Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition leg Winnipeg sunny with a few Cloudy periods tomorrow. Risk of scattered Thunder storms overnight and tomorrow morning. Winds South West 20 tomorrow Low and High 70 and 90. Vol. 59 no. 283 30 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg monday August 25, 1952 Moon rises 12.13 . Sun rises 6.33 . Moon sets 9.43 . Sun sets . Forecast sunny and hot Lynn Lake line spans mighty construction gangs North of Sherridon Man., Are battling through Bush and swamp to build Manitoba s newest railway the 147-mile line to Tuffe Mammoth Lynn Lake Nickel venture near the 57th parallel last week the Dominion Bridge company completed main construction of the first of three Bridges to Cross the Churchill River near Pukatawagan. As the picture Centre was taken workmen were placing the last few steel girders in the Centre Section of the Span. Another 200-foot Bridge and a 100-foot one will eventually Complete the crossing of the turbulent Churchill. From the Sherridon end steel has now been Laid to a Point about four Miles from town. Grading Lias been completed for about 30 Miles and roughed out for another 30 Miles. Clearing is Complete along the bal Ance of the route. The railway will bring civilization its evils and its comforts to the Indian settlement of Pukatawagan heat wave cracks Prairie records pedestrian nabs baby in 2-Storey plunge Baltimore Book knew what to do when he was out for a sunday stroll and saw a baby crawling along the ledge of a second floor window. He ran across the Street and waited underneath. Sure enough James Kenner jr., came toppling Down and Sidney made a neat catch. Jimmy was unhurt. Canoe upset tosses pair into torrent one grabs dam Gate second swept Over Falls fort Frances special 7wo tourists had a miraculous escape from death during the week end when they were swept through a dam Gate at the top of the Devil s cascades 35 Miles North of Here at top of Rainy Lake. One of them was brought to la Verendrye Hospital Here in a battered condition after being swept e. Quarter of the Way Down the West sure to reject Russ terms red proposal for meet on German pact unacceptable by John m. Hightower Washington a Russia and the Western Powers appeared As badly split As Ever today on How to go about making a Ger Man peace treaty. A russian note proposing a big our meeting on the problem by october seemed certain to be rejected by Britain the United states and France because of the conditions which Russia specified. The soviet note handed to the Vestern Power ambassadors in vips cow saturday specified that the session should first discuss the each treaty and the formation of an All German government and Only after that should it take up a Western proposal for creation of a commission to investigate political conditions throughout German prior to holding free a. Roaring torrent i Fox acceptable water with an 80-foot drop. Droll u Here and Western Diplo j. Leishman who attended the n in Moscow Jared Man said his condition was russian terms Are unacceptable. Serious. Identity mystery the men Are known to be from Danville 111. In spite of the mystery surround in their identity Eye witnesses supplied full details of the mishap. The two men had just pushed off from Shore with their Canoe loaded with gear when it began to wobble. They plunged into the water above the dam and were taught up by the fierce current swept through one of the dam one of them caught the Side of the Gate and Hung on until res cued the other was swept Down the Falls but caught a Rock ledge a Quarter of the Way Down and was Able to hang on. Canoe split in two their Canoe had also been caught up by the current above the dam and was thrown sideways against the dam with such Force that it was broken in two. The wreckage went through the dam Gate and Down the Falls. The worst injury suffered by the Man who went Down the Cataract was a badly injured knee. The reason is that the westerners think the russians Are putting the cart before the horse and doing it deliberately for propaganda Pur poses. The russian strategy in the Long Exchange of notes on German Unity and peace which has taken place Over Many months is believed to be aimed at disrupting Western plans to associate Germany with the North Atlantic treaty defence s. Measures for German rearmament and the formation of German troop units As part of a european army Are Well advanced. Fate of . Canada s Fate times warns London Finan Cial times today published a 20 Page of the Canadian in an editorial introducing the carry extra traffic. The runway supplement the financial times will Cost