Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tree Press Thermometer Readings p.m Sept 30 p.m Sept 30 Oct 1 2.30 Oct 1 For full text of Meteorological Office pee page one fair and coder OCT 1 Sun sun Moon rises 19.22 moon sets 9.05 WINNIPEG MONDAY OCTOBER Price per Edition Comic IDc ii i 32 PAGES FG Kill CHAMPION TO COMPETE Treasurer of Southern tist Mission Anxious to Stand His Trial Paces Cell and Shows of Strain of Evading GOV PROPOSES THE SOLUTIONS OF i are shown champion boy orators who will compete In the International contest at Washington From left to right Dudley Barker of Bournemouth England's champion William Fox Jr of London ont i Canada's His Worship Mayor of Toronto who headed a civic welcome to In the Queen j n i r Rene Fonthieu of Paris the champion of France and Heinz Earth of Berlin the champion of the German Described as One of Easiest in Experience of Winnipeg Police Department of S Games wanted there ta be returned ta CHINESE PIRATES KU W BRITISH H Newton ue expected tlie coming to Will- s far woald reach here to as Passengers Steamer and Succeed in Gaining Control Elevator at Deserted by Rats Few Hours Before It Crashes Speaking at Milwaukee Urges Sane Definition of What tutes Intoxicating Beverage Wants Each State to Determine Its Own Liquor Policy and Suggests National Referendum Hoover in Signed Statement Re- Appeals for Support on Basis of Religion 101 YEARS OLD Train Crashes Into Car Near Sask Mr and Mrs George Kamsay Recently Married and Mrs M Harrison Mrs Mother Lose Com- Wrecked Carried With Bodies of and Mrs Harrison on Cowcatcher as Far as Station Before Train Ramsay's Body Found 50 Yards From Crossing Badly Mangled Special Despatch to the Free Press Man Sept 30 demolished the 200 feet across lop the beina to It to Notorious Bias Bay Where They Loot It able aie proper connection I would be over tiie likely leave for e this evening I The treasurer whose j are to show a shortage a of on collars to face his j t-t this quickly as possible local police he has foundation of the f j Hfl Jj 11 h S I -T s no where Chinese pirates figure officers of the steamer o Chief Officer David C Jones of New ui Wales and Chief Engineer claims he Thomson of Scotland o: who bled were killed Captain Plunkett had knowledge taut who commanded the snip was Sad served time in penitentiary wounded as was Third Officer A I to his record Campbell J tracks and landing on the opposite United Grain Growers elevator of tne jence smashing Cranmer Man collapsed telegraph and telephone poles and elevator wires and piling grain mixed with Special the Free Press Hy FRANK II WILLIAMS Sept will be no further speculation concerning nor Alfred E Smith's attitude toward the liquor question lor the Democratic nominee took the nation Into iri his last western campaign speech Milwaukee last night Smith specified three remedies he necessary to bring national HON Dean of the Canadian parliament wa 101 years old on Saturday 29 Hi entered the upper chamber 21 ago when 80 years of age There a competition in Quebec at the for the Senate vacancy and the power that were decided to give It to Senato Dessaulles until the tumult died down by which time the vacancy probably recur Senator fooled confreres ana ha the seat ever since He lives ft St Hyacinth and Is reported t be In good health Special the Free Press by Staff Correspondent Sept citizens were instantly killed and their automobile completely wrecked shortly before 8.30 o clock Sunday morning on a level crossing u some 400 yards west ol the McDowell of 1882 Rae street Six weeks ago Ramsay and Mrs say were married at Delisle SasK alter a short courtship auinc j at Sask The dead LUC George 28 traveller for the Tuckett Tobacco company 477 yne avenue Winnipeg Mrs George Ramsay 22 recently married to George Ramsay 60 Maryland Ramsay his wife and Mrs Harrison were in Winnipeg only Wednesday leaving In the evening for That was the last time they were seen by their Winnipeg friends and relatives who born in England came to Winnipeg five years ago He Has been employed at E L Drewry Co Canadian Pacific I Hon story Associated Cable China Sept 30 A rivalling the tales of the Spanish main was brought to Hong Konk by residents for miles with a mighty crash that was heard n v of tne i iwu reached port after having been gave way ana the building was a new elevator elevator be made nnd work begun lived ou mar Carues to being taken back to of his crime When The Chinese ho rushed to