Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition 28 pages vol. S4-no. 58 Price s cents with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday december 5, 1946 is ski forecast overcast and Milder Truman plans Appeal to miners would abandon gasoline tax Ottawa dec. Federal government has strengthened substantially its bid for taxation agreements with the individual provinces by offering to vacate the Field of gasoline taxation it Manitoba might gain of the Dominion government s offer to Nova Scotia to vacate the gasoline tax Field is accepted and therefore becomes effective for All provinces under the favored pro Vince it could mean in additional Revenue for Manitoba it was Learned through Treasury officials thursday. However it was explained All de Pended on whether or not the Mani Toba government would decide in boost its present seven cent per gallon tax once the Federal govern had lifted the present wartime tax of three cents a gallon or allow motorists to reap the Harvest. The Federal tax was first levied april 3.0. 1941, As a wartime Meas was confirmed Here thursday the offer Kas been made in the form of an Olive Branch proposal to Premier Angus , o Nova Scotia regarded in federa circles As the most difficult of the provincial Heads with whom actin e negotiations Are being carried on currently by the Federal authorities it is explained however that a draft Dominion provincial agree those which Mani Toba Saskatchewan and new Brunswick have already accepted contain a most favored province clause whereby any Concession of Taine i by one province in is negotiations is extended automatic ally to All. The authorities Here Are await ing or. Macdonald s reply to their offer to surrender gasoline taxation wholly into provincial hands. At present the Dominion collects a tax of three cents per gallon on All gasoline sold without exemptions the Dominion s offer to the in Vinces to vacate the gasoline tax Field represents its first noteworthy Concession from the proposals which Hon. J. L. Ilsley. Finance minister outlined in his last budget speech. The 1946 Canada year Book Page 933, shows the Federal government s gasoline tax collections for the year ending March 31. 1945. To be 670.693. The manner in which the approximate million Dollar increase in Revenue for Manitoba was arrived at. Was by taking t Manitoba Gas tax collections for the last fiscal year at. Seven cents per gallon amounting to s2.680.000 in round figures dividing by seven and to allow taxis states i 5 big armies and a c7 multiplying by three. This produces officials warned however that computations All depended upon Federal and provincial decisions Here and in every province in can Ada. Bidault beaten in French vote Paris. Dec. 5 Bidault failed thursday of election is interim Premier of France. Bau Otting the National Assembly save the Leader of the movement Republican Populaire fewer than the 310 votes necessary for an absolute majority. The first Tabula Tion subject to correction gave or. Bidault 240 less than communist Maurice Thorrez must ered earlier. Formation of a new government appeared impossible pending a con cession in some Quarter. New dec. Big four foreign ministers leaders in the United nations debate on plans to disarm the world will sign peace treaties soon allowing. Hitlers for Mer satellites to keep armies Al most As Large and in some cases larger than they had in Normal pre world War two Days. Survey treaties being imposed on Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary and Finland discloses that they Are being reduced Only to a status they held Midway Between the wars before the armaments race for world War two began. The exception is the italian Navy which is being stripped from its position As one of the big five naval Powers to a minor Mediterranean sea Power. Permit conscription the Axis satellites of this War will not be prohibited from using the conscription system and further More will allowed authorized air forces although they will not armies continued on Page 9, column 6 red Feather flies High Community Chest total higher across Canada Ottawa dec. 5 red Feather Symbol of Canada s Community chests flies High to Day. In their five week drive concluded a month ago these organizations of citizens and social welfare agencies raised More than was collected during their 1945 fall Campaign Canadian welfare Council officials announced thursday. There in t the slightest ques Tion that when the raised in the 1946 Community Chest Spring Campaign is added to the final fall can pain figures Canadian chests will have collected the largest sum in their his said miss Eurith Goold. Council official. Even with returns still incomplete our present totals reveal that the 27 chests which ran campaigns this fall raised which is 90 per cent of their objective of sums raised amounts raised to Date in the october Campaign with object Ives bracketed include Western Canada Community