Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pack 8 free press. Saturday january j9b4 indo China dilemma negotiate or fight by Dennis blood Woietth Paris special owns the successful launching of a Large scale vie Minh Winter offensive in spite of All efforts made by French commander in chief Henri Navarre to nip it in the Bud has produced grim mood of realism in Politi Cal circles Here. The French Are now convinced teat the Day is still far off w h e n France will. Be Able to negotiate peace with to Chi Minn the communist Leader from a position of military supremacy which would of the state of Laos. It remains to be seen How the French counter attack reported Over the week end will develop but the feeling Here is that the whole question of coming to terms with to Chi Minn now requires reappraisal. It is understood that at recent French Cabinet conference responsible ministers said flatly that in the foreseeable future they could see no Hope of finally discouraging the Viet Minn by gain ing undisputed military ascent permit them to dictate terms. Dancy. In the past six months events French Union forces could not have encouraged the French government to believe that vie Minh could ultimately be per be increased unless Young con scripts such were sent to indo China. Move would require the shaded to Ive up the War in indo agreement of the National ass China As hopeless. Wembly Anri would never get it. It France shocked would also severely prejudice however the apparent ease with French military strength in which Gen. Giap vie Minh com Europe Mander in chief Flung two divisions it was estimated that it would be two years before a vietnamese Force could take Over from the French or Combine with them efficiently enough to drive the Viet Minh into a Corner. Second alternative a second alternative much Dis cussed outside government circles is to ask the United slates As re presenting the United nations to Send troops to fight in indo China. Raymond Aron the distinguished commentator of the French newspaper has gone so far As to suggest that As John Foster Dulles Secretary of slate threatened a drastic change United states strategy if France did not ratify the european army treaty France should face he r Anglo Saxon allies with a similar Choice either they should come to her Aid in indo China or French abandon the country Vancouver Arctic land leave the to the Corn born storm lashed British co Junist Conquest of All Southeast Lumbia Friday with Gale for Cerasia. I winds and driving Snow and the those who believe in continued Weatherman held out Little Hope of French influence and interest in a break in the frigid temperature Jindo China Are against intervene q finally it across the Centre of the Peninsula Cut the country in half came a severe Shock. Military officials Are now afraid that the enemy Avill lock up t h e considerable French reserves flown into the two Strong Points of Send and Dien Bien Phu and will then turn unimpeded to Deve lop the main thrust of their Campaign elsewhere probably against Louang Rabang. The Royal capital Gale Force winds lash . Coast soviet students have Garden plot at school by Bill Boss Canadian staff writer Moscow potted plants erns and All ticketed with heir botanical line the classroom windows corridor Walls and Stair landings in school 702. The children planted them and ook alter said mme. Tals Sia Ivanowna Khodorovskay the for the school Garden actually a Small farm. We grow vegetable and Cereal crops and said mme. During the week end. Along the coast blanketed under Snow raging log up to an Inch winds broke up in Boom Sank three Small vessels and sent other ships scurrying for shelter while the temperature Tion by a third Power. Finally is recognized that All current . Policy is opposed to extending military commitments in this Way. This leaves one other alternative negotiation. The government As a whole How sufi apr while Ine drum melted to the lowest Point in lever has not so far reacted to the pm Mereu in non a non Nasals of the Corn three years. Drifting Snow blocked a number of highways and completely isolated two Small communities Power and communication lines also were disrupted by the storm. The storm also brought blizzard conditions and below Zero temperatures to Nany sections of the Pacific United states. One of the biggest log Hunts in recent peace proposals of the communist Leader. End fighting the Early reticence of the French to negotiate was due to the vie Minh stipulation that fighting should Cense before formal negotiations began. The French that this truce would merely give the vie Minh time to reinforce and that it would cause a in recruitment for the vietnamese Peck attack school principal. The same goes . Split on red Trade bans by John m. Ski Tower Washington Are mounting on the Eisenhower administration to lower some of the barriers of the cold War to permit More Trade Between the United states and Russia satellites. And its Many top officials responsible for International economic policy Lee some decisions will have to be made soon. Meanwhile splits appear to be developing Between interests favouring Trade and those wishing to maintain maximum economic pressure on Lilje common 1st bloc. Of. R 70 to compete in West figure skating