Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 9, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba You will find Groucho and me 4 to. 7 final edition free press phone number Whitehall 3-9331 All departments including classified Sun Rimi Moon . Forecast sunny -20 and 5 Sun Seu . Moon Seu tuesday february 9, i960 Denefe Wii on rates new formula hard soviet line Tate dept interests commission a Sharp verbal Duel Between Premier Duff Roblin and car Legal counsel ended at 11 . Tuesday with the pre Mier confident he had caught the interest of members of the Royal commission on transportation on one vital submission he had made. A probing Cross examination of Premier Roblin was begun at 4 . Monday by i. D. Sinclair car vice president and chief coun gel after the Premier had spent four hours before the commission arguing for a new Deal on freight rates for Western Canada. The grilling of or. Roblin de scribed by observers travelling with the commission As the rough est yet faced by a provincial offi Cial continued for 90 minutes tuesday morning. See Duff Page 2 probe delayed Ottawa up the commons railway committee today postponed indefinitely an inquiry into toll collections on Montreal s Jac ques Cartier and Victoria Bridges because of developments in an ramp investigation into alleged irregularities. The commons last week had directed the committee to invest i Gate the matter As a sequel to disclosure that toll collection on the Jacques Cartier Bridge had jumped sharply after a manual operation was replaced by an automatic system last year. The ramp monday night raided another dozen Homes of Bridge toll collectors in search of evidence of irregularities in collections it was Learned in Montreal today. See toll probe Page 5nikita warns once again he won t yield on Berlin soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev yesterday forcefully reiterated his belief that communist Russia is winning All the races and that the German Issue had hot apr be solved in accordance with Moscow s wishes. Us Secretary of state Christian Herter expressed his concern at Russia throwing her weight around More emphatically than before and not acting in the spirit of Camp no bargaining Over Germany s East Border Khrushchev warns mrs. Suzanne shown with her husband. Brno in a picture taken last summer is fighting for her life in a Toronto Hospital after hurling herself in front of a Bandit s Kufe to her husband. The couple recent immigrants were accosted on the Street by two men who demanded their Money. When one Bandit Drew a knife threw herself betwee. The thug and her husband suffering a deep abdominal Cut. Looking Toh a camera this want and under Camer As and supp. 49b camera. Retina. 1c t2 Lens Lusht meter Case. Like new. Snap so. Pm. Of 5-5602. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Henry Viii gets the axe port credit ont. Up South Peel High school Library has discarded a Book on the life and wives of Henry Viii because of objections from a Parent. Mrs. Janet Vanevery chair Man of the committee concerned said committee Mem Bers had no objection to the Book s removal. She said the Book was approved by the provincial education department. Trustee Joan Caldwell said the Book was probably historically accurate but morally controversy in ilk. Over Royal Mountbatten London up Britain plunged into heated controversy today Over the Queen s decision to link her husband s name with that of her own for future generations of the Royal family. Within a few Days of expecting her third child the 33-year-old Monarch decreed that her descendants not in direct line for the throne will be known As Mountbatten windsors. In this Way she coupled Prince Philip s surname to that of Brit Ain s Royal House of Windsor. Maps to probe uranium future Ottawa Bleak future facing Canadian uranium producers and controversy Over Canada s approach to economic but because of her decision that Only those of her direct descend ants who Are not princes or princesses will Bear the new name it is unlikely to be used for some 40 or 50 her great grandchildren. Paper protests the Buckingham Palace announcement prompted an imme Diate editorial blast from one of Britain s most widely read left Wing newspapers. The Queen s says the tabloid daily Mirror will not be applauded by the British is the decision prudent if it is prudent is it necessary if it is necessary is it Well lord Beaverbrook s daily express also has said recently thai any move toward Mountbatten As a Royal name was today the conservative daily confesses before hanging Parry sound