Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg wednesday May 22, 1940 Price 5c per copy edition with comics Loc do you know worrying will not make a person thin Bryce s homemade bread is different contingent of Canadian lands in Britain More Winnipeg troops reach England drive War veterans in Winnipeg. Tuesday continued their drive r the write Nim to of All enemy aliens and the immediate of a Home defence corps while the Winnipeg District track s and labor Council also pledged its sup of the in combating subversive activities. Down of All German clubs. Have been hives nazi cancellation of boor Lic the and full exp Lana the release from the in lenient Camp of or. F. K of glided in Resolute Mcctii-4 a the at 209 y who. In the opinion of the police have established Prima Facie Evi Dence warranting their intern ment. We the Resolution said Man., were i the abolition of the tribunal and Wissi d at a i All application for Relief from police Winnipeg action in the matter of enemy aliens or enemy sympathizers be transferred to the court of King s Bench in the various provinces under the in the rules governing Hareas Corpus pro Nom defence was liven by Tho Manitoba of the Canadian legion at a gathering also held vain Resolution of the army and veterans asked intern of nil aliens Over i years of j male ind female As Well copies of last week s Issue of the Sta Fiazi West Clarion held up by the More Rasli. Action j Winnipeg Post office on orders ,1 i from Ottawa were ordered re by the depart i men t of jus Lineti a w. A. Kit the Days men Dirc Toi. Of postal services announced. He added that until further word is received to the West Clarion postal ban lifted liens and their activities ice members deemed Tho tune Ripe drastic action on the part i the authorities and demanded ail these people be. Interned. Wearing to the motion asking or National registration for a r Nai service. Aid. Fred c. Thomp charged that the attorney Gen of Manitoba was entirely re Sibie for the situation in Mani Toba regarding the enemy alien i am telling that the at Torney Genera is entirely responsible for the situation Here. 1 want to believe me. The situation in Winnipeg is More serious than you think but the authorities Are not allowed to said or. Thompson. Explaining that he had spent time with the Heads of police particularly the officers of the . . He said that sometimes they Lave to believe what the Man says m the basis of his character and not contrary future issues of the paper will be delivered to subscribers without delay. In a statement wednesday the announced that it was Post poning publication until the ban was rescinded. The statement complained that the editors were not advised of the first Ottawa order and the first they knew of it was when subscribers complained of not receiving their papers. Cairns awaits recruiting word while plans Are Well advanced to handle recruiting when the third Canadian division is mobilized no word has been received by head he Concrete proof of evidence and j quarters of . 10 yet to open a i am telling you now that the i recruiting drive according to capt mounted police in Winnipeg Are Alex. Cairns District recruiting officer. Wednesday. Reinforcement units for first and second division Are pretty Well up to strength it was Learned most a shackled quarrel with government i am not suggesting that we form Friot squads and raid the German j candles being reserved for members clubs. And if you hear of any not of non permanent units. Forc orment against the germans communists you try to Stop our quarrel is with the provincial for not said file. Thompson. To a question whether the .cm.p. Vas taking orders Iron action by . Held Uncertain one province or. Thomson replied that it did in provincial matters. National registration Lor National Trice the method the olice had for curbing subversive divides said or. Thompson. Col. A. W. Morley explained the anger Nants Between the province Dominion regarding the opera a of the .m.p. Enforcement the against the germans were impossible under it attorney general said Corley. Schneider s release when the the col British Aid Rogers reveals arrival of units Ottawa May 22. Up a further contingent of Canadian troops has just arrived in eng and the defence minister Hon. Norman Mcl. Rogers announced last night. They Are certain ancillary units and fur ther reinforcements Lor the 1st division. Regarding the prime minister s announcement monday night that reinforcements for Winnipeg units already overseas arrived in England tuesday it was announced at Ottawa. Pictures of the de parture on May 9 were released for publication. Upper left a com Pany of the Princess Patricia s Canadian Light infantry climbs aboard the train in Winnipeg. A title for the picture at top right might be just one More shot for the album lower left families friends and relatives wave Farewell to the boys As the train moves away from the embarkation Point. Officers going with the group included left to right Lieut. R. L. Rutherford Cameron High Landers Lieut. S. A. Blakely. R.c.a., and Lieut. Ross Campbell Cam Eron