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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 5, 1937, Winnipeg, ManitobaF enjoy it often lathe Good anytime 2-Giass bottle i s by Carrier in Winnipeg 25c per week Friday i Price so per copy edition with comics we. phone 57 066 Al f1 p 1 i in says in convict a dope charges i _ v chinese tells Velly strange Story of gobbling up rail Way ticket but court refuses to it and says you guilty i even a 26-year record of unblemished rectitude was t h to make or. Justice Taylor believe his Story of a stolen ticket to Montreal which vanished Down his Gullet the . Narcotic squad walked in and As a result r Kaw to was convicted of two charges of Selling narcotic wednesday afternoon. Constable Ian Maclean Corporal w. J. Goodey of the mounted police drug squad had a plated their testimony the acid took the stand in own hence denied Ever having sold Vracin to Maclean and explained Quaintance with Maclean As Jit of an attempt by Mac to sell him a stolen railway Thile Maclean had testified n i Kaw to had sold him s twice on nov. 12 and nov. 1936, and had been Able to wry on a conversation with him Otthat time the accused disclaim All but the most rudimentary knowledge of English and told his under questioning by Hon. Two plead guilty to narcotic drug charge thursday Posner admits illegal Possession and Smith confesses to Selling Mcmurray. Through an to was arrested in a at 264 King Street on 14. This was not he cd his Home. Sometimes he slept on the lottery table in this room sometimes he slept in a bed a an adjoining room and some Ron Butch Posner pleaded guilty to two charges of having narcotic drugs in his Possession and was remanded until Friday morning for sentence by or. Justice Taylor thursday morning. George a. Blackie Smith entered a guilty plea to one charge of Selling Druga and was also remanded for sen tence. This is not a Case for leniency your lordship and i ask that an exemplary sentence be imposed upon the a. M. Shinbane r i. 1 commissioner in two confessed dope addicts George a. Blackie sir left and Aaron Butch Posner shield their faces As they leave the courthouse thursday following conviction before or Justice Taylor of infractions of the opium and narcotic drugs act. A second after this picture was cameraman had to leap backwards to Dodge a lustily kicked Boot aimed at him by Posner. Guilty to one charge of Selling heroin and Posner to two of having heroin in his Possession. Estimated damage of was caused to the dwelling owned and occupied by Peter Oleski at 798 Atlantic Avenue at 4 o clock wednesday afternoon when fire of unknown origin started in the shed adjoining the rear of the House. Court speaking times at room 18 Coronation Block. Mere were two Beds in the Back sentence of Posner. Room. One belonged to the Boss of the Rooming House and one to other Fella. When the other one jailed 2 freed on charge of it he it Joseph Pelletier who admitted that he had stolen an. Electric Drill from the basement of the Royal Alexandra hotel was sentenced to one year s imprisonment. Magis 1 _ h trate police thursday morning. He had i a previous 1 r were Quitte d after magistrate Gra Ham ruled that was insufficient evidence to warrant sending them up for trial. Court investigation of the affairs Greene and company limited and of the events that led to the failure of the company was directed thursday morning by or. Justice Dysart in Chambers. Application for the probe was made by mrs. Cecelia Mclntyre a Credi Tor of the company on behalf of herself and other creditors. She asks for an order for the inspection of the company s books and papers and for the examination under oath of company officials and others capable of giving in formation concerning the company s trading and dealings with the Public. The exact terms of the order have Mot yet been completed but it is Likely that the following per sons will be called As witnesses t. C. Anderson president of the company Elaine Brabant and Ruth Thomson employees w. B. Mccririck the Bank of to Ronto Ralph Baker acting president of the Winnipeg Stock Exchange and David Rossini Secretary. W. L. Mclaws and n. E. Munson Are acting for mrs. Mclntyre. 