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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-1-5, Page 7QUEENSTON CHIPPAWA POWER PLANT SET IN MOTION RREM E DR,CRY. Largest Electric Power Plaint in the Woxid Formally Opened by tlie•Provincial Premier and Miss Marion Beck in the Presence of Thousands of Delegates from Various Municipalities. A despatch from t ueenston sayer— quantities of power for Ontario in - Nearly five years of 'skilled engineer- dustry and tit,' and farm home ing effort, night ea day labor; and Wdien Premier Drury argil Miss Marian Beck, Sir Adam's daughter, overwhelming financial anxiety were released the flood of water into the erownee with amen on Wednesday first installed turbine it eet'in triotion when power was officially turned on the giant 56,044 -horsepower genete. at the Queenston-Ohippawa develop- ator. As the power Colossue picked meet, Sir Adam Beek, on whose up its revolutions in ever- n creasing elm -dere the tremendous weight of epeed, the farat of Chippawa's power xeaponsibility has rested, during the .gradually brought. into brilliant it-- entire anxious period, presided at the luminatioai a huge Danner on the wall et:At'wsnice, and received ovations of the power house; "Queenston-Chip- . from over • 2 404 municipal represent pawa Devek pneet The largest lIy- tatives such as few Canadian pubic die -electric plant is the world. TJIti- men have ever been accorded, mate capacity 650,040.horsepowere' With glowing face and sparkling From a faint glow of light to a eyes: Sit Adam exhibited just pride white dare the electric square grade- in the great national aecomplishanent, ally mounted as tha whirling gener- Ecteally apparent in the mien of the ator packed up -to its rearm& 187 revo- Hydro Knight was the expression of lotions per minute. Froin a murmur EFFORTS TO Cur SUBMARIN PRINCESS MARY, ONLY DAUGHTER OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE whose marriage to Viscount Lascelles will take place in February. The picture at Hier left shows the Princess the uniform. of a Y.A.U. nurse, the centre as she is to -day, and at the rigbt aa a girl et fifteen. Bellow le ager autograph. great relief at the completion a the the sound of rushing teeter and op- iirat of the ten units of the Chippawa erating machinery grew in volume to power projeet, the greatest inthe a roar which completely die as-necl ont world end the sar1 jest for comment at the ,enthusiastic e.heors of e.,00i1 per- nations. For approximately ten days sons and the blasta of the plant sit. the apparatus will be permitted to rens. The whole of the official open- if- d>'y out, then mighty Niagara will ing' ceremonies occupied less than ! . eonunen:ce whirling out still further teen minutes. FAMINE VICTIMS Plans to Increase TONNAGE THWARTED BY FRANCE France Asks for 330,Q€10 Tons of Auxiliaries and for the Sante Strength in Undersea Craft as Britain and United States--•lir. Balfour Points Out the Menace to Britain. EAT DEAD BODIES Trade: With Canada aeae t�h from Washington says: -•The effort to reduce :acid limit fain, having no large army, could not strike at the heart of France, but Meetings Throughout Ireland to Consider Treaty A despatch from. Dublin says: Special meetings continue to be held to consider the Irish treaty. The Cavan Urban Council has adopted a 1"esolution setting forth high appreciation of the terms of the treaty, and, while recognizing the great services rendered by the members of the ------ - submarine and auxiliary naval ton- France, employing a great navy of pail Eireann opposing the 4 , Cannibalism Practised in Parts of Russian Hunger . Zone. A despatch from Riga says:• ---The first official report of cannibalism in the famine districts of Russia has been made tea the A11 -Russian Soviet Congreas by Delegate Oa sienko of Samara, according to a de -watch to. the e�ffleial Rasta News Agency, elated Mo3cow. "At Ramileotiesky the parish people are eating the bodies of their dead," Ovsienko told the Congress. "It as