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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 07, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature headings 6.30 ., july 6 0.30 ., july 6 12.30 a.m., july 7. 4-66 3.30 a-m., july 7 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Vol. Sun rises. 4.27 Sun sets 20.39. Moon rises 16.29 Moon sets. 0.54. Winnipeg thursday july 7, 1938. Published at Abri. Warm. Untouched Lapointe refuses move to disallow padlock measure Ottawa. July 7. Minister of Justice Hon. Ernest Lapointe. Is not prepared to recommend that the governor general disallow Quebec s padlock act nor is he disposed to recommend a reference on the constitutionality of the legislation to the supreme court of Canada. This decision was contained in a ministerial report rendered to the governor general in Council by or. Lapointe wednesday. While the Validity of the act is a proper subject for determination by the courts. Or. Lapointe s opinion is that action should be based upon a Concrete Case rather than upon the submission to the supreme court of Canada of an abstract question. The padlock Law. Officially de scribed As an act to protect the province against communistic pro was passed at the 1937 session of the Quebec legislature. The minister s opinion rendered one Day before the expiry of the statutory one year s period within which he Dominion May exercise its right of disallowance is a lengthy document. The 15 sections of the act Are cite-1. And their purport explained. Deals with petition or. Lapointe then dealt with a petition received last january from the Canadian civil liberties Union Montreal Branch which asked that the statute be disallowed. Numerous other protests and representations against this Leas ure were also received by the government from various organizations and individuals throughout Canada but located or residing for the most part outside of the pro Vince the. Minister said. Copy of the petition was. Sent to Premier Maurice Duplessis of que Bec with the invitation that he sub Mit whatever representations he might desire on the subject. The minister re ported the petitioners havin expressed a desire that counsel should be heard on their behalf in support of their application the undersigned or. An appoint ment for the hearing of argument in exception to the Ordinary procedure in consideration of an application for Premier advised that the provincial government Oxild not be represented at the hearing. The petitioners were however heard through Warwick Chipman padlock act continued on Page 9, column 6 deadly blast 21 die in outbreak at Haifa Palestine Jerusalem july 7. Bomb explosion in the business Centre of Haifa Folio wed a running gun Battle Between jews and arabs wednesday killed at least 21 persons and wounded 60 others. The outbreak was one of the bloodiest in the Long history of Arab jewish clashes in the holy land which each group considers its National and spiritual Homeland. Race rioting broke object to Franco offers terror rules Shanghai Shanghai july 7. No bombs and assassins bullets to Day ushered in the first Annivera Ary of China s armed resistance to japanese invaders and threw the International settlement into tur Moil. Three bombs were thrown simultaneously at a japanese sentry Post on Garden Bridge a floating res Aurant off the used As a japanese gendarme Headquarters the Yokohama specie Bank Branch also on the bund. Reserves called police reserves and foreign de Fence units were called out to guard against More serious out Breaks of terrorism in China s com Mercial capital. A cordon quickly was thrown around the foreign area blocking All traffic Between the International settlement and japanese occupied territory. An unidentified japanese Riding a bicycle in the International sector guarded by United states marines was shot and killed. His Assassin escaped. In japanese occupied West Hong Kew a part of Shanghai a japanese sentry was shot and killed by three chinese who threw a hand grenade at a japanese sentry Post on the Yuya Ching Road Bridge link ing the settlement with Hong Kew. Three bombs were tossed against a japanese Cotton Mill on the Settle ment outskirts and a few moments later three More bombs exploded in he Mill s living quarters. One British sikh Soldier from India was wounded. The outbursts came As the armies of. Japan and China observed the anniversary locked in principal combat far up the Yangtze River. Press Hankow drive japanese reported new gains thursday Over chinese armies de fending the Yangtze River approach o Hankow China s provisional capital and goal of Japan s Campaign. Bombers ranging ahead of ground forces were said to have sunk a dozen chinese troop Laden Junks near Kiu Kiang 135 Miles Down Stream from Hankow and immedi ate objective of the invaders. Japanese also said their Navai Craft were Clearing the River of mines Laid by chinese Between Kiu Kiang. And , 40 Miles downstream. Manion Lawson Massey Harris Macpherson will contest today f or Elbl publicity report adopted Ottawa