Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 5, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition weather forecast Winnipeg a few sunny intervals. Winds Light. Low tonight and High Friday 5 and 20 above. Vol. 60 no. Ill 34 pages Price by Carrier .30, cents per week Winnipeg thursday february Sun hoses v.58 . Sun sets 5.28 . Moon rises 11.58 . Moon 9.47 . Forecast Little change where four airmen died Here is All that remains of a twin engined Craf Beech Craft which carried four airmen to death Early thursday morn ing when it crashed near Gunton about 40 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg. On the left a free press reporter views the wreckage. Six from out of town 11 rinks unbeaten in Curling classic out of town rinks loomed Large As possible winners of the Mani Toba Curling association s 65th an Nual Bonspiel grand thursday morning aggregate six of the 11 undefeated rinks in the Spiel Are from out of town. Eighteen rinks went into the 9 see results on Page 12. . Draw thursday morning undefeated. Those surviving and moving into the 32 s of the barks major event Wood Granite who Are Howard knocked j. Vand Kerckhove of Stony Mountain out of the ranks of the unbeaten 11-10 in an extra Strathcona who end Mac Scales of toppled r. Clement of Russell 9-6 Cliff Hudson of Strathcona who downed the previously unbeaten Sammy Arenson of Maple Leaf 10-6 Bruce Hudson of Strathcona who knocked off the previously unde a Gowanlock of Dauphin who Defeated Kelly Daun of Thistle 10-6 w. Hopper of Cartwright who Defeated Watson of Granite 10-6 d. Turner of the. Who Defeated Thickson of Victoria 12-9. Bunty Mcwhirter s. Rink Scotland lost its second game of the Spiel in the Birks event to Don Burgess of Cypress River. New Index lists slight Price drop Ottawa costs continued to decline in december with the new consumer Price Index slip Ping one tenth of a Point to 115.7 from 115.8, the Bureau of statistics reported today. But the old Cost of living Index which is soon to be. Abandoned As obsolete showed a Small upward trend increasing one fifth of a Point to 184.4. It was the first increase in this Index after a continuous five month decline. The Bureau has made the new consumer Price Index the official gauge of Price changes. December s drop was the second consecutive monthly decline in this yardstick based on 1949 prices equalling 100. In november it declined three tenths of a Point. The Peak was 118.2 in december 1951. The old Index based on 1935-39 prices equalling 100, has dropped from its Peak of 191.5, also reached in december 1951. This is not the first time the two indexes have shown divergent trends. The Bureau said this was because the new yardstick accounts for seasonal changes in food buy ing habits while the old Index does not. Heated s. Qually of Dacotah 14-10 Bob Dunbar of St. Paul Minn who downed Alex Hasslen of bins Earth 10-9 George Weldon of Granite who beat Walker of Strathcona 10-7 Earl Birnie of Birnie who Defeated the previously unbeaten Ernie Boushy of j. Burgess of Minnedosa who edged another previously unbeaten rink f. Stora Schuk of fort Rouge to enter Convent in december the food sub Index in the new Index continued to show. A decline. In the old one the sub group increased. Generally eggs and oranges showed Price drops while fresh vegetables and beef increased. Rents increased with the sub Index climbing to a new. High. Coal electricity and Telephone rates were higher in some areas. In the new Index the food sub group dropped to 113.5 from 114.1, the second consecutive decline in this column. Shelter which includes rents climbed to 122.3 from 122.2. The clothing column remained unchanged at 109.7, while the House hold operations sub group Rose to 116.5 from 116.1. The column called other commodities and services increased to 116.7 from 116.6. In the old Index the food sub group increased to 226.2 from 226.1 rents to 150.2 from 149.9 fuel and Light to 153.9 from 152.7 Home furnishings and services to 196 from 195.3 miscellaneous to 148.9 from 148.8. Clothing slipped to 205.3 from 205.4. Temperatures min Max. Prec. Vancouver 39 49 Calgary 28 40 Stegina. 9 .36 Wixx Peg in 37 port Churchill -15 -7 Toronto 16 32 Ottawa. 3 17 to. Hollywood june Haver has turned her Back on movie land for the life of a nun. The 26 year old blonde danc ing Star s salary had reached As High As a week but her career also brought her per Sonal tragedy in the Way of Mari Tal difficulties. She ended months of rumours a actress june by issuing a statement wednesday night revealing her intentions. You will find Bridge column Page 4. Comics pages 23, 23. Crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths and funerals pages 11 31. Financial news and commodity markets pages so 31. Hollywood column Page 5. Match the stars contest Page 5. Serial Page 9. Society news pages sports pages 18, 19, 20, 21. Currie takes the blame says he made change to higher up in report Ottawa s. Cur today took full responsibility for he most controversial change