Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 9, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. 60 no. 114 Down River says Cofer province grabbed off Best Wec assets Swailes claims Winnipeg was Down the River in the recent Manitoba Power shuffle Donovan Swailes la Kcf Winnipeg Centre charged in a radio broadcast sat urday. He accused the provincial govern ment of setting up a private Mono for the Winnipeg electric company s valuable Gas Utility grabbing off the company s elec tric distribution system Leav ing the City with nothing except an option on the least desirable of the properties the transit sys or. Swailes Kcf provincial Secretary was speaking on Krc s provincial affairs program. Accuses paper Winnipeg citizens he said passed up a prize when they turned Down plan c because they were confused bamboozled by the free he also criticized this paper for a great fuss about the Kcf aldermen on City Council being opposed to a referendum on plan the referendum is obsolete he declared. People s representatives Are elected to make decisions. I my very proud of the fact that the Kcf members of City Council had the moral courage to stand up to the arrogant Bull dozing of this obstructionist plan c involved Purchase Byj Winnipeg free press 30 pages Price by Carrier 30 cents per week Winnipeg monday february 9, 1953 weather forecast Winnipeg Cloudy with Little change. Winds Light. Low tonight 3iigh tuesday 10 below 10 above. Sim rises 7.51 . Moon Rise 4.49 . Sun sets 5.36 . Moon sets 12.04 . . Will fight bid to blockade China Mainland f a Windmill stands High dry Al Ijlal Ops ii 1 Joti i in the flooded desolation around the Netherlands coastal Village of nude Tonge. This was one of the areas hard hit by the flood that left nearly a half million acres of Farmland under water drowned cattle. See Power Deal Page 9 w. German party hits army plan social democrats attack on heels of Dulles plea by Gascon Coblentz Bonn Nyht the powerful West German social democratic party opened a new Campaign Sun Day against ratification of the Western european army treaty. Resumption of the attack on the integrated army plan followed three Days after special efforts by Secretary of stale John Foster Dulles to induce the social democratic leaders to change their minds. They have succeeded in de laying ratification by West Ger Many so far through a series of intransigent parliamentary Legal manoeuvres. Made Clear failure of or. Dulles to persuade them of the urgent necessity of Swift action for european Unity was made Clear by Wilhelm Mel lies the party s vice chair Nan in j an address in the North German port of Kiel. Or. Mellies said the joint army scheme the companion Bonn peace contracts do not give the West germans equal rights with France the other signatories. Election plan there is a growing conviction Here that the social democrats Are subordinating All considerations of european Unity to an Effort to win the National elections in West Germany next september. They clearly believe that if they can prevent ratification until then they will have forced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a Champion of the joint army plan into the Dis agreeable position of having to go before the electorate with his pro Gram a failure without having regained Western German sovereignty. Old country soccer London Reuters results of soc cer matches today in the United kingdom football association cup fourth round. Second replays Potts county 0, Bolton w. 1 w. By Orovich 1, Chelsea 1 As a result of today s replays Bolton wanderers visit Luton town in the fifth found saturday. The West Bromwich Chelsea tie will have be replayed a third time before thurs Day. Workman gives Lall his Cash to flood fund Milan. Italy work Man walked into a local radio station sunday night plunked Down lire for to european flood sufferers. That s All i have but you re Welcome to he said walked out. He came Back 10 minutes later asked for 25 lire for Streetcar fare. To Tower will go up Here soon Netherlands flood like Manitoba s one grim the fatality count by Fred Edge former free press reporter now Public relations officer for the Canadian red Cross. Or. Edge who flew Over to the Netherlands to make a first hand Surrey of the flood Situa Tion for the red Cross wrote the following article specially for the Canadian press. Expect transmitter to operate by fall by Victor. Mackie Ottawa special equip ment for the television transmitter at Winnipeg is on order Erec Tion of the Tower atop the new Canadian broadcasting building will get under Way very soon a. D. Dunton chairman of the Csc aboard of governors told the free press monday. Present plans Call for a trans Tower -250 feet High Tor lie erected on the roof of the building now being converted into the Csc radio broadcasting building on Portage Avenue Young Street. Csc engineers said that the Flat terrain surrounding Winnipeg made it unnecessary to have Tower of great height. The terrain is Ideal for to broadcasting should ensure Good reception at a considerable distance. Downtown location with the transmitter Tower located in downtown Winnipeg it will make it unnecessary for Resi dents of Winnipeg St. Boniface to have outside antennae for their to sets unless they want to receive signals from american to stations. The Winnipeg to