Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday August 25, 1943 Page g Berry Street area suggested Community Centre site studied by St. Boniface a petition to Reserve an Are for a Central Norwood Community Centre instead of extending Berry Street will be considered by the City property committee it was decided monday at the meeting of St. Boniface Council. The petition presented to coun cil by a delegation asked that the area Between the end of Berry Street and Enfield Crescent approximately two City blocks be reserved for the proposed Unity Centre. Spokesman of the delegation j. R. Oakes of 318 traverse Avenue showed Council the petition Bear ing 200 names which he said rep resented 90 per cent of the rate payers in the area immediately affected. Co Uncil assured the that nothing1 would be done to Daren j Berry direct until the wry property committee had considered heir proposal fully. Council received and filed a let Tor from Central mortgage and housing corporation which dealt with the Sale of wartime houses veterans wanted to continue tenting them. The letter outlined plans the corporation would carry the letter had been consider by the City property committee last week and the City Solicito had replied acknowledging receipt of the letter. A decision to approve the a Ollil Tor s letter was held up for More than an hour when several Mem Bers of Council thought they were voting on approval of the policy of Central mortgage and housing corporation. Against compulsion mayor George Mclean pro posed an amendment to the motion of file the corporation s letter to he effect that Council should go on record As disapproving any compulsion in the Sale of these houses to veterans now renting hem. His amendment was tossed out when a tie occurred and the chairman Aid. J. A. Van Belles Lem cast his deciding vote against Council finally approved the let Ter from its City solicitor to the corporation. In doing so it vote Down another amendment by mayor Maclean which would have lad Council disapproving any compulsion even in the moving from one House to another of a Veteran out if tenants did not want to Pur not wishing to buy Chase Homes in which they lived. George s. Eby Manitoba divisional manager investors Syndicate of Canada limited whose division has the. Distinction of leading All divisions in Canada and the United states for 1946, 1947 and 1948 in volume of business produced. Or. Eby will act As joint Host with the head office of investors Syndi Cate during the company Conven Tion being held in Winnipeg this week when representatives from All parts of Canada will attend. The property committee is studying what to do about the Bay windows on five houses built on Balsam place by John Landro of 221 Russel Road. The Bay windows encroach nine inches Over the alignment set by the City Cem Clit shortage due to the shortage of Cement no Concrete sidewalk for this year w ii Likely be available for residents of St. Mary s Road Between Niver Street and Carriere Avenue. However the Public works com Mittee will have its superintendent fill in Ami gravel the walks now. The Early travelling of Plessis Road was considered and Council referred the matter to Aid. J. B. T. Hebert for immediate at Tention. The request f or the came from Marcel be Doyen 296 Speers Road who operates a Provencher school Van which travels partly on Plessis Road. Union president Dies Manchester eng., aug. 25 bup Thomas Henry Harry Stevenson of Cincinnati president of the North american moulders and foundry workers Union died in a Manchester hotel tuesday apparently of a heart ailment. Steven son 69, was a native of birding Ham eng., emigrated to More than 50 years ago. From where he the United. Slates the Nile Miles Long. River is about celebrating their first family reunion in 35 years five Sisters and their brother Are Busy going Over old times at the Home of mrs. C. H. Piper 194 Harbison Avenue. Front Row left to right Are mrs. N. Anderson Malta Mont. P. O. Harstad Minneapolis Minn. And mrs. M. Werdal who has spent the past 42 years As a lutheran missionary in Hong Kong China Back Row airs. C. Wash. 4 that next session new zest expected in parliament Ottawa aug. 25 cup the fifth session of the 20th Canadian parliament the one coming up could be a climactic and spectacular one. It will be shadowed by an impending Federal election Stimus a Ted by two new leaders fresh ened by three platform laying a ional conventions. And it will hav Villiam Lyon Mackenzie King of f the Driver s seat at least technically. It could be called this full if the Liberal leadership. Decides it should be. Prevailing Ottawa opinion however is that it will not Start until next january or february traditional period for the inauguration ceremonies. Its major issues could be issues but quite Likely they merge out of those that have gon before the High Cost of living Reight rates or a new Budge and its degree of tax cuts. If Drew in House 1c Ontario s Premier Georg 5rew succeeds to the progressive conservative leadership now Hel in John Bracken the o Dominion provincial relations Coul Irick the parliamentary flank. 