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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-09-27, Page 3Thursday, Sept. 27th, 1934 'WINGHA.M,ADVANCE4JMES PACE HREE World W'd Ne I Brief Foxe AnotherArrest Made In Cargill Hioldup Buffalo,—John Swicic, alias Jack Swartz, 30 -year old Buffalo resident,. is held by police here, in connection with the $2,500 robbery at the Royal Bank of Canada branch in Cargill,, Ont., August 14, Five men took part in the robbery, and ,Swick is the third man arrested here. The other two men are Anthony Diebold and Frank, Adamczyk, who were arrested shortly after .the rob- bery. The three men areheld in Erie County jail awaiting extradition to Canada. Typhoon Swept Across Japan Tokio,—A roaring, 120 -mile -an -hour North Pacific typhoon lashed its way across Japan's richest industrial sec- tion, leaving at least 1,346 dead and 4,203 injured in its wake. Damage to property, impossible to estimate, a- mounted to tens of millions of dollars. London Constable Suspended London,—Police' Constable Alex. Towle, for 21 years a member of the department, was suspended by the Police Commission following expos- ure to the Commission of three letters supposedly containing "sentiment and threats," allegedly written by Towle to two city women. Towle—admitting authorship of two of the letters—claimed the whole af- fair orginally was a frame-up to "get" him and to "get" the iVlayor. Gold Rush Near Port Arthur Port Arthur—The depression is over for Port Arthur, the "stepping -off place" of prospectors in Canada's newest gold rush. Not an able-bodied rnan in the city is on relief. The city's relief list has dwindled to the lowest point in four years. 'Porth Arthur bears the appearance of a convention city. Hotels are crowded to near -cap- acity with prospectors, . workers and just plain gold -seekers. A train that leaves here daily for the new yellow metal fields of the Sturgeon River arealooks like an excursion train. prosperity is in the air. The Sturgeon River rush started in late June. The field then was covered only by 'wise" and veteran prospectors from Kirk- land Lake, Porcupine and Rouyn. They made. at least twenty distinct finds, and several old-fashioned ruin- ing companies moved in. Fresh finds —More miners. Hydro Ceases to Operate Radial Line Operation of the Sandwich, Wind- sor & Amherstburg Railway, (a radial line) was suspended at midnight Fri- day, and the employees, numbering OFF COLOUR? HOW IS YOUR. LIVER? Wake up your —Without Calomel Tau Liver's a very small organ. but it oer- tainly can put your digestive and eliminative dailyorganstwo pounds t of of liquid ti eegto ntto pour out You won't completely correct such a condition by taking salts, oil, mineral water, laxative candy or chewing gum, or roughage. When they've moved your bowels they're through—and you peed a liver stimulant. Carter's Little Liver Pills will soon bring back the sunshine into your life. They're purely vege- table. Safe. Sure. Ask for them by name. Items substitutes. 25o at all druggista. approximately 220, received a week's salary in, lieu of notice. Notice to this effect was served by the. Hydro Electric Power. Commission of On- tario upon the Ontario Government and the various municipalities which own the railway. The Hydro is oper- ating agent for this line for the muni- cipal owners,. Aecumrnulation of 'dee ficits is the reason given for this step. Child Badly Scalded by Boiling Peaches Stratford—Scalded by, an overturn- ed kettle of boiling peaches, Fern Franks,. 22 -months -old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Franks is in hos- pital in serious condition. The little girl was standing on a chair in the kitchen where her mother was pre- serving the fruit. In some manner the child is believed to have canrsed the kettle' to upset on her. Miners Trapped Wrexham, Wales—One hundred and fifty miners were trapped by an ex- plosion in Gresford Colliery early on Saturday. The first rescue squad to enter the mine brought out the char- red bodies of five men. There were nearly 400 men in the mine at the time of the explosion. More than half of this number were in unaffected sec- tions and were brought to the surface. The others were trapped more than a mile and a half from the mouth of the nit. New Bank Issue Oversubscribed Ottawa—The time limit for sub- scribing to shares in the Bank of Can- ada expired Friday at midnight, and applications posted after that time will be returned. In the five days