Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba Month of weddings the month of was duly ushered in0 by a regular Harvest of ceremonies and the traveller in railway station and hotel was Lucky to Csc Spe a Shower of Rice or confetti in getting on or off s train or entering or leaving a Winnipeg greek drowned Simon a aged is to committed suicide by drowning in red Yee at the Pontoon Bridge at River though in the water Only ten artificial Pira Tion failed to resuscitate 204 a cast mostly scattered in rises Sun sets 2028 Moon rises Moon sets thursday june 1921 edition Rulh we on trams 22 pages is elected of t elected Moderator of general Assembly at Assembly of presbyterian Church is Large would delay Union Job Smittee will j but urge time is not Ripe yet of better known the was Mofle Rato of the presbyterian Ranada at Luo pening be Gordon the Day at the capital committee on amendments of league covenant deals with proposals Compromise suggested change article so that of of would be eliminated committee i on amendments to the covenant of the league of which held i us first meeting in Geneva on april i resumed its in London i in 47th general Assembly the general Assembly of the pres its programme including pro by Prian Church in Canada yesterday 1 posed alterations of ten articles of Only two other names before the Assembly for those of Ephriam editor of Tho an and e two others elected pastor of i of but these two rth Drew before the vote was Gordons sponsors speak of Lien the nominations were called for Gordons name was the first j his nominator being vim old John of and i sir Robert i Mackay urged the Choice of or Gordon As a fitting Honor and Rei Ned for Ilie service he had rendered to the presbyterian Church in m his work As chairman of the joint Council of for his services in the great and As i tribute to his distinction As a can Adian sir Robert in pointed out that he held a Tommis lion As an elder from the Presby Tery f and As a Western Man he claimed the Privi lege of supporting he was not urging the Fame of Gor non As an As a reason for electing him to the office of Moder but purely on the ground of his steal sen ices to the presbyterian other nominations in nominating of delivered a Stephens As mod Gordon is More familiarly outside of Winnipeg at by his Nom de plume of Ralph he held the rank of major in the chaplain service during the who and the picture shows him in Gordon is chairman of the joint Council of such is opinion expressed by Dunning at Saskatoon meeting provincial treasurer reviews legislation enacted and outlines policies by Cecil Lamont staff correspondent june de warm Eulogy of his and j noun tag the Independent political seconded by the me movement in Saskatchewan As of new Fhi Cipal Yan proposed the name of and judge of supported the nomination clays namo1 was put in by shorn and George camouflaged conservatism linked with provincial the elec Tion Campaign in Saskatoon City to he reviewed the legislation enacted by the Martin government since coming into office and outlined both of Ami the proposals of the administration was Mornini for its next term of by Wye of Sas Clark and Clay re there was some objection to the Ralin Rof professor who on the taking of the the vote was by a show of hands and the first resulted As follows nor 184 and j or Gordon elected majority of the votes cast was another vote was said he called the chair p minister of Public Macyln govern ment candidates in made an Appeal to the electorate at the Valens Speaks or running mate of Mcnab in the Martin government ticket in was the first speaker of the he predicted Victory for the Martin government at the polls As the of the covenant submitted by eleven i the sessions under the presidency of Balfour Are expected to continue i among the most important proposals to he considered is the amendment offered by Canada for the total elimination of article which the Dominion opposed during the peace conference and which is the Keystone of the opposition of the United regional understandings another demand awaiting consideration is proposed by Czecho it suggests encourage ment of regional understandings and is strongly opposed by who favors recognition of no understand Ings of this except the Monroe the decision Wil be reported to the Assembly in the committee will consider the Argentine amendment for admission to the league of All Sovereign states so because of the Assembly unfavourable brought about the withdrawal of the Argentine As it the amendment would have the effect of admitting states like mex Ico and organization machinery the sitting today was devoted to the study of the report of the sub committee amendments of a technical and Legal nature concern ing the organization machinery of the the committee agreed that it not be Wise to make the arbitration article too by to allow recourse to arbitration or conciliation through the Assembly or the committee decided to recommend to the Assembly a wide Extension of the practice of instituting commission of conciliation and arbitration the