Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press sunday. May 14, 1950 Page 3 Gay 200 More leave institutions for other Points More than 200 patients were evacuated by air and rail from Winnipeg saturday it was re ported by the red Cross sunday morning. The number included 21 chronic cases from Deer Lodge Hospital sent by air to fort William 15 invalids from the St. Boniface old folks Home sent by air to Moose jaw 100 patients trom Deer Lodge Hospital sent Over the Canadian Pacific railway to Regina and Cal Gary and 78 cases including four Stretcher cases from the general Hospital sent to Saskatoon Over the Canadian National railways. A staff of to care for the evacuees during the trip accompanied them and the patients will be looked after by local red Cross or upon arrival. Saturday night the chairman of the red Cross National executive Leopold Macaulay arrived in Winnipeg to Confer with local officials on the advisability of the establishment of a red Cross general flood Relief Appeal. Spent meanwhile More than has been spent by the society for food clothing and shelter for Winnipeg evacuees according 10 word received from l. A. Winter Honor Ary treasurer of the National organization. Contributions and funds have been pouring into red Cross head quarters from cities and municipalities anxious to assist in the Dis Aster or. Winter reported. The missing persons Bureau established in the red Cross Hood Relief Headquarters in the civic auditorium reported that saturday a total of inquiries had been received of which 983 were answered or located. So far the Bureau headed by col. F. W. G. Miles stated that of the total inquiries received had been answered. To Speed up the work of the department a four machine teletype installation has been established in the building to Winnipeg s two telegraphic companies the Cana Dian National and the Canadian Pacific. Round the clock the machines operating 24 hours a Day Are being used for requests for information replies to such requests and for finding accommodation for evacuated persons. Despite the insidious efforts of gremlins to write snafu to the work in the red Cross evacuation Headquarters saturday night it was business As usual a few moments after the room had been plunged into darkness. The blackout was caused by switch Over from the City lighting system to a. Power Generator which will assure lighting for the Headquarters in the event of a failure of the City system. However a few minutes after the initial Power failure flashlights were pressed into service and work in the 17 departments was resumed. Lakehead trucks to Aid Winnipeg fort William May 14 a Fleet of trucks to assist in Winnipeg flood Relief has been offered by the Automo Uve transport association Branch of oui on Tario Lakehead j. O. Goodman general More about Rural flood continued from 1._____.__________________ Winnipeg flood hol dayers show a Little Holiday spirit on arrival in Toronto by charter aircraft. Most of them loj ced from their Homes by flood were met by friends and rela Tives in Toronto. A few continued As far East As St. Johns fld. One quake a year in nature s plans seismologist says los Angeles May 13 instead of producing earthquakes in Bunches Mother Earth is set i named head of Craf association Ottawa May 14 up air chief marshal Lloyd Breadner of Kirks ferry qtie., was named grand president of the newly formed . Association i saturday. Air vice marshal a. L. For fee thing one 1 Hugo n.s., air vice Mon second group of old folks Fly to sask. Thirty six aged men and women forced by floods from old folks Homes in greater Winnipeg left aircraft seismologist at. The 1 f first vice president. Manager said saturday. The truck service will operate from the Manitoba Boundary to the Lakehead. Organization is being undertaken by j. Mcleod of fort William and Douglas Fisher of port Arthur. Or. Goodman said there would be no charge for the transportation. The association offer to assist in flood Relief and in any other Way possible was made at a joint meet ing of Lakehead Relief committees California Institute of technology. Addressing a group of geophysicists Friday night e n i o f f said that some Gigantic global Force has been responsible in the for alternating periods of earthquake activity and quiet. This Force like a huge key alternately locks and unlocks Earth quake faults throughout the Globe. However contrary to All previous belief great Earth quakes Are not Independent events. Regardless of where they occur they Are related in time of occurrence to i t h e r great upheavals. At least that is or. Benioff s theory. We have been Able to deter mine that there is a general Strain in the entire crust of the he said. The Strain is generated at a remarkably