Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba I v temperature Reading free press thermometer readings May 18 May May j9 10 kor full text of meteorological of tick see Page 271 forecast northerly winds partly and cold scattered showers or Sun Sun Moon Moon May 1931 Price 5c per copy edition with 26 pages troops Battle with mob at Delegate tvs All persons in Canada must reply to queries of census canvassers Litwinoff offers suggestion worldwide treaty of eco nomic no aggression Canadian press May in Canada Are called upon to answer the questions of the census will Start making their i not planning to dump wheat surplus Mckelve states urges peaceful coexistence of communist and capitalistic systems in address says Russia not indifferent to economic since it diminishes soviet receipts makes statement to wheat con Ada attention is called to Gifu the fact that the information of a Loci 31 j trained in the census can be used for statistical purposes Only and not for full up i Milf Oil i military or jury Bimbi Udif or the enforcement of any pro municipal or suck preliminaries of organization gathering now entering stage of formal proposals disclosures at safety Lane justify Accident prevention week drive Winnipeg motor cars Are stacking up badly on safety this was shown up in reports from Broad of Trade officials who Are in charge of the these stated last night that of 403 cars that went through the Lane monday Only 45 were rated As in the Forenoon 123 cars passed through the and Only 15 passed All of the 280 tested in the Only 15 or 16 made the Grade on tie first the others returned after corrections had been and so made up the remainder Day definite announce ment is regarded to this will be made today at open All week the Lane remains open every Day this including from 9 to 6 with the exception of the noon cooperating with the movement for safer streets and which produced Accident prevention inaugurated by the Winnipeg Board of and the Manitoba govern the Manitoba motor tiie employers the build ers the ministerial As the Winnipeg school Board and boy scout Premier gives facts leading in the Public Appeal for wanted in to shoot Way jails desperate attempted break of William Bagley fails after gun Battle with guard fire Volley in Effort to rout crowd of intent on Lynching negro Back militiamen against Wall of Handt hand encounter result with tear Gas bombs and fire department Hose As spoils of men one probably fatally of stick of dynamite causes fears attempt made to blast came to Winnipeg in 1882i was member of old time firm of butchers i Poland has plan for International with direction Board established in London of the 30 that passed the one car returned four and another car three before they were action to avoid preventable accidents certified All Safe to ride j is Premier John who faulty lights stand first in the j brought out facts that startled list of faulty brakes come a Public address last in a Large number of cases in the year 1930 in Manitoba fires Pointblank at but surrenders after his pistol misfires bad steering wheels were said 151 lives was the Lane announced yesterday that i were sacrificed in accidents that were i was highly esteemed As sportsman funeral to be held on thursday i special in led news Cable to free press lib free press private by Frederick it h May pact for economic non aggression and for peaceful Cox of the communist and capitalistic systems was proposed today by Maxim soviet foreign in a speech before tie european Litvinoff suggestion for meeting Jaru Trie present economic caused j Winnipeg in As great a stir As did a former soviet proposal that All nations old time firm of Canadian press by George Hambleton j May wheat con Ference tomorrow comes dowry to with the preliminaries of organization it enters the stage of formal it is will be closed daily from noon to 1 on account of the j luncheon hour an Effort is j being made to have the Lane kept open until 9 thursday and Fri nearly All preventable 52 lives were lost in Industrial 42 people i were killed in motor car 44 people were 10 died from continued on Page seven i mils being held for Canadian authorities in connection with Safe blowing has general after a weeks scheme in the background which pro Lee Wong sends opium to Lee Hee gets five year fined special United Newi despatch to free press by free private May men were wounded late tonight when state militiamen fired a Volley in attempting to disperse a mob of persons gathered Here intent on Lynching an unidentified negro charged with criminal i Glen reported to be dying at Elberton and Emory were wounded when the backed against the i jail by the mob which at one time i numbered More than opened j Back associated press i five May tear Gas bombs and fire depart Liam held in ment Hose were the spoils of Battle Money will probably be used to assist in Balan cing of budget Victor 642 Bannatyne died monday afternoon he guess poses the establishment of a sort Fie was a native of International wheat with be considered in Light of directing Board established in Loni and came knowledge resulting from hearing the Crown outline its Case fired three whatcom county jail for Canadian authorities in connection with the blowing of a Safe at the Harrison hot Springs april attempted to shoot his Way out of the jail this he engaged in a gun Battle with Jailer Bruce Loop and his desperate attempt at May i escape failed when his revolver mis Canadian press