Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg Cloudy with occasional Ninny intervals today. Sunny with a few Cloudy tomorrow. A few Light Snow flurries today. Continuing cold. Winds Light. Low and High 5 and -25. Forecast continuing cold Winnipeg wednesday october 31, 1951 Moon rises 9.03 . Moon sets 5.13 . 30 cents per week Price by Carrier vol. 59 no. 28 reds move raises Hopes Mun san Korea oct. 31 a communist truce negotiators today submitted a new proposal for a korean cease fire Buffer zone almost the same As that demanded by the United nations. The Only important differ ence appeared to be the status of Kaeson former site of truce negotiations. The reds want to keep it. The Allied proposal would take it away from them. The sudden change in the communist position brought on a wave of optimism that the Buffer zone question would soon be sealed. That has been the Bis stumbling Block in armistice negotiations. Col. Andrew Kinney chief in Liaison officer said there wore cer lain tongs in the red proposals that in negotiators could not accept immediately. But. He added the communist offer brought the Buffer question a firer to a Solu Tion than lit any time since the truce talks started july 10. Red negotiators submitted their plan unexpectedly near the close of wednesday s meeting of truce sub committees at Pannu Tjom. The sub committees will continue their discussions thursday at 11 . 8 . Wednesday tilth Jinjr almost stopped fighting almost from the ground front wednesday. Only action reported in the . Eighth army s communique was a one hour fight Between a company of see Korea Page 12 manslaughter charge Laid in shooting a charge of manslaughter was Laid wednesday against 25-year-old Hipolit Buczel. Bissett after he had been flown to Winni Peg from the Remote mining Settle ment by . The charge followed the fatal shooting monday night of Jan rur Arz 30, also of Bissett. Whose body was flown to Winnipeg tuesday the same plane. Bissett is 120 Miles Northeast of Winnipeg. According to police Buczel gave himself up to police at Bissell. He is reported to have made a state ment in connection with the shoot he was brought Back to Winni Peg tuesday under .escort after an aircraft flight into dense Bush Ancl by or. James f. Edward provincial Coroner and police 001 body of or. Rurarz was found monday night in his Cabin with a Bullet wound Over the right Eye. According to reports he was shot with a Bullet from a .o03 Cal Ibre Rifle. Or. Edward said the Date of the inquest will depend on flying conditions into the area. Monday the float equipped plane of Canadian Central Northern airways at Lac Dubonnet coped with narrow channels on Rice Lake carved through ice reaching a thickness of one Inch. The channels had to be kept open by boats of the san Antonio cold mines until the plane was ready to take off. Pilot was Ted Coates Veteran Bush Pilot. Or Edward said a postmortem examination of the dead Man will be made in Winnipeg. Gets contract Ottawa. Oct. 3.1 special a 000 contract has been awarded Macdonald Bros. Aircraft limited of Winnipeg by the depart ment of defence production it was announced Here tuesday. The contract covers modification of expediter aircraft. The expert Lor is a twin engined smile wig used by the . For Gen eral duties and at Basic Pilot train ing schools. Runes of this Type which Are manufactured by the Beech air Nett company of Voichita kan., will used by tie . Us classrooms to teach navigation and rail or. Other contracts awarded to Mani Toba firms sept. 16 to 30 totalled s199.070 and covered Asphalt tile braces Haversack Road resurfacing food and drills. Manitoba construction contracts in the same period totalled s715. Largest of these was to Vul can Iron works of Winnipeg for s493.509 covering steam generating Canada in two wars Ottawa. Oct. 31 up James Sinclair parliamentary assistant to Hon. D. C. Abbott finance minister said tuesday night that Canada is fighting two wars a coir War with the communists and an economic War on the Home front. Black magic Diefenbaker sees huge farm loss decries Lack of govt. Action Ottawa oct. 31 Diefenbaker Lake Centre charged in the House of commons tuesday that instead of acting to move Grain to Market the government was offering optimistic he described the current situation As critical and said Western armers will lose millions unless action is taken immediately. Or. Diefenbaker said millions of bushels of Grain Are still in the Fields without storage space and without transportation to move it. In place of providing boxcars it. Hon. C. D. Howe. Trade min Ster. Had substituted optimistic when transport controller Roy Miner was appointed last septem Ber he had stated that