Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, October 20, 1931

Issue date: Tuesday, October 20, 1931
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Previous edition: Monday, October 19, 1931

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings free press thermometer readings 19 19 20 m8 20 for full text of meteorological office see Page t57 fair and somewhat Sun Moon Moon october Price 5c per copy with 22 pages Koser boy died As result of stunt Cost of transporting Gold in United states takes drop with Cost of living prohibits Export of Gold in any form except by Banks under License penalty or infraction is Fine or three years imprison or both Gold i Treasury vaults against Dominion notes in excess of requirements Canadian press were a by Canada today to conserve Jer Gold to ensure this do provinces and municipalities discharging its obligations which payable in Gold outside of particularly in the United items have been taken to prohibit the Export of Gold except under to maintain Gold Deserres in the form of an orderly Council is also for the purpose of maintaining the statutory Gold re moves in Security for Dominion notes announcement of the passing of the ordering Council at a meeting of Cabinet Council today was made late this afternoon by prime the order is effective today and will continue in operation until March 1 next unless sooner amended or rescinded by competent to License Lor can to issued tvs Estby the minister of Al Snoj Cai be grand Only to a Canadian chartered a Fine Ait exceeding or imprisonment or a term not exceeding three years it both Fine and imprisonment is pro Tod As a penalty Lor in excess of i requirements bold held in the Treasury vaults i Arnst Dominion according to a Fords of the department of lie considerably in excess of the statutory 1 approximately weekly in Gold is being produced from Canadian mines and coming into the Canadian Mintat the full text of the order noun cil reads whereas there has Boon Laid be to hit excellency the governor general in Council a report from the minister of finance stating that violent fluctuation1 in rates of Exchange have recently prevailed in the Florid Money markets and that the special United news despatch to free press by free press private Cost of transporting Gold is dropping along with the Cost of the interstate Commerce commis Sion today authorized the railway express Agency to reduce the rates on Gold shipments from to per Dollar lots from John new to Boston and new the reduction was made to permit forthcoming shipments to be sent Over route instead of by Way of positive reaction discovered in tests of nose and Throat swabs Lam comes preparing for Hoover details but Are de scribed As designed to embrace All possibilities experts compile data to separate basis for financial and political discussions Canadian press weeks have passed since Gordon 24yearold Montreal disappeared in the Clyde near but the search goes More than fifty men combed the Forest sunday without finding any Trace of an expert woodsmen and dogs have been used in the search since who was on a visit Ito his left their Home Ion october to pick cranberries and failed to re f denies report that Purchase of wheat would be part of conference associated press j he de in route to cd one polite ducted and quarantine con Cai Aud tue other completed today by Premier Pierre Laval of France and his experts in preparation for the discussions Between the Scmier and president Hoover in virulence test being tines for three Days Canadian press port four cases of positive or signs of diphtheria were found in the Laboratory tests of the nose and Throat swabs taken from workers on a Road Camp on the fort Frances Kenora where a Case of diphtheria was last wednes it was announced today by District medical officer of As a result of this James provincial who conducted the will make what is known As a virulence test of the four in order to discover if the germs arc actively should negative reactions be obtained in this the continued on Page four i by blast entire shift of 67 men entombed 27 May not recover continued on Page four is of them former min ister of Public works in Manitoba will be burled in Winnipeg third and last of series of articles on spectacular influx of Millers into Northern Saskatchewan appears on Page Dominion Bridge company is warded contract for erection of steel superstructure Salter Street Vla diversity of opinion develops at University Council during discussion of affiliation of Pauls College Julius of Toronto uni yer blames diversion of Lake Michi Chicago for drought associated fress sentence on conviction for violating income tax Laws is delayed to United better feeling in manchurian dispute is indicated by All parties concerned British minister draws chivas attention to obligation under Kellog Briand pact Mother and four children found dead in killed by fames from Gas Heater associated press Latham Wright and her Lour children were found dead today in their they were asphyxiated during the night from a Gas Ralph medical said the deaths the dead children were 6 5 