Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. 279 46 pages g free press Winnipeg Cloudy this afternoon otherwise Clear saturday and sunday with Little change in. Temperature winds South West at 20 Mph decreasing to Light tonight. Low tonight and High Sun Day 52 and 75. Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday August 21, 1948 Sun p4ses 6.27 . Moon rises 9.39 . Sun Sou s.35 . Moon sets s.32 . Forecast Clear and warm Moscow negotiations strike Snag russians Kidnap More germans Berlin aug. 21. Bup russian military police kidnapped four More German policemen from the Western sectors of Berlin saturday and United states and British military authorities appeared to be preparing to resist any further russian raids into bakeries Cut bread As ordered five leading Winnipeg and District bakeries have announced Roll in the Price at their break to the level in effect july 31. The live bread Genera bakeries Western s bread Marve bakery St. Vital and Brown bread that their action is taken to meet the require ments of an order of the wartime prices and Trade Board issued aug 19. In a statement issued saturday the bakery firms state that a though they Are immediately put Ting the reduced Price to the con Turner into effect costs of bread production have not been Lessenco in any Way by the government order. The statement also said costs o labor materials and . Used in the manufacture and distribution of bread have increased greatly since september. 1947 bread prices in effect at july 31 were set. These Are the prices to which the bakeries Are now required to return. The Bakers statement ended with an Appeal to the Dominion government to make a care a of the situation now prevail ing in the baking Industry to the that a policy be put into of meet which would be fair to con and Bakers alike. Labor code takes effect september 1 Ottawa. Aug. 21 the Canada Gazette Friday carried official notice that the Federal labor code passed at he last session of parliament will become effective sept. 1. The code revising machinery for handling disputes in Industry under Dominion jurisdiction will control Jabor relations in such industries railways communications ship Ping and other Intel provincial activities. The Coile will be administered by a 0-imm in Nan labor relations Board bended by sir. Justice g. B. O Connor of the Alberta supreme Lemirt. Besides setting up machinery for Viand log disputes in federally controlled Industry the code also makes provision for transferring industries from provincial to Federal jurisdiction where the provinces signify they want this done. Lost one leg wooden Rome. Aug. 21 a Rome s municipal lost and found office re ported that somebody could have his wooden leg if he d hop and get it. Monster mixer this giant mixer being used in construction of a super run Way at the Rivers man., joint air school pours out one and one Quarter Yards of Concrete every 40 seconds. A 200-Rnan Crew is now nearly finished the first of two runways reported to be Strong enough to take landings by any heavy aircraft Likely to be designed in the future. Daily Cement consumption on the Job is bags. Ten inches of Concrete is being Laid Over a prepared gravel and Sand base 27 inches thick. Calling for two 200-foot-wide Landing strips and two taxi strips feet Long construction Wil Cost an estimated their sectors. Col. Frank Howley u. S. Com mandant in Berlin ordered three riot squads of american military policemen to duty saturday in the area of. The Border Between the russian and u. S. Sectors where the kidnappings have occurred. The squads consist of about 25 men each and All Wil be fully armed plans or entrenching the riot squads in the area especially near the potsdamer Platz were drawn up at the scene by top Mili tary police authorities. A total of nine German policemen have been Kidnap Ped by soviet military police from the american sector. Three have escaped but the other six still were held. The two abducted saturday were beaten and one was stabbed before being dragged across the Boundary. Two other German policemen were kidnapped saturday from the adjoining British zone and they too still Are missing. British and american authorities sent violent commanders protests to and the russian British strengthened their military police precautions in line with american moves. Russian authorities mean while charged that the american sector was a gangster Haven similar to he old Days of Chicago my said it must and will be cleared of its fascist and criminal american authorities said roving patrols of both american and Ger Nan police would augment the riot quads along the Boundary. An air of tension prevailed its High British