Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 07, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Clear and very warm. Southwest at 15 Mph today Light on sunday. Low tonight and High sunday 45 and 72. Vol. 190 52 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday May 7, 1949 Sun Rise 4.50 . Moon Rusc 1.3s . Sun set 7.55 . Moon set 3.09 . Forecast Clear very warm communists at Gates of Shanghai Jig saw animals enter Ark nationalists say attack furled Back with loss Shanghai May 7 a thousands of chinese communist troops saturday Ham mered with Little Success at Shanghai s outer defences a nationalist communique said. The communique said reds in two groups attacked on two sectors 30 Miles West and 35 Miles Northwest of Shanghai. The defenders were said to have hurled the reds Back with heavy losses. Another attack still swirled about a third Anchor in Shanghai s defence 50 Miles to the Southwest the communique indicated the reds were making big 3 plan Paris Parley n e p Ess he e the animals came in two by two Hurrah yes a Nozari s Ark has sailed right into the free press Jig saw animal contest this original entry was sent in by mrs. G. M. Paine 38 Balsam place Norwood. The elephant shoves the Kangaroo As they climb the ramp in an Effort to get on Board. Whether the contest Ani Mals Are put together correctly remains to be seen. Judges Are preparing to Roll up their sleeves monday and dig into the thousands of entries. Results and prize winners will not be made known until the end of next week at least. The Pilot said a a flying zoo lands after Aerial scramble bit Peter Kihss. Hectic afternoon s debarking. A Era. New York May tigers elephants monkeys and Hornbill Birds sniffled with and was t broke Loose inside the c-54 Kim Royal dutch air lines plane at one time or another but at 1.08 Friday the world s largest flight of animals Birds and reptiles Home 814 Here it was eight Days out of Singapore and Bangkok. And then at new York International at Idlewild came a bundled up in a diaper. A Pintail Monkey reached up through a rare Carje nn-1 wrenched a leg off a Mynah talking Bird the Bird later died. A pair of baby elephants came blithely Down a in minutes instead of the hours six pachyderms had taken on n similar flight two months ago. And a reticulated by Noru its skin blotched Gold arid Black was pulled from its coils inside a wire Cage arid stretched on the ground to measured. Pythons Sale prices rate by the foot. This Snake last Swal Lowed three live chickens in Singapore last Friday and was definitely awake. Without Robert Dean director o the Brookfield zoo Chicago applied a Carpenter s folding Rule to the twisting reptile and announced charges 4avid brutality tit easy Lull in mining strike police squad patrol streets Asbestos que., May 7 an aftermath of bitterness and recrimination seeped through this strike torn Asbestos mining town saturday in the Wake of disturbances thursday which brought in scores of heavily armed provincial police arid resulted in the Reading of the riot act. The town is quiet patrolled by quads of policemen and the conditions of the riot act prohibiting Assembly of More than two per still apply. Between 116 and 181 persons estimates vary even among police been arrested. With no jails in this Eastern township Region big enough to hold them All 53 Wera taken to Montreal and a Large number to Sherbrooke some 35 Miles away. Attack on inspector inspector general Norbert Labbe the provincial police suffered a head Bruise during Friday morning when As he helped in making arrests three strikers jumped him. One struck him with his fist but the scuffle was Short lived and the police Leader went on with the Job of directing his men to Homes of wanted strikers. At one Point 40 policeman in 10 swept off to a main Street Pool room. They came out with one aged striker and three youths though the report which sent police Scurry ing said 30 strikers were holed up there. We have most of those who have been identified in the attacks on our said inspector general Labbe. Perhaps most seriously injured among the 12 Hurt police was the inspector general s brother const. A. E. Labbe who was hit on the head thursday with a Hammer and suffered a fractured knee and a spinal injury which necessitated re Moval to Hospital in Sherbrooke. While uneasy peace has now been established Union Leaden have charged the police with brutality and com Pany officials Hare declared the strike which touched off incidents is against the entire social the strike itself started feb. 13 when some miners working for five Asbestos companies walked out demanding an increase of 15 cents in the Basic wage of 85 cents an hour. The provincial labor department termed the strike illegal but there