Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sun rises lun 17.49. moon ieti EDITION OCTOBER 20. 1945 moon sen i CO M in AK Sun rises 6.59. sun sets 1 VOL. Moon 18.10. moon sets 7.15. JV JURY PONDERS CASE TODAY ant civic T Defence Denies Grant Civic Wage Boost Civic employees sent up a triumphant cheer from a well packed gallery in the council Friday as they heard a special meeting of council pass full implementation of the homme wage survey report on a vote of ten for and seven The salary and wage changes will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1945. Payments will be made swn as the necessary payrolls can be as The report of the finance committee recommended the three-stage method of menting the wage This meant that one third of the increases would be paid this year two thirds in 1946 and the full amount in 1947. V. B. Anderson moved an seconded by E. A. for implementation in The amendment They urged that the retroactive date be set back to the time the employees first asked for the in- That was two years it was Scraba suggested that the employees not in favor of the three-stage method because they had no assurance that the council of 1947 would come through with the final He moved an amendment to Ala. Anderson's amendment that we treasury department be instructed to issue certificates to the em- ployees which would act like war savings certificates in assuring the employees of their He withdrew the motion we adopt the 1ion of the finance 1 don't think the employees will stop They'll take the matter to the war labor and it has granted increases back to the date when the said D. first thing we have to think seriously about is 1946, said Aid H. C. are lots of things we have to do and want to As far as I am con- wages are the most im- Labor Picture Now Brighter By THE CANADIAN PRESS With coal miners in Alberta scheduled to return to work after aast their protest meat the Canadian labor front situation began to look a little brighter Though mine fields around bridge and Crow's Nest Pass still are idle there was indication that return of miners m Drumheller would speed up the return i ol work of the other Alberta miners and bring the to an end by with regard to the 10 000-man strike of Ford There was no government reply to the policy committee request that the federal government put m a controller at the Windsor plant of the automotive Lethbridge bartenders de- to remain on their jobs LABOR PICTURE Continued on Page 5. Column 4 Firm Reports Theft And Fire Jackson 300 t Aid J. Penner spoke at length in of implementation in fun and warned that the city should not accumulate huge surpluses certain corporations are No Grounds for Asking Employees To Wait The city had no grounds for ing the employees to m the opinion of J. city can afford this and the informal meeting of the council didn t con- CIVIC WAGES Continued on Page 4. Column b U.S. Arbitration Offered In Java New Oct. 20. The United States offered today to in attempts to settle fully the rebellion of natives in French Indo-China and the Dutch East John Carter director of the state department's office of Far Eastern made offer in a speech before the Foreign Policy association Hold Radio Stations Oct. 20. alist held radio stations today ed on Indonesians to tear down the Dutch flag and wage a holy in A propagandist broadcasting from Soerabaja ed the Dutch that if they did not their flag away from the capital within the next few city would be New Indonesian forces were re- ported gathering in middle Java the population .to fight the Dutch to the two station through AH they according to F. partner in the was a small electric A ber of automobile batteries were carried out into the but were fire broke out in BUY BONDS Defence Denies Murder Intent The fate of Frederick Duncan 37, a corporal in the service charged with murdering his May m their home at 1569 Ross Sept. 8, rested Saturday afternoon with the that has been trying him since Thursday McCallum was on the ness stand for period Friday and under Huge Vote Pledges Canada's Peace Aid By CHESTER BLOOM an overwhelming voice vote with no the Canadian house last night passed the resolution committing Canada to United Nations world organization to enforce Western prairie members took a major share in the concluding in- John D. Diefenbaker Lake Alistair Stewart Winnipeg and Mrs. Gladys Strum Only one Norman Jaques spoke against the Hon. Louis St. minister of leading the made the concluding by the Dayton Outfitting company 329 Portage District Chief coined entrance to the service pushed blazing out of the building and put out the Mr. Jackson estimated the to the car at about stole about worth of according to Morris 745 Carter manager 01 745 the f Parade And Fireworks Display To Touch Campaign