Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fourteenth Day tuesday Winnipeg armed 14 devs without a fatal ident. The last fatal mis or n the Street of the City of hip o t 10 so far this year persons have lost their lives accidents by Carrier 25c per week. Winnipeg wednesday october 25, 1939 Price 5c per copy edition with comics Loc. A different More palatable taste homemade bread made from the finest ingredients Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have our Driver cm1 daily 1 of Raul the information ministry announced tuesday each Early and one Rusl i a Rev Mon special path restaurants card will be distributed throughout great Britain i. The cards will contain two coupons a week for Hearnn. Ham butter Margarine cooking fats and made for persons having meals in v. I 11 be Glass olt i up the squad has of the air raid consists of male Oes Gesior it to escort girl opera darkened a escorts three to e of his night s the Post of lice. Which the Telephone system. To shy from Romance. Bombs referred to boredom Montreal oct. 25 cup the average briton can stand being bombed but he cannot stand being bored according to Mau Rice Colbourne English actor playwright the feeling that relaxation is essential even in time of War has resulted in the recent reopening of several London theatres for restricted programmes or. Colbourne told a Montreal service club yesterday. Discover boat lost Hunters Kenora ont., oct. 25. Discovery of a partly submerged boat Drifting near the Shore of the Neda mine property in the Regina Bay area of Lake of the Woods with guns cushions and other articles in the water nearby Indi Cates the probable Fate of the two United states Hunters and their guide missing since oct. 13. The missing men Are j. L. Dra hos 45, of Cedar rapids Iowa Frank Klumpar 55, of Independence Iowa and the guide Cecil Grant of Finland ont. Irwin Proctor of Auric limited Diamond drilling company tues Day reported discovery of the boat near his place on the Neda mine property indicating that the boat had probably swamped and the men drowned in their efforts to reach Shore. Dragging operations in charge of the fort Frances detachment War loan coming a Britain Ontario provincial police were still w ?5 British government told the Public unsuccessful tuesday night. Your Christmas shopping a War the men left Arrowhead Campia effect today. Pfistor Falls 76 Miles South of Joan coming f Stanley president of the Board of Trade Kenora oct. 13, and headed North. Of commons question on whether it was desirable they had their last meal before Christmas shopping this by saying it will a they were help them in their world Nde Rinc and Ond Erinc yourself too it to wet nursing service for the commune believed drowned at by Complete and expert is Given to stimulate respond to the Appeal which will be made in Marwick s Camp at Sioux Narrows by seven nurses of the victorian to War Loans. Subject to this it is where one of them had Jock Early order in Winnipeg. Seven nurses the Public should continue to buy in the usual Way so said they had enough to Navy Bike uniforms make Apas to reduce unemployment. Decoration Fok germans Berlin oct. 25 Cap Adolf Hitler yesterday created a new decoration the Cross of meritorious War service. Lobe Given persons outside the army As Well As to military men. The medal is an eight pointed Cross bearing a Swastika bordered by Oak leaves. Sabotage feared at . Airport Pittsburgh ocl 25. Allegheny Airport officials disclosed that pilots of warplanes bound eastward for shipment to nations if the United states arms embargo is lifted by con fess have been asked to avoid the Airport because of a fear of sabotage. Five Hundred planes ordered by great Britain Are being concentrated in new York Charles Boyer for . Mission Paris oct. 24. Boyer the movie actor now stationed with the army of the Centre in southwestern France probably will be recalled to Paris to undertake a propaganda Mission to the United states it was reported reliably today. Until next Friday but if they did proximately eight Calls each every not return somebody had better Day at Homes where Winnipeg men come out and look for women and children Are ill but not congratulations Best cackles ill enough to be in Hospital. There was the elderly patient whose Long hair caught fire and her head neck and shoulders were badly burned. Her doctor called Baghdad oct. 24. Victorian order and a nurse French Agency premiers nun has attended once or twice every Dav to dress the deep Burns. Haa Pashi said of Iraq and Ismet Inonu not been a service As pro. Of Turkey today exchanged Tele sided by the ., this woman operations visit mothers and new babies nurse All types of diseases All work done directly under Doc tors orders. With doctors they assisted last year at the birth of some 50 babies. Sixty per cent of Calls come directly from doctors. If a Call comes from a family itself the order learns who the family doctor is telephones him and proceeds with the Case under his