the aim of the Cartel would he was the Junior member of the to seek to Contro the flow of Kobold co to importing corporation solve the disarmament question by i wholesale and retail he Otther Are understood before judge Thomson in county i criminal court Lee local changed his plea from firing six Bagley threw Down Bagley received a flesh wound in which soldiers and the mob fought in Handt hand arrival of a howitzer company from at to aug ment two of local served Only to excite the an3 explosion of a stick of dynamite in a vacant lot near the jail caused concern that an attempt might be made to blast the two companies summoned two companies from 125 taxes on fixed assessment of Utility for use of streets the right thigh As Boop chased Miles away were j and his erect to have while Samuel question referred to transporting he was sentenced to five years in Portsmouth and was fined for the Crown abandoning Ell speaking Fluen the i so the theatre which of United states fed Sove foreign commissar presented operated for Many aral farm proposes to review to the commission a draft pact i for Many years he followed his its Mckelvie which he of described As dissipating pet Hobby of Breeding High class mates the United states will have a atmosphere of distrust Over Hunting dogs which carried off Prei carryover of bushels Oil the Mier honors at Field trials and Bench wheat at the end of the present crop refuted Clarkes so loves throughout the United states of in 1 and ing and Commerce Corn not guilty to guilty Ona charge of j his gun and sawed cell bars was making the customary Mittee of commons Loop round of the jail at 7 this Small town seethed in an atmosphere of nervous tension As for leadership for them the hoped the mob strained which might gain Kab get med la Canadian press May ques Royal Canadian mounted had Cna be calculated Back of setting up a system of Interj shipments were being Wong to the Sun Sun of which was to dump surplus it might contribute much steadying banking and Commerce committee of j the House of j police Ai lady silk unanimous decision favouring thin j action followed the introduction of makes 18 customers stand still while he cleans out Register his r3ck High Collar which bulging from gave no Indi cation that he represented the in differently dressed officials of the outlined the following Points in his proposed world pact contracting parties would rec firm the principle proclaimed at the International economic con Ference of 1927 for peaceful co existence o irrespective or their political or economic parties would undertake riot to discriminate in any Way in relationships with one another and j would regard adoption in any of i their countries of special measures Mili Tating against the interests of j Page nine Canadian press May Lone Houp gunman in a Daylight Rob Bery obtained from the Cash Register at an up torn Safeway store Here at monday and forcing miss Jessie to open the the Bandit made approximately 18 customers stand kept the manager from moving toward the office telex and reached into the Cash i the store is on a crowded by invasion by Russia British Board of Trade figures re veal the spectacular extent to which Russia has invaded the British mar Ket in recent for the first four months of Russia headed the list As an exporter of wheat to Canada taking second although Canada got the better russian wheat imported by Britain continued on Page seven but today he made it Clear the farm Board has no intention of he was for Many years on the dumping its heavy Stock of surplus dec Tulve of the Manitoba Field trial Lub and was an enthusiastic British Grain men in the Oast have mediate Credi pm agriculture will be made by Wong to me Sun Sun were attributed the uncertainty of the considered and in the Light relive in Lle married miss i wheat Market As largely due to the of knowledge possessed by the govern Stet Woodhead vim nope possibility of the re join continued on Page four suggested that if the conference to i i could reach an agreement not to vol Long credit before the direct reference to the attitude of toward the United which has barred russian i Diin pins lie will abroad Anci the French Rich Unis for Industrial cartels which keep prices High in the Teeth of i lie proposed adoption of a Coni providing for in Home markets at prices no Sules abroad and de that each country establish i it Ibatici treatment for All states in cer nomic he indirectly approved tie austrow German Tariff Union project As self determination includes the of any country to enter a Union with j stated that a named Lee Hee j who had sewed his Way out i had been found in Regina with five of his suddenly met the Jailer i Large tins of u i fessed to securing detective sergeant the negro and troops the arrival of of his suddenly me tear Gas bombs were used Only As he was rounding a bag alter be fire department had play which he con from Lee with revolver ordered of the j Loop to stick them he then the but the Point was made that the i faculty in this regard was f afternoon which would ensure its being proper by w1 Lucas Lor Longs started conflagration that destroyed five houses and damaged others pensions act will be minister says continued Ernest 295 Laura Al lege Driver of Auto which killed on main Street Early sunday remanded to May 26 on manslaughter Page William held for Canadian authorities in connection with fails in attempted break from Washington state this world wheat