Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page six Winnipeg free press saturday june 15, 1940 cutting a Melon Winnipeg free press snapshot contest can you take a picture like this if you think you can then just Send it in to the Winnipeg free press snapshot contest and it May win one of the Many handsome prizes. There Are seven weekly con tests the first of which starts today. The first weekly contest closes at Midnight sunday. June 23. And All pictures must have been taken after May of this year. Elusive views Manitoban Limber up cameras As free press contest starts Manitoba began saturday a seven week Campaign of Pic Ture taking designed to prove to All and sundry that when it comes to Good photography this province s amateurs stand second to none. Potential participants All in free press snapshot contest hordes of camera fans swept out Over Cit Field and Lake in search of elusive views unique candid shots and a Host of Oiher subjects. This first weekly contest Foi which 12 prizes Are at stake close at Midnight june 23. A Sec Ond contest will then Start. Complete list of rules governing the contest appears elsewhere on this Page. It is important however to re member 1 write your name and address clearly on the Back of each entry you submit. 2 in taking snaps for the con test look for Appeal. Make your snaps unusual either in subject or treatment. Winners of the final contest winners of All weekly contests Are automatically entered in it Wil have the Chance to pit their photo graphic skill against other amateurs in the United states and Canada in the National snapshot contest. There Are in prizes a stake Here has a Good a Chance of winning As All you have to do is pick your Are four such think out a Good idea or seize a Good Opportunity and your snap May be Worth Good Money. Miss Eleanor Riley and or. Wil Liam Riley South drive have Lef for a visit to Washington. Later they will be the guests of mrs. San Ford Hiley in Worcester mass. Any size Roll developed with 8 Beautiful Fox tone prints including free enlargement in Only. Reprints 8 for 25c. Free Elf Tim film specials buy your new films from us at special reduced prices for limited time Only no. 137 sire. A i i r re alar Price 25c special 1 5c so special 20c me special 25c All films guaranteed Iresh Stock. C d c c i a. Handy mailing ban at r k c c i cached to each Rolu special for 25c. For 25c. All work guaranteed 305 Kensington blk. Cor. Portage Mlih Winnipeg for prize winning snapshots bring or Send your films to be developed and printed to the Sun photo co. Moke about Lithuania continued from fag a one Tanas Smetona had entrusted Gen. Stasys Ras Chikis former com Mander in chief of the army with the formation of a new government. Demanded by Russia Moscow june 15. Spe Cial radio broadcast of an official communique today said that the red army had been granted the right of free Access to Lithuania. The communique said that the lithuanians had accepted demands of the soviet Union for the Resigna Tion of Premier Antanas Merkys. Lithuania adjoins the East Prus Sian Frontier of Germany. The free Access of red army troops to Lithuania presumably would mean unlimited Freedom for soviet defence measures on that Section of the German Frontier adjacent to the Baltic sea. The russian Frontier southward from Lithuania extends along the German Border in Poland to Hungary accept ultimatum London june 15. Mos cow radio announced today that Lithuania had accepted a soviet ultimatum in which the russian government claimed the right to occupy lithuanian territory with sufficient the ultimatum was to expire at 10 . Today the announcer said. The lithuanian decision was communicated to foreign commissar Vya Chesloff Zolotoff by the lithuanian minister in Moscow at 9 . Thousands petition lowering of age limit for pensions Ottawa june 15. That canadians become eligible for old age pension at 65 instead of 70 years of age and that the pension be increased from a year now provided was Laid before Parlia ment yesterday by a. W. Neill 72 year old Independent member for common Alberni. The Veteran British Columbia member was almost obscured from the View of his neighbors by two cardboard Cartons containing the petition bearing signatures and some 150 personal letters. There were so Many signatures from the provinces of British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and part of Ontario he said that copies were circulated in the different areas. . Looks to air Washington june 14. A plans to produce trained men a year including pilots to staff the United states expand ing air Force were announced to Day by the War Secretary Harry Woodring. In addition to the pilots Bombardier and navigators will be trained annually. Let us help with your contest snapshots to one napping 12 weekly Cash prizes and 8 honorable mention prizes each class 1.00 final grand prizes each class and certificates. Final winners enter the National newspaper contest. 