Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 03, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Member of the Canadian press the Canadian press is exclusively entitled to the republication of All news despatches credited to it of to the associated press in this paper and also the local news published herein. A mpg. Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week. Winnipeg wednesday july 3, 1940 Price so per copy edition with comics inc to you know if Yea Don t want to taste bitter Medicine rub. Your Tongue with on w he Tonjue Deaden the taste Bryce s homemade bread is different Britain refuses japanese demand route stir stpfp1 Jolt of o 1 Elf i far a worthy cause Bird a Effort noted Ottawa. July 3. To tighten wartime discipline and regulations imposed upon individual activities natural resources and Industry became apparent on parliament Hill today. A series of announcements showed How government activities Are mov ing towards a More Complete mobilization of the nation s resources for War and a sharper limitation on the activities of individuals which May run counter to the National purpose. The development included 1. Creation by order in Council of a War industries control Board each member of which is clothed with wide Powers Over some Branch of Industry. 2. A recommendation from a Spe Cial committee of the House of com for stiffer penalties including second race Northern lad i death for persons aiding the enemy. Veil in his last and appears 3 announcement that aircraft needed for the British common wealth air training plan will be available from Canadian and other North american sources. I 4. Announcement that the Citadel merchandising company a govern ment owned corporation designed to Hutc stats races first Kace messenger maid adored by he rail appears to have in a closely matched held. Iron Mountain ran evenly ast out and ranks As the contender r. Pook will be dangerous Here. Best at the . Pagan dance hould so veil. Miss Claxton rates a contender. Third mortgage As turned in several Good races and should be Able to score Over Lis Field. Sun Madras has the rail and is a threat. Shannon Doah is capable of upsetting. Fourth a passage through Burma to Gen. Chiang Kai Shek will keep on functioning Tokyo july 3. Britain has refused the Jap anese demand that the arms route through Burma to the chinese forces of general Chiang Kai Shek be closed it was reported tonight. London s attitude was said to have been conveyed to the British ambassador in Tokyo sir Robert Craigie. Who has not it informed the foreign office Here Factor in the no sooner had school finished for the summer enterprising boys and girls throughout the City Corine need devising ways raid Means of raising Money to Aid the red Cross society. One of the most popular to Dale has been the circus. A group in St. Vital seen at left sponsored a circus. Saturday at the Home of mrs. N. Creasor. 94 Egerton Road and donated the proceeds to the red Cross. Three taking part were Muriel Hall in a ghost costume Reading fortunes Ruth Hall in Clown suit and Audrey Creasor. Eleven boys promoted a circus tuesday at the Home of mrs. J. Diamond 151 Alfred Avenue aiming to make at least so. Pictured Are Lawrence Diamond. David Malochy. Perry Silver Gordon Hoff Man and Nathan Frankel Harvey Swartz Morley Silver Sam Nisenboim Maurice Frankel Abie Lank and Eddie Diamond pears of be Well placed Here. Story Eller is a Peak form and must be considered. Shasta Fitz has Early peed. Faith Kace seventeen have Scep de weights in the 15th run ing i he Polo Park Handicap i t one mile and 70 Yards. Follow of her Sterl Ingace tuesday Cho Olmom appears to have a slight de. My Feng has been running Well and rates As a contender. Sky Empress lightly weighted is Cap ble of upsetting. Ensure a Supply of machine tools and equipment necessary to War Industry was in full operation. It will co ordinate production and procurement of machine tools through out the Dominion. O. Announcement that tradesmen a week Are being enlisted in the Royal Canadian air big Steps continued on Page 13, column 4 today s scratches first race Royal Saxon. Margaret ice. Ramble on. Visibility. Lady Aurelius. Buen Tono. Miss Bane sixth Kace Jel sweep unlucky merry go on. I his last appears to have a slight race. Edge Here. Sky Grev has been run Ning veil and May last. Ruffle up 5 now Ben v s rounding to Peak form. J fourth race Sun Tam. New . Law cats