were Only a lev minor instances violence during the Early part of the strike. Until last week there was Hope that an arbitration Board would be set up to Deal with the dispute. Then the company decided to open the mines and the striking miners started picketing. Atrocities Quebec May 7 up an official of the Canadian Catholic confederation of labor announced Early saturday the Union in investigating the conduct of provincial police at Asbestos and the Public will be overwhelmed by the atrocities that were committee in the name of Law and Jean Marchand . Secretary general said in a signed statement that the police acted like agents of pro vocation and with avid brutal Ity during Friday s round up of strikers in the mining town of Asbestos. Police indulged in a real Carn age and the riot act was read to see Asbestos strike Page 9 the Home s heart Mother s Day in the year officially set aside to Honor that truly grand mom. It s a Day Rich in memories for both the Mother and her children. The thoughts wander childhood remember ing the hurts soother the sad growing up period through which hands guided you into adulthood. Here a Mother reminisces she is mrs. E. Rorke who lives at Minto Hall Winnipeg. Mrs. Rorke is 83 old. I i it s 18 feet la eat anything Over j. Henry " Trefflich new York Ani Taat dealer who received the consignment said it was 22. Prices May run for a 20-foot Python and then upward by s25, s50 and so on a it was a second flying men Agerie shepherded Here from Malaya and slam marts by miss gun Evicic Cyprys 34, animal scout for or. Trefflich. She has been around he world since leaving Here Tarch 23. Incidentally miss Cuprys no longer wishes to be known As Jungle Jenny. Or. William m. M Ann director of the Washington zoo told her the Nick name sounded a bit cheapen the customs Manifest listed 700 Java monkeys but 30 had two elephants two Black leopards two Golden cats three tigers six teen Gibbons nine mangrove snakes five King cobras 40 India Hill Mynah Birds but some had 40 hornbills one died at the four Monitor lizards one Orang Utan nine pythons one Sun Bear five Pigtail monkeys one Krait Snake 10 frogs but All had three pheasants one had and one renown As a bin Turing. Three tigers Chew Loose the first night out of Bangkok Captain Lionel Metz was in his Pilot s compartment when the wireless operator reported Cap see animals Page 9 Manitoba s election stand confirmed confirmation that the Manitoba government had definitely decided against dissolving the legislature and going to the people this Spring came from a High government source saturday. Under the Manitoba election act saturday was the deadline if this province was to hold a Genera election june 15, same Date As Bri Tish Columbia s general election. act stipulates a or n mum of 39 Days must elapse tween issuing the election writ and voting Day. A Manitoba election on or be fore june 15 was almost a certainty had the Dominion government fixed the Federal voting Day for Early summer or fall. But with the Dominion election called for june 27, Premier d. s coalition government definitely decided Early this week to postpone the provinces election and thereby avoid and Federal campaigns carried on simultaneously London May 7 bup the Western big three will map joint strategy for the forthcoming coun cil of foreign ministers meeting with Russia in a preliminary con Ference in Paris the foreign of fice disclosed saturday. High representatives of the american British and French foreign ministers will meet in Advance of inc May 23 session of he big four to determine the policy they will follow on Germany. A foreign office spokesman announced the plans for the prelim Inary conference of the Western Powers. He said it was a result of discussions last month in washing of ton among the american British and French foreign ministers. The May 23 meeting of the big four will bring together it. Hon. Ernest Bevin foreign Secretary of great Britain Secretary of state Dean Acheson of the United states foreign minister Andrei Vishin sky of Russia and foreign minis Ter Robert Schuman of France. Their deputies were expected to meet Cor the preliminary Western talks soon after the Berlin Block Ade is lifted next thursday. In the past the differences among the Western Powers on policy to Ward Germany have been As num Erous As those Between the East and the West. Lint now they Are in principle at least on a plan for a West Gorman state on an International authority for the Ruhr and on i occupation statute. Before May 23 they must seek a joint policy with regard to any proposals the russians May make. Speculation has circulated that the soviets May propose 1. Early withdrawal of All occupation troops from Germany or a drastic reduction in their number. 