Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 09, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings y.m., april 8 -f43 10 ., april 1 ., april 9. 4 ., april 9 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Fott pages. Sun Sun sets 19.11. Moon rises 4.40 Moon sets 17.44. Winnipeg Friday april 9, 1937., published at 5jo Mild. Ultimatum Oshawa will accept no outside police r of City memorial to George v begun chief magistrate declares own Force competent to handle strike situation Hepburn throws resources of province behind company Oshawa ont., april 9. Alex Hall thursday night told More than cheering strikers of general motors of Canada limited he would not allow the Canadian or Ontario government to Send militia or police Here to intercede in the strike. Total number of strikers who walked out thursday morning was Over enforcement of Law and order is the duty of the said mayor Hall. We have of own police Force to look after our Rome 111 feeling is mounting renewed italian charges followed by football game cancellation Rome april 9. Ayers to meet increased financial Jnard Esmust be taken into account the this decision it is Jek eved will be an application of the City Hydro for a Board of arbitral Ion. These men asked for a per cent while the Jeneral. Body of Only requested 6 2-3 per cent. A motion by Aid. Jacob Penner to Institute a Flat s 2-3 per Cert restoration throughout the service did not reach the voting As legislation the House adopted new legislation to reduce interest rates by 50 per Securi ties or debentures guaranteed by the province. The legislation also provides that no action be. Started in the courts by Security holders without the per Mission of the lieutenant governor in Council. The new social credit act incorporates the social credit measures act and the credit House act adopted at the last session of the legis lature. And i a Bill introduced by Premier Aberhart for appointment of the commission of technical sex tools by striking picketers. Intimidation threats were also made against two of the seven who went to work but they were prom set police Protection if they stayed on the Job. Aid. Paul Bardal chair Jan of the civic Relief committee said. Picketing to prevent new being employed worm be carried on at the Street cleaning depots it Learned. In most cases thurmen would Haye Een doing their work cheerfully if they had not been impeded by the strikers aided by outside agitators Aid. Bardal said. The latter took the stand that a person should not be. Obliged to for a Livins if he chose to live in idleness. He amendment delaying a. Restora Ion until the finances improve ook precedence and carried by Lour votes to two. The dissenters were Aid. .m.w. Stobart and. Aid inner. If we. Are poor we must be poor Aid., Margaret me Williams said summing up her reasons for supporting the Amend ment. She was much impressed with the arguments of men but her sympathies did not stretch to the Point where the committee would vote a. Restoration no Money to cover it. The Dominion action in increases to the civil servants Hac perts. The new legislation first Reading was sponsored by Provin Cial treasurer Solon Low after or Aberhart had withdrawn his Bill from the order paper. Provide for commission the main .provision., for the commission. It will be selected by a Board of House members of which g. L. Maclachlan Coronation is and will change administration of soda credit acts from order in Council to the commission plan. The commission will have wide Powers As will the Board appointed Alberta continued on Page 4, column 2 House rushes Bills prorogation May be delayed Over furniture Tariff fight Ottawa april 9. Nine Bills through third Reading the House of commons thursday marched a Long Way toward the goal of a week end prorogation but certain Tariff changes remaining unapproved left the attainment of the goal still Little More than a possibility. Two Large sized to week end prorogation materialized during the Day the furniture Tariff in the House of commons and consideration of the combines Bill by the Senate banking committee. Hon. A Oil Dandurand Leader said the government was ready to sit if necessary to give the Senate time to consider the Bill Senate consideration would require a full week Hon. Arthur Meighen conservative Senate Leader asserted. A measure to eliminate the Gold Cei Ved third Reading. It. Hon. H. B Bennett conservative Leader thought it went top far in Declar ing private contracts calling for payment in Gold were against pub lie policy but he agreed with the general . Bills to create a Reserve in the Royal Canadian mounted police and to regulate the Sale of feeding stuffs and respecting the testing inspection and Sale of seeds and amendments from the Senate to the trans Canada air lines Bill received third Reading. The measure to authorize Thi guarantee of seed Grain Loans in the three Prairie provinces Drew a series of questions from Western members who stated Farmers were afraid they would