Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Member of the Canadian press the Canadian press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of All news despatches credited to it or to the associated press in this paper and also the local news published herein. Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg saturday june 22, 1940 Price 5c per copy edition with comics we Bryce s homemade bread is different London postpones debate on evacuation of children open Homes All Canada to Aid refugee children by the Canadian press canadians rallied today the scheme to bring British children to the safety of the Dominion from the threat of Ger Many s from coast to coast organization work is proceed ing to find Homes for the thousands of children the British government May wish to Send. At Ottawa. Senator Cairine Wil son chairman of the National com Mittee on refugees which now is concentrating on appeals for Homes for British children said applications were pouring in from All parts of the country. She added the Esti mate that already suitable Homes for children had been sur i eyed was conservative. J the resources minister. Hon. T. A. Rorar said organization work is being completed so Canada will be in a position to Welcome As Many monday races first ship with Speed and a As May come. Meanwhile track should be Able for h no to acc he to erasure of this Fiel i i Orcen a a Good sort Andion ranks As i contender. Blac Whit be dangerous. F. D. Blair immigration director holding meetings with railway officials arranging for special trains with sleeping accommodation and diners to move the children to Vari second race lace Broom ious Canadian centres As soon Asha been raining Well and appears reach this country to have in this juvenile provincial governments Are co affair. My verse should go with the Federal adminis training re ports Are Guod of nitration. Thistle Nancy. At Frecie Ricton. J. Bacon Dickson third flight of attorney general of new to form and a Muddy i Brunswick said that within the will be an. Advant next two weeks the province will be in a position to take its share of or 1 ase. Bakerstown must not be Over looked. He a capable of upsetting. Maleo Bird should go Well in this company. Fourth race Lee Somers have a Good cd go Here. He is it and ready. Fair Beck like track conditions and must to considered. Douglas Kac May Surprise. Fifth Feng appears to have an Edge Over an excellent Icid. He raced Well at Whittier and any race track condition suits. Sub Olmom has been training very veil and so rail go better than her la Mishi indicate. Re Coatna must not he Uteri looked. Sixth looks like a tha first Batch of children from great Britain. Flood of offers i in the hands a committee at St. Johns Newfoundland. Nova Scot ians Are responding j enthusiastically to the plan and i officials engaged in the work said i Many Many offers have been i received. Homes of bilingual Quebec prov Ince will Welcome the children we Are getting scores of enthusiastic said Mildred Ken sit member of the Montreal Branch of the National committee on refugees. Vanguard of hundreds of refugee children expected to reach Ontario Good spot for sirloin at a price., Homes seven children three and Nome Lester with the rail will be tour years will arrive in to sangcrou.-. Sun Madras should go j Rollo this week end. Veil in his company. Seventh race Monk s first or in 5 and appears 10 have Saskatchewan is ready to find Homes for of the British Refu gee children according to Hon. A Edge River this company. Kady t. Procter minister in charge of Kate will be dangerous As. She has j the Saskatchewan Bureau of child plenty of Early Speed. Expect to 5ec Mcnan go Well. In a nutshell first ship is Green Black thu. Second Broom my verse. Nancy. Third race flight of Gold Maleo Bird. Fourth Somers Beck. Douglas . Fifth race my Feng school Moniri. Re Coatna sixth Nonie Lester. I Sun Madras. Seventh first Kady Kate. Mcnern. Clown Rol Ling snot. Esco Star. Somers. Protection. More than 100 private Home own ers in Alberta have offered to take care of the children. Superintendent t. R. Elaine of the child welfare Branch of the Alberta health department said. Edward Hodgson Pioneer resident of Victoria. . Said he would turn Lover his 300-acre Patricia farm Al North Stanion rent free without any strings for the for the accommodation of refugee touch and go As sub threatens tense moments gripped the . Liner. Washington loaded with americans fleeing the War zone when it was threatened with sinking by a German submarine off the coast of Portugal on june 11. Passengers and Crew were already lowering lifeboats when after an