Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sun rises 8.7 Sun sets 17.17. Winnipeg tuesday january. 30, 1940 mild. shot Down Allied Aims Reich Helsinki Rafors. Finland Jan. 4n official communique to that 21 soviet air doxvi1 Finland. Thru Utkus an attacks Northeast of Lake Adoga had been Ron Sorl with losses and Eavy Ilia Knish lanes had bombed which r Ean a raid by italian slots on the Rod i Ivr Tain ported 1o Volunteer base at circulated several R.C. were i russian the new finnish triumphs tame Climax Sec inert imminent in h. 10-Dav Battle of Lake Ladoga. Still threw themselves the finns in a weakening to flank the Mannerheim the finns were counter trading and appeared Likely to Tam the initiative at any moment. Rie finns estimated that the sians had lost More men than in Jingle engagement of the War. Tim. Api Hundred United states made warplanes for inc finnish in Force were landed Here from United states steamships today my started by rail for Finland. It was impossible to Tell what pm Hie planes were As kept in packing cases Willi no revealing Marks. With Washington s approval Finland was Given prior i fret to Purchase planes in the United slates originally intended for the United states Navy enumerators out next monday to list voters enumeration of voters in Winnipeg is a Job and it will Start next monday morning. _ Between 900 and enumerators will receive supplies and instructions from returning officers this week As preparations Are made for. The big pre election nose counting among enumerators receive seven cents per name and there will be around names on the voters lists in the tour Winnipeg Federal constituencies Are 453 polling sub Divi badly wounded during the smashing of the latest russian drive thir finnish Oldick is b ing prepared for an emergency operation m a first Aid station immediately behind the Battle zone. Bey regarded the offensive one in which the russians had poured men and materials without stint As definitely a failure and they seemed that they would emerge triumphant. Red 1 lanes Active soviet pianos winging their Way out of the Southeast in Waves rained More than bombs on South Era finnish cities yesterday and first reports indicated that scores of civilians had been killed and wounded. At Abo residents crouched in shelters Lor three hours As 50 rus Ian bombers swooping Down out tit the Clouds with their engines gave the City its worst bombing London Finland continued on Page 7. A Wihlon jul. Spread air attacks on shipping along the East coast of the British Isles and Britain announced one of the raiders had been snot Shore watchers saw one British patrol vessel attacked and escape unharmed. Jets of water Rose from either Side As she Dodge two bombs Low flying column 5 British fascists Given jail terms Exmouth England Jan. 30. Up members of sir Oswald Slos Lcy s Union of fascists pleaded guilty Here today to charges of securing and circulating information directly or indirectly of use to the enemy and were sentenced six months imprisonment each the two were Claude Felb Pierre Duvivier. A naturalized briton of belgian origin who a also identified As a charter Mem bar of the Anglo Ger Man cultural organization dissolved War broke William tie Xander Crowle a dockyard Alexander Crowle a dockyard proceedings were held in camera. Lane. British fighters then chased the invaders into the Clouds where the Pursuit continued. Fighters were in action against other German planes Over several East coast towns. The attacks on shipping were pre ceded by scouting flights which were fended off. The heaviest at tacks seemed to be centred on the cast coast near Yarmouth. Yesterday s onslaught extended Over 700 Miles from the Shetland islands South to the Kentish coast. It was a sudden fierce attack by far the most ambitious the German air Force has tried so far in the War. Despite its intensity the damage at sea was slight. Bombing on land objectives was not attempted. Two of the ships attacked by the planes were defenceless lightship one being badly damaged. Acceleration of German air Acu air pirates continued on Page 7, column icy Britain fuel Economy urged As storm King rages London Jan. Government warned today again wasting fuel As a paralysing blizzard began diminishing the of Oai and food. The whole British Isles was gripped by Snow and ice tha some sections was the worst in the memory of All Livin inhabitants. Scotland was Cut. Off from England completely in some areas doctors were unable demand Britain return nazi seamen v Tokyo Jan. 30. 