Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 07, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba T real thirst quencher Goodart artime 5c in the 2-Glass bottle by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg thursday july 7, 1938. Price so per copy edition with comics Loc. Ask for diet rules Stanley s Nolb Energy bread this loaf aids in slimming Cir by reducing1 without depriving ton or your necessary Energy distributed by Bryte bakeries Ltd. Phone of our Salesman i Call daily 600 children 40 europeans drown in Kobe Tom Mckord the free press piles sixty years 6, 1878 the new being built at floor head for capt. We. Robinson Winnipeg Railroad tie contractor nearly ready for launching it was to proceed to Winnipeg via Trie Jed River. Filly five years 6, 1883 . A. A. C. Lariviere s Bill re lating to the corporation of the municipality and town of St. Boni face was considered in committee. With capt. Allen in the chair the Bill passed remaining stages. Fifty years 6, 1888 it was understood that the order in Council had been passed appoint ing . Edgar Dewdney minister those on the Winnipeg Crews competing in the Minnetonka regatta in St. Paul Mere b. E. Chaffey p. A. Macdon Sld. F. L. Fatten g. Gait e. Lemon a Turner and Jas. Turnbull. Forty live years 6, 1893 judge Cumberland held his first criminal court in Winni Eggers were visiting Chicago end bringing Back glowing reports of the great world s columbian exposition there among the famous exhibits was the Huga Canadian cheese. Forty years 6, 1898 w. M. Bannatyne c. H. Hamilton. S. C. Parsec and c. P. Wilson of he Winnipeg Cricket club and h. H. Holmes a. C. Appleton and h. Colon of the Norwood club had been selected for the Cricket team that was to represent Manitoba at Omaha. Thirty live years 6, 1903 est. Hamilton Wigle retiring pastor of Zion Church Winnipeg and one of the City s most popular clergymen received along with mrs. Wigle handsome presents from their congregation at a fare Well gathering. James Burridge presided. Thirty years 6, 1908 or. John e. Jones american Consul general Umpire a fast Ball game Between the eagles and Sham rocks played at Happyland amuse ment Park Portage Avenue West As one of the features of the fourth of july Celebration by american Citi Zens in Winnipeg about attended. Twenty five years 6, 1913 Raymond Hitchcock eminent comedian in the red playing at the Walker theatre. W. B. Caswell b.a., of to Ronto was to occupy his pulpit in Broadway methodist Church for the first time on the forthcoming Sab Bath. Twenty years 6, 1918 nearly men in the City of Winnipeg had volunteered by Means of the Man Power cards to take the place on the farms of men who had gone to War and to help the Farmers get in the Harvest. Heavy toll for year housing primer vote by City sought to Start new plan rolling to Aid preparatory work in connection with Winnipeg s plans under the new Dominion housing scheme the joint com on housing and unemployment Relief works decided afternoon to ask the City Council for an appropriation of Archie Hardie Enior councillor of the Winnipeg chapter order of Demolay who s at present in Kansas City ho., attending the founder s Confer nce. Other Winnipeg delegates in Lude Alfred l. Sprange and Jack h. Prange past master councillors and Harold l. Orris member of the and first class Cricket scores London 6. Up Cable lose of play scores in English first class Cricket games started to a follow Essex 176 Derbyshire 31 for three wickets at Chesterfield. Glamorgan 307 for nine is. Kent t Cardiff. Hampshire 263 Middlesex five for o wickets at Southampton. Nottinghamshire 427 for nine is. Leicestershire at Nottingham. Northamptonshire 119 Lancashire 9 for seven at Northampton. Sussex 327 Warwickshire 25 for two at Birmingham. Worcestershire 227 Yorkshire 93 or four at Bradford. Of War Shanghai july 6. First year of the chinese japanese War has Cost More than a million lives these men women and children have perished on far Flung Fields of bombed cities in flooded River valleys and from disease and famine in the Wake o War. Chinese claim gains Shanghai july 6. Forces gained momentary advantage on three fronts today. Along the Yangtze River Abou Kuskow they succeeded in laying new mines to Harry japanese in i newly planned offensive toward Hankow the provisional capital o China. A defensive Boom strength Seneci across the Yangtze 30 mile above Kiu Kiang which is the nex objective of the offensive. Along the yellow River when disastrous floods halted a japanes push toward Hankow in june chinese asserted they had inflicted 700 casualties and forced japanes to Retreat. Along the coast Northeast of Nan King in Kangsu province Chines said they had captured the town of owning and Yenchen. What you