Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, April 30, 1920

Issue date: Friday, April 30, 1920
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba All can grow in Manitoba care in watching the climatic conditions is All that to assure the production of any kind of according to a agriculturist of East reorganize water District although a successor to commissioner Waugh has not yet been reorganization of the water District is to be proceeded chief Engineer Chace an solicitor Harvey have their services no longer being 251 today and april Sun rises p Moon rises 524 sets 352 am thirty two pier Norris 0kndon voters opens the provincial Campaign Gow Ruments administration of affairs of province for the past five years necessity for heavy sex and replies to conservative Leader chosen us candidate at Liberal con Votion attended by 200 april e sitting member for Brandon City in the Manitoba i again the Choice of the he Riding for the coming ass according to the verdict of this evenings convention in the Rita Hall the convention was at tended by almost two Hundred elec tors and the ladies showed their appreciation of the franchise extended to them by the present government by taking a keenly though not vocal part in the j f was asked to take the chair and Laid before the meeting the purpose of the Conven Uon explaining the duty of the elec tors to select candidates to represent them in the new legislature to be called this summer in accordance with the imminent dissolution of the present one As announced by the government the Conven Tion was preceded by a Small caucus in the about which much speculation had been made and Many rumours As to some prospective difficulty in the selection of a libera Standard the How at the evening was sex and Premier who was invited to theron Whill declining to take an part in welcomed the Opportunity of addressing the electors or close to his Home tha he considered himself As much a Home Here As in four names in the ballots first taken up showed four Clements being the outliers being those of Flem Hall and Hall and asked that their names be Smale declaring that although he appreciated the compliment and would like to be a twas impossible for left but Clements Leing chosen on the next ballot the scrutineers were Oscar Ken l Smale and Obj the meeting selected acting sheriff to fill office of in response to the chairman made a Short speech of the Premier in the meantime taking his place on the this is the third time i have been called upon to undertake this said but i have no fear that Brandon will fail of its duty to return a supporter of the Norris government the Norris government has carried out its pre election promises and stands in the forefront in progressive legislation As far As Canada is the eaten men forming the Cabinet have faced and overcome tremendous obstacles and solved most difficult problems during the past five years and leave a splendid in my As your 1 have endeavoured to do my if time permitted we could see Brandon had been Well taken care of in spite of the lid being on As re Gards Public works on account of the the finances and credit of the Are now in better condition than at any previous time in her i thank you for the Confidence re posed in me and feel sure that this constituency will Send me Back As a supporter of the Norris Manitoba a Model introducing Premier which duty was a Mere Kil sour referred to comparative quiet in election matters at present As a compliment to the efficiency of the time he when the people of the province Rose in arms against the government for its crimes and de winded a thorough House that is an epoch we would All for get it we but now we have an administration of which we need not ashamed and the people realize that the Norris government has made Manitoba a Model for the other prov inces of the he closed a request to Premier Norris to Tell some of the feats of administration which have won the Confidence f the people and formally open his to Nils failure eighty per cent of Liverpool Dock workers Irish boats held up armed raiders attack Rush police ten Miles from Dublin Premier Norris the Day at the capital staff correspondence april rather interesting principles were Laid Down in the railway committee this the railway committee is a noisy body of where order appears to be difficult to maintain and where decisions frequently depend upon the mood of the members or the numbers who May happen at any particular time to be the Bill before it this morning was entitled an act to incorporate the Amqui and Edmonston railway on the Gaspe and the capitalization of the company proposing to build the 250 Miles in is it was argued by the president of a company which already has a line along the coast to the which has spent some eight or ten millions of English and which is at present paying neither operating expenses nor interest on its that four millions would not begin to build and equip the Road proposed that if it were built it would simply decrease the earnings of the existing Road and that it generally useless for any private company to build a Small Road without connections and expect to make it the discussion was animated in the and ultimately re solved itself into a conflict divided by the Ottawa so far As constituencies were the Bill was ultimately Defeated by the narrow margin of 31 to every opposition present voting for the but three of the government of Strathcona of fort and of against it april attempt by he Irish Section of the Dock workers to carry out their threat to hold up Raffic if the hunger striker prison is were not released from the worm Wood Scrubb prison More Han 80 per of the men returned to work this afternoon and there were plenty of substitutes for Irish men who did cease the Only somewhat serious develop ment today was that the Irish boats were