Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Twenty one Days Midnight tuesday Winnipeg be cd -1 Days without a traffic Accident. The inst it 1 a mishap on the Street of the i v occurred oct. 10. So far this Nih ppr in Honvo lost their Ufi Winnipeg free press Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per we7k. Winnipeg wednesday november 1, 1939 pet copy edition with comics inc every loaf is stored with Energy making food Buttermilk bread homemade fhe Broca Way new in flavor and shape Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have our Salesman Call daily from near and far Hirth Niv 1. Up German airmen killed in the which downed the scottish coast on saturday were a port no Lio cemetery with full honors alongside two coffins and wreaths were Laid on the grave Chr troyal air Force. An escort from the the cortege. A Berlin nov. The object 01 c might t Churchill visits tart of Fleet London nov. 1. Up Winston Churchill first lord of the admiralty visited a Section of the British Fleet in scottish Waters yesterday. He returned with the remark that he had enjoyed a quiet and pleasant a notes on nazi pig feeding Rion nov. 1. Up Cable the British pig the ministry of re said yesterday introducing a lighter note in its usually 3srtca i. Review. Is n gourmet compared with the German pig review contained this piece of pig feeding compared with the nazi pig. The British pig is still a gourmet r Tir inv a i 5 from the time he is about 50 pounds live weight r item to 2v pounds of food St mealtime and must find the rest i f Ai t Iron Asch farm produce As potatoes silage roots of sugar let tons of kale and so Forth. It takes him longer to finish but he t there in the end. In effect the nazi gets his fat pig a month or s weeks inter than formerly but he gets it and it s up to us to get it a air Force gathers British children will get toys London. Nov. 1. Bup British children whether at Home or exiled in the country for safety will have their Christmas toys. Manufacturers Are working full Speed to make up the deficit from Germany and Czecho Slovakia where most of the toys used to come from. A flour donation is suggested Wellams. Out. No. 1. Up citizens War work association Here recommended to Tho Federal government yesterday Canada should donate 1 000.000 barrels of hour to great Bri Tain. A Campaign to raise funds for the Enterprise was 1 Germany to eat wild life Berlin oct. 30. Mobilized her huntsmen today in an e sort to increase the Domestic food Supply. Colonel general Hermann Goering the Reich s Hunting master called on winners to shoot Small same in provinces wrested from Poland and in the vast Tuchell a Forest of West Prussia where wild life is reported i Are registered Ottawa nov. 1. Up fifty eight War Charity funds revealing widespread desire to help in the common cause in the varied Field i they cover have been registered with the Secretary of state depart i ment it was announced yesterday. I under the War charities act. 1039. I it is not permissible to solicit donations for any War Charity j fund which has not been registered with the Secretary of state. Objects of a War Charity fund Are defined As supplying the needs of comforts or the Relief of suffering or distress for the Benefit of the personnel of the armed forces of Canada or the families or dependents of any of them or of any other sufferers from the present War. Or any other charitable purpose connected the tag Day workers honoured by clinic Active workers for the mount Carmel clinic tag Day were honoured at a dinner in Thi clinic s auditorium sunday evening. Chairman Sam Lewis expressed his appreciation for the services rendered by the honoured guests and presented them with Small gifts on behalf of the institution. Those presented were mrs. C. Merkle mrs. B. Richman mrs. Charach or. And mrs. S. Ruskin miss s. Good Man and b. Goldberg. R. Cohen was in charge of arrangements and the dinner was prepared by members of the ladies auxiliary. Westbound Airliner schedule unchanged the new time schedule of trans Anada air lines shows a change in Ime for the arrival in Winnipeg of in westbound plane which will. And at 4.55 . Instead of 5.20 m., and will leave at 5.10 . In Ead of 5.35 . There will be no Range in the arrival and Depar ure of the eastbound plane which ands in Winnipeg at 3.10 . And parts at 3.25 . Constable c. A. Olson who to tuesday retired on pension from the Winnipeg police Force after 25 years of service. He joined the Force at the age of 21, coming from where he was born during 1931 and 1932 he was with the detective department but sine that time had been a Cruiser Ca officer. So Accra Motif on Likely in Kildonan Reeve w. P. Larson of East Kil Conan will seek his fourth two year term it the municipal elections on nov. 24, he announced tuesday. So far no one has in of noted intentions