Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 07, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday. April 7, 1937. Page nine. Westerners awarded scholarships april 7. The a research Council tuesday eed award of 47 scholarships s27500 for the fiscal year they were Given to in neat graduate training in research chiefly in. Gra of Canadian univer scholarships include five i awards which Are tenable i National research Labora Here and enable the All of whom have done research at univer experience in Indus if research before engaging in work. Tod cations were received from lat is of 18 Canadian universe the awards will enable j work in the following Dalhousie Laval my Josite de Montreal Toronto Western Ontario Gil thecial b scholarships Worth to h. H. Penley physics sat Dewan and l. Sair biology Manitoba. A id was won by r. M. Donald mistry Saskatchewan and a frs Thip Worth was award g. Brown physical Chemis l Saskatchewan. A notaries Worth each went v Brickman. Cellulose chemistry j. B. Gushing organic Saskatchewan a. D mechanical Sas 3ewan, and g. F. Ledingham Saskatchewan. . It would prevent companies from obtaining upping space for Small shipments said. British Columbia Consumers were being robbed of Annu v because of a wheat freight rate nature that was higher for Nestle consumption than for exit to foreign countries said or Telford British Columbia Der of the co operative Commonwealth federation in. Closing a evidence before the inquiry mesday. Or. Telford was examined extern rely by Isaac Pitblado k.c., win Peg counsel for the Winnipeg us Vancouver Grain exchanges ansome of his criticisms of Grain Kadling. Or. Telford admitted he so never read the Canada Grain to regulates Grain handling. Regarding or. Telford s com is int against Farmers losing Grain a terminal elevators or. Pitblado is a Section of the Canada Grain to which provided that if a pub elevator has More than of tit per cent in overages after siding Grain such Grain reverts a the Crown. Or. Pitblado asked or. Telford 1 he knew the importation o sir into Canada in .1934 was an silted Case. The importation Aid or. Pitblado in recalling pre Lions evidence was made by a Saadian milling company to Mee u isolated Case. More Grain probe from Pate one Victor Williams t dead at Toronto Toronto ont., april 7. He death occurred tuesday of mrs Victor a. S. Williams wife c Sajor general v. A. S. William Kad of the Ontario province. As department. 1 mrs. Williams was the Oldes lighter of the late Hugh Suther of Winnipeg. She was mar to major general William he was stationed in Winnipeg a member of the permanent we. A daughter mrs. Percy a resides in Montreal and mrs. W. Hallowell lives a ont. Moke Abbottt legislature from Paie one consent of the legislature a portion t the deferred subsidy account to preventing budget deficits m 1931 and 1932. This was Lone to the open the Premier rated out and voted by the House without a division a total of was applied o meeting deficits in two years and a balance of applied or the purposes of. The. Original it in meeting debt obligations. He pointed out that All 55 members f the House had been a party to he matter giving the government Ull authority for the use of the Noney Lor he purposes outlined perhaps added the Premier every one else was out of step except or. Stubbs. Cites Bennett letter dealing with the crisis that re ulsted m the government imposing he two per cent tax or. Bracken cited the letter sent All the Western provinces by it. Hon. R. A Ben Nett stating that Dominion Aid would not be continued unless budgets were balanced wittier by reducing expenditure or increasing and proposing that a con roller be placed in the province to supervise finances. We continued or. Slacken no outsider was going of run the affairs of this province Liat the unemployed were going to be fed. And that expenditures Musl e Cut and taxes he outlined How revenues Lac been increased in 1932 by lowering come tax exemptions and raising he rates by the sur axes by increasing corporation axes and increasing the gasoline taxes the following year the government sought additional Revenue 3y removing certain gasoline tax exemptions and placing the two per upon All incomes compares expenditures. Comparing Manitoba s expenditures with those of the other West Ern provinces Premier Bracken showed that this province had the lowest expenditure. Manitoba s expenditure was v approximately As compared with for Alberta Anco for Brit is Columbia. Don t think that the govern ment put this two per cent tax on ers should decide whether it would be Best for Manitoba. In conclusion the Premier said toe government was willing to re peal the two per cent tax if