Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Price super copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg Friday november 25, 1949 by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week Chester comes out Strong for full size Bath tubs Aid. Frank Chester came out Friday As the Champion of larger Bath tubs for tenants of City own Sci Homes. Winnipeg s finance committee was asked to approve installation of four foot six Inch tubs in the 100 Flora place Homes built by the City for emergency shelter purposes. I m All in favor of hath Aid. Chester assured the committee. But they should be five foot the Mailer was finally settled by calling for lenders for both sizes the larger tubs to be installed if there is room for hem. Aid. H. B. Scott whose knowledge of tubs appeared to be no loss Tolian Aid. Chester a pointed out the Bath rooms were Only five feet Long and if we get them in Well have to sunday milk deliveries to be discontinued finnish Man seeks to locate sister Mauri Wallenius Silanpaa is Iwakoski Finland is endeavouring to locate his sister mrs. Tyyne Sanelma Waris whom he believes to be re siding in Winnipeg through maj. S. Mckinley of the men s social service department of the salvation . Mrs. Waris daughter of Aino and Hugo Wallenius was born at Tamsa Finland in 1005. Her husband s name is Paavo Waris. When last heard from three years ago mrs. Waris address was general delivery Winnipeg. Dan to address advertising club Dean Grant Macewan of the faculty of agriculture and Home economics University of Mani Toba will be guest speaker at monday s luncheon of the Winnipeg sales and advertising club in the fort Garry hotel. His topic will be men for the Job. East Kildonan club plans dance featuring modern and old time Square dancing the East Kildonan. Community club s Christmas dance will take place at 8.-i5 . Dec. 3 in the Mel Rose Avenue Community Hall. Winnipeg Gold dust Case leads to Gold s arrest capt. D. Dewar of the St. James fire department is shown above presenting two cheques totalling to a. J. Delaney of St. Ann s Catholic school and t. B. , chairman of the St. James school Board tuesday evening at a special meeting in the fire Hall. Also on hand for the presentation was d. Mcdonald chief of the St. James police. The cheques were the proceeds of the St. James fire fighters Ball held recently in the Marlborough hotel. They will be used to provide recreational for students in the school. Wanted by police since oct. 15 in connection with an alleged s3. 000 fraud. 68-year-old Phil Gold alias Ruby Gold of no fixed abode was arrested by City detectives thurs Day afternoon. According to police Gold arrived in Winnipeg thursday morn ing from Toronto in an Auto Driver. By a companion Philip Chiampi of St. Catharines out. In a club hag which police Sny belonged to Gold was a .38 revolver and in Box of ammunition. Both Chiampi and Gold appeared in City police court on 3. Charge of carrying in offensive weapon Ami were remanded to monday. In addition Gold was charged with fraud and was also remanded Brooklands opens new municipal offices saturday official opening of the new Brooklands municipal offices will Lake place at 3 . Saturday with d. I Mellish chairman of the municipal and Public Utility Hoard officiating. Mayor and mrs. C. Oddly will receive guests. Speakers will include r. M. Fisher Deputy municipal commissioner lion. S. Marconi municipal commissioner or. Mullish. J. Reeves j. Spalding or. S. Easton e. R. Draffin principal City finance committee moves to prevent further tax boost Winnipeg s finance committee to. Tvs Llev a ii i. 1 in Iii not teachers of the Brooklands school and representatives of the local Friday look the first step to Stop Community club and Village councillors. In charge of Tea arrange Nientsu arc mrs. G. Brown miss e. Blinco mrs. K. St wort and sirs. C. Bankert tenant puts bite of the landlord Here s a new twist to the theme of biting the hand that feeds you. Early thursday evening a landlord in a Down town Rooming House went to collect some rent from a female lodger. The woman grabbed the landlord s hand police say and bit him on the wrist leaving a lipstick imprint. It s not known whether or not the rent was collected. Power line problems described at meet problems encountered by the Manitoba Telephone system in overcoming interference from Power lines were outlined thursday by g. A. Muir Spe Cial services Engineer for the electrical Section of the engineering Institute of Canada Winnipeg chapter. The lecture illustrated with slides and a demonstration Model was held in theatre a Broadway build ing University of Manitoba. Jigs beards and Hill Billies at Aud tonight 4 jigs reels and Square dances will he the order of the any when the University of Manitoba s faculties of agriculture and Home economics stage their annual barn in the civic auditorium at . Tonight. Features will be a stage show and contests for the Best Beard and the Hest Hill Billy costume. Instruction in Square dancing will he Given amateurs