Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 01, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Press vol. 263 24 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg 1 1949 forecast Clear and warm final edition Clearing late this afternoon. Clear tonight and tuesday. A Little warmer. Winds Northwest at 20 this afternoon decreasing to Light this evening. Low tonight 50 and High tuesday 80. Holiday mishaps 2 boat upsets on 13 youths race to Rescue cries for help from five Home clinging to the Side of an Over turned boat near Elm Park bring sunday evening brought six youth who live nearby to the Rescue. The women who would not d bulge their names were in a sea boat powered by an outboard motor which they report a swamped by Waves from a passin launch. The Rix youths who were swimming at the Dock on the North Side of the River heard their cries. Springing into a Row boat Canoe and kayak which they had tied to the Dock they made their Way Down Stream. The youths were Shaun Beattie 18, of 834 Jubilee Avenue and Jerry Cadger 15, o 863 Nassau Street who went t the Rescue in a Canoe. Jerry Young 14, 839 Jubilee lome Beattie 15, 834-Jubilee Anc Ron Griffith 17, of 911 Jubilee who helped pully four of the women from the water into their Jack Griffith 14, 911 Jubilee who also assisted in a kayak. They report that two unidentified girls in a Canoe reached the overturned boat first am towed one of the women to Shore the youths lifted the other four irom the River and took them the women were taken into the Harbor patrol boat which took them to 47 Kingston Row St. Vital where they were visiting. Churchill saves self and paints from sinking boat Gardone Italy aug. 1 cup a motor boat carrying former British prime minister Winston Churchill across Lake Garda de a leak and Sank yesterday afternoon it was disclosed today Churchill who now is putting italian scenes on Canvas barely had time to Transfer his ease and paints to another boat a after the leak was discovered. The boat went Down Severa Hundred Yards off the jetty in front of his hotel the second boat got him to St. Vigilio Point where he painted a landscape. Auto hurtles into pole killing two two persons Orvilie Somerset of 829 valour Road and miss Nettie Lazaruk 410 Kennedy Street lost their lives saturday evening when the ear pictured Here crashed into a steel trolley line pole at Sherburn Street and Ellice Avenue. At the extreme left or. Athos Gordon is seen taking notes. On the right is a close up of the Driver s seat showing the Bent trolley pole a third person Harold Brown of 577 Banning Street escaped with a fractured wrist and numerous cuts. Hail strikes 3 blows 4t Sperling area crops a severe hailstorm which struck about 7 . Saturday and moving a about 4 pm. In tilt weekend death toll 23 in East aug., 1 Twenty three violent deaths were reported in Eastern Canada during the week end including one shoot ing during a Toronto Holdup and the mysterious death of a Man in a flaming Northern Ontario Cabin. A Canadian press Survey showed that in addition to the shooting and the fire death there were 10 drownings eight deaths in traffic accidents. Two deaths for urn being struck by trains and Ari electro cution. Russian shipping lags new York aug. 1 Russia expected to become a Lead ing competitor in merchant Shipp ing after the War has failed to do so. The american merchant mar Ine Institute said saturday. Ree times within half an hour saturday in the Sperling area just Southwest of Winnipeg caused widespread damage in a area a mile and a half wide and 10 Miles Long. In some places damage was Esti mated at up to 100 per cent by insurance adjusters we o said it was too Early to assess the full amount of damage. Heavy Rains which accompanied the Hail also added to the destruction. Farmers described the storm As being not particularly heavy but said that it had come at a had time in the crop season. At some Points the crops had been swathed and the Hail caused heavy damage to the swathed Grain also. Thundershowers activity in the red River Region both saturday and sunday managed to spoil an otherwise warm week end. According to the weather Bureau. A line of thunderstorms formed in the Winnipeg Brandon Rivers area Kenora District. Sunday although a Clear and sunny Day had been predicted for holidaying citizens a Surprise rain Cloud formation double crossed the Weatherman. All thunk Yersho ver activity was supposed to have passed by Sun Day morning but a break disturbance caused rain to fall in the afternoon. A Light continuous rain it started about 1 . And last till about 4 . The rain was fairly fal ing in a narrow band in the Winnipeg area according to the we. Therman. It did t affect Beach in the Lake Winnipeg Region. For Winni Eggers worrying about this last Day of their new schedule