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olutiol.s - Being, Sought: F or • Safer Highways-
Voives S entiments
Uelrr'Y;:::
SAFETY'FIRST
The Good Reads Associaitoiu has little. We -hare erected- guard rail -
completed , its sessions at Niagara
Falls, Ont.. '1 h e highway ministers
of the•Dominion were on hand to dis-
cuss `ways and means' of nii,t only
improving but making out highways
The President, Hort. Geo: S. Henry,
Minister of Highways Tor Ontario,
said in opening ".
A .MOST DIFFfCUL2 PROB;LDM•
"-I think we are all agreed that the
greatest and most difficult problem
which we have to face to -day is• to see
that the awful toll of nee.dlessly wast-
ed life is•reduced to a niiniiduni: No
greater or mere necessary work can
be 'undertaken that that of forcing
the users of the_,highways to . realize
the need of ,a careful and cautious
consideration of the rights andlives
of others. So I hope that; `Sefety
e, have placed thousands of
road signs, we have dui out the sharp
cuvos and the corners, wo have spent
millions, but` in spite of all we could•
do, there has, heen'no falling. off in.
accidents. It is all due to the man'
behind the, wheel. I thank if I give
you a definition of a man', it williex-
plain much. A man is a creatiirie who
can aao a ,pretty,• anideithree,iblo ks,•
c!'ratant but who cannot see a locomo-
tive the size of a school hose, rein-
forced with a flock of freight 'cars
even when it almost do top of him,"
WAIT ANOTIIhR.,YEAR
Numerous suggestions for climinat
Mg or reducing to a minimum the
terrible tollof deaths from automobile
accidents weir° presented, and while
there was : naturally a divergence of
opinion ., on many points, all were
First' will be the keynote of this con- agreed that the appalling loss of life
On the Last Green
GLENNA,`COLL'ETT LOSES TO CANADIAN
1 n ollett twice a natione3,cham tlon'wag. defeated in the second round of the, Nationl Women's
-Mian, G eu a C r 1
•Golf Tourney on; September 20 by 'a count of 2 -up, by.1VIrO:.Alexa Sterling Fraser of Ottawa, three times nation •
-
•
were also in the storm ateu and death Complete Flightof
Tornado:Wr�;�ksll.these Colip
and havoc is reported from a
vention " was preventable, even under the Pres- W ' 'St t
Hon. Mr,"Perron, Minister of Roads ant congested condition of highways
far Quebec, added his approval,: "We and city' streets.
es ern a es.
have been building .roads•for-thepeo- ,. The whole matter or Safety First St. Laws' as•-1`Ieavlest Losses
of 75' Million'
NINETY MILE GALE
pie for many yea's," •he pinted. out, was finally referred_to the next Inter-
".w° have erected. safety signs; we provincial Conference for co '
have done •-what we: could to mal e. tion and action.
those e haveys'sa e,- u ' :app TRANS -CANADA HIGHWAY
that we have bean unable in any of
asides_, With Property Damage
f but t ears
a Federal aid i sought to 'assist in
the provinces • to make the „people ' • s g
, •life` • rote t- bridging the gap -from the Soo,.: to t Luis.—Six `s ware miles of fair
understand;that must be p c S. o q
ed and that a license to' eperate ari Nipigon ' in the trans -Canada High- St. Louis has been desolated by a
automobile is not a license to kill other way scheme. The highway when corn- wicked tornado: denburg'h Tannenberg speech deny -
people. I feel the situation very plated would be a national asset; It is estimated that 2,500 homes ing Germany's war guilt, according to for Cape own, completed his long solo
strongly. It has become a national therefore the Federal Government !were either wrecked or damaged an inquiry made Uy t'he Jouival; for C of more than 7;000 mile_ at
dutyfor us to stop the needless waste should assist. Further, an impetus the street_ and boulevards were D'Alsace•Lorraine Ptbiished in Stras" 2.7J0 o'clock Wedtresday, afternoon,
of life which has been going on for to provincial roadway construction
Kaiser the ButB
He. 'It . Was ' Who Inspired
Von Hindenburg's Recent
Speech—No Wonder
Paris—Former Icalser Wilhelm and
Rupprecht, former 'Crown Prince of
Bavaria, inspired President Von Hin-
Over 7,000 r Miles
Lone Aviator-. `Succeeds in
Making London -Cape.
