Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 05, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Temperature readings 6.30 p. V., oct. 4 ,5, 9.30 ., oct. 4 12.30 ., oct. 5 3.30 ., oct. 5 for full report of meteorological office one. Him pig vol. Pages. Sun rises. 6.33. Sun sets 18.0. Moon rises 16.8. Moon sets 2.30. Moral obligation British guarantee to czechs now in Force states Inskip London oct. 5. Up Cable sir Thomas Inskip tuesday Dight told the House of commons the government Felt a moral obligation to treat its guarantee of Czechoslovakia s new Frontier is already in Force. He statement came after the Chamberlain administration was urged in the House of commons and House of lords to take drastic Steps to put great Britain s defences and economic fabric on practically a War basis. Winnipeg wednesday october leads invaders cooler. The minister for defence coordination made his announcement n reply to n question shortly be Ore Midnight. He said the House Ould realize that the Frontier agreement had yet to be drawn up j and that until that has been done j the guarantee cannot be i said to be in i he added. His majesty s government feel under a moral i to Czechoslovakia to neat the guarantee As being now i Force. In the event therefore of an act of unprovoked aggression against Czechoslovakia. His majesty s government would certainly feel bound of take All the Steps in their Power to see that the integrity of Czecho Slovakia is sir Thomas statement came near i the end of a Long debate in both j houses which brought Earl Bald a win to his feet in his Maiden House i of lords speech with the Declara a lion i would mobilize our in j Dusty lord Lloyd urges j National see vice if the prime declared i lord Lloyd in the upper House will introduce National service j upon the Swiss Model it will be a j training course. Thereafter he puts labor amendment following is the text of the labor party s amendment to the government s motion that the House of commons approve its that this House while profoundly believing War has been averted for. The time being can not approve a policy which has led to the sacrifice of Czecho Slovakia under threat of armed Force and to the humiliation of our country and its exposure to grave dangers and realizing the intense desire of All Peoples for lasting peace demands an Active support of methods of collective Security through the league of nations and immediate initiative by his majesty s government of proposals for summoning a world conference to consider the removal of economic and political grievances which imperil the debate is expected to end thursday then adjourning until nov. 1, the Date originally set for the end of the summer re Cess. Court told of fatal smash William Ochinko of Lockport on trial before an assizes jury on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death May 23, of Myrtle Mcdonald of Conor Man. Tuesday afternoon heard Kathleen Korpan 98 lusted Street relate How she walked along the Hender son Highway Early May 23 when miss Mcdonald was struck by a passing truck and killed. First Crown witness to be called. Miss Korpan said she went to a dance at the polish Hall at Conor with miss Mcdonald and that they started to walk Home shortly after Midnight. May 23. Miss Mcdonald was on the West Side of the pave ment and they were walking North. A truck travelling North struck miss Korpan and knocked her into the ditch. When she got up she found miss Mcdonald was lying in the ditch by the Roadside. The truck did not Stop. The Crown alleges Ochinko was Driver of the truck. _ with 18 Crown witnesses to be septable to the people of this coun j in 11 to 14 Days annual training for called it is expected the Case will try for they have been through j 10 years to attain the rank of conclude wednesday afternoon. Something in this last every male in Switzerland is eight years for lesser ranks liable for military service Between i Are we going to have another the Ages of 20 and 18. The recruit i too or Are we going to get is required to put in from 65 to 90 Days according to the of the j parliament service he enters in a foundation j continued on Page 5, column 2. Battle. Tuesday the chamber by a vote of 535 to 75 gave approval to his part in the Munich partition of Czechoslovakia in the interests of sergeant and above or for seven to j jury trials of William Ochinko Jand of Allan twaddle and Harry Smallwood charged with Auto Mobile theft began tuesday after noon immediately after arraign ment of prisoners at the opening of the fall assizes. J. L. Ross is defending poc Hiriko with e. J. Heaney acting for the Crown. Twaddle and Smallwood were arrested May 6, and Are alleged to have stolen and received a car believed to be the property of Thomas Briggs. P. E. Hagel is defending with o. M. M. Kay prosecuting. There were a total of 19 cases involving 20 persons on the As sizes list and it was anticipated at least Toffee weeks would be to