Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week. Winnipeg tuesday january 16, 1940 Price so per copy edition with comics Loc serve the children this nourishing hear to Buttermilk bread homemade the Bryee Way new and shape Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have our Salesman Call Dally. Time less boy dashes into night to save Home from destruction Rik he of the province to impose taxation on All University of Manitoba lands was upheld in a judgment of the court of Appeal. The claim of the University that the institution an or Branch of the government and that As a consequence ils properties were exempt from taxation was rejected by the court As not warranted under the terms of the land Grant from the Federal government. The Grant was made at a time when the Dominion government controlled the lands which after Ward were turned Over to provincial jurisdiction. 5 t7 court also confirmed the claim ivs i i a of the province to a right to tax j. 11 part the proceeds of the Sale or other disposition of any part of the land Grant As Well As any part of the investments of the proceeds or income from any part of the i Grant. Property which May be said Waves of cold air filtering Down to result from or arise out of the the Mackenzie River Valley kept Western temperatures below Zero fur i second successive Day tuesday with indications pointing to c Prairie continued cold throughout the provinces during the next hours Al least. There is no lot up in the Weatherman said. Southern areas of Manitoba were scheduled for Light snowfall Over night and wednesday in addition to the cold spell which saw a provincial Low of of degrees recorded at Brandon. Winnipeg minimum was --5, jumping to -9 at noon. Overtime stoking in Winnipeg Homes resulted in More than 40 fire alarms during the night. Majority of Calls were for Chimney fires. Sub Zero temperatures were the Rule throughout the West during the last 24 hours with fort Simp son in the Northwest territories the cold spot of the continent with a Reading of -1c. At White River. Out., another traditionally coid spot the Mercury hit -39. The trans Canada airline s West bound plane dropped through bitter cold Midnight monday to land at Stevenson s Field 19 hours behind schedule. The plane which was slated to arrived at Winnipeg 5.10 . Monday was held up by storms sweeping most of Western Canada. The eastbound plane arriving at 3.15 . Monday according to schedule was unable to take off until 3.20 ., 12 hours behind owing to unsettled weather in the East. Roosevelt predictions Washington Jan. 16. Bup a poll published by look Magazine today said that 41 per cent of the members of Congress believe presi Dent Roosevelt will be nominated third term but that 60 per for cent believe he elected. Will not be re management or disposition of the endowment As Well As the estate or interest of the University therein o May be taxed by the province the judgment declared. Opinion of the court of Appeal in the tax matter were asked in a Friendly reference to the court by the lieutenant governor in Council under the terms of an act passed by the legislature in 1913, for the purpose of expediting the decision of constitutional and other Provin Cial questions without the necessity of bringing an actual lawsuit. Solid basis Emerson man., Jan. 1. Special twin engined sleek lined Light american bombers the first of a consignment of 18 for the do minion government roared into a Graceful Landing at a ican Landing Field a mile West of Emerson yesterday afternoon a team was waiting in readiness to pull them across the International Boundary line to the smooth take off constructed for this purpose on the Canadian Side. Ten minutes sufficed to get the through and into the air for a fast trip to Ottawa where they will be used for train ing purposes. Pilots were held in readiness to Fly the planes to Winnipeg immediately upon arrival. A Large number of americans were on hand to Greet the planes with Cam eras and photographers in Abund Ance. Only customs officers and members of the . From the Canadian Side witnessed the speedy transaction. The vacant seats were few and far Between at the sunday con Cert staged in the playhouse theatre by the War entertainment Board of the auxiliary services. W. Davidson Thomson chairman of the programme committee and his efforts to present High class entertainment of the troops and their friends were indeed Well received whilst appreciating this was a sunday afternoon concert it is. However suggested that future programmes include a Little More laughter and a Little less violin solos. Troops arc