Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba FINAL EDITION eg Clear Little change in ture Winds light Low tonight high Friday 47 and 75 VOL 283 32 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS WITH COMICS lOc WINNIPEG THURSDAY AUGUST 26 1948 Sun Rises 6.34 Moon Rises 10.54 p.m Sun Sets 8.25 p.m Moon Sets RED MOB STORMS BERLIN CITY HALL Get Chance To Win Hold Saratoga Stake Four Winnipeggers and one Manitoban have drawn tickets on eligible horses for the 44th running of the Hopef u at Saratoga Springs race course Saturday They stand a chance of winning a top prize of more than ier Charged In Case City police Thursday their investigation of injuries ti Randall Darbel win 5s reported to be in poor to fair condition at Children's hospital The child was taken to hospita Tuesday night suffering from frac tures of the skull arm leg and ribs and in a state of severe His mother Mrs Isabel Darbel appeared in cit police court Thursday A holding charge of assault occasioning ac tual bodily harm has been lai against her She was remanded for one week Police allege the woman beat the child in a fit of rage by the baby's fretful crying Sho was arrested at 10.15 p.m Tuesday after husband Michael Darbel 641 Dufferin nue rushed the child to hospital Should the child die crown prosecutor O M M Kay said an additional charge of murder 01 manslaughter would be laid If the baby survives the charge probably will be using unnecessary force the chastisement of a child Butter Disturbing Supply Down OTTAWA Aug 26 bureau of statistics which uses the same calm tone lor good news and bad took a look at the butter situation day and came up with these disturbing 1 Butter stocks are away down Total supply at Aug 1 amounted to pounds less than at the same date last year 2 July production of creamery butter was pounds a drop in comparison with the output in July 1947 3 Total production in the first seven months of 1948 was pounds another de- crease The comparative figure last year was This is the background picture highlighted by fears of a butter famine this winter Even dairy urged the to seek imports from New Zealand or Scandinavia or failing that to provide a suitable sub- Figures such as these will be in the public's mind too when the supreme court meets Oct 5 to rule whether the ban on import manufacture and sale ol See BUTTER Page 9 Tropical Blow-Up MIAMI Fla Aug 26 BUP A tropical hurricane with winds at about 100 miles an hour was moving toward the United Stales mainland from miles nt sea Thursday Canadians have drawn tickets on 52 of the 106 horses eligible in th running The drawing was held in Quebec City conducted by th Army Navy and Air Force Veter ans of Canada Manitoba ticket holders Albert James Gray 615 street Cool Down Steve Kay 803 St Paul avenue Donation D Robart 298 Charles street Gambler Gerald 209 Chestnu Entrust William Stewart Griswold Man Sport Page To sum what all other ticket holders must feel at the possibility of winning a goodly sum of money Gerald quette Boy oh Wouldn't it he Asked what he'd do if his dreams eame true Choquette n feed packer at Purity Flour mills I'll KO to school My schooling is incomplete and I'd spend every cent of my winnings on setting an tion Included among the other dian ticket holders arid the they hold J C Melville Sask A Kilbride Rowatt Sask dent Don Ernie Estevan Sask Mail From Home and Mary Chicorli 518 W Gore street Fort William er Prize distribution on this pool vill total of a total pool with the ticket holder of the winning horse collecting Second horse will bring in number three n addition there are prizes and As yet o favorite has been established or the race Of the tickets held in Canada line are in Toronto 128 in other arts of Ontario 12 in Montreal wo elsewhere in Quebec five in six in British Columbia hree in Saskatchewan and two in This 1948 automobile was hit by a freight train at the railway crossing in Newdale Man Tuesday night The driver Roy Thompson 32 of Basswood Man was in- stantly killed while a passenger in the front seat Allan Lawrence 32 of Bissett Man re- head and chest injuries After plowing into the vehicle the locomotive pushed it along the track before the train could be stopped MISHAPS TAKE 2 LIVES Drinks Gasoline Dies James Kafka 22 months of 457 Henry avenue died in General 8.35 p.m Wednesday a few hours after he had consumed from a pop bottle Police report that the boy's uncle Karl Kafka was cleaning auto parts the left the bottle of 5 a cleansing agent on a bench iear where the child was playing Karl soon noticed that the boy vas ill and took him to hospital by the child's lather A few hours later James led of gasoline poisoning Bilan Will Face Jury Trial In Krupp Death JL JL 4 Frederick T Bilan 25 a truck of 850 Flora Garry street narrowly escaped in- ury told the court he was backing into a loading platform at a grocery house when a cur driven by Mr Hrupp scraped past him A door handle was torn off Krupp's car he said and both drivers stopped I pulled over to the curb on the side of he said Mr Krupp drove further down the street and parked We both got out and he came over to my truck to exchange insurance information We were standing at the back of my truck Mr Krupp was right beside writing down my name when I glanced Thursday was