Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition Winnipeg free press weather forecast Winnipeg Clearing this afternoon mostly Clear tonight. Sunny Milder sunday. Winds 20 tonight shifting West 15 sunday afternoon. Low tonight and High sunday 20 and 35. Vol. 61 no. 112 54 pages Winnipeg saturday february 6, 1954 Sun rises 7.36 . Moon rises 8.52 Sun sets 5.30 . Moon sets 10.04 . Forecast sunny overcome by Gas., City family of five rushed to Hospital five members of family were overcome by Mystic Gas fames Friday after noon and rushed to Misericordia Hospital in a fire department Rescue squad car. In Hospital Are Samuel Storo 39, of 707 Preston Avenue his wife Julia 32. And their three sons Leslie 8, Leonard 4, and David owing to the prompt action of Jar Storozuk s brother in Law Romeo Baril 509 Denise Street St. Boniface none is seriously ill. Or. , who operates Maryland grocery had phoned or Baril about noon Friday to that the family were All feel ill and asked him to come Over and help in the store. The family live on the second floor above the store. When or. Baril arrived about 3 . He smelled Gas went up stairs and found Trie family All sick. He quickly phoned the fire department. The Rescue squad under Lieut. Sugden gave the family treat ment with oxygen and rushed them to Hospital. Albert Paul District superintendent of Winnipeg and Central a Winnipeg ,035 co., reported to police that a break in the Gas main some where on the Boulevard near the premises had caused Gas to leak through cracks in the basement of the store. The Hospital Early saturday morning reported the family in fairly Good condition. . Frets Over Israel situation Washington special Nyht Israel s decision to charge Egypt before the United nations Security Council with defying a in ban against egyptian blockade of israeli ships passing through the Suez canal is expected to focus attention on a situation causing concern in Washington. The Tel Aviv government also demand that the Security Council take action to Force Egypt to comply with that Reso Lution. Although the blockade was in operation before the Security Council Resolution it was intensified recently when Egypt extended it to cover virtually All civilian goods for Israel. Most disturbing according to american and israeli officials is hip apparent tendency on the part of Arab nations still technically at War with Israel not Only to frustrate efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement in the Middle East but actually to defy exist ing agreements. Kodek ignored this tendency is shown in Egypt s tightening its blockade and in Jordan s refusal to comply with a compulsory order by in Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold to negotiate with is Rael on various Border problems. An off shoot of this situation concerns the Anglo egyptian Dis Pute Over the British military canal zone been dead govt. Plans Manitoba Dock work outlay set on wharves harbours Ottawa special spend ing in Manitoba by the water re sources Branch will in the year 1954-55. The following items were shown in estimates tabled in commons for the maintenance and operation of the Selkirk docks has been voted for the coming year. The estimates show for the year ending March 31. The amount allotted for St. An Drew s lock and dam this year is for the year ending this March the sum spent is for wharf reconstruction by the engineering Branch at Lac Dubonnet the sum of has been voted. Last year was voted for wharf and Pine Dock at Lake Winnipeg. The sum not used has been devoted this year. To Complete the wharves at the Narrows Lake Winnipeg the sum of plus a revote of from the of last year is on the estimates. For Winnipeg wharf Extension 547.000 has been devoted from the sum of voted last year. The repairs and Upkeep for maintenance or services on Rivers and harbours in Manitoba will receive s60.000 this year according to the estimates. Tranteau wins race third year in Row base in the Suez have m de for months primarily on two issues the terms under which the British could return following agreement to evacuate their 000 troops now stationed there. The question of whether the British technicians to be left be Hind to maintain equipment and facilities of the base should Wear uniforms. . Pressure some British officials in Lon Don have complained that the negotiations would move More smoothly if the United states exerted pressure on Cairo to accept Britain s terms. Abba Eban israeli ambassador 1n the United states has had several discussions lately with top state department officials. Or. Eban has cited such events As the tightening of the egyptian blockade As Well As Jordan s de Fiance of the armistice terms which compel the Amman government to abide by or. Hammarskjold s Call for a conference with Israel. . Charge silly my says Ottawa special charges of political patronage in connection with Winnipeg sub Post offices were referred to in the commons Friday by j. A. Byrne l Kootenay during debate on the govern ment s proposal to raise postal rates or. Byrne said