troops and the taste in France or England is very similar to that of Winnipeg. This is not a suggestion. The Pioneer Section of the Winnipeg grenadiers is under the guidance of Pioneer Sergt. E. A. Bale an old Soldier who wears the 1814-15 Star the . And tory ribbons. He joined the grenadiers in 1912. But went to England in 1914 and enlisted with the Gloucester Field artillery in every Field there is one so outstand ing that it dominates All others this leadership be it horse racing or publishing a want and Section comes from Superior performance. For Over 60 years the free press has enjoyed the largest want and business of any paper in Western Canada and since it gives so much More to the advertiser in results it must of necessity enjoy the largest group of interested want and read ers of any Western paper. He returned to Canada in 919, rejoined the grenadiers in 935 and enlisted with them on outbreak of War a the Job of the pioneers is to look after the Decon lamination of the water which the rooms will drink. They attend to 11 sanitation duties and do the idd engineering and carpentry Obs that come up from time to Ime. They Are pioneers indeed go ahead and prepare the f for the others to Advance in Calth safely. We learn from a Quinn .p.c.l.i., attached to the Winnipeg grenadiers and who served n the Dardanelles with the Lan Mashire Fusiliers that the 1st Bat Alion Lancashire Fusiliers of the regular British army were awarded free . S in the Early morning of one Day in april 1915 at that Gallipoli. One officer one . And one private received hese awards during this history event when this Landing was mad under terrific enemy fire. The 38lh Battery . 4.5 Howit Zers Are carrying on every wednesday and Friday at mint armory. Recruits Are still Bein accepted and those interested Shoul report to major r. F. Capel a room 19. It is understood that the training received with the 381 cattery has already enabled Sev eral officers and others to qualify for acceptance in artillery unit m the . The Battery i now operating a regimental schoo for second paper artillery qualification for lieutenants. Twenty four members of the . A attending this school which Wil ast until March 15. A Good Story comes out of bar Racks. There is a phone Call in the orderly room. Can i speak t a. B. Jones is he of no he s Only poor a w with interest becoming Greate in the new Empire air Trainin scheme it will be opportune t record the relative rankings in the air Force army and Navy. A Fly ing officer or observer in the air Force is equivalent to a lieu tenant in the army and a sub lieutenant or mate in the Navy in the same Way we bracket Fligh lieutenant Captain and Lieutenan Squadron Leader major and Lieut commander Wing commander Lieut colonel and commander group Cap Tain colonel and Captain air com Moore brigadier and Commodore air vice marshal major general an rear Admiral air marshal Lieut general and vice Admiral _ a chief marshal general and Admira marshal of the Royal air fore Field marshal and Admiral of the Fleet. Commissioned officers of to Royal marines rank according seniority with army officers the same titles. Disregarding the frigid atmosphere Billy Morrow 13, seen at left in the inset ran 150 Yards through ice Coa Ted streets in his stocking feet late monday night to turn in an alarm As fire threatened the Home of his sister mrs. James Gauthier. During his absence 16-year-old Johnny Gauthier a brother in Law seen at right helped younger members of the family from the smoke filled Structure. The House at 572 Victor Street with firemen making sure the Blaze is extinguished is seen in the general View. From thie free press piles sixty years 16, 1880 the first Central co Grega onal Church had secured a piece ground on Margaret Street Orth of what was known As Arber s Terrace named for a adding Winnipeg architect for the new Church building the Price paid As pity five years 16, 1885 the end of steel of the . Was of at Beaver Creek where it As to remain for the Winter the rack layers told the free press Cor respondent that when they had Aid the sidings they were going ast to have a grand Holiday and Celebration after their Long season f work. Fifty years 16, 1890 capt. Harry Arnold who was to direct the Winnipeg operatic society s rendering of the opera said Asha had gone to Minneapolis to tudy the staging of the opera by tie Minneapolis or. B. Duval preached an inform no Sermon on the current malady Grippe to his congregation at Cox Church forty five years 16, 1895 Well Boring outfits were being it by the Manitoba government nto Rural districts to bore Wells or the settlers two had already been purchased and despatched me to the Brandon District and the Ither to the Melitia country. Forty years 16, 1900 curlers who were familiar figure m the ice during leading games in Winnipeg included among others a. Macdonald Isaac Pitblado Vlon Tague Aldous w. R. Mulock w Payne c. A Wilson f. L. Pat on Jas. Tees and h. M. Lambert. 