Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 5, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition Winnipeg free press weather forecast Winnipeg mainly sunny. Little change in temperature. Winds Light. Low tonight and High saturday 5 and 20. Vol. 61 no. Ill 40 pages Winnipeg Friday february 5, 1954 Sun Rise 7.57 . Moon rises 8.34 . Sun sets 5.29 . Moon sets 8.40 . Forecast Clear i v of Hans Brinker still in style cruising Down the River on a sunday afternoon Are these dutch skaters taking part in the traditional Windmill race held near the City of Leyden in the Netherlands. They were among the thousands who took advantage of the Europe wide freeze up to go out skating on Windmill bordered Rivers and canals. City druggist denies political persuasion a North Winnipeg druggist Friday denied charges that a High ranking Liberal had asked him for a s500 contribution to Federal election Campaign funds in return for a sub Post office. C. G. Chapman of Chapman s pharmacy. Inkster Boulevard and main Street said he had been approached and asked for a contribution with the implication that his Post office was involved. However he did not think it was a Liberal official who approached just one of the hangers As a matter of fact or. Chap Post office charged medium of patronage Stewart declares i in House Ottawa special political blackmail plays a big part in getting and retaining sub Post offices in Alistair Stewart Kcf Winnipeg North charged in the commons thurs Day. During debate on the govern ment s legislation to increase postal rates or. Stewart claimed that the Post office department was being used As a medium of political he said that a few months ago a prominent Winnipeg Liberal had gone to the owner of a drug store at Inkster and main and suggested that if s500 were paid Over to the Liberal party the druggist s chances of keeping a sub Post office would be in creased. Ownership of the drug store and sub Post office in North Winnipeg there for Over 40 years see charge Page 5 Man said the North Winnipeg liberals including candidate Frank a. Chester had been very solicitous and helped As much As they could to get him the sub Post office. Denial by Chester in Ottawa or. Chester chair Man of the Canadian farm loan Board denied that political pres sure had been used on another Winnipeg druggist in connection with obtaining a sub Post office in his drug store. Both or. Chapman and or. Chester were commenting on charges made in the House of commons thursday by Alistair Stewart Kcf Winnipeg regarding the approach by the or. Chapman said no specific sum had been mentioned. Making the charges of blackmail in the House of commons or. Stewart Success Ful Kcf candidate said the druggist had been asked for said or. Chapman i paid no Money and i be got the Post office and i be had no he said he does t think poli tics should be brought into the Post office so he refused the Hanger on a request. He has never seen the Man again. He said he does t think or. Stewart should have used the language he did. There was no political i Don t see Why or. Stewart had to mention which store it happened to. He had no business Doin or. Chapman said. He Story is partially True and partially he did i t say which parts were false. No direct comment in connection with or. Stew Art s charges that another drug Gist at Mountain Avenue and main Street had been Black mailed into replacing Kcf elec Tion cards with Liberal ones Manuel Morry of St. Ohn s phar Macy at Mountain and main re fused to comment directly. Neither he nor his solicitor Bernard Kushner. Would affirm see denial Page 5 Canadian c of c urges income excise tax cuts Ottawa up the Cana Dian chamber of Commerce today urged the government to set up a Royal commission to investigate Federal economies. It proposed also that cuts be made in income and excise taxes to boost productive incentive and help Canada withstand increasing Trade Competition at Home and abroad. Signs of slowdown although we Are entering 1954 with most of our resources fully employed there Are signs that the Page of expansion is slowing the chamber s executive Council said in a Brief presented today to Hon. Douglas Abbott finance minister and Hon. J. J. Mccann Revenue minister. This May Well be a year of consolidation when the economic gains of the past can become the foundations for new Progress. While external developments Are very important sound fiscal policy can assist in making the economic climate More favourable for business. To this end the. Executive Council believes that tax Levels Are still too High particularly for a developing country where per Sonal incentive and corporate efficiency Are the mainspring of economic 700 boards the chamber is the National voluntary federation of almost 700 boards of Trade and Cham Bers of Commerce across Canada. A delegation headed by a. M. Fowler of Montreal Council chairman presented the Brief. The chamber agreed defence costs must be a first charge on Federal finances but even in this spending waste must be eliminated. The defence budget should not become a method to maintain employment at a Peak. As for civilian spending it was the government s responsibility to reduce spending wherever it is in the Public interest to do so. A Royal commission should be appointed immediately to recommend ways for increased econ omy efficiency and improved ser vice in government departments. You will find around the Home Page 8. Around