Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Has a different More palatable taste homemade bread from. The finest ingredients Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have oar dryer Call Dally Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg saturday january 13, 1940 Price 5c per copy edition with comics Loc also serve Navy league Calls for red Cross Aid a Pica that the Canadian Rod Cross society set aside a reasonable sum of Money to be administered by the Navy of Canada for the Benefit o. The sailors of Canada s Navy and merchant Marine was made by e. W. Kneeland. was re elected president of the league s Manitoba division at its annual meeting in the Royal Alexandra hotel Friday afternoon. Expanding to meet the needs of War the division strengthened its Board by the addition 23 new trustees. The Canadian red Cross society had allocated to its London representatives to be spent on be Hau of the sailors of the British Navy or. Kneeland said but so far As he had been informed no part of this Money and no additional appropriation had been allocated for the Benefit of the sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy. In regard to the division s work for the Winnipeg sea cadets or. Kneeland observed that since the outbreak of War the . Had recruited three Cadet officers and 43 former members from sea Cadet corps and had placed an additional 22 former members on a re serve list. Approximately 100 other former members of the corps had joined up with other naval units. Warning that the division which hitherto Nad concentrated mainly on sea Cadet work would probably now have to Bear a full share of the league s programme for the re Lief of distressed seamen and their dip events o. Pryce Jones called for immediate action to obtain greater revenues in the coming year. Expenditure of the division in 1939 had been the highest of any year in its history totalling or. Jones revealed. This included a contribution of towards expenses of the new . Head quarters on Ellice Avenue pay ments totalling for uni forms of the sea cadets and a disbursement of for the cadets summer Camp of which would be repaid by the department of National defence. Enrolment increases total enrolment of the Winnipeg sea cadets had been increased to 252, As compared with an average attendance of 175 last Winter owing to the use of the larger head quarters j. D. Ruttan chairman of the sea Cadet committee reported. To meet the urgent need for wire less Teleg Raphers in the Navy a class in this subject had been started among the sea cadets with 25 boys Navy league continued on Page 5, column 7 Imp hmm prom inc free press Flics finn fund increases to donations totalling have by the finnish Relief in Peg office to Date and ,7 has already been wired to the ish Consul general in Montreal transmission to Finland Erik Strom. Publicity representative noun cd. Friday. Gifts of Fine furs and fur Coats ire being received by the com Hollin Shvorth and company limited. Have donated one fur coat and four fur trimmed Coats while George e. Baldry has Given a Silver fur. Picked As the Best of 150 Urs at a dealer s. This fur will be Ivan As a prize in a contest for subscribers to the fund which mrs. U. P. A. Pc Manson is arranging. A fully dressed doll has been As another prize by miss Mary a Patterson. 153 Woodhaven Crescent Sturgeon Creek. Military Drill classes wandering and my to pfc thai Arm Wirtl Ith Chester Bloom As an example of the cosmopolitan mixture among the boys we Nave working for recited a note to me from w. Herringshaw one of our free press Carrier depot managers we have the following nationalities ukrainian jewish German polish. Austrian dutch and of Ourse scots English and Irish. They Are Fine boys to work added or. Herrings ii s note new canadians All born in this now that intrigued me. Ever since i be been knee High to Donald Duck i be been hearing arguments both in the United states and Canada Over the Efficacy of the North american melting pot. So i got on my horse 6-Cylinder 38 Model and galloped Dojun to the dining room where these boys were being Given a banquet by the free press As additional Reward for their successful efforts in expanding our circulation. 1 wish i could have had that fellow Schickl Grubor Hitler there to show him How his insane blood race and soil nonsense is robbing the German people of the most precious qualities of humanity. Here was the second generation of Peoples from All quarters of races Al religions yet already moulded by environment to a distinctive Canadian Type. Merry Alert clean climbed Clear eyed and handsome these Young Fellows some 60 of them were bursting with High spirits and laughter yet withal politely attentive to their chairman and the Brief speakers Brief because the boys were going after the dinner to a movie. You d never be Able to Tell from the accent of these Fellows that they were not of British Stock for generations. That s a tribute to our Public schools and i add to it the fact that their table manners were adult As Good As any University Man s. The part our Public school teachers have played in this achieve ment is often overlooked. 