Large number of lives in the United states or in other parts of the world where americans Are feared dead they Call in a special Crew of the Fri called disaster to identify the victims. Members of the disaster squad search through the charred ruins of air planes burned houses and Tornado stricken areas for clues which May Lead them to identify the victims. C. Lester Trotter of washing ton assistant director of the identification Branch of the Federal Bureau of investigation the Man in charge of the special squad addressed the Northwest Fri National Academy associates con Ference held Here thursday and Friday. Or. Trotter who joined the Fri As a clerk in 1934, became a Federal agent in 1940. He was appointed to his present Post in 1956 the largest division of the Fri in the identification Branch. Seek identity the squad s Job is far from be ing a pleasant one according to or. Trotter. Since feb. 1, 1959 they were called upon to identify victims of some 30 disasters including air plane crashes tornadoes and fires. The clues they May find at scenes which eventually Lead agents to make positive identification of victims can Range from toothpaste tubes to fingerprints on figure skating trophies. Threaten More suicides by the Canadian press pressure for world intervention in South Viet Nam s Budd Hist crisis mounted today with warnings from Buddhist leaders in Saigon that More fiery suicides and bloodshed Are Immi nent. They cabled pleas to presi Dent Kennedy in Secretary general ii Thant and Buddhist organizations for some outside intervention in the South Vietje Nam government s treatment of buddhists. The cables detailed burnings hunger strike and demonstrations and claimed the govern ment ignores All this because president Ngo Dinh diem is ill advised by people about they added other sacrifices Are imminent despite our inter diction and other mass demonstrations with bloodshed Are in special session r. S. S. Gunawardene Cey Lon s chief Delegate to the United nations announced in new York that he expects to ask for a special session of the in general Assembly to Deal with the situation. His country is principally Buddhist and he himself is a Buddhist. He told reporters that he had conferred with Thant who also is a Buddhist from Burma and would talk to delegates of other Buddhist countries before he makes a formal request for the session next tuesday. The regular session of the in 18th general Assembly is scheduled to open sept. 17 and there was some question whether a special session Dould be fitted in before then. The Cey Lonese Diplomat said he had been waiting since july 19, when he presented his credentials at the United nations to see whether some action by the United states and Pope Paul i could be effective. Danger Gunawardene said there was danger that if vietnamese government suppression of the Buddhist monks continues there might be a pro Buddhist coup d eat against diem and his predominantly roman Cath Olic government. Another threat to peace in the area he said was that buddhists in surrounding countries or communist vietnamese or even red China might try to inter Vene. Ceylon buddhists sent a Mes Sage to Pope Paul claiming that your spiritual subject is persecuting our innocent Buddhist Brethren in South Viet Nam and urging the Pope to inter Vene. The message cabled by the Buddha j a t i k a Balave Gaya Buddhist National one of the biggest Buddhist organizations said your world Call for peace will be strengthened by direction to your own followers to halt brutality in Viet Nam which is repudiation of Christ s humanity , rail Outlook improves Washington negotiations inched Forward to Day spurred by conditional Union acceptance of a labor department proposal for arbitration of the two key issues in the prolonged jobs dispute. The unions provisional acceptance Friday of Secretary w. Willard Wirtz carriers had agreed without reservation signalled a pos sible major break through in the deadlock that threatened to pro Duce a country wide rail strike aug. 29. But Wirtz said we re by no Means and j. E. Wolfe chief negotiator for the rail ways viewed the unions conditions As amounting to rejection of the Secretary s plan. Wolfe said however that Law yers for the carriers would meet today with lawyers for the five operating unions to examine Legal problems posed by Wirtz proposal. First advanced thursday night Wirtz plan is to have the questions of firemen s jobs and makeup of train Crews submitted to an arbitration Board comprising management Union and Public representatives. The Board would make a decision binding on the carriers and the unions on these key is sues. Other issues would be left to subsequent settlement by the two sides. In giving their qualified approval the unions said there first must be agreement on procedures to Settle the other than Manning said labor department officiate would meet with rail and Union representatives on this matter during the weekend. At this moment