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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-09-19, Page 2"L*f r'" Pol�nero lever' had was a alien the amend the As prison Yard aeverel yeore ago. He saw an etevatad train go rush• The 11ian From Mars. ing past; Waledto gaze at the won• iders of a steam•shovet and a sEoam How the Press Viewed the road•roller; lfooame frightened in the Advent of PomeroyAfter rtazas of trout he never drowned he would see, touch loss !toss through; 553 Years in Prison and asked, childlike, whore horses had The Man From Mars it.mlght nava paras to, from the roads, hem who sat in the rear seat of the When his car reached aauclolph, Joe closed car. Ills face was pressed O'Brien ran Into .a dreg -store and against the glass as he gazed winbought three vahilla Lce•oream tortes awe at wonders he had heard of, but_ and three bottles of ginger -lite, He never soca. A train roared by, high tendered a cone to Pomeroy, who de - In tate ee abevo his !read. In the alined It, but he took the proffered street a machine was digging, appar-I ginger -ate, h He e said hosted "fine," ently by itself. Strange vehicles, !lice IIs said the one in which he was riding, dash- never saw it in a coue before; then he ed by, but there were no horses hitch- munched it anw• enjoyed It, ed to them, There were ritreshiA01is, , one stop was in front of a nes- Lpaper office; A huge bulletin board, —an amber -colored aurid with a sharp,' ith red and blue litters announced pleasant taste, sada brittle conn Mid that. Pourroy had been transferred, ed with a cowl, soft stuff. Then parte I and the bulletin described him as 'Boy the greatest wonder of all. The party Slayer," Though he hall lost the sight slopped by no oaten field where stood at citta aye and the sight of the other an outlandish coutraption. It was not is clammed, he read the bulletin, and maliks a boat iu shape, but broad asked why so much should be made tiviugs extended from its sides. The of so little an affair, and why the enachino began to roar, It rushed world persisted in calling him slayer. 'Ahead, obscuring the road, was a dense cloud. Then it cleared a little and the transfer officers told Pomeroy it was the dust raised by an airplane which just landed et the Brockton air- port. Billie Robinson slowed down to avoid the duet, The plane roared and lifted, and Pomeroy saw the big ship rise gracefully and sail away. "I've seen theca things M the air from the along the ground. It soared into the air and flew away. It was all strange, n.ew, wonderful to the man who had never encountered each every -day ob- jects as elevated trains, steam•shovels, automobiles, ginger - ale, lee • cream cones, and airplanes It was frightou ing too, and the "Man from Mara" longed to be back in his home of half a century, even though that (tome was a prison cell. prison, but 1 never saw one get start - For this "Man Gem Mars" had lived ed," he said, as he watched it disc.start on this earth for seventy years, But !tear, tor fifty-three of them he has been a prisoner. He is Jesse Pomeroy, America's most famous lifer, the man the world passed by, as the Minneap- olis Tribune aptly calls him. In 1876, when he was seventeen years old, he was seat to prison for life for murder. For forty years or more he was in solitary confinement. The whole span of snare than half a century has been spent, save for one brie period, in the Massachusetts State Prison at Charles- town, near Boston. Recently, very much against his will, he was trans- ferred to the State prison farm at Bridgewater. because of his age. The transfer required a forty -mile automo- bile ride for him, lasting less than two hours. it was hie first glimpse of the world since his incarceration; and the wonders he saw during this brief Period have served to show us graphi- cally ,tow much has happened in hu- man progress in half a century. When Pomeroy entered prison, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat, commenting on a Boston editorial: The couutry seethed over the Cus- Dense Smoke Pall Hides Sun in West Scores of Forest Fires Burn- ing in Widely Scattered Areas • Many Square Miles of Timber Lands Falling Prey to Flames WInnlpeg.—A smoke pall so dense that at times it blotted out the sun, hung over a large area of northwest- ern Ontario, particularly in the Ken - ora district and Manitoba recently. The conditions of scores of forest fires, large and small, that caused the blanket of smoke, was considered un- changed though it was feared a light breeze, which sprang up about dusk, might accentuate the danger. Reports that the town ot Redditt, ter massacre. Mayor Samuel C. Robb Ont., on the main line of the Canadian of Boston was engaged In a campaign National Railways, was in serious clan - for stricter enforcement of theliquor ger were refitted when a dispatch laws, and a view down Tremont Street was a view of "muddy streets, horse - cars, oU-lamips, two-story shacks. !tiding to the hospital its an auto, for tlie first time in his life, he saw traffic as unfamiliar in its horseless units as its volume is astonishtug, crossed bridges such as he never dreamed of, caught sight on distant waters ot craft