dangerous to bury the famine victims in, the presence of the people, and guards must be kept over them until they are in a state that makes eating impossible." Qvsienko stated that Dr. Fri.ltjof N�ansen, High Commissioner of the, International Committee of Russian Rt :lei', even though a hardened ex- ' plorer, returned to Moscow ••sickened by the seenes he .witnessed in the a' stricken districts. The sp leiter said trtethat children are being taken to the steppes and left there to die; that mothers . maddened by their experi- • ences, cut the throats of their bn'bes. At the present time, continued Ov i the Soviets with: al their s 1 e enkp, , of tside aid; are able to feed only halt! the starving children and only one twentieth of the adults. a AutomobiIe owners in different cities throughout the United States have recently been won over to the fad of eitrryin�g across their radiators, suspended from. the light brace rod, neat brass or black -'and -white plates bearing the names of their home towns. A despatcl1 from London Says • nage met with complete failure on —Southampton, which will be- Wednesday in a session of the Teter - come familiar to traveling Cana- national Conference Committee on dians as the new base for the Armament. The session was marked Canadian Pacific and Cunard by sear ational interchanges between steamship services, has decided Mr. Balfour and M. Sarraut concern - to improve its port at a cost of ing the naval preparations of Great thouaallds of pounds. Negotia- Britain and Frenee and the possibility tions are pi'cacceding'for the pur- el war between those two nations. chase of the ingfworld's lar restFrance an;,istei on an allowance of 90,000 tons of submarines, an amount Ron ing oe , an a re vim equal to the maximum Mr. Iiugl'es scheme has been approved which originally proposed for the United will allow the largest Cunard and White Star liners to ap- proach and leave the clocks with- out difficulty. Furness, Withy and Company, Limited, accord- ing . muncelately charge's that the French, (2) Agreement to umit the cal;bre manufacturing of German to a ti:aaent3,l apt. i of extelt:i€aia wtrxit an rs us«. Tim, the London press, are i11- contemplated using :submarines i?le-1 of capital ship guns to 10 lathes. ha ;; far the snarufac*urel L"ni:eruIIty of Terrani:� e < toadd augurating a new service to the - ...._......... he , into �voxl, p 1 3, « ,; n •I gitimately against commerce, pro - (3) Failure lire to agree on limitation of industrrat machinery. The yb an cf i .o i s free u .11rag• li.. t t .e mares anal Pacific coast of Canada, flounced the French naval •building : •of submarine and auxiliary tonnege.:, : , ' ., �;. ,�..,, conversion will ea+l for the emps o 1 tin .t a nes of :en � ...who woutel like to plan a menace to Great Britain, and (4) Proposal made to limit the size meat of 20,000 workers who mere ten- ,nee the. whole ...ries of comm ati na, deliered that under the circumstances of a war craft, oxeept 'capital ships a in the manufacture of war of which the s: a°.;'""Ti: 'p"t i.rhes Belgians Alter Name edBend material. ofCelebrated B Battlefield . , , . _ a - canstauction of cautser3 de. tro era bui�'t to .a. dies lacemcnt of 10,000 ton�,� and other anti-submarine craft. I with guns not exceeding 8 inches in M. Sarraut denied that submarines iii calibre. were to be used illegitimately, pro-' (5) Proposal made to allow Great tested that a large submarine tonnage Britain and the United 'States 80,000 Japan t protect Francee and her tons colli of aeroplane -carriers, was needed a p ec nc a vP• colonies, and expressed surprise that 48,000 tons, and France and Italy 25, - French defence plans should arouse 000 tons each. British fears of aggression, with Bri- tain allowed a capital ship tonnage greater than that:of France and Italy. combined. Mr. Balfour retorted with the as- sertion that, in the event of war be- tween Great Britain and. France, Bri- subnaarir,ee against commerce, voted treaty', declaring: `"ire ttl?aYii- destroy