Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page a Winnipeg pres tuesday May 23, 1950 Many two War veterans flood victims says Rice a Jarge percentage of Farmers by floods in Southern Manitoba Are veterans of both wars it has been announced by Fred a Rice assistant District superintendent of the department of veterans affairs. Car hits plans for regulation of railroads Ottawa May 23 the Canadian Pacific railway monday criticized a wide variety of proposals for railway regulation and rate setting advanced by Provin Cial governments before the Royal commission on transportation. It struck out sharply against proposals for Extension of the benefits of the maritime freight rates act of 1927, under which the Federal Treasury subsidizes freight rate reductions on some rail traffic in the maritime. While not seeking repeal of the the , said it was opposed to any Extension of its principle. It also hit particularly at proposals of the Saskatchewan and Manitoba governments for tight ening regulation of the railways and in particular a Manitoba legislative amendment which would empower the Dominion Cabinet to instruct the regulatory Board of transport commissioners As to its action on any matter. The . Also took up about half the Day in advancing a claim for legislation directing that a new system of rate making be established in Canada. Under the . S suggested system freight charges would be set on a system of i rate base and rate of return prescribed for the . The yardstick line for rate setting. At present rates Are established in line with the financial requirements of the rail ways from time to time. The company s proposed system would Call for the transport Board establishing a rate base valuation of the company s rail assets and fixing a rate of yield on that Fig ure. Approximately 350 second world War veterans were established in the present flooded area under the veterans land act. According to or. Rice Al these Farmers have been affected by the flood. The Greendell nub division in St. Vital alongside the St. Boniface Sanatorium is the largest veterans land act Small holdings settlement affected with a total of 75 Homes inundated. These veterans worked round he clock trying to protect their Homes from the approaching flood stated or. Rice. After evacuating the women and Chil Dren they continued Labouring on the dikes pumping basements and patrolling the area until finally ordered veterans May be assured that they will receive most sympathetic he declared if As a result of the flood they Are unable to meet their current Obi for constipation this is what helped him i tried All the drug store remedies for constipation. Got rid of my old trouble Only when i began eating at bran for breakfast. Many Ernest Wright 208 Delta St., Browns line p.o., Ontario. Just one of Many unsolicited letters from All bran users. If you suffer from constipation due to Lack of die tary bulk do this eat an ounce of crispy Kellogg g All bran daily drink plenty of water. If not completely satisfied after 10 Days Send empty Carton to Kellogg a London ont. Get double tour Monet back1 Union sends Cheque its first donation out of . Miss Jean Connell who was awarded the Interior dec oration thesis prize of for the Best thesis by a third year student in the Interior decoration course. Miss Connell is the daughter of or. And mrs. A. G. Connell of 230 Ash nations under their approximately 20 per cent of the veterans land act District and regional office staff including Treasury Branch have themselves been evacuated from their Homes. Land Avenue. Kcf members ask full payment on flood losses full compensation for All flood damage and an Early session of the Manitoba legislature were demanded tuesday in a Public state ment issued by the seven . Members of the Assembly. The . Members held a caucus and decided to request the province together with the Domin Ion government to assume responsibility for ail flood damage to private Homes municipalities farms and schools the responsibility for flood damage rests squarely on the shoulders of the provincial and Dominion the statement snid. Had they taken the Steps toward flood control that should have been taken after the experience of 1048, there would have been much less serious damage in 1950. This being so the t w o governments have a moral to pay in full for their the . Members wanted the government to pay in full for All costs of forced evacuation loss of crops and livestock and other flood damage. A session of the legislature they said should be called immediately to approve the necessary legislation. More about flood continued trom Page 1 that level approximately five feet under its present Point a Quick two Inch rain could Send it Surg Back up to the Peak of 30.3 feet above Datum or even higher he said. Patrols continue the diking shift was called off the Job on the Mcgillivray Boule Vard Barrier monday night flood control said. Receding water made diking operations unnecessary Bui. Patrols Are still being maintained. Broken Telephone conduits which Channel water and Send it bubbling up through manholes into the Street the latest headache of flood control officials. Water from one broken con Duit started to flood a Section on Carrier Street on the