Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free Press Phone Number All Including adi Final Edition Winnipeg Free Press Weather a few cloudy periods day Risk of thundershowers in Winds light Low tonight and high Friday 75 63 NO 282 40 PAGES Single Copy Price 5 cents Weekend Edition With Comics 10 cents WINNIPEG THURSDAY AUGUST 23 1956 Sun rises 6.30 Moon rises p.m Sun sets p.m SUNNY More Govt Aid For City Roads Bid For Higher Freeway Grant Brings Counter Proposal By MICHAEL BEST Free Press Legislature Reporter A new deal on road construction and maintenance In Winnipeg is under study by the provincial ment the Free Press learned Thursday Under the plan the city would get many thousands of dollars in additional payments for roads each year from the province Broadly speaking the new scheme would see the province 1 give the city grants for roads in I I I I lne corresponding to secon I dary highways for which other municipalities now receive aid At present the city gets cial help from the province for main trunk highways only running through the area See AID Page 6 GOES DOWN SMILING Harding Offer NICOSIA Cyprus ters Leaflets signed leader of the terrorist lion distributed in Limassol Thursday ing the Cyprus ment's call to terrorists to surrender themselves their arms and Page 6 CNR Union Sign o Wage Pact If Maybe For City Reports that the federal govern ment may start paying something like full taxes on its property to municipalities could mean extra revenue to the city of Win nip eg Then again said hall als maybe it won't Under the new policy discussed at Ottawa the government would eliminate the two per cent holdback on cipal taxes At present the federal ment pays a grant in lieu of taxes to a municipality only if the assessed value of its property in that municipality exceeds two per cent of municipality's total assessment Federal property in Montreal MONTREAL CP The Toronto Doesn't exceed two and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have signed a 26 Parley Ends Amid Threats The London conference on the Suez canal ended Thursday with the lection of a committee to negotiate with Egypt's dictator Gamal Ab- el Nasser for an international control of the canal In Cairo however an tian spokesman threatened to retaliate against British and French ships for any rouble the nationalized company may have in keeping foreign pilots on their jobs Picture shows President Eisenhower with his special aide for disarmament Harold Stassen heir meeting yesterday in the president's hotel suite at San Francisco Here using secret arguments the president persuaded the former governor of Minnesota io change his mind on the renomination of Vice-President Richard Nixon So persuaded was Gov Slassen about the qualities of Dick thai he seconded his nomination at the convention yesterday Tinkling month contract providing CNR trainmen with an immediate wage increase to be followed by a five per cent boost next year A joint ment Wednesday said the ate increase is retroactive to April 1 last witb the in- crease coming June 1 1357 The agreement based on the unanimous report of a tion board also provides other ad- The company union statement read in The wage increase includes a sum of per month per em- ployee which is in lieu of health and welfare benefits Also in- cluded in the agreement are rales for trainmen in freight road service on trains ex- 80 cars in length six statutory holidays with pay for a trainman in yard service and other changes in agreement visions Goodness This isn't our baby It's the wrong carriage Shhh quiet This one has tires You Will Find Main Inside News 2 3 4 5 C Deaths and Funerals Comics Kadio and TV Hollywood Column Entertainment Social News 18 Sports 22 Finance 25 Special 8 10 2 4 13 20 tn 24 to Billy Graham Greener Thumbs 16 Jumble Contest 26 LOOKING FOR A This want add under Autos 1951 CHEVROLET 4 DOOR SEDAN Power slide take trade Ph Is among the hundreds of bargains in today's classified section No matter what you need shop and in the Free Press want ads nothing until the new post office was started and vast expansion was undertaken at Fort Osborne Now federal property in peg totals about This is well over two per cent of the city's total assessment of Two per cent is roughly 000.000 so the city has put ir a claim for tax grants on the re maining At the city's mill rate of 44 this would seem to mean a federa payment of 44 mills on or But there are strings attached to the government's policy Tht government won't pay for ser vices it doesn't use The govern ment won't pay for services i provides for itself As a result city finance commissioner J R has warned that the actual grant will be less than If he government is now Lo pay on remaining two per cent held back this would seem add 44 mills on or 000 But after the subtractions ar made to comply with federa qualifications attached to the offer say city officials the revenue would probably be sub less Limited CD Aid Pledged By Church The General Conference Men church recommended her Wednesday that its members giv limited co-operation to civil de fence and other disaster organize lions But it urged they from membership in civil organizations The Mennonite church object to violence strife and action not in harmony with Christia love Members are encourage to meet natural and war disaster through channels of the church which permit maximum freedom and obedience to the Christia ethic of unconditional love at Delegates