dispose of All the cases. Two murder cases were included. John Martiniuk was charged with the murder of Jesse Cook grand Pointe old age pensioner and Ray mond Vaudreuil was charged with having slain Lloyd Higgins at Deer Horn Man. Dual Victory Daladier wins Money decree Munich vote Paris oct. 5. Daladier7 was voted full financial Powers to Rule by dictatorial decree today by. The chamber of deputies by a vote of 33 to 78. With 204 abstaining. The vote came after the Premier had fought a night Long peace in Europe and he had announced his intention of resuming full diplomatic relations with Italy to extend that peace. Daladier assured the Peri said. Then turn ing to Daladier he shouted you have signed our deceit Over the mutilated body of a free general settlement Daladier hinted at efforts to end the War in Spain when he said we can maintain peace Only if general hitter von Leeb bad the Honor of leading the sized invasion of sudetenland when German troops under his command crossed the former German czech Border to begin the occupation of the Section of the former czech territory provided for in the agree ment signed by the four great Powers at Munich. Pushed child into River Edmonton oct. 5. Up Nellie Adamchuk 18, former inmate of a mental institution told a Coroner s jury Here tuesday that she had pushed three year old Joan Hollo Way into the North Saskatchewan River sept. 22, about two Miles East of downtown Edmonton. Somehow i pushed miss Adamchuk confessed calmly. "1 Don t know Why i did it when i wanted to take her Back to her the jury found the Edmonton child died from drowning As a re sult of being pushed into the River by miss Adamchuk. A rider to the verdict said we Are of the opinion Nellie Adamchuk is mentally de miss Adamchuk released from Ponoka mental Hospital two weeks before Joan Holloway s death was charged with murder in police court Here monday and preliminary hear ing was adjourned until oct. 11. Presses claims Budapest oct 5 Hun Jary eager to regain territories of which she was stripped by great War treaties pressed the Czecho Slovakia government tuesday night to allow immediate occupation of some hungarian zones of Czecho Slovakia. In a note proposing a conference to. Discuss the minority claims be held thursday Hungary demanded that before the talks begin Czecho Slovakia first must give these guar 1. Hungary must be allowed to occupy As a Symbol of the return of territories in which Hun Arians live two Border towns and communes. 2. All hungarian political prison ers in Czechoslovakia must be re eased. 3. All hungarian speaking sol Diers in the czechoslovak must be sent Home on leave immediately. Germans advancing with the German of occupation in sudetenland oct. 5. A German and czechoslovak forces tuesday came closer together than they had come at any Lime so far in the occupation of sudeten areas by Reich fuehrer Hitler s soldiers. The czech Oslo Vaks had not All left Carlsbad be fore the germans arrived to Herald the triumphant entry of Hitler himself. Tuesday night the czechoslovak forces had withdrawn five mile beyond the famous spa and with them As captives were a German radio operator and his assistant who had entered Carlsbad Early in the morning to set up communications for Hitler s . Destruction attempt alleged Prague oct. 5. Government radio reported tuesday night that sudeten party men in Southern Bohemia occupied and attempted to destroy the courthouse and Post office at Easterberg near the new Frontier with Germany. Czechoslovak military forces Dis Persed the sudeten and restored order the radio reported. Political prisoners freed Warsaw oct. 5. Up havas French czechoslovak government conforming to its minority agreement with Poland tuesday liberated 650 polish poli tical prisoners it was announced Here. Chill from Russia reported ending French pact and Cooling towards Britain Moscow oct. 5. A the drench language newspaper be Burnal de Moscou which habitually reflects the views of tie soviet foreign office gave expression tuesday to what Vas regarded in diplomatic barters As Russia s Farewell to Ler ally France. France no longer has an ally in Europe the paper Aid. This was accepted As meaning soviet Russia no longer regards herself a partner in the Franco Oviet Mutual assistance pact in vent of aggression. International Public opinion now ays what is the value of France s value of her pledges to he u.s.s.r., and of the Franco Oviet the newspaper stated n a discussion of the four Power Munich settlement of sept 30 in which great Britain France be Many and Italy agreed to the Par Ilion of Czechoslovakia. Neither Czechoslovakia nor rus a an ally of Czechoslovakia s in hat she was pledged to Aid her against an aggressor provided Ranee did so was represented in he Munich conference. The newspaper continued the fact is that France on her in initiative and without con Hulting the Union of socialist so net republics has already annulled the czechoslovak