Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 02, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. No. 264 26 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc tuesday August Laddie and Lassie the youngest raw highlanders at the big Glengarry Highland games were three year old Patricia Walsh and four year old Boyd both of Cornwall ont. The games at Max Vule 45 Miles South of Ottawa attracted some persons from Canada and the United states. Tested at eniwetok Sun 4 58 a m. Moon Bise 3 23 p m Sun set 8 10 p m. Moon h 32 p m. A risk of scattered Thunder storms wednesday evening. Warmer. Low tonight and High wednesday 55 and 85. Forecast fair and warmer . To maintain All units in Germany at full strength Grafe Woehr Ger Many aug. 2 United states soon will base an All Jet air striking Force in Germany and will main Tain its ground forces at present strength ready for any the visit Irig irs. Chiefs of staff Dis closed tuesday. Gen. Hoyt Berg air chief of staff and Gen. Omar n. Bradley army chief of staff told newsmen Here that there no cutback in the air and ground forces with which America will Back up its commitments in Europe under the North Atlantic treaty. The Only exception Gen. Vandenberg said will be the Berlin air lift that is Beng scaled Down gradually now that the soviet Block Ade of Western land and water routes to Berlin has been Gen. Vandenberg said the recently regrouped fighter Force in Germany soon will ship s escape enrages reds Shanghai. China. Aug. 2 chinese communists charged tues Day that the Sloop Amey Hyst Sank a passenger steamship and numerous Junks killing Sev eral Hundred persons in its dash Down the Yangtze River last sat urday night the communist new China news Agency said the amethyst away while red troops were rescuing passengers from the Steamer Kiang ing a majority of those aboard were drowned the Agency said. Noting that Brilain s prime minister Clement Attlee and King George i had cabled congratulations to the amethyst Crew the Agency quoted Gen. Yuan Chung Hsien As saying the China will never forget this tragic event and will avenge their compatriots who died april 20 and july 20." As Long As the British govern ment exists the people of China ill pursue to the end the question if responsibility and insist sternly More effective atom bombs Washington aug. 2 states is now producing the More effective atomic bombs tested at eniwetok .iru-1948, and has made advances on other atomic Congress was told monday by the atomic Energy commission in its Semi annual report president Truman later commented that the . Has reason for Assurance and Faith that the atomic programme is being effectively pressed both for defence and human welfare purposes. This apparently was his answer to charges of commis Sion mismanagement against . Chairman David e. Lil Lenthal. The . Reported 1. Its eniwetok tested bombs More effective than those used be fore 1948, Are being turned out by private manufacturing companies. Greater production 2. and plutonium sources of atomic Energy for Are being produced in greater amounts than Ever. 3. Increasing attention was Given in the past six months to reactor development an item of prime Mil itary and eventual civilian in or pile is a de the controlled release of atomic Energy with which scientists Hope eventually to achieve propulsion for aircraft and ships and furnish electrical Power Lor Industry. Canada is reputed to have the world s most advanced reactor at Chalk River ont. It is a research designed also to test the action of atomic radiations on Var new uranium sources 4 the United states has found Western Liberal Victory new. Sources of uranium in its backyard enormous ton of materials having a Low Content of uranium. These materials Cost More to pro Cess than those of higher uranium Content said the but they could be utilized in the future to sustain an atomic Energy pro gramme for military purposes should lower Cost uranium cease to be an . Staff Man told a reporter that the emphasis was on the in the future part of the statement. He said the . Was not tooled time to tap these very Low Grade sources and that any future use of them would be on. An emergency basis. He said there was no connection Between the commission s state ment on these source materials and recent unofficial speculation regarding with Bri Tairi and Canada in the atomic Field. Gale lashes Channel after violent storm London aug. 2 Reuters a Gale. In the English Channel. Tuesday after one of the Sto Miest nights since the Early part of. The year. Big seas Over beaches and against prom visibility was almost nil. Most of Brilain night of continuous rain the first of this Eummer. The developed South coast after mid night was reported to have done much damage in Orchards and