lines of the scandinavian suggestions and also hat it was not necessary to pro for an annual meeting of the is such was assured in he rules of suggestion for article staff coff response i june obvious intention Gordon of tonight was to attack the Drury and Frank its minister of Public in for Reck less and self interest in connection with the Good roads policy being carried out by the province in conjunction with the Dominion under the Canada highways in this connection it cannot be denied that the criticism of the member for Wentworth was of a highly effective for he among other that the Toront Hamilton Highway was Cost ing at the rate of per and that a single cutting in the Vicinity of Dundas had been made at a total Cost of he further pointed out Many of the Road improvements launched by the Ontario minister of Public works ran or o his own am that of his an that a Blind Concession or Road allowance running Between two portions of Nis land had been taken Over and at the rate at which Money has been expended in the county of Aven Worth on sixth of the total Federal appropriation for the province of Ontario would be absorbed said nobody in the House attempted to defend in All the history of Canadian Railroad building few stretches of Road have Cost a this is not a on the other the speech of Wilson gave Opportunity for a general criticism of an the soundness of which was questioned Ever since its twas not so much an abuse of the act which Wilson demonstrated it was its i own inherent weak Hamilto Brantford Highway has so far Cost a says Wilson Biggs is attacked expenditure centralized District round his says Edwards roads which Cost a june press three hours the House asked of the roads that Biggs built j minister of Public works and highways for on continued on Dago four companies of National guard have quelled Oklahoma race riots june this evening police Headquarters had re ports that conservative estimates of the dead As the result of race today would be about 25 Whites and 60 there arc Many the riots also the destruction by fire of ten blocks of Homes in the negro despite the placing of the City under martial Law de Sui tory firing continued i during the but the this evening was comparatively four companies of the National under adjutant general Barret Are on the trouble declared to have started last night from the arrest of a charged with attacking uni orphan White girl and subsequent a firemen were prevented from fighting the armed White men then formed a Circle about the negro Sec for several hours during the morning parties of negroes and Whites faced each other across rail Road on which could be seen a number of slain with the Early arrival of adjutant general Barrett and a machine gun company from Oklahoma a semblance of order was detachments of the National guard were scattered about the City at strategic especially about the negro where to it is make nearly half that number now under Dick the negro whose arrest led to the Wes removed the City to an unit was a discussion charged w severe criticism of Biggs High ways policy in with count of commissioners hear further end oration of Canada wheat Board sessions at Assiniboia complaints re loading facile conditions at Winnipeg criticized orphan tempts of negroes to Rescue the rested comparative quiet prevailed in the later hours of the Bur at Daybreak a group of negro named officers declared a houses were set afire and the City would be Given a speedy claims from the opposition that he Dominion in Grant Federal assistance to was partially responsible for any extra a Ganc Etwo government in the Ardour of their burst into i Gordon of who led the parodying pictured Biggs with to the right of roads to the left of roads on All sides of him of capping the declaimed to the intense amusement both sides of the House this is the Road that Biggs the costly Road that Biggs it runs right through Frank Biggs Between Biggs House and Biggs barn it Doest do Frank Biggs any this private Road that Biggs charges against among the charges made against Biggs were those of extravagance that roads were not being distributed across the but that sex was being centralized in the District surrounding the farm of or Biggs and his the vote under of to pay for the organization an payment of staff of the commissioner of passed Gordon Wilson Biggs Ontario minister of was under fire in the Dominion House it being charged roads Are being constructed costing a parliament is interested be cause the Road building costs the Dominion 40 per says too Small Serbia not to occupy pensions committee bulgarian territory i proposals approved position was without organization j it Tho of commons i Wom tire m electing a speaker and the Assembly to vote for after a show of hat and the Martin administration had lived up to its promises and had governed the people Well from every or Valens declared the educational policy of the government is almost without equal in the problem was a great one in Saskatchewan on account of the Large foreign the government has done More in the past