Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 9, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition weather forecast Cloudy. Snow flurries overnight Clearing wednesday evening. Colder. Winds North at 20. Low tonight and High wednesday 5 and 15. Vol. 61 no. 114 28 pages Winnipeg tuesday february 9, 1954 Sun Sun Ristl 7.51 Seta 5.36 . . Moon rises 30.00 . Moon sets 12.53 . Forecast c weather forces Midnight draw a Midnight draw became a must at noon today As further cancellations continued to hit the second Day s play in the Manitoba Curling association s 66th annual Bonspiel. Draw master Charlie Scrymgeour who lost 153 ice lanes opening Day monday lost a further 10 this morn ing. This prompted his announcement that at least one Midnight draw would be a necessity to get the world s greatest Bonspiel Back on schedule. However All scheduled games were played this morning cancellations further cancellations were anticipated Tor the 3 . Draw today. If the cancellations Are great enough a 3 . Draw or z second Midnight draw for wednesday is possible. Despite the greatest setback Over suffered in an Mca Spiel the boys in the backroom remained optimistic. Well be All advised president Bob o Dowda As he Hung up the latest releases from the weather Bureau. This is the last Day of the Bonspiel Bob took heart from the fore cast that a Cloud cover would results on Page 9 move in wednesday and that a High of 15 and Low of five would be the temperature. Meanwhile most of the name rinks moved through tuesday morning s play unbeaten Al though some of the margins were slim. A Gowanlock and his Domin Ion championship rink from Dau Phin squeezed past Gill of Strath chair s-7, while Howie Wood or. Used the same margin in turning Back the Challenge of Ryall of the Heather. Dyker of Strathcona also was an s-7 Winner. Victim was Mclntosh of Selkirk. All games were in the Eaton s. Leo Johnson former Dominion Champion had a Tough Battle with Frank Mowatt and his Helston rms before breaking up the Battle with a Fine five Ender on the ninth end to go five up com ing Home. The rink of Mather winners of the Monarch life event last year took it on the Chin tuesday morning in the Eaton event by bowing to Chris Lison of Morris 10-5. An easy Winner was Gene Walker the genial Gordon Bell High school skip who celebrated 18th birthday today. Gene and his rink who will represent Manitoba in the Dominion High school Curling championship won 15-3 Over Jones of Deer Lodge. Altona robbery gets eggs in missed safecracker who opened a Safe at the Altona co operative store some time sunday night failed to it about but escaped with s19 from the store till ramp re ported tuesday. Apparently using heavy tools 1he thieves peeled Back the door of the outer Safe Only to find an other door within which they could not open. They rifled the uj1 instead. Employees reporting for work at 8.15 . Monday discovered the theft. Police said no explosives were used. Attack on Veteran described did t give him a says accused a Man charge with manslaughter in connection with the death of a Hong Kong Veteran admit Ted under Cross examination tues Day that he did t give him a Chance before he was attacked on the Street. Percy Marshall Rudy Ziemiel 21, of 554 Sherburn Street who is six foot three said he came up behind Joseph Mcleod. 40, of 462 Kennedy Street at the intersection of King Street and Market Avenue and hit him on the Jav died next Day Mcleod died the next Day oct. 31, following an emergency hos Pital operation to his Skull. The Crown prosecutor w. J. Johnston Cross examining Ziemiel in court of Queen s Bench before or. Justice t. G. Duval asked the accused if he had been Pur suing or. Mcleod Down the Street with the intention of hit Ting him. Said Ziemiel. You did t give him a Chance did asked or. Johnston. No i replied Ziemiel. Ziemiel was called to the stand by his counsel w. H. Davison and recounted the events leading up to the fight. He told court that when police came to ask him about knuckle dusters he told them he did t know what they were talking about. Saw fight monday a Crown witness Edgar Arnold Hertzog of River Hills Man., told court that he had the fight Between Zie Mel and Mcleod behind the sey Mour hotel on oct. 30. He said that he Frank Des Marias Helvin Desmaris 5, George Desmarias Ziemiel and Mcleod had All been drinking Beer. A dispute then followed Over a White powder which Ziemiel had allegedly put into Melvin Desmar As Beer. When Hertzog went out behind the hotel he said he saw George Desmarias lying unconscious under a truck. By the hotel Wall was Ziemiel wearing knuckle dusters on each hand striking Mcleod in the face. He nit him twice More when he was Down said Hertzog. Ziemiel when he took the stand tuesday made no mention of a Light with Mcleod behind the hotel but admitted being angry at Mcleod he was pursuing him Down the Street. I Bud Spring is where you find it even in february. G. Johanneson of found it in the shape of a Blooming Pussy Willow an d forthwith sent it in to the free press. Or. Johanneson remarked that he had t noticed any Robins around the usual Harbinger of Spring but that it was the first time since 1902 he had seen Pussy Willows out at this time of year. Holding the premature sri g is pretty Barbara Williams. You will find around the Home Page 7. Around the world Page 2. Bridge column Page 1. Comics pages 10, 11. Crossword Puzzle Page 4. Deaths and funerals Page 26. Film family contest Page i. Financial news and commod Ity markets pages 27, 28. Hollywood