Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg becoming Cloudy with occasional Light rain this evening Clearing in the morning. Little change in temperature. Winds Light wednesday afternoon. Low tonight High wednesday 25 and 35. Vol. 41 26 pages Price 5 cents with comics 10c Winnipeg tuesday november 15, 1949 Sun Rise 7.41 . Moon Rise 1.14 . Sun set 4.43 . Moon set 2.4" . Forecast sunny 33 my s to fight Grain rate Rise City moves to fight fare boost seeking leave to Appeal first step to Appeal the Manitoba municipal and commons reopens Mcgregor Case by Maurice Western Ottawa nov. 15 special speaker w. Ross Macdonald s de procedural Batte the first phase 01 lie Utility Board s order allow-1monday s debate on amendments ing increased transit fares was taken monday by City Council. Of triple significance. Re a a nip it fan Aprl the speaker permitted the House by a vote it Lavoi eci return to Dehale on the subject decision in procedural Battle highlights debate on combines by Maurice Western hut referred instead to the abundantly Clear that they arc Ottawa. Nov. 15 serial a Tan Rinir committee on Bank not satisfied with it and the of that hat asking the courts leave to a peal the fare boosts to the court of Appeal. Only aldermen opposing the motion were c. E. Simonite c. E. Graham and George Sharpe. The original motion proposed by Aid. V. B. Anderson would have instructed g. F. D. Bond City solicitor to Lake such Steps As Are necessary to Appeal to the court of however an amendment by Aid. A. H. Fisher restricted the authority of or. Bond to it tempting to secure Permis Sion to hit men the Appeal. 1c he is successful in obtaining this authority or. Bond is to report Hack to Council for fur ther instructions. The action was taken Only two hours before fare increases from two tickets for 15 cents to three of the resignation of f. A. Mcgregor combines investigation chief which had been already brought up in the House a week ago by the government. The ruling was made Over government objections that it violated a parliamentary convention bar ring Reintrog Toction a second time of a subject already debated once in the House. It marked of course a definite Victory for the opposition parties. Despite the protest from prime minister Louis St. Laurent a Ltd eral speaker allowed government critics very wide latitude in reverting to matters discussed in an earlier debate. But it meant much More than that. For had the Deci Sion been otherwise nearly All of monday s debate would have been rendered impossible and it nip it also have devel oped that Hon. Stuart Garson. Minister of Justice was out of order in a treat part of his for a Quarter and boosting of the speech introducing the Amend monthly pass from to 59 be ments. Came effective. Opposition Council also unanimously endorsed and approved representations to be made to the provincial government by the University of Manitoba s students Union. This group will seek with the City s support provincial action to have transit sold to University Stu dents for 57.50 or less instead of the proposed 59. Want boost battled members contend that the decision is also important for the future. This Point of View was stated by Stanley Knowles . Winnipeg North Cen try who said that a contrary Rul ing would mean that from this time Forward any time the govern ment wanted to prevent discussion of a matter under difficult or embarrassing circumstances a min ister could discuss it briefly on. Aid. Anderson declared citizens their motion to go into Supply wanted Council to continue its struggle for Lover transportation Aid. E. A. Brotman was confident the court of Appeal would agree that the Utility Board had misinterpreted the Law when it allowed a fare increase hearing without first receiving the consent of City Council. The Board ruled that when it granted an increase in an interim order in 1948 it retained jurisdiction to Amend the order or Grant a new hearing without authority from on that Point i think the Board was wrong and the City solicitor Aid. Brotman declared. My Tiew is that the 1948 hearing was completed and the House would be prevented from discussing it free debate John Diefenbaker pc Lake Centre commented that under such circumstances parliament would he Angus Mac Innis . Vancouver East see fakes Page 6 but referred instead to the standing committee on Bank ing and Commerce. In any Case discussion centred on what these groups considered a highly important constitutional Issue with King Charles head appearing and reappearing As in the famous novel. Though the . Hacked the. Conservative amendment it is abundantly Clear that they arc not satisfied with it and the possibility emerges that they will seek a fresh Opportunity to move a vote of censure on the govern ment. This dissatisfaction is shares by the social credit group. While the specific amendments to the combines act proposed by see Western Page 6 Congress gets study your exports too costly Eca