Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 ., july 20 9.30 ., july 20 12.30 ., july 21 3.30 ., july 21 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Vol. Pages. Sun rises 4.41 Sun sets 20.27. Moon rises Moon sets. 14.49. Winnipeg thursday july 21, 1938 published at 5.30 Warmer King Sjostr French dignitaries guests at British embassy banquet Paris july 21. Up havas French Agency King George i and Queen Elizabeth wednesday night climaxed the second Day of their state visit to France by entertaining their Host. President Albert Lebrun at a British embassy banquet in Honor of the head of the French Republic and mme. Lebrun. High dignitaries of the French state the British embassy and the diplomatic corps attended. The Royal couple arriving with a Republican guard escort at 8.10 ., were received by ambassador sir Eric Phipps and lady Phipps in the courtyard of the embassy. Five minutes later the King and Queen bade Welcome to the president and his wife. Pick a plane Over Atlantic loyalists repulse italians henday France july 21. Fierce government resistance at Agudo pass on the Teruel Highway to the sea was reported wednesday to have diverted the Spanish insurgent drive on Viver unto and Valencia. Segore. Sag italian troops righting under Gen eral Franco s Banner shifted the ii runt of their mechanized assault to the Begis sector five Miles West of Viver. Rebel Advance slowed the government s a shaped line of Hasty defences across the Ter Uel Valencia Highway slowed the first wave of the Spanish insurgents offensive wednesday. Despatches from general Franco s Headquarters admitted government resistance suddenly had stiffened later the sovereigns As guests of France went to the opera for a gala performance of Rameau s Castor and Pollux which surpassed in Bril Liance All preceding gala perform ances even that of april 22, 1914, during the visit of George v and Queen Mary. The ancient municipality of Paris gave its official Welcome to the King and Queen wednesday and hundreds of thousands of parisians cheered themselves hoarse in their eagerness to make it a Welcome unmatched in the City s history. Half a million persons lined the champs Elysee wednesday morn ing the when the King drove by on Way to the Tomb of the unknown Soldier where he placed a Wreath and their cheers were matched by those of hundreds of thousands More when the Royal couple accompanied by president Albert Lebrun went to the hotel de City receive the City s official Welcome King George responded in French to welcoming speeches by Gaston be Provost de Launay president of the municipal Council and Achille Villey prefect of the department of the Seine. In the afternoon their majesties As the militiamen a Retreat brought them to the new defence line. Despatches from Valencia thei Royal visit former loyalist capital toward j continued on Page 7, column which the insurgents have been driving Tor the last five Days asserted that Generalissimo Franco s italian Vanguard was halted before it reached its objective Ragudo pass North of Viver. The observers said that the Battle for sagunto and Valencia has proved to be the most costly of any single engagement thus far in the two year old War. Because both armies have thrown in everything they possess staking All on the outcome. Bomb Valencia. Valencia Spain july 21. Up insurgent planes bombed the port Here three times wednesday. Foreign ships in the Harbor escaped damage but huge holes were torn in the quays and waterfront streets. 3 chinese Check big push Shanghai july 21. Anese failed wednesday to break chinese lines for an Advance up the Yangtze River toward Hankow provisional chinese capital. Chinese entrenched on the River tanks held fast against air planes and guns of River boats attempting to puncture the defences in a big push which had Kiu Kiang 135 Miles below As its immedi ate objective. A japanese spokesman admitted Tot China s lion Hill forts below Hankow still were Active but told other military successes. He said 11 chinese planes were damaged or British creditors split London july 21. Up social credit party of great Britain and Northern Ireland wednesday Light broke with major c. H. Doug As. Social credit expert at a Stormy meeting in which blows struck and police summoned. Members assembled at a meeting called by a Friend of major Douglas o Welcome George Powell and to acclaim publicly the Saskatchewan election result As an unprecedented Triumph for social the meeting