july 7. Of a permanent National committee on publicity and electoral propaganda was recommended tuesday by the publicity committee of the National conservative convention. Its report was adopted unanimously. It was also1 recommended that publication of the conservative periodical the or some similar Booklet be resumed and maintained with regular issues in English and Trench. The Magazine would be published with the object of providing info publicity continued on Page 9, column 5 by Chester Bloom coliseum Ottawa july 7. Candidates lined up at the starting Post of the National conservative convention for the big race today and the Odds seemed unquestionably to favor or. R. J. Manion judging by volume of applause and cheers. But a Western newcomer Murdock Alexander Macpherson of Regina surprised the convention with the unexpected support his wildly cheering Saskatchewan and Alberta supporters gained from the rest of the Quebec. French canadians obviously did not appreciate his whole hearted backing of it. Hon. Arthur Meighen s theme of Canada remain ing British. J. Earl Lawson Toronto favorite son did not seem to go Over so big in the preliminary oratorical Canter. Applause for him was largely perfunctory. Denton Massey another Young Ster got a big hand. But it remained for Joseph Henry Harris a Toronto industrialist with a uniquely humorous turn of language to bring Down the House both audience and Dele Gates alike. These five had their nomination papers in when the closing Bell rang at 8 -. Harry Stevens the mystery entry was scratched. Though he had previously been strongly urged at a conference of Quebec delegates to allow his name to be entered in the nomination he walked at the last minute. Or. Stevens is devoting his energies to fighting for some Radical platform planks echoes of that Battle occasionally sifting Down from the hot and Smoky resolutions committee room to convention Hall. All the speakers at the evening session outdid themselves in paying tribute to their retiring Leader it. Hon. R. B. Bennett which merely goes to show that words do not mean every thing at conventions. On Page 9, column 3 Bennett confirms retirement Ottawa july 7. Up a pledge to work for the continuance of a Strong and United British Empire was taken by delegates to the National conservative convention wednes Day at the request of it. Hon. B. B. Bennett. By d. B. Rogers Ottawa july voice breaking with emotion right Hon. E. B. Bennett confirmed in a speech to the National. Conservative convention late wednesday afternoon his definite retirement from party leadership. In thanking his col Bennett continued Ori Page 8, column 5 if. Out Durini the evening Rush hour when crowd were hurrying Home. Witness said that after the bomb exploded police constables opened fire on the rioting crowds causing a majority of the casualties. One of the victims was Tivi Dounie 55, a Well known contractor and brother in Law of or. Chaim Weizmann president of the British zionist federation. Official figures said 18 arabs and London july 7 up a com free jews were killed. Of those wounded 38 suffered serious m mum que issued wednesday night Ries by the committee of British ship owners trading with Spain expressed the opinion that Almeria proposed by general Franco As the one port in government territory which would be immune from in surgent air raids is inadequate in size poorly equipped and too close to the actual hostilities. Prime minister Neville chamber lain is expected to make a statement to the House of commons today on his government s attitude to the insurgent Leader s offer. The proposal to make Almeria on the South East coast a Safe port was advanced after repeated protests against Aerial bombings of British merchant vessels carrying goods to govern ment Spain. Geographically Almeria is nearer to the firing line than any other first class port in Spanish govern ment territory. There Are at present about. 46 British vessels discharging in Span ish government ports Many of which Are Over tons. At Best it would be possible to accommodate one Large vessel in Almeria. Further 50 vessels Are due with the next fortnight so that if Al Meria were made the Safe port one seventh of the British shipping in Spain could Newsom Thoday 10. It. Hon. Leslie sir Thomas Inskip tells British commons government is consid ering an order for explosives in Page 6. Gossips of London have it that countess Barbara Haugwitz Reventlow is planning another mar Page 10. Francis Stevens meets crack cameraman who after five Days of Ter ror in a nazi prison was a broken Raul. Hore Belisha Secretary for Wari is called before committee probing official secrets Page 6. William John Hart Well of Regina celebrates 96th birthday after Mak ing unaccompanied trip Page 7. Restaurant patrons May dance after Midnight saturday provided no cover charge is made. Page 7. Aberhart government reported to be about to launch a new monetary Page 7. St. James Council asks provincial trouble spreads British authorities of the troubled Alestine mandate considered