Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Classified and. Phone number 93-6541 final edition Winnipeg free press weather forecast Cloudy. Little change in temperature. Winds Southeast at 15. Low tonight and High thursday 45 and 65. Vol. 61 no. 301 64 pages Winnipeg wednesday september 15, 1954 Sun Riu 7.03 . Moon Ului 8.33 . Sun . Moon Mai 11.03 . Forecast Cloudy nervous Valdmanis enters guilty plea on fraud charges c7 sex economic expert faces sentence Friday St. Johns fld. Alfred a. Valdmanis former economic director for Newfoundland wednes Day pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding the Newfoundland government of Valdmanis will be sentenced Friday. Another charge involving an additional has been deferred. Valdmanis entered his plea in supreme Eden plan finds wide acceptance in West Europe Dulles trails foreign Secretary but leaves Paris out court this morning. Scheduled to appear next tuesday Valdmanis 47, no province lir is appeared tense and nervous was taken into the Oak lined Irro up Honor supreme court Chambers in a Surprise move. Of itinerary Washington just As it. Ter Churchill and or. Eden. Anthony Eden reached Paris wednesday on the final stage his european tour m search of a new plan for euro Pean Unity John Foster Dulles . Secretary of state announced Here that he will be setting off wednesday night for his own talks in Europe. Or. Dulles will visit Bonn and Back for in meet or. Dulles will leave London Friday night and arrive Back in Washington saturday morning in natural Gas plan for Winnipeg area to Cost technicians escape when to Antenna plunges 375 feet Calgary technicians escaped death tuesday when the 75-foot television an Tenna Calgary s Chat to station plunged 375 feet and Bur time for final preparations Formica itself eight feet in the attendance at the opening of the ground. Winnipeg Emerson pipeline opening set for 1955 by Pat o Dwyer the Winnipeg and Central the expanded distribution sys tem of company would be United nations general Assem Bly tuesday. London but he will leave the or will bypass Paris Alfred Valdmanis transit fare hike bid looms Utility Board hearings on zone rates postponed possibility of an defence lawyer Gordon i big gins who entered a Strong Cle Mency plea said he understood that the Federal Revenue department May take criminal j action against Valdmanis. Higgins valued Valdmanis Asj sets at arrested in Atkis. J Valdmanis was arrested april 23 j in St. Andrews n. A. On a War i rant charging extortion. A Fow Days later he was officially charged with defrauding the Newfoundland government of and since then the figure has been increased to this was followed May 1 with an additional charge of defrauding a Montreal jus lice Ewen Mcpherson of Mani Toba was elected honorary presi Dent of the clan Macpherson association at the fifth annual clan rally last week end Learned wednesday. It crucial Paris nut for or. Eden to crack All by himself. The itinerary of the . Secretary of state As disclosed Here does not include Paris. The state department said or. Dulles and several aides will leave Washington wednesday night and arrive at Bonn Capi Tal of West Germany thursday afternoon far talks with Chan cellar Konrad Adenauer. J he will then Fly to London for talks Friday with prime minis a the Only official explanation be ing that he will not have time to continued see a Dent plan Page 6 Ronald Bernier of Quebec and Harold Reid of Vermont were perched in the station s 600-foot Tower when a faulty Winch Cable snapped while the five ton Antenna was being raised to the top the Structure. Gas co. Will to in the next five years ready in for heating in the spend from 1 1955-1956 season about no. 1, serve the City with natural Gas a company official said tuesday. The company spokesman said line is expected to reach Winni to Peg s Doorstep. Woman May head school Board German machine company of the greater Winnipeg the charge said that the Al of no Missim for an Overall in licked fraud was committed by i Onset farms loomed i tween August 1950 and october 1951 crease m transit fails Betriex wednesday. A Haft of Brunswick had a contract the possibility of such an a idol. Construction of machinery for Cement Plant at Llumbet Rmoutil plication was seen when it was Learned that the commission had asked for and received Post on the province s West coast. The quiet spoken industrialist who came to Newfoundland in 1950 j. Crop estimate again slashed Ottawa up the Bureau of statistics to Day slashed its estimate of Canada s 1954 wheat crop by bushels cutting it to a five year Low of bushels. The reduction from the August estimate big Gest since the Bureau began making such estimates in 1947, resulted from an unprecedented combination of losses from rust excessive moisture saw flies wind and Hail in the Prairies. Prairie the next chairman of the Winnipeg school Board May be mrs. Nan Murphy or mrs. E. R. Tennant. Civic election committee members of the Board will have the task of deciding next january which one is to fill the Post. This situation arose tues Day with the resignation of Monement of municipal and a annual salary the Bureau estimated i lie Utility Board hearings on in i director general of economic de a wheat. Product at Jevc Loument was 10 come before a bushels Down from previous awaiting Board d. I. Macdonald the commis manager of