Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, July 30, 1949

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Kitchen to thu. And Only Bryce baked bread Sou Only at your grocer s 5c per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg saturday july 30, 1949 by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week Kennel club Cheque for Blind h. Bentley president of the greater Winnipeg Kennel club is seen presenting Nick president of the Lions club o Winnipeg. The presentation at a wed Les Day meeting of the Lions club at be fort Garry notel. Of this Money 5500 is to de used for fur Lishing two rooms n the Lions club residence for the Blind which is ,1 o w being built in Portage ave nue. The remain Der is to be user the build no costs. The was raised by members of the Kennel club putting on dog shows . Exchange problem world wide save Jik Stox if the Exchange problem confronting Britain is not solv it will affect not Only Canada but the whole world in the opinion of h. L. Goss custard English Lile manufacturing firm s representative who is in Canada on a sales promotion trip. A guest at the Royal Alexandra hotel or. Custard is revisiting the Dom Inion after 20 years As a part of a round the world tour. De Claring the British people Are harder than Ever or. Custard emphatically denied the Industrial Plant of the country was out of Date. He arrived in Winnipeg by trans Canada air lines wednesday. Photographers to in september Western Canada photographers association will hold its convention sept. 19 and 20 at the Maryborough hotel. Featured on the two Day pro gramme will be a demonstration of color processing by James Tinkey of Rochester n.y., Glamor photography Dis plays by Gene Claseman of Sioux Falls n.d., and his assistant miss Cleo Hardman interpretations of bridal portraiture by or. And mrs. Buzz Powers of Duluth. Minn., and a lecture by will. West of Regina. Youths ordered to pay taxi fare plus costs failure to pay their taxi fare brought a Fine of the fare pins Cour posts Friday to two 19-year-old St. Boniface youths. Harold Chai and Kenneth Sutton both of 5" pcs me Irons Street. They hut pleaded of guilty to the offence before magistrate Henri last Etc ii St. Boniface police court. The youths accompanied by a juvenile. Ordered a cab Driver to wait while they went into a nearby House Lor Money to pay their fare. When they did not reappear the drive investigated and found they were unknown there. Police said the traced the youths footprints to a House at 3fi Goblet Street and Taw them through the window. Occupant of the House Edward Vandale refused police admittance because they did not have a search warrant. Charged with obstructing the police Vandale was remanded Lor sentence. Juveniles blamed for break in and theft juveniles were believed responsible for theft of s50 in Cash and a Small Silver trophy from the Home of Horace Buley 140 Assiniboine drive during the past two weeks City police said saturday. Entry was gained through a base ment window while the owners were vacationing. Salvation army seeks norwegian major s. Mckinley men s social service department. Sal vation army is attempting to locate Martin Kristof Fer strand son of mrs. Jenny strand Aurum. Hillestad 1, Vest old Norway. Or. Strand was born at Skogler Norway in 190s, and in 1937 was employed in Northern Ontario mines. Kenora rotarians to hear specs qua headlining the Kenora rotary club s annual show tonight will be 20 members of Winnipeg s chapter of the society for the preservation and encouragement of Barber shop Quartetti singing in America. Quartets making the week end trip will include Ash pit four Charles Brennan Bill Mclellan Cliff Hislop and Art Smith four Kinsmen Vern Leathe Clale de. Power Tom Mcewen and Frank Denner and the Woods coders Art gallic bus Brown Harold Collie and Stephen. An organizational meeting will be held with a View to forming a chapter in Kenora under the direction of area Roc nor Jack Galbraith president of the Winnipeg chapter or. Henner and expansion chairman or. Brown. Khz taxis to see air race film entertainment in a thrilling will be served members of the Winnipeg kiwanis club at their luncheon gathering at 12.20 . Tuesday in the Roy Alexandra hotel when the Tea film Cleveland air races. Will be screened. Shu passengers of Way West numbering More than 125, passengers from the . Fran Conia passed through Winni Peg saturday Over Canadian National lines for Western Points. A number of the travel lers detained Here. Board allows longer work hours permission has bees granted to the Western Auto and truck body works limited Winnie or by Tho Manitoba labor Board to work b longer period than stipulated under the provincial hours of work net m t Mckelvey Board registrar announced saturday. The Auto works is allowed to work nine hours a Day monday to Friday inclusive and four hours saturday morning with time and a half inv Nolc Lor the hour and subsequent hours worked a an week exemption is for the period required by the company to Complete and order for vehicles from the department of National defence. . Aioli Sayeks Bol in for i Asper bound for Jasper and the Canadian Rockies. 