Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 06, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 5.30 ., july 5 egg 9.30 ., july 5 12.30 ., july 6 3.30 ., july 6 for full report of meteorological office see Paye one. Vol. Pages. Sun rises 4.26 Sun sets 20.39 Moon rises 15.27 0.23 Winnipeg wednesday july. 6, 1938. Critics wet Cabinet removes limit on wheat Board purchases Ottawa july 6. Canadian wheat Board during the coming crop year will buy All wheat offered it paying an initial minimum Price to be fixed later by the Board and giving the Farmer participating certificates entitling him to share in any profits made by the Board in Selling above the minimum Price it was indicated Here tuesday night. Following a Cabinet meeting prime minister Mackenzie King announced the wheat Board would Purchase from the Farmers during the new crop year starting aug. 1, without limitations imposed on such purchases throughout the present crop year. During the present crop year the Board fixed a minimum Price of 87% cents a Bushel ratified by the government. Regardless of How Low the Market Price might fall the producer was to get that mini mum. It was provided however that the Board should not buy any wheat As Long As the Market Canada to Aid . Ottawa. July 6. British government was informed tuesday night through sir Francis Floud High commissioner for the United kingdom that Canada offered the facilities the Royal Canadian air Force for the training in this coun try of Royal Force pilots. Sir Francis according to an announcement issued by prime min ister Mackenzie King was summoned to a meeting of the Cabinet fete tuesday and requested to con vey the government s offer to London by Cable. Details of the government s plans were not forthcoming tuesday night. It was understood however that they contemplated expansion of Canada s instructional schools. Aspirants for the . Likely will of recruited in this country trained under the Aegis of the . And qualifying in accordance with Brit ish Nir ministry requirements transferred As a matter of course to the . In great Britain. Whether the plans envisage recruiting in the United kingdom for training courses in Canada is not disclosed while there is a close parallel Between British and can Adian air plane standards it is prob Able however that Canadian per and equipment will have to be supplemented by Royal air Force instructors and British machines. Canada has never declined to. flying school facilities in a in operative manner with the Bri ish government or. Mackenzie Xing said but the government takes the stand that such schools should be under the authority of the Canadian minister of National defence. Settled before last Friday the British pilots would in training establishments of the Royal Canadian air Force which Are responsible to defence minister Mackenzie the prime minister said. He stressed that the policy had been settled before last Friday s debate in the House of commons and added that tuesday night s announcement was not timed to coincide with the conservative convention but was made As soon As possible. The specific offer to train British pilots was made in order that the situation in respect to co operation in defence measures might be clarified the prime minister said. Or. Mackenzie King said that co operation with the British Empire was not an Issue but that the Issue was the Best Means in which to co operate. Quotations from Hansard he quoted from Hansard two sections of his speech in the House of commons last Friday in which he said the Canadian government opposes setting up in this country of any military establishments not air Force continued on Page 10, column 3. Battle raging Shanghai. July 6. Bit Ter fighting in which chinese re ported they had inflicted 700 Jap anese casualties raged today along the flooding yellow River at Jap an s Yangtze River forces mopped up the captured Hukow area far ther South. Chinese reports declared the japanese had been forced to Retreat Between Kuanku and Xuchang. In Southern Shansi. After three Days Ashling on the yellow River s nor Thern Bank. News of them i count court Haugwitz Reventlow i weakened to shoot his rival like a attorney tells Page 7. I death of woman in Hollywood i joked to plan to prevent birth by Page 10. Winnipeg girl is named Tempo Secretary of conservative con Page 5. Thirteen rebel air planes drop 50 on Badalona killing at least Page 6. Francis Stevens describes Delight but innocent afternoon in Paris. Page in. William Irvine Well known we my Egger Dies in 69th Page 7. Alderman Elchyshen resigns from Winnipeg City