decade in the development of the vote for their own province than others have done in 7 i vip works which seemed to num Ber about the chairman called Ruji those opposed to is not a hand was raised but Rose and con not fair Flor Gordon they desire to continued on Page he Hon Sharp improvement in business not Likely Federal Reserve Board re ports slow recovery minister of Public and government candidate m Sas i Katoon then took the he re viewed his activities since entering the government in and prom ised to do All he could for the cite if returned to office the govern intended to enforce the a def better has been is of Industry Conr Ess Outlook for the sea generally More favor is Little Prospect 0 any improvement of states fed a threw Perance act through the commission which it had labor Wil be consulted on All Lafi Slature affecting their and the farm ers will also be taken care by in spite of our to desc sections of the Community Thev Are out to fight us at the saw he termed the i depend edit movement a tempest in a Tea cup the minister declared Man of the Independent candidates Cou d not be elected As Pound keepers in Tanir of great Powers influences decision bul Garian government has been informed that Serbia has renounced its it is understood a suggestion occupation of bulgarian made regarding the Canadian proposal As a Compromise that article be so changed that each state would bind itself to rather Han to the territorial in Gerity of its it a thought that this would eliminate the United states the czechoslovak amendment would localize the Little entente As an extent of the it is understood that China has sent its delegates especially to oppose this amendment on account of possible recognition of such regional under standings As the Lansing Ishii which has to do with japans special interest in Euler says patronage is restored by Bill civil service Bill under discussion government circles attach great importance the Arriva Kat Belgrade of the bulgarian foreign to meet foreign minister this relaxation of tension is said to be due to the intervention of the great towers Bill based on Resolution Given first Reading june press House of commons this after noon passed a Resolution providing impossible to provide guards for All Public buildings official reprisals Are so rare As to be almost nonexistent june the House tonight to an attack on the government policy of reprisals in and the Irish sir Hamar chief Secre tary for said that the num Ber of troops in Ireland was so Short of the requirements it had Benn opening the announced Himi impossible to provide guards for All by Woodward special staff correspondent with tha Grain commission june greater volume of the biggest attendant crowd of and special new Points characterized the sitting of the Grain commission Here a unanimous testimony in favor of the wheat a Point from which no elevator company has been ordered to Send in its and several specific complaints As to were features of the pro there was complaints against the Canadian Pacific railway loading platform Here the spread Between track and Street at Assiniboia in september was 40h the freight rate at this Point is 20 but it was brought out that so Melmes it took a for a Load of Street wheat to get into position where it was the in Ference was that the wide margin was needed for Protection in event of a drop in the Cash there was evidence from the president of the local Grain growers and the local both of whom wanted the wheat and asked As to their View of options disapproved of them getting fat at Farmers expense a really Bright witness appeared at the evening who made Var ious suggestion As to betterment existing marketing a caused a Roar of laughter by saying that sundry Grain handlers were get Ting fat at the expense of the the whole crowded room gazed at commissioner who is a Miller by but the witness Din claimed any knowledge of the occupations of the this District is a comparatively new and the complaint of the Small Farmer who has to Market less than Carload lots was heard More than a very Large proportion of this self As opposed to dual control in Road he believed in Good but he thought that there should be a fair distribution or roads All Over he cited the Hamilton Brantford Road As a Case in we Stich there had been inexcusable extravagance ration there was no reasonable re Between estimated Cost and amendments to the returned in House Canadian Bill to Amend Cial to Charles Dunning Charles Provin Ico a told the audience of continued on Page aard declared tonight in the financial and econ a p the United Tovery find Mav retarded re tas w Industry and distribution month v Pokress during the the Are said financial Nir pack 1c shmied Saskatoon Lart la held up by Bandit of demands for suiting from the acceptance Price Levels and the adjust business to new to was said to exist still to degree in the retail Price adjustments Between wages fled Trade special diff in wages Price instability is re buying for future deliver Money taken Cash Register and four shots fired june unmasked