Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index classified 42 to 52 comics 38, 39 deaths. To finance.18 to 21 income tax. 38 Jumble. 44 movies. 13 sports 53 to 56 television 12 women 32 to 35 final edition phone we 3-9331 first 1-22 vol. 72 no 115 Price Loc with. Comics Winnipeg wednesday february 10 1965 Sun Riim . . Sim acts . Moon my . Forecast sunny and cold -25 and -5 sask. Files missing Kcf stole documents says Thatcher Regina car pre Mier Ross Thatcher tues Day accused the former Kcf government of hav ing stolen government documents during the period after the general election and the time when the Liberal government assumed office last Spring. Or. Thatcher made the accusation prior to moving adjourn ment on the throne speech de Bate. He said the government is go my very serious consideration to having a commission investigate the matter of missing files Only a few of which have been recovered. Please see Thatcher Page 4 Rivard reported Cabinet reviews ten Coste Ottawa min ister Pearson met with his cab inet tuesday and said after the meeting that the emphasis was on the situation in South Viet Nam and the United nations financial crisis. Or. Pearson said he would have no immediate comment on the Viet he and his ministers wanted More time to evaluate the situation and to be brought up to Date on the latest information. Asked to comment on a re port from in Headquarters i new York that he might be asked to head a special com Mittee of five Wise men to try to find a Way around the current financial crisis in the world body he said no formal proposal has been made to him. However he added that a plan of this nature had been discussed informally at the in and Canada was deeply inter ested in seeking a solution to the problem. The problem grew out of the refusal of some in member among to pay their allotted share of costs for such in peace keeping missions As that in Cyprus. . Plugs Dollar Drain Washington a Dent Johnson said today he has obtained firm Assurance from the Canadian government thai it will pursue policies to limit the flow of . Investment Dol Canada to the extent consistent with keeping can Ada s currency reserves stable Johnson made the statement while ordering sweeping Meas Jires to bring an end to the . Balance 6f-payments Deal Cit including a penalty tax on overseas Loans As Well As in vestments. He also asked a voluntary mobilization of private banking and Industry to restrain spend ing. And lending abroad. In a special message Johnson asked Congress to slash the duty free exemption on foreign purchases brought Home by re turning american tourists to retail value from whole Sale effect a reduction to less than one third b the present limit the president said the recen a taint widening of the pay ments deficit need not alarm americans or foreign holders o dollars since the 1964 deficit o reflected continue year to year improvement. I message said clearly those who fear of tiie Dollar Are needlessly Afrait those who nope for its Wea Taes Hope i vain. The Dollar and will re main As Good As Gold freely convertible at an Favreau aide tells investigation of Swiss mexican Bank accounts Ottawa up Lucien Rivard was re ported to have Bank accounts in Mexico and Switzerland and to have been ready to skip the country if bail was granted the Dorion judicial inquiry was told today. Andre Letendre 35, executive assistance to Justice minister Favreau testified he was Given this information in August by Guy lord then special assist ant to or. Favreau. The inquiry is investigating an allegation by Montreal Law yer Pierre Lamontagne that he was offered a bribe to agree to bail for Rivard wanted in the . On charges of being mixed up in a narcotics conspiracy. Or. Letendre taking the wit Ness stand for the first time said he was told aug. 11 by or. Lamontagne acting for the . Government in the Case that arrests had been synchronized around the world in a crackdown on an International network of which Hilvard was a part. Arrests had been made for Lucien Kinard Keady to flee example in Boston Marseilles and the far East. Please see bail Page 7 . Government scrapes through London labor government has sur ived a conservative Challenge o its decision to step up Pur Hase of . Planes for the of. Prime minister Wilson s gov rement tuesday night beat ack a conservative attempt to seat it but by Only five votes 06 to 301, As the liberals add their nine votes to the con Ergative censure motion. In answer to opposition barges aviation minister Roy Enkins said whether we like t or not the All British plane he then included All Advance weapons systems As beyond British Independent pro action. We Are at the end of the Oad so far As the exclusive British manufacture of complicated weapons systems for an exclusive British Market is con Jenkins said. Jenkins announced a program of co elaboration with the united1 states and Britain s european allies. He said the program has been developed with British govern ment funds. Jenkins disclosed that Britain and the . Are studying joint development in anti submarine