Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 16, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 7 ., april 15 10 ., april 15. 1 ., april 16 4 April 16 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Fott vol pages. Sun rises 5.34. Tun sets 19.22. Moon rises 9.51, Moon sets 1.08. Winnipeg 16, 1937. Published at 3 to I .1 i fraud drive prosecution urged As result of mine inquiry at Quebec assistant attorney general recommends proceedings be taken against person responsible for salting of Rubec assay ores declines to name culprit Quebec. April 16. Up a recommendation that proceed be taken against the person responsible for salting of assay res from the property of Rubec mines limited in Northern Quebec was contained in a statement made Public thursday night by edouard Asselin assistant attorney general of Quebec. The report based on an inquiry by Willie Amyot registrar of the Quebec securities act upheld a claim by j. M. Godfrey Ontario securities commissioner that assay samples had been 1 i or. Amyot in the report said i my a considerable proof had been Gath Dulc i medal and condolence milk Bill advanced by House legislation to set up Board of control Given i second Reading legislation setting up of three persons to control the production Supply distribution and Sale of milk in the greater Winni Peg area got second Reading in the legislature thursday night without Queen s amendment to Stubbs motion big majority for Garnet suggested Edmonton chamber of Commerce defends North Alberta country Edmonton april establishment of an 16. Up additional Grade Lor Garnet wheat and continued admission of this variety into no. 4 Northern and lower grades were proposed to the tur Eoa Grain commission thursday by the Grain Section of the Edmon ton chamber of Commerce in a Brief defending Northern agriculture. Clashing with recommendations made by or. A. G. Mccalla of the University of Alberta that Garnet wheat should not be admitted into the first four Northern grades the Brief led to recalling of or. My Caila. When or. Justice Turgeon filled a phrase in it imputed bad Faith to or. Mccalla. Winding up the Edmonton sit Tings the commission heard Alfred Chard Alberta freight expert and traffic adviser declare freight charges into Alberta were excessive. Removal of some restrictions would improve business Between Alberta and British Columbia or. Chard said. 0. S. Longman Alberta Field crops commissioner w. C. Moraw accountant in the Field crops Branch and Horace Woodman Secretary in the Alberta provincial Treasury department gave evidence on Relief granted Farmers Between 1s30 and 1936. The outstanding amount of Feder Al and provincial assistance to formers was now it was shown in figures submitted to the commission. Of this amount had to be considered in Coue table. All of the which is considered collectable May not be collided said or. Longman. It was made up of seed Grain and feed and fodder advances tractor fuel and Oil advances and Bonus to registered seed growers. Exact Divi Sion of the amount As Between the Dominion and Alberta govern ments was nol Given. Fear tie up by strikers in Britain London april 16. Up Cable strikes and threats of strikes a night impeded the Prog vast Industrial Jared to definitely conclude the responsibility or one person in particular for the falsification. But he believed the person should not be named in the report because the publicity would enable him to escape before being arrested. The report compiled from find Ings made by Paul d Aragon Mont real Engineer and provincial Gist l. V. Beil charged that Salt ing of Diamond drillings had been Practised since operations opened at the company property in july i 1936, i not Only did the Quebec report confirm the charges by or. Godfrey hat Drill holes 15, 18 and 19 had been salted but or. D Aragon claimed similar salting had been done to the proudest moment of this Little italian sea scout s pictured As Premier Benito Mussolini pats him on the Cheek after pin Ning Atneal for valor on his breast. At right another Side of the picture is shown. Her son top was valiant. He s buried somewhere under a burning african Sun in Ethiopia and All his Mother has to remember him by is this solicitous expression of condolence from ii Duce. A recorded vote. In moving second Reading Hon. Douglas Campbell minister of Agri culture pointed out the principle of the Bill already had been Dis cussed in the House. Before it was adopted As a government measure the approved of its introduce May resume negotiations Tion following debate on milk Board motion. By Edmond Prefontaine member for Carillon and the milk producers samples from holes 1, 3, 4 and 6. In All or. Amyot said