Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 07, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Margene an Ideal spread Winnipeg free press thu. And on 6w__ Solo Only at your grocer s Price 5c per copy edition with comics. Loc Winnipeg saturday May 7, 1949 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week army units to Salute Manitoba with joint display May 16-21 Reserve and Active Force army units of Winnipeg will Salute the citizens of Manitoba when Hon. R. F. Mcwilliams lieutenant governor officially opens the army review May 16. At Minto armoury grounds it was announced saturday by Prairie command Headquarters. At the second performance of the army review May 17, the units will Salute Winnipeg citizens with mayor Garnet Coulter taking the Salute. The opening of the army review by the Lieut Jiant governor will signal the commencement. Of a of military exhibitions in the City and Rural areas being presented As part of the Dominion wide Observance of army week from Mav 15-21. Designed to give citizens an Opportunity of familiarizing themselves with army training and equipment Tiff army re View will be the largest entertainment feature presented by he units. During previous observances of army week unit demonstrations were decentralized in the various armouries. However this year All units Are being brought together in order that the Public can see All types of formations in action on the same programme the announce ment said. V airborne troops from Rivers Man., and artillerymen from Shilo j. Ogden Turner is named Raven court school head 3. Ogden Turner has been appointed headmaster of Ravens court school for boys fort Garry it was announced at a school gathering1 Friday by chief Justice e. K. Williams chairman of the Board of governors. Or. Turner will succeed p. H. A. Wykes whose resignation was recently accepted at the end of the present school term. Or. Wykes is going to Ridley College St. Catharines ont. A graduate of the University of Manitoba or. Turner has been senior lecturer in the department of English there for the past three years. He taught at Raven court from 1939 to 1946, being assistant headmaster the last four years of this period. Manitoba photographers to attend . Parley More than 50 Western canadians about 40 of them from Winnipeg will attend the Little International photographers convention at Fargo n.d., May 9, 10 and 11. The Canada Day programme May 10. Under the direction of the Western Canada photograph ers association will include j. Erlichman and Maurice Lyall of Winnipeg and e. Jerrett of Brandon As speakers. In to Winnipeg s 75th birthday party. June 5 to 11, will be extended. Construction to begin on Weston club building construction of the new Weston Community club build ing will be underway soon it was announced monday eve Ning at a meeting in the club rooms Thomson Street and Logan Avenue. A limited num Ber of membership tickets Are available from executive Mem Bers or at the Centre. Civil service veterans plan Winnipeg dance the Dominion civil servants War veterans association will a dance May 18 at 8.30 . In the Blue room of the Normandy. Nav Lander wins two photographic awards Black and White and coloured photo graphs including the 48 monthly contest winning shots were displayed before More than 150 persons Friday evening in the . At the annual photographic exhibition of the Winnipeg . Camera club. Picture of the in both the senior and Junior competitions was awarded Kay Lender s photo. Flood level by judges w. Leach t. Kirby j. Shepherd and j. B. Duncan. Color slides of Manitoba and the Winni Peg District were shown with narration by Ken Rose. The senior Hose bowl and Junior Hunter cup will be presented to Nick Roscoe Ken Hose at the club s wind up banquet at 6 . May 12 in the . Assembly Hall. An exhibition of club work will be Dis played on the second floor of the Hudson s Bay company store May 12 to 21. Queens ton group to hear veterans vocational school head r. J. Johns director of Winnipeg s new vocational school will be guest speaker at the final meeting for this season of the Queenston Home and school association tuesday at 8.15 . In the. School auditorium. Or. Johns will speak on the Aims and objects of the school. Queenston school Musi Cal festival winners will pre sent several selections and presentations will be made to school patrol members. Letters seek whereabouts of immigrants major s. Mckinley of the salvation army Here has recently received letters seeking the whereabouts of two persons believed to be living in Winnipeg Thomas Richardson a recent arrival Glasgow Scotland now residing in Calgary alto., is locate his father Thomas Richardson senior. His letter stated it is known he had a brother William Richardson who lived in Winnipeg and was believed to have been a railroader. His wife wrote to member of the family just before Fae last War from Winnipeg but the address has been it is believed that Wilham Richardson s family would have information regarding or. Richardson senior. Johan Svanteson barrister of ror Kerr Osta Kulle Sweden a anxious to locate Sigfrid Herbert 3ohanson. As he wishes. To dispose of an m hesitance left or. Johanson by his Mother Selmaa Lovisa Johanson