Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. 59 no. 25 Cloudy with a few sunny intervals. Not much change in temperature. Winds South West at 15 . Low tonight and High sunday 25 and 40. 52 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg saturday october 27, 1951 Sun rites 7.08 . Sun sets 5.16 . Moon Rinc 3.34 . Moon sets 3.54 . Forecast Cloudy Blue bombers primed for big game Winnipeg bets go begging Edmonton oct. 27 up Artri Ilc fell intermittently in Edmonton this morn the thy was on the Edge of a rain area which brought half an Inch of rain to the peace Kivor District of North Ern Albertu during the night. The weather Man said this afternoon is Likely to be Clou ily with possibly few sunny periods. By Edmonton alta., oct. 27 special Between the visit saturday of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh and the Semi final football game Between Winni Peg Blue bombers and Edmonton eskimos this capital City of Alberta is All agog. Not even the which started to fall Early Friday evening could Dampen the enthusiasm. As both the eskimos and the Prince Philip to kick off at Edmonton Edmonton oct. 27 up Prince Philip will make the kick off to Start the second half of the Western football Union s Semi final game Here tonight Between Edmonton eskimos and Winnipeg Blue bomb ers. The football then will be autographed by the Prince preserved and mounted for use As the Prince Philip trophy emblematic Alberta Junior Foo fall supremacy. While the Prince makes the kick off on Clarke stadium s turf playing Field the Princess will from a special Gluss cil in. Royal Box on the sidelines at mid Field. It will be the first Cana Dian football game for the Royal couple. Attendance at the sudden death play one game has been limited Tor Security reasons to fans some below the Normal number for such a contest. There Are seats for and standing room for another 2.000. The Royal couple s car will travel once around the Oval track surrounding the play ing Field and the team captains will be presented to the Royal couple before Prince Philip kicks off. Elected Tea to build giant Jet motor Plant Here Slaw Kebic re elected Alderman Ward 3 Frank a Geek elected Alderman Ward 3 Eric g. Hansen elected to school Board Ward 2, a Hugh. L. Stevens re elected to school Board Ward 3 bombers awaited saturday night s sudden death Battle the main con Cern in both Camps was weather. All this week it has been cold in Edmonton but Friday the Weatherman promised Relief Lor saturday. It is expected a High of 40 will be reached during the afternoon with the temperature at game time in the High twenties. Thus it is expected that the Field will be in Good condition for the Battle. The bombers who flew to Edmonton Friday in two parties held Short he being up exercise at Clark stadium Friday night. They see big game Page 9 forum loses by 4 to demand recount by a slim margin of four votes Frank Wagner . Defeated communist Aid. M. J. .eorkin.ifor. The third Aldermani seat in Ward three. The narrow Victory highlighted Friday night s Transfer of. Votes completing this year s civic elec Tion. Seven of the nine Aldermani seats were captured by the . Group. The . Party retained two. All six . School trustees retained their seats one stayed with the . Party and two with the . After a third count of ballots or. Wagner was declared elected with votes. Aid. Forkin polled Aid. Forkin told the free press he would certainly ask for a Aid. Slaw Bebchuk. . Was re elected on third count with votes to Complete the Ward three Aldermani slate along with Veteran . Fer Aid. Jack Blumberg re elected on first count. In Ward two Eric Hansen . Seas elected to the school Board after a fifth count netted him votes., school trustee h. L. S. Stevens was re elected to a school Board seat in Ward three polling votes on second count. Closest in 30 years the Battle Between or. Wagner and Aid. Forkin was described by George Gardner City clerk and returning officer As the closest i be seen in 30 years of proportional or. Wagner a slim vector in could be mainly attributed to the second choices he gained on the Transfer from . Candidate g. J. Reeve. Of or. Reeve s. First choices 949 ballots were non transferable. More than half the remainder went to. Or. Wagner. See City election czechoslovak Flag Over free press tomorrow. October 2s, the red White and Blue Flag of the czechoslovak Republic will Fly from the free press Flag Stafe to commemorate the thirty third anniversary of the founding the czechoslovak state. First defence school to open watch in Winnipeg Winnipeg s first civil defence school will open monday As the first group of the 100 potential instructors earmarked for special training meets under the school director maj. Ralph Weitzel. The 100 instructors to be hand picked from More than applications received during the civil defence recruiting drive in late september have been divided into two classes. The first meets Mon Days and wednesdays in Redwood Hall the second meet ing tuesdays and thursdays at civil defence Headquarters Mem orial Boulevard. Two nights a week each class will meet two even Ings a week for four weeks. Clas ses last from . Until 10 . The trainees about a Quarter whom Are women civil de Fence services Are expected to be staffed half by women will learn Basic firefighting civil defence three canadians killed nine wounded in Korea Ottawa oct. 27 up the army saturday issued its 6sth casualty