Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week. Press Price so per copy edition with comics inc you cannot fail to your family when you Servo Bryce i Kitchen proved cakes cakes with the read Home made flavor Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 87 088 and rave our Salesman Call Dally a Soldier allowance ruling cond Tomed the National defence policy of denying separation allow ances to dependent mothers of enlisted men who had been on Relief was described As disgraceful by mayor John Queen at the City Council meeting Winnipeg. Tuesday january school trustees in annual session unless the sons who had enlisted lad supported their mothers and athers before enlistment it is doubtful if the dependents will get by allowances from the govern nent Aid. Margaret Mcwilliams of the Public welfare told Council in response o a question from Aid Thomas Flye. The effect of this ruling was that he City had to carry these people n the Relief Rolls Aid. Mcwilliams said. She added that the Relief department was still carrying women or the Royal Canadian air Force s Well As the Princess pats. Downright disgrace i think this is a downright Dis mayor Queen said. I am he added sarcastically that it must leave a Nice taste in the Mouths of these boys to know that while they Are away fighting for Freedom their mothers Are denied an allowance and have to live on Aid. Mcwilliams said an Effort was being made to have the Rule changed but nothing had yet been accomplished. Aid. Flye cited the Case of a widow who had had two sons and was on Relief. The eldest son enlisted and assigned a month to his Mother. She had received a letter from his commanding officer telling her that As her son had not supported her prior to enlistment she could not collect the per month separation allowance. Well fed doctors endorse Relief quotas malnutrition is not any More frequent among Relief recipients than among Well to do families several Winnipeg doctors testified before a special committee of the legislature inquiring into the effect of unemployment regulations monday after debate on Hydro rate shelved for fortnight from All parts of the province school trustees flocked to Winni Peg tuesday for the annual convention of the Manitoba school trus tees association. At the left in the above layout j. Spalding and inspector e. D. Parker Are seen registering delegates. At upper right of St. Anne renters As miss b love looks on below from left to right Are Robert love of Melita Secretary treasurer of the organization j. A. Marion Veteran school trustee of St Boniface and w. C. Miller of Gretna the president. Noon. Medical testimony was the High Light of the session held at the legislative building and later meetings will hear representatives of the unemployed municipal councils Trade and labor Council and to arcs of Trade on request. The commit tee chose Hon. W. B. Clubb As chairman and decided to i meet again Jan. 19, at 2 . Ten doctors appeared before the committee or. A. C. Abbott or. C. M. Clare or. S. G. Herbert or. A. S. Kobrinsky. Or. J. A Mcdougall or. H. Medovey or. Ross Mitchell or. R. F. Rorke or. J. S. Tisdale City Hydro s rate Structure and surplus policy got half Way through full dress debate in the City Council monday night Only to be shelved for two weeks to let the aldermen have their first whirl the 1940 budget the question what is to be done about Hydro rates and its surplus was raised by the report of the utilities committee which asked if an investigation of rates was desired. Aid. Garnet Coulter and Aid. R. A. Sara moved in View of the recommendation of the Goldenberg report against changing the rate that no action be taken. Aid. James Simpkin. And Aid. M. A. Gray wanted the investigation held. Their amendment voted Down. Aid. Jacob Penner then moved that the Council adopt a policy of wiping out the Hydro s s400.0j overdraft in two years and the balance of this years returned to Hydro customers in form of larger discounts for prompt payment. The matter was dropped when Aid. Bardal moved it Lay Over for two weeks pending investigation of the 1940 budget situation. Early in the evening the Council overruled strenuous Djeu Ulii a. Aid. H. A. Sara to approve City payrolls and a maximum of 45 cents per hour set for this work. This men while will go to single men married without dependents will receive 41.1 cents. The men will work 48 hours a week whenever possible. The same rates were made to apply to water works employees who had previously been voted a Flat rate of 45 cents an hour. Setting aside a number of blocks of City owned property for neigh boyhood Parks on recommendation by the zoning Board was approved and the Parks Board and property committee were