Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba readings tree Tress thermometer headings 7.30 p.m., aug. It 10.30 p.m., aunt. 11 m 12.30 a.m., Auk 1 2.30 a.m., aug. 32 for full text of meteor ologies office report Sce i nge one. 35, no. 32 ills and warm. August rises. 5.12 Sun sets. 19.53. Moon rises 14.24 Moon sets. 23.04. Winnipeg monday August Price 5eper copy edition Vilh comic Loc. 24 pages of does picnic ends tragically near Dallas Tex when 13 lose lives at crossing Over three thousand delegates Beach City by rail and Road for biennial convention visitors Parade to Knox Church for impressive a ideals of . Emphasized special United news despatch to free press by free press private Uyllas Tex. Aug. 11. A tragic end was written to a sunday evening Pic Nic tonight when the luxurious Sun Shine special of the Texas and Pacl tic Railroad struck a truck Loarl of men All. The Badgette and henrys live on neighbouring farms near Mesquite. The victims met their death about 150 Yards from the Home of mrs. Badgett. Claude Chapman of Mesquite witnessed the crash. He said the truck was returning from a picnic and Stop i a u 1.11 Tiv to n la i Vii women and children and carried thir ipod at the crossing As though to wait for the train to pass. Then suddenly the vehicle moved on to the tracks and when the Sunshine special reached the crossing the car was squarely in Twenty special trains id arrive Branch will be strongly represented teen of the number to their death. The dead included a Mother ant her seven children. The Accident occurred at a Grade crossing on the Forney Tervel Road. In Miles cast of Here. Only three picnic party escaped with wreckage of the truck arid parts of the victim s scattered for unit a the Road. Truck was loaded with members of the Sherwood Badgett Charles bad and Charles Henry families 15 in s stand Deb settlement tension at Hague relaxes when nets of Premier s intervention is circulated its Way from the truck and bodies of the victims were hurled in every direction the train was stopped a half mile away the Pilot of its locomotive carried parts of the wreckage and some of the bodice. The train resumed its Way after n Brief Stop. J. T. Vawter was Engineer and g. conductor. Neil Milvor 36 years old of 696 valour Road Oil truck Driver for the Mccoll Frontenac company lies at the general Hospital in a serious condition a Burns received in an explosion at his company s Ware House 813 Kenry Avenue shortly after 3 o clock on Satin Day afternoon. Fred Thompson Albert Libby capt. Shewan and Alex. Brown firemen of thanked Winnipeg citizens for cordial reception the members of f continued on Page five Canada opens Trade in Chicago special United news despatch to free press by free press private Chicago. Aug. An Endeavor to increase the volume of Trade Between Thompson however All were Able to All roads led to or ended at Winnipeg yesterday for votaries of the dramatic order of the knights of Khorasan. More than 3.000 donkeys registered at convention Headquarters during the Day and from All Points came reports of train loads of the Oriental Brethren in route to this City for the nineteenth biennial con Clave of the order which will open to Ith True Eastern and Cere Mony at the Royal air Sandra hotel on tuesday morning Veteran organizer Here senator Elmer j. Lehr. Milwaukee organizer of the Many spec tac is which Are a feature of . Tho Central Hall received Burns on conventions arrived in Winnipeg yes the feet. With the exception of or. Ter Day. And during the evening gave an address at the service held at Knox United Church. He has. Been in con Stant touch with the local committees at once plunged into the mass of details necessary to make the color Ful pageants outstanding in the his tory of Winnipeg. Large attendance at Church a capacity congregation filled Knox with hundreds gain admittance for the service. In and to senator j. Elmer Lehr s interesting address the Sermon was Given by prof. F. W. Kerr. Approximately 250 knights and ladies of the order occupied seats in the Centre of the edifice. The knights assembled at travel lers building and headed by the Albarus pipe band marched from Bannatyne a venue to main Street to Portage Avenue to Carlton Street and along Ellice Avenue to the Church. Large numbers of citizens assembled the line of Parade. Senator Lehr outlined the history and objects of the Man enveloped in flames when gasoline is ignited Neil Milvor 696 valor Road in Hospital in serious four firemen receive Burns Blaze on Henry checked by new Oil fire Gallons of gasoline menaced. Expect unanimity of British Opin Ion. Will compel Compromise agreement air mail service Between Canada and South. America announced by government line threatened. By Canadian press despatch aug. For air mall service to Bolivia and Chile have been completed to an i announcement of the Post office Dirin apartment. Mail will be carried Over Nal Fles Duff Canadian and United states services to canal zone. parcels for Bolivia will then go to Mollendor Peru and thence to its pcs to nation by train. Mall to cello will be conveyed by air from Cristobal to Santiago by air. The rate. From. Can Ada to Bolivia is 55 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof and to Chile 70 cents. The new services will go into effect immediately. Secret conferences take place in Effort to find Way out of difficulties the free Vire lands yield Jhc Hiller Rescue planes fail to Dis cover missing airman but search to be intensified workmen fight