while. Jack Shapiro s band will provide the music in True do Patch style. Injured woman in fair condition airs. Christina Milvor 643 i Dermot Avenue is in Good condition in Winnipeg general with head injuries Fol lowing a fall Down a flight of stairs late thursday at the Home of a Friend 49s Logan Avenue. According to police mrs. Milvor fell Down the stairs from the second Storey to the first. She was taken to Hospital by police ambulance. Pall from car injures baby a fall from the window of his father s stationary car Friday evening sent three year old Rockwell Lindsay 7s1 Wolseley Avenue to Misfricordia Hospital with head injuries. According to re ports the child was playing in the Auto at the time of the mishap. His condition is fairly Good. Hong Kong veterans re elect Keenan o. C. Keenan was re elected president of the Hong Kong veterans association at its recent annual meeting. Others named to the executive body Are vice president s. W. Fox treasurer f. G. Adams Secre tary g. K. Mabley committee members. C. Watson w. S. Muir and t. Dewar. Col. A e Morley conducted the election and installed the officers. The group s annual Christmas party will be held dec. 22 at 7 . In the All saints anglican Church Parish Hall. Arramah club plans wednesday hike members of the Arramah club of Winnipeg will hold its first Mccassin hike of the sea son wednesday at s.30 . Starting from the Portage ave nue Street car terminus. Mrs. S. Mortimer and miss Irma Stewart Are in charge of contacting sex members of the club regarding the forthcoming Sil ver Jubilee celebrations. Blaze damages Wall of Ashburn Street Home a fire at 1 . Friday dam aged the Kitchen Wall at 611 Ashburn Street. Grant Hutch Inson his wife and one year old son David were driven from their Home by smoke. Firemen put out the Blaze which was confined to the Wall near a hot air Register. Dam age was slight. St. Vital Man Hurt in collision William Hager 41, of 19 Vivian Street St. Vital is in Good condition in St. Boniface Hospital following a collision near the Norwood Bridge at s . Friday. According to police or. Hager was driving his Auto South on main Street when he struck a stationary Winnipeg electric company Flat pm at the North end of the Bridge. The Motorist suffered a Cut forehead. City woman s poem wins commendation a humorous poem by a Winnipeg woman miss Edith Mot Ley has won commendation in the 20th annual Alberta poetry contest which attracted some 750 entries from across the Dominion. Miss Motley s entry was entitled paws for denouncement. Mrs. Beth Richards to lecture class mrs. Beth Richards of the Unity Centre of Winnipeg will lecture to the psychology class at s.15 . Monday in the re Cital Hall of the Shinn conservatory 3s6 Furby Street. Her topic will be the birth right of Man. Imperial veterans elect r. Kent j. R. Kent was elected president of Branch 84 Imperial veterans in Canada at its recent annual meeting in the clubroom 310 main Street. Others elected to the executive body Are first vice president i names s. Arnott second vice president w. R. Patton executive snare e. Ford e. J. Wells. J. W. T. A. Brig is and e. Bennett. Sons of Scotland to hold Parade sons of Scotland will hold a Church Parade at old St. Andrews Church Elgin Avenue sunday evening. Rev. Fred Douglas will conduct the service. Any City tax increase n 1950. It called an informal meeting of the committee with City department Heads next tuesday in mayor Garnet Coulter s office. Department Heads will be in formed they Are to keep their 1950 estimates within the 1949 budget if it All possible. Members of the committee intimated that several departments May show a surplus Over operating estimates for this year. Such surpluses should be used in keeping Down 1950 taxes Aid. Of. L. Chester contended. I Don t like to see us come out Vith an announcement that we have a he said. Committee members were agreed that every possible step should Bej taken to prevent further boosts in the Mill rate. Last year there was i Mill increase to 41 i Mills on City taxes Aid. Chester thought the time Las come to estimate probable City Revenue for 1950 and then to proportion it out to the various departments. Tell them that s How much they Are going to have and 10 tourist stickers committee also approved the Purchase of several thousand stickers for Auto tourists visiting Winnipeg. The stickers will Bear the City s Crest and the words visitor and Welcome to win stickers vill be available at Bor Der crossing Points such As Emer son and at the provincial travel Mireau As Well As the mayor s of fice if present plans Are approved. We get a lot of requests from tourists in summertime. They want to take the stickers Back with hem to show they have visited mayor Coulter said. W. B. Brown City treasurer of the Princess Elizabeth Munici pal Hospital. Aid. John Blumburg also asked or. Brown to determine whether the City will receive an increased Grant from the province in accordance with lust year s Dominion provincial agreement. A portion of the Grant