1 r Hachic Arita demanded that Britain return 21 Ger fan seamen taken from the anese liner Asama Maru by _ British warship on Jan. 21, Arita made his demand to sir Kobert Craigie. The British ambassador. 1 according to a of sign office statement Arita maintained that the of the 21 germans taken from the ship Elf. Maru. Essential. Planes Over foreign tientsin. 30. Japanese military planes Low Over the to make Calls and were Givin advice to patients by Telephone. The government urged the pub us exercise every Economy in the use of Coal Coke Gas and electricity whether for cooking heating or this special Economy Only Wilt be necessary until Coal supplies of ditch there Are plenty Are moving reely it was announced. There was no serious food Short but fresh meat was hard to find. The food ministry said the Public icy Britain continued on Page 7, column 5 , five others new senators Ottawa Jan. 30. Cup appoint sent of six new senators was announced last night by prime Linister Mackenzie King. Those appointed Are j. Fernand Tabard. Quebec Hon. J. C. Elliott Ontario Arthur i. Beaubien Mani Oba Donald Maclenan Nova Scotia John j. Stevenson Saskatchewan and or. Aristide Blais Alberta. Four vacancies m Quebec Ana free in Ontario remain unfilled. These six appointments give the liberals 38 members and the conservatives 51, with seven vacancies n the 96-seat upper House. Served 22 years or. Fafard. Liberal . For Mont Magny a islet in the House which Nas just been dissolved has represented his constituency in the com Mons continuously for More than 22 years. For Many years he served As president of. The Liberal caucus. Or. Elliott has had. A in Public life. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in ,1908, and was re elected 1911 and 1914. Since 1925 he has represented Middlesex. West in the House of commons. He was minister of labor and minister of health and soldiers civil re establishment for Short periods in 19261 and was minister of Public works from 1926 to 1930. Senators continued on Page 11, column 5 Snow at the front there r Sions in the four Winnipeg seats it the election set up remains the same As in 1935. For each poll two enumerators must be appointed under the Dominion election Law. Notices were in the mail tuesday to enumerators to report to return ing officers to obtain supplies for the count that starts on feb. 5. The returning officer for. Winnipeg South Centre constituency t. Kells Moore has opened an election of fice in the Somerset building and his staff of enumerators will Call in poll groups wednesday and thurs Day. Copies of election writs were received by returning officers tues Day from Ottawa and proclamations were in the mail to Post offices and other Public places to announce the election to the voters 153 polling divisions Winnipeg South Centre is the big Gest constituency in Point of popu lation West of Toronto. The last election saw names on the lists in South Centre. It has 153 polling divisions. Other local constituencies Are Winnipeg North Centre which Hac names on the voters lists in 1835 Winnipeg North with names and Winnipeg South with names. The aggregate of All. Winnipeg in 1935 was eligible voters. Out of that number there wer people who did not vote s roughly one person in four Staye Home on election Day and the seven cents in expenses paid to be their names on the voters lists wer wasted. Returning officers have been a Vised from Ottawa that an interval of two weeks will elapse betwee nomination Day and election Daj and that a change had been mad in the provisions of the Dominio ejection act which provided of Only a seven Day interval for the four Winnipeg seats and St. Bon face. Enumeration of Urban Consul envies must be completed in seve Days in Urban seats eight Days Rural seats. Sry anniversary Hitler denounces Britain As betrayer of Progress gosh he forgot the Moon army care adequate Lanion says Ottawa Jan. 30 or. R. Wan Ion conservative , in Iress statement today repeated h Harge that Many of those who a listed in the Canadian Active ervice Force became ill because hey had not proper boots Woolle Lothing and but he Saile would not divulge the names officers who gave him this info mation. The statement follows in yesterday s statement by the minister of. National defence he ays i stated that Many members of he Seaforth highlanders had to go to Hospital on their Way was. I not Only did not say that but i did not mention the Seaforth highlanders As Hansard report will Bear me out. Hansard clearly shows my mean no namely that information came of me from doctors in charge of militia regiments that Many of their men were sick and that Large numbers