Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Iii nip 48 pages. Vol. 65 Price 5 cents with comics 10c Winnipeg sat Friday december 14, 1946 Moon rises 11.4a. . Moon sets 12.59 . Forecast continuing cold troop Manitoba benefits extra Revenue close to the Mark is in Prospect for the Manitoba Treasury As a result of the Dominion government s newly announced decision to vacate the gasoline tax Field. This however is contingent on whether the province will actually 50 ahead and impose the additional 3 cents a gallon tax which Ottawa has been collecting hither Hon. To. S. Mcdiar mid acting Premier declined to commit the saturday that the whole question would have to be reviewed by the Cabinet and thar Premier Stuart arson is now on his Way to Ottawa to con Fer with fed no authorizes Fin a settlement o. Manitoba s cent. Ottawa Der. 11 Douglas abhor Minir Ler of finance announced saturday the Dominion government has do Midorl spokesman would not. Violence in Palestine. Free press editor stresses Goodwill Grant Dexter describes Canada s Mission As he receives High Honor at the left Are the lace and reverse sides of the Maria moors Cabot Gold Medai presented at a convocation of Columbia University new York Friday of Grant Dexter executive editor of the Winnipeg free press in recognition of distinguished journalistic work in promoting undemanding Between the people of the Western hemisphere. The Pic Ture at the right is of the Silver plaque awarded to the free press for its contribution in the same Field. Or. Dexter is the first Canadian Ever to receive the Cabot medal and the free press is the first Canadian newspaper similarly honoured. New York dec. Standing and co operation among the nations of North Central and South America Are More important than Ever now because of. The unsettled state of the world three prominent journalists said Friday after being presented the eighth annual Maria moors Cabot medals of Columbia University. The medals awarded each year since 1939 Lor journalistic efforts to better relations a Moor. Tie Peoples of the Western hemisphere were presented to Grant Dexter executive editor of the Winnipeg free press Lee Hills managing editor of the Miami Herald Florida and Miguel Lanz Duret president and general manager of Al Universal. Mexico City. Another highlight of the occasion was the awarding of a Silver plaque 1o the Winnipeg free press for its contribution in advancing Goodwill Between of the Western hemisphere. Dean Carl w. Ackerman of the Columbia school of journalism in introducing or Dexter said Winnipeg. Free press is renowned throughout the world. For three. Generations it has been directed by the Sifton family its present unique position is due to its editorial conscience and to its courageous presents awards or. Frank d. Fackenthal acting president of. Columbia presented the awards at the convocation Low memorial Library. Prior to the convocation Dean Ackerman was Host at a luncheon at which the recipients of the medals and the faculty members were guests. Or. Dexter the first Canadian to be awarded a Cabot prize in accepting the award said that Canada s position As a member of the american family of nations i s unique. Her special he said Springs from her geographical Dexter continued on Pale 10, column 5 Moscow. Dec. 14 Reuters Man. Will Fly like the Birds and grandma in her helicopter will have to watch out for Junior on his personal self propelled sky bicycle if the experiments of maj. Gem a. V. Golubev of the soviet Academy of science prove Success Ful. Foe he last four years Gen. Colu Bev and his associates have been studying the flight techniques of. Dragon flies storks crows and sparrows. Now they have announced thai they have precise formulae for calculating the mechanics of Wing propulsion Gen. Golubev t visual ize that in the future Man s age Long dream to Fly like a Bird will come Molotov demands action on census United nations Hall Flushing n.y., dec. 14 United states eleventh hour disclosure that its overseas armed forces hav e been slashed to less than troops started the showdown East West Battle saturday Over a world census of fighting forces. V. M. Molotov soviet foreign , Dom added final action on the troops census Issue Early saturday morning after James Byrnes u. S. Secretary of state unveiled a partial inventory of America s troops abroad. Watered Down Resolution in motion May curb big five use of veto _ new York dec. 14 United nations Assembly Friday night adopted a controversial Resolution which May eventually reduce use of the veto by 36 to 6, with 11 Powers abstain ing. Russia was the Only one of the members holding the veto right which opposed the proposal. The final Resolution watered Down after Long committee de Bate merely called on the five great Powers to take note of Small Power opposition to the special voting privilege and to seek agree ment on conditions under which the veto should he exercised. Joining the soviet Union in opposition were White Russia Czechoslovakia. Poland the soviet Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Of the other members of the big five great Britain arid the United states voted yes and China and France abstained. Canada supported the australian proposed Resolution and delegation Leader Paul Martin told the As Sembly the Security Council has