Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free Press Phone Number All Final Edition Winnipeg Free Press The Weather A chance of showers or showers near midnight Sunny Thursday with some cloudy intervals Winds light Low tonight and high Thursday 55 and 70 VOL 63 NO 275 Suit A B.C Issue Case To Be Aired i On Hustings VICTORIA CP Spokesman for the CCF and Liberal parties said Tuesday they will make the Sommers Sturdy case a major issue in the B.C provincial election Premier Bennett says he will refuse to discuss the matter be- cause it is before the courts The premier announced Monday night that an election will be held Sept 19 R E Sommers former ister of lands and forests is suing Vancouver lawyer David Sturdy for because of statements Mr Sturdy made before a royal commission on forestry last year Mr Sommers resigned his inet post Feb 27 Liberal leader Arthur Laing If there is corruption there it must be rooted out The public is entitled to know if this ment is sound Harold Thayer provincial of the CCF the official op position said the case most tainly will be a major campaign issue The interests of good ment demand that it be raised on the he said We con- tend government must be honest with the public when charges of corruption are made Wait Action On Study Bid Premier D L Campbell said Tuesday the government was still awaiting a reply to its request for the services of the United States army corps of engineers to carry put a flood control cost-benefit study in the Red River valley The request was submitted early in July through the external fairs department at Ottawa lier a com- headed by Mayor George Sharpe of Winnipeg had gated methods of carrying out the cost-benefit probe and had mended that the U.S army was best suited for the job a spokesman for the department said that further in- formation was required from the Manitoba government before a sub- mission could be made to the en- corps via the U.S State Department Before we send on the request need more data from the vince on the nature of the survey it has in he explained He in- that the department had asked Premier Campbell to make the additional information able but that a reply had not yet been received The probe is to relate to flood control projects outlined in the Red River basin investigation re- port of 1953 42 PAGES Single Copy Price 5 cents Weekend Edition With Comics 10 cents WINNIPEG WEDNESDAY AUGUST Sun rises rises 5.10 Sun sets Moon VOTES PILING UP Democrats Climb On Adlai's Bandwagon HARRY S TRUMAN Fair Deal Fighter Adlai No Dealer CHICAGO AP Former President Harry S Truman said Wednesday Adlai Stevenson lacks the kind of fighting spirit needed by the Democrats to preserve New Deal and Deal principles Mr Truman appeared before a crowded press conference in the MORE CONVENTION STORIES PAGE crystal ballroom of the Blackstone Hotel to plug anew Av erell Harriman for the Demo cratic presidential nomination Mr Truman said he was shocked that any liberal crat would encourage the ment of the New Deal and the Fair Deal as out of date He said the destruction of the social and economic philosophies underlying these programs aim of the conservatives in both the Republican and Democratic parties Mr Stevenson the party's 1952 standard-bearer and the ning candidate for the nomination this year of that the Democrats need Mr Truman said He lacks the kind of fightin spirit we need See TRUMAN page 8 In France every little boy can grow up to be Prime Minister and most of them Will Find Main Inside Page No 4 9 10 11 Finance 12 13 Deaths and Funerals 13 Italia and TV 14 Hollywood Column 15 Social News 17 to 19 Sports 24 to 26 Comics 27 28 Billy Graham 2 Medical Memos 4 Greener Thumbs 5 Letters To The Editor 5 Jumble Contest 23 Free Press Flies Flag Of India The flag India is being flown today from the courtesy flag staff of the Free Press to mark the independence day of that nation Squelch For Truman Politicking As States Join Stevenson CHICAGO The Stevenson move en- by Go v Averell Harriman and former president Harry S Truman appeared to be faltering Tuesday under the pressures of a new drive to give Ad- lai Stevenson the cratic presidential on the first or second ballot The Stevenson wagon stalled since Mr Truman threw his support behind Gov Harriman last Saturday was oh the again Important blocks of votes were reported moving t o w a r d Mr Stevenson in his struggle for control of the con- vention and the party Overnight there was a burst of renewed con- in the Stevenson Fall Vote Seen For Nova Scotia OTTAWA Special Premier Henry Hicks Liberal tion in Nova Scotia is preparing to go to the polls this fall cording to unofficial word received in the Canadian capital by Mari- time members Wednesday It will be the fifth provincial government to go to