Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Rose away Vej o defend Crown by Philip Lee. She Young and determined. On her shoulder was a Chip and she Vas in a fighting Rno ocl. Quietly she boarded the Canadian Cucuic transcontinental saturday evening bound for Ottar a and the enemy. The Chip was the Devonshire cup emblematic of the ladies figure skating championship of can Ada. The Young lady was Mary Rose Thacker Winnipeg s Canadian and North american figure skating Champion _. _ the life of a Champion is not an easy one for laurels cannot be rested upon so next saturday at the Minto skating club at Ottawa the greatest skaters in the nation will try to wrest the Devonshire cup and the championship away from Mary Eose who just a year ago brought the cup to Winnipeg and Western Canada for the first time in the Long history of Canadian figure skating Winnipeg s Hopes in the dark haired Brown eyed 17-year-old Are Well founded. Last wednesday eve Ning in a Farewell exhibition at the Winnipeg Winter club she proved beyond a doubt that she is better than Ever. The title won last the summer s skating in England the autumn s training at new York have blended to give Mary Rose a polish a smoothness a sureness that she lacked last january when she Winnipeg monday january 15, 1940 the boys the financial Way Price so per copy edition with comics Loc has a different More palatable taste homemade bread made from the finest ingredients Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have oar Orl Vor Call Dally hovering death Mary Rose Thacker Canada invites . Travellers Ottawa Jan. .15 up prime minister Mackenzie King in a state ment last night issued a general invitation to United states citizens to visit Canada this year. The statement was released after president Roosevelt in Washington proclaimed 1940 As travel America year a move which Leo Dolan. Chief of Canadian travel Bureau and permanent chairman of the inter american travel Congress said was the most striking development in the history of the travel Industry on this or. Dolan said Canada is bound to Benefit to a remarkable degree by the pronouncement from presi Dent Roosevelt. The declaration by the president should be the final answer to All rumours which have in recent months hindered the flow of travel from the United states to this he said. Looking Mcmurd from the free press files i sixty years 15, 1880 the following were elected councillors for Kildonan and St. Johns William Henderson John Suther land Alex. Munro John Matheson William Fraser and Alex. Poison. Contract for constructing fire tanks in various parts of the City had been let the contractor asked per Yard for excavating. Fifty five years 15, 1885 the three candidates for the won the plaudits of a continent. Her jumps Click her jumps whereas not As High or As spectacular As executed by some of the Eastern stars Are clicking in a manner that leaves the audience and More important the judges feeling As if she could never miss. Her spins Are fast different and Well timed her dance Steps Are flowing and yet intricate enough to maintain interest Between the Hig lights. Her programme is Well placed and her excellent physical condition enables her to Complete the hectic four minute routine with the same Swift Speed with which she started. So much for the Champion s free skating which in the final analysis counts for about 40 per cent of the total Marks in Canadian Competition. But is is in the school figure department in which championships usually Are won or lost. And school figures Are right up Mary Rose s Alley. Last year she led her nearest competitor Nora Mccarthy Toronto by approximately 50 Points. This year her figures Are just As Large As round As Well traced and what is More she skates them with even less Effort and if possible with greater control. Who will be Mary. Rose s opponents Nora Mccarthy believed by Many to be the cast s answer to the West s threat of supremacy Eleanor o Megara beauteous skater of the Toronto Granite club who held the championship in 1936 and 1938 spectacular Dorothy Caley Toronto Champion of Canada 1937 her sister Hazel one of the greatest free skaters that Canada has yet produced. These feminine Blade stars and others of top ranking calibre will Glide spin and jump Over Ottawa ice next saturday in an Effort to carry the coveted Devonshire cup away from the Gate Way of the West has competitive spirit in summarizing Mary Rose s seated in the office of James Richardson sons limited miss Jean Sharpe one of the Large of Canadian civilians who want to do their bit is seen subscribing to Canada s first War loan