report tells Europe Washington nov. Dent Truman tuesday sent to con Gress a Marshall plan report de Claring that Europe must lower its prices 40 compete in the United czechs order foreigners to get out Prague nov. 15 bup Czechoslovakia has ordered dozens of americans britons and other foreigners to leave the country diplomatic sources said tuesday. Those ordered expelled include Many sympathetic to communism. Informants said the communist government appears to be expelling most nationals of Western countries not attached to diplomatic missions or representing recognized1 foreign firms. The czech ministry of Interior gives those affected three Days to. Two weeks in which to pack states Market for the american consumer s Dollar. The United states of course must be willing to accept greater Competition from european sup pliers in order to help Europe pay is said the study prepared by the economic co operation administration. Even if european sales Iti the United states were doubled restoring Europe s pre War share of this volume would represent less than one per cent of the total . Output and would Only be. Scratch Ink the surface of the american con Gress was told. The report noted that Europe s exports during the april june period hit a postwar Peak. But the increases were counter balanced by a Sharp drop in exports to the United states. Ship ments to the United states fell off in value from in the first three months of the year to during the april june Western liberals score rail bid Ottawa soy. 15 Western Liberal members of the commons said tuesday they would fight any recommendation to remove Western Canada s Low freight rates on Grain and Grain products which has been proposed before the Royal commission on transportation. The group was supported by one Independent. The proposal has been made by the Canadian Pacific railway which contends that the statutory crows nest pass rates Are not paying their r rent control Leslie Mutch veterans parliamentary assistant tuesday sued a statement signed by the 33ij members including an i Riepen a Dent declaring a Manitoba Tion for any change in the rates would be met head on by them in a no Quarter fight. They said the Crow s West rates Are essential to the welfare the cab met at to regular Western Canada and were tuesday. The Cabinet was Manitoba s position in regard to rental controls was under discus and paid for by the West. We do not believe that parliament will attempt to make a change in these statutory rates. We believe that such an at tempt would fail if it were Manitoba members signing the declaration besides or. Mutch were Maybank Winnipeg South w. G. Weir por John Sim Iott in session morning and afternoon. A number of other questions were considered by the ministers unfinished business that had accumulated during the election Campaign. Premier d. L. Campbell acknowledged tuesday that rental controls was one matter before the Cabinet. Leave. Ottawa an external affairs department spokesman said the department was sending a Cable to Prague to inquire from r. M. Macdonnell charge d affaires for Canada whether any canadians were involved. Lii1ho said that it would he the end flying r onto Tell r in learns free debate in this House.1 one striking feature of Mon Day s debate was the tendency of most speakers to ignore the pro posed amendments to the act Al together. This May hive been because opposition members held the floor most of the time and they were All agreed on n conservative amendment under which the Bill would not have been read a second time Chicago. Nov. 15 Ard 20, manoeuvred his Light plane Over a football Field and yelled out to the spectators what s the that was nine Days ago. Croc Kett got. The answer monday from judge James Corcoran hearing the Low flying charge. The score is and judge Corcoran province asked to take control Council demands cancellation of plan to let rents increase cancellation by the Dominion government of its plan to raise ceilings on reels and the taking Over of rent control by the prov Ince was requested by the City Council monday. Council in the motion of Aid. John Blu Niverjr vigorously protested action by the Dominion to permit rental in creases. Mayor Garnet Coulter indicated that an emergency meet ing of the Canadian federa Tion of mayors and mimic pal tics executive May be called to protest the increase. Aid. Blumberg hoped the City s motion would initiate similar action by All other Canadian municipalities and snowballing protests to the Federal government would Force it to change policy. Copies of the motion Aid. Blunt Berg said should go to the Winni Peg members of parliament All other Canadian municipal councils and to the federation of Cana Dian mayors and municipalities As Well As the Dominion. The motion passed without a re corded vote although earlier Aid. F. L. Chester attempted to have u Laid Over for weeks. This turned Down by a 10-7 vote. How it went voting to Lay Over the Matte were