Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba M Fetics Davidson s girls softball opens june 1 the opening ceremonies of the greater Winnipeg girls senior Sofi Baw league will take place tune 1 in Osborne stadium where ,11 league games will be played. Opening play the regular tuesday thursday double leaders will be St. Boniface ath and . Blues. Dan formerly Victoria and Mcdonald s air of which will meet in two seven a Jeff contests starting at 7.30 St. Vital Tiger ettes is the team in the five team Loop. All clubs report excellent and enthusiastic turnouts to practices a Large number of experienced Talent ast year on hand league officials Are optimistic and predict one of the Best seasons for the circuit. Another for lord Derby Newmarket. England. May 26. Fri Derby today the one thousand guineas for a charge of play. Canadian pilots like volleyball the . Somewhere i England May 26. Up after months of cold weather stove hug Ging in. Dispersal huts. Canadia fighter pilots with the Advent o warm breezes have taken to Volley Ball in a big Way on a Grassy Sward Only a hops and a jump from their plane members of the City of Oshaw Squadron play on a court Marke Cut by an enterprising Pilot. Last fall Canadian bomber an night fighter squadrons in the i lands fell for the game so har Tiey organized championships. Squash too. Is widely played by the . Boys. Practically All permanent . Stations were 1 equipped with courts Long before the War came along. Now courts Are considered almost Standard equipment on any new stations under construction. About tha toughest Squash player in the South of England according to Wing cmdr. Keith Hodson of London ont., is Wing cmdr. W. R. Iron Bill Bac Brief of Ottawa a versatile athlete in pre War years. Breezy bits of fish by Hugh Fullerton . Associated press sports writer. New York May 26. Spring Days there s nothing quite like Goin if you can Only sit and think about it. Which leads up to a letter just received from sports editor Wen Dell Lalime the Newport Cut Baily express. Subject fishing. Newport in a storm Newport. Vermont is right up the fishing country on Lake Memphra Magog. That s Lake where they made a record catch hauling in is landlocked Salmon with a total weight of 100 pounds within 90 minutes. To begin Lalime begins sports men fish for Salmon right in the heart of the Community from a Railroad Bridge adjacent to the local depot. They can arrive from Boston new York on a morning train catch their fish and take a noon train Back to wherever they came a Taia one fishermen adds Wen Dell like to Tell the yarn about the time the Boston Mon Treal train pulled into new port and during the usual 15 of minute Stop a Spectator in the observation car jumped to the Bridge and hurried to the rail where he managed to borrow someone s Rod. Within five he had hooked a Sal Felon hopped Back on the train Flad the chef Cook it and was sitting Down to a delicious Din Ner As the train left that s fast fishing but from Here it sounds like a lot faster cooking. 1c dangerous practice the other Day a Fisherman doing some Fly casting much to his sur Rise hooked a Railroad Man Riding the rear end of a car going Ross the Railroad Bridge. The Nook lodged in the Man s ear lobe it required a physician to re the Hook. Junior Cricket meeting Friday an important meeting of the Winnipeg Junior cricketers will be held at the ., on Fri Day at 8 . Players prospective players and anyone interested in the game Are invited to be present especially the fathers of boys now in the Active services according to president s. M. Cottam. Several of last season s play ers Are now in uniform and the co operation of All old Cricket ers is vitally necessary to keep the club intact until the boys come owing to pressure in other directions the president will tender his resignation and a new slate of officers will be elected. Today s sport Parade by Jack cd did British United press correspondent new York May 26. St step was taken yesterday to Assily the strangest muddle in go weight championship history y Matching Sammy Angott Anc Armstrong for a 10-round Winnipeg free wednesday vmay26, with the Canadian Flag flying above them children of a Village in a Southern English county go to attend their first sunday school class in a Church which was built from the ruins of a blitzed Church by sappers of the Royal Canadian engineers. Edsel Ford Dies aged 49 Detroit May 28. Cap Edsel Ford of the Tord motor company died this morning at his. Home at Grosse Pointe shores following an illness of six weeks the Only son. Of Henry Ford founder of the vast Ford Industrial Empire died from a condition developed from a former stomach malady for which an operation was performed 16 months ago. Und ulant fever also was. Pres ent. An improvement was reported in his condition during the week end but he took a turn for the worse last night. Edsel who had been chief. Executive of the Ford company for 24 years was. In the midst of one of his company s greatest efforts an All out production of War materials to assist this country and its allies in the War. His father now 79, had done tha before him when he was head o the Ford company during world War one. It was under. Edsel s guidance however that Ford performed its tremendous War production and from flow to four engined bombing planes tanks. Jeeps amphibious jeeps anti tank units and much other Ware equip fags teds Elfis Uusi. A Riviau Louii out Jare a run Une i. simplify this Jig saw Puzzle k win on of Cumming the Ien Ana tits pure in in Voitcu. Me Iii Muy be a sue As Lorows .1 Bob Montgomery is the Philadelphia no won recognition m Siatuu As Kigiu Weingl Champion by Young j3uau Oatt us. A Curgia Ai Tonii a re Ruvii i Uay Kigiu. Idiom Omury is sex Pucheu. Lot soon by the to Una new Jersey commissions Alt noun by uie Jox my association. 