Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition free press vol 63 no. 146 76 pages Sun rises . Moon risks . Sun 6.37 . Moon sets Midnight Winnipeg saturday March 17, 1956 forecast mild lawyer rips into vicious liquor Power kicks fallen idol Stalin ruthless killer Khrushchev charges individual rights imperilled Green the vicious the Manitoba liquor control were attacked Powers of government i Friday by Winnipeg lawyer h a r 1. Green jr., presenting an individual Brief before the legislature Law amendments committee. He said the commission had absolute jurisdiction to do As it saw fit it could repeal or rescind licences without notice or with out giving the affected person a right to defend himself before this action was Laken. Most he said adding he used the word advisedly were its Powers in connection with a person actually acquitted in court o a liquor offence. Even after acquittal the commission nevertheless could cancel withdraw or rescind a person s licence and without giving the person an Opportunity to defend himself. It is hard to imagine Why individual Liberty should be affected in such a Way he declared. See hearing Page 5 Alt a. Liquor probe gets Green Light Edmonton Alberta legislature gave the Green Light Fri Day to the establishment of an All party committee to Gate the province s liquor Laws and recommend changes. I the motion introduced by pre a Mier Manning was adopted with out dissent it covered Only Prin Ciple. The Premier now will introduce another motion setting out the personnel of he committee. The new motion probably will be introduced next week. It is expected the committee will hold Public hearings and recommend changes in the liquor act at the 1957 session of the Legisla Ture. Temperatures maximum minimum temperature1 and dinars for 2-1 Hinnir ending . . Marcia 17. That Green May soon be grass a in Couver Prift current fit sitaua Toronto in i i 11 photo by Gerry Cairns Colleen Gallagher daughter of or. And mrs. Dennis Gallagher 11 Gloucester apart ments Woodrow place Winnipeg celebrates St. Patrick s Day two ways. It s her first birthday As Well As the National Day of the Irish. Flood defence map will your Home make out. This Spring if greater Winnipeg gets the High water already predicted by official flood fore casters is there a Chance your basement will be flooded How High is the Dike protecting your House and your neighbors answers to these questions can be found in a full Page map of the metropolitan area appearing in the saturday Magazine Section of this edition. Like a while Christmas a Green St. Patrick s Day is something just about everybody would like to see. Well Tain t Green. It s still White but above Freez Hig tempera lures today sunday will he highways which Are Slippery be cause of the thawing. Snow overnight and today added to the hazards of City driving glazing the streets. All provincial highways were re big plans for Airport but not this year Ottawa special1 planning Minal building to accommodate in connection with completely steadily increasing passenger major buildings for Peg s Stevenson Airfield Winni and commercial traffic. In hand although it is not e111 the increasing popularity of the Polar routes Are focussing at tended to commence building Ope Tention upon Winnipeg As air rations this year Hon. George c. Marler. Minister of transport in formed the commons Friday. Lons Range plans Call for construction of n new Ter Centre As Well As its importance As a major Airfield in Canada s trans Continental flying operations. The estimates under the civil aviation division for air services you will find main inside Page no. News 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, s deaths and funerals 5 Garden column s sports 10 to 13 comics 14, 15 radio and to 16 entertainment 17 social news is to 21 to column 21 finance 22 music news 2s Church news 29 special features medical memos 6 footnotes on cables 7 science and the occult 15 Billy Graham. 21 Jumble rules entry form 28 Jumble contest 31 include a vote of for or acquisition of buildings works and land. A por Ilion will by spent in preparation i for the construction of major j buildings at Stevenson Airfield j which is scheduled to undergo considerable remodelling and expansion. Provision was made in the Esti mates last year for water and sewer installations for the proposed new terminal building and other major buildings at Stevenson at a Cost of s25.000. These were to be installed before new Road ways Are built leading to the Sites Jot the new buildings. Road improvements Are estimated to Cost about new car Park a new car Park capable of accommodating Many additional automobiles is included in the plans. Extension of the car Park is expected to run to several thou Sands of dollars. New High intensity lighting along the runways has been installed this last year. To the blizzard. John Dunn 16, of a new East West runway has j the car Iii which he was Riding been under construction and the collided with a Sno plow at Penn Field . Saint John with 14.2 inches of Snow