list of the korean War re porting three men killed in action and nine men wounded. None those listed were Manitoban. Of organization and certain aspects of atomic bacteriological and Che Mical warfare. For instructors there Are eight men and two women All trained at the Central school near Ottawa. They include mrs. E. R. Tennant miss Mary Elizabeth Bayer v. S. Buckler t. J. Mcloughlin Doug Las Brown Colin Hugo. J. C. Bag Ley l. G. Tureene. Charles hut Cheon and p. H. Murphy. Special instructors have been appointed. Lewis c. Walker and w. P. Johnson both science graduates and science teachers in Winnipeg will outline principles radiological warfare and detection of radioactivity while Alex Cross of the City health department trained in Abc warfare at a Mili tary institution will give special lectures. Maj. Weitzeil said Friday he was delighted with the Type of per son taking the course. Many served in Arp work in great Britain and on the continent. One is from Rumania several from Holland and a number from Britain Many hav ing service records As instructors. One of our he said started out As an Arp messenger in London and ended up As a Junior Warden. He literally grew up in civil defence the training classes include a Large number school teachers with special aptitudes he said City Council and school Board aldermen avid school trustees who will serve Winnipeg citizens for the next one and two years respectively Are As follows Alderman in Ward one term expires dec. 31, 1953 Aid c. E. Simonite . Aid. Maude Mccreery . Aid. Gordon c. Chown . Term expires dec 31, 1952 Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey . Aid. George a. Macleod . Aid. George e. Sharpe . Ward two term expires dec. 31, 1953 Aid. Jack St. John . Aid. James Black . Aid. V. B. Anderson . Term expires dec. 31, 1952 Aid. E. E. Hallonquist . Aid. H. V. Mckelvey . Aid. H. B. Scott Ward three term expires dec. 31. 1953 Aid. Jack Blumberg . Aid. Slaw Bebchuk . Aid. Frank Wagner . And civic voter s league term expires dec. 31, 1952 Aid. David Orlikov . Aid. Jacob Penner . Aid. Peter Taraska . Schoofs trustees Ward one term expires dec. 31, 1953 mrs. E. R. Tennant . S. B. Laing . W. S. Mcewen . Term expires dec. 31, 1952 Campbell Haig . Peter p. Curry . Ward two term expires dec. 31, 1953 mrs. Nan Murphy . Adam Beck . Eric Hansen . Term expires dec. 31. 1952 a n. Robertson . P. C. Jessiman . Ward three term expires dec. 31, 1953 h. L. Stevens . A. Zaharichuk . And North Winnipeg election committee Joseph Zuken . Term expires dec. 31 1952 a. M. Carrick . And North Winnipeg election committee s. M. Cherniack . Temperature readings during the 24 hour period ending at 6.30 . Saturday wore m1n-. Max. Prec Vancouver .33 51 Calgary 27 45 Edmonton 34 42 Swift current.23 2s Saskatoon 25 30 Regina 20 32 Brandon. 35 29 Winnipeg 31 port Churchill s 26 port arthur.36 45 Toronto 60 Ottawa 40 59 Montreal 44 58 Halifax -43 51 Eden is foreign minister other Cabinet posts filled London oct. 27 cart. Hon. Winston Churchill announced saturday that it. Hon. Anthony Eden will become foreign minister in Britain s new conservative government. Or. Churchill whose conserva Tives unseated labor in thursday s general election moved quickly to form a Cabinet in View the critical foreign and economic Situa in addition to foreign minister a Post or. Eden held during their years under or. Churchill Churchill at 77 second oldest pm of 39 since 1721 London oct. 27 part. Hon. Winston Churchill who will be 77 nov. 30, is the oldest prime minister Britain has had since Liberal William Gladstone resigned in 1894, aged 85. Or. Gladstone who took office for the fourth and last time in 1892, first became minister at the age of 59. Or. Churchill was seven years older than that when he look Over from Neville Chamberlain in 0.940. He is the 39th prime minis Ter Britain has had since 1721, when sir Robert Walpole be Gan to preside at Cabinet meet Ings because hanoverian King George i could t speak English. The Detour air no. 2 Man in the conservative party will be Deputy a Ririe minister and Leader the Louse of commons. Or. Churchill also announced that in addition to being prime minister he would keep for himself the vital defence ministry. A Deputy Leader of the House of commons will be appointed to help or. E3en. This would give him More time to devote to the foreign office. Other appointments other Cabinet appointments in the new conservative government lord Woolton 68, lord president of the Council with responsibility or food and agriculture. Richard Austen Butler 48, Chan cellar of the exchequer. Oliver Lyttelton 58, colonial Secretary. Sir Walter Monckton 60, minis Ter of labor. