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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-07-12, Page 3BRITISH 'TROMPS GUARD PROPERTY OFEIS PARE STEEL COPORATION AT SYDNE Walkout of Cape Breton Coal. Miners is 100 Per Cent. Strong But Strikers'' Remain Qiiletly in Their Homes and Streets'; Are Deserted While Warship.Band- Plays •'LivelyAirs. A despatch ; from Sydney, N.S., •'says:-Thi+oughout Thursday and ups until a late hour' at night, the Cape Bretoo strike area was so quiet that one might almost hear the proverbial pin drop. , Steel helmeted soldiers guarded the property, of the British Empire Steel Corporation; local and mounted policemen roamed about the streets in the immediate vicinity of the plant, but resident of the affected district kept indoors for the most part and no untoward incident developed.ii The band of H.M.S. Wistaria, anchor- ed off the Royal Cape Breton .Yacht Club, played gaily to the evident en -J joyment of. hundreds lining the shore. An inspection of the colliery die fritts Thursday afternoon revealed conditions similar to those. prevailing In Sydney. , .At Glace Bay a barbell game . drew a slim attendance. The' miners for the most part stayed about! their own doorsteps and the streets were practically deserted. Only at Dominion No. 2, the: heart of the col -1. liery difftaict, supplying as it does the, i electrical energy required to operate, the ventilating, systems of nine other; mines, was there any evidence of a struggle. Here the plant is being; picketed byi-250 strikers working In four relays, on six -hour shifts. Earlier r in the present strike coal cars en route to the boiler plant were dumped on instructions of. the pickets, but ons Thursday there was no interference of this nature, and food supplies for the officials operating the machinery re- quired to protect theproperty were permitted to enter. A despatch frons Fort Wil1iain says:•=Shortly before noon on Thurs- day a military train passed through Fort William, carrying 170 men of the Princess Pats and the Fort Gaiity Horse en-route`,for the scene of the strikes nt Sydney, Cape; Breton. Six stock cars of horses ,are also in the special, which had, in addition, seven passenger cars, baggage ear and din- er. Another military special, will shortly pass here, with a.complete;iiia chihe gun .corpe'from the far Wet, en route for the same place. A despatch from Kingston says:- About`150 memiiers of'the Royal Can- adian Artillery of Kingston, under orders from Militia ' Headquarters at Ottawa,;liave left Petawawa for Syd- ney, N,S. A despatch from London, Ont., says :-Five officers and thirty-one men who had been left when the Royal Canadian R4giment was ordered to Sydney on strike duty were early on Thursday ,notified to depart for the East,and they left London for Sydney about 4 a,m. They were in charge of Lieut. -Col. W. T. Lawless, D.S.O., of the local headquarters staff. Other officers in the detachment included Cal. T. J. F. Murphy, Senior Medical Officer; Major D. J. Corrigan, D.S.Q., M,C., Major P. DeL. D. Passey, and Captain S. V. Cooke. Tecumseh Bar- racks are now practically deserted save for the women and children. Discoverer of insulin A unique tribute is being paidtoDr. F. 0 Banting, the youthful discoverer of the insulin' cure for diabetes. He has been. invited to open the Canadian Nobiona1 Exhibition at Toronto, and has accepted, though much against 3sis whl,' for (be is; v,'eiy reticent about pub- Lic appearances. In his honor it is to he International and Science year, and the foremost scientists in the: Dominion will be invited to meet him on opening day. He is at present in Great Britain:. Eggs Must be Graded Throughout Canada A despatch from Ottawa says:- "Mr. Consumer" is again to receive consideration at the hands of the Do- minion Government: He is to be sure that the "fresh" eggs he buys aro fresh, even though the grocer says they are. Next Monday the new leg- islation providing that eggs be bought from the producers according to grade and that they also be sold to the con- sumer according to grade will become effective. A pile of protests from the middle- men lies upon the desk of Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Deputy Minister of Agri- culture, against the proposed law. The commission dealers complain that they have bought large quantities ahead of the market and on the ungraded style, and they demand that they have the opportunity of disposing of them in the same manner. The attitdde of the department, however, is that Parliament has de- creed that grading shall be universal- ly observed in Canada and no