asked to co oper ate. J. D. Fraser superintendent of the Relief department was named to the same position by the department of Public welfare. The leasing of the old Robinson store on main Street to Aronovich and Leipsic for 10 years. The City will spend and the company on rebuilding and for the first live years the rent will be per year. For the second it will be per cent pay boost was granted common labourers on the five years year. A three what City Council did last night approved offer to lease the old Robinson store on main Street after it has been reduced to one Storey and renovated at Cost of debated City Hydro rates and sur plus for almost an hour and then shelved them until next meeting. Heard the action of the defence department in refusing allowances to dependent widows on Relief strongly condemned. Voted Down a bylaw to limit Heights of fences in North Winnipeg to eight feet. Granted wage increase of three cents an hour to common labourers with a maximum of 45 cents an hour. Educational Council arranges local visit for Rosita Forbes Rosita Forbes author traveller and lecturer is coming to Canada under auspices of the National Council of education. She will arrive in Winnipeg at 9 ., Jan. 30, and leave for Saskatoon at 10.30 The following Day. So far arrangements for her visit to this City have not been completed. Daughter of Hert Rott of Morton Hall Lincolnshire she gained two War medals when driving a flying ambulance at the front in 1915. In 1930, she covered Miles on lorries and horseback through Antolia Syria Palestine the North arabian desert Persia to Baluchistan and Back to Azerbaijan where she saw the fight Between the communist red army and the caucasian peasants. On her tour of Canada her subject will be War and peace personalities. Unexpected ally pops up for Homework haters at trustees convention Manitoba children found an unexpected in their natural opposition to Homework tuesday when a Delegate to the 31st convention of the Manitoba school trustees association Rose to denounce what he termed the useless amount of such study Given pupils of the province s schools. The trustee s remarks follow eds the presentation of the report on resolutions by d. L. Cameron of Manitou at the convention s open ing session held in the concert Hall of the civic auditorium. More than 500 school trustees attended. A recent Patent covers an attach ment for a Parachute to lower a disabled air plane to the ground that permits the Parachute to be opened quickly from within the plane. Outlining the resolutions passed at the 1939 convention or. Cameron presented at the same time the re actions of the department of Educa Tion to these resolutions. History paper criticized arousing controversy was one dealing with the setting of examination papers for High school grades particularly history. This appeared to show the. Resolution maintained a Lack of sympathetic Contact be perfect attendance record set by Aid. Dan Mclean Aid. Dan Mclean was the Cham Pion meeting attender of 1939, As far As the standing committees of Council were concerned. Figures tabled at the City Council meeting monday night showed the Ward 3 Alderman had a perfect attendance record. He attended 65 meetings of the finance committee and 30 of the utilities committee. Aid. Jack Blum Berg was second in the number of meetings attended 85. He was followed by Aid. F. G. Thompson 82 Aid. , 77 Aid. A e. Wandering and tween the trained specialist and the immature in his comment on this motion the minister of education Hon. Ivan Schultz stated that since the Grade 11 and Grade 12 examinations were accepted As Entrance standards by the University of Manitoba then the University rightly demanded representation on the Board setting such examinations. Or. Schultz further pointed out that As Long As parents insisted on children obtaining University matriculation then the right of the University to insist on certain stand Ards will be demanded. In addition the minister said the High failure rate did not necessarily mean the examination was in itself too difficult. The whole question of examinations demanded serious study in or. Schultz s opinion and the real difficulty was what Standard should trustee continued on Page 8, column 5 Deer Lodge Branch of can Adan legion re elects funnel r. H. Funnell was re elected president of Deer Lodge Branch of the Canadian legion b.e.s.l., at a. General meeting in the women s tribute memorial Hall monday night. Membership of the Branch had More than doubled in 1939, Accord ing to Ray j. Large retiring Secre tary. Preparations were made for the Branch to take part in the legion drive for funds which commences feb. 12. Or. Funnell reported that thou Sands in the new army