1 we be got something Here in the mixture of these races the value i of which i m certain Many Winni Eggers do not yet Ful y realize. Their eager competitive spirit is a new injection of Hope enthusiasm Energy and initiative. But it s brought up to Date too with the new Outlook sixty years 13. 1880 the Winnipeg Volunteer fire brigade received its first criticism in connection with its at tempt to put out the fire in chief Justice Wood s House slush almost ankle deep was left on the floor carpets were soaked plaster was skinned off recklessly and the brigade acted As if it had 60 or 70 Heads instead of fifty five years 13, 1885 in Rev. J. B. Silcox s Sermon at Central congregational the Graves of 1884, he spoke of Prince Leo Pold youngest son of Queen Vic Toria Robt. Hoe Cyrus Mccormick Charles Reade the novelist and Wendell Phillips. Fifty years 13. 1890 sir John Macdonald Canada s Veteran premier1, was receiving congratulations on having passed his seventy fifth birthday Jan. Id in Good convicts in Kingston Penitentiary were Down with the fashionable malady la Grippe they were much alarmed but the prison physician or. Lov Ell. Assured them la Grippe was Seldom fatal. Forty five years Maud Lane popular Solo Soprano Central congregational Church choir had resigned and her Suc Cessor was to be mrs. Flora Milvor arrangements were being Mode by the Winnipeg City Council for the Welcome to general William Booth founder of the salvation i was to reach Winnipeg shortly on i his Canadian tour. Forty years 13. 1900, the War in South Africa was estimated to be costing the British government a Voyageur Snowshoe club St. Boniface had been wait ing for plenty of Snow the Snow had now come and the club were to rendezvous at the St Boniface hotel for their first tramp of the season. Thirty five years 13, 1905 Archdeacon Pei treat and Bishop a p. Matheson were the Nomi nees for the position of archbishop of Rupert s c. Thomp son was appointed City treasurer of Winnipeg a salary of was named but the salary clause was left in abeyance for the time being. Thirty years 13, 1910 a new Golf links had been Laid out at the Winnipeg country club to be ready for the coming season. Damase Dandurand Nona Gen Arian St. Boniface priest re called seeing Halley s Comet in 1835. Twenty five years Jan. 13, 1915 prominent among the Winnipeg hockey players were Dei Irvine Clem Loughlin France Caldwell Alex and Dick Irvin Stan Marples Romeril Ralph Baker Tommy Murray and Reg. Hay Billy Kean was managing the Champion monarchs. Twenty years 13, 1d20 there was plenty of action in the motion pictures currently show ing in Winnipeg including Tom mix in treat pm. Rough Douglas Fairbanks in when the Clouds Roll by Mabel Norrland in steam boat shoes and William Farnum in wolves of the night. Hope Hostel picked members of his majesty s forces stationed at Winnipeg Are shown hard at work in the Vaughan Street Headquarters of the y.m.c.a., where they Are taking physical training courses to qualify As sergeant instructors. When their course is Over it will be their turn to Drill other troops. Top photo shows the class attending first Aid lectures Given., by Lieut. J. Irving of the Royal Canadian army medical corps seated in the front Row in uniform. Bottom photo shows the same class hard at work under the guidance of company sergeant major instructor f. H. Baker of the . In the y s spacious gymnasium. City charter proposal hot topic of discussion among St. James Folk talk of seeking a City charter for the municipality of St. James heard at the inaugural meeting of St. James Council last week Haw provoked vigorous1 discussion among the rate payers and three conflicting opinions have already emerged inquiries show. One body of opinion is enthusiastic Over the proposal another favors efforts being made to per Suade Winnipeg to absorb the municipality a third is Content to let the status of the municipality re main As it is. Some of the benefits of City status advanced by those who favor the proposal Are As follows St. James with its Good location for Industry and its population of More than would be listed in Canadian and United states Trade journals along with the other four cities in the province. At present it is claimed industries stay away from St. James because the Indus pocket sized spaces for proposed Parks found to be generally Small by j. H. Gray How big is a Park in its annual report to the City Council the zoning Board suggested that the City ought to co operate with the Parks Board in the establishment of Small regional Parks and play grounds on City owned property. The trouble is the free press me Wilu Bulluc Tuvic. I3ul Ita it la on co operation i not ced nearly every one of these boys wore in Lapel some insignia of his Church society skating and hockey clubs and other youth