transmitter should be ready to Start operating by the fall of 1953, or. Dunton Bergen of zoom the Date is indefinite one difference the Netherlands depends upon the Speed with which could have been Manitoba in the Spring of 1950. The necessary equipment is de slivered. There is a sameness in the stun clearance for the erection of burgomaster Antonius Ned look of refugees being ferried to safety in lumbering army ducks in the tired swollen eyes of thous of Volunteer Dike workers in the ironically Dusty streets end ing at rippling flood Waters. The difference is that this is a killer flood. On a tour of observation for the Canadian red Cross society it was difficult to remember that this was Over Flakker instead of Morris Man. Until we got to Halsteen. Standing on a flooded Street we saw an outboard powered boat re turn with a body wrapped in Grey blankets. Later Elk Huizen of Halsteen said about 80 of the residents had died. Twenty had been found identified 50 to 60 More Are mis sing. His eyes swept the endless sur face of water broken Only by the thin strip of Dike that had t held. They must be he said. They had no place else to today of Halsteen s acres Are flooded almost All the 800 cows horses Are dead. Elk Huizen said it will take two years to rebuild the shattered Homes four years to reclaim the Sodden land even longer to replace per Sonal possessions eradicate the Salt from the soil. Visitor finds 11 relatives dead in Netherlands Halsteen the nether lands a mrs. Johanna Roks Nefs a Netherlands Emigrant now living in can Ada arrived on a vacation visit Here to find nearly All her relatives 11 of them had been drowned in the floods. News of the flooding was received in mid Atlantic while mrs. Roks Nefs who lives at Delaware ont., was sailing from new York in the dutch liner Wyndam. She was so worried she did not eat drink or sleep for the rest of the voyage. At Rotterdam she was met by two Brothers in Law who told her that a brother in Law three Sisters in Law the father of one of the Sisters in Law six cousins were dead. Meet to set flood fund committee statement due tuesday on sum collected so far a committee of 10 or More per sons to form the Manitoba division of the National flood fund is expected to be named today at a meeting called by Premier d. L Campbell mayor Garnet Coul Ter at the legislative buildings. It was Learned monday that pos Sibly seven or eight Winnipeg persons representing labor Busi Ness women s organizations would be of the committee along with Premier Campbell mayor Coulter mrs. Coulter who has been named executive Secretary. According to Moray Sinclair us. Raked by British newspapers Dulles lecturing one of main targets London apr the United states got As poor a set of notices a the British press today As it has had in a Long time. The chief targets were state Secretary John Foster Dulles United states talk about a blockade of communist China. The conservative daily mail says Dulles created a dangerously con fused situation by his 10-Day tour of Western Europe. The daily Telegraph another supporter of prime minister Churchill s government finds fault with some of the Amer ican official s Public lecturing of his Western allies says it would seem Best to make such communications through Well tried diplomatic the daily Herald the daily Mirror which favor the opposition labor party denounce proposals by u. S. Republicans that America undertake a coastal blockade of China. It s now a question says the Mirror of whether Eisenhower can prove himself Boss the wild men of his own the Independent times Lon Don is considerably Kinder it says about Many matters of Dulles leaves uncertainty behind him but on the whole the paper finds his tour reassuring. It is Mere says the times to take the first Opportunity of telling the allies the u. S. What kind of develop ments american policy desires to see in Europe this year no evidence exists that Dulles is being rigid formal in these requirements that he overlooks the see press attack Page 9 saucers not new 13th Century had same trouble London Fly ing Saucer terrorized monks at a North England Abbey in 1290 a.d., according to an ancient manuscript which was Dis closed today. Researcher a. A Chumley reported in a letter to the times of London that he had found a latin document at ancient Byland Abbey in York ships. He said the document mentions a round Flat Silver object like a discus which flew Over the monastery exciting Maxi mum Torr Rem among the name rinks Advance in Consols ladies Bonspiel play gets rolling the steel transmitter Tower has been received by the Csc from the City of Winnipeg the fed eral department of transport which guards against obstructions to Landing approaches for airfields. Winnipeg s to transmitter Wil probably be on the air before the transmitter in Ottawa. Originally the Csc planned to have Ottawa the third station operating in Canada. Montreal was first Toronto second. However mayor Charlotte Whitton has registered Strong objection to the site chosen on the outskirts of the City by the Csc for its to Tower on the grounds that it would mar the Beauty of the City s surrounding Countryside. The delay in finding an alternate site has set Back the Csc s plans to get the Ottawa transmitter operating it May equally vital problem repairing the not go on the