Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Black Hawks Shell Worsley see Page 42 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. Price 10 cents 15 cents monday december 13, 1971 Sunrise Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . . Forecast Cloudy periods -10 and 5 assassination in Ulster gunmen kill senator primate Calls terrorists monsters Belfast up nor Thern Ireland was stunned today by the first political assassination of a current terror Campaign when gun men murdered a senator As his wife watched television. The mutilated body of 68 year old senator John Barnhill a protestant and member of the governing unionist party was pulled out of the rubble of his wrecked Home at Strabane Early today. Irish guerrillas shot and killed him before blowing up the building. Barnhill was killed by two armed men sunday night at the doorway to his two Storey farm House half a mile from the Irish Republic. The killers placed his body in the living room and placed a 40 Pound gel ignite bomb beside it. Mrs. Barnhill was Given two minutes to leave the House. She fled to a neighbor s cot Tage just As the explosion top pled her Home. Barnhill took office in 1962 and was chairman of the local Branch of the unionist party. He was not considered a controversial figure although his uncompromising stand against terrorism was Well known in political circles. He was the first member of the Northern ire land parliament to die in two please see gunmen Page 4 Irish senator was killed and his Home wrecked by Steuart wins sask. Liberals elect fighter of Nixon meeting French Leader Saskatoon up elfish robust cocksure and Ever ready for a Good political fight d. G. Steuart was elected sat urday Over two other candidates As Leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal party. At 55, his political career May be nearing an end what Vii the trend towards youthfulness but if the age of the fire up outer lives on then so does Dave Steuart. His style is a near replica of that of the politician he succeeds As Liberal Ross he insists the leadership will be run his when i came Back from the j n g r a do heroism War in he said in a re _ president cent interview i found the i c u l c r Kcf cooperative common Dixon and Georges Pompidou opened two Days of monetary and foreign policy talks today in this picturesque Little town on Terceira is land in the azores. Cooperative wealth forerunner to the nip Power and frankly i did t like what i saw. Please Sec sask. Page 6 Settle is wa1ixeii who thinks i m just j a Pale imitation of Ross j Thatcher or that i m going to j try to carry on the party in his i exact footsteps is he once told an interviewer of his Long association with or. Thatcher who was a close per Schnal Friend. Have been influenced by his drive his Energy his ability j to organize but our philosophies weren t exactly the same. I would be a different Lead or i Hope to have some of the strengths he had but we re totally different or. Thatcher who lifted the liberals out of a 20-year opposition role in Saskatchewan in i9fi4 and was Premier for seven years died of a heart attack a month to the Day after the new democratic party swept into Power in the province june 23 by capturing 45 of the 60 legis Larue seats. Or. Steuart entered politics a Hon he returned from the Sec Ond world War after serving in the air Force. Today youths Cert lock up classified Rio de Janeiro special brazilian Indian sex j pert Apoc a Cir eyes wounded i last week by an Indian War j party that killed his Best Friend a month ago has warned prospective settlers they will be j massacred if they keep invading Indian lands. Delayed reports reaching re de Janeiro said or. Jle Reies was alone when the indians at tacked in the Forest along the Roosevelt River near where the states of Malo Grosso and Amazonas adjoin the territory of Rondoni. By a Bullet in the left he managed to get Back to the safety of an outpost manned by nine other Indian sen ice officials and six Mili tary police soldiers. Or. Meiries was searching for the bodies of three people killed in a raid last by about 20 warriors from the tas Vargas tribe. He believes it the Var party the two presidents were cheered by the portuguese to townsfolk As they drove through French president Angras narrow cobbled streets Naonori two i g White walled Palace site of the talks. They met under Palm Trees in the Palace gardens Shook hands warmly and immediately went inside for a 2vb-hour Pri vate meeting the first of three set for today and tuesday. Their objective was to pave the Way for a of the monetary crisis which has plagued the major Western trading partners for Many months particularly since Xix on s emergency measures in August to close the . Balance of payments Gap. The importance of the Mone tary discussions Here were in settlers had advanced to Only j declined by a parallel Meetin invaders six Miles from a Village of the Surunis indians. These Are blood Brothers of the Cintas Vargas and in that Region there Are More than Cintas Vargas. These indians could Massa Cre the settlers at any to he said. Their Modem arms would not help them much if they provoked the Indi ans into an All out he added. Tension has been growing for months is miners and Frontier please see in Dias Page 12 Between . Treasury Secre tary John Connally and French finance minister Valery gis card d Estwing. The azores Summit is the first of a series of meetings Dixon has planned with Europe an leaders. Pompidou flew into the azores aboard the concorde supersonic Airliner to demonstrate his Faith in the plane to the americans who he Hopes will Bay it. Of is urn my tangled wreckage May hide More workers9 bodies port Huron Michigan a an explosion which ripped through a Tunnel being built be Neath Lake Huron has claimed the lives of at least 22 construction workers. We think we have All of them Stid Gerald Remus a project official. But if you saw that tangled up mess of debris you d understand How somebody could still be Down investigators still were Uncer Tain today what caused Satur Day s blast which rumbled through the six mile Long Tunnel some 230 feet below the Lake surface. Eight workers were injured. The Tunnel about six weeks from completion is being built to carry the Lake s water to de troit and other customers of the City s metropolitan water sys tem. The workers were finishing laying Concrete in the 16-foot-in diameter Tunnel which leads out under the Lake to an intake Shaft extending upward to with in 50 feet of the Lake