Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 06, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition pages. Rises 4.27 Sun sets 20.38. Moon rises 6.08 Moon sets 21.07. Winnipeg saturday july 6, 1940 rises 4.27 Sun sets 20.38. Moon rises 7.20 Moon 21.43. Forecast Cloudy cooler. Up French ships joins lost 4 Days in Bush land eighty men of the third division ammunition company Royal Canadian army service corps under command of . P. M. Abel have joined in the search for nine year old Simon Skogan missing from his grandparents Home three and one half Miles West of Inwood since 4 . Thursday. The soldiers left Winnipeg shortly after 9 . In Winnipeg electric buses and before noon were actively engaged in the search together with More than a Hundred local residents. As District joined bunt for nine year old though the search since tuesday afternoon has been unremitting and has been joined in by hundreds on foot on horseback cars and on bicycles no Trace of the missing boy has been found. Request for military Aid which was so promptly Given was made by or. M. T. Lewis. . For Lockwood and a neighbor of col. Abel. Prior to the arrival of the Mili tary the quest was taken up it Dawn and unless with the wide spread operations now being undertaken the boy is found it ill be continued All Day sunday. Although the weather has been warm and existence could have been eked out on berries Many of which Are fairly Ripe grave years Are now entertained for the life of the missing boy. At the Home of her father Hans Anderson from whose place the boy first became missing mrs Skogan As darkness closed in on Friday evening her bitter grief bowing in her face clasped her youngest child in her arms Bright faced Fern Skogan six and pre pared herself for the worst. The whole family she explained had been visiting at the Home of Ier lather and Mother whose place is four Miles nearer Inwood their own Home lying seven and a half Miles Northwest of the Little town. The children had been playing around and Simon had wandered perhaps 200 Yards along path which leads to a neighbor sirs. Marthe whose storm havoc Boissevain area crops Are flattened by Hail a severe Hail storm hit Boissevain at 6 . Friday and lasted for about half an hour. The storm was accompanied by a fierce wind which blew Down Trees the town rink and a Coal shed and scattered lumber piles. A . Box car was blown off the tracks into a ditch. Crops and. Gardens were severely damaged some farms just outside of the town being completely hailed out. Exact amount of the damage was not available at a late hour Friday however. At 11 . It was reported the Hail still Lay on the ground. About inches of rain fell. Tie storm apparently was at its worst in Boissevain and in the District immediately West and South. Telephone lines were out of order storms continued on Page 6, column 7 London july 6. British and. French have reached an agreement under which French naval units now in Alexandria Harbor will be immobilized and remain indefinitely in the British controlled egyptian port it was Learned today at the same time an authoritative source today denied a German report that two British cruisers had sunk the French destroyer Frond eur off Crete. There is no fragment of truth in this report which must be regarded As a particularly unscrupulous example of it was stated. Missing boy continued on Page 6, column 3 communists other groups Are arrested Between 20 and 25 men believed to be members of organizations recently declared illegal by Ottawa were picked up Early saturday morning by . On instructions from the department of jus tics and Are now locked up in Headin Gly jail. No names Are so far available by it is believed the raid was so Thor Ough that practically every in por ant communist in the City now in custody and will be internet for the duration of the War. The round up took place betwee live and six o clock saturday morn , and was conducted with the utmost secrecy. In addition to the arrests police seized books papers and documents in a number o alleged communist buildings an they Are now in the custody of the Western trusts official custodian o enemy property. Among the buildings alleged t have been raided was the worker benevolent association. Police say the society is under the control of the communist party an he chief collector of communist funds. This organization they a Ege is the financial life Stream t he communist organization when communists continued on Page 6. Column 1 temperature readings Low during night 6.30 . July 6 a 6 10 an. July 6 i a.ra., july 6 for full report of meteor logic office Sec Page Nineteen. The daily mail in an undated dispatch said that the British at Alexandria had Given the French he Choice of scuttling their ships of operating with the British sleet t submitting to voluntary intern ment. Meanwhile the daily mail said British and French sailors at Alex Andria were enjoying Friendly co operation. The newspaper said that although French vessels at Alexandria were unable to leave Harbor French and British sailors were mingling freely ashore and the British were seeing to it that the French