Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg thursday january 11, Price so per copy edition with comics inc has a different taste homemade bread me from the finest ingredient Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37088 and have our Driver cull Dally Board split on wage a stolen started a this after failing to agree unanimously the conciliation Board on dispute Between the terminal elevator companies at the Lakehead and their employees is understood to have rejected All the employees demands for higher wages and Shorter hours by a majority report. The Board concluded its sessions in the Royal Alexandra hotel wed Nescia afternoon. The majority report was signed by Hon. W. F. A. Turgeon chair Man and m. A. Macpherson ., Regina representative of the companies. Aid. Alex. Gibson port Arthur representative of the employees will make a minority report. Recognition of the brotherhood of railway and steamship clerks As a bargaining Agency for the employees below the rank of Gen eral Foreman with certain reservations was recommended in the majority report it was Learned the employees had asked that the brotherhood be recognized As the sole bargaining Agency. Although contents of the reports which will be forwarded to the minister of labor at Ottawa were not made Public the majority re port was., said to reject All the employees demands in regard to wages and hours which include. Increases of up to 15 cents be hour in certain cases an eight hour Day time and a half for overtime and overtime rates for monthly employees. Gardiner on trial in forgery Case charged with forging and utter ing a Cheque for oct. 21 1939, Lawrence Gardiner Wen on trial thursday before Chie Justice. Mcpherson at the Spring assizes. The evidence indicated Tea Gardiner had taken the Cheque t the mount Hoyal cafe where after he had something to eat with Friend he presented the Cheque in payment of the meals. The cashier who did not have enough Chang in her till to Cash the Cheque too it to Perth a where she knew the cashier and got the Money an gave it to Gardiner. The Cheque purported to be signed by h. Fairfield Woollen merchant or. Fairfield in the witness Box denied that the Cheque carried i signature. Gardiner he said one time worked for his firm. While car Burns a St. Boniface fire truck skidded into the Side of a Canadian. National railway freight train wednesday night. The truck was answering a Call that a car was in flames on the Springfield Road. The remains of the car which was stolen Are seen in the picture at the left with fire chief Arthur Spence of St. Boniface standing beside them. In the Circle is Mike Bodman St. Boniface fire truck Driver who was Hurt when the truck sideswiped the train. At right fire chief Spence examines the damaged fire truck. To friction friction Between irate Farmers and trespassing City shooters Dur ing the annual Prairie Chicken and Partridge season received an airing at the annual meeting of the Mani Toba game and fish association wednesday night in theatre a University buildings Broadway Avenue. As a step in the right direction Hugh Russell suggested the coun try members of the Manitoba legislature be invited to the association s annual dinner which will be held soon where they could get the sportsman s Point of View. The association in turn should Send representatives to the annual meetings of the Union of Manitoba municipalities and the Manitoba school trustees association. The Farmers can be mollified or. Russell said. Farmers Are human and like a Good he added. And with Chester Bloom that old English a Prentice ship certificate held by a technician of our staff from which i gave some extracts recently in this column has brought me Many interesting Calls from other Winnipeg people possessing such documents. There s one owned by or. And mrs. Walter Smith 393 Simcoe Street dated april 16, 1821 nearly 119 years ago 78 years older than our technician s signed in 1899. But note that the document of 1821, apprenticing mrs. Smith s Grandfather. John Lewis of Colchester to the tailoring Trade is worded in exactly the same language As the one signed 78 years later. Customs changed slowly in the tight Little Isle during the Long comparatively peaceful 19th Century. Both certificates have the same provisos the guardian in Lewis Case his Uncle James Mason pledges to find meat drink lodging and All necessaries for the apprentice. The Uncle paid to the master one James Allen to teach his Nephew the tailoring and cutting Trade Over a period of six years. Both the 1821 and the 1899 documents in the same language forbade the apprentice during his training to reveal the master s secrets to loan or waste the master s goods to contract Matrimony to play at cards or Dice or to haunt playhouses or taverns unlike our technician who received a shilling a. Week the first year increased by another shilling each year of the four for which he was mrs. Smith s Grandfather received no pay for the six years. But i m told this was merely a difference in individual contracts another of our staff has such an apprenticeship certificate for the dry goods Trade signed As late As 1906, in which he received no pay for the three years. His master provided food