2 Beau Jack has a contract guaranteeing aim u return snot Al Montgomery s title within he Days. Is Angott of Washington pa., was uie undisputed Nam by All Fox ing last Inov. 13, when he apparently giving up the title because i injured Nan cts that Reu Tseo. To respond to treatment. However in March. Angott announced that he was returning to thu his hands Iliad sealed he was ready to i Eiene the to prove the robust Ness of his Nanas he Mei and a leased featherweight Cham Pion Willie Pep in an Over uie weight Malin. 4 pie. Jonnny Greco of the Canadian army is the outstand ing Young contender. He is demanding a title snot on the strength of his punch and re cent record. The pattern is when Angott apparently gave up the undisputed Crown in novem ber new York state staged a tour Nery from which Beau Jack emerged Champion by knocking the final association refused to recognize Beau Jack As Champion claiming that the tournament had included Al the logical challengers As originally planned. When Angott came out of his the . Declined to re recognize him As Champ withholding recognition until Angott had tangled with the new work commission s Champ. Meanwhile Armstrong who formerly held the featherweight lightweight and welter crowns crashed into the picture with one of the most amazing come backs in ring history winning 19 of 22 bouts and drawing Gates totalling More than Uoo. Armstrong s latest performance was a seventh round technical Kayo Over Maxie Shapiro at Philadelphia Mon Day night. Armstrong can make the 135-Pound limit he insists. Trap costly to nazi planes London May 26 spitfires ambushed a flight of German Focke Wulf 190 s heading toward a Southeast coast town at dusk last night and smashed up the formation so effectively that the raiders were turned Back from the English Shore. Beurling receives four decorations London May 26. Up officer George Beur Ling of Verdun que., leading Canadian fighter Pilot of the War received four decorations from the King at a recent investiture at Buckingham Palace. He was decorated with the d.s.o., d.f.c., arid . And bar for his successes at it was the first time any Man ment. Edsel was regarded As one of the leading executives among the world s Industrial leaders despite the fact that his Over shadowed him. Edsel Ford underwent an opera Tion for gastric ulcers about a year ago but his recovery from this ailment apparently had been com plete and. He had been taking an energetic part in the operations of had received four decorations at Nee at an investiture. He is Rod Ted with shooting Down 29 enemy planes. Out i hippy Larkin in the National boxing Merit for Uplands station Ottawa. Albert Staats 33. Formerly a Star Indian Lacrosse player at Brantford ont., died of i tuberculosis. It will Cost about Edsel Ford and also developed the Ford com Pany s Mercury Model. His four children were Here at the time of his death. The three sons Henry Benson and William All of whom Are in the armed ser vices had been granted leave. The daughter Josephine lives Here. P. D. Mitchell Farmer s advocate Secretary Dies London ont., May 26. Up Percy d. Mitchell 59, Secretary of the Farmer s advocate London prominent boy scout Leader died in Hospital Here monday night. He had been connected with the Farmer s advocate for 25 years and was a director of advocate printers Winnipeg. Brandon reports 17 cases of Scarlet fever Brandon Man., May 26. Special further seventeen cases of Scarlet fever led the list of contagious diseases listed by Brandon health unit for . Of the total sixteen developed from the Ford company on. A Multi military sources. German measles billion Dollar War programme. In. Addition to his duties As presi Dent of the company the younger Ford was also its treasurer and per formed the duties of general Man Ager although that. Office did actually exist in the executive set up of the company. It May have been just Force of circumstances but Trie major Progress of the Ford motor company dated from the time Edsel were eleven mumps six measles five tuberculosis four and Chicken pox and influenza one each. Beni King Drew Tuch a crowd to repair the Kingston yacht j Ford became jts president and Alexander Man., May 26. Spe Community met at the Home of . And mrs. James Mcmanes Friday night to make a suitable presentation to Cpl , son of mrs John Lowe who is Home on leave from Victoria. Four the German planes were sent spinning into the sea and Sev eral others were believed to have been damaged. Eye witnesses said the spitfires appeared to have been waiting for the enemy planes and swooped Down on them while they were still at sea. As the . Fighters roared Down