Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba May take another Bow Londoff a the British copy rights on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes expired the 50th anniversary of the death of his and new exploits of the worlds most famous detective Are Holmes and his faithful their Arch foe Moriarty and the other inventions of sir Arthur Conan Doyle now can be used in plays and films without paying royalties to Conan Doyles heirs or his lady Conan Doyles 67year old says she will Welcome new stories featuring her fathers great she just Hopes they will have John Grey whose old firm has published sofian Odfrie for Shore than 60 says he expects increased Competition but thinks he can meet Murray has issued a collected Edi omnibus volumes and paperbacks of the Holmes his chief worry is that Conan Doyles texts will be emasculated since they Are no longer protected from alteration or Condensa the sorting out of Conan Doyles literary remains provided a lawyers one biographer calculated that in the fir Sec 46 years after the writers about a third of the income from his works was dissipated in Legal interest in Holmes around the world is still Benny a London re ports that the stories have been trans lated into 41 including Eskimo and and in 1958 the Conan Doyle estate collected royalties in n different there have been a concordance to a two a an a 54 116 silent 81 a Ballet and a Broadway the Abbey National building which occupies the site of Holmess rooms at 221b Baker Street if there had been a no has a Denar Emertt to answer the letters which arrive every Day seeking the detectives Michael a London writer who has already written books and plays based on the Sherlock Holmes laments the eclipse of Conan Doyle by his there Are More than 500 Sherlock Holmes societies in the he but if there is one devoted to Conan Doyle i have yet to hear of Hardwick said he discovered one London Library had a Small exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the authors theres no Rush hour on River ill Clear tonight 12 sunny tomorrow 27 Winnipeg free press jute 1080 tos no 184 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 200 for Home Call 9570550 a vaunt ulovv4cki Wimnie Pelfree press ambulance attendants carry injured Man from the Holiday inn yesterday after a fire broke out on the ninth floor of the West wooed but not won Trudeau Only Bright spot in convention of contradictions by Mary Janigan in news service Brand at As a bizarre blend of minor Triumph and near the Liberal delegates who came to Pound out policy today from their Conven Tion with a sheaf of contradictory prime minister Piere Trudeau who claimed this is not a Oneman government can now also boast that he was the Only one who kept everyone and the Wesie mrs who wanted to refill their drained spirits found most of their Consolation on the conventions Lively cocktail westerners did manage to pass some Radical policy resolutions on everything from railway Branchine preservation to economic Trudeau did succeed in briefly elevating the party beyond regional bickering to some kind of National the Mere backroom process of bringing easterners out to Chat with about westerners Means that everyone must feel a Little closer but the liberals have also Learned some very disturbing despite the party protestations and his Trudeau remains the sole Western More you can bet that the liberals Are going to return to their traditional format of cozy workshops where the rank and file can Pepper ministers with an experimental attempt to confine the weekends proceedings to one Large plenary meeting triggered policy con incredible confusion and staggering in this Only Trudeau and the election of party officers generated any real on Friday the prime minister spun a fragile United spirit when he vowed to bring the Constitution Home to Stop the economic wars Between provinces and to preserve a Madei Canada Oil on he dominated a tame hour Long ministerial responsibility and at yesterdays sign he was the Only one who managed to cow the delegates into the party tried hard to downplay Trudeau there were no traditional posters of the Leader in the cavernous convention the prime minister attempted to sit quietly at the Back of the room and follow the pro westerners not Overly optimistic on party future feedings like to Ordinary Bui the rank and file interviews with up news service continually cited his Friday speech As the sole Conven Tion although per cent of the delegates voted for a leadership party officials and Many Ordi nary delegates viewed this vote As the Only Chance for westerners to express their frustration about the party poor showing in their Region in the last if Trudeau was a the rest of the convention was and the trouble seemed to Stem directly from the for for this critical Western organizers abandoned workshop informality for a situation in which the party Bosses were up on the Pat term see Trudeau Page 4 the liberals details on Page 10 by Ingeborg Boyens wooing the West with words is but the Manitoba caucus chairman of the Liberal party says would be David Walker said the National executive must be willing to put that much Money into organizing provincial Par ties West of and even with such financial said the National executive i Here is no Way you will see remits of this for four or Jive years Saul Walker it the 1 