Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, December 10, 1946

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg free press tuesday december 10, 1946 radio broadcast of debates in the Saskatchewan legislature will be carried again when the next session opens Jan. 30, Hon. C. M. Fines provincial t r e a surer has an a bounced. Recommendation to continue airing Over a Regina station formalities of the session opening important speeches and de Bates through session and t closing came from a Legisla a Ture committee r e or b s enting ., Liberal fines Ami armed forces members or. Fines said hundreds of letters have been received asking for Continua Tion of the broadcasts. According to the Bureau of Statis tics at Ottawa the Cost of living in Dex has advanced from 126.8 to 127.1 Between october 1 and nov Ember 1. The Bureau basis its figures on the Assumption that want new Pep and vim thousands of couples Are weak worn out sex vim vitality try Ostrey tonic tablets contains Iron you. Too. May need Lor pc a also supplies by. Low Cost introductory size i Fop Sale at All drug stores everywhere. The average for the period 1935 1939 equals 100. About 150 applicants have called upon the department of veterans affairs at Edmonton seeking Loans to assist them in founding Busi Nesses of their own. The applications Are awaiting approval it the government s provisions for Canada s Reserve Are in adequate the conference of de Fence associations has declared in a Resolution adopted at its 10th annual session in Ottawa. T the Alberta progressive conservative organization will not enter provincial politics right now if a recommendation of the party s provincial executive is adopted at a general Alberta con Ference late in january. The policy if approved will leave the party in the same position it now is supporting the Independent movement formed in 1939 As a coalition of liberals conserva Tives and others opposed to the social credit party. The liberals discontinued support of the inde pendent movement a year ago. Five year commissions Are being offered to Royal Canadian i naval air aircrew officers i at present serving in the interim i Force naval service Headquarters j at Ottawa has announced. Serv ice will be dated from Jan. 1, 1947, and officers who signed up Cor the period must remain on the Active list of the . Re firs Aid for Christmas when your feet begin to ache and your head begins to spin take time out for a snack at Honey Dew relax in comfortable surroundings enjoy a stimulating pot of Tea a tasty nourishing Sandwich and carry on refreshed. Honey Dew Coffee shops 13-47 serve years. For pay an additional five and allowances for Short term officers will be at the same rates As for the permanent Force. After the end of the interim service further transfers to the Perman ent Force Are being made prefer ence will be Given to officers holding Short term commissions. There is something drastically wrong with an economic system j that cannot produce goods in sufficient volume to give every j Canadian family a High Standard of Elmer e. Roper of Edmonton Alberta Leader said recently. War production proved beyond a doubt that this volume can be he said. None of the shortages now Felt would have been tolerated during the War. If for example it had been essential to winning the War to have a decent place for every can Adan family to live there would have been no hesitation about proving the t for Sale at f. C. Pound s greenhouses nurseries 1028 Mulvey ave. Cor. Of Wilton phone 46 407 open evenings after dec. 15ta. We Duvek battled with her rescuers to com plete the Job but was finally brought up the Steep Bank in a Basket. Mrs. Marie Rogers the Oldes resident of the Annapolis Nova Scotia who lived Long enough to see 179 of her descendants has died at the age of 103 she is sur Vived by nine of her 13 children s grandchildren 82 great grandchildren and four great great grand children. A Story of sabotage behind Ger Man lines has come to Light with publication of the citation of sgt Albert Nicholls of Mattawa ont. Who has been awarded the military medal. Captured at Dieppe Nich Olls a first great War Veteran escaped from forced labor in Poland and under a false identity destroyed a textile factory with an incendiary bomb and caused at least seven air planes to crash after he had put sugar in gasoline Stor age tanks. Randolph Churchill 35, son of former British prime minister win Ston Churchill has been fined in the town court at new Canaan conn., on a charge of reckless driving last nov. 19 Churchill pail the Fine but indicated he May a peal the penalty