Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pages Sun rises 8.17 Sun sets 17.5. Moon rises 15.3 Moon sets 5.53. Winnipeg monday january 1940 colder. Bandits raid polisher ships lost War at sea claimed at least eight including the 1, 458-ton British London. Jan. 22. The ships Over the week end destroyer . The Grenville. A flotilla Leader went Down in the North sea saturday the victim of a mine or torpedo the admiralty announced. men were known to have been killed and the admiralty said that 73 missing must be presumed to have their live.-. The survivors totalled 11b, of whom Many Host Churchill plea termed Mere reside talk if London 1 spokesman Jan. 22. Locay said a British it. Hon. Winston Churchill s speech urging neutrals to join great Britain and trance in their War Effort against Romany should be regarded As a to Eside talk by a Cabinet minister not As considered statement i government policy. Were injured seriously. The Grenville was the fourth i British destroyer lost since the War started. On credit Side of the British Mari time Ledger today was a report by the Crew of the norwegian merchantman Notos. That a submarine attacked her unsuccessfully and May have been sunk. Reaching a Northern port yester Day the Crew said the submarine attacked off Scotland saturday. A loud explosion and dense smoke suddenly came from the sub Marine which disappeared. The the statement was Iress reports reached ing the warning of made after Here show the first lord speech on Page 10 Chilly the explosion was heard after a torpedo passed the Bow of the Notos. The Crew had taken to lifeboats but returned to the ship when the failed to reappear. Close Call the Royal air Force came with in a few Yards of making up for the loss of the Grenville when one of its Security patrols spotted four German patrol vessels off Heligoland bight saturday. Bombs fell within a few Yards of the nazi ships but they Escapee the admiralty had met seption from neutrals. Jokes Man asserted direct hits. Despite a Hail of anti f the neutrals should keep the aircraft fire the planes of the , speech in its right perspective. Were undamaged. Nonetheless it was the statement the admiralty communique on i a situation which was obvious i the loss of the Grenville said every j the Secretary of the admiralty in his speech saturday or. Regrets to announce that his majesty s destroyer Grenville Captain g. E. Creasy m.v.o., has been sunk by a mine or torpedo guardian in the North sea. One Hundred and 18 officers and men have been landed eight men Are known to Manchester ill j. Font Churchill invited Neutral states to oin in United action against aggression and Wron. Today s says it is necessary that we should Snder stand and feel with the Small european countries in what is for them a terrible situation. We i Are lighting their Battle and they it. But in itself that does not j help them. It is reasonable that we should ask tolerance from them if our fight subjects them to Seri Ous inconvenience. It is still More reasonable to ask tolerance commander j regarding the search of mails for Manitoba is contraband from the United states neutrality Only 9 Copenhagen Jan. 22. Up havas. French three scan i Donavian countries want Only to j preserve their neutrality. The newspaper Polit Iken said today in i Lone comment on it. Hon. Win i Ston Churchill s proposal saturday sea losses continued on Page 5. Column i l Jod London. Jan. 22 up Squadron Leader a. Patrick Campbell former of . Base in a member of a group appointed to study Royal air Force operations on the Western front. Campbell served at the base at Cormorant Lake Man., Anc commanded the base at Lac Dubon net Man. In 1926 he took a gunnery and bombing course in England Anc returned As armament officer no. For Canada. Five years ago he took that All Neutral countries of Europe j another course in England and re the War turned to join the . Staff at strewn with dead finns wipe out reds capture twelve tanks five cases of Beer was the Only loot obtained Early monday morning by three bandits who broke into the polish Hall. 159 Aikins Street. In picture. M. Szymkow caretaker of the building Points to a Hole in the Coal Chute framework made by a Bullet fired by one of the thugs. M. Halavick who stays in the Hall is at left and Carl Chmil Lowich a visitor at right. All were held captive while the thugs ran sacked the premises. They failed to open a on Page 5. Anti British feeling flares by Webb Miller. Helsin fors Jan 22. A top troops killed nearly russians in five separate engagements yesterday and destroyed at least 12 tanks an official communique announced today. Fighting raged As result of rus Sian attacks from the karelian isthmus to the mid Finland front. The communique said that 450 russians were killed and five tanks were destroyed in an attack at