Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba For Holiday entertaining Maple Leaf _ i _ Ham cooked to the ready to serve winning free press Winnipeg thursday december 12, 1946 produces Are different by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week Winnipeg Well protected against fires declares chief _ m equipment modern water pressure Good Margaret Mann Hugh Slater who will represent the University of Manitoba in a debate with two representatives of Iowa state teachers College to be held Friday at 8 . In theatre a of the Broadway division of the University. Subject of the debate in which Manitoba will uphold the negative will be resolved that labor should be Given a direct share in the management of Industry the Iowa debaters will be Kay Kough and Aldrich Paul. Miss Kough of Waterloo Iowa is an Active worker in the student Christian society and a past editor of College Eye the Campus newspaper. Or. Paul of Waukee. Iowa is president of Delta Sigma rho National honorary forensic fraternity. Judges will be Ralph May Hank . Aid. H. B. Scott and prof. Clark hop per. Or. E. G. Berry will almost 75 per cent Complete salvation lists Hopes Rise As fund climbs Hopes Are High at the salvation army red shield head quarters now that the Mark has been reached according to major m. Flannigan Campaign organizer thursday morning the needed for maintenance has been collected and slowly but surely the contributions keep coming in with Ever indication that the objective will be met so that necessary repairs and renovations can be made divisional Abor peace expected 7or 10 months by Mary Cairney Winnipeg free press labor reporter Canada can look Forward to at ast 10 months of Industrial peace and increased production. From uth Ortive labor sources comes Ord that the Dominion s labor unions will spend the next year Soso Ligating their membership Ith no disputes looming in wages Iron ghost the Basic industries. Unlike the United states where reparations Are being made for age drives in All the Basic in us tries wages in Canada Are for e most part embodied in con acts to run for the next 10 in nth. Very few have open end agreements. Which is the problem acing unions in their smaller Nion contracts. Lumber ship gilding Western Oal pulp and paper Basic steel rubber electrical manufacturing a Kinghouse automobile rail clothing manufacture in Al free Fields textile unions Jhavon it settled their wage disputes within the past few months am Abor is going to take advantage o he breathing spell to organize. The miners of Nova Scotia Havet to receive the government of or on a wage settlement but acceptance of such an offer would tall off any strike there. Auth native labor sources expect Thi. In Anaconda american brass strike to end Brig. R. W. Gage commander for Manitoba and North West Ontario has reported that a water system is required at the Sandy Hook fresh air Camp. Last summer 417 under privileged children were Able to take the Opportunity of spending a ten Day period at this Camp. The total number of camping Days was mothers with infants and smaller children were housed in separate cottages and the others were looked after by the salvation army Camp councillors. The pro gramme was planned to include outside recreation and the teach ing of various handicrafts. Improvements to eight Salva Tion army hostels in the City Are urgently needed. Included in these Are the Sunset Lodge out North main which is skilfully caring for elderly women and the working men s Hostel on Logan Avenue where one and All Are Able to find food and a bed. J. E. Yarnell is pleased with the fact that the army is now in the Clear As far As the maintenance figure is concerned and is confident that the citizens of Winnipeg will continue ticking off the balance needed for the work which was held up during the War years. Astronomical group hears Norris Elye simple plans for locating som of the most important constellations in the sky were demonstrated by l. T. S. Norris Elye a a meeting of the Royal astronomy Cal society held in the University of Manitoba buildings Broadway wednesday evening. Or. Norris Elye also reporte on some experiments recently con ducted in the United kingdom i connection with the detection o shooting stars by Means of Rada the experiments also indicated the possibilities of following the Ourse of objects travelling a enormous speeds. This the speaker said May have consider Able importance in the detection of High Speed rocket projectiles the constellations of Zodia were discussed by the presiden company Veek. We re All right said