Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 09, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg Cloudy with occasional Skinny periods this afternoon Clearing overnight becoming Cloudy again thursday afternoon. Little change in temperature. Winds Light. Low and High 55 and so. Fair and warm forecast Moon rises 11.10 . Moon sets 8.09 . Sun rises 3.30 . Sun sets 9.37 . Winnipeg wednesday july 9, 1952 Price by Carrier 30 cents per week to Settle Wrangle by c. R. Blackburn Chicago july 9 icp1 supporters of senator Rob Ert Taft wednesday made a Surprise bid for Compromise in the big fight to scat disputed delegates at the re publican National convention. They pulled a sudden switch in the credentials com Mittee and agreed to seat 13 vowing to keep f ivc month old beards until the republicans nominate a president these twins add some Western Atmos phere a la 1sto to the convention in Chicago. Initial win stirs Ike trend Nero votes desert Taft by Don irix Chicago july 0 i Nyht he is Aton. Neb., who told newsmen had been approached. By five Louisiana delegates support ing general Eisenhower in the Campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. This action overruled a pre convention decision of the Republican National commit tee which decided that Dele Gates backing sen. Taft should be in the Louisiana delegation. Since the credentials com Mittee is decidedly pro Taft and has been following the wishes of the Ohio senator. The action represented an apparent last minute bid for Harmony Between the two forces. However the Eisenhower Camp stubbornly following up the advantage won monday on the seating of contested delegates still planned to carry to the floor of the convention the fight Over Many of the 43 pro Taft delegates seated tuesday by the com Mittee in Florida Georgia Mississippi and puerto Rico. Texas still on Agenda still to come before the committee was the Battle Over seating of the 3s-Man Texas delegation. Gen. Eisen Hower claims All 38 votes should go to him while the Republican National commit tee voted to give 22 to sen. Taft and 1g to the general. Sen. Taft himself said the loss of the 11 Louisiana votes still leaves him with enough to win the presidential nomination. Wednesday s decision moved Gen. Eisenhower up 11 votes net in the associated press Delegate tabulation and took number away from sen. Taft. That made the score Taft 527, Eisenhower 452, others ids uncommitted 119. A total of 603 is needed for nomination. Up to now the major action of the convention has been fights Between the backers of the two major aspirants for the nomination sen. Taft and Gen. Eisen Hower. There has been Little of the usual business of damning the democrats. Voting on a candidate had been originally scheduled for wednesday night but the credentials fight appeared certain to delay that. J1y Victor mackij3 Ottawa july 3 special private Glen Roland Blank 2s Carman sentenced to life prison ment in the death a year ago of a korean civilian was re leased tuesday from the army i detention Barracks at Winnipeg. The court mar tial Appeal Board has found he should not have been sentenced or. The evidence produced at his trial. It recommended either a new trial or his release army spokesmen said wednesday. A new trial was impossible and korean monday w the National convention approved fair play amendment of the rules. All tuesday without setup Dale appeared singly and in it at the general s suite on senator from a Small state asked s. Korea police shoot senator trom a Sunui Liis help in bringing Taft backers red a orc his state s delegation into the Eisenhower fold. Sen. Seaton said he thought the Job had been done but would hot say How Many Dele affected. He also Dis including a signified to him their intention hotel to me volum0 of visitors sizable minority of backers of Camps Robert a. Taft Ohio was sharply up above the level of previous great civil Issue Flop. Says two negro delegates from sew i a York switched from the Taft to the Eisenhower Camp charging that the tight of their race for a Strong civil rights Plank in the party platform is doomed to fail ure by the opposition of Taft men in control of the resolutions com Nitu o. The two. Harold c. Burton and Charles s. Hill of Harlem decided quit the ohioan and ask pro Taft negro delegates from other j St trs to follow suit after talking j in hour with Gen. drum Ute Dele Mcatek another sign of n Drift to the was reported by sen. Fred Tokyo july 9 communist prisoner of War on Kopje was shot and killed by South korean police. Tuesday. He refused to surrender with six other escapees United