it is impossible to know whether a Settle ment can be reached the Secretary said. The Situa Tion is very critical. I say candidly that i Don t know whether the two parties Are going to educators hit Barnett race ploy Jackson miss. Error Ross Barnett was accused Friday of playing poli tics in his last ditch Effort to oust negro student James h. Meredith from the University of Mississippi. Five members of the state College Board said they refused to go along with Barnett be cause of possible consequences to other College students in the state. The situation has once again been used for political Pur said the five who were among the Board majority that overrode efforts to delay Mere Dith s graduation scheduled sunday. The Board voted 6 to 5 thurs Day against Barnett s request that Meredith s diploma be held up pending completion of an investigation into whether his Public remarks violated a school ban against state ments. The sixth Board member who voted against Barnett was out of the state and unavailable for comment. If the College Board had de Nied Meredith his said the statement by the five members every Young Man and woman in this state would have been left without an accredited College University or medical school to attend this year so far As the state universities and colleges Are con following his graduation Meredith will move his wife and Washington temporarily while he works to raise funds for the James h. Meredith educational fund. Fingerprints provide the most fool proof identification of victims according to or. Trotter. How Ever Fri agents also use other methods to establish the identity of persons. These methods include the tracing of the victim s medical history dental sketches clothing jewelry and sometimes the Vic Tim s footprints. Search files or. Trotter said the squad when called on to identify victims of an ail plane crash usually receives a passenger list which he described As usually sketchy in each victim s data is thoroughly checked through relatives. Then the files of the Federal Bur eau of investigation were searched for clues. Since disasters Are convenient Means for certain persons to the squad s Job is very important or. Trotter said 1 and positive identification of each victim must be established. The files of those who Are mis sing after a disaster Are kept Active in Case victims turn up alive under assumed names a few years later or. Trotter said. The disaster squad was called when two planes collided Over new York on dec. 16, 1960 killing 128 passengers and six persons on the ground. The squad identified 78 victims through fingerprints while others were identified through clothing jewelry or other since 1910 a Man. Killed in the crash of a Boeing 707 aircraft in Jamaica Bay new York which took the lives of 95 on March 1, 1962, was identified through fingerprints Fri had on file since 1910 when the Man joined the . Navy. Another victim of the same crash was also identified through fingerprints filed with japanese police. The Man came to the uni Ted states from Japan where he had previously worked for an air Craft firm. Several years before the Man went to the ., however his car was stolen and japanese police took the Man s fingerprints. Fri traced the Man s residence in Japan obtained the fingerprints and made a positive identification of the victim. When a Boeing 707 Jet crashed near Brussels Belgium feb. 15. Killing 73 persons on Board the disaster squad was called upon because 54 americans were among the dead. Black shoe victims included the . Figure skating team who were in route to Czechoslovakia. Majority of the victims were burned beyond recognition but the squad managed to identify 33 through fingerprints. Two victims of the same crash according to or. Trotter who remained unidentified for Days As far As official identification could be were identified later. One of the men was from Texas and the other was a coach of the figure skating team. The latter was positively identified through a Black shoe and a Gold wedding ring. The shoe was traced and a Bill of Sale for it was found in the Man s Home. The shoe found at the scene was laced in a very unusual Way not in a criss Cross fashion but ladder Type and similarly laced shoes were found in the victim s Home. The Man also wore a wedding ring on his right hand. It was traced too and agents discovered that the Man s wife had bought the ring for him and the victim always wore it on his right hand. Footprints these Points All pointed to the Man s identity. But agents have to have several Points before identification can be made officially. Some of the figure skaters who died in the crash were identified through fingerprints they left be Hind on their trophies. Another figure skater was identified through a Small piece of Metal in her foot which was Dis covered through a Check of the victim s medical history. Another Man was identified when agents lifted fingerprints from a toothpaste tube at the Man s Home