the majority of the House supplied an alternative but no self respecting government would continue in Power spending a year of which represented expenditure on current account and Money borrowed for re Lief and at the same time deliberately Cut off of its legitimate Revenue. Trustees pay Bill advanced a Bill providing remuneration of a month for members of the Winnipeg school Board got second Reading and will go to Law Amend ments committee where representations will be heard. A measure to bring Domestic servants and female agricultural workers under the minimum image act after hours of bitter debate was Defeated in a division vote of 16 in favor and 33 against. W. C. Cons., Morden and Rhineland stated that if minimum wages were applied _ to women under these two 90 per cent of them would be thrown among the ranks of the jobless. J. S.1 lib.-prog., Iberville Drew heated rebuttal from James Litterick communist and Marcus Hyman , to his charge that minimum wage Law violators were miserable skunks from North or. Litterick serv ants and agricultural workers were the most exploited employees in the province. Or. Hyman said the House was trying to remove a labor condition which surely must trouble the c science of even the member for Iberville. M. T. Lewis Independent Rockwood told the House that a state of slavery existed in Manitoba As i shown by the exploitation in agriculture. J. A. Barry cons., Winnipeg said Many employers of labor in these categories could not afford to pay wages As High As the minimum Standard. Many girls were Given an Opportunity to work and attend school and if wages were raised education would be denied to Many girls who could get it in no other Way. H. Sulkers c.c.f.-lab., St. Clements proposer of the said that by raising the Standard of living 01 employees employers were Likely to raise their own Rought a shift in the government command on that front. The general staff of the Madrid Valencia army of the North took charge of operations assuming superiority Over the Basque officers who operated under the Semi autonomous Basque administration Loyal to Madrid. Confident Thorlo Spain april 7. Up readers of the insurgent Northern army driving toward Bilbao tues Day night asserted they had thrust a foot in the half open door of the Basque province and that the Road of the sea now could be considered open to them. Because it wanted Premier Bracken told the House. He explained that the tax imposed after every other source of Revenue had been considered and discarded. He asserted that the duty of the government was to raise Revenue and to raise it As equitably or. Bracken asserted that if the wage tax was repealed it would be necessary to do one or More things the province could go As an honest debtor and seek an adjustment from the Burden of in Terest on the provincial debt they could reduce expenditures or they could impose new taxes to provide the Revenue lost through repeal of the wage tax. Dealing with further reduction of expenditures the. Premier asked the members whether they would be willing to consider imposing cuts of approximately 20 per cent in wages Hospital Grants old age pensions mothers allowances Road maintenance and other services. Reviews alternative taxes suggested in the House had been carefully considered by the government. Or. Bracken said. A turnover tax on business by was not constitutional according to Legal advisors of the government. If or. Stubbs suggestion that the equivalent of the two per cent tax be collected through the regular income tax was implemented it would mean multiplying that tax three times the Premier said. There were relatively few High incomes in Manitoba or. Bracken said and asked How much longer would a Man with an income of a year remain in this prov Ince if the government taxed hire a year the hous e could treble the income tax if it pleased but in considering that the Mem Moke about Rome stand continued from one Tion is not considered in France As the most imminent danger to euro Pean peace if finally the French state entrusted to the accomplices of Moscow enslaved by Russia Anc bound to the extortion cof an elec toral tyranny insufficient Energy and skill to apply what has been established in its agreement with nations to the extent of enforcing 100 per cent respect for its this be frankly London april 7. A Grea Britain is relying Ion Italy s pledge word there will be no permanent italian penetration of the Balearic islands strategic archipelago off Spain s Eastern coast authoritative British quarters declared tuesday night. Ready to apply pressure Paris april 7. And great Britain were reported tues Day ready to bring last resort pressure against Premier Mussolin