Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, May 15, 1950

Issue date: Monday, May 15, 1950
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page s Winnipeg free press monday Mas in 1950. Special phone numbers special Telephone numbers have been to facilitate flood control. Are advised culs will not accept Calls that Are not of an emergency nature. The numbers Are As follows oof is the new number for to hed Cross flood Relief operators now centred in the basement of the civic auditorium. Transportation. 907499, 935827 most 7o7 army head Quad Yair ters. Calls for Assis Tance in building dikes requests for handbags or other assistance should not be put through army Headquarters number in the phone Book. Calling this number direct save delay and eliminate con fusion. City Hydro Calls for emergency Cut off of service or requests for temporary service. The City Hydro has an emergency staff to handle Light service Only. Red Cross. Emer gency phone num ber of the red Cross is not being made Public. Only the police Anc the military Are channelling Call through this number. The Seasun or deemed necessary when the line became clogged and Etui Cienci was threatened. Co Exchange instal led by City Engin department saturday to Dea with problems involving House holders individual flood defence programmes basement Protection Dike construction and other engineering flood measures. J49281 849232 for evacuees or persons needing emergency housing Only. 134934 and 932561 for those on High ground who a provide accommodation. Give Umbers you can accommodate. 0rt Volunteer Obj. Bureaus to look of i feeding of some Relief workers. 02413 of accommodation ast Kildonan residents. If or Garry typhoid 848121 722 551 save Money ask for flush inoculations. St. Vital typhoid inoculations. City police flood service j04 565 Extension. 204 043 St vital health 504 846 rive East k 504464 Uniti emergency Aid Uch As food clothing or boats. Army Headquarters on Kildonan rive East Kildonan. Canteen head quarters and Navy communications Centre on Leigh on Avenue near Kildonan drive. Central flood head quarters in St. James or emergency Calls offers of pumps to the flood committee and All Calls directed to the municipal Engineer. 7ft 7 canteen Headquarters on Assiniboine 935 521 Fri t Central Volunteer Bureau. Registration of Homes for those willing to accommodate evacuees and registration of those who have storage space for furniture and the like. Sheds barns warehouse space. Grey Community club. All flood workers in this District should report to the clubhouse for duty. The clubhouse is the information Centre to Aid in flood Relief. The ladies auxiliary Are providing food for All flood workers. Phone is manned 24 hours a Day. 935 451 935 452 Winnipeg electric company emergency phone for electric ser vice trouble Calls. Shooting fray ends with 4 dead 1 Hurt three members of one family met instantaneous death sunday afternoon in a shooting fray on a onely Ste. Rose do Lac farmhouse about 1s2 Miles Northwest of win Lieg. _ a fourth person died in Hospital during the night and a fifth Vic Tim is still fighting for. Her life dead Are Leonard Spence 30 wife is 14-year old sister in Law Lena Ducharme and Peter Ducharme 55, or. Spence i father in Law. Mrs. Peter Ducharme in critical condition m Ste. Rose hos Pital. An inquest into the shooting has been set for May. 23, sgt. H. M Weir of the Winnipeg detachment said monday. . Wire it was Learned from an . Wire monday that Spence is believed to have shot his wife and sister in Law around noon Sun Day. When or. And mrs. Ducharme ran from the House at the sound of shots Spence is said to have fired on them also. According to reports Spence then turned the gun on himself. J the weapon was a 44-40 calibre file. All bodies were found in the Yard within radius of 20 Yurt is of the Home which is located about 20 East of Ste. Rose do Lac on no. 5 Highway. According to reports Spence and his wite were living in a ent outside the Ducharme farm House. When police arrived they found or. And mrs. Spence and Lena Ducharme dead. Both or. And mrs. Ducharme were seriously wounded and were rushed to hos Pital. Or. Ducharme died during the night. Or. Investigation r. L. Gendreau District Coroner and the local . Detachment Are investigating. A hastily called jury viewed the bodies sunday and released them burial. Telegraph , May 15 a Wiliiam Green . President sunday offered his labor Organiza Tion s full support and endorse ment of a strike by . Telegram Peers against the United frets. Colgate Toothbrush finest for your family sat part of a Large medical evacuation by the red Cross and Canadian army these Stretcher Arp pin evacuated from Winnipeg hospitals to dry land in fort Quappelle sask. Many cases Are being evacuated from Winnipeg hospitals to dry land of these Stretcher cases have been in their Beds for the last six years and were quite thrilled with the change in defence minister praises All finds Way to avoid harsh laxatives the harsh Laxa Tives i used to take on a forgotten since i began eating Kellock s All bran regularly. This Good Cereal has done wonders for this from Iris m. Wetli 35 Hunt club drive Toronto 13, Ontario. One of Many unsolicited letters. Are you suffering from constipation due to Lack of bulk in the try this for lasting Relief eat an ounce of crispy All ban daily drink plenty of water. If not completely satisfied with results after 10 Days Send empty Box to Kellogg a London out. Get double tour Monet Back Claxton lauds flood fighters in Biest peacetime Battle 934 040 934 209 Winnipeg electric company emergency phone for Gas trouble Calls. 