Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, October 25, 1955

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba New free press phone number 93-9331 a departments including class lived ads. Vol. 63 no 23 Canada s 1 in right for sales final edition 44 Winnipeg free press the weather Winnipeg sunny. Cooler. Winds Southwest 15 becoming Northwest at 20 wednesday. Low to night and High wednesday 35 and 50. Winnipeg tuesday october 25, 1955 Sim rises 7.05 rises 2.36 . Sun sets 5.19 . Moon sets 12.25 . Forecast cooler seeks crisis key at in wheat meeting by Victor Mackie Ottawa special How and whore can Canada sell More wheat that is the major ques Tion confronting the Cana a Boner wrong store site workmen who for the past six weeks have been Busy building one of the first a. And p. Supermarkets in Winnipeg on Mcphillips Street at Church Avenue tuesday were just As Busy tearing it All Down again. It promised to be a love Bear offers Paw but West still fears its hug Dian government today As it by building. Three Walls were faces overproduction of steel were in and1 Prain and wheat surpluses everything was going piled in government elevate srn0othly until someone ors and on Western farms discovered the supermarket Canad delegation to the United j b ing constructed on nations wheat conf Renje at Gen i Eva. Which opens wednesday will i land owned by someone else search desperately for an answer j owned by those con instructing the building was adjoining the site on which the store was raised official sees it Ezra Taft Benson . Secretary of agriculture thinks that the United slates and Canada can work along together with a minimum of in Dis posing of wheat surpluses. He said his monday to the free press Washington correspondent who asked for or. Benson s comment on the critical meeting with Canadian officials last thursday. For our correspondent s special dispatch on this subject vital to Western can Ada turn o today s editor Ial Page. To this problem. The International wheat iture of the agreement. to expire next year is involved. The latest decision of the can Adian Cabinet to provide govern ment guaranteed Bank Loans for Farmer will Aid the Western far Mer in need of ready Cash. But it does nothing to solve the big Bein an official of the Industrial leaseholds Ltd. In Toronto told the free press in a Long distance phone interview tuesday it was he said his company was not at fault. The Winnipeg Surveyor who handled the Survey had no common tuesday. The company spokesman in Tor onto denied a report that an at tempt had been made to buy the land on which the building was be ing erected but had refused to pay the Price asked for it by the owners. He said the error had been noticed in time so that we weren t interested in purchasing the land we will tear it Down and rebuild on the land owned by us. It will be Back to the same position it is now in three at least 50 feet of land not owned by the company was being built upon. The company spokesman said most of the land was owned by a Bank but he did not know which one. The store was valued at when a building permit for its erection was taken out. Industrial leaseholds Ltd. Say the mistake will Cost about the building was being con last minute touches Are being applied in both East and West to preparations for the big four foreign ministers meeting which opens in Geneva thursday. In Moscow the communist party has just in time amended Lenin to make co existence part of its official Dogma. But in Paris the nato chief lord Ismay warned the Western ministers gathered there that a Bear can kill with a strutted of Concrete bricks with All. Of August saw an increase in can this material will be usable in the headache of How to dispose of his Concrete oct wheat steel girders. Host if not exports of wheat and flour. The exports amounted to 000 bushels exceeding by 16 per cent and 19 per cent respectively the july 1955, exports of bushels and the August. 1934, movement of bushels. In addition this year s August total of exports exceeded by a narrow margin the 10-year 1944-i 1953-54 average of bushels. See wheat Page 2 new store which will arise adjacent to the site where it was being built previously. However pilings sunk into the. Ground May have to be removed j and constructors say this will be a difficult task. Brick by Brick workmen Down the three Walls of a supermarket which just Jast week they were erecting me Philiips Street and Church Avenue. There was nothing wrong with the building itself. But. One slight error was discovered the Structure was he erected on the wrong1 site. The land owned by Industrial leaseholds of Toronto building the supermarket for a. And t. Is was adjacent to the site being used. When the three Walls of the building Are Al Down and the steel girders removed workmen will Start rebuild ing 15 feet away. Kcf chief asks wheat barter deals Kelowna . Up Kcf Leader coldwell monday night urged that Canada make barter arrangements and accept non Dollar currencies to help sell farm products abroad. The Home Market should be expanded and Tariff policies re exam ined he also said in an address to a Public meeting in this fruit growing area. Or. Coldwell said a grave Agri cultural problem faces Canada in that primary producers including apples potato and Grain growers cannot Market All their output. He also suggested tariffs should be reduced where possible to enable foreign countries to earn