British purchases Washington july 3 ish acquisition of ready for use War materials in the United states appeared yesterday to have been greatly slowed Down by a new Law forbidding release of army and Navy equipment unless inc High command certifies it is not essential to the National defence. Reliable sources reported the War department had released nothing j for Sale to the allies since Congress passed the measure. Informed persons however said the bulk of the army s officially labelled surplus of old guns and ammunition had been cleaned up when the allies obtained Worth several weeks ago through a subsidiary of the United states steel corporation. Nedrow. Winter Teller. Sky Grey. Seventh looks like Hei fifth Good spot for Prince Somers. Has turned in several Good races race Royal Carol. Lace i Queen. Royal memory. Guns in hand i minion buyers from Britain running against snags in . By Chester a. Bloom. Washington b.c., july 3. Because of fear of the War approaching these shores and consequent Panicky efforts to get . Rearmament going on a huge scale the British munitions buying commission is finding some diff eel horror Nell Strome is a Good sort and1 seventh race miss Claxton. Maleo j disclosed that French troops London. July 3 Reuters news Agency despatch today from Jay Joseph Lincoln Luhan Vichy France said Gen. Maxime Park july 2. Via air courier t Wygand. In an order of the Day. J Berlin hunger. Should be close. Grand Melody sunny Colleen master Beau j in the Maginot line unaware of the uru Rise j Shasta Kup. Lady Sang Prince i armistice with Germany fought for in a nutshell flight of Gold. Five Days after the cease fire order. Maid Iron Moun Ain or. Pook. Lad. Pagan dance Diss Claxton. Mortgage Sun maj iras Shannon Doah. J 4 the Simonette Story Shasta Fitz. My Feng sky Empress. Sky Grey ruffle up. Somers Nell Strome. 3rand Melody. Lad. Overnight entries official of horses for thursday at Polo Park first purse claiming. Five fur Ona girl ill we Carol ill shining Sarah 104 Nek Cna 109 Joan Wex mar 98 104 103 ear Olds and up. Songs. Messenger maid 104 Saxon. i 9 Laurian Hlll Hope Flat Joe c Lufi Iron Hlll or. Pook 109 miss Bane 111 Ellen Teno Hlll que Jan Jean bloc also Jarac k ill second shoo. Claiming. For four year old and up foaled in can Ada. One mile and one Quarter. Northern lad 108 Van sett .103 Clear paean dance i11 Arky ins Early 103 great Joe -103 stage Fortune 105 per sctt Knight Loo miss Glaxon 106j ii Raj race purse Sion. War Mark wensleydale Sable Flar miss Zephyr 104 Captus 116 archaic Prince x104 the red Cross. If All questions arc answered correctly a total of s30 goes to the red Cross. So far the Bankers arc in the Lead with 24 Correct answers to their credit and they Are closely followed by news paper men with 23. Other contestants the Covern Nils tap. Sun Madra h s Daiil i ill Spring Vic e Uio Shi crack Lufi bit o1 Iron %-10c and up. Five fur also Vahi Skeena he Kady Kate ill Black zephyr., inst col cloister Hlll Nora Lea 104 chinese custom need .h6 mischief time 116 Are As follows University graduates Sanford veterans business women s sorority. Firemen Telegraph messengers. Dental nurses film Exchange furniture salesmen Kinsmen department store and men s club stenographers Young business men the following figures totalling represent the weekly amounts donated to the Manitoba division of the Canadian red Cross by or. Query on the Kling Kote College programme. This programme was heard Over sky and a network of Cana Dian stations. Five contestants Are chosen each week and a set of six questions is selected. Each contestant is asked six questions. For each question answered correctly is credited to red Cross Given by children a concert Given by a Small group of children ranging in age from three to 14, staged last week in the base ment of the Hazelmire apartments netted them s3 which was donated to the Manitoba red Cross. Those taking part were Joan Percival Shirley Young. Joan Hadder. Violet Kahoon. Myrtle Barthel Beverly . Esther Sayers Louis Gib son. Viola Virginia and Enid Christopherson. Raps legislation new York july 3. A mrs. Kerr nit Roosevelt whose husband is a major in the British army urged the United states yesterday torpedo boats she termed existing Law which bans such action outmoded to Transfer american to the British Flag. Filth and fatigue create new horrors for hundreds of thousands of refugees and imprisoned French soldiers. During