Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition t Winnipeg tree press Winnipeg tuesday april 25, 1944. Self Moo. 5ets. Tuesday put 9 killed in Montreal As giant plane Falls from the wreckage of Homos and take a the Canadian air Ciocu Are Row Beine by diff cult Bua at the right the buy Victory Bonds five gun Salute heralds first millions subscribed by Manitoban on first Day the sixth Canadian Victory loan the province s total so far is officials Lery who give up their lunch hours to Man the 18-Pounders. A Sman array o soldiers and j we Giris of the . From fort Oshonie Barracks participated in the noon ceremony under the Vic Lory loan indicator at the North Ern end of memorial Boulevard. Tuesday. 485 in services George Waight interviewed Jack g. Cummings assistant to Frank l. Templeton. Chairman of the Victory loan committee. Canada packers limited. Or. Cummings said that his company has 485 men s Victory Bank account Are members of the Reserve Artil How totals stand women in the armed services out of 2.000 employees and 142 overseas. The company had raised official minimum provincial objective total to Date Dominion objective Dominion total to Date business concerns greater mpg. Citizens other than Clr u pm. Citizens provincial total objective. Total to Date of its quota by monday night. John Rech. 71 St. Anne s Road i Money still has three sons on Active ser s s vice subscribed the balance of his life s savings in the Victory loan tuesday. Military District 10 came second c All the military districts of can Ada on the opening Day of the drive by noon tie Dayt . 10 reported needed percentage of .6.44 per cent. Objective subscriptions totalling s375.100. Or Foj per cent of irs objective while no. 2 training command r c f to Date reported or -10 por cent buyers still needed w code chive. Employee canvass s prose skins Lavor ably with six More firms am three Star v flags officials announce Palm dairies. Winsome dress company. W. J. Christie and company limited. White ribbon bus lines. International business machine company limited and Exchange cafe. Trans Canada air has received reports that 11 str. Winnipeg citizens other than ctr. To pm. Citizens provincial total 101.063 173.374 Britain s budget is London april 25. A speech lasting an hour Fine response for first Day Ottawa Aoril 25. Ftp canadians subscribed a first Day total of in sixth Victory loan Bonds yesterday. S6.000.000 in excess of the some Day in the fifth Campaign the National War finance announced today objective of the three week Campaign is sume As in the filth drive. There Are a number of j actors that enter into yesterday s officials explained. Our organization for instance was perfected much earlier for this loan. The hit by the falling plane s fuselage " Orget was killed in one of the dwellings wrecked in the crash. Injured included mrs. E. Pelletier a. Lanctot of Parnham que., Anc Lucien Tison. The name Poland was on charred uniform of one of the Vic Tims and it was believed at least three of the Crew were polish. Names Are withheld until next of Kin have been notified. The wrecked group of some 14 dwellings is located in a Block bounded by Shannon Smith col borne and Ottawa streets near the Canadian National railway s old Bonaventure station. Three of them were flattened into debris and the others badly damaged. The whole area was thrown into a scene of horror As the great ship flattened several buildings into ruins and crushed their inmates into shapeless bodies which were soon charred by flames. Men women and children went about the streets Hunting for their families. One woman screamed that she had lost two daughters. Finally women and girls some shocked into silence and others in a state of hysteria were taken to a nearby school for care. Victims Are fire spread quickly from the plane and engulfed dwellings and victims and while firemen battled the flames the mass was heaved by he explosion from a Gas tank blowing up. The flames were brought under control within an hour and the sombre search for the dead started wringing to Light broken and charred bodies which were carried into the Street and Laid in sheets. Police and firemen continued to probe the smouldering wreckage of both plane Homes for dead and injured. Police reported hear no children crying in the wreckage of one of the houses a few minutes Niter the crash but later no sound was heard. A qualified investigator told this the plane was first seen living Tow Over mount Royal and to the southward of the departure course she would ordinarily be Lakin the bomber seemed to be flying normally it was thought the Pilot knew he was in trouble and was trying to reach the St Lawrence River for a forced land ing. The ship was seen to Lake a Sharp then three injured persons were removed identified As Edgar forget patrolling his beat at give official announcement Montreal april 25. Royal air Force transport com Mand this afternoon issued the following statement on the crash n downtown Montreal today. The Royal air Force transport command announced that a libera Tor aircraft which left Dorval. This morning for an overseas Destina Tion crashed soon after Takeoff in Shannon Street. Montreal. All the Crew members lost their lives. There were no passengers nor mail but the aircraft carried approximately 600 pounds of freight the names of the Crew who were the Only occupants will be released to the press when the next of Kin have been notified. The cause the Accident is not at present known but a court of inquiry has been convened. This is a map of downtown District of Montreal where an command bomber crashed this morning. The great plane off Dame near the National breweries. . Bombers strike on heels of fire raid London april bombers in Strong Force struck at German air Fields and other targets in Northern France Oclay after . And . Planes strewed More than 350.000 incendiaries across Western Europe last night in the greatest fire raid of the War. The air ministry announced the record assault by fire at the end of the ninth straight Day of the Allied offensive softening the fortifications of Europe for invasion by British american armies. 