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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-08-06, Page 3THIRiEEITPEOPLE INJURED, TWO CARS WREC D IN COLLISION N ST. THOMAS •4, A despatch from St. Themes, Ont., says: -Thirteen; people were injured on the highway Wednesday night last week in a head -en collision between a heavy touring car and a light eedan a few hundred yards north of the village of Unien, between St. Thomas and Port . Stanley. Five of diose taken to the hospital when the two cars collided are still there. C. L. Weidman, 58 Gerrard St;, London, Ont., is in the worst. condition, one hip being either, dislocated or frac- hired. X-ray photographs wore made to .earn just what the extent of Weid- man's Injuries are. Weidmanwas deo badly bruised about the body, and his back and chest hart. The others in the hospital are: Mrs. D. Man, Frank Wienoslci, aged five' years, Earl Wail- er and. Roy Howarth, all of this city. The two cars are a total wreck. Fire completed the destruction of the tour- ing car about 2 o'clock in the morning. The touring car was driven by Wil- liam Howarth, Jr., of this city. Ho claims that he was on his right side of the 'read and • that the other car headed straight for him, turning to the other side of the road at the last minute,but too late to avoid a col- lision. With Howarth were Earl Walker and )!'rank Wisnoski in the front seat, and his mother, Mrs. Mann, Roy How- arth, Audrey Mann of this city, and Sevilla Schultz and Wesley Schulte,' 10 and 5 years old, of Rochester, N.Y., who were visiting with Mrs. Mann their grandmother. All the occupants of the back seat were thrown from the car by the force of the impact. Saville Schultz being rendered unconscious. Shortly after being taken to the hos- pital she regained consciousness, and then was takento the home of Mrs, Mann. With Weidman were his young son and Ethel and Margaret Marshall, all of London. They were taken home, MIs. Mann is at present working in Detroit, Major-General Si- Frederick Maur- ice, noted British military strategist, who is now lecturing in .tee United States, claims that complete, military disarmament is almost impossible: FIRE DAMAGE FIGURES LOWER IN ONTARIO Factories Were Principal Suf- ferers During the Past Six Months. A despatch from Toronto says:- The toll of damage occasioned by fires continues to show a steady decline in Ontario. Figures for the first six months of 1925, issued by the Provin- cial Fire Marshal, revealed a total Doss of $5,148,463, as compared with a total loss of $0,682,710 for the corres- ponding period of last year, the de- crease being $1,484,247, For the month of June pest, the total loss was $974,689, as compared with $1,260,64.0 for the same month a year ago, the decrease being $285,951. • During the month of June the chief fires in Ontario were one at Hagers- ville, in which the loss was $99,500, one at the Minaki Inn, let Kenora, in which the loss was $200,000, and one at the Bartlett's store in Windsor, in which the loss was $67,430. So far during 1925 factories have been the principal sufferers in Ontario fires. Some 194 of them have been visited by flames, with resultant loss of $2,315,384. Closely following them in gtho matter, of damage incurred come retail business places, 579 of which have been the scene of confla- grations with consequent loss of $2,- 006,173. During the half-year there have peen 3,650 dwellings on fire, in which the damage has run to $1,660,- 400. Farmers' barns to the number of 354 have been affected by outbreaks and the loss in this department has 'been $481,000. Germans to Celebrate Zeppelin's 25th Jubilee A despatch ,from Friedrichshaven Bays: -The twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Zeppelin ° flight will be cele- brated in this city in Amt gust. On his first flight Count Zeppelin succeed- ed inremaining in the air twenty minutes. To the coming celebration prominent personalities in the world of economics and science will be in- vited. Count Fedein.and von Zeppelin was born at Constance, in Baden _e,Ger- many, in 1838. During the American Civil War he served as a volunteer in the .Union Army. It was while he was in America that he made his first ascent in a balloon. He. died in Ber- lin in 1917. e. British Air Transportation Closes Successful Year Britain's six transportation com- pany, the Imperial Airways, which came into existence May, 1924, re- cently completed 1,000,000 niece of flying. During the past twelve months airplanes carrying "$10,000,000 worth - of bullion, 15,000 passengers and 1,000 tone of freight have flown Across the ()kennel at 100 miles an 'hour, e PRINCE ENJOYS VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA Sets Out on Journey to South America by Way of St. Helena. A despatch from Cape Town, Union of South Africa, says: -The Prince of Wales, looking bronzed and much more robuet than when he came to South Africa, galled from Simon's Town, the naval station, for South America at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon. He will go by way of St. Helena. The Prince said he never felt bet- ter in his life and had enjoyed the climate enormously. "I feel that I have got to know something about South Africa," he re- t -Marked, "and I hopeI can now be re- gerded as a good South African." Prior to sailing the Prince knighted Rear Admiral Fitzmaurice, Command - mein -Chief of the African stationon the quarterdeck of the flagship Birm- ingham, in the presence of the Gover- nor-General, the Earl of Athlone, and the ship's officer's, There is a fervent hope throughout South Africa that the Prince may re- turn in a private capacity, and par- ticularly that he may eventually be- come a South African farmer as he is a Canadian farmer, Hudson Bay Pictured d as Slimmer Resort for Motorists A procession of tourists driving into the picturesque northland on their own family motor cars, fitted with flanged rims to grip the rails of the Hudson Bay line, is the ingenious scheme proposed by R. M. Haultain, a railway construction engineer of Winnipeg. Mr. Haultain believes that such traffic over the government railway will present no difficulties. To ob- viate any danger of accidents, he would placard the line to the effect that the odd days of the month would be reserved for 'northbound traffic and the even days for southbound. Each car would be required to carry a light derailing shoe to provide for emergencies. The investment on the part of the railway company for flanged rims, trailers, steering gear locks, etc., would be negligible, declared Mr. Haultain, when compared with the increased revenue obtained from freighting 'cars to different points along the Hudson Bay line. Japanese Mountaineers to Attempt. Ascent of Rockies Under the joint auspices of the Tokio "Nimbi Nichi," the Osaka "Mainishi" and the Japan Mountaii eering Society, an attempt will be made by a party of Japanese moun- tain climbers to ascendthe heretofore insurmountable peaks of the Canadian Rockies. The party, which will be captained by Mr. Maki, one of the leading mountaineers of Japan, will include representatives from the Peers' School and Keio University. Final preparations, will be made at Vancouver. The climbers will start out from Jasper, with thirty horses and a num- ber of native guides, and a base camp will be established at the foot of Mount Colombia, ' The party is ex- pected oto be away about three months. German Chancellor Urges Wearing of Knee Breeches 'Chancellor Luther of Germany does not believe nature intended that, men should wear long trousers. He Is an ardent' champion of the short breeches of the `Bavarian and, Tyrolese moun- taineers. ' What a horrible fashion," Herr Luther exclaimed recently to a group of foreign correspondents, "to maks our, legs look like stilts by jointless trousers, which take no account that the human body is endowed with knees which bend and . add grace to our movement "How much more • becoming are knee breaches, which not,only are bet- ter adapted to the human form but also are more hygienic."0 EARL HAIG AND HIS HOST, THE LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OFT ONTARIO Above is shown Field Marshal Haig on his recent visit to Toronto as a guest at Government House. Infuriated Maniac Captured in North After Struggle A despatch from Sudbury says: - .After terrorizing the district about Dopper Cliff and Murray Mine for some weeks, John Klupani, a Polack, 43 years of age, who has been roam- ing about for some time in a crazed state of mind, is now in custody and hair been committed to an insane asylum by Magistrate Stoddart of Copper Cliff. Tho man, who is thought to have caused a fire which destroyed a large barn and -other buildings on a Gerson Township farm -some days ago, wielded an axe and threw large stones in his fight against capture by the police. Strategy had to be resorted to in order to effect the capture of the maniac, two of the policemen engag- ing his attention from the front while Chief Walsh of Copper Cliff stole upon him from behind. During the hectic pursuit the man called out to the 'police to shoot him; that he want- ed to die. Washington's Ancestral Home Shared by U.S. and Britain A despatch from