Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition new classified phone number 93-6541 vol. 61 children s photos coaxed from stars for new contest by Frank mokk1ss f Well Are you ready to Start trying for some of that prize Money next Friday that s the Day we launch our film family con test. It s Brand new. It has t appeared in any other newspaper or Magazine. It was dreamed up for readers of the free press so that they could gather singly or As a family on these Long Winter evenings and have fun Matching up pictures of the stars with their children. Many of the stars Are from Hollywood. Some of them Are from Britain. Flying spark blamed for Blaze garage operator tells How his employees braved flames garage operator Donald do balt Friday night blamed a flying spark Iron a welding Torch for starting the Blaze that sent his Block Long St. James garage up in the sub Winnipeg free press weather forecast Winnipeg Clear continuing cold. Winds North 15, Southeast 15 sunday afternoon. Low tonight High sunday 30 below and 10 below 52 pages Winnipeg saturday january 9, 1954 Sun Klests 8.26 . Moon rms 30.28 Sun -4a6 . Moon sets 10.59 . Forecast colder natural Gas May co to this y All of them you have seen at some time or other. Their faces have looked at you from the pages of the free press. But you Haven t seen their children. Many of t h e children s pictures have never appeared in a paper or a Magazine before. I had 1o coax them from the stars themselves with the Promise that i d return them. They re possessions just As your own family Pic Tures Are. Here s How the contest will work. For 60 Days starting next. Friday Well publish a pair of pictures each Day. One i of the pictures will be that of Urb s most spectacular fire in years r u labelled with Cinderella Bobo gets million from Rockefeller new York a bar Bara Bobo Rockefeller Friday accepted a Settle ment to end her Cinderella marriage. Her acceptance paved the was for a divorce for Oil millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller her one time Prince charming who now wants to live happily forever after without her. He told How his 20 employees in. The Teeth of the Blaze drove 15 cars and five trucks out of the flaming Debolt motors garage. 2001 for Avenue and drove one truck out. After it had already caught fire. Or Debolt said he stands to lose s16doo in the fire because very Little of Bis own property within was covered by insurance. He said he will he open for gasoline sales. Monday morning even if he has lo1 Rig a Shack up beside the charred pumps. Evaluates property he placed the value of tools cars and Stock and the one Tow truck destroyed with the building at 000 he said the value of the build in was and that North Star Oil. The owners had another Worth of. Stock inside. That made a total of i but one reliable informant this was a construction figure. Placement value he said would much More than that and might run to around Manitoba Telephone system Crews worked till after Nightfall restoring Telephone ser vice to the suburb after two cables at. The rear of the building were burned Hare of insulation. Cut. Oft in the shut Down was Telephone service of Deer Lodge i Hospital and to 100 Deer Lodge Homes. But. The Telephone emergency caused More trouble. Short Cir a edited with the same Telephone line was the fire alarm of the Hospital the alarm sounded at City fire the name of the Star. The other picture will be that of the child of a Star. We won t give the name. That s where you come in. You save the pictures and match them up. The first prize is the second is s500, the third s250 and the fourth s100 and so on Down the line. As an added attraction if the Winner of the prize wants to spend the Money on a trip to Hollywood i la under take to see that they get in the studios see films in production perhaps attend a pre Miere of a new movie. This contest is going to be fun. Profitable fun too. Get ready to Start on Friday. Watch the paper for further details. Reuther witness bolts guard key to mystery believed now in Canada dktro1t a the witness whose statement resulted earlier this week in accusations against four others in the five year old at tempted assassination of Cio pres ident Walter Reuther has fled to Ness Shook off his protective Pond lice guard at a downtown Detroit Trail Halo hotel around . Friday. Of if Init Noel wac a 30 below forecast in province heavy Snow winds delay trains and buses Manitoba was Busy saturday digging itself out. After a four Inch snowfall and winds that blocked highways held up trains and buses All Over the prov Ince. Temperatures in the Winnipeg area dropped sharply after Snow fall ceased late Friday and the Mercury was due for a dive to 30 below saturday night the weather Man said. High