102-year-Oid resident Dies mrs. Christina Macmillan who celebrated her 102nd birthday. April 23. And was one of Winnipeg s old est citizens died today at the Resi Dence of her daughter mrs. J. L. Yugoslav Landing London april 25. Struck she opened up like an envelope wings and fuselage Fali plane crash continued on Page 7. Column 5 Allied naval and air forces have landed on Maljet 18 he Adriatic Island Miles Northwest Dubrovnik. I partisan communique said today. Result hat report began com no in to Headquarters much More Cui Ekly. The fad that the Canadian army overseas ran in a total of ss.803. 800 Lefure the loan even opened is Nylic Atit of this faster and Thev added. At Dawson and White horse in Ukon territory came reports of widespread support. Ore Indian f rapper at companion of Silver remanded to May 2 Delvina Alain alias Lavinge 42. W no had. Posed As the wife of Martin Silver 43-year-old Montreal burglar and attempted murderer who was shot and killed by police in a gun Battle at 2.45 . Saturday was charged in City police i the number of incendiaries rained on Dusseldorf Munich Karls Ruhe and Chambly near Paris exceeded by the count of those dropped on Berlin by Ameri can bombers on March 8 in the previous heaviest fire raid. United states air forces followed through today with an assault by More than heavy bombers is i sorted by Canadian and . I fighters on three big German air i Fields in northeastern France and i objectives along the battered Pas court tuesday with receiving goods. She maintained the composure she showed when arrested at their neatly furnished duplex suite at 591 Sherburn Street shortly after Silver had been killed and she appeared in italian Cabinet de Calais coast. The night operations Cost 29 planes including eight Canadian. The main Canadian participation was a heavy blow at Karlsruhe while . Mosquitoes hit dus Macmillan Mcbride of 663 Strathcona Street two years ago. Mrs. Macmillan celebrated her 100th birthday at the residence of her daughter where she entertained several of her friends. She was the youngest of a family Meldorf and other raiders 10 and was bom in water Dale. The rail depot at Chambly 20 Miles Pictou county Nova Scotia coining North of Paris a link in the battered rail supplying the German Atlantic Wall. Mines also were Laid in enemy Waters. More than 1.000 fortresses. Liberators Rind Allied fighters bucked dirty weather and temperatures at Low As 30 below Zero to plaster the in Italy april Fields at near the Ger a Border Nancy 25 Miles to the South and Dijon 110 Miles or example had bought Victory when remanded in custody to maj in the last War and in the 2 for election and Pica. A mediate nost War period of that magistrate r. B. Graham asked new Cabinet yesterday took the oath allegiance to King Victor pm have passed their object Jand 45 minutes the Chancellor of the sir w reported is sl.000.000 from the Hudson s Bay company United Grain growers limited. 2-q their subsidiary comon Nies. Grain growers terminals. My item United Grain growers Mcuri ties. Limited the Public limited and the country Anderson. Told the House of commons today that in the invasion year the United kingdom will spend on highest 1 figure in the nation s history. In submitting s six billion Pound said in paying High tribute to Finan one of these Bonds matured last fall while he was on his trap John line but the Indian Kent his in .000. . Have subscribed 5 reported subscriptions i sud5t- rid tons reported in Wae Safeway stores limited branches total of Mutual insurance Corn s300.000 John Deere plow i company limited. Winnipeg. S250. Victory loan n 7. Column 2 budget for the year ahead the Chancellor said the government was disturbed by the mounting Cost of living and warned that grave clangers loomed ahead if the ten Dency toward a general upward movement is not kept in Check. I in disclosed that As a result of heavy subsidies the Cost of living so for had been held to 29 per cent Over the pre War level. Tribute to Canada external finance will become an increasingly important problem As the War comes to a close Anderson cookies fall on Mark Winnipeg Ger says London april 25. Up and Lancaster the Canadian bomber command group thundered through my weather last night to Hammer the big Rhineland Industrial of Karlsruhe with a bomb Load perhaps exceeding last r 5ek s 1.000-ton blast at Dusseldorf. Ai eight Canadian squad cons were Over Leaside thunderbird lion on Porcupine Louette and Jiow owl squadrons. Airmen reported the robing was concentrated and l 5a were left burning in some told of electrical sending lightning bouncing the wings of their