had been sent to Hospital because the men who enlisted had not proper boots Woollen clothing and blankets due to the Lack of preparation by this government de spite its huge expenditures on de hence. That statement is. Absolutely True my information comes from Mili tary and medical officers of a num Berot battalions in whom i have much More Confidence than i have in the defence. Even or. Know Tea men who Are insufficiently clothes and who have Little or no nigh clothing in our Winter climate Wil Manion continued on Page 5, column 5 Paris Jan. 30. Up havas French Hitler will Cele brate his 51st birthday april 20, by proclaiming himself emperor of the Reich and of Austria King of Poland and King of great Bri Field marshal Hermann Goering As to a Zurich despatch published today in be journal. The correspondent George Blun said great Britain would be administered after a nazi Victory by three stat halters one each for England Scotland and Wales. They would be assisted by 96 Gaul enters. All appointments Al ready have been made it was said. A stat Halter is an official of the Reich government serving As governor of one of the Federated provinces of which Germany is composed. He is the link Between National and local governments. A Gau Leiter is a regional Leader of the nazi party. The two offices Are often held by the same Man in Berlin nazi party agents go about nowadays saying a terrific offensive will be launched As soon As weather conditions the correspondent said. They predict that in three months great Britain will have been brought to her Knees ship sunk 20 die Copenhagen Jan. 30. Of the Crew of 20 aboard the ton danish steamship Fredn Borg when it struck a mine off the coast of Scotland was announced today. Berlin Jan. 30. Adolf Hitler assailed great Bri Tain today As a betrayer of european Progress and As Pur suing the selfish Aims of an arrogant people at the expense of other nations. Allied talk of a United Europe based on free Trade he said in a radio address of the seventh anniversary of nazi ascension to Power is an old Story and a worn out record. In the course of his. Speech Hitler declared that if the French want War they too his declaration was in contrast to Many earlier nazi efforts to separate France from Britain by propagandizing for peace. Everything i have party the labor front the storm troopers the army the air Force the a Means to an end the Security and Freedom of the German Hitler said. We have grown Strong and nothing will defeat the fuehrer emphasized dial the Erman nation was struggling for Lebensraum or living space. Hitler said that Poland would ave listened to reason if in had Al been for England but the Ger Ian armies destroyed Poland. Those who wanted War now have Rwjr he said and i can Tell the sister lives Empire schools fair share for province in air plan says Mutch Ituna boy Dies As Throat slashed Yorkton Jan. 30. William fed hoods sky is dead near Ituna his Throat slashes and his five year old sister. Dora is in Hospital there with he Throat gashed. The attack on the children was committed b their Mother with a straight razor monday morning the r.c.. Here report. The woman wife of John p. Ped Gorodetsky a Farmer near Ituna is alleged to have attacked the Chil Dren just after her husband left the Chamberlain on air Manitoba will receive its fair Mion would be made by the Liberal Manuola win government if returned to Power at the general election. The time to initiate such a scheme would be when employment Rose owing to War activity he remarked. Or. King s administration would Tell the Story of what it had done in organizing Canada s War Effort and ask the people for a Clear mandate to finish the Job or. Mutch declared. The prime minister s decks was due to the fact that he share under the British common wealth air training scheme Leslie a. Mutch . For Winnipeg South said when he returned from Ottawa Over Canadian National lines tues Day. Asked whether six air tra Ming schools would be established in the province under the scheme or. Mutch replied the people of Mani Toba will not be disappointed and May even be he expected that a serious Effort to put an unemployment insurance scheme into operation in the Dom on is wished to get the election Over before a Large scale German drive on the Western front could develop he added. Whose House to go to the barn. He is re ported to have told the police that he heard screams and rushed Back to the House to find the boy prone in the Kitchen the Little girl bleed ing badly and his wife with the razor in her hand. He took the weapon away from her. During