Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition weather forecast Cloudy. Occasional Snow flurry a today ending overnight beginning again thur Way afternoon. Light be coming Northeast at 15 by evening. Low tonight and High thursday 10 below and 5 below. Vol. 61 no. 91 38 pages Winnipeg wednesday january 13, 1954 Sun Kiwi 8.23 . Moon rim 11.97 . Sun set 4.52 . Moon self 3.05 . Forecast Cloudy with Light Snow Manitoba govt. Backs boards rate scale with one exception so Victor Mackle Ottawa special the Manitoba government favors the application of the Board of transport s proposed scale of freight rates to All railway traffic with the exception of traffic moving Between Eastern and Western Canada. C. D. Shepard provincial counsel for Manitoba delivered the final argument on behalf of the province wednesday at the hearings of the Board of transport commissioners. The Long freight rate inquiry in search of a scale that would equalize rates arring different parts of Canada has been carried j Cut in accordance with a statute passed by parliament in 1951. Object of the Board is to establish a new scale of Basic class rates that can be made operative Jan. 1, 1955. Manitoba in its final submission made two. Recommendations wednesday 1. That the Board s pro posed scale should be implemented to the extent that it should be applied to All traffic except that moving be tween Eastern and Western rescuers scour Snow As slides claim 220 Mia asks uniformity within West Revenue adjustment alters picture says Moffatt Ottawa ont. Tion of a uniform class rate Struc a Ture for railway shipments within within Eastern Canada the basis of the Board of trans port s scale was advocated tues Day at the freight rate equalization hearings by the Manitoba federation of agriculture. R. E. Moffat counsel for the federation made his submission As the Board of transport commissioners heard final arguments from representatives of the provinces or. Moffat was the first of the Manitoba representatives to speak. He was scheduled to be followed by Evan Mccormick who will make the submission on behalf of the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce and c. D. Shepard who will speak for the Manitoba govern ment. Earlier Brief or. Moffat recalled that the scale produced originally by the Board had been discussed by the federation in its Brief at an earlier Winnipeg hearing. The conclusion reached by the federation was that on the average the proposed rate of Alberta advocated a Compro i scale for hauls Between Manitoba Mise scale and the Large Eastern cities was Canada. 2. That on traffic Between these two great areas the rates should be composed of the present arbitrary Basing for that portion of the haul of fort William plus the Board s scale West of fort William. Or. Justice j. D. Kearney chief commissioner interjected i sup pose or. Shepard that a third person listening to you and or. Frawley j. J. Frawley Alberta counsel would say they both want Jam on it " he added we must be careful to distribute the Burden or. Shepard said. We Are pre pared to accept equalization Al though we have nothing to gain. I just Hope Manitoba will not be Hurt too the Board has five proposed rate schedules now before it. They include the Board s own suggested scale two proposed by the can Adian National railways one in the Canadian Pacific railway and finally the province final arguments from the prov inces and representatives of the railways opened before the Board monday in the equalization hear wer than the existing Scales and was therefore advantageous from the viewpoint of those in Manitoba who carried the Burden of the you will find around the Home Pace i. Around the world Pace 1. Bridge column Pace 4. Charity Jerimi Page 26. J7, j8. Cromford Pune Pace 4. And puff financial and commodity a Hollywood column Pace i. To the editor Pate 2. Radio Pace 4. Society news 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. 23, 24, 25. Red stand May strike German pact Frontier revision top political Factor at meeting j by Richard Lowenthal j this the third n a series it articles nil the Outlook for the Berlin conference. I Berlin special owns Jone of the most difficult obstacles to an agreed settlement for per Many is the question of Germany s Eastern Frontier. The russians poles and the Easl German satellite government con lend that the present Frontier along i he Oder and Neisse Rivers is final and that they will not permit an Independent and United Germany i unless it accepts that Frontier As binding in International Law. To Forck the Western Powers say that the Oder Neisse line was fixed at. The Potsdam conference in 1945 Only a provisional demarcation line and that they Are free to Sug Gest changes at a future peace conference. All they Are willing to guarantee to the russians is that it shall not be a hanged by Forte. The West germans say that of opposition