Terii s e a my Ess steel tubing v pliant reopens in Ontario Al by Chester Bloom Ottawa aug. 2 special the big Page Hersey steel pipe Plant at is going ahead to make seamless steel boiler tubing As Well As Large size welded pipe . Al Berta Oil lines. Seamless steel boiler tubing is the Type of tubing on which items raising the duty were placed in the. Oct. 12, 1945 budget by it. Hon. J. L. Ilsley. Under one of them a five per cent intermediate and general duty was raised to 20 per. Cent. , the other free entry was stopped and a 20 per cent intermediate tar Iff was imposed. Mali Jong banned As time waster Shanghai aug. Mah Jonggu is taboo in Shanghai. Communist authorities tuesday decreed it is a waste of time to play China s favorite game. Sixty eight players were arrested fined communist dollars each sentenced to four to sweep the streets. J Man Jonggu a game with Domi noes was the rage in North Amer Ica in the late 20 s. The. Winnipeg free Piess discovered these items and hunched a series of attacks against this departure from lib eral Trade principles. A virtual revolt of Western Liberal Mem hers ensued in. The caucus and the government was forced to withdraw these Tariff increases on seamless steel tub into. The Page Hersey company closed the Section of equipped for. Making this boiler tubing asserting it the Riv 400 men out. Of work. Now this Section has been reopened without any increase in the Tariff according to High government sources. In Competition it was stated that there is no question of reopening the Page boiler tube Plant except on the basis of being Able to sell in Competition with . it would thus appear that the free press and the Western Liberal members won a resounding in Long delayed Victory. Whether or not the reopening of the make boiler tubing depends on the company s Hope that similar ubing manufactured in the . May be barred from Canada by amendments to the steel import see tubing Page 11 Canada makes new air pact with Britain London aug. 2 and the United kingdom tuesday included a new bilateral air agreement giving both countries rights to operate commercial Prcraft in each other s territory. Announcement of the new agree ment was made by Hon. Lionel Chevrier Canada s transport mini Ster who initialled the pact on behalf the Dominion. Formal signature is expected to take place at an Early Date in Ottawa. Or. Chevrier said in a statement the new act will replace various Anglo Canadian notes and agree ments on the operation of com Mercial air traffic signed in 19-15, 1947 and 1948. It will not come into effect until certain Points therein requiring the concurrence of some of the British colonial govern ments have been cleared with these existing routes generally the agreement Means that airlines established Between Canada and the ujv., such As trans Canada air lies and British overseas airways will continue operation Over existing routes be tween Montreal and . . A new arid important phase of the agreement is that for the first time the principle of. Fifth free Dom or intermediate traffic rights will be recognized. On punishment of the double crime committed by the. The Agency despatch said. Two according to crimes the Agency another Steamer. Amethyst crime by sinking the the first it said came when it invaded the Yangtze and shelled communist positions april 20. The piping communist Dio in its first news tuesday night of the escape of the amethyst alleged that the ship Sank a. Chinese passenger vessel drowning hundreds of Passen Gers in its dash Down the Yangtze. Meanwhile the 800-ton cargo snip Edyth Moller out of Hong Kong ran the nationalist reached Shanghai tuesday the coastal chartered by Tah Chunghwa steamship company of Shanghai is owned by Moller Limite d of Hong Kong. The ship is awaiting a permit from the communists to unload 600 tons and pick up cargo for Hong Kong. V there was much speculation Here that shipping interests in Hong Kong had used the Moller to test effectiveness of the nationalist blockade. Navy chief describes Crew As hostages in cold War aboard Jamaica at sea aug. .2 the commander in chief of Britain s far East Sta Tion disclosed monday that he sent a special message to the officers and Crew of the Sloop amethyst while they were hemmed in by the communists on the Yangtze Tell ing them they were being held As hostages in cold War. The forefront of the flood peril Man rescued by outboard Columbia. S.c., aug. 2 api two City firemen Early tuesday rescued a 21-year-old Man from the perilous Rocky Perch he had occupied in the Middle of the swirling Broad River for 11 hours. The firemen brought Robert Monroe Lee to safety in an out Board motor boat after a risky Quarter mile round trip run. A Navy Blimp sent from Savannah ga., hovered , hampered by rolling