Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leg free press Price 5c per copy edition with comics. We. Selkirk barrel floats backwards for half mile during rotary Derby the Selkirk barrel Derby opened with a splash at 2.41 Satur Day afternoon when a barrel was dropped from the Lockport Bridge to Start its tumbling course Down the ked River. A prize of s500 for some expert estimator huns in the balance. The con test was six Hilored by the Selkirk rotary club in connection with its carnival held saturday night. Followed closely by or. Walter head head of Dynevor Hospital the barrel took 11 hours four minutes 11 seconds to reach its destination at Selkirk Bridge. One mile North of the Selkirk general Hospital the current Deve loped a contrary Streak turned the barrel around and sent it floating Back upstream half a mile. Contestants in the Derby will have to Bear the suspense until monday evening when the com Mittee will meet to decide the Winner. Winnipeg monday August 23, 1948 by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg girl wins Mcmaster scholarship a Winnipeg girl miss mar Garet Inouye has been awarded the kit memorial scholarship at Mcmaster University. It was one of eight awards made to students for academic ability and general contribution to Stu Dent life. The scholarship is valued at about s50. Miss Inouye is entering her final year in honors political econ omy. To new polio cases reported for 3 Days for the. Third consecutive Day the provincial health and Wel fare department monday re ported no new cases infantile paralysis giving further Hope to departmental doctors that there would be no serious Epi Demic this year. The province s 194s total now stands at 32 com pared with More than 200 for the same period last year. The 1947 year end total was 597. Council of churches is Sermon theme the world Council o f churches which opened its meeting in Amsterdam sunday is bringing Church lenders together at a time when the very Cornerstones of civilizations Are Rev. Reid e. Vip Oil told the sunday morning congregation at Westminster United Church. It is a time when As never before people arc looking for a City which has foundations whose builder and maker is said or. Vipond. The conference meets against a background of spiritual disintegration and physical suffering among the Peoples of the world More stupendous than anything Ever before known or even dreamed he declared. Immediately before the service there was a 15-minute Carillon programme of hymns rung out to Call people to prayer for the Success of the Amsterdam conference. Regional auditor of , honoured Frank s. Rose regional auditor Western Region Canadian National railways was Honor de at a dinner recently Given by members of the audit staff on his retirement after 46 years of railway service. Presentations were made to both or. And mrs. Rose. Dalton Owens also made a presenta Tion on behalf of the officers of the Western Region. Or. And mrs. Rose will continue to re Side in Winnipeg. Ukrainian veterans to open Hall sept. To official opening of the Hall of the ukrainian Canadian veterans Branch 141, Cana Dian legion b.e.s.l., 610 Sel Kirk Avenue will take place sept. 10 at . Hon. Rhodes Smith president of the provincial command of the Canadian legion will officiate. The building was purchased several months ago. Or. W. Grenkow is Branch president. A. Monty will be master of ceremonies for the opening. School of narcotic Edu Faion holds final meet the final session of the school of narcotic education at nut Ana collegiate Saskatoon sask., was held Friday. The school whose objective is to train teachers ministers sunday school workers leaders of Young people s groups mid other interested persons in the scientific facts about narcotics was conducted aug. 9 to aug. 20 under the auspices of the women s Christian Temperance Union. Special speak ers were Rev. D. Bruce Johnson Winnipeg mrs. G. W. Mcneill Manitoba provincial president . Or. K. Meme shall Brownwood Texas Fred d. L. Squires Chicago miss Lillian Clem ent Saskatoon miss Gail Stewart Regina miss Elsie Wright Edmonton and Austin Dale Stony Mountain. 2 meetings scheduled for free press rooms two meetings Are scheduled to be held in the free press Board and club rooms tues Day evening. The executive committee Melrose Camp no. 326, sons of Scotland will meet in Hoard room no. 1 at s . The Elmer Wheeler salesmanship class will meet in the club room at 7.30 . Canadian merchant Navy veterans to meet a meeting of the Canadian merchant Navy veterans association will be held starting at 7.30 . Tuesday in St. Paul s College. Members and Mer chant Navy veterans of both world wars will attend Rich Ard Barker chairman of the Winnipeg association has revealed. If f Best things in life Are free minister reminds the Best things in life Are said Rev. Donald b. Macdonald it the sunday morning service at Knox United Church. So often we look upon material things As the Best things in life. Now the High Cost of living has Pill the Best material things away out of our he pointed out. However the Best things in life Are still he maintained and these things can t be among the Best things he listed were a person s life Mother s love True Friend ship the Sun and