1 dirty five years 16, 1905 a splendid game of hockey Brandon resulted finally in the de _ eat of the Brandon team by the Winnipeg rowing club seven line up rowing club Quinn Browne Erry Aldous Claude Borland Smith Harry Kennedy right Wing and Star of the game and Field. Thirty years 16, 1910 noodles Fagan King of news boys delivered an address on successful newsboys at the Bijou theatre in Winnipeg by special invitation Winnipeg newsboys at tended As guests of the free presi carriers. Twenty five years ago Jan. 16, 1915 general Jan Christian Smuts called the Strong Man of South Africa was next in line for Thi premiership the present Premier was general Louis Botha. The Winnipeg operatic society s presen tation of the Chimes of Normandy was making a hit at the Walker. Twenty years 16, 1920 co operation Between the prov inces in supporting hostels for immigrant girls seeking House Hok service in Canada was promised at the Canadian Council of women conference in Ottawa these Hostel were in operation in cities across Canada including dumbbells in Biff bang bang Wen at the Walker. Return in 11 h i1f to rut 1 Ime due to War 25 years ago Jan. 16, reported within 40 Miles of Thorn in Advance in West Prussia. Eight vessels carry ing turkish army reinforcement reported sunk by russian Fleet russians claimed German and austrian prisoners taken sine War s Start. Self sealing London Jan. 16 bup be self sealing gasoline. Tanks a making Germany s Heinkel plane More difficult to shoot Down Brit ish air circles said today. The tanks can be riddled b bullets and still won Fleak enough. To prevent escape it was said. Working full time no extra help shall be hired by the management. As far As . Union officials Are concerned the seniority list is not completely absorbed As yet so increased hours from the present schedule of 40 per week Are not being contemplated it is Learned. Increased Industrial activity resulting from Canada s War Effort May Send shop employees of the Canadian National rail Vays on to full time for the first year since 1929, it was earned tuesday. Final decision to boost working hours will e made at a Union management conference Jin Montreal late Lis month. At present local . Showmen and this applies it is understood Cross the system Are working a 0-hour or five Day week As com cared with the Normal of 44 and 8 hours prevailing previous to the depression. In the years since 929 working time has sunk As of As 10 Days per month in certain classifications of employment Hough the 40-hour week has pre during the last four years. With improved economic Condi ions due in part to the Western crop but mainly to increased Industrial War activity some trades Union officials Are seeking a re urn to full working time. Others ice Ever favor the maintenance of the five Day week with the com Pany absorbing new employees to meet the extra work. Feet numbing As the cold Winter air seeped through his thin stockings a 13-year-old boy made a heroic run in the late hours of monday night to turn in the fire alarm which probably saved his sister s Home from Complete destruction. The lad is Billy Morrow who was staying it the Home of his sister mrs. L. Berard 572 Victor Street when tile House filled with smoke and the rear Walls of the Structure burst into flames. The lad ran his stocking feet a distance of about 150 Yards from the House to the level cafe 692 Sargent Avenue to phone the alarm. Nine in House nine persons four of them Chil Dren under four years of age were asleep in the House when the flames spread up the rear Walls filling the House with thick Black smoke. Two families live in the House mrs. Berard and her family of three Billy four Victoria three and Eileen 11 months and her Cousin Armanda on the first floor and mrs. J. Gauthier and Strnal baby Patsy with her brother in Law John Gauthier on the second floor. The husbands of both women Are members of the Winni Peg grenadiers and Are stationed a army quarters. It was shortly before mid Nib when mrs. Berard was awakened by Armanda Berard her Cousin who had been aroused by the smoke the woman rushed to the room o her brother who was spending the night and told him. What had happened. Hastily donning his trousers Anc stockings but not stopping for shoes the lad ran