and lodging in a common boarding place occupied by the staff. But his father gave him half a Crown a week. Their time was All their masters they had to be in bed by 10 o clock each night except one night a week when allowed out later for Chor practice. What a Long Way our Young folks have come since then and in our revolutionary mechanized 20th Century the apprenticeship contract system is dying out in England too. The apprenticeship certificates Are becoming historical documents. It s cause for some reflection that these two mrs. Smith s Ani her Grandfather John spanned More than a Century and Quarter. Though the apprentice s age was not Given he Likely was i or 14 years old when the document was signed in 1821, a the Secor year of the reign of our Sovereign George it reads. From Waterloo to the Maginot Siegfrid line to the air plane and radio. From the stage coach and tallow Candy i m him sett gently removed by an Anonymous correspondent sign my stick to the facts for a Story i told some time Back of a returned Soldier Friend of the last War telling me he amused himself at his hotel window watching newly arrived american troops setting bumped on English sidewalks. How he asks and goes on i have been in All duties and towns in great Britain and visited London periodical Between 1911 and 1923, and without exception the rules Are keep i the right on All the sidewalks. The. Same Rule applies Here and m the states so if the yanks got bumped i would say it was their own i m no authority on the subject perhaps some other of my English friends can help me out. There s no dispute of course that English Highway traffic passe on the left their motor cars have the Driver s seat on the s de a Post ours for that reason. One of my colleagues who has recently save the people there pretty Well walk where they choose by the general tendency is to pais on the left. Another re turned _ from the last War says he remembered he always walked to. The Rig in England. And Here s another touch of the English spirit. Some letters were being read in the London county Council trom children to illustrate How the absent youngsters were Tapir one letter from a child who is billeted in the House a pee dear mum and dad we Are in a very posh place but Wear not allowed to muck about. Must t. E a the lord says we May but the teacher is construction of a canal from Cedar Lake to Lake Winni egos is at an. Estimated Cost of to was pro used wednesday night by c. A. Clendening chairman of a technical committee appointed by the Manitoba game and fish association to study the lowering of water Levels on those ugh Ngow prom the press piles sixty years 11, 1880 Thomas a. Edison s Itcan descent electric lamp had now burned in is Menlo Park Laboratory for 303 ours on end without changing the Arbon and was generally regard d As a Complete Success. Fifty five years 11, 1885 the bed Flag by miss m. E. Raddon was running As the free Ress serial the free press had so previously used As a serial iss Braddon s Best Selling novel he oct Oroon. Fifty years 11, 1890 Alfonso Spain s baby King who and been very ill was believed to ave died but As there was a strict censorship on despatches relating to he Royal infant s illness no con ration was obtainable. Gen. Up. We. Whyte Doughty Railroad official of fort Whyte Fame had Een temporarily beaten by la Ippe but was recovering. Orty five years 11, 1895 it was rumoured that May Yohe noted actress was to be married to lord Francis w. Heu Ach was elected manager of the Winnipeg exhibition at a salary of there had been 32 Applina ions for the position some from Brandon. Forty years 11, 1900 the books by Rudyard Kipling having an amazing run the test of or. Kipling s 16 volumes f works which had appeared at he rate of about one a year since tie Middle eighties were the Jeven seas captains Cour Genus the Day s work Short and Stalky co. Thirty five years 11, 1905 Montana bad Man who Hac into Winnipeg with the re cent blizzard tried to clean out the Cariaggi hotel but the bar was Ull of hockey players and football ers and the. Bad Man was tackle and checked and Punnett and drop kicked and was in the end ignominiously cleaned out himself .4 calibre revolver and All. Thirty years 11, 1910 mrs. William Astor at her grand jail in new. York engaged ten de to guard her guests jew Elry valued at the hostess wore Worth jewels mrs. John Astor mrs. C. Vanderbilt mrs Stuyvesant fish mrs. Edwin Gould and so on. Twenty five years Jan. 11, 1915 the famous comic opera Choco late at the Walker was the week s Magnet to theatre goers. Archibald Mcdonald late chief Factor who had died at Quap Pelle was buried in St. John s Bishop Grisdale officiating Twenty years 11, 1920 a Bill to admit women to practise Law in the province was coming u in the Quebec House. Newsprint paper shortage threatened to fore the temporary discontinuance o daily newspapers in Manitoba an Saskatchewan. Two Are remanded on receiving charge charged with receiving stole goods valued at More than Nick Wachniuk and Mary a Chick alias Wachniuk were r handed to Jan. 18 when the Cai was called in City police Cour thursday morning. Arrested at their main Street Caf tuesday the pair Are on bail c each. They did not