Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg thermometer readings ., nine ., Lune i a.m., dime it a.m., Lime 20 for full report of meteorological office my pase one. And Cool Cruh occasional rain. June rises. -1.18 Sun to a. 20.40. Moon rises. 7.09 Moon sets 23.33. Winnipeg wednesday Jojne 20, 1928 it a i officials of Natona Irre persons killed 49 in blast at Mexico City Bath House special United news despatch to free i Ress by free Pichs private wire Mexico City. June per sons were killed and 49 injured in an explosion in a Public Bath House near the National Palace Early tonight. Many of the victims horribly scalded by steam and water ran screaming into the streets where they died. So great was the Force Oft the explosion that several persons in an adjoining tenement building were injured. The Bath House four blocks from the National Palace was crowded at the time of the Accident. J blinding steam and scalding water j turned the place into a chaos of dying and injured and the screams were audible for blocks. 1 police and ambulances were sent to the scene to control the crowds and re move the dead and injured. Flt Alexander and e. A Taylor in custody on conspiracy to defraud charge for p. Halexander not i denied owing to a i syncs from Winnipeg g free private wire Paris. 19. The aviators. Co source and Neshe announced iliac concluded preparations for the departure to baby to be within a week. They id they expected to visit new York Philadelphia and May make a tour of Centra and South America. Caught at Summit of Pike s Peak during severe Spring snowstorm so Ciui United news rec Spuler to free press by free Tress private wire Springs. Colo., june 19. s memory lir nigh study i Toronto. Stoic by j pc re Suisun. In loss of memory As the cause of the disappearance 5f . Allan Bond who has from Home saturday. Sas court of appeals a new trial of senator bureaus my action against Campbell incl w. J. B. 1. T. Alexander and e. L. Taylor. S.c., arrested of Harge of conspiracy defraud Canada National fire Ras Urance co. Pace 1. Vs-5 armed to o Canadian i i express car of mall bags at station. Toronto loot May reach i. Machinist local 484 withdraws from j rates and labor Council Over Power Hob Trinity Rector repudiates dirges Levelle a against English in a Santa. Page gives tumultuous Welcome miss Amelia earheart and her com l. Ant entry wins Royal i us Polo Park yes a a 40 injured in expo f Public in a hopi a in Mexico pase i. Reno re says seaplanes cod to is Obile castaways. Of River Heights object to stations or. Academy Road Washer saved from possible to by nn3e " rip on narrow ledge. Prospectors Gold in wintering area find Good Sulphide Ore. 3. A of privy coun ruling in Berta lands to is and five athletes to an olympic 18. Donn Byrne noted novelist killed in i. Spirlon in several years. Children were in the group. Alrh had isolated by great heaps if Snow which covered the of Mountain. Word of their plight was brought Here when f Arfow plow fought Throwr a the drifts and reached the stranded tourists. _ fart i Shoft at Herzegovina Jugo sin la. June severe Earth Shock lasting two seconds was Felt at Mostar. Herzegovina at 120 o clock this morning the damage reported was comparatively slight. Death Corner thrown into confusion when shots Send pedestrians scattering special United news despatch to free press by free press private uric Chicago ills. June 19. Death notorious for its numerous. Price 5c per copy edition with comic 1 of. Slim grip of fingers narrow ledge saves Man possible plunge to death stated they returned to Rescue Hobby and Braganza but did not Larid parties searching on foot Are notified of Nobile s position As Given by fliers clinging desperately with lingers to a window Sill on the Grain Exchange building yester Day afternoon Steve Labuza 265 Flora Avenue miraculously saved himself from death or serious injury on the ground three storeys below. Labuza was cleaning a window in the elevator Shaft on the North Side of Che building. After washing the Side pane he climbed out on the Sill to do the outside. He was Start ing to adjust safety Belt when the heavy steel Sash dropped knocking off precarious Perch. As he plunged Down he clutched the Sill with left hand just before the Sash crashed Down on fingers crushing them badly. Instantly Shott sett pedestrians scattering for cover and