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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-02-22, Page 3Thursday, February 2.2, 1934 THE. WING AM ADVANCE -TIMES EDWAiI ChirSBM Tbb economical and delicious table syrup tr r,11c l,tsE+!i' a l 4'.................... JECAN4DASTA1cH CO: q dll LIMITED, MOrsiTRE World Wide News hi Brief Form Price Issues Book on Communism at you," the woman shouted. A brief Combatting "red" propaganda with consultation • folowed, then the attack- "red, white and blue propaganda" ing party withdrew. Attorney -General Price has directed publication of a pamphlet, "Agents of. Priest Goes to Volcano for Peace Revolution; A History of the Work- Victoria—"I am again going into ers' Unity League, Setting Forth Its the crater of. Aniakchak Volcano and Origin and Aims." stay,a few weeks. There I can have "The Workers' .Unity League is the .absolute quiet and peace, and perhaps name for, the Communist Party of :finish my book on Aniakcliak," stet - Canada's activity in the industrtial ed Father I3ernard R. Hubbard, S,J., field," the Attorney -General's booklet "The Glacier Priest" of Alaska. Fath - bluntly charges. It quotes Tim Buck, er Hubbard was in Victoria for one imprisoned Communist leader, on 'the of his periodical rests at St. ,Joseph's broad channel of the revoluntionary •Hospital. He expects to have another: ;movement' and 'the general strike as brief vacation: in Victoria before sail-. a gateway tie revolution.' `ing for Alaska early in May. "lt is Instructions from Moscow, says the now twenty-one years since the valley pamphlet, were "the real genesis of of 10,000 smokes blew tip," 'Father t1 e, Workers' Unity League." It came Hubbard said, "and according to the into being "very clearly as a result . twenty -three-year cycle of volcanoes, of prodding from Moscow." Austrian. Socialists to Carry 'On Warfare ' Ignoring, the plea of his Christian Social Party for the restoration of parliamentary rule, Chancellor Doll- fuss of Austria added to the prestige of his new Fascist allies by raising Under-Secretary Neustadter-Stuermer a member of the • Fascist Heimwehr, to the post of Minister of Social Wel- fare. it should be active this summer. We hope to see something." vincial and Municipal included, is still great Salt Lake Desert, over what • ' "out of all reasonable proportion," -- 'once was the bed of •the great inland U. S. Government Wins First Round !sea.' It lies near United States .High Re Air -Mail Contracts Urges Amalgamation of Railways ;way No. 40, which crosses e the salt New York—The United States Go- Ottawa—Amalgamation tinder pub- • beds on a causeway built up of earth vernrnent won the firs legal step in lic ownership of Canada's two great ancigravel, Right Hip and Arm Fractured, in Fal defense of its cancellation of air -mail railways and: reduction in interest rates to Government bond -holders in Canadian Missionary' Shot .Miss Mary Ettper, who is about'? contracts held by private companies. rates of age, was brought to th Federal Judge John C. I`nox. clic- Canada, 'were suggested by Here \'s•'. Hsinkint•, Manchui•da— Authorities missed D F i Bruce County Hospital last Sunda ty appraisal, said he feared he would dell, wa.s examined in the jail office, have to summon more. One fight suc-Jail officials and police reported that eeeded another until a free-for-all he was wearing corsets or' stays and a broke out on the south 'side of the form of brassiere, Woman's silk un- speaker's platform, dergarments were . found, among the prisoner's effects, jail officials report - New Anglo-RAssian Trade ed, The jail surgeon stated that he Pact Is Signed believed' it• weuid he quite easy for the London—A five-year..plan to bring prisoner to impersonate a woman, as the trade balance between the United he has decidedly' effeminate manner Kingdom and Soviet Russia into of walking and holding his hands. His equilibrium, without endangering Em -speech is inclined to he effeminate pire trade, was inaugurated with the also, signing, of the new Anglo -Russian —.