Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 ., july 21. 9.30 ., july 21 12.30 ., july 22 3.30 ., july 22 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Winnipeg Friday july 22, 1938 published at 530 Warmer. Firm Jones French president will make return visit to Britain Paris july 22. Close co operation of French and British armed strength was sealed symbolically thursday when French fighting men and the newest War machines passed in review before King George i and president Albert Lebrun of France. The Bonds were further tightened by m. Lebrun s acceptance of the King s invitation to visit great Britain before his term As president ends. May. 1939. The president and Madame Lebrun will go to London within the first three months of next year. As a sequel to thursday s Mili tary show Leslie Hore Belisha. British Secretary for War. And the chief of the French general staff major Genera Marie Gustave Gamelin will Confer this morning and Are expected to review Anglo French co operation and take fur ther Steps to assure effectiveness of the military co operation plan reached at London in april. Picture of King George greeting president Lebrun and further de tails of visit appear on Page 9. They will talk at Amiens prior Cabinet changes probable Ottawa july 22 illness of two Cabinet ministers has revived rumours in Ottawa that prime min ister Mackenzie King s Cabinet May be due for a shake up soon although there has been no official intimation. That this would take place in the i dedication of near future. Monument to to ceremonies at Villers Breton neut in which the King will bring to a close his and Queen Eliza Beth s four Day state visit with Australia s National great War dead. Hon. Charles a. Dunning finance minister stricken with a circulatory ailment just before parliament prorogued has been ordered to the Seaboard for a Long rest and there j is a possibility that when he has fully recovered he will be advised against returning to so strenuous a task As the Treasury department presents. Hon. J. C. Elliott postmaster general ill for making a slow months has been recovery and his return to departmental work has been considered in Ottawa circles As unlikely. Or. Dunning s future course will depend on the extent to which he recovers his strength and health. He is a robust and energetic Man just past his 53rd birthday. It has been reported however that before his illness he had entertained thoughts of leaving the finance port Folio at the end of the present parliament. In a few Days it is expected or. Dunning will go to a Prince Edward Island resort for the remainder of the summer. He has been advised to do so by physicians for the com plete rest necessary for his recovery. It has been frequently rumoured or. Elliott is slated for the Senate there there Are six vacancies. There Are Many who would be logical successors for the postmaster generalship which has been administered in or. Elliott s absence by Hon. W. D. Euler. Trade minister. Hon. J. L. Ilsley. Revenue minister has been acting minister of finance since or. Dunning s illness and would probably be in line for that senior portfolio if it became vacant during the life of the present government. Other persistent rumours have slated Hon. Ernest Lapointe Justice minister for the Senate to succeed senator Raoul As government Leader. Senator Dandurand a his late 70 s. Is robust and Active might desire to give up the leadership in order to devote More Gigantic displays which the totalitarian countries have made famil in. Thursday s Parade apparently was to outdo even Mussolini s great demonstration for Hitler in Rome May 3. It was considered significant that places were reserved in the reviewing stands for German and italian military attaches. Diplomatic talks continued diplomatic talks Between British and French statesmen continued at intervals Between engagements thursday but the big event was the display of France s military Power. It is sometimes forgotten that British and other military experts Royal visit continued on Page 5, column 6 huge display it was the biggest military pro tory it the a foreign state and it in its impressiveness the cession in prance since the vie Parade after the world . Was the biggest Ever accorded head of matched time to his own private interests. In Layment office. 