highlanders. Towns Are terrible anxiety prevails among Lunique it the people of the United states concerning the present War but what the immediate effect of this growing feeling will be on the country s action is quite unpredictable said f. G. Gurley vice president of the Santa be railway company Chicago wednesday. He stopped off Here on his Way via by Gregory Clark copyright 1940, Star newspaper service London May 22. Special Cable after one furious week As a War correspondent f am Back in London with All the rest of the British and american correspondents the Rea son being that All our cars were taken from us for a much More important Job than galloping newspapermen about that fast moving scene in France. Without cars we 30 were far More helpless than the refugees and about twice As useless. Now that the names of cities and in the official com is possible to Tell the tory of the most hectic experience f my life. I feel sorry for myself it because i have lost All my kit n the burning of Amiens or be Ause i have been potted at All Over be country like a pheasant on pening Day of the Hunting season it because the biggest Story of our Ime was snatched away from under c.n.r., to Saskatoon where he will spend a few Days. V. Pigott urges Khen the Resolution was 1 j 0 l i Ward asking the government Ocllo ols my nose. But the plight of English and american correspondents who Lave spent eight patient months mailing for this very Day is comic. The answer is a explanation Why or. F. K. Schneider had been released from Camp it was report business men in Selkirk together with veterans had y taken action on this matter member lease of or. Schneider and other Cut was responsible release. Lowing the meeting of the command of the Canadian l. D. M. Baxter Feio ent of the command sent the Telegram to it. Hon. W. A Mackenzie King understand Hon. W. ,1. Major of Manitoba has formation of Home de Man Toba. Manitoba inc Canadian legion i5.iirrns its offer of service Volun or otherwise in any capacity i it May be of assistance supporting our War Effort and of Good order his command. In View of of subversive of Tivi acc civic in establishment of a Large number of vocational schools to eliminate a shortage of trained mechanics in Canada was urged by a. V. Pigott principal of Machray school in a luncheon address to the kiwanis club in the Royal Alexandra hotel tuesday. This he said would be a Means of helping Canada both to Speed up its War Effort and to meet the unemployment needs of the Post War period. Business men throughout the Dominion must make a determined assault on unemployment. They sometimes complained about the Dominion government interferon with business but the government was obliged to interfere if they were not interested enough in the nation s problems to take the Initia Tive themselves or. Pigott said. His the less revealed the sooner we an Surprise the germans. Very Lay s Effort on his part places him n greater risks and intact British ind French armies wait to see there he Sticks his neck out thinnest. Bombs in Arras 1 began my week by arriving at Light by train in Arras and seeking i hotel just As the first trickle of refugees arrived in the City and 1 had some difficulty getting a room a room and a Porter to bag when a a. G Branch or the legion in a Resolution at m meeting tuesday night viewed grave apprehension the de .0i enemy alien tribunal in ing from internment aliens Woodsworth shows slight improvement Ottawa May 22. Up j. S Woodsworth co operative common wealth federation Leader was showing slight but definite in his physician or. R s. Stevens said today. Hospital authorities said the 65 year old member of parliament for Winnipeg North who suffered a stroke last saturday spen a much quieter night. A Birdman lond briton Abandons crippled plane As own gunners Start shooting on May 22. Up anti on the East coast Down a phantom Faro so air Force Hamp Pil o t empty after its Crew and Naa taken to parachutes. Jlane to gunners had crippled the t h air ministry said today. The Pilot nursed %ht4 the North sea journos Evcic y minute of the Long the a he or c Crossell the British coast v As up by an anti aircraft Searchlight. He was All in and i aircraft was in no condition to make a Safe Landing. He said Well thank god that s England and opened the door of his plane and stepped out at that moment anti aircraft gunners receiving no recognition signals opened fire. As the Pilot floated Down in i Parachute he thought of Para shoot ers a newly established civilian Force to combat the possible in Vasion of German Parachute troop might be waiting beneath. But his Luck held. He landed safely and established his identity that in a War like their number who died of ies. The body Lay under a red counterpane on grass while the children played 20 feet out in the Field. This was such War As a War correspondent had not expected to report. What he expected to re port gain and loss of ground valor and Conquest he did not see at All. Injury the outskirts. If our kit was not burned the germans Are wearing my pyjamas now. The Only thing f am angry about