Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 05, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 ., july 4 _f.g0 9.30 ., july 4 12.30 ., july 5 3.30 ., july 5. For full report of meteorological office see Page one. 18 pages Sun rises 4.2st us n sets 20.40. Moon rises. 14.21 Moon sets. Fatal fusillade . Policeman. Slayer dead. Third wounded in gun feud fascism praised denounced Toronto july 5. Up four fascist and three held in torome monday night and except for one minor Street Corner disturbance Al were orderly affairs. Odrien Arcand Leader 01 Lene Way formed National Unity party of Canada addressed a fascist in Massey Hall. About 1500 persons admitted by invitation heard him outline his proposals for a corporate state and Canada for several blocks North in the sports Arena of Maple Leaf gardens at a Public gathering heard an address by William e. Dodd former United states ambassador to Ger Many and other speakers. Dodd warned that present Day democracy faces its greatest danger and declared that democratic countries should co operate economically. The. Meeting was sponsored by the league for peace and democracy. Anti fascist meeting in the open air at Queen s Park before the Ontario legislative build Ings. 400 gathered at an anti fascist meeting addressed by William Den of the regional Council of the co operative Commonwealth federation. Dennison said a former member of the fascism party scheduled to speak did no attend because we fear for his in the Street near Massey Hall police took away a wooden platform or Vised by anti fascist speakers and in a disturbance that followed four men were arrested charged with obstructing police. Fascism will enable Canada to reconquer its own territory Torr the red clutches of Moscow and International jewry within three years. Adrien Arcand of Montreal National Leader of the National Unity party told the Massey Hal meeting. Arcand maintained his part stands for loyalty to King coun try and christianity. Greed graft profiteering mus go political parties Are responsible for the disunity and Lack of bar Mony in Canada Arcand declared. It is a disgraceful thing that i canadians have to reconquer of country from the arcane declared charging that jews a trying to conquer the world am that they Contra the Gold Banks and set world prices. Close to civil War at the anti fascist meeting Maple Leaf gardens r. L. Calder . Said Canada is closer to Civi War today than anybody dreams. A potentially fascist state a teen set up in the province o Quebec where the people now wer free Only by the tolerance of the government he charged. Fre speech and free Assembly had Beer abolished and the police multiplied three or four times. There fascists prevent meeting such As this by threats of violence and Are encouraged from the Bench the Council chamber and the Pul he told the meeting. In the schools of Quebec Musso Lini was held up As an Ideal Anc the italian corporate state an example to be followed he said. 449 violent . Deaths Prince Rupert ., july 5. Fusillade of revolver hots shattered the quietness of a hum drum afternoon in this Northern British Columbia port monday and left a Veteran provincial police officer and his Slayer dead and a brother officer probably fatally wounded. Acting inspector w. J. Service transferred Here Only a month ago As commanding officer of provincial police Northern detachments was shot dead As he sat in divisional Headquarters talking with sergeant Robert Gibson. Gibson was shot in the of Holiday by the associated press violent death ended fourth i july celebrations for at least 44 persons in the United states. Nev York led All other states in the death Parade with 37. Fireworks took Only three lives compared to the Pace setting Auto Nobile traffic toll of 225. Drown Ings ranked second in the deat column with 123. Twenty one wer shot to death 15 committed suicide 11 were killed by trains and 41 b various other causes. New York s death toll set As the country observed the 162nd Andrii Ersary of its Independence com prised 20 traffic victims 14 drown a suicide a victim of Burn we a girl mysteriously shot while atoning fireworks. head As he tried to disarm ser ice s Slayer. He is Given Little Lance of recovery. A few minutes later Mike Gur Ich taxi Driver dropped dead with Bullet in his head As he blazed Way at other officers of the de ashment who had cornered him in Beer parlor. Police said Gurvich former Pati it in the provincial mental Hospi Al near new Westminster ., and been served with a summons or trespassing on the Canadian National wharf Here earlier in the a. Dies instantly As the 55-year-old acting in spec or and his