30 Holiday from Chicago s Cartan Tours passed through Winni Peg saturday Over Canadian National lines. Legislature to close for civic 1iomhay marking the aug. 1 Holiday. Manitoba s legislative building will remain closed monday and provincial civil servants will have the Day off. Inh 10 to Fairview Alta. Amon those on their a to Giralis l c dets from flon and two officers and 15 from sask. Coming from Edmonton sunday will be one officer and 52 cadets. Gracious a nudist Colony deep in heart of Winnipeg Winnipeg s Only for males Only is Colony want to sunbathe. The newest Fea midst located in the or m Centre of the City six floors up. On the roof of the . Building. This year Marks the . Solarium s 20th year of operation. It dates Back to 1929 when Eric Oakshott. Assistant physical director at that time sparked the idea. His unseasonable Tan caused com ment. And others flocked to the . Rooftop for their own Sun treatments. About have used the solarium since its inauguration. It is reported. This year More than 250 members and scores of others Are attending weekly. Men in their late teens and some Rearer 75 frequent the solarium. They lie on ramps in an area enclosed by High White Walls. The Sun s a Cike for what ails said one devotee. The solarium May be used practically nine months of the year. Ishmel Hart of suite 17. 50s Sher Brook Street has had sunbathe there Between March and Decem Ber. Or. Hart claims he never wears heavy Winter apparel and is not susceptible to colds during the Winter. He holds the y s Sun bathing record. This year facilities have been to accommodate increase Ture is the installation of a cold Shower. Wec workers to get report on negotiation decision was made by the negotiating committee of the Winnipeg electric employees Federated Council. O.b.u., at a meeting Fri Day afternoon to Call two mass meetings next week of the entire Union membership. The meeting was originally called to consider a letter received from Hon. C. E. Greenway minister of labor asking Union officials to announce the Union s position of recommendations made by a conciliation Board which dealt recently with a dispute Between the Union and the Winnipeg electric company. Purpose of the mass meetings is to report to Union members on the Progress made in committee negotiations with the Board of conciliation Union officials stated. They declined to comment As to whether the Board s recommend o a commode Cras Weer e o ing numbers of y members who tons would be accepted. Unjustified attacks Alex Pedigrew Winnipeg chairman of the Christian science Monitor youth forum is shown greeting Nigel Godwin of Bournemouth England travelling Fellowship Winner As he arrived by plane from new York Friday. Other Winnipeg committee., members on hand arc miss Margaret Hendry mrs. Gordon Donaldson and prof. Donaldson. Church youth forum guest Monitor award Winner Here on Canadian tour the first Winner of a Christian science Monitor youth forum travelling Fellowship Western Canada arrived in Winnipeg Friday by Tea. It was apparent that Nigel god win of Bournemouth England was Well qualified for his task of furthering International youth Fellowship. While in Winnipeg he will stay at the Home of or. And mrs. G. T. Mackinnon 6 Middle Gate. Winnipeg is the first Stop in a tour the 23-Yciir-uld Fellowship Winner will Winlie in the next four months through Western Canada and parts of the United states. Nigel arrived at new York by boat from England last tuesday. Winnipeg is the first Canadian City in which he will address forum members. To will continue on to Saska Toon tuesday. Then he will visit Calgary Edmonton Vancouver and Victoria in turn. To Southern . He will continue Down the West coast to Elpaso from where he will Fly to six Southern . Forums. Nigel intends to remain in the United states for an indefinite period after his tour possibly stopping at Boston mass. A graduate of Cambridge University Nigel won his Bachelor of arts degree in estate management Juno 194s. He served in the Royal marines during the War. He has been at different times president vice president and Man Tor chairman of his Bournemouth forum. Nigel s Job. As he describes it is to Tell american youth about Britain s Way of life her educational system her youth forums and perhaps a Little about her agriculture. Nigel s first impression of Ameri Ca is one of mild Surprise that everything is basically the same to in Britain. Like Many other travellers he remarked on the Cauty of Winnipeg from the air. Kim i tinn in . Nigel portrayed a slight Bias on Ine of the subjects he will discuss Vith forums the English a Duca ional system. He thinks Loo much stress is Laid upon the passing of exams and not enough upon Char Acter development which he be Ives receives More attention in America. Fellowships have the forums Twenty five been awarded since were first organized three years ago. The purpose of the fellow ships is to allow youths of Dif Erent countries to Exchange ideas about their ways of life and thus Urther a better understanding of other countries. The forums Are organizations for Young people attend ing Christian science churches. The groups hold regular discussions on current events us ing Christian science Monitor articles As background material. There Are now Over 500 in 19 different countries. Forum Headquarters arc in Boston mass. The Home of the Monitor. Fellowships winners Are obliged to pay for their transportation to the country they arc visiting. But from then on their expenses Are looked after. At each Stop Over they Are guests of forum members. Expert identifies ruffling Bird As night Hack Ernie a Remchik 15, and his brother Bernie. 