Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1934, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press tuesday May 15, 1934 i Issue emphatic denials about Broad casting the proposed taxation changes. I there was one More feature in a i Clay devoted to the tobacco Indus the Imperial company look retailers by the Throat in it forts to make them buy their goods Nellt in Foo of Tav Anc Dispio them exclusively. The nil xxi. Or Aal Werc Dan decl a Earl Spur Rord vice n i m Lau us i i president in charge at sales. Ii j getting Advance tips private dining room keep out addressed which Rraci of commons by a Bennett Sta or St denied the committee was proceeding i quietly with the Grey haired presi Idem on the stand when Donald to Kennedy United member Foi Ufa peace River. Denly referred to the Stewart charges. In his South Ern drawl air. Miller denied re calving an Advance tip in the sex i else changes either from Cabinet to Corr 1 did Rani arc changes either from ministers or anyone else. Then prompted by the peace River member while the crowd in the committee room sat Forward in their seats the Imperial president Iti knowledge of his company contributions to political or. Stewart Ware of Montreal solicited Lor the conservatives trom the 1930 election leaving Chicago round trip on fridays saturdays sundays. Return limit 10 Days. Good m coaches Only. Vjm90 round trip. On Jala daily. Return limit 15 Day. Round trip. On title daily. Return limit 30 Days. Good in coaches Only. Moloon Sale daily. Return vow limit 30 Days. Good in sleepers and parlor cars on payment of usual charges. Corej shown above apply on and May 25, 1934. The world s fair opens May 26, 1934. Ask about All expense escorted Tours from the twin cities As Low As 2 Days. 3 Days from Minne Apolis and St. Poul. Govi twin cities and the Chicago and Northwestern line the Viking High Clil Chicago pm the Only dust free oiled of tubed to Chicago free mail this Coupon h. T. Kir3y, g. A., c. I n. W. Lino pm Mclntyre bldg., Winnipeg Man. Snow 92 9j7 a Illmer std Litera Hiro o tit world s free. Up the impression a contribution would do interpreted meaning he Chesir Ril a Educ Tina in the excise chairman h. H. Stevens seized the Opportunity to read the Steff an letter find to announce the members of the Cabinet would a Griir before the committee to Clear the allegations. Did and minister of the ask Sci the chairman leaning for Ward in his seat and facing the or anyone else give the i Imperial tobacco company any and information on the reduction 01" excise no replied or. Miller. Yon Are definite on yes. A i Stewart Likely to attend tin committee made no decision in the question of recalling or. I Stewart to the stand bit it was believed he would be present at the j Saino time As the three members of tiie government certainly As a spec Tator. If not a witness. J the charge was made monday by Norman Somerville committee coun Sel. Tiie Imperial company was american controlled through the j British american tobacco company j which owns of its snares. J thin was denied by or. Miller who insisted if there was outside influx Lenie it was English rather than i american Secaur the head office of i tiie . Was in London. The i head office was in London admitted i or. Some Volle. But it was in name intimating the . Was i a Niru an con troll eel. Retail of the company were investigated a few minutes before the committee and j Ninie until today. It was claim t it by various members the com Pany s required re mailers to take out the advertising company s 01 rival firms Tell the Imperial j months. Company tin in sales of competing j a fiction supported Tota co. Ana display Only Imperial support for the auction system of Tion of the new swimming Pool on the five acre estate. James Wole West Wood furniture Salesman and Gettle were accosted by two masked men who marched them at the Point of pistols to the seven toot Concrete Wall that Bounds the estate on three sides. There Wolf was tied to a tree and gagged and Settle was forced to climb a step ladder to the top of the Wall. At the top he fell tripping Over a barbed wire guard railing and Wolf said he heard Gettle moan. The kidnappers followed Gettle Over the Fence and sped away with him in an automobile. To was a half hour before Wolf was Able to free himself Gettle s wife the former Freda Girten. Of Kansas City was prostrated by the news of the kidnapping. Mrs. Gettle s ill health prompted her husband to Purchase the country estate about a year ago at a bankruptcy auction for they own a magnificent town House in Beverly Hills where Gettle now retired from Active business maintained offices where he looked after his. Interests. Gettle son of n Pioneer Oklahoma territory family wag born at Davis i okla. 47 years ago. Me began his j business career with the j. C. Penney Chain store organization at Kemmerer. Wyo., in 1913. He Orai mixed 22 stores in California and 33 in other Pacific coast states. He retired from business in at the height of the Boom liquidating much of his hold Ings and escaped serious losses in the crash of the Stock Market. Ernest e. Noon. Beverly Hills at j Torney announced the morning after the snatch that he had been named by the family to act As intermediary with tiie kidnappers. Friday morning noon received a Telephone Call demanding Ransom. Is said the party was Cut off before he could learn the directions for pay ment. Previously i letter came to the Arcadia country estate addressed to mrs. Gettle inst Marced san Bernar Dino. Calif., thursday evening de manding a Ransom of noon