associations. Erudite readers of the free press continue to Send to the editor answering the request for information As to he of the reputed death bed phrase "1 think 1 could eat one Bellamy s pork As revealed in the free press wednesday it has been pinned on William Pitt the younger 1759-1806 prune minister of England. Robert Wood. Minnedosa further confirms that phrase quoted in lord Rosebery s life of Pitt and was Given on the authority Benjamin Disraeli. It was generally writes or. Wood that t Auster my Qiu rest of us and Pitt May not have been thinking posterity when he made his dying request. W. K. Croxford of Rainy River ont also writes to say the phrase went to the trouble to find out the City owns most of its property in the wrong places. In the densely settled districts where the Parks Are most needed there is no vacant property on which they could be built unless the Parks Board can devise a pocket sized Park. The Ideal regional Park would be something of shrubs and Trees and grass with wading pools for the children and seats for the old folks. This would enable mothers to escape from Musty rooms in Tene ments on sunny afternoons and while their children splashed and shouted in the wading pools they could knit Crochet or read a love Story in the Shade. To realize the popularity of such places it is Only necessary to visit any Park with a wading Pool any summer afternoon lots All Small trouble is. The lots Are All so i very Small. There Are two Sites in Point Douglas near the Hydro plan which could be made into excellent Little Parks. But in a Long drive through the Section Between Dufferin and Mountain avenues and main and Mcgregor streets no suit Able piece of City owned property could be discovered. I in downtown win nip it of the vacant City owned on. Erty was either too Small or Bai. V located. On Furby Street near notre Dame Avenue a stretch of land was discovered which might be used. Other possible Sites were located on St. Matthew s Avenue and Home Street Westminster Avenue and Ethelbert Street and Warsaw ave nue and Cockburn Street. The main objection to All these plots was their size. The largest was probably 150 feet by 100 and the smallest 100 by 100. This raises the question of How big a Park has to be. If the Parks Board could devise a Way of utilizing these lots they would undoubtedly be Well patronized. Too Well perhaps for the immediate neighbors. One suggestion heard was that the City ought to encourage the organization of Community clubs to look after these Parks if they were Ever established. Given the Neces sary help and direction from the Parks Board it be that the Little Parks could be built by Community Effort Tri lists Don t know anything about the attractions it offers. Secondly St. James with legislative consent would be Able to Amend its own charter and would no longer have to seek Amend ments to the municipal act. In 1933, one citizen pointed out seven pieces of legislation originating in St. James were made generally effective throughout All the municipalities in the province. Now he said it was becoming More Anc More difficult for St. James to obtain special legislation from the province for needs Peculiar to the municipality. Hope for prestige City status would mean in Thi third place increased prestige of St. James according to supporter of the proposal. Many resident believe its prestige was lessened by the fact that St. Boniface with a population of Only a few thou Sands More had enjoyed City status for Many years. Those who favor St. James remaining a municipality Point of that their municipality is Large enough to maintain its own Public services without wastage or Dis proportionate expenditures. As a City they add a mayor and Alder men would have to be elected and paid higher salaries. Winnipeg they say has Many taxes which Are not levied in St James. It is improbable too they Point out that Winnipeg would be willing to assume any of the bonded debt of St. J Ames. One resident put it this Way what is the use of having the right to spend More Money which City status would Aring if you Haven t got the Money to those who would persuade Winnipeg to absorb the municipality recall St. James history of Succes Sive financial crises since its establishment As a Rural municipal Ity in 1920, when it was split a Victoria Street from Assiniboia they suggest time the Mothe City began to help its struggling Optimist club Lears report on Given boys Hostel help Given by the Optimist Clu the sir Hugh John Macdonal Ostel during 1939, was reported a luncheon meeting of the club i restaurant thursday b s. Thorvaldson president and c hat tray chairman of the oys work committee. The club had arranged for phys Al training for the boys through i be year and contributed Ards manual training or. Rattra rated. It had supported the boy Ummer Camp and. Sponsored to outings a picnic and a sport s a or the boys. Grants totalling and been made to the Hostel including for rent of grounds for the