Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 3, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba cloudy this evening cloudiness Thursday Scattered storms this evening A lew showers Thursday afternoon Not much change in temperature Low tonight and high Thursday 60 and 85 FINAL EDITION VOL 265 28 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS WITH COMICS lOc WINNIPEG WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 1949 Sun Rise 5.00 Moon Rise 4.44 p.m Sun Set 8.09 p.m Moon Set 32.00 p.m CLOUDY AND WARM SEIZED AS FORGERY SUSPECTS Ambush Nets Jewel Fortune NICE France 3 masked bandits Wednesday ambushed the Aga Khan one of the richest men in the world shot out the tires of his car with tommy guns and robbed his wife of jewelry valued as high as The bandits laid in wait for the Aga Khan spiritual leader of Ismaili Moslems and father-in-law of Rita Hayworth just outside his fabulous Riviera villa near here When the Aga Khan's c pulled out of the villa gateway shortly after noon they shot out the tires of his car then forced the chauffeur to pistol point to hand S over the Begu Khan's jewel case They pointed at our hearts and threatened to kill the Aga Khan told police There was nothing we could do We raised our hands and the dits took all my wife's jewels Powerless We were powerless to resist the gangsters who obviously were professionals They must have been following us to know about the jewels which were all in the car They comprised my wife's entire collection All our jewelry was in those boxes gangsters worked with smooth precision They wore big black glasses The size of the Aga Khan's for- tune has never been disclosed But he is reported to receive an lowance of a year from faithful and to have more gold cached away in India than the Bank of England has in its reserves The robbery followed by 14 hours a holdup at the smart Van Cleef and Arpels jewelry store at Deauville on the French Atlantic coast near where Rita and her husband Prince Aly Khan son of the Aga are staying There too the loot was valued at At Deauville too the bandits were masked Deauville lies more than across France from Nice The Aga Khan's beautiful wife a native of France has been reported in ill health for some time She made only a brief ance at the wedding of her step- son and his American actress bride No Description Police gave no immediate of the men who robbed the Aga Khan They blockaded all the winding roads leading from Nice along the Monte Carlo on the east and Cannes on the also the narrow roads which twist northward Into the mountains of the Cote Only 100 miles to the west lies the port of Marseille place of robbers and smugglers The Mediterranean offered an- other possible escape route Coastal patrol boats were reported ready to search all suspicious craft in the area Seven Killed After iai Break MORELIA Mex Aug 3 Police early Wednesday battled 72 prisoners who from the city jail Tuesday night Six ers were killed in the fighting and eight captured police headquarters said One policeman was reported dead and two wounded Aga of millions of- Ismaili and his wife the Begum Khan who were robbed of a fortune in gems Wednesday This picture was taken at the recent wedding of the son Prince Aly Khan to film actress Rita Hayworth FIRST DELIVERIES ACCEPTED Board Elevators Arrange Coarse Grains Handling Canadian wheat board day signed handling agreements with elevator companies covering farmer marketings of oats and ley G H Mclvor chief of the board announced in Winnipeg Wednesday morning This move by the wheat boarc adds another step to the over from private marketing of prairie oats and barley crops to government marketing through the wheat board Mr Mclvor said the board also accepted its first deliveries THURSDAY HIGH 85 Scattered Thunderstorms Predicted For To nig lit A few thunderstorms occurred in Saskatchewan night and similar is expected in Wednesday night In general will be a little more ness and scattered showers in most sections with afternoon temperatures being slightly lower than Wednesday's in Saskatchewan and western Manitoba The re- mainder of the district will remain about the same or slightly higher Here are the regional cloudy with scattered thundershowers this Variable cloudiness day witn a few showers in the afternoon Not much change in temperature Low tonight and high Thursday at Gimli 55 and 80 at Carman and Winnipeg 60 and 85 with cloudy periods tonight and Thursday Risk of scattered this evening Little change in temperature Low night and high Thursday at Regina 55 