Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Guard lights up for 3 flares his eyes still glazed with Shock his body trembling with fatigue a 22-year old truck Driver thursday morning tried to piece together some of the details of the collision that claimed eight lives and injured 29 persons. Joseph Sopko lot 49. Charles Vood Driver of the truck involved in the track cd. Passed a weary hand Over his ryes and said i can t remember when asked what happened after the collision. Struggling with his words he explained what had transpired up to that time. I had trouble with a rear Bolt broke he said. The wheel came off and i pulled Over to the Side of the Road. Truck i quiet then passengers on the night bus out of Minneapolis were just stirring in their seats. At St. Norbert Early thursday morning with less than half hour to go before arriving in Winnipeg. For some it would mean the end of a Holiday Well spent. For others it meant the beginning of a Holiday in Winnipeg. None reckoned on the sheer terror that hit them when their bus ran into a truck on Well travelled Highway no. 75. In the words of one Accident victim in was pure Nightmare. Everything so Safe one the next sheer chaos mrs. Tom Terry 48. Of Ottawa ont see eyewitness Page 6 3, from hts work. Took eight 29 final edition Price by Carrier 30 cents per week free Moon rises 6.06 . Moon 3.36a.m. Forecast fair and warm in rises 5.24 . Sun sets 3.40 . Winnipeg sunny with Little change in temperature. Winds West at 30 Mph this afternoon otherwise West at 15 Mph. Low tonight and High tomorrow 50 and 75. Winnipeg thursday. July 3, 1952 reds veto germ proposal Alexander storm waning but press thunders on London july 3 prime min was made by a Man with a lifelong Lister Winston Churchill appeared reputation for rde. Thursday to have stilled the Politi dunns he War Eal storm Over Earl Alexander s was Rega Clec. As 1 Sta Ervom or Korea reserves but i reticence Ait raids he served London newspapers directed severe with distinction As governor general comment upon Uip defence of Canada a nation whose politics p Are full of Pitfalls for the unwary. T Vitko nations. July thursday vetoed a United. S proposal Lor an impartial Lahore was reported Toi the Manchester the to purity Council vote was 10 to for an investigation in red and North Korea by the in Rod Cross. Soviet Jakob Malik had in Advance that he would the proposal because the s patience. The newspapers took a Dill roves View. Said writers even on papers killing the Eidom Lake party sides. Tokyo. July 3 Reuters Gen. James Van Fleet eighth army commander in Korea said thursday he fully agreed with defence minister Karl Alex finder s statement in London that greater military reserves Are needed in Korea. His hosts to Canada House and or. living Cost Index Likely to dip again d Margate Ernest Malik s action in definitely proved the words like Gaffe and Indis the com minut charges. In referring to his the -19th veto cast Canada club in which he me the Council first Mel Liscus Seri United nations reserves i if. Korea but asked that this Reta Ali atty Notor the vote. Or. Should be treated As a mat Furni Torti a Resolution Call. Tar of Sec Recy. San the Oiin if to declare the theme and to condemn the main theme of com of such mint is that Karl Alexander erred. In giving information a nod that the at a dinner Elfr passing up an North earlier a ppr m parliament. What will astonish people most food clothing prices keep on dropping during May All alone bids War dead 29 Hurt crowded greyhound piles into transport washington7. July 3 president Truman told thursday the United nations made it possible to Stop Russia. Be said go it alone advocates in the United slates would invite a third world War. The Kremlin policy of Conquest might have been irresistible he said if it had not been clearly and decisively brought to the bar of world opinion in the we can win peace but we can a not win it the president said. And above All we cannot win it by Force alone. We can win the peace Only by continuing to work for International Justice and morality through the United a submitting an annual report which detailed . Relations with the International organization or. Truman sail in an accompanying t Alloi Congress letter that h these relations mostly on a there have the Jan. Ann had pre Reir Vlma offers of Tho i Ivin link into Tho charges. Gross said soviet. Russia. action today has ii. True purpose of it i hat he did not for a vote on his ,.