Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. Pages Ress Winnipeg Friday april 21, 1944. Thelis and bombs. David remembers no other bed having moved to the Cave at five months of London buses move but strictly by ear by William h. London april 21. Special Stoneman can bus system went absolutely haywire last night when soldiers from the Royal army service corps most of them from the Sticks were ordered to Man the left Idle by the Noli Ocial lightning strike of their regular Drivers and conductors. Delegates representing 1.300 Lon Don bus Drivers and conductors who struck. Wednesday to protest a new summer schedule voted today to recommend resumption of work saturday morning. The strike was the first Challenge to Britain s no strike decree which provides five years imprisonment and fines for strike leaders and from Glasgow. Not Victory loan sprouts wings the. Sixth Victory loan flags Are sprouting Wing Sand officials Hope that Canadian Money will Fly directly into the loan drive which opens april 24. The v flags were first used during the fifth loan Campaign and proved one of the biggest factors in the Sale of Bonds. During this drive 125 Manitoba firms achieved the necessary cent of the payroll to qualify fora Flag and 101 firms obtained a three Star Pennant by subscribing 15 per cent or More of the monthly payroll 10 Victory Bonds or War certificates. A bigger and better three Star Flag will be available to payroll establishments that qualify for this award during the sixth loan. To win the new Flag firms must obtain the objective approved by the National War finance commit tee at least 15 per cent of the monthly payroll must be invested in Victory Bonds or War savings certificates at least 90 per cent of the employees must have purchased Bonds or certificates. Greater Winnipeg payroll establishments Are planning 250 mass the clings prior to or during Victory loan drive. Nifte Winnipeg electric company As attached pennants to trolley poles to keep the Campaign in the bind of citizens. J. C. Set Epson Dies Montreal april 21. Cdr. 1 1 Simpson 69. For to of Medicine i University and member i intercollegiate sports bodies for i most two decades died in Hospital i out Mph a after a King illness. Temperature readings during the ., april 21 w.30 April 21 1.30 ., april 21 last year titanic air Fleet cooler. S Ever strongest Force of . And bombers tons of explosives on Europe last lit of any other air attack in history and raising non of intensive to an unrivalled pitch of intensity. The Tavo air the crushing a Dight of a pre invasion Hammer ing of Cologne and three other rail the pre invasion offensive to forces threw Empire is United Churchill states London april minister Winston Churchill told the House of commons today that the British Commonwealth was More United than Ever before in its history and forecast annual or even More frequent conferences Between Empire leaders in Dominion capitals As Well As in London. Canada s loyalty to Britain lauded or. Churchill said it was sary to consider practical methods Empire co operation. Methods must be devised with out haste to bring the nations of the British Empire into intimate and secret Council on world events not Only during this that is being done with great labor and after the War so that they will know full our position and we know theirs in regard to the March of events and Acton which might have to come from the prime minister recalled How an the Commonwealth countries except Eire immediately joined Trie United kingdom in declaring instantly from nil parts of the Empire save one lamentable exception about which we must search our hearts came the same he said. From the poorest Colony to the greatest do minion they declared War. There was no cry of pain doubt or terror but darkness was turned into Light which will never fade describing this As a Miracle. Or. Churchill said it is our Union in Freedom and for the Sake of our Way of living which is the great fact reinforced by tradition and sentiment and it does t depend on anything that can Ever be London april 21 cup former War Secretary Leslie Hore Belisha told the House of commons today that Canada could not belong to any organization that would bring her into conflict with the United Stales and contended that her Prin Cipal role was that of a Bridge be tween the United kingdom and the american Republic. Speaking on the second Day of the debate on Empire Afi airs Hore Belisha said j there was fear in Canada that the Imperial conference would body become depriving a policy making individual Corn written Down. Cheers from the cheers crowded House prime minister amid the of a crowded House Here declared in a world of confusion the old Flag he and Sider How to Jether would More pass said it was not necessary to con bind ourselves to closely for that the wit of those who decried the common wealth he said had very Little to offer. The question before the prime minister added referring to the forthcoming conference of Churchill continued on Page 5. Column 4 of agitators. Drivers Gingham and villages in Yorkshire and Devon were to be seen taking their buses Down one Way streets in the wrong taking Short cuts through the City where no buses had passed before and roaring by regular stops without so much As a Sid Wise glance at the lines of would be passengers. Regular passengers shouted instructions to conductors and folks unacquainted with the City who were optimistic enough to ask conductors for directions were greeted with Broad grins and the Clas sic i m a stranger Here fares were suspended on buses j workers of America run of the troops and conductors reaped pocketful of pennies six pences and shillings from the Good natured travellers. One husky country bumpkin fresh from several years in the Mediterranean was heard to shout halt at the Driver when missed a turn. Inspectors from the London Pas Senger transport Board grew Grey headed As they tried to keep buses from getting lost. Altogether it was very Good fun and everybody seemed to take it As a joke. From the serious viewpoint the strike was not regarded As very Stoneman continued on Page 2, column 4 Mon wealth governments of their authority. 4hore-Belisria said that never in history has such loyalty and attachment been shown As Canada had Given to Britain during this War ii i j via Uil Rill Juull. And he held that closer Union of the plane factories and nations of the Empire was pos installations. Targets in France and Belgium. Cologne German invasion transportation Hub Felt the major weight of the tremendous night operation of paralysing blows. The Canadian bomber group provided the entire Force of Hal faxes and Lancaster which attacked Lens and the Pas de of Northern France. 