Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg overcast with Little change in temperature. Winds northerly at 20 Mph becom ing southeasterly at 20 Mph saturday. Low tonight High saturday 35 and 62. Vol 195 38 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg Friday May 13, 1949 Sun Rise 4.47 . Sun set s.04 . Moon Rise s.04 . Moon set 5.03 . Forecast Cloudy and Cool Brandon fans Roar Victory cheer 2 desperate convicts escape Penitentiary the Buzzer had just sounded to end thursday night s memorial cup hockey game As the free press photographer snapped this picture in the Brandon Arena. The jeans were joyous Over Brandon s 5-1 Victory Over Montreal royals which. Deadlocked the Best of seven final at three wins and a tie Lor each club and forced an eighth game which will be played in Winnipeg monday. Stories and other pictures on sport pages Dominion denies Poland s charges that Canada exploits do immigrants Lake Success n.y., May 13 thursday night rejected As untrue Poland s charge in the United nations that refugees in the Dominion exploited. Leon Mayrand presented can Ada s Case before the 59-member committee of the general Assembly answering an attack on the Dominion made earlier by Henry k. Altai an of Poland. Or. Altai an said displaced per sons brought to Canada and other immigrants pleased says Ottawa Ottawa May 13 Arthur Macnamara Deputy labor minister said thursday night immigrants to especially polish in highly pleased with the treatment they have had in very Clear evidence of this is that none of them have asked to go to Europe and they have asked departments to bring otters of their nationality from to said. Or. Macnamara was replying to charges made by polish Delegate Henry k. Altman during a debate in the United nations social com Mittee. He said complaints made last fall Manitoba Camps were fairly investigated and conditions were immediately rectified in one Camp complaints were made about it a few Days after it was opened. Hon. Humphrey Mitchell labor minister said wednes Day that displaced persons were satisfied working Condi in the mines of Northern Ontario and Quebec. He quoted a manager of an on Tario Gold mine to his state ment the mine not Only still had 92 per cent of its original displaced persons but it also took in 53 others who completed their contracts with Timber companies. Countries worked under worse conditions than they endured in German Camps. He called for re organization of International refugee organization which would allow immigrants to re turn to their native countries and would eliminate what he called exploitation or. Mayrand head of the american and far Eastern division of the external affairs department noted that Russia and White Russia As Well As Poland had made the same charges previously in the in. Authorities in the Dominion have denied these charges i gather from those statements that they Are attempting to show that refugees and displaced per sons who came to Canada Are being employed at lower rates than those paid locally hired help for similar work that their work ing conditions Are unsatisfactory and that in general they Are being discriminated against and exploited by their Canadian Emmr. Mayrand said. Russian answers nothing of course could be further from the truth he added. Taking the floor just before mid night after warning he would speak for More than an hour semen k. Tsarapkin of Russia said he would answer the Canadian Delegate. Or. Tsarapkin quoted from what he said were letters from displaced persons in Canada to friends in Germany Ami from hits in Canadian newspapers. He quoted the writer of one slav backed polish move is Defeated Lake Success May 13 up United nations Assembly s social committee Friday overwhelmingly Defeated a polish Resolution which Western delegates called a political attack on the Dis placed persons programme. Poland s Henry k. Altman charged that . Camps in the Western occupation zones of Ger Many and Austria Are being used to furnish cheap labor to mar shall plan Western officials were blocking efforts of Eastern european displaced per sons to return to their homelands. The Resolution backed Only by the slav Block had asked United nations members not to permit persecution of Dis placed and not to tolerate the presence in Camps of persons carrying on hostile activities or. Propaganda against any member state of the United letter whom he did not identify a saying husbands and wives Amon the displaced persons were not a Lowed to work on the same farm. Or. Mayrand said there had Bee complaints about conditions at temporary refugee Camp at erne son Man., but remedial action a taken soon after it came to the government s attention. Carelessness actually investigation Showe the conditions which caused thes complaints were due in the Mai to the carelessness of the worke