states army Headquarters announced. The seven pow s were among 23 prisoners in the United nations Kobe Camp who escaped Between july 2 and 4, the army said. Ten Are still at Large. Republican convention at a glance Chicago july 9 he publican convention at a glance a credentials committee seats 13 Eisenhower Dele Gates from Louisiana up setting National committee railing which gave seats to men. Speeches of Nomina lion face possible postponement until thursday. A committee votes to seat Taft delegates from Georgia and Mississippi j tuesday from the Holp Cra Horracks at Winn predominately Taft delegation from Florida f big fight expected to rage on floor of convention Over the seating of 17 dec from Georgia 13 from Louisiana and 38 from Texas. Convention can reverse com Mittee decisions. A resolutions committee called an Early session to act on the proposed 1952 party platform. S t u b b o r n e s t planks foreign policy de Fence and civil right s. M comments on Herbert Hoover s address generally called it a great speech from a great american. The former president 77, lashed at the democrats Plush curtain of tax and spend and lost possible highlight in wednesday sessions gov. John s. Fine of Pennsylvania to speak and May throw big vote to Eisenhower. November last Hope Chicago july 9 Nyht _ former president Herbert Hoover told the Republican National convention tuesday night that the coming elec Tion May Well be the last Chance for the survival of Freedom in Freedom of men is the one dominant Issue that overshadows All others the Only living sex president declared. He maintained that our freedoms have been undermined in the 20 years of democratic Rule in Washington and by . Policies at Home and abroad. He cited As assassins. _ of free Dom government spending m spy suspect s trial hangs on secret paper army frees Soldier in Korea slaying Marrh 17, 1951, in the Village Woon Myon. A South radio operator s defence dubbed improbable Story London july 9 Young foreign office radio operator accused of spying insisted wednesday he did not know How a secret government document happened to be o in his pocket when he was caught while talking to a russian Chung korean i in Clank Eai hich the korean was killed. At the August 1951 court mar tial pet. Blank was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The then commanding officer Brig. J m the sentence to life imprisonment. Pet. Blank was returned to Canada to serve his sentence. Under Queen s regulations pet. Blank appealed. He was defended by i. Col. John a. Treal Lav. Tant and quartermaster general William Marshall 24, told la my at London sold the room in Bailey that he had not Given apy for five w. Berlin blockades East zone at Headquarters pet Blank urea in British soldiers civilians who were witnesses could not be brought together. The army therefore re leased the private. The is months service of the special Force member has expired. He now can become a civilian or enlist in the Active army. He can collect his Back pay and allowances dating from the begin Ning of his detention it was jointed out Here. The korean incident occurred Saskatchewan ii Ems j seizes Kev Hill of Britain s secrets to the rus Sian and that he knew nothing of the paper found in his pocket. The prosecutor described mar shall s testimony As such an improbable he asked Marshall s conviction on charges of violating Britain s of a facial secrets act. Berlin july j Marshall was the Lone defence by the kidnapping an anti communist 1 a w y c a the West Berlin City govern ment decided tuesday night to blockade roads leading into the surrounding russian zone. The Kidnap victim was or. A Bijj i Hutchins former prosecution wound up its pies Wyer now assistant adj mentation behind closed doors be City seeks pre session Power talks Coulter wants to meet govt. Before Las get together the City will ask the provincial government for a consultation on its Power proposals before the Spe Cial session of the legislature slated for july 22, mayor Garnet Tel said wednesday. He said the government had acknowledged his request for a meet Rore the noon recess Basing us Case mainly on the piece of paper containing secret information pol icy said they found on Marshall. What the document contained was not disclosed by the government. The Public was barred from the courtroom at the outset after the Walter Linse 48, chief of Seoul Korea july 9 a United nations troops wednes a Day drove on North korean communists entrenched on a Ridge at the Eastern end of the korean Battle line but lost a key Hill to counter attacking chinese in the Centre. Between 350 and 