Bandit this evening held up at tuft in wholesale and retail 1 e has been main but the reaction has been As gains made by business in preceding months have lined on the whole Trade was described As still Iii or uneasiness have increased during opening of Spring unfavourable were reported to the a with with that fruit and Cotton while cleaner june Spinney the civil service act As severely re Vised by special committee was discussed in the House but the discussion did not far before Progress was reported and the House took up railway As it is left to the the ill authorized the civil service com Mission to exempt certain classes of employees from the operation of the it for reasons of Public n addition to Tho present prove Ione of the for exemption on he ground of toeing practice of North moved to strike Public interest rom the thus returning to the old he claimed that if the civil service commission should be composed of men believing in Pat the Bill would permit restoration of patronage in full Hon who was in charge of the replied that an impossible had been placed on a crowded dining at the my a Crowe Carthy cafe Here and escaped with from the Cash Register after Flung four shots into the mob the Man entered the restau rant and promptly ordered the customers to put their hands in he when Oneman was slow m the the Bandit Bullet into a revolver covering the ing shot gun june Carpenter and a l shot and killed himself ight while cleaning a shot weather St is the weather report meteorological at 7 yesterday tempera maximum for the preceding 12 Iii us at 16 Miles an hour t rain i showers fell in Saskatchewan and elsewhere in West the to fair to Cloudy and com mum and maximum temperatures 3270 Prince 4458 5264 5884 Cal 4256 Prince 4862 Medicine 4962 5058 4862 port 3r56 2462 Parry 4266 May have to pay for shipping seized matter to considered by reparation commission june question As to whether United states ought to pay the reparations commission for the tons of German shipping seized at tace outbreak of the War is Likely to come in the near future in connection wit the settlement with Germany of the payments in Kino she has made to the the maritime subcommittee of the reparations commission has submitted its final which shows that the subcommission and the germans agree on the figures of tonnage de the germans original claim was which they valued at Gold the Ger mans now practically agree with the j commissions figures of but they Are still far above the value fixed by the the reparations commission has never recognized the Lloyd George Wilson agreement regarding German shipping seized in United it May be necessary for the allies to reach an agreement before the reparations commission can fix the amounts that should be paid in for the shipping turned the although they have been heard extensively on this sub have asked for another which will be granted before the final decision is soldiers insurance As suggested by the special committee on insurance and the Resolution among other for deleting the words domiciled and resident in Canada from the the effect of this will be to make All returned whether domiciled in Canada or eligible for another amendment pro Vides that payments of insurance shall not exceed on the death of the and the if or the portion thereof to which beneficiary is at the option of the be payable As another amendment Grants to the insured the Power of designating by declaration who will receive the Bene fit of his insurance should he die unmarried or a widower without Chil on motion of the prime minister the provision making the legislation based on this Resolution retroactive to was struck a Bill based on the Resolution received first actual the portion of this High Way already said Wil son was and it had Cost or at the rate of per government pays Wilson went into a lengthy criticism of the minister of Public works and highways for which caused Edmund pres to ask if the Road in question had been approved by the Dominion if it had mrp Rouix the discussion was out of Reid replied that the Ontario government submitted for his consideration programme of the roads it wished to the estimated Cost was also and if the government it was bound to pay 40 per of this amounts far had approved the Hamilton Brantford the Dundas Street and the Hamilto Queens ton three the Ham the Lemieux will oppose civil service Bill continued on Page proposed privileges for rejected travelling expenses exempted from May Public it had been considered he that extremist sinn seiners would attempt to Burn National possessions such As the customs the new parliament two said the Secre had to be elected in the Ulster parliament would soon be constituted and it would then be impossible to extend martial Law in that area without the consent of the Ulster if Southern Ireland failed to take advantage of the Opportunity to assume the responsibility of Good government in the a new situation would arise which the go merriment must face with All its with regard to no officer below the rank of brigade commander was