on sunday is expected to be about below. Saturday morning trains were running As much As three hours ate according to railway officials. Buses were reported to be regain ing their schedules hut some High ways in the province were still blocked at noon. Snow flows provincial highways officials i e the problem of giving what does it Cost you what it the irate of Charity in Winnipeg Are people jiving enough Are they being asked to give too much in the past two years Winni Eggers were asked to give More than to agencies and hospitals and there were countless other in recorded contributions to churches Community clubs to tag Days bringing total charitable and religious donations to a staggering figure. Yet Charity spokesmen say canadians Are not giving enough. Are there Good reasons for this Here is a picture of Charity today. Canada. Prosecutor Gerald k. O Brien revealed Early today that the wit Ness Shook off his protective to ported plows were out in All part of Southern Manitoba Clearing blocked roads where wind blown Snow bad stalled traffic. Roads in the Dauphin area the worst hit were pretty Well All blocked saturday morning offi i having around i production in ilk. Up six per cent 10 i to confession of participation. External surplus drop isaid saw shooting o Brien said the witness was a Canadian later identified by the Detroit news As Don Ritchie 33, recently released from the Essex county jail at Windsor ont. O Brien described him As the key to the solution of the myster ious shooting in which Reuther s right was maimed april 20, 1948. The witness lawyer telephoned him at . O Brien said to advise that the Man had returned to Canada but would Contact the lawyer again today. Ontario provincial police have been asked to try to locate the witness. A o Brien said is what he still is if he returns in trouble getting through Emerson and on Highway 14a and no. 23 was reported blocked Early saturday. Another report said Highway no. 3 was blocked West of la Riviere. Plane schedules were also disrupted by Friday s storm. Flights from the East were late into Winnipeg. Tea s flight to the East scheduled for 4.10 . Was Laid on to leave Winnipeg but might be cancelled if Eastern weather conditions become worse officials said. By pass Dauphin Canadian Pacific airlines were forced Friday to by pass Dauphin because Drifting Snow made a land ing there impossible. Winds from the North at Miles an hour were predicted for Winni Wii l 11 i i treasonable time. 1 could of sunday. Make him a defendant on his own reports from the Lake Iead said 1 saturday that the storm deposited it inches of fresh at port Arthur and fort William. They have a total of 39 inches on j o Brien said at a pre Dawn press conference that the witness Actu ally saw the shooting of Reuther and confessed he was paid to go on the the prosecutor quoted the wit keeps nation from complacency by William s. Humphreys London special Nyht Ness As saying the actual shooting raced out on the false British production is up 6 per was done by another Canadian Isil 1711 u u k. Ihmi of cent Over 1352, new Plant facilities Clarence Jacobs 48. Recur sen am or Parlier Lead quarters and City knowing St. James department Wasj tied up i Iceni Over , new heat did t break their _ the ground in that area the weather office said. Winnipeg s fall was four inches in 4s hours Wii i n total on the ground to Date of 10 inches. Churchill Man., was reporting 39 below Zero saturday. Billowing around those Telephone the reason for dissatisfaction is wires out onto two blocks of por Tage Avenue across the Avenue and Over the St. James municipal office Friday at noon came a dense Black smoke that blackened the faces of the 500 onlookers. On blacked out Portage Avenue cars turned their lights on. Some motorists could t see beyond their bumpers. Mixed with the smoke were flaming chunks of burning tar paper from the roof of the building. A Damp Snow stained by the smoke covered spectators faces with Black specks. A Wall of flame see fit5e Page 7. Murder Reuther. O Brien said Friday that the at that Domestic consumption has assassination of Reuther bounded ahead of the lagging i ate an attempt by gangsters of Export Trade and no Britain has to be told twice that this state of affairs is unhealthy for his pinned by rocks Driver Dies Michael Baron 23. Of 276 Prit Chard Avenue was instantly killed Friday when 10 tons of Rock pinned him to is truck cab when the vehicle left the Highway near lock to or. W. S. Reid Selkirk Coroner or. Baron was driving near Lockport Bridge with a Load of Rock he w a s i hauling for ten Riall Quarry co. Ltd. He had pulled Over to the Side of the Road to give clearance in a passing Sno plow when his truck Slid into a ditch and truck a tree. The of Aploks la