Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, October 17, 1955

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba New free press phone number 93-9331 a Jissi tits vol. 63 no. 16 final edition Winnipeg free press the weather Winnipeg Little change in temperature. Winds Light. Low tonight and High tuesday 25 and 55. Winnipeg monday october 17, 1955 Sun rises i Sun sets Alex Turk London special speculation about Princess Margaret s future intentions following her meeting with group Captain Peter Townsend Over the week end i now apparently divided. On one Side there is the group which Points out that the of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at the first meeting in two years Between capt. Townsend and the Princess and the arrange ment for the two to week end to Gether with the obvious Sanction of her Mother and sister is Tanta mount to confirmation that a for Mal engagement is now Only a Matt of time the first major Royal engage ment of the week will come wednesday evening when the Queen Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal family Dine As guests of the archbishop of Canterbury the most Rev. Or. Geoffrey Fisher at his London residence Lambeth Palace. And the marriage certain group believe it is Likely that details of arrange ments for the wedding will be Dis cussed then. Farewell meeting the other group is exemplified by the mass circulation sunday newspaper the people which quoted friends in the court Cir Cle As saying the week end meet in was nothing More than a Royal Way of enabling her to say goodbye to an old Friend of the this viewpoint is backed by a Keuter report from Copenhagen quoted Independent news paper information that King Frederix of Denmark had said the Princess Margaret Peter affair you will net end Soe Margaret. Page y Earson offers Aid to Asia strife rips Morocco peace try Rabat Morocco oficial charge that moroccans in Spanish Morocco fired across the Border on French troops a fanned an increasingly bitter inter National controversy in this Strat Egic Corner of North Africa. Sharp French Spanish disagree mint mounted monday As Dissen Sion broke out Over the Newl appointed four Man Regency coun cil even before it could begin functioning. French Premier Edgar Faure s government set up the Council in the Hope it would Lead to an end of two years of terrorism and the beginning of popular Rule. But immediately it was in the Middle of a fight Between the protagonists of two ousted nationalist sympathizer and his successor who hewed to French Friendship. The charge that French troops had been fired upon from Spanish Morocco was in response to a Spanish complaint that France was threatening Peac. Spain threat ened to take a complaint to the United nations if the French did not quit talking about alleged sunday sports Alex Turk a professional boxing and wrestling pro Moter said monday he would oppose any move to have sunday sport in Winnipeg because it was detrimental to Amateur sport. I have changed my h Cut rate wants More processing Here Gas to 29. Drew hits Export of raw materials Winnipeg car owners Mon a Day morning could 2 gasoline for As Little As 29.9 cents a gallon As the City s gasoline Price War moved into its fourth Day. However the major Oil companies were still steer ing Clear of the Knock Down i told the free press. I now am Battle that broke out in 1 _ _1___ firmly convinced commercialized sunday sport would be harmful to minor sports at the Community club level. I intend to oppose it in the legis said the Liberal la for Winnipeg North and if my constituents object to this stand they can make it Plain at the next provincial Singapore Hon. L. B. See sunday sport Page 2 charge Laid in slaying of family North Bay ont. Olmstead 30, monday was charged with murder in the death of his 27-year-old wife Simone whose body was found Friday with those of the couple s three children in the smouldering ruins of a three roomed dwelling near Sturgeon Falls. The solidly built Mechanic Day when North Star Oil co. Service stations Cut 1heir retail Price by six cents a gallon. Here is the Way the situation shaped up monday consolidated car Mart on main Street had Cut its Price for no. 2 Gas to 29.9 cents. This Price was matched by Dominion motors Dominion Centre in Norwood. _ the City s lowest Price for no. 1 or Premium gasoline was still the 35 cents a gallon offered by Dominion motors two service stations. Consolidated was Selling Premium at 36.9. North Star Oil was standing firm at the prices which started the War 31.7 cents for no. Gasoline and 35.3 for Premium. Other independents who is. Pend on sales volume for thei profit had Cut their Price to match North Star. These include two self serve stations Henderson Thrift Way Petroleum on Pembine Highway and the Poio Park Gar age on St. James Street. The automotive trades association issued a statement which maintained that Gas buyers would Spanish Aid to moroccan rebels j first was believed to Council attacked the new Regency Council was at tacked within hours of in comple Tion by Mohammed act ing Secretary of i a largest nationalist faction Istiklal in dependence party. He said the new Council was not in Accord Ance with the Aix Les Bains agree ment Between or Faure and i not