Lethbridge Herald, The (Newspaper) - February 12, 1954, Lethbridge, Alberta HIGHLIGHTED IN THE Every Day Circus Day By BOSS Canadian Press Staff Writer CP Every day is circus day in Moscow Acrobats trained dogs and on mg horses child musicians and dancers provide the ment that thrilled an year-old Russian boy who companied me to one mance even though it lacked such Canadian attractions as lions tigers and elephants There are three ces every day of the year two lor children who must be accompanied and an evening show for adults RESTRAINED CLOWNS Clowns cavort about the one ring In the brick and stone circus ing They are not as imaginative as those seen in Canada limiting make-up to false noses and wigs and wearing costumes that are largely a take-off on ordinary at- Life The acrobats however are out- standing better than any I have seen anywhere else in the world parrots join para- in spinning miniature and performing other tricks There is a magician too out his magic is mediocre ed dogs dance box and jump over hurdles Music and dance routines b 40 children all under 12 made up the second half of the circus giam X X X X CHILDREN'S BAND The ring was set up to Ble a shooting gallery At the back on a stand was the band all children as teddy bears bunny rabbits and billy goats Other in of them were the gets who bioke into dance routines when hit by pellets from air rifles maimed fay two young marksmen through the gram the marksmen went to bed the lights went out and their di earns were acted by the targets and other children wearing luminous costumes The whole performance ed about 45 minutes and the accompanying musicians ed without a sheet of music or a conductor VOL 53 Turned Down LETHBRIDGE ALBERTA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12 1954 High 15 Little Change S Korea Offers To Help French Fight Reds In Indo-China By PELMAN MORIN Korea said today it has of- a full army division to fight communism in Indo- Unna and it asked for help from retired U.S Gen James Van leer The government information office in a statement in- directly critical of the United States said it had been ed to help fight the Reds in two urgent appeals signed by the minister of the Laos one of the three states of Indo-China A Communist Vietminh force of men is toward capital of Laos Ask Services of Gen Van Fleet TWO SECTIONS IS ssia Refuses To Give Austria Her Independence Honeymooning Go Visiting in Japan Treaty With Germany Must Be Signed First South Korean Foreign ter Pyun Yung Tal said in an interview that his country has offered a division to munist forces in Indo-China fighting under the French Union banner A source in the French try of foreign affairs in Paris said it had no information on such an offer Shortly after the Pyun inter- view President government issued a worded statement From the United States we ask only that they give us the services of its great soldier Gen Van Fleet who achieved such miracles in creating the Korean army and in fighting the Communists in Greece We want Gen Van Fleet to come and help us organize our own forces and at the same time train and organize the armies of Indo-China He could with his tremendous energy do both jobs and we would co-operate by providing ovtr own army of- to help in the training of the Indo-Chinese As commander of the U.S 8th Army until his retirement late in the Korean war Van Fleet supervised the training of South Korea's army Critical of US and UN Policies lethbridge Tot Dies From Polio In Hospital Here Six-year-old Linda Scullen daughter of Patrick Scullen of 129 19th St N died Thursday night in the isolation of Gait The girl was taken to hospital Jan 4 and was the only bridge resident to be taken hospital with polio this year Four city and district dents have been stricken fatally with the disease this year A Creek man died in the hospital last week Funeral arrangements for Linda Scullen have not yet been completed The Korean government statement criticizing U.S and UN policies Our own war has been stalemated by those who sue a selfish personal interest and who seek to prevent us from our country The Jeast we can do then is to help a neighboring nation before it is completely overrun by the enemy If we are not allowed to finish our own war or to assist another free country in distress what hope is there for saving any of the free nations ing the United States from the Pyun acknowledges in the in- that it is quite able Red China might retaliate to transfer of Korean troops to Indo-China by dispatching one or more of its divisions to help the Vietminh By JOHN M HIGHTOWER Russia refused in effect treaty which has been fought over Press Canadian Gesture Seen Important Symbol Edmonton Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Saskatoon Prince Rupert Victoria Vancouver Regma Winnipeg Ottawa Montreal The foreign minister said President Syngman wrote of his proposed offer to Gen John E Hull United Stales Far East commander before Hull went to Washington a few days ago Diplomatic sources in ington said offered one and possibly two