in the Camp he Sai living conditions at Camps of sugar beet workers at Emerso and Letellier. South of Winnipeg were investigated by both Man Toba and Federal authorities. The investigations last fall arose from newspaper reports see refugees Page s Down to Ega buying in Canada shows big drop for april Langers seeking 2 firebug a firebug operating near Rosenberg in the River ton District has set five Forest fires in he past 48 hours and the . Are working with fire rangers of the Manitoba forestry Ericc 10 try to pick him up g. Somers provincial forester Aid Friday. Another firebug is suspected debating farther North in the Fisher Bay area where several mall fires have been reported by Aerial patrols. Rangers on close in Section believe the fires were deliberately started. The fires in the Riverton District were set with a few Miles of the Forest rangers Tower at Rosenberg. Rangers reported evidence of twigs having been Gat he red built up and set on fire with matches. The rangers worked Day and night since wednesday to keep up Vith the they reported All ires he had set As checked and under control Friday. The fires were located among Jack Pine on a Sandy Ridge with sparse cover. It required some time or the Bug to get the flames fanned into a fair sized Blaze the rangers reported. They believed spite was a possible motive for the fires being deliberately set. They explained that sometimes fire bugs set fires to kill Young Timber so that it would be Dis posed of by the government As fire killed. But in the Riverton area there was a heavy windstorm last year and a number of Trees were blown Down which have been Avail Able to the local residents. Forest and grass fires which broke out South of Riverton were not the work of one Hundred Volunteer fire fighters worked through out thursday combating the flames and brought them in incr control in the late after noon. Fires raging around the Settle ment of Manigotagan on the East Side of Lake a Winnipeg were re ported checked Friday but not yet under control. About 60 men were fighting those fires which hat spread to within a halt mile of the Hamlet before being checked three Forest fires were Blazin thursday North of Hodgson but Friday they were reported to be checked after nearly 100 fire University results for release saturday the free press saturday afternoon will carry the names of the largest graduating class in the history of the University of Manitoba. The list of the successful students who will receive degrees diplomas or certificates at the University s 70th convocation May is. Has been released to the free press by the University records department for publication saturday afternoon. The free press will carry the names of students receiving arts degrees in the general honors and latin philosophy courses science degrees in the general honors pharmacy Home economics agriculture and engineering courses Commerce degrees in the general and honors courses Law architecture education and Interior design degrees diplomas in music education Interior decoration social work agriculture and Dairying and certificates in nursing education. Full details of special awards will be from 11 members a letter questioning the Wisdom f the Marshall plan the Atlantic act and the present defence expenditures in Canada and the . As been addressed by a group of members of the Manitoba . O the membership of that party n this province. Mimeographed on Ordinary paper the letter bears the printed Sig natures of eleven persons Eleanor Cook Valdi Thorvaldson William Fortune Cliff Matthews Tom Brown Howard Cook Bertha log Lander. Ford Mcmillan Berry Richards ., Matilda Ornick ind Wilbert Donelenko In the text of the letter puh shed in an adjoining column on his Page mrs. Cook s first name Vas Given As Edith. Mrs. Cook How Ever informs the free press that see fires Page 17 rail Bridge destroyed Alta. Town burned out 15 families homeless by Chester Bloom Ottawa May 13 special illustrating1 the steady decrease in United states . Marshall plan purchasing in Canada of goods for the United kingdom and Europe figures released Here Fri Day show that total . Authorizations for purchases in Canada during april 1949, were 000. This compares will similar totals of in the previous Campaign hits High gear orators flock to hustings Ottawa May 13 Campaign for Canada s june 27 general election picked up Speed with a fresh flurry of across the. Country. Prime minister. Louis St. Lau rent made a 65-mile sweep from Digby to Yarmouth n.s., deliver ing addresses in route. George Drew progressive conservative Leader carried his Appeal to the big Newfoundland newsprint town of grand Falls. In the West Solon Low social credit Leader broadcast on a National Csc network. Two Cabinet ministers Hon. Brooke Claxton defence minister and Hon. R. H. Winters reconstruction