Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Tenn Peg t rep press thermometer Kea Dengl ., Iline 11 . Rime 11 1 . Juno i2 a.m., tune i 3 Hiu a or full a port or meteorological of one. With some districts. Showers in Sun rises 4.18 Sun sets Moon rises 1.45 Moon Seta. 13.59. Tuesday june Price 5c per copy edition with comic inc. Packs Rescue ship Frozen in ice pack Miami becomes Boca. Hourly one party of Node s Man driving toward Opan Walsh and Taisir plight is j Btij Poss ibis Agency shved to Speed Toliff to St Koine stranded in Mossal by fuel shortage the Citta Ril Miano. Relief ship of the Nobile Polar expedition is shown Here jammed in an i near Dane Island As she set Forth in search of the lost dirigible italia and her Crew of eighteen men. Ice pack Cal or i for i h Cit a a in a vol i 15 pro Ogbe . Were being j the ice i Tornado wrecks More than Homes at Mccook neb. Down by Fuy. Ctr a n h. Plans to Ai 3" to c a food Rule to men a a ii eci one cd Kol i Vas to land at a i Civ Iii i a. N priest acid or the Lutr. Eriv. Was unix cd a Roc Roc sighted of in Crew Dur ing Riisa of l Reu ijf.-iifrati1 Oie indicated or tie desperate. Maslic part or men dry. Toward open water. A Xor j believed t Ier. Cifors to roller Braganza. 120 to hopeless. Riecl or the Ore a Uto Loulu by lieu. Kolm ill a Over Brondy by the Ris rih or land he a i i our. App Renc in Vrcic the v. drifted 3 rile Friday. Is group o seven o them was broken sweets clean path half mile wide through residential District amendments to Supply injured_aa1tomobile crumpled basses of jumbled houses levelled Defeated i a Simsy cardboard structures. A. De Jonck Herc fatally injured when horses frightened by Auto i four important private Bills j still on order paper go into discard Canadian press despatch.1 Ottawa. June second ses Sion of Canada s sixteenth parliament j came to an end today. It came after j delays in prorogation such As Are j re Rev seen at Ottawa. When the House resumed this morning there was Only one vote remaining namely that of s30.000.000 for the Canadian National railways. But the vote led to a couple of hours debate on the a. Hotels at Vancouver and Haji fax before it passed committee. The Day Sav no less than three amendments to Supply. The first came Vav Ithan a few minutes of the opening. John Evans progressive of Rosetown. Moved that All goods imported should be assessed at Purchase Price unless such Purchase Price is lower than the manufacturers Price Isi tie country of origin. Consideration was promised and or. Evans his amendment. The two other amendments came from conservatives. They were made on third Reading of the Supply itself. With the first Hon. B. B. Bennett sought to str Lucy from the Bill the provi Sions of for the salary of w h Moore chairman of the Tariff Board. With the second. Sir George per lev sought to reduce the vote for the Tokio legation from s5o.ooo to . Both amendments were declared lost or. Divisions. Final Ticac Lilik i Supply Bill then final Reading of the Suofy Bill its adoption in a few minutes by the Senate and the end. On l Aeb ten United news despatch to the free press by free press private wire Mccook neb., june 12. More than 100 Homes were demolished and several persons were seriously injured in a Tornado which swept Over tie Northern and Western sections of Mccook to night. The Tornado swept a clean path r. Half mile wide through the residential District demolishing houses before it. Automobiles were crumpled into grasses of jumbled steel. Tangled Trees Power lilies and debris prevented an Active Survey in the darkness As volunteers started searching the ruins for possible fatalities. J physicians were besieged with Calls to care for the injured and with All communication lines in a tangle the City was in a state of chaos. The funnel shaped Cloud first appeared near Ludell. Kansas and moved in a northeasterly direction toward Mccook. As the big funnel approached sign boards along the Highway were lifted High into the air. One plane at the Kelly Airfield was broken from its anchoring stakes and drawn 200 feet into the air. It was dashed to the ground some distance away. Entering the City the Tornado level led houses As if they were Flimsy Struc Tures of cardboard. Trees Rose from the. Ground and fluttered about like twigs in a Gale is assured declare announcement is made following series of eve of Kansas City convention capitulation of Mellon forces after Midnight to have settled question nomination will probably be made on first ballot declares Sena Tor David a Reed pc Ial a Niue 1 res Cable to Ilio Tress by free press private wire by Karmond clap or Kansas City. To. June thing is set to make Herbert Hoover the Republican presidential nominee