Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press 32 pages vol. 65 Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg Friday december 13, 1946 forecast Clear and cold. Mclean seven years rail tragedy probed Pipestone Man., dec. 13 Margaret 15, and Al Bert 12, children of James Plouffe Deleau were instantly killed at . Thursday when the school bus in which they were being driven Home was struck by the westbound Arcola train a Short distance from their Home. Wilfred Plouffe 10, another son a broken and suspected internal injuries while his seven year old brother Edward was unhurt and continued on foot to his Home. Emile Anderson re ported to have been the Driver of the bus was slightly injured. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Acci Dent has been started. Loaded with school children until a Short time before the tragedy the bus carried Only the Plouffe children and the Driver when it struck by the train. Say whistle blown the Accident took place along a five mile Clear stretch of track . Officials said in their re port on the Accident. As the Cross ing was approached the whistle was blown and the engine rung. The bus approached the train from the opposite Side from that on which the Engineer was stationed while the fireman was tending the fire and so the bus was not noticed until the Accident it was said. The bodies of the dead sister and brother were taken on the train to Pipestone where or. James w. Cairns District Coroner was notified. Wilfred was admit Ted to Virden Hospital where his condition was reported fair. Constable d. Whyte of the . M.p., at restores conducting the investigation. The time of the in Bell quest yet. Has not been announced Garson going to Ottawa Relief talks Premier Stuart Garson will leave Winnipeg Friday night Over Canadian Pacific lines for Ottawa it was announced Friday. I am going to Premier explained the for a Settle the Blaze which destroyed one building g and gutted another on Nairn Avenue thurs Day afternoon is shown at its height with flame and smoke towering skywards. This View is of the two Storey building which Nous de the Thor machine and Iron works the Cor Mack Sheet Metal company and the North s tar club which was completely gutted by the fire which spread from the Chalmers a Uto truck and body works to the South. Flash fire wrecks two buildings in Elmwood flames which caused damage placed at nearly thursday afternoon destroyed one building and gutted another when a Flash fire broke out in the garage of the Chalmers Auto truck and body works 349 Nairn Avenue and s Pread rapidly to engulf the premises and set fire to a building next door housing the Thor machine and Iron works the Cormack Sheet Metal com Pany and the North Star billiard club. Orfe worn an was burned. World Trade charter ambitious in scope Washington dec. 13 plans for. The reconstruction of a world trading Community a programme especially vital to Canada were revealed by United states government. Sources Here Friday following the recent secret con Ference of 17 nations in London. This programme Calls for the following Steps to be taken within the next 12 a conference of trading a verdict reduced to manslaughter quashing the murder conviction against mrs. Elizabeth Maud Mclean under sentence to hang Jan. 3, for the knife slaying of her common Law husband Claude f. Salisbury the Manitoba court of Appeal at 11.15a.m. Friday substituted a verdict of Man cd tons 18 them in Russia Partick Europe probably Geneva in april to conduct hard bargaining on the removal of Trade restrictions including tariffs and secret protective devices. 2 the submission of the bargains thus made to the parliament of the various countries some time next autumn. 3 the submission of a new world Trade charter to these Parlia ments Only if and when the Tariff bargains Are approved. This charter would be As binding As a treaty and would create a code of Law and fair practice for All Trade. Under it an International Trade Organiza Tion would be established to enforce the Law. Negotiations Are key from this schedule it is Clear that no nation will bind itself to any code of Trade conduct until it sees whether tariffs and other Trade restrictions Are going to be reduced by treaty. If the Tariff negotiations of next Spring do not succeed there will be no world Trade charter or Organiza Tion. The key to the whole prob Lem therefore will be next Spring s Tariff negotiations which May last until autumn. The Broad outline of the Trade charter the most ambitious attempt in history to set Trade Movin. Throughout the world was made known Here. Its contents had been guarded As a strict secret at the recent London conference. Now they May be summarized As the 17 nations represented a London Russia having refused to attend agree to negotiate for the reduction of All Trade restrictions on a multilateral basis next Spring a network of treaties covering specific Tariff reductions it is hoped will emerge from the Spring conference and with it something if More actual a series if treaties outlawing other protect Ive devices like import quotas and objectionable interpretations of Ariff Laws. All such treaties Are subject