Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Classified comics death finance Jumble i s own 2-1 to 37 10. 11. 9 38 to 40 Story movies radio sports women s to rage is is 12 to 23 is to i7 to "5st. S contest. Page 26 vol. 70 301 42 pages Price Loc Winnipeg monday september 16, 1963 Sun rises . Alcott rises . Sunsets . Moon sets . Forecast Cool 40 and 50 City Block Blaze fire claims 3t to in a Mother perishes in vain attempt to Rescue baby girl boy 3 a Winnipeg Mother raced up three flights of stairs Early monday Only to die in a vain attempt to save her two youngest children who had already perished in a fire which filled a downtown apartment with suffocating smoke. Firemen found the bodies of 30 Juk Pearson at in year old mrs. Wilma Maxwell. And her two children Gregg 3. And Lisa nine months in the Back bedroom of their second floor suite in the St. Regis Block at 561 Mcdermot Avenue. Two other children Brent. 6, and Tanya 13 were at school and her husband Allan Maxwell was at work at Peerless laundry. Mrs. Maxwell was washing clothes in the apartment House basement when she smelled smoke about . She Rush see picture on Page 3 de to her apartment and burst in running through the Kitchen and the main bedroom to where her two youngest children were playing. Firemen who responded to the Call said she never came out. And was apparently suffocated by. The smoke and intense heat. J the firemen believe the fire j began somewhere near the bed j in the main bedroom. By the time the Mother got to the suite the heat was sufficient to Blister paint on the opposite Side of the apartment doorway. The fire men say the children were prob ably dead before the fire was noticed. Occupants of the other nine suites in the building were evacuated. Mrs. Doris Mcdonald who lives in the suite below the Maxwell apartment said she was awakened by a hammering at both will present new peacekeeping proposals i by Louis b. Fleming Birm Ingham on Edge of terror tension grips City after four negro girls killed by blast Birmingham Alabama a officials took extraordinary Steps today to head off new racial violence in bomb shaken Birmingham after a dynamite blast killed four negro girls and two negro boys were shot to death. The . Justice department sent in three senior officials and a Force of Fri agents and bomb experts. City officials joined with Church leaders in a special telecast urging citizens1 to be Calm. Or. Martin Luther King jr., the negro into town to urge negroes to be non Vio As he i in May when the bombing of a negro Motel touched off rioting by negroes. National guardsmen were placed on the Alert governor George c. Wallace sent 300 state troopers into town at the request of mayor Albert bout Well. The sunday morning blast at the Lgth Street Baptist Church killed the four Young girls and injured 23 others. Within a few 228 million Sussel record Grain Deal signed contract largest in Canadian history value nears million Ottawa up the Sale of a record bushels of wheat and flour to Russia Worth nearly and the largest Grain contract in Canadian history was announced today. Usa Maxwell 9-month-old victim United nations special a hours two negro boys were tons president John f. Ken snot to death in other parts of Nedy and prime minister Lester the City and three other persons Pearson May both propose j were wounded. Her door and a voice which told her to get out of the building As soon As possible. Mac has scandal report peacekeeping expansion plans for the United nations when they id dress the general Assembly this i week. Today has been the most i frightening in the history of said sheriff Vin Bailey As violence continued i . Sources have been Empha-1 breaking out despite pleas for i sizing the desirability of improve i peace. Ling and enlarging the ability of continued i the Secretary general to please see Alabama Page 5 peacekeeping initiatives. I and in a general sense or. I Pearson is the inventor of modern Day peacekeeping As it has been Practised both in the mid dle East and the Congo. He won a Nobel peace prize for his Ori London port packed with political Dyna mite landed on prime minister Macmillan i desk today and will please see fire Page 8 Algeria orders takeover Algiers elected algerian president Ali med Ben Bella today prepared to inaugurate a massive nationalization program aimed at Complete socialization of his country. Ben Bella became Algeria s first president in sunday s nation wide referendum in which 99.62 per cent of votes East backed his leadership. He was the Only candidate. He immediately announced in a radio broadcast plans to re shuffle the Cabinet within the Nixt two Days Speed up the achievement of socialism in the country and nationalize All land. The principal enterprises will be nationalized. We shall nationalize All the lands of the settlers and the lands of the traitors As Ben Bella said. Please see Algeria Page 8 continued off a new and bitter chapter in the government sex and Security scandal. The report is the work of lord Denning a High court judge who since june 21 has investigated the possibility that the scandal that almost toppled Macmillan s govern ment involved breaches of Security. It centres on the relations of disgraced former War minister John Profumo and party girl Christine Keeler who also was carrying on an affair with a former soviet naval attache Yevgeny Ivanov. Many briton s believe Denning s report will prove a Bombshell. Denning was asked by Mac Millan to examine the Security aspects of the affair in which Profumo admitted lying to parliament about his love affair j with Christine. But Macmillan also asked the distinguished Jurist to probe rumours affecting the Honor and integrity of Public life in this within these terms Denning interviewed 160 witnesses rang ing from prostitutes to the prime minister himself and his report was