2. A new plan for unification of the Eastern and Western zones. 3. Abandonment of the Constitution for a West German state on grounds it would Lead to the permanent division of Germany. Red spearheads however appeared to be thrusting Ever deeper into South China along notched front of More than 00 Miles stretching South Westward from the Shanghai area to Nanchang. Press reports said that Nan Chang the City which guards the Eastern approaches to the reds want occupation end by Joseph Jewman a. Herald Tribune sen ice Moscow May 7 More and More thought is being Given by soviet authorities to the thesis that the forthcoming Council of foreign ministers will be asked to act on the Basic Issue of terminating the Allied occupation of Ger Many and withdrawing All foreign troops. Assuming this to have become the Paramount Issue then there is reason to expect a readiness to reach Compromise agreement on All other issues so that this no. 1 May be achieved. If this Assumption proves Correct then the world May be in store for a Surprise even Greutter than the announce ment of the four Power agree ment to end Nde and to Convene the Council of foreign ministers. J. Agreement on such issues As reparations a Central German government and procedure for a peace treaty could be resolved with dramatic suddenness the announcement issued at the conclusion of the Warsaw Confer ence in june 1948. May be re examined As the key t0 the soviet position at the foreign ministers meeting May 23. It supports the thesis that the soviet Union de sires Early conclusion of a German peace treaty and withdrawal of All occupation troops one year later. Last statement. The Warsaw declaration which gave the last full statement of the official soviet position on Ger Many followed soon after the three Western Powers reached agreement at London to consolidate Western Germany As a separate state. It. Charged his London agreement with convert ing Western Germany into a base Tor the Western Powers. Subsequent even to suggested consolidation of Western Germany and an indefinite stay of american troops in the heart of Europe. An Over All agreement on Germany would change this entire it would mean the Western Powers would re lease Western Germany to be come part of a single Independent Germany from which american troops would be withdrawn together with others. A Compromise settlement on preparations for and the character of the future German slate at the foreign ministers meeting would Clear the Way for the peace treaty and terminate the prolonged West Ern occupation of Germany anticipated and criticized by the War saw declaration. Warsaw list five Points were listed by the Warsaw declaration for Over All settlement of the German ques Tion 1. Four Power agreement on measures to insure demilitarization of Germany. 2. A fixed period of four Power control of the Ruhr s heavy Indus try. 3. F o u a Power agreement on a provisional democratic government for the whole of Germany. 4. Conclusion of a peace treat and withdrawal of occupation troops within one year. 5. Reparations for states which suffered German aggression. The positions of the three West Ern Powers at previous foreign ministers meetings do not exclude the possibility of agreement on these five Points if concessions Are made in working out details. Allies fighting radio Jam Washington May 7 a Britain and the United states combined forces for a spectacular coun Ter blow against Russia s efforts to Jam their broadcasts to the sovet Union. Beginning saturday the United states state department announced Jie voice of America and the Bri ish broadcasting company together would use up to 61 radio transmitters simultaneously to smash through the screen of interference. The russian jamming started april 24, on the eve of the first news break of the Long secret negotiations to end the Berlin blockade. The state department has charged the interference was deliberate and intended to keep the russians from hearing any lint the Moscow official version of the settlement. Official protests had no effect. However round the clock Broad casts by the voice has succeeded partially in breaking through the screen in the last several Days offi Cial said. Del Ryzl nazi methods1 George v. Allen assistant Secretary of state announced details of the new plan. The voice will carry among other things formal statements telling russian listen ers that their government is Fol lowing wartime German methods and is trying to keep them from receiving " truthful information from 8 free or. Allen said the voice will continue its 24-hour broadcasts in russian. In addition two new pro grammes will be started with the voice and the bbl broadcasting simultaneously. By using a Largo number of transmitters each