Town Trip
AIR NEWS
Gaps own, Sfuth'2Eric°.-Lf•ant.'12.,
R. Bentley, instructor for the South
African Air Force, who left Rendon
on Sept. 1, in a light Moth airplane
the past three years, and which, for would follow the marking out of the
link.. If th 'of
clogged with fallen telephonepoles and
hundreds of the city's most beautiful
trees. 'Trolley 'vides torn from their
supports spat blue flame asthey Hie
the car tracks, and the shouts of
policemen kept terrified people from
inury or death from the live wires.
SERVICES DEMORALIZED
With telephone service demoralized',
it took the city several minutes to learn
what had happened. The news of the
ilourg .
Tho German President, ears the Lieut. Bentley, who made the trip
the estpart, has'been due o reek -
their bad behavior' cm the roads. , clearlydesignated, e'v • p
pro-
Sept. 28.
Sept.
t Lake Superior e whole y paper, went over hie `-speech w,itli
m in long hops to prove the feasibility
IessnAr' en the part of drivers and to the Trans -Canada Highway were pp p t Rupprecht dile summer, and the gen of London Cape Town au eommun'-
" 1 th arises
S Hess from Michigan, said: v
races would be able to build .their eral lines were submitted to Wilhelm cation; and. to demonstrate the eap-
"In our state„ we have done every- connoeting links with the assurance
thing we could think of to reduce the that they were properly p`taced as
casualties, but; we have accomplished feeders.
PauI Pain leve
French minister of war, recently wel-
comed the American Legion to France
In the name of hi5'government..
Tariff Boosted y' :
y Australia
Auto Industry y Ui11
Be Affected
Ir'
rr•
Auto trade from Canada to Aus-
tralia has averaged 'seven and a half
millions for the past two years. The
new tariff has increased a duty , of
7% per cent"'to 12% per cent.. on
unassembled chn:sis, and. from 12%
to 201/2 per cent. on assembled chassis;
U. S. RATE HIGHER.'
Similarly the U.S. rate en un-
assembled chassis is raised from 12%
to 174 per cent. and the assembled
now pays 25 per cent. English -made
unassembled chassis pay nothing and
assembled chassis now pay. 6: per cent.
The Minister of Customs, Hon H.
E. Pratten, in introducing the new
tariff in the House of Representatives MacGregor•,suddenly collapsed and
at Canberra, said that during the last `vas removed in an unconscious state,
financial year the value of imported and:: died shortly afterwards.
Stork Calling
at e�'
1 gi Palace
Royal Artillery Stand by For
121 Gun Salute
Brussels, Belgium.—King Albert:
will be the godfather of a grandson
who will assume the title of Count of
Hainaut should the stork which is
hovering lower and lower : over the
royal palace at Laelcen, where Crown
Princess Astrid is residing, bring a
boy to the royal family.
• Cardinal Vanroey, successor to the
late Cardinal Mercier at Malines, will
perform the religious ceremony at the
tSt. J 'Ch lad
in Hoorn for his approval• abilities of a light plane on long dis-
tance flights created what was said
which on one in Germany, 'outside of'
here to be a world's record for a long
some Independent Socialists and Com- distance solo flight.
munists is •willing to; allow to be fast- The aviator, who had hoped to make
ened upon the Reich indefinitely, was the trip"in eighteen days, found
tornado was flashed over the city by found to be, according to the story a twenty-eight necessary for the long
radio and others in parts of the city convenient means of arousing the old trip, some of it over hazardous and
unvisited by the 'storm. nationalist spirit A group of old im- deserted country.
