Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition Winnipeg free press vol. 61 no. 90 24 pages Winnipeg tuesday january 12, 1954 weather forecast Winnipeg Cloudy. Scattered Light Snow flurries my and again wednesday evening. Little change in temperature. Winds myth at 15. Low tonight and High on wednesday 5 below and 0. Cloudy and Milder three new heartbeats for old Princess Gay again by Philip Clarke London a Prin Cess Margaret has that say Happy look again and the gossip Grapevine is wonder ing if she s Snake off an old heartbeat for someone new. Reports from Brussels say Raf group capt. Peter Townsend rumoured no. 1 in the Princess affections last year has found a new romantic interest in dutch countess Alwina Van Lim Burg Stirum. And the 23 year old Princess recently has been buzzing about with not one but three highly eligible Young men. The countess has denied rumours of any engagement plans with Townsend but acknowledged to reporters that she often goes Riding with the handsome wartime air hero. We Are just Good smiling Princess Margaret and her latest escort 30-year-old lord Plunket tall and handsome Captain of the Irish european Security May hinge on solution to Germany s Frontier thin is the second1 of a series of articles on the Outlook for Berlin conference by Richard Lowe thai. Berlin special owns both the soviet the Western Powers Are approaching the Berlin with definite ideas about the solution of the european Security problem. What has become known of these shows that so far they differ radically. J the Western Powers Start from the conviction that German rearmament within a Western Alliance is Indis a sensible for a Long term balance of forces on the continent. They will therefore demand that a United Germany must be free to conclude such an Alliance and would rather renounce German Unity and go ahead with an Alliance with Western Germany alone than agree to leave Germany out Side the Western military system. Site dispute May Kiu big 4 meet to meet the russian fear of j a German revisionist attack backed by the United states the Western Powers would presume i ably be prepared to offer a guar Antee that Germany would not attempt to change its present territorial status by Force. West German Chancellor Konrad Aden a Auer has made it Clear that Al though he could not accept the Oder Neisse Frontier with As Legal he would support any i employer sees wife and son in picket line St. Louis a son and wife of George v. Harrison picketed his Vene Tian Blind factory monday Irv a wage astounded labor officials by asking for Union member ship. They say it s no joke. The son 19-year-Qlrt George jr., carrying a Union umbrella in bitter cold said his father had re fused to increase his pay of 75 cents an hour. The son explained he wants to get married in May. Mrs. Harrison who relieved her son on picket duty complained she Cei Ved no pay at All for As Sembly and cutting work. They have applied for membership in local 795, Al carpenters Union. Tom Hathaway Union business agent who visited the factory said i be been in organized labor for 20 years and i be never Beard of anything like this British strip grounded Comet jets technicians begin careful Check of airliners aussies hit . Dealing with Canada delegates blast Britain for spending dollars on wheat Sydney Australia Reu ters North american wheat sales to Britain became a Point of conflict monday Between Britain and Australia at the economic meeting of British Commonwealth Fin Ance ministers. Australia criticized Britain for spending scarce dollars for Canadian wheat when she could have used Sterling to buy surplus australian Grain. Though wheat remains the Centre of the dispute Australia is also reported pressing for greater British frankness on Dol Lar spending policy in other Fields As Well. Australian delegates said thai last year their country agreed loj Ezra Benson something wrong Benson lists farm policy mistakes Calls for changes in 12-Poinl address Washington a Snow slides Bury Homes trains London Reuters the death toll leaped today As Snow impelled avalanches swept Down mountainsides in Central Europe burying trains Homes and entire Railroad stations. Villages isolated by blizzards began to run Short of i food. Hungry Wolf packs attacked snowed in sheep folds. Rescue teams and specially trained Avalanche dogs dug desperately to try to Rescue Farmers and travellers buried in the Snow. By this evening the number of dead and missing in i Austria alone had passed the 1001 Mark with the toll expected to go higher. J worst disaster was at the Village of Blons in Austria s Vor Arlberg Region near the Swiss Frontier 1 More than 50 persons Are feared to have perished when a series of Snow slides buried More 20 houses. In another major disaster 12 per sons were buried in the Vienna Switzerland railway when an aval cold snap to ease up wednesday ache completely swallowed up the tiny station of Dallas. Worst in history Dalanas has avalanches every year hut the one monday night which brought Down huge Trees and to 47 below in Emo. On. Winni Eggers maj relax slight Day. Mediterranean sunday. The three other comets operated by British overseas airways corporation Are due Here within the. Next two Days for a Complete Check. One from Singapore and another from Johannesburg will re turn wednesday carrying mail hut no passengers. Another from Tokyo will return thursday also empty. Comet services to South Africa and the ear East will be replaced by Piston engined planes. Examination of the seven plane Fleet May take a month and Boac chairman sir Miles Thomas said it will be a night and Day get them Hack into service As soon As possible is not known Wentner me a near quo of the coldest spots on the purchased from Canada but it is he said president Eisenhower dozens of rail lines Are Asl was Emo onl., thought Likely it Laid a new farm program before i by Snow. Some main lines a official 47 neigh a tips for less icon Gross monday because the today but most still Frances ,1c australian officials also think silent believes in an old amen closed. I below and Kenora 33. In fact most there May be some agreement principle that when a thing another enormous Avalanche on c Der which Britain buys Canad Aniis wrong do something about monday night crashed into wheat for less than the australian o Vith its sch runs. " Greece France Germany cases in Hungary All reported heavy Snow Winnipeg the forecaster sees a Low hard hit of five below tonight and a High of the last of thursday colder air will Settle thirds of the Wool it uses. To hit the northeastern United Over Southern Manitoba again a Price of St.80. Britain s purchases of North am current farm policy with its Erica wheat follow a period system of Price supports Consumers Are denied Taine i below and Kenora 33. In fact most if of Northwestern Ontario Lay under Ajr mass today. _ u 3i for Southern Manitoba the word of and f we Atnorman is Calleres eighteen persons Are Loday ant Omorrow Day started stripping Down see attack Page 6 times raps Australia Inch Rattiff it uses. Blitter too costly Stales in five years filtered Down today on cities and Fields a while cording to the Weatherman. 3 the government owns 000 pounds of butter under in 1 More than 50 deaths n wimp trains coming in from Eastern the Black of Canada today were running almost than 50 deaths. Three hours late Over Canadian a supports be Housen Essa thes weather Bureau Herc Saifi he civic lines with Snow and cold o i too much i storm in final stages Early weather causing delays Between costs Loo Multi _ i Iii to k Harvey Lac last six years i sleet extended As far Soulhas c iia Linn press staff writer i 6. The government has invested j North Carolina monday with Snow in sinon ;