Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, July 04, 1946

Issue date: Thursday, July 4, 1946
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 4, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 6 Winnipeg free press. Thursday. July 4, 1948 today s history Doodle bomb mainline _ Mitcham solves problems that follow in Wake of winning War a London can Mitcham is an Industrial Section about 10 Miles South of the heart of Lon Don. Grew in the worst period of factory expansion about 50 years by David m Nichol ago when pressure and Public distaste pushed plants to London s outskirts. Around these plants mushroomed clusters of deadly monotonous rows of houses of red Brick. In these for recreation give a for refreshment. Canada dry cdo7s Brick dwellings and a a relative handful of Date from the same Peri pc live with the amazingly Complex and Universal problems that go with winning a War. Sudden was on the main line for the or flying appalling Over crowding have afforded Agency the citizens advice Bureau founded in wartime and its remarkable local Leader mrs. Evelyn Pember a unique Opportunity. Where thousands seek advice housed in a damaged mansion almost hidden by gardens running wild and with Only the Barest furniture the Bureau had callers in 1945. Last month alone came seeking advice and assistance. As i sat with mrs. Pember there was a constant Stream of an Olive skinned Gypsy girl trying to find her husband an sex serv iceman looking for work a tearful woman whose application for temporary housing had been refused. Sordid Ness mingled with High principle despair with glimpses of Hope sometimes Only a sympathetic listener was required sometimes reference to a government Agency or to a private Relief organization with funds which the a a a. Does t distribute. A pensioner whose income rightly should have been reduced. By Only 40 cents was Cut instead Down to 40 cents. His appealing letters returned f a the government offices marked final no further got the pension restored and an abject apology foil the Man. A Man and his wife and a boy of 5 were living in a tiny single room. A double bed filled it so they must eat and sleep and live on it yet the ponderous machinery of government had ordered that two other children 11 and 12, should be re turned from their wartime country Haven. A a a. Intervened and the children stayed on in their Foster Home. A similar Case in a similar Case a 40-year-old returned to find his wife a 17-year-old, son and three smaller daughters in a single room with one bed. The Case so obviously was urgent that the family was Given a new temporary Home by the local housing authorities. Generosity a wife in the most moderate circumstances was scrap ing together bits of precious food and trying to fiend them to her Soldier husband in Germany. She knew it was not for him but. For a German that her husband was in love with the family s daughter and probably would not come Home. They re in such terrible Circum she . S callers Are not limited to the distressed and unfortunate. District government authorities come to it for suggestions about local problems and needs factory owners Are using it in an Effort to improve conditions. Landlords and tenants frequently have settled their differences through it. Mrs. Pember a Volunteer for six years uses no fixed rules. She believes in giving information in bringing people in gentle persuasion and in As Little advice As possible. And she believes earnestly that the. Bureau has earned a permanent place in the Long Job of bringing to Mitcham a better existence. Britain gets ready to nationalize Coal London three Man government tribunal has begun hearings to. Determine the compensation value of Britain s Coal mines next step in labor s auda Cious plan to nationalize the min ing Industry. Lord Greene master of the Rolls lord Justice Cohen and sir Harold Howitt president of the Institute of chartered accountants will spend perhaps a rho nth taking evidence from the government and the min ing association of great Britain. At the end they Wol announce the global figure to be paid to All the country s mine owners. Distribution of the sum among individual companies will be left to the mining association. I unofficial estimates have set the probable compensation at around new pattern May be set Are you planning marriage the Winnipeg caterers association will sponsor a responsible couple who will be married at the Winnipeg caterers association Diamond Jubilee picnic at Winnipeg Beach wednesday july 17 generous wedding gifts the fortunate couple will receive the furniture com plete for a three room suite this magnificent gift having been donated by the Mckeag furniture store 723 Portage ave Winnipeg where it will be Given window display for a week preceding the wedding. J another generous gift to the Bride and Groom comes from the Beach hotel Winnipeg Beach where they will have seven Days