Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free eat Bryce s whole wheat bread a Welcome change for the family homemade the Bryce Way Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 37 088 in d Bare our Salesman Call daily by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg tuesday january 23. 1940 Price 5c per copy edition with comics inc streamlined from peasant to Duchess police pressing a on rustlers Tod is president of St. Vital s Young Liberal club Hod Tod was unanimously elected president of the Young Liberal r _ i a dub of St. Vila at Nual meeting the filth an and dinner held sat urday evening at the Young men s club. St. Vital Road. Other officers elected were nations it. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King. L. A. Mutch. M.p., Hon. T. Crerar Hon. John Bracken. W. Lindal . C. V. Me Arthur. It first vice president John Dejong second Rice president miss Rose Webb third vice president Brown Secretary. Russell motorized cattle rustlers operating in Manitoba during 1939, Learned the hard Way that crime does not pay. Case records on file in the office of inspector m. F. E. Anthony Boyal Canadian mounted police Headquarters show convictions and successfully closed cases at 95 per cent of the total on record. Of the five per cent remaining from 134 cases Many Are still open pending further investigation. Inspector Anthony emphasized he did not consider the record num Ber of cases represented an epidemic. We consider our investigations highly successful due to the great difficulty of tracing in he said. Cattle rustling in Manitoba has been increasing yearly since the Advent of motorized transportation records show. This streamline sneaking works Best under cover of darkness but Remote pastures have been visited in Daylight raids. . Cases show wide districts scourged in systematic order with big losses to Small mixed Farmers. Manitoba does not require cattle traders to be licensed or livestock to be branded. Traders without Bills of lading Are free to sell without question on any of the great number of open markets. Once the cattle leave the farms there can be no conclusive evidence of false ownership except by identification of markings on the animals. Alberta declares War. Meanwhile in Alberta where ranching is carried on to a much greater extent than in Manitoba the Western Stock growers association has declared War on motorized cattle rustling. The association set aside a sizeable sum from which rewards will be paid for apprehension and conviction of persons stealing horses or cattle from Mem Bers in Good standing. Another important step in the anti rustling Campaign in Alberta is a Section of the Stock inspection act which requires All truckers transporting livestock to carry Bills of lading. Copies of the Bills of lading must be retained not less than six months and Are open at aria time to inspection by police. Winter has brought a slackening in rustling. Police officials Are confident of being Able to curb any epidemic in 1940 but introduction of governmental control Over traders and markets would according to Farmers ensure Small Farmers some Security. Burr treasurer. J. Williamson programme committee n. Dejong membership. Walter Tod social mrs. A. Mcdowell dramatics Cliff gun a advisory committee. Miss Barbara fro scr mrs. Esmee Gunn mrs. M. Paterson Charles Wayling Boger Veillet and n. Kennedy. Raised London Jan. 23. Up Cable overseas gifts to the lord mayor s red Cross fund for the sick and wounded of the War today reached lord Hun Ingfield chairman of the overseas Appeal Section announced the total does not include Canada s vote or feb. 3 deadline set for Auto licenses Winnipeg motorists operating their cars with 1939 License plates Are Given until feb. 3 to obtain 1940 provincial plates before prosecutions Are started by City police. This warning was issued tues Day by chief George Smith. No change Hydro discount proposal lost prompt payment discount for Domestic Consumers of City Hydro Power will remain at 10 per cent the City Council decided monday night in rejecting Aid. James Simpkin s proposal that the discount be doubled. A proposal by Aid. Jacob Penner that the Utility s deficit be retired in two years with the balance of its 1940 surplus to be used for the in creased discount was Defeated by 10 to 6. The same vote carried the motion to retain the present Dis count. Lease of the old Robinson store on main Street previously approved on principle was ratified Over Aid. A a. Sara a Strong disapproval. He called the Deal reprehensible and the leases Are Arono Vitch and Leipsic who will pay the City a year for five years and a year for a subsequent five years. Aid. Thomas Flye entered Strong objection to the hard boiled Atti tude being shown by the Relief department to applicants for Relief and urged More kindly treatment. Aid. Jacob Penner wanted to know who is sabotaging the study of the Goldenberg he said he was on two committees