Canada had the transportation facilities to Mundle the bumper crop. But no effective action was taken. Farmers found storage facilities crammed with last year s crop much of it not marketable. A Kat Chewan i vere nowhere near that Many ele Valois plugged a list of congested Points available to him showed Here were probably fewer than 100. Or. Diefenbaker asked for a Complete investigation of the Box car situation in Saskatchewan and said to lat most of the plugged elevators were on lines of the Cana Dian Pacific railway. Unless some drastic action was taken he feared for the future of districts in Saskatchewan. There has been too Little action and too much said or and too much Diefenbaker Farmers wanted to wheat a Al Cecli us Irivin see a mobilization of Effort to move que a mobilization a Mui a 0 the Grain the transport controller in november will probably run lad Power to do that but the sit around 21 cents a Bushel. Churchill slashing costs Cabinet salaries first Hist beware the goblins will get you if you Don t watch out keep it dark but tonight s the big night us huh it s hallowed England out. Of shadowy recesses of never never land will emerge that awesome horde of strange gnomes spooks sprites imps witches ghouls and ghosts with All their fearsome symbols Broomsticks Black cats tick tacks and masks. The picture above a hint of things to come. Here we see a couple of Young Brothers Douglas and Karen. Shaw putting the finishing touches to a leering Jack o lantern they be carved out of a big Western Canada pumpkin. So folks take a tip. Better Roll up the sidewalk and hide the Gate. London oct. 31 Britain s new assembled wednesday amid indications that the new Churchill government plans a Vig Orous retrenchment programme to Cut Back Public spending. The first step was taken. Tues Day night when it. Hon. Winston Churchill and his ministers announced they were slashing their own salaries. Or. Churchill will take about a year instead of and his ministers dropped from it. Hon. Richard Butler new Chancellor of the exchequer is expected to throw Back at All govern ment departments the estimates for next year they now Are sending him his orders will be slash them. Sir. Churchill will probe the whole administrative Field for evidence of extravagance and overspending. An army of pub Lic relic tons experts built up under the labor government is Likely to feel the axe. The pay reduction is for the period of rearmament or for three years whichever ends or. Churchill said. He promised More government Economy will come including Large reductions in the use of ministerial motor will help drive using the pay axe at the top will put tale government in a Strong position observers feel to Deal with lion demands for higher wages and business demands for higher dividends and lower prices. The conservatives elected one of their own number As speaker in the first contest for the office since 1895. The Winner was w. Morrison a former minister of agriculture. The outcome Cut the govern ment s Over All majority to 17, since the speaker is traditionally Neutral. A group of labor party insure see Churchill Page 12____ de. Bridge column Page 28. Comics pipe 38. Commodity markets padre 36. Crossword Puzzle Page 10. Deaths funerals Page 36. Finance Page 37. Hollywood column Page movies Page 29. Radio Page 28. Serial Page a. Sports pages 24. 35. 36 7. Women s news pages 16, 17. Temperature readings during Llic 24 Lour period ending at 6.30 . Wednesday min. Max. Prec. Calgary Edmonton. Swill current Saskatoon a Gina. Brandon Winnipeg port Churchill port Arthur. Toronto Ottawa Montreal. Halifax 30 3 9 11. -6 11 40 39 42 23 25 25 2s 32 so 30 29 60 54 53 46 .04 .05 .11 .07 .01 to to to to to britons won t Budge As Suez defenders oct. Declared again wednesday she in the Suez canal zone despite egyptian threats of guerrilla warfare and for a siege like stand. The War office in London alerted the 3rd infantry division for movement to the Middle East. Two aircraft carriers the illustrious and the Triumph were standing by for transport. One of. The division s three Bri Gades already has been flown to Tripoli. The 3rd division is an old unit of Field marshal Viscount Montgomery now Deputy supreme Allied commander in eur Ope. It was the last to leave the dual erase beaches in 1940 and the first to land in France four later. A joint communique by the mid dle East ground forces and the . Said British forces will de fend the canal until there is some alternate defence system. Meanwhile. British troops have seized the Road and rail Bridge see Cairo Bage 10 Russia Warnis Arab league Cairo Egypt oct. 31 Reuters has told Arab governments she will consider it an unfriendly and even