the struggle one of her fingers was badly slashed. He got medical at Tention for the children. When or. Collins arrived the boy was dead. The girl was rushed to the Hospital and is reported to be out of danger. Detective Sargeant n. Bretherton. And detective con stable m. Nolan were sent from Yorkton to investigate. Mrs. Fed Gorodetsky was brought Back to Yorkton with them last night. This morning she appeared before David Williams j.p., charged with Mur Der and was remanded for prelim Inary hearing. is reported to have told the police that a wayward Sis Ter has worried mrs. Ped Gorodetsky and she did not want her children to grow up and learn of their aunt s iniquities. London Jan. 30. Up Prim minister Neville Chamberlain i speak at 1.15 . A.m., tomorrow at a luncheon to boo the Sale of War savings certificate Reuters news Agency said h address would Deal with the a Effort War Aims and position c neutrals. Including the unite states and Japan. Rench that they too will have the fuehrer said that Germany and Long pursued a common policy ill Italy and this has rot these two countries Are still lose friends with tsp same inter he said. I attempted last year to forestall British attempts to Start a world War. The Bible Reading chamber Ain attempted to reach an agree ment with the atheist Stalin. Josef v. Stalin of soviet the English were furious that succeeded where he chamber lain failed. As we have nothing to worry. About from the East because of the Alliance with j Hiler said that i think god will be satisfied thai Battle was avoided on one big front. For centuries Ger Many and Russia lived together in peace. This should continue to be the Hitler said that Only the injustices perpetrated on by the world War were responsible for the Rise of nazism in Germany and charged that Britain had tried continually to pre Hitler continued on Page 5. Column 7 dark threat Paris Jan. 30. Snowfall along the Western front today again clamped a wintry hand on military activities. French artillery however was Active in the Vosges mountains and along the Rhine military sources said shelling German labor battalions which apparently were strengthening the Siegfried line fortifications. Abor critics attack 3n Cabinet Sun hats for eskimos Bri French Jon scions yesterday increased anxiety he foreign zone surrounded by red barricades and Why go to Florida for Winter when peace River is warmer sentries. Arning activity after in interval it several the japanese air it s not enough that Winter should fail to be so. Its bearable when local skiers have to run around borrowing Snow in these parts but it s definitely too much when it becomes Warme. N swooped Only the where the new japanese blockade a serious shortage of food barbed wire enclosures the British and French con Sions charged with electric current monday. The peace River country than Miami Florida. But it s a fact. At grave Hundred i Miami chamber of Commerce Miami Board of Trade and Jiuu. Jew risk of offending the the the Miami of Jiuu i sundry other organizations devoted to the cause of a bigger and better Florida the weather Roan solemn in announced. Tuesday that at c.s.t., monday was 49 degrees above Zero Luigj Jav in Keg River 300 Miles Northwest of Edmonton while at Miami it was 36 above. He further told reporters thai Keg River henceforth to As the Arctic Paradise had scored again tuesday with a Reading of 38 above As against 38 at Charleston North Carolina. Meanwhile this City though far behind the now famed Keg River did its bit meteor logically speak ing with a noon temperature of 25 degrees the warmest temperature recorded this month continued fair weather becoming somewhat colder wednesday night is forecast. 25 years ago Jan. 30, British ship sunk by German submarines in Thi Irish sea and the English Channel Tabriz. Persia occupied by Rua Sian troops. Canadian cavalry brigade formed to be commande by brigadier general j. E. B Seely now lord Bacon Board is expected to take most of big sum by Grant Dexter. Ottawa ont., Jan 30. Bacon Board will meet within a few Days and it is expected that a statement will be issued Clearing up reports which have been in circulation these past five Days. Two Points Are of importance. There is a sum of about which it has been rumoured is to be paid by the British government to the packers and not to the Board. This is not True. The Money May pass through the hands of the packers but not less than and quite possibly All of it will Fie taken by the Board to he used to increase hog prices later in the year. The Board has not As yet fixed the spread Between what