of n principle he contended that excessive Speed did not Kli Churchill necessarily constitute reckless driving within the meaning of the Connecticut state Laws. The judge disagreed. Resigning because his religious convictions prevented him joining a Trade Union William Clark of Cheam Surrey eng. Has worked his last shift As an employee of the London passenger transport Board by resigning he averted a strike of 500 employees at a time when Power is vitally needed. As a member of the Plymouth Brethren. Clark said it was impossible for him to Ful Fil the demand that he join the National Union of railway men and on that Issue the men had threatened to go on strike. Lubin Blond French opera Singer performed Sev eral times for Adoloh Hitler a been sentenced to National indignity for life on collaborationist charges her property has been confiscated she is forbidden to live in the Vicin Ity of Paris for 20 years and prohibited from singing on the stage o Over the radio. Robert Herwig Marine hero and Exall America football player has divorced authoress Kathleen forever Amber win Sor. Who already has a new husband bandleader Artie Shaw. The judge approved an out of court property Settle ment giving miss Winsor their Hollywood Home and Herving his own savings. Police and firemen rescued e. Betty Delaney. 19, of Niagara Falls ont., from an incline in the Niagara Gorge where she Becam wedged a tree after plunge from the River Bank. So was taken to Hospital with a pos sible fracture of the Skull. Polic quoted the girl As stating she a fed up with living. They said so it s at shop easy wednesday morning Aylmer fancy Quality Tomato juice per Case 24 tins 2o of Prince Edward Island potatoes Winter keepers 50 in. 1 -4s veal and pork patties .21? shop easy stores limited French Gambler s Sel Vari coloured Mother of Pearl poker chips is giving Hollywood an idea of How Swanky were the Paris card Parlours of the late 1800 s. The eld set. Owned by producer Edward j. Nealis. Includes chips ranging in denomination from to Nealis Lent the set to Columbia pictures for use in the gambling Casino scenes of Johnny o a suggestion that electricity brought from Norway by submarine Cable Laid to Northeast Scotland might relieve Power shortages in Britain has been turned Down in the British House of commons by fuel minister Emanuel Shinwell. The idea came from conservative member Thorton Kemsley. The communist newspaper Jnita of Rome has ridiculed charges that a russian directed terrorist organization has been established in Italy. Unita said that general Luigi Ferrari of the ital Ian police had confirmed that he had issued a police directive describing the organization and or Dering police to be on the Alert against it but had refused to con firm the existence of the terrorist group called 11 Popolo Organ of the rightist Christian democrats said that existence of troika is confirmed in official Europe s problems could be settled by a confederation of West Ern european democracies linked to Russia and the Eastern states by common treaty policy and purpose Konne Zilliacus Bri Tish labor m. P., said recently. Earlier he charged that Britain through secret military negotiations with the United states had embarked on a course of Power politics accepting a Junior partnership in an Anglo american entente building up a balance of Power and preparing for a third world War against the soviet a. A. Calwell Australia s mini Ster of immigration has said the government will not tolerate wholesale dumping in Australia of european migrants of any religion race or he made the assertion referring to the reported formation in Melbourne of a com Pany to be known As shelter and Aid limited to assist immigration of european refugees and others the Moscow news has reported that a manuscript of Tschai Kov sky a Nutcracker stolen nearly half a Century ago from the St. Petersburg conservatory Library has been found in a Load of waste paper. A Young Leningrad com Poser named Zablotsky discovered the score in paper he had bought to cover his apartment Walls before hanging wallpaper the newspaper said. It added that the. Manuscript turned Over to the government for Deposit in the Tchaikovsky museum was believed to be the one from which the composer con ducted since subdivisions on it were lettered in Blue Pencil. Bavarian Bay windows Are suf so is As the result of Beer. The first of a Long line of complaints about bavarian neither plentiful enough Strong enough nor cheap Ihas been settled. Brewery workers have been allowed their first House drink since 1941. An old Munich custom permits brewery workers