400 transients bound for Regina Regina july 22. Of Regina s Federal transient prob Lem May be trebled within a few Days As 400 Ren were reported thursday night to be on their Way to Regina from Calgary to swell the approximate total of 200 already in the City. Information concerning the in flux of Calgary men Given the City Council at a meeting thursday j night by City commissioner r. J. Westgate who returned to Regina after a trip to the Alberta City wednesday. Deputy mayor s. B. East informed the Council that t. M. Molloy commissioner of labor for the prov Ince was endeavouring to place the 172 men housed in the stadium in jobs through the medium of the pm peace move seen Paris july 22. Was made thursday that the chief of the French air general staff would visit Germany s air chief. It was believed to foreshadow a move by european Powers for limitation of air armament or neutralization of civilian areas from Aerial attack in Case of War. The visit by general Joseph Vuillemin to Germany to Confer with Field marshal Hermann goer ing was looked upon As one of the first Steps towards general euro Pean Friendship which May result from King George s state visit to France and the attendant Anglo French diplomatic conferences. Seeks settlement London july 22. Ances from Reich fuehrer Hitler that Germany wants a peaceful settlement of outstanding questions were announced thursday in the House of commons. Prime minister Chamberlain Dis closed that Hitler s adjutant. Cap Tain Fritz Wiedemann brought this message to foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax on the eve of the latter s departure for Paris with the King and Queen. Or. Chamberlain said Wiede Mann s Mission was not to Dis cuss and particular aspect of Politi Cal but the renewed assurances Germany s desire to achieve a peaceful settlement of outstanding questions was taken unofficially to include Czechoslovakia s minority problem. If that question were settled peacefully one of the chief obstacles to an Anglo German rapprochement would disappear. Or. Chamberlain gave his Plantation of the conversation held by Captain Wiedemann and lord Halifax monday night in the foreign Secretary s Home i the form of a written reply. Question. In the House of commons. Sudeten solution imminent Paris july 22 up a solution of the minority problem in Czecho Slovakia which has plagued Europe and threatened general peace is imminent it was indicated thursday by Georges Bonnet foreign minister. Bonnet announced that after consultation with Stefan Osusky czechoslovak minister to Paris a situation has been evolved favor Able to Czechoslovakia. Soured hero Douglas Corrigan to sail july 30 for tumultuous new York Welcome Dublin july Gorce Corrigan hero of a wrong direction flight from new. York to Ireland booked a passage Home thursday aboard the United states liner Manhattan sailing from Queenstown on july 30. The Manhattan will arrive on 5 in new York where Corrigan will be welcomed in the Tanner reserved for heroes. This hero business by the Way rapidly turning sour to his taste. Teeming hoppers pass Saskatoon Saskatoon july 22. Less millions of Grasshoppers apparently headed in a southerly direction flew High Over Saskatoon in a great swarm for Many hours thursday. The flight seemed fastest during the Forenoon but it. Continued until 4 o clock in the afternoon. Telephone Calls to Hanley and Outlook revealed that the Grasshoppers had passed High Over those South of Saskatoon without showing any inclination to alight. A traveller who came in from the West of the province thursday said that Grasshoppers were so thick on the Sandy Road West of Biggar and again at Juniata East of Biggar that his car was filled with an almost unbearable stench from the thou Sands of carcasses that Clung to the machine. Camera stomach patient swallows latest Aid to medical science is a Gastro photo a camera swallowed which enables an operator to photograph the inside of the stomach. The device exhibited recently at san Francisco is shown in lower photo. Then a patient is shown swallowing it with inset a View inside the stomach. The use of this device is called intr gastric Ebnet Dies pictures on he does t want anybody to give an air plane As a Newark advising club plans. In the midst of a Busy Day yester which he had a Good Many Cleas received congratulations important people and looked Over cables offering marriage movie and what not the Young who flew from new k Dublin declared 1 certainly Hope they have Newsom thedas stopped being Corrigan mad when i get his battered s900 plane will be shipped Home on the is. Leigh. Corrigan was reluctant to end his visit Here because he was having a Good time and there were a