Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 05, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Price so per copy edition with comics Joc Gillies says christinas Rush shows parking meter value Winnipeg s parking meters Are showing their value during the Christmas Rush season by opening up shopping District space for the Short tune Parker according to City officials. E. F. Gillies City traffic Engineer said monday the meters Are operating at 98.9 cent efficiency Ami nearly All the Parkin space is by ing used continually. From reports received from other cities it is possible to predict that parking in metered will drop off after the Christmas season or. Gillies said. The meters Are operating even better mechanically than we he added. There has been an average of Only three minor repairs a Day and that is very or. Gillies said. However it will impossible to gauge fully their operating efficiency until after the cold weather motorists Are Stilt parking too far Back in the stalls and this is causing considerable or. Gillies declared. He pointed out the Correct Way to Park was to have wheel of the Auto opposite the meter. This insured that sufficient space was left for cars to get ii and out of the stalls. Winnipeg monday december 5, 1949 friends Honor retiring rail Max j. W. Cranwill sleeping car agent at the Canadian Pacific railway station Here for the past four years was honoured by friends on his retirement last week after 3s years with the railway. Natives of dub Lin Ireland or. And mrs. Cranwill will continue to live at 395 Toronto Street. A sleep ing car conductor from 1911 until 1939, except for ser vice in the first world War or. Cranwill was terminal inspector at Moose jaw for six years beginning in 1939. Toxin m. King group plans Yule concert Santa Glaus will put in an appearance for the Small Fry at the John m. King Home and school association s annual Christmas concert at 7.30 . Thursday in the Isaac Brock school auditorium. The porn gramme will include a performance by Lambert the Cian. Christmas party dec. 13 Weston school s Christmas Tea will be held in the school auditorium dec. 13 from 3 to i and from 7.30 to 3 . Polish society re elects head for 24th term Michael was re elected president of the polish fraternal Aid society of St. John Cantius for the 21th Consi Cutie year at a meeting sunday in the society s auditorium 770 Mountain Avenue. Said to be one of ten oldest and strongest polish tons in Winnipeg the society Lias a membership of More than soft. Other officers elected arc d. L Bra now 7., vice president Karol Hon ski Secretary j. Klappe Iii financial Secretary re Elei Tod for fourth w. L of Rajewicz treasurer j. Stepnuk manager .1. Lochowicz. Marshal h. Sol uni librarian auditors j. Lurkowski a. Juskow and j. Szalapata administration committee f. Sz07.da, d. Burkhardt j. Sovie Zunski mrs. S. Borowska and mrs. M. Szalapata sick Benefit committee j. Gacek to. Kanski j. Know acc p. Waplink., c of c head raps government in business Field governments should Stop in Rick atm Lemil Al. Vaju sctt of Audi Insixi a i ii i lint e i and mrs. R. Rzyhak. Mrs. E. St Cue. Mrs. T. Mrs. Klapecki. Mrs. M. Kienowski mrs. social committee r. A of Toronto. Pres by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week come again thieves lift in Cash huge husky gets attention at in station when one travels with a White enamelled pan in one hand and a huge White husky dog at the end of a Leash in the other hand one bumps into All kinds of situations. And the bump is usually literal when the dog weighs 50 pounds a. E. Gallie mining Engineer at Lynn Lake some 120 Miles North of Sherridon Man., testified to this As he paused in Winnipeg s Cana Dian National station monday morning on his Way Back North from Toronto. Pausing Wilh him was three-3 ear old Bisk a Samoy i Ede husky. Or. Gallie explained Bisk was Liis travelling companion not so much through Choice As necessity. He would have been in All kinds of trouble if i had left him up North with nobody to take care of As it was Bisk attracted All kinds of queries during or. Gallie s visit to his Home in Toronto. As for that White enamelled pan a that of. It s Bisk s water Clish. Can t pack it and can t put it Almy pocket so i be got to carry it. Little embarrassing you h. Szlanic j. Gacek. G. Kierszkow m. Najder m. Krawczyk s. Pikul. J. Chomiak l. Konarski m. Szyposz and mrs. E. Of Nzyk. Mrs. W. Swiatczak mrs. R. Litynski mrs. M. Podolska. Mrs. E. Chruszcz. Mrs. L. Buxman. Mrs. M. Najder mrs. M. Of Rivage. Mrs. M. Paknis 3irs. Z. Konarska. Mrs. M. A Zwierkowska or. Raid Nick. And j. Stopczynska. Or. F. Rzyhak was re appointed society physician. Tall Max to address Engineer Institute a. M. Tallman chief Engineer for the Pioneer electric company will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Winnipeg Branch. Engineering Institute of Canada at s.15 . Thursday in theatre a Broadway building. University of Manitoba. His subject will be the designer s approach to a transformer inquiry. Dickens Leixo shit i to hear travel talk j f. H. Nicholson will speak on his recent trip to England at. A meeting of the Dickens Fellowship at s.1r . Thurs Day in St. John s College. D. R. P. Coats