rain and peace of mind. Peace of mind can t be bought it is a god Given gift he said. 4 if c. E. Joslyn to address kiwanis club tuesday c. E. Joslyn a member of the Winnipeg town planning commission will address a luncheon meeting of the Winnipeg kiwanis club tuesday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. His subject will be a master plan. G. D. Young appointed Lions District governor g. D. Young was appointed District governor of the Winni Peg Lions club at their weekly luncheon held thursday in the fort Garry hotel. J. J. Innes was named zone chairman. Youths fined warned to behave on Beach train disturbances on Beach trains will not be tolerated magistrate c. M. Kyle warned monday in assessing fines totalling and costs against three youths who appeared in provincial police court on charges of creating disturbances aboard the grand Beach train. Gerald Thibod Cuil. 51 Elm Park Road St. Vital and his brother Hur old Thibod Tiu 8.18 Braemar Avenue Norwood Piid and costs each after pleading guilty to obstructing a Canadian National rail Way policeman when he attempted o Stop a fight on the grand Beach train aug. 11. On second charge of creating a disturbance Harold thib Odeair received a sentence of s25 and costs and his brother si5 and costs. For creating a disturbance aboard the same train in the grand Beach station saturday night Jan Valister of Winnipeg was fined Sis and costs with the alternative of one month in. Jail. Police Valister had been in an intoxicated condition aboard the train and had thrown two warning lanterns on the rear of the train to the ground. Campbell remanded for fourth time f James Edward Campbell 20. Of Rochester minn., charged with the murder May 31 of Edgar Frenette 28-year-old proprietor of the Park hotel St. Boniface appeared before magistrate r. Graham in St. Boniface police court Mon Day and was remanded for one week. It was Campbell s fourth remand since he appeared at the preliminary hearing aug. 5. Nurses alumnae to hear reports the Winnipeg general hos Pital nurses alumnae association will hold its fall meet sept. 1 in the nurses Home at s.15 . Honorary guests will be the 194s graduating class. Miss b. Pullen Pettigrew and Betty Lee will give reports on the nurses convention held in Sackville n. B., in june. Edmonton up Happy As a housewife listening to a soap opera a seven year old boy was found in a neighbor s Home run Ning the washing machine while owners were away on to iday juvenile authorities Ponder a pos Tible penchant toward the laundry business. A scientists work on Snake poisons provincial health and welfare department biologists monday were experimenting with various Snake poisons in an attempt to find an effective Means of eradicating a Large Colony of the reptiles near Inwood. Man. M. Flattery senior sanitary in Spector said a number of the snakes had been brought to the department laboratories in the old Normal school on William Avenue and were being tested. Late lust week the health department had successfully wiped out. Some of the snakes in their nests with a gaseous cyanide Poison powder. No effective Means however had been found for poisoning them out in the open. The experimental snakes had declined a tempting diet of grass hoppers spiders and meat and monday afternoon were scheduled to try liver. The biologists Hope that once they Start eating they la try some of the Poison 5-year term Given in forgery Case first Harvest help group arrives in West ten for Weyburn eight for Carberry seven for under the supervision of j. F. Kristjansson employment advisor of the Winnipeg unemployment insurance commission approximately 200 Eastern farm labourers received their six week Prairie har vesting assignment monday at the . Station. The group which is the Van guard of an estimated Force of Ontario and Quebec farm labor ers arrived in the City monday Over . Lines. This year the Winnipeg unemployment insurance offi Ojst will allocate labourers for the Prairies to provincial offices which have been delegated to deliver the harvesters to specific farms. In previous years the firm labourers have been ticketed directly from the East to the various provincial centres. With Winnipeg As the main distribution Centre we expect to do a More effective Job of balancing Supply and demand by getting the right number of men to areas where they Are said or. Kristjansson. Major a. R. Richardson provincial farm labor director John Bunn assistant farm labor director for Saskatchewan and r. A Putnam assistant Deputy minister of agriculture for Alberta Are con Ferring with officials of the Winnipeg unemployment insurance commission monday. On the basis of crop and labor conditions in their provinces they will place their orders for seasonal farm labor. Or. Kristjansson said Manitoba and South East Saskatchewan be cause of labor shortages would absorb the first group of Harvest ers. After completion of their six week work in these areas the men would be free to move further West for later harvesting. A majority of monday s arrivals were either Farmers or Farmers sons who had just completed harvesting operations in either Ontario or que Bec. Many of them pointed out that this was an annual Pil Grimage them. The men expressed satisfaction