the bridge to fight off the pirates was shot dead The Anking which left Singapore m persuade police to have across the is stated strait settlements on September over to the authorities He was tjld on rain Into Anto at Bristol Pa Killing Three Her and Three Women IS Bl HIS IN ON MONTREAL STRET in its own borders concerning liquor and he a national referendum necessary to test the public will upon all matters pertaining to prohibition Says Will of Majority Opposed The Democratic nominee spoke to an enthusiastic gathering of 13.000 persons in several halls of the cipal auditorium while thousands outside for admittance Gov Smith dealt with every phase of the prohibition question and he quoted eminent authorities some of whom have conducted national One Woman Slightly Hurt When Autos Crash Head-on Saturday Night Operator of One Car Taken Into Custody on Charge of Driving While Intoxicated A woman was injured for Hong Kong by way of Swaton and Amoy was attacked by the pirates on Wednesday Ui the Gulf of Tonking The pirates had shipped aboard the vessel as passengers n of robbing vessels frequently practised in Chinese waters Fire at Officers Most of the officers or the ship at dinner Wednesday when the pirates numbering forty men dropped their passenger roles Some of them rushed to the bridge of the firing point blank at ths officer on fluty there Chler Officer Jones was instantly killed and Captain Cole fell with bullets In both legs It was at T iveys to his contention that the Infant Son of Mr and Mrs Slayer Immediately ls to of Clifford ald Man Found Dead Special Despatch lo the Free Press Man Sept on his face on a down comforter the ten months son of Mr nd Mrs Metcalfe smothered himself this being unable to turn owing to his weight Mrs Me Jealousy Said To Be Canadian Press Despatch 1 trite majority of citizens and that It has been responsible to a large extent for the birth of gangland activities Smith nnd hia entourage was en route to Rochester tonight he will attend the opening session of the Democratic convention Montreal Sept Anne Later in the week he will return ette 32 is dead from n bullet wound 0 Albany and rest a few clays cafe the verett to church left the baby e of her brother-in-law In care of Miss CiV nit Margaret Forsythe who lulled him to police are holding Ernest Messier 35 who they claim con- fessed to shooting his lormer Saturday night on St Hubert street of the main thoroughfares the end of the city lso holding two three w i point that the Chinese quarter- I master rushed to the bridge to assist his commander but was shot j as soon as he appeared Meanwhile other pirates had rushed into the and murdered Chief Engineer Thomson The i off leers were wounded and beaten with while Campbell was knifed In omen were automobile i by a railroad j here of victims were haci beer r hour after the bore a New Jersey according to 1 Trenton had been tc of Bayonne Tive Killed in Island to Free bv Private Wire j sept plication Comes Up Tuesday Arsons were nnd four others In- i when an o railway struck j at a crossing east of here Continued on Pasc Six STEELm is Algoma Steel Corporation plication Comes Up Again Nov witnesses lor the inquest The shooting occurred on the open street at an hour when scores of were on their way to stores and After the fatal shot was fired Messier who was standing beside the who had fallen o the Aii hour later the mother called for the child to find him still warm apparently lifeless Medical advice secured by phone from Dr Armstrong Portage was followed In desperate attempt to restore respiration but when the doctor arrived though the were still maintained they were unavailing at headquarters The little boy was in normal dnim stated that and unusually robust Clifford jealous of another man and woman walk was placed under arrest by fic Officer Bielle The woman was taken into a house nearby where bli died while awaiting an ambulance te calfe the father has been working In Winnipeg with the British American Oil company The following is the from the Winnipeg Meteorological office n at 1 p.m Saturday maximum lor the 12 hours minimum that was why he had fired The two men held as material are a hardware store clerk who sold the revolver to Messier and tlis man of whom Messier said he was Jealous The inquest will be held Special to the Free Tress from Stair Correspondent Sopt tariff of and injured in the car ths time of the were Instantly killed hold the first public route to the on the