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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-04-24, Page 7-Dominion News in •�ri .St.'John's, Niid.—Advaees,received peeted that workwill begin this sari- •fromthe sealing'.fleet•now in the Gulf mer. ,' • are to .the effect that the ships are Winnipeg,. Man.—Manitoba begins • w1thin,'striking distance of theemain the task of ,replenishing, its: game r`e- 'herd of seals. Captain. Kean, of the sources next month, when a covey of Terra, Nova, advises that he is steam- Hungarian partridges, now en route ing into the white coats off White Bay, to Winnipeg from Czeoho=Slovakia, and that the floe is well covered, and will be released in a quiet district in that all the other six ships, which are the province. Local sportsmen are within a few miles of him, will likely sponsoring this move and bear the secure paying voyages, too.entir•e'expense'of bringing these' birds • Halifax, N.S -The apple movement I from :Europe:, for this season is practically 'over, .the Saskatoon, Sask.=More • than one hundred swine 1 'ceders have taken total ' export movement via Halifax •oV•er the Dotnaiiiou.. Atlantic Railway, advantage-. of a special educational 'to date, being., 1,132,892 barrels. There short course in bacon and hog produo- are still a few thousand'barrels to tion conducted by the University of move before the 'stocks in the various Saskatchewan't-ecently. Lectures and practical demonstrations on different warehouses are cleaned up. phases of the industry were : given. Fredericton,, N.B.-There is a con-' Judging- competitions in which hogs siderable boom inthe hardwood in-; were judged before and after being dustry of New Brunswick at the pres-:'slaughtered was one of the features ent time, mill at Juniper and Forester' Edmonton, Alta.—More than $2, - being operated with both day and 000,000 worth of raw furs are receive night shifts: In addition to these ed in Edmonton annually, and a fur mills, there are four other mills in the exchange will be established here. It same vicinity 'engaged in cutting is expectedthat this institution will hardwood. give a useful impetus to this import - Montreal, Que.—Immigration thisant Alberta industry. yea has started off well, the'arrivals' Vancouver, B.C.-A ,recent an- duning, February having been 6,106, nouncement indicates that the Van - an increase of 86 per cent. over that couver Harbor Board contemplates for tato same month last year. This the erection of a cold storage plant. bringsthe total arrivals during the This will prove e boon to the shipping -eleven .; month§ ending February to interests, and render valuable assis- 135,128, an increase of 104 per cent.' tance to the movement' of fresh fruits, The arrivals during the period ending vegetables and; fish through Vancou- February have been divided as fol- ver, and also be the means of produce ing ice, which will be sold to fish boats lows: British, 6`7,023; from the United States, 1,9,120; from all other coup- and the general public tries, 48,992. Dawson City, Y.T.—It is reported that more than 50 claims have been Fort William, Ont. -Plans are al- recorded following the recent strike most completed for tho two million of ,high-grade ore in Beaver district, dollar paper mill to be erected by the 60 miles north of Keno. Many outfits Great Lakes Paper Co., according to are leaving .for the new camp, and a statement made by the president of considerabl development is looked for the company, J. I3. Black. It is ex- in the near future. Baby is Roasted in Oven of Stove Quebec, April 18.—The eight - months -old baby of Mrs. A. Drouin, St. Joseph de Beauce, was roasted to death in the oven of the large farm- house type stove at her home yester- day afternoon. 1Yirs, A. Drouin had placed her baby boy near the stove to allow his cloth- ing to dry. She had taken the boy out in the yard, and as it was raining his clothes became very wet, Believing that the baby would not move from the chair; which was near the open oven, tile mother went to the second storey of thehouse to.ehaftge her own clothes. She had been there only a few minutes when she realized that there was something wrong, and, run- ning down to the stove she found her baby roasting in the open oven. An inquest was 'held and a verdict of accidental death was re- banned. Captain Roald Amundsen, noted Arctic explorer, is shown viewing the' plane in which he will attempt to make a flight over: the north polar. regions. HOUSE WRECKED "Just Usual Patrol, But •a BY SEWER EXPLOSION Little Longer," Says R.C.M.P. Woman Injured When Front - Completing his trip of many thou- sands of miles by dog train, Sergeant of Her Horse is Blown Out Hubert Thorne, of the R.C.M.P. by Blast.' reached Edmonton early this month, Welland, April 18:—Sewer