-w proposal saying Russia should r in a Days to study it. Silent strike u u mesday. While the debated the american pro or Malik continued his1 Init Down strike Reading ii. V. And studying Docu or. Malik and Bis Antii to location refrained from d nning the earphones through Wii re they customarily listen in p 1-.tan to the simultaneous trans. a ponchos Given by other in English Spanish of f our ninth period Between and May is expected to record another Fra Elionai decline when the june 1 Index is released this week government sources said thursday. At May 1 the Index stood at or biggest monthly drop two Points. Was recorded May 1, covering april. Declining food prices were largely responsible. Government economists said i thursday that continued declines in food prices during May would in o pet for rapacious 1 present for zoo Vatican City. July 3 api Pope lets a pet. Goldfinch Fly Fri Fly about his Vatican apartment but he has decided an and a Fox Aren t. Exactly household Pels. Shepherds in South Italy presented the Eagle and the Fox in the pontiff As symbols of t he difficulties of i heir work and the danger to their flocks irom rapacious animals. The pontiff expressed thanks and sent the pair to the Rome zoo. Iii Juull a probably result in a fractional de spirit of Imp Alicner some of these attacks Are made in a spirit of impatience thai can Only Lead to the holocaust of world wire c j he did not identify any of the. Go it. Alone advocates. Gen. Doug a Las mat Arthur used the phrase in his address to Congress last year after or. Truman relieved him As far East commander. J the president s let fsr bristled with blame of Russia for dimming Post War Hopes of peace. He said the soviet loaders have been dominated by their Doc Trines of communism by the concept of the us of Force unchecked by ethical consideration. This con crease in the Index. Cent has led the Kremlin into an Advance sign that the Livin Index would continue us j downward trend was the wholesale Price Index it of International conduct which threatens the peace of the i world by stirring up class warfare tumbled 2.1 Points subv3rtjng free governments and eight persons were killed and at least 29 others seriously injured shortly after 2 . Thursday when a Winni Peg bound. Greyhound bus j crashed into the rear of a transport truck parked on Pembina Highway four Miles South of St. Norbert. It was the worst greyhound Accident in Western Canadian history. Five of the dead Are i women two Are men and one is a 12-year-old girl. J one of the injured Bob r.a-1 Pelic 17, of St. Thomas quoted the bus Driver As saying he was blinded at the Lime by the Glare. Of headlights of an oncoming vehicle. So great was the Force of the Impact that the entire front and half the Side of the huge bus Wasj the dead dead Are Bert Miller 55, suite j. Whittier apartments 410 Ellice Avenue mrs. Esther Miller 54, his wife i Juis Nathan Roseman 1314. Morgan Avenue North minnea Polis Minn. Mrs. Dorothy Bundy r r. No. 1 North Dixie Troy and her daughter Zena Bundy 12. Three women were still unidentified. Injured at Winnipeg general Hospital Mummy is. Of 2-1 Bell Rose apartments Uinn. Peg. Possible fracture of the spine numerous injuries and Hui Sci condition is fairly Good. Mrs. Lillian Mclain Trhlin. 3s. Of the same address multiple bruises and Shock condition fairly Good. Miss Al cown. J6. Of 3330 -16th Avenue. South my ii Apolis fractured right log multiple lacerations and . 23, of the same address injuries a the forehead and leg and multiple bruises condition Lair. Mrs. Dahlbcn.-, 52, of Cambridge Minn., Shock and multiple lacerations condition fairly Good Rac a Eudock age 77, of port Orchard possible ure to his upper spine condition fairly Good. Sidney grave., 17. Of Selkirk leg and head injuries condition _ Sidney lir Zives a i i of jmj tipped out. The transport was to Deer Lodsie Hospital. Ii in _ i it the Zmiric ont t ital cd of during May. The wholesale Index receding since last August showed a slight decline for table animal textile Wood Iron and Ian i chemical products during May. X clothing governments Lempio Ying lies intimidation which has Conquest the soviet Union has Pur Sulci a policy of extending its con vege without regard to the Sov Ere guv other nations or respect Kedron leading in tourney at end of first nine holes in the living Cost Index clothing lie responsible for part of the i drop. Lower clothing prices to Are Tain services have held steady in most instances and have shown slight increases in various regions. Joe Tachan. Defending Cham Pton. Was even Par 35 at the end of the first nine holes in the 54 Hole 1952 Manitoba open Colt championship thursday morning at Elmhurst forty four of Manitoba s Best copters Are entered in the tourney. Tachan won the tourney last year with a 5-1 Hole total of 219 at Pine Ridge. He is the club pro at Elm leading the Field at the end of nine holes was Elmhurst s top Amateur. Roy Kedron. With a one under at even Par were Mike pid Laski of St. Boniface and Otto my i Kush of n Makwa. Dan stack. Glendale pro. Was Over with other nine Hole scores Allan Boes Southw Ori. 30 Harold Viz pro. 41 Bob Fine Ridge. 