Winnipeg s fire chief d. A. Boulden when questioned following reports from Vancouver Edmonton Saskatoon and other Western cities that fire equip ment there was out of Date and insufficient to Cope with Large conflagrations. Pare equipment which is kept this is the new ladder truck which is on order for the Winnipeg fire department. Built by la France fire engine company it has a 100 foot ladder for use m Case of fire in a Large building. The department has at present a 75 loot ladder of the six wheel Type. The new one is to be of a More modern four wheel Type. Humane society meet urges blankets for delivery horses publishers Union reach agreement George Suttie president of the Winnipeg stereotypes and elec Troty pers Union announced thurs Day that a new agreement had been reached Between the Winnipeg newspaper publishers and the Union. The new agreement Calls for an additional week s vacation with pay and an increase in the wage rate and affects All the stereo types on the Winnipeg newspapers Olive a. Armstrong. Illustrating her talk with a Large Chart and intern slides she told of legends associated with the stars of Zodiac and explained to the audience the. Physical properties As disclosed by modern instruments. Following the lectures a Short annual business meeting was held to elect officers. They were honorary president or. L. A. H. War Ren d. R. P. Coats vice president r. A. Storch Secretary miss Beverley Sharman treasurer miss m. Watterson press Secretary Charles c., card. Members elected to the. Council were mrs. O. A. Armstrong l. T s. Norris Elye v. C. Jones mrs j. Norris h. E. Riter and l. W Koser. Planning feed policy debate one full Day of the Lith annual meeting of the Canadian federa Ion of agriculture to be held Here next month will be devoted to a full dress debate on National live Stock and feed policy in the Light of the present feed crisis in Eastern Canada and the declining livestock population. Dates of the federation meeting Are Jan 28. 29, and 30. And the place is the fort Garry hotel an attendance of 300 delegates is expected from All parts of the country while the Agenda is not yet com plete it is certain to include a Dis Cussion of the British wheat agree ment and Grain marketing Gener ally. The federation is inviting As its guest speaker sir John Boyd Orr director general of the. Food and agricultural organization under the United nations but it is not yet known whether he will be Able to accept. Sir John is at present at an Appeal to the owners of Busi Ness firms to provide comfortable blankets for their delivery horses during the frigid Days of Winter and to Drivers and teamsters to see that these blankets were used was made wednesday by the executive of the Winnipeg humane society at its meeting at Trinity Hall. While in the opinion of miss Sally Warnock Secretary treasurer of the society the majority of local horses were being better cared for in this Way of. Late there were re ports of some instances where horses were being unnecessarily Jared to the blasts. The Case of one firm was re ported to the society and an in Spector will Call upon the manage ment and urge that More thought Given to the Comfort of their animals. All members of the society will be urged to keep an Eye open for cases nature and report to miss Wamock. Members of the women s com Mittee will soon commence their annual membership drive. Every member get a will be this year s slogan. Again miss Warnock made a plea railways giving special fares special Low railway fares Wil gain be available for the Christ Mas Holiday season according to 1. H. Powers vice chairman Canadian passenger association. Ipswich England Dresser to Peers and premiers Edward Slater former House of commons Barber has died. In Washington. Arrangements for the meeting Are n the hands of h. H. Hannant president and. C. G. Groff Secre , both at Ottawa. Organized in 1935, the federation now has a membership of 17 bodies made up of All the provincial federations of agriculture the Western wheat pools United Grain grow ers Dairy Farmers of Canada and the Canadian horticultural Council it is claimed they represent a combined membership of around Farmers. Optometric society to Survey graduates the Manitoba optometric. Society will make a Survey to determine How Many Manitoba graduates o the College of optometry of canals at Toronto could be placed in the province during the next three years e. M. Finkleman chairman of the Board of optometry in Mani Toba announced at a meeting of the society tuesday night at the Marl Borough hotel. Or. Finkleman stated that