outings for tools for Manu raining and approximately Orth of paint for renovation Wor t the Hostel. The committee was trying brain a skating rink for the boy n the property East of the Hoste or. Rattray added. Infant. Attempt made in 1933 in december 1933, the St. Jame Board of Trade made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a City Char ten the same benefits were mentioned then As Are being discuss at present. The municipal com. Missioner at that time Hon. D. L Mcleod ruled that at presen there is no. Provision under the municipal act entitling a City t fee created unless the territory affected has the status of a town leg Ity be found in lord Rosebery s life of Pitt and says the the authorship is further proof of the Power and value to the immunity of the Winnipeg free press. 1 asked one of our free press editorial pundits if he notable last words. Yes he said he could. He s me the Beryl g. Rum runner was hijacked on the Pacific coast and her thrown overboard to drown. One of the Youthful subsequently captured convicted of murder and hanged at new Westminster. The his last words said our scholar As the doomed Man on the right spot on the trap were uttered to the Hangman. He said step on or the zoning Board has urged the City Council to establish regional Parks throughout the City on City owned lots. This piece of property on St. Matthews Avenue and Home Street is typical of much of property owned by the City and is Small that turning it into even a regional Park would be difficult forgotten youth gets new Chance by Philip Lee. Pete looked just like hundreds of other 13-year-old it he was a pretty Tough Guy. A Gamin of the streets he As the Leader of a pack of Young thugs All older than himself. A could Slit a tire break a lock pick a pocket and make a Nitch with a Speed and deftness that would make the dead and kids feel like choir boys. But liquor got him. An Over Ose of Home brew one Day., landed Pete into a psychopathic Ard and into the hands of the cops that was Only 18 Mouths ago but of would t recognize Pete now. In s turning out to be quite a Little he likes it. All the dynamic Energy that made Pete rink Home brew at 13, All the Lead ship that made him the Little Caesar. Of a band of elder boys is till there. He drinks just As much milk. He s still a Lead Leader of 19 boys ranging rom 10 to.15 who form Winnipeg s As the sir John Macdonald memorial 3oys Hugh Hostel 175 Mayfair Avenue. Pete s Case however is not exceptional but is merely one of the approximately 270 cases that have been filed away in the Hostel s rec ads since it was first founded by a group of Winni Eggers 10 years ago. Of course there Are exceptions in he records where a boy has succumbed to alter leaving he but mostly the records drove that the once Young menace o society turns out to be another useful Law abiding Able in any Man s Community. To dark haired Jim Lang House Ather for the past five years fell he task of telling of humanity s work. The Hostel he explained chooses its boys from the ranks of forgotten youths whose names fill in rosters of juvenile court. After the court has looked into a Case and decided the boy has followed the crime Trail through no fault of his own it gives him another Chance and places him in the care of or. Lang. Before the boy is accepted by the Hostel s boys welfare committee he is carefully examined by a physician mentally As. Well As physically. If he successfully passes the examination he immediately becomes a Hostel boy and is scrubbed and put into clean clothing As a fresh Start into his new life. This time with encouragement or less encourage ment As the. Case May be. And explained or. Lang his Brown eyes shining with enthusiasm is where i. Take Over to illustrate his Point the Case of Pete was cited. Gift of leadership Pete was at first surly and inclined to but As he became used to his surroundings his gift o. Leadership began to assert itself one Day he made a serious announcement to or. Lang. I or Gonna be Pete die become he Hac a Tough Row to Hoe. There was Painter re being done about the Hostel and Pete took a 16-year-old girl killed Sandra Hennan 16, Only Daugh Ter of or. And mrs. John her Man of Pigeon Lake Man., was instantly killed Friday night when struck by a car 14 Miles West of Headin Gly the Impact hurling her body 200 feet onto the Highway ahead and smashing nearly every Bone. Driver of the car according to . Reports was or. A c. Stewart of Cardiff sask. Miss Herman was walking East on no. 1 Highway about 7.20 p.m., on her Way to skate on a Creek near Pigeon Lake. Her skates were Hope Hostel continued on Page 5, column 2 the pipers of the camerons added much color to the wedding Cere Mony of pet. H. Whiley who was married to miss lillies of Stone Vail at the Stonewall United Hurch on Jan. 6. About a dozen f the boys attended the Happy event a big party was Given in Honor if gunner Jim Young of the 13th Winnipeg Battery who was also married on Jan 6 talking about