want to know Winnipeg mail closes at Genera Post office for Vancouver 9 an and 8.30 . For Montreal an Toronto 9.15 . And 5.45 for the South Minneapolis an Chicago 8 . And 5.30 . A mail for United states men Treal Toronto and Vancouver close at 1.45 . And 4.45 . Daily. Mail for City delivery posted b 1.30 . At general pot office i delivered the same Day. Next overseas mail closes at Pau. Thursday july 7, leaving que Bee july 9, on the Empress o Britain. Specially addressed overseas let e. Mail closes at 5.30 pin. Sun Day july 10, leaving new Yor july 13 on the Norma die. I i Snake bites Frank Buck 1 Amityville n.t., july 5. Frank bring Emback alive j Buck was Back on the Job today recovered from the bite of a 24 foot Python which slashed his Fin Ler last night when he tried t Force food into its Mouth. H i was taken to Reed general Pital. Ivory Council chapter. Of the Winnipeg the committee further voted to appoint a special sub commit tee consisting of mayor John Queen Aid. Margaret Mcwilliams Aid. R. Sara and Aid. Paul bar dal to sound out the provincial government on the possibilities of a special session of the legis lature should Council As a whole decide to adopt the Federal proposals. Under the new scheme passed by the Dominion parliament at its last session municipalities undertaking a housing project and managing it themselves would be required to put up Only 10 per cent of the total Cost. The remaining 90 per cent would be loaned by the Dominion provided the provincial government would guarantee it. As an alternative the Dominion agreed to loan funds totalling 80 per cent of the total Cost to any limited liability company under taking such a project. This loan would need a provincial guarantee. An appropriation was necessary mayor Queen declared for the committee to carry out preliminary work which would enable it to gather some Concrete proposals to bring before Council when the Dominion plan finally came up for consideration. This did mean he added that the whole of the would be spent. Aid. Bardal pointed out the housing scheme would reduce the Winnipeg Relief Rolls by almost the total amount of labor involved. Urges Speed we want to get the scheme going this the mayor stated. A housing commission under the City Council would re quire an amendment to the Char Ter. This would also be needed if decided to apply the scheme through a limited liability company. In either Case a special session of the legislature would be the committee also discussed in connection with the housing scheme the question of the City owned Ripstein Block at the Cor Ner of Logan Avenue and Martha Street which it was reported could be conveniently made into apartments. Enthusiasm plenty of help now for orphans picnic the Appeal for volunteers for the free press orphans picnic 0 Assiniboine Park saturday has been enthusiastically Over subscribed by free press readers and no More help is needed to making the Day a rousing Success for the 400 Young inmates of Winnipeg orphanages. 1 1 j the generous response of free Lonj Urcyl press readers Means that there will be plenty of guides to take the orphans through the zoo and con child is improving improvement in the condition of David Ross two year old son of or. And mrs. Andrew Ross 211 Eugenie Street was noted by medical authorities in St. Boniface Hospital wednesday. His condition is now reported As fairly Good. The Young boy suffered severe head injuries near his Home monday evening. J according to the St. Boniface police no solution has yet been found As to the child found unconscious on the Roadway by a passerby met his injuries. General belief is the child playing on the Street was knocked Down by a truck. Monday evening police chief j. H. Baudry interviewed a Swan River truck Driver at Elm Creek but no action was taken following the meeting. Servator an abundance of racing judges and baseball umpires Anc More than enough ice Cream and soft drink dispensers. Arrangements have been completed for the supplying of picnic lunches or More ice Cream Cones and All the peanuts Popcorn and soft drinks necessary for the Outing. The picnic will be held on the Large ground near the Pavilion. Buses will pick the children up at 10.30 saturday morning and late a Little get together lunch will b served at 12.30. After lunch ther will be baseball game s and Early in the afternoon the races will be run off. Then will come the song festival and after the prizes have been distributed the children will leave for their Homes at 6.15 t 6.30 o clock. Trail of 38 father and Young daughter defy perils of far North floating More than 850 Miles on the peace and slave Rivers on rafts William Tattam and his daughter Jennie seen above Are among the Gold rushers of 1938. This is the second