Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday March 7, 1968 Hue next target Saigon special tons the . Military command now believes the City of Hue in the Northern part of South Vietnam is the next major enemy objective a senior . Military official said wednesday. The City in which . Marines and South vietnamese army troops fought for 25 Days to drive out the North Viet namese and Viet Cong last month is now regarded by . Headquarters As a target com parable to Khe Sanh in enemy intentions the . Source said. Hue has been chosen by the enemy As a key target in the next offensive because of its political and psychological importance to the vietnamese the senior military Man declared. And according to prisoner reports North vietnamese sol Diers have been told that Hue the former Imperial capital is the Gateway to South but the senior officials Are not yet writing off Khe Sanh As an enemy objective. Senior american commanders now believe that because of the . Response or preemptive counteraction to the North vietnamese army threat at the Marine base at Khe Sanh the enemy May be having second thoughts about going through with an attack there. The enemy has concentrated better than a division around the Hue area the senior . Military official said. And tie City of Quang Tri in the next province North May also be a key target in the next attack the . Official said. Two held following gunfight Calgary up two men were arrested just South of Calgary Early today after a High Speed Chase and a gun Battle with City police and ramp. One of the men later gave himself up without a struggle but it took three hours until the second one was flushed from his hideout in a gravel pit near Highway 2. Nobody was injured in the Battle. The clash with police came when a patrol car driven by const. Arne Spence indicated to the Driver of a three ton truck to pull Over to the Side of the Road. The truck was loaded with furniture. Const. Spence said he was met by a Blaze of gun fire. Two shots hit the Radiator of the patrol car and another one the front fender As the truck increased Speed. The patrol car started the Pursuit and radioed for help. Within minutes several City police and ramp squad cars converged on the area. The truck finally drove off the Highway crashed through a Fence and stopped in a Field after 200 Yards. Police said one of the men got off the truck and disappeared in the darkness. The second Man waited in the cab of the truck and quietly gave himself up. Douglas claims continued he thought the new tax More equitable because it reduced the five per cent surtax on individual personal incomes to three and put a similar tax on corporate profits. The old Bill let corporations off or. Douglas also said that the new Jill improved on the old by removing the ceiling on the personal income tax surcharge thus hitting higher income brackets. Also the payment floor was raised to achieve the same effect. Over All or. Douglas Felt that or. Sharp had not been Tough enough in his tax and other Fis Cal measures to strengthen the Canadian economic position. Exchange controls should have been advanced to prevent the flight of capital from Canada. Howard Johnston social credit my for Okanagan Revelstoke said the new tax is fair Ier than the old partly because it was applied to corporations it was More accept Able to him particularly because it was accompanied by govern ment promises to freeze the growth of the civil service Anc make fresh expenditure slashes. At the same time be doubted the new Bill was different enough from the old to qualify for re introduction into the com Mons in the current session the rules say that a Defeated Bill cannot be revised in the same form in the same session he would be amazed if it did qualify. Offers to wed cuban Vancouver up Manuela Ponce the 24-year-old cuban gymnast seeking political Asylum in Canada has received a proposal of marriage. Jacob Bartel of Vancouver said in a letter received by a newspaper that he is willing to marry the dark haired cuban if it will help her remain in Canada. Miss Ponce defected sunday by slipping away from the cuban National gymnastics team before it left for Home after competing in the North american championships Here. Miss Ponce s prospective suitor said he is about 40 years of age a construction worker who has never been married he was born in Russia but has lived in Canada for about 20 years. I am All alone except for some cousins he wrote. I am not dedicated to getting married but i would not want her to have to go miss Ponce was riot available for comment. She is staying with friends at a secret location in Vancouver. Miss Ponce a member of Cuba s gymnastics team for six years came out of hiding Only briefly monday to formally apply for political Asylum in Canada. Immigration