Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1924, Winnipeg, Manitoba THINKS BOARD WAS NAPPING A. N. of thinks the Board f Grain Commissioners was caught napping when they realize tho rush of to that port and provision for tho 9 RELIEF FOR CLOSED SCHOOLS Hon. Charles minister of duces in legislature providing grants to school dis- municipalities where schools closed on basis of equalized assessment per 3. 188 and Sun FEBRUARY 12, 1924 Price 5c per Edition CIS REVOLT TO TO LIBERTY Effort at Led By Murderers and Bank Robbers prison Are Killed Bold Dash For Freedom Is Frustrated Face Electric Harden Turns Them Over to City Homicide Bureau Booth Thinks Flappers Are in Minority to Press by Press San Feb. who wear indulge in petting parties and think about nothing In are in the Commander of the Salvation Miss in San Francisco to help dedicate a hostel named after took to let it be known that she does not believe there are many girls themselves are rot to Miss Booth where you find a silly girl you will find a lack of companionship daughter arid RE-ELECTED LEADER Party Decides to Drop and Meet Challenge of Labor TODAY'S ICE DRAWS 1 to 9; 11 to 17; 21 to 25; 31 to 34; 41 to 45; Fort 51 to 55j St. 61 to 65; 71 to 75; 81 to 85-JDeer 91 to 96; 101 to 103. RIVALLING PLEA Urges New Spirit to Match Zeal and Sincerity in Labor Kanks IS AS CZAR Of desperate Tress bank robbers and several d i General Foreman Proclaims Acting Sheriff Ranking Civil Officer Maintains in Face of Military Rifles business district Si quiet and the dungeons held unruly men who had killed W prison officers in their oold W The official wno a. group oi con- KUM from assistant an Electric Chair The to the prison here Philadelphia penitentiary in aided by a number of other ous the plot and led the They face thu tric for Warden John it. i Bgan has turned them over to city homicide which wrecked mala and a section of the beginning of I the in which county i i Free Free Press Private Feb. the I refusal of S. Glenn fondly i King by his i to capitulate to the militia 1 martial law is Maj. 1 i Gen. Milton Foreman proclaimed 1 that Coroner McCowan as sheriff is the ranking civil i officer In j In this to be posted i throughout the county I Gen. Foreman declared that his i troops would co-operate with Cowan to restore j Young Declared Powerless i has been done in bigger rougher communities than and j can do it Foreman Press Cabled Feb. 11. Tho tive defeated at the elections on its policy decided at a party conference today drop protection and meet challenge ot the new Labor government by Into opposition in the new house as nominally a united loyal to its Stanley Though Mr. as prime led his administration to de- he was unanimously re-elected i leader of his and wais thus i given another efforts were made by a targe section ot the party and a powerful body of the Conservative press to choose another bat The resolution to re- tain seems to have been based purely on a ment of loyalty and a desire to dissensions in the party councils at a critical Baldwin Gives Good Advice Mr. In his speech of his party some some advice on its future and declaring that its mies of the future were not the on LIKELY TO GAIN STRONG RECRUITS Orlando Joins De Nava Di Cesaro and Fera Considering 9.30 A.M. PURITY TROPHY Ice No. vs. vs. WALKER THEATRE TROPHY N. vs. HUDSON BAY CO. TROPHY Ft. vs. Portage la JERRY ROBINSON TROPHY Ft. vs. Cline vs. P. BIG VALLEY COAL TROPHY vs. SIR JOHN C. EATON TROPHY vs. THE MARYBOROUGH TROPHY vs. Deer Kenora vs. Deer John's vs. St. THE WHITE COMPETITION vs. G. E. Elm vs. Granite vs. 1 P.M. DRAW U.S. DEBT MAY ISSUE despite ills technical re- tention of the title of acting i if police of was declared by the Young strolled about the hotel lobby with Ills ten trailing lie stated that lie has 34 who can identify seven men he implicates in stable Caesar would save their corner's jury to Preps Feb. Premier and Foreign Minister Orlando lias yielded to the request he run on the Fascist ticket headed by Premier Mussolini in the There are still some de- tails yet to be arranged between and that hoi It is De Nava and it Feel Foreign Governments Ample Time to Offer Settlement I Feb. United i de- To Stop win be no scaring nesses to death and stopping them frota as during the riot