Kolla Joki in the Liimola Region. It claimed that 120 russians were killed and five tanks and two armoured cars destroyed in an engagement at Kitila. In describing third engagement the com Munique said that several Hundred russians were killed when the finns repulsed a red attack on the Taipale River front on the karelian isthmus. In addition to the dead which were counted by the finns the communique the no Man s land area on the Taipale River was strewn with enemy dead which the finns were unable to count. During the Taipale Battle Accord ing to the finns the russians used their radio in an attempt to scare the finns with a warning that the germans were coming. Herbert Vee Knell British United press reporter with the Northeast Ern finnish said today that in the Marka area the russians have strongly fortified themselves during the last three weeks. The finns can see about everything that goes on in and behind the russian lines. Big cars Are seen driving up from Salla and troops by m. W. Fodor. Brussels Jan. 22. Special can 10 Days of acute tension. Belgium is breathing More that anything fundamental has changed in the military situation but at least it is Felt that the unusually heavy snowfalls throughout this Region have deterred the germans from under by a. T. Steele Tokyo Jan. 22. Special outside Aid held vital to finns by William h. Stoneman. London Jan. 22. Special can month of. May s now regarded As the deadline for the finnish War. That month in the estimation of people who Are in an excellent position to understand the possibilities of the finnish russian War will present the russians with a Chance of making unite with the allies against Germany. Assured by accords Berne Jan. 22. Up havas French on it. Hon. Winston s declaration that All Neutral european nations wishing to preserve their Independence can do so most surely by supporting the allies the easier said today that As far As Switzer land is concerned its neutrality is issued by International accords and its population has Confidence a among others the signature shich great Britain affixed to the statute of j Ottawa. A 1 a ifs affo eight die in crash London Jan. 22. Reuters sews Agency despatch from a Java today said five Passen Sers and three Crew members were killed when d Batavia Australia passenger plane crashed into the Irea near the Island of Bali. Jan. 22. 1815 British airmen raided Zeebrugge. Crippling a sub Marine and damaging land de fences. Seven killed in Berman air raid on Dunkirk France one plane shot Down. Hand to hand encounters in fierce fighting in Alsace sector. Yak for Winnipeg taking any military operations tem plating. Symptomatic., of the continuance of this relaxation is the fact that military leaves which had been momentarily suspended were again authorized beginning last saturday. Similarly in Holland leaves will be resumed from next wednesday provided of course no further com plications intervene in the mean time. The news has now leaked out that the chief cause of the sudden hitch in the belgian German economic negotiations was the German de Mand for the hire of an unusually Large number of belgian Railroad trucks which is under stood was rejected. So appalling is the shortage of Roll ing Stock in Germany that a High German official is alleged to have declared lately if we could be sure to conquer Belgium in four Days we would not hesitate to attack if Only to seize rolling Stock which we so sorely Holland censors news Amsterdam Jan. 22. Up havas French Agency the dutch government today imposed censorship on outgoing news. With the country just relaxing second threat of invasion London Jan. 22 Duke of Windsor bup the was Back in London today unnoticed and with out the Duchess for whose love he gave up his throne. Now a major general acting As a Liaison officer the Duke arrived yesterday accompanied by an aide a Camp and his personal orderly and went to Claridge s hotel. So far As was known he had not seen any member of the Royal family. He was an Ordinary guest in Ine Royal suite of the hotel at which be was fond of dining when As Prince of Wales he could move freely about the West end. The Duke had intended to come As week but All leaves of the British expeditionary topped for several two Yak from the Wainwright National Park will be shipped to the Assiniboine Park zoo within the next few Days f. T. G. White superintendent of Parks monday. The pair weigh about pounds and it will Cost the the government announced it was Board about s100 in freight charges instituting news control to ensure that along these channels at least there shall be no possible doubt cast on Holland s strict neutrality. A protest was filed at Berlin to Day Over the flight of a German plane saturday Over dutch territory. I censorship will cover communications dealing with the defence