— trade pact. : Stevens Beads Committee The agreement contains a specific Ottawa—Hon, H, H. Stevens, min - clause providing against a` price -cut- inter of trade and commerce, was ting by Russia that might nullify the chosen chairman of the special house benefits of the' Empire preferences. committee on price. spreads, mass or endanger domestic industry ip Bri- buying and the' financial set-ups of tain. It provides that complaints may Canadian industry,generally. be investigated and, if ,no agreement The special committee of 11 mem- can be reached, the most -favored -na- tion treatment for the products con- Mr. Stevens being the only name sub cernecl shall lapse. misted for chairman. Probably the chief repercussion of Many representations and material the trade pact will be felt in the Un- bad already 'been made to him, ,said ited States, since the Soviet Union Mr: Stevens. This would be turned' undertakes ultimately to quadruple its over to the committee. The order of purchases from 13rltairi. Last year, reference, .continued the trade minist- Britain bought $87,000,000 worth of er, might, be divided into two parts, goo<ts from Russia and sold' to 'Ruse the first dealing with the.broad ques- sia only $21,000,000 worth;: tion of distribution which was almost unlimited in scope and the second Drayton Speaks in the West ` • dealing with specific questions such as Brandon, Man. -"Make the balanc- mass buying and sweat shops. ' ing of Government budgets, the' re- duction of taxation,:yotir business and Campbell May Race on Salt Speedway you' will get results" Sir Henry Dray- Salt Lake City—A bed of solid salt, ton of Toronto Board of Trade, open- hard as concrete and several feet thick ing a Western campaign for economy is under consideration as the scene of in public expenditures. Sir Henry, a , Sir Malcolm. Campbell's next effort to former Canadian Minister of Finance, attain a speed of 300 miles an hour declared that, although Governments in his racing car. have made reductions, the cost of j The proposed course is about 100 government in Canada, Federal,;pre- miles west of Salt Lake City, in the ectcd flight and day to' the task of thawing out hydrants, `mains and oth- er pipes and power has been freely used in an effort to accomplish the work,—Kincardine Review -.Reporter. Contents of Hotel Sell for $92,45 Gadertch—•The entire contents of a 20 -room hostelry sold for $92,45 at a bailiff's sale to satisfy municipal taxes. The furnishings of the rotunda and office, including show cases; cash register, lounging chairs, ete., were knocked down for $10, the furnishings of the parlor bring a like amount. Contents of bedrooms brought .$2 to. $4. There we're only two bidder;, the successful one being A. 5, Copper, who holds the mortgage' on the build- ing. Fire in Well at Ripley bers held an organization meeting, Kincardine -"Well, well," probably Reeve Duncan Munn, of Ripley, made some such remark Tuesday night when he discovered that his well was afire. The' reeve, who was reading his paper, noticed smoke seeping through the goons but a search of the house showed nothing but ;rnore'smoke. Fin- ally fire was discovered in the well which resembled a miniature volcanic eruption. However, with water in the well and water poured in it the flam- es were soon extinguished. Chickens Frozen There have been casualties among the farm poultry. A farmer named Hamilton, near Listowel, found a doz- en hens frozen and dead. Another, when feeding his pets heard their feet hitting the floor very hard. Next day however, they stepped about as if no thing had happened. Others nevi; - stopped laying and such hens ougl to 'be noted and their posterity pre served. Big roosters were the heav est sufferers, for the combs and ofte wattles are frozen. it rurn+svaawvaV+a ngpan+ nkw.. :.. , M.«uuy+m. AGri THERE'S NO DO OT ABO UT 1T. CP.. A! NWk RMY.IM+Sce(P,+.1+.rvw+A.CW 1 n Three years ago there was plenty of .publicized 13amberger-Watkins' mixed controversy about whether or not lit- •baby case. Now the I.iatnbergers are p eltice Geneve. is a iiainbcrger., Ile 1 'tle George flarnberger of Chicago.vi as , likes is=e cream , ,t:. yaw A,u.. el:s-- 0 really it ,.r,..,....,.. ... .,.... widely, e the action of the 'i`ranscon- -user, former Munster of National are searching, so' far w•ltlrout success, tinental and Western i Revenue in the ' for two robbers vh , sit f from the .home on the 10th Cnttces- 1 r Air, Inc., for an Commons, as neeess- o shot and killed cion of Carrick of her brother-in-law, in junction to refrain Postmaster- ary steps to Canadian ecctnantie re- Father