excep- tions to the law will be made.' So the commission merchants, though they bought ungraded eggs, will have to sell graded eggs. } BALLOT BOXES SENT NORTH BY AIRPLANE Election at Moose Factory Cost Province About $g0 for Each Vote. ' A despatch from Cochrane (int., says: It cost the Province of Ontario approximately $20 for each vote polled at Moose Factory In the: recent elec- tion. The •ballot boxes had to be taken In and out by airplane, officials made their visits by the same method,. while enumerators went in and out by canoe, The total cost was about $1,000, Of the 47 ballots: cast, only one elec- tor, the Hudson Bay factor, had ever voted before, but despite •this, and al- though mostof the other voters were Indians, there were no spoiled papers. The airplane with the boxes made the round trip in five hour actual fly ing time, while the enumerators took five weeks by the river route. WAR SECRET TOLD BY VICE -ADMIRAL How . Thirteen German U - Boats Were Destroyed by the British. A despatch from London says: -A war secret involving the destruction of thirteen German submarines was re- vealed on Friday: by Vice -Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, when he was presented with the freedom of the borough. Sir Rbger said that in October, 1917, a German submarine which had been blown up in Waterford': Harbor was raised, when. most valuable informa- tion was found on her. There were details as to how German submarines got under or over the mine barrage across the Straits of Dover. The Ad miralty,then established a long line of small craft, manned by 150 fishing crews. The result was that thirteen German submarines were soon lying at the bottom of the Channel between Folkestone and Cape Griz Nes. Previously the losses of English merchant vessels hadamounted to' 70,000 or 100,000 tons per week, but as a result of this operation that was reduced by five or six thousand tons per week, Dreyer Vaccine Available for Canadian Sufferers A despatch from London says: - Canadian 'tuberculosis sufferers, who perceive fresh hopes for them in re- ports of the success of Prof. Dreyer's new anti -consumption vaccine treat- ment, have. been enquiring whether it could be made available for them. The British Medical Research Council, who are carrying out trials of Prof. Drey- er's vaccine, state that they have been besieged by similar enquiries from all over the world, but that neither they nor Prof. Dreyer himself can deal with then;. Trials of the new treat- ment are in progress at suitable ex- tperimental centres. Patients already under observation are the subjects of these trials, and additional; cases can- not now be included. To enquiry from Canada as to whether a specialist, if sent to England, could obtain a"supply of the vaccine and instruction for its use, it is replied that as soon as the treatment has been demonstrated to be efficacious supplies of'the vaccine will immediately be made available through the usual channels. Belgium Rapidly Rebuilding War Wrecked Homes A despatch from Brussels says: - Belgium 18 staving • her reconstruction problem rapidly. .Statistics Show that 600 out of 960 houses haye been re- built In Nieuport and 500 out of 930 at Dixmude. Out of a total 'popula- 'tion df ,,3,700 tai Dixmude before the war, 2,000 have returned, In Ypres 2,488 houses have: been re- built out of a total of •3,780. Through- out Belgium 75,000 out of 100,000 homes destroyed have either been re- built or made habitable at, a cost of 685,000 francs, and only sixty public buildings out of 1,200 remain to be restored. France to Purchase Wheat from Canada A despatch from Paris sage: -The Canadian Press learns that the French Government has instructed its Chicago 'agencies ,to buy it three months' supply of wheat, ' all hopes of a bumper crop inbhis, country having been dissipated. It is understood that the largest orders for the wbeat will be placed in Canada, on account of the exchange. it\� 'itvt'ee hh Nea teteeeseeeeeee HALIFAX HARBOR MAY COME INTO' IT8'OWN Matfett :shippers ars being urged to transfer from New York and make Halifax their port of call on this ide of the Atiahtic to avoid difficulties fifth the United States Government over both prohibition and immigration regulations. Halifax has time finest ?arbor on the Atlantic coast, amid- when its. construction program is- sonar/Ate will "have one of the finest ports in the waned. A transfer of Atiantic,ubdpping routes to Halifax would mean a tremendous beam to'Canada. British postal •authorities are being urged in the Parliament to transfer the mats to, a Halifax route.: The picture shows' the