committed for jury trial on a- charge of slaughter in the death of Samuel Krupp Winnipeg sportsman The committal followed a preliminary hearing before Magistrate VI H court Krupp died in Winnipeg General a few minutes after he was rushed between two trucks near he corner of McDermott avenue nd Adelaide street July 14 was the driver of a Scott's akery truck which smashed into Crupp as at the nother truck names vith the driver in connection with previous minor collision Bilan himself was seriously in- ured in the crash and spent nine ays in hospital Driver of the ther truck Robert Kashton 144 See COURT CASE Page 9 Struck By Car Condition Poor Basil 31 Lot 173 St Anne's road St Vital is in St Boniface hospital suffering from a fractured shoulder a fractured leg and probable head injuries red when he was struck by a while walking on the highway near his home His condition was ed to be poor According to police driver of the car which struck Mr was Miss Veronique loyal The accident occurred about 9 p.m when Mr ing south along the highway with his wife Miss Joyal attempted to pass a truck going south and hit Mr then grazed the side of the truck police report Quick Operator Saves Man's Life CRANBERRY PORTAGE Aug 26 action on the part of a drag line operator Lucin Lapointe in stopping his machine saved the life of his oiler Shorty Demlin when he slipped and caught his arm in the main drum of the dragline The limb was badly lacerated First aid was administered by Miss Violet Hoard at a camp five miles distant to which Demlin was taken by jeep He was then brought to Cranberry Portage and from there flown by airways to Tractor Rolls On Farmhand A farmhand Hector La Riviere of St Malo Man was crushed to death early Wednesday when a tractor he was driving overturned and rolled on top of him The accident occurred near La Rochelle about 7 as La Riviere was trying to steer the tractor up a ditch Coroner J S Holowin of Morris Man reported that no inquest will e necessary Down With Splitters Demonstrators Howl Aug 26 od demonstrators smashed through police Lines and stormed into Berlin's city hall Thursday Police reserves were called up to handle the estimated to total more than 10.000 persons They forced their way through a line led by men who Down with the Down with the After bursting into the NEW MEETING Berlin Currency Accord Reported MOSCOW of Britain the United Stales and France are expected to have another meeting with Soviet officials Thursday their efforts to settle the Berlin deadlock Premier Stalin is reported to have an agreement with the envoys on currency reform for Wholesale Egg Price In City Drops 4 Cents A decrease of at least four cents in the wholesale price of grade A eggs has taken place in Winnipeg during Wednesday and Thursday However this price drop will not be passed on to Winnipeg's wives Thursday according to the larger retail stores The drop is due to a decline in eastern explained A F Darnell inspector of poultry keting for the Dominion ment department of agriculture Because consumer reaction to higher prices in eastern ada the buyers in Toronto and Montreal have lost interest in car lots of he stated This in turn affects the local he added Mr Darnell predicted a levelling off egg prices by the end cit the week Two large wholesale dealers in Greater Winnipeg reported the lowing changes in the price of eggs during the last 24 First Dealer Second Dealer Grade A Large lo 64 la trade A Medium Blc to c irade B to to frade C Steady at Steady at the blockaded German capital London sources say Stalin agreed at the meeting Monday night lo western idemands for a share in supervision of Russian currency in Berlin After this latest meeting if successful the British French United States anil siun governments art expected to send instructions to their military governors in to start talks In London an unexpected sion of- the British cabinet WHS called late Thursday No reason for the meeting was disclosed but Pa Hon Ernest foreign secretary had conferred earlier with U.S ambassador Lewis las regarding the latest ments in the Moscow talks Jews Say Arabs Violating Truce JERUSALEM Aug API The Jews Wednesday made new charges of truce violations by Arab forces in Jerusalem ing which is located in the Soviet sector of the city they rushed upstairs to the city assembly chambers Tlie Socialist party announced it is a outside the man reichstag building which though it is in the British sector is only n stone's throw from the Soviet sector border No casualties were reported By a large part of the crowd had dispersed Tlic demonstrators were members cif the Socialist Unity party which is sponsored by the Russians ami hy Communists The crowd ed outside lie city hall ing red banners and singing the Internationale Red banners carried the One administration one rency We want Down with the enemies of the Down with the agents of monopoly capitalism Berlin's city parliament predominately ji n 1 had been scheduled to vote day on a resolution to send a delegation to western Germany's constitutional assembly A was proposed by the leader Franz Neumann and approved by the parliament's man senior committee Try Reason Police sought to reason with the crowd telling them there was no point lo a demonstration since the assembly meeting