Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 19, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press winnipeg1 Clear becoming Cloudy tonight scattered thundershowers during night. Slightly cooler Low tonight and High tomorrow at Gimli Carman and Winnipeg 60 and so. Vol. 277 28 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday August 19, 1948 Sun rises Moon rises 9.12 . Sun sets 8.39 . Moon sets 5.53 . Forecast warm with showers . Convention opens controls reimposed on bread and flour greater labor farm co operation urged As . Opens meet a Call for greater Unity Between Farmers and labor was by David Lewis National Secretary of the . In his report to the party s 10th biennial convention which got under Way thursday at the fort Garry hotel. Klein lights Glare Down at opening As mayor Garnet Coulter step Ped on to the dais in the concert Jill at the fort Garry hotel at ,10.30 . Thursday to Welcome the 250 delegates to the 10th biennial convention of the . The scene from the Balcony of the Hall was worthy Cecil b. De mine. R on a raised sound on one Side Battery of movie cameras and technicians stood ready to record for posterity the convention s official opening. In the Centre of an aisle Between five Long rows of tables covered with spotless White cloths a clump of microphones stood ready to carry the voices of delegates to the furthest Corner of the Dominion. On each Side of the Long Hall and on the Balcony itself squads of technicians put the finishing touches to the adjustment of the Many huge Klig lights whose Dued the Sunshine which came thro ugh. The windows. Looked at from the Entrance the Hall lost none of its Glamour. On another dais on which stood the customary jugs of ice water and glasses More microphones had been arranged. Party slogans faced the audience and immediately be Hind the dais the letters. C.c.f., Lour feet High stood out against Blue background. They were flanked by. Huge portraits of m. J. Coldwell National . Leader and the late j. S. Woodsworth father of the movement. Over doorways on either hide of the1 Divis slogans super imposed on the Maple Leaf. Read people and on to to the left of the dais Csc recording rooms had been set up. Broadcasts transcribed com ment and be heard All Over Canada As the convention goes along. More spotlights installed on top of the recording rooms lit up the faces of the party executives who occupied the dais when mayor Coulter made his opening address. He thanked the . For Choos ing Winnipeg is a convention site. Never before have the of the people been focussed to such an extent three major Politi Cal he said. We Are in a state of the mayor continued and i have no doubt that the deliberations of this convention will have a beneficial effect on the Gen eral presenting the report of the party s National Council and exec Ive or. Lewis said the . Vas created As a partnership of 11 working classes and particular y of the Farmers and Industrial endorsement of the . By the Canadian Congress of labor he de cried As a matter of great in Ortance to the future of our move nent and to the future of Canada t was noteworthy he added that n All instances individual Mem of unions in. The trades and Abor Congress of Canada the ther labor body also gave their support to the . Or. Lewis emphasized what he armed the Basic conviction of the All economic organi actions of the people whether labor Armer or co operative will achieve heir full objectives and the Safe Uard of their futures if Only they Nite together in political action through the ." he has been the experience of every democratic coun Canadian Farmers or. Lewis con inked have found Canadian and Tovin Cial. Federations of Agricula ure ignored by capitalist parties ind governments. Organized labor n every part of Canada with the exception of Saskatchewan has anti labor legislation or Ai fist inadequate labor legislation he said. In addition Canadian co operatives have had the experience f reactionary tax anal Otner poli ties deliberately designed to hamper their growth. The positive results in other and the lessons in oui own confirm the . Belief that hese economic organizations mus build a political instrument o heir own. In Canada the s the Only party that can serve As that the National Secretary stated. He emphasized a statement by of. J. Coldwell the party s National Eaner in which support of the 2.c.f by the communist party was denied absolutely. The statement it out in four paragraphs read As 1. The . Will not collaborate see . Page 10 shooting inquest to be held Friday Gilt. Man., aug. 19 an in quest into the death of Haraldur Magnusson. 