Emile Charest, 33 -year-old ISaturda nil, blis L French-Canadian at1iotic missionary y g s Duper went up - Socialist leaders are reported to General James A. Farley and John K. eovery, In respect of his railway am- ,, stairs, and af• ter reachingthe top she al from Rantouraska, ue., and his titan r have ordered their followers to carry Icicles of New York from carrying out „amation paoposal, he clecIared the Q , Man - on a relentlessguerilla warfare 1Farre saving would a ehurian servant. Detailed information 'collapsed, presurnbaly due to a slight y s order cancelling all contracts „grcgate almost: $100, • I4 stroke, and -fractured. her right hip against Police Ned Fascists and bands 'on next Monday. 000,000, and, concerning Government of the incident reaching here sh?wedl land of defeated insurgents are said to be "Any action toward saying what in- bondholders, he declared that they the robbers entered Father Charest's right arm.—Walkerton Tel ,scope. were the only possessors vicarage at Chengchi,ttun 3 P sensors of wealth a`. g on the who had not felt the Ssuyin hkai-Tivnan Railway,150 mil- Committed for Trial on •pinch of depres- I gSerious Offense sion, and in his opinion, they ought to es from here. The robbers were ran - contribute to the common weal. sacking the e , vicarage for money and valuables whenthe missionary and his Men Rescued from Ice. Floe servant resisted, and were promptly Port Colborne—Seven men, two of shot down with pistols. The robbers there Port Colborne firemen, were made their escape. rescued by the life-saving crew of the Fire Department when a large floe of Maguire Makes Statement ice on which they were fishing broke Re Hydro Critics loose and drifted rapidly out into the C. Alfred Maguire, President of the lake. Before the last of them was Ontario _Municipal Electric Associat- lurking in the sewers of Vienna, from whence they may easily emerge to engage in flying fights .with their op- ponents. Generally, 'conditions throughout counsel for T.W.A. presented argu Austria were tranquil. Europe was content to watch •ev- ents, though Britain, France and Italy were reported to be preparing a joint note to Germany, warning her that Austrian independence must not be tampered with. Such a .yarning' un- doubtedly would -be intended, inciden- tally, to discourage the Austrian Naz- is from attempting to seize control of the government, as rumors in. Vienna cialists, trade unionists and Commune strumentality must be used to carry the mai] is an action against the Un- ited States," said Judge Knok, after Federal Attorney Martin Conboy and meats. Fights Break Out at Socialist Meeting, New York—A fight broke out in a balcony of Madison Square Garden during a mass meeting of workers protesting against Socialist suppres- sion in Austria. Chairs were swung as clubs, and a policeman was knocked down. Between 17,000 and 20,000 So - assert they are preparing to do. ists were at the meeting. The 150 patrolmen an duty were ordered not 'W'onean Routs Five Constables to carry theirtnight stick's. The fight Tilbury—Five constables were rout started as Charles Solomon, a leading ed when they called at the •home of a Socialist, was introduced amid ming - Tilbury East Township family' and led cheers and boos. In the uproar, found themselves threatened with the speaker could not be heard. boiling water. Under the impression Policemen shouldered their way to that the family, newly moved into the district, might become a public charge they called to move them back to Til - "bury East. "Touch one stick of fur- niture, and 111 throw this hot water safely ashore, more than a mile of op- ion, in a statement issued reiterated en water Iay between the men and a warning uttered recently to the as- the shore. Fishing through the ice -has sociation against operations and pro- paganda of interests opposed to the been.reported'uncommonly good'late ly, but the storm loosened the ice co-operative, public -ownership princi- ples of Hydro. In this statement he and rendered the sport a dangerous one. returns to the attack on former anti - Hydro activities of the National El- • To Probe Radio Commission 'ectric Light Association which he de- Blares is carrying on under the new eller was forced to remain in his car Ottawa -Canada's much -pummelled 2 on Highway No. 9 Radio Commission