Page 2. Joseph Lecomte former mayor of Boniface Page 10. New trunk Road to Beach Page 8. Price was above ,90, cents a Bushel. As the Market Price remained above 90 cents the Board bought no wheat this crop year. Conservative members of the commons protested that this prac Tice of refusing to buy wheat unless the Market fell below a definite Price was. Not in conformity with the wheat Board act and was Ille Gal because was done by order a Council. Or. Mackenzie King expressed Confidence in the legality of the government s action. During the year requests came from Che West that Farmers so de siring should be permitted to sell to the Board for a minimum Price wheat Board continued on Page 10, column 3. 26 nations approve peace plan London july 6. Up the International non intervention com Mittee tuesday night despatched for the approval of the Spanish government at Barcelona and Gen eral Franco the insurgent Leader at Burgos the final plan for with drawing foreign trops from fight ing in Spain. The representatives of 26 nations from the original 27 by Germany s annexation of tuesday gave unanimous assent to the British scheme which is expected to Cost to carry out. Full details of the evacuation plan will be revealed in a 70-Page White paper to be published Friday. The scheme which also provides for resumed land and sea control around Spain and ultimate Accord Ance of belligerent rights to both combatants was adopted in slightly revised form after lord Halifax the foreign Secretary had persuaded the soviet Delegate outside the committee to withdraw his objection. The soviet representative charge d affaires Samuel b. Kagan did so subject to the final approval of his government but this was generally expected to be Given. Great Britain France Germany and Italy each paid to get the work started. Russia still re fused to pay a full fifth share of the evacuation expenses contend ing the governments of the foreign ers fighting in Spain should pay the expense of transporting their own nationals Home. The plan s adoption was hailed in official quarters As a Long step to Ward smoothing Europe s ruffled peace and incidentally toward put Ting into effect the Angla italian Friendship pact of april 16. The treaty becomes effective when a settlement has been reached in Spain. Already the assent of insurgent general Franco has been forecast. Even if both sides in Spain con sent the ponderous procedure out lined would require several months before place it actual evacuation was believed. Takes published at 5.30 New bomber for Britain s air Force sir Kingsley Wood air minister was present at eat Lee Ai drome England when the viscountess Hampden christened the new Hampden class of Light fast bombing ships. Of latest design the twin engined bombers have High cruising Speed and great carrying capacity. Alberta s Case privy Council quizzes Biggar on vetoed acts London july 6. Right of the courts to determine the Validity of a legislative act by examining it in relation to other enactments of a legislature was challenged before the judicial committee of the privy Council tuesday by colonel o. M. Biggar k.c., counsel for the province of Alberta As he launched three appeals from judgments of the supreme court of Canada which invalidated measures of the social credit government. Questioned by members of the court colonel Biggar argued the intentions of the Alberta legislature in enacting its Bank taxation Bill must be sought in the word age of the statute that otherwise the whole body of provincial legis lation would be involved and con sequently the jurisdiction of a provincial legislature would vary from time to time As the courts sought to determine whether an act is honest or question of encroachment lord Atkin interjected he was not sure it was question of honesty or dishonesty but rather whether the province is encroaching on the Powers of the he thought the intention of the legis lature in regard to the economic system could not be found simply by looking at a taxation measure. Lord maugham the lord Chancellor who presided conceded one could not go Back far in examining legis lation but that you cannot go Back at All is very surprising to colonel Biggar criticized the fac Tum submitted by the attorney general of Canada to the supreme court at Ottawa in which he said it was sought to show that the Bills formed part of a social credit scheme by including evidence such As quotations from books pamphlets and speeches. We were rather appalled at that kind of counsel for the province remarked. Our Conten Tion is that none of this material is relevant. We