Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 03, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cloudy this evening. Variable cloudiness thursday. Scattered Thunder storms this evening. A Lew showers thursday afternoon. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight and High thursday 60 and 85. Final edition vol. 265 28 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg wednesday August 3 1949 Sun Rise 5.00 . Moon Rise 4.44 . Sun set 8.09 . Moon set 32.00 . Forecast Cloudy and warm seized As forgery suspects Tommy gun ambush nets jewel Fortune Nice France aug 3 masked bandits wednesday ambushed the Aga Khan one of the richest men in the world shot out the tires of his car with Tommy guns and robbed his wife of jewelry valued As High As the bandits Laid in wait for the Aga Khan spiritual Leader of ismaili moslem and father in Law of Rita Hayworth just outside his fabulous Riviera Villa near Here. When the Aga Khan s c pulled out of the Villa Gateway shortly after noon they shot out the tires of his car then forced the chauffeur to pistol Point to hand s Over the Begu Khan s jewel Case. They pointed machine guns at our hearts and threatened to kill the Aga Khan told police. There was nothing we could do. We raised our hands and the ban dits took All my wife s jewels. Powerless we were powerless to resist the gangsters who obviously were professionals. They must have been following us to know about the jewels which were All in the car. They comprised my wife s entire collection. All our jewelry was in those boxes. Gangsters worked with smooth precision. They wore big Black the size of the Aga Khan s for tune has never been disclosed. But he is reported to receive an Al Lowance of a year from Ismail faithful and to have More Gold cached away in India than the Bank of England has in its reserves. The robbery followed by 14 hours a Holdup at the smart Cleef and arpels jewelry store at Deauville on the French Atlantic coast near where Rita and her husband. Prince Aly Khan son of the Aga Are staying. There too the loot was valued at at Deauville. Too the bandits were masked. Deauville lies More than 50-Miles across France from Nice. The Aga Khan s Beautiful wife , a native of France has been reported in ill health for some time. She made Only a Brief appear Ance at the wedding of her step son and his american actress Bride. No description police gave no immediate description of the men who robbed the Aga Khan. They blockaded All the winding roads leading from Nice along the Monte Carlo on the East and Cannes on the also the narrow roads which twist northward into the mountains of the Cote d Azur. Only 100 Miles to the West lies the port of Marseille traditional hiding place of robbers and smugglers. The Mediterranean offered an other possible escape route. Coastal patrol boats were reported ready to search All suspicious Craft in the area. Seven killed. After Iai break Morelia mex. Aug. 3 api police Early wednesday battled 72 prisoners who escaped from the City jail tuesday night. Six prison ers were killed in the fighting and eight captured police Headquarters said. One policeman was reported dead and two wounded. Aga Khari spiritual Lea Der of millions of ismaili Moi lems and his wife Khan who were robbed of a Fortune in gems wednesday. This picture was taken at the recent wedding of the Aga s son Prince Aly Khan to film actress Rita Hayworth. First deliveries accepted Board elevators arrange coarse grains handling Canadian wheat Board tues Day signed handling agreements with elevator companies covering Farmer marketing of Oats and bar Ley g. H. Milvor chief commissioner of the Board announced in Winnipeg wednesday morning. This move by the wheat boar adds another step to the switch Over from private marketing of Prairie Oats and Barley crops to government marketing through the wheat Board. Or. Milvor said the Board also accepted its first deliveries thursday High 85 scattered thunderstorms predicted for to nig lit a few thunderstorms occurred in Saskatchewan night and similar activity is expected in Manitoba wednesday night. In general will be a Little More cloudiness and scattered showers in most sections Tiv urday with afternoon temperatures being slightly lower than wednesday s in Saskatchewan and Western Manitoba. The remainder of the District will remain about the same or slightly higher. Here Are the regional forecasts Cloudy with scattered thundershowers this eve Nung. Variable cloudiness thurs Day with a few showers in the afternoon not much change in temperature. Low tonight and High thursday at Gimli 55 and 80 at Carman and Winnipeg 60 and 85. With occasional Cloudy periods tonight and thursday. Risk of scattered thunderstorms this evening. Little change in temperature. Low to night and High thursday at Regina 55 and 85 at Yorkton 55 and 80. Cloudiness on thursday. Widely scattered showers or thunderstorms this evening and evening. Not much change in temperature. Low to night and High thursday 55 and 85. Temperature readings during the 24 hour period ending 6.30 . Wednesday were min. Max. Free. Vancouver 55 74 Calgary 51 84 .06 Edmonton go 83 Saskatoon 54 is Regina 58 8n Swirt 67 92 Winnipeg 52 Toronto 66 Ottawa 64 Montreal. 