to parliamentary approval and in the end the whole project will depend mainly on the support of the new Republican Congress of the United states. Difficult to apply As a primary principle the Char or Calls on All nations which sign t to end All discrimination in Rade. This principle already is accepted in general practice by a new private Enterprise countries Ike the United states and Canada but it is extremely difficult to aply to socialist and Semi socialist ment with respect to the Relief debt owing by Manitoba to the Dominion while he was in Ottawa he would Confer with the Western provinces Council on the freight rate matter Premier Carson added. Mrs. Barbara Shepherd 338 Nairn Avenue suffered first degree Burns o the face and arms in an attempt to fight the fire before firemen arrived. I was in the office when the fire she told the free press. When i heard someone shouting i rushed out and saw flames leaping up the Wall and across the ceiling. One of the men had a fire and when he dropped it i picked it up and continued spraying the James Chalmers owner of the body works interrupted yes and if she had t been pulled away she would have dropped still trying to put the fire five vehicles lost lost in the fire in the body works were three cars two trucks and five truck bodies. One car was saved and five trucks outside the building were pushed to a distance. Slight smoke damage was caused to Harry s flour and feed 355 Nairn Avenue. First to notice the fire was a Bousquet 257 midwinter Avenue an apprentice at Chalmers body works. The flames he seemed of originate about feet from where he was working. I heard something that sounded like com he said later and then saw flames shooting out from beneath the body of a truck. I shouted that s All i had time of there were several employees Here with extinguishers before he said but it was too the Chalmers family directly across the Street said that when the first fire broke out and started to rage the heat in front of their House was so terrific that they had to put their hands up to shield their faces. They had to close their front door because of the blasts of hot air which belched right Over the Road. Damage to the Chalmers truck Auto and body works was Esti mated by James Chalmers 381 Tal Bot Avenue at about to building and equipment. Estimated damage to Thor machine and Iron works was about according fire continued on Page 8, column 4 changes May not be permanent new 3-Way Cabinet shuffle announced by Mackenzie King Ottawa dec. 13 consolidating the three branches of the armed army Navy and air under one minister to n. Brooke Claxton prime minister King in a triple play solved several Cabinet difficulties and removed the necessity of any addition to 1 hat Council of state. The prime minister transferred Hon. Brooke Claxton becomes defence minister Hon. Colin Gibson new state Secretary Hon. Paul Martin Secretary of state to or. Claxton s former port Folio of minister of National health and welfare a step up for or. Martin. Simultaneously he gave or. Mar tin s Post As Secretary of state to Hon. Colin Gibson who formerly held the ministry of air As a sep Arate portfolio. The prime minister explained that a minister who had presided Over one Branch of the armed services As or. Gibson had. During demobilization might be under the imputation of that service As against others if he were name to head All three. Therefore he had considered it More advisable to appoint a minister who had hitherto not been in charge of any ability there is no question of or. Clax ton s ability to guide the destinies of the armed forces. The new minister of National defence server in the first world War overseas with the 10th Canadian siege Battery As a sergeant major. He received the dam for his outstanding services and is the author of a pamphlet on military Law and discipline for Canadian soldiers. During 1939-40 he lectured on military Law to the Mcgill University contingent Cana Dian officers training corp. In accordance with his Usua custom. Or. King paid a special tribute to each of the ministers for the services they had Given in their departments. He mentioned particularly the value of or. Caxton s training in military Law an Chris experience in International relations in the problems now facing can Ada s new defence forces so intimately affected by those relations Hon. Or. Martin the Prim minister pointed out was especially fitted to take Over the department of health and welfare due to i extensive knowledge of labor am social problems gained As a Dele Gate to the United nations economic and social Council and to United nations Assembly. Hon. Or. Gibson received a glow ing tribute along with Hon. c. Abbott elevated tuesday to the ministry of finance for their join efforts in the smooth demobilization of Canada s army Navy and enforce. Or. Gibson s Legal Knowledg would also be of great value the prime minister pointed out in the intricate problems that exist be tween the provinces and the Domin Ion with which the office of Secre tary of state has to Deal. Hon. Paul Martin Given health portfolio present arrangement unfair 5 More City seats in legislature urged a 50 per cent