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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition monday March 18, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast Cloudy 25 and 30 collapse of Deal revealed Johnson spurns Kennedy offer to keep out of race Washington special tons sen. Robert f. Kennedy offered not to enter the presidential race if president Johnson would name a commission which would plan a turnabout in United states policy on Viet Nam. But the president rejected the idea. This startling and politically explosive Story burst on Washington sunday creating new bitterness Between the senator and the president he is now challenging. Sen. Kennedy angrily charged the administration with leaking a distorted version of what took place and said that this incident revealed in the Sharp est possible terms Why the american people no longer believe the president and the White House Why the credibility of our leadership has been so critically eroded and Why it is Clear that the Only Way we Are going to change our policy in Vietnam is to change administration in no administration official would comment on the record but privately some charged the senator with offering a stacked deck and engaging in political the affair began the Day before the new Hampshire primary in which the president barely nosed out sen. Eugene Mccarthy in a Battle fought largely around the Vietnam War Issue. It continued after sen. Kennedy announced he was reassessing his position and ended last thursday with the presidential a Central Point to the dispute was just How the plan originated in Short whether the president in anticipation of new Hampshire was attempting to find a Way to keep sen. Kennedy from entering the race or whether sen. Kennedy was trying to use pressure of anti War votes to Force a change in presidential policy on the War. Sen. Kennedy said in a Public statement sunday night that the germ of the idea came from a Midwest democratic political Leader who supports the presi Dent but also is a Friend of the senator. He said it was present please see collapse Page 12 West to Sway vote Ottawa is a theory going around Here that delegates from the four Western provinces May Well control Choice of the new Liberal Leader and prime minister. The theory is based on two premises that the westerners or most of them can agree on one candidate and that the rest of the country remains fragmented on its Choice. On the surface it would appear impossible for most West Ern delegates to agree on a sin Gle candidate. In fact an at tempt at this in the Initia stages of the leadership Campaign fell apart. However that was before selection of delegates for the apri 4-6 leadership convention her began. For a decade now the Liber als have done poorly in the West especially on the Prairies they now hold Only nine o the 70 commons seats in the four Western provinces and on of those is because of the defection of h. A. Olson Medicin hat from social credit. Western liberals for a Ion time have Felt they have had lit tie or no influence on govern ment policy in Ottawa. For a change they would Lik to be on the winning this Case swing the key vote please see West Page 4 Battle police Cooling Down Market Gold Pool dissolved two Levels pricing system established at Washington meeting of Bankers Washington up the seven countries making1 up the International Gold Pool acted sunday to halt frenzied speculative buying of the Metal by deny ing individual Access to the country s Gold stocks. This in effect abolished the Canada . Okay Dollar Swap plan a demonstrator hits the ground and police go after others sunday Dur ing a mass anti Vietnam War demonstration out Side the United states embassy in London s Grosvenor Square. Czechs reviving private Enterprise Prague special tons czechoslovak progressives Hope to revive private enter prise and seek a massive world Bank loan to insure the Success of their economic Reform it was Learned monday. The draft action program now being prepared for Central committee approval within a fortnight already contains a proposal for new legislation to permit Small scale private Busi Ness along the lines which have proved successful in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Laws originally permitted a private entrepreneur to employ a maximum of three persons in addition to members of his own family but the maximum is being raised Shar ply As a result of the successes achieved since 1966 in the services and tourist trades. Eugene Loebl one of Czecho Slovakia s most incisive re formers declared on television last week that the Economy needed some to private enterprises to stimulate Commerce and consumer goods turnover while absorbing the Man Power squeeze out from unprofitable overstaffed state industries. Or. Loebl currently director of the state Bank of Bratislava was minister of foreign Trade after the second world War before being jailed in a stalinist trial. If the Central committee endorses private Enterprise on the scale urged by or. Loebl As much As one fifth of the Czecho slovak work Force might eventually be employed in the private sector. Heavy Industry Banks utilities and other key sectors would continue to be publicly controlled. It is not yet known whether agriculture figures in the program for limited private Enterprise. A key of the economic action program is to achieve full convertibility of the czech Crown. In discussions at the Central committee it has been calculated that this would take five to seven years without International Aid. However the reformers believe that full convertibility could be achieved within three years that is by 1971 _ with some million in support from the world Bank. Please see czechs Page 12 girl s identity known two held in Brandon Skeleton Case Brandon Man. Up ramp re ported monday they have established the identity of a Little girl whose Skeleton was found in november in Hill country 10 Miles South of Brandon. They identified her As Angela Elizabeth Joan Hawkins whose age at death was just two weeks Short of her third birth Day. A police spokesman said two people now Are in custody in connection with the ramp investigation and will