fog. Also at hand hut taking no part in Lee s was a helicopter which had been sent by truck from Pope Field . Lee had. Been marooned on the Rock since Early monday night when he and a companion were rapped by rampaging flood Waters released in part from a Power dam 10 Miles upstream. Atomic cocktail radioactive cure for cancer claimed new York aug. 2 advertising executive credited his miraculous recovery from cancer tuesday to the regular drinking of cocktail him radioactive enough to set Geiger counters chattering like a troop of absorbs Medicine i. S. Writing in the american Magazine said he had absorbed More atomic Medicine than any other patient known to science. He said a cocktail of radio Active iodine a month during the past year had converted him from a Stretcher Case to a useful Mem Ber of society brimming with atomic my experience proves that the atom can save life As Well As he said today we stand on the threshold of a whole new. Era of scientific v 57, first was treated radio iodine at the Kings Bridge veterans Tio Spita in the Bronx last september for what was believed to be a broken ver Tebra suffered in a fall. was processed in the atomic Energy commissions Plant at Oak Ridge term. An examination revealed ran Dall was suffering thyroid gland cancer. The Hafi spread to his spine and the Verta Bra was Only a Shell when it was shattered in the fall. Although the cocktail contained 80 limes As much radio iodine As radio news on Page in Hollywood Page 3. Bridge Page 4. Women s news pages 12, sport pages 16. 17, 18. Crossword Puzzle Page 9. Features Page g. Editorials 15. Finance pages 24. Gala icelandic festival held at Gimli Page. 9. Portage la Prairie reports in creased Revenue Page 4. Used in tracer doses it looked and tasted like Plain he wrote. However 1 noticed the doctor and physicist kept their distance while i drank it. The next five Days j spent in an isolation Ward a sign on the Ioor saying keep Randall said the first two cocktails relieved him almost entirely of pain and permitted him to move about. His third cocktail enabled him to go Home for thanksgiving. He was told he was radioactive enough to cause loss of sterility in Young persons. By january Randall was permit Ted to return Home. The Hospital called a. Conference of doctors to examine him. Randall said Many them were incredulous until a Geiger counter rigged to a Public address system roared like Ocean surf arid finally jammed when placed next to the Small of his Back. He said he would continue to give off Radiant Energy As Long As he live. Vicc Admiral sir Patrick Brind. The commander in chief radioed the amethyst s men july 14 the communists have been holding you hostage to bring admissions from the British govern ment which would not Only be in True and dishonourable but would harm the cause of Freedom in the future. For the present therefore you Are in the front of the cold War in which the cause of Freedom is being attacked. One thine i am quite sure neither the British government the amethyst s ship s company nor myself will Ever nut mint to threats insults or Prev Enron of truth nor shall do anything to harm our country s . J. A. Kerans com Mander of the amethyst replied please Tell the Fleet we shall keep the old Flag flying riddled though it May be by gunfire and come what May. Good Luck to sixteen Days later the amethyst made her successful Dali for free Dom Down the Yangtze. The amethyst s daring blackout dash Down the Yangtze was a 100 to one shot according to the Man who manned the wheel for 11 straight hours on the tiny warship. Then or never coxswain Leslie Frank 42, said the 73-Man Crew was told Only two Livours in Advance that the attempt to run the communist Shore Bat Tery blockade would be made sat urday night. He said it was then or never because the fuel Supply on the Sloop was very Low even though sat for Long hours with out generators and lights to con serve it. The amethyst now sailing toward a hero s Welcome at hone Kong arrived at the Mouth of the Yangtze with some two hours of fuel. The coxswain said he kept himself awake All night by taking loses of Benz Edrine. It was so dark we could hardly see the landmarks but we never touched a Sandbank he said. Petty officer William Freeman said that after six weeks of the three months they were bottled up the amethyst s Crew started Prikals As yet and spokesmen declined to speculate about their likelihood. British ambassador sir Ralph Stevenson and his staff in banking would be obvious targets it was conceded. Direct reprisals against either the British government or British subjects in China would have one certain effect to drive the govern ment into Complete co operation with the United slates on non Bob Guy Hollywood aug. 2 comedian Bob Hope was recover