lot of things he would like to see and do one of the things he said he would like to do would be to visit London and have a Chat George and Queen Elizabeth. Among the film offers he has received was one from Darryl Zanick of 2pth Century Fox films. Zanuck cabled from Paris an offer for a five year film contract to in clude three pictures a year and a vaudeville contract of for a 10-week tour. Fir Public schools Are not but hazards exist com Sion 3. Modern House will be built for economics students and their. Baby. Page 3. Winnipeg housing problem tack architects ordered to draw 3. Unofficial government estimates drop in Saskatchewan s 1938 6. Dritt j Rutledge Minnedosa faces charges of indecent 2. liberals refuse to merge any new political 2. Cabotage hampers work of fight s Crest fires in 5. Brands Stevens describes in of 7. War debt Issue remains open London july 22. Earl of Stanhope thursday night told the House of lords that the question of great Britain s War debt to the United states is left open Side ration at the moment both governments feel Likely to arrive at a solution satisfactory to lord Stanhope said Britain and the United states Are beginning to realize we have Many things in common although we have no com Mon foreign policy As Many of us in this country would like to have. The effect of ments on one country or the other is to the Benefit of the other Side certainly not to its pitched Ball injury fatal to maroons Star infielder after waging a fight against death for five Days with almost superhuman tenacity Linus Skeeter Ebnet 22-year-old Star infielder of the Winnipeg maroons baseball team succumbed in Grace Hospital at 7.20 ., thursday a casualty of the game which he had played so Well. Injured in a game saturday he never regained consciousness. An inquest will be held and the body will be viewed Friday morn ing later being forwarded to be net s Home Albany minn., where the funeral will be held monday morning. Or. And mrs. Bruno Haas will accompany the body South and. Will represent the Winnipeg Maroon club at the funeral. From the first his condition was rated extremely serious and then tuesday when it was Learned he was suffering from lung complications but slight Hope was held for his recovery. Early wednesday morning it was said that Only his rugged Constitution was keeping him alive. His parents and friends gathered at his bedside and were there when the popular Ball player succumbed. Hit by filched Ball Ebnet who was rated As one of the Best infielders in the Northern league was hit on the head by a pitched Ball at 6.45 Saturday at Sherburn Park during a game with grand Forks. Dutch Clawson was pitching for the visitors and Ebnet the third Man up in the last part of the first inning was batting. The first pitch was inside and As Ebnet ducked the Ball struck him soundly head and he dropped Job ringer Teddy Bear maker Dies new York july 22. Mighton 68, russian immigrant doll maker whose Teddy Bear was the childhood Joy of millions of canadians and americans died thursday. A Pioneer in the North american doll Industry mighton was chair Man of the Board of the Ideal nov Elty and toy company which he founded in 1903, 14 years after he came to new York from Russia a penniless immigrant. When he started his business the Teddy Bear his first creation be came an immediate Success he made one of the first unbreakable dolls then revolutionized the Trade with children that blinked their no Sale. Paris july 22 up havas French briton s offer of francs about for the blotter King George i used after he placed his signature in the Golden Book of the Arch of Triumph was turned Down by the chief custodian of the Monument the newspaper Paris soil reported thursday night i do not traffic in such the custodian was quoted As saying. The blotter was said to contain an excellent reverse imprint of the Royal Aid in horse epidemic new York july 22 six thousand doses of a new vaccine obtained from artificially diseased Chick egg embryos were shipped to Manitoba thursday to the serious outbreak of encephalomyelitis sleeping sickness Amonjr horses in the province. In the last two weeks additional doses have been sent to a Tkatchew i and in All officials of the Lederle laboratories Here estimate. Of the horses in the two provinces have been immunized against the disease. The new vaccine 100 times More potent than the horse brain vaccine hitherto in use was stir in the experimental Stag in april and was put into general us Only a few weeks ago. Now daily