held up deputation misinformed the lord mayor of Bur ton today communicated to a deputation from the Irish self determination a Telegram he had received yesterday from Edward Secretary for Home with regard to the treatment of Irish prisoners in the Wormwood scrubbs the deputation you received yes the Telegram la mis informed regarding the Irish prison ers in Wormwood their custody is Legal and their treatment those who by their refusal of food Are endangering their lives Are being carefully and if will be removed to a hos the detention of these men had been rendered necessary by the atrocious murders which prevail in Ireland and a system which prevents the trial of the murderers and a policemen injured april Rush police ten Miles from were attacked by an armed band this morning this is the first incident of the kind so near the the attack was prepared in the usual was by Felling Trees to Block the Road and disabling telegraphic even the Junction of the Telegraph system of the great Northern Railroad was Avail Able shows that the charge of Barracks receive fatal injuries and policemen were wounded while the roof of the Barracks was blown hold up mail april Larga party armed masked men held up the mail train from Cork for Bantry this morning at Kinsale two mail bags were this is the third time the train has been robbed of mail matter at the same Transfer hunger april hunger strikers were night from the Belfast jail to destroyers for conveyance to it 13 believed they will be lodged in the Wormwood scrubbs i v sinn seiners Stop april hostility compelled Early abandonment of last sinn Demontra Day of railway subsidies is declares Reid april a majority of Only two1 votes the railway com Mittee of the House of commons today refused to Grant a charter to the paros and Edmunson railway com Pany to construct a 248mile Road through the Interior of the Caspe a number of led by minister of look the stand that such a Road could not be built and maintained As an Independent and the government would inevitably be compelled to take Over the Road later on to make in or at least to subsidize the Day of subsidies is i think said amidst great applause in he said that the the provinces should make themselves responsible for such railway q a Clef n the eve Hopmen of natural the vote by which he application was rejected was 31 29 sup special committee makes thirteen recommendations to Royal urge exclusive state insurance administered by Board with factory act place blame for High Price of print paper hold Small Brok ers and jobbers responsible april for the High Price of print paper was placed primarily upon Small Manu brokers and Al though publishers themselves were held partly to by witnesses today before an investigation com curtailed consumption m order to break the spot Pend ing increased was Gener ally advocated As a seven witnesses were heard by the All of whom agreed that reduced production of paper due to Lack of understanding Between the publishers and manufacturers together with the rapid increase in Adver Tising since the had resulted in a situation of which the brokers and had taken be the prevailing High the witnesses of paper specialities had been enticed nto the manufacture of print which had serve to aggravate the the regular paper manufacturers were defended and declared to have been reasonable in Mamp new the however urged newspapers should confine consumption of paper to the amount provided in their contracts and remain out of the open in the course of his argument against the granting of a Dominion minister of several interest ing he that in i Sest mation Road ultimately demand the Federal double subsidy of a mile and that in his opinion the Day of subsidies to private lines was the in Nis 01 concurrence in this statement by loud Teloh in front of a Ormwood scrubbs committee gave evidence of its concur Rosie v protest against the con applause he As the Road was meant to tap pro j hunger 8trfktoir Iri Sll Vinci Al natural resources in the shape of Timber or mines the provincial authorities should Grant a charter and be responsible for the Success or failure of the to this Contention the frenc Canadian on Page helplessly watched injured Burn to death pathetic scenes follow train Dis Aster in India april extremely Tressing and pathetic scenes were enacted in the train wreck on the oudh and Kohl hand railway cast of when one Hundred and fifty passengers were either killed burned to Only a few of the Large number of women and children on the trains escaped while there were Only three survivors of three hindu a a result of the Gas installation caught and the flames spread the uninjured in Dian fled Fungwe e terror stricken to the those remaining watched hems while the vie ttm5 slowly roasted to me medical arms aboard the trains were Basiks with Premier reviews government record it needs no second invitation from said to life term perrys sentence was rag me and i am glad that such a Large meeting has As i if s the interest Brandon people we in electoral i am glad w do hut i have consistently mined to have any part in select j the candidate i leave that to your i am now Here inner conditions different from those Lien prevailed on my last election appearance but in 1915 1 j Ted been in office but a Short time on a visit previous to that i the role of critic of the Liblin Asrine now 1 have a record not to to i would like to address Jwuc visually every elector in the con Mincy especially the per 17 guests at dinner Are sing sing lifers w april seven residence of Warden Lewis driven by who was re leased today after serving 15 years of tence was improve diplomatic position with Germany Welcome entente invitation to Send representatives april the invitation extended by the supreme Council to the German government to Send representatives to the conference is viewed by