was the hardest hit new Brunswick Centre. Fredericton re ported 6.6 inches and Moncton five. Moving things to the Point where ported open with widening in pro ran Hnyp Hnyp of cup we can begin to have Hope of see ing the grass again. Mainly sunny the weather office is predicting High temperatures on both Days of Between 30 and 35. The forecast for sunday is mainly sunny with occasional cloudiness. It s the first time the Thermo meter is to Rise Over the freezing Point since feb. 9 and that was the first time since dec. 27. Whether it hits 32 or not there should be considerable thawing because of the Sun. And Light winds will make the situation generally Balmy. Looks Fine Winnipeg is on the Cool Side of a warm front centred in the West Ern provinces and moving South East. Brandon for example is a few degrees warmer than Here. But says the Weatherman the Wanner air is to Inch this Way slowly so things look Fine for the next few Days unless cold air in the Churchill area perversely moves straight South instead of killing itself in James Bay. And by the Way it might be a Nice week end to take the car out for a run. But watch yourself particularly on Snow packed gravel blizzard hits maritime youth killed Halifax blizzard from the Southern United states buried parts of Nova Scotia under nearly 20 inches of Snow today disrupted transportation and took the life of a new Brunswick youth. Gales reaching 40 Miles an hour filed 12-foot drifts across highways a Southern new Brunswick and southwestern Nova Scotia where the Only wheeled vehicles moving were trains and an occasional Sno plow. Greenwood in the Annapolis Val by had 16 inches while Liverpool on the South Shore had nine. Halifax reported seven and Sydney in the northeastern end of the province had five. One death has been attributed runway has been extended and strengthened to a King of Kings 35 j pm Rodate the larger four engine Frank Morriss in Hollywood Page 17 aircraft now in service. See Airport Page 2 continued Cess on some of them. The general Road situation fairly a splash is costly warning that careless splash May Cost you Cash with thawing going on Over the week end it might be Wise for motorists to remember that splashing a pedestrian could result in court action. A charge of driving without due care and attention and without reasonable consideration for other persons could be Laid under the common danger Section of the Highway traffic act. Penalty for a first offence tinder this charge is a Fine of s10 to in addition the magistrate can suspend the of fender s Driver s licence for up to three months if he wishes. This applies to trolley buses As Well As All motor vehicles. But police warn sometimes a pedestrian can be at fault too. They urge people waiting to Cross the Street to stay Well Back on the sidewalk until the Light changes. Otherwise splash bonn7 Reuters a bitter attack on Stalin accusing him of responsibility for massacre and Tor Ture during his 30 years As Russia s Leader has been made by Nikita Khrushchev reports from reliable communist sources reaching Here today said. Georgi called liar London a Russia s for Mer Premier Georgi Malenkos said saturday he had not studied in de of Nikita Khrush-1 these reports said the attack charged Stalin with crimes never before mentioned in the soviet. It came in a 3 a hour speech by the soviet communist party Lea Der to the Security session of the recent party Congress feb. 25. Khrushchev is said to have painted a vivid picture to the Dele Gates of the regime of suspicion fear and through which Stalin ruled especially in his last years. Even other top leaders were sub regime including the weather Winnipeg Cloudy with a few sunny periods. Mild. Winds Light. Low tonight and High Sun Day 15 and 35. Chev s reported denunciation of to himself. Stalin but added that he might ignored warnings have something to say after study i he is reported to have have held Stalin ing the reports. Responsible for soviet failure in the or. Malenkos was asked by a Early stages of the. Second world reporter j War both by ignoring warnings by Are you still Friendly with charge Cut Petlock gets 17 Britain s sir Winston Churchill or. Malenkos turned around and replied in Stern tones yes of course i am still Friendly with or. Khrushchev was quoted As saying that during the Early Days of the Hitler attack on Russia he tried j to Appeal to Stalin for More guns for the Ukraine but was told by or. Malenkos Over Long distance Telephone that Stalin was not Avail Able. Or. Khrushchev was also quoted As saying Stalin was sitting next to or Malenkos when or. Malen Kov was denying he was in the Kerr Lin. Or. Malenkos was up late Fri Day night getting translations of London newspaper accounts of the. Events in Russia. But when the embassy saturday he was beaming and Friendly. He had time to pose for news photographers and for a Little boy who wanted to snap his pictured the foreign office meanwhile said it was aware from various including the British embassy in Moscow of the rumours circulating about or. Khrushchev