Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 08, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg overcast with intermittent rain wednesday morning. Not much change in temperature. Winds Southeast increasing to 30 Mph by wednesday noon. Low tonight and High wednesday 35 and 50. Vol. 35 28 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg tuesday november a 1949 Sun Rise . Moon Rise . Sun set . Moon set . Forecast Cloudy and Windy Goyt. Pledges Manitoba rent study Calgary Chiee hints Henderson May be hiding in Winnipeg Alberta wants u. S. Prisoners Donald Henderson 33, object of a continent wide Man Hunt during the last three months for a murder to which another Man has now confessed May be in the Winnipeg District chief Constable s. J. Patterson of Calgary indicated to the free press in a Long distance phone interview tuesday. Chief Patterson said a Calgary detective will arrive in Detroit mich., at 5 . Tuesday to bring Back William l. Wallace and mrs Wilhelma Wallace for questioning in the slaying aug. 11 of Yvonne Levesque 23-year-old Edmonton waitress girl Friend of Hen Derson. Calgary police round Hender son bending Over the nude and battered body of miss Levesque in an Auto Camp. Henderson had called police to the scene and shortly after they arrived he vanished. Chief Patterson admitted to caught in the act the free press that Henderson was definitely known to have fled to Winnipeg after the slaying. Where he is now we Don t know although we nil have our he said. Detroit homicide officers quote Wallace As saying he hammered miss Levesque with a full Beer bottle while his wife held her after Henderson had passed out from drinking. In the Long distance phone inter View the free press asked chief Patterson is there any possibility that Henderson and Wallace Are the same no. There s no Chance of that at the chief replied. Q. Will Wallace and his wife definitely be returned to Calgary a. They will be returned to Cal Gary and just As quickly As pos sible. We do yet know How Long that May a do henderson14s casualties mount give himself up a Pilot blames air tragedy upon engine Washington nov. S bup Pilot Erick Rios by Doux has told friends he reported engine trouble and was cleared for an emergency Landing when his p-3s collided with an Eastern air liner Here last week it was Learned tuesday. Rios who is in Hospital with in juries suffered in the crash that claimed lives said he told the control Tower at National Airport that his plane was losing Power. He got his instructions he said to come in for a Landing As soon As another plane touched ground. He began approach after see ing what he identified As a twin tailed Cessna hit the runway. He said he took it for granted that that was the plane he was ordered to follow. Rios said he did not see the Eastern Airliner until a split second before the collision. Elpidio Quirino leads in philippine voting a. That s anybody s q. Are you dropping the Mur Der charge against a. Not q. Will you be dropping it in the future in your investigation of Wallace s Story convinces you he is a. Can t say if we will. That s too far in the future to answer right q. Did you Ever question the wallaces on the a. q. Did you see them at the a. No. The Only Thrig we know reluctant to assume controls says Smith two Winnipeg Cabinet ministers assured Manitoba voters monday night that the government will undertake an immediate examination of rent controls to determine the soundest and most effective course for this province to they were Hon. C. Rhodes Smith minister of education who spoke on behalf of Premier d. L. Campbell and Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid minister of mines and natural x resources. Urgent matter Tho ministers statements coldwell wins in move i to debate rent control Ottawa nov. M. J. Cold Well . Leader succeeded in having the commons drop All Busi Ness to debate rent controls tues Day. Shortly after the sitting began or. Coldwell moved adjournment of the House to discuss an urgent matter or Public importance the government s recent action in Al lowing drastic increases in rents. Or. Coldwell stated in his motion that the government s move would add further to Canada record High Cost of living and a increase May hit canadians Ottawa nov. S up boost in rental ceilings Tho which comes into effect 10 Days before Pravate the acute housing Short age. Monday both or. Cal Rowell and made Over Winnipeg radio stations on the last night of elec Tion broadcasting followed announcement by the Federal government that rents would be allowed of Rise 20 and 25 per cent., and a chorus of demands from Urban government Anci opposition candidates that in action be acting progressive conservative a taken Leader made similar motions hut had them ruled our. Of order by Ross Macdonald. Speaker. Tuesday however i he speaker allowed or. Coldwell to make his motion and the commons agreed to carry on with it. Or. Coldwell then set the debate rolling. Or. Co Ido a said the 20 to 2.i per cent increase in Domestic Renais which finance minister j Abbott authorized last thursday j was in line with the governments policy on control hut was not in the interest of the people. If the government had announced or. Smith in a statement authorized by Premier conic will made it Clear however that he province was Loath to assume jurisdiction now exercised by the Dominion government. Tie said the Manitoba end porn mint regards rent controls is a Federal mutter which could be More easily and efficiently administered by one National government than by 10 provincial Mcdiar Nind told listeners a prior to Tho last