Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 14, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press i edit with Loc Winnipeg monday november 14, 1949 by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week court stipends sentence giving girl new Chance to keep her apart from the companionship of older women in Manitoba jails magistrate Fred Law suspended sentence on a theft charge against a 21-year-old girl. In City police court Mon Day morning Crown prosecutor o. M. 3t. Kay pointed out that the unemployed girl already under suspended sentence had stolen a watch valued at or. Kay said the girl s Mother was dead that she did t know where her father was and that the girl had Drifting around from Job to Job in he past five years. Until she was 16, the girl had spent most of her life at a religious Home for girls. Did you see the women upstairs in the Magis trate Law asked the girl. Replied the girl in a scarcely audible voice. I Hope you realize that if you continue the Way you Are you will be like one of said the magistrate. Turn ing to the Crown prosecutor the magistrate said i Don t want to Send her Down or. Kay. She s Young and we May he Able to help the magistrate told the girl to make restitution for the watch within a month and to report to the policewoman every alternate monday. Six break ins reported Over week end cafe Safe emptied three r s subject at Home school meet value of the three r s respect response Hilty and reverence in the upbringing a child were stressed by mrs. C. F. Evenden. Rural con Vener the Manitoba federa Tion of Home and school at a meeting of the North Spring Field Home and school association wednesday. Discus Sion of problems relative to both Home and school followed. It was announced a. D. Keyser would outline various handicraft classes at the december meeting while courses would get underway in january. President j. Sim Cox was chairman. 23 new . Cases raises total to total number of Manitoba tuberculosis cases for this year Rose to 1.d01 last week when 23 new cases were reported by the Manitoba department of health and Public welfare. There were also 65 cases of measles recorded As Well As 42 new instances of Chicken pox during the seven Day ending nov. 12. Other disease totals for the week with yearly totals in brackets were Scarlet fever. 15 diarrhoea and enteritis under one year 1.1 pneumonia six ugh mumps five influenza three and Anterior poliomyelitis three students hold remembrance Day service two remembrance Day services were held by students of lord Roberts school Friday one in the school auditorium the. Other in Rosedale United Church. Principal j. M. Scurfield presided Over the Junior High school Church ceremonies while v. Tipping was chairman of the elementary school programme. We. The Rev. Hugh Mcfarlane was guest speaker at the Junior High school service while Don Jack Man Bill Ritchie and Bill Farrington representing the army Navy and air Force respectively took part in the ceremony honouring tin fallen of two world wars. Musical selections were under the direction of miss m. Pottruff with miss i. Struthers at the Organ. At Elemen tary school services. Bob Lloyd Bruce Hossack and Curtis Bird re presenting the. Navy army and air Force respectively unveiled the these before and after views were snapped from a hangar roof sunday during the construction of a Bailey Bridge at Omand l Creek behind car Piquet Barracks. The picture at the left shows ports being Laid on each Bank of the Creek. Three hours later the Bailey Bridge is shown spanning the Creek. Total weight of the self propelled gun and men pictured at the right is roughly 29 tons. Offi cers and men of the various units concerned with the Bridge s construction Are watching intently the Progress of the huge tank As it Umbers Back across the Bridge. Merchant meet to open retailer sees or. Buyer Back in Driver s seat Honor Roll. . Youth group winterizing is easy i for storm window expert hears four speakers winterizing his Home with storm windows will seem like Mere fun this year for Albert Barrett 226 Poison Avenue who retired recently after 3-1 years service with the Cana Dian Pacific railway company. Or. Barrett was senior on the staff which looked after storm windows for the company which has some double windows for the terminals buildings alone to say nothing of the City office Yard towers freight and express buildings. Handicraft films at Dufferin school films on handicraft courses will he screened at an open meeting of the Dufferin Home and school association at s . Wednesday in the school auditorium following which registration for the courses will take place. E. R. Draffin. Canadian Commonwealth youth move mint. Advisor. Cliff Matthews Donovan Swailes m.l.a., and Gordon fines m.l.a., addressed a meeting of the Winnipeg Centre youth group Friday evening in the clubroom. 