not receive a much seed As they required. Or. Bennett criticized the gov no wage boost continued on Page 8, column 4 Hopes grow for breaking of deadlock 9. Outlook for the Senate and1 House of com Mons to Iron out their disagree ment Over changes in Bill of Vna Tiona railway financial Structure a somewhat brighter thursday nigh As the Senate adjourned. Shortly after 6 The Sena t carried a conservative amendment 37-26 which went further than the government had consented to go in to Compromise with the upper House majority. Government Leader Raoul Dandurand said h would submit the amendment t the House but did not i now wha View that take. Efforts were made wednesday night and. Thursday to arrive at Compromise with the senator George p. Graham lib Brockville while not agreeing t a schedule in the balance Shee proposed an amendment to have footnote on the balance Sheet Stal ing that the proprietor s equity i disclosed in the net debt of Canad and in the historical record of government assistance to railway As shown in Public accounts of. this Compromise did not Mee the wishes senator c. The conservatives Beaubien cons asure from obligations under sex Ern ment for failing to the seed Bonds and agreements re 1 needed when prices were lower. V Montreal moved a sub amendment that the footnote should state the proprietor s equity represented a aggregate indebtedness of he wanted the figure inserted to keep before the Public the amount of Money that had Bee expended. After a debate lasting much o the afternoon the libera opposed insertion of the Amoun and conservatives insisting on i the Beaubien sub amendment a carried. Vote to retain wage tax 3eer tax 3ffensive s begun Stubbs denounces measure As subterfuge Lawrence major defend it Manitoba s tax on imported Beer Vas denounced As ail attempt to do y subterfuge what could not be one legally by l. St., g. Stubbs in be legislature thursday afternoon us defended by h. It. Lawrence and Hon. A j. Major As the Only protect Ion the province had against East in Canadian slave labor and Atory wealth of the Ontario and Quebec brewing monopolies. The two hour debate on the Beer question followed the introduction if a motion by or. Stubbs which ensured the government for Dis ruminating against outside Beer. It Vas seconded by m. T. Lewis. De ate on the motion was adjourned in John Queen. Quoting extensively from free Ress editorials or. Stubbs said that he paper had made out an unanswerable Case against the Beer tax iut that it had cooled off when poli ical expediency entered into the be Stion and had finally dropped he Issue. Charges camouflage it was he said Laid Down in the Constitution of the. Country that no 3arriers whatever should be erected against inter provincial Trade. If he Law says that something cannot be done directly it will not allow it .0 be done indirectly. The Bracken government a he charged was trying of do something by camouflage and subterfuge which it could not do legally. Surely the Constitution of our country should be honoured in the spirit As Well As in the letter. This jeer tax does not do so. It is administrative the government and the paid propagandists of the breweries had attempted to meet the criticism engendered by the tax with the state Beer tax Conti Rixie on Page 4, column 4 open Mart plea made centralized Grain Trade would disturb shipping Industry probe told Vancouver april up can Ada s shipping Industry would be disturbed if. The Canadian Grain Trade were turned Over to a single Hoard or company such As a wheat in the opinion of Hugh a. Stevenson of the Cana Dian transport company Ltd a Vancouver ship chartering firm Turgeon Grain inquiry Here thursday. A competitive basis should be maintained in shipping he said and German series Germany is close to the break ing Point. What is going to. Happen will she explode or collapse and what will the aftermath be War or internal disruption seeking the answer to these vital questions with which the whole peace of. Europe is the free press sent Grant Dexter London staff Cor respondent to Berlin. He has written a graphic series of articles based on personal observation and available information in Germany and England. The first article will appear saturday. Bracken Weathers storm of session s most severe test Twenty nine members of legislature come to support of government in three two independents Aid Premier the two per cent wage tax remains in Force. Repeal was thrust into the future in the Manitoba legislature thursday night when 29 members rallied to the support of the Bracken government to beat Down 25 opponents in three division votes. Msj full membership of tre House with the exception of or. Speaker participated in the vote in which the Bracken ship of state Rode out the storm. It was the government s most severe test of strength to Date this session. Supporting the government were the Block of 22 Liberal progressive votes the social credit group of five and two members listed As independents h. B. Wright Emer son