was put off But An Israeli army bulletin demonstrators charged ahead Egyptian troops tried to advance across no-man's-land toward Jewish suburb Israeli troops drove them back the bulletin added Holiday Oct 11 OTTAWA Aug 26 CP Thanksgiving day this year been set for Monday Oct 11 Hon Colin Gibson state secretary an- Thursday A proclamation is being issued fixing the date Counsel Charges Error In Auditors Revenue Estimate Revenue of the Winnipeg Electric company will decline more than the amount suggested by public utility board accountants R D Guy company counsel said Thursday at a hearing of the transit system's application for an increase Mr Guy was W C MacDonnell of Millar donald chartered accountants who earlier this week estimated the company would turn in a 1948 fit of instead of its mated loss Mr calculated the company would suffer a two per cent decline in revenue this year instead of the three per cent reduction Weatherman Sticks Neck Over There's a lot of hot air floating around but take it from the weatherman Winnipeggers can start worrying about frost time now Reports Irom eastern Canada where hot air is nothing new tell of employees knocking off work temperature hovered around the 100 mark of ians sleeping in parks and of 250 persons collapsing at the Ottawa exhibition In Winnipeg however we've had that heat ing to From now on we can start about he added before forecasting the mercury will dip from a of 80 Thursday to an overnight low of 47 Neither temperature will set a record in Winnipeg Hottest Aug 26 in the city's history was in 1937 when thermometers registered 93 Coldest Aug 26 was back in 1915 when the mercury plummeted to Winnipeg high will be 75 and the humidity bearable Temperature nt 11.30 in Winnipeg was 76 That is Eskimo weather com- pared with the 101 high tered Wednesday in Toronto where citizens were going around telling each other We're the hottest spot in North of Phoenix Ariz At Phoenix it was 106 Jealous Hull Que claimed a high of 106 but their reading was unofficial and Toronto won the dubious honor of having the hottest hot air The Toronto temperature was the second highest in the city's history Only one to top it the time record there set on July 9 and 10 1938 when a 105 degree high was recorded Heat victims say the Canadian See WEATHER Page 9 estimated by company The decline up to the end of June he said had averaged 2.2 cent Mr Guy challenged the ability to make ments on the company's present set-up and asked him if he had had any instructions as to what he should seek to find instructions I had no instructions Mr reported E D Honeyman board member asked Mr Guy if he were ing the accountant bad an ul- motive I'm not suggesting Mr Guy replied but I am gesting he had something in mind of what he was looking I did not have anything in Mr MacDonell said I was asked to examine the company's position an point of view Mr said his estimate had been based on current conditions adding there was evidence these conditions were going to be any worse in the near future Mr Now Mr are you trying to say there will be no depression in the Can't Count On Depression I would say that you cannot take that into account in rate making If you are counting on a depression then this application is not worth the paper it is written on The accountant contended that present-day tion users should not be re- quired to pay 11 higher rate because of n possibility company revenue might de- cline at some time in the ture Should the user have to pay See Page 9 AT They Get Hitched Despite Hitches ASHFORD Eng Aug 26 BUP Gigg 21 finally is Mrs William Bates Her wedding was scheduled a month ago But she kissed the page boy a rehearsal had After Mary was released from quarantine she and her fiance tried again But as the guests Saturday it was found that the marriage licence had ex- They held a reception threw confetti and had wedding graphs taken anyway Wednesday William and Mary were married don't think they planned a real putsch In try to the city hall Acting Mayor Ferdinand told reporters But they aimed nt panicking us and scaring UK out of Die building then they could say that we descried umi could not be relied upon to run the city The Russians and German Com- violently oppose western government plans They been trying to cut Berlin from he west entirely maintaining that it is part of the Russian occupation zone Rod Speech Wilhelm Pieck Germany's op harangued bers of tlie Unity party Wednesday light and called on the western allies to get out of Berlin The Russians Wednesday barred vestern publications in the Soviet sector of Berlin effective Sept 1 Vice-Consul NEW YORK Aug 26 Zot I Soviet vice-consul sailed for home lato Wednesday in Hie wake of Moscow's off consular ties with the United Slates sudden from Cily surprised re- porters Only a few hours he in New York He was accompanied by his wife throe daughters The consul at New York Jacob whose recall de- manded by the U.S after Mrs Oksana jump from the consulate building will sail Saturday for Russia NO LAZY MEN LONDON AUR Chief Micka negro of Kenya natives tri- bute to Britain and hfr duction drive Thursday The chief who is studying cultural methods in Britain Raid it is a fine country not seen man Bitting under a I Did Not Want To Kill Myself I Wanted