received by province from the Dominion has been turned Over to the City. However Aid. Burn Borg contend that Case to monday. Inspector David Nicholson said the owners of the Carwood w r v Walter Carl and his wife More than a week. Kurz reported the matter to the new system effective december 4 police said inspector Nicholson. Civic committee to ask for repair work sunday milk deliveries in greater Winnipeg will be Dis. Continued after this week end. Proposals Lor the six Day milk delivery system effective dec. 4, have been accepted by the Union employees of the six major milk distributors of. This area Accord Winnipeg s dwelling rehab Ilita is to Union officials. Jon committee decided thursday to request an appropriation of s55.000 from the 1950 budget to Start its programme of putting above slum Standard houses Back into liable shape. Mary Elaine Kurz. Complained to police aug. 15 thai. Gold had defrauded them of the plaintiffs told police at that time that Gold walked into their the committee found ius original plan to rehabilitate dwellings _ iwas in advisable economically. In place it decided to concentrate on the repair of Homos which de. The province received a 6 and k h than it expected from the Federal Goi Quantity of Gold government and the aty by agree dust cheapiyyar.d4sell it at a , was supposed to share i explaining that the car f the committee approved instal lation of fluorescent lights in the City Hall s two committee rooms and in the City clerk s mime graphing and storage room also used As a press room. The lights will Cost s720. New unit for Camp Robertson ukrainian women open convention on saturday will be asked to report if the City has yet received a Grant from the province for construction United Church group of s Campaign a Campaign to raise funds Dorithe women s Union and Allan a new dining room chairman of the Presby at Camp Robertson was approved Tery Young people s Union. Thursday at the annual meeting of the United Church fresh air Camp s Board. Erection of the new building and the raising of additional Money needed for maintenance will be the objective for the Spring of 1950, the Board decided. At the meeting held i Knox United Church w. B. Sword was appointed chair Man of Tajc Board for the com ing year. Other officers Are t. Mclean Miller vice chairman Rev. J. M. White Secretary and j. H. Toze land treasurer. Executive committee mrs. John Gordon mrs. A. White miss Jessie Morrison Rev. A. Calder Rev. F. J. Douglas Rev. S. C. Studd Rev. D. B. Sparling h. H. Albright e. H. Morgan w. F. Lough Jack Tozeland j. L. Bing Ham r. E. Birchard n. J. Black mrs. M. Galston president of the Winnipeg presbyterian . Mrs. J. E. Johnston president of chief denies he refused Alderman report on riot Campaign committee t. My make the Purchase. When Gold had not been heard the ukrainian Catholic women s eague on Central Canada will hold its annual convention saturday and sunday in the St. Nicholas Church auditorium. The convention will open with registration of delegates from Manitoba and Saskatchewan Fol Lowed by a Genera business session in the afternoon presided by mrs. D. Yakim Schak president. Sunday might otherwise deteriorate into slum dwellings. The committee will also ask the provincial legislature to approve legislation which would increase the amount of Money it is allowed to spend improving a Home. At present the committee cannot upend More than 50 per cent of full assessed value be fore repair work is done on a House. The amendment re Quested would extend the amount which can be spent to 50 per cent of full assessed value after rehabilitation. The appropriation re commencing the same week employees will also Start a five Day week 40 hours for milk salesmen and a 44-hour week for inside workers. About s40 employees Are affected by the five and five and half Day week. Beginning next week any Light. Delivery will also be instituted. That Means that milk wagons or trucks not leave the plants before 6.30 . In the past some milk Drivers had started on their routes As Early As 4 . According to Union officials. The six distributors Are modern dairies limited. Crescent Creamery company City Dairy company and St. Boniface Cream Ery who have a collective bar gaining contract with the milk Drivers Union local 119, . Standard dairies limited whose employees arc with the . Union and the people s Coop Creamery whose employees be Long to local 271, food tobacco and agricultural Union . There is no direct increase in Quested will include 000 for re wages involved in the new contracts pair of Homes and for Between the unions and hiring of n building inspector for clerical expenses. Jury favors 5 flashing signal at Accident scene delegates and guests attend mass and communion at St. Nich lean Miller chairman h. H. Al Church followed by a luncheon Bright j. L. Binghan Hev. A. Cal Der Rev. F. J. Douglas. R. E. Bir Chard w. F. Lough e. H. Mor Gan w. B. Sword Rev. S. C. Studd j. H. Tozeland j. Toz Clancy Rev. J. M. White n. To. Black miss Jessie Morrison