Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. 60 no. 113. 52 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week weather forecast Winnipeg a few sunny periods sunday afternoon. A Little Milder. Winds South at 15 Mph this evening 20 Mph by sunday morning. Low tonight and High sunday 5 and 25 above. Winnipeg saturday february 7, 1953 Sun kiss 7.53 Moon rises 3.37 Sun sets 17.33 Moon Sci 11.10 forecast Milder Manitoba s flood Relief flows in Money has started to Roll into the coffers of the Manitoba euro Pean flood Relief committee. By 9.20 . Saturday chamber of Commerce officials filling in until a committee named reported nine new donations received at their offices 346 main Street. Mayor Garnet Coulter Friday accepted a Cheque for for the fund presented to him at the of camber of Commerce office by Frank j. Schlingerman president Send your contributions to the Manitoba european flood Relief committee at 346 main Street cheques should be made out to this address and such funds will be sent on to the National flood fund Effort at Ottawa. Receipts will be available to cover deductions for income tax purposes. Of Shea s Winnipeg brewery limited. Or. Schlingerman told mayor Coulter one of the reasons be Hind the donation was the great number of relatives of employees 5n the Winnipeg Plant who live in the flood stricken area. Meanwhile donations of varying sizes Are being received mayor Coulter said. The amount has not been total led he said and daily total won t be available until the fund committee is put under the direction of an executive. Mayor Coulter said he and pre Mier Campbell would Confer shortly on this matter. Donations May be sent prefer ably by Cheque to the Manitoba european flood Relief committee 246 main Street. All donations will be sent on to the National fund at Ottawa and will be deductible for income tax purposes. First shipment trans Canada s first cargo of supplies from Manitoba women s groups working for the red Cross flew out of Winnipeg weighing pounds and valued at on Friday. Included in the 31 cases were articles mostly boys and girls clothing. In addition a let Ter was sent out to All red Cross groups in the province to Forward any finished material Back to head quarters for immediate dispatch overseas. Salvation army i reply to Contact made from Winnipeg commissioner William r. Dalziel territorial commander for Canada and Bermuda of the Queen Tours stricken area the Gale swept Hunstanton Norfolk area during a tour this week of some of the flood ravaged coastal Points. The Duke of Edinburgh flew Over the area on an inspection tour earlier in the week. See flood Aid Page 10. Old country soccer London up a pulls of soccer matches today in the United kingdom English nil firm i Arsenal 4. Tottenham h 0 Blackpool 2, Wolverhampton 0 Cardiff c 0, Preston x e 2 Chelsea 3. Sunderland 2 Derby c .1. Charlton a 3 Manchester u 3. Aston Villa 1 Middlebro Tyrh 2. Liverpool 3 Newcastle u 1. Stoke c 2 Portsmouth 3. Bolton w 1 Sheffield w 2. Burnley 4 Bromwich 2. Manchester c 1 division ii earns lev 2, Rotherham u 3 Birmingham c 3. Notts c 2 Blackburn r 3. Swansea t 0 Bury 0, Southampton 0 sever ton 5. Brentford 0 Hull c 0. Huddersfield t 2 u 3, West Ham u 2 Sun Coln c 3. Sheffield u 2 Fulton t 2, Leicester c 0 Nottingham f 2, Doncaster r 2 Plymouth a 3. Fulham 1 division Iii so Dathern Bournemouth 1, Swindon t 1 Ristol c 0, Bristol a 0 Illingham 0, Coventry c 0 t 1, Watford 1 Leyton t 3. Brighton 0 Millwall 0, Exeter c 0 Northampton t 5. Newport c 0 Queen s p r 2. Aldershot 2 Reading 1, Southend u 0 Shrewsbury t 3. Colchester u 0 Torquay u 1, Crystal p 1 Walsall 3, Norwich c 2 Iii North run Accrington s 1, York c 0 Bradford c 2, Bradford 1 Chester 2, it Crewe Alex 2. Carlisle u 2 t 3. Grimsby t 3 Mansfield t 2. Barrow 2 Oldham a 4. Wrexham 2 port Vale 3. Hartle polls u 0 Scunthorpe u 2. Darlington 0 , Chesterfield 0 i Stockport c 2, Rochdale t Workington 2. Tran Mere r 0 scottish cot second bound Aberdeen 2. St. Mirren 0 Aird ionians 3, East Fife 0 Albion r 2. East Stirling 0 a 0. Motherwell 2 Berwick r 2. Queen of s 3 buckle Thistle 1, Ayr u 5 Cowdenbeath 0, Morton 1 Dundee 0, rangers 2 Forfar a 2, Falkirk 4 Hamilton a 2. Kilmarnock 2 hibernian 4, Queen s p 2 particle t 0. Clyde 2 health r 0. Hearts 1 St. Johnstone 1. Montrose 2 Stirling a i. Celtic 1 Wigtown 1. Third Lanark 3 Irish cup fint round Ards b. Distillery 2 Bangor 2. Monk town 1 Cliftonville 2, Glen Toran b Coleraine 