the "very existence"" of Bri- tain. money request them for the , sake of our dear country to bury In on,y slightly veiled language Mr. Battelle accused France of Tnili their differences and to stand taristie designs, made manifest by her with Griffith and McKeown for naval building program and "the re- ratification." fusee of the French delegation to sirs- euss land armament?' Turn German War Plaints Summariaeei, the sieve/opt/erns in, to Peaceful Pursuits the two e s do:;s of the Conference PRINCE'S INDIAN TOUR IS A SUCCESS Much Cause for Congratula, tion Upon of ficial Circlae London.. A. despatch from Louden says:--. The reception which Calcutta has sate corded to the Prince of Wales has been watched here with keen interest because it has been recognized in �of#i+ sial eirelee that it would be tee ell* pre:ne test of the success of hie tour. The reports that have come in have relieved anxiety greatly and have made it clear that the popularity +Af the Prim is gaining a victory* over the fires of discontent. In the last few weeks, it is pointed as tt, he has visited two empaitals-- s Penne the a pita l of Biller ail O -Orissa, ' and Caeutta, eepit€:1• of Bengal. In both Gandhi proe'.aimed a ""hartal," one in both on the day of the Prince's arrival it achieved a partials /tweess, but both in Patna and Calcutta, after the first day "of the Royal visit the natives refute! to e Wend by the orders aaf the extremists ar_d. too' part. the oflb int Grogram wawa eel the erthm iasm tkat could tee exacted et them. This is due. no doubt, pa y to the Prir.,ce's ext eeretn :ry person a:ity, end partly t:+ the love the na- tives of Delia a + ;y;s dispay fes Committee were; IFhow. That wrheu fu1F weigh has been D. to baa reason that can be den +,. •advanced for the behavior of the crowds there et'sli remains, in British opinion, emelt Cause for con tube i titin. IA University Bulletin. There hasp ,telt t;:ree from the press li*u�tletin ertiitle�1 "Higher Education Mu ,ie." This is one of he series bulletin.e issued by.the provincial ersity to outline whet that instl- n is doing in. higher' e� ue atoon, the subject el etsae ,vas claose;i this instep a beeau a the ur:iv<r- "s work. in that stir$ tion may e erisliG fa r[ailiar thee is its work hr eubie 'ta of the trail. tion$ type. This bulletin ;tele of the es;aa lislunerat o#' the Iteeu ty of Neste, of the Staten and Great Britain, and three £ c ofllll atitari with the university of ea times the present French tonnage, and; ships centingent wen agreement as; oral Noliet, bead of the Bier a enzent t'orasercatoory of `Sante, of the sten- asked for 330,000 tons of auxiliary to the length of the naval holiday, a task of converting dards in music now, being eel for the Commission th craft A de?ateh rano Paris rays.,: The' (1) Aterepttgee lay Franke of an Allied Council of 4 ba,,.�cders has arllowainee of 175 000 tons of capital i eldeai to laee in the hir=ds cbf Gera p and upon liberty of beginning reT:ace the Deutsche Werke, the :group car w'ha cr Peoeir:ce, of 'the unieeraity* Mr. Balfour in polite but grim terms i inents in 1927 instead of '19:11. tree during the vis for the organ re: ita'!s, +Di' n us e an i7cart Hese slants { p,oy. Britain could agree to no limit on the and aeroplane venires, hereafter Seca maul for 'this :eeademi ,g•ar. A despatch front Paris says: Pos- ably 05 a eoncessicn to French sus- eeptibilities, the Belgians have decid- ed to alter the name of Waterloo. Henceforth the hamlet which gave its name to the immortal battle will be known as Lonoin. Visitors to the battiefie'ads will hive more 'need than ever of guides to .show them where Britieh Guards formed the famous squares. against which Napoleon's cuirassiers hurled themselves in vain. The mill of St, Helene will become "Hellen," while other well-known spots edll also be renamed. If tmou are down in the mouth, think of Jennie He came out all right. KING GEORGE WILL RIDE WITH PRINCESS MARY ON HER WEDDING DAY Arrangements fear the wedding of