44-year-old Fisherman adjourned until Friday at 8 . In the Gimli town Hall after a Coroner s jury viewed the body 1 . Wednesday. Magnusson . Say shot his in their Gimli Home at 5.15 ., tuesday and then turned the .22 Rifle on himself half an hour later. He died at 9.30 . In girl Hospital. Condition of mrs. Magnus son was reported As poor by Winnipeg general Hospital authorities thursday. A private service will be help Lor or. Magnusson in Langrill s funeral parlor. Selkirk Friday a 1.30 . Burial will be in girl cemetery. Plane overdue Kuala Bumpur Malaya aug 19 Reuters the . Said thursday one of its Dakota plane was 10 hours overdue on a recon Naissance flight Over suspected in positions in North Kedaci Kelantan. The plane carried a Normal delegates to the . National convention were welcomed to Winnipeg thursday by mayor Garnet Coulter who is pictured Here addressing the representatives shortly after the three Day session was officially opened in the seventh floor Assembly Hall of the fort Garry hotel. At the left of mayor Coulter is m. J. Cold Well National Leader of the party. Pictures of or. And the late j. A Woodsworth Pioneer chief of the face delegates who packed the Hall to hear the opening speeches. A Barczyszyn denied bail Phillip a Barczyszyn held a connection with the death of Anne Schultz m wednesday was refused bail by magistrate m. H. Carton n City police court. Magistrate Garton said the ques Tion of bail might be materially affected by the outcome of an in quest. Monday night when he said a much More serious charge might be Laid. A Barczyszyn is at present held on a technical charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He is alleged to have struck the blow which 12 Days inter ended in death for miss Schultz. Meanwhile police pressing heir investigation of the alleged free for All at 265% fld a avens two weeks ago in which mis Schultz was assaulted. Given a Barczyszyn was remanded until tuesday after his counsel s w. Mcmurray asked that bail b set. A very very serious charge a. Be Laid against this Man after the or. Garton said. If to have no serious objection i Sug Geist. You let the matter stand until but my client is being deprive of his began or. Me Murray. And a woman is Crow prosecutor Orville Kay interjected or. Garton said he would Agai consider the question of bail after a Coroner s jury determines the cause of death. Refuses lie test Washington aug. 19 state department official Alger Hiss has refused for the Tim being to submit to a lie detect test in connection with the hous spy investigation it was disclose thursday. Worthless scrip scrapped zealand up currency values Wellington aug. 19 new zealand thursday revalued her currency up to parity with Britain s Sterling while in Nan King the chinese government scrapped its almost worthless inflated scrip and went on the Gold Standard with new paper Dollar Worth 25 cents each in u. S. Currency. The boost in the new zealand Jound from ,16 to 20 English Shil to is the first up Ward revaluation of any currency since Canada s and Sweden s pumps in the summer of 1946. The new zealand boost is 25 per cent compared to the Canadian and swedish rises of 11 and 17 per cent respectively. It was predicted that new zealand s dearer Money might in a competitive International Mitre it in Dairy products Handicap her Export prices and Benefit her competitors in the British can Ada Denmark. This would depend on How new zealand s production costs conform to currency changes. Prime minister Chifley of Australia stated the value of the australian Pound would not be changed. China. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek said the new currency called the Gold will be backed by a 100 per cent Reserve and will be convertible into for eign Exchange under government control. The presidential mandate prohibited private Possession of Gold Silver Silver dollars and foreign Exchange and ordered that any such holdings be surrendered immediately to the government. Budu throughout China were ordered closed for the next two Days and Bank executives and business leaders will be invited to banking to Dis cuss plans for placing the new currency in circulation. It was reported that the be currency will be exchanged of the old inflated scrip at the a of one new chinese Gold Dolla Lor each of. The old. Do Lars. The old scrip Hod been inflated until it wats Worth Abo dollars to one America Dollar. Berliners attack soviets Berlin aug. 19 bup at least four Jerman civilians were dulled and eight others in ured thursday when Ger Nan police from the Brit so and soviet sectors slashed in a gun Battle at pots danger Platz in Central downtown Berlin. An angry mob of germans then attacked a communist party head quarters in the soviet sector of Merlin. First reports from German sources said the encounter was touched off at 6.30 . 