Island kingdom and its dependency on foreign Trade earnings. As a result not a Little of the noise which British Industry is making nowadays comes from executives who Are either keel haul ing or Over hauling their overseas sales staffs. A new determination to capture new foreign accounts can be found in almost every Export business. Rents in pattern the reason for the mood is apparent. With the exception of the vastly improved British balance with the Dollar area foreign Trade figures show nothing Over which hats May be tossed into the air. There Are substantial rents in the established pattern of Export Busi Ness. South America and the Middle East Are notable examples of Trade holes which must he filled with came in an attempt by gangsters to gain control of the Cio United Auto workers Union the presi Dency of which Reuther had recently won and their desire to keep control of Multi million Dollar in plan gambling. Reuther fought in Plant gambling and rackets from the Start of his administration. His Honor nato May offer pact to Russia by Joseph Newman London special Nyht Britain the United states and France have prepared two Security pacts As an alternative to these purity proposals which the soviet Union is expected to put Forward at the approaching Berlin Confer ence of foreign ministers. One proposed pact is an under Rock piled into the cab. Police re i reported visibility was practically Zero at the time. J or. Reid said an inquest would he opened today at Langrill s fun British products if the balance of payments is to be strengthened beyond the margin of danger. The first half of was disappointing in this respect. The nation s external surplus dropped to from in the last half of 1952. Such a Situa Tion according to most opinion is insufficient to meet the country s requirements for debt payment improvements of reserves and Capi see Pronto action Page 7. Plans flush hush atom tests Washington United by Art Fletcher first of six articles Are Winni Eggers Piv ing enough to Charity in 1952, they were j asked to give More than to Over 25 major fund raising groups not including Hospital building funds. They actually about at least 30 organizations ailed to make their objectives. In 1d53, with records not Complete Winni Eggers were asked to meet objectives Loial Ling More than they actually gave in Iho neighbourhood of so far some six groups have failed in their objectives. Can a really sound figure on charitable giving be found income tax figures for 1952 based on income tax returns show there Ivere taxpayers in greater Winnipeg. Their re ported earnings were an average earning of these taxpayers for income tax purposes claimed 000 for charitable and religious donations. This works out to on aver age donation of ijtfo.17 for each taxpayer. The National average the same year was ?45.73 per tax payer. To Husk Fiji inks do not however give an accurate Pic lure of charitable giving in Winnipeg. They Are for the year .1351. In addition to All regular charities in 1052, three greater Winnipeg hospitals conducted drives for More than in capital funds in the past two years ?.ens of greater Winnipeg Cave More than to the is Boniface Hospital building fund and in 1953, the joint hos Pital building fund sought ?.v and actually got 100.000. To complicate the picture further there Are a staggering How much is Given in the past two yeast than hospitals Moke. Utah tag pays 8aiut Community symphony clubs number of minor fund drives with a continuous Drain on the. Householder s pocketbook. These include counties of Money Lor tag Days Community clubs service and fraternal organizations. Ballet symphony and other cultural groups. Teas and benefits. Few of these can he claimed for income tax purposes. For some people then an average donation of ?.10 would be far below the True Mark for others it would be Well above the actual donation. Some people give generously to charities so Gen in fact that the actual amount by a great Many others must fall far below the average of .f.30. Says one leading organizer of charitable funds in Winni Peg am willing to Wager that Many men with earnings of More than do not give see c11aritv Page 7.