faces . Farm policy Price support changes attack led by Mccarthy Washington of heavy going for presi Dent Eisenhower s proposed flexible farm Price support program emerged unexpectedly tuesday at a conference of Republican they do not wish to use Crew submerged then attacked by Char ship on Board hocs Huron dozen sailors from the Canadian destroyer Huron have Learned How it feels to be attacked by their own ship 150 feet overhead. In recent anti submarine exercises with the . Submarine Pickerel off a United nations naval base in Japan 12 Mem Bers of the destroyer s company spent six hours submerged in the Craft while the Huron carried out Dummy at tacks from above. All agreed they would rather be up lop for the real thing. Tors. Force but that no freely elected German government could Ever a scheduled As a routine affair a which came about ing Western representatives Arek Harges. The reduction however divided Over the proposed Scales other provinces British Columbia indicated that it favored a car scale in a sur prise move. Earlier it had been expected that. . Would align it self with Alberta and support the was not Large. He noted too that at that time speaking for the federation he had said it would not take much of a change to move the federa Tion Over to the Side of those who would prefer the existing scalps. Wun Aio Eria the analysis favouring the Hoard s Alberta Compromise scale. For _ its second Choice . Said it would favor the Board s scale. Alberta and Edmonton Are on record As supporting the Alberta Compromise scale. For its second Choice Alberta said it would sup port the Hoard s scale if the scale was revised to show some taper beyond Miles. Saskatchewan prefers the Board s scale although there Are features see Manitoba govt. Page 6 scale was based upon traffic to the whole of Manitoba including both Winnipeg and the agriculture centres in the Western Side of the province. An analysis based on Winnipeg alone was More favourable to the existing Scales he said. Or. Moffat however pointed out that in the interval since the Winnipeg hearing the assertion Haft see Mia Brief Page 7 old game Michael Bookbinder years gave an indication of his future ambitions for the Benefit of free press photographer Bill Rose at the Maple Leaf Curling club during the b Nai b Rith Bonspiel tuesday. Complete with his lather s Curling hat and a miniature Broom he s All set to step up to the Hack. His father is so Bookbinder 571-Quecnston Street. Split benefits evenly City c of c urges Ottawa special benefits sible disturbance to present Trade Dulles speech rejects world Power division Deal with soviet Union new. York Secretary John Foster Dulles speaking two weeks before the opening of the Berlin big four conference tuesday night rejected any Deal for a division of world Power with the soviet Union. In a speech prepared for the Council on foreign re lations Dulles said the . Is negotiating Only to Advance the cause of human he said it will not join any conspiracy against Freedom to gain an illusion of Security by dividing the world with those who suppress Many diplomats believe the and Market patterns. The executive director pointed accruing to Western Canada from equalization of freight rates should be distributed As evenly As possible among the Western provinces with no one province being penalized in order to provide benefits for an other. That was the submission of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce when Evan Mccormick executive director presented his final arguments before the Board of trans port commissioners1 tuesday. The Board s hearing will continue into thursday As representatives of the provinces and the railways make their final presentations in the general freight rate inquiry. Ern ment other Points made by or. The Cormick were a finally proposed the Board in applying see c of c Brief Page 6 sask. Backs transport Board plan major of soviet diplomacy now is to win acceptance by the Western Powers of a vast communist sphere in Eastern Europe and other areas. In his address Dulles also 1. Reported the Eisenhower administration has made a Basic decision to rely upon massive retaliatory Power for Security of the United states and the free world. 2. Said the administration s Poi Colombo plan Aid under fire Ottawa up Canadian contributions to the Colombo plan army pay corps accounts and ser vice uniforms have come under icy will provide More real Security Manitoba Standard maximum Speed limit of 30 Miles Calls unon it both for internal uni an hour in All cities towns and Vil Cost of setting up a microwave relay necessary to give network set vices runs around a or. Ouimet. Said Good recorded shows depended on speedy air transport and would be As varied As possible. In reference to recent press criticism of. Csc for setting up a India had covered Worth Day that a swindle of countries to set Acup sum mat ;