lit. Boniface St. Vital Boundary tuesday but workmen plugged the leak. A mixture of Earth Clay and sandbags was tamped Down Over the manhole with a tractor. Patrols Are kept constantly on the Aler to detect any similar in the City s history have objective but Are flooding from manholes in All parts stations and More than As Manitoba s urgent need for flood Relief became known across the continent the Appeal broke an International Trade Union precedent tuesday a a Day. Word of Cheque from the United brotherhood of carpenters and joiners . Came in Telegram to Andrew Murphy chairman of the Manitoba executive committee of the trades and labor con fress of Canada tuesday. This is the first donation the Union has Ever sent out of the United William l. Hutche son Union president said from his Indianapolis ind., Headquarters. High lights other recent highlights of the National Campaign Are Nanaimo ., City Council voted s500 to the mayor s Nanaimo flood Relief fund. Fund officials who have planned the biggest drive set a hoping for at the same time seven Nanaimo hotel keepers have offered free rooms for 21 Manitoba flood evacuees. Latest figures from Calgary s saturday tag Day Are instead of the previously announced. The United mine workers District 26, with head quarters in Glace Bay n.s., Are sending City Council of Chatham ont., voted to the fund Mon Day. Meanwhile it was revealed that Jack Carson motion picture and radio Star Wol be master of Cere monies at the biggest radio show Ever staged in Canada the red River Relief rally the Canadian association of broadcasters announced monday night. Or. Car Sor. Is a native of Carman Man. Top stars scheduled for Friday the 90 minute show at Toronto will bring top stars of the entertainment world to help increase the National Campaign of the Manitoba flood Relief fund. It will go out Over All 14 Csc 100 from Vancouver came word that the British Columbia lumber manufacturers association announced a donation for Manitoba flood Relief. L. R. Andrews executive vice president said the contrib ution from 48 firms composing income tax act. Change studied to Aid fund by Hugh Boyd Ottawa May 23 specific amendment to the income tax act to exempt contributions by corporations and individuals to the Manitoba flood Relief fund is being considered. And May it was Learned be incorporated in the statute which is now before parliament. It had already been announced that contributions to the fund would be treated in the same Way As other donations. But As the act stands a limit is set on the amount of such deductions from taxable income. In the Case of Cor the association will be sent to Winnipeg at once. This constitutes the largest Donation to Manitoba since a 000 Grant from the disaster Relief fund started during the Fraser Valley floods of 1948. In Medicine hat alta., collections for the fund passed the Mark with More than netted Over the week end from theatre parties a baseball game and a tag Day. The objective has now been in creased to which would average., per person in Medicine hat. Planned for later Are a Community auction Sale Anc a Parade of artists show in Arena gardens As a wind up next sunday the Edmonton and District Winnipeg flood fund Campaign officially ended saturday with donations totalling but officials said lust minute donations Are expected to swell the total past the Mark. Edmonton churches through special collections and other efforts Colic Ted More than 000 for the fund. The drive by fort Erie ont., Kinsmen to raise continues to grow. The latest figures reveal a total close to the is to be raised by the fort Erie czechs demand new Cut in . Prague staff Prague May 23 bup Czechoslovakia has demanded a further Cut in the american embassy staff in Prague official sources reported tuesday. The Prague radio said the czechs had asked that the . Staff be Cut to four diplomats seven non diplomats and one guard. Toll rises to 8 Sturgeon Falls ont., May 23 up the death toll in a level crossing truck train collision Rose to eight tuesday when two children died in Hospital. In pre War times there were 67 ports open to foreign Trade in i Japan. Tea Tayou party portions it is five per cent. F-3riridgeway Crystal Beach and Stev individuals 10 per cent. Some corporations it is pointed out and perhaps some individuals May have already made donations for various purposes to the full tax free amount allowable. In those cases a corporation wish ing to make a substantial contribution to the flood Relief fund would find itself liable o i 10 per cent Federal tax. The rate for varies according to income. Amendments to the income tax act have already passed through the House of commons and have to the Senate. Senator Arthur Beaubien is planning to raise lie matter there. If the upper Cham Ber approves special exemption for of the City. The number of evacuees under present level within approximately three does the whole Job in half the time by famous Independent Laboratory seven More grease removing action amazing new grease dissolved cuts stubborn grease on Contact eleven times busier Sud sing action Rich suds float away grease grime and dirt. Mosquito hordes seen flood sequel Winnipeg can expect an extremely bad year of or. H. M. Speechly chairman of