expected to touch Many sensitive spots on High places. Denning declined to comment on newspaper reports that he investigated the personal con duct of at least three Cabinet please see Profumo Page 9 there is something of a tradition for the chief executives of i the United states and Canada to have some dramatic initiative to announce when they make their occasional appearances before i the Assembly. I or. Kennedy has spoken Only once before in september of 1961, when h3 map an Appeal to reopen disarmament negotiations and to sign immediately a nuclear test ban. He also made reference to the two crisis spots of the world Berlin and Southeast Asia. He slopes when he takes the Rostrum Here Friday to be Able to report that the Senate has Rati fied the limited test ban treaty signed last month in Moscow. But if he talks of crisis spots he will have to Tell the Assembly that there has been if anything a worsening of the problems he knew it was coming described 24 months ago. Please see Pearson Page 8 Jakarta riot Mars Malaysia birth Here in prayerful thanksgiving angry demonstrators stoned the Malayan and British embassies in Jakarta Indonesia in sup port of their government s opposition to the federation. A crowd of Tore Down the British Flag smashed windows and set the British ambassador s car ablaze. Malaysia foreign Secretary Ghazali Shafie expressed con Cern about of indo Nesia and the Philippines. Asked by reporters whether Malaysia was prepared for a possible War with Indonesia if its hostility persisted Shafie said recognition pending Consulta let s Hope to North Borneo Sec Tion of Malaysia. As prime minister Tanku Abdul Rahman and King Yang i Putnam along of Malaya Knelt the indonesian army heavily out n u m b e r s the malaysian aft Ned forces but the British Are committed to malaysian de Fence. Please see Malaysia Page 8 Viet Nam eases curbs Saigon Law was lifted throughout South Viet Nam at noon today 26 Days after it was imposed in the Wake of government raids on Buddhist pagodas aug. 21. Vietnamese authorities also announced that press censorship had been lifted. The end of Viet Nam s slate of As president Ngo Dinh diem put it came after the Saigon government had put Down Buddhist opposition and student unrest. But Saigon still bristled with soldiers. They guarded a dozen High schools focal Points of 10 Days of anti government demonstrations by students. Under martial Law thousands of students were arrested. The government said they would be released. Reliable sources said scores of vietnamese school girls arrested in1 Midnight raids on their Homes Are being detained in a military Camp in a Saigon suburb. The girls Are members i a Buddhist youth association buddhists claimed the government of diem a roman Catholic discriminated against them. Diem denied the charge. His regime claimed Buddhist opposition was aiding the communist cause and ordered the crackdown. J w Birmingham Ala. A it was just a matter of said Rev. John Cross after a dynamite blast killed four be j Gro girls in his Church. We be been expecting this All along waiting for it knowing it would come wondering i be received half a dozen bomb threats since last he said. We be searched the Church several times. We be called off night time meetings because we Felt it would be just too dangerous to gather even if Only to Pray. We Haven t underestimated the he said. We have known right along there were people in this town capable of anything. Even this Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robertson both 14, were youth Ushers in the sunday school sort of hostesses for the other children. Carol was a Taler Ted Jirl. So was Cynthia a Bril fiant Young girl an Honor Stu Dent. Addie Mae. And Little Denice Addie Mae Collins 14 Benice Mcnair 11 were members of our youth choir. Both were Fine Little girls faithful in their at Tendance. All were a credit to the Community. Now they re All phoned insults the minister said that in addition to telephoned threats of he said from an Anonymous male had received countless Humilis and insulting Calls both at his Home and his Church o f the Fischer quintuplets in Aberdeen South Dakota were All doing Well monday. If they sur Vive it will be the first birth of quintuplets recorded in the United states. Mrs. Andrew Fischer is Al the lower right the baby at lower left is the boy and the four others Are girls. For other pictures see Page 6. Hospital Madhouse As quilts Are born by Gene Telpner immature poses medical prob a Dakota quintuplets to be exact now has the world Batter because she is. Under an emotional if the five survive they will be breathing and development. The first in the history of the sister Andre said monday United states. Doctors consider ing at their Doorstep. I there Are about a dozen other a new babies in the Hospital and the Doorstep who Chat the visiting is being limited to just ment is St. Luke s Hospital in fathers involved. But people the Community of has been swarming the been placed under the guard of for a glimpse of fice. Continued please see eyewitness Page 5 the second instal ment of a new historical series Manitoba the terrible tur Bulent years appears in today s edition of the free press. The series of 30 articles researched and written by free Lance writer Ray Tulloch tells of Manitoba s when Hun i Ger despair and Vio Lence stalked the land and How simple human courage finally won through. The articles will appear daily. Today read he built an Empire for France on Page 10. Security forces to keep away hordes of the1 curious. It s been a Madhouse said sister Andre director of the infants which would be a medical the pre sent time. Monday the quilts were to quintuplets to be the rarest of All multiple births and these five were born two month prematurely. Doctors help sunday afternoon there was a press conference in order to a