The Clinton News Record, 1927-11-17, Page 60T- A` . . r')'Rd V11VC S
WILL ' R • TOGETHER
I !aid A irnes Ahead For Fake Promotion and Get Rich
Quick Schemes
LAWS. 'I`O 13C UNIFORM
)ntario Atto,i•ney-General Pleased With Resuli:V`
Tri x wire sent front Ottawa to his , sales of stook bym
cop Mies• null r Do
:
office 'in the Parliament Burldini;s; minion '' tnco rpo:ration y lticlk : "will
ro e'itly, . Atteeney-C erer al ` W.kl.1 strengthen the, hands of the provinces
Price told ,of arrangements which' considerably in dealing •with fraud-
7ir} been., media by the Dominion G v- l ulent ptemoters. ,'
ernmc;nt.to aid the province;.; -n .tonin An 'effort will .'also he made
i :gaud• lent stork'companlep,'. tatuasnizormmty rti rho fortis t> bo filed
Mr. Price states% that the Covert- with the I?omit ori and Pro indiaT,
merit Mad Pieclgeit itself to three deft'- Governments Uy campaniesse king Sn-.
nits actions, designed try make more corporation, and also to compel the se-
diffieult ,the flotation and operation lection of the same date for filing
of fraudulent companies.' 'It is under- papersbothwith the province and -the
atoed that these promises will be iris Dominion
pigmented by legialation-in the 'House This'action is believed to be a direct
teetof Commons at next session, • outer e:ea the deliberations of the
'" In the first place the Dominion will committee on ;"blue sky" laws in con-
s refuse 'incorporation t0. :compitnies •nection, with the:inter-provincial• con -
which are designed to do business ferenee of which Hon. Mr. Prase wee a
solely within. a ceitein province. Tide member. The. Ontario Attorney -Gen
action is expected to remove the piers- eral was most active in the" committee
lem of dual control -under which many in urging reforms to the Conopatnies
"fake" companies have hidden in the Act, due to the "clean-up" which he
past is now attempting among Ontario
Another regulation wr11 give" to the, companies which '.have come under
province greater powers in regulating suspicion.
inpire Confers
on Agriculture
..First British , Conference Is
Declared. Success
-Newt_
Meetini in Australia -
London,—Three new bureaus and
four new correspondence centers are
expected as the outcome of the first
Iraberiala Agricultural Conference
which opened here on Oat. 5 and,held
' its Opal session recently.
Lord Bledisloe, parliamentary - sec-
retary of the Ministry of. Agriculture,
In his closing address as chairman,
declared that the conference had been,
a ':great success. :it had, he said,
"commended the scheme „o1 central
tropical and subtropical research sta-
tions for the empire." It had also
"prepared plans for a: considerable ex-
tension of existing machinery'`for the
co-operation between - the research
Workers in the different branches of
agricultural science all aver the: Em-
pire," including the new bureaus cor-
respondence' ;centers already. Inen
tloned, '
Agriculture, Lord :Bledisloe'said,
was "by far tiro largest Industry of
the 'lamellae Upon its enhanced pro
ductivity depended ' the well-being,
happiness ' and contentment of .the
vast populations of the great Com-
mouwe-alth of Nations, to which they
belonged." -
A motion "that the conference be
adjourned till 1392, then to be re-
sumed in Australia," was carried,
"And your, husband has --,a prosper-
ous business, I suppose?" "Oh, Yeas,
he is taking in a lot of money. Only
last night he told mea receiver was
to be appointed to assist him."
Flood Scenes
11ere Huns AelmOwledget Defeat
Canadian Army
a rxacd` to-.-eatla ins of d,'Fire
The
Prance
apse.