800 Sargent Avenue. A provincial Constitution was adopted and new members initiated. F. Tipping will address the next meeting nov. J8 in. The Ward one . Clubroom 188 Osborne Street. Local . Holding memorial service tonight Winnipeg District Odd Fel lows will hold a memorial ser vice tonight at s . In the . Temple Kennedy Street. Or. Thomas Neville past grand master will con duct the service. From Here Ohn q. Be in when or. Wants a lit he have to accept a Blue single breasted Type. The same is True in practically any other Type of Mer Chandise one might choose to men Tion. To assembled merchants that their Job now is to select rather than to collect Mer Chandise As they have been doing through the War years and almost up until the pres ent time. There is no longer a Scarcity heavy tank tests Span once again the customer is merchandise in Many lines and the Driver s seat having at Long the situation is improving rapidly last replaced the retail customer has a right to de the fact that the buyers Mand and receive w. Market has returned will be impressed upon several Hun dred Winnipeg and provincial merchants it the annual convention of the Manitoba re Tail merchants association in the Royal Alexandra hotel tuesday and wednesday. Last minute preparations for this the largest retail convention Ever Heid in Winnipeg were being made monday by leading Provin Cial and National association officials. Fine for currency offence 4. Toronto Man who persuaded a Winnipeg woman to obtain ?.00 America currency for him was fined j100 and costs in pro Mcm police court saturday by magistrate d. A Potter. The Man Fred Terry pleaded Iii Ltd to a Chauffe of buying foreign currency from Georena St. Mars who was not an authorized dealer under the act rom p said Terry and two other men had come from Toronto by of the United slates. They had intended to leave Winni pcs through he states Aplin. But found they did not have enough cur renew miss St. Mars went to the Bank and obtained an h form and was then handed Over to Terry police mid. Home and school group among them were it. I. Klein Haus of new York business consultant who will address a Lun Scheon meeting tuesday on getting 100 per cent out of your Mer Chandise Dollar George s. Houg Ham Toronto general manager or the Canadian retail federation James Wilson Saint John n.b., Yum president of the National Fedora. He Manitoba retail Mer Tion and s. A. Boswell. Association said the a president of the retail Sham. In face held twice daily at the convention and Man fac Mclure to speak to literary association or. Millar Mclure chair Man of the United College English department will be guest speaker at a meeting of the scottish literary association at s.15 . Thursday in Trinity Hall. Or. Mclure s topic will be King James and the Art. Kathleen Morrison will present a musical pro gramme accompanied by mrs. A. R. Milne. To hear . Director Hart Devenney director of physical fitness for the prov Ince will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Weston Home and school association at 8 . Thursday in the school auditorium. Registration for Hobby classes will take place at 7.30 . Nov. 24 in the Rhodes school and a Dis play of work done by other groups will be shown. Hat he wants and it is the duty of the Mer chant to select desirable Merchan Dise rather than accept merely what the manufacturer wishes him to or. Kleinhaus declared. Or. Boswell said the nation Al organization is interested in. The Winnipeg convention because the Manitoba association is on the verge of a very progressive enlargement. Anything we can do in a National Way to get behind and co operate with the Manitoba Mer chants in promotional activities will be or. Boswell said Canadian re Tail merchants must Forth a consolidated front if problems facing the Industry Are to be solved in a manner beneficial to both merchant and customer. Mrs. Viola Mclaughlin Secre 40-foot, 200-piece Bailey Bridge goes up with three hours work Larry s Bridge was completed in three hours and four minutes sunday at car Piquet bar Racks. Officially