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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-01-14, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JAN. 14, 1937 The Clifton News -Record With which is :incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS aF SUBSCRIPTION 41.60 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2,00 to the U.S. or' -"thee' foreign countries. No paper, discontinued until ull arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish- er. The, data to which every sub eerintion is paid is . denoted on the aati'el. ADVERTISING RATES Tran talent advertising 12c per count line or firet insertion. 8c for eaelf sub- eequent insertion. Headingcounts 2 lines. Small advertisements; not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted,". "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for -35c, each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display' advertising made known on application. Gomnrunications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good !faith, be accompanied by' the name of the writer. 4., E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer 'Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- euranee Agent, Representing 14 Fire slnsurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W, Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont, j 11 H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage 'Office: )'Iuron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation. Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT .Licensed .Auctioneer for the Counts of Huron +Correspondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Seta forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep- per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R, R. No, 1; R. F. McKei•cher, Dublin, R. R. No, 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1, Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commeree, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ce or transact other promptly attended to connappltess wea? rbe Non to any of the above officers ad - !dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN ATIONAI Al"IN YS TIME TABLE 13' sins will arrive at and depart front Clinton as follows: • Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7,03 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 ,p.m. -Going West, depart 12.02 p.m. eGoing West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce 'Going North, ar. 11,34, ave 12.02 p.m. Going South 3.08 p.m. Accidents and Colnpensa- .tion Under The Work- : men's Compensation Act The figures for The Workmen's 'Compensation Board of Ontario for the year 1936 show a total of 61,382 accidents reported during the year, as , compared with 58,546 during 1935, :and is the largest number since 1930, \when the total was 69,267. The fatal accidents numbered 375, as compared with 287 during' 1935. The total benefits awarded during :the year amounted to $5,573,507.15, as compared with $5,314,112:87 dur- ing 1935, the 1936 figures being made up of $4,514,864.79 compensation and $1,058,642.36 medical aid. Taking aibasis of 300 working days the 'average daily benefits awarded 'amounted to about $18,580, requiring -an average of 863 cheques per clay. The average number of new claims -reported daily increased from 195 in :1935 to 205 in 1936. The accidents reported during De - 'comber numbered 5,444, and the bene- fits awarded amounted to $637,283,92. In order to effect greater standard- ization in the packing of certain pro- ducts offered for sale in Netherlands India, the local governmenthas pas- sed an •ordinance with respect to the packing of flour, to become effec- tive on May 1, 1937. The only im- portant requirements as far as Cana- dian Exporters are concerned is that the weights must be shown in kilo -grams. While the ordinance requires the printing of weights in kilos, it is •quite in order to show the weights in -pounds yin addition, if the exporters so desire. SYNOPSIS Allen Garth is preparing to make a trip to,•a mine which he has diseov ered in the Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane appears ,at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man, a. young man and a young woman alight, The two men who are looking for mining prospects; become much in- terested in some specimens of ore shown, them by Garth. They are all ra'rher : haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like a servant, but he shows his independence and does- n't allow himself to be ordered about. They decide to take Garth in their aeroplane to inspect his mine and if it turns out to be worth working to take a lease .or a year and give him sixty percent, of the output. They become so interested that they try to get away in their plane leaving him behind so they can put in their Haim for the mine. They are thwar- ted in this and their plane is swept down the falls and destroyed. Garth then agrees to lead them out if they will do just as he says and he has got then out to the Mackenzie. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He went into a bunkroor to put on the rabbit -fur suit under his buck- skins. When he came out, a girl in a plain, ill-fitting gown stood talking to the pilot. The pilot glanced to - The millionaire' chose to lay the blame on Garth. "Have you gone insane? No mope than get her out of that muskeg hell, and you. want to drag her back to your infernal hole in desolation!" "The lady's choice, not mine." "Well, you're taking her." "How am 1 to help it, sir? You are her father. Why not assert your paternal authority?"' Lilith brushed aside • their trifling. "Which is my seat?" "The rear.—Close her in, Kiwi." She turned to fling her arms around her father and kiss him. It was the only caress Garth had ever seen her give anyone. As he put on his pilot friend's hel- met and goggles, the constable mount- ed to the middle cockpit. .Kiwi hand. ed the -girl into the rear one. He drew over her head the shatterless glass cowl that almost covered the open- ing. Garth spoke a last word to her anxious father: "In all probability, sir, we'll overtake you within three or four days, May, however, have to lay over, in case of storm. If fog or snow makes us miss you on our way out, 'we'll probably meet at Fort' Mc- Murray." , Mr. Ramill came close. "Garth, there's something I can't understand. This crazy notion of Lilith's, 9 mean. It's not mere willfulness. She has something in mind." "Wants to see the handcuffs slip - wards him. The girl turned quickly. ped on Huxby," Garth replied. "Can He found himself face to face with You blame her? Mangled vanity, Had Lilith Ramill. !believed he loved her for herself at Yet it was not the grease -and -pitch least as much as for her inheritance. marked face of his canoe companion, 'Hell hath no -fury like a woman scorn - Nor was it that deep -lined rouged and ed'—all that, you know." powdered face with scarlet -smeared "Not all, Garth—no! There's some - lips that had sneered at him on To- thing else. I can't make her out. bin's wharf. It was a face smooth Something different about her." and firm, vivid with life and vitality. "Perhaps she'll tell you when we Only the blue eyes were hard. 'come out. I'll' of course do what 1 "Alan Garth," she said. "I've can for her." learned all about it. You're going Garth shook hands, and swung a- back there—after hint!" board the small craft, At a sign from "Sorry, Miss Ramill. It's not re- hint, the displaced pilot gave the pro; venge, if that's what you think. 1 peller a spin. The plane swung a - tried to spare you. But, if you must round, to taxi downstream, It slid have it,•he is a thief," smoothly out of the water and wing - The girl's eyes flashed. "Worse! ed northwards en a long, gradual He's a cowardly murderer. That is slant, why I too am going to see him taken' There was no hurry. Had Huxby prisoner." schemed to fly into the valley merely "You?" Ito stake the placer in his own name "Yes. I am going to see hint eiinge and hop out again, he would not have the sneaky beast! Do you think I've.taken the three miners. He undoubt- forgotten how he crept up and shot edly had planned to do his season's you when you weren't looking? And assessment work. That would mean what if he didn't intend to shoot Dad; a shaft sunk to bedrock, so that he Ile left him to die. If that's not e-: could bring out a load of the piati- nough, must I tell you how he taunted num-gold alloy. me? He jeered that ?d be starved Midway of the down giver flight; into welcoming him by the time he' the three -seater ran into a sleet came back for me." "Yet that's no reason why you—" "It is! You shan't go without me. squall Garth dropped to the water and tied up under the lee of a spruce - black point. When Lilith demanded If you refuse, there's another plane to know the cause of the delay, he ex - just coin. I'll make Dad charter it plained how sleet may put a plane for me. I'll have the pilot tag after into a spin by freezing on the wings. you!" I The squall blew over, leaving every - Garth studied her gravely. She thing sheeted with ice. Garth and Con - stared back at hien, hotly defiant. He' stable Dillon knocked clear the front pretended to accept her reason for edge of the wings. Another hop wanting to go: brought the party to the emergency "You most certainly are a good refueling post, shortly before sun - hater, Miss Ramill. One thing, down. though. The valley is about to freepe up. It will not be the summer para- dise we left. We may land in a bliz- zard." She looked around the store, "Where paration of supper and breakfast. are those Eskiino suits you told me He could notat first believe she about?" I was the painted lady who had scoffed At that he smiled a bit grimly. at his "garbage." She not only re - "This is Indian country. You shall frained from scoffinge she ate his be- have rabbit and buckskins." He turn- con and porridge as heartily as Garth ed to the factor: "Add the lady's out- and the policeman. fit to my account." To the pilot: "Ili -j The moosehide canoes lay upturned wi, this is where you are to fit your on the bank beside Gartfn'•s, old birch - name. You're going to be a wingless ,baric.' Tobin had at once told Huxby's ground hitt." • i story. According to the engineer, the !'Oh, have a heart, 'Lan!" I lady and her father were still mar - "Three is a crowd, and she is it. ooned in the mountains:. Hie had come Ask her father." lout with Garth to fetch • a plane for For the first time the girl betray-' them. But Garth had been killed by ed a trace of doubt. "But we'll have a wounded she -grizzly. to have a pilot." Kiwi stared, then grinped at thea joke. "Lady, what you don't know a- bout our boy friend would appear to be quite a considerable.