of opposing him. Mere will by two vacancies on Council and both g. Suttie d Brown the it tiring. Councillors arc Cape Csc a to seek a Eie cuon. No opposition has As e appeared in this Field. Lac Board b. R. Ben in i Fraser and A. Ander ,w1" a ask to be re elected again no opponents have variety concert help for 19th Battery a variety entertainment arranged by mrs. Dorothy Johnston of officers and men of the 19th Fiel Battery and their families a held in St. Giles United Church monday night. Speakers were . A. Bryce . Of 7th medium Battery major c. K. Depencier . O 19th Field Battery and Rev. J. 1 pastor of St. Giles Church a Buffet lunch was served by the ladies auxiliary of the Batter under direction of mrs. De Pencie artists contributing were Bombardier Dick Shelton master ceremonies Dorothy Johnsto Richard Haldane gunner Mon Gomery. Mary Reid Harry Keal Mary Gussin sgt. J. Stacey rut King Gordon Mclean Bombardie Townson and gunner roadhouse first Aid sponsored by legion Branch Day in and Day out members of 112 army co operation Squadron learn and put into practice the knowledge required of the modern air Force personnel. Top left a ground Crew member at Stevenson s Field is shown working in the cockpit of one of the Squadron s planes top right in the radio room at the Airfield lower left a Cor poral dons the new uniform Complete with gaiters lower Centre these masked figures Are part of the crash tender Crew and their Asbestos suits of which the mask is part lower right the ground Crew study one of their charges and inset a Squadron plane m flight. Getting in shape War planes fill the sky As 112 Squadron prepares sandals wreck stolen autos an epidemic of car thieving and vandalism has been rampant in i Winnipeg in the last few weeks. Many autos have been stripped of accessories deliberately driven into houses and Proias or battered to pieces with Sledge hammers. Latest Auto stolen was that owned by major l. W. Miller . And q.m.g., Tuxedo Barracks which was Aken from its parking place on River Avenue and Elswood place free nights ago. The same night police chased the stolen vehicle n a 75-mile-an-hour race but were forced to give up when a truck coming out of a Side Road Cut the police vehicle off at Parkdale. Mon Lay. The stolen Auto was found about four and a half Miles East of Libau Man. Some nights previously thieves took an Auto from a garage in the North end and deliberately smashed t to pieces with hammers chief of police George Smith said tuesday. 3e warned citizens to be very care us in buying Auto parts lest they find themselves with stolen goods. Scout annual meet to be held nov. 8 the annual meeting of the West Winnipeg and District boy scouts association will be held in first lutheran Church Victor Street nov. 8, at 8 . H. R. Thompson will give an illustrated address on scouting in South Africa. Officers will report on the year s activities and plans will be made for the coming season. A social half hour High Over the Check ered land scape that is Manitoba Bright yellow planes Are buzzing Back and Forth these Days As Winnipeg s 112 army co operation Squadron gets into Active service trim. It is prac Tice for War deadly serious prac re stationed present at other . Centres in the Dominion under along special courses. Of of vill follow. Tice. Hour after hour the planes Speed through the sky plunging dizzily towards the Earth or soaring High into the Clouds getting that familiarity that Breeds not contempt but Confidence in Man and Mach Ine. No Pilot in the Squadron has had less than 250 hours in the air some have had As much As with that experience behind them they Are learning today the Princi Ples of attack and defence the intricate business of Aerial photo Graphy radio communications Anc a Host of other subjects necessary o fit themselves for Active service lessons Learned in lecture rooms at Minto Barracks must be trans lated from theory into practice a Stevenson s Field. There is forced Landing practice aerobatics Low flying training fighting attacking ground targets front and rear gun practice. There Are four flights in no. 112 Squadron a Headquarters flight a a and c flights. Officer pilots make up approximately ten per cent of the total strength. Their average age is around 30. In com Mand is Squadron Leader r. H Little. On Active service the Squadron will be a self contained unit with its own repair shops photographic dear Trent signals and kitchens it will possess its own Medica officer and chaplain. In addition to flying the men will have been drilled in ground defense learn ing the use of army weapons Nee Essary for the Protection of the aerodrome against attack both by land and air. The greater part of this training is being done right Here in Winnipeg but some officers and airmen while much of the details raining and equipment Are from Che free