1 would offer one of the Arch Cri is of alleged centralization a and wider form for expression. There is always of course the possibility that foreign affairs a occupy a major role. Or. King fone thing has always left the a open for continuation of his Leader ship if the world situation Indi Cates the need of an old hand. Investors Syndicate of Canada limited sales representatives and divisional managers from coast to coast for their National convention Royal Alexandra hotel Winnipeg aug. 25 to 27 the president officers and directors take this Opportunity of extending Good wishes for your continued Success and acknowledging the outstanding record you have achieved in serving the thousands of Canadian men and women Are clients of the company. Head office Winnipeg. Offices in principal cities. Trickery robs Sterling area of us. Dollars London aug. 25 evasion foreign currency Manip Illarion and Black Market ing Are cutting into the Sterling area s earnings of United states dollars. There Are no statistics to Meas ure the damage but a Treasury spokesman said monday the losses Are quite shortage of american dollars with which to buy goods in the unite states is one of the gravest prob lems of Britain s reconstruction it affects almost every country including Canada to some extent but the effect is particularly marked in countries with currency based on the Pound. Most serious of All appears to be the Type of uncovered recently by the australian government in the Wool Trade. During the last year its woo sales to the United states Fel sharply. Investigation showed thai buyers in Netherlands. Belgium and Italy had been buy ing Wool with Sterling and Selling it at a loss to the United state for dollars or their equivalent. The result was a heavy blow to. The Empire Wool Market and to the Sterling countries which were thus deprived of Dollar in come. Rubber is something else. Here a Treasury spokesman explained he government is confronted with outright Law violators Asiatic smugglers who get the raw rubber Tom Malayan plantations slip it in dhows by night up to Siam. And there dispose of it in illegal channels. Civil service pay to be discussed Here this week executives of the Manitoba civil service association will meet Mem Bers of the provincial Cabinet later his week to discuss further wage adjustments for government employees it was Learned tuesday. Members of the association recently voted so in favor of seeking Urther negotiations following Vage increases announced last month. The new increases equal to to annual boosts within each employee s classification were de signed to meet the higher Cost of iving. Because they were already receiving top salaries for their class fictions however a number of civil servants were ineligible for he increase. At a meeting or the association executive aug. 16, it was decided o ask the government to Grant an Over All minimum increase of a month for every employee. The in creases under the adjustment now n effect have ranged from Zero o a month and meant total Cost to the government during the current fiscal year of approximately danish scientist studies insects 3n Hudson Bay Churchill Man., aug. 25 danish geologist s Hus land is attending to baby sitting chores at Copenhagen while his life is studying microscopic Ani Mal life on the shores of Hudson Bay. Seeking evidence bearing on ecological theories concerning the separation of continents danish scientist or. Marie a ived recently at this Northern Manitoba seaport to compare nor Lien Canadian insects with those found in Northern Europe and Greenland. Her investigations already have taken her to Aklavik Coppermine Yellowknife and Northern British Columbia. Discovery of the same species of Vingless insects in Northern can a Europe and Greenland she Aid would tend to confirm the Amory that the three continents constituted one land mass thous ads of years ago. . Apprentices j of nearly 100 full trained close to 100 sex servicemen who have taken advantage of apprenticeship training offered under the department of veterans affairs1 re habilitation Grant system Are now employed As regular tradesmen a Cordi Nsoto figures from the Provin Cial department of labor. According to James Aiken Mani Toba director of apprenticeship the record of veterans who have completed their apprenticeship in the 15 different designated trades is a Good one. Some of these men Are now working As foremen. Since the apprenticeship act was put into Force in the province in 1945 Only 22 per cent of the vet Erans who. Started apprentice train ing have cancelled their agree ments. Completing their apprenticeship training the director said. Industry will have to Start a Cus Toming itself to starting younger men right out of school As apprent said or. Aiken. A Short time the Supply of sex service apprentices will be Over average this is somewhat higher than he percentage of cancellations of civilian apprentices but it is better than the average across the coun or. Aiken pointed out. Domestic responsibilities which in Many cases forced veterans to seek higher paying jobs has accounted for. A Good number of the cancellations or. Aiken said. At the end of june this year there were 4g4 sex servicemen in apprenticeship and 2s4 civilians greatest number of veterans and civilians Are apprenticed As Auto mechanics. There Are 81 sex service apprentices in. This Trade alone. Numbers apprenticed in some of the other trades at the end of june were electrical construction 79 carpentry 73 plumb ing 44 bricklaying 42 Sheet Metal 36 and Auto body 22. Varying length length of apprenticeship in the designated trades ranges from free and one half years for paint no and decorating to five years for automobile trades steam fitting Sheet Metal working and plumb no. Four year apprenticeships Are for , Brick aying carpentry electrical construction electric motor wiring plastering tailoring factory Wood working and til setting. During the next year a Large number of sex servicemen will be Blaze sweeps red Lake Howey Gold mine red Lake ont., aug. 25 Spe Cial sweeping with spectacular Ury through buildings of the Howey Gold mine at red Lake closed since 1942, fire of unknown origin caused damage estimated a tuesday. Situated outskirts of the Community on a High Promontory overlooking red Lake the mine lad been a landmark in the Lis Rich since 1928. Flames which Sho hundreds of feet into the air could be seen for Miles. Surrounding buildings and Bush within a mile radius were showered with Sparks. The efforts of the Volunteer firefighters of the on Ario department of lands and forests were concentrated Pri pre venting these spark swept areas rom igniting. 