400 chinese n hand to hand fighting recaptured the Hill wrested from them 24 hours earlier. . Thunder jets again bombed the big no. 2 Power Plant at Changjin Reservoir tuesday alter reconnaissance showed the reds were trying to get the generators Back in operation. The Plant was one of 13 North korean Hydro elec knocked out in heavy i r 4 t prosecution said it wanted to pre i economics Branch of ulc sent highly secret evidence. Jurists 3 Manitoban killed in Vine year Oid boy Dies of injuries in Minn. Accidents claimed the lives of three Manitoban tuesday while at International Falls Minn., a nine year old boy died late monday of injuries received there in a Way Accident late saturday. Trie1 stations raids two i dead Are weeks ago. New tax pact signing Likely next week province stands to net million this year Hon d. Turner provincial treasurer will probably sign the wac i at new Federal provincial tax rental intends to do with the Mcarthur for Manitoba next week Falls site on the Winnipeg River was indicated. Wednesday. He said indications Are that thence intends to go ahead with ing. However no Date has been set As yet. Mayor Coulter said that tie Public utilities committee s four Man sub committee on Power would Likely represent the City in the discussions. The government has made no response As yet to the City s proposals presented As a comprehensive plan for All further Power develop ment in the province. Known As plan a the scheme Calls for provincial government development of All future Power projects. While mayor Coulter had no of f Cial knowledge wednesday As to that the provincial government provi the project on its own. 1 i social credit with 16 seats local government spending was eating up 35 per cent of the National income More than any nation can that this address Hlaj it Republican National con-1 Hoover urged Complete revisit of the . Military for Van Rion a night g j London Standard London july 9 Reuters the British press devoted column after column of thin editions tuesday to reports and comments on the Republic an National convention in Chicago. Under a club in column head line the. Great Mac Arthur proves a the evening Standard said that delegates went Home after hearing the St neral s keynote address obviously feeling that the hero had been a bit of a dealing with the threat of com Vancouver july 9 up the new five year pact will Gua Rantee Manitoba an annual mini mum payment. Of each year. Actual payment for the 19o2 53 fiscal year will be approximately s24.7go.ooo. Payments Are made by the fed eral government to the province in Exchange for turning Over to it the provincial income corporation and inheritance tax Fields. Originally it was hoped the pact am Rev slow Sui to. Of White Mouth traffic Accident victim. Gerald buy Stout 9, of International Falls Minn., traffic victim. Oswald Green 27. Treaty Indian of Berens River drowned. Arthur Gustafson 51, of Good lands killed by tractor. _ or. Green s Canoe overturned in Pigeon River at about g . Tues Dav when he was fishing with a companion Albert Coos head who managed to swim to Shore. The body has riot been recovered tractor overturns or Gustafson s tractor upset when he was turning it in a Field. He was pinned under the vehicle which burst into flame. Neighbors who heard the victim screaming for help arrived too late to be of assistance. Or. Gustafson is sur Vived by his wife and nine children. R c m p. Officials at Winnipeg said or. Sadowski was struck by a car driven by August Boggs. Whitemouth while he crossed the Highway saturday night. Taken to set Boniface Hospital he died Early tuesday. A postmortem at the Hospital tuesday afternoon revealed that death was due to Shock and multiple injuries. The body was taken to the Ren Shaw funeral Home at Beausejour where or. R. Geisbrecht District Coroner will hold a preliminary in quest wednesday at 7 . A fort Frances report snid the of three men abducted him from the United states sector in Broad Daylight tuesday and raced by automobile into the soviet zone firing pistols and strewing nails to slow pursuers. Says act outrageous . Lemuel Mal Howson United states commandant in Ber Lin sent a Sharp protest to the rus sians against the kidnapping. He said it was outrageous and intolerable and demanded the immediate release of or. Linse. The league of free jurists has been a Thorn to the communists for about three years. The league 5ndtj is composed of almost lawyers judges who fled to West Berlin from the soviet Zonn. Its primary work is to record violations by East Germany s red government of Basic German Law. The kidnapping which followed