Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 04, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1t 7 Winnipeg free press per copy edition with comics Loc Winnipeg tuesday april 4, 1950 West coast boy pleads guilty in attempt at armed robbery a 16-year-old Vancouver youth pleaded guilty in City Nolle court tuesday to the attempted armed robbery Friday afternoon of the Snow White laundry on Maple Street and was remanded t thursday for sentence. He also pleaded guilty to carrying a re Volver. The juvenile along with 19-year-old Harry Thobias Rhodes also of Vancouver was arrested Friday nil rat after a patrolling Constable noticed them acting suspiciously in front of Street House. Rhodes pleaded guilty saturday to the attempt robbery and was remanded to thursday for sentence. De electives say the Vancouver pair went into the laundry and Force proprietors inc Chung and Lee Ling on to the floor and i one of them held a knife Over the two the other armed with revolver searched the premises for Money. They left empty handed when the juvenile was searched by the Constable Friday night a .23 calibre revolver was found in his coat pocket. At that time the youth broke free and fled Down a Lane but was later arrested in main Street hotel. His companion Rhodes who had been loitering distance away when the juvenile was being searched als broke and ran but was arrested immediately. Think cheerfully psychology group Tolo living and. Thinking cheer As a Means to Freedom from nervous tension and unnecessary worry was suggested by miss Anne Black of Deer Lodge Hospital speaking Linal session of the . S psychology series monday in the v. Miss Black organic and functional diseases were closely related and that a person s desires and needs caused nervous ten Sion. Stomach ulcers High blood pressure and complexes Are caused by nervous Condi she concluded. Local Craf association elects Roblin Kohlin was elected president of to. City of Winnipeg Wing of the . Association at the annual meeting monday eve Ning in Minlo armouries. O. Olson was chairman. Elected to the executive include vice presidents or. Olson and Alt. Turner pro gramme and entertainment. L. Claydon a Mcl Hec Eunice Frederik and Jean Livingston sports e. Coy welfare r. R. Cooper air cadets h. Anderson Secretary Tom Farenhurst treasurer f. J Arthur auxiliary Squadron o. H. Mcmillan and membership j Thornton. Delegates appointed to attend the association s National convention in Ottawa were e. O. Hall or. Claydon and or. Turner. Pedestrian treated for cuts after mishap a 66-year-old pedestrian Thomas Kerridge of 36 com t Mon wealth Block 522 main Street was rushed to Winni Peg general Hospital saturday night where he was treated for cuts received when he was knocked Down by an Auto at Green Avenue and Henderson Highway. East Kildonan police said or. Kerridge had walked into the Side of an Auto driven by Thomas Mitchell of East St. Paul. Or. Kerridge was not detained in Hospital. Would be Strong Man gets si5 penalty because he tried to test his strength on articles that weren t his1 own Michael sin Ravitch of no fixed abode was fined or ten Days when he pleaded guilty in City police court tuesday to being disorderly on the Street. Court was told sinar Vitch started his Dis orderly spree about 7 . Monday when he wiggled a Stop sign Back and Forth until it broke off at the base. He then Tore a sign off a Fence and was attempting to pick up the rear end of an Austin car when arrested. Cribbage hand perfect but match is lost while playing in the East end Community club men s cribbage tournament monday evening. Otto Gock Eroch of 501 Jamieson Avenue was dealt a perfect 29-hand. The prize hand contained the fives of clubs hearts and Spades and the Lack of diamonds while the five of diamonds was Cut. Despite the perfect 2d-count, however or. Gock Eroch and his partner were Defeated in their match. Justice fractures boy s Collar Bone a noon hour pastime of throwing snowballs resulted in a nine year old boy being treated for a broken Collar Bone after a passerby accidentally hit by one of the missiles took it on himself to mete out Xor Man Douglas Friend Ion of or. And mrs. Wallace George Friend of 58t Spence Street was on his Way Home from school about noon monday. At the Corner of Balmoral Street and Sargent Avenue lad was throwing snowballs when detectives say he accidentally hit a Man. Thereupon it is reported the Man grabbed the boy threw him to the ground and sat on him fracturing the Hoy s right Collar hone. The lad was treated at Hospital and allowed to go Home. Police Are now searching for the Man whose description is is years old five feet 10 inches in height wearing a Grey overcoat and Grey Fedora. The Man had a Mustache. Meeting urged to take foreign affairs interest every Canadian citizen is faced with individual Restori of ability in maintaining can Ada s place in International of fairs. A r. S. Tweedie director of adult education of the University of Manitoba declared monday. He was addressing the annual banquet of the Manitoba labor Institute in the St. Regis