about addition Monkey drops dog or hic to lose friends Atlanta a a run away Monkey took a fancy to a deserted Puppy. The dog however took a dim View. Of. The situation after the Monkey carried him High into a tree and then dropped him. The Pup bounced from limb to limb and hit the ground apparently unharmed but dazed. The Monkey quickly descended scooped up the dog and headed for tall Timber again. Grant Park zookeeper Johnny Dilbeck and Monkey Chas ing policemen plan to ate the two at the first port Unity and return Monkey to Captivity. Of the Good evil ride rails into North new Comfort for Indian but new vice too priest fears the Indian Reserve Wagan 450 Miles North of Winnipeg on the meandering Chur chill River has for years been a i the lost chord Grottoes va., a fire companies from nearby communities staged a Parade Here. Waynesboro won first Price for the company with the Best band. The company has no band. The judges Are investigating. Grain Trade cheers Ideal weather 2 polio deaths 13 new cases week end toll fiery Ball pounces on scoutmaster sex Marine discloses strange onslaught in Woods West Palm Beach Fla. A Deputy sheriff and two boy the Iron horse will be a distinct Section of the North Seldom visited by the White Man. It is 45 Miles from the nearest railway Over 100 Miles by Canoe from Sherridon and 70 Miles by air from flin flon nearest Centre of any size. By Early 1954however the 450 natives of. This wilderness hideout will have civilization suddenly thrust almost in their laps. Less than five Miles Down the River the Lynn Lake railway now under construction will pass Over the rapids on its Way to the great Nickel mining country just South of the 57th parallel. A Novelty on wheels to these natives the air plane is a fairly common sight. But to Many scouts added details saturday to a scoutmaster s Story of his encounter with a strange object in a Rural wooded area tuesday night. They told of scorched grass strange lights and showers of Sparks in the area where d. S. Desvergers said he was blasted by a Ball of fire from the object when he investigated flashes of Light. Desvergers 30, hardware sales Man former Marine said he was questioned Friday night by officers from Washington whom he refused to identify. The scoutmaster has described the object he encountered As shaped like half a rubber about three feet thick at the edges and High enough at the Centre for men to stand erect inside. Might cause panic he told Palm Beach reporters that he knows what the object was but added it s better for me not to go any further for the Public Good because it might cause Desvergers reporter1, he was Tak ing three scouts Home tuesday night when he stopped to invest Novelty. Pukatawagan residents who fur her confuse the pronunciation Dif Mculty by calling their Home Puk Are mostly trappers and fishermen who have spent All their Ives roaming the unspoiled Forest about them. Trains and other accessories of Craf plans big projects for Portage by Shane Mackay Ottawa special nearly s2 000 000 Worth of new work will Ligate lights in nearby Woods. He be undertaken at Portage la said when he flashed his Light on Prairie in connection with opera the object he was blasted by the Tion of the . S new advanced flying training school there next month. The air Force plans to construct a s i mile pipeline from the air port to Portage to carry aviation gasoline. The pipe work on which will begin shortly will be of four Inch diameter and will Cost about plans also Call for a new hard surface runway at the Field to Ball of fire and overcome. Deputy sheriff Mott n. Partin summoned by the scouts said the hair was singed off Desvergers arms and three tiny holes were burned in his Cap. Says for the last 12 years the Cana Dian Economy has expanded in a Way it would be hard to parallel in any other country at any time. The causes of this Prosperity Are apparent. Canada is a very Large country enormously Rich in raw materials. It is a Prosperity which depends primarily upon the High prices which Are being paid for raw the financial times issues a warning however. The weakness of this position it. Continues is that Canada de pends so much upon the United states. Canadians can never be freed from the fear of a slump in the United states for which they would not be in any Way. Responsible and which they could do Little to Al works Are planned in the renova Tion of buildings and construction of new quarters. Advanced flying trainees will be transferred gradually from the pre sent station at Macdonald which was reopened last year. Macdonald . Officials said will continue As a Pilot gunnery school. Bridge column Page 4. Comics pages a 9. Crossword Puzzle Page 10. Deaths and funerals Page 28. Financial news and commodity markets Page 21. Reral Atory Page in society news Juges 11, 12. 