Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, August 06, 1949

Issue date: Saturday, August 6, 1949
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 06, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page s lowering sick immigrants pose big problem for Israel by Ruth Grubby . Herald Tribune news Servi Haifa Israel aug. 4 delayed Israel s immigration problem threatens to explode As new Deal occur daily and More refugees i eluding Many who Are sick pot into overcrowded and unsent car Camps. Two children died the Beer Yaakov immigration Cam Southeast of Tel Aviv. For to Days the Camp s welfare work had been telephoning child place Merit Tel Aviv Askin that these children be moved of the Camp. No bed could be anywhere either in a children Home or a Hospital. Thursday was too late. Monday a ship arrived from Tripoli with some 800 per Nons. A doctor at St. Luke s transit Camp outside Haifa told visiting american commis Sion studying welfare conditions Here that per cent. Of the people on thin ship had trachoma. Highly infectious Eye disease which can cause blindness. V in most countries from which Are embarking for Israel a 321 a ointment i1 tin Lum Puiu victims of trachoma must be completely cured before they Are permitted to but in countries from which people flee illegally to Israel or in countries like Turkey Tripoli and Yemen where medical facilities Are inadequate examinations Are impossible. Israel thus has been forced to accept people whose diseases May flare up and endanger the entire population. Only solution the Only is Felt Here is More financial1 ail from abroad particularly through the United jewish the need grows More crucial daily As some persons live in thirty Camps without sanitation or privacy in hot overcrowded tents and bar Racks. Medical care is at a Premium. Among other reasons is the com plete Inadequacy of transportation and communications. A few Days ago a father walked around the streets of an immigrant Camp carrying his dead child in his arms. He was unable to obtain even a taxi. Only two ambulances Are available Lor All of Israel s immigrant Camp population. Telephone lines Are so Over crowded it is almost impossible to Call an ambulance even if a Hospital bed can be found until More Money arrives and the Camps Are cleaned up new immigrants Are becoming disillusioned despondent and filled with a sense of betrayal. Grain shipments from Vancouver show increase Vancouver. B.c., aug. 6, special Export shipments of Grain from this port continued to item up during the latter part of he week and the clearances Soa in this new crop year were up to bushels Friday of pared with Only Bush ils in the same period last season. The latest period shipments Lere totalled bushels for Sporl and bushels for Dom Stic account. There were nine Winnipeg free press saturday August 1949 Catineau my appointed of the commons Ottawa aug. Leon to. Raymond Liberal member of parliament for Gatineau que., has been clerk of the ? of commons or. Arthur Beauchesne retiring after More than 24 years. Prime minister Louis St. Laurent announced Fri Day. Or. Raymond automatically re signs his seat and a by election will be necessary the first since the june-27 election. J. Alfred Dion Liberal . For Roberval. Que., will be proposed As Deputy speaker and chairman of committees when parliament opens sept. He Gold ing former Liberal member for ont., appointed to the Senate. This Complete with Freak White coat and Pink eyes is a rare Albino which was captured Friday in the Garden of a River Heights House. Trie Little animal s two captors. Barry Murphy 0.5. Of 480 Campbell Street and Barry Mcdougall 16. Of 473 bore Bank Street shown Here with their catch plan to present it to the. Manitoba museum for the Benefit. Of officials had previously heard of the animal s presence in the District and had made attempts to catch it. Friday the elusive Gopher changed his haunt and turned up in the Murphy s Yard where the two boys caught him. Hips Here and two More at. New Westminster Friday for Grain in luding several for full cargoes. Elevator receipts were verage at bushels and locks Are bushels including bushels of wheat. The Stew Westminster House holds 00 bushels of wheat now. Of or magic in recorded music of course at National radix your favorite record shop give your ears musical treat. Listen to the finest in records the kind your present machine will play no special. Equipment necessary now in Stock f listen to