Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, August 20, 1952

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg sunny and warm today and tomorrow. Winds decreasing to Light tonight. Low tonight and High tomorrow 50 and so. Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg wednesday August 20. 1952 fun 6.25 Sun provide ther most flank will be even More the politburo far reaching than expected. It will " s s Artel is reorganization of Range from Northern Norway Down Lutc Iet Structure was soviet party shuffle to abolish politburo full red organization to meet first time in 13 years by Thomas p. Whitney Moscow proposed new statutes of the communist party of the soviet Union for into the Western Baltic sea an official announcement reveals. Using land sea air and amphibious forces of eight nato nations the exercise will have five main phases 1 sail an Allied Carrier Force will northward across the North 2. Report of the Central inspection committee of the party. 3. Consideration of directives on the fifth five year plan. 4. Changes in the statute of the communist party of the soviet Union. 5. Election of Central organs o revealed today in an announcement the party. This election of such 1m that Russia s ruling communist party would hold its first Congress in 13 years on oct. 5. The announcement said the con Gress also would take up plans for a fifth five year plan to increase soviet Industrial output 70 per cent by the end of 1955. Staldt is head the politburo deriving its pow sea from British ports to take part a Northern Norway exercises. 2 it will move southward fueling on the Way and will irom the Central 5n exercises in Denmark. Committee of the communist party is in fact the ruling body of the soviet Union and thus of world 3 convoys to and from Scandinavia will receive Protection from Isato surface forces and from the Carrier and Shore based Nir Force. 4 United states marines will form part of an amphibious Force that will sail from Britain to Aid nato land forces in Jutland nor communist. It is made up of prime minister Stalin party Gen eral Secretary and 10 others plus a number of alternate members and has wielded unquestioned authority under Stalin. Under the new statutes the pol see Russia Page 6 City considers speeding Aid to Lynmouth urges overseas Aid to boost . Flood fund them Denmark. Kattegat a body Itsuro and organization Bureau Are and Southern Sweden and in the Baltic Waters on the approaches to Denmark Light danish norwegian and British forces will exercise with submarines and coastal de fences to protect the danish main Lane the exercise Given the code Iiames main Brace will last 12 and will be conducted by adm. Sir Patrick Brind of Britain com Mander in chief of Allied forces in Northern Europe. The admiralty declined to give the exact breakdown of naval units but. Said that after the United slates the British will have the work of the Central committee be tween the party secretariat however remains under the new statutes. The new statutes also provide Union communist party Bol she party largest contingent. Mid Portage o Highway plan Best guess decision on the route the trans Canada Highway West of Winnipeg should be made by provincial government officials within a few Days it was Learned wednes Day. Best unofficial guess is that the Highway will follow the present route from heading Ley through Portage la Prairie. Another route under consideration would take the Highway about six Miles South of Portage South of the South Airport. This suggested route has been placed before provincial officials for consideration by Dominion government engineers. Portage seeks Road Portage la Prairie Man. The new trans can Ada Highway is scheduled to pass fix Miles South of Portage la Prairie according to unofficial word received Here. It will run acting Deputy mayor Aid. George Sharpe said wednesday that the City was looking into possibility of organizing Relief Aid for flood stricken areas at Lyn Mouth on the English Devon coast he said he Felt personally that something should be done but that More definite action would be taken when mayor Garnet Coulter for changing the two decade old i returns to Winnipeg about the end name of the the this week. An official of the Canadian red Cross Manitoba division stated that the division would not arrange Relief Aid on its own but that if a fund was started on a National level at Toronto Headquarters the local red Cross would immediately Back it. He said there was no indication total carryover 405 million bus. 13y Michael Best the magnitude of the Grain storage and handling task facing Western Canada sprang into Sharp focus tuesday with the announcement of carryover figures for Grain stocks granaries like these which have Lew if any counterparts in Western Canada Are helping to ease the Grain storage problem in the United states. This striking picture was taken Between Rugby and Bottineau n.d., about 40 Miles South of Boissevain. Size of the granaries is indicated by the relatively tiny cattle nearby. Taken Forward into crop year 952-53. Carried