the Focke wolfs scattered in All directions. Some of them Jetti soned their bombs Only one of which caused any damage. One casualty was reported. Dogfights raged Low Over the water Only a Short distance from the Oast. Those who saw the action called it an amazing sight. Persons on the Shore heard the continuous machine gun fire singled with the sound of blazing and roaring motors. Thus for the second time in eight hours the germans suffered heavily n attempts to take English coastal owns by Surprise. Shortly before noon four other Ocke Wulf 190 s were blasted out if the sky when 25 fighter bombers and fighters raided a South coast own. This tally followed the destruction f five Focke wolfs in sunday s Day on two coastal Points in which 4 Canadian servicemen were among those killed. Portage makes plans for fuel shortage Portage la. Prairie May 26. Spe on the suggestion of 3. B. Candy investigator of the department of munitions and sup plies a recent visitor to the City he City Council decided last nigh when he left the Palace grounds that traffic was blocked in and out of the Palace Gate. The Young Verdun Ace told newspapermen waiting for him outside the Palace that the King chatted with him about his record shooting on Malta his recent six months in Canada and asked him is hundreds have before would you like to get Back on opera ions .1" i Don t even remember what i told Bourling said. Big crowd gathered even the Palace policemen used to watching heroes by the dozen March in and out. Of the Palace these Days said they had never seen anything like .e commotion caused when the crowd discovered it was the Malta Ace leaving the investiture. Bourling came out of the Palace with two Good looking american service women but they could t even stick close to him when the photographers autograph Hunters miscellaneous admirers and news men and women took Over. In fact the girls did even try to compete. The girls simply left to get a taxi returned with it and parked it by the curb while Beur Ling told newsmen 1. He is going to an instructor at an air firing school for a while 2. He will be Back in a spitfire eventually. 3. He does know where hell be going then but Hopes it will be where the next important front where there s lots of action and lots of across Canada with Charles Edwards Canadian press staff writer Toronto May 26 fight fever which has reached epidemic proportions in Mont real is definitely contagious. The germ is getting out of control in Vancouver. Promoters the coast City could have taken the hint when the recent Wadsworth dubs Cana Dian middleweight title fight at Van Couver barely escaped financial Dis club Dock damaged by ice and storm this Spring Wright win s Mew York May 26. A Chalky Wright former Feather weight Champion of the world to scored a four round techno knockout Victory Over Billy Juisti. 126, Rome weighed . Wrigh in the interim private Greco of Montreal hammered out a notable string of victories and. Became a formidable popular contender. Now the plan is to have Arm Strong and Angott fight on june 11 Montgomery he will meet the a non title tilt later if Greco beats Montgomery he will meet the Armstrong Angott Winner for the right to a title shot if Montgomery beats Greco the Armstrong Angott Winner will get a Chance. Thus will emerge an undisputed Hampton assured recognition by .11 governing boxing bodies. Provencher club wins two titles Provencher Rifle club Sharp shooters proved to be the Best marksmen in St. Boniface and Norwood by winning both trophies in the St. Boniface Small bore Rifle championship tournament held recently. The ladies Section of the leading club scored 492 out of a possible 500 to take the Toupin lumber and fuel trophy while the men s a team shot the possible 500 to win the j. Martin. Paper trophy. The holy Cross Rifle club ladies scored 484 to gain second place and the Norwood . Ladies gained third place with a score of 471. Followers up in the men s Section were the Provencher Rifle club a team with 499 and the Norwood . With 498, in Sec Ond and third place respectively. Complete results Are As follows All scores out of a possible 500. Tounwin lumber and fuel co. Tro Phy ladies Provencher Kif i club. 492 holy Cross Rifle club. 484 3 Norwood . 471. J. Martin paper co. Ltd. Trophy men Provencher Rifle club a team. 500 2. Provencher Rifle club b team. 499 3. Norwood . 498 4 St. Boniface civic Small bore Rifle club 489 Cross Rifle club no 1 team 437 6. Canadian let Ion. Norwood Branch 478 7. Holy Cross Rifle club no. Team 474. Aster. The Gate was something like poor for. A title go. But undaunted Vancouver is talk ing up a. More ambitious card. The Dea match Ken Lindsay Cana Dian Bantam Champion with the world featherweight King Jackie Callura of Hamilton ont. There s no Assurance Callura would agree to the match but Vancouver sportsmen figure they can land Jackie if he gets the scent of Long Green. Alf. Cot Trell of the Vancouver Sun says there s a Hope the . Will godfather the bout and might turn up a too abrupt nose at a Cash consideration for the can teen Lindsay of course is in the . The Vancouver boy has put on about seven pounds since in sting and would concede Little no. Weight to Callura at 125 pounds. Toile