Sun baked Thermo hits 120 Friday was proof of the fact was brought into the free press news room saturday in Thoj form of one burst thermometer. F. S. Hutton of suite 4, 78 Ren Freve Street presented the editor in charge of weather with a neatly wrapped package containing heats Riken temperature recorder a Reddish stain at the Bottom o the thermometer close to the shattered red alcohol bulb testified t the effect of he heat. Red Sli showing at the top of the tube indicated thai the liquid had shot up Well Over 120 degrees. Or. Button explained that the thermometer burst at about 6 Friday while sitting right in the path of the Sun s rays outside a second floor window facing South he had read the thermometer a 5.30 . When it Regis tired it maximum temperature. The actual High Friday was 8s according to the Weatherman but then Sun stroke can happen to anyone even a thermometer. First Jet Airliner try it completes 6 air hours concerto in 1 major Lor violin and orchestra of. "7 Brahms Ossy Menardy violin with the concerts Bouw orchestra of Amsterdam. Conducted Charles Munch. 5-12" red Lahl records. Sym Rhnny 6 in g major the London symphony orchestra conducted by Josef Kris. 4-12" ked Label records. Jla-89 Strine quartet in f major of. 96 Dvorak. Amer the Griller string quartet. 3-12" red 1-Abel records. ?7.no la-90 suite the London philharmonic orches tra conducted by Jean Mart non. 2-12" red Label records. La full of the orchestra of Amsterdam conduct by Edward Van red Label records. . A. 35 Crim sky Korsa Cov suite sym Hon l orchestra de la Sorlete Hes concerts do conservatoire de Paris conducted by Ernest an Simnet. 6-12" red Label records. Oft. Phi file f orchestra de la society Des concerts do Cori Terva Toire rip Paris by Ernest Ansern to. 2-12" red Label records. Tier Kathie in Fer Phyllis Spurr r. Wind Northumbrian Folk Sopt my Bonny lad Folk the Row Northumbrian Folk r. 10103 have toil but a grow Sone Willow widow Eliza Bethan h. I film the country sorr i. Doivan by the Sally gardens Irish country Sonev 3-10" red Label records. 3s.7s. La-3fi on Wenlock to Ftp Vaughan Wiki am. A. E. Peter pears Tenor with Beni amort Britten piano and the Zorian Strunz quartet. 3-10red Labell records. Ul-103 symphony o. 5 in c minor l orchestra de la society acs concerts d u conservatoire d e Paris conducted by Carl Schu right. 4-12" red Label records. Symphony o. In f Etnar. Of. 38 Tscholkowsky .1. L orchestra de u society dts concerts do conservatoire de Paru conducted by Erich Koelber. 4-12" red Label records. r. Iflj.05 rns Sirinol in amour code rim. Three Bird the Gold fish Ben Govus i cock Giles c Robin Carl Dolmetsch Joseph Saxby Label record. . It. 10108 Devi dons on a ground Daniel Purcell i. Elizabethan Tower Hill files by heart ease cd the kind s mor i5co Carl Dolmetsch Joseph Richord. 10" red Label record. T. Stefl coriolan overture. Of. Fl2 the London Phil harmonic conducted by Cari Schuricht. 12" red Label record t. Fli20 Dansy Maclaire of. 40, pomp Saint the or Chestra of Amsterdam conducted by Charles Munch. 12" red Label record. T. 5l2i oath pin a. 5ie non v t a pm. Bononcini 1 Amarilla g. Suzanne Banco Sonra Noi. Phyllis Spurr piano i. 12" red Label record. T. 5122 Trel Ikle. On. 123" Eman Uel ritual fire dance Faila Zara Nel Sova a violoncello piano accompaniment by Wilfred Parry. 22" red Label record. T. S123 "bercni.sp, on. Echo Etudes. On. 22 no. T and 2" Friederich Gulda 32" red Label record. T. 5124 overture Mel scr part 1 Wagner Over it Dor 1 l orchestra Dela suisse Romance conducted by Hans Knapper Tobuch. 12" red Label record. T. 5125 the of Boris part 1 Godunov Moussorgsky the death of Bort tart 2 Boris Godunov Mous Raphael Arie Bass and choir with the London sym phony orchestra conducted by Josef Krips. 12" red Label record. In handling trials Hatfield England aug. Top flying sometimes at Sieight of feet the de Havil Wajid Comet the world s first All Jet propelled has completed six hours in the air since its first night july-27 it was Learned Friday. The Airliner is expected from London to new York hours cutting the present flying time by More than half. Develop ing about horsepower the Comet has. Been designed for cruising Speed of 550 Miles an hour at an Altitude of 40.000 feet or More than seven Miles. Everything is going a Rie Havilland official said. At present the trials Are restricted to handling performance. Tests will come la Tec "firr1 stands for rut Irwi ency Range recording