hotel. Tracing the development of Canada s position in world affairs or. Tweedie urged All to take a personal interest in their country s continued growth. R. H. Robbins president introduced the speaker. Ca Numkena club holds services night representatives of the three armed services were special guests at the Canu Kocna annual armed night. Monday in the Marlborough hotel. The Toast 10 the forces proposed by Bill Marginson club president was replied to by Brig. R. E. A. Morton. Other service representatives included . L. B. Mcilhagga Navy and so. G. E. Nickerson air Force. Entertainment was provided by a Barbershop Quad Tette Grace Lowry Soprano and Bill Mulhern Marimba phone artist. Vic Taylor was pianist. Retiring hotel Engineer receives gifts Adair. Chief Engineer for the fort Gurry hotel said fare will to meant and valves mid joined the ranks of the. Niones monday. His retirement marked the completion of years nerdier with the Canadian National railways. H. H. Till Ian. Hotel no Nutter. Presented or. Adair with n portable radio a sol of pipes mid h Wallet on Ohalf of the hotel staff who Wen gathered for the ceremony. Or. Adair started with the company in the. Macdonald hotel in Edmonton in 1915 and inter served at the. Chateau . Nova Scot Imi t harlot Melown the Bessho Romigh and finally the fort Garry. Church pack honors retiring cub master mrs. L. R. Morris retiring cub master of the Mowgli Wolf club pack of St. George s Church was presented with a photograph of the pack and a brooch. A. B. Scrivener Rytir t ing chairman of the group com Mittee thanked mrs. Morris for her work and presented her with a set of Silver spoons while los. Ham scouting commissioner presented her with a training certificate and Scarf. Rev. F. R. Gartrell was also presented with two volumes on scouting by or. Scrivener to Start a scout and cub Library. W. Bubbs. New group committee chairman addressed the gathering. Miss Mary Johnson was in charge of arrangements. Cleric repeats plea for stricter Laws on liquor a demand that Manitoba s liquor Laws be tightened up not loosened was voiced tuesday by Rev George f. Donyes Warren Man. When he appeared for the second time this session before the amendments committee of the legislature. The committee was hear ing representations regarding the province s Highway traffic Laws. Hon. J. O. Mclenaghan attorney general announced that at the committee s next meeting on thursday morning in outline of the government s proposals for promoting greater safety on the highways will be read. Or. Denylek a United Church minister was the Only person to appear before he commit tee tuesday. He elaborated i his proposal made to the committee lust week Tiit a special tax he imposed on the liquor Industry. Profits from the tax would be utilized to pay the costs of damages resulting from accidents where drunk Drivers involved were financially unable to pay the damage costs. Or. Donyes advocated stricter liquor to prevent Acci dents caused by drunkenness. He claimed that the liquor interests were deliberately infractions of the liquor Laws to increase the Dis satisfaction with the existing Laws so i hah there would be a Freer Sale members of the legislature advocating a loosening up of the liquor Laws were doing the people f Manitoba a great disservice in or. Donyes opinion. Man fined in rib breaking o a 26-year-old Man who kicked a Constable in the ribs and broke Jone of them was fined or 21 Days in City police court tuesday when he pleaded guilty to being disorderly. John Kucher alias Johnson alias Wayne of 136 Angus Street by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week highlight of presentation ceremonies centring around the scout troop at Sparling Church monday night is shown above As mrs. R. J. Kenny educational Secretary of the Margaret l. Hughes chapter presented scoutmaster George Lowe with the troop s new Flag. Rev. George a. Mcmillan officiated at the ceremonies. G. F. District scout commissioner was present. Early diagnosis of cancer vital death rate mounting says doctor Early diagnosis is of the physiological significance of Ovar importance for effective treatment of cancer said or. Arthur h. Wells. Pathologist at St. Luke s Hospital. Duluth minn., monday. Or. Wells was one of three six grab theft Means year s jail Robert Metz 26-year-old sex convict from Montreal was sentenced to one year in jail tuesday for the grab theft March 11 of 568 from the till in Sonia s cafe. He was found guilty in City police court Mon Day to grabbing the Money As cafe employees were diverted by a fight in one of the Booths and was remanded until tues Day. Youthful fair grab purse and Cash while walking Down Euclid Avenue about s.40 . Mon Day mrs. Dora Blaschuk 112 Hallet Street had her Gurse containing is in Cash san Cheri by two youths cily detectives reported tuesday. Both youths were described As being about 6 years of age. 12 Blank cheques stolen one cashed redwing cartage. 