Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1950, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week estranged wife stabbed accused 24, gets 3 months John Henry o Brien 24, was sentenced to three months in jail by magistrate m. Ii. Carton thursday in City police court when he pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife. The court was told that o Brien had gone to see his wife in. A restaurant where she was employed in order to talk Over a reconciliation sept. 14. During the discussion that ensued he followed her into the kit Chen picked up a knife and stabbed her three times. She was admitted to Hospital with wounds in the left Chest wrist and Side. None of the wounds were serious. Winnipeg thursday september 28, 1950 track torn up by trailer at Portage and Coverdale have a Long wait for the Portage Street car this morn ing Well Here s the reason Winnipeg electric company officials said the line was tied up for one hour and 3-1 min utes at s.20 . Thursday after a Low bed trailer at tempting a turn at Coverdale Street and Portage Avenue Tore up 30 feet of track. An Emer gency bus route to Polo Park was instituted in a matter of minutes. East bound traffic from Polo Park was delayed Only 20 minutes. Furrier fined for false tax return a Winnipeg furrier Alfred Rudolph of 456 Portage Avenue was fined s400 in provincial police court thursday when he do you know what Home made flavor Means try Bryce s Kitchen Star bread it s Home made. Sold Only at your Croc trs. Price 5c per copy edition with comics Loe three youths charged in armed robbery bid Sand hogs Tunnel deep under City miners imported for underground on Job by Shirlev Shahzeb for almost a year now an underground movement has been Active in the Northwest Newit Gunty to making false populated Section of Winnipeg. Deceptive statements in monthly tax return. The tax return covered the sales of a. Rudolph furs limited for october 1948, and involved a sales tax of Crown counsel said the furrier had made a return which covered Only part of the month s sales. Magistrate d. G. Potter imposed a Fine of and costs plus a penalty of double the tax involved. Two injured in Street traffic accidents two persons Are in St. Joseph s Hospital is n result of accidents tuesday. They Are George. Of 530 Windsor Avenue mid mrs. Anne bit Roii 6ft, of Pilch had Avenue. Or. Lunick was knocked Down by a Street car at the safely zone at main Street and Suther land Avenue about 10 ., police reported. In was found to he Kif Crink a possible Skull cerebral concussion and Exten Sive facial cuts and nor Sions. He is in fairly Good condition. Police say the operator of the Tram was John Kumpel of 652 bin Rutyne venue. Mrs. Baron who was crossing main Street it Cathedral a venue at 2.30 Was knocked Down by the Side of a truck. She was found to have abrasions to the right Side and head and was suf Fering from Shock. She is in fairly Pood condition. Police say the truck Driver was Morris Glesby of 235 Smithfield Avenue. . Clubs install District president Art Dyker will be installed As president of the Manitoba District Council of . Clubs at a ceremony at 6 To night in St. Stephen s Broadway United Church. D. R. Poole of Vancouver general Secretary of National association of . Clubs will conduct the installation. Other officers elected for the 1950-51 season at a meeting monday evening in clude honorary president judge f. A. E. Hamilton immediate past president. G. Bry Ron Mccrea vice president Stanley n. Jones treasurer Rev. John c. Mathieson and Secretary Leslie Rowland. Immunization clinic at Brooklands Friday a special immunization clinic for preschoolers and school children alike will be held in the Brooklands school Friday the department of health and Public welfare has announced. Protection will be Given against diphtheria whooping cough and smallpox. Children from six months to six years will receive their shots from 9.30 . To 11.30 . Came rows to stage scheme the Cameron highlanders will stage an infantry scheme at Pine Falls sunday. Members of the unit vill gather at Minto armouries at Saj . That Day. It is the first time in the City s history that a tunnelling process has been used in the construction of a trunk sewer the my Phillips Street sewer. When completed in november the sewer Tunnel will have penetrated an area stretching some two Miles and covered by hundreds of new Homes. Largest trunk sewer project knee j9j5, it will link up with Hie Jefferson a Cunt sewer at Sinclair Street