Benefit in the Long run fron at the Price War. It says a . Sen i ate report argues that prices can have Nave gone higher after the no an Nave gone with his family in the fire. Another big Oil companies have isolated theory Pearson was applauded monday at the opening session of the Colombo Ujj moroccan last August. Plan conference when he said his i agreement provided for a country been pro id to Contri Bate in he past to the plan for Lonree aiding under developed asian areas would want to continue its participation. Vrcan the unique venture had been successful since its inception at a c Commonwealth conference in the Ceylon capital in 1951, and would be More successful in the future the Canadian external affairs minister was the second speaker As the committee conference opened. The meeting will decide the fut ure of the plan and the decision is certain to be its continuation with the probably larger some audit three Man Regency. Yazidi s objection raised the possibility his party will refuse to co operate in forming a new mor government under the re contributions my some additional aids such As Canada s gift of an Nix reactor to India. Or. Pearson said events since the plan began had probably exceeded the expectations even of its most confident supporters. But he reminded the minister we should not forget that our ways of living the systems of society which we have chosen Musi in order to develop or even to survive prove their spiritual values As Well As their material of canadians though far from South and Southeast Asfa liked to fee that their experience in economic and political a Colony by evolution to a state within a Commonwealth based on More than one not to different from those which faced Many countries in the colomb plan area. Bilateral negotiations had enabled a substantial contribution to b made to welfare and Prosperity in South and Southeast Asia. Uncertainties still existed and heavy tasks remained but steady Progress had been achieved in promoting human i m certain that history will record that the Colombo plan has made a significant and lasting contribution to the economic welfare of Soutsi Aad Southeast or. Pearson said. Durning clothes. Tracks Wen iouns., leading to the River. However Dis i strict residents said saturday they saw him after the Blaze. Sunday police and a Shotgun carrying posse surrounded him in a Shack at Crystal Falls 25 Mil s North West of Here and captured him As he tried to climb through a rear window after the tear Gas bomb exploded. Rement under me re one of the searchers said mrs thus defeat or. Faure s Olmstead had been beaten about w. A time was that he Ard destroyed Competition of in dependent Cut rate retailers. Major Oil firms besides Norvi nearby to time purpose. The head. Iia made no comment on the Price War. Imperial Oil was expected to make a statement Mon Day afternoon but others a Mccoll Frontenac and Canadian oils Ltd. Had taken no action. A North Star spokesman said some of North Star s 60-Odd ser vice stations in the greater Winnipeg area reported As much As three times Normal sales. Sales varied from unchanged to doubled for other operators who Cut their prices. Any gentleman who is something in the City of London would Tut Tut at this picture for an umbrella should be neatly furled at All times and be used purely for hailing taxis. Unfortunately for this new yorker she is obviously unacquainted with the etiquette thai roes with a la Ollah for the sudden Gie that has whipping the Atlantic aboard caught incr umbrella and turned it into a Aller Nui so to speak. Her companion obviously does not intend to be carried away with the wind s great Lover tired or retired fair entries not fair sex now whet Rubirosa s Zeal by Joe Gelmon porn Irio Rubirosa who dab Bles in women and sports cars and trades in one just As easily As u. Ther stepped off the scandinavian airlines plane at Stevenson Field Sun Day and announced that farm ing not marriage is his main interest at the moment. Rubirosa the Man they Call the world s greatest Lover has an International reputation As the 20th Century s answer to Casanova and Don Juan. But sunday As his plane stopped briefly Here in route from Europe to los Angeles he just looked tired. Winnipeg women missed the boat some would say dream possibly because his half hour visit Here was unannounced the famous Lover of Rich and Beautiful women found himself greeted not by swoon ing female multitudes but by Only two reporters and two photographers. Middle aged smile a fifth time. Right now he said be s most interested in his of us would Call it a Plantation in the dominican Republic where hell return after a two week stay in los Angeles. He wants to get to work an Nis agricultural entries for the dominican world s fair. However the latin Lover admitted he expects to see Zsa Zsa Gator while he s in los Angeles. Apparently the fiery actress has forgiven him for the Black Eye she said he Hung on her just before he married Barbara hut on. How about miss Hutton had he been in Contact with her since the divorce the dominican Don Juan replied. Then he asked casually whether any we happened to know where was now giving the impression he did t much care one Way or the other. Rubirosa wore a Carnel s hair coat Grey flannels