Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings free press thermometer Reading 26 26 27 27 for full text of meteorological office report see Page 57 98 forecast Goudy becoming Sun Moon Moon october 1931 Price 5c per copy edition Vilh 20 pages Britain eagerly Block Bishop of London sees collapse of Pound if i leaders in House regard proposed debt and reparations readjust ment with mingled feelings president still has to convince legislative Branch on Points Dis cussed with French Premier Bruening signifies in i Fention of Germany to reopen i reparations question soon associated press a somewhat sceptical Congress today stood questioningly Over the Cradle of the Hoover Laval eco nomic while administration officials reiterated their the con Gressional leaders received with mingled feelings the news that War debt reparations readjustment is la the meanwhile word Carne from Berlin of intentions of Chancel Lor Bruening to reopen the reparation question soon in response to the Hoover Laval of this and perhaps on some of the other Points discussed in his labor government wins and Are youngest on voters list in British election Canadian press 26 the youngest persons on the voters list for great Britain general elec Tion tomorrow Are Samuel and Doris aged nine and six respect Sammy and Doris cannot How and it is not quite Clear How their names got on the Manchester party workers throughout the Campaign showered them unwittingly with election which did not they on mull approved by building erected this win ter if project gets fed eral endorsement provincial governments plans for care of single men submitted erection of civic auditorium on memorial be tween York and marys conferences with Premier Laval of president Hoover still has to i As a Federal unemployment under convince the legislative Branch Tiv government which passes on debt to concentrate on Pound As the administration went ahead with the plan for stabilization International it was Dis closed that Effort will be Concei Itrat de on the British Pound Lorld medium of debt on Capitol the legislators sought to 1 Day to find out what was Between the lines of the carefully phrased Hoover Laval declaration i taking the Lead from newspaper i stories that it pointed to a recasting i of the whole Structure governmental democrats arid the Republican independents made it Plain they wanted More inform Republican for the most kept but senator bins of announced he would favor any re quest president Hoover for the of a commission to con sular the sallied debts to the United states on a basis of capacity to senator of whose Plant Demark for revision of the treat of peace with Ger exploded Seth a Roar in the Job is of the Conversa Tum maintained rigid silence to friends he intimated some doubt overdue of the Day of reaction at seemed to be that the of Congress were continued on Page Japan not seeking but deter mined to have Security in says Delegate to Institute of Pacific of director of Winnipeg electric declares there Are definite signs of an improvement in Gordon to cooperate in Connie so Teton Winnipeg backs theland taking was formally approved by the City Council monday the vote endorsing the to Gether with a request for a provincial guarantee of legislation to ratify the cites share of the Cost without the necessity of a was passed All that now remains to assure the construction of the building this Winter is the approval of the Domin Ion government the City is seeking through major North supervisor Oftelie the province has already Given its information on proposals of the provincial government for a total expenditure of to place about single men in Camps and of farms reached the Council in a communication from assistant provincial Deputy minister of Public the he would be financed jointly by the province and municipalities which action was deferred until the next meeting of Council although it was Learned that continued on Page four says Friendship of Canad ajl amicable relations have weathered severe asserts Chicago Bishop associated press peace with Canada and the British Empire has withstood eight fairly severe tests since the treaty of Ghent was Federal officials allowed by Bishop Edwin Holt of is episcopal said in Cludine session of Pau am4rpcchlcago Bishop spoke from the map some aspects of Canadia Namel Canadian press was the Bank of England and belief in the Bank of England which saved the situation in Canada four weeks a thur Foley Bishop of tonight told the Lon Don diocesan conference during the course of an address in which he uttered what he termed a word of sol emn speaking As a citizen of the Brit ish he the credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the coun try goes wrong tomorrow elec Tion the Pound will fall to five shillings within 24 to a shill ing within a and to o Penny within a referring to proposals by the labor party for the nationalization of be added we shall All Honor Henderson Arthur former labor Secretary of state for foreign and now Leader of the labor party As a great foreign but he is not a banker any More than i the whole world is the Bishop to think that a body of people who know nothing about finance at All Are going to manage the most complicated affair in the towards the rejects As not binding Resolution of