Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba R Winnipeg free press saturday uly 20, 1968 common Market countries expanding import facilities by James Nelson Amsterdam there Are people living in the Square Miles of the european com Mon Market consisting of Belgium France West Ger Many Italy Luxembourg and the Netherlands. This is equivalent to crowd ing about nine times the p r e s e n t population of the performing at Edmonton s Klondike Days celebrations comedian Jack Benny tried to disprove his reputation for tight purse strings this week. Here he buys three boxes of candied Popcorn later throw ing them to the audience with this shout that s just to show you that i m not really mystery surrounds dead spy chief by Charles Foley Rome special owns would a famous european spymaster scorning the cyanide phial end his life by shooting if he did choose the harder Way Why should he put aside his regulation 0.9 Beretta in favor of a feminine contraption with a Mother of Pearl butt and a Gilt barrel which might have left him blinded or paralysed for life and then Why should he lie Down on floor before putting the pistol to his head questions like these Are raining on the authorities dealing with the Case of col. Benzo Rocca who for 20 years directed ., the most delicate Section of italian counter espionage. In both houses of parliament and in the left Wing press the official theory of suicide has been strongly challenged. Col. Rocca was a powerful Man in Italy. The belief that he Clung to most of his Power after his retirement a year ago at the age of 57, is fortified by the fact that within an hour of his. Death four , agents swooped on his sixth floor office in the via Barberini a Street of tall buildings i the tourist heart of Rome. Their Leader with colonel s rank glanced at col. Roccas body on a carpet in the Hall questioned those who had found it conducted a search and according to reports went off with a Quantity of documents before the police could move. Some of the sequestered material is believed to Deal with arms contracts for Middle East and african countries running into tens of millions of pounds which might prove embarrassing to a government which shows a Neutral face. Other papers Are said to concern secret list equipment for the italian forces including a nuclear submarine. What particularly intrigues italians however is the report that lists of payments made by , to helpful politicians were among the papers taken off. The list had earlier vanished from official these with 130 dossiers on journalists Are seen As the real secret weapons which col. Rocha took with him into retirement and May Well account for the silence of a certain Section of the press. Col. Rocca s , handled Industrial and econ Omic matters. Huge deals were subject to his Security notice to hospitals and doctors submission of medical reports to the workmen s compensation Board during the postal strike the workmen s compensation Board has arranged to pick up medical reports from Concordia Hospital Grace general Hospital St. Boniface general Hospital Misericordia general Hospital Victoria general Hospital Winnipeg general Hospital doctors Are requested to deliver their reports to the site designated in these hospitals. Reports May also be delivered direct to the work men s compensation Board offices at 333 Maryland Street Winnipeg 10 veto and big business inter ests competed for his favors. He also had a cover life As or. Pino vouched to by an official passport visiting cards and his name on the door of an office in the Palazzo Doria on the Corsa. Here among the offices of lawyers and business men he conducted another Side of his activities gleaning news of the technological Progress of Italy s potential enemies on the basis of a training course in England. His modest official salary took him far from a cold water walk up apartment to a Villa in the via no Mentana near Mussolini s former Home. And when after 20 years col. Rocca gave up his Job his two favorite assistants went with him one a pretty Young Secretary the other a chauffeur both released from government service on the same Day. On june 27, col. Rocca s lunchtime break was interrupted. He telephoned his wife Renata that he could not join her and their two student sons but must stay at the via Barberini for an important meeting. Soon after it appears he Tele phoned his successor at ., col. Falde urgently requesting an appointment in a bar near the Central station at . It was the chauffeur calling to pick col. Rocca up after the Long siesta which overheated Rome enjoys who found the body1. Both he and the girl Secre tary when she arrived shortly after said col. Rocca was in Good humor and looking Forward to a trip to Cairo. Inquiries show a Gap in col. Rocca s personal secur Ity. The three windows of his suite adjoin an empty office. All Are linked by a Yard wide Cornice and it would have been simple for an Assassin to pass along this from one Side to the then slip Down a second staircase to the Busy streets. His Only risk a Small one was of being spotted while moving along the Cornice. A disturbing clue is that the shutter on the Secretary s window was found open the girl Laur Etta Allegrucci is certain that she closed it. The finding of the second unsuspected exit has led to the discovery of two sets of rubber Soled footprints on the Cornice Between the two streets. The Little 6.5 gun with which col. Rocca was killed has been identified As a Christmas gift from an Arm s firm the colonel was fond of showing his friends and it May have been on his desk when he received a last fatal Call. Whole of Canada into an area less than that of Manitoba and to feed House clothe and keep the population of the common Market countries Busy they imported More a population nine times the size of Canada s is crowded into the six Small countries of the european common Market. James Nelson of the Ottawa staff of the Ca Nadian press found in a month Long tour of the six countries that this growing Market is also expanding its import facilities. Than Worth of goods in 1966. This was one fifth greater than the total worldwide imports of the United states that year. Handling such a volume of a comparable volume of Long been the principal responsibility of the dutch whose Trad ers became prominent in the 14th Century and grew in the 17th with the worldwide activities of the dutch East India and the dutch West India companies. Fourth postal strike Ottawa up the postal strike the fourth since the Post office was established As a Federal government department at confederation in 1867. The previous three strikes in the department have All occurred since 1918. The last was in 1965. On july 22, 1918, letter carriers walked off their jobs demanding higher wages and increased fringe benefits. Tor onto Hamilton Winnipeg Van Couver new. Westminster and Victoria . Were the cities hardest hit. In a few Western cities the letter carriers were joined by Post off ice workers. Strikers in most Western cities returned to work july 25 with government Assurance that a Cabinet subcommittee would study their demands. Employees in Eastern Canada were less easily persuaded. They held out until july 31 when the government assured them the new civil service commis Sion would investigate wages and working conditions. A second strike by postal employees began june 18, 1924. All workers had returned to their jobs by june 30. The cities hardest hit were Montreal Toronto and Windsor ont. In Many other areas new employees were hired to keep the mail moving. Striking workers were assured by the government that they would have a Chance to file grievances against salary Revi Sions soon to be recommended by the civil service commission. Actress misses own show London Reuters Julie Andrews missed the world pre Miere of her picture Star thursday night. It was the most lavish London opening night since before the second world War with seats costing up to spokesmen Here said miss an Drews was held to a filming schedule in Brussels by Para mount pictures. Star is the Story of Gertrude Lawrence who Rose from a London slum to be a Star actress and International society figure Between the two world wars. It is directed by Robert Wise who also directed1 miss an Drews s smash hit the sound of music. Despite the Ballyhoo London critics gave the 20th Century Fox movie a mixed reception. Hoover denounces new left Washington Reuters Fri director j. Edgar Hoover charged thursday that much of the recent student unrest and violence in the United states was precipitated by a subversive Force which was growing in numbers and Militancy. The subversive Force was the ;