Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 7 ., april 13. 10 april 13 1 ., april 14 4 ., april 14 for full report meteorological Ohice see Page one. Vol. Pages Sun rises 5.38 Sun sets Moon. Rises 7.40 Moon sets Winnipeg wednesday april 14, 1937. Published at 5jo suspects arrested killed held link to hold up pair wanted by local police arrested at Regina said by police to be the ban Dit suspects nos. 3 and 4, the Quartetti who last thursday morning held up two employees Paulin Chambers limited 311 Ross Avenue and Escapee with the payroll close to two Winnipeg men Are held by police at Regina sask taken into custody tuesday after noon at the instigation Winni Peg police the pair were identified a Dan Orlowski and Mike Tokaryk they were in Possession in Cash and two revolvers chief police George Smith Vas informed by Regina police chief Bruton. When in Winnipeg Orlowski police said lived Rupert Avenue close to police Headquarters. To hark s address was not known. They were accompanied by two Young Winnipeg women whose identity police declined to divulge. Neither is known to local police who have notified their parents to whom they Well be returned at the conclusion the police investigation. Meanwhile they Are being detained As material witnesses. Detective sergeant Harry Alex Ander and detective William Mcpherson have gone to Regina to bring Orlowski and Tokaryk Here Lor trial. They were accompanied j by Corporal r. R. Scotney . Taken to Regina police Headquarters following their arrest in a Rooming House the two men. It was Learned unofficially Are alleged to have admitted their part in the payroll robbery which followed the abduction and detention the fists steel hectic scenes Mark drive to oust Schwab Wilmington del., april 14. Men steel squared off with clenched fists at the annual stockholders meeting the Bethlehem steel corporation tuesday in a Battle Over the fitness Charles m. Schwab to remain As Board chairman the firm. No blows were struck but were waved menacingly and Eugene g. Grace Bethlehem president had be restrained from lunging at two minority stockholders who de killed in a motor Accident automobile struck an Iron Standard at Kensington London. Mrs. Ince suffered facial injuries. Well known in Hollywood picture circles Ince had been in England and for the last three years working for eng Lish movie producers Charles m. Schwab handed that Schwab retire. Don t come around and feign Grace shouted at the Gilbert and l. C. Cosh and new they stepped up to Schwab s chair at the directors table at this close the session. Grace moved toward Gilbert and Coshland much smaller men and they backed away. Other directors gripped his . Other explosions there were other explosions protest against the two Stockhold ers unsuccessful move to Force Schwab out his Post a Job he has held for More than 25 years into retirement As honorary chairman a annual pension. Gilbert asserted that the Veteran chairman had outlived his use one Small stockholder John Schwab continued Page 5, column 3 american motion picture director Ralph Ince was yielded stocks nazi soviet peace Hinte taxi Driver. Court told Anderson paid debt with personal funds t. C. Anderson president the former firm Anderson Greene and company had Given up securities to which he might have had some claim in order to satisfy overdrafts at the Bank and had Transfer the Anderson Grain company w. B. Mccririck manager the Bank Toronto testified tuesday afternoon. Or. Mccririck was giving Evi tempers frayed social credit Bill is finally passed Edmonton april 14. Special and legislation the government the social credit act came insurgent social creditors in the Alberta legislature tuesday night. The act providing for appointment a permanent aboard House members who would select a commission experts to administer a social credit programme was finally. Given third Reading. It appeared to tie the final flare up insurgency the session which is Likely to adjourn today Dence at the preliminary hearing . Anderson before magistrate a. Campbell charges conspiracy to defraud and theft. Further details the Anderson Case appear Page 5. At the opening the tuesday afternoon session the hearing in Cross examination by Hugh Phil Lipps k.c., j. M. Dunwoody Mem Ber the firm auditors employ ask Rogers to mediate mayor Oshawa requests Federal labor minister to intervene Oshawa ont., april 14. Up mayor Alex. Hall tuesday night despatched an invitation to Hon Norman Rogers Dominion minister labor to mediate the strike general motors Canada workers. The mayor telegraphed the min ister after failing to receive an answer from general motors As to whether the company would Wel come Federal intervention in the dispute. The mayor said he outlined the circumstances to the minister with the request he come in As All Par ties to the dispute Are