to halt possibility of italian withdrawal from the agreement to Iso late the Spanish civil War. The two governments informed sources in Paris told the associate to press would attempt to hold Italy in line with the 27-nation non in by a threat t steer the Balkan states away from that Friendship with Italy which Musolini is so eager to obtain. The italian threat of withdrawal and re Assumption of full Liberty of action in based or authoritative charges in Rome tha France has flagrantly violated the non intervention Accord in permit Ting Aid to the Madrid government More about Spanish War continued from one water flowed Over the dam and put the Plant out of commission. A 250-foot steel Bridge at Lemieux was threatened but Highway work ers attached Anchor cables at each end for support. Ice in the Quyon River Northwest of the town of Quyon Quebec hat risen and lodged at a Hull Chapeau Highway Bridge. The water Rose quickly and tuesday night was flowing Over the Road. Residents of the lower part of town were reported ready to evacuate their Homes if the River lose further. Claim attack broken Nava Carnero Spain april 7. Up havas two government ii rusts in the Nava Carnero sector broke tuesday under machine gun and artillery fire while insurgent troops advanced on the Guadalajara front insurgent officials claimed Here. New Cannon used Bilbao Spain april 7. A military experts returning from the Basque Battle front tuesday declared the insurgents Are using new Quick firing Cannon in drive. Toward Bilbao. They asserted the basque1 Battle was probably the fiercest of tha civil War.1 claim capture of germans Andujar Spain april up of 300 germans fighting in insurgent ranks at Yilla Harta on the Road Between Pozp Blanco and Cordoba a s claimed by government commanders Day. More about Senate continued from pare one it was believed to be the first time germans had been taken in any considerable number. The capture occurred when governmental troops stormed and seized chimera Hill after surrounding the insurgents who lost 400 men it was claimed. Vessel reported sunk St Tander Spain april 7. The Mineral boat Andra of Panama said to be under charter to a British shipping firm was reported tues Day to have been sunk by the in surgent Cruiser Almirante Cervera off Castro Urdiales 12, Miles Easl of Bilbao on the Bay of Biscay. New loyalist victories Madrid april 7. A guns thundered again at the Gates of Madrid tuesday while the govern ment s Southern army reported Cap Ture of f strategic positions in its steady encircling drive against the insurgents province. On the. Coruna Highway front principally in the Vicinity of Ara Vaca government commanders said their men had made three advances of a Little Over a mile each in As Many Days. Report loyalists slain Vitoria Spain april 7. Insurgent commanders their and Vance guards within sight of historic Durango claimed to have counted government dead tuesday in rain swept Basque battlefields of Northern Spain. Seek Canada s help Toulouse France april 7. Police authorities suspecting that Large numbers of americans and canadians Are trying to reach the Spanish loyalist army through France intend to to United states and Canadian authorities for Aid in thwarting them it de tuesday. Twenty nine americans Are held Here now charged with trying to reach Spain. At Perpignan near the Spanish Frontier an examining judge ended his questioning of seven americans and five canadians held there mittens of the commons and of the Senate had sent out a covering let Ter which was incorrect he declared. The suggested amendment would not change the balance Sheet one Iota senator Meighen. Declared but Only give the Public information on How it was reached. It was an of intelligence7 for government officials to take the attitude that the suggested amendment would Kii the said. The1 footnote on the balance Sheet would Only be a matter of so he said. Sen Ator Meighen did not press his amendment. The measure to establish a corporation to operate the trans can Ada air lines was also approved. Two amendments were one reduced the number of directors from nine to seven and provided for an executive committee of s three within the directorship. The min ister concurred in the change advocated by senator Meighen it. Hon. George v p. Graham committee chairman and senator George a. Barnard cons., it would obviate the danger of a representative from each province pressing for expenditures in his particular province which had been the experience under the . Directorship it was urged while an executive committee would be. With in easy Call to transact business. Or. Howe said that three of the seven directors would represent the government