Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba R final edition weather forecast Winnipeg sunny except for after noon cloudiness today and a Little winds Low tonight and High tomorrow 50 and 59 247 34 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week july 1952 Sun rises Moon rises sunsets Moon sets forecast fair affix barrage blasts Reb front lines so feared dead in Alaska inferno front line meeting fire sweeps hotel july broke out in the old Pioneer hotel Here Early Mon Day and Early reports indicated up to 50 persons May be the Blaze May reach the proportions of a major Complete confusion at the scene made it impossible t get any accurate Check on dead and fleeing guests larg numbers were believed trapped in the third nine persons were in Hospital two of them in critical condition the fire was in the crowded Pioneer there were approx Jna Tely 250 wooden Structure old within minutes after the fire shortly after the Blo Klong Structure a blazing night clerk David Littlefield who raced through the building warning sleeping said he believed the estimate of 50 dead was far too i saw one body on the second floor just before i left the build he i am certain that at least four people but appointed see disaster Page 7 threat to kill spurs search for gunman Rifle carrying pal gives up after Tough fight july 14 special 2ontario provincial police m o n were beating the dense Bush near the Manitoba Border for a heavily armed gunman who s u n Day threatened to shoot a police of his armed companion was Cap tured following a Roughan Tum Arthur Macnamara ble fight near West of 27 Miles have set up Road blocks at Whitemouth and other Eastern Manitoba and City and Ca Nadian Pacific police have been Shotgun and pistol the gunman is armed with a pump action Shotgun and a police sunday two police officers acting on a began their search for two men wanted for a series of break ins at summer Homes and Camps near a few Miles West of they were Flewelling and leaving Schultz at Kel mar to Flewell ing continued he caught up with one of the men on the Cana Dian Pacific railway near a Shack in the late sunday threaten to shoot he challenged the Rifle carrying Man and disarmed him following a the Man gave his name As Joseph of three police rust disease spreads traces of Stem rust have been reported from Minne Dosa and Erickson in Northwest Ern there is also Evi Dence that infection has become heavier in wheat Fields in the red River of the Laboratory of Plant said monday that an inspection of wheat Fields South of Winnipeg showed Rusl on about one Plant in this was heaver than the week West to Morden the disease has spread As far Vest As Morden and Elm Johnson said he expected traces f the rust could not be i Eastern Saskatchewan he noted that weather conditions and been Ideal for its development and spread since it was discovered 0 Days by next Johnson we can expect a very rapid increase of Stem rust in the pro Vince if weather conditions con Niue three weeks Lett Southern Manitoba crops were roughly three weeks from maturity and the rust has that length of time to do its but it All depends on weather if it continues As at the danger will in dry weather in the remaining three weeks of crop growth will see the danger of severe damage greatly reduced or removed rail pay mediator appointed july 14 car thur Deputy minister of has been named Federal conciliator in the wage dispute Between Canadas railways and the no operating former Deputy minister of labor and of Public works in Macnamara directed work in the province in the period after 19os for Relief of unemployed and Drout stricken he joined Manitoba civil service in in he was called to Ottawa As chairman of the dependents Al Lowance department of National and was appointed o his present director of Industrial relations for the labor de and other labor officers will assist the announcement was made in a Telegram signed by Milton labor and issued Here by the labor request for appointment of a Federal conciliator to Aid in the wage talks was made by the rail ways and 17 unions of the non operating they reported Friday that they had failed to reach agreement in their newly opened negotiations for a new con the request for conciliation came a week after the railways received demands for an estimated a year or More for the no operating labor department officials said he conciliation officer is expected Early High yields forecast in crop Survey an Early Harvest with very Good yields appears Likely for Mani Toba this according to a Survey made by i provincial farm help the Survey was compiled to enable the farm help service to estimate labor requirements during the Harvest Richard son said there was a Good Pool of local labor available and this would be supplemented when needed by Eastern no orders have been placed for immigrants from Europe although 15 West German labourers have been placed Here to Date this a Cross Section Survey of the province shows harvesting beginning As Early As july 24 in the Morden with the estimated bushels Toth acre yield expected to be 25 35 and i other with the Date of Start of harvesting and yield Are As follows District harvesting Date 15 6 Fisher 5 28 bushels to the acre wheat Oats Barley average yields average yields 50 65 45 30 50 