into the new season which began Ujj. 1 were bushels of All grains the Dominion Bureau of statistics included were bushels of wheat. Added to the Bush Els expected to be harvested in Canada this fall that makes total Grain to handle Bush Els. D. G. My Kunzic chief commissioner of the Board of Grain Corn Milner backs great lakes Western observers Here consid ered the meeting will be the most important held in the soviet Union since the end of the second world War. The communist Congress was announced in a decree of the that a Nat onal Relief Campaign Central committee published today would be launched. H. W. Manning chairman of the see us flood Page 6 cattle Trade at stockyards nearly stops trading was near a standstill at St. Boniface stockyards wednesday As government buyers continued to stay out of the Market for the third straight Day. A five item Agenda was listed As up and buying 1. Report the Partis Centra of most grades gave ground and slipped in All Moscow newspapers Over the name of prime minister Stalin the committee s general Secretary. New Era year plan the announcement said the con Ress will asked to approve the new five year economic plan. Directives expected to be the Asis of the goals he soviet government will set Call for Industrial production to in crease 12 per cent annually. By he end of 1955, total output would be 70 per cent greater than in 1950. Stalin presumably will attend the party Congress. He was the main speaker when the party Congress met last in 1939. Index to show Standard of living up 65 new items included in revised summary of prices by Habold Mokri sox Canadian press Stafl writer Ottawa rising Cana i Dian Standard of living now the second highest in the world is giving Federal statisticians plenty of Vork. The new consumer Price Index is an example. When it s finally completed am brought into use this fall it Wil contain 65 More items than the of Cost of living Index which is to Dis appear completely Early next year ithe new Index will cover 225 items. Fuel Oil added fuel Oil for heating is just one of the Many new items to be included in the Batch of goods for monthly Survey on Price changes. Liquor is another. Home owner ship is a third for. Canadians Are More and More buying their own Homes instead paying rent. Committee to be Given by commit tee Secretary Georgi m. Malenkos South of said. The South Airport it is alarmed because the City will be bypassed a group of 75 citizens and business men met monday evening and unanimously passed a Resolution urging that the Highway pass through Portage la Prairie on the present route of no. 1 Highway. Copies of the Resolution will be see Highway Page 6 govt. Denies retail store wants to site by Shane Lackay Ottawa special persistent rumours that the new Simpson s Sears Roebuck retail Alliance has expressed an interest in Winnipeg a present Post office building were denied Here wednesday by govern Anent officials. The government expects to move postal employees out of the build ing into the proposed new 10 Stanley Laing quits City school Board Stanley b. Laing chairman of the Winnipeg school Board tues Day night in an unprecedented move retired from the Board. The resignation is effective aug. 31. It was the first time a member of the school Board had resigned while holding the position of chair Lan. In a statement read to the Board at the end of the meeting or. Laing said he was moving to Cal Gary to take a position with an Oil company. Or. Laing said while he regret Ted having to leave the Board and the City the position was one which he could not afford to pass up. The Board approved a unanimous Resolution expressing regret at or. Laing s resignation. T or. Laing had served As a Mem Ber of the Board for the past four see trustee Page 7. Below the slipped government established floor Price. Winnipeg livestock Exchange officials said wednesday morning they hoped the government will re sume buying soon. Some traders believe that unless the government comes Back into the Market prices will drop to dangerously Low Levels. The government stepped out of the Market monday when prices went above the established floor Price of a Hundred pounds for Good Light steers. Ottawa re ports said no More government buying would be done until the Market Price returns to or Falls be Low the floor Price. Meat purchased by the govern ment is in packers cold storage at the time of Sale and remains there until the government finds a Market for it. There will be an expanded list of fresh fruits and vegetables Chil Dren s clothing items and even pre paid Hospital plans. There will be greater coverage of recreation. Although the Cost of night clubbing will not be included the new item on liquor will be an indication of current spending habits. Families surveyed the expansion in the number of tems covered by the new Index resulted from a wide Survey con ducted by the Bureau in 1948-49. Families located in 27 cities each Vith More than population vere questioned. These families ranged in size from two adults to parents Vith four children and with annual