and what City Council did rejected a proposal to increase the discount on City Bills to 20 per cent from 10 per cent. Rejected a motion to instruct the Norks Board to keep the Pritchard Baths open All year in face of the Board s recommendation that it be closed for live Winter months. Approved Sale of Walker i healer to j. B. Barren and associates Lor on a lease option Deal. Passed -53 pages of amendments in consolidation and revision of the City charter gave first Reading to two bylaws to control sanitation of milk marketing and sales. Neither had met since last septem Ber. Mayor Queen explained the aldermen had All been Busy and it had simply been impossible to work the meetings in. There has certainly been no wilful he asserted. Pritchard Baths and Winni Eggers were thrilled by the Art of Ruth Draper when she gave a performance at the Walker theatre monday night with the net a Oce eds in Aid of the Canadian red Cross. De. Mcnally free press cartoonist stood in wings and caught these vivid sketches of the disease. Proceeds wondering Manitoba mining to be reviewed a general review of mining in Manitoba during 1939 will be Given by j. P. Dewei managing Secretary of the Manitoba chamber of mines at the Marlborough hotel thursday at 12.30 . The address will be Given to members of the mining and natural resources Bureau the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian Institute f mining and metallurgy and the Manitoba chamber of mines. A Short account of each Manitoba company s activities in the year will be included and comments will be made on companies mine work and aspects of their employee re action ships and work in promoting greater safety in mining. Let others live is Moil Bio r.10. Oak vhf of a tip is Ith Chester Bloom i read with amused interest the special article in the free press forecasting thai Premier Aberhart shortly will hold another election it set me wondering whether the people of Canada really appreciate the Brand of political humorists who inhabit Alberta. It s thai Lack of understanding i believe which so amazes the average Canadian voter when he reads that or. Aberhart and company having been elected on the revolutionary doctrine of social credit now purpose to re elect themselves on the orthodox political doctrine of to the victors belong the spoils. I might illustrate this by recalling the first political Campaign i observed in Alberta. I was during a furious municipal election in Calgary. A Alderman whom i will not identify beyond saying that he was generally known As Mac was under heavy fire. Reformers headed by one zealous fellow who ran a hotel Ware out to clean up Mac. In the midst of the fight a newspaper Man acting As Alderman Mac s publicity manager asked me a new if i would like to see some thing funny. 1 said at the Reform committee meeting he said. Sit Down in front where you can see the chairman s Thor of those in the Back being t meeting was orderly enough though the chairman Alderman Mac s Especial enemy violently denounced the Alderman s record As that of a Low lived scoundrel. He offered and got passed by a show of hands a Resolution to effect. Then he proposed the nomination of another candidate in the Alderman s place naming half a dozen prominent citizens including himself. Slips of paper were passed to the audience and each was asked to write the name of his Choice. When they were collected and tabulated by the committee we could see by their aces that something unusual had happened. The chairman advanced with the result in his hand and a look on his face of the most but it seems that we have j. It 1.1 i. Uni j. A Satiu Mio. In. Nominated Alderman Mac As our the meeting then broke annual meeting of the 8th Bat Talion overseas association will be held at 8 ., Friday at 198 main Street. Election of a Board of governors and annual reports will feature the meeting. Traffic officials seeking new fatality free record encouraged by the absence of fatal car accidents in Winnipeg for 31 successive Days City police traffic officials Are trying to establish another record to equal that which last summer placed Winnipeg on the map As the safest City of its size in North America. In 1939, 14 persons were killed in traffic mishaps in the City. Date of the last fatality was dec. 22. During last year there were 996 non fatal accidents in which persons were injured. Altogether there were traffic accidents of All kinds during the year just ended. Since Winnipeg established the All time record for Safe driving without fatalities several attempts have been made to equal the Mark but without Success. Up to june 27, 1939, the City had been. Free of deaths due to traffic mishaps for .227 Days when the re Cord was ended suddenly by a Fata collision Between a motorcycle Anc Sidecar automobile on notre Dame Avenue West. Council approves revised charter after two years of labor by the j City solicitor s department the Eity Council monday night closed the last to