sergeant conversed in heir office the taxi Driver walked a fired twice at service then As Jibson rushed Over swung his gun round and dropped the officer Ith a Bullet in the head. Service died instantly a Bullet in is head and another through the Eck. Constable d. W. Taylor heard the lots from an adjoining office and used out to see Gurvich dashing it of the building. He telephoned in Uptown police office. Corporal Harold Hay one and constables g. H. Clarke and Terry Tewart left to intercept Gurvich on he route he would have to take to his taxi office. Within a few minutes the taxi Man drove past them cursing and refusing their order to Stop. The officers went to the cab of ice. Gurvich was i the Middle of he Street with a gun in his hand. When he noticed the officers Gur Vich fired at the Corporal and Hay one fired . Threatens other the taxi Driver then retreated nto the Beer parlor shouting i be dulled two of you already and i la get anybody else that comes near the officers into the Beer parlor after him and As Gurvich standing on a chair opened fire at them again Clarke dropped him with a Bullet in the forehead. Police said Gurvich had bought ammunition for his .38-calibre re Volver at a Prince Rupert hard Ware store less than an hour before the shooting. Shortly after he had received the summons they said he had consulted a lawyer. An inquest was opened into the death of acting inspector service monday night and adjourned till later in the week. Service s death ended a career in British Columbia s Khaki Clad police Force that started 25 years ago unbroken since he joined in r.913 with the exception of the great War years when he served overseas. He had served through the British Columbia Interior from k. Loops to fort George and Smithers in the North Central part of the province and at this Northern port eight years ago. He is survived by his widow and five daughters the Yoi nest five years old and the eldest 17. Sergeant Gibson 50, joined the provincial police in 1818 after he returned from overseas service. He was sworn in Here whore remained Ever since. Donna m. Aitken Winnipeg has been named temporary Secretary of the con Ergative convention opening at. Ottawa today. Canada s Best High Quality of exhibits praised at fair opening Brandon Man july 5. At this exhibition Are of Canada s Best. Such an exhibition is the Best form of advertising it has meant much for Manitoba agriculture and or the people of this As a whole. This sentiment was expressed by Hon. W. J. Tupper lieutenant governor of Manitoba As he opened this year s provincial exhibition monday evening and was cheered lustily by two thousand occupants of the grandstand. Alberta s Appeal from Canadian supreme court judgments is up for Waring tuesday 11. General Franco offers to make a held by Spanish govern an immune 16. Or. Justice Langton of London England suggests thermometer to sauce 16. Mass invasion of Canada s High ways by . Tourists believed to Nave set 11. Richness diversity and verve of Paris Are like Stevens reports. Alberta creditors intend to make Aberhart prime minister of Canada Large parties of visitors from the United states were cordially welcomed in turn by h. A. President of. The provincial exhibition by mayor f. H. Young on be half of the City and by the Lieuten ant governor. President Mcneill expressed appreciation of the Large attendance at the 57th opening of the exhibition and especially to the Large number of visitors from the United states. He stated the number of exhibits nearly approached those of the Peak years 11 years ago and greatly exceeded those of last year in some classes to the extent of 60 per cent he mentioned there were men still serving As directors who had served the Board 45 years ago. Bond of Union mayor Young said the Large num Ber of visitors from several parts of the United states appeared to Lim As evidence of the Bond of Union that existed Between the people of the United states and the Dominion of Canada. Referring to the unavoidable absence of the governor of North Dakota Hon. W. J. Tupper remarked it really required two governors to open an institution of such importance to the province As the provincial exhibition of Manitoba. He declared the association of the Brandon fair continued on Page 7, column 5 Hukow Falls to japanese Shanghai july 5. Military authorities today announced the capture of Hukow by Jap an s Yangtze River forces hammering toward Hankow the temporary capital in the heart of. China. Fur ther stories on War appear on Page the fall of Hukow one principal barriers to a tonic Page 13. Francis 18. Horse disease spreads killing scores of Prairie 