Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition weather forecast Winnipeg cold with variable cloudiness. Winds Northwest at 15.low tonight and High sunday 30 and 10 below. Vol. 60 no. 107 62 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg saturday january 31, 1953 Sun rises 8 04 . Moon rises 7.29 . Sun sets 5.20 . Hoon sets 8.88 . Forecast cold decontrol of Grain to up Canada sales British experts feel when. Non Dollar wheat too High traders will turn to Dominion says Treasury spokesman by Alan Harvey Canadian press staff writer London source said guardedly today that Britain decision to hand the Grain Back to private Enterprise May in crease Canadian wheat sales. With fingers crossed a Treasur spokesman said he thinks tha when Freedom is restored to Bri ish traders alter the next Harves it should stimulate rather than d press wheat purchases from can Ada. Britain announced Jan 21 tha decontrol cereals an feeding stalls is on the Way. From the Canadian viewpoint the be Point of that announcement is tha the British government intends t avoid paying Premium prices of non-dollar1 wheat. Treasury and food ministry experts Are trying to work out formula whereby Dollar licence for wheat can be issued at Shor notice to take advantage of an shaded changes in the Market. Thus subject to the vagaries o Britain s Dollar reserves trader will be encouraged to buy Cana Dian wheat whenever there is tendency for non Dollar wheat t be at a Premium. Exact forecasts Are difficult t make. Private traders have been out of the Market for 15 years during that time government Buli buying May have obscure toe real Supply and demand Posi Tion. On Tala Rice shedding of controls May Haye Little appreciable effect for some years. The said a food minis try spokesman you be got the wheat and we want import statistics Tell a revealing tale. In 1si52 Britain imported 78, hundredweight of wheat new plan to Europe would earmark funds for military assistance a plan to bring purely economic Aid to Western Europe to an end promptly and switch american for Europe Over to a military assistance basis Only will be discussed Here during the visit of Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security director Harold e. Stassen it was Learned Friday. West Berlin Greece and Turkey would be the Only exceptions to the proposed military assistance Only Rule these for special reasons of their Well nigh insoluble econ Omic problems and their important strategic positions in i holding the front against communism. In the Case of France such a switch of the Aid program would involve a shift of american dollars direct to indo China which represents the main Drain on France s balance of payments position. Same sums spent the proposal which has been under lengthy discussion at the Mutual Security administration Headquarters in Paris is aimed not so much at reducing the Aid program As currently planned As it is on in the immediate stages in other words just is much Money would probably be spent but instead of the Broad operation of commodity buying and counterpart fund programming in which. Mesa is now involved the spending would be in a direct and simple Lino leading to improved Western defences one estimate 5s, that f Mesa could get out of its economic program ing which involve the most meticulous calculations of National economic requirements a staff saving of something like 25 per cent of present personnel could also be achieved. Large Eirc Kease in shifting to a military assistance Only basis the United states would undertake in the main a Large increase in its offshore Purchase program which will amount to about in this current fiscal year. Here there Are some difficulties to be ironed out As for example in the Case of the Purchase of Centurion tanks from great Britian. Under the jaw As it now stands the United states has put up for an order of about 500 centurions to be delivered to the dutch and danish armies. But under the Law Mesa cannot buy centurions from the British army. What Mesa must do instead is provide the British with dollars to buy wheat in the United states so that those dollars can then generate counterpart pounds Ster Ling and the Sterling then goes for the centurions. The new plan would involve a Chance in the Law so that the economic Grants for wheat would Stop but Money for centurions would be increased. Some of it from Canada. The United suites and Australia supplied Hundred Weigl apiece came from Russi and the grand total of 17 Hundred weight from other countries. This year Australia and Argen Tina the two biggest non Dolla suppliers Are expected to hav better crops than the last ones which were poor. In Liverpool a spokesman of the Corn Trade news journal o the Grain Trade said the unite kingdom has been very very d pendent on Canadian wheat an will continue to be for a ver very Long most British spokesmen decline comment on the possible effect decontrol on British negotiation under the International when agreement. One official however ventured the opinion that Brit air May be slightly less eager to Ente into Long term bulk agreements. The present International agree ment expires july 31. Negotiation on a new agreement opened Friday in Washington. A food minister spokesman Here said it seemed t him that negotiations will just b a question of Supply and nothing Dougli terms Short sighted Iwa meet