Exchange of signals the liner was allowed to proceed. Note the two women in a Lifeboat with their arms about children. This Pic Ture was taken by the ship s photographer. The Washington reached new York yesterday. Big Trail Plant quiet but eloquent on War basis Trail. ., june 22. Huge Plant of the consolidated min ing and smelting company of Canada. Ltd. Here is going on a War time production basis and every employee was asked to do his bit by doing his utmost which Means that he will be required to work seven Days a week when needed. The announcement was made by s. G. Blaylock president and Man aging director of the smelting company Here last night. There Are possibilities that we will be commissioned to Lake on even further work for War purposes in addition to present commit or. Blaylock said. Propose to take Back such of our pensioners and retired men As Are fit and willing to Canadian soldiers and airmen bring cheer to British Folk by Francis Stevens. A British seaport june quiet Welcome was Given the Strong reinforcements of the Canadian army and air Force. There was less noise than was noticeable during similar events the past. Lacking any kind official ceremony speech making or presence of Cabinet ministers the arrival was Elo quent of the mounting Tempo of the War Effort and of the realization of the Gravity of the situation. The canadians who brought such cheerfulness and Calm Assurance actress rejoins Canadian army Toronto june 22. Up Ross Hamilton. Canada s leading female Impersonator and the famed mar Jorie of the dumbbells is in the army again. He signed thursday with the Canadian army medical corps and Friday was fitted with Battle dress. City to help its employees buy Bonds the civic finance committee approved the payroll deduction plan for Purchase of War savings certificates by civic recommended an you should have seen the startled look on the stenographer s face when i gave my occupation on the enlistment form As Hamilton told newspapermen. She insisted it should be actor and the officers who knew me maintained it should be anyway he s still listed As actress on the form. Overnight entries of horses Nark. For monday s claiming. Three year Olds and also Bob. Thomson 113 Black Zephyr 108 Mabel Kins s heiress 103 Royal pirate 112 in chains 107 major Stedman 103 x103 excluded i .5300. Maidens. . Four also clip Ible Forest Queen i Lester 1121 Madam Somers 10e wild Deer 108 sky Aee .112 Arab so Mars 111 Golden Han 105 Victoria m. 102 4 excluded Hack purse s500. Claiming hungry hordes Farmers Battle Hopper army in Saskatchewan and Alberta Grasshoppers have started operations on an area 100 Miles Long and 50 Miles wide covering Grainfield in South Western Saskatchewan and adjacent territory in Southeastern Alberta. The hoppers Are on the increase in this area despite an extensive poisoning Campaign. And up. One Maleo Bird Early Beck also eligible miss Claxton Venus cd Happy Hunter Ile and Al Dpi 330 i. Claiming six and one half Ioc savings stamp Purchase urged Purchase of War savings certificates by West Kildonan Council urged by councillor j. Pearce at a meeting Friday night. While there no Money budgeted for such a Pui pose councillor Pearce believed that the Public Utility Board would allow the expenditure pointing out that other municipalities had bought certificates. Announcement was made that the West Kildonan aquatic club s second season of activity will officially open on saturday. June 29. Located on the Banks of the red reports from the Alberta Sec Ion. Released by Hon. D. B. Mulen Alberta minister of agriculture say 50 per cent of the crop on stumbled Fields has been damaged. S. H. Vigor Field crops commis Sion of the Saskatchewan depart ment of agriculture described the outbreak As the worst f have Ever the hoppers have concentrate n this District in the last two weeks while in Manitoba and other parts of Saskatchewan and Al Berta there is scattered infestation municipal and provincial govern the committee to urge the ent authorities have thrown their Winnipeg should _ Welcome a Lar full weight behind Farmers who re working Day Ana night in heavily smitten districts to spread 10j maid of Broxa .01 Kaywood jus or Lee Somers 107 ill Wayne Jewell 1cs i Tell purse s700. Handicap. Handicap. For three year Olds up. mile. ill rec Damn m Fonz 11 sky Empress 104 Ioc Jack o spa fies Street the club has More than 600 members. New features this year include dressing rooms swimming instruction it announced. And sixth purse s500. Claiming. And up. Five today s scratches 110 115 107 1112 101 Royal cup 108 also Tea merchant. 118 Sis Quintan los Cave boy ----x107 Dun Rode Al 13 Kavak 107 society editor. 