Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page eight suggest King Edward Hospital turned into nursing Home Winnipeg free i Abb thursday april it possibility of converting King Edward memorial Hospital into a convalescent Hospital or nursing Home and constructing an up to Date Sanatorium elsewhere in the grounds of the municipal Hospital loomed in health committee wednesday afternoon. The suggestion came from the Secretary and manager of Munici pal hospitals and without debate to a special commit tee composed of aldermen Hilda Hesson m. , James Black and William Scraba chairman of the health committee. This committee is already study ing the care of the aged and infirm in nursing Homes and the possibility of the City operating its own institutions. Post War plans of the municipal hospitals already include a co Sld Erable sum for the modernization oiling Edward Hospital and the provision of additional Sanatorium facilities a letter from Donald m Cox Secretary and manager pointed out. This amount plus the Cost of the City purchasing a building for a nursing Home elsewhere would cover a considerable portion of the Cost of constructing a new Sanatorium it said. Free treatment topic most of the session was taken up with a discussion on the proposed bylaw to allow free treatment for communicable diseases. Certain sections Mohe proposed bylaw did no meet with the approval of the hos Pital commission and a defeat for pet. William Robertson who was reported severely injured somewhere in. England in a recent army casualty list. His parents farm in the Pierson District. Why we prefer pure pork sausage because it is Handy to Cook. Because it is economical. I because is is easily digested f it tastes equally Well cold. Makes Ideal Sandwich filling. Dent s English wholesale and retail Bacon co. Ltd. 286 fort St. Our products arc pro curable at All the Best grocers butchers department Anil Chain stores cleanliness is our motto Totory consisting of a. J. Roberts or. Dougald Mclntyre and d. M. Cox appeared. Several Points were ironed out to the satisfaction of All and it was decided that no matter what Type of Ward they May be in patients May have their own physicians for consultation. Once More Aid. Joseph Stepnuk brought up the question of the City removing ashes free of charge from schools charitable institutions and other benevolent organizations premises. In Many cases refusal of the City to remove these ashes was an injustice Aid. Scraba said. Following Brief debate the mat Ter was left in the hands of a sub committee to be appointed by chairman William Scraba. Mfd. By the Cream Ette company of Canada. Ltd British Columbia packers limited Vancouver Annada no roofless Ness so Ransby says the housing situation in Winni Peg is far from Good but it is not quite As bad As in some other e. C. Ransby Secretary of the Winnipeg real estate Board said tuesday. He has recently returned from the East where he discussed housing with various officials. I Don t think anyone will be without a roof Over their Heads on May 1, although they May be housed in quarters much different than those they would or. Ransby Felt. There would have to be considerable doubling up. The real estate Board was still working hard on having the House conversion plan made applicable to Winnipeg he said. When Owen Lobley rentals administrator of the wartime prices and Trade Board arrives thursday from a Dominion j housing Survey tour efforts will be made to arrange a conference. Suggests fewer courts of Appeal Ottawa april 27. John t. Haig p.c., Manitoba said yesterday in the Senate that there might Well be Only one court of Appeal for the three Prairie prov inces and it would not be Over he spoke on second Reading of a Bill to provide for the salary of a third judge of the exchequer court of Canada which alread3 has been approved by the House of commons. Senator Haig said there might be too Many judges in Canada but he believed the salaries paid judges in general were insufficient in View of the income tax deductions now being made. He said annually would be sufficient Tor an exchequer court judge if lie received that amount. Actually he would Only obtain about and when the income tax Laws were being amended consideration should be Given the judges position. It was not fair to ask men to retire from Active business and take offices As judges at such salaries. A judge of the exchequer court dealt with cases involving very cargo amounts of Money. Four Are injured on City streets four persons two of them cyclists were injured in accidents wednesday afternoon and evening. Only one was admitted to Hospi Tal. Two of the others were treated at Hospital and allowed to leave and one is resting at Home Eugene Barnes 64, of 411 seven Oaks Avenue was injured at 4.50 . Wednesday and an Auto said to be driven by Marcel Dupuis Lorette Man., knocked him Down at Bannatyne Avenue and main Street. Police say that Barnes was Cross ing from the West to the East Side of the Street when the Accident happened. Taken to the general the injured Man is re ported suffering from a fractured leg and broken ribs. His condition is Good. Hazel Martin. 