Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba Families to quit Suez Winnipeg Cloudy with Snow flurries. Clear ing this evening becoming Cloudy with Snow Flurije again tomorrow morning. Continuing cold. Low tonight High Friday 5 20. Terrorist Campaign mounts Fay id Suez canal nov. 1 Reuters hundreds of wives and children of British troops were ordered Home thursday As extremist terror squads spread their Campaign of intimidation throughout the canal zone. Seven protected areas for come soldiers families will be set up. Terror squads flooded Sharkia province with leaflets threatening flogging and Public branding for any egyptian found collaborating with the britons. Victims would to brought before p. Peoples tribunal for summary trial on a charge High the leaflets said. Bands of terrorists organized by the moslem brotherhood and other extreme groups have ambushed trucks of food and flour on their Way to British Camps and ordered workers Back to their villages at pistol Point. Families protected assigning two . Squadrons to protect British families the Bri Tish authorities said they will take Strong measures against agitators. The British High command announced it will soon begin compulsory evacuation of up to one third of the families. Ten Days ago reporters were told there were British families in Ismail a and the suburb of Ai Ashia. Meanwhile. British authorities thursday enforced n ban on the fruits part of heavy Oil by Road from Suez to Cairo. A o traffic carrying in soling moved out o tie zone. Railway water final edition Winnipeg free press vol. 59 no. 29 40 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg thursday. November 1, 1951 . plans inflation fight grandma gloms sweep but Shaw merely not Elizabeth s visit much More one thrilling thing sure Money does t go to mrs. Head s head when mrs. Leslie h. Head of 5s-i Henderson Highway was told she had won in the Irish Hospital year old sweepstakes the 62 grandmother replied simply it s nothing to get excited about. You she reflected i was More excited when a Nice mounted policeman stood aside and let me see Princess Elizabeth at close mrs. Nome Cle plume was Hie or miss won t h e see Egypt Page 6 soviet plot against Iran exposed nov. 1 the iranian majlis parliament Toroker up in uproar and confusion thursday after the opposition Leader bitterly accused the government of failing to tackle the communist threat. Wednesday it was reported that iranian police have seized communist orders showing that Russia planned a lightning invasion of Northern Iran if Britain had landed troops at at Adan. I Djemal Imami said prime min a daughter mrs. R. Gunning of ister Mohammed Mossadegh was Orillia and a son Hilton Golden Ronzana when a horse named Denizen placed second in the Cambridgeshire stakes in England recently. Sirs. Head was t completely convinced of Ber goofy Fortune she is still waiting for official word. Her friends Ami neigh Bors were More jubilant. Congratulatory Calls have kept her Telephone ringing constantly. Said the Une cited grandmother i be lived Long enough not to count my chickens before they re she said her husband had been buying sweepstakes tickets Lor her for a Good Many years and nothing had Ever happened. So she had forgotten about this one. With most Winni Eggers the first icy blasts of Winter bring Long ing visions of warmer climes. Mrs. Head is no exception. She will have More of Manilova Winters she promised. Enough Money will be retained to guarantee that. Mrs. Head was certain she would find a Good use i or the remainder of the Money. With a smile she said she has two married children sitting tight in Washington while the country is go ing to he is keel the acting prime minister to Send an urgent Cable to or. Mossadegh ask ing him to return. Imami said the communists fire to Strong they openly insult the Shah and attack our sacred re the government was utterly powerless to do anything about it. Imami concluded i swear b Allah that communists will sit in All the seats occupied by you now after the next Hussein Makki Oil nationalization chief accused the British embassy in Tehran of instigating communist activities. A High authority in Iran who re fused to be named said wednesday that detailed plans for a Swift communist coup with soviet Mili tary support were among Docu ments found in a police raid on underground Nurieh communist party Headquarters Here last sat urday. Elaborate separate instructions were each a Tucler cell in Northern Iran from the Border to Industrial is Fahan in Central Iran including the capital. Tehran he said. The membership of each cell to Rise in revolt against the Tehran government As Kusmin troops rolled into the urea. The soviet soldiers were to occupy Northern Iran. Allies reds draw closer on truce line pm Ulsan Korea nov. 1 a United nations briefing officer said tonight the allies and the communists Are in general agree ment on. The Eastern half of a Neutral zone for a korean armis Tice. Negotiators Are nearer to agree ment on a Buffer