Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba T today s Index Manitoba s own Story Page 22 classified 24 to 37 movies 9 comics 22, 23 radio to 8 deaths. 21 sports 18 to 21 finance 10, 11 women s___13 to 15 Jumble contest. Page 26 vol. 70 no. 302 40 pages Winnipeg free press final edition phone we. 3-9331 Price Loc Winnipeg tuesday september 17, 1963 Sun sct5 m0 p m Moon 5et5 p m Sun rises . Moon rises . Forecast Little change 40 and 60 sorrowing negroes plan protest March . Slaps wheat Sale on racist governor critics Wallace blamed for explosion deaths Federal action in Birmingham urged Birmingham Alabama a Birmingham negroes incensed Over the bombing deaths of four of their children plan to March on Montgomery to Lay directly before governor George c. Wallace their feeling that he is to blame for the slayings. Anguished White Speaks blow for Winnipeg blood on hands of everyone in Birmingham Charles Morgan or. Is a White 33-year-old birding Ham attorney a graduate with honors from the univer sity of Alabama and a leading advocate in a current Legal action reapportionment of Alabama state legislature. On monday or. Morgan went to his office in Birmingham s newest skyscraper and wrote the following thoughts for the Washington Post on the Church bombing and deaths that shocked the . On Sun Day. By Charles Morgan four Little girls were killed in Birmingham yesterday. A mad remorseful worried Community asks who did it who threw that bomb was it a negro or a the answer should be we All did every last one of us is condemned for that crime and the bombing before it and the ones last month last year a de say they wonder everyone then deplores the dastardly act please see guilt Page 4 bombing outrages Kennedy by Carroll Kilpatrick Washington special Nyht president Kennedy monday expressed a deep sense of out rage and grief Over the killing of negro children in Birmingham sunday and called on. Every . Citizen to support racial Justice and Harmony. Cade ago. We All did it. A Short time later White police men kill a negro and wound an other. A few hours later two j apprehending Voung men on a and kill a negro child. Fires touch with developments in the break out and in Alabama Industrial City through i out the Day but did not intervene with Federal forces. At their first gathering since the sunday dynamite blast an estimated negroes took a unanimous standing vote Mon Day night to endorse a March on the state House of representatives. The vote came after three integration leaders called for non violence and accused Wal lace of causing the racial ten Sion that led to the dynamite no of the 16th Street Baptist Church. No Date for the March was set. Funeral services for Carol Robertson 14, one of the four girls killed by the blast will be held this afternoon at St. John s african methodist episcopal Church. Teen agers arrested j Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth told j the rally that combined services j for the other three victims will j be held wednesday at the 6th i Avenue South Baptist Church. J where the rally was held. The j three were Denise Mcnair 11, i and Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley both 14. J he urged full attendance by i the negro Community. Negro leaders Here and across i the . Called for use of More 1 Federal Power in Birmingham but a government source in Washington said there was no Legal basis to put additional troops in the City now. There Are 300 federalized troopers on Alert Here. Sheriff Melvin Bailey said two White teen agers were arrested on an open charge in the slaying of one of two negro to to those responsible motor Bike shoot the crimes. He kept in close White youths assault negroes. And All across Alabama an angry guilty people cry out their mocking iranians go to polls today in what appeared to be a critic indignity and. Cism of Alabama s Sharp tongued gov. George c. Wallace the president said it is regrettable that Public disparagement of Law and order has encouraged Vio Lence which has fallen on the in when White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger was asked if this was a reference to gov. Wallace he said he thought the i president s statement was Clear. Death dealing dynamite blast j please see Birmingham Page 1 i food not banned to Cuba state department notes Washington up the United states state department today slapped Down Republican moves to accuse Canada of profiteering in its wheat Deal with Russia. The accusations were based on the fact that some of the wheat sold to Russia will be shipped to Cuba. The most vocal of the Republican critics was senator Ken Neth Keating of new York. He called on the United states government to protest against Short sighted International profiteering by Canada. Senator Keating was angered by the million Sale signed in Ottawa monday because under the agreement Canada will ship million of wheat and flour to Cuba. A . State department spokesman however pointed out that the Western hemisphere s embargo on shipments to Cuba instigated and led by the ., docs not include food and medi Cine. The spokesman said that the department otherwise had no comment to make on the Sale. In a statement sen. Keating a leading critic of . Cuban policy among those who favor a harsher attitude said the agree i mint was a shocking breach i of Western hemisphere co opera j lion to isolate Cuba economically and politically. Little response he said the Issue should be put on the Agenda for Friday s meeting of the Canadian-. Ministerial meeting on Trade and economic affairs. His protest however did not appear to generate much response in the . Capital. More important to the . Administration and to some members of Congress it seemed is whether restrictive policies on Trade with Russia should be changed in the Light of possibilities that the so Viet Union May be facing an other major wheat production calamity. Please see wheat Page 2 shift Tea report urges Transfer overhaul base to Montreal immediately airlines advised by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff the Dixon Speas report to trans Canada air lines finds in