minister also moved in to the major Home fish Market or. St. Laurent climaxed a Day along Nova Scotia s Western coast Centre of a Large scale fishing Industry with an address at Yar Mouth in which he stressed the possibilities of developing a major Home Market for maritime fish. Or. Drew made labor one of the major items in labor conscious grand Falls and Oaid a government under Lead in help would make collective bargaining and the 48-hour week. He touched too on newfound land s Union with Canada and said a progressive conservative gov month of february March in and last obviously the United states committee is doing its Best to Cut Down these purchases for Aid to the overseas War ravaged nations and quite naturally where possible Transfer tie buying to United states Supply sources. The april. 10-19, . Authorizations bring the total authorized spending of . Dollars in Canada for overseas supplies since april 1. 1948, of 13 months to 776. Edmonton Alta., May 13 Forest fires sweeping across North Ern Alberta and Saskatchewan threatened several communities Friday after burning out the town o f Canyon Creek leaving ,15 families homeless. Train service North of Edmonton was disrupted when the lires destroyed a Bridge at Arsineau. Assi Cau and Canyon Creek Are on the Northern Alberta railway line running Between Edmonton and Grande Prairie. Tie fire is reported to cover a. Large area about 160 Miles Northwest of Edmonton. The red Cross rushed blankets and clothing to homeless Canyon Creek families. Reports said 15 families including 40 children had lost every thing they owned. An official said word of the families plight came through the . Thursday night and one truck was sent with clothes ant bedding to Canyon Creek Anc Arsineau. The red Cross is awaiting word that the emergency Aid has reached the families and whether More help will be needed the official Hung Over this City thursday a. Workmen battled a ground Blaze n the Northern outskirts. Rain is urgently needed said e Marshall director of forests protect Timberland across Northern Saskatchewan. This nearly three quarters of a billion . Dollars spent in can Ada in 13 months represents 40 per cent of the total of what the americans term off Shore . Authorizations of that is . Dollars spent in coun tries other than the . For Aid chiefly to the United kingdom and detailed election stores on pages 10, 13 and 17. Crement would be prepared to Europe the total adjust the terms under which the authorizations in the period were Island province entered the Gana and the difference Between that sum and the off Shore authorizations represents the . Funds spent see Eca spending Page s Jessup Bohlen arrive in Paris Paris May 13 Philip Jessup . And Bassadore at Large and Charles Zohlen state department counsellor arrived by plane Friday to begin laying the groundwork for the big four meet ing on Germany starting May 23. Or. Jessup and or. Bohlen were expected to meet soon with Brit ish and French officials for preliminary talks. Or. Jessup said those talks would be a Normal continuation of those which had been going on among representatives of the three countries. Dian confederation. There would be frequent and continuing discussions Between the Federal and Provin Cial governments. Or. Low said the Funda mental election Issue is the retention of the present financial system or a change to a system that Means Ade quate purchasing Power in the hands of the or. Winters speaking at Yar Mouth from the same platform As or. St. Laurent defended the government s foreign Trade policies and said the liberals had the Best programme the country had known keeping Trade at its present re Cord Peak. Or. Claxton in an address Broad cast at Montreal said or. Drew was becoming he mired in the mud Ford negotiations Detroit May 13 or p. Reut Ier. President of the 1i.o. United Auto workers re turned to the bargaining table Fri Lay As negotiators sought a Settle ment of the Ford motor compan for the fourth straight a there was no indication that settlement was near. About 150 men with three Bull doers Are fighting the Blaze South of lesser slave Lake which thurs Day burned out a trestle Bridge delaying railway service. A forestry said fires in the lesser slave Lake area Are very they Sovei about 60 Square Miles of Timber and Brush Isnari. He said the burned out settlers were Strung along the Highway be tween Assine a and Canyon Creek just South of the Lake. The Blaze was moving Northeast but 50 fire fighters and the bulldozers have checked it. Another Laree Blaze has broken out in the peace River sub division of the . Around Judah about 10 Miles South of place River. A fire in the Chip Lake area be tween 75 and so Miles West of Edmonton. Broke out of control late thursday and 50 men and two bulldozers were fighting it. There were two other