9 die As plane crashes Burns after collision Newton n.j., aug. 25 a nine persons were killed tuesday when a United states air Force c-47 transport plane crashed and burned after colliding with another plane. A Public relations officer at Middletown a. Air base said the plane left there at noon with seven chaplain s de tailed to work in a chaplain s office two Crew members aboard. However an air Force spokesman at boiling Field Wash., said the crashed ship started from there headed for Stewart Field n.y., and those known aboard were two officers and seven soldiers. The transport crashed in rolling farm country and immediately burst into flames. The charred and mangled bodies were found strewn among the wreckage which was scattered Over an area of several Hundred Yards. Hussell Blakeslee Newton Dairy Farmer said the plane flew in from the Southwest Only 400 to 500 feet above ground in apparent trouble curved to the left and went into a Loop. The transport gained about 200 feet before falling into a Tail spin he said. At Stewart. Field n.y., authorities said none of the Crew the second plane a b-25 bomber was injured. Man goes to jail for robbing girl one of two men who robbed a 16-year-old Yvo actress of s35 in a Logan Avenue cafe last april How Ard Mark Almas 21, of 150h Hig gins Avenue tuesday was sentenced to 15 months in provincial jail. He pleaded guilty to a robbery with violence charge before Magis trate h. I. Carton in City police court. In a statement to police. Almas said that he and a Man he knew As Thomas Henry cooked the robbery Between them. They went to Wong s cafe. 402, Logan Avenue where they had a cup of Coffee while they waited for other customers to leave. Then Almas said he blocked the door to the Kitchen where the proprietor was the other Man grabbed the girl opened1 the till and scooped out its contents. The two then left the cafe and raced away. In opposite directions. Almas was double crossed by his accomplice who is still being sought by police. Almas never a Man again and got none of the stolen Money. Cluck sniffling Menlo Wiitan Jackly spot Cash for used cars 29 to 48 Ellice motors phone 72724 Portage Maryland music Loving thief pays Fine a music Loving thief who augmented his record Library by steal ing from a Friend s collection tues Day paid a Fine in City police court for the theft of .11 records. Henry George Evans 35, of 411 Robertson Avenue told police lie visited a Friend s Home monday to listen to some records. When his Friend left the room Evans sorted out some of his favorite discs tucked them under his Arm anal ran from the House. He was arrested at his Home soon after. Loons Mcfad from Hie free press piles seventy years 25, 3878 the talking machine invented by Thomas Edison was the sensation if the Day the tiny machine re Ted Mary s Little Lamb with the exact sound of the human voice. Sixty years 25, 1888 Frank actor direct a arnved from new York to or Anize the Stock company Foi the Princess theatre it was understood lat Winnipeg Talent would be included. Fifty years 25, is98 the Woods in fort Rouge were warming with hoboes they were Ontic daily being moved on by the olice but returned always in in leased numbers As soon As Vigil Nee was relaxed. Forty years 23, t908 archbishop s. P. Matheson re turning from the Lambeth Confer nce told the free press that one f its chief events Hart been or. Armitage Robinson s Sermon in Westminster Abbey on one Church or the world. Thirty years 25, 1918 David Wark Griffith famous Invie director who Hart visited the Landers Battlefront while making hearts of the world wrote a vivid article on the horror and wonder modern warfare. Venty 25, .1928 Manitoba was very much to the Ore in the Creamery butter awards the . Exhibition winning allies included the co operative Ity and Crescent of Winnipeg in modern St. Boniface and the Aires of Shoal Lake Brandon and Russell which won Many donors. 4ustralia refuses subsidy on Gold aug. 25 Reuters rime minister Joseph b. Fonday rejected a proposal to sub Dixe Australia s Gold production. He told a conference of state premiers that the United states is he world s Only major Gold buyer and if she stopped buying Gold would be virtually worthless. Chifley also rejected a demand by the states for return of their rights to Levy income tax Tornado victims Auckland n. Z., aug. 25 Cap least three persons were killed by a Tornado which ripped through the town of Hamilton wednesday. Six others Are believed buried in. Debris. The twister which Cut a Swath 50 to .100 Yards wide through the town in 15 minutes left hundreds homeless and at least 17 seriously Hurt. Walter Newton does Montreal aug. 25 up Walter a. Newton general sates manager of Budge Carton paper manufacturing company died Mon Day. He was 64, a native of Sala Manoa. . He went to Winnipeg in 1912 and married Kathleen Boyd there in 1919. Atom strike settled los Alamos n.m., aug. 25 a workers agreed Lale tuesday to accept a Union Settle ment of a labor dispute at the los Alamos atomic project. They had quit work last wednesday. 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