yet to demonstrate that it is capable of doing this Job the . Has a right to expect of it and which i believe is expected of it by the people of the the Resolution asks tie Security Council to prevent the. Veto impeding prompt decisions to adopt procedure reducing difficulties Aris ing from use of the veto and to give consideration to the opinions expressed by member countries in the Long discussions o n this sub soviet paper says in meet fruitful v dec. 14 Vestia saturday termed the United nations general Assembly session in new York one cannot be satisfied wit h Al its said Izvestia in. A Long review of the session. Be assumed that the session could have reached better results with less waste of time and Energy but one can not fail to see substantial achievement benefiting the cause of International Izvestia said the for eign ministers Council which has just finished drafting five treaties in new York also overcame Many difficulties for the solution of important International affairs in the interest of peace and demo the paper termed the russian proposal for Universal arms reduction the most before the. Assembly and undoubtedly the biggest. Constructive step toward peace since the in was formed efforts had been Mao e to confuse this ques Tion in every Churchill Indian query unanswered by Frank s. Walker dec. Churchill pressed in the House of commons Friday night for an ans wer to this question would the i government consider valid a decision in Delhi to set up a Sovereign Independent Republic of f got no answer. That was a hypothetical a. V. Alex Ander told him and the govern ment would not answer hypothetical questions. Or. Churchill returned to his Point did the government Reserve its decision on the Validity of the proceedings in the constituent As Sembly or. Replied that was still a hypothetical question. Or. Churchill repeated his question. Or. Alexander refused to answer. It was a dangerous question. Any ill considered word from the government and the delicate balance in India might be upset. The tone of speeches Friday reflected the sense of desperate urgency which now pervades the in Dian situation. Or. Alexander wound up for the government. He declared that every Effort must be made to secure participation of the moslem league in the deliberations of the constituent Assembly but he did not think that the league s absence i vented the Assembly from meeting and doing business. The Only real difference Between the British government and at present was on the question of procedure. We have he said to the Constitution making of India to indians provided we can get proper Protection of this the main difference be tween Churchill and Alexander. Churchill did not believe the Hin dus and moslem could get to Gether. Alexander would not admit that it was impossible. Loud ears greeted Alexander when he sat Down. Now it. Is up to Jinnah who is still in London. Report Yenchen seized banking dec. H Ern ment forces seized. Yenchen. The newspaper Hsin min Pao re ported saturday virtually completing their recapture of Northern Kangsu province. More 1 shopping Days to Ujj gris Mas i Jet. This was far from original efforts of Australia and other smaller Powers to have the veto Power eliminated or greatly curtailed but which met with unyielding opposition from the big five. The theme of or. Martin s com ments was that each of the Security Council members should use its veto not in defence of its own National interests but in the inter ests of the United nations As a he said the Resolution before the Assembly was in entire Accord with views expressed by the Canadian delegation from the Start. Approves trusteeship agreements new York dec. 14 the United nations Assembly Fri Day night approved trusteeship agreements for league of nations mandated territories submitted Buji great Britain France Australia Belgium and new zealand. Russia led the opposition which varied from five to six votes on the eight different agreements be fore the general Assembly. Each of the administering Powers received 41 votes. This action made possible prompt establishment of the last of the major . Agencies to be created the trusteeship Council which guard the interests of the inhabitants of Trust territories while they Are under the administration of . Members. Before the historic session ended. Molotov Byrnes and Ernest Bevin. British foreign Secretary pledged their countries unswervingly to the cause of world disarmament and said they believed the Long March toward this Ideal already had begun. They urged the Assembly to give Quick approval to the disarmament Resolution which spells out the principles by which the United nations Hope to reduce and per haps some Day eliminate arms and armies. Final action on the disarmament Resolution and the Widup of the scrap Over a census were the last major items confronting stretch driving Assembly delegates. They were expected to finish by sunday at the latest the first productive session of the world parliament. Urges formal census the Kickoff of the troops census showdown came from. Molotov at . After Byrnes had made a partial report on . Overseas orces and Bevin had promised to provide details at the first gesture rom the Security Council. Molotov said this was not the or place or such reports. He said the Assem Bly should Call Lor a formal