London says:- Sulgrave ays:Sulgrave Manor, Gieorge Washington's ancestral home, will belong to both the United States and England. Vis- count Lee of Fareham made this an- nouncement at a reception at Sul- grave to members of the American So- ciety of Colonial Dames, The title to the deeds to the home are held in this country at present, but they will be handed over to a board of three trustees, of whom two are Americans and one a Briton. Her Sensitive Husband. She was one of the old-fashioned wives. And she spoke as one. "Yes," she acid, speaking of her hus- band to a friend, "he's a wonderful man, but so sensdtive. Why, do you know, every time he sees me °hopping kindling he has to go and shut himself indoor!" CROSS -WORD PUZZLE THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reaaonsbly sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the -numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1 -Tortures 4 -Circles 7 -Springy 10 -To pierce 11 -To make level 12 -To pucker 15 -Petition 18 -Little child 19-A ditch 21 --Recess in a church' 23 -Organ of body 24-Dleputant' over trifles 26 -Hard fat 27 -Donated 20 -Small barrels 80 -Regaled ' 38 -Culinary herb 8The Jury 88 -Belonging to you 38 -To scrutinize 40 -Destroyer 41 -Hereafter - 42 -Fairy VERTICAL 1 -Dowdyish woman 2 -Stili 3 -Sudden blow 4 -To split asunder • 8 -Frozen dessert 6 -Slope 8 -To border upon 9 -Trial 10 -To fix a mast 12 -Midday 14 -To make rough 16 -To pass by degrees 17 -The waste from burning, 19 -Planed on a wall 20 -To coincide • 22 -To corrode 23 -Sailing distance In race 26-Unbeautiful 28=Outlet 29 --Hillock 80 -Diet 31-A table 83 -Two -masted vessel 34 -Low murmuring sound 35 -Fabrications 37 -To be under obligation $9 Swarm of young fish THE WEEK'S MARKETS TORONTO. Man. wheat -No. 1 North., $1.72%; No. 2 North., $1.70%; No. 3 North., $1.64%; No. 4 wheat, not quoted. Man, oats -No. 3 CW, not quoted; No, 1 feed, 54e; No, 2 feed, 52c. All the above c.i.f. bay ports. Am. corn, track; Toronto -No. 2 Yellow, $1,24. . Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28; shorts per ton, $30' middlings, $86; good deed flour, per {gag, $2:80. Ont. oats -48 to 60c, f.o.b. shipping points. Ont. wheat -$1.25 to $1.80, f,o,b. shipping points, according to freights. Barley -Malting, 74 to 77c. Buckwheat -No. 8, 78c. Rye -No. 2, nominal. Man. 'flour, first pat., $9.10, Toronto; do, second pat., $8.60, Toronto. Pas- try flour, bags, $6.10. Ont. flour Toronto, 90 per cent. ate., per barrel, in cadets, Toronto, 55.70; seaboard, in bulk, not quoted. Straw-Carlots, per ton, $S to $8.50. Screenings -Standard, recleaned, f. o.b. bay ports, per ton, 521. Hay -No. 2, per ton, $13 to 514; No. 3, per ton, $11 to 512; mixed, per ton, $9to 511; lower. grades, $6 to 59. Cheese -New, large, 24 to 24%e; twins, 24% to 25e; triplets, 25 to 25%e; Stiltons, 26 to 27e, Old, large, 28 h 29c; twins, 29 to 30c; triplets, 29 to 81c. Butter -Finest creamery lintQ, 40e; No. 1 creamery, 40e; No. 2, 37% to 88c. Dairy prints, 27 0 29c. Egge-•Fresh extras, in cartons, 41 to 42c' loose, 40 to 410; fresh firsts, 87 to 88c' seconds, 82 to 83c. Dressedoultry-Chickens, spring, ib., 30 to 860; hone, over 4 to 5 lbs, 22 to 24c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20e; roosters, 18e; ducklings, 27 to 30e. Beans -Can., handpicked, lb., 6%e; primes, 6c. Maple produce-Syrup,g per imp. gal.; maple sugar', lb., 25 to 28c.2.80 r Honey -60 -Ib: tins 13%c per lb.; 10-1b. tins, 18%c; 5..1h. tins, 14c; 2%. lb. tins, 15% to 16c. Smoked meats -Hama, plod„ 52 to 88c; cooked hams, 47 to 50a; sacked rolls, 22c; cottage, 23 to 25c; break- fast bacon, 30 to 34c; special: brand breakfast bacon, 87c; backs, boneless, 88 to 42c - Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to '70 lbs., 522 ; 70 to 90 lbs. $20.50; 20 lbs. and up, $10,50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $29,5,0; heavyweight rolls, $24,60 per barrel. Lard -Pure tierces 18 to 18 Sic; tubs 18% to 19c; pails, 19 to 19/ac;. prints, 20 to 20%e shortening, tierces, 14%e; tubs, 15e; pails, lytta; blocks,.' 