Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1927, Winnipeg, Manitoba R temperature. Winnipeg i for arc press thermometer heading ., july .1-1 0.30 ., july 14 11.in., july 2.30 . July .15 a Gsrner full report or meteorological office see Paige one. Vol 53-no. 9 fair and warm scattered showers. Sun rises. Sun sets 20 33 Moon Moon . Friday july 15, 1927 Price-5c-per copy edition with comic 26 pages f heat wave Roaches 100 York hardest hit by prostrations reaches seasonal High of Rains materialise Only a widely separated account for Many deaths As heat drives thousands to watering storms reported from new several persons being by lightning. Item toll first ing tha night but that the Mercury would begin climbing again tomorrow or saturday. Bain brought temporary Relief Dur Luj the Day to parts of new England i Western new York state and the mid West. Rain was general Over Michigan. Deaths recorded up to Early tonight hardest hit by prostrations be j were As follows Pennsylvania. Is of relat a say High percent new York City and Vicinity j 14 Chicago. 10 Hamilton ont. 4 West Virginia 4 Baltimore 3 Detroit 2 Vermont 2 Connecticut 2 new of moisture reached a new sea j sigh of 91.5 during Tho late skies were overcast Duran Jae evening Rush hour and there was j York state. 6 Boston. 1. Total 79. Rainfall in the suburbs. Seventy Aloe known dead was it tos to the. Between the Mississippi Valley and neat drove the Atlantic coast with the possibility places. Hat Many additional heat deaths in seller places had not been reported. Fifteen victims died in new York inv and adjacent towns in Mercury to climb the weather Bureau predicted coolly Rains would to general the Eastern half of Tho country Many drawn legs reported Brownings included in Tho above total were numerous As the thousands to watering although temperatures sagged after the Rains in the Midwest the Atlantic Seaboard for the most part was still new j suffering at Sundown with the pro i incised Rains materializing Only in widely separated localities. That Freak storms were reported from Over j now England where several persons Clur were killed by lightning. Suddenly at Lac la newspapermen at Geneva threatened by disaster As storm disrupts wires Portage la Prairie s first trolley too Nerville which was entered in the Jubilee Parade by Winnipeg Lodge no. 10, . After Tho Jubilee Celebration was Over the local elks presented it to the City of Portage la Prairie and it will be the first trolley car to arrive in that City. It s a Start at least and May yet Lead to bet Ter things. Planning real Holiday for Prince and Premier while they Are guests of Canada. Finds holocaust caused 8y danger Ous Saint remover use of which is prohibited refers to constructional defects of building escapes out of Date miss Renee Thomas seized j with heart attack while in bathing was spending Canadian press despatch i Tigris. July 14. A journalistic Dis j Aster threatened the newspaper Corre i spoil clients in Geneva today. In the midst of the important Plen Ary session of the tripartite naval con i Ference when vital pronouncements a cation with i regarding the disarmament or fils were i being made by the Heads of the various friends at Ontario summer i scramble to reach Telephone lines to the French being the Only i expeditious Way of getting copy out of Geneva. Much of the news of the so Sjon reached Canada and the United stat i in this manner but owing to he Pip sure on the limited facilities. Was necessarily slow. Miss Renee Thomas aged 23 years daughter of or. And mrs. John Thomas. 1451 Boss Avenue. Weston. Died suddenly yesterday morning at the summer Home of or. And mrs. R. Piercy. Lac la. Ont. Miss Thomas was in bathing with friends when she was salted with a heart attack from ill j j which she died about two hours after j i f 1 j wards. J miss Thomas who had been an Active worker in St. Thomas anglican Church. Weston being a teacher in Tho sunday school and a member of Tho Young people s society left last sat urday to spend a two week vacation the guest of or. And mrs. Piercy. She had been in the employee of Neal " 03. Wholesale grocers. Or parents two. Sisters Wennie and Doris and one brother. W. R. Thomas survive. Her father left last or Nelns for Kenora. Ont. From which Point the body will be forwarded for j service and burial in this City. Canadian press despatch Ottawa. July plans for the tour of the Prince of Wales and pre Mier Baldwin Are being drawn up to provide As far As possible for holidays for the distinguished visitors. It is to be hoped stated a member of the government today that the Public would regard the Prince and the part Mier As guests of Canada and do everything possible to make the trip a pleasurable one. So far As an official programme can regulate the various receptions throughout the country Are to be Brief with the object of allowing As Many As possible to see the Prince and or. Baldwin rather than allowing a More limited number to hear Public addresses. 