Over the wage scale of to in addition to room and Board for each working Day and room and Board for non working Day. Apartment fire damage a two alarm fire Early sunday caused approximately dam age to three suites in the Milan apartments Mcmillan ave Mje and Wentworth Street. Firemen from five stations under fire chief Clawson battled the Blaze for More than an hour before subduing it. The fire of unknown origin broke out about 11.30 . In suite five on the second floor occupied by mrs. Douglas Laird. Flames swept rapidly upward to suite seven the Home of mrs. J. W. Batty directly above damage was confined mainly to balconies fronting the two apart ments. Some water damage was caused in suite three occupied by e. Pelly. Fire department officials Esti mated damage to the building at approximately and to the three suites at about the loss was covered by insurance. The building is owned by j. Y. Reid 280 Wellington Crescent. Tries fraud gets 18 months for attempting to defraud the wife of a cell mate of James Wilson 23, was sentenced to is months in jail by magistrate m. H. Garton in City police court monday. Wilson had enjoyed but an Brief taste of Freedom. Released from heading Ley Jay sat Day morning he was arrested on the new charge the same afternoon. Crown prosecutor. Orville Kay said Wilson visited the wife of a Man he knew in prison immediately after his release. Representing him self As a police officer he told her her husband was coming up in court on a liquor and that Fine would be 5212. The woman was told she could matter by making a Down payment on the Fine to Wilson and that the balance could be paid later. Wilson left saying he would return for the Money. When he arrived at the House that after noon he was arrested by City Detec Tives tipped off by the woman. Or Garton termed the offence a villainous thing to and practically dead Man found to be e. J. Grant a Man found dead on the rail Way tracks three Miles from car Berry Man., aug. 17, has been identified through a Check made at Ottawa on his fingerprints As j. Grant alias John William English of no fixed address. Grant . Say was born at new Liskeard ont., on Jan. 20, 1919. Papers found on his body led . Earlier to give a tentative identification As Hans. Schuler. This they new say is incorrect. London radio licences in june totalled including television licences More Tel viewers than in May. V an Oklahoma car parked in front of the fort carry hotel provided an appropriate setting for Jeanne Ruth and Marilyn Lan Ders stars of Oklahoma which is playing the civic auditorium All this week. The members of the company arrived in Winnipeg by special train sunday morning and lost no time in Tak ing in some of Winnipeg s Beauty spots. A free press cameraman caught some of them As they looked Over the fort carry Gate. They Are read ing from left to right Jeanne who plays the comic role of ado Annie Hope Sansberry understudy for the part of aunt Eller ferry Mann who is Ali Hakim the peddle Mary Mario the aunt Eller. Of the company Joan Brook who is giggling Gertie and Marilyn Landers who plays the leading Soprano role of Laurey. Fresh and lilting Oklahoma cast likes its own show by Frank Morriss the performance of Oklahoma which is to be Given in he civic auditorium monday night by the theatre Guild s National company will be As fresh and lilt no As the night the show opened f one can judge from the Happy faces of the principals of the cast. The company arrived by Spe Cial train from Seattle in the Early hours of sunday morning and vere delighted with the weather and the Opportunity to rest up for he opening monday night. From Mary Mario who plays movable aunt Eller to Marilyn Banders who plays the blonde heroine Laurey the cast All agreed that it was a pleasure to play in musical show which is so full of hit tunes and amusing Situa ions. It was something in the nature of a Homecoming for two Mem Bers the company since they member playing Winnipeg in the Good old Days of vaudeville in the 920 s. Hope Sansberry who acts As understudy for aunt Eller grouped in Winnipeg and Jerry who plays Ali Hakim the meddler was on the orpheus Bill n impersonations. Well cast or. Mann has Only been with the company for seven weeks. He Vas in Hollywood helping to write the Duffy s tavern radio show when he got the Opportunity to apply grease paint again. He s Lappy to be in harness again. Jerry seems to have taken a part which s something in the nature of Type casting. He is acting on and off stage is always ready with a jag and is generally the life of Che party Type. Mary plays aunt Eller is As Down to Earth and As Sweet As the character she por trays in the show. She created Ler role in the London company and played it for nearly a year Dut she got so homesick that she returned to America and took Over the role in the National company which played Chicago for some thing like a year and then had to eave while it was doing capacity business because people in other cities were clamouring for it. No i Don t Hope that the people i understudy will fall Down and break their laughed miss Sansberry who plays aunt Eller when miss Mario is not in the cast. T do Hope that they leave the show for another Star part or else it married