Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 01, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature headings 6.30 ., july 31 ., july 31 4-74 12 Midriff it july 31 for full report of meteorological office see Page one. Vol. 18 pages Sun rises. 4.45 Sun sets 20.12. Moon rises. 12.b Moon sets 22.27. Winnipeg monday August 1, 1938 Beia Cohina train crash scenes snapped by an. Amateur photographer who was returning to Winnipeg from Victoria Beach saturday night the above picture shows where the engine on the Canadian National railways Moon Light train came to a Stop its Side partly embedded in the passenger coach. Broken window casings and accumulated wreck age torn from the sides of the couches As the locomotive Slid to a Stop May be seen in lower Centre. The . Moonlight sideswiped two coaches on Conia siding badly damaging to grand Beach saturday evening a Winnipeg bound train at the Bea the sides of both cars. Above is picture shows the Moonlight engine on the left and the derailed coach on the right. In the foreground passengers have gathered to examine the wreckage. The mishap occurred about 715 And traffic was delayed until the track was cleared at 1.50 . Spanish deadlock unbroken he Flaye France aug. 1. A series of attacks and counter attacks by reinforced Spanish government and insurgent armies failed sunday to break a two Day dead lock on the catalan front. Both forces pitted All their Avail Tokyo alarm japs take Border posts killing 200 russians Tokyo aug. 1. A a conflict on the. Siberian Able strength a slugging match on the government s newly won 25 mile wide line. Esch apparently was attempting to strike decisively at some vulnerable Point and drive other into defensive tactics. Insurgent general Franco s line As Strong As he could make it with reinforcements of men and nejd before Gandeza for months the nerve Centre of his defences along lie Ebro River. The front still extended about 25 along the West Bank of the Oro from the Mequi Nenza Moun North of Fayon. To the Pandos mountains South of Gandeza with government holding the area wined by a Broad Elbow of the ver to the East. Heaviest fighting centred in two along the Gandeza communications line in lower Catalonia at Fayon Gateway to Aragon Vince from Central Catalonia Van no heat the Ebro into a Furnace government workmen their As Crews stripped Weir waists Laboured to keep intact we Jei Ines ferries and Pon Bridges across the River att surgent raiders intensified their on government towns five Aii nutes attacked reus later another and two Squadron number of victims. Insurgent warship crippled Barcelona aug. 1. In Ahn believed to be the Cervera. Was reported by government pilots saturday Nave been crippled by warplanes. Mancho Kuoan Border where officials wrested disputed territory from soviet news of them . Demands collective action to preserve world peace. Page 18. Supply ships Are Busy on Hudson Bay route. Page 18. Hitler awards German Cross to Henry Ford who celebrates his 75th Page 18. Rabbit disease kills baby second Lethbridge Page 18. Britons View sea might As 55 giant warships Page 18. Winnipeg s Parade at Portsmouth apparent paradoxes amaze australian Page 18. Mechanical racing horses to oper ate at River 18. Mussolini says Pope s remark about imitating Germany is simply 8. Old forts of Manitoba unfold romantic Story or settlement Page 8. Horse disease is not caused by bugs in the brain or. Savage re Page 8. Said japanese forces troops and the latter suffered 200 casualties precipitated emergency conferences sunday among japanese leaders. The War office reported that in a terrible fight the japanese succeeded at Dawn in seizing a Hill near of. Chang Kuofeng which soviet troops occupied july 11, and other Points in the contested Region. The War office said Large forces were deployed on both sides of the ill defined Border with the soviet troops bombarding one Frontier Point with heavy artillery concealed in the Hills. The area is close to the Junction of the boundaries of Manchukuo repulsed Tokyo August 1. Anese communique Sun Day said soviet russian troops twice counter attacked Chang Kuofeng and Sha Chifeng where they earlier were dislodged and repulsed after hours of fight ing. The russians left 50 bodies on the Field and japanese took two More tanks and two Field pieces the communique said. The soviet forces covered both their attacks with artillery fire. Russian Siberia and japanese Korea Southwest of Vladivostok. Russians have held it for nearly three weeks and Moscow rejected reported japanese and Manchu Kuoan protests that they were on Mancho Kuoan territory. Word of sunday s clash came As a Complete Surprise As announce ments both in Tokyo and Moscow had indicated that despite recur ring incidents Only diplomatic Means would be used to Settle the differences. Emergency meetings of japanese government leaders reflected the seriousness with which the situation was taken in Tokyo. Train smash on Beach line Moonlight on . Sideswipe coaches at Beaconia injuring four passengers suicide is verdict on dentist Montreal aug. 1. Ver diet of suicide was reached sat urday at the coroners inquest on or Archibald n. 45-year old dentist and wartime aviator found