application of the Steel Corporation a ten miles per sky fair Temperature ct 7 P.m Sunday mum for the 12 Tium barometer west wind a seven miles per sky clear Weather in the west has been in and moderate s guarded only by n m the duties on on Tuesday and Wednesday Thereafter the board will until late in October when a number of applications of minor im- portance will be brought forward The bnard will not reopen any of the more inquiries until Tbp ond hearing on the cement ber me unu ijc Continued on Accident at Broadway and Manitoba St Vancouver May Have Fatal Results Mrs M Harrison street Winnipeg Mrs Ramsay was thrown from the car at the time of the Impact and her body was found along the right ol way about 50 yards from the crossing badly mangled The bodies of Mr Ramsay and Mrs Harrison and the mocked auto were carried for 100 yards on the cowcatcher of the engine to the station before the train could be brought to a stop No Witnesses to Accident Dr Argue coroner of Grenfell and the Mounted Police were called Im- mediately and after examining the bodies and questioning the train crew allowed the train to proceed A Jury was immediately impanelled and the bodies viewed They were afterwards removed to the community hall at There were no witnesses to the dent and the first intimation that anything amiss had occurred was when the engineer felt the Impact and heard the crash of the car on tne en- gine The fireman was engaged in shovelling coal into the engine and did not see anything accident The highway near runs parallel to the railway and as the railway and Tobacco Co i Continued on Page Clifford W Mitchell Victim of Crash Between Train and Automobile Left Winnipeg Four Ago to Reside in Southern States mail arrested Saturday as a say car arrived near the crossing the occupants apparently failed to see tne train going east The automobile was struck amidships and stayed on the result of a head-on collision between two automobiles on Main bridge Charles P White 779 Elgin avenue was He will appear In city police this charged with driving an while In- Mrs Robert Kerr of 86 Essex enue St Vital who was riding In her husband's car was Injured re- cuts from flying glass on the face and Knee Her condition was such that she was allowed go to her home Her son Robert escaped Injury The two cars going tions collided about the centre of the bridge against the Kerr's car railing of the while White's machine was hit by a street car just as he struck Kerr and pushed over on to its Bide Both cars yere damaged badly Police officers who arrived after the accident stated that they had found White drunk White was taken into custody A young lady riding with White i ran away from the car ns soon as Press Despatch Vancouver B.C Sept 30 Mrs D A Munroe Seventh avenue west was instantly killed here tonight Mrs M M Tenth avenue west was probably fatally injured and Mr nnd Mrs N Snell 1357 Tenth avenue were seriously Injured when n street car on Broadway avenue she extricated herself Police not succeeded In her have TWO MEN KILLED IN DETROIT PLANE farther west Dawson p Rupert Mi Ma 48 P 54 62 cochrane 52 64 P Sound 54 62 58 Toronto 36 SB Edmonton 44 52 S Current 54 58 56 Montreal p Albert 54 lied Hut 48 St John Moose THW 03 Halifax Annie of tbe Federated of Canada in collision at Flats 1 -s authorizing use considered direct to 6 says has put obstacles In 2 or Premier of warns hasty 11 elevator at Man hours before It 1 ta prevent extradition Northcott to California 8 Three people killed at S eagerly ar- rival of to take him ta Atlanta t Driver following col- or street 1 Last o Byrd expedition 9 Gov three solutions o prohibition 1 Chinese kill two British of- aboard 1 terminal aic mostly CO 44 SC 40 52 36 62 54 3B 50 I- 34 53 and GIRL FOUND HANGED IN WELL JAW Victoria 19 Russian Had Attended Dance Moose Jaw Sask Sept 30 Two hours after she returned from a dance Victoria a pretty Russian girl was found ing a beam above a well at the back of the house In which she stayed early this morning She was foAd by Tony who lived at cui ft tf ft crashed into an automobile driven ay Falls GOll Course Alter moderate Mr Snell at Manitoba street Snell's skull fractured and his wife suffered internal Injuries Their con- is critical Mr Snell was driving north on toba street and in crossing Broadway passed behind an street car In front of a car The automobile and its occupants were thrown forty feet by the force the Impact FUNERAL OF C A YOUNG WILL BE HELD