Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press if if Lloil vol. 75 no. 53 Price Loc c 15c Winnipeg wednesday november 29, 1967 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sune sets . Moon sets . Forecast Cloudy 5 and 15 Ike wants massive escalation former president Calls for hot Pursuit into North by Leroy f. Aarons new York special tons former presi Dent Dwight d. Eisenhower said tuesday night he favors sending troops into North Vietnam above the demilitarized zone to Knock out enemy artillery. Or. Eisenhower said in a in nationally televised interview that he believes in a policy of hot even if it meant chasing the enemy into cambo Dia Laos or communist China. He also advocated sending another troops to Viet Nam to clean this thing up More or. Eisenhower was inter viewed along with Gen. Omar Bradley in the sex president s Gettysburg Pennsylvania office. The half hour taped program entitled Eisenhower and Brad Ley on was presented As a lbs news special at . The two men America s Only living five Star army generals were questioned by Harry Reasoner. Please see Ike wants Page 2 Bengal Assembly in chaos Calcutta Reuters the West Bengal state Assembly broke up in chaos wednesday after the speaker refused to recognize a new government. Speaker b. K. Banerjee ruled unconstitutional the Dis Missal nov. 21 of the communist led United front govern ment by stale governor dharma Vira and adjourned the House indefinitely before a vote could be taken on a no Confidence motion. Later the upper House the legislative Council passed a motion of Confidence in new chief minister p. C. Ghosh who was Cut on the face with a piece of Wood thrown when scuffles broke out in the Assembly at Banerjee s ruling. In the streets outside police Rem. Mass questioned Public with clubs charged crowds of by whether Mcnamara is step Victory for army chiefs Washington up word that defence Secretary Robert Mcnamara is quitting has shocked Washington credited the military Hierarchy with a Clear Victory and fed expectations of even harsher blows against North Vietnam. Bombing or mining the port of Haiphong Long opposed by Mcnamara now is deemed much More Likely. Even some sort of direct invasion of the North or surrounding Cambodia or Laos is regarded As possible. Mcnamara s departure the exact Date still unspecified would remove the last major obstacle to military pressure president Johnson might desire to Force the kind of War pro Gress he wants before facing re election next november. His Mcnamara s Depar Ture will be considered a Triumph for the Hawks and widely interpreted As a signal that All out escalation is about to sys political columnist Mary Mcgrory of the evening Star. Democrat Mike Mansfield Montana Senate majority Leader whose moderate views on Vietnam have weakened any in fluence he has with the presi Dent said he Hopes sincerely that his Mcnamara s Depar Ture will not mean an escalation of the bombing or the widening of the senator Edward m. Kennedy demonstrators protesting the dismissal of the United front government. At least two per sons were injured in the demonstrations called by the United front. Political observers said the ruling by Banerjee might Lead to the suspension of the state government and direct Rule by the Congress party Federal government in new Delhi. Police open fire on students Benares India Reuters 8 police fired on rioting High school students in the holy hindu City of Benares wednes Day injuring at least one. The shooting occurred on the second Day of violent student demonstrations against govern ment moves to retain English As an official language along Side hindi. Ping out voluntarily. He cited some reports the Secretary die not want to quit. James Reston new York times associated editor wrote that Mcnamara had no Advance notice of his nomination to the world Bank by president John son. Please see Victory Page 7 Stern rebuke ii l "1" 1 twirl in Bijj brands French president s comments on Quebec intolerable insulting by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff prime minister Pearson tuesday branded president Charles de Gaulle s latest outburst on French Canada intolerable and insult opened commons business with a Stem rebuke to the French president coupled with a Call for restraint among All canadians. His statement was prompted by remarks monday at Gen. De Gaulle s press conference in Paris when the president referred to French canadians As abandoned children who were treated As inferiors under the Canadian Constitution. The president called for the Elevation of Quebec to the level it is rumoured that pres ident de Gaulle May retaliate by recalling his Ambas Sador. Reports from Europe that Canada would Call Home its envoy have drawn government denials. The French ambassador is now in France for a funeral and Ottawa embassy officials declined comment. French jews angry de Gaulle View shocks stuns jewry by Donald h. Louchheim Paris special tons leaders of French jewry expressed Shock and Dis May tuesday at the unpleasant smell of anti semitism in president Charles de Gaulle s aggressive press conference Mon Day. The phrase itself was coined by the country s most respected editor Hubert Beuve Mery in a front Page editorial in tuesday s be Monde. But it was roundly endorsed by jewish spokesmen. We Are bruised and sur said Pierre Lazarus editor of the weekly jewish information. The editor of an other jewish newspaper expressed please see French Page 13 of a Sovereign stale with Mastery of its National exist prime minister Pearson struck Back after Reading Gen. De Gaulle s transcript on his return from London monday night. Please see Pearson Page 2 shippers fight Back Johnson conies out fighting denying French rights aids separatism premiers warned by Stan Mcdowell Toronto staff Premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec angrily warned fellow premiers at the con federation of tomorrow conference tuesday that the Best Way to encourage separatism was to deny French language rights outside Quebec. Or. Johnson s plea for help in teacher pay hike looms prime minister Pearson replies to French president de Gaulle s statement that