Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba For Holiday entertaining Maple Leaf Ham cooked and ready to serve Winnipeg free press products Are different 5c per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg monday december 16, 1946 by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week nurse shortage feared Here As result of tax changes describes conditions in Homeland polish envoy gives thanks to Canada gratitude and thanks for Canada s generous help to Poland was expressed by or. Alfred j. Widerkiewicz polish minister to Canada in a speech at the rally sunday afternoon in the play House theatre which was sponsored by the polish democratic association Winnipeg Branch. About persons attended the rally and accorded a Hearty Welcome to the representative of the new Poland. I Greet you in the name of democratic Poland its government its president Boleslaw Bierut. And i bring you thanks from polish children and hospitals for the help that has been so generously said or. Widerkiewicz. I say you deserve Praise be cause when Poland shed her blood from German atrocities you fought shoulder to shoulder with Allied armies or worked in fac he continued. Now you Are helping Poland by sending food and Money and tools. Canada is the first country that gave us Gold which was Safe guarded in the Bank of Canada and this we appreciate. The Canadian government is helping us to find the National treasures which Are missing. Canada allowed a polish reconstruction loan among the polish immigrants and canadians of polish said or. Widerkiewicz. Touching on conditions in Poland after it had signed the pact with Germany Jan. 30, 1934, or. I Derkiewicz said that during Thesa times Hitler s ideas came into effect. Dictatorship began and there was no Freedom of thought j or democracy. Poland was ruled j by dictators and specially trained 1 police. The people were looking for a country to emigrate do. Widerkiewicz said Many were fortunate to have found a place in Canada. Poland is now engaged in reconstruction work explained or. Fid Orkiewicz. Poland s Industry develops with great Speed and ducts in which pre War production has been surpassed include Coal Coke Zinc Ore. Sheets of tin Cement locomotives 347 per for the collection of s346 in Aid of the orphans in Poland. Z. Grela polish Consul Intro ducted the guest speaker. Mrs. M. Skrzypecki and t. R. Cos Lik master of ceremonies appealed for funds in Aid of polish orphans after the playhouse a meeting or and mrs. Widerkiewicz were Hon ored at a dinner in the polish labor Temple Prince Street and Pritchard Avenue. At the dinner or. Widerkiewicz announced plans of the government to establish an Exchange of students Between Canada and Poland in music Art and the study of Trade and Commerce. He said that at least 10 High school graduates could go to Poland and take a course in finance and Trade. Greetings were extended by e Marczak chairman mrs. Mila Tychynsky on behalf of the woman s auxiliary or. Skrzypecki on be half of the committee to Aid Poland John Biegacz president of the democratic association w. Tychynsky president of the polish Benefit association and or. Grela polish Consul. Or. Widerkiewicz is returning to Ottawa. Fertilizers Glass and electrical Energy. Even the cows will soon have electric lights in the town and Large Village said or. Fid Orkiewicz when discussing Powei production. Grain production is increasing and in two years Poland will not require wheat imports he said. We want your co operation we want the Unity of polish people in said or. Widerkiewicz. He knew that Canadian polish people were patriotic generous and loved their fatherland. But we know that in Canada there is a Well organized clique the sex exiled government which is hostile to everything that our democratic Poland or its officers intend to do this clique slanders Poland and is trying to stand in the Way even to orders that would bring polish nationalists the most Poland is free and democratic and will not accept any foreign domination. Poland wants to have Good relations with soviet Russia Czechoslovakia England France United states Canada and Al other peace Loving nations. Out policy is to establish political and economic conditions in such a Way As to prevent said or. Fid Orkiewicz. Mrs. Widerkiewicz who accompanies her husband made her firs Public speech at the rally sunday when she expressed appreciation brr says Bonnie reaching City blonde Blue eyed Bonnie Baker diminutive Singer with the even More diminutive voice does t think much of Winnipeg weather. But a spite of it and a slight cold the songstress plans to make her first personal appearance at the civic auditorium tonight including the song of Johnny that hurtled her Fame Ward. I be been singing that song since said the dimpled miss Baker and i m not tired of it yet. Be ides today is my husband s birth Day and i la be singing it for him. His name happens to be Johnny she laughed. Miss Baker who is married to Ohn h. Morse Hollywood motion picture director said the song had no influence whatever on her Deci icon. It was just a she said. Fame came to miss Baker when she Sang with Orrin Tucker s or Chestra. Started the Ball she said my voice which Las puzzled people often enough is not put on. I just happen to sing that wearing a Blue suit and colourful Bandana. Miss Baker greeted re porters in her room at the Royal Alexandra and finished writing a birthday Telegram for Hubby. Ill be away for Christmas and new year s said miss Baker