column Page 5. Letters to the editor Page 19. Rower of positive thinking Page 6. Radio Page i. Society news pases 12, 13, 14. Sports pages 18, 17, 18. Red a bomb output set at 100 a year Stockholm Reuters a swedish defence staff publication said today Russia is turning out about 100 atom bombs or atom shells a year. The publication Contact with the armed forces made the statement in a 60-Page review of Russia s armaments. It did not Ive its source. The publication said that 100 atomic bombs or shells Are of both Light and heavy types. It estimated Russia s current store of atomic weapons of All kinds runs to several but the prerequisites exist for an increase of both stocks and output and both May be 10 times As great by it said. Washington opening night warm audience greets Ballet by share Mackay Washington special a Friendly opening night audience of diplomats Canadian residents and Eastern theatre critics monday saw the Royal Winnipeg Ballet begin a week Long engagement at the National theatre Here. The company performed four items from its repertoire which have won popular acclaim in Canada the Ballet Premier. Shadow on the Prairie intercede and the shooting of Dan my grow. It was the Winni Eggers first appearance in the Eastern United states. Later in the week Alicia Markova and her partner Poman Jasinski will the troupe for three of the eight Washington performances. First canadians the performance also marked the first appearance of a can Adian theatrical company in the american capital and Drew an unusually Large group of news paper critics from new York and Washington. Astute Advance press Gentry and an unusual amount of favor Able publicity in Washington newspapers assured the company of Good houses for the rest of its week Here. The monday performance got off to a rather stiff formal Start with the playing of three National Carlu Carter and Gordon Wales Are shown in Shadow on the Prairie which was received warmly by a washing ton audience monday night at the opening performance of a week Long stand by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Anthems the stars and stripes god save the Queen and o can Ada. Opening item was the bal let Premier a dance which Fol lows the classical style of the Imperial russian Ballet. Tense and a trifle anxious about their first appearance the dancers warmed up More to their second Ballet Shadow on the Prairie. Best received by the audience were the last two ballets intercede and the shooting of Dan Mcgrew. Toured City the troupe arrived Here last Friday. During the week end Washington members of the can Adian club formed a car Pool and took them on sight seeing Tours of the . Capital. They were accompanied by r. A. Kipp presi Dent of the company and mrs. Kipp of Winnipeg mrs. Betty Farrally their director miss Gweneth Lloyd of Toronto their founder and artist director Henry Guettel manager and David Neddeau costumes and scenario director. Eric wild Winnipeg Csc or Chestra director who composed music for several of the ballets directed a 21-piece Washington orchestra accompanying the performance. Ambassadors from the British Commonwealth countries Walter Bedell Smith acting Secretary of state and several . Senators were among patrons of the first night performance and were guests at a reception for dancers monday nig Jit. The troupe will end its engagement Here saturday night and will open monday in Mont real for another week. It will then tour the maritime provinces Western Canada and the mid Cen trial . States. Terry review Walter Terry new York Herald Tribune critic said in his review tuesday that the troupe made its Washington debut As a company of Energy of taste of Youthful eagerness and of pro Mise of maturer things to he described miss see Ballet Page 9 electronic fingers groping for wreck by James nork1s Elba Reuters electronic fingers from a Fleet of British naval ships Are groping Over the Muddy floor of this Mediterranean Island for clues that could affect Britain s future in the air. Dogged searchers Are pressing the latest marvels of modern science into use As they probe the sea Bottom for the wreck of one of Britain s proudest weeks. The Trail blazing Comet jetliner but Width is four Miles which plummeted into the Ocean then u May take us four Here Jan. 10. Criss crossing the water Panse where 29 passengers factored in seven hectic Days for the Job. Determined Salvage experts Are planning to keep on spending time and Money until they bring Home the evidence. One set Forth the Navy s Needle in a Haystack problem by noting if the Width of the area in which we have to operate is a few Hun dred Yards the Job May Only take sex and six Crew members plunged to their deaths an Armada of Sal Vage ships is slowly dragging up the relics of the Wing panel a woman s water soaked suitcase. But the chief object of their search still lies submerged and undetected beneath hundreds of feet of water. Divers sonic de actors and underwater television have been unable to spot the main body Section of the ill fated Comet. No solution somewhere in the crumpled mass of the Comet s engines and ventral fuselage expert engineers Hope to find the cause for the plane s brought the grounding of All Britain s prize comets. A careful Check on All the grounded planes has yielded no solution. There have been reports that sabotage May have caused the Elba crash but Only evidence irom the wreck itself can answer the question of what caused it. Four Royal Navy ships seven italian trawlers and private Sal Vage vessels Are