did not hear destroyed in Hankow and Iang tse sunk. Tuesday s that two raid on chinese River vessels had been inferno blasts acres Campbell River b.c., july 21. Flames of a acre Forest fire still threatened several Vancouver Island Settle ments wednesday night although a Diu change and direction and a slackening in its velocity had ought their wild March through Oberland to a temporary halt. The roaring inferno was pointed at he Litt to settlement of Campbell on its West flank and towards Srap three of Comox logging com any at its Southern extremity. two Hollywood contracts Are of toed Douglas Corrigan transatlantic flier who is honoured by ire land s 15. Provincial government offers Wandon College subsidy. Provided College becomes unde 3. Maples grown in England from sent by Winnipeg children now Shade Graves of Canadian 3. Railways move thousands of Grain cars in readiness for 7. Foil of dead leaders merits Indi what briton s 7. Are thinking Ancis Stevens tells inside store Bernhard. Prince of the nether or. Powell major Douglas represent Ive to Alberta As an uproar broke Cut and John Hargrave National eader in vigorous tones declared he party renounced major Douglas political leadership because it no Onger is possible for us to regard As fit for leadership a Man who completely failed to seize the Gol Den Opportunity presented by the 1935 electoral Victory in Alberta Anc now seems Likely to make confusion worse confounded by childish makeshift political repudiates Douglas leadership or. Hargrave said he took the Opportunity to publicly repudiate any claim made by or on Behal of major Douglas to the Politica leadership of the social credit movement and to denounce As futile illusory and pernicious the social credit secretariat s past and presen political or. Hargrave made it Clear his statement did not mean repudiation of the Douglas monetary theories and said the party still accepted major Douglas authority in mat ters relating to the economic tech Nique of social or. Hargrave was attacked by persons in the Hall but was no Hurt As he struggled to gain in trance before his speech. Support ers of major Douglas sought to How Down critics of their chief. Spokes men for the Green shirted opponents of major Douglas denounced his advice to Premier William Aberhart of Alberta to charge financial Anc Federal officials 10 times the Price charged the Ordinary citizen either directly or by sales tax Pool the proceeds and distribute them As an Vitial deny Spanish France urges Aid to czechs Paris july 21. Ned diplomatically by the state visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth wednesday ought British assurances of re Istance to any German Campaign against Czechoslovakia As a Way of seeping peace. While of seen above being carried on the the giant flying boat Maia the tiny Mercury was launched on its flight from foynes Ireland to Botwood Newfoundland and Montreal wednesday afternoon. After hurtling the Mercury out to sea the Maia which was piloted by capt. A. S. Wilcockson returned to Imperial airways base on the River Shannon. Pilot of the pick a plane which is making the first test of its kind Ever attempted is 28-year-old Donald c. T. Bennett. Mercury nears land pick a plane reported off coast of Newfoundland soviets fortify outpost Tokyo july 21. Japan be press published reports wednes Day of feverish activity by troops of soviet Russia in the Vicinity of Chang Kuofeng. Where japanese allege Banc Houku territory was invaded uly 11. The newspaper Asahi reported the original soviet Force of 40 men had been tripled and was busily in aged in erecting fortifications of he militarily important Hill near the Junction of the Borders of Manchukuo Siberia and Korea. Other activities were said to be observed in the neighbourhood of posset Bay on the sea of Japan near Chang Kuofeng and at Vladivostok russian naval base. Searchlights illuminated the naval base throughout tuesday night and russian hydroplane kept up a con Stant recon loitering of the Border these reports said. The Lone hint of japanese re action to the tense situation in which Japan has twice protested to mos cow Over the alleged invasion was the statement in one paper that japanese Aerial units were ready against soviet air reported in Vicinity of Cape Bauld at 8.30 Aan. . 