appear in court thursday morning. To lakes. Reporting at the 56th annual meeting held in theatre a a Juniver to buildings Broadway Avenue x. Clendening warned the lakes Ere gradually drying up so that a anal with a diversion dam on the Saskatchewan River and a control am on1 the canal was the Only feasible solution to the problem. Preliminary surveys were made f the route of the canal some ears ago and no construction difficulties would be encountered e said. The project had been Sug ested to the department of mines and natural resources but had not Een pressed since the outbreak War he explained. The Winnipeg Board of Trade and circular Zed those who Are affected by the lowering Lake Levels armers fur Farmers trappers Shermen. And municipal officials Long the shores he said. But actually the whole province was affected and to a considerable sex ent governmental Revenue he maintained. Contribute to situation contributing to the lowering Levels he explained were he dry period through which the province had been passing Anc drainage cultivation lumbering and burning of lands which formed e drainage Basin of the lakes. Due to the drainage and the deforestation there is no sponge to old the water and allow it to run of gradually thus maintaining Nore constant level in the Reser oils. Although nature is doing to Best in reforestation of the Hills nevertheless Over great areas the Ponge has been he Aid. A successful year for the Assoc Tion with 137 new members and a substantial Cash balance was re sorted by the Archibald 31ackie, the Secretary a. P Mutchmor. The association has five tranches in the province and 1 affiliated organizations. Or. Blackie said. In Fine with some imprisonments had been imposed during 1939, under the Jame act. Convictions numbered 14. Reporting on the Crow egg Cam sign e. D. Pitblado said been destroyed during the rear. By. Children in 53 schools. The association with the help of Duck unlimited paid Bounty of two ends for each egg. Reporting on legislation Anc K. Morton proposed Short term licenses b issued to non resident sportsmen my that minimum penalties unde he game act be abolished a proposal from h. E. A Phai that Fred Green of Calgary b 5iven the first honorary life Mem Jer ship in the association will b considered by the new executive or. introduced hungarian Partridge into Canada. Directors appointed directors who will elect the Nei executive were appointed As of lows a. Blackie r. A Bonny Castle w. Cartwright a. Cavanagh c. A. Clendening Harry Darling e. J. Green Way lome 1 e. D. Honeyman J l. D. Ives g. Leslie t. M. Long a. Macaw w. R. Mcalpine Mccullough Maitland Morton ., a. P. Mutchmor e b. Pitblado e. G. Powell s. Pric Rattray a. Rutherford h. Russel h. S. Scarth f. Smith n. A. Vei Edward Ward K. Wilso and Wye. Advisory committee Edwar Anderson ., d. Bain Richar Bingham g. M. Black t. G. Bree judge 3. G. Cory c. E. Drewry or. G. S. Fahrni David Finkelstein C. Green army age c. S. Gunn g. A p. F. Klei t. C. Main Robert Mckay h. Moncrieff w. A. Murphy Isaa Pitblado ., or. Justice Bich Ards h. E. Sellers Arthur Sulliv i Swift addresses i wynians Pat p. Irwin past president o lest. Boniface kiwanis club a West speaker at the club s weekly a Scheon in the Nicolet Hote thursday recalling highlights o be organization s history in a Tal n where Are the old boys e. F Hannon m.l.a., presided. Plans to enter the District con est were discussed at the Lun icon As were plans to Subram n achievement report for 1939 an he building of a Complete club his Ory in condensed form a Sugges on advanced by one of the Mem ers that they form a Ladie auxiliary to Aid them in the Wor or men overseas was also con dered. Each member Brough books which will be presented t be salvation army hut. M. Tucker or. C. We Gant A. Woods William. What May buy . Mines new York Jan.-11. Up thew York times says today in Vecial despatch from Washingto lat the British government is. Dis ussing with United states official in. Purchase of american mine or the Large mine Field in the Nort a which is nearing completion. St. Boniface Man injured As fire truck hits train Call car later imported stolen was in flames on he Springfield Road two Miles East f the Dawson a St Boni Ace. Lire truck skidded into the Ide of a northbound. Canadian Naonal railway freight train at Marion Street near the St. Boniface stockyards at 11 . Wednesday ausing lacerations to the right Eye and face of Mike Bodman the River. Two other members of the trucks Crew escaped with minor cruises. Treated at St. Boniface Hospital Bodman was allowed to go Home. Two fenders of the truck saved the damage being Esti mated at by fire chief Arthur Spence. According to police information he car which was completely de Stroye a was stolen from in front of the Central drug 373 Tarvis Avenue where its owner tax Cohen had parked it at 6.30, . In a statement to the free press Var. Bodman said that if the Accident had been head on the Iso gallon Ank of water behind them would Lave crushed the occupants of the truck to death. A Wood truck or. Bodman declared was stopped in front of the moving train and obscured his vision of the train until it was too late to Stop. I swerved to avoid a head on he said adding t