Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 04, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg variable cloudiness. Scattered showers or thunderstorms this evening and again Friday evening. Continuing warm. Low tonight and High Friday 60 and 85. Vol. No. 4, Rise 5.01 . Sun set Rise 5.57 . Moon set 1.08 and warm three Toronto citizens disappear police flooded with Calls As murder panic Toronto aug. 4 Toronto citizens alarmed at the unprecedented series of five murders in a week flooded police and newspaper offices thursday with re ports that friends or relatives Are missing. A Salesman a married woman and her Small son have disappeared during the last three Days a and relatives have requested police Aid in locating them. The Salesman was last seen three Days ago near Huntsville ont., and the woman and her Young son have been missing from their East end Home since tuesday. The reports came while police were continuing their March for a sadistic hitch hiker in connection with t h e. Apparently motive less slaying of a Young married couple. The Bullet ripped bodies of or. And mrs. Robert s. Mckay were discovered while police pressed a search for a gunman who s h o t Down Alfred Layng. 25, while escaping from a Gro Ceteria Rob Bery. .vja-1. At Ottawa thursday of that City disclosed they Are hold ing a 20-year-old Man named an Drew Roy Macpherson in connection with the killing of Layng. No connection at Toronto however police in Spector John Nimmo said the Man held by Ottawa authorities had nothing to do with Layng s death. Ottawa police however said Mac Pherson who described himself a Coal Miner from Sydney mines . Answered in almost minute detail the description of the Man who shot and killed Layng in a last saturday. Arrests have been made in the other two slayings the bludgeon death of Leslie Hern 88, car Stew Ard and the fatal shooting of Arthur Wickert 38-y e a a old department store employee. Police say there is no connection Between any of the slayings except those of the Mckay the most baffling of the group. Investigation indicates that a gunman with a .38-calibre revolver fired on them from the rear seat of their automobile in which they giving him a lift and then drilled More bullets into their Bod ies while they Lay dying. Efforts to the scene of the Mckay killings raised the possibility ate supper with the gunman monday night a Lew hours before the shooting. Restaurant employees at Bradford 40 Miles North of Toronto said they saw the with a medium tall Man about 22 years old. No attempt was made to Rob the couple. Nor to steal their 1942 Model Sedan. Police said mrs. Mckay Hud not been criminally attacked. Prof. Joslyn Rogers ballistic said the Slayer must be a crazed Man with a desire to mrs. Mckay was found dead wednesday in the couple s car which had been left abandoned rear the old Christie Street Mil tary Hospital in North East Toron to. The husband s body was discovered late tuesday in a Gully near t wooded Glade on Toronto s nor Thern outskirts. Relatives and friends said that As far As they knew the couple had no enemies. Mckay who served during the second world War with the . In India and England was described As a swell see murders Page 13 killer Hunt reveals bashful Marksman port credit ont., aug. 4 Motorist Here gave police an added touch wednesday while they were checking automobiles for Trace of two Toronto killers. They halted a big Black Sedan and when the owner appeared reluctant to allow the inspection they became suspicious. A pea shooter and a bag of peas was found on the front seat. With of the Bullet riddled body of Robert Smith Mckay 25-year-old air Force a North York Field late tuesday and the discovery Early wednesday of the body of Gloria his 22-year-old wife in the family car in a North Toronto parking lot Toronto police recorded their fourth and fifth a murder cases in seven Days. Or. Mckay with three revolver slugs in his body was found by. Workmen. At the time his wife their pet dog shown Here and family car were reported missing. Wednesday the howling of the pet dog led police to the gruesome discovery of mrs. Mckay s body with two Bullet holes in it in the Back seat of the car. Thei dog Toby which probably saw the slaying May be Given the Chance to pick the killer out of a police lineup. Police Are considering the possibility of testing the dog s reaction to a lineup of suspects. Trans Atlantic alarm sounded in j Ewel theft Nice France aug. 4 3olice said thursday they believed he daring Daylight Rob Jery of the Aga Khan and his Beautiful French wife May have been master minded by new York mobsters. I a trans Atlantic police alarm or the four masked bandits along Vith a of the 43 pieces of loot taken from the Aga s to police in America. Insurance investigators who flew from Britain to the Riviera arc exploring the possibility that the gems May have been placed aboard a ship or plane in route to the uni Ted states. The Begum furious at the gunmen who seized virtually her entire jewel collection at the. Point of a sub Chi begun growth of an author wild horses witty letters Happy ghosts by Claire tvs Dale Nancy Jones apprenticeship As s writer was a Long and unorthodox one. It started with a love of unruly horses and continued As an equal but quieter interest in letter writing. It might not have brought results for another five or 10 years had not a worried Mother jumper out of bed one wartime