72 Halifax 60 82 s6 87 72 Weatherman s score Board predictions Day 1 temp. Sky moist. Tue. Wed. Fri. Sat. Cloudy dry Clear Clear dry thu. Cloudy moist i actual Points temp. Sky moist. Poss. 5 74" Cloudy moist Cloudy dry i i How the score Board works 5 Points perfect or near perfect 4 Good 3 2 1 poor perfect or near than 5 degrees difference Between actual and predicted temperatures and Correct on other two counts very than 5 degrees difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and Correct on other two counts degrees difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and absolutely wrong i other respects wrong on All three counts. Of the two grains tuesday. Marketing in the country of All coarse grains for the Day were bushels. This was a heavy increase Ings one year ago which totalled bushels. The chief commissioner would not comment on How Long it will be before the wheat Board will be Selling Oats and Barley to the Grain Trade. However unofficial estimates in the Trade place the time lag As three or four weeks. Or. Milvor said wednesday that time will be required to work out the full plan for marketing of the two coarse grains. At the moment he said the Board is working out a schedule of prices to be paid Farmers at country Points at present Farmers Are de livering Oats and Barley to. Country elevators and in return receive a storage certificate. Payments on these certificates will be made when Price ranges arc worked out. The initial Price for Oats and Barley at the Lakehead As opposed to country Points has already been announced. It is 61% cents i Bushel for Oats and 90 cents a Bushel for Barley. . Favors peacetime conscription Wellington n.z., aug. 3 Reuters new zealand voters wednesday rolled up a huge majority in favor of peacetime compulsory military service. A preliminary count of votes in the Dominion wide referendum put the final vote in favor of the draft of with votes against. Government and opposition parties United in supporting draft. Frank Langstone Farmer High commissioner to Canada was the sole prominent Tibor member opposing. Prime minister Peter Fraser decided last May to hold the referendum after the labor party at its annual conference recommended a referendum should be held before any conscription plan is introduced. Conscription was in effect Dur ing the second world War. It has been imposed Only in limited form while new zealand was of peace. In 1909 a measure was enacted re Quiring Young men to put Jin part Ime training for sender Only with in new zealand territory this measure lapsed in 1930. Mystery killers claim fifth victim in Toronto Toronto aug. 3 the fifth murder in less than a week in the Toronto District was uncovered wednesday when police found the Bullet riddled body of 23-year-old Gloria Mckay. The body of her husband Robert Smith red Mckay 25, was found tuesday in suburban North York. Mrs. Mckay s body was found in the family car parked in a lot a the former Christie Street military Hospital. She had been shot four times the body was covered with a club big and a Blanket. Brutally Beuten police said she had been brutally beaten before being shot. Police were first attracted to the car by the Barking of the couple s pet dog Toby who was sitting near the car. The body had been stuffed face Down on the floor under the Back seat. Police also found a .22-calibre Rifle with telescopic sight which he Mckay took with them on their civic Holiday week end. It ind not been fired police said and was definitely not used in the sayings. Police snick they believed the Sli Iyer killed both Mckay and his wife in some unknown spot took Mckay s body to the suburb in township and then hid the car in the parking lot. Chief Coroner or. Smirle Liaison ordered an autopsy to determine whether the Mur dered woman was criminally assaulted. Police said that thorough investigation had shown that the Itoman was neither criminally assaulted nor robbed. Police said they Are sending a 38 calibre Bullet removed from Mckay s body to Ottawa for ballistics tests to compare with a let taken from the body of Al Fred Layng slain saturday after Loon trying to capture a Man who lad robbed a Gro Ceteria. They said the Man who killed Layng May also have killed the Mckay. Police said an empty Wallet found on the front seat of the Mckay car indicated the motive for he murder of the couple May have been robbery. Discovery of Mckay s body came As police stepped up their Hunt for the Slayer of Alfred Layng 25. Layng was shot saturday while trying to halt a robber fleeing from a Gro Ceteria in East Central Toronto. Mckay