Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba 46 no. Pages Sun rises 7.20 Sun sets 17.03. Moon rises 23.02 Moon sets 12.58. Winnipeg Friday november 3, 1939 and mild. Fire Demon is unleashed Tell t Washington. Nov. A joint Senate House conference com tin Roosevelt administration s neutrality Bill t Al f 1 i j 1 v lev -1 v. To preparing the Way for final congressional action today or _ committee agreed shortly after president i0 Lyhl p ass gratification at the Congo is decision 10 repeal the embargo against sales to belligerents. I m very glad that the Bill has restored the historic position or neutrality of the United or. Roosevelt said authorizing the direct quotation. Only assured final approval by j the Senate and House was necks All Leary to Send the measure to Xci York nov. 3. Bup evidence today indicated that repeal of the . Arms embargo touch president Roosevelt. The Senate arranged to vote this off a history Ravins Bourn in am a afternoon. Leaders were hopeful Erica warplane production a the House would act immediately Boom tincture with Rosy estimates thereafter. O huge orders and imaginative fore i in View of the fact that born casts of air plane processions by sea Chambers gave sizeable majorities and air. Across the Atlantic. For repeal approval of the Corn Wall Street speculators climbed aboard the a ire Rait bandwagon and aviation shares opened at All time 0vjs Smittee s draft was a foregone con in Paris Security prices jumped delusion. The House though May _ _ i it v h details of vote Page 9 on the strength of the House vote Lor repeal. The department of Justice made preparations to guard against what Many anti repeal statesmen have feared an outbreak of Industrial sabotage and espionage. Predicts huge order Xci York. Nov. 3. Dow Jones and co., financial news Agency in a copyrighted Story said today Jive United states aircraft manufacturers had received or will huge orders continued on prig 9, column 2 a a a 25 years nov. 3, Allied squadrons bombarded forts at the Entrance to the Dardanelles. Turks claimed successes in Armenia threatened canal. Floods threatened Ger Man troops along the Yser in Bel Gium. Russians advanced in Gali Cia and East Prussia. Withhold formal consent until to Morrow. Orders predicted As soon As president Roosevelt signs the Bill belligerent nations can begin buying american Muni Lions guns and planes. Some administration quarters predict that overseas orders chiefly from great Britain and France will total so. Within a few weeks. Under the Bill s Cash and carry system belligerents must take title to the goods before they leave american docks where Many sup plies now Are piled. They must be transported in other than Amer ican ships. The last hurdle in the administration s fight for embargo re peal was crossed late yesterday afternoon when the House rejected 243 to margin that even the most optimistic administration sup porters had not to lion to instruct House conferees to insist on retention of the embargo. The Senate approved repeal of the i Bill last week 60 to 33. Silhouetted against the flame swept sky Are a group of spectators at the Blaze which destroyed the Western vinegar limited building 468 Redwood Avenue thursday evening. Other fire pictures on Page this is the first of a series of articles based on an Independent Survey by British United press correspondents in Berlin of conditions prevailing in Germany at. The end of the first two months of War. By Frederick c. Oechsner nov. 3. End of the first two months of War finds the German people stolidly ready for anything. They expect a Long hard pull. All would Wel come peace but few any longer believe there is Hope of an Early end to the War. They so far Are putting up with More inconvenience than actual hardship and there is a a certain amount of grumbling and criticism some of it surprisingly in the open. But nazi propaganda has met considerable response. Distrust of England is not what it was at the beginning of the world War. But More and More germans Are resenting. England s interference in Central european affairs arid Many have been convinced that if the Reinli loses this War the new peace terms will the Versailles treaty read like a bedtime Lullaby. That in Brief is the Broad impression Given a Neutral observer after two months of the strangest War of modern times. Sia i believed by officials to have been deliberately set fire swept through the Plant of Western vinegar limited shortly after 3 p.m., thursday and reduced the Stock and premises to a _ a mass of smouldering ruin. Who is responsible for the disastrous Blaze is not known and neither Thomas Baird. Of the office of the provincial fire commissioner nor Leslie Sard manager of the has tie slightest idea of who wish to Burn Down the fac s in toy. Or. Bahu who was on the scene most of the night returned flt Dawn and spent the morning investigating the ruins. Wednesday night fire officials sa3a Small occurred at the rear of the same building but was rom flames encircled by spreading flames As they crouched helplessly in the dining room five negro children of Ages ranging from three to nine years and their paralysed grand father. Were saved from death thursday night by the prompt action of two Young men after fire had struck their three Storey Frame Home at 631 Talbot Avenue w attributed not to an Elmwood. To a halloween prankster it As the Grandfather stood in the As i doorway looking for Aid his in extinguished damage. Him from help i nothing about the lire ing the children the youngsters in no informed by forc officials no gently watched the spreading Day blk the Nad flames until the youths rushed in to or. Surd told the free Friday morning. I thought strange thai a fire of mysterious orig should not have been re ported to any one connected hip he said. When i asked More department about it the that they had considered 1 a halloween prank and that As damage had been done they did firebug continued in pase i. Column i save them. Summoned by their Mother. Mrs. A. Hauser 627 