113 purse s500. Claim ins. For for Var Olds and up. Six furlongs. First race miss Bane Winter neighbor. Mor Charm so Good merry Centaur. Second race Beauty warm. Hawk Stone. Third fourth race fourth cancelled and substitute race Izacc will also Cli Eible Nedrow Fitz Clyborn me on Sari Ron clan Grimsby Queen Jean 118 113 116 106 118 113 113 girl Iris Heather 101 it Cita .113 purse s500. Claim and up. Six and . Blind Fannie 103 also Marker. Daw 106 Jane k.108 Nell Strome 10g chinese custom.116 Alma Nugget los Olivia d. Modern maid listed according to Post los 113 Canso 10 . Scratch time 3.30 Pas time first race 2.30 . Be run As Doah. Society editor Alma nug get. Kayak. Ramble on Menen Sekena. Fair Romance. Fifth Han Hainaut maid. Sixth Sam. Seventh Oddesa Beau Pang. Maugham missing London. June 22. Of Somerset maugham the novelist said today he was in Paris shortly before the germans entered the City and that they have heard nothing from him since the German occupation. Employees additional j and of s500 this year to the tourist and convention Bureau Friday Afler Oon. The payroll deduction plan would atari july 15. After hearing representations by Roy Parkhill. Vice president of the tourist and convention Bureau the committee voted an additionc.1 Grant of which would make the City s total contribution to the Bureau for. This year. A request from f. A. Allden Secretary treasurer of the Winnipeg school Board that the City Council provide the Board with an additional this year in order to enable it to give school Board employees the same 2.41 per cent wage restoration As had been Given to civic employees was considered. Or. Allden stated in a letter that the school Board did not whether its Bankers would be will ing to permit it to overdraw its account to provide the necessary 000 but that in any Case the Board was averse to handling the matter in that Way. The committee ordered a copy of a letter Isom h. C. Thompson City treasurer be sent to the Board in which or. Thompson stated that the wage restoration for civic employees would Cost the some this year for which no pro vision had been made in the City s budget. This sum would be reflected on the City s books As a deficit at the end of the year unless reve Nues increased Over what had been estimated or expenditures were nazi error deadly attack on Hay stack London june 22. Cup one German bomber streaked away from his flight today to attack what he apparently took to be an Airport. Re swooped Low dropped a Salvo of incendiary and explosive bombs and zoomed away. Flames lighted the sky and the inv Ler circled Back and dropped a second Load. The fire spread. Came Daylight and the Farmer whose Field was taken for an air port discovered his Hay stacks Ana crops were burned. That was the total damage. Farther along the East coast an incendiary bomb fell through a roof and landed on the bed of an 82 year old woman who calmly smothered the bomb in blankets and then put in a Call for an air raid Warden who found her at a table playing patience. Government supplied Farmers also life insect bait baiting sur rounding districts in Hope that the Scourge can be confined. Between 200 and 300 tons of poisoning Mash is being shipped daily to the affected zone in Al Berta but demand is far exceed g the available Supply. Heaviest hit districts heaviest demands come from Manyberries Orion Etzikom nem islam. Bow Island Winnifred and Whitla in Alberta. In Saskatchewan special trains carry the Poison into the Southwest where Between and acres of wheat Are threatened. Already some Farmers had los their entire stubble crops or vigor said. The Saskatchewan end of the infested area centres around Eastend. Loomis Robsart and not Keu. Mural of Mussolini covered by Church Montreal june 22 of Benito Mussolini and his fascist retinue have been obliterated from a mural in the dome of the Church of our lady of defence depicting the signing of the Lateran treaty Between the Pope and in Duce. Large strips of Brown paper were pasted Over the fascist figures Fol lowing complaints from members of the congregation. _ t Thompson wrote. Presumably the school Board was in exactly the same position he observed. R. Maxwell Moore appeared be that number of English children. The Public safety committee recommended that a permit to erect he Long disputed filling station at Stafford Street and Corydon Avenue be granted to Skinner Brothers providing that satisfactory plans were submitted to the commissioner of buildings. The site for the filling station has been contested for three months and has been the subject of a petition and a counter petition from members