to Hest of greater Winnipeg 083 Saskatoon Community Chest. Regina Community Chest Lethbridge Community chested Monton Community Chest Community Chest of greater v a n c o u v e r Community Chest of Morel a i shopping Days to Christmas i greater Victoria of Edmonton s object Ive was for capital fun requirements. A total of was raised for the latter mean ing that for current needs the City raised close to which was 100 per cent of the objective Eastern Community Chest welfare federation of Montreal Montrea federation of Catholic charities Montreal combined jewish Appeal William Community Chest. Toronto United welfare Chest. Sort a thur Community Chest economic paralysis creeping Over nation Washington dec., Truman sunday night will address the nation on the soft Coal strike which the government said the. Urday has brought the country to the very Brink of. Economic the White House announced that the president entering the Arena of the Coal crisis publicly Lor the first time will make a full dress broadcast to the people at 8.30 . Cost sunday. In the Coal strike has not ended by that there no indications it would the president will go Over the head of John l. L Ewis and ask miners to go Back to work. I miners divided on Lewis Issue a grim set to his jaw and his hat thrust Back on his head John l. Lewis United mine workers chief is shown Asho left Federal District court at Washington wednesday after being fined personally for contempt of court. His Union was additionally. Man tussles with boy nabbed by passers by prompt action on the part of ordering Rossman to. Come with a Winnipeg citizen resulted in the arrest of a Man wednesday ight after he allegedly attempted o interfere with an 11-year-okl Joy around 10.30 on Good Street. Police officials stated thursday that the Man definitely is uni. Connected with the slaying of Roy Ewan Mcgregor and George Smith. The Man in custody police stated is Robert Turcotle 25, of 651 tache Avenue St. Boniface. Turcotte appeared in City Polico court thursday morning and was remanded without charge until Friday. Chief Smith stated that the Man was arrested wednesday eve Ning after he allegedly had at tempted to lure away Ronald Rossman 11, 248 Good Street by posing As a police officer. This Man had been said the chief but we Are Satis fied he has no connection with any major crime. He May be charged with a posing As a peace to Arcotte when he appeared in court showed signs of a beating he had allegedly taken from an Alert Albert t. Oar 210 Good Street who had been drawn to the scene by the screams of Young Rossman chief Smith paid tribute to the citizen whose promptitude was responsible for the while police officials fact that this Riim. Grabbing the boy he is said to have told him i m a cop. I be got my badge under my coat come with or. Oar was walking along underlined the incident proved Winni Eggers Are still on the Alert against any further attacks on boys. The Man in custody police Al lege approached Young Rossman and his two companions Freddy Mcclusky 11, 236 Good Street and Thomas Mcbride 12, 226 Good Street at 10.15 . Wednesday posing As a police officer and in c delegates showing Strain Lake Success. N. Y., dec. 5 circles under the eyes Are badges today of every participant in the current United nations drive to wind up the general Assembly by the end of next week. As the pressure gets there was a record number of 26 meetings held wednesday and the total is expected to be even higher thursday everyone is showing the Strain of morning afternoon and. Evening sessions. Sales of headache remedies cigarettes and cigars Are booming. Strapped Ankles and bandaged the result of Falls on the Slippery Pittsburgh dec. 5 miners backed John l. Lewis to the limit thursday and Many locals of the United mine workers Al sent Blank cheques to Union Headquarters in Washington to help pay the line of imposed by Federal judge t. Alan Goldsborough. Is in the soup and we re backing him up Mitil he s said a spokesman for a group of miners sitting in a Library. A. Tavern. Well stick it out until we year from the oldsters would quit that was the attitude of the vast majority.1 of the men who dig the nation s Coal. But some of the older miners said frankly that they wished their chief would allow hem to return to the pits. Time. Lewis just went too drove the horse too hard. He s my Leader but to me he s not bigger than the country. I m glad Lewis lost. It s better for us to see our Union lose than to lose our coun the Young said an one grizzled Veteran of numer Ous Battles Between the Union and operators said at Uniontown. A. Us older men knew this show Down s been coming for a a Long other the ones who get the Bene fits we fought and bled for want to cause trouble. They want excite ment Power. Union Power can build and it can destroy. i m glad the government won. Now i Hope it can put us Back to work " none of the miners who criticized Lewis would permit