Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press final edition vol. 79 no .136 Price 10 cents 15 cents monday March 6, 1972 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast blowing Snow 10 and 5 More Snow in offing a storm warn i h g for Southern Manitoba including Winnipeg was issued this miming by the Public weather office and it. Was still in at midday to Day. A i a weather system centred in southwestern Saskatchewan brought Snow arid 20 winds. Into the area Alx iut 1 ., today and Are continue today and part of i the storm does to qualify As blizzard however said the f or e c t e Jve Atimer about two inches of Snow had fallen by ii and More is expected As the storm Centre moves East inches Over forecast a today and Tomb v Abate Clear by and will tomorrow. A temper Tures Stead ily at Thrle degree Mark today. And fall to about five degrees forecaster. Varying Between one halt to one mile. But the airlines said there were no problems As yet. Barcelona police hold please Cee City Page 19 this ii How the fee Mill of Mil prods ltd., 314 St. Boni face looks after the tons of water firemen have poured on the building froze to its Lidei. The building caught fire Early tuesday and again wednesday night and for a third part of the problem with the fire is that although the water pull it out it also Dampens the Grain and causes it to ferment. This raises the temperature in the building and increases the chances of fire. Escaped Quebec wife Slayer arrested in Spain Montreal up escaped wife Slayer Yves Geoffrey was arrested Over the weekend in Barce Lona Spain a spokesman for solicitor general Jean Pierre Goyer s office said today. The spokesman said Geoffroy was arrested with his wife and he s in a Spanish prison. The arrest was made through the co operation of Interpol the International p o 1 ice Agency a clip and Quebec provincial police the spokesman said in an interview. He added that ramp and App officers currently were in Spain. Charges had t been worked put Geoffroy was sentenced in october 1970, after being convicted of strangling his wife and setting her body afire to make the death look like an Accident. Since then he has de Nied his guilt. Geoffroy who for temporary leave to remarry so that his would have a Mother later wrote a letter in which he said he did not intend to spend the Best years of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was granted leave from prison dec. 24 to marry miss Parent 27. They vanished after the marriage which took place Christmas eve and Are believed to have taken Boac s evening flight from Montreal to London. But the tickets were reported to have been picked Jud at Boac s downtown Mon Lerse see Geoffroy Page 19 ers fatal Wai criminal Snow slide in . Vancouver up three Fraser Canyon. The line was o n e -1 a n e traffic for several hunted men died in a Snow slide North of Hope sunday As heavy rain hit Southern British Columbia bloc k i n g highways and rail lines. The men employees of giant Mascot mines eight of Hope about ,100 Miles North East of Vancouver were killed when their truck was hit by a Snow slide on a mine Access Road running off the Fraser Pinyon Highway. Names were not released. The Hope Princeton Highway which of Hope remained open sunday night but the Canyon Highway running North from Hope was closed in definitely to through traffic be cause of Snow slides. Farther East the Rogers pass was expected to be re opened today after weekend closures. Snow slides also affected rail travel blocking the Canadian National mainline sunday in the expected to be cleared today. Extensive flooding was re ported in the upper Fraser Val Ley and on Southern Vancouver Island. A mudslide North of Vic Toria Cut the Island Highway to hours sunday. The weather office reported 2.35 inches of rain in 18 hours at Victoria 2.45 inches at Abbotsford in 24 hours and 2.80 inches at Hope in 18 hours. Tantalum loan s7 million Gamble by Egon Frech free press legislative reporter the Manitoba government is making a serious mistake that mining Deal to proceed there is no Chance the Mani Toba development corporation will withdraw from its loan agreement with the Tanta Lum mining corporation of can Ada limited at Benrick Lake man., despite revelations about the mine s Legal involvements an official of the development corporation said monday. Nicholas Matossian director of operations for the govern ment lending Agency said i a Telephone monday Lee Raifta there is Way the Manitoba govera jest a rail get Sod paying nearly 57 Rafika w Joan carites interest of new the by Genera Host rescuers pulled 12 bodies from the debris of a 10-Storey apart ment House Early today after an explosion collapsed the Structure. Fighters. Police feared 20 or 30 More per j i sons were trapped in the wreck i age. I the 10-year-old building in a Hilly residential Section blew up i while most of its 50 residents were asleep. Many of the apart j ment dwellers were believed to be latin americans. The explosion was traced to the fourth floor and City Engi i Neer Esteban Rifa said he believed a Gas leak was responsible. I three Hundred police fire men and students from Barce Lona University struggled with the debris looking for the Vic connection from Bolivia in the belief that death of he is former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. Altmann denies he is bade. Mengele also kept in touch with former Gestapo officer Frederick Schwend the sources said. Schwend was one of the former nazis interrogated by the judge investigating the Rossi Case. The names of the others have not been revealed. The West German govern ment has offered a Reward for Mengele. Ait Mann came to Peru last year from Bolivia where he took out citizenship in 1957, but he returned to Bolivia recently just before France asked the peruvian government for his extradition. France is now seek ing his extradition from Bolivia. West German nazi Hunter beat Klarsfeld is in la Paz the bolivian capital with what she says is proof that Altmann is Barbie the Butcher of j he was condemned to vacant at any one time Between july and september last year. Please see pm Page 6 Trudeau takes soft line by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Airport voting seesaws death in his absence in France for the murder of resistance . Boy murder victim forced to reroute panthers get . Seattle a Twenty tents have included panthers persons some of them believed and Black militant Angela to be Black Panther members left far Hong Kong Huey p. Newton Panther i to two away 37xj windows a Yaras. One was saved Fleer a to a of flies left the looking for a High cha1k? this ram Ander Isoel s artrc3es for Safe 59 is i a direct re Royal Navy repair ship. A Sal Vage attempt win be made later. The vessel which plied be tween Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight Riding on a Cushion of air. Was Jost in to land saturday Wujen a big wave site i ;