possibly on the first ballot. Republican party leaders told the United news Early this morning. Long series of conferences. In which tie important figures of the Conven Tion participated preceded the conclusion reached. The conferences tools place in the hotel suite of Secretary Mellon. Shortly after Midnight when they broke up senator David a. Reed of Pennsylvania said it will be Hoover on the first Butler for Hoover senator Moses of new Hampshire selected As permanent chairman of the convention made the same statement. Earlier last evening William m. But Ler chairman of the Republican National convention and the close adviser of president Coolidge let the word go out that he was prepared to vote for Hoover. The movement to draft Coolidge col lapsed unexpectedly. Many reports were in circulation that direct word had been received mom Washington that the president would not accept the nomination. Then William s Vare one of Tan continued on Dies end a. Automobile by Lucien do son of j dec Vinct or in Rose Dairy Bistro. Was coming up in the rear of Joynson Hicks it had been passed to communist bodies in Britain Bol Tonj off the and micros a a the Cair Rcpt in hand Souwer. Or the wheels Rin Over his body lungs. Canadian press Cable London june the House of afternoon sir William Home Secretary Des a 1 Byj a he str Cit t in Driver from i commons this Joynson Hicks investigations which were must hold Vised passports or equivalent documents rules judge at Buffalo press Buffalo. . June 11. District John b. Ruled today poll citizens of Canada to this country must give Bondol 5250 effective thursday. The test Case involves John Graber a rumanian residing in Niagara Falls. Ont in this Case judge Hazel held that Canadian residents who Are up naturalized or native born citizens must hold Vised passports or equivalent documents in order that Lacy May work in this country. Hazel however. Granted a stay of execution of the decision per Ding outcome of an action 111 a Abr s behalf in the District of Columbia District court to comp i Secretary of state Frank b. Kellogg to instruct the United states Consul at Niagara Falls out., to visa passports of commuting applicants. The Consu. Has been instructed to deny passports to foreign born commuters of Canada. His refusal to Grant passports resulted in the writs of Hareas Corpus. John. And i Aci a legion convention i importance of trans Ait Jupt i improves 1. Inter Ciuha Golf Champion there had been a series of trans it the form of and notes Een july 1827, and april in questions the Home Sec he would submit the mat his advisors and act upon advice he quoted the British sources and from internal sources. Pitchfork fatality in Othon District Steve vargo., 30, Falls on tines Dies in Yorkton special despatch to the free Truso Yorkton sask., june 11. Stave Vargo 30. Otto Ion District died Here today from . Sustained last thursday when he slipped off a roof of a granary and fell Oil a Pitchfork one of the tines of which penetrated eight inches puncturing the Vareo Olio was employed by Leslie Brothers was brought to a Latona Hospital and operated on but gradually Sank death being due to infection setting in. Kaiui Barley in Bot of grrr Parv Hoover at assured state _. Weather conditions improve in Newfoundland for. Flight of produces Walter of Portage earheart and two companions hopeful of resuming c a Batch " i trans Atlantic attempt today Columbia fuelled at Field ., Likely to take off on moment s notice. Of minister to Tokio in House of commons. J of italia s Crew 1 critical hourly. Athly a satisfactory form prelim Tatj 18. Of Union can i municipalities 1. I court or a. I id 1 t n of " car cell a declares War increase Lead in National 10. Canadian press despatch. He who a scr monoplane Friendship. In the Sun broke through the fog several Days of Uii miss Earhart and Willmur Stultz a announced Argles and Captain Oliver c. Be Boutil Feiler rested All Day in anticipation of favourable weather reports late tonight. A Lone Mechanic appeared at the air drome following a. Lashtun Lute Post Iid them Soldate destination of the plane has not yet been made Public. The general expectation the a Field is that tiie comes will be on a c. After Many were that the Friend Imp Leav until noon tomorrow and proo Abl not until wednesday. Columbia Ruel Leil c or toss Field June 11. With their monoplane Columbia fuelled for the Long fluff it to Europe Mies Mabel Boll and her pilots. a report calculated to Spur the Columbia s departure from tre ton. As on 9f tie pilots is due to morning unless storms barricades himself in room commits suicide after shooting Fiancee special. United news despatch to the free press by fryc press private wire Chicago june Juliano 