announced he was ready to Pav any reasonable Ransom requested. Federal state county and Munici pal police called off the Man Hunt at noon s request to permit negotiations. Sunday As a preliminary to a Man Hunt by officers scheduled to plan for the summer brands cases. Or. Undue Tai Hirs would prices. In their windows and show a Palm a Nilu Ericc but he be t and Imperial denied exerted said a merchant there was against re this was he could goods if buy he done Cut to main the com Tain Price Levels Pany believed were in the interest of t tobacco Industry As a whole. The Imperial president said two of his men would go to England i summer in an Effort to induce British tobacco manufacturers to buy More Canadian Leaf. The United kingdom imports about 180.000.0co pounds of american flue cured to Bicic o each year but Canada has found it i ficut to break Down a reluctance to buy its tobacco despite a Tariff preference of 49 cents a cull. We have the Well being of the 1 tobacco Farmers at. Heart Irr spec 1 Tive of what has been insisted or. Miller announcing his tobacco buying came from p. R. Gregory former chief buyer for the Imperial tobacco company of Mon Treal. He said the barn buying sys tem out of Date led to the auction system has been Fol Lowed Lor years in the United states. The Canadian barn buying plan has been unique. It worked Well As Long As one company could dominate tilt buying but the former Imperial to Bacco buyer denied it had led to a Combine of collusion on the part of companies. Hands. We understood the barn i buying system that the new York and London management were j having too Imich to say Over some i think they did not what was the effect in delaying j the opening of the Market in 1932 until oct. Interrogated or. Sommerville. Of course it would make the grower very uneasy and very Ner Vous said witness and would add to the Panicky condition among the i to allow additional time for Ransom negotiations. Late monday following a fruitless Effort to trap the kidnappers Early monday morning two messages were received by noon warning him dire results might follow if authorities persisted in their efforts. Blayney Matthews chief of the District attorney s staff of investigators with in old and Bills in his pocket unwittingly ran into a pistol Battle in Downey Between a Constable and burglars Early monday while endeavouring to make Contact with the kidnappers. Fearing a hijacking Matthews sped to a police station and scores of police cars. Previously deployed throughout the area roared to the scene of the shooting but found nothing. A few hours later came the announcement Gettle was Safe. Los Angeles May 15. Gloria Swanson charged in a suit for divorce. Monday. That Michael Farmer her Irish sportsman Hus band persistently found fault with her and kept her awake nights with quarrelling. W. T. Gettle millionaire Oil Man of Beverly Hills who was delivered from kidnappers monday night in a spectacular police raid on the la Crescenta Home where he was held captive. Police arrested one of the alleged abductors. Fixed by agreement Between peace officers and noon for negotiations actually to begin hundreds of police men began a systematic clean up of known underworld haunts in los Angeles and Vicinity. 1 As the result of pleas made by mrs. J Gettle however the deadline was j officially announced later in the Day i uni i of dancing again end Coin pain instantly Scenti Fieatta be started at Midnight the deadline As having been extended to monday Blue a Corn remover ends pain instantly growers though. He was the Imperial not certain j company had continued from Page one it might do Wise to continue the present system another year or two. Said or. Gregory. Then it chaotic conditions continued a change be made. Set average Trice during 1931. Said air. Gregory the Imperial tobacco company for the first time instructed its buyers an average Price must be maintained. Che average Lor that year being cents. He said he Felt ashamed to obey these instructions because it buying for 16, 17 and 18 cents Maceo Worth More. He told of one Farmer losing crop Liaa been valued at 24 cents a Pound but it had to be bought at cents to maintain the average Price. In May 1932, the Imperial tobacco i company demanded his resignation. I said ml1. Gregory. It was his Dellel i the reason was that t. L. Lea who had just come to the company Irons the United states wanted Bis Job. Gray Miller president of the Imperial company filed with the com Mittee a statement showing that cigarettes were reduced Between i93u and 1933, five per cent irrespective of the drop in excise tax. J. L. Ilsley bib., said the drop in prices to the growers was 40 per cent but the Imperial president said the two could not be compared because of the presence of imported tobacco. F. R. Gregory formerly in charge of tobacco buying Lor the Imperial tobacco company in Southwest on Tario was the first witness heard by the committee. In 1931. While buying Lor the Montreal Tabacco firm he said t. L. Lea who succeeded him As chief buyer after a trip to Montreal announced prices must come Down. Or. Gregory said he Felt ashamed at buying for 18 cents a Pound tobacco that was Worth More. Finally alter communicating with Montreal Gregory was told to pay any motive m delaying the opening. La Crescenta House where Gettle was found. Capt. William c. Bright of the sheriff s homicide detail announced i no Ransom was paid. Gettle As he was led through the crowd about the Hall of Justice where the sheriff s office is located seemed arid it might have been a matter of their delay in making marketing arrangements. Farmers Are nervous. Formers got. Nervous when their tobacco crops were ready and buyers could 1 Dici not appear witness answered j. Ilsley lib. The combination of circumstances drawn and Haggard but there was a of the delay in opening the Market faint smile about his lips. The of i a Brand new stocking it s a ring free sheer by a new process in Canada s largest full fashioned hosiery Mill. Absolutely Clear and flawless. A perfect Hose from top to toe. Ask for it by name. Kayser Miro Kleer. 