11 was pointed out today by a Cabinet minister who has been Active in arranging thei visit that or. Baldwin is coming to Canada on a Holiday trip and while he will speak several times he will Endeavor to secure rest and diversion from his own work during the 20 Days he is to be in the Dominion. The Royal party and the prime min ister s party will separate at Banff. Or. Baldwin will return East and the Prince and his brother Prince George will go to the . Ranch. Once in his own Canadian Home the Prince s visit to Canada in the official sense is Over and his Royal highness will make his own plans. It is expected that within a few Days the official itinerary will be made Public. Shu set it afire and sing hymns while flames Roar with elastic skin comm ils suicide because Tabooed lady jilted him press despatch Baulo Crock mich., july he tattooed lady. -name., in. Whom lie was in love and jilted him Clarence h. Alexander known As Joe the boy with the Clastic drained a Goblet of a solution of Ytry Chunc at the ring Ling Barnum circus yesterday. While a crowd was gazing with won Dering eyes at the various freaks Joe stood up waved his at the crowd turned to his unresponsive love said goodbye forever and drank the Poison. He died in a Hospital. M. A Handy s funeral died at port City Marks burial of former Home Bank president press rips Patch port front out. July 14. Pm lit marked the burial of the late july libel Joseph Haney a pres ident or the Home Bank of Canada and Well known contractor Here to Day. Few of those who were identified Alth him in business circles in the of his affluence were present. Many killed by lightning in storm in Silesia Germany United Cible in free i press private Iverc London july j special United news c Alyle to free press by free press private wire London july religious fanatics shut themselves up in a j Chapel at Kustala Siberia set the building afire and Sang hymns while j flames roared about them a Dally mail Warsaw dispatch declared today. The charred of the singers were found by firemen in the ruins of the Chapel the dispatch said. According to the reports the Relig Ion the fanatics followed had As its Central idea death by fire. Firemen were unable to quell the fire or enter the Chapel to Rescue the i Al calms the dispatch said. Child s foot mangled by. Mower Spe Telal to the free press Emerson. Man july Nve year old son of a. Seward Farmer. Blk Neville fell in front of a Mower this afternoon and had his right foot badly mangled by the knives. Or. Mclntosh who was called found it necessary to amputate the front half of his foot and ordered his immediate removal to Winnipeg general hos Pital. Several persons electrocuted at sing sing refusing to Tell real name cd reported today Sal Sevor Cly damaged Tho a. It was added. torrential Rains. Had Are made for ii to operate in Jan i Manitoba. Sas Katche 730 and 4 censures Rte Keandra apartments. Vancou at which claimed eight lives. Lire i e found by Hunters May be that of s3ins French Ste t pyth0n in Cabi is Uvo Wann cargoes. 1 ale Moscow pm f communists to from Page 3. In Eastern Canada Ossa Nln. N.y., july 14. Declaring that he. Had been convicted and sentenced under an assumed name for a Brooklyn murder. William Wagner was put to death in the electric chair in sing sing prison late tonight. To the last Wagner refused to reveal his real name. San in automobile driven by woman Assn cup a d press despatch ml-iin., july 14. Two in a naked Moil who had a woman driving their automobile late today held up the Sable state Bank and obtained about 32.000. Their car. Which bore a North Dakota. License seen heading towards Crookston. While one of the men held at Bay l. C. Pollette. Cosher of the Bank who was the Only employee in Tho building at the time the other Gath ered up All the available Cash. They then hurried to their car and were driven away by the woman. Rathee report the following is the is sued from the Winnipeg of fice it 1 Temperature to maximum Tor Tho priced my 12 78 minimum. 54 barometer. 29.75 North wind at 4 Miles per hour sky is fair. Showers have occurred in Many districts Thi our out the Vest and the weather continues moderately a Vurm. Minimum Norri Tcmpentf-nrc11 i. A. Pince Vancouver Kamloops calf Arv Edmonton 9v.mft current fio Prince Albert 50 Medicine hot 52 i Loose jaw.-. 