12.30 not when German police from he soviet sector fired in the Brit so sector during a Black Market Aid. British Public safety and military police officials How Ever could not be reached immediately Tor confirmation. Paul Markgraf chief of the sovet sector police Force was con acted by the British United press. I can t Tell you anything about shouted Over the Telephone and abruptly Cut the connection. American Public safety officers Aid they knew nothing about the incident. The encounter apparent y ended As suddenly As it had started. Off a mussels aug. 19 Reuters Belgium custom officials estimated hat of the tons of Coffee imported in Belgium each year at East tons was smuggled into Ranee. Gillson arrives july 31 Price level stands Ottawa. Aug. 19 up the i ires Hoard Umo suced thursday that Price Reili Iii control is citing reimposed on All flour made wholly or partly told Western Canada wheat and All bread made Holly or partly from such flour. The prices at which the products Are Frozen As of thursday at All Trade Levels Are those in effect last july 31. Price drop will come very soon or. Justice a. K. Dysart Chancellor of the University of Manitoba and w. J. Parker chairman of Board of Gover nors were on hand at the . Station thursday morning to Greet Albert h. S. Gillson who arrived from Montreal to take Over his new duties As president of the. University of Manitoba. Or. Gills n s first action upon his arrival was to take his 13-year-old Spaniel Teddy also shown to a dog Kennel. Teddy it seems is shedding his hair. See Story on Page Power commission starts Extension plan the Manitoba Power commission has begun construction on a 143 Nile programme to extend to facilities in Western and Central Manitoba w. D. Fallis chairman announced thursday. The pro Ramme will be the largest carried out by the commission since before the War. Main part of the new network will be a transmission line of 143 Miles from a new Ter Minal station at Parkdale eight Miles North of Winnipeg to bran Don where the present station will be enlarged to feed electricity to a wider area. In addition two circuits and one at volts Are being constructed to feed the inter Lake area including Winnipeg Beach Arborg Stonewall Eriksdale and Steep Rock Junction. The Parkdale Brandon line or. Fallis said will provide a considerable improvement in the Volt age regulation of the entire West Ern system. It will not be tapped Between the two terminal stations. To was expected that voltage regu action on the system East of bran Don would also be improved due to the Relief provided to the existing line. The Parkdale terminal station leaps to safety Brandon Man., aug. 19 up flames engulfed a tractor hauling Combine on a farm near Here wednesday the Gas tank exploded and set fire to the stubble. Douglas Meadows Driver of the tractor leaped to safety and near by neighbors helped to extinguish the Blaze. A broken Gas line run Ning Over the Muffler was the cause of the fire or. Meadows said. Will tap the Winnipeg electric company s Volt line from the great Falls Hydo electric Plant. It will include kilo Volt am Peres of transformers from which the Brandon and inter Lake lines will be fed. Commission officials Hope to have the new service in full operation by Spring. The trans Mission lines will be. Completed by the end of november and the terminal station Early in the Winter. The Western lines will be constructed on wooden h poles As far As Portage la Prairie and will be carried on existing steel towers from there to Brandon. Between 600 and 700 commission employees Are working on the project. From Brandon the electricity will North West and South Alon existing and proposed wires to fee the province s growing Rural elec Trifi cation programme. Last major project carried of by the commission was a line from Winnipeg to Elm Cree in 1939. The present program has been in the planning stage of the past two years. On that Date. Right Hon. C. Howe Trade minister announced 45-cent increase in the Domestic Price for wheat taut said that a subsidy would be paid to keep Lown the prices of flour and bread. The Board said that in reimpose no the ceilings it was acting on instructions from the government. A government spokesman pointed out that the 45-cents a Hushel subsidy was blink paid for the specific purpose of preventing Price increases to the consumer. It now was Felt that re imposition of controls is necessary to achieve the purpose intended by the payment of the subsidy. The order which Beca me effect Ive thursday Means that no per on May sell flour or bread made