Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, May 27, 1931

Issue date: Wednesday, May 27, 1931
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings free press thermometer readings May 67 May 26 May 2 May 27 j54 for full text of meteorological of fice see Page Ufa Toba Fyt 278 and showers in Many Sun Moon Sun Moon May 1931 Price 5c per copy edition Raith 24 pages will deny claim in i Date monies sympathetic citizens come to the Aid of Mother of murdered children House of commons sets aside per annul Over period of fifteen years for purpose scope of of Grant of 000 widened so As to include agricultural training Mackenzie King opposes resold challenging principle of granting subsidies to provinces Canadian press May took an important step in the direction of reestablishing vocational training in with the approval of the House of commons to of a Resolution appropriating the of per Over a period of fifteen for this Pur a Bill based on the Resolution subsequently received first payments from the appropriation Are to be made conditional upon agree ments the respective provincial an interesting announcement feat ured the explanation of the resold Given by Hugh minister of in the absence of prime Guthrie stated tha the scope of the old Grant of for technical education had seen widened so As to include Agri cultural provinces desiring to do so might make representations looking to a part of the approx Ria being granted them for educating people for the another change removes the limitation of Twentyfive per for expenditure on school the percentage of the present appropriation which May be used of these purposes will be determined by the provinces in consultation with the Dominion has some opposition the Resolution did not pass the without while Tak ing no exception to the object in Mackenzie King challenged the principle of making Grants to the in addition to the provincial subsidies paid out of the Federal the fathers of confederation in their wis allotted certain Fields to do minion and certain others to the King and had divided the Fields of taxation Why should the do minion encroach on the Field of Edu definitely allotted to the especially when such expenditures could be ill dangers were suggested by King one was at times of political opposing parties might try to gain the support of provincial administrations by prom Ising Public moneys in the form of King cited a number of such which he said had teen made by members of the pres ent government during the past and had them in Manitoba touched by the experience of Lillian who upon returning Home on wed May found her three children Are showing practical sympathy for the grief stricken woman in her hour of the circumstances of the tragedy Are too deeply engraved on the memories of the people to need but Many persons realizing that expenses in connection with the burial of her children were and that herself needs a rest from her daily have Kundly offered to share the bereaved woman financial to the free press the first suggestions of practical were mailed by kindhearted i feel the Public has an Obliga Tion to and that something should be done to ameliorate the wrote one Good Samara enclosed was two to Start the Ball in response to these the free after communication with Walters through her Pas of Wesley pentecostal undertook to receive donations from and to turn them Over to Wal All subscriptions forwarded will be acknowledged in the giant tailless machine Falls during combination Speed endurance flight continued on pase Newso thew drawing attention of commons to unemployment situation in Neill presents motion asking for Dominion provincial con Ference on in heated debate Over appropriation of for in House of motion introduced that Grant to Dairy Council the from House of commons approves Resolution appropriating per an num Over period of fifteen years for reestablishment of vocational train lord prime minister Bennett and Premier George Henry honoured by Toronto which confers degrees of doctors of City Council decides to Mil trance from Federal and Provin Cial governments towards Cost of unemployment Relief in Winnipeg this inspector Hugh Mclachlan and Constable John Mcsween injured in clash Between a squad of Winnipeg police and crowd of Page optimistic reports presented at opening of fou Day biennial Council meeting of women missionary society of presbyterian National president bitterly Crl Niclaes communist in opening address at annual convention in Woodsworth Bill to Amend trim anal dealing with unlawful again talked out in House messages brought to London report of russian submarine during manoeuvres in Gulf of is moderate gains Are registered on the new York Exchange As Shor Cov veg enters shipping interests at meeting in William urge government to entree shipping Cable advices several Hudson Bay insurance rates Are even higher than leading issues touch new Low on the Montreal Stock sex argument of counsel in Pool ele Tor probe will end Charles 501 Beresford Dies in Are killed in plane associated press May Blue a giant Tande motored tailless air plane owned by the Chicago daily fell into a Field North of today killing four members of its the dead Shirley chief former air mall Pilot and Winner of 1926 Harmon International trophy Safe Richard Lewis radio Robert Gormley was alive when taken from the wreckage but he never re gained he died in to a bodies of the other three were the Blue Streak was making a combination Speed endurance flight under supervision of the National aeronautical association Over a measured the big carrying a Load of had enough fuel to travel kilo the flight also was to test insurance of the Peculiar admits kill Lar doctor