3540 flax 610 35 4050 40 harvesting dates in other where the yield is described Are second week in average or As Good As last ust Pilot july 28 Swan july 25 special fares for Eastern Canadian harvesters coming to the Prairies will be in effect from 10 to the fares will also i be effective from 15 to 30 for harvesters returning to report Back in about 10 after the department Csc awards 2 contracts for City Job Winnipeg firms to do of work on radio Centre by Victor Mackie july 14 special two contracts totalling have been awarded by the Cana Dian broadcasting corporation for transforming the Pigott building into a broadcasting Centre in win Csc assistant the second gunman barricaded announced Mon himself in the Shack and threatened to shoot the file Welling then escorted the captured Man when the officers re turned to the Shack the Man was the escaped Man is described by police As 23 to 26 years about live feet eight 160 with stooped shoulders and Wavy he has a few Days red stubble on a thin police contract for the construction work has been awarded to Malcolm construction company of Winni Northern electric was the successful bidder for the contract to provide the electronic located at Young and Portage Avenue the building was Pur chased earlier this year by Csc see Csc Page 6 Days can name a conciliation which would investigate the dispute and propose terms of besides the 45cent increase across the the unions Are asking a costo living Bonus Peg ged to the official costo living in a Union shop and the Check off of Union the railway unions have pre piously declared they will seek a prompt cleanup of the the last railway Union dispute Over a contract dragged out for 1 years and was climaxed by a general rail strike in rails Appeal Manitoba tax of wrong figures used in assessment says car the Canadian Pacific railway company filed an Appeal monday in court of Queens Bench against taxation amounting to assessed under the Manitoba corporation income tax act for 1947 and in a statement of claim against the provincial the com Pany asked the court for an order to have the assessments cancelled in for an order directing the provincial treasurer to reassess the company after excluding for 1947 and see Appeal Page 7 is United states steaming fast for next record aboard the United july 14 up the United states sailed to Ward a Speed record monday for an Atlantic westbound when she steams past am Brose the official Eastern end of her at 4 cd she will have clipped about 10 hours from the Queen marys the United on her Maiden completed the East West trip in three 10 hours and 40 minutes 10 hours and two minutes better than the Queen marys the westbound set in is three 21 hours and 48 polio claims 2 lives polio has claimed two Young lives and stricken four other Chil Dren in the Winkler area in the past eight in the but limited Epi about involves use of a sirens May Call by fall Hope that greater Winnipeg 21 double throated air raid sirens will be installed and ready for use by 1 was voiced Mon Day by pen metropolitan civil defence Only thing holding Back comple Tion of this project is the it has been Given top priority on greater Winnipeg application for additional funds through the dollars Orzollar sub Sidy announced by the Federal gov the sirens Joper to give citizens taste of air raid procedure can be tests satisfactory All sirens in Winnipeg have been tested in near Cin de filled smoke and under icing and Are termed Satis it was intended that All sirens be controlled from a Cen trial each one to be activated by a line of radio the installation was Esti mated As High As a proposed new costing Mark commander in chief of United nations forces in shakes hands with Norman Wilson chief of on a recent inspection visit to the 1st British Commonwealth Wilson Smith was formerly commanding officer of the 1st Princess Patricia Canadian Light Bridge Page pages commodity Page deaths and Page 31 Page Hollywood Page Page Page pages women pages temperature readings during the Twenty four hour period ending at Mon Day were Couver 57 Calgary Edmonton Swift current Saskatoon Regina 51 44 46 43 Brandon Winnipeg fort Churchill port Arthur Toronto Ottawa 68 67 Halifax 77 71 74 71 75 75 69 62 77 90 87 82 76 and 1941 there were 539 and cases respectively in the this is the season when we expect polio if we Are to have it at Donovan and the Peak usually comes about the end sunday Cloudy at Charles and 2 Par busters didst help by Bert greek Beautiful Charles country with its spreading elms and Gigantic was like the Calm before the storm a sprinkling of Clouds came tip from South of the including Tommy Thunder Cne of the top contenders on golfs Gold and a Par blasting Rookie bearing the handle Ralph who Calls North Carolina and who hails from and plays out of Hes keeping but when last seen he was in High spirits and whacking the Ball a his drive on the 335yard 10th was just Short of the Yankee was More loquacious than fairways will bother the players and was As Friendly As they a third generation Dane six feet one Inch tall with Sharp Blue eyes and Blond Hes a strik ing figure on the his Power seems unlimited and his Irons to the Green invariably split the first time around Charles he held the spotlight As aspirants to the Canadian championships