losing Anc firms across Canada Are suffering from the he said he had no reply from an invitation to Premier Hepburn to come to Oshawa and see Hov Auto strike continued Page 9. Column 3 until june. For full details the Bill see Page tempers were frayed As rebel members the government Side sought to insert amendments but ailing to establish responsibility he Cabinet to set up a social credit scheme in the interval before june he insurgent attack collapsed. The responsibility will rest in Large measure a Board five members. The motion mrs. Edith Rogers ., that the Cabinet accept the responsibility was voted Down by 12 to 28, with All members the Cabinet voting to retain the Board provided in the act. Mrs. Rogers said i Hope you realize you Are voting non Confidence in the later when Hon. Nathan Tanner objected to frequent no a from the insurgents a. V. Bourcier Lac Ste. Slammed his chair against his. Desk and walked out h. O. Haslam Nanton raised a storm when he said g. L. Maclachlan Had accepted chair Manship the Board when he Learned that he was to receive 38 a Day. The insurgents who declared Alberta continued Page 5, column 3 de by Anderson Greene and com Pany told discussions concerning a proposal to secure a seat the Winnipeg Grain Exchange for t. C. Anderson. He admitted that the proposals had never developed beyond discussion. Or. Dunwoody admitted to . Phillipps that he had heard com paints that miss e. Brabant office manager for the Anderson Greene irm arid l. C. Thompson employee lad been Given too much work to do. He believed that his inform a Ion had come through Alex Black to was working . The Anderson Greene books for the Dunwoody irm. Not up to Pate Black had informed him that the books were not up to Date and had suggested two persons men toned might have been too Busy. He admitted that he. Had. Not invest to see if Black s suggestion was justifiable. Touching his acquaintance with. Miss Brabant Anderson Case Page 11, column 4 All time record rebel guns hurl at Madrid Many civilians killed Dur ing heavy bombardment capital Madrid april 14. Generalissimo Francisco Franco s big guns again opened up against the heart Madrid late tuesday after two successive insurgent in Fantry attacks had been smashed by government troops in the University City and Casa de Campo sectors West Madrid. Scores non combatants were Kille d wounded by High explosive shells which the Puerta Del sol and the populous workers districts the besieged City. The bombardment resulted in an angry protest from Gen. Jose bombardment the capital s civilian population was unnecessary in View the fact that military concentrations com pletely., ringed the capital in a Rains Brnt that turned the Manzanares Valley into a quagmire the insurgents attacked in the University City sector shortly after Dawn. Tanks armoured cars and mounted machine gun batteries battered government lines along the River Bank where Madrid s de fenders Are threatening to isolate the insurgents barricaded n the University grounds since the Early weeks the Madrid siege. Crack detachments moors and civil guards were thrown into the insurgent they were re jews again under fire in Germany nazis ban All meetings except worshippers gather ing in synagogues Berlin april .14. Cap Ger Many s government struck another blow at jews tuesday. An unexplained police order banned All jewish the gatherings worshippers in Syna 60 Days. Police would not say Why the action was taken and jewish sources declared they knew no recent occurrence which might have caused it. Even if Only four jews gather police May disperse them. Jewish societies musical clubs athletic All other jewish hold no meetings. Jewish sports clubs which were scheduled to meet opponents abroad cancelled the games because under the ban the athletes cannot practice., jews feared they sent to concentration Camps and their property would be seized if they violated the order. Some expressed belief the government s next anti semitic move would be to compel All jewish store owners to give Public notice their race. The nazi drive to make Ger Many purely which be in new peace Exchange these diplomats according to a report i the London Star tuesday night Are to be transferred by their respective countries in an Effort according to the Star now underway by Hitler to effect a rapprochement with soviet Russia. On the left is Joachim von Ribbentrop German ambassador to Britain who is reportedly to moved to Moscow while Maxim Litvinoff right. Soviet foreign commissar replaced by a non jewish official. Gan soon after their accession to Power in 1933, has isolated jews from other germans by denying full citizenship and barring marriage with non jews. Those Steps were enacted in Laws for the Protection Ger Man blood and Honor in septem Ber 1935. Nazis now assert jews in Germany Are not germans and