constant rate. Until 1948, however the rate of release has been irregular. Since 1904, there have been five especially Active earthquake periods followed by a quiet interval. Each succeeding period of activity has tended to be Shorter than the one before. Now the Earth seems to have entered a different phase in which the Strain is being released to the same rate with which it is being generated. Mother Earth s production of Energy seems to be in bal her release of the Energy in earthquakes. This Means that As Long As this nor Mal regularity lasts one e a r t h quake should occur each year on the violation of pact charged by Russia new York Herald Tribune news service Washington May Russia protested in a note to the United states Friday that general 3ouglas a. Macarthur had violated the International War crimes agreement by creating a parole Board to consider clemency f o r imprisoned japanese War Crimi the note asked the United states immediately to take Steps o countermand Gen. Macarthur s action. It argued that Gen. Mac Arthur had authority to reduce or otherwise alter sentences imposed y the International military Tri Bunal Only at. The time the sentences came before him for approval. The state department indicated ejection of the russian note by issuing a statement declaring that the procedures set up by Gen. Macarthur were in conformity with the Charier of the tribunal and policy decisions of. The far a astern commission. Catholic women set up depots for food gifts donations of. Sandwiches fruit juices Tomato juices and individual pastries Are being collected for and civic officials held Friday night flood workers by the Catholic women s league at receiving centres in various parishes. In . Griffon. Sleeping car space is urgently needed by both railways Canadian Pacific and Canadian National passenger departments saturday urged anyone who is unable to use sleeping car space which they have reserved to make sure that their cancellation of that space is recorded As soon As pos sible to make the Best possible use of equipment. The two roads pointed out that not used and not cancelled Means that cars which should All be. Filled to move the greatest num ber of people cannot be filled. So operation in this respect will Ren Der unnecessary any such space saving arrangement As prevailed in the War when a time limit was placed on the picking up of space reserved by phone. Is. John s appoints h. J. Bird to Post h. J. Bird has been appointed honorary president of St. John s College for the 1950-51 session col lege officials have announced. Or. Bird who is a member of the executive Counci of the diocese of Rupert s land has been associated with the College for a number of years As a member the St. John s College Council. Closely connected with the anglican Church in Moose jaw Regina and Winnipeg or. Bird is now a member of St. Paul s anglican Church. Fort Garry. Regina area collects Over for Relief Regina May 14 in the Regina area have collected More than for the Manitoba Relief fund. Collection committees Are at work throughout Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan centres offering accommodations include Regina Moose jaw Kerrobert Prince Al Weyburn Yorkton Humboldt Saskatoon Tisdale Wilkie Shau Navon Wadena and Melville. Centres be Ignatius and St. John Cantius Rosary and immaculate Conception tuesday St Anne s and sacred heart wednes Edwards St. Patrick s Anc St. Anthonys thursday oui lady of Victory holy ghost and St Joseph a Mary s and St. Ignatius saturday St. Mary s business women s unit of the Catholic women s league and the Amicus club. Immaculate Conception canteen has now been discontinued due to flooding. The Catholic women s league will be in charge of the River Heights Community Centre. Monday United Church meet off the Manitoba conference of the United Church of Canada scheduled to meet june 5 to 9. Has Beer postponed until june 19 to 23. This was the second group of patients to take advantage of Premier t. C. Douglas offer of Hospital facilities in Saskatchewan thursday two planes of the Saskatchewan government ambulance service carried 10 of the most seriously ill of the group to Regina. The patients were moved from hospitals and old folks throughout the City to a holding Hospital set up in hangar no. 2 and part of the sergeants mess a Stevenson Field. One aged Man was prepared to Lake his first air voyage. Any place that suits the boys is . With he said. Ill go As far As they the aircraft was piloted by flt. Lieut. To. Bell of Rivers. Man., and fit. Lieut. D. Mclean of Edmonton aka. Medical officers in charge of the movement were . S. Lan ., and capt. A. Sar Torelli Ramc. Of Assiniboine Levels at bran Don and Portage la Prairie. At the former the