giant while others reported see la British planes silhouetted be them against Karlsruhe s ires. Below Zero her in route to the target the worst some of the Crews encountered. Clouds were temperatures As Low As degrees below Zero. The air Tea also had to contend with icing conditions. , the target the canadians o reduce their Altitude be of heavy Clouds but some because they were Ower. Thev could see How Cial contributions from Canada and assistance derived from american lend lease. The Canadian he said has during the past two years made i most magnificent contrib first a billion a oilers gift to us. And last year a corresponding gift to the United nations. The canadians will again make another contribution to the War of tort of the United nations this year in similar the House cheered. Anderson said that before lend least began to operate. Great Britain had use d up one billion Yountis in assets and undischarged overseas liabilities amounted to two billion pounds. Vestment intact. Now he has invested the principal and All coupons in securities of the prefer loan. 60-Iuile trek at fort Nelson. . An at de Squaw. Mary Ann Dearr Ivor trek ked 60 Miles with 09 celts of mar tyr., Lynx Mink and Fox. Which she instructed the Hudson s Bay trader to Bones. Sell in barter for Victory she runs a 110-mile Trio line along the Edtice of that North Ern wilderness the first application received at Medicine hat. Alta. Was from fit. Sgt. Alan g. Fairless service in the . In Britain. At Edmonton All a Rcd services have exec ded their Cikotas. Eight Southern units and one Northern Alberta unit had exceeded their objectives fit the end of the first Day of the loan. The All this not to neutrals but some 90 per cent to our allies and Asso him be population at Calgary Al ways Large buyers of Victory ,1 were again living excellent support with an a Van use narc Hsc by members of the colons of s387. Her if she had retained counsel and suggested that she had better be Given Legal advice before deciding How she wanted to be tried on the charge. No your worship. I have no lawyer but i would like a get the woman snid quietly. I have no friends Here or anyone i can go to. And i have no she said in reply to the magistrate. Magistrate Graham assured her that he would make arrangements for her to have counsel before she appears before him again next week. Police said the woman s Home War in Montreal and that she had met Silver in the East some time ago. And came with him to Winnipeg last fall. She a said to have a Hus band and a child in Montreal. Police woman held continued on Page 7. Column 3 temperature readings Low during the night. -t-3f 7.30 . April 25 10.30 . April 25 1.30 . April 35 this Clay last year Manuel and in the traditional the members Sev had recently de italian Mariner eral of whom handed his abdication kissed the Sovereign s hand As a Token of appreciation for his Bestowal of Power upon them. Southwest of Nancy. German planes contented them selves with armed reconnaissance flights Over Eastern and South Eastern England last night in at tempts to spy Cut Allied invasion air raids continued on Page 7. Column 4 red army is ready to move on Reich London april reported today that the red army killed or captured 500.000 germans in its great Southern offensive and now is Bent on dealing the final blow to the enemy not on territory of his Vassal states but on the soil of Germany self a summary of the Campaign which began last july said that he germans had been driven from four fifths the territory they occupied in Russia and the bed army now Aims at completing the liberation and pressing on to strike the death blows with the allies. Co operation plates most of whom will emerge from this War with their overseas financial position greatly strength ened As n result of it just As ours is Greally weakened. If we Are to avoid a drastic cur Tain Clit in our volume of imports it will be indispensable to increase our exports and recapture some of the Trade we lost in the War Anderson s budget estimate called for a record outlay of in the coming fiscal year against 196.000.000 in the current year which in turn was seven times As great As in the last pre War 3rear. Approximately 52 per cent of the 1945 expenditures will be met by taxation. No tax increases Are envisaged except for a Penny per bar Rel raise in the Beer tax which will not be Dassel on to the consumer. The Chancellor said the Post War total casualties Given by Ottawa fort pc of totalled 30.538. Defence Headquarters announced today. made Public this tabulation the red advanced on the various from 500 to 715 Miles and freed about .308.880 Square Miles of soviet sail the summary said. German losses As Given by the Moscow broadcast included about 5.000 tanks and self propelled guns Field guns. trucks. Meanwhile massed squadrons of red air Force and Fleet air planes took Over the siege of Sevas Topol today sinking 15 enemy vessels and destroying 30 planes in 24 hours As ground forces re grouped for the final assault on t big naval base. Eager for visit Ottawa april 25. Elizabeth said monday in a message to the Earl of Athlone that she is looking Forward eagerly to the Day when i can visit Canada my she was replying to a Tele Gram of greetings upon her 8lh birthday last week. To Winnipeg in 1919. Mrs. Macmillan resided for Sev eral years at Caribou River before coming to Winnipeg. One