Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 18, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Price so per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg Friday november 18, 1949 Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week who re helped toward a More Normal life by City approves to open 6 rinks onions to accordions by bad Che Hospital first Mark in Long Range plan six children Pioneer patients at Kinsmen spastic clinic 9.3d div fhi1_ 4- Al -1 an appropriation of to permit operation of six skating rinks which otherwise would have to be closed this Winter was approved Friday by Winnipeg s finance committee. This raises to 30 the number of Public Parks Board operated rinks which will be open this season. The six rinks Are at the Argyle Strathcona every morning at 9.30, six Chil Dren Are bundled out of a taxi outside the Entrance to Winni Peg s children s Hospital to begin another Day of Hope and courage the tots eager eyed and excited with the Prospect of. Spending a full Day in a colourful Nursery Are very special cases in the children s Hospital. Usually referred to As the children Are victims of cerebral palsy. This term is defined by the med ical profession As a paralysis or Inco ordination of the motor sys students to the clinic once a month. The project is an encouraging demonstration also to the parents who visit the clinic As often As possible. Although the average Cost of treating a cerebral palsy Case would run to approximately s4.000 a year the Only Means of Finan Cial assistance available to the Kinsmen stems from the Sale of easter seals. A Gross of was returned in greater Winnipeg last year. We Hope the provincial government will help us in this be said or. Grant thursday re remarked that Federal Grants Are enabling one of the nurses to attend a three month course in Baltimore. The physiotherapy tem. The Road to recovery these Chil Dren Are now on materialized about three years ago when the Winnipeg Kinsmen club decided to do something about Manitoba s crippled children. Statistics indicated that seven out of every children Horn Are afflicted with care bral palsy. Prom the original seven the Field is usually Nar rowed Down to two children that May receive special treat ment. To arrive at this end. A special screening process is Given and a Complete diagnosis of the Case is made. Here is where the Kinsmen club stepped in. As a direct result of. Sales of easter seals a sum of was amassed towards the project. Stands and Racks were built in the basement of. The Hospital by Joe Simpson and Bill Mills of the engineering staff. A Complete paint Job and installation of other fixtures was required before the Kinsmen could move in. The Kins ment were obliged to wait nearly three years before they could be Gin operations. One month ago the spastic clinic was born. Don Small president of the Kinsmen . Shepherded Judd and Tarry Corbett All Kinsmen took charge. The advice and assistance of or. Wallace Grant was sought and within a very Short time six Chil Dren began the first stages of physiotherapy training. Now valuable equipment toys miniature tables in addition to a competent and enthusiastic staff of trained personnel Are available to the children at the Hospital. In one spotless room a Large Mirror on the Wall shows the pro Gress a child makes As he walks Over fixed wooden blocks support ing were Aid. J. B. T. Heber t mayor George c. Mac lean of St. Boniface w. L. Blier Canada packers representative a l. Evans chairman of budget com Mittee Community Chest a. F. Mckinnon chairman of finance committee k. O. Mackenzie department of Public welfare Alrec Tor and Gladstone Shearer presi Dent of St. Boniface kiwanis club miss Geraldine Hamilton Sang two solos. A heart that s free Anc j Ai Pleura in reve with the accompaniment of her Mother mrs William Hamilton. E. A. Poulain St. Boniface City treasurer led the people in singing Bonhomme Bon homme vex to Jour. Although much equipment was still required in the clinic the most important need at the present time is a piano. Condition 01 the piano is he said but certainly could do with one to help teach these children some fundamentals of Ryt Lim in their exer the plan of the Kinsmen club in developing the spastic clinic is part of a Long Range project to have a Manitoba society of Crip pled children. The society would work in con Junction with other foundations and would later include adults a. Well As children. This year the Kinsmen club described by Crown and Wolseley schools at Mcmillan Avenue and Luxton Avenue and Andrews Street and on North main Street. Big time operator gets 23 months on 8 charges of fraud and theft Are people honest mrs. Glenn Hopes so a Winnipeg woman is anxiously waiting to find out if her fellow citizens Are inherently honest. She is mrs. Rose Glenn 493 Redwood ave lost her Black purse containing every cent she had in the world a Bank Book letters papers and keys at Graham Avenue and Donald Street about 4 . Thursday. Anyone who finds it will be Eble to Tell it s she told City detectives. My name and address Are on the old superstitions survive says speaker Many present Day superstitions Are similar to those feared in the Lgth Century declared or. Millar Mclure chairman