had already joined the legion As associate members in Canada and definite plans were being made for assist with Chester Bloom i wonder if it in t sticking one s head Between the lion s jaws to give a chief of police a Good sized rubber Ball to hold in his Ham like fist then Tell him to open and let him discover he a holding three of the same sized rubber spheres instead of one. Newspapermen. Still it s Good fun for you Don t often put the Law on that kind of a spot without getting Simonite 71, and Aid. Paul Bardal 70. Because the finance committee meets weekly its members had Many More meetings to attend than the other aldermen. Aid. R. A. Sara held seventh place with 57 meetings. Exaid. M. W. Stobart had 53 Aid. C. R. Smith 51 Aid. James Simpkin 50 Aid. Garnet Coulter 49 Aid. Jacob Penner and Aid. H. C. Morrison 46 Aid. M. A. Gray 45 Aid. Margaret Mcwilliams and Aid. M. J. Forkin 44, and Aid. Hugh Mackenzie 34. from the prs a Stert from the prs a and or. E. S. Moorhead. Other witnesses were James Rollison chairman of the joint action committee r. C. Mccutchan Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council a. Thompson Mani Toba conference of unemployed Robert m. Moore Imperial immigration league and e. R. A Winnipeg resident receiving Relief from Glenwood municipality. Or. Moorhead chairman of the committee on sociology of the Mani Toba medical association presented a report compiled in 1935 on the basis of a questionnaire sent to Doc tors. Out of 315 questionnaires sent out replied were received from 139 doctors and 67 of them answered in the negative to five questions re Garding complaints about Relief food allowances. Complaints of food shortage were reported by 40 doctors none by 98. Shortages alleged were milk in 37 cases meat seven fruit six vegetables three groceries four and fish one. Rickets question in 134 instances doctors answered no and in ten instances yes to the question whether an increase was noticed in rickets among persons on Relief six months or More. Well fed continued on Page 8, column 6 anti Mosquito army endangered the Young men s Section the Board of Trade has decided to Ter Minate its responsibility for the anti Mosquito tag Day and unless the City will assume responsibility there is danger of the anti Mosquito campaigns coming to an end or. H. M. Speechly wrote the City Council. Monday. His request that the City set up a voluntary com Mission to control the pests was sent to the finance committee. During the past 12 years has been raised and spent ridding the City of mosquitoes. In very wet seasons the Cost might run. As High As while in dry sea sons it could go As Low As Ashdown company closes convention the annual banquet of the j. A Ashdown hardware company. Limited bringing to a close the sales convention of the past week was held at the Marlborough hotel monday evening. Thanks to the salesmen depart ment managers and factory representatives for their co operation throughout the past year were expressed by h. C. Ashdown president who expressed the further Hope that the co operation Woi old be continued. James Maitland proposed the Toast to or. Ashdown and thanks on behalf of the sales department were extended to the president by William Smith sales manager. C. H. S. Bamford former general sales manager presided at the banquet. Council flare up alleged communist ousted in St Boniface St. Boniface City Council unanimously supported Alderman n. Pirotton s motion describing a. Beaudry lil Nzeh member of the clothing committee As a communist and demanding his expulsion for that reason at Council meeting monday night. Or. Pirotton said the political at has anyone the answer what wit wanted pork pie on deathbed Library asked Earnest head scratching brow furrowing and nosing into Dusty files and quaint books has been go ing on in the Winnipeg Public Library during the last few Days. The near infallible reference department staff has been stumped by the latest request for information thursday a gentleman showed up wanting the Library to identify a death bed sentence. Here it is i think i could eat one of Bellamy s pork h. H. Easton head of the depart ment thought that perhaps timid stuttering Charles Lamb his mis Chievous wit cropping up at bos last gasp had spoken the words. Wrong. Shaggy Samuel Johnson was suggested by Kathleen Coddington one of the clerks who admitted though that the remark was slightly irreverent for such a pious gentleman to utter. Wrong. Bartlett s familiar quotations and the other Standard texts were consulted in vain. Then or. Easton had another theory. Bellamy Why perhaps an old English inn so he burrowed fruitlessly into books on English taverns. Articles on famous last words no comprehensive