Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index classified 28 to 42 comics 22, 23 deaths 24 finance 13, 14 Jumble 30 movies 21 radio to. 20 sports 43 to 48 women s 17 to 19 vol. 70 no. 299 52 pages Price Loc Winnipeg 13, 1963 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Final edition phone wh3--9331 first Section pages 1-16 forecast warm and 75 special committee to probe v against councillor regrets getting involved in squabble Over Concrete contract by Charles Thompson a three Man fact finding committee was appointed by metro Council thurs Day night to inquire into the alleged interference by councillor Peter Taraska in a metro construction Job. Council appointed the com Mittee on the suggestion of metro chairman Dick Bonnycastle despite the Lap that coun. Tar Aska had just said he had done nothing wrong. Councillor Taraska said he be came involved after his company got the Concrete Job and after it was stopped by the resident Engineer. I stepped in and i regret it. Perhaps i should t coun. Taraska said although he maintained his part in the affair had Only been to try to clarify the situation for officials associated with the project. Or. Bonnycastle told Council that because the charges levelled at coun. Taraska Are serious the facts had to be brought out. Members of the committee of inquiry Are councillors Jack Willis Arthur Coulter and Thom As Findlay. They Are to report Back to Council at a special meet ing next thursday. Chase satisfied the charges came from coun. Darwin Chase who said that he had been told that in an Effort to get work for Mccurdy Supply Ltd., where he is a Salesman coun. Taraska threatened a worker with the possibility that the worker might be fired. Coun. Chase said that the at Tome a general s department might be the proper body to look into the incident but he was satisfied with the committee. Or. Bonnycastle explained that metro could Only appoint a com Mittee of inquiry but it in turn could suggest calling in the at Torney general s department the incident involves ready mix Concrete being supplied to Peter Leitch construction co. Ltd., general contractors for metro in the million Extension work at _ the sewage treatment Plant in bid Kildonan. The company in its agreement with metro specified that the Concrete would be supplied by Winnipeg Supply and fuel co. Ltd., but on sept. 5 the company gave notice that the Concrete was coming from Mccurdy sup ply. G. C. Koopmans resident Engineer and employee of James f. Maclaren Ltd. The firm hire to oversee the Job said the sup plier could not be changed unti metro approved the switch. Please see probe Page 5 Juk big n vote bigc5est for Canada says wide margin needed for . Leadership by Robert e. Thompson Washington special tons Kennedy implored the Senate thursday to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty by the widest possible margin As a demonstration of the determined quest by the . For peace. If the Senate gives Only grud Ging support to the pact i Kennedy told his press Confer ence the United Stales cannot offer much leadership or Hope for the while stating his conviction that the treaty will be ratified or. Kennedy emphasized that the psychological Impact of the sen ate s action could be Adverse if a Bare two thirds 67 members votes in the affirmative. The president warned that rejection of the treaty would constitute giving a Green Light to a number of nations to begin in Tensive atmospheric tests. Vul us you could t possibly Stop ment he said. This would be the end Sale soviet Union reported ready to buy 250 million to 300 million bushels by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff biggest wheat Deal in Canadas history is in the making Here with sales valued at Between and to Russia it was Learned Friday from informed sources. It is expected that the Sale will be Between and bushels of wheat. The huge Sale which Complete Jodoin blasts Siu Boss Hall Ottawa up president Claude Jodoin of the Canadian labor Congress thursday accused . Seafarers Union Boss Paul Hall of trying to apply dictatorial methods to the entire Ortli american labor Jove of an Effort of 15-years." anti tied h leftists riot before . House group pension protests mount by Don Hanright Ottawa govern ment is bracing itself Sive pressure against the canal pension plan. Letters and phone Calls a ready Are streaming into we fare minister Lamarsh s office. Most Are from insurance and i Trust companies and other com-1 Mercial groups. The View Here is that the Peak is still to come. It is shaping up As the most powerful most influential and Best heeled lobby Ever to hit Ottawa. If the Trust and insurance companies become solidly arrayed against the Federal retirement pension proposal they will make up a financial bloc of staggering size. Assets of both groups total about added to this is in estate Trust and Agency funds being administered by Trust Compa by Richard l. Lyons Washington special tons 1 injured. There were some bruits of shirts. I i the hearings which icon irined a House hearing on the trip i0dayi grew out of the trip made please see students Page 5 of . Students to Cuba this sum Mer broke up in a wild Melee thursday with police wrestling youths from the hearing room to Washington police floor a demonstrator As the chair Man of the House committee on in american activities at tempted to Clear the hear ing room of taunting Spectra More than a score o police hauled struggling youths from the room while an unruly crowd in the Hall outside shouted at them. Please see test ban Page 7 new russian weapon Washington May be developing a system