Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 06, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba To bring some Home Good any time the 2-Glass bottle by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg tuesday april 1937. Price 5c per copy edition with comics we. Put 5todr whole family on the vitality plan of Bryce s Buttermilk Breall homemade the Bryee Way new in flavor and shape Bryce s bakeries pm. 37 088 and have our Salesman. Call daily farm strike threatened by men of Shaunavon District Cut in seed quota draws resentment in Saskatchewan Ril 5, 1877 sixty years Imit 150 Farmers from the r Ottawa District were leaving Masse to a settlement of in new still confident Britain speeds up to keep Pace in air armaments race in them thar and were leaving 13 dig in i years april 5, 1882 j Lodge of Tho Loyal Orange ration Hart born instituted at Medosa tie office bearers in d Alfred e. Cunning Knox b. B. Beddome s. A. This is the tenth in a series of despatches by Webb Miller. European news manager of the United press reporting on the rearmament race after a tour of european capitals. By Webb Miller London april 6. Bri Tain fearing Thaten the and John her vulnerable Island will be subjected to Aerial bombardments vastly More terrible than those of the world War is working overtime to catch up and keep Pace with the Continental Powers in the air Arma Matheson Deputy head Mas Loist. John s College read morn prayers at the ordination ser Joe in St. John s Cathedral Fulty years 5, 1887 among those present at an in rot ant meeting of the Northwest Eira Erdal travellers association wit t. Riley. E. F. Hutchings. H Ashdown s. R. Parsons g. F. It atones Thos Johnston s. A. D. Bertrand and j. M. O Loughlin. Years the red River was rapidly rising already reached the High Mark of the Spring of 1891 be Northern Pacific train from the tilth was delayed by the Winnipeg teachers association elected a Mclntyre president vice Are ident e. A. Garratt second ice president. Miss Zinkan Secre tary miss Agnew. Forty years 5, 1897 also by the comparative slowness of training pilots compared to the output of the factories in planes and motors. Although details have been kept secret it is known that the British have developed an exceptionally efficient twin motored fighting plane armed with machine guns and ing two 20-millimeter Cannon fir High explosive shells. It is ments race. Britain awoke to that situation among those elected officers of j ing the average new Western horticultural j previous few Dev at Brandon were f. H. President c. D. Wilson e w. 0. Boger s. A. Bedford w. And p. Middleton. With a rude Shock. The sudden disconcerting revelation just two years ago that Germany had stealthily achieved air parity startled her into furious action. So deep is the military secrecy of the dictatorial nations that the British intelligence service was badly deceived and Only four months before the discovery. Prime minister Stanley Baldwin was led into informing the House of com Mons that Britain was 50 per cent Superior to Germany in a strength. Then Hitler blandly revealed to sir John Simon at that time foreign Secretary that Germany s air Power equalled Britain s. The government at once initiated a great emergency expansion programme nearly trial expenditure of the now Britain has boosted j the Ante with 1937 air estimates of j which is flirty five years above last the referendum on the liquor i was held in Manitoba with tie result that the measure was Gordon at bran con found guilty of the Mur Der of Charles Daw and Jacob Smith at Whitewater. Man., in my 1900. Thirty years 5, 1907 George Primrose and his merry minstrels were the attraction at the Walker theatre among their songs Darling Nellie love among the roses Twilight on the old and the dudes Ira Twenty five years the new president of the St. John s Curling club was r. R. Knox and the new head of the Strathcona club was t. H. Verner rearing president j. Fred Palmer a St. Johns presented the club Wlsh a composite photo of the time past Twenty years 5, 1917 by adding 116 pins to the Lead is cured in the first three games. Lie great West life Bowling team secured a cinch on the Champion year s and compares with an aver age of be fore Hitler s surprising announce ment. Sir Phillip Sassoon undersecretary for air told the House of com Mons on March 15 that the expenditure this year of 4vi times the pre expansion period Means trebling the Force As Well As re arming it with modern Britain s greatest defence problem is protecting the London area with inhabitants. It is the Centre of government finance and administration. It has nine Square Miles of docks furnishing food and raw materials for persons and is less than an hour s flight from Germany and France. The most remarkable defence scheme is a vast hedge of balloons around the capital anchored at a great height Between which will be suspended aprons of heavy dangling wires designed to entangle the propellors of enemy aircraft and crash them. Critics contend that modern planes Fly High enough to surmount the balloon barrage. Additional precaution additional precautions Are Bat teries of anti aircraft guns search jct the Handicap division of i lights sound detectors a network Jse commercial Bowling league of telephonic communications and be other teams in the Roll off were a nigh Nurer Iirth which i a device called a predictor which i to ;