Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tum Ratute headings free press thermometer readings May 25 Hay 25 j03 May 26 May 26 6g for full text of meteorological of Floc see Page Ham Toba Fott 277 shifting Sun Moon Sun Moon May 1931 Price 5c per copy edition with 22 pages seven lives Are lost in Ontario accidents four men scale barbed wire in but surrender when guards open fire other prisoners hurl rocks at guards and set fire to four wooden dormitories electric wires disrupted by fire and Only by red glow of flames is disturbance quelled press despatch May guardsmen and Highway police were today patrolling the barbed wire enclosure of the Vandalia state penal farm where last for two 600 All minor of fiercely battled a Small group of four whose failure to escape started the were Heil in the county three of the together with another who did Sot attempt to were wound superintendent Metzger recommends formation of Complete division of army of India under Parley plan associated press May sir Philip former chief of the general staff of announced today that he had recommended to the government immedi ate formation of one Complete i of the army of India under the London round table conference proposal for an Indian National this he that for he first time we shall make a real Start with an Indian army As a fighting proposition and not merely an i could not advise the government to establish a larger unit until can see whether an army office red by indians is going to be a real fight ing few in political nationalist chairman denounces attempts of communists to overthrow government or the declares reds dominate South Peoples causing re Bellion against banking sixty thousand government troops moving toward Canton and provinces Bies were kept almost constantly on the for them the occasion was nothing Short of a series of runs in response to fire Calls which gave them one of their busiest Days of the fireworks were the reason is elected District governor at today convention held in Winnipeg and Many social events feature gathering on wounds were pour wooden fire by the Lay in windows in the administration building and dining Hail were Shat Metzger estimated the total damage at quite a number of the 600 in All under sentences of less than a have been sullen for several Metzger about a week ago the superintendent he was tipped off that an escape had been Metzger stationed guards in a Corn Field adjoining the outer make break for Freedom last evening four Charles j William Simonds Arthur and Charles the inner five foot barbed wire Fence with a which they then placed against the outer 12foot barbed wire As the last of the four jumped to the Metzger the guards came out of after an unheeded cry of the guards fired with 12gauge shot he the four three of whom were sur rend the rest of the state farm prison ers were roaming about inside the according to watching the one of pressed close to the inner Fence fell when a stray Bullet fired by the guards outside inflicted a flesh this served As a signal for the general outbreak with a Roar the prisoners began hurling rocks the guards despite marched the Quartetti Down the through a passageway Ana into the administration Guildin with this the prisoners directed their rocks at the offices and the dining one Small associated press May chinese civil War to begin in a few Days with nationalist government troops lined against rebels of Kwang Tung and Kwangsik was inspiring business session predicted tonight by chinese political the prediction followed Denun Cla Iii by nationalist chairman Chiang Waishek of asserted attempts by communists in the provinces to Over Charles of was elected District governor of the Kinsman monday in the business meeting of the annual District to which Mem Bers gathered on sunday in the fort Garry proceeding were begun on Sun Day with informal pre sided Over by Frank president of the Winnipeg the formal session on monday morning was con ducted by in the absence in Ottawa of District governor visitors Are entertained during the today the Winnipeg club played Host to several visitors from the Kenora and i Brandon and therefore the entertainment programme was appropriately a feature of the Holiday was a Golf tournament held at Windsor Park municipal arranged by the Golf Struthers and throw his government after his refusal to in a statement to the Chiang Waishek said the crisis Essen is one Between tue Kuom Tang National Peoples party and the the latter Are desirous of exerting influence in Kuomintang thereby hoping to gain Power within the nationalist which is subject to direction by the Chiang Waishek said reds Are dominating the South China Kuom causing it to rebel fireworks take Joy out of Holiday for cites firemen and policemen Victoria Day was no Holiday for Winnipeg firemen and police min Ute car while citizens were occupying themselves in at their individual Hob smoke eaters and Bob for their work although fortunately no serious outbreaks resulted from this for a half hour period the evening when the pyrotechnic display was in full a flood of alarms kept the fire signal Bell at police Headquarters Clang ing like a locomotive each Call would Send a minute car racing out in during the time the alarms were coming in a car was no sooner Back from an swering than it was roaring off again to attend setting off fireworks led to one arrest during the Day and police authorities took measures wherever possible of preventing the lighting of pyrotechnics considered of a dangerous such As of the Cannon while a City by Law definitely prohibits the use