Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Way final edition g free press weather forecast Winnipeg sunny with a few Cloudy periods. Milder. Winds Light. Tonight and High tues Day 10 below and 10 above. Vol. 60 no. 108 32 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg monday february 2, 1953 Sun rises 8.03 , Sun sets 5.23 . Moon rises 8.24 sets-9.01 . Here from Scotland goodness scottish flavor to Manitoba s Bonspiel this year with five real scots from Scotland taking part. Bunty Mcworter Centre and is Braw laddies flew in to Winnipeg saturday to curl in the world s largest Spiel. Top is John Robertson of Snow Blind Bush Pilot rescued Ilford Man. Special Snow blinded 38-year-old vet eran Tush Pilot Oscar Erick son saturday was rescued from the icy prison of his downed aircraft on Gauer Lake after three 50-below-Zero Days in Northern Manitoba. He was uninjured. Pilot Erickson lived for three Days on the emergency rations carried in the plane. His Only company was migrating herds of Caribou. He was located by the Cen trial Northern airways Pilot Bill Eaton and Mechanic Doug Mckenzie flying a Norse Man aircraft. Was on a flight be tween South Indian Lake and Ilford Man., with a cargo of fresh fish for Booth fisheries company when a failure of one of the motors of his twin engined Anson plane forced him Down on. Gauer Lake last wednesday. He was Able to set his Craft Down on the Lake without damaging it in addition to the sub Zero Erickson s aircraft was buffeted by High winds and Drifting Snow on the Lake 600 Miles North of Winnipeg. The aircraft carried n o radio. When he was round the Pilot sai.3 simply it could have been worse but not Erickson is married with a daughter about two years old. A Pilot with the Craf Dur ing second world War he lives in Sherridon Man. His parents or. And mrs t. Erick. Son live in Vancouver. An aunt and Uncle or. And mrs. W. E. Erickson live at 363 Homi Street. Temperatures temperature readings period ending at 6.30 a. Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Saskatoon Regina Brandon Winnipeg port Churchill fort William Toronto during the 24-hour a. Monday were min. Max. Free. 43 47 .70 23 33 10 28 7 7 3d .01 .05 .02 .03 .33 .43 to. .09 .03 Bonspiel highlights entries total 374 rinks making Manitoba s 65th an Nual Bonspiel the world s Lar Gest. City entries Ere at record level. First event the Birks Competition got under Way at 9 am. A rink from Scotland led by bunty Mcwhirter of Ayr is among 1953 entries. Rinks revert to older sys tem of 12-end games and four draws a Day instead of the 10 Enders and five draws of the past few years. Tomorrow to be sunny and Milder heaviest snowfall of the season inches sunday evening and a near record overnight temperature Low of 26.below, combined o give Winnipeg a real taste of Winter As february began. But warmer weather is on the Way pushed by Westerly winds from the. Pacific coast. The fore Caster said the Low monday night would be 10 below Zero climbing to 10 above tuesday. Skies will be funny tuesday except for a few Cloudy periods. Monday morning exhaust gases ind the smoke from belching Chim Leys gave the City a smog like appearance. The wintry weather put. A crimp n some train schedule s but with ight winds the Snow failed to Block highways and bus line officials re sorted no late arrivals. Car officials said no. 2 and no. From the West were nine hours ate. No. 3 from Toronto was 30 in nuts behind time and no. 1 rom Montreal was running one and one half hours All other trains were on time. On the car trains from the Vest were on schedule but no. 3 ind Nix 7 from Toronto and Mont Eal were two hours late. Transit company sweepers had he tracks Clear by 3 . Monday. Heaviest Snow in the province Ell sunday at Dauphin where Nore than six inches was reported. Portage la Prairie had close inches while Only Light Falls were at River ind Melita Glasgow and John of Ayr. At Bottom is Andy Wilson of Strathaven and Bill Henderson Well Hae a Bonny said or. Mcwhirter when he and his fellow scots stepped off. The had a Gran time Here three years ago and that s Why we re Back the scottish rink got off to a Fine Start this morning winning its opening game 12 to 4 Over the Jackson rink from Inglis Man. 374 rinks in tourney scotsmen can curl win opening game hundreds of. Rocks began sliding Down 92 sheets of ice at 9 . Monday As the world s largest Bon Spiel the 65th. Edition of the Mani Oba Curling association got under Way. Premier Douglas c. Campbell of scially opened the Spiel As officials of the association watched the ceremony at the Granite rink. There Are 374 rinks in this Edi the from the to Vince and 217 from the City a new High. Scotch visitors included in the list of rinks is he composed entirely of scotsmen Resh out from the old country hey arrived Here saturday after Loon and after a week end of easy entertainment were still Able p come up with a Victory in their first game. Bunty. Mcwhirter John Bill Henderson and John Robertson trounced t. Jackson of Inglis Man 12-4. In the top game on the 9 . Raw monday a Gowanlock s usually powerful Dauphin rink swamped the Well