warfare tactical air defence missiles army ordnance and army communications. As announced in Washington the United states will Supply Britain with phantom f-4 Jet fighters and -130e transports. Britain arid the . Also Are o Combine in development of an advanced lift Jet engine for ver tical and Short Takeoff aircraft. In their censure motion the conservatives charged that la Jor policies were leading to Al most total dependence on the United states and shattering Confidence in the British Avia Tion Industry. The five vote margin was la Bor s smallest since it came to Power last october. Last tues Day they beat Back a conservative censure motion by 17 votes when the nine liberals abstained. During the bitter debate thou Sands of aircraft workers fear Ful of losing their jobs marched outside parliament. They car ried banners Reading keep the Raf thirty killed fire from a renters Zaragoza Spain up thirty persons were killed Anc 33 were injured today when a passenger coach of the Madrid Barcelona mail train caught fire near Here the Spanish state railways announced. Pension raise possible by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a Sugges Tion to the Federal government to raise the present Basic old age pension is implied in the parliamentary committee s final report to be tabled in the com Mons next week. The committee had under study the proposed contributory Canada pension plan. The committee decided against naming a specific amount for the suggested in crease leaving that up to the government to decide. There is in the report a recommendation that the government reconsider the position of those persons who Are not getting anything out of the Canada pension plan. A motion put Forward to raise the Basic old age pension by was Defeated in the final session of the committee. A second motion that the Basic pension be raised without naming an amount was also Defeated. But please see report Page 4 Dixon Speas figure said too High Cost was overestimated by million expert Basing of air Canada s new dc-9 jets at Winnipeg would Cost million less than is estimated by the airline the Thompson inquiry commission was told wednesday. R. L. Banks president of a Washington d.c., transportation consulting firm said air Canada would Only have to spend an extra to maintain dc-9 planes at Winni Peg Over a 10 year period. Earlier airline spokesmen had told the commission that their company would be More than million out of pocket if do 9s were based at Winnipeg instead of Montreal. Or. Banks a Manitoba government expert witness was outlining his firm s analysis of the Dixon Speas report a document which proposes immediate Transfer of All air Canada overhaul work to Montreal. The consultant a former american government advisor was presenting what is expected to be Manitoba s major submission in its fight to retain an air Canada overhaul base Here. Or. Banks said his firm had exhaustively Analysed All five volumes of the Dixon Speas report. He said that As a result of the analysis his firm had made 14 major adjustments and a quite different picture pm our analysis has identified a number of infirmities in the report and it is apparent there is no significant Cost difference Between allocating the dc-9 to either Winnipeg or he said. He admitted that Consolida. Tion of a air Canada s Over haul activity at Dorval would save the airline about million please see commission Page 9 Lesage attacks inquiry Quebec up Premier Jean Lesage has told prime minister Pearson in a sharply worded letter that Quebec can accept neither the principle nor the commissioner of the Thomp son inquiry into air Canada s Winnipeg maintenance base. I regret being obliged to Teu you this is a matter of exceptional Gravity because unhappily it risks compromising our efforts to maintain the Unity of the letter sent feb. 2, said. Or. Lesage read it to the legislature tuesday. The commission under Winni Peg barrister d. A. Thompson was set up last june 11 to look into air Canada s decision to shift its maintenance base from Winnipeg to Montreal. Or. Thompson said in Winni Peg today he would not common on the charges because first o All i Haven t seen the newspaper although excerpts Quot please see Esage Page 9 claim Olson told of fight after finding Man with wife by Gordon Dodd Clifford Raymond Olson in describing the stabbing of a stranger who had been in the company of his estranged wife is reported to have said it was t hard but it was a Rotten two alleged statements made by or. Olson 29, were read to the jury tuesday the second Day of his trial for the capital today s inside stories 44-letter alphabet 3 women return to caves Page 33 How the seeding works Page 53 editorial Pace it pension plan discriminatory retaliation i not a policy voice of the people pan am games they re on Maurice Western Max Freedman Chris Dafoe . Circulation Oty zone 90.078 total 12c.408 die uttry by own troops Public affection lost by Petee Newman Ottawa the tumultuous events of last week end have left even John die Fen Baycer s ardent critics with the uncomfortable feeling that