50 Saskatoon 51 50 port Arthur. Cochrane Parry sound Jondon. Toronto. A Iriks on Ottawa Montreal Quebec St. John. Halifax Charlottetown my. I 58 58 of 54 cd 66 58 64 Jirm forecasts Western winds scattered showers but mostly Lair incl much the same temperature Loki winds mostly fair and moderately warm probably a scattered showed. First step developing International City taken plans discussed for building three Bridges connecting Buffalo and Niagara to be. One of the most colossal civic enterprises Ever undertaken. Conference of Geneva con pleads guilty at a Charses and is son or draws arse attendance unfavourable Pago 7. Loss touch with y appeals against libel in 5. A in development of in 1. Result in St Boniface rests a. 6. Thomas Dies suddenly at 1. Associated Tress despatch new York july Are under Way for the building of three Bridges connecting Buffalo and Niagara palls by Way of grand Island As the first step in the development of International George c. Lehl Buffalo county Engineer said today. Or Lehl. Who was to return to Buffalo tonight had been conferring with financial advisers regarding the project. He characterized the Industrial development known As International City As one of the most colossal civic enterprises Ever undertaken. Within the area part on the United states and part on the Canadian Side of the Frontier Are persons and taxable assets of pointing out How the St. Lawrence and state Barge canal projects would prove traffic feeders because of the necessary routing through the Wel land can Al which lies within tha Boun Dary of International he Proa bounced the location As the Best distributing Centre in the United states. The chamber of Commerce of Twenty communities in this country and can Ada were sanctioning the move he these approving units have appointed a general committee to function for All. As the development proceeds or. Lehl said a move will be made to Vest authority in the present port of Buffalo Survey comr Nettee of senator Charles a. Prieber is chair Man. This port authority will assume responsibility for the undertaking on the american Side. A corresponding Canadian body will be formed to serve to a similar capacity the deliberations of both subject to review by Maofa committee. Or. Lehl Al slowed. The possibility of a free port and declared that the huge derived from the fails could further supplemented through develop ment lie said would not destroy their Scenic Beauty. Killed n Presle Ell stated entire City of Nablus exception of two streets lies in ruins associated press Ijes Palch Jerusalem july 14. Jewish Tele graphic estimates of the earthquake Cash Mitles place. Number killed in Palestine and Jordan la cities and villages at 670, and the injured at. The property damage was estimated today to be reports which Are being received Here hourly from various sections of the country add to the number of casualties and the amount of damage to property. The Arab cemeteries ars full of mourners. A terrible picture of destruction is to be seen at Nablus the biblical City of Shechem seat of the ancient Sam Aritan sect and Home of a Large Arsis population. With the exception of two streets the entire City lies in ruins. Rescue parties Are at work extricating the bodies of victims from among Che rums in Nablus and neigh Boring villages. Prosecuting attorney draws vivid picture of mayor of West City Csc Cal United news despatch to free press by. Free private. Wire Benton ills., july jury of Farmers and miners to the of gang terrorism in Southern Illinois and decide the Fate of diaries Birger and Art Newman and Ray by land on trial for the murder Joe Adams of West City. Prosecuting attorney Martin made his first address to the jury drawing a vivid picture of the murder of mayor Adams. The evidence will show to tit new Man and Hymand were associated with Birger at Shady rest at the time Joe Adams was Martin Laid. It will show that Joe. Adams be vhf was a member of a rior had any connection with Martin pointed out that Birger be came angry at Adams in october 1b26, and that at about the same time bar a Ger Newman and Hymand loaded up an automobile with machine guns and drove to the Home of Adams. Takes Cabinet posts Blythe to be vice president of Irish free state Cabinet to be reorganized specla.1 unit a news Cable arcs press by frer Proi private Dublin Ireland. July William t. Cosgrave announced in parliament today1 that he would take Over the Cabinet posts of minister of Justice and minister of external affairs left vacant by the assassination of Kevin o Hogg los. Ernest Blythe. Minister of finance was elected to o Higgins place As vice president. The positions Are temporary Pend ing reconstruction of the Cabinet. As Days pass without Lurther sign of revolutionary activity Public opinion excited following o Higgins death., is becoming quieter. Exonerates Painter charged with urges inspection of All apartment buildings Canadian Tress despatch Vancouver. July Hender son 52, Painter charged with Man Slaughter after the Hoyal Alexandra apartment fire which took eight lives Here last Friday was exonerated of All blame for the tragedy by a Coroner s jury at the close of the inquest this afternoon but the owner of the build ing was strongly d. The verdict returned by the jury after two hours deliberation read As follows we Rind mrs. Emmy Bicker by and others came to their deaths through the effects of Burns and asphyxiation on july 8. I we believe the fire was caused by use of a paint remover preparation now proved to be of a highly inflammable nature in suite 401, and the storage and use of which is strictly prohibited by City fire bylaws. Censures owner of building