Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition leg Clear. Little change in tempera Ture. Winds Light. Low tonight High Friday 47 and 75. Vol. 283 32 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday August 26, 1948 Sun rises 6.34 . Moon rises 10.54 . Sun sets 8.25 . Moon sets 2.q3 red mob storms Berlin City Hall get Chance to win hold Saratoga stake tickets four Winni Eggers and. One Manitoban have drawn tickets on eligible horses for the 44th running of the Hope u takes at Saratoga Springs race course saturday. They stand a Chance of. Winning a top prize of More than Ier charged in Case City police thursday their investigation of injuries to 11-weeks-old Randall Darrel win 5s reported to be in poor to fair condition at children s Hospital. The child was taken to Hospital tuesday night suffering from Frac Tures of the Skull leg and ribs and in a state of severe Shock. His Mother 21-year-old mrs Isabel Darrel appeared in Cit police court thursday. A holding charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm has been Lai against her. She was remanded for one week. Police allege the woman beat the child in a fit of rage aggravated by the baby s fretful crying Sho was arrested at 10.15 tuesday after her husband Michael Darrel 641 Dufferin ave nue rushed the child to Hospital should the child die Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay said an additional charge of murder 01 manslaughter would be Laid. If the baby survives the charge probably will be using unnecessary Force the chastisement of a child. Butter disturbing Supply Down Ottawa aug. 26 Bureau of statistics which uses the same Calm tone Lor Good news and bad took a look at the butter situation wednes Day and came up with these disturbing facts 1. Butter stocks Are away Down. Total Supply at aug. 1 amounted to pounds less than at the same Date last year. 2. July production of Creamery butter was pounds a drop in comparison with the output in july 1947. 3. Total production in the first seven months of 1948 was pounds another de crease. The comparative figure last year was this is the cold facts background picture highlighted by fears of a butter famine this Winter. Even Dairy urged the government to seek imports from new zealand or Scandinavia or failing that to provide a suitable sub figures such As these will be in the Public s mind too when the supreme court meets oct. 5 to Rule whether the 62-year-old ban on import manufacture and Sale of see butter Page 9 tropical blow up Miami. Fla., aug. 26 bup a tropical Hurricane with winds at about 100 Miles an hour was moving toward the United Stales Mainland from Miles it sea thursday. Canadians have drawn tickets on 52 of the 106 horses eligible in the running. The drawing was held in Quebec City conducted by the army Navy and air Force Veter ans of Canada. Manitoba ticket holders Are Albert James Gray 615 Almora Street Cool Down. Steve Kay 803 St. Paul Avenue donation. D. Robart 298 Charles Street Gambler. Gerald Choquette 209 Chestnu entrust. William Stewart Griswold Man. Sport Page. To sum up what All other ticket holders must feel at the possibility of winning a goodly sum of Money Gerald Cho Quette chortled boy of boy would t it he asked what he d do if his dreams name True Choquette n feed Packer at purity flour Mills said ill to to school. My schooling is incomplete and i d spend every cent of my winnings on setting an Educa included among the other Cana Dian ticket holders arid the horse they hold Are j. C. Novakoski Melville sask. Our quest. A. Kilbride Rowatt sask. Pru Dent Don. Ernie Wiggit Estevan sask. Mail from Home and Mary Chicoli. 518 w. Gore Street fort William omit Fusi or. Prize distribution on this Pool vill total of a total Pool with the ticket Holder of the winning horse collecting second horse will bring in and number three n addition there Are prizes i or starters and non starters. As yet o favorite has been established or the race. Of the tickets held in Canada line Are in Toronto 128 in other arts of Ontario 12 in Montreal to elsewhere in Quebec five in a Manitoba six in British Columbia free in Saskatchewan and two in Iberta. This 1948 automobile was hit by a West bound freight train at the . Railway crossing in Newdale Man., tuesday night. The Driver Roy Thompson 32, of Basswood Man., was in stantly killed while a passenger in the front seat Allan Lawrence 32, of Bissett Man., received head and Chest injuries. After blowing into the vehicle the locomotive pushed it half a mile along the track before the train could be stopped. Mishaps take 2 lives infant drinks gasoline Dies James Kafka 22 months of 