Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press 50 pages vol. 60 Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday december 7, 1946 Sun . 1 Sun . Mon . Moon . Mild 115 die in Atlanta b fire sweeps local Abattoir packing House Blaze damage set at while firemen handicapped by Lack of a water Supply stood virtually helpless fire levelled a slaughterhouse and storage refrigerator of n. Anderson packers limited Abattoir at 679 Daw son Road St. Boniface Early this morning causing damage Esti mated by a company official at several Winnipeg electric company lines were damaged by the Blaze. The fire. Iran tells in of warning from Russia Lake Success . Dec. 7 Iran made a reserved com plaint to the United nations secur saw Council Friday that Russia had which at times sent roaring flames nearly 70 feet in the air and scattered flaming fragments for hundreds of Yards around the Vicinity of the packing Plant was first noticed by Philip Bibeau and William Norman both employees of the Manitoba packing company about 1.30 . We were coming Down Dawson Road on our Way Home from work said Norman and we suddenly smoke _ and a red glow just the Chimney of the Slaughter House. We ran in the bunkhouse earned her against stationing troops woke up Jim Schnider in Azerbaijan province to police elections beginning there today. The iranian report asking no immediate Council action said rus Sia had Given Friendly admonition through the sovet ambassador at Tehran that such movements of troops a result in disturbances within the province and on Russia s Frontier. The soviet ambassador the report added advised that the govern ment s plans be abandoned yardman and he turned in the j. Dozen horses which were in the slaughterhouse were freed on the arrival of the fire department before the Blaze had reached serious proportions. No livestock was lost. This was the third serious fire in St. Boniface in ten Days bringing the estimated total damage the two other fires is to said keep the the report s purpose Security Council informed of the further consequences of interference previously complained Iran s charges last Winter and Spring of russian interference in her Domestic affairs were kept dormant on the Council Agenda after the removal of rus Sian troops from Azerbaijan. Hussein Ala. Iranian ambassador to the United states and represent to occurred on . 27. When the tache Apar ment Block was gutted and on dec. 1. When fire severely damaged Western Rawhide harness manufacturers Plant at 349 Dupuy Street St. Boniface. To hint of arson n. V. Campbell inspector of the fire commissioner s office said no suspicion of a fire Bug existed As Many leap to death scores Hurt Atlanta ., deca swept through the packed crowded 15-Storey Winecoff hotel on peach tree Street saturday and five hours later the Ideath toll stood at 115. Many of the dead leaped in panic to the Street. Others were trapped and died screaming in the flames. It was the worst fire in Atlanta s history. In the last major hotel fire 61 persons died in Chicago s la Salle hotel six months ago. The fire apparently started Between 3 and 4 . Had not been determined the fifth floor and then swept upward to engulf the upper within a few moments. It was discovered by a negro elevator operator Rosita who smelled smoke and notified night manager. Describes 3 hours of horror flames which levelled two buildings of the Anderson packers limited Abattoir at 679 Dawson Road Early saturday morning caused an estimated damage in the third big fire in St. Boniface within ten Days. This picture was taken about an hour and 15 minutes after the Blaze was first Dis covered. Most of the roof has collapsed and sections of the Walls arc beginning to disintegrate. Only standing remnant of the area swept by the fire by 4 . Was a blackened Chimney. Many of those in hospitals were critically burned and the Cross expedited Reserve supplies of blood plasma. Most of the 2510 guests were trapped. All the Winecoff s rooms vere occupied. Many of the guests never had a Chance and a of of them took the Quick Way through the win Dow. Others stood at their win Dows and screamed until they Back choking in the flames and smoke. Two canadians both from Tor onto were listed As registered at the hotel. One Basil m. Wolf was reported at Hospital where authorities said he. Has suffered a sprained ankle. The other was fire toll continued on Page 8, column 3 a result of the we have no hat the Cires he in Assembly continued on Page 8. Column 2 Britain won t forget lands who sent food by Frank b. Walker London. Dec. Hon. John Strachey s statement in the House of commons thursday on the possibility of reduced rations for Brit Ain contained one sentence which should be Well received in Canada. He said that when the time comes we shall not forget those exporting countries which in spite of present difficulties have stood by us Dur ing the period of or. Strachey did not stipulate the countries to which he referred but there is no doubt that of Allex porting nations. Canada qualified most completely. The food minister s statement was both pessimistic and optimistic. Christmas supplies will not be reduced but in the period following Bacon and bread in particular May be rationed even More severely. For the Long term View however he saw Hope that Britain might be receiving All she needs sooner rather than later. The basis of or. Strachey s optimism is the Large United states carry Over which he described As of potentially embarrassing pro portions. For Canada the most hopeful note in his speech