described As a Bailey Bridge the 40-foot steel Structure was named after it. Col. Larry Kay officer commanding the 6th Field regiment Royal Canadian engineers. The demonstration was staged by approximately 90 officers and men representing the engineers Royal Winnipeg rifles Queen s own Cameron highlanders 39th Field regiment Royal Canadian artillery the medical corps and the Royal Canadian army service corps. The demonstration opened Sun Day immediately following a Church Parade when the men wheeled their vehicles up to Omand s Creek which flows be Hind car Piquet Barracks. In Jig time the steel sections numbering 200 pieces were unloaded from trucks and work began under the supervision of capt. Don love not counting one hour off for lunch the relatively inexperienced group men worked steadily from 11 . Until the final Section was fitted into place at 3.30 . Tank test to test the sturdiness of the Bailey officers and men of the artillery corps roared up to the wooden ramp in a 2svi-ton tank the huge Tann was manoeuvred Between he steel sections of the Bridge then lumbered across and Back again. Before the 25-Pounder self propelled Turr was driven Over the spun a few heavy trucks made the test for Soli Darity of construction. Construction of the Bailey Bridge was judged a Complete Suc of Canada. Also welcomed to the City Mon Day by e. W. Stevens of Winni Peg president of the Manitoba re Tail merchants association were j. R. Thomson St. Catharines presi Dent of the National foods Divi Sion of the retail association and w. Hodgins London president of the radio and appliance dealers division of the association. Sir. Kleinhaus Monduy told the free press he will stress venereal disease total drops a slight drop in the provincial venereal disease total was recorded using the week ending nov. 5. A release from the department of i i. In Chi Tel tin of luring health and Public welfare reveals. Thirty eight cases were reported Nearun Ami _ compared with 45 during the previous seven aay . Of the cases 311 were gonorrhoea and eight were syphilis. A breakdown of figures shows 13 instances of gonorrhoea and five of by pms m a spec proper one of gonorrhoea in suburban Wini Peg and of gonorrhoea and three of syphilis in other provincial Points. 3v of syphilis were discovered in suburban w my Pep. Tuners exhibits on View from 10 . To 10 . Daily will be open to the Public. Labor Man gets new assignment in local Tice j. James president of the Winnipeg labor Council ., has been assigned to the staff of the of forcing open a Safe thieves took s700 in Cash from Stanley s cafe 530 main Street in one of six break ins during the week end. Police believe Ore of the thieves hid in the building when it closed sunday evening then Early monday morning admitted one or More companions. They carried the Safe into the base ment knocked off its dial drove Back the sindic and made their escape with the s700. The thieves left the building by forcing the lock on the inside of the rear door. Two dollars in pennies and a Small Quantity of cigarettes were stolen saturday evening from the main spot cafe 222 main Street by. Thieves who forced the rear door. The offices of elec tric. G77 notre Dame Avenue were completely ransacked by thieves saturday evening who left with s27 from the Cash boy. Entrance was pained by forcing a rear door. The Aqua Terre shop 510 Portage Avenue was broken into Early sunday morning. Nothing was stolen by the thieves who forced the rear door. Smashing a Glass pane in the front door of the . Oil service station at 551 Academy Road thieves sunday evening escaped with in Silver. Small amounts of cigarettes and confectionery were stolen sometime during the week end from fruit Row lunch Ross Avenue and Ellen Street. Winnipeg office amal Cess by both army spokesmen and a number of civilian engineers who witnessed the operation. In addition to capt. Love those in charge o the various units concerned with the Bridge building were Alec Sutherland Lieut. George Kimsour. Ski. John Burton and set. Fred Mason. Traffic during the operation was directed by members of the pro Vost corps. Red Feather proceeds almost 75% of target week end collections of s15.3s6 boosted the Community Chest total close to the three Quarter Mark red Feather officials reported monday. The new total is 74.4 per cent of this year s this is about More than was collected at the who is professor of philosophy at same time in last year s Campaign. Mcgill University