Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Cloudy. Intermittent Snow this evening. Snow flurries beginning thursday morn ing. Little change in temperature. Winds North at 20 Mph thursday. Low tonight and High thursday 15 and 20. Vol. 48 36 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg wednesday november 23, 1949 Sun Rise . Moon Rise . Sun set . Moon set . Forecast Snow flurries Prog cons fail in new censure try Louette coach claims trick pulled to get football films for Calgary Stampede fans ride East again Montreal nov. 23 coach Lew Hayman of the Montreal Alou ettes charged wednesday that Calgary stampedes had taken some unauthorized movies of the Montreal Ottawa football game nov. 9. Hayman said he had granted permission to some one claiming to take the films for a Montreal firm for Adver Tising purposes. Said Hayman i House supports ruling Resolution out of order Ottawa nov. 23 up a new progressive conservative attempt to censure the government for its handling of a combines investigation report into the flour milling Industry wednesday was ruled out of order in the commons. An Appeal against the decision of speaker Ross Macdonald was Defeated 148 to 56. Or. Macdonald s ruling on an amendment sponsored by John Diefenbaker cent hour milling Industry Case prejudiced effective administration of the combines legislation. A debate on procedure preceded and followed the moving of or. Diefenbaker s amendment sup ported by progressive conserva Tives ., and social credit it said that while the commons and a e. Cagnon Cind. Always was anxious to improve combines legislation it regretted the failure of the Cabinet to comply with the Law requiring publication of a combines report find that it must have been for the Calgary club As there was a report last week the stamp eders had studied movies of our if it s said another Alou ettes official i would t Call it ethical would the report was circulating Here wednesday that the Alou ettes who were holding secret practices were trying out new plays to confound the stampedes. Diefenbaker speech when or. Diefenbaker Rose to resume a speech he started tues Day on the combines legislation he renewed attacks against within 15 Days of receipt. It also government for withholding Ottawa nov. 23 up speaker Ross Macdonald today Rule out of order the Amendment. The ruling appealed and or. Macdonald was upheld by a vote of 157 to Nufi. Hat the government had failed to give Assurance Thau there would be no further breach of this or any other act. The amendment was to a to according to the Canadian press Tion calling for second approval in a Bill lightening some provisions of the combines investigation act. It was i the second such amendment moved the the four milling report. Speaker Macdonald called him to order and said the question of publication of reports had no thing to do with tiie legislation be fore the House. Or. Diefenbaker objected and said members should be Given an Opportunity to answer statements made by or. Garson tuesday. Or. Macdonald said Mere had been a fairly extensive debate on the flour milling report and he the scores o f ten gallon hats coloured shirts and smiling faces in this picture represent a Small part of tie or Oral support Calgary Stampede fans Are taking with them to Toronto for the East West Rugby football final saturday. This scene of organized confusion was witnessed tuesday evening at the Canadian Pacific station during a 60-minute Stopover of the special train. The Indian chiefs in the Centre Are joining some of the Foothills crowd in a Public Square dance while at left a colourful Calgary Banner is moving to the Centre of activity. Story on Page 17. Mcintosh denies inspector s charges High schools meet standards., Winnipeg trustees assured Winnipeg s High schools measure up to the educational standards set by the provincial department of education the City s school Board was assured tuesday night by or. H. Mclntosh superintendent of assistant schools. 1 the trustees had been called for a special meeting to hear the com ments of the superintendent s department on a report concerning the City s High schools presented oct. Is by or. Andrew Moore provincial inspector. Or. Mclntosh also told the Board he was satisfied that the principals of All the six High schools were supporting their teachers in discipline. In his report. Or. Moore son to join Roblin Hunt for trapper Roblin. Man., nov. 23 Spe Cial the search for Ernie Cockerill 45-year-old Veteran trap per who has been missing since Friday continued wednesday in the heavily wooded Southern area of the Duck Mountain Forest re serve. Although searchers reported tuesday night that no Trace of the missing woodsman had been found it was hoped that arrival of a son wednesday from fort Frances ont would help the Hunt. The son is Well acquainted with jigs father s trap lines. Claimed that teachers often were afraid to Strong disciplinary action because of Douht of support from higher discipline certainly has not deteriorated in our High schools since i taught in them 30 years said the assistant superintendent. In his second appearance before the trustees or. Moore said the City s superintendent s department was obsessed with the needs of the pupils. Somebody has to protect the needs of he said. It is my duty As a government inspector to see that the Public is not duped by a Pupil labelled Grade 10 who has not Grade 10 often he charged such pupils could not Analyse a sentence or do vulgar fractions. The report of. The superintendent s department defended the City s composite High school system which or. Moore had claimed catered to non collegiate calibre students who. He said made up 15 per cent of the City s High school enrol agreed with or. Moore that Library and guidance accommodation and the number of guid Ance personnel left much to be de sired but pointed out that heavy Pupil loads have prevented enlarge ment and improvement. 