s speech. And by weakening the country s morale and Economy in the great pre War purges. See Khrushchev Page 5 old country soccer Cyprus Mastermind seated on Olympus Nicosia Cyprus special Nyht some where in one of the caves near or perhaps on it. Olympus in the southwestern part of this tense Island sits a Man the British believe to be masterminding the current wave of terrorism Here writes special correspondent Arch Parsons. . Troops Ambi shed Melville sask. Special John Petlock 35 year old Fenwood District Farmer was sentenced Friday to years in Penitentiary for manslaughter in the gun slaying of his brother Michael aug. 29. The All male jury was out for four hours and 10 minutes. T today s lenten thought Lent is a season of person Al sacrifice and mortification. It recalls during forty Days the years during which the Israel ites wandered in the desert. During Lent we give to god our efforts at prayer and Good work. We lend our spiritual work to him with the Assur Ance of generous repayment and god is not outdone in generosity. Very Rev. Owen Mclnerney Dean of Winnipeg roman Catholic. London result of sort a games saturday in the United kingdom football association cup Semi finals Manchester c 1. Tottenham h 0 Sunderland 0. Birmingham c .1 English league division i Arsenal 1. Manchester u 1 poo 5. Newcastle u 1 eel ton. A Broi Ronvich a 0 Huddersfield t 3, Everton 0 Portsmouth 1. Sheffield u 1 1. t 2 a Amateur nip Corinti Ian casuals 3, dul Winji Hamlet 1 Kingston Ian 1. Bishop Auckland 3 division ii Blackburn r 4. West Ham u 1 Bristol r 2. Fut Tlam 2 Doncaster r 2. Bury 3 Hull City 1. Bristol City 3 Leicester c 3. Rotherham u 1 Lincoln c 1. Port Vale 0 Liverpool 4. Swansea t 1 Nottingham f 2. Middlesbrough 4 Plymouth a j. Notts Only 1 Stoke City 2. Leeds United 1 division Iii Northern s 1, York City 3 bar Nav 1. Derby county 2 Bradford 0, Mansfield town 3 Carlisle u 0. Harlle pools u 3 Chester 0. Crew Alex 0 Chesterfield 3, Halifax town 0 Darlington 2. Workington 2 Gateshead 1. Oldham athletic 3 Grimsby town 3, Stockport c 0 Rochdale 1. 0 Southport 2. Scunthorpe u 2 Tran More r 1, Bradford c 1 division 111 Southern Bournemouth a. Swindon t 0 bront Frd 3, Shrewsbury t 1 Colchester u 2. Northampton t 0 Coventry c 2. Southampton 0 Exeter c 6, Crystal p j Gillingham 3. Newport c 2 legion Orient s. Aldershot 3 Millwall 3. Torquay u 2 Norwich c 1. Queen s pro Reading 2, Walsall 0 Southend u 3. Brighton 2 Watford 0, Ipswich t 2 scottish league division a Aberdeen 1. Dunfermline a 0 Aird ionians i. Clyde s celtic 1. Dundee 0 East Fife 1. Hibernian 2 Falkirk 3, Mother Well 4 hearts 1. 1 Kilmarnock 1, Raith r 1 Panick t 6. Stirlin a 1 Queen of s 4, St. Mirron 1 division b Alloa a 5. Albion r 1 Brechin City 2. St. Johnstons 1 Cowdenbeath 2. Arbroath 1 Dumbarton 3. Ayr United 3 Dundee u 6, Montrose 3 Forfar a 3. Berwick r 0 Hamilton a 1. Stenhouse Muir 0 Morton 5, East Stirling 1 Queen s Park 0. Stranraer 1 inter league match league of Ireland 1, Irish football league 0 Nicosia a guerrilla gun men wounded five British soldiers Early saturday in an ambush in the towering Tro odos mountains South West of this Cyprus capital. An official report said one cyp riot was killed in the pitched Bat the that followed. Reinforcements beat off the at tackers after a Short skirmish. Then the British troops fanned out and ringed seven villages in the area. They launched a House to House search for the guerrillas. Strike still on a week Long protest strike against the Makarios deportation continued saturday but indications were that it would end tuesday. The government announced it would take Legal action against shopkeepers who deprived their communities of essential supplies and services. Red berated paratroopers rushed the evacuation today of 30 houses and shops in Nicosia s terror where six British soldiers and a police sergeant have been killed by bullets in the Back. The military governor. Field marshal sir John Harding or dered the evacuation Friday after 75 residents of the zone had re fused in an outdoor us jury court to divulge any information on the killings. Twenty shops were closed to visit . Washington up prime minister Nehru of India has accepted the invitation of president Eisenhower to visit the United states this year. Or. Nehru is understood to have suggested alternative dates for his visit possibly after the meeting of the Commonwealth prime or minis hers in London this summer. It will be his first visit to the United states since 1949. This ended a Case that started with the finding of five bodies on the farm of mrs. Mary Petlock 72, Mother of the accused. Found dead of Bullet wounds were mrs. Pet lock Michael Angeline 21, Michael s wife and their two child Ren Dianne and Michaeline. The jury was reminded they were to consider the crime in re lation to shooting of Michael Only As that was the Only charge facing the accused. Emmett Hall defence counsel said he is considering Appeal. A handful of spectators sat in the Large auditorium courtroom in Melville s town Hall As sentence