Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 ., july 28 9.1-Io ., july leg 12.30 ., july 29 3.30 July 29 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Vol. Pages. Sun rises 4.52 Sun sets 20.16. Moon rises Moon sets 21.9. Winnipeg Friday july 29, 1938 published at 5jo an. Great purge Russia waging War against Jap agents on East Frontier Moscow. July 29. Siberian newspaper. Pacific Ocean Star tells of a great purge in the soviet russian far Gast .0 frustrate what the newspaper terms Japan s efforts to destroy our strength from the in the past few months a great purge was carried on. And it still the newspaper says. The bolshevik its of Prim Orsk province will smoke from their holes All spies and terrorists to the last Man 1 the newspaper published at Khabarovsk near the scene of rec ent Border incidents Between red soldiers and the detachments of the japanese army of occupation in Manchukuo. Says the purge was started on the initiative of Jos Eph Stalin Secretary general of the russian communist party. Diplomatic exchanges Between Moscow and Tokyo in a renewed dispute Over the siberian Man Cho Kuoan Border were marked by russian rejection of a japanese protest that soviet soldiers had of soil near 11. Japan Hawaii Clipper missing san Francisco. July 29. A the giant trans Pacific flying boat Hawaii Clipper was missing Early today on a 1.600 mile flight from Guam to Manila. The last message from the ship i relayed to pan America airways i Pacific Ocean Star says that where bomb killed 39 in Palestine the building at the right is the vegetable Market at Haifa Palestine where 39 arabs were killed when during the height of the shopping i. I. I a j n i ii. Hour a bomb exploded. Forty others were m Jared and the death toll is expected to increase. Following the bombing maddened Arab mobs sacked and burned jewish stores. Police unable handle the situation were forced to Call on British and espied Mancho Kuoan Chang Kuofeng on july since has taken a conciliatory attitude Hurricane of fire was timed s.03 . Thursday. The flying boat Miles out of air Mission men arrive at Ottawa Ottawa july 29. Mem Bers of the British air ministry s Mission to Canada . Handley Page aircraft industrialist and a. H. Self second Deputy under Secretary to the air ministry arrive have Only themselves to blame for to me air Amu Isery arnved Here from Quebec late thursday Hunt Smice tuesday afternoon police Hunt alleged killer in Winnipeg sought in connection with the murder of a hotel keeper at Shawano county Wisconsin Early in april Henry Joseph Vandekerkhov believed by police to be hiding out somewhere in greater Winnipeg has been the object of an intensive Man night. Said by the authorities to have Man i relatives in St. Boniface with whom states Navy boat was reported the air sea and despatched from Guam to begin a the newspaper declares Hardman lever who is in the the j United states will join the group of our party shake its Dis not know How were aboard the Clipper. Aircraft carried a Crew of seven c Pune ruin the military effect men under command of Captain an Las Reo Terletzky. Officials admitted that after fail will be Here until monday when they will proceed to Montreal of discuss matters with he had been staying since arriving Here a month or six weeks ago the fugitive also has two aliases Harry Brooks and Harry More. Since coming Here police said he has been using the name of Harry Van Damm. Born in the United states of Bel Gian parents Vandekerkhov visit to our strength natives in St Boniface asked if the Mission s function years when he was a police Izvestia. The Moscow government i up apartment of Grigory Petrovsky from the fag to hear word from the Clipper i Organ thursday disclosed a shake place or for More than five hours they were up in the soviet health resort de concerned for her safety. Liberals leading in North was to place orders. Or. Self de was Here to study the Canadian situation in All its j aspects and to negotiate r plan which however would have to have said. Victim of the murder was Joseph brings personal Friend of sheriff Carl Druckrey of Shawano county. Who is sparing no Effort in running Down his Man. According to police Vandekerk Hove armed with a Shotgun shot brings Down outside his hotel after i flying school of the British air ministry. His duty is to examine what human Torch woman suicides by burning self Chatham ont., july 29. Up Prince Albert sask., july late thursday night the deferred Athabasca election was still in doubt w. J. Windrum polling 418 mrs. Leslie Lawson. 