soviet pact which was a corollary of the Yanco soviet pact. It has done this at the very moment when the latter country Czechoslovakia was under the great of fascist aggression. Loss of her allies and is he Price France will pay for her capitulation to the aggressor. Behind France s Back on whom can France rely now her sole ally in Europe now is Bri same Britain which Wen behind France s Back and signed he naval agreement with Germany briefly will Hole inquiry Victoria oct. 5. Finance committee their would be chamber w e work out the bases of a general i general Gordon Wismer said tues settlement and. Organize Europe monetary control and promised j the world on new principles parliament would be convoked on and after having avoided War in nov. 16 to vote the National budget j Central Europe we end it where he originally asked for decree1 Powers until dec. 31 but com promised on nov. 15. Permanent mobilization Daladier s ministerial statement on the four Power Munich Accord which appeased Germany at Czechoslovakia s territorial expense said France was in a state of per manent mobilization to preserve the peace saved at Munich. Earlier it was disclosed that the government had decided to resume my relations with Italy by recognizing Premier Mussolini s ethiopian Conquest and naming an ambassador to Rome. The notification was coupled French thanks for Premier Mussolini s part in solution of the German czechoslovak crisis. The Only ballots cast it is still Daladier defending the Munich agreement said perhaps for the first time in the world s history All was undertaken publicly and discussed before the people. I believe i am Able to say that if peace is finally maintained and preserved it is because we did not use secret diplomacy. We acted in full Light under the people s control and i want to affirm Here that All people want message to Chamberlain Daladier sent a message to prime minister Neville Chamberlain of policy were communists Henri Dekerillis in dependent conservative and Pierre Koch socialist. Dekerillis. Indicating which Way would vote said War has been great Britain in which he said i thank you for your message which deeply touched the French people. Referring to chamber the j Iain s Assurance of continued Anglo French collaboration the feelings Inose of to but not tribute to blackmail the communists held that France had paid a heavy tribute to War blackmail put it. As Gabriel Peri Czechoslovakia has been mutilated because she was a Friend of France and because she believed n he word of France she has been you expressed correspond to theirs. France during the crisis Felt a strengthening of the ties of cordial Friendship and esteem which unite her and the British nation. Like my compatriots i admired your ardent will for peace and your High and firm comprehension of the vital interests of our two countries and the special obligations of France. Our collaboration does not exclude any other understanding. I am convinced that in the future it will remain the surest guaranty for goal in sight Canada us. Trade treaty any Day says Premier Ottawa oct. 5. Minister Mackenzie King to will leave probably within the next week for a Holiday at unrevealed resort said tuesday night he expected the states Trade negotiations might be concluded Day on his return from Ottawa hat Dominion government author ies had agreed to hold preliminary inquiry into charges of a Combine existing in the marketing of West Ern Canada fruit and vegetables. Reaches Churchill the Pas Man., oct. Gull Pool docked tuesday morning at he Northern port and commenced loading. She is expected to sail thursday. Of the million bushels of wheat sent to Churchill elevator during the past month Only 000 bushels approximately will be left when the Gull ool sails. Huge wheat crop Palo Alto calif., oct. 5. The world wheat crop May set a new record and Cross the 000 Bushel Mark this year the Stan Ford food research Institute announced tuesday. Such a crop would leave More than a billion bushels on hand aug. 1 next enough for 14 weeks Supply and nearly twice that regarded As a normally comfortable Supply. Charges ambassador washing ton oct. 5. Lamo Valenti chairman of the italian anti fascist committee Testi fied to the House of representatives committee on in american activities tuesday that Italy s ambassador and several of her consular officials were linked to fascism undercover work in the United states. In Philadelphia Edoardo Pervan italian Consul general described the charge As absurd Day in is believe Here the prime min will Holiday in Florida or and be ready to proceed to Ellington on Short notice if Pessary to sign the new Trade with United states. To final word is no final Ash word from the prime minister As matters stand now the May be completed any Watt to it would take about a fort prepare for the signing agreement had been reached details of the agreement Sot As Canada and the United states Are concerned i think we have