told Washington Chell Sharp of Canada Friday toll he opening session of the inter National wheat Council that exporters Are not Here to try to orce unreasonable terms on Thi that would be a Short sighted approach even it it stood a Chanc if said or. Sharp can a s assistant Deputy minister of Trade. Equally i am sure that any attempt by the importers to obtain Erms which would jeopardize the apply of the world s Basic food Tuffs would be contrary to their est lie added. True Morse u. S. Under Secre Ary for agriculture said world conditions changed so dras Cally since the International heat agreement was signed 949 As to have created problems f compliance with the contract hat were Rai foreseen at the time. Representatives of forty six countries which i signed the 1949 agreement Are attending the con some exporting coun Ries Are expected to ask for higher prices. Temperatures temperature readings during the 24-hour period ending at 6.30 . Saturday were Man. Max. Free. Vancouver. 46 47 Calgary. -5 27 .11 Edmonton .-10 0 a Swift current -9 13 .03 Saskatoon -20 -3 01 Regina -11 12 04 Brandon .-17. .2 . .-23 8 .28 port -42 -32 to. Fort William 13 20 .08 Toronto 22 31. .02 Ottawa. 11 13 .01 . Fleet May quit h Formosa Washington a govern ment sources reported Friday pre Dent Eisenhower has under con duration an cider the a. 7th Fleet from formosan guard Uty in order to free chinese Atin lists for raids on the com mnist1 Mainland. Announcement of this plan May e made in Eisenhower s state of e Union message to be delivered Congress monday one informant Aid. The effect of the proposed order Ould be to rescind president Ruman s 1950 directive to the get to protect Formosa held by e chinese nationalists under Hiang Kai Shek from invasion by 16 chinese communists from the Mainland. The Truman order also called on Linese nationalists to cease All r and sea operations against the the effect has been to keep the nationalists penned up on for Osa As weft Asi to prevent any communist invasion of that Island. It was emphasized by another government official that the pro used Fleet order does not envision y attempt by the United. States blockade the China coast As has Een suggested in some quarters. Nor would the order offer any a. Help to Chiang in any attempt e might make to invade the Chi Ese Mainland this official said. The presumption was that in Uch a situation Chiang would have provide his own shipping for by hit and run raids he might undertake and could not expect american naval or land support Chiang already is receiving Mili by assistance and equipment of the . And an american Lissin in Formosa has been Active in training his troops. The widely held belief among Merican military officials has in that the chinese nationalist res Are not capable of any Large Cale assault against the Mainland. Drown As ship sinks in storm air marshal Cliitis air marshal Slemon new air chief command of the Craf today changed hands with air mar Shal w. A Curtis formally handing Over the top Post to air marshal Roy Slemon of Winnipeg. Growing air Power veiled revolution sweeping military by Douglas How Ottawa up the retiring lather of Canada s rebuilt billion dollars a year air Force says it Sajiu has t dawned fully on tha Caria in the country s Mil Teiry Structure. The traditional balances among he three armed forces have been altered air marshal w. A. Curtis said in an interview and have pm Accel the Craf in. A pre eminent position unmatched relatively by any other air Force in the world. What comes natural by he said he sees this unprecedented concentration on Airpower As a natural outgrowth of canada1 shortage of manpower heir Heidi Nical skills and Industrial re sources the 59-year-old former air who retired today after six year As chief of the air staff said Thi Dian people or even on parliament he have lifted the coun that a revolution has quietly taken try s air defences from a state o dangerous weakness to a position three More ship fires reported aircraft carriers and merchantman hit jitters mount Devonport England suspicious damage on two Roya Ravy aircraft carriers and another merchant ship fire were reported Friday night in a series of ship card incidents suggesting age. Jitters arid so spic on started two Days after a mysterious Cabin fire in the liner Queen Elizabeth in dry Dock Here later it was Learned that Detec Ives from the admiralty s Crim Inal investigation depart men barred the Carrier Triumph Sis or ship of the Warrior at Bangor Northern Ireland three Days ago investigate another mysterious minor defects the Triumph arrived in ply Friday after training opera on. A High naval official said minor defects of an unexplained nature involving machinery in has Triumph have been Dis overed. No damage has. Fin fact occurred and the ship fully operational. The Maffer 8s being the admiralty launched a full Cale investigation after discover in a damaged electric Cable in the Arrier Warrior being overhauled Ere after carrying troops to Corea. After this announcement came a report that a Small fire had broken it aboard the freighter Ibera tied up at King George Ock. A fireboat was called after Moke drove off workmen refitting he freighter. A ranking admiralty spokesman Hile making no reference to the res or the Warrior incident arned against a communist fifth Olumn. N nazi foot is Rupert Speir parliamentary Pri ate