cuts Pace of air lift Berlin aug. 1 a the Berlin air lift monday began it radial retirement. British an american planes sunday flew thei ast scheduled Day. The new schedule Calls for a daily August average of Only tons american and British officials announced Friday the lift which Bea he russian blockade of the former Jerman capital would be Discon inked because of favourable Stock Jiles of supplies in West Berlin. Doctor on Job week after taking out own appendix Telluride Colo. Aug. 1 a c. Balderston who own appendix last George took out his sunday was feeling Fine monday despite the Burden of caring for his patients. The Day after the operation or. Balderston got. Up. Treated a boy for a Back injury and took care of several other persons. He per formed three Donsilie Tomies thursday and was called from bed at 2 . Saturday for a House Call. He saw 20 patients saturday. He has been driving his car since thursday. Or. Balderston performed the unusual operation As an Experiment to get a first hand reaction to local anaesthesia and Post operative effects. He said he had proved a patient ought to get right Back on his feet Atter surgery. A Friend or. Richard Gladman injected the spinal Anaesthetic Anc did the sponging. Exciting serial starts on Pace 12 of today s paper starting today on Page 12, a new serial the Leaf shall be Green by Marion chamber lain will be appearing daily in the free press. Don t miss an instalment of this gripping Story of a Man who lives violently in the pre sent and ignores the past and future. Both eventually catch up with him. The result is a exciting novel that will hold your interest to the last chapter. Guard suspended As go Between in bribe attempt Newark . Aug. 1 bup a guard at the Essex county a has been suspended on charges trying to pass a bribe to a warder Alfred Meyer to win special priv Leges for three suspects in the policy Racket investigation it was Learned monday. A guard Anthony p. Iciak former prizefighter whose Rin name was Tony Star was accuse of handing Meyer with the re Mark this is a present from the boys for the boys were Daniel Zwil Man 44, William Tiplitz 48, an Nat Levinson 59, All of Newark they were among 11 men arrested last week when police Nabbe principals in a rigged three stat policy Combine. Meyers refused the Money an turned in a report. India raising Reserve Force for foreign and Domestic trouble Bombay aug. 1 Reuters India is raising a Force of Home guards modelled on Britain s territorial and intended for use As defence unit in the event of War. The guards will also he available or use in assisting police in the of anti social elements and the maintenance of peace am order. It is understood that when the recruiting and training Campaign or the Home guard reaches its Peak in Dia probably will have a orce of fashion show must go on parisian aristocrats turn seamstresses Paris aug. 1 bup the women who Wear the clothes Cre ated by Paris designers went to As their own dress today makers. A Batch of princesses including an in Law of american heiress Barbara Hutton threaded Needle with Well manicured hands to Heln the strike bound fashion House prepare their fall openings this week. Some of the Midi ettes also found that they could t stay away from the last minute Bustle and the excitement of the openings. Some of them 20 per cent perched her expensively Clad self of the who struck for higher wages last week returned to work at Christian of the new monday morning. Dior a the Cradle 30 per cent of the seam stresses were on the Job. But four out of every five of the storied Mil incites continued their strike for n live cents an hour wage increase to 20 cents an hour. They stood on the boulevards of Paris soliciting contributions to help their strike. Princess Edmond de Polignac on a work Stool in the Jacques Fath House and stitched a hat next to her. Countess Philipp u de Ganay sewed the hem of this year s Fath wedding gown which will be worn at the Friday night opening by Bettina the mannequin of the moment in Paris. Princess Simone Troubetzkoy. Barbara Button s in Law also was working for Fath. The openings had been scheduled to Start monday. They were delayed 48 hours by the strike but the shows will go. On the designers said. Long week end the Weatherman said that it should be reasonably Nice monday. He said it would be Yarmish Sunn Yish and Cloud Yish but advised that it would not exactly be Sun Tan weather due to Clouds moving South from the lakes. The meteorological forecasts Are As follows bed River Region including Winnipeg Cloudy with occasional sunny periods. Clearing later Mon Day afternoon. Clear monday night and tuesday. Winds from the North at 20 . Monday afternoon otherwise Light. Low monday night and High tuesday at Carman and Winnipeg 50 and so at Gimli 50 and 75. Re grim