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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-04-05, Page 3Thursday, April 5th, 1934 EowARoSsuaG WN BRAN RO oanowooema World Wide News In Brief Form May Modify Disarmament Plan Geneva—Whether the World Dis- armament Conference, moribund since Germany's withdrawal last year, will meet again, is a matter of speculation in Geneva, with the Steering Commit tee officially, called into session on April 10. Three possibilities were said to ex- ist: First. The Steering Committee may decide to abandon calling the confer- ence into session. Second. _It may decide to delay the conference to allow further conversa- tions between Governments. Third. It may judicially convoke a new conference, the object of which would be limitation of arms and not their reduction. (Piece of Meteor Believed Found Calgary—A fragment of rock, brun- ed orange in color with black spots, has been located on a farm near Hus- sar; Alta:, and its finder believes it may be a piece of the meteor which flashed across Alberta skies on the night of Sunday, March 18. 'Reports from Hussar, sixty-three miles east of Calgary, across which the flaming meteor flashed, told of the find on the farm of Woodrow Elliott. The rock fragment weighs about two lbs., and is about two inches in diameter. It was driven about half an inch in the ground. Elliott ,who has just re- vealed his find, made the discovery on March 19. The farmer is 'positive it was not there before the meteor's brilliant flight: London Trial Ground For Milk Control Act. London=Hon.'T. L. Kennedy, Min- ister of Agriculture, who several: months ago threatened to wield "the big stick" to effect a settelement. in London's muddled milk controversy, will send his department's new Milk Control Board here early in April to test its (nettle. In a letter to Albert Hughes President of the London and District Milk Producers' Association, the • Minister' of Agriculture says he will make London the 'testing ground' for the new Ontario Milk Control Act, passed recently in the Ontario House. Nazis Get Control Over Steel . Helmets Berlin—Nazi control over German steel helmet organization was tight- ened by an agreement between Cap- tain Ernst Roehm, commander of the Nazi storm troops, and Franz Seldte, steel helmet leader. Under the agreement, the organiza- tion takes on a new name, "The Na- tional Socialist :German Front Fight- ers' Bund Staulhehn." Although the steel helmets became Hitlerites about a year ago, full co- ordination with the Nazi .storm troops is achieved under the new agreement. Noted Banker and. Art Patron Dead New York—Otto H. Kahn, whose operations in the field of finance wielded a powerful influence on the early twentieth century, died sudden- ly Thursday. He was 67 year old. The banker -patron of art and music slumped in his chair and fell to the floor of .his private office in the firm. of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, of which he had been a dominating partner sin- ce leaving his native Germany for the United States years ago. A blood clot on the heart caused death. $250,000,000 Voted to Balance U. S. Cattle Industry Washington—A $250,000,000 fund to be used to "balance" the United States cattle industry through reduc- tion of herds and by marketing agree- ments, eradicate diseased dairy cows, and purchase dairy and beef products for distribution to the needy, was au- thorized by Congress as the Senate completed action on the Jones -Con- nally basic commodity bill. Without a record vote, it approved the confer- ence report on the measure. The THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES I -louse haying taken similar action se- veral days ago, the bill now goes to the White House, Roosevelt Given' Tariff Powers Washington—Rallying again to the Presidential standard they deserted to override the veterans' veto, Demo- crats pushed the Administration's re- ciprocal tariff bill through the House of Representatives over stubborn Re- publican opposition. The measure was sent to the Sen- ate with two Administration -sanction- ed amendment, limiting to three years the authority of the President to negotiate trade agreements, and precluding any foreign debt -reduction under its provisions. Roosevelt Again Outvoted Washington—Overriding the objec- tions of President Roosevelt, the Un- ited States Senate joined the House of Representatives, in voting to enact more liberal veterans' . and Federal pay legislation than