Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 vol. 61 no. 113 final edition weather forecast Winnipeg sunny becoming Cloudy to Morrow. Colder tuesday afternoon. Winds Light shifting to North at 25 tuesday eve Ning. Low tonight and High tuesday 15 and 35, 30 pages Winnipeg monday february Sun rises 7.53 . Moon rises 9.33 Sun sets 5.34 . Moon sets forecast continuing mild red police squelch East German unrest speedy series of arrests nips revolt in Bud Berlin a simmering unrest in the soviet zone has been thoroughly quelled by action of the communist secret police German and Western quarters said monday. A series of arrests of upwards of 500 Ger mans in scattered Industrial areas has apparently smashed any budding outbreak of violent resistance before it had a Chance to get started. Western informants said Eastern police have demonstrated what soviet foreign minister v. M. Molotov quietly forecast in the big four Parley that another june 17 revolt is impossible. Unrest provoked the unrest reported reliably from Dresden Gera Merseburg 0 e 1 s n i t z and other communities last week was provoked by the communists themselves. Their agitators stirred up resent Ful German workers by try ing to Force them to sign resolutions favouring the Molotov plan for National a plan that would Cement red Rule for All Germany. As soon As the grumbling broke into the open police squads struck hauled off the loudest anti reds and effectively squelched any incipient revolt. Any grumbling still going on is out of the Side of the Mouth and in whispers. Major Industrial plants in the East Are Honey combed with police agents and in formers. Quick results Allied officials said the crackdown was so Quick and produced such immediate results that it was not even necessary to increase nor Mal guard details at Many plants. Rumours that the russian army had been called in to Brace for an uprising were disproved by All competent sources. Outside of sentries at the soviet embassy armed russian sol Diers have not been seen in East Berlin since the big four Parley started. Reports that red army tanks had moved toward Berlin brought scoffing from Western military quarters which said the russians built a big tank shed at Karls Horst in East Berlin last summer and keep a tank Reserve there of All times. An exclusive series on Russia today soviet slaves in revolt people from All walks of life that Contact we always sought for but found impossible to attain while in the message this students movement wanted to bring to the russian people they called the True word of in their View the socialist state of the future would he run by either one or several parties but purely by workers and peasants this program had been worked out in Small secret circles meeting at night behind locked doors. It had been born from a desperate rejection of the alternatives of the system of stalinist oligarchy on the one hand and of Western Bourgeois demo Cracy on the other. An answer to pessimism the whole movement is said to have started in 1948 from a discussion Between five Moscow students on the Long banned ?.ns Pasternak which this great russian writer of the 20s had developed the idea that spiritual Freedom was incompatible with social Justice. Their system was As an answer to this pessimism a Way of making room for spiritual Freedom in a collectivist society by decentralization of state Power until the stale could finally be replaced altogether by the workers and peasants in this magic Mountain 50 women Knelt in the Middle of the floor praying aloud. Resistance grows against Iron fist of Kremlin gang by Brigitte Cerland special owns As we left the prison train at Vor Kuta the Metropolis of Arctic rus Sia and one of the strangest cities in the world i saw nothing but an endless Plain glittering in bluish White. Here half a million political prisoners were sup posed to live but where i looked around Snow nothing but Snow. And every few Steps a strange wooden Box resting High up on four Strong pillars with Bear like beings leaning from their win Dows the guards wrapped in their thick furs. Only those Tishky watch towers showed that we were passing a Camp one of 60 which make up for the Fence and huts were deeply embedded in the White Vas Thoss indistinguishable from accidental Snow heaps. Hore and there towers Rose dark against this background most if them close to ugly shaped Hills. They turned out to be the Coal heaps of the 50 pits for the Sake of which Vor Kuta had called into existence. Mountain of no return we stopped in front of a Wall of Snow. It opened and i Felt i was entering the magic Mountain from which there is no return. Suddenly Light hit me then warmth and a confusion of voices. For the first time. I entered a hut of the penal and regime lager my eyes hit first on some 50 women in Black clothes and kerchiefs who were kneeling in the Middle of the floor praying aloud. Next the e was a group of Young girls in colourfully embroidered ukrainian blouses sitting on High clean peasant Beds whose melancholy singing now and then drowned the ecstatic prayer. A Little apart from it All there was a group of Young men and women engaged in passionate debate who looked As if 1he hand of some giant had picked them up in a West european cafe to drop them in this hut of a soviet labor Camp. I saw at once that each of these three groups formed a world apart. Later i found that each represented a different Type of movement opposed to the soviet Power. Before 1948, the year of the great Reform in the soviet penal Camp system they would have been separated and individually divided up among the thousands of Camps in the vast regions of Siberia and Central Asia. There they would have perished by starvation or by the terrorism of the