and corrected the last Typo graphical error in the revised consolidation of the City charter. The charter was brought before the Leig Slature last year Lor enact ment but was Laid Over. In the meantime the legislative counsel and r. W. Wydeman assistant City solicitor have gone Over the draft again. Many minor changes and corrections were needed. These changes filled 52 pages of foolscap paper but All were quickly approved by the City Council. Despite strenuous opposition from Ward three aldermen the Pritchard Avenue Baths will be open Only seven months this year. The City Council monday night by a vote of nine to seven rejected a motion by Aid. M. A. Gray and Aid. John Petley to instruct the Parks Board to keep the Bath open the year round. The Board operates the Bath for the City and recommended As an Economy measures and because Lack of patronage in Winter that the Baths be closed during the five Winter months. The Bath Aid. Gray contended served a real need in one of the poorest sections of the City. He blamed the Lack of patronage on the fact that Many prospective users could not pay the five and 10 cent admission charges. Aid. Petley in his Maiden speech in Council urged the aldermen to throw the Bath open free two 01 three Days a week. Thousands o people in the North end were living miss Charlotte. Whitton executive director of the Canadian Wel fare Council will address members of the Council of social agencies of greater Winnipeg at 8 ., Mon Day at the legislative building. There were perhaps 150 men in the room a. Large proportion Hose in the Back being rather roughly dressed citizens. The so Earnest and so Young Crerar and officials inspect Canadian Squadron m Homes that contained no Baths and could not afford to go when they had to pay. Aid. Paul Bardal defending the closing said that people used the dates Lor swimming and did not go there for the showers. The Winter attendance was Only 10 or 12 per Day. When it was closed for the Winter there was no complaint. The move would save the City or he said. Mayor John Queen left the chair to urge that it be kept open and the unemployed be Given free use of it. Aid. Simonite objected to this because it would Brand the unemployed As unemployed before the Community. They Are branded that every Aid. Simpkin said when they go into the grocery stores with their Pink vouchers. Everybody who sees them knows they Are on he contended that Little would be saved because the expenses of keeping up the building would still go on. Two milk bylaws this is of a series of articles on the Canadian Squadron of the Royal air Force mailed by Francis Stevens free press staff correspondent in England. Utter humiliation rage and Chagrin. "1 Don to understand he said up in disorder. fan Sood Alderman Mac s newspaper manager explained the mystery to me later. It Cost 50 he said to join that association i went Down on 9lh Avenue and hired a Hundred bums at a Dollar each to go to the meeting pay 50 cents for a membership and keep the other 50 cents for keeping their Mouths shut and doing Noung except write Alderman Mac s name when the slips were passed out. 1 think another illustration of Alberta political humor is apropos a Jolly Little politician member of the Alberta legislature a general favorite with both sides once boasted to me How he beat his upstart Rothsr in Law in a certain Northern sparsely settled constituency my Rind had become Rich and moved to the City but still continued to by Francis Stevens one May be whether Winnipeg Purley Iri sur Rey or Wolseley in Saskatchewan the time to Start Forth on the Road of High adventure is Early in the morning. Start away when the Sun is new in the sky and. The world is yours. If you wish to be equal to your Opportunity it s Best to have a Good night s rest tucked behind you. A Fine beginning this with a moralizing thought stuck into it like a Plum in a pudding. Your correspondent does not practise what he preaches. He was up late the night before we left a certain English county town for the air base of the Canadian Squadron . Yes i was up late with a Bunch of men who were discussing what Type of plane the Canadian squad Ron should use in their defence along the air front of democracy. It seems the Squadron want a cer Tain Type of plane in fact they get Down on their Knees and Pray for it and the air ministry decrees them something else. All right my dear or. Censor i won t say nothing More in fact i Cin t said hangar ready for inspection when we were eating breakfast Back in the county town. The military whether Navy army or air Are like that and there s nothing you can do about it. There they were in a hangar that looked to me like a huge barn with both ends knocked out on the night of the big wind so that the morning Light came in one Side and out the other. They were lined up in formation Ancl they looked so Young and serious standing at attention with the Sun breaking through the Clouds its rays coming