night and Day to prevent in wind averts danger return to their duties yesterday. Thompson is still confined to 3om. Milvor was formerly a highly re which generates a foam and is claimed to be the Only effective Means of extinguishing burning gasoline or Oil. Streams of water which were first used proved useless. Fire chief Boulden expressed the opinion that it was most fortunate that the new apparatus was available. There were o Gallons of gasoline in the Reservoir and this was close to the danger Polit. Full Lii to Asoline tank Milvor was engaged pumping Gaso line from an. Underground Reservoir to j 1 his the tank of his motor truck when by some Means not yet ascertained the Lould became ignited explosion special United news Cable to Tress by free press private by Henry Wood the Hague aug. The tension j believed fliers May be held caused by the demands of great i Britain for revision of the Young Earth storm bound Parat Lons have threaten i de to break up the International con Winnipeg plane joins Hunt Ference somewhat relieved tonight As a result of Swift develop ments. Prime minister Ramsay Macdonald of great Britain intervened in the critical situation. In a Telegram to Phillip Snowden. British Chancellor of the exchequer he was understood to have expressed his. Agreement with Snowden s three demands for changes in the Young plan to favor Britain. The British delegation confirmed receipt of the Telegram. The first impression of the prime ministers action was that he had merely increased the seriousness of the deadlock. Later developments especially the More optimistic attitude of the British delegates made it a special despatch to the free press the i As. Iman. Aug. Barren lands on the West coast of Hudson Baj is the scene of an Aerial search today for the name seaplane which is reported to be missing for the past two weeks Between Baker Lake and around and railway tracks maw service menaced relatives s trag rescuers hampered by Lack of water raft but Effort too late to save All occupants of ill fated brought safely to fatalities swelled by loss of life at Brar Don Man., and Camrose Alta. Improvement noted in other sections of show ers occur at danger Points special do Spalich to he free press Saskatoon rash., aug. Ii. Four persons lost their lives in four mile Lake near Hanley sask. Early this evening when the motor bout in which they were cruising capsized on Maiden voyage. Those drowned Yerty ears old or. And mrs. Elmer haraldson. Both aged 45 mrs. George Kilpatrick. And Dorothy Kilpatrick aged four All of Kan Ley. Five others were rescued after the i boat capsized by c. A. Trask. The town Barber and his son Carol aged 20, who put out from Shore in a raft. The rescued Are Maxine Johnson. 14 Ruth j Budd. 10 two haraldson girls and Thelt infant daughter of mrs. George d. The body of Emily Row ski Lias been recovered. Cymru so Alia. Auf. 10. Two Young boys. Kelson Clausen of says and. And Teddy ree. Of car car. Were drowned in the Pond made by the dam Cam both were Ine Valley Forest fires which swept As close As 600 Yards from the town. Burned fiercely around steel towers supporting the City Hydro s electrical transmission line to Winnipeg and came near enough the railway tracks Between Lac Dubonnet in one direction and slave Falls in the other to scorch ties caused considerable alarm at Pointe Dubois during the past few Days. The situation was acute for a. Time with workmen from Point Dubois putting up a desperate Battle to safeguard the town and Hydro property. Fanned by a Strong wind a fire on the West raged beneath the transmission line thursday and sweeping the railway right of Way at one Point moved Down on the town. All that Day and night Wager Bay. Word reaching the Pas it gang of fire fighters battled the this afternoon from Churchill stated trying to beat them out. 7 Ith that at least two machines scour-1 Wec try and Humble Mechanic. Telegraph from Hudson Bay port say that another Nam e plane _. Pear that the intervention would Speed from the Baker Lake base and a do Spe cited member of the Winnipeg fire i followed. The Man was enveloped in satisfactory solution of the crisis. Minion explorers machine brigade he Resl Ned his position on flame. There was no other person in i is was generally believed that the part in the Hunt. Are taking brigade. He resigned his position on the department shortly after the fire which destroyed the old Winnipeg theatre on notre Dame Avenue about three years ago. For the first time in Winnipeg the Poat Nite Generator fighting. This is was used in fire recent invention flame. There was no the Vicinity and he ran to Ner of Logan Avenue and Nora Street. There Charles Holland 747 Logan Avenue rendered assistance and after giving temporary Relief or. Holland summoned or Donald. A Maclean. Continued on. . Four. Exchange of products Canada urged As solution of British unemployment Canadian press Cable London. Aug. 11. The direct Exchange of. British Coal for Canadian wheat As quid pro quo under govern ment direction is mentioned by the observer As a possible remedy for great Britain s economic problems including a employment. Commenting on a much Grain destroyed be tween Elie and Poplar paint Telephone poles Down firm support of Macdonald. As Well j Captain. Cd Isles Button explorers As the British press mid Public would Gerlai staff has been in the Tavana strengthen. Snowden s position to a Point where prance and Italy will realize the British demands must be met More than half Way to