will propose a among the larger contributions Toast the Day an a1 wha Honor received recently at Community ii. D. Maclennan Chest Headquarters were Imper piety of Winnipeg banquet nov. Al tobacco company limited s300 it at tile annual St. Andrew s so 30. At the Royal Alexandra hotel. Or. Returned recently from Scotland. Civic action group meeting tonight civic action committee of the Catholic women s league will meet at 7.45 . Tonight at the residence of the Sisters of service 62 Hargrave Street. Clot Liing thief gets year admitting theft of cars two get 15-month term Gama Ted clothing workers Union. . . As International Mil mail told Day by Frank Koch manager 1 the Union office in the Block. Or. James will assist in the administration and in organization of syphilis Bazaar Tea to add Parish building fund a Bazaar and Tea will be held tuesday evening and All Day wednesday by the Parish of our lady of perpetual help Charleswood in Aid of the building fund. Mrs. H. Pal Mateer is Tea convener while other conveners include mrs. W. Sears. Miss Ida overwater mrs. J. Kreger and mrs. D. J. Flood. Parents open night slated for tuesday an open night for parents will be held at 7 . Tues Day by the John m. King Home and school association prior to the regular meeting at s . In the school auditorium. Or. J. M. Brown curriculum director for the department of education will discuss the topic. Do we expect too much from our schools Grade six girls will present a number of Folk dances. And 16 of no cases collegiate to show work of students an Opportunity to see Stu dents work will be afforded at the Daniel Mclntyre collegiate s open Day which will be held from 7 to 10 ., thursday. In addition to visual education films there will be demonstrations in Art music handicrafts sewing ant cooking exhibitions of Art English and typewriting. Gen eral convener is miss l. War Wick. Gun toting brings Fine for carrying an unregistered revolver Joseph Sudosky 466 Manitoba Avenue was fined or 15 Days in jail in City police court monday morning. Magistrate m. H. Carton or dered the weapon confiscated. Community Clup whist drive a Bridge and whist drive will to sponsored by the Isaac Brock Community club at s . Wednesday in the school auditorium. Theft of autos sent two men to jail for 15 months each and theft of clothing and Money sent a third Man to jail for a year when they pleaded guilty to charges in City police court monday. William Georgs Fox 20, of 115 Rose Street pleaded guilty to theft of an Auto from p. W. Hunter 74 Springside Avenue St. Vital. Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay told the court Fox stole a car saturday afternoon while it was parked on Mem orial Boulevard near the Hud son s Bay company store. The ignition keys were in the car at the time. Fox was picked up at s . Unorganized workers in said or. Koch. Labor Board member or. James is former International representative of the retail wholesale and department store Union . He is a member of the Manitoba labor Board rep resenting Organized labor member of advisory monday on River Avenue As he was Board of the Federal department of need of Church in life stressed a Man without a Church is a denying himself place in the most who is missing out in life Rev. Thomas Badger pastor of nor Wood United Church told a Large congregation sunday at a service marking the third anniversary of Grey Street United Church. Because of his failure to Avail himself of the opportunities of Wor ship and service offered by the Christian Church the Man without a Church is cutting himself off from the body of Christ. He is in truth creative and redemptive Enterprise druggists Given Extension course a series of extent Ion lectures for practising pharmacists was held recently in the University of Mani Toba As part of an educational pro gramme to keep pharmacists abreast of the newer drugs Chemi cals and preparations that Are appearing on the Market every year. Sponsored by the Manitoba re Tail druggists association the lec Tures were Given nov. 7 to 10 by University professors. _ a. Survey of modern medicals which included new preparations their uses and origins was outlined in the first two lectures monday and tuesday by prof. D. Mcdougall chairman of the department of pharmacy in the University of Manitoba. Or. M. J. Ormerod assistant pro Fessor of the department of physiology act medical research in the trying to Crank the Auto or. Kay pointed out that this was Fox s