TODAY uy the same house 928 Iroquois street west in the South Hill district Whether or not an Inquest will be held has not yet been determined by the coroner Dr M a hough tonight lie dl not think it Fire Destroys Gillespie William Concrete Storage Annex Remains would be Family Vasto Italy Sept tie wife of n peasant has given birth to five children since her riage 30 months ago Three daughters were born to her today Previously she had become the mother of two girls destroys Gillespie at 1 of Loading Dock Reduced to Ruins Despatch to the Press cess of Only the concrete storage the tains mostly wh overwhelms opponent 1 25 boy killed by fal irom 4 win soccer league 24 Winnipeg man killed in Sv pennant 4 defeats Tiger rugby team ably reduced In grade The with about 50000 bushels of wheat loading and r iocs the car shea and most 01 wh denl n tne lire ux t y broke out shortly after 11 o ure of power lines wait the switching on of power again The watchman started his rounds a lo o'clock in the evening and com- them half an hour later fy before flames were noticed out of elevator windows He everything In the storage house In it is presumed that the fire started In the lower portion of the workhouse nf frame and corrugated Iron It spread with such lightning rabidity that the workhouse was a mis of names within a few moments A general alarm was ed sparks flying across the harbor threatened plants In tne flames shot hundreds of of Old Resident to Take Cemetery funeral of Charles Alexander Associated Tress Despatch Detroit Mich Sept men one of whom was believed to be Caldwell connected with a flying club here were killed yesterday when their lane crashed on the sixteenth fairway of the Plum Hollow golf course The plane cracked up after flying so ow over the course that It narrowly two members of the club who vere playing on the seventeenth The men were dead when witnesses of the accident and attaches the golf club reached the wreckage Young pioneer of Manitoba leader In the grain trade In Winnipeg lor many years who died Friday morning in his year after one year's wlU be held this afternoon Service will be conducted at the family dence at 3 o'clock by Prof F W Kerr minister of Knox United church and burial will be In the family plot wood cemetery Former members of the legislature and many of the ent members will attend and there will be a large number of grain ex- change members take part in the rites pallbearers will Hlo Honor T A Burrows Chief Justice C E E H F L Patton George Erb Dr A E Coulter A K Godfrey W A Matheson and C K McNaughton The active pallbearers will be F O Fowler James Crowe John Penny Gabe Smith Frank ren and E H Haffner Nurse Called to Attend Men Injured in Crossing Smash Finds One is Her Husband Special United News Despatch to Free hy Free Press Private WIs Sept 30 Mrs Kay Thompson a nurse In a local tal was called today to assist In re- two patients who had been In- jured in a railroad crossing accident My God that's my she exclaimed as she begat sponging the nead within a lew clays from the face of oip of the men Thompson Is not expected to live f Narrowly Missing Two Members of cowcatcher until the train stopped Six Weeks Ago Clifford W Mitchell formerly Winnipeg and a resident of Los An- geles Calif for the past four was killed Saturday afternoon near Los Angeles when his automobile struck by an electric train at a ing According to Information received the train crashed into Mitchell's cav with terrific force shattering it to pieces Mr Mitchell who was Kamsay beent to almost establish his headquarters at Regina and take over the territory from J C THREE ITALIAN AIRMEN ARE RIP IN FRANCE Plane Crashes Into River Rhone After Hitting High Tension Electric Wires Special News Cable to Free Press Free Press Wire killed His right leg was broker f his arms badly mangled with injuries to the head and body in his neath It has not yet been definitely how the accident occurred However according to word received la the city it Is believed that Mr Continued on Page Six From the Free Press Files Oct Years A post office was established at wood Jack Robinson as some wag said this ensured speedy delivery of the I J crashed late Saturday to Italy Commandant Pierre Penzo Lieut and Flying Officer Del Lagatta lost their lives and Mechanics were seriously Years Afro W B Hall of left at the Injured Score of small boats crept along the banks of river tonight picking shattered twisted bits of metal and wood the