To MRS DECLARES NEW YORK Aug 26 Mrs Oksana said she leaped from the sian consulate in an attempt to escape from the Soviets because she did not agree with the policies of Stalin Mrs told reporters who interviewed her as she Iny hospital that the Soviets had destroyed her life by sending her son to the battle of Leningrad where he was killed Mrs middle-aged made licr first lic statement Wednesday since her from the consulate Aug 12 The teacher became the centre of a diplomatic incident on Aug 7 when the Russian consul general in New York announced that he had rescued her from While Russians Five days later Mrs leaped from the third floor of the consulate Three reporters chosen by lot Interviewed her while two nurses B policewoman and a physician stood by Mrs answered the questions through an interpreter Mrs Luba Terpak She was too weak to answer all of the questions which reporters had planned but she smiled frequently She wore lipstick and a said the teacher had manicured her nails in preparation for meeting the press In answering the questions the teacher emphasized these 1 When she jumped from the consulate she was attempting to to kill herself 2 She had made up her mind never to return to Russia even before she left that country more than two years ago X She appealed to Russian ambassador Alexander and Consul General cob thinking they would have some semblance of mercy But instead they refused to talk with her and concocted a story which suid she must tell reporters She also said she wanted to thank New York police for had done for her The quick action of the police Jn entering the con- after her leap was one of the reasons cited by the Russians for breaking off consular relations with the U.S True The interpreter said that Mrs told her that considered her a true pedagogue even though her husband had been destroyed Mrs said the Russians brought her to the U.S to the children of Soviet diplomats because the thought her knowledge would be useful f she said they made a great mistake in bringing me here The interpreter said that the teacher her that before her rescue from a haven for anti- Communist Russians she had told Lomakin she wanted to talk with him as a human being he was not a human being The first question the reporters asked her When did you decide not to return to why did you so desire tiad what did do after you de- Through the interpreter she When I was still in sia I felt that if I got to America I would be able not to return to Russia The son I wanted to escape was that in 1937 they took away my husband and I have no idea where he has gone He disappeared I left Slovinsk in the Ukraine to visit my son in Moscow a first year student at the university When the war broke out he was not a military man He did not belong to any somol Communist youth movement or any political party Therefore the Soviets tooted on him as an enemy of the state They took him into a storm troopers division out any training whatsoever In Leningrad Jan 12 1942 ht was killed They have destroyed my entire life since I spent all Jumped to escape Russia my life on my son and my husband Neither of the two were political people My son was a student my husband a teacher as was I Asked why she jumped from the consulate she they returned me to the consulate from Countess Tolstoy's farm I knew since they did not permit me to leave that I would not be able to escape in Moscow either Therefore I jumped out of the window to escape did not want to kill self I wanted to escape The teacher turned restlessly on her bed as she answered the questions She was ly and perspiration stood out on her forehead The next question asked her She What did Ambassador exander discuss you at the consulate the day you returned from Reed farm an Russian She I had written a letter to the consul which first brought him grid Lomakin into the picture 1 thought these people had some semblance of human mercy and would converse with me What he said was he would not speak to me but would go downstairs and tell re- porters this and this This happened on Aug 7 the day Lomakin announced at a press conference attended by Mrs enkina that he had rescued her from White Russians who had napped her and taken her away to Reed farm In Seclusion From the time of the press con- ference until her five days later Mrs was in at the consulate Her jump created an international incident which resulted in the Russian an- that the Soviets were closing their consulate in the ed States Mrs said at the inter- view that and Lomakin told what to say to reporters at the press conference She said they told her she would become a heroine for telling such a story The teacher told of a letter which she wrote to Lomakin while she was at Reed farm She said told him that after two years in America she was be- coming more and more because she was called on enemy of the state and was persecuted in many small ways Mrs said she wrote that she wanted to movo away from the consulate where she had been teaching Since they would not Ice her she said she decided to do as she wished Whereupon she said the sians arrested her Mrs closed the Inter- view by do not agree with the policies of Josef Stalin I love my people and my try but I cannot agree with the policies of the Soviet Mrs said she was born in 1895
