Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 17, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings april 16 4.58 april 16. April 17. 4 ., april 17. For full report of meteorological office see Page one. 7 p.m., 10 p.m., 1 ., published at 5.30 Vol pages. Rises 5.32, Sun sets 19.24. Moon rises Moon sets Winnipeg saturday april 17, 1937. Sun sets 19.25, Moon rises 12.18, Moon sets 2.22. Prorogation wind up of present legislative session is expected today Only two important measures remain to be dealt with by Bills rushed through committee for third Reading Friday night prorogation of the provincial legislature ending a 43 Day on will be reached sometime saturday afternoon or evening unexpected developments upset the government s plans. When the House adjourned Friday night the government s y Bills and the legislation dealing with labor disputes had third Reading. The revision of the income and two per in Laws was ready to emerge from committee of the whole. The Bill for repeal of the of giant Airship tests new raft passengers a new Type of. Raft especially constructed for Landing Passen Gers from Empire flying being tested by Imperial airways at their Landing base at Southampton England. The Hying boat shown above at one of the new Landing rafts is the Type which will by Imperial airways for the trans Atlantic air service to begin soon. The huge flying boats Are expected to have a Landing base in Eastern Canada and the rafts May be used at the base. Rigid curb on brokers proposed Bill providing for strict control gets second Reading k Searchlight of scrutiny into the conduct of brokerage houses is provided for the permanent Protection investing Public by Arvend to the securities act put Tough second Reading in Manitoba legislature Friday. C j. Major k.c., is the sponsor. Setting up the Hon. Bill s a double checking audit directed by the Winnipeg Stock Exchange with the Public Utility Hoard supplying a supplementary Check the Bill is designed to halt without delay the activities of any firm that engages in irregularities brokers auditors will be prevent so from keeping to themselves knowledge of any firm s lapse from irregularity if the purposes of the trill Are fulfilled. The auditors will be required to report to the Stock Exchange dings. Auditor on All their to protect firms turn the Exchange auditor must Marize his information for Mission to the governing body the Exchange. In so doing he 11 identify firms by number Only less it is apparent that action inst a firm is required. The Stock Exchange auditor will be to be a chartered accountant la at least 10 years practice in Manitoba. Each broker will be re j to maintain his own auditor Tome try act had been killed and Only two important measures still had to be dealt milk control Bill and the securities act amendments both of which Are still before Law amendments com Mittee. Combined efforts of All parties at a Short sitting Friday afternoon and a full session at night made prorogation saturday possible. Bill after Bill went through committee of the whole and third Reading most of them without any. Debate. When All but five Bills which still have to be considered in com Mittee of the whole none of them Likely to stir. Up. Controversy were cleared from the order paper pre Mier John Bracken announced that Law amendments committee would meet saturday morning on the milk control Bill and securities act amendments and if in the afternoon. As soon As the com Mittee completed its work the House could clean up business and pro rogue he said. Labor measure debated the labor legislation which set up conciliation machinery to pre vent strikes the two per cent wage tax and r. H. Webb s amendments to the shops Regula Tion act were the Only items Cje bated Friday night. members made a final attempt to provide adequate Legal Protection of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers. S. J. Farmer declaring the sections in the strikes and lockouts Bill giving labor the right to organize would prove utterly ineffective moved an amendment in committee of the whole but it. Was overwhelmingly Defeated. In its final form however the British French vows unshaken witness at inquest on Julia Johnson tells of fracture Pelvic Bone on right Side broken j inquiry adjourned for indefinite period to allow further police investigation while unable to give the cause of live year old Julia John s son s death medical testimony at inquest Friday night brought out the fact violent external Force was used on the child probably while being shoved in to the old boiler in which her remains were found. The a Ray pictures taken of the child s remains by or. Digby Wheeler radiologist showed that the Little victim had suffered a fracture of