to drink a cer Tain amount of the products of their but the other com plaints still stand. Beer in t Beer any lament the former port by bavarian about today s 1.7 per cent thin Beer which compares in a considerable number of human cancers can be either entirely pre vented by avoiding Over eating Anc Over weight beyond Middle o at least their appearance can be postponed Albert Tannenbaum o the department of cancer research Michael Reese Hospital Chicago said recently. An extensive plan to improve Canadian Barley with the o mailing it As world renowned As Canadian wheat has been Dutli Nec by Frank l. Jeckell general Mana fir of the Canadian Brewers association Ottawa. Main subjects of the plan now under study an scholarships for agricultural Stu dents Premium payment for farm ers establishment of a service Laboratory research and Plant Breed ing seed distribution and contests and general Extension work. A year of experimentation has indicated that California Citrus Fri an be shipped across country by rail without loss from decay. Or Robert a. Baum of Pomona Calif who conducted the experiments ays a Citrus wrapping paper has been perfected which by treatment with chemicals controls Blue Anc Green Moulds commonly found in Citrus fruit. He said chemically wrapped oranges in a recent ship ment to Hong Kong arrived in 50 per cent better condition than a similar amount of fruit in Standard wrappers. It May sound fantastic now Bill gasoline made from Corn cobs Anc Cotton seed hulls May not to too far off. The u. S. Agriculture depart ment has disclosed that its scientists Are trying to find out whether it is practicable to obtain gasoline from farm residues which normally go to waste. The work is being Carrico on at the Peoria 111., Plant of the Bureau of agricultural and Indus trial chemistry. In a companion Effort the Bureau of mines is investigating the possibilities of obtaining gasoline from non agricultural products such As Coal and Gas. V a rocket motor for planes that weighs Only 210 pounds and develops horsepower at the Speed of sound has been described o the american rocket James h. Wyld of reaction motors nc., Dover new Jersey. Out of each of the motor s several Rockel Ubes comes a continuous Rush of flame that pushes the flame for Ward said or. Wyld. The fuels Are liquid oxygen and alcohol he said that space ships will Tiave to be driven by still faster rocket jets and predicted that this will be done with atomic Energy rockets which Var. Wyld said May be possible in lie present generation. Favourably with the old 12 per Cen variety. And in a nation where the idiom for absolute hopelessness is hops and malts serious. United states Legal officials in Nuernberg Germany have said hat Alfred Krupp Conj Bolyn und a Laibach son of uie head of the Krupp Industrial and armament Empire will be r i e d on War crimes charges i fore an Ameri can military Tri Bunal. The officials said British authorities have agreed to Transfer Krupp under arrest in the British zone to the american zone. Krupp a Short Short Story appeared in the classified ads of a los Angeles newspaper for unused wedding on a Christmas Celebration a Canadian couple on a vacation cruise of nearly Miles in a Metal Canoe has reached Green Ville miss., in route to new or leans. The couple is Eric part Ridge 31, Gold mining Engineer n the red Lake District and his wife a 25-year-old English War nurse. The pair started their Voy age sept. 9 in the red Lake area. They went Down the Ahukini River and lakes and then Down the English and Winnipeg rive is. Then they hit the red River to Fargo. Their Canoe was trucked to St. Paul Minn. Heije they be a 2.500-mile journey Down the Mississippi River. In the Spring of 1s93, a German merchant vessel ran aground and Sank on the Coral reef around Lik up a tiny Island in the Marshall roup. One of the year old Karl Frederick made it to Shore and liked the life of Well he stayed. Today at 8ft, Lahn says he has passed up hundreds of chances to be rescued and plans to stay at Likier the rest of his life. He boasts that he has t me been sick during his 53 years on the Island. It s a Good bet that this Christmas Harry Reid of Ful ton mo., will open his gifts before he trades them off. Last year Reid took an unopened Box of what he assumed to be cigars to a local drag store swapped his package for a higher priced Brand and paid the difference in Price. When the druggist later opened the Box to Sel a Cigar he found two Wash cloths a bottle of shaving lotion a Blouse for Reid s daughter and a half Box of the Brand of cigars Reid had traded for originally. St. Edmunds