Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Peg free press Winnipeg variable cloudiness Little in temperature. Winds southerly at 15. Low to night 45, and High sunday 70. Vol. 196 56 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday May 14, 1949 Sun Rise . Sun set s.06 . Moon else 11.35 . Moon set 5.42 . Forecast Cloudy police Nab convicts in two hours two major fires raging in North rangers of the Manitoba forestry service and . Were following new leads saturday in an All out Effort to apprehend two firebug believed responsible for setting numerous fires in Northern areas of the province within the past three Days. Two major Forest fires each ering an area of about six Square bus operating in that area. Miles Are raging in Northern Manitoba and additional firefighters have been rushed into the threat ened districts to try and hold the flames in Check officials of the provincial forestry service said. The fires described As danger Ous by j. G. Somers provincial forester Are burning in the Fisher Bay area North of Hodgson and in the Mantagas River District near Sturgeon Bay on Lake Winnipeg. Unconfirmed reports were received saturday that three in Dian Homes on the Fisher Bay Reserve and two settlers homesteads had been destroyed by the flames. There were no re ports of lives lost. However forestry officials stressed that the reports of Cabins being burned were not confirmed Anc Coul. Be classed Only As rumours. Some of the fires in the Fisher Bay area were reported by Forest rangers to have been set by a fire cavalcade gets warm Welcome by c. I. Lout ii Detroit lakes minn., May 11 Friend ships were More firmly cemented Friday As Winnipeg s anniversary Goodwill tour wound its Way southward through the red River Valley inviting one and All to at lend the City s 75th birthday party june 5 to 11. At every Point at which the colourful caravan halted the Winnipeg Goodwill ambassadors were greeted warmly. Fire engines and police cars with sirens screaming met them at the outskirts of Many towns. Welcome signs were Strung across crowded streets while hundreds of boys and girls gaped in amazement As the colourful Winnipeg police pipe band went into action. At both Warren and Crook Uton High school bands were in attendance to bid the visitors Welcome. Flags decorated the streets and cheers were Rinard As the cavalcade entered the limits. At Warren the ambassadors greeted by mayor Sig Silnes f. W. Forbes representing the chamber of Commerce while at Crookston s. S. Daniels acting mayor. Councillor r. T. Mcculla and Ken Albertson and a. E. Ness both officials of the Lions club bade them a warm Welcome. Unexpected Welcome from Crookston the cavalcade on to Mahnomen where an unexpected Welcome awaited them. The Winnipeg party had not in tended stopping at this Point but the whole town crowded the streets in greeting. Are those the men who Wear skirts asked one storekeeper As the police pipe band under the leadership of pipe major Jock Coghill climbed out of their big bus. Yes they Are called Kilts a free press reporter informed him. Did you say Kilts or silts asked. The bewildered Mer chants As the skill of he pipes Echo part throughout the town. I text Stop was Detroit lakes where the entire party including some fifty persons bedded Down for the night at the de Sewatch Beach hotel. Upon arrival they a Ere greeted by mayor f. To. Rog stad and acting mayor j. K. Mccarthy. Early . And rangers Weer Fol lowing leads which might Lead to the apprehension of the two fire bugs who have been setting fires. One is known to be in the Riverton District near Rosenberg. However he has not set any new fires in the past 12 hours. There have no major outbreaks of new fires reported during the past 24 or. Somers said. However our radio reports Are not Complete because of poop Short wave radio conditions existing in some or the Northern present Cool weather was helping firefighters to bring the Large fires under control he said. But. Until there were general heavy Rains the situation could become serious at any time he warned concern was expressed by forestry officials Over the fact that the fishing season opened saturday and if fishermen were careless with Camp fires or their cigarettes other major fires could easily be started. They urged All those going into Forest or Grassland areas to he careful. In the Mantagas River area 40 men from a saw Mill at Sturgeon Bay including Crews o log had been recruited to help the Forest rangers. The fire there covers an Are Atwo Miles wide by three Miles Long Freedom flight is Short lived jubilant prison guards who had just completed capture of two escaped convicts from Stony Mountain Penitentiary Are shown moments after they had escorted the two men Back to the prison Friday. Their rifles unloaded after seeing the men Back through the Gates the men Are returning to their quarters. In the inset a map shows the area Over which the intensive two hour search was spread. The x Marks the area in which the men were recaptured. City s lifelines threatened two communist