18. Excellent crop prospects result of Road week end 8. Brought4 the japanese of the Hankow invaders within 160 Miles of the capital. Iphil Awu _ once the japanese pierced Hukow s outer defences military officials said the City s capitulation was almost bloodless with chinese withdrawing leaving quantities of German Vej certs to Hankow. July 5. American society in London said the government of great Britain is grasping at temporary and made a plea for closer Anglo american co operation. Or. Eden said by co operation he does not mean identical policies or an identical Outlook. But he did mean that these two great Peoples should be working for the same approach of both of them to world problems must be influenced to a Large extent by the ideals and traditions which they share in further or. Eden said his plea for closer Anglo american co opera Tion did not mean that the United states should be asked or expected to pull British chestnuts out of the fire although there Are beginning to be quite a few chestnuts that concern us statesmen of the United states have rendered invaluable service by their leadership and by their Public declarations in recent he said. Anti isolationist note the United states ambassador Joseph p. Kennedy who spoke after or Eden sounded an anti isolation is note declaring we Are finding More and More that nations cannot live to themselves with any More happiness or Comfort than can individuals Mildred. Sheffield 12, daughter of or. And mrs. Wilfred Sheffield of Buffalo Gap drowned sunday in a dam near Buffalo Gap where the family had gone on a picnic. An older brother jumped in and dragged her out artificial respire Ion failed to revive her. Discipline ordered Vancouver july 5. Up mayor George c. Miller said monday he would order fire chief Archie Mcdiarmid to Hunt out and discipline any firemen guilty of failing to co operate with City police during eviction of single unemployed from he civic Post office and Art gallery Lere two weeks ago. Jews doomed Saint John n.b., july 5. Of the approximately Are rabbi a. Babb Sain John declared monday at the fourth biennial maritime Young Judaean convention. This number in Europe is undergoing a persecution unparalleled in he Saie to explore peaks Bombay India july 5. Up a h. Secord of Winni Peg lecturer London school of economics and m. K. Vyvyan Secretary of the British embassy in Washington Are planning to leave soon to explore some of the peaks around the Hishyar Glacier North of Gil git Kashmir. Both Are mountaineers and members of me Alpine club of India. New soaring record Elmira n.y., july 5. Trim motor less Craft sped silently through Clouds Over three states to land at Washington d.c., monday and smash All United states distance soaring records. Climaxing Long distance performances at the National soaring meet Here Lieut Robert m. Stanley of the United states aircraft Carrier Lexington soared 225 Miles in 7% hours. The old record was 212.45 Miles. Experimental flights Berlin july 5. The German air line announced monday it would conduct weekly experimental trans Atlantic flights Between Lisbon Portugal and new York via the azores from mid july until the end of october. Germany has been Given approval for such flights both the portuguese and United states governments. Reaches new York new York july 5. Easily at Floyd Bennet Airport on nearby Long Island at 5.49 pin. Howard Hughes million Aire sportsman flier monday night completed a one Stop transcontinental flight preparatory to a trans Atlantic hop to Paris. His trip from Wichita kas., where he spent Sun Day night required seven hours 16 minutes. Church hit again Berlin july 5. Up havas French limited Nistra rumours Bennett pledge of loyalty to chosen Leader demanded Ottawa july 5. An unqualified pledge of loyalty to the conservative party and the new Leader will be exacted from every candidate for the Mantle of it. Hon. R. B. Nett at the National conserva Tive convention which opens today. As party men and women from All parts of Canada took up their quarters in the capital today the convention commit tee met and Drew up rules for the leadership contest. One of the first acts of the convention this morning will be the selection of permanent chairmen and secretaries. The committee monday named Hammet p. Hill of Ottawa and edouard Masson of Montreal temporary chairmen and Frederick Dorion of Quebec and Donna Aitken of Winnipeg temporary secretaries. After welcoming speeches by representatives of Ontario and Ottawa or. Meighen and sir Thomas White Canada s War time minister of finance will deliver keynote speeches. The Campaign to make Hon. Or. Fly thick and fast around