a new imposition of martial Law he violence which broke out a week ago with the hanging of the first jew to be put to death in Jerusalem since 1916, began to spread into other major cities and areas. Jerusalem Haifa and Tel Aviv already Are under strict curfew regulations to keep residents Oft the streets at night. Origin of the bomb was not determined immediately. Police and troops instituted a stringent patrol another bomb tossed from a moving train into a jewish crowd at Tel Aviv killed a woman and wounded two men. In a gun Battle tuesday night in the Plains of Esdrelon scene of the biblical Victory of Gideon Over the midia nites eight arabs were killed and a British Soldier was wounded. Democracies act to shelter jews evian Les Bains France july. 7 a the world s three of emos democracies great Britain the United states and France the Lead wednesday in. Seeking havens for unwanted jews and ical refugees from greater. Ger Many. The three nations combined their efforts at the opening of a 32 refugees president Navy guards food line London july 7. Up havas the government is determined to id Domestic agriculture to the full St extent but wartime provision no of the United kingdom must ultimately depend upon the supremacy of the Royal Navy prime min Ster Neville Chamberlain told a parliamentary delegation wednes Day night. The group called upon or. Cham Lerlaine at the House of commons o seek an explanation of a Dis muted passage of his speech at Ket ering saturday in which her warned hat any. Attempt by great Britain o grow All the food it needed would ruin those Empire and foreign sundries who Are dependent on or the prime minister insisted that whatever the efforts to increase lome production1, the nation could not reasonably count on British nation conference on called As a result of. Roosevelt s invitation for. Intergovernmental discussion of the prob Lem. Earl Winterton Britain s Dele Gate said his country was anxious to join in helping alleviate in some degree the consequences o the situation the poignancy and Gravity of which has struck the imagination and excited the sympathies of people in All lord Winterton declared his government was studying the possibility of settling refugees Iri. Certain East african territories but tha this would involve number of families. Authorities to close Page 6. Mental Sani Rains temporarily Check spread deadly horse disease epidemic. Page 7. Ascania freed Bic qae., july 7. Up under her own Power but with two squad tugs steaming alongside the Crip pled liner Ascania charted a slow plodding course up the St. Law rence River wednesday night head ing for dry Dock opposite Quebec Harbor More than 150 Miles up Stream. Self sufficiency in foodstuffs. This fact he said must determine British policy. However no Lack a interest in the farm problems should thereby be imputed to the government All that was meant n the Kettering speech according to or. Chamberlain was that Art facial expansion of agricultural pro duct Ian is unnecessary and would of More disastrous for Farmers than artificial inflation. The Normal and permanent programme is to use of the natural development of Domestic agriculture he continued. The farm policy of the government has been and always will be to create Prosperity for agricultural entrepreneurs and workers. Three drown in Auto plunge Toronto july 7. E. Fairbairn of Cedarville ont., and two Young sons Robert and Frank drowned wednesday night when the automobile in which they were Riding plunged into Toronto Bay at the foot of Spadina Avenue. Mrs. Fairbairn s husband escaped through a Side door and was taken to Hospital for emergency treat ment j. The Accident occurred As Hun of persons strolled near the witnesses said the car sloped neared. The breakwater at the foot of the Street then spurted Forward and dropped into 25 feet of water. Fairbairn was seen to fall from a front door As the car touched the water. A moment later mrs. Fair Bairn s body Boobed to the surface. 3. C. Brown and m. Gene pulled the husband from the water with a Pike pole. Or. And mrs. Fairfi Airn Are former Winni Eggers leaving Here about 15 years ago. Mrs. Fairbairn was the former miss c. Mackenzie. Do. R. J. Manion proud of Empire says Manion july .7. Cps never sought this or. Manion i made no canvass of Man. Or woman. I Felt this was a position of such great responsibility hat the position should seek the he despite the appear Ance of disruptive symptoms 95 per cent of people of Canada were determined to. Maintain confederation. To maintain confederation we must have a Strong Central govern ment but at the same time we must respect provincial autonomy and provincial rights so Long As the provinces do nothing that conflict with the Constitution or the welfare of the country As a tuesday or. Manion said the Jess Issue of Empire co operation had been raised before the convention. Would like at once to say there can be no two opinions on that subject and i have no doubt that if the matter were thoroughly explained to the. People All would stand to