Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free press Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg Friday january 19, 1940 Price pc per copy edition with comics Loc serve the children this nourishing health Buttermilk bread homemade the Bryce Way new in flavor and shape Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have our Call Dally Manitoba House feb. 20 the fourth session of the present legislature of Manitoba open feb. 20. Premier John Bracken announced thurs a following a Day Long caucus of government supporters i at the legislative building. Advance signs As the private members canvassed prospective business for the legislature suggested that the session would be of Normal length perhaps five or six weeks though House business Aris like thi1 lonely Road Winni Eggers May 30 below stuff but ing out of the War and Manitoba a Here is a Southern visitor who can share in the War Effort May pro take it in his stride. He is Egbert Long the sitting. Estimates for 1940-41 arc in course of preparation under treas Ury auspices it was Learned. As session business shapes up a re consideration of provincial policy on debt adjustment looms in the background should Ottawa fail to re establish the Farmers creditors arrangement act Manitoba. While the King govern ment reportedly has promised to introduce a Bill for this purpose Ottawa advices suggest that gift i Crow and he has preempted a part of the garage at the rear of the Nome of Lewis Smith 220 Oak Street. Helen Smith 16-year-old Kelvin student has adopted the Crow and when she came Home for lunch wednesday and went out to feed it she discovered it had a Robin. The Robin did not mind the cold stuck around until food was provided and then disappeared. When the liner Dunbar Castle j cuties May arise in the Senate. As mined off the coast of eng a Soldier debt Protection and Nora Bun icy. Here graduate f have Ryal Toronto was n Board with her Mother. They were both saved. Immortal our chief justification for Cole rating Burns birthday in these Days must be our re Olve to make his dream of human Berty. Equality and fraternity ome declared Rev. G. W. Of Portage la Prairie peaking on the immortal memory t the Burns night dinner of Home direct United Church held in the lurch auditorium thursday night. Or. Abernathy said Burns though Cady to fight against tyranny and oppression preferred to Appeal to he decency he believed All men rather than incite hatred 1 violence. Referring to the poet s alleged . Or. Abernathy main lined Burns was deeply religious every Reader of a Colter s Santur night and the dread Power ust know but he attacked with 1 his satirical Talent bigoted re Gin its who tried to Deaden the it ural religion of the human heart Ith academic learning or kill it Ith harsh Laws. Traditional scottish airs dances and readings completed the pro Ramic. Gertrude Mollard Jean ird and Norman Munro Sang a of panic by Rolinc Mackidd. Alex eid played the pipes for Highland Ancus by Beatrice Robertson and Iolet Craw mrs. A. Carter recited Ivorite scottish poems including uld Lang sync. Rev. Hugh my Arland thanked the women s As ovation for arranging the banquet my mrs. George Florence replied. Dependent upon a general re alignment of relations with the Dominion the province is receiving a special subsidy of any changes resulting from the do minion provincial commission would have immediate consequences for Manitoba s budget. The Agenda of legislation for 1940 is expected to include by dealing with debt Protection for enlisted men the report of h. Carl Goldenberg on Manitoba Provin Cial utilities and a new Batch of legislation emanating from the City of Winnipeg. A consolidation of the Winnipeg charter expected to be the most lengthy Bill for the session will come before the Mem Bers. It was held Over from last year. In addition the legislature will undoubtedly be asked to enact further legislation dealing with City fiscal policy since certain features of the Goldenberg report on Winnipeg were enacted last year for one year Only. Off Ress Cockburn sewer May smell sweeter the Cockburn Street sewer Long a sore spot with St. Vital residents across the. Red River May smell sweeter from now on. The greater Winnipeg sanitary District Board was told thursday. A thorough Survey has been made of the sewer. W. D. Hurst told the Board. Depressions were found in the sewer and the fermentation of sewage in these Low spots caused the bad odor noticeable near the outlet. These holes have All been filled and the engineers Are keeping careful watch to see if the unpleasantness disappears. Reeve a. Lloyd Clarke of St. Vital insisted