States Dabt Funding commission probably win bo called to meet soon consider whether .It will issue i to foreign governments ad- vising that commission awaits funding offers they may Some of tho members are said to feol that ample time for a I merit has been given the foreign who owe the United States i n excess of seven billion dollars in merest and principal on the Gen. Foreman announced that soldiers put a stop to the which general here as the wearing of He tried to persuade Young to leave off his two six but the little czar him by securing a permit in time from a i Defies General Foreman military rifles 1ns in defies Foreman to him as the town's Foreman had asked Small to proclaim martial He for the I will the Fascist was asserted today that Dl Cesaro and Signor Fera had almost consented to If combination can be over it is it mean a victory in Southern Italy the four men are tors In the political FRY'S COCOA CUP 10 a.m. Draw Miss vs. Mrs. Deer WALKER THEATRE TROPHY Ice No. vs. la Wood get into vs. vs. HUDSON BAY CO. TROPHY vs. PURITY FLOUR TROPHY get into St. vs. Bleakley St. vs. SIR JOHN C. EATON TROPHY Fort vs. Fort WHITE COMPETITION At Terminal Rink Army and vs. vs. Alleged Interests Have Strangled Alaskan INVESTIGATION Charged Fall Followed Same Policy With Goal as With Oil Reserves Says Financial Madness Has Spread Over Whole of Canada a note of economy in a report to the city Finance Com- missioner Ross Is not an extravagant statement to say that a sort of financial madness is over the whole As private individuals we are our A3 citizens we have spent without thought and our city so heavily that we and our children will groan under the round figures tho increase In assessment for general civic purposes is and for education producing the same rate as last and says Mr. FRY'S COCOA CUP Thistle Rink Draw G Deer vs. Mrs. St. vs. Mrs. vs. Mrs. Fort ARCHIE CUP vs. St. vs. Mrs. McDOUGALL CUP J. G. vs. Mrs. vs. Mrs. Doer St. vs Mrs. News to Free by Tress Private By RAYMOND CLAPPER 1924, by United 11. President has been requested to point an impartial board of inquiry to investigate charges the Al interests strangled the government owned Alaskan railroad through tical and financial shaped development of the Alaskan territory to own This request was made oE dent a few agro by John E. of who has connected with an affairs for many The president has asked time to con- sider it. If the president refuses to appoint tho board of lutions will bo introduced In the and senate looking to an in- it is will a state of affairs that will the Teapot Dome Two Main Allegations The charges made have many but they centre around two allegations the interests have been permitted to Refers to Representatives of Com- panies Examining Wheat When Samples Taken Chairman Grain Commission Points Out No Law or Regulation Being Broken Says He Will Move ing Denby When in sion of All the Facts Evidence Throughout Day Deals Largely With Taking of Samples in the Railway Yards Will Not Sacrifice or Retain Any Man For His Own Welfare WARNS OF FIRE LOSSES IN CANADIAN FORESTS Fresn Feb. request made of President today the senate to ask immediately for the resignation of Edwin as secretary of the navy was re- fused by the chief The president's was in a statement In which he asserted that no official recognition could be to the senate Executive Functions dismissal of an officer ol the such as is involved in this other than by im- on Port defeat of Finals reached in and semi- i in Cline leads in grand i IS. j B. W. makes application to council to permit installation i central heating system a. of Yorkshire breeders In separata incorporation wreck of Swino of U.S. Industries to On- by cheap power discussed at regressive convention at St. 20. Investigation of Alaskan affairs reveal situation Teapot I wme It Is sportsmen MXs struck by train when ton feet ena of their 1.1 3 INVESTIGATION OF FLAG Connolly Will Ask Congress to Act if State Department Refuses BOfS BODY FOUND IN POPLAR BLUFF Police at Faced With Baffling Mystery United to Free by Free Private TV Feb. the state department investigates the failure of the German embassy to lower its flag for Rep. of will request a congressional ho announced on the floor or house Federal agents have discovered the identity of