Gether. Never has there been a time when co operation was needed More. Three years of Mackenzie King s government has brought More disunity than 30 years of any other period in our history. All Here want Harmony and co Manion continued on Page 9, column 4 record Rains in drouth land Regina july 7. Wan s former drouth area already Well drenched by record Early july Rains got More moisture wednes Day in heavy showers that covered a wide area from East of Eegina to Swift current. Areas covered by the Rains included Weyburn Assiniboia Ponteix Yorkton and Points in the Swift current District though there was no precipitation in Swift cur rent itself. At Weyburn nearly three quarters of an Inch of water fell in two heavy showers during the Day. Only a Sprinkle was re ported at Moosomin. Regina received an additional .17 of an Inch of rain in a heavy Shower Early wednesday morning and a second fall during the late after noon. Hail fell for a few moments but no damage to gardens was re ported. At Moose jaw .15 of an Inch was added to the rainfall., Calgary flooded Calgary july 7. Torrential rain storms passed eastward Over Calgary wednesday flooding City subways backing sewer water into basements of. Homes and drenching gardens and crops. During the first downpour which started in Calgary about 4 pjn., and lasted for half an hour 1.10 inches of rain fell according to the do minion meteorological service. The second storm struck the City at 7.45 and lasted until nearly 8.30, after which Light rain fell. J. Earl Lawson of action urged by Lawson Ottawa ont., july.7. Lis surrender of the leadership was the one unhappy phase of the convention. In accepting the nomination As candidate to succeed or Bennett has in realized to the full the enor he was ate entering the Field mity task which would face Laid or Harris because he was Loyal to and would not come until he was definitely he had been told by friends from All parts of Canada that i roust stand As the most outstanding Busi Joseph Harris business methods needed says Harris Uzawa uni., jury. I. Ottawa onl., july 7 up tribute to retiring Leader Bennett let or. Mackenzie King s by Hon. J Earl Lawson who said statement on defence upset this upset this said. Joseph Harris. No red blooded Canadian is going to stand for the policies or. King him if elected. Achievements of the conserva Ive party were indelibly written on his said and its traditions were engraved on my those traditions were an inspiration to every conserva Ive to cling to that was Good in the past and to Cut away from that which was outworn and this conservative party must give to the people of Canada life More abundant and an Opportunity. To live and said or. Lawson in addition the party must give work to All those willing to work and to those unable to work a compensating no sadder sight was to be found than disconsolate youth educated Strong but unable to find work. It must be a party of action and not of reaction. In the House of commons some Liberal members Lawson continued on Page 9 column 4 Ness Man with an understanding of if Given the leadership or. Har Ris said he would communicate to the people at least once every fortnight the efforts being made by conservatives. If elected As Leader he would go to work with his associates and do.-. A real Job for or. Harris promised the Craft and Industry of canadians would be protected against workmanship of foreign he would enlarge the Trade agreements with the Empire in the understanding of which he declared he would take second place to no one except. Or. Bennett. He was president of a Harris continued on Page. Column 4 Denton Massey Massey says rut future in debt Ottawa ont., july 7. Up the Best Way for canadians to pay the debt to the the future in debt to today said Denton Massey. Canadians cannot accept a negative. Policy of wait and he continued to Honor the past but not to be bound by it in tradition but to use it As a guide and not a wind ing Sheet to cling to old and tried ideals but always to be willing to supplement them with new not be cause they1 Are new but because they Are True this in my View is the True conservative spirit in which to meet the Challenge of the present. For my youth i make no apolo Gies the experience knowledge and judgment of Many would be at his disposal. Heart As Well As head is needed in government. Let the government think not of agriculture but rather of the individual Farmers. Let the govern ment the Mac not of Industry bul rather of the Industrial worker let the government think not of youth but rather of our Canadian Young Man and woman. Then let the government direct its course of action not from the top Down bul from the Canadian Home forces of disintegration and of Massey continued on Page 9, column 5 m. A. Macpherson Macpherson asks Empire partnership Ottawa ont july 7. Or. Manion i have no Organiza said i a Macpherson. He referred to tuesday s speech on Empire relations by or thrilled by it. The. British partnership was a real partnership if every partner played the game by his there