Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 11, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg briefly Cloudy otherwise dear to Day and thursday. Little change in temperature. Winds Light thursday. Low tonight and High thursday 30 and 60. Vol. 193 36 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg wednesday May 11, 1949 Sim 4.50 . Sun set s.01 . Moon Rise 7.25 . Moon set -4.13 . Forecast Clear first train speeds toward Berlin Brandon wins game fan loses fight racial divisions pole claims reds plot to split . Into parts Washington May 11 a a former polish general testified tuesday that Moscow directed agents expected to break up the United states into a series of Small separate state of negroes germans and other racial entities. Gen. Izydor Rudolf Modelski former military attache at the polish embassy Here told a Senate judiciary sub committee he received word of the plot from an alleged master soviet spy named col. Gustaw Alef Borkowiak. The witness said col. Alf posed As his Deputy on the polish embassy staff but in reality was one of the most important communists and an of the n.k.v.d., the rus Sian secret Modelski said col. Alef told him it is a fairly easy Job to under mine United states production. There will be a revolution. They expect to break up the United states into Small groups. They will have a negro nation a Yugo nation a German nation and so Forth. Modelski said he was told in 1947 by soviet Admiral Glin Kolo that the russians would decide when War should come with the a United the witness also testified 1. That the polish embassy was the Centre of a spying apparatus and subversive activities directed against the United 2.thathe had been told the wife of the present polish ambassador. Josef Winiewicz is member of the 3. That or. I Macy Zlotowski a polish representative to the United nations was sent to the United states to do espionage in the atomic bomb Modelski. A Small wiry Man told the senators that col. Alef was the chief agent of the polish communists for All the american House of representatives investigators said that when last heard from Alef was the polish military attache in Belgrade Modelski said col. Alef visited Canada Many times and also trav Elled in the United states and Mexico. Modelski said i was told on coming to the United states that i would he used to serve As a human screen behind which col. Alef using see hearing Page .6 All the fighting going on in the current All Canada Junior hockey series Between Mon Treal royals and i Trandon wheat Kings is not confined to the ice. Here is an action shot by the free press photographer game in Brandon Arena tuesday night Brandon fans foolishly took it on himself to administer further punishment to Montreal s starry Gordon Knutson after the easterner had been sent to the penalty Box Knutson is player to on the right. The fan in the Centre Mounil unexpected assistance for Knutson appearing from All As Royal players jumped from their Box and carved out the Brand onite s indiscretion. Order was soon by Alert Brandon police and the fan ejected. Brandon went on to win 2-1. Other pictures stories and comment on sports Eastern firm gets big Job a Cost plus fee contract expected to total around involving the main construction work in the development of the Manitoba government s new Power Plant at Pine Falls on the Winnipeg River was awarded to the foundation company of can Ada a Montreal firm wednesday the Bird construction company of Winnipeg will be associated with the foundation company in carry ing out the work expected to pm ploy Between 500 and 600 men. Work on the project will Start traffic barriers blasted As blockade end nears Berlin May 11 Berlin blockade Russia s supreme and futile manoeuvre in the cold War crumbled away wednesday As a land Rush of Western traffic toward the City and the soviets swept aside their barriers Here. . Authorities sent their first train speeding for Berlin and 16 others were wait ing with steam up for the formal Windup of the blockade at one minute after Midnight 5.01 . The russians blasted go traffic barriers along the soviet sector Border inside Ber and Concrete monuments to the All out Effort Short of War to oust the Western this week. It be Well into 1052 before it is completed. Al men employed will be Manitoba work men except for the necessary key personnel representatives of the Genera contractor said wednes Day. Total Cost of Hie Pine Falls Power development project including the construction con tract and the Power equip ment to he purchased is Esti mated at nearly by government officials. The construction contract was signed wednesday morning by Hon. J. S. Ai Diarmid minister of mines and natural resources act ing for the Manitoba Hydro elec tric Board established under an act of the legislature passed at the last session. Signing on behalf of the foun Dation company of Canada was see Power contract Page 10 carnival gaiety prevails in City Plain speaking listening is Wilson s plan for tour London May 11 up canadians can expect a straight from the shoulder exposition of British views on Anglo Canadian Trad when it. Hon. Harold Wilson Toun the Dominion during the next three weeks. I look Forward to some Plain speaking and some Plain or. Wilson president of the Board 300 refugees flying to . New York May 11 bup evacuation of 300 jewish refugees trapped in Shanghai will be undertaken