Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 . July 15 . July 15 71 12.30 a.m., july 16 a.m., july 16 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Vol. Pages. Rises 4.35 Sun sets 20.32 Moon rises 21.54 Moon sets 9.3 Winnipeg 16, 1938 4.36 Sun Seta. 20.31 Moon rises 22.16 Moon sets 10.9 published at 530 an. And warm. Inquest is called Ontario authorities order probe of mrs. Sidley s death Toronto july 16. Perkins Bull k.c., was served Friday night with a subpoena by Toronto police directing his appearance at an inquest into the death july 6, of mrs. Maybelle Horlick Sidley. The subpoena was served on the Toronto lawyer and historian at his Home Here where the 61-year-old heiress died. Decision on the inquest came Friday from a conference Between Hon. Gordon Conant Ontario attorney general and police officials. The attorney general s action came off the same Day that terms of mrs. Sidley s will were made Public at Racine. Wis. The will disposed of statement by a estate. Perkins Bull re Garding legacy on Paige Bull at whose Home mrs. Sidley had been a guest for about a year was bequeathed More than 000. Including a third of the Resi Duary estate. Her son. William receives another third and the final the d portion is bequeathed to Vari Ous individuals and institutions. No announcement was made As to Why the inquest had been ordered. Due to natural causes an autopsy performed with per Mission of mrs. Sidley s son showed death due to natural causes from an Oedema of the brain that Iol Lowed a spinal lesion. Examinations made by provincial analyst Joslyn Rogers revealed no foreign substances in the viscera. Bull earlier Friday was reported in Montreal where he had gone to bid Farewell to his son who planned to sail on a trip to England. The father is believed to have returned to Toronto by motor car. Officials at the inquest Are expected to include or. Smirle Law son supervising Coroner for Ontario and chief Coroner for Toronto Cecil l. Snyder. K.c., chief Crown coun Sel for the province and w. B. Com Mon. . Senior solicitor to the s department. Thorough inquiry under the Juc cession duty act into the estate of mrs. Sidley has been ordered by the Ontario government the eve Ning Telegram said it had Learned Rusay. The Telegram said j. Douglas Peck. K.c., comptroller of Revenue and k. C. Hannan director of investigations in the succession duty Branch have been assigned to the e task of discovering whether any of the assets of the Sidley estate Are in Ontario. Mrs. Sidley died 10 Days ago at Bull s Home where she had been a guest for a year. She was Only daughter of the late William Horlick whose Fortune was Esti mated at Between and when he died about a year ago. Set acreage Cut acres urged for . Wheat Farmers Washington july 16. Of agriculture Henry a. Wallace asked United states wheat Farmers Friday to Cut their 1939 plantings about 32 per cent to prevent greater sur pluses from complicating the problems raised by this year s bumper crop. As an inducement for reducing their seeded acreage from for 1938 to for next year the agriculture department will offer growers Benefit payments which May total the National Al minimum allowed under the new crop control Law will be divided later among wheat producing states and counties and then distributed among individual Farmers under formulas set up in the farm act. Officials said the acreage reduction was the sharpest Ever proposed under any new Deal farm pro gramme. Should the wheat growers comply the area devoted to wheat would be the smallest since before the War. International meet adjourns London july 16. Up havas French meeting in private since thursday the ninth session of the International wheat advisory committee adjourned Fri Day night. A formal statement was issued covering discussions of the 16 Lead ing wheat producing nations represented. The conclusions of the secretariat s report on the present and prospective wheat situation were endorsed by the representatives of the International Institute of Agri culture. The committee agreed on the . Proposal that the wheat advisory committee should be continued for two years beyond july 31, 1938. It was understood the 16 represented governments were asked to give their most Earnest consideration to the expected huge world wheat crop. The following countries attended Canada Australia United states the soviet Union the United King Dom Poland Hungary Rumania Yugoslavia France Germany. Bel Gium. Italy Czechoslovakia Sweden and Switzerland. Representatives of the league of nations and the International Institute of also present represented. Woman agriculture were Argentina was not thanksgiving Day Ottawa. July 16. Procla mation fixing thanksgiving Day for oct. 10. The second monday in october was published today in Canada Gazette. Newsom thedas wives of australian cricketers paying in Britain May join their husbands after tour ends control Board 19. Aldermen s apathy makes Start on Low rental housing scheme doubtful this 19. Year. Inside Winnipeg Winnipeg Man flabbergasted 99 sets of twins accept invitations to novel 12. Chinese War planes turn tide of Battle in their favor in upper Nelse Battle 19. Employment