n his report we must declare that nothing in the evidence tends to a Criminate in any Way whatsoever the Alexander. Diamond drilling company or its officers or pm fraud of such a said the report would be diminished greatly if work on All Quebec mines was directed by a professional in Amy company Union con Ference to be at tempted Friday Toronto april 16. New attempt at resumption of direct negotiations Between general motors of. Canada and the Oshawa. Branch the United automobile workers of America is to be Trade Friday Premier Mitchell Hepburn announced thursday night. The Premier has stated general motors will not negotiate with the it was noted that Hugh Thompson . Organizer the Centre of much Contention had not been invited to Friday s proceed Ings. Whether the strikers representatives would attend without him was conjectural. The Day saw the Premier sworn in As minister of welfare labor and municipal affairs in the place of Hon. David Croll whose Resigna Tion had been demanded the Day across. Canada s strike front Hepburn announced the Ontario government would assume full responsibility for maintenance of Law and order in the province. Heavy rain men and women were Oil picket duty at the general motors Plant shoe company re fused to accept the principle of a closed shop and its 110 Union employees went on strike. Cash wages instead of vouchers 30 men employed on Relief work went on strike after one Day s work. Officials said men who refused to work would off Relief. Union recognition and abolition of asserted sweatshop conditions an Esti Croydon Surrey Uia Johnson Morison was fined 54.90 in police court Here wednesday for exceeding the 30-mile Speed limit on the London Road. Mrs. Mollison was allegedly going 40 Miles an hour in heavy traffic. Her solicitor the lady has won the admiration of the whole world for her wonderfully intrepid flights and it is possible that being accustomed to 150 and 200 Miles. An hour she would not notice the difference Between 30 and 40." the flier at present in new York sent a cablegram expressing her extreme regret at the unintentional minister of mines was sworn in As act chg attorney general taking the place of Hon. Arthur Roebuck who had also been disc insect another dismissal. Dismissal of Joseph Sedgwick k.c., one of the senior solicitors in the attorney general s department As abrupt As it was unexplained aroused anticipations of More dismissals full support of Premier Hepburn s policy on the Oshawa automobile strike was affirmed thurs Hepburn continued on Page -13 column 3 m a7tnc of Britain s machine. Coal miners throughout the county including Scotland began to Mot thursday to decide whether Aey were ready to Call a nation strike in order to obtain re _. Ilion for the mine workers duration in the Nottinghamshire Coalfield. Scene miners in England in Scotland began the which will be concluded Fri passionate outbursts Mark debate on Spain by Grant Dexter. London april 16. Special of West Minster Are agreed that not since pre War Days has the House of commons staged a free for All equal to wednesday nights Spain. The opposition and the government like two frigates lashed together fought with concentrated and bloody minded fury. The socialist motion of censure deploring the failure of the govern mated or workers mostly women and girls employed in Montreal s dressmaking Industry walked out. Members of the garment workers " Union will meet to deter mine when to go on strike in All subsidiaries and offices of Montreal ladies garment companies. Work ers in Winnipeg and Vancouver would go out at the same time Sam Kraisman Union official Sid. Picketing stopped at the packing Swift can Adian company and Burns and com Pany. A Union organizer instructed the strikers to ask. For their of Back without being granted Union recognition. Two Hundred of the 475 original strikers Are still out. Hanover patrolled the Seisz furniture company where 80 employees Are on strike the William Knetchel milling com Pany has remained closed since sat urday when 15 employees struck. Hamilton hourly wage increases 235 longshoremen went on strike. At Toronto a strike loomed when Dock workers and ship owners failed to see Eye to Eye of wages and working conditions. Shawa mayor Hope Ful Over agreement at Detroit Oshawa ont., april 16. Up Layor Alex. Hall of Oshawa thursday night expressed the Hope Canadian Union would be born As a result of International Union Heads and Detroit general motors officials deciding to leave strike settlement negotiations Here with Canadian company officials and local Union committee members. The Youthful mayor who wednesday demanded a showdown by Union officials regard ing their support