shipments in second week of May were highest of this crop review of Dominion Bureau of statistics recommendation More strictly Cash policy adhered will be made at of Western Canada fuel As at today Maxim Litvinoff creates stir at meeting of european commission by proposing worldwide pact of eco nomic Pool counsel succeeds in bringing before Williams com mansion details of business of United Grain grow eighteen stocks Antl one Bond Issue hit new Low Points for present year Stock Canadian May government is now considering the question of amending the present pensions Murray minister of pensions and National informed the House of commons today in reply to a question by Power que Bec the minister did not intimate in what particulars any proposed leg is Tion would Amend the present Johnstone proud of being subscriber to free press 50 years special despatch to the free May who came to Winnipeg in and was in business at Nee Pawa and Minnedosa for Many died Here he was superintend ent of the Revelstoke Auto and was widely he was an aident and was known Here As Mac Kenzie King he was extremely proud of the fact that he had been a subscriber to the free press for Over 50 and prize highly a letter from that publication making him a life consideration of some system o intermediate by h suggesting that the whole matter be referred to the banking and Commerce Lucas had expressed ills belief that the 000 corporation would not take care of the situation among Western government May cooperate if the government could not set up system of intermediate credits for it might cooperate with he present plan and sub Cribe Dollar for Dollar with the other if the the prime minister will move that this solution be referred to the commit on banking and i hink that would serve a very useful mrose and discussion could take lace in the Light of knowledge which e have As to the proposed operations if the credit organization to which i Lave referred the other the sex Jerlene in the United states in con Lection with a similar organization Vas that practically Only 10 per if the amount subscribed was it May Well be that in the Light of he information which will be Forth the government will been tabled to assist in the work in a More highlights from the capital on Montreal Only a few precious Metal issues withstand generally weak trend on Standard mining promotion of Public health through Dominion government Aid approved by House of Page four witnesses heard monday at resumed hearing of charge of theft against William Page intensive drive started to organize United states Farmers at conference leaders in up of system of inter medi credits for agriculture discussed in House of proposed changes in copyright Law discussed by House of commons com Mittee at Victor Pioneer business o degrees awarded to 29 students at special despatch to the free by May be ing private members Day in the com ordinarily finds Back benches explaining cherished opinions and projects to a thin and listless so it was with the whole sitting devoted to resolutions by Pri vate the House in a Serene Jand leisurely manner disposed of six of the at no time rising higher than that of a Garden it was a Well spent Day in that some interesting views were and some indications of policy obtained from the but it was a devoid of incident or of farm the one Resolution which might have been expected to cause a stir failed miserably to do after Sydney Robinson had presented his proposal to rescind the ban on the Export of liquor to the United the House sat for a moment As still As an Oyster despite the Dom Inion Treasury almost desperate need of no member of the Cabinet displayed interest in the nine to fifteen millions Robinson said the country had lost in when speaker broke the uncomfortable silence by putting the to to a it was drowned in a ton chorus voices of Only tour or signifying five col Robinsons Riding of West Essex in clude the town of a town which is not without a vested in Terest in the liquor Export the dead of the fathers of confederation descended with crush effect on another of the to government take appropriate Steps blessed words to see that the labor clauses in tie treaty of Versailles chiefly the eight hour be Ful filled in there was a drops two hour argument on this Point serving chiefly to bring out the fac that Canada is a Federal nation and finds itself Hamstrung by the act when it undertakes to Enao social the debate was the occasion for Maiden speech by a Hon Wesley Gordon is minis Ter of immigration and also bats of senator Gideon minister of labor in the he prove to have a Good the manner o an Able pleader anr1 a conciliatory style of one of the Quebec or had a motion asking of increased compensation to Farmer whose tubercular cows Slaughter a surprising amount of tend emotion was exhibited it the course of this conductor1 chiefly in it appeared from the Dis Cussion that when a government official orders the execution of a Habl Tants the owner Akes it Almos As family affront and cannot be mollified except by substantial in sometimes the resolutions proposed by private Are of a Kin which appear utopian today and be come practical politics tomorrow numerous schemes f this sort Fig ure on the order paper Severa were discussed Bennett altering his former a through the afternoons presentation of waiting to administer the coup de Grace or the Friendly Wor at the Bennett has be Canadian press fired Point Blank at the the gun did not he