divisions Hull said South Korea had not offered two divisions but declined further comment Pyun said the South Korean contribution to the war would have to be sharply limited but that he fcH the gesture important as a symbol of solidarity During almost all of the ean war France maintained a French battalion In the United Nations forces The UN command Pyun said To Rome has made no comment on the suggestion The French high command is reported to have declined the offer with thanks giving as their reason the fear that such action would precipitate a scale war with Communist China Leave It To Red High Command Says And World Will Be At War Within 10 Years 18 -18 17 SYNOPSIS Little change Is expected in the temperature pattern today though cloudiness will limit to about -15 in northern regions tonight An intense storm the B.C coast is giving snow over a wide area from Vancouver to eastern Saskatchewan heavy snow will decrease to Saturday FORECAST and Medicine Continuous snow today cloudy with Saturday tle change in temperature winds east 15 5 and 15 BONN Germany CP Canada's travelling prime ister left West Germany today after a visit and ped off at the Gros airfield in eastern France to visit the men who maintain and fly the Sabre jets as Canada's contribution to the air defence of Europe A scheduled visit to the other Sabre jet field at brucken Germany was called off when Prune Minister St Laurent's plane was unable to land there be- cause of bad weather So the prime minister continued on to Rome next stop on his goodwill tour which today entered its second week Thursday he visited the dian Army's 1st Infantry Brigade at Soest m the Ruhr and tears lined his eyes as he received the general salute from the men of the brigade The prime minister left behind him in Bonn the idea of a closer economic The Left Hand Corner Attlee Crosses the a r p e t made at a state dinner A1 Konrad Adenauer and the Mr Attlee has said I West German cabinet that would a mime minister a change of policy among the North Atlantic powers More Than See Queen BATHURST western district of New South Wales gave Queen beth a sunny welcome when she arrived today at Bathurst 150 miles west of Sydney in a Royal Australian Air Force Dakota More than from Bathurst nnd other centres within a radius of 200 miles cheered the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their drive from the airport to the town hall Later the Queen and the Duke went to a fair ground where 000 school children gave them a bi welcome During the drive through the ranks of the children the Queen was worried by the common fly The cheering of the children stirred up the flies and other in- sects and the Queen and the Duke found it difficult to wave chase flies and at the same time to hold on to the rail of their jeep Later the Queen and the Duke visited the town of Lithgow before returning to Sydney by train Dull rainy weather kept the crowds in Sydney to their smallest ret as the Queen left Government House today for the third day of her tour of the New South Wales Debate Whether In Indian Hospital Is a Wolf Boy AUSTRIA RECALLS UPRISING All work in Austrian factories stopped for five minutes this morning as a tribute to Socialists who died In bitter street battles 20 years ago today LUCKNOW The most debated topic here is ther a crippled boy now convalescing In rampur hospital is a wolf boy Picked up by police at now railroad junction Jan 17 in a deserted freight car the boy has been named Ramu Leading the opposing views are the hospital superintendent Dr D N Sharma who says he is perfectly convinced Rama is a wolf boy and Kali Prasad professor of psychology at University who says he is convinced Ramu js anything but a wolf boy Prasad investigated Ramu for two days His inquiry he said is still incomplete but from what he has seen ho is convinced Ramu is not a wolf boy But what exactly his difficulty is has yet to be after further gation DOES NOT CRAWL RUN Ramu does crawl He not run nor show any of those symptoms other wolf boys and wolf girls ed especially Kamala and Amala the wolf girls rescued by an Indian Christian Rev 1 A L Singh at Midnapore near Calcutta In 1920 continuing behavior studies this month at the end of which it will be possible to say what exactly Drew Pearson that independently from their in Canada for telecasting tonight The text was back over statements he first made several years ago which were laken by United States Senate investigators as corroborating evidence that Alger Hiss was an agent of the Russian But said today as apparently he had before that he was never given the nam of a person described to him as a Soviet airent who was an ant to the late of state Stettinius at the San Francisco conference of 1945 That set up the United Nations tion said i- the interview with Pearson that a clcik named Kulakov told him he in Moscow that the of is a Soviet agent but he didn't say her name Mayor Resigns the type of mental difficulty which Ramu is suffering Dr has ready an- swers to Prasad s All wolf children need not behave in the