article on that subject has been written or. Easton claimed. Whose last death gasp was i think i could eat one of Bellamy s pork does anyone should the author s name remain for dignity s Sake in obscurity rugged. Chief of police George Smith and Deputy chief Charles Mclver took it with rather stiff smiles. I could see they were having some mental reservations about Young or. Mel Stover and his prestidigitation. Or. Stover of course was in Sanctuary at the annual new year s reception of the Winnipeg press club at the Marlborough hotel. Still if i were he i would t press that business too far of showing the police How he can Deal four poker respectively a straight flush Kings on Queens and four aces while neatly presenting himself with a Royal flush. Or. Stover it appears is pure Amateur. Still i have seen Harry Houdini and Charles Dunninger do their stuff with no greater professional finish. Mel tells me he became interested in the quickness with which the hand can deceive the Eye while a High school student. He s now an employee of Manitoba medical College. It must be very refreshing for the embryo surgeons and physicians to have a Young Man with or. Stover s skill laying out the subjects for their dissection knowing somewhat of the sardonic humor of medical students Here s a made to order Opportunity to acquire skill in More readily inserting fingers and toes in the lunch baskets of their More squeamish colleagues. Or. Stover was at considerable pains to show me Why i never have been Able to pick the Little pea from under the three Walnut shells at our Best exhibitions and sideshows. I have conducted considerable research into that subject. My judgment it seems has not necessarily been at fault. Often i must have picked the Shell which had nestling under it. But these so or. Stover explained after letting me choose the Shell which actually had the pea under it in allowing me to lift the Shell off flick it toward me obligingly with the Finger in the process of which the pea hops out invisibly into their Palm. He demonstrated neatly again and again. In Short i never had a Chance. I pick up the Shell under which i had rightly determined the pea was and it has disappeared. While my attention is engaged with Surprise and Chagrin the gentleman Palms the pea Back under one of the empty shells and lifts it just to prove to me i was wrong. What a world filled with Fellows like that and. Hitler. But said or. Stover one Way to beat them is instead of picking up the Shell under which you have said rests suddenly lift up the other two revealing them empty so the pea under the one you suckers however have bean known to be slugged sixty years 9, 1880 the somewhat late but none the less merry Christmas tree festival of holy Trinity Church was held by special permission in the City Hall supt. R. D. Richardson reported a total regular of 487, including 36 in the Bible class and 16 Menlo Park Laboratory was o thrown so everyone might see the new electric Light. Fifty years 9, 1890 it was Learned that miss Madge Barrett Winnipeg s talented Young vocalist who had been studying at Eastern conservatories for some time was meeting with great Success and had been offered Sev eral flattering engagements. Forty five years 9, 1895 Champion James j. Corbett stated that the Only remaining Boxer he wanted to meet in the ring was Robert Fitzsimmons and that win on lose he would retire from pugilist after the coming bout with and would develop his k. H. Odnnell. Ance to members of the Canadian Active service Force and their dependents. Other officers elected were past president r. W. Hill first vice president l. Watson second vice president w. S. Whitehead treasurer r. E. Emmett sergeant at arms w. Vant executive committee Lieut col. Al a. Pridham f. C. Cliffe j. Falconer t. Davy j. Morris and or. E. A. Campbell Fred Walker president of sir Arthur Currie Branch acted As chairman during the election. He was assisted by a. W. Hanks and j. Mackie. Gibson named head of legion Branch Thomas Gibson presi Dent of the Brooklands Weston Branch of the Canadian legion b.e.s.l., recently. T. E. Howe re tiring president was made a life member of the legion in recognition of his services. Other officers elected were honorary president j. T. Boyd first vice president w. E. Stubbs second vice president Frank Buck treasurer t. E. Howe Secretary h. Benger executive committee g. Vivian r. Pope j. Mcivenna w. Smith l. G. Smith f. Liggins and f. Morgan. Stage ability. Forty years 9, 1900 the Winnipeg mounted rifles under major Williams received railway employees increase membership More than 300 new and re instated members and three new locals were added during 1939, to the Canadian brotherhood of rail