George Bernhard in the Vos Siche Zeitung As a signal improvement in Germany diplomatic Germany thereby being delivered from the shackles of its enforced the cooperation of France and Belgium will form the nucleus of a new Active policy to work out a european 6the Zei Tun discussing the destruction of War material under the treaty in state arsenals and about Pri vate expresses the Hopa that the entente May relax its de for the surrender of All result ing waste which now constitutes virtually the sole raw material for keeping the Iron and steel foun dries in since the supplies of Ore from Luxemburg and other places have welcomes or Adolf minister of for eign in an interview published by All Gemeiner said he welcomed the entente invitation n Germany to Send representatives to the conference at we he that the will be Between partners equally convinced of necessity of firmly and we Hope to show of firmer opponents that we Haw the Earnest wish to fulfil the peace treat it utmost limit of our he11 prisoners who attended the the utmost limit o regretted that the Nemen political prisoners Antis inn liners stoned two there were numerous six Ucic Alu Ltd Vuu persons were injured in a struggle or Possession of a sinn fein ban police charged the using Leir Batons impartially and the de april Canadian designed to promote uniformity in Laws respecting workmen compensation and control of factories were made tothe Royal commission on the unification of labor Laws at the meeting these matters had been referred to two committees which spent the whole of wednesday in thar con the recommendations regarding workmen compensation and one of them is1 to the effect that All provinces adopt the idea of exclusive state insurance to toe administered by a it is also that All pm payees of provincial governments and of Muni including police and fire be included within the scope of the workmens1 compensation with regard to the factories it is recommended that no boy under fourteen or girl under fifteen years of nge shall be employed in any Indus trial the committee also recommend inspection of All recommendations of committee the special committee on work mens compensation legislation consisted of Mcneill and their recommendations As finally adopted were as1 Fol that All provinces adopt the idea of exclusive state insurance to be administered by a 2 that not especially exempted under the who work in an Industry which comes within the Stope of the shall be under the regardless of the amount of their 3 that All employees of provincial governments and of including police and be in clude within the scope of the 4 that the scope of compensation acts be extended As far As practicable to include industries not now covered by the 5 that in All provinces contributions to the Accident fund shall be borne exclusively by the 6 that All surgical and Hospital attention be supplied in cases of injury or Industrial 7 that in every province there should be a time limit within which Why Hanna is a director april answer to a question asked recently in a debate on Osier today informed the House that chairman of the Board management of the Canadian National was a member of Board of directors Zofih Canada steamships Hart a was appointed some years ago to the Board to represent the Canadian Northern railway and rated the interests of filial railway in general mailers of Lake president of the grand trunk a member of the steamship lines directorate in a similar neither said sir had any financial interest in the steamship their Only i reason for being on Board Wasto protect the interests As joint carriers in Lake and rail Michael Clark was promised an answer tomorrow to his question As to whether the government was considering the granting of an amnesty to political to heal the wounds of the War and in consider lion of the fact thai in is now eighteen months since armistice was expect to obtain valuable information concerning wind velocity april of the new rocket apparatus designed by Goddard to reach far above the earths air envelope and for compensation should tie to the on stration was six hunger strikers were released rom the prison late War letter to said British forces Ireland numbered and forty found guilty by sinn fein is1 stated that j arrested Early Sun a Mill county Cork on suspicion of being implicated n the Holdup of Bank officials last when were Tolent were tried by a sinn fein ourt and found following he trial representatives of the be publican army tuesday visited he Munster and Leinster Bank at Cork and also the National Bank and offered to hand Over the prisoners and furnish evidence of their guilt certain the Bank it is re fused these conditions or to Deal with he situation except through the constituted Dominion government will delay issuing proclamation april petition for a liquor referendum in Ontario has not yet been received from the on Tario following its receipt the Dominion government will have a delay of three months in which the calling for a May be the proclamation will set Forth the Date of polling and other the hours of polling will be Between 9 and 5 the expenses of the referendum Are borne by the Dominion govern As a vague will be made the graphic society immediate objects of the was the study of the Aurora and of the Short wave lengths in the the Sun which entirely by the at More moderate Goddard Hopes to obtain valuable in formation concerning measurements of wind tempera Ture and All of which enter into the business of weather fore rocket will be propelled by the explosion of successive for extreme or a May be a special Parachute will pre vent destruction of the delicate instruments on the return to the accuracy in Goddard be May be obtained through the use of photosensitive through influence of rays of will keep the rocket on its claims except Jit special cases pay ment