a 150-mile journey through France in an american Hospital ambulance i visited prison Camps had struck and spread swiftly and mingled with refugees trudging along Dusty roads to the fled before the where tropical fever negro colonial troops Homes they Blitz Krulet we visited a prison Camp near St. Cloud just outside of Paris where exhausted French sol Diers existing amid unbelievable filth. There were wooden Barracks for some but Many slept out of doors under shelters made of branches and grass. The air was filled with the Mell of unwashed bodies. Prisoners dressed in tattered uniforms thrust into our hands pieces of paper on which written requests Foi tooth beef cubes and chocolate. Some offered Money Many begged for fresh bread. Counting not ended in liquor plebiscite Charlot Clown july 3. Up scrutineers Are counting ballots in King s county in Prince Edward islands liquor plebiscite june 25. Counting has been slow with the latest returns cutting into the dry majority built up in . The majority for continued prohibition in Canada s Only dry prov Ince now has been reduced to 902. There still remains the rest of culty in placing big orders. British Headquarters must Bear part of the blame the americans a that despite great changes in the attitude of British munitions purchasing since the Churchill government took office there is still too much delay that too Many questions have to be referred to Headquarters in Britain for a Defi Nite decision. It is also rumoured that the peace talk reports perhaps spread by the nazis themselves in the usual practice of disconcerting neutrals Friendly to great Britain have resulted in some reluctance of Ameri can industrialists to take on big orders involving further Plant expansion. That s an illustration of the Cape Breton miners go to work Glace Bay n.s., july 3. One Day tie up of five Dominion. Coal company collieries in Cape Breton affecting about men ended today As miners on the Day shifts went Down into the pits. The tie up was caused by refusal of native born canadians in 1-b, 2, 4, 10 and 20 collieries to work dts foreign born miners. Majority of the latter did not show up at the mines this morning and those who did made no attempt to go under ground. Ganda. Cleverness of their agents Triou sly promulgating King s county and Queen s county. The votes from nazi prop Are Indus stories that the War will be Over in the next six weeks or two months that Bri Tain will be Defeated and that uni Ted states munition plants taking big British orders will be left holding the sack. That s Why they Are work ing the same game in South Ameri can countries offering deliveries of huge orders of electrical equipment and machinery by next october under Cash penalties for non delivery. Though neutrals Are beginning to grasp the elements of this game unquestionably it still works on the minds of people frightened by the nazi terror. Shock still lingers american minds Are still so Shell shocked by the cataclysmic col lapse of France that so far there is no real crystallization of opinion either in government or private circles. It is useless to deny that there s a Large Section of american opinion which is craving peace Al any Price in Long Asil s the foreigner who is going to by he sacrificial Lamb. There Art plenty of americans who would cheer loudly to hear that great Britain had opened peace negotiations with the germans. Nevertheless the minor it opinion that sooner or later the jailed states must fight the nazis f not abroad on its own Home grounds is steadily gaining in dark Devi us Memphis 104 visibility 110 for Kwh 55no. Claiming three year Olds and up. Six and one Fralof Simonetty 114 Heroyan Sollin shot. U a Sno a Bro Story Teller Sis Quinlan. Club 107 Hauoli sorcery x114 also last i fit us Dunn Doc flu fifth race poll be s2.000 added Polo Park Handicap. For three year old "1 up. One and cd Yards. Bowery us Joey York Lomond sky Grey sorcery Good Han sir trap Seth dashing lad. Ern pros ibs hair Stone 106 maid 110 in Tributti Ina Fena 118 re coated 117 or Vinu he Miro loom Alk 1 mrs. R. L. Rotchford entry. Seth s5ou. Three year Olds and up ild a. Lin i Mont 113 master Beau fort Craig also Clig Ibi 110 Knack Elln Craig Mcgee be Yenta it sweep j Joe Bird Hole up Grey seventh s500. Claim "3 for t Iree Vear Olds and up. One flight of Gold. 118 Prince Somers. 108 also Moo san 118 Tinnemann x113 sky Saint 118 fair Romance. 