Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Classified and. Phone number 93-6541 final edition weather forecast Winnipeg Snow and colder. Winds North West at 20. Low tonight and High wednesday .5 and 10. Vol. 62 no. 149 30 pages Winnipeg tuesday March 22, 1955 Sun rises 6.30 . Moon rises 5.27 am. Suit sets 6.43 . Moon sets 5.25 . Forecast Snow and colder Churchill s resignation imminent London special Nyht the resignation by sir Winston Churchill on april 5 As British prime min ister is now considered to be virtually certain. Specula Tion in parliament the press and the country As a whole centres on the probable Dale for the general election which would follow writes special correspondent Joseph Newman. J some believe that foreign Secretary sir Anthony Eden after taking Over As prime minister on april 5 or 6. Will Call an elec Tion in june. Others Are convinced he will wait until or november. Only word has been n warning by it. Hon. Antony 31. Head War Secretary to his constituents on Friday to be ready for an election in the Early summer or in the autumn. Torn by strife one argument in. Favor o an Early election is the fact that the labor party it present is torn by angry strife Over the expulsion of Aneurin Bevan last week from the parliamentary labor party which consists of the la Bor members of the House of commons. The National exec. Tive of the labor party is to decide wednesday whether he will be expelled also a an Ordinary member of the part y. Some of the strategists of the conservative parly feel it would have a better Chance of winning an election it one were held while the labovites Are in such untidy disarray. However there Are serious objections to an Early election. One is that the budget for the next fiscal year is to be introduced in parliament on april 19. Usually More than a month is required to get the budget am a accompanying finance Bills through the commons. The coun try thereafter has to be giver several weeks notice of the actual polling Day. See Churchill Page 6 Mao drunk with Power Dulles feels new York special Nyht Secretary of state John Fos Ter Dulles warned monday that the Hitler Type aggressive fanaticism of the chinese communists might provoke War sooner than the slower and coldly calculated aggression of soviet rus Sia. The Secretary of state said the chinese. Communists constitute " an acute and imminent they seem 1b to dizzy with he said. They enter Tan an exaggerated sense of their own Power and they greatly underestimate the Power and Resolution of the non communist addressing the advertising club of new York or. Dulles described As a hopeless picture of the threat of War resulting from the chinese communist temperament which he con sir Winston refuses to be drawn London Reuters sir Winston Churchill tuesday neatly dodged a parliament Ary question on his plans for retiring As prime minister in the near future. In his first Public refer ence to the headline Issue he denied in the House of com Mons a report in the Liberal Manchester guardian that he was being push cd out by Cabinet colleagues. But the so year old states Man left open the Issue of whether he would retire soon and. If so. When. Is it True Emanuel Shinwell former labor defence minister asked sir Churchill whether the report of the Man Chester guardian that you Are being pushed tory colleagues is the prime minister replied or. Shinwell really must not be led away by All the chatter in the press. He makes a mistake to indicate that he is one of those most prominently members of the House laughed and or. Shinwell said he was delighted with the the Manchester guardian report suggests sir May be resigning to satisfy his Cabinet. It is said on the tory the paper reports that sir Winston Churchill has been under Strong pressure from his colleagues in the Cabinet and from party head quarters to resign the office of prime minister. He is believed to have been told by his Cabinet col leagues that they could not agree to continue indefinitely working at the lessening Speed sir Winston s health makes inevitable. So reds frantic for chief Leader less party Combs Manitoba political ranks by Gordon Sinclair Manitoba s social credit party is Hunting frantically a top calibre Lead the movement province but so far has Jed no Luck. At time the social creditors have made overtures to some Las from other groups to join their ranks. They have had a similar Lack of Success in this Endeavor. The Independent member for Winnipeg Centre Steve Juba has been approached by the so reds meet tonight May decide City Mill rate Winnipeg s finance committee tuesday tossed the responsibility for this year s Mill rate into the Lap Mohe school Board. If the school trustees reduce their estimates by it appeared that the City budget would be balanced without an increase in taxes. The Board will consider the re quest at a special meeting to night. But according to reports it May agree Only to a reduction. This amount coupled with an earlier reduction by the Board would reduce the City s estimated deficit to St set for Manitoba 000. Finance commute