of the attitude of officials this year was generally one of leniency unless specific complaints were tossing squibs at a passing policeman landed Mike 188 Aberdeen into How when Mike was checked up for his he became Abu the officer he was taken into custody on a charge of disorderly two minor outbreaks of fire on Portage Between Purby Street and Young monday were caused of the first occurred on the roof of a shed in the rear of the Jamieson and the second on a shed behind a both were extinguished without another alarm was from the inter Section of Wellington Crescent and Queenston a rocket having landed on the roof of a dwelling in the lighting no damage match in a Gas filled House resulted in Thomas 136 Harriet receiving Burns continued on Page Fourl wheat Parley report Bennett reads cablegram from Howard Ferguson on London meeting continued on Page four Brandon club won the trophy j j Russell Noble for Best average in the the convention i guilty to murder of was brought to a Snappy close in the form of a dance at the for Garry this commenced at and the arrangements were in charge of Bay him Cann and wives of the besides taking an Active part in the convention by entertain ing visiting were the honoured tests at the at the District governors luncheon the convention heard an address by continued on pase broke rushed to dormitory continued on face test new locomotive May the Pennsylvania Railroad is testing a be Type electric engine which it is hoped will soon replace the steam locomotives now in Between new York and senator of thinks treaty embracing All questions be tween Canada and in St Law rence watershed would be ratified by cablegram from High commissioner in read by pre Mier Bennett in House of embodying report of recent wheat australian Federal loan Council adjourn after referring subcommittee report to premiers Whlon Cut in interest Page conservative member of charges 90 Resi dents of were de proved of vote in last Pige opinions in great United states and Russia vary As to the out come 01 the recent world Grain con Terence in United states supreme court by majority of one decides that applicant for naturalization must take oath to tear William Veteran civil and resident of Winnipeg for fort seven Dies in his seventy fourth prohibition of foreign carry tag Grain Between Canadian in petition presented to com Premier Squires denies new York Newfoundland in state of financial Charles Rumball elected District governor of Kinsman club at today convention in Victoria Day no Holiday for Winn firemen and policemen once fire work displays four prisoners of Illinois state farm make unsuccessful at for chinese civil War to begin in few fays predicted in chinese political Bobert Well known win Peg business Man aged 55 lives lost in Ontario Victoria strongly favors closer Union within All eyes on Britain Canadian press May All Over the world people Are wondering what is going to happen in this declared Stanley conservative in a speech at Well Becic Abbey they Are certain that Iree Trade in great Britain is dead and they Are cer Tain we Are going to attempt an economic Union of our dumping has got to i am a simple englishman and i am not going to have the labor of our hands taken from us by any foreign government carrying out a plan like the Fivey Earlan whether it is Russia or anybody he there is profound truth in the old saying Charity begins at the closer the Empire gets together the better it will be for Ell us to spread our manufacturing Power throughout the emn Lre for the use principally of the Clara Ellis associate press May Russell 17yearold Haverhill school today was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for the Hammer slaying of Clara wealthy Haverhill he pleaded guilty to murder in the Sec Ond Ellis was severely beaten in a bedroom of her Home on the night of february she died without regaining consciousness several Days investigation of the crime failed to reveal a clue until the authorities Learned that an Honor Pupil in High school and teacher in a Brad Ford had attempted to sell a wrist watch owned by the dead the boys arrest and confession aroused Many of the people of Haverhill and Bradford who knew him intimately and who contended that he was incapable of such a an Essex county grand jury re turned an indictment against Noble and state alienist examined the alienist examination was filed with the court several Days ago but the contents were not revealed As the papers were immediately ten killed and sixty Are reported missing in fire at Gold Fields in India associated press May men Are known to have been killed and sixty were reported missing today in a fire in a mine at the Kolar Gold thirty nine miners were saved and rescuers Are trying to reach the duties of special committee of conference out lined in detail May ment of a committee of the Confer nce of wheat exporting countries consisting of one representative from Ali of the 11 nations was decided on at the recent London conference presided Over by Howard Canadian High commissioner in the fun of this committee will be to a balt to governments of countries which participated in the a definite proposal for establishing a Learng House of information to serve wheat exporting he committee will be expected to explore carefully All possible avenues or greater utilization of this import ant in the Houst of commons today prime Ead a cablegram from the final report of the London As factors in the present the London Confer noted the effect of the economic depression throughout the the act that there is More wheat produced than