Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, December 27, 1919

Issue date: Saturday, December 27, 1919
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1919, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gift to medical College medical University of is Likely to receive or More As its share of the Christmas gift made by John Rockefeller to the medical institutions of North o c h flour embargo temporary a temporary embargo on flour to West Johns is in effect apparently placed by the rail ways with the consent of the Gram barges May be placed from time to time throughout the 46 151 today weather fair not my 3 change in 1919 saturday Sun rises Moon rises sets rises sets Loon rises sets thirty Sec pages to stake definite Steps to Compromise King pressure to Bear on to ratify treaty next session not so Active As re but action soon is is scrambled situation in both party organizations at Washington numerous steel strike have sought other Ork 01 fifteen Hundred steel men voted unanimously tonight to continue on stride and to remain away from their former employment until the stride is won or officially declared off by the National i i the decision to remain Idle was reached after they had heard the re port of two of their number who had been sent to Pittsburgh to Confer with National Secretary of Fie steel Foster said that it was his opinion that the men Mere making a winning and that the complaint of shortage of steel was evidence of when the strike was Twenty thousand men quit work Many of these have found employment in other and some Are said to have returned to work in the idleness in some of the the manufacturers is due More to a shortage of Coal than to a Lack of deaths in Princess Mary officiates at opening of new City women club in London thirty two die from Christ Mas liquor sold in Hart Connecticut Pooch alcohol kills Manhattan reports 27 Fatali ties and sickness from misused spirit isfried with the Progress to Ward solution of the peace treaty senators of both political parties moved today to bring pressure to Bear on their party leaders for a Compromise o ensure ratification promptly on the reassembling of Congress in the mild reservation group of notifying their party Der senator Lodge of Massachi is that in their opinion the time come to part company with the reconcilable foes of the de Lared that unless Compromise Nego lations got More wholehearted sup port from the Republican Side the Ere preparing to act independently or an agreement with the criticism of president among the democrats the move ment was not so Well tit Ilcisin of the course of president Wilson and senator Hitchcock of Nebraska the acting democratic proportions where some predicted that it would soon be Given Sneible one prominent democratic senator my to have told the Republic uns that More than thirty of the Wrt seven on that Side would join a movement to ratify the treaty at inc on the Best terms they could the effect was a scrambled Situa in both party organizations which the leaders seemed confident they could straighten but which the Compromise advocates predicted Rould strengthen the l partisan conference of those determined to ratify the even the expense of material conces Sions on both deadlock unnecessarily prolonged the feeling among Are Toady to go ahead without their Lead Eft seemed to be that the treaty dead lock Hail been prolonged unnecessarily by too much no Compromise and that both Side Shad overplayed a in the Hope that a break would come in the alter their conference sunday with senator the mild Reserva Tion be publicans seemed conf Deni that he would take the u in carry ii the Compro Mise negotiations Transfer of vessels controversy Over seven Ger Man Idle in new is finished thinks Coal May yet be used in industries Contro Versy Between the shipping Board and British officials Over Possession of seven German liners used to bring Back american troops and now held Idle in new York ended abruptly today with the announce ment that president Wilson had or dered the vessels turned Over to great the Transfer will be stae without delay and the ships assigned to passenger service on British the unexpected action of the ship Ping boar last september in Refus ing deliver the Imperator to the British was understood Tobe connected with to induce the re turn to the Standard company of twelve tank steamers formerly under the German Flag but now held in British custody in the Firth of by order of the supreme coun the state department took the to that these were sep Arate questions and must be dealt with states the ships mean time the Fate of the tankers remains in ships the seven ships with the Imper Ator were to Britain by the the Imperator was turned Over recently after some de Lay Over proceedings concerning Arr Erica Oil tankers seized i German the to be turned Over Are the Graf Waldersee the Sophelia Cape Mobile Prinz Frederick Wilhelm and Kaiser r in Transfer today new Sei former German ships held Here b the United state shipping Boaro since september will be formally turned the local Tive of the British ministry of ship Ping at noon it was announced Here at the Chicopee police announced that charges of Man Slaughter had been brought against and William i who have been held Pend ing thirty two deaths resulted night from the drinking of liquor bought in and drunk in this Holyoke and tester last night and four Een men