Herbert Avenue who had noticed the smoke from the grocery store across the Street Philip 17, hustled the Chil Dren out of the House while Edward 23, brought the Grandfather Fred t. Taylor to safety. Mrs e. M. Shackles called fire men who extinguished the flames Rescue continued on Page 9, column 3 when five in i Nero children and their paralysed Grandfather were pair scr As Barnes spread through their Home thursday night. Twp a scr not and his brother Edward rushed in and saved mrs. A. Hsi scr. Shown with her two sons summoned them a non inc noticed the Hla Xiv by Joseph w. Grigg or. Germany after two months of War has almost men under according to estimates of Neutral observers. In a lightning Campaign of less than four weeks Germany wiped out Poland s armed forces and with soviet Russia erased the polish state from the european q map. Today she stands determined to carry on the conflict against great Britain and France alone if necessary with an Esti mated at 150 divisions an air Force of unknown size but believed to possess at least planes and a Navy which includes about 65 submarines. In mobilized manpower these forces according to Best available Neutral estimates of More than men an air Force of about and a Navy manned by a wartime complement of around banished bogey the Swift conclusion of the Campaign banished the bogey of a two front War. With her Eastern front secure Germany has massed the bulk of her in the West although a Large Force is still kept in Poland. In Poland according to Adol Hitler s own figures Germany used 70 divisions or about men. Many of these troops have now been transported to the Wes and today it is estimated that Ger Many has some 70 divisions along or behind her Siegfried line. The German High command is confident of the strength of the German West Wall defences but realizes that the French Maginot line also is Strong and that a frontal attack upon it probably would Cost millions of lives with no Assurance of Success. Consequently unless economic stress and the Allied blockade drive Hitler to desperate measures the Best opinion Here is that the War in the West will continue to be one of stalemate. But it must be added that there arc Well informed nazis who hold that an offensive in november is not improbable. Army of occupation although the bulk of German forces Are in the West it has nevertheless been necessary to maintain Many divisions in Poland. Neutral observers believe the strength of the of occupation in the future will depend More upon what Russia does than upon the Germany is expected to Deal increasingly heavy blows with her submarine and air forces against the sea Power of great Britain by Frederick c. Oechsner germans Are trying to live As normally As possible in the present phase of warfare. Out Side of the actual military q zones the outward signs of War Are relatively few. But Over All of the nation there hangs a vivid realization of the War. Street life in Berlin at least in the Daylight hours is mat Normal. The difference in outward things can be seen Only by careful observation. For instance the leaves Are falling now in the tie Garten but Only women and old men Are sweeping them up whereas Young men used. To do the Job. Taxicabs Are rare and to be used Only when no other form of conveyance is available. But the opera and the theatres Are filled even More than be fore the War. Supper and dancing places Are patronized about As usual. Other signs of the War in clude school houses near the Centre of Berlin flying the red Cross Flag. There Are Hospital Beds where school benches used to be. Big resort hotels have been turned into military hospitals. The new where Youthful Blac shirts Goose step in. The guard is another spot for Idle spectators. They see the generals and the statesmen going and coming but they Seldom see Adolf Hitler. Food always is a Foremost thought but authorities repeatedly reassure the people that there is no danger of an other period such As the Brit ish blockade brought in the world War. Still there is strict rationing of food portly businessmen can be seen in any even the most fashionable obediently handing Over Little Pink ration tickets for their Schnit Zels. The other great inconvenience which also is a depress ing Factor is the nightly Black out darkness and a sense of being sealed in their Homes bothers these people who always loved . Song and Beer drinking. Ottawa nov. 3. Up Hon. Hugh g Guthrie chairman of the Board of transport commissioners and former minister of Justice died in Hospital today. R1 or. Guthrie had not been in robust health during the past few years but he was Able to carry on his. Duties at the head of the Board to which he was appointed in -1935. He was .73. Or. Guthrie entered Hospital yesterday att d died at 11 o clock this morning a native of Guelph ont., or. Guthrie was the Dean of the House of commons when he retired from Moscow nov. 3. Foreign minister j. A Erkko has directly threatened the soviet Union in a speech which cannot be appraised As other than an Appeal for War with the .s.r., the newspaper pravda official Organ of the communist party said editorially today. Meanwhile Finland gave every indication that it would resist russian territorial demands. Its manpower was mobilized its cities barricaded and there was no lessening of the i tension now that a five Man finnish delegation was Back in Moscow to negotiate. The soviet Union May seek a common Border with Norway by making a demand on Finland for the Petsako Region in addition to demands already made the Copenhagen correspondent of Reuter s reported today feeling in Helsin fors was that their negotiators m Moscow would confine themselves to handing soviet Premier Viaches Laff Molo Toff a written reply to the de mands inform him of Finland s attitude toward his tuesday night speech in which he made the demands Public and then return Home at once while the finnish government determined its future course. Paper attacks finn leaders t certain leaders in Finland express no desire at All to