however that no action Short of connecting this sewer to the sewage system would be Satis factory. He said that St. Vital would insist upon this being done. Trinity Baptist Church enjoyed a successful year during 1939, it was reported at the annual meeting of the Church held in the sunday school Hall Gertrude Avenue and Nassau Street wednesday. Rev Norman e. Todd acted As chair Man. All departments reported pro Ress. H. Stanley Ford presented in treasurer s report showing a decrease in liabilities Over 1938 of 466.82. The Roll clerk reported an edition of 17 members to the Roll the finance Board was elected As allows l. R. Cameron chairman a. E. Floyd miss i. Macphail h. Stanley Ford. G. Patteson n 51ackie, j. Macphail v. Dick w r. Evenden. Appointed to the Deacon s Board vere Rev. J. J. Hail d. C. Hutton e. Floyd l. T. Floyd prof. W Kirkconnell w. Armstrong h. Pat Eson j. G. Hammil. Other officers elected were treasurer h. Stanley Ford Finan Ial Secretary r. N. Allan assistant financial Secretary g. Patteson Oil clerk n. Patteson Church Lerk o. Patteson s u n d a school superintendent d. C. Hutton resident of women s missionary society mrs. Peter Lowe presi ent Young women s Mission Circle miss Frances Shaver presiden Young people s club Flora Mccalum. Presentation of a purse was mad o Rev. And mrs. Norman e. Todi at the end of the. Meeting. Japs Jam broadcast chunking China Jan. 19. A broadcast this morning for re a in the United states was downed out by japanese inter Terence engineers of station Gox declared today. And Ith Chester Bloom 1a Reader. Or. Arnold Carey writes while lying Flat on his Back is. Boniface Sanatorium St. Vital that he enjoys Reading this column so much he turns to it first when the free press arrives. Or. Carey thinks those descriptions of free press editorial and mechanical departments should be studied in schools but adds that he is perhaps Cju died from once having worked around newspaper presses himself if u is True that misery loves company it May interest or. Carey to learn i am dictating these remarks in reply to his letter while lying Flat on my stomach with a Patent Sun lamp burning a Rhiw of Button holes Down my Back. I am the temporary possessor of a very Fine Case of neuritis which s near As i can describe it consists of four Grade a class 1 toothaches distributed Down the left Arm from the shoulder Blade to the Middle incr. I merely mention this in the event that someone at the Sanatorium has something they Are not enjoying so much which they might want to Trade for it. Or. Carey that the St. Boniface Sanatorium patients were greatly interested in the writeup of the Ninette Sanatorium messenger to the mention of their own St. Boniface correspondent. He thinks Neol the staff who claims to be Western Canada s Best floor Washer Wight be entitled to a word or two. A -3 i am indebted to miss e. A. Bennett 40 Arlington Street a former resident of England Cor Clearing up the Point about the customs of the English people in walking on pathways and sidewalks. Miss Bennett like several other English people who have advised a says the English Rule for walking on sidewalks is to pass to the right. Just the opposite of the English Rule of driving to the left on Sicular roadways. To prove this miss Bennett quotes an old English Couplet which she says English children were taught Early to enable them o remember the rules of the Road versus pathways. The old Couplet runs and we were says miss Bennett the Rule of the Road is a Paradox quite _ if you keep to the left you arc sure to go right. But on the pathway sidewalk one always keeps to the right the save miss Bennett each passing on the others each walks to the right As on this Side of the fish Pond. 1 i from a Reader is greatly appreciated As Well As her complimentary Tina res for the column. In a recent Issue i coast newspapers in ports paid visits were Crew casualties remarked that certain american Atlantic in ports where the Gallant British Exeter _ had greatly concerned to obtain names of the ies in her victorious encounter with the Graf spec. Were worried Over it seems Large numbers of their readers fete of certain amiable Young officers among them one a-5 commander Carburettor because his real name was part of the grim business of War that lieutenant commander manifold e led the list of the Exter s officers who were killed. Theory o lieutenant commander manifold was an expert in nation and during his visits in the United states Consul Ted american naval authorities on new technique of computing position named substitute teaching the place of the Pupil Teache i the Winnipeg Public school