dollars with which to pay for Canadian farm products. The Domestic Market should be enlarged by such measures a milk distribution schemes food disposal programs to charitable institutions and persons with Low incomes and by the inauguration of school lunch programs. French pm introduces election Bill Paris .97 Calgary Fil Edmonton Swift current 6 if to. You will find main inside Page no. News 2, 4, 5, 6, 19, 22 to 32, and 44 deaths and funerals 4 9 social news 7 to 10 sports 12 to 6 comics 17, 18 radio and to 20 entertainment 21 Hollywood column 21 finance 41 to 43 special features letters to the editor 5, 44 Billy Graham 30 Jumble contest 33 parents Corner 24 the ship that died of shame Nicholas Monsarrat s Story Page 26 . To buy up million Worth of pork Washington a agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson announced monday the government expects to buy approximately Worth of pork and lard in an Effort to encourage consumption Lenin s Dogma a m ended by Marguerite Higgins Moscow special Nyht lie russian communist party monday for the first time formal abandoned the theoretical con ept of an inevitable a. Between socialism and capitalism and ave its stamp of approval to the oct Iii that the Triumph of com Iunisi will follow a period of prolonged co existence. A Long Edilo tial in the journal he communist which is the of Cial voice of the Central com nit tee of the communist party 3r the first time spelled out the communist reasons Why no fur Ier mention is being made these ays of the famous Lenin predict on that a series of clashes be Veen the socialist and capitalist amps was inevitable. His theory Urther held that As a result of Lese frightful the Ca italis world would be destroyed see Kremlin Page 2 did he tip off spies London labor Mem or of parliament tuesday accuse former member of the Britis embassy staff in Washington o piping. Off spies Guy Burgess am Donald Maclean that they wer under investigation. . Marcus Lipton Namei Philby former first Secre Ary of the embassy in washing on As being the third Man i the Case. Burgess and Maclean nig ranking British foreign office officials disappeared in May 1951 am now Are presumed behind the Iron curtain. A recent govern Meri White paper accused them of spy no for the Kremlin for Man years. Shortly after parliament reconvened from its two month Summe recess. Col. Lipton tangled wit prime minister Eden on the re spy Case. Sir Anthony rejected a deman by the labor member for the a of a special parliament Ary committee to investigate the Case. The. Prime minister added the government themselves make the View that it is desirable have a debate on this Subjec in which i personally As Prim minister shall be glad to Tak the White paper had hinted a a vague third Man in the Case after sir Anthony Eden a spoken col. Lipton carried out a threat he had made a few Days ago to name the person he said warned Burgess and Maclean. Nato gives approval Paris foreign ministers of be Atlantic Alliance tuesday gave heir general agreement to the Vestern big three s proposals for Asing world tensions. The ministers from other Mem Ler countries of the North Atlantic treaty organizations heard lengthy statement from . State John Foster Dulles Bri ish foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and French foreign Linister Antoine Pinky explaining he joint memorandum which the West will present to the soviet in on thursday in Geneva. At the end of a three hour ses Sion a nato official said there Vas general agreement on the Basic the proposals As outlined by or Dulles included these Points an offer to Russia of a 14-na Ion East West Security pact for Europe that will include a Reni tied and reared Germany will a demilitarized or arms reduce strip on both sides of the East West Frontier a plan for disarmament Basei primarily on president Eisenhower a offer to Exchange military blueprints and Aerial surveys As Means of leading up to arms reduction and control through effective International supervision. A scheme for breaking Dow East West barriers in other Field through cultural educational Tou 1st and scientific exchanges Tea could Lead to improved Mutual understanding and to removal Trade obstacles. See nato Page 2 Hamblet ii has seizure in court bulletin trial of Donald Earl Hamble ton 26, on a charge of murder was interrupted about 12.45 . Tuesday morning when the accused had an epileptic seizure As his counsel c. Vav. Brock was addressing the jury. The Case was adjourned until 2.30 . To allow him to recover. Tories Crow Over win in Spadina by Victor Mackie Ottawa special elated Over their Victory in Toronto s spa Dina by election Federal progressive conservative forces Here were jubilantly predicting that this was the beginning of the end for the 20 continuous years of Liberal administration in Canada. The seat was won for the tories by 52-year-old Charles e. Rea a native of Brandon. It had been made vacant when David Croll who had represented it As a Liber Al for 10 years was appointed to the Senate last summer. Liberals were disappointed and surprised at the upset. They had expected a hard fight but were fort William Ottawa Toronto 6s Fili 2s to assist Farmers in adjusting their production to Market de mands. He said the Purchase pro confident they Federal Riding would which retain the has voted Liberal for the past 25 years. Samuel Godfrey Liberal con ceded defeat at about 8 . The eligible voters