ont. Marvin Mckee 20, went to a quiet efficient and Quick execution Early today said sheriff Stephen Elliott of Bracebridge ont. Mckee convicted of murdering Huntsville taxi Driver Bruce Spiers 22, dropped through the trapdoor of the Gallows at a. M and was pronounced dead i minutes later by the jail sur Geon or. A. J. L. Wright. Reports said Mckee went to his death quietly and confessed to his crime shortly before he died. When told monday that the Cabinet would not commute his sentence Mckee requested that Lis eyes be Given to the Eye Bank of Canada and that he be buried in the jail Yard As a re minder and deterrent to other boys who choose to live care Lessly. Aldermen raise pay by by Barrett Mcgurn Rome Premier Nikita Khrushchev monday told visiting italian president Giovanni Gronchi that Germany s postwar Borders Are final unless there is another War. Mere Good wishes such As or. Gronchi has expressed in the first free Days of a week Long visit Are of enough the soviet Premier old the italian president. Or. Khrushchev told or. Gron i that above All it is necessary of to sign a peace treaty with Germany and especially to liquid ate the West Berlin occupational i or. Khrushchev said that Pohtio cans and doctors Are always needed to do two things to diag nose the ailment and then to pres Cribe a remedy whether it be some Little powder or other Mea Jure or even the elimination of a tumor in order to avoid affect Sion by a select committee of the commons. A notice of motion on today s House order paper proposes the establishment of a 20 member committee to study the operations of the Federal government s three main research institutions Al Dorado mining and refining limited atomic Energy of Canada limited and the National research Council. If this is a sentimental Deci Sion it arises from the Best kind of of a United and Loving family life. It is in this knowledge that the Queen s people will receive her decision and join with it the affectionate Hope that All will be Well with her when she becomes a Mother for the third see Royal name Page 2 see hanging Page 5 concerted cleanup in Algiers Algiers accompanied by hooded witnesses questioned suspects in several sections of Algiers tuesday As they sought More persons responsible for the abortive Jan. 24 uprising of High trying French settlers. The witnesses hid their identity to avoid reprisals. Sixteen persons including a number of prominent Algiers Resi dents already have been charged with attacks against the state. Latest of these was publisher Alain de whose news paper Echo d Alger has been the most vociferous critic of president de Gaulle s self determination policy. Join red world Triumph Moscow italian presi Dent Giovanni Gronchi received an invitation monday night to become a communist and to remain in Russia. The invitation was extended by Premier Nikita Khrushchev at a reception Given in Honor of . President Klementi Vor Shilov. A few minutes be fore this Exchange took place or. Gronchi had made a polite speech in which he expressed th4 Hope that his state visit to Russia would help to improve East West relations. Pres ident Vor Shilov was expected to reply when or. Khrushchev stood up conferred briefly with or. Vor Shilov and then stepped Forward to the Micro phone and i m m e d i a the 1 y launched into a strident tirade. It was at this Point and pos Sibly with the intention of being ironic that he issued his invitation to the italian president intimating that communism would provide a More Bountiful life for Italy. The invitation went like this Don t lose your time Don t go Back and Don t be preoccupied by a poli tical Khrushchev was quoted As telling Gronchi. T or. Gronchi replied i would like to present pre Mier Khrushchev with a Good wish. Maybe some Day touched by divine Grace he will enter the Christian Democrat i will gladly give my sup port to the party which pro Vides the greatest Well being for the the soviet Leader answered. But who has achieved More Italy or fhe soviet he asked. Whose Flag is on the Moon the russian or the italian Why should we join by 1965 Russia will have the highest living stand Ard of the world or. Khrushchev said. Legislature reports no the other organs of the body see Khrushchev Page 5 it s free but few takers by Cory k1lvert there s an estimated 60 million pounds of pork sitting in storage across Canada and the Federal government is trying to give it away but so far the takers Are no exactly falling All Over each othe to get this hand out if Manitoba is any example. This free pork classified a tinned luncheon meat