Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 03, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba W Winnipeg free press wednesday july 3, 1540 St. Louis july 3. Bup the groundwork for a third party move ment sponsored by John l. Lewis of the Congress of Industrial organizations dedicated to liberalism and peace and supporting sen. Bur ton k. Wheeler a. Mont., for presi Dent has been Laid at a convention of Townsend clubs Here. Lewis sounded the third party cry in an address to the Townsend ites yesterday afternoon. He said that president Roosevelt was doomed to ignominious defeat if he ran for a third term that sen. Wheeler the Only Man who could beat Wendell l. Willkie the Republican presidential nominee and that in Jess the democrats nominated Wheeler for president he ranted to see organized labor peace advocates youth and Townsend old age pension groups organize a third party to run Wheeler. Senator Wheeler made a plea for a Strong Liberal peace movement outside the two major parties if necessary. He said he would not support any candidate who was not pledged to keep the United states out of War. Al Willkie serves notice new York july 3. Willkie yesterday served notice upon corporations that lie wanted no corporate contributions in any Guise whether they be advertising in Campaign books programmes or anything honorable contributions would be accepted he said but those exceeding from any one source would be rejected. In my judgment this is the peo ple s movement and i want to keep it As he said. Willkie put governor Harold k. Stassen of Minnesota Keynoter of the Philadelphia convention and floor Leader of the Willkie forces at the head of his Campaign advis Ory committee. T9reo tender of your feet arc simply killing you Mas Sage night and morn info with Buckley s stainless White rub. The results will sur Earl of Athlone s daughter arrives Quebec july 3. May Abel Smith daughter of the Earl of Athlone and the Princess Alice arrived Here yesterday from great Britain with her three children. She will visit her parents at Rideau Hall. I Don t know How Long we will be in the she told re porters but added that she would probably stay for several months. Arriving on the same ship was fran Engelbert dollfuss. Widow of the Chancellor of Austria and her two children 12-year-old Eva and Rudi. Nine. Another passenger was Joseph Meek a member of the Brothers of Christian instruction and a native of Montreal. He said he and six fellow members of the order had just left in time the Channel islands where German troops landed this week after nazi planes had bombed the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. One member of the order brother Hubert remained on Jersey he said and we Don t know what has be come of the Island of Jersey is Headquarters for the order. Not Joseph Paul Boncouri new York july 3. Paul Boncouri. Former French Prem Ier was not aboard the Atlantic Clipper which arrived yesterday from Lisbon but the passenger list included his Nephew Jean Paul 5ss so mlis St. Former counsellor of the fort. You la find it equally cd Active for French embassy at Washington stiff Muscles sunburn bites and Lisbon earlier reported the French 30c and ofic at All druggists. A statesman was aboard. A. J. Hells Hief of personnel for the Cana Dian National railways Montreal whose appointment As chairman of the new National labor Supply Council has been by he prime minister s office. The Council is composed of five representatives of labor and five of Industry with or. Hills As chairman. Nazi casualties put at Berlin july 3. Ger Man High command in a report yes erday on the Campaign against the of countries and France said that since May 10, a total of Ger Man soldiers had been killed wounded and missing. Hitler previously announced his Otal dead wounded and missing in the Norway Campaign As in the polish Campaign the total was placed at All these figures Are regarded a Allied circles As much lower Han the real German losses Allied air losses the German Ligh command claimed amounted o 792 air planes and 27 balloons from june 4. Since the Middle of May the e report said tons of merchant shipping have been sunk by submarines and since june 5, Allied shipping losses inflicted by German air forces totalled 229. 000 tons. There was no Allied comment on these claims from any where in Manitoba to anywhere in this new inexpensive Cable service social letter Tele Fumm inaugurated last year by Imperial is available from Canada to All Points in the British Empire. A Glt must Bear full Vosquil address must be entirely n social message Fumii and so must be written in Plain inuit have a Clear meaning. Prepaid replies allowed a same rate. 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Our manager will Welcome the Opportunity to talk Over your requirements in a manner that will be Friendly and understanding. Incorporated 1855 1340 Bartlett urges blockade of Spain London. July 3. Up Vernon Bartlett m.p., writing in the news chronicle Torday urged Britain to blockade Spain since Spain now s in direct Contact with Germany he said had almost a world monopoly of Mercury from he Almaden mines in Southern Spain and vast new supplies of Rop Ore. There Are already some ermans in Spain and the imminent arrival of mechanized troops or a triumphal Parade at san Sebastian naturally gives Rise to questions about British measures o secure control of the Western or. Bartlett said. Lord Beaverbrook s daily express asking whether non Belli Gierent Spain is going to follow non belligerent Italy into the War against us said this much is Plain. You need have no fear of sir Samuel Hoare appeasing Franco. For Franco is n no position to threaten us. Sir Samuel is now British Ambas Sador at Madrid. The express said this country not going to repeat the mistake we made with Italy respecting neutrality if it does not refuse to Send princesses abroad London july 3. King and Queen have firmly rejected suggestions from influential Quad ers that Princess Elizabeth. 