53, died in hos votes and . Jules Marion Here thursday five hours polling 345. With More than 20 polls j of Ter police said she poured Kero to report some of them substantial. Sene Over herself and ignited it on Are liberals. I her Harwich township farm Home d. A. Hall Liberal candidate and near Blenheim. The woman had former . Was leading in cum Berland deferred voting with 361 against 38 for w. G. Smith conservative candidate. Unofficial counts from Only seven out of about 20 polls were obtainable thursday been in ill health for two years. There will be no inquest. Dhal net facilities exist in Canada. For. Train 4. Column 1 ing airmen Here for the Royal air Force. Today commander Robb will con Fer with Hon. Ian Mackenzie min ister of defence. The other Mem Bers will meet the minister and his Deputy Lieut col. L. R. La fleche d.s.o., later. H. Vande Kerkhove conservative elected London july 29. Up Cable the East Willesden House of com Mons seat remained in the conservative standing thursday when s. S. Hammersley Defeated Maurice Orbach labor in contest. A straight party head on death woman held Noi five instantly killed and four Hurt handcuff sister when cars collide in Saskatchewan London ont., july 29. Police said thursday they were cer Kis a woman giving her name As its. Lucille Leduc. Of Montreal arrested on a drunk charge was cot one of the handcuffed Sisters 55 she claimed to be wednesday eight two girls handcuffed together and j attempting to walk from Montreal to Vancouver passed through Lon j con several weeks ago. J mrs. Leduc and her husband 3uies Henri Ledue. Were arrested wedge stat after question the woman admitted she was cot one of the Cross country walk Saskatoon july 29. Persons were killed in stantly and four others were Hurt seriously in a head on collision of two automobiles on a Rise of Highway 53 Miles West of Sas Katoon at 4 o clock thursday morning. The dead miss Jean Fisher 24, the Road at the foot of the Hill. The Wilkie. Sound of the crash awakened him William Nick Bayzor 13, store be. Ran to the wrecked cars. He employee Wilkie. Miss Betty Hants 22, Wilkie. Edward headman Lacaden. Nurse pulled the dead and injured from the burning car before the fire reached them. Or. P. D. Bennett Coroner of per in. T. G. P. Lucas head of 1 mrs. K. A. Mcritchie Lacaden. Seriously injured k. A. My Hitchie Lacaden brought to City Hospital in Saskatoon. C. Christiansen. 28, store pm provincial police traffic detail in Loyee Wilkie also in the Hospital Ontario confirmed the Here. Jimmie Harbour 21, Wilkie. Ernest Thomas. 21, store employee Wilkie also taken to hos Pital at Biggar. The Wilkie party consisting of six at the due. Has empanelled a jury for an inquest August 15. The dead have been brought to Saskatoon. Four held he said he had seen girls and As far he they were somewhere Setir sea Sarnia ont and Winni fes probably in Michigan. Driver s License a alan., july 29. Special Drivers on the highways who did not have licenses cars As provided for in a Black. Form an Mcl Arney and Harold Cripps who each fined s5 and costs. Highway traffic act appear in police court thursday. The. In theft Case Sanctuary Roosevelt approves Border wilds plan Minneapolis july recent executive order of president Roosevelt just made Public insures continued encouragement by the present administration for the establishment in the Minnesota Ontario Border Lakeland of a vast International Forest and wilderness Sanctuary according to Ernest c. Oberholtzer president of the Quetico Superior Council Minneapolis. The order extends for four years the existence of the Quetico Superior committee created by executive order of june 30. 1934. It is the duty of the committee rumours on Peg Are Rife by Chester Bloom Ottawa ont., july arriving in Ottawa state Tusit the government opposition is using the Federal delay in fixing the Price of wheat As propaganda in the by election in Saskatchewan set for october 4. According to these re ports the Story is being promulgated that the government intends to fix the Price of wheat under 87ja cents the Price demanded by the Western growers but is postponing the announcement until election Day to avoid the unfavourable effect on the Rural vote. So far As indications go this conclusion ranted. Appears entirely Unwar the real reason is obviously because of daily deterioration in the condition of the Prairie crop due to increasing ravages of rust drouth and Grasshoppers. The Winnipeg october future thursday was which is believed to be entirely too Low compared to in formation in the hands of the government s crop under the Law the Cabinet cannot fix the Price until the figure is recommended by the wheat Board that recommendation has not yet been made. The Board is apparently waiting for the actual crop condition to be reflected in the october figure before setting the initial Price. What appears to be the Case is that the government is letting the speculators Stew in their own juice and the indication is that some of the october bears Are going to git their tails caught in the wheat Board Gate. Jews form United front Berlin july 29. Jews thursday formed a United front in an Effort to