in his report on the army works ser in which he abandoned a statement that people at or near he top in the defence department Svere indifferent to administration the commons committee on tie Fence expenditures pitched into the hot parts of his celebrated reporter a Long concentration of his death car hit 50 Mph trial told chums of boy victim estimate Speed in hit run Case two schoolboys " estimated in court thursday that a car which struck and instantly killed one their. Chums was travelling at 50 airmen die in fiery plane Miles an hour. Testifying in the Assize jury a commendations for improving the works services. His attention was directed by chairman David Croll Spadina to a memo from g. G. Simonds chief of the Genera Taff in which the general asked whether certain criticisms by or. Currie referred to the army As a whole or Dranch. Simply to the works during this discussion or. Croll see Currie Page 6 worrying about Canada London anxiety about the future of Anglo Canadian Trade has been expressed by a nimber of members of parliament. In a wide ranging debate in the House of commons on last Decem Der s Commonwealth economic con Ference speakers tuesday made these main Points Harold Wilson labor member of Huyton Lancashire and former Rade Britain cannot finance purchases in Canada by direct Trade some method should be worked out whereby some part of Britain s buying in. Canada could be transacted in sur plus which might develop should be held in the form of Sterling bal ances on Canadian account in Lon Don. Patrick Gordon Walker labor member and former common wealth relations should adopt a conscious and Der liberate policy of giving prefer ence to the Canadian Dollar instead of merely thinking in terms of the United states. Strange anomaly we have a much safer Market n Canada for our said Gor Don Walker and such a policy would also tend to heal and breach his Dollar Gulf in the common sir Albert Braithwaite Conser Active member for Harrow something must be done about the strange anomaly which finds the Canadian Prairies harvesting the richest crop in their history while Britain urgently needs coarse grains for feeding animal Stock. One fifth of their total crop is Ying in stacks on the ground with All the elevators full of Corn said sir Albert who recently visited Canada. Sir Albert also urged British manufacturers to improve their de Ivery dates and set up a More efficient system of spares and sup plies in Canada. Wilson who has also just re turned from a Canadian visit demoted most of his speech to Anglo Canadian trading problems which in described As peculiarly Vulner Able in the two year Boom and bust period which Britain has experienced in the Post War years. Wilson said something was needed to facilitate steady purchases from Canada of newsprint Timber on Tario cheese Nova Scotia apples British Columbia Salmon Bacon pulp and other i teens. Suggest new talks if it is a fact that we cannot Hope to earn Canadian dollars by our direct in the first nine months of last year we were still paying for less than 40 per cent of our Canada by our there not a Case for entering into negotiations now with Ottawa to see whether that Trade could not be at least partly put on a different basis in detailed British sales in Canada Wilson said he was horrified to learn that there were cases of Long delivery dates and of failure to Honor promised delivery dates. He asked the conservative government for an Assur Ance that it was honouring a pledge that engineering 1 exports to Canada would get equal priority with de Fence. Trial of Charles Petrin 31, of 208 Berry Street on charges of Man laughter dangerous driving and saving the scene of an Accident one boy said the car was going 55 or 60 Miles an hour. The trial opened wednesday in court room one with or. Justice g. Duval court of Queen s Bench presiding. Petrin was arrested after the hit and run death dec. 13 of 14 year old Keith weeks on tache Avenue Between Horace and Eugenie streets. Lawrence Levasseur 15, of 16 Archibald Street said his attention was attracted to the car before the Accident occurred by the noise of a motor going he estimated the Speed at abou1 50 Miles an hour. Harvey w. Morris 13, of 119 Marion Street said he saw Keith weeks leave a Bowling Alley on tache Avenue ride his Bike across the Street and turn North. Then this car came whipping up the Hill going North. 