and Rob went to visit an aunt in strangling mystery is cleaned up at inquest evidence shows thirteen Earold lad victim of misadventure while at of score of witnesses convinces jury not Case of murder or by Cord which he hooked Over top of door of his file past whatever can be traced to gang chief s ownership May be seized first of three articles on main fact of Edison life by George personal appears 2 of Dominion Cabi net appointed to Deal with unemployment Relief improved time schedule of Winni p6chicagotoronto air mall service oct were killed and 27 a half dozen when an entire shift of 67 men were entombed by an explosion in the mount Penis Coal mine near some of the injured May notre the cause of the occur ring at a depth of has not been but it was believed to be due to a combination of fire Damp and Coal thirty one miners escaped unharmed and were brought to the surface by res Cue mount cells Lias modern equip ment and produces both Anthracite and bituminous a similar explosion in the mine in 1921 claimed 83 Canadian Dollar and Sterling close higher Canadian press new Canadian Dollar and Pound Sterling closed slightly higher at the end of transact t on on local foreign exchanges to the Dollar closed at 89 cents 14 higher than saturdays close of 89 details of these plans were with but they were described As hav no designed in such a Way As to embrace both the minimum and maximum possibilities of Franco United states the French experts completed for the Premier a vast collection of facts and figures for his use in the Hoover these data provided the basis for the financial and political plans it was have not been linked together but Are intended for separate denies wheat report Premier Laval denied a report that he would discuss a possible Purchase of wheat by prance while in Washington and said such a Purchase would be in that he is virtually and there is no outlet her French Africa Only recently asked the Mother country to take Over its surplus of optimistic about outcome Blued news Cable free press in free press private the Pierre United states for his conversations with president emphasized today that he was optimistic about outcome of his Washington who has completed a draft outline of the French on International problems to be Dis indicated to american correspondents who entertained him at that Washington might associated press trouble was brewing in the Federal today for scar face Al Chi Cago gang and his Capones sentence on his conviction for violating income tax Laws was delayed at least three More Days As Federal judge James Wilkerson his attorneys until Friday to perfect their arguments for an arrest of ii bit of procrastination could be considered As favourable to the gang chief it More than offset by word that the government had begun in Earnest its attempt to collect the tax to the criminal proceeding which resulted in his conviction saturday night did not alter the governments claim that he owed Briand formulates Deal ing with to present to Council members by the associated press Japan has withdrawn her objection to United states participation n the league of efforts to end the manchurian strife Between her and Prentiss United states Consul general at thus May sit in at the leagues Council to hear Aristide French Man of offer a proposal today As basis Lor san japanese Rieg Otia become the capital of the world if continued on Page pour is killed in picks up broken wire and Steps on sidewalk to make ground continued on Page four six from Manitoba qualify in medical Council of Canada tests Canadian press Canadian press three including one Ethel Margaret o successfully passed the examinations of the Medica flu Neil of held at Montrea and Winnipeg last it was an ounces the successful physicians from Western Canada were Albert Webster William Stanley Oak Lake Stanley William Fox Balmoral Henry Andrew Leigh Alexander Kamsack Ethel Margaret Van Nicholas Jacob Neifield Harry win Frederick Cecil Bace rat in Peter Luther stealth i 6 Eivald Heber i dominions currency Sola Lor c losing ground Woon when it sold for 89 116 be at when it sold Lor Ater quoted at 89 v4 this Price to the closed at cents Sault Pasquale was electrocuted in an unusual Accident Here to Ulsano with several other had been cutting Down Trees at the rear of new business one tree which dynamited fell across two Power snapping standing on a newly tarred safely picked one wire up arid fastened it a Telephone he then picked up the other wire and stepped on the being instantly the newly tarred pavement was the moment he touched the sidewalk he established a ground and was his widow effective Ardoch Mackay favors in action into plight of farming population in Pioneer of mate Dies while visit Poole nominated by pro calves As candidate by Neepawa Pfout buying flurry appears in w group on the new York Stock Graz Lllan traction is Strong Fea on the Montreal Stock sex 16yearold Gimli drowned sunday at Black Bear Page take definite Steps on gasoline Price question Western for one Days session so adjourn until tue Dayall representatives emphasize necessity of