by. London Purint firm. The Ovcen tit court company of England. All London frit Mordu Are made he revolutionary and Celo Falve Tyaton which tin entire nun and me to the in mini ear 30 to cycles per second. There no inbox Lunte Lor ecu Sauil Luia limited 925 423 your favorite record shop i. S. Randall new York Advertis ing executive drinks an atomic cocktail one of the Many he imbibed. He credits his miraculous recovery from cancer to this drink which he said made him radio Active enough to set Geiger counters chattering like a troop of. Frightened writing in a . Magazine he told of absorbing More atomic Medicine than any other patient known to science. He said the radioactive iodine one cocktail per him from a Stretcher Case to a useful member of society brimming with atomic he was treated at the Kingsbridge veterans Hospital in the. Bronx. Scholarly term unpronounceable Albuquerque n.m., aug. 6 try to say it. But in t ses an interesting word or. Lynn b. Mitchell professor emeritus of classical languages at the University of new Mexico de fined the word As a scholarly term for words that look alike and a spelled alike but have different meanings in various languages. For example he noted the eng Lish word denoting Dis Tance Means a Soldier in latin jag in English spells put the pro noun i in swedish and kind Means children in German. Bui in t it beamed the professor that Homei Cohetero new arms Bill names nations to be aided Washington. Aug. 6 the administration sent to con Gress Friday a new arms for eur Ope Bill provisions Givi Rig president Truman Power to decide when and where Aid should be Given. The new to the House of representatives and the Senate named specifically the to be aided under the programme. It made no change however in Cost of the proposed pro gramme which has been criticized sharply by both republicans and democrats in con Gress. The revamped Bill spells out that rearmament assistance should he Given to the countries which have signed the North Atlantic pact to Greece and Turkev Iran. Korea and the Philippines. There was no provision left As in the original Bill to permit the president to extend Aid to any other country he believed required help. Means t h same in All whistle blows top As firemen race to Blaze Winnipeg was rudely by a screening Siren at 5.30 saturday. Following the last echoes of the whistle lire wagons were heard and then silence a three alarm fire police raid Bank robbery no it was the huge steam whistle atop the powerhouse in the Cana Dian National railways fort Roug Yards blown when a Small fire o known origin in a paint car was discovered. Girl Channel aspirant in excellent shape Dover. Eng. Aug 6 bup Shirley May France 16-year-Olc schoolgirl from Somerset mass. Finished her first week of training saturday for an attempt to swim he English Channel. She told he coach she is in excellent condition Shirley took a four mile prac ice swim saturday within the. Har Bor breakwater through water by wind. Impatient to swim outside the break Vater she will be. Given a 10-mile est in the Channel proper sunday Winnipeg Ger second n paddling event Mooney s Bay ont. Aug. Brigden of the Winni Peg paddling association finished n. Second place in the double Blade Ingles event of the 49th Annua Canadian Canoe association re Etta at. This picturesque course on he Rideau River Abouo our Miles Outh of Ottawa. The event was won by Ken enter of Toronto. His time for the half mile course was 1-5. Critical but anxious London. Aug. 6 Ira Ham Cunningham chairman of he Dollar exports Board. Friday turned from a North american Isit and said he found canadians critical of Britain s labor govern ment but anxious to help the Mother country in her economic difficulties. Nehru visit new Delhi aug. 6 up rime minister Nehru told a press conference Friday he plans to Pend several Days in Canada when he visits the United states n october. Nehru said he plans o arrive in the . Oct. 11 and until the end of the month the Monarch is the Only regular migratory Butterfly found in North America. Weatherman s score Board predictions pay temp. Sky moist. Cloddy i dry Clear by moist Cloudy moist. Go Clear dry actual Points temp. Sky moist. Foil. Cloudy moist Cloudy dry i Clear dry Cloudy moist i Clear dry i i How the score Board works 5 Points perfect or near perfect 4 Points Ivery Good 3 2 1 Point poor perfect or near than 5 degrees difference Between actual and predicted temperatures and Correct on other two counts