and it would be Nice to be Home. My husband who served in the european Campaign will have to spend the holidays while her favorite Johnny was overseas miss Baker visited Hospi tals and Camps. It was fun sing ing for the shut ins. They seemed to enjoy it and so did she said. Sentenced six months on theft charges charred with the theft of a religious Statuette and a purse con Taining 510 last week while work ing a a delivery Man. William Reidle or no fixed abode was sentenced to six months in jail by magistrate m. H. Carton in City police court monday. Reidle whose record includes four previous convictions in Tor onto Moosomin. Sask., Vancouver and Winnipeg pleaded guilty to the charges. Cal names Public relations director the Canadian Congress of labor has appointed Jack Williams for Merly of the Canadian press. Its first full time director of Public relations in announcing or. Williams appointment the Congress said in appointing Jack Williams As director of Public relations we believe that the Cal has taken a big step Forward along the path Laid during the wage drive. Or. Williams is rated As Canada s top labor re Porter. A weekly Cal news re port will be issued starting Early in 1947." Ido Baci from he free press files seventy years 16, 1876 several towns and villages throughout the province of on Tario were organizing Branch societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals and one look along Winnipeg s main Street at the whipped oxen and ponies Tus Sling with heavy loads in the deep Snow showed that such a Branch was very sorely needed in Winnipeg too. A sixty years 16, 1886 lord Tennyson s new Book of poems Locksley Hall was Awak ening keen interest the title poem contained a Strong and scholarly denunciation of the crop of literary atheists who would bring the old dark Ages Back without the Faith without the fifty years 16, 1865 the recent robberies in which Winnipeg Hack Drivers were involved had had the effect of stir ring up the honest members of the Jehu fraternity against undesirable characters who got themselves engaged As Drivers by the cab companies and a police test and License were asked for. X forty years 16, 1906 the current shortage of fuel was being particularly Felt in Brandon where no Wood or Coal had reached the City for Days All the Public schools were closed Down the Mills were Idle. Emd dozens of families Nad moved in with neighbors 1o conserve heat. Many were the tributes to Rev. Jos. Hogg Pioneer minister who had just died. In thirty tears 16, 1916 the Winnipeg civic elections indicated that the new Winnipeg controllers were to be j. W. Cock Burn j. J. Wallace Charles f. Gray and a. A Putter. Rev John Mcneill formerly of first Baptist Church was touring England on the Anglica a Church s Mission of repentance and Hope. Twenty years 16, 1926 the Portage la Prairie Golf club held its annual meeting and elected or. H. J. Hassard president. John Gilbert was now established As the great Lover of the screen other stars in the limelight were Rudolph Valentino and John Barrymore and Dolores costello who were playing together in the sea beast. Legion Branch to hold open House dec. 17 the Christmas meeting of the Crescent Wood River Heights Branch of the Canadian legion will be in the form of an open House at St. George s Church Hall dec. 17 at 8.30 . Entertainment will be provided by a debate. Bandmaster g. W. Butler will be in charge of the music. Await province to announce plans City will Seel benefits from gasoline tax switch the City of winning will do everything in its Power to obtain some of the benefits accruing to the province through the withdrawal of the Dominion government tax on gasoline it was Learned monday morning. The City however can make no move until the province s intentions in regard to the re imposing of the tax Are clarified civic officials indicated. Mayor Garnet Coulter pointed out that for some time the Cana Dian federation of mayors and the Union of Manitoba municipalities have urged the abolition of the Federal tax. These organizations hoped that the tax might be taken Over by the provinces and some benefits passed on to the municipalities or that the tax would be wiped out completely. There s no question but that the City will Send a delegation to the provincial government to Dis cuss what adjustment can be Aid. J. Penner said. But the nature of the request cannot be decided until the position is made bus licence fee if the province does not re impose the three cent gasoline tax the City will Benefit the Al Derman pointed out. When the new agreement covering the operation of Winnipeg electric buses comes into effect the City of the would be called As soon as1 pos sible in order to approach the provincial government with a United front. Will a fave the Power to increase of Winnipeg business groups and the licence fees on buses to the extent that the company obtains Relief from provincial or Dominion taxes on gasoline. I think the municipalities have got to make a drive for some share in the said Aid. C. Simonite chairman of the City s finance committee. The province is getting he pointed out that a meeting Napinka this Village receives its name from the Sioux Indian word meaning equal to two or double. It was registered As a Post of fice in 1881. A. E. Parker elected kiwanis Secretary a. E. Parker has been re elected Secretary of the Winnipeg kiwanis club for the 28th consecutive year it has been announced by g. A. Jackson new president of the club. Giving