gas ex- bringing with him the official report of the hanging of the two Eskimos at ploded with disastrous results on Ross Herschel- Island. Sergeant Thorne. Street at noon to -day. One house was carried Borth the confirmation of the wrecked, three set on fire and several death sentence. persons injured. Mrs. D. L. Weaver, „bone Lothhmen+wereofthhangedAmiin the old orca who was standing en the rear porch ers on Herscuse'hel'Islane d,'aned by'n Speciawhati of her home, was thrown several feet' Constable Gill, who was sent north by by the impact and sustained a fracture' way of the Mackenzie last' year for ed aria and other injuries. The Weave the execution. Botheenet their fate. er house was badly damaged. with stoicism oeethe Ealdmo. The entire south side of the home Both me t,Y,ad a long list of killings of William Walsh was s blown out and to account for, and each was feared by the rest of the building- wrecked. Mrs. the other natives of Coronation Gulf, Waish and three children were at ding apd•lhe country to the cast; neither of ver, and .though the dining -room wee:them will be regretted, and for many almost demolished, neither Me. Waken' moons, as the Eskimos discuss the nor the children were seriouse/in- I topics of the day to their, igloos by the jareci. .' I light of the blubber oil lamps, .the A sheet of flame shooting through story of the fate of Alikontiak' and the basement drain ,.e.1 fire to the Matareafann will be produced. house of MauriceaBarnes, Fisher St.,1 In spite of 'the fact that Sergeant and b fernethellaze was extinguiehed, Thorne was held up by mild weather e 0 damage was caused. A small last fall in the Yukon, the lived up to lire was also 'started in Edward the expectations of the force that the Blake's house on Ross Street. 1 Mounties are to be at the right. place At the junction of the Ross slid at the right ,time; he rushed the last. Welland' Street sewers, flames spurted 300 miles of hie.. flying trip over the .2,0• feet in the air and considerable lee and snow, "and trotted his dogs into damage was done in this section, ' 1 the station at Herschel Island one'day. It was the first sewer gas explosion before the date set for the execution experienced in Welland, and is thought to find that the condemned men word to have beets caused by the sewer be- to be granted a reprieve .until Febru c oming overcharged by the heavy ary 1. rainstorm. 1 In regard to his trip, when inter- viewed at the barracks at Edmonton, Sergeant Thorne was found to be un - British Columbia communicative and dismissed the mat - growers will re- ter by saying that "it was nothing out wive from $16 to $19 a ton for to- of the ordinary -just one of the usual mates sold to the Dominion canners eatre,lsbut a little, longer:' Ibis summer. This has been decided le Gy a board of arbitration consisting Apple shipments from British Col - of representativesof. the 'Provincial umbia during 1923 to the United King - Dept of Agriculture and associated 'done and Scandinavian ports amounted boards of trade of British Columbia. to 781 cars. Only u small proportion Last year there was a flat Tate of of B.C. apples went via the Panama 17 a iron. I Canal. With most of the work finished, England is preparing to open the world's greatest exhibition .at. Wembley this month. Photograph shows the Bunnell Mosque, vehicle is receiving finishing touches. CRASHING WALL BLIZZARD ON COAST' BURIES AERIAL TRUCK DELAYS ATLANTIC SHIPS Fire Fighters Are Carried to Five Inches of Snow at Hali Death Arens*FallingBricks. fax—St. John, N.B., Also Chicago, April 18. -Nine firemen Storm -swept. and one policeman' are known to be Halifax,. N.S., April 20.—Halifax dead, and sixteen firemen were badly had a white Easter, the surface being injured in a spectacular fire and the covered with four or five inches of crash of a four-storeybuilding. Others snow to -day, following a blizzard that are missing, and the total may exceed raged Saturday afternoon and night, 20, as some of the injured. will not which, while not causing any known recover, destruction of property, curtailed pre - A huge brick wall, four storeys Easter shopping and made street traf- high, bulged outward by a terrific ex- fie very difficult. The vigor of the plosion, crashed down, burying men stormwas especially felt on the and apparatus beneath tons of debris, waterfront, several ocean liners being on Blue Island Avenue, near. Four- delayed for hours on account of the teenth Street. blindieg snow and high seas. The The entire front of old Curran Hall, Swedish-Aterarican liner Ieungsholne a landmark on the Southwest Side for remained at 'quarantine from Seta - many years, collapsed without warn- day afternoon till Sunday morning, ing, and before any one of the firemen while the Cunard liner Scythia was fighting the flames was given a chance held off the harbor for over twenty - to leap to safety. four hours: More than twenty firemen were St. John, N,B., April 20.