league of nations requiring evacuation by 16 end of the address laymen in the audience interrupted and protested against the introduction of politics into the it is not the Bishop it is spiritual miss Elizabeth 32 Cunnington victim of tragedy believed to have been in the water for 20 the body of miss Elizabeth about 30 years of 32 Cunnington was taken from the bed year monday fused to divulge details connected with employed As a stenographer at the Lake of the Woods milling miss Patterson had been granted two months leave of a owing to ill Accord ing to office Man she had been away from her work about four Coroner Lor Boniface and said it was unlikely an inquest would be outside of that he was not prepared to say anything with re Gard to the woman miss Patterson had been in the employ of the Lake of the Woods Mill ing company for about four Canadian Dollar closes unchanged at new York seven Sisters current now supplying Light and Power to Manitoba Points i reached by lines of provincial Hydro Sou Gay and Charlie of j it Shurj to tour Japan with British lean regions an Bishop Rugby team selected from All j subject 812 Wellington they have in forehead by stray j Ltd Canada they have Well with that wider group or which she has been a of in i torn while walking at Tuxedo 1 brazilian and International Nickel uti Nuiji Ivins both subjected to Selling pressure ratio i have been double or More it this double Stock prank Independent opens his Campaign for on City fax Iron miss Elizabeth 32 n is taken members of 196th Western to Juniver association gather at centres on the lower priced stocks in trading on Mont sort fourth battalion association Guthrie president at an powerful lobby in evidence at of seeking All water Grain haul on weat Early resident of la Prairie Dies in Price declined to due to a general pause in of w consequently our possibilities than me treaty of Ghent was Canadian press new can Adian Dollar closed unchanged at 89 cents on local foreign exchanges to and the Pound Sterling closed cents lower at for Cable both currencies fluctuated Nar the Dollar opened cent weaker at 8954 rallying slightly at the close to 89 i cents after maintaining its opening Price throughout the Sterling started the Day 1a cents higher at losing i cent at noon at its easing tendency continued in mid afternoon when it sold for closing at conservative wins new Brunswick by election a majority of 33 of Defeated of opposition in the Gloucester county to fill the vacancy in the new Brunswick legis lature caused by the death in Decem of of the standing in the provincial legislature now is 32 16 Macdonald stresses Point he is Laberite at heart i have not got out of touch with my own declares prime in concluding Appeal of election Campaign asserts he will some Day be Leader of labor action in reorganization of is expected at Likely to withdraw entry senior basketball Hoard of directors of Beau company Manitoba cooperative acquires lecturers make splendid in at Lodge 5 form c division in inter club grand old Warrior owner of Cal w White card at Virden unqualified associated press Seaham net 26 prime minister Ramsay Macdonald ended his Campaign a big meeting tonight with the de that although political have thrown him in con tact with i have not got out of truth own was his reply to the Mhz made in the constituency he has r House on the last Day of the Campaign the the most strenuous of his on Village in clubs and a extraordinary was necessary because campaigning the Seaham labor party repudiated enthusiastic Welcome when his motorcar stopped out Side the theatre in which tonight meeting was it was engulfed by crowds of men and women who clamoured to shake his after the work of the National government has been and Britain i through her financial and economic the leaders of that government will go to their old Macdonald told is final you will not be in any party teen a heckler the prime minister re and i shall be the upon Ottawa urged to Send direct negotiation extends military operations into Mongolia to guard Ssuping Kai Tao nah railway contends outbreak of trouble was first caused by provocative at tacks by chinese soldiers associated press tonight rejected As not binding the league of nations Resolution calling for evacuation of Manchuria by and reiterated the manchurian situation is a local question to be settled Only by direct sin japanese the japanese military grip on communications in Southern Man Churia was stretched meanwhile into Mongolia by stationing of troops along the Taonan a formal statement approved by a special Cabinet meeting tonight stressed the japanese five Funda mental principles for manchurian insisted again the out break there was caused by a provocative attack by chinese soldiers on japanese and questioned the advisability of Hasty action on the leagues part in the face of pos sible solution eventually by direct negotiations Between China and the intended for world wide distribution As a studied explanation of manchurian was cabled to foreign embassies and intended for publication in the worlds it explained Dxie to the fail ure of the league Council to obtain wholehearted advocates of peace to conference Canadian Preu Twentyfive Hundred people Here tonight Public ally went on record As favouring immediate agreement