should be no mystery about one partner approaching the other. Canada should frankly ask the Mother country what do you want us and then do it nothing canadians owned fac tories firms forests or riches of any kind was Worth More than the strength of the British Navy. If canadians were not prepared to forfeit their liberties it Behoved hem to establish social Security under democracy. The Liberal party in Canada was doing Noth ing to that end Liberal tactics were to Stampede the people into fear. In Saskatchewan they tightened the people with social credit in. The last Dominion elec Tion they frightened the people with King or and they got or. Macpherson urged contributory unemployment old age pension Reform labor Legisla Macpherson _ continued on Page 9, column 5 mexican Oil Deal tuesday Ottawa ont., somebody once tween the Well in so far As at has so far progressed that definition goes for the 1933 National conservative convention too. And Don t think for one moment that this convention is Nota net july 6. Defined network a construction of filamentous reticulation with interstices be work a network of moves and of plots and construction of counter counter moves plots a reticulation so filamentous that to pick up the threads intelligently and Trace them to their origin to connect the interstices. And identify the intersections is As intricate a task As loosening the gordian knot of ancient Thrace. Far into the night foot weary news Hawks who Are gathered in All parts of Canada flitted from coliseum Corner to chateau chamber from pillar to Post to Pillow in an Effort to penetrate the atmosphere of uncertainty shut Down on tuesday continued on Page column 6 quips yesterday and qty of is Ottawa july 7. Special tuesday night s convention banquet in the horticultural Pavilion was a spectacle that almost beggars description. There were More in than diners seated in the. Huge room with Long tables running at right angles from a head table at which 100 were seated. Never before in Canada have so Many sat Down to dinner in one. Room. Speakers were provincial party leaders and Errick f. Willis of youngest in years., gave Way. Notie in the Standard and a Quality of his speech. He spoke vigorously and fittingly and made a Fine All sides. Or. Bennett too was in splendid form. He renewed his dictum against read action and Al though speaking in Genera terms sounded again his Battle cry quips quotes continued on Page-8t column 4 Ottawa july 6. Cipal behind the scenes convention development up until press time today was the. Steadily growing Force of the last drive to swing m. A. Macpherson of Hegina into the party leadership. Championed by influential groups of delegates from both East and West and backed it is now believed by the inner Council faction who Are out to defeat or. . Man Ion the former Saskatchewan at Torney general s support seemed to up hourly., he is seen by Many As the Man who might under certain Cir be Able to beat Back the Manion Boom. Those Circum stances Are that or. Bennett toss his weight into the Macpherson Scales. One report is that or. Bennett has already agreed to do so. Should or. Bennett get in be Hind or. Macpherson it would be something in the nature of poetic Justice because the Saskatchewan lawyer who should ordinarily have been on the Bench. By now has never been rewarded for Valu Able party services Over Man years and his relations with or yesterday continued on Page 9, column 1 n Mexico City july 7. A the a mexican government has contracted to Worth of Oil to Davis and company of new York in a Deal described wednesday night As a Broad step toward solution of he nation s problem of disposing Olaer vast stores of about 50 per Centof theol will go and to general european markets Princi rally those of scandinavian coun tries reliable sources disclosed wednesday night. The weather tuesday 6.30 ., wednesday at s.30 a.m., 65 maid mum. 71 minimum. 63 barometer. 29.s, Southwest wind at six Miles per hour wednesday v wednesday 6.so at 6.30 73 maximum. 83 minimum. 65 barometer 29.74 West wind at six Miles per hour 08 minimum humidity sky partly Cloudy. 88. 70 76 b3 Regina Brandon Mima Dawson -----32 58 Aklavik 56 it. Smith .46 to or. Rupert .48 60 Victoria -----50 Vancouver. .56 Kamloops .60 or. George .54. 68 Jasper .46 76 Edmonton. .56 .76. Banff .45 76 Calgary -.52 74, Lethbridge 50 80, Montreal med. Hat 50 Quebec Swift cur it 54 80 .46 78 be Nora pfc Arthur Moosonee Cochrane Huntsville Parry sound 50 74 .58 84 .60 75 .54 70 .48 ,54 70 .52 72 Toronto Kingston Ottawa Battleford 54-80 or. Albert 1. 56 76 Saskatoon -.58- 78 Moose jaw .58 80 St. John Halifax Charlotten ---------il1 Mima .53 11 .54 80 .63 33 .66 84 .58 62 .32 62 .40 74 .52 66 .52 62 54 72 .70 88 Oose j Awao pm above for 24 hours. Ending wednesday 8.3v Forecasts Mani trim. Antinea mostly fair and with a Lew scattered thundershowers. Lake Superior moderate to fresh Southeast to Southwest winds partly Cloudy and moderately warm with local Thurine showers Kenora and rain Siver partly Cou and warm with local ;