42. Shot his 17-year-old sweetheart. Harriet Pietrzak and then barricaded himself in his room where he com melted suicide. The girl. Shot twice in the head was taken to a Hospital oud is not expected to live. Juliano and the girl had been quarrelling allegedly because the girl accepted attentions of other men. Statements states he was engaged Only in police court cases in Winnipeg strike Canadian press despatch Ottawa june a question of privilege in the House of commons this afternoon j. T. Tho Sou lib., Winnipeg South Centre stated that Hon. B. B. Ben Nett in speaking on the Winnipeg strike last saturday had made some observations which were inaccurate. Or. Bennett had asserted he or. Thorson had been one of the prosecuting counsel in connection with the actions for seditious conspiracy instituted against certain per sons or. Thorson said that he had been engaged Only in police court cases with the exception of the prose cution of f. J. Dixon. In this Case lie had acted As assistant counsel. Or. Bennett said that he thought or Thorson s statement was not at with anything which appeared in Hansard. He was quite ready to however. I dispute ended agreement for next three years signed at per Alexas kit stua1n, member of the Orange order for 67 years who died sunday after a. Long illness in his 87th year. Presbyterians Deer North Dakota visitor collides with parked Auto on lord Selkirk Highway when a North Dakota car driven by or. Mcquinn. Of Whyalla , crushed into parked automobile on the Loid Sel Klyk Highway South of St Norbeit. And was tumbled Down a 2q-foot embankment. Marcel travers. 45. Otle Bov -nd., was injured and required Nea tent at St. Boniface Hospital. Mrs Mcquinn. Wife of the Driver was Muju de to some extent but after being treated by a doctor was released. Traverse sustained injuries to the face and body. There were Many bad cuts on his face his left lip was gashed and one hip was causing him. Some trouble. Hospital authorities reported his condition As Good last night. Mcquinn was returning to his Home North Dakota when his car crashed into the parked automobile owned by a Winnipeg Ger. At the spot where the acct est occurred the the raised considerably due .4% Bridge or Quick s car went Over the embankment and tumbled Down the swe Landing right Side up. The car was badly damaged. Thompson municipality is in favor of Sale of Beer special despatch to the free press Miami Man. June a majority of eleven votes the municipality of Thompson in the local option plebiscite today decided in favor the local Sale of Beer. The figures Are. For the a la of Beer 320 against. 309. Duchess of to India reaches Aleppo special United a cars Cable to free press by free press private narc London june to the daily express today said the Duchek of Bedford who is on a round trip flight to India had arrived at Aleppo. Northern Syria. Reversion to former policy of urged in report at Regina present members of Board resign to secure Freedom of debate on Issue Canadian press l , hask., june actions involving Radical changes in the administrative Structure of the presbyterian Church ill Canada As con in a draft report presented by Rev. D. R. Drummond d.d., of Hamil ton ont. To the general Assembly of the Church Here today resulted in the dramatic tabling of the resignations of members of the present Board of administration attending the Nieset the resignations were tabled by c. S Mcdonald Toronto who explained that the members took such a course in order that they could enter into the discussion of the issues involved freely and without prejudice. No action was taken on the matter pending full consideration of the re ports submitted by the special com Mittee on organization and co Ordina Tiomi and the administrative Board. Recommendations in both reports were heard but action was deferred until tomorrow when the subject Ivill be placed at the top of the Agenda. Or Drummond reported that in 1925, by the appointment of laymen Only the policy of the presbyterian Church since 1038 had been departed from and communications from 27 teries favored the restoration of the policy 14 had opposed it and 4 had press Cal Arv alta., june 11. Calgary carpenters and joiners will Elul Hewitt carpenters rep the wage dispute Between Tia rpt rate of one Dollar in tour0 refused to set the Tosawi and after terns strike i continued or. Page three her passes Timmy. Ala. Making non Stop Flig m from Mexico City to Washington . Special United news despatch to the free Tress by fryc Tress private wire ala., june 11. An air plane believed to be that of Emilio Carrai Iza mexican aviator making a non Stop flight from Mexico City to Washington passed Over Montgomery at 10 08 . Officers at Maxwell Neld government