Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg monday january 22, 1940 Price so per copy edition with comics Loc eat Bryce s whole wheat bread a Welcome change for the family homemade the Bryce Way Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 and have oar Salesman Call Dally Fine showing 314 vacant keen Competition and fast time s featured the eighth annual ton thousand skating championships. Saturday at Powderhorn Park. Minneapolis with Winnipeg speedsters coming second in the grand aggregate. Upper left shows Fabian Mousseau of Winnipeg rounding a turn slightly ahead of Dick cover in the fourth heat of the men s senior 440-Yard race thereby qualifying for the final. Frank Slack formerly of Winnipeg hailed As the greatest Speed skate. In America is presented with the gov. Harald e. Stassun trophy by the governor at top right. Ollie Wold chairman of the ten thousand lakes committee is behind the Mike. At lower left Madge Mcdonald of Winnipeg is seen coming in second to Betty Knapp of Minneapolis in the intermediate girls 220 event. Kay Godfrey of the Norwood St. Boniface club is third. At lower right miss Godfrey establishes a new Powderhorn record when she flashes Home in front in the final of the intermediate girls three Quarter mile. Kiwan ians gather to Mark 25th year kiwanis inter today for of organization s Detroit. Jan. 22. National officers of National were Here Servance of their 25ih anniversary. Led by president Bonnet o. Knudson of Albert Lea. Minn., and vice president Fred c. W. Parker of. Chicago the group plan Ned participation in Day Long activities commemorating the issuance in Detroit Jan. 21. 1915, of the first kiwanis charter. Fast and Ith Chester Bloom scots fighting for Freedom mayor tells Burns banquet we scots have always fought for Freedom and now More than Ever before Are we fighting for All that we hold dear. Not for Freedom with Honor but Lor Freedom with declared mayor John Queen replying to the Toast to Canada at the Robert Burns anniversary banquet in the fort Garry hotel saturday night. Mayor Queen said that out of this Freedom would come a new order built on the brotherhood of Man such As Burns wrote about in his poems. This new social order must be built on perpetual peace so that our children will have a decent place in which to live. Out of this War to defeat dictators Canada will merge a ranking country of the he said. In a setting of traditional scottish Aggis and Cockle Leekie soup Rev. M. J. Gray of Parkview United Hurch St. James spoke on the writing that piece the other Day on funny practices and customs of set to wondering what was the funniest of All numerous experiences working under the Czar like . Publishers. There stands out specially a Case of deliberately confused identity. This happened in the idyllic Little City of Bellingham situated on the Pacific coast Midway Between Vancouver and Seattle. It is a paradisiacal location. The City is spread Over Steep Hills ringed around an azure Hay where one might think life would flow like a smooth Millstream. Appearances Are deceiving for it was Here i witnessed one of the fiercest . Newspaper Donnybrook All time. The chief participants have All disappeared from that stage and even the newspaper which was the Centre of the disturbance has folded. Still i do not think i will use the right names of the characters. One newspaper was attacking a Large corporation which con oiled great manufacturing real estate and Utility enterprises in the City surrounding area. The other newspaper was defending. It was the kind of civic Whirlpool into which nearly every citizen eventually is drawn to take opposing sides. The managing editor of the attacking newspaper was a very Bright Young Man subsequently he became chief of a big metropolitan paper while the managing director of the corp duration was an equally shining Light of the business world. The gentlemen. 1 awake thinking up new ways to Hack each other s enterprises. Tie re Hail been a temporary Lull in the Battle when one Day a tramp reporter appeared in the attacking newspaper s newsroom and asked for a Job. He was the now nearly vanished Type of Boomer reporter obviously suffering from a hangover and looking As though he had spent the last few nights sleeping in a the managing editor told him very gruffly there was no work. The fellow asked in have his name put on the waiting list he said it was was t the real name but it will do. said the managing editor his interest aroused what arc your m. To. Replied the tramp. A wide Grin Sprail Over she managing editor s face. You re he said. The secret which obviously puzzled the tramp was that his name and initials remember. 1 giving them fictitious by were exactly the same As those of tiie enemy corporation s eminent business manager s. So the itinerant reporter was Given a private office a bottle o whisky a typewriter and a great sheaf of instructions and set to work in 10 a the result of his labors appeared in a front Page spread under two blowing red headlines. Need i say it was a blazing attack on corporation under Jones name and initials same As the corporation but a la Uii i t Ilia i d ii Muiir it purported to be revelations of blackest scoundrel Ismi bilk a Iti Zens written from a company manager s standpoint. Were South with the freight receipts in their hip pockets and should be rounded up by the mounties. The were not on the Street five minutes until groups o i timid could be seen in Little knots angrily discussing the Story fights out Here and there and one Vas our neck traitor Over night. Legal counsel for the company finally got the on the phone. The colloquy was As funny to we Mas Slov. The managing editor stuck to the Point that the article had been written by or. J. J. Jones who he maintained was a reputable citizen. Dawned on the corporation that there was another j. J Var the City. The corporation s enraged Board of directors called a wer Ncncy meeting and had their mystified manager on the Carpel. 1 he could persuade the angry gentlemen that he had no mortal memory Lough ready to Burns he said fight against Yarmy and oppression preferred o Appeal to the decency he believe 11 men possess rather than incite atred and violence. Scots every there will fight to the last Foi that they hold dear he declared. Burns believed sincerely in Ruth and Justice and fought for All hat was Good. We have a reason to Lonor him today More than Ever be world needs All the homely honesty of our immortal he dded. John Barbour gave the address o a Haggis preceded by the March f the Haggis and pipers John ser ice and Charles Gunn. Traditional scottish airs were Sung by Isa Dunsheath and the Toast to Canada was proposed by Robert Collier. Toai Maii William Smith introduced he artists and speakers. The sing accidents Send five to Hospital accidents sent five persons hospitals Over the week end. Joseph los More 65, of 213 Marke venue received severe head in uries concussion and Shock at 9.0 .m., saturday when struck by Ruck on main Street near Suther and Avenue the truck Driver olice said was Joseph Cohen 6c Robinson Street los More is at St. Joseph s Hospi ;