wedges drive nearer Shanghai Shanghai May 14 two on Shanghai s Western outskirts communist wedges s a tur Day nationalist troops ripped apart plunged closer to Shanghai s heart j chinese villages to last the Thunder of artillery resort need ditch defence line. But the ill Dir through the tense City. The Roar of a Battle less than 20 Miles to the North rolled Over Shanghai s defences All the Way to he vital Woosung Foru guarding he Confluence of the Whang poo and the Yangtze. To the Southwest of Shanghai another communist thrust drove acted activity seemed to make no sense. Most responsible persons feel the reds will March into Shanghai Wilhit firing a shot. The Woosung forts Are Only 17 Miles North of downtown Shanghai. Should they fall Shanghai would be Cut off from the world by both land and sea. Garrison Headquarters admitted within 20 Miles of the City a Centre. He High Point the communist saturday morning the cavalcade moved off for Wadena. See cavalcade Page 15 in the path less than 15 Miles away was Junghwa Airport. This is the last air link with the outside. Britons in Shanghai were Given a final evacuation warning. Assault had driven into lion Forest in the Nanchang area eight Miles North of the City s Northern Gate and four Miles West of the Sung forts. Explosion injures 3? wrecks Home Ethelbert Man., May 14 special failure to remove a Gas plate from a Kitchen Range before lighting the fire resulted in an explosion which injured three persons and wrecked a newly re modelled Post office and dwelling Here Friday. Sent to Hospital by the explosion were mrs. W. Dudar a scottish War Bride who is suffering from Shock and mrs. Dudar s two Daugh ters Mary four and Kay is months. The baby daughter. Kay. The most seriously injured of the three required blood transfusions. Mrs. Dudar was making Home temporarily with or. Her and mrs. C. Yunik in the five room suite adjoining the Post office. Ii is expected that the Structure will be rebuilt. 38 share first prize Money in free press animal contest when is a Kangaroo not a Kangaroo when he is reduced to wearing the Tail of a Squirrel and becomes a laughing Stock among his Bud Dies that is what happened to the Pride of Australia More than once during the free press Jig saw animal contest As the judges discovered when they set about the Mammoth Job of marking the thousands of entries. No fewer than 3s contestants sent in Correct entries. To each Ding up to the plans were revised because of the Large number of Correct or nearly Correct entries. A brain one called the contest. She was High it took More than a fondness of animals to distinguish the Bac of those 38 will go s23.50. To each of a Cheque for the 139 who ind Only one error will go that brings the total prize Money awarded to cheques to All the winners will be in the mail Early next week. The free press had planned originally to give 74 prizes and Friday 13th a huh nature oops wrong plot Yorkton. Sask., May 14 Keith Mcewen of Yorkton to the list of Indian sign victims of Friday the 13th. He rented a City Garden plot a lot of seeds and planted them. Friday he discovered he had selected the wrong plot and planted his neighbor s Garden. Sorry fresh out Trian Camel from its Cousin the arabian Camel who is sometimes known familiarly As the drome Dary dog Medley Many contestants too had trouble sorting out the front mid dle and Hind quarters of the set Ter from those of the greyhound. One or other of the dogs would be mightily annoyed about that. More than one answer could be Correct for some of the animals the judges found. They conferred with a leading zoologist in Winnipeg and delved through refer ence books As a result. No. 19 was marked Correct whether it turned up As a peccary Musk hog or wild boar. No. 10 would answer to either Llama or Alpaca. No. 56 would object to prize winners and Correct answers on Page 15. Neither Donkey nor ass. No. Is would recognize itself whether itself whether labelled Buffalo or Bison. No. 165 was Happy either As a Lynx or a Bob cat. Some contestants will find that although they named All the animals correctly still they Are not in the list of prize winners. That is because they did not assemble the animals correctly. Poems too several readers were moved to poetry by the Jigsaw. One Toronto woman wrote for you see we have grown quite fond of our beasts see Puzzle Page 15 United City sought allies give West Berlin virtual self Rule Power Berlin May 14 Western Powers gave West Berlin virtual self Rule saturday and invited Russia to restore four Power administration of the entire City by returning to the Ong dormant Komma Datura. The United states Britain and France Anno med a Little occupation statute 1 for Berlin eliminating the veto Power the allies formerly had Over German legis lation. The Kus stans were invited to join in the no veto agreement. If they wished to unite the City. Russia exercised the veto Power 1o the elected City government s measures in order to Sefc up a hand picked communist government in Kast Berlin. The statute giving the West Berlin