through one of the wide open ends of the hangar and lighting up their faces with a brightness that showed those lads were As new to this world As a Silver Dollar fresh from the Royal mint in Ottawa. And they looked so Earnest and determined and so Young. I wanted to go away somewhere by myself and hide my my hands and think about something but i did t know just what and there was t anywhere to hide anyway. An officer s voice rang out in Sharp command and i thought to myself Why do Boss officers have to sound so fierce in t there enough trouble in the world but hold his scat year after year. Transportation the voters to the polls was half the election in that isolated country. My Friend s brother in Law acquiring some wealth himself and deciding to oust his relative procured a Large sack full five Dollar Gold pieces from the local Bank. He proceeded to tie up a horse and Rig in the co tit ency hiring every voter u i i1 him for a five Dollar Gold piece to work on election Day. In. Circulated in those Days and the carry settlers liked the feel of u. Gold say you de Man he say Ive you ten dollars Jug so is -1 Dis my politician whose English of emotion reverted to the habitant How Dat try 10 Cross me. I go to the Bank Ancl get myself a bag of ten Dollar american sold pieces. Den i go to every Man Dat Pierre hired and i Promise Pierre your Rig on election Day for five dollars yes. Den i Sav you give me the five dollars and i give Lor it and you work for me. Dey say yes. And you should see Dat Pierre s face when de election she is these Are just two samples hut i would recite dozens of others not exuding or. Aber Bart own election workers the Farmers wives while their husbands were absent the Downtrodden ladies of the household that going to see that the women got s25 a month which no 01 the sheriff nor their lords and masters could touch i kept their Mouths shut and just went and voted Tor or. Aberhart on election Day. Which. I might add they did in numbers. Ring what new gag the this election. Politics will be working in nothing. Canada in England maybe i had t much sleep but at least we did get started by 9 o clock in the morning and the laggard Sun was new in a. Faint sort of Way in a murky sky when we set out for Canada. Yes i said it Canada. Wherever a score or More Canadian Young men May be gathered that s Canada As far As i m concerned. It s Canada whether it s in the Argentine or uppity ump Shire and this time it was if you know what i mean and of course you do because gosh darn it Ain t there a War on anyway i be heard re mors of one. So away we gallium thed in a car that was far larger and swankier than what i m accustomed to i Date from a Model to but look who i was Riding with anyway a minister of the Crown and a High commissioner so beg Gars can t be choosers and we reached the Camp or base or what Ever it s called in due course. I had an uneasy feeling that the men had been lined up in that the Pilot officer of the All Canadian air Squadron seen above is about to take off on a scouting flight Over enemy territory. He checks his proposed route with the flight lieutenant. Below two members of the Squadron relaxing after a Day in the air pass the time in the Messro Orn by playing the ancient and extremely English. Game of shove a Penny. Guess his bark was worse than two bylaws to control the production marketing and Sale of milk were Given first Reading in the City Council monday night and then Laid Over to test Public reaction. Under the bylaws shippers must be licensed and keep their cows Iris Well lighted airy stables with con i Crete or other hard surfaced floors. Premises must pass health inspection before licenses Are issued. No milk May be shipped from cows which have not passed the tuber Culin tests. The License fees for shippers will be per year for producer distributors and for Pasteur izing plants plus for each delivery vehicle used. Restaurants can sell either but will be forbidden to sell both pasteurized and unpasteurized milk these establishments must display signs containing the name of toe Pasteur izing plants or dairies which Supply them with milk. All milk sold in the City either to Homes or in restaurants must be bottled. Restaurants however May serve homogenized milk Only in glasses provided it is kept in a Container of approved design. 