increase in the number of City members in the Manitoba legislature was proposed by City members of the special Ommittee on redistribution of electoral divisions meeting in the legislative building thursday afternoon. This would mean that the present 10 City members would be increased to 15. The increase of City membership in the provincial House was Sug ested by Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid minister of mines and natural re sources e. A. Hansford St Boni Ace l. St. George Stubbs and g. S. Thorvaldson who based their argument on the fact that then event 10-seat arrangement was unfair As greater Winnipeg s popu action took in approximately one Hird. Of the provincial population. And whereas they agreed they vere not asking for representation n ratio to would Nean about 19 City were asking a minimum of 15 seats. His was based they added on the act there were about voters n the City or about voters of each of the 15 candidates. Country members opposed such proposals met with immedi ate opposition from the country members of the committee. We must either increase the size of the House now 55 seats plus three armed services Mem users or decrease the Rural seats. Therefore the matter resolved itself into two questions 1 Are we willing to increase the House or 2 Are we willing to increase the number of Winnipeg members a1 the. Expense of Rural said Hon. D. L. Campbell minister of agriculture and member for Lakeside. T am not personally interested in an increase in the House because there is a feeling in the country that we Are Over governed these Days. But whereas i Don t like the present position either i do main Tain that it is the same All Over the Globe. The Rural constituencies Are favored wherever democracy said or. Campbell. Pocket boroughs or. Stubbs stated that if the House was to maintain its presen 55-seat membership there would have to be elimination of five Rura seats. Some smallest constituencies he said could Only be termed pocket out o the 55 constituencies there were five with less than voters 13 with less than voters 21 with less Tran voters and 29 with less than in contrast or. Stubbs continued n the 1922 election Winnipeg had voters. Now there were approximately or three times he 1921 numbers and yet. The k eats for the City members remained he same As then. Referring to the dec. 1 Issue of Magazine or. Stubbs then suggested the setting up of an in dependent non political inquiry into he question of redistribution. St. Boniface Case cited As an example of the unfairness of the present distribution the Casi of or. Hansford was brought up More shopping Days Toj i Christmas legislature continued on Page 8, column 3 Trade plan continued on Page. 8, column 6 Slaughter. The court sentenced mrs. Mclean to serve seven years in the Penitentiary sentence to Date from june 19, when mrs. Mclean was first taken into custody by police. Mrs. Mclean who is at present in heading Ley jail will now be transferred to the women s Section of the and will there await arrangements to Transfer her to Kingston Penitentiary where she will serve her sentence according to sheriff d. My Kyle. Announces decision in a Short statement after the a peal court opened at 11.10 . To Day chief Justice e. A. Mcpher son delivered the judgment of the court. He said this court has taken under consideration All the material facts in Ury which might have resulted in heir arriving at a different ver dict. We Are of the opinion that in a new trial with the same evidence and a proper charge to the jury he Best the accused could Hope for should be a verdict of manslaughter. We Are of opinion that the Best Hing this court can do is quash he verdict of murder and sub tit Ute one of manslaughter. The a will be. A sentence of seven years imposed to Date from june 19, this Case and has arrived at a decision we find evidence that should have been emphasized by the trial judge in his charge to the Queen Elizabeth gets lost in London dec. 13 Queen Elizabeth got lost in the fog 100 Yards from Buck Ingham Palace thursday night. A police search party found her stranded in the Royal limousine right in the Centre of the mall. She and her party s could t find their Way Home. Little wonder. Visibility was one Yard. Hundreds of thous ands of the Queen s Loyal subjects had the same trouble. Only some of them never did get Home. It was a peas Ouper thick enough to set the ancients muttering in their of the filthiest chilliest fogs that had smothered London in years. The Queen was driving Home from a dinner at the Middle Temple and had passed through admiralty Arch into the mall when the going got too thick the combined serv ices of a police squad a police inspector and the Queen s chauffeur and her private detective finally guided the car through the Palace Gates. The fog had lasted 18 hours by noon Friday and the air ministry promised another dirty night after an afternoon setup. Thin layers of ice coated the streets daytime traffic was snarled commuters arrived at work hours late. Smoke eaters one of the night s weird sights was firemen groping with torches beside their fire engine. They were advancing one mile an hour to put