457 Henry Avenue died in general at 8.35 . Wednesday a few hours after he had consumed Asoline from a pop bottle. Police report that the boy s Uncle Karl Kafka was cleaning Auto parts in the Back Yard and left the bottle of Grasoli refused .5 a cleansing agent on a Bench year where the child was playing. Karl soon noticed that the boy Vas ill and. Took him to Hospital accompanied by the child s lather Idolphe. A few hours later James led of gasoline poisoning. Bilan will face jury trial in Krupp death Al Al 4 Frederick t. Bilan 25, a truck drive of 850 Flora Azemie Garry Street narrowly escaped in Ury. Kishton told the court he was backing into a loading platform at a grocery Ware House when a cur driven by or. Krupp scraped past him. A door handle was torn off Krupp s car he said and both Drivers stopped. I pulled Over to the curb on the Side of he said. Or. Krupp drove further Down the Street and parked. We both got out and he came Over to my truck to Exchange insurance information. We were standing at the Back of my truck. Or. Krupp was right beside writing Down my name when i glanced around and thursday was committed for jury trial on a charge of Man Slaughter in the death of Samuel Krupp Winnipeg sportsman. The committal followed a preliminary hearing before magistrate i. H. court. Krupp died in Winnipeg general Ospital a few minutes after he was rushed Between two trucks near he Corner of Mcdermott Avenue and Adelaide Street july 14. Bilan1 was the Driver of a Scott s Akery truck which smashed into Crupp As at the nother truck exchanging1 names Vith the Driver in connection with previous minor collision. Bilan himself was seriously in ured in the crash and spent nine ays in Hospital. Driver of the ther truck Robert Cashton 144 see court Case Page 9 struck by car condition poor Basil Shimaski 31, lot 173 St. Anne s Road St. Vital is in St. Boniface Hospital suffering from a fractured shoulder a fractured leg and probable head injuries incur red when he was. Struck by a cat while walking on the Highway near his Home. His condition was reported to be. according to police Driver of the car which struck or. Shimaski was miss Veronique Loyal. The Accident occurred about 9 . When or. Shimaski walk ing South along the Highway with his wife. Miss Joyal attempted to pass a truck going South and hit or. Shimaski then grazed the Side of the truck police report. Quick operator saves Man s life Cranberry Portage aug. 26 action on the part of a drag line operator Lucin Lapointe in stopping his machine saved the life of his Oiler shorty Demlin when he slipped and caught his in the main drum of the dragline. The limb was badly lacerated. First Aid was administered by miss Violet Hoard at a Camp five Miles Distant to which Demlin was taken by jeep. He was then brought to Cranberry Portage and from there flown by Johansson s airways to flin flon. Tractor Rolls on farmhand a 44-year-old farmhand Hector la Riviere of St. Malo Man., was crushed to death Early wednesday when a tractor he was driving overturned and rolled on top of him. The Accident. Occurred near la Rochelle about 7 . As. La Riviere was trying to steer the tractor up a ditch . Said Coroner j. S. Holowin of Morris Man., reported that no inquest will e necessary. Down with splitters demonstrators howl bar less aug. 26 communist of demonstrators smashed through police lines and stormed into berlins City Hall thursday. Police reserves were called up to handle the .-.iwvd. Estimated to total More than 10.000 persons. They forced their Way through a Polk a line led by men who shouted Down with the capitalists Down with the after bursting into the build new meeting tonight Berlin currency Accord reported Moscow of Britain the United Stales and France Are expected to have another meeting with soviet officials thursday their efforts to Settle the Berlin deadlock. Premier Stalin is reported to have reached an agreement with the envoys on currency Reform for wholesale egg Price in City drops 4 cents a decrease of at least four cents in the wholesale Price of Grade a eggs has taken place in Winnipeg during wednesday and thursday. However this Price drop will not be passed on to Winnipeg s House wives thursday according to the larger retail stores. The drop is due to a decline in Eastern explained a. F. Darnell inspector of poultry marketing for the Dominion govern ment department of agriculture. Because consumer reaction to higher prices in Eastern can Ada the buyers in Toronto and Montreal have lost interest in car lots of he stated. This in turn affects the local he added. Or. Darnell predicted a levelling off o egg prices by the