932 431 932 432 Winnipeg electric company emergency phone for transit in formation Calls. R e i s to a Worl phone num ber for All technical engineering personnel engaged in non essential operations who May be needed i saw How Man was All Canada can be proud of Winnipeg the Way civilian and service personnel have worked and fought shoulder to shoulder is thrilling and Hon. Brooke Claxton minister Otna tonal defence said sunday in a nation wide broadcast from flood besieged Winnipeg. Following his air tour of the red River Valley North to the Manitoba capital or. Claxton described the province s flood fight As one of the biggest peace time Battles of the nation s this is a different kind of he said but like the real thing it s a round the clock Battle against a relentless enemy. As we moved around the dikes should an emergency arise. 933 736 934 338 army emergency re let. Centre. 933 324 salvation army Bureau for re uniting evacuees with their rela Ives evacuation Centre. St. Boniface re d Cross head Quad 1a5 Csc St. Boniface a uhf Pnat inn 208 542 no fear "3 in v lighting the River fighting with i grim determination to win lighting with a knowledge that Victory could Fame Only after Long Days and nights of Back breaking Effort it was a great and 30071 aka jul Uio . Headquarters in the civic auditorium where clothing and bed Ding Are available. For volunteers for work in the i-9 clothing and bedding depot in the civic auditorium. Moving demonstration of team work at every place and at every the defence minister who left for Ottawa sunday night said approximately men of the armed services were in the flood Battle along of with More than Winnipeg citizens. From the service Point of View to said the Manitoba floods repro Force and of the supplies and trials which they had mustered against the rampaging red. In pay ing tribute to the efforts Tex Wrens wac a and was he said their wartime slogan that men May fight was now that men May work on the the purpose of his visit lie said was to Sec in there was anything further the armed services could do to describing his flight Down the red River Valley from Emerson to Winnipeg or. Clax ton said the area seemed to be a. Vast Lake at More than so Miles wide. We saw Village after Village completely he said adding that submerged cars stalled trains and Small herds of live Stock huddled on High ground were All part of the Devastino scene. The Centre of the fighting line in slated was Winnipeg St Boni acc and other places which make up greater Winnipeg s population of Over As we flew Over fru. The air it seemed to be a one sided Atter viewing the pumps attach your own motor from washing machine Stoker Etc. And Clear your basement at 1000 gals per hour. In Stock in Stock the Bay Bronze co. 1520 Wall St. At ave Winnipeg taking part in the joint Effort he said he could think of no More auspicious time to announce that the King has approved the appointment of the Duke of Gloucester to he honorary colonel of the Winnipeg the he said has made a tremendous Cori u i Button to the o the flood. In one of the largest airlifts in the nation s , Over one million pounds of equipment has been flown into this flood battered this or. Claxton concluded has brought in the rail ways the dairies the grocery stores the truckers the school teachers the doctors and nurses Young and old men and women the Canadian red Cross All people working together. They have been . Scans plan for War controls Washington May 15 one of the big questions confront ing w. Stuart Symington As the new mobilization Boss of the uni Ted states is whether to tool up now for wartime rationing and wage and Price controls. The controls would be on a stand by basis for use if and when War came. Along with them would go a lot of other controls over1 employment profits strikes Andi All the Muscles Money and mater i als needed for a War Effort. A Bill to authorize again the curbs and crimping that went on during the second world War and perhaps some others is ready. It. K. Plan studied London May 15 Reuters the government has invited Muni Cipal authorities to give it detailed facts u help it carry out possible evacuation in the Case of an Emir the ability to save Money is the seed of Success local . Votes give labor gain London May 15 Reuters struggle from the dikes however j labor monday claimed an Over All or. Claxton said it looked As if it is gradually being won because no one at any Point failed to put in that sandbag which made up the million necessary to Headquarters cited seated bigger Effort than the the minister of defence said then. I a. _ Lanoit control Headquarters in the Fraser Valley floods of 1948." the present flood he said was the armed services greatest peacetime women praised or. Claxton spoke of the parti Cular work being carried on by men of the Navy army and air All is gone legislative building was an efficient and intricate organization of military and civil authorities set up to co ordinate the Battle against the while enumerating the Vari Ous army units which were daily crossword mighty mop is Here mops scrubs dries. 