of a series of articles by Burt Gresham on an air visit to the newly discovered Gold mines of the Northwest territories. By Burt Gresham. Fort Smith n.w.t., june broke but with enough food and equipment to take them to the promised land at Yellowknife on the. Northern shores of great slave Lake William Tattam and his 23-year-old daughter Jennie both formerly of Deloraine Man., reached Here tonight after floating More than 850 Miles by rafts Down the peace and slave Rivers and across the Western tip of Lake Athabasca. It was on april 26, or nearly two months ago that Tattam Black bearded quiet almost to the Point of taciturn Ity loaded his posses Sions on the first of the rafts he was to build. With him went Jennie her Hazel eyes sparkling and snapping with the thoughts travelling northward into the Shadow of the Arctic Circle whew old made All who were willing to work Rich As Kings. Royal fetes arranged Paris july 6. Up havas French round of theatrical and musical spectacles will be provided for the entertainment of King George and Queen Elizabeth after the official banquets during their visit Here this month it was announced yesterday. Following luncheon in the Gal Erie Des glaces at the Palace of Versailles july 21, their majesties will be entertained by scenes from Moliere acted by Vera Korene of come lie Francaise. In the evening after a dinner at the qua d orsay Louis Jouvet and Madeleine Zeray will play an act from Moliere s Ecol Des Emmes. Maurice Chevalier will sing Sev eral songs and Yvonne Pri Temps As Well known in London As she is in Paris will sing several airs including Auclair de la Lune by Lulli and be Suivai Mori Coeur by Noel Coward. On the Day of their arrival sheir majesties will Dine at Elysee Palace where they will View a special production by Sacha Guitry appropriately entitled god save the King. Contrary to tradition the piece will be in prose instead of verse. It will evoke the origin of the English National Anthem. The most important of All the spectacles offered for the King and Queen will be the gala opera of july 20. The opera programme will include the first and fourth acts of Rameau s Castor and pol Lux and a dance suite with music by Chopin a Ballet in which the entire opera Ballet will appear. His big Chance Hollywood july 6. Illness threatened today to Rob Jack Dunn noted ice skater of the Chance in motion pictures for which he waited two years. Dunn recently cast to play Rudolph Valentino in a film depicting the late screen idol s life is in Hollywood Hospital seriously ill from a Streptococci infection. Captain of the British skating team in the 1936 olympics Dunn toured Henie. To Hollywood. Miss Henie sky for months with Sonja two years ago both came rocketed to stardom do so Well Dunn did l they la be there too when the free pre White and the seven dwarfs. The marching song from Snow fear thousands dead As reservoirs burst wrecking City streets san Francisco july 40 europeans and nearly. 6 00 school children died when three water reservoirs col deluge Down of Kobe Japan radio the is. President Cleveland anchored there informed Globe wireless of fires Here today. The torrent which placed Kobe s Broadway the Moto 10 feet of left death disaster and destruction in its Wake the vessel s radioman said. The disaster according to Globe occurred at 9 ., july 5 japanese thousands of japanese Are said to be. The Brief messages from Kobe said. Chief radioman h. Esteg told Globe operators Here that the City s main source of water is gone. Passengers the Yessel who were to have disembarked were marooned aboard the Steamer describes torrent Estep who toured the stricken area yesterday reported he found the main Street a torrent of raging water. We could Only Cross the Moto Machi at certain places where wires were Strung. Street currents were very Strong. The water was about Estep reported. Thousands of Homes have been Des troyed and All transportation is rail and wire communication be tween Kobe and Tokyo was Para lazed. Highways were impassable. Water in Kobe s main railway Sta Tion was five feet deep. All. Busi Ness was suspended. Press despatches reported 70 per sons drowned or buried under landslides in Nie Hinomiya Village. The Kobe prefectural government estimated that 136 bodies bad been recovered in the province. The government also reported a preliminary estimate of ii uses destroyed throughout fee province and houses inundated to a depth of More than 10 feet. Mike their aged almost Collie was so pleased. Born and brought up on dry land he feared he raft and the Black water bubbling Between the logs. Carried in Board he spent most of the first Day tumbling into the water every Ime the raft lurched. Rescued he d shake himself dry and shortly Al Edwards would