Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 11, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba New classified phone number 93-6541 final edition Winnipeg free press weather forecast Winnipeg Clear today Bec smog Cloudy Friday afternoon. Continuing cold. Winds Light increasing to Southeast at 15 tomorrow afternoon. Low tonight and High Friday 20 below and 0. Forecast Clear cold Sun rises 7.48 . Moon rises 11.18 . Sun sets 5.39 . Moon sets 3.30 , Winnipeg thursday february 11, 1954 vol. No. 116 battling unionist out of Job Magazine Story brings John Tunney s dismissal John Tunney Lias lost his Job again. Or. Tunney former milk Dri ver who had been working for a local Branch of an insurance company said he lost his Job monday after a phone Call from the general manager at Toronto v --5 was made to the k. Local Branch manager. This followed on the heels of a Stor. In Maclean Magazine about Tunney s fight with local 119 of the team sters Union. The Maclean s article said or. Tunney Tunney wrongly implied that he had Only in tended to work for the company until he could take up landscape gardening in the Spring. This said or. Tunney was regarded by the general manager As evidence of bad Faith on Tun Ney s part and he was obliged to leave the company. Mall or. Tunney told the free press he has received fan mail from All Over the country in the last few Days but this in t helping me find a the article written by Sidney Katz in the Maclean s Issue of feb. 15, 1954, castigated officials of local 119 in general and Edmund Houle its business manager in particular. The article alleged that officials of the local were racketeers and that there were irregularities in the handling of the local s books. I read the article and 1 did t like Albert Cowley president of the local said thursday. He said local 119 had turned the article Over to a lawyer. He is looking into it to see if it is or. Tunney said he has heard that since the article appeared local 119 is falling apart at the some doubt there is some doubt he indicated As to How Long the american federation of labor local 119 will continue As bargaining agents for the Dairy Drivers in Winnipeg. Or. Tunney said he wondered when the attorney general s department was going to begin prosecution of the local. He said the department had told him such a prosecution would be instituted if he could prove his civil Case. Or. Tunney said he had proved his Case on the facts and not with last october a judgment handed Down by chief Justice e. K. Williams in court of Queen s Bench upheld Tunney s suit against the International brotherhood of teamsters chauffeurs warehousemen and helpers of America Winnipeg local 119 the Union was ordered to pay damages to Tunney of and or. Houli was ordered to account for in Union funds. The Case against the Union was begun in july 1947. And the decision was handed Down in octo Ber 1953. The Union has appealed the judgment. Labor department officials pointed out that the Case did not involve a breach of provincial labor statutes. It was an internal Union affair and had nothing to do with the department. Strong Atlantic pact Malayan gun girls vanquish reds r _. In Malaya and the unit with shotguns for Gen. Sir Gerald Templar High commissioner of spurned by big three Molotov plan appeals to european sentiment Berlin a v. M. Molotov s proposed Security pact although spurned by the Western foreign ministers appears to have considerable popular Appeal for the West european people particularly the French. French observers say wednesday s russian proposal s clause calling for the neutralization of Germany will mean fresh trouble for foreign minister Georges Bidault in his fight to get the european defence Community treaty ratified by France s Balking parliament. . Officials Nab two bail jumpers wanted in Winnipeg two Winnipeg bail jumpers were arrested in Arcadia calif., by United states immigration agents wed temperatures maximum Nunci minimum temperatures to at organization. Lor the 24-hour period ending thursday t of the soviet foreign minister s avowed is to do away with both that treaty which would West germans along with France Italy Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg under unified command and the North Atlantic he hears Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Swift current Regina Saskatoon Brandon Winnipeg fort William Ottawa Toronto Max. -1-1 24 19 19 2-1 19 11 26 19 37 22 mesday. Walter Basil Friend 26, and Clifford Orr alias Leonard Day 22, were arrested in a Motel with Friend s wife Diana and Orr s girl Friend Anne castling who was posing As his wife. All were held on charges of ils -20 -19 -19 -17 -6 4 20 0 Howe due to discuss payments it. Hon. C. D. Howe acting prime minister will Confer with members of the wheat Board in Winnipeg this week end regard ing the final payment on the 1952-53 wheat crop. Egal entry in Winnipeg magistrate m. H. Carton had issued warrants Tor Friend who was bail and Orr on bail when they fatted to appear in court recently to face a number of charges at a preliminary hearing. In Winnipeg Orr faces nine charges of housebreaking and theft and three of theft from automobiles. The stolen goods involved were valued at Friend faces four charges of receiving stolen goods. The _ a North Power venture due in 59 Start on big project unlikely for five six years by Abt Robson Start on the Hydro electric Power development suggested at grand rapids in North Ern Manitoba will not be made until five or six years from now february. Or. Howe who in addition to being acting prime minister in the absence of