never can Are jews in and German subjects but not citizens. Or. Gerhard Wagner Leader the Reich medical Guild has placed the number . Full blooded jews in half jews he numbered at and Quarter jews at Vatican warned interference not tolerated in internal life says Reich Berlin april 14. Declaration the Reich will not tolerate any interference with its internal life was announced tuesday night in a synopsis the German note to the Vatican carried Here by Deutscher Nach Richtenburg official German German seek in to strife London report says Hitler loses Confidence in italians London apr 14. Von Ribbentrop Man ambassador at London Wil be transferred to Moscow soviet foreign commissar Maxim Litvinoff will be Remov-1 de from his Post in a move establish Friendly relations be tween Germany and the sen Union the Star said tuesday night. The newspaper said Chancellor Hitler had decided to make peace with Moscow is a result his loss Confidence in Italy s military Power As demonstrated in Spain. On the advice military leaders the fuehrer has called a halt in the anti soviet press Campaign in Ger Many the Star declared. The next step will be the removal von Ribbentrop from London where he has proved unpopular because his nazi Salute to King George i at a recent levee and also because alleged nazi Active the paper Ribben trop s successor probably will be a news Agency. The note an official Pope Pius encyclical accusing Gernian violating the 1933 concordat was delivered to the Newsom Hemf starving chinese cast children Fecto streets because inability to feed 11. Soil expert urges exclusion Garnet wheat from All Northern 2. Toronto medical Man appeals imposed for hurting be 9. Washington Gridiron banquet roasts Roosevelt court legislature approves prayer to be used at opening Daniel Mclntyre school principal called to give 10. Coronation troops leave for Lawa monday 22. Ported decimated by Veteran., militiamen and asturian Dyn miters Ottawa april 14. All time record tourist traffic for can Ada in 1937 was forecast tuesday by Hon. C. Howe transport minister. He based his expectation the number by the Canadian travel Bureau and the generally improved business conditions in United states. The Canadian travel Bureau has received iroc juries since the first the said . Howe an increase 93 per cent Over the number received in the corresponding period a year ago. Spanish War continued Page 11, column 4 Rush work Bridge pedestrians May be allowed Osborne Street Structure saturday partial use Osborne. Street Bridge by the end . The week was promised by w. A. Brereton City Engineer tuesday afternoon As lie rushed the work repairs necessitated by damage caused by the collapse Trie 70-ton South counterweight pedestrians he said would prob ably be permitted to Cross the Bridge by saturday but it would be at least three weeks before vehicular traffic would be allowed to use the Structure. Or. Berton explained his prob Lem to civic improvements com Mittee tuesday afternoon and was Given a free hand to effect As speedy repairs As possible. His intention he declared was to engage three shifts men to keep the Vork going 24 hours the Praise warm at festival the new Folk song. Class any voice in English French got a warm Welcome from the adjudicators at the. Manitoba musical. Competition festival Ning at the auditorium. Folk song had a Charm technique and a use All its own declared George Dodds. If singers wanted to develop their Powers interpretation picture Story telling where could they go better than to these old stories put into rhyme then into tune and passed Down orally from one generation to another the Best survive Vatican tuesday. J Catholic attorneys meanwhile were advised Reich fuehrer Adolf Hitler had ordered resumption foreign Exchange trials priests monks and nuns. Text the note was not published immediately but. The Ger Man Agency brought in from Rome the following synopsis Germany expresses Surprise at the tact the Pope not Only engaged in criticism internal conditions in the Reich but went so far As to launch a worldwide Appeal which to a certain extent seeks to erect a general anti German front claim pledges kept referring to the assertion made in the papal letter that the. Catholic religion is being destroyed in Ger Many the note claims far reaching concessions made to the Catholic Church by the concordat were Al ways faithfully kept by the govern ment. It Points to financial assistance granted to the Church which it claims has gone beyond contractual obligations. The Reich. Will not tolerate any interference with its internal life. The note declares peaceful development which As Ever is Der sided by the Reich will depend the future attitude the Vatican and the capacity the Church to adjust itself to Condi i ing four very Nice Little songs their own selections had been Sung in this Competition