increase in Manitoba will be slow economic Survey 8. Boy kills 840-Pound Bear with .22 file and Badger with big game gun ear Trail. I. Britain places order for spitfire fighting planes with 4. Rifle trans Atlantic service than any to Power. Their improved Empire flying boats ought to be ready for scheduled flights in the fall. Nelson ., july 16. Plane to Fly Atlantic turning from a Railroad Cut july 16. Up Cable tag hum. Five Miles from Here Imperial airways Friday an the battered body of mrs. E. The Mercury upper com Green British Columbia police of the Mayo pick a they believed they had. To will take off next wed their second murder Case in from foynes Ireland for Newfoundland on its staff sergeant c. G. Barber Atlantic flight Nelson detachment described will be released from the Green s death As a brutal or and larger component about five weeks ago 18-month-old Carmen Lajeunesse disappeared from Ymir ., near Here her body was discovered in . . 12 noon. Carrying a wireless operator and intending to land at Botwood in Daylight unless the fuel Supply is ample to continue the flight to Stream this found by bail Mercury will carry about mrs. Green s body was Gallons of fuel. By a Railroad Crew on the flight Valley line not far from the France july 16. A Way Between Nelson and big French flying boat lieu police said the woman de Vaisseau Paris took off native of Truro n.s., must Berre l Tang near Here Fri bled profusely from wounds in for foynes Ireland which it head and hands. No traces of use As a base for a trial could be found however at across the North Atlantic. Spot where her body was carried a Crew of six and two there was a Gash on her of the French air three or four inches mrs Green s Knees were As if she had been dragged the ground and her left ankle was broken. Traces of blood were order a Short distance from the railway tracks suggesting struggle had taken place there. Officers said they had Learned a Nelson taxi Driver took the woman to tag hum Early Friday morning. He left her there after she assured him friends would meet her later not alive after York july the Curtiss Wright Wright aeronautical corporation Friday night announced the British air had purchased 400 Wright Cyclone engines to be installed in 200 reconnaissance one of the largest orders Ever placed with an Oris was not Ocon a aircraft concern. Time police said. Grounded for butter and egg Man flier must do peddling Weatherford okla., july 16. Cap Schapansky the i m a Good flier. They Don t give an ambitious Young Man a break in aviation any More. How and egg Farmer who pilots do you think the Wright Broth Home made planes to and Lindbergh would have gone on the has they d got caught in this red 5 grounded. He s a menace to that whole Section of the said the state safety commissioner j. M. Gentry l As he ordered Schapansky to stay i. Out of the air because he has Gentry said most of the time Schapansky flies directly Down a Highway so when he crashes he will be in a convenient place where his wife can pick him up. On his first Solo flight fortified Pilot s License. Neighbor Farmers accustomed to scurrying to storm cellars when they heard the sputter of Schapansky s motors breathed a sigh by the lessons he exchanged for chores at an Airport Schapansky said he went up 200 feet stalled and crashed. Neighbors pulled him from the cockpit bleeding. A Man s a Damn fool to go up in a plane like Schapansky smut tired Gentry referring to the Home made contraptions which the Young Farmer hammers together on Schapansky built More planes. Few of them flew Long and crack became so regular his wife said she stood by a Telephone the family car and trailer waiting nearby ready to go get farm. I Schapansky who soloed and crashed the first time in a junked Jenny biplane with a Model 1 j Trutor after Only three flying and the plane when it plumbed Down in someone s pasture. No person Ever went up with Herman his Collie dog was his mrs. Horlick Sidley whose death is to be investigated at an inquest ordered Friday night by Ontario authorities. See Ocean air service by fall new York july 16. Mercial air planes will resume Survey flights across the North Atlantic next and prospects Are Good that the common citizen with enough Cash for a ticket can reach Europe by air this autumn. The trip from new York to Lon Don will require about 24 hours the fare probably will be a first class ticket on a big liner costs about tips extra. European rearmament involved political considerations have delayed establishment of Reg ular Airliner service Between eur Ope and America for at least four years. To land foreign plane requires. A. Permit. Nations not yet ready for Competition on the Atlantic air lanes have been Loath to Grant such permits except for Survey flights. Briefly identify slain woman Wimbledon England july 16. Up havas French Agency the fashionably dressed Young woman whose body was found thursday near the All England Tennis club was identified Friday As mrs. Ellen Louise Carter wife of an autobus conductor. Will invite Manion London ont., july 16. Executive of the London conserva Tive association decided unanimously Friday night to invite Hon. Or. R. J. Manion