Harbor via Jack Cornwall Standard freeholder Park we learn that Bud Poile the Star has landed at Cornwall and is Likely to play his hockey there next season along with Johnny Shewchuk of Boston and red Hamill of Chicago. But Park takes with a Grain of Salt the report file s erstwhile team mate Billy Taylor will also land at Cornwall. A Nice thought says Park but More Likely twill be Toronto army daggers for Billy the kid. Hound and about curtailment of automobile traffic has caused Many Golf clubs to lure players with special enticements. Montreal Beaconsfield has formed a wag wednesday afternoon Golf. All that s necessary is to Telephone the club Secretary. Ort on lend lease Washington May a president Roosevelt. Accounting for in lend lease Aid from the United states in a Little More than two years. Disclosed yesterday that More actual fighting equipment had been sent to rus Sia than any other country. Through March 31. The soviet Union received in planes tanks motor vehicles am munition ordnance and water Craft . Roosevelt said in a re port to Congress. Today we Are outbuilding the aggressors in every category o modern he said and we Are delivering them in the amounts necessary to build up the striking Power for offensives that will end Only in Berlin and f the report said Canada had sup plied Worth of Mili tary supplies to the United nations and that reciprocal Aid to the United states from Australia and new zealand represented a much greater share of Effort on a population basis than american Aid to them. The United kingdom received Worth of the Export from the United states and Russi . Roosevelt said but in actual fighting gear. Rus Sia s overshadowed Britain s the largest exports of Industrial items such As metals and Machin Ery and of foodstuffs went to Britain however. The report indicated More emphasis would be placed on food shipments to Russia in the future. The extent of lend lease Aid to China was lumped together in the president s report with that for Ndia Australia and new zealand. These four countries have received exports valued at China received in the president s report stressed hat the new French of tries were equipped with lend lease weapons. Aid had been Given by the Liber ated Peoples of French Africa in the production and shipment strategic and critical materials. 3 Manitoban reported missing s in last night s . Casualty list Are three Manitoban two from Winnipeg. A Are. Re ported missing on Active service after air operations. They Are sgt. Ian Stewart Brown son of n. D. Brown 14 Sheridan apartments Winnipeg treasurer. It was Edsel who persuaded his lather to abandon the old Model t car for one with a conventional ear shift. He was responsible also the company s initial venture nto aviation in the late twenties Camden n.t., May 26. A Hirsch Jacobs. United states Champion Trainer in nine of the last 10 years will Campaign stable of 20 horses at the 50-Day Garden state Park meeting open ing july 7. As available owing to the labor Hortage while the transportation Portage was acute. One Farmer asserted that ords were Farmers Ere prepared to. Sell until he fall when the Price goes up. Ill. Grigg said Lake had Vood available. At least cords vill be required to meet engage ments for the coming Winter it was fated. . Grigg said a fixed Price for Vood would be set and that the Public was Goins to be exploited. It was estimated that about will be needed by he City to Purchase supplies. Pri ate dealers will be interfered with. Coal dealers slated that military authorities come first which accounts for the delay in deliveries. To formulate plans to secure Wood for Portage citizens. Council agreed to apply for Wood dealer s License and to ask the Public Utility commissioner of ratification of financial arrange ments. A Resolution asking the Federal government to open woo Camps to meet the emergency a also passed. A. L. Lyon and g. G. Grigg o the prices Board gave some suggestions As to the procedure to b followed. It was pointed out tha Only a limited Supply of cordwood to work in mines Calgary May 26. Officials in . 13 stated yesterday number of former miners now serving in the army have been granted leave to return to mine work. Win 10" for writing a i Vly rough sandpaper Chin a used me endless Chagrin my Gal. Refused my kisses but Colgate s saved my she flew to my embrace and now she is my missus Colgate shave submitted by . C. Wit Jon. 1286 hero St., Vancouver. , who Witt s10.00. 1k rules Writon Colgate coleate Toronto from a tube of shave Cream. Yoor Jingle w Raed in out Joa . 