298 compute no to get Down on your to scrub Oft those Liuddy tracks just t ofek of your wrist with "3 in 1 mighty mop and tricks Dis appear Moo. Scrubbing Brush and on Tho one handle mighty mop Outing her dam and free disaster do 77, Dies in Ontario its toll on the men women and children of Manitoba will never fully be told that line appeared in Ress Hood Story saturday. Sunday 77-year-old evacuee Hugh Byron Mullin of 236 Maple Vood Avenue died at the Home of Friend in Fitzroy Harbor ont. The Friend Harry s. Sinks said Mullin had arrived by train from Winnipeg thursday. A Day later he became ill and died suddenly. Floods had earlier claimed All his earthly possessions. Beach train to leave at 11 . Fast time the Canadian Pacific rail Way Beach train which runs to the Lake Winnipeg resorts will leave the Winnipeg depot at 11 . Daylight saving time 10 . . Com mencing tuesday morning. Formerly the departure time for the train was. 9.30 , Daylight saving time s.30 . Railway officials announced Florida was discovered easter sunday March 27, 1513, by Ponce de Leon a spaniard. Canadian Ingersoll Rand company limited Cameron pump division we can ship gasoline driven or electric driven pumps of 200 Gallons per 12000 gals per hour and up in four to six Days from Winnipeg. We Hope these Are not needed for the rising flood but if we can assisting your subsequent planning please Contact us. Across 1. Mimics g. Harangue to. A Bud Biol 12. Concession 13, projecting ends of churches 14, travels at the Edge 15. Embankment 17. Concern 20. Cut off m a tree top 23. Hail 24. Stick to 20. Hard chewing 39. 30. To dear 82. Of food 83. Pig pen 34. Written report 87. Viper 38. Entertain 41. Goddess of the Hunt 45. Shallow 46. Weird 47. Regions 48. Lucki up Down i. Modem title 3. Vitality s. Dial Leaie 22. Infrequent insects 7. Topaz 25. Exc Lama humming lion Bird 27. Tellurium 8. Plaything sym 9. Bitter vetch 28. 11. On the solid ones i 31. A color 16. By Way of 35. Give up 17. Crowns 35. Bay of window 18. Occurrence 37. Largest 19. Full of continent 38. 20. Pry garment 31. Mountain Arab Nymph 39. Disfigure nil Mill Milij ii huh nun Winnin Lwi Timu it he jul i Rau Kimura and h ran Bikwa amt War 40. Employ 42. Cont Clutia 43. Pinch 44. Rom net gain of 85 seats in last week s country wide local government contests most results of which have been reported. But the conservatives said that in the contests in 37s provincial boroughs they had 317 gains including a net gain of 97 seats from labor. Socialists offset losses in the boroughs by gains in the 560 Urban and Rural District contests. On the whole the elections showed no spectacular change the position labovites and conservatives. About seats in All at stake. As in february s general election communists lost ground. Gency. A health ministry spokesman said saturday there is no Spe Cial significance in this move it is merely a question of Normal preliminary Steps As a result of parliament having decided to put civil defence on a permanent footing by a special act a couple of years the proposed evacuation scheme is based broadly on that of the second world War. Ottawa health Engineer trouble shooting Here .1. R. Menzies chief Public health Engineer with the National depart ment of health and welfare arrived in Winnipeg from Ottawa during the week end. Or. Menzies will be in Winnipeg All this week to assist local authorities with flood problems. His office maintains a Public health Engineer in Winnipeg responsible for the maintenance of satisfactory water and food supplies and Sani tation arrangements on railroads and airlines operating out of this is never 1oo Early to teach a child to Ltd importance of Thrift or a youth that life in the easiest. And to left form of Thrift. It is impossible for most people to accumulate Gums by Ordinary saving. Life insurance enables Man to eave for future with ease and regularity. It can be arranged in i Uch a Way that should he die prematurely the proceeds will be paid to his dependents in the form of a guaranteed monthly income. The manufacturers life insurance company area. The mount Carmel clinic says there will be inoculations from 10 . To 7 . Every Day except sunday at 120 Selkirk Avenue planes ready to blast ice slammed Yukon River Fairbanks. Alaska May 15 a another flood is threat ened by the ice jammed Yukon rives1 lust inside the Arctic Circle. Distress Calls have come to Lar jul air Force base from the fort Yukon area inundated a. Year ago. A flight of so s is ready to drop a Load of 500 and of is on the ice choked River. The fliers Are working Wilh Cash the Bush Pilot radio the Only communication in some out 4. Small. It 4o 27 37 24 5 is daily How to work it Longfellow one letter simply for another. In this example a u used Lor the three x Tor the two o i Etc. Single trophies the length. And formation of the words til hints. Each Day the code Are different. A cryptogram w i w v u h k c p b k j v k n f t a w a u b d Oky Hulk. We to Chc up Nuj Obj death who sets All hath pah his iu2tsok now and Ivy mo.t01v head office 1m7j Branch offices 300 Huron and Erie bldg. 101 -105 Hughes bldg. Toronto Canada Winnipeg Brandon w. H. Chittick . Manitoba head of the likes w. C.l.u., Agency assistant Winnipeg Quality precision durability performance the fastest Way to Quick sustaining Energy ii _ Hearty breakfast with red River Cereal. It tastes Good and it s Good for you. It s three important cereals in blend of goodness that you la want to have often. Serve it tomorrow for sure. When you see How the family goes for red River Cereal you la be putting it on your shopping mat often ;