night and found mental Refuge Type writer. Those were the stages in which Nancy Jones explains Why she wrote for goodness Sake a Story of her life As a minister s wife that has gained for goodness Sake Don t miss this new series naj Fot Jones a Winnipeg writer Cancy Jones has won recognition almost overnight for her Book for goodness Sake a series of sketches about her years As a minister s wife in Ontario and Manitoba. Starting Friday the free press will publish six excerpts from mrs. Book. You will find them full of wit that is Sharp but kind. You will find in them anecdotes of Canadian parishioners who might have been your neighbors or who might have been you. Watch for for goodness Sake. If Ever you be wondered what it would be like to be a minister s wife son or Daugh Ter Here is your Chance. Some needling to be done Chicago aug. 4 Chi Cago concern reported wednesday the theft of most enough to hide immediate recognition in can Ada in the United states and even in Britain. It s doubtful if Many members of Greenwood United Church Winni Peg noticed a Midnight Light burning in the. Third Storey of their minister s Home during the Middle 1940 s. Had they seen it they would have dismissed the sight with of. Someone s left a Light attic author up the two flights of stairs the minister s wife mrs. J. E. Jones in private life was finding Comfort from War worries by putting into Black and White the memories of Many Happy years in Many manses serving Many congregations. Subject to Insom Mia 01 inherit that from my she. Mrs. Jones would head for the attic room. No one had Ever taught Nancy Jones How to write. She had to feel out her own Way. I started out with Long involved sentences that got lost before they she re Calls now with a shudder. An impartial critic put her straight on that score. She discovered Louise Dickinson Rich s we took to the Woods. She recognized in that author s intimate conversational style what she wanted in her own Book. She succeeded. For goodness Sake is As cozy and Friendly As a manse parlor Chat. It s full of de tails of a family life As familiar see new a Joks Page 6 angrily offered a re Ward for information leading to their arrest. The Begum s offer raised to 000 the amount of Reward Money placed on the Heads of the mob sters. The Aga earlier offered a Reward and no question the mobsters who staged tin stick up of the fabulously wealth Aga Khan May have been Amon those known to be vacationing or the Riviera or those deported from the United states. Master mind said they believed the robbery of the Aga Khan was conceived by the same master min who ordered the iootin0 of the Van Cleef and arpels jewel by House in the Northern Resor town of Deauville just 24 hour earlier. The four men who held up the Aga Khan were masked with Darl glasses and made their getaway in a stolen car in the new Yore manner. Insurance investigators were under orders to locate the Begum s gems before some of the priceless pieces were broken up to be sold. Most of them Are too big and Well known to he sold in the Begum said. The twisting roads of the. Cote see Gem theft Page 13 Anet Luta Aly Aren t expecting Aga Khan asserts Cannes. France aug. 4 bup Aga Khan flatly denied thursday that his Beautiful Daugh Ler in Law Rita Hayworth of the movies was expecting a baby. Reports that Rita Hayworth is expecting a baby Are completely the Aga said. He added that he was quite aware that such reports have been published throughout the world. The reports that Rita was sex peeling a baby originated from members of her Domestic staff a Deauville. Rita and Aly were mar ried in a Small French Riviera town last May. Man admits shooting Boss police say Edmonton aug. 4 up evidence that the wife of Wilfred Nowell 45, charged with the fatal shooting of his former employer Thomas Law in an argument Over 520, had pleaded with her husband not to shoot was Given at the preliminary hearing of a murder charge against Nowell. Detective sergeant .1. E. Peter son said Nowell had Given him a verbal statement to this effect after he was arrested by police carrying drawn guns at. The scene of the slaying in Law s downtown of fice. Nowell. Accompanied by his wife had gone to collect his pay after being fired. If Tommy or. Law had Only quit arguing when he saw the gun. It never would have . Peterson quoted Nowell its saying. My wife asked me not to if i d Only Peterson said Nowell asked him if or. Law were dead when they got to him. Peterson told him Law had Given a last gasp. To shot him Nowell was alleged to have stated. He started to fall to 1 shot him again. 1 guess i la get the rope around my neck for this or a Long hitch in the lock up. 1 Don t care for myself it s my wife i m worried about. I be killed lots of germans. It did t bother me a bit killing Tom Nowell Iff an army vet eran. He was remanded to sept. 8 for hearing of further evidence. He has four children. I grains to be sold through Exchange chief commissioner of the Canadian wheat Board announced thursday morn ing that the wheat Board will Market Oats and Barley through the futures Market of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Thursday s move by or. Melvoi brought to an end recent Specula Tion on the methods by which the up again yearly average commons sept. 15 Ottawa aug. 4 minister Louis St. Laurent announced thursday that the first session of the parliament will open thursday sept. 15. The last session opened Jan. 26 and april 30. It was followed by a general federa Pelec Tion june 27 Iii which or. St Laurent s government was returned with an overwhelming majority. Standing of the new Parlia ment liberals 193 progressive conservatives 41 . 