his name to be used. Coal strike May hit Windsor car firms Windsor ont., dec 5 of automobile and rail Way workers in this strike Wise City face Early unemployment and a far from festive Christmas As a result of the United states freight embargo stemming from the soft Coal strike. Two big car Colony Street one Block Over when he heard Young Rossman cries for help. Running across a vacant lot he saw the Man Strug gling with the boy. He rushed Over and helped other persons who had just arrived throw the Man to the ground. Then said or. He lifted the Man up and delivered a right Hook to his face. Police say the Man was unconscious when they arrived. The other boys who had been with Ronald had run up to a Home at 288 Good Street for help. Their request brought Back to. Mccaw and june Blair who were Grap pling with the Man when or. Oar arrived. Or. Oar a Veteran with three Small children told reporters he had gone to the assistance of Sev eral frightened children a few Days ago. I have a personal in Terest in things like he said. Ford motor company of Canada and Chrysler diced Early Adverse effects on local production and car parts manufacturers said their business will decline if the big companies curtail activities. Ford employs about Here and Chrysler has some work ers in its Windsor and Chatham ont., plants. Railway officials declined to estimate to what extent Canadian lines would be hit by the embargo but they pointed out that about 40 per cent of freight shipments Are from american concerns. The threat of another disrupt. Tion in output comes with Ford and Chrysler still not recovered fully from recent strikes in their own plants and in Canadian Basic steel plants. A Ford spokesman said wednes Day it is virtually certain there will be a serious curtailment of or actual stoppage of some manufacturing processes before the end of the e. C. Row Chrysler vice presi Dent said that company will oper City open fierce defensive piping dec. 5 Ese press despatches reported thursday that communist troops had opened a fierce offensive within 30 Miles of the u. Sli 1c Stuj Joyc lev us j. 1uii i and More frequent Anchorage at Tom Tao. Mayor Maclean issues Appeal stoves rooms great need of fire victims stoves and rooms to put them in Are the two great needs of the Vic Tims of the nov. 27 tache Block fire mayor g. C. Maclean of St. Boniface said thursday. Mayor Maclean appealed to the citizens Iceland from wartime base to peacetime Boom new buildings Are mushroom ing up in Iceland today. Shops in Reykjavik the Republic s capital Are rapidly being Fil led with goods from All Over the world. Great quantities of Woolen materials Are being produced from icelandic Wool. Farm machinery is speeding up agricultural production. In this the second of three articles on Iceland today or. Egil Forchthammer. A danish writer records his impressions of a recent visit to the Island. The English translation is by j. C. R. Jurgensen of Regina. Sask. By or. Egil Forchthammer on the outskirts of Reykjavik a mushroom growth of residential districts have taken place. They Are composed mostly of Small swell Ings for two three or four families. Between the buildings Are tiny gardens with Flowers Bushes and always a Lawn where the children May play. The build ing continues at a fast a Pace As the limited labor Force will permit. The housing shortage is still great. Until late in the night the., City is resounding with the noises of construction. The shops in Reykjavik made a poor Dane feel dizzy. Iceland suffered great losses of ships Dur ing the War but the ships that Are left Are sailing continuously and bring Home from abroad Many Good and useful articles. The icelandic steamship company has two Large freighters under construction at Burmeister and Wain but until they Are finished ships Are being chartered in Den Mark and America. On the radio the population is daily kept in formed of their positions at sea and the stores Are advertising the goods they will bring. Textile Industry the immense Advance in the indigenous textile Industry was most amazing. Heavy and warm materials of Good Quality and. In Beautiful patterns Are now being made from icelandic Wool at reasonable prices. In View of the1 immense number of sheep in ice land and the scar City of clothing this Industry should have Export possibilities in the future. The Only shortage in Iceland is in the line of footwear which is being imported from America and it is with some sur prise that it has been found that Here also the soles have paper filings. It is not alone in the City that the new Tempo is being Felt. On he Well spread farms on the vast Darren land As Well an awaken ing from the slumber of centuries has taken place. The Small cultivated plot of grass which supplies the feed for the animals during the Winter was until a Short time ago Cut by scythe. The Hay was tied in bundles and carried on horseback to the barn. To bring Home the feed