Mr. Roosevelt was willing, to accept. By 63 to 27, just a little more than the two-thirds margin necessary to overthrow the recommendations ' of the President, the Senate wound up a long day of debate by putting the legislation on the statute books. Courts to Decide School Issue Rights of Separate School Boards to a greater share in school taxes will be decided by the highest courts, since "the Government have had dif- ficulty ,in finding a basis on which a larger share of school taxes may be paid which would not take into ac- count the , question of legal rights." Just before the 'Legislature session closed Premier Henry made the im- ' portant announcement that a series of.questions on the subject would be submitted for judicial ruling. Provinces Overcharged Dominion on Relief Accounts Ottawa—Test audits in every rpro- vince under relief legislation disclos- ed the Dominion Government had: been overcharged for its share of un- employment costs, it was shown today when reports from the Auditor -Gen- eral were made public. The dates of the reports vary, but it was under- stood most of the claims ,have been Settled in . the meantime' by the Do- nion and Provinces. Rumania Shaken by 'Quake Bucharest; Rumania—At least twen- ty-five •persons were hurt and eight houses were Wrecked by two prolong- ed earthquake shocks that were felt throughout Rumania. Many were hurt at Galati, where several houses also were damaged: One building fell in a Bucharest suburb and 'several oth- ers nearby were badly cracked. In Bucharest.terrified crowds Pour- ed into the streets from public build- ings and homes. The shocks were said to be the worst experienced with- in recent (memory, Aged Blind Widow Burned to Death Port Rowan—In a fire that broke out in her home and spread to con- sume three residences, Mrs, Robert Mtiir, aged blind widow at Walsing- ham Centre, a few miles north of here was burned to death. The fire was only noticed by a passing neighbor when it had gained great headway in the Muir home and efforts to enter the house were frustrated by clouds of smoke and flame. Charred remains. of the aged victim ;were found in the smouldering ruins., $100,000 Fire at Kitchener Kitchener—Fire destroyed the Met- ropolitan Stores building here, with a onto and the Woolworth Store, ad - loss: of $100,000. The Bank of Tor - joining buildings, suffered from water and smoke damage, and three fire- man weresent to hospital with burns to face and hands. Flames were be- lieved to have originated in the base- ment. The fire made rapid headway. The main floor fell into the basement, and the second floor suffered from smoke and water damage. Fishermen Are Rescued From Floating Ice Leningrad, U.S.S.R,—The icebreak- er Truvor Friday rescued 196 fisher- men and 65 horses from an ice pack in the Finnish Gulf. The pack, about 1.1-2 miles square, broke away from the mainland and carried 250 men to- ward the open sea. Two icebreakers rescued 54 of the fishermen. While this work was being. effected a dense fog draped the Gulf and rescue part- ies were unable to locate the drifting pack. Many U.S. Workers Get Wages Raised New York -The United States Steel Corporation and the General Electric Company announced that they will raise wages of approximately 175,000 employees. Workers throughout virtually the entire steel industry are assured of 10 per cent. wage increases. Bethle- hem, National and other large pro- ducers posted similar rises this week. C.C.F. Executive ,Under Criticism More squalls threaten the troubled' sea of the Ontario C:C.F. party as a result of a tempestuous session of the Ontario Labor Conference. Biclerings, hecklings and invective ' flew frequently throughout the after noon and evening, and the targets in- cluded Angus McInnis, ALP. for Van- couver South, who had a rough pas- sage' as personal emissary to the meeting of his leader and father-in- law, J. S. Woodsworth, the father of the C.C.F. Presenting a,. draft of .a proposed new constitution for the Ontario C. C. F. party, drawn rup by the Nation- al Executive, Mr. I facInnis drew down on his head the heated criticism of the meeting, in which even the Chairman, Arthur Mould, of London, participated with gusto, Hamilton Child Had Miraculous Escape Hamilton ---But for the timely in- tervention of an unidentified pedes- trian, who waded • into water up to his waist, 2 -year-old Margaret Scott, dau- ghter of Walter and Mrs. Scott, 517 Queensdale Avenue, might have been swept toher death over the falls