14, and sister Princess Margaret Rose be sent out of. The country to one of the dominions because of the danger of a German invasion the daily mail said today. Repeated efforts to persuade their majesties to Send the two princesses to a safer land have received this answer in effect we All face a common peril. Thousands of parents in this coun try Are compelled to keep their Chil Dren at Home. We would prefer of share whatever family perils Here May be with parents of this confirm ruling on Alta. Debt act Calgary july 3. Al Berta court of Appeal yesterday confirmed the judgment of or. Justice a. F. Ewing holding that the debt adjustment act of the Alberta legislature is Ultra Vires insofar As it affects the right to enforce payment of Bills of Exchange and promissory notes in the provincial courts. The test Case was brought by the Atlas lumber company limited and was defended by the e attorney general of Alberta. Or. Justice Frank Ford wrote the judgment in which the chief judge and other members of the court of Appeal concurred. Schools to protest Low flying planes a request from St. James school Board that the proper authorities be asked to prevent air planes Fly ing too Low Over the schools during hours was forwarded to j. Shields of the civil aviation Board after discussion at a meeting of the St. James Council tuesday night. A notice was received from the Hon. W. R. Clubb provincial min ister of labor and Public works stating that in connection with the Winnipeg unemployment administration Board an increase of five cents in the food vouchers of Relief recipients would be effective for july. Council adopted a proposal of the Public utilities Board that an air port Trust be established on a basis of recent sales of properties near the Airport made by the Pality to the Dominion government. Thinks nazis ill avoid Balkan War London july 3. Times described soviet Rusia s Advance into the Balkans As designed to keep Germany and her Axis partner at a Safe and respectful distance.1 in this country it will be Well to suspend judgment on these proceedings and to resist the temptation to exaggerate any displeasure which they May have caused at the newspaper advised in an editorial on the Balkan caul the times expressed the View however that the soviet Advance has complicated Many problems for nazi soviet troops Are now established far too near to rumanian Oil Fields for Germany s peace of the times continued. Hungary indignant that Satis faction Given to Moscow s claims against Rumania should be re fused to her own is pressing her demands in Rome and doubtless also in Berlin. Bulgarian impatience though More carefully veiled is not less real and not less Well founded the newspaper commented that it will be the task of German diplomacy and German propaganda to keep All these balls in the air at once. Any general outbreak of hostilities in the Balkans would be More than an embarrassment. It would jeopardize Germany s sup plies at a moment when she is about to embark on her decisive Challenge to Britain. We May feel sure that she will pay almost any Price to Avert it Alta. Bank act talked out at Ottawa Ottawa july 3. Tion of an Alberta provincial Bank on lines proposed by new democracy members was opposed in the House of commons last night by the finance minister Hon. J. L. Ral Ston and Hon. b. Hanson conservative Leader and the measure was talked discussion not having ended within the hour. While sponsors of the Bill cited Assurance from the former finance minister Hon. C. A. Dunning that an Alberta Bank act would be facilitated if it stuck to the rules the Bill before parliament was at tacked As contravening several sections of the Bank act. John h. Blackmore n.d., Leth sponsoring the Bill said Alberta was the Only province not increasing its debt during the period it had been in office and had dealt realistically with the debt prob Lem applying the principle now generally recognized across the Dominion of adjusting debt to the debtor s capacity to pay. The present government had Cut expenses and increased Revenue. Through a Central purchasing Board alone it would save a year. Cabinet ministers directors the people of Alberta and their government would be shareholders in the proposed Bank he said and its directors would be Cabinet ministers of the province. Its Issue of currency and credit would be limited by the provisions of the Bank act As was the Case with any Bank. Or. Blackmore said Alberta peo ple lacked adequate banking facilities at present 92 branches having closed from the end of 1929 to july 1935. In the last 10 years 130 Bank branches in Alberta had been closed More than half of which were closed before the social credit government was elected. Col. Ralston protested that the outstanding