2.30 Bound for Montreal direct. For instruct raids levelled Hail twice in three Days Calgary july second storms time in spread 21. The three Days Hail crop destruction Central Al the storm Montreal july 21. Filers of the Mercury reported the British flying boat was 580 Miles off Botwood newfound land at 12.44 ., e.d.t., to Day 10.44 ., c.s.t., wed flying at an average of 145 Miles an hour and com ing now into Clear weather. A message received direct from the plane at St. Hubert Airport .12 of Montreal said the wind had decreased to five Miles per hour and that the plane was Flag about feet Altitude. Latest word from the Mercury did not indicate if the ship would Stop at Botwood but Airport officials at St. Hubert said they took it for granted her officers would Aring her direct to Boucherville a few Miles Down the St. Lawrence River from Montreal. Alternate Landing places have been designated at Quebec or Al Botwood nfld., should bad weather or Lack of fuel Force Pilot Don Ben Nett to set the Mercury Down Short of its goal. Officers expected the plane to make the hop from foynes to Montreal non Stop however. Splendid take off foynes july 21. Mer Cury speedy upper unit of Britain s unique pick a air plane took off from the of her Mother ship the Maia at 8 1 . Wednesday night. The Maia returned to its River Shannon base while the Mercury Given a Start dashed Westward toward Botwood nfld., carrying half ton of freight. The Mercury s Pilot was 28-year old Donald Bennett aided by a radio operator. Bennett hoped to Fly to Botwood at an average Speed of about 200 Miles an hour better ing the 12 and 13-hour Crossings by commercial Type seaplanes experimental flights last year. Across a wide area in Berta tuesday evening. Stretched from Olds 60 Miles North of Calgary to 18 Miles East of Chestermere a Lew Miles Northwest of Here. Lashed by High winds the storms brought disaster to the Farmers in some of the finest crop districts in the province. Rolling in from the Northwest the storm Clouds passed directly Over the town of Olds. The stories lashed by the High winds caused dam age up to 100 per cent and in some places covered a strip 10 Miles wide. The territory missed by the sunday night blast was badly damaged. Didsbury suffered the same Fate Farmers estimated damage from 25 to 100 per cent. Airdrie reported 50 to 90 per cent of the striding crop Cut Down in a strip three Miles wide. Frank Fulton Chestermere District saw his acres of Fine wheat out. Britain speeds air policy july 21. A great Britain Early wednesday boosted expenditures to Speed up her air expansion programme to a total of for 1938 moving for adoption of a supplementary air estimate for sir Kingsley Wood air Secretary disclosed in a late night session of the House of com Mons that most of this would be raised by a loan. approved the supplementary biggest item o which was a provision for new air planes arid barrage bal loons a system of balloons support ing dangling cables to trap attack ing planes. Other items included for new factories for the manufacture of engines and carburettors. The j measure also included pro vision for increasing the Royal air personnel by to a total of the . Reserve will be increased from to and the auxiliary a Force from to the general european the King decorated the bomb of the unknown Soldier in a second Day of ceremonies French political leaders attempted to con Ince foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax of great Britain of the iced for definite Anglo French military guarantees to Czechoslovakia. Czech problem to fore a Central figure in the talks was Stephan Osuski czechoslovak min Ster to Paris. A Central Factor was believed to be a plan offered by Reich fuehrer Hitler for solution of tie czechoslovak problem which Vas brought to Paris by lord Hali a. The Strain Between Czecho Slovakia and Germany is one of the most Long standing threats to peace last feb. 20 by Hitler s declaration he would protect Ger Lan minorities such As the sudeten germans within Czecho Slovakia. Premier edouard Daladier and foreign minister Georges Bonnet brought four other French Diplo Matic and political leaders into unch time conversations with lord Halifax at Quai d orsay the foreign office. These four former premiers Camille Chautemps Leon Blum and edouard Herriot and the Trench ambassador to London Charles declared to joined Daladier Bonnet and he czechoslovak envoy in telling lord Halifax that France was de Ermine to March to Czechoslovakia s Aid in event of a German attack. At Edmonton Edmonton july 21. Mier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and his