water went up one Inch during the night to 13.6 above 4.5 feet below flood level. At Portage the Rise was by four inches but there was a Long distance Between it and flood level. At heading Ley a drop of .14 feet was measured but the River s flow had picked up a lot of Speed All along the line. No one at either of the three Points was worried about an Assiniboine flood but . Engineers were convinced the River posed a threat to the red River Valley and Winnipeg conditions. They thought warm veal her would cause the predicted Flash run offs and sunday no one would say they were calling the wrong shot. Meanwhile i there was no improvement in conditions within the looked Valley towns. Actually saturday s High winds made things worse and extended the already inestimable damage to property in the flooded areas. Morris was officially deserted although a Skeleton Crew of police and workers remained there. Stock evacuation was still going on with the Iseed crisis softening at Letellier. A special mixed train went Dow Canadian Pacific lines to Domin i on City saturday mainly to pick up cattle. Tear tragedy struck near saturday at 7.30 . As a result one Man is now in Hospital where he was taken in a half drowned condition when the boat he was in with three others overturned. He was caught beneath it. The men were returning to the town from a visit to their flooded Dominion City property when their Rod Cross boat capsized. None of the other three was Hurt. At Ste. Agathe there was a milk shortage but food supplies were adequate. There was Little work to be done in this desolated town. The remaining men there just sat and watched the Waters destroy. At St. Jean Baptiste the. Week end s High winds caused Waves that raised the flood level with consequent addition Al damage to buildings. Things were better at Dominion City. With the Roseau Down about q inches the flood Waters at the red spread through the town had an outlet at last. Here the Stock situation was Good. Feed had been shipped in. Oil from a burst tank at Emer son slicked the Waters at Domin Ion City but were no threat. One news service stated the territory faced martial Law. The statement was based on the fact that Premier d. Campbell saturday night old flood chief Brig. H. E. A. Morton he would agree to any measure the officer wanted to Cope with a. Worsening Situa Tion and protect life and pro Perty. This it was thought was an agreement by the Premier in Prin Cipal that he would allow martial when a faulty fuse prematurely set off a charge of dynamite farm near rave shoe ont., Fred Mahoney 41, was instantly killed. Brother lome Mahoney Points to spot where Accident occurred. Son 14, inset was about to yell get out of saw his father killed. Using Republican slogan As vote weapon by Bert Andrews . Herald trillium Sitver Fargo n.d., May 14 As More about exodus continued from Page 1 president Truman nears the end of his Lour it is becoming Clear that he is seeking to turn one of the Republican political slogans them by everything from ridicule to denunciation. The republicans said some Lime pro they wanted the 1950 and iw52 elections waged on the Issue of socialism versus their meaning was that they believed the Truman programme Topping of c that of the late Frank Lin d. Roosevelt was leading he United states toward a sys tem under which the government would run everything whereas the republicans were striving for a return to More Freedom for the individual. Opposition told in state after state on this trip and in almost 50 speeches presi Dent Truman has informed the opposition or at least that portion the opposition which has taken the trouble to read his speeches just How he intends to combat the Republican Battle cry in the congressional elections o 1950 and the presidential election of 1952. You hear a lot of wild charges that anything new which we pro pose the Farmer is socialism and regimentation. That s an old red threat goes than atom in Industry seen bringing nationalization new York Herald Tribune news service Atlantic City . May 13 it. Gen. Leslie r. Groves .a. Wartime head of the atomic Energy project Friday declared the development of atomic Power for Industrial uses May Well Lead to nationalization of All major Industry Commerce and transportation. Addressing the 46th annual convention of the new Jersey Bank ers association general Groves said however that the Prospect of cheap atomic Power is still in the Distant future. A c o n o m i c a 11 y. Atomic Power is decades he sorted. For Many years to come atomic Power will Cost More than Power from either steam or Hydro plants even it. There is heavy government subsidization. When atomic Power does come it will be centred in areas where King s Point n.y., May 3 bup Navy