Kendall May Upset Iberville Result An attempt may be made by candidate Harola Kendall in to the tion result in that provincial con- it became known Satur names of the were printed in three the A spectacular parade and the biggest fireworks display staged in western Canada since Trt 111 to be held in opens Tuesday in conjunction with the Details were Friday by the national war finance Manitoba me are sponsored by local business The young men's section of the Winnipeg board the I of trade has arranged the parade their haste to depart and All Berlin Papers Print Indictment Oct. 20. Berlin newspapers yesterday the full 24000-word text of Allied in- and the Kinsmen club of Winnipeg stated Eddie nd send a parliamentary committee to Indies investigate the real the Free Indonesian radio said last Provisional Junta To Rule Venezuela free elections could be secretary seneral of Socialist Democratic Action took over the presidential of deposed President Disheveled and alter both IS j its in Caracas and the reaper rations were attorn maximum Hailed By Russians war crimes indictment of accounts of the handed UP Thursday m mens an Berlin were complemented by recalling the suffering of the Soviet Union at hanls of the Nazis war lords blood of the guiltless victims who have perished at the of Hitler's butchers demands said the newspaper Trud said criminal gangs of Hitlerite scoundrels answer for the horrors of Maidanek and set off on the driveways in front of the main entrance to the legislative on the Broadway starting at approximately 8.45 p.m and lasting almost one chairman of the Kinsmen club's fireworks committee They will be fired by the specialists who put on the pyrotechnics at Toronto exhibition and the Calgary Crowds Welcome 1 o Hong Kong Men Two Grenadier brothers came hoirie Friday at the P R They were Cpl. Clare Purse and Cpl. Ross of They enlisted with the Grenadiers the same day they went to Jamaica they were taken tney the samp Providing weather is a huge crowd is expected on the legislative building 14 Floats With Illuminated Panels Featured in the parade will be 14 floats with illuminated military detachments of vice personnel and mobile Twenty automobiles will carry erans from Deer Lodge hospital m will depict ways in selves on Civvie street and some ol the peacetime jobs facing Victory loan officials Leaving Main street and Redwood avenue at 7.15 the parade s will south on Mam street to P. avenue south on west on to Memorial south Memorial boulevard east on Broadway Portage boulevard to to y street and to the 16 tive building trucks at the and rear will control the movement VICTORY LOAN Continued on Page 3, 12 Longshoremen Sentenced To Jail Signals Car Displayed at A rate Oct. 20. The world's most secret railway car President Roosevelt ran a part of history's biggest war through its Oct. 12. longshoremen were three weapons th 0 to close its meat All Home by Oct. 31 Oct. 20. 241 Canadian army Hong Kong ers remaining overseas Oct. will te returned by Oct. 31 but no defin ite date can be given for the return of 615 released prisoners remaining In the European it was Sosel in a return tabled yesterday In up its mysteries The converted devices the radio and now goes with President coach was displayed today at Union station here by the White House signal after three years of tion calls it the most modern and complete mobile communications the name by which the coach has been the pre- tA any house or any or other vehicle in the United Carry on a radio virtually unbreakable the world at a rate of messages to code I from Send messages The newest of the numerous com- devices in the car is An operator on an or punches out a dinary teletype keyboard to that on a The mes sage progresses through a ter into a which puts i into difficult to break because of its lack of The re suiting jargon goes into a at the point of reception then passes into a receiver and ap on a teletype re All this goes on while the coach is in When the goe through a which interfere with the sending i automatically upon a signal denoting the ha from the the opera tor resumes The only visible thing to indicate the natur of No. 1401 is the antenna Replying to earlier questions put by Mr. Mr. St. Laurent told the house that Canada's share in providing military forces to the security council will be whatever share is slated for her in the ment which mny be ultimately and which will have to come back he this house and the other house for Mr. St. Laurent added that those charged with the duty of drafting the military agreement will have to submit reasons to both houses to justify the sufficiency of Canada s proposed share of military Unlikely Before Spring Replying to a question by Gordon Graydon the opposition member who attended the San Francisco Mr