the City s anti Mosquito Campaign warned tuesday. The Many thousands of shallow pools created by the Are Ideal Breeding places for the he said. The mosquitoes Are three weeks late he but this was explained by conditions created by the red River Valley flood and the constantly changing temperatures in the past month. The Mosquito Campaign is now Well under Way after a Short delay when All resources were thrown into the mood Battle lie said. To Date the Brooklands area and a stretch extending several Miles North from slain Street car barns has been Likely spots on streets from Logan Avenue South to Portage ave ire now finished. At Tuxedo workers were hampered by soft stretches of land and a Complete Job was impossible. Adequate Protection of Parks gardens and playing grounds will again be the main objective of the anti Mosquito Campaign according or. Speechly but he expressed regret that much ground was in accessible to heavy equipment. This will mean working on he explained. It will be a much slower reports say chinese move on indo China by Christopher Rand . Heril lil Tribune service Hong Kong May which Many seasoned americans Here consider reliable Are report ing the concentration of a big chinese communist Force a few Hundred thousand men in South Ern Kwangsik province which is on French indo China s Frontier. The reports say roads Are being built in South China toward the Frontier that a railway is being constructed for military purposes from the nearest Large port of fort Bayard to most important existing Kwangsik Railhead that new heavy duty airfields Are being prepared near fort Bayard and at Lakhoi another port serving Kwangsik and close to indo China that material is being moved into Kwangsik 30 tanks that were recently seen not far from Lakhoi that chinese communist troops Are in formally crossing the indo China Border daily or enough to sup ply indo chinese Viet min insurgents with a new division of the voluntary population thinning plan increased slightly monday when persons left greater Winnipeg. Meanwhile it is reported that a number of families Evi Dently confident of the ability of the Lyndale Dike to Hohl fast have already moved Hack into one Section of Norwood. Army flood control workers Are working now on the Assumption that the red River will be Down to minimum flood level of is feet above Datum Between june 10 and 15, an army spokesman said tues Day at this rate this River will have to fall almost 12 feet from its the space weeks. Of private stations across the coun try. The Maple Leaf gardens management has granted the sponsors tree use of the Arena and the association said there would be no expenses. A feature of the show will be Winnipeg insert in which the latest flood news will be giver and or. Average Winnipeg Citi zen will give his views on the flood and the Campaign designed to help him. Fund officials in Winnipeg in Nunno icing show details As arranged to Date hoped if would realize a Large sum of Money and give impetus to the fund. An increase of Over Thi contributions to flood Relief fund the Manitoba Ever and above the present statutory limitation an amendment be referred for approval. To that Back to effect would the commons while no government decision has apparently been reached As yet it is understood that the idea is Well regarded. Enville clubs. Donations from Rural areas in Saskatchewan brought the Ince s unofficial total to a tag Day in saturday turned Over proceeds. Sports organizations Are reported to be planning Benefit Ball games and wrestling bouts. The Manitoba flood relic t fund was swelled by si00 Fol lowing services in the m Clcil Street United Church in Ottawa ont., sunday. The entire collection from Hoth morning and evening ser vices was turned Over to the fund. Two Manitoba members of parliament Stanley Knowles Winnipeg North Centre and j. E. Matthews spoke at the evening service. The London England evening news monday urged the govern Trade and currency order to Speed the to Manitoba flood always fresh in the Edwards costs you not More enjoy the full natural Richness and Aroma of vacuum packed Edwards. Fresh when you buy when you use it . House passes deficit appropriation ._t_____.__. Washington May 23 the Rency difficulties no fussy nervous ment to relax restrictions in flow of help victims. Now that Winnipeg has trouble on an unprecedented scale in Canadian history Bri Tain wants to repay the kind shown by canadians during the the newspaper said. No sort of. Red tape Aboul cur representatives passed the Senate monday House of and sent deficiency appropriation including for korean Aid. Passage came after three hours debate in which an unsuccessful was made to Cut Down forty men comprising the 21st Field Squadron r.c.e., Reserve from flin flon Man., have been withdrawn from the flood fight army Headquarters announced tuesday. This was the first Reserve unit to be taken off Active service. Red and Assiniboine River Levels also dropped in Rural Manitoba overnight with two exceptions at Fargo the red Rose .3j of n foot at Portage la Prai Rie the Assiniboine climbed an Kunimi Pirlant three tenths of a font. At the same time the la Salle fell .35 of a fool at la Salle town and six inches at previously i flooded Sanford. Brunild