however. Previous to dining the Oklahoma company she was an understudy in the Charlotte Greenwood production of i remember Mamma. Vivacious blonde Jean Ruth the vivacious blonde who plays the leading comedy role f ado Annie also grouped with he Charlotte Greenwood company playing the Ingi Aue role Katrine. She thinks ado Annie is loads of fun to play and never tires of the part no matter How often she performs it. Red headed Joan Brook who is the giggling Gertie of the. Com Pany is also More than Happy to be in the part. She has such a Ood time performing it that she just romps out and giggles away to her heart s Content. She As a mat Ter of fact gets a big kick out of life in general. The show s Prima Donna Mari Lyn Landers is a slim blonde girl who has been wifi the company a year but has Only been playing Laurey for three is her very first experience in show business and she is still new enough at the game to love tra Elling and to see the places that she s read about in her geography Book. Born in Hartford she was born in Hartford conn., and studied for five years at the conservatory music developing Ier Lyric Soprano voice. After that she went to new York to study Vita the noted coach Estelle Lieb Ling and it was Only a step from there to the role in Oklahoma the company was no sooner ensconced in the fort Garry hotel than they were handed a huge envelope of literature from the travel and publicity Bureau. They opened it up took Quick glances at the pictured attractions of Winnipeg and Manitoba and vowed that they would see As much of the place As they could while they were Here. One of their first trips was a saunter Over to the Little Park which houses old fort Garry. Joan Brook the giggling Gertie obliged with a lilting Giggle and pretended she was shooting indians. She made a like a machine gun had to be told that the Early settlers had never carried them. She giggled again. U. Of m. Grad gets Post in Indiana Washington aug. 23 top Louis Shere formerly of Oxbow sask., resigned monday As director of tax research for the United states Treasury to become professor of economics and tax research director at Indiana University. His resignation is effective sept. 10. Shere a graduate of the University of Manitoba has been with the Treasury since 1934 and has been its chief tax researcher since last january. London Irish mail oldest named train in the world celebrated its Hundredth anniversary recently. Red Cross juniors provide Aid for 7th Blue baby an ambition to go to school May soon be realized by eight year old Tommy Paquin seventh Blue baby to be assisted by the Manitoba Junior Cross. The Little boy won t be around when school Bells ring out sept. 1 but he May achieve his ambition some time this fall. Thoughts of fun and games common to most children of his age took a Back seat to Tom my s desire to go to school with other boys and girls when he set out. Lor Toronto sick children s Hospital saturday. Young red Cross members did not Stop at providing transportation costs and medical expenses for the afflicted boy. They also saw to it that he was Well supplied with comic books and a new suit Case for his journey. Tommy will undergo an opera Tion in Toronto in which a new vein will be attached to the Pul monary artery. Or. John Keith and or. William Mustard will attend the boy. Expenses for the trip and hos period Are provided by the crippled children s fund of the Junior red Cross. During the past year Manitoba members raised to help less fortunate Chil Dren in the province. Clerks take hour to read All charges pleading guilty to a record number of charges of theft forging and uttering of cheques Worth ss.021. William Piniak. 37. Of William Avenue. Monday was sentenced to five years at hard labor in Stony Mountain by magistrate m. H. Garton in City police court. But the maximum for the Reading of the 23i Jor and uttering is still took two clerks one hour and nine minutes. The offences look place Between july 30. 1944 and last Friday. The cheques involved ranged in size from to s700, City police . And Post authorities have been working on the Case for four years. Piniak was trapped aug. 20 As lie a item pled to Cash a s50 Cheque at the Portage avenge and s h c r b r o o k Street Branch of tie Royal Bank of Canada. All Banks and Large business firms in the City had been warned to be on the Lookout for cheques bearing signatures written in pin Iak s style of handwriting. Teller spots it when Piniak attempted to Cash the s50 Cheque a Teller at the Bank spotted the forgery and immediately informed the manager. Detec Tives swooped Down on the bunk and caught Piniak before he real speaking to Thi accused magistrate Garton said. You must have realized that sooner in later you would end this Way. Vou have caused a croat loss to a great Many people. On each of six charges of theft of cheques under 1 son a Tench you to six months. On each of the remaining charges your sentence will be five years at hard j labor. All the sentences will run 1 Swift employees get wage boost o about employees at the St. Boniface Plant of the Swift Cana Dian company will yet wage boosts under n new allowing a 9.b wage agreement per com. Gennil sized his forgery had been detected increase which has Jusi