feel we got off Foy found guilty of store theft Leonard w. Foy was found guilty by an. Assize court jury thursday of breaking and entering the store of Ben. Angel 190 Higgin Avenue nov. 19, 1939, and stealing clothing valued at he a remanded for sentence by Chie Justice Mcpherson. Foy was arrested by Constable Walter Hanson of the City police shortly after the robbery and a found to have i his Possession pair of boots a sweater which Angel identified As goods stolen from his store. J. C. Breckenridge Dies at Toronto Toronto Jan. 11. C Breckenridge general superintend ent of the National Trust company died Aphis Home Here yesterday following a month s illness. He a born1 ii Toronto or. Brecken Ridge was a graduate of. The University of Toronto. Visiting the Barracks of the St corps Field Park company i.c.e., we found Lieut. B. G. Stew it and a number of sappers in luding sappers Wilwand Cook Williams Gugh and Carney listen no with much interest to Sergt. L. Parsons telling then about he Workings of the Lewis gun a ight machine gun used extensive y in i the last War in front line work. Marriages Are again in the news. Sappers j., a. Jones Craig and h. E. Brown of the 1st Field Ark company through orders. Have All gone also gunners a. V. Stannard and a. Vogel and Lieut the Lith a medium Battery and gunners a. G. Arid p. Hassas and Lance bomb. R. Of the 13th Winnipeg Field Battery. We find some promotion amongst he Field Park company. Corporals To. Moody and g. D. Miller to Lance sergeants c. W. Gowdey and a. L. Crozier to be corporals. Corp. C. Simpson and l. Corp. W. H., attending a seven weeks. . Course at the Dominion r provincial. Vocational school on Henry Avenue. Corp. Goody and Lance corporals wrigh.1 and Wilson Are attending a1 course at the . A school is being organized in Barracks . Work under corp. A with the following men who already have mechanical knowledge detailed to Brush up their knowledge of motors rules of the Road etc., sappers m. Braun Stein g. C. Kerr a. O. Nault h Allen M. Allin g. W. Thomp in. The immigration building Down by the c.p.r., we found the 12th, Field company r.c.e., Al dressed up in the new Battle dress and they looked smart. The guard on duty the night i called was taken from the b boys As sappers Bale Barkley Bayley Bramwell Brazier Buck Hotz Boyl and Barge on duty under corp. Wolchuk. Limited space in the cold weather is restricting out Side Drill and parades but the boys Are finding much interest in lectures covering discipline transportation first Aid musketry Etc the Small arms instructor is Sergt l. Sapper r. T. Paquin birth of a. Son whilst sapper c. E Green advises the arrival of z daughter Joan Elaine. Three marriages Are reported Lieut. t Woods and sappers n. F. Adams and or Smith. Four men sap holds Worth s. Jolly More a Taylor and ,3. 3. Zaeger Man have been transferred to the strength of no. 5 general Hospital nit on water Street. Lieut. A. I. Smith is attached to the staf f the District Engineer officer a 4.d. 10. The sergeants mess of the 12t held company is tastefully dec rated with red and Blue Bunting had quite a Chat with Sergt w. Harris Sergt. E. Boyle Ergo. L. Davies corp. J. Cannon Sergt. R. A. Baldry an 3orpl. G. Smith. The last to re e a service men and when corp Mith produced a map of franc and we just visit 11 the old towns villages an Stam nets All Over again. V ser wants Baldry and Boyle Are real id timers with the 12th Fiel company having served with the Init in the . For. Man they Tell me that Buck Adams i he heaviest Man in the 12th Fie weighing about 26 Lounds. Three others Sappe insider a Nephew of Lieut col. K. Snider sappers Moglove an imms Are All about six feet thre tall. Weigh. 200 poum each. The. Camerons a ones returning not the Only win to armory for Drill and train no. The fort Garry horse an he 1st corps Field Park compan also use the big floor during the old Days. Thousands of readers daily guarantees Quick action results hey have rhythm tiny pupils show trustees newest educational quirk Twenty twid Happy Little girls and to some lat embarrassed Little oys showed the Manitoba school trustees association an. Ultra modern development in education wednesday when they Demon ated the innate rhythm of child Ood on the stage of the civic Audi rim. Part of the department of Educa new teach via the radio programme the tiny pupils drawn ram primary grades illustrated one in the school of the air Jurse. Designed especially for schools n Rural Manitoba the course Aims develop in children their natural Ense of rhythm and by doing so develop the rhythm of their think no. Lesson one wednesday Broad cast from radio station sky introduced teacher miss Beth Douglas of the Aberdeen school. In accents soft and Sweet miss. Douglas put her unseen class through the pantomime of washing clothes sweep ing floors and chopping Wood All to the swing of Well known child Hood tunes. I later programmes will take Chil Dren to the circus introduce them to fairies and goblins and show them the Joys of Winter. With perfect seriousness and considerable enthusiasm in the face of their adult audience the demonstrators went through their paces wednesday and brought rounds of applause from the 650 trustees