which went on Sale monday morning. Watching pledge her financial support Are Alex. G. Chalmers and Robert a. Gray. Similar scenes were witnessed in other brokerage houses As Well As in All Banks As win nip Eggers played their patriotic part. Winnipeg where they sell Snow at 50 cents a ton and where Winter in t Winter any More shivered and Shook its Way to work monday with the Mercury sitting perilously close to 30 degrees below Zero. Coldest Day of the year the official Reading was with unofficial varying As Low As for the Start of the week the forecast is decidedly cold with All indications pointing to at least 48 hours of biting temperatures and perhaps More. Previous Low for the season was Mere recorded in the City on Jan. 3, and since then the Mer Cury has hovered around Zero. Sun Denis Moysiuk elected president of benevolent Reev ship of Souris were j. chances to defend successfully Kirchhoffer w. H. Sowden and title we Musi not Overlook her , the latter having been Reeves respectively in 1883 and 1884 or. Sowden resigned in favor of or. Steele but or. Kirchhoffer was after a somewhat acrimonious con test elected by a majority of 31. Fifty years 15, 1880 Spain s Young King Alfonso was not dead As had been reported he was for getting better and Hud food the reason there Cathedral were under in St. Boniface the sked had been so much mystery about his condition was that the Spanish government was getting into thorny paths and hostile coalitions and plots were numerous and there was fear that the death of Alfonso might precipitate trouble. Forty five years 15, 1895 attorney general Clifford Sifton and provincial treasurer d. H. Mcmillan of Manitoba had their first interview with Dominion finance minister Foster in the matter of an increased subsidy for Manitoba. Forty years 15, 1901 plans for a new and magnificent preparation old historic Cathedral which had done duty Ever since the famous Structure of the Turret Twain had been burned Down in 1860. Had become far too Small for the needs of the Arch diocese. Thirty five years 15, 1905 the weekly literary articles by . The Bookman were a valued feature of the free press the cur rent article was on Ralph Connor whose latest Book the sky Pilot had. Repeated the successes of Black Rock and the Man from Glengarry thirty years 15, 1910 sir Wilfrid Laurier introduced at Ottawa a measure providing for the naval defence of the Dominion the Cost of maintaining the proposed Canadian Fleet of five cruisers and six destroyers would sir Wilfrid estimated be about Twenty five years inn. 15, 1915 although two companies of the Princess pats had been in Battle there had so far been no casualties serious enough to necessitate hos Pital treatment terrific weather along the pats part of the French front had a temporary Stop to Trench fighting. Twenty years 15, 1915 the Cost of living would stay up at least five years predicted prof. G. F. Warren of Cornell uni addressing the Rural credits convention in Winnipeg prof. War Ren said the pre War level might never be reached although there would be a drop in from five to 15 years. A co Petil when the chips Are Down and the going s Tough she is at her Best. For example the Day before the 1937 championships at Montreal the year that the Young skater was try ing to Clinch the Junior Champion ship of Canada not even her staunchest supporter would have conceded her an outside Chance to win the title against a Classy Field of Canada s Best juniors. But she did win. On the Day of the championship she matched figure for figure with the Best the East or the West had to offer and climaxed the Day with a Solo Effort which was the Best in her career. It was the same competitive Streak that pulled her through last year at Toronto and it is this Strong characteristic if nothing else that pushes the writer out on the proverbial limb to pre dict that Mary Rose will ret Iii her Canadian title. And so the Canadian Pacific roars its Way to Ottawa bearing the de fending Champion and her Mother mrs. G. J. Thacker towards what Only time will Tell. And in the meantime tens of thousands of win Denis Moysiuk was elected pres Dent of the workers benevolent association Winnipeg Branch at its annual meeting in the ukrainian Jabor Temple sunday afternoon. Nicholas Cidulka presided. Reports showed the association lad members its income for 1939 was with expenditures of sick and death benefits paid totalled the society s brass band has been re organized and will now admit girls from Point Douglas ukrainian labor Farmer Temple association Branch it was announced. Other officers elected were vice president Nicholas Bomba