prime minister l. S. St. Laurent is minister of Trade and Commerce and minister of defence production left for Winnipeg thursday immediately following the Start of the after noon sitting of parliament. He travelled in a department of transport aircraft and was scheduled to arrive in Winnipeg thursday night. Press conference he will hold a press conference Friday at 11 . And will address the Winnipeg chamber of com detectives had notified the Fri where the four were staying. Winnipeg police did not divulge How they Learned of the address. Arcadia is on the outskirts of los Angeles. Herman r. Landon an Immi Gration officer said the four had in Cash and an expensive car which they claimed to have bought in Las vegas Nev. In Winnipeg inspector of detectives George blow said he would be in touch with the Fri Merce at 75th anniversary a provincial government source t old the free press thursday. Final capacity of the Plant would be horsepower considerably larger than any existing Plant in Manitoba. Premier d. L. Campbell announced in the legislature tues Day that the government s next big Hydro project would be in Northern Manitoba and gave the estimated Cost. He did not name the site but it has been Learned officially that grand rapids is the probable location Likely program the government s Long Tern plans for Power development in this province Are not fully Cryst Ali Zed the free press was told. But this is How they probably will work out. In wednesday s regular meet ing at West Berlin s old Allied control authority building Molo Lov offered Europe a 50-year collective Security Pamn return for expelling United states armed forces from the continent and breaking up the Western Alliance. He sought to promote a euro Pean Security conference at some time in the future. This proposal is certain to invite hesitant French parliamentarians pegging their opposition to traditional French fears a revival of German militarism to delay More on Edc. Molotov got his answer from Britain and France in perhaps the most dramatic hour of the big four conference. Indirectly it was an answer also to warn Ings by state Secretary John Foster , the ., would get out of european affairs if Europe so desired. Bidault and . Anthon Eden British foreign minister facing Molotov across the con Ference table called on the to stay in Europe. They said Bri and France choose to remain in nato of which the Was the chief proposer. Molotov from Britain Stewart presses . Probe by Peter Mclintock Ottawa special Alistair Stewart Kcf Winnipeg North is pursuing his inquiries into what he has called unmitigated blackmail in connection with persons obtaining or retaining in his constr Liei be no banquet at 6.30 . In the Royal Alexandra hotel. Or. Hove will be accompanied to Winnipeg by Fernand Viau member of parliament for St. Boniface and m. W. Sharp associate Deputy minister of Trade and Commerce. Or Howe will be guest of Premier d. A Campbell at lunch and in the afternoon will attend a Tea Given by Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian women s press club at the University women s club 54 Westgate. He is sched sub Post offices Quency. Or. Stewart placed on the 1uu, used to leave the City saturday morning. Included in talks or. Sharp will take part in the discussions with the wheat Board commons order paper wednesday a request for a copy of All let ters telegrams memoranda and other documents exchanged be tween any person or persons and the Post office department since Jan. 1, 1949, concerning sub Post offices in the Federal constituency of Winnipeg North. Also a statement showing the locations of All sub Post offices in the fed eral constituency of North Winnipeg at dec. 31, 1953, and a copy of Post office regulations in connection actress Haver says marriage talk too Early Hollywood a june Haver admitted today that she is dating no one else but Fred Macmurray but said its too Early to discuss marriage. M iss Haver last year entered the roman Catholic Sisters of Charity Convent at Xavier Kan after nine months and three weeks she returned to Holly Wood saying she was physically unable to continue her religious to since. Miss Haver resumes her acting career next monday. She will appear with Jack Carson the comedian from Manitoba in a radio theatre version of trouble along the Way. Ulo Una Wito to regarding the closing of the wheat accounts on the 1952-53 crop. Or. Howe on his return to Ottawa expects to be in a position to make an announcement in parliament regarding the wheat payment. He has promised farm ers that a payment of some sort will be made before the next seeding. And immigration authorities some time thursday and would find out whether the group would face changes in California or be deported to Canada. John William Zack 39, and Jack Kelln 28, who face three charges of receiving stolen goods were being tried along with Orr and Friend when the others skipped bail. Zack has since received a two year Penitentiary term on charges of forging and uttering. Kelln is still awaiting trial and is out on bail. The housebreaking and thefts occurred in various parts of greater Winnipeg Between a gust and october last year. City actress lands Stratford festival role an immediate Start will be made on the first horse Power stage of a Bra Ndon steam Plant. This will be ready by 1957 and will take care of two years growth in Power demand. Two More horsepower stages will follow in succession each taking care of another two or three years increase in Power consumption. This will carry the to somewhere around 4 charged with arson attempt Toronto be gasoline dynamite