can be sold at a the present Uncertain state of wheat and the absence of sufficiently adequate information re Garding requirements and up poles of the conference went on record As where a reduction n areas devoted to in answer to a question by Rnest minister of As to How the new committee will Schneider cup record said to have been broken by pilots in trials for race associated press May the air plane Speed record of 357 Miles per made by Squadron Leeader August Orlebar in was reported today to have been broken several times by pilots in training for the Schneider cup while the figures have not been Given it was understood that lots exceeded 360 Miles per hour while driving racing seaplanes in trial naturalized citizens must take oath to fight majority judgment handed Down by supreme court gives killing regarding miss Canadian and Yale also a had been refused because applicants refused associated press despatch i arms in defence of the Nrma by a states under All said by a question already had been set majority of one the supreme court today decided an applicant for citizenship must take an oath to if for the United this conclusion was reached in the cases of Marie Cana Dian War and professor Doug Las Clyde tale theology also a Justice Sutherland delivered the majority opinion and justices but Van Devanter and Roberts agreed chief Justice Hughes read a vigorous dissent and justices Brandeis and often found together in minority opinions in the also the government in opposing the naturalization of to Bland and professor macintosh because would not take an oath to they Bear the q tied by the refusal of the court to allow Rosika hungarian writer and to become a she also refused to take an oath to fight for the country Justice Sutherland took the View the cases today were ruled by the principle Laid Down in barring chief Justice Hughes said the cases hinged on the narrow Pohnl whether Congress had exacted a Promise to Bear arms As a condition of its Grant of that the Congress has not made such an express Promise is apparent he the question is whether that exaction is to be implied from certain general words which do not As it seems to either literally or demand the imply la pc Cal United news despatch to the free press by free press private May Margaret a Motherly looking Gray haired and was locked in jail tonight when states attorney John Swanson Learned that she was the beneficiary in 19 insurance policies taken out by 10 five of whom died in her lome in three but i am not guilty of any insisted these poli rules were taken out in favor of me by people who were grateful for what i had done for the who left their insurance to Summers included her Hus Thomas Summers her 17year old Thomas Meyers Ais continued on Page Gordon says reported inducements to come to can Ada not authorized Canadian press May ments appearing in old country magazines offering inducements for Young people to to Canada Lave not the authority of the can Adian Gor minister of told he House of commons John Brown Lisgar cited such an advertisement issued by a steamship company which announced free Ocean and opportunities to acquire at 21 for Young men desirous of migrating to this if such notices were appearing under the authority of the govern it must declared Gor Don that some advertising contract had not yet the govern ment disapproved advert sements calculated to deceive people respecting conditions in any person coming to this country under ills own steam would be Welcome but the government was issuing no advertisements of such a deceptive Quebec Alderman held on i Landrun charge Canadian press May Trhas Louis of Jon Rule res was brought to Quebec today from a Camp in the North Woods and held in bail As the alleged Driver of a car struck and critically injured a Theo while watchman Ina local department who remains in a critical was rid ing Home about five in the morning last tuesday when struck by car that did not five die in so 1mai Gray haired Chicago Board ing House keeper Benefi Ciary in insurance policies Thomas Lanagan and William All of them died in her boarding House since Clarence coroners obtained the vital organs of Young Meyers and of Summers husband for a quantitative Coroner Herman Bundesen said he did not know when the chemists re port would be the investigation was started after relatives complained to police when summers1 Nephew died in her House a week in s1ate of serious l Premier Squires makes statement commenting on reports appearing in new York states no tenders received for loan authorized by government three drowned and four perish in Auto crashes Stanley air Force loses life when Canoe Over turns near Toronto boy Falls from body of third victim recovered near motor crashes on highways claim two Toronto boy killed running across Ottawa fireman killed when Auto Side swipes ladder Canadian Tress May seven he died ill Hospital shortly also negotiations in the air for Sale of Labrador Canadian Tress Johns May financial condition of Newfoundland is not in a state of serious Depres but on the other hand is excellent in comparison with that of other countries affected by the pre sent period of economic this was the declaration made to Day by Premier sir Richard Squires to the Canadian the prime minister was commenting on reports lives were lost in Victoria Day fatalities three were and four others were victims of automobile a j number of others were More or less seriously a fireman was kill led at an automobile sideswiped the ladder truck on which he was i Stanley Royal Canadian air Force Pilot of Camp lost his life