who died in 1945. When last heard from or. Johanson was having his mail sent to an immigrant reception Home in Winnipeg. He was by train Lena Sweden in 1900, and came to this country m 1927. Resolutions to be received tuesday resolutions for presentation at the Manitoba command convention of the army Navy and air Force veterans May 14 and 15 at fort William ont., will be received at a meeting tuesday in the clubroom 299 Young Street at which sever Al new members will be initiated. The units annual Church Parade will be May 22 at All saints anglican Church with members meeting at 10.20 . At the clubroom. From is attempting to Industrial traffic league to hear r. J. Lewarne r. J. General freight agent for Canada steamship lines will address a meeting of the Canadian Industrial traffic league local tuesday evening in the Marlborough hotel. His topic will be Lake shipping. Bureau renamed jewish family service icelandic lutherans hold dinner for 150 old Folk the Board of deacons of the first icelandic lutheran Church is holding a dinner for approximately 150 old age pensioners at 4 . Today in the Church Parlours Victor Street and Sargent Avenue. President Ami Eggerston is in charge. The United hebrew social service Bureau will now be known the i Camhy service the Board of Bureau obtained a provincial charter for voluntary family and in 1942 became a subsidiary of the jewish welfare staff of professional social workers to provide work in Une Moyn counsel lint service for personal and family problems. In addition to a recent serves the Agency has been co operating with other local sew Shah anthropic organizations to assist immigrant fam., european orphans and the jewish children s society. Membership Jan Peerce gets degree summer . Member ships will be available this year it was announced thurs Day at a meeting of the a membership committee. Dur ing the Winter months they had As Many As Mem Bers it was stated but due to holidays and the departure of 300 students the organization would be Able to accept applications. Max Mains Winnipeg music enthusiast recently received a letter from Jan. Peerce . Opera Star in which or. Peerce stated he had been Given an honorary degree of doctor of music at the new York school of music. His letter reads in part i m not used to the title but the time will prob ably come when i won t answer unless addressed thus by or. Peerce us. Best regards to the folks in Winni americans get flying invitation More than 700 visitors from flying clubs association of can Northern parts of the United states Are expected to arrive in Winnipeg in private planes june 4. They will tie guests at a party arranged by the Winnipeg flying club for Winnipeg s 75th anniversary. Invitations Are being sent to Fly eng organizations in North and South Dakota Minnesota and parts k of Montana and Wisconsin. The club and the Graffo flying service t. Have received financial assistance Job for the undertaking from the win 5, biped anniversary committee. To in charge of arrangements Are i Ross Screaton a director of the Ada c. , or. Ted Kling and Doug Harper. Auto dealers group has guest speakers the Winnipeg Automo bile Deal ers association heard two speakers at its regular luncheon meeting wednesday at the. Fort Garry hotel h. Parsons director of dealer organizations for Chrysler corporation Windsor and j. T. Russell fort William president of the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario automobile dealers association. C. G. Carter chairman of the Winnipeg association presided Man., will augment the displays presented by local units. Paratroops from the joint air training Centre will Combine with local Reserve Force units to stage exercise am portraying an airborne at tack on rear communication lines by glider and Parachute troops. The paratroops also will demonstrate various stages of jump training on equipment specially erected for the performance. Tank manoeuvres four of the latest Model Sherman tanks from the fort Garry horse will carry out a Battle exercise of manoeuvres and firing while a Spe Cial radio network will permit the audience to listen to the orders passing Back and Forth Between the tank commanders. In addition to these demonstrations there will be a helicopter res Cue crash action by gunners from the 71st eld regiment r.c.h.a., Shilo trick and precision motorcycle Riding by members of no. 13 Provost company a pageant showing the various types of vehicles used by the army service corps since the Days of the Kiel re Bellion and army Cadet training. Lending color to the army review will be the Queen s own Cameron highlanders of Canada who will carry out the intricate ceremony of the changing of the guard accompanied by their pipe bund. Later in the week the Public have been invited to attend at Homes being held in the City s four armouries the dates and locations of these at Homes Are As follows car Piquet Barracks East end of notre Dame May 19 fort Osborne Barracks May 20 Minto and Mcgregor armouries May 21 All of these at Homes will com Mence at 7.30 ., with most con sisting of a display of training equipment and facilities and dance. During the week demonstrations will be presented by troops in rope off areas of downtown Winnipeg