for cows horses and sheep was a laborious and time absorbing task. Now the noise of motors is heard every where. The grass is being Cut Anc gathered by machines and. Brought Home by truck. The use of farm machinery has greatly seeded the work and much More is being accomplished. As the grass on growing it will mean an in of greater Winnipeg to help set the the 70 surviving in permanent Homes before Christmas. Ca Thoret superintendent of social welfare reported thursday morning that three of the 22 Jam. Ilies have been established in Semi permanent quarters. The remain Der Are scattered throughout the City living with friends or in temporary rooms. Providing stoves will be a major problem when the victims Are settled mayor Maclean said unless private citizens have enough Idle ranges to fill the Bill. Furniture dealers reported virtually no Nev stoves on the Market and said they expected Only Small shipments in the near future. However a few second hand stoves Are available. Even if stoves can be found mayor Maclean pointed out they will be useless unless accommodation can be located for the Home less persons. Financial contributions Are still being received in every mail de livery Norman Erskine treasurer of the tache Block fire. Rehabilitation committee said. More than has been donated to Date. Union Settle strike at Oakland Oakland Calif. Dec. 5 the City of Oakland and . Leaders thursday reached an agree ment to end a general strike which has strangled Commerce in East Bay cities for two Days. A Union statement confirmed the agreements based on the conditions that police would not be used in breaking picket lines and that City officials remain Neutral in labor disputes. The agreement was reached at an Early morning meeting after some East Bay residents found All transportation tied up food and other necessities in. Short Supply and the City of Oakland under. A state of emergency with full police Powers voted to the mayor. Still strike bound Are the Kahn and Hastings retail stores source of the original dispute last october. Special collections at services last sunday at the Norwood Presby Terian Church added to the fund or. Erskine said. Include d in thursday s mail was a contribution from four year old Ray Tascoe of 5, Machray apartments a covering letter from the child s Mother explained thai crease in livestock is possible Ray. When he was told of the drive that Iceland will be self sufficient in butter meat is not a re Mote possibility. For funds. Voluntarily broke open his Piggy Bank to make his Dona Tion. Bomb kills 2 in Palestine Jerusalem dec. 5 a British army officer and a Soldier were killed thursday when a bomb exploded outside an office building at Sara Farid the largest military Camp in Palestine with about troops. An official announcement set Ting the fatalities at two said four other officers were injured As Well As an unspecified number of enlisted men and civilian employees. Hundreds of civilians from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv work in the Camp. Enough Small arms and ammunition to equip men on a wartime scale of 50 rounds per Man have been seized by the British army in raids on jewish underground dumps during the last 12 months according to a conservative estimate Given wednesday night by Richarc Stubbs Palestine government pub Lic information officer in reply to a question at a press conference. V ate As Long As possible but that the impending shutdown of the Parent Chrysler company in the United states undoubtedly would affect the Canadian plants. One Windsor industrialist predicted the embargo will Stop it lasts Long enough railways limit commodities going to u. S. Montreal dec. 5 a. Brass general Secretary of the Kail Way association of Canada announced thursday that effective at 12.01 a. M., Friday Canadian railways will not accept for rail shipment to Points in the United states any commodities except those permitted under the u. S. Interstate Commerce commission s embargo on express and freight. Or. Brass said that insofar As movement of commodities in can Ada strictly is concerned there Are no restrictions. The i. C. A s embargo ordered tuesday night As a result of the Coal strike in. The United states excepted food livestock and poultry feed livestock and poultry dry and liquid fuels medicines drugs surgical instruments and dressings newspapers magazines newsprint printing Ink water purification chemicals insecticides and fungicides ice drinking water and some other supplies necessary for pub Lic health and safety. Or. Brass said that in View of the fact that american railways will not be permitted to accept other commodities and supplies at International Points of Transfer the Canadian railways cannot accept them for shipment to the Ted states. Australia delays signing Trade pact Canberra Australia dec. 5 up Cable a Federal Cabinet recommendation the parliamentary labor party has brought about a postponement Australia