and his wife set out in their car from the Barrie area sunday night on their Way Back to Toronto from a civic Holiday week end visit with Mckay s Uncle. N. A. Langelaan on a farm about 80 Miles North . Former airman Mckay saw wartime service in Fndia with the . Since the War he had worked As an electric i Iari Here. The couple had no Chil Dren. Mckay s body w a s found by workmen in Long grass in a Gully. See murder Page 7 water babies traditional watermelons were missing but the fact did t deter these Small Fry who found candied apples could be just As much a part of emancipation Day Celebration As the Vine fruit. Sylvester left and Franklin Caslin of Detroit two of the thousands who jammed Windsor s ont Jackson the Celebration of the 117th anniversary of emancipation polished off these three in Quick order and were Back for More. Importation of Watermelon s is forbidden under the Dominion s Dollar saving programme. Children lose lives in Highway tragedy Minnedosa Man., aug. 3 Cial two Small children were filled instantly when the truck in which they were Riding hit another car and chromed off the Road into a ditch filled with water. The double fatality took place at 3.30 . Wednesday four Miles North of Minnedosa. Dead Are Peggy Motuz seven her two year old sister. Mike Motuz their father said to have been the Driver of the truck is in Minnedosa Hospital. His condition is Good. The Motuz family is from Moun Tain Road Post office North of Minnedosa. The two children were Riding with 13 other people in the Box of the Motuz truck returning Home to Mountain from a wedding reception in Minnedosa. The Little girls were killed instantly when their father tried to pass a car containing Steve and Mike synch Mash notes worry Star Joe Dimaggio plagued by girl Crank new York aug. 3 bup Joe Dimaggio the new York Yankee club and a beauteous blonde showgirl combined wednesday to Jare the detailed Story of a girl Crank plaguing the famous baseball Star. It is a strange Story and some what ludicrous. But bearing in mind the tragic shooting of Eddie Waitkus by a demented girl fan the Yankees have decided to take action. The female eccentric in ques t i o a a c cording to Yankee i spokes Man Arthur red Pat Terson has been debug ing dimag Gio with Dimaggio Mash and notes has contributed items to Broadway columnists detailing the Progress of a reported Romance Between Joe and Lovely Junior Standish a dancer at the latin Quarter night club. Dimaggio and Junior have dated frequently but deny they Are a Joe thought at first i was put Ting those items in the gossip columns and i thought Joe was doing explained the comely miss Standish. This girl has Heen signing my name to a Tot of these items and i m going to see that it s a hurry. Why that s just like forgery continued the Honey haired dancer everybody knows thai. It s no secret. But it this woman does t Stop sure Joe end 1 Good for governor. Mickey Cohen escapes new blast attack los Angeles aug. 3 a a bomb gave a new Jolt tuesday to Gambler Mickey Cohen recover no from a shot in the shoulder received in a Gangland attack july "0. Crudely fashioned the bomb went of across the Street from his Brentwood Home blowing a Hole in a neighbor s drive wily 50 feet from his hed. It brought Cohen gun in hand and wearing yellow silk pyjamas to his door. He declined to leave the House while policemen searched. He told reporters. I Don t feel so. Cohen and two others were injured and his pal Edward Herbert was killed by the july 21 Shotgun blast outside a cafe. No one was injured in the explosion tuesday. Detectives Are trying to determine whether it was a warning another attempt to kill Cohen or simply a prank. Governor candidate Waynesboro va., aug. Col. Francis Pickens Miller conceded Early wednesday thai John s. Battle had won the Vir Ginia democratic primary contest using my name i a going to take the Yankees too Are taking action. This woman obviously is a men Tal said Patterson. We re oing to see to it that she stops bothering Joe. But i d rather not say. What kind of action we re con Dimaggio s close Friend George Solotaire a theatre ticket broker who introduced miss Standish to Joe said he knew who the Crank outlier night the other in gift i had a talk with her and tried to Tell her to see Dimaggio Page 7 Shyn Brothers of Mountain Road. The truck reported to have been travelling at an excessive Side swiped the car and overturned in a ditch Landing in one and a half feet of water. The two girls were pinned in the water under Neath the truck body. The other passengers w Ere thrown Clear uninjured. Woman 3 men charged three. Men and a woman have been arrested in Winni Peg in connection with an Avalanche of bad cheques passed in the City in mid june police officials revealed wednesday. In custody Are David butt 36, Patrick Joseph Murphy 35, Arthur Duncan Robinson 27, and Blanche Allard 26, All of no fixed abode. Butt has