transit operations wednesday said the com a Mission had asked for the delay1 in the hearings pending recommendations from a conciliation Hoard named to help Settle a dispute Between the com a Mission and certain of its pm a Plo yees. I the Board was set up when 1he commission and the one big Union reached an impasse on Union demands for wage in creases of from 10 to 15 cents and hour for transit work the commission by waiting for the conciliation Board s re commendations might then Oid having to make a second double panel supreme court jury next tuesday on the two charges totalling _ gathered in shortly Tiller a Simath of Oner was ushered in Between two Scarlet coated ramp officers but apart from reporters and court officials and policemen Piere were no other spectators. Cont Nudd Sec Valdmanis Page 6 this last year s production of bushels put Isle the hew estimate of wheat for the Canada compared with last the Board or. To a Macdonald said. Renewal possible a spokesman Lor the Juba bid for mayor possible Stephen Juba la for Winnipeg Centre said wednesday he could not be discounted As a pos sible mayoralty candidate in next j month s civic elections. Or. Juba said pressure had been applied by various organizations and groups within the last week in an attempt to get him be renewed after Jan. 1, 1955. ,.j." told to Nam i could t say under the plan proposed by incs right now but promised to the commission zone fares the matter serious consider he increased to 10 cents. pal x output of Bush Cis. If realized it will be the smallest Harvest since Canada turned out bushels in 1949. Lower forecast the Oats crop was forecast at bushels Down from the previous estimate of 000 bushels and last year s output of the Barley crop was placed at bushels Down from the previous estimate of 000 bushels and last year s production of bushels. The All Rye crop was estimated at bushels Down from the previous estimate of bushels and last year s output of House plan for army under Way bulldozers began digging into Tuxedo soil tuesday in preparation for a 175-unit, housing project for married sol Mats. Nan Murphy mrs. E. K. Tennant Utility Board said the application for in creased zone fares will probably however would be approximately twice their present size for a Quarter. Faie from the City to the University of Manitoba now 15 be 20 cents. If or. Juba decides to run the number of candidates in the Field will be raised to four with a possible fifth in the three declared mayor Garnet noun cd tuesday re election. . To hear report on far East Taipei Formosa chinese nationalist air and naval units wednesday resumed their attacks on communist artillery Diers. Some of the houses Are expected to be built by next sum Mer. Completion of the project depends on weather conditions. The new Homes will be rented to married soldiers from head quarters Prairie command and 1 others stationed in Winnipeg on a sliding scale proportionate to pay and rank. The minimum rent will be about s45 a month the maximum about5125 a Menth. Most of the new Homes will be scattered Over an area bounded on the North by Corydon Avenue on the South by Fleet Avenue on the West by Edge land Boulevard and on the East by carpathia Road. Eleven units will be built on unique j of Corydon Avenue. A number of houses Are already in the District. You will find Billy Graham padre Bridge column Page j3. Clement Attlee article Page comics pages 45. Crossword Puzzle Page 4-1. Deaths and funerals 39. Financial news Page 58. Hollywood column Page t. Jitters to the editor parc 2. Monsarrat s report Page 12. Radio to Page 42. Social news pages 17, 18 to to 24. Speaking of pets Pace 11. Sports pages 31 to 38. Scramble contest on Page 13 red China planning Call up Hong Kong communist China will Call up Inen to the forces Between next Coulter he his opponents and Wil cent rations on Amoy and nearby Ipp candidate islands off Lac chinese coast the junk and troop con. City Plant shutdown rumoured the steel foundry Section of Vulcan Iron and engineering ltd., after operating in Winnipeg for 72 years win shut Down receipts Tumble by Edwin l. Dale or. special Nyht a Sharp dip in tax receipts caused mostly by the mild slump in the Economy will mean a higher deficit in the budget during the current fiscal year than was planned last Jan uary the Eisenhower administration estimated tuesday. The annual late summer budget review estimated the deficit at in january it had been estimated the deficit would be total expenses were estimated at and receipts at the higher deficit occurred Des Pite a further decline in expenditures mostly a the defence Peter d. Curry present school Board chairman from Active participation in civic politics. What occurred to his Fel Low trustees immediately was who will succeed or. Curry will it be the chair Man of the finance commit tee but that s a woman mrs. Murphy. Will it be the chairman of the Board s other standing committee the building and policy group but that s a woman too mrs. Tennant. Judging by the Board s past decisions women have Seldom been popular As Board chair men. Only once in 1937, did the Board elect a woman. She was mrs. Jessie Maclennan. But women Are holding the two key jobs on the Board at present and they Are both closely matched although mrs. Murphy has a slight Edge. She has held chairman ship of Bolh committees mrs. Tennant