Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press French to be deported Carrier in Winnipeg 2se per week. Winnipeg thursday april it 1b44 edit Loo Witk i invasion hostage scheme is disclosed it april 27. Nazis plan to d to at least frenchmen from Paris alone to be i hostages preparatory to an Allied invasion of France lad Troquet who escaped from France earlier this month said today gets 2 new establishment of two new is in the University of announced by Percsi Sidney Smith thursday. The in his were donated by e. J. ,-ik----1--- i naps were or of Winnipeg and the Charles i Frosst and company of Montreal. The Charles e. Frosst scholarship Surmacy is for the amount of Lor Competition each year students registered for a full be Troquet a former parisian re Porter and lawyer and son of com missioner Andre la Troquet said the to germans in France have been in a constant state of invasion Alert since about feb. 20. Preparations already Are being made for the wholesale deportations he said secretly printed be Troquet said the germans Are so sure that invasion will come that they have already secretly printed leaflets and posters proclaiming severe martial Law regulations among them one prohibiting any one leaving his House. The average Frenchman has a tendency now to look Forward to the Allied liberation As Utopia he this win de awarded i a year to a deserving student has attained a satisfactory standing. Application for should be made not than March 15, on form to it obtained from the office of the of the faculty of arts and any reason the student does proceed during the next ensuing iia Demic session with his or her juices in pharmacy the scholar. Sip will be by reversion it the next qualified candidate of Merit. This scholarship in ill be available in 1944. Actuarial science the Tarr scholarship in actuarial Zience is offered to students registered under the University faculty Ici arts and science in the senior of the course leading to the Jiff to of Bachelor of Commerce i scholarship of the yearly value v s125. Hie scholarship will be awarded to the student who High 1 tit on the aggregate of a full course in the fourth year of the actuarial science option leading to the de i tee of Bachelor of Commerce. 1 if in any year the committee on Commerce studies of the Senate de in Des that no student taking the i Jill course in the actuarial science option of the fourth year has attained a satisfactory academic finding the scholarship will be liar added to the student who ranks highest on the aggregate in a full of the third year. If for reason the student elects not i to proceed during the ensuing year Tith his studies the scholarship will qualified candidate in order of be awarded by reversion to the next Merit this scholarship will first be available Iii 1945. Gar Job to take part in Parley on workers Premier Stuart Carson will leave Ottawa thursday night to Complete readjustment of an agree ment affecting about 40 former provincial government employees of the tax Branch who have been taken Over by the Federal govern ment since the Federal government took Over All provincial taxation towers. The readjustment concerns their pension rights under their old and new employers for Protection i their interests. Provincial authorities still Are waiting word concerning setting of a provincial organization to administer the Dominion War labor code. Final action must await the of Hon. J. O. Mclenaghan minister of labor now attending the labor conference in Orchill s refusal amazes americans we Kinton april 27. Bup timbers of a congressional commit today they were amazed minister Churchill s Flat i ejection of their recommendation j for tic United states to obtain per raiment. Possession of bases leased lion the British in the historic destroyer Deal. Hep. F. Edward Hebert. Democrat a Louisiana chairman of a House naval affairs sub committee which Imade the recommendation and rep. Liana e. Hess Republican Ohio committee member said they unable to understand Chur in Light of the fact jut this government was so willing comply when the British asked or 50.destroyers in 1940 to help j protect their weak Supply lines. Jul election in june i Fotiu april 27. Up the Leader Post yesterday said electors will go to in mid june to cast their the provincial election a wrong to Well informed sources. Is the election month for a Provancial elections in Saskatchewan and the government so far can be Learned has no intention Bung to the people this year different month. Lik tily dates for polling Day either wednesday june 14 june 15, and it is that Premier w. J. Patter will select -.rhursctay. Aper reports . Invited to Russia gently i feel the necessity that Leir expectations utopian though hey May be should not be brusquely clashed. Just because frenchmen Gener Ivy Are so pro Allied and have built up such High expectations Ley Are also Quick to criticize they feel keenly the slowness of he italian Campaign and bitterly Nourn the dead caused by Allied in Way Day rally set for sunday Winnipeg s May Day rally arrangements were announced thurs a by m. J. Sago chairman of the publicity committee who said that speakers for the rally will include Hester King r. W. Slocombe Leut. W. A. Kardash ., and representatives of the Victory loan Ommittee. The rally will be held at 30 ., in the playhouse