Secretary to the first lord of in admiralty told a conservative meeting the russians arc follow in 100 per cent in nazi footsteps where we d have a fighting Chance even if War came Tomor the end of 1953, he added we so be in excellent shape ready Loray degree of mobilization the air marshal Curtis formal handed Over command of the rcaf1 to air marshal Roy Slemon in a ceremony in front of defence Headquarters. His retirement comes Only a few Days Ai Ter the government Dis closed that it proposes to spent nearly in the next Fis Cal year to. Bring the air fore buildup to its Peak. That is half the entire defence budget a Yard stick of the position the Craf has assumed. Manpower goal High it will spend nearly twice As much As the army. Its manpower goal of Rotl Ghlyn is Almos equal to that of the army a Statua Tion unparalleled elsewhere. It also is a situation which undoubtedly would have a big Impact on the Constitution of Canadian forces in a War. By the end of the next Fisca year starting april i Canada will be close to goal of a 41-Scjuadron air Force. There Wil Sabo be Tu-12-Squadron Jet air division in Europe and a Good Start on an other one at Home. Home defence fighter strength eventually will sur pass what Canada has in Europe although this May mean going beyond the 41-Scjuadrom limit. Air marshal Curtis is the father and architect of this transformation. In the interview he spoke with Pride and Unab Steed optimism about the Force he has built up As chief and about the change in Mili tary thinking it represents. Fit for the Job the fact we have sent Large expeditionary forces overseas in two wars to. Fight on the ground Rejis Page 7 lid the pm is Only that difference Between whereas the nazis had no fifth column in Britain be communists have a Large and Active fifth column. The Navy launched an immediate investigation when naval head quarters Here announced minor Amage to an electrical Cable had Een discovered on the Wei prior a get Carrier berthed at Avonport for refitting alter ser ice As aters. A troop ship in korean 323 Rii iks enter Spiel at press time saturday entries in Manitoba s 65th Bon Spiel had reached 323 138 provincial and 185 from Winnipeg clubs. The Mark is still 25 Short of Regma s record 348 rinks but Bonspiel officials that Manitoba s entry list will far surpass the Regma Spiel by the 6 . Entry deadline time saturday night. Police blame wild party for slaying Vancouver 2 British ferry lost off coast Rescue vessels reach survivors in storm lashed Waters some in lifeboats bulletin Stranraer Scotland British car ferry Princess Victoria capsized and Sank in a Hurricane today carrying an Esti mated 100 to 130 person to their deaths in raging seas off the Northern Irish coast. Belfast intercepted Here said to Day at least 100 persons Are feared to have lost their lives when the British Steamer Princess Victoria Sank in the Northern end of the Irish sea. Shore radio stations said Rescue Craft at the scene re ported seeing dozens off bodies in the Waves. Radio messages said some of the 183 persons aboard were being picked up by Rescue vessels. One of these vessels reported several bodies had been seen in the mountainous seas. Some persons apparently Man aged to get to lifeboats although the vessel had been practically lying on her Side before she Sank. A Tanker from Crew holding on for dear to in the pounding seas and began to discharge her Oil bunkers. It was hoped this would Calm the Waves enough to give people in the lifeboats a Chance for survival. Messages indicating the ton ship had gone Down were intercepted by the admiralty in Lon Don. The vessel was smashed by raging seas on her regular 36-mile trip from Stranraer to Larne ire Danes May reinforce soviet note prompts meeting with Ridgway Paris Nyht danish foreign minister Ole Bjoern Kraft Friday met Gen. Matthew b. Ridgway at supreme Al lied Headquarters Here to discuss moving additional the danish in Vasion corridor of Schles wig Holstein. Denmark is at present under heavy fire Russia for its Atlantic pact build up. Foreign minister Kraft who is. Also currently the chair Man of the North Atlan tic Council declined to comment directly on a note sent by Moscow to the danish government thursday but it was Clear that Denmark will reply much the same As it did to a similar note last october. I that reply emphasized that no foreign troops had yet been stationed on danish soil that danish defence preparations were an internal mat Ter and that any decision on stationing foreign troops would take All factors of Dan ish interest into account. The Moscow note arrives at a. Complex time for Denmark however. Norway which has a Force of about men stationed in Schleswig Holstein at the present served notice Many months ago. Of her intention to bring the unit Home where it is needed for Home defence duties. Replacement unit the Danes have now decided to move a replacement unit into the area which lies at the base of the Jutland Peninsula and which in fact was once danish territory. It is Flat coun try with Only the Kiel canal As a defence line and is the natural land invasion route into Scandinavia if soviet forces in East Germany should Ever be Given orders to Advance. Danish political parties have objected however to putting troops in a relatively isolated military position away from Home arid or. Kraft is seeking Allied reinforcements. With