known Bill Peck ver of Sperling 8-4. Sammy Amerison of Maple Leaf a highly rated rink won its first of the men on have contracted the flu game defeating g. W. Stevena re of Glen Elia 14-6. One of the outstanding visiting rinks that of Walter Polski of Eveleth was forced to default its first game and withdraw from the Spiel. Two Polski rink and were unable to curl. A switch from the past few years is that exclusive of opening Day see today s results on Page 9. There will be Only four draws a Day and All games will be "12 ends. Last year there were five draws of 10-end games each Day. Today there Are Only Oliree draws enabling All curlers to take in the association at Bon Spiel Headquarters at the Marl Borough hotel. Storm claims 850, million homeless aldermen to get transit report at tonight s meet City Council will get an interim report from its Tran sit committee tonight mayor Garnet Coulter said monday morning. According to an authoritative source the report will contain a recommendation for Council to vote on. Nature of the move has not yet been indicated. Mayor Coulter declined to comment on the contents of the report. Making secret agreements with the russians at those conferences. Only a portion of the agreements reached at the conferences were disclosed at the time. In 1947, the state department made Public what described As full texts of the agreements made with Premier Stalin. Eisenhower spoke out in a state of the Union message which brought him before a joint session of Congress foe the first time sine he took office. It was a far ranging address in which chief executive took individual Liberty for his theme and 1. Said near balance of the Bud get and with it the Prospect of tax cuts won t come in the immediate future. He pointed to the inherited Burden of indebtedness see Eisenhower Page 9 Strong policy cuts War risk Dulles states Washington Nyht John Foster Dulles . Sec of state said in a filmed television interview that a positive Strong foreign pol icy would increase risk of another world War. In the filmed interview re leased sunday or. Dulles said the danger of another War would lie in a vacillating Uncertain policy which would tempt the aggressors into a As he indicated happened in Korea. Or. Dulles said he thought the korean War might have been avoided if the communists had known that we were going to do what we they would never have tried to grab South or. Dulles said. But it was be cause they did t know what the United states would and therefore i believe a Posi Tive policy which makes our position Clear will be less Apt to create City May face 4-Mill tax boost Early estimates Point record High civic budget by Art Robson unless the provincial Legisla Tun comes up with financial assistance his year Winni Eggers can expect i big Cut in services or something Eisenhower takes lid off Formosa asks Congress ignore Truman and eur s secret pacts Washington a presi. Dent Eisenhower announced today be is ordering the United states 7th Fleet to Stop shielding communist China and in a Surprise move he invited Congress to Dis any Roosevelt Truman Sec ret understandings which permit enslavement of people anywhere. At Home the new Republican president cautioned against tax cuts until a balanced budget is in sight Anu gave his Blessing to the end of All Price and wage controls when present authority for them expires april 30. Eisenhower said the present effect of the Truman order Neutral izing the chinese nationalist is land of Formosa is to protect the chinese reds who Are killing american soldiers in Korea. We certainly have no obligate he said to protect a nation fighting us in wartime agreements Eisenhower s mention of secret understandings referred to War time conferences at Tehran Yalta and Potsdam attended by presi dents Roosevelt and Truman. Republicans Long have attacked the _ two democratic presidents for like a four Mill increase in the tax rate. This is indicated by budget Esti mates already submitted by several civic departments. Such an increase would set the tax rate at 49 Mills. Civic finance committee will get the preliminary estimates for 1953 this week end or next week at the latest. They Are expected to be at least higher than last year s Peak budget of wage Bill what is causing this increase estimates already submitted give some indication. Civic wages this year Are run Ning about 15 per cent higher than last year s work Bill of almost this Means a boost of about in. The budget. The additional Cost of wage and work benefits granted last year was officially estimated but part of the total wage boost is usually absorbed by department in addition to higher wages the school Board s demand for an extra this year will also help inflate the estimates. Miscellaneous items Worth 5700 00 were Cut out of the 1952 budget. Department Heads will probably ask for these items again in their estimates this year. The City can also expect to show a deficit for 1952. Wage increases granted but not budgeted for ast year amounted to about 000. Even if half this amount were absorbed by department budgets or offset by higher than expected revenues the City would