pulled the trigger four Only one bul let coming Loop then Drew his gun and chased Bagley into a Corri Dor where he who served a sentence recently at the new Westminster Penitentiary for robbery of a Bank at Nanaimo in was arrested South of april by United states immigration at that time he was armed with a shot but did not resist request for release a caused since his confinement in jail his attorneys have attempted to gain his release on a writ of Hareas Corpus but the writ was quashed and he was held on a fugitive from Justice War rant pending extradition hearing scheduled for next officers have not determined How Bagley obtained Possession of the Reed a Stream of water on the Gath ering mob in a futile Effort to Dis Perse after the bombs had cleared a Way in the immediate Vicinity of the two companies of National guardsmen were Atlanta to assist Headquarters company of the to Ltd battalion under command of major Winnipeg financial situation was brightened considerably at the meeting of the civic Public utilities committee monday afternoon by an offer of a present of from the Hydro electric which the committee gratefully accepted the Money will Likely be used to assist in balancing the thereby whittling Down the deficit to the present came in the form o Back taxes on the fixed assessment of the Hydro for the use of Cuy since the system s inception until 1930 had amounted k the proposal of the was to credit the Hydro with which it Nan contributed from time to time Dur the past five acc nine summoned from company and the suspect had been arrested m Miv police Volver or How Hacksaw Blades were maj police s de into is cell where he Gried in solitary tonight were searching for a firebug who Early today started a conflagration Here which completely destroyed five partially destroyed two others and caused damage estimated at firemen were called out Early this morning and found several buildings in flames in different sections of the evidence of a firebug work was uncovered in the burning while police subsequently j Snowden determined to j j Pilot finance Bill through All stages found other empty houses similarly prepared for the Only one of the destroyed houses was a High wind rendered fire fighting but after a Long the firemen managed flaming to subdue the shingles were continued on Pace four Are killed scattered Over a wide and the townspeople spent an anxious time guarding their roofs from the flying at roofs on three houses were the fires were in houses on fourth Avenue and on adjoining streets in an area covering three several injured Blaze in business District causes damage special United news despatch to free press by Froe Tress private May men were killed and several others injured when fire raged through the business District Power line fore was killed instantly when crushed under turning Wayne night ticket agent for the rail was killed and several others injured when trapped under a falling the fire caused spontaneous combustion was believed to have been its directors included in and line wage Cut special United news Cable to free press by free press frigate May the Peninsular and Orient steamship line today announced a ten per reduction o wages of All ashore or including the chairman and managing the Cut will be effective August quakes on anniversary of disaster give scare butter imports in three months pounds Canadian press imports of butter from All countries nto Canada from 1 to april were was the reply Given by Secretary of to a ques Tion in the House of commons to the rates of duty collected were at 14 cents per at 12 cents per 440 at 8 cents per less 10 per and at one cent per new zealand butter was imported to the total of and australian special United news Cable to free press by free Preis private May Chancellor of the does not contemplate resigning or accepting a he told the Dally Laberite today in an inter Snowden said he intended piloting the government finance Bill through All its stages in the House of com apart from my i never Felt better in my he com Mons has not seen the end of me by a Long Snow ens statement refuted re cent rumours that he might be forced to resign due to and would be elevated to the thus in creasing the labor representation in the House of he underwent an operation a few weeks before presenting the budget in the House of and was confined to bed again late today by officers under sheriff Seymour who had been Trail ing him since the attack last the mob began forming soon after by 9 it had packed the court House and the fire department was the mob Tore the Hose from the hydrants and routed the As the firemen the mob turned the Hose on the National tie militiamen were forced Back toward the but finally seized the other groups of militiamen released tear Gas bombs Ana a smoke screen bomb which added its spectacular fog to the when the Nili Tameji arrived they took Complete charge and the sheriffs Force and the City was virtually under Rule of the three Are drowned As Small boat capsizes companions Are saved associated press May men and a woman were drowned late to Day when a Small boat containing six persons capsized in Forest near the victims were Richard Scarboro Gladys Par Portland and Joseph of the others in the party saved themselves by clinging to the Bot Tom of the overturned continued the and from the free press May fifty five tears ago that Portage la Prairie was coming to the front was shown by the preparations going Forward for