tuned up for classic july 16 to praises grounds tempestuous Tommy took time out Between shots to Praise the Well groomed Charles course deny reports that he broke a couple of clubs in a temper at the Paul pugilistic in but As gentle and Friendly As a Tommy kept needling his opponents in his i Southern hell be one of the figures in the j just what happened at Paul t h 6g recently Ralph won the los an Gles matchplay ind when it was All Over he was Golf clinic due to Start 5 tuesday the clinic in connection with the Canadian open Golf championship will be held tuesday commencing at 5 rather than As previously an 22 under same subpar figure Gary Middlecoff had in winning the Paul open Trees intriguing do you think the Trees on the he he they add in Trigue to the but wont bother the Long i intend to shoot right Over he liked the Sand in the traps at coarse Sand suits me when someone suggested putting out of some the he just smiled and said the big pros never putt out of they know How to blast audits a much safer he thought the Charles course was in much better shape than the there he pros to Burn course Yankee believes the Charles there has been a total of seven cases in the out of to cases reported in the whole i province for the entire year thus i one eighty Earold Winkler Henry died tuesday eve Ning in Bethel the next Siviy Haroid Alvira who lad died of polio in the childrens was buried in the be maj Tery at of the 10 cases of poliomyelitis reported in Manitoba thus far in eight were recorded last week the department of health a noun according to acting Deputy minister of this is not an unusual number of cases for this time up to july cases reported were four in seven in 1950 and 12 in there were no deaths last year or in Allied troops to get beef from Canada Claxton Pace talks arrange quota tvs for Korea Ino retaliation Refl arrangements have been completed planned yet see civil def ice Page s Ottawa keeps politics Felt too Uncertain if or admission of Canadian beef into quartermasters stores at to government sources confirmed the quota will be limited to a Quantity sufficient to Supply Canadian troops and possibly red Dean under in House wicked old Man tory member bites out by Victor Mackie july 14 special Canada wont retaliate at this time against a 10month Extension of the ban on Canadian Dairy authoritative sources said Commonwealth units provisions for Canadian and Commonwealth forces in Korea Are handled through the Quarter masters stores in Japan which up plied led la july 14 up the red Dean of or Hewlett was assailed in the House of commons monday As wicked and irresponsible old Man but the attorney Genera said there Are no grounds to try him for i am of the opinion that evidence available does not disclose a Prima Facie Case of at sir Lionel heal old the miss Irene a conservative member of parliament raised the she charged that the Deans allegations about United nations forces using germ warfare in Korea Are prejudicial to the interests of her majesty i miss Ward suggested that prosecuting the Dean would provide an invaluable Opportunity of prov ing the falsity of the evidence of this wicked but and irresponsible of the attorney general re Een in the general ban on Dian Supply a Canadian quota sufficient to meet this country Mili tary requirements was among the subjects discussed last week by in the last big epidemic years the june the expiry was the slight modifications made will be of Little Trade authorities the quotas on cheese and other j Dairy products and a ban on imports of skim milk powder and but Canada hoped the would lift Brooke defence under the modifications the another disease showing an in secret of agriculture can in crease last week was crease the in t to b 15 or of 42t cas6s few relations Are a other contagious totals for the year in Are 25 diarrhoea and enteritis under one 1 1 32 24 Scarlet 11 2 and septic sore am afraid my decision has had to be based on the unfortunate fact that it will not provide such an if anyone else has any further evidence to offer i am prepared to consider he Hillside positions withered july 14 nations planes unleashed withering assaults on communist frontline Posi ions United states Sabre jets probably destroyed one rus Sian built mig15 and dam ged another in Migallen the air Force air Force and Marine fighter a embers swept Low Over the Hills and rocketed and strafed red positions near von the punch bowl and the East other air Force fighter bomb with planes from the mar australians and Republic f hit Supply areas behind he sporadic ground fighting centred m the rugged Eastern front where Allied troops seized a strategic Hill after a three Day Battle and held t in the face of counterattack by Jorth Carrie based planes sunday again bombed generating facilities at the Yosen hydroelectric n East Central North one of four big Power complexes Al asked heavily by Unwar planes ast Start and Over again a Navy announcement said the facilities were being re paired when sky raiders and Cor Sairs attacked them the second meanwhile Lawton col United states army chief of hinted that strength Korea could be increased in a he said the eighth army As a general proposition has been furnished All the Means readily available for but added in a Pinch if it