record ing Secretary Anton Stanchuk assistant recording Secretary j. Jaworiwsky financial Secretary Nicholas Kaschak auditors Paul Skobel Sam Dufur and Nick Mel Nyk. Nip Eggers and Manitoban will keep their fingers crossed for Luck fervently praying that Ottawa will be As kind to Mary Rose in 1940 As it was to the Blue bombers in 1939. M. L. Bershadsky honoured by friends friends and relatives of Mortel l. Bershadsky Home of his gathered daughter at the mrs. H. Peck. Noble court to celebrate his 75th birthday sunday. Active in communal life or Bershadsky came to Winnipeg with his wife in 1912 and established himself in business which he con ducted until his retirement live years ago he has three daughters and the son mrs. H. Peck mrs. L. Cohen m. M. Sucharov and Nathan All of Winnipeg Kitchen open the free press Model Kitchen will be open to visitors As usual on tuesday afternoon. The Model kit Chen is on the fourth floor of the free press building and the visit ing hours Are from 2 to 5 o clock mass june Home who in charge of the Kitchen will be in attend cookery problems. To-29 Oera Ture at 6.30 . Dropping body to at Midnight and at 6.30 . A in All it was a pretty Chilly week end on the Prairies with Prince Albert taking honors for a merry other cold spots out Here in the West included Strath Clair Man., Saskatoon Rivers Man., Brandon Man., the Pas Man., and Broadview sask., meanwhile the Snow problem which sent local skiers bickering for the artificial product continues serious. Normally this City is buried beneath a foot of Snow at this time of year. Last year there were 17 inches of it on the ground. So far in the Winter of 1940, Winnipeg has Only received 2.5 inches a moderate percentage of which has melted away. Defective chimneys and Over heated stove and Furnace pipes which got out of control As shiver ing householders piled on Coal in an Effort to defeat the sudden drop in temperature kept firemen busier than usual sunday and monday. From Midnight sunday to Mon Day noon the firefighters had responded to almost 20 alarms All of which were for minor fires. During the 24-hour period from Midnight saturday to sunday Midnight the fire department was called out 16 times. George Franklin Jaworski son of or. And mrs. Frank Jaworski 861 Redwood Avenue was officially declared monday the first baby born in Winnipeg this year. He was born at St. Joseph s Hospital at three seconds after Midnight Jan. 1. In a recent column we referred to a major Brown of the , As being one of the three holders of the . Within the unit. This should have read major w. S. Jones. Sorry 3 recruiting is coming along nicely and those joining the Winni Peg Light infantry Are reported to be a Fine Type of Young men. Recruiting is for the non permanent Active militia As the , have not been mobilized for Active service. The , at Tuxedo bar Racks with Lieut col. Tenbrook in charge is Busy enlisting reinforcements to the battalion on act Ive service. Many Young men were awaiting their turn for examination when Legionnaire visited the recruiting office. Smart clean Cut chaps and at that time about one Hundred men still could be used to Complete the required number. Farmers miners lumber jacks carpenters Are coming in to join up. Two Cooks were wanted immediately. Corp. S. Skipper and . E. Knight of no. 5 general Hospital unit were married recently. In the same unit. Staff Sergt. W. H. N. Adair has been promoted to regt. , Sergt. G. E. Hender son to be staff sergeant corp. W. Charles to be pay sergeant and . W. H. Hall and g. V. Tristram to be corporals. . C. L. T. Arthur is the officer command ing the Hospital. The father of staff Sergt. Henderson is staff w . S. B. Henderson of no. 10 attachment r.c..c., the medical corps at Tuxedo. He was . Regimental quartermaster ser Geant of no. 10 Field ambulance depot and also . At the old Tuxedo Hospital until it closed in 1923. He has had almost 25 years service with the permanent Force. The Royal Canadian regiment s old comrades association will hold their third annual re Union and smoker at the and Navy Hall thursday Jan. 18. Tickets can be secured from Sergt. R. Alderman . Of tie Winnipeg grenadiers All soldiers in uniform Are Wel come. Men of the Winnipeg Grenadier who Are attending the . Instruction course at the y Are corp. H. Kelso Lance corporals w. Gray w. E. Laidlaw and pets. T. H. Sin Clair and e. Toews. Six officer and five other ranks Are attending the Drivers mechanics course at the provincial vocational school on Henry Avenue. V this May be a new War and we May have a new but amongst the . S of the Winnipeg grenadiers there Are Many