Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 18, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg free press Friday november is 1949 rainmakers get charter Boston nov. 18 bup j Boston group organized to Sel distribute and manufacture am produce rainfall by Artificia Means has been granted a Char Ter of incorporation. It is name the natural resources Corpora Tion of physician s office to rent excellent location at the Corner of Henderson . Or Oakview East Kildonan in Ultra modern building now nearing completion joint occupancy with rent very moderate. . Box 937 Winnipeg singing lessons for the Dionne quintuplets were offered thursday by Leonard Wookey Reeve of Cal Lander ont., and a former concert Singer. He said Trie girls 15 years old last May were naturally endowed with Fine voices and that with training would be ready for Chester s extra special 66-Piecedinnerware made in England Green with White background 8 person service comprising 8 each cups and saucers bread and butter plates Tea plates dinner plates soups fruit nappies 1 each sugar and Cream Jug Gravy boar picks dish Small and Large Platter. 66-piece Reg. 29.50. Special Chester s hardware 950 main St. Pm. 51 157 we deliver overcoats at leonards fleece Coats cold Winter weather won t bother you when you Wear one of these warm Wool fleece overcoats. Good looking too cause they re tailored with in finite care. Latest styles in Many shades of Brawns blues and Greys. Sizes 36 to 44. Special Melton Coats the coat for the Thrifty shopper. You la find Quality As Well As style in this coat. Made of All Wool Melton in shades of Blue Brown or Grey. Single or double breasted styles. Sizes 35 to 46. Reg. For this Elysian overcoats better Quality better styling better fitting in this Range of Elysian Over Coats double breasted or Box style shades of Grey Blue or Brown. Sizes 35-46. V2 Price Sale on this Range of boy s Wool Tweed overcoats open saturday 9 . To 9 . Must satisfactory or Money cheerfully refunded. Full lined in single breasted style shades of Blue Grey or Brown sizes 8 to 16 years. Reg. For this Sale Only leonards 518 520 main St. 27 034 main Market next to City Hall Worl the concert stage. No comment on the offer was available from the girls parents. Bernard m. Baruch plans to bequeath his entire estate to the promotion of physical me d i a Cine. The elder statesman and philanthropist 79 years old made millions years ago in Wail Street speculation and in develop of Sulphur Baruch and various mines. He says the size of his Fortune in t anybody s Admiral Louis Denfield for Mer United Stales Navy chief of staff arrived at Westboro mass., wednesday for a Holiday and started it off unloading cargo. A reporter who Tele phoned to ask the Admiral a question told him he hoped it would t interrupt the Vaca Tion. This is no said Denfield. I m unpacking Christmas came More than month Early to one Home in Xenia Ohio. Otherwise for two and a half year old Tommy Pace it would not have come at All. Tommy has leukaemia an always fatal blood disease and is not expected to live until dec. 25. Kis Day was filled with toys Turkey and All the trim mings and a Jolly Santa Glaus went along to deliver them. Impoverished sir John Burke 40, faced preliminary hearing thurs Day in Hamilton ont., on false pretences charges. Sir John who had not been Able to the fee for letters Patent to the title said he came into it in 1941 on the death of his father. He has been employed by a number of Hamilton firms. So Many women Are appearing in London cafes in the new Shorter evening dresses that floor length rules Are being relaxed. Dacono Olar. Aco dentist and associates 2nd floor time bldg. Corner Portage and Hargrave phone 928 319 Winnipeg Brandon office Security bldg., 1 or St. E w e la e is Canada 4 it latest watch vault %5 49 a policeman s Jot was brightened at Edmonton thursday. Const. Henry Norris of the r.c.m.p., testifying at a Trtol there was asked to Sample the contents of a bottle one of the exhibits. Well what asked the judge. Norris smiled. It tastes very much like Rye whisky to he said. Four year old Eldon last Nunie not leave Freeport Sanatorium it Kitch ener out., Friday cured of tuberculosis away ahead of schedule. Or. J. S. Hawkins medical superintendent said the wonder drug streptomycin made the difference Between a speedy cure and a slower one. Eldon began treatments in june kj4x. A Small bean that threatened the life of a 15-month-old Camp Bell s Bay ont., girl was safely re moved from her right lung thurs Day. Little Ann Sullivan inhaled the bean last week and doctors said it would mean certain death if left in the lung. Or. J. L. Coupal of Ottawa took it out with of a Bronchoscope. Bill collecting problems Many minors should get credit say dept. Store experts Delnor King George thursday decorated the commander and members of the Crew of the Royal Navy frigate amethyst which ran the Gauntlet of communist lire last july in a 100-mile dash Down the Yangtze River. It. Cmdr. John Kerans was made a companion of the distinguished service order. Honors were also conferred on 13 officers and men concerned in the incident. 1 w a firm Ingrham dentist snowed under with govern ment forms Anil formalities killed himself an inquest jury decided thursday. A verdict of suicide was returned. Inquest evidence said the dentist poisoned himself when red tape Sot on top of a Page of history when knights were bold was re enacted by approximately 200 belgian students at Ghent this week. They found authorities less indulgent than in Days of Yore. The students stormed a medieval fort overcame the cards barricaded themselves in and began throwing fireworks Over the Walls. Police were met with a Hail of tomatoes. Firemen finally gained entry and police launched a counter invasion. Seven students were in Hospital shortly afterwards and the rest in the Loca l Bastille. All were later released. The communist youth news paper Mlada Fronta in Prague Czechoslovakia Friday hauled off for a Low blow at United states women and tall build Ings. It said America s Beautiful or Iris and new York s towering Skyline were Only camouflage for hopelessness prostitution and suicides among the hungry working classes. Nearly 100 villagers near the Java port of Cheriton were killed by a band of moslem terrorists a Canadian