39 Ron fiddle Southwort 3s Norm Lucas. Niak 29 Jack Gardner of Pine Rise Ink a Al Mcclure of St Boniface. And Art. Baker of the Canoe club. The final 36 holes will be placed Friday. Chances improve that Truman will run for Senate Kansas City. To. July 3 Opp the possibility that president Truman May be on the demo Antic ballot in november appears to be increasing. In this Case however the i it once indicated that or. Truman would be listed As a candidate for the United states Senate not. For re election As president. Or. Tru Man has made no secret of the fact that he would like to return to the Senate. Or their rights. South Pacific Island defence under Check july 3 zealand Wellington n.z., and new ire planning an urgent Check of the defences of their vital Chain of South Pacific islands. Mission representing the new zealand army Navy and air foce is leaving Wellington next wednesday to inspect Commonwealth administered Tarawa Fiji Funa Futi Tonga Western Samoa and . As All of the islands except Western Samoa and Rarotonga Are under British administration a Commonwealth Liaison staff will accompany the Mission. Who were returning from a visit to their son Tom in Lan sing. Mich., died in the bus truck collision. Or. Miller was Len caretaker of the Whitlick apartments. Ellice Avenue. They moved to Winnipeg from pics Lone Man., about 10 rears ago. Surviving Are son Tom daughter mrs. Eileen Juda. Yarmouth . Or. Miller s brother Bernard in Deer Lodge Hospital mrs. Miller s sister in England and Mother brother and sister in South Africa. Just i Ike old times the Manitoba open got Elmhurst thursday morning with 44 aspirant the round among them was last years with the final 36 Friday. Age of St. Vitus Pearson s tag for jittery Era Calgary july 3 Hon l. B. Pearson Exter Nal affair s minister Lias suggested a Patron Saint for this jittery age St. Vitus. St. Vitus dance is the common name for a disease involving nervous twitches. Speaking to the Canadian federation of. Mayors and municipalities or. Pearson nominated the Saint because of the tense and impatient nature of the times. He also proposed a Varia Tion of Grace before meals for those interested in so Cial welfare benefits for what we Are about to receive make us truly conscious of the fact that we will have to pay for it open trailer Model was heavily loaded carrying Machin Ery and Metal goods. It spewed its cargo Lor 100 feet along the Highway. I with about 40 passengers bound Tor Winnipeg from Minneapolis the giant greyhound bus slowed into the rear of the heavily loaded Roy Al transportation company truck with a deafening Roar. A moment later screams filled the air As the injured and dying tried frantically to scramble from the twisted wreckage. Only 5 identified up to noon thursday Only five of the dead had been identified through efforts of . The work of identification is proving a tremendous task officials of the Force Point out. About the Only Way to establish identity of the dead is through their baggage which is badly scattered much of it buried beneath the wreckage identification May have to be made by fingerprints one police officer said. Those seated in the first Nail dozen seats of the bus bore the Brunt of the Impact. Many were thrown out on to the Highway including the dead child. Four doctors five ambulances and four hearses raced to the scene. The victims were taken to win see Accident Page 6 m. Katzmark 25-year-old assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Manitoba who is feared by her father to have been aboard the bus involved in the Colli Sion. Miss Karl Mark wrote her father at lock pore telling him she would arrive on the bus. She had t turned up yet. Hand Back . Tourists it i til in it St. Thomas out., treated for Bruise to Koen a avos jul. Of Crooks on. Minn., Driver of the bus Evois Shock injuries to his left shoulder tissue injuries to his loft