Way employees according to the reports submitted by j. J. Handlon at a general meeting of the Mani Toba District Council of the Union held at 108 Cadorin building Mon Day night. J. S. Mcnabb Secretary treasurer gave the financial report. Arrange ments were made for a meeting Between the executive committee and the executive of the red River co operative Supply limited to discuss plans for a new retail co operative Enterprise in the City. Havana. Cuban capital 4rl which recently celebrated its 425th anniversary stood As a City Ioc years before the first houses were built in what was to become new York. Heavy snows London ont., Jan. 9. Usual Sun spot activity noted by Canadian and United states observatories May bring abnormal sri Walls in the next few Days w. G. Colgrove president of the London Centre of the Royal astronomical society believes. Similar Sun spot activity in 1905 was followed by heavy snows he coming West Ottawa Jan. 9. 119th bombing Squadron of the Royal air Force is being transferred from Ontario to an undisclosed Point in Western Canada it was Learned to ahead quarters of the 119tii squad Ron have been at Hamilton ont the move West is for the purpose of which the Broad Prairie expenses Are especially suitable. Over the head for being too smart. Or. Stover demonstrated the psychology of Hopes raised and dashed to Earth. He shuffled reshuffled a pack of cards proceeded to pick from it face Down All the Kings he plucked three cards at random from the deck kept them face Down on the table. The last one he Drew he turned face was an Ace. I m sure we All Felt that Low human gratification at an expert falling Flat on his so or. Stover turned up the other three he d picked were also aces. I saw Charles Dunninger famous . Prestige Dator duplicate Minu Reading once in 1932 at Detroit. It was pure sleight of said but challenged us to detect it., or. Dunninger was exhibiting his skill at a convention of motor men. I was there in route to Quebec. Dunninger proposed to Tell anyone in the audience any thought they concentrated on. All you die was write your name and address on a slip of pass it up to him at the same time you wrote your secret thought on another slip retained that in your hand. Paper torn in Small strips was distributed to us not pads. I wrote a thought i was sure no one in the City knew i d mentioned it to none. Or. Dunninger picked the papers with our names on out of a hat one being mine. Here s a he said in route to Louiseville Quebec he called if Louisville to see a total eclipse of the Sun on such and such a i had t mentioned the Date. He asked if that were right and i had Ito say it was. How he did it i still Don t know some trick with the paper i m but very mystifying. Many presents from leading win nip Eggers on the eve of their de parture for South Africa John Erzinger and e. H. Taafe gave pipes to the sergeants and out of Money subscribed by each win nip Egger was Given. Thirty five years 9, 1905 or. and City Engineer . Ruttan held different opinions about the typhoid epidemic on Asikin Boine Avenue or. Obell suggested the cause was the sewers but col Ruttan said the sewers were ventilated and otherwise operated by modern methods of proven sanitary efficiency. Thirty years a 1910 a delegation consisting of j. H. Ashdown John gait j. A. M. Aikins a. Wickson a s. Tupper and a. A Drewry waited upon the provincial government and presented a Peti Tion asking for a Grant of to erect a new building to take the place of the present Over crowded children s Home. Twenty five years in the orderly room of the Winnipeg Light infantry we find pay Sergt. F. J. Ottley and pet. C. M. Hercus. S. Hollingworth was for some time attached to the . From the . Looking after . Stores and has now re turned to the office of the . Avenue. Capt. C. W. Routley is the adjutant and it is interesting to note that the Captain in a Lineal descendant of Howard of Effingham Admiral of the Fleet at the time of Queen Eliza Beth. He bails from Devon eng land is an old Winnipeg Grena Dier Cadet received his Corn conscription was debated in the British parliament. The coming heavyweight boxing championship bout Between Champion Jack John son and his huge challenger the Cowboy Jess Willard was the most discussed sporting event at the opening of the new year. Twenty years 9, 1920 j. M. Noted Canadian botanist whose report on Manitoba after a famous exploratory tour in 1881 had done much for. The prov Ince in speeding ii settlement died at Ottawa the report had been the joint work of or Macoun. And his father prof. John t. A. Crerar was the chief speaker Mission in 1929" and was appointed adjutant . 