of the Netherlands apropos of Platis suppositions or rumours which can endanger the. Maintenance of dutch neutrality or cast doubt upon this unnoticed alone Windsor returns to London reason for trip is mystery that he had come Here to see his Mother dowager Queen Mary or Fiat he had become tired of to Jet neutrality which can arouse abroad comparative inactivity of his Job hostility toward Holland injurious were while with the and wanted some other assignment. As regards Queen Mary she is reported in excellent wealth. She spends most of her time in Western England but occasionally visits London. To Powers Friendly to Holland concerning acts measures and projects of the dutch government or of other countries concerning Holland which have not been officially co Tiv firmed by the dutch they May have a been nazi press belittling Coal shortage by Frank smothers Berlin Jan. 22 special can radio in the midst of one of the bitterest cold Waves of the Winter a Berlin wide cutting off of Central hot water systems for five Days a week with some favored exceptions went into effect today. Simultaneously it was announced that leaves for fighting forces at the front and in Home garrisons were to be restricted in the interest can recent event has so stirred up anti British sent Irnen among the japanese people what was called the audacious action of a British Cruiser yester Day in stopping the crack japanese liner Asama Maru Only 35 Miles off the japanese coast and the seizing of 21 of her 51 German passengers. Quite aside from the Legal niceties of the Case the japanese have been prodded where they Are most Sensi National Pride. It is the effrontery of it that is irritating. It is unthinkable to most japanese that any foreign Power should have the audacity to halt and search japanese liner sight of the japanese coast. A formal protest was lodged to Day by the japanese government by foreign minister Pochiro Arita. Who presented it to sir Robert Craigie British ambassador British diplomatic officials mildly surprised at the uproar created Here Over what they insist of civilian Coal supplies. Sea communications Between Germany and Denmark meantime Are reported to have been suspended Cor the first time in Many years due to ice and snowstorms. The newspapers declare that Progress has been made to reduce the Coal shortage but it is hard to find evidence of this in heat to Date. The press for a Long time virtually ignored the suffering due to cold in dwellings but the subject no longer can be ignored. The news papers play up stories of the cold Waves All Over the world. Der Montag in a Story with a new York dateline says that Large parts of America including new York Anc the Middle West Are frigid thai Niagara Falls is Frozen and that there is a great shortage of Coal it reports the tremendous reduction of Coal reaching new York City and says that the health offices of the Large cities without specifying which cities save by inference. New York Are being overwhelmed with appeals for Aid from the freezing was an act fully International Law. Justified under they assert the 21 germans were men of technical training useful to Germany in her conduct of the. War. The German embassy Here has not been slow to seize the Opportunity japs in rage continued on Page 5, column 4 acquittals end lengthy action Jan. 22, of six alleged conspirators in a liquor ring Here today marked the end of one of the longest and most extensive criminal actions in the history of the supreme court of Nova Scotia. With 17 of the 24 originally charged acquitted previously the Crown announced it would offer no evidence against the six arraigned today. The jury quickly returned a verdict of not guilty. The cases Date Back to the autumn of 1938, when charges were Laid against 24 Nova Scot ians of conspiring to. Defraud the. Govern ment of Revenue by illegal liquor traffic. The amount involved was placed at a serious Effort on land. On the other hand it will present finns and friends of Finland with the possibility of giving Russia the shattering blow which in the opinion of Many important people she has fully earned and ought to Given. This anticipated blow presumably can be delivered Only with the co operation of several nations and it is hoped by the aforementioned people that the United states will play a part unofficially if need be Dut still on an ambitious scale. The failure of the United states to approve Large scale assistance to Finland at the present time is officially regarded Here As a strictly american matter which it is not our business to the reaction of Ordinary people in the gained. Street can be readily in after the terrific outburst outside Aid continued on Page 5, column million Mark the chopping of Wood can be heard in the russian lines Anc occasionally the agonized cry of a wounded russian