Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Maple Leaf cured Bacon Winnipeg free press Kitchen Star Back today Kitchen Star bread and cake Are available now at your grocer i. T pric e so per copy edition with comics Joc Winnipeg Friday traffic arteries latest reports Bridges Elm condemned and barricaded. To All traffic. Main barricaded at North end. Marion to essential vehicles but ramp in poor condition. Two Way traffic alternating controlled by Walkie talkie set. To All traffic. In All vehicles. Omand s Creek open to All pumping behind diked area in Progress. To essential traffic. Gravel ramp wet and heavy. Washboard from West end to Mckinnon building. To essential traffic. Subways viaducts and barricaded. Diked at South end. Assiniboine impassable. To All traffic. And barricaded. Water still receding. To All traffic. And barricaded by pass Clear. And barricaded by pass in Good condition. Lower passable to All vehicles. St. Deteriorating. Open to emergency vehicles Only. Street cars As usual. Areas Point East of Clear and open to All traffic. Business and wholesale except r East of rorie. And barricaded from Clark to Mam. Wolseley Avenue Armstrong s and Westgate dry Easl Gate still shop breaker gives self up gets 20-month jail term a conscience stricken Man who gave himself up Lobrandon City police tuesday received a 20-month jail sentence for shop breaking and theft when he appeared in City police court Here Friday. Ernest Chirstian 25, of no fixed abode pleaded to breaking into the William Martin shirt company 350 Avenue saturday and stealing 2fi shirts valued at the Man told police he had sold the shirts in Winnipeg Beer Parlours for Low each and then hopped a freight train foe Brandon. While there he said he thought Over his actions and decided to give himself up. A Lynberg admitted breaking into the premises by smashing a pane of if lass in the front door and releasing the Spring lock. He was returned o Winnipeg thursday under escort. Volunteer patrols Start in St. Vital effective Friday a Large scale Volunteer patrol of the Windsor and Glenwood areas of. St. Vital is being maintained Day and night by the residents. With full approval of police men living in the area Are moving Bach to their Homes to take up residence. Municipal authorities will not give permission for entire families to move Back until the basements Are pumped flushed an de contaminated. But they want the men to return Home As quickly As possible to help in Protection of their Homes and in the clean up Job. Full scale Pittro Uinger of the Windsor area effective immediately was thursday night at a of residents called by the Windsor Community Clute in the club room of the free press. Ii followed the announcement by William Mel knife Chili president that police wanted the men to re turn. All such men should re port in at the police station they return. West of St. Mary s Road the Windsor area extends t oin Mager drive South to Hull Avenue and West on Kingston Row As far a. Dunkirk drive. The Windsor area East of St. Mary s Carl extend.1 South from Varennes Avenue to Hull Avenue and is bounded or the East by St. Anne s Road. Gordon Swain of the St. Vital health unit explained to the meet ing the Steps which Tho municipal Ity would Lake in out basements. He said pumping Woolri Start when he River fell to a level of Between 25 and 26 the Glenwood Community club area which is also being fully patrolled extends South from the Northern Boundary of St. Villa to Sherwood place and East to the Seine River. By Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week flood scene horrible say labor leaders by Mike Hrushka the Bright Sunshine was the Only cheerful part of the picture when labor leaders made a 60-mile flight Over the flooded area of the red River Valley thursday. Below the big Tea plane carry ing the party of. Trade unionists the devastated area despite re polls of a recession of the flood still a grim waste void of any semblance of. Normal life. The Courtesy air tour was arranged for members of the trades Union flood venereal disease total decreases Manitoba s venereal disease total decreased by two cases during the week ending May 20, a release from the Provin Cial department of health and pure welfare showed. Nine teen new cases were reported As against 21 during the Prev sous week. Of the new in 11 were gonorrhoea and eight syphilis. A break