Meighen. Stevens at Ottawa r. J. Manion Leader was in full swing monday night Headquarters for the Manion sup porters were established in the capital s principal hotel. In charge were George Heon . For Argenteuil Errick Willis Manitoba conservative Leader and or. W. J. P. Macmillan former Premier of Prince Edward Island. Or. Heon said he had been chosen As spokesman for the French speaking delegates from Quebec. The French element has decided to follow me and i m the official he said predicting that 90 per cent of the Quebec vote the convention will be Given a free hand in selecting its permanent chairmen. The convention commit tee monday decided to give the Lead pledge continued on Page 7, column 4 voice resentment it. Hon. Arthur Meighen sir Thomas White who will deliver keynote speeches at the conservative convention today. . Convention gossip july 5 the conservative convention opening Here today Likely will change the official name of the party from Liberal conservative to National conserva Tive it was indicated Here monday night. The old identification Liberal conservative does not appear on any badges or programmes which All Bear the words National conservative delegates from Young Canada conservative clubs and other Junior party organizations held a closed meeting monday night ahead of the National conservative convention opening today. They met in the party caucus room in the House of commons. The Young people today will meet separately from the National convention to draft recommendations for their the various committees of the convention., candidates for the leadership Toronto s Trio were conspicuous in the urbane and smiling Denton Massey grave but always accessible Joseph Harris genial and Hail fellow Well met. Throughout the Day they held court in the hotel lobby As train and automobile discharged delegates. Hon. H. J. Manion former minis Ter of railways and canals put in an appearance from time to time escorted by ardent admirers. No where to be seen were or. Bennett and or. Stevens. East met West. Errick Willis Manitoba Leader saluted former confreres from the maritime. A Page boy uttered genteel Calls for or. Of Saskatchewan. Hon. Wesley Gordon former minister of labor stalked in from the North country. T. A. Kidd former speaker of the Ontario legis lature sized things up with Toronto members. Hon. Raymond Morand former Cabinet i the Meighen government found com Pany with t. A. Thompson con., w Hon. G. Howard Ferguson former Ontario Premier got a great Wel come when he reached the hotel. If there Are. Solid blocs from any of the provinces they have not revealed themselves. A tie up of Trie drum Anion. Some How messers. Lawson Massey Anc Harris were not mentioned with the same prominence a. Week ago the dark horse was or. Macpherson and the Uncertain element was the Western vote. Exonerated alta., j by 5. Carleton manager of the Chicken ranch at the Alberta mental hos Pital Here exonerated by a Coroner s jury late monday of any blame in connection with fatal shooting of a male patient Early sunday. Carleton told the Jui. Under or. E. A. Braithwaite of Edmonton provincial Coroner the patient was about 50 Yards from Carleton s House at the time of the shooting and he thought the patient was a Skunk. Skull have been tailing chickens it was stated. According to evidence the patient who had escaped a few Days ago through a window had a mama for Suici Deir Tive autonomy of the German evangelical Church was further reduced monday night when religious minister Hans Kerry issued a de Cree declaring illegal All parochial groups in Church administrations. The decree was the sequel to a pre Vious ordinance which provided that All administrative activity of parochial groups would be abolished As soon As the official state bodies set up to direct the churches began to function. Lightening Ascania Quebec july 5. Up grinding of ship winches echoed through a drizzling rain on the Broad St. Law rence River monday night As scores of longshoremen Laboured to Speed up lightening of the liner Ascania anchored a few Yards from the reef she struck Early saturday morning. All Day As rain swept the slanting decks Grain was poured from the damaged liner into the holds of the Lake freighter Leth Bridge and general cargo was transferred to the Little coastal boat Jean Brilliant the unloading continued monday night under lights As efforts were made to have the Ascania Start to Quebec within v two or three a s on air Force Ottawa july 5. Resentment at the stand taken by prime minister Mackenzie King on. The possible establishment of flying schools for the. Royal air Force in Canada and speculation