1 heard a bang and a screeching As if the Bike was being he said Harvey said he then ran Over to where Keith weeks was lying in the Road and looked up the car screech around a Corner Sev eral blocks away. A third witness testified that he was at the Back of his store when he heard a bang and the screeching of Metal on the Road. Photographs entered by an ramp photographer showed a heavy Dent in the Hood of a car belong ing to the accused. The trial marked the first time a Manitoba history that women Lave sat on a jury. Two housewives mrs. Erna Harvey and mrs. Evelyn Merritt were chosen for duty on the jury. There Are three women on the 60 Jerson jury panel called for the Spring Assize opening the Case for the Crown a j. Johnston prosecutor said it a s expected that evidence would show that the boy died instantaneously of neck and liver injuries after being knocked from his Bicy Cle around 8 . Dec. 13. Witnesses would say that the boy was struck from behind by the car driven by the accused and thrown some 20 to 30 feet Forward. The car the scene of the Accident he said. It was also expected to show that Petrin had been drinking and while not drunk was intoxicated to some extent or. Johnston said. Exchange seats at Premium some Grain men think Canada May follow British move a brisk demand has developed or seats on the Winnipeg Grai Exchange and memberships Are bringing sharply higher Price Han a few weeks ago according to informed Winnipeg financial sources. It was reported that the Askin Price for seats on the Exchange a one from something like each to around each in the Wake of recent events in the Fiel of International wheat marketing biggest spurt in the scramble of memberships reliable sources said came on the British government decision to go out of the Grair business and hand the whole thin Jack to the private Trade in the . The changeover was slated of after the completion of this year Harvest. Grain dealings with Thi would still be limited by Exchange controls. Effect of move the British move the biggest wholesale scrapping of control Ince the War was interpreted by Many Market observers in Canada As one which might Well result in ome changes in wheat marketing 0licies Here. The possibility was seen Goe he Story in Winnipeg financial quarters that the British move night result in a similar one in Canada. A second big item in the Back ground of the stepped up interest in seats is said to be the uncertainties surrounding renewal of the International wheat agreement. If a new pact is not worked out the Canadian wheat Board would be faced with a greatly enlarged Selling problem in respect to wheat and it is stated there might be a move to have the wheat pit. At the Grain Exchange reopened. At present trading in Oats bar Ley Rye and flax Only is carried on at the Grain Exchange. The futures Market in wheat has been closed since Early in the second world War. An investment informed sources said that considerable of the enlarged interest in memberships was in the nature of investment purchasing. . Wants Iwa Price raised 40% Washington Reuters the United states inter National wheat agreement coun tries that it almost a 40-per cent increase1 in the pegged Iwa Price it was Learned wednesday. The ., world s biggest wheat exporter wanted the ceiling Price raised to 52.50 from a Bushel. Representatives of the 46 Iwa countries including Canada Are negotiating in private conferences Lere whether to renew the four year old pact when it expires in july. Sources said today the Price demand meant a big Gap be Ween the stands of the exporting and importing countries. But they stressed that negotiating countries were in an Early stage arid the position. May it was Learned that in addition .0 seeking to raise the ceiling Price by 70 cents the Wants a guaranteed fixed minimum Price of 11.90. Present minimum is old country soccer London Reuters results of soccer Ames in the United kingdom today football association cup fourth round replay Walthamstow a 2, Manchester u 5 n Otts county 2. Bolton w 2 this match will be replayed a second Ime next monday. English league division Iii Southern Shrewsbury t 1, Walsall 0 revised fifth round matches following Oday s replays Are Overton is. Manchester u Luton t is. Bolton w or Notts county before anxious House Formosa move not aggressive Eden declares London part. Hon. An Thony Eden foreign Secretary said today Britain is satisfied that the United states has no aggressive intentions in freeing Chiang Kai Shek s forces on Formosa for raid on the communist chinese main land. Eden cautioned an anxious hous Dulles sets Unity Date for Europe must get together or risk drop in Aid London Secretary John Foster Dulles the Is giving the big Western european Lowers 75 Days to show real pre press in setting up a unified de ence or risk cuu. In american Mili tary and economic Aid. A qualified informant said wednesday night that the april 20 dead Ine was disclosed after Dulles in Day Long meetings with British readers gave assurances that the . Will continue its policy of try no to limit the korean War and sought to counter their criticism of american action on Formosa. Made it Clear Dulles came Here from Paris and lome and in each the in Orrant said made it Clear that Congress May balk at putting up More billions of dollars for Europe inless he and the Mutual Security director Harold e. Stassen can advances in the project to lace troops of six Continental a ions in a unified army. Today the american officials on their swing around Ivester Europe and the informant Aid will set the same 75-Day time Imit before West German leaders. Here Dulles will encounter uncompromising socialist