shipments Are made to Western Canada and to Minnesota Kansas Iowa and neb Raska through which states the plague is spreading South. Scientists fear also that it win infiltrate Westward into Alberta. Supplies of serum used to treat animals already infected will b a used up in 10 Days it is estimated and scientists Are concentrating on he vaccine which is preventive de ing administered to healthy Ani Mals As a precautionary measure. It has been established that the vac Cine makes for solid immunity with in a period of two Days and while experiments Are not Complete it is thought that immunity lasts for an entire season. Sask. Shipments cease Regina july 22. Of serum to Saskatchewan to com 3at the spread of disease among Saskatchewan horses has virtually ceased although no embargo has seen placed against Export from he United states by the United states government inability to manufacture serum East enough is Given As the reason for the inability to obtain supplies. Vaccine supplies Are still arriving at the rate of doses a Day and Are being shipped out at the same rate. Linus Skeeter Ebnet to the Skull. An operation ground with a fractured by or. Oliver Waugh at Grace Hospital was per formed monday to Lessen pressure on his brain. Twice before the operation fluid was taken from his spinal column. Or. And mrs. Michael Ebnet the Ball player s parents arrived in Ebnet Dies continued on Page 9, column 2 will Britain Back czechs Hitler asks by Grant Dexter. London july 22. Special obscured by the magnificence and pageantry of the Royal visit to Paris the in formal visit to London of Captain Wiedemann Kilter s adjutant is recognized As of vital importance to developments in Middle Europe during the next few months. The Manchester guardian s diplomatic correspondent declares Wiedemann s Mission was to Dis the British government was bluffing on May 21, and if Britain would actually support France if nazi measures again tet the czechs precipitated a Franco German War. Weidemann has reported to Hitler and the guardian says if Hitler thinks Britain will remain passive War is almost As certain As anything can be for the germans believe they can hold off the French and air Force while they Settle accounts with Czechoslovakia and if need be Russia. If Hitler can not count on British neutrality. The risk of War with Czechoslovakia must appear excessive in his eyes Joachim von Ribbentrop Hitler s foreign minister the guardian re a ports is certain the British govern ment is bluffing. German military leaders Are not entirely moderates this time As is supposed. They have been hitherto but they Are now willing to tackle Czecho Slovakia if British neutrality is cer Tain. Moreover the nazis have been running a wide open propaganda Campaign in the press and Over the radio against the czechs and to abandon it will mean loss of face. The guardian is confident the British government was not Bluff ing last May. Moreover confidential letters exchanged Between prime minister Neville chamber lain and Premier Daladier of France on the eve of the Royal visit to Paris appear., to have contained definite reaffirmation of British support to France in these Circum stances. What is not known is whether the British assurances to Wiedemann have convinced him. Policy indicated Paris july 22. Up Franco British diploma tic activity was Over shadowed thursday by the Parade of French forces before King George but it was understood from French sources that French British policy As the result of recent negotiations and talks Here included 1. The fullest economic military and technical collaboration. 2. An Effort to. Persuade Czecho Slovakia to Speed up delivery to the German minority of the new minorities statute in order that advantage might be taken of the Good atmosphere by Adolph Hitler s voluntary assurances to great Britain that he hoped for a peaceable solution. 3. Postponement of any French British Gernan italian talks on colonies limitation and Fin Ancial and economic co operation until the czechoslovak and Spanish r problems had been Clari fied. 4. Pursuit of efforts to hasten the evacuation of foreign troops from Spain and to mediate if pos sible Between the loyalists and the rebels. 