aldermen Chester c. E. Simonite j. Gurzon Harvey c. E. Graham George Sharpe e. E. Hallonquist and Jack St. John. Against were aldermen David Mulligan James Black h. B. Scott v. B. Anderson h. V. My a. Brotman Blumberg m. Forkin Jacob Penner and Joseph Stepnuk. In a separate motion Aid. For Kin urged the provincial govern ment to take Over rental controls and maintain them until sufficient dwellings Are available 10 meet the demand. This also passed without a re corded vote with Only Aid. Gra by National representing landlords in the i has paid Aid. Blumberg declared. I Don t think any larger crime has Ever been perpetrated against the people of Canada than that pulled off in the House a few Days Aid. Blumberg explained he believed february 1 had been set As the Day for the rent boosts to become effective because that was the time when leases in Eastern Canada end and come into effect. The proposed boosts would fact hundreds and hundreds of families living in Homes without he charged As Well As thousands of working girls and men living in one or two rooms who Are existing close to the Tor Derline according to press reports Aid. Blumberg said the increases would Cost Winni Eggers 000 a year. The City would pay Art additional 524.000 in rents for citizens on so Cial welfare and Relief he stated i Don t want this to be cons some will not put the increase w. J. Ward Dau r. J. Wood Sib Litie George Weaver How Larry Winkle Rene Jutras private ownership by Hugh Boyd Ottawa in evidence a Siudy of the province s Ripon and what action it might if the Federal government withdrew from the rental control Field is being made by the attorney general s department. Members of the Cabinet Ara Sec guat rate Page 11 data and we Are seeking additional in the Premier said. The report illustrated the seriousness of the Dollar Gap by pointing out that Only 13 per cent j of All . Imports came from mar shall plan countries during the Quarter compared to 24 per cent from the same nations in the Cor responding 194s period. The participating countries must intensify their Export drive to the Dollar areas if they Are to attain Independence from extraordinary out Side the report said. It also will be necessary for the Marshall plan countries to give their exporters incentives to enter the Tough . Market. This will be done As . Administrator Paul c. Hoffman has suggested by letting the exporting companies keep a share of the . Dollars earned in Export Trade. Princess Margaret is in the limelight again this time because of Hei hats. Here she wears a conservative enough one As she walks with Princess Elizabeth right to the in saddling enclosure at Aintree near Liverpool where they at tended the grand Sefton. Steeplechase. Monday however the younger Princess wore her newest Bonnet a millinery show in London. It was a Black Felt Fez of Ermine tails designed by a danish born Milliner aage Haarup. One reporter said the hat looked like a guardsman s helmet. Haarup revealed that King George liked it and that the King always has to see Margaret s hats before she wears them in Public. Sees consulates for w. Germ an y Adenauer says allies to slow up dismantling Canad rejects Kremlin plan Lake Success nov. 15 and the Western world if Canada joined the United states Dererian attack on property own Aid. Blumberg concluded Ham s voice heard in opposition. In announcing the proposed rent boosts Hon. D. C. Abbott finance minister absolutely ignored members of Parlia ment themselves said to hell with parliament and Here it Aid. Blumberg charged. I think the lobbying Dow Good officials Nave one nto effect. Thousands however Western world was to Aid. Chester declared i cannot ote for this. I m not an expert on rentals. T took it upon myself to write the Premier today asking him to review the rental controls ques it emphasized the warnings tuesday in bluntly rejecting rus voiced by or. Hoffman two weeks prop0sal for a five Power ago before the Council of pact and told the Kremlin plan countries in Paris recovery a we do not need any More Sig is imperilled by import controls and Exchange restrictions which act As barriers to Trade. It repeated or. Hoffman s plea for the economic unification of Europe. With reference to the problem of High european prices it was stated devaluation of currencies was unavoidable if the Gap be tween prices a the two parts of Russia continues to cling to the apparent attitude that she is always right. Be Nar in Cabinet Council. I Don t know what they Are going to do but i think they would be very Wise in taking Over Aid. Chester newly elected provincial member stated. Aid. Chester said the province would be making a decision pro Bably tomorrow or the next until that time he contended Aid. Blumberg s motion should Laid Over. Aid. St. John thought the motion out of order because of the attack made by Aid. Blumberg on a Crown minister. Shah going to . Rome nov. 15 bup Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran arrived Here tuesday aboard president Truman s personal plane the Independence Enro Ute to the United states on an official visit. Deadline today for . More Christmas parcels going overseas this year Winni Eggers Are sending More fault to find. people they parcels overseas or this Christ Mas season than they did last year they Are wrapping them better. That is the word from the main Post office where 674 parcels bound for overseas were handled monday. That meant overtime work for Post office employees. Tuesday deadline Date for United kingdom Christmas delivery promised to be even busier. Last year s High Mark was parcels in. One Day. This year postal officials say the inflow has been More gradual but they expect the grand total will be larger than in 1948. Although most of the packages arrive at the Post office in very say Are not filling out the Cus Toms declaration form fully. Require full list it in t enough to write food on the declaration for a food Par cel. Each item in the parcel must be listed separately. British Tuc seen favouring wages freeze by Jack Tait y Llor Alj trip Una Lervirn London nov. 15 the Bri Tish trades Union Congress Mon Day night urged Britain s organized workers to suspend temporarily All negotiations for wage in creases. Unions representing about workers Are seeking Aises. The move is Helie cd to mean that the general Council Ami the committee have decided to recommend flatly to the . S 190 affiliated unions representing workers a stringent wage freeze except in cases of hard ship or where output is in creased. The importance of the move can hardly be Over emphasized. The leadership is taking the grave risk of having its authority flaunted and to prestige torpedoed by asking restive workers to forego wag increases in the face of a so i but steady Rise in the Cost of Liv ing As a result of devaluation. How the rank and file worker will react to the . Recommendation remains in question. The . Has Only the Power of recommendation it cannot order or direct. We do not need any natures we need some Settle at the same time. Yugoslavia branded Russia As a warmonger operating with monstrous hypocrisy and warned the United nations main political committee that the threatening of Small states s usually an overture for general Hon. Paul Martin Canadian health minister told the United nations the soviet ruler Are creating in russian minds a false distrust and fear of Western Peoples. He said the real problem facing he world is fear and insecurity lies like ice on the hearts if men speaking in the debate on Russia s Pence proposals in the Assembly s 59-member Politi Cal committee or. Martin delivered what Veteran observers described As one of the sharpest indictments of the communist system Ever heard in the in. He said there is Little Hope of getting beyond the stage of Dis watchfulness Between he answered the slashing per i the Western allies in Sonal attack made monday by Andrei Vishinsky on Hon. L. B. Pearson Canada s external affairs minister. The russian foreign minister described As slanderous falsification or. Pearson s Asser Tion that Russia threatens the police probe stolen car link gift parcels weigh in up to 20 pounds May he mailed to Britain if marked gift Par special labels Are provided by the Post office to Speed gifts of food discarded clothing and soap. Other deadline dates coming up Are to the United states dec. 9 Newfoundland dec. 12 Marl times dec. 13- Quebec Alberta and British Columbia dec. 14 on Tario dec. 15, and Manitoba dec. 16. Bonn Germany nov. 15 by Ain America and France agreed at the Paris conference last week to a Sharp slowdown in the Dis mantling of. German Industry Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Dis closed tuesday. The big three also agreed at the meeting of foreign ministers to authorize West be Many to 1 build bigger merchant vessels and establish ils own Consulato abroad Adenauer told parliament. He said the nation s link St steel , he August sen works at Nitis Lorg Hani born. Was Limonc plants that would lie the big three agreed to the slowdown to said until in Allied German committee still to be appointed completed a thorough re f. The whole problem. Tend to keep their troops in Many even if russian troops Are withdraw. The spokesman indicated this also was one of the decisions reached at the Paris conference of the big three. Dean Acheson stale Secretary of the United Ami cell in a h e i r meeting monday on the need for keeping Western troups in Ger Many the spokesman snid. Midnight deadline set in . Shipping Row new York. Nov. ill s j a strike that would close All East and Gulf coast polls of the . And lie up half the shipping starts at Midnight tuesday night unless government mediators in monday a West. German spokes i Norton can head off the walkout. See Success Page 11 world wheat Queen Toronto nov. 15 cd for Lii second time in Throe years mrs. Amy Grace Jav Alscy of Kroc Kenn ., tuesday was announced world