____ you will find old country soccer London Ftp result it games played in Ihn United kingdom i alter the present Frontier with Poland along the Oder and Riv i s. Or trim n the other Isa non aggression pad 1 Blackpool to i Between the Eastern and Western Powers. This could take varying forms. One possibility is an under taking by the members of the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion not to resort to arms except1 in self defence. K Vei t in Notts Churchill plan i Grimsby t .1, Kulnar it is understood that the Chian am three Western Powers after y n 3 meetings at Bermuda and Paris i Lincoln c i. Wms Ali decided to drop prime minister o. Leister to 0 Bradford _. C 3 ii. Mull c i Bristol t .1, to to ii 0. Blat it Nairn u 1. Burnley Mam he slur i Cai dirt i. u 1 0 x k 3 fort find Len North confirmed flin flon Man s dream comes True flin flon Man special a longtime ambition of Harry Moody an old Limer in the flin flon District has been fulfilled with the announcement from re Gina that he has discovered the remains of the Alexander Henry Frobisher Brothers fort established in 1775. Or. Moody who came to flin Washington unit flon in the Early Days f slates and Russia will open pre Betch atomic talks Here Mon from Here Lias spent the past 20jdny. Years looking for the site of the Secretary John Foster dul fort. He had Learned it was some Porsi n. 7.a where in the area from Hiss adj j win Sil ways of Early Canadian history and from of discussions indians who came to his slope to Eisenhower s atoms Trade. He finally discovered remains last. August. Two firm merger clears was pipeline laying Crews May get go ahead in March by Victor a cure on1 a a Nipes May have natural Gas for Sale from the trans Canada pipeline by the fall of this year. Merger of the two competing companies Means that a Start ran be made almost immediately to Clear several major hurdles standing in the Way of the go ahead signal for the pipe laying Crews a spokesman for trans Canada pipe lines said Friday. If. A Start can to made on constructing the pipeline in March then Winnipeg will have natural Gas for Sale in the fall he said. It. Hon. C. D. Howe minister of Trade and Commerce announced Friday night that Western pipe lines and trans Canada pipe lines Ltd. Merged their interests 10 Hurld a pipeline to carry Alberta s Natur Al Gas to Saskatchewan. Manitoba and Riuo Eastern Canada at the possible Dale. J 50-50 basis the representatives of the two 1 companies held a series of meetings with or. Howe in Ottawa during the past week. Friday the agree ment was reached to on a so so basis to Bush the 000.000 pipe line. Name the company is to vex trans Canada pipe lines Ltd. The president will a a Canadian who not yet been named. Initially there will be n Board of directors and a manage ment committee consisting of president Clint w. Murchison of Dallas tex., Ray Milnor of cd Monlon. Frank a. Of pal Las and Allan it. Williamson Van Couver of Wood Gundy and co. An official of 1he company explainer that the old trans can Ada pipe line company is to he the vehicle for the joint Effort. He said no new company Wotier he incorporated As that would re quire considerable time. The existing trans Canada company will simply be to accommodate the merger with Western around the Wurl i Bank reviews Piff 12. Bridge column Page i. Church news Ngn in. Crossword Pace pipelines. Heaths and funerals 23.j the trans Canada pipe to Manrill news to i. Iline company was retained Marilen column Page Rel urn. Paf letters to the editor in music pump 11. Lialin. Pace i. Atom talks to open monday i Ralise it s a Good after the details of the merger been worked out trans can aria pipe line lid. Will then apply i for a permit from the Alberta j government to Export natural Gas lout of the province. After obtain ing that permit it will apply to the Federal Board of transport Coni missioners for a permit to Hilim a pipeline across provincial Bor Ders. There also remains some financing details for the pipeline to be Newcastle u 12, Wigan a 2 Plymouth a i soils t 0 Portsmouth .1, Chi Irlton a 3 Queen s p p. 0, port j to Sheffield u 1 u. Ii Eadington u 0 judge Parker of opened. Ioway i Iune neral Parlours Selkirk and then states disclosed Friday night in would be adjourned until later. Jwill make a super secret series or. Baron is survived by his atomic tests in the Pacific soon. Wife and two Sisters. Huge Snow drifts there was immediate speculation that a Hydrogen weapon would be exploded. I signalling that the time has Are i Rived for another Advance in Tatj science of atomic warfare the a Block Rencil Rosos isl venue in Munni. Paris Reuters Energy commission said raged today Over Central and materials would Start where scores of roads were blocked moving to the proving grounds in he drifts in some places 13 feet the Marshall islands this month Hjohn. I the carefully worded dec an a Convoy of 12 trucks was nou Cement did not say that prep strand Fri for several hours on Snow rations Are under Way for the hound roads near be Puy in the greatest Man made blast in his naut Loire department where All tory. But it did state that Wear Road traffic was disrupted. Trains Jons tests of All categories would in the area were delayed. Be made. Presides next Mon Day in a new picture serial join him every Day As he strives to rehabilitate a convict and the Man s