harbor as it will appear when complete. Foreign WheacetedCsropast Year's s DOCS STRIKE IN BRITISH ISH Ex L PORTS 40 000 MEN IDLE ' A ., despatch from Weehington says: -The foreign wheat crop this year will be larger than it was last year, according to radiograms re- ceived by the Department of Agricul- ture from the Internationale Inti tute of Agriculture at Rome. The crop in, eight foreign countries, which last year produced more than one-fifth of the total world crop, is forecast at 750,785,000 bushels for 1923, tie com- pared -with 656,988,000 bushels in 1922. The 1923 wheat crop in Spain is forecast at 142,070,000 bushels as compared with 125,469,000 bushels in 1922. The rye crop is forecast at 30,- 309,000 0;309,000 bushels 'as compared with 28,- 252,000 bushels last year; barley at 91,781,000 bushels es compared with 77,533,000 bushels last year, and oats at 26,991,000 bushels as compared with 81,214,000 bushels in 1922. The 1923 wheat crop of Bulgaria 1s forecast at 88,783,000 bushels com- pared with 27,926;000 bushels last year; the rye crop at 8,480,000 bush- els as compared with 7,204,000 bush- els last year; barley ' at 12,281,000 bushels as compared with 9,824,000 bushels, and oats at 10,053,000 bush- els ae compared with 19,802,000 bush- els harvested in 1922, The New Ontario Cabinet. PRIME MINISTER Hon. George Howard Ferguson.. ATTORNEY -GENERAL William Folger Nlckle,Kingston PROVINCIAL TREABU„RER Lt. -Col. William Herbert Price, Parkdale MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS Hon. George S. Henry, East York MINISTER OF MINES Charles McCrea, Sudbury MINISTER OF LANDS AND FORESTS James Lyons, Sault Ste. Marie MINISTER LABOR AND HEALTH Dr. Forbes Godfrey, West -York MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE John' S. Martin, South Norfolk MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO Hon. Thomas Crawford, North-West Toronto REPRESENTATIVES ON THE HYDRO BOARD Sir Adam Beck, London, and John R. Cooke, North Hastings. Lack of Railways Causes Homesteaders to Migrate A despatch from Winnipeg says: - The failure of the Senate to pass the Canadian National branch lines bill, which carried' provision for the con- struction of several lines in Manitoba, has caused many settlers to give up their;,homesteads and migrate to the cities and towns, according to Joseph Hamelin, M.P.P. for Ste, Rose. A line was to have been constructed from Ste. Rose du Lac to Rorlceton,.a distance of 22 miles, but, with no hope of getting it this year, Mr. Hamelin said, seven families have pulled up stakes and left for other parts. A petition, asking the Government to reverse the decision of the Senate is now being circulated. A despatch from London says:- claim the cost of living has not fallen The dock strike continued to 'spread as the index shows. • on Thursday until 40,000 men are idle Under wage agreements made last in British ports,18 fl00 of them on. year' the men in many trades besides a the dockers agreed to accept less pay the Thames. London millers have only as the cost of living fell, the Board seven to ten -days' supply 'of wheat, of Trade index to be the basis for the but no meat famine is likely because scheme. of the quantities of frozen meat in The index is based on statistics storage. However; meat,. prices have gathered from retailers all over the gone up, ' - country. It covers food, rent, clothes, Labor leaders all oppose the strike, fuel and a miscellaneous group and are confident the leaderless move -that includes soap, soda, household resent must collapse within a few days .fittings, brushes, pottery, tobacco, car owing to lack of funds. They are do- fares and newspapers. The prices of ing all they can to get the men back these items are combined in accord to work.- ance with their estimated relative im- At a meeting of the dock workers' portance in the average pre-war week - At ing class expenditure -7% units for section of the Transport and General food, 2 for rent, 1% for clothes, 1 for fuel and light and 1/ for other items. This index now 'indicates a fall in Workers' Union, held in London on Thursday, a resolution wasadopted ordering the outlaw strikers to resume the cost of living from 84 per cent. work by Monday. 3t is doubtful, how -above the pre-war level last year to ever, that the order will be obeyed. 