Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 03, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june 3, 1978 South America a convenient hiding place Wagner arrest revives claim about nazi War criminals the Washington Post Sao Paulo Brazil the detention Here this week of a former Gestapo officer who is accused of supervising the Mur Der of More than a million peo ple in nazi concentration Camps during the second world War has revived the charge that fun Gutive nazi War criminals continue to use South America and Brazil in particular As a convenient hiding place. Gustav Franz Wagner 67, a former concentration Camp offi cer who has been living in Brazil under his own name since 1950, was placed under preventive custody tuesday after turning himself Over to brazilian authorities. Accusations against him first appeared in the brazilian press last week. Wagner s detention followed a dramatic confrontation at the Sao Paulo Headquarters of Bra Zil s feared political police in which Wagner was identified by Stanisiaw so Manzer a jewish concentration Camp survivor so Manzer said his life once was spared by Wagner who he de scribed As having been second in command at the notorious Sobi Bor concentration Camp in to and in 1942-43. So Manzer also said most of my family to death at the Camp. So Manzer has made a Posi Tive identification and after meeting with Wagner this morn ing the German Consul told me that this is definitely the Man we be been looking police chief Silvio Machado said. Austria where Wagner was born has already requested extradition and the West German embassy said it will also. According to police sources Here an extradition request from Poland on whose territory Wagner served is also expected. Discovery of Wagner comes Little More than a decade after Franz Paul Stangl Wagner s commander at sob ibor and also head of the Treblinka Camp was found working at a German owned factory in Sao Paulo. Stangl was extradited to West Germany and convicted. He died in a German prison. Wagner has been accused by the Vienna based nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal of having supervised the Day to Day extermination of More than a million people and of having personally killed uncounted thousands of prisoners. According to Wiesenthal Waper was known to Camp inmates As the human beast and is just As important As Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina in 1961 and tried and executed in Israel. Mengele known As the Ange of death for alleged medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz is reported to be still residing in Paraguay. A recent amnesty International report named him As the technical adviser to a government program that it de scribed As designed to Exter Minate paraguayan indians. Wiesenthal has charged that there Are hundreds of nazis Loose in Brazil and that such German companies operating Here As Volkswagen Siemens and Krupp have entire nests of these brazilian fears of a Resur gence of nazi activity on their soil first surfaced in april in Itati aia a quiet Mountain resort town North of Rio de Janeiro after an Anonymous informant noted red flags and a Large num Ber of foreigners at a hotel owned by a German immigrant and told police that a group of communists were holding a secret meeting. When police and press arrived on the scene they found that five Neo nazi groups from Brazil West Germany Argen Tina and Britain were meeting to celebrate Adolf Hitler s 89th birthday. After a brazilian newspaper reporter took photos to Wiesenthal in Vienna an unofficial search began. The Man who sur rendered to authorities tuesday saying that he feared for his safety admits that he served in the two notorious nazi secret police arms is and the Gestapo. Wagner denies having a major role at the Camp in Poland admitting Only to being a sergeant assigned to a Crew building baracks. In a press conference at police Headquarters Wagner said that he arrived in Brazil with Safe conduct papers after a Long voyage by ship from Syria in the company of Stangl. According to Wagner his passage from Europe to Syria and from Syria to Brazil was paid by other Ger Man refugees in Syria. Fish boats ordered out continued a photo vietnamese troops watch As chinese residents of Vietnam leave. The photo taken in China s Kwangsik province was distributed by chinese news Agency Hsinhua chinese claim expulsion ments designed to allow fish Ermen from one country to continue fishing in the other s Waters while negotiations to resolve the entire maritime question continue. They Hope for a Long term settlement covering under sea resources and drawing Boundary lines As Well As fishing and containing an a peal procedure to Settle any differences which May on Friday however each Side accused the other of not living up to the reciprocal 1978 agreement which has been agreed to and implemented on a provisional basis. Jamieson told the com Mons that As a result the agreement would be suspended. And without an agreement . Vessels have no right to fish in Cana Dian Waters., Carmen Blondin of the . National oceanic and atmospheric administration