zone than Ever said . L. G. Hilt. But big test argument still i Over the state of Kaeson. Each wants this former site of armistice negotiations. The town now in Kod Terri tory is just South of the Paral Lel. Heel China s piping radio said. Communists latest proposal Coa gains greatest possible con cession the communists can make on a Buffer zone. Ninth meeting of the two sub committee at Manrau Nom is scheduled for it . Friday s . Cost at the close of three hours of talks today in and red sub Corn a mittens were in general agree ment on where a demilitarized i should run from Kumhwa to the East coast of Korea but differed Over where the line should run from Kumhwa to the Kae sector. Kumhwa is the right Anchor of the old red Iron Triangle 55 air Miles from the East coast and in the approximate Centre of the Battle line. Even if the Buffer Issue is Leslie head of Sioux Lookout. Her son she said phoned at about 8 . Wednesday after hearing the Good news and advised her to use the Money for an endowment policy so that she would always be taken care she was t too keen on the idea. Know too Many who need a Little Money people just a Little enough to get them Over see Wixner Page 13 new . Law taxes Gambler on All wagers Washington nov. 1 up professional gamblers in the United states faced Tough sledding As a new Law effective thursday makes them pay taxes on All wagers they take. Many said they would have to o out of business. In Syracuse isf.y., there were reports the Gamb hers were opening shop in Canada to avoid paying the tax and making their business a matter of Public record. Occupation the new tax regulation requires professional gamblers to Register with the tax Bureau and Purchase a s50 occupation stamp which must be posted prominently in their place of business. In addition they must pay a 10 per cent tax on their Gross take that is 10 per cent., win or lose of All Money bet with them. Penalties Range up to a year in prison plus a caught both ways the bookies chief complaint with the new Law is that if they Register and report their Gross take they will comply with the Federal Law but at the same time will be open to prosecution by state and local authorities. If they fail to comply with the Federal Law. They face trouble with both Federal and local in the Irish Hospital sweepstakes mrs. Leslie h. Head of 5s-1 Henderson Highway pictured Here with her husband and pet Spaniel says i was More excited at seeing the troops exposed first time As a bomb rocks Las vegas Las vegas nev., nov. 1 a a seen Here. Presumably the bomb was drop Ped from a b-29. The concussion of the blast rattled buildings and the rattling was accomplished by a Lonjo swishing sound audible to rooftop observers. United states army troops were exposed thursday to an atomic blast for the first time and came off without casualties and with greater than official confirmation of the troops participation in the blast which was so Strong that it cracked store windows in this City More than 75 Miles away came from . William b. Kean com manding the army s third corps another army spokesman said this is the one test in which troops will inc this was taken to indicate that the army is satisfied with what it Learned. Rubbed exercise desert Kock thursday s joint army atomic Energy commission manoeuvre was designed to test whether nuclear weapons can be used successfully in sup port of ground forces. The blast sent a giant White Cloud mushrooming Over Flat test Centre in the desert North West of Here. Seven minutes later Las vegas was rocked by the concussion. Lice switchboards were flooded with Calls from anxious residents some of whom described the rattling Jar As stronger than in a series of Ato Mic tests last Winter. Breaks windows. Windows were broken in at least three stores on downtown Fremont Street and the . Posted notices saying residents suffering damage could file claims. Thursday s test was the fourth explosion in the current group. Five went off at the Range Here last Winter. The fact that the Flash itself was visible Here in Bright Daylight indicated it was not a so called baby a bomb of the Type set off in the first test. That one could t be big flood defence ready but who la run pumps by Cory Kilvert greater Winnipeg s second line of flood defence 21 pumping stations located throughout the City and suburbs is getting its final test run this week. Main worry now As far As flood defence experts Are concerned is who is going to look after main see Korea Page 9 will sind. J5ricljrc Coloin Page 26. Comics Page 36. Commodity markets padre 3-i. Crossword Puzzle Page 9. Deaths Ancs Pape 34. Finance Page 35. Hollywood column Page 25. Stories Page 27. Radio Page 2fi. Serial Page sports pages s2. 