h Down of statistics shows five cases of gonorrhoea and four of syphilis in Winnipeg proper one Case of syphilis in suburban Winnipeg and six in in. Stances of gonorrhoea and three of syphilis at Rural Points throughout the prov i Ince. Winnipeg s suburbs were free of gonorrhoea during the seven Day period. Ukrainians to name convention delegates the biennial convention of the ukrainian fraternal so of Canada will be held june 29 and 30 in Toronto. Winnipeg Branch no., 1, will select its delegates to this convention at a meeting Sun Day at 2 . In the Ukrain Ian National Home Assoc a lion 5s2 Burrows Avenue. Bak meet postponed annual meeting of the Manitoba bar association to have been held june 16 and 17 at Clear Lake Man., has been postponed. Walter t. Patter son president of the Assoc a lion said Friday it was prob Able the meeting would take place in Winnipeg in the fall. New committee to handle City s flood problems Winnipeg s newly formed Alder manic flood commit Lee met for the i first time thursday in mayor Gar net Coulter s office. The new com Mittee composed of the chairmen of the cily s six standing commit tees will be headed by Aid. George Sharps. It will take Over the reins of Lood control and rehabilitation rom the present cily flood con Rol committee composed of civic department Heads and chiefs of other Public utilities. Discharge of the present com Mittee was recommended by its chairman w. D. Hurst cily Engineer who said it was time for. Civic department Heads to return to Normal routines. The new committee will meet three or four times weekly until the City s completed. Before he floods the top of this seven foot High sewer pipe at which David Garroni six left and his brother Ken nine of 135 pined ale Avenue arc looking was level with the top of the ground. The pipe and others like it in a huge Valley dug out by bulldozers Between the nor Wood Community club and the Lyndale Dike Are startling reminders of he countless tons of Earth scooped out of the Block Square area to build the Dike which held against the worst Bau rings of the flooding red committee of the Manitoba Relief fund whose immediate major task is to raise the maximum amount of. Money from the labor movement for the fund. Gratifying results have already been reported for their efforts. After the air cruise Over Miles of flood devastated areas the labor group Felt it seemed to ibis reporter like raising their hands heaven Ward and pleading to All humanity for financial help More help no matter where it came from and regardless of the amount of contributions. Scenes below the plane w Ere heart rending. High buildings tree tops roofs of Homes and barns and some spots of Road were the Only indications of the Normal life him once hummed there. 1 it is a horrible sight and Calls or an All out Effort to raise Mil ions of. Dollars for rehabilitation of he commented Reg. So Combe. Chairman of the Winnipeg feel Ric employees Federated Council . He was Silling in he plane next of the reporter. It is this commented George another repro tentative of the Good god this thing is Hor was the reaction of Robert president of the Winnipeg my District trades and labor Council. . Other Trade unionists included n the party were j. B. Graham business agent of the carpenters Union whose International has donated to the fund Joe g r e e a representative of the moulders and foundry workers Union . De. Houle Secre tary of the teamsters Council c. F. Schubert representative of the retail wholesale and department store Union . Ard Nick Swytiuk. Of the United pack Enghouse workers of America . The trip of. The labor group Fol Lowed one by members of the provincial legislature who also observed the flooded area on a Tea Courtesy Lour. Police Nab thief eight minutes after car stolen City s flood Cost estimate goes to commission monday the City of Winnipeg will sub Mit an estimate of its total flood costs monday to the Dominion provincial fact finding commission. The estimate will be furnished under the following general head Ings 1. Flood fighting. 2. Flood damage to Public prop Erly of the cily and school Board. 