s International fisheries affairs offices said Friday it might not be possible to get the approximately 20 . Ves Sels in Canadian East coast Waters and 30 to 40 in West coast Waters out of Canadian territory by the sunday deadline. Terming the deadline rather Short he said communications prob lems May make it difficult to inform All the ships of the order. The United states also is trying to decide How it would respond if any Canadian ves Sels Are found in . Waters after the deadline. A state department official said each Case Likely would have to be decided on its own merits but suggested of Canadian-. Border .200 mile fishing limit v Island Pacific disputed boundaries map shows the four disputed maritime boundaries Between Canada and the United states. Tons for dealing with any flagrant violations should they arise might include citations or vessel seizures. Problems with the 1978 agreement have been grow ing on both coasts for the last few months. A dispute on the West coast began when the United states saying the interim agreement gave it the right to do so asked Canada to close the Swift sure Bank to trailers april is for Conser vation measures. Canada replied it did not believe the closure was Nec Essary and asked for details. The Bank was closed May 15. But the United states decided that since Canada did not fulfil its part of the agreement on Swift sure the United states was not obligated to give Canadian fish Ermen Access to an in creased Salmon trolling area in . Waters also called for in the agreement. On the Atlantic coast Canada has been concerned about unrestricted . Scal lop and Pollock fisheries in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank area As Well As what Canada views As too High . Catch Levels for cod and Haddock. Canada asked the United states to put some restraints on these fisheries. The United states said however it had no Legal obligation to do so. While the dispute continues and reciprocal fishing ceased officials say they do not know for How Long fishermen from each coun try will suffer losses Worth millions of dollars. Lloyd Cutler the . Negotiator on maritime Boun Daries said Friday he believes the closures Are a risky move. The risk might pay off if a Long term settlement is hastened by the closure he said but might backfire if it results in an escalation of bad feeling and. Suspicion Between the Fisher men. Officials in both countries said the problems with the interim agreement clearly indicate that such Stop Gap measures Are not enough. And they Hope that relations Between the two coun tries will not be strained enough to damage the prospects for a Long Terra Mari. Time settlement. Hong Kong Asp China says that the number of chinese residents in Viet Nam driven Back to China by vietnamese authorities has exceeded peking s official news Agency Hsinhua in a Broad cast monitored in Hong Kong Friday says the figure came from the overseas chinese affairs office under the state Council Hsinhua claims that Viet namese authorities Are continuing their persecution and expulsion of chinese Resi dents of that indochinese country and that the Situa Tion is developing. Toronto Star strike averted Toronto chem Plo yees of the Star voted Friday to accept an 18-month contract with the newspaper averting a strike at Canada s largest daily newspaper a newspaper official said. A Union spokesman said the contract provides an in crease of six per cent in the first year and three per cent in the next six months. It also provides four weeks of vacation for employees with five years of service. Woman claims threat on life a Man and a boy were arrested Friday morning after a woman said she was threatened with death. Ramp said the woman. Edith chief of Scanterbury Man., phoned the Selkirk Rural detachment about . Saying two people Cam ing shotguns were threatening to kill her. of those arrested or the nature of the charges were not available Friday night. Compared with the previous arrangement of four weeks for those with eight years. The settlement also pro Vides an improvement in pension benefits the spokes Man said. It is the same contract proposal rejected earlier this week by Guild members in the newspaper s editorial advertising circulation and business office departments. The employees had voted to go on strike at Midnight Friday night unless there was a better offer from the Star. T drug search in school angers students continued Tim ate the number of students in that category. Instead he said it was a growing problem although not As Large As the drag problem in some Winnipeg schools. He said students were warned the school was going to Bear Down on drug users and that members of the administration some students and their parents had discussed drug abuse in the school. Toews emphasized the parents were behind the Ico per cent in whatever it did to combat a drug problem. But Toews also admitted that bringing in 11 ramp and one dog would make some students even More bitter and disrespectful of the school s administration and the Law. I can see variations in handling similar situations he said. Ramp spokesman 