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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-08-26, Page 3/ Thursday, August 26th, 1937 a f f Canada’s Favourite Tea w ■Mwn — a w< May Delay Opening Toronto Schools Believing that the infantile paraly­ sis epidemic is of sufficiently serious proportions in the city of Toronto to warrant keeping the public schools closed until there is an abatement of It, Trustee Dr. W. H, Butt announc­ ed that he would move that the Board of Education keep the schools closed, for two weeks or longer if necessary. Indications were that he would re­ ceive the support of the majorit/ of the board. engineered to German Fascist Czechslovakia.” answer of Port- Hat Co. Strike Settled Brockville — The eight-weeks-o1d strike affecting the John B. Stetspn Company, Canada,. Limited, came to an end here with the signing of an agreement between the company and strikers. The settlement of the strike •was the final ratification of the ag­ reement brought about in a three- liourn conference with the Premier, Government Labor conciliators, exec­ utives of the company, members of the Strike Committee. Predicts Long Jap-Chinese War Tokio—Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye predicted the Sino-Japanese conflict would be of long duration, and that there would be no settle­ ment until Japan had “punished” the Chinese army. He barred foreign in­ tervention in the undeclared war, as­ serting peace negotiations must be conducted by China and Japan alone. Lewis May Bolt Democratic Party Washington—John L. Lewis virtu­ ally threatened to bolt from the Democrats and swing his Committee for Industrial Organization forces in­ to a third-party movement to solve ’’pressing social problems.” Angered by the fate of the Wage and Hour Standards Bill, which has been block­ ed by a hostile House of Represent­ atives Rule Committee, the labor leader came nearer than ever to an open break with the party which his union forces backed with ballots and money in last year’s campaign. Nazis Blamed for Split Moscow—The official Soviet press charged that the rupture of diplomat­ ic relations between Portugal and rayai a ‘5s PREFERS BANKRUPTCY (r ♦ iy a Soviet- by ob- the main store building which houses valuable equipment. (Continued from Page One) schools. Farmers do not get the Farmers When you tune in your radio, you do not hear the sound of rushing water . , . yet fax away . . , . perhaps hundreds of miles .... Hydro power is being generated. It is this power that enables the radio studio to fill the air with the finest the entertainment field affords, and this same power permits your radio set to efficiently transform these studio transmitted programs into enjoyment for the entire family. As you sit in the Comfort of your home, it is well to consider that hundreds of trained Hydro men are working—watching, day and night, to ensure that nothing will interfere with the Continued enjoyment and pleasure you obtain from your radio. While striving always to maintain this con­ tinuous uninterrupted Service the Hydro of to. day is adhering strictly to the original prin­ ciples for which it was founded—power costs have been lowered in the past two years, and every effort has been made to extend the benefits of this low-cost electricity to indus- try, commerce, and you. Radio is just one of many Services made possible by YOUR Hydro which has made, and is making, life more enjoyable for you and your family, di a minimum of cost. for the Fascist HEAVY TREADWITH THE THICK THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES situation. “Our people insist that we are pledged to go‘forward in obed­ ience to them, not to you nor to the banks,” declared the telegram sent by Premier Aberhart in reply to Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s telegram notifying the Alberta Government . the bills provided for licensing of bankers had been disallowed. Mussolini Talks of Peace Palermo, Siciliy—Premier Musso­ lini, addressing a world-wide audi­ ence, pledged Italy to a “concrete policy of peace,” and declared “I be- ' lieve we can arrive at a lasting rap- proachement” between Great Britain and Italy. More than 200,000 (Sicil­ ians crowded to hear the Premier, while in every principal city in Italy hundreds of thousands marched in > formation to line up before loud- : speakers in central squares. The ’ speech was broadcast internationally. Plan for Legal Advice for Poor A plan whereby needy persons could obtain free legal advice and ser­ vice, and even have court costs paid, was recommended following discus­ sion by the Junior Committee of the Canadian Bar Association which met at the Royal York Hotel. May Tighten Relief Plan Ottawa — Following recommenda­ tions of the National Employment Commissions, the Government con­ templates separation between assist­ ance given to various .classes of relief recipients, and tightening up of relief administration, according to a state­ ment issued by Labor Minister Nor­ man Rogers. The classes specified are embraced by (a), unemployment ajd (b) agricultural aid and relief, and (c) assistance to unemployables, THE NEW, MODERN The new Top-value’ tire! Choice with motor ists who want the most for their money. Good