Holly or partly from Western Canada wheat to any other person at a Price higher than he was charging the same class of buyer at. July 31. Oud protests Ottawa., aug. 19 Bakers across Canada will raise oud protests against the coiling on their bread prices As of july 31. According to Cecil mor risen of the Ottawa bakery firm of Morrison and Lamothe. And for Ner administrator of bakery pro duct prices for the wartime prices and Trade Board. Or. Morrison asserted that rising costs in the bakery Industry Are putting the average Baker out of business Ais it paper Mills for example have Given notice that sept. 1, they will cease making the standardized bread wrapper initiated by the wartime prices and Trade Board and begin making waxed paper wrappers. These new wrappers he said. Would Cost an additional .15 cents per 100 loaves of bread. Removal of. The Oil and fat sub Sidy alone he said was costing his firm per Day. Bakers required to hold their Price ceilings at the july 31 level or. Morrison asserted would simply be put of Busi Surprise package Peterborough Onu aug. 19 up maybe the Oyster clan should sue the sardines for this Jim Fraser manager of the per Borough chamber of Commerce closed his Teeth on a hard Small Pellet while eating a sardine Sand wich in a local restaurant. He peeled off the White outer coating and found a seed Pearl. Hanna to enter Prog. Con race for leadership Toronto aug. 19 w. Hanna member of the on Tario legislature announced wednesday night he will be a Candi Date for the National leadership of the progressive conservative party at its convention opening in Ottawa sept. 30. He is the first candidate officially to throw his hat in the ring to be successor to John Bracken who is retiring because of poor health. Or. Hanna who holds Huron Bruce constituency for the progressive conservatives in the pro i racial legislature chose his 59th birthday As occasion for the announcement. Or. Hanna was elected to the Ontario House in 1943, re elected in 1945 and again last june. A Mer chant he is a former mayor of a Western Ontario town of persons. Quebec plans new political party Quebec aug. 19 Al. Organizers if Quebec province Are at work on foundations of a new party to be launched for. The next Federal election Campaign under the name parti Canadien or the Canadian press Learned this wednesday from political sources close to the budding As the builds up it is hoped to extend it beyond Quebec particularly to new Brunswick Ontario and possibly the West. Houde Montreal s colourful mayor will be one of the chiefs of the new party heading Montreal District organization. Chief of Quebec District will be Paul Bouchard key Union nation ale publicity Man who campaigned against right Hon. Louis St. Laurent in 1942 when the new Liberal Leader was elected to re present Quebec East in the House of commons. The parti Canadien expects to recruit support among some Mem Bers of the High geared Union a Only the Best Capetown aug. -19 the South african government announced wednesday that it would cancel assisted immigration under which britons have entered the Union the last two years and admit Only the best1. Settlers. Tio Nale organization. But it is said there will be no formal link be tween the two groups. Parti Canadien sponsors say their group will set itself up distinctly. Respect of provincial right and Clear Cut demarcation of led Cral and Provin Cial Powers under the terms of confederation will be one of the party s main platform Plaj iks. The basis of its policy will be wholehearted Canadia ism in external relations it will favor the closest possible ties with the United states and Active participation in movements for the in prove men t of pan american rela recent boost explained new competitive rate within 21% increase by Chester Bloom Ottawa aug. 19 seems to be some confusion in the minds of shippers Over the railways recent notice that competitive freight rate tariffs will be raised 15 per cent effective sept 15. This 15 per cent is not an addition to. The 21 per cent general freight rate increase which took effect last april but is within the 21 per cent increase which went nto effect last april. The 21 per cent increase applied o All railway freight Dard special and a the 21 per cent added to the previous rates became the Normal or ceiling rate. Railways have in common sense been permitted to make lower or competitive rates under this top Normal rate or ceiling. For example suppose the old Normal rate was is. Per 100 pounds for a certain distance. Under the 21 per increase that Normal rate would Rise to per 100 pounds. But under the old Normal rate of is per 100 pounds the railways might have had a lower