and Oddur Olafson Rupert s land. Opposing were the 15 con furniture duty jump is attacked Western liberals open fire on new Tariff Board rates Ottawa april 9. Furniture tariffs proved a Stumb Ling Block the House of commons thursday night a Sharp debate developed late in the evening with Western liberals attacking the new rates recommended by the Tariff Board. Tariff changes announced in the Dunning budget were before the House most of the evening Anc scores of items passed As quickly As called by the chairman., there was a momentary pause while a j. Deachman lib. Huron. North criticized new rates for fur Felt Anc Wool hats. Then came the full attack on the furniture1 item which increased the rate on american importations from 30 to 37% per cent and after deducting the 10 per cent reduction under the Franco Canadian treaty of the Grain Trade centralizing of ship centralization might mean chartering. Evidence to be presented on Selec Tion of wheat for protein Content will show a difference of less than one Quarter of one per cent in wheat shipped to the United states and the United kingdom said Hon. T. L. Ralston k.c., Montreal com Mission counsel. John. Of South Monica calif., former terminal elevator employee at port Arthur ont exam k.c., Winni counsel for Mccabe Brothers rain. Company and Isaac Pitblado k.c., counsel for the Winnipeg the Vancouver Grain Exchange said when he was dismissed at. Port a thur in 1934 he had remarked that they could t get away with but he denied or. Heffner s ques Tion that he had threatened to get even with the company Lor his dismissal. A report being prepared by the Board of Grain commissioners on the selection of wheat for its Tein value would be submitted later to the commission As said col. Ralston.1 extensive tests of wheat had been made on which the report will be based he said. Will not ratify Washington april 9 Man disclosed thursday night their government has decided not to ratify an agreement to pay on United states claims growing largely out of wartime explosions at Black Tom and Kings land a j. Spokesmen at the Ger Nan embassy said the agreement had been worked out provisionally and conditionally As the first step in an energetic Effort to improve Ger Man american relations and under the impression that Germany would receive beneficial concessions. Mine bunk House Burns out., april 9. One Hundred and Twenty five men were homeless and with practically no clothing excepting what they wore Here wednesday night As a result of the fire on the Macleod Cockshutt. Property wednesday afternoon the fire was due to some defect in the heating arrangements of the building. Tariffs continued on Page 4, column 7 Servatia is the group James Litterick communist m. T. Lewis Independent and l. St g. Stubbs. Before the House for a final show Down was or. Stubbs motion to put the legislature on record As restoration Hopes dim n Austria asks legalized sweeps the highly profitable business of Sweepstake operations was brought to the attention of the Manitoba legislature thursday night when e. F. Shannon lib.-prog., suggested that the government capitalize on the Public demand for tickets and legalize sweeps for the Revenue they would bring in. A great Deal of Money was going out of the province every year for Sweepstake tickets and he thought it would be a Good idea for the government to get some of it. Enough Money might even be made to make it possible to abolish the two per cent wage tax. Favouring repeal of the two per cent tax to which were attached amendments moved respectively by Premier Bracken and n. V. Bachynsky Goyt Fisher specifying conditions under which such repeal should be brought about. The Premier s amendment specified that the two per cent tax should be repealed As soon As a majority of the House approved of sufficient reductions in expenditure to offset it or. Bachynsky s amendment to legislature continued on Page 4, column 5 throne claimant must wait Many years says Chancellor Vienna april 9. Lor Kurt von Schuschnigg told the associated press thursday night restoration of the hapsburg Mon Archy will have to wait for Many years and registered his belief world rearmament is preparing the Way for disarmament Austria cherishes peace above All else he emphasized and it has no desire to undertake anything like restoration of the House which once ruled the Austro hungarian Empire if there was a possibility peace would be jeopardized. The Little entente nations of Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and re of which were included in the Austro hungarian Empire up to the end of the great ago expressed open opposition to reiteration of the Mon clash court letter dubbed Bac stairs evidence by magistrate a courtroom clash in which a letter tendered by Hugh was characterized by magistrate a. C. Campbell As Bac stairs evidence office boys marked the thurs Day afternoon Cross examination of miss Elaine Brabant formerly Secretary treasurer of the defunct Anderson Greene and com Pany during