practically reached agree the prime minister said. "a1 least it might be called a general a British Mission has Washington been in negotiating for the Anglo american Trade agreement it is generally believed Canada would be deeply involved in these negotiations and that certain con Cessions the Dominion enjoys in the United kingdom Market would be traded for compensating conces Sions by the United states to can Ada. See world series at free press All Winnipeg is invited to join the Carlton Street crowd out Side the free press building at 1.30 o clock wednesday after noon when manager Gabby Hartnett and his Chicago cubs National league Pennant win clash with new York Yankees champs of the Ameri can league in the opening game of the world series. A minute by minute description of the game which is being played at Chicago will be Given fans through the free press loud speakers and the baseball Board will show each play. Bil Lee for cubs and Charlie ruffing for the Yankees wer named tuesday As pitchers of the opener. Contract query Justice Davis questions clause at Bren gun probe Ottawa oct. 5. Of a stopper clause in the Bren gun contract designed to prevent speculation in armament securities was questioned tuesday by or. Justice h. H. Davis Royal commissioner investigating the contract under which the John Inglis company is supplying the National defence department with Bren Light machine the clause reads the said licence shall be subject to cancel action if in Tae course of the period thereof the party of the second part the company shall sell shares stocks Bonds debentures notes or other like securities to the Public directly or indirectly or through the medium of other companies the proceeds. Of which Are it directly applied to the Busi Ness of the party of the second part and there remain applicable or use in the carrying on of the said party of the second part s business Ralston takes Issue when the judge said this would not prohibit shareholders in the John Inglis company from Selling their shares on the Stock Exchange or otherwise on the strength of War orders Hon. J. L. Ralston government counsel took Issue. He said if he were lawyer for the company he would advise that such transactions were a breach of the contract and would make it liable to cancellation of the licence. The licence entitles the company to manufacture Bren guns for 10 years. C. Fraser Elliott commissioner of income tax and a member of the interdepartmental committee to control profits on government armament orders said he had drafted the clause and intended to cover the Point or. Justice Davis had in mind but had he had More time to polish it might have Given it a different wording. The clause was drafted or. Elliott said at the committee s final meeting on the March 17 last the meeting. Ended at three o clock the next morning. Says clause imposed i am not blaming or. Said or. Justice he is the head of a Busy department and this was three o clock in the morning but i have got to make up my mind whether there was adequate competent Protection for the government and the Public. He ought t to have been asked to draft the clause. They imposed it on the judge said he thought it Plain As Day the clause did not cover trading in the shares which had been issued up to that time. He thought a competent business Man acting for the government and seeing those shares issued would have taken Steps to protect the Public interest. The judge realized some counsel did not agree with him and he remained. Open to argument and conviction. Aime Geoffrion counsel for the Inglis company said he would show shareholders had not sold any of their holdings and had no intention of doing so. I. F. Hellmuth counsel for the Maclean publishing company pub Lisher of the article by George Drew which criticized the in 1935 and which today comes to terms with behind France s Back. Is the inevitable Price of France s capitulation to he aggressor and that isolation was precisely Hitler s repudiate russian concurrence pravda and Izvestia organs o the communist party and the so Viet government respectively both repudiated reports said to be circulating abroad that Russia had concurred in the Power Accord. Munich four contract and led. To the inquiry said he was unable to see How the shareholders could be stopped from Selling their shares in any Way they liked. Col. Ralston asked or. Elliott having regard to the committee knowledge the shares were con trolled by major James e. Hahn president it regarded the words in the contract As designed to Preven Sale to the Public. Said or. Elliott we realized the possibility of the company Selling shares or puffing with the background of a War three other courses the witness was questioned by or. Geoffrion As to the othe courses the committee had before it and said there were three t approve the contract with the Ingli company to Call for tenders or t reject the contract and take n action. If it called for tenders