Alistair Stewart North had inferred that patronage was in the postal service. I did not infer. I said or. Stewart retorted. Or. Byrne said or. Stewart should prove his statement. Or. Stewart replied the proof is on the record. The names Are on the or. Byrne said or. Stewart claimed a certain person was asked to pay to keep a sub Post if i wanted to get someone to take Over a sub Post office in my Riding. I would have to pay them s500 and there would be no political patronage. The amount of Money that a person makes who looks after a sub Post office is so infinitesimal that it does not amount 10 a Hill of or. Byrne declared. He added that if there was a candidate so silly As to suppose such a thing possibly he should have had his head read instead of becoming a it was stuff and he said. By Cory Kilvert the Pas Man. Special grand rapids dog Musher Steve Tranteau made Northern Mani Oba dog racing history Here Fri a when he won the Canadian pen championship dog race for he third successive year. The 41-year-old Indian brought is team in More than an hour head of the next Best Man in he race. His total elapsed time the 200-mile, four Lap grind Vas 24 hours and 25 minutes. It was the first time in dog Erby history that an owner River had won three consecutive Ong distance races. A crowd of cheered Home he Champion Musher As he drove Lis huskies through the finish posts. The Winner was carrying to dogs on the. Sled when he finished the race. After he was presented with he first prize and the Hudson Bay mining and smelt no co. Trophy the Lake Winnipeg Fisherman said he would not race again next year. This is my last he said. I be run it five times now and judge rules out queries on Roosevelt s women Pasadena Calif. Separate maintenance suit against tames Roosevelt in which his wife accuses him of adultery with 12 women won t go to trial for six or eight months. A crowded Calendar will delay the Case said Superior judge Kurtz Kauffman who recessed a pre trial hearing Friday after James Roosevelt a lawyer tried to question Roose veil about one of the women. Kauffman ruled such questions will he proper Only when mrs. Romelle Schneider Roosevelt s suit for monthly support actually is tried. Details of Roosevelt s Complex financial affairs and his family s Standard of life were recited in the Day Long court session. Opposing counsel will delve further into these matters when the temporary support hearing is resumed feb. 15. Mrs. Roosevelt s complain names three women As co respondents and incorporates a let Ter signed by Roosevelt in which he admits infidelities with nine other women. Since her suit was filed Roosevelt has denied mis conduct with any of the 12. Mrs. Roosevelt said her Hus band sold for his one fourth share in business interests Worth one week after h asked her for a divorce Roosevelt an insurance Man referred to the business inter ests sold for a Dollar As Worth introduced in evidence was a St element showing Roosevelt s receipts from Jan. 1. .1948, to ,7ul 31, 1952, were s217.034.60, while Natalie finds a pet everybody s heard about the Wise old owl but u was s scared Young owl that posed Friday with Natalie Seydak for the free press photographer. The owl was caught in Natalie s backyard at 905 Burrows Avenue. Six inches tall with a 15 Inch Wing Span the tiny Bird was identified As a Dwarf or saw whet owl. It did t want any publicity. Photographer Les Doherty had to Chase it a Little before he persuaded it to pose. He finally caught it when it landed on a Light Cord. Molotov Unity plan angers e. Germany scores nabbed by red police Berlin signs of a new outburst of unrest were apparent saturday in East Germany. Russian for eign minister v. M. Molotov s plan for unification of Germany presented at the big four foreign ministers conference was the target of hot protest by East German workers. Communist police in East Berlin immediately started a crackdown to nip in the Bud any outburst of violent demonstration such As blazed out last year. Scores of in incredible series starts monday in the free press reds yield no Quarter at Berlin East German revolt impossible says Molotov by g Aston Coblentz Berlin special Nyht russian foreign minister via Che m. Molotov Clung stubbornly to his unacceptable proposals on Germany s future at the Berlin conference Friday and asserted that the East germans will never be Able to repeat their revolt of last june 17 against communist Rule. The session ended with the Western Powers and Russia As far apart As Ever. There was not even a slight Prospect of Compromise to permit reunification of Ger Many. To meet Molotov at the suggestion of american Secretary of state John Foster Gilbert Lavallee a Pine Bluff i Dulles the Western foreign ministers will meet or. Molotov Mon Day to renew discussion of rus i that s enough and the going was i pretty Tough on this trapper who led the Field of seven teams throughout the first Lap of the race ended in the same position he did in the 1953 dog race. One hour and six minutes be Hind Tranteau Lavallee covered the course in 