Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, May 28, 1931

Issue date: Thursday, May 28, 1931
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Previous edition: Wednesday, May 27, 1931
Next edition: Friday, May 29, 1931

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings free press thermometer Reading May 27 May 27 May 38 May 28 for full text of meteorological of fice see Page Fyt 278 Lair with steady tem Sun Moon Sun Moon May 1931 Price 5c per copy edition with 22 pages mystery surrounds death of Norwood Man safety As stays in air stratosphere is reported Over Northern Italy in hedge hop Ping flight above Alps belief growing that professor augusts Piccard and compan Ion could not remain alive reports that distress signals were seen from balloon Are i denied by Airport commander suffers stroke his Ulsa i Altti Uil archbishop of was re heavy steel cars lifted from tracks and thrown on Side by twister in Minnesota 18 Miles from takes Refuge in cellar crushed to death by Cement Block i damage to crops and buildings i Likely to run into thousands i in Twenty mile Swa h Public quickly responds to Appeal for funds to assist stricken Mother lost yachting party is body of Vincent Starr found near stockyards the Well known readiness of manii Toba citizens to fill the part of the Friend la need is being abundantly shown in the Quick response to the Appeal for funds to Aid Lillian Mother of the three Chil Dren murdered in on wed May seeking to assuage the grief of the i bereaved Mother with practical sym they Are hastening to shoulder the financial burdens incurred in the triple burial of Walters three and to help her to Holiday press Cable i i moved to Boniface Hospital in a i serious condition wednesday j suffering a stroke while at the i special despatch to the free press by free private May Tor of Mav the i at 1030 his if Rcd a paralytic stroke on the Nunt Statos Harp balloon of professor i of Grid was stir Union Auguste crossed the Northern j vicious at an Early hour this Nado lifted the heavy steel cars awhile and recover from the Shock suffered when she discovered her three Nant i think every Bona fide citizen of Winnipeg should so that mrs 178 Lansdowne Walters May have a Complete rest sir Rodmond and change of environment to help the free after communication with Walters through her Pas of v pentecostal undertook receive donations from and to turn them Over to Wai All subscriptions be acknowledged in forwarded the fies to coastguard vessels and smaller Craft Patr Hong Island sound with Little Hope shot through brain by Bullet from calibre revolver police unable to locate was enthusiastic Marksman and had not been seen alive since leaving Home for target practice tuesday subscriptions already received i Are As follows no name Ernest Hardy Johnston and Barnes no name William Boyd a Friend s two bodies washed ashore have been about one being a life preserver i Sisters Winnipeg and a married also resident 1 the body lies at Desjardins under taking relieve her it would be an act of kindness Long to be re so runs one typical of Many received by the free from a donor who backs her sentiments with a contribution to a sympathizer the fund being received by the free press As a result of Many suggestions these from in response to Pollard Mckay i opinion expressed that pleasure graft met disaster during sudden Squall italian Border this morning after hedge hopping above the Alps and gave Rise to a j growing belief that professor Piccard and his Charles j could not remain after being sighted Over several towns in Western tracing southward flight from the balloon was reported sighted by the Over continuum its southward although earlier in the night there j Sere reports that what were thought Tob distress signals from the two j enclosed in the aluminium Ball 1 attached to the were the commander of the Airport at Innsbruck was reported to have denied that Light signals he flashed i Chen the balloon appeared t Ere had i been answered by the the fact the balloon continued i in the with no t Effort i being made to it to was j considered a further argument in favor of the theory professor Piccard and Kipfer had friends of professor Piccard at Hove reported As appointed archbishop in his i the Empire a Northern Pacl born at mount Carmel in and entered St College 12 years Fie passenger from the rails Here late killing one Man and injuring 22 a Farmer 18 Miles away also was j i tilled by the same vicious blast of which apparently started in South and swirled across the skirting this City and tile Man killed in the unique train wreck was identified tentatively As a of 12 o of01 16 passengers and six members is ul0f the Crew Lour were Hurt speeches at banquet ten dered manufacturers state in split Assurance expressed that end of Canadas present troubles is in sight j tvs injured to Hospi tals Here and across the Jated All available j j a rfcs and ambulances rushed to the scene by roads choked by sightseers braved torrential Rains Whlon i i the struck train broadside i survivors said the train was rum i bling toward Paul from the Pacific i when the screeching Green Cloud fascist students continue attacks on Catholic prop destroying papers portrait of Pope carried to Street and piles of books burned swirled out of the an abounding Faith the future line train of the Confidence of Hei one Pullman car after finding grounds for Hope in the Conj Thev can Pun tinted Thev declared the fact that the balloon maintained present Cesar even rising Only As