Conan Date the throng of news Media people another Trade minister Sharp indicated that Canadian handling capacity was the limiting fac Tor and that More might be sold if it could be supplied before the contract ends next july 31. The contract was embodied in a renewed Canada .s.r. Trade pact signed today. Or Sharp s announcement confirmed a world heat the free press scored Friday when it gave the first report of the quantities and value of the massive Deal or. Sharp also announced at a press conference following the signing Cuba will get Worth of the wheat and flour and some will be shipped to Eastern Europe communist countries normally supplied from Russia which has experienced big crop reverses the Canadian wheat Board j Crown Agency handling sales of i Prairie wheat Oats and Barley won t seek any new customers for local reaction see Page 4 this year in anticipating record wheat exports of bushels for the crop year end ing next july 31. The Canadian railways will have to move twice the Grain traffic carried last year to meet St. Lawrence Seaway demands for Grain exports. Finally or. Sharp said that the majority of the Grain is bound from the St. Lawrence but that All ports will be used and consideration is being Given to expanding facilities at Van Couver which he called a Bot Leneck. The Cash and credit Sale of a Cash Deal for bushels a r e c o r d flour amount of bushels in i heat equivalent. This is More than Canadian flour exports in the last crop year. It will raise exports for the current crop year to More than in foreign earnings contrasted with the value of wheat and flour the Calendar year 1962 of some a further bushels of wheat and flour Are covered for shipment in the period after july 31 but the 228. A mini mum figure or. Sharp under questioning at the press conference he said he would t like to Call the rus Sian Sale a Windfall but there was not Likely to be a recur rence of orders for similar amounts. He had every reason to be Lieve the railways would meet the Challenge of the Grain move. Merit which is very much greater than they have Ever tried in the v the. . Appeared conf monday. Cose and sugar water through a said sister Andre you have tube which will now be Given to be pretty durable around Here these Days with so much going every two hours. Nursing at the Hospital in a Tele Cint Mue their feeding the first l expected to be held sometime phone interview monday morn j name sunday in the form of ing. The Madhouse began Early saturday when Mary Ann Fis Cher the 30-year-old wife of shipping clerk Andrew Fischer town agog gave birth to four girls and As Aberdeen which is normally a 1 fairly quiet Community has been the babies Are All said j buzzing with excitement. On the sister Andre but under Hospital rules we Are limiting visits to just the father. I saw him not Long ago and he seems to bearing up very Well under the sister Andre said the Strain of the event has reflected All Over the Community with More than 60 newspaper radio and television people constantly on the prowl for inside news about the big Story. Or. James Berbos who delivered the had to excuse himself from the deluge of phone Calls and interviews Mon Day morning to perform his regu Lar schedule of operations in sur Gery. Sister Andre said he had several on the morning Agenda and in Between them was looking after the children. Critical Days All details about the five Chil Dren Yvere being funnelled i j restly from or. Berbos monday to avoid a conflict of information. The doctor who has1 16 years As a general tract Tyner to his credit including a score of 300 delivered babies feels the next few Days will be critical ones. The fact that the quilts Are marquee Type sign in front of a Large supermarket were the words congratulations to the Fischer. Quintuplets. Four girls and a boy. The father was flanked sunday and monday by two Legal advisers because of the dozens of offers that have come in regard ing Magazine stories and exclusive interviews which could mean Money to the family which has an income about a Welc. According to Ellsworth Karri Gan editor of the Aberdeen american news newsmen up to sunday night had not been permitted to speak to mrs. Fischer the Hospital is fairly Large with a total of 225 Beds and 20 Beds in the Nursery said the nursing sister. Or. been assisted two other doctors because of the overwhelming task of looking after the five babies. There Are already five other children in the Fischer family and by coincidence these Are four girls and a boy. The first quilts recorded in North America were the Dionne children in Ontario and four of these Are still living. There Are please see quilts Page 9 Dent that it sea fast enough to handle the Grain flow. Or. Sharp said tie Capac Ity of. Canadian flour Mills will be taxed even though they have been below capacity. There had been no quests for other grains to the Trade department but private sales for the Juris diction of the Canadian. Wheat be or. Sharp also suggested there will be Little if any in crease this year in. Postal As foreign Aid Ern ment had announced earlier that it planned to boost Aid in wheat to developing countries and International reaching a Peak of Worth annually Over several years. Please see wheat Page 8 looking for a fur coat this want and under clothing dark b r o w n Muskrat coat 525. Sire 16-18. Globe 2-47 to. Is among the hundreds of bar gains s classified Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want. Ads. Queen expecting London a the Queen is expecting a baby Early next Buckingham Palace announced sunday night it will be her fourth child. The announcement came from the Palace while ithe Queen was on her annual Holiday with her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her press Secretary said both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Are of very Happy about ;