Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Cloudy. Occasional rain beginning Early Friday becoming occasional Snow by eve Ning. Little change in temperature. Winds Light increasing to Northwest at 15 . Friday after noon. Low tonight and High Friday 30 and 40. Vol. 37 36 pages Price 5 cents with comics Loc Winnipeg thursday november 10, 1949 Sun Rise 7.32 . Moon Kose 7.m . Sun set . Moon get 12.4o . Forecast Cloudy and cooler voting picks up after Light Start Early voters find polls uncrowded Man gets 3 years for axe Atta accused 4dmits wounding the axe wielding janitor of the Logan Street salvation army Hostel John Cree thursday was sentenced in City police court to a three year Penitentiary term for wounding with intent. Cree pleaded guilty to strik ing mrs. Olive Armstrong of Norwood with an axe As she sat in the Kitchen of major Fred Mckinley s Home 64 Martha Street oct. 11. He also admitted swinging an axe at mrs. Nellie Mckin Ley wife of the salvation army major As she was Iron ing in her Kitchen. It was by pure Accident that the axe did t go through mrs. Armstrong s said o. M. M. Kay. Crown prosecutor. Mrs. Armstrong was admitted to Winnipeg general Hospital with a fractured Skull suffered in the attack. She has since been released or. Kay explained that on the afternoon at oct. 1.1 Cree struck major Mckinley in the face. He suffered contusions to the Eye. Cree was discharged from his position As fireman at the Hostel its Logan Avenue Fol lowing this attack or. Kay continued. Apparently Cree s temper got the worst of him and he marched into major Mckinley s Back door which was 20 Leet away from the rear of the Hostel and attacked the said or. Kay. He struck Armstrong As was seated in a chair and then newspaper photographers usually have a pretty Tough time trying to figure out new angles Tor election Day pictures. In a year when voters go to the polls three times Federal civic and provincial the Job is even tougher. We be had the oldest voter. The youngest voter maimed voters and non voters. Above left mrs. S. Harcus 646 Ashburn Street a Normal average Winnipeg citizen exercises her franchise at Isaac Brock school. Like a Jot of other housewives she had to bring her child along so daughter Penny aged 21 months sits on the table. Mrs. M. A. Dixon Deputy returning officer and mrs. A. Tilley poll clerk look on. Above right a legislative building employee for the Benefit of the photographer flourishes a duster Over one of tic provincial Assembly s 57 seats soon to be occupied by new . S. Boy and girl left in bus depot swung the axe at mrs. Mckinley. A tvs threw up her arms and warded of the blow. The Edge of the axe caught her in the . Woman Dot Aid the third woman in the kit Chen. Captain Daisy mar Mounier abandoned children await parents in Brandon Home Brandon Man., nov. 10 special two Brown eyed attractive children Are wait ing patiently in a Brandon Home today for their Mother and father to return while City and . Officers Chen Captain a Juicy Nath pair rushed out of the House and the text of a pame Ilc Pencil written message in the Hope that they will find some clue to the whereabouts of the parents. The two children Tommy age 8, and Diana age 7, were abandoned in the bus depot Here wednesday noon. A note found in a tin Cigar Ette Box which Tommy was carry ing said i am very sorry i am unable to look after my children. I can t get work As i am not two men who with her Aid Over powered the or. Kay said Cree had been examined by psychiatrists who found him neither mentally Dis eased nor mentally deficient. The Crown prosecutor continued there was absolutely no justification for his attack. He had never even seen mrs. Armstrong before. Such attacks May be continued on other unsuspecting added or. Kay. I must ask that he be kept away from harming other people As Long As never meant it Cree claimed that at the time he was full of Beer. I never meant magistrate m. H. Carton in ing sentence said such Unjustifi-1 tvs t v t Able attacks had to be prevented in the future. Cree had a previous record including an assault conviction in 1922 and other charges of vagrancy being disorderly and causing wilful damage. Nurse Scarcity report goes to Schultz recommendations for increasing the number at nurses in Manitoba have been submitted to Hon. Ivan Schultz minister of. Health and welfare by the sub committee of the provincial government s health advisory commission or. M. R. Elliott executive Secretary of the committee said thursday. Details on the recommendations could Only be Marie Public by the minister said or. Elliott. Or. Schultz was absent from the City thursday. The sub committee was set up earlier this fall to draft a plan of action for easing the acute Short age of trained nursing personnel in this province. Chairman of the sub committee is judge Al m. George of , who also serves As chairman of the government s health advisory commission. Other members of he Sun com Mittee Are or. O. C. , Winnipeg and miss l. W. Lethbridge Portage la Prairie representing the Hospital association or. A. Hollen Berg and Hugh Mclntyre representing the health advisory commission miss l. E. Pettigrew and miss h. S. Williams setting the