s ratification of the Bretton Woods agreement designed to promote balanced International Trade and assist Post War developments of member countries particularly re construction of War damaged countries. The International agreement signed two years ago at Bretton Woods new Hampshire by 44 countries including Canada and Australia has been a source of division in the australian labor party for several months. Opponents of the plan Here have argued that australian membership would deprive the country of control Over its foreign Trade and cur Rency including its. Rate of Exchange. Prime minister Chifley favors australian membership in the agreement and has contended that since the organization will be set up regardless of Australia s stand the advantages of member ship outweigh the disadvantages. The Deputy solid fuels adminis Rator Dan h Wheeler meanwhile said the 15-Day-old mine shutdown has this nation at the very Brink of economic paralysis and threatens unprecedented hardship and suffering during the president Truman s decision to speak publicly after remaining silent during the first 15 Days of he strike underscored the Gravity of the situation described by Wheeler in a communication to 36 state governors in which he called on them to take the most stringent measures to conserve Coal in Lewis confers with lawyers Lewis thursday conferred with Lis lawyers on whether the United mine workers should answer their contempt judgment with a try and get questions confronting the Legal Battery included 1. Whether to Post Bond to cover the Fine on the Union and f so How it is to be raised. The Fine on or. Lewis personally will be covered by a Bond before 3 ., the Union lawyers told judge t. Allan 2. Whether to a peal at once to the circuit court of appeals or adopt delaying tactics. 3. The Prospect of a new con tempt citation if or. Lewis continues to ignore judge golds Borough s reaffirmed order to Call off the strike. 4. The possibility of prosecution under the Smith Connally act which makes it a penal offence to incite or against the government. May let government try Joseph. P. Pad Way american federation of labor Chiel counsel who joined or. Lewis staff for this momentous Legal show Down said wednesday in court that the Union nay let the government try to collect the Fine in any Way it sees fit. Or. Padway made it Clear the Union does not intend to Dis possess itself of its holdings. There was still a Cnance that or. Lewis might decide to Call off the strike which began nov. 21 termination by or. Lewis of his contract with the government. The . Risks a additional Fine every Day that Ine strike continues in Defiance of a temporary injunction which judge Goldsborough issued wednesday. Or. Lewis also is risking a jail term which he escaped wednesday. Judge Goldsborough said he thought a prison sentence would be proper Lor or. Lewis but bowed the government recommendation for a Fine instead. From every outward indication the Bushy bowed miners Leader is determined to take jail or what May come rather than yield to the court order. Grim deadlock with this grim deadlock con fronting the United states a group of railway unions issued a plea that or. Lewis and the govern ment both Call the whole thing off and let a presidential commis Sion Settle All issues. The president has been urged notably by sen. William f. Know land r., cal., to re open the mines and Man them with volunteers. There was no indication that or. Truman planned to go that far. Senator Joseph Mccarthy renewed an earlier proposal that the draft Law be used. Now that the court has acted believe the president should use Lis Powers to immediately draft John l. Lewis into the armed ser senator Mccarthy said in an interview. , Lewis men through out the Coal Fields reacted to the fining of their Union and Leader by undertaking to shut Down non Union strip mines still producing a trickle of soft Coal pickets in automobiles roved through the strip Fields to intercept Coal trucks and dump them on the Highway state police said. Gas Plant explodes Corpus Christi tex., dec. Tremendous explosion at a Gas company Plant heard for 30 Miles killed at least two persons and injured five thursday i. Farm conference opens Ottawa dec 5 ment of polish veterans and Canada s 1947 labor programme were major items on the Agenda of the fourth annual Dominion provincial farm labor conference which opened Here thursday. Fog covered the red River Valley this morning. Over extreme nor Thern Manitoba skies were comparatively Clear and temperatures dropped below the Zero Mark Dur ing the night. This cold air is now moving Well East of the District so that the cur rent mild spell will continue on Friday. South winds at 10 Mph. Low tonight and High on Friday 13 above and 23 above. High yesterday 23 above Low during night 20 above. West portion. Overcast East portion. South winds at 10 Mph today. Low tonight "12 above and High on Friday 22 above ;