run along sin Clair to Inkster Avenue up Ink Star to Mcl Hillips and then along Mcphillips until it joins present sewer at Aberdeen Bivenue. Wednesday afternoon photo Grapher Dave Bonner and i tramped through mud clambered up and Down ladders and trudged the printing craftsmen get flood Aid Cheque a Cheque for s2.770 to he used for the Relief of members of Winnipeg club of printing House craftsmen who were flooded this Spring was received at a meeting tuesday in the St. Regis hotel. The Money had been collected by the Duluth Brunch from clubs through out the United states and Canada. During the evening a pack away club bag was presented to past president George Carmichael by George Poulton. Or. And mrs. Car Michnal Are taking up residence in Van escape expert s term by 4 years a six month jail sentence which began for a 22-year-old Man from Eastern Canada in april. 19-59, has now stretched itself into a four and a half year Penitentiary term following an appearance in county court in Winnipeg thursday. A penchant for taking cars and breaking out prisons appeared to be the reason for the growing jail term which has now increased five times for Gordon Ritchie of no fixed abode. First sentenced in Toronto to six months for taking a car without the owner s consent and theft of gasoline Ritchie was sent to Guelph. Ont. To serve his term. Since that time he has been out for two Brief flings escaped at Guelph at Guelph. He escaped from the jail was recaptured and sentenced to two years in Penitentiary for unlawful escape and theft of two cars taken during the attempt to save a few months time. Sent to Stony Mountain Ritchie was working around the prison along Yards of watery eerie Tunnel to inspect these subterranean la Jors. In single file there was no background music like the strains accompanying now popular movie sewer chases As we marched in single file behind a. T. Art Putter City Engineer in charge of the project. The Only sounds were those of our own voices echoing and re echoing and the splash of seepage water through which we walked. When we travelled directly under Mel Hillips Street in a completed portion of the sewer Between Inkster Avenue and Machray Avenue the occasional car pulsing Over n manhole produced n subterranean rumbling which redoubled in sound As it bounded and Jorth Aloir the Long circular Tunnel. The first Shaft we entered was one Midway Between Sinclair Street and Mcphillips along Inkster. Here the Tunnel was not yet completed and Concrete pourer were working at the Western end. Cluny caves in at the Eastern end. A Cave in had brought Down a pile of yellow Silty Clay and work had s topped temporarily. Not actually enough Blue Clay on top for Good Coin rented or. Putter As he sifted the crumbly yellow Clay through his fingers. Under the topsoil of Winnipeg Earth he told us. There was first a layer of the Silty yellow Clay and then the Blue plasticine like Clay which was preferred for Topping the Tunnel. The floor of the Tunnel was 25 june 21, when he noticed an Nelow ground level added. Guarded prison truck with the keys in it. He drove off in the truck but not far. Ritchie ran into a Road Block and was returned to his cell. Thursday he pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful escape and theft of the prison truck before judge a. R. Macdonnell and was sentenced to another two years in addition to his present sentence. Term ends in 51 the six month term which be Gan in april 1949, will now end sometime in 1951. While Crown counsel w. J. Johnston admitted to the court that temptation had been put in the Way of he prisoner in the form of the unguarded truck with the keys in it judge Macdonnell commented that it was a serious of Fence and unless some addition were made to the present sentence it would serve As an inducement to other prisoners to escape. Descendant of pioneers remembers the old a descendant of Winnipeg s earliest families mrs. H. A. My Dermot suite a River and Osborne apartments will celebrate her 82nd birthday Friday. She is the daughter of the late James Bruce whose log House stood for Many on his farm site near the present Portage ave nue Entrance to City Park and the granddaughter by marriage of Stephens to speak d. M. Stephens Deputy minister of Public works and a member of the greater Winnipeg diking Board will address a meeting of the Scotia District flood sufferers association at s tonight in the Luxton school. He will talk on Dik ing plans for the Scotia area and West Kildonan. Flood