Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg sunny with occasional Cloudy intervals. Cooler. Wind Light. Low tonight and High tomorrow 55 and 75. Vol. 59 no. 284 28 pages Price by. 30 cents per week Winnipeg tuesday August 26, 1952 Moon rises 1.29 . Moon sets 10.05 . Sun sets s 1.29 rises 6.34 . 8.23 j forecast fair and cooler ditched plane somersaults 9 escape Canberra sets Ocean record War criminal freed Bonn Germany Tish authorities monday re leased Alfred Mohr 59, from their prison at Werl reducing to 128 the number of German War criminals still held there. Raf bomber is first to Fly Over Back in one Day Aldergrove Airfield nor Thern Ireland can i Berra Jet bomber completed the first flight across the Atlantic and Back inside one Day and crossed the finish line at p. M. But a. M. The Jet bomber flashed across the Ocean and Back in slightly More than 10 hours. The double crossing in a single Day was the first in history. The Black Canberra also smashed All records for a Pas Sage As it streaked Home from Gander. Nfld., Western terminus of the flight. The homeward flight from Gan Der took Only three hours 24 min utes. The outward crossing slowed by headwinds took four hours 41 minutes. The three Man Crew spent about two hours at Gander refuel Ling. The whole trip of Miles took 30 hours five minutes including a two hour Stopover at Gander. Time table this was the timetable of the bomber s trip in terms of British summer time which is six hours ahead of Central Daylight a. Aldergrove. A. Gander. P. Gander. P. Aldergrove. The plane fought 100-mile-an hour headwinds on its East to West flight but was helped by them on the trip Home. The twin Jet bomber belongs to . And is piloted by Wing cmdr. Roland Beamont 32, with a Crew of two. It is Miles from Here to Gander making the round trip about Miles. Below record the Ireland Newfoundland leg was made at an average of about 448 Miles an hour against the record of 483.91 Beamont made in the same plane last aug. 31. The Canberra s maximum Speed is an official secret but it is believed to be capable of approaching the Speed of 660 Miles an hour at sea level. Beamont is an r. A. F. Hero of the Battle of Britain having shot Down 10 German planes and 32 Al flying bombs during the second world War. In february he flew Africa chant fills air at hearing mob gathers at court As resisters Are tried Johannesburg South Africa deep Roar of t african voices chanting their National Anthem outside the courthouse Here today nearly drowned out the prosecutor As he outlined his allegations of communism against 20 leaders of the passive resistance Campaign. As the hearing continued More africans and indians arrived on the scene by bus and truck to swell the crowd of assembled at one Corner of the court House. Today s hearing started a preliminary examination to determine whether the leaders can be tried under the country s suppression of communism act. The prosecution charges the 20 african and Indian leaders with encouraging achievement of the objects of communism by their organized Campaign against racial segregation Laws and regulations. Another 250 Indian and White j students of the University went in twos and threes to another court i see Africa Page 7 u if incl. Bridge column Page 4. Comics pages 8, 9. Crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths and funerals Page 38. Financial news and commodity markets Page 26. I serial Story Hajje 14. Society news pages 11, 12, 13. Sports news pages in to 18. A Canberra from London to Tripoli at an average Speed of 541 Miles an hour. No word about Rita As Aly flies to Paris new York a Aly Khan flew off for Paris monday without a word on whether he expects a reconciliation with actress wild Hayworth his estranged wife. He had been in this country since. Aug. 4, visiting Rita and their three year old daughter Yasmin at tending a Sale of 20 of his father s yearlings and looking Over the horses in Kentucky. A big Jolt .1 can t remember Dauphin Carpenter gives first hand account wrecked plane As it looked today. temperature readings during Tow 24 hour period ending at 6.30 . Tuesday were min. Prec. Vancouver a 5g 59 5-j Calgary 37 Edmonton sol Al current Saskatoon Regina Brandon Winnipeg port. Churchir port Arthur Toronto Ottawa Montreal Hali 4b 63 66 60 64 52 is is 91 flaps 9v 76 to to to to .01 British Canberra Jet plane Here and Back in a Day crop so dry wheat cracks loss feared Sloppy Combine work could Cost plenty Board warns present weather is excellent for harvesting but it has confronted Farmers with a serious problem that May Cost them a lot of Money. The wheat has become so dry and Brittle that some of it is cracking under the threshing pro Cess. As a result the Grade is Low ered. In order to avoid heavy loss from de grading Farmers. Were warned tuesday to make Quick adjustments to their harvesting machinery. _ breakage increasing a. F. Dollery chief of the Board of Grain commissioners inspection Branch said in Winnipeg that samples of new crop Grain received in the past few Days showed a marked increase in the percentage of kernels damaged in harvesting. The damage was most marked in samples of wheat threshed in Saskatchewan. He said he was very concerned that a Good crop might be spoiled through Lack of care by Combine heaviest eve years or. Dollery said that the amount of split and broken kernels coming in in samples indicated that dam age from this source so far was the heaviest in Many seasons. He was concerned he said that Farmers make the necessary adjust ments at once before a major part of the crop is damaged. Duchess takes family on sad pilgrimage London Reuters the Duchess of Kent the Queen s aunt took her three children to Scotland monday on a Pil Grimage to the scene of the air crash in which her Hus band was killed aug. 25, 1942. The family spent about two hours at Braemore where Al big Sunderland patrol flying boat crashed and killed the Duke brother of the late King. Japs after . Planes Hong Kong Reuters of City aldermen burned up on dumping i dumping and burning of refuse Ion property just South of River Heights must cease the. Health committee agreed monday after m. S. Lougheed medical noon. J or. Health officer was asked to see that the nuisance was immediately abated d. Hurst City defence puts truck Driver through quiz facing criminal charge bus Driver chooses jury trial defence counsel for 30-year-old bus Driver Robert Staves of Crook Ston minn., asked in court tues Day Why the Driver of a disabled truck and trailer had not sent immediately for an emergency Crew to take his truck off no. 75 High prel13iexars hearing the bus Driver is charged with failing to use reasonable precaution and care and causing grievous bodily harm no Bert Miller 56, of Winnipeg one of eight persons who died Early july 3 near St. Norbert Man. Evidence showed that a bus driven by Staves had crashed into the rear of a truck and Semi trailer parked at the Side of the Highway. Staves a Driver for greyhound bus lines chose jury trial on a charge of criminal negligence against him in provincial police court tuesday. A preliminary hear ing on the charge got under Way immediately before magistrate d. G. Potter. G. E. Tritschler counsel for asked Joseph Sopko 22, of lot 49 Charleswood Driver of the truck involved in the Accident Why he had been Content to put out flares and remain in his truck. He suggested that another Driver who had been present when or. Sopko s truck lost the. Wheels on the trailer should have been sent in to get an emergency Crew. Stay outside truck or. Tritschler also asked Why or. Sopko hah not remained out Side his truck to see whether the flares kept burning and suggested that lie should have left ing lights on until his Battery ran Down. In his truck Driver said he had not. Pulled Oft to the shoulder of the Road because it was civil service Council presses for Extension of 5-Day Ottawa the staff s i d e of the National joint Council of the civil service monday sent a Brief to the civil service commission urging the five Day work week due to Ena next week end be continued at least through sep tember and october. The staff associations urged that the five Day week effective in most government depart ments for a 10-week period each summer should apply the year around across Canada. Hon. D. C. Abbott finance min ister. Has ordered a National sur determine Cost of the proposal. _ Europe makes plea for More Liberal . Import policy Paris United states must adopt a More Liberal policy towards imports from eur Ope to help solve the Dollar shortage., the european pay ments Union said . Coupled with u. S. Tariff program european countries have should strive to develop their Dollar exports the e. P. U. Annual report said. E. P. U. Was born two years ago As -.a. Central Clearing House for Trade payments Between Western european countries. Through Brit Ain it takes in entire Sterling facials of the japanese airlines Engineer will be asked to report company Are on their Way to Bri Jon the matter with the of Tain to order Worth of carting away refuse now dumped soft and he thought he would have British aircraft including Comet there. Turned Over. Jet airliners. The company Hopes soon to begin overseas service to the United Okinawa and Europe. Decision on judge due soon appoint ment of a new judge to the Mani Toba courts made at the end of this week it was Learned tuesday. The appointment will fill the vacancy in. The Manitoba court of Appeal caused by the death of or. Justice a. K. Dysart. The new judge by tradition a roman Cath Olic will be named either to the appellate court or to the court of Queen s Bench. If Hie were named to the latter one of the present members of the court of Queen s Bench would be ,0 elevated to the court of Appeal. While the worst examples of three barristers have damaged kernels had come from Saskatchewan or. Dollery said that Manitoba Farmers As Well had failed to adjust their machinery properly and their wheat was being degraded because of the quent damage to kernels. Toned in Winnipeg Legal circles As possible appointees. They Are George Tritschler w. A. Molloy and Frank Sutton All of Winnipeg. Or. Justice Dysart died suddenly last month while holidaying at Moncton . He was 76. The area bounded on the East by Waverley Street the North by the . Tracks the West by Ash the Grant Avenue was selected. Lor the dumping of tree trunks and branches about two years ago the committee was reminded. Wind carries smoke when a Southwest wind blows smoke is Likely a nuisance or. E. J. Rigby chief inspector for the health said in a report. Not Only was the for branches tree stumps and grass clippings but also for tin cans bottles building Domestic garbage bread wrappers Dixie cups bread crusts and Orange peelings he said. Those alleged to have used the site for dumping according to the report included City Hydro the Winnipeg electric the Manitoba Telephone system the Public Parks Board the City engineering depart ment and Many private truckers and garbage men. All these parties will be notified. Not City s responsibility a second report from or. Higby revealed that a smoke nuisance which recently plagued residents of Nairn Avenue in Eli to of came from the St. Boniface garbage dump. He had borrowed two flares from another Driver and had set out three flares in Good condition Jie said. One flare was 75 feet South of the disabled truck in the direction irom which the Winnipeg bound ius came he testified. The hearing continued tuesday afternoon. In troops repulse three red assaults on Bunker Hill Seoul Korea nations infantrymen last night and today threw Back three chinese assaults against Bunker Hill on the korean. Western front killing or wounding one third the 800 Nian communist Force. The lighting raged for nearly eight hours. At some Point troops closed in hand to hand combat on the Muddy slopes soaked by six inches of rain in 48 hours. Labor Israel meet thirty five delegates to the Cana Dian association for labor Israel convention to be held in Ottawa aug.-30 to sept. 1, will leave Winnipeg thursday night via Canadian will be in charge of the group. More than 350 delegates from coast to coast Are Khz ruled to attend. His fans fare worse Wear tear not bears Bruin s Doin nos Tewin about 7.30 . Monday while residents of Riverton Man., 88 Miles North of Winnipeg were just finishing sup per eight desperate men were furiously tossing gigs Olinet Drums and baggage from a stricken aircraft into the. Plane had a smashed Pontoon and the Pilot decided to crash land rather than risk drowning in the Lake. A Dauphin Carpenter on his he tells this Story by John Chupka i received a wire telling me blood Blind boy Pilot crash hero Pontoon rips Loose passenger panics Craft flips with blood in his eyes a Grin for his eight passengers and one Pontoon dangling crazily from his Bellanca skyrocket aircraft 18-year old Bush Pilot Bob Shinnie of Winnipeg crash landed near Way from Norway House to Riverton and overturned attend his Ranier Allaround 7.30 . Monday was sitting alongside the Pilot. None the i survived. I the plane returning from nor of come Home to Dauphin to Way House skimmed Low Over attend 1 h e funeral of my grandson who had died recently and 1 he funeral was supposed to be today Mon we were flying from Norway House to Riverton and Riverton roof tops circled the town twice and crashed in a Field 200 Yards from the Home or. And mrs. Oddur it skidded 50 feet before had been in the air about two jux Jipping Over on its Back hours i think. Suddenly the plane a i e a big Jolt then continued on. I was sitting beside the Pilot up and i can t re Mem her exactly How it happened but i think lie struck his head on the control stick be Rause his forehead began bleed ing. I got out my handkerchief and tried to Clear the blood from his eyes. Then the Pilot said he was going to try. And land. He told me lie thought he lost one of his pontoons hut he said he see eyewitness Page 7 heat wave Heads East City Cooling 96-hour roast Breaks water soft Elfrink records by Vera Bozyk so you re sorry for the bears the zoo in this heat Park the sympathy. It s on the wrong Side of the Cage. Humans fare worse say the experts. In spite of the heat and the Long shaggy fur the bears Are apparently Only a Little less comfortable than during cooler weather. The Sleeker Anir rials seem to suffer much More. Last week s Liot spell Laid one Young Deer Low with heat stroke Accord ing to George Grantham the 7.00 keeper hut the Deer is now up and about. The City s three lion cubs Are doing Fine. The Birds Droop a Little head for the Shade