13 social credit 10 Independent four inc pendent lib rail one total 262. The announcement on the open ing of parliament was one of a series made by the prime minister in a prepared statement. New speaker the government he said intends to propose at tie. Opening of the session that w. Jross Macdonald Liberal member for Brantford ont., and Deputy speaker in ast commons speaker. Or. Gaspard Fauteux libera member for Montreal St Mary a was speaker in the last parliament the governor general Viscount Alexander has approved the appointment of senator Elie Beaure Jard As speaker of the Senate. Or. J. H. King Josh Columbia was last speaker in the upper chamber. In both Chambers the speaker s Post alternates Between English j n d French speaking members with each new parliament. Herve Edgar Brunelle former Liberal member of the com Mons for the Quebec constituency of Champlain has been appointed associate com missioner of the Canadian farm loan Board. He fills a vacancy caused by the appointment of j. C. Murray As commissioner of the Board follow ing the death last fall of or. T. F. Donnelly former member for Wood Mountain in Saskatchewan. Or. Brunelle lived for a number of years in Western Canada and is a member of both Saskatchewan and Quebec bars and is owner and Cape de la Madeleine que. A member of the commons from 1935, he retired from Public life prior to the last election. Or. St. Laurent said the Gover nor general has also approved the reappointment of 12 parliamentary assistants to the posts they held n the last commons. Two Brothers charged n aiding prison break remanded for week two Brothers charged with Aid no escaped convicts appeared on City police court pocket and were remanded a week y magistrate r. B. Graham. The two Are John Kissick of 05 and Peter of 703 Jarvis Avenue charged in connection with the monthly Dominion Bureau of statistics Cost of living Index 110 110 100 160 150 140 130 120 Canada s soaring Cost of living Index jumped to a new High during june As rising food prices moved it to 162.1 from 160.5, the Bureau of statistics at Ottawa reported thursday. This Advance of 1.6 Points largest in Many months was described by the Bureau As largely because of food prices which showed a Normal seasonal Advance. The food Index Rose from 202.9 to 207.2 As Sharp increases in eggs and potatoes combined with smaller advances in other groups to show an appreciable change and the rent Index moved from 122.4 to 123.4. Is computed on. The base 1935-39 equals 100. The clothing Index was unchanged at 183.3 and the Index of Home or Riis hings and services declined of a Point to 167.5. The fuel and Light Index Rose from 128.7 to 129.1 As the prices of Coal Rose fractionally in several centres. The Index of miscellaneous items changed from 128.4 to 128.5. Canada s Cost of living Index reached a record High of 160.5 june 1, 1949. The Index had remained almost stationary for the previous three months but increased food costs sent it up one full Point in june. Board would sell Oats and Barley. For the past few Days there has been an air of. Restraint around the Winnipeg Grain Exchange pending official news of terms under which the wheat Board would do business with various groups in the vast organization which makes up the Grain Trade. In making his announcement on futures trading or. My Lvov also said that the Board would sell Oats and Barley freely and to Tfaye Best advantage of the Board. To do this he said the. Board will use methods which suit these Pur poses. He added that the Board will Ell Oats and Barley to dealers and others for distribution to users of hese grains. Or. Milvor referred to the ques Ion of private Grain dealers in hese terms the Board recon Lizes that there Are stocks of old Rop Oats and Barley in Canada which Are not the property of the Ioard and which Are in the pro Cess of being marketed by the present several weeks wait he said the Board is concerned Only with Oats and Barley delivered by producers on and after aug. 1 of this year. It will there Ore be several weeks he said before the Board has stocks of Oats and Barley available at the Lake Lead for Sale. However he added the Board is prepared to sell limited quantities of Cash Oats and Barley for delivery at the Lakehead in Forward and the Board will also sell futures. In addition to using the futures Market for sales of Oats and Barley or. Milvor listed the following methods by which the Board will sell the two grains 1. The Board is prepared to make outright sales of Oats and Barley in store fort Arthur where buyers wish to Purchase on this basis. To give effect to this policy the Board will quote prices for principal grades of Oats and Barley basis in store fort William port Arthur. 