samp manner Wolf boys need not necessarily nor even walk nor run It all depends how the wolf brought up the child Possibly Ramu reared i a wolf hole or dark cave were he might have had space to extend his legs and hands only ally but not always I am convinced is not an imbecile He longer scratches the nor except occasionally water or milk with his tongue instead of sipping When hot he used to put his tongue out as dogs and wolves do and when cold he crouches He sleeps also like i dog or wolf The first symptoms if a return to human habits were seen when be began to weep like a child instead of ing and showed interest in loons Withdrawal o the a peace treaty with in order to prevent any new at- at a new This meant the Soviet army has no tion of quitting Austrian soil Molotov also demanded that the issue of Trieste be ered along with the Austrian question a proposition rejected by the West before He topped off his new proach with a refusal to accept Austria's request for scaling down harsh and inequitable economic concessions to Russia WEST PLEADS Foreign Eden State Dulles and Foreign ister Bidault joined in a new plea to Russia to end the long and shabby story of denying Austria her freedom They backed up trian Minister Leopold Rigl after the mild-mannered lomat his case inside the Big four conference chamber Eden particularly urged that ease up on demands upon tria and said all of us to make suie that economy is sufficiently robust enable her to maintain her independence Molotov took advantage of the Austria discussion to renew de- mands for demilitarizing Trieste Specifically he said the Big Four should spell out a clause that the disputed territory at the head of the Adriatic be de- militarized It now is occupied by American and slav troops but the Western powers saul last October they were ready to pull out and turn administration nf their zone ncr to Yugoslavia reacted bitterly MORE ADDITIONS MAYOR GEO RINGROSE or his name and didn't know it I he Pearson asked whether there was ever any evidence that Hiss was associated with the lan spv ling To this I can answer that I didn't rect evidence but there were the words of cipher Kulakov Hiss who was an assistant to now is serving a prison erm for based on his that he passed U S secrets a Soviet spy ring betterment political stability and self-defence It was pointed out that there nothing in the suggestion was Englebert regime a minister should letire at 70 he has id down no retiring age for the of the Opposition he was 71 and although his has been re- nt years he has endured a duo- ulcer lumbago eczema and i appendix may go leading the Labor years yet With his doodles and pipe and modesty he is the kind man who sticks on top however iny Bevans rage around him ob- the London correspondent the Ottawa journal Mr Attlee his birthday quietly at his ne Cherry Cottage Great iden While the majority of his danced m the ballroom re Mr Attlee and three others LEFT HAND CORNER Continued on Page Throe the idea was described London by a man as interesting and ing PRIME MINISTER HOST Thursday night the prime tie may go ister attended another dinner this Party for as host to West German lead- ers The dinner was held at the Canadian embassy where sador T C Davis represents ada in the post-war German state The prime minister's transport which also carried his son and daughter took off from the airport here at After the stops its course was laid over the Alps to Italy where Italy's new premier Mario a welcome for the I first chief of government to visit Rome during his term Scelba formed a government earlier this FOR THE SMALL ADVERTISING BUDGET Use the CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY Your Ad will appear every day for a month AT A LOW COST Keep your name before thousands of readers daily in the BUSINESS DIRECTORY PHONE 5781 Seen and Heard ABOUT TOWN L Austin Wright general U secretary of the ing Institute of Canada paying tribute to the lusty singing voices of engineers at the EIC banquet and ing an occasion in budge when a small but hearty band of had ed m completely drowning out a much larger in an ad- joining banquet room Chamber of Commerce tary Prances Harris being moved from pillar to post as she tries to keep her desk out of the way of the painters who are redecorating the chamber offices A look of utter be- wilderment becoming evident on an increasing number of faces around the city as the 1954 income tax forms are dis- Urge Cut of 5 Cents In Tax on Cigarets MALENKOV MEETS WORKERS radio said remier and his top Soviet ides attended a conference of ng Russian agricultural workers In he capital Thursday Canada's tobacco growers today urged the government to cut the tax by five cents on a pack of 20 in a drive to boost sales and eliminate smuggling from the United States The move would drop the re- tail price in most provinces to about 27 cents a pack but it would cut federal revenues by about in the next fiscal year starting April 1 The was made by a com- of five the On- tario Tobacco ing Association which covers about 93 per