flying companions arrived in Edmonton at 1.35 ., . Wednesday after a 200-mile Fligh from Calgary. The party will remain Here Over night visit Edmonton s Diatom Jubilee exhibition and then head for the Northern Goldfields thurs Day. British estimates reveal faster race Tempo by Grant Dexter. London july 21. Supplementary air ministry votes approved the Complete picture of Britain a rearmament programme this year is revealed. Expenditures Tota with the air Force for the first time in leading place. A. Rise in Britain s outlay thunderbird help indians planning thanksgiving for rain sacred bundle brought Washington july 21. A heavy Rains have been falling frequently in North Dakota since two aged indians foolish drags Wolf regained Possession 01 the sacred bundle the tribal Wea ther Talisman. Visitors to the United states of fice of Indian affairs from the fort Berthold Agency said wednesday the indians the water Buster clan of the Gros planning a big thanksgiving Celebration for everyone who helped get. Back the Talisman last january from a new York museum. The weather Bureau reports Pat rainfall has been three per Fen above Normal in North Dakota this year while a year ago it was Only one third of Normal. Presbyterian profit the average rainfall dropped about one fourth after the loss of the sacred bundle in 1907, when chief Wolf child secretly sold the relics to a presbyterian missionary c f Wilson for Wilson re sold them for to the Heye foundation museum in new York. The sacred bundle contains the skulls of two thunderbird deities who Indian legend says lived As human beings with the clan 200 years ago. They promised before they died that As Long As the clan preserved their skulls there would indicating an even faster Tempo in the world s race is shown by these figures 1935, 1936, 1937, Sev Enty five per cent of this year s expenditure is being paid out of current revenues. Next year s total outlay will certainly exceed the air is now the senior spending service with fair years ago it was Junior to both the Navy and . The Navy is now second with a lower Vole than the air Force while the balance is divided Between air de Fence and the . There is no British expeditionary Force in this picture of., a rather colossal Navy and air Force. The reorganized air ministry appears to be injecting new life into Home production whilst reaching toward North America for reserves. The air Mission in route to Canada Means business with Large scale Long term contracts certain. The times Leader monday said the Mission will arrange for the manufacture of heavy bombers. The total British outlay is. Still much lower than Germany a but the emphasis is different. Germany is concentrating on the. air crops Force second and the Navy a poor third while Britain is going info air and Navy definite Steps Ottawa july 21 the Mission from the British air mini Stry reaches Canada within a few Days its members will find deficit Steps taken by the Canadian aircraft construction Industry to Handl business expected to Range As Hig As on a Long term basis meeting Here tuesday the industrialist members of the commercial air transport and manufacturer association of Canada put the Fin Ishing touches to plans which a preliminary to creating a co ordinal ing company whose function i be to act As their joint intermediary aircraft construction and the British govern Between ment belgian Flag Fues today the National holi Day of Belgium. In Honor of the belgian nation and in compliment to the people of belgian extraction who live in this country their Black yellow and red. Tricolour will Fly from the free press Cour Tesy staff today. Two die from Gas in Cistern Waskada Man., july 21. Special Doerfler a Farmer in this District and his Stepson Bill were victims of a strange Accident wed morning when they were asphyxiated by deadly Gas which had accumulated in a Cistern near the barn at the Doerfler farm. Bill who was 15 years of age ent Down the ladder with a Fork of clean the Cistern out. When he began to Fork Over the old Chaffy Straw which had accumulated in a few inches of water he released Gas which overcame him so quickly that he could not Call for help. Fearing there was something wrong or. Doerfler went to the Cistern to ascertain what the trouble not getting any reply to his questions and seeing the lad motionless at the Bottom of the ten foot Shaft or. Doerfler heroically descended the Cistern to Render him assistance. He too was overcome