shattered family. For warm thrilling human drama read each Day s instalment Start monday january ii on the comic Page. In the free press Winston Churchill s idea of a Locarno Type of pact to guarantee Germany and Russia each against an attack by the other. The c sent two Security proposals Nom Lisier r 1 replaced this. Iran More r j. Leylon o 2 the Churchill plan was dropped in .1, n because it would have implied ii a t cognition of the Oder Neisse it .1 As t of Eastern Frontier of Ger i scottish Many. The Western Powers main Tain the Frontier is subject Lorie i. Raith k 2 lineation and ratification by i. German peace conference. I i Illish Crinan 1. Queen a s 0 Parluck t 6, 3 Psi. Mireno Rancis 1 Stirling a 0, hearts ill Ninn h i Arr oath Dundee u 3 cmdr Nheth j. Forfar a 3 Ihu Barton i. Queen p 1 i Kilmarnock Morton 0 Moth Envell .1. Dunfermline n Johnstone .1. Albion r 3 Berlin four Ayr in j commandants today reopened their twin Lanark a. Alloa .1 negotiations on a site for the for reign ministers conference meet ill North Ming in mid morning at soviet i o quarters in Karls Norst. Halifax t n. Darlington o the russians rolled out the pro Mansfield t 2. Chester j Verbial red carpet for the i. York c 2 an atmosphere of friendliness has t been seen Here in Many years. Southwest Shore the site of the fort was by or. Moody on the soul Shore of Amish or Beaver see Ripe Ink Page 7. City system prepared for pipeline show the told the free i r Hsc a per laying the Hasi o Rinc As Sunn As a in reached Al f talk open on site see i Ort Page 7. Iii Sotl Horn i Bournemouth i. Fli Lincham 1 Brishton 3, rending Gates to the big barbed wire com icon Hester to 2. Newport c 2 Pound in Karls Horst were manned Exeter c t. Crystal p o i by nastily uniformed red army j 1 Honor guard troops As the United Swindon t 3. Sun thend i o states British and French com Irish Manders their deputies Ard n Rived. . Derry c 2 each Allied vehicle Drew a present arms Salute t the fur capped sentries. 2, unite id t Tor peace plan. . Officials Hope the talks will Winnipeg s Gas distribution ey5 Rie Gree of seriousness he ready to handle natural cd the russians will j the Pine Lin from the Eisenhower plan and is f i on their own demand for a ban Oil Alberta Machos the City along a Ter mile Portage use of atomic weapons. A. H. Harris vice president and tween it and Balsam Lake. The Man acc of the Winnipeg and Cen location is near the Entrance of at the same time diplomatic c the Sturgeon Weir River info Are concerned that ver Lake and is Lio Miles by talks and subsequent More from Denare Bench. Formal negotiations should be hand no although or. Moody is in a Way As to t be Milr the Winter Al Selkirk reports Here he most. I s slate he first which Russia and .2, win the i by Spuhle an old Metis oxide standing and support off1 inc p 1 i Denare Bench who lived near Threca s allies. Hmm Ever he said in is rather location of the fort in his Young privately . Diplomats think that the line an it. Days and remembers soviet government May try through in that Short time. Jafes of the while Man s fort Nile atomic Issue to make who now resides on an Island Between the t filed slates " is hut nol Denare reach. And Britain or France or Canada thin the line Ean be built other indians and Mel is supplied the latest development came Fri i have been in him with further links and Wilh Ibe slate department an con int with both companies and inti increment. That Dulles and Zaru had been thinking in terms of bin would meet monday morning. Construction seasons to get. Leading up to this were Jim to 1 Eisenhower s proposal to the he said i m not que that of United nations dec. 8 for an inter Tim Islic but then the big National Pool of atomic materials pipeline in the United for peaceful purposes. A soviet put throw Ign from exas i Nole dec i agreeing to discuss Eastern Seaboard in less than one the proposition a proposal by am year during the War Hassa rior Charles Bohlen to soviet i would certainly be very Happy foreign minister Molotov on dec. If Thor Hopes 10 have the line Here 31 for or Vale talks about How to by the fall Are set up negotiations a reply by or. Harris pointed out 1h3t Molotov Jan. 6 agreeing to prelim pipeline faces a very major Narv talks Between Dulles and a arranging financing for the Zarubin. Project. He said none of these developments has arrangements ordinarily would be shown new basis Lor Hope that the greatly expedited if the compan atomic deadlock Between the West had a solid rare 01 Ai. In Ern Powers and Russia is about to distribution roman los Piikoi 10 he broken. However the launching a Honorl Hower plan did offer a. Oppor. He that in Date the win have you ordered your copy of the calorie Kate diet Booklet see Coupon on Page 17 ;