hockey the Navy maintain they Are still fighting to meet the Strong and somewhat Eavy opposition experienced in heir encounters with the Soldier boys in the military hockey league rat Promise the Flag will still be lying when the last shot is made in goal and the Bell rings to end he season. The . Boys re the lightest team in the league the Light blues of Canada so to speak and although naval de mands Are causing frequent Chan Ges in the line up the Navy men responsible for the team Are keep no Well in mind their responsibility to provide adequate opposition at All times to the boys in Khaki. A Friendly game is to be played at Pine Falls this week end. The few men seen around Winnipeg streets dressed in naval uni form does not nearly represent our local naval strength. A delay in getting uniforms has resulted in the greater part of the strength still having to Wear civilian clothing. But uniforms or no uniforms the Navy carries on. F met chief Petty officer c. E. Hughes who wears the 1914-15 Star g. S. And Victory ribbons and who Many years ago was a signal boats Wain in the Royal Navy. Part of his service includes . St. Vincent of the Battle Fleet has inflexible Battle Cruiser Force . Canterbury Light Cruiser of the Harwich Force and has Achilles detached from the grand Fleet Dur ing the last War on troop Convoy a service from new to Liverpool he commenced his naval career in 1902 and was retired 922 the running mate to chief Petty officer Hughes is chief Petty officer j Pegg who was at the Reliful of Kutel Amara where the Navy be out a thousand Strong and fought in Khaki along with the soldiers Las been 25 years at sea there s no place he wants to go he Las been there already. It is a far cry from the naval towns of ply Mouth and Devonport where our sailors were seen at any time of the Day or night to tills Inland City of Winnipeg taut when i visit the Barracks of the . And look upon the smart Able Seaman on guard i jewel the Call of the sea and Stop to Lis ten to hear the sound of Stormy Waters dashing against the breakwater. Four thousand Miles from England two thousand from the sea. There lies the City of Winnipeg which has been Home to me. For Many years i be lived Here my wife and family too but England comes much closer you. And when the warmer weather comes along and these Able sea men can stand guard outside the door 1 am sure Many of the people of Winnipeg will thrill with Pride at the sight of these splendid representatives of the British Navy. A with promotions now coming through orders for the new rank of warrant officer class 111 it will be of interest to readers to know that holders of the new posts of troop sergeant major in the cavalry Sec Tion sergeant major in the artillery and platoon sergeant major in the infantry will now be classed As War rant officers class Iii hitherto the senior Post in these formations apart from the commissioned officers has been held by a sergeant. Warrant officers class Iii will take precedence immediately after warrant officers class ii and ahead of . S. The Amend ments to the regulations require All promotions to ii to be made through. . In or the Post of . Sandra Herman Slung Over her shoulder. Police state or. Stewart was attempting to pass another car driven by Charles Durnin of Pigeon Lake when he struck the girl. Both cars were travelling East the same direction in which the girl was walk ing. Or. H. M. Speechly provincial Coroner was notified of the fatality. Or. Speechly ordered the body removed to the a. B. Gardiner funeral Home in Winnipeg. An in quest will be held or. Speechly announced. B o in n Alexandra Fred Bourg Herman in Ukraine Russia of swedish parents the girl came with her family to their farm near Pigeon Lake Man., in 1930. During tile year 1929, compelled to stay in the soviet Russia Union by the russian government or. And mrs. Herman applied to the swedish government for Aid. After the swedish government had used influence the family was released and moved to Sweden later coming to Canada. Electricians Union dinner smoker attended by 350 More than 350 electricians and some Trade unionists of other crafts attended the annual joint smoking concert and banquet in the labor Temple sponsored by the inter National brotherhood of electrical workers unions locals 409, 435, 579, 1037 and 1129, Friday night. Fred Keeley president of the ocal 435. Opened the banquet with Brief remarks and introduced the presidents of other lodges a. E. Smith of local 679 j. Boor Nan local 1129 r. Williams local 409 and l. Moran local 1037. Jim Middleton comedian led in Community singing. Godden or Chestra provided music. Others contributing to the entertainment were s. Gilmour j. Fowler w. Nielson and r. Snyder. Leicester England. Cdr. Cyril Bardsley Bishop of Leicester will retire Early this year on the advice of his physician.7. He was a Church commissioner in Saskatchewan from 1908 to 1920. For buyers and Sellers can be found every Day in the free press want ads ;