very than 5 degrees difference in temperature and wrong on one or both of other coi Tats degrees difference in temperature and Correct on other two counts degrees difference in wrong on one or both of other counts degrees difference in temperature and absolutely wrong in other respects wrong on All three counts. Car smashing spree costs a Driver who struck four other autos in. Quick succession july 7 and drove on without stopping was fined s41 and costs or 21 Days magistrate Fred e. Law in City police court saturday. He was 27-year-old Benjamin Morsetti. Of 319 Ross Avenue who pleaded charges of failing to remain at the scene of an Acci Dent and driving without a licence police said Morsette smashed into two parked cars on main Street drove on and sides bed two More. Cargo of wild animals Worth was chaperoned across Miles of Ocean by Genevieve Cuprys 24, who poses happily with a couple of the escaped Python gave miss Cuprys some trouble on trip. She Grabbe Snake near head held on while two seamen grappled with 22-foot Crea lure to prevent it coiling around her. It was finally caged again. Dental magic of boy no More drilling a Tat a c _ Ottawa aug. 6 a tooth filled jul Sueju be some of the paste invented d. F. Sted Liiv of research coun cil and in. A couple months the cavity will disappear. Anyway that s what the doctor says. The Canadian army dental corps is giving or. Stedman s Dis covery exhaustive one dental corps officer says if found successful it will. Be one of the great discoveries of. The Day. There is no other disease in the world today is Prev Alent As tooth the officer said. Or. Stedman who came to can Ada from England and graduated from the University of British co Lumbia makes of finding ways of doing the near impossible. He s the same physical Chemis sorb about killing continued from Page sex prisoner describes red slave labor depot Berlin aug. 6 a the Sachsenhaus Eri concentration Camp near Berlin is being used As a depot to provide soviet Russia slave la borers mrs. Erika Raeder said Friday. The wife of i he former German grand Admiral was released from the Camp a month ago after four years As a prisoner of the russians and now is in Western Germany every two months trans ports of people who were being punished for something left Sach Vonhausen for she said in an interview. There were usually people to each transport. They were Al germans either. A Large ber of them were russians had broken some who shows class Vancouver Ftp Twenty year old Abe Yanofsky Canadian chess Champion Defeated 29 opponents lost j to three and Drew seven in four and one half hours of simultaneous chess Here Fri Day night. The tournament was arranged by the British Columbia chess federa Tion to Benefit the Canadian chess federation. The Youthful chess master lost to George Panton and to. M. Tay Lor of the City chess club and a. Hammond of Vancouver chess club. He fought to a draw with a. Greet e. Stevenson m. Jursevskis c. H. Bermingham m. Pratt a. J. Addy and f. Wadelin. While searched for Lens Ell Helge 55, who had worked As a hire Man at the. Rober and Gloria Mckay spent the week end before they were found bludgeoned and shot to death. Police said they wanted Helge for. Questioning in connection with the Mckay double slaying. Helge police said worked for Nicholas mrs. Mckay s Uncle on a farm at ont Helge quit his Job last saturday and drove to Barrie ont. With the Mckay it was reported he has been seen since. Investigators believe they have raced the couple to 40 employees claimed to have Miles North of Toronto where res seen them eating with a Man about 22 year old. A garage operator told police he saw the couple with another person and heard shots shortly afterwards. In Toronto municipal police continued to press their search for the killer who shot Down Alfred la Jig . Vet eran within sight of his wife and Small daughter. Layng was shot by n Dapper Young Man wearing1 gloves As he out of n grocery store which he attempted to Rob. Friday in Toronto Gordon Gra Ham 16, was charged Slaughter in connection with the sixth killing in the wave of Mur Ders. A Coroner s jury found him criminally responsible for the shoot ing of his Douglas Graham 37, who staggered from his Homo at Alder Wood with a 522 calibre Bullet in his Side. Neighbors saw him collapse and die on the Side walk. Mrs. Graham whose two sons by an earlier marriage Are serving terms in Burwash reformatory Anc said the frequently were Al Odds and added