was passed. Only member of the Petlock family present was mrs. Nellie pet lock wife of the accused who has been sitting close behind the Pris Oner s Box every Day of the 10-Day trial. She was crying As the court waited for the jury to file in but became composed after the ver dict was Given. No need judge or. Justice Thomson before passing sentence told the accused there was no doubt his family relationship had been unfortunate but that does not allow you to take the Law into your own hands. I formed the impression you need not have killed your he said. The judge said in passing the fairly stiff sentence he was Tak ing into consideration the fact that John had already spent six months in jail. Pellock who has showed no signs of emotion during the Long trial seemed cheered when he heard the verdict of the jury but bit his lip and slumped slightly when he heard his sentence while standing in the Box. He walked m Between two ramp officers up children and 11 women. They were through the door of the stage in families of fishermen who said Liv the Large auditorium and Digap ing conditions were impossible for beaded from View behind the Cut he is almost certainly col George Grivas and if the British intelligence analysis is Correct he is Cut from a pattern that has become almost classic in great Britain s recent colonial difficult first he has been excellently trained for his current guerrilla activities by the British. Second he is surrounded by adequate trappings of mystery and cloak and Dagger material. The band of fanatics he leads is called the Oka which Means National organization of cypriot combatants. Today col. Grivas and the Oka on the one Side and the British on the other Are locked in guerrilla warfare for control of this Island. See Cyprus Page 5 flee red China Hong Kong api two Junks carrying 43 chinese slipped past communist gunboats and landed safely in the portuguese Colony of Macao off the red Mainland thurs Day. Passengers included eight them in red China. I Tain. Jumble Winner now know it s. G. Stranger lives at Hodgson Down and 10 families were told to i Man., North of Gimli and 2% Miles find lodgings elsewhere. Actress to wed Hollywood Marissa Pavan a actress 23, and French actor Jean Pierre Aumont 46, Are engaged to be married her studio has announced. The italian born Beauty an Oscar nominee for her performance in the Rose Tattoo is the sister of actress pier Angeli Aumont has a 10-year-old daughter by his late wife actress Maria Montez. Flags honouring St. Patrick s Day in Honor of St. Patrick s Day two flags Are being flown to Day from the free press Courtesy Flagstaff. One Flag is the official Green White and Orange Tri color for the Irish free state the other Flag the Golden Harp on a Green Back ground with the Union Jack in the upper Corner is flown As symbolic of Northern Ireland. From a Telephone. So he won t know until he reads in today s paper that he is Richer than he was this time last week. For or. Stranger is the Winner of the s100 first prize in this j. B. Leathers. Somerset Man. Mrs. M. Livingstone 1007 Garfield Street Winnipeg. 15 see Jumble Page 2 contest rules and form on Page 28. Entry week s Jumble contest draw. His Cheque with those of the other winners will be mailed the be ginning of next week. T others in the prize Money this week were second prize j. Whitworth 317 Doncaster Street Winnipeg. Third prize ?50 f. H. Robertson 37 Higgins Avenue Winnipeg. Fourth prize Edward Yandle fort Garry court Winnipeg. Ten prizes of each miss Myrna Boulette Bissett Man. Mrs. E j. Gardner 500 third Street North Kenora ont mrs. Ann Malthouse 160 Renfrew Street Winnipeg mrs. J. Burgoyne 331 Belvidere Street St. James Ben Jamin Kelly 55 Sadler Avenue St. Vital mrs. A. Fennessy 97 Mathe son Avenue Winnipeg mrs. F. G. Hallaren Rosemount apartments Winnipeg mrs. N. W. Brewer 113 Ferndale Avenue Norwood mrs. Quake shatters Lebanon 112 die Beirut Lebanon Reuters at least 112 persons were killed in earthquakes which ripped across Lebanon Friday night and Satur Day. More than 50 villages were re ported partly destroyed by the ser ies of quakes and damage was estimated at close to legislature reports hearing of briefs on liquor Bill All but completed. Page 4. S. Hart Green jr., Winni Peg lawyer attacks vicious Powers of liquor control com Mission. Page 1. Appeal from simple liquor act conviction More difficult than from murder conviction says lawyer Harry Walsh. Page 3. Manitoba hotel association attacks discriminatory sections of liquor Bill. Page 3. Waitresses should be Able to serve liquor in beverage and cocktail rooms says Manitoba Branch of Canadian restaurant association. Page 4. Steve Juba s Florida Vaca Tion prize in coloured Margar Ine contest won by mrs. Edith 748 Arlington Street. Page 3. Ethnic and social clubs argue they should t be covered by restrictions covering Beer Parlours. Page 4. Resist any attempt to re move present drinking restrictions against treaty indians Law amendments committee told. Page 4. Liquor advertising curbs called Page 4 ;