criminals who then formed the Camp aristocracy. In 1.948, the ministry of state Security began to sort out part of the prisoners sentenced for political offences who were supposed to need stronger guards and stricter isolation because they were dangerous to the state and to put them into special re lager regime at last a Chance to meet the result of this was the creation of entire regions in which the political opponents of the regime were concentrated and at last got a Chance to meet one another. The intellectuals whose debating Zeal had so struck me at first sight were students from Moscow Leningrad Kiev or Odessa. Outstanding among were the children of the generation of 37." their parents once leading figures in party army and government had fallen victims to Stalin s great purge. They themselves had been educated in state orphanages and had managed to fight their Way to the universities Only by endless efforts and tricks. Now these would be philosophers historians or economists sat Camp with 25 years of forced labor As their Only and they seemed perfectly Content with their Fate not that they were broken or resigned. On the contrary. Last we Are i can still hear them say. At last we can talk to everybody who wants to listen about our pro tests and our search for a Way out. At last we find Contact with arrests Here and there it took the spies of the Howard Wood sr., Veteran Winnipeg curler who it competing in his 47th consecutive . Bonspiel. In 1950 they struck. Several Hundred were accused of Ter in thcompirac3r a trial sent to far north6 to the Abor Camps the the in the Paypal Camps gave to sized arts Viv the students and to their hunger for Organ Snow or carrying bricks for 12 or even 14 hours a deadly Energy after years of struggle the maps proved that resistance possible inside big 4 try closed door sessions Berlin Cap the big foil foreign ministers moved to Day to Berlin s West Side trying in closed door session to solve some of the world problems Settle in open debate. Their first secret meeting today was called for discussion of rus Sia s demand for a world disarm Ament conference and Lor a big five conference on world problems that would give communist China official status As a major world Power. The ministers also were due to discuss How and when to take up he question of an Independence Reaty for Austria. The conference moved out m East Berlin where it met last Veek at the soviet embassy. Eden Cool to meeting of leaders Berlin part. Hon. An Lony Eden foreign Secretary is prepared to urge that prime min Ster Churchill drop any idea of seeking a face to face meeting with Oviet Premier Malenkos Western informants said sunday night. Eden like his american and drench colleagues is said to have Ormed the impression at the Ber n conference that Little purpose be served at this time by a new East West meeting on the highest level. I you will find around the world Page 2. Bridge column Page 4. Comics pages 10, 11, crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths and funerals Page 7. Film family contest Page b financial news and commod Ity markets pages 27, 28. Hollywood column Page 5. Letters to the editor Page Power of positive. Thinking Page 6. Radio Page 4. Society news pages 12. 13, 14 sports pages 16, 17, 18, 19. Parent sees Home Burn child inside Mother is helpless As infant Dies in flames Gruenthal Man. A 19-year-old Mother watched helplessly Here saturday As fire destroyed her Home and claimed the life of her two month old daughter. The Mother mrs. Peter v. Klassen was forced by the heat of the flames As she at tempted to Rescue her infant daughter Martha. She could Only stand and watch As the Blaze lev Elled the Small Home. Martha born . 9, had been left alone in the House while her Mother with a second daughter 13-month-old Maria visited a neighbor across the Street. Or. Klassen was also absent from Home. Although mrs. Klassen had been away for Only about 15 minutes when she noticed smoke pouring from her Home it was already impossible to approach the Blaz ing building. As yet the Blaze has been discovered but it is still under investigation by ramp from Steinbach 10 Miles North East. Or. R. W. Whetter Steinbach District Coroner announced that no inquest will be held. 10 sheets spoiled at Spiel opening there was t a single upset on the opening draw of the 66th annual Manitoba Curling association Bonspiel which got under Way at 9 . Today. All games on the opening draw were in the Henry Birks event. The Weatherman caused trouble right from the Start with the result that six sheets of ice were lost on the first draw. Five sheets at the Eaton club were unplayable while one Sheet at Elmwood had also fallen City Populis Ballet Lar in . Gay Washington . Special Advance Sale of tickets for he Royal Winnipeg Ballet s Veek Long engagement Here which opens tonight at the a ional theatre is a ording to Henry Guettel the company s business manager. The Advance Sale amounted to he stated. Representatives of common health embassies will be at the National theatre tonight when lie world s Foremost dance Cri is will also Convene. The danc is Are eager and the critics decisions in tomorrow s papers May decide the entire future of he company. The entire dance has its the Royal Winnipeg Ballet said or. Guettel. Economists wary Fred Trade bid by Joseph Newman London special Nyht economic experts suspect there is More propaganda than Trade in Moscow s sensational offer last week to buy of British goods Over a three year period begin Ning in 1955. They suspect it was timed to support new moves by soviet foreign minister Viacheslav m. Molotov at the big four foreign ministers conference in Berlin this week to woo great Britain and France away from the United states. Even