claimed the lives of two True to tradition was silent tonight. Scores of police and detectives sent word to head quarters that the Alky War was to blame and that arrests were expected slain men Joseph Salamone 28 and John Oliveri 35, were killed shortly after they left the Home 01 John Moralle a Friend. Salamone had stepped into hi., Coupe parked on the Corner when the fire started. His body behind the wheel of the car. Riddled with slugs. Oliver fled but the slayers driving in a Large touring car caught up with their victim and dealt a death similar to. That of companion. Turtle Mountain decides against Beefy 147 votes special despatch to the press Killarney Man., june the voting on the local Sale of Beer in the municipality of Turtle Mountain to Day the result was for local Sale against 359 majority 14 Ward one. Which includes the Village of Holmfield is the Only Ward that Tyve a wet majority. The Pality of Riverside in which the vote was taken on june 16, gave a dry majority of 91. Amundsen who left Romsoe on monday is reported returning to King s Bay special United news Cable to free Tress by free Tress private wire King s Bay. , june unconfirmed report received Here at 3 o clock tonight said seaplanes had found Gen. Umberto Noble and the five members of the Crew of the italia with on an ice Floe and had drop Ped food to the castaways but had not landed. The report said the seaplanes had returned to the Rescue ships. Hobby and Braganza which Hod notified land searching parties of Noblie s position As Given by the filers. Bold Amundsen who left Torsoe yesterday a French Latham seaplane to search for Nobue was reported re turning tonight and was expected Here momentarily. He was have passed Green Harbor. Sirce departure from Tomsone Amundsen had not been heard from. There were reports that landed near Nobile but these were not con Amundsen carried sufficient fuel for a flight of nearly Miles. Drifting into warm Waters. Meanwhile Noblie and the five men. With were Drifting into warm Waters on a crumbling ice Floe and for the second time today had seen sea plane Fly near their lonely Encampment Circle and disappear without having seen them. Captain h. Kaiser Larsen and Lieut. Holm flew within two Kilometres of Noblie s red silk tent bulk asked by ice floes and returned to the Rescue ship i Braganza ignorant of the frantic signals of the Noblie sent a message to the Oase ship Citta i Milano from weak ening wireless reporting seeing the air plane but the fliers said they had found no Trace of the castaways. Two More planes it King s Bay associated press Cable Rome Italy. June news Agency dispatches from Kings Bay Sav that the swedish seaplane up land and the italian major Penzo m dornier Wahl plane arrived there today from Thomson Norway. Ocean steamships Minnek Ahda _. Canadian trapper Newfoundland Canadian conqueror _ Beaver Burn Leven Bridge _ Cardiff Liverpool Liverpool Antwerp Hamburg Hamburg from Gothenburg new York new Yorac new York Southampton Windsor. Montreal _ new York Halifax Montreal _ Montreal Montreal important notice to advertisers be assured insertion in the issues of saturday Church theatre automobile music saturday classified pages close at 12 noon Friday v z favor and be assured of better ser in Well in Advance of Manitoba free press company limited thanked by motion presented by Premier Baldwin is unanimously adopted Canadian Tress Cable London june Baldwin moved a Resolution which was carried unanimously in the House of com Mons this afternoon tendering the thanks of the House to speaker who i Ley on the occasion of retirement. The Premier said he was convinced that the hospitality which the speaker had extended to the Dominion s legislators on the occasion of their last visit to by Jialin had been one of their most treasured recollections when they returned Home. Ramsay Macdonald associated Nim self with Premier Baldwin in expressions of appreciation while George Tay pay o Connor Dean of the House ant Shapur i. Saki Avala communist member joined in Tri Bute. Or. Whitley eloquently returned ins thanks and the House then adopted a Resolution praying that majesty might Confer some signal Mark of Honor on the this is the traditional request for a retiring speaker. Mal and Quebec five Are accidental and the sixth a suicide of a cafe Labuza shot us right hand and grabbed the Bottom of