Black shoes and socks and a Blue Blazer with a slight bulge at the Lapel a bulge such As a Little Black Book might make. He looked All his 46 years As he stepped off the plane and breathed the brisk Canadian morning air for the first time in his life. Temperatures maximum mini mum Toni pc slurps Ami proc. Reading for hour Persid. End Inz 6.30 . Monday. Oct. 1" min. Free. A 4 j Canary Bufi 31 .02 current Saskatoon a Findon 1vinnipkg fort Toronto Monti v d Hai tax after tour promotion London radio monday announced the appoint ment of Vladimir Matskevich As soviet minister of agriculture. He headed the soviet farm delegation which toured the United states and Canada for two months last sum Mer. With them he smiled a kindly Middle aged smile and answered embarrassing questions with All the Savoir Faire of a Man. Who s walked Down the Centre aisle with an astounding number of dollars hanging on to his . One of the questions is a fifth marriage figuring in his plans his co stars in the first four were Barbara Hutton second richest to Doris Duke richest screen Star Danielle Darrieux most Beautiful and Flor de Oro daughter of the dominican dictator. The Hutton marriage ended in divorce this july after reaching the Ripe old age of seven months. And there was understandable fatigue in the Rubirosa voice As he told news men he was not at present considering lighting his troth lots of sugar Porfirjo Rubirosa Rubirosa has been involved in any number of divorces his own and other people s and a wit once dubbed him the world s Foremost foreign thus it was As a rightful member of the fourth estate that he sat Down and had Coffee with the press. The great Lover takes lots of sugar lots of it. No Cream 1 though. He said he d in re turning to his Post at the dominican embassy in Paris next March. Meanwhile he wants to farm and play a Little Polo. Like his interest in marriage another of his favorite sports car racing has dwindled lately. He says the be mans disaster soured the French on the sport. A lady reporter wondered whether he was getting sick of being constantly bothered by the press. Again the great Lover smiled Ever so slightly and Ever so politely. He turned his greying head toward the lady reporter and said yes. He might be sick of the questions but not of then he helped her Brush off some sugar which she had spilled on her skirt. More floods Harry Soelv russian s suicide concealed new York a a puzzling sequence of events surrounds the gunshot death of a clerk in the russian United nations delegation Headquarters Here. Police said the clerk Alexei i m Mil olb Nav 42, committed suicide Satur much service was halted a by shooting himself through highways were closed and Bridges he knocked out. Relief operations were in High monday especially in hard lit sections of new England but new years of floods and washouts spread through new England. The . Weather Bureau in bos on forecast that rain will continue monday and tuesday. The Bureau also said in an Early morning warn ing Rivers will contine to Rise and All those in Low areas should keep abreast of the latest reports and forecasts. The warning added a storm Centre is currently Over South new York a three Days of drenching rain monday brought new floods to wide areas of the northeastern states still groggy from Hurricane Diane s punch two months ago. The toll from Friday through sunday included 34 persons known or presumed dead in six states and property losses in the millions. But they offered no explanation Why soviet officials postponed notifying them of the death until six hours after it occurred of Why no police report of the Case was made for another three hours. Or. Milton Helpern new York s chief police medical examiner said he found Finaev dead in a fourth floor office of the Headquarters building. He had been shot in the roof of the Mouth with a .45 calibre russian automatic. Later after an autopsy at Belle vue Hospital morgue. Or. Help pm s report said it was a Clear Case of suicide. Finaev apparently was an obscure clerk. His name was unknown in United nations diploma tic circles. Police said their in formation was that he came Here 10 months ago and that he had been there was no elaboration on this Point. News of the Worls in Brief Eastern Massachusetts and moving very slowly if at All to the North East. Another intense Centre is located in Northern Ohio and it will move Only into Centra Penn Sylvania by tuesday morning. Thus the oui look is for rain continuing for the next two Days. Rain in new England has been almost continuous since Friday. A a Newark . Apt the Passaic River passed the Hood level monday and by tonight was expected to bring the worst flood in the City of Paterson since 1945. The Wanaque Reservoir mean while continued to overflow pushing More water into the ready swollen Rivers of three northeastern new Jersey countries some persons have Een evacuated from their Homes More than 4 1-2 feet of water As reported pouring Over the dashboards of sum dam at Passaic tall monday morning. The Compton River meanwhile appeared to be stabilizing. A conservative party National policy of maximum processing of Canadian raw i materials within Canada be fore Export to the . Was proclaimed in Winnipeg saturday night by Hon. George