or plunge their Heads in water. The diggers such As gophers go underground to Cool off Cones tossed from a perspiring Public. There s a moral Here some where. During the heat you just can t beat being a Polar Bear. Cooler weather is on the Way. Heat parched Winni Eggers who sheltered through a four Day hot spell tuesday morning awoke to find the hot air mass moving East. Although tuesday was to be warm temperatures weren t expected to Rise above the Low 80 a according to the Weatherman. High monday was 91, three de Grees below the record for aug. 25 which was established 1 in 1920. In 96 hours the heat wave chalked up the hottest Day since. August 8, 1949. Registered the hottest aug. 23 98.2 degrees. Drew Gallons of water out. Of the City s Reservoir a new record. Caused the greatest ice Cream and soft drink consumption of the year. Packed the City s three Public swimming pools. Hottest spot on the Prairies Mon Day was at Estevan sask., where see weather Page. 7 passenger panics i inside the plane As it circled passengers fought to control one i Man who momentarily became panic stricken after Bob Shinnie 593 Alverstone Street ordered bag Gage seats and gasoline Drums thrown overboard to lighten the Load. All the passengers were return ing from a completed construction project on the new Indian school at Norway House. Three men were taken to Gimli Hospital with injuries and the rest were driven to Winnipeg monday night. In Gimli Hospital Are Bob Shin Nie the Pilot Bill Saunders Rublin hotel and William. Pruden 47, 488 Riverton Avenue both of the Carlson decorating company Winnipeg. The other passengers were rag Ner Oxford hotel Bill Lawrie 220 Bannatyne Avenue and Alec Cochrane Roblin hotel All employees of the Carlson decorating company and Lambert England 4gs Bannatyne Avenue Victor Kirsch 258 Isabel Street and John Ciupka Dauphin All employed by Wyatt construction company of. Winnipeg. A rays taken tuesday morning at Gimli showed the three injured men were in fairly Good condition. Bob Shinnie May be released to and while appetites fall off for slightly there s no cause worry. Bears can Bear it but the bears seem to have it All their Way. According to or. Grantham they Lake the heat and cold with equal nonchalance. Like the rest of the animals they get w altered. Down approximately three times a Day. They be got a cubicle of cold water to submerge in and they get most of the ice Cream Polar Bear takes a dip see air crash Page 6 Grain men see threat at Lakehead strike vote ballots going to workers by Michael Best distribution of strike vote ballots among some Grain handlers at Lakehead terminal elevators was scheduled to begin tuesday. The ballots will ask workers whether they Are willing to strike action to enforce their wage demands against the 15-Odd Eleva Tor companies comprising the Lake head terminal elevators association. The strike ballot is the newest chapter in the protracted dispute Between the terminal workers and. The operators represented by the association. Deadline for return of the bal lots is sept. 3, and a Union official has indicated they would be counted that night. Results of Tho vote and Date of strike action if such is demanded by the workers Are expected to be announced at a meeting of see. Strike threat Page 6 or. Brown Bear at Assiniboine Park cot tag of i m not twitching it s just Static London Tele vision Telephone enabling a per son at one end the wire to see the caller at the o ther end was demonstrated today in London. Primarily intended of Busi Ness and Industrial use the makers Hope it can be adopted for use in the trans Atlantic Telephone system. The phone has a Small Tele vision screen in front of it. It is being demonstrated at the National radio show Here. Desk worker Likely to get Harvest plea by the Canadian press faced with possibly the biggest wheat crop in history Prairie Agri cultural officials expect Jusy la have to wean White Collar work hrs from their desks to help Harvest it. The situation could be worse officials say. European immigrants have strengthened the available labor Force by 700 men in Saskatchewan and Alberta. But requests to Central and East Ern Canada for help Are expected to bring Only of the workers needed a Canadian press Survey shows. In Many areas men will be asked to forsake the City for the wages close to a month plus Board. The worst labor shortage is expected in Alberta where Oil companies and firms laying a trans Mountain pipe line Are offering High wages to floating help. Manitoba s Harvest labor needs Are being met satisfactorily see Page plenty of rain and Sunshine m the West is contributing to the record yields expected. Central and Eastern Canada re port Little movement of farm la Bor across provincial Borders. Wages were nowhere As High As in the West with Ontario workers getting a month with Board and Quebec workers s85 ;