the world Page 2 Bridge column Page 10. Comics pages 12, 13. Crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths and funerals Page 36. Film family contest Page 4. Financial news and commod Ity markets pages 34, 85, 36. Hollywood column Page 11. Letters to the editor Page 9. Power of positive thinking Page 4. Kadio Page 10. Society news pages 15, 16, 18. Sports pages 23, 24, 25, 26. It might As Well Spring is it Spring if the puddles and melting Snow Aren t enough Here Are some More signs of the Fine times. Thursday afternoon mrs n. Wiles of 125 Riverbend Crescent St. James saw a Robin grubbing for Worms. Wednesday morning mrs. D. H. Scrapneck of 454 new ton Avenue Elmwood saw a Crow sitting on her front porch. The next Day another Crow or maybe the same one was spotted by Jack Mowatt of 239 Mclntosh ave nue also in Elmwood. Budding tree and mrs. E. Bears 78 Strong Avenue phoned the free press thursday night to report a Maple tree in front of her House was budding. However Bird experts say it s not unusual for a few Robins to Winter in Southern Manitoba. Each year some Birds which May have an in jury or just not feel the urge to Fly South stay Over throughout the Winter. Last year two Robins wintered in Woodhaven St. James and one has remained this Winter according to one expert. Early Birds As for crows a few Are appearing in Southern Mani Toba now. They May be either Early migrants or Birds that managed to spend the Winter in a sheltered place according to the experts. To add to the Good news the weather office reports that there s no sign of the sunny Mill weather ending. General week end forecast 15 to 20 degrees above during the Days Zero to five above at night with Light plea Sant breezes. February to Coin a phrase is busting out All Over. Temperatures temperature and precipitation readings during the 24-hour period ending 6.30 . Friday were Max. Min. Prec. Vancouver 42 34 Calgary 49 36 Edmonton 47 34 Swift current 41 32 Regina 40 24 Saskatoon .39 24 Brandon 37 11 3.1 Churchill 13 -7 fort William 32 is Ottawa 33 25 Toronto. 30 19 Montreal 34 30 Halifax 44 36 to to. .13 .36 Ottawa set to spend record billion Churchill statue to be erected despite tradition London special Nyht it is a tradition in great Britain As in most other countries not to erect Public statues to persons still living but an exception was made thursday for sir Winston Churchill 79-year-old British prime minister and one of the leading personalities in the world. The London court of com Mon Council municipal Council voted unanimously to set up a statue of sir Winston three quarters life size in the precincts of the Guildhall As a Token of admiration for his outstanding service to the country and the world at the sculptor will be Oscar Nemon a yugoslav who recently became a British subject. Tranteau leading dog Derby one half hour ahead at finish of third Lap by Cory Kilvert Cranberry Portage Man. Special at the end of the third Lap of the Canadian open championship dog race Here thursday it looked As if Indian Musher Steve Tranteau would probably be taking Home the 000 first prize for the third con on the last Lap Friday had a Lead of half an hour Over the next fastest team in the 200-mile race. Tranteau s seven dog team covered the 33-mile Trail from flin flon to Here in three hours and 42 minutes. His total elapsed time for the three laps is 16 hours and 47 minutes. His closest rival Gilbert Laval Lee of Pine Bluff who won the first Lap of the dog classic tues Day covered this Lap in four hours four minutes and 30 seconds for a total time of 17 hours 16 minutes and 30 seconds. The third Musher Phillip Carriere a Cumberland House sask., trapper was almost an hour and one half behind the leading team with a total time of 18 hours 15 minutes. Carriere made the slow est time on the third Lap four hours 56 minutes. Allen holds fourth the Young the Pas dog Driver Art Allen and his eight huskies made the third Lap time thurs Day to retain fourth place in the race which he has held from the Start. His total time to this Point is 18 hours 29 minutes and 30 seconds. Allen who took fourth place in the dog Derby last year Cov ered the 33-mile Lap in four 52 minutes and 30 seconds. Bringing up the rear 20 min utes behind Allen and two hours behind Tranteau was former Winner Laird Ouellette of the Pas. The 1950 Champion Ouel Lette made the Lap in four hours 53 minutes 30 seconds. He is driving seven dogs. Thursday s Lap saw Tranteau s team lengthen its Lead Over la Vallee s dogs from seven minutes to 29 minutes 30 seconds. In the 1953 race Lavallee who finally took second Money led Tranteau in every Lap but the last Day when the grand rapids Musher forged ahead in the last few Miles. Winning time last year was 19 hours 31 minutes 12 seconds. Because of warm weather heavy see dog race Page 5 Pope has feeding difficulties Vatican City Reuters the Vatican in its first official medical bulletin on Pope Pius health. Friday disclosed that the pontiff s physicians Are having difficulty in feeding him. The bulletin was signed by the Pope s personal physician. Prof. Riccardo Galleazzi Lisi. Pope Pius has been ill for 11 Days. Earlier a Vatican official said the Pope has been restricted to a purely liquid diet for the last 10 Days and his weakness is in creasing. The official said the pontiff who will be 78 March 2, requires Strong intravenous injections. The bulletin announced that the hiccups from