23, 24. A Oman a news pages 15, 16, 17, is. Tenancy of 21 pumping stations so that they will be in top shape if Ever needed to Battle High water. Engineers Are agreed one authority should handle All stations in the City and its adjacent suburbs six municipalities in All. Greater Winnipeg sanitary District has been suggested As the logical Choice. Built As part of Trie protective system with the 25 Miles of diked roadways the pumping stations Cost the whopping sum they will stand by unused until such time As the red River water level reaches flood proportions again. When this happens sewer outlets can be shut off to pre vent water and sew age from flooding City base ments and streets. The pumping stations which have a combined capacity of Gal see pu3ips Page 6 the jarring was not nearly so severe As in last Winter s blasts however. A White Cloud soared More than a mile into the air within a Feu minutes. But its Stem disintegrated quickly. The Cloud was touched with Pink. But from Here at least the Brilliant flashes of color seen in tuesday s blast were missing. . Forgets formality on hairy Princess visit Washington nov. In ton said hello to Lilibet and Phil wednesday easily and Grace fully. It was not a formal Wel come but a great big we re glad to have informality prevailed from the time the plane bearing Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin Burgh arrived from Montreal at 4 . Until late in the evening. President Truman started it. He practically threw away the text of his formal address Welcome at the Airport. Beaming at the Princess he com wind water blamed in fall of Concrete Montreal. Nov. 1 investigation thursday showed that the concert Block which fell wednes Day to the spot where Princess Elizabeth had been standing Only a minute before was loosened from the building by wind and water. This report was made by or. Tules Mercier superintendent of i Queen Mary veterans Hospital where the near tragedy occurred. A High wind blowing at the time of the Royal couple s visit to the Hospital was lived to have precipitated the fall of the eroded Cement. There was no suggestion of sabotage. The chunk of Concrete formed part of a triangular ornamental design above the High doorway. Several Hundred persons witnessed the crash. Concrete sprayed against sides of automobiles in the Royal procession which was Leav no the Hospital. Staff sgt. John Morris on guard duty at the Hospital suffered leg injuries and Donat Blair a hos Sital employee suffered Chest cruises when struck by Small bits of Concrete. Rented at one Point Margaret tells me the minute anyone gets acquainted with you they fall in love with the president s daughter met the Princess and the Duke when in England last summer. At night in offering his formal Toast at the Truman s private Din Ner for the Royal couple in Blair House he said when i was a Little boy i read about the fairy Princess and there she the City s greeting was Hig. There were not of Cours a the a ours of loyalty that characterized the Canadian tour. But the applause constant almost a. Roar in itself As St. Laurent Call National conference Ottawa nov. 1 minister St. Laurent has taken under consideration the possibility of calling a conference of various National groups to discuss ways of easing inflation. Request for such a conference was made by the Canadian association of Consumers following its annual meeting in Ottawa last month. In a series of letters made Public mrs. W. R. Walton jr., the association s National president suggested to or. St. Laurent that such a conference would help stress the Gravity of Knock Down Tariff Walls member urges Ottawa. Nov. 1 up a front Bench Liberal member charging that monopolies Are rampant in Canada urged the government wednesday to Knock Down he tar Iff Walls and let competitive Low priced United states goods into the Canadian Market. Offering that As the government s Best weapon against High prices a. Wesley Stuart said he could see no reason Why canadians should pay twice what americans do for manufactured pro ducts especially when the same companies made the same goods in the two countries. Applauded by members on nit Miles of Hie House he suggested a. Three month suspension of tariffs Jkai Sist . Imports and predicted the Cost living would drop Many Points if that were done. He said Canada is thick with monopolies and cited the Automo bile Industry As the greatest monopoly of them that he said was a everyone knew it he stated. Canada s automobile Industry could produce As cheaply As die its . Counterpart if it were forced to. He mentioned toothpaste elec tric toasters refrigerators Wash ing machines and other manufactured goods As examples of commodities which Cost twice As much in Canada As they did in the . He would like he said to see the manufacturers called before a commons committee to justify the differential. Asks House support he asked the rest of the House to Ipin him in seeing what could be done to put these monopolistic organizations in their or. Stuart declared himself to be a free trader and said his Home town of St. Andrews n.b., on the International Border opposite Ca Lais mo., provided a front seat to glaring examples of monopolistic he said there was no justification for the fact that a manufacturer such As general electric could produce the same goods in Canada and the . And yet charge canadians higher prices than those charged americans. Something wrong in nine cases out of 10, the commodities made in the two countries by the same manufacturer and yet canadians paid More. There was something wrong some he cited toothpaste As an sex Emple. 