with its own radio frequency officials Hope the broadcasts will get through to Many listeners. Russia has been using probably co transmitters in the jamming operations or. Allen said. Until now the voice has used a maximum of 10 to reach Russia. West s Victory Frankfurt. May 7 the . Army radio in Europe has broken through soviet jamming to Tell russian listeners that lifting the Berlin blockade is a Victory for the West. American officials said saturday. The american forces network an went to work with its powerful transmitters after rus Sia s intensified jamming Campaign virtually America said. Obliterated voice of broadcasts the officials West German state rushed Premier Campbell told the free press saturday he would take no Active part in the Federal Campaign. It is expected both Liberal progressive and progressive conservative members of his coalition Cabinet will adopt a similar attitude and refrain from Active participation on behalf of their respective Federal parties candidates. The Manitoba government s five year term does not expire until the fall of 1950. It is not anticipated the Manitoba general election will now be called until the Spring of next year. Bonn Germany May 7 Western Germany has said no to communist pleas to halt formation of its proposed new state. Her political leaders meeting Here Friday night completed All but the final formalities of adopt ing a West German Constitution. They scheduled the last step of adoption for sunday the fourth anniversary of Germany s surrender in the last and voted to place Jovern mint in the hands of an interim organization until a regular government can be formed in july. The constitutional convention clearly was speeding its work to heat the wednesday Midnight deadline for lifting the Ger Man blockades under the few York agreement announced spy Appeal still pending in Ottawa Ottawa May 7 up no decision has been reached on an Appe Al from a deportation order by Dimitry Leshchenko. Alleged rus Sian spy held in Winnipeg re sources department officials said Friday. The Case is under consideration by the department officials said and a decision will be made by Hon. Colin Gibson resources min ister in charge of immigration. It was not known when judgment would be announced. A displaced person immigrant Leshchenko was ordered deported by an immigration Board after he had been revealed u a russian thursday Liy Russia and the Western Powers. The Western occupation Powers want the West German government to be the one for All Germany if there is an Union of the soviet zone with the British uni Ted states and French zones. The Bevin visits Berlin to Confer with chiefs Berlin May 7 Hon. Ernest Bevin British foreign Secre tary arrived. Saturday in High Hopes that better Are in store for the world. Or. Bevin flew Here from London to Confer with Allied and German authorities and to inspect the Berlin Airlift. Plans for his visit were announced shortly after the agreement to lift the Berlin blockade. Wilson comes next week London May 7 Hon. Harold Wilson president of the Board of Trade will leave next week for a three week coast to coast tour of Canada. It. Hon. C. D. Howe Canadian minister of Trade and Commerce made the announcement saturday before his return to Canada after a 10-Day visit. New York series Frank free press theatrical critic is now in new York City and today a series of articles about Man Hattan life As he finds it. Yon Are lure to enjoy these inti mate and fascinating accounts. Will be found on Pace four. Developments came As Russia and the Western allies worked at top Speed to lift their blockades. The actual work will be done by Ger Man transportation experts. The task involves Complex tech Nical problems and the complicating threat of a rail workers strike. Employees who live in Western Ber Lin but work on russian controlled rail lines in the Eastern sector threatened to strike unless they Are paid in West now receive russian backed East Marks which Are worthless in the Western sector such a strike would cripple Ber Lin s elevated lines As Well As rail Way traffic into and out of Berlin. Going Home Ingrid s husband stops in Parish Paris May 7 Peter Lindstrom stopped off in Paris to visit friends saturday on his Way Home from discussions with his wife actress Ingrid Bergman in Sicily. Or. Lindstrom arrived at orly Airfield from Rome at 2.50 . He smilingly rebuffed All questions on discussions with his wife concern ing her reported Romance with italian film director Roberto Ros Sellini. I m not Here for publicity especially about he said. Or. Lindstrom was met at the Airport by several americans. One who identified herself As mrs. James Barrett took the party to a fashionable hotel in the champs Hysee District Shanghai May t ;