air until the late1 Columbus 39-cent steaks Cost Canada million by Shane Mackay Ottawa succulent Sirl Iris gracing dinner tables in Columbus o., for 39 cents a Pound have Cost Canada about they re part of the Cost of the foot Mouth epidemic. When Canadian beef was barred from the ., Canada made a three Way Deal with the United kingdom new zealand. New zealand beef due to be shipped to Britain last year was sent to the ., while Canada sup plied the British Market. Canada undertook to sell the new zealand product in the United states. Last week a supermarket in co Lumbus advertised it would sell beef at 39 cents a Pound. It was swamped. The store bought the beef from a cold storage warehouse in Chicago where it had been held in the name of the Canadian government. Department of agriculture officials estimate Canada is taking a loss of about 45 cents a Pound on the handling charges. About pounds solved in the first major transaction since Canada took Over the beef. Business booms Columbus Was so Good at the Metz super Market Here saturday that police had to close the doors for-90 min utes until everyone inside could get waited on. The reason round sirloin or Tbone steaks for Sale at 39 cents a Pound. Chuck beef was 25 cents a Pound. The pounds of beef imported from new zealand the store offered vanished from meat cases in three hours. The manager Louis Mclaren said if i had had a million pounds 01 imported meat i could have sold every last Pound of British Start trek Back to Homes evil smelling slime left As water recedes London great trek Back to Homes towns Slimy evil smelling with the aftermath of the worst floods in modern British history has begun in England. Housewives Are leaving their temporary flood shelters re turning to the Sodden wreckage left when the Waters last week oozed slowly Back into the sea. Their sadness is overridden by a Strong desire to get started with the mop scrub Brush. But the return has not yet be come a mass movement. Thous of acres of once Fertile farm land Are still under water prevent ing even a Start on reconstruction. Hundreds who returned to Shep Pey a Devastey thames Mouth Island found houses Public buildings covered with a carpet of slime. In some houses a Black High water Mark reached four feet up on peeling wallpaper. Work is Well under Way on an fall or Winter of 1953. Network telecasts when television comes to Winnipeg viewers will be offered net work telecasts from Montreal Toronto studios. They will be re corded in those cities flown Winnipeg to be transmitted from the Winnipeg transmitter by Means of Cine scope recordings. It s expected that leading United states to shows May also be re corded re broadcast Over the Winnipeg station. The Micro wave network linking Toronto Montreal will be in operation in april this year. This network will include some top Commercially sponsored s h o w s. They will be recorded re broadcast Over the Winnipeg Sta Ion giving Winnipeg viewers a Good Range of entertainment. Local broadcasts originating in he Winnipeg to studios will also be available from the Winnipeg transmitter after it goes on the air. These will include local special events picked up by the Csc Mobile television transmitter which will operate in arid around the Winnipeg area in conjunction with the transmitter. Local merchants will be Able to buy television time for Advertis ing. They will have to accept the Range of programs which the Csc will provide for sponsorship. It is expected in Ottawa that five months after to makes its Bow there a total of Between sets will be in operation n in the nation s capital. Similar figures should apply to Winnipeg five months after to is in operation in Manitoba s capital. Broken sea Walls enlarging them to prevent another wholesale disaster. The last time these Walls gave Way was in the 14th Century nearly soldiers Are Bear no the Brunt of the repair work aborting much As the roman sol Diers who originally built most of he Walls in the first years of the Christian Era. Send your contributions to the Manitoba european flood belief committee at 346 main Street Winnipeg. Cheques should be made out to this address such funds will be sent on to the National flood fund Effort at Ottawa. Acc copts will be available to cover deductions for income tax purposes. Publicity chairman for the fund the official name of the Organiza Tion is now the Canadian National european flood Relief fund. The Manitoba division of the fund is at 346 main Street. Or. Sinclair emphasized that the offices set up in Winnipeg would serve Only As a collection Agency administration of contributions would be handled by the Canadian red Cross society with Headquarters in Money was pouring in to the Winnipeg division but figures on a total would not be available until tuesday said or. Sinclair. While a Large group women from the Central Volunteer Bureau were opening contributions at the main Street office monday women s work groups at red Cross Headquarters were Busy packing sheets pillowcases. An urgent wire sent to Winnipeg saturday resulted in 4c volunteers tackling Yards of Cotton for sheets pillowcases. The ukrainian Canadian women s committee made 30 dozen while other groups busied themselves with the rest. Another wire received monday asked for the immediate despatch of pairs of rubber boots