thursday Alaska airlines incorporated announced wednes Day. The refugees will be flown to Vancouver under the sponsorship of the joint distribution commit tee the International refugee organization and the Canadian jew so Congress. St. Laurent tour opens Village of Compton que. Welcomes favorite son by Hugh Boyd Sherbrooke que., May 11 special Compton s most fam Ous son came Back to his boyhood Home tuesday to the Village amid the ships where he was born 67 years ago. From farms for Miles around the people came to do Honor to their own prime minister. It was a Day charged with deep emotion for it. Hon. Louis Stephen St. Laurent who was supposed to be in the thick of an election fight but instead of making Politi Cal speeches tarried instead to gossip with old neighbors some of them school Fellows of nearly two generations ago. The speeches which he did make were chats too addressed to a few Hundred people at a time instead of to a single person. None of them touched on controversial issues. But As the prime minister left his Home town that night and struck out for the maritime he was ready to go on the stump in Earnest in his own fashion. To the Yery end of this Campaign it seemed Likely that he would feel Assembly for debate. Most at ease in talking to Little knots of people As was the Case out West. And he might Well prove to do most effective work for his party and its candidates in that fashion. Compton lies some 16 Miles Southeast of scr Brooks the Busy manufacturing City of nearly in the Eastern townships of Quebec which also holds lasting association for or. St. Laurent. His first visit after stepping off the train from Ottawa at noon was to St. Charles see St. Laurent Page 7 approval Paris. May 11 bup the Cabinet gave unqualified approval wednesday to both the Atlantic pact and the proposed Council of Europe. A statement a three hour Cabinet meeting said both matters would be sent to president Vincent Auriol for his approval. Then they will go to the National of Trade said at a press conference tuesday. He arrived in Canada wednes Day with his first important speak ing engagement in Halifax thurs Day. After that he will stump the country from coast to coast before returning to Toronto for the International Trade fair. Or. Wilson mid that in addition to trying to dispel fears and misconceptions in Canada regarding Britain s Trade poli he hoped to find ways of improving British Selling arrangements in the Dominion. It was essential to stimulate Trade Between the two countries you must remember that at. First it is going to be More a question of wiping out the deficit and so avoiding cuts rather than of being Able to increase Pur reinforcements expected British units to patrol each opposite Hong Kong Hong Kong. May 11 Reuters army units will soon be patrolling regularly the British owned wild and mountainous 35 Square Miles of Mainland territory opposite Hong Kong it was Learned from usually reliable sources tues Day night. Additional units will shortly reinforce the British Field artillery reinforcements Singapore May 11 bup a Squadron of Royal air Force spitfires and five other planes took off wednesday to reinforce the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. The mosquitoes two Dakotas and a Sunderland Fly ing boat will go to the Colony via Sarawak Northwest Borneo and the Philippines regiment and the gurkha battalion now stationed in the territory these sources added. Fresh British troops will take up positions close to the 14-mile-Long troubled Frontier of Kwan Ortung province infested with bandits and communist guerrillas the sources said. It was simultaneously reported the head of government department concerned with Trade matters said he wanted to meet As Many canadians As i can and to hear and discuss with them All their different views on the pro per Way to conduct Anglo Canadian or. Wilson recalled that Bri Tain now pays for Only one third of her imports from Canada financing the remainder with Loans and funds from the european re covery programme. There seems in fact just no Way of getting away from the Bald fact that we have got to make a dramatic increase in the number of goods we sell in he continued. He said my Job May be Only half done when he returns to Lon Don and that he then May have to becom e a Mission to Britain Selling British businessmen on he opportunities of the Canadian Market. Army to Mark anniversary a 21-gun Salute will of fired at noon thursday at the legislative building grounds to commemorate he 12th anniversary of the Coro nation of King George i. It was announced wednesday by Prairie command Headquarters. Composed of four 25-Pounder held guns the saluting troop will e provided by the 39th Field regi ment Ria of the Reserve Force. The guns will be drawn up on the Northwest driveway of the legis Active grounds. Members of which were killed by bandits last inc Casin Security measures As the communist armies sweep South into China. The police Force tuesday made its first arrest in its bring them Back alive Hunt for the murderers of two British Marine police officers and a chinese detective. Inspector r. F. C. Olivier sub inspector l. Haynes and the Sec Hong Kong Page 6 Safe crackers take cracks men who smashed their Ray into a Safe at King s limited. 