which the Pope suffered for nine Days ended tuesday. It was a Long bulletin. After tracing the history of the Pope s illness it said his general condition weak ened by prolonged mental am physical overwork has been fur ther debilitated the tiring Gas tric disturbance hiccups and is complicated by feeding difficult Manitoba allotted million budgeted for Public works in province by Victor Mackie Ottawa Pendi Tures in excess of by the Federal government Are earmarked for Public works and defence installations in Manitoba during the fiscal year 1954 55, according to details included in the general Esti mates tabled in parliament Friday. The department of Public works alone shows estimates for Manitoba amounting to the total expenditures listed for Winnipeg alone by the Public works department amount to largely Lor new construction. Included in the estimates Are bulk items by the department of National defence. There is a vote of for construction of buildings and works for the Royal Canadian air Force. Included in this item Are the expenditures to be made at Steven son air Field which will run into several million dollars building the Airport into one of Canada s major air bases. The Canadian army expenditures for the construction of buildings and works is bulked in a item for 1954-55. This includes payments for work being carried on expanding the army s facilities in the Vicinity of fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg. Also included in this bulk vote Are votes in excess of for housing accommodation for married personnel Navy budget construction of buildings and works for the Royal Canadian Navy Are covered in a bulk item totalling for 1954-55. The expenditures by the depart ment of National defence for the air Force army and Navy on construction of buildings and works across Canada Are Down from 1953-54. In the year 1954-55 they Are estimated to total and in 1953-54 they were estimated at the work at Winnipeg s Steven son Field and on army installations in Manitoba will be augmented in the next fiscal year by additional expenditures on radar see allotment Page 5 airman jailed 9 months an Craf navigation instructor Robert c. Mcninch 33, of 363 St. John s Avenue was sentenced to nine months in Hea Dingley jail Friday in court of Queen s Bench. Mcninch had been found guilty wednesday on a charge of. Motor manslaughter. The charge arose out of the october traffic death of a Central police station care taker James Neill. Wednesday or. Justice a. M. Campbell had told Mcninch he would appear at the end of the fall assizes for sentence. How Ever Mcninch was brought Back Friday morning. Your sentence would be 15 months if the jury had not brought in a recommendation for mercy. I am going to give you what is in my opinion the mini mum under the said judge Campbell. In addition Mcninch was prohibited from driving a motor vehicle for one year and his car was impounded for three months. Mcninch was found not guilty of a second charge driving while his ability was impaired by Al Cohol. Grant upped for Riding Mountain Ottawa special an estimated will be spent in 1954-55 on operation and maintenance of Riding Mountain National Park according to the National resources department s estimates tabled in commons Fri Day. This compares with an Esti mated in 1953-54. The sum of is included in the estimates for construction and acquisition of buildings land and equipment it Riding Moun Tain in the coming fiscal year. The annual Grant of in Aid of the development of the International peace Garden is in this year s estimates. Up for air hey How about this Seal seems to be saying As he pokes his nose through the ice Over his Pond in Vin Cennes zoo Paris. The Seal had been on a hunger strike since his arrival from the Kerguelen islands ten Days before but the cold weather besides freezing Over his Pond sharpened his appetite. He now devours 12 pounds of fish daily. Unyielding Molotov dashes West Hopes by Gaston Coblentz Berlin Nyht special soviet foreign minister Viacheslav m. Molotov thursday killed the last shreds of Hope for the Berlin conference to produce an agreement Between the West and Russia on the crucial question of holding free elections in Germany. Or. Molotov s stand on the German question was of such an uncompromising nature that it appeared to fore Shadow the indefinite division of Germany into Eastern and Western sectors. The russian foreign minister treating Western proposals for free Germany elections almost contemptuously offered h i s own Concrete election plan after Days of prodding the foreign ministers of the United states great Britain and France. It turned out to be the same russian scheme that the Western Powers have been rejecting Cate estimates tabled by Abbott higher despite Cut in defence figures Ottawa Federal government proposes to spend a peacetime record in the 1954-55 fiscal year. Despite a slash in military spending and reductions in other forms of defence activity Hon. D. C. Abbott s main estimates tabled Friday in the commons jumped about Over estimates to Date for the current Fis Cal year ending March 31. The All time High for Federal spending was in the War year of 1943-44. The 1953-54 figure of was the peacetime Peak up to now. Supplementary estimates for the current year will be brought Down next month and there also will be supplement Aries to the 1954-55 spending program placed before the commons later. But or. A Bott said that because