of deactivating United states mis Siles in their silos with the electromagnetic Energy from exploding High yield soviet nuclear weapons the Magazine j missiles and rockets reports. J could mean that the . I has invested billions of dollars i in a Maginot line of Atlas Titan and minutemen missiles i which could be rendered harm less by the new soviet develop the Magazine says. Please see weapon Page 7 or. Jodoin charged that or. Hall is trying to use his Posi Tion As president of the Al Cio s maritime trades depart ment to divert Public attention from the Lawless record of the seafarers International Union in Canada. In one of the toughest blasts Ever hurled across the Border at a . Trade unionist the president of the Iner Csc in essence told or. Hall to mind his own business and stay out of Canadian Union affairs. Or. Jodoin was commenting on a move by the executive Board of the maritime trades department to promote a split in relations Between the Al Cio in the United states and the Csc in Canada. The Ltd Board wants the question of future Canadian-, Union relations raised at. The unionists belong to locals directly chartered by the Csc. Please see Jodoin Page 7 is Banks on Way out Washington up Secretary Willard Wirtz and Paul Hall president of the sea l Farmers International Union of North America met secretly thursday night to discuss the question of settling the great lakes labor Battle through a Trade Union trusteeship Over the Siu of Canada it was Learned next Al Cio general Board the possibility of ending co operation with the Csc and forming a new Cen trial labor body in Canada to represent International unions. The Csc is made up of about 90 International unions representing some 872.000 workers plus 18 National with a membership of another by dwarfs the previous Large Sale to red China that involved six contracts at a value of is nearing completion. It is expected to be announced As concluded Early next week. W. C. Mcnamara chief com Mission of the. Canadian wheat Board is Ici Ottawa negotiating with the russians. The Deal involved. Part pay ment in Caish and part payment in credit. It will provide a major impetus to the Canadian econ omy. It will tax Canada s ship Ping and other physical Capa cities for delivery of wheat to the limit. Officials involved in the Deal Are very How ver they acknowledged that the value was in excess of 000. Russia has had to obtain More wheat from Canada because of. 3 poor crop situation. Agricula ural minister Harry Hays who this week from a tour of Europe and the .s.r. Said that judging by the crops he saw and the Grain Supply Silva Ion in Russia there was no doubt that Russia would have to Jurn to Canada for additional supplies of wheat. Sources Here said the Deal Only involved wheat. . Viet Nam goal win War go Home by Chalmers m. Roberts i prescribed a win the War poll r n today. Hall was said to have made Clear he would not be opposed to such an approach even if i meant elimination of Harold Banks As head of the Canadian Siu. The Canadian government is proposing to place the Siu and other maritime unions operating in the great lakes under a government trusteeship. Informants Here said the meeting Between Wirtz and Hall took place shortly after Hall had told reporters he had no plans i to see Wirtz and. That the . Labor department had treated the Siu shabbily in the fight by the Canadian maritime Union Csc to oust the Independent Siu of Canada from the lakes. Washington special tons i president Kennedy thursday shouts of fascists and a another demonstration was staged at the hearing today in Defiance of a government ban. Our demonstrators were forcibly ejected from the hearing. Twice during yesterday s ses Sion a Force of 30 or More Capi Tol and District of Columbia policemen moved into the crowded caucus room of the old House office building to shut off demonstrations by student sympathizers against the House in american activities committee. Each time police dragged from the room half a dozen youths who refused to be quiet or leave. The second outburst occurred after the hearing adjourned and continued in the Hall outside until police moved the crowd Down two Viet Nam holds four lawyers nabs students in night raids flights of stairs to the Street. Police said no one was arrested or Saigon a official sources said privately today secret police have arrested four South vietnamese lawyers in a drive against opposition among professional men to president Ngo Dinh diem s government. One iof the lawyers was identified As Trinh Dinh thao a former Cabinet minister. Secur Ity forces previously have Cen tred their attention on anti government activity among Buddhist leaders and students. The informants said hundreds of students have been picked up by the secret police in Post mid month still Are in jail. More than High school students have been arrested since then. Some of these have been re leased but no figures Are Avail night operations this weak under Able. The martial Law curfew. These practically every High school f j arrests have supplemented in Saigon has been surrounded Fey since students started y since sues those made among teen age demonstrating against the gov demonstrators during hours riot police and troops in Bat school week. By test for the governments of both South Viet Nam and the uni Ted states. He told his press conference what helps to the War we support. What interferes with the War Effort we but while he offered this the Overall policy test the chief executive avoided saying it should or would be applied in the pre sent muddled political situation in South Viet Nam and