of compensation shall toe made periodically direct to the claimant t that in juries due to disease or Accident arising out of and in the course of employment should be con within the of Tho that Cost of administration of workmen a compensation in each province be by the govern ment that 11 that rules and regulations for various places of employment and further that appliances be installed at the plants be under the direction of the where compensation act the employer has the right to bring is employees under the act d the employees should have the same right where a majority so de Ifrat in cases of death or in tie up rail traffic railway men announce intention to carry out work to rules labor develop ment which May result in a Hare general stoppage of work throughout the United kingdom on May Day than had been considered manifested itself this morning in an announcement that the London Counci of railway men had decided be ginning its members Louic work a the rules such a it is declared by Union would Lead to ser ious railway congestion and even a nationwide stoppage of traffic if the movement become the smooth running of the rail it is upon the and resource erf the which involves the cont Mua breach of some instructions in meet ing contingencies which cannot b contemplated in the framing of any set of action to carry out the work to the rules policy was first taken a Fen Days Liverpool it is now the decision of the London Council Witt Bee Mulat a by the worker sin other Glasgow an the the Liverpool and London Union declare they will maintain their order until demand for an and Vance of the National Headquarters of the railway men said neither Auto ionized nor advocated d the National executive to grand trunk Bill characterized As financial urged by senator below to april wounds gradually declares Lloyd George in speaking of allies in agreement Germany must obey disarm Ament clauses of not include port Arthur port Aoril is expected the port Arthur shipbuilding company will be included in or Koester regretted thai in merger now known a the British statement of the Allied governments 1 Empire steel did not mention the occupation of Frankfort and the main District since Nerman troops in the e number of German troops in the Neutral zone was now Only which allowed by the agreement he continued the occupation of main Dis Hrict is consequently we have the president the be conference Del ambassadors conference Toronto chinaman spanked april is r j Juci j thousands who were formerly the first chinaman be opposed to me and the new half of i we the who Are j such a wholesome interest in they will help to politics for i do not be in dual Standard in 1 Nink a Man who would be Dishon est in Public affairs would be Dishon in private affairs and vice one of the unpleasant things of Niblic life is to refer to the acts of Letiate our programme the outcome of ten years of oppo to that we tried w make it not too if Wisted with the Confidence of the goop be of the province we feel that continued on pact need in Liis he having been d out for distinction by Coatesworth when Check was sentenced to a month in jail and Span Long for stealing spank pcs feature judge Coatesworth sentences for minor offences these Toronto civic debt reduced april Toronto civic debt has decreased year to extent of according to a report issued by the finance com missioner this is the first ume in seventeen years that there has been a the net debt Aye stands at German n so the ambassadors conference when the illegal occupation of the main District considered As warning april Jen in a issued declared that the recent nines were a warning that demo peace announce sentence the present Cine Over granted reprieve few hours before execution april men convicted of the murder6f a Bronx sub Way who were sentenced to die in the electric chair at sing sing prison late were granted a reprieve by four hours before the execution was to have taken announcement of the made by Smith at Albany Over the Telephone to Warden Lewis at the the four men Are Joseph James to Aeji its eff and Charles they were convicted of the murder of who was shot to death while attempt ing to prevent his assailants from robbing a subway Milano is alleged to have made a confession to Warden Lawes in which he asserted that he alone was responsible for the death of Warden Lawes immediately Tele to British ministry stops buying Canadian cheese april Canadian press in the min ister of has received the following Cable from the British Man s it has now been definitely decided that the ministry Purchase new seasons Canadian the maximum importers Selling Price 32 cents now in Force will be i removed at an Early Date but the maximum retail Price of one shilling and eight Pence 40 cents per Pound for whole milk cheese will in Force for the time the effect of this decision that the Export of cheese will again flow through the usual channels but i the Price will be regulated More or Price in Transfer of securities give terms of steel to Public in few Days april of the Canada steamships the Nova Scotia steel and Coal and the Dominion steel corporation today received and considered the proposals made by the interests be Hind the Coal and swiping organization to be known As n f Reading of the grand trunk Bill was reached the Senate today after considerable Dis senator Belcourt characterized the occasion As the thu act 6f what was Likely to the Cial tragedy of Canada he would he to see he sail and opposition and senator or said the Bufi would not have been needed the companies involved the investigate bread april office of the Board of Commerce has begun enquiries with a View to establishing whether the latest increase in the bread Here was justified of weather following is the report to site into what amounts of run embrace the Halifax shipyards of with