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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-09-12, Page 3Toll of Roads - 652Last Year Highway Deaths In Ontlirio During ' 1939 ' Show Increa tee Men .Chief Victim• — Be,. tween 4 ant 10 p.m. Worst Hours • i• Ontario's death toll from highway accidents during `1939 was 652, Co- fording to the annual summery of irtatistics on motor vehicle traffic accidents issued: by Provincial High - Nays Departs -lent officials. ' • 13,710 ACCIDENTS Tbyere were 13,710 accidents dur- , ing the Year - and 11,638 persons were injured. The, accidents cost $1,860,264 in damage to vehielea, &and .pxaperty. .. Pedestrians 'tapped.- the list . of • classes of • Persona killed. • The fig-. ures showed 90 per cent.,' were lied estrians,° 19",2 .pen cent were drivers and 31.6 per cent. were passengers. The••suminary shows, an' increase of 12'' n .the number of ,deathe over 1. ' the ,1938 figure and'. a _marked in- crease of 21.6 per cent in the non collision', type• of accident."' MORE PEDESTRIANS KILLED' Men, nummberieg. 480, were the chief .victims of the fatal' accidents during the year. ' The hours between 4 p.m. and 1Q f p:;n. were the most dangerous on the highway with, the 'largest num- ber of accidents taking ,place then. : 'The safest .hour on an average , • was between 5 a•m: and 6- atm ' York County, which includes To - .'Tonto; had 4,193 accidents •during the year; Ranking'hext' were Went- worth wi.th,1,057, ' Middlesex ' .840, Essex 752; Carleton 493 and Wei- land'328, Opens Postal Conference H•on. William P. Mullock,', Canada's new Postmaster -Gen- eral, spoke at the opening in Lon don, Sept. 4, of a., postal con. ( ference of Ontario Postmasters-' His chief topic was: war -time measures and how they • affect postal regulations,. No 'Publishing Victims' Names British Air ` Raid' Casualty Lists Are Posted Outside the Town .Hails A spokesman for the British .min- . istry-of •home securing announced ate in August that lists of •casuah ties in London' air raids would be posted outside local town halls but evould,not lie allowed to be publish-' ed. • e There are regular monthly totals published for .victims ,throughout all Britain. , He said that lists of London car ' -7d°, much t• probablythe •theNotes,land hasstateSprings,suffered.And.the.itofwaterthe • • • sent• , ly to newspaper editors to'stop'the alarming rumors concerning the number of persons killed or injured fn German attacks' As soon as possible after an at- tack, he said, the names are post- ed osted at the town halls. •While he ad- ' • omitted that a German 'agent could inspect these lists, he 'said the min- istry hoped to make it difficult to get the names to Germany. (If ,Germany 'got the names. It • could, ,by checking postal director - les, work out roughly the localities where bombs 'struck). Purpose In Life Urged On Bo rs Family Court Judge Speaking at C.N.E.e Gives Valuable Ad - •ice Every,boy •should have a•purpo'se in life in:order to avoid the narrow,, vicious circle Of mere exist nee, 'Famiiy' Court Judge Haw ey.. .8. Mott •suggestedin• an address at tfie 1940- C.N.g. Among bis hearers' were several. score "junior directors" of the big ,fair, boys selected by their teachers to represent their schools on the Exhibition board. for the da . They ate invited each yeat to offer eug- gestions for Exhibition 'improve- ment, particularly with regard to features appealingto youth.. DEVELOP A TASTE Judge. Mott advised the boys to acquire and develop a taste' for veal good pictures, magic and books, as three of the finer things In life. age Kings Pigeons Have Enlisted L Royal Birds Are To Be Used, in Event of Emergency. — Actipit As Air Mail Pigeons from the Kings loft at Sandringhain have been added to a pigeon post organized, to operate in the 'event of 'a national emer- gency in Great Britain. The pigeoin post was inaugtrated in July, last year by the Duchess of Kent when she visited Fort Dunlop