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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1938-07-28, Page 3Thursday, July 28th, 1938 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES CONSULT a / of undisclosed nature. The shuffling little man, of snowy-white hair, heavy spectacles and a flair for detailed cer­ emony when he stood on scaffolds at daybreak, was 73 years old, Death came more slowly to the “five foot, three" man than to the 500 persons he was estimated to have dropped from the gallows during the quarter­ century he served as unofficial execu­ tioner for Canada. He was stricken in his small rented room a couple of days ago apparently, but the news leaked out only when he was discov­ ered in hospital. He was reported in a coma from which he never emerged. number more than 1OQ.OQO moved past the catafalque of the Dowager Queen Marie. An even’ greater number was expected to hie through Cotroceni J’alace for a final look at the queen before'the public is excluded. • iances Offered Hotpoint Water Heaters* by General Electric, pro­ vide plenty of Hot Water with minimum cost. Estimates for Installation gladly furnished. , Electrical Appliances of All Kinds Repaired and Serviced at Reasonable Rates. I Wingham Utilities Commission Telephone 156 V Peter" Heenan Is Injured Dryden—Hon. Peter Heenan, On­ tario Minister of Lands and Forests, suffered minor head injuries when his automobile, hit loose sand and rolled over near Wabigoon, twelve miles east of here. In the car ..with iMr. Hennan at the time were two sons, one of whom received a slight cut ov­ er the right eye. The Heenans were driving along the trans-Canada high­ way at the time of the mishap. commence on Saturday and be con­ tinued until Saturday, August 6th. . Tourist Traffic Increases Fort Erie — Tourist movement through the border port of Fort Erie, which showed an increase of 20 per cent in June, as compared to the same month of 1937, is continuing its ratio of increase during July, Dugald H. McIntyre, Provincial Government Tourist Bureau at the Peace Bridge, estimated. With still one week to run, the volume of traffic handled at Fort Erie is approximately as great now as for the entire month of July last year. Reservations being made, and inquiries being received, Mr. McIn­ tyre states, indicate the August move- .ment will also show a like increase over last year. The tourist movement here compares favqrably with 1928- 29, when the peak volume was hand­ led. Mexico Will Evaluate Oil Property Seizures ,, Mexico City—President Cardenas instructed the minister of finance and national economy at once to start evaluating the 17 British and Amer­ ican-owned oil companies expropriat­ ed March 18. The president said ear­ lier this week payments probably would begin in two, months, the com­ panies to be reimbursed for their pro­ perty in oil, over a 10-year period. Company estimates 'have placed a $400,000,000 valuation on their invest, ments in Mexico. Accepts Bid to Visit Britain Paris—President Albert Lebrun has accepted an. invitation from King George to visit Great Britain/it was officially announced. An official com­ munique said the trip would be made during the first three months of next year. The French president’s visit will be in return for the current so­ journ here of King George and Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Lebrun’s trip to Lon­ don is expected to cement even more firmly Anglo-French friendship. Soon to Choose Convention Date Toronto—Cecil G. Frost, newly-’el- ected president of the Ontario Con­ servative Association, said here that within two weeks the new-executive of the association will meet to set a date for a convention to elect a new party leader. “We will bring the ex­ ecutive together just as soon aS we possibly can,” he said. “We expect it will take place within the next few weeks.” The annual meeting of the association decided to hold the con­ vention • before Oct. 15. Hon. Earl Rowe, party leader, announced to the meeting his resignation would take ef­ fect at that time. Prefer Quota On Sale Only Calgary —• Artificial restriction wheat acreage is not favored ‘by dir­ ectors of the prairiie wheat pools. At an inter-provincial conference of the Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta pools here, it was declared a prescrib­ ed quota of wheat for each individual* farmer to sell would be preferable to artificial restriction of acreage. Under the quota system a farmer could put in whatever acreage desired’ but he would be allowed to sell only his quota right.” A telegram was dis­ patched to the Dominion Government during the session -urging a minimum wheat price of 87%c a bushel, No. 1 northern, Fort' William, be establish­ ed by the Canadian Wheat Board for the 1938 crop. of Mourn Queen Marie • Two weeks’ court mourning will be ,obscrved in Canada for the late Dow­ ager Queen Marie of Rumania, ac­ cording to orders received from Ot­ tawa. The period of mourning will Atthur Ellis, Executioner of 500, Dies