new May Vin cent sought by police for three walked into a police Sta Tion today and police the slaying of Joseph Lough a Brooklyn in a pistol Duel in the dunes of Marine Ocean steamships arrived Augustus new York Karlsruhe new York Majestic new York Southam too franc new York Trade London jew Yore Europa Bremen new York Mauretania Cherbourg new York Buenos Aires York jobless Miner suffocated by Coal Gas while digging fuel in abandoned mine Canadian press May Michael jobless was suffocated by Coal Gas in an unused mine Here today while he attempted to dig enough Coal to do cooking in his Bachelor Angelo left his Shack about noon and told others he was going to get when he failed to a search was inst ending when the Miner was found dead in the for Parley on Neill draws attention of commons to serious situation in West presents motion asking for Dominion provincial con Ference to discuss policy mom in Baltic no detailed official report of catastrophe has been made by russian government understood to have been caused by explosion aboard number of casualties not known death wins race Over eight Miles of rough Road in Effort to save woman life Canadian press Sault May death won a race Over rough roads in Algoma when of was taken eight Miles on a Stretcher to Ahtl died of rheumatic affection of the heart before Hospital was the roads Between Zabos and Searchmont were unfit for travel or motor they were in such rough it was explained eight men bore her from Ramos to Searchmont in an Effort to save her Canadian press a urgent need for holding a Dominion pro Vinci Al conference to Deal with employment was stressed in the House of commons when Neill presented the Issue on a motion to go into he had already drawn attention to the seriousness of unemployment particularly in Western and had expressed the belief next Winter the situation would be a great Deal worse than it had been in the the development of events was corroborating his Premier of British was for unemployment Relief in Vancouver a recent newspaper item had asserted that min ister of Public works for was in route to Ottawa to urge the need of unemployment Relief on the Dominion that Relief was required this Van Over had spent or More than it had in that City there was More unemployment in the month of april than at any time in the Neill described conditions in the mining districts of Vancouver continued on Page nine search for vessel As depth at Point of sinking More than 60 fathoms associated Tress May dispatches from Moscow and Riga brought to London tonight the that the russian submarine 9 of the bal tic Fleet had sunk last Friday during manoeuvres in the Gulf of the sinking of the submarine supposed to have been due to an explosion no detailed official report of the catastrophe to have been made by the russian which is Given no report on the location of the the Only indication of the spot Vas furnished Here by a pcs Ige from which placed it Souply at 59 North and Longitude 24 there was no indication As to How Many men made up the Crew of the or How Large the casualty 1st a Lent thought near finnish capital a location More or less approximate x the latitude and Longitude Given would place the sinking Southwest of and it was thought Here that it might possibly have been near enough to the finnish capital to explain the presence of russian planes ind warships in that which has been exciting the suspicions of there was no indication that the other vessels of the russian Baltic who were reported searching for he sunken had found it was pointed out hat the task of recovering the sub Hundred delegates representing throughout Dominion in attendance seriously injured As result dynamite blast Canadian press May Donald lies in the local Hospital seriously injured As a result of meddling with Dyna mite he had set off several Sticks successfully and decided to try a group of All of which were successfully detonated except after pounding it unsuccessfully with a stick of sickens jumped upon the Heel of his Boot set it off with a loud sink tvs be ing thrown about four feet into the All his toes were blown off one foot and several off in addition both legs Are badly Lacer ated and he has facial and atom Inal his condition is president Hoover and cab inet find Many factors they consider favourable highlights from the capital special despatch to the free by May when the cats away the mice will play and in Bennetts absence at to collect another giving him the parliamentary championship with the House of commons was for most of the time i Carefree and Happy Weir perhaps for Weir Oday underwent his baptism of fire when he began to Pilot it was a Day of boisterous do Monstras Clever speeches and general Good the heaviest event was an extremely Able speech by Mac Kenzie King on Dominion Grants to the provinces for such specific purposes As schools and unemployment this was clearly a prepared arid it was Ery King is formidable on such a his touch is not Tine lightest and he does Noi but his facts Are All there in neat and his logic has the finality of a steam in at tacking Grants for vocational Edu which he did in his Best style King rather belied his reputation As a Man of not to say he was very downright and he neither split nor by the insertion of weasel attempted to straddle the he was definitely against Dominion apart from subs on the grounds that they were expended with no control by the Dominion auditor and that they made provincial governments inde pendent of their Legislatures for at least portions of their the speech was heard with attention by the government Side and made an impression earlier in this session debates about unemployment were weekly but lately