Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, December 17, 1951

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 17, 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Monday Page cadets hold Preece Day for first Aid instructor Portage la Prairie Man dec. 17 special saturday a Day at the Manitoba As m. Brown and in. Jones. Knowledge character and said the new sponsor can former mayor of Portage James when Charles Preece. Or. Preece who during the Cadet corps tour years has turned out More than 250 qualified first aiders was Given a testimonial prepared by the and signed by the prior of the venerable order of St. John of Jerusalem Viscount Alexan Der of Tunis. George James also of the St. John ambulance corps said won by the cadets Mere practically nil 100 per As Bruce Jones superintendent the Home presented the scroll to or. Preece the Cadet corps cheered their instructor who is also Bat Tery sergeant with Portage s 18th anti tank regiment the 60 cadets wearing the mar con berets of the paratroopers also were introduced to their now Spon Sor maj. Webster Burton second in command of the anti tank unit. Other sponsors arc . N t to rsm. W. Donaldson who has been training Portage cadets and Reserve soldiers for close to s3 years went the Honor of presenting a replica of a shooting trophy named after him to one of the Cadet lieu tenants. Presentations Over the Youthful cadets of 745 special air service cadets corps affiliated with Rivers joint air training marched past the saluting base winding up the Day s ceremonies. Many fires kill 4, homeless in cold snap Toronto dec. 17 persons died several were injured and Many were left homeless in fires across Canada during the week end that coincided with an Early Winter cold snap. Monetary losses totalled close to ten families were left homeless near Moncton ., when a converted air Force Barracks was destroyed at East Dieppe. The fire was one of three in the Village in the Early morning hours As temperatures dipped Well below Zero. A school and a theatre were the other buildings destroyed. Loss in the three fires was placed at Coo. Heaviest Dami Ike the loss in n Blilwe that gutted the Halifax processing packaging and storage Plant of Burns fisheries limited. Loss was estimated at from 000 to to stocks in the wholesale storage warehouse of Northern distributing Ana Ware housing company in Saskatoon. In addition owners placed damage to the building at oct Ween and couple Dies in fire about As stubborn was an Toronto fire that was battled for eight hours in a neat Zero temperature in a three Storey in building occupied by four firms. About 20 Miles Northwest of Toronto Wilfred Amos 30, and on his 28-y eat old wife Rita s a Cange their blazing apartment at streets affecting Al Lac. Eleven other occupants Marjer a a col. Dextraze says an Revoir i to 4van Doos with the canadians in Korea dec. 17 cult col. J. A. Dextraze left for Japan by air monday and . Caston Valle of Quebec assumed com Mand of the Royal 22nd, French Canadian regiment. At a reception sunday. For col. Dextraze whose Home is in Montreal the 25th brigade poked fun at charges made in Ottawa by p e. Gagnon Independent my for Chicoutimi and at the colonel s own predilection for Stout barbed wire entanglements to guard his regiment s positions. In the commons nov 15, or. Cagnon said French Canadian soldiers in Korea Are forced to serve in the exposed positions and Given the most unpleasant fatigue duties. At the reception a Van Doo stretched on a table at the far end of Headquarters manned a Bren gun beneath n sign Reading most exposed for the colonel a sign Post outside the marquee advertised the Jade barbed wire corporation with a caricature of col. Dextraze smoking a monster Cigar. Native costumes shown at colourful pageant 4. On Tielve Sai parity walked by changes Afa told costumes representing about 20 ethnic groups in Winnipeg a eared in the colourful native a want show sunday afternoon in he Parish Hall of the ukrainian St. Mary s orthodox Cathedral Burrows Avenue and Sinclair Street. The show was in Aid of the Cathedral building fund. Mrs. Raymond Senicki convener and master of ceremonies de cried each native costume As the paraded across the i pro stage in the Middle of the Lall groups represented included indians British scottish Irish ukrainians byelorussian Esthon ans jewish dutch japanese Chi Nese greek russian Pakistan lithuanians italians swedish nor Vee ians and germans. 