and releas- ed the first flock of pigeons from their baskets. DIS`T'ANCE FLIERS. . On the eve of the outbreak of the velar a pair of` bltie checks arrived from E. W. Steele, the King's pig- eon keeper. They are long distance birds, four or five years old, of the stock which has won the big races irom Lerwick in Shetland and Bor- deaux. In addition to thepigeon loft at headquarters. gifts are being open- ed in other parts of the country for the Service, wbich is the Only or- ganized pigeon post in Great Bri- tain. MESSAGE ARE TINY By°reducing messages to facs.im- tie on it Special thin film,.; the birds can take 35,000 words In an ahunin- um cattier fixed to theirleg. Each centre has apparatus for reducing - the messages and ter magnifying them to a readattle•script When re- reined. VICE -REGAL PARTY VISITS ST, CATHARINES- ,AND NIAGARA FA111 Continuing their tour of Central, Ontario, the'•Earl: and -'Countess of'Athlone, accompanied by Princess ,Juliana of The '�etherlar}ds, inspected. g a munitions plant'at: St Catharines"and then` continued -con to. visit d'.ia;ara'"Falis.� The' Countess of Athlone, is pictnred (]eft) assIie asks°prat- sented with a bouquet during the .trip.In the centre, His Excellency shows great•interest in thework of the Munitions plant: Princess Jail nee is shown (right) getting. a' close-up view ofd the falls. , • E1 T H E W A.R - W E E K --Commentary on Current •Events Destroyer ► • W „ • Gives 3 rr i t a i n War dvantage "The nasty shock for "Hitler", recently foretold by the. London Daly Mail, came last week • with President • Roosevelt's dramatic announcement that ; the . United Stateswas', handing• over to • Great Britain 50 .destroyers for use in; the war against Germany. • lh'morethan one .way,, this' *as bad., news for the Axis. Hitler anal Mussolini, saw . the British navy • strengthened thereby; its • forces bolstered for an early Near ; Eastern offensive; knew their' own blockade of the Brit- ish Isles weakened; realized the extent of the .co-operation be- tween- Brtiain' . and the .United S't'ates (for the L'- S. came close ". to.' "an act of war" ,in implemcnt'- ing the deal): • • Atlantic Sewed Up • .' Played ,up less than any other angle was U. S. satisfaction at having pulled off a major diplo- matic and political coup. The securing of.. naval andair bases. stretching. up in a c•h.ain- ,from South America to Newfoundland meant that the United .States had, the North Atlantic. tied up in a bag, was ",on its way to becoming. quietly master of this . whole hent= • isphere. (A. major featureof the . transaction with Britain was . a concul-rent pledge from Peime Minister Churchill :to Secretary of .State Hullthat the .British fleet would never be scuttled or surrendered and thus jeopardize U.S. security in the Atlantic); "They' Can't Do It" Great .Britain still had not leen invaded last reek. In supe port of the theory that, Germany never would be'able to aecotn push it, Masanori Ito, one ' 'of Japan's best-known naval com- mentators, declared , that Hitler could 'not • land troops in Eng- land'wvhile the British- commanded. the sea—arid the German Air• Force was insufficient .to win away that command. •' ' During the week the Germans were, Obviously concentrating on destroying all the important Brit- ish r t-ish airfields in the' southeast cor- ner of England, so that ',British fighters would be unable to de- fend London and hold the air over t'he southeast coast. Plans for an invasion could only then' go forward. Grave disturbances in the Bal- kans, a new line-up in Africa (ail 'the French colonies there went over' to the side of - Britain) worked from other quarters last' week to give Hitler and Mussolini serious pause . in their eanipaigns for • world conquest..,The embroil, meat of Rumania apd Hungart nieant the Gutting -off of vtial productive 'activity (agricultural, industrial) tri the Balkans, so badly needed in the German war effort. - Wdnld Russia- March? Russia