during the noon hour from monday to saturday. These demonstrations will be drawn from the army s Mobile caravan which be on display both at the army re View and the armoury at Homes made up of approximately 30 vehicles staffed by 60 officers and men the caravan will tour Rural Manitoba and Western Ontario Dur no the summer months and in the fall. Freedom at stake in Canada democracy challenged today., Godsoe warns personnel body our system of government the system which has built Canada to the position it enjoys today is being challenged at this moment As it has not been challenged before declared j. Ger Ald Godsoe president of the British american Oil company limited Toronto at a dinner meet ing of the sixth annual conference at the personnel association of greater Friday at the fort Garry hotel. Viscount Gort and lord de l is Lead Dudley . Two English lords arrive to inspect property Here or. M. 31. Rossk or. M. M. Ross Cains promotion As professor or. Malcolm m. Ross associate professor in the department of English University of Manitoba Las been promoted professor it was announced saturday. Or. Ross who recently was awarded the Guggenheim scholar hip for 1949-50, received his Bach Elor of arts degree from the uni Hersity of new Brunswick in 1913 and his master of arts from Tor nto University the following fear. In 1941 he was Given the degree of doctor of philosophy. After teaching in the universe ies of new Brunswick Alberta Cornell and Indiana he joined the National film Board at Ottawa and remained there until 1945 when he designed As director of the District i Ion division. In the same year he Vas appointed to the University of Manitoba As assistant professor and two years later was promoted associate professor. Or. Ross who has won four fellowships. Has had several articles published in Canadian periodicals. L recognized authority on Milton e has published one Book Milton s Roy Al ism Cornell University Viscount Gort of England stated Friday on his arrival in Winnipeg that he would like to increase his investments in Canada if he were allowed to take Money out of Bri Tain. Viscount Gort who arrived Over Canadian National lines with lord de l Isle and Dudley ., also of England will make a six week inspection of his properties in West Ern Canada. In greater Winnipeg he owns Sev eral apartment blocks and five acres of land along Portage Avenue in St. James. In Alberta Viscount Gort will visit his Coal mines about 60 Miles from Edson. Lord de l Isle who was awarded the Victoria Cross for service As a major in the Grenadier guards near Anzio Italy recently married vis count Gort s Niece the daughter of the late Field marshal Gort. . Visiting Canada for the first time lord be l Isle has two estates in England one in Kent and another in Yorkshire. Conditions in England at the pre sent Are unfavourable for landlords said Viscount Gort but prices Are still Good for Farmers. Both men will be guests at the fort Garry hotel for about a week measles tops City list of 80 disease cases eighty cases of communicable diseases occurred in Winnipeg Dur ing the week ending saturday according to City health department figures. Measles with 52 cases comparet to 49 the previous week led the list other cases with the previous week s total in brackets were Chicken pox 16 infantile diarrhoea 2 mumps 7, scar let fever 1, whooping cough Aid. Black hits isms provincial president opens new legion rooms in the absence of Lieut. Col. L. D. M. Baxter Dominion president of the Canadian legion col. J. Kelly first president of the provincial command opened the new clubroom of the artillery Branch 6s of the legion at 220 Mcdermot Avenue Friday night. Occupying two floors of the building the new rooms replace the former premises at the car Piquet Barracks. The Branch with a membership of upwards of 300, s the Only one of its kind in the Dominion. Introduced by the president of he Branch j. Treleaven col. Kelly emphasized that branches were the life blood of the legion and appealed to the members to make theirs As Active As possible. The new clubroom Lent them selves to comradeship which was one of the keynotes of the legion be said. Recalling that the Branch received its charter in june 3947, Alex Cairns Secretary of the provincial command paid tribute to the courage and Enterprise of the executive. Or. Cairns pointed out thatch Branch was composed mostly of Young veterans and said he was sure it would go a Long Way in a Short time. The Canadian legion Ivas not the Only veterans organization in Canada but it was the biggest and most influential. Pre Cious As the comradeship begun during the War was at the pres ent time he believed it would be come More so in the future. Aid. A Black representing mayor Garnet Coulter assured the meet no that the City Council was right behind the veterans. It had done to Best in promoting things that veterans needed he said although in agreed that so far As housing was concerned there was much More to be done. The Alderman spoke of cer Tain isms that were creep ing into the Dominion. We do not want he declared because they Are out to destroy the very democratic institutions on which this country has been other speakers were j. Costello president of