two the . And two for the other shareholders. The name of the corporation was shortened to read the trans can and air or. Howe said the flying Fields used by the corporation would owned by government. Eastern floods Ottawa april 7. By heavy Rains Rivers in the Ottawa District went on a rampage tuesday destroying Bridges disrupting Power plants endangering Homes and flooding hundreds of acres of farm lands. Casselman ont., at the Junction of the Castor and nation Rivers was without electrical Power As you know nothing Tel Etc life pict of Good tobacco in cigarettes. They Don t any frills to them taste Good to either you or Good tobacco Means Choice Leaf expertly selected. Then it must be scientifically branded and manufactured with consummate skill to make a Good cigarette. Literally it must be brought to Point where it is in its purest and Best form As you get it in Sweet caporal cigarettes. More about Alberta from pare the purest form in which tobacco can be smoked. Faucet Lystin of san Daw to Canada it Imperial tobacco j broadcast 4.45 . We require All possible Wisdom and Energy to meet this crisis that has Arisen and in order to unite the honest efforts All members of this Assembly to carry out the will of the people and thus to meet and. Overcome the serious difficulties now facing us and system of organization practice in this Assem Bly has failed to bring such Neces sary Harmony among us and whereas other systems such As the plan herein proposed Are being practice in other Legislatures in the British dominions such As Australia and the Irish free state. Be it resolved that this assent Bly do now declare All Cabinet offices including the office of pre Mier and that we forthwith proceed to elect a Premier and also members of his Cabinet by major Ity vote of this Assembly. Premier thus named if he should so desire would be _ privileged to nominate proposed ministers before the final selection is made by the whole Assembly. The present hold ers of these offices shall be eligible for election to any such offices Anc they shall assume their duties immediately upon their tax plans advanced plans of the Aberhart govern ment for additional taxation amounting in some cases to per cent on Banks finance and life insurance companies and Power corporations As proposed in the budget were advanced in the Al Berta legislature tuesday. In committee of the whole House Progress was reported on the corporation taxation measure while the railways tax proposal was advanced to third Reading. Additional Revenue of is expected to be derived from the new taxation taxes on Banks in addition to the present Levy on branches Wil be one Teeth of one per cent of paid up capital expected to bring in an additional to the Treasury life insurance taxes Wil be increased from two per cent to three per cent on Gross premiums and on loan companies it will be moved from one per cent to two per cent on Gross income. Power company rates will bet in creased from to per year and the tax on Gas companies will be based on 2% per cent of their taxable income. Action Lethbridge Alta., april 7. J. Turner president of the Taber constituency social credit Organ nation announced tuesday it hat been decided at an executive meet ing to take Era action at. Least for the present in connection with re Call against James Hansen . For Taber. The member was read out of the party some months ago. Halt demolition of aged building sold for demolition the 25-year old Industrial alcohol Plant tache Avenue St. Boniface has been Tern Pora Rily saved by an property taken Down Accord ing to an official of the City Hall monday morning. Strenuous efforts to save the vacant building were made by the City Council 60-Day exemption on the taxes to its new owners the Canadian Salvage wrecking company in order to give time for a buyer to be found. How Ever Hope when the company commenced demolition on april1.________________ rabbi Solomon continue Toni Vesty of Manitoba he Rife of Europe wed Enjay at ., theatre a University Broadway subject the of Gyro club dinner. Royal Alexandra hotel. Wednesday speaker Walter Bartlett purge is defended by Hertzog Cape town april Cable minister . M. Hertzog speaking in the House of tuesday night on the proclamation lurking. German activities in South West said he regretted Ger Many in her of protest appeared to think the manner in which South Africa to wards germans in the mandated territory had changed. The South african. Government was As Friendly As Ever general Hertzog said but it to Dis Harge its duties. Since 1924 Vari Lus governments have tried Eon filiation measures without he Premier the ast three years something has been started which might have