curtailing expenditure debtor creditor question slated for tuesdays Canadian fress Mier John of read air plane removes passengers from Hudson Bay boat in third of Tran Canada Highway is says William Finlay in salaries of staff of Toni of Manitoba Are governors bar players from we Erica association hockey Macdonald is lost to varsity squad for balance of shipment of Western livestock East passes through Doolittle plans flight from to Washington and of 75 mennonite Farmers pays of to farms in Carman rage score great Triumph Over Ujj Pettican Steps definite Steps investigation of gasoline prices under the combines As Well As extensive study of economic problems int were taken by four and their Cabinet aides at a conference Here necessity of was emphasized by All represent a elves if increased taxation is unable to Deal with All topics on the Stee of the wheat Pool Antee will take place in r when matters referred for study will be re the statement Premier British Anderson of Saskatchewan and pre Reginald Heber wig Public mourners number thousands of All classes and funeral at Glemont wed with burial at cemetery in Orange better feeling already has been indicated by Tokyo newspapers and attention to the manchurian problem involving Jap afaese occupations there for the announced purpose of protecting a and in leaders of the rival Nan King and Canton factions meet today for discussion of the manchurian situation As part of a peace Confer considers matter closed associated press a vernacular newspaper declared tonight All mis understandings relative to United states participation in the manchurian negotiations at Geneva have been cleared and the japanese government considers the matter closed indications of bet ter feeling in the dispute following japanese of Tatary operations for the were ital chord Law Loti an easier feel ing age Nevland announcement in Washington that the states would not take any leading role in the worldwide to preserve peace in the far look to China earlier it was said the seeming deadlock developed at Geneva by renewed japanese objections to United states participation in debate before the league of nations Council was inclining officials Here to look More associated fress West a Brief moment at midday today mourners stopped a continuous file past the Bier of Thomas a minister offered a the convocation was uttered by Edison the a thur of the meth Cost episcopal Church of at her lie repeated it at 5 Oclock and planned to utter it again at b noon and 5 Edison body Lay in a Bronze casket in a Niche of the pin pannel High Ellinger Library of his la autumn leaves covered the the funeral will be at at the Edison with burial in Bose Dale cemetery at the Stephen who while pastor of the methodist Els expert clearly showing that thirteen Earold Milton Koser was saturday by a Cord which he himself had looped Over the top of the door of his was produced at the in quest into the tragedy at Central police in the unanimous opinion of these of police officials and of the who pre idea at the the boys action was done As a and not with the deliberate intention of alter deliberating Over the mass of evidence presented by a score of wit Nesses the jury returned a verdict bearing out official conclusions As follows we find that the Milton age died in misplace of namely 77 Home City of at approximately 2 the 10th of through the of strangulation brought about through personal sex from the wish to go As deeply with the parents and relatives of the deceased in this very regrettable in announcing the the Foreman of the stated that one jury Man had dissented with the authorities satisfied after the which was re turned at this morning had been chief of detectives George Smith stated that the Case As far As the police Are concerned is and that the authorities Are satisfied and convinced that it not one of murder nor of sensational and pathetic scenes were enacted during the testimony of the expert which had a visible effect on the crowded court continued on Page nine found by railway police los Angeles station continued on Page two Captain and Crew accused of supplying Craft with whiskey malt interest no Over month Canadian fress despatch carried by the Canadian press from last week quoted Hou minister of railways and As saying the interest charges of the Canadian National railways amounted to Over a this was in what Man Ion said was that the interest charges on held by the Public was a which is slightly trader a report conditions Good port in the Tran Canada Highway construction Camps in this District appear to be of the and the men seem to be very Well satisfied with their according to a letter received Here by Aport Arthur Man who has a relative employed at one of the associated press new after a Short Chase during which Only Blank warning shots were the 125 foot British motor vessel which one was captured off fire Island today by the coast guard patrol boat the allegedly repeatedly to be supplying rum running Craft out Side the 12mile carried Worth of alleged scotch whiskey her Chesley and the ten members of the Crew were taken to the