Secretary Francis p. Matthews declared saturday that russian aggression now is a greater threat to democracy than Hitler s army in 1940. We face a threat greater yet that the world faced 10 years ago when Hitler s legions overran France and we All waited with bated breath to see whether Bri Taii. Could or. Matthews said in a speech at the . Mari time Academy Here. We face not a european threat but a worldwide threat which Al ready dominates Eastern Europe most o Asia outside of India and the near the Navy Secretary said the United states must continue to help other non communist nations until the inevitable hour when the tide of communism will begin to or. Matthews gloomily added that this might no our without another War. All that we can foresee clearly now is that the struggle for peace will be Long and or. Matthews said. He foresaw a Ong period when the National Economy will be out of Normal Power is now used in great quantities because initial plants must be very Large Baptist services Gran memorial Baptist Church service usually held in the civic auditorium will be in theatre a University of Manitoba Broadway building sunday evening. Law in the Valley it and when necessary. It. Was expected that by evening More than one fifth of the capital s population would have been voluntarily vec azaled. A special announcement from the Manitoba Forest service to cottage owners in the White Shell area who wish o evacuate there advises that while most roads Are very soft and some Are damaged by flooding. All lakes and sub Divi Sions can b e reached by car or Light delivery trucks. Ice remains in lakes and they cannot proceed to cottages by boat. Stores Are open at All lakes except White and Bie White Shell. Daily bread and milk delivery from Kenora being arranged for More accessible chinese reds get estate of author Tokyo May 13 a the late american author Agnes Smedley willed All her possessions to Gen. Chu Teh commander of red China s armies the piping radio said saturday. A broadcast heard Here said she had asked that Pher ashes be sent to piping the communist capital. She died May at Oxford England. A . Army report from Tokyo in february 1949 named miss Smedley As spy and agent of the soviet gov she vigorously denied it Aiu. Later the army said it had no Back up the charge. All men residing in St. James South of Portage Avenue from Lyle to Winston and Hampton Street to College Street North of Portage Are asked to attend a meeting at Assiniboine school Sun Day at 3 . Canadian Pacific serves packing firms special Canadian Pacific trains to meat packing plants at St. Boniface continue to give service to this Industry and carry about 300 people a Day to and from work. The trains leave the station at 5.15 and 6.15 . And the stockyard area at 3.15 and 4.15 . Ail times stand Ard time. The trains Stop Halfway Between Swift s and Canada packers. Silver Plains flood baby catches 40 winks on stalled evacuee train just out of Winnipeg. Mrs. Florent Robert worriedly cares for two week old daughter Carol born in amid the Silver Plains flood. Sees useless future with farm Home gone. On behalf of evacuated and needy members of the Mani Toba teachers society the society him accepted of assistance from the Saskatchewan teachers federation the Alberta. Teachers association and the Canadian teachers federation. Teachers affected arc asked to communicate with the general Secretary of the. Manitoba teachers society and state immediate and possible later requirements either by letter or by Telephone. Red additional residents left their Homes. Nearly persons in All have moved. Winnipeg proper saw Little change in the flooded areas Sun Day. Throughout the City even in the High and dry areas women Anc children were moving out in response to the request that Al should leave the City who could. Figures released the figures released by floor control Headquarters on he move ment out of Winnipeg showed for Friday by rail 10420 by air 340 by bus 500 and by private Auto Mobile for saturday tic figures showed by rail air 251 bus and by other Means including private cars the saturday figures revealed a drop of Over Friday s move ment. Flood control Headquarters were concerned that this migh mean hat Winnipeg residents Hac decided thei a was no great need to leave the City. The movement out of the cil began slowly on tuesday Isomi had already pulled out on monday has gathered momentum sine the official request was issued 01 tuesday. It is the greatest Mas Transfer a City s population Canada s history. Some developments Here Are some of the develop ments during saturday and Sun Day Long says the president. "1 Wank show these totalitarian Fellows that democracy demo work for the Benefit of nil the people mid not just for