is who might be studying the family portraits 1 always carry in a leather Frame. Every town we stepped in was dead Lay went through n alleys Tournai which was so jammed with refugees thought of Holiday fair but instead of crowds at the sound of barkers and the Din of music there was just the rumble of endless traffic. I returned through Tournai that evening to find 29 Heinkele had come. In alleys and doorways the dead were Flung the Pool homeless dead. A Convent and two churches were blasted but still through its ruin filled streets the numb traffic toiled. Around Brussels Lou that Day vain and bombers in Nghien i Kalched stolid formations come had finally located Vas arranging with Arry my hefty War Heinkel arrived Low Over the City and crossed it three times As though aking Geometric measurements and suddenly with the most horrible snoring Roar it dived and dropped four heavy bombs and hundreds of Small incendiary bombs within a half Block of where i waited with the Porter. The second heavy bomb blew the hotel i was going to into a flaming inferno. Incidentally this was first bombing of Arras which gives me a slightly Jon Hesque feeling. Watch in horror that night the people of Arras turned out to watch in horror the great went and dive and drop bombs. From a distance of less than one third of a mile i could distinctly see the fat Black bombs topple out and fall in fours. It was that Clay the first suspicion arose that our cars even though few were Likely to be commandeered by the army for More urgent affairs than Eye wit Nessing. From that night on move ments were hectic in an Effort to find us Vantage Points and at the same time relieve us of cars. In Amiens where most of us lost All our kit Bill Stone Man of the Chi Cago news jokingly wrote message in German and put it in Lis kit elite in sicker Heit Geha in f please keep in Anc signed his name. But the joke is on Bill. On our tails the germans bombed and set fire to Aurien Street where our hotel was and the following Day they arrived a fire As Block after Block War was still far off. Up today Arras is the scene of Terri fic fighting and is As desolate As it was in the Days we canadians knew its ruined cellars. Four Miles away the great Vimy Mem orial raises its tragic pylons in the midst of the typhoon. In All the Little villages we knew round about is stillness and smashed tanks stand in the crooked streets of poor old Arras. And All this within one Savage week. I went Forward next Day to visit Louvain and Brussels and saw the first unforgettable plodding armies of refugees almost wholly women and children and a few old men the most terrible aspect of this pilgrimage to nowhere were Crip Ples and hobbling aged people try ing with courage pitiful beyond the heart s Bounds to keep up theh own end. When one plane Dove to machine gun us i saw two toddling children hand in hand trampled to horrible death by stampeding belgian horses. I saw five kindergarten age children hand in hand playing and singing in a Field at the Roadside where families had stopped to figure of the problem of burial of one of bombed and most of them Are now in German hands. By the third Day the flight of French As Well belgian and dutch refugees engulfed us rendering even separate movement difficult. We were bombed six times one night in one town. The nearest to me fell six houses from mine. But Bill Hor ton photographer on the Royal tour just a year ago and Well known to All canadians on the tour was sitting developing a film when the bomb fell in the doorway of his House and blew him through the doorway and wounded two of his Clark continued on Page 14, column 4 correspondent says Al by Francis Stevens. London May 22. Special Are no better troops in Europe than the British Eric Montague War Cor respondent for the Manchester guardian told me today upon his return from the Battle zone. That is one certainty he brought Back after 10 Days of constant movement sleepless nights Short spells of bombing. Rest broken by enemy his Faith in the British soldiers is greater than Ever. If we can give them the material the men will never be he said. Arras had already been bombed when he passed through and he left Amiens one jump ahead of the Ger mans As they entered the town on the other Side. He said the Brief Sunshine had baked the Countryside hard enabling tanks and armoured ears to make greater Speed. Tired soldiers slept Over wheels of lorries or in darkened billets while refugees trudged endlessly Forward through the cruel heat. He told me of the Joy and passion ate Pride he Felt in our incomparable pilots and in the soldiers standing fast behind the River and Cool As a Cucumber Duke of Gloucester escapes when French hotel is bombed by Drew Middleton London May 22. Duke of Gloucester narrowly escaped death in an air raid on a French town sunday night the hotel in which he was staying was hit by two German bombs. A third exploded in the Roadway out Side. I was 100 Yards away when the bombs exploded and saw the Duke unshaken and Calm emerge from the cellar where he had had supper with cavalry officer friends. A