neat Wentworth Street. The little girl, while playing beside the- city ditch, lost her balance, and was carried away by the rushing waters. Screaming with fright, the baby disappeared through a 30 -inch culvert, while her older sister, helpless to do anything, called for assistance at the top of her lungs. Little Margaret meanwhile had been borne through the culvert, fifty feet in length, and emerged from the opposite end, Dripping with water up to his waist, her rescuer handed the little one over to friends, who had ar- rived by this time, and then slipped quietly away, Insull in, Turkey Istanbul, Turkey — Announcement that the Turkish Government believes it can legally turn Samuel Insull over to United States authorities brought to a climax his long battle against extradition to the United States; Insull himself, weary and sick from court fights in Greece and a subse- quent dash toward the Black Sea, was reported to have attempted suicide by trying to jump into the Bosphorus. He was restrained, however, and plac- ed under a heavy guard. NEWS S W of the DIST : ICT Hurled From Car as Door Flies Open Goderich—When Harold Brophey, undertakers' assistant, riding along- side the driver in a swiftly -moving automobile, reached for the crank to lower the window, he instead seized the door handle. The door opened against the wind and catapulted Bro- phey out out of the car to the pave- ment. The injured man was removed to Alexandria Hospital, suffering from severe abrasions and bruises, as well as head injuries. That he was not killed is considered miraculous. Culross T.wp. Boy Fatally Wounded Teeswater—Ivan Steele, third son of Mr. and Mrs. George Steele, of the eighth concession of Culross Town - AUTO SHIPMENTS PEP UP - SAINT JOHN PORT HAVING BEST TIME IN HISTORY On account of automobile ship- ments hip-n nts being exceptionallyl cavy, the r N.11, port o -f Saint John,, is enjoying. i ' claimed to be oneof the S a t f re best. s in it histor• 3 as far. : _ a - seasbn i its y,as tt i rt, The ph totnobil� exports S go. photo- graphs ski scenes at Sairit s 1 ABOVEshow s John as the thrives under its new business boom, 1) Interior of the NavyIsland 'shed, hundreds n f 'cases of • automobiles and tires r'awaiting shi rient overseas. (2) yp i cal coastal trade scene at the historic old Market Slip, where United Em- pire Loyalists landed 150 years ago. In foreground .tees b d coastinb vessels with cargoes of gasoline, oil and foodstuffs, 'The M. S, D. J, Purdy and 5,S. Gyp - stun King are seen at RIGHT and in backgr'otirid respectively, (8) S.S. Rhesus of the Elder -Dempster Line, shortly before sailing for South Af- rica with a cargo of Cairadiair auto- mobiles, The vessel is docked at Navy Island quay. (4) Interior' of one of the new transit sheds,showing diver - city of commodities, nearly all of Can - actino origin, awaiting' shipment and indicative of growing demand, PAGE THRE7 HYDRO Lr,MPS -The.Long ,Lire L mpas *? Iptli�" in or rvice ...d oua►ranteed A&spa Carty of Sir Lemrpa it Ms House Wingham Utilities Commission Crawford Block.. Phone 156. t I j1 /" ship, Bruce County, was killed at his home some time Tuesday night last week by a rifle discharging when he slipped on ice. The bullet entered his side and death apparently followed quickly. Mr. Steele, who was 27 years of age, had left the "house about 7.30 o'clock with his rifle, his intention be- ing to shoot a weasel which was known to be around the barn. 'When he did not return some time after - j wards a search was commenced .by !members of the family. The lifeless !body was found about 10 o'clock by the father, who had joined in the I hunt. Injured in Fall Goderich—\Valking in the semi- darkness of a garage, Harry Muir, well-known citizen, stepped blindly into an open pit and plunged head- long five feet to the concrete floor below. He sustained no broken bon- es, but painful laceration to his knees, hands, face and head, as well as a severe shaking up. A doctor was call- ed, and the injured man removed to his home. Discuss Finances of Bruce County Hospital Walkerton—A. L. McPherson, in- spector of hospitals of the Provincial Health Department, Toronto, was in town this week at the invitation of the Bruce County Hospital Board and conferred with the trustees in re- spect to difficulties which the board is experiencing in common with such institutions all over the Province re- lative to finances. The purpose of the inspector's visit was to suggest ways to the local board of how