the Board pays the for Bacon exported to Britain and what the packers pay the producers., but the Board has Complete control of this spread and will intervene to fix it the moment that the interest of producers re quires such action. At the present time the packers happen to be pay ing producers a better Price thai they would have to do under and Bacon Board continued on Page 11, column 3 shipping discussion washing ton Jan. 30. The marquess of Lothian British ambassador to the United states to Day discussed with state Secretary Cordell Hull the possibility of guaranteeing not to take american ship into British control ports within the combat area forbidden to Arner ican ships a the neutrality act. The ambassador said he also Dis cussed with Hull the Prospect o establishing a British control port in Canada. Canteen investigation hears blackmail hint Jan. 30. Of blackmail appeared today As Regina. An. The judicial inquiry into the Saskatchewan canteen fund Throupe Neof or Ethel fund Secretary came a suggestion that the late or. . Cox a fund trustee a passed a. Remark that someone in was trying to blackmail this evidence followed that of mrs. John t. Nicolle wife of a Young Regina bookkeeper and former employee of Albert White and whose disappearance was re ported last August. Mrs. Nicolle told the inquiry that when her husband left Home last aug. 17 it was to keep an appoint ment with a. H. White and or. Cox. Two trustees now dead. Mrs. Nicolle said she found letters indicating that her husband had canteen probe continued on Page 5, column 6 by Francis London Jan. 30. Stevens special Cable forecast or shivering censors seeking to suppress stories of c d outstanding debate is expect d in the House of Comons follow no a labor motion next thursday urging that a new minister be Jamed in the War Cabinet to direct he nation s economic Effort. The opposition will., ask for a division the government in order to avoid i direct negative probably will sponsor a Tempo izing amendment. Prime minister Neville chamber lain is expected to argue that the government should let Well enough alone and maintain that the pres int machinery under the Simon stamp committees is working smoothly and efficiently. There is evidence however of a. Growing belief in All groups that the s eco nomic Effort is a task second not even to defence., critics charge the government with mishandling prob lems of agriculture food production and storage. London Jan. 30 had been held up by the an editor s note explaining that it i Rinn Alvr til corf on j i o censors for ten Days but finally passed re inn Arp forbidden to the daily with certain Aiter Auuso Are for Oinui ii mail published the following cold wave poem today. In t it i m told that the children were flinging round lumps of a strange soft White stuff they Call. And folks were foreseeing a Prospect of what that is of course i Don t know. Quite biblical feats were performed so i hear on Lake and on Pond and on River but facts indicating that britons were made censorship shudder and though Europe s congealing at 50 below the hush -hush1 brigade it will irk if foolishly bolder i say we feel one must keep the censor at work. Explanation the daily mail said that with the poem published this Way. The Clu nuke la to Aid German secret agents As they obviously l to see for themselves what the weather is Uke fear seethes throughout Rumania Bucharest Jan. 30. Rumania Centre of intensive pressure on All sides seethed with fears for her neutrality today As violence spread Oward her Borders. With grim anxiety the entire lation awaited a declaration today by foreign minister count Istvan Csaky of Hungary s attitude toward Jer meanwhile the hungarian press bitterly assailed Rumania s policy As reports poured in of riots near her Border in soviet occupied Poland of impending German control of rumanian shipments across polish Galicia and of preparations to repatriate Balkan germans. The 21st anniversary of ukrainian Independence. Jan. 20, was the Sig Nal for bloody demonstrations at Lwow the ukrainian capita the reports said. They added that Sev eral persons were killed when the russian military fired into an immense crowd moving toward the Cathedral at the Centre of the City. It was reported last night that ukrainian separatist leaders arrested by the soviets last of item Ber have been transferred to Kiev in White Russia. Temperature readings Low during night. 6.30 a-m., Jan. 30 a a 12 noon Jan. 30 2.00 p.m., 30 High Tan. For full report of meteorological office see pare 11. 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