Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 6 Winnipeg free press Friday May 12, 1950 loads of supplies pour into Winnipeg huge loads of supplies and offers of assistance Are continuing to pour into Winnipeg. Sandbags rubber boots pumps boats and Bailey Bridges Are being rushed in by air rail and truck. More than sandbags have arrived during the last three Days. It was expected that end of the week the total will have shot up to the infant . Operation red ramp spelled out a finale to one phase of its operation thurs Day when the two Day old Sand big Airlift from Minneapolis to Winnipeg was halted. During the 48-hour period More than sandbags were flown Here from Minneapolis. Operation controllers announced late thurs Day that flight operations will now spotlighted on Eastern Canada. Friday a North Star air Craft flew to Milwaukee to bring Back eight electrical generators and three generators. Loaded with sandbags and pump ing equipment an . Dakota took off from Edmonton thursday bringing to nine the number of transports from the Edmonton area thrown into the Winnipeg flood Battle. A tenth plane joined the Airlift Friday. So far the planes have Tann Leven pumps from Edmonton and three More were to go Friday. Thousands of sandbags have been from Alberta following and a peal for Aid from Premier e. C. Manning. United states army engineers thursday started Sand Bagi on their Way to the City. . Lewis a. Pick chief of United states army engineers at Washington announced he had sent bags direct from Granite City iii., by railway express the balance will follow by freight. An . Plane flew to Seattle. Wash., to pick up 1.000 pairs of hip boots donated by an Anonymous san Francisco philanthropist. A five ton water pump capable of pumping Gallons a Day arrived thursday from Ottawa. Self contained the unit will not have to depend on the threatened Winnipeg Power Supply. Edmonton Campaign Edmonton s Campaign to provide clothing equipment and funds for thirst knows no season Winnipeg and District flood victims was by Friday swinging into High gear with a special Winnipeg mothers tag sparked by a donation from the City of Edmonton a subscription fund has piles rho duct made in England if it s a truss you need May we recommend a Well made Well fitted non skid spot pad truss. Holds the rupture securely with no binding or chafing. The fitters at Liggett arc highly experienced and will five expert advice on any Trun problem. Remember if it1, a truss you need we can help you Winnipeg been launched. The Canadian legion Montgomery Branch donated it is intended to enlist Edmonton school children for a door to door canvass for clothing Canvas cots bedding and Flash lights. Churches will take special collections saturday and sunday for Winnipeg and District flood re Lief. Meanwhile Saskatchewan went All out to provide the maximum in accommodation and Relief for flood victims. A province wide Appeal to raise funds has been initiated in Regina. In Trenton ont. A. Four engined North Star and three Dakotas Are prepared to Fly in 59 signals and wireless men from Vimy Barracks at Kingston. The men and about a Jon of wireless equipment will be standing by for emergency operations in the event that regular communications break Down. From Petawawa military Camp a second contingent of troops will be flown in for emergency duty Fri Day. Mines canvassed mining Camps throughout nor Thern Ontario were canvassed in an Effort to gather additional pumps. Trans Canada air officials said All possible cargo space aboard the largest airliners were reserved exclusively for flood lighting equipment destined for Winnipeg. The United packing House work ers Union in Ontario launched an All out mass labor movement to gather Aid for Manitoba in a drive to raise for flood victims. Up until now Toronto University has contributed More than doses of typhoid vaccine. Ontario Hydro prepared 32 portable diesel aerators for use in the event of Iwer failures. A Load of rubber boots arrived Friday morning by air from California. They were brought in by Harry Sokol who a few Days ago flew in a Load of pumps from min Neapolis. Meanwhile towns and villages in Rural Manitoba organized to Send into Winnipeg All possible Assis Tance. From Cypress River came a Cater pillar tractor owned by the municipality of lome. The operator. Art Diel and his assistant Frank Nordman accompanied the vehicle and will operate it where needed. About sandbags were collected at the Pas and shipped in thursday. Trucks from the Pas stopped at Rural Points along the Way to Winnipeg and picked up whatever equipment they could. Several trucks and their Drivers arrived from Russell thursday. De Dow mayor of Boissevain with 20 men and ten boats came into Winnipeg wednesday. The Canadian Pacific railway has announced More than 100 extra cars Are being brought Here to handle the abnormal flow of traffic. Thirty seven of these arrived from Western Points thurs Day 73 More will come from East Ern Canada saturday. Cars of