from the House to the cafe where he borrowed the Money to phone the fire depart ment. The sudden change from us warm bed to the cold Street Lef him suffering slightly from exposure. Neighbors give shelter while Billy was putting in the alarm mrs. Gauthier and mrs Berard bundled the children Ani babies into blankets while Johr Authier helped the two Berard children to safety. The victims were Given shelter at the Home of or. And mrs. Mckenna at 563 Victor the Street until relatives of the two families arrived to take them to their Homes for the remained of the night. While still approximately 20 per cent below the working strength of 1928-1929, the . Has now t is absorbed the greater part f not All of its employees of the seniority list. Opponents of the five Day week scheme Point to a clause in the Union company agreement which declares that until such time As All employees on the seniority list Are pop peeved Soldier irked by regulations Paris Jan. 16. Bup Soldier Legendre has returned to the front feeling that he s been cheated. His wife gave birth to triplets making four children in the family and putting him in the class of fathers of who Are now de mobilized. But one of the babies died and since he had Only three children left he was sent Back to the front. But Why must i go Back since i be had four and the count is verified by birth he argued with military authorities. You Only have three now by you can have another if you his wife consoled him. The mos difficult Job is past now in t Legendre kissed his wife Anc returned to the trenches with a heavy heart. Brooke Popham lauds air plan a solid foundation already has been Laid in making Canada nto the air training Headquarters of the British Empire declared air chief marshal sir Robert Brooke Popham Britain s voice at Ottawa in the shaping of the destinies of the colossal British Commonwealth air training plan who passed rough Winnipeg aboard a trans Canada airlines plane mid ight monday. For More than 40 years in a career both distinguished and sir Robert has served his cing and country. The Cadet of Sandhurst Royal military College he subaltern of the Oxfordshire ight infantry who through the rears step by step Rose to become principal air . To his King and inspector general of his coun by s air Force now continues to Erve by giving his knowledge judgment and experience to a plan hat is called upon to transform rom to Commonwealth recruits yearly from fledglings to Iva Birds As answer to Germany s boasted air Armada. Queried As to whether Winnipeg would be an air training base sir Lobert replied indeed most of can Ada would be used As time passed 3y and plans became More devel oped. First of All he explained the training programme has been commenced in Western Ontario spreading throughout Eastern can Ada. The plan however will rap Day extend As recruits from Over seas arrive on Canadian shores. When they could be expected he declined to state. Lauds Canadian fliers the flames originated from to ashes placed against the rear a if the House and damage was Esti mated at. Damage estimated at occur red at the Home of Carl Brink 11 Inkster Boulevard at 6.50 when the Walls and furniture wer partially consumed. Flames spread quickly according to or. Brink flame suddenly broke through the Kitche Walls where he and mrs. Brink wer eating supper and spread to quickly in the two storied House of them to save More than some Rug and a few pieces of Light furniture fire department authorities we attribute the outbreak to an Over heated Chimney placed the loss t contents at and the House a boo. Nearly 350 children were quiet evacuated from the hebrew fre school Charles Street and Flor Avenue about 6.30 Monday five minutes before closing firm after the fire department had Bee summoned to extinguish a Chimney fire in the school. Miss Freda Garber Secretary o the school noticed Sparks flying out of the Chimney and reported t the principal Solomon Horowit who phoned in an alarm. At 2.45 flames re suiting from a defective Chim be caused damage of to the Horn of John Clancy 765 William ave nut most of the damage was in the Roo if exp to keep the Home fronts different a first Canadian War loan m i fuse Toronto Star weekly sir r. Brooke Popham Over six feet in height Broad shouldered and dressed in the glue Grey of the Royal air Force sir Robert enthused Over the a ural ability with which Canadian men take to their wings. They have such initiative and aptness and have such excellent eyesight that they Are born he declared. During the last War in England and in France i had Sev eral canadians in my command who did Jolly