16%c. - Heavy steers, choice, $8 h $8.26; do, good, $7.25 to $7,75; butcher steers, choice, $7 to 57.25; do, good, $6.50 to $7; do med., $5.60 to $6; de cots., $4.50 to $5.26;. butcher ,heifers, choice, $6.76 to $7,26; do, med., 55.50 to $6; de, cern,, $4.50 to $6.26; butcher cows, choice, $4.50 to 55; do, fair to good, 54 to 54.50; canners and nutters, 52 to 52.50; butcher bulls, gd,, 54.50 to 55.50; do, fate, .53.75 to 54; bologna, $3 to 53.50; feeding steers, good $6 to 56.25; do, fair, 54.60 to $6.26; calve*, choice, $9.50 to 511; do, med, 57 to $9; do, cots., 54,50 to 5540; inilch cows, choice, $70 to $80; do, fair, $40 to 550; springers, choice, 75 to 590; good light sheep, $6.50 to $6.60 heavies and bucks 58.50 to 54.50; good lambs $15.50 to 515.75; do, met $15 to $16.26; do, bum s, $18 to 518.75'; do, culls, $11 to $12 ho s, thiek smooths, fed arrd wateeed, $813.60.; do, f.o.b., 518; do, country points, 512.75; do, off cars, $14; select premium, 52.56. MONTREAL. Oats -Can, waste, No. 2, 891/4c; do, No. 3, 62%e; extra No, 1 feed, 68i%e, Flour, Man. spring wheat pat., firsts, 59.10; seconds, 58.60; strong bakers', $8,40; winter pats., choice, 56.20 to 56.40.. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., 58.65 to 53.75. Bean, 528.24. Shorts, 580.25. Middlings, 586.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lets, 514. Cheese, finest west*., 21to 22%c; finest suets,, e1 to 21%e. Butter, No. 1, pasteurized 38c; No, 1 cream- ery, 87 to 7%c; seconds, 36 to 501/40. Eggs, fresh extras, 41e; fresh firsts, Ba Cows, med. quality, $3.50 to 54;. mews, fairlygood, $8; do, common veal's, $6; 'flexed lots/ of corn. drinkers and grassers, $5; lambs med., 513; hogs, mixed lots, $14 to $14.25; sows, 510 to 510.50. CRIME ON INCREASE IN UNITED STATES Penitentiaries in All Parts of Country Filled to Overflow- ing -Little Change in Canada. A despatch from Washington says: -Figures made public by the Dept.. of Commerce, showing that England is closing prisons on account of a decrease In crime, make a strik- ing comparison with the increase of crime in the United States. The criminal statistics of England have been compiled by Alfred Nut- ting of the staff of the American Con- sulate -General at London. "More than twenty prisons in Eng- land and Wales," Mr. Nutting reports, "practically a third of the total, have been closed since 1914." And he adds: "There are now only 40 prisons in use in the country, and these are by no means fully occupied." While England is putting signs of "to let" on its prisonsin all parts of the United States prisons are over- flowing. The increase in the population of Federal prisons in the United States may be gathered from the following Dept. of Justice figures: 1913. '1925. Atalanta 1,000 8,268 Leavenworth '1,200 3,294 McNeil Bland 300 618 To Leis 2,500 7,170 A despatch from Ottawa says: - The penitentiary population of Can- ada has varied only a few hundred during the past four years, and the 1924 figureis lower than the two pre- ceding ;mars. In the penitentiaries controlled by the Dept. of Justice there were, In 1921, 2,150 prisoners; in 1922 there were 2,640 prisoners; in 1923 there were 2,480, and last year there was a drop to 2,225. Uf the total penitentiary popula- tion of Canada last year, 692 were at ICingston, 551 were at St. Vincent de Paul, 206 at Dorchester, 199 in Man- itoba; 224 in British Columbia, and 29J in Saskatchewan Death Rate in Britain One Daily from Auto Accidents Pedestrians and motorists are hav- ing an unhappy time on the winding roads of Great Britain. Accidents are increasing daily, nine persons being drilled' and twenty-one injured last week. The death rate averages .one a day. Evidence ` indicates that careless driving by new car holders, who aro increasing 2,000 weekly, is the chief cause, while carelessness by those who walls is contributory, especially at curves in the road where there are no: sidewalks. During the first three. months of 1925 185 persons were killed in the streets of London alone. Radio to Join Britain `and Australia A despatch from London says: - In addition to the big radio station now beingbuilt at :Rugby, the .post- master general is planning to erect another high-power station at Win- thorpe, near Skegness, on the east coast, This station, when completed, is expected to be used for communica- tion with Australia and India. AVERAGE HIGH GRADE IN WESTERN WHEAT Superintendents of • Elevators Place Crop Calculations at from 360 to 375 Million Bushels. A deepetch from Poet Arthur says: -Twenty Western elevator sup- erintendents, representing the British America, Security, National and Northern Elevator Companies, visiting the Head of the Lakes on a two-day inspection of terminals, these four companies having in the aggregate 408 country elevators throughout the three Prairie Provinces, data em- phatically that the Western crop should aggregate from 360,000,000 to, 375,000,000 bushels. Practically every single district re- ports crops as "good," "excellent," "bumper." There has been no hail in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, and only 1 district out of 54 