of changes in the make up of the estimates the figures available now for the two years Are about comparable. The Parl iame later will be asked to approve As the government s spending pro not include a forecast pensions which comes out of a fund raised by special taxes. Also not included is for Loans and investments. Heavy disbursement with the addition of these amounts the government expects to disburse besides what May be covered in supple mantaries. How the Money is to be raised will be disclosed in or. Abbott s budget. The Date of the budget has not been announced. By far the largest figures in the new than one for spending on differ ent types of defence. Gori Cally in a Long series of Diplo Matic notes because they View it As an Effort to subvert All of Ger Many to communist Rule. Withdraw forces or. Molotov embellished the stale soviet plan with an added proposal that All the occupying Powers should withdraw their forces from East and West Ger Many prior to the elections except for some limited contingents. This idea went off at the Confer ence table like a Lead balloon. The Western Powers reacted to or. Molotov s moves thursday As an official British spokesman said that the soviet rejection the Western plan for free elections and Germany Unity and the tabling of the unacceptable rus Sian plan makes it difficult to see How the conference can reach agreement on the German ques Bidault gloomy French foreign minister Georges Bidault said that at first sight he wondered How a Compromise be tween the Western and soviet proposals would be possible and that he even could not see How we can move along the path of american Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said that the russian troop withdrawal proposal would mean an end of any defence of Western Germany and its exposure to the vast forces that lie to the East of children Brave scorcher to Greet Queen Sydney Eliza Beth encountered her first real australian scorcher today with the temperature reaching just Over 83 degrees. The Queen used a big parasol to protect herself do Ritj parts of her strenuous Day. She wore a Light summer frock of patterned ice Blue with White hat and White shoes. But the Duke of Edinburgh remained Bare headed. Duplessis tangles with paper Quebec pre Mier Duplessis and the Montreal morning newspaper be Devoir tangled thursday night in a series of angry recriminations. During a legislative debate touched off by a Challenge from opposition Leader Georges Lapalme who demanded that the Premier deny charges irregularities in the construction of the huge Ber simis Power development or. Duplessis lashed out at the paper and its parliamentary correspondent. Red in the face with anger the 63-year-old Premier jumped up and denounced the paper and its correspondent Pierre Laporte for a series of articles on the Hydro Quebec project in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. The French language paper he Sadi. Was pandering to the vilest instincts of yellow journalism and the most ignoble sentiments in the articles. Denies engineers quit he said he had not read the series but contents of one of them titled the More it costs the More it pays had been reported to him. He branded As false state ments in it that seven engineers quit their jobs rather than pad payrolls. Driver acquitted on 2 counts Wallace Popplestone. 28, of 792 Stella Avenue Friday was found not guilty on a charge of criminal negligence and one of dangerous driving. An Assize court jury returned the verdict Clearing Popplestone in the sept. 14 death Alfred Edmond Sturgeon 77, of 359 Edmonton Street. Or. Justice a. M. Campbell in declaring Popplestone a free Man told the jury that the accused apparently had committed an error in judgment. Or. Sturgeon was some Dis Tynce away from the Cross walk at the intersection of Edmonton Street and Ellice Avenue when the Accident occurred. Evidence indicated made a left hand turn after waiting for traffic to pass at the intersection and struck the elderly Man when he was about half Way across the Street. Popplestone said his vision had been obscured when the lights of a West bound car temporarily blinded him. Sturgeon was knocked unconscious and died from internal injuries about 12 hours later. Bright Sunshine Breaks through Europe cold spell London Bright wintry Sun brought a break in Europe s coldest spell in seven years today As Relief missions rushed supplies to snowbound Highland hamlets still isolated. Assaulted bus Driver scared Man fined a Man who got so upset in Winnipeg traffic that he jumped out of a truck boarded a bus and assaulted the Driver was fined and costs in City police court thursday. Magistrate m. H. Carton levied the Fine against John Theodore Birch 25 of 586 Corydon Avenue. Birch pleaded guilty to assaulting William , Dickens Post office the operator of a greater Winnipeg transit com Mission bus at 11.30 . Jan. 23. Birch who was a passenger in a Light delivery truck claimed i i that the bus had Cut off the truck in traffic. Police said Birch got out of the truck boarded the bus on notre Dame Avenue near Albert Street and assaulted the Driver. A passenger on the bus Man aged to pull Birch away from the Driver. Then said police Birch left the bus. He was arrested four Days later. Birch told magistrate m. H. Carton that the bus had nearly struck the truck he was Riding in and that he was terribly scared. I was so upset i did t know what i was he said ;