0, Ballymena 0 deny c a. Crusaders 3 Glenavon 1, Len fled 3 Portadown 2. Brantwood 1 Short 0, Glen Toran r 0 talks hint Early end to Sudan Poser Cairo ambassador sir Ralph Stevenson and Premier Mohamed Naguib talked about the sudanese problem at a six hour meeting the future of territory will be clarified very an egyptian spokesman said afterwards. A joint statement said the meet ing discussed the two government proposals concerning the future o the Petrin gets 19 months in fatality manslaughter Case brings term Charles Petrin 31, of 208 Berry Street was sentenced to 19 months in jail Friday. He was. Convicted of manslaughter and leaving the scene of an Accident in the traffic death of a 14-year-old St Boniface boy. An Assize court jury returned the guilty verdicts at 6.25 . After one hour and 35. Minutes deliberation. Or. Justice p. G. Dpi Val court of Queen s Bench sentenced Petrin to 15 months on the manslaughter charge and four months consecutive on the count of leaving the scene of the Acci Dent. Throw from bicycle the charges arose out the death Keith weeks who was hurled from his bicycle around s . Dec. 13 on tache Avenue in St. Boniface when a car driven by Petrin struck him from behind. In addition to the jail sentences judge Duval ordered that Petrin s driving privileges be. Sus Pended throughout Canada for three years and that his car be impounded for three months. Moving for sentence Crown coun Sel w. J. Johnston said he particularly viewed the lesser count of leaving the scene As a most serious breach of duty. There excuse whatsoever for a Man knowing he had an Accident to drive on when he knows another person might be dying for want of he said. fore asked that any sentence Given for the offence be consecutive to the major sentence. Made Avo mistake judge Duval who had told the jury they could disregard a charge of dangerous driving if they convicted on the manslaughter count said he did not think the jury had made any mistake in their convictions. I regard to some extent that the charge of leaving the scene is More serious than the first he said. I can t think of any excuse that justifies any Man in leaving the scene of an Accident when there is any possibility of his helping he added. Blocked funds May be donated to dutch Relief the Netherlands government announced saturday contributions to the National flood fund May be made from blocked funds in the Netherlands at the Netherlands Banks. The announcement was. Made by Bart menage vice consular official in Winnipeg. He said persons wishing to make financial contributions fund from blocked funds should do so through their private Bank in the Netherlands making reference to the permit release 907232, of april 25, 1949. Referring to the feb. 4 edition of the Amsterdam newspaper Al Memeen handels Blad or. Menage reported the Netherlands red Cross contributions of used ing have More than covered first needs. A news item said the red Cross has urged that further collections be that an inventory of the goods can a London news Cro Mulc by Ritchie Ca Joeb All peopled on Earth none has better reason that we British to be grateful for the Moat. But what is to de fend the House when the Moat itself is a destructive fury the British struggle against the sea began at least. Year6 ago. At that time the East and South coasts of England must a Netherlands flood water receding by Hemi Kersto tag Amsterdam a flood Waters receded steadily today from the disaster regions of the nether lands As thousands workers toiled to rebuild the Little kingdom s riddled dikes. The sorrowing country s death toll from the storm that hit neigh Boring Belgium and also Britain mounted to As the sea washed up several More bodies in the stricken southwestern provinces. Hardest hit was Goeree Over flak Kee Island with 433 dead. The unofficial three country death toll Rose to Britain counted 546 dead and Belgium 23. In Britain nearly troops and thousands volunteers worked today on Breaks in sea and River Walls along a 200-mile stretch of the country s battered East coast. They raced against the pos a Sivility further damage during the next big tides due in a week. A government spokesman said Friday that nearly half the 500 gaps have been filled. Belgian experts predicted that it will take two or three months to pump flood water from the stricken Antwerp area. Some acres have been flooded and cattle drowned in that Region the hardest hit in the country. Filling the Breaks in the