Soldier. After two Days of comparative Calm the began to York Jan. 22. The United states finnish Relief fund reached the Mark today. Herbert Hoover chairman announced that additional was being made available for emergency civilian Relief in Finland. Previously six donations had been. Made. Finland continued on Page 5, column horror 5 i All passe i from Bis t Marseilles France Jan. 22. T proximately 900 persons aboard reached Here today with Harry a Losion which enveloped the t destroyed All but two of her life r italian officials announced late today that All of the 412 passengers aboard the. Burned ship had been rescued despite heavy seas and t Speed with which fire ravaged the v vessel yesterday off the South coast of France. Local agents of the italian line owners of the vessel said that Only a few members of the Crew of 231 were missing after a new Check up of survivors taken aboard half a dozen Rescue ships. The 47 survivors brought to safety Here by a French auxiliary Cruiser said Mast of the Orazio s passengers 1 and Crew threw themselves into the a Stormy Mediterranean where they e were picked up by lifeboats launched from three italian Mere chant ships and two French warships standing by. More survivors were due today y aboard two French destroyers. Refugees from the abandoned South America bound liner said the explosion occurred about 5 a.m., in her engine room while she was e fighting her Way through a tempest e Many badly burned f All survivors who had reached Marseilles so far were italian and r German. Many were burned badly 3 and All suffered from saved izing vessel a first survivors of a the burned italian liner Orazio Wing stories of a sudden ex-11, 669-ton ship in flame and boats. Spent four hours examining it. Then the ship was Given a pass. It was said and the fire broke out about an hour after it had resumed its voyage the italian minister to Panama Renato firenze and several lesser members of the italian diplomatic service were aboard when the vessel sailed. Paul Van Zeeland former Premier Belgium at first was reported to be a passenger but later was located in Barcelona where he had intended to Board the Orazio today for South America. Motta near death Geneva Jan. 22. Bup or. Guiseppe Motta 69, five times president of Switzerland was near death today. The last sacraments of. The roman Catholic Church were administered to him last night. Dar learn Cia London Jan. 22. Up one temperature readings during night 6.30 a.m., Jan. 22 12.00 noon Jan. 22 2.00 p.m., Jan. 22 4-9 High Jan. .22, 1939. For full report of meteorological office see Page their then. Officials in Genoa said the origin of the fire was not known but that it apparently broke but. While the Orazio was 20 Miles off Toulon. According to the British United press Rome sources said that the Orazio had been stopped by the French contraband control about Midnight saturday and that French Russia warns against help to Finland Moscow Jan. 22. Cup Russia served notice on the world last night on the 16th anniversary Lenin s death that it intends to conclude the Russo finnish War and that any attempt by foreign nations to intervene would be disastrous. Further an announcement that elections would be held March _ 24 in some portions of russian occupied Poland was taken to be a tacit denial that Russia might hand Over to Germany some areas adjoin ing Rumania. The statement regarding Finland was made by Alexander Scherbakoff Secretary of the Moscow communist party at a mass meet ing. Any doubt that the statement was officially approved seemed re moved because it was made in the presence of Joseph Stalin Premier foreign commissar Viaches Laff Mol Toft and War commissar Klementi Woroshiloff among others Scherbakoff denounced the foreign press because he said it was inciting a holy dream intervention. Such incites he said forgot the lessons of 1918 to 1920, when capitalist nations suffered humiliating defeats in Siberia the Ukraine the Black sea area and at archangel in the far North. Then the Young red was hungry and weaker than it is Scherbakoff said. Should they interventionists dare to intervene now they will face a modern Power Ful red supported by the enthusiastic Multi millions the soviet then he said that Russia was. Determined to conclude the finnish War and liberate the finnish people from the imperialist air Force unit on recruit tour Ottawa Jan. 22. A Mobili. Recruiting unit of the Royal Cana Dian air Force today began a tour of the Ottawa Valley extending South to 1hc St. Lawrence to pro vide enlistment facilities for out lying towns and Rural districts. The National defence department said 20 . Recruiting centres have been established in key cities throughout Canada but there is no desire to confine applications to commissions or enlistment to Urban centres. If the Mobile