the Pelvic Bone on the right Side i i Wheeler said naval race to renew guarantees brokerage Bill continued on Page 4, column 5 optometry act stays Manitoba s optometry act sur iving efforts to Force its repeal ill remain on the statute books. Repeal of the act proposed by h. Lawrence , St. Boni s. Was refused by the Legisla re s Law amendments committee Day afternoon after represent Ives of. The Manitoba optometric society defending themselves Tost charges aired in the House a stained they had no monopoly it there was no Price fixing and the legislation was a Protection 10 he Public. The committee threw out or. Werence s Bill refusing to report to the House on a motion l. St. G. Stubbs Independent for Winnipeg who declared Tat although there might be some fuses under the optometry act it be rash to wipe out the Bill met two of the demands of organized labor. Sections which would have required applicants for conciliation boards to pay the costs of inquiries into labor disputes were removed and it was made pos sible for foreign citizens to appear before boards As labor s represent legislature continued on Page 2, column 2 Douglas replies halt urged by Hoare Britain would Welcome Chance to ratify treaty he says London april 17. Up sir Samuel Hoare Friday viewed the possibility of an unrestricted naval race apprehension and said great Britain would Welcome an Opportunity to ratify the Lon Don naval treaty 1936 Between Britain France and the United states. The first lord of the. Admiralty speaking before the Royal corps of naval constructors voiced what some believed was an invitation to other Powers to meet across the treaty Board. We have delayed our a Utica Tion of the London treaty not be cause we Are not anxious to carry its proposals into effect but because we it necessary first to ensure accession of number of naval Powers. The United states have already ratified the treaty. How satisfactory it is to note that chapter in Anglo american rivalry on the sea is forever Hoare continued it is satisfying that the Anglo German agreement has prevented a repetition of Anglo German rivalry upon the sea that was so formidable a feature of the years before1 1914." the agreement per mits Germany to build her Fleet of Mutual assistance London april 17. And great Britain prepared Friday night for a solemn reaffirmation of reciprocal engagements undertaken under the Locarno treaty. They will state these obligations Are not affected by Bel Gium s return to its pre War neutrality and its desire to be freed from making reciprocal guarantees in return of re own Security diplomatic circles the., French British declaration will be made Public simultaneously Here and in Paris prior to foreign Secretary Eden s forthcoming trip to Brussels diplomats said. Importance was attached Here to the move which will in effect con the Mutual assistance under standing contracted by the two big Powers after Germany s Locarno denunciation. Except for probably minor modifications which May be made fur ther features of the joint Declara Tion will be As follows 1. Belgium s desire to have its International obligations defined in View of failure up to now to con clude a new Locarno or Western european pact will be stated. Edmonton april 17., c h. Douglas founder of social credit has replied to the. Invitation of the Alberta social credit Board asking he come Here to act As technical adviser in the establishment of the new economic pro gramme. Addressed to g. L. Mac Lachlan chairman of the Board the reply was not made Public. 2. Belgium s determination to oppose All violation of its territory and to increase its defensive strength with this in mind will be noted. 3. Cognizance will be taken of Belgium s will to remain Loyal to the league of nations 4. France will consequently Belgium of All guarantor obligations contracted under Locarno As Well As of the commitments undertaken under the three Power Provisor agreement following Germany s Rhineland re militarization 5. At the same time Anglo French guarantees of the integrity of belgian territory will be re affirmed. New move to lower Trade bars belgian Premier going to . Under Anglo French plan Brussels april 17. Paul Van trying to find a Way to Down world Trade barriers will go to the United states soon to meet president Roosevelt and. Secretary of state the injury or. Clearly demonstrated some external Force was used to fracture the Pel vis and put the hip out of joint. Or. Wheeler was one of 10 wit Nesses to testify at the inquiry and when the last one had left the stand or. H. M. Speechly Provin Cial Coroner declared the inquest adjourned for an indefinite period although As Many or More wit Nesses Are yet to be heard the Cor Oner announced the adjournment had been