they have been less members sitting in the Southeast the Ihde pen dents la borates and group thought this a suitable Day to re mind the government once again who makes his Dally speech in a but sometimes quietly humorous started the it petered out some Bours with no statement of he governments there was an entertaining hour on Woodsworth Bill respecting unlawful hire a Hall was a familiar piece of advice to those who hold unpopular opinions and desire to sound them but it appears that hiring a Hall is difficult in Toronto when the speaker is to be one of the thoughtful radicals who sit in the this is due to the vigilance of Toronto police chief in his duty of saving Toronto peace of has lately shielded the City against miss Agnes Macphall and other dangerous per Woodsworth was for amending the criminal code so As to make Toronto More but his Bill was talked out and received no official support so that darkest Toronto must remain for the darkest the minister of agriculture came on at about and for an hour and a half battled with the House in an Effort to get a vote of for the encouragement of the Dairy Industry the promised full Lade of questions began at once and continued till adjournment with the item it was the most disorderly discussion of the session to every member who had made a speech about butter during the election Campaign wished to speak again and demonstrate that he right occupying the chair had trouble keeping the turmoil within there was not much for Weir to say after he had admitted the fall in butter and declared he was he bore up Well under the answering questions quietly and but did not try hitting Back at in after half an hour he sub sided for the leaving the floor to those who wished to recall Campaign promises and build arguments the signs Are that weirs estimates will be Long Long time going continued on Pago nine associated press May Omic conditions were considered at length today by president Hoover and Bis and they found Many considered beyond this no information was Given out concerning the Cabinet meeting which extended considerably past the usual adjournment time and resulted in calling off the regular tuesday conference president Hoover has with while the meeting was in Progress the Treasury announced it had reduced interest required on govern ment deposits from 1 to of 1 per annul on daily balances effective june it was said this action was taken to Aid the general economic condition and because Banks had found it Nec Essary to reduce the interest rates they paid on the order affects All general and special deposits of government reportedly afire Fate of Crew ish ship said to be standing by associated Preis May messages received at Lloyds land end Sta Tion received near Midnight said that a steamship said to be the portuguese Oor Retora Primero was afire at latitude 45 degrees 40 min utes North and Longitude 7 degrees 55 minutes and that the Fate of the Crew was the British steamship which gave the first said that the Steamer was badly afire from end to end and that there had been several mystery Over the Fate of the Crew resulted from conflicting and apparently garbled wireless reports from the Dunka and the German steamship both of which seem to be the Dunka was reported As messaging that it was alongside and had lowered a alone Case e rates Are stated reply is to be sent to Ottawa june 10 Bay understood ground will be taken that in though Canadian actually was owned by american rate of 3 12 per cent extent of j Bootleg will be based on evidence Gath ered during two year investigation of be Lieve Case will be quietly increase of insurance above the Ordinary level now announced rates will be stepped up dizzily in weeks following 30 i special United news despatch in the free press by free press private by Joseph ba1kd May a United states reply denying Canadas insurance announced so far applies Only to hulls cargo rates Likely to be higher optimism characterizes re ports of executive at open ing of fou Day convention representing More than fifty Points throughout the delegates entrusted with shaping the plans of the women missionary society Western of the presbyterian Church in for the coming gathered in win to attend the four Day biennial Council the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia Are represented by approximately one Hundred also attending the sessions Are Field workers in the City members of the missionary society and missionaries from Distant lands who have brought to the representatives of the missionary society a personal knowledge of the work Oleng carried optimism and gratitude characterized the reports of the executive As presented at the opening session of the yesterday after at first presbyterian Daniel pre siding Over nearly a capacity a motion that the last years Esti mate of be submitted As the amount to be raised again this was made by the motion will be voted upon at a later plans for the coming year include a decision to particularly stress Young Peoples Strachan the announcement that the Busi Ness of transferring the deeds of Church following the is almost was received with much appreciation by the Gratifying accomplishments Gratifying accomplishments in the face of unusual difficulties were re ported by each Branch the treasurer reported receipts for the year totalling we Are not going to admit any Blue ruin we came through just about Donald miss reporting on organization and International advised promoting of the work by each presbyterian getting to knew its special Dei Patch to the press from staff by Grant Dexter May advices received by government depart ments in the past 48 give fur ther particulars of the Marine insurance rates