sys pm was warmly debated by the school Board management com Mittee at a budget meeting thurs Day night. Discussion started when Williarm Scraba suggested 20 Pupil teacher be appointed this year instead o 0 and some reduction be made i heir salaries. This would effect 1 saving in the estimates for sub tit Ute teachers wages he Pointer out. Mrs. R. W. Queen Hughes an mrs. Jessie Maclennan came to the defence of the substitute teacher it is the same As allowing an apprentice to do a Journeyman s Job mrs. Maclennan declared claiming he Board had no right to up Pupil teachers in As substitutes. J. B. Wallis assistant superintendent of schools said he was i Avor of increasing the number o Pupil teachers. Admitting tha Pupil teachers often displaced substitute teachers or. Wallis Sal that Many of the substitute teach ers were very inferior teachers Pupil teachers or. J. C. Pincock explained were actually receiving an extra years educational train ing and saved the Board Money b substituting in place of Regul substitute teachers. Mrs. Queen Hughes maintain they should be paid regular teach ers salaries if they were paid any thing at All. On motion of c. E. Knox the committee decided to continue the same policy adopted last year appointing ten teachers at salaries per month. Eight die in fire missing couple dead in Auto lunar Man., Jan. 19. In a parked a on a lonely Side Trail in this isolated scrub Bush country he cold bodies of Gilbert Forbister and miss Gudrun Erickson Ere discovered thursday afternoon after the couple had been reported missing since monday. Their deaths appear due to effects of Carbon monoxide Gas. Discovery of the bodies was made y Leo Danielson and k. Olafson bout 2.30 ., thursday on the de Road from the main Highway. Out two Miles West of lunar after the men had decided to search he District. Constable r. Suther and of the r.c.m.p., was notified and is making investigations. Both Well known in the District Ciss Erickson had been attending a Adies sewing class held in Elendar monday and had left with Forbister n the car for the Home of her Rother Arthur Erickson but the couple failed to arrive. Thinking hey had stayed in lunar Over ight. Alarm was not raised until he following night and the search tarted. The night of tuesday mrs. Forbis or wife of the dead Man made in quiries at the Erickson Home and Ater Learned he had left the town monday night. Or. F. Walkin District Coroner was notified and an inquest will be Leld in lunar 4 ., Jan. 29. Lutheran Church elects new officers for Board vacancies election of officers to fill fancies on the Church Board of the first English evangelical lutheran Church were held this week. The following were appointed and will be installed at morning service sunday John Popp Allen Innes Herbert Lindstein and Frank Gauer. Rev. Arvid Saarisuu who came from Finland five months ago and who has charge of the finnish lutheran work in Saskatchewan and Manitoba will sing at the morning service and will give a Short address to the congregation., the Church reports a year of Progress the membership has been increased and the finances have been the Best in the history of the congregation. 25 years ago Jan. 19, 1915 first German air raid Over England airmen bombarded Yarmouth and King s Lynn dropping bombs on King s estate a1 Sandringham. German troops Ai Rived at Kielce Poland cutting off russian communications. Jury says woman stabbed by brother a Coroner s jury inquiring into the death of mrs Annie Chaikowski 54, of. 625 Jarvis Avenue decided she met her death from injuries received when stabbed in the Back with a knife in the hands of Peter Chaikowski at 625 Jarvis Avenue mrs. Chaikowski died in St Joseph s Hospital tuesday morning rom the knife wounds received in Ler own Home sunday evening. The inquiry was held thursday evening at police Headquarters or. H. , provincial Coroner presiding. Held on murder charge Peter Chakowski brother of the dead woman is charged with her murder and is at present in Cus Ody at Central police station. He was captured by detectives in the ukrainian bakery 626 Stella ave nue about an hour after the Stab Ding. According to the evidence of the principal witness Walter Chaikowski son of the dead woman he had driven his Uncle to the St. Boniface Hospital for mental treatment sat urday but the Man had not been admitted and had stayed at the i Ziakowski Home Over night. When his Uncle returned to the Home of his sister the murdered woman he had stated they won t accept me but i m going to do something soon and they will have to accept Walter Chaikowski told the jury. Had argument sunday night before the stabbing