3. Evacuation and return. Rehabilitation of business and Home premises. Rehabilitation task is nominations for a business agent for the Winnipeg bartenders Union local 206, will he received at a Gen eral meeting of the local sunday at 2 . In the labor Temple. W. B. Brown City treasurer told the City s newly formed Aldermani flood committee thursday that the estimate was requested at a meeting Between the commission and civic department representatives last. Tuesday. He explained the estimate head Ings As follows flood fighting costs would include expenditures up to May 27, As Well As estimate of costs costs of re inn Vii Iff and cleaning up Dies nil such health measures As insect control. Flood damage to Public property Transcona sets school classes for 100 evacuees three classes for More than if evacuee children living in the town have been organized in Transcona in o of these classes Are Henri in the Central school and the other in the Maple Leaf common indescribable Iju clubroom. Said Sid Simpson representative Canadian brotherhood of Way employees and other trans port workers. Reports in inc daily press and pictures of the flood have not been Eagger he said. Upon leaving the Airport or. Simpson hurried to his office to prepare an article for the brother a s on the flood the mind occupational commit tee hns arranged the following activities for the evacuees Bowling mondays wednesdays and fridays from 2 . 5 . Tea Coffee. Cards and Reading material will be a Tiuliu was All out to co operate then in the midst of 1hr. Crisis hut. Then is i knowing Lenl. Now. Volunteer Kielp is falling Jiwany or. M. S. Loughe Eri cily medical Cieva Slation and the for contributions to the Manitoba flood Relief. The Nacpil for Relief is much greater than i before available daily from 2 to 5 . At the pirate Community club and supervised play at the Central school playgrounds from 6.30 . S.30 . Daily. Donations of clothing May be div dual householders would prob ably do 90 per cent of the up Job. As Long As their Homes meet minimum health standards and f i hey obey our published instructors i have nothing against them oing Back to their Homes right Way to Start or. Lougheed said. Pleaded guilty to a charge of Auto theft and was jailed for one year. I court w As Tild that Kelson made off Wilh an Nuto which had been parked on Princess Street thursday by its owner who Hill Rono. Into an building leaving his wife sitting in the shortly afterwards left the car momentarily to talk to her husband. It was during Short interim shut Nelson hopped info the cur and drove off. However a girl working in the office building noticed the theft and police who effected the speedy arrest. Operation Dike bus winds up need past operation Dike bus is Over. Availing vehicles and were whisked r i laundry Man Send offer of help among the Many offers of Aid for flood victims is one from the Eastern Canadian laundry and drycleaners1 association. In a recent letter sent to Gordon Gage of the Peerless laundry the Eastern group stated that its members were prepared to assist the laundry owners and dry clean ers of Manitoba in any Way they might request. The letter con tinned we Are also aware of the hardships the Western pro Vinces Are suffering hut we can assure you that everything is j being done from the smallest Village to the largest cily in the Way of drives to help relieve voter situation in some cock axe installed As Griffons president Robert j. Cochrane was in stalled As president of the grif Fons club at a dinner meeting thursday in Moore s restaurant. Other officers installed for the coming year included first vice president h. H. Holla Jid second vice president e. A. Maxwell Secretary j. W. Mcneill treasurer a. R. James. Committee chairmen Are publicity d. L. Mcarthur objective a. T. Raine entertain ment s. A crazier sports c. T. Alsop and music f. C. Ray. Les Tinkler was in charge of the programme while the re tiring president John Peters was chairman. Evacuee couple offered fruit farm Home about 40 of age who Are rvs Irdine any couple who require assistance. Absolutely no who intoxicating liquor will he considered. Though a couple who Are foreigners might be considered a coloured couple is preferred r mrs Best theft from clothesline Ings month in jail a clothesline theft of. 512.20 Worth of children s clothing brought a one month jail sen tence for Angus Adolph 359 Carlton Street he pleaded guilty to the offence in City police court Friday. Gilon was seen at 3.20 . Friday in the Lane behind Edmonton Street with bulging coat. Investigation by police revealed he the children s apparel from a line at 395 Cumberland Avenue. Boy in Accident