present for the broadcast in teachers medical tests endorsed by trustees As compulsory measure after one Delegate had charged that three children in a Manitoba school had contracted tuberculosis As a result of con act with an infected teacher the Manitoba school trustees association thursday voted in favor of compulsory medical ests for All teachers engaged within the province. The Resolution proposed by mrs. Robert Peden of Boss Burn will if agreed to by the department of education also give school boards authority to enforce such tests where and when they Are considered necessary. Her District had had the mis Ortune to engage a teacher infected with tuberculosis mrs. Peden declared. Three pupils and a possible ourth had later contracted the disease and the Point of infection lad been traced by medical auth iritis to the teacher in the school. At the same time mrs. Peden advocated tests for the children As a Protection for the teacher. As the Law stands teachers entering Normal school must under go such tests. If tests were Neces aary in certain cases they were necessary in All mrs. Peden suggested. Trustees also voted against cumulative sick pay for teachers and proposed an investigation showing Jie variation in salaries paid teach ers in Manitoba. Inquiry by the Dauphin school Board had shown said N. Mcfad Den ., proposer of the latter motion that teachers doing the same work in the same Type of school and teaching the same Type of Pupil were paid salaries As far apart As from to All told delegates dealt with 21 resolutions in a Ileal session clean up remaining business. Carried were resolutions asking that extra Grants be provided ungraded schools in the province and that schools with an average a then Daiiche of less than five be allowed to remain open. Voted motions Down however were which would have in creased the number of inspectors in the province and increased the department of education s share of the Cost of education. Questions relative to school prob lems were answered by c. K. Rogers assistant Deputy minister of education. Modern civilization rewards of bootlegging pugilist deplored at trustees conclave such was civilization s unbalanced Progress that Boot legging and pugilist paid higher dividends in life today than farming or the ministry a. V. Piggott principal of Machray school declared wednesday afternoon in an address before the 31st annual convention of the Manitoba school trustees association. Warning that the world was in a period of adjustment and that tremendous changes were taking place or. Piggott contended that Man today was at the mercy of and not in command of his tools of living. Our social sciences he said catch up with our physical speaking on the. Subject a trustee looks to the future or. Piggott placed before delegates four main Aims to restore the bal Ance 1, conservation of brain Power 2, habilitation of the individual 3, training for citizenship and 4, training in the use of leis re. Under terms of a Resolution pro posed by h. B. Smith of the Winnipeg school Beard the convention will request the provincial govern ment that technical colleges be established in Manitoba tit the earliest Opportunity. An Amend Welcome to the brought by Aid. Ment to Lay Over the motion until next year was Defeated. Addresses of delegates were Coulter on behalf of the Union Manitoba municipalities by. E. D. Parker on behalf of the inspectors association a. S. Moore for the Manitoba teachers federa Tion or. J. A. Munn Manitoba federation of agriculture and or. J. S. Manitoba educational association. Directors elected. Directors for the Manitoba school trustees were elected during the session. Tho 1840 slate follows a. C. Miller Gretna A Marion St Boniface George a. Fitton Brandon w. Fronch Stony Mountain Bert Mcleod Shoal Lake a. Bernier St Boniface mrs. E. T. De rans and Sanford Winnipeg s two the Field of 20, mrs. Gloria Queen Hughes and William Sara a were Defeated. Mice prove Point environment and heredity control can end expert claims Urbana iii., Jan. 13. A Maud Slye noted research author Ity on the Factor of inheritance in cancer said today All diseases including cancer can be controlled by scientific handling of Environ ment and or. Slye holds that be bred out of a cancer can human family. She. Bases her conclusions on the study begun in 1908, of the family Trees of mice under con trolled conditions in a Laboratory. The offspring of two individuals will be free from cancer if the families of both parents Are entirely she said. If one. Par ent has cancer and the other is entirely the immediate offspring Are themselves free she continued. But these offspring can transmit to. Cancer to som of. Their offspring if mated., with individuals who also carry cancer she said. M both parents Are cancerous the offspring inherit the tendency to be susceptible. In regard to environment she said there were two fundamental necessities Complete sanitation. At All times and the avoidance of All injuries single or repeated. No injury or disorder of the body internal or external should be Al Lowed to become chronic she said. Addition of less than one half of one per cent of Silver Chloride will help stainless St Cpl to resist Corros Ion by Ito Mas ;