5. To postpone the effectiveness of the British italian Friendship treaty until the evacuation of italian troops from Spain was Well under Way. 6. French italian relations. Efforts to improve italians in Spain break line henday France july 22 Spanish government War bulletins reported thursday night that italian volunteers fighting with the insure gents had broken defence lines Northwest of Viver 34 Miles North Northwest of Valencia. Advices from Valencia said the attackers were held from entering the town when the defending militiamen Laid Down a heavy insurgent bulletins said their troops had reached positions a Little More than a mile West of Viver. Supporting columns further West captured Salada Peak at a Point where the Borders of Teruel Cas Tellon and Valencia provinces meet rebel attacks fail. Henday French Spanish fron tier july rebel attacks preceded by a violent artillery barrage and air plane bombings failed to break the loyalist Stone Wall front before sagunto and Valencia government despatches asserted thursday. The insurgents were said to have opened a major offensive in. The Toras and be nearer sectors about 30 Miles Inland from but failed to crack the government s spider web system of trenches. The rebels reported however that their Advance Down the High Way was progressing satisfactorily. Military observers were astonished by the extraordinary array of 300 planes and tanks and heavy artillery Franco was Able to despatch to the two front i while apparently devoting his full Powers to the Valencia Catlike thugs leap on Man s Back two powerful cat like men Bounder out of the darkness on York Avenue East of Smith Street bouncer on Fred. Ireland 51, of 45 Edmonton Street and him about the face arid head fete thursday evening. The piercing screams of their victim sent the thugs Dasi Tung Down a nearby Ireland with his nose smashed and Iii face battered and bruised. He was walking on York Avenue about 10.30 pin., Ireland told police when the two Inen crept up silently behind him. One seized him around the neck and pulled him backwards off balance As the other pummelled his head. No reason could be Given for the attack Ireland is in Gen eral Hospital and his condition is fairly Good. Typographical head Dies Colorado Springs Colo july 22 p Howard president of the International typographical Union fell dead of a Beart attack at an hotel thursday by soviet Russia Moscow july 22. A soviet Russia bluntly rejected thursday As unjustified and unacceptable a second japanese demand for withdrawal of. Soviet troops from territory Japan declared belonged to Manchukuo. A communique issued through Tass russian official news Agency said Russia regarded the territory near the Junction Siberia Manchukuo and japanese Korea As indisputably a part of soviet Russia. Japanese contend soviet troops invaded the area near Changkun Feng july 11. In Tokyo the situation has been regarded As extremely serious. Tokyo newspapers have reported feverish activity by soviet troops near the communique said foreign commissar Maxim Litvinoff told japanese ambassador m o r u Sling emits that although threats 61 armed Force might be Good Macy elsewhere such methods will not succeed in soviet troops in this area have no other except defence of the status quo on the soviet Litvinoff was quoted As telling the japanese ambassador. Threatens use of Force then Shigemitsu said he did not believe his government would be satisfied with the soviet answer to previous representations july and that Steps must be taken relax Border tension otherwise Japan would be compelled to con Sider the advisability of using Force the tension is regarded in Tokyo As the most serious since the clash june 30, 1937 Over two Sandspit islands in the amur River. A peaceful settlement was reached then Only after a russian gunboat had been sunk another beached and a third put to flight by Jap anese and Manchukuo artillery. Japs flan Frontier display Tokyo july 22. Japan plans a troop demonstration before the Hill on the Manchukuo Siberia Frontier which russian soldiers have occupied allegedly in Mancho Kuoan territory. A foreign office spokesman expressed the opinion that unless the russians impressed by the planned demonstration withdrew from the Hill it mtg i be necessary for Jap anese troops to drive them away. A despatch from a smoking reported that Mancho Kuoan authorities had abandoned efforts to Settle the incident by diplomatic Means. Prediction Castel Gandolfo Italy july 22 Vatican news service said Pope Pius asserted thursday that separatism and exaggerated a precisely because they Are not Christian end by being not the pontiff made statement in addressing 200 assist ants of the italian Catholic. Youth japs mass big forces for drive july 22. The japanese command was reported thursday night to be