seven year old Donald Ives 612 Warsaw Avenue son of patrol sgt. Raymond Ives of the City police is in Victoria Hospital in Good condition after being struck by a car at Mulvey Avenue and Daly Street about 7.15 . Thurs Day. Young Donald s leg was broken in two places As a re sult of the mishap. The Motorist who police say was Reginald m Mitchell of 621 mul vey Avenue took the child to Hospital. Police cancel banquet give Money to flood fund the annual banquet of the Winnipeg City police athletic i Alioa. The ruled far june 9, will go by the boards in favor of Tow flood Relief fund. At a special general meeting thursday evening tin association decided to cancel the event and donate the it am set aside for the function to the Relief fund. This brings to the amount offered by the police Force. Salary pledges and Cash donations make up the difference. J cyclist dragged 0 feet by Tram a 40-year-old cyclist is in satisfactory condition in Deer Lodge Hospital after being struck and dragged approximately 30 feet by a Street car. He is Joseph Kustryk of 1496 Catherine Street Weston who according to to ice reports was Riding East on Portage Avenue at 5.15 . Thursday when at the Corner of Sanford Street he turned into the path of. An Street car. Reckless driving brings to Fine an 80-mile-an-hour drive on the open Highway near sed Don s Corner in fairly heavy traffic tuesday resulted in a s50 Fine plus court costs for Motorist Ben Hodge of 470 Mcdermot Avenue who pleaded guilty to driving before magistrate d. G. Pot Ter in provincial police court Friday. With red River flood Waters re-1 ceding slowly but surely the hourly round the clock free transportation for Dike volunteers from in front of the free press building to All parts of the City ended this week according to major f. Booth Oyd general manager of Moore s Axi limited. Three weeks ago with the red sing at a furious Pace and with thousands of Winni Eggers ready Man the dikes the question was How will i get there where will go speedy solution this problem was speedily solved major Boothroyd and Bill Peers manager of Krc. Forum Ted a Pian for volunteers to re Ort in from of the free press to gilding from where free trans rotation to the dikes would be provided every hour on the hour Moore s buses. With radio announcements from Krc and All other stations the operation went into effect at three a. May 6. It caught on like wild re. Flood workers poured into the away at the rate of Iso an hour major Boothroyd said. Moved with1 bus Drivers and executive personnel working 15 to 20 hours 3 Day to maintain the hourly schedule it was established that would have to be an estimate Only Jea la thought j. A t m and would include streets Bridges a sewers w Aler Mains buildings Parks and other properties. Evacuation and return costs referred to patients in hospitals and nursing Homes. Rehabilitation costs might in clude basement pumping inspection and other services. Pumping referring to the rehabilitation costs or. Brown pointed out that the City s expenses there would Kely be limited to pumping of basements and inspections. Of course some people think differently. They think we should clean up personal property like lawns and other or. Brown added. Mayor Garnet Coupler interjected that cleaning of lawns and Gar Dens was definitely an individual problem for householders. What about where dikes were built or ruined quelled Aid. George Sharpe. W. D. Engineer re left at the town Hall. There is still a demand for men s Large shirts socks and shoes ladies Large dresses and underclothing it is reported. Announce revised list of schools open monday All schools now open will re main open until the summer Vaca Tion begins according to an announcement made Friday by j. C. Pincock superintendent of schools he also reported that six Sani in Winnipeg Ary inspectors on loan from the gone uie Asi announcement was schools opening for admission of pupils monday. Cecil Rhodes. No. One and two ily of Toronto had arrived thurs Day morning to help in the Restora Ion task. Six More were exp clerk rom the province of Ontario government he added. Made it has been necessary make some changes in the list of schools which will open May 29, he said. Following is the revised list of 700 stations to carry flood fund radio Shiv the flood the fund air show broadcast of the reel River Relief rally in Maple Leaf gardens Toronto has