fall in All Over again. On the raft Tattam erected a Small tent for shelter set up a mall stove on which Jennie cooked the expedition s meals. A Vave to the wife he left behind and Tattam was headed North. Travel hazards Progress downstream behind the Lood Waters was pleasant and fast at first. Then the water dropped exposing Many a Sand bar and Ravel spit. Time and time the raft ran aground and. Was Only freed by dint of much hard work. Disaster first overtook the Tat ams at the four mile Long Rush of Savage White water known As the Vermilion chutes above red River Post on the peace River. Tattam unloaded haul of his equipment. With a rope Jennie As sisting attempted to line the raft Down the rapids when a particularly vicious stretch of Rock ribbed current snatched the raft from their calloused hands and lodged it Between jagged rocks. Waves poured Over washing their equipment downstream for a week Jennie salvaged parts of the outfit from quieter pools be Low the Falls while her father built new raft and freighted their goods across the Portage on his Back. From then on each time a big rapid intervened they ran ashore unloaded and Portage their equipment and built a new raft below the Falls. By this time the flies and mosquitoes were Mak ing vicious attacks and Spring winds would blow them up on Points. Doggedly they battled northward Day after Day. Nearly stumped at Fitzgerald the Battams Ware nearly stumped. A 16-mile Portage stretched Between Smith rapids and rapids of the drowned at fort Smith. Trucks plied across the port age carrying freight for the North but the expense was the stumbling Block. Pondering a solution Tattam met up with another peace River coun Tryman Carl Freeland and made a Deal to go on to Yellowknife i his scow. In contrast to the Tat Tams Freeland had come nearly the same distance in eight Days and nights almost continuous travelling the Story of Carl Freeland. Us Home made scow and his band of Young bold rushers will appear in tomorrow s free press dog attacks child Londar Man., july 6. Arval 3-year-old son of or. And mrs. Harold Eyolfson was badly bitten around the head and face tuesday by a dog. The child was playing at the Back of their Home when attacked. The Mother of the child heard the child s screams and the dog Oft or. M. Hjaltason dressed the injuries. The dog was later shot by j. B. Johnson. School Board clash Council is roars Milton a Lively debate occurred tuesday night when Winnipeg school trustees by a majority vote decided to ask the City Council for an estimated amount of for the e purpose of giving school Board employees a pay restoration in june. Fiery outburst charges that the City Council was fooling the Board when it said Only was available for pay Cut restorations were made in the course of the discussions and w. H. Wilton in a fiery outburst said one of the trustees was talking damned nonsense when suggesting that any Money obtained should be diverted to school building improvements. Saying he had authentic inform Ion that More Money was available h. B. Smith moved the City of asked for sufficient funds to enable he Board to make five per cent restoration As from june 1. Presenting a comparative state nent or. J. C. Pincock superin indent of schools said the Board s employees had a pay reduction of 20 per cent As against 19 per cent in the Case employees. The Board had declared its policy in the matter of pay Cut restorations when it passed the budget and should stick to that said or. Smith. The City Council is fooling us when it states there is Only available for the Board. It has fooled us be fore. I have it on Good authority there is or. Milton took exception to the latter statement saying mayor Queen had stated. And that could be authoritative. Teachers delegation headed by a. V. Pigott Princi pal of the lord Nelson school a delegation representing the Winnipeg local of the teachers federa Tion urged that Board employees be Given the same treatment As civic employees regarding pay Cut restorations. It was pointed out that of the nine largest cities in Canada Winnipeg is third in the matter of population and the teachers Are lowest on the list so far As salaries Are exception of Regina one of the drouth centres. Following withdrawal of the delegation or. Smith moved that the City be requested to provide an estimated amount of so. That the additional five per cent pay ments could Date from june 1, and mrs. Gloria Queen Hughes seconded. William Scraba moved an Amend ment that any Money received from the City Counce be held in Trust and applied to repairing and improving schools rather than to Mak ing pay Cut restorations. The Board be said would need a lot of Money in View of the investigations authorized lately. Saying any funds