The twister was. accompanied by perial.oiiloers began last winter pre' WHILE IN CANADA,
terrific rain, which added' to the deso- paring to bring pressure upon General
lation. Houses and factories were' Von Hindenburg to make the speech Ottawa. Canadian' Air Board offi-
crumpled in many places like toys. which they meant to become Meteoric. cials expect that at least faux or five
reached Fire Through the German ofncers',unjon light airplane. -flying clubs will be
The, first. flashes that formed. inthelarger cues of the
and Police Headquarters set up a and the Kyffhasurserbund, represent rme 1 g
general mobilization of every avail- ing the soul of the eld'Imperial Army,', Dominion during the corning winter
the President was repeatedly, urged to under 'the Governments scheme to
Able policeman and fireman.' The
g
siornr ea was icklyblockedr _last' wfpealro stain of war responsibility'' .encourage flying. •
from the Imperial Army. Enquiries are being daily _received
the curious by a, hastily farmed stir -f • a`
den. Behind the cordon were hastily I . finally an interview was arranged by the Board from.many clubs now
relief, and men be between the President and Rupprecht' in the process of formation. While no
gaorganized unite iof > and Von Hindenburg decided then to` official` statement was made, the like-
lihood digging into'"heaps tof heystone'and lihood is that applications from the
brick to look for persons they believed ' make his denial. pP
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DeMain®. C nteen
Fund Distrihuti1; n
Major Alex. Lewis Appointed
1
To Complete
Organization
Toronto. At a meeting of the On•
tarlo Canteen Fund- Committee held
here recently Major Alex C. Lewis,
'clerk of the Ontario Legislative As
sembly, was appointed secretary-
treasurer of: -the organization. Major
Lewis, who •18 a prominent figure in
soldiers' 'welfare activities, has been
especially selected by the committee,
it was stated at the meeting, to carry
out all necessary organization in con-
nection with the committee's .distri-
bution of the province's share of the
Dominion fund. •
Considerabletimewas spent at the
meeting, which was under the chair-
manship of Oen, Victor Williams,,On-
,tario police commissioner, in the dis-
cussion of various suggested policies
for the use of the fund, and'considera-
tion' was given to the methods pur-
sued by similar committees in oth r
provinces.
At the next meeting of the commit-
tee itis:expected: that Information will.
be available, concerning the use of
service funds administered in Great
Britain, the usp and control of which
has been simplified and co-ordinated
through the unity: existing there, un-
der the British Legion, of all ex -ser-
vice men. A definite policy of admin -
'staring the Ontario fund will then be
planes are being ordered, but these laid,
will not be available, it is understood,
until next spring.
Under thescheme announced, two Paris—A Havas dispatch from Bueh-
out of which crept injured men, wo-1 War as in the war with AM -El -Krim
airplanes will be given to rt club in
men and ch'18ren, black and grimy as each cityundertalcing to maintain the arest reports that Princess Deana, of
as both were brought on by ambitious
- The flier direct comeback to the. '
jacent to the royal palace. Burgo DEATH TOLL HEAVY Actual operation of the clubs under
master Adolphe Max and Minister of i Tt •is probable that the death list. speech was made by justice, Louisthe Barthoucou tl a the scheme will not likely begin until
h Min -
Justice Paul Hymens will attend to aster o11 e,
inscribing the Will run'well over 00; while the esti unveiling of a monument to Sergeant the latter part of March ari early in
the civil ceremony, ns g mate of the injured ran 1,000 er more.'April. Approximately twenty-six
name of the heir to the throne on the The West Side, a section of houses Reines Canab ot, of Livros, who in the
records at Brussels City Iia1L face of great odd held the fosterers at
y of moderately wealthy St. Louisans, Bibans, Morocco, against Abd•El-ILtim.