3_ criticized the English system of separate schools for pupils of different mental ability As located by or. Moore on the grounds that the system was in flexible and tended to Divide Young people into castes. 4 stressed the necessity of adapting courses to meet Dif Ferent Levels of ability. Or. Moore had claimed that the Winnipeg see schools Page 6 Hungary reported scene of soviet air concentration Vienna nov. 23 bup the newspaper Tage Zeitung said wednesday to soviet fighter and bomber pilots have been stationed in Hungary. The socials also Are setting up rocket launching platforms in the Matra mountains the newspaper said. Special soviet and hungarian political police were said to be guarding the bases. The newspaper Organ of the austrian people s party said All developments indicated in creased co inform pressure on Yugoslavia. Play off game allegedly were taken by subterfuge through Una a theorized use of a nationally known i company s name. J the trick came to the attention of the vice president of the com Pany a former big four coach i himself. He immediately telephoned coach Lew Hayman of Alou ettes and told him the Job reportedly clone by associated screen news was entirely without authorisation by his company and that associated screen news likewise had no knowledge of the subterfuge. The film had double value be cause either Montreal Alou ettes or Ottawa roughriders were prac Mically sure bets to enter the do minion final. As a result it. Is understood Alou ettes revamped Many of their plays and introduced new ones. Here is the Story told the Cana Dian press on the highest author Ity the Man who carried out the Deal is a former official of the see Alou ettes Page 8 Britain s Tuc of s wage freeze London nov. 23 the trades Union Congress whose members form the Back Bone of the labor party s strength athe polls wednesday gave final approval to the government s policy i affronted and of wage freezes. In Miles asked. Members tuesday voted 141 to 53 against an amendment by George Drew progressive conservative Leader that would have allowed the Bank t ing and Commerce committee to delve fully into the govern ment s administration of the combines investigation act. The committee would have been of its special economic committee Given Power to report on How the on wages and the general economic government s handling of the re a situation. Planned to stand by an earlier ruling that Only sections of the report pertinent to the legislation before the House could be Dis cussed. Or. Diefenbaker then moved his amendment. Or. Macdonald said that in his opinion the amendment was out of order. Stanley Knowles Winnipeg North Centre said there were several instances where similar amendments had been accepted at new West Minster. He then informed members that he also i amendment which he plans to move on second Reading of he combines legislation. However he delayed the actual moving of the amendment because he said he wanted to talk about combines for a while longer. He did t want to run into the same difficulty As or. Diefenbaker. Or. Knowles said that on nov. 2 or. Carson within a few had done two things he admitted that the flour Mill ing report had not been made Public within the required 15 Days and he introduced a Bill to strengthen the combines act. Insult to commons or. Knowles said it. Was a mat Ter of the minister introducing a Bill to strengthen a Law after say ing he had broken the same Law. Was parliament Ever so grossly the decision was Given by the governing general Council of the . When it approved a report he then read his amendment proposing that approval of the bin be deferred until the House has censured the government for an affront to parliament in its handling of combines affairs. Wants Early decision Turner urges Campbell to Call caucus on rent a caucus of government support ers should be called immediately for a full discussion of the rent control Probia r. D. Turner member of the legislature for Winnipeg South urged wednesday in a letter to Premier d. L. Campbell. The caucus should be called in View of the government decision not to Convene the legislature in december the private member elected As a coalition supporter said. Which is the Gateway ? motto stealing port Arthur gets Rebuff in Winnipeg mayor Garnet Coulter handed out some free advice wednesday. Recipients were port Arthur City Council members ready to appropriate a slogan which Winnipeg has jealously guarded since its in corporation in 1874. Gateway to the Golden is the slogan and mayor Coulter reckoned we have priority As far As father time is this was the advice offered by the mayor to port Arthur you might have the slogan to the Gateway to the