have to look at the Bills themselves to see what was the intention of the legislature not at statements made by major Doug Las in his another Point raised was whether Alberta Appeal continued on Page 7, column 4. Deadly disease Vanleek Hill ont., july 6. Douglas Macdonald 11, son of or. And mrs. R. I. Macdonald died tuesday a victim of the deadly streptococcus Viri dans the first in this Eastern Ontario town 50 Miles East of Ottawa. Ernest l. Vansickle Brantford ont., War Veteran a recovered Vic Tim of the j has Given blood to Many donated a pint of blood to the Macdonald boy in april. Drouth vanquished cloudburst in Winnipeg Beach Road is flooded and the Parkdale morass of mud in has yet been reported. Southern no damage at Brandon where a prolonged. Drouth was broken by showers tuesday morn ing a Freak fish shaped Black Cloud which seemed to threaten a water spout passed Over the City and at 10.30 An electrical storm broke bringing precipitation for the Day up to half an Inch. More moisture is still needed in the District. In Saskatchewan drouth was utterly vanquished. Tuesday by the heaviest downpour in years blanketing a 150-mile corridor Down the Centre of the province from Estevan and Carlyle to Gravelbourg and Ponteix. No less than 3.26 inches of Mois Ture fell in the one Day in the Saskatoon District and average precipitation throughout the corridor for the past five Days was Well Over the two Inch Mark. Tuesday s pre fatal Bolt blast kills three men in East Kootenay mine Michel ., july 6. Up exploding mine Gas killed three men in this East Kootenay Coal producing town tuesday but 11 other men walked from the Blosi rocked crows nest pass Coal company Workings without injury. British Columbia the tragedy on a police blamed lightning Bolt which sparked feet into the Workings of no. 1 mine along steel rails of the underground railway and ignited a. Pocket of Gas _ the dead were identified by mine officials As Edward Morrison fire Boss Wiiiam Cartwright 40, fire Boss John Phillips 32. Pipe fitter. Probe ordered the mine had been closed several Days but was slated work today and a Skeleton i had been sent into the Workings to prepare for today s full shift. Hon w. J. Asselstine British Columbia mines minister ordered the mine closed pending investigation by government inspectors into the explosion. For for Crew the three bodies were recovered by dra germen from the British Columbia mine Rescue station at Fernie Who raced Here Over 23 Miles across Mountain roads. Turned Back on their first at tempt to enter the mine by breath stifling Coal Gas fumes the rescuers rested a few minutes at the sur face then plunged into the Gas filled Tunnel again. The 11 survivors were unable to get out of the mine for almost two hours but finally reached the sur face without assistance. Police said they were in a Safe Section of the mine the three killed being the Only ones actually in the Section through which the blast ripped. Two cloudburst in Winnipeg tuesday ended the heat wave which lasted a week bringing Down the temperature to 63 degrees at 6 The first cloudburst occurred in the Early morning and in. The Sec Ond shortly after 3 ., nearly three quarters of an Inch of water fell in half an hour. Total rainfall in the City for the Day was 1.34 inches. Winnipeg Beach was flooded by persistent rain Road became a which even a grader stuck fast. Slight Hail mingled with rain at Virden and at some Manitoba Points but capitation at yellow grass was More than an Inch with three quarters of an Inch at Regina and most other areas in Southern Saskatchewan. The deluge missed Shaunavon Swift current and other Western areas and in the East Whitewood received no rain. Scattered showers Are scheduled for the West during the next 24 hours. Temperatures will be moderately warm in Manitoba. Trustees ask equal treatment taking the stand that school Board employees should get the same pay Cut restorations As civic employees the Winnipeg trustees tuesday night decided to ask the City Council to provide an estimated amount of to enable the Board to make the same five per cent restoration As the City and starting at the same time june. It was stated that unofficial in formation from the City Hall was to the effect that Only was available to the Board for restorations. This amount it was pointed out would prevent the Board from making the additional five per Dent payments until september. Newspaper statements that the not made any application for salary restorations were repudiated it being pointed out that the school budget was passed on condition that in the matter