general taken definite acl Nat it planned to authorize such ton increases it would not grave Han such a Large following at the polls. Persons in Low income groups would Losis no time Over the the mini Ster said i contacted As Many of see Alberta Case Page 9 Manila Philippines nov. Elpidio Quirino was leading on the basis of Early returns tuesday in the violence marred filipino presiden tial election. Twenty four persons had been killed in gunfights and other elec Tion Day violence. Jose Laurel is the Nacion Alista party candidate. The japanese in stalled him As puppet president during their occupation of the archipelago. Though denounced after the liberation he has made a Strong comeback. Jose Aclino is the candidate of a dissident Wing of Quirino s lib eral party. With this photograph As evidence police at Syracuse monday arrested Hubert c. Thurlow 19, on a. Charge. The proprietor of the store which the picture was taken form this Angle said it was made by a combination automatic camera and burglar alarm which also set. Off lights and rang a Bel summoning police officers Dakota grounded bad weather hampers search for lost priest bad weather in the North has ill Region monday with winds up again delayed the . Search to 45 Miles an hour made take off for an Arctic missionary and two eskimos missing for 19 Days after leaving Eskimo Point on a Seal Hunt. Air Force officials said tuesday they hoped their Dakota would be Able to take off from Churchill in the afternoon but doubted the Hunt for father Henri Paul Dionne and his companions could Start until wednesday. The plane was originally scheduled to Start searching it 9 . But Low Clouds and Snow fairries kept it on the ground. Officials hold out Little Hope that the 42-year-old oblate missionary and the Eskimo father and son with whom he started out oct. 20 or. A Hunt in Hudson Bay would impossible the first Day the search plane arrived at. 1he Northern port. The search flight is expected to follow a path along the South coast of Hudson Bay As far As Cape Hen Riette Maria a distance of 592 Miles and return to Churchill by direct route. Previous searches for the. Missionary and eskimos were carried out without Success. The were in an out Board powered Canoe failed to the isolated Northern i Post More than 800 Miles North of Winnipeg. Eskimos scoured the Bay s line and later a commercial air Craft made two search flights the area on request of the . Both these Hunts were hampered by storm conditions which prevail opposition lashes govt. For withholding report were paying reels far beyond their my colleagues in the Cabinet As i Means. There was no provision for could reach and As a result i can christinas May he. Some accommodation. Now assure you that by the end of canadians living in rented the Community planning Assoc a this week or Early next week at Flats apartments and houses gov Tjon estimated thai there Are at Lac latest there will do a special Ern ment officials estimated Mon Leasi families in Canada meeting of the Cabinet to discuss Iwho cannot afford More than the soundest and most effective the officials based this month for Rani. Course for his province to follow on a Renta. Survey which showed that approximately Flats apartments and houses across the country could be the target for the 20 and 25 per cent increases in rents. Other government estimates 1. That at least 90 per cent of leased accommodation in the Large Urban areas is rented on a month to month basis. Tenants in this category will be among the first the government had said once that a family should pay n orc with regard to rent he said the government would than 20 per cent of its income on lose no time in giving to this rent. Yet Many today were problem the most thorough ing 10 and 130 per cell. Of their and comes on accommodation. Or. Cold Well recalled a 3036 de Bate in the commons when the deplorable housing conditions As disclosed by the 1931 census were discussed. At that time there was wide spread unemployment and Liere was Little activity in the both ministers statements were taken to mean there in immediate session of the legislature is requested by several City candidates in Ilie provincial election. Or. Smith noted hat most of the rent increases would not take s that Only a week s notice not a month need be Given by the landlord. If a tenant does t pay. 1-e ran be pushed out the Day before Christmas dec. 2-1. 3. In most costs however the rental increases will not go into effect before feb. 1350. Tenants by Maurice Western ticklish situation in the debate on the report by f. A. Mcgregor combines investigation act com missioner. The difficulty arose from the fact that the opposition curiously United for once had a single telling Point which they persisted in worrying through All the Vicissitudes of a tangled debate As a dog might a Bone. It. Is True that the government had answers at times too Many answers but they tended to be obscured by the flood of information on wartime control problems which flour milling Industry for carrying out the government s own policy curing the War. Or. Howe s argument reinforced by a memorandum to the Justice minister from Donald Gordon War time head of the prices Board minister hold that the policy of setting Price ceilings meant in effect fixing prices. Millers had to he subsidized in the Domestic Market became the Price of flour was held in see Western Page 8 a be found alive. Led for several Days a heavy overcast in the Church priest s disappearance. After the City taxes Only 40% of fare boost goes to higher wages Only 40 per cent of the Esti mated a year increased Revenue the