Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg free press Friday August. 20, 1948 the prices commission at Ottawa its investigation of the tanning Industry with evidence indicating that owners Are experiencing reduced sales lower profits and uneasiness Over the future. The commission which re for the week end will begin examination of the shoe manufacturing Industry tuesday. R easy payments 10% Down 10 months to pay no interest no carrying charges Mitchell Copp Ltd. The House of dignified credit rent a new car 8 and 9-passenger sedans for weddings and All special occasions. Moores taxi phone. 98 181 new offices or. Jacob dentist and associates 2nd floor time bldg. Comer forsake and Hargrave phone 98 3 1 Brandon office 939 Rosser ave. A mysterious explosion Sank the 357-ton trawler Arleaux in minutes thursday and there was some speculation that an old War time mine was the cause of the Accident. The 22 Crew members who escaped serious injury and made Shore in two lifeboats at Whitehead 100 Miles East of Hali fax denied earlier reports that the ship was lost by a boiler explosion. Hon. Brooke Claxton defence minister said thursday at bar Rie ont., that the Canadian Active army will conduct a recruiting Campaign this fall and Winter to boost its in Jim strength by in Jimr. Claxton in a ii report during an Claxton inspection tour of Camp Borden estimated the present strength at he said every aspect of joint defence of Canada and the . Was discussed when James Forrestal . Defence Secretary visited Ottawa last week end. Archbishop Maurice Roy of que Bec was awarded the insignia of commander of the order of Leo Pold and the Croix de Guerre of 1940 with Palm during a special ceremony at the archbishop s Palace in Quebec City thursday. Belgian ambassador Paternotte de la Vail Lee and f details of the coat of an personal Standard prepared of Princess Margaret who will be 1 saturday were revealed wednesday in London. A Layman s description a Diamond with a coronet., on. The top Point held up by a. Lion on on Side and a Unicorn on the other. Prime minister John a. Cos Tello of Eire and his wife will sail from cob saturday in route to Canada. They will be guests of the Canadian bar association and the Canadian government. A Ether iinds or. A Yntema arrived in. Ottawa thurs from Amsterdam to carry on h is studies in nuclear physics with the National research Council on a one year Fellowship. A trans Canada air Linen plane will Call at Shannon Airport in London sunday to take Earl and countess Mountbatten to Canada the Mountbatten will be guests of the governor general and lady Alexander at Ottawa before going to Toronto where the Earl will open the Canadian National exhibition. N a fantastic escape plot has been uncovered at the state prison at Walla Walla Wash. The prison Iran run Litara superintendent said thursday that Jean Ducq military a Bork dealing with african life attache for Belgium made the presentations. The ambassador said that in honouring msgr. Roy chief army chaplain during the second world War his country wished to pay tribute to roman Catholic Canadian armed forces which freed belgian soil from the nazis. Raoul Bazinet sentenced to be hanged for the strangle murder his sweetheart cheated the Gallows thursday at Montreal. The lumber Jack was sentenced to hang for the murder of mrs. Noela Denom Mee whose body was found in a downtown Rooming House oct. 29, 1b4g. Thursday the guards found him dead in his cell. The cause was had recently been loaned to the prison Library. When it was re turned the owner noticed that when placed on its Back the Book invariably opened at a Section dealing with primitive blow guns. A search revealed missing Copper tubing that had been made into a blow gun powered by compressed air. Inmates had tried it out using Copper nails As missiles. The Wea Pon was so powerful that the nails penetrated a Sheet of Metal. It could have been used to bring Sud Den and silent death to guards on the Wall. A Man arrested on to vagrancy charge at in Etown prov mass., Portage Avenue property for Sale 150 it. Frontage 118 it. Deep on Portage Avenue apply Box 2211 Winnipeg free press clothing Salesman Well established men s clothing manufacturing House requires Salesman for Western Canada. Must have experience and connections. Replies will be strictly confidential. Apply Box 2132 free press special one Day excursion to Kenora sunday August 22 going la. Winnipeg 8.00 am Arr. Kenora 10.40 am returning us. Sonora 6.50 pm Arr Winnipeg 9.30pm stops at Ingolf. Laulu and Keewatin in both directions. All times Standard add 1 hour for Daylight saving. Return fare 2 tax included full information irom City ticket of lace phone sos 211-2, or depot tic let office phone 903 216-7. World s Gref test Ravel system in a pipe when you smoke in packages pouches and half Pound tins had 218 separate items in his pockets. Included were Fountain pens surgical Throat lights Vitamin pills two dictionaries a wad of Stag Money scissors aspirin tablets and several empty Billfold. Miss Helen Larkin of Cam Den jt.j., surprised a burglar in her Home. She screamed and the burglar fled through the jiving room window. Suddenly he re appeared and raced into the Kitchen. Pardon he said As he rushed past the terrified woman. I forgot he reached under icebox and picked up his shoes. Exit burglar through window. A Tough London cop May de Prive thousands of londoners of transportation unless he makes life easier for bus Drivers. Drivers on 15 lines said Friday they will not Cross Constable Sidney Brandon s beat after sept. 1 if he does t Stop running them in for every Little thing. Said the Constable i never give any one a second Chance. I do my duty and i m All the British entered in its records thursday the note that 15 men and m bottle of rum had been landed on dead Man s Chest. This dramatization of the old pirate Chan to occurred aug. 3 at a place culled dead Man s Chest in the Virgin islands. The Landing was made As part of to sum Mer cruise by the Navy s Amer Ica and West indies Squadron. At Caughnawaga que., where Citi fied scions of the once War like Iroquois dwell a winsome Mohawk girl who died in .1680 is to be Hon ored this week end in special prayers for her beatification. The maid now the venerable Kateri Tekakwitha is buried in the in Dian Village cemetery a few Miles from Montreal. She is on the path to beatification which is the next step to sainthood. Ill treated be cause she was a Christian Kateri escaped from her Home to the Christian Village of Caughnawaga and performed Many Christian Virks there. If her Indian worship pers have their Way she will be the first native Saint in North America. Police of Kuwalu temp Elan in state went into to a tent Malayan communist in urgent wednesday night while hey were away the insurgents burned Down their police station. Gerry Pitt a Wilberforce ont., mining Engineer thurs Day consulted with government mines authorities in on what he termed the discovery of the richest uranium strike yet in the Mclure township area 100 Miles North of Peter Borough ont one the samples he brought to Ottawa was reported to weigh four pounds. A new zealand workers Union thursday protested against exclusion of maoris from the new Zea land Rugby team which will tour South Africa next year. 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