dead in his farm cottage few Miles West of the City Friday night with Bullet wounds in his head and Abdomen. A revolver was by his Side. Mrs Jenks remained in critical Condi Tion at. A Hospital today following an emergency operation for bul let wounds in the head and neck. Late Friday night Donald f Hawkes a neighbor testified mrs Jenks knocked at. His door feet from the Jenks cottage Anc cried out for god s Sake get a doctor Archie just shot Hawkes and. His wife called an ambulance and the provincial police. Mrs. Jenks was bleeding profusely from wounds in the Toj of the head Back of the neck and Elbow. Death crash stunting Auto kills St. Boniface woman grand Forks aug. 1. Emil Van Der Burch 26, of St. Boniface fatally injured and three others were less seriously Hurt in two car accidents at the state fair grounds Here sunday. Mrs. Van Der Burch died in a Hospital Here of a Skull Frac Ture the attending physician said. Or. And mrs. Van Der Burch and Graham accepts Post miss Hose Vandaele Winnipeg were standing directly of the race track Fence when a stunting car driven by Flash Williams crashed through the Fence injuring All three canadians Holiday visitors Here. Or. Van Der Burch suffered minor face lacerations and miss Vandaele s left was slightly Hurt. Both were Given treatment and released. Williams suffered an injured shoulder when a car driven by him crashed to the ground Aii he was attempting a hurdling stunt. Mrs. Van Der Burch s body will be taken to St. Boniface for burial. Or. Were and mrs. Van Der Burch married just three months ago. They left saturday evening on a motor trip to North Dakota and planned to return to St. Boniface monday night. Or. Van Der Burch is a Market Gardener and resides at lot 76, St. Boniface. Manhunt ends alleged Slayer held on train at Sudbury Henry Joseph Vandekerkhov better known in Winnipeg As Harry Van Damm sought by Winnipeg police since last wednesday in connection with the murder of a tavern keeper at Shawano county Wisconsin was arrested by Ontario provincial and Canadian Pacific railway police on Board a train at Cartier 40-Miles.Northwest, of Sudbury ont., about 11 ., saturday. Vandekerkhov police said submitted to arrest quietly when they closed in on him with drawn revolvers. The tip off to Sudbury and provincial police came from Winnipeg s chief of police George Smith whose department had been. Concentrating on the Hunt for the fugitive continuously since it was first Learned the Man was in Winnipeg. Vandekerkhov or Van Damm is alleged to have shot and killed Joseph. Brings a personal Friend of sheriff car Druckrey of Shawano county. Combining business with pleasure sheriff Druckrey arrived Here last tuesday accompanied by his. Wife and five children. They travelled by car with a trailer attached. Wednesday detectives Jack jeeves. And Robert Taft were de tailed to the investigation. The sheriff had said that he believed Van Damm had some friends or relatives in St Boniface and in the search of these the two detectives went to work. At the very first they got a break but from then on until Van Damm was taken into custody their Luck failed them. Hot on the Trail working ceaselessly for two Days and two nights Reeves and Taft trailed their Man All Over St. Boni face Winnipeg and then eastward towards West Hawk Lake and Kenora. Everywhere they went Van dare had left Only a few minutes before. Fortune seemed to smile on him for he vanished tune and again. Doggedly St Boniface and Winnipeg police worked on sifting every clue following every tip. Detective sergeant Harry Alexander and detective William Mcpherson joined the Hunt at Hawk Lake. Thursday Van Damm was seen at West Hawk Lake and later was seen driving towards. Winnipeg. After believing he had thrown police off his Trail he doubled Back to Kenora and hid in the Bush country nearby for a Short time. He moved into Kenora and found lodgings and Friday he purchased a ticket for Chatham ont on the . Train no. 4. This train left Kenora at 4.30 Friday. Early saturday Winnipeg police knew where Van Damm was. The of their information they re fuse to divulge but they said they knew at the time it was authentic. Smith gives tip chief Smith got on the Long Dis Tance Telephone. First a Call to chief Andrew Gordon at Kenora then inspector William Ingram of meanest thief steals ice Cream Nickel from two year old lad most recent candidate for the unwanted title of meanest. Thief in Winnipeg is a Man who stole five cents from two year old Jackie barter 39, Knappen Avenue sat urday afternoon. Given the Coin father to buy an ice Cream Cone tide lad on arriving at the store near his Home found it closed. While waiting in Hopes it would open soon a Man came along and asked the boy Ghat he was waiting j for. I want to buy Cream replied Jackie showing his Nickle to the Man. Give it to me and i la go get you said the stranger. Taking the Money he left never to return when Jackie did not return after an absence of half an hour his father went to see what was delay ing the lad. He found the boy still waiting for the stranger. Taking the disappointed boy Home he promised to buy him a Cone later when the store opened. The Ontario provincial police at Sudbury. Gordon