69 per cent. Labor leaders do not de - One result of the strike is likely' to fend the action of the strikers in be an official investigation into the breaking their agreement to accept methods the Board' of Trade uses in this index, but they do agree the index fixing the .index of commodity prices. is unreliable. They want the method This index was used as the basis for of compiling it changed and this view the shilling a day wage cut 'against is winning considerable public sym- which the dockers are striking. They pathy. HARD COAL DINERS PRESENT DEMANDS FOR HIGHER WAGES AND 8 -DOUR DAY A despatch from Atlantic City says :-The demands of the anthracite mine workers for increased wages, adopted in convention at Scranton, Pa., last week, toform the basis of a. new wage contract to replace the present agreement when it expires August 31, were formally presented to coal operators at a joint meeting in a beach, -front hotel. The operators would not disclose what reply they would make to the 155,000 hard coal miners of Pennsyl- vania, but the general opinion among those watching the negotiations was that the employers will refuse the de- mands and aslc for the appointment of a subcommittee to reach an 'agree -I mend. John L. Lewis, International Presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, pre- sided at the, joint session, at which there were about 100 representatives of the operators and miners present, President Lewis was the chief spokesman for the men. He read the demands and then made a long speech in which he explained them in general terms. The demands provide for a 20 per cent. increase in thewage contract, a two -dollar -a -day increase for men paid' by the day or month, an eight- hour day, recognition of the union, a two-year contract, and a number of .others of a"technical character. President Lewis, in presenting the ' demands, said therecould beno nia- • terial compromise in any of the car- dined : points, such as wages, hours of employment and recognition' of the union. He said the demand for the 20 per cent increase was warranted under eea e'ret". rnIASHiN PPN H\v? Pett`( Leiria -Et acYee'a nr. - - present industrial conditions, and that the men in the anthracite fields were not receiving wages commensurate with the hazards of mining, and the hours of work. On the question of the eight-hour clay, the union leader declared that many of the mine workers were labor- ing twelve hours and more a day and seven days a week. Such long hours, he asserted, were not justified by in- dustrial conditions in the -coal in- dustry. Speaking of the check -off, which recognition of the union carries with it, Mr. Lewis said that organized labor did not desire to take away con- etitutional or inheritant rights of any working man. The miners' union, he added, did not want to say that a man can or cannot work in the mines, but it did want to say that if any man works in an organized field he ought to belong to a union. Marking-HIstorlcai' Spot In Kingston • Thee tablet above was unveiled in Hiegston during the recent 'convention of the Ontario }Botanical Society. It thas been' placed on. the front of `the British Wbtg building weer narks the elite of St, 'George's Anrglican church, wherein the fined meetimg of the B ecu- Gtve Couneid of Upper Canada was laid. • a To Transport 40,000. Hands from. Eastern Canada A despatch from Winnipeg says: - Anticipating a record 'harvest,, plans for bringing 40,000 harvest hands from Eastern Canada' to assist the farriers of Western Canada it reap- ing and threshing their crepe will be discussed at a meetingof railway and employment service officials here, on July 17. Members of the United Farmers' organizations in the Prairie Provinces will also attend, The Week's Markets TORONTO. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 81,191. Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 58'{zc; No. 8 CW, 502c,; No. 1 feed, 49c, Manitoba barley -Nominal. All the above, track, Bay ports, Amer. corn -No. 2 yellow, $1.011/2c. ing t Bao frleyr-Meightsalting,outsid59e• to 61c, accord- uckwheat-No. 2, 68 to 69c, Rye --No. 2, 76 'to 78c, Peas -No. 2, 81.40 to $1.45. Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights, bags included. l3ran, per ton, $25 to $26; shorts, per ton, $27 to 329; mid- dlings, 333 to $35; good feed flour, $2.15 to $2.25. Ontario wheat -No, 2 white, $1.20 to. 31.22. Ontario No. 2 white oats -50 to 51e. Ontario corn -Nominal. Ontario flour -Ninety per cent, pat., is jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- ment, $5.10 to $5.20;' Torcnto basis, $6.05 to $5.15; bulk, seaboard, 34.95 to 35. Manitoba flour -1st pats.,in cotton sacks, .