attending the fin session of the triennial co ference approved a statement principles If the c vine law and the human law co we must always obey Go rather than men That Makes Adlai Blanch SAN FRANCISCO If anyone is worried that the don't have enough money to carry on a fighting campaign be heartened by what happened at Governor win Knight's ball at the civic auditorium writes special cor- respondent Art Buchwald There weren't enough pagne glasses in San Francisco so a call went out to New York to send in glasses After the parly all the glasses were thrown away because there svas no place to wash them It's gestures like this that scare the Democrats silly Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc AII For Stassen Humbled BY DON WHITEHEAD -SAN FRANCISCO HT With roaring approval the Republican National Convention Wednesday night renominated Pre- sident Eisenhower and dent Richard M Nixon The Republicans closed ranks in harmony Thursday when Harold E Stassen suddenly realized his fight to push Mr Nixon from the ticket was futile in the face of almost solid convention support for the youthful dent Mr Slassen asked to be one of those seconding the nomination of Papers PG Leader Accused of Contempt VANCOUVER CP Counsel ir a former Columbia cabinet minister will try to prove n Supreme Court Monday that wo Vancouver newspapers and he B C Progressive ative parly leader have been in contempt of court through lon campaign statements Counsel for R E amis and forests minister in the Social Credit government who re- signed after launching a suit against Vancouver lawyer David granted leave to for writs of attachment committal of the Vancouver Sun Vancouver Herald and PC Finlayson The writs are legally defined as court orders commanding the sheriff to bring before it a person who has been guilty of contempt Mr Justice A M Manson will be asked to rule that an election campaign speech made by Mr Finlayson last Monday and re- ports of that speech in the papers were prejudicial to the outcome of Mr Sommers ing action The suit was started Dec 19 by Mr Sommers It is based on ments Mr Sturdy made last De- cember before the Sloan forestry commission about Mr Somers conduct as a minister of the crown Mr Sommers resigned his inet portfolio Feb 27 but not his legislature seat and this week was nominated to seek in constituency See CHARGES Page 10 tr Nixon His gran d The huge hall fell quiet as M tassen began to talk He ise with humility and ess to second the nomination i ne able and experienced Califon an Richard M Nixon Change Of Heart He alluded to his opposition Ir Nixon by saying that he wa convinced that what 1 vas doing was the most ive and helpful step I can take lelp in the election of Ike Many Republican leaders an delegates had been violently an opposed to Mr Stassen to unseat Nixon B he appeared on the platform here were only cheers and here were any boos they were i in the press section of th hall This convention was so that it wasn't mad including Mr Stassen Mr Eisenhower himself ed that Mr Stassen had folded his tent in his fight to unseat Mr on He held a news conference near noon and told newsmen and a vast audience in an dented live broadcast of Mr Stassen's decision Pathologist Says Woman Died From Snake Bite TORONTO CP Dr Fred Jaffa pathologist with the On tory said today that an autopsy showed Mrs Helen Hay 48 of Toronto died of a rattlesnake bite and not from a blood clot as earlier reported autopsy definitely revealed that death was caused by bite Dr Jaffe said Wants North Growth On Firm Basis NEW CP The commissioner of the west Territories warned to day against mistaking govern ment and defence construction in the Arctic for genuine economi activity on a lasting basis R G Robertson in his address to the first session of thi Territories Council held the Arctic Circle said the DEW Distant Early Warning rada line has provided work for man persons in the North but must no be considered a permanent mar ket for labor He told the council th northland's permanent growth de pends on the development of bas metal mining and the early im provement of transportation See Page 10 5 NATIONS APPROACH BY ARCH PARSONS JR CAIRO Wednesday to delay passage of British and French hips through the canal in vent that British and French ots quit their jobs The threat was contained in a by Col Nabih Younis the Egyptian who has been charge of the canal's operation ince the nationalization of the a month ago The ment charged that some British md French nationals who are em- to pilot ships through the resort to the trick of feign ng sickness in order to disrupt navigation in canal See THREATS Page 10 Submit Plan To Nasser LONDON Reuters The Red Chinese Admit Dawning Intruder Plane TOKYO AP Communist China said one of its planes damaged a aircraft early Tuesday over islands southeast of where a U.S navy patrol plane with a crew of 16 was believed shot down A Peiping broadcast without r identifying beyond reference to the Chinese Opt ist leader said it had intruded M- over Chinese islands and made off after the encounter toward direction of mosa U.S ships and planes were searching for the naval patrol j plane believed downed by Com- munist Chinese aircraft 32 miles sower London conference on the Suez Canal ended officially Thurs- day with 18 of the member tions agreeing to seek negotiations with Egypt on a United States plan for international control of waterway The 18 countries favoring the American proposals