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in it it HOME EDITION The Minnipeg 48th Year Price 5 cents; With Comics, 10 cents. WINNIPEG, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1937 22 PAGES By Carrier In Winnipeg-25c per Week. No. 159 Gleefully Learning to Swim 5 DE SHRIEKS of glee rang out this morning as The the swimming classes, organized by Tribune and Y.M.C.A., commenced. About 600 boys and girls had their lessons this morning and three times that many will have learned to swim before the course is finished.

In the upper picture the Evening boys are shown around the tank under the instruction of Cyril Brooks and his assistants. The bottom picture shows Miss Julia McDonald and her assistants at the Pritchard baths with a class that is just ready to climb in and get wet. Other classes were held for the girls at the Sherbrook baths, where Miss Margaret Hutchinson is in charge. Others were just a bit timid. They Hundreds of Eleven- Eleven-Year-Olds Get Into Swim For Lessons Nearly 2,000 Boys and Girls Register For' Swim Classes- One of First Tasks Is to Eliminate Fear of Water.

"COME on in, the water's fine," and girls this morning when classes began. Nearly 2,000 boys the classes, which will continue 11-year-old children started the "The first thing to remember," they were told by Cyril Brooks, chief instructor at the "is to keep quiet so you can hear what's being said. Don't jump around and don't clown." The boys start their lessons by their arms in the crawl stroke. wading through thee water using Some catch on quickly, others are quite content to keep on wading. Encouraging the Backward From this they go through various stages until they are able to swim the length of the tank.

Mr. Brooks and his assistants are kept busy looking after the youngsters and encouraging the more backward ones. Each boy gets five free lessons and at the end of that time, if he cannot swim and has attended regularly, he will get further free instruction. All the boys are taught at the Y.M.C.A., while the girls are taught at the Sherbrook and Tribune The Weather Forecast: Becoming cooler. Temperature at 7 a.m.

65, and at noon, 82. Maximum on Sunday 84, mum 59. Sun above horizon-16 hours, 16 mins. Sun rises, 4.25 a.m.; sets. 8.39 p.m.

Moon rises, 1.04 a.m.: sets, 5.08 p.m. (Standard time). GOLFERS CUT PAR TO QUALIFY FOR BRITISH TOURNEY Carnoustie and Burnside Records Are Smashed as "Open" Starts SMITH AND BOOMER TAKE LEAD WITH 69 Veterans and Newcomers Share Honors Over Two Stiff Courses The Associated CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 5- Blond Horton Smith, a demon vith a putter when he's right, and all, thin Aubrey Boomer, 40-yearold Briton who has been a profeslional in France for a number of joint 69's over the championship Carnoustie course toay to gain at least a temporary lead in the first qualifying round the British Open golf championship. Their scores were two under par and lowered Hector Thomson's course record by one stroke. Smith, out of last week's United States Ryder Cup victory with a ame back, was definitely in putting form on the first nine, where 1e scored five birdies with putts ranging from nine to 24 feet.

Boomer did his best work on the back nine, the 40-year-old veteran bicking up two birdies on the homejourney while playing the other holes in par. Britons Doing Well Behind Boomer and Smith came Ihree players with course record 0's scored over the shorter neighporing Burnside links, being used only for the qualifying rounds. One was Gene Sarazen, the vetran who won the British title in 1932. The others were young Ernest Whitcombe, of Great Britain, Ind Pat Mahon, of Ireland. Two Britons turned in sparkling 1's over Carnoustie.

"tanley Stenhouse toured the course in 34-37-- 1, and W. H. Green turned in an dentical count with 35-36. Among the other invaders well in the running with part of the Geld still to be heard from were Valter Hagen, with a fine 71 at Burnside; Ea' Dudley and Tony Manero, with 72's on the same ourse; Henry Picard, with a 73 Carnoustie, and U.S. open champion Ralph Guldahl with a 74 at l'arnoustie.

Cotton "Comes Back" Shute, United States P.G.A, champion this year and last, toured Carnoustie in even ar, 71, on the strength of a ast-nine 34. Meanwhile, Briain's defending champion, Alf Padgham, had left himself ad spot with a 78 over Burnside. Henry Cotton, champion in 1934, Britain's best all-around shothaker and leading home-bred hoice for the crown, hit a misrable putting streak on the first ine, three-putting four of the irst five greens. He finished Wo under par on the last seven at Burnside for a 73, while Alf Perry, 1935 title winner, joind the leaders with a 73 at Caroustie. Byron Nelson, slim ex-Texan, lost stroke to par on Burnside's outgoing nine and gained one on the home half for a par 71.