has slated a to be one of their supporters. He has no intention o joining the movement. Or. Juba in any Case has announced he meeting for wednesday retiring from politics before the morning at which time it is hoped next provincial election the budget can be balanced. Sooner. Perhaps halt 1 a milt.? another la the move ment tried to recruit As a sup Porter Aid. H. B. Scott progressive conservative Mem Jer for Winnipeg he Centre. Laughed off the invitation. Pcs a poached in the last couple of years two and possibly three top flight con in Manitoba were approached by the social creditors to take Over command of their party Here. One of them Duff Romin now conserva Tive made Leader to him overtures were but just where committee will find the Neody a is not. Novin. Some aldermen say they Are willing to chop away at the shortly after he Grants has yet estimates until the deficit is Over come. Others say they Are of Ali mistic that the current Mill rate will Only be boosted half a Mill. A possible Windfall of from the Federal government this year in lieu of taxes on Federal property cannot be taken into consideration by committee. Legislation was re elected in 1953. At that by the commons. Increase the Federal be approved time he was but he Lold the movement was t interested in the bid. Last year it is understood that Arthur Ross one of the candidates in the Tive leadership race was approached. He indicated he was t the least interested. There have also been rumours in the past that Errick f. Willis has been indirectly approached. However or. Willis has never confirmed the report and he has publicly stated he would never leave his own party. At present the party according to social credit Las has no provincial Leader. From Manitoba As far As can be Learned All overtures to Las have come from Manitoba social creditors. Meanwhile it has been re ported that the Manitoba social credit group has been very Active in Rural constituencies particularly in the Central Southern and southwestern parts of the province. One la reported a group of j social creditors came into his constituency and left with in contributions for their movement. Private member the school Board could Heigh ten an already tense situation by failing to provide the answer to night. The Board would have to pass a bylaw in order to reduce the budget by any amount. This bylaw needs three readings. Of the Board unanimously approves the reduction the three readings could be Given tonight. Continued nuclear shaven senators hold submarine session Drew what he sombre but not Groton. Conn. Special nah h thirteen members of the congressional atomic Energy committee returned Mon Day from a 24-hour cruise aboard the Nautilus enthusiastic about the atomic powered submarine am enriched by several new experiences. Atomic Energy we were impressed with the fundamental simplicity of control of the nuclear reactor and with the very High Speed the Nautilus can maintain for unlimited times under sustained operating conditions. These very High speeds and during one of the Long deep i unlimited endurance Are possible dives sunday night the commit Only through the use of nuclear tee held an official session . The Nautilus is the Only ably the first underwater Legisla i submarine in the world that can Tive meeting in history. The wit Ness called to testify was rear trusted with the soviet russian. Adm. H. G. Rickover one of the while both brands of comm prime movers in the have the same ideological and construction of the Nautilus motivation he said the manifestations Are different. See Dulles Page b velvet Glove for Reafs Iron hand Ottawa special Nyht the Canadian air Force monday name to Canada s first missile. It s the velvet put a guided Glove. An informant in the defence research Board of Canada which spent nearly four years de signing and developing the Vel vet Glove said the Board is in process of turning the missile Over to the Royal Canadian air Force. It is being tested at cold Lake Alta. The missile is comparable but larger than the Falcon the new guided missile of the United states air Force. In effect the Canadian missile is a Small pilotless air plane de signed to be carried aloft by of 300 Jet interceptors of the Craf and fired at hostile aircraft. The velvet Glove has a fuselage wings control surfaces a Power Plant to propel it and a High explosive warhead to destroy its target. The missile Homes on its tar get supporting the belief that it has an electronic brain which activates the control surfaces to keep it headed for its target Des Pite evasive action by the enemy Pilot. Temperatures maximum temperatures and prec. Readings for 24 hour period ending 6.30 . Tuesday March 22 were Max. Min. Prec. Vancouver Calgary 25 1 .09 Edmonton 20 2 a Regina us 2 .03 Saskatoon 1 .01 Brandon. 22 .1 twin Nipra is Toronto 40 35 .46 Montreal 33 27 .07 Halifax. 