and american officers made inspections and disposed their while russian soldiers watched curiously from their Side of the line often Only a few Yards away. Hundreds of expectant germans ined the streets to wait for the next move in the East West Man Iti Cring and american and Bri Isle police jeeps roamed the area during the waning hours of Day ight. Communist leaders in Berlin called for workers to attack the fascist gangs on the Western Borders in Street lights. The West Ern German police chief said the russians were seeking to create disorders As an excuse to March nto the Western sectors. Rangoon aug. 21 a burmese president Sao shwe Haik saturday declared a state of rave emergency in Burma and issued a martial Law act to com iat the rebellion. The government Friday night that it vill bomb and machine gun All territory held by rebels. Civilians vere warned to move out. The Over Menf has charged communists with leading the rebellion. Western Powers unable to agree says report Moscow aug. 21 Kremlin Germany have struck a Snag by the temporary inability of Tho a lust we Sirni Powers ave on a United front toward russian in was reported saturday nothing was scheduled for saturday and a meeting with v. M. Molotov soviet to Idun mini Ster appeared doubtful leading to belief that the Western envoys have Boon fond to set it instructions from their governments before asking for another Kremlin con ten Nee. Waller soviet envoy Bool passage to Europe Washington aug. 21 Consul general Jakob m. Lomakin expelled by the u. S. Slate department has booked passage aboard the swedish american Jiner Stockholm sailing saturday. I the new York Consul has made reservations for himself his wife and two children the steamship line said. It said it could not disclose. When the Dis accredited envoy had booked his passage. The ship plies Between new York and Gothen Burg. Lomakin was not available for comment saturday but soviet vice zot i. Chesnu Raykh said he knew a couple of months ago that Lomakin planned a trip to the soviet Union. Faced with . Charges that Lomakin abused coalition of opposing forces Welcome declares coldwell session on controls urged an immediate special session of parliament to reconsider adoption f Price control and subsidy legis action to meet inflation in the Canadian Cost of living was urged saturday at the 10th annual convention being held at the furl Jarry hotel. An emergency Resolution 1. Re imposition of Price controls on All Basic necessities of life food clothing and fuel specifically including subsidies on milk butter eed grains Cotton and Wool As Wel As bread. 2. Renewal of an excess profits a graded to remove past Nequi ies to raise revenues sufficient to say for the Price controls pro Ramme. 3. Closing of the Winnipeg Grain see . Page 9 wage act ceiling stays at Ottawa aug. 21 Eiling at which wage earners May in insured under insurance act will remain at when new amendments to the Aei go into effect oct. 4. Arthur Mac s Amara Deputy labor minister said Here Friday. In january this year the wage Eiling for employees paid other Han or. An hourly daily piece 01 Tii leage rate was raised from 00 to per year. There is no Eiling for other employees. Stay of proceedings to be asked Manitoba prepares formal protest in freight Case the Manitoba government will ask for a stay of proceedings on the Canadian railways1 application for an additional 20 per cent increase in freight rates until principles and calculations underlying the 21 per cent increase of last april have been reviewed Premier Stuart Garson said sat urday. The Premier s statement came following con delusion of meetings in Winnipeg this week of counsel and technical advisors from seven Western and maritime provinces opposing freight rate in creases. Following these or. Garson said Steps have been taken to file Manitoba s formal answer to the application by the Canadian railways for an addition Al increase of 20 per cent., in freight rates which when added to the 21-per-cent. Increase already in effect would result in a level of rates 45 per cent above the level april this Chol Leiwig a to railways the province s answer to the application the Premier stated will Challenge the soundness of the railways Contention that last month s 17-cent-an-hour wage in crease justifies a further freight rate increase. Or. Garson noted that the rail ways had had an increased volume of freight traffic that unduly heavy depreciation charges had been allowed and that the railways were in a very favourable condition. Manitoba he said was strongly of the View that freight rate in equalities should not be settled of any automatic formula without regard to regional differences. Unless the formulae used As a Casis for last april s 21-per-cent. Increase were challenged new in creases would almost automatic ally follow. Four Point attack the Manitoba attack or. Gar son said will be based on the Fol lowing four grounds 1. Olvat the railways have included excessive amounts for depreciation. 