David Henderson user of the paint remover the said paint remover hav ing been supplied him. By the management and the dangerous nature of which he was ignorant we exonerate entirely from All blame in being the cause of the fire. We ,.strpngly censure the owner of the building c. E. Lightheart for sup plying and permitting the use of such a a Fingeroos compound and we strongly deprecate the Sale of it to the unsuspecting pays to firemen and police the jury. Paid tribute to the Rescue work done by the firemen and police men Drew attention to the fact the we was severely hampered by men and at the be ginning of the fire that a thorough inspection of All part rent buildings in the City be made immediately with continued on pase two police report Driver left Wagon at plea of stranger. Canadian despatch qiie., july 14, police and officials throughput the beaus District Are Active tonight trying to discover a clue that will Lead Tuci i to the robber who held up the Royal mail Wagon Between. St. Samuel and St. this morning and escaped with a sum of Money estimated at first reports stated that she hold up was carried out by a gang of bandits but it was stated tonight by chief of police Arthur Savard of late Megan tic that the robbery was car ried tit by a single Man. The report to ice have is that Sci in driving the mail was accosted by a stranger asking for a left the Wagon to go for the stranger s grip Back on the Road a piece and in his absence the stranger ripped the a taif tired mail bag and made off with the. Contents. Three convicts Are to be hanged at Joilet ills., today special. United. despatch to free press by free press private wire Jollet tils., july 14. Roberto Tor res Walter Stalesky and diaries Ruschp Waskl Are to be i Mizged Tomor Row for. The murder of Deputy. Warden Peter n. Klein of the Penitentiary. A. Last minute move off the hanging of Torrez was being pressed before judge. Frederick r. Hill. An that he has Ber come insane since being sentenced has been Joliet circuit court and a stay of execution is being basked order to determine his mental state. Urges Britain s needs last message said plane 735 Miles across Ocean was picked up at san Francisco at 7 ., Pacific stations on coast and at Honolulu constantly Tun ing in without and atmospheric conditions believed by radio experts to be flying Speed of plane computed on messages received slightly More than 90 Miles per hour. Admiral Jill icons at Geneva naval conference says experiences of War proved Britain must have at least 70 cruisers to protect her lines of communication. Crisis is Jellicoe speaking from War experience says Britain must have .70 cruisers terrific havoc wrought by raiders proved it matter of life or death associated Tress Camo i encvn.-, Switzerland. July 14. The crisis in the tripartite naval con Ference continued unabated despite a Public at which British United states and japanese delegations frankly presented before the a prod their i views concerning the Cruiser problem Ali Ich Niay yet cause a split in. The conference. This presentation served Only to emphasize the wide divergences existing and brought out clearly that while Britain is adhering tenaciously to her tonnage necessity in cruisers the americans and japanese Are Strug to lower that level. Two features of this solemn and tense session stood out prominently. Was the declaration of Hugh s. Gibson head of the United states delegation that an agreement Between the three Powers was Worth More to All than any technical advantage and that Mutual. Confidence and. The Feci ing of Security to be derived from an agreement would have More value than any number of guns and ships. He pleaded for a self denying ordinance freely entered into by the three great naval Powers. The second feature was furnished by Admiral Jellicoe who was co Tiiman. Continued on Page three m Dublin Active in Republican move ment was sentenced to death in 1916 is Irmo Vid help nn-3 associated press Cable London july. Dublin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says that countess Markievicz Long prominent in Tho Republican move ment in Ireland died ear y this Fri Day a morning. Countess Marklevitz recently under went Ewo. Operations for appendicitis. Thei countess writ was Constance Georgina Gore Booth sister of j. A. R. Gore Booth to count Casimir Dunin de Markievicz of Poland in 3900. Her activities in Tho Irish Republican cause began in Thi period before the 191b rising and for her part in this affair she was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment but she was released in 1017. Later she has been affiliated with Eamon is Valera in his plan Ria fall Wing of the Republican party and was Wuth elected to the Dall Ereann on that Ber of deputies today. The sitting ticket in the recent elections. Was suspended. Special United news despatch to free i Russ by free press private wire by Blin e. Titus san Francisco. Cain. July 14. All efforts to get into radio communication with Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte who Are winging their Way across the Pacific Lorway in n tiny Silver monoplane failed tonight Al though powerful stations on the coast and at Honolulu were constantly Tun ing in for the City of the last word received from the Fly ers was a Bare statement of their Longitude and latitude picked up by the Federal Telegraph company and the army radio at 7 Pacific coast time. The Little plane was 735 statute Miles out from the Golden Gate at that time and its average flying Speed was slightly More Miles an hour. Interference and atmospheric conditions were believed by radio experts to be responsible for the absence of late word from the plane. The radio beacons at Crissy Field and at Honolulu Are both operating regularly but no Means of determining whether the flyers were in their path Way was available. Based upon the Speed they made in the earlier hours of the flight the plane should reach Honolulu Between 11 and 12 . Tomorrow Pacific coast Standard time. Thousands witness take off Between and persons saw the plane take off from Oakland s municipal All port to follow the Trail blazed two weeks ago by aleuts. Mait Lanci and Hegenberger. Smith Hud tried to catch the army aviators then but was forced to re turn after nine minutes due to a cracked wind Deflector. Four hours later the damage repaired he was ready to dash after the army men again but his navigator backed Down. At 10.03 . Today the plane started Down the Oakland runway Only to Stop after it had gone feet. It had gotten into a rut out of which it could not move. Even after today s second take off some thought the plane was returning after the machine had disappeared it suddenly returned and swooped Low aver the Field. Bronte s head appeared through the window of the cockpit. He waved to the crowds and the plane straightened out on its course Over the Ocean. Circles san s run Claro twice Smith circled san Francisco twice and headed for the Golden Gate he continued on Page two girl arrested states she resorted to banditry to pay off mortgage on farm special United despatch to free press by free press private wire Saginaw mich., july Christler 19, bobbed blonde and Blue eyed says she resorted to Bank banditry to pay off the mortgage on the farm. Out of work and in desperate circumstances she attempted to hold up the Peoples state Bank. She demanded of b. E. Speckhard a Teller taut he sounded the burglar alarm be fore turning Over the Money. Man arrested her As she was. Leaving. To him she explained that she wanted to pay Oft the mortgage on her father s farm. Weil known Farmer of War Man District loses life in gravel pit Canadian press Despal Cli sail cartoon sock. July 14. Jacob Bartsch. 29, a Well Farmer of the Wurman District North of Saska Toon drowned in a gravel pit 14 Forth of the City this afternoon while with two companions. It is believed he have suffered cramps. He leaves a widow and three children. From special despatch to the free press Hiim Hlf Sirisk. July 14. The news of the drowning of Mac Cameron while bathing at Maryfield. Sask. Came As a great Shock to his Many friends in this District. L rom received by phone this . That or. Came run. Together four other Young men to . T a the Catisi i tact off i pm nil and never came up. Florid Hunters report seeing Large White boat which May be missing French plane major Sidney Cotton boards plane expected to visit spot Canad in press desp item St. John s. Nflrl., july f. Sidney Cotton returned to St. George s at six o clock tonight and boarded his plane which Obser Vars thought he might prepare for an immediate flight to Tho spot where two Hunters re ported sighting wreckage which May be that of the White Bird transatlantic plane of the missing French flyers Nungesser and Coll. The Hunters came out of the Woods at Flat Bay on the West coast with the report that about 40 Miles Inland they sighted what looked like a Large White boat major Cotton left St. George s for Flat Bay on a special car late today to question Hunters regarding their find. It was believed thai the object might be the fuselage of Tho the River was dress Iii and the body located at 6.30 this evening. The deceased who was Well known Here was educated in the local schools later joining the staff of the Hoyal Bank. Recently he was transferred from Humboldt to Maryfield i is a brother of Jim Cameron a Loca socialists beat communist members of belgian chamber ten Ltd news Cable m Fred b5 press private wire Brussels. Belgium. July group of enraged socialists attack ecu and beat two communist members in the Cham from the free press Flics july 15. Fifty Wirs Ako or. Parr City Engineer sat Down to a dinner of which the piece de resist Ance was new pens grown from seed planted in his Garden in Winnipeg on the Queen s birthday a Halcyon Calm Kalll pervaded the police court and precinct Foj Tho Bank was beginning to grow ashamed to draw his salary. Forty five years ago the old Winnipeg fire engine wac beginning to ;