—A snow mounted upon the city's new steel storm of unusual proportions for water tower, erected ill the centre of. April swept New Brunswick from the the burning structure, when it crump- Bay of Fundy to the borders of Que- led up like 90 much paper beneath the• bee, Saturday, and Sunday. The fall tons of brick that rained clown upon it. varied in depth from a few inches to Work' of rescue parties was hamper- a foot. In St. John the wind reached ed when the entire neighborhood was 35 miles an hour and at Lopreau, e plunged into darkness, and by the few miles from stere, fifty miles. fear that two huge side walls of the. structure that tottered inward might fall any moment, burying the rescuers BRITISH FLYER REACHES BAGDAD beneath them. 5,400 Little Quakes in Japan Since Disaster Since the time of the great Japan- ese earthquake of September 1, 1923, Japan has had 5,400 Lesser quakes, ae- world flyer, landed here on one of cording to Dr. Nakamura, Japans the largest aerodromes in the British foremost seismological expert, says a Empire. Tokio despatch. These include minor Tommies belonging to the Air Force, disturbances registered on gismo- which practically along keep3 peace graphs .and not felt by -humans. throughout Irak, thronged around the In September,, the month of the dis- plane, with cameras, ebeering the air - aster, there were 3,350 shocks, 2,000 men. Bagdad's military colony de - of which were plainly felt; in October aerted the weekly fashion show on the 1,069, of which 89 were felt; in No- neighboring race -course. vember 249, of which 59 were distinc- I.ady Dobbs, wife of the Briti.ih tive; in :December 234, of which 35 Commissioner, welcomed Maclaren as. were felt Size -Hundred -Mile Lap of the Round -World Trip Com- pleted by Major MacLaren. Bagdad, April 20.—Major Stuart MacLaren, the British round- the - he climbed from his, plane. The 600 - January showed an increase over mile flight from Ziza to Bagdad was the last month of the previous year, mnde in sever hours, MacLarent son- 364 shocks having been registered times to Busra with an escort of two during that monthof which 70 could army planes. be felt by the residents in ths pants squadron Leader Harris, who last of Japan in which the tremors occur- saw MacLaront as his schoolmate at red. „Again, February -decreased, with the age of eight, was among those to only 128 shocks; ' 26 being distinct. greet him on arrival here. March -lilts had 59 shocks, all plainly felt; Sports Add New Words Already 200reservationshave been to Dictionary of French made at the Palliser Hotel for the per, 1n view of the long -heralded iod of the Calgary Stampede nextpubli- July. Tho Boston Tourist Co. has cation of the first volume of the great made 50 reservations and 135 visitors dictionary at which the,. Academie are coming from the Sioux City, Iowa. Francaise has been working. such a One hundred ;and fifty more are ex- long time, the savants spent a whole pected from Chicago and 100 from St. week recently examining a certain Paul. nuniber of neologisms which are F !C1 YFinijii`SUBS ; , FOR SLEE 4 CLAP Man. Will lie •Able to Live Twenty -foal How a Dm:y: --- ;Bra. tish Inventor Working On siti1 A aiatus'Whlch May Render Sle Unnecessary. There .may be no sleeping apart - rents in 2000 A.D. Science may ob- viate their necessity by eliminating sleep. It is already seeking a substi tuts for those eight hours. or more of slumber that up-to-date is man's only expedient to `knit up the ravelled sleeves of care," and perform other kindly 'offlces for the tired human organism. Electricity, it is believed, will be that substitute. Research has demon- strated that the need of sleep is pro- duced by an actual chemical reaction en the brain,cells which drains thein of their vitality. It has shown that sleep recharges these cells with new yitality:, Dr. David Fraser Harris, the Eng- lish surgeon, and Dr. A. W. Crile, an eminent American, contend that these brain cell changes are electro -chemical. An English inventor is said to be working on an apparatus which he believeswill recharge the wornout cells by a direct electric current. It rnev not be; -necessary, then,' to wait until 2040 fop the day when the tired man Baia restore his body as he would recharge the battery of his automobile. One visualizes kris step- ping into an insulated cage, attaching .,n electrical apparatus to head and wrist, recharging his brain cells, and stepping out again in ter' or fifteen minutes a giant refreshedi Ono sees him living 24 hours a -day, sees' seventeen waking years te its Meanie., A. famous London brain specialist: comments on what has been already achieved: "We cannot only keep people awake by electricity; we can also send them to sleep if they are wakeful, A very mild and constant current has., to be used. It :is. alsq true that after the effects of electrical treatment tp in- duce wakefulness'. have worn off the patient will, sleep .teore deeply than usual, thougli' riot iitcessarily longer, He will awake perfectly refreshed, I The use of electrical, treatment draws on the reserve of energy, in the brain." THREE LIVES LOST IN FARMHOUSE FIRE Farmer, With 'Wife and Elder Son, Perishes, While Others Escapee Quebec, April 18.