Over the intentions of three men. Appeared uppermost in the minds of delegates to the National conservative convention monday night. Leaving aside rumours the Field is narrowed to four or possibly live candidates., the four certain entrants Are Joseph Harris Denton Massey ind Hon. J. Earl Lawson All Toronto members of parliament . J. Manion former minister. Of railways and canals. The fifth May be Murdock Mcpherson of Regina will arrive in the capital from Saskatchewan in the morning. Story by Chester Bloom on convention preparations appears on Page 4. I understand Murdock will a Saskatchewan Delegate said Mon Day night if or. Mackenzie King s views of Canadian cooperation with the United kingdom in defence matters prevails Canada is out of the British Empire in the opinion of prominent conservatives questioned monday Naglit. They regarded a Strong declaration on this question As certain to come from the convention. The first Plank in the platform should leave no doubt that Canada is a part of the British a new Brunswick Delegate said. The conservative party should come out for thorough co operation with great Britain not the kind of co operation or. Mackenzie King an unqualified pledge of loyalty to the. Conservative party and the newoleader_.wiu4bv-Nxacied from every candidate seeking the Mantle of it. Hon. R. B. Bennett it was convention continued on Page 5, column 1 monday Ottawa ont july 4. Canada s capital City has gone convention crazy. Trains busts and motor cars Are Dis gorging their deluge of delegates and the More they come the More disjointed and diametric grows the gossip about who s going to be who and what s going to be what when the pro a feedings actually get under Way on tuesday. The safest thing of course is to stay away from speculation altogether. But what kick would a pre convention piece have with out prognostication. To be wrong is no More a crime than to pick the wrong Pony at Polo so Here goes with the morning tidings. Senator Arthur Meighen was headlined in this morning s Mont real Gazette As having agreed after the leadership providing he is Given one of the Safe seats in Western Ontario and providing he is also Given full Powers and full prominence As House Leader Dur ing the next session Jia other words providing or. Bennett will take a senator Meighen will this afternoon be reported in certain other tory organs us having telephoned to or. Bennett As soon As he Learned of the Story denying absolutely its authenticity and denying also that he has altered his former decision to remain in the background which if True puts the convention car on the track leaving the race As before Between monday continued on Page 4, column 4 flies today the National Holiday of the Isle of Man. Known Astyn Wald Day is celebrated on july 5. On Tynwald Hill on the Island the Laws enacted Dur ing the year Are read in the Manx and in English in the presence of All government officials and representatives of the people. The Manx Flag consists of the Union Jack on a red Field with the three legs in yellow in the Field. It flies today from the free press Courtesy quips and quotes Ottawa ont., july 5. Return of Hon. H. H. The tory fold provides the big noise in pre convention gossip. Everybody is talking about him. Question remains does he come bearing a Palm Leaf or a Torch will he fight and fume or will he merely fret and if it s to be War can he really get anywhere in the organization he knifed so painfully Ina Western senator insisted night Vancouver petrel contests the convention he will not More than five per cent of the votes on the first Mer predicts that he could sweep the mention so you can take your Choice. My own guess is that he would t get very far and that knowing that try. Meantime he s not talking him self or at least he. Was t up until the time this was written that May be significant or it May not a. But Well soon know now. Interesting sidelight on the Ste Vens returns that since the announce ment was made last week the credentials committee has been in undated with applications for full convention privileges from former reconstructionist All Over Canada. If Stevens can come they wire. But the committee has refused to weaken. This is a constituency convention they insist you can Only come As the official representative of a recognized conservative association. So the re constructions As such Are out of Luck. But it is be Here in Force anyway. One who is expected is Hon. R. W. Wigmore of quips queries continued on Page 4, column 3 free press Kitchen rockets the free press Model Kitchen located on the fourth floor of the free press building will again be open for