WHERE HItSTVRY WAS '-MADE NOV. 11, 1518
y the spot where the German Armistice Car stopped ie now . marked- In the wood
Discoveries . at Vimy Ridge
Only intact Porti',+tn of Line
CanadianEngineers En ineers Have. Discovered the Only Portion Ieft
;Intact of all the Battle Fields Alo4 the
rear
ethondes,
While we' were” goingon towards
Milts Shaft, which the Canadians
drave beneath the enemy linea', inY
foot kicked a email object. It was
a tin of bully beef! It had been
epoxied, hut it had not been eaten,
and it was ten years old! I leave to
the imagination of any man who
I4gonixed Specta,iczxa Watch til 1 lilri %1:all ,Back Into. the Flames :
fftei .1Vlekirrg'BravetFight -far Life
Ioncb.nFila whxh t;uttc'd a lord.. .After his wife rind child were out
do twetye houses. at Windsor early of therburntn ,;dwelling; Bull shouted
is dnesd'ay morning -chirped a.s at„vlo- to his would-be rescuers to 'go to 'the
tun George pec hard Bull,` aged .42,: a x ear of • the ,houeo, ".brut 1 vhein they ea -
fernier lifegu'a�;dsman who served diet tived'there, they renlised that' it; was
ing, the Viryr, .88 a eahtain in the Can impossible to enter' the btitilding owing
a uan a'm r A woruan also lost her to the rapid worts of the Manses. - Bull
Tale in the fire i:i' made>a la,vt ner,por ata attempt to climb
Captain BulW'who was linonn Tccat out of the window, but;Wiis unablc,to
ly „•'°John B Ihrr slid +iau s ward c'o ne,
m. e ford ter 'lel club, made , a 'ii`ty, people' www tendered hon c-•..
bract: fight foS,kiigs e'aasiihiMily-fell. kbni.by the' fire. -.1tlany"of� theni'd r -
buck into the flamed in full view of rowly,eoeaped from the burning build-
the agonized nized 'spectators. IIe was Svgs, ffeeing in their 'night apparel. "
handicapped by s brekon leg and' was All :them ,belongings were burner# In
unable'to mount the window 0111 in an the furniture,: which was- destroyed,
upper room from which he had pre- were pnaites belonging':to•two couples
viously pashotb h'i's wife to save her who are to be married on Christmas
from the tire after she had dropped 1Jay.'
sir'behy from the windavt'tate a Capt. Ball left' Canada in late 1916
blanlce,t being; held for it:- Tile' baby with the 17Otli Batt. of Toronto;.and
was not injured and the mother's in- again served:in Prance with the.
juries were slight. CavalryBrigadC , ` ' ,
i�
g•- the Canadian Aretica Annual expedi-
C .re of s1.na os done are sent out to the Eastern
j j1 Archipelago, •:and'-ma111 omcors are . •
1j
iL g �eW • �a $ands stationed In, tlie north wild can .handle
Eskimo matters 'in conjunction with
their other duties.
A number of these ofHoors 'speak
the Esictinceel 4rguage and are lamiliar
with conditions of life and travel, The
protection of the wild life of the Are -
tin,; with which Die welfare of the Ee-'
Western Front
knows what bully beef was like when
comparatively young to judge how
tine specimen looked and smelt
To Be Preserved as a Permanent ,Memorial,. "See this?" said Captain Simpson,
holding up a queer grey slab. ` It
y' MOVING SIGHT was gun cotton, stamped 1915.
"'Down .there, about 100 feet below
our present level," he said, "we Toned
a dump of Mille -bombs. an'% also
Warty Ridge, Monday, Oct. 17 The Grange 'Tunnel has at least a sacks of T.N.T. vie- have removed
former solet era are century of life before it. them reverently."
in the amazing collection of names
written on the walls I came across
two which roused' by curiosity, They
By "A. Canadian in France
'ruoueanua Vl
visiting the battlefields ol,lrance and I I was shown around the tunnel by
Belgium in the hope of finding 1 Captain 'Unwin Simpson, Royal Cana-
trenches, dug -outs, or the exact spot dian Engineers, who is in' charge of
where they received their "blighties." the work. On the way down is a
In the Ypies Salient they see no -.notice: "These walls are sacred to
thingabut flourishing fields of corn; !the names of soldiers who inscribed
flax, oats, and barley. There Is not a! them during their occupation In the
trench Left In Belgium except a few war.of 914-1918. Please omit yours."
doubtful examples on Hill 60. 1 A Labyrinth
' (Above) A garage and iiervioe station on a main Highway in the flood
area near Westfield, bfass. (Below) This pTfoto gives a good idea of how
extensive the flood really was.