government wide legislative and administrative Powers is Simi Lar to the one under which the Western Powers will supervise the future West German state. Western spokesmen said Russia would have to accept it in order to return to the Allied Commanda Tura. The soviets walked out of the last july. It will affect Only the three we scan sectors unless Russia., decides to come in. However the allies reserved the same Powers Over foreign affairs Trade refugees and other functions similar to the Trigonal occupation statute announced some five weeks so. The separate occupation statute reserved the matter of Trade with Russia As one of. The Powers of the Western allies. Western and soviet officials met again saturday for the third straight Day to discuss re Instate ment of the 194s Trade pact be tween Eastern and Western Ger Many. 4-Power talks again Berlin May 14 Reuters four Power talks were held in Berlin Friday for the first time in Many months a British spokesman said. First news of the talks was that representatives of the West Ern Powers had met soviet representatives to discuss the complicated question of the resumption of Trade Between Berlin and the West. Another meeting is scheduled sat urday. Penitentiary guard gets knife wound in futile break Freedom Short lived for two desperate convicts who broke out of Stony Mountain Penitentiary at 1.50 . Friday. Both men Percy Moggey 45, and Clifford Mont Gomery alias Jack Maghen 32, were captured one hour and 50 minutes later five and one half Miles West of Stone Wall. A guard j. Buckingham was slightly wounded in the neck by the escaping prisoners when he was forced from the escape vehicle a government truck at knife Point. The search for the escapees though Short lived was one of the most intensive and heavily armed manhunt in Manitoba s history As both men were considered danger Ous. When captured however they gave up without a struggle. The break took place when Montgomery in charge of guard in u c k i n g h a a was unloading i Box car onto the truck. Producing a Small knife lie Hill obtained some where he in cred the cab and forced out the guard at knife Point cutting him in the left Side of the Kuflek in doing so. The knife was of a Type used in the Shoemakers shop at. The Penitentiary with a one Inch Blade and a four Inch wooden handle. With the exception of this weapon the convicts were unarmed. Quick spreading alarm Montomery then raced to the piggery where was work ing. The second convict jumped into the truck and they raced off. Heading West from the Penitentiary. An alarm was quickly spread and , City police and jail guards All heavily armed raced to set up Road blocks and he approaches to Winnipeg w Ere guarded. Reason 1 or caution As the red truck headed West radio networks to police cars kept i running commen tary and description going out to the alerted and watchful searchers. Shortly after the pair were reported heading to wards Woodlands in the truck they were captured near Stone Wall. At 2.30 . The prison officers interviewed mrs. A. C. Stanbridge on a farm nine Miles West of the Penitentiary. The red. Three ton truck had stopped in front of the farm half an hour before she said. Her husband had seen the Clear Tunnel after blast injuring 70 York May 14 cup the Manhattan bound tube of the Holland Tunnel damaged by a fire and explosion that injured 70 per sons was cleared of All debris sat urday and port of new York authorities said it would be opened to traffic saturday afternoon. The fire was touched off when a chemical Laden truck exploded. An investigation began immediately to determine whether anyone connected with the vehicle was guilty of negligence. One Hundred mid 50 Helm cd cd City employees Nisi if Bull dozers huge dump trucks and other equipment worked throughout the night Clearing the Tunnel of wrecked and burned automobiles and trucks. Tons of debris were piled outside the Jersey Entrance to the foot Tunnel the principal traffic artery from Jersey City to Man Hattan. The american Telephone and Telegraph company also sent a Crew of 25 into the tube to repair destroyed cables which carried an estimated circuits serving press associations radio and Tele vision networks Industrial firms and government bureaus. Blazing truck the series of explosions ripped through the Tunnel s East bound tube after the 16-ton trailer truck loaded with so Drums of Carbon Disulphide caught fire shortly after it left the new Jersey Side. The blazing truck blocked All traffic behind it. The booming Drums showered the chemicals on other cars and trucks. The heat of the fire was so intense that some trucks were fused together in a molten mass. Firemen shielded by Gas masks and Asbestos suits and equipped with Walkie talkie apparatus fought the Blaze for four hours before it was extinguished. Austin Tobin executive director of the new York port authority which operates the Tunnel described the Accident As the worst in the Tunnel s history. Tobin said the Basic Structure of the Tunnel was not damaged by the fire. Hide go North on a Branch of the