competitive rate of 75 cents per 100 pounds to meet truck Competition. The 21 per cent increase in effect last april would then have raised that competitive rate by 15% cents to cents. The railways now Are raising see fre Toht rates Page 10 removal of the recent one cent increase in the Price of bread very soon was forecast by major Bakers thursday As word of re. Hon. C. D. Howe s re imposition of Price controls on bread and flour reached them. Catching their collective breath they despairingly admitted the action Harl caught them Euld. Of the Largo bakeries interviewed by the Kree press thursday morn ing Only one firm was nut affected. All the others Hud boosted i heir prices one cent a loaf aug. 12 and their managers conceded the in crease would go by the Board under the new regulations which Are effective As of july 31. In All cases the Bakers contacted received first word of the new regulations from the free press and their reactions were practically identical. We re on us i in that i ant bakery manager see reaction Page 10 Duck Hunting bag limits dates Are set open season for Duck Hunters in Manitoba were release in thursday by the Federal mines and resources department. North of the parallel the season for ducks mils and cools opens at noon sept. 1, and closes one half hour after Sunset sept. 30. Between the 57th and 53rd parallels of latitude the season is open from noon sept. 23, to one half hour after Sunset oct. 30. South from the 53rd parallel to the Border with the exception of the Delta waterfowl control Aron Hunters May open fire a i noon oct. 1, until nov. A one half hour after Sunset. Control area in the waterfowl control the season opens at noon oct. 11, and closes nov. 8. Eider ducks Wood ducks swans or inns Wil son s snipe All other Shore Birds and All migratory non game and insectivorous Birds Are protected by a year round closed bag limits for any Day Are seven ducks three geese and of Coots and rails. For any season the limit is 35 ducks nine geese and fid Cool s and rails. The regulations also for bid any one person to have raw. Than 14 ducks or More May boost rates for truck freight Toronto. Aug. 19 up j. O. Goodman general manager of the automatic transport association of Ontario indicated wednesday night truckers May boost freight following the 15 per cent. 3 o o s t in competitive rates announced by railways. Be at All surprised if truckers raise heir rates anywhere up to 15 or he said labor and equip ment costs have mounted steadily. Ontario Quebec hit Ottawa aug. 19 up a transport Board spokesman said wednesday night it is Likely ont Ario arid who be particularly affected by decision of the railways to increase competitive freight rates by 15 per cent he added that British Columbia and the maritime also will be affected. Both shipping and truck ing Are involved there. Than 30 Coos and rails in his pos session at any time. The same fire regulations As those enforced in other years will be in effect and the use of live decoys or Grain bait is banned. Boats Are forbidden in the Hunt ing of migratory game Birds on any of the wavers or marshes of White water Lake. More troops London. Aur.-19 api the War office announced tuesday that or. Goodman said is would t men of Britain s famed Fri Gap of and certain Othor troops will be sent to Malaya As soon As possible it Confidence restore order nerf Truman denies leaks . President blasts Congress spy probes Washington aug. 19 bup Truman called the con Gressional spy hearings thursday an infringement on Basic Ameri can rights end declared flatly that no . Secrets leaked out during the War. The president said the Justice department is working on new espionage legislation but is finding it hard to tighten up on spies with out infringing on the Bill of rights. Or. Truman s statements in effect gave the lie to witnesses be fore the Senate investigating House in american activities committees who have charged that communists formed a prewar underground among Federal officials Here whose was espionage and ultimate overthrow of the government. 2. Two soviet spy rings during the War obtained . Military secrets such As b-29 specifications and Advance information on the a Day Date from government officials. Or. Truman went on to he Wiik unalterably opposed Gestapo As for what government Docu ments Congress can and can t have the Issue is Clear he said. Congress May have the same kind of papers it always has Hud Access to employment files but not confidential files the president said. These confidential files he added have always been available to the , and to the government s loyalty boards. And they were made available too to the new York grand jury he said ;