and at Yorkton 55 and 80 cloudiness on Thursday showers or thunderstorms this evening and evening Not much change in temperature Low night and high Thursday 55 and 85 Temperature readings during the 24 hour period ending 6.30 Wednesday MIn Max Free Vancouver 55 74 Calgary 51 84 06 Edmonton GO 83 Saskatoon 54 SS Regina 58 Swirt 67 92 52 Toronto 66 Ottawa 64 Montreal 72 Halifax 60 82 87 72 SCORE BOARD PREDICTIONS DAY 1 TEMP SKY MOIST TUE WED FBI SAT CLOUDY DRY CLEAR CLEAR DRY THUK CLOUDY MOIST I ACTUAL POINTS TEMP SKY MOIST Poss 5 74 CLOUDY MOIST CLOUDY DRY I I HOW THE SCORE BOARD 5 points perfect or near perfect 4 good 3 2 1 poor Perfect or near than 5 degrees difference between actual and predicted temperatures and correct on other two counts Very than 5 degrees difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and correct on other two counts degrees difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and absolutely wrong hi other respects wrong on all three counts of the two grains Tuesday Marketings in the country of all coarse grains for the day were bushels This was a heavy increase ings one year ago which totalled bushels The chief commissioner not comment on how long it will be before the wheat board will be selling oats and barley to the grain trade However unofficial estimates in the trade place the time lag as three or four weeks Mr Mclvor said Wednesday that time will be required to work out the full plan for marketing of the two coarse grains At the moment he said the board is working out a schedule of prices to be paid farmers at country points At present farmers are de- livering oats and barley to country elevators and in return receive a storage certificate Payments on these certificates will be made when price ranges arc worked out The initial price for oats and barley at the lakehead as opposed to country points has already been announced It is cents bushel for oats and 90 cents a bushel for barley Favors Peacetime Conscription WELLINGTON Aug 3 Reuters New Zealand voters Wednesday rolled up a huge in favor of peacetime com- military service A preliminary count of votes in the referendum put the final vote in favor of the draft of with votes against Government and opposition parties united in supporting draft Frank Langstone farmer high commissioner to Canada was the sole prominent member opposing Prime Minister Peter Fruser de- last May to hold the dum after the Labor party at its annual conference recommended a referendum should be held before any conscription plan is introduced Conscription was in effect ing the second world war It has been imposed only in limited form while New Zealand was af peace In 1909 a measure was enacted re- quiring young men to put Jin ime training for sendee only in New Zealand This measure lapsed in 1930 Mystery Killers Claim Fifth Victim In Toronto TORONTO Aug 3 The fifth murder in less than a week in the Toronto district was uncovered Wednesday when police found the riddled body of Gloria McKay The body of her husband Robert Smitl Red McKay 25 was found Tuesday in suburban North York Mrs McKay's body was found ir the family car parked in a lot a the former Christie Street military hospital She had been shot four body was covered with a club bng and a blanket Brutally Beuten Police said she had been brutally beaten before being shot Police were first attracted to the car by the barking of the couple's pet dog Toby who was sitting near the car The body had been stuffed face down on the floor under the back seat Police also found a rifle with telescopic sight which McKays took with them on civic holiday week-end It ind not been fired police said and was definitely not used in the Police they believed the killed both McKay and his wife in some unknown spot took McKay's body to the township and then hid the car in the narking lot Chief coroner Dr Smirle ordered an autopsy to determine whether the dered woman was criminally assaulted Police said that thorough in- had shown that the was neither criminally asr nor robbed Police said they are sending a 38 calibre bullet removed from McKay's body to Ottawa for tests to compare with a taken from the body of fred Layng slain Saturday after- loon trying to capture a man who lad robbed a They said the man who killed Layng may also have killed the McKays Police said an empty wallet ound on the front seat of the McKay car indicated the motive for murder of the couple may have been robbery Discovery of McKay's body came as police stepped up their hunt for the slayer of Alfred Layng 25 Layng was shot