it Cross Jance that the end of these is in sighted Alpine indicated that i these were the keynotes of Cpl the luge bag still was being guided a Mystic speeches delivered wednesday balloon was being t is a Ball in the at a height of when it was sighted balloon was sighted Over said the de about like by the Industrial development Board of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian manufacturers Asso i at the Royal Alexandra the Oetz Lal and Landeck after it i sapi geared from Innsbruck at 9 Ito convention party of the Cana prom then Arnm Idian manufacturers association now on it was reported from i Merano and and Fin ally of Italy the 11 route to Vancouver to attend Diamond Jubilee convention Liu i am a and As far As the Farmers arc i want to say Fiat we Ara not taking our troupes Southwest parts of enoiandll5ing Down said has Honor cd to i the of Frest May attacks which observers believed might Lead to a serious rift Between the Vatican and the italian fascist students tonight swooped Down upon another and stoned the offices of the and then smashed still police net Trace found of thugs responsible for looting office in m the Lieutenan i the we will pull ourselves put of our May we Are now approaching a better of great intensity broke Over South balance Between Industry and Agri West sections of the British Isles Toi this is not confined to Plymouth and Exeter but is becoming True of the other Prairie provinces As said Vic president of the Industrial development it is an indication that is very encourage Western Canada is beginning to associated press being the worst flood Waters rushed through the streets of these three enter ing the basements of houses and stores and in in the main streets was forced up j Western states of the United by water Rushing Down from the in some cases damaging the Wood paving parallel the Industrial growth of the 3 states of the United a commendable spirit i do not know of anything More commendable or praiseworthy than the spirit that is animating the Rural districts of said minister of speak ing on behalf of the provincial gov i have travelled a lot lately in the and find less Mclean Dies suddenly May wife of acting chairman of the Board of rail Way died suddenly to Day from a heart a member of a Well known Ottawa Mclean was the daughter of the late lome first auditor Gen Herslof continued on Pace Newsom thedas Faith Durance that sight in Canadas end of abounding future and for is in sight expressed speeches at banquet tendered party of Canadian Manu of embargo against made in commons by Henry who claims government mandate from people to take Twenty two Tornado lifts train Ini Man Kilcy and injured when at eighteen Miles away also with ror the purpose of urging govern to proceed with St Lawrence mry ays acini win today in Virv Stanle addressing the convention at de order has done its Job fairly and urges confluent Outlook to head of nationwide declares valuable will be Learned from present tto nomic and italian government serious rift As attacks Catholic institutions by fascists ments on Mission work in Many presented to biennial Council Rae eng of of presbyterian body of Vincent 244 found stockyards with Bullet wound supreme court reverses judgment Manitoba Appeal court regarding Possession and operation of Slot coastguard boats and Small 861 Craft searched Long Island for Trace of missing yacht sea Senate to consider sweepstakes Bill tuesday Canadian press May consideration of the Bill to legalize Hospital sweepstakes in Canada will be Given by the Senate next it was the sponsored by senator George of has been considered by a committee and stands for third because of opposition to the principle of the considerable debate very probably will senator beige intimated to Day he would move an amendment to the Bill when third Reading was being he failed to Dis close the nature of the proposed protest against wage Cut collapses May agitation against a wage Cut for employees in All government departments apparently collapsed relieving fears that railway strike would recalled and industries through up to an Early hour this the Safe blowers who ironed the Safe in the treasurers office of the Cana Dian National railways depot some time during the weekend and holi were still eluding City and rail Way the loot totalled about in these same members of the sensitive fingered who blew the railways Are also believed to be the men responsible for two other Safe robberies since on april the Safe inthe lyceum theatre was and and within less than a an other Strong Box in pats Auto trans Fer service was carted it contained about Catholic publishing civil a after breaking Many win Dows with the students rushed into the offices and threw copies of the h papa from the taking an Oil portrait of Pope plus i from the the Stu dents carried it to the bran dished and cried Here is a traitor to his throwing the Pic Ture to the cobblestones of the they tramped upon dispersed by police piles of the books which were heaved from the windows were taken to the Piazza flanking the foreign where they were together with a Large number of copies of the Vatican Osse Vatore the March upon the Catholic pub Lishing House was made without police police dispersed the group at the Piazza after which the students assembled in smaller groups and continued to Parade the streets singing the fascist hymn and shouting remarks directed against the an attack by the fascist students on the Catholic students Headquarters earlier and continued charges