of any pay Cut restorations the Board s employees should receive the same consideration As civic employees. Plans new Campaign Luckie alta., july 6 up Alberta s social credit government will renew in the very its efforts to Institute its economic theories in the province Premier Aberhart tuesday told a crowd of More than 300 that packed the Blackie auditorium to hear the first address in his tour of Okotoks High River constituency which he represents in the legislature. He declined to reveal any details of the action. I cannot the new plan from this platform or our enemies would know it right Awa the Premier said. Believe would be in England further details of new Campaign on Page warm. Raises Banner dark forces at work National Unity declares Bennett Ottawa. July 6. Up reaction is fighting Reform As canadians Are faced with the problem of maintaining confederation by. Hon. R. B. Bennett retiring conservative Leader said tuesday. Question now was can we maintain this there were dark forces at work threatening National Unity or. Bennett said in a Brief address at the conclusion of the banquet that wound up the first Day of the National conserva Tive convention. Lifting again As he did in 1934 the Banner of Reform for Progress or. Bennett said there were those who believed that the conservative party stood for pure reaction. If it did i would not be he said. Neither would prayers for the committee draft ing the party platform were urged by or. Bennett. Its work was of profound importance. Tremendous results will follow our actions he said. Stag nation or Progress reaction or re form which shall it be you Haven t come All this Dis Ance or made sacrifice of time and Money merely in a party spirit. Loyalty to party is not a religion. One purpose and one purpose Only can make this party an instrument for the Good of Canada for the Good of your country. That Pur pose is to use the collective Power for the general forces of disintegration and disruption Are working ceaselessly in Canada said or. Bennett. They had Many de Nial of the supremacy of the Federal parliament the abrogation of the ties binding the provinces to the Dominion the subjugation of a National Conception of loyalty to a provincial Conception. Wore badge of Canada the Gallant men who died in France wore not the badge of a province but the badge of Canada. This nation is a Union of prov inces not of separate Sovereign the convention was not a poli tical convention in the mean sense of the word. It was a great gather ing of men and women seized with a sense of responsibility knowing that the forces that made a nation were not material things. The. Forces of greatness that Spring from spiritual conceptions must find play Fie said conservatism must mean a poli tical philosophy. Why is a Man with the brains of it. Hon. Arthur Meighen giving himself to it it is. A philosophy of service not of opportunism. Not of Power except to. Serve. Not of place except As a Means to service not of the party but. Of Mankind for the banquet continued on Page 5. Column 5. Bennett movement hits Snag by David b. Rogers Ottawa july 6. Special an undertaking to swing it. Hon. R b. Bennett Back into the conserva Tive party leadership through for mation of a convention wide Dele gation to wait on him tuesday night with the request that he revoke his retirement decision met with an unexpected Snag Early tuesday after noon when delegates from the prov Ince in which the movement was to a Large extent born Nova Scotia failed to reach an agreement on the proposal. The Nova Scotia delegation Are said to have turned Down the suggestion after three vital queries were put to the inst Ottawa. July 6. A. Macpherson Saskatchewan s former attorney general is definitely in the Field As contender for leadership of it was tuesday night. Or. Macpherson s nomination will be moved by a. L. Smith Calgary and seconded by c. B. Smith Halifax. Or. Macpherson s decision to enter the race brings the total of almost certain nominees to five. Others who have indicated they gators of movement. The the Back to Bennett questions were can or. Bennett restore Unity within the could he Cap Ture the he did stand for re election and thirdly what will we say to our constituents who appointed us definitely to choose Leader the answers to these questions were unsatisfactory to the majority of Nova Scotia delegates it is said and they accordingly refused to authorize representatives to speak for favouring a move to bring or Bennett Back into the while sponsors of the Back to Are. Mil yet giving up their efforts and feel that their chances