or rejected the contract there was the possibility of missing a saving of which would result from the Inglis company contracting to make guns for the British War office along with the Canadian order. No other Industry in Canada was awake at that time in this asked or. Geoffrion. I would t say said or. Elliott. They May have been a Nice but they were not in the right spot to get the other Canadian manufacturers he believed had gone to England seeking armament orders but so far As he knew none had obtained the specialized information on the Bren gun that major Hahn had obtained nor received Assurance of a contract a new attempt was made to obtain the consent of the British government to the disclosure of communications and documents leading up to the contract. Col. Halston read a Long cablegram which had been sent after Consul tation with other counsel and later announced a reply had been received to a previous message but not to the latest. The message said in part it is Felt that the concurrence of your the British government in the production of these communications and documents would be less Likely to be embarrassing than the mis construction which might develop through the inability of the Canadian government to produce them for want of such concurrence. Or. Elliott in his evidence said it was impossible to show fully the factors which influenced the interdepartmental committee without use of the communications from London. They were to the effect the Brit ish government would Deal Only with the Inglis company and did not wish further delay in making the contract Izvestia referring to prime minis Ter Chamberlain s Promise of stil More settlements to come asked whether London and Paris an going to take an interest in the German minority in Rumania nov will they reveal the existence of an italian minority in apparently Izvestia continued the Small countries will be exterminated one after another by without thus the Peac of Europe will be feared in Britain London oct. 5. A British government circles remained unperturbed tuesday night at Sovie Russia s indication she will denounce the Franco soviet treaty. Some circles favourable to the government welcomed the move a removing a Barrier in the Way o concluding a four Power Wester european pact. These circles hav privately advocated cancellation the Franco soviet pact for som time. The indication from Moscow tha soviet Russia regards France without an ally in Europe except great Britain struck gloom into the hearts of anti government elements however. They feared it a sign tha London and Paris were now condemned to face greater German alone should the fuehrer Ever de cide to turn Back West no move in France Paris oct. 5. A a foreign ministry spokesman said tuesday night no information had been received Here concerning reports soviet. Russia considered the Franco soviet pact discarded. No formal move toward abrogation of the pact has been made known. There has been evident a grow ing coolness in relations Between France and the soviet however. Conservative political leaders have been urging the Paris government to drop its Mutual assistance pact with Russia As a step toward bet Ter relations with Germany. France failed to Call on Moscow during the crisis Over Czechoslovakia with whom Russia also was Allied. 1 Duce signs four Power agreement preen Ier Benito Mussolini of Italy is pictured Here As he affixed his signature to the four Power agreement arrived at by the premiers of Britain France and Italy and Reich fuehrer Hitler of Germany at the momentous conference in Munich. Acid attack daily mail assails league of nations London oct. 5. Up Rothe Mere s daily mail Independent today declared it was certain the British people never again would put a shred of Trust in the league of nations. They will instead the newspaper declared As everybody now. Realizes too Well the political Moon Rakers and. Busybodies of Geneva manufactured Rebuff after Rebuff and humiliation after humiliation for great Britain. The league largely helped dig the pit from which or. Chamberlain s realism rescued humanity last week. The country May be sure that or. Chamberlain who was one of the. First statesmen to say bluntly that the league had become a Gross futility will never attempt to build on this Rotten the daily Herald labor demanded to know. Why the govern ment Wes not ready to co operate nth soviet Russia in the preservation of peace. It asked does it set an ideological difference above if that were the Case it said let us have the courage to say so and accept the verdict of Public the newspaper declared labor was willing to co operate with fas Cist Powers provided they genuinely wish to secure peace and added peace cannot be secured by Pri vate bargains. It can be secured by the co operation of All Calls for election the daily express Independent called for a general election stating a transformation has taken place in Europe and a new position has been created there. Or. Chamber lain must take the responsibility for the weather monday 6.30 To tuesday At 6.30 fc 54 maximum 63 minimum 53 barometer 30.19 North Northeast wind a 22 Miles per hour humidity. Sky. Cloudy. Tuesday. 