incomes ranging from to Bridge column Page comics pages 24, 25. Crossword Puzzle padre s. Deaths and funerals Page 2. Financial news and . Tic delegates Send Back Council ruling the trades and labor Congress convention wednesday referred Back for further consideration a ruling of its executive Council which would prevent any Central Council placing employers on the unfair list under certain Circum markets pages 33, 34. Ulovie news Page 5. Radio programs Page 4. Serial Story Page 9. Society news pages 11, 12, j Storey Structure on Graham Avenue within the next two years. Present plans Call for remodelling the old building to House other govern ment offices now in rented quarters. There has been some suggestion however that the remodelling May be too costly and that the govern ment would profit More by Selling the valuable Portage Avenue site. Marg Truman s guard too rough swedes say flip Ponkan Ranj i or Copenhagen Garet Truman s two bodyguards feeling Here is that the Tec Tives leaped from miss tru under attack in the swedish press c0rtege of mree for alleged muscular behaviour ran their Arras and shouted in English into criticism today from pictures scandinavian country. The evening newspaper ekstra Blad of Copenhagen published a photograph purporting to show the two bodyguards in action upon arrival of the United states presi Dent s daughter in Denmark last would be More suitable As a Bank insurance company or financial House than a department store. As reasons for its unsuitability for a department store a government spokesman cited these 1 the present floor area Al Lowed by the property is not Large enough and would require Pur Chase of land behind and possibly beside the present building. 2. One of the principal Post of fice problems has been to get trucks in and out of the building on to heavily travelled surround ing streets department stores re quire easy Access for their truck fleets. 3. Parking facilities in the area Are congested at present and show no Promise of improving. Safety men strike Cardiff Wales. Unofficial strike of supervisors and safety men in the South Wales Coal Fields of Britain s state run c Oal Industry spread today to bring 39 mines to a halt. An eyewitness quoted by the newspaper said the american de under the heading miss tru Man s ridiculous the paper said Here in Denmark we did no notice the brutal behaviour of mis Truman s bodyguard As much a they did in Sweden. There is no need for her to have a bodyguard in Scandinavia. Miss Truman is in no danger any rate she is not singing in Scandinavia. Stockholm newspapers accused the two bodyguards yesterday o using rough House methods against swedish subjects carrying revel ers in , and threat ening to Knock one press photographer miss Truman left today by sea for a. Two Day visit in Helsinki by fore continuing to Norway. White House denial Washington White House said today preliminary re ports indicate there is not one of truth in swedish newspaper that Margaret Truman s Margaret Truman the swedes Are bodyguards roughed citizens. Up swedish presidential Secretary Joseph Short told i press conference that both the state and Treasury departments Are-., looking into the matter he said their first reports rated that nobody was touched threatened or anything the executive committe s ruling pig Sty May be maybe Home of socialites Secaucus . A Secaucus pigs May not be so Cial outcasts after today. A new York firm is Spray ing a deodorant on the hog habitats of Charles Schoch s farm As an Experiment. If the scents wafted Over his Wal lows stifle doors says Schoch All of the township s hogs probably will get the perfume treatment. Schoch president of the Stock Farmers association of Secaucus is confident of Suc Cess. After today we will have pigs that smell like wis he said. Missing City woman s body found two Young boys make discovery police say the body of mrs. Hanna Wade 30-year-old City woman missing from her Home at 483 Salter Street since Friday was recovered from the red River at Poison Avenue a City police tuesday at 2 . The aged infirm woman had been the object of an intensive search in the City and outlying districts. Police said two Young oys first sighted the body. Breeder of terriers mrs. Wade was a Well known breeder of scottish terriers am had been a member of the Cana Dian Kennel club for 35 years. She was also an honorary member of the fort Garry Kennel club and of the greater Winnipeg Kennel club. Her dogs were acknowledged to be among the finest of their Breed in Western Canad and she Polippo stuff it Olla Al in Tehran communist buildings set on fire As Battles rage Tehran a communist youths tuesday night battled army missioners for Canada said in Winnipeg tuesday that no mat Ter How you look at it we be got a big problem of handling and storage on our hands this stresses importance of defence needs can be handled but or. Mckenzie said Roy Milner Federal transport controller said in Winnipeg wednesday that the necessity mov ing Large quantities of Ore on the great lakes before freeze up should be obvious to everybody. He