$6.90 per barrel; 2nd pats., $6,86, Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton' track, Toronto $15; No. 3 timothy, $13; mixed, $18.50' to 318.50, Straw -Car loth, per ton, track, To- ronto, $9.60. Cheese -New, large, 190; twine, 20c; triplets, 21c; Stiltons, 22c. Old, large, 82c; twins, 32%c; triplets, 33c;. Stilton, 88%c. New Zealand old cheese, 30e. Butter -Finest creamery prints, 35 to 86c; ordinary creamery prints, 38 to 34e; dairy, 24 to 25e;; cooking, 22c. Eggs -No. 1, 27 to 28c; selects, 31 to 82c; cartons, 33 to 34e. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 40c; hens, over 5 lbs., 220; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20c; do, 8 to 4 lbs. 17c; roosters, 15e; ducklings, over 6. lbs., 0c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 28c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 25e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 45c; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 24e; do, 3 to 4 lbs„ 20c; roosters, 17c; ducklings, over 6 lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 29c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up 30c. Beans -Dian., hand-picked, lb., 7c; primes 62c. Maple products -,Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal, tin, $2.40 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c. Honey -60 -lb. tins, 10% to lit per lb.; 8 and 21/2-1b. tins, 11 to 121/2c per lb.; Ontario comb honey, per doz., No, 1, $4.50 to $5; No. 2, 38.75 to $4.25. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 26 tqo 28c; cooked hams, 41 to 44c; smoked rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 25 to 280; breakfast bacon 80 to 84e; spe- cial brand breakfast Bacon, 34 to 38e; Lacks, boneless, 87 to 42c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., 818; 70 to 90 lbs., $17.50' 90 lbs. and up, $16.50; lightweight rolls, $in3R barrels, 338; heavyweight rolls,. Lard -Pure tierces, 151,4 to 15%e; tubs, 15/ to 1Gc; pails, 16 to 16eis; prints, 18c. Shortening, tierces, 14% to 16c; tuba, 15 to 15%c; pails, 16% to 16c; prints, 17 to 171/2c. Choice heavy steers, 38.85 to $8.75; butcher steers, choice, $7.75 to 38; do, good, $7 to $7.50; do, med., $6.50 to $7; do, coin., $6 to 86.25; butcher heifers, choice, $7 to $7.60; do, med., 36.50 to 37; do, com., 38 to $6.50; butcher cows choice, 35 to $5.50; do, med., $4 to $5; canners and cutters, 31.50 to $2; butcher bulls, good, $4.50 to $5.50; do, com•, $3 to 34; feeding steers, good, $7 to $7.50; do, fair, $8 to $6.76; stockers, good, 35 to 36; do, fair, $5 to 35.60; milkers, springers, each, $60 to 380; calves, choice, $8.50 to 39.50;" do, med., 36,50 to 38; do, com., $4.50 to $6; lambs, spring, $14 to $15; sheep, choice, light, 36 to 38.50; do, choice, heavy, $4 to $4.50; do, culls and bucks, 32.75 to $3.50; hogs, fed and watered, 38.86; do, f.o.b., 37.75; do, country points, 37.50. • MONTREAL. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats„ 1ste, 36.90; 2nds, $6.40; strong bak- ers', $6.20; winter pats., choice, 36.05 to 36,15. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., 33.05 to $3.15. Bran, $26. Shorts, $29. Middlings, 384. Hay, No. 2, per tea, car lots, $13 to 315. Cheese, finest eastern, 16% to 16%c. Butter, choicest creamery, 29% to 29%c. Eggs, selected, 30o. Po- tatoes, per bag, car lots, 31,80 to 31.25. Com. cows, $3.76 to 34.50• bologna bulls, $3.25 to up; cows of cutter qual- ity, 38 to $8.50. Calves, fair to med., 35.75 to $6.25; do, picked ones, 36.50; drinker calves, $3 up; sheep,' $3 to $4.50; lambs, $10 to 312 per cwt. 'Hogs, ungraded, $9.50 to $9.75; pack- ers took, several lots at $9 for thick smooths with a ten per cent premium for select bacon' hogs selected under Government grading; sows, 36.26 to $6.75. Last Trevessa Survivors Land; Water, Food Gone A despatch from Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, says: -The last drop of water had been drunk and the last biscuit eaten when the second lifeboat of the British steamship Trevessa ar- rived at this island with sixteen elm- vivors. Twenty-four men got away in this lifeboat from the Trevessa just before she' sank a month ago In the Indian Ocean, but eight of them suc- cumbed tothe hardships they were forced to endure in the small open boat, Chief Officer Smith told of the ter- rible sufferings the men went through. He said that the eight men who died began drinking sea water when they could no longer withstand thir thirst. They collapsed from exhaustion and the last of them died in sight of land. The daily ration was one biscuit for each man and a few drops of water. They added to their original meagre water supply by catching rano water, When they landed' the survivors, gaunt, and some of them with long beards, sank to their knees and thank- ed God for their deliverance; Then their, first request was for water. All of them had badly