officials said it will be two or three weeks at least before a Deci Sion is reached on her applied Tion. She also has received off ers of accommodation and employ ment. British hands tied continued the government would go along with extreme reluctance however. The probably effect would be to discourage rhodesian moderates who have Jeen on the ascendent lately and to drive Rhodesia into to closer dependence upon South Africa. It would certainly do nothing to deter Premier an Smith from proclaiming Rhodesia a Republic. Similar risks would be involved in declaring the individuals responsible for the executions to be criminals in the eyes of British a a course which was suggested in a Stormy House of commons debate wednesday and which May have come before today s Cabinet the idea was that the rhodesian leaders and judges involved would be subject to extradition to Britain if they travelled outside rho Desia. By upholding the rebel government s right to execute the rhodesian judiciary has left itself open to dismissal by Britain but there is no Way to see that the judges in fact leave the Bench and anyway this does not solve the judicial problem. Appeals to the Queen Eor mercy Are. To be expected from others among the More than 100 condemned prisoners in Rhodesia the events of this week could be repeated Many times Over. Caution was the government s watch word. Wednesday. The prime minister and the Commonwealth Secretary spoke of Shock and grave personal responsibility but the Only immediate action taken was cancellation of the right of the rhodesian chief Justice sir Hugh Beadle to deputized for the governor sir Humphrey Gibbs. The oar was driven into the garage and its stalling the two Sisters and the boys died probably unaware of what was happening to them. The Lopes boy s father Joaquin Lopes reported his son s disappearance to police feb. 11. However the garage in which the Lopes family car was sept was never checked until feb. 23, when its owner knocked a Side door and found the bodies. There were no other missing persons reports made. Manuel friable owner of the lome at 684 Pacific had rented the garage to or. Lopes. He knew the Lopes boy was missing and on a Hunch he said checked the garage. Blood tests run on the youths during a postmortem at Winni Peg general Hospital feb. 27 indicated that up to 50, and even 65, per cent of their oxygen requirements had been supplanted by Carbon monoxide which goes into the blood 300 times faster than oxygen pathologist or. Hugh Ross told the jury. Noting the size of the garage and the amount of Carbon monoxide necessary to cause death told the jury it s conceivable the four bomber fails to blow up offices Zambia Cap an attempt was made to blow up the British High commission in Lusaka today. A nightwatchman discovered a bomb containing 200 pounds of explosives under the Culvert at a Gate .30 Yards from the two Storey building. It was believed the bomb would have been big enough to have damaged the nearby Hospi Tal and University buildings. Feelings have been running High Here Over the execution in breakaway Rhodesia of three africans. Que. My resigns Quebec up a spokes Man for the provincial depart ment of Justice said wednesday he has no comment on reports that Maurice Allard will be appointed sessions court judge in Montreal. It was announced earlier in the Day that or. Allard a 46 year old lawyer was resigning his seat in the commons where he served As an Independent member for the Riding of Sherbrooke. The Justice department spokesman said he was speak ing for Justice minister Jean Jacques Bertrand. Washington Reuters president. Johnson May soon have both his sons in Law fight ing in Vietnam. Patrick j. Nugent 24, who married Johnson s daughter Xci in 1966, has applied for a Transfer from the Texas air National guard to a Reserve unit which recently was called up for Active duty in the Wake of the Pueblo crisis. He is expected to join the 113th tactical fighter Wing of which he was formerly ber at Andrews air Force base a War destroyed Bridge serves As a backdrop for women who Wash the accumulated laundry of the past weeks in the perfume River at Hue As life to Normal in the City. At right background a vietnamese my directs refugees returning to the North Side of the River Over a narrow Pontoon Bridge j r nine minutes to die continued rescuers probing mine continued main elevator hoist and communications lines were detected on the first descent. Rescue work ers did not immediately consider it a highly dangerous sign. From what we hear things May not be too said Wil Liam l. Meadows of stages by head of one of two special six Man Rescue teams flown in for the search. The two men finally went Down shortly before Dawn after workmen overcame complications with the newly fabricated Man the elevator