113 Menen 106 113 110 Job 118 x113 x113 Jonty go on Strome Gyette Princi foe Kup. Scratch time 3.30 . Cost time first race. 2.00 c x apprentice allowance. Horses Are listed according the event of of the above races declared off the also eligible to f first race will be used As a substitute . S Home guard Condon. July 3 houses parliament now have their own local defence Volunteer corps to Uard them against parachutists re any other invaders. Strength. Contrary americans under the direction of Corporal Porteous Are r. E. Alaska Airport Fairbanks Alaska july 3. A on 500 acres of a Flat Sun seared piece of Interior Alaska the United states army has completed prelim Inary work for the runways of a Airport which will serve both a an air defence base and As tactical training Centre. Five air bases Are under construe lion in Alaska by the army and the Navy. At a Cost of perhaps 525, the services propose to. Be up at least the embryo of an Ai defence system. Defence Unity urged London july 3. Cup lord Beavert Rook s evening stand arc declared today that Ireland is in peril and her peril is the newspaper urging Unity o Northern Ireland and Eire for de Fence purposes said that added military preparedness in the Island is More than halved by political the people of England implore the people of. Ireland that the should search for Compromise the Standard said. United Ireland for defence purposes is a Para mount necessity for the safety of millions of lives. The joint boards of old St. An Drew s Church Elgin Avenue Are holding a reception and congregational Farewell at the close the evening service sunday to Farewell to or. And mrs. John Milne who Are leaving shortly to reside in Vancouver. This question is a Ense japanese political situation marked by Strong representations of army leaders to the Cabinet Over the policy to be followed in the far last in the Light of Allied reverses n Europe. Army leaders have presented to the Cabinet a formal statement Dis agreeing with a statement of Jap anese foreign policy by foreign minister Hachiro Arita on the round that it was not Strong enough and was Over conciliatory o democratic nations it was said authoritatively today. Gen. Shunroku Hata War mini Ter presented the army statement o Arita and to Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai it was asserted. Later today foreign minister Hachiro Arita stated that the differences with the army Over foreign policy had been settled. At the same time the extreme nationalist newspaper Kokmin which seeks to express the views of army and Navy leaders asserted that the United states was backing great Britain against demands that Aid o China be stopped and that America and Britain were about to reach an agreement for naval co operation in the Pacific. A further step was taken toward formation of an All embracing Polit ical party on fascist lilies one which would support Strong action by the fighting services and closer relations with Germany and when the Nakajima faction of the Sei Yukai political group second strongest in parliament voted for he party s dissolution at a meeting today. The other faction the Kun Aara faction had voted for Disso Lution last night. Evacuees each Manila Manila july 3. Liner bearing British women and children evacuees from the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong arrived in Bay today. Not blockading Hong Kong Hong Kong july 3. Ese Consul general k. Okazaki issued a statement today disclaiming any japanese intention to blockade this British Crown Colony by Mili tary measures taken along the Colony s Mainland Border. Suspended Ottawa july 3. Tion of the periodical Hlas l Udu published in the slovak language by the Hlas l Udu publishing association of Toronto has been prohibited by an order in Council published last night. The periodical is prohibited under the defence of Canada regulations As being pre judicial to the safety of the state and the efficient prosecution of the War the order said. Bennett 70. London july 3. Up Day was the 70th birthday of r. B. Bennett former conservative prime minister of Canada but he did not celebrate the occasion. Work for to general opinion Are docile to police authority. Policemen push United states citizens around in a manner a Canadian would never stand for . Cops Are Tough gentlemen to argue with. And the Point is this when policeman no. 1, the president be comes assured that the bulk of his people at last realize nazi expand Ion