31 15 to. Monday members with electric razors hitched them to the sub Marine s Power Plant and shaved with nuclear Energy. Then they ate a breakfast cooked with Power from the same source. Enthusiastic the committee s enthusiasm for the vessel was reflected in a prepared statement issued in lieu of a cancelled press conference. It said in part the development of atomic Power submarines will in our opinion change naval strategy and tactics. Not Only were we impressed by the performance of the Nautilus As an operating naval vessel but we deeply believe her Success Marks the beginning of a new approach naval warfare and indeed of the ultimate replacement of convention ally fuelled submarines and sur face ships by ones driven by completely Circle the Globe at full Speed rep. James e. Van Zandt r. A predicted that nuclear powered submarines like the Nau Tilus will replace most surface warships except cruisers and carriers within a few years. See budget Page 2 Row at top splits Stu wide open membership ready for Battle at convention Saskatoon a split at the top has shaken the powerful Saskatchewan Farmers Union to the grass roots level. As officials of the ber organization prepared today for a meeting expected to be Hec tic some expressed concern at the Ful Urc of the Union. Constitutional issues Are the Root of a Tii Spute which has forced the resignation of the Union s presi Dent and seen the firing and re hiring of other top officials. Factions were forming on All sides in Advance of a convention next june to choose a new president. Former president Fred Woloshyn of North Battleford fired Stewart Theisson As acting Secretary for what or. Woloshyn termed incompetence. He then appointed mrs. Bernice Norman volatile president of the women s association As Secretary treasurer. Kos minded orders the Union executive and the provincial Board promptly rescinded or. Woloshyn s orders and rival firm May bid for pipeline will seek franchise when trans Canada asks Extension by Victor Mackie Ottawa year s delay in the Start of the construction of an All Canada Gas pipeline May not result from the breakdown of negotiations by trans Canada pipe lines Ltd. To obtain Federal financial Aid it was Learned Here tuesday. At least one and perhaps other Canadian groups Are interested in taking on the All Canada Gas line project according to information reaching Ottawa. In the commons prime min ister Louis St. Laurent said Mon Day Canadian taxpayers were not committed to any subsidization of the pipeline. Trans Canada now has the exclusive franchise from the Board of transport commissioners. It expires april 30 this year. Trans Canada has announced its intention to seek a year s Extension of its franchise. Indications Here Are that at least one major Canadian organization will offer Competition to trans Canada for the franchise when the trans Canada company asks for the Extension. Informed sources declined to identify the other Canadian group but said it. Was one that would not. Require financial Aid from the Federal government to carry through the project. The Federal government will have to decide whether to with draw the franchise from trans Canada and Grant it to the other pipeline organization. Trans Canada has taken the position that it was the government s chosen company to carry out the All Canada pipeline project. Even if the franchise was withdrawn from trans Canada it would mean the other organization could not make a Start. Largest Road construction program in the province s history calling for the expenditure of in he 1955-56 fiscal year was unveiled monday in the Slature by Hon. F. C. Bell Public works minister. Inclusion o f engineering costs of the Public work s department would bring the total up to of the the province s share amounts to including in work unfinished and carried Over from the current year which ends March 31. An estimated will be contributed by the Federal government As its share of the work o be done in 1955-56 on the trans Canada Highway. Municipalities and unorganized districts will contribute see Highway Page 8 this is Minto. A grizzly Bear who hates cubs Ether nembutal and solicitous Park superintendents. The picture shows him after his ordeal at the Assiniboine Park zoo. See Story Page car allows you will find vd.11.1. Vj71hjtyo main inside Page Peak drop in Revenue until after april 30. This Likely would mean that completion o f the pipeline West to Winnipeg would be impossible this year but at least a Start might be made. Soviet ends cultural honeymoon London Reuters a new Kremlin shakeup among Russia s appointed or. Theisson Secretary treasurer. There was nothing per Sonal in this the two bodies cd plei ined the president had their he said loyalty and it was nuclear submarine will absorb Many of the duties of Light Craft such As destroyers destroyer is simply that appointment of a Secretary treasurer was the pc Organ ivc of the executive. Corts. And patrol Craft. In this or. Woloshyn promptly resigned. Atomic age with surface fleets faced with the problem of cover the atomic submarine is the or. Van Zandt is a re serve Navy Captain with 30 years of service. Lenten message for today this is on of it Serlen lenten messages written especially for fit Tress readers by representative clergymen of various denominations. The Cross of Christ will always remain a Challenge to the Christian conscience. To explain it one would have to know the height of the heart of god the depth of the human soul the breadth of All its social implications and the mystery of redemption. Christians need to take time to enter into the Fellowship of the sufferings of Jesus Christ if they Are to attain unto the Power of his resurrect Tion Rev. G. Of Smith Trinity Baptist Church news of the world in Brief there is Little doubt now that sir Winston Chur chill will resign on april 5. Page l and Dulles warned that chinese May prove More provocative than the russians. 