the window ledge holding on with All strength. Swaying dizzily so feet above the ground. He shouted for help. His cries were heard by James Mchattie the elevator operator who ran lift up to the third floor and assisted by George and Sam Abraham rescued Labuza through the window from the roof of the car. The Man was suffering severely from Shock and the fingers of left hand were badly crushed. Police were notified and rushed by ambulance. To the general Hospital where after being attended he recovered sufficiently to Home. Be taken to four men standing under tree at Bloomington ind., Are killed by lightning associated of Jim despatch Bloon Kington. Ind., june four men were wiled by lightning near Here late today while they were under a tree on the grounds of Indiana University waterworks. A fifth Harry Hobbs was shocked badly. The four jellied were Otto Hacker 48, is brother Thomas 52 James Holt a-1 of Bloomington and Kenneth Deckard 36, of Sullivan. The men had gathered under tree to seek shelter from a violent rain storm. L millionaire two year Battle Over estate of Newburgh 0., Mill worker ended by court ruling special. United news despatch i. Free press in free press private . Cleveland. Ohio june two year Battle Over the estate of William shoo Fly Thompson new Burgh Mill worker who died in 1916 without knowing he ended today when cd Maori Pis court Here decided of the estate should be placed in Trust for seven grandchildren. The Trust was established by Compromise agreement. The remainder of the estate will be a video equally Between mrs. E. D. Mooney. Mother of six of the children and mrs. John Boyle Mother of the seventh. When named by fellow will in 1915 he forgot to mention a Block of Standard Oil Stock he had bought in Early Days. He believed he was Worth Only after death it was discovered the Oil Stock with accumulated earn Ings was Worth More than Motorist Dies at wheel companion escapes injury Canadian press despatch Midland. Ont. June f. Be Mav 60 Weh known local insurance while driving car Here this afternoon was stricken with a heart attack and died instantly the car crashing into a Post companion Ernest Ryan of Barrie escaped injury although the car was badly damaged. Treaty of Amity signed Vienna Austria june treaty of Amity and Trade Between the United states and Austria was signed today by Chancellor Seipel and United states ambassador Albert Henry Washburn. A House of ill Fame slander suit won of senator Jacques Bureau former minister or customs after he. Had sued Milton Campbell m.p., progressive member Tor Mackenzie and the latter s agent w. J. B. Smith was today upset by the Saskatchewan court of Appeal which has ordered a new trial. The Appeal of the two defendants in the slander sub is allowed on account of two instances of misdirection by judge Taylor of Moose jaw in charge to the jury at the conclusion of the other arguments made by the defend ants in the original action and repeated dismissed by the weather report or Oredina Rometer 29.88 North East wind at 10 Miles per hour precipitation. .70 a inc. The weather has been Cool and throughout slander suit Saskatchewan Appeal court allows claim of Campbell and Smith in part misdirection by judge Taylor in charge to jury cited in decision special despatch to the free s13.it correspondent it Gina june 19. The famous in the Appeal Are court of Appeal. May go Wisher Appeal to the supreme official armed men Back Large Sedan up to Canadian National express i _ Clit Ita car on pretence they want to sell Seise mail bags after holding up pursued by police but no arrests made Well planned in minimum of time. I Canu Dinn despatch Toronto june armed Rob Bers held up a Canadian National express car at the Union station at mid night and made their escape after Seiz ing three registered mall bags. Following examination of records by postal authorities Here Early this morn ing estimates of the amount of Money in registered mall bags seized by the robbers were conflicting. Although nothing definite was announced it is the loot May reach i critics can determine lilo actual amount stolen. William Venton. . Nisus agent of the . Express had a liar Row escape when ordered to lie on the platform by the robbers. Jun Refl. In the stomach with i sawed off shot gun and t revolver lie dodged around mall trucks until he finally escaped. Rushing into the