Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Home made products Are different Price so per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg wednesday december 11, 1946 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week Winnipeg Post office ready for record Christmas Rush or. Hitsch Manova gives address bitter cold now enemy in Europe no one in Europe will die of starvation this Winter but will die of another enemy the bitter said or. Lotta Hitschmann ova executive director of the unitarian. Service committee of Canada in an address tuesday evening in the Krc Assembly Hall to representatives of Winnipeg organizations interested in sending Relief to devastated Europe. Or. Hitsch Manova stated that Winnipeg has the highest record of any City in Canada for the num Ber of children which the City s schools have adopted. Gordon Bell High school proudly Heads the list with 11 children adopted St. John s High is next with 10. And general Wolfe and the Normal school each has one. The City can Well be proud of this marvelous she said or. Hitsch Manova who spent last summer in France and Czechoslovakia with the . Is touring can Ada under the auspices of the organization in order to raise s100.000 to Send additional food clothing and medical supplies to Europe. Czechoslovakia suffered the horrors of War much More than the world she said. They have no clothing nor houses. And those fortunate ones who do have houses. Do not have Coal. Transportation difficulties Are extreme. It takes three hours for a plane flight from Brussels to Prague and requires four Days to Send a Tele Gram Over the same route. Citizens in be Havre. France spend 20 minutes getting their daily ration of bread and 15 minutes for their Jovater regarding food or. Hitsch Manova stated that it was still extremely scarce. Czechoslovakian get one slice of Canadian meat a week and my people know that it comes from she said. They Are deeply grateful for it. Eggs Are still rationed to two a month and there is no fish. Potatoes Are plentiful this year and the people will de Pend on them for nearly All the starch they get. Soap is scarce with one seven cent cake required to last a month per person. There is no shaving Cream and no razor the speech tuesday evening was or. Hitsch Manova s 100th since her recent european visit and she will be guest speaker at a Tea in the t. Eaton company auditorium thurs Day afternoon. Rev. P. M. Petursson introduced the speaker and Aid. Hilda Hesson thanked her. Mrs. E. J. Ransom presided. Silverware and Cash stolen from apartment one Hundred pieces of Silver Vire valued at and a Small sum of Cash were stolen by a thief who broke into and ransacked the apartment of or. Harry Mann 16 Burrows court Salter Street and Burrows Avenue tues Day afternoon. Mrs. Mann said she had left the suite at 2 . And discovered the burglary when she returned Home Transcona fire test results Good spurred by the recent wave disastrous fires in St. Boniface fire chief a. Taylor of Transcona conducted an inspection town and found things of the in very Good order according to a report that he made to the Transcona Council monday night. Further inspections of buildings and fire fighting facilities would be made chief Taylor reported and any necessary precautions would be taken. The restoration of the . Jitney service Between Winnipeg and Transcona was the object of a delegation from the trades and labor Council and the Shopman s Union of the . Which appeared before the town Council. The Dele gation believed that a co operative Effort by the town and the shop men should be made to induce the . To restore the service. If the service were re installed a new passenger exit could be built at York Street at a Cost of to relieve the present congested station it was said. The bus service was now so Over crowded the delegation maintained that a Jitney service might reach a a year business. It was also Felt there should be a bus service to the Centre of the City. Mayor a. R. Paulley promised that Council would consider the matter. The request of j. Yachysyn that he be made a citizen of Transcona in order to qualify for a wartime House was approved. T. Garson asked that his lease on lots on Ralph Avenue be renewed and that he be allowed to Purchase one of the lots. Mayor Paulley reported that the Curling rink would be available Jan. 11 for the annual Challenge game with the St. Boniface coun cil St. Boniface will be invited to play on that Date. A complaint that an outside toilet was being erected at the rear of a building on Ravelson Avenue which is on water and sewer was referred for a report. Mayor Paulley explained that 11 Vas Only a temporary measure due to the fact that no sewer pipes were at present available. St. James school children get longer Holiday this year St. James school children will have a longer Christmas Holiday this year. Schools will officially close at noon dec. 20 and will