of the neighbouring St. Ignatius roman Catholic Church. Not enough Taunton England june 22. Up with their boundless health were a feast for the eyes to old country people. Some of those who witnessed the arrival wished that the Welcome had been More vividly dramatized but if you had seen the faces of the people As the airmen marched to their station you would have heard softly spoken words that were More eloquent than cheers deeper than song. The fluttering of women s hands was More expressive than the waving of flags and the affectionate looks in the eyes of men and women whose sons were also in service made one realize that Here there were ties of heart uniting the old country with can Adian parents. Over 150 nurses headed by Matron Jean Machray stirred up our Faith. If they Are As efficient As they Are Beautiful then the soldiers entrusted to their care will make speedy recoveries. Some soldiers and nurses brought with them greetings from friends in Canada. Story of despair Robert service author of songs of a sourdough and his wife and daughter arrived in England on a cargo boat which was one of the last to leave France. They left their car by which they escaped behind on the Dock. Service told of the despair of the French people and of their Lack of information As to what was going on. Although reported coming to eng land there is reason to believe that the Duke of Windsor and his wife Are going to America. I have Trust worthy information that lady Alex Andra Metcalfe wife of the Duke s former Querry has gone to the United states to make arrangements for their arrival. New phase of Effort London june 22. Up Cable the daily Telegraph in an editorial today said that a new phase the Empire s War Effort was marked by the disembarkation of two units of Royal Canadian air Force com Splete with machines and equipment when they arrived with the further contingent of Canadian troops in Britain this week. The newspaper said this was the first occasion on which overseas air units had arrived fully ready for immediate service. From now on there will be steady and increasing inflow not Only from Canada., but presently from the other dominions the Telegraph said. By Edwin Johnson somewhere in England june 22. Up the strains of mar tial music and the welcoming cheers of the populace a Large contingent of Canadian troops marched or Rode proudly into Camp yesterday. They have come from every province of the Dominion to the Aid of the motherland in her hour of direst need. Train after train disgorged its complement of smart Sun tanned soldiers who have been in training almost As Long As their proficient comrades of the first division. The baby Bond Sale pleases official the Sale of War savings certificates is going very very Well the scheme is a Complete said j. A. Sullivan Deputy postmaster general of Canada and officer commanding the Canadian postal corps Here and overseas Friday night. In Western Canada the response has been he said and although i have been out of touch with the East for some time. I imagine the situation is the same or. Sullivan has just returned from a tour of the West where he visited Post offices units of the postal corps and branches of the general censorship Board of which he is a member. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter and is staying at the Royal Alexandra hotel. Ambulances arrive Bordeaux june 22. American ambulances piloted by col. James Sparks of Indianapolis Cable r. B. Bennett former j prime minister to Canada said yesterday that he did not believe Halfway measures with respect to fifth columnists Are any Good at presenting College or. Bennett said in the prizes at King s comprehensible that column could exist in fifth England where men enjoy Liberty and free Dom consistent Only with British our vast Empire cannot be de he said. A congregational meeting of St. Giles United Church will be held monday night in the lecture room at 8 o clock to discuss pastoral re lations. Rev. J. E. Mcneill. The present minister came to St. Giles from peace River Alberta three years ago. Were glad to be off the train after a journey of More than 12 hours but happier still in the knowledge they now Are in the actual theatre of War with the Prospect of seeing action before Long. With the new arrivals came the first detachment of Canadian Nurs. Ing Sisters most of them from Tor onto and Winnipeg. They were sub t up into two groups the West Erners proceeding to Canadian rec Cross Hospital and the Toronto nurses to a military Hospital near the Canadian theatre of operations both hospitals will be opened shortly. Lightning kills seven Ocala fla., june 22. Seven