end Cit the week. Two Large wholesale dealers in greater Winnipeg reported the Fol lowing changes in the Price of eggs during the last 24 hours first dealer second dealer Grade a Large s2c to 5su 64 la Trade a medium blk to 57e 1.0.56% c Trade b 46c to 45c 46vic to Frade c steady at 3sc steady at the blockaded German capital. London sources say Stalin agreed at the meeting monday night to Western demands for a share in supervision of russian currency in Berlin. After this latest meeting if successful the British French United states Anil plus Siun governments Art expected to Send instructions to their military governors in Ger Ninny to Start on the spot talks. In London an unexpected ses Sion of the British Cabinet was called late thursday. No reason for the meeting was disclosed but a. Hon. Ernest Bevin foreign Secretary had conferred earlier with . Ambassador Lewis Doug Las regarding the latest develop ments in the Moscow talks. Jews say arabs violating truce Jerusalem aug. 2s api the jews wednesday made new charges of truce violations by Arab forces in Jerusalem. Ing which is located in the soviet sector of the City they rushed upstairs to the City Assembly Chambers. Tie socialist party announced it is plan Nizik a counter demons a inn outside the burned out Gor Man Reich Stag building which though it is in the British sector is Only n Stone s throw from the soviet sector Border. No casualties were reported. By mid afternoon a Large part of the crowd had dispersed. Tic demonstrators were members if the socialist Unity party which is sponsored by the russians Ami i omitted by communists. The crowd gathered outside lie City Hall carry ing red banners and singing the internationale. Red banners carried the words one administration one cur we want Down with the enemies of the Down with the agents of monopoly Berlin s City parliament predominately i n 1 had been scheduled to vote thurs Day on a Resolution to Send a delegation to Western Germany s constitutional a postponement was proposed by the socialist Leader Franz Neumann and approved by the parliament s nine Man senior committee. Try reason police sought to reason with the crowd telling them there was no Point to a demonstration since the Assembly meeting was put off. But an israeli army bulletin said june demonstrators charged ahead. Egyptian troops tried to Advance across no mans land toward jewish suburb. Israeli troops drove them Back the bulletin added. Holiday oct. 11 Ottawa aug. 26 up thanksgiving Day this year a been set for monday oct. 11. Hon. Colin Gibson state Secretary announced thursday. A proclamation is being issued fixing the Date . Counsel charges error in auditors Revenue estimate Revenue of the Winnipeg electric company will decline More than the amount suggested by Public Utility Board accountants r. D. Guy company counsel said thursday at a hearing of the transit system s application for an. Increase in fares. Or. Guy was Cross examining w. C. Macdonnell of Millar Mac Donald chartered accountants who earlier this week estimated the company would turn in a 1948 pro fit of instead of its Esti mated loss. Or. Macdonell calculated the company would suffer a two per cent. Decline in Revenue this year instead of the three per cent reduction Weatherman Sticks neck Over there s a lot of hot air floating around but take it from the Weatherman Winni Eggers can Start worrying about Frost any time now. Reports irom Eastern Canada where hot air is nothing new Tell of employees knocking off work while temperature hovered around the 100 Mark of to Ironton ians. Sleeping in Parks and of 250 persons collapsing at the Ottawa exhibition. In Winnipeg however we be had that heat Accord ing to the Weatherman. From now on we can Start worrying1 about he added before forecasting the Mercury will dip from a Hiigli of 80 thursday to an overnight Low of 47. Neither temperature will set a record in Winnipeg. Hottest aug. 26 in the City s history was in 1937 when thermometers registered 93. Coldest aug. 26 was Back in 1915 when the Mercury plummeted to 3 2. Friday the Winnipeg High will be 75 and the humidity temperature it 11.30 . In Winnipeg was 76. That is prac Eskimo weather com pared with the 101 High registered wednesday in Toronto where citizens were going around telling each. Other we re the hottest spot in North of Phoenix at Phoenix it was 106. Jealous Hull que. Claimed a High of 106, but their Reading was unofficial and Toronto won the dubious Honor of having the hottest hot air. The Toronto temperature was the second highest in the City s history. Only one to top it the All time record there set on july 9 and 