Should..a princess beton', to Prin- lay covered with a blanket of up -1 France, said the Minister, was as
cess Astrid and Crown Prince Leo- rooted trees, torn timber and bricks, innocent of bloodshed tri the Great
pold-of which possibility only whis-
pers are heard—either Queen Eliza-
beth, Princess Marie Jose or Princess
Clementine Napoleon Bonaparte will
act 'as godmother.
The entire kingdom is expecting an
heir and not an heiress to be born, to
to Crown Princess, who recently re-
turned to Laeken' after a holiday
spent in the country... All the artillery
preparations have been made for the
firing of a salute of 121 guns. The
birth of" o. pidncels only calls for a
21 -gun salute, while a male heir is
entitled to 100 more.
Startling .Incident in Austra-
lian House
Canberra, Australia, Sept. 28.—A
startling incident, of a tragic nature,
occurred' in the House of Representa-
tives to -day. While ministers of tie
Government were spealdng regret-
fully of the death of Walter Galey late
clerk in the House, his successor, J'.
motor -car chassis was $61,250,000, of
which United States' share was $37,-
0001000; United Kingddm,.$16,000,-
9 0, and Canada $5,000,000. '
• INTRA -EMPIRE TRADE.
It is not expected that these figures
wild be reached during the coining
; year.
The Minister said he hoped the neva
tariff might cause a good deal of the
trade in motor cars to shift from the
United States to Britain and cause a
stimulus in intra -Empire : economic
:development. The new schedules were
W,effeetrve to -day • heainoreased rev-,
enue fronilt, it is' expeetcd,` will :-be'
` $2,600,000 which will go toward the
roads development. scheige..
Girls Paddle Canoe from'ew
York City;.
Two girls, Lillian Reiten and En -
vie Lester, of New York City, arrived'
in Montreal recently in a; frail canvas
coVered,canoe' named "Will - o' the
Wisp" on their way to Quebec. The
girls, accompanied by a collie dog
and camping paraphernalia left, their
home about two weeks ago and - pad-
dled from the llUdson River through
Champlain Canal to', the Richelieu
River, arriving in Montreal in excel-'
lent condition having enjoyed the ek-
periences.
, Elle for 'British_ Columbia
The Department of the Interior at
Ottawa has granted the application of
thc3 Province of British Cohfmbia fol'
elk to be used in"restoclting areas be
tween the Okanagan' and Kettle -val-
leys.
al-
1 ys. Twenty-five animals ..from the
!herd in Buffalo National ' Park at
Wainwright, Alberta, were shipped to
Cookson, B.C., and released The
1;Wainright, herd'' numbers. 'approxi-
matoly 400 animals.
',�•;,
(proudly)—"That a
t is the best
ih• . I -Io
ainting'2'have over -Bono:"; •She—
j' Well don't let that discourage you '
Lord and Lady Willingdon
Pay Visit to Calgary
Calgary, Alta. -Lord Willingdon,
Governor-General of Canada, and
Lady Willingdon paid Calgary an un-
official visit on Thprsday and Frialay
last week.
A man in Chicago has not spoken
to his wife in three years. This would
soem'tgshatter the idea that men are
becoming feminized.
Princess Ileana in Sea Squall
though emerging from a coal mine.
TURN TO RELIEF WORK
Every city department ,turned to-
ward relief work, while army kitchens peach could not be definitely establish -
from Jefferson Barracks were sent to ed while this spirit persisted in Ger-
two general relief•headquarters estab- 'many. 26 new, planes. These will include the party 12 hours later. The Princess
lished in the district,. The Red Cress three Fairchild nzonoplanos, 12 Avro and the others are reported to have
sprang into action, and 100 autoano- land planes, two De Haviland planes, shown great coolness during :the try -
biles were patrolling the streets to Order of 20,000 Weaned Now and some other types. The order is ing experience.
pick ,ip stray sufferers. The organize- . , Includes Two Men said to amount to over 400,000.
tion established a first aid station 'Detroit, Mich,—The Daughters ofLINKWITH YUKON 1
where the less seriously injured were. Scotia which has just closed Its
aircraft. Rumania and a party who were tak-
ar lords.' He said General Von tug a moanlig4it oath in a small boat on
BOUGHT PLANES.. the Blaelc Sea recently were thorough-
Ottawa.—To meet the increased ly drenched when a sudden squall
activity in aviation, the Royal Can- situok the craft, nearly swamping it.