pass files and wondering y y in Ith Chester Bloom sixty years nov. 1, 1879 the first Central congregational sunday school had raised for the commencement a Library. St. John s College celebrated the 1.3th anniversary of its opening among names on the pro gramme were those of Rev. S. P. Matheson who gave a song Canon necessity official secrets this much s obvious that Canada s new 3reat War air Force will be from every Point of View As Fine a body As that which preceded it. Precautions against any possible accidents is the gleaming crash tender which is part of the squad Ron equipment. Manned by three men and a Driver it stands ready of Speed to any part of the Field in the event of a mishap. Asbestos suits enable men to work in the Ace of the intense heat of a Burn ing plane. First Aid equipment stretchers and blankets Are carried in addition to the fire fighting apparatus. While thousands of Winni Eggers have flocked to the . Recruiting depot in the Lindsay building there is no recruiting going on for the Squadron. It is already at the required strength and volunteers joining the Aii Force in the City will be trained at training centres or other now formed or yet to be formed throughout the Dominion. Whatever May happen in the future the 112 Squadron remains Winnipeg s particular contribution to the air of the Dominion Tea Extension Ottawa nov. 1. Up trans Canada air lines today will aug ment the Montreal Ottawa Torr to service by a new morning Flig lil from Toronto according to revised schedules made Public Here last night. Revision of the . Timetable will bring planes of the West Botma trans Continental flight into Van Couver 25 minutes earlier than a present. Blighty with Stevens offer of Bath firmly declined at dinner party n text gun tuesday of the Branch will be Myers in suggest quantic but n nazi i when i on deck after an overcoat and a Liebelt boost dark but 1 could see smoke a Little Way off shelling in addition to his graph la spot news coverage. Francis. Stevens free press correspondent in London is also writing a diary of his activities and thu Uchus. These items Are beak mailed to Winnick and will appear Mccu Larrv As received. By Francis Stevens London to keep my London diary up to Date i was invited out dinner the other night. Before we go any further let me assure you there is no moral in this Story and it certainly would have no place in a Book on etiquette. Dinner was to be served at eight o clock so of course i arrived at a Quarter of seven. Just a Little mis understanding Over the Telephone got me mixed about the time. Of sure it was my fault. It was the first time i had met my Host a London barrister with a pc to his name had met my hostess before naturally. A charming Young woman she was on the ship which brought me from Palestine to Venice in the summer of 1938. At that time she was re turning from Egypt a Good place to leave in summer. The ship was in no hurry to reach Venice neither was i. Poked around All Over the Aegean sea stopping at ports no one Ever Leard Tell of where we found Dusty answers in spots where great had flourished in ancient cities Days. That s by Way of explanation of i happened to be invited to How dinner. Their Home is close by St. James Palace which harks Only of by. Gone centuries whereas then Home inside is a last word in modernity All sleek shining simple surfaces and profoundly comfor table without being cluttered up with furniture. I thought the Butler seemed a bit surprised when he admitted me but he was a perfect Butler and did t look too surprised be sides he did let me in i d hardly my Gas mask into his hands when i heard my hostess wailing in the distance. Of he has come much too a Nice beginning for a dinner party you say but you Don t know the lady. Looking slightly dishevelled she dashed Down the Hall to Greet me followed by a hand some Middle aged husband with a twinkle in his eyes. I decided he was going to be All right. It seems they were both preparing to Bathe when i arrived. Let s All have a Bath have a he invited a. Corne on let s All three have a he urged. I myst have looked startled. We do have three he explained. I never Bathe except once a week on saturday i demurred. This was on a thursday. The Butler hovering in the Back ground looked As though he did 1 believe a Ward of discerning fellow. The lady went and had her Bath however while her husband after three More unsuccessful attempts to lure me to a tub gave up and went without his own Bath i might explain that i did make a Alist his Sherry excellent and h Den a comfortable place in which to relax besides i decided he bathed too often anyway. I told you there is no moral to this tale except i arrived too Early i did t make the mistake of staying too late. The lady brother and a Friend joined us of dinner. They were a Little bit late everyone was