was his refer ence to countries which have helped out during the shortage. Canada has kept Britain supplied not Only with cheap wheat but with wheat sold at the expense of a proportion of her old customers. It will be reassuring to feel that she will not be forgotten when the Day of shortages ends. Meanwhile britons will continue to Hope for a Quick settlement of the United states soft Coal dispute. Castle looted London dec. 7 a maj. George Cornwallis West Uncle of the Prince of Pless and Stepfather of Winston Churchill said Friday he had received word that the Prince s. 12th Century furst Enstein Castle in Silesia had been looted of its treasures by polish and russian occupation forces. More shopping Days to Christmas recent fires reason to believe Are anything but stated. I can t see any connection be tween this lire and the previous chief a. Spence of the St. Boniface fire department said adding that in each Case the flames had a head Start on the fire fighters. There were no hydrants in the Vicinity of packing Plant he impose observed which made it sible to Check the Blaze. Helpless to fight this morning fire in the two main buildings the firefighters made use of a Hose truck with a. 160-gallon tank which was shuttled to and from a hydrant providing water to protect the outbuildings. A brisk North East wind fanned the roaring flames to greater in Tensity and carried from the Burn ing buildings Black smoke acrid with the smell of burning meats. Roofs of both buildings had collapsed by 2.15 ., three quarters of an hour after the fire was first seen. Collapse of the Walls followed shortly after. Efforts of the fire department to transport water to the scene were hampered by the dense fog which set in after Midnight. Friday. The two Storey buildings which the firemen struggled to save trained offices garage and living quarters. In j. Kilgour lot 55 St. Mary s Road. St. Vital the company s Gen eral manager told the free press that As far As we know the fire started in the North end of the slaughterhouse near the Furnace More u. S. Miners return to pits Pittsburgh dec. 7 in the United states prayed itself for further unemployment inroads from the Coal strike amid reports saturday. The tiny trickle of fuel coming from the pits was increasing slightly in West Virginia and Pennsylvania two biggest bituminous Coal states. In West Virginia where 102.000 soft Coal diggers normally work. Jesse v. Sullivan Secretary of the West Virginia Coal association declared daily increasingly defiant miners have returned to work at scattered operations seemingly fearless of possible Union Retalia Tion. The Navy Coal mines administration said 441 mines were operating in Ohio West Virginia and Penn Sylvania employing More than 13. 000 Union and non Union miners and producing an estimated tons. That output represents 15 per cent of the area s Normal production. In the immediate Pitts Burg Vicinity the solid fuels administration said 44.000 tons were now being dug daily by miners in 96 strip mines. Altoona in the heart of the Rich Central Pennsylvania area reported production had risen 26.000 tons a Day to 40.000. Unemployment spreads meanwhile unemployment spread with steel and Iron counting a total of More than Idle railroads reporting furloughed. And miscellaneous industries accounting for 171.000. Tearing aside red tape the uni he estimated the loss of the two buildings both of which contained quantities of meat and fish at All of which he claimed was covered by Middlesex Halifax dec. 7 it was Learned reliably Friday that naval authorities have abandoned the idea of trying to re float the minesweeper Middlesex aground on the Rocky Beach of half Island Point 15 Miles from Here. The ship is being stripped of All valuable equipment and immovable secret radar and signal devices have been destroyed. Blue baby Dies Baltimore dec. 7 Jimmy Conger Cleveland Blue baby died in Johns Hopkins Hospital Here thursday night following a Blalock Taussig head of Exchange scores Gardiner charging that Hon. J. G. Gardiner minister of agriculture As a Speculator had become the world s largest Short seller and Western Farmers were paying the penalty Stanley n. Jones president of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange on Friday criticised Dominion government agricultural policy directed by the min ister. The Exchange president said that or. Gardiner had made heavy Forward commitments on Grain and other Farner commodities without protecting the Farmer against possible shrinkage in Mone tary values and increased Cost of production. Or. Gardiner it was stated had endeavoured to fulfil these Export commitments of meat Bacon but Ter Etc. By heavily subsidizing the livestock feeding Industry at the expense Grain grower. Or. Jones was of the Western commenting on or. Gardiner s statements made at the Dominion provincial conference on agriculture at Ottawa. Declaring that a year ago or. Gardiner had advocated a Sharp reduction in wheat yet to Day wheat Board is reported to be refusing to make sales on account of Lack of supplies to fill these additional requirements the Exchange president said that. It was Only the Good sense of the producer in refusing to take or. Gardiner s advice last year that prevented the situation from being worse than it is now. The United Stales government is embarking on a policy of increased acreage in All grains but or. Gard Iner in spite of last year s experience continues to advocate contrary policy of a. Reduction of 10 per cent in wheat the Inister was endeavouring to have the