0. J. Larsen said the ramp was t trying to intimidate students with Force. But he agreed it looked As though the ramp was using intimidation tac tics that could be interpreted As unwarranted harassment. The raid was planned because there was reason to believe a Large Quantity of drugs was being dropped off at the school for the Long weekend Larsen said. He said that had police confiscated some drugs it would t have been seen As a display of ramp Force. The fact the police came away empty handed makes us look he said. Larsen said the ramp came away empty handed because the students were tipped off. No ques Tion about it. Everybody was laughing at the when asked Why the ramp decided to raid the school rather than investigate students suspected of having drugs individually Larsen said they just chose to do it that Toews said he hoped the Public would understand that he is not advocating Strong tactics by inviting the police to raid the school. He also said he did t think another raid was necessary this year. Our concern was the situation was growing. The object of the raid was to discourage drug and alcohol knew there would be some negative publicity and we re trying to keep it to a the school staff and its one guid Ance counsellor try to Deal with problems internally but sometimes outside help is needed. Toews said. He added police were invited to drop by the school with consider Able the administration and police agreed there would be a routine Check of cars leaving the school Yard and about a dozen suspects would be searched Toews said. For some of the students the raid was just another in a Long series of what they Call tactics used to keep them in line. They say the ramp patrol the school Yard at least once a Day. You can be sitting in your car with some Guys listening to the radio and they come by and one student said. Another student complained that he was called into the principal s office and questioned for information that would get other students in trouble. They try to get you to run Down your he said. Another student said the ramp Check All cars after Midnight. There is just too Many cops for that Small a Ueen 9s birthday honors Laker becomes sir Freddie London reciter the Queen Friday knighted Fred die Laker. The British airline chief who pioneered Cut Price. No frills flights across fhe North Atlantic. Sir Freddie As he now be comes. Is a bouncy former Pilot who Rose to head his own airline. Laker airways. Ben successfully fought the pistil airline Corpora Tion to Intro Dace his cheap services to and new York Atli other 56. Been Iris which up in person and by a ticket within hour of take off tap a whole new Market. He was the most character to receive an award in the Queen s traditional birthday honors but other personalities nyc Hoied actress Gienda Jackson who was among those made a commander of the of she e Pine a to another Titi is Cestive. Ashr Lah i Neci Brili a rail a introduced a up Ltd and to Wimunc a services. Mary britons Houf Vrr Sill p Ain Are a to Quiec. The q Ueen created six new to sit in she House of lords without hereditary titles. They include Margaret Susan Ryder fio set up the sue Ryder foundation for the sick and disabled. She is the v. Ife of group capt Leonard Cheshire one of Britain s War heroes Holder of the Victoria Cross and on Rarrer of the Cheshire foundation which runs More than for the disabled in 35 countries. She become a Baroness. Along with Dame Evelyn Joyce Denington. Former chairman of the greater London up James Alexander Maclean. 51, of Gec Cathada lid. Toronto was made an a the order of tace London Council the capital s civic authority. The our a named four new s Edwin . Loiter president of the Royal allege of sur sir re Iii. For Mer director of the design Council sir Robert Broc Tae Hunter principal of Bir Mingham University and William join base former Trade onem Leader in strife torn Ireland. Honors Fet Friday Ada. Ris company produces the bosons for Maclean a Canadian Citi tar bikes generators and sports were of ceded by a Zea who was Bora in fever equip Rnell for dems Ness won Feis Iowa Frajer Secretary of the award for services British Las re cards Twira. And football three canadians included in list Obe is Jose rests to cars mrs Garossa Veteran motor Wing drive r Raymond Mays was made .1 be. Member of the order f the British Empire be in Falls went to Britain s Star now jumper Luanda prior Palmer sprinter Andrea Lynch golfer Brian Huggett Worcestershire and England cricketer Norman Gifford and soccer player Martin Peters a member of the victorious England world cup team in 1966. In the arts a add two to miss . Be awards to Trevor a Tessa Durec for of of Royal Shakespeare Feas won a reputation As one of Europe s finest theatre groups opera Singer Helen Watts pianist Louis Kentner composer William Alwyn and thriller writer Ralph Hammond Innes. Made an officer in the order of the British Empire Obe was dance band Leader Joe loss. Other awards went to hundreds of britons including Rescue workers who dig peo pet oot of the blizzards bit Scotland last january. Frs pets Feero owes jewels got a in flu ;