is part o approximately 120 million Pound of pork and Ham purchased by government s prices support boar to bolster the Price of hogs. Since this Price support was re moved Jan. 11 the government a offered an initial allotment of 1 million pounds free to International Relief organizations plus unlimited quantities to certain charitable institutions across Canada. Confusion confusion Over How the por hand out is to be distributed an apparent reluctance on the part o some eligible institutions to accept the offer made it appear that the Federal government could t eve give the meat away. See pork Page 2 attacks Kremlin threats by Marguerite h1ggins Washington special Nyht Secretary of state Christian Verier monday denounced the toughening of soviet attitudes As Iown in renewed pressure on Berlin and military threats against Apan. These developments of serious on can May reflect or. Herter conceded the fact that the rus ians Are gaining in military strength and that this in turn gives them greater Assurance in he International Field. With regard to Berlin the Secretary of state said that sources of worry included such things As he communique of the Warsaw pact countries which indicated hat the red bloc would soon act Wood wins Semi final place it took less than a minute Winnipeg aldermen voted themselves a annual pay increase monday night. Only four aldermen opposed the raise. The motion came after More than three hours of debate on other topics. The motion was read and a recorded vote taken in less than a minute. There was no debate and no member of Council spoke on the motion. Aid. H. C. Avery the mover said following the meeting somebody typed it out and passed it around the chamber to try to get a mover. I figured if they were All afraid to sign it i would and i even agreed to speak in support of after Aid. Avery had signed the motion it was passed around until Aid. David Mulligan seconded it. The motion was then presented to the clerk and read. The motion did not contain any provision for Winnipeg s mayor. Some aldermen said a separate motion to raise the mayor s indemnity might be introduced at the next meeting. Up to monday City aldermen received a total of annually split Between a salary and an non taxable expense allowance. The new figures will be salary and in expense allowance. Voting against the increase were aldermen Gurzon Harvey Edith Walter Crawford and Paul Para Shin. Aid. Peter Taraska was not present. On its own to achieve its of ousting Western influence from Berlin unless the West accepted communist terms for a Settle ment at the May 16 Summit meet ing i Paris. On Japan the Secretary of state was especially concerned Over the missile rattling tone of a soviet diplomatic note dispatched to America s far East ally on the occasion of its recent conclusion of a defence treaty with the uni de states. He called the russian note unwarranted interference in the affairs of another Hall wins clash with teamsters Ottawa up Frank h. Hall s railway clerks have beaten the big teamsters Union in their first jurisdictional clash before the Canada labor relations Board it was Learned today. The Board has rejected an application in which the teamsters sought certification As bargain ing agent for a group of Vancou ver employees of the car j new merchandise the application involving about 300 employees was fought before the Board by Hall s Union with the backing of the Canadian brotherhood of railway trans port and general workers. All tree Are members of the Cana Dian labor Congress. The brotherhood which has i minority of the men involved has indicated it is ceding its bargain ing rights in favor of the railway clerks. Rift in Cec on salaries the Cec group on Winnipeg City Council broke out in open Squab bling monday night and its newly won Unity appeared to be coming apart at the seams. Aid. Walter Crawford engaged in an angry argument with Aid. Mark Danzker after the Council meeting and shouted i be half a mind to pull out of the if it had t been for the Cau Aid. Danzker retorted you would t have the Deputy mayor s cause of their argument was not known but it appeared to be the Issue of raising Aldermani Sal Aries a move opposed by Aid. Crawford unless the matter received full and open debate. Aid. C. H. Spence also threatened to Bolt the caucus. He took exception to Public statements by Aid. Crawford about the probable stand of the Cec caucus on the City Hall site. Aid. H. C. Avery is dissatisfied too. He has been reported to have threatened twice to quit the caucus. If any of the three aldermen quit the