by four very Nice Little singers. The Winner Evelyn m. Campbell Sang the English Down by the River Side e. J. Moran and managed the. Difficult 5-4 rhythm. The judges had been much impressed by a Quebec . European nationality singing a song in that rhythm marvellously freely. This girl who earned 88 Marks phrased with most Graceful curves she had intimacy mood her song was very Well built up which was very important in Folk song performance. The other three candidates were heard in French Folk songs and were within two and five Marks the Winner Irene Bilous and Fanny Narovlansky coming out a tie with 86, and receiving Praise for their. Pretty tone Nice very clean words and Good Story Tell moved ahead Bill to repeal optometric act gets second Reading action toward repeal the Manitoba optometric act was taken by the legislature tuesday night when a Bill sponsored by h. F. Lawrence , St. Boniface got second read authority was Given his ing. Lieder contests top honors in the voice and ing charging that the present Law enabled the Manitoba optometrists society to run a closed corporation that was nothing less than a Price fixing Racket a hold up the pub Lic and a bar to free Competition . Lawrence declared that the legislature would be doing a Public service it. The Bill will come before the Law amendments committee where a hearing will take place and the optometrists society Given every Opportunity to defend. Itself against the charges that the present act is against the Public interest. Quotes prices prices charged by optometrists for Eye testing and glasses had jumped since the government in 1927 surrendered its Lawrence Bill continued Page column 3 seeks raw materials would tax land a old Dixie custom two negroes tortured lynched after not guilty murder plea Winona miss., april 14. Two negroes were tortured and lynched by a mob More than 100 White men near Duck Hill miss., late tuesday within two hours after they had pleaded not guilty in court to a charge Mur Dering a White Man. A third negro suspected by the mob complicity in the slaying George Windham a country storekeeper was whipped and run to out the county. District railway employees Union Roosevelt Townes. Who leases 10. Jesse. Sheriff e. E. Wright Saidi Britain s Coronation plans Are that Hie shot win Dhara. Was tied to Ell 22. stake near Windham s store and tortured to death with flames from a blow Torch. A negro identified Only As Boot Jack Mcdaniels indicted Wijn Townes was shot and his body burned. Townes and Mcdaniels were taken from sheriff Wright and two deputies As they were being led from the courthouse to be returned to the jail to await trial thursday. The negroes were handcuffed placed in a waiting school bus and taken to the store where Wimdham was fatally shot through a Vandow last december. Then the negroes were tied to a stake and tortured. Recommendation to remove the remaining counterweight the North Side the cantilever Span and instal supporting girders the underside the Bridge. The ques Tion Cost is to be worked out by the Dominion Bridge the concern engaged to out the work. Eventually Aid. John Blumberg said the City should remove All the overhead work. It certainly was an eyesore . Brereton admitted. In any Case Aid. Tred g. Thompson added the North Span would have to go for people would never again feel Safe with it Over head. The cause the collapse the South counterweight was still a mystery but it would soon be explained after reports had been received a full investigation now being carried out by the City chemist Anil engineers Aid. Blum Berg said. The closing the Bridge has not been without some Benefit to some one the Engineer said., the Winni Peg electric company is taking advantage the situation to Lay new tracks from the South Side the Structure to River Avenue a work it has been contemplating for some tinjj.7 Pisario lieder contest went to con stance Stefanik and Helen Young with .43 and 43 Marks for each them in Newiger Liebe musical festival continued Page 11, column 1 festival events following Are the events for wednesday in the Manitoba musical Competition festival 10.30 am. Concert Hall piano Solo Bach Grade b. Assembly Hall beginners piano Solo. 9.30 Music and arts Hall girls and boys duets. 2.00 Hall Rural school choirs Public school choirs finals Bach piano Grade boys and girls duets beginners piano Solo. 4 30 pan. Concert Hall Grade b contralto. 520, con Cert group 1 songs. 4.30 and arts Hall senior violin. 8.00 final senior violin final concert group three songs Sun Day school choirs private school choruses Church choirs Grade b. Brussels april 14. Apr. Hjalmar Schacht Germany s minis Ter for economics paid a flying visit to Brussels tuesday to Tell Belgium s leaders his nation s economic desires and apparently to bid for materials concessions in belgian Congo. Legislation gets second Reading Over Lone protest Lamont legislation to tax University Manitoba lands not used for educational purposes got second read ing in the legislature tuesday night with Only one voice that j. S. Lamont lib.