new Leader of the National. Conservative party to Al Low his name to go before a party convention which will name a candidate for the London seat left vacant by the death of major f. C. Belts conservative. Rewarded London july 16. Up havas French Hitler has rewarded the former austrian foreign minister Guido Schmidt for his pro nazi activities during the von Schuschnigg regime by appointing him head of the Hirt Enber Ger Patroney Fabrik Austria s big Gest munitions Plant the daily Herald reported Friday. Woman to Fly world London july 16. Up mrs. Betty Kirby Green club hostess who flew from England to Cape town and with the aviator a. E. Clouston in 1937 in 5% Days announced Friday that she plans a flight around the world next sep tember. Her co Pilot will be Ken Waller flying instructor who flew to Australia and within a fortnight in 1934. Mrs. Kirby Green Hopes to be the first woman to Fly around the world. Going to Germany evian Les Bains France july 16. United states sent an official observer into Germany Fri Day at the end of the 32-nation refugee conference to gather in formation for a report on the Situa Tion of potential refugees in greater Germany. The conference was in session 10 Days. Earl Winterton chief British Delegate made it Clear the closing Day that Palestine would not be opened to mass jewish immigration. Sell interests Praha Czechoslovakia july 16. Family jewish industrialists Friday sold their min ing interests in sudeten territory valued at to a czech group headed by Zion Stenka Banka. The Sale was interpreted As a step toward forestalling possible difficulties which May arise for jewish business connections discussed in minority concessions to Ger mans living in the mountainous sudeten Region of Western Czecho Slovakia. To preserve route London july 16. Edward Beatty president of the Ca Nadian Pacific railway company proceeded Friday with plans de signed to preserve the Canadian australasian sea rout for British shipping. Sir Edward said the Imperial and Dominion governments in principle that the route should be preserved and have overcome the main difficulties in negotiations directed toward in vision of More modern faster and bigger liners than the Aorangi and the Niagara now engaged on that run. It is essential that the ships should be of a Type that will enable the Competition of foreign lines to be met effectively and that they be constructed at a Cost which will permit at least the Prospect of profi table world fliers acclaimed new York july 16. A through delirious crowds Howard Hughes and his four world girdling companions Rode Friday to the acclaim new York reserves for heroes it has taken to its heart. Picture of fliers arrival in new York appears on Page 2. It snowed As the triumphant pro cession sailed through packed ticker tape arid torn Telephone directories and note paper and they travelled the celebrity Trail to the City Hall Hughes spoke shyly and almost inaudibly. His flying companions nodded As he expressed the belief a camaraderie of airmen of the world would prove a Agency for peace. He asked with quiet fervency that the flight not be regarded As a stunt. He reviewed the careful preparations and said Engineer hours had gone into the record breaking plane there is a kinship among fliers the world he said. Uniform apartment Block blazes ten Winnipeg families made homeless heroic firemen overcome by fumes Only passenger. Stratford ont., july Stratford Branch of the Canadian National railways unemployed men plans to set up. A uniform set of for . Jobless throughout the Dominion. The body was organized after a recent . Par tial Layoff order. The organization will write s. J. Hungerford . President arid Hon. C. D Howe minister of trans port urging favourable consideration of representations made by the system federation on questions of apprentice voluntary pen Sions and placing of any available contracts in . Shops. Delegates from Stratford will vis it London Montreal Winnipeg and Toronto in an Effort to promote the uniform set of . W. Dean will visit leaving tuesday night to Lay the plan before the workers there. Hugo apartment Block terrifying must halt race Simon tells commons London july 16. John Simon Chancellor of the exchequer Friday coupled a hopeful View of the economic situation with a Stern warning the world must find a Way to halt the terrifying total of expenditure on in the House of commons debate on the government s finance Bill sir John defended his huge budget of nearly about by declaring the world economic status today resemblance to the situation before the conditions in the United states and in great Britain Are vastly better now sir John said. In the. United he declared there has of course Bee a a setback. But on the doubt edly things in that great country Are vastly better than they were in the same thing is True in our own passes without recorded vote following debate the House approved the finance Bill without a recorded vote. Britain s budget provides an expenditure of about for the fighting serv ices. Regarding costs sir John said if we do riot succeed and the world does not succeed in finding some Way. In which we can Stop the Folly of. This everlasting1 expenditure on then indeed the future we Are preparing for Forest fire menaces big Camp Seattle july 16. Rural Home was destroyed Many per treated for Burns and in flamed yes and a few were evacuating Ryderwood world s largest logging threatened by a to Forest fire Fri Day. A brisk wind whipped the Blaze out of control after it had swept. Acres of old Burn in logged off land the past two Days. The fire was reported within a mile of Ryderwood a Long Ell lumber. Company town of to population in Southeastern Washington. The town however appeared in no immediate danger but fire fight ers said they feared a shift in the wind might Send flames into the town. Serious fires in Vancouver july British Columbia forestry Branch hired. 