30c 45c National selective service second compulsory employment Transfer order to notice is hereby Given that men employed in certain specified lines of civilian employment who Are in age and marital classes already designated under National selective service mobilization regulations must report for interview later than june 15th, 1943, to an employment and selective service office. A. Objective this second order makes available d. Procedure to followed All men As defined above must report for essential employments the services of to an employment and selective service men. In. Age. And marital classes designated. Office later than june 15th, 1943. Men service work Camp As callable for military training resident outside a City town having National selective service mobilization employment and selective service regulations who Are presently office who Are too far removed to Call and in addition to other penalties refusal to comply renders a Man liable to compulsory labour service in an alternative who arranges a match sgt. Dave Castilloux of Montreal Cana Dian lightweight Champion will Box a five round exhibition with. Cpl. Joe Brown on an Ottawa . Card tomorrow. Proceeds of the show will. Buy new sports equip Sergt. Ian s. Brown sgt. William Kwasny son of Lukas Kwasny Teulon Man., and sgt. Peter Rudick son of George Udick 35 Kurt Avenue Winnipeg sgt. Brown is 23 years of age and received his education at mul vey and Gordon Bell schools. He was employed in the office of the Dominion Bridge company prior to his enlistment in the air Force in july 1941. He trained at Paul son. Neepawa and Regina Anc arrived. Overseas in August. 1942 he is a member of the his Only brother Frank is in the . At Yorkton sask. In the non essential employments now specified. B. Employments covered by this order men of the specified categories Are covered if now employed in any of the following 1 any occupation in associated with retail stores 2 any occupation in associated Wilh the manufacturing of feathers plumes and artificial Flowers chewing gum wine lace goods greeting cards jewelry 3 any occupation in. associated with distilling alcohol for beverage any occupation in associated Avioli the factory production of statuary and Art goods 5 any occupation in the operation of ice Cream Parlours and soda fountains 6 any of the following occupations bus boys Char men and cleaners custom furriers k. Special request to each employer with three More men _ _ i personally May write to the nearest office covered by this order in his employ is requested to co operate by getting in touch with the employment and. Selec Tive service office to arrange i time for the interviews of his the first instance and await further directions. E. Obligations of employees when directed to accept employ ment subsequent to the interview referred to men described in Para graphs b and c above Are required by the regulations to follow the direction Given. F. Obligations of employers it will be illegal for an employer to retain in his employ after june 15th, 1943, any men referred to in Para graph c above at any of the employ ments eel Forth in paragraph b above unless a special permit has been obtained from a National selective Sci vice officer permitting such action. Dancing teachers dish washers door g transportation men and Sorters greens keepers grounds keepers porters other than transportation of men moved to work at of private a new place of residence. L. Authority this order is issued under authority conferred on die minister of labour by National selective service civilian regu lations . 246 of january 19th, 1943, and amending orders in m. This second order is additional to first order employments listed in paragraph b above declared non essential in this second order Are additional to the non essential employments contained in the first order. The first order issued May 4th, 1943, required compliance by May in railway train chauffeurs. C. Age and marital classes of men covered by this order a every Man born in any year from 1917 to 1924 inclusive who has reached age 19. Be every Man born from 1902 to 1916 inclusive who at july. 15th, "1940, was i unmarried ii 19th on the part of employees designated special provisions will be made for the mobilization regulations and also following lines employ cars of work h. Appeals -0 taverns liquor Toine and Beer if directed to Transfer to employment stores 2 retail Sale of Candy co rfcs subsequent to interview a Man May if he Itonery tobacco books stationery turns objects enter Appeal with a court of 3 Barber shops and Beauty Parlours 4 retail and wholesale florists 5 ser vice stations gasoline filling retail Sale of Notor vehicles accessories 7 retail Sale of sporting goods referees within 7. Days of receiving such direction. I. Penalties in Case of employers penalties Are provided for any pm to musical instruments s waiter _ _ taxi divorced judicially separated Proyer no retains in takes into his Driver elevator operator hotel Bell boy we ,.r Iii a widower children. C every Man born from 1902 to 1916 inclusive who has since Only child children now living d every Man born from 1902 1916 inclusive who since 1940, has been divorced separated. After june .15th, 1943, any Man covered by the order except under permit. Employees penalties Are provided for failure on any occupation in directly associated the part of any employed my affected with dyeing cleaning and pressing to Register under this order to follow including Baths 3. Subsequent direction to employment service shoe shining. Domestic servant d any occupation in directly associated with entertainment including but restricted to theatres film agencies motion picture companies clubs Bowling alleys Pool rooms 10 men referred to above Mutt present documents Al the employment office indicating compliance with mobilisation Mitchell minister of labour a director National selective service ii n d-3 ;