—Good Friday brought death and suffering to a fanc- ily at Breakeyville, near Levis, when three lives were snuffed out and seven others menaced by a disastrous fire which utterly destroyed the modest home of William Ramsay, a farmer, who seven short years ago came from Glasgow, Scotland, to make his home here. The dead are William Ramsay, aged 48 years; his wife, aged 50 years, and their elder son, Willie, aged 18 years. They failed to effect their escape from the burning building, though it is as- serted by several.of the inmates who escaped that they were heard moving about. Three boys, Jack and Charlie Maule, who were guests of the Ramsay fam- ily for the Easter recess, and Charlie Ramsay, younger brother of 'Willie, who was killed, jumped to safety in the nick of time. Liven so, Charlie Maule was badly burned about the bands and feet and had to be taken to the Jeffrey Bales Hospital for treatment. 8,000 Immigrants Sailing. for Canada London, April 20,—Liners sailing from the Clyde in the next fortnigh for Canada will carry three thousand emigrants, making over eight thou- sand sailing for Canada since March lst. What of'Subtractlon? Wife (reading newspaper)—"Soren. tists can multiply the sound of the hu- man voice 12,000 times." Husband (thoughtlessly) — "What have they done in the way of subtrac- tione' NEW CANADIAN BUIL-DING IN LONDON, ENGLAND The Union Club Building at the corner of Cockspur Street and Trafalgar Square, which has been leased for some hundreds, of years by the federal government, and will become the Dominion's building in England, sneaking into the language by the AMBULANCE ORDERLY bade door of sports, says a Paris de- spatch. KILLED IN COLLISION They decided after long debate to admit into the dictionary the words His Throat is Cut by Glass bookmaker, boy scout, 'bridge, camp- From Broken Windshield. ing, club (referring to the ancient Montreal, April 18. -Oohs Chateau - game of golf), court (referring to the vert, aged 58, orderly of the S . J also ancient game of tennis) anda seph Hostinstantly champion.P pital, was killed, All of these words may instantly be the chauffeur, suffered severe scalp as being less French than wounds, and a motoriet and two boys recognized English. For reasons which have not were injured when the ambulance of been disclosed the academicians reject- that hospital, spending to a sick case ed three words—canter, crack and in Montreal West, collided with a crawl. heavy touring 'car in Lachine this 4 afternoon. Votes for fathers according to the of Chateuvert met death, when a -piece glass from the windshield of the size of their families, two votes for ambulance was driven inches :deep into four children, four votes for six chi' phis neck, cutting the jugular vein. He dren, and so on, is a suggestion favor-, also suffered a fractured skull when ed by the French Government, which thrown from the ambulance bythe gtv- is, however, strongly opposed to of the collision. ing soldiers the right to veto. shock Giovanni Guzzi, tho motorist, was - -- badly bruised, and Philip Cote, aged 6, was cut about the face, while' his companion, Paul Baudat, aged 7, sus- tained a broken leg, when the ambu- lance swerved acroos the sidewalk on which they were at the time of the accident. The ambulance was ,passing a corner when Guzze's car drove down .on it at right angles. Neither could avoid the. other,_ and the ambulance was struck sideways, pitched on the sidewalk, and capsized. Seven hundred Czechs -Slovaks are rived in Winnipeg `recently; the first of 8,090 settlers expected from Czecho- Slovakiii'during the spring. They. are being distributed by immigration authorities throughout the Prairie i'rovi:nces, all of ,them being anxious to take up farms. Blankets owe their name to Thomas Blanket, a Flemish weaver who lived in Bristol about 1840. He used a piece of rough unfinished cloth, which had been cast aside, to wrap himself in one winter night, His discovery made him rich. No, these are not. the "Seven Sheiks" of the desert, blit a detachment of. the .Royal. CanadianDragoons, dressed in Arabian costumes, es they appeared at the Toronto.Hunt Club Carnival held at the Royal Coliseum.. Natural R.esource6`:B10let1n.