which have been fixed for the Hudson Bay and that these rates Are even higher than was in the first it was presumed that the insurance rate would be 3vi per All whereas it now emerges that this is the extent of the increase of insurance above the Ordin Ary moreover it is now announced that the joint Hull com Mittee has decided that the insurance rate of per which will apply during the season fixed by the committee from August 10 to shall be stepped up dizzily in the weeks immediately following in the week october 1 to the insurance Premium will be 10 per in addition to the per and for the week 7 to it will be 25 per in addition to the per on the As will be shown in actual applications of these it May be doubtful if any traffic can move Over the new applies Only to hulls All that has yet been announced in regard to Hudson Bay insurance applies Only to the announce ments Deal with the insurance on the vessels and not in the cargo rates Are still to be and it is the usual practise to fix cargo rates at a figure higher than Hull City in Relief of Council decides to claim for damages in the famous alone rum running Case is virtually the United Learned and will be sent Toj Ottawa about june j unless the present draft is changed j there is no Prospect it will this government will deny Canadas claim for pecuniary compensation on the ground that the in although Actu ally was owned by an american leg this Contention will be based on evidence gathered during a secret investigation of the liquor gangs it is operated j the ill fated rum j the in flying the governing store holi Adlan was sunk in the Gulf of March of the i coastguard one mem1 Ber of the Crew was i Canadas Bill of asking i compensation on behalf of greater Federal and provincial gov Eugene Creaser shipping assistance towards the cos unemployment Relief in Winnipeg leu race Wharton through the state March i will be sought by the City i confronted with an Overe Pendi continued on Page nine him dead thirty still entombed in Kolar believed dead polish Cabinet resigns May Slawek tonight presented the Resig nations of the polish Cabinet to president this is consid ered to be the result of the recent return of marshal Joseph fils Dulci to Poland after spending the Winter in special United news despatch to the free press by free press private May in the Kolar Gold mine fire in Mysore state increased As Rescue work ers dug into the smouldering ruins of the thirty eight bodies so far had been eight miners rescued Dur Rig the night were reported to have died of their the it was would prove one of the worst mine disasters in India in thirty still believed Rescue workers continued searching the devastated Little Hope for the entombed men was held by persons in charge of the Rescue weeping children and de Pendents gathered at the hysterically searching for weather report the following is the weather report issued from the Winnipeg Meteorol Kica office at 7 maximum for the preceding 12 80 Northwest wind at 16 Miles per hour sky the weather has been mostly fair in the Western provinces and considerably cooler in moderately warm weather has prevailed in Ontario and while showers have curved in the maritime Mima Mima Aklavik 40 46 Saskatoon 40 69 Simpson 42 64 Yorkton 54 69 Smith Regina 37 69 Dawson 36 60 Brandon 59 in or rupert42 j3 Kenora 53 73 Victoria 48 62 arthur33 54 Vancouver 46 1q Cochrane 36 70 Kamloops 42 76 Huntsville 33 71 george28 68 sound 36 70 Jasper 32 64 London 74 Banff 27 is Toronto 43 70 Calgary 28 62 Kingston 44 60 Lethbridge 36 63 Ottawa 42 70 Edmonton 44 63 Montreal 46 70 current34 68 Quebec 48 06 Battleford 40 66 John 44 38 64 halifax48 56 hat 34 70 Char town 50 53 Moose jaw39 69 forecasts West winds fair and Saskatchewan and with steady Lake Superior fresh mostly East and South partly Cloudy with continued on Page nine Are killed Joe Caccia and Clarence Grove were practising for race at Indianapolis May Joe Bryn race Driver Clarence Haver his Mechanic were killed Here today while practising for the 500mile automobile race to be run their running at High Speed out of the second turn into the Back lost a careened up the track and Oyer the retaining striking a tree before hitting the ground Many feet the men were partially caught under the which burst into physicians said Grove apparently died while cac Cia expired a few minutes after fire fighters and other the persons reached bombing attempts in Yugoslavia May a series of ineffectual attempts in the last few weeks to blow up Public buildings have disturbed authorities throughout the several arrests have been made among anarchists and acted As agent in buying the ship and that the in alone was directed by the Hogan Hogan and Hearn were said to have been buddies in the Dwyer Bootleg ring in earlier if Canadian officials accept the United states Olf Ciais believe the in alone continued on Page nine request greater assistance from Dominion and province Days and Peewee Golf courses Are passed this document was never made the United news that Canada enumerated the ship and articles aboard it for leaving the amount to the discretion of the hold claim lacks substance in View of United states officials familiar with the in alone Canadas claim for monetary damages lacks substance unless it can be proved the vessels owners were can on this they bring Forward a decision of sir William judge of a British prize court during the War of who ruled the was a lawful forfeit although she flew the portugese she actually belonged to an enemy the United this Case is cited to show that ownership rather than registry is the final determinant of a ships Ture of for Relief to the City fathers came to the tuesday that Quick