a worthy human being has some How been cruelly wounded. His electoral triumphs of 1957 and 1958 were the product of the spontaneous erupted across affection which the nation for the Man from Prince Albert. This popular adulation imbued him with the kind of self esteem looking Fob a siamese cat this want and under dogs cats pets Etc. 16 Fob Sale purebred Sia Mese cat 10 months old. Phone 452-6534. Is among the hundreds of bar Gams in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. That Shields an aging Man from the terrors of mortality. But last saturday having been rejected by Many of his own followers j o in Diefenbaker must have realized that he can count no longer of the Public affection which nurtured him. There is Honor in defeat at the hands of political foes but Little glory in wounds inflicted by your own troops. John Diefenbaker remains the titular chieftain of Ille conservative party and i head it into the next election Campaign but somehow the menace has been drained out of him and the Aura of invincibility that has always surrounded the Man has been dispersed. Two of the Many events that took place in Ottawa during last Friday and served to confirm this change of each Case John Diefenbaker for the first time was the subject of open laughter in the inner circles of his own party. At Friday s i Ory caucus tit main defence of the Leader was staged by senators David Walker and Allister Grosart and maps Erik Nielson Yukon and Terry Nugent Edmonton feelings ran so High that or. Please see die Page 17 murder of Hellar Barney Rak also 29, of fort William ont 3ct. L4 at a House in Burrows Avenue where or. Olson s wife and children were living. Or. Olson is alleged to have burst into the House with a knife after a fruitless search of leverage rooms for his wife and angrily attacked or. Rak who later died in Winnipeg general Hospital of two puncture wounds in the stomach. The accused is said to have telephoned the police after going to a Friend s House. Made statement det sgt John main told the court or. Olson made the statements to him at Winnipeg s Central police station in the Early hours of october 14. began i never heard of the Guy. I went Down to the House. .1 got and added later the Guy took a swing at me. I gave him i know i stabbed him but i Don t remember How. He stabbed me. Or. Olson then asked to make another statement saying he wanted to Tell All the in this statement he is alleged to have said he found or. Rak at the House and told him to get the hell out. He swung at me first. I put up my to Block think i swung at then i reached behind took the knife out of the Back of my pants and put the knife towards him. I Felt it go in the statement went on. It was t hard. It was a Rotten feeling. He kept on fighting then All of a sudden he took off and walked round the dining room table and folded Viet Cong Slaughter govt. Troops red guerrillas go on offensive throughout South Viet Nam from a Reuters Danang up the communist Viet Cong went on the offensive throughout South Viet Nam Oday amid reports that the guerrillas had wiped out about 600 government troops in a Mountain Battle. Elsewhere heavy fighting near the key Danang air base and to the East of Saigon. The Mountain Battle was ought monday but reports of he the worst rattle of the War not reach Here until today. The reports said the encounter took place in Binh Dinh province 280 Miles North of Saigon. News of the Battle was apparently censored by the South vietnamese government and withheld by . Authorities until today. Relief forces totalling about men were reported still unable to reach the Battle site. The reports said one vietnamese battalion plus two or three extra companies totalling 600 men were reported wiped out in peking greets Kosygin peking rus Sian Premier Kosygin arrived Here by plane today for a one Day Stopover on his Way Back to Moscow after a four Day visit to the North vietnamese capital coordinated Bushes. The Viet Viet Cong am Cong were said to have numbered about 800 men. Please see Viet Nam Page 9 Saigon hotel bombed Saigon Viet Cong terrorists blew up a four Storey . Military men s hotel tonight in the City of qui Nhon 270 Miles Northeast of this South Viet namese capital and the loss of american lives was believed High. Initial reports Here said seven americans were known to have earlier m the trial three witnesses mrs. Olson s sister mrs. Sharon Lynn Peters a 16 girl Dorothy Shaw an ills. Olson s and mrs. Peters ? brother Alvin Louis Sanderson lad testified about the struggle set Ween the two men. Mrs. Peters and mrs. Olson who was not in the room at the time and did not testify had been please see Olson Page wounded b u t the entire building was a pile of rubble and Many dead were believed buried under the debris. The building housed about 40 . Soldiers. Two Viet Cong terrorists were also killed in the explosion and their bodies were found still carrying explosives. China or won t lil by de Meagher Hong Kong special tons Long time China but sely bite expressed the opinion tuesday hat red chinese intervention