which matched with the victim s prints. Footprints taken at birth by nearly All hospitals throughout the United states Are also help Ful instruments used in establishing disaster victims identities. Band concert Assiniboine Park sunday August 18th in the afternoon Citadel band of the salvation army directed by bandmaster Fred Merrett presented for your listening pleasure by the metropolitan corporation of greater Winnipeg body recovered the body of John Peter Klas sen 29, of 31 Woody Dell Avenue St. Vital who drowned in the Winnipeg River when he fell from a boat sunday evening. Was recovered by ramp Friday afternoon. The body was pulled from the River at . Friday at mile 14 Beach where or. Mas sen drowned. The Coroner or. W. Balynsky of Whitemouth Man., said no in quest would be held. Ballerina robbed new York a Alicia Markova the Ballerina was robbed of in Cash and about i jewelry by two handkerchief masked men she surprised in her hotel suite thursday. Police said the pair ransacked the i5th-floor suite in the hotel Windsor. They left the 52-year-old, English born dancer tied hand and foot on a bed. Mom he ate my ice Cream seven Monelli old Roger Foster jr., of Cleveland Ohio yelps happily As he clutches the shiny Coal Black fur of Moose a Newfoundland dog the Lively toddler is just learning to walk and often finds his 125-Pound pet a steadying influence. Little Roger can move along at his own Pace As the sad faced dog seems to have lot of patience. The ice Cream Roger s Mother could find no evidence of it and Moose was t talking. More about or. K. Continued from Page 1 i think the argument be tween Moscow and peking about the role of thermonuclear War in the modern world is a serious Rusk said. Tasks undone i believe that the soviet Union does have As All of us have some great unfinished tasks for its own people in which it would like to make substantially Large Rusk s reference to the conflict Between Russia and red China was in line with a View widely held by top government officials that Khrushchev is seriously worried about the grow ing hostility in the red chinese leadership toward the Kremlin and feels that he should improve his relations with the West and demonstrate that his policy of peaceful coexistence can produce results. Well informed officials Khrushchev must find some Way of reducing military costs and the military Drain on rus Sia s Industrial resources if he is to expand the country s civilian Economy and increase activities in the Light Industry and con Sumer goods Fields. Two stores robbed police Friday reported two breaking and on attempted break in overnight. Thieves broke the Glass in the front door of Dixon s pharmacy 1437 Corydon Avenue punched the Safe with a Sledge Hammer and stole Cash and cheques to a value of the Lucky Dollar store at 1060 Ellice Avenue was entered 1 through the front door and some cigarettes were taken. The lock on the door of Cliff s Tom boy store at 892 Sargent Avenue was tampered with but the premises were not entered. A gathering of the representatives of three governments made history at this desolate site some 500 Miles Northeast of Saskatoon and some 725 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg where Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Northwest territories bound Ries meet. At left is natural resources minister Eiling Kra Mer of Saskatchewan standing in his own province while Federal mines and technical surveys minister William Bene Dickson at Centre stands in not and Manitoba s mines and natural resources minister c. H. Whitney is in Manitoba. The aluminium Monument was erected last year. A Survey which took 64 years to Complete was the occasion for a Small ceremony at the spot on the 60th parallel the longest visibly marked parallel of latitude in the world. No comment on nursing report Agnes Maloney president of the Manitoba association of registered nurses said Friday that too Little information was Avail Able for the association to com ment on a recent . Study which alleged that nurses were responsible for the faulty administration of drugs. The results of the study con ducted at two . Hospitals by University of Arkansas or. Ken Neth Barker were revealed at last week s Canadian pharmaceutical association convention in Winnipeg. The study said that one in six doses of medication was wrongly administered by nurses. The study has aroused the in Terest and concern of members of the said miss Maloney. But limited information available regarding the study makes it impossible to comment on its general safeguards against such errors As suggested by or. Barker Are incorporated As essential components of patient care in All hospitals with continuous Vig Ilance being exercised to protect patient miss Maloney said in a press release. Fight drought the Cey Lynese government is trying to irrigate the nation s dry zone which takes up some two thirds of the Island. Take that you Nasty of hound san Francisco a Heel