115 Garry Street has reported that prior to March 25, 12 Blank cheques hearing the name of the company were front the office City detectives said tuesday. One of cheques. Of which Are Between the 7452 and 747s, was forged and cashed at a local hotel March 25, to the value of the Cheque was typed. A similar Case was reported some weeks ago when a number of Blank cheques and rubber Stamps were taken from Auto sales 606 Portage Avenue. One of these cheques was also cashed. St. Norbert elects Charles Dubuc trustee Charles Dubuc lot 75, St. Norbert was elected school trustee for the St. Norbert school District monday. His sought for 2 Days. Boy is with friends missing for two Days 13 year old John Tracey of 1590 Alexander Avenue returned to his Home at 11.30 . Mon Day. The boy had been the object of police search since he was reported missing sat urday. He had been staying with friends in the City. Underwriting executive speaker at luncheon partnership in underwriting was the subject of j. E. Mor Olson underwriting executive of the great West life Assur Ance company when head opponent was John Frizzell. Or. Dubuc s election fills a vacancy on the school Board created recently by the Resig nation of one of the members. Dressed a luncheon meeting of the life underwriters association monday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. Morley Wink Ler was chairman and thanked the speaker. Speakers at a symposium on cancer conducted during the evening ses ions of the two Day sectional meeting of the american College f surgeons at the fort Garry Lotel. Although almost everyone has at East one pigment tumor of the Kin these do not necessarily con tit Ute cancer symptoms or. Wells Aid unless found on the hands or get. Any change in these tutors however should be reported to a physician or. Wells stated. Or. O. H. Warwick executive director National cancer Institute t Canada and a staff member 01 be faculty of Medicine. University f Toronto told the panel the an Ual death rate from cancer had Iscon steadily in the past few years age Factor this he attributed to the increasing age of Canada s population and o More extensive diagnosis carried it each year. The direct relationship Between in incidence of cancer and age is he stated. Also Many deaths previously occurring As a cult of cancer were never diag used As such. Even or. Warwick continued Canada is h nation of comparatively Young people and her death rate from cancer is not so High As Many european nations unless the Factor of age is taken into he said present statistics re sealed that in Canada and United tates approximately two new Iser. Of cancer arise each year for very 1.000 population. In Canada e estimated this would mean about 5.000 new cases each year. Cancer Lea los in Canada were estimated at about 15.000 Pec year. Tumor discussion or. Virgil s. Counsellor professor of surgery at the Mayo foundation. University of Minnesota addressed the panel on clinical and Ian tutors. At an afternoon session on in Restina obstructions it was Learned the mortality rate from this Tause had decreased from 50 per cent to five per cent in the past ten years. The new antibiotics. Penicillin streptomycin and Chloromycetin were hold largely responsible for this reduction. Or. Charles w. Mclaughlin Minot . Omaha acted As chairman of this session. Or. Charles w. Burns pro Fessor of surgery of the medical faculty. University of Manitoba and or. G. G. Miller. Montreal also took part in the discussion. At a dinner meeting of surgeons physicians and Hospital representatives activities of the american College were discussed under chair Manship of or. A. D. Mccannel fighting Charles saturday Williams evening of no when police broke was with fixed abode them up. Court was told Kucher was be ing taken to Hospital in an ambulance to Check on injuries received in the fight when he started a fracas and kicked con stable j. C. S Oneman in he ribs. Williams was fined five dollars in court monday for fighting. Money seeking pair slap woman s face mrs. Humio Shefflin 257 Alfred Avenue was beaten across the face and knocked Down shortly before noon monday she refused to answer demands of two youths for Money. Mrs. Shefflin said the two youths knocked on the Back door of the House. I thought it was my husband returning from the Bank and unlocked the she said. Of the youths Camp into tin Kitchen mid asked if i was mrs. Sli Efflin the Winnipeg May boost Sci tool Leavinia ase Winnipeg s school Board will be Given Power to require children within its jurisdiction to attend school up to 16 years of age under a Bill approved by the Law Amend ments committee tuesday. It o continue their schooling without interruption. The committee also approved a Bill to Amend the Manitoba Corpora portion income lax act and a Bill to Amend the Manitoba Cor Tion income act 19-19. The o now go Back to the legislature for have been introduced clarify sections of the acts. Third and final Reading. A Bill ,0 fact Lilac Lac reciprocal the school age limit at present of judgments and group told accent on youth in filling key medical posts must Good story1 shoplifter gets month a shop lifter described by o. M. M. Kay Crown prosecutor As Rafdal was sentenced to one month in jail tuesday when he pleaded guilty to theft of a pair of gloves and Stotte tinned meat from a downtown store monday. Louis Philip Camp Bellot no fixed abode had been in court a number of times for shop lifting and vagrancy or. Kay said and although Given every Opportunity still continued shop lifting. Or. Kay pointed out for example that last month a vagrancy charge was stayed against Campbell As he said he had a Job to go to. This said or. Kay. Was just another of his Hull. England up window cleaner Eric Siddle. 