the most Erious results if a Stop is not put of it. The proclamation is intended a give Power to the administrator if Southwest Africa to prevent petition of such conduct grave View Berlin april 1. Up Reuters German circles tuesday ook a grave View of the anti nazi measures in Southwest Africa. It is no use the Union govern ment thinking it can act exactly As t pleases just because it is far one spokesman said. The world is very Small to Day and we take the matter very seriously. Even we cannot do anything at present we shall most certainly Ake note of the matter. The Union s policy is certain to have was presented o the South african government monday. The measures taken in he pre War German territory of Southwest Africa were described by he Semi official newspaper Diplo Matischek kor respondent As Wil Liili political discrimination and the first step towards annexing the territory to the s. J. Farmer moves to suspend farm mortgage. Interest s. J. Farmer Leader gave notice monday of a res Olur Ion proposing consideration by the Egi Slature s agricultural committee of the scheme for in Terest on farm mortgages in the event of crop failure endorsed by the Union of Manitoba municipal i is. The scheme proposes that when a Farmer s returns from his crop Are Elow seven dollars per acre inter est on his mortgage should be automatically r suspended for one year and that when crop returns Are he tier than seven dollars per acre in Erest payments should be collected Only from the amount above that figure. Or. Farmer s Resolution will re commend that the committee deter mine whether the legislature should act on the scheme. Considered and officers elected. Speakers will be tra vers Sweatman k.c., and Alderman Garnet Coulter. Discovery of Oil i South of Brandon May Start drilling Brandon Man., april 7. Special Oil drilling operations May Start within a few Miles of this City May be the result of negotiations that have recently taken place Here. The appearance of Gas while dig Jing a Well for water on the farm of or. A. Doran five Miles South of the City confirms the belief held in Many quarters that Oil May be in commercial quantities be tween this City and the american Jorder. It is stated that a drilling outfit now at Yorkton May be brought there but it is1 possible that the first attempt will be made on the farm directly South of that adjoin ing or. Doran s. Brandon s snowfall is season s record Brandon Man., april 7. Special total snowfall for the preceding 24 hours reached nine inches up to tuesday afternoon. This was a single Day s record for the season and brought the total up to 47 inches. Deaths am funerals August Relerf 43, of 338 Selkirk Avenue who died april 1, at Winnipeg general Hospital was buried tuesday afternoon in Brookside cemetery. The funeral was held from Zawidowski s funeral Home to Trinity Church Dufferin Avenue and thence to the cemetery. William a. Errington who Hac operated in almost every mining Field in Ontario and the Western provinces died in Edmonton Alta. This from a sudden Hearl attack. He was a brother of Joseph Errington also a Leader in mining development in Canada. Surviving Are two sons and two daughters or Errington was born in Eastern Ontario and in recent years had been engaged in the Kenora ont. Mining Field in partners with his brother. He was 58 years of age arid had resided in Winnipeg at various periods of his career. The funeral of Thomas v. Davis who died March 23 at Misericordia Hospital aged 71, was held March 25 fron Mordue Bros funeral Home to St. James cemetery. Born a Brewers Mills Gananoque ont he came to Treherne Man., first then Canadian Pacific Hall Way company at Elm Creek Man. Retiring in 1930. Surviving widow and one son at Nokomis sask. Or. Davis was a member of the Canadian order of foresters for 34 years. Combines act passed Ottawa april 7. New combines act passed through the nigh without a recorded vote. It will restore administration of the a to the labor department and Widen its scope. Annual meeting of the Home Ani property owners association will be held wednesday evening in the Isaac Brock school auditorium at 8 ., when resolutions will be convicted of breaking into a warehouse in the Mcrae building and stealing motor Ander Brazil was sentenced to two years imprisonment in Stony Moun Tain Penitentiary by magistrate r b. Graham in City police court tuesday morning. Perfect pancakes in one two i three 2. Skillet s hot enough 3. Vote a pad to create Batter. Bake each Side to Golden Brown aunt Jemima s ready mix when a drop of water will with milk or water. Don t Bounce prepare Yothin. Around a second before Drain up. 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