his Uncle his Mother and himself had had a Small argument Over some alcohol which had been left Over from the ukrainian Christmas the witness stated. His Uncle had spilt the liquor and later it had been poured Down the sink to humor him As he. Did not want it to be in the House. Soon after the argument the Tele phone rang the witness stated and he had gone upstairs to answer it. In the midst of the conversation he heard his Mother cry he s Cut Ting the witness said he ran Down stairs and saw his Uncle make the last plunge into her Back ? that the witness claimed he hit his Uncle Over the head with a chair and the Man ran out of the front door of the House around the Side and disappeared Down the pack Lane. The fatally injured woman ran into the Home of a next door neigh Bor Jack Shewchuk 27 Jarvis ave nue who went for police or. O. C. Trainor stated the cause of death was Haemorrhage and second degree Shock. Cautioned by detectives after being placed under arrest detectives Alec Price told the jury Peter Chaikowski had been warned of the serious nature of the crime. The following morning detectives had visited the accused in his cell and asked about the Stab who did the Price asked the accused. Peter. Chaikowski apartment residents flee fire four families were turned out o Small apartment Block Homes a 539 Alfred Avenue when a fire i the basement filled the building with smoke at 8.20 Thursday smoke from the Blaze was noticed by Silverman who foun the fire and phoned the fire de i did Chaikowski replied according to the witness. Where did you get the Belfast Northern Ireland Jan. 1 persons died yesterday in a fire which trapped two Famili on the top floor of a House in Dun Dalk county Louth. Boiler explodes no Weastler on Tyne eng., Jan. 19. Up whole family of six sitting around the fire in their Home at Walkerville near Here was wiped out today when a boiler exploded. Those killed were Charles Sharpe and his wife children aged five two and one and a 10-year-old Niece. Detectives asked. Out of the table the prisoner answered said Price. A pair of blood stained pants and boots said to have been taken from the accused were exhibited at the inquest Peter Chaikowski was brought into the courtroom and was identified by Walter Chaikowski. Witnesses giving evidence included or. O. C. Trainor or. H. Cohen or. Zeavin or. K. Wolan Walter Chaikowski Olga Chaikowski Jack Shewchuk and his wife Rose Jack Mowdy 15 Avenue con stable h. G. Howard sergeant w. Henderson and detective Alex Price. Apartment shortly before filled with the dwelling a fumes and the trustees favor free Grade Xii reinstatement of free Grade 12 classes effective next september was provided for in a preliminary budget approved by the school Board management committee thursday night after vigorous representations in favor of the proposal had been made by delegates of the Winnipeg and District trades and Council and the committee had debated the question half. Edwin a. Bratton who is convener of the Newman Lub dance to be held Jan. 27 in Aid f the Canadian army huts. In budget University growth revealed tracing the steady growth of the University of Manitoba or. Sidney e. Smith president revealed thursday that registration this year showed an increase of approximately 75 students As compare with the 1938-39 session. He was addressing a luncheon meeting of the Gyro club in the Royal Alex Andra hotel. Construction of the new do minion government Forest entomological Laboratory to investigate the i insects and parasites that Are damaging Canada s Timber re sources has commenced on the Campus he announced. The University employed a total staff averaging 450 and the student population for the past term was of whom More than 37 per cent came from outside Winnipeg and some from other provinces. Three new courses in Commerce geological engineering and Interior decorating had been started during the past two years. More than 230 scholarships prizes and loan funds with a total value of per year were disbursed. In agricultural research 129 projects had been undertaken with n total outlay of More than during the past 17 years or. Smith reported. Or an hour and a on motion of mrs. R. W. Queen Hughes was added to the budget to provide for the free classes bringing the budget total to this figure is almost greater than last year s. At present a fee of is charged for Grade Xii provided the school Board is satisfied the parents Are Able to afford it. Other students Are provided the course free of charge. Majority of the members expressed themselves in favor of free Grade Xii classes. It is the one Short step we need to take to pro