1936. On the breast of sgt. H. Schofield . And bar 12th Field co., . I saw a ribbon quite strange to me. It is a yellow ribbon with two Green stripes and sgt. Schofield advises it was awarded to him by reason of being on the Active strength of a unit which proceeded overseas in 1914 although detailed for other duties outside the actual theatre of War. It is a new one on me. Sgt Schofield joined the Duke of Wellington s West Riding regt. In 1910 and when War broke out the unit went overseas but he was detailed for duty with the military mounted police in various towns on Newcastle to Alder z Sergt he went overseas in 1916 awarded the . In 1917 and bar in the same year. He also wears the Oak Leaf to indicate mentioned in despatches. He was commissioned in his regiment in 1918 but relinquished it on reorganization of the unit in 1919, Tak Sig the appointment of . He came to Canada in 1927 and enlisted on outbreak of the new War. At a recent get together in the wll three holders of the were Given positions of Honor at the head of the table. There were major Brown who also wears the is and belgian Croix de Guerre ribbons Sergt. C. G. Carlson and but very myst Iyog. incidentally i did see the total eclipse of the Sun and it was a Honey to the United Farmers at Brandon. Corp. G. H. Spun. In the corps of we note Sam. 3. K. Boyd was promoted to Cor Joral and corp. W. Briscoe was appointed Lance Sergt three signal ers were married vis. R. Stark j. Evoy and j. R Burns. Midge Dodds of the Canadian dental corps is located in the Clifair at the Somerset Block and looks after the Comfort of the troops visiting the clinic for dental at Tention. We learn that Midge was the no. 1 ticket seller at Osborne stadium and knows All the answers about the Winnipeg maroons and Hue bombers. T several promotions Are reported n the 1st corps Field Park co. . Sappers e. R. Blachard c e Blandford a. S. Sutherland a Gray d. S. Page h. T. Spicer w h. Graham and o. D. Hamilton Are All through orders As Lance corporals. There Are two butlers in the unit sappers j. A. Jones and h. Former lost his Bugle mouthpiece a few weeks ago but this did not prevent him from enjoying his seventh wedding anniversary. Sgt Cook g. Love recently completed a cooking course and the boys Are All unanimous in stating the sergeant can really dish it out now. has been successful in finding a suit to fit him much to his personal satisfaction. Great rivalry exists be tween sgt p., Gower and j t. Moody As to who is the Champion chinese checker player of three marriages Are now reported in the 13th Winnipeg Field Battery. Bomb. Pratt Anc gunners a. Johnstone c. O Cine Mars and h. Hush Worth it is quite a climb to the orderly room of the 13th where Are found Sergt l. Evans bomb. K. G. Campbel and a. Bomb. J. Doiron. They at proud of their Tenor Singer Gunne c w. Roadhouse who occasionally. Takes the solos in the Batter Church services. Libations. Or. Beaudry had come his attention very recently and e took this Opportunity to declare e would not be associated with any communist in the work of the Council or elsewhere. He added that he committee was improperly constituted so Long As or. Beaudry was member because aldermen have o Power to make private citizens Ommittee members. They can. Re Eive delegations of private citizens und ask them for nothing More or. Pirotton maintained. It was agreed to ask the St. Boni Ace unemployed association which go. Badru represented on the Lothing committee to select another Delegate to attend its next meeting. A bylaw providing for the pay ment of in 1940 As St. Boni face s share of the greater Winnieg sanitary District costs was Assed without dissenting vote an increase of Over 193e. E. A. Secretary treasurer explained that with extra Revenue in 940 of from the new Swift Canadian Plant and 84 new Homes in the City the added expense was almost entirely offset Alderman j. Gault and j. Bibau superintendent of Public works vere named delegates to the an Road builders association convention in Chicago at the end of aviary. Acting mayor e. Hansford was in he chair. T. V. Thomson Heads butchers packers Thomas u. Thomson was re elected for the fourth consecutive year As president of the butchers and meat packers Federal Union ocal 97, at a general meeting in he labor Temple monday night. The treasurer s report showed the ocal to be in Strong financial Posi Ion. Other officers elected for 1940 were vice president Mike Mani Tion financial Secretary Alex Sas now recording Secretary and Busl nes agent Orton Wade trustees thick Tass and m. Munition Dele to Winnipeg trades and labor Council. Phil Bircham o. Wade off t. U. Thomson. It s the free press which gives the classified advertisers More better and quicker results phone 8466 for prompt and courteous service ;