hostile act if they join the Western Powers Middle East defence command diplomatic circles Here revealed wednesday. In London however diplomatic observers said the reported warn ing would Likely have Little effect. Although Russia sent a similar note to. Egypt sept government s the West s offer was attributed to. National self interest. Korea Buffer zone no crop crisis Howe but critics disagree Prairie Grain Rolls East with growing momentum Grain in Ever increasing amounts is moving East from Manitoba country elevators Grain men said were plugged with Sas Winnipeg Wedada. An were a Luesetti Wiki j. A interacted there cars one said but in this respect r. Howe meter Fectea Inere off than the Manitoba is better off lad nation was becoming worse instead of better. The transport controller was appointed too late. Had he acted ear see Bremen Baker Page 4 Snow covers Alberta Grain after Chinook Lethbridge alia., oct. 31 up harvesting was at a stand still across Southern Alberta wednesday As a result of a fresh Load of Snow Dun iced Over farm lands Aton Day and tuesday. For Farmers the latest Snow storm was a heart breaking one As t followed on the heels of a two Day Chinook that had wiped away All traces of the previous storms. Fields were just beginning to dry saturday and sunday when the new storm blew in Sun Day night. W. W. Wagler Alberta wheat Pool representative said Grain swathed or uncut is lying beneath ii to 15 inches of Snow and most growers have Given up Hope of reaching it this year. Most of the Farmers arc hoping or a Nice Early Spring so they can Harvest their he said. Sugar beet harvesting too has ome to a near halt. It. Hon. C. D. Howe minister of Trade and Commerce estimated oct. 12 that final payments on the wheat Oats and Barley pools would involve a distribution to Western the 421. The next few Days. Approximately bushels of the 1951 crop have been shipped from there since the Start of the new crop year at the end of july. An additional bushels of Grain Are still stored on farms in this District it is reported. Cattle hold up Grain Dauphin reports bushels of Grain sitting in the West Yards held up by heavier than usual carloads of cattle moving through. Morris reports m Ore pushed through the two ventors in town than in t h o for Many years. One estimate lius the amount at close to reports from Souris indicate the District is getting enough Grain several Liberal . S. Including cars to Lake care of the Situa j. J. Smith at that time he gave the net surplus from the Barley Pool As on oct. 23, he gave Oats Pool surplus As this would leave More than to be distributed to wheat growers. It is known that the 1950-51 wheat Pool involves slightly More than bushels. This would make the average payment around 21 cents a Bushel. Initial payment on the Pool was a Bushel for no. 1 Northern wheat. One interim payment of 20 cents was made last Spring. A final payment of around 21 cents now would make the total Price approximately s1.s1 a Bushel Lave been predicting a final pay ment of around 20 cents. City decision on Power awaited Manitoba s Hydro electric Board s studying alternative plans for re organizing the province s Power Industry in Case negotiations with Winnipeg fail to produce an Early and satisfactory outcome. D. M. Stephens Board chairman revealed this wednesday while commenting on statement by mayor Garnet Coulter that the Ity s Power committee is sitting by waiting to be approached by the Board. Or. Stephens however Aid the Board was still waiting for iome decision by City Council on proposals advanced by the Board line weeks ago. The Board was most anxious that the Public be correctly informed n this matter which is of the great est importance to All Power con Sumers in the or. Stephens said. Position of the Board is the same oe3ay As it was on aug. 27, except that time is rapidly running or. Stephens emphasized. King improves London oct. 31 Reuters the King s decision to hold two privy Council meetings tuesday at which new government members were sworn in indicated continuing improvement in his health since h s operation. It was the first time for Many years the King had held two meetings of the Council a ceremonial body of advisers in one Day. Koa Reg Gate s4ult Ste. Marie. Ont Oft 3 up a Gale with gusts to 75 Miles an hour roared across across take Superior tuesday. A Barge was reported in sinking condition about 100 Miles Northwest of the Sault. Shipping was at a the upper lakes. There is still a shortage of Box than the 21e per bus. Seen As final wheat pay by Peter Ottawa oct. Final payment on the Pool expected to 31 special 1950-51 a announced by the government Early producers 000. " in excess Coin Nons told elevator