group it would lose its voting majority on Council. Mrs. Winnifred Sim pianist s condition is Good the cover girl for this week s Issue of the Csc times mrs. Winnifred m. Sim. Of 1594 Pacific Avenue is in Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital after a traffic Accident at . Sat urday. A member of the piano team of Winnifred Sim and Mitch Parks featured every thursday morning on the cow program. Rhythm and Romance mrs. Sim received face lacerations concussion and a fractured Collarbone in the mis Hap. Her car and a truck driven by Edward Nickel 21, of Moosehorn. Man., collided at Kennedy Street and Sargent Avenue. Or. Nickel was uninjured. Mrs. Sim was. Thrown from the car which hit a tree. As Well As being a cow per former mrs. Sim is heard regularly As a piano accompanist on radio song recitals and As an accompanist during the Manitoba musical festival. Mrs. Sim has been organist and choirmaster at Sparling United Church for the past 14 years and accompanist for the Winnipeg la Dies choir for 10 years. Conservative tones Down deficiency payment Resolution. Page 7. Tougher fines jail terms for illegal Hunters. Page 6. Minister uses Liberal arguments against them. Page 6. Opposition advice some times bad says minister. Page 7. Members squabble Over estimates. Page 6. Unnecessary delays in farm Loans Liberal says. Page 7. Liberal urges municipal act change. Page 7. Attorney general Chaj legged put up or shut Page 7. Howie Wood scored a crucial two Ender with last Rock against him on the 10th end tuesday at Winni Peg Arena to pave the Way to a 7-4 Victory Over Omar Van Wel leg Ham of Heather in group by of the British Consols play Downs. The Victory put Wood s Granite foursome into the group Semi finals. Here he was joined by two time Canadian Champion Bill Walsh of fort Rouge Bruce Hudson of Strathcona and Bobby Stannard of Elmwood. Walsh Defeated Harry Mcknight of Roland 11-7, Hudson topped Ted Dale of Lauder 12-4, and Stannard Defeated Ken Sampson of Stock ton. 12-5. The action took place on the 10 . Draw. Other rounds were scheduled for 3 . And 8 . There s Fust no pleasing some people Derby England Reut punctuality drive by British railways has hit an unexpected Public is complaining because trains Are running on time. A ticket collector explained Here monday that people have come to rely on trains being he said that because Many trains now Are leaving on time people who make a last minute dash for them return to complain they have missed their train. When we explain that the train left on time they be come be added. Britain braces for rail strike London of heading off a National rail strike next week slumped today when the major one of three Union involved rejected peace plans. The member National Union of railway Man turned thumbs Down on the plan offered by sir Brian Robertson chairman of the state run British transport commission. Union Leader Sidney Greene said there will definitely be strike starting sunday Midnight if his members Are not Given an immediate pay his gift convertible was a thanks not payola by David Wise Washington special Nyht a Boston disc jockey told . House investigators monday he accepted Cash gifts and a 1959 Buick convertible Worth a total of from four record companies. He said it was not payola. David Maynard Crew Cut Platter spinner for Wiz a Westinghouse broadcasting co. Station in Boston insisted the Cash and the car were an expression of appreciation by the companies for his playing their records at teenage usually staged for a Charity. He denied the Money was paid in return for his plugging records on the air. Members of a House subcommittee that exposed television quiz show fixing last fall and which opened hearings into payola Mon Day were frankly sceptical of or. Maynard s explanation. Rep. Samuel Devine. Ohio Republican called the testimony less than Paul o Friel general manager of the radio station testified that both or. Maynard and Alan Dary an other disc jockey were placed on probationary status by the Sta Tion in december after they admitted receiving gifts from record companies in the course of an investigation launched by Wiz. However or. O Friel testified he had himself ordered Norman Prescott then a disc jockey for the Westinghouse station and an other Wiz employee to take a trip to new York to solicit free records to build up the station s Library. Robert William Lishman. Sub committee chief counsel estimated the trip netted a haul of to in free records and asked or. O Friel whether this was not another form of or. O Friel said it was not. .4 ;