when his Canoe overturned Lake near two Nice were nine year old to was seriously the which caused approximately destroyed the warehouse of the morn eur cooperative Dairy and damaged the Florence junk company Ware receipt of tenders for an government loan had precipitated a financial crisis in the Island do on others in the c Gordon tremble Ronto fell from a raft into a Pond in this and was the body of a third drowning Vic Realino was recovered in Lake near Sudbury motor accidents on Ontario High one at and one near accounted for two Augustus farm was killed tonight when his motorcycle was struck at Trafalgar by a car appearing in York that no driven by a Woodstock whose name was Charles gamer was fatally injured when two Auto mobiles collided today at struck by an Tito Mobile As he ran across a City Reginald denying the accuracy of recurrent j six Earold Toronto was reports that negotiations were in the air for Sale of he asserted that Labrador was not for Ottawa fireman kill we Canadian press May Rushing that under no circumstance i along Dalhousie Street tonight to a second alarm fireman William Mcdermott was fatally an automobile sideswiped the ladder truck to which Mcdermott was clinging and threw him to the pave would negotiations be undertaken associated in any Way with any changes of nationality or allegiance with respect to that Ter its resources were available to investors on suitable terms for Industrial business a i soul newfoundlands motto is business As commercial activities will undoubtedly be conducted Liis year of a More conservative basis com Mercial credits will undoubtedly by carefully supervised and in every of i continued on Pace Rmer officer sentenced in new York associated press new May a former Royal Canadian mounted was sentenced today to an indeterminate term of three months to three years in the Penitentiary on charges of possess ing a revolver and burglars tools they were found when he was arrested april 8 in connection with the Vivian Gordon murder soviet rejects finnish note alleging ill treatment May foreign commissar Krestinsky today handed a note to the finnish charge Darraies in Moscow saying that the Auger Louis and two room soviet government formally rejects the finnish note of May 16 alleging ill treatment of finnish minorities in tie communication also protests against interference by the finnish government into russian internal of Early vote on state parliaments Likely australian minister of Trade and Commerce refers to question of abolition Canadian press May Reu Early referendum on the question of the abolition of state parliaments was foreshadowed by australian minis Ter of Trade and in a speech the new South Wales Council of the All for Australia league in a Resolution adopted at the meeting declared the purposes of the league would Best be achieved by keeping religiously apart from the state and Federal spheres and nominating its own candidates both in Federal and state pledged to support Leader of the United opposition senator Walsh thinks Senate would ratify such a pact suggests an agreement to preserve Niagara Falls Beauty be included Canadian press by Ken May a treaty for the development of the Lawrence waterway embracing All questions Between Canada and the United states in the Lawrence including the Chicago diversion and the preservation of Niagara probably would be Rati fied by the Senate without much of in the opinion of senator Thomas j Mon senator Walsh said today opposition from new York state to the proposed International waterway had been largely suggests Nir Figara it was his understanding a treaty would contain provision for compensatory works at and that it might Well pro vide for an agreement As to preservation of the Beauty of Niagara continued on pase film the free press May 25 fifty live years ago subjects discussed at the current meeting of the Winnipeg City coun cil were the Threefoot sewer which was to be Laid Down on main the Cost of building approaches to the Riverside at the foot of Postof fico Lombard among those pres ent were Mcpike Hespeler Nunci eleven killed in Germany May eleven people were killed and Over 30 injured in Over the Whitsuntide holi Day in Germany the past Edison suffers Burns to hands in using wrong acid associated press fort May Edison had the fingers of both hands bandaged today As the result of acid Burns received last the acid was said to have eaten creep into the which is peeling got hold of a bottle with the wrong was the inventors Only the Burns were received during his experiments to produce rubber from Golden weather report the following is the weather report issued from the Winnipeg meteorological office at 7 temperature at 7 maximum for the preceding 12 f43 Southeast wind at three Miles per hour sky temperature at 7 72 Maxi mum for the preceding 12 45 South East wind at 16 Miles per hour sky the weather has been mostly Lair in the Western provinces with temperature of 80 to 90 in scattered showers have occurred in que Bec and the maritime Mima Saskatoon 43 85 Yorton 43 81 refcina50 93 Brandon 45 kenora37 68 arthur42 58 36 60 Aklavik Mima 34 50 36 64 42 58 Dawson 33 60 44 54 Victoria 48 62 vancouver50 6fj Kamloops 48 63 george32 60 Jasper 36 Calgary 33 lethrbldee48 Edmonton 42 hat 52 current46 52 Moose jaw46 Huntsville 40 sound42 London 44 Toronto 45 Kingston 44 Ottawa 44 Montreal 46 Quebec 44 John 44 Halifax 42 Char town 46 forecasts shifting winds partly with a few scattered Thunder storms or probably dust Northwest winds partly Cloudy cooler probably dust storms in some Northwest partly Cloudy