25 hours 31 min utes to take second place. An 18-year-old the Pas Musher who held fourth place throughout see Derby Page 6 sport spots debt paid by 1974 combined debt of both the Winnipeg stadium and the proposed sports Arena should be liquidated in 20 years or less at no Cost to the taxpayer w. Cul Riley president of Winnipeg enterprises Ltd., told the civics Bureau of the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce Friday. As soon As baseball stands Are completed investment in the stadium will total about or. Riley explained. If Revenue continues according to expect ions this figure should be reduced to by the end of 1955. When the Arena begins operations combined debt would there Ore be about Cost of liquidation in 20 years would be to a year. Net operating revenues would be from the foot Ball stadium from base Ball and fro m the Arena. Total revenues from these three sources would be roughly More a year than necessary to liquidate the debt. These Are conservative figures or. Riley said. The Arena Esti mates Are based for example on average revenues Srorn the amphitheatre. Or. Riley stressed that while the Winnipeg enterprises Ltd. Is an Independent corporation its properties can be taken Over in the City s name on 30 Days notice. Its membership consists of six aldermen and four businessmen. Or. Riley listed possible uses of the Arena ranging from Tennis matches to circus horse shows and theatricals As Well As hockey curler Fig and ice shows. See Royal pair at races by Gomer Jones Sydney Australia the Queen was wildly cheered by australians today when she and the Duke of Edinburgh went o the races at Randwick to see the Queen Elizabeth stakes run. The people of Sydney were still excited three Days after the Queen s arrival Here from new zealand. Friday night some 2.000 australians fainted in the crush and he heat As they waited to see the Royal couple arrive for the lord mayor s Ball at Sydney town Hall. Altogether 3.000 persons were Iven first Aid treatment by am glance men Friday. They to the total number treated n the last three Days. An estimated persons were jammed into three streets acing the town Hall just before Slizabeth and the Duke arrived. Soon the heat it was a sweltering s3.6-and the or surf began to have Elling effect on the weaker Mem Bers of the crowd. Scores collapse scores then hundreds of men women and children began faint ing in Quick succession. As they collapsed those standing next to them hoisted them up and passed them Over the Heads of other spectators to first Aid stations. Casualties Rose alarmingly when the crowd broke through barriers and police cordons. Foot and mounted police Man Ned barriers and prevented the crowd from surging Forward when the Royal car arrived. Elizabeth and her husband were welcomed by the lord mayor of Sydney p. The Queen wore a full skirted evening gown of White Slipper Satin a Diamond Tiara Matching earrings Brace lets and necklace. The Duke was in evening dress and wore the Riband and Star of the order of the Garter. Temperatures temperature and precipitation readings during the 24-hour period ending 6.30 . Saturday were Max min. Prec Vancouver 44 33 Calgary. Is 29 Regina 38 15 Winnipeg Churchill 13 -5 Toronto is is Montreal 33 19 his expenditures were Halifax 34 iia s demand for a five Power conference with communist China. The West has already re eded this demand. Friday or. Molotov repeated his earlier rejection of Western demands for free All German elec ions and asserted that the Only Vay to go about re unifying the nation is to set up a provisional government composed of West German anti communists and Jast German communists. The Ivest regards this plan As an Wert russian Effort to prepare a communist coup d eat in a re unified Germany. Or. Dulles said that if it had not been for elements of 22 soviet divisions the East Ger Man government would have been forcibly ejected from office when Sast German workers demonstrated last june. Blames interference or. Molotov replied that an other revolt would be impossible. He blamed the last one on for eign rather mild version of Russia s charges last that the West provoked the june riots. A tr5. Blanket of fog descends on City a heavy fog Cloud Over Winnipeg saturday dropped from feet to ground level Between 4.30 . And 8.30 ., reducing visibility to an eighth of a mile. The Weatherman promised a sunny afternoon and Clear evening. High for saturday will be 27 degrees. Low overnight and High sunday will be 20 and 35 degrees. It will be sunny Sun Day with Light West workers were arrested. Interior minister Willi Stop directing the crackdown warned at an East Berlin rally Friday night that the red government will sharply suppress every attempt to disrupt demo cratic development of the re the warning came As a caution against any German demonstrations during the week end recess of the big four. Outbursts of opposition All relatively feeble developed in five scattered East German cities in the last five Days. They were simply shouts of pro test against speakers lauding the