Deal More effectively with the problem of emigration from nazi Germany. Formation of a federation of jews to constitute their official re presentation in dealings with the government was the weekly Central Verein Zeitung Organ. Of German jewry. Further details appear on Page rabbi Leo Baeck chief rabbi of Berlin was named president of the organization. In a Brief Appeal published. By the jewish weekly the new federation said elimination from callings and business subjects the greatest part of jews in Germany to enduring unemployment. We therefore Are entitled to look for assistance. We Are not unmindful that the Brethren in other countries too have serious difficulties. But we May after All expect one thing that can be Given us the opening of. Frontiers for regulated wide Gulf sudeten declare nazi czech breach beyond settlement Praha july 29. Sudeten German party declared thursday night in an official press letter that the cleavage Between czechs and germans appears no longer the statement hinted that Viscount Runciman great Britain s unofficial mediator in the czechoslovak government s dispute with germans and other minorities faced difficult Odds. The letter declared that it would be unfair to hamper lord Runciman in his Effort to solve the minorities problems but insisted there was a widening breach Between the government and the sudeten germans. Special despatch by Grant Dex Ter reporting Gravity of German czech situation appears on Page 3. Prime minister Chamberlain in his tuesday parliamentary address announcing lord Runciman s appointment the letter continued brought before the world unreserved acknowledgement of the sudeten germans As a partner in the Britain s traditional policy in a practical sense the statement said this amounted to unofficial recognition of sudeten germans As s Staats Volk with equal rights instead of As a minority. Great Britain s traditional policy it said was to conclude a Compromise. English diplomacy found ways to worm into the Spanish As Well As into czech the party document said. To Burgos they sent a commercial to Praha they Send an adviser and observer " the government thursday transmitted to the sudeten germans the draft of a. Law laying Down the bases for territorial self administration. Details of the measure were kept secret launched Mauritania slides to sea Birkenhead England Julur 29. Top they launched the new Mauritania thursday amid tremendous Public acclaim and seamen eyes misty seemed to hear above the whistles of Craft on the Mersey the Siren of the old Mauretania once Queen of the Atlantic and now scrap. Biggest product of English ship Yards the new liner established a Marine record before leaving the ways. Her keel was Laid May 24, 1937, and since then her entire Hull Structure comprising tons of steel was feat unprecedented in shipbuilding history. To help co ordinate Federal and state activities toward earliest pos sible attainment of the Quetico Superior programme. The Mem f Bers of the committee serve with out compensation and at their own i expense. In consultation with the j committee during the past four i years the . Forest service and j the Indian office at Washington have made rapid strides toward fulfilment of the programme on the american Side. The programme is strictly a forestry project but of huge variety and magnitude. It is attempt to reconcile in this rarely Beautiful healthful and historical Lakeland All the multiple uses of forestry for the highest Public Good no change in jurisdiction or administration on either Side of the Boundary is contemplated. The two countries Are simply to agree by treaty upon cer Tain simple principles of conserva Tion under which existing agencies Are to protect restore and make i freely available the Forest and water resources of the Border Young people had spent a Day dal police announced thursday two the Saskatoon exhibition and ? arrests had been made in con Newsom Hemf was returning Home going West the Lacaden party of three All in the front seat of a car owned by my. Headman and driven by Mcritchie was travelling East to Saskatoon. The Wilkie car caught fire immediately after the Accident Charles Brady address unknown was asleep in a Small car beside Cockney contributions a stage Are extolled or i Hepburn to sail Carcross t.t., july 29. Up i Premier Hepburn of Ontario took Ito train and boat thursday As the Tariff Brief Waves the to a provincial election de next in tas tour of Western f 4. While his plane took off on j rust approaching direct flight to Vancouver. J Dorr Nion Plant the Premier j. P. Bickell to i 21. Ironto financier and Bernard Smith i postaer expert York broker boarded the Cycle current decade is j afternoon train of the White pass s 5. Land Yukon route for the 80-mile i aboard British ship killed trip to Skagway. Alaska. There insurgent they will Board the Canadian Paci i