not re open until 9 a.m., Jan. 6. This was decided by school trustees at a meeting of the Board in the municipal offices tuesday evening. The laxity of the Assiniboine school patrol was criticized by certain members of the Board. What used to be one of the snap Piest safety patrols in the City is becoming said trustee a. H. Conklin. He told the Board that he had watched the boys come on duty in a haphazard fashion stating that five minutes after the boys should have been on the Corner guarding the lives of their friends they were looking at pictures displayed outside of the nearby theatre. T. B. Findlay told the Board that there seemed to be a Lack of supervision. It they Are not care i fill they will have the girls Tak ing Over from or. Findlay remarked. Ira the matter of More supervision i am sure that if one letters of protest will go to the Manitoba milk control Board department of education and the sub Urban trustees association sup porting the complaint of trans youngster was killed on the was o school there would be an Addi Tion to the police Force in a hurry All we want to do is Force this be fore an Accident he concluded. It was decided that a letter by sent to j. F. Holmes principal o the school asking for a report in the matter. A copy of the Lette will be sent to the chief of police Cona school District number 39. In a letter from that school District the Board Learned that it a proposed to raise the Price of milk for use in schools from 4 to 5 cent per half pint. It s not the High thing to or. Conklin asserted j. W. Beech chairman of the school Board read a letter which he had received from the St James local of the Manitoba teachers society thanking him for services rendered on Behal of the teachers in furthering bet Ter teaching conditions. We deeply regret that you hav found it necessary to resign you position on the school the letter said. With your withdrawal we feel that we have lost a goo Friend and speedy parcel mailing a in Obby opens saturday a the Winnipeg Post office is just about set for the biggest to Way business in its history and t. A. Rutledge District do Ector of postal services says it s now up to the Public to do their Art if they expect their parcels and greetings to be in tune. But whether they do or not the Post office is trying to ure Winni Eggers get their own mail delivered before Christ r h f9m i present buildings of United College Are old and do not pro vide the needed accommodation and wednesday the drive for funds to replace the present buildings was opened. Upper is the proposed Library and theological building which will run North and South along Spence Street which is the first building to be erected. Lower is the plan of the proposed site from Portage to Ellice when the funds have been obtained. The science building on Balmoral Street is the second building slated for construction. Upon completion of thes e two buildings the present College will be torn Down and with a new arts collegiate and administration building. from the free press files new buildings planned seventy years 11, 187b Symonds the furrier advertised rhythmically in the free press what need we care for Jack Rost Stern old Warrior while be have among us our Symonds weather in de thus far had shown All be infinite variety hitherto accredited solely to womankind 38 Bove one. Day and three Days Ater 38 below. A Tek sixty years 1.1, 1886 one of the accidents that Hap in in the Best regulated circles occurred at the Assiniboine flour Lill Portage la Prairie when i gated chandelier fell Down in the Mill office the chandelier fell on to employees who rolled out the Ames in a Trice thereby saving the Portage s source of Good flour. Fifty years 11, 1896 Alfred Nobel whose will pro dded for the establishment of the annual Nobel prizes to current readers in literature science philanthropy died while Winter no at san remo Italy Nobel was Amous As the inventor of Nitro Glycerine. Forty years 11, 190g among Many Fine places of Wor ship which were being built in Winnipeg were St. Boniface Ca thedral. Tabernacle Baptist Church St. Paul s presbyterian Colatei Broadway methodist later St. Stephens Broadway Young methodist later and fort Rouge methodist a United College opens drive for owing to the existing building being too Small to House the present student body a Campaign to raise to erect new buildings for United College was officially opened wednesday. The present building was de signed to accommodate a student body of about 300, whereas the number of students registered this year is while 528 of these students Are veterans the Normal student body is about 700. The building programme now planned involves the erection of our buildings at an estimated Cost of it is planned to build a theological and general Library building at a Cost of science and mathematics unit a student Centre 000, and a Power Plant at the building of centres for these departments however