remained the big quer- tion nark in European politics. "Evidence • was . abundant. that. Stalin had 'prevented any Italian move through Greece against Britain. Would be now act to step' Hitler's march through Russia? ,Woiild he step in himself an,i. .take• over Carol's , kingdom? •A clash between Germany 'and the Soviet . Inion was seen a5' ine- avitable,, semetimet would'•. Stalin seize the '• =tent when Hitler -was engaged in 'the Battle of Britain, .to' catch his, ideological opponent at •a disadvantage and • attaek boldly. ,in ihe'east? Crisis in the East In • the .:Far East loomed an- other crisis of. international .pro-. portions. Over Inde ;China. The, Japanese fleet . was reported cruising outside Indo-China Waters,blockading the' entire northeast . coast- . . . The chief of ' the ' Japanese mission to French Indo-China had 'sent nn ultimo:um'demanding the right to' transport. ,Jap . troops; ,ecross the. French col ony=.ernich had been refused. , . The Chinese Government (against. whom the Jap troops wouldbe moving) had formally declared • its, determina- tion • to act should • the. Japanese ti enter French Indo-China "under any ,pretext or under any condi- • tions with .. a 'view to attacking China... U. S. Notifies Japan j From Washington, Secretary of State' Cordell Hell. publicly no- tified Japan that .,any change :n •t,Eestatus quo of ' French Indo - "China and the Netherlands East Indies, due to Japanese military • operations, world have "au un- fortunate effect upon .public op- nion :in the ;United States." . The first mote of a new . civil disobedience campaign against ' Britain for refusing to grant India independence *as . begun last week "at :Cawnpore, home of the Indian ,Nationalist ' leader, ',Nehru. Mahandas K., Gandhi , had previously •declared that the Government of India wa; "invit- • ing ciyil disobedieni,we" by a Treat-. ing certain of its members •on charges of retaking sed tious speeches.. Enough 21 a ' At home the National War . Services Department announced that, the 21' year-old. class . of Canadian young men wtuld Pro- vide almost enough personnel for the first two drafts 'for military 'training ... Serer milli in Can- adian youngsters start back to school; in Orftario.• onl twenty- eight • of them were • ickc.i by the dread infantil paralysis now raging across 4 e hordes., re Michigan • A salmon,°tagge.d and /ideated ' in -Nota' Scotia. was capturc.i forty-two edays later at Moisie Queliecc' By .the most dir- • ect route this is a dis:ance of. 800 miles. " There Are Plants That Kill Humans Several Are Known To Nat 'uralists - Cannibal Tree' of Australia is Example Apart from plants that poison' there are several knotsn tonatural- ists which can' kill ' a man who. comes •within tbeir clutelies.. One horror of this Itind.'is the Cannibal 'Tres of (Australia, the ,powerful leaves of which can close in like a trap end 'crush out the life' of the unwary. inve`tigatot•: Another Un- pleasant forest fiend ,is the .Tele- graph.' Tree of. India... 'wbicb hats leaves that move about cur;ousite but any one • who touches them is liable to get a severe e;ectric•sliac i — quite•en•ough °to kill a man with weak heart. ' The wriest of these killinC plants is th.e ve?etable •octopus :hate grew= near Lake Titicaca, in South Muer- ic.a: This *as discovered by an ex- plorer who, ;hearing .:they agonized cries of a dog, found the -animal en- veloped .in a networkof rope -like fibres He managed'to •fre4 it —liar notbefore man and dog bad been. blistered and blood-stained be the monster growth. VOICE O F T 'H E' PRESS i • ON THE •RIGHT TRACK Anyway, 'those railway -car con- versetions: between Prime Minister icing and President Roosevelt were along the right track. —Stratford Beacon -Herald. AADMIRE ONTARIO - Her Royal Highness, Princess Alice, expressed amazement At the beauty she was finding in Ontario. Evidently •we have been . falling down in failing to streesethe bean- tyand grandeur to be