Princess I4Ssry, which it has now been decided will take place the last week in February, are now in progress, says a London despatch. Already the order of the .preeesslon from Buck iagh'm Palace to Westminster Abbey has been ,mapped. out... King George will ride ,with his daughter in a closed carriage to the Abbey, but an .open carriage will be• used on the return from the Abbey to the palace. The Queen, with other members of the royal' family, will be seated in the sacrarium of the Abbey during the ceremony, while the King will stand with his daughter at the rail of the high altar. Immediately after the ceremony the couple, followed by the royal family, •will proceed- to tire chapel of Edward the Confessor and sign the register. If his health per- mits ,,the Archbishop of Canterbury will celebrate the wedding ceremony in person. A reception is planned at St. James's Palace, with more than two thousand invited goes}:. The young ,couple will pass -Dart of their honeymoon at the beautiful Villa Medici, near Florence, which has been offered to them by Lady Sibyl Seott, a causin of Viscount Lascelles. Also they wild travel in France and Bel- gium and possibly inSwitzerland. The angst exquisite textures will be used in the Prineess's• wedding dress, which already .has been placed in charge of a one-time war service worker. Work has been ,begun on it in the little town of Braintree, Essex. The romance surrounding the details of the dress will make it truly a poem in silk. The wedding ring will dbe made of Britith gold. The Princess is often seen nowadays driving; ands shopping with Viscount Laseellies. She- is more popular than ever with the. people. Weekly Market Report Toronto, Manitoba wheat --Ne. 1 rhern, $1,291,e; No. 3 Northern, $1.1'71,e. (6) Proposal made that aeroplane- l Manitoba oats --No. 2 CW., 541 -tee; carriers be limited to a displacement extra No. 1 feed, 52tie; No. 1 feed, of 27,000 tons, with guns not exceed- 5216e - mg 8 inches' in calibre, Manitoba: barley Nominal. (7) Proposal made, and informally All the above, track, Bay ports. agreed to, that the use of submarines American corn—No. 2 yellow, 71,.rsc; No. 3 yellow, 70a; No. 4 yellow, against commerce be barred. 691 e; track, Toronto. Ontario oats—No, 2 white, nominal. Ontario wheat—Nominal, Barley No. 3 extra, test 47 lbs. or better, 57 to 60e, according to freights outside. Rye ---No. 2, 84 to 86c. Buckwheat—No, 2, 74 to 76e, Manitoba flour—First pats., $7.40; second pats., $6.90, Toronto. Ontario hour -90 per cent. patent, bulk.seaboard, per barrel, $5. Mil'lfeed--Del, Montreal freight, bags ineluded: Bran, per ton, $26 to $27; shorts, hflorts,1 e0 ton, 28: to 820; good feedBaled hay—Track, Toronto, per ton, to icy =eerie that rural life must be splendop and 1n a presence of NStraw—Car21.50 ots2pe ton, $12. •watched with the greatest solicitude. enthusiastic crowds, the Prince Cheese—New, large, 21 to 22e; The nation's human seed -bed ought Of Wales opened the Victorian twins, 211 to 221,fc; triplets, 22?1 to not to be allowed in any degree to lose Mernolial, dedicated to the 23eetc. Old, large, 25 to 26c; twins, its richness, and the life of our farm Queen -Empress -V Tett aria ,;--,; Fsa�S- . rr,1l to 26lee; triplets, 26 to 27c; +Stil- youth should have the eye of every memory is held in the highest statesman, and of every public-spirited esteem throughout India. person upon it to the end that the full The building is • in the form of unfolding of the lives of the rising a vast marble palace and is of generation may be accomplished both rare architectural beauty. It re - for individual and national advantage. gaited fifteen years to erect it. Rural communities need a satisfy- 20 to 28c; ducklings, 30 to 35c; ing institutional life, There is required The building comprises a mus- turkeys, 55 to 60e; geese, 32 to 35c. a something that will give the boys eum, commemorative of` India's Live poultry—Spring thickens, 20 glory. It contains portraits of to 25c; roosters, 14 to 16e; fowl, 14 to