avoid an adjournment of the conference postpone vote on demands the. Development. Was a secret meeting of., delegates of. The six Powers most vitally interested in the conference. While no formal or checkmate them by dig guards. When matters looked worst the changed blowing the fire from name in. Taking full advantage of one unable to go to their Aid. There were no other boats in the District and the Small motor boat operated by an out Board motor was Only purchased the Day before at a Sale in town. It was on its first trip on the Small Lake it is Only a mile Long by a half mile the boat Sank. The fatality was believed to have been caused by overloading. Only one body has so far been re covered that of Little Dorothy Kil really Good Fields Oats and wheat be Winnipeg and Brandon Short stands found Between Brandon and Broadview Fields ready for next crop Patrick. The boat capsized Only 500 agriculture Yards from Shore but darkness put a Hon j h Thomas minister of in other Grain employment might do something for Point of Belli the British Coal Industry during his visit to Canada the paper says the causing the death of a boy who was that it i operating a Binder levelling wheat and . Hoops that Werg on the a Cut and Down labor party has come theories about what the state might do in the. Pur Chase or barter of Staple commodities which would make missing airmen found Lisbon. Aug. 12. Three Swiss air men who started Here from Paris thursday on the first stage of a trans Atlantic flight to new York Ana had been sought All Over France. Spain and Portugal arrived Early today at the local Airport. The Pilot. Kaeser said he proposed to rest Here seven Days while he and his companions tuned up the plane. Newsof1heday wheat could be exchanged in bulk directly As quid pro cauda and the United states the j stand on Canadian government has opened a if British Coal second Trade commission office which will be formally opened for business Here tomorrow morning. The office be in. Charge of r. S. O Meara who transferred to Chicago from the Netherlands. East indies. He will be assisted by m. J. Vechsler formerly of Ottawa. Cobden s Canadian and Marks we might see a quo it re Bridge built continued on five three men Are killed when air plane crashes to Earth associated press despatch clo vols. N. M., aug. 11. Thomas b. Scully. 32. Manager of the trans Continental Airport Here Phillip Berry 29, assistant manager of the port and Lieut. O. L. Stephens racing Pilot. Were killed instantly today when the plane piloted by Stephens crashed one mile from the flying Field. The to this the fighters immediately set about burning out the scrub Between the fire and property in order to make fire guards in Case the wind Hgan changed and. Brought the flames Back toward the settlement. Another fire which burned Uoc the a y territory for the past few weeks railway tracks linking slave Falls at a and it is. Believed that he is the Pilot who is aiding the name Organiza Tion 10 learn the Fate of the missing Bay. In which Vicinity the plane. Wager Point about one mile from Points Dubois gave the men detailed to it a fairly stiff Battle before it was under control. For a time when the fires were at their height it was feared that the railway might be damaged continued on five fire does damage in Tofield business area party. Supposed , missing is about 75 Miles North of. Chesterfield Inlet. Conflicting reports Are heard in the Pas in regard to the massing men. Telegraph news received Here today stated that the men have been. Two weeks overdue at Baker Lake name office Here asserts that there j Canadian press despatch was communication Between the Paoyi _ and the base As late As last sunday i House of a meat says country not dangerous Market in Tofield Alta. Destroyed Captain scan Mcmillan Dominion eight buildings saturday morning and a the damage will amount to s54.000. When the fire started thera was in water in the town to Stop the spread of the Blaze and on that account there was virtually no Hope for the business Section the majority of which is a smouldering ruin. Explorers Pilot who has had wide experience in Northern flying expressed his doubts today that Duke Schiller s plane had crashed. Mcmillan who stopped in the Pas overnight in route from Herschell Island to Winnipeg. Continued on Pace fcur.1 Yards from Shore but d. End to dragging operations. Boats and grappling Irons Are being sent to Hanley by train at Midnight tonight by the . Here. Constable w. Mcrae of the Hanley detachment will be in Charse of Tho dragging tomorrow. Four mile Lake is Only four Miles from Hanley and from that fact derives its of the haraldson girls believed to be in her Early teens made a Brave attempt to Rescue her Mother taut is unsuccessful. The children. Laft orphans by the disaster Are being looked after by t. Kame general merchant at Hanley. The boat was owned by or. Harald son. Uni Ndon ill is drowned Brandon. Aug. 30. A tremendous Effort made by Small Chil Dren to save the lives of of their companions one Little girl Emily. Row ski. Aged 12. Was drowned in the Ussin Ubbine River West of the City last Between pleadingly and Poplar there fire a few surprisingly and Nelli at the last two other Glss Lodle Gates e Smith were saved but Only moment two very d of her p were forming the habit of empty baskets on the iced cars u was Home this Cone on we nes ton of the car mews to "ok1 blocking . Twenty five r l la cd at several Points in _. 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