whose size amazes. The Herald thus enumerates wonders of whose universal use only whispers can have come to Jesse is his cell: radio, elec- tric light, elevators, airplanes, im- proved paving materials, telephones, motor -vehicles, electric -cars, elevated and subway cam, motion -pictures, vacunm•cleaners, electric toasters, wrist -watches, rotary printing -presses, steam -heating and other new methods of heating, fouatainpens, safetyrazors, steam -shovels, steam -rollers. The list might be extended. We have fought two wars in this time, Japan has fought three and won all, and Russia has fought several with 'final upheaval in the very bases of its society. Many political and even re- ligtous view -points have veered almost to reversal. The Panama Canal has ben built and the Prussianism that had its beginning just before 1870 has been overthrown. Pomeroy did not waut to leave Charlestown which, during his long im• prisontneut, had conte to seem like home to him. Even though a better life, in the country, awaited him, he was dissatisfied, peevish, almost surly, when the time came for him to start, according to Charles Drury in,the Bos- ton Herald, where we read furtlley: Deprived of the privileges of being considered "famous" and permitted to accept little favors from visitors, and to occasionally take a little flyer in the stock market, Pomeroy was listed at the farm as just "notorious," and told that he will live ottt the remain- der of his life as an ordinary convict - transferee. He lost his arowu as the most wide - suddenly swept form Kootenay Lake, ly talked -about, written -around and hoar here, acing a wide lire front, gazed -upon life prisoner when he step - while scores ot railway workers fled ped through the portals ot the State to high ground before them. Prison at Charlestown and into an No ono was trapped, reports nticled automfbife in which he was whisked away to Bridgewater where he was re- ceived as "just another transferee," booked and taken down the long cor- ` nn aider to the infirmary, from which he will never be released except by death. Ile left the prison as he entered it fifty-three years ago, surly, not be- cause be was going lute the State prison, but because he was being taken away from it, and against his wishes and wilt. Yet the nearly two hours the nlur- derer gazed upon a new world, on wonders of creation of which he know only from pictures and magazio and newspaper stories. He rode for the "You say you have a brilliant idea fleet time along the broad highways for making a fortune?" of Mneeachneetts In an automobile, 'Sure thtug; I'm going to open a The illy other automobile ride he barber shop for men," from Nenora staled that Redditt was now free from the forest fire menace. Only capable fire -fighting saved the railway division point. There was be- lieved to be no truth in the report that trains were forced to wait several hours before proeedfng through the town. Regarded as the most serious in the history of the province, forest blazes in Manitoba assumed gravely danger - out proportions. The Swan River area, adjacent to the large Duck -Porcupine National Forest, saw the flames tb.at broke out make such rapid advances that it was feared the enormous district, consti- tuting the provinc's largest part, would fall prey. In the Rennie district a dozen mat bush fires made such headway over the week -end that the flames were sweeping an area of many square miels. Rennie village was menaced and forest rangers and home- steaders rushed from Winnipeg, mak- ing a brave attempt to check the flames. Conditions at Winnipeg Beach were improved. Fires threatened to des- troy the summer resort but the flames were put under control. Winnipeg was shadowed by au over- hanging smoke pall Situation Serious ICalispel, Mont.—Fires continued to spread through the forests et north- western Montana and northern Idaho The great half-moon are, which hun- dreds of men were fighting, made its way toward the top of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park Mapor E W. Elley, district forester, who has characterized the situation fit the forests as nothing short of a catastrophe, held a conference with other forest officials and decided upon a general reorganization of the crews. Camps Wiped Out Nelson, B.C. — Seventeen C.P.R. construction camps were believed to have been wiped out by flames which �l. EMPIRE'S GREAT SCOUT JAMBOREE Canadian Boy Scouts, dressed as snake charmers, having some fun at Arrow Park, England, where world scouts gathered for the jamboree. Canadian Salmon Prices Advance Excessive Demand in Europe Takes All Available Supplies Quebec.—Due to the excessive de- mand for Canadian salmon from Eur- ope, the price or the product from the reorganized as a special cancer hos- North Shore, Gaspe and Saguenay has pital and research station with ac - gone up, while it is almost impossble ccmmodation for 250 patients. to ohtaln here, according to J, H, Fear of the greatest radium spe- cialists—Dr. mita Donaldson, Mr. Stanford bor Commission cold storage plant, Cade, Lady Barret and Mr. Keynes and inventor of a new method of will take charge. An' order has al- breezing salmon, ready been placed for 160 platinum "When fish was frozen the old way, needles containing from one-half to as in former years, there was practi- three milligrammes each ot radium, catty no European demand, as the fish Notable results are expected. Id t t safildently Mesh to Cancer Hospital To Open in London Four of Great Radium Specialists to Take Charge Londm on.