seaplane but found nothing of three nien who went in the wreckage of the plane Apparently the fliers were speeding low over the of the river looking for sheltered water which would permit a landing when the plane crashed into high tension electric wires carrying volts It was believed here that the three men were electrocuted Wild Colt Credited With Saving Life of Baby Boy Toronto Time Change Toronto Sept Daylight ing ended here at 2 today The measure went into effect here on April 29 Mr Hall had also sortie whopping ples of the variety the things being as large as en- began to reach the Free Press trom those who had bet that Hon Alex Morris would be elected as to whether they would have to pay their bets if a recount was decided on Years 1883 A reviewer In London Times stated that the current English novel vas tlie same as it had been foe forty years monotonously the story of a man and a woman and the formula She was beautiful and she fell in love the said that News to Free Press Free Press Private Wire Hays Kansas Sept 30 A wild colt who would make friends with no one but the baby boy of the Donn family waH credited with having saved the baby's after he had fallen Into a water tank on the farm The was found by the water tank the neck band of the baby's dress firmly gripped hi his teeth and holding the baby's head just out of the water One Killed One Critically Hurt in Collision of Autos Car Caromes Off Another Parked Without Lights at Cambridge Flats Into Third Machine Coming From Opposite McMahon of Kentville Dead and Miss Annie Stewart President of Federated Women's Institutes of Canada Badly Injured Canadian Despatch Sept 30 McMahon son of A E ex-president of the United Fruit company of Nova Scotia and prominent valley business man of Kentville Is dead Miss Annie Stewart of Grand Prc president of- the Women's Institute of Canada and president o: the King's County Liberal association Is in a critical condition Wolfville hospital lowing a collision of two automobiles at Cambridge Flats seven miles west of Kentville about 10.30 Saturday night McMahon died early this morning Five other women passengers in the wrecked machines one of which was driven by Stewart and other by McMahon escaped with minor Injuries The accident occurred when tm car travelling toward caromed roadster parked without lights Paul i most broadside Into the sedan driven by Miss Stowart headed in the other direction The roadster Is the perty oi Asaph Zinck of Berwick who told of his lights going out and of his endeavoring to fix them In which he was engaged at the time of the and his brother escaped with a severe McMahon died in hospital from a compound fracture of the skull Stewart and Miss Annie were also taken to hospital where It was said tonight that Miss Stewart had a fighting chance for recovery while Miss Dennison was not hurt A Jury sworn in day by Dr Forbes and will meet on October IB formula having She and he foil much more in love than if she had been Forty Years Ago f H French for St Francois Xavler entrusted by with the task of ascertaining how many uneducated deaf mutes there were In Manitoba reported that there were Mr French's j devoted in part to an Account of what being done for deaf mutes in the United States and eastern Canada and a description of those among tlie dear and dumb who had risen to fame education Years Ago Winnipeg Salvationists secured the Rupert street Baptist church as a citadel paying the union of the two city corps gave the Army n local strength of 200 boua fide soldiers came of golf was being Into the United States and was making a great nil the Free Press published a description cf how tc play the game Years Afro Only a small proportion of the total vote of the Dominion was cast In the prohibition plebiscite Winnipeg gave a large majority In favor of it as did also the Manitoba constituencies the returns at Selkirk Hall were read aloud at Revs MacBeth and Spence there were by Prof Biddell and W B Mulock K.C Years Ago The irand old man of the hole passed away In Winnipeg when William McMillan born at Fort In 1799 and hence a aec of he had been a farmer In the St James district for 40 years and before that a the tree In the Northwest Years Ago cornerstone of the new building on avenue was orchestra furnished the music G F Stephens presided over the Rev B C Johnstone was to the Rev A A Shaw Hev J L Gordon presidency of the Federated Women's I and Kev Dr F B DuVal institutes at Vancouver la 1925 B T