6.30 To tuesday 6.30 At 6.30 50 maximum 57 minimum. 30.38 North East wind at 16 Miles per hour humidity. Sky fair. Mima 28 48 24 is 34 44 the .22 48 p. Rupert. 48 54 _ 60 Vancouver. 4fi 64 Aklavik Simpson Regina Brandon Winnipeg. Kenora p. Arthur Moosonee Cochrane 50 54 Kamloops .52 64 Huntsville. 37. 66 p. Georae 44 48 Jasper 32 50 Edmonton. 40 40 Banff 32 55 Calgary iry mde s. Cur 44 36 50 35 58 40 62 Battleford. 40 42 p. Sound London Toronto Kingston Ottawa Montreal Quebec St. John Halifax 32 66. 44 63 42 60 32 62 42 s3 38 m 38 62 42 of p. Albert 36 40 c Lott Edwn. 36 60 Saskatoon. 42 46 Chicago 38 88 Moose jaw. 50 60 St. Paul 60 78 forecasts Northeast and East winds mostly Cloudy and with Light scattered showers. Saskatchewan and Alberta moderate winds mostly Cloudy and Cool probably Light scattered showers. Kendra and Rainy hirer fresh North East winds Cloudy and Cool with Heht scattered showers. Portugal Flag on Courtesy staff the Flag of Portugal consist ing of a red Field with the National Centre flies Over the free press building today in Honor of the National Holiday of that country. An Independent state since the twelfth Century Portugal was a kingdom until october 5, 1910, when a revolution drove King Manuel ii. From the throne and the country was proclaimed a Republic. Wringing about that change indeed he responsibility is his if or. Chamberlain were to continue Lis policy he must know if he had the support of the country the paper argued. That could be Learned through an election alone. The news chronicle Liberal declared it had suspicions that a new Deal with Italy was bound to arise and reminded the government of or. Chamberlain s. Promise of feb. 21 when he told the House of commons he regarded a settlement of the Spanish question As an Essen tial feature of any agreement at which we might the times Independent answered critics who claimed War will come anyway and 4hat Britain was weakened by last week s events by it would be More just to say that it has been strengthened by concentration and by ceasing to rely upon that which proved Unten Able. The encirclement of discredited has finally broken Down with abandon ment of a Frontier that no longer merited the description of. Strategic request refused Ottawa oct 5. Request by Lake shippers that a temporary maximum rate of 7% cents a Bushel be set for the shipment of wheat from the Lakehead to. St. Lawrence ports was refused tuesday by the Board of Grain commissioners. Capture Yang sin Shanghai out 5. Jap anese spokesman said tues Day night that japanese troops had Yang sin and capture of this Pivotal City on the South Bank of the Yangtze River was imminent the City guards one route to Han Kow chinese military capital and main objective of the japanese Cen trial China drive. Czech demands of slovaks growing More urgent Prague oct. 5. Czechoslovak government under Premier Jan was tuesday As slovak Auto no mists agitated for More Speed in consideration of their autonomy demands. Kamil Krofta foreign minister since 1935, was dropped among other changes. Minister without portfolio cer Mak a slovak carried out a threat to resign after declaring govern ment proposals regarding slovak autonomy demands were inadequate and charging tie govern ment with stalling. Premier Syrovy in his. New Cabinet included three slovaks As a Concession to Slovakia but the three were not considered Likely to be accepted As satisfactory by the slovak autonomist because they did not have a big political follow ing moving to right general Syrowy retained the posts of Premier and minister of National defence. Frantisek Chyral Kovsky czechoslovak minister to Rome who arrived Here tuesday became minister of foreign affairs. The new government was considered moderate and As marking a move to the right rather than to the left in efforts to solidify what remains of Czechoslovakia after cession of German and minority areas. S in addition to Syrovy and Chval Kovsky the Cabinet members Are Interior Jan Czerny finance Joseph Kalfus social welfare. Peter Zenkl Public instruction Stanis Laus Sukhovsky Commerce Imrich Karvas telegraphs and rail ways general Vladimir Cajidos Public works general Karel Husa Rek Justice Vladimor Fajnor Agri culture Vladislav Feierabend propaganda Hugo Vavrecka minister without portfolio Ivan Parkany. Karvas Cajidos and Fajnor Are the three slovaks. Organ of the autonomist party commented it is obvious Prague will not abandon its old habit of procrastination. It will make no decision and it puts off everything. It has Learned nothing from experience of the past meanwhile an official statement said that the government had decided that in the future Only Plikh slovaks would be appointed As officials in Slovakia ;