had a Choice of four candidates or Godfrey or. Rea Joseph Sals last witness in the trial of Don Aid Earl Hambleton charged wit the May 29 murder of James Henry Wolrich was or. T. A. Pincock provincial psychiatrist who test tied tuesday that he had conduced tests on Hambleton which n sealed that the accused had a average intelligence with a ratin of 107. The Case is expected to go t he jury late this afternoon. The average varies or. Pincock said in most individuals from 9 .0 110. Thus the accused qualified or a High rating. He said the a used could be Normal in i Tell ence but not necessarily in judg ment. Questioned closely on the state mind of the at the time i the slaying or. Pincock said 1 lad certain reservations in the particular Case As to the state of Hambleton s mind at that time. H lad imbibed a considerable qua Ity of alcohol and it was know that alcohol As Well As other larg amounts of fluid can have an e feet on a person suffering Fror epilepsy. The doctor said Hamble on according to evidence had Meme Nous amount of fluid in h body and much of that was alcohol or. Pincock said he had n Neard evidence in court that to accused had an epileptic seizure or what is known As epileptic fur at the time he was alleged to a committed the crime. But the do Tor thought that the accused Mig have been in a state at that tin wat if aggravated or frustrated h might release an uncontrolled rag previously two friends of the vie Tim testified that they had driven with or. Wolrich to St. Laurent. Man., on the night of Friday May 27. Victor Gray and Gordon har vey said they went to St. Laurent Friday night where Harvey re remained. Gray testified that he and Wolrich returned to Winnipeg on the same night and had Coffee Gram will go into effect As communist labor Progress As practicable Sive and Harry Weisglass Kcf letter hints wedding Canada gets notice on Romance by Victor Mackie Ottawa special the Canadian government received an informative communication from the British Cabinet Over the Eek end concerning the to Lance of Princess Margaret and group Captain Peter Townsend it was Learned informed sources tues a. Members of the Canadian gov rement declined to comment. It As suggested Here that the communication would not be taken up y the Canadian Cabinet until Here was something positive to Seuss. The British communication was described As of an informative however an associated Ress report from London said British government had in normally sounded out the Commonwealth countries on their re action to the Royal Romance. Whether or not it was consulted in Canadian government has not expressed any opinion in reply. The position of the Canadian govern ment presumably will be that no ohs duration of the matter is re tired until the engagement of lie couple is an announced fact. Renunciation by Princess mar of her right of succession to be British throne would require he assent of the Canadian Parlia ment. Justice department officials Lave examined the statute of 1931, into consideration the precedent set by he abdication of King Edward Viii in 1936, it is concluded that parliamentary action in Canada would be required As Well As in other Commonwealth countries. Menzies rips Evatt spy letter Canberra members said tuesday that prime finister it. Hon. Robert Menzies Las decided to postpone the announcement of a snap australian election. Menzies wants to keep the Issue raised by the Case of Vladimir Petrov confessed soviet agent separated in the Public mind from the election., the members added. Menzies did not As expected an Lounce a dec. 10 election during a debate in parliament Toda on the report of the Federal commission on espionage. The government members said 3 now plans to make his first announcement on the election at a meeting of the Liberal and country government parties wednesday. Menzies told the House of representatives today that Petrov has Deh tidied scores and scores of russian spies working in West Ern countries. Communication with Britain s intelligence agencies had showed that Petrov s statements Are confirmed by information Neld Petrov former Secretary at the soviet embassy Here sought Polit ical Asylum in t Australia taking Kremlin documents with him. His wife later joined him. Invaluable information Menzies followed his statements with a bitter attack on or. Herbert Evatt Leader of the opposition. He said the labor Leader s re cent announcement that he wrote to foreign minister Molotov in. Mos cow showed that he had broken All records As opposition Leader by communicating with the foreign minister of another country to get a Distant and unexamined denial of charges found to be True by an australian at the Star Lite cafe. See Hambleton Page 2 russians offer atomic Plant Singapore has offered to set up an atomic Power Plant in Indonesia by april 1 next year the Cey Lonese com missioner for Singapore and indo Nesia. M. P. Saravan Muttu said tuesday. Fire Levels elevator Wadena sask. Special fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Pool elevator two annexes of an adjoining fed eral Coal shed and partially dam aged an Annex to the Federal ele Vator this morning at i Vermay about 30 Miles East of Wadena. The elevator and one Annex were reported almost full of Grain. The town has Only a Small fire engine which refused to Woric. Only the tracks lie Between the Pool elevator and the . Sta Tion. Tomorrow is election Day polls open at 10 ;