25. Fell 35 feet while working but suffered Only a bruised ankle. A trend toward younger men assuming responsible medical positions was noted by or. Donald Easton superintendent of the Royal Alexandria Hospital Edmon ton in an address monday to the Hospital conference in the fort Garry hotel. Speaking on the selection of medical staff and control of the professional work or. Kaston said compulsory retirement at 65 gave Young men a Chance to assume responsible positions in hospitals. Limitation of staff according to the number of Beds in a Hospital was urged As a Means of Betterin staff organization. We must not allow dead Wooi to accumulate on the or. Kaston warned. In considering selection of medical personnel he Suc tested a reasonable waiting period should elapse before. H Man is definitely hired in order to permit Sti mitting up of his annual surveys of All surgical operations performed in a Hospital had proved of bring ing mistakes to Light reported or. East on. These surveys were now an established practice he said. Keo Overy at the same meeting. Organiza lion and management of the Post operative recovery Ward was Dis cussed by or. Saviri c. Aikenhead chief anaesthetist Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital. Or. George Karl St. Paul. Minn., chief of staff Midway Hospital gave a talk on the medical audit and medical records. Two panel discussions formed the afternoon programme of the. Conference. In a Ilis Cushion on caesarean Section it was reported that caesarean deliveries had recently become safer owing to use of Sulpha antibiotics blood Banks and Early ainu nation. As a result of increased safety unnecessary caesarean cases were becoming too frequent the panel Felt. Compared with Normal de livery a caesarean was still unsafe it was reported. Those taking part in the Dis Cussion were or. Virgil s. Coun seller Rochester Minn or. W. F. Abbott Winnipeg and or. Elinor f. E. Black Winnipeg. Or. Her Bert s. Sharpe Brandon presided. The present mortality Rale from intestinal obstruction has been reduced to five or ten per cent or. Miller professor of surgery Inri chairman of the department Mcgill University faculty of medi Cine reported in a discussion on no sign saying water Avenue that s what the photographer said when he returned from a search for confusing Street or. Avenue signs last week. The report of his failure appeared sat urday and hardly was the Ink dry on the newsprint before he was informed by an observant citizen that on the Corner of the Federal building in letters about eight inches High and engraved in Stone he would find the letters water just to convince him self he took the above snap. Water Avenue it is and water Avenue it stays. The photographer is having his Eyet checked. Intestinal obstruction. At the turn of the Century the mortality rate was is per cenl., he said. Me named in creased knowledge of the. Ail ment and treatment hotter rained surgeons and modern Hospital facilities As the Rea sons behind the decline. At present mortality is due to difficulties of he said. Others taking part in the Dis Cussion were or. Charles Mclaughlin jr., Omaha and or. Charles w. Burns. Winnipeg. Winnipeg is 15 years. In the rest of the province it is 14 years the Manitoba school Atten dance act gives school districts Iii milk an Alt Danee officer Power to require children to at tend school until 13 years of age. Winnipeg s school District is the Only one in Manitoba with an attendance officer. Winnipeg s school Board has asked for the Extension to 16 years. N o one appeared before the com nit tee to oppose the City s request. Still May quit or. Herbert Mcintosh assistant superintendent of Winnipeg schools explained that under the proposed amendment children would still be Able to quit school before the were 16 in Winnipeg for any of the reasons in the school attendance there were now comparatively few who dropped out of schoo at 15, he said. Winnipeg Board wanted the school age raised so it would it would be dealing with All children up to 1g years of age with the expansion of nip school facilities its technical schools in would lie advantageous to have he school fire increased said or. Mclntosh. He said a Winnipeg school child often dropped out at 15 and re turned at 17 or 18 to belter his Edu cation. Or. Mclntosh believed such children should be encouraged to Winnipeg Jaycee returns after mile flight awards was also approved. Other follow stayed outside by the she told them her husband and son had gone to the store and would be Back shortly. One of