a series of Border incidents led the West Berlin police department to ask that its regular Force men be increased to Iligir Richide All streets mayor Ernst Router s Cabinet indicated the police request probably will be granted. It decided to Ham Cade All the streets that ouch on the soviet zone 90 Miles Long. The Border West Berlin arid East Berlin will be guarded with special patrols. The government stressed that it will use All Means police or other Wise at its disposal to fight crimes against the life Freedom and Security of. The population of 28 gaullist resign party v Luw Vul. As British Columbia s slow motion weight participating provi election count staggered toward a new proposal a on i. I1 Ort j i would be signed before june 3ct George w. However delay by some of the son of. Aces in for a ,4 i i that the Home stretch tuesday the out Titrating disputes arising from the test still ate. By Klee column Paice 4. Comics parcs 21, 22. Commodity mar kits Page crossword Puzzle pose 10. Deaths Anil funerals Page 9. Finance Page 30. Hollywood column Paicci Tovics Page 5. Oladio Page -1. Serial .51. Sports paces 18, 10, 20. Women s news pages 11 14. I inst one Luik Jiuing instead of ground armies he n the Vancouver area. Date. Stout who was hit by a car on . Highway no. Near the Falis was taken to International Falls memorial Hospital with a 3, 13, urged emphasis on development of a powerful air striking Force which would have deadly reprisal strategy of a Rattlesnake. Agrees with Tatt View this was an old theme of the president and coincides with the thinking expressed by Den Robert a. Taft As the Mili tary policy he would promulgate see Hoover Page 30 paneral was reported Nyoen. R no Ballyhoo captains signal full Speed this was the latest standing fleeced social credit 16, act 5, Liberal 6. Progressive conservative 2, and labor 1. Leading social credit 2, Kcf 1 and progressive conservative .2. It May take another week to determine whether the Kcf or social credit will form the text the liberals ousted from office will hold the balance of Power in the 4s-member legislature. By Iloh o Reilly Chicago. July 9 elaborate plans for spontaneous demonstrations for their candidates were being made wednesday by the rival Camps at the Republican National convention. Thev Are scheduled to take place on the floor of the convention Hall when the nominations Start possibly thursday. Meanwhile captains of Bali Hoo units and lieutenants of noise making squads were urging their troops to greater efforts in hotel lobby antics and Street parades. Crush cup. At Dawn the Taft Camp sent out instructions which said in part led by our bands will be going on Day and night throughout the convention hotel area. Gel your assignments from squad leaders for times and places at the Taft head quarters. Get in the March. Sing cheer and whoop it up Lor Bob other Camps were steaming it up in like fashion. The Eisenhower forces threw in a Bunch of Indiana girls in Over alls and Straw hats. The Taft people countered with Eye shades labelled Taft for use under the Keig lights in the convention Hall. Rep. George h. Bender head of the Taft boosters club in charge of spontaneous demonstrations was found issuing orders in his Headquarters at the Conrad Hilton hotel. For whom the Bell tolls we re not for noise makers. He said. want people sing ing from their hearts. I had a toll that i ring but some body swiped i m going to get a new it seems that everybody and his brother wants to write a successful Campaign song. Or. Bender said that up to today 579 songs had been brought in i to him. Poems have come in by the he said. One woman brought in six barrels and wanted some men to walk around in them. The songs me most because they insist on singing them to Battle hymn of the republicans Don t look at me that said a woman festooned with Taft signs who had been stand ing and waiting for some time because i have a song Here that is better than any of them. The thing is to get the people to sing it. I can t she held out the song to or. Bender Here you sing she said. Or. Bender took the song glanced at it and passed it to an assist and. Take care of he said. I was an hour late to the convention yesterday because i was singing Onward Christian soldiers with a thousand Reserve r exercises in the Yukon if expected Back in Winni Peg sunday. Canadian regt. Honors Korea Sicily fallen Tokyo july 9 a officers and men of the first battalion of the Royal Canadian regiment paused briefly wednesday in a korean Valley to Honor their fallen comrades. A Church service commemorated Pachno Day Landing of the Bat Talion