Carol Conspiracy
To Be Laid :are
were::
Ship No. 7129, lst Section, -7th
Division, U.SSI.C., Texas Leather
Neck -Corps.
Slap No. 3,112, G.M., 2nd . Class,.
3rd Diviaion, Flagship, ILS.S.,eSara-
In France the scars of war are Morel We entered a dark tunnel and toga, Asiatic; Pieet,`
Visible, but a strenuous peasantry has found ourselves in -a labyrinth of pas- Problem of the Ridge
filled the shell holes and hos rebuilt sages, dug -outs and battalion head- What an earth were these two
its farms on the trent line, it is quarte s
amazing bow swiftly -41m' iilotigh and
the building contractor have wiped
out all traces of war,
Commissioner of 'North-West
Territories Now in
Charge
'Ottawa.—Canada's bleklmo inhabit-
ants 'are now under the care Of the limos Is• inseparably bound up, is a
Commissioner of the North West Ter- ,direct ..responsibility of the Commis-
ritories, Department of the Interior. stoner and, with a.„9/0w to benefitting
Official announcement of the transfer the natives,an investigation of the
of the caro of these Eskimos from the
Superintendent General of Indian •At-,
faire was made recently. '
More than 5,500 Eskimos are af-
fected. 02 tills total approximately
2,000 are liying in the Franklin dis- Of Silver -Gray Sand at Sea
tract, principally on Baffin Island, and London.—An unusual experience, a
over 1,000 in the Mackenzie district. shower of silver-gray sand falling on
The balance are located in the Ungava his deck in mid -ocean, is reported by
Peninsula and the Keewatin district the captain of the steamship Justin
north of 'Hudson Bay. Most of these in The Marine Observer.
Eekimos,''a,ocording' to latest statistics He says the weather wad fine at
are males. , the dune with a liglit-„variable wind
The Commissioner of the North blowing southeast and northeast The
West Territories is responsible for I position was latitude, 19, longitude 25,
the general management of affairs in North Atlantic. -.._..
potence on the ground that the crirhe
for which the defendant is about to be
tried was committed': on foreign`. soil,
anci that the defendant was arrested
tin: a district not under the jurisdiction
Ex -Finance Minister on Trial of the court-martial. ,
Permission to' taring Carol from
for Share in not pariS as a Witness Will be deked by
Bucharest, Roumania.'— Former the defence; but it will probably be
Crown Prince CaroI's effort for the refused. °se "
restoration of his rights to the atoll-
' manian. throne will be laid bare dur-
ing the coming' weeks so far as the
' Roumanian Government can do so.
Former ihnder-Secretary of mance
' M. Manoilesctt went ontrial on Wed-
nesday before. a cpurt-martial charged
with conspiracy to bring Carol back to
Roumania to replace the little Ding
Michael, his six-year-old son.
Seemingly all Bucharest clamored
around the little whitewashed: court-
room when proceedings opelied, and
within its walls were more than a 3L0 can afford to pay Heifetz a big
hundred able , lawyers willing anal •fee to broadcast, why can't they `'af-
ready to defend the accused official ford to give us better artiste than
The colonel, two majors and two cap- they do?"
tains' comprising the court-martial ap- "Complaints are made of . menet-
peered somewhat overwhelmed at this ony,' was the station's rejoinder, "but
vast array of legal talent. On his part,
Manoilescn appeared blithe and debon-
air, with no consciouseisplay of fear
at the outcome.