affair snagged in the Shaft some 300 feet Down during a test drop. Welders made modifications to the five by five foot platform which is gripped by a triangular framework of Iron pipe. Edward Holeman and Dolford Holmes on loan from Kentucky Coal mine companies began the slow 40-minute journey Down Ward. Evidence of the fire is More intense As we go was the report at the 520-foot level. At 690 feet there Are some burned Power at 793 feet the Timber is in Good this report brought grins to the faces of weary workmen on the surface who had been concerned about the condition of the Timber lined Shaft As a re suit of the fire. At 845 feet guides and Tim Bers Are then at feet there appears to be a motor running Down the surface warned dil Fprd you Don t have a Deflector for diesel fumes. You had better come on yet. The two kept going. Just past the Mark this report i am Able to see the Bottom of the mine. At feet i am 40 to 50 feet above the to douse the fire pumps dumped thousands of Gallons o water Down the circular Shaft. I still hear a motor run was heard from feet Down. The rescuers reported thai once on the Bottom they could feel some air movement obviously from a fan. And about the time they started up they saw tie red glow in the Dis Tant darkness. Were dead within nine minute s of closing the garage there was never any ques Tion that the deaths were or. Fryer the Coroner said even before the inquest began. But we have to make the Public aware of the tremendous danger potential Carbon monoxide the doctor cited past cases where people have died within minutes of starting a car in a closed garage he pointed to one Case where the car involved was parked outside with the Drivers window open. However the movement of air through the open window passed by the Driver s face. He inhaled the Carbon monoxide contained col lapsed and died. Or. Ross or. Fryer and other expert witnesses attested to the toxicity of Carbon monoxide. All warned that Large doses could kill in a Short time and even minuscule doses would kill if inhaled for Long enough periods. You should never work with a running motor unless there is sufficient or. Fryer warned. Eventually the smelling senses become Dull to the accompanying doors in gasoline combustion fumes and the next thing you know you Don t know anything the jury said in its verdict that we cannot stress too strongly that. Periodic warn ing of the dangers of Carbon monoxide Gas be Given through the Public Media. And or. Fryer outlined some of the dangers of the Gas i working in an unventilated garage with the motor running sitting in an idling car that might have Muffler problems coming in close Contact with any burning action that might be so incomplete As to give off Carbon monoxide. Or. Fryer said he has a record of 105 cases of accidental Carbon monoxide deaths in the past 20 years Here with Many More than that of suicide cases. He also warned that garages connected to living or recreation rooms carry a danger if motors Are running. The Gas he warned does not smell. It can seep in and if inhaled for Long enough can kill or disable. The doctor also cautioned that while alcohol is not going to Speed the entry of Carbon monoxide into the blood and thus to the cells the taking of drugs increases alarmingly the danger of Carbon monoxide poisoning if the two situations Are combined. If Only these children had known the danger they were or. Fryer told the jury would t Likely be Here Barbados court defers trial again Bridgetown Barbados Carlton Mcgloire 18, and Wingrove Braithwaite 21, were remanded again in Cus Tody wednesday when they appeared in court on charges of murdering Elizabeth Gale of Woodlands Man., and her three year old son ,0wen on Christmas Day. No Date for the accused to appear in court again was set. Mrs. Gale s husband Rev. Charles Gale found the bodies when he returned Home Christ Mas morning after conducting Midnight mass at nearby St. Matthew s Church. Both lbs s May soon go to Vietnam near Washington at the end of the month. Friends said Nugent an air Man first class wanted to re join the unit in View of its Call to Active duty. The president s other son in Law Marine capt. Charles s. Robb who married Lynda Bird Johnson in december is on a month s leave before going to Vietnam. Norway s Highway death toll last year was 478, an increase of 32 Over the 1966 figure. Claims race starts today Sioux Lookout out. Up Ontario s second uranium staking race in two is scheduled to Start today near this Community of h u n d r e do s of prospectors Many fresh from a giant Stak ing Rush at Elliot Lake Haye converged on the town 175 Miles Northwest of port Arthur the prospectors were plan Ning to stake the area around Sioux Lookout As Well As areas in the town. 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