596 Portage Avenue Between 11 . Tuesday and 12.30 . Wednesday escaped with approximately in Casio. According to police reports. By Stephen White . Herald Tribune service Berlin. May 11 an Atmo sphere of carnival Marks the dying of the blockade of Ber Lin. Last minute announcements tues Day from both Eastern and Western sectors set the stage for the Block Ade to end with a bang. Russians and allies alike have detoured any technical difficulties in the Way and Are making Midnight wednesday a Clear Cut line of Demar cation. There has not been such unanimity of purpose in Berlin since the City was wrested from the nazis. The carnival air which was noticeably absent when the end of the blockade was announced has been growing Ever since. Thursday will have All the aspects of a Holiday. School sessions will he sus Pended. The City Assembly will hold a festive extraordinary City Assembly session which will he followed with a mass demonstration. The russians will counter with a powerful demonstration of the democratic bloc in East Berlin the soviet news service announced tuesday. The meeting will observe the first result of an understand in of the announcement said. The soviet sector will add to the gaiety by pouring Light and Power into the Western sectors for the first time since the blockade began last year. They have announced also the resumption of a uniform system of Gas distribution. The first German passenger train from Berlin is already hooked to its capacity of passengers with about others begging for space and offering wild premiums for the privilege of taking part in this historic occasion. Presid ing in the cab of the Locombo see Berlin Page 10 among the four Trade and traffic thousands Jam Western jump off spot Helmstedt Germany May 11 bup this East West Frontier town was jammed wednesday with thousands of officials news Cor respondents and sightseers ready Tor the Midnight run to Berlin. Helms left is the Spring Hoard for the Overland journey of the Western Powers to Berlin after Long months of blockade. While soviet Anil Western transportation experts met for final conferences on procedure Ami traffic la Elmstedt cafes Ami bars in Holiday mood. At the autobahn superhighway Barrier several Miles from Helm Stedt freshly painted signs were posted pointing the Way to Berlin. Powers from the former capital. Soviet sector police said rus Sian and German guards at the Check Points Between the East and West sectors of Berlin would be removed at the Zero hour. A 10-Mftn soviet railway delegation arrived at Lelm Stedt wednesday morning and at once began discussions with Western zone experts the russians informed the East Ern German railway administration that All trains passing through their must be drawn by Sov ii Elmstedt Germany May 11 Reuters the Brit ish licensed German news Agency reported wednesday night that some persons who had crossed the zonal Bor Ders at Helmstedt and then returned claimed they had been fired upon by men of the Kussian Border control. Iet locomotives. Allied officials said that was the usual procedure be fore the blockade was imposed. Berlin for its part prepared Lor the most massive Celebration in see traffic Page 6 rail men beat deadline Berlin May 11 a one car diesel train carry ing German Railroad officials crossed into Western Germany from the soviet zone at Helm Stedt wednesday the first train to Cross the East West Frontier under the big four agreement to lift the Berlin blockade. War on speeders Iran reports soviet attack Tehran Iran May 11 a military informant said thursday about a segment of sovet troops supported by tanks and Armorel cars attacked and occupied three iranian outposts in the Azerbaijan area sunday. The informant reported one iranian missing and several wounded there was no information Avail Able on soviet casualties. The informant added that the iranian army commander has protested to the russians and that discussions arc in Progress on the spot. No official announcement has been made. Nothing on the report the clothing store Safe come from Moscow said was opened by knocking Oft the dial and punching the spindle. One official said the thieves method of entering the building had not been determined because extensive alterations were being that Hong Kong s police made on the premises. This is the latest in a series of reports of soviet iranian Border incidents which have heightened the Sion Between the two countries. Azerbaijan province was the scene of a serious clash Between Russia and Iran late in 1945. Drop in other grains seen wheat acreage up million free press estimates show Prairie Farmers plan on seed ing More acres of wheat this year the first 1949 free press crop report reveals. Farmers will sow acres of wheat this season. Provincial wheat acreages Are Manitoba up Saskatchewan up and Alberta up the acreage sown to other vey reveals. Oats acreage for the Prairies at is Down acres from last year. A decline in bar Ley acreage is reported with the Prairie total of acres. Forty four per cent less flax will be seeded this year. The acre age is compared with s6s.ooo last year. Prairie Rye acre age of 1.72s.600 is 12 per cent he grains will he lower the sir How last year s total of Prairie Grain acreage Manitoba. Saskatchewan Alberta total Oats Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta. 19-19 1948 free press Dominion Bureau estimate of statistics wheat total Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta total Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta total Manitoba Barley 5.904.000 flax 501.000 1.037.500 Rye Saskatchewan Alberta total 2.226.000 percentage change -11 5 5 6 unch. 2 unch. 1 3 3 __22 Good soaking Rains Are needed in All provinces to build up both sur face and subsoil moisture reserves. Present moisture conditions Are fair to Good in Manitoba and fair to poor in Saskatchewan and Al Berta. Moderate soil Drifting is re ported in Central and Western Saskatchewan a n d in the Southern districts of Alberta Drifting has been in Manitoba. Seeding started april 21-25. It is approaching completion for wheat and is Well under Way in Oats and Barley. Provincial summaries follow. Manitoba seeding started on april 23 in Manitoba. Wheat seeding is Well under Way and a Good Start has been made on seeding of its and Barley. Little flax has been seeded. Surface and subsoil moisture conditions Are fair to Good in the Southern half of the province and fair in Northern districts. With the exception of mod Erate occurrences in the bran Don Carberry District grass see crop report Page 25 renew talks Detroit May talks to Settle the . United Auto workers strike against the Ford motor company were renewed wednesday As Walter Reuther. President of the u.a.w., warned left Wing elements in his Union to quit meddling in the seven Day old walkout. Motorists again queue to pay traffic fines for the fourth week in a Row Park Alex Chomyszyn 303 Sher Highway traffic offenders were lined up in provincial police court tuesday to pay their fines As the . In Manitoba cracked Down in a Spring Campaign to Stop speeding on the highways. In All 16 persons were fined by magistrate d. G. Potter for Speed ing while 16 others were fined for exceeding loading limits on the highways. The fines totalled s360 and costs. . Officials in Winni Peg warned that extra Cruiser cars had been placed on the. Highways. We have found that excessive Speed is responsible for the majority of accidents and we Are trying o Cut Down on the accidents by cutting Down on Ihn one High official said. The highest Fine paid for Speed ing was by Fred e. Warriner s5s Palmerston Avenue who was fined s15 and costs when he pleaded guilty to travelling at 52 . Through a restricted zone. Fifteen other persons charged with driving to the common danger by exceeding the limit in a restricted area or on the open Highway were each fined 510 and costs. They Wnuk. 290 Jam Payre 200 Eugenie Street r. O. Lockwood 214 Aubrey Street Ferguson. 270 King Street Bouverie Parker. 87-1 Ingersoll Street. Arthur a. Wydman Sheridan apartments John Shanski. 173 Eila Avenue Leonard Anderson. I Stranmillis Street George b. Ito Warl. 130 Glendale Avenue Tohn w. Birnie. 39 Eastgate times Gib. Flin flon. Man Orville b. Durrach. 928 fort Garry Lotel Cromwell Smith Kirk Field were Eddie w. An Furby Street John Brook Street Arthur s. Arnett 319 Woodlawn Street. Charged with operating a motor vehicle upon a Highway see speeders Page 6 reds driving on Shanghai o and Fukien Shanghai May 11 a chinese communists apparently living off the land bore Down swiftly wednesday on coastal Fukien province. At the same time the noose around Shanghai was tightened. The nationalist Garrison Here officially admitted these communist gains. Unofficial reports indicated Han Kow big Yangtze port in Central China May be doomed. A three pronged communist attack on Hankow seemed to be gathering momentum. The Shanghai Garrison com Munique wednesday gave this Pic Ture 1. A communist Force of men has attacked Kinky in Tiangsi province less than 50 Miles from he Fukien Boundary. Fukien is opposite the Island of Formosa. 2. The communists were at tacking Kasman 50 Miles South West of Shanghai. Communications with that City were severed at Dawn. This usually Means capture. 3. Thirty Miles Northwest of Shanghai the Village of chemo in the Kunshan area was under communist attack. Charges Trade drop Prog cons would find new markets save Drew Sydney. N.s., May ii up George Drew progressive con Ergative Leader said tuesday night hat a government under his Leader p will take Steps to recapture Canada s Export markets. In his first Federal election Campaign speech broadcast Over a Csc National network or. Drew said when called upon to assume the responsibility or govern ment we will immediately take Steps not Only to recapture those Canadian Export markets which we held before but also to find new markets in those countries throughout the world which need the things we pro Duce and can buy them if Only we break the deadlock resulting from the Exchange Barrier Between the Dollar and the Sterling in his radio speech the party eader stressed the question of can Ada s Trade relations but he also several Points in the progressive conservative platform. He said the parly s social Security programme includes "1. Adequate old age pensions at 65 without a Means lest. "2. Accident sickness and disability benefits. "3. Extended unemployment insurance include payment for time lost due to Accident or sickness. "4. Family allowances regard less of the number of children. "5. A National health pro see Drew Page 7 Aid for guerrillas Athens May 11 Cap a greek Liaison officer told the uni Ted nations Balkans commission tuesday russian occupied Eastern Germany is giving Aid to greek guerrillas. The officer Alexander Dalietos. Said in a Cash sugar shoes report that clothing and medical supplies were sent to the rebels ;