ing injuries received in a fall from a make believe horse he was Riding for a scene in the film where. Men Are men. Hope was. Knocked. Unconscious by the fail monday and rushed to Holly Wood Hospital where a rays show. De he was not seriously Hurt. Recognition of the red regime. Meanwhile London newspapers Are enthusiastically hailing the amethyst s exploit and the award of the . To Lieut cmdr. Ker ans. The evening Standard said the award would Delight every briton except the communist daily worker s follow ers. While morning papers splashed the amethyst s feat across their front pages the daily worker had Given it Only a Lew lines on Page three. The times said Pride Ana re Lief have greeted the daring Pas Sage of the amethyst Down the tortuous pitch dark channels of the Yangtze. It is a Story in the highest tradition bearing comparison with anything in the stirring annals of the Little ships of the Royal Navy a r Federal provincial hint Ontario May talk taxes prime minister indicates Ottawa aug. 2 up just Back from vacation prime minister Louis St. Laurent spotlighted Dominion provincial relations monday with a hint he feels Premier Leslie Frost of Ontario May be willing to talk business. He also indicated that the Date of the opening of the new parliament will be announced following a Cabinet meet ing . Sept. 15 or 22 Are considered Likely dates. Shutting Down generators. Fans lights and we knew that before Long we would enough fuel left to reach the of the lie said. Crew members were in generally Good health Anil Al though they had been on halt rations for some time the Battle scarred amethyst nude Contact with her Cruiser escort. . Jamaica monday night Otist North of the Formosa Strait. 3er crewmen were greeted wit ii Jie lilting strains of cruising Down he River. Both ships were expected wednesday in Hong Kong where he amethyst s crewmen will British soil for the first time since heir More than three months entrapment on the communist con rolled chinese River. Reprisals aug. 2 a the i he amethyst made her escape Down the Yangtze Britain jumbled her commercial future in communist China against the live of 73 British sailors. Approval for the attempt meant possible reprisals against British subjects and British in vestments in China the foreign office agreed monday. Those Are things you Don t Thinh about under these one official added. There has been no hint of re Flag of Iceland Over free press the Flag of Iceland Blue a red Cross superimposed upon a White Cross flies Over the free press today in Honor of All canadians of icelandic origin and. In Celebration o f Iceland s National Holiday. Armed raid nets jewel loot de Auville aug. 2 masked bandits held up the Swank Van Cleef and arpels jewelry store Branch in this fashionable resort tuesday wounded two persons with a burst of sub machine gun fire and escaped in two automobiles with Worth of loot. The raid was carried out within gunshot of the Villa where Rita Hayworth reportedly expecting a baby is staying with her husband Prince Aly Khan. Officials of Van Cleef and arpels said the jewelry included--32 diam Ond necklaces which had been sent Here recently for a special exhibit ton to attract the millionaires princes and movie stars who sum Mer at Deauville. Or St. Laurent s statement about Ontario came in the thick of reporters questions about chances for revival of the 1945-46 conference which broke up without reaching Gen eral agreement on Federal proposals to rent provincial tax sources. He said nothing that amounted to Blunt prediction but his words could be interpreted As a feeling that Ontario and the Federal government May get together before another general conference. We have a responsibility seven of the provinces have signed individual agreements and Premier Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland is in town in connection with the signing of an agreement with his province. Or. St. Laurent arriving by train from Quebec City after a three week vacation in Bathurst n.b., recalled i had an interview with or. Frost before leaving Here and although we spoke Only of see St. Laurent Page 11 High wednesday 85 warm weather forecast perhaps sunny warm weather prevailed Over All but the extreme Eastern sections of the District tuesday. There will be a few thunderstorms n Saskatchewan tuesday night Ami a risk of thunderstorms in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan wed . Afternoon tempera Tures will Rise to around 90 in Southern Saskatchewan wednes Day. In Manitoba maximum temperatures will be from 85 to 90 on wednesday. Winnipeg Clear. A risk of mattered thunderstorms wednesday evening. Warmer. Winds Light be coming southerly at 15-. Wed Les Day morning. Low tuesday and Ligh wednesday at Gimli 55 and 85 at Carman