and West Yorkton Region sunny and warm monday and tuesday. Risk of thunderstorms tuesday evening. A Little warmer. Winds Light becoming South 15 . Tuesday morning. Low Mon Day night and High tuesday 55 and 90. Brandon and Region a few Cloudy periods monday afternoon. Otherwise Clear Mon Day night and tuesday. A Little warmer tuesday. Low monday night and High tuesday 55 and 85 temperature during hour period end inc g.30 . Monda Cricket Duke real Bowler but batting Flop Mersham be Hatch eng land. Aug. 1 a the Duke of Edinburgh flopped As a Batter but showed a Talent in his Bowling in a Village Cricket match saturday. Princess Elizabeth rooted from. The sidelines. As a Bowler the Duke retired three batters in rapid order. Then he went to Bat and was out leg before wicket a victim of the Bowling of Frank Vanstell a la Borer. Princess Elizabeth threw up her hands in mock horror and left the Field. Driver found negligent manslaughter charge Laid in Highway death a charge of manslaughter was Laid saturday against George kops so of lot 102 East St Paul after it Coroner s jury had found him negligent in the Highway traffic death of mrs. Olive Johnson 22, of 1166 Selkirk Avenue. The in quest was held in provincial police Vancouver High Edmonton 77 Saskatoon 7s Swift current 7s Vixen Peg 7.1 Ottawa. 77 Toronto 77 Lontreal .79 Low s9 x 47 49 53 56 prec distinction italian is run Over by plane Rome aug. 1 Alfani of Rome has achieved a certain distinction. He was run Over by an air plane. Dino was sunbathing on a nearby Beach saturday when a Small tourist plane landed on the Shore and ran Over Hirn. Hospital authorities said Dino s injuries Are not. Serious. Sixteen die As Navy plane hits Airliner fort Dix ., aug. 1 sixteen were killed Here saturday when an Airliner was chopped apart in flight by a . Navy fighter plane. Its left Wing and Tail shorn off the Eastern airlines dc-3 whirled into a farm pasture and burst Iri to flame. The Navy plane burrowed into the ground two Miles away and its Pilot was found dead in a Field beside an. Unopened Para Chute. He was Lieut. Robert Vernon radio news on Page 4. In Hollywood Page 5. Bridge Page 4. Women s news pages 8, 8. So Roll. Pases 14, 15, i6. Crossword Puzzle Page 10. Features Page 6. Editorials 13. Finance Page 21. Court saturday at 2 ., with or. Abhor Gordon presiding As Coro Ner. Mrs. Johnson died thurs Day in Winnipeg general hos Pital from injuries received in the Notor hike Aulo collision on Henderson Highway at about 2 ., sunday. She was Riding on the Pillion of the driven by her Hus band cordon Johnson. Kops under Cross examination by Crown prosecutor w. J. Johns ton admitted the Accident would not have happened had he kept on the right hand Side of the Road while driving round a curve. The jury finding mrs. Johnson see charged. Page 7 60-Day record is ended Winnipeg s first fatal trafic Accident in 60 Days claimed the lives of Winni Eggers Over the week end dead Are miss Nettie Lazaruk 23, of 410 Kennedy Street whose Home is in Pasa Wegan sask. Orville Somerset 26, of 829 valour Road who died in Winnipeg general Hospital monday at 6.35 from multiple head injuries and fractured ribs. Injured in the same Acci Dent was Harold Brown 22, of 577 Banning Street. He received a fractured wrist and numerous cuts and bruises. His condition is fairly Good. Meanwhile accidents in the prov nce Over the week end resulted in injuries to 13 others. According to police the West hound car driven by or. Somerset smashed into a steel trolley line pole near the Corner of Slie Burn Street and by lace Avenue about 10.30 . Satur Day. The Auto travelling on he North Side of Ellice Tore into a pole on the South Side. Police report the three people Ere Riding in the front seat of the car. The crash killed Mist Nazaruk almost immediately. According to one unidentified the Force of the collision ripped open the door beside or. Somerset throwing him across a Arrow Boulevard and sidewalk into he hedge surrounding a nearby ouse. The same witness reported that everal men had wedged the car Way from the pole before assist nce could be Given to the others n the Auto. The crash Tore the automobile nto weirdly shaped Metal pyramiding the roof. The Interior i the car was completely Des Royed. The two injured men were taken o general Hospital by police am Juance. Four Falls rom moving a fall from a slowly moving taxi saturday night sent four year old Ary Toole of 410 Telfer Street. See accidents Page 7 Britain hails Yangtze dash Sloop out foxes China s reds makes daring night escape Wayne Richardson chinese communist in a. J _ _ aboard . at sea aug. 1 a this on Cruiser sped monday to Ren l. I 1. Sci Hill Jiu la 1 Poe. 26. His wife was reported in do Vous with the British Sloop Corpus Christi tex., for her Fath amethyst whose bold escape