Benefit of a the Canadian Pacific railway i Beach train sunday morning too evacuees out of win he clearly is trying reduce 215 More Nipes. The Canadian National railway estimated that approximately 2.30 people left Winnipeg saturday Ove its lines. The figure included adults. The Republican slogan to such an to Absurdity that they will either the Canadian railway a quietly drop it or will be hard put to it to defend it. 150 for Manitou a Caj Vass of Manitou hits indicated that accommodation Chii lie. Found for 150 flood Vic Tims there. Al h meeting thurs Day committees were set up to Welcome Billet mid provide Kitchen facilities for the evacuees. When rond and rail conditions improve to allow n. Greater volume of traffic to Manitou the town will be ready for those neet Liivik help. More about City flood continued from Page 1 o realize that restoration of the Telephone system to Normal will e a Long hard Jim Mills Hief Engineer of the Manitoba Telephone system declared. Other ise he said the phone situation Ras much improved. Provencher Bridge was opened to emergency traffic Early sunday morning. The City engineering department wished travelling the 500-Yard Tretch of water Avenue before 9 a. Steady convoys of trucks have been bringing travel Mil crushed Stone from Stony Mountain and Bird i Hill Day and Nischt to provide the thou Sands of tons of material needed. This Bridge is expected to be pen to All traffic later sunday a ording to army flood control Headquarters. General traffic will Only be allowed to pass one Way ver the Bridge officials said. Swift current a Swift current which is running Verland across the fort Garry and Riverview Peninsulas is Caus no concern flood control engineers Aid. The River current is now bearing own directly against the Southern Ide of the Lyndale drive Dike and threatening to smash it. It is ii so feared hat some houses in the Wildwood and i Vervick flooded areas May he swept from their foundations or otherwise seriously by the current. A Dike break on Archibald Street aused More serious flooding Early sunday morning. Army engineers vere called out when water boiled up through the Bottom of the ram part near smitty s yacht club. Over Volunteer flood work ers Are piling sandbags a Day on the huge Lyndale Dike in Norwood. At fear higher Dike the Point where the estimated that since tuesday it car Rich passengers out of Winnipeg. The red Cross sent out 21 patients by rail and air saturday the . Sent tour Dakotas t Regina and one of fort William sunday loaded with patients from convalescent Homos. The trans Canada airlines. Canadian Pacific airlines and Northwest airlines continued to carry Peak loads out of the City. Rhona Gretna. Carman Morden. Jordan and Roland bus routes were re opened saturday afternoon. Bus terminals were jammed but there has been a general slowing up in the number of evacuees leaving the City by bus. French German Wasagaming of Kos Jay Wylde bungalows Wasagaming bungalows and Wasagaming Lodge at Wasagaming Clear. Man., Are available in people from flooded areas. Linens a stores and restaurants Are operating on a summer Aid for clerks offered j f m. An offer of Aid to members of j f of the local Union of the retail clerks association has been received by c. Mccutchon business representative of the retail clerks Union. In a Telegram received sunday from James a. Suffrage Secre tary treasurer of the retail clerks International association the american official expressed his con Cern for members of locals 286 and 632, and requested immediate information about their needs. Coast police move off Vancouver May 14 up outside police Aid in t needed in flood beset Winnipeg police chief Walter Mulligan Learned saturday. The City dropped plans to Fly 10 officers to the Prairie City after a Telegram from Winnipeg said police there have the situation under police said they will advise chief Mulligan if the situation Forteni and his men Are needed. I. Scheduled to hold talks with Dean Acheson . Secretary of state soon Ernest Bevin Britain s Secretary of foreign affairs leaves a London Hospital where he underwent an. Operation while Hospital staff members wish him Well. . Hrrnl.1 trill uric. Service Paris May 34 the announce ment by foreign minister Rober. Schuman of he proposal to Pool he steel and Coal resources of France and Germany under an a dependent authority was care fully timed to achieve the Maxi him dramatic effect and Surprise. It came on the eve of the Lon Don conference of foreign min sters and introduced an entirely new element into the discussions Here of How to integrate Germany Western Europe. Diplomats including most of the lop French ones had been preparing for a rather routine review of the German problem with the expectation