proved have As a been greatly in result of senator Meighen s keynote speech tuesday morning nevertheless the Nova Scot ians have stirred real doubts As to the possibility of or. Ben Nett mustering sufficient Delegate strength to assure election. Unless or. Bennett can be absolutely cer Tain of this he will most certainly not enter the race. Macpherson will definitely enter leadership race the conservative Learned Here late will seek to succeed. It. Hon. R. B. Bennett As Leader Are Hon. R. J. Manion former minister of rail ways and canals Hon. 3. Earl Law son former National Revenue and member for York South Denton Massey member for Toronto Greenwood and Joseph Harris member for Toronto Dan Forth. Nominations will be held tonight at the coliseum and voting for leadership will be thursday after keynote Issue convention interest focused on defence by Chester Bloom. Ottawa ont july 6. Duty to take part in common defence measures for the British Empire with the United kingdom was offered by keynote speakers to the conservative National convention tuesday morning As a chief Campaign Issue. Both sir Thomas White and it. Hon. Arthur Meighen stressing the proposal As transcending All party questions brought roaring the conservative delegates. It was obviously Flung As a Challenge to prime minister King s state ment in the commons that Canada will not permit United King Dom operation in Canada of training Fields except under direct control of the Canadian government and ministry of defence. The keynotes stressed the theme that preparedness today was the world s sole guarantee of peace. Seasoned political observers re or. Meighen s declaration at. The be ginning of his remarks on defence that they had the full approval of St. Hon. H. B. Bennett. Convention speeches by it. Hon. I Arthur Meighen and sir Thomas White appear on Page 5. I tuesday that the move has been approached immediately after the conservatives continued on Page 5, column 6. Monday Ottawa ont july 5. Conservative convention chaos reached its height last night As delegates alternates and friends of the party congregated at the chateau from billets scattered All Over the City and indulged in the biggest conversational Binge the capital has Ever seen or heard. From Early morning until Long past Midnight lobbies Parlours writing rooms smoking rooms bed rooms beverage rooms and corridors were thronged with Blue badged men and women discussing with every de Gree of solubility and volume the events which Are to ensue during the next three Days. Leadership prospects provided the chief topic of course but platform possibilities also came in for plenty of airing and if somebody could have called the gathering to order monday continued on Page 5, column. 3. Conservative youth organizes Ottawa july 6. Of an organization to be known As the National Young conservatives of Canada was agreed upon rat the youth meeting held in connection with the National conservative convention Here purpose of will be to Foster arid promote among the men and women of Canada the purpose of the National conservative to this end the organization will assist in. The building Upland strengthening throughput Canada of associations and clubs of Young conservatives and in coordinating their efforts. The resolutions and policy com Mittee whose report will be the basis for a statement of conserva Tive policy to. Be adopted by the convention at its first session heard a demand Lor More representation for conservative youth. After some discussion the committee adopted the motion by Gordon Toronto to increase its membership by allowing each provincial Junior conservative a animation one representative. A lips and quotes Ottawa july 6. Special proceedings got underway Sharp on time when to the sprightly Strain s of red coated pipers the great the near great and the Likely to be great of the National Liberal conservative party were escorted to the plat form. The Large Oval. Floor of the coliseum set for delegates was packed to near capacity As the party stalwarts filed in but in the seats reserved for the general pubic there was Only a handful of people. As the delegates spied the smiling countenance and stately figure of by Hon. R. B. Bennett i the Van of the party procession a burst of cheering Rose to the Flag draped rafters and was maintained with considerable Crescendo until All had taken their places on the platform. Or. Given another ovation when he Rose a moment later to declare the convention formally open. Those who expected that or. Bennett might in his opening remarks give some slight clue As to his political