13. Sports news Page 16 to 19. Ike urges cold warning to russians new York Wight d. Eisenhower said today that because of the soviet master plan of Conquest this nation today stands in greater peril than at any time in our he called for a Clear Strong warning to the russians from the states must Tell the soviets with cold finality that never shall we rest Content until the tidal mud of aggressive communism has re ceded within its own he said. Eisenhower spoke at the Ameri can legion National convention at Madison Square Garden. Old City firm being sold reports say one of the biggest stationery firms in the City Willson stationery company limited is changing hands according to re ports circulating Here. The firm one of the oldest in the City is located at 222 Mcdermot Avenue. The Montreal Trust company it was Learned is hand Ling negotiations. G. Lowe Assis Tant manager declined comment monday but said a press state ment would be issued tuesday. The stationery company was founded in Winnipeg about 1900 by h. L. Willson who came Here from Toronto. After his death in october 1950, he was succeeded As president and general Mana Ger by s. J. Vogan who has been connected with the business since about 1928. Tempera tires period ending at 6.30 . Monday were min. Max. Prec Vancouver .56 63 55 74 Edmonton 74 Swift current .-64 -88 Saskatoon 60 88 Relna 58 96 Brandon. 68 97 Winnipeg .67 93 53 to .51 s7 51 7f Ottawa. 51 73 Regina Brandon Winnipeg port Churchill port. Arthur Rivers school reports its second fatality Manitoba s 10th two More polio deaths saturday and 13 cases Over the week end pushed Manitoba s casualty toll to 241-with 10.dead. One of the victims 27-year-old sgt. John Pitman was the second polio fatality reported from the joint air training school at Rivers within the past five Days. Sgt. Pit Man whose parents live in Dart n.s., was attached to the permanent staff of the . Rivers also reported another Case boosting if total for the year to l3. The other week end polio fatality was mrs. Joyce Robinson 25, of Rathwell Man. Both the victims died in Winnipeg hospitals. Eight of the 13 cases reported Over the weekend showed signs of to bring its total to 40 the suburbs recorded four to make their total 36 and the epidemic area an other four setting its nine week toll at 107. Steinbach reported one Case. Most of the reports Are about one week old polio committee doctors said monday. Although polio was smoulder ing All Over the province there seemed Little Chance that another epidemic would begin this late in the year doctors said. With the exception of the Southern Manitoba area where the disease seemed to be on the decline there had been no other serious concentration of the disease they added. Trains Ana a lilt in jul Sinics i the White Man however Are bringing the provinces Elty to chief Solomon Colombe who total of partial paralysis victims to is been the elected Leader of his j 129 with 102 suspects. See Lynn Lake Page 10 Winnipeg added three new cases food taking smaller slice of family pay housewife getting better Quality than in 35 housewives May groan about the High Cost of food but their dining room tables groan even louder under the weight of More and bet ter food than before the War. And they arc spending proportionately less of the family income for it than in the period 1935 to 1939. An article in the August Issue of he economic Annalise published by the Federal department of Agri culture states that in 1951 canadians spent one per cent less of their disposable incomes per capita on food than in 1935. In 1933, 573. Per person 24 per cent of the per capita disposable income of that year was spent on food. During the following 17 years the annual per capita expenditure for food increased until it reached 5245 in 1951. But incomes Rose by an even greater degree and the ?245 figure in 1951 represented Only 23 per cent of disposable in pm. But for this expenditure canadians got More and better food in 1951. If they had been willing to buy the same Quality and Quantity per person As in their food Bill in 1951 would have been 14 per cent of their disposal income for first and second instead of 23 per formerly foes pilots die together in Toronto backyard Toronto pilots on opposite sides in the second world War dived their failing two seater plane into a tiny Back Yard in a thickly populated Toronto area saturday and perished in the Flam ing wreckage. The victims were Charles