Winnipeg electric company will receive from the transit fare boost will go to meet employees wage increases c. H. Dahl transportation manager of the Utility said tuesday. After wage demands and the City s tax share of the increased Revenue have been deducted a radio news Page 4. Movies padre 5. Bridge column Page 4. Women s news pages 11, 12, 18, sports pages 16, 17, 18. Crossword Puzzle Page 8. Comics Page 20. Editorials Pape 15, finance Page 27. Canasta series Page 14. Article on Russia Page 7. Proximately s2s5.000 will remain or. Dahl declared. This will be used to make up losses suffered in the past year. In 19-5s, he stated the company operated away in the or. Dahl said the City would receive about s25.000 in taxes. Of the remaining approximately would go to the employees. The figures he quoted or. Dahl were those arrived at by the Manitoba municipal and Utility Board s auditor at the recent fare boost hearing. W. H. Carter president of the Winnipeg electric company has indicated to the City that Relief kept pouring on to the official records. The opposition argument most dramatically stated by John Centre was that the govern intent in withholding the report on the investigation into the flour milling Industry for to months had violated the pro visions 27 5 of the combines investigation act. He called this the most flagrant disregard of parliament that has Ever been exhibited on the part of a government that has never Heen careful of parliamentary rules regulations and he accused the ministry of arbitrary conduct of disregard for the rights of parliament. He seemed Little interested in the report itself from his standpoint did need to be. I am not Here to Endeavor to try any person. That is what the courts Are for. But i am Here As a member of parliament to ask Why the minister of Justice who stands As the embodiment of Justice in our land which Means Justice under the Law has himself failed to carry out a provision that was placed in the Law not by the opposition but by prudent says Garson the final answer by Hon. Stuart Garson Justice minister was that at worst and he did not admit this the government had been guilty of an error of judgment but in the Light of the facts it had been prudent and not simply As or. Diefenbaker inferred in a political sense. But it took a Long time to get around to this find in the meantime different explanations had Heen offered by or. Garson and it. Hon. C. D. Howe minister of Trade and Commerce. My critics outfoxed on censure strategy from municipal taxation wi-11 Bej in Garson began by saying that a i the report had been held up Pend necessary if the company is to put in a pension scheme for employees. If the City refuses to lower its ing amendments to the combines which would ensure against by Hugh bovi1 Ottawa nov. 8 special Wilh the smoke of Battle Clearing away after monday s healed encounter Over the Mcgregor flour milling report opposition parties Are looking for ways and Means of renewing the fight so As to bring a motion of censure against the government for withholding the re port for Many months. But they Are still not at All sure How they can manage of do any thing so positive at this session. It is one thing to reopen criticism when the amendments to the com Bines investigation act Are before the House As the opposition groups undoubtedly will do but quite another to find the proper place to move a censure Amend ment. The government displayed remarkable astuteness in its handling of the afraid monday by bringing up the combines matter in such a Way As to avoid an amendment at hat stage. It accomplished even More. It stalled off an attack which the conservatives and . Were Hoth preparing to launch against rental policy. If there had to he criticism the govern ment much preferred just then the combines Case especially As few members had had any Opportunity to digest the flour milling report. This debate and other recent events have apparently decided the Ureina erasures ., and possibly the other opposition groups As Weli to make their assault on the government As a whole rather than single out Hon. Luarl Gars ii Justice min ister for their attentions. It. Has now been made Clear that with holding the report was a Cabinet decision and monday night prime minister Louis St. Laurent himself emphasized this Point. Far from satisfied opposition members Are far from satisfied with the answers they got As to Why the report was not published within the statutory 15 Days. Even some liberals Are not so sure the government is in the Clear though there Are no signs any of them would break away in a formal Ole. Or. Carson had s Aid the govern ment was faced with a report from its commissioner on combines in i which certain facts were in dispute. Moreover the Adverse decision in the dental supplies Case the body see Boyd Page s abandoned amendments irk Mcgregor by Chester Bloom Ottawa nov. S tails of the three proposed restrictive amendments to the combines investigation act which were dropped because of objections by the co Troia completely to meet the wishes of Canada s landlords Urban Renais in the big cities would have increased by approximately 100 per cent. 5. Taking into consideration both Rural and Urban areas the new ceilings generally Are considered to be about 25 per cent below like level which would pre Vail if the regulations had been removed completely. 