said that the movement of he be old was essential if construction lived the problem could be hand led in Western Canada provided this year s crop is harvested in Good shape and provided we Jet the same co operation from every body As we got or. Mckenzie said that any year in which crop and carryover to Gether exceeded Bush Els handling and storage prob lems developed. He noted that considerable quantities of the new crop would never leave the farms at All to troops and police with knives and become a Burden on elevator Cap heart of Tehran before acuity and increase the marketing rocks in the being dispersed Vej with tear Gas. Task. Large amounts of coarse nearby . Of the particularly would be kept partisan peace organization for feeding set ablaze. Police said the building should. Be kept housing a communist also was on fire. Cause of travelled extensively across the country to show them. She was a member of Atlantic United Church sons of Scot land the ladies Orange Bene Volent association and the Loyal True Blue Lodge. Born in England born in Caldbeck Cumberland England she came to Canada in 1905 and settled in Winnipeg the following year. Surviving Are a son. John six daughters miss Lily , mrs. J. Petrakos. Mrs. F. Harding mrs. E. Tenry mrs. J. Neilson and mrs. The fires was not determined but there have been nightly clashes Between reds and members of Premier Mossadegh s nationalist party. Eyewitnesses blamed members of the nazi style Sunka party for the fire at the peace partisan building. Police said eight persons including two policemen and a Soldier there seriously injured and about 40 arrested. An american sergeant was stoned in his jeep. He was grazed but not injured. Two policemen and a Soldier were stabbed in tuesday night s Battle. Ten Young reds were Arres Ted. Mind newspaper when assessing the problem he added. The wheat Sarr Yovor was the defence production and full employment in steel dependent industries was to be maintained. He was commenting on reports that the need for building Ore Stock piles for use during the Winter months would slow the Lake Grain haul during the fall period. Real problem or. Milner said that there is a very real problem of marketing Canada s Grain to which equal consideration must be his added was t n at tempt to meet the requirements Grain and of Ore by the diversion of vessels and other transport equipment from one commodity 10 another As the situation required. Meanwhile it. Was Learned in Winnipeg that during the steel strike some i moved of from the Lakehead Over biggest in seven years reported. The grains was that employers who had agree three Sisters is ments with any organization of Hoen and Margaret m eng land and a brother Joseph. There Are 14 grandchildren and 13 great organization ciliated with the Congress could no be placed on the we do riot patronize or unfair list unless written consent is received fro the organization that is party t the the executive s decision had Bee approved by the committee on of flyers reports despite two resolutions which asked that the ruling issued last april be withdrawn. Debated on floor however the matter was argue out on the floor of the convention and Congress delegates indicate they wanted to reverse the decision of their executive. R. K. Gervon of Vancouver termed the executive s decision a a backward he declared no employer should be on the fair list until All unions with the employer had a contract the convention endorsed action of the executive Council in sus pending from membership the in see tic meet Page g . Uncovers vew Jet fighter outpaces sound London lifted the wraps from two top Speed Jet lanes today one a twin Boom fighter and the other a flying Triangle. The makers said the twin Boom Gater a. De Havilland 110, has flown faster than the Speed of found several times since its trials tarted a year ago. Sound travels t roughly 12 Miles a minute. The Gater is powered by two Rolls Oyce Avon whose specific on . The Fly Rig Triangle the Boulton aul p-120, is in experimental Craft till under trial. It was designed or aerodynamic research speeds approaching that of sound. Grandchildren. Funeral service will be held thursday at 2.45 . At Gardiner funeral Home. Burial will be Elmwood cemetery. Pallbearers will be t. Cornth wait f. J. , g Kynock a. Rosteck and m. Hinr Truman cuts tax spending estimates Washington presiden Truman tuesday estimated the government will spend less collect less taxes and run up a smaller deficit in the current fiscal year than he thought in january. One exception individual income axes will run higher than expected corporation taxes will fair far below earlier estimates. Truman Cut his estimate of the budget deficit for next tune 30 from to m but the cuts still left lowering Over 1952 Federal expenses. Intake and deficits. This year s government spend ing now is figured at 00 compared with the xxx Truman estimated in january. Receipts now Are estimated at in place the Jan Ary estimate of help bolster Iran regime Britain asked by John a. Scali Washington United states is reported to have