vide Equality of Opportunity in education in this h. B. Smith declared. R. B. Macinnes opposed the proposal on the grounds that City coun cil had already slashed the Board s tentative budget and that it would be ill advised to add another free Grade Xii provided a Par the in e maintained before the committee. Bitter exchanges. Able to her in the 1936 olympic games. Scar Jon an agent and promoter suing for says he the item of salaries for school and a theatrical Bureau contracted service employees provoked bitter to share in 20 per cent of what Ridick caretaker Chris Eslicker 537v Alfred Avenue was notified. H could find nothing wrong with the Furnace and had added More fue and left. Most of the damage was confine to the basement. Total loss to the building and contents was placed at those turned out by the Blaze were or. And mrs. Sam Silverman and family or. And mrs. W. Con nor and three year old daughter Roberta or. And mrs. Murray Klapman and three year old daughter Maureen and mrs. And or. G. Kimmel and 13-year-old son Victor. Mike Rosenblat of 35g Niagara Street owns the building. An errant spark popped from the blazing Furnace to the top of a unit of the automatic sprinkler system in the basement of the warehouse of the great West saddlery company limited 114 Market Avenue East Early this morning turning in the fire alarm As Well As turning on the sprinkler. Firemen hurriedly arrived on the scene and extinguished a Small Blaze that had started in some sixty years 19, 1880 at 12.00 noon the new City coun cil of 1880 met for the first time in the Winnipeg City Hall Council chamber where the oath of office was administered to mayor elect Sandy Logan by City clerk a. M. Brown mayor Logan then swore in the aldermen among whom was s. J. Jackson. Fifty five years 19, 1885 the life of one of Winnipeg s most famous derelicts the Indian. Nat Tawa known As the dog eater was saved for another 30 Days by a jail sentence the dog eater had taken aboard much firewater and had thereafter gone peacefully asleep across a dry goods Box in the open air on main Street temperature .36 where luckily he was soon found by Sergt. I Mccharles. Fifty years 19, 1890 Ada Rehan in As you like it wore one of the most gorgeous gowns Ever seen on the new York stage she was playing Rosalind her performance of the part was com pared by critics with that of Mary Anderson Adelaide Neilson Lily Langtry Modjeska Hose Coghlan and Margaret Miller and it was re marked that none of these could Vear. Doublet and Hose with the Mardenly Grace of miss Rehan in the Forest scenes. Forty five years 19, 189 the magnetic Power of Genera William Booth As a speaker a strikingly shown when after his Appeal for funds for a salvation army shelter during a memorable address in Grace Church had been quickly subscribed and there were prospects that the full Amoun of would be raised before the general s departure from Winnipeg forty years 13, 1900 the plans were approved for a new . Building Birks of four storeys in Winni Peg the building was to have Shower Baths plunge Bath Bowling alleys and All modern features including a lunch counter there was to be a Fine Entrance on Portage Straw chief in a John nearby bin. Deputy Millar estimated the damage to be approximately 575. right and Early Fri Day firemen were called out on several other alarms from various parts of the Cituk the 1i6w Ever were for minor blazes including Chiney fires and overheated stove and Furnace . Thirty five years 19, 1905 Many colonists were leaving eng land for the Barr Colony Lloyd had been pretty Wel decided that there would be two new provinces Saskatchewan Anc Alberta carved out of what was now the Northwest territories. Thirty years 19, 1910 astronomers considered that the Earth was Likely to pass through the Tail of Halley s Comet Between june 1 and june cock Burn reported that on the Point Dubois Power Plant Yards of Concrete per Day were being Laid. Twenty five years Jan. 19, 1915 the fighting at Soissons had been checked by the overflowing of the five reel picture film behind the scenes was making a hit at the pantages the Star was the Young Canadian born actress mar Pickford. Twenty years 19, 1920 the Winnipeg newspapers had not yet been Able to resume print ing owing to the Lack of new sprur paper the suspension had now lasted for Threa exchanges among several earned in the movies. I w. Ross moved that the item says miss Henie. Abov increased by this contended represented a salary increase of three per cent equivalent to the Bonus requested last month by the employees which had refused by the Board. His motion was Defeated. James Black who approved