the open soviet threat of thurs Day s note accusing Den Mark of being a direct participant in the War which is being prepared against the Sov Iet Union there is not Only political but military urgency about the position. No final decision was reached but it was pen. Ridgway s Headquarters that several possible solutions were canvassed and the indications Are that Gen Ridgway will try and find a unit of some size or another to join the Danes on the Kiel canal line. In part it is a logistical j and since any i int detached and cent North to. Schleswig is several Hundred from the main of military forces in Northern Germany. Land. The vessel carried 123 passengers and a Crew of 60, an order to abandon ship had been issued Earl Ier but the Princess Victoria was listing at a 35-degree Angle at the time with one Side almost sub merged making it. Impossible to lower the lifeboats. _ some passengers were reported to have jumped water and clambered onto life rafts. The British destroyer contest and Otter ships in the area were racing to the ship., among her passengers were said to be sir Walter smiles Ulster unionist member of parliament from North Down and sir Walter Scott Secretary to the Northern Ireland ministry of finance. Also among the passengers was major j. M. Sinclair Northern ire land s finance minister. He was re naming to Belfast after consultations with government departments in London. The Steamer ran into trouble about 12 Miles off , a scottish port on the upper reaches of the Irish sea. She was hit by mountainous seas whipped up by Hurricane gales raging Over Britain. Hurricane storms lash British Isles London violent Hurricane raged across the North of Scotland today As All of Britain makes waterfront or. Big denies bribe Story new York Nyht an Al Coholic s dream was How will Arr j. Mccormack industrialist Anc reputed to. Be or. Big of the new York waterfront branded t Story his activities in 1923. This was under oath. Twenty four hours later a for Iner City magistrate told the new York state crime commission thai Mccormack had accepted an 531, 500 bribe in 1923 to licence the Dempsey Firpo heavyweight Che inv Pion ship fight at the Polo grounds. Former magistrate Francis x Mcquail testified that the late Charles. A. Stoneham head of National exhibition co., which operates the new York giants and the Polo grounds told him after the fight Tex Rickard the fight promoter had turned Over to Mccormack licence commissioner at the time. Otherwise or. Stoneham he said told Liim that unless Tex Rickard agreed to Felt the weather. Extremes Winter Aberdeen was severely hit by one of the worst hurricanes in years. The City s electricity broke Down everal times and transportation services halted. Wind gusts up to 113 Miles an Lour were recorded and great rails of damage were strewn in their Wake. Railway service Between Keith and Elgin was disrupted when Rees were felled in the path of trains. Snow sleet arid rain plagued Al most All the British Isles keeping with the strange character 3f this Winter s of Bright sunlight sometimes see big storm Page 7 30 below predicted for tonight a new cold record for Southern Manitoba this Winter will be set saturday night when the tem erasure dips to 30 below the Weatherman said saturday. Previous Low of was 27 below Zero set Jan. 14. Eljie Weatherman also held out ittle Hope for any Relief from the iting cold weather covering the from the Northwest. Temperatures will Rise to 5 to 10 below sunday the Weatherman said. This is the longest cold spell of Winter to he said. For the next few Days there will minor variations another 4.1 inches of Snow fell rom thursday night to Friday Brini fing the total snowfall in the past week to 10.6 inches. Lowest temperature of the Winter was 27 below Zero on Jan. 14, a Rich he second coldest Day Jan. 15 with a. Temperature of 24 below. Spud Hill juror Laid to reporter new Man at front saw Hollywood aspect says despatch by Mao k. Johnson Seoul Nyht operation the american infantry at tack on chinese communist positions last sunday which h a s aroused a controversy was made for sound military reasons Anc there were equally valid reason Why three generals and a score a other professional military leaders were there to observe the action. It would have been nothing More than one in a series in Well planned raids if a news Cor respondent reportedly covering a korean action for the first time lad nol Given the impression in a despatch that it was a Hollywood production in which High ranking officers sat in comfortable secure shelters and watched soldiers die. Here is the background of 4he operation last autumn 8th army officers began developing a plan or improving close tactical sup Ort for Allied front line units. The purpose was to Pound the com nudist lines As close to the United nations positions As possible. The see operation smack Page 7 student held in slaying of Oil official Edmonton up crashed into a barricaded garage on Edmonton s South Side Date Fri Day to arrest Lorang Sorum .24 year old University student wanted pay that before the fight there would t be any licence issued Foi the or. Mcquade said that he called Mccormack to his judicial Cham Bers and demanded that he re turn to me within two hours tha he did t say anything but went out and got the within two hours and returned it to he gave him the Money or. Mcguade