is to come under na ne Edison'Electric Institute, That . g y about three miles; the latter institute is carrying on where the former association left off is the view of the General Counsel of the United States Federal Administ- ration of Public Works, quoted by Mr. Maguire. • Mr. Maguire also reverts to his crit- icism that a book on hydro by the late Professor Mavor was subsidized by the National Electric Light Assoc- iation and thousands of copies of the. book distributed as propaganda. Goderich—Thomas Govenlock, 23 school teacher of Ravenswood, was committed for trial by Magistrate Reid on two serious charges involving a 17 -year-old Egmondsville, Huron County girl. The committal came a the conclusion of six hours of testi mony by three crown witnesses. The complaintant and a young couple who rode in the rear seat of the automo- bile returning from a dance at Kip - pen, on the night of Nov. 10 last, the date of the alleged offence. No de- fence evidence was taken. ;cher or so at the bac(.. — Caiman News-Reeurd. Presents Valued Gift The Listowel high school this week received a valued gift, when Mr. and Mrs. N.. 1,. Scott presented the school with a beautiful piano. This genet ous gift is greatly appreciated by the staff and student body now in attend- .ance and will be appreciated also by the . staff' and student bodies of the future.—Listowel Standard. Porcupine Bests Dogs It is common knowledge that cur- t iosity killed the cat. And it is an equally well-known fact that curiosity had almost fatal results for two can- ines which let the primal urge to ex- plore get the better of them. The calm of Friday evening was shattered rudely by the yelping of two dogs, who in their quest for knowledge, had routed a porcupine out of his home. 1Sub-zero weather was no deterrent to 111 the dogs as they dug frantically at jthe home of the genus hystrix who resented intrusion—and rightly so. Throwing discretion to the winds and his quills in the same direction, the porky bore down on his astonish- ed stonished assailants who were gazing in awe on some new species. When the !quills struck they stuck and the long- er they stuck the deeper they were !imbedded. The dogs made for home Motorist Badly Frozen Unable to get through the badly- drifted adlydrifted highway with his motor car in a ra in storm the centre of the disturbance and iprobe after one year of operation, the started to carry out one man before Premier moving in the House for the one of the .officers was struck by a appointment of a committee to "re - chair. Inspector Anderson brought 12 consider the National Radio Broad - additional patrolmen, and, after a has- casing. question." The prevailing sta- -see. — tute expires ori .April 1 next. The committee, said the Premier, is to give members an opportunity to present their views, so that a report might be made to the House. The personnel of the committee remains to be announced, but expectations are Hon. Raymond Morand (Conservative Essex East) will be chairman. 3Man Poses an Heiress t d St. Thomas—The biggest hoax that has been perpetrated, in this district iti many years was definitely cleared up when the "mystery heiress" of Springfield, Eugene Dickinson, or IGene Crandall, appeared before Mag- istrate C. F. Maxwell in county Police Court and pleaded guilty to a charge laid under Section 136 of the Crim- inal Cocle,: cif wilfully and knowingly publishing false new whereby injury or mischief is likely to be occasioned to some public interests. The prison- er gave the naive rrf Eugene. Dickin- son When the charge was laid, but lat- er is at-er.is said to have signed his name as Gene Crandall when fingerprints were being taken in the jail,. office. He is said to have told Provincial Constable D C, Shervill, who 'brought him here from Springfield that he telephoned the message about the imaginary Chi- cago fortune to a neighbor of Simon Charlton, .where lie had' been work- ing, Wednesday evening, The farmer was Asked to give the message to jean P. Crandall, which resulted in the re- port sprding that Charlton's new hired'man was a woman disghised as e. ttlatt. It was quite evident that there were grounds for the suspected im- personation when Dickinson, or Cran- How to Stop a CoId Quick as You Caught it Take 2 Aspirin Table. Drink full glass of water. Repeat treatment in 2 hours. ff throat is sore, crush and dissolve 3 Aspirin Tablets in it half glass of water and gargle according to directions in box. Almost. Instant Relief It This , Way The simple method pictured above is the trademark of The Bayer is the way dootors throughout the Company, Limited, and the name world now treat colds. 