persons were killed by lightning during a thunderstorm near Here yesterday. The victims were gathering watermelons and sought shelter under a tree. Officials studying plan to bring Young refugees out of Battle zone London june 22. House of commons debate on the plan to sent British children to Canada and the other dominions scheduled to be held next tuesday has been postponed As ministers have been so Busy with other work the British broadcasting corporation reported last night. Mcnaughton s recall opposed Toronto june 22. Up j. M. Macdonnell president and general manager of the National Trust com Pany told the investment dealers association of Canada last night there Are grave objections to proposals to recall . A. G. L. Mcnaughton from England and place him in charge of Canada s War Effort Here. Or. said that Gen. Mcnaughton commander of the 1st division of the Canadian Active service Force knows All the Mem Bers of the High command in Bri Tain and that his importance in England probably far outweighs his command of the Canadian con Tingent. Canadian Yards Rushing ships Ottawa june 22. Tion of Canada s 82 vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy is progressing with All possible Speed at 18 Points across Canada and shipyards and auxiliary industries Are working full overtime commander a. C. M. Davy director of shipbuilding at naval Headquarters Here announced today. Canadian Industry and labor is rising to the emergency he said. The shipbuilding Industry has been depressed Over the last num Ber of years but the difficulties met at the outset of the War have been rapidly overcome. The work ers Are making strenuous efforts in arrived Here today on orders that the ships May be com withdraw in the face of the in record Advance. The orders apply to units of the american ban june 22. Up a de some american Drivers regulation published today. Known to have been captured the entry Eire citizens 1 were listed As missing today Northern Ireland after july 1 it was believed that others they Are travelling on Busin making their Way to vital to the United kingdom. Red Cross knitting Needles Fly in hands of this is the first of a Short series dealing the work the Canadian red by Philip Click Click. Please lady do you have to knit on Street car what s that a Navy sock for the red Cross Click Click. Madam must you knit when Gable s such a swell Job of kissing Vivian Leigh or a an Scarf for the red Cross you say your boy Friend s England no no you go right and so it goes. There Are of these women in Manitoba fuss that is staggering in Day in and Day out. Ply their seemingly endless detail. Less Needles determinedly with Wool she explained is Usu calculable Miles of Khaki air issued to the Branch by red Blue and Navy Blue yarn Headquarters in Toronto scarves mitts socks sweaters in some instances is Many other warm articles for by the Branch itself from soldiers of salvation. Banded zealand and Australia arrives Gether in organized groups of Winnipeg in 200-Pound Bales. Unitary workers their Battle cry four Ordinary skeins of Wool Victory their coat of arms approximately one Pound. Red in itself the Best Means of but organizing the amount of Wool in spread All Over cities and Bale. Is no simple matter. That there distributed no overlapping in the work arrived in Winnipeg waste indeed no hitch of any Scott continued the Wool is Speaks volumes for the manner distributed As needed to the which Manitoba Headquarters red Cross branches in the the Canadian red Cross the branches in turn situated in the civic auditorium it on to the various groups for the society. Paeans of Praise might be Wool she explained was indeed to Roy Snyder. Before being sent out and and All seeing Eye of the when being returned As and to his staff of eight and a tic Les. This was to Hose patriotic warriors of the no loss of weight through Roht the voluntary women waste. To further ers. For it is because of them the determination of the he Manitoba Branch ranks to control waste mrs. O Toronto in All said that even Odds and ends the Story behind the clicking Needles is an interesting one Wool to be used for alterations had to be requisitioned before be Story told by kindly mrs. C. M. Scott Wool convener quietly Given out. Wool being sent to the branches whether in the country or in the was earmarked As to the size and Type of article in a sure it was to be made. This is to regulate the demand and at All times. Here s a sure fire Way knitted articles when re move those Are immediately sorted items like office devices counted mrs. Scott explained. You want to sell Are examined for lumps adding machines seem to have the