Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, May 18, 1950

Issue date: Thursday, May 18, 1950
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg free press thursday May 18, 1950 the of Canterbury hastily escorted to his Auto Mobile in Tii Miris ont., wednes Day angry mob pelted his vehicle with leg Sis and rocks his speech on behalf of the Canadian of peace Congress. Very Rev. Hewitt Johnson an avowed communist sympathizer was trapped by a mob some Soo citizen in the ukrainian labor Temple for an hour before police James Shaen Ltd. M. N. Lecker optometrist optician 2nd floor Huttig bldg. 264 Wilim 927 850 926 749 open All Dav Satu Dax a fixed wed Emu 1 . Officers and followers escorted i to the car. The reception a similar to one in Hamilton Tarjie this week. While the crowd i he around in front of the. Small Hal the 76-year-okl Dean asked of police Protection in order to Leav the Dean now is preparing for the next leg of his speaking tour at port Arthur ont. Statisticians of the metropolitan life insurance company said we mesday in new the chances Are two in three that the Dionne quintuplets will live t celebrate their 50th birthday to Gether. The famed Canadian Siste. Will be 16 May 28. The chances a 97 in 100 that All five will Attai their majority and 27 in 100 tha they All will live to their 651 birthday the statisticians said. The Dionne and the diligent is of Argentina born in 1943, Are the on. Known cases of quintuplets in a medical history who have survive infancy the announcement said. Police in Detroit have burst the financial Bubble of factory clerk. The clerk Lyle e. Dougherty 23, pleased guilty wednesday to of Tainan Money under false pretences an larceny by conversion. He con messed detectives said to opera ing a fantastic buy at retail a sell at wholesale scheme because liked being a big shot i Dougherty bought television be and household appliances or Friem Beatty pumps 75 years experience gear driven pumps your own motor Alio centrifugal pumps completely automatic cellar Drainers for immediate Lite and insurance for the future. Maximum capacity 1500 Callon per hour. Robinson Alamo company 140 Princess Street phone 24 474 notice our Plant is not affected by the flood. We Are in full production office hours As usual. You cannot get through by Telephone drop us a note or come to our office. Hilton Bros. Ltd. 680 Wall St. 1 Block North of Portage Winnipeg Man. Who asked him to get disc outta but he bought at regular Retoyi prices and sold at wholesale rates Dougherty said he used deposits made by friends for future Pur chases and Loans floated at Vari bus finance firms to make up the difference in Book showed he was Short i Money Given him As deposits. Senior police officials we net Day disclosed that narcotic activity among juveniles has hit Majo crime proportions in Vancouver one 14-year-old Vancouver Gir was believed to be the younger Canadian to face a Possession o narcotics charge. Police said an All out drive has opened to Ferre out adult paddlers believed t be supplying drugs to youngsters. Students in the Manitoba flood area and those in the fire blackened Quebec towns of Rimouski and Catano wednesday were offered the facilities of Montreal s roman Catholic school tuition free. The Montreal Catholic school commission made the announcement following a meet in a at which members discussed possible Aid to the victims of the triple Dis asters. Messages of sympathy also were forwarded to the flood area and to the two Quebec communities a five year old dispute Between the Vancouver boilermakers Union and a former member Myron Kuzych is to be taken to the privy Council at London England. John l. Farris and Nathan t. Nemetz counsel for the Marine workers and boilermakers Industrial Union said wednesday they Are appealing to the highest British court. The Appeal is from a Deci Sion May 3 of the British Columbia court of Appeal which upheld a decision by or. Justice Norman Whittaker ordering Kuzych re in stated in the Union and awarding him damages for wrongful expulsion. The Case May be one of the last from British Columbia to to the privy Council. Appeals from Canada to the privy Council were abolished last year but cases started earlier May be taken to the English court. The first performance in 16 years of the ancient Oberammergau Pas Sion the Story of from his entry into Jerusalem o his place Here wednesday on. The eve of As Cension Day. The people of this mall and devoutly roman Catho in township have been perform no the play in its traditional Stylo Ince 1634, but they Are modern enough to Reserve today s first Post Hitler performance for newspaper and radio correspondents from All Corners of the Globe. The Little town tonight was. Suu empty of tourist visitors and Only a comparative handful of report ers attended the play. But by the week end visitors by the thousands will have poured into Oberammergau and surrounding villages for the formal opening of the play sunday. There will be two regular performances weekly until septem ber. Great German arms com Bines like Kompp s Are banned under a Law promulgated wednesday by the Western allies in Bonn Germany. The ultimate form of ownership Pri vate or government will be determined at a future Date by the West German govern ment under provisions of the measure which deals with the reorganization of the Kuhr Coal Iron and steel industries. The Law has been the subject of discussion for weeks among British French and american occupation authorities. Ashdown s hardware open for business All departments Are almost Back to Normal with the exception of the builders hardware tools and plumbing departments which Are working under slight difficulties but can take care of practically everything. The paint department electrical sporting goods Garden tools kitchenware China stove and furniture departments Are in a-1 shape. We will deliver to All districts where possible. Our telephones Are working phone 8462 and ask for department or party required. Main Street at Bannatyne Avenue phone 8462 Freedom of press stoutly defended by archbishop London May 18 up the archbishop of Canterbury or. Geoffrey Fisher says Freedom of the press is a thing to be stoutly and at All costs in an address to the newspaper press fund the primate said i believe profoundly in the Freedom of the press and its free Dom to and misuse that free Dom and relatively speaking that Freedom is very rarely misused. If i were a dictator there Are plenty of things i would do to improve parts of the press but in the main the responsibility is magnify costly discharged and we among the victims of a swiftly rising red River were these Coal trucks trapped and inundated in a fort Rouge Colyard. Can still that the prestige of this great country remains undiminished among the journalism of the Veteran s cancel meetings the Hong Kong veterans aug citation has announced that All meetings and social event have yes Ixa Mineo Mitchell Copp Ltd. Har Travo just arrived pumps completely automatic 1000 gallon per hour size j including 15 of t i rubber Hose i 3000 gallon per hour size including 15 of i i Inch Hose Tessler Brothers limited 41 St. _ phone 935 403 St. Vital family Regina Home Haven Regina May 18 special he Good neighbor policy is not an empty phrase to dozens of re Gina householders. How Many families Are playing lost to Winnipeg evacuees is hard o determine Many have taken n friends and relatives of which he red Cross has no record. Typical of those who have opened their Homes in mrs. V. M. Hall 2168 Rae Street who has taken in a St vital couple and their three Small children. Though mrs. Hall already has veral full time boarders she found room for or. And mrs. De. Gilchrist and their family who had p leave their Home in the flood hidden Winnipeg suburb one week ago. Mrs. Hall has been wonderful o said the Young Mother. I was afraid we would t find people who would want to put up with free de. Gilchrist an employee of tie St. Vital waterworks depart ment was getting worried about is family ten Days ago As flood Vaters crept closer to their Home. His parents in a Southern Manitoba own were Cut off from Winnipeg y flood Waters and the Gilchrist Oulen t go there. Then a neighbor suggested that irs. Gilchrist and the kiddies go Vith her to her Hometown of Les Ock sask. But when they arrived Tere conditions were so crowded ;