2. That expenses allowed by the transport Board included maintenance items which should not prop Erly be forecast Ideal not hot not wet if Wei Termun a pre diction comes True it looks is if the week end will be some Lii Iier outdoor fiends dream about. There will be no blazing heat ind no sudden showers according1 to reports. Apart from some cloudiness saturday afternoon skies will be Clear and Light winds will waft their Way Over toll courses Tennis courts and tool halt Fields. Outlook for sunday shows some cloudiness with Little Chen Jar in Tein Perniner. Expected High is 70 3. That the Board allowed the Canadian Pacific railway to charge against its railway operations All fixed charges and dividends of the entire corporation when some part of those charges should properly have been borne by non railway operations such As hotels steam ships and highly profitable invest ments such As . Holdings in consolidated mining and smelting 4. That the Board allowed the . A surplus of More than per year from railway operations Over and above the items mentioned in notwithstanding the fact that the . Had available to it earnings of some from its non railway operations and or. Garson said Manitoba s freight rate counsel had advised him these items might amount to a year for the . The whole matter he said should be reviewed by a Royal commission. Military Ptan Buenos Aires aug. 21 the Argentine Senate Friday voted a military construction programme to Cost about although secret arid open political coalition against it has reduced . Representation in provincial Legislatures this is welcomed by the party m. J. Coldwell . Leader told delegates to tie party s 10th biennial convention banquet held in the fort Garry hotel Friday night. Welcome it because this is drawing the political line in a realistic fashion Between the forces of privilege and reaction and. Those of social Justice and Progress or. Coldwell declared. Introduced by mrs. Gladys Strum Quappelle sask. Only woman member of the fed eral House or. Coldwell said spectacular victories during the past year merely emphasized the trend towards the . . Representation in Parlia ment and in the Legislatures Hac come mainly from the farms he said and added that it was worthy of note that Rural members had fought for the rights of organized labor. The . Is now the official opposition in British Columbia Manitoba Ontario and Nova Scotia he said. Forced into coalition More significant still he said was the fact of Liberal and conservative parties forced into open and secret coalition in b.c., Mani Toba and Saskatchewan. Touching on eight Federal by elections which have been held since 1945, or. Coldwell interpreted total votes in the same constituencies we Liberal vote was find that Down 12 the Pei cent., the progressive conserva Tive vote Down 18 per .cent., and the . 56 per the election held in Saskatchewan recently was the most import ant he said. There the move ment was subjected to its greatest this election followed remark Ible wins in three by elections held in Saskatchewan May 31, june 8 and. In the Ontario provincial elec Tion of june 17." he continued i say that the combination against the Saskatchewan government was the strongest that could be organized. Every ser vant of every vested interest was Active against the ." despite this our candidates see co dwell Page 9 meeting expected to approve of butter substitute the . Is expected to go on record As favouring the importation of Ole Margarine into Canada. Although David Lewis National Secretary refused to be quoted on the subject Friday night Resolution no. 47, which will face delegates at today s stated that Tor onto . Ers at least Are in favor of the butter substitute. Several other resolutions ask for essentially the same thing and the party s National executive is under stood to have drafted a Compromise motion covering those from the various parts of the Dominion. The National Council s Resolution it was Learned will advocate re Moval of present restrictions on the importation or manufacture of Ole Margarine in Canada. Should the . Pass the re solution it will be the first major party in Canada to approve importation of a butter substitute. The convention is faced with an Agenda Resolution from British Columbia demanding a definition of . Policy on this question. The Resolution in addition to the Nat ional executive