for general motors strikers Here issued the fou owing statement the Issue is squarely up to the people of Canada. The invasion of foreign intervention for International advantage need not now be considered. I am reiterating that if or Martin Chymer Martin inter National president of the United automobile workers of America on behalf of the International Union can not Back up these Oshawa men then the Oshawa men must make strike continued on Page 5, column 1 president of association. S. J. Farmer Leader stated that when the Bill was first under discussion he had asked that a representative of the Consumers be named to the Board. He now noted that the printed Bill failed to specify that a consumer would be appointed. Baps free press or. Campbell explained it was an omission that could be corrected by amendments com Mittee. Or. Farmer stated that he had been called a betrayer in a free press editorial because he had supported a Bill that gave to the producer some say in remuneration he should receive that would yield him the Cost of production plus some decent Standard of living. It was unfortunate that some news papers did t practice what they preached continued or. Farmer. The Winnipeg papers charge for subscriptions All the traffic will Bear and sometimes Supply us with shoddy and adulterated or. Prefontaine said there was a mistaken impression that the producers were going to charge the Consumers exorbitant prices. Thai was not at All the Case. The producers Are not after the Consumers at be added. They would have Only one voice on a Board of three. The swept by Fife the two Storey Frame building occupied by Reuter products limited 594 Des neurons St. Boni face was swept by fire of unknown origin thursday night. The Blaze discovered by an employee working on the premises rapidly swept through the building giving firemen a stubborn Battle be fore it was brought under control. A number of firemen were kept on the scene 2 of clock Fri Day morning. De to get prices that would enable them to pay their employees mini mum wages. Asks selection method Errick Willis conservative Leader asked by what Means the representative of the Consumers would be selected for the Board. Was there any body of Consumers of official status which would name a representative to the Board or would the government so out and find a consumer or. Campbell explained that the three members of the Board would be named by the lieutenant Gover nor in Council. If however then was any organization of consumer that wished to make representations they would be carefully considered by the government a and reported to the executive w the federation tuesday for action. Meat to protect British shipping on lawful business released passions created by the government s foreign policy of the past two which rushed out like lava from a vol Cano. It did not seem like words that were flying around the Cham but rather Marlin spikes and crowbars. Government thrashed the government took a terrific thrashing and it is doubted if its policy of tacitly recognizing the Bilbao blockade will be maintained r r Attlee Leader of the labor _ _ ______-14. Newsom Hemf party led the assault sir John Simon the Home Secretary and sir Archibal. Revised education department passes through committee stage 2. B. Simpson quits . And run for City Council As inde dodgers in higher brackets e hard time evading in fun Page 7. Replies Sinclair 1ute of Empire s troops to place in Coronation Parade. 13. Junior Britain has Only 10 Days e Supply denied in Young liberals elect president for 1937. Edward _ Page 7. Brings gloom to anti pest iatce3 As tag Day 7. Says Canada first principle a not be 7. Inree sent to Hospital As result Page 7. Raps Selling slogan 25. Fri Ier workers organize. Page Liberal Leader pitched Healing into the fight stirring government backbench ers to angry and inarticulate replies. Is it necessary to asked Simon. answered Sinclair if am to be heard Over these zoological the admirals and colonel Blimp roared More passionately than be fore. Eden alone seemed Able to compel a measure of respect Frorer the opposition. These Are some o the phrases hurled at the govern ment dodgers pro franc oites hands off Franco and his Spanish patriots fascists and nazis cow Ards quiling before dictators an other in the pants for Britain friends of which Side a you on Mussolini s or democracy betrayers of democracy betrayer of and the league the British Navy is flying the White Fla by yielding to Franco pushing the Spanish government Aid ing. Franco starve women and nil i Pinion who spoke for. An hour Ever completed a sentence with it interruption. He opened with a Juditd contempt of the opposition raping his