be arraigned on unspecified charges later in the week no later than no Hometown was Given for the Little girl and the terse ramp statement said nothing about the cause of death. The girl s age was listed As two years 11v4 anti War mob riots in . Protesters shout for peace and hoho to Chi Mink London special tons led by actress Vanessa Redgrave and fluttering red and Blue Viet Cong banners More than anti american demonstrators rioted outside the . Embassy Here sunday. It was one of the most violent scenes in recent London history. Dozens of marchers and pol ice were injured in the fierce two hour Melee in Grosvenor Square Park in front of the embassy As foot and mounted constables kept the protestors from attacking the building. Three Hundred arrests were made. Marble sized pellets smoke bombs firecrackers red paint sods of grass and lost police helmets were thrown at the officers As the demonstrators screamed for peace and hoho to Chi the embassy counted 20 win Dows with Pellet holes but no injuries. No demonstrator got into the building but a letter from miss Redgrave to Ambas Sador David k. E. Bruce was apparently by Way of the intervening Law an embassy spokesman said. Miss Redgrave wrote that the Only path to peace is for the United states to withdraw immediately from please see anti War Page 8 Pool which has been making Gold available through the Lon Don Market to All Comers at a Price of an ounce. Another source for private purchasers would be Gold held by other individuals but such transactions would pose no threat to government stocks. It was d e d e d that the present Price will be maintained in transactions Between the National Central Banks and International monetary authorities. The is to limit individual purchasers to newly mined Gold which they can buy in the Lon Don Market at prices to be determined by Supply and demand they will not have Access to the stocks of the Gold Pool nations. Simultaneously with disclosure Here of Bankers decisions it was announced in London thai the Gold Market the far the worlds re main closed until april 1. It was closed Friday at the request of the United states after unprecedented heavy buy ing by individuals threatened to exhaust the . I Gold now below and less than half of their one time Peak. Dec please see Bankers Page 8 the cops youths scream by Tim Traynor London staff Trot tin chanting jeering at passersby thousands of anti Vietnam War demonstrators cascaded Down Oxford Street sunday beneath a swathe of red and yellow banners. Blue coated police men were swept through the lines of cars and buses immobile on the Central London thoroughfare. Occasionally a police helmet would sail High into the air. Just past Regent Street four policemen hurtled across the sidewalk in front of us. The crowd surged in behind tearing my wife from me. Struggling to keep my feet i saw a writhing quartet one a hatless police Constable collapse in the Doorbell of a shoe store. The Bobbie Tore at two youths who were cursing and beating a third apparently an angry Motorist. Wooden Banner standards became clubs All around me As More police appeared. The window beside me shattered. A youth at my ear screamed "k51 the my wife s Blue Beret appeared a few Yards away and As i made for it the Melee was already begin please see kill cops Page 4 Barley to save korean children murder attempt charged Harry Joseph a Malhmood jr., 23, of 1323 Logan Avenue was charged with attempted murder monday in Winnipeg Magis trate s court in connection with a March 12 shooting in a North Winnipeg House. Daniel George Craib 35, of 453 Mountain Avenue was charged with being an accessory after the fact in connection with the same incident. Magistrate Isaac Rice remanded both men one Day so that they could consult with their lawyer Manly Israel. Thomas William Tex Burns 31, of 266 ferry Road St. James had been shot in the Chest at . March 12. He was treated at Hospital but not i detained. Police said a Man rushed into 287 Andrews Avenue during a party called out or. Burns s name shot then ran out. Or. A Malhmood and or. Craib were arrested at 1 . Monday at 453 Mountain police said. For months investigators had been baffled by the Case because despite widespread appeals there had been no missing persons reports which fitted the child s description. The police spokesman said the identity was established after what he described As quite a widespread investigation but that nothing further could be released until All the wide spread strings Are pulled to please see Skeleton Page 4 More than one million people die of hunger every year. To prosperous Well fed canadians this figure is so staggering it s almost beyond comprehension. Translated into Canadian terms it would mean one out of every 20 persons in this country would die twice or Popula Tion of greater Winnipeg. Thoughtful and sensitive canadians will ask what they can do to help. What can we do it was this question that led the free press three years ago to or. Lotta Hitsch Manova and the unitarian service committee. And this was when the free press started its annual Barley for Korea Campaign. To help ease the lot of the less fortunate free press read ers Are asked to contribute to this fund. One Dollar will buy enough Barley to feed a child for More than 12 Days. The is to fill at least one Boxcar with Barley enough to feed More than children for one Day. Anyone wishing to contribute May. Donate Cash or Send cheques or Money orders to the free press Barley for Korea please see Barley Page 12 features today Diane Burgei wins Rose bowl. 7 Nancy nearer world cup 18 Ottawa up Gold Trad ing in Canada was to remain suspended today while the Bank f Canada and the government assessed the implications of the world s new two Price system. Governor Louis Kasminsky of Tough budget expected by Tim Traynor London staff so far so was an often expressed sentiment Here following the Central Bankers agreement in Washington. The announcement of sub Stan Ial new credit lines a Welcome Baek drop for tuesday s it is believed there is now a better Chance that the budget will provide the backup for devaluation which Britain needs to avoid slipping once again into