census. Byrnes said most of the american troops Are in Germany. Japan and the japanese islands. Korea. Austria and Venezia Giulia Bevin stepped to the spotlighted podium after Byrnes finished and announced that Britain armed orces had been pared from a War time High of to less than a he said he did not Lave Handy detailed figures on British armed forces and did not say How Many of the were at Home and How Many overseas. Molotov in effect shrugged off Byrnes partial troops inventory As premature said a formal in Cen sus of overseas forces was necessary to get the in s arms scrapping negotiations under Way and then threw in. An attack on the atom bomb. When people Tell us it the bomb is forthe defence of heir country it goes without saying that what is necessary for the defence of. One s country is not a task that can be accomplished by the use of in meet continued on Page .0, column 4 51st King celebrates birthday quietly London dec. 14 the King saturday celebrated his 51st birthday quietly with his family. Official celebrations Are held in june. A 21-gun Salute was fired at noon by the Royal horse artillery and a similar Salute was planned at suburban Windsor Castle where the King and Queen planned to spend the week end. Marquise has jewels stolen London dec. 14 and Yard disclosed saturday that the american born Marquise de Zahara had been robbed Friday night of Worth of jewels and Cash. The Marquise told detectives he believed the thief Cut her hand Sag from its shoulder strap in Vic Oria Railroad station. The Marquise former Heirty Byrne widow the late Spanish minister to Paris who die d Sud Denly aboard the Paris henday cd Iress last june. Back payments unclaimed wheat Board reveals crop producers tardy transactions covering 000 bushels of wheat and involving the issuance of cheques to producers to the value of More than were handled by the Canadian wheat Board in the past three crop years shown in a summary of the Board s accounting operations for that period for the information of elevator companies. Payments made during the three crop years from. Aug. 1, 1943, to july 31, 1946, covered All phases of the boards activities payment of producers certificates on preceding crop years. Something magnitude of the huge busness transacted by the Board As Well As the immense detail necessary in its Many activities in connection with Canada s Grain Are review. Startling feature a startling feature of the report showing either carelessness or. Tardiness of producers in claiming from the Board is that out of the total of Over cheques is sued on participation certificates Are still outstanding. Even More astonishing was the boards experience in making pay ment on participation certificates in respect to the 1940, 1941 and 1942 wheat crops. It is disclosed that when All requisitions that had7 been sent in had been paid with these crops the Board still files payment for which had not been claimed. It has been estimated that the impressive amount of lies in the wheat Board reserves await ing claims under participation certificates for the 1940-41 and the 1941-43 wheat crops. These claims Are now outstanding More than two years. Feeling that a Large number of. Persons named in the certificates wheat Board and collecting monies due them continued on Page 10, column 3 15 months work ends in agreement new York dec. 14 the big four foreign ministers will return Home this week end after completing five minor peace and creating Amons themselves the friendliest Atmo sphere that has prevailed in a year for the Start of German peace treaty negotiations. Behind them were 15 months of bitter arguments that eventually ended in agreement Here on treaties for Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland. Ahead of them is the far More difficult task of writing peace treaties for Germany and Austria and eventually Japan. Most optimistic estimates count on sever Al years of peacemaking ahead. Each of the big four agreed that the fourth meeting of the big four Council of foreign ministers in new York was the most successful since the four began their peace making work in Lon Don in september 1945. Subzero weather continues Over he entire District saturday with temperature this morning generally Between 15 and 25 degrees below Zero. Skies have clouded Over in Southern Saskatchewan with some now but even this has failed to bring temperatures above the Zero Mark. This Cloud and Snow will confined to the southwestern portion of the District saturday. Over the remainder of the District the skies will remain comparatively Clear and Little Relief from tha Low temperature can be expected. Slightly higher temperatures Are anticipated Over the southwestern portion of the District on sunday but it will remain Clear and cold Over the remainder of the District. Winnipeg Clear today Cloudy sunday and continuing cold. West winds at 15 Miles per de pressing to Light this evening be coming East at 10 Miles per sunday afternoon. Low tonight -20 on sunday -2. Canned Salmon up Ottawa dec. 14 a retail Price increase of one or two cents a tin of canned Salmon depending on the size has been authorized by the prices Board. An announcement by the Board saturday said the action was following a review of data submitted by packers. General Cost increases was the reason Given for the new ;