laughing when the party broke up. Had Bath in Winnipeg perhaps it is injudicious to append Hope that 1 Haven t Given clue As to the identity of this delightful couple. The husband i Well known to Many members o the Canadian bar. They have visited Canada twice but the lady Only memory of Winnipeg is tha she stopped off there briefly an had a Bath at the Royal Alexandr o Meara a Reading Canon gris Dale a song mrs. Co Wley piano Forte Solo and Rev. W. C. Pinkham a song. Fifty five tears nov. I 1884 there were persistent rumours of Egypt that Khartoum had Illen and that Gen. Gordon was prisoner. Among those present at he St. Andrew s society s hallo party in Victoria Hall were chief of police d. B. Murray j. S. Town g. W. Grant j. G. Russell and mrs. Dignum. Fifty years nov. 1, 1889 at the meeting of the Winnipeg y.m.c.a., it was decided to Start a canvass at once for funds for a new building it was estimated that 00 at least would be required Hough the building could be commenced As soon As there was n hand. Forty five years nov. 1, 1894 Amoni those present at a Specia meeting of the Winnipeg general Hospital directors in connection Ith Tho completion of the nurses Home were e. L. Drewry Heber Archib sad judge Bain a. M. Nati on and Stephen Nairn forty years ago nov. 1, 1899 Ernie a. Blow who had been City editor of the free press for several his first connection with the Aper dating Back to 1879, resigned o accept a position with Walter suckling and company a leading estate firm. Thirty five years nov. 1, 1904 a Novelty in the shape of a Dirig ble Airship navigated by its in enter t. C. Baldwin of los Angeles was one of the attractions at. The big St. Louis fair the Navi Ator made a dramatic appearance n the air feet above the scaring the people in the Grant stand. Thirty years ago nov. 1, 1909 among recent books were ballads of a Chee Chako by Robert w. Ser Jeanne of the marshes by e. Phillips Oppenheim and s. K. Crockett s biographical Book my two Edinburgh. The Arena Portage la Prairie s rink destroyed by fire was to be re placed by a new building in time for skating. Twenty five years ago nov. 1, 1914 7he losses of the nations in the which was now less than three months old were estimated to be Between and killed wounded and missing. Among those in the running As school trustees were w. J. Bulman Arthur Congdon and r. H. Knox. Twenty years nov. 1, 1919 Nao. A oath Cut Utic half hearted proffer to go outside anyone wants to know and walk three times Stithjr by and walk three James Palace while they bathed but it did t take much urging for Rne to remain. I wonder Why a world that s dying for smiles and laughter and comedy should resign itself so generally to the mercies of stuffed Hirts serious jackasses and grim Fellows whose Stock in Trade is Ither sonorous stupidities or machine guns. I be sat in Many a press gallery and wondered that too but what brought it to mind just now was the return of our or. Frank Morriss from a visit to Minneapolis. He is full of the huge financial Success achieved by a University lad there with a Bright idea. The boy gathered together All the ancient melodramas some 28, embed out their Juiciest cliches and worm eaten declarations of virtue iut this distillation of Victoria ism into one general Stew of comedy and is drawing audiences like flies around a molasses barrel. He merely gave a practical demonstration that what the world really wants is to laugh. And nothing pleases the world better than to laugh heartily in one generation at the preach ments made to a preceding one. I be no doubt at All that following generations will laugh them selves pretty sick Over what they dig up out of our newspapers magazines books and plays. I can readily understand How such a sentiment of two generations gone rags Are Royal raiment when worn for virtue s declaimed a the heroine with one hand pointing toward heaven and the other jammed against the villain s breast and the Drums rolling an accompaniment would set the audience into spasms of laughter. Not that our feminine generation is the less virtuous Only that we take our Young women s virtue for granted it needs no advertising. I d like to Convoy some of our modern dras and Jeremiah around the old bars and stockade of Seattle Vancouver Alaska and the Yukon to show them How the world has improved. Frank says that especially funny was the scene in the last the dumb villain in his skin tight pants the Habi tues of the old bar rooms and even Hawkshaw the detective bound for the poor House All uttering the platitudes of the age noted for its Bawdy dives and saloons on every Corner. The Banks have them Corners i mean but i la leave comment on that to or. Aberhart. This is a Money age the world proves what it wants ii showering Gold nil the purveyors. Thus the University boy s idea plus Clever players and an