England Hundred tons sugar week s ration for being produced daily by a beet factory Here. Merchant seamen warned of last Date for old jobs the latest Date upon which the service of a merchant Seaman Wil be understood to have terminate for purpose of reinstatement civilian employment is dec. 31 1946, according to the information division of the department of la Bor Ottawa. However if the Seaman is on voyage in Coastwise Waters or i Waters outside the territorial limit of Canada on this Date the depart ment states his service will not b considered to have terminated until the voyage is according to the department de mobilization is now in its Fina stages and since reinstatement i limited in Point of time in the Gen eral Case not a great Many Veteran Phillips took his own life jury decides suicide was the verdict returned of a comor s jury at an inquest held monday night in Central police station into the death of join Newton Phillips 46, no fixed address. Phillips was found Hangin by his Belt from the bars of i cell door in the police station Abou 1.30 . Last tuesday. The Verdic exonerated the police department from All blame. Two members of the polio Force detective w. I Owens Ani Constable c. Bruce fold the jury of finding Philips dead in his eel when detective Owens went u to the jail to question the Man in connection with a charge of aggravated assault on which he was in custody. Const. Bruce state that the Man had been placed in the cell about 1 . Last tuesday detective Owens testified tha Phillips was fully dressed when found and was hanging from the third horizontal bar of the door with the Belt looped about i neck and tied to the bars Abou 45 inches from the ground. Tin policemen released him detective Owens said and applied Artificia respiration. The fire department was notified and attended with a Respirator but the Man could no 36 revived. Or. I. O. Fryer provincial Coroner told the jury he had been called and had pronounced Phil lips dead at 2 . No sign of Idle acting inspector of detective Robert Taft stated he had been called to the jail and had seen the dead Man hanging in a squatting position. There was no sign of Lif when the body was Cut Down h said. Injuries to the body of the Deai Man were described by or. D. W Penner pathologist at Winnipeg general Hospital As three Small scratches under the Chin pos Sibb caused by the buckle of the Bell and a depression under the Lef Ide of the Chin reaching around under the left ear. Findings or 3enner said were consistent with death by hanging. John Phillips had attempted toll himself last june the jury Wai old by Ben Morrisette who a also in custody in connection with he assault charge on which Philips was held. I pulled him of f the red River out in it. Morrissette stated. He said h wanted to kill himself. He was Al Vays Phillips was quite a heavy drink a Morrisette said. He had been drinking the night he was arrested and. On the Day the previous suicide attempt according to the fitness. Baptis is Church Marks 43rd year one of the things that puts the Christian Faith at a tremendous Dis advantage when confronted with current ideologies such As fascism communism or is thai christians live under a self imposed vow of silence so far As then Aith in god is Baic Rev. N. E. Todd at the evening service in Tabernacle Baptist on he 43rd anniversary. Or. Todd s Sermon was titled the Way of and the anniversary services coincided with he general interchange among City pulpits in connection with the Bap is crusade for Christ and her Ilin Dom. There Are three effective Wea Pons in Many said or Todd. They Are 1. The blood of the Lamb that is salvation. 2. The word of their testimony that la witnessing and 3. A willingness to spend and be spent in the work o he kingdom of god that is Conse he said. Tabernacle Baptist was firs 3uilt in 1905 at Powers Street Anc Manitoba Avenue. Two years later t was rebuilt on Burrows Avenue and Charles Street and in 1923 the present site on Bannerman Avenue Ivas selected. Or. Todd conducted the service and read from scripture. Speeders fined costs in court six speeders each paid and osts for driving too fast on approaches to the City when they pleaded guilty in provincial police ourt monday. They Are Bernie Evaskovich 30g Redwood ave Ashley Brown 84 so Street Edmond Mccaughen 34 Stra Brook Street Walter Ownley Wasagaming Man Sedley Gunn Winnipeg and Cyril Wyn it. 132 Birchdale Avenue. Horses auction Sale every thursday. 