St. Laurent said that he did not think it would be possible to have the United Nations organization in such shape as to conclude the tarv agreement arrangements De- fore next He could not be but he would expect that the military agreement would be dealt with at the next session of the regard to Canada's policy In agreeing to provide a share o military Mr. Laurent said that the government's feeling wasi that a very large majority of the dian people wished Canada to be a partner in this international peace organization and were willing to do whatever was required to be a full Whatever that he felt Canada would bear her ful share to make the organization p greeted the statement continued Mr. St. rent quite prepared to take whatever risk there in being a member The candidates wrong alphabetical order on the ballot paper in Iberville The order John Dowell W. Harold Mr. who won the and Mr. Lawrence were both Coalition The Election act. not clear as to whether names of candidates must be printed in alphabetical order on enabling section of the act does not say that is necessary A form mentioned in the enabling section and incorporated as schedule to the act does say tha She names of must on be Icy Japs the same day at they were in the same and they stepped off the same tram Friday 50 relatives and friends were gathered to welcome the two of them had motored in over 100 miles for the Cpl. Clare had one very important small person to steal his heart away who has been living with her mother at Lenore very serious in the midst 01 hat happy was trying recognize this daddy from the pictures her mother has shown to AGE 16 Author Killed In Own Drama Oct. 20. play featuring Hitler and was being rehearsed in a house Francis aged 16, of the was shot In one of the scenes a guard over Hitler used a McGettigan and wo companions were said to have obtained the loan of a and while they were enacting the scene t went the bullet striking near the Joseph of has been charged with 71 Hong Kong Men Reach Victoria Oct. 20. one liberated Canadian prisoners of war arrived here yesterday from and were taken im- mediately to Gordon Head rest camp to undergo medical re- pay and new thence proceed to their homes throughout The veterans of fighting at Hong arrived at San cisco earlier in the week aboard American and proceeded by train to and then were brought here aboard a Canadian Pacific Steamships coastwise Cpl. Hugh D. member of the Winnipeg de- scribed prison life as scientific murder by lived like Our alive with maggots ana flavored with George of brought three-foot tice sword made of bamboo with which the guards used to beat her so Mrs. C. of said look Cpl. loss's twin Mrs. O. ol Two brothers of W. J. of 768 Pacific are still WELCOME Continued on Page Column 3 Shade And Shine TEMPERATURE READINGS Low during the 7.30 October 20........ 9.30 October 80........ 11.30 October 20........ last year A fine week-end is predicted for Manitoba by the with not much change in temperature Skies will be partly he says Both Purse very in boys their of that organization CHARTER Continued on Page 5, Column Tedder To Head British Air Staff Oct. 20. Sir Arthur London Marshal o the will succeed Marshal Sir Charles A. Porta as chief of the British air staff after the retirement Jan. 1, tne air ministry announced last Tedder formerly served as deputy supreme commander under Gen Pension For Nelles Oct. 20. Percy former chief of the naval staff and former chief o the Canadian naval mission in was retired Jan. 6, 1945. on annual net pension of i disclosed order the ballots in alpha action has yet been taken by Mr. mat but the printing of circumstances of th the ballots are bemj There has been n he would make any move Coup Rumor Circulates and nava elements to stage another coup against the supporters of Col. Juan D. The move was said to be backed bv the Campo de Mayo garrison which was the centre of the origina move which led to ouste which was followed by the man s days spectacular comeback tw According to the troop from Campo de Mayo actually lef their barracks in a move on Bueno Aires but were turned back whe Argentine air forces opposed thei was held outbid the downtown offices of the embassy at which a group of UK supporters of Peron booed an reports said that no move was made by Campo de Mayo it is known that there wa great activity at the military lege opposite the Palomar militar air According to one rumor Camp de Mayo won the support of the ai forces the Buenos Aire police which have been strong sup porters of Peron functioned nor AFL Too Oct. 20. Th national director of the ated United Work union today expressed h willingness to have unions represented in the meeting next Wednesday with th packinghouse industry's three Afc lying on the floor of their orne on