feature of the Bill was that it purports to make Parlia ment in effect a rubber stamp for the lieutenant governor in Council of Alberta in that the members of the executive Council Are to be directors of the this he said was not within the terms of the Bank act which required election of directors and officers with specific qualifications. Not operative the finance minister noted Sev eral spots in which the Bill would not comply with the Bank act. For instance the Section prohibiting Issue of. Bank notes until approval of the Treasury Board was obtained was not to be operative. Treasury Board certificates authorizing operation of the Bank for one year were not to be required Here. There was also a grave Constitution question of whether the do minion parliament could make a banker out of a lieutenant Gover nor in Council. If All the sections of the Bank act were made inapplicable As pro posed what would be left would not be a Bank but simply a provincial government department or. Hanson commented. G. H. Ross lib., Calgary in his first speech in the House claimed the Bill was not in the interests of the people of or. Dunning had agreed to facilitate incorporation of a Bank by a group of social credit supporters complying with the Bank act but not by the provincial government itself using Public funds. Concession to . Ottawa july 3. Of the Canadian Active service Force May obtain round trip rail Way tickets for the Price of a single fare Hon. G. C. Power told the House of commons yesterday. He answered a question from g. K. Fraser con., Peterborough or. Power said where special week end fares were offered by railways they were available to soldiers As Well As civilians. King cancels Holiday London july 3. King last night signed a defence Regula Tion cancelling the August Bank Holiday which this year would have been August 5. The last Bank holi Day. May 13, also was cancelled. Mark a. Smith of Thomaston Georgia new presi Dent of kiwanis International. Smith Long Active in Georgia and National educational affairs was named kiwanis head at the annual convention in Minneapolis Minn. Time for realistic Faith Rev. G. Roth tells youth meeting Calgary july 3. Is the duty of modern men to move to Ward a More realistic Faith declared Rev. G. W. Roth Brandon Man., in an address yesterday to the United Church of Canada Western Young people s convention. The convention with 140 delegates and visitors attending from the four Western provinces is meeting Here this week. We have been caught or. Roth . We have been unprepared spiritually for this crisis. Our Little system will not it was out of times like these the speaker said that christianity was born. But modern Man had been betrayed by the Inadequacy of secularism. It was now the time for a new and realistic Faith to appear he declared. Or. Berth s topic was Faith for a new Era. Is erring on customs inspector Dies at Regina Regina july 3. Of a customs District which took him All Over Saskatchewan and Mani Toba and at one time one of the Best Centre forwards on a football Field in the province James Stanley Errington of Regina died suddenly yesterday afternoon while driving his car along Dewdney Avenue. He was 52. A resident of the West for More than 30 years or. Errington was widely known on the Prairies both through his business and his sport connections. His customs District formerly took in Alberta and be fore coming to Regina he worked at the Royal Bank at Craik and with a real estate firm at Weyburn. Besides his wife or. Errington leaves four daughters Patsy mar ried in Montreal Evelyn a nurse in training at Winnipeg and Ruth and Nora at Home. Keith Macpherson injured at Brandon Brandon Man., july 3. Special of Keith Macpherson son of a. M. Macpherson Home Crest farms Brandon who was injured tuesday afternoon when he fell from a horse during a running race was reported As considerably improved late tuesday. Examination at Brandon Hospital revealed the youth suffered several cracked ribs. Macpherson was trampled by a following horse after he slipped to the track. Tanker torpedoed new York july 3. Radio said last night it had intercepted an sos from the British Tanker ath Ellaird saying it had been torpedoed and calling for immediate the ship gave its position is about 400 Miles Southwest of the Irish coast. Survivors landed san Sebastian Spain july 3. Survivors of a Brit ish merchantman which was torpedoed and sunk while in route to Britain with wheat were brought Here yesterday aboard two Spanish fishing boats. Naval authorities withheld the name of the British ship. Report foreign legion disbanded new Tork july 2. Ported British broadcasting corporation overseas service Broad cast picked up Here by the National broadcasting company s Short wave station said today the French for eign legion is being disbanded under terms of the armistice. The announcer speaking in French said that legionnaires who fought in Norway and then re turned to England now might join the free French forces of general Charles de Gaulle. The French government of mar Shal Petain. Has been moved from Clermont Ferrand to Vichy and is now established there according to a broadcast on the Wavelength of the British broadcasting corporation picked up today by National broadcasting company. I. 7 mennonites pledge Aid to refugees at Winkler meeting Winkler Man., july 3. A Well attended meeting of