100 per cent duty fixed Ottawa feb. 5. For duty purposes of Coronation souvenirs has been fixed at an Advance of 100 per cent Over the invoice value and will remain at that figure 30, to protect Canadian manufacturers it was disclosed thursday. On or. H. M. Tory says he fou Iid no j evidence of Price i i i i i i i fixing in Anthracite encourage t i a Niento organizations the Oer e. Fella was t there sometimes the Iceo sed used that bed. On nov. 12 z Fella named Jack o Brien who lived at 264 King Street too came to i Kaw Woad explained to him that a Friend bad a stolen railway ticket for Montreal and would he be interested in buying it. _ i Kaw to had been on Relief k 11. Months and wanted to get town. He had an Uncle iring in the Coronation Block who High of lend him the Money. If to could get the ticket cheap enough he could go. O Brien Rought Maclean around and Maclean offered to sell him the a stolen ticket for h Maclean went i offered away and the next Day and it at i offered on fateful nov. 14, Maclean re turned arid offered to take ?9 for file stolen ticket. He went to his Uncle in the Cor nation Block got the and j ought the ticket from Maclean. Posner he said had been watched for some time on the evening of oct. 9, 1936, by City police officers on Carlton Street. He made several Quick trips Bettes Block and the spoon cafe then up and Down the Lane Between the build Ings and when the police arrested him they found a with 34 Cap Sules hidden Iri the Block. He was or. Shinbane continued released on heavy bail and was again arrested with heroin in his Possession on dec. 7. The Only logical conclusion from the Man s movements and the amount of dope he had was that he was trafficking in narcotics. While the court might be Dis posed to impose a minimum sen tence of six months and a Fine of on relatively harmless chinese opium smokers or first offence Adaval world naval strength As at july 1, 1936 great Britain United states France Italy Germany aircraft carriers 6 4 cruisers 55 destroyers 177 192 102 71 92 12 subs. By Grant Dexter of. Diets he pressed for a much heavier sentence in this Case he said. S. Hart Green k.c., who appeared As a Friend of Posner s family said that the accused had had the drugs for his own use and asked that As he had no previous record the minimum sentence be imposed. Guilty s then mice i he says Here think Somei Hins police after ticket. Comes wrong. I put a Mouth and Swallow and make sick after that. Police s in and grab me and choke for five minutes and search re and take my passport and keys while Smith pleaded the charge of Selling drugs Shinbane said that he had been a look out Man for i to or. Only Kaw i a Relief ticket and throw me on and shake my head and me. Then they searched old Man s room and take his from questioned by or. Mcmurray i denied Ever having sold Mac any dope at any time. I would t do he and if i did i would have of Money and would not be Relief. I have lived in Canada 26 years and have never been trouble she Cross examination by a. M. K.c., Crown prosecutor to an abrupt halt when or. Taylor interrupted to say not believe the accused s after or. Mcmurray made the court found a i Kaw to guilty in the two of Selling drugs and the withdrew two charges of and two of giving narcotics. J before remanding the accused q morning for sentence Justice Taylor asked him if "3 had anything to say. I do such a he blared. Have been in this for 26 years and i do such a what you want to know free press has the largest circulation in the City of it has the largest circulation of any paper Prairie provinces. It is the Corning newspaper in Mani and its combined morning evening circulation is greater any newspaper Between onto and Vancouver. Wheat to convicted wednesday and As he had Given evidence for the Crown against the latter suggested that the minimum sentence be imposed in his Case. Smith was not represented by counsel. Condemns big Nickel port Arthur ont., feb. 5. Special speaking wednes Day evening meet ing of his congregation when reports showed Advance and in creased receipts in department except the sections Rev. Harry Heathfield of Trinity United Church said the big Nickel is the of our existence. It is the worst thing the government Ever brain by prof. J. D. Flint Marine major f i i i 8 or thursday at mail closes at general for Vancouver 9 . M for Montreal and am and 6 pm for the and Chicago h 5.30 . Vieh 13 states Mont and Vancouver closes . Daily. For City delivery posted by at general Post office is ered the same Day. Next overseas mail closes in at . Wednesday. Leaving Halifax . Feb. The Duchess of Bedford. Addressed overseas let Ere is one from twizzlers Hig be e. There Are three men or. Edward or. James and or. Stanley. Each