12a.m 1.00 to 1 50 horses special this week 2 carloads o big horses from Northern Saskatchewan terms Cash private sales daily Mclean s sales stables Ltd. Cor. Arll Metod and Alexander Are still eligible to apply for their pre enlistment jobs the department of labor claims there is some vet Erans Are becoming re established in civilian employment other than Street when he was switchman injured by locomotive John Johns 35, switchman of 167 Lansdowne Avenue suffered severe Back injuries when he was struck by a switching locomotive in the Canadian Pacific railway Yards late sunday afternoon. According to police reports or Johns was work ing on the tracks just West of Salter that which they held previous to enlistment but notifying their pre enlistment employers of this fact. As a result for any employer who is holding open a Job for a Veteran employee with whom. He has lost touch they advise to make inquiries to find out the former employee has been discharged and if he intends to return to his old Job. Behind by the i locomotive. Taken in the police ambulance to Winnipeg general Hospital the injured Man was found to have received a possible fracture of the spine. His condition is reported fair. Death by fall found accidental a Coroner s jury returned a ver dict of accidental death at an in quest monday night in Central police into the death of Fred Erick Mills 71, of Carberry Man., who was fatally injured when a fell downstairs at the Woodbine hotel 466 main Street at about. 10 ., nov. 29, and died in Winni Peg general Hospital at 9.40 ., dec. I. Or j. Wilt pathologist at Winnipeg general Hospital told the jury or. Mills death was due to brain injuries and Haemorrhage caused by a fracture across the base of the Skull. Blood had passed through the brain cavity and into the nose cavity from a Large tear of the brain matter oni the left Side at the Backol the head or. Wilt stated. Blood had caused considerable pressure on the brain he added. A fall Down stairs could cause such injuries witness said. Walter desk clerk at the hotel told the jury Mills had been talking with him before he started up the stairs. He seemed to be quite All right then or. Vokes said adding when or. Mills reached the Landing he apparently fell backward striking his head against a step. Or. Vokes told the jury lie had gone and looked up the stairs and had seen or. Mills lying with his feet on the land ing and his head downward. He was carried to the hotel office and police were called. Constable g. Young testified that there was a worn brass runner on the Edge of the Landing. Although there was nothing protruding a Man might have caught his foot on it const. Young said although in the position j of a Man climbing stairs he would More Likely fall Forward. Or. A. Thompson who admitted or. Mills to j Hospital said he was deeply unconscious when brought in. Or. R. A. Poison who pronounced or. Mills dead stated he had never fully regained consciousness in the six Days he was in the Hospital. . Issued permit for alterations Only one Large permit for build no was issued last week by the itys engineering department it Vas Learned monday morning. An permit was taken out y the Canadian Pacific railways or alterations in. Various offices t 120 the permit was issued dec. 5. Blast kills eight Shanghai dec. 9 Ial chinese sources announced fonday the continuing explosion f a chinese munitions dump n Shanghai s outskirts caused Only ight deaths and it was touched off saturday Fay a Soldier who Acci mentally dropped a hand grenade. Despite official denials rumours of sabotage had spread. When your _ catches cold tonight do what most mothers do to relieve mis eries of children s colds simply rub warming Vicks vap rub on Throat Chest and Jack at bedtime. Results Are so Good because vap rub s special Relief bringing action starts right away and keeps on working for hours during the night while the child by morning most misery of the cold is relieved. Remember. Mother when your children catch cold be sure you get time tested Vicks vap rub. Rheumatism May result from habitual shocks blows or vibration. Brandon Man., dec. 10 persons appeared in City police court monday charged with being intoxicated under the liquor act. Gordon Hull received a remand to dec. Hall was fined and costs and Reg. Gran Tham went to jail for one week in default of a similar Fine. A. R. Raham charged with consuming liquor in other than his residence was remanded to dec. 14. Or. Jacob dentist and associates offices Winnipeg Montgomery bldg 215 w Portage. Ave. Brandon s39 Rosser ave. Hours daily 9 . To 6 . 98 181 All taxis Abe insured thebe s always a Moore s in your neighbourhood be Safe and Call i Moore s. 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