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe 51. Home Secretary and minister for Welsh affairs. Marquess of Salisbury 58, lord privy Seal and Leader of the House of lords. Lord Ismay 68, Secretary for Commonwealth relations. Lord Ismay and sir Walter Monckton also were appointed to the privy Council. The appointments were made after King. George approved them at a special meeting of the privy coun cil at Buckingham Palace. They fill Only the top jobs in the Cabinet which under Clem ent Attlee s labor government had 17 posts. Additional appointments to other ministries probably will be made within the next few Days. V effective immediately the appointments Are effective immediately because of the critical foreign and economic situation faced by Britain. The announcements came shortly after or. Churchill called his chief lieutenants to his bedroom and plunged into the work of being the country s new prime minister. The 76-year-old statesman worked until Dawn snatched Only a few hours sleep and was awake again refreshed at 8 . All morning a Stream of cars brought the conservative politicians or. Churchill s private Home at Hyde Park Gate. Special police a see . Election Page 8 Manitoba Pool urges action to move crop Canada s transport controller is being urged to make full use of the Powers entrusted to him to allocate sufficient railway cars to Western Canada to move the this request to the controller was unanimously approved Friday by delegates attending the annual convention of Manitoba Pool elevators. Other resolutions urged the . To provide More cars to move Grain from congested areas and asked the government to con Sider the feasibility of taking Over the distribution of cars during critical periods. The St. Lawrence Seaway received unanimous support in a Resolution commending the government for its decision to see sox cars Page 6 National and International services. A present time according to a Montreal official of the com Pany the Winnipeg base has been is and will continue to be the system s Only Complete repair depot. He estimated that about 50 motors per month pass through the hands of Winnipeg based mechanics and said that because of the provincial act out if Farmers vote no it Hon. Anthont Eden who has been named foreign Secretary of Britain by prime minister Winston Churchill. Or. Eden will Aleo be Deputy min ister and Leader of the House of commons. By Gordon Sinclair n e e p a w a Man., oct. Premier d. L. Camp Bell gave definite Assurance Here Friday that if producers vote against compulsory marketing of coarse grains at the nov. 24 plebiscite Manitoba s legislation would be rescinded. However he noted Only Ottawa could decide if the legislation would be rescinded if Manitoba Farmers voted against Canadian wheat Board marketing. The Premier and Hon. F. C. Bells minister of agriculture were addressing a dinner meeting of the Neepawa chamber of asked what effect a negative vote would have on the Federal legislation or. Campbell observed he could t speak for it. Hon. C. D. Howe minister of Trade and Commerce had not Only insisted that the three Prairie provinces pass complementary legis action but in addition he is re ported to have said that if one Novince rescinded its legislation he Federal act would be rescinded or. Campbell declared. He had never seen these re Marks in Hansard but he under stood or. Howe made them to one Western farm delegation. Both the Premier and or. Bell emphasized hey were not attempting to argue he merits or demerits of Tho present coarse grains legislation which compels Farmers to Market their Oats and Barley through the Canadian wheat Board. They merely wished to give producers the background of events leading up to the present act and vere interested in seeing "3. Good substantial vote on this question so it can be resolved by the farm ers themselves what they or. Bell defended the location of polling Booths for the plebiscite. He said Charland Prudhomme Manitoba s chief electoral officer with confirmation of an order in Council had visited each constituency. I. Prudhomme had conferred with local returning officers who should know Best where the polls should we think we have a reasonably Good break Down of polls. Generally speaking i think it will be found polling Booths Are placed conveniently for the or. Bell stated. He also noted that the producers verdict one Way or the other will either leave that Fig isolation on our state books or remove or. Campbell gave the Back ground of the present act noting that wheat had first been marketed 27 through a government Agency the Board of Grain supervisors in 1916, 17 and is. In 1919 the wheat Board was established but in 1920 the government decided to discontinue it. A very serious decline in wheat in the 20 s interested the Public in a revival of the wheat Board system of or. Campbell declared. In 1922 legislation was passed allowing for re establishment of the Board providing two of the three Prairie provinces passed complementary acts. Saskatchewan and Alberta did this but Manitoba refused by a 24-21 vote at that time to pass the legislation. However because suitable men could riot be found to administer see coarse Grain Page 8 testing unit coming in 1952 by Hitold Wilson trans Canada air lines will Plant the seed of a Multi million Dollar Jet growth in Winnipeg during 1952 with erection of a motor testing Plant at Stevenson Field. Only final approval of the department of transport is required before Tea commences construction of the giant to be Plant which ultimately will be responsible for Upkeep and Complete overhaul of engines used in the air lines u6ive increased volume of air travel Anri freight slippage work done at Winnipeg has increased by about 37 per cent in the past year. While admitting that office and administrative staff had been reduced by about a year ago officials say the Over All staff at present in Winnipeg is the largest in the com Pany s history. Present company plans Call for an ultimate Complete replace the official told the free press. At the present time we have about 23 dc-4 types in operation and plan addition of five super constellations. The latter will probably be