events More than 70 skaters from As throughout the two. Days for no far West As the Pacific coast and East to the Lakehead will compete in the eighth annual Western Canadian figure skating championships at the Winnipeg Winter club Jan. 29 and 30. Vice juvenile Junior and senior classes and judges to be announced later will include representatives from Vancouver. Calgary Moose jaw Regina Saskatoon and Winnipeg. This is the second time the club founded with the idea of giving has been Host to the Western Young skaters of the West exper these championships were the firs major event following the open ing of the River Avenue club House in 1950. Committee chairman mrs. A. C. Abbott president of the Western division is also chair Man of the competitions commit tee. A. Ross Little is Secretary. Hence in major skating competitions and thus preparing them for National events the Western Divi Sion includes the area extending from port Arthur ont., to Vic Jane Sinclair 14-year old member of the Winnipeg Winter club who will be one of the local contestants Lor the senior ladies title at the Western. Canadian figure skating championships Jan uary 29 and 30 at the Winter club. Jane will also enter the ladies pair Competition with her sister Cynthia and the Junior mixed pairs with Larry Rost. Is bloc. ,.pading list for the eighth the Issue May come into age 13 t0 14 includes h upon an application by a Minnesota by Tolstoy Pushkin business Man Dwayne Andreas Lontoc Turgenev and Babayov he 1 Claxton says Hor. Brooke minister said Khodorovskay. We grow wheat and Rye this year and now the girls Are summarizing the yields. The school is Only a year and a half old but we be already had raspberries and strawberries from the Many car Marjes i was shown the school s weather record. Four teams of six girls Ake turns recording three times daily the temperature atmospheric pressure wind direction and velocity types of Cloud amount of Sunshine or precipitation. Study groups May use the school Laboratory facilities for their own chemistry physics or biology projects. They May use the gym for Folk dancing Ballet gymnastic groups the Art room Tor painting and drawing. The Only provision is that Good order be maintained and that they leave the school by . Their work is in various Semi permanent exhibitions in the Halls. I code of discipline. The second wednesday each in reply to Davie Fulton month is open door Day at or. Claxton said he Ottawa up Claxton defence Friday any officier who macs statements such As attributed to . H. W. A Peck would to unsuited to command any unit t the armed though some remarks by col. Peck were injudicious or unjust his speech at earlier this week before the and and sales Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade was a toned Effort to arouse interest in the Reserve no action need be taken against col. Peck he informed Douglas Harkness pc Calgary furthermore As a mesh Ber of the Reserve col. Peck was not on duty when he made this speech and there fore was not subject to the military. School 702 when children display their work and parents inspect it and discuss their Progress. The school Library has 2.500 books and the librarian apologized. This is a new school and we still have 1o build our Library. A Good school should have up to 000 books. We Hope our Library will be that size in a the shelves include translations of Shakespeare and of Mark Twain s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry understands col. Peck s speech was cleared by the British Columbia area army commander before it was delivered. Or. Harkness referred to news paper reports that col. Peck might be asked to resign As commanding officer of the 102nd Battery Royal Canadian artillery at Vancouver. He asked if any action were contemplated against the colonel. Or. Clax Lam said ii had read newspaper reports of col. Peck s Pinn m to speech in which i was quoted As keeps them Busy saying that the Canadian army the recommended Supply men a was almost non existent As a de Reading list for the eighth Tensive fighting Force. Said he obtained a copy of speech which col. Pock said contrary to the of the country. The history of the West coast was m recruitment for the vietnamese underway or Jay As a Fleet of lol National army. The fact that a ii us underway tugs fought through boiling seas us of to try and round up 300 sections of were broken from their moorings by 55-mile-an-hour gales the Kate s Island booming grounds. 35 Miles North of Here. Thursday night. The logs valued at Are owned by a num Ber of companies. Seamen saved two seamen leaped onto a Barge Thev were towing when their 37 foot tugboat foundered m 12-foot River and then Waves in the Fraser River and then were pulled to safety from an other to As the Barge filled and it deep Cove on the North Arm of Jurrard Inlet a 32-foot Cruiser Sank and three other Small boats were hurled onto the Rocky Beach. Gyro past head visits Winnipeg visiting Winnipeg this week end is a. R. Carter Edmonton in heir latest appeals the vie Minh have quietly dropped this stipulation has therefore aroused considerable discussion Here. There is still no news however of any French peace move. Officials Here Are convinced that any treaty which permitted the vie Minh to be