urged Britain to join in an Anglo Ameri can emergency Aid program for strategic Iran to Avert a possible communist coup. State Secretary Dean Acheson is reported to have made this plea in a memorandum to foreign Secre Ary Anthony Eden within the last 10 Days. Acheson is said to have stressed the need for Quick joint action to keep Iran s vast Oil re sources from falling by default into i was above expectations. The Bureau j this was Ore pc sols Imo Grain hauling when the strike carryover for the other was were Oate was also understood that due from last year s to Ore. Slock Ley against probably be Down 20 per cent from the amount that would have been blocked if the strike had not taken place. Steel people have that if they Are not Given first priority it. May mean that they will be unable to maintain full production capacity throughout the Winter due to Lack of Ore. Some Winnipeg observers wednesday expressed the opinion that the government s policy in the fall months might be to move As much Ore As possible in order to prevent unemployment and interference with defence production programs. Until freeze up see storage Page 7 terminal wage talks end in failure negotiations aimed at. Settling the wage dispute at Lakehead Ter Minal elevators were broken off in Winnipeg wednesday morning with no agreement reached. Spokesman for Tho Lakehead j restrictions on the Grain terminal elevators association the movement would apply until late operators said we re Back where we were before this talk the terminal workers were re presented at the negotiations which took place monday and tues Day by Frank Dent the International brother Hood of railway steamship clerks shortly after the talks we re called off or. Hall said he was leaving at once for the twin cities at the heart of the lakes to with terminal workers and report in october when the Ore froze up and became too difficult to handle. It was Learned Ore was moving now to the steel Mills about As fast As unloading equipment could Deal with it it was understood that ships now in Ore would probably stay there right till freeze up. They would Likely be withdrawn Only if the tie up at the Lakehead terminals threatened according to reliable russian hands. American diplomats who Dis a closed this today indicated that British officials Are Cool to ache would be taken on the outcome on the negotiation to vote within week he said the workers now wanted j to take a strike vote. He presumed his would be done within a provided there were no new de Likely action Caf Supply base Ottawa big Supply ase for the 12 lighter squadrons intends to Europe s opening Lor business it hangar England 22 Miles irom the . Lighter base at North jul Fenhan where three squadrons of Are based. Son s idea but apparently have flatly rejected it. Acheson told eaten they said that the a s. Is prepared to give an immediate Token Grant of to to Iran if Britain simultaneously would 1. Buy the tons of re fined Oil and Oil products now stored in huge tanks along the per Sian Gulf. Tbs would bring the iranian government about 000 at present world Market Pri for a 40-Cenls-Art-hour pay no Rush bids for farm help in Manitoba ample Supply of farm help for harvesting operations in Manitoba was reported wednesday by farm help service and unemployment commission officials As the first groups of workers arrived in the City from Eastern Canada. Wednesday brought More than l300 harvesters to this Western Dis on conure on railway Mexcur. And other expect red thursday. I demand for workers in Manitoba operators said the Union fought lat pres Cal is Slack officials of the vote sometime in september. The last session Between the two parties in the dispute was held tuesday afternoon. Principals were to talk to each other by phone Early wednesday to decide whether further sessions were warranted. The phone talks resulted in the called off. Demands a spokesman for the terminal 2. Declare Britain s willingness to abide by International arbitration of its Long standing dispute with Iran Over nationalization of Anglo iranian Oil company. The in j crease instead of the 16 cents re commended by a conciliation Board a 40-hour week instead of the 44 hour week recommended and a Sec wage talks Page s nitrate overdone found in 100 Minnedosa Wells Minnedosa Man., special Over 100 Wells have been examined by medical health officer or. J. C. Graham and he is Satis fied they contain More nitrates Nan Are considered Safe. Doctor told Council which nitrate could be blamed had been found during the two year investigation. Nitrates can have ser Ous on infants including the condition known As Blue babies. Councillors who had asked for he investigation Felt Minnedosa s new sewage and water works system Complete within a would eliminate the Haz Ard. Council also Laid out two areas which members Felt would serve or Industrial expansion. Provin Ial Trade and Commerce officials Van Ted the information for a gov rement publication being prepared n the possibilities for develop to Cut in the town. More than a year ago the same conditions. Only in ;