theatre the Winnipeg May Day commit be endorsed the spirit and realism f the Victory loan committee Sloan in its sixth Campaign put Ory first and will urge All its sup orters to put the objective of the rive Over the top or. Sago said. Jewish rations 2ut in Hungary Berne april 27. Special . Jews thousands if whom have already been de Rived of Means of livelihood will Lave their food rations reduced to i Bare minimum As of May 1, it is announced. Fats sugar and meat will be Al nost entirely forbidden to the jews while in Budapest they cannot be old Rice butter eggs and paprika. All jewish stocks have been requisitioned for the state. Baruch gives Money to physical Medicine new York april 27. Nard m. Baruch Veteran presiden Ial economic adviser wednesday gave to extend the oldest of the Healing arts physical Medine. Simultaneously the Baruch. Com Mittee on physical Medicine headed by or. Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stan Ford University recommended a nationwide scientific boost of this Art in the United stat cts particular y for returning soldiers. The committee defined physical Medicine As use of Light heat water cold electricity Massage manipulation exercise spas climatology and hydrology. Another fire starts As men make repairs while carpenters were merrily hammering on the roof repairing damage done by a former fire firemen were Down below Bauline he second Blaze which broke out n a House in Norwood within a week. The House a Large Frame one situated at 201 Ferndale Avenue and occupied by r. Carter and h. Stevenson had its first fire april 16 a Blaze had started under the due to defective wiring and i Large part of the roof and parts of he Walls were burned before the ire was brought under control. The workmen of j. M. Fin Jay. Contractor were repairing the damage done by the first fire wednesday afternoon when a Blaze started on the ground floor. Dos Sibly due to nearby burning rub 7. Herald Tribune says Ici has invited As a visitor american roman Catholic to Cross her Borders since tie priest is Rev. Stanislau. 54, pastor of our lady y Rosary Church in mass., and the news said if was Uncertain a yet had arrived in paratrooper i will perform in Regina Sticks of paratroopers from shadian 3 o paratroopers fro Norlan Parachute Trainin Camp Man of 1 i wil1 to on re n a win drop on Tegi 4.30 Saturday in Victory loan demonstration t authorities announced Lav. Of the Canadian Canadian press is sex entitled to the use for Ion of All news Des. Tehes credited to it or to the press in this paper he u Tho local news Jiya herein. Has something to cackle about eggs that weigh half a that s the record established by the White leghorn hens of Patrick Barrett 91 Whittier Avenue trans Cona. Sibly due to nearby burning Ruo last week or. Barrett was wish according to police when every single egg he Arthur Spence of St. Boniface. I collected had double Yolks but the House is under the adm Nistra he was More than surprised this owners identify belongings from dead Bandit s big loot Only a Small Quantity of thousands of dollars Worth of jewelry and other goods stolen from suites in Winnipeg since last year by. Martin Silver 43-year-old burglar remains to be identified chief of police George Smith said chief Smith however was unwilling to. Release a. Complete list of the burglar s victims who have identified their but said he might do so later since Silver was shot find killed last saturday afternoon in a gun Battle with police after he had shot his Way out of a suite in the Albany Block detectives have re seek students or vital jobs covered at least in loot at his former Home and in a safety Deposit Box. Of this More than was in Bills. Police said a brother of the dead burglar will reach the City Friday from Montreal to Complete funeral arrangements. Before leaving for Winnipeg Silver s brother police said had communicated with a rabbi Here. It is believed by police the dead Man s body now at Mordue Bros funeral Home will be taken to Montreal his former Home for burial. Silver according to police had been married at. One. Time and is believed to have a son in. The armed forces. Whereabouts of his former wife is not known. Police still have no knowledge of Delvina Alain alias Lavigne Silver s companion who is held on a charge of receiving stolen goods. She was arrested at their Sherburn Street Home after Silver had been killed by police. Chief Smith said the woman is believed to be the wife of a former Boxer in Montreal whom she left about two years ago after meeting Silver. She refuses to Tell police anything about herself and claims she had been led to believe by Silver he was in the real estate business. May 2. She is on remand to scenes of the damage Rescue work and tragedy after a Liberator bomber crashed in Dosun town Montreal tuesday morning. At the. Top Rescue workers and firemen dig in the debris searching for victims trapped in the tenement houses. At left is 14-year-old Ferrand came Home from school to find his Mother buried in the debris their Home on Shannon Street and at right is shown a Brick Wall shattered when the bomber s huge wheels hurtled into it with terrific Force. Super egg e Tion of the Trust and loan com Pany. Junior parliament ends session Friday the second and final session of the eighth annual Catholic schools Unior parliament