inspection tuesday afternoon. Miss june Home who is in charge of the Kitchen will Greet visitors and answer any questions. Visiting hours Are from 2 to 5 o clock r Ottawa ont july 5. When you Light the fuse of a rocket the sprightly animation of its splutter adds but to the anticipation of seeing it a moment later blazing a meteoric course across the heavens. But sometimes there is Rio such glorious consummation. The fuse sizzles menacingly enough. Breath is bated. There is All the expectation of soaring ostentation. But nothing happens. The fuse puts out. It fails to carry its life giving message to the e explosive properties within., the rocket except that it still retains the charge that would have made it thrill is rendered a of paper and Wood to be swept away in the political conventions have on occasions worked out the it does not do to depend too cidely on the size of the rocket and on. The. Of its fuse. That s Why one must regard this week s National conservative convention with Reserve. The unexpected May happen. The fuse May Burn out. The rocket which at the moment does seem to possess All the outward and inward qualities of exciting manifestation May still quite conceivably prove a Dud. The fuse m this convention is Hon. H. Harry Stevens. The explosive charge to which the fuse unit leads is the dissatisfaction of rank and file delegates with traditional tory pent lip but widely distributed and clearly de fined. Resentment against the old guard principles and policies which have led the conservative to the grave on the verge of which it now sadly rests. If the fuse Burns or is permitted to Burn through to the explosive theri indeed will the rocket spar and soar most challenging by. Too Der pocket is undoubtedly much More than adequately loaded. But will the fuse get through will the powder become ignited that is the question. And at the moment the chances seem to be in not Remote at least considerably shrouded in doubt fear explosion the reason is this. The controlling elements in the party do not want an explosion. They Are Happy enough to have Hon. Harry Stevens in the fold. They Are not so Blind As to Overlook the strengthen rockets continued on Page 7j" column 3 car Accident victim Dies unconscious for More than -36 hours from head injuries received n a weekend traffic Accident Joseph Clayton 56, of Rosewood Man., died in St. Boniface Hospital at 10.30 Monday. Near death in the same institution is. Two year old David Ross son of or. And mrs. Andrew Ross. 211 Eugenie Street Norwood who was hit by a truck near his Home at 6 o clock monday evening. Clayton suffered his fatal injuries when his car overturned sunday morning at Mono into on the greater Winnipeg water line. Or. N. A. Laurendeau Coroner was notified1 and ordered a postmortem examination to be made tuesday an inquest will probably be held. Little David Ross was still unconscious at 4 Tuesday. Driver of the truck which hit him reported to police at Treherne Man., where it was said he first Learned of the Accident. The Driver s name was not available. Shortly before Midnight chief j. H. Baudry of the St Boni face police left for. Treherne to interview the Man. Credits to Turkey London july 5. The House of commons mond Ajr gave second Reading to a Bill granting extensive credits to a measure which some observers said would do much to make Turkey an ally or at least Neutral in any future War. The Bill would h Grant Turkey credits of which is to be used for the Purchase of armaments. Weather 8.s8 temperature at 6.30 ., 69 maximum. 78 join Bunc leg barometer 29.96 North wind at 13 Miles per hour precipitation .06 shy Cloudy. Man Tor to at 6.30 maximum 81 minimum. 69 barometer 29.m South East wind at Miles per hour Ore Cilta Tion .01 maximum humidity. Mini mum humidity sky partly Cloudy. My Mida a san 52 72 Brandon Aavik 56 80 Winnipeg Simpson 56 86 Kenora it. Smith 60 82 it. Arthur or. Rupert 48 64 Moosonee Victoria 50 62 Cochrane Vancouver 54 72 Huntsville Kamloops 60 80 by. Sound or George 42 j 80 London Jasper 52 go Toronto Edmonton 52 62 Kingston Calgary 44 66 Ottawa Leth Burldee 54 7. Montreal med. Hat 50 it Quebec s. Current 54 78 St. John Battle Ord 58 7s or. Albert 64 in Charlotten Saskatoon 80 7fi Chicago Moose jaw St Paul Regina 62 8" forecasts and Saskatchewan Cloudy and warm with scattered Thunder storms dour with stationary or a Little Maher temperature a tired showers. Lake Rait in fair end moderate warm probe try showers to some districts. Kenora Babir hirer Easterly winds partly Cloudy an4 top Ria with scattered Showen. 51 81 94 78 so 63 72 54 81 to 78 m 78 56 l 77 54 80 46 82 7z 60 52 St 66 66 m 78 to k ;