direction. Calls made by the In the Grams hailing conclusion of the would necessarily have been in British French turkish Mutual As Pital instead of i remaining in her distance pact. Iraq spokesmen own Home. Termed the pact an Allied diplomatic but this is Only one Case. The Victory and a vital development for victorian order attends All kinds of the Security of the near Eastern a cases regardless of class color or tons. I Creed. They change dressings after that the Community Chest makes a Grant of to the victorian order in Winnipeg each year. Educational work such As advis ing those in the family As to the Best Way of caring for a particular patient giving direction in proper last year totalled to patients. Cost of each visit is approximately charge is for those who can pay. But this charge is adjusted according to family circumstances. Pay what they can despite the fact that the order charges for its service it does not receive full payment in every Case. A patient pays what he haps Only half the fee. It is to subsidize this deficiency bad making etc., is one phase of the Programme. We supplement the City nurses health explained miss Adel la Mckee superintendent. Nurses in the Winnipeg Branch of the Include misses Jane Saunders Lynette Gunn Josephine Riley Margaret Knapp Norma Cameron Nettie Garfield and mrs. C. Olson. To enable this Fine Community nursing service to continue Winni _ i i with Chester Bloom the Sunrise gilded the Eastern horizon tuesday while i Lay comfortably in the midst of several Hundred tons of whirling steel hurtling into Winnipeg. I was luxuriating in a lower berth of a fast transcontinental train looking out the window. Getting the same thrill too As when i was a six year j. Riding trains never palls on me. When the Boss says grab your bag and hit for Toronto or Edmonton or Saskatoon in just a kid again. I know All about air planes travelled thousands of Miles m the air. Most monotonous form of travel like watching for hours a very slowly unrolling map. It la All done at night in the future with Sleeper planes. Give me a big Roomy a Canadian transcontinental train. I can walk a Block or two visit friends in drawing rooms gossip in the smoking room stuff myself in the diner and sleep like a log at night. Funny that too Light Sleeper As i be always been i sleep soundly on a the engineers reasonable and does t Jerk the daylights out of his drag when he starts her rolling. In one Western election travel tour i slept nearly a straight month on trains and came out perfectly fit. I be travelled on Ocean steamers and River steamboats that s great too by motor car and buses bicycle dog team and Canoe. I Haven t tried a Scooter yet but i m All for trains. I never hear a deep toned Loco motive whet be at night but what i wish i were aboard. From Whitehorse to Skagway on the Yukon and Alaska line across the Rockies so Many times i be lost count along the Iron trails Between Toronto Montreal new York and. Washington where the rival expresses used to race Side by Side until angry superintendents changed the schedules so the train Crews Couin t run sweep stakes Down the winding West Pacific coast Ive tried them All and wish i could do it All Over. Real luxury a softly firm berth Reading under the electric lamp lulled by the muffled Roar of thundering steel arid murmuring wheels the ineffable feeling of peace Security and incredible Energy in violent action Woven into a harmonic symphony. Best of All to Wake in a late Winter morning lie comfortably in the warm berth looking out the window at Fellows plodding along with their Heads Down in 20-below Zero weather Snow blowing in their faces. Next Best to look at them out the dining car window with a smoking Platter of Ham and eggs and hot Rolls and Coffee. My Loving enemy is the Porter who makes up the berth next to me i i. _ it a tort ii p 7 tins Are to Conte be at 7 . But i forgive him because he s tucked in with an extra 1 a Pillow and Blanket and Given an extra Shine to my boots. Besides while i be been pounding my ear he s been snatching Only Odd winks the smoking Wash room Between the gents polishing off the last of to the Community Chest. Make it possible for those who cannot afford Hospital care yet who require Good nursing to make them Well to obtain this service. Sixty years 25. 