the taxi driver who nailed oa the door oi the embassy after the to Wilson became His Fort William Defeats Gordon Hudson Stars Go Down in Birka Takes Lead in Reached in and Rutledge Enter Jewelry in sei Secretary 1. Prison officials killed whun j flash for liberty made rsn 1. OE lar to of loads 9. for 'n March is nc to move ghl in le for substitute been nothing is likely to it is now was taken from the front of a movie house during the the taxi driver being to find a store open where he could buy Chicago City Teamsters To Go on Strike Today an e' 1. to drop Oa 11. holds bridge E Smith Canadian of sets on re-elected pre- Bible j Feb. increase of a and lowering oC a working day from nine to hours city teamsters are to so Canadian of Adjustment Meets Today s. ot und at i Co council is to i manager h large crowds at Kiver 7. summer camp at Page 5. downs 19. Canadian Railway Board of ment open here They will he presided assistant Canadian Press 11. ling mystery the police and medical authorities investigating death of George whose with a bullet wound in. the was found about ters of a mile from the home of his seven miles south of Dr. has em- panelled a after Ing the adjourned to In the meantime Dr. will perform an George left parents Jan. 30, saying he svas going to visit some That waa the last time he was seen Sunday some alarm was felt by the and a led by Karl started a In a. poplar bluff three-quarters a from his the body was found in the Marks ed the boy had attempted to crawl after receiving the fatal SYLVAN LAKE TRIAL NEARING END of Hansen May Be Placed in Bands of Jury Today Press Feb. 11. of Red appeared be- fore Justice Tweedie in tha supreme court at Wetaskiwin charged with tha murder of Edgar of Sylvan Most of the dence in the case has been and it is expected that the jury will be asked to bring in a verdict who is a native of lias working as a farm in the Hed Deer He is unable to speak According to the evidence mitted tha accused walked i Fed Deer to and Rea Edgar Faulkner of Ae walked in and at In a scuffle Snowing the discovery of a stranger in the the prisoner knife with fatal The downfall of the hitherto in- vincible Hudson rink of the the second defeat of the two Fort rinks skipped by ind the second defeat of J. S- ahd winning spurt of the Cline 4nk from were just a of the which served to make yesterday's play In the annual bonspiel most notable ol the event The rink Fort after before of. the Johnson combination from had the honor of the colors of the clever Hudson four from the Strathcona to decide which rink into the fours of the Birks The Fort quartette a grand game at both the and and fully de- served Cline and his stalwarts from the home of the O'Grady jumped into tho limelight by two notable victories in the open events to take the lead over Gordon Hudson for the Grand the coveted in i of Fort William dropped out of the running for a .at least when he to Lytle of Roland in tlie Purity Cline with 11 wins Hudson with 10 wins have a clear field if either of go without another But they both get bumps there are several rinks which would be in tile Hudson and Cline in Final Hudson went into the final of the of a clean over Pete midls last The Cline rink also reached the last stage of the Grand Challenge event by winning from Johnny young Deer Lodge so one of 'the to under and on WRESTS tN HAWAII Continues Unabated Despite forts to from eastern used Sportsmen Walking Tracks Struck by Train Ten Feet From End of Journey ook on true as Ccar Decide Today Austria's Recognition of Feb. special train on the Boston and Maine Ford homeward from Boston to late today struck four were walking track their way to an outing Three members of wore killed Tress Feb. of Soviet I expected to be decided budget committee at to that The Charles B. and L of Francis of Mass. The Manning brothers were- well known professional sons of the ate Charles B. of Manufacturing Amos L was an attorney of- s in where Charlos i B also practised as a consulting en- u. aiso waa an biological department at were only ten feet from trail when the train They had planned to at that point and tramp over the 11. huge brush fire In the district of Island of Hawaii is continuing strenuous efforts being made to it. There are no houses in the district that are being