cent of Canada's growers The delegation meeting uith Finance Minister Abbott a non- smoker said the tax cut would boost cigaret sales by eight or 1C per cent a year last jear puffed a record arets This sales increase would require an additional to pounds of tobacco from farmers almost certainly an end to years of acreage restrictions It also would help Canada meet competition from low-priced United States cigarets currently selling in the US at about 18 or 20 cents cents a pack SMASH SMUGGLING And it smash smuggling already drastically reduced as the of two successive cuts in he federal tax currently about 18 cents on a pack of 20 i The delegation said professional smuggling reached a peak of about cigarets in 1951 when the retail price of Canadian smokes was about 42 cents a pack It dropped to m 1952 when the Canadian price declined cents and to in 1953 Mr Abbott and combined to cut the pi ice to about 33 cents The deputation by f C Cunningham of Centre Ont board chairman said It izes that the tax cut would pare federal revenues but to consumers t would mean an annual reduction n costs of between and And as for federal revenues they might suffer for a few years but they would rise to a higher level than the estimated in direct taxes during he current fiscal year ending Maich Among other additions that Molotov today 1 Insistence that economic ments to Russia as defined in treaty negotiations remain un- changed had appealed for an easing of this haish and able burden 2 A new definition of troop so that the Russians could remain in Austria even after Austria has its Fiffl made his appearance st a regular session late in the afternoon which followed a meeting on Asiatic questions The Austrian made an impassioned plea to restore his nations sovereignty and deliver its people from occupation for the first time since 1938 He that the economic terms of the draf be in a sympathetic and son H These terms provide for a ment to Russia of over a six-year period by tria for the redemption of tories in the Soviet occupation which were as man assets GIVE RUSSIA OIL They also give Russia the lions shaie of oil duction foi a of 25 to 30 signed that the dis- posal of the re- Deport Damage To Stored Wheat CP and district farmers have I nd rusty beetle infestation ral farmers reported losses of up bushels is 110 miles west ol Saskatoon is an inalienable right for every fice people There was strong indication that if Molotov would drop his insistence on a Big Five parley including China State tary Dulles would be willing to reverse the previous U.S position that Russia should attend the Korean con- ference only as a partner of China and North Korea rather than as a today's private sion the conference secretariat released only this The ministers continued their discussion on item one sia's Five conference posal of the agenda and their restricted session at the allied control authority building ed at p.m Western officials said the use of continued to describe the discussion indicated it was not terminated today and would be taken up in a fourth closed meeting at a time as yet not fixed The western ministers made plain to Molotov in Thursday's closed session It was understood that they have no intention whatever of CP A public dispute which has erupted over alleged deficiencies in new water line Thursday led to the resignation of Mayor George W Ringrose who has held his post for 27 consecutive jears Wednesday night two town councillors Magnus Granum and Wayne Qually quit their tions and two other councillors C H Leeds and E H Mack whose terms expired this year announced they would not seek re-election in the March 1 town vote Councillors Granum Qually and Leeds were members of the town's water committee SEQUEL The resignations came on the heels of the council's annual ing attended by more than 100 sons at which town officials were attacked on the water line question The line was completed last fall charged that ties still exist in water supply and demanded an tion into the reasons for a three-day breakdown in the line shortly after it began operating Residents were without water during the down Continued on Page Two but they are deeply interested in having the Berlin PEACE Continued on Page Two FLASHES P.M IN ROME Minister St Laurent landed at swept Ciampino airport Friday for a three-day goodwill visit to Italy The Canadian leader was met at the airport by Italy's new premier Mario Scelba MONDAY board of transport commissioners rule Monday on a railway plication for establishing a new basis for freight rates that would involve an immediate general increase in tolls RESIGNS POST culture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson Friday announced the resignation of Howard H don as administrator of the de- commodity tion crop control and price support the appointment of James A New York state farm leader as his successor LOCATE BABIES than 30 babies reportedly smuggled Into the United from Toronto and Montreal have been located by tion authorities in New York and Brooklyn police here Mid Friday