s wheat Stienon at the Royal Winter fair Harp. The strike by 2.000 deck officers of the . Masters mates and pilots Union was reported almost certain unless a settlement is reached on the Union demands for a rotary hiring Hall system. The hiring Hall system is the Only Issue. The operators insist on being Able to hire As they please. Case of deserted children develops baffling new angles Brandon s Case of the two abandoned Chitren became More involved tuesday As . Announced the. Apprehension of a Man who in earlier reports had been described As the children s father. Jeo Jourdin Tessier from British Columbia was found by . In Deer Lodge Hospital tuesday morning undergoing Tim Menf. He was described by police is the Man known As or. Jourdan who with his wife had abandoned the children last wednesday. Meanwhile at Brandon the woman described As mrs. Jourdan said Tessier was not the children s father but that they had travelled As Man and wife. . Also told of a hectic completed units seen for 1949 Winters says House building cutting into backlog of needs Ottawa nov 15 up be of the order of 06.dco. _ starts in of he first nine months of 1949 were about 71.000, almost Bijou Wolf flu. Radio news Page 4. Movies Page 5. Bridge column Page 4. Women a news pages 12, 13. Sports pages 16, 17, 18. Crossword Puzzle Page 11. Comics Page 20. Editorials Page 15. Finance Page 19. Canasta Page 8. Article on Rouia Pace 7. Robert Winters reconstruction minister told the commons tues Day an estimated housing units will be completed this year the first in which some reduction will be made in the backlog of housing needs. Opening debate on second read ing of a Bill amending the National housing act or. Winters reported that building costs Are levelling off and said an estimated new houses will be started this year. Complete figures up to the end of August and partial figures during september Indi Cate that hew housing units were completed in the first nine months of said or. Winters. This is an in crease of 24 per cent. Over the corresponding period of 1948. If the last Quarter of 1949 Fol lows the pattern of the last Quarter of 194s, completions of. New units will amount to approximately 000. Adding conversions to new units total completions of All kinds for. 1949 would under these con might have some bearing on the new starts. Reviewing the government s n a stolen car which began in Calgary proceeded to Kenora and Buck to Winnipeg. At the same Lime sources in Nelson Told the free press a 55-year-old chinese Wong fing Kaw had disappeared after being soon with the Jour inns before they left the West for Calgary and after telling friends he was going to the same City for a Holiday. Superintendent c. W. Harvison of the . In Winnipeg slated his men had recovered a car in which the Jourdan family is believed to have travelled to bran Don from Calgary. The car found by our men near White Nouth Man., was reported by a chinese stolen within the last three the . Official said. Nelson to Kenora . In tracing the car s Progress before it was abandoned said it had started out from Nelson with Licence plates. At Cal int948 unus under programme Ary. The car was allegedly stole said that on july 22, 1d46. His pre i said a car theft de Cessor it. Hon. C. D. Howe right be sent from the Alberta construction at the end of septem Ber 1343, amount to As compared with a year ago. Projecting new starts for the bal Ance of the year or. The same basis a total of might be expect however the United states steel strike and weather conditions lures Empera temperature Reading Durons the 24 hour period ending at . Tuesday were Vancouver Calgary Edmonton swin current Saskatoon min. 40 56 3-1 32 30 -19 27 47 23 44 14 41 15 3s 25 33 2s 30 13 32 35 4-4 30 45 Montreal 31 4s Halifax. 41 s5 Brandon Winnipeg port Churchill port Arthur Trade minister had mated that some housing nails should be built during the five years ending March 1952. Or. Howe set a target of units for 1947-48, and in each of the following years. Up to the end of september. 1949, his estimate was units. During that period completions amounted to 212.134 units. This is a substantial accomplishment of the target of completions and full accomplish ment if allowance is made for the increased number of houses presently under said or. Winters. He recalled that in a statement to the commons sept. 21 he had stated that housing construction was barely keeping up with cur see housing Page 11 at Lethbridge the car was re under the name of Jack Rogers and Alberta licence plates see police probe Page 11 . Informs Russia Danube commission considered invalid Washington nov. 15 Cap United states served notice on Russia and five soviet a 1 o c states tuesday that it considers invalid their new commission to control shipping on the Danube River. The commission was set up nov. 11 at Galatz Romania. It replaced a control commission dating Back to 1921 on which five Western countries were represented ;