s Compromise motion is expected to bring the problem to a head at the National meet. Army week opens sept. 2ff Ottawa aug. 21 up the first army week to be held since the formation of the new Active Force in 1946 will be held in. The Veek of sept. 20, army Headquarters announced Friday. Foreign Trade hits High Dominion reports gain in . Trade balance Ottawa aug. 21 the value was Ada s Adverse Trade balance with the United states dropped sharply during the first six months of this ear when the value of the Domin on s foreign Trade hit a new High he Bureau of statistics reported Friday. The Adverse balance for the half ear period was com pared with in the Cor period last year. Although there was an unfavourable balance with the United states canada1 enjoyed a favor Able Over All Trade balance of this compared with a favourable balance of in he first half of 1947 and of 000.000 in the first six months of 1946. With moderate Guins in both and exports the total fore Jan Trade increased to in. The first six months of the year. In the corresponding period Lait year the half year aggregate the highest Ever recorded for the per Iod comparing with the wartime Peak of in 1944. Figures released by the Bureau showed that the Adverse balance with the United states began drop Pirug after import restrictions and excise taxes were imposed by the government last december to con serve a dwindling Supply of United states dollars. The taxes were re moved july 31. The Adverse balance in. No vember last was to december it dropped to in the first six months of this year the figr res were with corresponding fit ures for last year in brackets january february March april May s2s.700.000 june Douglas says . Taking Middle path the masks Are off the chips Are Hon. T. C. Douglas. . Premier of Saskatchewan told delegates to the banquet of the party s 10th biennial Conven Tion Friday. Standing in the Glare of spot lights which were the signal for the commencement of a National film Board record and the Broad cast of his speech by the Csc or. Douglas said the fight is on Between the people and those who live off the a few moments earlier . Executives called for a sight of . Ers who had attended the Calgary inauguration meeting of the party in 1932. The Call was an swered by a. J. Farmer formerly . Manitoba provincial Leader miss Agnes Mcphail . For York Ontario Angus Macon nes . Vancouver East and National vice president of the party . Coldwell . National Leader Clarence fines . Provincial treasurer Saskatchewan Walter Mentz Edmonton. Two ideologies Are struggling for supremacy in the world. Com see Douglas Page d his official position by his Rule in the Kosci Kina , the russians had no Choice 1ml o remove Lom Ukiu from his Post. But. It was believed they Smith. . Ambassador. Carried out a series of in i Tensive consultations with franc Roberts. Kilish envoy and the i French ambassador Yves Neau Friday which Streu hed out i pm past Midnight. J ii Inman i Motrii led Liulin i Herlau said i in negotiation., on Cert iian were a Toul to Hrelac up. The soviet rout rolled news Iii icy said he Western Powers could Noi reach Sarce ment on sin Jet demands for a Voic a in the i Tahr. Radio Berlin officials later denied thai it had a elected tile Moscow talks would be broken might Joff. Liev said univ report accompany the action with a fresh Jarriod by the radio was one rom blast against the american stand Goradia in the refugee teacher dispute. The Iov adv speculation in official won also takes into Coile Ralin two other possible russian moves 1. They May take some regalia tory they usually do in such accusing an the Iii Leei i american official in the soviet demands for v Union of improper conduct and or int. Dering him out of that country. Then a is lot they May reject the stale parliments rec just for two letters Block in i Are mrs. Oksana s. Kolenkina wrote a Osier Powers Lap mid representatives a Moscow failed to come off because of a ii Lei Esiee of opinion Naniong Ilio Western be letters Are reported to explain her decision to remain in the uni Ted states and possibly May throw further Light on her at is r by Here in Irli the mumbling hut ii was to Wilh rhe position ii Teil Stales and Lomakin s hands. President Truman is expected sign Early next week u formal re a of Lomakin s credentials which the presi Dent originally issued her rail line there was a possibility thai Mol Olov a night Call the envoys to tin him to serve As Consul in the unit d states. It hem for a new hut this considered unlikely. A end Lull seemed in Prospect new inst Ruel ions Troni the Ern capitals a Ninilo an Ive suddenly. I till Western envoys were snid Macken z i e i n g in Ottawa Ottawa. 