year quality throughout fully guaranteed, Drive in today free service! Diplomatic Split Stirs Europe London—Portugal’s one-sided sev­ erance of diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia was pave the way for ‘ aggression against The charge came in ugal’s explanation that she was forc­ ed to withdraw her envoy from Pra­ gue and sever diplomatic relations because a “third power” persuaded ’ Czechoslovakia became a red flag for Czechslovakia to refuse shipment of the suspicions of all Europe. Czechs in Praha, their Capital, asked if Ger­ many is working behind the scenes to make their ^strategic, hemmed-in country a “future Rhineland” in a possible struggle between the two great political camps, fascism and communism, Authoritarian Portugal blamed a “third party”'—presumably Soviet Russia—for influencing the Czechs' to fail to fill an order for ma­ chine guns, official reason breach. Nazi Germany and Italy sympathized. an arms order for the Portugese army. Baby Girl Lost for 94 Hours in Woods Arlington, Vt. Showing scarcely any ill-effects from four days’ wand­ ering in dense woods, 21-months-old Alice Baker was found on a moun­ tain top three miles from her parents’ summer home here. The child had been missing ninety-four hours when discovered alive and well in a thicket by five members of a 200-man posse. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball Baker of Hudson Falls, N.Y. Disease Spread Among ■ Manitoba Horses Winnipeg—Thousands of Manitoba farmers may be forced 4o do their harvesting in ra make-shift manner due to the widespread encephalomy­ elitis, a paralytic diseases among horses. After a conference between Provincial and Dominion agricultur­ ists and Representatives of the Man­ itoba Veterinary Association and J. R. Bell, Provincial Live-Stock Com­ missioner, began a survey of the Pro­ vince. (Homuth & Bennett, Props.) WINGHAM Phone I74W ONTARIO Refugees Ran Into Earthquake Area, Manila. P.I.—Refugees from, war- torn China shrieked in terror and several fainted when three ’ violent earthquakes rocked Manila, twisting buildings, bursting water mains and disrupting electricity and telephone service, The first of the earthquakes, the worst in years, occurred while 390 nelve-wracked refugees were dis­ embarking from the liner President Jefferson which brought them from China. » — —_ Death in London from Infantile Paralysis First death from infantile paralysis in Western Ontario occurred at Lon­ don and spurred medical health auth­ orities to renewed efforts in combat­ ting the disease. Free of the disease up until two weeks ago, Western On­ tario has twenty-one known cases, a survey showed. Middlesex County led with ten cases. plans to extend wholesale military operations in the direction of Jehol, Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces. Jap­ anese military authorities were re­ ported to have suspended the Hopeh- Chahar Political Council, thus sever­ ing this regions last administrative ties with Nanking and taking over complete control of the Peiping-Tien­ tsin area. Jap-Soviet Clash Expected Peiping—The danger of Japanese collision was seen servers here in reported Japanese I Objects to Cancelling Bank Acts Edmonton—The Alberta Govern­ ment challenged the right of the Fed­ eral Government to disallow its three acts respecting banking and went ahead with plans for a special session of the Legislature to deal with the 4 $32,000 PRIZE LIST PLAN for a day or two at Western Ontario’s own exhibition. This year will surpass all previous efforts for agricultural, industrial, scien­ tific and home exhibits. BIG.FEATURES CEDT 4 9 4ft W. D. JACKSON EVERYDAY afar I. 13-18 Secretary. Cholera Epidemic Threatens Refugees Hong Kong—Enough vaccine inoculate 250,000 persons was rushed here by airplane and steamship to combat a cholera epidemic that has caused almost 200 deaths along the South-China coast. The spreading created a new peril for thousands of Asiastic, British and other refugees fleeing the war danger in Northern China. Francis Ormond French, ex-mil­ lionaire and father-in-law of John Jacob Astor 3rd, who has filed a no­ tice of bankruptcy with the an­ nouncement that he prefers bankrupt­ cy to “hand-outs” from his rich in­ laws. He hopes to be able to make a success of, a book he is writing, en­ titled “On the Cuff.” from Hydro to reduce the gross debt but had Hydro issue new bonds for this amount that the government en­ dorsed. Mr. Macaulay said the" last Hep­ burn budget was for 11 months only and as the next would be for thirteen months, Hepburn called an election. Patronage has become rampant und­ er Hepburn, he said. 1140 worked in East Hastings on the roads before the by-election and- only 37 after. Hepburn said he would uphold law and order but he had placed beverage rooms in Peel, ' Huron and Perth counties contrary to a mandate of the people, the Scott Act. He brought in a special bill to. nullify a petition to unseat C. W. Cox, of Port Arthur. For the first time in our history a law was passed to declare an elec­ tion petition invalid removing it from the courts just before the trial was to take place. This idea he got from the Taschereau government who passed the Dillon bill. When Hepburn wanted to carry