A similar card on the same vas posted by Bobby Locke, course. iant young South African, who aised the total of par-equallers to ix. Five had bettered par, Boomer nd Smith at Carnoustie, Sarazen, Mahon and Whitcombe at Burnride. Snead, the White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., rookie who made his international debut in the Ryder cup matches, took a 72 on he latter course, losing three trokes on the seventh hole, where he scrambled to a 7. RUSSIANS AT POLE GET ICED SHRIMPS 3,281 FEET DOWN July 5.

(CP. Moscow, of the Soviet Union's polar expedition can dine on iced shrimp. According to information radioed here from the polar station, the expedition's scientists have discovered a layer of warm water with a high salt concentration at A depth of about 1,968 feet. This was believed to be the same current discovered by Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, in southerly latitudes, the warmth of which he did not believe was carried northward. However, his thesis that submarine life in the polar seas would be extremely sparse and of a low order was disproved by mulluscs, larvae, jelly fish and bright red shrimps dredged up from a depth of about 3,281 feet.

As had been predicted, the ice floe on which the expedition has its base is slowly drifting, zig-zagging over the polar sea as it is pushed by the wind. FIRE IN MINING TOWN AMOS, July 5. Flames priginating in a bedroom swept hrough Mother's Inn, and destroyd two other frame buildings early oday in the heart of Val D'Or, 50 niles south of this northern Quebec mining centre. When a Boy Bites a Dog Douglas Roy Hannah hit his dog with a stick. The dog gave Douglas A tiny nip on the leg.

Douglas looked at the nip- didn't like it a bit- -so he grasped the dog's muzzle in both hands, and bit its nose hard. The dog yelped. "Doug" got a tanning when his aunt, Miss Eva Wardle, R.N., could stifle her laughter enough to administer it. DE VALERA LOSES LEAD AS OTHERS PILE UP 60 SEATS Government and Opposition Have Same Number With 18 Still to Come The Canadian DUBLIN, July 5. President Eamon De Valera's Fianna Fail party appeared today to have lost the slender lead indicated in earlier returns.

The government, with 18 constituencies to be heard from, had 60 seats, against an number for all others in the field. Labor, with 11 seats, appeared likely to hold the balance of power in the new parliament. The principal oppositoin party, William T. Cosgrave's Fine Gael, had 41 seats, while Independents were elected in eight. For New Constitution The general election was held July 1 but the complicated system of balloting under proportional representation and the inaccessibility of many districts have slowed up the returns.

Latest figures in the plebiscite on the new constitution, held simultaneously with the election, showed a vote of 473,217 for its adopted and 373,676 against. Observers predicted De Valera would be unwilling to carry on for has long been with the aid increasingly of Labor, critical which his administration of late. A new election within six months was predicted in some quarters. ROMANCE OF DUKE CALLED A LASTING SPIRITUAL MATCH NEW YORK, July little vicar who stirred a church controversy by marrying the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield said today if he had it to do over again he would "do the same thing." The vicar, Rev.

Robert Anderson Jardine, who aboard the Queen Mary two-month torrrived coast-to-coast lecture tour, said he thought it "unfair" for the Church of England not to look at the wedding from the spiritual standpoint. "The Archbishop of Canterbury took a political 1 view of the subject rather than a spiritual view," he said. Mr. Jardine thought the mance of the Duke and Mrs. Warfield was "a real lasting love match.

They are intensely happy," he said. "Those who say it will not last are false prophets. It is really a spiritual match." NO SERIOUS MISHAPS IN CITY FOR THREE STRAIGHT WEEK-ENDS FOR the third, consecutive weekend Winnipeg was free of fatal or serious traffic accidents. Several persons were slightly injured. Jack Peters.

lot 95, Rose Sit. Vital, sustained an arm injury at 9.30 p.m. Saturday when his motorcycle collided with a car, driven by W. H. McPherson, 944 Dorchester ave.

He was kept in Victoria hospital overnight and allowed to go home Sunday. Struck by a truck, Joseph Lenius, aged 61, of 874 Magnus was taken to St. Joseph's hospital with Injuries to the head at 10 a.m. today. The accident happened at Linwood Crescent and Hespeler Elmwood.