inching Over the Ocean mud with the patience of a detective at the scene of a crime. But watchers straining to peer into television screens so far have seen Only vistas of mud and fishes peering curiously into a deep diving camera. Divers have been unable to identify anything for the Fleet s underwater grapples. The search already taken 18 Days and yielded few tangible results but naval officials Curtly that there is no time limit. The size of the Fleet and the in Tensive use of scientific detectors have already made the operation the most expensive Salvage at tempt of its Type in history. One of the television cameras specially designed to operate 000 feet under water was Manu 4-Penny Post card due in april Ottawa up the Penny Post card has slipped further into oblivion. Hon. Alcide Cole postmaster general announced monday thai the rate on Post cards will be in creased Ori e cent april l to four cents from three. He made the announcement in reply to a question by Stanley Knowles Kcf Winnipeg North Centre during clause by clause study of government legislation increasing first class rates by one cent an Pope Able to quit bed for awhile City a Pope Pius spent a fairly Good night and his improvement continued to Day. The Vatican press office said the continued improvement of the roman Catholic spiritual Leader is increasing optimism Over his even Tual full recovery. It added however that the Pon Tiff s condition still needs attention largely because of his advanced age. He will be 78 March 2. Monday he Rose from his bed and for the first time since he was stricken Jan. 25 was Able to spend considerable time in an armchair. This morning the windows of his apartment on the third floor of the Vatican Palace were hut tired for the first time in several Days. They had been closed Vatican sources said because the Light had bothered the pontiff s eyes. This morning the. Pope heard at his private Chapel. He is not yet Able to mass himself. Resume saying or. Cote ounce said the boost in Post cards is expected to net the Post office about a year. The other proposed in creases in first class rates would yield about to be used to offset higher operating costs and implementation of the five Day 40-hour week. Members of opposition parties accused the government of not playing fair with parliament in withholding announcement of the higher Post card rate until Mon Day. It will be established under a clause in the Post office act which gives the postmaster Gen eral authority to set rates not included in the legislation. Or. Cote said no increase was planned in the present two cent rate on unsealed letters including Christmas cards. Five face additional charge an additional charge has been Laid jointly against five persons already charged with having a firearm in a car without a per Mit. The five Alexander Nichol son sleeve Bolonchuk 31, of 105 Macdonald Avenue Alexander Mcneil Wilson 29, of no fixed abode Theodore Horbas about 28, and Larry Zazula alias Zim Mer about 35, both of no fixed abode and Clara Knight alias Bolonchuk 22, of 105 Macdonald Avenue have been charged with receiving a .38 calibre police pistol and flashlight stolen Jan. 3 from the Home of const. Joseph Dean 783 Goulding Street. Bolonchuk and Wilson who have been committed for jury trial on a conspiracy charge in connection with the free press Holdup dec. 21, have been re fused bail. One surety bail for Clara Knight was changed tuesday to one surety of instead of two sureties of bail for Horbas was set at Zazula who was out on a warrant of commitment on a a see police Case Page 8 Young convict jabs threatens City British firm buys local company Gypsum products management unchanged Western Gypsum products Ltd has been sold for to British plaster Board Ltd. Of London England. J. E. Spear president and Gen eral manager of the Winnipeg firm announced the Sale tuesday. He said w. Steuart tremble and r. S. Jukes of London visited company mines and plants in re cent weeks then closed the Deal. The British Purchase is Basic ally investment following the rowing flow and trend of United kingdom investment i n Canada. There will be no change in policy management directorate and dealer set up or. Spear says. Locally owned Western Gypsum products Ltd. Was largely locally owned with shares held by Winnipeg business men. The company was established in 1929 by or. Spear s father the late j. R. Spear and by the late h. D. Mclaughlin. Gross Revenue of the company totalled in 1953 and Wallboard sales alone measured Square feet. The Plas Ter Mills and Wallboard plants Are located in Winnipeg and Calgary. The main mine is at Amaranth Man. From it tons of Gyp sum were mined last year. It has abundant resources at least tons. There Are various mining properties in British co Lumbia As Well. There Are 200 people employed in the mines and plants of the company. The Western Gypsum co. Ltd. Holds the largest share of the Prairie Market and it serves Western Canada from the Lake head to the West coast. . Offers or. Spear said american firms were eager to buy the company but the directors of the company gave preference to the representatives of British plaster Board Ltd. The British company is largest manufacturer of Gyp sum products in the British Isles. It plants in Eire South Africa and France. Along with or. Spear these directors will continue on the Board of the new company g. S. Thor Valdson h. Darling h. F. R. Baker t. O. Peterson t. R. Deacon and a. F. Mclaughlin All of Winnipeg. Gordon h. Hor Ner continues in the Post of Secre