1 and sen. George reiterated his demand for . Initiative in calling a big four meet ing regardless of soviet deeds. Page a new Mccarthy like scan dal is brewing Over the testimony of prof. Gai Braith at the . Stock Market probe. Page a . Navy plane carrying 66 persons crashed on Hawaii. There were no survivors. Page music festival results of monday s festival competitions be found on Page 5. Program on Page 2. C. P. Chris Hansen of Theodore a Woloshyn supporter moved up from the vice presidency to take Over As president freight decline leads Over All lower traffic Ottawa most severe Rev Enue drop in the history of the Canadian National railways was revealed monday in the com Mons in the annual report of the company. The record decrease was Attri buted mostly to the decline in freight Revenue. The big freight income drop the report said was mainly due to the fall off in Grain traffic As a result of the decline in Export shipments. The result of a fall of in North american rail traffic the reduction in operating intake of the car for 1954 was lowering it to main decline. Was in the bread winning item of freight. Operating surplus As in All of its 33 year history the car for 1954 re main inside Page no. News 5, a 7, 8, 9 Kadio and to. 10 entertainment it social news 32, 13, .14 sports 1-8, 17, 18 comics and features 19, 20 deaths 28 finance. Special features Jumble contest 21 health for today. 30 i letters to the editor 30 Billy Graham 30 66 killed in Honolulu air crash Honolulu Cap Navy transport plane with intellectuals appeared in the Mak imported an operating ing monday Moscow radio an fore taking into account the in bounced the firing of culture min ister Corgi f. , 53. Philosopher Alexandrov represented an easier approach to the arts As against the total cultural regimentation of the years immediately after the War. Alexandrov was a protege of Georgi m. A Iankov who debated Ness resulting from its top heavy Bond Structure stretching Back into its historic amalgamation of a group of uneconomic com i was pre Shin convention could be called. Convention has been called for june m and this too has Raused dispute. A faction led by j. L. Phelps Stu president from the Union s founding until the five year constitutional limit prevented him from running again last de Cember wants the convention to be held within the constitutional limit of three 14. See Stu Page 2 made to resign his Post As Micro last month. The newly appointed culture min ister Nikolai m. Mikhailov is a Leader High ranking communist party member known to be in the Good books of Nikita s. Khrushchev first Secretary of the soviet communist party and the Kremlin s big panics. See deficit Page 2 a f in closing costing 750 Boss. A former first Secretary of to cd a o j. Al j the Komsomol youth Central v committee he was a member approximately 750 Canadian the special court which sentenced National railways employees at secret police chief Lavrenty Beria the Transcona and fort Rouge to death for treason in december 1953. See iuj5s1a Page 2 Harvest or Moon Council trying to Stop space flight from land Columbus Ohio representatives have decided that Farmers will have to compete with space ships to solve the american farm income problem permanently. Henry t. Mcknight president of the the National farm big problem is Council to 1. Dramatize barnyard problems to attract Bright Young scientists to agricultural research. There s a shortage of scientists and engineers with Industry and military programs competing for them. If agriculture is to get its share its problems must be As Well under stood or As dramatic Ash bombs and space ships. 2. Make farming so challenging and attractive that it will lure the minds among farm children and keep them Down on the farm instead of letting them set out to be space cadets. But How can we make the barn Yard As. Dramatic As the Prospect a flight to the Moon in asked Mcknight. The Council representative farm scientists Industry and farm shops will lose a week s pay As a result of three weeks closing of the shops this summer. A recent employee management wage agreement gave employees with 15 and More years service a three week Holiday with pay. One Union official estimated that about men Are employed in the two shops and approximately 25 per cent of them have less than 15 years service. The Transcona shop will close at the end of the working Day july 8, and will reopen aug. 1. In fort Rouge the shops will close july 29, and will