who Wear on their tunics evidence of experience in former conflicts and who Are Well qualified to guide and train the new men. One of these is Sergt. H. Mcnaughton who is armourer Sergt. It is expected thai in due course he will be transferred to the ordnance corps and then attached to the grenadiers. He was an armourer Corporal in the last War with the 10th battalion and later attached to the ordnance ser vice for. Similar duties with various Imperial units. He holds Imperial and Canadian armourer certificates. When we stated that Buck Adams of the 12th Field co., r.c.e., weighed 269 pounds we should have added that this was on enlistment. Since then his weight has dropped to about 230. It a typographical error recently reported the . Of the Winnipeg grenadiers to be o. C. Keenan. This should have been o. C. Keenan. Humorous play feature of concert a humorous yiddish one act play the world to come was the feature presentation of a . Concert held in the clubroom 91 Albert Street sunday night. Written by Sholem Aleichem the play told the Story of a wealthy american jewish couple who fear ing they had not made provision for the hereafter employed a group of charlatans to Pray for them. Irwin Green and Beverley Walkin Blumes played the roles of the duped couple and Max Nelko Ben Jamin Levine Leonard Barsky and Mitchell Schachter were the fakers. Others on the programme were Noah Witman in a humorous Mono Logue Sam Cohen and Ida Mostoff vocalists and pupils of the Sara Baker Adelman dancing school. Lou Rusoff was master of ceremonies. Aged woman killed hit run Driver sought the body of mrs. Annie Basarab 60, of Lockport Man., was Dis covered huddled in the ditch beside number one Highway 200 Yards South of Lockport at 10.30 . Saturday and has started on a baffling Hunt for the hit and run Driver who struck the woman and left her dead on the Roadside discovery of the badly mangled body was made by James Mcdon Ald also of Lockport As he was walking along the Highway. After mrs. Annie Basarab finding her dead Mcdonald phoned or. D. G. Hoss of Selkirk District Coroner who with officers of the r.c.m.p., Selkirk detachment took charge of the body. Inquest into the fatality was opened monday morning at lock port under direction of or. D. G Ross Coroner and was adjourned a week after the jury had viewed the body. Postmortem examination revealed the victim had a broken neck a broken right wrist and a broken left Elbow. Mrs. Besarab is survived by two sons and two daughters one son John with whom she lived at Lockport and a married daughter mrs. We. Lazoruk in East Lockport a son William and a daughter mrs. 885 Alfred Avenue Winnipeg. There Are other relatives at Komano where she had re sided up to a few years ago when she moved to Lockport. Three Are injured in traffic accidents three persons were injured in traffic accidents Over the week end in Winnipeg. Most seriously is Frank s. Hal Derson of 1014 Dominion Street who received a fracture of the right forearm and other injuries when the car he was driving swerved and struck a Light pole on Sargent Avenue South of Ingersoll Street at 7 ., sunday. He was taken to the Winnipeg general hos Pital. Mrs. R. Watkins 3 Parkview Annex and mrs of. Knight 3 my Dermot place received cuts and bruises when struck by an Auto on Hargrave Street near Cumber land Avenue. Saturday afternoon. They were not detained at hos Pital. Woman stabbed in Back brother held As suspect while a 54-year-old Raj other of six children1 was waging what appeared to be a losing Battle for life in St. Joseph s Hospital monday morning her brother was being held by police on a charge of attempted murder following a stabbing in a Jarvis Avenue Home shortly after 10.30 . Sunday. The victim who was stabbed through the left lung by a Butcher knife is mrs. Annie Chaykowski 54, of 625 Jarvis Avenue while her alleged attacker is Peter Chaykowski better known to his associates As Pete the plumber. The woman suffered several Haemorrhages Mon Day morning and her condition reported As poor. At Central police Headquarters the brother who police say was recently released from Headin Gly jail was charged with a murder at tempt. Arraigned before magistrate r. B. Graham in City police court he was remanded until Jan. 22 without being asked to elect or plead. If the woman Dies the charge will be changed to murder police inti mated. Playing cards less than one hour after the Stab Bing took place Chaykowski was placed under arrest at the Ukrain Ian bakery 626 Stella Avenue. At the time detectives James Mulhol land and Alex Price entered the premises the accused was calmly playing