25 years ago Jan. 23, forces occupied la Bassee Southwest of Lille. Bitter fighting at nieuport Bel Gium where allies artillery stopped threatened German Advance. Heavy snowstorm in Carpathian mountains held up operations on Eastern front. And there came the officers of he Canadian Squadron around a Core of them. Don t ask me exactly How Many because neither nor Eddie Johnson of the can Adian press got More than 21 Ames although there Are supposed o be 22. They marched from behind a formation of Little Fellows who were old country air craftsmen. They looked Small beside the canadians although the canadians by them elves looked Only regulation he Type you la see any night on a Ink in Brandon or or Rince Albert. What saved the moment for me Yas Hon. T. A. Crerar and the moment needed saving because Hose Squadron chaps were so up right with their shoulders thrown Back and their chins tucked in and the morning sunlight on their Ruddy you could see he gleam in their eyes and the Whites of their eyes looked clean. Crerar Speaks to fliers Tom Crerar came lumbering along with his Grey hat on the sock of his head and his shoulders sort of humped because he is so Al just an everyday Bull Moose dad of a Canadian. He wore an old Blue overcoat of the variety you see any Day on Portage ave nue and he did t put on any dog he was just his everyday self which was plenty Good enough. Clarence Jackson or. Crerar s Secretary motioned to Johnson and myself to come to the other Side of the hangar. Or. Crerar was Mak ing a speech and Clarence though we would want to be jotting m Down which was True. I pulled out paper and Pencil from my pocket and started toward the other Side of the hangar because or. Crerar was not talking very loud. But by the time we reached his Side he was finished. He had just said a. Lew sensible words. The Canadian minister walked along the two lines of the Cana Dian Squadron inspecting them. Hon. Vincent Massey Canadian High commissioner stood off to one Side with an expression on his lean face that reminded me of Hamlet about to recite to be or not to be. Then the Squadron was dismissed broke into fragments and we All started getting acquainted. I la be telling you about that tomorrow. By usually when we refer to sex Arvice men veterans old soldiers we have in mind those men who participated in the War of 1914-18. But i found that these old sweats of the last scrap Are just a Bunch of Young Fellows when i visited the get together of the Royal Canadian regiment old comrades association Winnipeg Branch. I guess we will have to Call them the double old soldiers because although most of them also helped to give Kaiser Bill a Long Holiday from his Home coun try they rarely discuss such recent happenings preferring the Good old Days of 1899-1902 when they were in South Africa with Gener als Roberts Buller Kitchener and White. Just have a Chat with j. Boswell president of the . Association and you will learn not Only of the . Regiment in Africa but also the Canadian mounted rifles. The latter regiment was under the command of it col. T d b. Evans who prior to the South african War was officer commanding the Royal Canadian dragoons. In the 1914 episode or. Boswell served with the 2nd train 2nd Canadian division . With Massey As . It was very interesting. To learn from him that he has been a Reader of the free press for 40 years and during the last War had the daily issues sent to him overseas. Upon enquiry or. Boswell stated that when the free press arrived in France it was carefully divided into about a dozen pieces and each Man would take a piece it and then pass it along. No Muer How old the paper was there was always somebody who wanted to read it. Returning from leave to England he found All his copies opened and Well read but kept neatly for him As the boys Over there appreciated the value and interest Content of the . Too much to prejudice their source of Supply. Laughingly or. Boswell remarked that in one place in Bel Gium near Ren inghels when the boys were All through with an Issue the rats would carry it away in order to read the sport news to their using it warmth. J ire the Royal Canadian regiment was organized in 1883, at which time it was designated the infantry school corps and was authorized to form three schools in Fantry. In 1885 one company participated in the Northwest rebel lion and in the South african War a special service battalion of inc regiment was organized for Active service overseas which was the first time a Canadian unit served with British troops in a Distant land. And then i met lome Stewart who was in South Africa and look part in the Battle of Parade Borg with the 2nd battalion . He was there a second time with the 4th others at the association get together were George Hill an original Bondsman of the . Jim Darwin of the . And an sex member of the . Secretary h. C. Pop Haro who was a trooper in the . In South Africa and a ser Geant in the 108th battalion g. Y. Mackenzie 1st Bat Talion Black watch left India for Africa in 1699 and landed at port Elizabeth e. Balchin of the 5th at this old comrades association Frank Wade assisted in the programme As did pet d Hendry of the Queen s own camerons who was there with i. Palate. George Oliphant. An other pleasing Singer was ambulance officer r. Morrison who m the last War was overseas with cameroonians scottish rifles. All in All it was an instructive evening for Legionnaire. I have a Date to return but before i go i am going to read up a bit on South Africa in order to recon More quickly names about which Thesa veterans 1899 love to talk ;