minor Brush fires burning the official said. About 35 men and a Bull Nozer were fighting a Blaze near Winfield. About 50 Miles Southwest of Edmonton. The other is in the Lac la Biche area. Smok Over Prince Albert Prince Albert. Sask. A 13 heavy pall of smoke Kcf letter raises issues of pact Marshall plan his was an error dated april 16. Headed. Dear and of her reinforcements to the non a o c i a 1 i s t governments of Ireece Italy France and Japan eve. Al., will further the develop ment of socialism and peace or the re establishment of capitalism and the continued exploitation of the common people of those they if the increased production of armaments in Canada and the United states is meant to or will Lead to world Security or 13 this another Case of see . Lett eur Page s text of letter Here is the text of the letter from and ending. Fraternally it asked its recipients whether. As . Ers they Are disturbed about present tendencies Oward War. They ask if policies being adopted at Ottawa fashioned after the policies from washing Ion will bring peace and Security 01 depression and 2 they ask again if the mar shall plan of supplying arms 11 . Members which has been sent to other members of the same political party throughout Mani Hankow Falls Unicoi tested say reports Shanghai May most important Industrial City in Central China has fallen to the communists Sny reports reaching ice Friday. The reports relayed Here via Canton indicated that the reds walked in without opposition. Meanwhile airline pilots Here said thursday they saw Small arms lire 10 Miles from Shanghai s main Airport. Distant explosions could be heard at the Airport where chinese arid International air lines take off with refugees from this menaced City. Fungwha is at the South Edge of Shanghai on the Whang poo River about five Miles South of the City proper. Despite the nearness of attack ers All airlines Are operating. Some were maintaining standby planes for a last minute withdrawal of key personnel. Outward despatches Only san Francisco May 13 a wireless and other Radic communication companies reported Friday they were unable to trans Mit to communist threatened Shanghai. Province s police alerted bulletin police throughout Manitoba Early this afternoon were notified by radio and All other Means of warning to be on the Lookout for two desperate convicts who at 1.15 . Staged a daring break from Stony Mountain Penitentiary. The last names of the two escapees were announced by lie police As no. 1 Montgomery no. 2 moggy. A special police broadcast revealing the escape said the men had seized a three ton Ford dump truck with a red cab bearing the Dominion government licence no. Ipg. 363. The police broadcast stated that it was believed the men were head ing West. . And municipal police in the Winnipeg District East and West immediately threw out Road blocks along All roads in the area. Details on the manner in which the convicts staged the break were not Given in the first broadcast. It is believed that the escaped prisoner moggy is Percy moggy who was convicted at the age 19 Lor shooting two Winnipeg detectives Fred Batho and Robert Frayne in 1924. Winnipeg Man. April 16, 1949 dear Friend Are you As a Canadian and particularly As a member of the ., disturbed about present tendencies towards War do you feel that the policies be ing adopted at Ottawa fashioned after the policies from Washington will bring peace and Security or will they bring depression and War do you agree that the Marshall plan or the european recovery plan of supplying arms and other reinforcements to non socialist governments of Greece Italy France Japan it Al will further the development of socialism and peace or will it mean the re establishment of capitalism and the continuation civil War and the continued exploitation of the common people of those lands do you think that the increased production of armaments in can Ada and the .a. Is meant to or will Lead to world Security or arc you of the opinion that this is an other Case of capitalism having to turn to the production of arms in see text Page 17 Moggey was Given ten years for wounding detectives during a gun Battle at the Bank of Commerce main Street and Alexander Avenue in 1924. . Denies Trade pact violations Berlin May facials in Berlin 13 . Of Friday denied russian accusations that the Western Powers had violated the four Power agreement on lifting the Berlin blockade by failing to raise completely their counter blockade of the soviet zone. Making Public the first rift be tween the East and West Over the four Power agreement the official russian Organ to cliche funds Chau said Friday the Western pow ers had not lifted their Trade restrictions. No shipments of goods from Western Germany have arrived see Berlin Page 17 warning in . Fraser floods threaten if hot weather