Manitoba association j of registered nurses. I Only one soviet blast known to Truman Washington nov. 10 bup president Truman said thurs Day that to his knowledge there have not been any More atomic explosions in soviet Russia since the one he announced in late sep tember. He was asked at a news Confer ence whether there had been additional atomic explosions in rus Sia. Sadie a dither what s up Capp Sadie hawkins1 Day has stirred up a knotty problem in Winnipeg this year. Plans and reservations have been made for parties and dances nov. 12, and now the Day turns out to be nov 19. The question is should the reservations be cancelled or does it matter actually it does t seem to matter two1 hoots. Sadie hawkins1 Day h As been Well. I have no Money and no Way to get any. My Chil Dren had very Little to eat yesterday and i be used up my last cent. I hate 1 o part with them As things May pick up for me later on. Hut at present i am destitute. My wife can t work she s sick. We grave most of what we had to the children. Please take very Good care of them. Please. The boy is Tommy age 8 the girl is Diana age born at Vancouver . School Central school Nel son ." the note was signed or. L. J. Jourdan and mrs. ironically the note was written on the inside of a Christmas Greet ing card. On the front of the card was the inscription Joy at Christ investigation by cily police wednesday afternoon revealed that the two children had been brought to the bus depot by a woman at noon. The woman ordered a meal for each of them and then left the building. Miss Muriel Henson employed it the bus depot lunch see children Page 6 free press to Post vote results progressive i Cults of the provincial election from All Manitoba constituencies will be posted on the big bulletin boards in front of the free press building tonight. Free press correspondents in All parts of the province will be on duty to Rush the returns by Telegram and Telephone to the editorial office in Winni Peg. These will to posted on the boards As quickly As they Are received so that crowds gathering in front of the build ing May get an up to the minute picture of the results. First returns should be Avail Able after 9 . Dwelling terms clarified rent administrator explains major Points of new ceiling Ottawa. Nov. 10 the 22 per cent increase to Muni rental boosts which can be heated. Made on self contained dwellings a self contained dwelling is one Are is and 22 per cent of existing in which the tenant has Complete Owen Lobley can use of toilet facilities. If he has to administrator said share them with other than his Ada s rental thursday. In his statement or. Lobley also announced while or. Lobley clarified the rentals picture the government was preparing an order a Council to be made Public within a week tenants living in rooms can have comes a lodging or a room. Their rents increased by a straight 20 per cent. The administrator fixed these rates to prevent pyramiding of general Cross country boosts by the announcement last thursday by Ron. D. C. Abbott increasing rents 20 and 25 per cent of pre-1948 household the accommodation two. Asking the supreme court on a different Date each year. In it was the first sat urday of the month in 1946, 47 and 4s, the second and this year Thi third. What with schoos and Kig Mies and All it May be that Dogpatch time is running about a week slow this year. Cartoonist Al Capp who started the whole thing in his l Ilab Ner comic strip so far has not been reached for the official explanation. Anyway Winnipeg girls can Chase the boys any old the boys probably won t mind. Levels. The new increases go into effect dec. 15, but most tenants won t Start paying higher rents until feb. That is be cause tenants who rent on a monthly basis must be driven a full month s notice of the in crease. Or. Lobley said rental orders implementing the recent changes n the rentals regulations now have been completed. Copies will be available to i he Public in rental offices nov. Is. The is per cent increase applies to unhealed self contained dwell Siren to Herald tm7o-minute pause of remembrance remembrance Day Friday nov. 11, will be observed As a Day of remembrance for the men and women who gave their lives in the second great War As Well the firs great War. The free press Siren will Herald the beginning of the two minutes of silence. At 30 seconds to 11 . The Siren will commence a blast which will end exactly at 11. The Siren will then be silent during the two minute tribute. The second sounding of the wast lasting one minute will Mark the end of the silence period. During the initial sounding of the Siren flags on the free press building will be lowered to hah Mast and will remain so until Sundown. Of Canada to Rule whether the controls Are valid. Or. Abbott already Lias said that if the controls Are found valid Lio will ask parliament to extend the controls beyond the expiry Date of March 1950. This will permit orderly Gra dual decontrol Over a period of time. A spokesman said he did not know just when the controls would finally end. It May be in 1951 or 1952 or even i 1953. It would de Pend on rental condition across the country. A tenants who undertake to the increases must be