Between the two governments in washing ton and Saigon. As to the Long term . Goal or. Kennedy said he Felt both Peoples agree on this we want the War to b3 Avon the communists to be contained and the americans to go Home. That is our please see Kennedy Page 8 Wirtz was reported As having Given Hall his ideas of How a non government trusteeship should function. Informants said there was an understanding that please see Wirtz Page 12 unionists deny .role Mes. At the end of 1960, Trust companies had three quarters of the private pension business in the country they had 127 workers covered by retirement plans. Please see pensions Page 7 Thant opens up on diem France by Louis b. Fleming United nations special tons Secretary general u Thant said thursday that South Viet Nam is the most chaotic country in the world and that the situation there is going from bad to he offered no proposal for a in role in the crisis to say that he will be willing to talk to any vietnamese officials visiting in Headquarters. He also noted that the matter is on the Agenda of the general Assembly opening next week and that he is in constant Contact on the matter with . Ambassador Adlai e. Stevenson. Or. Thant concentrated during a 45-minute press conference on the prospects for the Assembly and on the peace keeping prob lems of the United nations in the Congo and Yemen. But the conference also included a startling statement of his personal views regarding French foreign policy which he volunteered. His on prance left the was about to endorse president Charles de Gaulle s proposal for reunification and neutralization of Viet Nam but then thought bet Ter of it and took up France s relationship with the United nations instead. Please see u Thant Page 12 tie gear roared throughout this capital from one potential rouble spot to another. Most of the trouble spots were schools where students have. Been demonstrating daily. The army is keeping the schools open at Bayonet Point but re ports of Rowdy demonstrations crackle Over the police radio several times a Day. The arrested lawyers were re ported trying to organize a mass protest movement against the government within the bar association Here. More than of the University students arrested Dur ing demonstrations late last another Victory would finish town looking for a pet this want and under dogs cats Birds 16 registered Beagle up Ples 6 weeks old. He 9-8069. 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. By Malcolm w. Browne dam Doi South Viet Nam Jungle town went through a Bloodbath tuesday and the generals called it a Victory. Perhaps it. Was. But it is not the kind of Victory this shattered town can endure very often. The marines landed by Heli copter and chased out the Viet Cong guerrillas Olio seized dam Doi. Jungles and paddies snowstorm hits new Brunswick Dalhousie . Up a snowstorm dumped up to five niches of Snow in some areas of rest Gouche county Over night it was reported Friday. South of Here the communists May have lost More than 100 tilled. They also lost some machine guns and rifles. As usual the enemy came up the canal i samoans in the dead of night and crept to within the Flimsy barricades before attacking. At full strength this time they came in full strength with recoilless can non machine guns mortars and 500 Viet Cong regulars. Dam Doi reeks of death. The bodies of women and children lie rotting 6a corrugated Iron litters waiting burial squads. Buildings still standing have been turned into morgues. Please see Battle Page 8 Winnipeg labor leaders appear j convinced that domination 1 of Canadian labor unions does not exist As far As Winnipeg is concerned. Most dismissed Claude Joubin s statement against the . Seafarers Union As being a Case against a single undesirable Union and not applicable to unionism As a whole. Sam Goodman International representative of the amalgamated meat cutters the truth is that most International unions provide and allow their Canadian counterparts a great Deal of ocal autonomy and in most cases please see denial Page 7 look for wild Rice crop failure again Page 3 Manitoban in Battle of Britain Page 6 Board stops Selling Winnipeg Grain circles Friday buzzed with speculation that can Ada s pending wheat Sale to rus Sia May be this country s biggest single Grain transaction in its history. Rumours of a Gigantic russian Sale reached new Heights after the Canadian wheat Board announced it will temporarily Stop Selling wheat to the private Grain Trade. This move was interpreted to mean that the Board has completed a huge wheat Sale to rus Sia. A wheat Board spokesman would Only say that All wheat offerings will be withdrawn after oct. 20 so that the Board can re assess its supplies and commit ments. The Clampdown re places partial restrictions set tuesday which said Canadian wheat could Only be sold to coun tries belonging to the International wheat agreement. According to the Board spokes Man the Board is suspending wheat offerings because it does t want to commit its crops until please see Board Page 8 France tackles inflation by Don Shannon Paris special tons the de Gaulle government froze prices an9 Cut credit buying thursday but refrained from imposing wage controls in an extensive program aimed at halt ing inflation. Premier Georges Pompidou who unveiled the closely guarded Plain on which he and his Cabinet have been working for a month told a press conference that Long term anti inflation measures More severe will follow. He and finance minister Val Ery Giscard d Estwing both a Public support to save Prosperity from possible disaster. Please see France Page 8 ;