6 National Folk dances and music federation of agriculture said y institution of parity prices i cultural products appears building escaped. B. Leslie n British Columbia logger was burned to death in a fire in a West end apartment in Vancouver. Also in Vancouver cordon Robinson nine months was fatally burned when a hot plate set fire to his crib _ hitch hiker charged in moving Van theft North Bay ont. Dec. 17 up _ Albert Reid a 35-year-old Edmonton Man. Has been charged with the theft of a Edmonton moving Van carrying several thou Sand dollars Worth of eur Ture Reid hitch hiked n ride from port Arthur to Here in the von and allegedly stole the truck Friday night the Driver left it with the motor running. Police spotted the big truck saturday near mount Forest -10 Miles South of Owen sound and arrested Reid. He is being returned Here face charges. To almost impossible chiefly because frequent changes in conditions in. Iii an address pre pared for delivery to the opening of the annual . Convention said that in addition to frequent changes affecting production the elements of yield would also tend to disturb the ultimate results. We find in the purity pro gramme adopted in the United states that where the govern ment undertook to pay 80 per cent of purity for the first two years with provision to lower the percentage during the Fol lowing years Embarrass my surpluses occurred Ami resulted in support being withdrawn on some products. Perhaps in principle no one can say that parity is not reasonable. But to equitably apply it is a major the Farmers Union of Alberta at its annual convention Here last week urged the Federal govern ment to Institute parity prices to bring the Price received by farm ers from Domestic sales in line with production costs. New hike will Load Dice against West Shepard. _ _ d ii7oii wine nut and railway re wind Coal co. Ltd. Coal Coke Wood 506 bldg. Phone 927-404 Churchill Eden meet French chiefs Paris dec. 17 minister Winston Churchill and British foreign minister it. Hon Anthony Eden Here for High Leve talks with the French government got Down to business quickly Mon two statesmen were due to begin discussions monday afternoon with French Premier Rene pleven and Robert Schuman foreign my Istir. Korea and the Europea army arc both on the Agenda. Official aim of their visit is to get French views in connection with or. Churchill s Washington talks with president Truman next month. He soils for new York dec. 39 started each Day feeling tired upset nervous too mrs. Senicki said we can be proud to say that Unity can be achieved Only by working Side by Side with All ethnic groups in Unity there is strength and strength is our great nation our Canada. Mrs. Senicki also emphasized that the world owed debt of gratitude to great Britain for her struggle for Justice Law and miss Margaret Kennedy representing the y.w.c.a., said integration of All ethnic groups in Canada will enrich Canadian culture. One japanese girl Irene Saka Moto modelled her native costume another japanese girl Marion mat Suo modelled the chinese. Miss Veldima Mako Lolakas lithuanian had beads obtainable Only in the now years drop away for woman who feels like Young girl when relieves Long standing Taney condition stomach upsets and that always tired feeling. What a Joy it is to Waken with fact to a alive feeling a a feeling so dragged out and discouraged you lose interest in life mrs. H. Holmes 59 Colborne St., Brantford Ontario a Orfe of the Luck who thus had that Happy experience. She writes for several years .1 Haven t Felt Well even before i started the Day i always so tired out and nervous i never cared to go out and did t take much interest in life. I suffered a lot from a Dull ache in the Back of my neck which Ion times lasted three Days could it a meal without bloating and having shortness of breath and was very irregular As Well. Nothing i took seemed much help until i tried Sarna k. By the i had taken my first bottle of Sarnak. I began to feel like Gul relieved of stomach upsets is that tired out feeling. Sarnak relieved kidney condition 1 with for Long time. Ottawa dec. 17 up a new freight rate increase would Loci the Dice against the West the Manitoba government argued monday before the Board of trans port commissioners. C. D. Shepard of Winnipeg Manitoba counsel declared the eneral 10-per-Ccnt. Increase sought by the railways would hit hardest at the areas away from the Centre of Canada. Continuing final argument for the provinces or. Shepard noted that the railways did not propose to apply the increase to competitive rates which Are most