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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-11-12, Page 3By mi ii I Thurs., November 12, 1936 WIN GUAM ADVANCE-TIME^ m1 Salada Brown Label SALADA TEA j Survey of Radio Conditions Ottawa—Two immediate surveys of radio conditions in Canada will be made by Major W. E. Gladstone Mur­ ray, General Manager of the Canad­ ian Broadcasting Corporation, Leon­ ard W. Brockington, Chairman of thc | Board of Governors of the corpora­ tion, said in a broadcast speech here, j The first will relate to the coverage of existing stations; the second will be directed toward a greater variety and improvement of programs. World Wide News In Brief Form Two Doctors Ruin in East Hastings Two Doctors,will oppose each oth- 'er in the by-election in Hastings E. on Dec. 9th. Dr. H. A. Boyce, 41- year-old Deseronto physician, will stand for the Liberal party and Dr. Harold Welsh of Roslin, is the Con­ servative standard-bearer,. The seat became vacant on the death, of James F. Hill, Conservative. Government Will Not Escheat Millar Estate The Ontario Government will nev­ er escheat or confiscate the Millar baby bequest for the benefit of the Ontario Treasury, Provincial Secre­ tary Harry C. Nixon said. Escheat of the baby derby prize—the lapsing of property to the Crown when its own­ er leaves no valid will or heirs—was suggested when court argument over the validity of the Millar testament opened at Osgoode Hall. Government counsel pointed out that any estate intestacy may result in an escheat. N,o New Taxation for B. C. - Finance Minister John Hart, in his Budget speech in the British Colum­ bia Legislature said there would be no new taxes. The Government would relieve municipalities of $691,000 soc­ ial-service costs after March 31 next, it would reassure the total cost of mothers’ pensions, and would com­ plete restoration of Civil Service sal­ ary cuts. Edmonton Scrip Case Sent to Trial Supreme Court actions involving Alberta Government prosperity certi­ ficates, their validity, and powers of the Province or the City of Edmon­ ton to deal in them, must go to trial, Mr. Justice Frank Ford ordered in Supreme Court Chambers here. Modernization Plaps Forging Ahead Home modernization plans of the Dominion Employment Commission are proceeding apace. In a remark­ ably short time Arthur B. Purvis has secured from the industries and the companies which will benefit the ma­ jor part of the $500;000 required for co-ordinating activities all over Can­ ada. Complete subscription may now be regarded, as certain, thus creating a record by initiating within a few weeks ,i program of great national scope without requiring a cent the public Treasury. from Italian Women Back Mussolini Rome—Italy’s Fascist women promised Premier Mussolini they will • 'make every house a fortress for the power of the Empire and the triurnpn of the revolution.’ They constitute a female army which in some future war tnay be a tremendous force behind the lines, even though they will not carry rifles as do Spain’s amazons, who are righting on the side of Ma­ drid. At the annual meeting 1,339,335 women and girls offered their assist­ ance. have Premier Says King May Visit Canada Quebec—Prime Minister Mackenzie King returned to Canada more than ever convinced that this country should attend tto its own affairs and avoid European entanglements. Dur­ ing his six weeks’ sojourn in Britain and on the Continent the Prime Min­ ister had an audience with his Ma­ jesty the King, who expressed the his subsequent Hon. Mr. King Prime Minister other members Introduced “Mercy Death” Bill London—A .“mercy death” bill permit medical men to kill incurable patients was introduced in Parliament. It was presented by Lord Ponsonby, climaxing a year’s campaign by many medical and Church leaders for eu thanasia—their term for “easy death.” It would enable physicians and surg­ eons legally to put to death patients suffering great pain from conditions diagnosed as hopeless. to Bruce Township First-Born Dies The death of Hugh McLennan, which .occurred in Kincardine Hos­ pital following a short illness, remov­ ed one of the few remaining links with the early settlement of Bruce Township. Mr. McLennan was res­ pected by all with whom he came in contact. H ewas a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dugald McLennan, sixth conces­ sion, Bruce Township. He had the distinction of being thc fir^t child born in the settlement and resided, on the homestead, where he was born, during his lifetime of 82 years. He was united in marriage to Miss Flora Patterson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson. Cut by Turnip Pulper Alex. Wray, Fordwich, who is em­ ployed by Crosby Sothcrn, had his left hand caught in a turnip pulper, suffering cuts on the thumb and sec­ ond finger which required five stitch­ es. Family Had Hard Luck