21 minister Mackenzie Kins returned to Ottawa Friday night after a secluded seven Day Holiday in the United slates. He said he had a Fine Lime during the seven Days visiting friends4 in Seal Harbor me. Id to lie Eunav Mureil that tin Evora Iirilli Sriry Miarmi the series ill Tallis Wilh Anlo Lov is Init in Ilia Iii Nin in ability to talk wit lion necessary in Public de Bate. Conf yrs Niri s urn Harar by less palaver and Rhet Irio and More discussion of facts and viewpoints than any other in Porlant Post War inf emn Lional one source snid. Exchange wit i . Ottawa wants return to unified arms plan Ottawa aug. 21 United stars arc Al ready making scattered non arms purchases Lorili millions of dollars in Canada Ottawa is seeking to arrange Wilh us u. S. For an integrated system of. Armaments production similar in that in Force during the War. This it was Learned Friday would allow the Dominion to concentrate on a relatively few lines to sell her surplus to the . Continued crop in Wake or tin visit of Len . Ill Cnoc Secretary James 1 or re Seal. To Ott Wii last wreck. From Washimi Hijii and Ottawa and in return to be Able to buy observers have reported from that country the things so emulated that Canadian Aine in docs not make. That is one fact that emerged from a source. Guinid the ctr reports Betty Jean Ferguson wins Halifax Beauty chosen miss Canada of 1948 Hamilton aug 21 lean Ferguson slender Halifax blonde Friday night won the 194s miss Canada Crown Over 35 other beauties from across Canada. An ail male jury five judged the 123-Pound miss Halifax the Winner after watching the contestants go through Throe routines in evening gowns giving individual performances talks in a i Secru i Fenc i a re on dim the . Will a i tid least Here Liis Jan Mati Rij ils thai Canada is pressing for Orr Irr or orders in Kei p her arsenals to filed to lat arms Ion has become immediate. I Ronistal san Pinoni in tin i in Icil still a a joint chiefs Friday to a. Highly important week end Honfi genre at the War Collinge at Newport . They will a sunni Iii no of the of rain Sil nation from Hoyl Vandenhurk air Force chief , who reached Here Friday from Germany. Forrista also will a port on his re Seiil talks Wilh Canadian do Fence singing or other talents and parading in bathing suits. The judges evidently preferred i blondes. Two other fair haired girls took the runner up positions Phyllis Williams of Tor onto and Ethel Valgardson of Taher Alta. Miss Williams a 22-year-old nurse placed second and the 23- year old miss Valgardson took third. With the Crown the 20-year-old miss Ferguson wins a trip to at Antic City to compete in the miss America pageant. Last year s miss Canada blonde Margaret Marshall of Toronto placed first in the bathing suit division of the miss America contest and third in the ill around. Judging at Atlantic i year ago. Wins other prizes miss Ferguson a talented sing i who Sang a Medley of songs i urine her Talent test also gets a scholarship for whatever artistic studies she desires a wardrobe valued at s500, a s500 Diamond ring a s300 wrist watch and a ?200j rown. Educational scholarships a singing student was from to s500 went to the. Judged the most talented entry in i first nine runners up. The pageant. Miss avers. No crop Damn the 10.finalists included seven Toronto girls miss Williams Florence Ferriman. Tina Bodder. Irene Ayers. Connie Laidlaw. Betty Jane Pike and Jean Rigby. Pearle Merrill Fredericton n.b., blonde was among the other three along with miss Ferguson and miss Valgardson. Wilma Eileen Porthouse of Betty severe storms halt harvesting torrential downpours nerf storms when struck scattered Western Manitoba Dis ii it thursday i suspended harvesting but caused no serious to flattened crops. Heavy Grain Fields Brandon suffered what Heads be id Down into thir Stockn but Sli Siht damage will permit her to by resumed monday farther considerable tree damage by High winds it Dauphin was Fol Lowed by As Golf balls which Thlu Eccl lie entire town. Ako dam aced some buildings and disrupted Power and inc phone communications. A r v e s Tiisik operations will i cry shortly As Vittli crop was done. Farmers at j., thurs Brunette won a Silver trophy As Day s rain. The girl Wilh the must Beautiful serious xxi War disruptions of clip print the Manitoba Corn miss Ferguson broke into tears minion Between m Den and. As she mounted the dais where Boissevain were put. In order by the Golden Crown was placed on Friday noon. Her Bead. She soon regained composure however and stood it More than an hour As photograph ers snapped pictures. Heaviest ruins during were reported at Dauphin. 1.84 Rivers .6s inches .35 inches ;