125 prizes totalling contest starts june 15th, ends August 7th. 7 weekly contests. Send in your snapshots. Contest closes sunday Midnight snapshot every week. Place name and address on each print sent in All pictures must be taken after May 12, 1940. Contest rules 1. The contest is strictly for amateurs. Any one is eligible except employees of the free press and their families and individuals or members of families engaged in the manufacture Sale commercial Fin Ishing or professional use of photographic goods. 2. Entrants May submit As Many pictures As desired at any time during the e period of the contest. 3. Pictures must have been taken after May 12, 1940. 4. Your snapshots May be made on any Type of film but must not be made on Glass plate negatives. Any make of camera film chemicals or paper May be used. Develop ing and printing May be done by a photo finisher or the entrant. No print or enlargement More than ten inches in the longest dimension will be accepted. No Art work or retouching is permitted on prints or the negatives from which they Are made. No composite pictures such As multiple printing or montages permitted. Pictures should not be mounted or framed. 5. All pictures shall be judged solely on general interest and Appeal. Photo graphic excellence or technique while important will not be the deciding Factor in determining prize winners. The decision of the judges shall be accepted As final. 6. Before receiving the free press final prizes of in. Each of the four classifications. The entrant must submit the original Nega Tive with print and sign a statement that his picture or a closely similar picture of the same subject or situation has not been and will not be entered by him in any other snapshot contest or Salon other than the one conducted by this newspaper and has not and will not be offered for publication in any manner. To enter the contest mail a print or prints of As Many pictures As you desire to Amateur snapshot contest Winnipeg free press. On the Back of each picture print your name and address clearly in Ink and the class in which you wish the picture entered. See classifications no prints will be returned. Do not sub Mit negatives with your prints. Keep them until requested by the Amateur snapshot contest editor. Only original negatives accepted this newspaper As Sumes no responsibility for negatives. Each week the free press will announce the winners in each class. In addition at the close of the contest mail or bring prints to snapshot contest editor Winnipeg free press details daily in the free press will be paid to the final Winner in each of the four classifications listed below. These four winners then will be entered in the National awards where they will compete with the same number of entries from other newspapers in Canada and the United states for prizes totalling following Are the classifications in which prizes will be awarded weekly and at the end of the contest classifications. A. Babies and children one or More Young sters to be judged for cuteness expression of character or mood. Subjects May be engaged in appropriate hobbies or interests. Adults May appear if they Are not the principal interest. B. Youngf people and adults one or More grown ups High school or College age or older engaged in any activity in sports games hobbies occupations at Home at work or on a Holiday indoor or outdoor activities. C. Scenes and still pictures to be judged for Scenic or pictorial Appeal land scapes Marine views Street scenes build Ings or unusual still life subjects including table top or miniature arrange ments. D. Animal life household pets cats dogs horses farm animals Forest wild life zoo animals fish reptiles insects. London june 15, eyed residents of Norden Lanca Shire spied Parachute figures float ing to Earth yesterday. Danger signals flashed troops blocked roads and an and a fire Trucl Cand a Black Maria Tore out Down the Road. Troops crept Over ithe moors to engage the parachutists. They were dummies dropped from unseen Royal air Force planes from a great height in an a expect d rehearsal. Soviet troops mass near nazi Border Bucharest june 15. Reports from the soviet German Frontier in Poland said last night the soviet military command had brought up three new army corps equipped with tanks artillery and air planes to positions about 20 Miles from the German Border. On their Side the germans established new groups of reserves in Slovakia. German propaganda was said to be alive again among the Ukrain ians in Rumania and elsewhere promising the Reich s Aid in establishing an Independent Ukraine. Famine threatens the part of Poland occupied by Germany reports received Here indicated. Last autumn s and this Spring s sowing was incomplete due to Lack of farm help. New peace drive Budapest june 15. Fresh drive for the maintenance of peace in Southeastern Europe began today As the danubian states weighed the Likely consequences of turkish entry into the War. Informed quarters Here Are