accommodation Complete with meals. Eligible applicants should submit names address phone number and Char Acter references for both contracting parties with any other information concerning themselves which will assist the committee in their selection of the couple whose wedding ceremony will be an honoured event in the Happy Celebration of the caterers association sixtieth anniversary. Letters of application should be addressed to the Secretary Winnipeg caterer s association 211 Mclntyre bldg Winnipeg not later than tuesday july 9. Remember Hie monster Parade bands trucks floats Mon Day july 15 at . From Redwood and main to Portage Avenue thence to Sherbrook get your entry in now rules 1i you submit rhyme a Fth Tow two top lines of this Upton Limerick. 2. Send in at Many Ai Yog life. Amt the entry form a Shii advertisement. Nearnen will count in judge decision. A number of the Cher entries win b drawn from those received and the Limerick line that h beit in the judges opinion will win prize of if however the winning a accompanied by the end from package of Lipton i Tea showing signature of Thomas j. Lipton than fan prize t Money will be quadrupled and Uffia Winner will fee two raw fhe Nam of 00.00 Corfu 4. And entries become Faa property of j Thomaj j. Lipton limited. S. The ledges dec Ion most a considered final. No correspondence win entered into regarding this. I Lipton a Moryks is open to pm dents of province erf Manitoba Only. No of Upton s or its advertising Agency can each entrant wifi a per Vail 1 acknowledgement. Sixth week s Winner Margaret Saunders Ste. 10, Milan apartments 890 Mcmilan ave., Winnipeg enter the Lipton. Limerick contest now. Read the rules. Think of a last line for the Lipton Limerick a the entry form below write your line in the space provided. If your entry wins you get but if you Send with your entry the end panel from a package of Lipton s Tea showing the Lipton signature you will receive ask your grocer today for Lipton s Tea. The Tea that has brisk flavour., always fresh Lively and full bodied. Send in As Many entries As you like. Think what Yon could do with an extra spending Money. Why not mail your entry in today mail this entry form to Day for Tea drinking pleasure and Joy change to brisk tasting boy it s Lively and Gay buy a package today film line Drca. 1c the end panel from i package of Lipton s Tea is enclosed give name and address or grocer from whom Tea was bought. If you win. Tout grocer Eta win mail entry to Thomas j. Lipton Imit id . Sox to Toronto Conga All entries for this week s Lipton Lime act must be postmarked not later . Winner win be announced Darine week of july 14. Lipton s Tea French colonial policy by. British United press Stablish a pattern for evolution of. Conversations in Paris Between representatives of the nationalistic Viet Minh regime in indo China and the French government May is Goat is defiant the that j. Our by Jack Kofoed Bikini Lagoon o m e b o d y pulled the whistle Cord of our lot As it almost scraped the Side of the transport. The White Goat with Black markings who had appeared sick or dazed As we were a preaching bounded to her feet and disappeared through a Bulkhead. As she fled a Bill Goat with Long curved horns and a distinguished Beard charged to the rail braced himself and glared Defiance to those below him. Timidly the White Goat emerged from the Bulkhead and shielded herself behind her lord and master As we steamed away from the ship which was still too hot with radioactivity Fruhn monday s atomic bombing to permit humans to go aboard. Jews get life term death penalty stayed Jerusalem july 4 sir Alan Cunningham Palestine High commissioner wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences passed on two jewish youths for firing at British soldiers and the underground organization Airgun Vai Leumi promised that three British officers held As Host Ages for the pair would be re leased As soon As a broadcast by the underground group expressed gratification at the clemency. I Reuters news Agency reported from Jerusalem that four hours after Gen. Cunningham s announce m e n to the jewish underground radio voice of fighting broadcast a report that three kid napped British officers held As hostages for the condemned terrorists would be released meanwhile the British army announced discovery of nine new caches of munitions in a Fantas tic underground Arsenal at the jewish Village of meshes Yagur. The entire French colonial system. If successful the agreement More than indo chinese will remain under the French Flag would represent a Long step in France s efforts to gain Back the loyalty of the colonial Empire that Empire of per sons once was the source of a Large part of France s pre War strength. Agreement also would prove the fruition of an about face in the methods by which the French have sought to regain the Empire. Following the scheduled Confer governors French Colo Nies