from or s funeral. Later a Pilot. My right Wing for Ari instant jus before zooming into the Airliner pilots of two other commercial planes complained later at Miara thai they had also been buzzed by Navy aircraft while flying Ovici the new Jersey area saturday. Aboard the dc-3 were 12 Pas sengers one a five month old child and a Crew of three. Chinese communist Captivity in the Yangtze River saturday made rival history. The meeting is expected tuesday. Dramatic details of the tryst s Dali for Freedom Swiss Flag flies Over free press Switzerland s White Cross inside Flics Over the press today in Honor of the National no Lidny of that Republic. Weatherman s score Board predictions of set. Actual Points last week s Chart i of Civ Lou no Clouds possible total score for the Weatherman lost week was -oy2 out of a Isible so. How the score Board works 5 Points perfect or near rect 4 Good 3 2 Points ice fair i Point perfect or near than s degrees difference Between Tuul mid predicted temperatures and Correct on other two counts Ery than 5 degrees difference in temperature and wrong i one or both of other counts decrees difference in my erasure and Correct on other two counts degrees Ference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and absolutely wrong a in other respects wrong of All three counts. Story Hong Kong goes All out to Mark amethyst coup one of a group of news nothing has been run Fri Ert recounted by vice Admiral a. G. G. Madden second in command of the Royal Navy s far Eastern station. Group of news men who travelled on the Trull blazing flight of a Cana Dian Pacific air lines plane to Australia d. B. Rogers editor of the begins Leader Post and former assistant manuring editor of the Winnipeg free press remained in the far East on a special visa to Hong Kong. Here he describes the Triumph loaded reaction of Hong Kong Resi dents to the spectacular of the British Sloop amethyst saturday night from chinese communist Shore butteries along the Yangtze River. Further a mulches on his experiences in the Pacific area will be received from or. Rogers in the immediate future. By d. B. Rogers editor Regina Leader Post Hong. Kong aug. 1 special this ancient and cocky British Colony throbbed with deep Pride and rocked with unsuppressed rarer raiment monday As Bank Holiday crowds celebrated the spectacular escape of the British Sloop amethyst saturday from the insufferable face losing Yangtze River prison. Sailors soldiers and civilians joined in Gleeful Delight Over com Munisar. Discomfiture the general attitude showing a willingness to flout the Power of the reds while reprisals Are feared against Westerner civilians in red areas nothing has been reported As yet even american gobs who Are Here in Large numbers As temporary visitors gave in see Rogers Page 7 o. B. Rogers first hand report ral Tat nation s newest sport new York aug. York s Swanky sporting goods store Abercrombie and Fitch offered a Geiger counter for Sale. Monday. Carry it. With you to detect uranium the store advertised. Complete with earphones 554.50." the vessel had been pinned ame Down by the communists in were the Yangtze since april 20 when she was caught in a disastrous Duel with red Shore batteries. Vice Admiral Madden said the escape was All very Well planned and conducted the timing also was a vital the amethyst slipped Cable saturday night at Hong Kong time making As Little noise As he said. She followed astern of a the ship was challenged and ironically a red gunboat also in the same area was set afire by the reds gunfire. The amethyst replied to the Shore batteries with one round of her main armament and a. Large amount of fire from her bran and Oer Likon guns. Vice Admiral mad Den said. The scoop turned in an Amaz ing performance he said covering 140 Miles through varying and shifting sandbanks and Sharp turns in an Effort gel past the woo suing forts before Dawn. British authorities were Jubi ant Over the new turn in the amethyst which started ast april with a confused Battle n the Yangtze Between the amethyst and three other British War ships and the communists ashore. Splice the main once in London the admiralty announced the King had radioed a Royal order for the amethyst s Rew to serve an extra ration of urn to All hands in Celebration. Forty four British sailors perished in the april 20 fighting. After wards the communists trained Shore guns on the amethyst lying at Anchor off Rose Island 60 Miles downstream from banking and refused to let her leave until British authorities paid reparations for 254 red troops they said were British foreign office killed. The and admiralty in London said in a joint statement the escape dash finally was ordered be cause conditions for the amethyst s Crew were deteriorating while negotiations for her re lease Hung fire ;