The doeaments seized at the time of
Manoilescu's arrest, 'including letters
written by the former Crown Prince,
• which it is the intention of the prose-
' eution to submit as evidence, are held
en abeyance, for the entire time was
given over, to arguments by fire de-
atince that lire court-martial had no
Sniper's Post
r cut far below the ground
American sailors doing with' the
level in the white spalls of Vimy' Canadian armies on Vimy Ridge?
Ridge. It was as thought we had How did "they get there? Were they
been switched back to April 7917— deserters from the American Navy
that time when the Canadian 'diva who, hews Ing weary ot,&inerica's in -
T found today the only spot in stops advonced to 'the conquest of decision, had joined up with the
Prance where a man can feel that be Vhny Ridge. 'Nothing had changed. Canadians? Or were they ship -
The smoke from the candles once wrecked mariners who had gone to
is back again in 1014-1918; liners set in niches to light the passages Vimy in search of life? '
he Can stand at a sniper's post and fit was still black on the chalk. '1:1tt' I prophesy that Imolai will sonic
the rotted butt of a rusted rifle to iris dug -outs and the walls of the eom-
day be written abouttGrange Tunnel
shoulder as he peeps out between munteating passages were covered and the names which it perpetuates.
possibility ofintroducing reindeer In-
to northern Canada is under way.
.r--- �
Ship Captain Reports Shower
the bushes 'towards the German with names carved in the chalk or
trenches. The wire Is still up in No written in pencil and as legible as
man's Land," duck boards lie in the when they were inscribed during the
collapsleaf of Canada Sias carved with an
ed, still lie in the chalk dug- than that expensive shrine which the
nets.°Ogleal variety in a hundred dlffor-
Hundreds of names incl many mess. and on the walls 1
trenches, officers' beds, rotting and great battle of Arras. The maple
The Canadian Battlefields Memorial has as carved, perhaps 'nn-
wlttingly, a greater memorial even
read et
ent places,
agar are written on the chant in linrandom such inscriptions as these:—
delible pencil, as fresh as when they 103234, James 7durton, A Com. written "ten years ago Mills
bombs with the pins in them repose
on ledges, cans of bully beef, tin
hats—all the familiar debris of those
sad days—areto be seen as they were
left.
This . amazing spot is. the' famous
Grange Tunnel, en ViTmy Ridge, which
hag just been opened up by the .Cana-
dian Battleafeld 'Memorial Commis- which a
shot. It is to be preserved for the preaches the ineeripttons written be- which is sacred not only to her army,
benefit of posterity as a kind of text- low the earth of the Arras sector. In but also 'to-- alt the Allies. Here
book 08 trench warfare, and is dentin their cheery naivete we who have sur- British, French, and Belgians will,
ed to become the most remarkable re- vived and can look back on 1917 with gather in years' to come and say:
lit of the f historians "This is' how" our men lived during
these Canadian Y
The project began a• year ago as a ago, Crouched in those chalk dugouts, and most touching sight on the. west -
Canadian Government Is now build-
ing on the Brest of 'Vimy Ridge,
Here in this dark tunnel, and here
only, do we seem to meet the men.
who fought and died. Here .only do
pang, the Royal Canadian Regi- we seem to see again in the long
merit, May 8, 1917. still alive and chalk passages those well-known
klaklttg, faces; here only can we read ,their
670080. W. J. Auclihtclose, A signatures --110 doubt he many cases.
Company, Royal Canadian Regi- their last written 'words -written
tient, May 8, 1917. Untouched by with the indelible pencils with which
whizz -bangs as yet. they wrote their lettere home. '
I cannot describe the feelings with Canada has, with entertain and. sha-
man 'n these 'clays ap- ractertsticeforesight, carved a shrine
e war, the calm unconcern o
Living Memorial seem to touch bands once more with the groat war." The Grange Tiin-
tt bC s "who, tort years net Ix, and atways will be, the greatest
If It'–Could Have °Been•!