by fumes apparently As soon As he had reached the. Bottom. Informed of what had occurred neighbors rushed to. The scene and removed the bodies. Attempts were made to revive or. Doerfler and his Stepson but it was soon All too Evi Dent that life was extinct. Penniless old Hangman in Hospital Montreal july 21. Less and ill Arthur Ellis who claimed to have hanged hundreds of men and women As the Dominion s unofficial Hangman was rushed to Hospital wednesday by police who investigated the Case of a dying Man in a Rooming House Here. Although reputed to have received for each hanging Ellis was said by police who removed him from the Little Ontario Street room to have been without funds. His removal to Hospital was ordered by or. L. Desanges who accompanied constables. Ellis whose real name was Bartholomew English last performed a. Hanging in Quebec province two years ago. Ambitions against Britain and France London july 21. Has categorically denied a British newspaper report she has strategic in Spain directed against France and great Britain prime minister Chamberlain told the House of commons wednesday. Or. Chamberlain disclosed that Herbert von German ambassador had called at the foreign off ice to deny tha alleged motives. The news chronicle said july 12 that Germany had plotted a Long Range plan for cutting French arid British lines of communication to their respective colonies and for using air bases in Spain and por Tugal. Two Days later the question was trought before the House of com Mons by questioners who referred to widespread anxiety Over re ports Germany and Italy were establishing strategic positions in Spain and that foreign guns were placed in positions menacing Brit Lin s great Mediterranean fort Ifica Lons at Gibraltar. Malcolm Macdonald Secretary for colonies disclosed an agreement had been reached with Italy to Stop recruiting of British somali tribes Lien who wander across the line Jito Ethiopia to Graze their Stock. Liberal retains Brantford Brantford ont july 21. A 31-year-old barrister one of the youngest candidates to contest an election in Ontario in years retained Brantford for the Liberal party wednesday in a by election called to elect a successor to the late Hon. M. M. Macbride Provin Cial minister of labor. H. Louis Hagey former Alderman and a member of the Public utilities commission polled a plurality of votes Over reginald., Welsh conservative and two other opponents., the vote was Hagey Welsh Paul de Brach socialist labor 58 Walter j. Dowden progressive full government strength Toronto july 21. Of h. Louis Hagey Liberal Candi Date in the Brantford by election to the Ontario legislature brings the government standing in the Assembly to full strength. Sixty five liberals were elected in the last october s general election which re turned Premier Hepburn to office. One seat Toronto Parkdale remains vacant and a by election must be held in that constituency. The vacancy was created by the death july 2, of f. G. Mcbrien conserva standing in the Ontario House is now liberals 65 conservatives 22 Independent 1 u.f.o., 1 vacant 1 total 90. Tive. Will not run says Motherwell Melville sask Hon. Or. A r. July 21. Up Motherwell . Former Federal minister of agriculture indicated to the executive of the Federal Liberal association which met in Melville wednesday that owing to advancing years and increasing deafness he chose not to contest the Federal constituency of Melville at the next Dominion election. He was careful to state however that he would continue to press strongly not Only for improved production methods on the Prairies but also for a reformed and super-1 Vised Grain Trade. The executive unanimously adopted a Resolution which was to be forwarded to the Hon. J. A Gar diner minister of agriculture urging that the initial Price for wheat under the wheat Board be not less than 87% cents per Bushel basis fort William number one Northern. Transients quiet Regina july 21. And evening meals provided for them wednesday by the salvation and the City of Hegina 150 Federal transients postponed their promised demonstration which they had previously declared would draw the attention of All of Canada to our seventy five rooms Earl s House and grounds still awaiting purchaser who wants a House with 75 rooms and a frontage of three Miles the Earl of egmont former Alberta rancher who announced in new York tast week that he was gelling his House because it was too Large said in Winnipeg