the preliminary hearing of charges of theft and conspiracy against t. Cuthbert Anderson. With the court room packed or. Phillips sought to introduce a letter from Bagdad written by or. An Derson s former partner e. A. Greene to miss. Brabant Heads leaned Forward and ears strained to hear the contents of the letter but objections by Orville Kay sustained by magistrate Campbell prevented it. From being read. One sentence mr., Phillipps Man aged to read brought a Roar of laughter from the crowd. It was have you covered your shorts the laughter subsided As Stern Calls Lor order restored the room to its usual quiet during the afternoon the room became 50 full that it was necessary to lock the doors to bar further spectators. Trouble in 1933 destruction of House accounts operated by the firm of Anderson Greene and co. Started some time in 1933, miss e. L. Brabant testified in continuing her evidence. There had been trouble witness courtroom. Clash continued on Page 4, column hits foresight Lack Bennett blames government for not stocking seed Grain april 9 because governments of the Dominion and the Prairie failed to exercise Farmers of West Ern Canada would have to buy their seed Grain this Spring at a Price representing an. Enormous profit in which the growers did not share conservative Leader h told the House of commons thurs a Bill authorizing the Dominion to guarantee seed Loans totalling nearly for Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Or. Bennett said that at any time in the past three months the require ments of seed Grain could have been bought at a great saving. The recent increase in wheat prices had been anticipated by practically everybody but those in Day. Discussing the government or. Bennett declared a Newspaperman Only a Newspaperman an editorial writer in or. Bennett said had seen what was coming. Every living wheat operator in Canada was going on that in a discussion of Market operations or. Bennett took occasion to declare he had never owned a Bushel of wheat in the Market in his life Longs and shorts played too great a part in the wheat Industry. If there was less speculation there might be some Hope for the resenting a suggestion from the opposition benches that he had operated on the Market in Oats Agri culture minister j. G. Gardiner declared he had never sold Oats in his life except what he had grown on own farm. I is Bandit kills Pai Dawson a Javk Simpson i. A. N 10 1b 48 it. Smith. -211 54 hit 66 96 in 55 5g 60 56 s6 so or. Rupert. Victoria Vancouver. Kamloops or. George. Jasper a Edmonton. Banff celery. 41 2k 32 21 26 2b 30 med hat. So. Current 32 Battleford. 28 pr., Albert. 2b Saskatoon. 2b much Ibe came temperature. I Archy in Austria. Archduke Otto 25-Yearrold exile who lives with his exempress Zita in Belgium is heir apparent to the non existent austrian throne the present austrian government Schuschnigg said will not think of recalling Archduke Otto until the world is Safe for such a develop ment in the danubian Valley. Under the most favourable circumstances he said that will be Many years. I never have made a secret of the fact that it is my personal be Lief Austria s destiny is bound up in the ultimate restoration of the Chancellor said. But the labor of completing the state making it function in a Man Ner Best serving the people has nothing to do with the form of government so restoration is a matter which can wait. First a majority of austrians will have to be convinced that restoration is Schuschnigg who works at the desk of the late Chancellor Engel Bert dollfuss next to the room where dollfuss died in a nazi coup in 1934, said he was not concerned by the possibility of any internal disturbance in Austria. He asserted he had two great missions 1. To maintain the Independence of Austria 2. To make Austria prosperous. Austria is surrounded by Power Ful neighbors he said but i am confident none is planning expand Montreal april 9. 28 year old sex convict Sam Wolman was shot and killed thursday night by a companion s gun As he struggled with n policeman who had found the pair breaking into a warehouse in suburban of Tremont. The weather wednesday Bjo ., to Thun Day at 6.30 22 Maxi mum 40 minimum. 22 barometer 30.35 North wind at live Miles per hour sky Clear the Nadir Eon ., to 6.m at 6.30 ., 43 Maxi mum 48 my mum 2t barometer 30.27 Southeast win i at nine per hour maximum humidity minimum humidity Nefcy. Partly Cloudy. Pressure wan Jow South of the lower lakes a deep 4iiturbar.ee was centred of he South a Librador coast while pressure extended from Hudson Bay i southwestward across n Lares part of the Western Ata Tew. For Light showers near Sale weather was fair in provinces pm War in the went with Al Lyle temperature change in Eastern Canada. Minimum and maximum temperature i. Mil. 22 10 Brandon 16 in Winnipeg .21 Kenora 20 it. Arthur. Moosonee. 1ft 20 29 Parry sound 28 34 Toronto 39 Kingston 36 Ottawa 32 Montreal 38 Quebec 32 St. John. 30 Halifax 32 Charlott ten 34 Chicago 38 St Paul 20 ;