Fie coastal liner Princess Alice and a rebels plan to blast to Prince Rupert the Diane which took off from Here at 4.15 pin. For a 1200-mile flight to Juneau. Was unable to get to the Alaska City on. Account of bad weather and turned i Back. Section with the theft of Worth of Indium and palladium from refineries of the International Nickel company of Canada at port Colborne ont. Thursday s arrests brought the total number of men in custody to four col. Redmond Roche assistant director of provincial police said his men arrested Arthur Coderre and j. Tousignant both mint readers thursday on charges of receiving and Possession of the precious Metal concentrates used manufacturing. In munitions Sanctuary continued on Page 4, column 2 . Fires worse Vancouver july 29. Up the Forest fire situation through British Columbia took a turn for the worse thursday As winds increased and humidity remained Low. Attention of firefighters at the Vancouver Island Blaze near Camp Bell River concentrated on Green Timber at the Edge of forbidden i plateau. Five die in mine plunge Bourlamaque que., july 29. Up Young engineers were killed instantly and another was fatally injured thursday when a runaway Cage plummeted 700 feet Down the Shaft no. 7 at the la Maque mining company s big Gold mine Here. Crushed in the steel Cage As it crumpled against a mass of masonry about a third the Way Down the foot Shaft these men died Peter Downey 24, single of Gleichen Alta. Harry Field 32, married of Bourlamaque James j. Crocker 23, single of Toronto. Arthur m. Hewat 32, married with one child Halifax. W. Clarke Isbister 23, of Toron to was taken out of the Cage wreckage barely conscious. Bushed to Hospital he died an hour later. Cause unknown mine officials said. They did not know the cause of the Accident. A new Cable had been installed for the big Cage Only wednesday an investigation was begun into the possibility that safety cogs which hold the Cable from slipping when the Cage is not in motion May have failed plea for privacy plunger s family asks Protection As morbid plan funeral visit new York july 29. John Warde will be buried in Brooklyn today after private funeral services for which members of his family asked police Protection. The 26 year old Southampton youth perched 11 hours on a seventeenth floor ledge of the Gotham hotel before leaping to his death tuesday night. His family disclosed that they had received letters from persons asking permission to attend the rites and. View the body. The motive for Warde s act remained obscure. He suffered from a maniac depressive psychosis which elevates its victims to extremes of exhilaration Only to pictures on Page 19 plunge them into despair. He had attempted suicide twice before and feared he would be sent Back to a Hospital where be once received treatment. High Perch sits on pole for 27 Days Toronto july 29. Up Saflor Dogherty perched at the top of a flagpole at Sunnyside Beach Here from june 30 until wednesday night but he did t get his Naine in the never papers until thursday and few were aware he was out to break the world record thursday he claimed he broke the previous record by almost four Days by sitting on the flagpole 27 Days and 40 . Tragedy Steps on the Cas Highway toll for june is increased by five death is doing better than City Drivers however play an i thank you claiming five More lives j important part in Rural accidents. This june than last in accidents on Manitoba highways the latest Acci Dent statistical report showed thursday when it was issued by w. Trevor Davies chief of the Acci Dent Bureau. In Many cases or. Davies reported they were involved in Highway accidents. Once they get away from the restraining influence of City traffic regulations they appear to minister and Bride car 6. Reported about to 5, o propose Highway accidents killed nine be unable to resist the urge to persons and injured 98 during the j drive recklessly when they Are not month. While none was killed in capable of driving skill fury at High Winnipeg 97 were injured. Speeds he said. The statistics showed that Reck i is driving was the chief Factor in the increased number of ties. Two persons were killed be cause Drivers were travelling faster than Highway or traffic conditions warranted three were killed be cause Drivers were unable to control Timeir machines and they left the Highway and in these instances blowouts or. Mechanical defects were not responsible. With none of the fatalities in the Ity pedestrians fared better than one was. Killed on a High War while 43 were injured in Rural districts and 35 in Urban streets. Industrial and general accidents claimed 28 lives and injured 125 persons the report also showed last Jane these types of accidents killed-22 and injured 134. Nine elks elect National leaders Lethbridge a1u, july 29 John Vaselenak Lethbridge lawyer and charter