favor of transferring the overhaul and maintenance base from Winnipeg sen Keating charges profiteering to Montreal it was Learned from informed sources today. ---------------------------------------1 the economic study goes even further than the airlines original plans by suggesting that the move should be made As soon As possible. Tea had planned to make the move Complete by 1966. But the economic study finds Tea is piling up such extra expenses by having the base in Winnipeg that it should seek to realize savings by shifting the base to Montreal at once. A copy of the report has been submitted to prime minister Pearson. Copies have also been received by the transport department and it is to be studied by the Cabinet in the near future. The report must now be considered by the Cabinet after hav ing been studied by the Tea Board of directors and the trans port department. It is doubted Here by officials that the govern ment would act on the recommendation of the report particularly insofar As it suggests the base be moved immediately. R. Dixon Speas and associates is a firm of consultants that has been called in by a number of i the world s leading airlines to make economic reports on their operations. The report was submitted to Tea sept. 4. The report was ordered by Tea at the suggestion of the previous conservative government after the City of Winnipeg and Mani j Loba government had registered i the strongest possible protest against the base being moved to George Drew resigns Post Drew resigns ilk. Post sen. Humphrey is envious wheat Sale to Russia slashes balance of payments deficit Ottawa the massive rus i Nadian transport and handling r e c o r d Sian wheat Deal signed monday i facilities Trade minister Sharp j Worth More than has Given the Canadian Economy i said. I by next july 31, or. Sharp said a major shot in the . It will but the economic benefits the record is bushels slash this country s balance of were seen spreading out from in 1928-29. Payments deficit and May even the Prairie Grain Belt into auto.1 wheat and flour exports in the farm Manhin Erv and other Dur-1 Calendar year 1962 ran about Ottawa up resignation of George Drew As Canadian High commissioner to London has Ben accepted but he will remain at his Post until Jan. 1. The announcement made by prime minister Pearson s office today said or. Drew had told j the former conservative govern ment at the time of his appoint Lent that he wished to retire in gust 1963, when he com eted six years As High com Malaysia recalls envoys Kuala Bumpur a Malaysia severed diplomatic relations today with to two largest neighbors hostile Indonesia and the unfriendly Philippines. A screaming Rock throw ing mob stormed the indonesian embassy. The anti indonesian violence broke out shortly before malay Sia s one Day old government announced the break in relations. More than malays had marched on the indonesian embassy and 200 surged into the embassy grounds. They set fire to one building smashed win Dows and furniture Tore up a picture of indonesian president Sukarno and denounced him As a liar. The riot was revenge for a similar mob action monday against the malaysian embassy in Jakarta the indonesian Capi Tal. Please see Malaysia Page 4 Tehran. Iran women voted in an iranian a j tonal election for the first time today when citizens went to the j polls to choose a new Parlia Alabama ment. Federal the polling was described As completely free and All opposition groups except the outlawed communist Udeh party were Able to take part. Premier Assadollah Alam said the government will answer was referring not Only to Wallace but also to other leaders who have of court orders and defied attempts to secure broader civil rights for negroes. Or. Salinger said the president had not sent a message to gov. Wallace or replied to telegrams from persons who urged him to additional Steps to protect had placed Security forces on i we lives and property of Bli the Alert throughout Iran to pre my Gharon negroes. Vent any disturbances. Results but or. Salinger said the presi will be announced wednesday. I Dent would respond to the Mes martial Law imposed in Teh-1 sages received. The Rev. Martin ran following riots last june i Luther King negro Leader wired the president sunday urging Strong Federal action. Please see Kennedy Page 7 against government reforms was lifted during the 10 hours of balloting but police stood by outside polling stations. Bonn fears Deal seeks Paris help by Don Shannon Paris West Ger Man foreign minister Gerhard Schroeder arrived Here monday seeking French help to Block any threat to German interests in a new .-soviet peace agreement German officials have freely admitted their fear that . And British enthusiasm Over the mos cow test ban treaty May Lead to further agreements with the so Viet Union which might recognize communist East Germany or threaten the Freedom of West Berlin. We must get the German and Berlin questions tied to any development of the East West de a German source said. If these questions Aren t included there can t be any real de please see Bonn Page 2 wipe out Canada s Over All Trade deficit next year for the first time in 12 Vears. The unprecedented order has posed a great Challenge to Ca Early election unlikely by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff those who have been thinking in terms of an Early Federal election can for get it. Indications Are that there won t be a general election now until 1965 or 1966. Position of the Liberal minority government in the House has been strengthened by the giant wheat sales to Russia. It now appears much less Likely that the liberals will be Defeated in the commons on a want of Confidence vote. The government is not thinking in terms of an Early election. Liberals Are convinced that the people of Canada Are tired of elections. Continued please see election Page 2 farm machinery and other Dur j Calendar year 1962 ran about Able goods industries As Well As and totalled transport and port employment 000 bushels for the year ended payrolls. By july 31, Russia will take bushels of wheat and bushels of flour in heat a third of this year s near record wheat i crop of an estimated i bushels. I provides credit Canada is providing credit up j to s200.000.000 and the soviet Union is in per cent Down and j the rest Over 18 months. These financial conditions Are the same As in the second Long term agreement with red China for a maximum Bush Els of wheat up to july 31, 1965. Canadian wheat and flour last july 31. Exports Are certain to hit please see Economy Page 2 is k. In new trouble Gerhard Schroeder fears red . Deal looking for a. Pet this want and under dogs cats Birds livestock 16 Good Homes wanted for three Tabby kit . Hudson 9-6s87. 