out his revolutionary policy of hydro contracts repudiation he passed an act making it illegal for any sheriff or officer of the courts to carry out the judgment of the Canadian courts or1 of the Privy Council. This act is still on the statutes. This is the pre­ cedent that Aberhart used in Alberta to pass the recent banking laws^that makes one wonder that politics could get to such depths of insincerity. The people will say on ejection day we are through with this type of govern­ ment and elect Earl Rowe and the Conservative party. were cancelled by the Dominion gov­ ernment. How are you going to have res­ pect for law if the governing body has not this respect, asked Mr. Ma­ caulay. On the school question Hepburn turned a somersault. After East Has­ tings he suddenly decided the act should be repealed. He had been told that the act was unworkable but stat­ ed definitely it would stand. Since 1863 there has been an act that was accepted as final. No party tried to make capital out of it until Hepburn, did in 1934. He suddenly repealed the act he said would stand and spoke for an hour in the House in a bitter ‘partisan manner and then clamped on the closure and no one had the right to speak. I was to reply to that speech, Said Mr. Macaulay, but when I jumped to my feet to protest I was escorted from the chamber by a pol­ iceman. An act no Liberal paper agreed to and a right any student of parliamentary procedure will concede I did have. Hepburn has been squirming for an issue. His advisers hit upon these labor disturbances which he butted into needlessly. Employer and em-’ ployee could have settled these diff­ erences, Mr. Macaulay said. All you have to do, Mr. Macaulay said, is to read his record and it AGENTS for COUNTER CHECK . BOOKS \ PRINTED GUMMED MsPE J ’ ‘^MADE BY j paper ,gyoocrq I -V ”.?* J;/'‘ Styles ..'for, every btUfjihe ss Varibai" colblsfendx^^igns Samples, suggestions and prices without obligation/ The Advance-Times Phone 34. Japan Rejected British Proposal Tokio—Japan rejected a British proposal that Japanese and Chinese troops be withdrawn simultaneously from .embattled Shanghai, leaving protection of their civilian nationals to Great Britain, France and the Un­ ited States. Kensuke Horinuchi, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, in­ formed J. L. Dodds, British Charge d’Affaires here, Japan could under no circumstances leaves its nationals in Shanghai protected only, by foreign powers. Reformatory Stores Building Razed Guelph—Fire which completely de­ stroyed a two-storey frame auxiliary store building in the Ontario Reform­ atory here, was brought under con­ trol two hours after the outbreak with the assistance of prisoners who manned the institution fire equip­ ment. At no time were the cell blocks or the main administration building in danger. Slight damage re­ sulted when the raging fire spread to QUEEN WILHELMINA INSPECTS BOY SCOUTS / Dutch Indian boy scouts paid > during the recent International Scout I majesty is shown inspecting them in Queen Wilhelmina a courtesy | jamboree, to the palace, where her (full regalia. ■i. CONSERVATIVES NAME TEESWATER MAN the advantages they should, should be advised from Toronto what their soil will grow. This scientific information would be a great benefit to them, he said. Grants to hospitals had been cut to $79,000, he said, while the Conservatives when, in power, gave grants of $1,000,000. Mr. Logan said the government collected $25,- 000,000 a year in gas tax and motor vehicle licenses' and for two years spent but $5,000,000 of this on the roads but now with an election in sight was spending about $20,000,000. Hon. Leopold Macaulay In his address the Hon. Leopold Macaulay said :“The Hepburn mach­ ine is bumping along a road of brok­ en promises.” Hepburn promised to cut the cost of government in two but he collected $92,000,000 from the peo­ ple as against $51,000,000 by the pre­ vious * Conservative administration. Mr. Hepburn has been asked how many civil servants there are and no answer has been received as yet. Mr. Macaulay said, Hepburn had fired 1,- 500 but that he had hired two for ev­ ery one he fired. 500 returned sold­ iers bad been dismissed by the Prem­ ier without cause and that even Col. Hunter, one of his own supporters, had protested. 105 of these had b&cn replaced but 110 more dismissed. Hepburn has repeatedly stated thaty there would be no election until 1938 while all the time he has been getting his election machine into high gear and oiling it up. Hepburn ridiculed the Conservatives for their work on highways prior to the last election saying they were doing too much but now on the eve of the election he is spending $30,000,000 to pay for this work in northern and southern On­ tario, For three years Hepburn has done nothing for the hospitals and in some institutions the accommodation is ter­ rible, Mr, Macaulay said, as some pa­ tients in mental hospitals had to sleep on the floors, in the halls and even in the cellars, Hepburn broke his promise to peg the debt; Mr, Macaulay diarged. In July 1934 the debt was $614,000,000, now it is $130,000,000 more. He charged Hepburn took $54,000,000 HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION ——— M*. HT' / all f