VAN ZEELAND ASKS REICH, ITALY JOIN MONETARY ACCORD LONDON, July -Unconfirmed reports current here tonight said Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium had returned from the United States with a recommendation for extending the British-French-American monetary accord to include Germany and Italy. When the Belgian premier sees Foreign Secretary Eden tonight, he will communicate President Roosevelt's desire for a continuation of efforts to lower tariff barriers and re-establish international trade, it was learned from Belgian sources here. Soon after he arrived here from Southampton, where he debarked earlier today, Van Zeeland went into conference with Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, the Belgian ambassador. Radio Call Raises Hope That Amelia Earhart Is Alive And Safe On Land Three Dashes Heard Over Ether After Aviatrix Was Instructed to -Earlier Report Indicated Plane Was Sinking--Still No Trace of Whereabouts in Pacific. The Associated OS ANGELES, July long dashes on radio key transmission received at 5 a.m.

(8 a.m. C.D.T.), on the wave length assigned to Amelia Earhart were declared today by Paul Mantz, her technical adviser, to be the most hopeful sign yet received that she is alive and on land. "The Pan-American station in Hawaii sent out instructions to her including one to send three long dashes if on land," Mantz said. "George Palmer Putnam, her husband, telephoned to me a short time ago he was advised that three dashes were heard almost immediately after the instructions were sent out. "We heard the dashes here and this is the most hopeful sign yet." "We understand that Honolulu and the Itasca also heard the three dashes." MESSAGE SAYS PLANE SINKING AIRPORT TENDERS EARLY THIS WEEK MAY BE CALLED Differences Between City and St.

James Ironed Out, Says Mayor Tenders for the long-awaited modernization work at Stevenson airport will be called this weekprobably on Wednesday--Mayor Warriner announced today. The mayor was named chairman of the Joint Airport committee its organization meeting today. Reeve R. H. Hooper, of St.

James, was named vice-chairman. Other members of the committee are Aldermen Honeyman and Simpkin, for Winnipeg, and Councillors T. E. Saul and C. H.

Parkinson, for St. James. Plans and specifications for the development were studied in detail at the meeting and several minor changes suggested. These will be worked out by the engineers and solicitors, and the plans will be given final approval by the chairman and vice-chairman before tenders are called. Minor disagreements between Winnipeg and St.

James concerning division of labor and some other items, have been satisfactorily ironed out, Mayor Warriner said. Levelling and drainage of the with construction of tfo hard-surfaced runways will be the principal work done on the field this year. Winnipeg, which has contributed some land, lighting and other services, is giving $20,000 in labor. St. James contributes the bulk of the land and several services.

The Dominion is contributing $105,000 at present but has said the municipalities. may quality for a further $25,000 later in the year. PRAY FOR FROGS' SOULS TOKYO, July 5 Solemn prayers for the souls of 000 bullfrogs sacrificed for experimental purposes in the past year were offered Sunday by high priests of the Sasa Buddhist temple. The rites were in keeping with the Buddhist belief all things, animate or inanimate, possess souls or spiritual qualities. Big Planes Test Atlantic Route ATLANTIC OCEAN Two giants Atlantic of the air are setting the to survey a perial Airways' flying boat Caledonia Ireland, to Botwood, Newfoundland.

ican Clipper 111 is soaring east to take about 16 hours, during which exchange reports by radio. plane will land at the will, port from which the other left. FOYNES, Irelana, July, The. Associated HONOLULU, July officials said they received a garbled radio message early today, purported to have been sent by Amelia Earhart, which indicated her plane was sinking. The message received by three United States navy operators was pieced together as follows: "281 North Howland call KHAQQ beyond north don't hold with us much longer above water shut off." The operators said keying of the message was poor and they were able to pick up only fragments of the message.

Officials took the message, if it was authentic, to mean the plane was about 281 miles north of Howland Island by Miss Earhart's estimate, and sinking slowly, forcing her to stop sending. Cross Bearings Taken Earlier this morning cross bearings taken on weak radio signals believed from Miss Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, further confused weary PanAmerican operators at Howland and Wake Islands. The radiomen, who have maintained a ceaseless vigil in an effort to contact. and locate the missing globe-girdling plane, said the bearing fixed the location of the mysterious transmitter as roughtly 400 miles northeast of Howland Island. This location, they said, was miles from any landfall.