and counter charges by Vati can and roman today focussed Public attention on the possibility of a rift Between the Vatican and the italian favourable reports Given on victims of accidents spread to other out a favourable report was issued Early this morning with respect to the condition of William 433 Don a Driver for a local departmental who was injured at 5 Oclock tuesday when he was thrown from his he is con fined to Misericordia the Accident occurred on Colony just North of when the horse Geary was driving became frightened by the shouts of children Riding on a passing two Ether Accident who were injured wednesday were also reported on John 127 Dagmar received cuts to the head when he was struck by an automobile on Hig gins Avenue near main Gen eral Hospital attendants reported his condition to be working in the Plant of the mid West Glass Sutherland a Mike Pacific sustained a broken leg when he fell from a also con fined to general his Condi Tion was reported to be fairly Lyons wins her Appeal and is permitted to 100 special United Newi despatch to the free i press by free press private May coast guard patrol and smaller Craft searched Long Island sound to and tonight with Little Hope that any members of a weekend crusing party of aboard the yacht sea enter Canada wednesday pfc v Ould be round alive of press Sault May formerly of who had been denied r Sion to Canada when she sought entry to a daughter in North was admitted who was born of Jersey hut came victims recovered and identified late today dispelled hop that others survived both Budles were dressed for i a pleasure or shot through the brain by calibre the body of Vincent Frank of 244 Bertrand was found at 11 Oclock wednesday morning on swampy land at the end of Marion just East of the Stock although it is believed the youth accidentally shot himself As he was climbing Over a barbed wire mystery is Lent to the tragic affair by the fact that the revolver from which the Bullet was discharged has not been despite a diligent Council meet search of the Vicinity by Boniface i ing of inspired by y reports on Many lands i the r was revolver shot j for Extension of a Nipes revolver left Home to go target shooting tuesday when found he had been dead about 18 both legs of the Young Marksman were a alight in the lower strand of a barbed wire when his body was this leads Boni face police to believe he was climb Hen the trigger of the re and about one dentally the Island to Canada with her husband Twenty years had spent some months in she appealed the decision of the immigration and the Appeal was members of the Canadian legion interested them selves in her As Lyons husband had served with the Cana Dian forces during the great was a life evidence that j in the pockets of the Young Man disaster struck the Craft during a i were Jountti targets which had sudden i perforated with the same calibre the victims were for a deringer miss Doris of 226 East 12th social service worker i5unct Plo ivs thro Uli brain need Tivi ties is emphasized by numerous speakers an Opportunity to hear of Mission work in foreign which they Are from Active workers was afforded wednesday after noon and evening to the delegates from throughout attending the biennial Council meeting of the women missionary society of the presbyterian Church in now in session at first presbyterian of 55 Christopher s Aid others who were known to been i lodged itself in the Bas of the decision of o 4 District As to the necessity Board when the Craft put out Satur conducting a is Pend afternoon were Boniface Poi resume for the detailed accounts Lorr compaction of an investigation act Donald shool of Boniface who this morning the work ton of new York owner three members of defunct firm face conspiracy charges press May j of the sea Robert of 16 West 10th radio and night club entert Iner of the vaudeville of Muriel and Robert statistical Bureau of Columbia Robert of 308 West Lith Mark instructor at River uie country an relatives still have Hope Hope that All members of the Cruis party were not dead was not abandoned by Margaret Mother of Snedden and Mother inlaw of still missing late today chartered a which in i til late cruised Over the the youth was in the employ of the Canada biscuit having recently been transferred from the Branch where he had worked for the past few in addition to his he is survived by two Brothers and two former Secretary treasurer of the i sound in search of victims or evidence bankrupt financial of the missing Stimson appeared today on the witness stand As the three former Heads of the organization went on Dow is held on bail As a material Clark and arrested last went Assurance that Robert whose name was linked with that of Adele granddaughter of Thomas Fortune in alienation suits filed by was at trial Margaret Summers is charged with killing four members of household the work and graphic pictures of conditions were Given by the replying to secretaries of the various charges intermediaries Between irked in the Field and the coun cil in who organize the work and the speakers at the evening service were very Frank g peace Kulver Allan Manchuria Owen Moderator of the missionary difficulties the difficulties of the Pioneer who left sixty years ago and in the Island Pearl of the established the first mis were told in a graphic his principal George continued on Page May from the free press May 27 years ago men whose the importations of the Hudson on trial today on charges of Consul re friends of said he went Acy to defraud