10, 1938 when a 105 degree High was recorded. Heat victims say the Canadian see weather Page 9 estimated by company officials. The decline up to the end of june he said had averaged 2.2 Pter cent. Or. Guy challenged the accountant s ability to make state ments on the company s present set up and asked him if he had had any instructions As to what he should seek to find. Osro instructions i had no instructions what or. Macdonell reported. E. D. Honeyman Board member asked or. Guy if he were suggest ing the accountant bad an ulterior i m not suggesting or. Guy replied but i am Sug Gesting he had something in mind of what he was looking i did not have anything in or. Macdonell said. I was asked to examine the company s position Tjom an accountant s Point of or. Macdonell said his estimate had been based on current econ Omic conditions adding there was evidence these conditions were going to be any worse in the near future. Or. Guy now or. Macdonell Are you trying to say there will be no depression in the can t count on depression Macdonell i would say that you cannot take that into account in rate making. If you Are counting on a depression then this application is not Worth the paper it is written the accountant contended that present Day transportation users should not be required to pay 11 higher rate because of a possibility Tjit company Revenue might de Cline at some time in. The future. Should the user have to pay see . Page 9 at last they get hitched despite hitches Ashford. Eng. Aug. 26 bup Gigg. 21, finally is mrs. William Bates. Her wedding was scheduled originally a month ago. But she kissed the Page boy at a rehearsal. He had Chicken pox. After Mary was released from quarantine she and her Fiance tried again. But As the guests assembled saturday it was found that the marriage licence had expired. They held a. Reception threw confetti and had wedding photo graphs taken anyway. Wednesday William and Mary were married. Don t think they planned a real Putsch in try to the City Hall acting mayor Ferdinand Fioden four told reporters. But they aimed it panicking us and scaring us out of die building then they could say that we descried Umi could not be relied upon to run the the russians and German communists violently oppose Western government plans. They have been trying to Cut Berlin o of from he West entirely maintaining that it is part of the russian occupation zone. Rod speech Wilhelm Pieck Germany s of 3ommunisl. Harangued Mem Bers of tie soviet sponsored socialist Unity party wednesday Light and called on the Western allies to get out of Berlin. The russians wednesday barred Vestern publications in the soviet sector of Berlin effective sept. 1. Vice Consul Russia Bonnet new York aug. 26 zot i. Soviet vice Consul sailed for Home Lato wednesday in Hie Wake of Moscow s Brail is off consular ties with the United slates. Cheju Raykh s sudden drop Ardire from Ter spy cily surprised re porters. Only a few hours on Lior he Giitl in new York. He was accompanied by his wife my Throe daughters. The Consul at new York Jacob Lounkin whose recall demanded by the . After mrs. Oksana s jump from the consulate building will sail saturday for Russia. No Lazy men London aur. -2f, cr1jp chief Micka negro of Kenya natives Tri Bute to Britain and her production drive thursday. The chief who is studying Agri cultural methods in Britain raid it is a Fine country. Not seen Inzy Man Bitting under a i did not want to kill myself. I wanted to mrs. K Senkina declares new York aug. 26 mrs. Oksana Kapenkin a said wednesday she leaped from the rus Sian consulate in an attempt to escape from the soviets because she did not agree with the policies of Stalin. Mrs. Kas Enkina told reporters who interviewed her As she Iny a Roosevelt Hospital that the soviets had destroyed her life by sending her son to the Battle of Leningrad where he. Was killed. Mrs. Of Senkina a Middle aged Lotito teacher made lick first pub Lic statement wednesday since her eap from the consulate aug. 12. The teacher became the Centre of a major1 diplomatic incident on aug. 7 when the russian Consul general in new York announced that he had rescued her from while russians. Five Days later mrs. Kas Enkina leaped from the third floor of the consulate. Three reporters chosen by lot interviewed her while two nurses b policewoman and a physician stood by. Mrs. Kas Enkina answered the questions through an interpreter mrs. Luba Terpak. She was too weak to answer All of the questions which reporters had planned but she smiled frequently. She wore lipstick and a nurse said the teacher had manicured her Finger nails in preparation for meeting the press. In answering the questions the teacher emphasized these Points 1. When she jumped from the consulate she was attempting to. Trying to kill herself. 