Man has a son whose first name is the his last name. One son is a doctor one son is a lawyer and one son is an architect. Or. Edward and the lawyer live in new York. The doctor lives in Chicago. Or. James lives exactly half Way Between new j York and Chicago. The architect lives exactly half Way be twee i or James and the doctor. The Man who lives nearest to the architect is a year older than the architect s father and the doctor recently performed a delicate brain operation on this Man s son. Or james1 son has been known to beat the doctor at Tennis. What Are the full names of the doctor lawyer and architect answer to yesterday s twizzlers the Man who accused the scotch Man of pushing his wife off the h Cliff was the ticket seller who had at 5.30 . Sat a sold the Scotchman one round trip feb. 6, leaving new York j ticket and one one Way ticket. I on the Europa. Copyright John t. Dille co with virtually no measures of International control m effect the race for naval supremacy has assumed feverish proportions Grant Dexter staff Corr of the free press in London England Points out in this 12th article of his series on British re armament. Sub rules adopted by Powers contain a humanity clause but Small Hope of adherence is seen in heat of War. British naval tonnage still other nations. London feb. 5. High tide in naval construction has set in strongly. Not since the great War ended has such a new. Tonnage been so reads the foreword to the 1936 edition of Jane s fighting the text Book on. Nayal Power watch the newspapers for official statements emanating from world capitals. You will soon get the feel of the mighty contest for naval supremacy which began last blood Bath which is in preparation for Mankind. Race for supremacy december German Battle ship Greisen a was launched at was a better launching than attended that of the mystery German warship see Teufel a month earlier. The Greisen a s sister ship the Scharnhorst. Is nicely broken m and ready for action. A dread nought is now under construction. December battleship Strasbourg was launched on the Loire. She is the sister ship to the Dunke que also launched this year. A dread nought the Richelieu is to be commenced at once. V i Italy is now preparing for the launching of the first of dreadnoughts which being completed. Britain is retaining and rebuilding huge tonnages warships. N Ous Small units were launched in two dreadnoughts Are now under construction two More Are to be started Early this year tons of War on these oct including a super air Craft Carrier ask r Oyal if be launched in the United states also is retaining War tonnage s Iri service and has just begun construction of two Riew dreadnoughts Japan about to Lay Down two dread noughts and has retained and refitted Large tonnages of submarines and destroyers. Russia enters race f Russia announced a programme to double Ottawa feta 5. Up maintenance of Competition in Blower Coal i continuing importation foreign countries is recommended by or. H. M. Tor Royal com missioner who inquired importation and distribution of an f Thracie. His report was tabled i thursday in the House of commons by Hon. Norman Rogers minister of labor. Or. Tory found no evidence of Price fixing. His other recommendations importation should come directly from country of origin instead of through agencies controlling competitive supplies in. Another country. Co operative organizations should be encouraged. Municipalities should take More vigorous action to prevent frauds. Anthracite entering Canada should be classified As to country of origin mixtures should be so named and Welsh Coal should be classified in two grades. Systematic analyses of imported Anthracite made Cost of classification and analysis to be covered by a Levy of two cents a ton on the imports. At the present moment in so far As the fixing of Export prices of Anthracite in the countries of origin permit there is Freedom in Competition in the importation of. Anthracite he said. Your commission recommends that every Effort should be made to maintain that by. Tory stated there is an in creasing demand for Low Ash fusion Anthracite for use in Blower fur Naces and that in this Field neither scottish nor United states Coal is competitive unless greater Freedom of Pur is not borne out by the evidence submitted noted senator Webster had " resigned from the companies in 1935 and might not be familiar with details of operations nevertheless As the investments in the