old tent netted them some a night during last summer in St. Paul they be moved into a Minneapolis playhouse now. The idea is not fundamentally new. I often went Over from Ottawa to Montreal just to laugh myself into a week s Good humor by watching a company of players parody the old melodramas in a night club. They hacked up a new one each Veek. It always struck me As especially that in that Light hearted pleasure Loving City the club saved this perform Ance As the Crown the evening preceding girl acts could t compete with it. The technique was to invite the audience to take part and make criticisms and comments As the play proceeded. They did so with a vengeance. Example the villain stealthily approaching a victim from behind Butcher knife in hand. Some one in the audience yells watch out he s going to Stab Whereat the villain turns Veng fully advances to the foot lights and addresses bitter remarks to the Good Samaritan who answers Back if he s Good at repartee. Some of the remarks were Side splitting. Once when the villain was about to beat a woman a Champion in the audience called Don t you dare strike that the villainous fellow promptly challenged the paying customer to come up on the stage and try to Stop him. Another time the villain had his lady victim bound hand and foot in a chair. He went through a realistic performance of whetting a huge Butcher knife then Drew Throat simultaneously smearing the lady s neck with red paint. A woman in the front Row shrieked and the villain made a Savage leap toward her shouting ill Cut yours creating a. Small riot. I be come away from there with my sides sore from laughing but feeling that the world was a lot Cheerie place than when i went in. I be often wondered since if i could get a totalitarian statesman the chair bound like the lady whether i could really use that knife. I think i d steel myself and do it. William Ferris 162 Walnut Street who celebrates Lis 87th birthday thursday. Born in Enniskillen Ontario in 1852, he came to Winnipeg in. 1879. In he same year he moved to for age la Prairie where he con ducted a harness making business until 1889. Business and farming claimed his attention at Holland Man., until about 1908, when he moved to Winnipeg. He has 11 children living. Know she is up a she does by he is Cross work the name of r. G. Willis a prominent resident of the Boisse vain District was mentioned for the leadership of the conservative in Bureau of re search for Winnipeg was appointed at the meeting of the Winnipeg Bureau of civics with w. H Gardner and Alvin k. Godfrey presiding. Eight men fined under traffic act convicted of driving to the com Mon danger six men were fined 510 and costs monday in provincial police court. They were Stanley Tinling Beausejour j. A. Glass St Clements George Conway 558 Hetherington Avenue c. W. Gard Ner Winnipeg Beach Clyde har vey 126 Cathedral Avenue and Joe nazarkewich3040 Aberdeen Avenue. Mike porn Ranski 1139 Pritchard Avenue for operating a truck with out clearance lamps paid a similar penalty As did j. H. Watson 155i Pembina Highway a second hand car dealer who failed to Maki returns of purchases As prescribed by the act. St. Boniface fails to secure increase in Relief quotas a surplus of 72 cents on the food quota of Relief recipients in St. Boniface on the basis of a family of five Over a period of two weeks was found by the greater Winni Peg unemployment advisory Board when taking a food test Purchase on oct. 25 after the St. Boniface City Council requested Aji increase in food allowances. The result of the test was Given in a letter to the Council from Hon. W. R. Club a minister of Public works and labor refused to endorse the pro used increase and asked for any evidence Tho St. Boniface Council ight have that an increase was necessary. A food test Purchase made in Winnipeg on oct. 23 showed that he Relief budget for a family of Ive allowed a surplus of 10 cents under standards of Quality cover no Relief. Or. Clubb said that the advisory Oard follows the Market closely and sets the amount of the fluctuating voucher As a result a Ood test Purchase each month. The investigation said letter very definitely that prices in St. Boniface do not vary any extent in comparison with he prices in the City of he also said residents of St Boniface have been Able to in Rease the food allowance by 12% or cent by working for their Aid and they had been Given an oppor Unity of growing their own vege tables. Alien property Ottawa nov. 1. Offi Cial custodian of enemy property in Canada has some 2.10cs cases under consideration it was announced last night. What you want to know mail for Eastern Canada close at 9.15 . And 6 . Daily of the West at 9 . And 8.30 daily. Air mail via Tea closes As Fol lows eastbound 2.30 . West bound 2.00 . 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