decided on to give police More time to Complete their investigation. The remains of the Little Johnson girl discovered in an old disused boiler Iii the basement of a Ware House at 187 Sutherland Avenue or March 22, where the body had evidently been secreted nine years before showed no fractures of the up to one third of Britain s float strength expressed the opinion there is no reason Why great Britain and Japan two Ocean empires should not resume Friendly relations that were so satisfactory a feature of former pleading for other nations to. Join the Tri Power treaty sir Samuel said its proposals would have two invaluable results. _ they would impose limits upon the size and armament of the bigger ships. They would dissipate suspicion and avoid panic among the naval Powers by making certain through the interchange of information that no new Type ships would secretly and suddenly be constructed by any naval Power. workers on Federal Airway station driven from jobs Victoria april 17. T. D. Pattullo asked co operation of Dominion authorities in attempts to solve British Columbia s Dou Hobor problem Friday As word was received from grand Forks b.c., in the South Central Section of the pro Vince that work on the Federal government s new Airway radio beam station there had been halted by Pou Hobor threats of music s big Day coveted trophies sought by festival contestants violence to workmen. Mayor t. A. Love of grand Forks said the workers at the project had been chased from the scene with threats by Dou Hobor Farmers. Or. Pattullo s request for Federal assistance followed a two hour con Ference earlier in the Day with Peter Verigin spiritual Leader of russian religious sect in Canada. Verigin told the Premier he would Welcome appointment of investigate recent incendiary so in. Commission to bombings and predominantly sole Structure governing the optometric business in the prov he was seconded by j. S. La it lib.-prog., Iberville. Optometrists and the act established optometry As a and gave the Manitoba optometry act on Page 2, column 1 zs3szsz and the Aikins memorial trophy senior piano senior violin Solo Grade a violoncello classes. The bowl Crescent trophy went to Ruth Ebert and the memorial trophy to Shirley asked which sound was a Lovely one in that word valleys Newsom thedas Alderman proposes hous in City s White 37. Its Council favors pm it v. Full Day off every with 14. Belgian visitor says Canada will a to buy More goods from his wives of striking pol winers win husbands wage in 26. Contest to make Winnipeg p attractive City in country. Smaller City Council and City favored by p the Young Winner bad Given most expressive performance of Bantock s elegiac poem and showed glorious the and attack strikes and lock prevention Page 14. To open shortly unto 26. M moves to scrap hundreds 37. Lian school children will go to 16, said the adjudicator. The pianist also was a most promising girl. The violinist show. De signs of nervousness . But what a Lovely Silken tone he had All the adjudicators joined in congratulations for the candidates artistic work. Carman choir wins Good music was catching like the measles and the Little nucleus that in 60 Miles from Carman to lift their hearts in song might cause an outbreak in their Community that would spread far observed or j f. Staton in adjudicating the Rural children s choirs in which Carman with a total Marks f86 and won Over Woodsworth school of Brooklands of and 78 dealing with the chorus part the Sweet Nightingale As she sing in the valleys the judge but answered one of the children. Burn Kenton s opinion it was v. Dou Hobor settled areas in the West Kootenay Interior. Or. Pattullo said his government had asked Dominion authorities to Send a representative to Victoria to discuss the situation and pending permanent solution of the problem would take immediate Steps to in sure Ade quate police Protection through the Dou Hobor District. Meanwhile police at grand Forks awaited instructions from Ottawa before taking action against Douk hobos blamed Tor the work Stop Page at. Grand Forks. The beam part r of the Dominion government s trans can Ada Airway s project was being 50 acres of land of which 30 were expropriated from Soukho Bor owners last february. Baldwin says Britain s duty is leadership London april 17. Up Cable the British Empire s solemn duty to the world at this time is one of spiritual leadership prime minister Baldwin Friday night calling to the Empire the first of a series of talks on responsibilities of leadership was import ant need if peace and Prosperity Are to be achieved out of "1hie present world bewilderment and doubt he Cordell Hull. Will be the second big step in carrying economic studies undertaken at the Behest