•edian Air Force will be equipped with The German steamer, Arta, reseueil
Hindenburg's speech risked the ep-
poarauce of "a bold challenge" and
O .e Mr. F rke
1ssuest • >rnt
� tenne
Notifies -Railways to Go Easy
on European Immi-
grants
DEFENDS POLICY
'Ottawa'. Hon. Mr_Forke, the Min-
iater of Immigration, has notified the
railways to go easy on bringing Euro-
pean settlers in. He wants to keep
up the percentage of British incom-
ers, but says:
HARD TO GET BRITISH
"It is no easy matter to• secure
13ritishers who are willing to tackle
the task of clearing the scrublands of
Western Canada, .and for that reason
wo are permitting Europeans to go
in there:'
POLICY DEPENDED
In defence of the ,policy which per-
mits unrestricted immigration from,
Central Europe it is urged that Brit-
ish and Canadian labor laws will not
put up with -the Hardship_ encounter-
ed in the raining and _umber camps
and on the' unimproved Western
lands .far removed; • from a railway
line. It is claimed that much pioneer
work is being done and undeveloped
resources exploited by Canadian
capitalists who have to depend for
.labor upon the immigrants from Eur-
ope who are willing to carry on amid
the rough conditions which prevail in '
the North Country and on the isolated
and unimprovectlands of the West.
taken caro of. twenty-ninth annual convention her° Vancouver, B.C.—The monoplane
as police, firemen, physicians, nurses,! men of Sdbttitslr nativity or descent. Ch'ailes Lindbergh s fatnous plane,
welfare workers and volunteers began' Ten persons started., the society in arrived in Vancouver recently
restoring order. , The storm revived New Haven, Connin 1893., pledging after a flight from Los Angeles, which
included numerous stops en route.
memories of the worst storm catas-. its members "to keep in ever loving The machine, piloted by A. D.
trophe in the city;' that of May 27,1 remembrance our native land, to as -
1896, which killed a total of 140 per -1 sist the Clans, and to bring our mem• Cruickshanks, former Royal Air Force
sons.
The lists. of dead and injured grew reported a membership of 20;000 wo. "Queen of the Yukon,„ a sister of Col.
Here, morners, sisters and daughters lieutenant and fernier member of the
SHOOT ALL LOOTERS - of Scotch descent together for aul Royal Canadian Mountod Police, car-
ried four passengers, including one
Every available policeman was,' g y
h membership in the woman and an infant..
brought to the area, and Police
Gerk immediately issued an order to
"shoot all looters” "make with the ui service to link up White Horse Mayo
grim ad
Chief! Two Hien have
me ne will be _hipped north
:Daughters of Scotia. One is Georgb, i l d
.
1 The mach'
endingDrummond Bone of New Haven, who to be need n air mai an passenger
cases of resit of New York, Past Royal Chief
As tee agencies of rescue and suc-I• with.