changes must be made to promote Quebec sovereignty. The prime minister said at a news conference de Gaulle s comments were an intolerable intervention in Cana Dian Domestic affairs. Opposition blocks postal rate boost Ottawa up the opposition got Back from dinner a Little faster than the government tuesday night and Defeated a government Resolution aimed at raising postal rates on letters within Canada by one cent. This increased the chances that the present rates five czech youths vent anger in streets by Lajos Lederer London special owns Czechoslovakia is the midst of unprecedented ferment and the sacking of president Anthony Povolny the stalinist party Boss May be imminent. Reports from Prague Point to symptoms similar to those be a Santa for the needy which occurred in Hungary on the eve of the 1956 uprising. University students have joined forces with rebellious writers and intellectuals. Serious clashes Between the students and the police in the streets of Bratislava slovak capital and indicate the situation. The in Kosice Gravity of the cents for out of town letters and four for local letters will re main As they Are until after Christmas. If the government brings in a reworded Resolution and gets it accepted it can then push enabling legislation through parliament. The defeat by 14 Voles to 11, did not come on a Confidence motion and therefore put the government under no obligation to resign. When the House of commons resumed its 8 ., after the dinner break nobody got up to speak on the Resolution which had been under de Bate most of the afternoon. The chair therefore called a vote and conservative House Leader Michael Starr counting the House quickly agreed. The 12 conservatives and two new democrats president joined forces to beat the 11 liberals. The total of 25 members was five above the quorum required to transact business in the 265-seat House. The Opportunity to inflict Surprise defeat on the govern private fight que pm Toronto up Premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec said tuesday prime minister Pear son is involved in what seems to be a private fight with pres ident de Gaulle of France. The Premier told reporters at the confederation of tomorrow conference he had been asked earlier to comment on a state ment by or. Pearson in the commons that or. De Gaulle s remarks about Quebec Independence were intolerable. Or. Johnson said j my answer is this should i get involved in what seems to be a private fight Between or. Pearson incr or. De Gaulle on two subjects one the Opportunity of admission of the United kingdom into the common Market and two the opinion of or. Do Gaulle on the constitutional Evo Lution of a reporter interjected should said the Premier who spoke with reporters following picture posing session with other premiers and leaders of provincial delegations. Montreal up Mont real s longshoremen returned to j work tuesday under the terms of a provisional injunction but the port could shut Down again Loday if another Legal action is granted. The Superior court monday granted a request for an injunction filed by the International longshoremen s association or Dering the shipping companies to Reli ire the port s longshoremen. Work resumed tuesday along he 11-mile waterfront on the backlog of cargo that had piled up since loading and unloading operations stopped last Friday. The shipping federation of Canada however tuesday filed in court a motion to suspend temporarily the provisional in Junction and filed an Appeal to have the injunction overruled. The motion is to be heard please see shippers Page 7 fighting the cause of separatism the ghetto Complex that has been forced on won him Strong backing from the premiers of Ontario new Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The Issue of language rights for French speaking minorities outside Quebec split the con Ference into two opposed Camps with two provinces abstaining. Premiers John Robarts of Ontario Louis Robichaud of new Brunswick g. I. Smith of Nova Scotia and Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island As Well As or. Johnson were All receptive to the idea of a constitutional guarantee for French language rights outside Quebec. Premier e. C. Manning of Alberta attorney general Robert b o n n e r of British Columbia and Premier Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland All opposed any constitutional change to give French canadians in other provinces the rights enjoyed by the English speaking in Quebec. Please see Johnson Page 13 this is the first time since the i mint might not have occurred have you Ever thought of playing Santa Claus to a needy family at Christmas thousands of people in greater Winnipeg Are doing just that every year either personally or through the Christmas cheer Board. Maybe you re past the age when you have children of your own at Home. Maybe you re All alone at Christmas despite the fact you re reasonably Well off. Maybe the Christmas spirit is passing you by. But just think of the Joy in the eyes of the poor Little children next door when they find Santa has left toys for them after All. Think of How they la gather round the oven As their Mother pulls out the Golden Brown Turkey that came in the cheer Board hamper. Last year the Christmas cheer Board provided hampers valued at to needy families in greater Winnipeg. It accomplished the task on a budget of impossible not really with help from people like you. It was Only possible because please see everyone Page 5 free press Christmas cheer fund communists seized Power in Prague that communist youth whom an earlier communist Boss called the Gold Reserve of the party have come out in the streets to ventilate their grievances. This unexpected Challenge coincides with reports that there Are moves inside the czechoslovak communist party to unseat or. Novotny the last remaining stalinist figure in East Europe. Reports in the yugoslav communist paper Borba indicate that Liberal elements in the czechoslovak communist party arc demanding major reforms including the liquidation of stalinist influences in the leadership. In an unusually Frank report from Prague the correspondent of Borba states that the czechoslovak party is at the Crossroads. It has started a serious analysis of its own function. Discussions on the subject arc being held on All please see czechs Page 5 please see postal Page 5 features today press readers in for a treat 57 today s Index classified 44 to .i3 deaths 9 comics 30, 31 finance Fil to Jumble -16 movies sports 56 in 61. 