6. In some May not be ble to gel. The tenants to pay the full 20 and 25 per hikes. In these areas such is Kirk land Lake. Or.t., the Supply is slightly higher than demand and it appeared Likely that die land lord in these areas will be satisfied with whatever they can the officials emphasized that accommodation constructed since Tan. 1, 1947, does not come under the government s controls. The some thing applies to a see increases Page 0 moral deterioration seen Church concern London. On. Nov. S cd torches arc concerned about acts our he said the government will determine what action it should take. Fortunately no increases can become effective until feb. 1 of next year so there a s sufficient time to make a Thor 1 moral the problem and to or. W. .1. Gallagher general a considered judgment based Reary of the Canadian Council of on a fun knowledge of the churches said Here monday. He according to the Federal an loll the London United Church i nou Cement the increases take ministerial association of increases i effect dec. 15. Meaning that ten in gambling liquor ants renting on a monthly basis crime and divorce. Will receive a month s notice As from dec. 31. Smash kills m Madrid. Nov. S a two accommodation rented on a weekly basis however will require electric Rains collided near Here Only a week s notice. If a tenant monday night killing at least 14 persons and injuring More than 30. See rent Page 9 week s remand provincial clerk faces fifteen fraud charges province of Manitoba c try out plea by magistrate d. G. Appeared in provincial police court j Potter. Tuesday facing f charges of Frau i Cooper is also charged with in Raul entry obtaining 52.21ij.35 from Petit. To defraud the provincial guv the provincial government Over by attempting to obtain six month period. The clerk Samuel Russell Coop or who was returned to Winni per from Letha Ririe alia., oct. 24. Was remanded one week wish Barbara Ann i ails to turn up Mother of Star reported at Odds with promoter temperature Reading dunns the 2i a. Mcgregor were Learned Here period ending at 6.30 . Tues. Vancouver Calvary Edmonton swill current Saskatoon Corina Brandon Winnipeg port Churchill min a free taxes on the Utility the company j another failure in the manner of Toronto May be forced to ask for a further the dental Case. Ronier i fare increase or. Carter said. Or. Howe maintained that the Halifax 29 55 is 61 of 46 44 -40 to. .05 or. Mcgregor still refuses to discuss his resignation on the ground that any of his views should be expressed by his minis Ter. Hon. Stuart Garson. From other sources in the jus lice department however it was Learned that although the proposed amendments coming from the see Bloom Page 8 Edmonton nov. 8 a. Shandro of Edmonton agent for Tommy Gorman promoter of skating sensations 1950 starring Barbara Ann Scott monday night said there is a definite rift Between or. Gor Man and Barbara Ann s Mother. Or. Shandro made the state ment in a Telephone interview following an incident in which miss Scott failed to make an advertised personal appear Ance at a downtown depart ment store. He charged that mrs. Clyde Scott changed plans for a per Sonal appearance after she and miss Scott arrived in Edmonton. Mrs. Scott and bar Bara Ann left the railway Sta Tion in route to the depart ment store where hundreds of people awaited miss Scott or. Shandro said. He said mrs. Scott ordered the chauffeur of the Automo bile provided by the store to drive the party directly to their hotel. Just before the train pulled into the station miss Scott told an Edmonton journal re Porter that the appearance at which she was to have Auto graphed dolls had been can celled on orders of a Calgary doctor. J she said the orders were j Given because she rib during the course of her tour with the skating show i m terribly disappointed j but the doctor said i could i make up my mind either to ska of i or Gad about at not miss Scott old Tow i reporter. My first duty is to. i hundreds who turned up at j the department store went away disappointed when an announcement made that she would not appear due to ill or. Shandro told the Cana Dian press there is a definite rift in the organization with a Cheque for 9oos.7s. Helu Ristl to Winnipeg on a charge of obtaining a a drive car with intent to defray l. Cooper has been held on that charge since oct. 20. A that time Cooper was granted Hail of by magistrate Potter. No Bondsmen have come Forward however and Cooper has remained in custody. Crown counsel w. J. Johnston asking that bail be set High had intimated that further would be Laid. Tuesday he said that All the charges had been made. The charges include five separate counts of stealing sums totalling Over for five months May 18, 13, s122.55, july 18, aug. 15, s138.80 and sept. 10, a further five charges allege that Cooper forged an endorsement on cheques for each of these amounts. Two final charges allege the clerk fraudulently procured the provincial government to deliver a Cheque for ssi to Moore s taxi company and that Between sept. 28 and oct. 26 fraudulently incurred a debt with the taxi com Pany by obtaining credit for s25s.56. Mrs. Scott and or. Gorman differing on whether miss Isil Inott would change Scott should make any person Al he said it was understood be tween mrs. Scott and or. Gor Man that Barbara Ann would make one appearance on her arrival and cancel any fur ther ones. Later or. Gorman said tiie failure of Barbara Ann to appear at a department store As scheduled monday was due to a misunderstanding. Tax exemption rules Ottawa nov. 8 special s. Sinnott. Liberal member for Springfield said tuesday he in tended to urge Hon. J. J. Mccann minister of National Revenue to have legislation brought in for the purpose of disallowing the present income tax exemption on professional association dues paid by lawyers and doctors. See earlier Story Page ;