Only of the build ing group the Issue will be decided when the new trustees meet after taking office next year. To the Winner goes another prize. Or. Curry was the Leader of the Cec majority group on the school Board. His successor As chairman will probably be his Succes Sor As Leader. And the or of the school it dvrs Jority group is rated High in civic politics. There will be 13 different types i within the next few Days Homes in the project. Twenty cording to unconfirmed rep of buildings be duplexes 81 1 be a Storey and a half single dwelling units 35 will be Bunga Low Type Homes and 19 will be two Storey single dwelling Homes. Plans Call for four types of the Kcf parly will Likely Narne rationalist defence ministry an a candidate fit a convention sche j stucco and Asbestos shingles. Nov. 1 and feb. 28, 1955, China news Agency ported tuesday. The government administration Council passed an order for re the forces last ruled for sept. 22. Or Juba contested the mayoralty in 1952 and compiled a total vote of compared Ith mayor Coulter s winning to Tal of or. Juba said that there were noun cent. It claimed when strutted that nationalist naval units shelled communist troop positions on Chinyun Island South of Amoy and scored Many direct hits on a number tar a great Many things he had to i gets consider before announcing a de communique said Nason. Alist planes strafed troop concentrations at Tatoul in Southeastern Amoy inflicting heavy casual vision for example his business interests. Cruit ment to thursday. At the same responsibil1ty great he said that if elected mayor his responsibility to the citizens would be so great that he would have to arrange for temporary retirement from business. _ or Juba said that during the time Mao tse supreme Leader of communist China appealed to his follow to work harder be honest past week he had received Doz ens of Calls from individuals and nationalist planes also claimed to have sunk three military 1 wooden Junks. The they Homes tire con will be rented to sports. Rumours state that some of the 75 they Are willing category. Farm outlays will Rise chiefly because of More outlays needed to support prices of wheat and to work outside Jarry products and housing Fig be absorbed into the foundry reflect changes in financing Selkirk which Vulcan Iron bought two months ago from Manitoba steel foundries for an undisclosed Price. In addition other foundries in Winnipeg Are expected to take he different ranks on a quota i on some the remaining foun basis decided at the time. The building of the Homes has been contracted to Bird construction co. Ltd., by the Central mortgage and housing Corpora Tion. The department of National defence foots the Bill. Various or to run for mayor. They All urging him see Fah East Page 5 4 countries wheat stocks Rise 23% four najor out. That 1 m would have a Good Chance of and modest Earnest and Indus. Being he said. But they in building China into a do not realize the great Rispon a great Industrial country the news j a ability that such a position in Agency reported. the red Agency said the Call up was a step towards the Grad Ual establishment of a system of Universal military service. Men aged Between 18 and 22 were liable to conscription. Ser vict would be for three years in the army four in the air Lorce or five in the Navy. Outstanding worker in cancer research Dies following crash Victoria Cdr. Leslie Charles Coleman 75, cancer re searcher at the Dominion Patho logical Laboratory near Here died tn6t to. Tuesday three hours after his car entry was gained by smashing a a front window after an at tempt to Force a rear door had apparently failed. A lining bar and Monkey wrench stolen from the Canadian National railways shop two weeks ago were found near the scene. Thieves clean Libau store Cash Register Libau Man. Special pump from Selkirk Are invest the theft of an Undis closed amount of Money from the Cash Register of the red and White s Tore which was broken into sometime during tuesday the Day s receipts an estimated s200 or s300, were re rain forces postponement of big fight new York a the Marciano Charles heavy weight title Light was postponed 24 hours today be cause of weather conditions. The announcement was made by Jim Norris presi Dent of the inc alter a consultation with Robert Chris Teaberry chairman of the new athletic com Mission and the managers of the two lighters. Wheat exporting countries had on hand bushels at the end of their crop years on or about Bureau of statistics aug. 1, the said today. The supplies for Export or carry Over were 23 per cent greater than the a year Earl Ier. Estimated supplies in each of the Lour countries with a year earlier figures in brackets were United states hush Els Canada Argentina and Australia the United states 1954 crop estimated at bushels is included in these calculations. Workers say. Some reports although Union officials Are pessimistic on that score. O comment h. O. Jones general manager Vulcan said wednesday he could not comment at present on the reports. It was Learned How Ever that he informed Leonard Stevens representative for the United steel workers of America Cio Cal that a Public statement would be forthcoming soon. If the shutdown Rumor is Cor rect the plan is in line with earlier reports that Vulcan Iron would move its steel foundry work to Selkirk Clearing More room