the night she he id not realize she was dead or ven seriously He believed she had just fainted nd hurried out of the house to get the accused When the trial was resumed be- ore Mr. Justice Major at 10 a.m. L. D. defence commenced his address to ic taking from one hour to le hour and a He was followed by C. W. rown whose address to took less than half an Mr. Justice Major followed crown and his charge to the jury they retired early Saturday to consider a took bout half an In his address on behalf of the Mr. cast doubt n the charge that murder had been and submitted the crown ad not proved that the accused had arbored any intention of killing Defence counsel also doubted that ames 242 confessed lover of the slain was in the house when tie was as he had Mr. pointed out that Manby said he was standing in nother room when ame home on the night in but that Manby had said he icard no no raising of McCallum's counsel suggested that Mrs. McCallum had become anxious in the night of Sept. 8 when her husband failed to make the train on which he was to return to his at Ont. If she did telephone Manby that it was to tell him her band had not left the city and that he should not visit Manby lad testified that the reason he was in the house that was Mrs. McCallum had tele- phoned him to come over Defence counsel stressed that the accused had been a good husband and and that he had never abused his When McCallum realized his wife wanted a divorce lie became tortured in mind and started drinking heavily during his A home is the basis of civilization and the sanctity of it was violated when another man entered it ing the absence of the man of the who was the victim's band and father of their three continued defence The accused was a hard working and when he found his home had been by a love he lost all In Mr. said it was for the jury to decide what was to become ry tc th e unfortunate Friday night more than 50 relatives and friends hand at the to are seen at the top Cpl. Hols with his arm around his Mrs. C. of Top James of is shown here receiving a double welcome from his twin June and Bottom Mrs J A. of 168 Arlington and her voung went to Portage la Prairie Friday afternoon to meet her Grenadier Capt. J. A. Norris The three of them are shown here following their arrival at the station Friday Bottom Til Never Say Goodbye was a song written in a Jap prison camp by Elmer of 785 Valour and now he will be able to live up to the is seen here with the the Lorraine Ramsay and his Mrs. G. W. McKnight husband and his three In his address to the Mr. Tupper stressed that they should bear in mind the evidence of who had said he had heard the accused and his wife talking ir. the house for several lowed by Mamby had fied he saw McCallum in the house that night and found the body of the woman lying on the floor of the front and that the had told him sho had Next to crown counsel was the statement to Cpl. G. J. No. 7 Equipment where he had gone after thn that his wife was very ill and maybe she was Further there was evidence accused had told Aherne and CpL J. D. Walker that he had had very bad row with his wife and that her condition either low or she was The said Mr. had also stated to witnesses that he was afraid he had finished his wife off. When asked what he put UD his hands and used these Counsel also asked the jury to remember that McCallum had told don't know whet I have gone through in the last seven She got what was coming to was not consistent with what the accused had said in the witness box on Friday when testified that his married life had been and that he had been happy with his wife since first meeting her in 1938. Mr. Tupper cast doubt on the story he had seen his wife n the arms of an airman outside heir He contended that no such airman existed and that Callum had invented him for the purpose of justifying his actions after his wife entered the house Friday Mr. taking the stand in his own declared that he had no Idea that lis wife was dead or seriously in- jured when he allegedly left lying on the floor of their home at 15B9 Ross Sept. 8. McCallum told the hushed room that he had been waiting for his wife to return from the corner store where she had been making a telephone She was not posed to be away very he but as time and It was hot in the he decided to go for a The clock at the he pointed to 11.20 p.m. v witness saw someone standing on the front It was mv wife and some Air Force He was kissing her and mauling As she was well McCALLUM Continued on Page 5, Column 3 Jailed For Torture New Oct. 20. Helen 29. a has been sentenced to four in the penitentiary for holding the hand of her over a gas She told police she had burned her son's hand because she believed he had stolen her She pleaded guilty to a charge of ous assault V