in Sicily july 10, 1943, and honoured five men who have died in action in Korea. Troops stood in silence As the names of the five men killed in Korea were read. They were pet. Lewis Joseph Gosselin of Winnipeg Cpl. Peter John Nolan of St. Johns nfld., Cpl Wycliffe Lesley Presley Ottawa pet. Kenneth s. Brooks of and pet. W. A. Luxton of reds Hoot howl As Gen. Ridgway pays visit to London july 9 Reuters communist demonstrators wednesday provided a noisy background to an official Wel come for Gen. Matthew b. Ridgway paying his first visit to Britain since his appoint ment As supreme Allied com Mander in Europe. Car was Eddie Taylor of Ray Minnesota. Or f. V. Bird Coroner at Boissevain Man., attended at the scene of the Accident. No inquest will be Monkey asked lighter got match Man fined Eureka Calif. July 9 a e. Sparks 39. Was fined s10 for giving lighted matches to monkeys in the City zoo. Sparks said he handed out the burning matches after one Monkey grabbed for his Cigar Ette lighter. Pound makes sudden rally turns Strong against Dollar s ,1 London july 9 Reuters 1he Canadian Dollar for 7 Ajax ont. 3rd crop report due tomorrow the third free press report on the 1952 Prairie Grain crop will published in thursday afternoon and Friday morning editions it will include a Triet by District Survey of the situation crop Clemace condition of wheat coarse the Pound Sterling tuesday Sud Denly turned Strong against both the Canadian and United states dollars. Sterling was in demand and dollars were on offer in both european ant North american markets. Various dealers and experts suggested the following reasons for this Sterling rally the natural recovery from the overdone fall of last week end and from the pessimism after prime minister Winston Chur chill s speech last month in which he said that Britain was economically on a treacherous 9 covering by speculators. On the theory that if anything were going to happen to Sterling it would happen at the week end speculators tend to sell late in the week. They have to buy Back Early in the next week when nothing has happened. Reaction from some exaggerated ideas of last week. Some of last week s boosting arguments example were fully justified. Others were preposterous. Less pessimism about British Industrial prospects following better overnight reports on fuel and employment. A feeling that the Britis rement s remedies Are belatedly beginning to work. Move aids pm rebels help i nay win Confidence of Paris july 9 or Antoine Pinny s Savo the franc administration was strengthened tuesday by the mass resignation of 2s members of Cen. Charles do Gaulle s assemble mint do pc pc Francais. The gaullist rebels who have set up a new parliamentary group had earlier helped or. Pinky win a vots of Confidence 2g7-216 on govern ment proposals for a sliding wage scale. With further resignations Likely during the next few gaullist strength in the Assembly is de to slump from 115 to about 85 deputies putting Tho parly behind the socialists communists mod Erate conservatives and republicans. The socialists with 106 deputies now will take the gaullist place As the strongest single party a the National Assembly. Xci rules main Factor main reason for the revolt was new strict rules on voting discipline which party leaders slapped Down on the deputies. Fresh trouble was brewing Mon Day night inside the diminished ranks of the . Raymond Ronne popular gaullist deput who has no connection with the rebels resigned from the parliamentary group Over the discipline rules. Leading members of the new Par Liam notary group will he con. Pierre Billote former French representative on the United nations military and Godin a vice president of the a w tightness of Money. Some London Banks May be refraining from holding their full permitted lines of dollars because they can use the Money better in London. Attention drawn to inflationary developments in the . These Mav relatively strengthen Sterling against the Dollar even though the july september Quarter seasonally Adverse to Sterling. A returning sense of proportion for example the Sterling a s deficit of about month with the european pay ments Union is serious and costly. But it must be compared with the Sterling area s turnover with the . Area which reaches a month. Tonal Assembly. Ont. Undecided on punishment for riot leaders Guelph ont., july 0 up Hon. John Foote minister of form institutions said tuesday decision has been reached regard ing punishment of ringleaders it the riot at the Ontario reformatory saturday. We Are going to give the incident very careful Tion before we take any he said ;