Given a new lease for at least 12 months. In no Chise can it terminate before May 1, 1951. Detroit police release wife Wallace to face charge o for slaying at Calgary Detroit nov. 10 up de troit police said late thursday that investigation Here of suspects held in the Calgary Beer bottle slaying of 23-year-old Yvonne Levesque last aug. 11 now is com officials Hope for late Rush a Light Early vote in the provincial elections today gained strength at noon As Mani to bans turned out to choose representatives to their 23rd provincial legislature. Polls will remain open until 8 . Returning officers in greater Winnipeg held out Hope for a substantial vote. They based their prediction on the fact the Advance poll held last week was 50 per cent larger than in the 1945 provincial election. The Over All provincial total however. Was expected to fall Short of the 1219.000 votes recorded in 1943, due to the Large number i acclamations and what was generally conceded to be a Dull apathetic j Campaign. Weather to hindrance weather in most parts of the province offered Little deterrent to anyone who wanted 10 exercise Hij franchise. Most roads were open and in Good condition. Some showers were forecast for Southern Ana extreme Northern parts of inc province but tempera Tures on the whole were mild. Returning officers emphasized that persons whose names do not appear on voters lists Cuil stil exercise their fran Chise by taking two friends both residents of the poll to the nearest Pili ii station to vouch that the voter has been resident in the constituency for three months. Premier Douglas l. Campbell facing his first election As head of he government planned to spend he first part of election night at his Home on Harrow Street in win pitted William l. Wallace 42, whom Detroit police said confessed to the slaying was to leave for Calgary thursday to stand trial on a Mur Der charge. His 32-year-old wife Wilhelma held for investigation of murder after Detroit police said Wallace implicated her in his statement was released from custody and re turned to the Detroit apartment of her Mother the marchioness d Autier de a Roche Briana. Detective Tohn Morin of the de Troil homicide Bureau said Wal lace a Canadian citizen was to leave Here in custody of . The statement revealed det Morin said that the wallaces were invited to the Cabin after arriving in Calgary from Vancouver for a social drink with Donald w. Hen Derson of Clive alia., and meet Henderson who left the Cabin shortly after Cal Gary to ice found miss Levesque s nude and beaten body on its floor has been sought throughout can Ada. Morin said mrs. Wallace has established her american citizen slip and today was he Nipes South. About 10 will join other Cabinet ministers and government supporters at coalition Campaign Headquarters 270 fort Street. Time Oft to vote e. A. Hansford. . Provincial Leader will spend the evening at his Home 138 Ferndale Avenue in Norwood listening to returns Over the radio. A Brief flurry among Federal civil servants who they Nii Fht not have time off to vote As required in the Mani Toba election act was rectified at mid morning a with announce ment by two of the largest departments that employees would get their time. The veterans affairs department planned to close for the Day at 2.30 a. And the unemployment insurance commission at four . Other departments were expected to fall nto line. Press that a Story appearing in a group of voters on Hargrave tuesday evening s edition stating Street told by their enumerator to that. Of the fare increase vote at . Chippawa found would be used to make up without a poll. C. F. David returning offi cer for Winnipeg South explained that at the time the enumeration was carried out Early inst month it had been expected that Chippawa. Would he used As a polling station. The station had been changed to the Grain Exchange Curling rink and voters who went to the naval Barracks were directed to the proper place. Or. David said he doubted that Many persons were affected As the mistake had been corrected Early in the enumeration. Fare Rise Aid for future c. H. Dahl transportation Man Ager of the Winnipeg electric com thl Ruday informed the free . . Thursday and enter Canada through Windsor ont. Mrs. Wallace s Mother with whom she now will live told Utility is porters after her daughter s the slim Eft ule in. Ase Ina. Creases after City taxes and pm 1m going to keep an Eye on ploy yes wage increases arc deduct Ner from now on. Shell never get cd will be used to Stop future Cut of my sight losses if or. Dahl states. The marchioness snid she would i the loses experienced in 1048 willingly go to Canada anytime in this year to Date Are just testify against Wallace. She did . There is no Way of making say whether her daughter would j them or. Dahl declared and mrs. Wallace was not Avail Able for comment. Earlier she declined Diatel. Further comment it was Morin who first reported hat Wallace confessed in a state ment. . Coal operators get Lewis Brush off Washington nov. 10 cup John l. Lewis Curtly brushed off a Federal request to meet with Coal operators in new contract talks thursday. He said monday was the earliest his representatives could