Means to Cross the Ocean against americans he will not have the slightest trouble in persuading Congress to order armed opposition. That can happen in a 24-hour Over turn. But not yet the time is not yet. Ford firm arranges Home for refugees Windsor ont., july 3. Wallace k. Campbell president of the Ford motor company of can Ada said today 27 English evacuee children accompanied by three adults Are expected in Windsor in a few Days to enter Homes arranged by his company. The group is Vanguard of a total of 127 children to be moved from England to Canada under plans Laid during the last several weeks by officials of the Ford organization in England and Canada or. Campbell said. Notification that All dog owners living in St. Boniface will be Given until july 5 to Purchase the required License was issued tuesday r. Dubreuil assistant License inspector St. Boniface. After that Date owners of unlicensed dogs will be subject to court action and the dogs will be impounded he said plans for big air scheme Plant almost Complete Gibson says Basic plans for one of the largest group construction under takings in the Empire air training scheme to be located adjacent to Stevenson Airport in St. James Are just Short of completion . Goodwin Gibson real estate adviser to the department of National defence announced in Winnipeg tues Day. Involving a Lay out of close to 60 acres the scheme Calls for the construction of an air plane Wing factory a repair depot and an air observers school employing approximately civilians in Addi Tion to . Personnel. The air observers school largely in process of construction is to be located on the Southwest Corner of Ellice Avenue and ferry Road. The contract was awarded to Claydon company limited St. Vital. Contract for the foundation of the aircraft factory has been let to Smith and Hansen limited Winnipeg and tenders Are just being called for work on the super Structure. The building which will cover 15 acres will extend from Ellice Avenue to Sargent on Berry largest aggregation in the triple scheme the 30-acre repair depot will be situated West of the air Craft factory Between. Ellice and Sargent. Tenders Are out for its construction. The final real estate arrange ments in connection with the property on which the air. Observers school is being built Are just being closed up . Gibson indicated. It is estimated that As Many As 480 civilians will be employed in. The repair depot and 900 in the aircraft Plant. A new roadbed is being Laid on Berry Street and similar work on Sargent and Ellice from the Airport will begin in the near future. L. Dolson of gait to whom goes the credit of being the first Canadian Soldier in the . To capture a Ger Man. Pet. Dolson captured a nazi parachutist in France. Registration heavy As summer school begins new courses the 1940 session of the Manitoba University summer school informally swung into High gear tuesday when hundreds of students and teachers from the Western pro Vinces and the United state swarmed onto the Campus grounds and into residence. The administration building was the scene of greatest activity and late tuesday Well Over students had registered. In charge of the summer school this year Are or. D. S. Woods Dean of the faculty education and summer school and h. B. Armes director. Karl Chambers is Dean of men and Margaret Anderson Dean of women. Classes began wednes Day for the four and six week courses. Six killed Maywood 111, july 3. Six teen age boys and girls were killed last night when a Soo line passenger train struck the Automo bile in which they were Rushing one of the girls from a tavern party to a Hospital. The speeding train Chicago bound from Minneapolis struck the car broadside at a crossing. Postal rate Ottawa july 3. Ments have been made for accept Ance of parcel Post for personnel serving in his majesty s ships abroad at the rate of 12 cents for each Pound or fraction thereof up to a weight limit of 11 pounds according to a provision in the latest naval orders it was announced last night. Parcels should be addressed care g.p.o., London 25 years ago july 3, p. Morgan Bri Tain s financial agent in new York shot by a German College professor Saboteur who afterwards suicide in prison. Or. Morgan recovered. German air Force made heavy but harmless attack on Harwich eng land. This shows the location of the new buildings which will be erected alongside Stevenson Field under the air to aiming scheme ;