will give a Reading of the Christmas Carol while the annual collection for the tiny Tim fund in Aid of sick and crippled children. Will be made. Of the of o arrives the East sunday Over Canadian Pacific lines will speak at the 13th convention of the Manitoba associated Chambers of Commerce wednesday on the subject Blue print for Progress. If you want to slow up Busi Ness get the government into he said. Of course we need a certain amount of regulation from gov he added. Travelling with or. Bryce h. A. Purdie regional representative with Headquarters in Toronto. They were met at. The station by get Safe and in second night try safecracker who saturday night made a daring under ground Siree in one breaking scooping s350 in Cash from one Safe returned to one of the shops sunday night and made off with the inner Shell of a second Safe which they had failed to Force the night before. The second Safe which belonged to the Winnipeg drug com Pany limited 381 Portage Avenue contained 5400 in Cash and a Small Quantity of morphine and heroin. Police report the gang described As experienced entered the skylight of the Dale s ladies Wear shop 379 Portage Avenue saturday night and broke basement and smashed through a thin wooden partition into the basement of the Thomson and Pope shoe store 379 portals Enue Auray not an Roe a Gnu where Thuv picked up Sev. Into the Safe on the Mam floor l irs getting 5350. The thieves then entered members of the St. Vila team u to i or the fifth Lime in 11 years won the Waugh shield emblematic of the highest scoring group of children gargle res in the greater Winnipeg area irn shown above. They Are left to right Evelyn Stark Terry Lynn , Muriel Hewitt Shir Ley Blake also Gold and Betty Rulh Gillies. In the Back Row Are j. D. Van iders inc past president of the St. Vital agricultural association and c. K. Law in charge of Junior gardeners. In front is j. Ii. Graham president of the St. Vital agricultural society. Members of the team missing from the picture Are Lois lamber. Margaret Lambert Justine Richards Marlene Richards Ruben Gill and Davir Ashworth. H. M. Lewis Marie the presentation Friday. Little support Given Mitchell on University fools speech Are most of the world s troubles Call economic and financial crack Extension of University train caused by the fools graduating pots and they get the world from universities More trouble in my judgment Hon. Humphrey Mitchell enl minister of labor said the working people Ever did. One needs Only to go o some in the House of commons Satur of these International conferences Day. The minister himself take ing to More or. A. H. S. Gillson president pairs continuing through the base ment the gang then chopped through another wooden partition into the basement store room o the Winnipeg drug company where they knocked the dial off a Safe but failed to open it. They contented themselves with grabbing several cigarette lighters and made their escape through the Back door of the shop and Over a High Wall into the Lane. Sunday night however the Safe crackers returned to the drug store by Means of the same sky Light pried the Siccle casing off the Safe and escaped with the in Ner Shell which contained the s400 and narcotics. Inspector of detectives David Nicholson said the two separate break ins were definitely done by the same gang of safecracker. By smashing the Glass in the transgressor Back in jail in Short order a 32-year-old Man who was Dis charged from hearing Ley jail sat urday afternoon was on his Way pack there monday after he pleaded guilty to shop lifting in City court. Tiberius Joseph Wright pleaded guilty to theft four cigarette lighters from the United Cigar store Bannatyne Avenue and main Street because i had no Wright was just leaving the Cigar store with the lighters when a clerk notified a passing con front door of 49 Sherburn Street stable who arrested the Man after thieves entered the residence of Paul e. Redman and made off a Short Chase. Crown prosecutor o. M. M. Kay pointed out that Wright had 10 convictions for theft and retaining stolen goods since february with the exception of the fast two who ransacked the residence sat offences All occurred in Ontario. Urday evening. With s43 in american currency. Nothing was reported stolen from the Home of mrs. Freda Bay 532 Flora Avenue by thieves of the University of Manitoba education for living is what we answers garment makers 1111. A eed whether we come from a hand take a look at these internal Lech Niclai school cd. A . We the word he threw his tonal gypsies who roam around make no distinction he weight behind technical education Over the world from conference no Uvo but consider in preference to University that is Why 1 am a lion. I great believer in technical Cauca the minister s stand received Little support from educationists and labor leaders in Winnipeg monday. Here is what the labor minister All wrestling Christmas party on veterans Agenda a wrestling tournament in the civic auditorium and a Christmas party in the playhouse theatre will feature the december programme of the fort Garry Branch. Army Civy and air Force . George r. Lang president of the Branch announced sunday that a wrestling curd