but the for- est landa -are threatened by the spreading Smoke and haite from the brush land overhangs the city Honolulu and tonight found the ly Scotia Schooner loses Member of Crew in Storm one of the storms encountered this 40, of the Jean F. was washed overboard on the night of January 21, Captain Stewart related on the arrival here Suit For Alienation of Wife's Affection Dismissed Press Justice presiding at the Lambton sizes dismissed the suit ol James Shortt against Roy Smith for alleged alienation of Mrs. The Shortts have been married for 27 years and have 12 NEGRESS TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE Charged With Manslaughter at Rockville Press Rockville 11. Margaret a servant lor the last two years at the of and Mrs. S. of was arrested today on charge of second degree in connection with the deaths yesterday of six persons in a tenement house believed to have been of incendiary She was committed to jail in default of The negress was brought here for questioning after 14 year old police she had her leave the rear of the tenement with her hair afire about 15 minutes before the fire broke police declared Margaret a in which she stated the was caused by an oil stove which she upset while she was of Candier Again i To Figure in Courts Today United Despatch Free Press by Free Press 1'rivate Feb. 11. The house of made prominent by Supplies Exhausted in 30 Years if Not Says Sweezey 1'ross the j enormous Josses caused by fire are the accessible forest plies of Canada can only last an- other thirty years at the outside according to 6. consulting engineer for banking lumbering who gave evidence before the royal commission on pulpwood here Mr. claimed that 90 per of the forests of Canada went up as to 10 per destroyed by commission began its sions here of a local chemical was PREDICTS OF STANDARD 0'IL CO. Governor Says People Will Demand industry United to 3Treo IVess by Free Feb. of the Standard Oil and allies was predicted Gov. of South in a tele- gram today to Gov. of Incensed over the new price jump of and several other oil Gov. Norman McMaster prophesied that the American people would on the government ing over the oil before the history of the country has the oil magnate so flagrantly and defiantly set out upon a policy of highway the telegram hour is not far distant when tho people will demand the Standard Oil and Its allied Interests observe rules of fair or the can people will destroy Standard Oil and nationalize the Gov. McMaster congratulated Gov. Bryan on the only governor the United States who has raised your voice against the brutal tices of. the oil trust in looting the ONE THOUSAND PEW IN RUSSIAN PRISON Merchants Charged With lating Freeze to Death Cable to tho Free Feb. thousand sent to a prison on because there was no room in Moscow have frozen to according to an re- which leaked out today 1 he report was confirmed tho which ordered an innocent man tor my own Strong opposition was B. counsel for the Co-operative to the practice of of milliner and other com- panies boarding cars in the railway yards and examining samples are being taken fay tion day's sessions of tho royal The protest made in with by Mr. Jonah that a sample without competition had been by thu Mr. Justice out that no or regulation wus broken by the whereupon Mr. Jonah claimed that lie knew of no law or that and contended tho point for the was whether it should be allowed or with which the chairman of the com- mission There was discussion as to the n Motion Carried By Larger Majority Than Expected INDICTMENTS AGAINST LINCOLN ARE RETURNED to e Tress Private United Vross by Frc THOMAS L. senate has placed its stamp of disapproval on Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and has sent to the White the resolution which asks i him from list of cabinet j The vote on the Robinson asking for was 47 a maigin been It came late tills after a day of and spirited which had frequent spurts of Amendments Defeated Immediately after passage of the Senator minority moved that a copy of the resolution bo sent to the pre- A viva voco which was called was so a roll call was It 51 to 25, some who had opposed the Charged With Murder of Wife and Her and Fraud on CHARGED WITH ROBBING STATE BANK Author of New Currency System Tho County