declaration by Molotov that the Best Way to unite Germany and prevent resurgence of Hitler ism is to pattern a new United coun try after police dominated East Germany. Old country soccer London and the Biz freeze rut Down Britain s big saturday sports program. The Doncaster rare. Meeting. Including the Preat Yorkshire Hartl rap steeplechase was cancelled in Rause of Frozen ground. So were other meetings scheduled for Hurst Park and Sadk Ofield. Six soccer games were called off. Practically All Rugby league and Rugby Union fixtures were postponed. English league Jelv Ikenn i Aston Villa 2, Chelsea 2 Bolton w 3. Cardiff c 0 Burnley 1. Liverpool 1 Charlton a 1, w Bromwich 1 Huddersfield t 2, Sheffield u 2 Manchester c 0, Arsenal 0 Preston n e 1, Manchester u 3 Sheffield w 4, Middlesbrough 2 Sunderland 3, Portsmouth 1 Tottenham h 3, Newcastle u 0 Wolverhampton 4, Blackpool 1 nil Lynn ii Everton 1, Blackburn r 1 Fulham 5, Birmingham 2 Hull c 3, Derby c 0 Leicester c 2, Luton t 1 Lincoln 1. Bristol r 2 Notts c 2, Brentford 0 old Liam a 2, Doncaster n 2 Rotherham u 2, Plymouth a 1 Stoke c 1. Nottingham f 1 Swansea t 2. Bury 1 West Ham u 5. Leeds u 1 division Iii Southern Brighton 3, Bournemouth 0 Bristol c 1. Leyton o 0 Colchester u 2, Swindon t 2 Crystal p 0. Aldershot 0 Newport c 2, Northampton 0 Norwich c 1. Exeter c 2 Queen s pro. Shrewsbury t 0 Reading is. Mil Wal Ppd. Southampton is. Walsall Ppd. Southend u 3. Ipswich t 1 Torquay u 3. Gillingham 3 Watford 1. Coventry c 0 division Iii norther. Barrow is. Accrington s Ppd. Bradford c 1, Carlisle u 0 Chesterfield 1, t 2 gites head is. Bradford Ppd. Harti pools u 0, Barnsley 1 Mansfield t 5, Grimsby t 1 Rochdale 2. Som port o Scunthorpe u 2, Crewe Alex 2 trans arc r is. Darlington Ppd. Worminton 2, port Vale 0 Wrexham 1. Stockport c 0 York c 2. Chester 1 scottish Lengol do Venlon a Aberdeen 1. East Fife 0 Clyde 3, to liberian 6 Falkirk 4, St. Mirron o Hamilton a 1. Partick t 3 hearts 3, celtic 2 Queen of s is. Aird ionians Ppd. Ralth r 1, Stirling a 1 rangers 2, Dundee 0 Dishion b Al Ron r 1. Arbroath 1 Alloa. 2. Dumbarton 2 Ayr u 0. Third Lanark Dundee u 3, Cowdenbeath 3 a 3. Stenhouse Muir 2 Forfar a 2. Kilmarnock 3 Morton 2. Motherwell 5 Quen i u 2, St. Joh Ruttone 4 5-Day week for City s postal staff Ottawa special Winni Peg postal workers will get the five Day 40-hour week nex Aprl 1, the commons was told Friday Hon. Douglas Abbott finance minister made the statement Dur ing a debate sparked by a ques Ion from Stanley Knowles Kcf North or. Abbott said he had Prev Ousby said the five Day week would be introduced in Post of ices in those areas where the Ive Day week is in operation for office workers so if the Honor ble member for Winnipeg North entre is concerned about thai aspect he can take it for grantee will be in operation in win Stanley Knowles Peg North Centre said Hon. J w. Pickersgill state Secretary lad promised dec. 8 to provide a list of localities where the five Day 40-hour week will be introduced for postal workers. He contended the House should me the information before it proceeded with the Bill to in Rease postal rates. The House has been discussing the Bill for several Days. Or. Pickersgill said he has not it received the report from in civil service commission. Or. Knowles on a question of privilege asked if it was proper o go ahead with the Bill with out the information. Speaker Rene Beau loin s Here were Many other factors involved in the Bill. Or. Knowles should t insist on tabling of the report especially after there Al ready had been much discussion on tiie Bill. Take half soviet Deal say britons Moscow Reuters British business men seeking orders in Russia said Friday night the probably will be allowed to fulfil half of the in con tracts offered thursday by Sovie foreign Trade minister Ivan Kabanov. The other half of the goods prob ably would be on Britain s list o strategic exports which cannot b shipped to Iron curtain countries several the 30 business men in separate talks with soviet for eign Trade experts were Given detailed breakdown of specific items on the russian list an asked whether their firms Coul undertake such contracts. However there is no sign be that contracts Are being cliche for the goods the business me originally came to Moscow to Sel a few minor deals have been con eluded but no contracts have be been placed in the heavy engineering Field. Mcwilliams condition reported fairly Good r. F. Mcwilliams former lieu tenant governor of Manitoba a in fairly Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital at press time saturday. Or. Mcwilliam suffered broken rib in a tra Fie Accident wednesday o Vaughan Street across from Thymia building. Slaves in revolt a Story of Hope in soviet prison Camps the Story of soviet slave Camps has been one of grim the slight f est Hope for the millions doomed to a life of suffer ing. The Story has been told before. But now comes a Story which for the first time is one of Hope. It is the authentic report of popular resistance to the soviet regime. It tells of