and Ingram also conversed by Telephone and the trap was set. As the . Train stopped at Cartier four men boarded the train. They went to the baggage car mediately. Plans were Laid chances were taken and Van Damm sheriff brings who allegedly murdered Druckrey s Friend Joseph was in custody just four Days after his presence in Winnipeg became known. Chief Smith said saturday after being notified of the arrest that Van. Damm probably will be taken directly from Sudbury to Wisconsin and would not be returned to Winnipeg first. Helper Premier offers Aid to Man Ion Toronto aug 1. Up in Jovial mood prime minister Mackenzie King saturday offered his new opponent Hon. R. J. Manion the Bene fit of his 19 years party leadership experience.1 we May have a different Point of View but As party leaders we have Many reasons to feel closer than any other two members in the House of the prime min ister told a civic luncheon in his Honor on the occasion of his open Irig the Canadian corps reunion. When or. Manion becomes sick and tired of difficulties in of commons and the battling within the party he can just come my the prime minister said smiling at the new National conservative Leader seated next him. He Al go away a happier and better the crowd laughed its appreciation. The prime minister said he. Was delighted at this first Public appear Ance with or. Manion since the lat Ter s election to leadership. They were old friends of. Many years in the House of commons even though they had some things about each other on occasion. He said he was looking Forward to a new comradeship when or. Mani Ore re entered the House not Only As Leader of his party but also As Leader of the opposition. Hall is Victor in Cumberland Prince Albert sask., aug. Former member d. A. Hall lib g. Smith con deferred cum the Canadian National railways Moonlight train to grand Beach sideswiped a South bound . Train at Beaconia siding saturday at 7.19 ., derailing one coach and delaying through traffic and hundreds of passengers for More than six hours. Beaconia is nine Miles South of grand Beach. Passengers in the derailed car were shaken up slightly and four persons received superficial cuts and bruises a statement from the railway company said. The injured were Arthur Brown 444 Oxford Street injury to the. Left Elbow and knee Edwin Parker 517 Craig Street Cut above the. Right Eye d. Mcphail 638 Bannatyne Avenue minor bruises a. Gillespie 87 Egerton Road St vital slight Cut Over the right Eye. The Accident occurred As the South bound train was turning off the main line onto the siding. The travelling North skid ded along the Side of one coach and collided with the next car the fourth from the end of the Winnipeg bound train. The Brunt of the Impact was received by the latter coach. Badly smashed at on e end and pushed off the rails it blocked both the siding and the main line and could not be moved without the assistance of an auxiliary Crew from Winnipeg. The line was finally cleared at 1.50 . Sunday five and one half hours after the Accident occupants of the derailed car and passengers in the coaches behind were transferred to the front of the train and brought in to Winnipeg arriving at 10.15 ., one hour and 20 minutes behind schedule. The train bearing 334 passengers had left Victoria Beach at 6.35 Moonlight heavily loaded about persons were Pas sengers on the train to grand Beach which arrived there about 2.45 . Sunday seven hours late. Two other Beach trains had left Winnipeg for the. Summer resort before word of the Accident reached the City arid these arrived at their destination seven hours and 31 minutes late and six hours and 40 minutes late respectively. At the Beach View trains were made up and All those wishing to do so returned to Winnipeg immediately. Here special Street car and taxi cab service had been arranged on their behalf. Altogether four trains were scheduled to run. From grand. Beach or Victoria Beach to Winnipeg during the evening. The first was involved in the mishap remaining three arrived in the City six and one half hours to seven and one half hours late when interviewed upon their arrival in Winnipeg passengers in the coaches struck by the train said screams filled the air As the Loco motive crashed into the Side of the cars. Fortunately for said one Well tanned vacate most who was in the second coach the train that hit us stopped almost immediately otherwise Many of us probably would have been a football coach widely known in Winnipeg said we were just cutting onto the siding As the North bound engine suddenly loomed. Alongside our coach. There was a terrific noise of cracking and breaking and our coach swayed wildly from Side to Side. I told those around me to lie on the floor. A second later the engine crashed into the front Corner of the car behind us. It was a Good thing that the train which hit us was going think the Engineer had reversed the wheels. Otherwise the death and Accident toll would have been awful As both cars were packed with men women and railway officials some of whom were travelling on the trains at once commenced an investigation. Others in Winnipeg notified of the near tragedy despatched wrecking Crews and auxiliary trains to