a discovered spread around a four Storey downtown building wednesday night and four men have been charged with conspiracy i commit arson in what police Des Cribe As a plot to blow up the dig Structure. There s no doubt they intended to blow up the police inspector j. Semple said today. Charged with conspiracy to commit arson attempt to commit arson and Possession of explosives Are Harry Chernick 36, Victor Chernicki 28, and Cecil Chernick 30 All Brothers and George Davi son 24. All Are from Toronto. If the arson attempt had not been discovered when it was police said the 12 business establishments in the big building in West Central Toronto would have gone up in an explosion and fire. Helene Winston Winnipeg actress who has been engaged for the Strat Ford festival in Stratford ont next summer. It might be a bit part and it might be a she said when informed of the news thursday morning but i la be Happy to be the festival will Star James Mason and the plays to be presented Are measure for measure taming of the shrew and oedipus Rex. Province 1963-65. To bring new Power in before this Point a Start will have to be made on the grand rapids project five or six years from in. Three years of negotiations with Ontario has been most co operative and said one official have made the government decide it would not be to Manitoba s advantage to develop Boundary Falls on the Winnipeg River. Ontario is not yet ready to develop the site it self. If Manitoba built there it would have to turn the Plant Over to Ontario when that Vince required it. The Dauphin River site much closer to Winnipeg and the Vince s Industrial centres than grand rapids and with a Pott entail of horsepower has been ruled out because of exor Bitant costs. White mud Falls nearest site on the Nelson River and with 1 about the same potential As Daup Hin River has also been pretty Well eliminated until Long Dis Taruce transmission problems have been solved. Grand rapids is about 250 Miles North of Winnipeg and White mud another 100 Miles beyond that. Completion of the Brandon steam Plant horsepower and grand rapids horse Power would add horse Power to Manitoba s present Lant including Mcarthur Falls tearing completion. The prov nce s present installed capacity s about horsepower. There Are no roads or railways leading into grand rapids. The site is near the Mouth of the Saskatchewan River on the North Western Shore of Lake Winnipeg. Only Means of Access at present is from Lake Winnipeg or Down the Saskatchewan from the Pas. An project at the site would most Likely cause a Boom in Lake shipping out of Winnipeg and Selkirk. However a Road and railway would Eren tally have to constructed to the site. Another site for City Hall under study a special committee of City Council is to investigate an other site for Winnipeg s proposed new City Hall. At a meeting of the com Mittee wednesday in the metropolitan planning com Mission s office it was decided to write St. Paul s College to inquire about the possibility of purchasing its Perty. Aid. David Mulligan suggested that this site was close to both the business Centre and population Centre of the City. He said that he considered it the Ideal location. Aid. George Sharpe agreed that a new City Hall should be somewhere where it can be but was t so sure it was so important that it had to be precisely at the City s population Centre. Ill venture a guess that 90 per cent of the people in Winnipeg have never seen the inside of the City he said. 20 below forecast for City Winnipeg s Low Down temperatures Ace Here to stay for a with a shivery 18 below registered overnight the weather of fice today could do no More than Promise an approximate 20 be Low for this evening. There was no indication that the cold spell would break. High for today was expected to be five below with a High Friday of Zero. Winds today were North West at 15 Miles an hour drop Ping towards evening. Southeast winds at the same velocity Are forecast for Friday. Survival in balance he asserts is. Laurent delivers major address at Bonn Bonn up p rime minister Louis St. Laurent in the major address of his West German visit wednes Day night suggested a concept of integration of the Western Powers much broader than the North at lactic treaty organization or the european defence Community. Dinner speech in a dinner speech while a guest of Chancellor Konrad Ade Nauer before members of the West German Cabinet the Cana Dian Leader put Forward the idea of a political economic and de Fence system of countries Situ ated around the great Basin of the newspaper men were not pre sent and the text was issued today by the prime minister s staff at Soest where he went to visit the Canadian infantry Bri Gade in Germany. Perhaps the time has come now to consider whether some Steps towards closer integration should be taken within the larger framework of the Nort Atlantic the Speed said. It has become increasing Clear i think to All members o nato and to those Many coun tries with us through out the world that our very Sui Vival and our continued develop ment in Freedom and peace de pends upon ability to Loo my to Arti so. Laurent extra ends highlight fourth Day pair of minor events occupy stage at Spiel by Scotty Harper As the Manitoba Bonspiel swept into its fourth Day thursday morning Only two minor events occupied the stage. These were the Hud son s Bay Competition and seven games in the Grain Exchange event which have results on Page 10 beyond National barriers make them somewhat be facial and More satisfactory. Proper solution we believe the proper Solu Tion to the economic cultural