the strike of a Quarter Mil lion prisoners in the slave Camps of the Arctic Circle a strike of slaves in a country where even free workers have no right to strike. Even More startling it tells of the opposition groups which have devel oped in Post War Russia. This incredible Story is told by Brigitte Gerland a Berlin journalist arrested in october 1946, for Send ing her newspaper reports about conditions in the Sov Iet zone. Frau Gerland was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment As a spy and sent to a Camp for political prisoners in 1948. She was released last August along with hundreds of other prisoners from Germany As part of efforts to mollify the germans after the june uprising. Her amazing Story of Hope in the slave Camps is told in three articles Start ing monday in the free press. Be sure to read slaves in revolt an exclusive free press feature. Canadian catholics to offer prayers or Pope s recovery Toronto up roman Catholic churches throughout Canada will offer special prayers at All masses sunday for the recovery of Pope Pius an official of the archbishop s Palace Here said saturday. Such prayers will be re Quested in Canada s 60 roman Catholic dioceses. His holiness is reported ill at the Vatican. Pope Pius slightly improved Vatican City a Pope ius shows symptoms of a very slight improvement but the Tate of general weakness per his physician reported to Day. Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi said the Pope passed a moderately fair night. The 77-year-old spiritual Leader of the world s roman Catho is Lay Pale and wan in his simple wooden bed in the Apos Tolic Palace his Light fever and symptoms of gastritis that devel oped Jan. 25 still an unsolved problem to Galleazzi Lisi and two other physicians. The others called in Friday Are or. Paul Niehans a Swiss specialist in endocrinology and urinalysis and or. Cesare fru oni a noted italian general practitioner. Three German nuns attend the Pope who is nearing the end of his second week of an enervating illness officially reported to have caught him weakened by excessive prolonged mental and phys ical but he has temporarily lost the services of their Leader Ester Pasqualina Lehner Liis housekeeper Ever since he was apostolic Nuncio in Bavaria 37 years ago. She suffered a leg fracture thursday night in a fall on the floor of the papal apart you will find around the world Page 2. Book reviews Page 10. Bridge column Page 4. Church news Page 12. Comics pages 14, 15. Crossword Puzzle Page 6. Deaths and funerals Page 34 film contest Page 6 financial news and commod Ity markets Page s3. Hollywood column Page 6, Home Garden Page 11. Letters to the editor Page 9. Music Page is. Power of positive thinking Page 9. Radio Pace 4. Society news pages a 18 sports pages 2z, z3, 24. Stamp Corner Page 11. . Sights upswing n Economy Washington a Evi Dence gathered by the Cong res ional economic committee Sug ests that the slump in jobs and production in the United states has begun to level off and will urn into a recovery this Spring. The committee weighing the Mai depression program presi Dent Eisenhower presented to Congress in his economic report ast month took testimony from he Heads of nine government economic and statistical agencies his week. Their findings rep. Jesse p. Olcott rep. Mich committee chairman said in an interview joint to a seasonal upturn in living and business activity in the Early Spring followed by a possibly substantial economic re Vival in the fall. Eisenhower advised americans Friday night to ignore prophets of gloom and promised them a big brother partner in the fed eral addressing a cheering throng of More than at a washing ton Republican dinner Eisen lower sailed into democratic predictions of hard times saying the United states does t need to he criticized former president Harry Truman who said the country now is in a recession. Who s cold pm asks Chilly britons London minister it. Laurent arrived in Britain Fri Day night on his round the world Goodwill trip and brought smiles o the faces of shivering British reporters when he told them he lad changed from his heavy Over coat to a lighter one after leaving Oose Bay Labrador. The reporters told him the pres ent British weather is about the coldest in 20 years. The Canadian political Leader mentioned the Rigours of a Normal Canadian Winter and added with a smile when i read of the temperatures Here i decided to leave my heavy overcoat at the prime minister submitted cheerfully to newsreel and Tele vision cameras. He said he was looking Forward to meeting prime minister Churchill at luncheon to Day. He had Many messages for sir Winston from friends in can Ada. A Large Canadian contingent was on hand to Greet the prime minister at London Airport when his Craf North Star landed at . Norman Robertson Canadian High commissioner headed the Welcom ing party which included maj. Gen j. D. B Smith chief of the Canadian joint staff in London Brig. J. E. C. Army member air Commodore Marin costello air member and Captain j. V. Brock Navy member ;