her downward postwar econ Omic spiral. The Steps taken in this direction Are seen in them selves As an important contribution to the restoration of Faith in the world monetary system. But her Steps Are regarded As entirely preliminary. Miscalculations in the budget expected to be the toughest since the War could cancel out the Progress made and increase the risk that Britain May fall victim to a slowdown in world Trade caused he the restraints promised by the United states to bring her payments into balance and reverse the loss of Confidence in the Dollar indicated by the recent surge into Gold. The direct measures taken to Stem the Gold Rush have had a mixed reaction. There is some anger about the closing of the London please see Tough Page 12 the Central Bank with the sup port of finance minister Sharp pledged. Canada s co operation with the Central Banks of the seven countries snaking up the London Geld Pool. The seven met in Washington saturday and sunday and announced they have sufficient Gold for their currency backing needs and will let the Price of Gold go free of control for com Mercial purposes. Gold will continue to be traded Between governments however at the Price which has backed the . Dollar. Or. Sharp said no change is being made in the value of the Canadian Dollar either internally or in International markets. It continues at.92.5 cents in . Funds the rate pegged under in please see Dollar Page 4 today s Index classified 25 to 35 comics 23, 24 deaths 9 finance 9 to 11 Jumble 27 movies. 22 sports is to 20 tax tips. 24 television 21 women .14, 15 Abc circulation City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press roaming Slayer carried k1fle seven die in Michigan town Ironwood Mich. A a seventh victim of a Rifleman s two hour shooting spree died sunday and two persons remained in serious condition. Six persons were killed in the rampage saturday through this Western upper Peninsula com j Unity. I charged in the slayings is Eric Pearson 56, a muscular outdoors Man described As a j skilful Hunter and a loner who worked As a janitor in a nearby ski Lodge. Pearson was scheduled to be arraigned today. Mrs. Helen Puisto 47, of Iron Wood died sunday night in hos Pital. Looking for a guitar this want and under musical instruments electric guitar and amplifier. Phone 233-3386. 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. The victims All were shot with a High powered Hunting Rifle. Sheriff Chester j. Prebish said Pearson had been drinking heavily and was incoherent when captured by patrons of a tavern where one Man was slain and a woman wounded. The tavern was the last Stop on the rampage. Authorities said the Slayer first visited a modern one Storey Home about a mile away where four per sons including a Mother and her daughter were killed in the living room. A 12-year-old girl trying to hide in her bedroom closet was wounded when a Bullet was fired through the door. A Trail of blood was left throughout the Home. The killer then went to another Home killing one Man and wounding his wife. The next Stop was the tavern. He just walked in the door and started shooting he did t say a said one customer. Mrs. Puisto s husband Alex Aud another Patron John Niemi of Ironwood lunged for the Man. Puisto went for the Rifle the customer said while Niemi threw some punches and clubbed the Man with a whisky bottle. Trains collide two die Pefferlaw ont. Up two men were killed three injured and one Man was missing in a fiery head on collision saturday Between two freight trains in this Community 40 Miles North of Toronto. The crash occurred directly in front of the Pefferlaw railway station on a single track stretch of Canadian National railways line. The diesel locomotives burst into flames after the Impact. Two of the injured were taken to Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie where they were in Seri Ous condition with head and Chest injuries and Burns. They were identified As h. Andress of Midhurst about five Miles North of Barrie and Al Matthews of Barrie husband of the admitting nurse at the hos Pital. The third unidentified. York county Hospital in new Market 25 Miles North of Toron to. The dead men and the miss ing Man were unidentified. Firefighters from surrounding areas were called in to fight the fire. Special firefighting equip ment was ordered from Aurora 20 Miles North of Toronto. Scheme to fail expert Calgary up a Finan Cial consultant and columnist predicted sunday the new two tier system for Gold pricing announced on the weekend at an International Bankers Confer ence in Washington will col lapse in two to eight weeks. C. V. Myers whose earlier predictions on world financial crises have proven accurate said a free Market and con trolled prices for Gold cannot Hope to work. Or. Myers said in an inter View the system will die be cause it is artificial. Every commodity has a Price and if we have two prices one of them must be set arbitrarily. Such a Price cannot Hope to stand up against the real or. Myers Early this year had predicted that Central Banks and government would have to take action on sagging financial arrangements within 100 Days. He was Well within his limit. Last May he had predicted that Silver would be freed from its artificial Price. Such a move injured Man was he was taken to please see scheme Page 4 Shorter cheaper cigarette Canada s first compact Cigar Ette went on Sale monday in Ontario. Spokesmen for Imperial tobacco company of Canada said in a press release that the cigarette about one Quarter Inch Shorter than regular length will sell for 20 to 30 cents per Carton less than regular and King size brands. The new compact cigarette players no. 6, will be available to Consumers across Canada shortly. Imperial president John m. Keith said savings on the com pact cigarette would partially compensate smokers for recent cigarette tax increases. There s a Little less tobacco in the 68-millimeter-Long Cigar Ette than in regular length or. Keith said the resulting saving will be passed along enabling retailers to sell the cigarette at two less per pack than regular length cigarettes and three cents less per pack of King size cigarettes ;