Are expected to meet m Paris for a discussion of Mutual problems. The indo chinese deliberations Are expected to have a weighty effect on he establishment of an Over All colonial policy. The initial policy of the Post liberation French government instituted by Gen. Charles Degaulle to suppress forcibly nationalistic elements. Programme foiled that policy was followed in in do China As Well As Syria and Lebanon. In both instances the gramme was foiled by Lack of the necessary armed strength Ang by British intervention. When the austere de Gaulle government gave Way to that of Felix Gouin French policy toward indo China underwent a profound change. The Day before Gouin took the French were embarked on the greatest offensive of indo chinese Campaign. A Little More than a month later an agreement had been signed at Dalat looking Forward toward a peaceful settlement with bearded dreamy eyed Gen. To Chi Minh president of the rebel Viet Minh government. I although the French have agreed to recognition of the state of Viet Nam formerly called Annam pos Sibly with rights to Exchange diplomatic representatives with for eign countries and to negotiate Trade and fiscal agreements they continue to insist on the right to maintain troops in the country and to exercise supervisory influence. Fuel minister Shinwell has stated several times that he is anxious to use that Colliery shareholders get treatment for loss of their mining interests. The nationalization bin cow Tabelon the House of lords after receiving third Reading in the House of commons. The plan is to set up the new Coal Board by late summer it is a bold audacious expert or. Shinwell told the labor party s Whitsun conference at it should fail we cannot Hope to promote further of lat run prison Gamp pales Tine july 4 Mem Bers of the jewish Agency who have been held incommunicado for five Days behind barbed wire in this unbaked prison Camp were seen wednesday by foreign newspaper men but were not permitted to be interviewed. They Are being held in a Spe Cial Section apart from 400 other jewish men. Their unpainted wooden Barracks with tin roofs Are the same Type structures which House the other prisoners. The six executive members held without c Harges in Britain s drive against jewish resistance organs in Palestine have Little to do but read books and wait. The prisoners whom the newspapermen saw standing in the Sun were or. Bernard Joseph Moses Shertok head of the political Sec Tiore of the Agency David Remez. Isaac Greenbaum and David a Cohen. Rabbi j. L. Fishman refused to be seen by fee press although a police officer invited the correspondents to View him saying this would prove the falsity of rumours that he had been beaten. Berl locker a member of the world executive of the jewish Agency declared in London tuesday that rabbi Fishman showed signs of assault on his the executives posed for Pic 2-party Cabinet set up in Holland the Hague july 4 Louis j. M. Beel the Catholic party formed a new bipartisan Cabinet tuesday to succeed t he Labur government of pre Mier William schermerhorn. The new Cabinet in which five portfolios were awarded to each of the major parties emerging from the May 17 election the catholics and three non party men will be. Sworn in today by Queen a Guielmina Princess Juliana s Palace Soest Dijk. The new lineup included prime minister and Bell without Van Kleffen or. Beel was reported preparing to appoint schermerhorn As com missioner to the nether lands East indies in an Effort to gain peaceful settlement of indonesian claims for Independence. The former Premier conspicuously absent from the new Cabinet would go to Batavia with authority Superior to that of . Gen. Hubertus Van Mook. Tures and shouted greetings to various newspapermen they knew. All the men appeared to be Well and in Good spirits. Members of the Mildura workingmen s club claim they drink at the longest bar in the world. In the shape of a the a is 285 feet Long and has 32 Beer taps. It s needed because the membership is air edition of London times arrives Here with the inauguration of trans Canada air lines new traffic schedules Between Montreal and England the air edition of the London times of july 1, reached the editorial rooms of the free press wednesday at 9 am the times a ten Page edition printed on Light weight White paper carries world news features on the atom bomb Experiment of sunday., up to the minute financial commercial quotations and comment. The edition put in the mail within minutes of coming off the press was brought to Canada in one of the flee it of lancastrian planes built in Canada. The planes accommodate ten passengers and heavy loads of mail and express. The Canadian g d v e r n m e n t s trans Atlantic service operated by trans Canada air lines. Since 1943 is now providing six flights weekly in each direction Between Mont real and Britain. 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