tary treasurer. Harry Walsh Winter due to make comeback Mercury to drop to 5 above tonight the Weatherman has sounded the death Knell of Winnipeg s Spring like temperatures. He says the weather will he colder. He says there will be some Snow flurries. He says there will be North winds wednesday at 15 to 20 Miles per hour. His Only friends now Are the curlers. However Winni Eggers could still expect to enjoy warm temperatures for the better part of tuesday. At 10.30 . Temperatures in the City had risen to a High of 36. This was almost a record except for a two degree higher listing in 1928 for the correspond ing Dale. But the warm weather was definitely Over and Manitoban s could prepare for a gradual easing into deep freeze temperatures again. Wednesday temperatures while still hovering above Zero would not be too stable. The Mercury would drop to five above tuesday night. A 15 above High was forecast for wednesday and a Low of 10 above. Winds would be from the North at 15 to 20 Miles per hour. Some Snow flurries could be expected during the night. The. Colder spell which May dip lower than a Long Range forecast could show would last for a couple of according to the weather office. Meanwhile Manitoba s Balmy spell had created a near record thaw for this time of year. February s mild spell on the Prairies had shot the temperature up to 70 above in Claresholm alta., on sunday and 65 monday in Medicine hat. W y e r til get you youth yells at Walsh the stand prisoner says blow unintentional a Winnipeg lawyer was struck and threatened Dur ing an Assize court trial be fore dozens of spectators monday by a Young prisoner from Stony Mountain Penitentiary. The incident occurred just after adjournment at noon monday when defence coun Sel Harry Walsh terminated his questioning of h. J. W. Andrews now serving two and one half years in the Penitentiary for theft of Copper Cable. Adjournment had been called and the last witness in the stand was Andrews. He was about to be taken Back into custody by court officers when he brushed past or. Walsh and jabbed him violently in the ribs. Get you As he was led out of the court room he turned and shouted to or. Walsh ill get you for this later or. Walsh brought the prisoner to the stand and after questioning Andrews said he was exposing him As a liar an Drews on the stand admitted he might have struck the lawyer but not intentionally he also admitted having threatened him. The Brief fracas occurred during the trial of Morris Yanovski of 378 Dufferin Avenue charged with receiving stolen goods. The Case is being heard m court of Queen s Bench before or Justice Samuel Freedman. Three character witnesses were called just prior to the afternoon adjournment to testify that or. Yanovski was always very honest and that the accused in business life had always been spoken of in very High regard sold Copper Andrews earlier had told an As size court jury that he had sold stolen Copper to a Man now charged with receiving stolen goods. Yanovski is charged in connection with receiving part of pounds of Copper wire valued at about s22.647, reported stolen from Winnipeg electric co. Property near Pinawa during dec. 1952 and Early 1953. See Walsh Page 9 the prelude to revolt slave groups link up by Brigette Gerland second of 3 articles Munich special owns the russian students who called themselves the disciples of Lenin found strange allies in the slave labor Camp of Vor Kuta in the Frozen soviet North. Chief among them were the be Ruschy whose Faith was a sort of primitive Christian communism. I should like to Tell the Story of one member of that secret order. I can still see her sitting in our hut copying out the gos Pel because the bibles of some of her sister members had been found and confiscated in a recent search and had to be replaced. Tamara came of an old bolshevik family and had been a member of the communist youth Organiza Tion. Working in Leningrad As a trained technician in a fac had not been badly off materially but had never Felt contented and Happy it was As. If i was walking on thin ice which could at any moment give Way under my feet she said and As if my people around me were not human beings but puppets or she had withdrawn More and More to her books turn ing even to Western Philo Sophy in her search for a meaningful life but in vain. One evening she Accident ally stumbled on a new test Ament which she had never read before. That night she experienced her conversion. Dawn found her determined to Start a new life based on the word of the gospel. The next Day she talked of her experience to a girl in her factory whom she hardly knew but trusted. Irina understood me at once that Day she brought me to a Circle of Brothers and Sisters who were not Only Reading the gospel together but tried to spread it everywhere above All in the factories and Kolk Homes collective farms they received me with out asking Many questions. I Learned that love alone is Ere Active while the anti Christ is sterile forever. I came to see the madness of the false prophets who want to control our souls and realized that we can banish the demons by showing up their inner non entity. I left my parents Chan ged my name abandoned my Job. Nobody compelled me but All the believers do is Why people Call us Monashko monks and nuns though we do not dream of the monastic life. After a few months i went with my Friend to a Kolk Hoz in Distant cent see slaves in revolt Page 2 i can still see her sitting in our hut copying out the gospel because bibles had been found and ;