75 and up made Canada the drop in tin average Price and the paying of 12 and 15 cents per Pound for Good tobacco would make tiie Farmer easier to Deal with re plied or. Gregory. He could Only get 20 cents per Pound on an average for tobacco witness stated. The growers had Felt very badly in 1932. Said or. Gregory. Farmers had had to sell thei product that year cers detained him briefly to seek identification of Kirk and the women. Deputy sheriff Harry Brewster led the Rescue party to the House Wheir Gettle was held. As the officers moved in on the top Grade place two men fled through the rear Entrance dodging through the wreck age of Homes left by the new year s Day flood. Deputy sheriff Ernest Sichler below the Cost of production. The Jack Southard special investigator of Appeal to the Ontario department of the District attorney s office App re agriculture by the growers had served bended Williams but they were in to raise prices As the Ontario de j Able to keep Pace with the Man who part meet promised assistance to the escaped grow ers. Referring to Gregory s connection with the company or. Miller said his so weal he was barely Able to walk in the darkened room they Younci Gertie bound hand and foot and resignation Lea comic had nothing to do with to Canada. Visitor tells of fiscal Panacea for world s ills up to 25 cents Worth it. Or. Lea returned Pound for tobacco from Montreal oct. 12, 1931, said or. Gregory with the announcement prices must come cents As an average for tobacco which had been valued at 24 cents a few Days before. This drop meant to that Fanner. The Canadian system of paying average prices for u crop was Vanco verite declares Money would solve financial problems dispel depression Money that depreciates at the rate of 12 per cent per annul will in to the automobile which carried him i to the sheriff s office in los Angeles the getaway of the other Man i guarding the kidnapped millionaire brought immediate Pursuit from to Angeles Glendale and Pisa Dana police who attempted to Cut off every Avenue of escape. Officers described him As a Man of Between 35 and 40 years old. Five feet 10 inches tall and dark of complexion. He was bareheaded. I was not mistreated in any Deputy sheriff r. S. Rowe. Who Rode beside Gettle from la. Crescents to j los Angeles quoted the kidnapped Man As saying. They fed me All right but kept me trussed up. They blindfolded and gagged me. And removed the gag Only when they fed Gettle was kidnapped shortly before Midnight last wednesday from his secluded country estate in Arcadia about 25 Miles East of Loa Angeles. He had been entertaining Lour friends in Celebration of the comple crease wages five to ten fold will stimulate savings and Loans will produce government revenues More Down to an average of cents. And with less Bur the next Day a Farmer was Thau tax paying and will bring Back Prosperity was the currency plan described by e. S. Woodward. Vancouver National executive Secretary of the free league of Canada before a meeting in the Mart Borough hotel called _ rates Annex without balk stand of service is maintained. I open june 27th to sept. 3rd per Day single double 8.00 per week single double 30.00 8.00 9.00 30.00 35.00 4-room Cabins without bath.5-wj Man building and to roof Al without ss.00 44.00 44.00 50.00 two weeks single double 55.00 pm 55.00 65.00 s5.00 95.00 35.00 convenient toa1n service 6700p.m. 50.00 80.00 6s.oo 95.00 Sproal rail rates for saturday Only. You. Ilion my j in a Faoa Low summer fares m Point in Eastern and rail. Stopover Mimaki. Unique said or. Gregory. He believed the american auction system would be preferable. Would the auction system be j asked m. C. Seun conservative Haldimand. Yes i see no insurmountable the Imperial company he considered had been fair to the grow ers up to the time the conditions of 1931 developed said or. Gregory. Did you discuss conditions with or. Asked or. Sommerville. what did he say was to too Many fingers in the pie what did he i inferred conditions had Yot ten out of or. 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It facilitates not trading but saving and that is its fundamental weak he asserted. Its use. He con tinned compels the producer of perishable products to pay a Premium for sex Chansing them for an imperishable article and so Long As the Money instrument is imperishable so Louisr will usury last. The proof of any theory he went on. Is whether it will work and he claimed that the theory of the Gokl Standard is proved false by the pres ent prostrate condition of our econ Omic system. A depreciating currency he con i tinned is necessary Lor the circulation of Money and he recommended to his audience the Gesell system As a Panacea for All the economic difficulties of the Day the Gesel scent Lac currency notes advocated being subject to a demurrage stamp Chi ii be of one per cent per month so they cannot be hoarded but must relentlessly their circulation guaranteeing brisk full employment higher Wales. 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