and one woman died in ten men in Hartford and four in a number of other men were in a critical condition tonight at in Holyoke and spring1 four Nten were under Are of England is in close touch with the Progress of Are Sisters in the United kingdom is shown by the fact that she officiated serve notice on con Gress against ant strike provisions threaten to walk out vote of months ago was 98 per cent of Union favored strike Princess Mary leafing club with the lord mayor of recently rest in Hartford and three in pending the result of autopsies to be held late police investigations in Hartford indicated that the liquor which was sent to that City from new York contained Wood part of it was sold at a bar in part was bought by persons who carried it away and part was sent to a hotel in Chicopee state and Federal authorities in Massachusetts and Connecticut were aiding police of Holyoke and Springfield tonight in their efforts to determine responsibility for the several men arrested late tonight the Chicopee police announced that american House in Chicopee Falls had not been hid a at the recent opening of the cites women club in she is deeply interested in the work of the tide it sweeps to holy land Lloyd George will represent great Britain on peace commission delegates v consulting Engineer to the commission of thinks British Columbia Coal May yet be used in Canadian he says Tat Large demand for United states toil from Europe and the High prices May make British Columbia Coal an economical Purchase for on Tario industries in spite of the Long the Canadian manufacturers association is investigating the matter in anticipation of any further Short be due to conditions in the United tates Over which this country has o ays Canada should become economically Independent plea or unselfish service was made by Joyd Canadian Trade com missioner in who is visiting his Home for the in an interview Here he followed this up with a declaration that the next move for Canada was a com Ete Survey of the country re to Lessen dependence on the United states for Many and Las do away with the Adverse sex during the by Friendly arrangements Between the two coun tries the United states had supplied necessaries to but the time m he for Canada to be come economically As Independent As the Ideal is to make Canada self fooled the Boston heiress gets Champagne ashore at san san Francisco Luenne was out general internal Revenue a sectors assigned to prevent the Miling of Sho Learned that six bottles of rare French Champagne in her trunk be seized and herself arrested hastily had the trunk trans Back to the liner Matsonia just As the inspectors were about to then she called in party o they took the Champagne wore alright and no arrests Weri says Ireland a Pawn in English political game Bertram a retiring president of Cork University and newly appointed pro lessor in Michaels Tor nto in an interview Here said t was Belfast that was to blame Tor no settlement of the Irish rouble by the famous and if settlement were again Post Joned it would be the fault of Bel which he feared to Ose its this in his t Christmas at sea St joyously celebrated at sea b passengers of Hie Steamer scan which arrived from Iver Sool this on Christmas Worning Santa Claus from Lyl main Mast with a present Tol each of the 2so children on a of ii of the in the evening had not revealed his Charles Bis leased under the outcome of the will lain bartender in the american in under arrest the police anal Federal aur Thorlies began a investigation this it was reported by the Holyoke police tonight that the liquor had been traced to Hartford where it was purchased earlier in the unti autopsies have been formed on the bodies of the no state ment will be Given out by the ten men die men Are dead Here from drinking liquor which they thought to be four men Are under arrest for the and a fifth has been charged in connection with the and a sixth is charged with intent to trans port liquor twelve barrels of mixture pre sume to be but requiring water to Lessen its were bought from a new firm for according to statements made to the Pendine an of the the police opinion is that the liquid has a Wood alcohol Many die in new York new deaths from drinking Wood alcohol j and several cases of poisoning have j occurred in Manhattan Between i 1 and according to official figures made Public tonight by chief j of emigration is sweeping into pales influenced by the conviction great Britain will shortly cent a mandate for the holy land and the dream of a National Home for the jews is about to be re according to Cable received by the zionist organization of the Cable messages state that the world conference of which was scheduled to be held it Basle on january has been postponed in View of the assured possibility of immediate negotiations font he mandate Over at the same time a London Cable message received by the jewish morning of this City stated Aid a mistaken he sir Bertram said Ireland was not o on the As the extremists of the sinn fein party would make the world the trouble he that there Are two Peoples in that what it really amounts he Northeast Corner is strongly presbyterian and the rest is the whole trouble has been that re and has been a Pawn in the English political he wife of slain Man detained by police mount county authorities investigating the Kilchik last of St Tui tev Brown son of a millionaire de troit