A previous bearing taken by American and coastguardsmen here Sunday night placed the sender in the vicinity of Gardner and McKean Islands in the Phoenix group, approximately 150 miles south of Howland. Signals Are Weak Officials said the later bearing may be inaccurate because of the weakness of the signals. The British steamer Moorby, 240 miles north of Howland, reported it heard a strong, continuous carrier wave frequency near midnight Sunday night, and for the last time at 1 a.m. (6.30 a.m. C.D.T.).

Coast guardsmen declared they last heard the carrier at Honolulu at 1.30 (7 am. C.D.T.). The coast guard cutter Itasca, whose radio was silent until messages presumably from the Earhart plane were intercepted by Baker Island colonists, 40 miles southward, and by the portable station on Howland, began transmitting signals with the hope they would be received by the plane. Station KGMB in Honolulu, a commercial station. instructed the mysterious station to listen for the Itasca signals.

At Santa Paula, Walter McMenamy, Los Angele: amateur radio operator who repeatedly has announced interception of radio messages from Miss Earhart, said heard her voice again at 5.40 a.m. P.S.T. (8.40 C.D.T.) today followed four minutes later by that of her on Page 5, No. TEMPLE OF HUMANITY IS SOLD FOR SCRAP AND FETCHES $150,000 The Associated OSAKA, Japan, July 5 The magnificent Temple of Humanity was sold under the auctioneer's hammer today to furnish scrap iron. The edifice, vacant since the government suppressed the Hitonomichi sect for esoteric rites, was sold for $150,000 to an Osaka scrap iron merchant who will dismantle it and sell the metal.

Some 3,000 iron dealers flocked to the temple, bidding in the hope they could resell the massive framework to the navy for a substantial profit. FARR, LOUIS MEET FOR HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE IN NEW YORK The Associated Press) ONDON, July 5. Ted L' Broadribb, manager of the British Empire heavyweight champion, Tommy Farr, today signed articles for world championship match between Farr and Joe Louis to be held in New York in September. Broadribb previously had declared if the Farr-Louis match went through, he would abandon plans for matching the British champion against Max Schmeling in London either in August or September. DREAD RUST NOW INFECTS CROP IN MELITA DISTRICT Weather In Next 3 Weeks Determining Factor in Extent of Harm The rust scourge now threatens crops i in southwest Manitoba, harassed by six successive crop failures from drought and grasshoppers, a report from the Dominion Rust Research laboratory indicated today.

Up to the moment there has been no appreciable damage, but in the Melita district, the centre of the prolonged drought area, stem rust has developed on 75 percent of the wheat plants. How much it may spread within the next three weeks will determine whether farmers of the area can save the first crop they have grown in seven years. Growth so far has been good, although moisture is badly needed. Saskatchewan and Alberta over the weekend continued to register scorching temperatures. At 10 points Sunday the thermometer reading was 102 or over, but in Manitoba the situation was better.

The highest recorded temperature in the southwest at noon today was only 90 at Pierson. In and around the town there was a shower, only enough to lay the dust. At Melita the temperature was 85 but there has been no rain for a month. was the cry from hundreds of boys The swimming and girls have registered for for two weeks. The gathering of important business of learning to swim.

chard baths. These baths are open to The Tribune classes by courtesy of the Parks Board. In former years The Tribune has opened its classes to girls from 11 to 16 years of age. This year, with the Y.M.C.A., the plan has been changed to take in girls and boys in Grade 5 only. While a few children may be missed in this first year of the new plan it will insure instructing all children of this age in future and also insure more satisfactory teaching.

According to Miss McDonald, at the Pritchard bath, girls learn just as readily as boys. She has been swimming since her baby days and has no difficulty in teaching others. At both baths this morning Miss Margaret Hutchinson and Miss Julia McDonald with their assistants were hard at work. Some of the girl pupils, were like little fish. They seemed to know what the water was for and how to use it.

-1995 MIL stood in the shallow end shivering and shaking. That didn't last long. however, because the instructresses soon took them in hand and had them ducking and splashing as though they had done it all their lives. Some of them were even half way across before they took hold of the long pole and were pulled ashore. And after six lessons these embryo swimmers will climb in and swim the length of the tank with practically no trouble.