cards Lor pennies police a. I am sorry i did he is alleged to have told the officers when told he was being arrested for the stabbing. At the dinner table sunday eve Ning Peter was brooding Over some thing George Chaykowski the woman s husband said. I m going to do something before the night is Over to get Back to George quoted his brother in Law As de Claring As he got up violently from the table pushing his chair away from him. Later in the night Only mrs. Chaykowski her brother Peter. To is Between 45 and 50, and her children Walter and Olga aged 25 and 10, were in the House. Olga was asleep in a downstairs bedroom. Walter was upstairs Tele phoning. The time was about 10.45 ., and mrs. Chaykowski was Esting on the Chesterfield in the living room. Suddenly a piercing scream ran through the House and from up stairs Walter heard the sound of running feet As his Uncle allegedly chased his Mother from the front to the Kitchen at the rear of the House. Rushing downstairs Walter pol ice were told saw his Uncle chasing his Mother with a 10-Inch Butcher knife which was usually kept in the Kitchen. Son too late awakened by the commotion Olga opened the bedroom door and screamed As she saw blood spurt ing from her Mother s Mouth. Following his Uncle into the kit Chen Walter picked up a chair and brought it Down on the Man s head and shoulders. But he was too late. The Long knife had been plunged into his Mother s Back As she tried vainly to escape out the Kitchen door. Brushing his sister aside the Man leaped Over the stoop at the rear of the House and ran madly to the Lane. Here he a Young boy and evidently thinking the lad was going to Block his path Chaykowski allegedly struck him in the face by this time despite the attempts of her son and daughter who Pullet the knife from her Back to restrain her mrs. Chaykowski blood Stream ing from her Back ran out of the House and into the Lane. Runs to neighbors she turned around and in screaming into the Home of or and mrs. Jack Shewchuk 827 Jar vis Avenue Liere police found her when they arrived in response to a Call from Walter. She had lost consciousness and was bleeding profusely. There Are four other children in the Chaykowski family besides Walter and Olga. They Are Steve 35, who left sunday for Seattle Wash. John 27 Peter 22, and Jean 18. Monday morning Jean said her Uncle had been living with them since his recent release from jail. He was she said and appeared to be troubled by Lack of Money and no permanent Home. Chaykowski s wife is said to have left him several years ago and is now living in Montreal. Mrs. Chaykowski Walter Chaykowski two Homes robbed on Ingersoll Street House Breakers struck twice on. Ingersoll Street saturday evening entering by the Coal Chute in both cases. From the Home of s. Landgrave 837 Ingersoll Street they took loot to the value of mostly in watches rings and silverware. The Home of Herbert s. Francis 539 Ingersoll Street was robbed of 58 and silverware. Empire club to hear Canon . Seeley Canon r. S. A. Seeley professor of theology at St. John s College will address he Winnipeg unit of the Empire club of Canada at its annual meeting at 12.30 . Thurs Day at the Marlborough hotel Canon Seeley will speak on University and the Empire. Loan association Marks anniversary Twenty third anniversary of the Independent free loan association and the 15th anniversary of the ladies auxiliary were the occasions for a banquet and dance at the Peretz Hall Aberdeen Avenue Sun Day evening. Reviewing the organization s activities a. Bass the retiring president spoke of the work done to assist financially pressed members of the jewish Community with Loans. Assistance had also been provided the jewish refugee Campaign during the past few weeks he said. Other speakers were a. Cooper m. Tadman mrs. M. Rosen mrs. B. Hindin and mrs. M. Werier. Speaker discusses Belisha dismissal belief that the it. Hon. Leslie Hore Belisha lost his Post As Secre tary of War because of a clash with a clique of officials was expressed by miss Marion earn at a meeting of the University of Mani Toba Branch of a Utah the Ameri can student zionist federation in the talmud torah sunday evening. Max y. Diamond presided. Miss earn traced the career of Hore Belisha pointing out that despite his Cabinet duties he found time to participate in jewish of a member of the jewish Board of deputies the unofficial jewish parliament of great Britain. Quin show proposal refused Toronto Jan. 13 of the Canadian red Cross announced last night they will recommend to the ate Cutie committee in session today that the society refuse to sponsor the proposed