press despatch said Fri Day. The despatch said its report came from reliable sources. A Story of a glamorous rus Sian spy was told in London thursday by one of two Bri Tish soldiers who said they were held for seven weeks in a Damp austrian cellar by the russians. The spy he said did her Best to make us talk but we were not having he said the russians were try ing to get information about British forces in Austria. White As Snow does t mean a thing in Oil City pa., any More. They had a fairly heavy fall of Black snowflakes wednesday night which blanketed the Down town area for 15 minutes. Police there say soot had a lot to do with the phenomenon but they Haven t found the sources. Meanwhile a fall of White Snow covered up the mess thursday. Merchants should be in favor of granting credit to employed minors because it teaches the Young individual to guard his credit and meet his obligations promptly. This was the consensus of Opin Ion of five department store and credit Bureau executives in a Cre Dit panel discussion wednesday at the annual convention of the Manitoba Branch retail merchants association of Canada at the Royal Alexandra hotel. The panel included a. Simser fort William chairman. H. Genser. S. E. Masson. J. A. Campbell Smith and w. J. Thomson ail of Winnipeg. Or. Campbell Smith held that the Ever increasing numbers of minors holding Good jobs in offices must be considered by the merchant. Or. Simser agreed but Felt consideration should Only be Iven to members of families Al ready known to the store. I m not so sure about commented r. Scotty Smith of Boissevain. I be had plenty of experience with parents who Are not so Good and yet the children Are excellent Cre Dit the credit experts said customers under Ordinary Circum stances should not be granted Cre Dit exceeding 25 per cent of their income this proportion to include existing indebtedness elsewhere. Members agreed that from one half to one per cent could be considered a fair bad debt loss on charge accounts. R. X. Grassby Winnipeg asked what Large stores do when customers return whole wardrobes after using them once and turn out As a fashion plate one Day each month. We hear weird tales about women who do he smiled. Or. Thomson replied the1 stores follow one of three courses of action. First a pleasant conversation wih the customer explaining seriousness of the situation. In cases the customer agrees to retain the merchandise lie said. If. However she refuses the store May accept the Merchan Dise without argument or accept it and advise the customer her Cre Dit privileges Are cancelled. Panel members told the Mer chants the Telephone is the most effective instrument in speeding collection of difficult accounts. A final formal letter however should pre cede such action. L. Robb Boissevain presented the panel with what he termed the s64 and asked what recourse he had for collection. Robb told of a customer who look a radio out of his store on approval kept it then sold it to a construction Camp Foreman stole it Back and was subsequently jailed for 18 months. The court returned the radio to the Foreman. The panel informed or. Robb he was out one radio because he had neglected to obtain a Lien on it. Want. A caller for Square dancing also will teach in classes or private Box 835 free press Hunters trappers feat runs special of Cring of guaranteed British made calibre Model c Bolt action 1ue i Eatilo mates. Barrel 24" Luht Raul is solid foresight ramp. Rocky Mountain rear open sight Dove Tail Blued Blank supplied. Sullns eyes six shot Magazine. Low scope . Weight s ibs receiver Radl Usea. Tapped and drilled for americ in Lent. M Kcal Ritlop now. 574.75 b waste specifications As above with Stock of and 21 ammunition traps baits and general trapping and Hunting supplies a Intrau issuers of trapper s big give licenses 211 one Block of main St. Water works building plan gets go ahead authorization to prepare plans for a new office building for the greater Winnipeg water and Sani tary District staffs was Given to the commissioners thursday by the Board of the greater Winnipeg water District. W. D. Hurst chairman of the Board of commissioners explained a lot on the South East Corner of main Street and Avenue is being held As a site for the proposed building. Construction of the new office1 building was first suggested last february. However with the possibility of a new City Hall being erected and space found in it for the required offices the matter was Laid Over until now. Reg. 35c for the first time. A Denor treat at a special reduced Price. Delicious raspberries special 30c for a limited time at All bel10i dealers the Man who set a Calgary warehouse afire with a Complex infernal machine nov. 4, was sentenced to 10 years in prison thurs Day. John Romaniuk 25, pleaded guilty to. The charge of starting a Blaze. The machine was described As based on an old gramophone an warm clock and bottles of gasoline and shavings. When the clock rang it started the Gramo phone struck a match and lit a fuse to the bottles according to fire department theories. I City firefighters seek wage boost Winnipeg firefighters thursday requested a wage boost equal to the increase in the Cost of living As tabulated from Jan. 1, 1949 to dec. 31, 1949. The request was made to the civic personnel and legislation committee. It wag passed to the employer employee Board for study. The increase would amount to about per Man a month. How Ever official figures will not be available until the december 1949, Cost of living Index figures Are re leased Early next year. It was asked the raise become effective Jan. 1. 1950. Aid. J. G. Harvey reported negotiations were now under Way with other civic employees for similar increases. The firefighters pointed ouf boosts in freight rates rent and transit made the increase Neces sary. Jan. 1, 1949, the Index at 1sb.6. Ebert Bur i it at make your Winter crossing to Europe aboard a Canadian Pacific White Empress for a leisurely Holiday week at sea you la like your bedroom meals and entertainment on the stately Empress of Canada or her sister the Empress of France frequent sailings from Saint John and Halifax co litre Pool is return available w1ntck a mugs from Saint John train to ship Sitf Tad from Halifax one Day Itter. 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