companies were solely invest ments made by him for himself Del his he might be cognizant of and have the final authority in All major transact soviet cannot leave the coasts , As. Our coasts Frontier line. We the immediate objectives., Are of the Black Baltic seas f virtually no control these Are the developments in the naval armament race at a time when practical in. T .1 the last vestige of control is disappearing. The Washington naval Dis armament treaty of 1922 and 1 in expired at Midnight on dec. 31. Treaties now bearing Oil naval new treaty of London which came into oper action. Last Jan. 1 and the rules of sub Marme agreed to of dec 7, London. They represent a microscopic mini mum of International control so Small As to be powerless. Either to slow Down the armament race now begin Ning or adequately to a protect human from the More rightful aspects 4 f of submarine the Washington because Japan German was so far in in., Nayal she was not striking distance of or submarine May. Not sink or Render in capable of navigation a merchant vessel with out having first placed passengers Crew and ship s papers in of safety. For this purpose the ship s boats Are not regarded As a place of safety unless the safety of the passengers and Crew is assured in the exist ing sea and weather conditions by proximity of land or the presence of another vessel which is in a. Position to take them on the rules have been accepted by All major Powers but there Are grave doubts if they would be respected any i More than Italy respected her solemn pledge in the anti Gas treaty during the of Abyssinia. The table in the heading shows the naval standings As at july -1, 1936. The figures Are league statistics. They show the position of the important naval Powers the beginning of a race which in terms of unbridled Competition promises to be without precedent. A killing Pace f Jat 9, after noting the preliminary efforts of the contestants the economist Sai d " the great Powers naval race has arid though this country can afford to bid the stakes Well above those of All in h i i Chase of this particular Type of Coal from Wales is made available to importers other than the Webster group it is very important that the channels of Trade with other countries producing Low Ash fusion Point Anthracite should be kept social creditors ignore topic of renewed Alliance Al say no change seen in relations with Bracken following meet reports of a renewed Alliance Between the Bracken government and the five social credit members elect of the legislature did not come up for discussion at a meeting of the Manitoba social credit league held at clubroom 304 Enderton building wednesday night. T members who were seen follow ing the meeting slated the news paper reports which have appeared recently were ignored altogether and ha4 been no change in the relations of the members elect with the government. The representatives of the social credit party in the House would in accordance with the understanding reached soon after the elections co operate with the government forces in getting legislation for the Good of the province generally enacted and would do their Best to get put through legislation in which the social credit party was partic interested it was stated. There was. A fair attendance of members _ the league. Open urges direct importation it is of equal importance that importation should come directly from the country of origin and not As in the past through agencies already controlling competitive supplies in another the surest Way to protect the consumer was to free and open Competition and to this end the continued enforcement of the combines is be said. During 1933-34." according to the report the combined companies of the Webster Canadian import company the British Coal corporation the Weaver Coal company and the Hartt and Adair Coal because of special arrangements with the two major sources of sup ply in Anthracite collieries and the . Pascoe which control Between 80 and 90 per cent of the Welsh Anthracite suit Able for the Market a had almost Complete monopoly of Welsh Anthracite in the Montreal District and by the t. T. Pas Roe company of Ger Man also a Low fusion , As Well. During the years mentioned the group imported an average of .