16 television 16 women 21 25 Abc circulation City zone 92.7js Tot Jil 125.164 nearly everyone reads the free press slowdown planned London Reuters British railway engineers tuesday decided to stage a work slowdown starting next monday in a Dis Pute which could mean wide spread disruption of British rail services. Labor minister Ray gun scr de scribed the Union protest us the silliest of this British Cabinet shuffled London a James Callaghan resigned As Chancellor of the exchequer today in the Wake of Britain s devaluation of the Pound. He switched Cabinet places with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins. The switch brings to the Treasury one of the Cabinet s leading exponents of Britain joining the european common Market. Jenkins known As a keen so Cial reformer while at the Home office also is believed to have favored devaluation of the Pound for months before it took place nov. 18. Callaghan s three year tenure at the Treasury was dominated please see British Page 7 rejects Trench Quebec Toronto up Premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec Sale tuesday he is convinced tha even a separated Quebec would continue to respect the rights o the province s English speaking minority. Or. Johnson made the com ment before the confederation of tomorrow conference where in the same breath he packed separatism and French Ian Guage unilingual ism into one sentence. The task of tackling these Lender Quebec questions re suited in French sentence which translated said we want to say very clearly to this conference that the prov Ince of Quebec even if it should which i have no control but which i will try to oppose not by words but by making Quebe cers feel a by More at Home outside but even separated i am con Vinced that in a modern work of communication Quebec Couk become an extremely interest ing International Centre and in order to play this role Quebe would continue to respect the rights of those who Are no or. Johnson later held up a copy of the Toronto Star to object to the emphasis the evening newspaper placed on a portion of his remarks in a front Page headline Story. The Premier read the first paragraph aloud. It said pre Mier Daniel Johnson to a the confederation of tomorrow con Ference today that Quebec could please see rejects Page 5 by John Wildgust Manitoba teachers will Likely ask 10 to 15 per cent salary increases in 1968, with firm opposition from school trustees a spokesman for the Manitoba association of school trustees says. Increases this year will come straight from the tax payers pockets and boards will be tougher to Deal with a. C. Anderson executive Secretary of the trustees association said in an interview tuesday. Last year the province s teachers received 10 to 15 per cent increases paid for largely by provincial Grants. This year however the provincial Grants Aren t Likely to increase which Means local taxpayers will have to pay for salary increases. Or. Anderson said Early Tea Cher requests for 1968 agree ments in a few Manitoba areas indicate 10 to 15 per cent pay boosts can be expected again this year. An elementary school teacher with Grade 12 plus one year s teacher training is now paid about to Start increasing in seven years to said Walter Pindera economic Wel fare director for the Manitoba teachers society. Please see teacher Page 7 Cyprus pact reached Athens a informed diplomatic sources said wednes Day Greece and Turkey have come to agreement on the Cyprus problem and simultaneous announcements to this effect will be made later in both Athens and Ankara. Terms of the settlement also Are to be divulged later though it May be some hours before the machinery of the two governments is geared for the widest distribution of the information. The first Concrete evidence of an agreement was an order to the greek armed forces calling off their combat Alert and reducing them to a simple state of won t co away stems ill by Peter c. Newman i j Toronto special it was j one of those rare moments of i cruel illumination that some i limes catches politicians staring into the camera of history unwittingly a enunciating a great truth. There was Joey Smallwood of Newfoundland half Way through the confederation of tomorrow conference s tuesday morning session pointing at Daniel Johnson of Quebec and asking fms where is the consensus in Canada that Quebec shall have anything All the other provinces Don t have is one province to have rights the other nine Don t enjoy if so you would t have Canada you d have something else. Exactly. That s what this conference and the current crisis in con federation Are All about to define what Middle ground exists Between Quebec Independence and the status quo. M it s far too late to pretend As or. Smallwood seemed to be doing that the wild spasmodic hearings of French Canadian society which have been going on for nearly a decade can now be contained without allowing Quebec to gain some drastically altered constitutional status. The Robarts conference has made it transparently Clear that it will not be possible very much longer to equate Canada please see it s too Page 5 nature blots out Road signs it was nature not vandals which blotted out Highway 1 traffic signs Between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg tuesday evening. A provincial highways depart ment spokesman said wednes Day the signs covered with millions of Glass beads to reflect Light were coated with ice and As a result could t reflect Light. Drivers of fast moving vehicles would see Only Black signs. The spokesman said the icing resulted from the amount of moisture temperature and the Type of Crystal which formed. The Chance of this happening again is very very slight he said. Asked what could be done to prevent a recurrence he re plied change the ;