obtained for Jay Cut restorations could be used for any other purpose Meyer Averbach chairman of the manage ment committee ruled the Amend ment out of order. Crisis looming f. After expressing the opinion the City would be facing another severe financial crisis next year As it is living off the sinking und at present and could do so much longer in View of maturing obligations moved the sub commit tee ascertain if Money available for salary restorations could be used for building improvements this brought a Strong protest from Edward Mcgrath and when. Scraba arose to speak in justification of the amendment or Milton i can t understand any member talking so much Dainne. or. Freer s amendment was ruled out of order and or. Smith s motion was passed three opposing messes. Freer Scraba and j. N. T. Bulgari. Mrs. Jessie Maclennan Eeck were present. Vacation lists want music have you an old phonograph you no longer use ready Market for it during the summer months especially if it s one of the smaller models better still if it s a portable old phonographs and radios Are in demand by Many summer vacation lists to liven up the cottage at Beach. You May also be Able to sell that old guitar or accordion right now if you try. Best Way to Tell prospective buyers All about it is through a want and in the miscellaneous articles for columns of the free press. Phone 8466. Colly Here s a one golfers this Golf Story ought to end All Golf stories. Wednesday morning h. Altai an a Winnipeg barrister asked a news paper reporter at the courthouse say do you want to hear thing Well now it d better be pretty Good. I feel like resting sure it s replied or. Alt Man. It happened on the eleventh Hole at West Kildonan Golf course sunday morning. I had teed off and driven 180 Yards then took another shot at the bail As .1 swung around i Felt something slide into my pocket when i looked i found it was a Golf that had just been driven from the tee 180 Yards away by another fellow Lou Leipsic. What do you think of what was. There to think fooled new of tilt july 5. Many dogs and cats get wedged Between buildings in new York that mrs. Helen Mitchell thought that was what had happened to her Fox terrier Bessie today when the dog would t respond to her Call. Mrs. Mitchell Tele phoned police. Police called the emergency squad and two humane society agents. They were stil studying the situation when Bessie emerged with a newly born Puppy put it on and made eight More trips Back be tween the buildings. Name sentence commuted William Mcquarrie 56-year-old Winnipeg resident who was to have hanged july 8, for the slaying of his wife Gertrude on the evening of april. 26, will have to pay with his life for his crime. Word was received from Ottawa wednes Day that the death sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment. When told the Good news by col Royal Burritt governor of the William Mcquarrie. Provincial jail wednesday morning Mcquarrie Only smiled. He seemed a Little overcome j Ith Joyi governor Burritt said. It was following a Legal Battle in juvenile court in which mrs. My 4uarrie proved Victor and was granted custody of the children that Mcquarrie became enraged As he and Bis wife and 18-year-old son Victor proceeded homeward along Ross Avenue Drew a pen knife from his pocket and1 stabbed her in the threat she died a few minutes later. But re eskimos Trade i of aft t for tent Edmonton july .6. Of a five months old Eskimo baby for a tent at great Lake in the Northwest territories was reported Here last night by . Mac Aulay k.c., Winnipeg lawyer following a five Day trip into the North said the baby was purchased at port Radium by an Indian family Whlon had recently lost most of its children. The Little Eskimo brought to port Radium from Coppermine by its parents Early this summer appeared to be thriving on a diet of powdered milk or. Macaulay said and parents by Purchase seemed extremely fond of it Roland girl Hurt Ottawa july 6 John Steele of Toronto and miss Rowena Tytle of Roland Man., suffered shoulder and hip injuries in an automobile collision on the Aylmer Road West of Here today. They were taken to Hospital for treat ment. Police said a car driven by Alfred Frechette of Toronto in which. Mrs. Steele was a passenger collided with another automobile at an intersection of the Road. Miss Lytle who came Here for the conservative convention was a passenger in the second car. Out of the red Albany n.y., july 5. Cap new York state was out of the red for the first time in seven years today with a surplus of democratic governor Herbert Lehman who inherited a deficit when he succeeded Franklin d. Roosevelt Jan. 1, 1933, announced that the state had wiped out at the of the hew. Fiscal year july 1 by surplus of More than ;