politically Active in Vietnam under the regime of emperor Bao Dai would merely enable them to capture Power and com Munize the country in a Short time. In. However the French Are to impose harsher terms to Avert this they must first prove to to Chi Minn that he is fighting for a lost cause by subduing his forces in Battle. Competitions be held Toria. The events will be open to the Public with seating capacity limited Only by rink size. Free skating and pairs events Novice and Junior classes will be featured the evening of Jan. 29. Jan. 30 in the afternoon senior j Din. In school figures and Silver dance eliminations will be held and in the evening senior free skating finals in dance events fours comprise the program. Tickets May be obtained at the vegetable growers first annual convention of the growers association of Manitoba will be held in Winnipeg Jan. 27 to 29. Sessions will be held in theatre a Broadway building. Among speakers will be j. R. Of dul Lull o Terji wis1ui i a president of Gyro Well. Deputy minister of agriculture mostly gifts. Furs p land immigration and or. Sol sin about in the first reds hint at boosting Trade Here Ottawa up a soviet embassy spokesman said Friday that Canadian business men Are show ing increasing interest in trading with Russia. Vladimir p. Sour Dine the embassy s first Secretary said in an interview that the flow of letters inquiring about russian trading methods has been stimulated by a recent statement by it. Hon. C. D. Howe Trade minister. J or. Howe said in an interview Jan. 41 strategic goods. Russian Canadian Trade has become almost non a _ existent. Canada in the first 101 two firms received months of 1953 exported about orders total Worth of goods to the soviet Between dec. 16 and mostly gifts. Imports most y furs Lar City Baha i hears Toronto speaker mrs. Peggy Ross Toronto of the Baha i s world Faith of Canada was the special speaker at a fireside meeting at 234 Wellington Crescent residence of or. And mrs. A. W. Cowan Friday evening. Her subject was the destiny of Man. Mrs. Ross who is Secretary of the teaching committee of the Baha i s world Faith i Ontario will also be attending an All Day conference of Manitoba members of the movement sunday. Founded in 1844 by the persian Prophet Baha u llah of the Baha i world Faith has for permission to Export tons of butter and tons of Cotton seed Oil to Russia. These Are not strategic materials and there is no policy Barrier against them except a general policy under which the u. S. Government reserves the right to bar any exports in Russia Security interests officials today said the Andreas application now is before an inter departmental committee made up of representatives of the state agriculture and Commerce depart ments. It deals with Broad issues of economic Security embracing the particular problem of East West Trade. This of course is not exclusively an american problem in fact it has been mostly an Al lied problem. Factors for Trade Cowan was elected recently to the Vancouver National spiritual Assembly or can Ada of which John a. Robards Toronto is chairman or. Robards is presently on his Way to South Africa to promote the movement club. Competitors competitors from Calgary Edmonton Kelowna . Saskatoon. Port Arthur ont. And Winnipeg s three clubs will be seen in action. A program of social events has been planned for the skaters Byj the Winnipeg Winter club Robert Scott Mitlee opening with a welcoming dinner Jan. 28 at the Gladstone a transportation committee will be on duty throughout the com petition to assist the skaters. There. Lontoc Turgenev and Babayov on the corridor Wall of each Loor Are posted its classes contributions to the current week s Edi Tion if the Handwritten school newspaper. Each class has an editorial Board. To read the whole paper you must visit each floor. Achievements and de elections alike Are chronicled in Fine pen Manship framed by decorated Borders. Whether Vera Andreona is first in chemistry late for school or turned up with an in wrist for the he had delivered. There was Noth ing in it. Suggesting that action should be taken against col. Peck. Valet wills Roosevelt s big Sticks new York paper. Classes take it in turn to be duty class for a week. These girls Wear red ribbons on the right Arm. Between classes they stand at Vantage Points on the stairs and the Halls maintain discipline Check girls whose dress in t tidy and Aitj. run Tiu Jubi there Are several forces pressing record faults m notebooks. H fourth corridor is strongly for official Sanction old greater Trade with the soviet Union and satellite countries. They Are 1. The development of a buyer s Market meaning a Supply of goods running consistently above the de Mand. 2. The accumulation of vast stores of surplus agricultural commodities in the u. S. 3. A slow move toward Genera easing of International tensions. On the other Side Are powerful arguments such As 1. A major policy of the administration has been to exploit differences Between the rulers and the ruled in All the communist coun tries. A major source of trouble for the soviet leaders has been Low agricultural production. 