Short time later he helped get out messages to general Headquarters working Side by Side at an improvised desk with a grizzled ser Geant major while a burning truck lit the Street. This was the fourth bombing the soldierly third son of the late King George v had undergone. Once he was wounded in the right hand by a bomb splinter. Now he offers his left hand in Henry to his old greeting. Still friends he is popular with All ranks. The morning after the bombing he told me he was getting used to it and commented the Boche put on quite a show for us did t the Duke expects to return from London to the British expeditionary Force soon to resume his duties As chief Liaison officer Between the British and French armies. A take of Gloucester 25 years ago May 22, started troop mobilization. British advanced South of Quinque in Belgium after Artil Lery engagement. Reinforced rus sians captured villages on the san River in Central Galicia. Treating unbeaten and unshaken when through no weakness of theirs the Retreat became Neces sary. Their counter attack today at Cambrai is further proof of their invincible qualities. Moonlight air raids or. Montague also described air raids beneath the Bright Moon the urgent mailings of sirens and the thunderous crash of bombs shaking buildings he was in. Searchlights would patiently sweep across the sky and some limes they would suddenly swing Oge Lher on a plane which looked a a giant Moth in Glare. Then would come a raging burst of sound the lighter guns chattering like demented typewriters and the heavy Juns banging away with a series of smacking crashes and leaping flashes of flame while the red Anc White lights of the tracer shells poured upwards in a torrent of Rushing he said the spectacle was so fascinating that he usually watched Ven though that attitude leads to casualties. He said one really ought to go Down the cellar and read some improving Book. Several times he Vas in French towns the very moment news came that the German fighting vehicles were on the out skirts. At such times one saw pitiful and heroic sights Side by Side. Many officers of the last War will member Josephine s restaurant in Amiens. I dined at Josephine s the night the German armoured can were reported approaching. Frantic Omen were asking everybody the met for conveyance for their Chil Dren and Godbert and the Bank de France were packing valuables into lorries. Slammed door t asked Josephine who is nov an old Grey haired woman shape Lessly fat whether she too though of going to safety. She broke into a furious diatribe abusing me Anc All the faint hearts who talked o retreating. She ended by screaming at me at the top of her voice on Les slamming the door in my face. In another town yesterday morning a boy scout burst into restaurant saying the germans Wen in Abbeville. Customers began t get up and talk to each other in a panic stricken manner when Sud Denly a waitress jumped up on a table and told them she had a bus band and seven Brothers lighting Lor France. There is a spirit in France which will not be broken by armoured car or the 2nd division would proceed overseas earlier than first intended a message of warm appreciation had been received from the United King Dom with Assurance of Aid in facilitating the troop movement. This did not mean the 2nd division would proceed immediately he added. To begin recruiting or. Rogers stated that instructions had gone out yesterday to be Gin recruiting at once for the ancillary units necessary for establishment of a Canadian corps in the Field. Selection of units for the 3rd Divi Sion would be made at an Early Date but recruiting would Start for some units before it would be pos sible to announce the entire make up of the division said or. Rogers. Recruiting had already been authorized for the additional ancillary troops required. In the Field of aviation the British Commonwealth air training plan was being accelerated and supplemented and no. 112 Squadron Royal Canadian air Force would be sent overseas. On sept. 6, last before Canada entered the War troops of All ranks had been recruited. On sept. 24, the number in the Canadian Active service Force had risen to on nov. 1 to then the St division went overseas and re suiting of reinforcements for it tarted. At the same time certain additional units were formed and recruited. Now on feb. 18 the strength of the c.a.s.f., exclusive of reinforce ments had risen to and on March 18 to on May 20 it stood at exclusive of reinforcements. First reinforcements of the is division were now overseas Ana further reinforcements to replace Battle casualties were in training n Canada. Recruiting of reinforce ments for the 2nd division would Start june 7, so that that body would As Well supplied with reinforce ments when the time came As the St division. J i Don t think it can be said the government has been at All negligent in providing reinforcements or the 1st said or. Bog ers. Responsible officers expressed themselves As fully satisfied with the number being sent Forward. The 110th army co operation Squadron of the Royal Canadian air Force now