—Mount Veront. Hospital at North Wood, Middlesex. is being Health of Earl Causes Anxiety Preparations for Birthday Celebrations for Lord Harewood Dimmed London. Considerable anxiety was manifested recently over Itis health of the Earl of Iiarewood, 83 -year-old father-in-law of Princess Mary, wltich dimmed the preparation for the joint celebration of the birthdays of the oldest and youngest tnale members of, the house Of Fiarewood, Plans had been made for the Earl and Gerald Lascelles, youngest son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascol- les, who is5 years old to celebrate to- gether, The Illness of the Earl In his home at Harewood House, near Leeds, however, has interfered with Elm plans, Debility due to extreme age is given as the cause of the Earl's indisposition, The Earl and his lively mischievous. grandson are the best of pals, The Datil awl Countess of Harewood al- ways make a great fuss over George and Gerald Layettes when the youtig- eters visit Harewood Elmo in Leeds, The Harewood residence has been a guest house of Kings and Queena eine it was built over a century and a half ago, ,The ruins of Hardwood Castle aro included in the grounds, The Earl owns almost 30,000 acres. • Grandbathe. and grandst.n form a combination of one of England's wealthiest elderly Peers and a most vaoicious and interesting youngster, Gerald is a regular boy, interested in everything he sees, with just enough Ih-e in his eyes to make him complete- ly lovable, At the ago of five his smile has already becolne well known in England and the Dominions. He is a great .favorite with the King and Queen. • Much of the Harewood family wealth came from sugar plantations in Barbados. The family has bean connected with tate industry since the beginning of the eighteenth century. coo no a sap ensure acceptance on arrival, and if Three unemployed miners having large 'quantities were processed for emigrated to South Africa, and not the local market, there was not setas- being successful in obtaining emploY- cient demand for them. In manY cases several years ago, we have had as many as 1,500 oxer of salmon spoil- ed on account of their being no de- mand for them," declared Mr, De - Rome, in discussing the situation. "Now, with the demand tar exceed- ing the supply, advantageous prices, in excess of local ones, and with fu- ture markets assured, fish exporters are naturally shipping all they can to Europe. "The last shipment to be made from Quebec will be loaded some time soon, and will be around 25,000 pounds, Next yeas there will be an even greater demand for Canadian salmon, fcr Germany will be on the market." With the salmon market for the sea. son almost over, attention will focus from next week on, on the eel mar- ket, and as Quebec. ships around 1,- 000,000 pounds of este each year, there will be considerable activity around the Island of Orleans, from Levis to Lotbiniere and alt around the Quebec district, Germany takes the bulk Of the Quebec eel catch. Premier Ferguson !Canada Pla as Barrier Blown Up In Welland Canal Port Colborne, Ont.—The final blast of tate barrier between 'the 'present and the new Welland ship canals at Ramey's Bend was fired recently, The shot was composed of several tens of dynamite and was quite spec- tacular, A huge wave was flung up Asks Cooperation Mills to Crus' importance of Agriculture ani Affairs of Canada Emphasized SPEAKS AT TORONTO Palen Kernels New Industry to Develop Trade Ties With West African Colonies - Lottclon—Plaits are well advanced New C,N,R. Oil -Electric Loco- for the establishment of nolle in motive Makes Fast Run kernels ` 1 C from Montreal . Toronto—Proatiei G, H, Fergua ce ted exhibits of all British West Afri- can of Ohtani, emphasized the importance part coloexlttblts at the Catiadtan est Aual agriculture plays in the affairs of the country iu art address at itis Canacil0i1 Exhibition at Toronto; Colonel Le• National Exhibition directors' luticlei vey (Isolated that last year's :INDIay eon reoeutiy, Ifo said that rite auto ; had so stimulated trade between Can - motive. Industry would have had still acla and West Africa, with which the further progress this summer if Eider Dempster iine tttatntains direct Western Canada farmers had more; service, that this feature is expect money available to expend on cars, I ed to prove an attune! feature. "Tile manufacturers' organization," As 50011 ae the exhibition closes, ho said, "Is a wonderful force in can., dolonel Levey is' to proceed to New ada, You do net get the co•opmra- York in conneettoa with imports of tion of agriculture and wonder why, "West African cocoa Imports there, It is because you do net co-operate' Gold Coast 16 Be Advertised with it, You have the organization,! Anew nod powerful cocoa nssoct- the publicity methods, all the features anon was recently formed in London. necessary