victims from West Kildonan will be guests Al the meeting. Days construction of the sewer is in the hands of the Nelson River construction company with superintendent Tom Hul Lam directing operations. Or. I Utice and special inspectors arc the Only Eity employed men on tic Job. Actually or. Putter noted this was rot the first time tunnelling had been used to construct a underground system in Winnipeg he himself bad worked on the construction in 193o of a four mile main interceptor Job for the greater Winnipeg sanitary District thai s Why i was put on this Job i guess. Most of the men were Green at this kind of he said. Miners on Job Max pays costs for theft of Beer theft of four bottles of Beer Cost Raymond Leclair 27, of 437 William Avenue a Fine of 510 and costs when he pleaded guilty before magistrate m. H. Carton in City police court thursday. According to Evi Dence Leclair had an argument with a Friend with whom he had been drinking in a hotel room. After the Dis agreement he left taking the Beer with him. Andrew Mcdermot who came Here with the first red River settlers. The City and mrs. Mcdermot now have Bruce Street and me Macie ule first Dermot Avenue to remember them Forward into the United services to meet Brig. R. E. A. Morton Gen eral officer commanding Prairie command will be guest speaker at the fifth annual meeting of the United services Institute to be held in the Garrison offi cers mess Minto armouries at 8.30 Friday by. Mrs. Mcdermot recalled her school Days at the old St. John s College for women. The pram mar history and oreo Graphy of her education then was pretty she said but Tirls in those Days did t learn nearly As much As girls do mrs. Mcdermot chose House keeping As her career and working around the House is still her favorite pastime. After her marriage in St. James in 1s97, she made her Home on a farm near Sturgeon Creek. When her husband died about 20 years ago she moved to Winnipeg and has lived Here Ever since. Music and playing the piano has always been a favorite Hobby for her and for Many years she was organist for St. Andrew s Church in Sturgeon Creek where she is a life member. I during the flood she visited her daughter mrs. Walter Edwards in Windsor ont. There were nine in her family five of whom Are still living. One daughter ills. Allan Macdougal has lived in South of soon. Two other daughters and son c. L. Mcdermot All live in Winnipeg. Mrs. Mcdermot can also beast of eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. It really does t feel much Dif Ferent to be she confided. Photographer Dave As we made our Way skyward from the Shaft. St. Boniface sets Pace for Unity Maclean states mayor George Maclean and mrs. Maclean were tendered a reception wednesday afternoon and evening at the Home of or. And Rica for two years but is returning Jim s Alan Wail 55 ave the construction company had brought in miners from other part of Canada to help excavate the sewer Tunnel he told us. We were no Able to see the miners in. Action unfortunately because we arrived during the third phase of the operation in laying a sewer Section. When we made our Way Down the dimly lit Tunnel workers Phillip nem George Lamont and de Bozo were preparing Concrete forms under the supervision of their fore Man Clifford Mitchell. Before they came on the Iob a Monkey Man had made the first Clay. Then had come a Crew of two miners two bucket pushers and two fuckers to take out the full excavation. Final phases final phase of the operation is when the Concrete Crew sets the forms pours the Concrete to a Width of one foot and later strips the wooden shoring. It takes about 2-i hours to coir plete one Section ranging in length from six to eight or More feet explained or. Putter. That was easy to understand in took us three hours to make our Survey. Fresh air at breathed Bogota Columbia sept. 2s, bus loaded with Amore than 40 passengers hit a freight train about 30 Miles North of Here wednesday killing six persons and injuring 20. Hundreds of friends came to congratulate mayor Maclean who this year will be seeking his 8th straight term of office. Most of these people he said would be actively engaged in Campaign work for him during the next few weeks. During a Brief talk on the com ing civic elections mayor Mac lean said he was proud of coun cil s administration in the past 14 it s a. Eerie Damp walk through part of the nearly Complete Mcphillips str i get sewer As a. T. Art Putter assistant Engineer waterworks and sewerage Lor