among the nations of the world on the problem of armament a Public meet held Massey passed a Resolution urging the Canadian government to provide representation at the Geneva conference on Dis armament next february As will effectively promote such an agree ment without further part of an educational Campaign in United great Britain and other the meet ing was addressed on the subject of disarmament by Premier George of and Kenold of new Tork More than 350 similar meetings will be held in Canada and United states this voicing the same plea for peace and it will be a concerted move to create Public opinion in favor of the forthcoming Dos armament conference at meeting at Mase meeting under the chairmanship of senator Raoul former president of the Assembly of the league of tonight endorsed unanimously a Resolution calling upon Bennett to Send to the disarmament conference next february Canadian representatives who have shown themselves to be wholeheartedly to the cause of peace through Canadian Pacific Steamer beats previous Mark in Atlantic voyage making the Resolution was not binding in any manner five principles the five fundamental principles were restated Mutual sino japanese pledge of no aggression and guaranty of each others territorial China must abandon the ant japanese boy Cott and All other forms of anti japanese China must assure the safety of japanese lives and property in com petition to services of manchurian continued on Page four recent blazes in Wentworth reported upon by official investigator five fires doubtful origin have broken out in Wentworth county during the past two according to fire marshal of Heaton does not believe the series of fires there recently were the work of in the report submitted today to Ontario attorney general Heaton pointed out that Between 13 and 23 there were 12 fires in Wentworth county and one in Brant he classified them As follows three threshing two spontaneous one Straw which did not require invest two dwellings where fire originated in defective and five fires of doubtful because of the doubt in these five i am sending out one of our Best experienced to work with inspector Baker and provincial police officers who Are already on the we expect further in Quiry will Clear away any remaining War Veteran suicides de from a Rafter in a summer cot tages at the body of Walter of Veteran of the great was found he natives and friends said he had been despondent for the last two British election returns to Start this evening Britain is electing a new parliament polls will open at 8 and close at 8 in some but at 9 in the first results should be available in Winnipeg around 5 Winnipeg and from then on returns will be com ing in until it is expected that results from 215 seats will be Avail Able election returns will be available on free press bulletin boards just As soon As they Start to come and the results in All the Ridings will be As Well As the Canadian press a new record was established today by the Canadian Pacific Empress of Britain in steaming from station where malls Are in 4 9 17 beating her former record by six her time from Cherbourg to que where she docked this morning and discharged was 4 18 five which is 59 minutes longer than the trans Atlantic record established on the new York run by the North German Lloyd liner Europea Between Cher Bourg and Ambrose the eur open arrived at the new York Pilotage station on March 25 last 4 17 6 minutes after Clearing from Cherbourg but several More hours elapsed before she was enabled to Dock and the Empress elapsed tune Between Cherbourg and Quebec was two hours Twenty minutes better than her for Mer record Between the two further statement issued by Ottawa on duty ruling Canadian press by the government in declaring for special duty for dumping purposes the value of the Pound Sterling at ten per less than the Par value on goods imported from great the product of that does not affect the dumping provi Sions invoked by reason of currency depreciation in respect to Sweden and this statement was made officially Here this thirty six lives taken Over weekend in South youth crushed to death by Avalanche of when fruit bin collapses Canadian Preu was smothered and crushed to death beneath nine tons of apples in the local fruit dehydrating this he was working in the lower part of four Storey bin when the three partitions above him cold he was trapped by the falling fruit and wooden and was dead when dug out by workers half an hour Chancellor Bruening intends to act upon suggestion of Laval and Hoover still believes International conference Best Means of taking initiative by Lotus Lochner foreign office made it Plain today that Chancellor Heinrich acting on the suggestion of president Hoover and Premier will reopen the reparations you May rest As a foreign office spokesman that Bruening will lose no time entering into diplomatic negotiations with the other from these negotiations it will become apparent How the initiative can Best be taken and by the Chancellor still believes an International con Ference is the Best this announcement was the official German reaction to the recommend the French made in their joint issued evening in discussing the need for an agree ment covering intergovernmental whole country agog As Campaign closes