-80 per cent of All Welsh Anthracite for the Montreal Market. Welsh and United. States anthrax cite competed of equal terms for the e non Blower Market. Says control in 1935 this control was some what relaxed when one Independent company secured Coal from t. T. Pascoe company and was still further relaxed when German Coal was freely offered in Canada at reduced prices and in addition belgian and indo chinese Anthracite both Low Ash fusion coals came on the Market in considerable the Purchase by. Senator lome Webster Montreal of the interest of r. G. Lane in the firm of Lane and Robitaille through Clase Securi ties of London England gave the Canadian import the Parent company of the Webster group a Complete Welsh Anthracite in Quebec City. This control was greatly end tory continued news paper reporters were it was a private meeting and were excluded. Discussion of league affairs kept the meeting occupied until about Midnight. Looking mc1mrd Ftp pm Kim sixty years 4, 1877 immoderate driving along main driving without Bells were gradually being by the new Enterprise in. The shape of a building Stone and Sand Yar d in Winnipeg had been opened by or Nimmons of Little Stoney Mountain. Fifty five years 4, 1882 two distinguished Winni Eggers Olio found themselves in Ottawa together were archbishop Tach and Lieut gov. Cauchon. The right of Way of the Duluth and Winnipeg railway had been located for 205 Miles. Years 4, 1887 the Manitoba Art association was with or. Me Arthur As or Huston vice presi her Soper Secretary treas committee messes. Kieval and Molyneux Asti John mrs Mckenzie miss Mcarthur. Forty five years 4, 1892 granites were do excellently at the big St. Paul Bonsai Etc a l., Patton s. Rink had reached trek finals in the Tankard Competition. The fourth annual the Winnipeg St. George s club Drew a Jolly crowd it67 the hotel., forty years 1897 matters in connection big Cut Wirig Bonspiel Secretary j. Had his the convenient old Over criterion hotel Street a thirty five 4 Hoh Jos. Martin it May save the United states the. --i1---" government set on new refused any form of air International control dreadnoughts looks like m j a a i j _ to i Vejl 29 sufi Nannes increased naval bases were doubled coast defences. Were greatly., f " i t r i j strengthened. Jet innate classes of ships so sea beasts lose their desire to in. Surh q tie naval specially can expect. All that came conference was a Feria to signed by t Prev ibis maximum a i i it tons each ship is restricted the Hea i praying a killing pace.1 of ships arid Gross tonnages Are British Empire 373 ships j tons . 24y sell Post Japan France 217 ships. Tons Italy 229 ships tons. Germany building new tonnage As the fact thai the space in the inner Harbor and the Only special machinery for handling Coal were also in the Possession of the Canadian company. Since 1933 no overseas Anthracite has been sold in Quebec except that imported by the Canadian. Import i 1 i a. T 1. Tin a ii. La i t or i a a Ftp Anglo German formation Watt n i j it t. I v i p i i a h Italy we can expect e share is hundreds of mine layers so submarines arid hundreds j of miscellaneous warships. A in face of All these menaces the search a warship whether surface vessel a the Anglo German agreement restricts 35 per cent of the ton neg eff the British Weet. This Ger h a it i i it tin ill its visions Are not onerous and the huge pro per tins present programme make it cent can be reached Dexter the Jand the wherefore the of. Present . Joint operation of triese tool Didiw effectively control through their affiliations coju3eries and Ine Pascoe both importation and can his ext Sale of Welsh Anthracite in Mont Realand. Iri a j lesser degree in j id Urfrig the years 1933-34-35 they secured cobol importation of Gernan Anthracite As Well. The Cal Fri mentioned above been prominent for in Mani Toba politics but had removed to the coast was elected Leader of the . Of re Gina ladies were collecting a fund for a memorial to Nicholas flood Davin. Thirty years 4, 1907 one of the largest funerals Ever held in Toronto followed the re Mains Eaton to mount pleasant cemetery among Winni Eggers attending were b. Y. Eaton a a. Gilroy. Mrs. Gilroy and mass Lily won the Earl Grey dramatic trophy Ernest Beaufort and miss Daisy Crawley were the stars. Twenty five years j. Feb., 4, 1912 eight key. Geo. Holmes Bishop of Athabasca passed away Sud Denly in was a graduate of John s College. Winnipeg his knowledge it Indian languages Iri i the Anthracite 4. 1917 with Albert crowds i to the Jtj rinks could n Winnipeg phased freely importer from in com decent with More to come. In i t i

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