Drew. The National conservative Leader spoke at a dinner marking the Start of his party s second Cen Tury in Canadian politics. The speech also climaxed his Western Canada tour. Vital decision natural resources policy he declared was the vital decision before Canada today. It was a Point on which there was a Sharp and Drew goes Hospital two More Days Hon. George Drew National conservative Leader has re turned to Winnipeg general Hospital for another two Days to Complete his recuperation from a bad Chest cold. Later this week or. Drew will leave for Ottawa where he will Reivi Ain i i e Sumes his tour oct. 2s. Conservative officials said monday that or. Drew was in Good condition and his return to Hospital was just a mat Ter of taking All clearly defined division Between the conservative and Liberal Par just out of Hospital where he received treatment far a heavy cold or. Drew showed signs Strain As Fie addressed the conservative rally in Winnipeg since his predecessor. John Bro ken., was chosen National pc islet Lare 13 years ago. It Canada gave encouragement o her industries not through tariffs but by a new policy on natural resources Export we could build up employment Here so hat in our lifetime we would be not just prosperous but one of he great countries of the see Drew Page 4 flood toll rises Athens death Oil n Greece s Volos floods Rose to 23 sunday with the recovery of three More bodies from the sea. Three Dersons still Are missing and 23 injured As a result of a Stream bursting its Bank after torrential Rains thursday. A a storm in Sweden Stockholm Reuters icy blizzards swept Over Sweden this weekend killing three men Leav ing several others injured and tying up traffic and Communia p goods continue new England. To threat Page Ilbe eight outside. Docks. If Dubre Able to Call. Morocco nationalist rejected Faure s Regency Council As violation of prior accords. Page Westinghouse work ers in . Are on strike stoppage threatens Cana Dian plants As Well. Page ". Would accept soviet suggestion for ground observers As addition to Eisenhower s air inspection plan. Page Adenauer lost his two thirds majority in bundestag. Page train hits stalled car. 40 Hurt Riviere Beaudette que. A High Balling Toronto to Montreal passenger train smashed into a stalled car at a level Cross ing Here sunday night and sent nine car spewing crazily off the track. Provincial police estimated the number of injured at 40 but Only about half of these required hos Pital treatment. Passengers who hacked Jieu Way out of overturned Coache with axes agreed it was a Mir Acle no one was killed. One car came to rest on its roof. Another crashed on its Side the other seven teetered at weird angles be Side the track. Pierson of Belleville. Ori., who was in one of the front will find said the first thing i heard alter the crash was a Little girl calling Mommy he said. I looked up and she was hanging from a Goa took by her neck Gerard Vincennes 25, of East View ont., a suburb of told police his car stalled just As it reached the Crest of the Small incline. He looked out and saw the Tram i approaching about a mile away. Since inns and the other occupants of the car tried to push the vehicle across the Trank but were unable to Budge it. Manitoba s Idest la to quit the Manitoba legislature s old est member George Renouf conservative la for Swan River is going to quit Public life alter 23 years in the House. The party will hold a nominating convention in the Riding nov. _13, and party quarters said monday that or. Renouf had decided not to re offer. He will however Fin ish out is current term of office. The 77-year-old member has been in ill health for the past year or More. Or. Renouf is a native of Jer sey in the Channel islands and is a Veteran of 11 years As Reeve of Minitonas municipality. He first entered the legislature in the 1932 general election. In 1945 he was House Leader of the Independent anti coalition group. Brewery Case goes to counsel tym0" up in Auric Ana Cammuca Ottawa special Rinrin tons throughout most of the coun of the Federal government s res in Mic. Inside Page no. News 2, 4. 5, a 8, 9, 10, 11, 19 deaths and funerals 5, 19 Hollywood column j3 radio and to 13 entertainment v social news 11, 13. If 17. 18 sports 22., 23, 24. 25, 26 comics.27, 28 special features letters to the editor 10 parents Corner 11 Billy Graham 1 Jumble contest 29 Jing Industry across Canada. Tractive Trade practice commis Sion concerning an alleged com Bine in the manufacture distribution and Sale of Beer have been submitted to outside counsel by he Justice department to determine whether prosecution would be warranted it Learned Mon Day. The commission in its report issued last june accused the 000.000 Canadian breweries Lim died and Board chairman e. P. Taylor of pursuing monopolistic merger practices. It recommended court action to Stop the company from buying nut its befit competitors. It found the company had moved into Western Canadian brewing Fields and Quebec Merg ing and consolidating and in some cases eliminating plants. The commission found the planned program of mergers had been monopolistic in nature and not in the Public interest. How Ever it also found that effective Competition remained in the brew town Hall tonight ;