1879 r. Patterson s freight train one of the biggest of its kind which had Ever steamed Over Winnipeg s one Railroad line into St. Boniface Sta Tion arrived with its snaky length of 21 loaded cars containing the effects of Patterson s settler party which had arrived 48 hours before. Fifty five years 25, 1884 Winnipeg jewish citizens sent an illuminated address to sir Moses Montefiore world renowned jewish philanthropist congratulating him upon attaining his 100th birthday and expressing the Hope that his years might at least equal those of his great prototype. Moses the son Ottawa oct. 25. Up in what was practically a photo finish a pen of 10 White leghorn owned by f. C. Evans. Abbot lord ., won the Canadian egg laying contest in a Field 01 57 pens at the Federal experimental farm Here it was announced yesterday. Last contest eggs were Laid Mon Day and the winning Birds scored 2705.0 Points having Laid eggs during the contest. Barred rocks owned by g. H. Kaufmann Tavis Tock ont., made it a close race with 2703.8 Points and eggs. Deanery of Selkirk meets at Clande Boye 80 in addition to his graphic spot news coverage Francis Stevens free press correspondent in London is also writing a diary of his activities and thoughts. These pieces Are being mailed to Winnipeg and will appear regularly As received. By Francis Stevens certainly is being very personal but i am inviting the Reader to pretend he is calling on me now at the spot in London i Call Home. My simply furnished room right next the roof and six storeys above the Street not Only is a pleasant habitation but it provides View of which one never could tire which in fact never could become trite but always will be fraught _ in j seven clergymen and about of Amram who had iwed 120 cars. Laymen attended the annual Subtle splendours great historic dinner and conference memories and present Day Pagean mens fifty years 25, 1889 the anglican Deanery of Selkirk l lord and lady Stanley emulated october 18, at Clande Boye Man. T sleep soundly of nights e _ _ p 4 t _ -----1 _ _ _ a t the feat of lady Macdonald when the diocese of Rupert s land was and in the m0rning i throw wide i i Ell represented with laymen pres the window and look Forth upon the ont from Stonewall Beausejour heart of the oldest part St. Andrews Scanterbury Maple of London. The window these ton St. Peters Dynevor Wake Days of is covered with Field Hodgson Winnipeg and Sel Black Cioth in front of which one draws curtains at night so that no h. Avert chink of Light shines through. Winnipeg s. Cawson Mapleton when morning comes what a Hap Archdeacon j. Anderson Stone by release to pull Back the curtains Wall or. H. M. Speechly j. Proud Flag wide the window and let Homic and l. G. Howard. Kirk. Speakers included r. They Rode through the Rockies on the cow Catcher of the . Engine even after the rest of the party stepped off the Pilot the governor general and his lady stayed on it Aad Rode the cow Catcher through Beautiful autumn Mountain scenery to Shu Swap. years 25, 1894 typhoid was rampant in Winni Peg and health officer a s. Inglis. In his report to the Market License and health committee said the. Edition was undoubtedly due to in Gin prior to mob pure drinking water he instanced recruits May apply room 19, Minto which is out of sight around the Bend. In Plain sight Are some of the finest Spires in London which Grace the scene no less because the soaring dome of St. Paul s Domin ates it. It really is an unexpected gift to have the dome of St. Paul s along with so much historic Panorama. When i came Here i did t expect such. At the moment of writing the issues of War and peace Are in the guns of the preliminary War Are booming. After Hitler s last speech i cherish the London scene All the More praying that Britain dauntless will keep it from being obliterated or molested. Canada will have something to say about that too Cool and refreshing each morning when i jump out of bed and breathe deep of the Cool refreshing air As i look out Over London i thank god for this View. The Ever changing atmospheric pots sending wisps of breakfast smoke into the air. I already recognize the gracious Tower of Lincoln s in the Fields. A hulking modern Structure unfortunately hides the entrancing Steeple of St. Clement s Dane. I pass both these churches daily in the strand As i Corne and go from Fleet Street the Light Here we look Down upon the the 38th Field howitzer Battery River thames a t _ l Royal Canadian artillery will As it flows under Beneat locality around the Public Well at the Elgin and Isabel Corner from which is fever cases had come. Forty years 25, 1bd9 Gilbert Parker noted Canadian novelist was made an . By University Toronto his Alma John Mcneill was ordained pastor of first Baptist Church Winnipeg Rev. H. H. Hall Portage la Prairie assisted by a. P. Mcd Annid. Of Brandon and w. C. Vincent conducted the ordination services. Thirty five years 25, 1001 ii was announced that Fred w. Morse second vice president of the grand trunk and who was to be be general manager of the grand trunk Pacific was shortly to take up residence in Winnipeg the sur Veys from Winnipeg to Edmonton practically completed. One old looking towards St. Paul s sees the lesser dome of the Bailey with its surmounting statue of Justice shining like Gold m the morning sunlight above Ludgate from my window we also see the Tower of London and i really never will be Able to get Over the feeling the bottle at 3 . And those who Rise at 6. There s the really great Canadian transcontinental train smoking rooms where you hear the gossip from the ends of the Earth. This trip it was a new Sealander. Full of fascinating accounts of Berlin just before War broke. How