If they are not able to they will be given six more lessons. One thing that the classes are told to remember is that just because they can swim in the tank they must not think they can jump in the Red River or any old lake they happen to see. The better the swimmer, the more careful be is. A good swimmer doesn't go in strange or deep water without someone being near in case help is needed. $10.000 FIRE $10.000 FIRE BRIERCREST, July 5-- Fire which destroyed an entire block on Main Saturday, in this town, 30 miles southwest of Moose Jaw, was estimated Sunday to have caused between $10,000 and $15,000 damage.

out today from opposite shores new commercial airline. The Im(top) is flying from Foynes, From Botwood the Pan-Amerthe Caledonia's home port. Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia was poised at the mouth of the River Shannon today for her pioneering commercial survey flight across the Atlantic. Given favorable weather, the FOrecast Hopeful NEWFOUNDLAND Huge Flying Map Ocean for New Airline FOYNES, Irish Free State, July Havas) -The perial Airways flying boat, Caledonia, turned back to its base here after taking off at 7.55 p.m. (1.55 p.m., C.D.T.), tonight on what was to have been its maiden trans- Atlantic flight.

TWO giant flying boats were 1. hop off today from opposite sides of the Atlantic, on an' mile commercial survey flight the ocean. The Imperial Airways' craft, Caledonia, was to leave Foynes, Ireland, about 1 p.m., C.D.T. The Pan-American Clipper IT was to leave Botwood. Newfoundland, about 4 p.m., C.D.T.

These two planes will co-operate in their survey for a regular transAtlantic air route, on which they propose to carry mall this fall and passengers probably next spring. Their journeys are expected to LIRE RIVER LIL I ENGLAND SHANNON EUROPE I.R.J American Craft on 2-Way Survey Trip ship was scheduled to leave West- ern Ireland at 7 p.m. (1 p.m. C.D.T). May Cross Paths Almost simultaneously the PanAmerican Clipper III was to shoot down the runways of Bothwood airport and point her nose' eastward across the ocean.

It was possible the two huge flying boats, co-operating in the commercial survey, might sight one another passing somewhere in mid-ocean. -to-east headwinds were to be against the Caledonia, and it was estimated the flight to Newfoundland would require about 16 hours. (Canadian Press BOTWOOD, July 5. Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn arrived in this thriving seaport today to witness the takeoff of the on Page 5, No. The forecast for Manitoba today was also encouraging, "fair and becoming cooler." Cool weather, it was stated, would slow down propagation of rust spores.

The investigation of crop conditions was made last week by Dr. B. Peterson, assistant plant pathologist of the research laboratory. The heaviest infection is in the southwest. From there is reaches out in diminishing intensity until in the Red River Valley there is scarcely any at all.

In all districts where rust has been located the infection is light, even though detected on a large proportion of the crop. At Virden Dr. Peterson reported it affected only 50 percent of the plants. At Brandon it is as low as 20 percent; at Douglas 10 percent, and at Portage la Prairie one percent. In the Red River Valley, both east and immediately west of the river, rust spores were found on only an occasional plant.

Wheat infection there is on Marquis, Ceres, and Reward varieties. On the fields of Durum it is much lighter. On the Thatcher and there is none at all. The Thatcher variety was originated Minnesota, grown successfully in 1936 by a Dominion City farmer, whose 1935 crop of 5,000 bushels was bought up by Hon. D.

G. McKenzie when he was minister of agriculture, and distributed by his department at cost for seed purposes. Officials of the rust laboratory would make no forecast of possible damage. Conditions of wind and weather were the big determining factors, they said, and if very favorable the damage might be limited to a reasonable minimum. Making Survey Hon.

D. L. Campbell, minister of agriculture, said the situation was disturbing. Unable to do anything to stop the spread of rust, if favorable weather does come, the department is making a survey of all fields of the supposedly rustresistant varieties of Thatcher and Renown. If they stand up, the supplies will probably be bought up by the government to distribute for seed.

Dr. Peterson's did not take him north Virden. No survey, rust was found on the oat crop. high temperature readings in Saskatchewan and Alberta Sunday were: Medicine Hat, 106; Empress, 106; Kindersley, 106; Outlook, 106; Saskatoon, 104; Moose Jaw, 104: Swift Current, 104: Regina, 102; Yellowgrass, 102; Shaunavon, 102..