approximately 30 graduates woul come to the province in the nex three years and the. Survey is Neces sary in order to place them All. Guest speakers were Donald Small and Charles Grobb. Plans were outlined for convention of the Manitoba optometric society and the North Dakota state society to be held in Winnipeg february 24 and 25. Rob Roy Camp no. 42, sons of Scotland benevolent held its executive meeting dec. 10 in the free press Board room. Thomas hurl presided. It was announced that the Camp will hold its election of officers dec. 18 at 8.15 . In the Scott memorial Hall Princess Street. Docs like meter readers one bite at a time a dog. According to the diction Ary is a Well known animal used for watching or. Winnipeg meter readers will Tell you that this is True and what they Are watching and Hunting for is unsuspecting meter readers. A news item from los Angeles states that the dog bite rate had been reduced to a minimum amongst meter readers by use of a dog cataloguing system. Meter books contain a notation for each dog on the route his name and most important an analysis of his charac Ter. This was found to be even bet Ter than issuing dog biscuits to the meter readers to placate their four legged enemies because if you gel close enough to give him a dog biscuit you Are close enough to sup ply him with a chunk of fresh leg investigation shows that the los Angeles meter readers Are not alone their counterparts in Winnipeg also have a Dogma. The 21 Winnipeg electric meter readers have been using the system for a Long time and even include the size of the dog in the cataloguing Winnipeg s Hydro reported tha their 18 men Are on their but it was assumed that unless the meter Man was an adventurous soul who carried a spare trouser seat he did his own cataloguing suburbs the place both concerns reported that there was not much trouble in the City but that in the outlying suburb the canines resent intrusion or else they Don t want their masters to be electricity Bills. It was also reported that the Fri end Liness of the dogs runs in cycles dogs Are intelligent creatures Anc sometimes a meter Man is not bit ten for months then just when h has been into a sense false Security by some rearrange signal every meter Man. Gets Bitte by every dog on the route. Or s at seems to the harassed meter de by Bull Morriss apartment. It was impossible to ask a dogs Why this is so. But May e there is a shortage of rabbits at Uch times and the meter Man is merely a substitute. Resent it meter readers in Winnipeg make ver Calls a month and re ent this treatment. The first time a Man is bitten nobody but himself complains. But if the dog makes a habit of the practice the Legal department Steps in. Usually the owner is merely asked to muzzle the dog or keep him tied up. But if further trouble occurs complaints Are made to the civic authorities. Then Rover and the meter Reader Are both in the dog House. It s a Toueh life glitter dog owners to keep better watch ver their pets. Dogs were being allowed to run on the streets untended and As a scores Ere being killed by stolen Tiss Warnock reminded that City Laws insist that dogs be allowed n the streets Only when in charge a competent person. Pressure of Rork on the part of the licence department made it difficult to Enarce these bylaws she intimated. Suite thieves get rings radio Diamond rings were the tar get for sneak thieves who wednesday afternoon ransacked two apartment Block suites after gain ing Entrance by use of a key. Charles Hillman a Camden court 275 Young Street reported to police his apartment was entered Between 1.10 and 5.50 ., and a Diamond i engagement ring valued at and a radio Worth were stolen. Two Diamond rings police state were removed from the apartment of mrs. Margaret 6, St. Mary s court 371 St. Ave nue. The theft mrs. Mcfee states took place Between 12 noon and 5 . We Are More fortunate than other Canadian cities in that we managed to get some new equipment during the including two new ers capable of supplying 1200 Imperial Gallons per minute. We also Nave some new equipment on said the chief. New equip ment will include a four v 100 foot Extension ladder truck of the latest Type and additional pumpers. Equipment unavailable chief Boulden explained that the trouble most cities had experienced was due to priorities and the fact that no new equipment was Avail Able to replace what was old even when the War started. Edmonton had an enquiry some time ago and rebuilt its equipment. It should have been replaced he said. For Christmas available dec. Tickets will be 23, 24 and 