goes on Vancouver. May 33 up the Dominion water and Power Bureau Here warned thursday that should present soaring temperatures continue beyond the week end High water of flood proportions Churchill urges caution at pakis Britain ratifies Atlantic pact As Bevin denounces Russia new York Herald to Chunc news service London May 13 the House of commons ratified the North Atlantic treaty thursday night Winston Churchill had said United states and its atomic bombs were the main bulwark of it Hon Ernest Bevin. Foreign Secretary bluntly blamed soviet Russia for forcing the after peace and Western Powers to join forces under the treaty. The labor government s motion approving the treaty was passed by a vote of 333 to 6. Opponents of the treaty were two communists and four left Wing labovites who denounced the treaty As age grel Sive and threatening to pro Voke War with Russia. Or. Bevin was More out spoken than usual since the in his denunciation of Russia and or. Churchill took advantage of the Occa Sion to warn the big three Western Powers against being tricked into a Deal at their forthcoming Paris conference with Russia on the German problem. Or. Bevin outlining events which he said forced the Atlantic Powers to join under the treaty Laid the whole blame on Russia. He denounced the soviet use of the veto in the United nations and described the grouping of Eastern european countries As the first deliberate step to create a Divi Sion in talks peace he recalled events in most East Ern european nations during the past four years and said the see Page 8 local gains mean Victory in 1950 say . Tories London Mav 13 Ftp the Quin 11 of the 2s London Metropolis denser native party jubilant Over Tan councils the position was i co sweeping gains in thursday s Bor Ough Council elections was confident Friday that the land slide to the right foreshadowed their re turn to National government in the 1950 general election. Socialist supporters while subdued by their party s heavy reverses were not prepared to accept this View holding that local elections were not an accurate Index of National Politi Cal feeling. They said their party has not lost in parliamentary by elections a single scat gained or held in the 1945 general election. Returns obtained hour by hour this morning showed a steady Stream of anti labor victories in the 420 Borough councils involving candidates for seats. Election returns with final returns in ail 392 municipal and county councils and May be anticipated in the Fraser River the weather office in Vancouver reported at the same time change in the weather situation is expected in the next 4s hours. Temperatures of so degrees have been recorded in Many Interior Points. In the inst Throe Days the Fraser River at Hope ., 100 Miles cast of Vancouver has risen from feet to 24.10 feet. Another Rise of four feet has been reported from the Fraser Valley Centre of Mission j5.c. Already Flash floods have Cut Road and Telegraph communications with the Simi Kameen Valley 140 Miles East of Vancouver. The Simi Kameen and Tulameen Rivers have risen More than three feet in two Days and some breakthroughs Are threatened at several Points along the Simi Kameen which is still rising. The River is within inches of Dike tops at the. Head Kate of the Cawston irrigation District Rinir Keremeos ., and pc Pagi is being checked by emergency Crews. Still an other by Cal is threatened at Twenty mile which joins Thi Simi Kameen near Liedley . Fields have been flooded by liberals id gains 40 losses com Sheri eng Creek Midway Between Monist no gains two losses in he lev a conservatives. 560 gains 241 losses labor 77 gains 530 losses dependents 122 gains 17s losses. The mounting conservative gains throughout Britain were accompanied by a Complete rout of communists who had put Forward a record number of 485 candidates none of whom had been elected to Date. Anti socialist forces were elated by the recapture of control in key centres such As the great Industrial City of Birm Ingham and by their Success Ful assault upon labor s Cita Del the croup of 28 London metropolitan boroughs. Polling though not approaching the strength of a general election a 70 to 80-per-cent. Vote the electorate is in some cases exceptionally heavy. Medley and Princeton and the new Hope Princeton Highway May be threatened. The Canadian Pacific railway s Nicola Valley and Kettle Valley lines Are also reported threatened by floods. At Kelowna some Low lying farm land is flooded by mis Sion Creek. Mrs. Eisler arrested new York May 13 bup mrs. Gerhard Eisler wife of the communist Leader who fled the United states As a stowaway on a polish ship was arrested by Xai agents Friday and taken to Ellis Island. She had been missing since wednesday shortly after her Hus band was revealed to be aboard the . Batory in route to Europe ;