strengthening its Yangtze Valley forces at the rate of Soldier a Day for a supreme but delayed Effort to shatter the chinese defences at k Ulciana foreigners at Points along the japanese drive up the Yangtze River toward Hankow said japanese troops had been transported to the front at that rate during the past two weeks with much artillery hundreds of horses and vast sup plies. They expressed belief the Japan Ese were massing above Wuhu but were Likely to wait for a break in the sweltering heat and a lowering of the River before starting the offensive in which they Hope to take Hankow. Chinese claim victories Hankow july 22. Up havas French a chinese com Mand today claimed victories which All but isolated the spearhead of the japanese drive on. Hankow. Army spokesmen said chinese divisions staged a series of Success Ful Surprise counter attacks on Jap anese positions at Matang Hsiang kown Peng teens and Down River from the enem a most advanced lines protests Price Edmonton july 22. Ing prospects of a 70-cent-a-Bushe Price for wheat by the Canadian wheat Board Hon. D. B. Mullen Alberta minister of agriculture thursday telegraphed Hon. J. G. Gardiner Federal minister of Agri culture declaring the Price should be at least 137% cents a Bushel a Price of 70 cents a Bushel to Farmers who sell their wheat through the Board will operate against producers and will be disastrous to the said or. Mul Len s Telegram. Silver speedster pick a Back plane spans Atlantic on first of i eight trips to Canada port Washington july 22. Up great Britain s 10-ton swooped to a Graceful Stop on this seaport of new York City Complete the year Survey flight of the projected commercial route across the North Atlantic. Smooth Landing Boucherville que., july pick a Back plane Mercury glided to a smooth Landing in this air har Bor 12 Miles East of Montreal at 9.20v. A Jit. . Thursday Span Ning the Atlantic Ocean non Stop in Little More than 20 hours. J completing the first of eight flights to Canada this year the Silver Craft Cut her engines and coasted into a Landing place marked off by special buoys. A Flag bedecked yacht steamed out into the River to Greet Captain Don Bennett and wireless operator Albert Coster. It was the first non Stop heavier than air flight to Montreal. The Mercury took off from foynes Ireland wednesday at 1 pin. Cost. She unloaded Here that part of the cargo Des tined for Mort real and then took off for new York at 12 noon after replenishing her fuel tanks. Throughout the night and Early Mercury reported her Progress by wireless to officials at St. Hubert Airport Hangman Ellis Dies in Hospital Montreal july 22. Ellis the methodical Little executioner who Seldom was known by his real name of Arthur Bartholo Mew Alexander Ito Glish died to Hospital thursday night after a Brief illness of undisclosed nature. Vart Bur Ellis officiated at double hanging Here 12 years ago. At Daybreak fek John Baker Stanton died for the murder of John Tenny while Steve Nazar paid with his life for the murder of Louis Landy Winnipeg taxi Driver. I crop report Western Canada s crop is now in an advanced stage and is approaching maturity. How is it faring from its Jold enemies such As drouth Grasshoppers. I Isth a Large indicated these and other in formative questions Are answered by free press crop correr. Spoh dents in the fourth seasonal crop review which will be issued Friday afternoon. A special feature of the report will Deal with the rust situation. And a condition map will accompany the Survey. The weather wednesday li.39f.fa. If Thun Day. Cj4 at 6.30 ., 33 Maxi minimum. 51 barometer. 30.02 Southeast wind at seven per hour sky. Cloudy. .., to at 8.30 Maxi at Els Winnes Jer hour if minimum humidity sky. Cloudy. Mimsi Mima Daws Orv .4s.72 Regina _.50 88 Aklavik .50 70 Brandon ----54 .80 Simpson .56 6 Winnipeg .51 .75 it. Smith.-. 4t a Kenora or. Rupert 52 58 it. Arthur 38 611 victoria.60 84 .44 73 Vancouver 62 78 Cochrane 40 71 Kamloops .60 100 42 92 Jasper so Edmonton .48. 36 Banff 45 88 Calgary 54 86 Lethbridge 54 88 hed Bat 48 38, Swift cur it 48 84 Batteford 52 82 or. Albert 52 78 Saskatoon 52 80 Moo jaw 50 83 above figures abettor 24 noun thursday. 30 Fob casts and be combo what warmer. Suksta Kewu generally fair Anil Valr and quite with a Tew scattered . Lake winds most in Easterly partly Cloudy with scattered thunders Owen. Chiefly in West port Ftp. Bairn Clouds with probably a few scattered not much Dunn in Tempe Rague. 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