the polls this year Quebec New Brunswick and have already had their elections British Columbia has announced it will have an election this fall In each case the sitting govern ment has been re-elected Nova Scotia held its last election in May 1953 The government there does not have to go to the country again until next year but Premier Hicks is reported to be anxious to hold his election in ad- vance of the federal election and the unofficial word reaching Ot- tawa was that he may call his election for this fall Recommend Municipal 19th Hole A Winnipeg parks board has recommended that al coholic beverages be sold at owned golf courses The sub-committee headed by Aid Lillian Hallonquist found ter an investigation is a demand for such services from patrons of these con- with operations of other courses open to the public The sub-committee also that the dispensation of such is economically feasible The group asked that parks board architects submit cost of installing the necessary to the operation The sub-committee report weni to a parks board meeting this PRINCESS ANNE whose happy smile and carefree manners have earned her the title Little Miss Mischief is ing her sixth birthday today Her party was a private family affair aboard the royal yacht Britannia with the Queen the Duke of Edinburgh and her brother Prince Charles The Royal Family is cruising in Scottish waters visiting the remote Western Isles Free Press Estimates Crop Yields The first estimate of 1956 prairie grain production will be made in Thursday afternoon and Friday morning editions of the Free Press in this per's fourth crop report of the season The report will mate provincial and prairie tals for wheat oats barley flax and rye as well as average yields per acre in the ual crop districts It will also describe the progress of vesting crop damage and eral crop conditions organization that Mr Stevenson come close on the first ballot to the votes ed for nomination and that he would win for a the second It appeared that only a knock down splitting fight over the civil rights plank could interfere with this pre- diction See STEVENSON page 8 SUNNY McCann Blushes For CBC Apologizes For Radio Labor Drama OTTAWA CP Canadian Communists have infiltrated into government tions as well as try Revenue Hon J J McCann said Tuesday He made the statement Commons in replying to a charge y Social Credit leader Solon Low hat We Shall Not Be Moved a adio play broadcast last Oct 1 the CBC was a Communist Mr Low said the two-hour play carried over the ada network was inspired by Com- who have infiltrated the publicly owned corporation He wanted them sought but and fired See CBC page 14 Firemen from three stations fought a two-hour blaze at 755 Portage avenue Wednesday The lire which first out at 2.30 started again live hours later and gutted the offices of the Community Purchasing Discount House At top getting a view of the ment are from Donald 259 Toronto street his brother Dennis in the middle and Bobby Hancox 269 Toronto street Probe Mysterious Double Fire Fire officials were puzzled over the circumstances surrounding a blaze which ently was put out at 2.30 but puffed up again five hours later and wiped out a Portage avenue discount store Assistant fire commissioner Gorman Campbell told the Free Dress a complete thorough had been started in- 0 the mysterious double fire which spread through the Community Discount House 755 Portage avenue Although Mr Campbell has still study the reports turned in by fire station and police who answered the 2.30 confirmed reports from residents the area say that no further was put on the smoking building following the investigation The supply and retail store of Stephen Paints Ltd an adjoining office separated a two-inch beaver board partition miraculously escaped damage in the second blaze according to Cy Young store manager offices are located in the building at Portage avenue and Victor street No one was in the building ng the blaze although Mr Young old police at the scene he was about to open ng when he noticed smoke rising rom the back of the Discount louse See FIRE page 5 Winnipeg Golfers Win Matches N.B peg's Doug Bajus and Don ner won their first round matches in the Canadian golf championship Wednesday Bajus defeated Doug Lewis of Moncton N.B 4 and 3 while ner won over Bob Kennedy of Moose Jaw Another Bob Gray didn't fare as well Gray lost his match with Jack of St Ont 6 and 5 TOM CASEY Veteran Blue Bomber halfback retired this year to continue his al career will be honored at a Tom Casey Day Oct 30 That night the ers will be host to the gary Stampeders The Sales and Ad club of peg is expected to sponsor the event Temperatures minimum temperatures precipitation reading for 24 hour period ending 8 30 a m Wed Aug 15 were Max MJn