Saturday while trying to halt a robber fleeing from a in east-central Toronto McKay and his wife set out in their car from the Barrie area Sunday night on their way back to Toronto from a civic holiday week-end visit with McKay's uncle N A Langelaan on a farm about 80 miles north Former Airman McKay saw wartime service in with the Since the war he had worked as an here The couple had no dren McKay's body w a s found by workmen in long grass in a gully See MURDER Page 7 Water Babies Traditional watermelons were missing but the fact didn't deter these small fry who found candied apples could be just as much a part of Emancipation Day celebration as the vine fruit Sylvester left and Franklin Caslin of Detroit two of the thousands who jammed Windsor's Ont Jackson the celebration of the anniversary of emancipation polished off these three in quick order and were back for mo re Importation of is forbidden un- der the programme Children Lose Lives In Highway Tragedy Man Aug 3 cial Two small children were instantly when the truck in they were riding hit another car and caromed off the road into a ditch filled with water The double fatality took place at 3.30 Wednesday four miles north of Dead are Peggy seven her two-year-old sister Mike their father said to have been the driver of the truck is in hospital His condition is good The family is from tain Road post office north of The two children were riding with 13 other people in the box of the truck returning home to Mountain from a wedding reception in The little girls were killed instantly when their father tried to pass a car containing Steve and Mike MASH NOTES WORRY STAR Joe DiMaggio Plagued By Girl Crank NEW YORK Aug 3 BUP Joe DiMaggio the New York Yankee club and a beauteous blonde showgirl combined Wednesday to jare the detailed a girl crank plaguing the famous baseball star It is a strange story and what ludicrous But bearing in mind the tragic shooting of Eddie Waitkus by a demented girl fan the have sd to take action The male tric in t i o n a c- cording to Yankee I man Arthur Red terson has been ing gio with DiMaggio mash and notes has contributed items to Broadway col- detailing the progress of a reported romance between Joe and lovely Junior Standish a dancer at the Latin Quarter night club DiMaggio and Junior have dated frequently but deny they are a romance Joe thought at first I was ting those items in the gossip col- and I thought Joe was doing explained the comely Miss Standish This girl has heen signing name to a tot of these items and I'm going to see that it's a hurry Why that's just like continued the haired dancer Everybody knows thai It's no secret But it this woman doesn't stop Sure Joe end 1 good for governor Mickey Cohen Escapes New Blast Attack LOS ANGELES Aug 3 AP A bomb gave a new jolt Tuesday to gambler Mickey Cohen ng from a shot in the shoulder received in a gangland attack July 0 Crudely fashioned the bomb went of across the street from his home blowing a hole in a neighbor's 50 feet from his hed It brought Cohen gun in hand and wearing yellow silk pyjamas to his door He declined to leave the house while policemen searched He told reporters I don't feel so well Cohen and two others were injured and his pal Edward Herbert was killed hy the July 21 shotgun blast outside a cafe No one was injured in the ex- plosion Tuesday Detectives are trying to determine whether it was a warning another attempt to kill Cohen or simply a prank GOVERNOR CANDIDATE WAYNESBORO Va Aug Col Francis Pickens Miller conceded early Wednesday thai John S Battle had won the ginia Democratic primary using my name to take action The Yankees too are taking action This woman obviously is a tal said Patterson We're to see to it that she stops bothering Joe But I'd rather not say what kind of action we're con- DiMaggio's close friend George Solotaire a theatre ticket broker who introduced Miss Standish to Joe said he knew who the crank Night The other I had a talk with her and tried to tell her to See DI MAGGIO Page 7 shyn brothers of Mountain Road The truck reported to have been travelling at an excessive the car and overturned in a ditch landing in half feet of water The two girls were pinned in the water under- neath the truck body The other passengers w ere thrown clear uninjured Woman 3 Men Charged Three men and a woman have been arrested in peg in connection with an avalanche of bad cheques passed in the city in mid- June police officials re- Wednesday In custody are David Butt 36 Patrick Joseph Murphy 35 Arthur Duncan Robinson 27 and Blanche