in England was the first Canadian omit Ever sent Oversea and was proud of it. It was particularly anxious to be attached to the Canadian corps in action and its wish would be satisfied or. Rogers said. Arrangements had been made with the British air ministry that whatever duties May be assigned the 110th . Squadron before the Canadian corps in the Field is formed immediately the corps Goci Ous duties from the beginning than any other Branch a service absolutely essential to the Allied he said. There was far More truth in 1914 than today in the suggestion that Canada was completely dependent on the Royal Navy. At May 10, the Royal Canadian Navy had a total strength of and that would be increased to by the end of 1940. The Canadian Navy was rapidly approaching the strength of an army division As is the .a.f. When the air training plan is developed Canada will probably have a strength of three army divisions in the air and that would be attained before another year has Vimy memorial still unharmed London May 22. Up Cable Canada s Vimy memorial unveiled on the famous Ridge in 1936 by King Edward Viii apparently has escaped the fury of the present War temporarily at least. Correspondents returning to Lon Don yesterday from the Northern French belgian front said that the giant Monument. 11 Miles from Arras which was recaptured to Day has just missed the fighting now going on in the area. Thus far the fighting has taken at a Point South of and Paral Lel to the Ridge. Drew Middleton associated press staff writer who returned to the British capital from the front Aid that he saw the Monument standing intact earlier this week sandbagged just As it was when Hon. Norman Rogers Canada s de Fence minister and major general a. G. L. Mcnaughton. General offi cer commanding the first division. Canadian Active service Force saw it during their recent visit to the continent. Into action the 110th will be attached to it. Canadian Squadron the minister said a lighter squad Ron in the . Had been organized exclusively of canadians except for a few non commissioner of f i cers. Even in England or. Rogers said he had been made conscious of the splendid service of the Royal Cana Dian Navy. This Arm of the service has been More continuously engaged in urdu mrs. Hanley s dust catchers like most of us mrs. found it difficult to part with some of her belongings no Good to her. Yet they just accumulated in the attic. Then mrs. Hanley got a Bright idea Why not sell them through a free press want and it worked like rna Gic and she used the extra Cash to buy the things she needed want to sell your dust catchers use free press Quick action want ads Carol Calls up More reserves Bucharest May 22. Gen eral staff order issued at noon to Day called rumanian reservists to the colors within the next 24 hours. Hich in needed for modern mechanized Carol s Balkan kingdom Long Hus worried Over a possible German invasion if the War should spread to Southeastern Europe. The order which gave no reasons for this action caused great excite ment in Bucharest. It will swell the ranks of the army Navy and air Force to More than men in Active service virtually a Gen eral mobilization. Many Are aroused by blood red Moon but experts Cool what docs a blood red Moon mean if anything the Chaste Diana Rouge herself so brilliantly tuesday night that the free press was besieged by Telephone callers asking for and giving explanations weird wonder Ful and hard headed. D. R. P. Coats of the Koyal astronomical society of Canada and h. P. Troop head of the meteorological Bureau in Winnipeg were cold to these theories. They agreed in tracing the fiery Shade to smoke and dust in the atmosphere Strain ing out dark rays from the reflected sunlight and making the yellow and red Light More visible. Or. Coats said modern weather science took Little Stock of celestial fashions of color. They change too quickly in All kinds of weather to be useful in predicting what will come next he said. Blood on the Moon was an old Indian sign of impending catastrophe a Man with a quiet voice said Over the Telephone regretting he could t say what disaster or where. More definite was a woman who was sure the Moon s Carmine glow was a sign of the second coming of Christ As foretold in Luke shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the stars and upon Earth distress of maybe it s the fire in Europe like in a the excited voice of a girl suggested when the re Porter admitted failure to account for the phenomenon. When last seen Early wednesday morning the Moon was Pale Oranzie and apparently unconcerned with earthly Bickfo ring about her affairs. League of the Blind entertained by club final concert of the season was Given by the Young people s club of Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge for members of the Manitoba league of the Blind at their clubroom Mon Day evening. Miss Eva Hutchinson occupied the chair while those taking part included miss m. Taugh w. Mat thews miss d. Blair j. Ellis pipers Macdonald Young and Reed and mrs. D. Forsyth. A vote of thanks i was tendered by d. C. Hossack ;