manufacturer today As material witness Ruth Prevost the slain mans widow and Lloyd her mrs Brown and we latter of whom was regarded As one of closest were questioned again this afternoon Separ ate by prosecutor Lynn Johnson and sheriff William Caldwell decision to hold them As witnesses was reached devoted to the that peace negotiations would open shortly after the new year and that the British delegates would be Premier lord Curlon and Arthur All three of whom have publicly decked their sympathy with the zionist in View of this pos the greater actions commit tee of the zionist organization has summoned to meet As soon As pos sible in to is termed the acute problem of re straining wholesale emigration to second bars say Premier Lloyd Georges plan is acceptable As a Compromise 2 William Corkey presbyterian Clergyman from and one of the official delegation of the three leading pro Testant churches in Ireland to United states to fight sinn fein propaganda in interviewed Here sized railway through their served notice on Congress today that they would not to enactment of the Cummins Railroad with its i voting More Thau a month 98 per of the Mem Bers of the Union favored an immediate walkout in the event of the Bills passage by both houses of but the result was not made known through fear it hat the brotherhoods might appear in the Light of attempting to coerce the lawmaking Branch of the the according to will Iam president of the International Are the railway employees who have taken a strike but the Heads of All the fourteen in have been summoned to meet Here monday consider pending ton and define precisely their por Tion on the clause in the Cummins Bill which would prevent strikes and put strikers in the Call for the conference was is used by Samuel president of the american federation of labor but Gompers and other Labot leaders refused to discuss probable action by the brotherhood labor leaders disappointed president Wilsons Christmas Eye announcement that the roads would be handed Back to their owners March was a distinct disappoint ment to labor who had been Lii adding Tor a two year Extension or government they that it the roads were to Koback it was a Good thin to let it be senators and representatives alike Are anxious to hear from the brotherhood meeting Mon Day without indicating the change in their own positions by reason of any declaration of principles by Organ Zed employees of the to tar s the conferees the la Bor Section will not be considered until they have reached an agreement Western school land lease system undergoes change change in he method of leasing school lands in Saskatchewan and Berta is provided for in an order to Council now the order governing grazing permits on school lands in those provinces is All permits shall be on a yearly terminating april at a rental of ten cents per acre per subject to Hange at the discretion of the minis Ler of the the permitted Liall not Graze any other than his own Stock neither shall he assign or trans Fer any interest in the permit without the consent of the he must place on the land at least one head of Slock for every thirty the erection of fences and temporary buildings Only is and any renewals shall be from year to year at the discretion of the a permit to Cut Hay for barter May be secured by the permitted for an office fee of fifteen cent Sand fifty cents per sir George Foster estimates rest has already been handled by Board makes flowery announcement to fume City Dannunzio says italian govern ment unwilling to give definite guarantee declares armistice line is pass ing situation which is abolished by the armistice press of Rome intimates that the people of fiume Are tired of poet aviators Rule staff correspondence these figures did not nearly represent j the full toll in death and sickness due j to taking the Poison As a As he believed that Many deaths and ill Nesses reported As due to acute abdominal trouble and other causes were really caused by drink in Wood alcohol the official figures showed that Only 5 deaths from drinking Wood Al Cohol were reported in Manhattan for the year and Only four in Brook Lyn for eighteen months prior to july Norris said that two ounces of Ordinary Wood alcohol were frequently sufficient to cause death and taken on an empty considerably less might produce blindness or even prove fatal said that Ulster did not like the Lloyd George yet would accept it As a be cause they want peace and Harmony to come to he added that Ulster would find it easier to a parliament than the rest of because Ulster at the present time was paying two thirds of Irish Rie claimed that sinn fein which was admittedly effective in the must have Cost Over a million As to he pointed out that Ireland raises thirty seven million pounds and sets Back Twenty two while of about the same size and raises ninety seven and gets Back Twenty another Well closed american Plant suppressed by mexican government american Oil one of the largest in Tampico has been office denounces deeds extra Merit Canadian As 0 to Davis Stu in front of 27th in command of the Batalion he led a most successful attack on september near Vaillencourt not Newa convinced that jealousy was the j destined for Reship Sultan shows position from Cairo tuesday the correspondent of the daily mail says the sul Tan summoned the Council liar University and remonstrated with its members for issuing a document say