featuring local mat artists and including a Row american entries will be held dec. 21. In the auditorium with All contests strictly Amateur. Our main purpose in this tournament is not for financial returns hut to promote Amateur sport for the boys of this he pointed out. Auteur sport should be encouraged to nil extent where our youths can participate without the ties of a con tract he added. Winnipeg is realizing the development of its athletes. And should further their or. Lang continued. He stated that in three years of sport activities and Goodwill the fort Garry Branch has increased its membership from 450 to More than . More than 300 children and a Complete Orul orphanage will be guests of the Branch dec. When they hold their annual Christmas party in the playhouse theatre. I overview parents go Back to school close to 250 parents went Back to school for an evening at the Riverview Home and school association s meeting thursday. Sitting at their child Ren s desks parents heard teachers outline the course of studies for the year and took part in a discussion on Parent teacher problems. A. H. Watson president of the had to say Ori the subject in the Winnipeg chamber Stanley n House of commons As reported by Jones president of the Winnipeg muted its a Good thing that everybody cannot go to University for More fools come out of universities than Ever name out of technical schools. The Woods Are full of what 1 Gillson to address i Wanis of Winnipeg or. A. H. S. Gillson. Presi Dent of the University of Manitoba will be luncheon speaker at a Winnipeg kiwanis club meeting in the Roval Alexandra hotel tues Day at 12.20 . Or. Gill son s topic will be the Mathe Matician and the contemporary world. Grain Exchange and provincial vice president of the Canadian chamber and m. J. G. Me Mullen managing Secretary of the Manitoba Asso a elated Chambers of Commerce. J Here Are the replies to or. Mit a Chell s claim the various contributions we make to our the University tries to do Uvo things or. Gillson explained give i the individual the Basic scientific h. A. Chappell general for earning his living in tentative of the Canadian and mechanized world Hood of railway employees and teach Nairn his relationship a ii j. Iti Jim. I a statement like that is it a human being with the other Terly ridiculous. While i am a j members his group. Sound believer in the need for technical training and although Winnipeg is undertaking1 u Biff programme ii that direction f Here is still a vast need for University training and for Llie Greenlay rejects plea to boost training time an application to have the train a a rate lower than the approved ing period in the men s work Steps. Ing Industry in Manitoba extended j the i called a meeting from six to nine months was had previously of interested or two in Hospital two time loser gets two years after accidents a 22-year-Oid Elmwood Man who riven on Avenue was nabbed by police As lie Street. Dec. 4. Crouched in the cashier s wicket and s Aracona two persons were taken to he Elm theatre. Talbot Pital late saturday morning follow Avenue. Friday evening was sen ing two separate traffic to two years in Penitentiary Deitz pleaded guilty to stealing 67 cents and a Quantity of Cigar ties and gum from the cafe Friday and to stealing in Cash and a Carton of tobacco from the same place in his earlier break in. The youth had just completed a g my a three year Penitentiary term at Avenue pleaded guilty Mountain for shop breaking. 1 no Emp breaking and entering the Iliad just been released this heft from Loe s Quick lunch general to contests to give students radio writing Chance an Opportunity to try radio script writing will be afforded All High school and University students Iti the Caldwell memorial award radio contest which has been announced the Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian authors association. First prize in the according to police 55-year-old on four charges of breaking and Joseph Fontaine. 2s7 and theft when he a Avenue. St. Boniface was in police court monday. Struck by an Auto or Harik 103s Redwood Avenue. Taken to the Winnipeg Hospital by police or. Fontaine of and foot injuries. His condition is Lufi the reported fairly Good. A seven year old fort Rouge boy Barry Norman Avery of 464 bran Orion Avenue is in the Victoria hos Jpilar with a possible Skull fracture both nov. Received when his bicycle collided with a truck at Osborne Street and Morley Avenue. Barry was being pushed on his which closes april 30, is s50. The executive Mph sizes that All scripts must be of half hour duration and typewritten double spaced incl placet on one Side of the paper Only. Two copies of manuscripts bicycle by playmates when it collided with the vehicle driven by William Hladkey 16 Dundurn place police said sunday. The boy s Are to be submitted a pseudonym is to be used and should Good. On the script instead of the writers name which with his address. And postage for the return of the scripts should he enclosed in 11 sealed envelope. Winning scripts will remain the property of authors and Are to be mailed to the Secretary of the association mrs. Xan Shipley 5so Jubilee Avenue. P. Murphy wins Bridge Tockoey p. Murphy