third Auto theft in a Little More than a year. David Logan Crabbe 34, of 470 Toronto Street pleaded guilty to an Auto theft nov. 6 from Vic Tor Leach of Winnipeg Beach. Crabbe was arrested by . That evening near Portage la Prairie following a 20-mile Chase along no. 1 Highway. He had previously appeared in City police court thursday and at that time had elected trial by jury. He subsequently changed his mind. Appearing in court dressed in a suit but wearing no shirt Alex Cuthbert Mcneive 32, no fixed abode pleaded a guilty to stealing clothes from a sleeping companion. Labor As Well As a member of the manufacturers life insurance com Pany s250 Bowes company limited Canada bread company limited s15g Canada bread employees s203 systems equipment company limited employees s13s Dominion envelopes company limited employees s205 United Grain growers limited employees s721 Dominion electric company limited and j. Wolinsky and d. Sector. 5300 w. J. Christie and App head hits at free press six Hundred Winni Eggers Gath ered at the playhouse theatre Sun. Day to Mark the 32nrt motors products of Canada limited of the russian revolution. S275. G of Stephens and compan principal speaker at the meet limited employees s1so Domin was w. C. Ross rubber company limited Ern labor progressive party Pio yees. Sill Cassidy s limited Law in Shipwreck h. A. Steel of 973 Windermere Avenue fort Garry has received word of the safety of his son in Law Bernard h. Post a Crew Mem Ber of the luxury ship Corsair that ran aground saturday near Aca people Are poverty the Pulco Mexico. Who said communism Xmas laying the foundations for a new or. Ross berated the free press for spreading lies that the soviet newspaper had sunk to its lowest mrs. Post phoned her father level equivalent to newspapers from Vancouver sunday with the news that All 132 persons aboard the ship were reported to be Safe and unhurt. Before her marriage mrs. Post was miss Ethel steel he ship operated by Pacific Ai Bijj. U.7 panel of the court of referee was on her first trip the unemployment insurance com i f the. Spann from los the in employee Mission in this District. Or. Koch reported monday that the Union was now in process of negotiation agreement new the collective garment Lof the Winter season from los Angeles to Acapulco. Her previous owner was the late j. P. Morgan who paid for the ves Sel. Under Hitler s Rule in he said. This one time pseudo Liberal Bourgeois or. Ross stated is spreading out and out fascist propaganda among its he urged the audience to buy manufacturers association Here. Two men get 7 Days for Drunken driving two men were each sentenced to seven Days in jail when they pleaded guilty in City police court Mon Day morning to Drunken driving. They were William Mcgillivray 1201 Osborne Street and Earl Daniel iffy of 792 Beverley Street. Because both men needed to operate vehicles in their businesses or. Kay said Mcneice and m. H. Garton ordered suspension of their driving licences for one month instead of the Cus Tomary six. Mcgillivray s car was impounded for three months. Foy was driving a panel truck belonging to his employer when he was arrested. Ever Given to or. Addressed the pharmacists in the third of the series of lectures wednesday outlining the stated. Red Feather this year Chest allocations for the five red Feather health services came to uses of barbiturates. Insecticide and its uses by the Public was the main topic of the fourth lecture Given thursday by or. B. M. Smallman officer in charge of stored products and in sect Laboratory of the Canadian department of agriculture. Friend whom he had known for a few years went to the compan Ion s room oct. 24. When the Friend feel asleep or. Mcneice stole an overcoat shirt pair of trousers and Wallet containing 520 in Cash or. Kay said. When arrested Mcneice was wearing the stolen clothing the Crown prosecutor said. Like Crabbe Mcneice had previously elected to be tried by a judge and jury but he too changed his mind. Two years ago Mcneiece was imprisoned for an Auto theft. Pacific storm kills 7 Manila nov. 14 a a 70 mile an hour tropical storm passed into the China sea monday after killing at least seven persons and doing an estimated. Damage in the South Central Philip Pines. A heavier storm in the same Gen eral Region oct. 31 did in damage and left 832 persons dead or missing. S1go City Dairy company employees 5231 Manitoba Bridge and Iron works limited employees Manitoba Power commission