will be held at 8.15 On Friday in Paul Shea Hall St. Paul s College. Bills introduced at the first session held last week will be Given final read ing All the pomp and ceremony of the real parliament in prorogation will be in evidence at the final session which be open to the general Public. The Junior parliament is sponsored by the Winnipeg Council of the knights of Columbus John j. C. Shelly grand knight.1 Winnipeg twins Are now members of the Navy the twin Brothers. Bob and Ken Thorlakson who have just completed their first year in Medicine at the University of Manitoba have joined the Navy to be trained As wireless Teleg Raphers officials of . Chippawa announced sons of or. And mrs. P. H. If Thorlakson 115 Grenfell District 10 has enrolled 219 men and 31 girls during the first 22 recruiting Days of april. Major Maris h. Carton recruiting officer announced. J. E. Lloyd is re elected As mayor of Halifax Halifax april 27. Up j Oyd. 35-year-old accountant was mayor. Week when among the first Batch of eggs collected. Was a Lovely Oval egg weighing half a Pound. Or. Barrett looked his flock Over carefully to see whether a stray Ostrich might have wandered in by mistake. But no just hens in the Yard to account for the super sized egg. Public works Start Survey on highways the provincial Public works pro gramme of straightening out dangerous curves reconstructions of Small Bridges and culverts will get under Way just As. Soon As surveys Are completed and the Frost is out of the ground Hon. Errick f. Willis minister of Public works said wednesday. The department will concentrate on no. 1, or the trans Canada High Way the minister said but District engineers have been asked to make Complete surveys of work required to be done in their localities with particular reference to traffic hazards. As soon As these reports have been received and digested the department will make its plans for the season. Or. Willis has s50.000, voted at the last session of the legislature with which to pay for this work. Objectors turned Over to military officials four conscientious objectors who failed to comply with National War services regulations were sent to jail for 24 hours by magistrate t. J. Murray in provincial police court wednesday and on expiration of their sentence were turned Over to the military authorities. They Are William Kibrick. Chat Field. Man Jacob Lemky bal moral. Man. Haig Davidson 791 Mcmillan Avenue and Russell Rutherford. 600 Avenue. Value of labor co operation with prices Board is stressed Manitoba was the first Region to Contact organized labor in order that All Consumers would be represented through the consumer Branch of the wartime prices and. Trade Board mrs. Christine White labor Liaison officer said thursday a morning is the conference of sub committee chairmen of the consumer Branch continued at the legislative building. Poor Mummy film Board making movie of festival National film Board members Are arriving in Winnipeg to photograph Lor the first time scenes from Mani Toba s annual musical festival. Miss Gudrun Bjerring former Winnipeg arrived tuesday to direct shoot ing of scenes for a music in Canada. M. S. Meade who sir Rived wednesday Over . Lines is in charge of motion Pic Tures for american and Canadian news reels and still pictures for american and Canadian news papers. Chief cameraman is e. R. Wilson who is staying with or. Meade at the fort Garry hotel. Agothar cameraman is expected to arrive shortly. The party will leave for the East monday. Grass fires damage St. Boniface lots fire chief Arthur Spence of St. Boniface has issued a request to parents to see their children do not in play set fire to the dry grass on vacant lots throughout the Spence said his depart ment had More Calls because of this year than for Many years past. The fires creep into sidewalks garages electric Power poles and even Homes when Chil Dren lose control of the Blaze they Start and considerable damage is being done to property through out the City he said. The East Kildonan fire depart ment spent All Day wednesday and half the following night fighting mrs. White said organized labor Las signified its intention of co operating with the prices Board to protect its Standard of living and o support Price control. This has Jeen done she observed by Stab Ishing voluntary Liaison officers. There is not a Central labor Council in Canada that has not received an invitation to accept the Opportunity of establishing a Channel for the Exchange of ideas and information with the Board. This work mrs. White added has progressed to the Point where there will shortly be three assistants across Canada helping to obtain labor s Point of View so that the prices Board will have not Only the housewife s Point of View but also that of the Labouring Man. Through the consumer Branch organized labor and members of the Board can get together and discuss problems of either Side and reach a Settle City. Chief Bush fires in the District fires Are All under control according to firemen. The ment. Rental problems following a luncheon wednesday at the Hudson s Bay during which mrs. R. me Williams welcomed the delegates problems concerning rentals regulations were discussed by a w. Johnson rentals officer. C. D. Stewart explained wholesale and retail standardization. Miss i. Robson urged that women