HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1938-07-14, Page 3Thursday, July 14th, 193S
Tourist Trade $300,000,000 Last Year
Halifax —- Income fropi Canada's
tourist industry last year was $300,-
000,000, Resources Minister T. A.
Crerar said on his arrival here# Ac
companied by National Revenue Min
ister J. L, Ilsley, Mr, Crerar said
they hoped to develop the province’s
tourist industry by increasing its
attractions.
Palestine Riot Takes
21 Lives
Jerusalem-^—A bomb explosion in
the business centre of Haifa follow
ed by a running gun battle between
Jews and Arabs killed at least 21
persons, and wounded 60 others.
The outbreak was one of the blood
iest in the long history of Arab-
Jewish clashes in the Holy** Land
which each group considers its na
tional and spiritual homeland.
Egyptian Prince, Heir to 50 Millions,
Would Wed King Zog’s Sister
Cairo, Egypt—Prince Abdul Mon-
eim, 39year-old second cousin of
young King Farouk and heir to a
$50,000,000 fortune, has .asked the
Egyptian monarch for permission to
marry Princess Myzejen, 28-year-old
sister of King Zog of Albania.
Abdul Moneim, as present motor-1
ing in Europe, sent the request by
letter. King Farouk has not yet re
plied.
craft manufacturers to establish a
Canadian plant on a guarantee to buy
1,000, planes,
The plan is said to have been ad
vanced so far in discussion in diplo
matic and military circles that an ex
penditure of $1,000,000,000 .by the
British Government is regarded
as probable for the undertak
ing, which would embrace not
only a manufacturing plant and air
drome, but also a training field to be
in constant use for the developing of
pilots to man 5,000. R.A.F. planes
which would be based permanently in
Canada.
Seize Soviet Papers
In Raid! at Montreal
Montreal —r For the third time in
less than a year, provincial police
officers raided headquarters of
“Friends of Soviet Russian,” and re
turned to ■ headquarters today with
6,000 newspapers, magazines, most of
which, said Police Commissioner P.
A. Piuze, were from Russia. The raid
was made under Quebec’s "padlock
law” which enables officers to raid
and close buildings used for housing
'or distributing, Communist literature.
Chorley Park
Toronto The board of trustees
of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
has/accepted formally the offer of
Ontario’s lieutenant-governors, Hon.
Colin A. Campbell, minister of pub
lic works, announced, The residence
was offered to the hospital by Pre
mier Mitchell Hepburn as a gift
"without any strings attached” and
the hospital may use, sell or demolish
it, ■ •
"I have no idea to what use they
intend to put the hospital,” Mr.
Campbell said. Members of the
board met last • week with Premier
Hepburn to discuss the gift and later
decided privately to accept it,
PHIL. OSIFER
OF LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J, Boyle
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Rebel Aid in 1934
Valencia, Spain—The Valencia Bar
Association announced it had uncov
ered a document allegedly revealing
Premier (Mussolini promised as early
as 1934 to give armed aid to the mon
archist cause in Spain.
The association published a photo
graph of the document, assertedly,
penned by Antonio Giocoechea, for
mer monarchist Cabinet member, de
scribing an alleged meeting between
•Spanish monarchist sympathizers
and Mussolini at 4 p.m., March 31,
1934..
Sarnia Bridge Nearing
Completion»
Sarnia, July 8 — The American
Bridge Company was today assemb
ling the last piece of steel on the
centre span of the Blue Water bridge
and cleaning up odd jobs, prepara
tory of painting the centre struc
ture for the completion of its con
tract..
Feverish activity was apparent at
the bridge site as various contractors
rush their work in ah effort to be
ready for the formal opening in the
middle of August. .
The bridge runs from Point Ed
ward to Port Huron, Mich., over the
River St.. Clair.
Survive Plunge Into
Boiling Tar
Chatham, July 8—Attendant at St.
Joseph’s Hospital tonight reported
that John Perr, 55-year-old employee
of the Clearville Fisheries, who was
terribly burned at noon when he fell
into a vat of boiling tar, was "hold
ing his own.”.
First reports were th'at (Mr. Peter
had no chance for recovery.
Peer, it is reported, was engaged
in soaking’ fishing nets in the tar
when he slipped on the planking on
which he was standing and fell into
the scalding liquid. His body was
completely enveloped by the fluid.
First Hanging In
Michigan Since 1830
Milan, Mich.—Anthony Chebatoris
was hanged by the Federal Govern
ment at 6.08 (E.D.T.) and became'the
first victim of capital punishment to
die in Michigan in 108 years. '
Governor Frank Murphy, who had
appealed to President Roosevelt to
stop the Federal Government ’ from
breaking a century-old Michigan
tradition, said the execution was a
"blot” on the state’s “civilized re
cord.”
The hanging took place at the
federal detention farm here at sun
rise.
Britain May Possibly Establish
Training Base in Canada
New York—The New York Herald-
Tribune in a front page article stated:
possibility of the establishmept in
Canada of a huge supply and training
base for Great Britain’s Royal Air
Force, to remove a great section of.