the German oldsters loathe it like Poison Are Frank to say so when not where Gestapo spies can overhear. He d come from London and straight across the Ocean in a liner which had not bothered with convoys. British captains evidently Are not worrying about a boats As much As you d think. My most unforgettable train the Rockies one very bad Winter snowbound nearly three Days. Alter the first 24 hours our particularly this River generous lawmakers have fixed it so the railways feed you free. Fellows can see the flow of the current who d been living on Toast and Tea developed strange appetites for Spires of London to cherish amid dark Days clearly and the soft old country sunlight glinting on the water. We can Tell whether the tide is flowing up or Down. Just now it is flowing upstream and soon the thames will be at flood tide. Wound t it be fun to charter a boat now and go All the w a to Windsor and beyond on this gentle Day of an English autumn. We see great constant flow of traffic including lots of double deck red buses Cross ing Blac friars Bridge and nearer at hand trains coming in from Kent and Sussex to Charing Cross pointed Stone which we see effects of England play upon the scene. Sometimes the City is hid Den by fog but one senses its pres ence. Other times the View is a thing taking new forms and vistas from moment to moment As shifting mists come and go or it is revealed intact beneath variegated Cloud shapes while shafts of sunlight Here and there Light parts of the picture leaving the rest in sombre tones. In time i shall be Able to identify most of the different Spires and summits we see. I love the a leading English history. Lithe Victoria never expected anything like that when i grew see the Tower from my bedroom window what exciting and tragic memories Centre upon those grim Walls and seem to throw a Shadow there As seen from this distance. For the Tower never becomes quite distinct probably be cause of Mist and smoke. Some ancient egyptian obelisk with strange inscriptions on it. Grimy it is from Many years of London smoke. They Call it Cleopatra s Needle a designation that might have surprised Cleopatra who had other ideas about obelisks i Tell you my friends and you la agree with is a View to Ponder Over. The shores of the steaks roasts pies and puddings. The boys in the baggage car broached a barrel of Beer in their desperate efforts to save the lives of the passengers and fed it to us in teapots. It was very sad when the Snow plows finally got through. My favorite rest cure in Pioneer Edmonton to peace River Over the old . And The Porter let us sleep Long As we liked while the train rocked gently Over the rolling track. The chef bought us in route fresh blueberries raspberries blackberries thick Cream new Laid eggs chickens country Ham Trout caught that morning fed us to death. You could have fun on the old a. And g.w., too standing on the Back platform watching the ties and track submerged a foot under water in the Muskeg by the weight of the train float slowly up into sight again 100 Yards behind the last car. Its fixed now but not so much sport As having to pile out every 20 Miles or so and help put the train Back on the track again. It la be a Long time i m thinking before we give up our railways our travelling club rooms and our stories. This time a lady told me one it was of a very haughty feminine passenger on a Down cast Jerk water line who demanded imperiously what of this car do get off either said the polite conductor they both Stop at the same k beyond the Tower the towers of Tower Bridge of course can t missed. They loom High on the Hori Zon. Beyond them imagination sup plies the picture of the widening thames slipping past Greenwich and out to sea. As we look Down from my room Gider the things that have happened the thames seems intimately near have witnessed Many re events. Even with All is to see there is More Here than meets the Eye and if at times the fragments of Mist that blow past with the rising of the Sun take on strange ghost like shapes Well in t that understandable when you con nobody s Hurt. _ _ splints bandages nurses bed tie class in first Aid to London Bridge Wea we 566. I love talc tile Sueila docs and the Chimney and what a Joy it is to be living Here within the Range of our vision preparing Hon. A years 25, 1900 the Moti graph motion picture machine was now a Fca. At the roller caters who had been enjoying some weeks sport at inc Arena k Verc soon to have the real feet substance under Lhoir Twenty five years oct. 25, Colin Campbell former Cabinet minister and known in the West died in War s most Pic Battle was being fought the Yser canal five nations engaged and French and warships were bombarding Battlefield from the sea. Twenty years United states worst Coal impending half a million Riners were to quit on the a eve of Winter and not even presided Wilson. 1 irom his sick bed in the White use seemed to have brought any Prospect of truce. Publisher Dies Adelaide i Australia oct. 23 ;