nether lands dikes was the biggest task facing an army of emergency workers. Tholen Island where a big Dike threatened today to burst near St. Annal and and Renesse in Schoul Wen were the most nearly half of French budget goes to military Paris French parliament Early today approved the annual budget totalling francs of which francs is for military expenditures. The vote was 415 to 205, relatively Large majority. In theory the budget is balanced but Only As a result of borrowing and blocking certain expenditures until an equivalent is made Avail Able from the United states or elsewhere. Defence minister Rene pleven told that unless fur ther american Aid were forthcoming do Little to expand its present military Effort its heaviest in military disbursements Are foe the War in indo China. Different from what they look like now. The level of the sea was 60 feet lower than it is today. Instead of the told Cliffs that line most of our coast there was a Broad Grassy Plain stretching far Inland from the High water Mark Waves come then there occurred a Rise of the sea or a subsidence of the do not quite know which. The coastal Plain was flood Elf and the Waves rushed in to striking distance of the rising land behind. They have been striking at that land Ever beating away at it and eroding it some times in tiny pieces some times engulfing enormous areas at a time. There was once land. It. Is thought Between land s end and the Scilly Isles the fabulous dyonese where the phoenicians came for tin and the romans sought for trea sure. The whole of Cardigan Bay was once a Happy and prosperous Countryside until in the sixth Century it was suddenly overwhelmed by an upsurge of the Irish sea. Every maritime District in the country has through the years lost ground to the in Vader. Off the Yorkshire coast there lie submerged some fifteen medieval cities and even in tie last Hundred years the East Riding has lost Many villages. Lines of defences it has been claimed in parliament that one of the drowned Church Bells can some times be heard tolling still. Today the country has about 1.750 Miles of defences against the sea. The length of the embankments threatened by direct wave action is somewhere be tween two and three Hundred Miles. It was the overwhelming breach of some of these that caused the tragedy of last week end. The Cost of looking after these defences has never been accurately calculated but it must be very great. In Yorkshire the average expense of protective works is per mile. Bridlington alone has a Bill for half a million pounds. The Village of Caister Norfolk is annually threatened by the sea and wants to be spent to make. Safe. The sums at slake Are far beyond the resources of the private individuals of the local authorities directly involved. Parliament therefore has gone some Way to but Only recently. A Long history government interest in the inroads of the sea has history behind it. Henry passed a statute of sewers to make provision against outrageous flowing surges Anuff course of the "1. But it was hot until 1946 that a rapid Survey of the coasts by the ministry of health engine made it Clear that the see invaders Paje 10 . May press allies to expand Korea Aid stepping up Campaign hits policy on Formosa does it mean enlarging War in Asia he asks by Jack Steele Washington Nyht sen. John j. Sparkman dem. Ala called upon president Eisenhower Fri Day to Tell the. American people whether his action in freeing nationalist chinese forces on Formosa raid red China was the first step toward enlarging the War in Asia or toward involving United states forces on the Mainland of sen. Sparkman democratic vice presidential nominee last fall led a general democratic attack in the Senate. On the new far Eastern policy announced by the president in his state of the Union message monday. With other democratic senators he demanded a full explanation of the implications of the presidential order ending the orders to the 7th Fleet to protect the chinese coast from nationalist raids. Bipartisan failure sen. Sparkman made these other related charges 1. That president Eisenhower disregarded his pledge of bipartisanship in foreign relations by failing to consult with democratic leaders on his decision regarding the 7th Fleet. Sen. Sparkman said j the presidential action was a far cry from the bipartisanship that existed during the time of sen. Arthur h. Vandenburg rep., 2. Accused the president of Vio lating True partnership