Road which went into the Bush she continued. Tile guards rapidly spread nut and shortly after spotted the escaped men hiding in hip. Hush two Milt s Northwest of where they Hail Heen seen mrs. Stanli Ridge. It was understood that a guard seeing them lying on the ground Montreal May 14 Rosl. Boniface Man in occupied area had fired two Rifle shots Over their Heads. The shaken men had then stood up and raised their arms in surrender. Guard Buckingham his shoulder smeared with blood from the Cut under his ear was with the men who made the capture. The capture was made on the see capture Page 15 Man Catholic missionary leaders said Here Friday a St. Boniface missionary was among 48 priests and teaching Brothers of the Jesuit order serving Canadian missions in communist occupied parts of China and in besieged Shanghai. Among those in the Suchow mis Sion Are father edouard Lafleche of St. Boniface and father Eugene Lauzon of Falker Alta. Many War veterans win honors at University students will receive awards at convocation ceremonies wednesday a new Peak of achievement Bias been reached by the University of Manitoba. At its 70th convocation to be held wednesday a record number of successful students will receive degrees diplomas or certificates in All. Included in the groups will be Many students who Are vet Erans of the second world War and who have now completed their full courses. University officials say such Stu this picture was taken saturday outside the amphitheatre rink by the free press photographer just after it was announced that there were no tickets left for monday night s memorial cup hockey final game Between Brandon wheat Kings and Montreal royals. The crowd had just rushed the main door. See Story on Pate n Ega buying from Canada Ottawa May 14 in United states Congress a roved Marshall plan Aid to eur Jpe More than a year ago until in end of last april purchases Worth have been authorized in Canada the depart Mem of Trade and Commerce reported Friday. More than half the total spent in Canada was for food and farm pro ducts. Metals and minerals were the next biggest items followed by lumber products and Industrial equipment. Most of the supplies bought Ini Canada went to the United King swards in University of Manitoba Dom the department Laid Honor hot. John Max Weix Bowman Winner of greatest number dents Are mainly responsible for the Large increase in the graduating classes. Four Western Cana of them resident in receive honorary degress. Three of the men will receive doctorates of Law or. A. T Mathers Dean of the medical faculty of. The University of Mani Toba Herbert Mclntosh assistant superintendent of Winnipeg schools and most Rev. Louis Ralph Sher Man archbishop of Rupert s land and metropolitan of the Ecclesias tical province of Rupert s land. Or. W. P. Thompson president elect of of the University of Saskatchewan ill receive a doctorate of science. Bachelor degrees will he conferred upon of the 394.9 graduates. Twenty will receive doctorates or masters degrees. Diplomas or certificates will be granted to 159 students. To a graduate of the Manitoba medical College John Maxwell University awards for the Complete list of univer sity of Manitoba graduates see pages 8 and 9. Of medallists and prize winners appear on pages i 9, 30, 11 and 15. Cowman goes the distinction Vinning the greatest number awards. Along with the University Gold medal in Medicine he will receive the Manitoba medical association Gold medal for highest Landing on the first four years of the course or. Charlotte w. Oss Gold medal for the highest in obstetrics during the course Chown Gold medal and s50 for the High Tot standing in medi Cine throughout the course and the Chown medal in surgery throughout the course. A Law graduate Peter w. A. Wisner. Earned off the major awards in the Law faculty he will receive the University Gold medal two Manitoba Law society prizes see University Page 11 Allied army career prelude to immigrant s u Honor three years ago newspapers across Canada carried stories of the arrival in Winnipeg of a Young German jew who had fought with the Royal Winnipeg rifles in France and Holland. The Young spent some time in Deer Lodge Hospital receiving treatment for leg wounds. Then he enrolled in the University of Manitoba. For the past three years he has been just one of a Large student body. Now John Wolpe has into the news again. When the University holds its 70th con vocation wednesday John Wolpe will stand with the honors arts class to receive his Bachelor of arts degree. And to make the Day a Fine to his University life in Canada he will receive As Well the louvre medal. That award is Given see Wolpe Page 15 strikers arrested Asbestos que., May 14 up Hamel president of the federation of Asbestos workers affiliated with the Canadian Catholic confederation of labor and some 19 others were arrested Friday night in connection with last week s violence involving attacks on police by striking Asbestos workers. The arrests were made known by que Bec provincial police saturday. John Wolpe ;