Prec Vancouver 73 59 Tr Calgary 82 Edmonton 84 So Regina 76 54 Brandon 73 Fort William 79 Ottawa 80 Toronto 82 Montreal 78 45 59 62 63 Nasser Waves Carrot And Stick On Parley's Eve negotiating opened here Wednesday m tion for international conference on the Suez canal tomorrow from Cairo Egypt's President Abdel Gamal Nasser was blowing hot and cold Col Nasser is sending to don his top political adviser Wing Cmds Ah Sabry the repeated boasts that Egypt would the London parley The Egyptian dictator also told he foreign minister of Pakistan Huq who ar- rived in London Wednesday that would accept an al body to act in an advisory to the new Egyptian General's Total Grant Is A total of in federal and provincial construction grants o Winnipeg hospital was assured Tuesday by an nent in the Commons by Hon aul Martin He announced a con- struction grant to the General by government However he grant is paid under a provincial system of matching grants and in Winnipeg day a provincial health ment spokesman said the province would federal payment Allocations of the provincial unds for the General will be nade as soon as a check covering he federal portion is received Although the General is now lured of the it may not be paid in a lump sum The health department spokesman said that he practice way to pay ter of the grant at a tune as con- struction agement of the Suez Canal Com pany Pakistan is the leading Muslim power to attend the London con ference Another Muslim nation Iraq a member of the western sponsored Baghdad pact is als to mediate between and the West and has Col Nasser consent for such mediation On the other band Col Nasse ordered a 24-hour general strike i Egypt to begin at midnight Wed The strike is in support o Egypt's nationalization of the Sue Canal Company See SUEZ page 5 News Oi The World In Brief A Stevenson Kefauver et is at present the most favored combination at Chicago Democratic convention Page 1 and Gov Dewey may yet replace Nixon as President running mate Page Red Smith's views of the convention on page 8 India has a compromise plan on Suez Both Egypt and Russia have shown conciliatory attitudes Page 1 9 and House Calls An End To Session OTTAWA CP Parliament was prorogued Tuesday night after one of its stormiest and longest sessions in history The last piece of business was approval by the Commons Tind a little later by the Senate of the government's ing program for the fiscal year The Commons ended its 4 43 p m EOT 3 43 p m the Senate at See PARLIAMENT page S Channel Beats Swimmers FOLKESTONE England Tom Park who had led all the way retired from the mass lish Channel swim leaving only Ireland's Jack McClelland in the storm-tossed water Wednesday Park was about miles he gave in reported to be about eight miles off but there were no exact estimates forecast the Irishmen would be forced to retire If that happened no swimmer would have finished the first time that this would have happened m its year history Raft Adventurers Near Erid Of Atlantic Saga HALIFAX CP Four daring Frenchmen drifting across the At- on a raft were re- ported Tuesday to be nearing the coast of Europe Barbara Walker Halifax school teacher said she and other sengers on the erte saw the raft and spoke to the men July 30 when the ship was two days out of Southampton The Liberte docked in New York Aug 6 They seemed to be very happy and in good shape she said From where we saw them I would say they were about quarters of the way The offered the trio meat and vegetables but they did not need any The ship stopped for almost half an hour while the raft its square sail well filled by a brisk wind closed to 100 yards and passed by The men laughed and waved Miss Walker said They a huge round of applause from the passengers Everyone along the was talking with them The Halifax May 24 at the end of a fishing towline and was cast off at the mouth of the harbor The mep drifted most aimlessly off the Nova Scotia coast for days before reaching the northeast flow of the gulf stream Miss Walker's report was the first received here since a United States ship spotted the raft last month LOOKING FOR A r This want ad under 701 WARSAW AT COCKBURN Garage for rent Pb 4-9741 is among the hundreds of bargains in today's classified section No matter what you need shop and save in the Free Press want ads Which One Is Winnipeg's new black-maned lion talks tough to the tors but lias a weakness for dies lady lions that is Zoo officials said Wednesday the newcomer has proved sell entirely compatible with Louise widow of Louis the new lion's predecessor In fact say the zoo officials the newcomer is sometimes too compatible When keepers enter the cage he makes it bis business to stand between the intruder and Louise He's very said a zookeeper It's reaHy very touching