received their pay. The French warships there included the battleships Lor Raine and four cruisers. Meanwhile Britain faced the Job of Hunting Down French warships at sea to prevent them falling into German hands of blockading the French coast and of solving serious problems wherever the British and French empires meet. A British United press despatch from Algiers today said it was officially announced three French battleships and a Frencl destroyer were badly damaged Anc aground in the Harbor at Oran As a result of the fight with British warships and that More than French seamen were dead wounded or missing. The damaged ships were reported to be the battleship Dunke que the Battle ship Bretagne and her sister ship French ships continued on Page 6, column 5 . Blasts Reich London july air Force bombers blasted important targets a Germany Friday in both Day and night a communique said to Day. The air ministry said ". Planes bombed Aird Romes and patrol boats in Germany during daytime Friday and naval bases and Inland targets were bombed at night. Two Day bombers and one night bomber Are in Cairo the . Middle East command Headquarters said Blen Heim Bristol bombers successfully raided Al Gubbi Libya yesterday. All of our aircraft returned safely. Blenheim also attacked and severely damaged Large troop movements and a motor transport concentration in the Vicinity of Bardia. Our casualties were British fighting planes shot Down at sea a enemy plane which crossed the Northeast coast of Scotland Early this afternoon the air minis try said in an announcement today. German planes made several Day Light raids on the British Isles. In addition to the plane which air raids continued on Page column 4 Over hundreds of men boys and girls have been searching since tuesday afternoon for nine year old Simon Skogan missing from the Home of his grandparents who live three and one half Miles West of Inwood. At the upper left May be seen a group of men and boys who had just emerged from beating a Section of the Bushy land. At upper right another group is Strung out under the direction of .constable m. P. Mcdonald ready to enter another Section of country. In the Centre Are members of the Skogan family mrs. Skogan holding her six year old daughter Fern on her knee Alma Skogan Hans Anderson mrs. Skogan s father and Lloyd Skogan. Or. Skogan had not re turned from the search at the time the picture was taken. At lower left is the Anderson farm from which the boy strayed away and at lower right Are some of the mounted men who took part in covering Many Miles of country. From right they Are r. V. Bloodworth f. S. Mckague and d. D. Campbell. S. Roger Henderson is reported missing Pilot officer Selby Roger Henderson ., 22-year-old member of the Royal air Force was reported missing in air operations july 4, in a Cable received Friday evening from the a British ministry of information by his Selby 1215 Wellington Crescent. Wider coast area is barred to Public London july a vast Extension of Britain s defence Rampart against government excluded the Public yesterday from the entire English East coast and substantially All of the Southern coast a e order lengthening and deepening the defence area will in supplement with the previously declared defence area make a solid line 20 Miles deep Given Over entirely to military operations from Berwick on Tweed in Scotland Clear Down the Elt coast and around Toj Dorse of cwt. Chinese general appeals for Aid chunking july 6 bup Generalissimo Chiang. Kai Shek in a message addressed to Friendly pow is on the eve of the third Anni Ersary of the sino japanese War Aid today that it was the hounded Luty of the United states and the soviet Union to give All possible Aid to China and to Stop arming Apan. Japanese threats to the dutch East Dies French. Indo China and Surma Are nothing but baseless words aimed at gaining predatory opportunist ends without resort to Chiang said. Let the Powers meet such threats with discernment and Stern state servants new world held facing almost sure invasion by m. W. Fodor. New York july 6 special can the dictators to a Harl pan Europe materialize Accord ing to plan it is not Only probable it is inevitable that dictatorships eventually must attack the new world the totalitarian principle of what might Post Italy be termed slave labor with the citizen As an not a Happy servant of the state must dominate not Only Europe but the world if totalitarianism is to endure consequently the Mere survival of a single Liberal individualistic capitalist state of the sort which exist in the americas will Institute a Thorn in the flesh of totalitarian regimes an Ever present inspiration for unrest a prodding Spur to revolt. Economically it is conceivable not Likely that the total regimes might manage to set a self sufficient system inde rejected Fodor on Page 6, column 2 Bucharest july 6 Cap a re quest by the United states legation that the rumanian foreign office stay the expulsion of three British Oil men who have been operating american owned properties in re was rejected today. The Ings. Nto the army today. For the de Fence of the British Isles