will cover Only half the expected expenditure. Later it is intended to construct a main arts collegiate and administrative building which will replace the present twin towered Structure As Well As dormitories. Three years expected to take three years to Complete the financial objective for the whole programme is however until the new buildings Are completed the pres ent College will be used. The present Campaign designed to raise will be directed to friends graduates former Stu later Crescent fort Rouge United dents of the College and members 1 of the United Church. Cost of the first unit will be and the general Council of the United Church of Canada has authorized an Appeal to the Manitoba Confer ence for this amount. Members of the pastoral charges of the Church in Manitoba Are be ing asked to defray the Cost of the first building which As an institution for the training of mini sters will be of direct service to them. I am confident that the Appeal which United College now addresses to its constituency both in this province and throughout the coun try will meet with prompt and generous or. William c. Graham principal stated. Liberal education our institution has a Long and honorable record As a College de thirty years 11, 1916 Nellie l. Mcclung in an inter View with sir Robert Borden. Dur ing his Winnipeg visit asked the Premier for the Extension of voting privileges to i acc Simmons world s boxing Champion of the 1890 a told the free press 3e could whip Champion Jess Wil Sard in two rounds if Given the Chance. Bob was at. The pantages. A a Twenty years 11, four stars of the sporting world were photographed by the free press correspondent during a visit to Vancouver they were Vinnie Richards Tennis Ace babe Ruth Tennis Champion Suzanne Leng Len and Walter Hagen Golf player supreme. Voted in All its faculties to the promotion of Liberal education. A prime requisite of Liberal Educa Tion is Opportunity for close per Sonal Contact Between All members of the College teacher and student alike. Our buildings Are therefore planned for the accommodation of a student body of from 800 to he added. In beginning now the erection of a greater College we Are seek ing to give expression to our Confidence in the future of our coun try and of All societies which cherish human or. Graham said. Because we believe that Winnipeg and Manitoba will share in it we Are preparing now to help build that greater the initial unit to be built is 145 feet by 50 feet two and a half storeys High. It will be constructed of Tyndall Stone. Plans have been drawn up by col. J. N. Semmens architect and approved by the executive of the building Campaign. It will House a general Library with Reading arid stack rooms a Chapel and theological classrooms with fully modern equipment for training in Public speaking. Personnel of the executive com Mittee of the building Campaign is As follows or. L. J. Reycraft. Senator j. T. Haig honorary chair men b. C. Parker chairman Harry c. Ashdown vice chairman Joseph Harris e. W. Lowery judge f. A. E. Hamilton George Mclean prof. D. Owen Walter Macdonald of Roland Man., or. Wesley Mccurdy Rev. Or. A. Cox and or. William c. Graham Mem Bers. William Whyte of the Canada Trust company is treasurer of the Campaign. Empire club meeting major f. J. Ney educationist will be guest speaker at a luncheon meeting of the Empire club of Manitoba thursday at 12.30 at the Marlborough hotel. Major Ney s subject will be South Afri can Empire. John Mcneil president naval veterans membership up our membership has increase 100 per cent in the past to said John Mcneil pres Dent of the naval veterans association speaking at the an Nual meeting held in Chippawa tuesday evening. Or. Mcneil said that he expected at least 800 new Mem Bers during 1947. We will hav our new quarters by the. End o next he said. The question of a National association which would link u All the naval veterans associations in Canada was discuss but no decision was reached the main business of the meeting was the election of officers for the ensuing year. The Are honorary president com Moore e. R. Brock honorary vice president commander h. Craig and h. E. Sellers honorary patrons j. T. Boyd. Capt. Eustac Brock and j. D. Perrin. Presi Dent John Mcneil vice presiden w. Simpson and w. Holland Secretary v. F. Motts assistant Secretary j. Martin treasurer a. C. Wade master at w c. Shaw. Boy s leg fractured in traffic Accident struck by an Auto on Manitoba Avenue near Andrews Street Earl tuesday evening 10-year-old Edward Wolfe 460 Manitoba Avenue received a fractured leg. Accord ing to police reports the car driven by Henry Kruz 600 Prit Chard Avenue was travelling was along Manitoba Avenue when i knocked the boy Down. In St. Joseph s Hospital when he was taken by or. Kruz the condition is fairly Good. Riding o n its rims transit Industry can t get enough vehicles the transit Industry throughput he continent is