swollen feet, owing to constant immersion in salt water•', "" Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Service of the Depart-, ment of the Interior, Ottawa, says:- It is interesting': to note in connection with the development of Canada's natural resources that Canadian tobacco is laolc- ed,upon very favorably by the British inmortota and manu- facturers on account of its sup- erior flavor, and in this respect is superior to tobacco imported from other ` British colonies, such as South Afrfca and Rhodesia, while at the same time it compares favorably with that imported from the United States. So, great is the demand for Canadian tobacco.' that over one million pounds, grown in Essex county, On- eario, was shippedto Great Bri- tain during 1922 to be used in the manufacture of cigarettes, pipe tobacco and twists. In anticipation of increased re- quirements of this commodity in Great Britain it is reported that a British tobacco firm has purchased land at Kingston, Ontario, and proposes to erect a modern factory there for the, processing and curing of Can- adian leaf tobacco. The Can - adieu Tobacco Growers' 'Co- operative. Company has entered'. into a contract to supply the new British firm with 2,000,000 pounds of dark leaf tobacco. VISITS CANADIAN ISLANDS IN ARCTIC Ship "Arctic" Again on Trip to Isles in the Polar Seas. A despatch from Oittawa says: - Tho ship "'Arctic," which made a trip to the Canadian islands of the Arctic -circle last year is going again this year and took its departure July 7, from Quebec. J. D. Craig, engineer of the International Boundary Commis- sion, is in charge of the expedition, which has been formed for the pur- pose of carrying supplies to two Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts and. also to establish a new post at the north end of Ellesmere Island at Cape Sabine. A party of surveyors, natur- alists and engineers are going on the ship for the purpose of investigating the natural resources of the Canadian far north. Captain Bernier is again in command of the ship. Incidentally, the "Arctic" will carry the machinery of justice to the north. Among the passengers are Judge L. A, Rivet, of Montreal; F. X. Biron, Crown coun- sel; Leopold Tellier, defence counsel, and other court officials and interpret- ers. They will proceed to Pond's In= let for the purpose of trying a number of Eskimos being held there by the R. C.M.P. on the charge of murdering Robert Janes, a native of Newfound- land, at Cape Crawford, Baffin Island in 1920. On board. the. "Arctic" theve will .alsobe parties from .the Geo- logical and Geodetic Survey Depart- ments of the Dominion Government. Including the crate and scientists, the ship will carry in all about forty peo- ple to'the .North. • New Altitude Record Made by a Woman A despatch from St. Louis, Mo., says: --Mrs. Bertha Horchem, profes- sional aviatrix of Ransom, las., established a new altitude record for women by ascending 16,300 feet at St. Louis Aviation Field on Thursday. The previous record was 15,700 feet and was made by. ,Andrea Peyre, French woman flier, in California, last May. Officials at the field announced that the flight was official Mrs. Hor- chem was in the au two ]ours and eight minutes. When she descended she had to be lifted from the cockpit of her plane, her handsand feet being frost-bitten, despite her winter clothes. Drury Selected as U.F.O. Leader A despatch from Toronto says:, At the caucus at the Parliament Build. Inge of the elected and defeated U.F.0, candidates on Thursday, the decision was reached that the party would, at the next session of the Ontario House, sit as the official Opposition, and not merely as en occupntiunal bloc. Far- ther, and of :perhaps greater signl9a. canoe in: view of the history of Farm- er politics during the past four years, strong pressure was exerted upon Premier : Drury to remain as loader of the party, and the proposition that is favored at present is to call a con- •cn,':n, have him enlersed as such, and open up a refit tar him, R final decision ip the leadership questi+,i'is expected to be reath',d ab n 'farther •neeting or the patcv to bo hold in Toronto en July 27th. St. Kilda„ Britain's most remote island, with ` a population' of eighty souls, is cut off for abopt eight months in the year by the'stoamay seas on its rooky shores. Most of the churches In Naples have three or four eats attached to there, They are Rept for the purpose of catching the mice which in:',eat all 4 t aen- dent . Neapolitan buildings. The ante mals may often be seen walking abotat among the congregation or stretehod before the altars. '