which were used during the Winnipeg flood in 1950. At a social gathering sunday the Curling championship Manitoba went on the line monday morning As almost half of the 5 rinks eligible went into action in he Consols play Downs premiere event of the Manitoba Curling association s Bonspiel program. Twenty eight into the Hacks at the Granite Hea government officials Are work of the St. Nicholas no out a flood warning system to make sure that Britain will be pre pared for the next laps during next week s Spring Des. Canvey Island worst hit area in Britain reported repair work is proceeding the situation is improving. Water continues to re the maximum height in any District is now about three fishermen carried sandbags to the Island in their Cockle boats civilian volunteers came to help. Ninety men of the Craf stationed at North luf Fenham have been working on Relief in Norfolk collecting gifts for the suffer ers. Canadian airmen have also helped in the dutch floods. You will find Bridge column Page 4. Comics pages 20, 21. Crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths funerals Page 6. Financial news commodity markets pages 27, 38. Hollywood column Page 5. Match the Stan contest Page 5. Radio Page 4. Serial Page 8. Society news pages a 12, 13. Sports pages 18, it 18, in. Ukrainian Catholic Parish collected ?56.62 for the fund. A request went out to the diocese of Ruperts land from archbishop l. R. Sherman for special donations to be made Sun Day night for the National fund. Every other anglican diocese in Canada received the same request or sunday donations to help european flood victims. While a trans Canada aircraft touched Down at London Airport monday with a cargo of clothing from All Over Canada including Winnipeg further sup plies were piling up for shipment o the Netherlands at Dorval air port near Montreal. The Cana Dian red Cross reported that More than five one half tons of clothing blankets bedding shoes Are destined to be worn by european flood victims this week. Temperatures temperature readings during the 24-hour period ending at 6.30 . Monday were Ottawa unfreeze butter sales Ottawa up the two week freeze on sales of government but Ter is being lifted ending the Supply War Between it. Hon. J. G Gardiner agricultural minister the commercial Trade. An official said that beginning i his week the agriculture depart ment will once again fill orders for emergency supplies of butter in areas where an authentic shortage is found to exist. A spokesman for the commercial Dairy Industry said this arrange ment will be satisfactory provid ing All emergency demands Are met. For Days the Trade has been hammering on the government s door pleading with or. Gardiner to release some of the Pound butter stockpile. Letters telegrams Telephone Calls had poured into the depart ment with wholesalers forecasting n. Price boost a butter shortage in some centres which would Resul in rationing by the Industry unless the government unlocked the door prime minister St. Laurent asked what he thought about these forecasts rationing said in an interview saturday no consideration whatsoever has been Given by the government to the possibility of rationing butter in Canada i am firmly con Vinced that there is not going to be any occasion for doing the prime minister it was Learned talked Over the situation with or. Gardiner Friday saturday the decision was taken at a meeting of agricultural officials to release some supplies As an emergency Relief measure. Normally Canada s butter production year starts in May with big surpluses built up during the summer months used to cover a shortage during the period of Low Winter production. . Move anticipated by Britain foreign office lists chief objections to policy by Arthur Gash of London a Britain will firmly resist any proposal to Block Ade red China the foreign office indicated today. A spokesman recalled that it. Hon. Anthony Ken foreign Secre tary told parliament four Days ago we have said to the That we would think it would be a mistake to have a policy of Block Ade of Mainland China. The spokesman said the British a government has received no such official proposal from the He told a questioner we should expect to be consulted before a decision of that sort were taken he added i believe we would the foreign office expects an. Early american move to seek the views of the main allies in Korea. If it does not come soon British ambassador sir. Roger Makins May be ordered to get British govern ment views on record once again. Officials listed five main British objections to a blockade policy which they said Britain has made Cnown to the 1. It might delay the ending he korean War by broadening the results on Page 9 ther rinks when firing ceased on the 9 . Draw the Power Ful rinks were still in the running name rinks like Mac Scales of Strathcona a Gowanlock of Dauphin Cliff Hudson of Strath Cona Earl Murray of Neepawa j Burgess of Minnedosa former Manitoba Champion Roy Forsyth of Rube Ludwick of Maple Leaf won their opening area of conflict with red China. 2. It could Lead to dangerous incidents involving red chinese russian shipping submarines. 3. It would not affect substantially red China s War potential be cause less than one fourth of her foreign Trade is seaborne most of her military supplies come Over land from Russia. It might upset such asian sup porters of in police action in Korea As India. Indonesia Burma which still Trade with the chinese communists. 