25, Long Racard prom the free press piles ind will be Good to return until Midnight dec. 26, or first Avail Able train. The same Low fare will apply Over new year s and tickets will be on Sale dec. 30, 31 and Jan. 1, with a return limit of Midnight Jan. 2, to first Avail Able train. For those who have a longer vacation taking in both holi Days the railways offer a rate of one Way fare and one half for the round trip with tickets on Sale from dec. 20 to Jan. 1. Inclusive with a return limit of Midnight Jan. 7. These Low fares will apply be tween All stations in Canada and tickets will be Good in All classes of accommodation. Seventy years 12, 1876 thief crabs purse of women at door purse containing snatched by a foot pad from mrs. P. Shawaga 5.4 Mcdonald Street just As she was about to enter her Home about thursday. Mrs Shawaga described her assailant As 5 40-45 years dark complexion medium build wearing a dark Grey overcoat and Grey Cap. To interview Manitoba government rival labor groups offer United front Unity in Canada Between the two great labor bodies of the Dominion representing Craft and Industrial unions is fast continuation of the big blizzard completely isolated Winnipeg from the outside the Telegraph wires were Down and the stage coach had been storm stayed far Down the South Trail. A a sixty tears dec. 12 1886 some new members of the City Council were aldermen . Hiley George h. Ham Thomas Ryan shoe e. F. Hutch Ings a. Poison Alex. Macdonald Stewart Mulvey and William Grundy Grundy music fifty years dec. 12, 1896 the new Hall of. Assembly and place Public entertainment in the thriving town of Carman had been named Victoria Hall after Good Queen Victoria David Ross of oratorio Fame was invited Down from Winnipeg to Star at the open ing concert in it. Forty years dec. 12, 1s06 Alex Dunlop of Neepawa nominated Liberal candidate for Beautiful Plains had been in former years a valued employee on the free press composing room staff Alex was now the editor of a prosperous paper in Neepawa and both the paper and Alex were popular with the whole constituency. A thirty years dec. 12, 1916 King George v conferred a peer age on sir William Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook sir Max had been knighted in 1911. It was understood that the recent peace move of the. Central Powers had originated with emperor Charles of Austria Hungary. Fire conscious Winnipeg s Council has been very operative. The safety and finance committees Here have been fire conscious due to the fact that. Winnipeg is isolated from help from any other he pointed out Eire chiefs from other Western cities come Here for information so we must be More up. To the water Supply in Winnipeg was Good and Winnipeg was one o about four Canadian cities which have a separate High pressure sys Tern in the downtown area the chief stated however h stressed the need of. Feeder main and Cross connections in the Wate system in some parts of the City. We May extend the High pres sure system which Winnipeg several times during Large he remarked. On the question of fire stations the chief admitted that Winnipeg s needed modernization. Need a Eady in. Case of an emergency. The chief produced a report submitted to the International ass Cia Ion of fire chiefs at the last meet ing in Chicago in. 1944, no the findings of a committee of he four Western provinces of which chief Boulden was chairman. He stressed that the situation had it changed appreciably since that tame and that the same conditions till exist. The report states practically every municipality of popu action and Over needs additional water Supply. Cities of action or More nearly All need additional fire stations some stations o replace old stations some need modernization of old stations irrespective of population All municipalities need additional fire apparatus also replacement of Large number of obsolete. Pieces which Are not dependable having seen More than 15 years of service and Only having two wheel brakes. All municipal companies Are very poorly manned. Most of them Are one third below the minimum strength of the Standard require ments of the National Board of fire underwriters. The fire alarm system in the majority of municipalities needs reconstruction and Extension All need additional and uniform distribution of signal boxes .alsi3 the placing of fire alarm cables under ground. In the majority of cities the Ade quate Protection of the occupants of existing buildings has been taken care of by Public safety Odies building commissions and City new station on Smith Street and the one on