the Winnipeg and Dis Hrict Council of the legion Lieut w. G. Brockie Royal Canadian Navy major w. E. Scott head doctor s bag stolen from parked car a doctor s bag containing a Small amount of drugs was stolen from he car of or. Atholl Gordon Dep Uty provincial Coroner 986 Gros Venor Avenue while it was parked on the . Parking lot Friday night. Police said saturday the bag also contained instruments a surgical and a Stethoscope. Newly installed tax Ray unit at general to test patients free from now on any patient enter no the Winnipeg general Hospital May be a Rayed free of charge or tuberculosis. In a Small room near the admitting Entrance of the general stands the first a Ray a Manitoba hospitals to be used for that purpose. The new s8.000 machine is the first step in an extensive pro gramme of the Manitoba Sana orium Board for free Chest a rays. A. A. Macpherson radiologist and or. D. L. Scott of the Sanatorium Board were in charge f the installation of the machine at the general. Plans Are being Laid in four other Manitoba hospitals for the. Installation of units within next four months said or. Scott adding that it was the most effective method of Case finding of patients a Rayed imme upon their arrival to the Hospital and As plates were developed daily the results would be known within 24 hours explained or. Macpherson. The new service will protect both the patient and the Hospital staff which has already been a Rayed. According to or h. Coppinger superintendent of the Hospital about people Are admitted yearly and it is expected most of them will take advantage the the service. Quarters Prairie command col s. P. Gemmil formerly commanding the 5th Bridge artillery and w. My court president of the District Council. J. Caldwell past president of the Branch thanked the speakers. A musical pro gramme followed. British Mission visiting Manitoba a British Arr cultural machinery Mission to Canada which includes 10 British industrialists is scheduled to arrive in Winnipeg by sunday afternoon. The party will spend a few Days Here and will be escorted on a tour of the City by w. G. Coven try British Trade commissioner in Winnipeg. A few plan to visit Brandon returning to the City to resume their Westward trip. Leaving Winnipeg the group s itinerary will take them to Reg Ina Lethbridge Swift current Calgary Vancouver Banff Edmon ton Saskatoon Toronto and Mon Treal and Back to Britain. I Accident victim receives a consent judgment of s2.000 and costs of s200 was awarded Joseph Chruszcz against Irvine Mathes and George Lockwood by chief Justice e. K. Williams in court of King s Bench Friday. Chruszcz filed a statement of claim following an Accident dec 1 at main Street and Dufferin Avenue. He stated that he had been knocked Down by a taxi owned by Mathes and driven by Lockwood. He received a broken leg Frac tured Skull and severe abrasions. The claim was for i stores to show Junior posters civic beautification posters de signed by elementary and Junior High school children of City and suburban schools will be shown in the windows of the t. Eaton com Pany Hudson s Bay company Esquire restaurant and metropolitan Kresge and Woolworth stores Dur ing the next week. The contest was sponsored by the Winnipeg Junior chamber of Commerce with e. C. Bishop As poster chairman. Judges were miss k. N. George k. R. Burns Mckibbin e. Munro. Andrew Brown v. Caton and City firm loses in safecracker raid safecracker Friday night escaped with approximately in Cash from the City machinery company. 783 main Street. City police said saturday the thieves entered the building by a rear door and opened the Safe by knocking off the dial and punch ing the spindle. Sales club meeting to hear r. Walker r. Walker of Swift Canadian company limited will address members of the sales executive club of Winnipeg at meeting and election annual officers monday. 5.30 . At the Carl ton club. Or. Walker s subject will be meeting. Unless a better understanding among the people concerning Industry and business is developed and unless the false notions now being entertained Are dispelled the people will be drawn towards some other form of government or. Godsoe warned. He pointed out that recent Public opinion polls indicated that More than 20 per cent of canadians leaned towards some drastic fundamental change in our system. Or. Godsoe said this indicated a trend to communism or other ideologies having the same final effect on our system. Warns business men or. Godsoe Felt that business men have the responsibility of see ing that the democratic system is kept working efficiently. Should it not succeed it will be replaced by something else in which free Dom will because the democratic sys tem stands for Freedom of Choice of the individual for Equality of Opportunity for fair Competition and for a state in which the people Are master it is Well Worth main the speaker concluded. Supervisory training should Start at the top of an organization declared c. E. Jurgensen personnel manager of the Minneapolis Gas company at. The afternoon session Friday in Beaver Hall at the Hud son s Bay company store. Supervision training if the president and top officials of an organization were trained in supervision then