the Public and Lishing false the trial is proceeding before Justice Sedgewick and a jury in Assize 5ujls Illus us u aboard the sea Fox was not obtained j life insurance policies make until today when newspaper Margaret Summers the beneficiary area out skilful and strenuous work by rangers and helpers masters serious situation skilful and strenuous work by the rangers and special gangs of helpers has resulted in Forest fires which raged in the Duck Mountain being reports received by forestry depart ment officials in Winnipeg wednes Day night indicated that outbreaks in the Duck Mountain 15 Miles North of and in the neighbourhood of the Mink Creek set were under and that in the Eastern portion of the prov Ince under the jurisdiction of the department the situation is Satis fac the fire North of Grandview was extremely alarming for a and to allow separate trials in each easel was pleas of not guilty were entered by the accused under examination by special Crown Dow admitted that he was one of the incorporator of the first asked if there were separate accounts for each of the subsidiary witness said there he admitted that when a Cheque was made out to Stimson and the Money was for one of the other j it went into the Stimson the financing was largely interlocking in a switching he opening the Tilley briefly related the history of the Stim son company and its various Ramizi at the close of the Days the jury were locked a practice murder and suicide is revealed on Ontario farm Canadian press May what police believe to be a Case of murder and suicide was discovered on the Green farm near Harrisburg both killed by bullets from a the bodies of John and his were found in the the body of whom police be Lieve to have been was found near a Straw stack on his while the body of the brother was found a mile and a Quarter Spruce manufacturers organize May mation of the Spruce manufacturers association was completed when lumbermen from the Prairie pro Vinces and Northern Interior of Brit rarely enforced in no capital ish Columbia assembled Here wed added their testimony today to the postmortem evidence Given yester Day against the woman accused of poisoning four members of her House her Brothers and two All have husband two Bay company for Inland posts and Winnipeg were already More than double those of last in value As Well As number of size of the Manitoba Trade was evidenced by the fact that the Ontario steamers were heavily Laden every trip with goods for and one boat had recently had to leave 300 tons for another boat to died within three of them victims of poisoning the other two of a cause yet owned by Summers and fifty years ago the new Catholic Parish at Portage Prairie had been named Cuth Ibert the parishioners had been de Samuel who drives a of having it called Alex lodges after his Grace archbishop but it was pointed out that a at her was found ill has signed a policy that would bring her Money at his he told the prosecutor he had lived with Summers since Robert another policy said he agreed to sum mers suggestion that he take out insurance after she promised to make the Premium subsequent he was injured in an automobile and did not return to the Summers investigators said two policies totalling were written in his United states Pilot to hop off saturday morning from Japan to Span Pacific Amo cited press mesday highlights from the capital special despatch to the free by a May May weather condi1 Ary like conversation is said sians to a he gave the social tons Thomas United states wartime will hop off from Sakushiro Hondo at 7 saturday 5 Eastern Standard on his projected mile nonstop flight Over the Pacific Ocean to to Hopes to reach his destination in around 44 some time Friday Ash will make the 380mile from Tach Lawu near to Sakushiro forecasts tax increases in Bennetts budget proposals changes in several Hundred Tariff increase in sales and corporation and possibly new impost on Canadian transactions on foreign Stock exchanges j it Banger supervisors from where the longest overwater Dauphin and 30 men a great Deal flight in aviation history trouble before it was placed under will Start the following provincial for is in Dauphin investigating the Forest fire which has been weather report the following issued from the office at is weather report Winnipeg meteorological i Canadian pros May a special despatch from its Ottawa correspond ent the mail and Empire today says of changes in Sev Canadian Pacific of starts Maiden voyage obliged to report 0 Canada numerous tax increases in budget eral Hundred Tariff increases in the sales and corporation taxes Ana possibly a new impost on Canadian transactions on foreign Stock exchanges Are expected to be among the provisions of the budget which Premier Bennett will shortly table in drop in slumps in both sex and import Bennett port from Swan started the fires in order to be paid Money for helping to put them memory of Wolfe is honoured at will announce a number of increases in the sales tax jul Bei raised from one per to either May Mem four or five per it May be made Jory of general Wolfe was honoured higher on imported Here today when Frederick Parker Domestic agent general for British col Given a sinister tinge because of re office at a rated the latest coming maximum for the preceding 12 foot a nip h63 52 that wind at 16 mile5 per sky except for showers in the of the weather in the West has been fair and moderately Canadian Preu one per goods than on such a differentiation would serve two it would