of the United College English department guest speaker at a meeting of the scottish liter sry society in Trinity Hall thursday. Or. Mclure based his address King James 1 and the Black Art on a Book writ ten by that King during his reign. A musical programme was presented by miss Kath Leen Morrison accompanied by mrs. A. R. Milne. Alias Robert Joseph Wilson Coj Lauri ill Ell let 17 k la i s a we nettle 01 no a Jpn Nunno Evi Hati it i Kay said. Street june in june Ture. He pleaded a nifty to collecting s75 from a St. Vital woman mrs. Rebecca Dunn for furniture which he prom ised to deliver and never did. He also got s35 Worth of Furni Ture from Carter auction course would add much to the general knowledge of the present highly trained staff at the children s Hospital. S. W. Shepherd one of the pioneering Kinsmen in the spastic project said for the s financial backing the Kinsmen plan to have travelling clinics nurses considerably More physiotherapy work and to have additional assistance for All types of cripples. Cai pal director Israel off boosted t Western Canada can expect to receive larger and More frequent orders for Grain and canned meats from Israel. Barnett Aaron Mon Treal director of canal Cana Dian Palestine trading co. Told an audience at the Alexandra hotel wednesday night. While in existence Only six months and operating on a predicts Rade in West mum of capital canal has already purchased almost Worth of merchandise from Canada including aluminium powdered milk lumber canned beef penicillin and streptomycin or. Aaron revealed. Israel products in return he said Israel is Able to sell to Canada such commodities As Citrus fruits and products and false Teeth adding that Canadian purchasers of the latter item total Over annually. Israel is also cutting polishing children s Canada packers limited St. Boniface thursday were dinner hosts to More than 130 persons who attended the annual meeting of the children s Aid society of Manitoba. Many attending the meeting were from country areas and represented various municipalities belonging to the society. Speakers addressing the Gatner ing himself on Silver painted Paral Lel bars. Every item is movable preparatory to installing the equipment in the Hospital. Another portion of guidance is offered by miss Lilly Katz. Physiotherapist miss Nissa Levinson. Occupation therapist miss e. B. Dolmage Nursery teacher and miss Margaret Chown nurse s assistant. In addition to helping the child towards a Normal life the spastic clinic serves the purpose of instructing student nurses in Progress results of physiotherapy. Or. Grant brings his four year medical British Industry claimed stronger British Export industries Are recovering a. B. Walton. British China firm representative told a dinner meeting of the Griffons club i Hurst ii in Moore s restaurant. Or. Walton who is in Canada on a business trip emphasized that Britain would have to Export More n oods before she could import More from Canada. Turning to peace Ime factory reconversion sir. Walton said at the end of he War British factories liked trained workers and modern machinery but the situation is now being w. G. Coventry United King Dom Trade commissioner at Winnipeg was unable to appear As guest speaker As his plane was grounded at Ottawa. Films and slides of a recent trip in Europe were shown by w. Kelley while l. Mcarthur save an illustrated talk on a trip Down the Mississippi. District heating Engineer s topic District heating of the Down town Section of Winnipeg was discussed by r. A. Stewart the City Hydro at a joint meet ing of the Winnipeg Branch engineering Institute of can Ada and the association professional engineers of Manitoba thursday in theatre a Broadway building. Univer sity of Manitoba. T. E. Storey was chairman. Students work goes on review an Opportunity to see Stu dents work was afforded at. The Daniel Mcintyre collegiate s open Day held thurs Day from 7 to 10 . Featured at the open House were demonstrations in music handicrafts cooking sewing English and typewriting. Visual education films were shown. General convener was miss l. Warwick. Negie of no fixed abode Friday pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud and one of Shefl. Standish taken from jail where he began a six months fraud sentence a week ago was sentenced by magistrate m h i Carton to 23 months in prison on 309 Carlton Street each the eight charges to run concurrently with his present sen tence. Standish admitted stealing a s3u bicycle from St Boniface sept. 10. The fraud charges showed that Standish had gotten away with nearly in Money and goods during the past two years. Two months ago he purchased s700 motorcycle Tor which he rooms by Means of a worthless Cheque court was told. Senten w the accordion has already been a motorcycle can be picked up in Saskatchewan or Alberta where it has been sold. The furniture elec tric tools and groceries have still not. Been located he sai.1. Standish has two fraud charges and a theft charge on his record already. You arc a dangerous Man to allow at said magistrate Carton As he passed the additional to de Colleen chomping Champ claims Mother with a. Cun you top letter or. And mrs. Reg 667 Lorette Avenue Friday informed the free press of what