was Winner of the Windsor Community club s recent Telephone Bridge tournament with a score of 6.0so. Sec Ond prize to a. Dunstone whose score was mrs. Robert Ard was convener of the Evont awards for which were presented thursday in the clubhouse. . R. A. G1zaham holds no. 7 licence in Friday s Story on Auto j licences the free press incorrectly listed 1940 plate no. 7 i As belonging to a. E. the no. 7 plate is carried on i the car of mrs. R. A. Graham. Wife of the vice president of i the j. H. Ashdown hardware j company. Mrs. Graham has held i the number for 42 years. Men s club to hear . Constable Cpl. A. G. Bonney of the . Will be guest speaker at a dinner meeting of the St. Andrews River Heights United Church . Club at 6 . Tuesday in the Church. Cpl. Bonney will screen a police film. Coal Spring. Magistrate r. J. Johns director of Winni i Peg s technical vocational High school now under construction there is a. Place in our society for the University and a. Hieser place than there has been in the past for technical education. There is no Neil to attack the universities when we. Are building up technical r. B. Russell Genera Secretary of the one big Union j there arc two distinct Fielt Msj for technical and University train ing. Or. Mitchell was trying to separate the two types of train ing when there is no Hon. C. Rhodes Smith minister of education technical education has important place in modern education Al systems because of the increasing complexity of life and the great ejected monday by Hon. Charles Greenlay minister of labor. The application was made to the labor department by the manufacturer association of West i err. Canada and the clothing workers of America. It was opposed by the United Gar ment workers of America and other organized groups in the Needle Trade Industry. The minister s decision was announced in a letter sent out by w. Elliott Wilson Deputy minister of labor to ii. Gutt Nian executive Secretary of the garment association. Or. Wilson wrote animations and heard their representations for and against the a Plica Uon. Labor is pleased with the Deci Sion of Hon. C. E. Greenlay minis Ter of labor in rejecting the Union employer request for Extension of the training period from six to nine months in the garment manufacturing Industry. Muni Taub organizer of the International fur and leather work my minister has reached Union said his Union was glad conclusion that no Extension should be granted. Confirms the pres ent permit of a three month train of the rejection. To have allowed such Exten have played ing period where piece work minimum regulations and arc paid if Only _ one operation the Obj Council to hear said Jer j. W. Sanger. General manager of City Hydro will address the Winnipeg Centra labor Council ., tuesday night on the Power situation in Manitoba. R. B. Russell general Secretary made a special Appeal to members of the To turn out because the Has contracts Wilh the Winnipeg electric company and Winnipeg sketch duo. Opened or. Wilson noted that the per sketch club exhibition features local scene of the 33rd annual exhibition of the the Manitoba Power commission. Craf association planning dance a Christmas dance will be staged by he no. 500 City of Winnipeg Wing . Association at f . Dec. 9 in services club Minto armouries. I sunday afternoon by mrs. A l. Taylor herself an Art Patron and devotee of standing. The show Jwill remain on View till dec. 8. I there Ore 73 pictures in All j Media buns in the Long gallery at the civic auditorium. For those who wish to see what Fine results car. Be attained in rapid work Thore is in the South gallery a supple Kic Selkirk firm Union agree on wage increase an increase of six cents an hour was granted in a collective agreement signed Between local United mine workers of America .1 the Brainerd works Canadian industries limited explosive division. East Selkirk. With this increase the starting rate of Lay is 9t cents an hour according to g. S. Borgoni . Regional director one of the signers of the agreement for the Union. Top rates Are si.14 per hour. The. Contract also provides for two weeks vacation with pay after one year s and two additional statutory holidays with pay making right in All. The agreement was signed for the Union by c. Mclver president and or. Ror Orford and for the company by k. B. Carpenter works manager. Other members of the Union negotiating committee were a. Flett 3, Little and k. Jenkinson. Allan Mitchell to Tell of Parley Allan Mitchell president elect of the St. Boniface i wards club will speak on the kiwanis International meeting in Saskatoon at a club meeting wednesday at 12.13 . In the fort Garry hotel. St. Matthews holds variety concert under the sponsorship of the Parish Council a variety con Cert to raise funds for the Pur Chase of a movie sound pro Jector was held wednesday in St. Matthew s Church. De Wynn was director and master of ceremonies. Swift company honors Long term employees nine employees of Swift company limited St. Boniface All with service records of Mure than 37 years were among Tii Fem Plo yees with if years or More service who received recognition in a recent special Issue of the company s Magazine. The Long term employees