serviced at Montreal but their addition to the Fleet will mean just that Many More planes available for Domestic service. Hence the Winnipeg depot will have to ser ice and overhaul just that Many More he stated. The official said Choice of Winnipeg depot As the embryo for it plane overhaul indicated trans Canada air line s Faith in Winni Peg As the system s mechanical he said there was never any suggestion that mechanical operations of the company would be moved out of the City. Even addition of the Jive super constellations to the trans Canada air lines Fleet see Tea Page 9 if of old country soccer Page is. Korea with Page is. Book reviews Page 12. Church news Page 10. Comics Page. 23. Deaths and funerals Page 34. Finance Page 35. Hollywood column Page 25, Home Gardener Page is. Movies. Page 25. Music news Page 11. Radio Page 24. Sports pages 20, 21, 22. Women s pages j4, 15, 16. Egypt states terms for bargaining Cairo oct. 27 up Salah Al Din Pasha foreign minister Fri Day Laid Down the terms under which Egypt will co operate in a Western defence scheme he4said j. British troops must quit Egypt and the Sudan. 2. Unity of the Nile Valley under he egyptian Crown must be recognized. Once Egypt s demands Are Ful filled the question of her joining a defence organization May be subject to he said there is no scope for bargain ing Over our legitimate claims and he declared. Neither he added could there be mediation or settlement of the Anglo egyptian dispute until Egypt s demands Are met. The foreign minister gave same reasons for Egypt s rejection of the invitation to a four Power defence scheme extended by the United states Britain France and Turkey who proposed to work the plan out regardless of Egypt. The egyptian government cannot consider any proposals so Long As the British occupation exists in Egypt and the he stated. Reports from the canal zone Fri Day said the area was quiet but that egyptian labourers continued their mass exit from the territory. Britain s 19th infantry brigade started moving by air from eng and to Libya Friday. Informed sources put the move Down As a reinforcement Advance for either the canal zone or the Sudan. More than men were moving from i Wiltshire eng land Huse in an Airlift of transport planes that was expected to lust at least for the next few Days. The third battalion Grenadier guards was on its Way in the Cruiser Liverpool from Tripoli to a Sec ret destination. It had been reported standing by for Transfer to canal zone. Friday morning the frigate pea cock sailed into port said from Malta to strengthen British naval forces off Egypt. The egyptian government declared a ban on British warships n the Suez canal but the French operating company said it would defy any orders to interfere with canal transit. Royal couple on Way East really in joying9 their tour Vancouver oct. 27 up the Royal train bearing Princess Elizabeth and., the Duke of Edin Burgh eastward climbed through the Rockies saturday and swept Down onto the Broad Flatland of he Prairies. It was due at Edmon ton at 2 . The Royal couple was leaving from Nanaimo to Vancouver Friday British Columbia after nine Day drove along a six Days of being seen by hundreds of thousands and three Days of rest. Refreshed after their leisurely Holiday at Eagle Crest Lodge on Van Couver Island they took a ship route to new veterans to get service disabled veterans from Deer Lodge Hospital and the Aca Demy Road Home who will be travelling to Rivers Man., by bus sunday to meet the Royal will be Well cared for at the air station. If they arrive at Rivers Early enough they will be shown a moving film at the station theatre the building having been re served especially for them. This will follow their hot meal if time permits. Later they will be taken to a heated hangar to rest until the Royal plane arrives. If the doctors feel the weather is too cold the Princess and Duke of Edinburgh will go inside the hangar to mix with the 120 War veterans. And to facilitate guests of Honor at the Airport the special enclosures Are marked with distinctive colors. The children s enclosures will toe the Wolf cubs boy scouts girl guides brownies and army Navy and air Force cadets will use the Green enclosure. Acid the Canadian legion will be provided with a reserved enclosure. Servicemen in All from Shilo Brandon and Rivers will line the route to be taken by the Royal couple Wernle maj. W. G. Milne of the p.p.c.l.i., will report movements of the procession to the crowd through a Public address system. Crowd lined Westminster end there boarded their train for the return East. Aboard the destroyer Cru Sader which brought the Royal couple from Nanaimo to Van Couver Learned that the Princess and Duke Well As members of their party Are really enjoying themselves. As the Royal party relaxed in the wardroom of the warship and to. A. G. Gobeil of Winnipeg passed Coffee Mary Macdonald a Highland lass who has been with Princess Elizabeth since childhood said goodness they Are just like any Young people seeing a new country for the first time. They want to keep going see As much As they can and rest when they maybe some people think the Princess does t smile said col. Martin Charteris Princess Secretary. You the truth stunned like the rest of us the terrific Welcome she s had Canada. It s like stand ing in a desert in a High wind. Had to respond one Way or the other. They do want to come Back to see Koyal tour Page i ;