were essential to do we could employ other growing strength he called the mass flight of Thunder jets bound from the to Japan an indication that we 2 growing in air the now on a tour of the said recently step Ped up in air attacks on North Korea certainly did not decrease the chances for the far Eastern see Korea Page 6 foe granted 2day break in truce talk and Frank Secretary of the during the letters visit the Canadian quota will go into the general stores at and will not be segregated from other meat Canadian beef i will thus be in limited to Allun Only about pounds Ai month Wilt be required for Cana Dian troops in but this amount will be increased substantially if Commonwealth troops Are free press honors Tricolour of France on july the French revolution began with the destruction of the Bas Tille prison in this Day has since been observed As a National Holiday in to Honor the occasion the Tricolour of France will Fly from the free press Courtesy Flagstaff aged by the gravely concerned the Canadian government is gravely concerned Over the Impact on this country Dairy however it has decided in View of the administrations oppo Sij Tion to such restrictive Trade mean sures and because of the unsettled i political situation across the Borj to take no retaliatory it was president Truman said last week that such curbs on Trade May threaten the Mutual disclosed purity programme and pose a monday t at a director of trans real dilemma for the american port for civil defence will soon foreign he warned against pointed by the Federal restrictive Laws designed to Allied prisoners killed in reds claim july 14 up the communists today asked for a today recess in the secret kor Ean truce talks and the allies no reason was Given for the re made at a meeting of Liaison which followed closely the heavy Allied bombing of Pyong the red korean the next meeting will be at 11 wednesday 9 cd tues the Only undecided Issue holding up a korean armistice is the Exchange of prisoners of claim Camp raided sunday communist negotiators said 13 Allied prisoners of War were killed and 72 injured when Allied planes staged a night air attack on a communist prison the red charge was contained in a note from senior red truce Nam to William chief Allied the reds claimed planes struck see truce talks Page 6 Paul health mini 9hour Battle houses Blaze i at Oil station july 14 up a nine hour fed by Oil from a gallon capacity storage sunday caused extensive damage to pump and motor instal restricting imports of fats and oils d the Dro Eress Canada has a firm c in St fall of form fat the c to Linn atom no Trio if o Canada civil defence soon to get transport Martin reveals 1 installed in 200 sirens have Beer july 14 up in systems have been installed in More than half of approx ther the of particular Ament american the Amend in a speech at a radiological de ment to the defence production act j Fence training Martin lations on a tank farm at the was a striking example of the inter provincial pipeline company Western just East of the tank farm is a pumping Sta Tion for the the Blaze was believed started by a Short circuit in a officials of the inter provincial pipeline which pipes from Edmonton to he the Congress inserted the restrictive sections into the act despite the opposition of the presi last Truman i july 14 a mild and that 16 under Bill a Winnipeg lad who see Golf Page 6 were they estimated the damage at but said pipeline service was not the line operates 24 hours a ters and was in bed much of the time but aides said he kept himself Busy working on of con made in establishing a system of civil he said a Federal committee has been studying the transportation problems that would arise in an Progress Canadas Progress in building a civil defence he has been unspectacular but about now Are enrolled exclusive of Organ groups such police and fire Public Utility work ers and employees of various Agen cies of key Points have been selected in Gressional Bills requiring his jail target areas and Advance warn july 14 up More than Volunteer aircraft spotters Mon Day began operating on round the clock shifts helping to guard the United states from air the designed to plug the gaps in the country radar went into operation at about stations in 27 states across the Northern rim of the the air Force wanted to Start the civilian watch in May because experts said the most favourable time for Lon distance attack Over the top of the world was from May through been manufactured for All target More than respirators and substantial quantities of antipas suits and other protective clothing have been issued to the provinces for use of civil defence a Small Quantity of Radia Tion detection instruments have also been distributed and further supplies Are being problem in hand on the question of Protection against Martin said this be a subject that i cannot discuss beyond saying that have this problem in the minister also said that Complete and detailed arrange ments have been worked out for the stockpiling at strategic locations of essential medical stores for hospitals and first Aid stations for speedy distribution to target or possible disaster areas in the event of we now Are moving ahead with the first stage of our involving an expenditure of 000 in Federal he ;