Iberal party future in Western Canada in not but in not Overly optimism walkers cautious optimism about Success of the Liberal convention in Winnipeg in meeting one of its main goals rekindle party fortunes in the West was shared by a number of other Western delegates interviewed during the three Day Manitoba party president John be Byshyn said the National executive would have to Start work the Day after the convention if it was firm in its resolve to rebuild support in the prime minister Trudeau and new party president Norm Macleod said they were committed to rebuilding the Liberal party in the and the delegates rubber stamped contentious policy resolutions proposed by Western provinces with scarcely any there were some Liberal including Manitoba Liberal David Defeated yesterday in his hid to become the party policy who said to More effectively woo the West the party should have held its biennial convention in Calgary or Edmonton rather than see Liberal Page 4 Norman Macleod elected National party president it was t on the liberals but columnist Allan Fother Gham found a movable cocktail party in Winnipeg Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde has few encouraging words for Manitoba s Energy projects i partisans for Lloyd Axworthy see a Victory in vote of Confidence for leadership of prime minister Trudeau Man held following fatal fire in hotel by Laurie Streich police have charged Rudolf Rolf a with setting fire to a substance following a fire at the Down town Holiday inn yesterday that killed a Delegate to the Liberal party Conven sent seven others to Hospital and caused million in of no fixed was to appear this morning in Provin Cial judges court in the Public safety police said the Man want associated with the Liberal Conven senior Crown counsel Wayne mesh Kowsky said further charges May be Laid depending on the outcome of an autopsy later Joseph of Portage la a Delegate to the Liberal party convention that ended Only hours before the was pronounced dead on arrival at the health sciences an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in Portage Marquette Riding in the last two Federal was found in the Hall near an elevator on the hotels ninth police assistant Deputy fire chief roman Bilous said two of the other victims taken to Hospital were hotel employees and five were convention delegates from Eastern they were All reported in satisfactory condition last the fire started in room 926 of the i Storey hotel shortly after 3 hundreds of delegates to the lib eral party convention were staying in the hotel while attending functions in the adjoining convention most of the ninth floor was occupied by delegates and a number were at a hospitality suite on that floor when fire broke Bilous said last night it had not been determined exactly where the fire the lire and heavy Black smoke sent hotel guests Rushing to Stair exits and i he roof while others stood on balconies holding towels to their faces while awaiting Rescue by the fire depart set Man Page 4 thirteen survive ordeal in desert hell a robbed and abandoned by smugglers who transported them Over the a group of Salva including three drank aftershave lotion and fought Over drops of urine in a desperate attempt to Stav alive in searing desert a survivor we put it urine in rags and we wiped our faces with said 20year old Yolanda Estela it was so hot and we were so she was one of 1 lion a group of to to rescued from the unbaked where the air temperature reached 43 degrees celsius i and the soil reached 1 thirteen Salva koreans were found dead trom deity i duration and three children were among the the Middle class who officials say May have fled then coun try to escape civil paid up to each to be smuggled my the i med states and were abandoned in Organ pipe Cactus National Monument Park at least four Days ago officials say theres no Hope of find ing Mure hut a Low Profir search Tor Mure bodies was conducted today in the Omeire a search by horseback and helicopter began Friday after a Motorist reported seeing a Man lying by the two bodies and 10 survivors were found and 11 More dead and three survivors were found after being tormented by the extreme desert they had stripped Ott much of their clothing and were found covered with Cactus said Joseph who treated the ivors i Here were thorns in their thorns in their but locks and face everywhere that you can near a c Luster of bodies found yester Day were mirrors and traces of a fire the salvadorans had set to advise aircraft to their the group included some husbands some a six year a 21 and a Young Mother who said the smugglers took her 13 Moi Tohild said Vair anaemia re Ifie aliens had valid Al salvadorean passports and mexican entry but ii ii is entry said Border Kami agent Tarl bad timing some of the biggest strikes take place at what seems exactly the wrong time for the opposing sides and the Economy 13 5 for Borg Bjorn the swedish Tennis won his fifth straight Wimbledon title by defeating american John Mcenroe in an four hour match 49 athletes defect seven members of Afghanistan s 11man wrestling team have slipping out of Kabul the Day before they were to Fly to Moscow for the 28 rough lesson six americans lost in the Bush in Manitoba Learned something about survival and themselves 2 Index j f Ulii Puz 20 Lett by to listings 21 10 t 7 20 2f 6 29 14 1 29 i j ;