Riding on its rims Oday with passengers being trans ported at the rate of a year and equipment in use Cap Able of handling the american transit association has revealed. Strikes and delays have stopped the delivery of vehicles. During 1946, the companies expected total of vehicles including elec tric railway cars buses and trolley coaches but up to mid october Only or approximately 30 per e. 3. Heart by Crown attorney for the province who will succeed judge Frank a. E. Hamilton As judge of the juvenile court. Judge Hamilton s retirement was announced tuesday and will be come effective at the first of the year. F. W. Simon of Liverpool England designed the present Manitoba legislative building and was awarded As the Winner of a contest in which 65 firms filed entries. This com petition for the Honor of de signing the building was open to architects in All parts of the Empire. Cent had reached the companies. Manufacturers Guy c. Hecker executive Mana Ger of the organization stated Hope to deliver an additional units up to the end of the year barring any further shortages or interruptions. Tramway equipment in Winnipeg the Winnipeg electric company in the past 12 months placed orders for More than Worth of equipment most of which was to have been delivered by october but on account of strikes and delays Over Worth of this equipment will not be received this As yet we do not know when we can expect it in officials state. Officials of the company Point out that some of this equipment will not be received until about the Middle of 1948 and add that they do not know of any place where orders can be placed for equipment for delivery prior to the latter part of 1948. Our equipment has had to take it on the Chin during the last six years and some of it has reached the stage where it has to be re one official stated. Not Only has it been difficult to obtain new equipment but it has also been hard to get repair parts for existing equipment he pointed out. For he continued a month or so ago we could not get Glass to replace windows in Street cars and the Only Way we could keep going was to take panes of Glass out of the storm Sash of Street cars and put it in the regu Lar windows. The cold weather came we were Short of storm Sash. We have had a perfectly Good bus Laid up since june 17 because we could not get a Crank Shaft and these Are Only a few instances of difficulties that have to be he added. A Survey of 41 transit companies throughout the country disclosed that of a total of vehicles such As buses rapid transit cars trolleys and trolley coaches oper ated by these companies units were Laid on account of Lack of parts. The British Columbia electric railway company announced tues Day a transit programme involving expenditure of More than the company plans t spend for equipment alone during the coming year. This is the largest transit programme now under Way in Canada and the largest in the history of the said a. E. Grauer its president. Lopal officials state that if the company receives its expected equipment so will Winnipeg. Mas. The Normal staff at head office and the 10 postal stations f greater Winnipeg will soon be Wollen to Over last monday ight the task began of swearing n with an objective of at East and it seemed the Mark reached by thurs a. Returned men Are Given pref rence for the work. To that has to be added an of helpers for the. Regu Lar mail carriers and 40 extra trucks pressed into service which compares with the nor Mal so or. Rutledge figures parcels will be delivered in the last hectic week be fore Christmas. Whatever the figure actually proves to be he is certain it will beat last year s. We be had a lot of experience and ave have now brought our system to a Point where it is unequalled in the District director claimed. He was referring to the system of simplified rotation which has been evolving Over the years and the Spe Ial department for Quick hand ing of parcels in the main Post office lobby. Now he wanted people to take advantage of the system and co operate to the full. So did g. W. Heisler acting Post master and j. B. Aitken assistant superintendent of mails. Who were Busy getting the machinery rounded into shape. With a capacity of handling 2 3arcels in a minute the special Obby for mailing parcels opens next saturday. Its is to do away with Long queues. Open till 9 . As another step in keeping the Lood of mail from piling up Anc causing a Jam All 10 postal Sta ions in i. Greater Winnipeg will be open until 9 ., during Mon Day to wednesday of next week. Winnipeg postal authorities Hai to special requests to make o the Public tie your Greetin cards in bundles and Send them to folks going to their offices tha will help keep the mail Boxe Clear around the City. And try to have someone always at Home dating the Christmas Rush to receive Par cels. Every year we have thousands of parcels returned to the Post office daily be cause no one was