Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Holmes May take another Bow if London a tire British copy rights on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes expired the Soth anniversary of the death of his att flew 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 Johst Grey whose old firm has published Conan Doyle for More 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 first 46 years after the writers about a third of the income from his works was dissipated in Legal interest in Holmes prot my 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 72 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 22ifi Baker Street if there had been a has a department 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 there s no Rush hour on River sunny today 25 Clear tonight 12 v it go Ress final 200 for Home Call 9570550 july ids no 134 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Delegate killed in hotel fire Man held 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 up news service Brand at As a bizarre blend of minor Triumph and near the Liberal delegates who came to Pound out policy Are Home 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 westerners 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 westerners not Overly optimistic on party future 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 there is no Way you will see results of this for four or five said Walker of the Liberal party future in Western Canada in not bad timing some of the biggest strikes take place at what seems exactly the wrong time for the opposing sides and the but in not Overly optimism walkers cautious optimism about Success of the Liberal convention in Winnipeg in meeting one of its main goals to rekindle party fortunes in the West was shared by a number of other Western delegates interviewed during the three Day Manitoba party president John Petryshyn 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 bid 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 Graham Page 4 traditional posters of the Leader in the cavernous convention the Prince minister attempted to sit quietly at the Back of the room and follow the proceedings like an Ordinary but the rank and file in interviews with up news service continually cited his Friday spech As the sole convention 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 see convention Page 4 the liberals details on Page 10 Norman Macleod elected National party president it was t on the liberals but columnist Allan Fother Gham found a movable cocktail party in Winnipeg i Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde has few encouraging words for Manitoba s Energy projects l partisans for Lloyd Axworthy see a Victory in vote of Confidence for leadership of prime minister Trudeau by Laurie Streich a 43yearold Man is in police custody following a fire at the downtown holi Day inn yesterday that killed a Delegate to the Liberal party put seven others in and caused million in 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 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 few panicked during the file broke out on the ninth floor of the 18storey 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 a Winnipeg police detective said a 43yearold Man was in but no charges had been Laid last most of the ninth floor was occupied by delegates und a number were at a hospitality suite on that floor when fire broke out Bilous said last night it had not been determined exactly where the fire the fire and heavy Black smoke sent hotel guests Rushing to Stair exits and the roof while others stood on balconies holding towels to their faces while awaiting Rescue by the fire depart a number of hotel guests said the buildings fire alarm was slow to sound a warning and fire trucks were at the scene before the alarm Quebec my Pierre la said he and three other Liber als were in a ninth floor hospitality suite when they noticed he said a room door caught fire before the alarm went it must have taken 15 minutes for the alarms to he Deniger and his friends were rescued from the Balcony by Henry who was staying on the Isth but was not a convention i heard the fire engines and looked out of my room to Sec where they were going and soon 1 was looking right below he said he haunt heard an alarm by the time the Fin trucks chief provincial medical examiner Dirks said he will probably recommend an inquest after an autopsy is performed sixty four men fought the two alarm fire using 10 five Rescue five one Aerial sprayer and a the fire was under control before five Bilous we have first class there Only two years the fire burned through the entire ninth the remaining floors of the 411room particularly those below the suffered extensive water and smoke see Blaze Page 4 13 alive after trek in desert 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 stay 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 13 trom a group of 41 to rescued from the unbaked where the air temperature reached 43 degrees celsius and the soil reached 65 thirteen Salva koreans were found dead from dehydration and three children we among the the Middle class whip officials say May have fled their coun try to escape civil pan in each to he smuggled into the imbed states and were abandoned m Organ pipe Cactus National Monument Park at least four Days ago officials say theres no Hope of find ing More but a Low profile search Tor More bodies was being conducted today in the Lametre a search by horseback and helicopter began Friday after a Motorist reported seeing a Man lying by the i to bodies arid 10 survivors Weie found and 11 More dead and three survivors were found after being tormented by the extreme desert they had stripped off much of their clothing and were found covered with Cactus said see desert Page 4 5 for Borg Bjorn the swedish Tennis won his fifth straight Wimbledon title by defeating american John Mcenroe in an four hour 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 rough lesson six americans lost in the j Bush in Manitoba Learned something about survival and themselves 2 ;