wednesday morning he had As yet found no buyers for the mansion. The House he said is called Avon Castle and is located on the South coast of England. He did not Dis close the Price he wanted. Lord egmont has not yet established a seat in the House of lords he said but when he does it will be under the title Baron Lovely and Holland. On his Way to his ranch six Miles South of Calgary lord egmont travelled through Winnipeg Over the Canadian Pacific railway accompanied by his wife he said he expected to remain in Alberta during the summer and unless he took a Winter cruise might remain for the Winter As Well Anglo nazi talks quizzed London july 21. Members of parliament wednesday sought minister Chamberlain an explanation of secret convers Apons Between great Britain and Germany. I the action came after a quiet con Terence Between Viscount Halifax foreign Secretary and Captain Fritz Wiedemann Chancellor Hitler s adjutant had Given Rise to reports he two nations were preparing to launch new diplomatic talks to end All Points of misunderstanding be tween them. Surrounded by secrecy july 21. Fuehrer Adolf hitlers proposed solution for a settlement of the czechoslovak problem in the interests of Europe an peace was transmitted by Britain to France wednesday in the. Midst of an enthusiastic Welcome for King George and Queen Elizabeth on their state visit. Secrecy surrounded the nature of Hitler s proposal but czech circles said Hitler suggested sudeten Ger Man autonomy in Czechoslovakia with czech neutrality guaranteed by Germany. They said. Praha previously re fused the proposal because it would oblige Czechoslovakia to abandon her definite military alliances with France and Russia in favor of a less secure geteral guarantee. Vrr not completely satisfactory july 21. Visit of Captain Fritz Wiedemann Chan cellar Hitler s adjutant to London Over the week end was not completely satisfactory according to a source with excellent connections at the chancellery. Viscount Halifax great Britain s foreign Secretary according to the chancellery source walked at the idea of having anti semitic legis lation enforced throughout sudeten territory As one of the manifestations of sudeten autonomy. The informant stated that Wiede Mann informed lord Halifax of Chancellor Hitler s Adamant insist ence that Czechoslovakia must sever her Alliance with soviet Russia. Lord Halifax apparently regained non committal on this Point. Demands action Praha Czechoslovakia july 21. H. Frank parliamentary Leader of the sudeten German party demanded wednesday that the government at once Start direct negotiations for. Solution of the minorities problem. Implicitly rejecting in Advance of its publication the minorities stat Ute which the government has drafted Frank said it met less than five per cent of the German minority s demands. Vote for defence London july 21. Up labor party wednesday issued a statement announcing its decision not. To vote against the government s defence estimates alien they come up for consideration next week. The statement said opposition had already been expressed to the expansion programme and it has been decided no useful purpose could be served by voting against the estimates As a whole when they Are put through without the weather To wednesday Temperature at 6.30 56 maximum 65r minimum 55 barometer 30.13 Northeast wind at four Miles per 0.30 to wednesday at 6.30 ., 73 74 30.06 North wind Atmire Miles per hour maximum humidity minimum humidity sky partly Cloudy. It Ai Little cooler in Eastern Canada. With. Somewhat higher tempera Ture in. Manitoba Little above nor Mal Alberta Mima Dawson -----52 Aklavik .48 Simpson. .46 Al Smith .52 .50. Victoria Vancouver .58 Kamloops 62 , .44 Jasper .46 Edmonton .58 Banff .45 Calgary 54 Leth fridge .58 60 Swift cur it 56 Battleford .52 or. Albert 54 my a so .56 .55 76 Moose jaw 56 82 Brandon Winnipeg .55 74 Ken rat. 76 it. Arthur m 68 Moosonee .42 68 Cochrane .40 66 Huntsville .59 83 60 74 Tendon .64 84 Toronto .64 80 Kingston .66 80 Ottawa .62 78 Montreal .66 83 Quebec 66 80 60 6j Halifax 58 69 Charlottes n -76 Chicago St. Paul 58 above figures Are far 24 hours end ing wednesday forecasts Manubi mostly fair and a Htow warmer "scattered1 Thunder showers. Saskatchewan generally a and warm a few scattered showers in East portion. Fair and warm Lake winds tall and moderately warm. And Rainy Over fair and warmer followed by. Scattered Showen at night or on friday., Saskatoon 52 ;