con Vinced that should Turkey decide on Active participation beside Bri Tain and France her Western treaty partners this act would spread the conflict throughout the Balkans in spite of the Balkan nations prevail ing reluctance to assume belligerent status. Leader of the peace move appears to be King Carol of Rumania who realizes that if anybody lights the match of War his country is the one most Likely to become the Torch. That Yugoslavia a traditional Friend of re orienting her National policy better to har Monize with Germany s current Success was indicated by the re lease from prison of a dozen or More leaders of factions favouring the Rome Berlin Axis. In Ankara turkish authorities obviously Are declining to precipitate entry into the War while rus Sia s will remain obscure. Ask for it is your guarantee of the highest Standard photographic workmanship. Controlled processing under the direction of skilled operators correcting errors in your exposures. Double the amount in Cash prize Money. Ask for leaflet at tour drug store. Taylors limited photographic specialists 260 Edmonton St. Cameras tripods filters. Dark room supplies Many functions arranged by groups in fort Garry the afternoon and evening Branch of the woman s auxiliary of St. Paul s anglican Church will hold a Peony Garden Tea on the grounds of mrs. R. O. Taylor s House South drive Friday from 3 to 6 . There will be a Sale of Home cooking and Candy. Mrs. R. L. Dennison mrs. W. G. Metter and mrs. Grundy Are general conveners. Mrs. W. B. Cowan and miss Bea Nixon will assist mrs. Taylor to receive the guests. The woman s auxiliary of the St. Paul s anglican Church will meet at the Home of mrs. R. L. Denni son the drive at 2.30, monday. St. Paul s anglican Church Sun Day school will hold its annual Pic Nic at Assiniboine Park june 22. The boys Church league of St. Paul s anglican Church will meet in the Parish Hall monday 7 . Miss Margaret Maclean Kelsey Avenue has left for Windsor ont. Mrs. C. E. O Grady mrs. A. J. Goulding and mrs. Patrick Gyles have issued invitations for a Tea to be held at mrs. O Grady s Home Riverside drive wednesday after noon in Honor of mrs. Victor Woodman who is leaving at the end of the month for Montreal where she will reside. The South end sunday school will hold its annual picnic june 22 at Assiniboine Park. The choir of the South end Ang lican Mission is holding a Garden party saturday afternoon and eve Ning at the Church House Pembina Highway. Mrs. T. Holmes is general convener. Miss Ethel Rodwell will be in charge of the Home cooking stall. Miss Doreen Edwards and miss e. Warmington will be in charge of the Lucky Orange tree. There will be boating sport for the children hot dog stands soft drinks and in the evening Community singing. In Honor of miss Reta Grey a Bride elect of the latter part of june miss Marge Brown and miss Enid Beddington were joint Host esses at a miscellaneous Shower at the latter s Home on wednesday evening. The gifts were presented to the Honor guest in a decorated Basket. The following guests were present mrs. Kirkham miss e. Kirkham miss Helen Kirkham miss Millie Balmer miss Hannah Mcconachy mrs. E. Whitfield miss Ruth Bell mrs. W. Beddington miss Marge Brown mrs. R. Mea Dows miss Alma Grey miss Isobel Grey mrs. Grey and miss Enid Beddington local manufacturers urge More contracts calling on the Allied authorities to Speed up War production in Manitoba by All possible Means the executive committee of the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian manufacturers association in a Resolution Friday afternoon urged that local representatives of the Dominion government be Given greater authority to make decisions regard War contracts. The committee met at luncheon in the. Royal Alexandra hotel. It noted that although Manitoba manufacturers previously had offered their full Industrial Capa City to the Allied and Dominion governments Only a Small had been used. Re affirmed. For War percentage services of it yet the offer was fire caused considerable damage to the club House of the Hermit s skating rink Boyd Avenue near the Beach tracks Early Friday morning. The fire had gained a Strong headway before discovered. Give to Britain London june 15. Up the government has accepted an offer of voted by the Gold coast govern ment with the approval of the legislative Council for the Purchase of bomber or fighter aircraft. Calcutta june 15. Cup Reuters East India fund for British War services has air ministry about for construction of an aircraft to be known As the East India flight predicts Allied win new York june 15. Many has won the first phase of the War but the outcome of the conflict will be favourable to the allies Emil Ludwig noted German author and biographer said Here yester Day. The author termed president Roosevelt the greatest statesman in the world today.1 for snapshots you May win More than in local and National awards. 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