and spiritual betterment All free Peoples is to be found in an even closer integration of their activities and in a greater Shar ing of their endeavours. More particularly Many of us believe the Peoples living about the great Basin of the Atlantic Ocean might Well seek the Solu Tion of their problems of eco no bearing on the grand aggregate and the championship of the Spiel. Five games in the Hudson s Bay event went into overtime. In an extra end affair Harry Walsh of fort Rouge sent Bloomer of Charleswood to the sidelines 10-8. Morrison of the Granite was forced into an. Extra end before he finally Defeated Stevenson from the Grain Exchange 7-6 while Bourns of the Granite wrested a 10-9 decision at the expense of Foubister Elmwood in another overtime Battle. Decosse from Somerset waged a Tough Battle with Weisner from St. Vital before the out of nomic betterment political stability and self defence in this closer integration of their nation Al resources and machinery of a bit hazy Carragher admits or. Justice Samuel Freedman thursday admitted As evidence a Hospital bed statement by Cpl. Owen William Carragher of Craf station Gimli that he was Little hazy the night William Idem Cash Gimli was killed m an automobile Accident. The Corporal is being tried on a motor manslaughter charge in court of Queen s Bench. Carragher told const. R. W. Mossman of the Gimli detach ment of the ramp following the Accident that he was on his Way from the station to the town of Gimli when he seemed to re member swerving to the left on the Highway to miss something. The last of the witnesses gave evidence shortly before recess at 1130 . Thursday. Summing of evidence was expected to continue thursday afternoon with i he possibility of the Case going the jury for decision by late town skip won 10-9 in an extra end to enter the next round the Hudson s Bay contest. Izzy Greenberg of Portage la Prairie was another skip who had to go an extra end to stay in the Hudson s Bay fight. Hav ing last Rock in his favor the Portage Pilot came through with the pay off Rock to defeat Sillers of Holmfield 8-7. In the Grain Exchange com petition Cliff Wise beat his club mate Ken Sutherland from Strathcona 10-8, while Gill Strath Clair won at the expense of Johnston fort Rouge 8-6. Pinkie Davie from flin flon proved too Good for Wallace of Strathcona the flin flon curlers winning 9-3. These Florida police too Quick to enforce new parking rules Pensacola Fla. A _ a woman called the traffic Bureau Here and reported she had parked her car where there was t a meter and when she returned she found both a meter and a parking ticket. X officials investigated and discovered that meters had been up on that Block while the car was parked. She was excused from pay ing a1 parking Fine because of extenuating Circum Pope Able to leave bed for while Vatican City a the condition of ailing Pope Pius continued to improve today and the Vatican announced his convalescence has the statement by the Vatican press office was the most encouraging since the pontiff took to his bed 22 Days ago with a stubborn and still unexplained gastric ailment accompanied of much of the time by persistent hiccups. For several Days h could not eat. The holy father slept Wel last night and is Able to a More the Vatican announce ment said. He was Able to Leav his bed for several hours Ltd the 77-year-old head of the roman Catholic Church was Sti too weak however to say Mas at his private Chapel in his vat can apartment. As in the la few Days it was celebrated Upo a portable alter at his bedside. Und questioning from Murray Eden Crown prosecutor const Trossman said Carragher made free remarks to his companion a Ben Dolan of the Craf m n ramp car on the Way to Ohnson memorial Hospital in Gimli on aug. 2, 1953. He quoted the accused As say in it s quite a drunk he pair what a what Hap _ did Mars come Down and lit const. Mossman said the a used had started singing m the a on the Way to the Hospital although there were injured per on in the car. Or George Johnson of girl who performed the postmortem on or. Dem dash said my pm on is that death was instantaneous it was caused by a fracture of the Skull and damage to the brain tissue from a blow on the Nead he said. At the scene of the Accident he found Cpl. Carragher in a intoxicated condition with a broken right wrist said or. Johnso he told Arthur v. Mauro de Fence v counsel the Corporal rambling speech stumbling an regular pulse indicated he a intoxicated rather than in a Sta of Shock where the pulse ten de to become weaker. Zoo bylaw proposed Winnipeg ratepayers next fall May be asked to vote on a Money bylaw to provide funds for developing the Assiniboine Park t. R. Parks Board superintendent said thursday that no definite figure has been arrived at but the amount could run As High As the bylaw May be presented Para Tely or in conjunction with request for additional funds for Urther development of play rounds and Parks. The Money would be used to tart a Long Range plan which alls for development of 55 acres the Park and the utilize on of and additional 66 acres o the West of the Park s present Boundary. Negotiations Are still going on o acquire the added acreage which would enlarge the Park to he boundaries of Charleswood. The projected plan May take 1u years to Complete. Over All Cost of the plan has not been decided. However it is estimated it might Range from to Melbourne opens Royal Ball invitations probe Melbourne City Council today launched an investigation into a Black Market in invitations to a Ball which allegedly have been changing up to ?140 each ;