The say that trouble never comes singly, seems to apply to the Hender­ son family, of Lucknow. First, Wil­ liam, j*., suffered a fractured arm, just before he was to have resumed hjs teaching duties in September, and when his mother, Mrs. Jack Hender­ son; was leaving Kincardine Hospital that evening after visiting him, she suffered a fractured ankle. Now the third accident has occurred, Jack Hen­ derson Sr., having a bone in his right wrist cracked when a piece of wood bounced back off the circular saw and hit his wrist. As, Mr. Henderson is left handed, the injury docs not pre­ vent him from continuing his work in his leaning mill in (he village. hope that he would be able to visit Canada again following the Corona­ tion next May and trip to India. Right also conferred with Stanley Baldwin and of the British Cabinet and conversed with Premier Blum of France and the Foreign Ministers of the leading coun­ tries of the world, twenty-seven of whom were present at the League of Nations meeting in Geneva. Banquet for Premier King Ottawa—The Prime Minister Canada, newly home from Europe, will be the guest of honor at a com­ plimentary dinner which will be tend­ ered to the Federal Cabinet on Dec. 10 by the National Liberal Federa­ tion, of which the Acting President is. Norman P. Lambert. The Liberal Premiers of six or seven Provinces wilfbe non'ired guests at the banquet, which will be held in Ottawa. of No November Dividends for Alberta Edmonton—Payment of Social Cre­ dit dividends in November seems im­ possible, judging by the progress of Government machinery, which must be in working order before the people of Alberta receive their first credits, A. W. Flamme, Social Credit member of the Legislature for Cypress, was reported as telling a meeting at Bug- dette, Alta., that dividends would be paid in November, but this opinion was discounted in officials here. Blyth Church Has Unusual Problem The congregation of Blyth Presby­ terian Church has an unusual problem on its hands,—to accept or not to ac­ cept $3,000, in addition to $'25,000 al­ ready received—by reason of a court judgment which, if given, would put on the street an 80-year-old man who, some years ago, helped out his son by endorsing a note for him, but did not himself receive on cent. The ques- Cars Collided at Londiesboro When Thomas Knox, R .R. No. 1, did not stop long enough upon ent­ ering No. 4 highway at Londesboro he failed to see Father Sullivan, of. . Clinton, approaching in a car from ‘ t’on was Put -squarely up to the the south with the result that Father i church people when Mr. Justice Jeff- Sullivan crashed into the side of the Knox car. County Constable N. Lev­ er investigated the accident. No one was injured. To Investigate Ghost Appearance Paris—Ecclesiastical authorities un­ der the.,jurisdiction of the Bishop of Tulle were ordered to conduct an in­ vestigation of the alleged apparitions of a saintly monk, Father Borie, who aftei- 100 years is said to have repeat­ edly appeared in the visions of his grand-niece, Mme. Blavignac, as she leads her flocks in the fields about the little town of Brive-la-Gaillarde. Mme. Blavignac is 47 years old and the mother of a family. Would Repudiate Franco-Soviet Pact Paris—Senator Henry-Haye, Mayor of Versailles, placed before the Sen­ ate a prpposal for French repudiation, or at least reconsideration of the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact. He asked the Government to take tl e speediest possible action toward this end. Bricks Thrown at Gennany’s Lopdon Embassy London—A demonstration in front of the German Embassy here, during which bricks were hurled through windows, was broken up by the pol­ ice. One of the demonstrators was arrested. Previously Foreign Secre­ tary Eden had been taken to task in the House of Commons for having expressed.regrets to Joachim von Rib­ bentrop over a speech in which the Communist M.P., William Gallacher, called the German Ambassador an en­ voy "whose hands are red with mur­ der.” More Strike in France • Paris—A fresh outbreak of strikes added to the worries of Premier Blum as Parliament reopened in a session marked by a sharp clash between the Rightists and Communists. The Pre­ mier, Socialist Deputies said, told them he planned to submit a bill call­ ing for obligatory arbitration of strik­ es if circumstances make it necessary. Women Appointed by Labor Minister Ottawa—Appointment of the Wo­ men’s Advisory Committee to the Na­ tional Employment Commission was announced by Hon. Norman Rogers, Minister of Labor. Its five members arc: Mrs. L ,G. Ferguson, Westville, N.S.; Miss Roth Low, Kitchener, Ont.; Mrs. Walter Lindal,' Winnipeg; Madame Maurice Cormier, Montreal; and Mrs. Angus J. Currie, Govan, Sask. 1 circles Defense Ends Birth Control Evidence Eastview—The defense rested its caste in the trial of Dorothea Palmer, charged with advertising