been sign the Post office and the policed in Toronto it was announced department take an extremely Seri Ous View of this o. M. M. Kay Crown prosecutor said in court i feel that no consideration is coming to he accused and a sentence commensurate with the offences should be he said Piniak had n criminal record dating Back to 1931. And that1 he had served 10 years in prison. He was last released from Stony Mountain in j942. Post office thefts in 1944. Or. Kay continued pin Iak got a Job with a cartage com Pany which held a contract for the transportation of mail. This Posi Tion gave the accused Access to various parts of the general Post office he said and he found no difficulty in stealing envelopes con Taining cheques from sorting boxes. About a year ago. The accused ended his employment with the cartage company and began a systematic plan of stealing cheques from mail boxes in apartment or. Kay said. Of the involved 21 Wen stolen directly from the mails the other 58 from mail boxes. All Wen forced and All but one successfully cashed. Until 1945. There was a minimum penalty of three years in prison Tor Tbell. From the or. Kay went on. This has now been there is no minimum sunday by officials of the United packing House workers a similar agreement made last week with Canada Pai kers limited will affect approximately Plant workers of this company in St. Boniface. Some .3.500 workers ire involved in six Swift. Canadian plants it Moncton n. B., Toronto. Out., St. Boniface. Mouse sask., and new Westminster b. C., and Edmonton Alia. Union officials said they expected to Confer this week with executives of Burns and company re Garding a new contract. Longshore in in plan for strike Sant Francisco. Aug. 23 a longshoremen called an other 2 a hour waterfront work stoppage monday Ami went ahead with firm plans for a coast wide strike sept. The longshore men s and warehousemen s Union announced that 75 delegates from. Pacific const ports Hari Conral Uvrl a caucus in san Francisco and returning to their Home ports to Speed preparations for the Consi Al walkout. Wages and Union jurisdiction Are issues of is dispute. The three bears Bruin trouble hereabouts Here is the 1948 version of the three bears. One was shot sat urday about eight Miles outside Winnipeg the second was shot last week at Falcon Lake and the third has probably by now met the same Fate. Last heard of he was raiding ice boxes at Brereton Lake. This is Whit happened to the Winnipeg Bourn Bruin. Hit was sighted by Emile of grand j Point in a train Field near a railway siding. In his truck or. Lavalli Cut Irsil the .100-Pound a final until it crossed the Siiling tracks. Later in the afternoon. Accompanied by Howard Paul lot 162 St. Mary s Road he set out in Earnest. The two men. Armed with rifles found tin hour in another Grain Field and immediately shut it. The Range was about 100 Yards and. Although badly hit dip animal travelled towards the Hunters for a considerable di.slrinn-. In All. It took five shots to bring i to Bear Down. Examination re veal Crl three hits on the body and one on the head. When skinned ill sir etched on i in gird hit animal was found to measure eight feet in height nil seven in breadth. He had probably followed the of the River feeding Miff the High Bush w. Maj Aber. Director of the provincial game and fisheries depart ment explained monday. He thought the furl of the Bear s presence ii a Grain Field incidental to its in thereof de sire for Highl Nish cranberries. Or. Mola her said that hours in Lent on eating berries Are oblivious 10 most other things and it is not unusual for them to come As close to civilization As Grande i Point. Bear at dour asleep in his Cabin at Falcon Lake. Gordon Hamilton Damp proprietor heard a noise on his veranda one Nielli last week. It. Was one i . He got up to assist what he thought to he a distressed j camper. Going to the Rio or. Lie found a big Bear staring him in the face. Or. Hamilton whirled took up a loaded Shotgun and shot the animal in the shoulder. The Bear whirling in turn Ivee ived the second barrel in the opposite shoulder. Aroused by be rom motion or. Hamilton s campers got up and held a real old fashioned skinning Hee. Brereton Lake campers have been plagued for or nor time with i Bear whom no one has been Able to j catch. Them Ean be Little doubt though if these campers have their Way it. Will shortly be a dead Jruth memorial seventh Blue baby to be helped by the Manitoba Junior red Cross Tommy Paquin. Of mrs. Christina Paquin. Is shown with miss Spenceley director of the Junior Reri Cross As he boarded a . Train for Toronto saturday evening. Miss Spenceley win remain Witt Tommy until he has recovered from the operation. Besides his Mother. Tommy s sister Eind brother Wayne were on hand to see him leave. York aug. 2.3 bup construction of a baby Ruth Mem orial stadium will at Arch Bishop Stepinac High school i Plains n.y., after dedication Cert monies sept. 12. Francis is Pelican announced monday. Cardinal said a California Frioud contributed ,310.000 As he first sift j toward the memorial to the Ball j player. Lon Don British bicycles exported Between january and june this year total 8s5.15s, nearly three times the corresponding figure in 1938 ;