7, of 1818 Pacific Avenue was injured when she ran into a car on Keewatin Sweet police state that Hazel was watch Png a Winnipeg electric bus going South on Keewatin Street and then started away from the curb and ran into a car said to be driven by John William Carver of 737 Sar gent Avenue. She was taken to her Home by or. Carver Bachynski. Of 715 sol Kirk Avenue was Riding West on notre Dame Avenue near Donald Street at 6.55 ., on his bicycle when a Handsaw he was carrying on the handle bars fell into his spokes. The bicycle slopped dead and Bachynski fell to the pave ment. He received a Cut Over the left Eye. Frank j. Wallers. 666 Lipton Street was struck by an audio As he was going South on Maryland Street around n.45 . Australian newspaper difficulties reviewed it s Good to up a Good thick newspaper once said Lac. J. H. Taylor r.a.a.f., recently of the Royal australian army who has seen action in Egypt Libya and. New Guinea Dis covered deep amid the pages of the Winnipeg free press in the Reading room of the United ser vices Centre Lac. Taylor admitted that he was a former sports writer on the Melbourne Herald. News papers in Australia he said were working under great difficulties. Lack of paper had reduced the size of papers from an average of 48 pages in former Days to about eight pages these Days Lac. Taylor landed in Greece three weeks before the evacuation of that country and narrowly missed arriving in Crete when his ship was torpedoed and he was taken to the Island of Ceylon. He has been in almost every part of the British Empire and is looking Forward to arriving in great Brit Ain to Complete his round the world trip. The regular meeting of Mearns Camp Noj 10 sons of Scotland will be held in no. 4 Hall travellers building May 3, at 8 . Says health Bio unfair Ottawa april 27 financing of a National health insurance plan As outlined in a draft Bill now being exam Ned represent a flagrant of the pm Ciple of the a pity to Fay said Canadian Congress of labor Brief yesterday distributed to of social Security com Mittee which ii s been examiner in the draft Bill. The Flat rate contribution of per adult is simply a head tax per haps the most Type of tax there is and certainly one that has no relation at All to the ability to said the Brief. The Flat percentage income tax of three per cent for single per sons and five per cent persons is almost equally objection Able especially in View of mum limit of Lor single persons and ?50 for married persons. Both forms of contribution would Bear heavily on the Low income groups and hardly at All on the Well to do. They would be particularly burdensome for those in the Low income groups who have Large families precisely those to whom the government by its projected family allowance legislation is proposing to make special Grants presumably because of special need. The Brief was distributed after a w. Fulton of the Christian science committee on Toronto the committee to support a suggestion that the draft Bill include a provision to protect Christian scientists against compulsory acceptance of medical. Or surgical ministrations of treatment. Arthur Slaght l., Parry said the right should be left to the i provinces to decide whether Chris Tian science healers might receive benefits under the health Insu Nvick act. The Canadian association of so Cial workers in a Brief presented to the committee said it favored a National scheme of health insurance with changes in the proposed Bill involving Public health Grants to the provinces on the basis of need modification of the proposed rates of contribution simpler administrative machinery the inclusion of a programme for the crippled and the provision of disability benefits. Nazis Are warned by spectral voice by Daniel de Luce Anzio beachhead Italy april 27. A six thousand screaming shells and a spectral voice warning surrender or swept Over a crude Hilltop fortress one mile North of the Garibaldi Tomb where pos Sibly 60 German infantrymen crouched before Dawn tuesday. Four surrendering germans appeared. Then battalions of Light medium and heavy artillery landed a Gigantic. 18-minute punch. About 100 shells were fired for every Esti mated Soldier in an area Yards Square. Again the enemy were Given a Brief Chance to quit. Five minutes later riflemen and assault Crews charged the Hilltop while five Sherman tanks with sirens wailing rumbled in close sup port into no Man s land. In 20 minutes the Force cleaned up the Hilltop took eight or 10 prisoners and began a planned withdrawal carrying Back their own casualties. The value of voice casts in Battle tactics was left very much up in the air at least for this Blanket holding observer. Air mine laying proves effective London april 27. Lay ing of mines in enemy Waters has reached such proportions it occupies 10 per cent of the great Force at bomber command s disposal the air ministry announced on the fourth anniversary of the first magnetic mine being Laid in enemy Waters. Air chief marshal sir Arthur Harris was one of the first airmen to press for airborne mines and now the air Force has taken Over the bulk of mine laying from the Navy. The technique has been developed to a High pitch and the Job demands great so rail and daring from the bomber crows. Casualties they suf Fer Are Little less than those of Normal bombing operations. The air ministry