opposition to any German Alliance with the Ivest prime minister Winston Church .1 and it. Hon. Anthony Eden foreign Secretary were told that he next 75 Days Are critical for he future of Europe and were Iven the american attitude to Vard it. Dulles presumably set the dead be at april 20 because the North Atlantic Council of foreign min sters meets in Paris three Days Ater. Redefine policy if the european army project till remains a dream at that time presumably Dulles would then re Efine american policy. Within those three Days presi ent Eisenhower s g o v e r Ament have time to make new far caching decisions Britain is Balking at full Mem see Dulles Page 12 . Cracks Down on 50-year-old tobacco Racket Washington Nyht in Ernal Revenue officials revealed wednesday they Are cracking Down n a huge traffic in illicit cigars and tobacco centring in new York Ity. The traffic they said has oper Ted virtually undetected for 50 ears. So widespread is the Bootleg Gar business in new York that evidence of possible violations has Een uncovered on the part of a substantial number of new York s 50 Cigar manufacturers officials f the Bureau s alcohol and tobacco a division said later. The traffic officials said has Cost he government Many millions of Ollars in evaded taxes Over a period of years. Of commons against Reading int president Eisenhower s statement anything More than it the foreign Secretary took the floor to answer socialist cancer that Eisenhower was egging Chian on to attack the Mainland at the risk of spreading the War in the far East. Eden stressed that he had talks Only a few hours earlier with the United states Secretary of stat John Foster Dulles. Eden quoted Eisenhower s o w words on de neutralizing this order implies no aggressive intention on our her majesty s government Eden said Are convinced that tha clearly states the american pos Herbert Morrison Deputy Leader opened debate expressing apprehensions that the u. S. Policy switch taking the wraps off the chinese nationalists might Lead t considerable citing the risks of a nationals attack against the chinese main land Morrison said supposing Chiang gets into difficulties supposing he is de heated supposing some of i troops Are surrounded supposing there is a naval action by communist China against his troops in is the u. S. Going to do is the u. S. Going then actively to the United states directly in warlike activities a against the Mainland of China o against chinese naval forces there is a real risk tha there might be major trouble be tween communist Mainland China and the forces of the u. Dutch Battle new Breaks in dikes Amsterdam new Breaks in the Dike system of Schou Wen dui Veland Island in Southwest Holland s disaster area poised new peril today for thousands of Home Ess stranded there. As fleets of boats and Small planes rushed to the Rescue through two canadians die in european disaster Georgetown ont. Up Canadian Mother and her baby son were drowned in the disastrous floods in the Netherlands. They Are believed to be the first Canadian victims. Word was received wednes Day of the death of mrs. Jack Vandervoort and her eight month old son Jack. Mrs. Vandervoort who came to can Ada with her husband three years ago was visiting her parents near Rotterdam. She is survived by her husband and five children. Towers says Competition would Aid free world whittle Down Trade barriers Urged Ottawa up Tow ers governor of the Bank of can Ada today urged the United states to reduce its Trade barriers As a move to strengthen the the head of Canada s banking system said Sterling area countries May have to rely heavily on import restrictions and discrimination if United states actions limit severely their chances of earning dollars by competing in the Amer ican restrictions in the United states cannot fail to encourage restrictions he said in his annual 1952 report to Hon. Doug Las Abbott finance minister tabled today in the commons. Reviewing the year s Domestic and world financial developments report stated 1. Billion Dollar increases in spending both by Consumers and by governments in Canada boosted National production of goods and services in 1952 to an All time High of this compared with in 1951. 2. Wage increases in 1952, though not As Large in Dollar value As those of 1951, actually had greater purchasing Power because of a drop in consumer prices. 