the scene immediately. Sunday All trains were running on schedule. Anxiety at benches first news of the wreck spread through Victoria Beach and grand Beach like wildfire and rumours said dozens had been killed scores Vansit zionists who had relatives and friends on the trains spent an anxious period until word finally came through that no one had been badly Hurt. Hundreds crowded the grand Beach station platform waiting to get away on the second and third trams to Winnipeg. A group of Young people organized a song fest which helped pass the time for the impatient travellers. At the scene of the Accident passengers from the Moonlight and residents of the District Gath ered around a huge Bonfire. For fuel they used the splinters and broken boards from the damaged coaches. Eral Defeated w. Serva Tive in the Berland election with a majority of 491, Complete returns Revei led saturday. Or. Hall polled 548 and or. Smith 57, with a 18 polls re ported. In Athabaska Riding with 29 polls reported the Lead swung to a. Jules Marion lib eral with a Lead of 29 Over we. Windrum Liberal. Or. Mar Ion polled 618 and or. Windrum 389. Or. Marion was trailing the Avia Tor candidate in first returns. Five polls Primrose Lake Island. Lake Snake. Lake Dinty Lake and Stony rapids remain to be Beard fro Iii sky Hook Washington aug. 1. Up United states agriculture depart ment scientists Are going fishing in the upper air for rare living spores which they Hope will throw new Light on control of destructive Plant diseases including Black Stem rust of Grain. Going far above the. Earth with a sky resembling an instrument once used by col. N., Charles Lind Bergh for studying the upper air. In this they will attempt to collect specimens of minute Plant parasites that air currents at great Heights v or. W. C. Graham or. W. C. Graham professor of Bible languages and literature. University of Chicago has accepted the invitation to become president of United Winnipeg in succession to Rev. Or. J. H. Hid Dell for Many years president of the institution when it was known As Wesley College. He made his decision known at the series of conferences saturday with representatives of the College. Board and sunday morning following a ser vice at St. Stephens Broadway Church at which he preached he stated definitely he was accepting position or. Hoped to assume the duties of his new Post oct. And expressed he would to the Opportunity he is getting for rendering effective service. He added that he had been very much impressed by the spirit in which the invitation had been extended and by the manner in which he had. Been received in Winnipeg. The distinguished visitor was introduced by or. Riddel at the ser vice in St. Stephens Broadway As the Man who would take Over the work i to . Posi Tion in Western Canada that has greater possibilities than that to which or. Graham has been called no matter what the position positions in governments and Legislatures and other bodies Are important but the position of the Man who directs and inspires intellectual and spiritual thought is the position of supreme importance. Or. Riddell said he had great pleasure in welcoming or. Graham As the new head of United College and in wishing him All Success in Ais far reaching task. After stating he would a the introduction in due course or. Graham preached a ser Mon on social conditions of the past and present later in the Day he returned to Chicago. Or. Graham reached the City sat urday morning was greeted by or. Riddell and conferred with College representatives during the Day. He was born in St. Mary a ont is a graduate of Toronto University and for the past 12 years has been a professor at the University of Chicago. The weather Friday c-30 ., to saturday 6.30 . Temperature at 6.30 . 62 maximum. St minimum 61 barometer. 29.79 South cast wind at seven Miles per hour sky partly Cloudy. Saturday 6.38 ., to saturday 6.30 at 6.30 ., 86 Maxi mum 89 minimum 32 barometer 29.30 North wind at 10 Miles per hour Maxi mum humidity. Minimum humidity sky Clear. Saturday ., to sunday. 6.38 . At 6.30 ., 62 Maxi mum 86 minimum 62 a Rometer 29.84 wind at ten Miles per hour sky Cloudy. Sunday 6.30 ., to sunday. 6.30 At 6.30 84 Maxi mum 86 minimum 62 barometer. 29.78 Northwest wind at eight Miles per hour maximum humidity. Minimum humidity. Sky partly Cloudy. Mima Dawson ----56 66 Aavik .40 60 Simpson 50 68 it. Smith or. Kupert Victoria Vancouver 78 64 .50 62 .56 76 Regina Winnipeg Kenora. It. Arthur Moosonee Cochrane Huntsville 85 Parry sound 64 34 London .58 73 my a .60 36 .62 88 .63 31 .58 75 .62 54 82 Toronto Kingston Ottawa Montreal. Quebec St. John .b4 34 .63 32 .58 3s 86 .-.66 32 .54 .80 .60" Charlottes n .82 82 Chicago .70 73 St. Paul-----64 84 Kamloops .58 30 or. George .48 72 Jasper 70 Edmonton .48 74 Banff .42 72 Calgary .50 78 Lethbridge ,.48 82 med. Hat As 88 Swift cur it 58 84 3attleford .52 78 .54 79 Saskatoon. .54 78 Moose jaw .53 .86. Above figures Are for 24 hours ending 6.30 Forecast Manitoba Saskatchewan partly Cloudy and warm probably scattered . Alberta. Peace fair and warm. Lake Superior moderate variable partly. "c3oudy. With scattered Thunder Shower. Kenora and Ilanny Cloudy and warm with Thunder showers ;