Th.
cor were getting into motion,The machine will be fitted'
the city. of the Order of Scottish clans, sls
was again enveloped by a weird', :'---
mon'tfon to "make Car-anersI with his wife helped form a Wal Dawson and other Yukon oints;dur-
zation. The 'other is Col. Walter p
them." EnP the winter,
At the present tune it takes 12 to
greenish light which sent terrorto,"Are you the noanager'?" asked the 14 days to carry mail between'�White
the hearts of the storm sufferers. Thisvery modern young' thing with the Horse and Dawson during he winter,
shortly turned to a pinkish.,,hue, and monocle and the Eton crop. "I wish and with the use of the 'plane this
torrent of rain ushered' in the dark -I to report one of your waiters for gross •h b ut to five hours.
ness, which was unrelieved 'by the, insolence," "Indeed, madam! What
thousands of street lamps broken and did he do" "When 'I tipped ,him he.
useless. looked at me and said: 'Thank you,
Illinois, Arkansas, and Oklahoma miss—you're a gentleman!' "
wr tic
Distress Signals from .lap
Vessel
Seattle, Wash,-- Distress signals
front a vessel believed to be the
Yoshida Meru Number 1, were picked
up recently by the Seattle harbor radio
station, The nature of the trouble
Was not known. -
The ship's position was given as
latitude 48.16 north, longitude 141,42
west, and no report has since been re-'
ceived,
��•
Visiting Scot Dies in West
Winnipeg — Alexander hicIntya•e
Brown, retired ehipbutlder and mem-
ber of the Harbor Board of Dundee,
Scotland,died here recently after, a
brief illness. 14a. L'sorvn, who was 78
'years old, was on a visit here aceom-
'I.anfed by his wife.
A native of Duudee,'Mr, Brown had
been connected with seafaring and
shipbuilding all his life. In Dundee
he served as Justice of.the Peace for
several years. The body was shipped,
• The man after a wonran'a heart may to 'Scotland' following funeral service
:
not want it.'
What, a Train Wreck Looks Like
glciH'T, MEN NARI'OWLV ESCAPE DEATH
tl station., laiform had to run for their lives. The' freight tolcloopci
When a heavily laden freight crashed tate a fruit train et Vineland station recently eight men standing on tlyd p
reeked freight, tnra,= the wrecked elatform and tore house' with the engine
o: coach- ancj,two .eypress cars of -o fruit train, Tiro L?hotos above show, BIGHT, the ou�rne of th0 w e, �w
of the freight'buirfed in. the dobi•ii �` -,,,,
lion. J. D. McLean
Premier of British Columbia
Oil Traces Led, yle
to Wreckage
Old Glory's Wing Found Near
„Spot Where SOS Sent
St. Johns, Nfld.—Traces of oil -on the
surface of the ocean were the signs
that led Captain Ben Tavonor of the
steamer Kyle, . to 'discover and sal-
vage the remnants of . the 111 -fated
monoplane Old Glory which he landed
here recently. Setting out on his
search when the Kyle was commis-
sioned by the agents of William
Randolph Heart to' search for the 01d
Glory and her occupants, Bertaud, Hill
add Payne, Captain Tiivenor". decided •
that .his first' objective would be the
spot 'where the distress calls were
broadcast, believing tbat .1f .the, plane -,
crashed or made a forced landing on
the water the gasoline and oil would
remain for marry days to mark the
approximate spot.
He soon found the trail of oil and
gasoline that showed: the drift of the
wreckage and following this direction
he came upon the wing and part of the
lauding gear on September 12, three
days. after starting out nn, the search,
The wreckage consists of 34 feet of
battered wing containing three gas
tanks, all of which contained gas when
picked` up, fuel gauges, feed pipes and '
speaking tubes, also one wheel and
part of the landing gear. '
70,000 Children • Greet Lind-
bergh
San Francisco, Calif—Seventy thou-
sand school children sang in unison
to weleomo Col. 0, A. Lindbergh, when
deianded here in his 'plane. Ho drop-
ped in on San Francisco in the course
of his tour of the United States.'in the
"Spirit of St. Louis."
AL the landing field the crowd l?rolce
through the ropes when Ltnclbergh
prepared to iand. ETo immediately
flew nigher incl circled the field while
police' and militia drove back' :the
crowd, When ' order was restored,
Lindbergh, came down, "Gee, this was
.� tough land," he said with a grin as
he stepped out of the 'plane, -