wheat acreage transferred Jones Ted states government rushed the Coal Case up to the supreme court Friday and asked it to suspend its rules in View of irreparable injury being done by the strike. If it View of the walkout and the growing economic paralysis could announce by monday noon whether it will act. Arguments could be heard next week and a final decision delivered a week from the matter were pushed to the utmost. The drama of the Appeal to the supreme court literally a foot race started shortly before noon when judge t. Alari Goldsborough. In an unusual action in the interest Speed permitted the record of the Case to be taken physically from his court to the Federal Cir Cuit court of appeals eliminating the delay that would be required for making copies. A Deputy clerk Harry Hull delivered the record to the circuit court at 1.35 . . Within two hours the government filed a motion asking that court to permit the Appeal to directly to the supreme court. Chief Justice d. Lawrence Groner promptly granted it and John Baecher of the Justice department Legal staff left there with the record at 3.15 . For the supreme court where he delivered it to the clerk. 20 Days to oppose normally or. Lewis would have ?0 Days to oppose the government s that supreme court but the this pro View of the emergency and or. Lewis be required to act quickly if he opposes the action. Union counsel had indicated previously however they would Welcome a supreme court ruling. What the government wants the supreme court to decide 5s whether Justice Goldsborough was on Good Legal ground in issuing his temporary restraining order against or. Lewis and the United mine work ers . 18 in Advance of the strike. In its Brief said that Only a determination of the Issue by this court can authoritatively Settle this parcels to . Limited in size dec. 7 Post office department announced Friday that parcels mailed to Points in the United states will be limited in size to 18 inches in length and 60 indies in length and ii Ali combined As a result of transportation difficulties arising from the american Coal strike. Officials said these items will be exempt from the restrictions live Day old poultry seeds plants and other Nursery Slock eggs butter and other perishable foods and Medicine drugs surgical instruments and surgical dressings. Take Over immediately government asked that Medure be suspended 21 on Board French submarine b e i i eved lost Toulon. France dec. 7 Reut French submarine dewy with 21 men aboard failed to reach the surface after an experimental dive in the Mediterranean and was a mine set. Adrift by a storm now raging naval officials said Friday night. The 250 ton submarine formerly German Jias been underwater for nearly two Days. Officials abandoned Hope for the Crew of 19 and. Two officials continued on Page 8, column 4 of the French naval ministry. Nonsense Gilmore denies Stalin is Iii by Eddy Gilmore Moscow dec. 7 am informed that there is no basis for reports published in Turkey that Generalissimo Stalin is seriously Stalin is taking a vacation Jikit As he took a vacation at this time he returned to Moscow last year dec. 17, presumably he will do approximately the same thing this time. Restrictions reject agreement Batavia dec. 7 islamic party largest political organization in Indonesia was re ported Friday to have rejected the Netherlands indonesian draft agree ment for peace in the indies. U. S. Would Jam Palestine meet new York dec. 7." James f. Byrnes . Secretary of state Friday night United states to it in on a full and free conference in an attempt to solve the Arab jewish pales Tine question. Michael Mcdermott. Or. Byrnes press attache making Public an Exchange of correspondence be tween the Anglo american Diplo Natick chiefs said that during the new York sessions of the foreign ministers Council they had held several conversations on the pales Ine question. In his statement. Or. Brynes acknowledged for the first time publicly that the United states lad turned Down a bid to attend he London conversations recently on the Issue. But at the same time. Or. Byrnes now feels that the leaders of the lews and the arabs should at end another conference and added if they do the United states will accept an invitation to have an server at that after he said it s opinion that a permanent delay b. C. Negotiations Ottawa dec. 7. Nations Between British Columbia and the Dominion for a new Taxa Ion. Agreement have been suspend d while the Federal government studies Premier Hart s alternative a member of the British Columbia delegation disclosed sat Day. The member said it probably would not be known before tues Day whether agreement is possible. He understood that or. Hart s counter proposals Are to be before the Cabinet tuesday. Laid More wartime houses Here urged the construction of an additional wartime housing units in Winnipeg was recommended unanimously to the City Council by the City s housing committee Friday afternoon. In its recommendation the committee asked Council to enter into a new agreement with wartime housing limited for the construction of 1.000 houses and that if sufficient land served with water and was not Avail Able such services should be in stalled. About wartime hous ing units have been constructed or Are in the process of being constructed in the i y a present. The Lio using committee took this step following the submission of a Resolution by representatives of the various 1 a Hes of the can Adian legion in the City and of the provincial command. The Resolution asked that applications be made by Winnipeg for wartime hour by St. Boniface for 200 St. James. 