out a fire in a crematorium. At 6 the m Turkey cur Tain drifted Down As millions of workers and Christmas shoppers headed Home. The double Decker buses crept to the curb. Conductors announced far As we go. You walk from that started a Rush at a Snail s Pace to the subways. Motorists parked their cars and bedded Down for the night in the Back seats. Boys with an Eye for a Quick sixpence guided a few cars with flares Down Piccadilly and Kensing ton Road at two shillings 40 cents a mile. They always do at Midnight the subways shut Down. They always do. The pubs closed at 11.they always do too. Thousands were stranded Miles from Home. More than hockey fans at Wembley stadium skated and Sang to recorded music All night on the House be cause they could t go Home. About that crematorium fire. When the firemen finally arrived they had to Light acetylene flares so they could see to. Fight it. Pow discussion Ottawa dec. 13 retention of German prisoners o War in Canada As workers was re ported Friday to be under discus Sion Between the Canadian and United kingdom governments. With the dec. 22 deadline for the final embarkation of prisoners Only nine Days away the negotiations were believed to be in the final stages and announcement of some shortly. Decision is expected no comment s. Hart Green counsel for mrs. Mclean informed the court he. Had no comment to make on their decision. Mrs. Mclean had been sentenced to hang by or. Justice a. K. Dysart on oct. After an Assize Ury found her guilty of the Mur Der of Salisbury following a party at their May air Avenue suite on june 19." before the jury retired to con Sider their verdict the trial judge fad charged them to return with a verdict of guilty or not and expressed the opinion there was no grounds of self de in Nice or excuse of drunkenness in the evidence to warrant reduction of the charge to manslaughter. S. Hart Green appealed the Case on the principal grounds that or. Justice Dysart erred in his charge to the jury. Offers motion after a two hour hearing of the grounds for Appeal and the sub Mission of the Crown thursday c. W. Tupper Crown counsel made a motion that the court substitute a manslaughter verdict when it became apparent they intended to quash the verdict of murder. Previous cases similar action was taken by Crown counsel in fhe Case of Rex is Barilla in. The British Columbia court of Appeal on oct. Id 1944. Barilla had been convicted of murder after he fatally shot one Wallace in a Avn Duver hotel. His conviction was quashed and he received a 15-year sentence. In nov., 1945, Rex is Harrison also in the . Court of Appeal was a similar quashing of a murder verdict and substitution of manslaughter and the accused received life imprisonment. Macdonald repeats demands n. Is wants sole right to All minor taxes Ottawa dec. An Gus Macdonald of Nova Scotia has demanded in consideration of entry of that province into the tax trans Fer agreement with the Dominion that Nova Scotia must retain sole right to collection of All minor amusement elec firemen dig the ruins of the tenement House in new York which was reduced to rubble Fay an explosion in the adjoining ice House. The big Mobile Crane Boom at right aids the men in their search. Known dead total 23, and 13 persons Are still missing. Rocity parimutuel Stock Transfer taxes and the like. In addition to retention of these direct tax rights in lieu of Transfer to the Dominion of income tax corporation tax and succession duties or. Macdonald also demands that besides having the annual do minion subsidy increased to per capita and adjusted upward annually to Nova Scotia s share of increased Gross National production that the province be entitled to ask a further increase if and when its fiscal needs require it. Repeats arguments in Short according to this in formation from an authoritative source the Nova Scotia Premier has demanded everything which he set Forth in the arguments last april and May before the Dominioni provincial conference. At that time among other things or. Macdonald said the government of Nova Scotia tolds strongly to the View that the fiscal need of provinces should be the governing principle in the allo Nova Scotia continued on Page 8, column Stoke up those fires -28 tonight if you be forgotten what 28 de Grees below Zero feels like just stick your nose outside the front door late tonight. You la find out. The Weatherman has predicted the coldest night so far in Winter 1946. Winnipeg and the red River re Gion escaped with 12 degrees below during thursday night. That was moderate compared with 36 be Low at both Regina and Saskatoon and 18 below at Brandon. But with. Clear cold weather in the offing this City May soon give her Western neighbors some close Competition. Saturday s High Here and in car Man will be 14 below. Friday s 20 mile an hour wind will drop to 10 by saturday but will continue to blow fros tily from the North West. Light snowfalls have been re ported in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan but Are not expected to occur in Manitoba. The High yesterday in Winnipeg was 4 below and the Low during the night was 12 below. It was 34 be Low Here dec. 12, 1879, ;