they might overcome the difficulties in further economies. Colborne and Ashfield Farmers Will Discuss Spring Seeding Needs That 50 per cent. of the fanners of. Colborne and Ashfield townships, Hu- ron County, have no seed grain or money to purchase it to proceed with spring work, is the statement made locally by those in a position to know. :Both these townships border the shore of Lake Huron, have much light land and were particularly hard hit by last year's drought. A meeting has been called for Car- low, five miles from Goderieh, in or- der- that needy farmers may be enab- led to take advantage of legislation passed at the present session of the legislature. Under this legislation a municipality may guarantee payment of seed grain for any farmer, and in case of a loss, the ggovernment under- takes to assume two-thirds and the municipality one-third. A Monster Egg ;Lfr, Saris Hanna brought to The News office, where it, is on display this .c' cek; ,t huge duck egg;, from the x1i•ziz erf 49 r, lien T .eys, l tate ey. "stir- in :this ,besides a white 'and yoke, was another egg without:a yolk, about the. size of a hen's egl Seafarth News. Falls Off !Zink Balcony, 13adly Injured Between the second 'third periods of the Grand Valley-.l•,darriston Junior game at the 'Palace Rink here, Witt, Bosworth, an employee at the, Royal Inst here, fell backwards oft` the rail- ing of the rink balcony on which he was sitting with his back to the ice, Sitting as he was, he had no chance to save himself and fell to the ice 14 feet below. He evidently tried to 'right himself on the way down as he fell glancing to the ice, his head hit - ,ting the ice. He was carried uncon- }scious to the curlers' room where a doctor ordered his removal to the ho- tel.—Harriston Review. Read Entire Bible 70 Times Occasionally reports are printed concerning the number of tunes peo- ple have read the Bible, Such an item appeared in these columns several weeks ago. When it was published we had no idea that a local man, Mr. 1 Harry Smith, greatly- exceeded the re- cord quoted. He has read the entire Bible more than seventy tines, and has also written out the New Testa- ment from the first verse of St. Mat- thew to the last verse of Revelation.. —Milverton Sun. Strange Phenomenon in Egremont Mr. Daviel Gillies of Egremont in forms us that a strange phenomenoa was witnessed by several residents of Concession 10 in that township dur- ing an electrical storm. After a severe thunderclap a dense cloud of brown- fish smoke rolled and billowed around I a vacant house at Lot 17 of the 9th concession for a few seconds, when it lifted and graduarly dispersed. A window in Mr. Tebby's house at Lot 16 was shattered by the shock o thunder. Investigation failed to show just where the bolt struck the earth. —Mount Forest Confederate, Wild Geese Visit Exeter The heavy 'snow storm of Monday night brought down a flock of wild geese in a field belonging to Mr. H. C. Rivers on the east side of the town. The geese were seep by Mr. Ed Lindenfield about eight o'clock Tues-. day morning and he estimated that there were between forty and fifty in the flock. One of the geese circled the town the sante morning,—Exeter Thnes-Advocate, Prolific Ewes Farmers report a very prolific birth rate this year in their sheep flocks. Triplets are a Common, occurrence in nearly every flock and Henry Sclururr reports that one of his ewes gave birth recently to four lambs: But it remains for a Normanby farmer to: break all records. He had three ewes that gave birth to eleven lambs, two having triplets and the third leaving five, all of which are doing well, al- though three are being rcared'on the bottle. -;--Mildmay Gazette,. Ox Earned Good Wages Cons tablcr N. H. Stiegler, says (lie lfildniay Gazette, while motoring, to (Kincardine on Tuesday, witnessed an iuterestiug sight a short distance:west of Black. Horse. When our townS- marr reached that piiint, he discovered throe car, stuck last in a lone snow banlz.. 1t looktA as though they would be coinpellcd' to remain there for .the, day when help of an unexpcctett•nat- urc arrived, An .aged farmer, named Abbott, got out his big black ox, weighing about 1600 lbs., equipped with a..horse's harness, with the collar upside down, and it was not lung tin til all the motor ears were safe and sound on the far side of the snow* bank, and able to continue—their jour- , trey. The big bovine pulled tins mot- ors through without any dif iculty.--. Walkerton Hcrtild-Times.