Fate of National government headed by prime minister ram say Macdonald rests with electorate appeals Are delivered by party method to be Speed news of Given encouraging reception in own seat on eve of poll Canadian press by George Hambleton Britain will go to the polls tomorrow to retain the National government led by prime minister Ramsay Macdonald or to oust it and set another in its party leaders and their followers tonight made final appeals to the electors and election workers who were preparing Lor the last strenuous Effort of polling and from the King at Buckingham palate to the humblest Man the Street the nation will await the result with eager Ness unparalleled for Many in Rural coloured magnesium flares will Flash the news of the win Ning recalling the old time beacons which from Hilltop to Hilltop and from land to sea once sent their every method will be used to Speed the news of the the English Borough of Chelten where sir Walter Preston is seeking re election against John is making strenuous efforts to be first to Flash its results to the the which was second to announce its result in has completed arrangements this year to the last extend polling hours the Borough of Bury in which was first to give results in the last election like Many other extended its polling hours this time to nine in the and is considered unlikely to Lead in 1929 Bury announced its results at the Winner in Bury was conserva with this year these two men again face each also with a straight fight Between conservative and labor Hopes to announce its decision at prime minister Macdonald tonight closed his Campaign in Dur after visiting 26 scattered centres and addressing five big meet he described today meeting at Seaha Harbor As one of the biggest and most encouraging of the Cam who ran away Are overwhelmingly de and he predicted they would by the men who ran meant those who quit Macdon ads labor refusing to go along with the prime minister into the National emergency obligations at the conclusion of the r hotels in London West end expect moratorium they declared the bookings to rival those of new years eve As a great number foreigners initiative this matter should be taken at an Early Date by the euro Pean Powers principally concerned Germany at first was not inclined to read in the Hoover Laval state ment any expectation that the next move was to come from United states press comments cabled continued on Page four heavy increase in Nineteen tramp steamers chartered to take Load Ings at Montreal lives were forfeited in weekend slay accidents and suicides in the Southern Georgia and ten Nessee led in the number of violent death with eight South car Olina was next with Florida had Arkansas reported Louisiana two and missis Sippi and Kentucky one fourteen persons died in Automo bile sixteen were two drowned and two killed them a railway train Accident and a Cave roof collapse took the other two to Call Ball strike Mexico the rail unions notified the Southern Pacific of Mexico today that a general strike would be effective in All departments of the Railroad on weather Keport the following is the weather report issued from the Winnipeg meteorological office at 7 55 maximum for the preceding 12 Southeast wind at 20 Miles per hour sky local showers have occurred in Sas i Kat Chewan and the weather is becoming i somewhat cooler in the to i Wui do Wii acknowledging the support his gov j latest summary showing Ament was receiving from the con1 ban dog of the led by Sanley Ernami Dawson a Lavt Simpson 14 Smith 18 Rupert 38 Victoria 44 Vancouver 40 Kamloops 38 c3eorne1 26 30 Edmonton 24 Banff 29 Cadieu 30 Lethbridge 31 Bat 40 current 40 Battleford 32 Albert 38 Saskatoon 33 Mima 14 18 12 Yorkton Moose jaw 38 Kiceina 41 Brandon 43 Kenora 45 Arthur 34 Cochrane 34 Hunts vice 38 sound 42 London Toronto Kingston 38 Ottawa 36 Montreal 42 Quebec 38 John 48 Halifax 44 Char town 46 Mima 38 47 36 60 38 60 60 Canadian press tramp steamers Are chartered to Load Grain in according to the Harbor Grain which is sixteen More than on the same Date last it is not the largest figure for the As there were As Many As 29 chartered on the May 23 Grain orders on hand total As against Only on the corresponding Day in Are giving election night parties predict government win the consensus of political servers gave the of government a majority of 150 to 200 in the House of would be ample to satisfy prime minister Macdonald demand for a doctors mandate to prescribe legislative remedies for the nations financial and economic ail on the the three weeks Campaign has been fought much less savagely than had been the most bitter onslaughts have been interchanged by the split sections of the labor thus Philip Chancellor of the exchequer in the labor and National has turned the full Power of his invective against his lifelong labor who now Are the opponents of Macdonald Snow ens final message to the nation was make sure that the men aged frustrates attempt to wreck fast train in Nick of time continued on Page two Manitoba asked to join with Minnesota in urging pro longing of present period no change to be asked by authorities of Saskatchewan and Alberta associated press warm weather this month caused such poor Duck Hunting that state game and fish plans to ask Extension