they described As their daughter s unusual dental prowess. At the tender age of one. Colleen Caslake now three boasted All of 20 Teeth the letter stated. When Only three months Corieen was already making gave a worthless Cheque. Shortly before that he admitted gelling an accordion from Lowes piano accordion school 318 Kennedy Street in a fraudulent manner. He a worthless 5250 Cheque for accordion and signed a Nole the rest. Standish pleaded guilty Frau Ding the Roger s fruit com Pany 401 Ross Avenue 516 j Worth of Candy gum onions matches paper Serviettes and a number of other items last May. This Man told the fruit company that he was building Cabins of Lac Dubonnet for the Rod and gun club and presented a worthless Cheque for the said or. Kay Standish also pleaded guilty to cashing a worthless Cheque in St. Boniface sept. 10. Electrically driven tools and game Back to pre War status team of eight tourney thrills Bridge fans in an enthusiastic team eight tournament first in a series o marking championship the recently organized associated Bridge Manitoba thursday night win St. Georges sir events sponsored he ave the clubs were John Franklin Canadian is Aii Onai railways. The tournament was hold in the Winnipeg Conn act Bridge clubroom Smith Street. J. .1. Cohen president of the dissociated , announced the clubs surviving clubs with respective captains in brackets will play off As follows nov. 22. Winnipeg r. E. Seabrook at. Canadian electric motor to the total value of s175, were purchased fraudulently St. Andrew s meeting told of students successes students of St. Andrew s College have been winning scholar ships annually since inception the College three years ago it was reported at the annual meeting of the College Friday. The meeting was held in the Parish Hall of of. Michael s ukrainian orthodox Church 110 Disraeli Street. The report was made by it. Rev. S. W. Sawchuk chairman of the College Board of directors who officially opened the meeting. The annual meeting is combined with conferences of three other ukrainian Ian self Reliance league of can Ada the ukrainian women s association and the ukrainian youth organization. A joint meeting of the four will be held Friday night and each of the other three groups will meet saturday and sunday. The scholarships won by the St. Andrew s students Are of for All students in Mani Toba schools. In the first a Cir of the College operation Ger Ald Rusen won the Goulet scholarship the Mani Tota Echo Larthia was awarded to Minn s h. V e 1 i a a Sewchok while in 1b49 the a final scholarship was awarded to Nestor Elrish Kowich. Operated by the ukrainian greek orthodox Church in can Ada the College offers regular matriculation courses leading to arts degree in the University of. Mani Toba and a theological course for students who wish to become priests. A matriculation students write departmental examinations. Generally the College emphasizes importance of moral and religious education. In addition to the theological course the College also has regular classes in religious instruction for All students. The first class in theology will graduate in 1950. The College conducts courses in English to newcomers As Well As courses in ukrainian language literature history and ukrainian arts and handicraft but these Are optional. Tribute to the memory of chartered members of the College wus paid by father Sawchuk. They were m. Stechishin t. D. Ferley and j. Bohonos. The financial report was Given and Board of directors elected and Export Large quantities of Dia monds and is now developing chemicals for various purposes quantities of which Are available to Canada or. Aaron said. Vast expansion a resident of Winnipeg some 30 years ago or. Aaron expressed Surprise at the vast expansion of he City since his last visit about j29. He lauded Industrial growth and said he particularly enjoyed ils visit to a hygienically per act meat packing now pack no several thousand cases of corned beef for Israel. When or. Aaron visited Winni Peg 20 years ago he announced establishment of a scholar ship for furthering education of underprivileged children set up in memory of Echiel and Mindel Bronfman by their children. Murder hearing adjourned again preliminary hearing of a murder charge against William Dusanko 21, has been again time to nov. 24. The hearing was to have con inked in City police court thurs Day but the missing Crown wit Ness or. Was still not Avail Able to testify. Dusanko is charged with the Losla Ying of mrs. Dora Sadova in her Dufferin Avenue . Friday a afternoon. Stab at munching instead of swallowing her food with two Teeth this accomplishment or. And mrs. Caslake Felt could certainly rank with that of the one year old Baltimore child whose picture was carried in the free press nov. He had if Teeth. Barimore doctors had described this feat As unusual. Or. And mrs. Cast Oke Baring their daughter s Teeth were prepared Friday to Challenge All of trends with Toothy prodigies. Peace forum to hear red Dean recordings peace forum of the Manitoba peace Council will be held at 2.30 . Sunday in the . Temple Kennedy Street. Re cords of the Dean of Canter Bury s address in Winnipeg one year ago will be played and ban the a bomb petition forms distributed. Handicraft