entitled to order and ail serious abnormal acts were review if in any Case innocent persons suffered by orders of a brigade com the Secretary said he would consider it a Case for compensation out of the exchequer official reprisals rare official reprisals were Only taken in martial Law areas and were so rare As to be almost with regard to general Neelys de Mand that reprisals should Only be carried out on purely military and that no House should be destroyed unless used As cover for an and the occupants reasonably suspected of participating in the chief Secretary promised to discuss the matter with the commander chief and bring before i him the Points raised in this in he characterized the crop at Street Many anxious to testify so great was the number of farm ers willing to testify that the commis Sion Only adjourned for an hour for and went right on till a late Jonah has joined the Legal array As counsel for the Saskatchewan cooperative elevator he has not quite got into the curves of the and had couple of tilts with counsel to the which vastly air used the channels of transportation commissioner Staples let fall a significant remark when he told a wit Ness that he appeared to be a student of and flowed that he and other witnesses might give some thought to the channels of transportation of especially As the come Mission was getting near the Rockies and the question of shipment via tha Pacific ports would continued on Page ills backed around the counter and red the till of its passed out of the door he Dischar three More shots into the the robber disappeared into the railway Yards across the no Arres has yet been 1w1perialconference Premier says his attitude on Nava defense unchanged june Lapointe Quebec East in the House this afternoon asked whether in View of a despatch m morning papers that would be one of the main topics Dis cussed at the coming conference of premiers in London there had been any change in the determination of the Premier As announced to the that Canada did not desire this subject should be taken the civil service commission and Public business had suffered con i no decision had been reached on the amendment when Progress was seeking new Eldorado june of discovery of a new Eldorado in Northern British Columbia Are held by a group of experienced mining men it is Are financing an expedition into the Cassiar Stuart Well i am not agreeable to the Defini Tion of my position by the honorable replied a thur there has been no 2462 Parry too i of 5068 5063 i change m my or m that of 4364 4668 the in regard to the i known lawyer and is said to be at the head of the reports Byng offered governor june the Montreal Gazette of tomorrow will say a private Cable received in Montreal last night stated that lord Byng of Vimy had been offered of Canada in succession to the Duke of and subject to his an official announcement of his appointment might be expected within a few to obtain from authoritative at it Tawa last night either Confirma Tion Deniel of the purport of wage Cut in May affect Canadian rate fad Dell says settlements there always have had influence Settle ments in the United states have Al ways had effect on the pay of can Adian Railroad said Secretary of the railway association of which represents the railroads in wage in response to an inquiry As to the prob Able effect of the cuts decided upon by the United states railway labor of Arr Riddel added that it was impossible to determine yet whether or not the coming reductions in can Ada demanded by the railways would on the reductions in the declares it is reversion to patronage june press a motion by the prime the House today decided that a Reso based on the report of the pensions to give disabled exse vice men a special preference to employment in the government should be considered when the Bill to Amend service act is considered in Meighen said he thought it better to embrace ail amendments to the civil service act made this ses Elon in one Rodolphe Lemieux asserted that he would oppose the main which reverted to he would vote against it in on the other the Resolution involved simple Justice to the returned in which he entirely the did not approve mingling the Daylight saving bylaw is carried at june the hardships of the members the House of com Mons whose official salary of yearly has not been changed since the despite the increased Cost of living and have been the subject of much discussion re and the on recommendation of a special commit has proposed to exempt the Sal Aries from the income tax and to Al Low travelling these proposals have met with fierce opposition outside the main Lyon the ground that such action would Ren Der the members indifferent to the interests of the income tax when the proposals were submit Ted in the House the ment Felt constrained to allow the members a free with the result that both proposals were the government in the course of the explained that the members could reckon the Cost of travelling As work ing on which they could claim exemption from the income the he would be glad if the