200 Vancouver s unemployed and prepared to Send them to Menzies Bay where a Forest Blaze is raging Over hundreds of acres of Vancouver Island Timber. Fire fighters Friday saw Little Prospect for immediate Relief from an extremely serious Forest fire situation on Vancouver Island and the lower Mainland. Baby killed. Four beaten on farm two Bills alia., july 16. Search party headed by three Royal Canadian mounted police Friday night scoured the dense Bush coun try of this District 70 Miles East of Edmonton for Harry Shire 33, after his seven months old child was found dead in his farm Home with four others badly beaten. Mrs Shire wife of the Farmer and Florence Wasalasky seven Are in Hospital at Vegreville believed to be suffering from fractured skulls. James 10, and Pete Antoniuk 18, Are also in Vegreville Hospital suffering from head injuries but their condition is not considered so serious. Florence and James Wasalasky Niece and Nephew of the Shires Are the children of or. And mrs. Nick Wasalasky of Minburn alta., and had been visiting at the Shire farm. Antoniuk owner of the Shire farm is a brother of mrs. Shire and lives at the Shire Home. Our children is one at which we May remarkable budget Captain Euan Wallace financial Secretary to the Treasury moving third Reading described the budget As remarkable for its size and severity. Its addition of sixpence to the Basic rate. Of income tax bad taken the House. 24 hours ,.tq recover from its unexpected Shock yet despite the budgets provision of 000 from Revenue for fighting services expenditure on social service had increased. There is a general feeling of re Lief that the government has not been persuaded to reduce the Stan Dard of living by any curtailment of the social Captain Wallace said. It is realized we Are getting both bombs and butter. But so Long As the present state of the world requires us to defend ourselves on the present or larger scale it would be foolish to mini Mize the Gravity of the financial problems which lie House discussions have not resulted in any fundamental changes in the taxation proposals which sir John Simon Chancellor of the exchequer submitted in his budget As it now leave the How Ever the finance Bill allows greater elasticity in the arrangement of duties on imported automobiles. It also adjusts the liability of companies to the National defence special tax first levied in 1937 to help pay for rearmament. It extends to children receiving tech Nical education an income tax Al Lowance previously confined to children at academical schools. It Grants Relief from income tax in respect to dependent relatives who Are denied unemployment Bene fits. Ten families were driven temporarily from their Homes Early Friday evening when fire attacked the apartment Block at the Corner of Wellington Crescent and Hugo Street and caused damage of several thousand dollars. Two firemen Gordon no. 1 Hall and Russell Mckenzie of no. 12 Hall were overcome by fumes when inside and had to be helped out of the blazing building. Wera 1 Laid on the Lawn and revived by a dense Clouds of seen for eight Miles outside the City issued from the roof of the building for two hours. Responding to the general fire alarm when a Bell in the Block was rung furiously the occupants of the Block most of whom were about to have supper got out of the build ing with the minimum of confusion. Almost All were in safety on the lawns outside when firefighters from four Halls arrived. Caused it was stated by a spark from the incinerator located in the Wellington Crescent Section of the building the fire started in the roof of that Section and spread to the roof of the Section facing the River working under the direction of fire chief do a. Boulden the fire men attacked the Blaze from inside the building and from strategic Points on the roof. The Metal typing gave the firefighters a Good Deal of trouble when they endeavoured to make through which to pour water and it took them More than an hour to get the Blaze which they succeeded in confining to the roof under control. Cling to sloping roof coming from All parts of the District several thousand people rushed to the scene and had the thrilling experience of watching groups of firemen clinging to the sloping roof heroically fight leap ing flames but a few feet away from them. Many thousand Gallons of water were poured into the building be fore the fire was am there was considerable damage by water