classes begin tuesday handicraft classes sponsored by the Luxton Home and school association will com Mence nov. 21, and will be held every monday thereafter from 7.30-9.30 . It is plan Ned to have classes in Clay i modelling leather and Shell Craft and Box loom weaving. Squad rushes to Check Aerial bomb in old trunk discovery of an Aerial bomb in an old trunk in a Smith Street auction room thursday sent the bomb disposal squad of the army engineers Rushing to the scene. Lieut. J. J. Hefferman head of the army s disposal squad said Friday the bomb was fused but Safe. We Lave had a number of these 11-Pound . Aerial practice bombs Rought to he said. These bombs dropped out of planes during he War were picked up by children playing in the Fields and an auctioneer said the trunk had been in the shop for a week and the bomb was discovered Only when the trunk was prepared for auction. He had no idea where the trunk came from originally. Chest inches nearer objective now inching Forward to its objective the Community Chest total Rose to thursday still Short of this year s goal. Red Feather officials commented however on the fact that the staffs of two Chest agencies had increased their contributions considerably Over their last year donations. The children s Aid society ave 12 per cent More while the . Contributed 23 per cent. Admits theft awaits charges Raymond Jack Ducharme 27, of no fixed abode Friday pleaded guilty to theft of articles valued it and was remanded by magistrate m. H. Carton to nov. 21 for sentence. Ducharme was arrested thurs Day afternoon less than two hours after he broke into a House Matheson Avenue stolen loot which overcoat bottle of part of included whisky the an and was recovered. The residence entered belonged to m. J. Tessler 155 Matheson Avenue. Ducharme was picked up in Block on King Street. Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay asked that passing of sentence be withheld for one week As other i larges would be Laid against Ducharme. Three forums for k. Of c. Lodge first of a series of three Knight of Columbus Lay forums will Lake place at 2.30 . Sunday in the Avenue build ing clubroom. Speaker will be father j. P. Monaghan. Rector of St. Paul s College who will address the gathering on the Canadian martyrs triumphant remaining two forums will be held nov. 27 and dec. 4. Paper firm manager retires after 19 years Arch. Forrest manager the Winnipeg Branch of the mid West paper sales limited has retired after 19 years service with the firm. Or. Forrest joined the paper company in 1930. Working at Regina Saskatoon and finally at Winnipeg. He will leave shortly a visit to Scotland. Sex servicemen s widows protest rent increases a Resolution protesting the Dominion government s recent decision to allow rents to be increased by 20 to 25 per cent Over the 1941 level was passed by the sex servicemen s widows association at a meet ing wednesday evening in the free press building. Members Felfman increase was unjustified and would cause real hardship to those living on Small allow ances according to the presi Dent mrs. D. Lowther. Legion to discuss building plans plans for the building of a legion memorial Hall will be discussed at a meeting of heading Ley Branch of the Cana Dian legion at 8 . Monday More than last year. Nobody knows better than agencies themselves the need ramp seek Man to face court on drug charge officers of the . Narcotic squad were searching Winnipeg a Man who failed to prox Uncial police court Friday appear to be committed for jury trial or a drug Possession charge. Magistrate d. G. Potter issued a Bench warrant for the arrest of Tohn Podluzny of 50 Lydia Street when he failed to appear at 10 . Friday after being remanded for committal following a preliminary hearing thursday. Barber testifies Max Bateman a Winnipeg bar in who was sentenced to six months in jail plus a s200 Fine oct. 20, for Possession of Rii acetyl morphine testified at the hearing Podluzny had sold him the narcotics. Bateman said he had paid pod Uznys five dollars for a capsule containing the drug. Trailed by . . Said that they the for More remarked one Chest official. Among the larger contributions received recently at Community Chest Headquarters vere Cana Dian liquid air company Canadian liquid air company employees s125 Canada life Assur Ance company employees building products limited employees Canada Safeway limited employees h. L. Perry company limited s200 City Dray company limited Security storage limited Manitoba cartage and storage limited 5275 Dominion Bank employees Royal Bank Ocanada employees Neaman fur company Jim railed Podluzny watched him go oct into 7 and had Hart the Barber National railways club i m. A. Nov. 23. St. George s club Robert Moore at sir John Frank Lin club j. J. In thursday night s events. St. George s Defeated civic Bridge Arnold Layman by 2100 Points sir John Franklin Defeated score four by 820 Winnipeg con tract Bridge downed civic Bridge h. W. Mcglynn by 2270 and Canadian National topped civic Bridge mrs. Ii. S. Price by 200 Points. Referring to the triple loss sustained by civic Bridge club. Or. Ohrn said 24 of its members participated and the strength was split into three teams. This Fine tournament heralds