figure Over the table congratulations Good a kure choir entry wins adjudicator s Praise one of the most satisfying things about your festival is that you have a Good entry Irr your Church choir classes. Think font if Thev re at the Bottom of t Given charges of brewery lobby Fly through legislature Independent member s condemnation of Bracken policy is 44-4 vote rejecting by an overwhelming majority l. St. G. Stubbs condemnation of the Bracken government s policy in taxing Eastern Canadian Beer the legislature thursday adopted an amendment altering the Stubbs motion beyond All recognition of its original meaning. Voting 44 against four the Assembly recorded its preference for John Queen s amendment which left Only four words that this House condemns in or. Stubbs motion. Instead of condemning the government the patched up motion condemned the practice of provinces imposing obstacles to inter Provin Cial Trade and urged the govern ment to continue its efforts with other governments to abolish Trade barriers. Before the vote was taken or. Stubbs let Loose Over the House a withering verbal blast having As to main targets or. Bracken and Hen or. Major or. Queen and or. -.awrence, whom he termed the free brewery j charges of lobbying by the Beer j a crests were Flung by m. To Lewis. Independent Rockwood and. Marcus Kyman amid debate which skirted around with out touching the main Issue. Shouts charges shouting his insinuation that a Obby had been Busy or. Lewis asserted that the Beer Barons of this City could not dictate to him. Or. Stubbs exclaimed that not even scrutiny through a Microscope would reveal any indication that be had been influenced m his stand. The three members who rallied to or. Stubb support in the Divi Sion vote were Lewis h. H. Wright Independent Emerson and s. E. Rogers social credit Roblin. Miss Salome Halldorson social credit St. George and James Litterick communist Winnipeg moved from their seats and did not vote. Special for Brewers would Lead to demands from other interests for Protection said or. Lewis in the Beer debate. Already poultry men objected to eggs from British Columbia and florists wanted to put an end to shipments of Flowers from Alberta. No evidence had been produced to show that Manitoba Brewers operated at a loss continued or. Lewis. How much better it would have been if the government waited until it had Laid its Case before the legislature. Then it might have proposed higher License fees and a higher Gall on age tax As legislature continued. On Page 6, column 4 rebel win at Durango is claimed basques deny insurgent report of important capture St. Jean de Luis France april 16. Las Kavas railway station 10 Miles West of Al escorial fell before the blasts of loyalist Artil Lery thursday As Gen. Jose Miaja defender of Madrid renewed his drive on the insurgent general Field Headquarters at Avila. Hand to hand fighting was in Progress in the Guadarrama mountains West of he Madrid As Alist forces drove Forward to occupy 480 Square Niles of rebel held Tor War continued on Page column 2 the weather wednesday a.30 To thursday at 6.30 25 Maxi mum 37 minimum 23 barometer 30.09 ast wind at eight Miles an hour Iky tear. 6.39 ., to noun Dndr at g.30 43 Maxl num 44 min Traum 25 29.82 Southeast wind lit is Miles per hour a maximum humid by minimum humidity by fac sky Cloudy. Showers occurred in Southern Ontario and in some parts Quebec and tha Ilari limbs and it was Cool Over Ontario and Northern Quebec. Ell in Saskatchewan and Northern Mani Toba though in other districts of the West the weather was fair. Cuita Nelld in Alberts Saskatchewan with tendency of higher temperature to Manitoba. Pressure was High from Hud son Bay southward to Lake. Michigan with Low pressure along the Atlantic coast and Over the greater part of Northwest portion of the continent. Conditions. The dressmakers at a mass meet ing prepared to picket Between 75 and 100 shops that refused to recon Dize their bargaining organization the International ladies Carmen workers Union of America. Dawson Aavik Simpson pm Smith or. Rupert. 40 46 i. A. 24 49 32 34 38 Victoria Vancouver. Kamloops 40 32 44 60 40 58 or. George 40 my 30 36 32 50 3t 42 49 52 Jasper Edmonton. Banh Calgary Lethbridge. 54 med. Hat so 58 s. Current Battleford. 32 5s or. Albert. 32 m Saskatoon 32 62 i. A. Regina 34 Brandon 22 51 Winnipeg 23 44 Kenora 24 42 it Arthur. 20 38 16 26 Cochrane Huneville p. Sound. London Toronto it Aston Ottawa Montreal Quebec St. John Halifax c Lott town Choc so St. Paul 20 28 33 41 34 Sll 34 38 30 42 38 44 32 42 40 48 34 48 34 4s 38 48 35 60 36 40 34 61 Moose jaw. 38 84 of webcasts Cloudy Milder i taxi by Rutins a probably Plaht Abc Iacre irm ;