even with All these precaution the Post office figures it will Nee the last four Days before Chrisl Mas for making deliveries of mail piling in before then. So the last Date for guaranteed Christmas delivery As far As local mail is concerned is dec. 18. For other parts of Canada the dead lines Are maritime dec. 14 Quebec Alberta and British Columbia dec. 15 Ontario dec. 16 Manitoba and Saskatchewan dec. 17. There will be no delivery Here either Christmas or new year s Days and neither the lobbies or the wickets will be open on either Holiday. Or. Rutledge made a special a peal for co operation in Clearing local saying "90 percent of our troubles came from that source. Yoman 89 flies Ocean to Canada what is the secret of a Happy and Active old age mrs. M. Hemmons who at 89 s one of the oldest passengers to by from the old country to. Can a has the answer and Here it s. Just take life As it comes. And or goodness Sakes Don t he smiled when she arrived at he c. P. R. Station wednesday morning. Although this is not mrs. Hem Mons first trip to Canada As she Vas Here 25 years time he plans to make her Home at to Wawanesa Man. The last time i ame to Canada i came by ship and now i thought it was time 1 tarted flying. If i make any More rips i d like it to be by sub she laughed. Like quicksilver mrs. Hemmons was met at Montreal by her daughter in Law mrs. H. E. Hemmons of Wawa Nesa who accompanied her by rain to Winnipeg. She s like quicksilver to travel said frs. Hemmons. In Winnipeg the ittle old lady was met by one of her grand daughters Audrey hem Mons of Winnipeg. The plane trip was related mrs. Hemmons. We stopped at Iceland because weather conditions and we could see Greenland in our flight. They told us that it is practically impossible to see Greenland usually. I be been trying to get to Canada for the past three she added. During , mrs. Hemmons stayed on in Bristol living alone Many nights we had to get up and go to our shelters. I had my own Anderson shelter. But you. Could t sleep at All during the bombings. Now we Are getting Back on our she said. Busy during War there was plenty to keep one Busy during the continued the amazing Little lady five done Mounds and Mounds of knitting and i m still doing it. If you can Call that a Hobby that be now that she s in Canada and going to make her Home at her son s Home at Wawanesa mrs. Hemmons is looking Forward to meeting the rest of the family especially her grandson Robert my Kelmie of Yorkton. We Are planning a family re Union during the Holiday season and i la be Able to see him then. I be never seen him you know. And i be one great grandchild Back in England. Just think Well have practically the whole family together for lord Selkirk Camp no. 205, sons of Scotland benevolent association is holding its Christmas party saturday at 7.30 p. M. In the Elmwood Community Hall Kelvin Street. A programme has been planned. Dump residents amaze police in response to a tip from a Winnipeg citizen that one of the residents of the Elmwood Nuis Ance ground Colony could Bear investigation St. Boniface police visited that thriving Community tuesday and had an experience that opened in eyes to a number of things and closed their noses to a number of others chief j. H. Baudry of the St. Boniface police Force said. Police found eight huts with As Many Resi dents. The Colony appeared to be divided into three distinct wards. All huts were constructed of. Mud cardboard and tin but three huts on the East the dump were of More durable construction and. Were at least six feet High inside. A resident of one of these shacks had 10 its. All eight residents of the col ony spend their Winters there. Each hut had a stove and police reported finding it quit warm interrogating the inhabitants one of whom was spending his 16th Winter at the dump. Four men work in the City one is a pensioner of the first world War another is an old Ace pensioner and one is in business for himself weaving baskets from Willows he cuts near the dump the men gave the Sal vation Hostel As their address when applying for their ration books. The object of the policemen s Young Man who was described As both clean shaven and not to be found. Permanent residents of the Colony said that he was the most recent arrival and came and went As he pleased. Lundak this Village was named Lundi by Henrick Johnson an ice Lander after the farm in ice land from which his Bride came. The name today is the mistaken spelling of the Origi Nal word. It was registered As a Post office in 1891. There Are a lot of people these Days who balk at the idea of flying but Here is one passenger who has been won Over completely by the idea. She is mrs. M. Hemmons of Bristol who flew from the old country to make her Home with her son at Wawanesa Man. On hand to meet her wednesday morning at the . Station was left to right mrs. H. E. Hemmons Wawanesa and her grand daughter Audrey Hemmons of Winnipeg ;