future were disappointed. He confined his remarks to a Brief statement of quotes continued on Page 5, column 3. Delegate overcome Ottawa july 6. Heron of Homewood man., was still unconscious late tuesday in Hospital where he was taken. Following his collapse at the convention in the Colise Iov in. The morning. Exact nature at his ill Ness was not determined and his condition is described As critical. Efforts were being made to find relatives or friends who came to Ottawa with him for the Conven Tion. Tuesday Ottawa ont july 5. Canada s external duties with respect to emerged from the opening session of the National conservative convention As the outstanding Issue which the conservative party will place before the people of Canada in their bid for support leading up to the next election., in his keynote speech to the convention this morning it. Hon. Arthur Meighen picked up the Challenge which prime minister Mackenzie King hurled across the the House closing Day of Challenge to go to the people on the Issue of Imperial appealed for the conservative party to Canada s spire relations As the Issue of Fra mount importance to be dealt with by the convention. Senator Meighen was at his Best on such a subject. His voice As or. Bennett s did during the last half Day debate in the House played with patriotism As he spoke of tuesday continued on Page 5, column to name committee on resolutions Ottawa july 6. Ments to the important resolutions and policy committee by the National. Conservative convention tuesday included Manitoba e. G. P. Baker Winni Peg i w. W. Kennedy Winnipeg mrs. A. B. Roblin Homewood mrs. James Mclenaghan Selkirk g. S. Thorvaldson George Renouf Minitonas. Saskatchewan f. B. Bagshaw Regina j. W. Hair Saskatoon f. W. Turnbull Regina j. G. Diefenbaker Prince Hon. Robert Weir Melfort Chat Burrows re Gina n. R. Craig Moose jaw. Alberta a. Red Deer Hugh Farthing Calgary d. M. Dug Gan m.l.a., Edmonton Wallace Burrows Edmonton a d. Tighe Edmonton dec delegates displeased Ottawa july 6. Quebec delegates discussed the Meighen keynote speech in the Little groups tuesday night the general reaction among them was one of regret. We can make More Progress at this convention by emphasizing the things on which the delegates from All the provinces Are said a leading Quebec conservative rather than emphasizing the things on which there is disagree ment asked if there was any the rumours some of the French delegates had threatened to Bolt convention several conserva Tives said so far they had no such threats but it would largely depend on what developed later. Leadership urged As the first Day of convention ended in a banquet and dance or. Meighen and his speech vied with the leadership race for first place in the minds of the or. Meighen s friends the speech brought renewed pressure upon him to offer his name for the leadership but there was 5nothing to indicate his determination to remain out of that contest had been senator a. Macrae of Van Couver organizer of the party at the 1930 election Whent swept into office received presenta Tion of an antique clock in recognition of his service but rejected an to organizer again. Both John r. Macnicol joint chairman and col Ralph Webb of Winnipeg who made the presentation urged the senator to Offei Meighen speech continued on Page 5, column 7. The weather monday To tuesday at 6.30 66 maximum 80 minimum. 66 barometer 29.80 Norof wind at nine Miles per hour precipitation. 64 Iky. Cloudy. Tneia Dir ., to tuesday at 6.30 68 Maxi mum 80 minimum 66 barometer. 29.81 South St wind at eight Miles per hour precipitation .70 maximum Hnud Ltd minimum humidity. Sky Cloudy. Mama Dawson so 70 a Clavil 52 74 Simmon 56 84 it Smith 52 or. Rupert 52 58 Victoria 64 Vancouver .56 73 Eca loops 60 86 or. George 54 80. Tasper .50 72 Edmonton .56.-76 Calgary 52 so Lether Texe 50 72 med. Hat 50 74 Swift cur it 52 14 Battleford 52 76 or. Albert 56 78 Saskatoon 54" Moose jaw 156 78 Mima Brandon ___64 m Winnipeg 66 80 Kenora it. Arthur mboe Onee Cochrane Huntsville 65 83 54 64 40 w 44 m 52 79 Parry sound 60 Tondo Toronto Kindlon Ottawa Montreal Quebec St. John Halifax Charlotten 54 to Chicago St Paul 57 8 58 74 58 84 .58 .52 .74 50 St 50 51 m 81 6s m Relna ___52 80 above i euros Are for 24 hours ending tuesday. "6.30 ,. Forecasts Manitoba partly Cloudy and warn with local thundershowers. Partly Cloudy Wilt much the same temp conture and j scattered r with stationary of _ Little higher temperature showers in a few districts Lake winds Cloudy and moderately warm scattered thundershowers Kendra and Bally. Doike and warm with ;