Mckay 38, the John pret Ner 30, both of Toronto. Jav Mckay flew with thei . During the second world War with the German Luftwaffe. Court jolts Malan policy of segregation Capetown South Africa Reu government s racial sen relation program received a Jolt today when a Capetown magistrate unfair native declared there had been discrimination against a african. The accused was found innocent of the charge of siting in a part of Capetown Railroad station reserved for europeans. Hundreds p f africans organized in a passive resistance Campaign have been arrested for violating similar Segre gation Laws. There is no the Magis trate that the Standard of equipment Aud facilities provided work round clock to bring in giant crop Western Farmers from Mani Toba to the Foothills of the Rockies monday were seizing the offered by made to harvesting weather to gather Rich Grain crops from their Fields. It was the second Harvest in less than four months and weather conditions resemble the Days in april and May when some bushels of Grain left since the fall of fully harvested. Grain men jubilant Grain men in Winnipeg monday were jubilant Over the harvesting it is something we did t gel at All last one elevator offi Cial said. By the same Point last season Rains had started that made the Harvest such a disastrous one. The Rains hardly stopped from mid August to freeze up. While lumbering combines dotted All the Southern Fields of the three Prairie provinces crops further North were rapidly turning from Green to Ripe yellow in the warm sunny weather. A week or two of this was expected to clean up most of Man Toba s crop along with the bulk of Southern Saskatchewan s. Northern Saskatchewan and Al Berta stands would be a Little later developing and would not be Gath ered until somewhat later. At full Speed elevator companies with head quarters in Winnipeg monday re ported the new crop was beginning to flood in in the Prairie regions where harvesting was proceeding at full Speed. Railway reports of country marketing bore out this statement. A source of pleasure to top Grain officials in Winnipeg monday was the condition of the Grain that was coming in. It was dry and grading in the top brackets. This meant that less storage space would be required to handle it. Out of condition Grain requires extra space for Binning the off grades such As Damps and toughs. Early indications were that Little of this would be required if Wea ther continued. Work hound clock Farmers in Southern sections of the three provinces were reported working practically round the clock. Vehicle lights were assisting night work in combining and scathing. No time was being lost waiting for morning Dews to disappear. High temperatures were preventing any Dews whatever in most South Ern regions. Class Mui Seigers is much inferior to those provided for european first and second class trial of 21 other. African passive resisters on a similar charge was adjourned today in Johannesburg while the judges inspected the station there. Wrecked ship St h e burning wreck -6t what is believed to be a 500-ton vessel was sighted East of gape Bonavista on the East coast of Newfoundland by a search plane today the plane spotted the wreckage at Dawn today and said there was native of yugoslav no sign of other ships Are in the immediate Vicinity. City soaks up 54 million gals. Parched Earth and perspiring citizens soaked up 54 million Gallons of greater Winnipeg s water Supply saturday and sunday As temperature peaks for the two Days averaged 95.5. Although perspiration output was probably breaking All rec ords the water consumption was Only slightly above aver age Winnipeg s engineering officials said monday. Saturday s High Low year s top Clear Lake Hail storm misses crops. Lady May he s Castle ghost roam Queen Mother chooses lonely estate in Scotland Pells cars Mother Elizabeth has bought a Remote scottish Castle built in 1606 and reputed to be haunted for use As a summer Home. Some past tenants claim t o have spotted the ghost of a woman walking the Halls by night. Local tradition has it that Sliewa s starved to death in the Stone dungeons beneath the Castle about two Cen Turies ago. Her identity has not survived the passing years. The picturesque 40-room bar Rogillo Castle stands on the wind swept coast of Caithness Only seven Miles from John o groats tip of Britain. It is 750 Miles from Miles from the nearest railway station Thurso and has no Tele phone no or Central heating. The Queen Mother s Only neighbors will be a few tenant far mers. Roaring northerly winds sweep the area. Part of the Castle s roof blew . The estate once was owned