been Madej plied that the City would to another 300 stations take to clean up the mess left bid ringing the total number to 700. Volunteers were transported free of charge. Volunteers Are wonderful people and Winnipeg has a terrific num Ber of said major Booth-1 Royd. Dikes and heavy equipment. Aid. E. E. Hallonquist described the Job of rehabilitation As a tremendous agreeing mayor Coulter predicted that rehabilitation would be a much More difficult Job than the actual work d Iriner the flood Peak. The the giant programme . D by Jack Carson a native of Carman Man., and starring such notable As George Formby Fred Waring sir Ernest Macmillan and radio commentator John Fisher will be heard Over All Winnipeg stations from 7.30-9 . Friday. In addition to Csc stations. 8-year-old becomes human Torch saved by Quick acting boy scout Wor. Mutual stations in new Orl City will also delay the broadcast till late Friday a right when new York t was reported. Potential audience of station Wor is As great As the total radio Tornes in Canada. The american broadcasting sys ice comprising 2so stations has agreed to record the whole pro gramme and make it available to its affiliates sunday night. An eight year old West Kil Donan girl though seriously burned is alive in Hospital. Her Mother and father though badly shaken have a mishap not a death to mourn. A boy scout though Only 13, has saved a life. Brown eyed freckle of a c e d Eugene Baron of 282 lans Eugene Baron 13-year-old boy scout credited with saving a Young playmate s life thursday tells Elaine Craven Cousin of the injured girl How Marlyne Greenspan s clothing caught fire. Eugene s prompt action in stripping the girl s clothing Oil cheated flames which threatened to Burn to death the eight year old Kildonan girl. Downe Avenue was prepared when a Post-24th Bonfire set eight year old Marlyne Green Span s dress afire. When the searing flames thursday turned Marlyne into a screaming burning human Torch Eugene knew exactly what to do. That knowledge and us Quick Calm application was today credited with saving Marlyne Greenspan s life. Rolled in mud Marlyne s clothing caught fire from a neighbourhood Bon fire about 1 . Thursday. Seconds later Eugene ripped the flaming cloth from her body and rolled her in the mud. Marlyne s condition in the Winnipeg general Hospital to Day was described As fairly Good although she is due to undergo a skin grafting opera Tion for Burns on her stomach. Hospital authorities said Eugene s fast thinking and equally fast action were prob ably responsible for saving Marlyne s life. At Home today boy scout soon to be patrol Leader Baron assumed an a shucks attitude towards the whole thing. It was t really he told a free press reporter. Me and. Some of the kids were standing around watching some fireworks we had t set off on the 24th. We had some matches left Over and decided to build a Bonfire. Next thing i knew mar Lyne s dress was in flames. I told her to lie Down in the mud like i was told at Eugene added but Ghe would not. She just stood there screaming. Started running in circles screaming Mommy the show will be carried by the Mutual broadcasting Corpora Tion and on t delayed basis by the Don Lee network of some 50 stations on the Pacific const John dui Isoji. Supervisor Csc International Exchange Broad casts announced Friday. Champlain Elm Lori Faraday Glen Elm Greenway to one and two King Edward no. One and to Laura Secord la Verendrye lord Selkirk Montcalm p i n k Lam principal Sparling River Heights Robert h. Rock Wood sir Sam Welling West on and William Whylie. Pupils of the schools which will not open May 29 Are in report to own schools at it . For instructions from heir Privi Cinns who will Tell Xvi cd schools they May attend until heir own schools re open or. I i cock explained. The exceptions to this Are the pupils of the Riverview school and the fort Rouge school. These pupils should report to the school that is open nearest to their pres ent location. In the Case of the lord Selkirk and Glen Elm schools and any other evacuated areas or. P i n cock warned that people who have been evacuated should not return to their Homes before they he arcs Are out Are Given notice by the flood con Rol i grabbed her and threw her Down in the mud. Then i ripped off her clothes. I burned my hands a he offered self consciously but i got the fire to Hospital Marlyne s Mother