still be see taxes Page 9 Flash flood follows North sea rampage toll climbs hourly 395 dead in u.k., rescuers fear total of London up count of dead in flood rav aged Britain the nether lands and Belgium passed the total of 850 today with More than homeless in he Wake of terrifying Hurri canes. The Netherlands was the worst hit with the death toll there 464 by unconfirmed 70 persons dead at boosted to reports of Ite Lendam South Holland. It was he worst flood in the nether ands since the 15th Century. In Britain 395 were counted Lead. Rescue workers feared the Oil May mount to troops and volunteers battled new tides to save hundreds still marooned. Ten persons died by flood in Bel cum and 10 others died at sea Hen a belgian trawler Sank. Damage in the three countries to arms Homes dikes Communia see 6 for Complete flood coverage. Map and Pic Ture on Page 7. Ion and shipping was believed to in into the millions dollars. The disaster toll so far in floods 32 in the sinking the ferry Victoria and 15 in a Brit so trawler s disappearance. Drowned and 10 oth is at sea in the sinking of a Rawler. Scores of bodies still uncounted located among vast seas of debris Long Britain s battered East . 00 missing in Estuary on one English Island alone to Iii Adenauer says Dulles in Earnest takes serious View of . Warning to Europe by Gaston Coblentz Berlin Nyht Chancellor Konrad Adenauer who visited the isolated City of Berlin Over the week end to discuss the problem of German refugees swarming in irom the East warned sunday that the United states May Wash its lands of Europe if current moves or Western european Unity fall through. For a second time in the last free Days the Leader of the West German government placed the most serious interpretation on the recent statement of the new american Secretary of Dulles that states will have to Foster state John the United rethink its Anvey in the thames Estuary escue officials said 500 persons till were a located and bodies rated on the floodwaters. More than terror trial Cen persons were homeless or threatened by the raging seas hich continued to Pound Inland in Many flooded areas. Holland hardest hit of its resources to Rescue still stranded and to clustered hundreds old Back the giant Waves which wept As far As 40 Miles Inland opens of dutch communities were it off or flooded out As the ancient ikes crumbled before the fury of in seas. The mounting toll on land was dded to the 132 persons drowned i the Hurricane sinking of the Rry Princess Victoria off North in Ireland saturday the disappearance of a trawler with 15 men if the hebrides sunday and the see storm Page 9 european policy if France Ger Many and England should decide to go their separate ways. Means business even More emphatically than in address in Bonn on Friday the Chancellor told an assemblage of Erman Farmers that or. Dulles meant business. Or. Dulles cd r gently making his first european tour As Secretary of state is scheduled to meet or. Adenauer in Bonn on thursday and Friday. The Chancellor claimed he had precise information about the plans of the chiefs of the Eisenhower administration concerning Europe. When present events Are seen in a Clear Light he said there is not the slightest sign of any willingness on the part of the East to meet the West half Way. Secondly he said that the will for Unity in Western Europe has abated and it would be a mistake to be Blind to danger near thirdly or. Adenauer added i can say clearly that if Europe does not show the will to Unity and to common defence then there s the danger extraordinarily near hat the leading men in the United states will say we cannot do More than we have done. Europe must take care of itself i do not say this out of thin air. I have the most exact know ledge of the intentions of the Lead ers of the United however or. Adenauer found ome grounds for optimism about the Western european army treaty and the european Unity movement. Mainly he cited the new French Cabinet s communication to the parliament in Paris last week endorsing the joint army plan. Vla Laii goal. Gets vote Confidence Capetown Reuters minister Daniel Malan s nationalist government won a vote of Confidence in the South african House of Assembly shortly after proposing Sharp new measures for quelling the passive resistance Campaign against its racial Segre gation Laws. Winding up a debate which began six Days ago the House rejected 83 to 68, an opposition motion of to Confidence in the then by the same margin it approve 1 a government amendment expressing full Confidence in Malan s administration. Thi free press daily average City circulation for Trie month of january 1953 seventy two Tholund four Hundred and thirty two. And the total City and country for the same period Ono Hundred and nine Taco sind two Hundred and fifty one. 09.251 Sutton on the sea a quiet Little English resort town on the Low lying Lincolnshire coast lies under several feet of water in the Wake of disastrous floods. In a storm wracked week end the North sea Waters smashed through the Little town s sea defences. The less an uncounted number dead or missing has been evacuate ;