1 Ricks in the . Were to cents a. Tube. In Caim Dii they were 95 cents. Yet the inflation on the Canadian Economy. It would also enable the major groups of our country to discuss ways in which each group could help mitigate inflationary pros mrs. Walton s letter 10 or. St. Laurent., dated oct. 25, said the association wanted the conference to consist of representatives of Industry Trade labor agriculture and Consumers for the purpose of examining and clarifying the responsibility of any group in to Day s inflationary the association would want the delegates to study Means of giving Protection and Relief against inflation to pensioners and marginal in come groups. The living of these groups were being rap idly forced below minimum health requirements particularly where food and lodgings Are the request for the conference was embodied in resolutions passed by the association at its annual opling Here last month. The prime minister s office closed or. St., Laurent s dated oct. 2g, in which he care fully noted the request and prom ised to give it careful consider govt. Delays legislation on pricing Ottawa nov. 1 up the government on Appeal by manufacturers and suppliers has decided to delay legislation on pro posed Banning of retail Price fixing govt. Spends million More in year Jav Victor Macknik Ottawa nov. 1 special Federal government expenditures increased in 1050-51. Over Jie previous fiscal a car wat son Scalar auditor general of Cana Dian government accounts says in his report for the fiscal year ended March 31. Although the accounts tabled wednesday showed a reduction its. Expenditures for Ordinary and Monte Tractive services costs in Ninny departments were in fact greater than in the previous the auditor general said. Major expansion was in for do Filici services Imam inline to Nair or More than in Turs under headings for isral 1030-31. Tol Lloil which compared with Tho previous Yea i. However the Tull Nepi Iid itunes for 1950-31 includes which at the year s Ond was not an actual expenditure. The amount was credited to n special account to pay for defence equipment to replace that Given la North Atlan tic treaty countries. Apparent reductions in administrative costs were tic consequence of deferment of Many non defence projects after the International crisis developed in Korea in june 1950." or. Seller cited Grants to the department of Public works which totalled but of which lapsed in the votes and throw open the whole question before a joint commons Senate aisle of Piermont of projects. A similar committee. Hon. Stuart Garson Justice in ister. Gave notice on the commons c cd. T r a n s p o r i. Appropriations where order paper thursday of a motion to set up a joint committee to study the recommendations by the Macquarrir committee that re Sale Price maintenance practices be made illegal. Months of so icily the committee will have Power to set up sub committees and hear witnesses and make recommendations to parliament. That Likely will mean months of study before the committee decides whether parliamentary action against Price fixings warranted. However a government official said it still was possible a Bill May 30 introduced during the current the no Tea tax Ottawa nov. 1 up Canadian association of Consumers has requested Hon. D. C. Abbott finance remove the 10 of the total granted. Effect of the internal Onnel situation was also reflected ill chore to save is Abbott reveals Trkal nov. 1 up Hon. D. C. Abbot i finance Minuter promised thursday to continue to Cut Down non defence spending but said reductions can to undo Only on a fraction of the government plans to spend in. 1951. In a speech before a joint moot ing of the association of in Nadlman advertisers and the advertising and per cent. Lax from Tea executives Montreal Cooee and urged that they Saif the Job of. Trying to Sivu longer be classified As luxury temperature readings during the 24 hour period ending at 6.30 . Thursday were Man. Max. Free Vancouver Calgary 7 -2 i Swift current -1 Saskatoon 2 3 Brandon a Ivi Snipko h port Churchill -2 port Arthur 10 i Orono 31 Ottawa 36 Montreal .30 Halifax 43 if .17 23 21 it 9 25 55 to too try .07 .02 .02 to. .02 to. See Takiff Wall Page 1, Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edin Burgh Are shown with president Truman and family upon their arrival at Blair House the Truman temporary residence. Blair House is being used to entertain the Royal pair because the White House renovations have not yet been completed. The Prin Cess wearing a. Dark coat and hat has a Maple Leal pinned to her hat and one to the Lapel of. Her coat. Lilt to right Are Prin Cess Elizabeth president Truman mrs. Truman Margaret tru Man and the Duke of. Edinburgh ;