surface. Remus manager of Detroit metropolitan water services described As conjecture reports sunday that the explosion was touched off by natural Gas. We want to get the experts in there and see what might have Remus said. The evacuation of bodies and search for survivors was interrupted saturday tight and Early sunday morning by a buildup of methane Gas in the Tunnel. Robert Bower a geologist who examined the construction site a year ago said shale through which the Tunnel was Cut contained Small isolated pockets of natural Gas. Remus said the Tunnel had been equipped with sensory de vices and would have sounded an alarm in the event of a Gas buildup or water seepage. It was Black Down there said Gary Baranowski of port Huron one of the first rescuers to enter the Tunnel. All the were out and in the Light from my lantern i could Sec bodies All twisted and bleed investigators from four Feder Al and state agencies began an investigation sunday. Construction on the please Sec Tunnel Page 9 major Battle shaping Over Dacca Pakistan reported determined not to surrender from a Reuter Indian troops were reported within 15 Miles of the East Pakistan capital of Dacca sunday night and advancing from three directions. Signs mounted ally Torance denied pm replies to critics by Paul Whitelaw Montreal staff prime minister tru Deau replied to charges of government arrogance sunday night As he appealed for another Strong majority in parliament. That the estimated to defend ers of Dacca would not surren Der without a Battle. Senior pakistani officers in Dacca predicted the assault on the City would begin by tues Day. But Pakistan s military chief in the East . A. A. K. Niazi was said to be deter mined not to surrender. A battalion of Indian Para troops was dropped somewhere North of Dacca saturday night. An Indian military spokesman in new Delhi said they advanced on the City sunday night please see Dacca Page 6 arrest saved ills life Woodstock ont. Up John Edward Johnson 43, of port Huron mich., thanked a provincial police Constable sunday for arrest ing him Friday night on Highway 401 near Here on an impaired driving charge. Or. Johnson a worker on the underwater Tunnel project at port Huron was detained Here Friday and As a result missed working the saturday afternoon shift when at least 22 of his Fel Low workers were killed by an explosion. When he was leaving Here sunday police said he stopped by the detachment office to thank Constable Al Bert Marshall for arresting him. The prime minister told Liberal supporters who paid a ticket to attend a fund raising dinner that having a majority is the Only Way in which any government can function effectively. Referring to the number of French Canadian Cabinet ministers he noted they say we Are the Quebec mafia they say we have too much now we Are accused of being arrogant because we Are too Strong. But when we won t ram a decision through they accuse us of not giving Leader on the one hand they say we Are consulting too much on the other hand not please Sec pm Page 6 Bowman gives reasons a Kwh political 51000 by David s. Broder and Hayes Johnson first of a series a year ago. Lenny Pink was please see i xxx Page 6 attacked among those killed in last s raid or. Closest r. A 1 i s t is sos 27. Had this rear in. The is. Is .47 i 32 25 1 41 every Little bit col its cheer fund tops the Mark by readers to Are free Preis As every part of the City 39 years old. Black fear Wiful of Beins sent to despairing of his immediate future he had. He _ said about Given up All now Pink was in front of modest Home waxing Bis car in Ine Bright Early Sun j Shine. He had just come off the graveyard shift in a los an Els plastic molding Plani. As he worked he tried to explain ,0, How his attitudes have changed. I was unemployed for about a year barely held my car and i got this he said now the War is working out pretty Good. I d say. And unemployment is cropping. I in kind of i t was drafted right now i Cor. T think i d have to Over Pik vote for the first rest year. Ai soc sri he a Craitic and his r.-. heroes have Kennedy he says he would vote for Richard Dixon today. Three thousand Miles away near the Maine Border in the University town of Durham. New Hampshire a doctor and a formal announcement will Likely be made within a month. His wife talking about their the track would begin opera views of the country in 1968 Tion for the 1972-73 Winter sea Hubert Sun. Winter racing Mon in Canada. Raceway Ai the inability of the commis Sion of inquiry into the Chur chill Forest industries Complex and its chief counsel to decide on the proper role of counsel and the proper manner of examination o f witnesses was Given monday As the reason for the resignation of David e. Bowman from the commission. Or. Bowman chief counsel for the commission said regard for his reputation and professional standards does not per Mit him to continue in a Situa Tion in which he said he could not do the Quality of work he expects of himself or the Job he was hired to do. The text of his statement reads i have resigned As chief counsel to the commission of in Quiry into the Pas forestry and Industrial Complex. Members of the commission and i have been unable to agree on the proper role of counsel and the proper manner in which to con duct the examination of wit Nesses. Regard for my own rep citation and professional Stan Range financing for a harness j Dards does not permit me to racing track which would con continue in a situation in which duct racing two Days a week j j cannot do the Quality of work through ghost the Winter j which i expect of myself or feel months. I that i can perform the Job for the free press has Learned j was engaged to the that plans have been drawn for j Best of my ability and to the a track which would be com j of the commission pm Etc with a heated grandstand r and dining room. The location of the track would probably be in the St. Boniface area. If financing can be arranged a Winter racing mooted by Elma Guttormson Winter racing in Winnipeg that s a distinct possibility if a group of local men can a Sec Bow Max Page 9 voted for Humphrey. Both have been inti Irbid by the War n his the added said or. Dixon last due to Snow snarl please Sec changes Page 12 Fie. In t Buncom Blue Bonnet scr raceway both conduct very successful Winter meetings. Last Winter when Montreal experienced record snowfalls. Blue bonnets bad to cancel Only one card City tray hashish haul to 7t below hockey night Peak show red Deer. Aita. Ramp said today ;