reach agreement with the .s.r. For consolidation of Friendly relations Between the soviet Union and pravda said in its article telling of the War threat. The government of Fin land has taken a number of Emer gency measures comprehensible Only when a country is preparing for War. They include evacuation of Urban populations mobilization of reservists and reorganization of Industry to serve War in ominous tone pravda likened the attitude of Erkko to that May attack adopted by col. Josef Beck who was foreign minister of Poland before and when German troops invaded polish territory on sept. I. The pravda article was devoted War threat continued on Page 6, column 3 by John t. Whitaker Rome nov. 3. Special Cable to the Chicago daily news and Winni Peg free desperation before the French forts system and the British blockade May drive fuehrer Adolf Hitler it is feared hero to launch lightning at tacks against the Lowland or Balkan neutrals. The measures which have brought Holland to a state of siege Are a obvious that Many expect a Surprise attack elsewhere and Italy is unusually Busy today mending its Balkan fences. The russians Are afraid that peace May be negotiated before Germany is too crippled to be Able to turn against Russia which Hopes to win Poland and the Baltic areas Back. The italians think that the collapse of British French morale Balkans continued on Page 6, column 4 r regarded Here As the Reich s real enemy bomber turns Tail Basel Switzerland nov. 3. Up havas French Citi Zens today witnessed a 20-minute fight Between six French Pursuit planes and a huge German bomber which attempted to Fly Over the Border into France. The bomber was forced to turn Tail. By George Kidd two months of War. Have Given Germany s economic machinery a severe Jolt but have not thrown it out of gear the major effects of the first eight weeks of hostilities were 1. Roughly 50 per cent of Ger Many s foreign Trade was Cut off. 2. Industry was slowed up by the closing of some factories and the restriction of production in Many others. 3. Approximately men were thrown out of work through the slow up of Industry. 4. Retail Trade fell off More than 50 per cent. One of the most significant facts disclosed in a Survey of Germany s position is the revelation that except for butter and other fats her food Supply has not thus far been threatened. Germany has enormous food re serves and for months perhaps years she will be Able to continue importing from scandinavian states Southeastern Russia and Italy. How Long she can continue these imports depends on her ability to maintain her present High Indus trial production for Export barter shortage of fats on the other Side of the balance Sheet however the shortage of fats will probably grow More Germany s whaling fleets undoubtedly will no longer Ven Ture into the Arctic. The War also will deprive Germany of her an Nual catch of. Tons of fish from the North sea. The War created two other important shortages in Germany Iron and Oil. Some tons of Iron for Merly imported annually from France North Africa Brazil and Newfoundland have been Cut off. The bulk of the remainder of German Ore imports has been Corning from Sweden. It Germany can continue to provide Sweden with Coal there is no reason to be Lieve that Sweden will not continue to Export to Germany the usual tons of Iron Ore annually. Germany is trying harder than Ever to utilize her own sources of Low. Grade Iron Ore. Oil is one 01 Germany s most serious War problems. The hostilities have not greatly interfered with sources but they have doubled requirements. German military experts have estimated that tons of Oil will be needed to Supply the Reich. In War time. Today Ger Many can provide less than 30 per cent. Rumania and Russia Are the likeliest sources for the balance of Germany s Oil needs. Rumania annually disposes of a surplus. It is questionable How Ever whether Germany will be Able to transport this amount. Yal thanks Kin lauds Canada talk with by Francis Stevens. London nov. 3. Special Thomas a. Crerar was received by King George Early this afternoon at bucking Ham Palace. His majesty in a conversation which lasted for half an hour renewed his fond memories of the recent tour of Canada made by himself and Queen Elizabeth Hon. Hugh Guthrie Active political life in 1935. First elected in 1900 he served for Al most 35 years continuously As member for Wellington South during his Long parliamentary career he served in various cab inet posts under three prime ministers and for a time was acting Leader of the conservative party. He was elected in 1.900 As a lib eral but during the first great War joined the Union government Guthrie continued on Page 6, column 5 te1viperature headings Low during if Fht 20 6.30 a.m., nov. 3 12.00 noon nov. 3. 2.00 p.m., nov. 3 High nov. 3, 1938. For full report of meteorological office see Page Nineteen. He expressed his profound Satis faction at the contribution Canada s democratic front is making against despotic aggression. Or. Crerar in a broadcast Over the covering British Isles said tonight that Canada will ask As a result of its joint sacrifices that it May win the peace As Well As the War. We in he said with the lesson of the years be tween 3918 and 1939 still fresh in our memory ask that we May this Lime not merely defeat the enemy but in that defeat Lay the foundation of a new society one in which War will be outlawed As the barbarity it is. Where instead of the nazi dream of a world composed of brutal and Bellicose despotism there will be a world of self governing Peoples willing if Neces sary to surrender certain of their Sovereign Powers in the interest of peace and Prosperity for the whole International or. Crerar put in a Busy Day Fol lowing his audience with the King. He attended two conferences of the representatives of the Empire Dur ing the afternoon. To slay after Parley. London nov. 3. Up Cable members of the Canadian Mission Here for Empire discussions will re Crerar continued on Page 6, column 2 f u am Paris nov. 3 ;