showing the Dionne quintuplets at the new York world s fair this summer. The announcement followed a meeting of the officers Wilh j. C. Holmes vice president of the fair who asked the society to accept for War purposes proceeds of a six week s visit of tie famous Sisters to the exposition commencing May 11. Or. Holmes had offered the red Cross a guarantee but it was estimated the society s share from the visit would reach the officers concluded that if they agreed to sponsor the exhibit the red Cross would in a sense be exhibitors of the children. They considered that it was not consistent with traditions of Canadian people or the society that these delightful children should be exploited for any purpose however and wondering with Chester Bloom i m wondering Why rash reformers in . Publications foolishly of late have allowed themselves to be drawn into acidly futile attacks on women s funny hats increasingly thin noses attributed to excessive dieting and especially the current fashion of snood on the i be a mild aversion myself to the Black nets technically known As snood noting that the fashion persists in but it seems to me that women dress to please men folks and boy friends can like it or Lump it. Whatever males might say against Lovely tresses half hidden under a Black spider web of. Cotton or silk would be As cigarette Solce blown against a Northwest blizzard ineffectual As hopeless male warnings against sheer silk Hose displayed to the knee in below Zero zephyrs futile male efforts to Pound logic into female fashions May be traced Back As far As the Clay tablets of Umena. From the Universal Spectator of London England Date octo Ber 21 1732, or 208 years ago i cite an indignant editors Ali cat to do something about the Slif fitly mad hats of his lady friends he ridiculed a widow wearing a Sasnet Hood whatever that is but it sounds to me like a modification of the snood snood you know were originally fillets worn by Young Maidens As emblems of he laughs at a Young lady with a High crowned hat sneer at another in a velvet Cap comparing its Black Flap let Down to her shoulders with that of a Newcastle Coal earner and says looked funny with an upright plume and her hair to her Waist. Sounds like a Man s description does l it girls and Iii bet it did t gel him to first base no More than this violent editorial remark i quote from the London daily courant sept. 21, of the it As snorts the editor in the Savage women who think to set off their faces with the figures of Trees animals or butterflies is it less so in our ladies to cover to Weir faces with patches As if Fuls of Well the Little dears were still wearing those Beauty patches a Hundred years later in the reign of George in in fact i can a recent times when the girls thought it smart to stick one on. Still More plaintive is a letter from a distressed gent at his wit s end to the gentleman s Magazine in 1732, asking what can he do about his wife persisting in plucking her eyebrows. Said the philosophical editor. We recommend that to the . So this is no attack on snood. It would not Only be useless but moreover might be used against me on some unexpected occasion. I Haven t forgotten yet meeting my Junior partner before taken in Wedlock walking jauntily Down the Avenue one Day with a strange concoction on her head. With my Genius for saying the Wrons thine tasked where did you get the funny hat tears sprang to her ares she turned and walked away without saying word. Stood Vith gaping jaws speechless. When diplomatic relations were resumed after lengthy negotiation and the tender of an abject apology i Learned that the hat had been acquired especially to please me. Using a favorite parliamentary phrase or. Speaker the rules stil compel me to accept the explanation. I m reminded by this fashion talk of a recent incident in a win Nivea Home where a Bonnie Little scots Lassie who came Here to v fit relatives has remained on account of the Uncertain exigencies of sea travel the child has been vastly impressed by Canadian manners and fashions. It appears that recently there was a slight scandal in the school she attends when one of the other children was discovered to have As the Little girl described it to her aunt wee Jesties in her hair. On this particular evening the company were looking through one of the family albums of old snapshots. A lady giggling at her own funny appearance 25 years ago recalled she was then wearing a rat in her hair. The tiny scots miss got up and went in the Kitchen without a word. But we could hear her excited whisper to a Friend the lady in there says she had a big Beattie in her ;