attend. Adventure in far East Bruce Irving Rankin 31, Cana _ sri embassy official in China and 2. Tenants signing leases of two formerly of Brandon and Winni years and More cannot be Peg was released wednesday fax evicted during the course of the chinese nationalists who arc de lease to permit the landlord to sell Manitoban gets release from chinese held ship the accommodation. Leases May be gaining vessel which of Alber and Yorkton he fro the fam ily moved to Saskatoon a narc he received his Public Anil High school education. He graduated from the univer clo wednesday. Steelworkers troop Back Pittsburgh pa., nov. 10 Murray . President met with the . Steel thursday to write a strike settlement that will virtually end the great . Steel walkout. More than United steel workers already were Back to work As the piece meal breakup of the 41-Day-old strike rolled swiftly toward a Complete settlement. Youngstown Sheet and tube com Pany signed a strike ending agree ment with the United steelworkers was aboard. In and the Canadian Navy temperature Reading Durine the 24 hour period ending at 6.30 . Thursday e1 a of t win. Max. Proc e 44 32 Calvary 22 4r Edmonton 29 49 us Ift current 31 51 Saskatoon 2r 4d Repina 29 43 Brandon 24 42 Efi 41 port Churchill 4 9 port Arthur 33 43 Toronto 2s 47 Otuwa 25 3s Montreal 24 33 remembrance Day tomorrow remembrance Day. The free press will be published and delivered throughout the City on a saturday schedule. Classified advertising will be accepted up till 10 . To night for Friday s paper. San Der ship Woosang was tamed landlord and the agree. Intercepted in chinese territorial after the War he entered the by the nationalists. We d department of external affairs and landlords who owned accommodation before nov. 1, 1949, and want to recover Possession must give the tenant six months notice to vacate. The a commode Dation cannot be sold before april 1, 1951. 4, landlords who want to re cover accommodation will have to show a genuine and demonstrable Nee otherwise they May encounter Legal diff Nesnay Rankin was transferred from the vessel to the British frigate alacrity at the Mouth of the Yangtze River unconfirmed re ports indicate. Or. Rankin Ai Jinjr Cana Dian Trade commissioner it Shane thai was on the Way to Ottawa on leave after Heiner stationed in China since May 1948. Trade commis stenographer gets heart Balm from doctor Toronto nov. 10 up May Russell. 29 year Saskatoon stenographer thursday was awarded in a civil court judgment on her breach of Promise suit against or. William a. Baker Kee Watin ont., physician. Miss Russell who had sued for claimed or. Baker called off their engagement Only a few Days before the wedding Date after she had bought a Trousseau resigned from her Job made arrangements for a honeymoon and had publicly announced her coming marriage. The court also assessed costs of her action against or. Baker who during the hearing this week testified he had delayed in break ing his engagement to miss Russell because he did t want to let her Down too three months after breaking off the engagement. Or. Baker mar ried Mary Mckay a former Winnipeg Nurmi. Cuties if the tenant refuses Toj it was understood vacate. The Rule which to the chinese warship these types of vacating halted the British vessel falling due in the Winter has he was accredited to the lifted for the Winter of 1950-51. It nationalist government. He re Quested in View of his diplomatic status Transfer to the alacrity. The report added that the com Mander of the chinese warship agreed and placed a boat at ran see next Page 7 radio news Page 4. Movies Page 5. Bridge column Page 8. Women s news pages 15, is 17. Sports pipes 20, 21, 22. Crossword Puzzle Page 12. Comics Page 33. Editorials Page 19. Finance Page 35. Canasta series Page-14. Article on Russia of age 11. Kin s disposal. Air. Rankin is the son of the late j. Howard Rankin. His Mother mrs. F. J. A. Branion married and is now living in Prince Albert. Sask. He has a Bro ther Gordon Keith in Brandon and an aunt mrs. William Breen at 221 Waverley Avenue Winnipeg. After tearing Brandon at an Early age or. Rankin lived with his parents in Winnipeg sooner in Australia prior to being posted to Shanghai. He marked Australia where his wife and one child still reside. Can sea Mem p where he at u Bruce Rankin in. Manitoba polls unlike previous provincial elections in Manitoba there is a uni form closing hour of 8 . Throughout the province for All polls in the present election. In past provincial elections poll ing hours in cities were from 3 to 8 . And in the country from 8 . To 7 . At the last session of the legislature the elec Tion act was amended to make the closing hour of 8 . Uniform in. All parts of the province. Missing girls found at Selkirk missing since wednesday two Winnipeg girls Carol Ann Kreutzer 11, of 446 Robinson Street and Helen Johnston. 11, of 435 Robin son Street were found at noon thursday at Selkirk Man. . At Selkirk advised City police that the two girls had been found at the Home of one of tha girls grandparents in Selkirk. Parents who had not seen them since they left for lord Nelson school at noon wednesday went to Selkirk to bring the wanderers Home ;