i and and a possible fracture of his left hand condition fairly Good. At Misericordia Hospital mrs. Louise teaser 6-1, of Toronto. Ont., unidentified injuries of Toronto released following to Carmeni. For lacerations to the Eye and forehead and multiple abrasions to ulc los Leonard John 53, 55a Vanson Street unidentified Berlin july 3 Cap the russians late thursday released three Chicago priests held 30 hours after they had been seized by sen tries on the Berlin soviet zone Frontier. V the soviets handed theroman Catholic clergymen Over to United Stales officers in Karls Horst East Berlin. The priests came to Berlin wednesday for a one Day sightseeing trip. With a German Secretary interpreter they halted on the fron tier Between the american sector and russian zone to take some i pictures. Spies work for red pay off is secondary in sceptical of new red truce offer Mun san Korea. July 3 communist negotiators thursday offered a new plan for breaking the korean truce talks deadlock but an Allied spokesman said the proposal contains a lot of Gim micks and potential gimmicks. . William k. Harrison jr., said the red plan May important one and it May the reds indicated they would ease their demand for return of All military prisoners in United nations stockade provided the 20.000 chinese captives Are returned. They asked for secret sessions to discuss the proposal. _ a Are its recruits Gen. Harrison the senior Allied highly intelligent and de negotiator immediately called Lor d persons persuaded to nil j0in an underground conspiracy against their own countries the recruiting of the filth column often requires Money but Money is secondary. Few of the cases convicted communist spies involved the pay ment of any Large amount. One the most important is. Grand Forks. North Dakota leg in r in Bra. 7-1. Regina. Sank., fractured ribs injuries to the legs and shoulders and a deep laceration to the Skull Tom Terry 4s, of Ottawa lacerations to the legs forehead and Skull condition fair. Miss Vivian pc Cdr. 19. Of Saskatoon snsk., released follow ing treatment for general bruises and lacerations. At Deer Lodge military Hospital run. K. H. Fur Choc Regina rifles of Star alia., head injuries. He is still unconscious and in fair run. A. Star Blankco Retrina rifles of Mon Nebo sask., received superficial head in Zwies condition fairly Good. Run c. Cowan Royal Winnipeg rifles Selkirk Man., a suspected fracture of the Pelvis and facial lacerations. Condition fairly Good. Run. G. A. Doyle Royal Winnipeg rifles Champion alia., lacerations to the left Eye and leg. Condition fairly Good run j. Sanderson Regina rifles of Lac la Kongo bask l of sible fracture of the left leg and . Condition fairly Good. J Duff Csire Regina rifles of Loon Lake sask. Lacerations to the left Eye and right leg. Condition fairly Good. Treated at the Hospital and allowed to continue their journey were run. Charles Paddy Regina rifles of Turtleford bask. Lacerations to the left Elbow. Two Brothers with the Regina rifles run. Allan Racelle and Ken tames Racettc both of 519 Montreal so Eccl reams. Allan received a shaking up and his brother lacerations to the left eyelid. Two Brothers both Regina rifles Alex and Colin la Doug from Leask sask. Alex received abrasions to the left leg. His brother received lacerations to the right Elbow. Run. Frederick Lafoll Regina rifles of Leask received in juries to his nose lip and left leg. One person name not Given was treated and out of Tho list or communist Pai Kizere Rome the dupes who links in the soviet spy a s Sorond of in Alk los. Van toils Liow or culls Sre lured and a they for Ake Thor native loyalties to serve the Kremlin no William l. Vax new York. July 3 what accounts for the startling Success of the stalinist fifth adjournment until Friday 9 . Cd thursday to study in. He did not reply to the communist de Mand for secret sessions. The exact meaning and the Lull significance of the red proposal is not immediately apparent to the United nations command . William p. Nuckols in spokesman. Methods of recruiting for Stalin s secret army is the communist cell. Communists scout carefully for their prospects persons whose Way of thinking Indi Cates the possibility of Persua Sion. 1 for those persons Are not invited into the communist party it self instead they become subjects for what the communists Call prospects arc lured into study groups or discuss which in reality operated by cells of the coi. Monist party. The recruiting a Catt Eon see spy cases Page 6 ;