of France and great Britain. The first was a discussion Here with German economics minister Schacht. A definite Date for Van Zee land s journey probably will be announced soon his Secretary said. The White House already has advised Kim the president would be glad to talk witty him. Success of the economic assign ment Given to him by France officials said May Lead Toj a world economic conference Deal ing with Many commercial and inter related problems. Informed sources said the pre Mier might invite Norman h. Davis the United ambassador at Large now in London to come to Brussels before he goes to Washington. The premiers Job As interpreted in French government circles is to find out As precisely As possible what each government is willing to do toward cutting Down Trade barriers and whether Trade agree ments must be combined with poli tical agreements be entered into separately. Recommend payment payment of a Reward to Garnet w. Adams was recommended by Civie finance com Mittee Friday afternoon. Adams was the machinist who discovered the body of Little Julia in a boiler of an abandoned warehouse on Suther land Avenue nine years after the five year old girl disappeared from her North end Home. Neck or Skull according to or Wheeler and or. Sara Meltzer who performed the postmortem examination. First fracture news none of witnesses could say what had caused the death of the for the first time it was brought out publicly that she had received the fractured Pelvis. A lengthy piece of Iron piijing1 found in the fire Box of the boiler produced at the inquest by Detec Tive sergeant Robert Hamilton could have caused to the child or. Wheeler said in answer to a question by one of the jury men. It is this piece of piping with a to shaped head which police be Lieve the Slayer and Abductor of Julia Johnson used to push her inquest continued on Page 4, column 1 final plans for Spanish patrol set International naval control scheme to take effect monday London april 17. De tails were arranged Friday for the International naval blockade of Spain upon which hang Europe s Hopes of isolating the civil War. To examine. . Boats vessels flying the United Stales Flag Well As ships of All other non member nations will Bei subjected to examination and their. Governments will be notified. Mem Ber nations Are bound to bar and which the committee has embargoed in their ships they will be under close surveillance. The non committee was not announced for violation of the ships of non intervention nations carrying cargo to Spain will be required to Slop at various designated control ports to take aboard com ready to talk Oshawa strikers accept invitation to conference Oshawa ont., april ,17. Martin president of the Uris automobile workers of America announced Early say that the in invitation of Premier Mitchell Hepburn for a con and com be Pany officials had been accepted striking Genera motors employees and com the British Empire was Best qualified to provide that leadership he said. We to the world in actual practice that difficulties can be resolved by Dis Cussion As they cannot be resolved by or. Baldwin spoke from his country Home at Chequers where he is spending the week end. The series of talks will be continued by other statesmen in the near future. Martin s statement said c. H. N or Staton s opinion the adjudicators liked the win ners tone also their excellent pitch and Clear words in the Nightingale musical festival continued on Page 15, column 4 bylaws approved festival events following Are the events for saturday in the Mani Toba musical festival com petition 930 ., music and arts building pianoforte Solo 2.30 pianoforte sight Reading ele pianoforte sight Reading pianoforte sight Reading 3 Solo and 2.30 p.m., concert Hall operatic Solo female 8 pjn., Forte Solo final Small vocal ensemble girls and or boys Grade final sunday school choirs opera tic Solo female female voice a. St. James ratepayers ratify Utility franchise agreements both the transportation and Power j and Light franchise Extension bylaws were carried in. The municipality of St. James Friday when a plebiscite of the ratepayers was taken. The total votes were transportation for 642 against Power and Light for 677 against 265. 