THE FLOOD VISUALIZED
If the Quebec-Vermont'flood'could have obcured in Ontario the shaded
portion shows what a largo area wtould have been affected: The actual
loss of life is now reported over 260 and -the lose well up to lialf a billion
dollars in the whole flood area of Canada and the U.S.
Heifetz Rejects $3,750 for a
Broadcast
News comes that Somalia Beifetz,
the violinist, because of concert eon -
tract restrictions, turned down $3,750,
offered hiin by the Broadcasting Com-
pany of Australia, for a microphone
appearance of twenty minutes at Sta-
tion 3LO, Melbourne.'
Whereupon a listener wrote: "If
no sooner'does 3L0 determine to
meet criticism of musical :nervations
by such a succulent dish as one of the
greatest violinists in the world' than
hack comes a stone, and a stentorian
yell of 'Give us our old friends, but
pay them. more and they'll sing bet-
ter,' as if a singer sang- mezzo voce'
for a, guinea and fostissimo Inc two,"
Old Mose Parker was pretty sick
jurisdiction, that it was not competent and the Barky doctor promptly put
to proceed with the case, because mac him to bed and laid -down all sorts 02
cal law had been -decreed onIl for the rules and regulations as to sleep mut;
y
1`
diet, *After he had gone, Mose turned,
�a.
f
period of v
I
slde•lite to the Canadian memorial
1whichill t be
still "alive and ]ticking;; still "uh- ern front
west -
on Vimy Ridge, will
no touched by whizzbatigs," ' joking,
laughing, g,
Engineering Feat
During ';the, early menthe of 1917
eleven large subways were construct-
ed to aid the concentration,. •02 the
Canadian troops for the attack on
completed until 11)21, The
The members of the court rejected
If this plea, •and the. court adjourned
after the defence had announced its
a
C -
• Mori rho souIt e s om
ant�eattiazt to eh:Menge .
to his, wife: and complained:: `'Mandy,
how does dant fool doctah reckon alt's
gwine eat breast ob chicken ebry day
if Ali lnain't,got malt ebenin's free.
atone for " waiting, quite unconscious
this stupendous, shrine comes from that they were carving not only their
the ancient Roman 'quarries the
es tou7
uc , • names, but also history.
Bay of Spalato'in Dalmatia. While
Headquarters
Waiting for supplies of this stone' to Vimv Ridge, The largest was the
arrive; it occurred 10 the Canadian
1
We walked for about half a mile, Grange Ridge.*
Mint 'gest was,
the,
engineers that it might. be interest- going dedper into Grange subway, un- h e 'runnel,
, Miit'y Brigade,
ing to try to locate the famous Grange til we came to battalion headquarters. Grange Canadian
lets' three exists for
Labyrinth -the miles of underground On the •watt of .a dark, damp chant the tnge and constant streams of
passages which the Canadians pushed; chamber, which had been used as an an men, wounded anti start unwounded, peep -
enemy's
out to within a few yards of the officers' 'tees during 1thec Cra aihe ea through it during the battle. Its
enemy's Itnes. 1 srdvnnee an Vimy, were minimum depth was twenia•five-'fee'i
it had .electric light and a water. sap -
ply, and there were- numerous ,dug
cuts, dressing stations, and an -email,
tion dumps. ' ,-
Map references were taken, and the
entrance to the tunnel was discover -
ad Choked up with ..bt'ushiwood, The
work.o2 clearing the, tunnel' bus taken
a year, and it is not yet completed.