13, of River Crest Post office were startled to find a queer looking Bird roosting under their outside stairs wednesday lorning. Awakened by the Barking of their dog. Bernie investigated and found one of the strangest look ing Birds he had Ever seen. They managed to keep away from its Sharp darting Bill and place it in a Cage. Describes Bird with a bulldog Feather covered body a Little larger than a Sparrow the Bird had a Wing spread of about a foot. Its wings they said were fatherless and made of skin. Because it had eaten nothing for to Days the boys decided to let it go free thursday night. They put it oui on the Back Lawn and it soon disappeared. News leak the Story might have ended Here but for the fact that the boys Are free press carriers and some How the news seeped through to the paper s editorial room. A. Of Lawrence the free press Bird expert was consulted. Why it is a Young night he explained really a very common the Young night Hawk has no feathers on its wings. It lives on Moths and other insects it catches close to the ground level at night. By Day it flies High above the City and is Seldom seen. Heir for Aly Rita reported expecting baby London. July .10 api the daily mail said saturday Rita Hay Worth is going to have a baby. Quoting a member of the Prince s family it said in a despatch irom Paris Princess Aly Khan formerly Rita Hayworth is a 5aby and is cancelling her engage the Princess is in Deauville. The despatch said. There was no confirmation of this report from any sources. Miss Hayworth and Prince Aly vere married at Vallauri. France. May 27. Avoid Over exertion on holidays particularly if you Are Una custom forums de to strenuous exercise. Eek visit in . Germany two City air cadets leaving for Britain two air minded Young Winni Eggers chosen for their outstand ing qualities As air cadets have been selected to join the group of 25 Royal Canadian air cadets who will Fly to Britain thursday for a three week visit. They an wo2 David k. So arc. 21-f Seaforth Avenue and . Ronald Simpson 5 Flora place. The boys will Board an . Transport saturday 1.30 . Which will Fly them to the . Sta Tion at Trenton out. From there they will go to Montreal were they will Start on their overseas flight. This event is part of a series of annual Exchange Between acadian american and British air cadets. The four eng incl . North Star that will take the Canadian cadets to London will bring Hack on its return flight 41 parly of 25 British air training corps cadets. Entertainment for the Canadian air cadets in Britain has been arranged by. The air training corps and the air Force. Follow their arrival in London they will have a Day of rest and then head North for Scotland. After visiting Edinburgh and Glasgow they will go on a coach Lour of the scottish Highlands. The group s More literary inclined Hoys will have an Opportunity to see a Shakespeare play per formed in the famous theatre at Stratford on Avon. With a Irro up of . Cadets also visiting Britain the canadians will Fly to the British of Germany to witness the Berlin air lift in action. Final Days of their visit will be 3 City cadets leave by air for . Tour pent sightseeing in the London Irea. Included in the schedule Are visit to Buckingham Palace a boat trip Down the thames and a Isit to the daily mail s printing Plant. Gre Emilay says Ottawa awaits housing study prepared at the present time to take any decision regarding new subsidized housing schemes until it Las explored the whole problem of housing with representatives from he various provincial govern ments Hon. C. E. Greenway min Ster of labor for the Manitoba government said saturday on his from Ottawa. In Ottawa or. Greenway erred Friday with Hon. A. Winters Dominion minister of re construction. We had a general discus Sion of the housing he said in an interview sat urday. I will convey the in formation i obtained to the provincial the provincial minister declared be had made no specific proposals o the Federal government and that Thi urday trip of a lifetime began sat for three Winnipeg air cad ets. They along with 23 others Eft Curry Field. Calgary by uni de states air Force aircraft for Dallas. Texas. Be prom it intr Canada in the third International Exchange Visil of air cadets the boys will be away for two weeks. Sunday and monday they will be guests of col. D. Harold Byrd dal As Texas. Tuesday they will go of air to fort Tuthill