Airport announced the plane passed Over Maxwell i Leld Hying due North an official bulletin issued at the Field said. Ocean steamships Steamer Alberti a tuscan a Leviathan _ Samaria Franconia Cedric Melita arrived at _ Montreal new York new York _ new York _ new York _ _ Liverpool _ Liverpool _ Liverpool from _ London soil to Hampton Southampton London l _ Liverpool York York _. Mint Ria lower floors of me Hock Are badly Damag one fireman severely burned one Cut by broken Glass while nine overcome by smoke in fighting Blaze that started in radio lunch at 10.20 last and men from four Halls hold flames in Check and wage fight of four hours before control is assured. Firemen were injured nine others were overcome by smoke Ami damage approximating War done when fire swept the old Mclean building at 530 main Street last nights fireman w. Nell of no. 1 Hall a l his lace and hands badly burned while fireman Daniels sustained a laceration of his right hand. Both were rushed to the general Hospital in the police ambulance Neil s condition was reported favourable Early this morning his injuries not Belij sort Ous but he was detained at the Hospi Tal for night. Daniel s hurts were of a slight character and after they lad been dressed he was allowed to go. The nine firemen overcome by smoke were All temporarily disabled but were Able to return to duty after they had been assisted to fresh air and had cleared the acrid fumes from their lungs. Fireman c. Martin and d. S. Dunnet were the worst effected. Martin was suffocated twice but after being helped to a Safe place by his mates and Resl no a few minutes he went Backa duty in combating the flames. The fire is believed to have origin ated in the radio lunch cafe which was completely burned out. The first alarm was sent in at 10.20 ., and when firemen arrived the place was full of smoke. Thick Clouds were pouring out from both front and rear. The Centre of the place was a blazing inferno and firemen who tried to enter through the front and to chop Way in at the Back were driven Back by the intense heat and fumes. Gaining a stubborn hold the fire rapidly ate its Way through the Wall on the South Side of the Rad o lunch into the club a combined tobacco billiard room and Barber shoo., breaking out i both the radio cafe and the Clubb billiard room was filled with customers while main Street was thronged with traffic and pedestrians t a fire soon attracted a huge crowd. The streets in the immediate Vicin Ity were at times filled with Drifting smoke. Several times the heavy smoke which accumulated in the building and a tic had insufficient escape exploded in muffled blasts emitting dangerous spectacular bursts through Opfer fairs at both front and rear. Firemen driven put on All these occasions firemen were driven out. Coughing for breath their lungs filled with the poisonous fumes. It was when these sudden blasts re six Ltd that the nine firemen were Over realizing the menace that lurked in the explosions police stove the crowd a Safe distance no one but those authority being allowed within the. Lines. Firemen had considerable difficulty in ascertaining the source of the fire. Time and again they attempted to Force their Way in but each time were driven Back. Raging flames licked their Way up from the basement of the radio cafe through the ceiling of the ground floor. Firemen concentrated of Clr i Tacic Ritli High pressure Hose on the hear the flames and at the front managed to direct several streams into the base ment from holes whih Tuey chopped the sidewalk outside. to the construction of the basement the conflagration was very difficult to fight. The cellar is divided into a number of Small rooms used store rooms for goods in connection with the restaurant and owing to the separating Walls the powerful jets from the High pressure Hose was obstruct by 11 o clock the Len pcs had filled the club billiard room and were eat ing through the Selling into the suites Ond a vacant Hall above. Damage Here was estimated by n. Laylor proprietor to the amount to about to Stock comprising tobaccos and billiard equipment and loss to three Harbor chairs. Eight Pool tables were . The loss was covered by insurance or. Taylor said. One of the occupants of the suites above the premises. Mrs. Continued on Nash two recover three bodies of drowning victims four lives lost when Canoe overturned in Winnipeg River sunday fifty men with searchlights seek body of fourth Vic Tira of mishap three of the bodies of the four persons drowned in Winnipeg River sunday evening when no out Board motor driven Canoe eight passengers was swamped in heavy water four Miles North of Pine Falls have been found. The third body found Tuat of Charles Harbottle. Nix. Was Takii out of the River 15 feet from wisc re the bodies of is Mother and elder brother Norman used . We found. The body was recovered about 6 o clock last night. Weather repo sex the four in the weather report is sued from the Winnipeg meteorological office at 7 Temperature. 