said in 81 Bills and one Bill. Mccormack did not say or. Mcquade continued. All he did was pay me the which the witness said he turned Over to or. Stoneham. Theodore Kiendl crime commis Sion counsel then offered in Evi Dence a letter dated aug. 24, 1925, from or. Stoneham to the late John j. Mcgraw then manager of the giants stating that the was duly credited upon the books of the Polo grounds athletic club under Date of feb. 1, 1924 on thursday Mccormack Testi fied that outside of the sensational Knock out he remembered nothing in connection with the fight that was perhaps More he said that he did not remember whether Rickard promoted the fight that he made no agreement with Rickard about any division of the proceeds of the fight and that he received no Cash from him. In the paper he said he knew judge Mcquade but when asked if Mcquade had summoned him to his Chambers said that makes me laugh. No he denied other details of the alleged transaction and when or. Kiendl asked you never heard it until replied of i heard about an alcoholic s dream in the paper about a year Friday Mccormack also termed another alcoholic dream previous testimony that he had offered Al Bert Ackalitis sex convict and pier Boss anything he wanted on tha West Side provided that he stay in line with Mccormack s or he also contradicted testimony by John j. Sampson insurgent longshore Union Leader that he had offered to help his Wildcat strikers in the fall of 1951, insisting that he called Sampson in Only to give him my thoughts on the the 62-year-old president of the Penn Steve doring company and a half dozen other enterprises con ceded that he has been described As or. But denied that he deserved the title or is As or. Kiendl put it one of the most important one of the most Power Ful influences on the new York waterfront in the new York har 3or anti red fund the crime commission also legally dissected Joseph p. Ryan Ife time president of the International longshoremen s association or three and a Quarter hours Fri Day and climaxed its questioning y showing that almost the Union s anti communist fund Vas withdrawn by Ryan to pay for clothing Golf fees and luncheon at the Stork the 68-Ye a old official was the commission s 209th and last wit Ness in its four weeks of hearings waterfront racketeering and won the doubtful Honor of being in connection with the slaying Ofir an Edmonton Oil company he withdrew s31i65081 in Cash grilled longer in one Day than any other witness. Under relentless or. Ryan admitted Tive. From the funds of the Ila Jour police said Sorum had barn Between 3.947 and 1952. A coded himself in the garage then Chart introduced by the commis climbed into his car and locked the Sion listed a payment of doors. The car s motor was run 58ia97 for clothing for Ning they said. Insurance premiums 5500 for medi to .1 g ii Ouji Intuit police reported the University of Cal and be Al f for Golf Alberta student was violently ill t charges. S546.15 luncheon when arrested and apparently had been ill in the car before arriving at the garage. He was taken to Hospital but doctors said there was nothing wrong with him the arrest took place about 12 hours after Obert d. Haugen father of four children was shot to death at a downtown parking lot. Following examination at Che Hospital Sorum was removed to police Headquarters and officials said he May be charged with Mur Der today. Police said Sorum s condition could but be described As some tiling resembling Sorum a native of Prince Albert sask., who spent 13 his-24 years in Norway was arrested when a girl at the Home where he was staying notified police that he had driven into the garage. Police said the murder weapon had not been recovered. At the Stork club for re pairs to and for cruise to the lengthy examination of the official who had helped form the Union and had been a member since 1912, also brought out that he had appointed labor organizers with criminal records. Never another Adenauer swears on Hitler Day Bonn Aden West German Chancellor swore never again Friday As Auer germans remembered Hitler s Rise to Power exactly 20 years ago. He said in a broadcast there will never be another 30th of Jan uary but said it would be Haugen a native of Miracle if no convinced nazis now sask., and a former resident remain in a few nazis do not make Adenauer said. I would urgently recommend a Little More realism and a Little less foreign As Prince Rupert b. C., was shot to death before the eyes of friends who dared not interfere with the gunman who pumped bullets into the Man s body while he Lay in sensationalism in the foreign As no ses sment of the German state of the Snow. The slaying occurred As Haugen an airs. Parked his car on his Way to work at american Petroleum Canada ltd., where he was Secretary treasurer. The killer escaped in another car. Friends of Haugen said he had been bothered about a month ago by a Man who wanted to borrow Money and threatened to shoot him. Cars at the lot at. The time of the slaying said they heard five shots. Haugen was wounded in the Back the Collar Bone and the Back of the head. You will find Bridge Page 4. Comics pages 30, 31. Crossword Puzzle Page 10. Deaths and funerals Page s. Financial news and commod Ity markets pages 39, 40. Match the stars contest 5. Radio Page t.4 serial Page 11. Society news pages 17, 18, 19. Sparta pages 27, 28, 29 ;