grand jury returned throe indictments against Warren J. two for the murder of bis and her ron and one for obtaining money under false Lincoln will be arraigned search is being made for the dismembered bodies of his Their heads recently wore found in a concrete block on a Fifty Years Ago F. advertised town lots for sale in cast of also 40 acres on tho near F. W. Harnett just out from called attention to her establishment in the annual school Messrs. Stewart A. and R. A. Davis were cd have another inning in court This time two prominent business men will be called on to explain whait they were doing last Saturday when Chief of Police James Beavers ed an apartment and arrested Mrs. Asa bride of seven William and G. W. He report i tihe Winnipeg 'a at 7 for Oia 12 14; 30.12; north 6 per Sky Ma. 10 Arthur 16 34- 10 28 14-34 Toronto 5S 44 victoria 44 52 Vancouver 46 08 32 oa 20 10 Albert 15 So no Hal 36 54- Jaw 11 oon 4- ob St. John Halifax fair 18 34 S 28 10 18 4 10 10 26 3B 26 42 and and Aims to Beat Shenandoah In Race to North Pole United News to Tfi Preta by Free Tress Private Feb. United States navy may another foreign power to the north pole by but Murray graduate student of the University of is ready to beat the navy's the to the tip of the Colbert today announced his in- tention of the to north He ships next month to in a ker he will take off for the Arctic Goes on Trial Next Week j United to Die I 1'rens by Free Press Private Feb. lias Dome scandal In the re- I case ot author of the new currency system j who on trial next and j. M. charged with tho funds of tno McDonnell waa elected to tha bank Forty-five Years Ago Another on at boundary was a ing of the Law Fred Kenzie was elected Bencher in state bank for his own 3xrasnostchokov, once a lawyer in was apparently a good low while lie had It. Having worked out the it Is took samples of his product to stage cham jagne at which ho threw gold coins to He bought a motor a and farm with horses and The commissariat of Justice has carried on a lengthy gallon o and all ations have been made for the vacancy caused by tho death of lato F. Evans was 6u- that the protested Selkirk tion case would not be proceeded with until after the rising of tho minion Forty Years Ago animated discussion took at Portage la Prairie on tho of handing over tho of tho 1 00, 000 bonus granted and the Railway Tho Manitoba delegates waited upon privy at school anu Tn BP IU DC tO monopoly were some of IU subjects dealt Immediate The merchants speculators were- accused of by the The prison to which they were sent was one by the czar for state political Since the revolution it has become a- most terrible Bolshevist Feb. Giovanni Manzoni Is to be selected as Italy's first ambassador to Soviet according to in foreign cles Manzoni was formerly minister to Seventeen Drowned in Wreck of British St. John Liverpool Feb. or tho including tho have been in the wreck of tho Brit- ish according to a Lloyds from Tho the rocks near Capo St. went on Nova Scotia Mine Strike Settled And One Year Agreement Signed Shooters and loaders and contract including seven centa a eight n Local six per cent. Affects Men the arej retroactive to Jan. 16 of 5 The agreement will expire Jan. 19'5 It provides for the over the rates in effect on coal to the Jan. ot tins is Increased from to were wired to the coal miners of Nova Scotia to to work by their representatives who signed a ment with the Empire of the railway Thirty-five Years Ago Tha Ottawa government t'i devote all energies ot thi department to improving rhe toba and Northwest mail antA opening new posl i fever broko out amony tile of Cold I tit Trade through Soci C. requested the board f. join in in toba grain M. Blake and H. J. were pointed Thirty Years The gathering of braw m Ihe Manitoba tho manship of President were informed that 59 had entered for the sixth annual classes for Tuesdays and Fridays throughout Lent were at Christ Twenty-five Ago The Brandon hockey toam the Winnipeg line-up was A. E. Nash D. T. U Tetter stated ing camps wore with at roll of the miners of the cor- I of more than a n Datal men cents Datal surface cents 3, thirty miners per Not only will more than on Fort cars to run ao far as the on returning from a. trip stated that the bile had Its and had come to