employees communist literature for the facts you Don t get in the free serious injuries a fall from a three foot plat form at the rear of the Olafson apartments 216 James Street sat urday night resulted in critical injuries to a 43-year-old Man. Injured and in fair Condi Tion in St. Boniface Hospital is Gerome Cardinal of 372 Mcdermot Avenue. Hospital authorities be port he had a fractured Skull and congestion of the lungs. According to police or. Cardinal was working or. The platform about 7 . When he fell. He was found not Long after by his brother who carried him upstairs to his Mother s suite. Sunday morning a doctor was called and or. Cardinal was taken to Hospital. Norman Penner Secretary of the National federation of labor youth also spoke. Chairman was William Kardash member of the legislature for Winnipeg North. Two seriously Hurt see student projects at architectural open House approximately 1.500 guests at-1 Carter mrs. L. Russell. Mrs. W tended the sixth annual open House Tait mrs. N. Hall miss e. Dafoe sponsored by the students Archi miss c. J. Feldsted and miss Mary the principal sources of Indus trial starch Are potatoes wheat and sponsored textural society of the University of Manitoba saturday and sunday in the arts building. Fort Garry. Projects on display included sum Mer and term sketches theses work and an exhibition of contemporary chair designs. Co conveners of open House were Ada Lou Barber and Roy Jessiman. Assisting with refresh ments were mrs. J. Donahue mrs. J. Graham mrs. R. Sellers mrs. C. Smith mrs. J. A. Russell. Mrs. W a. Trott mrs. J. Hoogstraten mrs. A. H. S. Gillson mrs. W. Ger Haines. Guests were received by senior stick Jim Ferguson and lady stick sos saves 24 at sea 6 dead and 6 missing Ibe Devon Engla Spanish freighter exploded and Sank in a Gale near Lundy Island sunday leaving six of her Crew dead and six missing. Rescue vessels bucking heavy seas to answer a Dawn sos from the Monte Kurugu picked up 24 survivors and one reached Shore in a tiny Rowboat with a companion dead from exposure. The ship whose Home port was Bilbao Spain was carrying Coal from Newport to Genoa. Week end accidents injure five in City five persons were injured two of them seriously in three week end accidents on City streets. Collision of a car with the Back of a parked truck in front of 1517 Alexander Avenue saturday at 10 . Sent three persons Riding in the Auto to Hospital. They were mrs. Mary Skihar 30, of 179 Sherbrook Street who is in Winnipeg general Hospital with multiple cuts and bruises to the face and head. Her condition is reported to be fairly Good. Earl Skihar her husband 32, who has a Skull Frac Ture and multiple cuts and abrasions to the left Eye. His condition also is reported As Norah Brandon of the faculty of architecture and Interior design. Radio Engineer. Go est speaker c. F. Fuller of the radio engineering division of trans Canada air lines will address the Institute of radio engineers Winnipeg Section at 8.15 . Wednesday in the studios of station Krc. His topic son mrs w. Macdonald mrs. Will be rugged nation of radio mrs. E. Thrift mrs. D.1 tubes. Fair in the same Hospital. William Macwhinney 20. Of 683 Ross Avenue who received Skull cuts. After by intr treated at Hospital he was allowed to return Home. The Driver of the car. Reported by police to have been Paul bar dal jr., 26, of 540 Victor Street was uninjured. According to police the bound Auto crashed into the rear of the truck parked on the North Side of Alexander Avenue. The rear of the truck was badly crushed. The injured were taken to hos Pital by police ambulance and the police Wagon acting temporarily As an ambulance. Meanwhile a two car collision at Burrows Avenue and Sinclair Street. Saturday at 3.30 . Sent miss Katherine Warburton 20, of 981 Burrows Avenue to St. Joseph s Hospital. After being treated for exits to the head miss Warburton was Al Lowed to go. Thrown from car in the third Accident. Mrs. Olive Rumball. 879 Dorchester Avenue was thrown from the rear seat of the Auto in which she was Riding at 12.10 . Sunday. According to police the Auto driven by Robert a. Sharpe. 973 Mcmillan Avenue was turning left on Portage Avenue to to North on Spence Street when a car travelling West on Portage struck the rear of sir. Sharpe s car. Mrs. Rumball was shaken up when she struck the pavement but required no Hospital attention. The second car police say was driven by Joseph Henry Bremner of heading Ley Man ;