the youths then asked it she was telling the truth. Honest its die she said adding what do you the youth told her he wanted Money. I told them to wait for my mrs. Sheff Liti mind. Then the youth who was standing in the Kitchen slapped i on Cheek and ran out the Hack police were called upon the re turn of her husband about an hour later. The first assailant is described As being i o to years of age five feet. H inches in height fair hair and complexion Grey eyes pug nose and wearing a Short Grey sports jacket with pleated . His companion is said to be five feet eight inches in height and wearing a beige jacket. Pleading guilty to being drunk in a Public place Armand Daigle Edmonton Street was sentenced to one month in jail Mon Day who la he appeared before magistrate Henri in St. Boniface police court. Foresters to hear scottish concert a scottish concert will be staged by court Osborne 22, Canadian order of foresters at 8 . April pm in the Royal templars Hall Young Street. Bill Newlands will be master of ceremonies. The concert is sponsored by c. W. Godfrey of court Osborne 98% of Folk honest this banker insists ninety eight per cent of people Are honest. K. Stone. 602 Wardlaw Avenue is convinced of this and he should know. He retired from the Royal Bank Friday after 45 years As a banker in the West. It must he in claims or you could t do there s in fool proof system and if were fundament ally dishonest no Bank could or. Stone has been manager of the Portage Avenue and Carlton Street Branch of the Bank since me started his career at 15 with the Union Bank of Canada in rapid cily Man., the town his birth. He took Over his first Bank at Togo. Sask., after duty at Roblin. Man., and remained there unto 190g. Then came a spell in Asquith sask. And one at Perdue which took him into 1920. To City in 1930 the year the Royal Bank took Over the Union. 1925, saw or. Stone in Yorkton. It was in 1930 that he came to Winnipeg to the main Street and Logan Avenue Branch of the Royal Bank. What was his most outstanding experience during 45 years As a Janker he feels it was either the Day he opened the Togo Branch or the satisfaction he feels at hav ing been in such close Contact with the development of the West. As for honest westerners or. Stone Points to Saskatchewan in the depressed 30 s. We wrote off thousands of debts he re thieving landlord jailed 3 months Leonard William Jennings land Orri at 405 Kennedy Street who pleaded guilty monday to theft of articles from rooms of two of his tenants tuesday was sentenced to free months in jail by magistrate m. H. Carton. This is not just an Ordinary the magistrate told Jennings in cily police court tuesday. You were in a position of the landlord pleaded guilty to breaking and entering one of the rooms Jan. 18. And to stealing Worth of articles and to stealing 560 in Money arid goods March 22 from the room of another tenant. Club to hear member Art Smith member of the Winnipeg Lions club will address the luncheon meeting thursday n the fort hotel on significant service. Calls. When people had the Money afterwards they came in voluntarily and paid sir. Stone s most satisfying extra curricular work has born with the Council of social ave cirs of which he is now president. For several years he was chair Man of the empty stocking fund. One of the red Feather agencies. A i Rustle and Board Mem the St. Andrew s River lie Ber of Heights Church and a Board Mem Ber of the Fellowship and Carleton . For several years or. Stone was a director of the Manitoba came and fish association. I Hope to shoot a lot of ducks he says. Further than that or. Stone reluctant to predict. But he docs intend to remain Active in Winnipeg among his Many friends. George k. a 2fi.ooo Globe encircling flight ended Back in Winnipeg sunday for George k. Tat lock its Linden Avenue. East Kildonan. A member of the Winnipeg Junior chamber of Commerce or. Tat lock was one of five Canadian delegates attending the con Gross of Junior chamber inter National held in Manila March 1 to s. At conclusion of the Congress or. Tatlock took time out to visit Tokyo Hong Kong Calcutta. Cairo Rome. Brussels and London. Co Agio in. Tatlock International affairs commit he reported the following during the Congress to was elected Secretary of its economic and tee. Resolutions adopted establishment of an International Trade Bureau encourage ment of private foreign capital for investment in undeveloped areas endorsement of agree Monts Extension of privilege and Protection to private foreign Capi Tal establishment of an International commodity Clearing House outlawing of the atom and Hydro Gen bombs As instruments of War and the appointment of a Jaycee observer Loux. In Hong Kong or. Tatlock and other Canadian delegates visited Sai wan military cemetery where lie Miny of the 1st battalion Winnipeg grenadiers. A Wreath was placed on the grave of the unknown Soldier. During their stay in Rome the delegates wore granted a special audience with the Pope. Noted educator to address club on universities or. H. S. K. Sec Ley Provost and vice Chancellor ;