Barge office late in the Day and then transferred to Brooklyn or arraignment in Federal coastguard men said the which one was capable of carrying twice the cargo of seventy 50gallon barrels of malt with which she was said she probably had transferred some of the cargo to smaller boats Between the time she left and her the 99ton valued at frequently had observed outside the 12mile they the morning was taken up entirely in discussion of the various problems arising out of unemployment the afternoon was spent in a discussion of the financial problems of the each of the provinces face the necessity of curtailing expenditures in every possible Way and suggestions were advanced by the representatives of to How this might a the various suggestions Are to be studied by the governments and a Lurther conference held near the end of november see to what extent uniform policies be the Price of gasoline was the sub Lect of considerable discussion and a Brief was submitted by Charles Grant on behalf automobile association the attorney general of the provinces Are to consider to what extent it is possible to press for an in Quiry by the Dominion government provinces will resume discussion of i i Uttal new weather Bureau service the free press takes pleasure in announcing the acquisition of a new weather Bureau ser vice to succeed that of the late Ned who furnished Long Range forecasts to this paper Over Long period of this service is furnished by Wash ing who for More than 12 years was associated with for the last seven years Weston has devoted his tune to preparing Foi beasts but of late has broadened his service to meet the needs of Dailyne paper the new weather forecast service is published on Page but will be published on saturday in t issues of the free press for the Sucre Dong associated Fross los Mem ered bodies of two women o undetermined age identity were found in trunks tonight by police a the Southern Pacific Railroad station one of the trunks was the othe they had been shipped yester Day morning from police the headless Torso of one of Thi women was in the Small Thi two the other Torso and the amputated arms and legs were in Thi the trunks were consigned to a to Angeles Man whose name the police refused to reveal pending an arrest a woman called at the baggage room at noon today to claim the but employees had become suspicious because of a Strong odor and refused to yield the woman walked and it was Sev eral hours before the trunks were one of the slain women apparent was in the Early with dark Lair her face had been beaten Anc was the whose body had been hacked into was apparently about 20 years and a red she had been and he face also had been crushed As though n a deliberate attempt Preven Zeppelin completes flight German dirigible Graf Zeppelin arrived Here completing a flight from Germany Eastern Boxer shot Glace sur rounds the shooting Here today Tel bed Caledonia who was slightly injured by a Bullet which struck his the Boxer was alone in the Bowling Alley when the apparently fired from outside the inflicted the minor weather be poet the following is the weather resort issued from the Winnipeg meteorological office at 7 maximum for the preceding 12 Southwest wind at eight Miles per hour sky a few scattered showers have occurred in Northern districts of the West and the weather is cooler in Sas my a 45 58 Moose jaw 40 58 Regina 38 57 64 66 56 Cochrane 36 64 60 continued on Kate Hewan and my a Dawson 32 34 Yorkton Aklavik 22 22 Simpson 32 36 Smith 30 56 Brandon 29 or Rupert 40 48 Kenora 36 Victoria 48 54 Arthur 40 Vancouver 48 58 Kamloops 36 50 Geo rite 32 48 Jasper 48 Edmonton 40 48 Banff 42 53 Calgary 34 50 Leth Boldue 4a hat 30 58 current 36 56 Battleford 36 52 34 44 Saskatoon 36 52 forecasts Saskatchewan and to Northwest mostly fair and somewhat Lake Southwest to Northwest somewhat cooler Huntsville 32 sound 42 London 38 Toronto 38 Kingston 42 Ottawa 34 Montreal 38 Quebec 30 John 34 Halifax 38 Char town 38 58 and the which was Sev red in three and with which he evidence he was Strang were other exhibits used in the courtroom reconstruction of Milton experts give evidence Glen 637 Somerset expert on ballistics and other similar told of the conclusions he had arrived at on minute examination of the pieces of believe trios tragedy is reconstructed while members of the dead boys family looked reconstruction of the tragedy was carried out in the a called from the spectators benches to put on the Greer and vied longing to and which dead by was wearing his body was discovered by his sister and 535 Sher Burn Well known local swim Ming at the direction of police officials in with Ford himself the boy was dressed the exactly As Milton had been attired with the garment on Back to buttoned at the and the Green one placed on Over it in Correct the door of the boys which police had had removed Lor the Pur Molla Mallory and Hus band instigate trial of Paul Man special Cable to the free Tress new Francis j of who described himself As an and who is said to be heir to an estate or several was sentenced to a term of 30 Days inthe workhouse