in that British soldiers bad profaned the the incident is says the because the Sultan thereby defined his Posi i Clear and invaluable in determining the i situation John Percival Mac Enzie 1st Lungi Eert on several advised the it was re has been producing for More than a year and was drilled in strict compliance with All the regulations in Force at that full particulars concerning the re ported seizure have been asked for by the state j reds make Advance capturing Many towns on All other disputed jealous of previous status rail Road brotherhoods will make every Effort to prevent ant strike Legisla Tion from going into effect with the return of the president of the said such legislation is provided Tor in the Cummins Bill now before con this Bill is against the rights of said Railroad employees served loyally during the they should not be deprived of the free citizen status they had Lefoi the George poster Esti Inar 191d exportable sir that of the crop two thirds of it has already been handled by the Canadian wheat the remainder of the crop will be marketed by the same organization and the removal of the United states embargo will not affect the control or operation by the wheat sales in the United states will be pooled with past and future european sales to secure Equality in Price for the Western Farmers whether he marketed before or after the removal of the United states wheat of the crop Al Tady marketed there has been sold in the following coun tries country bushels sold for wheat it Britain United states France Italy Australia Newfoundland 2 new zealand 15 Gibraltar Belgium Greece Roumania Alaska 5 190 45 8 Gabriele Dan Miusiu has issued a Procla mation to the people referring to the suspension of the plebiscite held on the proclamation was couched in flowery it contends that the italian government was unwilling to give a definite guaranty As to the retention of rooms on the armistice the said has declared that it intends keep entirely to the line of the Armia but it refuses publicly or secretly to Kidd word the armistice line is Only i passing situation which the armistice Abol who can say today to what Point it will be withdrawn under the implacable Power of the Allied and associated the Prola Matios gave no further explain twin on the suspension of Tho plebiscite and no information is to what course is Tri be pursued in Thi say people Are tired of him continues to monopolize most of the italian which rather imperfectly informed concerning develop ments but which declare that the residents of the Adriatic town Lave become tired of Gabriele Dan Elunzio and want us future definitely total robbed Hance woman attacked and believed of her diamonds 26 a Lone Bandit last night waylaid e j at a and relieved Worth of diamonds Bandit was concealed in n the Bandit doorway and As her o both legs Are paralysed As result of John 194 Henry employed at the works of the do minion Bridge and Iron while engaged making alterations on the premises of the Western Canada motor car 203 Edmonton yesterday fell from a scaffold on which he was working although the distance was but six j feet Sta knit sustained ii Uny to the spine and both his legs were Par Al Zed As a to was taken to j Boniface j leading to the dance to Nugent passed struck n the head with an automatic rendering her mrs s who was with Nugent at the ran scream Fth Vio Urilt made his but the Bandit made Estef police Early today reported found on enters amnesty lea8uebs plead women and two plead not guilty now Christmas Strong plea for hmm when the bolshevik have captured Tomsk and also the towns of Kiemen make eve a and according to a wireless despatch received tonight from the communication adds that after the capture of Tomsk Lieut col John Percival the reds advanced from Yovo Niko Lix Evask to the main line of the trans siberian Railroad occupied the station of taking an Norm strikes in Jamaica equip the car conductors and Motorman have struck for higher a Canadian company which operates the Street is suffering heavy under the terms of the the government will the Power to take Over the affairs of the company if service is not resumed in 48 the pilots of this port have refused to brine in or take out vessels unless their fees for this service Are Paris restaurants must close Early new years eve Rule forc ing restaurants and entertain ments to close at which was lifted for Christmas Wili be enforced on new years i the police explain that the shortage of the waste of electricity and the danger of quarrels necessitates ment of the heavy fire made Daylight recon Ais Sancts in order to get the required information for the selection of during the Advance Cambrai september and it due to his Ouick grasp of the situation and determined that the i 2nd heavy ambulance Ica Jand ammunition were Able to th6all obstacles with least possible i find missing bridegroom in Hospital new William attorney Flynn claims Dollar is Only Worth fifty cents new the plea that a Dollar is really Only Worth fifty attorney Joseph Lynn appealed to county judge Mcmahon today to reduce a charge of grand larceny against his Man to Petit mrs was accused of merchandise argument rings ruled the but unfortunately Rte the mass Aggro says amid so Many the people of flume Are tired and Are invoking a speedy solution of the which will give them Freedom and at the same Ime a return to work and tranquil the Gior Nalo Ditalia