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. Tass keeps silent Moscow soviet news Agency Tass makes no mention of Russia s huge Pur Chase of wheat from Canada in reporting the new soviet Cana Dian Trade agreement signed in Ottawa monday. A Brief dispatch dateline Ottawa says Only the Trade agreement be tween the .s.r. And Canada has been prolonged for. Three years As a result of talks hold Here. For by Stephen s. Rosenfeld Washington special tons its huge wheat Purchase from Canada gives the soviet Union big Black Eye in its raging conflict with communist China. The Deal not at once reported to the soviet people might also Eaken Premier Nikita s Khrushchev s leadership at a Cru Cial moment of Domestic and International flex. But the hard fact of a. Grain ii Arvest about 30 per cent below the plan made the Purchase am the admission of Fai Kire which i represented a realistic must. These were the first reaction of the scores of officials who be Gan today to study the soviets Purchase of 227.5 m p on Bushel of Canadian wheat and when flour. The Price in hard currency was half a billion dollars. Observers Here had been led t expect a poor Harvest by drought particularly in the Ukraine and i or. Khrushchev s pet "ne1 the soviet Union the treaty was signed by the first Deputy minister of foreign Trade for the .s.r., s. A. Borisov and for Canada by the minister of Trade m. lands in Central Asia and by so Viet press silence a 1961 Krem Lin decree banned reports of a but fulfilled Grain plans. Please see my. K. Page 4 Winnipeg dwindles in eyes of Tea missioner. Or. Drew is 69. The former conservative Naonal Leader s letter of Resigna on addressed my dear said to resign at the earliest Date convenient o May i say How greatly i eve enjoyed the very cordial relations which have at All mus existed Between the letter of resignation and time minister Pearson s letter f acceptance both were dated ast Friday sept. 13. Or. Pear on s letter addressed dear said i have received our letter of resignation con sequent on your completion of in years service As High com Nishii Oiler to London the period using which you originally Girt de to continue in that Post. In accepting this resignation would like to thank you very Ino rely for the distinguished and in which you represented our country in he United kingdom during years. Our gratitude should also go to your wife who phase see Drew Page 7 from the time Tea was is i table fluid in 1937, Winnipeg for 11 years remained the Headquarters of the organization. The dwindling importance of Winnipeg in Tea operations be Gan in 1948, when president g. R. Mcgregor announced that some administrative personnel might be moved to the Montreal Headquarters. Or. Mcgregor said Winnipeg would remain As opera Tion Headquarters. A year later in 1949, or. Mcgregor s statement that ass than lot1 Tea employees would be involved in the Montreal move was repudiated by Trade minister c. D. Howe who announced that 155 administrative employees would be transferred. In isl. Or. Mcgregor said six radio Laboratory employees sonnet would be moved to Mont real. In january 1961 the first announcement was made that the overhaul base in Winnipeg would be closed with the Transfer of employees. The fight has been going on since then with several Mani Toba delegations visiting both conservative and Liberal administrations and receiving a num ber of postponements but never a Flat denial that the move would be abandoned. Estimates predict that if the move goes through a payroll of Between s6 and million a year will be lost to Manitoba a payroll requiring 40 Normal sized industries1 to replace. The move would also concen trate All of Tea s maintenance work in areas already jammed with metropolitan populations. Would move and the following february the entire radio Over haul staff was transferred to Montreal. As Early As 1957, Tea officials j began denying rumours that main j tenancy staff would be Transfer red. In october of that year they announced 100 maintenance per lumbermen protest s. Viet Nam claims Victory by ambush up from Reuters a j Delta area said the guerrillas appeared to be preparing an Ottawa Sharp pro j test against the Federal govern ment s decision to allow ply Wood imports from communist China was sent to prime min ister Pearson tuesday by the Ca Nadian lumbermen s association. Last week the government announced that red China will be allowed to Iship Square feet of plywood a year into can South vietnamese rooms using artillery and air Craft today claimed they killed communist guerrillas out Side go Den 15 Miles South West of Saigon. Guerrillas were caught in rain hooded Rice paddies where they were believed Sci be assembling for raids on hamlets near Saigon late monday. A woman informer tipped government forces about the guerrillas massing strength. Gen. Huynh Van Cap fourth corps commander told report ers St a command Post Here that stepped up guerrilla activity around Saigon was connected with anti government strikes and demonstrations in the capital where martial Law was lifted monday. The general who commands troops throughout the Southern ambush along the main Road to Saigon and attacks on nearby hamlets to show the weakness of president Ngo Dinh diem s government. The government suffered five killed find 25 wounded in Mon Day i action he said. Meanwhile the associated press said Large communist units attacked at least four me King River Delta hamlets and e n t fighter bombers please see ;