West Aid. John Blumberg Dean of City Council also reacted violently to the slogan theft attempt. It s the first time i be Ever heard of port Arthur using that slogan. They be been a mighty Long time getting around to he exclaimed. The slogan Story begun Mon Day at a port Arthur City Council when Mem Bers wondered who had priority to the slogan. The Lakehead City s municipal Crest has the words port Arthur Gateway to the on it. Aid. Eunice Wishart of port a thur reported she had received a query from col. R. M. Hamilton Ottawa assistant government librarian who is compiling a list of municipal the letter stated that As far Back As 1912 pamphlets were is sued at Winnipeg bearing the slogan. This is the earliest use that i have come across and i As sume the term has some a col. Hamilton wrote. As a resident of Winnipeg be tween 1906-09, one port Arthur Al Derman a. H. Knutson recalled Winnipeg used the slogan because see Gateway Page 6 he emphasized it. Was advisable if the legislature was going to take action in this matter to have a decision reached before notices of the authorized rental increases could be sent out dec. 16. Legislative or executive action after that Date will necessarily involve retroactive inter Ference with authorized Legal Steps in the cases of landlords previously giving notice of in creased rent. For obvious Rea sons retroactive legislation disturbing previously settled rights is to be avoided Wesr Ever the member pointed out. Delaying the opening of the legislative session until late january would greatly Handicap members wishing to see the rent control question considered by the Assembly As soon As possible. Several candidates supporting the government including myself in the recent election Campaign urged an Early disposition of this Fao told of flaws in theory for commodity Clearing House Turki Oera temperature Reading during the 24 hour period and inc at 6.30 . Wed. Were mix. Max. Prec. 45 31 shut is 17 in -4 5 port -21 port 13 30 13 Montreal 16 54 39 41 30 36 30 29 15 2s 33 .03 to. .03 .05 to partial discharge of the implied undertaking of such Candi dates i strongly urge the immedi ate meeting of. The legislature or government caucus in order that the need for action May be fully or. Turner said. Hard labor for attacks Augsburg nov. 23 United states military court Here tuesday sentenced 10 Ameri can soldiers to hard labor ranging from three to six months for at tacks on German civilians. Chinese reds free Consul . Reports Washington nov. 23 bup Ward american Consul general imprisoned by communists in Manchuria and his four aides have been released by the chinese and ordered expelled the . State department announced wednesday. See earlier Story Page five the stale department said a chinese communist people s court at. Mukden Manchuria convicted or. Ward and his associates of beating a chinese and gave them prison sentences but the court immediately commuted the sentences to deportation and allowed the arrested men to return to their Homes in the american consulate compound. Or. Ward telephoned this in formation to the american con sul in piping and reported that All five were up and the Siale department ordered or. Ward and his entire staff to leave Mukden immediately. For a full year chinese communists have held the american Garson answers critics on milling Case report by Maurice Western Ottawa nov. 23 special highlight of the defence of his action in the flour milling Case was the statement by Hon. Stuart Garson Justice minister in the commons tuesday that the Mcgregor report was amended repeatedly until feb. 23, 1949, and that further changes until As late As oct. 29 were possible. If this Contention is valid the government has at last offered a reply to repeated opposition charges a statute was broken through failure to publish the report by Jan. 13, that is to say within two weeks after its presentation by or. Mcgregor to the minister of Justice. Or. Garson did not suggest however that the combines com missioner f. A. Mcgregor was anxious for further changes after fcb. 23 although k. W. Tay Lor head of the wartime prices and Trade Board certainly urged them. Perhaps for this reason the Justice minister did not rest his Case solely on the technical Point but dealt at length on the age of Between or. Mcgregor former and head Donald of the Gordon wartime prices and Trade Board that has been at the Bottom of the difficulties the government has had in this connection. Explaining the time problem which faced him on the As sumption of office or. Garson said that in 20 Odd years of Public life i cannot remember Ever having encountered a. Problem in which the Combina Tion of circumstances was More following two by elections Manitoba the minister had arrived in Ottawa Jan. 3. With parliament staff at Mukden under House a due to open in three weeks he rest preventing their leaving China. See Garson Page 10 economists examine International plan by Max Freedman Washington nov. 23 Spe Cial even before the conference of the food and agricultural organization of the United nations begins to debate the plan for an International commodity Clearing House several weaknesses inherent in that plan have been drawn to the attention of the conference. The Council of . Asked its commodity working party to examine the report of