reopen aug. 22. Thus one shop will be in opera Tion at All times during the sum official figures were Avail Able from company representatives As to the exact number of men who will Benefit or lose Days through the new Holiday system. Aboard crashed into a Hawaii Mountain Early tuesday. There were no survivors. The huge plane crashed and exploded into flame inside the Lual Ualei naval ammunition depot on the West coast of Oahu 29 Miles from Honolulu. At the time of the crash there was a Low overcast and it was raining heavily. Cmdr. J. Smith of the hawaiian sea Frontier said the plane was an rd-6 from the Moffett naval air station near san Jose Calif. He said it hit a Ridge line about feet Southeast of the main Gate of the depot. The plane carried 57 passengers and a Crew of nine. Cmdr. Smith said he did not know whether there were women for children aboard. Such planes frequently carry dependents of military personnel. The wreckage was still glowing about three hours after the crash which occurred at 2 . 6 . Cost the big transport look off Hickam Field Here late monday and was four hours and 26 minutes eastbound when it turned Back the Navy said. Budget Day set for april 5 May include tax cuts As Gross National product up by Victor Mackie Ottawa budget Day definitely has been set for tuesday april 5, informed sources said Here tuesday. Chances of tax cuts being included in the budget were considerably brightened with the disclosure that the experts Are now estimating an increase , in the Gross National product this year to it up to a record of around s25 billion. The estimated in 1 crease in the Gross National pro duct enters into the calculations of the financial authorities ing on the budget As it would Lead to an increase in potential tax yields. Hon. Walter Harris finance minister was expected to announce the budget Date in the commons tuesday. He is believed to have been working on the basis of a deficit of Between and strict Economy rules were enforced by the finance department when it called for departmental estimates. The slashes in expenditures have resulted in savings Lof in the main Esti s mates for the next fiscal year compared with this year s. Supplementary estimates of 66 were tabled Friday. This Means that the savings realized by or. Harris. Through Lis expenditure cuts will be around with a deficit of around s100. Expected to be budgeted for by or. Harris there is room for some nominal tax cuts. What they will be is of course a closely guarded secret. It is regarded Here however As More Likely that or. Harris would lean to personal income tax cuts than to excise tax cuts. Has Only scratches Corner Brook fld. Three year old Alexander Saund ers was struck by a locomotive monday and run Over by live Box cars. Apart from minor scratches he was not injured. Disarmament talks getting nowhere Pearson tells Knowles Ottawa of external affairs minister Hon. L. B. Pearson indicated monday the East West disarmament conference in Lon Don is milking no Progress. The results Haven t been such As to give us cause Lor satisfaction but the conference is he informed Stanley ers is holding its 20th annual j Knowles Kcf Winnipeg a North to get the answer Centre in the commons. Legislature reports court will decide trial scene the Manitoba court of Appeal will be asked to decide whether two 17-year-old Slayer suspects will be tried in juvenile court or an Ordinary court of Law. Appeal against decision of or. Justice Paul Duval who in court of Queen s Bench at Brandon recently ruled that the youths must be tried in a regular tribunal was filed by Harry Walsh de Fence counsel monday afternoon. The two youths Are Gerard Yvon de Tonnancour and Claude Paquin both of Montreal. With Guy a Man of adult age they Are charged with the Jan. 9 slaying of Rev. Alfred Quirion of St. Edouard Alta. In his car near Brandon Man. When first arrested the pair were arraigned before judge Wil Liam Stordy who sitting As a juvenile court judge ruled that despite their age they would have to stand trial Ordinary court. This decision was later rescinded. See Appeal Page 2 la s charge no. 3 High Way neglected. Page 2. Wightman demands immediate attention for Road construction on Portage Avenue East from Sharpe Boule Vard to City limits. Page 3. Optimistic picture of Industry in Manitoba during 1955 painted by Turner. Page 6. Government ready to act if and when unemployment really becomes says Greenlay. Page 7. Willis Renews plea for Federal Aid to highways. Page 7. Bell predicts trans Canada Highway agreements will be extended by Ottawa beyond present 1956 deadline. Page 7. Supplementary and Capi Tal Supply estimates tabled by Turner. Supplementary estimate table. Page 7. Largest Road construction program in province s history unveiled with expenditures of planned. Detailed Highway program. Pages 1, 8. Manitoba budget expected wednesday. Unlikely to show any tax increases. Page 11. Evans Calls for establish ment of Manitoba research foundation. Page 11. Second Reading Given Bill to Stop payments on. Bounties for Timber wolves in Manitoba. Page 11 ;