the City and Johnny inspector Survey a completed portion of the six loot Tunnel 25 feet under Philiips Street Between Inkster Avenue and Machray Avenue. Water on the floor of the Tunnel is seepage and will be pumped away later. Alerted City police Nab night hold up suspects three youths were charged in City police court thursday with attempted armed robbery follow ing tuesday night s epidemic of Lold ups in Winnipeg. A fourth Man arrested tuesday after he allegedly stole 525 from a William Avenue resident As he Eft a local Beer parlor appeared on a charge of robbery with Vio ence. Tie three Walter Chester Tcori Yiwon in cry Graydon Leco Bee 22, Ami Kichard. Thomas a knife 9, All pleaded not guilty and were remanded oct. 5. Hubert Legault 20, of Quebec City who appeared on the robbery violence charge was remanded without plea to Friday. Police said the three youths All rom Alberta were making their Way East looking for work. They were driving a car borrowed from a girl Friend in Weyburn sask according to police. The three were slopped at por Tage Avenue and memorial Boule Vard shortly afternoon wednes Day. Constable f. H. Mackus on traffic duty at the intersection noticed the licence number of the car corresponded with that of a car sought in connection with the attempted hold up of Alfred Drew suite 6, 70s Jessie Avenue tuesday night. Detectives said a search of the car Rod Nacif a Cap pistol from under die front seat. After taking his Wallet from him and finding no Money in it they re turned it one of the three men stayed in the car the victim told police. Kozak wrestlers barred auditorium Rule blasted he should be protected from such Competition. Action of the Winnipeg Auditori m commission in refusing further thus opinion was formed on the Crawford solicitor for Steve Kozall that the commission Friday decided hat no further bookings for wrest ing in the auditorium should be allowed this season. Bookings for the present season were As Many As could be reason ably put the commission s Rui no stated. That meant that Steve Kozak would not be Able to put on any wrestling matches this season in inc auditorium and would leave a monopoly for Alex Turk whose bookings were Al ready made declared or. Craw Ford. I think it is Rotten perfectly unfair. I was Thunder struck when i Learned what the commission had decided. Kozak is entitled to come in and put on a Good he asserted. Or. Crawford said he would see of. C. Morrison chairman of Thel auditorium commission and ask to have the matter reviewed. The commission s action was taken upon a report from the auditorium manager that Alex Turk was much perturbed Over the Competition of Steve Kozak. Or. Turk the report said was of the opinion that due to the volume of business he brought to the auditorium with consequent loss of Revenue to the auditorium the report added. However the manager added that if Kozak could secure wrestling commission bookings could not be refused unless the auditorium com Mission instructed otherwise. Or. Crawford told the free press thursday that he and Kozak would be associated herewith under name of Winnipeg sporting attractions limited. He added that the boxing and wrestling commission had indicated that they would give permits for matches to such a company headed by or. Crawford. The wrestling commission has been playing Ball with us. But the auditorium commission certainly in t doing things in a spirit o f commented or. Craw Ford. Setting ring forms for pouring of Concrete in a portion of the Mcphillips Street trunk sewer Are Phillip and George lament while Lillord Mitchell Foreman looks on. This portion of the sewer Tunnel is under Inkster Avenue near Mcphillips Street. Begins Campaign Frank Wagner Independent candidate for Council in Ward three in the coming civic election has started a whirlwind Campaign. At a meeting held in Elmwood this week an elect Wagner com Mittee was set up. Chairman is a. Bamberger. J. Miller is Secre tary and Carl Bardal. Treasurer. The committee includes col. James Carberry and other sup porters. Organization meetings Are being held every monday and wednesday until election time. The committee at its last ses Sion endorsed or. Wagner s idea of running As an Independent. Winnipeg weather continues colder in Sharp contrast to the 85 degree weather of the past week end the Mercury in Winnipeg thursday will go Only to 55 degrees the Weatherman states. Wednesday the High temperature was 66, and during the night dropped to 42. The Low thursday night