member of Lethbridge elks Lodge was unanimously elec Ted grand exalted Euler of the grand elks Lodge of Canada at the annual convention Here thursday night new Westminster submit platform Edmonton july 29. Pro vision for an economic advisory Board import and Export boards and socialization of finance health services and All industries and ser vices which Are monopolistic in character As is advisable was made in the draft political platform submitted to the National convention of the co operative Commonwealth federation Here thursday night. Details of opening session appear on Page 7. Earlier the convention adopted resolutions urging guarantee of Freedom of speech Assembly and the press a National form of unemployment insurance Extension of the Federal debt adjustment Legisla Tion to Urban As Well As farm Resi dents Federal responsibility for unemployment and Relief and fostering of producer and consumer co operatives. Promises debt adjustments the draft political platform prom ised steeply graded corporation monopoly and inheritance taxes and to re align the fiscal policy so As to provide increasing amount of Public Revenue from state enter prizes. In co operation with the provinces it promised adequate adjustment of outstanding debts Security of tenure for the Farmer and insurance against unavoidable crop failure. E. Regulation of hours of work was included along with insurance and the right of labor to organize. Freedom of speech press and association another Plank. Tive Steps to Amend the British North America act to assure National Unity and remove injustices and iniquities now apparent was promised in another Section. Was contained in Active and. Effect citizens to Aid College Brandon Man july 29. Up City wide Public subscription would be utilized to raise Money to permit Brandon College to reopen this fall. It was decided at a Public meeting Here thursday night. By the subscription programme the College Hopes to raise in order to be eligible for an additional from the provincial government Brandon College appealed to. The provincial. Government some time ago for z. Grant of annually. The government s counter proposal was Assurance they would contribute annually for 20 years to Ward Upkeep of the College provid ing the College raised an equal amount. Decision of the meeting to accept the government s offer of Azov car ried with it agreement that the Baptist institution should become non arid affiliated with the University Manitoba. The meeting agreed plans should be Laid at present Only for the com ing year. In the. Meantime chosen As the 1939 convention City. Other officers named included grand lecturing Knight Hugh Mcdonald of flin flon grand ser rotary treasurer col Royal Bur Rutt d.s.o., of Winnipeg grand Loyal Knight w. C. King of co Dette sask. Grand lecturing Knight Chas. Vaughan of Van Couver grand Esquire Bert sum Ner of Beaver Lodge Alberta grand inner guard Harry Peel of Duncan . Grand Tyler William Houston Minnedosa Man. Grand chaplain f. Haney Calgary grand trustees p. W. Pound Vancouver Ben Metcalfe Lethbridge Al. E. Amer Winnipeg. Grand judiciary committee j p. Ferguson Trochu Alta. H. W. Galbraith Vernon . Bussell Hartney Saskatoon. Grand historian m. Stewart Van port will be consolidated through was out Western Manitoba for subsequent storm toll Toronto july 29. Damage to crops and property was left thursday in the Wake of Thun Der and electrical storms Over Many sections of Ontario. The storms extended from Midland on georgian Bay eastward to Peterborough District of Eastern Ontario. One Man was sided. The worst wind storm in years struck Lindsay wednesday. A Section of an hotel roof was blown demands. The weather . J.ra-, to am. Temperature at 6jo an minimum. 57 barometer. 2s.m South wind at six Miles per boar precipitation. .02 sky. Clear. P.171. Temperature at 6.30 83 maximum. 87 minimum. 53 barometer. 2388 Northwest wind at per hour Precinia Taniou. .04 Snajd Curn humidity. At Lavic staid son secy. Partly Cloudy. My a 52 6fl 33 30 k 62 52 85 50 5i 52 70 56 78 Fez 52 52 70 43 82 56 82 54 34 h m 54 92 56 53 m 62 88 52 92 52 92 to is minimum humidity Vancouver Kamloops or. George Jasper Calgary Lethbridge med. Hat swim t Battleford Saskatoon jaw Begina Brandon Winnipeg Kenora it. Arthur Cochrane Huri Turille Parry sound 66 7s 66 35 67 86 68 78 62 80 64 32 54 80 56 80 to 73 cart octet n 53 75 Chicago St. Paul London Toronto Kingston Ottawa Montreal Quebec John 1h a 46 s3 57 37 is m to 74 70 56 74 63 79 70 62 38 persons were drowned during june into a Street of that Eastern town of above figures Are for 24 hours Renotas thursday. 5j30 . Forecasts fair and wans prob ably scattered Thongde Showen. Suka Tebelma mini Ulieru partly Cloudy and. Warm with local Thunder storms take Superior _ moderate variable winds mostly fail and warm. Fair land warm probably scattered Thunder ;