Arizona. Aug. 3 to s. They will be based at fort Tuthill making daily flights to nearby Points such As the grand Canyon Carlsbad Cav erns and new Mexico. There they will have the Opportunity to fish no swimming and horseback rid up. 9 the cadets go by air to Angeles for a two Day visit to see the movie studios. Then they will leave for Den ver. Colorado for sightseeing with Side trips to other Points of in Ernst. Aug. 13 the boys will leave for Edmonton where they will hold a Inal party with . Cadets and 14 they will disperse for their tomes. Thesa three air Force cadets left Calgary saturday for Dallas Texas where they will be guests of the United states air Force. They Are left to right fit. Sgt. Kenneth Bowman of 137 Ethelbert Street fit. Sgt. Sydney r. Huge t of Morden and Lac Joseph a. Sattelberger 74 North Avenue flin flon.-. The Federal government is not in. Winters had to make the no Concrete province in of Gard to a National housing scheme. I went to Ottawa merely he or. Green a said. The Dominion government has free forms of housing assistance n operation or. Greenway pointed out. They arc the wartime hous no projects Home construction under the National housing act and slum clearance such As the re gent Park project in Toronto. Or. Winters said the fed eral government was prepared to continue these forms of housing assistance in opera Tion but further than that he would not commit himself at this said tie Manitoba minister. Premier Byron Johnson of Bri ish Columbia conferred with or. Vinters on thursday. The same Lay a delegation from the City of Oronto met the reconstruction minister. It is understood Premier Leslie Frost of Ontario will con or with him in August. Premiers if other provinces will Likely meet Vith him to discuss housing later next month. Ukrainian organization non partisan Goss says the association of United Ukrain from Eastern countries from the an canadians is a non partisan organization which has been the Arget of unjustified attacks from fascist sympathizers within the ukrainian in the opinion of John Goss. Or. Goss. Who is guest soloist in the association s festival scheduled for saturday night arrived by air from Vancouver Friday night. He is a guest at the fort Garry hotel. Many years contacts with this association in Vancouver Date Back Many years. I have appeared in their concerts and have helped them in training choirs and orchestras. For Canada to develop an inde pendent culture it was imperative to bring together the cultural strands of All Canadian groups he said. Folk festivals were an excellent Way to do this. The Winnipeg controversy was very stupid and he re marked. I do not feel that i do my reputation any harm in associating with this group. I can Only damage myself As an artist by my platform neither newspaper publicity nor the operations of the american state department would prevent him from stating his belief he continued. I am anti fascist and anti War and i would like to encourage the closest possible relations Between the Canadian and russian he added. Of his and voluntary United Stales attending a world peace Council or. Goss said i had the Choice of leaving the country or having charges preferred against charges threatened the american stale department had threatened unspecified charges against him or. Oss remarked because of my work during the War with the Canadian soviet Friendship league and my activities in arranging for leftist the american slate department had been anxious to exclude All hut known communists on visas departure from the last March while conference he said. This made better propaganda picture. After examining the association s festival programme or. Goss said he was hardly prepared to com ment on its propaganda Content since he did not speak ukrainian. Only natural it is Only natural that the association of ukrainian canadians should be proud of Russia and of the Ukraine in particular. The soviet Union s contribution to Al lied Victory is in itself a source of tremendous Pride. Only recently under the Wing of an american War press had the pro Hitler ukrainians become voc ally or. Goss said. Saskatoon Union sees arbitration ending cab strike Saskatoon. July 30 up a decision by the management of Bill s taxi. Yellow cab and White taxi to submit the remaining Points at Issue to arbitration would end the strike of 14 cab Drivers Mem Bers of the Canadian brotherhood of railway employees and other transport workers Union leaders said Friday. The men have been on strike principally for higher wages since last sunday. G. F. Dulmage. Union special representative announced the Union was willing to submit to two remaining differences to an arbitration Board. Still unsettled were the questions of whether the five cent increase granted by the strike bound companies would be made Retro Active to feb. 21 and the disposal of Drivers whom the Union termed strike steel workers get 5-cen.t pay boost a new wage agreement was signed Friday Between local 3272. Uni Ted steelworkers of America . . And the w est steel pro ducts limited. The agreement pro