the Complete slate of new officers for kiwanis or. Jackson said the directors now were a 1c Mackenzie j. P. Mackenzie a. G. Mccurdy a 1 Quintan o. W. Rob was a. L. Garside r. E. Birchard d. L. Evans c. Findlay r. Hamilton v. J. Percy. E. G. Trici immediate past president is i. A. Mahon. Speeding up the handling of parcels and reducing lobby congestion to a minimum the postal department s new speedy parcel service was opened monday in the Winni Peg Post office. Two lines of customers Stream past an Oval counter where packages Are weighed and postage paid with the smallest possible waste of time. Shown above As they mailed their parcels Are a few of the hundreds of people who used the service monday. The Post office is now geared to handle an All time record volume of mail. New plan moves parcels faster Speed up counter aids mail service nearly parcels of All shapes and sizes will be mailed by in the next week c. W. Heisler acting Post master said monday As the Post office shifted into High gear in its task of stamping sorting and delivering a record volume of letters Christmas cards and parcels. To expedite the handling of Par cels an auxiliary receiving counter has been set up in the Post office lobby which will tremendously in crease the Speed and efficiency of the parcel department or. Heisler said. The new speedy parcel counter forms the head Spring of a mighty River of parcels which flows throughout the building on a complicated Chain of conveyor belts. Drop through. Chute supplementing the year round parcel wickets the new set up consists of an Ely tical counter where parcels Are received weighed and postage collected. Guide rails along both sides of the Oval keep two single lines of customers moving in the same direction entering the queue at one end and leaving at the other. From this counter the parcels drop through a Chute into the basement where they Are stamped. In a preliminary weeding out All parcels bound for the 20 major cities in Canada Are sorted into bags. The remainder travel on a conveyor to the building s Annex where they Are joined by a Stream from the regular parcel counter. A second sorting divides the Stream by provinces. The heavily Laden bags into which the packages Are dumped Are taken to the fourth floor where they Are joined by a second tributary Stream from All Post boxes and sub stations in the City. The last stage in the handling procedure carries the parcels by chutes to the third floor where final sorting takes place and the parcels Are bundled in mail bags for shipment out of town. Despite the necessarily rough treatment they receive at the hands of the postal clerks most packages arrive in perfect shape or Heisler believes. People Learned to pack parcels carefully during the he said. A few however insist on tossing in bottles of face lotion cosmetics and other fluids without proper precautions. A broken bottle not Only spoils the package in a which it is packed but often parcels near it in the mail or. Heisler s suggestions to Christmas gift senders Are wrap and Seal All parcels carefully using heavy paper write both destination and return address legibly on the package use sufficient postage and above All Don t include inflammable substances. James Cowie aged 71, King s Printer Dies James Cowie 4 b Wellington apartments King s Printer for Manitoba since May 1, 1937. Died Early monday morning in Winni Peg general Hospital. He was 71 years of age. As newspaper publisher and Edi Tor As a staunch Leader and worker under the banners of liberalism As the Man who guided civic pro Gress of his various Rural municipalities in years gone by or. Cowie left his Mark upon the growth of Iii adopted province wherever he lived during the past half Century. Or. Cowie was born at Almonte ont january 28, 1875, and received Ilis education Almonte Public and High schools. From 1892 until 1896 he was an apprenticed Printer with Mcleod and Mcewan printers and publishers of the Almonte Gazette. In 1897 he travelled West for the Morden works and from 1897 to 1901 he published the Deloraine times. He also published he Macgregor Herald. In october 1910, or. became a Champion of Rural Manitoba As publisher and editor of the Carberry news express and mayor of Carberry for 10 years a period during which the country As Well a the cities were experiencing the worst depression in history. Mayor for 10 years in the 36 years Between his first arrival at Carberry and his appointment As King s Printer for Manitoba in 1937, or. Cowie made his personality and his ability to work Felt for the Good of All in numerous ways. He was a member of the school Board for Many years. He was mayor for 10 years a Leader in sports and athletics a figure in the councils of his political party and Active in every Community Effort. Nor did or. Cowie confine his activities to those merely of the Community but extended them throughout the entire province. He was president of the Manitoba Liberal association and More than once was a nominee for Candida Ture at his party s nomination meetings both provincial and fed eral. Or. Cowie was a member the James Cowie first presbyterian Church Winnipeg. He had a great appreciation for music. In 1943 or. Cowie was made a life member of the Manitoba Divi Ilon of the Canadian weekly newspaper association. Survivors Are his widow four daughters Patricia at Home mrs. Norman Elvin Winnipeg mrs. John Walsh Montreal and mrs. Scott Bateman the Pas. One son James l., lives at grand Prairie. Gardiner s funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Tribute paid in tribute to the memory of or. Cowie Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid act ing Premier said in part in the passing of or. James l Cowie the people Manitoba and the Public service of this province have lost a Loyal servant and a faithful Friend. For the capable manner in which he performed the important duties attaching to the office of King s Printer the government and the people of this province will re member him with grateful Apreci Rush stores to remain open wednesday the majority of Winnipeg stores will not observe the wednesday half Day closing this week prior to stores including Hudson s Bay and Batons report they will remain open to look after the Rush of Christmas shoppers. Other stores which observe the half Day a week including Barber shops and other establishments will also remain open. The City bylaw which covers the half Day a week closing provides that stores May remain open until 10 ., for the last 21 Days in december. It also states that for the whole of december storekeepers do not have to observe either wednesday or saturday half Day closing due to the shopping Rush. Large scale resignations foreseen in hospitals Manitoba s Hospital authorities Are seriously concerned Over the changes in income tax regulations affecting married women effective Jan. 1, which May Well cause a province wide shortage of nurses. Or. O. C. Trainor president of the Manitoba Hospital association reviewing a Resolution passed by the group on the subject and recently forwarded to the Dominion government said monday morning that such a shortage would cripple nursing services to the great detriment of Public in larger Winnipeg hospitals official estimates of expected resignations vary according to the number of married nurses employed. Least worried were officials of Deer Lodge Hospital where no resignations Are expected among the 14 married nurses who form Only a Small part of a total staff of some 20ij. Hardest hit will probably be the City s Supply of private duty nurses which even now is inadequate to meet All demands and at times is 25 Short of the required number. The registry s list monday was composed of 141 married nurses and 162 single. Although that list varies from Day to Day the Normal ratio of married to single nurses is about 50-50. The husbands of Many of our married nurses have always objected to their wives working and now that the. Profits Are being reduced we can Only expect that a Good Many of the women will either withdraw their names from the list altogether or at least Cut Down on the number of Days they work in a commented an officer of the registry. Among local hospitals the Gene ral feeling appeared to be that expressed by the Misericordia s superintendent of nurses we re Wor As put by the Secretary of the Central tuberculosis registry which administers the provincial Santoria and clinics further resignations will Only complicate an already difficult situation. Hospi tals today can t afford to lose any alone a substantial num Ber of our key most seriously affected will probably be the municipal Hospi King George and the quotes Bengough Telegram labor official denies letter sent to Cal Gordon Wilkinson chairman of the Manitoba executive of the trades and labor Congress of Canada denies that Percy Bengough president of the tic sent a letter to the Canadian Congress of labor executive recently suggesting a meeting to discuss possible joint action on labor s annual legislative submission to the government this year. Or. Wilkinson said saturday morning that contrary to a report made by Alex Mcauslane last tuesday to the Winnipeg labor Council that a letter had been received from Percy Bengough Sug Gesting a meeting of the two Cana Dian labor organizations no letter of any kind has been sent. Or. Wilkinson quotes the following Telegram contents received from Percy Bengough Friday night no letter has been sent to Cal or any invitation or suggestion made for joint legislative or. Wilkinson said it seems evident that or. Mcauslane has been dealing in Wishful thinking n regard to joint legislative proposals and we of the trades and labor Congress would like to know Why or. Mcauslane needs too to the extent of making Erron Ous statements in this or. Mcauslane reaffirmed sat urday that a latter is in the pos session of the Canadian. Congress of labor from or. Bengough stat ing that a Resolution had been passed during the september tic convention in Windsor that the tic executive were to get to Gether with other labor bodies. And suggesting that a meeting be tween the two would be forthcoming. Or. Mcauslane in Winnipeg said saturday we be had a stand ing committee for the past five years ready to meet with the trades and labor Congress of Canada in the interests of Unity in the Canadian labor shoplifting brings six month term a shop lifting charge brought William Chopic 513 Mcdermot Avenue a six month jail sentence from magistrate m. H. Carton in City police court monday. Two companions Fred Ono Frey 416 Carsmore and Tony Tacky a of suite 6, 216 James Street were remanded until tuesday when they appeared on a joint charge with Chopic. The three men pleaded not guilty to Elyj shop lifting which police state occurred in a depart ment store last Friday. King Edward. A preliminary Estl Nate of the King George indicates hat of the eight married nurses now working full time three will probably Stop work altogether to will work Only part