heavily concentrated in Ontario and Quebec. Thus the Are loaded the West at the he said. The Dice Are further loaded by the obvious fact that a horizon Tal percentage increase has the effect of charging against Long haul traffic a very much greater increase in cents per 100 pounds than that which is charged against Short haul Alberta counsel a j. Frawley also arguing against a rate in crease told the Board it would be quite incomprehensible if the Canadian Pacific railway were Able to persuade it that the company was in such dire need that freight rates already up 62.6 per cent Over March 1948, had to go up again. Or. Shepard expressed the Hope that neither the railways nor this Board will fail to appreciate the seriousness of the Impact of horizontal in creases which results from calling on the fringes of can Uda s Economy the West and East to Supply the bulk of any additional revenues re we in Manitoba do not ask for special he added but we do As freight payers strenuously object to having a Burden placed upon us a Burden out of All proportion to Cost simply because Lor reasons entirely beyond our control the railways must seek 100 per cent of their Revenue deficiency from 50 per cent of the generally or. Shepard argued the railways had failed to prove the need of a further rate increase beyond the 12 per cent they obtained from the Board last july. He said the . S common Tock currently was trading at he highest level in Many years. It Vas making substantial capital improvements and financing them without apparent difficulty. Traffic increasing he also advanced these Points 1. Increasing traffic in 1952, resulting from general expansion of he National Economy might very Well wipe out any railway Revenue Del 2 expense items of the . Submitted to the Board were above Normal for rate making purposes. 3 at the level of rates now in effect the . Would have surplus of on its rail Way Enterprise. It wanted the in crease Only to obtain a larger surplus. 4. While part of the increase was sought to overcome the effect of the 20-percent, defence sur charge tax on the company the . S shareholders rather than the freight shippers who should absorb this. Or. Shepard said the purpose of it the defence surtax was not. Only to raise Revenue for the govern ment but also to curb inflation by reducing purchasing More about Huffman continued from Page 1 mrs. H. Holmes no wonder i am thankful for All Samak has been Able to do for mrs. Holmes Case bears out the reports from hundreds who have tried Sarnak and who have found Relief within three weeks. You see Samak starts its from the moment you take the first dose. It acts fart because its in liquid form no tablets or pills to dissolve in the stomach so Don t suffer a moment longer thin necessary. Get Sarnak to Day n salary of for the sea son. The rams argued that a clause n a contract which expired May 1 this year granted the club a further option on his services until May 1. 1952. Or. Huffman signed last May 26 to play with the Blue bombers in the 1951-52 season for he had argued that his rams con tract was unfair and that he had signed no agreement for this year. In his petition to the West Vir Ginia supreme court the big tackle contended that the circuit court erred in overruling his Bill of com plaint against the injunction and in refusing to dissolve the restrain ing order. Winnipeg injunction the King s Bench Chambers at Winnipeg also granted a temporary injunction last August restrain ing him from playing for the Cana Dian team. Chief Justice e. K. Williams dissolved the order the following month leaving or. Huffman free to play for Winnipeg so far As the Canadian court was concerned. He played in nine of Winnipeg s 16 games in the season just ended. Rio de Janeiro dec. 17 Reuters forty persons were reported killed and Many injured in a rail crash near fort Aleza in the brazilian state of Ceara Mon Day. Meyer still under canal a assures Ottawa dec. 17 minister Louis St. Laurent Reiter Ted monday in the commons Anada retains Complete Juristic on Over Kurt Meyer nazi Gen Al sentenced to life Imp Songmei or responsibility in the killing o acadian prisoners in the last a no change had been made i Beyer s status other than to Tran him from Dorchester a a prison in Germany. Meye Emai cd under Canadian Juristic on except in matters pertain 3 the actual operation of the Ger Nan prison. Or. St. Laurent made the Stati nent after George Drew Progre be conservative Leader said to acadian people should to aether the government plans to Meyer. London