with even temperature prob ably dust storms in some Lake and Little warmer followed by trash Southeast winds probably thunderstorms in West Ern highlights from the capital fifty years ago the official Board of Grace at a meeting held to discuss the new Church recommended to the Board of trustees that the Church be built on the site at the Corner of Margaret Ellice and notre Dame of a Large number of men Anil teams started to work grading for southwestern Railroad where the Vork had been left off last fall at Point special despatch to the free by May while the country took a its tireless parliament worked half a sitting till this was not Bennetts anxious though he is to expedite private members monopolize mondays until the introduction of the but not this was perhaps their Field Day of the present and this afternoons self denying ses Sion was arranged for their one of the motions Wlinich came proposed by Cameron of North called for the Crea Tion of a Canadian Mclntosh presented the familiar arguments in impassioned and expansive explaining that Canada was the Only Dominion without a National unfortunately Mclntosh came on too or talked too to give his motion a Chance of producing he started right after and when he sat Down there were Only ten minutes giving Armand Lavergne just time to and become in argument about shooting holes in the Union there was no statement from Mclntosh motion May pos Sibly not reappear this in which Case what the government thinks of it will remain a dark such is the importance of the time Factor in parliamentary at the Start of the sitting the prime minister announced to the that Worth of War time Canadian Bonds had been exchanged for the new four and a half per the Success of the conversion loan has greatly cheered and will lighten his budgetary his statement to the House about it was applauded with much but assuredly some of the members thumped their desks with mental the fact that there is in stantly available for investment in Bonds yielding Only per cent is a convincing demonstration of the Scarcity of profitable openings in in Bennett also read to the House a report of the work of the recent wheat conference at transmitted by the High approve the idea solved in a Side tills recital was accompanied by discreetly subdued laughter from the opposition the general View among Western liberals is that the report of the conference is eyewash of the first a worse fiasco than the Imperial economic Confer said one in the new statistics collecting Bureata the one practical evidently duplicate work already done else one member made the also in that the con Ference had made matters worse since the exporters and importers Are now ranged in not to say what is the use of a priest asked one Veteran of Western no longer in the without any buyer of wheat at Tho party the wests arising from suspicions that a huge profit was realized in the Sale of 1917 and 1918 wheat to the Allied coun becomes More mysterious even1 when John Vallance asked some weeks ago for sir George Fosters letters on the the dossier Given to the House lacked the Only letter which was and or Vallance had to ask for it later of asked for the file of documents describing the transactions of the Board of Grain supervisors in 1917 and which minister of Trade and used in addressing the House on the Stevens Laid the file on the table since when it has strangely and no House official can find now it turns out that the Metal Clad chests containing detailed records of the War time boards which Stevens mentioned As holding the key to the Are among the they lie somewhere in the official catacombs of with othere relics of past but no one knows just it is indeed curio ser and in the end there will Likely be an inquiry by the House committee on agriculture into the allegation of profit no bodies found at Seattle May search of the Bottom of the Lake Washington canal by a diver today failed to reveal any Trace of two supposed victims of the collapse of a diving which threw 75 men and boys into the water Ortyl he years ago lots were booming on Saskatchewan Portage la members of the Church of England at Shoal Lake had raised s400 toward the building of a Church it that place they had named Hie Parish Pauls and desired a clergy Nan appointed As soon As Archdeacon Vincent gave at Christ Church an interesting address on his 30 years in forty years new York capitalists had secured a couple of locations of handsome Grey and red Granite along the line of the siding at port Conven ent for shipping the Stone was of Pilot Mound Sentinel warned Farmers that the thunderstorm season was at and that it was dangerous to leave horses unwatched in Barbwire Pas Tures during electrical thirty five years ago the following gentlemen were sworn in As census commissioners to officiate during Thyl taking of Mani Toba census Winnipeg Provencher Brandon Marquette Wright Portage la for and Norman Mirthe thirty years ago fid at the Brandon horse path Tom Ogden and Fred Damn were the favourites in the free Orall it was hard to total receipts of the Winnipeg treasurer for 1900 had been As compared with in years ago the shamrocks won the football tournament at Portage la the Hollands gave the Souris Cham non Lacrosse team a hard the Holland boys had just been admitted to senior and the Way they went after Minto cup challengers was a Joy to Twenty years ago the Celebration of Empire Day in he Winnipeg schools was the most elaborate to Date the daughters or the Empire and the members of the Canadian club took prominent parts in of won the Tenmile Road race at fort ;