Well by of the trans Canada airlines system sir Robert said it is Kerful when you think of travelling across such a great continent As a routine and so much of it is done in the English and other air lines he has flown by because of comparatively Short distances rarely Fly during the night time As a routine he explained. Born in Suffolk sept 18, 1879, sir Robert entered the army in 1898. In 1904 he became a Captain in the Oxfordshire Light infantry. In 1912 he transferred to the Roya flying corps and in 1919 to the Royal air Force. He served in France throughout the great War and in 1926 became air officer command ing fighting area of the air defence of great Britain. He then served his country at Iraq in the capacity of officer commanding the Iraq command from 1928 to 1930. From 1933 to 1935 he was air officer commanding in chief of the air defence of great Britain and from 1933 to 1937, principal air . To the King finally inspector general Royal air Force 1935 38. In 1937 sir Robert s name was placed on the retired list. Now in route for Vancouver. Sir Robert is accompanied by group capt. G. G. Banting r.a.f., who is assisting sir Robert with his work in Canada. Their present flight is for the purpose of inspect ing air training school Sites selected across Canada. Wandering and wondering with Chester Bloom the thankless task of historians trying to embalm imperishable the notable last words or death bed sayings of celebrities is implicit in a remonstrance i have received from or. James Pennie who sets himself Down As a Newspaperman Leader of this column. Perhaps you recall How a Winnipeg Ger asked who was it that said on his death bed i think i could eat one of Bellamy s pork and How readers of the free press pinned the words to William Pitt the younger. Subsequently one of our editorialists recalled that the last words uttered to the Hangman by a Hijacker murder West coast rum runner Beryl g s Crew were step on or now comes or. Pennie saying he recalls the executed pirate s last words were something else. The Beryl g s Crew be says were shot dead aboard their vessel not thrown overboard to drown. Three hijackers he avers were caught one turned King s evidence got life imprisonment while the other two played Star roles in a double header hanging. This he adds took place not at new Westminster taut in the . Provincial jail at Oakalla. As the noose was being attached says or. Pennie one of the doomed pirates turned his head to the other and in a steady voice which could be heard Over the prison Yard said goodbye you see not step. On or but goodbye the latter word or. Pennie explains was the pseudonym of the doomed pirate s companion murderer one Cannonball Smith. _ but other newsmen Tell me it is their distinct recollection that a Vancouver newspaper gave the pirate s last words As step on or also they say. An eminently accurate news service sent those words across Canada in describing the interesting affair. K there be such divergence by those in attendance at a relatively immediate death scene it is not to be wondered that or. Pitt who died in 1806, is reported variously to have said with Lite dying breath of my country How i leave my or i minis. I could eat one Bellamy s pork of course the possibility exists that the dying statesman uttered both phrases in what order i would not attempt to guess Ami that each bystander merely remembered what appealed to him most. One of my colleagues informs me that or. Phillip Suedella in his biography the Iron Duke quotes the last words of the Duke of Welling ton As i do not feel Well Send for an the phrase so natural and commonplace that it probably is accurate though disappointing. Or. Suedella is much Kinder in quoting the last words of the famous fire eating prime minister lord Palmerston John Henrj Temple just before he expired in his 81st year says or. Suedella lord Palmerston ate a Mutton chop and a Glass of port wine. His last words were it s a pity i be lived so Long without knowing what a Good breakfast that which i add sounds exactly like the spirit in which or. Palmerston lived his Long jocular and buoyant life. A 0 while exploring the last words topic i ran across a passage in lord Macaulay s history of England vol. I. Which bears on pow Cra burned by Ottawa under defence of Canada regulations. Speaking of Jiow the rack contrary to the. English Constitution traditions Public knowledge bad been introduced into the Tower during the troubled 15th Century Macaulay says we have been taught by Long experience ssjs5ts for an act of those words might be read in connection with sections 21, and concealed ;