government would rid them of this he expressed the opinion that the Hope of Ireland was first to defeat the Republican army and then to encourage the coming together of the North and which had happily the policy of the government was to leave Ireland to the Irish leaders forty years ago the Inland Revenue collections May totalled Louis Bridge was nearing completion and the City Council advertised for ten Ders for the construction of the Road approach to the who was married to miss Rowe at holy Trinity was waited on by the members of Tho Garry Lacrosse club and presented with a Gold watch and series of band concerts were held in the musical under the direction of bandmaster Mound was surveyed As a Tow site and placed on the june Daylight saving on we Saskatoon voted carried majority of were ballots in favor of the measure 759 the City Council be asked to ratify the vote a this French attitude on disarmament Sta he Ich by 849 ind willed be based austrian Cabinet resigns As result of plebiscite june French foreign office said today that As yet it knows nothing of the plan of the United states government to take up the subject of a reduction of armaments with the principal the French attitude is that France must prepared until danger from the East has Soo line to Call men Back to work july 1 june 3 000 to men will be called Back work july 1 by the Paul and Sault Ste Marie rail Way Vic Epresi announced this action is a direct result of the Railroad Labo boards announced in Chicago last reducing the wages scale of general sir Wolseley found dead on rail track june dead body of general sir George Benjamin worse of the thatched water brother of the late Field marshal lord was found Ori the Southeastern and Chatham Between watering Bury and everything Points to the of death having been an continued on Page complains Canada is exuded from Nauru Doherty does not think agreement on mandated Island exists Ottawa june press Mackenzie Leader of the asked in the House this afternoon if it was True that the governments representatives on the British Empire delegation to the peace conference agreed to Grant a Mono poly of the raw materials in the Island of Nauru to the United King Australia and new to the exclusion of King understood that the Man Date for Nauru was common to the British right Mii Fister of replied that he could no give a definite answer at the moment he was strongly of the opinion tha such an agreement did not thirty five years ago the Manitoba Lacrosse club Dis banded to join forces with other play ers and form a Strong taking the name of the Winnipeg Lacrosse employees of the shops organized an athletic club and formed baseball and Cricket a provincial convention of liberals was held in the Victoria Fisher and in the evening the delegates from outside Points were entertained at a complimentary thirty years Abo and Michael in route to the Pacific coast for Benefit of the formers were visitors in the Oconnor and Scott were elected officers of the Winnipeg and South Eastern railway Gir Vin was awarded the contract Lor erection of the new fort Rouge series of billiard matches Between Donohue and Bennett was local the Woods milling company awarded con tracts for the erection of six new ele inaugurated to determine the Lake of june the of Michael Chancellor and arrivals if foreign resigned cause at the plebiscite on g the question of fusion with r ram Rotterdam s0utnamwn Rork slain in Montreal Rankin is found lying in Pool of blood Montreal june press to the Bone at the Elbow and following a the cause of which has not yet been ascertain during which he was thrown through a Glass door at the apart ment House of of this Ramsey of Strat died in a Hospital Early this two men and two women Are held by the gathered by the police occupants in other apartments the fourth son of major Garnet a sound crashing Glass and a Nylon tuft a Minn diviner on the and a younger brother of the Field sir George was born in and so had reached a Ripe old during his Long service to the army he had belonged to Many different regiments and had a number of appointments of a Rankin was found lying on the stairs in a pol of his own seeking the late Rankin had been prac Tinl scat for Tome face Sec on of Southeastern rail me had one Mot real to Twentyfive ago the civic water and Light com Mittee the installation of hydrants to replace the fire tanks in the Central portion of the Bryce Innis and miss Mildred Mctavish were married at new Village Council of Gretna was formally and Herchmer was appointed Secretary first of a series of lectures and entertainments in connection with the masonic Library was Given in the Temple Omeara lecturing on socialism and Mitchell and Crosby Hopps contributing the vocal Twenty years ago an ordination service was held at St Johns and among those consecrated to the Priesthood were if and a e Moore and miss Eva Waters were married at Portage la Hill of was in the City in connection with the con tract for a Brick and Stone residence at his Home Strevel was awarded the contract for the bom ;