3. Canada fared Well in foreign Trade the value of the Canadian Dollar jumping nearly five per cent. Import prices dropped 12 per cent but Export prices slipped by Only two per cent. 4. Consumer spending increased to from 000 in 1951, while combined provincial and municipal govern ment spending on goods and ser ment spending on goods and ser vices climbed to from the world situation was not so Bright. Seven years ago he observed the world set out to Clear away Trade restrictions and discrimination and still the has not been reached. He said restrictions on Trade and payments Are in Many cases More rather than less severe than they were some years he made no direct references to the Commonwealth prime ministers conference in London last december but noted encouraging signs that some important coun tries Are changing their approach to the restrictions problem. If it was the primary responsibility of the deficit countries the Sterling organize them selves in such a Way that they have goods to Export it also was the primary responsibility of the surplus and the u. S. Allow Competition from abroad to take place and not to prevent but rather to encourage an increased inflow of is greatly to be hoped that the policies the u. S. Will be of a character which gives encouragement and support to a fresh Effort to attain International balance with less Reliance on weak ening restrictions and by methods which increase the underlying strength and efficiency of the economies of the free i Ough Waters and sleet and Snow a new storm bore Down on the flood battered dutch coast. Another major Rescue Effort also was under Way on stricken Goeree Over Flakker Island where some ,500 persons were marooned on a rumbling Dike. Sch Owen dui Veland already was our fifths under water and some ,000 of the Island s residents Vero not accounted of Liem dead in their farmhouses. High winds bearing Down from de water logged East coast of eng see flood Page 10 police officers duties baby 3 students and Pilot Are victims Craf probes crash of Beechraft into Bush a nato Pilot and three student navigators plunged to their deaths in the flaming wreckage of an Craf air Craft which crashed wednes Day Midnight near Gunton 40 Miles North of Winnipeg. Craf officials started investigations thursday to de Termine cause of the crash. Air officials said the Lour bodies had been recovered but identity was withheld. Neither the Pilot nor the three student navigators aboard were Manito bans and not All were canadians officials reported. Charred and twisted pieces of steel from the aircraft were scattered Over an acre of Bush land thursday morning at the scene of the crash. The twin engined Beechraft from no. 2 air navigation school at Winnipeg dropped to the ground near the old no. 7 Highway on property belonging to Bert far Mer two Miles Northwest of gun ton. Witnesses who live in the crash area reported the plane was on fire before it Cras lied. Gunning motor George Martin whose farm is 400 Yards from the scene said the plane was flying at about 100 feet Alti tude. It swung Over my place about Midnight. They were trying to gain Altitude and the Pilot was gunning his motor All the he said. It was so Low its Backwash swept off Snow from the roof of our barn. I looked up and the whole sky was glowing. It was like Daylight. The House was shaking and the windows were it was 12.03 . When i saw said Ross Pool another Farmer. The plane was Low too Low and they were gunning when i heard that plane Enine it did t sound right to said or. Farmer on whose land he crash took place. It sounded Ike one continual Roar from the Northeast. I thought it was going o hit the House. When it crashed one third of a mile t sounded like a Dull the crash scene itself showed Wisted steel and burned equipment scattered haphazardly through the now. The aircraft s engines were embedded in the ground last word it appeared the plane after Strug gling to gain Altitude from the 100 oot level had plunged straight Down. It was also apparent that .11 persons aboard were killed in tartly. Craf Here said last Vord from the aircraft s Pilot came bout 11.50 . Wednesday when he was flying at feet. Officials said the Craft was one f nine on a routine night flight and was returning to base when he crash occurred. Other aircraft lad reported visibility was Good t there was Light icing. First reports of crash came rom an unidentified Winnipeg couple who were driving Home at Midnight after visiting friends near Union. The Winni Eggers notified ramp officials at Teulon man., who reported the crash to the Caf Rescue co ordination Centre to Winnipeg an Craf ambulance with a Doc or and other medical assistants and an Craf fire truck were sent o the scene followed by an investigation party and guards. The Charison Brothers who farm me mile West of the crash site told he free press today that the plane appeared to have plunged straight own into the sudden stop1 we heard the plane and it funded As if it were circling around. Then the sound of the engines just suddenly said c. Charison. Or. J. W. Goodwin of Gunton Vas on the scene shortly after the rash. The student navigators were members of the North Atlantic treaty. Organization project provid no training of airmen in Canada. Ships hit pier new York Nyht the luxury liner Caronia and freighter crashed into hers Here wednesday in Docking without the Aid of tugs. The Only casualties in the accidents were he piers which were extensively damaged in the first mishaps of he five Day tugboat strike that Pread today into a full shut Down f the port of new York. Tugboat strikers set up picket lines and dogs horsemen and truck Drivers re used to work on the piers. V i ;