been charged with uttering Murphy with for Gery and the other two with forgery and uttering. Officials said a Large number of further charges of the same nature would be Laid against the four. More than cheques total Ling about were passed june 17 and 18 in Winnipeg and Brooklands stores. S a. T u r d h a approximately Worth of bad cheques were cashed in local hotels. Police said 15 for see suspect Page 9 Evans Heads civil service commission Gurney v. Evans vice president of Sanford Evans company limited statistical service of Winnipeg has been appointed chairman of the Manitoba governments civil ser vice commission it was announced wednesday by Hon. W. C. Miller provincial Secretary. Or. Evans appointment fills the vacancy on the commission left by the recent resignation of its chair Man. Or. Carl Williams formerly of the University of Manitoba faculty. Or. Williams has left Winnipeg to take a position with the University . Other members other of the three Man civil service commission Are j. S. Anderson and . Newton. They serve As full time commissioners. The chairman of the commission is a part time position or. Evans is the 42-year-old son of the late Sanford Evans founder of the Sanford Evans company. Born in Winnipeg he received his Public and High school education in his City. He attended Ridley col lege in St. Catherines and graduated from the University of Mani Toba in arts in 1928. Served in War he entered his father s statistical Dosa from which Bot i vehicles were returning was held by an Uncle of the Driver of the truck. The Bride was a Cousin. An inquest into the deaths will be held. A Coroner s jury will be empanelled wednesday afternoon. Or. H. A. Stevenson the District Coroner will preside. An autopsy into uie cause of the deaths was performed by or. D. Riddell. Corporal c. Co Craft Minnedosa detachment of1 the . M.p., is conducting the investigation of the Accident. Dutch indonesians end armed conflict Batavia Java aug. 3 the dutch and indonesian re puff Athly or 6alrf Laicans formally ended their armed conflict wednesday and issued employed until 1942. He enlisted in the Royal Winnipeg rifles Dur ing the second great War and in 1942 was transferred to Ottawa where he was assistant director ordnance services statistics in the Branch of the master general of ordnance. In september 1944 he went overseas to the Canadian Ord Nance Headquarters in London. In september j945 he returned to Canada after receiving his discharge in that same year. He re entered the Sanford Evans company at Winnipeg in 1945. His appointment As commission chairman was confirmed wednes Day with the passage of an order in Council by the provincial Cabi net. He assumes his duties immedi equipment sabotaged Sydney Australia aug. 3 cease tire orders to local military j Federal Security offic ers. Wednesday began investigation of the possibility that equipment being used by servicemen working open Cut Coal mines in new South Wales has been sabotaged. Commanders in Java and Sumatra. The cease fire proclamation is to become effective in Java at mid night local time aug. 10, and Sumatra at Midnight aug. 14. In East Europe refugees make perilous trip hoping for Long sought Haven in Canada Halifax n.s., aug. 3 a weary band of 154 refugees from communist oppression hoped wednesday the Canadian government would Grant them Asylum and bring to an end their five year search for peace. The refugees estonians latvians poles and hungarians arrived tuesday aboard a Small estonian ship Parnu. Although none had entry visas they hoped immigration authorities would Al Low them to stay. A few had relatives living in this country and the rest said would go wherever they could find work. The perilous trip to Canada in the Small ship exodus for the was the second refugees in five from their homelands when the russians took Over. Although they were jammed into the Farnus with each family assigned a cubicle of cardboard and scaffolding in the dark Hull of the ship they said the trip to Canada had Tuff sin. Radio news on Page 4, in Hollywood Page 5. Bridge Page 4. Women s hews pages 10, ii. Sport pages 16, 17, 18. Crossword Puzzle Page r. Features Page in editorials Page in. Finance Page 26. Steel company urges Oon Troi to 1944 they lied to Sweden ail freight rates Page been pleasant compared with their escape from Estonia. At that said one of them we travelled by fishing Noat raft and foot to reach the refugees appeared Well fed and Well clothed. The children were Rosy cheeked and swarmed Over the superstructure of the vessel. The prospective canadians stressed they had operated their own business or held Good jobs be Ore leaving Sweden and said they had suffered no physical privations a spokesman said when they fled to Sweden from Estonia they had been registered As estonian citizens but the russians claimed they should be registered As soviet citizens a claim the estonians de Nied ;