-prog., Iberville raised in vigorous protest sponsored by w. R. Sexsmith cons., Portage la Prairie As an amendment to the University act the Bill was supported by Hon. Douglas Campbell minister agriculture and John Queen . Enactment this measure would be tantamount to confiscation acres All that is left the original Dominion land Grant said . Lamont. He pointed legislature continued Page 9, column 1 Veteran career Diplomat. Soviet leaders Are in sympathy with the German move for improve i ing relations and have agreed to remove Litvinoff target German press attacks because his jewish birth the Star added. It said lit Vinoff probably will be replaced by Vladimir Potemkin recently re called from his Post As soviet ambassador to France to assume the Post assistant foreign commissar. Common ownership in Reich Berlin april 14. One will own land in Germany when j the new civil code is completed according to present plans. German Farmers already know that farm lands despite old Legal titles belong to those who can pro s Duce what the nation needs to make it economically self sufficient. Abolition ownership As understood in democratic capitalist part the new civil code now being erected by piling decree upon decree to conform with the National socialist Conception the modern state. No old Legal title will save a Farmer from being ousted from his lands if he fails to produce. State officials have been empowered by decree to remove Farmers not producing enough according to nazi standards and to replace them with More efficient soil tillers. As described by Roland Freisler state secretory the moist by Justice the new civil Structure is not merely a revision Laws affecting property rights a modification inheritance rights to agricultural but the establishment an entirely new functional status for the Farmer As a member the National Community. The right a mortgage Holder to foreclosure farm lands is no silence grave longer taken for granted the Farmer s productivity is considered before he loses the land lie tills. In the Case the hereditary farm no mortgage is possible nor is the Sale permitted to persons outside the family. Spirit magician Thurston fails to fulfil secret pact the weather monday 6.30 ., to it 6.30 ., 35 maximum. 40 minimum 35 barometer 29.84 North went wind at 19 Miles per hour .17 precipitation sky Cloudy. Sunday to Tuc Tonj 6.30 At 0.30 ., 42 maximum 47 minimum 35 barometer North East wind at nine per hour Maxi mum humidity. Minimum humidity sky partly Cloudy. Pressure was Low Over Northern ont Ario and Quebec tuesday and a trough Low extended from Nebraska North Westward across Alberta to North British Columbia coast with relatively High pressure Over Northern Manitoba and off the at Antic coast ought to mod Erate showers occurred in Ontario North them Quebec and Northern Alberta though in other districts the Weatter was fair. Considerably above Normal temperatures prevailed in Southern Ontario also in Southern sections Saskatchewan and Alberta. Columbus o., april 14. Howard Thurston s tuesday to strike spirit failed a magician s Wand from the hand a Friend who Knelt before his Tomb in fulfilment a secret pact. Claude d. Noble Detroit administrator magician Thurston s estate wiped tears from his eyes As he Rose from the floor Green Law cemetery Abbey and remarked i am sorry but not disappointed. Neither Howard nor i Ever believed in spiritualism but he was deeply interested. In trying to discover True Phenomena Thurston who died exactly one year ago made 24 agreements with friends to try to communicate with him after death. Noble described Bis Effort As the last All being uniformly unsuccessful. At the moment fixed by Noble As the time Thurston s death he grasped a slender Wand and said aloud my. A. Dawson 22 42 Aklavik 0 Simpson 28 soft. Smith 22 48 . Rupert. 38 Victoria 48 54 Vancouver. 44 58 Kamloops 42 58 . George 34 .18 Brandon Winnipeg it. Arthur Moog Nec Cochrane Hun Uville. Par. 38 52 50 24 44 22 go Jasper Biz Norton. Calgary Lethbridge Mcd. Hat m 68 s. Current w 6b a Tueford. 48 . Albert m 38 Saskatoon. 23 Moose jaw z8 62 my. A. 2ft s3 35 47 33 3d 42 30 so 34 so 29 54 64 39 02 x4 so 28 50 Regina you is Over but i la try my hand next and the next just to make Howard thurs ton. In memory the pact you and i made in years gone by i hold this Wand before me. And i beseech god willing to strike it from 24 forecasts Cloudy London Toronto Kingston Ottawa Montreal 38 58 Quebec 32 s2 St. John 30 Halifax. 28 60 c exit Teton 26 to Chicago 48 St. Paul 4o 82 showers districts. Cool Fol Low flurries Cloudy with cat tried mild to South Porior. And ;