Junior executives studying the same pro gramme would not be Able to critic Lee their superiors for Violat ing their own training policies he added. An employer should not Force a Man to do a Job he should make him want to do the Job. At department manager must answer the complaint in writing. If the answer is unsatisfactory the matter goes to the department manager s superiors. If this fails a formal grievance is launched by the Union. This complaint is then submitted to said. In this Way everybody was informed of the facts and com plaints were usually settled be fore they reached the state of a formal grievance he added. Or. Prouty stressed that All grievances should be handled promptly. Most department managers supervisors or foremen consulted with their immediate superiors be fore answering a complaint and in this Way avoided the necessity of reversing decisions on complaints said or. Prouty. If however a decision has to to reversed management should Call in the Foreman figure out a suit Able answer and let the Foreman give the complainant the he advised. This gives the Foreman re sped for and Confidence in his superiors and does t make it appear to the complaining employee that his Boss has been overruled. Reversed decisions create bad r. H. G. Bonny Asue managing director of advocate printers limited Winnipeg agreed that most trouble with relatively minor grievances and that it was at this stage that they should be cleared up. He said he did not believe that the written complaint would work in Small businesses. It May stifle an employee. A Small grievance May be a big Ono to the employee and it should de talked Over As the complainant would probably not wish to put it in he said. The Road to myopia a one act play in three scenes illustrated some of the problems of placing an applicant with a firm. The play directed by Rene Hoole was presented by the Winnipeg chapter of the National office management association. My addresses Canadian club briton outlines vast plan to modernize Industry Titue training is a Basic part .w1u1 any training programme. M such a programme should fill. Both the interests and needs of prospective super visors and it is preferable that this programme be the responsibility of one person. It should be a full time Job not a Side line. H. Hill personnel manager of Canada packers limited Winnipeg declared that supervision had been difficult because the abundance of jobs had caused an Independent attitude among employees. Prof. Gordon Donaldson acting head of the University of Mani Toba s Commerce department Dis cussed the problems of placing University graduates in Britain has launched an annual Capi Tal investment programme to modernize her Basic industries and thus increase her level of productivity Frederick Lee ., of Manchester England told a lunch Eon meeting of the Canadian club of Winnipeg Friday in the fort Arry hotel. During the first three months of 1949. Britain balanced her in exports for the first 1 a be labor He pointed out that Between the first and second world wars Britain hed Only been Able University training develops knowledge he said Powers reasoning and a Man s ability to express himself. He suggested employers should have a special Job application form for University graduates which would recognize the limitations of University train University gave students Only a general education. It was up to the employers to give them specialized training prof. Don Aldson concluded. Comments on prof. Donaldson s address were made by j. R. Stuart personnel officer for the City of Winnipeg. Chairman of the morning session was miss k. M. Kerr educational director of the t. Eaton company and of the afternoon session a. Murray assistant personnel superintendent of the Hudson s Bay company retail store. H. H. Thexton president of the personnel association of greater Winnipeg welcomed the delegates grievances Between labor and management should be handled with Clear rational thinking. They should be put in writing and be dealt with at their Point origin. This was the advice Given by George Prouty Industrial relations and personnel manager of Muns a swear inc., Minneapolis to 150 delegates at the sixth annual personnel conference which opened Friday in Beaver Hall at the Hud son s Bay company store. Outlining his company s policy of handling grievances or. Prouty declared if an has to put his grievance m writing and sign his name to it he has to have the facts he has to be right by using this method for six months we found that com plaints dropped 75 per a. Grievance is anything an employee or individual thinks is this feeling of dissatisfaction exists because of misunderstanding Between people usually be cause one or the Otner does t know the said or. Prouty. In our company both the management and Union get copies of an employee s complaint. Then the Lars. To balance imports with exports by earnings from overseas invest ments. In the first two years of the second world War we had to sell approximately 1100.000 Worth of these overseas investments. A Sec Ond Hii item in enabling us o line acc our Trade before the War was the earnings of our merchant during the War tons of this merchant Navy was lost he added. Although Britain s