Wishful thinkers among British officials politicians and newspapermen Are now being forced to conclude that Russia never intended to surrender East Germany and that or. Molotov came to the Berlin conference not to negotiate a German settlement. The third week of the con Ference May confirm that his Only was to barter peace in indo China for France and tons of Trade for Britain in Exchange for their surrender of plans to create a european army and a stronger Western defence organization. The British government unlike some British businessmen is not prepared to accept such a Deal. Apart from the political and Mili tary principles involved there 5 a strange suspicion Here that Lusska would not or could not make Good Iti Trade pro Liei. Bonspiel heat wave hangs on Bonspiel weather prevails 1 Winnipeg today. A record High May be established for feb. 8, the weather Man states. He is predicting a High of 3 above but says it May even i 40. The record High for Winnipeg for feb. 8 was 37.2, in 1921. Drop during night there la be a drop in tempera Ture during the night however when the Mercury will slither to 15 degrees. Tomorrow s High i again forecast Lor 35. The warmest spot was clares Holm 68 Miles South of Calgary where the Mercury zoomed to a 70 above. Similar conditions prevail throughout the West and ther appears to be Little change in temperature for a few Days a least. Record highs were established at Prince George b.c., Edmon Tun Calgary Lethbridge medi see weather Page 9 Queen s visit spurs aussie Snake Hunt Canberra a government House authorities have begun a drive to rid the grounds of snakes before Queen Elizabeth arrives there feb. 13. The the outskirts of Canberra is located in one of the most notable Snake haunts in the australian fed eral capital territory. A Large Herd of cattle has been turned into the Long grass surrounding the House to remove cover for the snakes and to eliminate any danger of a Bushfire already this summer a dozen snakes mainly deadly have been killed in or near the government House grounds. Victim to the warm spell. Four other sheets two at valour Road one at St. Vital and one at Deer Lodge were also lost for the noon draw bringing the total of unplayable sheets to 10. It is expected that Many More sheets will be Idle due to the Weatherman before the Day is out. Scotty Laing of Thistle the dynamic scotsman was first out of the Hack monday and the first results on Page 9 to suffer defeat. He went Down under the steady Curling of the Powne rink of Melita 10-8. Harold of Carberry a pretty fair baseball Pitcher in Nis Day and equally As Good a curler came up with an 11-10 win Over Vanderveken of Wes Kildonan another respected Shoi Smith in an extra end contest War urged on drunk driving Public education still main weapon Brief says an eight Point program to wipe out Drunken driving in Manitoba is outlined in a Brief by the Manitoba Temperance Al Liance for the provincial Highway safety commission. The commission has held Only one meeting since it was appointed last fall. It will meet again during the present session according to Hon. Ivan Schultz attorney general. It was set up to hold Public hearings on High Way safety motor vehicle insurance and related problems. Most important step in wiping out the combination of drinking and driving is Public education the Brief said. Other Points in the program see Curling Page 9 Alexander May visit Prairie bases Ottawa special minister of defence Britain s it. Hon. Earl Alexander is expected to Isit Canada this year during the Ummer months and will probably aspect British air trainees at the Ato schools in Winnipeg for age la Prairie and Moose jaw ask. The former governor general of Anada will Confer with Hon. Rooke Claxton minister of onal defence considering mat ers of Mutual interest to Britain and Canada in the Fields of de me. Prime minister l. S. St. Lau ent said in Paris Over the week and that Earl Alexander had in armed him that he was Conte rating a North american visit. Temperatures. Temperatures for the Twenty four hour Rod ending monday were High Low free. Vancouver 57 37 to Gary 61 a Monton .3d 31 Volt current.49 37 Gina 41 20 Katoon 42 20 Andon 42 20 in Peg .18 to Urchill 34 0 .13 it William 34 24 Tawa 29 23 .15 Ronto .32 2fi to. Trend 30 18 ,33 Halifax .31 x to. Police enforcement. Drinking Drivers should be apprehended before they Are involved in accidents. The Alliance also critic see driving Page 9 Pope Able to sit up in armchair City a ailing Pope Pius Rose from bed today and spent some time sitting in an first time he has done this for any considerable per Iod since Jan. 25. Both the. Pontiff s private phys Ician and the Vatican press office announced that his health is improving. The latter in its daily bulletin said the doctor has advised the 77-year-old Pope to move about some within his Vatican sources said the Pope did this sitting in an armchair. He also took solid food jus first n Many Days. Previously he had been Able to hold Down Only liquids. He has been secluded in his apartment for More than two weeks with a stomach ailment of undisclosed nature. The Pope s physician or. Ric Cardo Galeazzi Lisi cited improve ment for the third straight Day. Skier buried beneath Snow for five hours Owen sound ont. De under tons of Snow while skiing George Bornet 38, of Toronto was rescued alive sunday. Searchers after a five hour Hunt eard faint cries from underfoot and found themselves standing yer the Avalanche that buried in. They dug Bornet out unharmed. In was taken to Hospital at col Ingwood 40 Miles East of Here offering Shock. A three Inch Hole in the Snow Tom the surface Down to his burial lace in a Creek bed saved his life. T gave him enough air to breath until searchers found him ;