- The Natupal?1tesources InfPIUg add.' ?i vvteo of the Department of the Iiw eerier at Ottawa Saye:-;. Thor eueoaes: of, .many, typn.alCati,„'� adian industries,: and the suture of many .projects:'now 'under way. or under conerderation, are vitally ,aseo• elated.. with: cheap -power facilities, "Dile a plies• notably to the pulp anal paper iedeetry, the mining mdustrpp the electro -chemical and electro -metals lurgical industry, and the flour -milling industry, While the progress of Caret adian'industry as a whole lots been #ti great part due to cheaply available hydro -power in ample qu ntities, the aforementioned industries have attain- ed particular ,eminence as contribu- tors tothe world supply of their res- pective products; largely or' wholly by virtue of thisadvantageous factor, The _,influence of water -power re- source upon, national development is exceptionally well illustrated' by the pulp and .paper industry. Ie. 1896 Ca ada exported $120 worth of pulp and paper, whereas the export valve of these products #''or the twelve months ending November last amount- ed in value to nearly 8140,600,000. The paramount importance of cheap pow- er as a factor in this growth may be judged from the fact that it take practically 100 h.p. to make one ton of paper per day. Similarly, though perhaps in less striking fashion, water -power has stimulated and supported mining. Gold, silver, nickel, and other' -mineral- ized properties have yielded very. substantial outputs and in many cases. largo scale operations, -which alone make the difference between profit and loss, would have been impossible with- out ample hydraulic energy at rela- tively low cost. Many mines are so placed geographically that the cost of rail haul on coal or untreated ore would be prohibitive but, with hy- draulic installations at or near the mines, they can be worked and the product so concentrated as to permit profitable operations. Extensive electro -chemical and electro -metallur- gical industries lectro-metallur-gical'industries have been established in Canada through the attraction of exceptional power advantages. Among such products commercially produced in Canada and using hydraulic energy in their manufacture are aluminum, phosphorus,. carbide, :carborundum, cyanide, caustic soda, chlorine, arts ficial graphite, etc. Artificial Moonlight Planned to' Remove London Shadows A scheme looking toward the, flood- ing of the whole inner area of London with artificial moonlight after night- fall will be brought before the .Insti- tute of Public. Light Engineers, which' has just been organized here. The plan calls for flood lighting of the city from, eight powerful constellations of elec- tric lights, which would surmount steel towers 500 feet high, distributed over a wide area. Supporters of the scheme say the present method of lighting great cities by thousands of small electric lamps involves an enormous waste of light, due to the rays hitting the sides of houses and shops before their full power is exhausted. Adoption of the new scheme, it is said, would result in better lighting and make London practically shadow - less, as well as cutting the cost of illuminating the city's 2,223 miles of streets, which as at present lighted by the system of individual lamps costs almost £1,000 nightly. Nationalities in 1921 Canadian Census. English 2,545,496 French 2,452,782 Scotch 1 173,824 Irish 1107,817 German ... 294,686 Hebrew .. 126,196 Dutch . , , , , . 117,509 Austrian .,.. . 107,671 Ukranian . .... 100,721 Russian . ... , 100,004. rf Whether the pitcher strikes the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. The value of "production of fisheries of Prince Edward Island in 1928 was 31,754,866, an increase oyer the pre vious.year of $142 267 Lobstering is the chief activity of tho fisheries of the province and in 1928 accounted for $1,405,906 of the total value of the catch, or, eighty per cent. The smelt fishery is next in importance to lob- staring. The net value of smelts in 1923 was $121,238. Much attention is centred at the present' time ,upon the bituminous sands. of Northern Alberta. Dr. G. A. Ings, formerly of Calgary, has tested the; process of William Georgeson of. Calgary, for the extraction of oil from these sands and it is ,,stated that if further experiments are satisfactory an extensive development of these sands wiii result. It is also under- stood that Dr. Pritchard and Mr. Wen. dell Jackson, of New York, who have for many years experimented on an- other process for the distillation of these sands expect shortly to be in e position to test out the value of Its application. It has been':catisfaetorily proven that these sande leave deflnito value for the extraction of oil and by products and for road Wilding our: poses.