in Alberta reports hail damage. These Western representatives hold a week's convention in Winnipeg, and are taking two days out of theweek this year to visit the Head of the Lakes terminals. Cutting will be general next month, with the rye in Alberta all harvested now. Cutting will be in full swing in Al- berta by Aug. 15, by Aug. 20 in Sas- katchewan, and a few days later in Manitoba. No car shortage is antici- pated this year, as the railways have the grain -handling situation well in hand. All the grain men here say that an early crop usually means an average high grade. Suicide Rate in Canada Lower Than in Other Countries A despatch from New York says:- Califocnia cities have far more sui- cides per year in proportion tq popu- lation than have any other cities in the country, according to statistics compiled by a life insurance . expert. San Diego, he says, had a rate of 45.2 per 100,000 population in 1924, while next in . eighty cities he tabu- lates comes San Francisco with 37.8. The combined' rate of the eighty cities tabulated is 15.8. Brooklyn had a rate of 10.3. England's rate for 1923 was only, 10,3, while a sup- posedly representative group of Ger- man cities had a rate of 50.2 in 1919, the latest year for which figures are available. The rate in Canadian pro- vinces and Newfoundland for 1928 was 7.4. 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Fortier, Domin- ion president of the Canadian Manu. facturers' Association, following the meeting. He declared that if A na- tional movement having this for its aim were once started its result would immediately he felt in the great boost that it would give to native industry. Agriculturistsand other producers and consumers will be approached to lend their aid. Drummondville will be the scene of a large meeting in connection with the movement on August 12, and thereafter meetings will be held in all the principal centres of Quebec. A similar campaign is being con- ducted in Ontario, and when the cen- tral provinces have been thoroughly organized, the movement will be ex- tended to embrace the Maritimes, the Prairie Provinces and the Pacific Coast. Natural ResourcesBulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of. the Interior at Ottawa says: How near are you to being burned out? This may seem like a peculiar .question to ask, but is it? In Canada's *mailer towns and villages there are many conflagration hazards that await but the opportunity to develop a fire that will speedily assume proportions beyond the capacity of any local fire extinguishing equipment to overcome. Unfortunately, in too many cases, lit- tle attention is paid to dangerous con- ditions until fire results. The heavy losses in property and possibly of lives, can then only be regretted. In many country stores packing cases and packing has been allowed to accumulate; excelsior and loose paper are saved for some possible future use that may never be needed. What better material couldbe found with which to etart a fire? The care- less dropping of a match, the discard'. ing of a cigarette stub, the upsetting of a lantern, are but a few of the many simple causes, any one of which may start fire. All that is needed then is a favorable wind to cause a conflagration and the possible de- struction of the entire settlement. Many homee have, probably in a miner degree, such fire hazards, At. ticsare used for the storage of dis,; carded furniture and other material that rarely will ever be again requir- ed. The accumulation of years, how- ever, makes a fire risk that should not be allowed to exist. These conditions are known to in- surance companies, they know the risks they are taking in writing poli- cies on such property, and they base their average rate on the risks they take. The public pays the charge. Individual property may be kept, in fire safe condition but collectively the danger exists, and the carelessness of one individual may mean the destruc tion of the community. Marriage Dissolved for First Thne in Arctic :Circle A despatch from Edmonton eays,:- His' Honor Judge Dubuc, acting as Stipendiary Magistrate for the Northwest Territories, who has re- turned to the city from Fort Smith, has granted the that divorce ever given in the far North, Sitting: at. Fort Smith, Judge Dubuc heard. the application of Ernest Gowen, Hudson'° Bay post manager at Fort Good Elope, for a divorce from his wife, on the usual statutory grounds. A decree to become absolute in three months was greeted. Fort Good Hope is on the Mac- kenzie River, 1,800 mires from the end of steel, at Waterways, and 1,600 miles north of Edmonton.