2. Agricultural surpluses for for on the fourth corridor is a ques on Box or history students. If a girl wants More information about a character or event mentioned in class she drops a ques Cion in the Box. The question and answer four or five paragraphs written by a teacher or a senior Pupil Are posted for the rest to the pioneers soviet version of the brownies and girl guides have their own work room on the fifth floor. Here they Swap Stamps mount butterflies and follow other group pursuits. The principal said they d love to receive postage Stamps from abroad. Fort Garry notes agricultural surpluses for in annual meeting and election of eign Sale Are often in effect subsidy officers of the fort carry Fores sized by the u. S. Government. Tu0-two firms get Man by mrs. Carter he Ding to Indianapolis to attend is and a Graton an Oclair professor of economics us eight months. Of we varsity of Manitoba. An address of ii i i Ivi to t. Oing to Sci site i of the Board of governors Welcome will be Given by Hon. R. Executive Council Jami cd. Robertson minister of Agricula re they Are guests at he will also address a ban Rovai Alexandra hotel until gathering at the Curtis hotel Dato Day they Are to be honoured it a social gathering by Harold Elliott local Gyro president and members of the club. Next annual convention of the International to be held at Cleve land Ohio in september will Mark the retirement of its Veteran Secre tary treasurer Edmund l. Kagy. It was there that the Organiza Tion now numbering 110 clubs in North America was formed m or. Kagy was one of the founders. C. W. St. Clair Ohio is this year s aids traffic London accidents in London have been reduced by shout 300 a year through replacing Rouey cars by buses says a safety Survey Here. Jan. 2s. Or. Howe s statement has ated a Good spirit and i feel relations Between Canada and my country Are better today than they have been for1 a Long or. Bourdine said. I Friday Ere a the firms were the Canadian Brown steel co. Brandon steel and the Manitoba Power commission s22.200 Power substation United Church choir Gladstone Man., special mrs. Robert Scott was elected president of the Gladstone United Church choir. Other officers elected at the an Nual meeting were r. J. Mackenzie vice president mrs. T. Moscrip Secretary treasurer miss h. Broadf foot and miss l. K. Wood Library committee miss Lillian Thompson defence product miss Helen Leckie and miss Lois figures released Wallin. Social committee mrs. M. A Roger and f. Fahner phoning committee. Rev. E. C. Bewell was chairman of the meeting which was held it the Home of the organist and choir Learite. Mrs. .1. D. Rogers. 3. A Basic Rule of u. S. Foreign economic policy is to Export surpluses in such n Way As to interfere with Normal Trade patterns of Friendly countries. Western eur Ope normally trades with the so Viet Union. 4. Despite the relaxation o cold War tensions there has been no real evidence of any change in so Viet policy or purposes. Lers court Grandin will be held at s . Tuesday in the commit tee rooms of the Cambridge hotel. St. Paul s anglican Church women s auxiliary meets at 2 . Tuesday in the choir room of St Paul s Parish Hall. Four big double action revolver he kept by his bedside a rough rider s hat some spurs a Silver Ink Well set in an animal s been the Theo Dore Roosevelt House the presi Dent s Birthplace at 28ve. 20th st., by his former Valet and bodyguard. The big revolver and spurs were painstakingly collected by James e. Former Valet and As painstakingly pre served by him years at his Jamaica Queens until his death dec. 26. Certainly one of the most treasured possessions to or. Amos was ithe letter written by president. Roosevelt which resulted in or. Amos being accepted As the first negro agent of the Federal Bureau of investigation. For the Layman possibly most interesting item will be the Smith and Wesson double action which according to or. Amos the president religiously carried with him upon his retire ment us night. He refused to sleep. Ujj Jujj or. Said in later the pistol had been placed on chair hear his bedside. Miss Dorothy Shaw of the rust research Laboratory of the uni the Silver Ink Well set in an Ani Mal s Hoof was presented to t h e president by Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons when the latter was heavy weight Champion of the world and Izso later Given to or. Arnon. The four big Sticks of the Lection were presented the Dent during his stay in the White ardent admirers of his _ poli summing diet London up the British medical journal recommends As Staples for a satisfactory slimming diet eggs lean meat and lettuce. But the journal also suggested an other method would be to impose a tax on fat people. Of the fort. Garry Reading club at. . Wednesday in the Home of mar. C. Alwart 352 wild Wood Park. Organization meeting of the la Dies auxiliary of the Victoria com old philosopher Wallington. England mrs. Caroline Beale who celebrated her 103th birthday in this sur Rey town says the world has t Dies auxiliary of the Victoria Luhti t immunity club will he held at. 8.30 changed As much in the last 100 . Y cd w _ thursday in the clubhouse years As the people. Yom Homz you Guelf Zon Olite dealers Fer All Zon Outi . In your Itacir Beaver lumber Call 59-6308 j. I. Sutherland for Pembina lumber and building Sulls Ltd. 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