calculated that the mine laying Campaign has resulted in the sinking of tons of enemy shipping since 1940. In addition the German Navy has been forced to abandon one of ils most important areas for the test ing of new submarines and the training of new Crews. One outstanding incident came when two a boats were returning from an Atlantic patrol. One of the a boats hit a mine and blew up in full View. Of a. Reception com Mittee on the Quay. Men give Beaumont a rousing Send off 1 Wing commander r. J. Beau Mont and his wife got a rousing Send off at the Canadian Pacific railway station wednesday morn ing from the officers and men of no. 8 repair depot where he has been commanding officer. Wing commander Beaumont left for Vancouver to become chief Engineer officer at no. 3 repair depot and he is succeeded in Winnipeg by group Captain r. C. Hawtrey who was also at the i station. This is Why they Sang Rosie the Riveter citizens hurrying past the unemployment insurance commission offices near main Street were amazed to hear voices lustily sing ing Rosie the Riveter Early tues Day morning. The employees were being shown a series of films from the National film Board entitled can Ada in the news. A Man and his Job and Rosie the Riveter. When Rosie the Riveter was being shown and its Catchy theme song was flashed on the screen employees enthusiastically joined in and Sang the chorus. Oak Lake welcomes to. E. Rom Johnston Oak Lake Muk april 27 Spe rounded out a tour of Over enemy territory. Pilot officer e Ross Johnston of or and mrs j a Job Mon Oak Lake received a rousing Welcome on his arrival Home this week. He received his training with the r c a f at Begma and Calgary and has had a number of interesting and exciting experiences since in his arrival in Britain in August 1942. He is looking Fine and feeling fit arid during his visit Home will be tendered a Public reception. Prior to enlisting Boss was employed by the Dominion department of Agri culture experimental Larm million years old Kimberley Smith april 27 up Reuters abbe Henri Bureil French archaeologist re ported tuesday he had found a wealth of roughly chipped Stone tools m the Vail and Riet valleys near he estimated dated Back years. He said they oldest known proof of Man s existence in South Africa. New greek Cabinet resigns Cairo april 27. Stop Gap greek Cabinet in Cairo headed by Premier Sophocles Venizelos re signed tuesday night and Ariew government under George Papandreou who recently arrived from Greece was sworn in yesterday. Ready to Start Worthington says Ottawa april 27 up Allied invasion armies in Britain Are see ing up now for the Bic said maj Gen f f Worthington for Mer commander of a Canadian division overseas who arrived Back in Ottawa recently and reached Ottawa yesterday Mam thing is not to kick off too said Gen Worth my ton everything must be Gen. Worthington left last night to new duties As officer. Commanding at Catnip Borden ont. Is looking for Sorn Oiw with a highly developed sense of smell to take the place of Clyde to How s Oklahoma City. April 21 the Oklahoma Board of agriculture keep give a in vigor and Takiaw Vita Vax All round. Ask you my gift i 010 vaccine Best foreign plat new York april 2g. Drama critics Circle tuesday declared the Franz Werfel a. N. Behr Man comedy Jacobowsky and the colonel the Best foreign play of the 1944 season but made no declaration As to the outstanding american play. British to Jukish talks London. April 27. Cup a British military Mission Ankara to resume talks with the turkish government after Turkey decided to halt the Export of Chrome to Germany it 1 was Learned yesterday. Cup of Fry s is a cup of food who soon Good you can t take Liat a scratched us Dull. That s Why so Many women today depend on Bon Ami. It s Quick and easy to Toft too. Free from the harsh that Tor Celciu. Bon Ami keeps things i looking their image in Bon Ami polishes As it Deans Anada toe May we gain a higher degree of National consciousness a greater Pride in our nation and our country a Pride in keeping with the land that bore us. May we learn to cheer As our troops March by. May we have a greater appreciation of our achievements in this War and not be so hesitant in making them known to others so that they in turn May have a greater respect for Canada and the canadians who populate this in simple words is a sincere tribute to the the peo Canada to our. First citizens the men and women in our armed services. But no less to the the people of Canada. To the Little people and to the big to the woman who gives a son to the Vimy or Jutland of this War to the Man who Dies in War heavy business harness. To those who willingly pay taxes and dig deep to buy Victory Bonds and Ever hear the red Cross plea and abide by the spirit of rationing regulations determined to do their utmost to the beginner with a Victory Garden to the Farmer with hundreds of wheat acres. To the Man in the streets and the woman in the Home to Canada and All canadians let us express a Heartfelt wish a Hope. May our Pride within our Bor Ders and the respect from other lands that is ours give us Confidence to plan a future big enough and grand enough to be worthy of this Canada we love. The . Company limited Montreal makers of Fine shirts ;