some have to 7. Suite mar heat the other two murder victims in the. Murder wave which or Rogers said might also have been brought on by 1he summer heat were Arthur Wickert and Leslie Hern. Two men have been charged with their murders. So far. Police been unable to establish any direct ties Between the slayings except in the cases of or. And Mckay. Kingston Penitentiary youth and his father thing like this would happen sooner or psychiatrist Diks Guelph. On aug. 6 Cdr. Harvey Clare 77, psychiatrist and former medical superintendent of Homewood sanitarium died at his Home Here Friday. Or. Served As superintendent of Homewood for 17 years and on his retirement in 1s42 continued As consultant to the department of Justice in Ottawa. Sask. Campaigns to obtain jobs for Farmers Regina aug. 6 up an in Tensive recruiting Campaign will get. Under Way immediately in Saskatchewan to provide work for Farmers in crop failure areas and o help solve Harvest help problems n. Good crop districts e. E. Brockelbank director of farm labor for the province announced sat urday. It was estimated that nearly 30 per cent of the farms in the pro Vince were in the crop failure area of Southwest and West Cen trial Saskatchewan. The encouraging crop out look in the Eastern and North Ern parts however w o n i d Prol Kihnly require a larger har Vest Force than last or. Brockelbank said Harvest labor recruiting offices will be located in the National employment offices at Swift current. Weyburn and Moose jaw and in temporary recruiting offices at Assiniboia Shaunavon Kindersley Kerrobert and Elbow. Gordon coax 32-year-old son of or. And mrs. S. Cohan of Russell Man., who Las been awarded two scholarships n the University of Manitoba music examinations for Grade seven piano. He has won the mrs. Tames a. Richardson Rural scholar hip for the second highest Marks n grades five to nine and the swedish musical club and Norden society prizes in 1948, for Grade six piano he received the mrs. James Richardson award and the Corona Tion prize presented to the student with the highest Marks in. Two successive years. Czech troops urged to Back reds stand Prague aug. 6 Slovakia s defence minister called on the army saturday to Back the communist government in the bit Ter Church stale struggle. The minister Gen. Ludvig Svoboda assailed roman Catholic Church in a speech to troops in Slovakia. He urged the soldiers to support the new government sponsored Catholic action movement. Gen. Svoboda said we soldiers can say that from he View of defence of the father and insurance of Freedom and in dependence we shall support wholeheartedly the Catholic Gen. Svoboda told troops their great example was uie russian my on whose Side we had the Honor to fight in the second world Var and with which we shall fight n the future in Case of the. Defence minister declared he Vatican and Western world ought to disrupt Czechoslovakia. Try expert who recently discovered for the research Council a warlike rain repellent substance for use by aircraft during rainstorms. His own Guinea Pip or. Stedman tried his cavity slopping discovery on himself seven years ago. The paste he says closely resembles the composition of the tooth itself. He inserted the paste into a Cav Ity about four times a Day. Most of it later is washed away by saliva but apparently some of it re Mains in the cavity and helps nature rebuild the tooth. After three months time or. Stedman stopped using the paste and to and behold the cavity is no longer there. Only a Trace of a scar remains and this he disappears in three or four years i Haven t tried the paste out on anybody he says but i be turned it Over to the Council to use As it Retty German dentist to wed . Veteran new. York. Aug. 6 bup y else Beckmann a pretty 27 German dentist arrived y plane saturday. To marry a disabled sex army sergeant from Resno calif., who offered to sell of his eyes to finance her trip. Miss Beckmann. Pert in a Lacuer dress Ancl red jacket said she lever thought she would be Able o overcome All the difficulties and Cut All the red tape which had separated her. From Charles Eller murder charge big Spring. Tex. Aug. 6 a Frizzell 34, a Texas cow boy who shot Down two men be Ore the startled eyes of be clamors at a Rodeo Wasj charged Friday with murder. To and. O n by Bryce a baked 1 bread James Shaen Ltd. M. N. Lecker optometrist optician 2nd floor Hurtig bldg. 264 Portage ave. 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