River Heights should be rebuilt due to the fact that the area has he. Stated. Winnipeg s fire fighting equipment is kept in Good shape and the chief contended that he would put the apparatus up against any in can Ada for maintenance and Quality but even though equipment was Well kept it became obsolete. In Winnipeg it is used for 10 to .12 years moved to. Quieter Par. Of Ysleia for another and the nose aside in chief Felt tha Winnipeg was below quire Standard. However we now have an eight hour Day and. The men Are fresh when they come of that also Means that there Are two shifts could pro Bably. Call 150 within a. Sliber period by broadcast Over Loca radio stations or by said the chief. These men would report in to the nearest fire station and use the physical education programme opens More than 60 persons Young and old gathered in the gymnasium of the y.m.a. Wednesday evening for the first in the series of pro grammes promoted by the Manitoba physical education association. Girl guide and boy scout leaders met with school teachers and representatives centres All engaged in freshening in thei if igla education. Take place once a month until May 1947, will cover such subjects As group games Pyramid building tumbling and social recreation. The committee chosen from schools and universities in Mani Toba in operation with the y.m.a. Are d. E. Strain chair m. B. Jackson Secretary Robert Jarman miss Elsie Gauer Dean Hart Devenney Charles Barbour Dick Wray Youmans Art Leech and f. O. Norman. Becoming a reality. Alex., Mcauslane vice president of the Canadian Congress of labor reported in Winnipeg tuesday to the Winnipeg labor Council. Cal Cio that a letter from Percy. Ben president of the trades and labor been received by the executive of the Cal recently suggesting that the two bodies meet to discuss possible joint action on annual legislative sub missions to the Dominion govern ment this year. This is the first time such action has been considered by the tic. Following the Way pointed by their leaders for the first time in Manitoba the three labor councils the Cal Cio Winnipeg labor Council the tic Al Winnipeg and District trades and Council and the Independent one big Union Central labor Council will form legislative com Mission to interview the Cabinet of the provincial government. This fact was brought to Light in a report to the Winnipeg labor coucil delegates by g. Borgford at tuesday s meeting. Tentatively named to the Council s committee discuss the joint action according to or. Borgford Are a. March steel w or k. E r s Union Schubert wholesale and retail employees Union organizer Cio m. Taub International fur and leather workers Union and g. Jones Canadian brotherhood of railway employees. Date of the joint Manitoba sub Mission has not been settled or. Borgford said. Greenwood to induct new pastor thursday Rev. J. C. Cronin new minister of Greenwood United Church will be formally inducted into his new pastorate thursday at 8 p. M. When the congregation will Welcome him and his family from their for Mer Home at Morden. Members former members adherents and friends will attend. Or. C. H. Best superintendent of missions for Manitoba will con duct the induction service the interim Moderator Rev. W. E. Mcdonald St. John s United Church will address the congregation and or. A. R. Cragg United College will address the minister. There will be a congregational Welcome to or. And mrs. Cronin after the induction with or. J. C Pincock speaking briefly. Twenty years dec 12 ,1926 Norma Shearer in upstage was the attraction at the met Ronald Colman Alice Joyce and Lois were starring at the Capitol the Garrick attraction broken hearts of Hollywood featured Patsy Ruth Miller Doug. Fairbanks. Jr., Louis Dresser and Stewart Holmes. Few epidemics in Britain Oxford biochemist Here to lecture r. P. Coats to read Christmas Carol a Reading entitled a Christmas Larol will be Given by d. R p. Of radio station sky at Trinity Baptist Friday evening. Special lighting effects and special music has been arranged. Atlantic wireless born 45 years ago the first wireless signals across the Atlantic were received dec. 12, 1901, in a in Cabot Tower on a Hill in Newfoundland now known As signal Hill. Guglielmo Marconi and two assistants p. W. Paget and g. S. Kemp had been anxiously waiting since the previous Day for a series of s signals from a station at pol Dhu Cornwall eng land., suddenly the silence was broken by a series , and the three Young scientists had done the impossible and received a message Over Miles of rugged Atlantic water. Marconi began