British military aviation from the geo
graphical vulnerability of England,
was indicated yesterday (Friday) with
the disclosure that the British air mis
sion on its recent visit to the United
States, sought to induce American air
Minor Tornado Wrecks
Lake Simcoe Cottage
Storms that in some localities
struck with great fury swept through
Southern Ontario Friday night
climaxing a day of record heat for
tins’ year.
A trail of damage was left by a
terrific wind that hit Pelee Island in
the late afternoon, blowing down five
barns, flattening crops and driving
the steamer Islet Prince to shelter in
a damaged condition after a cable
broke as she lay in port.
A twisting storm that approached
tornado proportions, uprooted trees,
damaged cottages and smashed motor
cars in the Lake Simcoe district,. ,
Children’s Hospital Accepted
Hot Weather Comforts
~ For —
I was down in the laneway last
night just after darkness had come
down, and it certainly was a picture
that a man couldn’t quite forget in a
hurry. It had been warm all day with
a breath of coolness coming up from
the cedars down around the Lazy
Meadows creek. New mown hay pro
vided about as fine an incense a§ you
could find anywhere. Twinkling stars
in a black sky were like jewels. And
over at Neighbour Higgins’ place a
light on the table made silhouettes
on the screen door of the kitchen as
someone was moving around. Music
from a radio down the valley was
somehow discordant with the rest of
the scene.
Jessy, the brirfdle cow, was munch
ing grass from her cud and even she
seemed to be contented with the
world. A bell tinkled on the ram
down in the south meadow. There’s
sounds of life stirring here at Lazy
Meadows, but over all there’s a quiet
sort of contentment. I pull the old
pipe out and after- lighting it up just
dawdle’ away several hours soaking
the contentment into my bones. ‘
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Back and betimes and remember
ing that I have a deadline staring me
in the face. Sounds big to talk as if
a person were a big newspaper re
porter, and I’m able to know what
.it would be like to have an editor tell
you that you have just so long to turn
in a story.
There comes a period of chewing
my pencil and looking around the
room to, find something to write
about. There’s Methuselah the white
mouse chewing pensively at his whis
kers in the cage in the corner. He’s
been caged ever since he scared two
of my wife’s maiden aunts, out of ten
years of growth. I did write one let
ter about him though!
Well, there is that horsehair sofa.
Time marches on, as they say, but
that old sofa remains. It’s a relic that
always reminds me.of a very uncom
fortable age. Just try sitting on one
of them on a hot day in the summer
when the sweat makes your clothes
stick to you.
There’s something about one of
those horsehair sofas that pricks'you
worse than a new union suit in the
Fall. I can remember when that sofa
was new. It was proudly displayed in
the front room and covered with lit
tle gew-gaws and fancy cloths to keep
it from being worn.
, Time and wear however managed
to take the shininess and smoothness
from it. Soon it began shedding its
hair and the children always were co
operating by plucking as many hairs
from it as possible. In fact I’ve even
pulled them myself just to see them
curl up around my finger.
Ornate with scrolls and folderols .
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. . and still standing in the front room
the old sofa must know that its days
are numbered. Surely it knows that
sooner or later it’s going to be stor
ed up with all that other old furniture
over the driving shed, to some day
be broken up into kindling wood.
Courtin’ was one of the most im
portant things in the old days before
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the advent of the motor car. I’m
afraid that the old sofa plus a high-
board fence collar didn’t lend to the
comfort of the occasion. Especially
when a fellow was feeling like a fish
out of water, and trying to get up
enough nerve to ask the final ques
tion. Every time you squirmed you
were certain to rub the horsehair the
wrong way and get a "shock.”
During week-days all the parlour
furniture was covered with white dus
ters. Coming home at' night and
squinting into the parlour with a coal
oil lamp in your hand you were liable
to get the effect of a very supernat
ural setting. When visitors were
coming the dusters would all be spir-
ited away and they would be installed
in the room before the dustiness had
all settled. The old sofa sat like an
overstaffed toad in a small puddle . .
But here the letter is filled, the
mailman’s coming and I must say “So
long” until next week.
ENTIRE MILLAR WILL FAMILY TAKE PART IN FAMILY REUNION
family and took them up to the Oril
lia, Ont., farm where Mrs, Nagle was
born and raised. On an expedition
in the fields they posed for this pic
ture (LEFT) with Margaret, Freddy,
Francis, Jackie, Billy, Eileen, Lornie,
Theresa, Betty and Mary (LEFT TO
RIGHT) in front and Allen beside
his mother, and Patsy in her father’s
arms. Mr. and Mrs. William O’Con
nor (RIGHT) were hosts to their
grandchildren. Particularly happy
Were the couple when a genuine fam
ily reunion was held with every one
of their 21 grandchildren present for
festivities on their farm. "We’re
proud to be farmers,” the grandpar
ents declared several times.
Ml and Mrs. John Nagle, who
shared in the Millar will fortune,
celebrated their 16th wedding anni
versary recently. Because the occas
ion was special they gathered the