should take note of the fact that All Gar ments manufactured since March 1. Must carry a Label identifying the maker and also a Price tag. These labels and Price tags should not be destroyed in Case the article Pur chased becomes a matter of dispute re make centres were a Success wherever they had opened. Mrs. F b. Kirkwood said. In Winnipeg about 350 women attended the centres. Wing commander j. E. Sharp. Principal medical officer of no. 2 training command . Left thursday to become principal me i Cal officer of the Western air com Mand Vancouver. Children saved by disobedience Montreal. April 27. Was one Mother in Montreal tues Day night who was mighty thankful her children disobeyed her. The officials who told the Story did t give her her three children in the house1 while she went shopping tuesday morning. She gave them strict instructions not to go outside. While she was at the store she Learned that an . Transport plane had crashed near her House. She ran All the Way Back found the building a smoking and collapsed on the sidewalk. While police were reviving her free disobedient children who had been a Safe distance away at the time of the crash came up and asked what s the matter with mortgage firms plea in car seizure upheld application of the Northwest mortgage company under Section 169a.of the excise act for declaring that the interest of the mortgagee in an automobile is not affected by the seizure of the car As forfeited under the excise act was upheld wednesday by or. Justice Dysart in court of King s Bench. The car was. Seized by excise officers sept. 5, when it was being used by its owner for transportation of liquor. At the time of the seizure s340 of the mortgage Money was owing. The Section in the act provides that if the mortgagee exercises reasonable care and inquiry when the Money is .advanced.1 that the automobile is not be used for illegal purposes the mortgage will not be affected if subsequently a seizure is made. The court held that the company had satisfied this requirement and. Had taken All reasonable precautions and on this ground would be entitled to a Lien on the broader aspect involving the constitutionality of the Section of the act. Providing for the seizure of property or. Justice said that in his opinion the do minion parliament had no jurisdiction to pass this legislation. Macarthur Roosevelt 2nd by Chester Bloom Washington d.c., april 27. Spe foes of president Roosevelt suffered a painful Shock wednesday when returns from the Pennsylvania state primaries showed or. Roosevelt ran close behind Gen. Macarthur in the Republican primary. Governor Dewey of new York received an overwhelming Endor Satin by some Pennsyl Vania voters in the Republican Pri Mary for their presidential Candi Date. President Roosevelt however in his own democratic primary where he was unopposed received about votes nearly two thirds More than the total vote cast Foi Republican contestants in the re publican primary. The astonishing fact was the heavy vote cast for the democratic party president in the Republican primary. With about seven eighths of the districts heard from at Thi writing the Republican vote stood Dewey about Macarthur Roosevelt governo Martin of Pennsyl Vania governor Bricker o Ohio . Stassen Wendell l. Willkie 976. To grasp this situation voters in Pennsylvania pick their for the presidential nomination a the National party conventions by voting for delegates to those gather Ings at state primaries. Delegates Are apportioned according to the votes cast for the favourites. The Republican and democratic Pri Maries Are held on the same Day to prevent party members voting in both primaries. A Democrat mus declare himself As such to vote in a democratic primary and the same for a Republican in a re publican primary. It is not unknown for supporters of one party to vote in the others primaries but they cannot vote in both. The fact that so Many nominally Republican voters cast ballots for or. Roosevelt upsets Many political calculations. For Pennsylvania up to the time of or. Roosevelt s first election was normally a re publican state. Wednesday s Pri Maries indicate the republicans have a Long Uphill fight yet to re gain political control of the state with 36 electoral votes the state stands next to new York which has 47 in the electoral College which chooses the president. It is. There lore a key state essential to carry of win a presidential election. Jap planes drop surrender passes Washington april 27. A optimistic japanese have been bombarding Allied troops with surrender passes embellished with pornographic pictures and carry no the stipulation that one pass is Good for any number of soldiers copies of the passes were re leased by the office of information today along with other propaganda leaflets nicked up a lied bases in the Southwest Pacific. The surrender pass labelled ticket to armistice bears Printer instructions to Advance toward japanese troops wave Achi Telac and strap your gun Over your Eft other leaflets Lampoon Potica and military leaders some sue jesting that the troops Are suckers of fight for the higher . Some of the leaflets attempt to persuade the. Soldiers that life would be far easier in a japanese Orison Camp. Former health minister Dies in Toronto Hospital Toronto april 26 bup or James a. Faulkner former on Tario