in Winnipeg for structural steel operations. It is believed the Iron foundry will remain in Winnipeg. Both Vulcan Iron and the former Manitoba steel foundries operations not fully reflected in the january estimates which rep resent no Basic change of pro Gram. The loss lit tax receipts which accounts for the larger deficit estimate occurred mostly in corporation taxes. Have experienced layoffs Over the ast couple of years As steel see City Plant Page 6 demolished in an Accident. _ or. Coleman s cancer research work for the Canadian cancer Institute was last year s the most outstanding of any research supported by the cancer Institute in arrests reported Berlin unconfirmed killer cancer claims bigger Canadian toll Ottawa up cancer was j commission and declared that Canada s big killer in 1952, claim the . Stockpile of Hydrogen and t Kim pc a ecu Roc liar irm Oppenheimer supporter quits dec Henry d. Smith resigned wednesday from the United states atomic Energy politicians steer Clear of smears Washington the chair men of the Republican and demo cratic National committees signed a pledge tuesday to conduct the current congressional Campaign in accordance with the highest standards of decency honesty and fair play. Seated on the same platform at a press conference they put their signatures to a code 61 fair Campaign practices that was mailed out to All candidates run Ning for seats in the . House and Senate. Returns Analysed meanwhile National leaders of he Republican and democratic parties Analysed the election re urns from Maine. They agreed that local issues and local conditions played a significant part in the vote that gives the state its first demo cratic governor in 20 years. Edmund s. Muskie Defeated Republican gov. Burton m. Cross by a sizeable majority. They also agreed the. Signs news of the world in Brief in Washington it was announced that state Secre tary John Foster Dulles would Fly to Europe to discuss German rearmament. Pages 1 and in the far East Formosa s guns and places continued to Pound communist bases on the China main land. Page China took Steps to Intro Duce Universal military conscription. Page in Ottawa there were indications that Japan might join in Colombo plan. Page in the ., Republican and democratic Campaign leaders agreed to abstain from smear and slander during election fights. Page in Washington or. Henry d. Smyth resigned from . Atomic Energy com Mission he had been Only commission member to support or. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Page in an address prepared for Del Ivery in new Orleans tuesday night n. E. Tanner of Calgary president of trans Canada pipe lines ltd., said present scheduling Calls for commencement of construction on the main line project in the Spring of 1955, with a comple Tion Date to Winnipeg and South to Emerson in november of the same i growing pains the Winnipeg company spokes Man said the Winnipeg and cent ral Gas co. Is undergoing growing pains now from a Small confined manufactured Gas mail Ity laying Basic groundwork natural Gas distribution and necessary organization. The Winnipeg Ai Central Gas company has 146.8 Miles of main in Winnipeg at present served by manufactured Gas. Customers Industrial commercial and residential. Approximately serv ices pipes from Mains to base ments and buildings already in stalled which Are not in use. These can be reactivated. The company s spokesman said the service area of the system does not Cross the red Rivera from Winnipeg at any Point but it does Cross the Assiniboine River into South Winnipeg and it is confined within the limits proper of the City. He said there Are no Mains at All in the suburbs St. Boniface or Elmwood. Project Supply before the arrival of natural Gas the company is now arranging to Supply Gas 1o new Winnipeg housing projects the Lount project in Kort Garry and the great West development company project in St. James. These new areas Are Beine supplied through systems of pro pane air stored in tanks having a capacity of Gallons each. Propane air has characteristics of natural Gas. When the natural Gas does arrive in Winnipeg in trans Ca Nada pipe lines Mains and serv ices already installed in the Lount and great West development company projects will be connected up and existing appliances will not have to be converted. In the coming Winter the com Pany official said the 240 great West development company projects and the 340 Lount hous ing projects will be using Gas for space heating and cooking. Marilyn ordered to rest temperatures maximum minimum and rec. Readings Lor 24 hour pc nod ending ,.30 . Wednesday sept. 15 were ing almost four times As Many victims As All other recorded Dis eases combined. In a special report issued Widne report said tuesday about 50 of Flay the Bureau of statistics said Luct Antly accepted the resignation filers of the russian trained East the 17.710 cancer deaths compared of Smyth who cast uie Only German army have been arrested i with 4.775 caused by tuberculosis Senink vote last june when uie by state Security police for Al polio and 39 other diseases which1 commission refused to lilt or. J. Legend contacts with Western spy doctors Are required to report to agencies. Health authorities. Atomic bombs assures retaliation of overwhelming Power against any enemy attack. 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