recruiting unit is satisfactory it is Likely similar units will be organized to tour the country. Thousand London society girls and Dainty Debs were disappointed this morning but at least they be Learned that there is a War on. The girls paid five Bob each for the privilege of being dance hostesses to the husky Canadian troops for a few glamorous hours. But it s All off. The Headquarters cleanliness beats oomph in annual us. Dollar Derby _ i a. Force Days Belgium and the Netherlands were taking emergency military pre cautions. Well informed quarters said there j w no official reason for the visit. It was not believed to be an Ordin t leave however As he would ave been Likely to spend any such with the Duchess in Paris. Carious suggestions were foreign legion to help finns Copenhagen Jan. 22. Bup a legion organized in Finland is ready to go to the front the Ber Linske Tidence re wed from Helsin fors today. The legion is composed of a Bat of about 750 men. Estonians. Asians lithuanians hungarians. Italians. English and thirty estonians the news Aper said arrived in Small boats j 18st might to join the legion. Washington Jan. 22 a soap manufacturer shoved aside All the fabulously paid motion picture col ony to rank As the highest paid Bing Crosby corporation employee in 1938 in the United states. The salary and Bonus of f. A. Countway president of Levea Brothers company in Massachusetts topped All others in the year s corporate income tax returns. Under a new Law the Treasury made Public today the names of those who received More than instead of As in past years. This change Cut the list from to an even 400. But the list was not a 400 of the wealthiest people because it excluded income from dividends or other sources not called compensation. Thus names like Henry Ford and John d Rockefeller jr., do not appear at All. Hollywood s Best is sixth Thomas j. Watson head of inter National business machines corporation ranked second with 440, and not until sixth place die actress Claudette Colbert s appear As the Best that Hollywood could do. An unexplained technicality excluded from the list All the wealthy executives and artists of Loew o incorporated and its subsidiary. Metro Goldwyn Mayer pictures. Louis b. Mayer my a head who led All others on the 1937 salary list with was not shown for 1938. Nor Weie celebrities like Clark Gable Myrna Loy Bartle Davis Paul Muni and Gieta Garbo the film pay cheques listed in eluded Wainer Baxter producer. Darryl f. Martuck 000 Bing Jack Benny 000 from Paramount pictures Shirley Temple 848 Leslie Howard Loretta Young Fred Mac Murray Henty Fonda George raft Gary Cooper John Barry the fifth highest salary More Bob Burns Edsel Ford dropping from 1 _ i or j n flip Eli if Joel Mccrea Marlene Dietrich Charles Boyer and Walter p. Chrysler Loretta Young Clat Jvette Colbert Fredric March 311 Tyrone Power director Roy Del Samuel Goldwyn Hearst s pay pared the Only stage celebrity in the list was Helen Hayes who got from Heron productions. Incorporated. Although 1938 was not generally As Good a business year As 1937, few important changes in compensation appeared. The biggest was a reduction of from to 000 for William Randolph Hearst from his publishing and other enterprises. No. 3 salary Man was e. G. Grace. Bethlehem steel magnate whose compensation dropped from s394. 976 to and no. 4 was George Washington Hill whose american tobacco company remuneration declined from to Industry supplied its usual crop of headliners with w. S. Jan Hudson of general motors advancing from to Warner Baxter of the Canad Jan Active service Force pointed out that to Send men to London for the Ball would mean a serious interference with training. The girls understand. The boys understand. And the military authorities said to the organizers Why did t you Tell us before we could have saved you All this Trou the Secretary of major general a. G. L. Mcnaughton the Canadian commander told the London daily Mirror it must be remembered that we Are Over Here to fight a War. Our troops Are going through an intensive course of training and to Send men to London would mean serious interference with work. We do not want our folks at Home to think we arc Fritt ering our time away in hospitality no matter How state funeral held for Borah Washington Jan. 22. Ers the government joined today in a state funeral for senator William e. Borah. President Roosevelt sat silently in front of Borah s casket in the Well of the chamber which had echoed for 30 years to the eloquence of. The Idaho statesman. Members of the supreme court the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps were seated nearby. Senators and representatives occupied the remainder of the floor space. The Idaho Republican 74 years old and Dean of the Senate died from cerebral Haemorrhage last Friday ;