motion claimed the Board have named a committee to investigate the request. Charging there were too substitutes in secondary schools the pupils Are not getting that Many inn their work r. B. Were hanged for. C lines moved that be Cut from the appropriation for they never committed for 19 years govern i am not satisfied the jail urged the Abo Are absent through illness to capital punishment Atal unc extent indicated by the number of the Lions club in he Garry hotel thursday. Or. J. Pincock my opinion a Man is of schools said that in his dead when he is b the opposite was True More Walls Lor the rest of his ers were coming to work when observed. Should remain at instances of pc or. Macinnes motion was had been convicted of an heated. To be proved innocent provision was made in the were Given by or. Do for the establishment of Grade Lincoln England mrs. Classes in lord Selkirk and Byg Pardyke had been a Rhodes poisoning her husband teachers salaries were she protested her at janitors services at the scaffold. Later a estimated at and on his death bed the services at entered the House while Revenue was estimated at was mixing a the finance committee put arsenic in the bowl. A preliminary budget of was out of the Kitchen. Providing for fixed annual Case or. Downie general expenses and that Oscar Slater of the school Board 19 years of a life sen All committee budgets will Peter Bead prison Scotland before the whole Board at a murder of a woman before next proved him innocent apparently we were in the Royal. Winnipeg rifles Pew when we stated gunner carrying on their train ii Young of the 13th Winnipeg armory and will to Tery was married on Jan. 6. Recruits. They Are wond was there alright but it was a Little Why no Call a chum Lance Bor Badier for mobilization but Gardiner of the 13th Battery no it up in the enthusiasm got married that Day. Sorry ranks. Last wednesday e boys attended on instruct r. M. By c. Wilkes o of the fort Garry horse is a assisted by corp ver Hampton Man who worked on. Of the same unit o Fox and Mink ranch out on gun and the Bren Henderson Highway before new officers from ment. He joined the Garry Are expected to join 1931 and has taken courses in and although several Chine gun ambulance and been lost to the units re or bearer for Active service the i i at Drill is Good and inc in nearly All Barracks increasing every week. Halve to be made up before the boys get away Ori evening passes. During the Day the mattresses Are rolled up at the head of the and if Beds had to be made when the troops came in late if Lieut. E. P. Thompson and Toon . D. D. G. Car Nicha the Queen s own camerons been detailed for duty1 As ins tors for the regimental school they would disturb All the the boys want a pair o Birds they look with longing in the Queen s own Cameron highlanders the following have been appointed As platoon , warrant officer class Iii effective from Jan. 1 sergeants d. D. G. Carmichael a. C. Thomson and b. R. Moody of . Company sergeants n. E. R. Orlosky a. J. Mckellar and g. E. Good of d company sergeant p. C. Wright of the . Stores w with the Winnipeg Grena mean they eventually see b quartermaster Sergt a. B. B who is an old 78th battalion with which he went overseas 1816. Attended . Schoo Tuxedo and qualified As in 1935 and was so appointed to grenadiers on enlistment. Company sergeant b. Connolly Hon. Leslie Hore Beliss corp. R. H. Lane of c making the headlines on sergeant w. E. Lobb of b of newspapers throw world and in his recent or the fort Garry horse association is holding a whist drive and dance at the Marlborough hotel feb. 9. Sergeants h. Standbrook Ana d. Smith Are in charge of arrangements pertaining to the the House of commons he the statement that it had no curved to him that we were a the army too democratic to Tigh democracy. This is a very sounding statement but the remain that there is no demo the army. Rules and re a piece of old Ireland can be found in the stores at Minto can make certain Cha in the treatment care eur Racks in the person of sergeant. R. Pollock r.c.o.c., who hails but these rules wha they Are. Are and must be Ca county Longford. Just talk to him and you la know Why. This . Is an old Imperial Royal artillery Man. He served with the lord Strathcona horse from 1929 to 1936, when a broken leg necessitated a Transfer to the ordnance corps. With the Power of a die by those in authority. Rigid unquestioned obedience to o is the very foundation of disc and any attempt to break Dew barriers of rank will Only r in the collapse of fighting been three years at behind persons with cake who gun. The the which in at Fine etc., and ;