2. The Board will also establish prices for Oats and Barley for Sale at country Points in Western can Ada and for shipment to British Columbia. These Board will be in Walum part Arthur basis. Fog hampers Tennis Halifax ., aug. 4 heavy fog and drizzle played havoc with the Canadian Amateur Tennis championships thursday but a let up in the rainfall was expected to permit several Quarter final matches to be played in the after noon. Wec workers to vote on Dysart Board plan proposals for a five per cent. Vage increase and a contributory pension plan for about pm ploy fees of the Winnipeg electric company As recommended in the Dysart Board of conciliation re port Are to be submitted to the Jeneral membership of the Winn Jeg electric employees Federated Ounich Obj for a vote by a ballot. This was decided at two mass meet of the employees wednesday night and thursday morning. Acceptance or the report by ballot will depend upon the Winni Peg electric company implement ing the Board s recommendation without any qualifications such As securing an increase in car fares Relief in taxes to cover the Cost the meetings decided. A letter from Hon. C. E. Green Lay minister of labor received and read at thursday morning s mass meeting said he had received the suggestions that the Union was rec u11u win a editor of the weekly l Avenir to the men and that _ of a Rimini flip tying i pr1 was "oi16 at the moment the matter was one calling for direct conversations be tween the company and the the minister further stated that As this matter now called for conversations Between the two parties he urged the Union officials to get in Contact with w. H. Carter president of the clean Cut Price move household soap Bills will be Cut As the result of Price reductions announced by the head offices of to Canadian soap manufacturing companies thursday. The Winnipeg offices of Proctor and Gamble and of lever Brothers that the cuts will connection -7 Manitoba. Several arge escape of two convicts from Stony stores Winnipeg have already lowered their soap prices Mountain Penitentiary july 26. The men who escaped John Vryn Yarchuk and Peter Stepanoff vere recaptured in Peter Kissick s Home later the same Day. Charges against the Kissick Are Laid As accessories after the fact of escaping from prison. Space for emigrants Melbourne aug. 4 Reuters there will be enough shipping space to bring British Emi Grants to Australia during 1950 and 1951, Hon. Arthur Calwell Immi Gration minister said wednesday. And smaller dealers Are expected to follow suit soon. The Proctor and Gamble reductions to wholesalers Are of one to two cents on a regular size Box of soap flakes and of a Quarter to half a cent on bar soaps. Lever Brothers announced a one to two cent Knock Down on Box soap Flake prices. Proctor and Gamble s household shortening also. Went Down by two cents a Pound. Bulk shortening used by bakeries however went up in Price. Winnipeg electric company and arrange for the Conversa Tion in order that an agree ment May be finalized at an Early Union officials who submitted the report at both meetings made quite Clear that in the event the Ottawa looks thanksgiving oct. 10 Ottawa aug. 4 bup mondayoct., 10, will be thanksgiving Bay this year. This was announced in a proclamation published in a special Issue of the Canada Gazette. It was signed by or. Justice j. W. Of the supreme court of Canada in his capacity As Deputy Gover nor general. Company refused to implement Board s recommendations the Union would have to consider a ballot. Take Home pay during discussion at thursday s meeting it was brought out that i f the report were implemented by the company use workers would receive about 25 cents less on a in the take Home pay. The five per cent increase to the Basic pay would be a bit less than the contribution the employees would have to make to the pension plan. De Armstrong Secretary of. Union said that the five per cent increase recommended by the Board was a Lousy five per and the Board should have Given see Wec report Page 13 Weatherman prophesies something 4new coming Clouds Thunder showers a new weather system moving Day evening. Continuing warm. Into Alberta is expected to cause More cloudiness and showers in Saskatchewan thursday night and in Manitoba Friday. Temperatures will remain near or slightly above Normal in most Sec weather Chart Page the season tons. See 13. A weakening disturbance which gave scattered showers and thunderstorms in Southern Manitoba during the night caused Day cloudiness Over Northwestern Ontario thursday. Winnipeg variable cloudiness. Scattered showers or Thunder storms this evening and again Fri radio news on Page 4. In Hollywood Page s. Bridge Page 4. Women s news pages 14, 15. Sport paged 18, 19. 20. Crossword Puzzle Page 8. Features Page 21. Editorials Page 17. Finance pages 28, 29. Winnipeg Man held at Calgary following shooting Page 8. Or. D. A. Macgibbon retires As Grmon commissioner Page 2. Winds South at 15 . Low to night and High on Friday at Gimli 60 and 75 at Carman and Winni Peg 60 and 85. Regina and Yorkton becoming Cloudy this evening Clearing again Friday afternoon. Scattered showers or thunderstorms beginning this evening and ending Friday morn ing. Continuing warm. Wind Light becoming West at 15 . Friday afternoon. Low tonight and High Friday at Regina 60 and 85 at Yorkton 55 and 80. Brandon becoming Cloudy to night and continuing Cloudy Fri Day. Scattered showers or Thunder storms Friday afternoon and eve Ning. Not much change in temperature. Winds Light becoming Southeast at 15 . Friday morn ing. Low tonight and High Friday 60 and 85. Temperature readings during the 24 hour period ending . Thursday Man. . Vancouver 56 Calgary s2 Edmonton 6 Saskatoon 84 Regina 56 swill current so guv Xifen Toronto Otu Montreal Halifax s4 58 69 59 is 56 8" 55 83 74 7s 62 .21. .01 .12 .10 is ;