Allard 26 all of no fixed abode Butt has been charged with uttering Murphy with for- gery and the other two with forgery and uttering Officials said a large number of further charges of the same nature would be laid against the four More than cheques ling about were passed June 17 and 18 in Winnipeg and stores S a t u r d H y approximately worth of bad cheques were cashed in local hotels Police said 15 for See SUSPECT Page 9 Evans Heads Civil Service Commission Gurney V Evans vice-president of Sanford Evans company limited statistical service of Winnipeg has been appointed chairman of the Manitoba government's civil vice commission it was announced Wednesday by Hon W C Miller provincial secretary Mr Evans appointment fills the vacancy on the commission left by the recent resignation of its man Dr Carl Williams formerly of the University of Manitoba Dr Williams has left to take a position with the University of Toronto Other Members Other of the three-man civil service commission are J S Anderson and Newton They serve as full-time commissioners The chairman of the commission is a part-time position Mr Evans is the son of the late Sanford Evans founder of the Sanford Evans company Born in Winnipeg he received his public and high school education in his city He attended Ridley col- lege in St Catherines and ated from the University of toba in Arts in 1928 Served In War He entered his father's statistical dosa from which vehicles were returning was an uncle of the driver of the truck The bride was a cousin An inquest into the deaths will be held jury will be empanelled Wednesday afternoon Dr H A Stevenson the district coroner will preside An autopsy into Uie cause of the deaths was performed by Dr D Riddell Corporal C Colcraft the M.P is conducting the tion of the accident Dutch Indonesians End Armed Conflict BATAVIA Java Aug 3 The Dutch and Indonesian licans formally ended their armed conflict Wednesday and issued employed until 1942 He enlisted in the Royal Winnipeg Rifles ing the Second Great War and in 1942 was transferred to Ottawa where he was assistant director ordnance services statistics in the branch of master general of ordnance In September 1944 he went overseas to the Canadian nance headquarters in London In September he returned to Canada after receiving his discharge in that same year He re-entered the Sanford Evans company at Winnipeg in 1945 His appointment as commission chairman was confirmed day with the passage of an by the provincial net He assumes his duties Equipment SYDNEY Australia Aug 3 orders to local military j Federal security ers Wednesday began investigation of the possibility that equipment being used by servicemen working coal mines in New South Wales has been sabotaged commanders in Java and Sumatra The cease-fire proclamation is to become effective in Java at mid- night local time Aug 10 and Sumatra at Aug 14 in East Europe Refugees Make Perilous Trip Hoping For Long-Sought Haven In Canada HALIFAX Aug 3 A weary band of 154 refugees from Communist oppression hoped the Canadian government would grant them asylum and bring to an end their five-year search for peace The refugees Estonians vians Poles and Hungarians arrived Tuesday aboard a small Estonian ship Parnu Although none had entry visas they immigration authorities would low them to stay A few had relatives living in this country and the rest said would go wherever they could find work The perilous trip to Canada In the small ship exodus for the was the second refugees in five from their homelands when the Russians took over Although they were jammed into the Farnu with each family assigned a cubicle of cardboard and in the of the ship they said the trip to Canada had Radio News on page 4 In Hollywood page 5 Bridge page 4 Women's hews pages 10 II Sport pages 16 17 18 Crossword puzzle page R Features page Editorials page IK Finance page 26 Steel company urges to 1944 they lied to Sweden ail freight rates page been pleasant compared with their escape from Estonia At that said one of them we travelled by fishing raft and foot to reach The refugees appeared well-fed and well-clothed The children were rosy-cheeked and swarmed over the superstructure of the vessel The prospective Canadians ed they had operated their own business or held good jobs leaving Sweden and said they had suffered no physical privations A spokesman said when they fled to Sweden from Estonia they had been registered as Estonian citizens but the Russians claimed they should be registered as Soviet citizens a claim the Estonians de- nied