Day that clearly stood out in her memory was when King Edward Vii then Prince of Wales visited Pic Lou and she and her Brothers and Pisters walked 10 Miles Over rough roads to Sec him. At that time her father ran a saw and Shingle Mill at Tohey Ricer . And is mrs. Macmillan grew up. Her Days wore very full helping to Cook meals for the men spinning yarn and sewing. She is survived by two daughters. Mrs. J. L. Mcbride with whom she resided mrs. In. Mclntosh. Of Van Couver seven grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. The funeral service will be held thursday at 2 . In Thomson s funeral Chapel with burial in us James cemetery. Report break with Finland London. April 25. Ibuki the London daily express reported rom Stockholm today thai the american charge d affaires St Helsinki had notified the finnish government that the United states was breaking diplomatic relations with Finland. The action was said to have Fol Lowed Finland s rejection of Russia s latest armistice terms. Suburbanites facing moving problem too suburbanites As Well As residents of Winnipeg proper also face eviction As May 1 cars p. Pickering chief inspector of Navy air Force total killed or died 1.120 8.137 prisoner missing War int. 0 9 538 3.539 2.s08 1.255 wounded and injured 184 6.949 756 4.803 total 1 313 plans were based on the Assumption in juries. Dice Britain will be in a position id Citrona to import the raw materials Neces Active employment. C the bombing was concen the cookies seemed to be dead on the Pathfinder of. A. May took part in raid said of. R. Robertson of Winnipeg. The canadians who took off at dusk on the 1.200-mile round trip returned seven hours later. _ other airmen on the raid included of. A. May Sprague Man. Sweden seizes maps Stockholm. April 25. Eral thousand German Larse scale maps of the whole of Scandinavia were confiscated by swedish Cus under the heading killed or dead the Navy reported 971 killed and 149 died. The army reported 4.585 killed in action died of wounds died of died while prisoners of War and All other fatal casualties. Ial 129 were presumed dead and were reported As having died from natural causes. Deaths from the . Total of killed or dead included natural causes under the heading of prisoners of War and interned the army figures of 3.539 did not include those who have escaped or have been repatriated. The army total of b.949 wounded and injured did not include wounded prisoners of War. Weie u. Ast of Canadian casualties made Public was april 4, Toms agents monday when a pc Rev non prime minister Churchill placed Canadian casualties up to last arrived from Sossnitz. Germany. Aug. 31. At 19.697. Consisting of killed 2.745 missing 3.383 wounded it was the second such seizure in and 4.360 prisoners week. The mans Are bein2 sex or. Churchill s total did not include casualties suffered in Italy no rain in sight Weatherman says reporting there has been no rain this month is far in the Southern and Central portions of the agricultural area of Manitoba and 50 per cent less than n North Western part of the province the Weatherman predicts that the dry. Dusty Wea Hei will continue at Leas another 36 hours. The Only Prairie print to record i tuesday. The Day previous three suburb a Row got in explained that said ban residents in touch with him they had to get out of their Homes at the end of the month and asked for assistance in finding new Homes in Winnipeg. In each Case houses had been sold Over their Heads. Or. Pickering told them that he had no idea where they could find accommodation in the City and they appeared quite upset Over the entire situation. They had absolutely no place to go they said. While not in Large numbers Citi Zens continue to Telephone mayor administrator of rentals for the wartime prices and Trade Board. Or. Lobley is returning Vancouver following East flying in t Canadian mined by swedish authorities. Military i invaded in september where Canadian troops took part in Partick i heavy fighting dec. 6 to 33, during the More Valley Battle. Which received .08 Inch. april 1 mean temperatures have been than usual Over the entire agricultural area of the Prairies. During the past week mean temperatures throughout the Lake Region of Manitoba and in the Northwestern Section of the prov Ince were from 7 to 10 degrees above Normal. A new Nome. Most of them realize there is vary Little i can do but they Are dose talc and Are grasping at any thing that might place a roof Over their mayor Coulter said. Most of them earn about a while in Winnipeg or. Lobley will Confer on the housing Situa Tion with a. W. Johnson regional rentals officer and a representative of the Board from Regina sask. Strangely very few citizens who Are being forced out of their Homes have invaded the local rentals office this year. Other years the office has been crowded with distressed fathers and mothers seek ing shelter for their families. When they do phone up there is nothing i can do but explain that we Haven t listings of houses for or. Johnson said. Meantime Transfer companies continued booked up. And it is difficult to make further appoint ments for the rest of the month. Moving has already commenced. Month or less and cannot afford and vans Are to be seen Here and High arriving in Winnipeg thursday there shifting those fortunate enough to have discovered Homes ill be Owen Lobley of their new quarters ;