72 Maxi mum for the prec Dine 12 hours. 77 mini mum 53 barometer. 29.61 Southeast wind at nine Miles per hour sky . La put showers have occurred in a few sections of Saskatchewan and Alberta but the weather in the West has been mostly fair and moderately warm. Minimum and maximum temperatures Dawson 48 Brandon 0ra tart55zl Vancouver _ 56 88 Cochrane 34 60 Kamloops _ 52 78 Parry sound 46 70 Calit Arv 36 70 London Aita _ Edmonton 42 60 Toronto so m Kingston Switt current 38 Battleford 42 72 Ottawa _ Prince Albert 42 .72 Montreal Medicine hot 42 74 Quebec Moose jaw 42 St. John 42 72 44 72 48 60 44 74 43 c8 46 41 60 46 63 74 . 48 68 forc casts Manitoba unsettled with showers in some districts. Saskatchewan and fair with about the same temperature a few scattered show ers. Lake South and Southeast winds with showers chief in in Western districts. Sasha Toon to 48 74 Halifax. Rcftina-----33 municipal Union considers monday Best for holidays delegates to annual convention of Canadian association welcomed by mayor Dan mcleans Many important resolutions set for consideration today. I whoever is responsible for dubbing 1 monday As Blue is going to have a rude Jolt if the onion of Canad an municipalities has its Way. A Resolution to substitute monday. Any other week Day in Case of a monday including even new year s and Empire Day from now on. Is on the order Bill of the association which opened its 28th annual yesterday aftern6on in the Royal Alexandra hotel with first vice president a. Bettez . Major of three Rivers due. In the chair. Another Resolution read out at the opening would Combine the two income taxes the Federal and the provincial and make them payable under one heading. Municipal enterprises Are being through the in Post of the sales tax by the Federal government on building materials owned by municipalities declared mayor Dan Mclean in giving the address of Welcome. Mayor h w. Cater. Brandon made the Rolv on behalf of the delegates. The following were appointed to the resolutions comptroller Plant Ottawa . Saunders Cam Rose. Secretary of the Union of Alberta municipalities Alderman r. L. Scot. Westmount que. Mayor Cater bran Don mayor j. A. Gregory. North Battleford president of the. Saskatchewan Union Jules proud Hornc Winnipeg City solicitor and a. M. Mcfad yen St. Boniface president of me Manitoba Union. The treasurer s statement was presented by Samuel Bacr who also out lined the come before the convention today and wednesday. These include Resolution re of rung collection of sales tax by the Federal government on municipally owned building materials used for municipal purposes Resolution urging governments to pay school Resolution regarding Soldier is sent lands held in the name of the Karry Bragg. Montreal gave a Brief at Pine Falls a _ continued or. Page Al vol from the Jwuc fifty five ago 1 no Grasshoppers had been i As hoppers diet. Fifty years Aso and Ine in three Gem a ii championship of America. A Ort five years messes Kirchoffer and Jam con. File Brandon liveries rave car to the p lift or the country Folk Jouris who had been double Char cd by the souls ferry after 5 ., no imposition from the drop k arid also Treau and established free ferry i Miles West of the town but Isomo malicious spirit or spirits wont out by night and Cut the ropes and let me ferryboat Drift Korty years Ako emperor Frederick of Germany who during his Short reign of Only a jew months had been very 111 but made a partial recovery was again pc ported very was Hie average figure for the new Canadian loan the first three loan Ever offered. Thirty five years ago manager Austin or annl pc s ii Glenal and still popular horse drawn Street railway arrived from Toronto with a Carload of Fine horses Voth this addition his outfit he pro posed to Elc trily the citizens of Winnipeg articular by those who mid met cd themselves to think that the City s newfangled old cd la Roll Vay stood any Chance system. Thirty years him a Fine morning helped the Chase of the Winnipeg Polo club among those taking part messes. Soams and Sprado Allan and George mar Rock. Who the hares Lor the Day James tees master of the hounds and Morg aah Wilfrid Lemon or. Do Vine. Straug Mcbride Hll lard. Hough Hal land and mrs. Holland. Twenty rive years Ajo an important Winnipeg real Klalo transaction completed when or. Lennon of the Woodbine hotel Pur chased the Block occupied by Pul Ford s drug store and other houses with a frontage of about ;