to co-operate with the un -;on the -initiative of tlte new West orgahieed farming communities. If African merger, the United Africa the Manufacturers' Association cltang-1 Company, At its recent meeting, It ed its name to something more use -I wag acnouncet' that 91 memebrs, re- presenting Mediae companies and as - brought in aa agricultural btanoh and sociatioas and various countries, have recognized agrleulture, we would get joined the association, It. wan also same great results," I announced that the Gold Coast Gov - Appeals for the development or ernment has given its consent to the Pater -Empire trade were made In add association's proposal for a big pub - dresses. ,by Sir Stanley Bois, of the llcity campaign to open up new mar - Rubber Association, Lieut, Col , J. H, kers for cocoa and to increase the s.;.• Levey, Commissioner for British West oonsumptien of exacting markets. Africa, and J. 0. Outerbridgo, seare-l. Nigeria, which today is' coming on tary of the Trade Development Board, very rapidly and already has an out- er Bermuda, at a luncheon tendered put equal to that of the West Indies, by the council of the Toronto Board' will, it Is believed, associate itself of Trade to commissioners of British with this, It is not quite clear at Emptre Exhibits at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition. West African Market Col. Levey said that a potential mar- ket of 25,000,000 people in British West Africa, who are fast becoming A party of 20 boys recently left for educated to western standards, should New' Zealand under the auspices or be taken advantage of by Canada. Mr, Outerbridge said travel between the "New Zealand Owners Grateful Canada and Bermuda had increased Debt to British Seamen Fund." A considerably since last February' considerable number of boys and girls when, extra, steamships.• had., been have now been happily settled et led i and, n that Placed in service between the two Domoncelnion there,y the Sheep Owners' As - countries. , Sir Stanley informed hie audience sedation continue`s to keep parental that Great Britain produces approx-� supervision over their welfare. The report of the commission set Ca ,Oda, to crush Waits African palm kernels a0 Ordltlg to CO one, Levey, the Gold Coast's ropresetttattve Iu London, who is in charge of the unl- present whether producers outside the British Empire will take part in this movement or not, bu Brazil has been in negotiation with Great Britain for acme time for such a joint campaign.. Boys Leave for Naw Zealand • and washed high over the banks, fmatoly 50 per cent. of the world's debris of ail sorts was hurled supply of rubber, the bulk of which is up by the Uganda Government to re, while d ' used by the United States: i port ou the 'local cotton position in onto the Humberstone -Welland high- t•ela`i n to the excess of glnneries Way.Oil-Electric Engine ' and also prase paid to cultivators, Many high tension wire poles, from Opening of the naw autom: rive recommends that the Government which the wires had been removed in building; arrival of "oil -electric loco• should fir minimum prices tor our• anticipation, were bent over,, while motive No, 9,000 of the Canadian Na-, chasing seed -Cotton, and purchase. one was Lhrorvn 15 yards across the tions! Railways" and another Yecord stay not bought at such; reduce the read.,' Men cleared the thorough breaking atendance marked the titlyd, giuneries in number by law: enforce fare at once, so that traffic was not day of the Canadian National Exhibl the formation of responsible ginnery materially hampered' for more than tion. I not and appoint official'na- The electric Lcoomottve left the five weighers; establish a cotton - Tee station, Montreal, pull- buying price control board; .pass ing the second section of the Inter-. measures to insure that the native national Limited at 11,30 Daylight grower can have bis south ginned Saving Time Monday morning, I and marketed at reasonable rates by The engine ,the biggest of its kind' those marketed treat remain; and 11 in the world, acca rigid cl rapidly ash this be not possible to help the na- 1 left the yards and gained a run -i gives to establish their own ginneries, nlug speed that varied between six- ty and seventy-five miles an hour over! the 324 mile run ,averaging more than fifty -live miles an hour. Ment, decided to :journey up country, an hour, where, far away from civilization,; they came across an explorers' depot, fairly well stocked with food. After a few days, when Lhe stores had become exhausted, and all three fed up, yet very hungry, one of their dumber de- cided to go in search of food, with. the avowed determination to hrlug back something to eat even if it were a lieu. He !•tad not searched fee when he encountered a lion, which was also in search of food, The lion at once bounded toward the man, who turned and sped as rapidly as humanly pos- sible toward the hut. On nearing the hut door, which was open, he stumb- led and fell, too proaipitately for the lion to recover, which bounded late the hut. When the man picked him -1 "When you takeca girl out in a ma, self up, he quickly pulled the hut door chine do you a with one arm?' "When I lade a girt oat I litre a to, and shouted to his mates inside, "Here you are!, Skin that whilst I cab." fetch another."