his experiments which Laid the foundation for wire in spite of the monotonous diet in Britain today few epidemics of a serious nature have plagued the coutry said r. A. Peters pro Fessor of biochemistry at Oxford University who arrived in. thursday morning Over p.r. Lines. Or. Peters is on a Canadian lecture tour following a series of Dunham lectures at Harvard University on biochemical lesions and British anti lewisite. He and. Peters Are guests at the Royal Alexandra hotel during the War or. Peters turned this attention from Vitamin b to developing an antidote to Arsenical Poison which is commonly known As British anti lewisite. Lewisite invented by an. Ameri can during the first world War was a cause for great concern in Britain during the War. It is commonly known that Britain made vast preparations against o Gas warfare. Then when scientists of Britain banded together am produced an he said we were the problem of Burns during War n Britain turned the attention of scientists to a better treatment of us said or. Peters fortunate y for us All during the War Only to bombs were dropped on our University and we. Continued work Britain s bread object of so much criticism is fortified with Vitamin 31, said or. Peters. Research is be ing done on other vitamins and their value he said. Or. Peters who has lectured at Toronto Quebec. Montreal and Ottawa will continue to Edmonton following his address to medical students and the Winnipeg medical society at the medical College Fri Day. Following his Canadian tour he plans to return to the Oxford where he will continue research on Vita mins he will also resume his work on proteins and the problem of protein and metabolism. Modern workshop aim of Needle Union loan less communication in Bologna Italy in 1895. Studying electricity at. The University there he became fascinated with certain Phenomena his first Experiment consisted o pushing a Button in his father Villa and ringing a Bell a consider Able distance away without the use of wires. When he announced his intention of bridging the Atlantic by wire less it was declared impossible. Now a memorial Cairn nine fee High erected by the Canadian Kar Coni company in 1939 will be dedicated in a formal presentation to the people of Newfoundland Early next summer. Dedication ceremonies were postponed with the Declara Tion of War. Working conditions Are needed for Winnipeg employees in the Needle trades Industry if the Industry is to expand s. Herbst City. Representative of the inter National ladies garment workers Union of of l said thursday. This need is the basis for the recently announced proposal to ask its head office in new York for a million Dollar loan to build a garment manufacturing Centre in this City or. Herbst told the press or. Herbst said the buildings occupied by manufacturers in this area were old and difficult to re Melita this Village registered As a Post office in 1884, derives its name from a second form of the historic Island of novae into the Type of Plant Neces Ary to Good production and the continued health of workers. This s a Omino Industry. We want to attract the workers and to do so we must have improved working or. Herbst said add ing that manufacturers have done All that was possible to improve old buildings and cramped quarters. 14-Storey building Many of the manufacturers Are ready and anxious to build new or. Kerbs added and a loan of at Low interest Esi would enable them to build a 14 Storey building which would make the City the Needle trades Centre of or. Herbst said that to his know ledge Many Eastern textile and Gar ment manufacturers wished to come and already a British Colum Bia sportswear company has been assembling textile machinery Here a to insurance companies have made Many inquiries about the garment Industry in Winnipeg he added to help workers just site reset in doing a Good Job for the workers in proposing such a loan w David Dubinsky International resident of the or. Herbst said adding that no thought of asking another clothing Industry Union or the manufacturers for financial support had As yet been bought or. Herbst will leave for new York Early in january to discuss he proposed loan with or. Dubin sky. Financing of the loan would e taken care of from a sunni of about which the in Guti Las i ii v e s t e d in Canada. The funds belong to the Large Eastern As Well As the smaller Western 3ranches of the Union. The Manitoba legislative building is valued in the books of the province at but the debt incurred in build ing it was worst was started in 1913 and the building was opened in 1920 ;