people with sensitive skin a British firm is producing a Type of Wool treated with Rayon in a Way which gives the warmth without the i hunger drives thief into arms of police Oak Lake Man., dec. 17 special a hungry transient who had not eaten for three Days broke into the Cana Dian Pacific railway station late saturday night and Tore open Christmas parcels in search of food. He also broke open a Cash found it empty. A second drawer containing a Small amount of Money was driven to desperation after finding neither food nor Money the hungry Man telephoned . At Virden and reported his crime. He waited until police arrived and took him into custody. Foe s Santa slips gifts to Patricia by Boss West sector. Korea dec. 17 up Santa Claas visited part of the korean front yesterday. He even came in North korean style. Some members of the 25th brigade Princess Patricia s Canadian Light infantry were Given time out. For a Christmas party with offi cers acting As waiters. The party was Given ror 175 men representing All units who Are slated for routine duty dec. 25. White jacketed officers served the regular Turkey dinner with All the trimmings. The North koreans got into the act in pre Dawn darkness. They slipped through United nations lines lugging bundles of Christmas cards and Stock Ings filled with trinkets such As plastic cigarette holders embroidered hand kerchiefs and lighters. The enemy dropped the gifts near the Canadian outpost and fled. The cards were Well printed with Holly leaves and Bells. An inscription on each greetings from chinese Peoples volunteers Korea 1951." . Attitude on canal zone res Cairo Cafro dec. 17 Nyht Gyps acting foreign minister in him Farag Pasha sunday voiced Rong dissatisfaction with the United states attitude on the Anglo egyptian question. He said the egyptian government not modify its demand for Complete vacation of British troops. The United states is the com by with first responsibility for orld peace. In Iran it contributed o peace. Here in Egypt the . Doing the contrary if the a. Were to withdraw its support rom Britain everything would be lived. The United states uti Ould advise Britain to Reallie our National aspirations. We would then be ready to re examine relationship on a new basis and to contribute to securing the the acting foreign minister not comment on his three interviews last week with ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Farar Pasha said Egypt does not clone the door to four Power proposals but will con Sider them Only if Egypt s Basic requirements Are recognized. He warned however that if the Anglo egyptian deadlock continue for a Long time egyptian Public Pinion might ultimately excl us he possibility of Alliance with to Vest. Eden to see key egyptian on Suez Row predict or. Eden will Nake a constructive move toward evolving the which followed cancellation by Egypt of treaty of 303b. Or. Eden arrived in Paris Mon a morning with prime Minuter Vinton Churchill for two of talks with French government. He egyptian Minuter attend in in meetings. In Cairo monday the Independent newspaper. At ashram suggested Ranee might act Ai mediator in he dispute. It is or. Will ind Inte Britain s to reopen Nen Tutlis my in the ims treaty. But Kwh is expected to stress that renewed iter Otu tons must be accompanied by an end terrorism in the canal one. Sir Ralph Stevenson British am Assad or in Cairo sunday handed Egypt a Strong note accusing egyptian police of murdering four British officers and two soldiers in Omailia last month. London excavation party says it has no doubt that treasures of roman London arc lying below the surface but be fore reaching that level the parly Hopes to find relics previous to the great fire of 1666. 12 peasant letting chlorophyll Tamburi North til Liny of Retikis 1.1 u k London dec. "17 Reuters Anthony Eden foreign Secretary will meet Salah Eldi 3asha, egyptian foreign minister n Paris tuesday to try to Breo 493 Selkirk ave. He deadlocked dispute Over the Uez canal zone it was announce More about growth continued from Page 1 Estment reached the cures exclude capital items charged to operating expenses. Or Howe s report stated that canadians had undertaken in 1951 capital investment programme surpassing that in any previous corresponding period. This had occurred when the country was Iso embarking on the largest de nce programme in Canada s his Ory the capital investments in Mam Oba s capital have kept Pace with he rest of the country. 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