Montreal — Arthur Ellis, the meth­ odical little executioner who seldom was known by his teal name of Arth- Illness May Put Punning Out of Post Ottawa — Illness of two Cabinet Ministers has revived rumors in Ot­ tawa) that Prime Minister ” Mackenzie King’s Cabinet may be due for a shake-up soon, although there has .been no official intimation that this would take place in the near future. Finance Minister Dunning, stricken with a circulatory ailment just before Parliament prorogued, has been ord­ ered to the seaboard for a long rest, and there is a possibility that when he has fully recovered he will be ad­ vised against returning to so strenu­ ous a task as the Treasury Depart­ ment presents, Postmaster-General Elliott, ill for months, has been mak­ ing a slow recovery, and his return to departmental work has been consider­ ed in Ottawa circles as unlikely. Liberals Win In Brantford Riding Brantford—H. Louis Hagey, 31- year-old barrister, retained the Brant- ford riding for the Liberal Party when he was elected to the Ontario Legislature in a by-election, with a majority of 1,146 over his nearest op­ ponent, Reginald Welsh, Conservative candidate. The election was necessi­ tated through the death of Labor Minister M. M. MacBride. Final re­ turns were: H. Louis Hagey, Liberal, 6,284; Reginald Welsh, Conservative, 5,138; Walter J. Dowden, Labor-Pro­ gressive, 2,344; Paul Debragh, Toron­ to, Socialist-Labor, 58. By his victory Mr. Hagey becomes one of the young­ est members of the Legislature. He withstood last-minute attacks by his three opposing candidates, although his majority was 1,456 less than that accorded Mr. MacBride. Hear.Sums Were Paid Over Year The Sidley will case took a new turn as inspectors from the Succes­ sion Duties Branch began a system­ atic check-up of all bank accounts in the name of W. Perkins Bull, and are reported to have learned that over a period of years preceding her death, the heiress to the malted milk mil­ lions gave ,Mr. Bull sums of money totalling in the neighborhood of $1,- 000,000. No confirmation of this al­ leged state of affairs was available at Queen’s Park, but it was learned else­ where that instructions were issued from the Treasury to the inspectors to complete, their work with all pos­ sible speed and to invoke what auth­ ority they may have under Ontario law to determine the extent of re­ ported other Bull ’bank deposits Havana, Cuba, and London, Eng. in to First Pay Load1 by Airplane Over Atlantic Montreal — The first airplane carry a pay load across the Atlantic to-Canada, the British seaplane Mer­ cury, arrived at Boucherville, 12 miles down the St. Lawrence River and on the opposite side from Montreal, at 11:15 o’clock Thursday niorning, E. D.T., with but 80 gallons of gasoline left in her tanks. She started with 1,200 gallons. It was the first time an airplane had made the crossing from Britain to Montreal non-stop. The Mercury covered the 2,930 miles from Foynes, Ireland, to Montreal, in 20 hours and 15 minutes. Two hours and 47 minutes later she hopped off for Port Washington, New York, sea­ plane base, after being refuelled with 250 gallons of.gas'oline. ur Bartholomew Alexander English, | Thousands See Queen In Death died in hospital after a brief illness 1 Bucharest —* Mourners estimated to Pelee Island to Have Two 2-Day Hunts Toronto—The department of game and fisheries authorized two two-day pheasant shoots on Pelee Island, the southermost point of Canada, Thir­ teen hundred licenses will be sold, 650 "brown" tickets for the first shoot, October 21 and 22, and 650 "white” tickets for the final two days, October 27 and 28. Hon Earl Rowe Resigns as Leader With Hop. Earl Rowe out of the Provincial picture, Hon. Leopold Ma­ caulay, Opposition Leader in the Leg­ islature, and Colonel George A. Drew, K.C.f will fight it out for the Ontario Conservative Party leader­ ship in a mid-October convention, There may be other last-minute can­ didates, but their appeal and support, at this time at least, can be counted as almost negligible. The same an­ nual meeting of the Ontario Con­ servative Association, which heard Mr. Rowe resign, approved of Oct. 15 as the date for the new leadership test. The resolution, proposing this date, was sponsored by W. A, Calder of Woodstock and Mrs. Plarold Ho- muth of Preston, and came as a com­ plete surprise, after 6 o’clock, when a bare 300 of the 1,500 delegates regist­ ered were ip the Royal York assemb­ ly hall. 'A second resolution, suggest­ ing Oct. 1 Us the battle date, was re­ jected. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle “SUNDAY COLLECTION” Ike Dodds and Peter Jones are two ordinary farmers on week-days. They wear chop-smeared, baggy patched overalls like the rest of us, chew to­ bacco and like to stop on the Con­ cession for a chat about the weather and the way the army-worms are eat­ ing up the grain crop. You wouldn’t suspect that they were any different from any of the farmers in the neigh­ bourhood. But they really are! You see, they take up the Sunday collec­ tion. You sense the difference when you meet them at church on Sunday. Ike is a tall, streamlined sort of a> fellow with an Adam’s apple that goes up and down like a trip-hammer inside of a leathery neck. Peter is a short, ^tout type of a fellow inclined to bulge just slightly at the waist-line. They stand beside the church door, their faces with expressions much like the statue of the Indian down in the park in the village. When you go in to church they incline their heads just ever so slightly. As soon as church has started they slip in to sit in the back pew, turning their eyes from the front occasional­ ly to scornfully glance at any of the brethren who are so lax as to be late for church. They are as sobei' as church-mice. Collection time comes along and they get up out of the seat, stop for a moment and then walk up to the front of the church. There Ike stands up straight as a telephone pole while Peter paddles over and picks up the two baskets. He comes back and hands one to Ike and then they turn and start coming back down the aisle. That’s when it's really comical. Ike just sends that arm of his scooting in the seat and it's no difficulty at all for him to reach in to the last per­ son. Peter is short and every time he bends over and reaches in his hard collar bobs up to choke him off. His face gets red but he struggles out the length of his reach and the breth­ ren in the back of the seat also have to exert themselves to flip their mon­ ey in. Ike and Peter are regular fashion plates. They combine some'“of the finest features of the “90’s” with ’up- If there is no sidewalk or path and you must walk on the Highway, walk toward the traffic, not with it! When you walk toward oncoming traffic, you can watch every car as it approaches, and the driver can see you. Don’t risk your life needlessly, especially at night. Walk on the left side, and keep close to the edge of the road. to-date sartorial evidence of the pre­ sent time. Ike has a soft collar on a shirt that ‘is quite a rosy hue of red. Peter still sticks to the old-fashioned hard collar, and the story goes that .lie’s using up a dozen hard collars that his father bought from a smart salesman thirty odd years ago. The tall fellow has a pair of those, new wide bottom trousers, but even the wide legs don’t cover up his but­ toned shoes that he greases to per­ fection each Sunday • with bacon grease and stove black. Peter, the short one, wears a pair of trousers and a coat that were once black but age and wear have developed them into quite a fine shade of paddy green. The colour combination comes from his wearing a snappy pair of yellow oxfords. Ike goes in for a white vest that has the occasional de­ coration by an egg spot or two. Pet­ er still wears the salmon coloured vest that his father was married in. It looked quite snappy forty years ago, but now I am very much afraid it’s not quite what they are wearing. They deposit the basket up on the side of the pedestal in the front of the church, and then come down like wooden dummies .to take their places in the church. They are just really unnatural in church. The strange part of it all is, that they are as natural as ever when you meet them on Monday. They don’t seem to be a bit different then. That’s one mystery that I could never figure out for myself. LAND WARSHIPS ROLL, PITCH AND TOSS LIKE SHIP AT SEALAND WARSHIPS ROLL, PITCH AND TOSS LIKE SHIP AT SEA ONTARIO r DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Motor Vehicles Branch DRIVE CAREFULLY N. A. McDougall, Toronto, is eag­ er to reduce motor accidents. To this end he has had this model of a pro­ vincial traffic officer made. He would have the Ontario government place . similar dummies at strategic points along the highways to shock reckless motorists into more careful driving habits. SOMETHING NEW IN LIFESAVING GUARANTEED GOODYEARS WE HAVE YOUR SIZE Goodyear Speedway tires are the finest low-price value in tires « « « anywhere! Goodyear built.*. Goodyear guaranteed. Choose from our big, complete stock* To reduce expenses in teaching tank gunnery at Camp Borden, Ont., air rifles with lead pellets are used, Gunnery is taught from an oscillating platform which simulates the move* meht of a tattle. In “line ahead” for* mation the row of land warships rum* hie into Battle. Major F. F, Worth­ ington, head of the school, studied, is to be given to about 300 candidates tank technique in London, Eng., be- 'this summeri fore the school was transferred to Camp Borden this spring. Instruction (Homuthfi Biiinatt, Props. WINGHAM PHONE 174W ONT, Wilma .Murray wears the latest thing in life-saving belts. Unlhliated (LEFT) it appears like an ordinary belt with a rubber sack. Should she be in danger of drowning all she has to do is squeeze the sack. Chemicals come into action and the sack ex* pands (RIGHT). It is guaranteed to keep her floating. The device is the invention of Clarence V. McGuire, of Grosse Point, Mich., who once was nearly drowned himself.