appears to Day with Twenty two lines this is under the heading communication from command it commenting on the situation the i Ornar Ditalia says Premier Nitti is leaving Tho Baffin Ning of january for if the big question is settled from the inter Risiti will this help him with the allies War Council meets the War Council met today under Tho presidency of Premier be sides the foreign minister and tar ministers of the War Anil the Council tool mad the chief of the general who has just returned from Trieste with reports of the negotiations with Gabriele great importance in attached to the meeting of the the decisions of which have been kept strictly with disaster soldiers and irate citizens broke it the three women and two men arrested for alleged participation in a demonstration for release of conscientious objectors and Otylior Wol today pleaded not to disorderly conduct and were released on 5500 Bonds they will be tried a week from to five were miss Gladys rein or Gertrude miss Mary Julius Friedman and Samuel aviation tells rotary club of work in is in on it is Safe and it is a Prai said bar Kir v in concluding an on aviation at the weekly luncheon the rotary club of to Rollo Barker described the work of squadrons the air Force in the1 in showing its usefulness and and to outlined the Progress in end Merolla aviation since the conclusion of the since the private commercial aviation had grown to at Toronto about machines have been sold or such that was chasing value of the hat in the matter of crime i must look upon it As the same old Ous amount of Booty and a number i of the Road to Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk is now and Admiral charts army in this Region has ended its says the commune the in Eastern says takes Steamer in Tow radio bail league for amnesty to Are bed by the for political be of Winch they Are said to message received Here tonight re ported that the British went took the Ca who failed to appear Keener at on Christ mis today was located last night at Mas Cumberland in according to a statement i the police at the it lace stated that had been in formed by a physician at Hospital that or Vermilye had undergone a slight and that they had been requested to give out no information about the to explain forestry John e new Brunswick minister of lands arid leaves next for by to meet the forestry officials of the new on and explain the forestry system in use in this the adoption of this plan has been urged before the Ontario me m the Sun a Moscow wireless have j for was Iso raises som ii severed Communia East of Johns when she sent but Causo heavy weather the which is bound from la Don could not put a line Abdaul the other vessel until mysterious fires in Coal cargoes for America new fires in cargoes of five Barques that sailed from new York Coal for South american ports in the War Between my and with an aggregate loss of were revealed today in five suits to recover m bythe Berwid White Coal mining company tons on the amur line and Blago i Eshenk has been completely Cut the despatch adds that galician intended for the defense of have revolted general the anti bolshevik Leader in the Southland attacked the Volun Teer army in the reached a common ground on which to base joint action in Siberia has been reached by states and acc Jinjr to an announcement Given out Here by the japanese official publicity Bureau hungarians hang fire Hungary peace delegation is daily Evi Dence of desire to postpone its de parture for Paris to consider the peace the in embers want to put off the trip they the promises made to Hungary by sir George clerk allies Are fulfilled and the Rumanis Marine insurance 1 free ans who Are Smi lingering on the of the ships sought Refuge in a outskirts of Budapest have been j Ana the other two in per Nam withdrawn to the lines of Demark of says he passed no criticism i mor Rison Secretary of the tonight denied that or had criticized the Drury government for the promotion of a woman cleric in the registry office a Middlesex to the position of a re Lutrar at a salary of As stated in an evening1 paper Here in which is an alleged interview with Hon fact Morrison repudiates the entire and explains that he v As particularly careful not to be led into expressing an opinion on the appointment in to fight foreign Trade German aviation firms form Interior Trust Geneva aviation according to a despatch rom have formed a trim to prevent Interior Competition foreign Trado the plan of the As outlined in the provide for Quantity production of air planes and Hydro air planes at a factory either at or Friedric Shaten and at Many branches throughout the it is said the project includes the Krupp among its lost on Christmas children alight at mistaking it for Montreal had a Good said Douglas Cameron Tonroe and his sister aped when they Alu Ted from Tho Quebec train at place Viper where they wore met by their Mother and and detective ser Geant who spent Christmas Day Here looking for were the two children irom is Basil who spent with the Quebec chief of police after Havi Nir cot Oft at Quebec thinking it was and who wandered around the City until picked up by the alaskan products valued at shipped pro ducts valued at were exported from the territory Lurlne according to report for the month received hero today from the office of the collector of custom at canned Salmon valued at was the principal weather ;