minister of health died today in Hospital Here after a Brief illness he was 66. Faulkner held the health portfolio in the Hepburn Cabine from. 1934 to 1938. He lived at Belle Ville ont. Annual concert planned by nurses glee club the Winnipeg general Hospital nurses glee club under the direction of Stanley Osborne will pre sent its annual concert at Grac United Church monday at 8.15 assisting artists will be John Goss baritone and Max Pirani pianist. Mcmahon nominated Gull Lake sask. April 26. Harvey h. Memahon. Shaunavon For Gull Lakke provincial constituency was today unan Mously nominated Liberal candidate for the next Saskatchewan Genera election. Having reached the Bottom of in manpower barrel in the West and needing More workers imme lately for vital War industries elective service has asked univer to students to Register now for Ummer jobs in the defence in us tries Plant at Transcona h. H. Ichardson. Selective service offi la said thursday. Placement officer for students is Bliss m. Gilchrist room 151. Broad a University building. Miss Gil Irist said it was hoped some 600 udent6 would Register for sum ice work but Only half this umber have done so to Date. It thought that senior year Stu ends Are expecting to return to Obs they held last year. About 50 girls have asked for Ork at the Plant so far Accord no to miss Gilchrist. But they can Only be placed when sufficient in have been obtained to hold by positions. W. D. Irwin Plant works Man Ger said that heretofore seasonal orders have not been considered t the Plant but under pressure f stepped up production with the resultant need for additional work is students Are being asked to Ake Over jobs that will help win in War. It is believed that some agricultural workers will replace All. Students at the Plant in the around 400 jobs Are open of according to or. Irwin. Friction reports London april 27. Sorte of friction Between lord Ouis Mountbatten and Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck commander a chief in India were sharply enied today by Leopold Amery Secretary of state for India. Replying to a question in the Louse by Edgar Granville inde lend it Amery said there was no bundalion for the report that the supreme commander in Southeast Sia and Auchinleck were at Odds. I wish to take the Opportunity o say publicly that both the vice of Viscount Wavell and the Omaha under in chief in India have been informed by the supreme Allied commander that he is completely satisfied with the support my co operation being Given him by the India a personal letter from lord a Mountbatten to Auchinleck in which the latter expressed his Hanks for the full co operation he lad received from the India com Mand was published yesterday in Incila voluntary enlistment campaigns opposed Toronto april 27. Command of the Canadian legion at the final session of a three Day convention Here yesterday unanimously approved a Resolution opposing further voluntary enlist nent campaigns As wasteful of pubic Money and decrying present Means of shaming men into the army. . Alan Cockeram of to onto. Who sponsored the Resolution in Canada there were men with military service defer ments and who had not answered Calls to army service. There Are an additional men in the Home service army who should have to go he declared. Looking backward front the free flies i sixty years 27. The surface water which had accumulated on Boss Street Avenue n the rear of the Princess opera Louse began to assume a malarial Inge both sides of the Street were inc with stagnant water. Fifty five years 27.1889 it was rumoured that Van Home would retire from the general manage ship of the c.p.r., retain no the presidency and being coded As general manager by Wil Iam Whyte or Thomas. Shaugh Messy. Fifty tears 27, even the state of the roads could Dot interfere with the Spring horse How at Royal engineers passed through Winni cd to work on the new fort Ifica ions at Esqui Mau. Forty five years 27, 1899 it was announced that Manitoba University would prepare plans for to new building during the cur ent year and would erect it in Winnipeg and Rover bicycle clubs recently Amalga mated were preparing for a Busy summer. Forty years 27, 1904 Broadway East of main Street. Was to be closed and the area util Zed for the railway Yards of the Canadian Northern citizens were invited to express through the free press their opinions As to Broadway s closing and Many were doing so. Thirty five years 27, 1909 mayor Sanford Evans of Winnipeg suggested that the most practical Way to Deal with the current rat invasion of Manitoba was to Call a meeting of Rural councils and plan a Campaign in Ine with the most approved meth ods. Thirty Yean 27. 1914 the Winnipeg City Council had heard from All sides expressions of admiration of the ornamental Light standards on Portage Avenue and hey decided to extend them Asar As the Corner of Maryland. Twenty five years 27, 1919 several Winnipeg and Winnipeg District men had won the High Honor the Victoria Cross for valor in the face of the enemy the latest . To return Home was capt. C. W. Mitchell son of c. N. Mitchell who was a noted Marks Man of the . Twenty years 27, 1924 Ven. Archdeacon Mcelheran. Addressing the great War veterans association on the anniversary of the second Battle of Ypres. Deplored the Lack of a memorial in Winni Pes ;