rushed from House at 233 Smith Field Avenue and wrapped her Little Iii in a Blanket. A neigh Bor took Mother and child to the Winnipeg general Hospital losing precious minutes when they first tried children s hos Pital closed Down by the flood. Eugene has been a boy scout member of Beaver patrol 19th youth Centre troop a year and a half. Before that he was a cub for three years. He said today i m sure glad we Learned what to do in that kind of emergency. I never thought i d Ever get to use what scoutmaster Jack sector told me about saving people whose clothes caught today Eugene was the Toast of his West Kildonan neighbor Hood. But he did t take much notice of that. All i really he said is to see Little Marlyne get better mayor s message on radio tonight mayor Garnet Coulter will make a radio announcement in connection with flood conditions Friday at 9.30 . The announcement which City officials will be of vital in Terest to All citizens of greater Winnipeg area will be Broad cast Over All City stations and be of five minutes duration. Every Effort is being made to bring Back to some schools As Nany pupils As possible he said but owing to the limited accommodation and the distance of pupils from available schools in some instances. It has been found impossible to provide for certain and primary Grade pupils. The pupils of kindergarten and grades one and two of the schools that will not re open will not attend school until their own schools re open. Evans succeeds Burbidge As head of Law society f. R. Evans thursday was appointed to succeed the retiring president of the Law society of Manitoba. He succeeds f. M. Bur cau3ary, Chinook jockey club. Exhibition grounds seventh Day. Saturday first Kace claiming Maiden Var Olds and up. About 5 furlongs. X 105 also eligible Lucky Chino Elizabeth b-----110 running Flag m sir onslaught ten Dina 10 Tara s 120 x Uncle Vic x Spring Creek Krin Dulc Lirui air Long Darin 3 k x Mes Cafier boy 111 silent Burdock 33." Chanel Rock in claim info. 4 Yeai Olds and up about 7 furlongs. Man s Ace x even Trade 30 Valerian Craig x super-Fine-----114 pay Call 11h also Al Lallier shifty Jane 114 x away n away 11- Turner honorary treasurer and Pepper pol 114 x boots shortly 33-1 x Fillis 3m third s700. Of Liming. 4 year Olds Nurt up foaled in Canada furlongs. X Maxine loan x March Beauty 105 arb Lel x Kaleela ids yrs Lac n on la 110 Wilf v 11a can Rah Linn St claiming. and up foaled in Canada. Furlongs. Bridge. Other appointments were f. To. X Yankee in think 110 Clipper in 110 depressor k May do 110 Yankee 11. X Bird on Wing 110 far la 110 double or it a Lelh a soft .s700. Allowances 4 year lds and up furlongs. 117 Tinda sue 112 your guess 10r a pyrus lady Broad Simon 112 sir Lone 313 Star fair 112 also Kli Cible x Tony s Ruth a Black Deer 11.3 Lackson entry. Sixth sure 51.200, Chinook Handicap. 1 year Olds and up. About 7 sir a Knarf .115 Admiral 114 Broad Bend 114 air cadet.12-4 a playful Pilot loft 113 Bills entry. Seventh a tar s700. Claiming 3 year Olds and up. Five furlongs. X sleepy Salley no Smokane 122 x hairdo.112 11 out o War 122 also eligible x Gamar Devil 117 x beaming son 11 re lifted Wand 122 friendless 112 pubs i Ide 122 her Csc listed according to Post Post Tims first race 2.10 . Kulff Tylli Lump claiming 4 year Olds and up. About 7 Furlon Fis. X Queen Rhymer 109 x Alaska. Brie Lon Upton 114 Grande x Mrtin boy in also eligible croat Leader in Leni s by Sambo 119 Kanuk specs i 114 Pirl bib w. Hollands honorary Secretary. Chairmen of committees Are As follows. Standing committees finance f. J. Turner Library reporting and court House b. V. Richardson examining r. B. Macinnes discipline. R. B. Graham legislation h. E. Swift unauthorized practice committee p. G. Duval. Special committees leg afr ser vices to indigent persons civil g. S. Thorvaldson Gen eral needy persons advisory Centre i. .1. R. Deacon and certificate issuing committee g. Thorvaldson Legal Aid to indigent persons charged with Crim Inal offences f. R. Evans Pon graduate studies and refresher courses t. W. Laidlaw. 319 ignition wires blamed for s50 truck Blaze faulty ignition wires were blamed for the Blaze in the engine and cab of a truck Friday morning. Firemen were called to Suther land Avenue and main Street it 9.20 . E. Goelr., 555 Jarvis Avenue phoned in the alarm shortly after i saw flames leaping out a of his truck engine ;