space very Good in West Ottawa oct. 30 it. Hon. C. D. Howe Trade minister tuesday told the commons that the Over All situation with respect to storage space for Western Grain is very or. Howe said there is no shortage of elevator space in All parts of the Prairies. According to information available to he said there Are still a Large number of stations where producers deliveries have not been sufficient to utilize the available space. I think it is Likely that at least 90 Pel cent of the Farmers wha have been Able to thresh their. Grain will be delivering More Grain his autumn than they did in the ame period a year ago. Just How Nuch Grain will be threshed and deliverable is of course another matter which is beyond our con he said it has not been possible co operate during the last three either two Prairie provinces. I months on the basis of an cuu daily Manitoba average for the Able distribution of cars to Allic daily Manitoba average week oct. 14 to 21 was 377 cars and this has increased since then he said. Saskatchewan i n in Allie la both larger Grain producers i Natl received 597 and 3-m Box cars respectively for the same week. The he said is better from the standpoint of the country elevators. However with freeze up just around the Corner on the great lakes the Overall picture is Hon. F. C. Bell agriculture min ister said the province is practically cleaned up with the exception of the Southwest Corner which still has about 25 per cent of the crop on the the Swan Kiver Ami Hus sell districts w Ere Lii jul also or. Jell. Sail Wilh 40 per cent. Of the crop still to be harvested. However the rail picture is be coming brighter. Between Minno Dosa and Bredenbury a total of 9 Gram cars were spotted. Rail men at Minnedosa predicted that others would be freely available during Points. It available cars had supplied to country Points when the elevators had Only Jow Grade wheat at terminal Points particularly at the Lakehead heavy Lake movement or. Howe Smid there is evidence that very Small stocks of milling grades of wheat Are being turned Over at the Lakehead in keeping up a heavy Lake movement against sex Jort commitments. For that Rea son it was decided two weeks ago to give priority to the movement of milling grades wheat to Export Points. At last week end space for bushels of grains Able in Canadian elevators. With the car Supply running at its pre sent rate space for another 000 to bushels will be come available before the end of the navigation season. Trouble developed at individual Points because no milling grades of wheat for Export were available for movement. Once the navigation season closes efforts will be concentrated on those Prairie see Howe Page 4 the Portage la Prairie District is very Well off one observer said. Princess almost hit by falling Concrete Montreal oct. 31 Accident wednes Day came close to marring the functions arranged for the Royal tour of Montreal a chunk of Concrete crashed to the Verandah of Queen Mary s veterans Hospital close to where Princess Elizabeth had been standing. The Princess moved Only about one nun Ute before. The piece of Concrete had broken away from a parapet. Whole platoon of ramp Nab alleged poachers three Hunters from Dauphin man., were surprised Early sunday morning by no less than 2s . . Officers led by an inspector. Police say the Hunters were butchering a poached Elk in rid ing Mountain National Park when they arrived. In dress uniforms the . Contingent All in dress uniforms were proceeding through the Park from Dauphin to Rivers man., for duty at the air station during the visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Seven carloads of policemen stopped at the scene and. All got out to surround the hapless Hunters. As a result Dawson Cisson James Mckillop and Rodney Dewar All of Dauphin will face game charges in Dauphin police court thursday. One of the policemen had to miss the Royal visit in order to take the accused men Back to Dauphin. L Joseph Harris packing firm head resigns James Stanley Mclean of Tor onto president of Canada packers limited made the following announcement at the fort Garry hotel tuesday Canada packers announce with regret that or. Joseph har Ris has resigned from the Post of Joseph iia Kius manager of the Winnipeg Plant and also that or. W. C. Harris has from the Board of directors. Or. Joseph Harris has for Many years been recognized As the Lead ing figure of the packing Industry of Western he has manager of the Winnipeg Plant at. Ralph parliament Canada packers since 1925, and Western business of the company has been built up under Lead will be succeeded by or. Ralph parliament who for a num Ber of years has been assistant see harms 4 ;