a return to the pre War popularity of commented or. Cohen revealing much larger four and pair championship events Are scheduled for the Winter season. Economist sees devaluation Aid devaluation of the Pound will help Canada secure a better equilibrium in Trade with the United Stales and Britain s. A. Suther and great West life Assurance company economist said thurs Day. He spoke at a Lions club shop where Bateman was in the fort Garry hotel. At the he said in after having a. Haircut item employees 5141 Mills limited Soo line the in the Pheonix school canaries to compete in annual contest Youir Birds and Oid Birds warbling solos duets will compete for trophies Here nov. 28 to dec. 1. Novice Amateur and Champion exhibitors will enter Birds in the Western Canada roller Canary annual singing Conlest in the Majestic hotel. Best hollow Roll and hollow Bell Best Bass and Best flute will Hrino special Torr rosettes to contestants. Entries Are being accepted by j. B a Nirav 221 Martin Avenue nov. And 27, and All Birds will he benched the evening of nov. 28. James of Winnipeg will be judge. Seek excitement turn in false alarm police and streaked to the Corner of Alexander Avenue and Arlington Street thursday evening in response to a fire alarm turned in from the fib of on that Corner. But their search fruitless. Instead they found two Small fire one seven years old the other Elf it who apparently lae Pmj something better to do Tel Majil 4-ltm. I turned in Folie for failure to pay tax costs lab owner John h. Nikkei owner of nikkei scientific laboratories fined a total of and costs in provincial police court thursday when he pleaded guilty to two charges involving payment of. Sales tax. Magistrate d. G. Potter fined nikkei s50 and costs for falling to pay j9.27 sales tax for May and i sales tax for june within the prescribed time. He was fined and costs for falling to file a return of sales tax for july. Youth remanded stopped by an . Highway patrol near fort Whyte while operating a stolen Auto. Gerald James Dickens. 19, of no fixed abode pleaded guilty in City police court Friday to taking a car with out consent of the owner. Magistrate m. H. Carton re Mand de him until nov. 24 for sen Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay said the car was taken from har grave Street near Portage Avenue about 4 . Friday. A juvenile Wai in the car with Dickens when . Made the arrest. And the Barber went downstairs. The officers followed them Down to a washroom where Bateman was found preparing to Lake a shot of the drug the police said. Legion attacks boost in rentals fort Rouge Branch of the Cana Dian legion thursday hit out at proposed rent increases and the move to put up wartime Homes for Sale to their occupants. The Branch will ask the Provin Cial and Dominion commands to strenuously protest the action of the Federal government in allow ports from the . Exceed ports to that Market while sex the ing rents to be increased 20 25 per cent. Hardship stressed hardship of such an increase on reverse is True our British Trade. Devaluation will facilitate diver Sion of imports and exports from one Market to the Canada now constitutes a bigger Market for imports than Ever said or. Sutherland explaining that an increased population High National income and Industrial development provide a Market for increased quantities of raw materials from the common wealth As Well As British manufactured goods. He that to succeed in an increasingly competitive world Market. Canada must re examine veterans especially pensioners and families living on veterans allowances was stressed. The group also deplored the plan to sell rather than rent wartime houses endorsing the protests of the provincial command. Gun As Security brings Fine for offering his pistol As col lateral for a loan. Edward Arthur Nash 35, of 487 Simcoe Street thursday was fined or 15 Days in jail when he appeared before magistrate m. H. Carton in City police court. According to. Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay the pistol had hanged hands at least three times before it was picked up in West Ern Canada when a stranger tried to Register it. Gave to casual Friend Nash gave this pistol to a casual Riend and look where it ends said or. Kay. This is a dangerous procedure air you to Carton. You can t let firearms out of your to is Trade policies and methods. Devaluation helped retain our relatively favourable position but it must he followed up by realistic o promote Economy and he stated. The shrink in and increased Sterling Market world production will have a deflationary effect markets for Canada s agricultural products particularly said or Sutherland. Henry Dahl introduced the speaker. President Fred was in the chair. Thieves ransack two premises two business premises were ransacked but nothing was re ported stolen when thieves broke into the lad White manufacturing company 350 Ross Avenue and the West disinfecting company 110 Charlotte Street thursday night Entrance was gained by break ing through a front door of. The lad White firm and. Through the rear window of the second office. Police said the office of the disinfecting company was dam aged when thieves strewed about desk drawers and upset bottles of disinfectant ;