5. It might Lead to retaliatory red chinese action against Hong Kong lying next to China. The British believe their Island Colony serves As the allies Best listening Post into red China that it would be harmful to the allies generally to lose it. Round games. All moved the winners into the draw master Walter Guly has advised there will be Consols games on amphitheatre ice tonight at 8.15. Two finals will be played at 4.30 . Today the Black and Strong the Winnipeg electric. A contender for the grand aggregate honors of the Manitoba Spiel .1. Vand Kerckhove s Stony Moun Tain rink lost its Consols game to g Macaulay of Oak River 10-7. Officials of the Mca have announced that the scottish rink Tokyo unconfirmed skipped by Gunty Mcwhirter will play an exhibition game at the amphitheatre tuesday night against an All Star aggregation drawn from the ranks of the honorary life members association of the Mca Sam Square of Pointe Dubois or. Robert Black Deer Lodge Ross Wright of the Grain Exchange Gordon Hudson of Strathcona. Play began monday morning in the Manitoba ladies Curling association Spiel. A favored out of town rink that of mrs. Runner of Treherne. Advanced in the major lady Eaton event Downing mrs. Martin of Granite 9-8. Ail american half to sign contract with Edmonton Tulsa okla. Ves Sels University of Oklahoma s All America halfback Heisman trophy Winner next saturday will sign a professional football con tract with Edmonton eskimos Jack Charvat tuls Tribune sports editor said today. I be been offered a contract which was just too Good to turn Charvat quotes the sooner Star the no. 1 player in the National league s draft next month. He was chosen by Baltimore. Nationalist Bland raid reported reports tonight said chinese nationalist troops had landed on Amoy n an offensive against the South China Island held by communists. Although the reports circulated reely in Tokyo there was no confirmation from any source Here. Reliable informants in Hong Kon said it was highly unlikely that the reported attack on Amoy could be anything More than a nuisance raid from one of 3d nationalist held islands Between Formosa the South China coast. Amoy is an Island in the Siulung River Estuary of Fukien province about 150 Miles from Formosa. Urge blockade a chinese nationalists official Cen trial daily news today urged the United Stales to blockade the communist chinese Mainland. The news Agency said that would not expand the korean War but on the contrary would serve As a necessary step toward ending a similar View was expressed by the newspaper Kung Lun Pao which said the Should Streng then the nationalist Navy air Force for use in effecting the Block Ade. Official reports today told of two nationalist guerrilla raids against the by 30 women against a Small Island off the coast of Chekian last week the other by about guerrillas in far off inner Mongolia both appeared to be of the nuisance famine in midst of plenty Man. Max. Vancouver 30 44 Calgary s 32 Edmonton 7 .12 Saskatoon -4 22 Brandon. 5 11 .-15 3 port Churchill -6 7 fort William .5 21 Toronto 28 37 by Jack trowel butter butter who s got the butter the question has Winnipeg creameries packing houses in a dither. And until it. Hon., j. G. Gar diner clarifies his latest Ottawa statement regarding the release of government held butter stocks to shortage areas they Aren t sure that even the Federal agricultural minister knows the answer. One thing they Are sure of the present butter situation is in a bad mess the Man apparently responsible is or. Gardiner. With millions of pounds in cold storage in the City butter prices monday advanced one cent a Pound at the wholesale level. And unless government stocks Are made Avail Able immediately further increases Are in sight. Provincial depart ment placed total cold storage stocks Here at 000 pounds against Only pounds for the same Date last year unknown Quantity we have enough to last until May 1 when fresh butter begins to lit the Market one official said. But the amount held by the government by private inter ests is he added. Burglars slip away with pounds of Golden treasure new Westminster . Up the latest addition to the underworld butter leg i burglars raided a Dairy Plant Here today escaped with pounds of butter. A company truck was used to haul the loot away was later recovered by police. If the government released its stocks he said there would be enough butter available to meet he demand. Some Creamery officials said they were scraping the Bottom of the barrel. Others reported enough on hand to last about a week. Spokesmen for Winnipeg packing houses reported a similar situation. Following or. Gardiner s a n nou Cement several firms monday sent a wire to Ottawa asking for one or More carloads at the Winnipeg release Price of 59% cents a Pound. In the Trade the monday morn ing wholesale Price was 61 cents. Commission firm spokesmen said that if enough butter was made available from government the Price would decline to the 59% cent floor again. Like everyone else they were waiting for further word from or. Gardiner regarding his views As to whether Winnipeg would qualify As an authentic shortage area ;