birth-control information aftd contraceptives. Thir­ ty-five witnesses have given 327,500 words of evidence in the ten court days during which the trial, unprece­ dented in Canadian law, has continu­ ed. Magistrate Lester Clayton ad­ journed the case until Friday on the understanding it will be adjourned further until Nov. 16 when Crown At­ torney Raoul Mercier will be ready to proceed with his rebuttal evidence. «h K HHiHiiiii tiiiiitii mim liimtti h n;n nmiiiiiiHHiHiMi NEWS of the I DISTRICT I a i Scarlet. Fever in Goderich Township According to Dr. J’ B. Whitely, M. O.H., there are eighteen cases of scar­ let fever in Goderich township, nec­ essitating the closing of the school and United church at Holmesville. It was Dr. Whitely’s belief the disease was “imported from Brussels”. It is possible "there will be more victims, but houses are being placarded and every precaution is being taken to prevent tire spread of the disease. Twin Calves Twice in Ofte Year Mr. John Schultz, who .resides south of Topping, is the proud own­ er of a cow, which is a cross between a hereford and a Holstein, that lias given birth to twin calves twice dur­ ing the past twelve months and all are fine- healthy stock.—Milverton Sun. - Potatoes Planted in August Yield Big Crop As a rule potatoes of late varieties planted about the first of June are ready to harvest in the middle of Sep­ tember. Here is an instance where Henry Klea planted potatoes on the first day of August, and they were not taken up till after the middle of October, when a heavy frost killed the tops which were still green. Mr. Klea planted a small basket of pota­ toes of the Dooley variety and when he dug htem he had two bags of tub­ ers of extra good quality and plenty of them were as large as one’s fist.— Mitchell .Advocate. Had Back Broken When a team he was hitching in the barn yard ran away John H. Stor­ ey, McKillop farmer, suffered serious injuries.. Rushed to Scott Memorial Hospital here it was found a vertebrae of his back and also two ribs were broken. He was placed in a plaster cast and is resting as well as could be expected, according.to the attend­ ing physician.—Seaforth Huron Ex­ positor. I Original House of Refuge Inmate Still There Westley Sutton, the first man to “register” at the Huron County Home for the Aged at Clinton in 1895, is still a resident of that institution, J M. Govenlock, inspector of the home- revealed. The home, then known as the House of Refuge, was established in 1895, and, although about 1,000 persons have lived within its walls during the 41 years of its existence, the first to enter the institution is there still. As a young man of 20, this “charter member” drove to thc home in a horse and buggy from Ex­ eter, made himself comfortable and has lived there ever since. There we'-e 53 persons in the House of Refuge in the opening year and an all-time high was reached in 1916, when 122 persons were sheltered in the institu­ tion. The present population is 90. rey, in Assize Court, adjourned the case in older that they might become aware of the facts. “If 1 give judg­ ment for the plaintiff in this ca.se I. will strip the.-aged defendant of all his worldly possessions—put him on. the street—and the same judgment will give $3,000 to a church which has already received $25,000 from the de­ fendant estate. If the church people were in full possession of rhe true facts, I <lo not think they would want this to happen.” Thc action was started by the executors of the estate of the late William Coombs of Blyth, plaintiffs, seeking to recover $3,000 on a promissory note signed by W. FI. Coombs, brother of deceased, and also by Ira L. Coombs and, Greta Coombs, son and daughter-in-law, res­ pectively, of W. FI. Coombs, now in his eighties. “This old gentleman, W. FI. Coombs, never received a cent from the proceeds of this promissory note. He merely accommodated with his signature. If the church people Were here I would preach a sermon —I feel that way about this case,” PAGE THREE CALL HOME on those Sundays away from Home! Jim Howard looks forward to the week-ends. He likes to spend them at home in the hosom of his family. So, when a prolonged business trip found him at loose ends in a strange town that sunny Sunday morning, his cup of sorrow and discontent was overflowing — until he suddenly thought of Long Distance and the new Low Sunday Rates. “It will be almost as good as being with them” thought Jim as he briskly stepped to the telephone. •On both “Anyone” and “Person-to- Person”, calls, Low Night Rates apply after 7 p.m., and ALL DAY SUNDAY. added the jurist, adjourning the case, as he said, in order that the facts maj become generally known. that bank by reason of a forged pow­ er of attorney executed by Gordon " Mac-Lean and Robert Fletcher, now under penitentiary sentence for the crime. 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