to Day for driving his automobile while Ward was sentenced by magistrate Stanley Renaud on the plea of attorneys for Molla Mallory Tennis and her Franklin who seriously injured when wards automobile struck a taxicab in which they were Riding last june former judge Francis Mancuso attorney sought to obtain Only a explaining that the mar Lorys have already begun three dam age totalling against intr Imperial Trade plan is suggested by Macdonald says great Britain must secure proper Trade balance if state is to escape an agreement with dominions should play important part such must be approached with practical Sterling so that every housekeeper May know its before buying the necessities of life and so thai every manufacturer May know what he will get for his the second Point he stressed was the desirability of securing internal Illonal agreement regarding the pay Ament of War debts he told pain address to the electors of his the have so devastatingly own constituency of today i affected world said great Britain must secure a pro Canadian fress by Thomas further than he has hitherto expressed him self regarding a scheme of Intra Imperial prime minister ram say in a published Cam escape and asserted an agreement with the dominions should play an important part in such a he added the subject must be approached with and in the Light of immediate Canadian press he delivered four speeches and published an address urging the electors to give the government a vote of Confidence which would enable them to secure three things which he said were essential to the welfare of the in his published address the prime minister declared it the government stabilize the Pound the he must Tje approached with a mind and in the Light of immediate an agreement with the he should play an important part in such a Macdonald sought to impress on the electors of not withstanding the fact they earn Only Small weekly these matters of National import concern them r he declared the policy of the opposition has nothing to do with the immediate problems of continued on Page nine claim three men were caught while setting fire to Niagara House authorities state methods same As used in new York state fires Canadian press Niagara police tonight expressed the Bellel that the arrest of three men had broken up an International arson ring which not Only operated on both sides of Niagara but extended to Dun Kirk and other Western new York cities and the Trio was according to police in the act of setting fire to a Niagara Falls the Interior of which had been Well saturated Watrt the arrests were made Only alter a scuffle in which several shots were the fire marshal of the Niagara District of Ontario came Here to Confer with he and other police and lire authorities said the used in Falls Job to those employed in several incendiary fires across the Border w investigator for the fire Assoc a announced after an i Vestiga he was convinced that a gang continued on Page nine Loong Mcmurd the free press i fort five years 1870 the Flat boat season was now completely and the last Flat boats left Moorhead for mennonite Farmers were in town in making their fail and the streets presented a More than usually Lively appearance on this a latest curiosity in the City was a Large Black captured by of the Hudson Bay while on a trip to Lake fifty years 1881 attention was called to the fact that wheat was being raised in Mani Toba weighing 67 pounds to the Barley 55 and Oats Manitoba was the name of a new weekly paper published in Boni face by who was both editor and fort five years 1886 count Desterhazy went West to Waterloo with the latest additions to his westbound Pas sengers on the train were chiefs Crowfoot and three accompanied by father bound for their Reserve at forty years 1891 Frank Povah won the and Dykes the five mile race at the meet on the Winnipeg Axhi Bitici grounds the time was owing to the Strong wind among others rid ing were Mcculloch and bade Powell and returning British commissioners the Behring sea sealing were visitors to thirty five years the consumption of Souris Coal was increasing throughout the prov and also in the City of Winni Peg the output of the which was the Only mine at present in full it was Esti amount the season m extensive Farmer of had netted 000 in its wheat owing operation two seasons of and thirty years ipod the population of the Northwest territories was placed at John Arbuthnot announced that he would again be a cancel cite Lor Winnipeg for Saskatchewan in Winnipeg discussed territorial it is cure which will kill the Twentyfive years 190g the Canadian Northern Canadian National and the Winnipeg City Council had Corse to terms about the closing of streets in fort Rouge necessitated by the Canadian northerns activities decided to join the Western Canada baseball had total of too too acres under of Page Twenty years 191l the first current was turned on from the Winnipeg civic Power Plant at Founte Dubols to Gurney the curl headed son of mayor fell the Honor of pushing in the plugs that sent current to arcs cent Wood by Way of Sherbrook and Maryland ;