--- The traveler was on his way east General' Escobar has bean named but he had gotten no further' than the by the rebels provisional President fever -and -ague district of a Southern of Mexico, which means, we take it State. As' the train jerked to a stop provided he can get It. at one particularly desolate town he put his head out of the window and The backless gown Is due for e, sum• A film actress wtto has been mar- called to a native propped against a mer stand, ,tare -told. With and post: "Tell me, what do you call this tied ,oar times is about to beed wed sleeves gone, the front excised, and dried-up, dreary, ornery, tow -down again, and one o, her divorced bus-1the skirt doing a fadeout, it won't be place?" "That's near enough, strang- bands is acting as best man. But tong before those Iwo cute little er," was the melancholy answer. surely what the lady really needs is shoulder straps, will have nothing to „Just Let it go at that." a referee to keep the score. hold on to. Y3: . - H ,:'•'' ;" : i,v......Y. , vn..Kt:.'.: rA.4i'r• DISTANT AND DARK SCOUTS AT JAMBOREE Indian Boy Scouts. with seine of their curious instruments at Camp Birkenhead, England, Arriving at Toronto at 7.10 (Octet - ern Standard Time) the special train was switched to track leading to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, A Big Job for the Forestry where all abr and were received as Department of Our guests for the grand stand perfor- mance for' the evening, after beteg welcomed by Mayor McBride of To- New Weelmtnster, B.C.—ceSetting an ronto and President Bradshaw c1 She example for the British Empire, the Exhibition. governmto ent o4 New is - Premier Ferguson officiated at the ning plant tens of Zealand. thousandsplanof Colum - opening ceremonies of the new bolta- acres of wild' land with British Colum- fng, Ho predicted that good highways. baa saplings, grown from seed now be - would be built in the near future ing gathered from yellow pine trees. from one end of the province to the The first order of tour thousand other and that all people of Ontario pounds of seed .will be followed with would be able to enjoy benefits of an annual order bor one thousand improved transportattrn, pounds. A network of highways had been Trees are gleaned from cones@wltich developed in Ontario he said, but this are gatheeod under direction of the was not enough. "We must push this ( Canadian Forestry Department. As transportation system to the remotes the cones take two years to mature sections of the ocnntry. We give the Department offers settlers spa - province equal opportunities. The, clip off tate ripe cones without disturb - man who chooses to make his home in, ing the new cones thereby assuring the remote sectirns of Ontario is next year's shpplY• surely entitled to the same privilege It takes a bushel of cones to provide of economical social prosperity that, one pound of aced. has:' the manan in the more populated areal Douglas Fir seed wil be Planted by New Zealand Gets Tree Seeds ofF.C. The arrival of the C.N.R. 015-' the Atistialian Government. This tree made British Columbia famous, electric locomotive was greeted by a The Australians insist that the cones large crowd, eager to see Canada's, be taken from trees ou the •Coast so contribution to improved railway transportation facilities,. Health Program as to got them from climatic condi- tions as near their own as possible. The United Kingdom Forestry Com. Hon, Dr. Forbes Godfrey Ontario mission will plant fifteen hundred Minister of health, opened the health: pounds of sitka spruce seed from the program at the headquarter's booth Queen Charlotte Islands, This true of the National Council of Women of1 supplies light wood suitable for air - Canada. Referring to the council, he plane construction. It is exceptional- said: "This little group is the key -I' ay strong and grows only on the Pact - stone and foundation of the whole, Ito Coast at present Canadian. National. Exhtbttlon, if 4 we did not have health, whore would Ottawa,—Finally revised statistics we be. Without health there is no on the output of copper in Canada, as happiness." I reported by the Mining, Metallurgical He said he was pleased at the and Chemical Branch of the Dominion growth of a "health attitude" among' Bureau of Statistics, show a protluc- Canadtans, and pointed out that when(tion in 1928 of 202,096,040 pounds, Premier Ferguson announced $1,000; I valued at $28,598,249,• as compared 000 for a research Emaciation, citizens with 140,147,440 pounds, valued ab responded by contributing, $2,000,000 $17,195,487 in 1927. This is an in - toward the work. I crease of 45 per cent. in quantity and Dr, Helen MacMurchy, Ottawa, De -1 68 per cent, in value, and marked the partment o,. National Health, spoke attainment of the largest output ever on maternal mortality, recorded for the Dominion. In 1928 rld'sa In dealing with neglected children pCanadaroducingwas solithetarywo, beinglexceededrgestcopper only the atm shout(' be to Influence (he by the united States, chile and heart rather than the intellect I Africa.