100 fort Garry 1qo East Kildonan 100 and West Kildonan total of 500 Hou. In. Only solution says legion the legion representatives stated emphatically that wartime houses were the Only Elution to Winnipeg s housing problem and pointed out that there wer no privately owned houses for rent in the greater Winnipeg area for sex servicemen and their there Are is at . 1. 1946, some 4.405 applications on file at the office of wartime housing limited for the. Greater Winnipeg area Over 3.700 of which cannot possibly be the re Lugiori stated. The t Region will present its Case at the next meeting of Council and it is expected that the hous ing committee s recommendation will be considered at the same time. Wartime houses Are the Only solution to the Veteran who cannot afford to said James Cowan one of the legion delegation. Tells of veterans problems j. Dufferin Roblin of the no. 1 Winnipeg Branch cited cases of wartime housing continued on Page 3, column 6 solution of the Viu a serious pales Tine problem will be greatly facilitated if there is a free and full con Ference Between the representatives of the British government and the jewish and Arab new attacks in China War banking dec. 7 a chinese communists loosed hard hitting attacks saturday on ten be fronts in Western Shansi province apparently to lift the pressure of government armies Hemming in their capital of Yean. Sharpest fighting was reported the gov rement s Central daily news at government held but encircled Chung Yang 110 Miles Northeast of Yean. The news paper charged the communists were using Poison a charge often made by both sides but never confirmed. Other communist forces the news said had entered taking 70 Miles East of Yean and Youngho 110 Miles Southeast of the communist capital. Chinese Shell site explodes Shanghai dec. 7 a a Large chinese ammunition dump began blowing up on the outskirts of Shanghai i Early sat urday afternoon and six hours later explosions still rocked the area. All personnel of the United Tes air transport command at nearby Kian Waii Airfield were evacuated from Headquarters and other buildings. Planes on the Field earlier were reported undamaged. There was no indication How Many chinese wore killed or in cured but it was Leared some must Nave died. Some chinese blood streaming from their raced from the compound enclosing the. Dump shortly Afler the explosions began. Pearl Harbor japs attacked five years ago Honolulu dec. 7 five years ago saturday the japanese Navy immobilized a major portion of the United states Pacific Fleet with its sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Saturday the remembered with a formal ceremony re raising the Battle scarred Flag that flew Over Hickam Field that Day. The United states Navy How Ever virtually ignored the Day. We want to re one officer the following eyewitness account of the Winecoff hotel fire was Tola to the British United press by .1. Need Home of Cordele ., who with his Wile was rescued from the top floor. Atlanta ., dec. 7 my wife and i did a dance of death at the end of 15 floors up for three horrible hours saturday morning. I can t believe that we Are on the ground and Safe. The first i knew there was a fire i heard people screaming. I thought it was a dream. Then my wife woke up and we looked Down from the window. Flames were shooting up from every window below us on the front of the hotel. We were scared to death but my wife had enough sense to suggest we tie some sheets together and try to get to a lower floor. We made two ropes and climbed Down separately but when we got to the 14th floor it was. So hot we had to climb Back up to our room. My wife climbed Back All by herself. She s the Pluck Iest girl who Ever lived. Getting hotter it was getting hotter and hotter and smoke was coming in so we looked around for a part of the Lotel where it was t so bad. We crawled out on the ledge with the Aid of our bedsheets arid got in another room on the same floor. A Man named Henry joined us. There he is Over there on that eyewitness 4 continued on Page 8, column 5 major hotel disasters new York dec. 7 following is a list major hotel fires in the United states and toll in lives during the past 13 years. Sept. 7, 1933, Houston Texas. 54. Dec. 11, 1934, Kerns hotel Lan sing Mich. 32. Feb. 12, 1936, Victoria mansions Lakewood n.j., 115. May 16, 1938, terminal hotel at Lanta g., 35. March 27, 1944, Amsterdam hotel san Francisco 22. Jan. 16, 1945, general Clark hotel Chicago 14. June 5, 1946, la Salle hotel Chi Cago 61. June 9, 1946, Canfield hotel Dubuque la., 19. Temperatures continue to be above in the South half of the Prairies with cooler weather the. North. The flow of air across the Southern regions comes from the Pacific Ocean. During the daytime Many localities in ttys flow will report temperatures above freezing. The ail to the North is of Polar origin. Tempera Tures in this air mass Range from Zero to 10 below. Skies Are generally overcast and there Are frequent Snow flurries. The Divi Sion Between the two air masses will remain in the neighbourhood of the Edmonton and flin flon re Gions for the next. 36 hours. Temperature on sunday will remain much the same As on. Friday and saturday. Winnipeg overcast. Fog lifting during the afternoon re forming tonight fog sunday morning Clear ing by noon. Light winds. Continuing mild. Low temperature tonight 20 and High on sunday 34. The High Friday in Winnipeg was 34 above and the Low during the night was 19 above ;