ship build ship build the tetters and Cool today creator part of the 3244 650 the United general strike at Naples of the maritime and invite doughboy to Vanderbilt wedding new april eyes of new York society were focused to Dav on the wedding in Thomas Church of miss Rachel daughter of the late and Thomas of Tenn to Cornelius five thousand Devil need Vii not insisted through the grand trunk Purchase Bill last ses Sion that Bill have passed if in Slon of the government statement showing a deficit of in the operation of the senator Robertson second Reading for a Bill which extended to the Aid and rights which Are Given to provincial admin in the operation of employment were occupied chiefly in obtaining employment for returned the until Fri of Island interrupted by strike april Cal popular enthusiasm is intense throughout Theis and the Success of the Prince of Wales tour of new zealand is menaced by the strike of locomotive who Premier Mas Seys Appeal not to disgrace the country government threatens to arrest the petrol Formo Tor cars a being commandeered by tree maoris initiate april Wales visited the of the tribe and we initiated As a member he was presented with gifts of Maori feathered carved pipes and ancient Spear the a fress of Welcome to the Prince huh quaint Maori who the Long last sleep arise and stand Forth to give first born son of the Royal late draws son of our lord a reject proposal to License packers Washington april to feat packers and create a to enforce be Industry were today Lynne agriculture committee eliminations agres4upon s a headed Man Haugen was appointed up drat for Tho regu Olaiwi of the invitations were issued to friends and clouding several Hundred former doughboy who served with Joung Vanderbilt in France with the 27th a wedding cake said to the largest m the was april general strike d f or g was proclaimed Here today because million dollars of the dismissal of workmen in two tue Ocean sugar Sellin wat 32 cents april Reache thl highest Price record m Chi Cago according to Commissio when a lot sold of m cents a buyer attempted to obtain More by offer ing 32 was none of known from Millerand and declared that neither Brit France Italy was Able to undertake for Armenia because that would involved heavy military for a great if the armenians were to have anything More a paper mandate to include Mosul i the Premier confirmed that British mandate include Ules and that the conference had re is decks Toiv Trade relations with Russia if the found it impossible to undertake the responsibility of Are Menla the Premier would require and would to take a share in helping the armenians to equip themselves for their difficult arid perilous replying to lord Robert Cecils Contention that the league of nations should speedily supersede the reme Lloyd George argued that the league had no mater and for the pres the whole fabric of Europe rested upon the three great and s61lu Powers in the to Transfer the responsibility now to any body ing the necessary Force or disastrous for peace of and a believer the Canadian Jie ague when he Sud the time was not Ripe to disperse the supreme Council looking at All the Erial in the he could Hope except in a federation of the Premier announced that the supreme count Elf reply to the league of nations in re Gard to Armenia included its reply to president Wilson and published Only with the presidents misunderstandings cleared up the Premier conference there had been in but made grave by de liberate fomenting on the part o april associated gaping wounds of eur be Are gradually Healing and the san remo conference Marks a Dis inc stage in its said Premier Lloyl George closing is speech in the House of commons detailing the results of what in described As the most remarkable conference in every since the the premiers statement was most setting Forth the claim hat the conference had removed All misunderstandings Between France and England and that the Allie were n Complete agreement not Only to enforce the especially the Dis armament but against any annexation of be treated with consideration added the we cannot have another Lloyd George further indicated that if brought definite proposals to the spa Confer ence concerning the amount of indemnity she was Able and willing to treated with the Premier dealt mainly Witti he to the German governments difficulty in decree obeyed ind emphasized that the germans vere a broke backed whose were convulsive we have information Frem Brit ish he that Here is famine in the that Many people get Only a third of the Loed Ful he expressed conviction that the people of neither Germany nor France wanted military dealing with the turkish Little to what is already 3 x Page bight japanese in april 29 associated japanese Foice on its to the Relief of the i strict a Eastern occupied lie Northern Section of Sakhalin am Hussion territory t was announced in a office steamship line lip lines has disposed of this Quebec company its Ine from new York to the West in to the of Withy and latest is pussyfoot april ing Luralice is the terms which has been applied to a rate of Voshinin Spei now Don Market to cover the Riak of an act n twelve prohibiting the Sale if alcoholic killed by explosion of april 50 years of age As sweeper by the Canadian explosives company in the Cartridge manufacturing Plant at was killed yesterday several arge of exploded near him Little damage was done to he three killed three men were Send sex injured when a late yester crashed into working on the government Railroad at mlle scores of into the Waters discover plots f april against the lives 61 Mower Federal and state officials have been discovered by the Tice As part of Radico Tmay Day dem castration general Palmer announced tonight Arr Vedt Pau Halifax Halifax Kofr new York Southampton new York Southampton Hamburg a x 5 ;