Sand from Beai sejour nine More Railroad cars of Sand left for Winnipeg thursday and 18 truck loads followed. Meanwhile Friday the Ontario government reduced to four the number of planes carrying Relief supplies. Friday s aircraft carried pumps Mobile Telephone equip ment and other supplies requested by the Manitoba government. George Collins. Manitoba s Dep Uty minister of Public works sent a Telegram thursday to Premier Frost of Ontario asking his prov inoculations against possible outbreaks of typhoid Are being carried out in Many sections of the City and suburbs. Here or. H. Eshoo administers the serum to a Little girl at St Joseph s Hospital. For bags two Days ahead. Emphasis had switched to water Chlorinator pumps other heavy machinery. Everywhere from St. Johns Newfoundland to Victoria fellow canadians were pitching in to help Manitoba flood victims. Saskatchewan was mobilizing Cor an All out Relief Effort. Headed by Saskatchewan s Premier Hon. T. C. Douglas a Campaign was started to carry out a province wide Appeal for funds accommodation for refugees and personnel to help care for sick persons. More than 500 invalids were scheduled to arrive Friday in Saskatchewan. Meanwhile plans were also be ing Laid to launch a Canada wide Relief fund for flood victims not covered by provincial and Federal government Grants. Shelter offers both relatives and strangers from Moncton n.b., to Vancouver offered food and shelter. Scores of towns and cities surveyed their own resources and offered help on an organized scale. Special trains buses and private cars were steadily evacuating re gees to Beach resorts North of Here and along Lake Winnipeg. Hospitals in neighbor wan had taken in hundreds of and elderly persons evacuated from this City s six threatened hospitals. It was an Overall and All out All out Battle. Ince to suspend temporarily the shipment sandbags. Or. Collins told the free press Friday that sandbags were rolling in by rail in sufficient Quantity at present. The . Is working around the clock to keep a Winnipeg supplied with the necessary equipment for fight ing the flood. One North Star Crew flew 32 hours without rest thursday. When they had finished their Ops these tired men asked for More. They were ordered to get some sleep. One. North Star is making its second trip to Milwaukee for emergency lighting equipment. Four Dakotas and another North Star Are maintaining a shuttle service to bring in Sand bags. Badly needed rubber boots arrived from Vancouver Friday. They were flown in by two . Cantos. To Date the army has brought into Winnipeg sandbags. Issued through army ordnance and the provincial department of pub Lic works these have come in by rail and . Transport. The same number Are now in transit. The bulk of these have been ordered through the Crown owned Canadian commercial corporation and an additional Are on Reserve. Six plane loads of bed Springs mattresses and a Large Supply of blankets arrived Friday. Army engineers have been issued with a Bailey Bridge for emergency use. Meanwhile it was Learned that flood control Headquarters have asked for three More Navy from men. These men trained to work under water in special clothing Are now on their Way equipment and a Large Quantity of red Cross cloth ing and footwear for the flood fighters will be brought from Halifax in an . Lancaster. Responding to Calis for assist Ance from ils Winnipeg Branch the supreme Lodge of b Nai b Rith in Washington wired Relief funds to be used in assisting those made homeless. Also it arranged for immediate shipment by a United states air Force plane of five Gas driven water with a total pump ing capacity of Gallons an hour. This was accomplished with the co operation of the United states department of defence 1he army air corps the Canadian ministry of defence at Ottawa and the Canadian embassy in washing ton. The project was directed by Frank Goldman president of b Nai b Rith. More about exodus continued from Page 1 4--. Cities across Canada As the great est evacuation in Canada s history went into its fourth Day. Brig. R. S. Malone in charge of the plan Ning committee for flood control Headquarters emphasized that it was an orderly movement. It was not a other officials said but an orderly movement which is working out even better provided by the supreme Lodge and District grand Lodge no. 6. Thirty three patients from the new shrine Hospital were moved to Regina where they will be accommodated in the red Cross Wing of the Regina general Hospital. The train left Winnipeg at noon Friday. The children were moved in two special cars accompanied by six graduate nurses five nursing assistants and two Ward aids. Khar Tum Temple made All arrangements and sent two members with the train. Over evacuees Are now Liv ing at Kenora ont. Additional num Bers were arriving steadily Friday than we other Points i and the total was expected to reach 1_ evacuation of St. Vital least by saturday. Completed Friday with Keewatin has also organized a persons out of the area. Approximately have been left behind to carry on essential work and protect properly if possible. 