with our allies noting that the new formosan policy had caused consternation throughout Europe. Sen. Sparkman s speech touched off a heated Senate debate with sen. Alexander Wiley rep., chairman of the foreign relations committee defending the presi Dent s action which he declared would result in the saving of lives of United nations troops in Korea. The Alabama senator charged that president Eisenhower s formosan decision had raised a series of momentous questions As to what american Aid or direct military help is to be Given nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek to carry out attacks on the chinese main land. Hopes answer no is this the first step toward enlarging the War in he asked. Is this the first step toward involving United states forces of the Mainland of China is this the first step toward More casualties in see controversy Page 10 naval blockade May be new link in Tough policy by Ned Russell Washington ident Dwight d. Eisenhower was reported Friday to be considering a naval blockade of communist China As a second step in his plan for stepping up the pressure on the piping regime to agree to a settlement of the korean War. It appeared however that the president s consideration of a naval blockade is tied to other pos sible moves for intensifying the pressure on communist China and involves a number of major policy decisions about what to do in Vari Ous contingencies that might re sult from the new policy. The report that a naval blockade China is under consideration at the White House came from rep. Dewey Short rep. To chair Man of the House armed services commander of the United Stales Pacific Fleet had told the com Mittee thursday the plan could be carried out without risking an enlargement the korean War. Secretary silent at the White House however James c. Hagerty presidential press Secretary declined c o m ment on these reports. I have no i committee that . Who told Arthur w. Reporters Radford Bonspiel play reaches Semi finals play in the Manitoba Curling. Association s 35th annual Bon Spiel has advanced to the jewel Lery stage. Bonspiel Headquarters said saturday morning that Semi finals in the Birks major event and City Hydro secondary events would be played to night on the s.15 draw. Other events will be playing into the Semi finals. Competition in the Consols play Downs for the right to re present Manitoba at the Cana Dian Curling championships at Sudbury next month begins monday at the in circles see bid to end War while House believed setting specific role for partners by Francis w. Carpenter United nations n. Y. A United states today was re ported shaping up an emphatic Call on its in allies for More help in Korea. Diplomatic sources Here familiar with u. S. Policy indicated such a move would be part of the new grand strategy being worked out by the Eisenhower administration for ending the korean conflict. Answer to that question whether the u. S. Government made it Gen. Eisenhower will order a known last year in the unas blockade and that does not imply Sembly in Paris that it desired Grain rate plans suspended a yes or or. Hagerty said. Adm. Radford who arrived Here last sunday for conferences on naval matters with officials the Pentagon and has conferred with president Eisenhower has Long advocated a blockade of China. Jigs views on this Are known to parallel closely those of general Douglas Macarthur. The idea of a blockade has been studied at length by american and British naval authorities. Adm. Radford clearly believes it is Feas Ible and eventually would have an economic effect on communist China although it is doubtful whether it would complicate the flow of arms and equipment to the Chi Nese and North korean armies in Korea since those supplies move almost entirely by land. British opposed the British however have Long opposed the idea on grounds it would not achieve its a i m and would threaten an enlargement the korean War. Such a blockade would clearly exclude any attempt to close the i russian far Eastern port Vladivostok where a Small amount supplies for communist China Are landed. A blockade of Vladivostok u is recognized would be Tanta mount to c. Declaration War on soviet Russia d therefore is ruled out in the present considerations. Additionally i t i s believed such a blockade would be limited primarily to halting the move ment vessels carrying goods to China from european countries. With a coastline of Miles it is acknowledged that it would