time so As to keep their incomes below the taxable minimum three others still continue to work full time regardless of the taxation changes. That is in a Hospital where mar ried women now make up a considerable percentage of the Nurs no staff. Effects on tuberculosis nursing Are expected to be Felt heavily at he Central clinic in Winnipeg there a Quarter of the nurses Are married and where enquiries pre uding resignations have already been received. Less concern is Felt Over Ninette and the other smaller Anatolia throughout Manitoba there the percentage of married nurses has always been Small be cause of the residence require s. But those same officials stressed the fact that any loss in staff is dreaded in View of the present shortage of nurses. The full effect of the tax changes will probably not be Felt immediately commented the superintendent of nurses at Victoria Hospital. We Are waiting to see what will happen whether the government will take any remedial action following the protest Regis ered by the Canadian nurses As Victoria Hospital itself with a very Small percentage of married nurses is not Likely to is hampered by the change. The protests of both the nurses association and the Canadian hos Pital Council in which the Mani Toba groups have joined suggested that the new tax regulations should exempt Forfi their provi Sions married women who Are do ing essential work. The resolutions pointed out that nursing is not a Field in which men and women compete. Concern Over the possible Detri mental effect of the tax. Change is nation wide. Possible closing of wards in some Eastern hospitals was foreseen in a. Recent article in the Canadian Hospital publication the Council. Ohe Aasi Ern Hospital expects a crippling imme Diate resignation of almost 50 Smith warns truck owners a warning was issued by chief Constable George Smith monday o truck owners who persist in ignoring a traffic by Law which re quires All trucks to Bear the name and address of their registered owner. Chief Smith revealed that Dur ing the past year 703 owners have Jeen prosecuted for failing to have their names marked on a Promin ent place on the exterior of the truck. Despite police stated the chief there Are still hundreds of trucks being driven around the City with no identification or i leg ble names on them. We Are going o continue to take action against hese truck owners. I urge them now to have their names stencilled on the truck s exterior. Section 37 of the Highway act states that All trucks must have besides the name and address of their owner a statement of the Gross weight and carrying Capa City of the vehicle. New Riding mergers recommended liberals offer three plans for Manitoba redistribution after a. Month of study a committee appointed by the Manitoba Liberal association has produced three possible plans for Federal redistribution within the province without indicating pre Ference for any one of the three. This was Learned after the committee s third and final meeting Here saturday. A. M. Campbell Secretary of the association and a member of the committee declined to give details of these plans which will be passed along to the parliamentary committee on redistribution but he made this general comment we approached the problem from the Point of View of Endea voting to equalize population in the various Federal constituencies without any thought of political expediency or gerrymandering. This was deemed necessary after what happened in 1934." figures gathered by the commit tee however suggested to Politi Cal observers the possibility of the creation of a new seat taking in several Winnipeg suburbs and the merging of six Rural seats in South Ern and Western Manitoba to form four new ones a suburban Riding could be built from such expanding areas As the Kildonan and Charleswood within Springfield Selkirk and Portage la Prairie and possibly also Elmwood now in Winnipeg North and St. Vital in Winnipeg but the latter might More logically be thrown into St. Boniface. Might be re grouped having consideration for Popula Tion and communications mar Quette Neepawa and Portage la Prairie it was thought by Obser vers might be re grouped to form two constituencies and Souris Lis Gar and Macdonald to make two More. The committee s task was to Sug Gest rearrangements of boundaries whereby Manitoba will have one less Federal Riding than its present 17. It had before it popu lation figures based on the 1941 census and from these worked out As a guide a quota of for Rural constituencies. These showed Selkirk at one end of the scale with Over the suggested quota and at the other Souris with below it. Other Low population Ridings were port age la Prairie Neepawa and Lis the first City owned Stone Quarry was opened in 1897 and made a separate department in 1901. A new Quarry was opened at Stony Mountain in 1906 and comprises 80 acres. In 1943 an do tonal 27 acres of Stone property were purchased from municipality of Rockwood. Gar Short respectively 9. 714 and Dauphin Churchill Brandon and Provencher were All fairly close to the quota figure varying from 700 above to below. A different yardstick would have to be applied to the four Winnipeg seats whose populations Are shown As follows South North having regard to the commit tee s quota of for Ridings outside Winnipeg these Are the population figures for the present 13 constituencies affected Selkirk Dauphin Churchill Provencher St. Boniface Macdonald Lisgar Neepawa Portage la Prairie Souris .22j048 ;