So intereeating were the discoveries (B Company),
that the co'inmissien decided to re- In a little carved shield were the
build the trenches, preserve the dug 'Words, "Dick Swift" matches in
outs, and make the Grange Tunnel a Wo stood there, lighting
permanent sight. The 'trenches have the dark; wondering what bad hap -
been fined with concrete sandbags. ,teuen • to these men, : wondering
The cone to Is poured in wet, so that whether they still live somewhereat
when the sandbags rot the marks of Immo in Canada, or whether they, fell
the mesh will remain; the duck- on Vimy Ridge. No matter whether
boards have been cast In concrete, all they, are alive or dead, their persoir;,
wood has been taken out of the dug- elides live beneath tag soil of Plante
outs and\the passageshave been re-. so vividly that one expects tomeet
inforced with concrete and metal. Them found the next corner.
following, names, -•-
Major MCCaghey, Major Collins,
Liviatenant. Abbott, Lieutenant
Jantieson,.Lieutenant H. Cook, -May
10, 191T, 62 Battalion Canadians
An ,Alberta Oil Refinery
NEW SOURCE OF WEAL'Il-i
Western Canada is fast asseming'importanice as an 911
reducing section;
Who :t'wns Them?
Mysterious Diamond Deal
With Russian, Govern-
ment Revealed
London.—A mysterious $2,000,000
d-iamonct 'transaction between the, Rus
alai). government,• and Solty Joel, dia-
mond king of South Africa, was re-
vealed in court proceedings here.
An alleged representative of Joel
seeks to recover a share ofb pts corn-
misslma,,in the purchase of Russian
jewels,
According " to the testimony of Cap-
tain 3. D, Cohn, prominent race, horses
owner and Col. Wm. Hill, t11ey went
to Ronal and purchased -jewels of im-
mense value fu behalf of the diamond
]ting- from a representative of the A Fine Trophy
Russian Government named Roberts. ' F om the hunting. grounds of northern
The witnesses said Joel wanted111 the
i,
knowledge of the percltase to bo kept Quebec's
off the market:.
The case llas resulted in specula- '~
tion regarding whether tire` jewels A proud young father wired the
care part of the famous crown jewels news of "i is happiness to his brother
whose }whereabouts Have been one of in these words; -"A. handsome boy
the mysteries o also decade, or wheth- hes como'to my house and claims to
er they were part of the church jowels be yoiu• nephew. Wo are 880 doing
seized by the Soviet Gbvernment. o ti• best to give him a proper wel-
come," Tho brother, however, failed
.AAII that stands between the col- to sea' the point, anci 'wired' back;
lege graduate and the top of the lad- have no nephew. The young man
der is till ladder.`is an impoeterl"
n°itish Coinage
Designs Changed
Will Be Effective Dec. 1—
Affects. Only Silver
London.—On Dee,' 1, for the first
time since .1816, a simultaneous
change in the designs of all British
Silver ooinage will be effective. Gold
and, copper coinage wil not be affect-
ed. The alterations .'are all -on the
obverse side as follows:
Crown; The, Royal Crojvn with the
(late 'encircled ,with~wrbaths of the
rose, _thistle and shamrock, the word
"Crown" and the, edges grained.
Half-crown: The Royal arms show-
ing' on each side' the King's initial
"G1' in duplicate, , and interlaced the
words "half-crown" -and data inter-
spersed with the rose, thistle and
shamrock.
Florin: The King's leaked in the
centre interlaced by four drowned
sceptres in the form o>+ a cross and in
the angles the. four shields and the
'wards, "one florin" -and-date. i6
Shilling: Only .a slight change
made, the design being the Royal
crest with the inscription "rid Def
Ind Impa together with the words
"ono shilling'. 'and the date.
Sixpence: Six acorns growing from
interlaced oak branches, with the
word "sixpence". and the date's
*Threepence: Three acorns growing
from •interlaced, oak twigs and the
date with a plain edge. -
.Qin American visitor,,had an engage-
ment to play golf with a friend who
did not pnt in a ptmetuaI appearance.
The American, who-, 'gas waiting on
the first tee, decided to go to the ,club -
House and telephone to his partner,
and„ not wishing' to take: his heavy
kit with him, zeta to a bystander,
"Excuse ins, but would you look after
those clubs until: I come back?" "Sir,"
rejoined.tee bystander, with ruffled
dignity, "I'd have you know I're inaY°'
of tills town.." "Never mind," replie •
the American. "I'd ohatco that," .y