nipping dogs that enjoy putting the postman to flight will have to find themselves a new Joy says san Francisco postmaster John f. Fixa. Last May 15, Fixa says 600 postmen in the City were Given chemical guns designed to shoot a harm less solution of Cayenne Pep per and Mineral Oil at hos tile hounds. During the last three months Only one canine proved faster than the mail Man s draw. He nipped the postman. Fixa says City letter carriers who were not armed with the new weapon suffered dog bites during the period. The Experiment ended thursday. Firm loses safety act test Case an electric contracting firm was fined in provincial police court Friday because an apprentice employee got an electric Shock while using a defective Drill with a plug had apparently been tampered with. Canadian Comstock company limited was convicted by Magis trate g. L. Cousley after plead ing not guilty to a charge under the provincial construction safety act of failing to take All reasonable and necessary precautions to ensure the safety of employees while engaged on believed to be the first conviction under the 1962 Amend ment to the act formerly known As the building trades Protection this conviction is regarded As a test Case in the contractors Field. Arthur Mauro counsel for Canadian Comstock said he would certainly be considering the question of Appeal. The charge was Laid after Vic Tor Ross 24, of 363 Brooklyn Street St. James took a mild Shock March 27 when the Drill with which he was Boring into Concrete in the Manitoba Tele phone system s new building near Polo Park shorted to ground through his body. A fellow Workman pulled out the plug before he was badly Hurt. The plug was lacking its Centre ground prong and was plugged into a two Way Extension Cord without a ground wire. Court was told that electricians often Cut off the safety ground prong so that they could conveniently use two prong Wall sockets. Walter Ritchie appear ing for the department of labor said that if that was known to be the Case companies should make double sure their employees did not break the safety Rule. Or. Ross said he had not been Given any instructions about the danger of using a defective plug during the three weeks he had been with Comstock before the Accident. Noting that the act called for reasonable and necessary pre magistrate Cousley said the fact that there had been an Accident suggested that necessary precautions had not been taken. March body to see Juk Washington special tons president. Kennedy has Teri actively agreed to meet with representative leaders of the aug. 28 civil rights March in Washington. The president has conferred with a number of officials on to ice health and other arrange ments for the March. Leaders of the groups Spon Soring the March have asked for a meeting with the president on the by of the March and the president has indicated he would see a representative delegation in his office at the White House. There is no present plan How Ever for the president to go to he Washington Monument or elsewhere to speak to the massed demonstrators. Roy Wilkins executive Secre Ary of the a act said in new York Friday that the negro and White civil rights leaders will not present the president with a list of the demonstrators demands. Instead or. Wilkins said they will Stres to him that the pres ence of a great Many marchers n Washington belies any con mention that the demands of negroes originate Only in the minds of negro the Washington Post saboteurs strike Bogota Colombia saboteurs blew up pipelines of a struck government owned Oil refinery and of the Texas petrol Eum company Friday in the third such attack of a month Long strike. Maugham adaption in tangle Aix in Provence France author Somerset maugham has appealed French civil court judgment annulling the adoption of his Secretary Alan Searle As his son. The Appeal was filed this week by his lawyer Jean Paul Champ Saur of Nice. Champ Saur did not make pub Lic the grounds of the Appeal for which no hearing Date has been fixed. The adoption of Searle 57, was contested before the Nice court on june 12 by the 89-year old author s daughter lady John Hope wife of a former British government minister. Lady John Hope also won her Contention that she was maugham s Legal daughter which the author contested. She had claimed the adoption of Searle was void because under French Law it required the consent of any legitimate child. Maugham denies lady John Hope is his legitimate Daugh Ter. Maugham and lady John Hope Are also involved in a Case for the revocation of gifts by maugham to her which involve an estimated francs about new zealand Marine department senior fishery officer the new zealand Marine department invites applications for the position of senior fishery officer fresh head office Wellington. Salary up to 1570 a year according to qualifications and experience. Qualifications desired Mac preferably in zoology. 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