of the open he said today he would ask pres ident Hoover to continue Mitil nov Ember 10 the Hunting which under presidential proclamation is to end october Stewart asked Manitoba minister of natural to join in the request to the the Dakotas and Montana probably will ask similar Extension he ducks Are not making the usual South As due to warmth in regions North of Stewart Canadian press recon that the Duck season a continued on Page four Idom Mard prom the free press i fifty five years 1878 a Quarter acre potato be longing to prominent gave a yield of 276 this figuring out to an average of bushels per the two guns for the Winnipeg Field Battery arrived from the Northwest Angle the limbers and Carriage were still on the Dawson aug called pm 12year old boy tonight frustrated an at it was stated several Days ago by tempt to wreck the Western a prominent Harbor official that he expected Grain deliveries for this season to reach the Hundred million Bushel Mark before the closing of last deliveries were and bushels in the record total of was reached in fire loss loss resulting from the destruction by fire of the Quebec Harbor commissions shed was estimated at fast Boston and Albany train to Buffalo and Western by notifying fifty years 26 1881 the governor general lord lome and party returned from a trip Over the entire during they had travelled several thousand Miles Over Prairie trails it was Esti mated that they had gone a total of about was announced that the grading of the air line to Portage la Prairie would be finished within the fort five years Oliver Wood had been contract for the construction of a Bridge Over the Bird Tail below at a Cost of the fall Lowine in the Portage la Prairie District was in a very advanced state owing to the Long mild fall in it was estimated that in no former year had there been so much land ready for seeding la forty years 189l what key and managers of the travelling Dairy which had been exhibiting through out the declared that Enterprise of the experimental a inv he j k police after he had been beaten by at Ottawa had been a grand the alleged train some 29 meetings had been at e g the Edward told police the principal stations on the Manl Toba teas sait he saw two men piling ties on the and tracks near Fanell when they left he started to pull and on the from Portage to Oak and from them from the but the men Morden to Hartney and rushed beat him with club and drove him Hogan ran to the nearest police Box and sounded a citizens police arrived and pulled the ties from the five minutes before the express credit plan is sought to sell wheat and Cotton disposal of overflow from huge stocks by United states through International credit arrangement being discussed by Federal farm Board and Pierre do economic advisor to Premier Laval of forecasts to Strong shifting winds with scattered showers becoming Northwest winds Clearing and to fresh winds mostly fair not much change in on parc Lake a surf of moderate nth associated press the farm Board is trying to establish credit for a prospective customer so the overflow from huge stocks of wheat and Cotton in the United states can go to Sale of the wheat and Cotton through an International credit a 52 ran gement is being discussed by the Board and a representative of thus far no specific amounts of the two major crops have been mention Pierre do economic adviser to Premier conferred with Board officials saturday and plans to return from new York later in the week for further mean chairman of the gone to new where it we 48 said he would attend a dinner for the Board has no authority to Par thirty five years 3898 his worship mayor Jameson communicated with Israel with a View to meeting the minister of Public works while in the City and discussing the question of constructing lock and dam at Andrews rapids a meeting appointed in the Council at which mayor Jameson was to speak for the City and Ash Down for the Board of thirty years 1901 the Argyle school Lacrosse won the Mcmillan trophy the Captain of the Argyle master Willie made a Manly Little speech in which he expressed the Franks of the application had been made to build railway line to Severn River from Winnipeg or East i Twentyfive years 1908 manager Walker announced that he had As coming theatrical attractions anticipate in an Export credit Ita Berj Chevalier and to sell its wheat and Cotton assistance in such an j the Twenty it has How j b was normally opened holdings on Lon term French crop damaged thousand at mayor Edward Brown pre i and there were addresses by president of the latter chairman new and Mcmorine Stone said was an important i Rector of marys and chairman 01 Point in the conversations with do France has been reported in the Market for bushels of its Domestic crop has been damaged by unfavourable Carl another Board Mem disclosed that Eugene governor of the Federal Reserve the school Twenty years 3911 lord Strathcona had Given toward keeping the Crystal Palace the Wollam Mac Kenze of the Canadian Northern Canadian was in route governor of is interested in the discussions to Winnipeg to discuss the Hudon Between the Board and do j Bay Road East of Meyr and Texas cot1 the Philadelphia ath Etlis Deneata Ion conferred with pm jew York giant and retained continued on Fate world v ;