a Royal Celebration in that town of Queens a few bipeds of a More August race were putting their feet punctually through a dangerous Hole in Gowler s Bridge at Headin Gly and a Strong sentiment was growing that it should be repaired immediately if not fifty years ago the had been located be tween Portage la Prairie and grand Valley the contractors in tended to begin on their work right and the company expected to have tie Road constructed As far As Brandon by the beginning of sep West Lenners had adopted a rather contemptuous attitude towards emersons new and the Emerso nites hoped this con tempt might be Strong enough to keep the West Lenners at their own end of the Bridge fort live years ago at the first Day of the full term the gentlemen Toon the oath and signed the Roll of bar Risters Colemand and son the prominent pro was at Nipigon purchasing Birch bark canoes for the Low exploratory expedition of the North Side of Hudson French foreign minister insists upon resigning special United news Cable to free by free press private Mav the Quai Dorsay confirmed today that foreign minister Aristide Brand would insist upon re signing when he returns from Gere Premier Pierre Laval called a Cabinet meeting for thursday in an Effort to dissuade forty years ago 891 Crossley and noted evangelists who had been holding a series of thronged meetings at which had resulted in the conversion of Over were now leaving for the East shall we gather at the River was Sung on the station plat form As the evangelists boarded the train Crossley was to drive across country from Carberry to where he was to hold weather report following is the weather Revoit is sued from the Winnipeg meteorological office at 7 r52 Maxi mum for the preceding 12 465 South East wind at eight Miles per Houn Preci ski the weather has been cold in the Western with Light Snow or rain in most while from on Tario eastward it has been fair and i Aklavik 24 Simpson 32 Smith 28 Dawson 38 Rupert 40 victoria46 Vancouver 48 Kamloops 44 fi6 George 36 Jasper Banff Callary 32 Leth Bridjet 32 Edmonton 30 hat 32 current 32 Battleford 32 Albert 32 43 36 41 of 40 34 42 44 Mima Moose jaw 34 36 Saskatoon 29 39 Brandon 45 53 Yorkton 34 Kenora Arthur Cochrane 42 Huntsville 35 sound 34 London 40 Toronto Kingston 40 ottawa34 Montreal 40 Quebec 34 John 47 42 40 68 72 Halifax 38 Charlo town 28 forecasts northerly winds partly showers or noticeably More and has fallen into the habit promising Earnest special United sews Cable to free press by free Preis private May severe Rrth quakes at Tabriz terrorized tar today on the anniversary j ins of severe quakes in in which becoming cooler la Western Dis thousands were Manitoba Clouds and cold scattered Snow Saskatchewan and Alberta Northend winds mostly fail and Lake moderate to shift intensified drive started to organize Farmers conference of farm leaders at Chicago appoints committee to investigate possibilities of coordinating efforts of co operative agricultural offensive must be militant and thirty five years ago the trustees of Broadway Taber important new Yolk Church on 34th and were in Cor Respondence with the John Watson Ian author of beside the Bonnie Brier to assume the pastorate of the famous which had been organized n present chief feature of the social life of Ivas the craze for associated Preis May a com Mittee to investigate the possibilities of coordinating the efforts of co operative agricultural organizations was appointed today at a conference of farm the meeting was called in an Effort to Start an intensive drive to organize and before the committee had retired to discuss the problem and attempt to form definite executives representing live finance and farm publications had expressed themselves As favouring the Tell the world what organized agriculture president of the american farm Bureau federation and chairman of today told the commit tee the conference had previously adopted informally the Slof a you cant save agriculture in suggested by president of the Farmers National Grain Corpora in a speech in which he said h hoped the conference would achieve its the committee was asked to Dis cuss the entire subject and report Back to the Oneal in opening the meeting suggested that the time is Ripe for banding together in a general drive for organized the offensive must be militant and a he to offset the War being waged by those opposed to co operative in opening the meeting suggested that the time is Ripe for banding together in a drive or organized the offensive must be militant and Daggres he to offset the War waged by those opposed to cooperative thirty years ago development of the famous begin a Lake of the was being proceeded with ant changes in the Western mounted Rifle corps had been announced in Ottawa a new was to be established in the prominent Lacrosse players of Winnipeg Hooper and Twenty Floc years ago the Winnipeg maroons opened the norther Copper country league schedule by playing the grand Forks team at Tver women foreign missionary society gathered in Force to hear and missionaries to give a thrilling account of their work Twenty years ago one of Wini pegs most spectacular fires destroyed the Central one of the largest local establish ments of its on water with the loss of 40 automobiles and a total loss by fire of about Winnipeg in interview with the free press recalled upon the occasion of which he remembered seeing a total overcome with vigorously kiss his aunt in ;