men Are already under arms Al most Are training ii armies and in All will be ready to fight by the end of july if the factories Ca provide them guns. In addition the Home office tool two other defence Steps All civilian former austrians germans and italians men an. Woman who became British subjects after dec. 31, 1932-were or dered to report to the police Sun Day and monday. All aliens possessing maps show ing smaller Scales to the Inch tha 12 Miles and guide books mus surrender them to the police. The coastal defence measure have resulted from Hitler s Gra of the coasts of France and to Low countries. Almost since the Start at the War the whole of nor Scotland and nearby islands Nav been restricted Aro As because o their importance As naval and Sites of Power developments the English coastal defence Are part of the country which would be handiest to Hitler s read across the Channel or the Nort taken under such com defences continued 6, column z two towns hungarian demands on Rumania reported Budapest Hungary july 6. Was rumoured in diplomatic circles today that Hungary had demanded that Rumania cede her two. Border Signet and a prelude to negotiations Over Hungary s claims rumanian Transylvania Pilot officer Henderson was awarded the distinguished flying Cross from the King at bucking Ham Palace Jan. 2, the first such ceremony of the War. He is prob ably one of the youngest Canadian fliers Ever to receive the While no details were contained the official notification or. Henderson is of the belief that his son was engaged in heavy fighting near Sidi bar Rani Egypt when thursday one . Plane crashed in flames and a second made a forced Landing. In this air Battle nine italian machines were Des troyed. The Royal air Force com Munique announcing the air fight read in part As. Follows in the a flight of our fighters met and attacked enemy aircraft. Resulting in one cr-42 crashing in candidate detained London july 6 cup Erick Haslam Defeated fascist candidate in the Middleton and Prest Wick by election in May was detained by police yesterday under the defence regulations. Grim concern invasion via Ireland is feared in Britain by Francis Stevens. London july 6. Special increases Here Over the possibility of Ireland becoming a base for a German attack upon Britain. The reaffirmation of Eire neutrality by Premier de Val Era sounds dearly to British ears like similar declarations of Denmark Norway Holland and Belgium whose sincere efforts at neutrality Britain respected but which aided the nazi plot. Raid casualties London july 6. Casualties in raids on Britain since june 18 totalled 115 up to today it was officially announced. Thirty nine of. The casualties occurred in the Channel islands. German fliers killed were re ported to exceed 146 in the same period and nazi planes destroyed were listed As shot Down in night raids and 14 in Daylight. Britons suspect neutrality May prove As futile and. Tragic for ire land As for the other nations which sought to Purchase immunity from War by standing aloof from Bri Tain s struggle for Freedom every where. The anxiety Here applies equally to the stand of lord Craig Avon of Ulster. The opinion Here is that the British cause would be Best served by a reasonable com Promise instead of beating the Francis Stevens continued on Page 6, column 2 flames the Pilot escaping by Para Chute while another made a forced Landing and both pilots were taken. Pilot officer Henderson married Joan Louise Brook Only daughter of capt and mrs. H. J. Brook of Hunt Stanton May 11, at St. Edmund s Church Hunt Stanton. Born in Winnipeg he was educated in Raven court school and at St. Paul s College. Following matriculation he entered business with his father for a year and began training As Pilot. Shortly after he was selected with nine other canadians to join the Royal air Force. He trained at Sywell and Peter Borough and then joined the 206th Squadron. He was sent to Bircham Newton for further training and completed his navigator s course at thorny Island aug. 1, 1939, one month before War was declared. It was recalled that before Hun Gary demanded and occupied the Ower part of Czechoslovakia s pro of Slovakia she demanded two towns As a Token democratic papers silenced Bucharest july 6. Cap re mania s new pro German govern ment suppressed permanently last in the interest of Public two democratic Bucharest newspapers Semn Alul and Jurna Lul. It likewise was reported that de crees excluding jews from journalism and the army were being pre pared. Aside from this the government devoted itself to keeping the nation tranquil land at work despite reports in other Balkan Rumania continued on. Page 16, column 2 dutch Folk warned Amsterdam july 6. Of German military commander in Holland Geni Friedrich Christian sen issued a Sharp communique today accusing the Netherlands army and population of attitude toward the German occupation i he claimed the character of British bombing attacks proved that Britain was obtaining information from Holland. The Munique warned against any demonstration. In favor of the Netherlands government. Pilot officer Selby Roger Henderson tfx ;