by tie earldom of Caithness. It was sold to the Queen Mother by capt. . Who has lived the heat wave breaking rec ords right and left on the Prairies will continue the Weatherman says. Monday s Lemper Turc would hit 95, dropping at night to a new record High for the Low of 70, he forecast. The temperature at noon Mon Day stood at so above. Manitoban flocked to beaches Parks Over the week end and Many Winnipeg residents camped out in City Parks and Back Yards overnight. Saturday s temperature hit 9s.2 degrees in Winnipeg year s High est aug. 23 on record. Brandon sheltered under a 102 degrees. Me Lita recorded 100 above saturday while Carman and Purl age la see weather Page 6 Board denies space wasting at Rathwell Many initial deliveries of Grain still. To come bread Grain crops Good Over world Washington wheat and Rye crops May give the world a record breaking bread stuffs Harvest this year the United states deportment of agriculture said sunday. The record set in 1938, is Short tons. Conditions were recorded As Good to record breaking almost every where. A notable exception was soviet Russia from which Only sketchy information record wheat crops Are predicted for the bushels and 000. Argentina where last year s crop was a virtual failure reports the Outlook Good at the Start the growing season. Australia expected a Bushel decline from last year s figure. There for the last 20 years. The Price was not disclosed. Summers in North the widowed Queen Mother Scot Tish born spends her Summers North the Border. But the Royal family s Balmoral near Dee Side Lias been taken Over by Queen Elizabeth ii. Rooms of Barr Ogill Are lighted by Oil lamps and the Only heating is from ornate peat burning grates. Fishing boats save 50 from downed plane Trapani Sicily Crip pled four engine British Airliner plunged into the Mediterranean Early today off this West sicilian Ort but fishing boats saved 50 of lie 57 persons reported aboard and recovered three bodies in a drama lie night time Rescue. In London the plane s operators said the Ilane carried 51 Passen Gers including four babies and a Crew of six. All were britons. British planes from Malta ital Ian aircraft from nearby airfields and italian naval Craft from tra Pani scanned the disaster scene about three Miles offshore this mor Ning for the missing persons., Sawyer denies steel pact inflationary Washington Nyht Charles Sawyer . Commerce Secretary reported after a nation wide Survey that the immediate effect of the steel strike settlement on consumer prices is negligible and that major Price changes Are reports space sufficient to accommodate bushels of Grain was available at Rathwell Man., monday morning were denied by spokesmen for the Canadian wheat Board. The situation at Rathwell at aug. 15 was that space for bushels was empty they said. Since that time the spokesmen said 26 cars had been shipped from the Point. The shipments took about bushels leaving present available space at bushels. Still to come but still to come in on initial delivery quotas were bushels of wheat bushels of Oats bushels of Barley and bushels of flax for total deliveries on the first quota of bushels. If quotas were raised now farm ers who had not yet made their initial deliveries would not be Able to do so when they w Ere Able a Board spokesman said he said that the wheat Board checks each delivery Point constantly and when conditions warrant de livery quotas Are raised. He said it would be unfair to allow Farmers who had made their initial deliveries to go ahead with further marketing before other Farmers got their first deliveries in. Hail discounted he said the wheat Board was in touch with elevator agents at All Points and they were keeping the Board posted on delivery standings. Meanwhile reports of Hail in scattered Manitoba patches sunday night were being discounted As sources of major crop damage. The area receiving the Hail was believed to be a Small one. Not indicated this for the balance of or. Sawyer took direct Issue with stabilization without naming him. Or. Arnall who has submitted his resignation maintained throughout the steel dispute thai granting a Price increase to Industry would be dangerously inflationary. Waist deep flood ousts Panmunjom personnel movie an anti Climax Mun san Korr a states Security personnel at the Wanmui Isom truce site had weather problems today. A rain flooded Stream forced them out of their campsite. Troops Ellis g. Arnall director of Price waded through Waist deep water and moved 11 tents and equipment to High ground near the armistice conference tent. Mun san the movie to night was titled singing in the ;