representatives of All mennonite churches from Winkler Plum Coulee Rosen Feld Morden Hackett and districts was held monday in the . Church at Winkler in connection with Relief work in England. Representatives from the Provin Cial mennonite Relief committee Rev. J. J. Siemens Rev. J. B. Pen Ner and Hev Funk informed the meeting of their past work. The following resolutions were brought up by the provincial committee and carried unanimously by the Large meeting first build in Winkler a special Home for refugee children from England another two Chil Dren s Homes will be built by mennonite churches in Altona and Stein Bach. A committee of or. C. W. Wiebe j. A. Kroeker Winkler and p. S. Zacharias Reinland was elected to organize the children s Home in Winkler and to arrange the details with the department of health. Second organize in each school District sewing circles to pre pare the prescribed clothes for refugee children in England. Third collect Money for direct Relief work in England. Bishop h. S. Voth. Winkler acted As chairman for the meeting. Own nazi bomber chatter Bug charge Aberdeen Scotland july 3. Up Hendry a schoolmaster was released in bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to a Chat Terburg charge. He was accused of saying that the King and Queen were going to can Ada and that former prime ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain had sold out the country and should be shot. Singapore precautions Singapore july 3 up British authorities at this giant naval base today forbade movement of Small Craft in territorial Waters Between Sunset and Sunrise and prohibited All landings except at specified Points. The order followed monday s statement that Steps Are being taken to bring Malayan defence to a higher and prearranged state of preparedness in View of the general situation in the far East. Big subscription London july 3. Up Tagu Norman the Bank of England in a broadcast last night said has been subscribed to the new 2% per cent National War Bonds since they were placed on Sale eight Days ago. Nazis oust dutch mayor Amsterdam july 3. A the mayor of Amsterdam a. J. R. De Conchy was dismissed yesterday by the Reich s commissar for the Netherlands. No official reason was Given but the Well informed said the cause was failure to main Tain order London july 3 up a German Lomber was shot Down by British fighters off the East coast of eng and this morning the air ministry announced. Its communique said enemy bomber was shot Down by aircraft of the r. A. F. Fighter command off the East coast if England Early this . Renews subsidy Washington july 3. A United states agriculture depart ment announced yesterday it would continue Export subsidy programmes n wheat wheat flour and Cotton products during the fiscal year which began monday c icon s ban Lump am let the Bay a Peony show help you plan Beautiful Flower gardens hundreds of fresh gorgeous ones Pink ones creamy White ones a showing with a practical As Well As decorative you to choose your favorite Peony from actual blooms and to order selected healthy roots for delivery later on. Fifteen different kinds 9f peonies grown in hade s nurseries will be on display throughout the main floor you can see and compare the Lovely varieties. Cards will give you their names. Orders for roots will be taken in the elevator lobby main floor. Delivery will be made direct from the Nursery in the fall or next As you wish. Bouquet Lent Heric in special atomizer topped bottles 3-ounce 4 size i i 5-ounce 4 size i a new different and Delight Ful Way to apply refreshing Lent Heric colognes. All you do is to press the rubber dome Presto there s a Spray of your favorite per fume. Bottle has rubber band to guard against leaking and to make it practical for travel use. Available in Tweed a Bien Tot Shanghai Carnation and other fragrances. Toiletries main floor ther Bay Accident victims die Regina july 3. Top mrs. M. Parisien Pilot Butte and Jack Cros sen Moose jaw died Early tuesday morning in Hospital from injuries received in a Highway Accident monday when their truck turned Over. Private m. Parisien and miss Agnes St. Germaine 18, of Quappelle were also injured in the same Accident. An inquest has been ordered. Veteran drowns port Arthur ont. July 3 Melluish Veteran of the first great War was drowned sunday afternoon in Arrow Lake near the Pigeon River International Boundary it was Learned monday. Provincial police Are investigating. Companions of Melluish on a fish tag expedition w. Milway and n. Montgomery port Arthur and Thomas o Hara fort William were Able to save themselves when the Small boat they were using on a fishing trip overturned. Dozen passengers escape lunar Man., july 3 the entire dozen passengers the Stewart bus Winnipeg to Eriksdale saturday night escaped injury when the bus left the Road and turned Over about five Miles North of Here. The Driver was also unhurt. A broken tie Rod is believed to have caused the Accident. N c or to rated circular delivered to your Home today for thursday july 4th a 10-Page circular offering Many opportunities to Thrifty shoppers to fill their summer Holiday needs. Shop the Bay thursday and save note if you have not received your circular before 6pm. Wednesday phone 28 551. After 6pm phone 22 618 and one will be delivered to you at once. Thursday store hours 9 a m. To 5 30 p m. Dial All depts., 3-2-2 j a ;