unhappy meters filing cabinets of forming in the toe. Any chairs bookcases or any of Are rectified by an sex Hundred other things use Board of the voluntary free press want and. Who Are in the room at reach hundreds of every Day just for who May be looking for purpose of de lumping Stock very thing you have to and other similar renovating and you la get effective Are then placed in Indi bins and. As they reach the use Mark Are tied together in special manner to await Over free shipment. The red Cross shipping cases Are All identical in Quick 36 inches by 24 by 24. And the capacity of each appears to be want one such Case for example will hold 480 pairs of heavy socks. The broadcast said sir Geoffrey Shakespeare under Secretary for the dominions and chairman of the reception Board will make a broadcast address on the scheme within a few Days. It was announced last night that owing to the Paramount necessity of conserving Britain s foreign Exchange resources the Treasury a d ruled thai parents wishing to Send children to Canada or the United states independently of Ern ment evacuation scheme will not be allowed to Transfer funds to those countries for the maintenance of the children. 8 desperately anxious i Washington june 22. Cap Al declaring that great Britain is desperately anxious to Send its children away at once from the impending Battle of the British Isles Roland to Robinson member of parliament h yesterday discussed informally with the House of representatives foreign affairs committee plans for Stab f Lishing them in the United states and Bermuda. A if they attack England they la meet such resistance As they never 4 dreamed Robinson said with a grim smile. No one is frightened. They be got a very great courage. They f just want to get their children out of Murray plan reported f London june 22. Up Cable the columnist of the Peterborg Ough Telegraph said today that 3 maj. W. E. Gladstone Murray Gen j eral manager of the Canadian Al broadcasting corporation is con i sideling a proposal to adopt for the duration of the War children of members of the British broadcasting in corporation staff. The children would be sent to Canada the col 3 Mnist said. Insurance men offer i Toronto june 22. Up five Anonymous Toronto life insurance i officials offered last night to place at the disposal the Ontario t Public welfare department two j Large Homes one Zerafa Northe other j near Hamilton for refugee children from the european War zones. The. Men expressed willingness to As sume responsibility for selecting House mothers and staffs for the Homes and to defray jointly Allex lenses. Rev. S. W. Sawchuk j Calls conference i delegates laymen and priests representing More than 200 parishes j of the ukrainian greek orthodox Church in Canada will meet at the eighth Council of the Canadian diocese at Saskatoon. Sask., aug. 5 4 and 5, it was announced by it Rev. S. W. Sawchuk head of the Canadian consistory of that Church j Friday night. The Council meets once in five years and there Are j Many important questions to be dealt with. A Retreat of the priests will be y held for three Days prior to the meeting of the Council. J archbishop John Theodorovich j. Head of the Church in Canada and j the United states will attend. J Bevin elected a by acclamation London june 22. Up Ernest Bevin. Minister of labor was re i turned to the House of commons from Central Wandsworth today. The seat was made vacant by the j Elevation of col. H. L. Nathan labor to the peerage. I or. Bevin. Formerly general Sec i rotary of the transport workers Union was appointed minister of j labor when Winston Churchill be came prime minister last month. A the seat was not contested today in conformity with the wartime j political truce among the parties. Veteran aged 60, j would fight again four campaigns apparently have not been enough for 60-year-old Herbert Kettlewell of Miami Man. Wounded in the first great War. The old Soldier is now in Hospital having his wounded foot fixed so t he can go Back and beat up the germans Kettlewell began his military career in 1897, when he fought in the Soudan War. From there he went to the Indian Campaign of j 1898. He served in South Africa j during the Boer War and again in the War of 1914-18 he Hopes to be j Able to take in the present conflict. Haven in England London. June 22. Vieve Tabois. French journalist and commentator on diplomatic affairs arrived in England last night aboard a refugee ship. She fled France where her bitter anti nazi articles had been published for years in the Radical socialist newspaper l oeuvre. A record sugar crop of metric tons was produced in Para Guay last year ;