be impossible As Well As highly dangerous to try to extend the Block Ade to the Small coastal vessels which play a Large part in the Chi Nese distribution system. More help in Korea. Almost Noth ing happened for other countries answered they were doing All they could. But the new administration is laying Down in straight terms what it expects the in partners to do. The u. S. Took Over general coun cil direction of the korean War in 1950 shortly after the Security Council decided the in must meet the communist aggression. Britain Canada Australia and a number of other countries answered appeals by Washington and by in Secretary general Trygve lie for help but since then there has been almost no increase in military Aid for the in. Wheat Price Parley deadlocked Washington Reuters International wheat Council is stalemated Over demands by can Ada Australia and the United states for a higher Price for wheat it was Learned today. There has been no sign of a Compromise on Canadian australian demands for an increase to from 51.80 a Bushel. Britain maintains there no Case for a Price increase. Canada and Australia claim production costs have gone up since the International wheat agreement was signed in 1949. The . Says it has had to subsidize wheat Farmers because of the Price. The three countries and Argen Tina major exporters under the wheat agreement which expires in july have been meeting Here with 42 importing countries negotiating for a new agreement. Though the Canadian australian demand is considerably lower than that of the ., which wants 52.50 a Bushel the importing countries have made no move toward meet ing it it was Learned Friday. Iwa Faus just Short of 52 guarantee Washington but per cent of the guaranteed quantities were shipped last year under the International wheat agreement it was announced Fri Day. The International wheat Council of 46 countries made Public its re port on the 1951-52 crop year. A total of bushels moved during the year and the Council concluded that the agree ment was working in a generally satisfactory although Argen Tina and Russia two of the biggest producers Are not in the agree ment the quantities involved represent More than two thirds of the wheat moving across National frontiers. The report showed that the total Cost of operating the agreement Lor the year was this was proof a spokesman said that its mechanics Are not a Burden on the countries. Blockade May expand 7th Fleet Ottawa special freight rates on Western Domestic Grain will remain unchanged pending a decision trom the supreme court. Or. Justice John d. Kearney chairman of the Board of trans port commissioners announced Friday thai the Board has decider to suspend its plans to include Domestic Grain traffic in National tale equalization. And Ltd. To make request the Board s equalization plan scheduled to go into effect next Jan. 1, would have included one Intra Western Grain traffic and it was expected raised rates. Domestic Grain rates although increased last fall Are lower than in other parts the country. Chief Point at Issue is the legality of hold Downs on part of the Grain traffic. By the hold Down Rule Domestic Grain moving on lines which Norm ally carry Export Grain at statutory crows nest rates May not be charged More than the Export rate. Or. Justice Kearney said the Board had been advised that the Saskatchewan government and possibly other provinces were planning to seek a review of the Board s proposed removal of the hold Down. The three Prairie governments in the past have argued that the hold Down has Legal Validity in anti discrimination clauses of the railway act. Board s suspension Means Shafit will not order removal of the hold Downs until the courts have ruled on their Validity. You will find Book reviews Page.11. Bridge column Page a. Church news Page 11, comics pages 23, 24. Crossword Puzzle Page 7. Deaths and funerals Page 9. Financial news Page 25. Hollywood column Page 8. Home Gardener Page 3. Mulch the stars contest Page 5. Music news Page radio Page 4. Serial Page 6. Society news pages j4, 15, 16. Sports pages 20, 21, 22. How much butter now question Gardiner and Trade differ on danger of shortage Ottawa up the Agri culture department s embargo on the Sale of government but Ter Wilt be lifted Early next week it was Learned today. Requests for emergency sup plies in areas where an authentic shortage is found to exist will be filled an official said. Ottawa Hon. J. G. Ardiner agriculture