—All right, you lame duck, go hog the joystick. In the morning Garth for the: first Do I stay planted or take the Water- time showed haste. The dawn was cart?" This time Lilith Ramill did not re- fuse Tobin's crude hospitality. She troubled the old sourdough far more by insisting upon watching his pre - CHAPTER XVIII! Murder "Steamer.. Southbound planes are apt to be overcrowded, with everyone coming out," Garth replied. "Now, Misi Ramill, we'll go down and get your father's visa on your passport." Constable Dillon put in a word: "It's not on the cards, sir, to take a- long a young lady. If this Iluxby tries to act up—" "He's your meat, Dillon, I'll stand responsible for Miss Ramill." Down at the waterfront, Garth went over the plane with his pilot friend. There was a full' load of gaso- line and a change of oil To the week's supply of provisions, he added the three pairs of snowshoes and the new rifle. With the rifle came enough cartridges to refill the- belt that still held his knife and belt -ax. Lilith had gone aboard the steam- er. She returned with her father. He looked worried. She had put on her Indian -woman; costume — buck - skint, moccasins, fur cap and gloves, !far too beautifully rose, 1& made 'sure that Lilith's blankets were back in her cockpit before he handert her aboard. Ile fitted the glass; maws to the cockpit rim, which came up al- most level with her eyes. "If we strike into a blizzard, get your cap over your ears, and blanket yourself, head and all," he warned. "You don't want to lose your ears and 'nose," The constable was already snug under his own cowl. Garth swung in- to his pilot cockpit. OQd Tobin gave the propeller a spin for him. • This time Garth needed no circling in order to trace the air route. A- board the cabin monoplane he had watched Huxby's instruments and noted the landmarks from above. He 'now knew the way in by air. He did not even have to follow the zigzag course that he had been forced, to grope along in guiding Huxby. His mental snap of all those turns, bear- ings and distances enabled him to draw a direct air line to the lost val- ley. He headed along it as straight as the . crow flies. By the time the lovely rose dawn glared into an angry red sunrise, the roaring plane had flown all the way across -that, weary desolation of mus- kegs and broken -ridged lower moun- tains. Close; ahead loomed the last range'- in front of the Selwyns, The summits that had reared up so bare and brown. under the summer 'sun now gleamed with a white mantle. The only dark spots were precipices too steep to hold the snow. Thickening clouds foretold another storm. ' But Garth had outraced it. Instead of swinging in around the outthrust mountain to the pass, he banked -and drove past the east side of the mountain, ori a long upslant. A' few miles north from the pass, he banked to the west and headed for the lowest notch in the jagged east - side wall of the valley.' Above the great barrier the plane bumped like a boat in a choppy sea. • Garth paid no conscious heed to the, rough passage. His hands and feet adjusted the controls with automatic precision, leaving his attention free to center upon what lay ahead. His first glimpse into the valley showed him a column of smoke above. the black belt of spruce at the far end of the lake. Much thicker and darker than ordinary camp -fire smoke, it stood out distinct against the vivid white of the snow -sheeted tundra slope. As the plane drove clear above the saddle between the peaks, Garth shoved the stick forward and cut the gun. With the roar of the engine stilled, the plane swooped down at the lake like a, monstrous bird of prey. The floats might have beer. thick legs drawn up, hawklike, ready to strike. Relatively speaking, the plane was driving at its quarry as noiselessly as a great horned owl of the North stoops to strike a rabbit. Mao, by entering the valley over this distant saddle ,instead of through the pass, Garth felt sure the plane would not be seen. His next problem was to effect a landing without the roar of the re- started motor. He had already made out Huxby's big cabin plane, moored at the mouth of the glacier stream. That was the only safe'mooring place. The Iake had already skimmed over with thin ice except where the outrushing glacier torrent kept a'wa- ter lane free, well out from shoze. Huxby undoubtedly had been shrewd enough to foresee a freeze-up if he moored his plane below the foot of the placer trough, Absence of any smoke near the plane told that the miners wert camp- ed at the placer. The stream mouth was too far from the diggings for the hurried workers to tramp back and forth every night and morning. Be- sides, there would be snowdrifts to wade through. From every indication, the claim- amper could be surprised and taken before he realized that any other par- ty than his own bad come to the valley. The one need was to avoid using the plane's engine. Its roar would be heard for miles. Garth calculated the' volplane angle with his utmost skill, If he hit the water too soon, the propeller would have to be used to pull the plane in to the landing; if he held on too long, there night be a eraekup. It was a matter of fractions of se- conds. He allowed for the fact that the slight wind was abeam, instead of sucking down from the glacier. His one failure was to notice in time the shrunken volume of the glacier stream. The plane took to the water sm'ootfe- ly, at almost the exaet distance a€f- shore that he had planned. The dill- ficulty was that the outswirling ear' rent lacked the force he expected. Inn-• stead of slowing down or stopping short, the three -seater drove in hard at the cabin plane. The stream mouth Ikeked width e.