and Winnipeg 55 and 85. Reg Jna and Yorkton mostly Clear with a few Cloudy periods tuesday evening and wednesday. Tisk of scattered thunderstorms tuesday night and wednesday eve Ning. Continuing very warm wind ight wednesday. Low tuesday and Ligh wednesday at Regina 60 and 90 at York ton 55 end 85. Brandon a few Clouds wednesday risk of scattered Thunder storms wednesday evening. Continuing very warm. Wind South . Wednesday afternoon otherwise Light. Low tuesday night and High wednesday 55 and 90. Temperature readings Durine the 24 hour period ending aunt. Tuesday Chicary Max. S4 Edmonton. Is Saskatoon Resina Swift current Toronto so 7s so Ftp 79 so min 59 to 4s 59 prec. Be entirely equipped with Jet planes. He said the pro peller driven thunderbolts which were America s first line fighters at the end of the second world War Are being retired. The two generals talked with newsmen after review ing with Admiral Louis e. Denfeld chief of naval operations the greatest Post War display of Ameri can military might in Ger Many at Adolf Hitler s former army training grounds Here. Fully troops of the crack first infantry division and cached units half the . Army s strength in Europe paraded in Battle array for the visiting generals and Admiral. More than 100 planes including at shooting stars zoomed Over head. The 90-minute review was mar red Only by a driving wind. As Ioc Anks and More than othe vehicles rumbled by swirling Clouds of dust whipped into the faces of the visiting officers. Strength increased the strength of the 1st division the Only Complete american Divi Ion. Stationed in Europe was in creased from three 10 four regi ments for the review. One of the regiments led the March on foot. The others followed in hundreds of jeeps and trucks. The joint chiefs spent an hour and one half before the Parade n an inspection tour of the Grafen Vonehr training grounds. The . Army and air Force will hold joint autumn War games next month. Grafe Woehr is near the Czechoslovakia Border. From Here the Point chiefs later tuesday flew Back to Frankfurt. They leave again almost immediately for London to open a new series of conferences yith High ranking North Atlantic pact nations. In addition to the. 1st division round forces in Germany include three hard hitting armoured con tabular teams. Air strength includes two fighter groups one Jet propelled and an elaborate radar warning net around the . Zone. La Case of attack Gen. Bradley indicated. Monday after a 90-minute briefing on Ani rican strength at Heidelberg that hese forces will be integrated ints he european defence organization. He said the part the american would play in Case of attack Vas being worked out. In London the american military readers will Confer with the three British chiefs and the army avy chiefs of Denmark. From hese talks is expected to emerge he organization to direct the de ence of North Atlantic pact a ions. They will go to Paris later his week to hold similar talks Vith French and other military readers. We have come to find out what other nations Gen. Bradley said. Do they favor from the military one group acting for All or three or four smaller must decide on this and where and when an Organiza Tion shall russian charge Moscow aug. 2 the rus Sian press charged tuesday that american now Wen in Europe to obtain use of. We Helms Hafen Emden and other Ger Man North sea ports As . Naval bases. The communist party newspaper. Pravda headlined the visit of the chiefs of staffs to Europe As american pressure on countries in Western red spearheads drive deeper into Central China Canton aug. 2 Cap the communists tuesday drove their Multi headed southward offensive deeper into Central China. The red gains were acknowledged by the nationalists. In the vital Rice bowl province of Hunan the communists again severed the Canton Hankow rail Way this time 313 Miles North of this refugee nationalist capital. The reds pushed their drive to out flank the main Hunan defence Force. In neighbouring Tiangsi province the red spearheads moved South Ward in a threat to nationalist forces which pushed from Hunan in an attempt to Cut the red Supply lines. Weatherman s score Board i Fols. S i i 4 1 1 How Board works 5 Points perfect or near 4 poin str very Good 3 Points Good 2 Lair 1 Point poor 0 failure. Perfect or near perfect less than 5 degrees difference Between actual and predicted temperatures and Correct on other two counts very less than 5 degrees difference in. Temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts 5-10 degrees difference in temperature and Correct on other two counts -10 difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts 10-15 degrees difference in temperature and absolutely wrong in other respects entirely wrong on. All three ;