found among our hills and valleys. along' our rivers an'd on the shores of" our lakes. , -Niagara: Fal Review. NO THOROUGHFARE • The feet that Canadians desiring , to .cross Canada by tnotor cannot do so except by securing a • pass- port . to enter the United States to overcome the Lake Superior shore . gap emphasizes the value that would attach to a completed -Trane - Canada Highway. Sault Daily Star..' • CAN YOU MILK? a fans, but they can tell the ((lank man off in. a 'hurry when things look a little ti'ie and the cream line finds its point of registration • .too 'close to the trop . of the beetle. But they cannot. milk a .cow and there have been Bows .in the world forte long, 'long time. Even longer,' than that. —Peterborough Examiner: et' The Book Sit! as "THE . :MINGLING OF THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN • PEOPLES" By Marcus Lee Hansen • • No more 'timely work than this first TOlunt(: not a teries being pre- pared 'under the Carnegie En dovrment for International Peae. • could appear at such a 'moment. in the history 'of the North, _toe • erican continent., *-.hen, after the ep; ch-r.t k rg 'talks it Ogden... - burg: the United, :Val -es and Can- ada. have joined in a ntut ual • de- fense aa*eme,nt, •l'iintax.:ng ]o'..g years of good r'' e;gh'boriiness and tee tetee-e• co-opera: ion:. • In this .beak Frof este or Hansen'.` underecok the diffic'ult tack of filling • the great ,gap in , our knot»ledge of how the peoples of the United States andCanada worki ig • iin uniebin have woven .' • the new pattern of North An•- ercian culture. He does it by trace ing the exchanges' in' populations between the two countries' since 1700, pointing out that there are millions of . North 'Ameed•eans whose . families have branches on both sides of the. boundary. "The Mangling of the Canadian :and American Peoples," Vol.1 by Ma;rIcus. Lee Hansen . Toronto: Tate. Ryerson Press : $3.00. Surprising it is .how many people . know:nothing at.all abopt the milk- ing of a cow. They'. can: play a good game of golf; they, boast at times' of their knowledge of bridge; 4they can bring, home • prizes f:'oui bowl- ing tournainenta. At tennis 'they' are, good •and in swimming and .div- .ing iv••ing they are expert T'b.ey play the • piano 'and at times may .be, incl?i3 , ed •tis sing; they discuss poJ;ic , • and world event on occa.dion they may make epeches. 1113 they can- not milk, a cow. Perhepe seine of them hare• rather -turned np their mase et tire thoeght of worhinr on' • Thansgiving Day Set for Oct. 14 Thanksgivisig Day this year. has been t fix i for October 14; the sevorid Monday in •that month, the Department of the Secretary ,of State has • an- nounesti. A proclamation ap- pointing that day as a day of general thanlr giving would be issued shortly, the announce- ment, added last week. •t • • 4 Double Theatre's Double Feature ,West Coast tecvie Meuse Has Twin i utlitorterns Pap -ane may tahe :their C?o c+e of" .eine picture :Or two at a new 'theae. just•dpbned isi 'Alhambaa,'Ca1if.' The.. Alhambra Theatre• hag, =- like others, two anditar•iuims. A • f'erent picture •is shown in each. After each shozsir g, thte ftlma'then cban'ge auditoripms. Those ' ho like. "doable bills" just stay in their , ' seats. • int these who like only .one fea- ture ata anus ase, if they haven't seen the full picture, obliged t•o move to the ;other auditorium. Manager James_ EdWards, : Jr.. whose idea the ex e¢isnent he, says the admission :price, for* one or two. pictures, is • the ramie. , Swcrdfish are :rak,en:.in Caad- ian • waters' 'off the Atlantic Coast; The fiseing season opened in June and will continue ,until Sept:emit- LIFE'S LIKE TAT By Fred Neper , Ile got' 'hold of some tuttermi1l last night and REG'LAR FELLERS — Good -Night ! 400D MORNw1; MRS. JOKES/ GOOD •9118111804e. . PINHEAD, BUT int 1+92S-SMI1TM S Gooci 'tioRNtN •MRs . SMtTf4., • ger >i'm Ono= d , MORWIt t > By GENE ' BYRNES G -.00D moRtgiNqii • F 0 .,