mrs. John Gor Don and mrs. A. White. Or. White in his annual report on Camp activity said the Camp operated for 63 Days last summer during which period a total of c65 boys girls mothers and children attended the Camp and the Hospi Tal Camp. For the first time in Many years we had to turn Down people this summer who wore very much in need of just what a fresh air Camp should or. While said. Only four of the Camp group in 194b were from outside the Boun in the Parish auditorium. In the afternoon the convention will be addressed by Bishop a. Roborecky Rev. S. Jzyk and w. M. Wail and a new executive will be elected. Inquest opens in Lye vat death an inquest into the death of Josef Kardasz 47, of 917 Boyd Avenue was opened at 12.15 . Friday in. The Clark Leatherdale funeral Home by or. I. O. Fryer provincial Coroner. It is being held at the request of the Kardasz family. Or. Kardasz died wednesday in a be vat in the Cana Dian Pacific Weston shops. Missed installation of a flashing signal Light at main Street Ard Margaret Avenue West Kildonan at the Point where Street car tracks Cross main Street was recommended by a Cor Oner s jury at provincial police court thursday night. The recommendation was directed to the Winnipeg electric com Pany. The jury inquiring into the death Daries of greater Winnipeg. Of the j shortly after 1c ., he was found total number 5.2 per cent paid their Way in full 52 per cent paid something toward the Cost and 42.s per cent were unable to pay anything. According to the financial re port total Cost of running the Camp including maintenance and capital expenditures was s27.6s2. Police chief Charles Mclver denied Friday he had refused to i make available to Aid. M. J. Forkin the evidence received by the police commission when it was investigating the recent disturbance at the ukrainian labor Temple. Earlier in the Day Aid. Forkin in a press statement said the chief had refused to give him a copy of the evidence. Aid. Forkin s statement that 1 refused to make the police com Mission report available to him is entirely the chief declared. When the Alderman came to Central police station thursday afternoon. I told him there was just one copy of the report in my Possession but that i would have another copy typed out and Given to him As soon As possible. I explained to Aid. Forkin that he can have the entire report of the investigation with the exception that the and addresses of the witnesses would be replaced by numbers or chief Mclver said. The Alderman went away apparently he added. In his statement to the press Aid. Forkin said he was refused when he requested chief Mclver to give him a copy of the evidence for study following a notice contained in the police commission s report that the statements of the investigators and of those who were investigated Are available at the police station to anyone who wishes to use i feel it is my right As an Alderman and a citizen to examine All documents in connection with this Case in order to find out the source and basis of assertions that have been said Aid. Foltin. I insist that the police live up to the statement made in the re port of the police commission and release these documents to me at Csc programmes interrupted by line break a break in Telephone wires be tween Winnipeg and Carman caused an interruption in Csc trans Canada network broadcasts Over cow Between g.45 9 . Fri Day. Officials of the Csc explained Telephone lines near Sperling Man. Broke thursday night and Fel across the wire used by the radio network Between its studios Here and the transmitter at Carman. For this reason regular pro grammes were not heard and alter Nate programmes were broadcast the vat at 2.30 . And his body was recovered at 4.30. Funeral arrangements Are being land cd by the m a Norial funeral Chapel. Police said that the vat con aimed 12 parts water and one part Lye at a temperature o 212 Deg Rees fahrenheit. The top of the 14 by 1c foot vat was 37 inches above floor level and was three quarters covered they said. Or. Kardasz had been employed by the railway for the past 10 years and had worked near the Val which was used As a degrease for the past two years. From Carman schedule. On an emergency a joint meeting of the Kins men and k-40 clubs will be held at the highwayman 2120 Pembina Highway at 6 . Monday. To theosophical society lecture sunday a Public lecture sponsored by the theosophical society will be held sunday at 3.15 . In the clubroom 206 Kresge building. Topic will be Paracelsus physician and occultist. Chivalry a dead Duck Tut girls Here s proof some men have it still of mrs. Anne Cann 60, of 06 King in Row arrived at a verdict of accidental death exonerating from All blame both her husband Driver of the car in which mrs. Cann was injured and the Street car oper Ator which collided with the Auto. Mrs. Cann was fatally injured sunday night when the southbound cur in which she was a passenger collided Wilh a Saroct car operated by Eric i inc of 048 Consol on Alain Street near Margaret Avenue at ;