• nough for the small plane to squeeze) past the large one. Nor was there room to maneuver between' the off- shore rocks. Garth acted witli•instant i decision. He swerved the three -seat- er to: clear the tail of the cabiin plane:.', As he stripped off his goggles' and swung down from his cockpit with the mooring line, the pontoon: stems' smashed like eggshells on a water, worn rock, across the narrow chan- nel from the tail of the other plane. Before the current could float the' three -seater back into deep• water, Garth leaped ashore. He had no more than made the line fast to a. boulder. when the constable joined hint, car- bine in hand. Both looked gravely at the sinking pontoons. "Hard lick, sir." "Not at all, Dillon.Poor judgment. I eut it a bit too close. However„ that cabin transport will carry us all," Lilith had opened the cowl of her cockpit and was starting to climb out. Garth glanced at the threatening sky. "S'he has settled down hard and fast, Miss Ramill. Better stay snug aboard until we return." (Continued next week.)) ONE ORDER OF BOSTON BAKED Aunt Priscilla, who had! spent all her years in the Bostonian atmosphere went to visit some relatives who lived in a near -by state. Shortly after the train nulled out, of the station she noticed a slab of granite beside the track, which read "1-m(ile) from Bos- ton." The lady, thinking it was a tombstone, read, "I'm from Boston;" and added aloud, "How very simple and yet how sufficient," LESS ASN MORE HEAT Resolutions regarding your winters fuel are now in order. Thousands of families are glad that last year they resolved to use only Ramco Coke in their furnaces. They are back again as customers this year because they kept their homes warmer —at less cost. It's your turn now. Won't you try a ton of the modern fuel—made scienti- fically every day in the great Hamco ovens at Hamilton ? These are some of theadvantages you can count on (1) Lower cost per ton and per season (2) More comfort in every room (3) Quicker heat in the mornings (4) Less labour because lighter on the shovel and fewer ashes to carry out (5) No dust, soot or gas. AMCO REMEMBER— eeha wilt haat gout home at a bleat cast than *that hard 6aals. HAMILTON 8Y -PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED—HAMILTON, CANADA VICTOR FALCONER A. D. McCARTNEY COBS HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. W. J. MILLER & SON Considering El traits a.tion Of Matriculation Ex- aminations Ontario Department of Education May Create System of Three Se- condary Schools Combining Aca- demic and Technical Education. The Ontario Department of educa- tion is considering a proposal for el - amination of matriculation exaniina-I tions and the possibility of creating a system of three secondary schools, Dr, Duncan McArthur, deputy minis- ter of education, said in an address to a Canadian. Manufacturers' Asso- ciation meeting. He said there is a certain conflict of interest between technical educa- tion and the traditional academic form of education. Now that technical education is es- tablished the time has come to break down the wall between the two types and to bring then together into one system, he thought. The opinion of the deputy minister was that education provided by tech- nical and vocational schools was much better for meeting the demands of a large body of students than an aca- demic course. MONEY TALKS -but you must tell it what to say! • Let's suppose that the dollars you spend were suddenly given minds of their own—and the job of deciding what to buy for you. They'd have to learn their way around in a hurry. And one of the first things they'd do would be to study the newspapers—every advertisement that discusses something you'd be needing, or. want- ing. They'dget the latest facts on automatic refrigerators and sports shoes and tea and motor oil and all the rest. They'd make a business of knowing what, where and when to buy. Are you less careful and less constant in your ad-re_adiiig than you should be? De you have to depend on other people for facts that are clearly stated in the advertiseing pages of this newspaper? Read advertising thoughtfully, consider all the points you find there on their merits:: Find out in advance exactly what things will best, serve your needs—and why. After all, that's the only way to get your money's worth, every time, , The real reason for advertising is not to help some one sell something, but to help you buy what you want. The Clillton NewsRocord A. FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING--RH:AD ADB IN THIS ISSUE. PHONE 4