that any decisions would referred to a committee for further study. At the same time the Peculiar position of Germany and particularly the fact that it was not a Ful member of the Western Community threatened to complicate discussions about the prosecution of the cold War. Or. Schuman dropped his. Diplomatic bomb the Day before he left for the London conference. He had mentioned it the previous Day to a rather surprised Secretary of state Dean Acheson. Since one of the psychological effect s desired was Surprise the secret had been kept from All but a very few men. Or. Schuman and prime minister Georges Bidault were probably the Only two Cabinet ministers who Tod Advance notice of it and yet the Cabinet has approved the proposal late tuesday morning. Current is hitting the Dike it is now 16 feet wide at the top. Engineers Are afraid to build any higher flood control officials said because there is danger of the Dike Structure toppling Over. It is reported however that the Dike is still two feet above the water at this danger Point. High winds Early sunday sent flood Waters lapping Over the top of dikes on the East Hank of the ked River but cause no serious damage flood control officials reported. Most of the water was immediately handled by seepage pumps on the inside of the dikes. Additional persons were being evacuated sunday from the area of St. Boniface East of the Seine River As the flooded area in the Cathedral City spreads. Take in and Winnipeg flood Small Cave in a Small Dike Cave in at the nor Vood Bridge area caused additional flooding but otherwise there was Little change in this District officials reported. Most of the 20.000 people of St. Vital municipality have now Beeri evacuated. Only volunteers remain and some Mink ranchers who re fused to get out. Five soldiers were sent to Deer Lodge Hospital Early sunday after their amphibious jeep was sunk in the Riverview flooded area. The men were stranded when they lost their vehicle and had to signal to police with flashlights before they were brought out. None injured no one was injured. The men were taken to Hospital Only for a Check up. Water is now six feet deep at the foot of Avenue at the Winnipeg approach to Norwood Bridge. Diking Here was abandoned Early saturday. The pumps which were to be used to pump water from main Street at this Point have been re moved. The Assiniboine River sunday started to flood up be Hind sandbags at Roadway and Osborne streets. This water has come through from he Lind Shea s brewery. Previously flooding Here was from sewers. The Assiniboine has started to flood Between Arlington and Ca Nora streets on Wolseley Avenue. In St. Villa it is now reported impossible to gut As far As tha fire Hall where municipal offices Aro located. The new Paiit Kildonan Dike is almost completed flood officials said sunday. Dikes in St James were holding Well municipal authorities said late saturday. Two feet we have about two feet to work was the general opinion of the Public. The Dike runs from Douglas Park Road to River Oaks drive along Assiniboine Avenue and is a combination of sandbags and mud if cd by bulldozers. Al meetings of St. James Gen eral flood committee would be held at 7.15 . Daily committee Mem ber. Said. As the situation grew worse. Mayor r. F. Wightman flew in Miami Fla. Late wednesday night where he had been attend no a meeting of the kiwanis club International. Anti Franco warning Saint Jean de Luz France May 14 cup Indalecio Prieto exiled Leader of Spanish socialists sunday warned the West against doing business with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. That might Cre ate a russian fifth column in Spain said Prieto. The Spanish people hate those who help Franco and they will turn to those who help them overthrow baptists offer Aid offers of assistance in the flood emergency have been received Frum Baptist churches throughout Canada by Rev. E. M. Check and minister of the Broadway first Baptist Church Winnipeg. At noon saturday a wire was received from or. H. H. Bingham general Secre Lar of the Baptist convention of Ontario and Quebec offering help. A wire has also been received from or. W. C. Smalley general Secre tary of the Baptist Union of West Ern Canada. Or. Check and has re Quested that such assistance be offered through local units of the red Cross society. Truman refers to red Breckenridge minn., May 14 up president Truman made a Brief reference to the Winnipeg flood in a speech Here saturday night. The president said the situation showed the need for More flood control projects. Legion meetings off the ladies auxiliary of the fort Rouge legion announces there will be no meetings until further notice. The May 25 whist Driva has been postponed indefinitely ;