1g bombers lost Only 16 bombers including one Canadian lost during the night s operations which included an attack by Mosquito bomb ers on Berlin. The night offensive followed yesterday s dusk attack on Hitler s Atlantic Wall by a Fleet of 750 to heavy bombers. In addition to Cologne Lens and the Pas de Calais other rail targets hit included and la Chapelle on the outskirts of Paris where a ring of rail junctions had been attacked in recent raids. Canadian Lancaster joined in the attack on Cologne. The Cana Dian plane Crews were1 Able to identify their target in the Rhineland City clearly despite some Cloud and the communique said a great weight of bombs was dropped. Beau fighters Daiil shipping sea fighters of the coastal com Mand late yesterday made a foray against shipping off the dutch coast hitting one Large escort vessel with a torpedo and damaging two smaller ones. In less than 72 hours Allied air units based in Britain have sent More than planes roaring against the european fortress to Arop close to tons of expo rail junctions airfields anti invasion Sives on sible. must look at things not idealistic ally but he said and argued that it was prac tical to aspire to a closer functional Unity within the Empire while at the same Timp retaining association Svith the United states and Straits salves London april 21. Artillery batteries on the South coast fired 80 rounds at enemy shipping in the Dover Straits Between 11 And Midnight last night. German guns Between Calais and Cape gris Nez returned a half dozen shells. Workers urge ruling in Ford Plant dispute Avind Sor out., april 21. Employees of the Ford Mortor company of Canada now Idle in a dispute Between the company and local 200 of the United automobile workers of America . Are willing to return to work under their old collective agreement pending a ruling on the Case by thai National wartime labor relations Board. This was announced today by president Roy England of Loca l 200 who issued an Appeal for imme Hull warns Romania Washington april 21. Be time being was not unduly 8 moment for which he had been waiting was approach the red army was Only a Miles away. For him it meant in spell in a prison Camp and per he Opportunity to join the acts of fighting France but it e Chance he was prepared to three companions Marcel trained in Poland until mid january of this year. Then he had been ordered with the 64th battalion to join a unit near Nik Opol. So great was the confusion behind the German lines Long the Long before the Rno nth Omole Ted journey had been unit had been surrounded. They were ordered to turn about and were sent first to positions Nea Nikolaev. Then to a smaller Village along the Southern bus River. Thev built tranches retreated some More and ultimately arrived in Valnik. An Odessa suburb. There Marcel made his break. With three companions he left the company. They found two Ukrain Ian girls who sympathized with their ambitions and Cave them shelter. For four Days the girls hid them and brought them food. Then their position became too difficult. Too Many germans were swarming through the area in re treat beyond Odessa. Marcel and his three companions were compelled to the main move along. They took Road towards Odessa. Finding it crowded they turned less travelled thorough off to a fare. We just turned in at the first House from which smoke was Ris ing he said. We told them we were frenchmen and wanted to that Brief speech worked Multi client magic. They were riven Etchol continued on Page 2, column 8 discuss grievance procedure under the Union company collective bar gaining agreement. The company then announced termination of the agreement and the Union men at an afternoon meeting decided they would not return to work unless ii was restored. Picket lines established yester Day after the Union meeting patrol led the Entrance to the company property this morning. There was no disorder. F. J. Gainsborough department of labor Conci Miaton officer is Here in connection with the dispute while j. S. Mccullough senior Concilia Tion officer of the department was expected later. The strike presented Federal labor department officials with their first major problem under Canada s new labor code. In its announcement of cancel lation of the contract effective immediately the company told its workers notwithstanding cancel lation of the Union contract your standing As a Ford employee is not altered. We urge you therefore to return to your work at once. Vital War work must be carried the company s action in terminating the agreement with the Union is expected to provide an additional subject for discussion at a maps meeting of Union members called for 2 To discuss the grievance dispute. J 500 men Laid off Windsor out. April 21. Ftp three of the five plants of Gotfred son limited were closed yesterday and 500 men Laid off at noon. Officials said the action was a result of the work stoppage at the Ford motor company plants. It was believed that other companies which Supply Ford with parts will be forced Tot close Down within a few Days unless full scale production is resumed at the Ford plants. An estimated men will be affected. Massey is impressed by Canada s strength London. April 21. Massey. High commissioner for can Ada told the Canadian chamber of Commerce in that he was great greatly Britain today impressed by Canada s strength and creative Power. He recently returned from Canada. Canada has Learned from the past that peace is no easy thing but will represent a period of immense con fusion and difficulty and Massey said. We will have heavy responsibilities whether we will or not. I believe that Canada will make her full contribution to the prob lems which lie the members at luncheon drank a Toast to Princess Elizabeth on her is n birthday. Lens reported one tremendous explosion which they speculated might have been an ammunition train which suffered a direct hit. Canadians in the attacks included Sydn. Cdr. Bob Epps of 308 Park View Street St. James. Man., and of. John strange of Alcester court Winnipeg. Charm and. Dignity surround this latest picture of Princess Elizabeth who today celebrates her eighteenth birthday. The favorite of the Empire one Day to be its ruler is now fully trained to ascend the throne. By Karsh. Princess Elizabeth visits her regiment on birthday Longan april 21. Elizabeth observed her 18th birthday in accordance with wartime austerity today by watching the Grenadier guards of which she is chief guard somewhere in the country. She accompanied by the King and Queen the Duke of Gloucester the Princess Royal and Princess Margaret and received a silk replica the King s color of the first battalion As a birthday present from the regiment. All London newspapers today give much spacs to the occasion which sees the heiress presumptive in the full rights of succession As Queen Regnant. Elizabeth is Felicitated in Allied bombs hit rail lines in Italy Allied Headquarters Naples april bombing fleets car ried out a heavy Bridge busting assault on the network of German operated railway lines in Central and Northern Italy a communique announced fighting today on the major ground fronts again was confined to patrol clashes and artillery and mortar exchanges but reports of increased German activity on the Anzio beachhead and in the Cassino Sec Tor suggested that the Long stale mate May be nearing an end. Lord Henry London. April 21 ;