minister and Canada s commercial butter Trad ers appear to have squared off in a Battle concerning the country s butter stockpile. The traders say the Supply and Price situation appears to be critical More so in the East than in the West. No offerings of butter were made on the Canadian commodity Exchange at Montreal Fri Day and Montreal and Quebec wholesalers say Urey have supplies Only for about four or six Days. The Trade wants the government to release least pounds of the pounds of butter it has in Stock. The agriculture minister on the other hand has said that the Trade has pounds of butter in store and will be getting 10.000.000 monthly from Farmers until May for Sale across Canada. Or. Gardiner has said govern ment stocks will be released at 62 cents a Pound wholesale to stabilize the consumer Price when necessary. Supplies and prices of butter appear to vary across the country. In Montreal a few Independent retailers have increased the Price to 70 cents a Pound though the general retail Price varies Between 66 and 88 cents. At Toronto a butter Scarcity is. Anticipated during the next two weeks. The Ontario agriculture department said there will be a ser ious shortage if no Federal butter stocks Are available next week. In Vancouver a packing Plant spokesman said some distributors Are borrowing butter from others to meet commitments. Butter stocks in Winnipeg on feb. 2 were considerably greater than on the same Day last year according to figures Given today by the Manitoba department of agriculture. Stocks stood at pounds against pounds a year ally by a Cruiser or an aircraft ago. Carrier. However the department pointed out that an unspecified proportion the total stocks were being n Ami. In g0vernment storage and if president orders China Seal off Washington a Admiral Arthur Radford will ask expansion of the . 7th Fleet if president Eisenhower should order a Block Ade red China s coast. That became apparent Friday night in the Wake a Call for action by chairman Dewey Short rep. To of the House of representatives armed services com Mittee and Short s comment that he believed Eisenhower was considering a blockade. Short quoted Radford Pacific Fleet commander now in washing ton As saying a blockade coast Wise shipping could be carried out. Radford also assured the commit tee thursday that he saw Little Chance War with Russia As a result of such a step. The 7lh Fleet s Mission has been divided Between providing air sea support for the korean War and patrolling the formosan Straits. Actually Only a few ships have been on the formosan patrol which Eisenhower said monday he was ending insofar As it protected the chinese Mainland from attacks by nationalists from Formosa. Most of the time four or five destroyers have represented the main patrol Force joined occasion temperature readings during the 24-hour period ending at 6.30 . Saturday were Vancouver Man. Max. Per. Canary. Saskatoon w xxx pkg port Churchill fort William 35 -7 -13 30 a to 37 21 or 27 42 As .77 that some local firms had reported an acute shortage of butter available for immediate Commer Cial distribution. In the other Prairie provinces Saskatchewan is described As suf Fering a slight shortage while stocks in Alberta Are reported As .05 running dangerously Bookie police link charged new York Nyht tiie Brooklyn rackets grand jury which two years ago exposed the links Between Bookie Harry Gross and members of the plainclothes squads charged Friday that police in Brooklyn were again co operating with bookies and that this time the grand jury has motion pictures to prove it. The films taken Over a seven week period last summer will be shown feb. 14 to police commissioner. George p. Mon aghan and other Public officials. They show it was Learned three bookies accepting bets from customers on a Street Corner and also show the gamblers in. Conversation with individuals dressed in civilian clothes later identified As Plain clothes men of the 18th in a. Presentment filed with judge Samuel s. Leibowitz the jury asked permission to sum Mon the City s highest police officials to the showing and called on commissioner Monaghan to take immediate and Complete action against Plain clothes supervisors in the area in which the pictures taken. The judge immediately granted their request and commented the Public is sick and tired of witnessing the punishment of Small time graft ers while the big shots stand in the sidelines and literally laugh up their ;