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Aspirin barn Not Horny the f1eerf AOPlrtnN mol.era Atli' won: hN CANAbA NEWS of the DISTRICT n1 ,. nnnH q..uq"O1U1141111ui"l1,u111 llllllllliwll"u!N Gifts""For Twins The 1934 New Year's babies, Joan and Jean May, born at the Listowel Meir orial Hospital, were the recipi exits- last week of a handsome gift from the bttsiness men of the town and the ladies of the Hospital Aux- Withthesending of .two beds, bedding and clothing, it is hoped that the twins' atispiciotis advent Into the World Will bring them happiness, luck and prosperity.—Listowel Banner. Frozen. Watermains f-Tcavy frost last week is the cause of much inconvenience to household- ers throughout the town and to the public utilities commission employees. Especially in the Russell square area did the frost do much damage. Al- most a week after workmen are still engaged in thawing out waterrnains and lead-in pipes, as only a small stream of water has conte through as yet. Efforts of workmen have been dir- ;iotdale. With the thereto - me r over ng aroun e 1 b 1 ow zero and being rather scantily clad the un- fortunate man was badly frozen when picked up by the Government snow plough and was conveyed to kir. Hol- lingshead's farm. — Palmerston Ob- server, Broken Key Foiled Plan To Enter Fergus Store When Mr. G. M. Jamieson endeav- ored to open his store on Tuesday morning, he found it impossible to get his key into the lock. Upon ex- amination he found that a key had been broken in the lock and also a piece of a file. Apparently some per- son had endeavored to enter the store by this means, but fortunately for the owner, the attempt had failed. The burglar was bold, as the residence above the store 'is occupied.—Fergus News -Record. - Boy's Nose Broken 1 While standing behind the protec- tion screen with his nose jammecl up against the mesh, Emery Fahner, of Crediton, enthusiastic hockey fan, 10 year old; was struck by a flying puck and suffe.rc:d a broken nose during an exciting hockey game between Cen- traria and Crediton at the.Credi'ton rink.-Exetcr Times -Advocate. A Nasty Accident Mr. We H, Hellyar met with a pc-, curial-. and; pairiful accident' oe Sartre-- day but due which is not turning out as serious as it tndght have clone, He went into the Sutter, Perdue and Wal- ker store on that day and slipping on the srnootit floor he threw 'out his right hand to save himself, when the hand came in contact with the end of a piece of strong fence wire with such force that the wire was driven through tho ;palm acid out three rt•• .and the pn ct;:in, made for carts un- knotvn.—K,neard;.n,;' Review -Reports; Has 101st Birthday . During the post week, in the Hlatse of Refuge here, Mrs. M. Sexsniith, who i;; reporfcd to be Bruce County's oldest resident,entered her 102nd 'year, according to those who claire to Iknow her age. Mrs. Sexsmith, a resi- dent of Kincardine Township for many years, was admitted to the old folks' home last December. Mr. R. L Wiles, the keeper, has no authentic 'record of her age, but from what he has been told she has passed the cen- tury mark,—Walkerton Telescope.. - (Stove Blows Up Stearn developing in the frozen water front in the kitchen range at 'the home of Robert Button, resulted in the stove being completely wreck- ed. The fire had been lit about an hour previous and: when the confined steam could not find an exit, so great became the pressure, than an explos- ion resulted with sufficient force to shatter the stove beyond repair and send a dish of porridge hurtling to the ceiling. Oddly enough, fallowing the explosion, there was• no danger of fire, as the explosion would appear to have extinguished the blaze and there was no sign of fire in the strewn contents of the fire box.-T.itckno;v Sentinel amwateretessesavie k The Lone Life Lain s rap 1 •— • '-" ri,e6q1all.' ksaS,d ned or i .•iY ttla,, vice r~ed Kim Cat, ton of Sir Lams ib'v the Hauser Wingharn Crawford Block. Phone 156 Look flop 1'h,.a La469' tateteged