express office he could not speak coherently but finally managed to Call police Headquarters. Venton declared that tax police car clashed to the a enc just us soon us the robbers disappeared around a Cor Bandit is shot Afier hold up at Mot reported that Ier Distant the bandits with their Booty fled in a Westerly direction hotly pursued by the police but Early this morning 10 arrests had been made. Not Flea Ion of the robbery Haa been sent to All Western Ontario cities and police Hope that the men will be intercepted shortly. Back Sedan up to car backing a Large Sedan up to the express car the robbers at first it is stated gained Entrance on the pre tence that they desired to sell the automobile. The men seemed familiar with the Interior of the express car and rapidly seized the registered mall bags after holding up the messengers. Jumping into the motor the men made _ their escape and it Rush Ras made in threatens pursuing Follic Pursuit by express company employees. Police were notified and detectives a it a in and policemen gave Chase in a Power Ful car their route leading put to the Lake Shore Road. The car driven by the bandits Boie 1924 Marker which had been Doc police announced. The robbery was evidently Well the robbery was Evide Nuy Well cashier of the planned As the bandits made no false up the he moves and the selection of bags was strand theatis made in a minimum of time. License i lates tampered with j Hutcheon who was on station Street shortly before the hold up told police that tie saw six in the Sedan motor car Stran a District and securing a Cash Box con Malnine s400, a Man who gave Jils name is James mock Nolc. 27, and who he came to Montreal from Boston a few months ago. Was s Hoff dangerously wounded by Constable o As he attempted to. Is expo learn n a controversy. Glancing at the the cons Abl s Bullet Jar he noted that the License plates ban Rutlt m the left had been tampered with one of the Abdomen and court or Canada by senator Jacques from the decision of the Saskatchewan officer. Instead inf Brrning the court of Appeal instead of going to a Street am. Continued on new trial at a Timolat in. October As was Lvon of the. Robbery. Rew to a a. Ordered by the latter court was the possibility suggested this evening by a. W. Tingley k.c., solicitor for the copies of tace judgment have been forwarded to senator Bureau or. Ting Ley said adding that he would await decision to what further Steps would he taken in the matter. Of action the action grow out of statements alleged to have been made by Milton Campbell and Smith at a political meeting held in line course of the do cont need on Page two railway engineers Given me decision affects employees of Western . Railroads to Otic i the alarm was Given of the robbery the mail which the hold up took place was destined for Windsor. And was attached to the train which goes to Chicago. One bag contained Cash and tar other two registered mail but it will be some time before the postal auth associated press despatch Cli Cojo ills., june 19. An in crease amounting to six and one half per of the daily wage scale to Day was. Awarded the brotherhood of locomotive engineers by the Confer ence of managers of the Western rail ways affecting approximately employees and totalling a year. The increase was agreed to by w. M. Jeffers chairman of the rail Way managers representing about so Western railroads and a. Johnston. Grand chief Engineer representing the brotherhood. Is am America Murray at . Meeting in Halifax makes charge convention Here were featured by the address of Philip Murray International vice president who produced evidence tending to show that efforts to disrupt the organization throughout the continent were being inspired by the third red internationale at mos cow the speech of District president John w. Mcleod in which he endeavoured to justify the action of the. Executive in expelling Mickey p. Mcneill president of Reserve local on account of alleged separatist activities and a Victory for the District executive in its first test of strength with the Radical bloc of delegates. P. Rupert Victoria Vancouver _ Kamloops 56 36 44 50 _ 52 Kenora p. Arthur Coc Haiie p. Sound London 10 58 Edmonton 46-55 Pronto 5b s current _ 48 52 Kingston 6 _ Balu Oford _ 46 56 Ottawa i i s webs 50 52 St. John Winnipeg _ 50 54 forecasts Manitoba and. Saskatchewan _ no in Easterly winds Cloudy and Cool will winds partly Cloudy Ard Cool probably scattered show Cra. Lake moderate to fresh North East winds Cloudy and Cool with occasional rain. Employee Canadian Tress despatch Montreal. June mishaps and a suicide took a toll of three lives Here today and three tragedies occurred in the District of Quebec City. Antonio Chartrand 25. Died in hos Pital from injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile. Birchwood. A Sailor on one of the ships in port was drowned in the St. Lawrence River while himself in the heart with a pocketknife in the basement of a lunch room where he was employed Samuel ended life police were informed that he had been despondent for some time. Nea Quebec r three violent deaths occurred in Quebec City District today. I Raoul Piset 25, was drowned at St Marie de Carrierie. Portneuf county when the Bridge Over which he was. Crossing collapsed. An unidentified Man was. Drowned at Val Cartier while swimming. The body was recovered., Sizer six years of age Jet mayor fouler of Ignace Montmagny. County stantly pc lulled when struck an Nookie Many is opera few by a of a d6zew bracts tvs ight entries official list for wednesday s racing at Polo Park first rate. I Lirse three and up. Longs smart fashion in 4632 Poya l George a 5ll86 rhinegold 51s3 a Elimar 5144 Ken a de mall a a Marretta a 5200 Lucy a. 5193 May Baker a a race. Pursue shoo. Titi. 5205 Shasta 73uch 5192 Golden Glenn 106 115 100 5205 Golden Shore s1.85 Billy Wulz ported that whole of Amelios were if 5193 a Isfeld a juiced to starvation the const Una ice floes and. All Coin and .0 Yards j Ioe were matched to and up. Claiming. Three year Olds five furlongs 15200 miss Prggy docile 4711 Dulcy Lou a 5200 Frank Sumpter 5194 Herald 3118 Albion boy. Anna 5194 Macushla the Ood a Thiril race Rupee shoo. West 5166 Delair 5196 Vesper lad. 5168 Yorkshire relish 5196 Jade Shaw 5196 no Chance 5186 Alberta lady 5168 newo.York.5158 Evelyn 2.30 Time 8.30 5197 Shasta Sheik 5191 formic manners 5204 Rochester ii. 5197 Martha a. 52 Nice up year Olds and up. Cla 5193 lady Berri Lldon 5194 lady Barrett 5200 Lou Shank 5182 Jonteel 5200 Quoin 5178 escapades 5189 list Xian s lass 5205 c. T. Worthington 108 n2 114 52j race purse Roo and up. Claiming local wrestling enclosure with 1hcry five furlongs gourds Lee kept Mace bom 5186 sly Fox and at last 1u , Oil 109 time and at Lasi. 5186 Mary threw 5159 Marquis superbug Lutcy nil nuts k. 5181 silent pardner 5186 Frncis Whittier robs cashier and seriously wounded. In at tempting to escape f Man and gets Bullet in Abdomen Likely to die Canadian tres ii do Spalich Montreal june f7om the . 20 had for save irate hours courted morpheus in vain. Al Ftp years Afi Cople of Selkirk who had Canadian press despatch Halifax. . June ses was Sions of the United mine workers of of Waterloo and America District to. 26, in annual Winnipeg policeman Nof by Corrall be Cui Rassier who was ande Down the main St col sidewalk after Forlo Floc years As mis visited the general Hospital Ana stated frankly that he was to find so film a building with such an in Promila ing exterior. Tort years Isis main Street loaned like the floor of n combined junk shed and mow after a Farmer s team ran away Down the thorough fire with a Load of dry Hay there was Hay on the Street and Hay on the and Hay on the hats of 1hc lady pedestrians and by a Freak of Economy the spread them Ilves Over half a mile. Thirty five years Nat Portage Kenora was visited by a boisterous thunderstorm Whu i struck the St Nilon cupola by a Lightn ing and burned it off Short twisted Trees removed Brick chimneys ended by Pelt in the town with Hail stones two and half inches in Conn Tor the storm then wont Oil to win s7 10" thirty Yoni Sako there was distress amour Ali found land fishermen and it was .104 in Buffalo for a rather Larry 95 11 Twenty five years Aro 94 five Gold bricks were Wabigoon from the master referring to the recent activity of thieves in the District in new York he lived. Mark Twain 111 Nix a acre be interview deplored the fact that Liff had been overlooked and asked i he newspapermen to announce that Lily t. News Larder alone was really Worth visit 108 a went v years Aro 105 Herman Mace lightweight wrestler of the Northwest ran a a local who i he inf 168 of the s92 received ".r.xto7 Candy conto for the ;