in he South vietnamese War despite menacing peking growls is unlikely. What probably will happen Bey think is that communist 3hina and Russia will begin sup Ying the Viet Cong guerrilla orces with anti aircraft weapons artillery and even combat aircraft. Possession of such arms in substantial numbers would add immeasurably to the Viet Cong military potential creating new problems for the South vietnamese government forces and their military advisers please see China Page 4 . Sells military hardware Washington a defence Secretary Robert Mcnamara announced tuesday that Australia and Britain have signed agreements under which they will Purchase about of United states military equipment. Britain is obtaining an undisclosed number of f-4 phantom Jet fighters and c-130e transport planes. The exact amount to be spent also was not urged m Harkness joining Balcer by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a Balcer Harkness Axis appears to be shaping up to put continuing pressure on John Diefenbaker to step Down from the office of National Leader. Leon Balcer chairman of the Quebec caucus and the Man who led the latest revolt against or. Diefenbaker confirmed tuesday that he expects to be in touch with or. Harkness in the next few Days. Or. Harkness was a Leader in the move at the annual meeting a year ago that challenged or. Diefenbacker i Posi Tion at the head of the tory party. Or. Harkness is in route to Ottawa. He member of Parlia ment for Calgary and a Fprmer defence minister i the Diefenbaker government he resigned Bis portfolio in the Cabinet revolt that preceded the last Federal election. Or. Balcer. Said be and or. Harkness will Confer by Telephone probably wednesday. Or. Hark Ness has was leaving for Ottawa immediately to see what can be meantime or. Balcer if Leav to quit London up while the British health ministry pleaded or three Days in Montreal and in his constituency. Ing the capital City to spend two not the walk out Leader _. _. Of m Birmingham doctors an he will hot be in Ottawa when bounced tuesday they will re or. Harkness arrives from the commend a mass resignation West however or. Balcer said bom the National health service he would be in touch with his former Cabinet colleague by Tele phone. In protest against a new pay scale. Or. Balcer now appears con the general practitioners As Vinced that or. Diefenbaker s Socia Tion launched a Campaign Days As National Leader Are num to organize a nation wide walk Breed. As a result the French out to demo trate their con a Aivadian member May continue to sit in the commons As a con tempt for salary recommendations accepted monday by the leadership Page 17 government of Hanoi. Kosygin was greeted at the Airport by Premier Chou in Lai and foreign minister Chen i. Both in peking and Hanoi mass rallies against United states raids on North Viet Nam were the major events of the Day. Kosygin spent a Day Here last week on his Way to Hanoi and conferred with Chou. Communist party chairman map tse Tung put in one of his rare Public appearances earlier today at a hands off Viet rally. The rally attended by an estimated cheering Chi Nese also was attended by head of state Liu Shao Chi and Chou. All three leaders joined in the tumultuous applause when peking mayor Peng Chen told the rally Attiat Concrete action would be taken to support the vietnamese people against . Aggression. Please see peking Page 4 France urges talks Paris a the French government said today that political negotiations can provide the Only solution in conflict in Southeast Asia and sent it is ready to take part in new talks on the troubled area. Settlement of the problems of Southeast Asia cannot be reached through fighting the spokesman for the French Cabi net said following a meeting. The spokesman said France is to attend a new ses Sion of the 1954 Geneva Confer ence which ended the indo chinese War and to discuss settlement of the conflict which has Arisen since then. An for a new ses Sion of the conference must come from Britain or the so Viet Union co chairman of the conference the French state ment said the statement was read to information minis Ter lain Peyrefitte. It repeated France s argument that South East Asia must be neutralized. It added the government has noted with much interest and without any astonishment the recent events relative to Indochina which Only confirm the position of France on this grave affair. The French government con siders that the settlement of the problems of Southeast Asia can not be obtained through use of arms. Only an International Accord excluding All foreign inter v in Tion concerning notably South Viet Nam North Viet Nam Laos and Cambodia can open the Way to internal and external peace in this unfortunate Region of the the statement concluded the government is ready at any time to take part in the negotiation of such an Accord confirming to the principles established in 1954 by the Confer ence of Geneva. The initiative for a new meeting of this conference be Longs to the two Powers which hold the co presidency the so Viet Union and ,1 ;