flood Waters cleared a ittle More As the Morris receded about five inches during the night. Wind and weather notwithstanding the whole of the flooded red River Valley Between Winnipeg and Emerson remained under the scrutiny of boat equipped . Thirty five men covered the Lood make Between Here and the Border patrolling property assist no Farmers supplying provision to the die hards who would t evacuate and generally keeping a watchful Eye on the abandoned territory. In Winnipeg army flood control said its experts looked for an accelerated fall in flood Levels at Emerson within the next few recession in the provincial Capi Tal they said would be steady but much slower because of the Reservoir of water South. Measured in fractions of a foot his is what the Rivers did during the night the red Rose previous week end total brought Jon additional funds earmarked for Over All total receipts to the rent control administration major donation monday from outside Manitoba was from the International business machines limited. Which will be liquidated after july 1 unless Federal rent control is extended within the next six weeks. Ness about upsetting the Dollar Sterling equilibrium should be Al Lowed to impede or delay the natural Quick spontaneous fulfil ment of the British Peoples will to Sok optimism s to meet a special business meeting of the Winnipeg so Optimist club has been called for 8 . Tuesday at the Home of mrs. I. R. Hunt 2 Carmell apartments. No flavor escape with Edwards you get the full Coffee fragrance and Fla Vor that you pay for. Every tin every time uniformly Rich and fresh 2 grinds regular Fine or drip fed when you buy it., when you use it Madi in Canada trained men each month. Those who believe these reports and have Analysed them think the chinese communists aim is to Supply to Chi Minh with a forma army Strong enough to defeat French forces defending indo China. It is not believed that they Are planning an outright invasion but it is believed that in addition to the underhanded support of to Chi Minh. They Are preparing full dress military defences at Kwang against any French retaliation. Canberra Australia May 23 bup the lower chamber of the australian House of representatives tuesday passed the anti communist party dissolution Bill without division. To our Light and Power customers Wahpeton Fargo grand Forks Emerson Morris Winnipeg the .32 fell .28 .34 .3 .2 Assiniboine Rose fell Brandon .33 Portage la Prairie .3 heading lev of the la Salle Rose fell la Salle .35 Sanford .5 the Morris Rose fell Brunild -4 late monday reports from Letellier and St. Jean Baptiste showed drops of two Inch Rand one Inch respectively in the 34-hour period. North of Winnipeg Selkirk re ported its first drop one tenth of a foot since the flood surge began. Reports reaching Brandon from Russell and St. Lazare gave no indication there is any danger of flood on this River. The Normal Little Saskatchewan which empties into the Assiniboine 10 Miles West of the wheat City is running High at Minnedosa but this condition is said to be Normal for the season. Likewise at Melita one Inch drop in the level of the Souris River led residents to believe they would escape with less serious flooding than in the two previous years. But the Souris run Olf was Caus ing gradually rising Waters its Junction with the Awin Boine. In making your electric Range refrigerator Washer fit for use after flooding is our aim ranges refrigerators and washers that have been partially or totally submerged by flood Waters will be unfit for use until they have been thoroughly inspected and approved for operation. Range switches will be filled with Silt that must be removed oven insulation will have to be removed and cleansed and if packing has occurred new insulation must be installed certain controls will have to be replaced. Refrigerators having hermetically sealed units should require no unit attention but insulation and controls like ranges will require cleaning and possible replacement. Open Type units will also require motor servicing. Washers will need attention to the motor and Drain ing checking and replacement of lubrication. Reddy kilowatt is being equipped to handle your neighbourhood speedily and efficiently. Your co operation in completing the service requirement questionnaire will greatly facilitate this work which will be done in strict rotation As. Requests Are received. Hotplates will be available absolutely free while your Range is being serviced Here is How you can help the following appliances in my Home will require attention. Will you please make the necessary arrangements to have them made fit for use As soon As possible. Water total name address Telephone no. Please mail this questionnaire As soon As possible to Winnipeg electric co. 309 electric railway Chambers note if you arc fortunate enough to have insurance against flood damage or if you Are eligible for Relief from Hie rehabilitation Relief committee our Bill will assist in securing these payments. If not Winnipeg electric company is prepared to extend your credit to be paid along with your Power Bill in twelve equal monthly payments without interest. Winnipeg electric co. Phones 9043" appliance repair dept. Fort and Assiniboine ;