Vides for a Flat increase of five cents a hour to about 325 employees and adjustments in certain classifications in addition to the five cent increase. Arthur j. March Union representative said Friday that the Best labor management relations existed in the Plant and the negotiations were carried on in that spirit. The contract is signed on behalf of the company by w. S. Sparrow general manager of Western Divi Sion of the firm s. D. Carlson Plant superintendent and n. D. Pat Terson assistant superintendent for the Union John Akeley. President f. M. Jones vice president Thomas Hills treasurer Andy Cahoot. Chief Steward and a. J. March International representative. Garment Union plans talks Here Union officials of the International ladies garment workers Union from Montreal Toronto. Vancouver and Winnipeg will hold a conference at the Royal Alexandra hotel sept. 11 and "l2, to discuss Union organization in the garment Industry in the four Canadian districts. Sam Herbst Union representative for Western Canada said Fri Day Montreal s delegation will be headed by Bernard Shane general organizer for that District. Sam Krisman will be in charge of the Toronto delegates. Or. Herbst said he would be in charge of the Van Couver and Winnipeg districts. Delegates will leave Winni Peg sept. 13 for Calgary to at tend the annual convention of the trades labor Congress of Canada. Or. Herbst said the Union in the Winnipeg District starter last Mon Day a drive to or open shops still the Start of the Campaign the Union has organized one shop the Paramount cloak. 5- i Adelaide Street involving about 30 workers. Anime some of the remaining. Since meat eater swimmer finds . Diet slim London july 30 Shirley May France s plans to swim the English Channel ran into two obstacles Lack of ready Money and the British diet. The blonde from Somerset. Mass. Said she had hunger pangs after breakfast and lunch in a cheap British Chain restaurant. She had the same food thousands of Brit Ain have to eat these slavs of Nat Aust Rily. Homesick but. The 30-cent breakfast of cake Coffee and an Apple and the 40 cent lunch of hash potato cab and Coffee left her acutely Bage homesick. I be got to have about a Pound of meat a she said or i Foci weak. In t there anywhere in Brit Ain we can get a big Steak like Back she was advised thai the Brit ish ration is about two thirds of a Pound of meat a week per person. Her father Walter France at once suggested that his daughter train near Cap gris Nez. France where food is More plentiful. Soviets Are sensitive say visitors but Finland has no Iron curtain Russia is a very sensitive Neiti Bor but there is no Iron curtain As far As Finland is concerned a finnish woman said in Winnipeg Friday. She is mrs. H. E. Hutton who Vith her husband is visiting her brother in Law. W. F. Hutton at 23 Oakleigh place St. Vital. Or. And mrs. Mutton told How Alert Russia is to any real or fancied slight to her pres Tige. If an article appears in a finnish newspaper that is objectionable to the Kremlin if there is a Border incident involving a russian subject in any Way a complaint conies to the finnish government Post haste from Russia. But the it tetons say there has been no interference with the personal Freedom of finnish nationals. There Are enough communists n our country that if they could get the support of any one of the other political groups they could control the added mrs. Hutton. To Date however none of the other parties have been willing to give that support. Industrial growth although a Large share of Fin land s Industrial production now Oes in reparations to Russia or. Hutton feels the rapid growth of manufacturing since the War augurs Well for the Little country s future. In reparations Finland is sending mainly prefabricated houses machinery for Cotton and paper Mills motors fishing schooners and Timber. The total value will he about he added. Because Industrial production is n High gear there is practically no unemployment in Finland to Day. Labner difficulties Are few. Or. Hut Lon is an englishman who at one Lime lived in Canada and went to Finland 35 years ago. Re works for a Candy and biscuit manufacturing company. Living Standard higher his wife told of the remarkable improvement in the Standard of iving of the finnish people since 1947. Today All the necessities of Ife Are available though few of he luxuries. The buttons find Canadian prices considerable lower than finnish although much the same. Rents Are the one exception. They Are much lower in Fin land. Because of Tho housing shortage the finnish govern ment has the right to restrict accommodation to one room per person. After the first of August sugar and Coffee be the Only two rationed commodities in Finland. Like other scandinavian Peoples the finns find the coffees shortage a major Burden. This reunion of the Hutton Brothers is their first in 30 years. Helsinki Finland is Home to English born h. E. Hutton shown Here with his wife outside the residence of his brother w. F. Hutton at 23 Oakleigh place. It is almost 40 years since the Brothers last met ;