As Well As by the flames. The suites were occupied by the following persons and their families Percy Perry e. C. Medland f. S Andrews miss Mccullough a. O Mcbean rank Naughton William James and the assistant caretaker Walter Worthington. Other tenants of suites Are j. B Greaves British Trade commissioner Leonard Griffiths and w. K. Charge the two former have been in the. East for some and Jar charge is. Holiday ing. At his summer Camp at Boundary Park Lake Winnipeg. Pilot s condition is critical Moosomin sask., july 16. Spe the Brandon Pilot who crashed his plane into the Here july 1 rather than hit. The crowd below was in critical condition Friday night in Mooso min Hospital. Friday afternoon he underwent a serious operation to relieve his grave internal injuries received when the control stick was driven into his Abdomen As the Gypsy Mph plunged into the ground Gordon Arthur another Brandon Pilot who was with Gib son in the plane when it crashed while stunting before fans is recovering steadily from his broken legs and . It will be sometime however before he the. Hospital. Roof from which smoke i was first seen emerging. Alarmed by the fire Bell they rushed out to make inquiries. Rushing to grab or. And re entered the suite. Mrs., James spotted the Pup and promptly picked it up and carried it to safety. A woman in another Block is re covering from illness. She was a doctor to Call any minute. When the fire Bell rang she was assisted outside to the Lawn on the River Side of build ing by her son. Strenuous efforts were made by some occupants of suites to save furniture and. Valuable paintings and Antiques. A Large Quantity was carried out by some was lowered irom windows. By s o clock the River Side lawns looked like a picturesque furniture Salon. The Block is owned by the Hugo apartment company of which the agents Are Alderson de Jardin. And Mcdonald. People driven out of their Homes by the Blaze were accommodated for the night at the residences of friends and at hotels woman saves dog a pekingese Pup named or. Ivas saved from death from smoke fumes. It is owned by or. And mrs. W. H. James. They occupied a suite near the part of the loyalists resume attack henday France july violent counter offensive unleashed by general Jose Miaja s Eastern Spain car ried the government Banner atop strategic Marcos Mountain. It was re captured by the government militiamen As they fought steadily to dam the on Rushing wave of insurgent troops toward Valencia former government Capi Tat general Franco has been forced by stiff government resistance to Widen the front of Down the Highway from Teruel towards sagunto a major Barrier in the offensive towards Valencia. Reinforcements rushed by general. Jose Mia a in. Command of government forces appeared Friday to have halted insurgent frontal attacks. .1 while the government counter attack in was taking place Zaragoza despatches said insurgents won Possession of a main Highway relied upon by the Barce Ona militiamen for evacuation of a Large Force pocketed in the Mora Hubi Elos sector North of Sarrion. 20 rebel planes shot Barcelona july de Fence ministry communique said .Friday., that., Spanish government Pursuit planes and anti aircraft batteries brought Down 20 insurgent planes in three Days of intensive Aerial warfare on the Eastern front North of Valencia. Fuller nationhood Macdonald urges dominions growth to first rate Powers Manchester England july up Hayas French of Imperial policy ought to be encouragement of the gradual development of the dominions until they attain the status of first class Powers having decisive influence in the affairs of colonial Secretary Mai Colm Macdonald declared Here Fri Day speaking at of the Manchester chamber of Commerce. Or. Macdonald said that if Indus trial development of the dominions is wisely guided great Britain is not going to be the what wants developing in the dominions is simpler forms of be continued As people went into the Commonwealth countries and engaged Jin production they would make ions a far. For great Britain in Tom More Complex products he maintained. The minister said he would like to see British and Dominion industrialists get Toge ther to work out a plan for complementary Industrial production whereby in the Long run he believed not Only the do minion but also the Mother coun try would profit. New drive for College assistance Brandon special satisfied with the reported intention of the provincial govern ment to make a yearly Grant of to keep Brandon College open rather than the re Quested by a Large delegation from the City and Western Manitoba a Telegram signed by mayor Fred h. Young and f. H. Longworth presi Dent of the Brandon Board of Trade was sent to Premier. Bracken Fri Day As follows f it such published report so Menton 80 Calgary 58 80 Lethbridge 58 82 hat 62 74 a current 54 84 Batteford 44 34 52 78 43 82 Mosc jaw 56 84 Regina 54 82 forecasts a temperature. Fair and warm probably Light Thurine showers in borne districts Alberta generally fair and a warmer with a Thunder showers. Superior moderate to. Fresh Northwest winds generally much the same temperature. Rainy to fresh Northwest winds fair and by warm ;