Are Iff Nace kit scr 31 Poison Avenue i years with the firm a. A. Barton 1107 Dorchester r. .7. Kirk lot i North Kil Donan. Anil Rudolph Schmidt Martin Avenue All with 41. Years service John Miller mighton Avenue and Peter fut Ridge 3fl8 thames Avenue both with to years service h. E. Disc nor 29 Upton Street with 3s years continuous employment and h. G. Kundel 343 Stamcar Street and a. E. Oldershaw 75 Kingston Row both of whom have served the1 firm for 37 years. Local color is the salient feature Centary show of 42 Quick sketches chiefly portrait or character studies. Localities favored in summer sketching include particularly the Winnipeg skyscraper sky line As seen from the St. Boni face Side of the red the Kil Donnas. Down the red and St. John s Cathedral. Jean pay Dan s evening sky line no. 18 is a Fine water color showing Day peeping its last Over an Industrial Forest of roofs and chimneys with the sky rising grand and clean above the dark satanic George h. Pratt no. 52 Cap Tures characteristic colors of Roslyn Crescent in a transparent Oil work and in his water color no. 541 of St. John s Cathedral cent age of learners in a Plant in limited to a maximum of 25 per cent hence your difficulty arises in relation to a very Small pro portion of your staff total. You also made it Clear that if ample numbers of learners of average aptitude were Avail Able the Industry would not carry unsuitable individuals beyond a Normal screening period. The minister s decision said or. I Wilson called for prompt compliance with a previous order re adjustment retroactive 10 april 19, where payment has been be orders f the been granted the Trade would have been much More unattractive to begin ners than it is today. In the Long run the training costs would have been higher As it would have had much larger labor said mrs. Ross. A group of 10 european displaced persons passed through Winnipeg monday morning on the Way to farm jobs in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Travelling Over Canadian National lines most of the group whose homelands included Latvia Czechoslovakia Poland and the Ukraine were bound for Prince Albert. Sask. Finds new salient is in painted View. Brush with death City youth escapes fire word was received today at the University and Winnipeg narrowly is one of the few canadians at this Talent of sketch club Mem Bers for finding something original missed death in the lire which swept through the men s much dormitory at the University of Oklahoma Early saturday killing at least three students and injuring a score More. Tending the school. Seems like dream it still seems like a dream to he wrote. One Canadian lost everything but his pyjamas Lothers lost even their to express with Bruns and Pencil n Louei. ,0 his parents. Or i bad been Reading until nearly Jis seen in Florence Warren s Ben mag i shortly after i had fallen i Trail of a gentleman is7o. Fi7 and Avenue Bernard in Pekarz 21 asleep i was awakened by a com in Mary Longcr s pastel old lady ascribed the fire. Or. Nie Kaiv. Is motion. Taking time to Don my i no. In which chiaroscuro Andja second year student in and i pair of slippers. I ran highlights Are used with special through the door and saw the among works in Over 70 pictures on View in the Long room of the Art gallery auditorium at the opening of the Winnipeg sketch club s 33rd annual exhibition sunday was .1. F. Klassen s water color Sylvan Lake. Looking at the picture Are left 10 right or. Klassen. President of the sketch club Lynn Sissons landscape Painter w. H. Macpherson and mrs. E. L. Taylor who opened the exhibition. Arthur o. Smith s Rural de livery no. Also a pastel is a third striking example of sketch club ingenuity in Mak ing a picture take hold of the spirit. Or. Smith s drifted Boulevard and three lonely mail boxes bring one Back again and again to look. Lynn Sissons the tack Pine Forest Foo. 55 is another picture of this done with this Well known artist s Mastery of atmosphere. In the Eftick sketches show. Lynn Sissons again manifests her individuality in boy scout no. A study in which the conventional i i trappings Are subordinated to the in Nice. J. F. Krassen s Oil youth no. 29 is another original youth study. Outstanding among the Quick sketches in its technical Mastery. Is Phyllis Field Cooper s coloured Pencil study of a fellow member of the club no. Ill entitled j. F. Klassen Bernard Nieckarz building in i Lames. Twice j ran Back into the build ing in an Effort to retrieve my clothes and personal belongings but had to give up. the lire be came too serious. Later we stood outside and watched the whole building fall to the ground. J went to Friend s Home i a pal of mine took my room image and myself to his Home at , okln., which is nearly 00 Miles from the University. There i we ate breakfast and went to i or. Nieckarz slated that the May move the homeless male students into the girls Dor Mitory until a new building could erected. Formerly a naval Barracks the wooden Structure had accommodated approximately Joo students. Or. Wys born and educated in Winnipeg attending Machray and St. John s technical schools and United College. He was also a member of the air cadets before leaving Winnipeg ;