action must be taken to forestall the possibility of the City getting into grave financial difficulties As the result of the heavy Burden it is called upon to the civic finance committee and Alderman Ralph chairman of the civic unemployment Relief were delegated to place the situation squarely before the cabinets of both governments and to Endeavor to procure some measure of assistance for the City of the bylaws Are passed bylaw for the closing Butcher and grocery stores either on wednesday or saturday and for the regulation and control of miniature Golf passed with slight the first was changed to provide United states officials Are prepared f0r the closing of the stores at 1 to offer evidence that the Danny i both instead of at 12 noon on Hogan Bootleg operating from owned the in this evidence shows that Hogan was in frequent telephonic Communia with George a who bought the Eugene Creaser com Pany in for at about the same the evidence also Hearn bought the in alone from a Canadian sea paying for of which he kept As a expect Case quietly closed state department officials Are con on the basis of this and other evidence not that Hearn finding of Gold Nugget at leads to staking of dozen claims Canadian press May for Placer Gold gripped this Oil town during the Holiday weekend and up to tonight a dozen claims had been staked along sheep within a stones throw of the town bound one report said a fair sized Nugget had been operations have been carried on by the handful of prospectors at a rapid Pace an with the Creek being quite shallow much of the bed is being whether the search is bringing paying returns has not been Stab wednesdays at 1 on continued on Page from the free press May 26 fifty five years ago the return of Buffalo Robes for the year was enormous in 1875 traders had secured and exported about 000 at the present time the traders along old belly and Mary Rivers had ready for exportation Over this being exclusive of the Trade done on the Little and big Bow which amounted to about the Price paid at Mon was per enforcement of shipping act asked by ship owners representative meeting in fort in urges government to prevent evasion of Laws respecting coast Wise Trade by foreign Grain carrying is contrary to intent of fifty Vears ago of and Lyman Melvin of gave notice that they would apply for let ters Patent for the manufacture of agricultural implements capital first strawberries of the season found their Way into win fort live years ago the dust on main Street on Windy Days was almost blinding there was Only one watering cart to Cope with the trouble and this vehicle seemed to have More than its hands several times Smith contributed toward the erection of the new Boniface forty years ago a Colony of French direct from France was being founded in the Dau Phin lot on the Corner of Market and Princess win was sold for the Winnipeg swimming club decided to build a club House on the red River Between Lombard and water streets chairman Secre special despatch to the free fort May for Cement and amendment of existing enactments to prevent an evasion of the shipping act respecting Coastwise Trade by foreign and Meas ures for the Protection of Canadian shipping in the same manner As com Peting foreign shipping is protected by shipping Laws of respective coun is urged upon the Dominion government in a Resolution passed at a meeting in fort William that was representative of vessel Public and other the Resolution will be forwarded to every in Canada affected by present shipping conditions on the great asking and will be forwarded to Premier Bennett the Federal minister of the according to information Given to the there Are 581 vessel from chief engineers now out of work at the head of the and More than tons of Cana Dian shipping tied up in the twin ports As a direct result of Laws Federal tons minister of and and to All Public organza in Canadian ports the the preamble to the Resolution Al Leges that present Canadian shipping Laws enable the participation of for eign vessels in the Canadian coast unemployment among thirty five years ago ii directed by Signor was a great Success in Winnipeg Signor Dauria stated he was delighted with music in Winnipeg lie said there was i the City no such j thing As an All were Canadian j arrival of her 77th birthday on the 24th had found Queen Victoria in Good though nearing the end of the sixth decade of her thirty years ago the vies Defeated the in the seasons first Cham Ito ship match allow american vessels to carry Caryer goes from the Lakehead to Buffalo transshipment to similar it was exist in most other Canadian ports on the lower revision of the present it universally was is of utmost Neces sity if Canadian shipping is not to be crippled and thousands of Cana Dian workmen and Marine men added to the country american vessels taking cargoes from the Lakehead for transshipment from Buffalo american vessels to Montreal is aggravating an already acute speakers and action by the Federal government is of vital importance if Canadian companies Are not to suffer heavy losses and Marine men to be left president of the operate Wise Grain Trade contrary to the Inong More than 30 vessels on the my Armstrong and Twentyfive years ago Gabriel famous figure of the was buried at the seat of the Metis confederacy had founded some 30 years before father Moulin conducted the ser vices Jean Baptiste John Smith and Twenty years ago Porfirio Diaz formally resigned the presidency of Mexico after tenure of several Pioneer railway contractor of Winni based away at his residence on Donald Dominion livestock is Gla Iii bios us us Luc nitric Ixia of tent at the resulting serious great attended the his ;