2. She had made up her mind never to return to Russia even before she left that country More than two years ago. X. She appealed to russian ambassador Alexander filmy ush Iii and Consul general Jacob to Mukon thinking they would have some semblance of but instead they refused to talk with her and concocted a Story which they Suid she must Tell reporters. She also said she wanted to thank new York police for what they had done for her. The Quick action of the police in entering the consulate after her leap was one of the reasons cited by the russians for breaking off consular relations with the .. True Fedar Ojue the interpreter said that mrs. Kas Enkina told her that the soviets considered her a True pedagogue even though her husband had been mrs. Kas Enkina said the russians brought her to the . To teach the children of soviet diplomats because the thought her knowledge would be useful. F she said. They made a great mistake in bringing me the interpreter said that the teacher her that before her Rescue from a Haven for anti communist russians she had told Lomakin she. Wanted to talk with him As a human being he was not a human the first question the reporters asked her was when did you decide not to return to Why did you so desire Tiad what did you do after you de through the interpreter she replied when i was still in rus Sia i Felt that if i got to America i would be Able not to return to Russia. The Rea son i wanted to escape was that in 1937 they took away my husband and i have no idea where he has gone. He disappeared. I left Slovinsky in the Ukraine to visit my son in Moscow. A first year student at the University. When the War broke out he was not a military Man. He did not belong to any Kom Somol communist youth movement or any political party. Therefore the soviets tooted on him As an enemy of the state. They took him into a storm troopers division with out any training whatsoever. In Leningrad Jan. 12, .1942, it was killed. They have destroyed my entire life since i spent All mrs Oksana Kas Enkina jumped to escape Russia my life on my son and my husband. Neither of the two were political people. My son was a student my husband a teacher As was asked Why she jumped from the consulate she replied they returned me to the consulate from countess Tolstoy s farm i knew since they did not permit me to leave that i would not be Able to escape in Moscow either. Therefore i jumped out of the window to escape. Did not want to kill my self. I wanted to the teacher turned restlessly on her bed As she answered the questions. She was breathing heavily and perspiration stood out on her forehead. The next question asked her she replied what did ambassador Al expander Panpushkin discuss you at the consulate the Day you returned from Reed farm an anti Corn. Minist russian she replied i had written a letter to the Consul which first brought him Panpushkin Grid Lomakin into the picture. 1 thought these people had some semblance of human mercy and would Converse with me. What he said was he would not speak to me but would go downstairs and Tell re porters this and this happened on aug. 7, the Day Lomakin announced at a press conference attended by mrs. Kas Enkina that he had rescued her from White russians who had kid napped her and taken her away to Reed farm. In seclusion from the time of the press con Ference until her leap five Days later mrs. Kas Enkina was in seclusion at the consulate. Her jump created an International incident which resulted in the russian announcement that the soviets were closing their consulate in the United states. Mrs. Kas Enkina said at the inter View that Panpushkin and Lomakin told what to say to reporters at the press conference. She said they told her she would become a heroine for telling such a Story. The teacher told of a letter which she wrote to Lomakin while she was at Reed farm. She said she told him that after two years in America she was be coming More and More because she was called on enemy of the state and was persecuted in Many Small . Mrs. Kas Enkina said she wrote that she wanted to Movo away from the consulate where she had been teaching. Since they would not ice her she said she decided to do As she wished. Whereupon she said the rus sians arrested her. Mrs. Closed the inter View by saying do not agree with the policies of Josef Stalin. I love my people and my coun try but i cannot agree with the policies of the soviet mrs. Kas Enkina said she was born in. 1895 ;