increase the tax Revenue and at the an additional margin for Canadian placed a Laurel Wreath on the mural Tablet of the Beautiful old other expectations in the Way of tax increases Are a Rise in the corporations tax from its present eight per to ten per and a tax aimed at Stock trading by canadians on the new York Exchange through Canadian brokerage same time provide georgian House where Wolfe was lev Gln of Protection ing when he received his commission to go to the ceremony was followed by the Mima Aklavik 32 52 Simpson 42 smith34 Dawson 42 rupert36 Victoria 48 Vancouver 43 Kamloops 52 georse40 jasper42 Banff 29 Calgary 33 Royal Empire society Bath Branch at which Burden Wasj chief speaker in place of How Ard Canadian High Milioner to great who was called to Edmonton 34 hat 38 current38 Battleford 30 36 Moose jaw 42 for Mima Saskatoon 34 74 Yorkton 52 70 Regina 40 72 Brandon 43 59 Kenora 51 63 46 e2 Cochrane 52 78 Huntsville 38 75 sound 40 72 London 42 74 Toronto 45 75 Kingston 44 64 Ottawa 44 73 Montreal 50 47 64 lctnbridw35 69 72 70 72 74 70 e c a 3 t s Western few Lusht Ted but mostly fair not to be a dead or dying and Legislatures Are supposed now to prefer the Brief and Breezy to the ornate but there Are still a few of the old time orators and the fact that their spell remains potent was demonstrated this afternoon when the House listened for Well Over an hour to Henri no census taker could have any difficulty about the racial origin of Bourassa with his upturned White pointed Beard and round latin yet his though is the most literary in the his sentences Are elegantly his epigrams and his historical allusions Are he Gesti curates in a slightly but never ridiculous he modulates his voice from a shout to a he scorns in this respect deserving by the conference on wheat House a Sermon in indicating his belief that communism and present Day capitalism Are both tyrannical and destructive of individual he favors the Ideal of an ordered society in which the Rich acknowledge duties to monopolies and trusts Are and the Sra All tradesman and Artisan has a Chance to this gospel is known As distribute so in where Chesterton is its Bourassa is probably the Only disciple in the earlier in the Day another Quebec the irrepressible Jean Francois a held the stage for a in last years estimates there was included to build a station at Riviere do Loup in Poullos the is but there is no this Marvel was accomplished by switch ing a practice condemned by both party Pouliot does not accept this explant numerous read in a members who speeches from manuscript shameless Bourassa is not Only but he was in the House before 1900 and has a Good he has read history to Good and knows parliamentary methods As few consequently his speeches Are he May persuade no but he a Thralls he had the whole House for an audience he spoke on the embargo which the John Halifax Char town 43 72 government imposed on russian goods 42 68 last he opposed it As childish and i which Surprise those who thought Quebec was unanimous for the blast in Lake 6 southerly Partite a fitly with local Bourassa exposed with cutting irony the Absurdity eluding russian pulpwood the name of religion and inviting rus Parish of that name already were present at the meeting of the Winnipeg presbytery among others professors Bryce and and Mckellar and orly five years ago the widow of the late Louis Riel was Laid to rest in Boniface Ceme Tery there a very Large attend Ance at the funeral at the the Cathe dral a requiem mass was celebrated by fathers Rene and forty years ago in a fast football game at the Winnipeg Defeated the team by 10 medals were pinned on the winners breasts by my wife of inspector Captain of the mounted police foot Ball team the were lunched visiting by commissioner Herchmer and dined by the mounted police football thirty live years ago very encouraging reports were com ing from the Gold mines in the rat Portage Kenora and it was believed that the Gold Deposit f Western Ontario would prove practically Promin ent members the armstrongs Point gun club were Campbell and thirty years ago residents of port Arthur and fort William were much interested in the proposed big Power canal of who had secured the right control of the Waterpower in the watershed and proposed to harness this vast Power and use it he seizes All chances to make for commercial purposes in the two Umnas slowed speeches about the sta1 today he asked thirteen sets of questions and moved eleven motions for the production of All about the this strategy tates incredible for Pouliot is now assailed by shouts and jeers from the government benches every time he and his own Side is a Shade less enthusiastic about defend ing his extraordinary tactics than it was at the nothing but a station can justify Pouliot who has now used at least Worth of Public time talking about the Only business done was second Reading on a Bill to define Canad Alan the Secretary of was heavily Legal in explant Cahan has a very Subtle Twentyfive years ago it was announced that the Corner Stone of the Gran new Boniface Cathedral would be Laid dedication took place of the new fort Rouge methodist Church Prin Cipal of Wesley officiates assisted by spar Ling of Grace Stew of Wesley and the pastor of the new Twenty years ago there was great mining activity re ported from the Cobalt and Porcu Pine wern making the census of in the far Northern districts of can and smooth qualities which in often Consort with ponderous man1 Toba University had won Ner distinction at ;