the economists recommended the establish ment of a Clearing House for the handling of agricultural surpluses. This committee carefully refrained from either endorsing or condemning the plan but in its analysis of what this plan involves the committee made it quite Clear that there Are More difficulties to be faced than its original Spon sors suggested. In essentials the project for a Clearing House is very simple. It would work in two it would Turp Luki reduced prices where the import ing country was Able to pay in hard or relatively hard cur Rency it would sell surpluses the full commercial Price Kgardiner says food Export claim untrue Washington nov. 23 Spe Hon. James g. Gardiner minister of agriculture took exception tuesday morning to state ments in official documents submitted to the food and agriculture conference which claimed that Canada and the United states were the dominating sources of Supply in the world today. Sask. Urges subsidizing of railways by Hugh Boyd Ottawa nov. 23 special while the submission the Saskatchewan government to the Royal commission on transportation re peals and underlines Many of the Points on freight rates policy made by Manitoba it Breaks new ground in at least one important respect. The Saskatchewan Brief which or. G. E. Britnell began to present to the commission wednesday on behalf of the provincial govern ment Calls for an outright subsidy Justice minister attacks Mcgregor Ottawa nov. 23 special attacks on the combines Jour missioner f. A. Mcgregor punctuated the Sproch in defence of government policy in the flour milling Case delivered in the House of commons tuesday by Hon. Stuart Garson Justice minister. In contrast the embattled Mani Lohan came strongly to the support of Donald Gordon and Kenneth w. Taylor successive chair men of the wartime prices and Trade Board and outspoken critics of the Mcgregor report. Or. Garson began by saying that no offences by the Millers were alleged following decontrol and that As regards the Price Rise coinciding with decontrol this was attributable to government direction even to an or. Mcgregor s own version in the milling report did not place particular emphasis on this episode which was re carded by him Only is one of a series of incidents and nothing if this be an agreement contrary to the combines investigation act said the minister it. Would appear that during the whole period of wartime control any firm or company which in concert with other companies in the same Industry agreed to sell its products in accordance with the orders from time to time made by the wartime prices and Trade to the railways in Orde r to Makel Board would also have been possible a Sharp reduction on guilty of an offence under the freight rates on Long haul traffic Between Eastern and Western. Can the importing country could pay Only in soft or non Dollar currencies. In the latter Case these soft currencies would be credited by the Clearing House to the exporter. The Clearing House Only functions when countries Are buying in excess of their Normal imports. The whole proposal has the strength that comes from Ifie realization that something positive must be done with farm surpluses. Whether its own suggestions Are helpful is questionable. The working party s report had seven major comments to make on the economic policies of a Clearing House. First Point the first dealt with the currency food problem. The soft currencies held by the Clearing House would be he said these statements against devaluation and have been True of Canada during would become convertible when Ada. Manitoba had played around with the idea of subsidies for the Pur pose of removing regional disc rim in the rate Structure but it was More cautious and expressed the View to the Turgeon com Mission that under present conditions it is quite possible for the railways to raise their rates in Eastern Canada to a level which will yield sufficient Revenue to pay for the services provided the Manitoba government was thinking of a future contingency rather than the pres see Brief Page 6 see Gar Dieb Page 3 see Fao Page 10 Kwadjo news Page 4. Movies Page 5. Bridge column Page 4. Women s news pages 11, 12, j3, it. Sports pages 20, 21, 22. Crossword Puzzle Page 10. Comics Page 26. Editorials Page 19. Finance pages 27, 32. Canasta Page 23. Starry skirt column 24. Combines investigation or. Garson observed that the september 1947 Price Rise typified the cleavage of opinion Between or. Mcgregor and or. Gordon throughout. Again in this larger sphere that is the wartime Price control we the opinion of or. Gordon and or. Taylor and we reject or. Mcgreg or s for this preference the minis Ter advanced three reasons. There was first the great authority of or. Gordon As wartime chairman of the . . With 87 administrators working under him. He the master integrator of the policies All pursued. In this connection or. Garson made several observations bearing on commissioner Mcgregor s con Tention that assurances of immunity from prosecution under the combines act to Many firms during the wartime control period were valid Only if written authorizations could be shown or if there were Oral authorizations which could be clearly proved. On the contrary the master integrator was the one Man who carried in his own head a great see Ottawa Page 15 ;