2, Raven court boys school was evacuated in Masse Friday to the University of Saskatchewan. It an air shuttle service involving Saskatchewan government air ambulances red Cross aircraft and the ., has swung into operation taking Stretcher cases from Winnipeg nursing Homes to Brandon and Regina. 4. . Is coordinating the meet the trains committee and has compiled a list of available Homes in the town which was rapidly beginning to fill up Friday. Keewatin and Kent a were work ing together to handle the influx. Benefits await men jobless due to flood employers who Are compelled clue to flood conditions to release their employees temporarily should see that they Are Given their unemployment insurance books be fore leaving the Job. This announcement was made Friday by w. H. L. Darracott manager of the Winnipeg office of the National employment ser vice. This will facilitate establish ment of employees right to unemployment service benefits and will relieve a Good Clea of distress caused by flood said or. Darracott. I evacuation operations of 31 civilian and . Planes at Stevenson Airfield. Other developments Friday were traffic control posts were being set up by flood control Headquarters on Highway no. 1 West and North of the City. A count on the number of passenger cars passing the posts will be made giving some idea on the evacuees leaving by Road. Flood Supply and evacuee trains have been giver first priority by the railroads. All Deadhead railway equip ment being rushed from East and West is expected to reach Winni Peg by Friday night. V trans Canada air lines has been booked to capacity for four Days. More than one thousand Pas sengers have been carried out of Winnipeg in the past five Days by Tea. They have been transported at the rate of 200 a Day including 400 women 175 children 150 babies and about 400 men. Five Hundred flood refugees were Enro Ute to Regina from Mani Toba Friday by plane and train. An unknown number were travel More about City flood continued from Page 1 Hollywood May 12 Cap Warner Brothers studio announced the suspension thursday of Lauren Bacall saying she had refused the role opposite Errol Flynn in a Pic Ture tilled. Rocky Mountain. Ling by automobile. Brandon said they expected evacuees at least this week end. Mayor l. R. Fennell has urged the total evacuation of women and children from fort Garry j by the week end. More than persons have already left. Refugees were arriving daily in Toronto. Both our government and the people of Ontario stand ready to give Aid i Premier Leslie Frost said As a conscript manpower and material now the labor progressive Parry has urged upon the flood control authorities the conscription of manpower and material to Cope with the present emergency. In a special memorandum to brigadier Morton the App proposed the immediate conscription of All necessary manpower materials and accommodation. 1 2 3 4 5 6 the closing Down of All non essential enterprises such As breweries liquor stores Beer Parlours Pool rooms Bowling alleys and so on. Stringent enforcement of traffic control into and Over flood danger areas. Compulsory evacuation of flooded and endangered areas. Train evacuation of women and children from the City at government expense. Ait flood victims to be assured now of full compensation by the senior governments for losses sustained. The authority of the flood control administration must be vested with full Powers in All Fields of operation the App feels that these Steps in addition to the Effort now under Way will strengthen the fight against this disaster. Labor Prog Bessie party 607 min phone 928985 Irain Load of 200 Manil bans reached the Ontario capital thurs Day night. It May mean opening emergency quarters and summer cottages but i. Am certain we will be Able to meet any May Cut East service the railways said Friday All facilities had been mobilized and they were prepared to meet de mands made upon them by flood Relief authorities. This might make t impossible to add extra cars on week end and other trains in East Ern Canada to meet usual demands at this period. At Ottawa thursday Hon. Brooke Cla tort defence minister assured the commons that the Canadian army was doing every thing necessary to provide Maxi mum safety and minimum discomfort for the Winnipeg evacuees. The Complete evacuation of St. Vital Hud to be seeded up because the Rivers Rose at a faster rate than expected. All business activity has ceased in that area. Thursday evening Navy army and municipal officials made a thorough Check to ensure that no been left behind other than those allowed to stay to protect property. This included 82 in the St. Boniface Sanatorium who settled Down to a Long seige. The red Cross delegated by the army with responsibility for car ing for the evacuees has established a press and radio division with Headquarters in the evacuee Centre at the civic auditorium. More than 