the old Emperors of Delhi and. 22c; ducklings, 22 to 25c; turkeys, 45 of famous men who labored for to 5Gr; geese, 20 to 22c. Margarine -23 to 25c. India during the Victorian era. Eggs—No: 1 storage, 51 to 520; se- lect, storage, 56 to 57e; new laid tropa • straig82 ,to 84c. 82c new laid, in ear- Beans—Can., handepicl ed, bushel, tea- .,_ ..... __ _. ... _ - .., , .... -REGLAR FP.il.i.,1a RS-. By Gena Byrnes, Keeping the'Nation Strong, girl in the province might have brought into their lives such inspira- tion and information as comes from A chose study of any particular association in the most progressiva of rural locality would un dou'btedly show these local boys' and girls' organize - a surprising• set of infiuenees flowing tions. out to every phase of national life. The business, social and morel con- tribution made by the thousands of Prince Opens. Victorian rural 'communities over the country to' Memorial in Calcutta our nation has been such that under no consideration ran we as a people afford to permit the source of supply A despatch from Calcutta says :—Amid scenes of great th 34 to 34.25; primes, $3.50 to 33.75. Maple products -A -Sy rub, ,,per gal., 32.50; per b imp. gals., 33,35. Ma le sugar, lis., 19 to - 220. k onoy--i 0 -80 -lb. tins 14i to 15c' per lb.; 5-21,la Ib. tins, 116 to 17e per; Ib.; Ontario comb homy, per dozen,; 33.75 to 34.50, Smoked meats• -Hams, med., 21 tot 2Ga; cooked ham, 36 to 40e• smel;ecli rolls, 28 to 24e; cottage Tolls, 25 to 26c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 34e; spe- cial brand breakfast baor,; 30 to 35e;t backs, boneless, 32 to 36e. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 1$ to 20e; clear bellies,. 18te to 20ete, Lard—Pure, tierces, 14 to 1411a R tubs, 141,E to 15e; pails, 15 'to 1S fit prints, 16te to 17e. Shorteninee tierces, 18c; tubs, 13lee; pails, 14e; prints, I5?tc. Choice heavy steers. 37 to 31.50, butcher steer.s, choice, 36 to $6.50; do, good, 35.25 to $6; do, men. 34.25 to 55.25; do, com., 33 to 34; butcher heifers. choice. 35.75 o 36.50; aauther cows, choice,. $5 to .'x5.50; do, axed., 33 to 34; canners aed. cutters, 32.2a to 32.75; butcher bul".s, geed, 33.50 to 34.50; do, ram•, 32.50 to 33; feeders* good, 900 lbs.,, $4.00 to 35; do, fair, ea -to 34.50; stockers, goon, $4 to 34.50; do, fair, $3 to $4; milkers, 380 to $90;, springers. choice, $90 to $100; calved c v Jr?".•,; 5611th, 310; do, corn., $8 to $6; lambs, good; $10 to $11; do, cam., $5.50 to $6;; sheep, choice, $5 to $6; do, good; $3 tot $3.50; hogs, fed and watered, $10.50; do, Leh., 39.75; do, gauntry points,; 39.50. tons, neR*'s25-tto-men"' et—e- ' Butter—Fresh dairy. choice, 3333 to 35c; +creamery; prints., fresh, No. 1, 43 to 45e; No. 2, 40 to 410; cooking, 26 to 30c. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 25 to 35e; roosters, 20 to 25e; fowl, and girls of the farm a.broad view of the interesting life in 'which they live. In. hundreds of 'communities' in Ontario tie, boys' and .girls' club work is �ac- comiplishing this very thing in, quite a satisfactory manner. We would that. there was developed a sufficient lead- ership that every last farm boy and fk=1E Bco55 DiDN'r BGLte.ve-me \Jt�En1 -oLD t-ta 4 WHAT orf©N beeee U L Cooke. eeotepEkEt v.tEt Cucumbers were originally vegetables. +s.eerneb teteto'. eeess. 1' einnien.<VeloW. t�lc'T \QC R.E. 6;046 '(o ttT, 'TILL t Iko$A 'nett) tett. SW.TZr Level Wee Jus- soma st ' LE. Ln -r i- F'e t.D LI t<� NIS 1x,1 t t t NC feee, tole! l-.L.o4 me -to comPLt MEN- Yocy oN.-Tire (piNmER! t. leer EL'( leeEi A MEAL AS Coop ets Tt-E.(5:( Montreal. Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 58 to 59ct do, No. 3, 56 to 57e. Flour, Mane Spring wiheat pats., firsts,7.50, Rolled! oats, bag 90 lbs,. $3 to $3.10.{ Bran, $26.25: Shorts 328.25. Ha No. 2, per ton, ear lots, 327 to 328. y, Cheese—Finest . easterns, 18 ' ta, 18tee. Butter --Choicest creameryr ` 40 to 41e. Eggs --Selected, 52e. Free tatoes Per bag, earlots, 95c, Lambs $8; cheap 33; hogs, , ij,'T a