Trade with the world was now in balance she was still faced with the problem of balancing her Trade with Dol Lar areas or. Lee said. Sterling areas could not pay Britain in Dol we now have an annual and verse Trade balance of with Dollar he stated. To balance Trade with Dollar areas Britain had to launch her capital investment. Programme. More than persons Are now employed in Britain or. Lee said and the unemployed had been reduced to since there were now As Many persons in Industry As possible the British Hud to increase their productivity. We Are trying to increase our level of productivity by two and one half per cent each he said. Or. Lee said Only work ing Days had been lost in British Industry from the end of the War to february compared with Days in the same per Iod following the first War. This tremendous saving in manpower had been accomplished partly by joint production committees established on a National and local scale. At the moment we Are still Broad ening this system which was begun during the War to in crease today the arbitration method s accepted by All of the Trade unions and the minister of labor always gets 21 Days notice of any deadlock in he said. Or. Lee is a guest at the fort Larry hotel. Prof. S. Sinclair head the department of Agri cultural economics and a member of the Senate body of the univer sity of Manitoba who will be one of a group of Canadian farm experts leaving thursday for the United kingdom to study agricultural conditions particularly farm Cost accounting and the co opera Tive movement. At the conclusion of the British tour july 10, prof. Sinclair will visit Denmark and Sweden and later will travel to Israel where he will study use and reclamation of land. He will also be a member of the Canadian delegation at the International conference of agricultural economists of stress Italy during the summer. Prof. Sinclair who came to the University of Manitoba in 1945, is a councillor of the Cana Dian agricultural economists society and a member of the executive of the agricultural Institute of Canada. Friends flock to Benefit dance for Middle Hurch hard Luck family Henry hands the Middle Church of the fire that Only an Earth British immigrant who has had More housing grief in the last six years than most people have in a if etame will be on the receiving end or some More neighbourly Aid after Friday night close to 170 persons Friday flocked to a Benefit dance held in the Middle Church school proceeds of which Are to go to the hard Luck family we o s e newly completed Bungalow was burned to the ground april 25. Dancers came from All Over Middle Church municipality and from Winnipeg. Or. Hands who with his family lad previously been forced out of one House and bombed out of an other had remarked the time quake can do us further harm his Middle Church neighbors and the River Crest veterans Community aided the family with blankets food after the fire. Sponsored jointly by the River Crest Community club and the Middle Church Branch of the can Adian legion with the ladies1 auxiliary Friday s dance was put on As a Means of further helping the Veteran to rebuild his Home. Services of Jimmy Gowler s or Chestra were donated by the Winnipeg musicians association. The entire municipality was canvassed for three Days by eight members of the legion and the Community club who sold tickets for the Benefit event. Yvo Appeal for starts monday last minute plans Are being made this week end so that the . Restoration Appeal Ca. N get under Way monday. Several Hundred men and women volunteers will begin a can Vass of residential and downtown areas of greater Winnipeg. The Campaign with an objective of is designed to meet he Cost of repair work on the y s Ellice Avenue building. R. B. Hunter is chairman of the Appeal with mrs. Arnold m. Campbell chairman w. Percy White treasurer and w. Bolton Secretary. Names of District chairman in clude mrs. Leslie Hancock mrs. Gordon m. Stephens mrs. T. E. Price mrs. K. S. Gordon mrs. R. Smith mrs. Pearl Richardson mrs. A c. Reid mrs. H. E. Wood mrs. F. W. Alexander mrs. R. J. Cochrane mrs. W. J. Johnson mrs m. Murray mrs. W. Lewis mrs. J. R. Racine. Mrs. N. R. Bux ton and mrs. City fur firms n Toronto show three Winnipeg fur companies represented Western Canada for the first time in history at the Canadian fur fashion award show in Eastern Canada according to Lister who recently returned from the show held april 27 to 29 in Toronto. This is the first time that Winnipeg furriers have competed with manufacturers from Toronto and Montreal in this said or. Lister. The Winnipeg firms which entered Coats in Competition with about 110 others were j. H. Hecht and son durable fur company and Lister furs. Approximately "50 buyers and spectators attended the show to see the latest Cana Dian designs for fur Coats said sir. Lister. He pointed out that the newest have flaring bodies elaborate sleeves with a tendency towards a wider Bell and smaller collars. Featured in the show were Hud son Seal Alaska Seal and persian Lamb Coats trimmed with differ ent types of Mink. The Coats entered by the Winnipeg firms were a dyed Ermine by j. H. Hecht and son a Muskrat Back by durable fur company and a Muskrat flank by Lister ;