300 evacuees have already reached porn Fri i Prairie and others were expected Liy the week end. An ii peul sent out by por Tuure o surrounding communities for supplies brought a Quick res i use. A Canadian Pacific railway train completed evacuation of Mctavish thursday night making the total number removed 700. Seventy carloads of Stock were also moved. The Winnipeg b Nai b Rith has taken 250 homeless evacuees of ail faiths to the b Nai b Rith fresh air summer Camp near Winnipeg. They Are Bestif housed and fed with funds Crescent at Maryland Bridge water pressure was threatening a possible Cave in on the East approach to Maryland and northbound traffic was being diverted at staf Ford. Osborne Bridge South approach has been pumped Clear of water and diked on both sides. St. James Bridge was reported Clear. Water is now almost 12 feet Over the first official flood stage and 6.5 feet Over the 1948 Peak. An other two and one half feet would put the River a the top level reached in the fabulous floods of 1861. W. D. Hurst City Engineer today said flood water would stay High for at least five More there was a Chance a Sec Ond higher Crest might strike the Winnipeg is. Boniface area within the next few Days. A econ readings were reported from totally flooded Emerson where the red River runs into a Nilolai from North Dakota. There was Hope that a 540-Square Nile Lake of flooded land in South Era Manitoba would act As a but lessening the coming Threa to the greater Winnipeg area. The Clanger Here was still great. Shaky leaking dikes around Sev eral residential districts May give at any Lime. It would certainly be Days before the red. The Assini Bogie and the Seine showed an appreciable fall. Cheek of resources today the City gathered to Check to resources. Food dealers called in to Consul on an emergency plan reported stocks More than the Only possible danger hey said would be a Rush of hoarding Panicky there was no need for it. More doctors the medical committee reporlec1 a further mobilization of doctors and supplies. Or. Athol r. Gordon Public relations officer reported he typhoid situation one suspected Case had been invest ated he said with findings Nega Tive. A slate of doctors was on continuous round the clock duly a the civic auditorium for Emer ency cases patients of most hospitals had already Heen evacuated inmates of old folks Homes mostly along the Assiniboine River were rapidly being re moved. The mass though evacuation of women and children would have to be continued. One eighth or More Winnipeg is. Boniface area was under water. Remaining High land is with some left homeless in River bordering suburbs and the rest of Southern Manitoba. Estimates of the flooded area in the 60-Square-mile greater Winni Peg District placed the size of in a undated sections at close to 12 Square Miles. Public utilities were Over Strain id. Even the Battle of the Vas handicapped by surplus popu lation. Brie. R e. A. Morton army head of red River flow control called for a further thinning out of the City. The risk of Power failure from i flooded distribution plants though not gone. And there could be an unexpected failure of greater Winnipeg s so far pure water Supply. Either of these possibilities might Force wholesale evacuation under army move that was now being planned in Case of sudden emergency. All Canada was responding to the National emergency. Sandbags men equipment and medical sup plies have been flown in by the . S Section of operation code for the combined services Effort. By last night the All out air shuttle had in pulled the demand two die in fire Windsor ont., May 12 bup two Young Brothers were burned o , a third boy and their Mother were severely burned and the father slightly injured Friday in an Early morning fire which swept a suburban family s Home. Barber Ellis of Winnipeg limited emergency Telephone service Call Bulman Bros at 87-311 Austin the car for canadians More austins Are being bought by canadians than All other British makes combined. First it assist workers would also assist workers being Laid off if employers contemplating any Lay off would notify the unemployment insurance commission beforehand he added. The volume of temporary Lay offs warrants it and facilities Are provided the unemployment insurance commission is prepared to Send officers out company plants to Deal with claims for unemployment insurance or. Darracott said. Buy yours now distributors consolidated industries Ltd phone 927 763 2o5 main St. South open evenings till 9 . With the Newt Gillette Blade dispenser extra new Poliy of Germany London May 12 a the big three1 foreign ministers Fri Day agreed or. A general policy incorporating Germany into Western Europe economically and politically. In 1949, Britain s output of ships totalled Gross a new Gillette Blade unwrapped and ready for your Gillette razor. Men you get the cleanest most comfortable shaves Ever when you use super keen Gillette Blue Blades. 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