221 result of the voting Means that the Street. Railway tracks m St. James will be removed from the Side to the Centre of Portage Avenue this year the work to be started not later than june and completed before the end of ,1937. This was the arrangement insisted on the municipal Council in its negotiations with the suburban rapid company and the Winnipeg Electar company and ii was maintained the benefits that would accrue from centralization of the tracks would More than offset the loss of the five per cent.1 Gross earnings tax abandon ment of which was requested by the Ransport action interests. A three fifths majority was required for the two bylaws to carry. But the majority in each Case was Well in excess of this. R j.jweath-, Erill Secretary treasurer was in charge of the count which was completed in Abo fan hour the vote by polls was As follows Power and Light bylaw-1, for 47 8, 20-21 95-67 transportation 1, for 48, Millard president of the Oshawa local of the u.a.w.a., and j. L. Cohen counsel for the local would attend with the committee on be half of the no Date was set for the proposed negotiations and the statement did not indicate whether employees would return to work pending negotiations. The announcement followed a general meeting of strikers barred to the press and Public after an earlier conference Friday Between Martin and. Shop stewards. Proposals for settlement were accepted by 200 shop stewards of the local Union. Attitude of the company in the event the suggested terms were agreed to by the closed meeting of strikers Friday night. Beady to negotiate in Toronto however Genera manager Harry j. Carnichael 01 general motors issued a statement saying for the purpose of ending the present strike in the Genera motors plants of upon the condition that the workers will Call the strike off and return to work we hereby agree to meet the com Mittee from the various motors plants of Canada and enter info an agreement with them concerning and working conditions the negotiations to be Gin immediately upon the Termina Tion. Of the the statement was not amp Linet to make Clear whether the comp no would treat with the men Asem Plo yees or As local Union 222 of to 8, 18-24 9a, 19-52 9b, 6-8. Likely Union requests Union officials it was Learne following requests before the company after the men return agreement to be with Ali lants involving general motors n Canada Oshawa Windsor where 500 men were forced of y the Oshawa shutdown and to Mckinnon industries Ltd Gen ral motors subsidiary at St. Catharines. Recognition of the local Mittee observers charged with ascertaining that they carry no con Traband and pick up none is tween the control port and their Destina Tion. Ships of the patrol Fleet will Fly the North sea fisheries convention lag posted outside the Spanish three mile limit they will not interfere with ships engaged in coastal Trade Between Spanish ports. A. W. Myers Dies at 65 a. W. Myers prominent in Busi Ness in Winnipeg for the past 40 Vears former president of the Mani Toba jewellers association and a Leader in All jewish activities in the died Friday at 5.30 p.m., at his residence 174 Carlton Street after being ill for about a year. He had been at his Home since Decem Ber after undergoing1 treatment at the general. Hospital for some months. The funeral will take place Sun Day afternoon at 3 o clock. There will be a service at Shearey Zedek synagogue which will be conducted by rabbi Solomon Frank and Rev. S Kastner close personal friends. Burial will be in Shearey Zedek cemetery. Or. Myers was born in Stock. Holm Sweden May 19, 1871, and As a boy came to new York with his i parents later moving to Saint John Kab. There or. Myers entered into the jewelry Trade and travelled As a Young Man throughout the Mari time province of a. W. Myers continued on. Page comma 3 the weather Union no. 222, u.a.w.a., by the company Here. Seniority rights to be Grant a the workers. The company to accept the strike continued on Page 4. Column 3 Vazis inflamed Berlin april .17, nazi officials Friday night demanded Swift Argentine action to avenge the cowardly assassination of Joseph Riedel whose slaying sunday in Buenos Aires pro face some charged was the work of communist International agents. Buenos Aires reports unconfirmed indicated the chief of the Hitler Ite organization m Argentina was slain by during a the official View Here was revealed by Rudolf Hess Chancellor Hitler s personal representative in the nazis party who referred to a cowardly assassination in a Carie of condolence the killing was described in Lon despatches with editorial Comien _ Eulogi zing Riedel As _ _ Martyr to the cause of germanium abroad and a new victim of communist minimum 41 barometer. D at 20 Miles per hour .11 pre sky partly Cloudy. Pc sure i Hish Over the Airt por Tion of the continent and the incl Lucs Friday whiff a trough of Low extended Trouth Westward. Trom Northern Manitoba states. Showers occurred in the sees and Gulf Northwestern a Marlon Howera in Northern Esse Rome a in the or who met Whitt temperature. A Ontario. Dawson. Aklavik son 1th taps i Smi it. P. Rupert Victoria Vancouver Kaml Zopfi. P. George Jasper Edmonton banh Lith Bridge. 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