will be about 40 degrees. An intense storm Centre nearly stationary North of Lake Winnipeg is said to be responsible for the pres ent Cool blustery weather throughout the Prairies. Prog con leadership challenged in . Kelowna ., sept. 28 up a. C. Bennett coalition Mem Ber of the British Columbia legis lature for South Okanagan announced thursday he will try to wrest the . Progressive conservative leadership from Hon. Her Bert Anscomb finance minister. Car break ins believed tied to Rural thefts thieves who struck at Griswo Lri ian., and several of her country joints during last week end also broke into a number of cars at Griswold . Reported thurs Day. If was believed that the car break ins which netted the thugs a Battery radio and several tins of gasoline May be related to the seven breaking and entering re ported in the surrounding area. . Are checking into the discovery wednesday of an Auto Mobile in a Slough four Miles East of Brandon. It was believed that the Auto which had different licence numbers on the front and May also be connected Wita the rash of burglaries. Race ticket forger Given 3-month term attempts to Cash forged parimutuel tickets Al Polo Park race track sept. 12 brought a jail sen tence of three months for John Sebastian Fischer 536 Ross Avenue thursday. Fischer pleaded not guilty before magistrate m. H. Carton in City police court to two charges of at tempted fraud. Witnesses told the court the accused presented a daily double ticket Worllie Anil n place ticket Worth it the Cash wicket. Both tickets bore forged numbers. When questioned by detectives called by the cashier Fischer said he had obtained the tickets from a Friend and was cashing them for m. Police said to attempted to escape after he was questioned in ant office at the rear of the Pari Nutzel wickets. He was recaptured after a Short Chase and placed under arrest. Magistrate Carton sentenced him .0 three months on each charge the terms to run concurrently. North Winnipeg meeting backs Willis resignation the continuance of coalition English. Noah Skidmore to eminent in Manitoba was condemn a , de wednesday in a Resolution unanimous v at a meeting of North v k v j Kessall Fred Stuertz. Winnipeg progressive association. Ate eting in the ukrainian National federation Hall on main Street the association also unanimously approved the action of Errick f. Wil Jis in withdrawing from the coalition government. A third Resolution condemned the actions of Premier d. L. Campbell during the flood crisis last Spring. The association passed other Reso unions which 1. Sought a share for municipal ies in liquor profits gasoline taxes and amusement taxes. 2. Favored Concrete actions to combat communism in Canada. 3. Condemned racial discrimination of any nature. 4. Called for the provincial government to increase educational Grants and assume a greater pro portion of the educational Burden. Women Are targets mrs. J. C. Irvine president of Manitoba women s progressive con so native association told delegates that there is Strong opposition to women in politics in practice despite the lip service Given to their equal women in political life Are tar gets for criticism More than they Are expected to be Well nigh she said. She added that there is a vast Field for women in government and a great need every Canadian who values free Dom should take an interest in political she said. Other Wise what has happened in other countries will happen to us Here in if the ballot had not been so easily obtained in Canada it would be More highly regarded and protected she said. The fight rumoured for some to attend convention will come next week in. Vancouver the following delegates i at the annual convention of the elected to attend the coming pro , progressive conservatives Vinci Al convention at Brandon minority group in the coalition gov mrs. T. W. Beech mrs. E. Grabosky eminent mrs. N. Skidmore Kornylo Magera Michael Musicki and Albert Stech Ishin. Native of Russia Winnipeg Man will be 80 sunday b. Lucow a Pioneer who came out from Russia to Strathclair Man., in 1912, will celebrate his 80th birth Day sunday. B. Lucow of 31 Machray Avenue moved to Winnipeg from Strath Clair in 1924. Although retired from his merchandising business he still keeps up with world events and enjoys excellent health. He has two sons. Maurice of Windsor. Ont. And sol of Vegreville alta., and three daughters mrs. A Rosen and mrs. M. Sair of Winnipeg and mrs. B. Schilc of Detroit. There Are three grand children ;