decided to send a delegation to Egypt to ask the Egyptian government to cept the U.S plan as a basis for talks The U.S will be on the five country delegation headed by Australian Prime ister Robert Menzies Other countries represented will be Sweden Iran and pia MAKE The OWN ARRANGEMENTS conference finally broke ofE Wenchow China Nightfall j came without any announced word of the results A last brief radio message from the plane a tor reported dt was under attack by aircraft CDT at More out of the procedural snarl which had slowed its last hours when the powers supporting decided to make their own arrangements for pre- the decision to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser See PARLEY Page 6 Temperatures Maximum minimum temperatures and readings tor 24 hour period ending Thursday August 23 Marilyn Starts Attempt On Strait VICTORIA CP Bell covered about two miles at 1.30 p.m CDT today two hours ter she left Port Angeles Wash in her second attempt to swim the strait Juan de Fuca She was moving strongly through the swell at about 58 strokes per minute This winning combination which returned the Republicans to the House and gave their party control of Congress in 1952 will op- pose the team of Adlai Stevenson and Sen Estes of nominated last week in the Democratic Na tional Convention The tions were the sparks which ed off explosive de- monstrations by the de- legates alternates and others in the giant cow palace which seats some people This was the time for the cans to howl after two unexciting days and the pent-up emotions were turned loose Mr Eisenhower's nomination came first The 12 votes cast by Nevada pushed him past the 662 votes needed for nomination He was declared nominated at p.m Ike Watches TV President and Mrs Eisenhower spent the afternoon at their suite in the St Francis hotel watching proceedings on television With them were son Mai John and his wife Barbara Vice-President Nixon's name was placed in nomination by Gov Christian A Herter of setts who refused to permit his own name to go before the con- vention in opposition to Mr Nixon The vice-president at the sickbed of his aged father in Whittier California clinched the nomination as had Mr hower when the state of Nevada gave him its 12 votes By the time the balloting for the No 2 spot on the ticket began the Convention hall's gallery was most empty The interest drooped after Mr Eisenhower's selection Calgary Edmonton Swilt Current Saskatoon Brandon Fort William Toronto Max 84 1 Sn SI 81 71 64 61 76 70 65 Win BO 52 45 49 57 61 62 than 10 hours later the navy said search planes combing the area since dawn had found nothing Vice-Admiral Stuart Ingersoll chief of the U.S Formosa defence command said the Mercator is assumed to have been shot down by the attacking aircraft OVER NEUTRAL WATERS It was the first attack on an American plane in the Formosa area since Jan 18 1953 On that date a navy Neptune was downed by Red gunfire off Swatow and 11 men were lost The U.S navy spokesman in- that the Mercator was over neutral waters east China Sea at the tune the attack was reported It was then operating 32 miles off Chinese Communist he said 160 miles north of For- losa The plane carrying four of- and 12 men was on a tine training and patrol mission from Japan to Okinawa the navy said U.S patrol planes operating in China waters have instructions to keep at least 12 miles away from the Communist mainland The missing craft part of the U.S 7th Fleet's Formosa patrol force was based in southern shu Japan 40 1 Tr Police hoping Thursday that a stolen auto might lead them William onto convict who escaped Monday Stony Mountain penitentiary The vehicle was reported stolen from the Greater Winnipeg Wednesday It contained company credit and bore Manitoba licence plate Mullen took the car he might 36 wearing a green shirt uid brown trousers which were eft in the vehicle While police still tended to the heory that Mullen had no help in us the RCMP dog was inly able to follow the escapee's a- matter of about 300 yards leading to the belief he could had an accomplice As far as police are concerned Wullen got away pretty clean and anything is just a matter of guesswork In Winnipeg police continued to check known haunts of criminals as well as in- mates RCMP are continuing their checks throughout the province TUNISIANS CHEER NASSER TUNIS crowds Wednesday acclaimed E g y p t's President Nasser on the arrival of the first Egyptian ambassador to the newly independent state o: Tunisia What Would YOU Do With A Million Last November former premier John Bracken told the provincial government that it could save at least a million dollars a year by stopping the Government Liquor sion from overpaying Manitoba breweries According to made recently in the Free Press the actual overpayment since November when Mr Bracken gave his advice is now just reaching What ought Premier Campbell's government to have done this Readers of the Free invited to send in their opinions A representative selection of letters will be published as a special feature Examples of what a million dollars will do are given on today's editorial just as examples You may agree with one of these or you may have a better idea than any of them you were Premier Campbell what would you Tell us The atic city of- Rimini the home of Francesca da Ri- mini and one of of Renaissance is also the home of this charming nus 1956 The goddess who emerged from the blue Adriatic waves Is old Anna