dur- ing which the books were open sub- scriptions were received in a volume exceeding all expectations, with the result the issue was oversubscribed. All the Provinces were well represent- ed in the applications, and it was stat- ed by officials that the desire to se- cure a widely diversified list of share- holders would be realized. Quintuplets in Their New Hospital Callander, Ont,—Fearing that they might contract whooping cough, Dr. A. R. Defoe moved the Dionne quin- tuplets from their parents' home into their new hospital Friday. The disease is prevalent in the district and the five older children of Mr. and Mrs. Dionne have colds which may develop into whooping cough. Ballot Boxes Tampered With Says Humphries "There is no question of doubt whatever but that a crime was com- mitted, that those ballots and ballot boxes had been tampered with and that sixty ballots were illegally, frau- dulently spoiled and that they were the ballots of Colonel Fraser Hunter," declared Commissioner L A. Humph- ries, K.C., when he delivered verbally his findings in the St. Patrick riding, Toronto, election probe. Suggest 32 -Hour Week Toronto—Establishment of a 32 - hour week and cessation of efforts at "pooling" trains of the Canadian Pac- ific and Canadian National Railways was suggested as a means of relieving HYDRO LAMPS The Long¢ Life Lamps" W ngham Utilities Commission Phone 156. Crawford Block Look 1440 Mb Luta unemployment among railwaymen in Good Value for Money a report submitted at the oPettng of In Triple -Yolked Eggs a four-day convention of the Broth- I Here is a story, one unheard of in erhood of Railway Carmen of Amer- this community, and one, that is lea, Canadian Pacific division, The very remarkable. Mrs. James Hill, St. report noted 60,000 unemployed rail- 'George Street north, purchased eggs waymen in Canada, the remainder from Mrs, Edward Nichols, St. And- rews Street, and in the first four eggs broken there were double yolks and in the fifth egg there were three yolks. —Mitchell Advocate, working on short hpurs with a 15 per cent, cut in pay and an average week- ly wage of not more than : $15 for many thousands of railway workers. Earthquake Renders Thousands Homeless Mexico, D.F.—Belated despatches to the newspaper La Prensa said that at least nine persons were killed, 200 in- jured, and thousands made homeless by an earthquake in the State of Jal- isco. Severl'small and isolated vill- ages were reported destroyed. The reports said that practically every building was razed in Talpa, Cuale, Concepcion Del Braniader, and Za- potes. Lindbergh. Kidnapping Case Near Close New York—In swift, dramatic move es in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, police announced the arrest of Bern- ard Richard Hauptmann, a German alien, and the finding of part of the ransom money, and declared that a solution of one of the greatest myst- eries of modern time was assured. Police Commissioner, John F, 0' - Ryan announced. that $13,750 of the $50,000 ransom money paid for the baby, later found dead, was found in Hauptmann's cellar in the Bronx. Old Silver Claims. Go Cheap Cobalt—Ground staked as silver claims in Cobalt's pioneer days was sold for 25 cents an acre at an ad- journed tax sale held here by W. M. Sheppard, Clerk of the Township of Coleman, and acting for that munici- pality. W. E. Harrison bought forty acres of land for. $10, against which Thomas Shannon owed $232.72 in ar- rears and costs, and T. E. McEwen paid $5 for twenty acres held by P. H. Whelan, and against which there was accumulated $125.94. A. E. Ames,. Investment Banker, Passes Time in its passing has removed a landmark in Canadian Finance with the death Thursday night of Alfred Ernest Amesf pioneer Toronto invest- ment banker. The end came at the financier's home, Glen Stewart, on the Kingston Road, Toronto. Although ill for the last six weeks, the fatal vis- itation arrived more rapidly and with greater suddenness than his friends and family expected. Nearly half a century had elapsed since Mr. Ames, as a youth of 23, opened a small of- fice on King Street as a stock broker with a single office boy as mate of the ship and entire crew. Business grew rapidly in the little King Street office. Within a short time he took a partner and afterward the firm of A. E. Ames & Company, organized as stock brokers and financial agents, graduated into the investment bank- ing field, At his death, Mr. Aines held the position of President of A. E. Ames & Co., Limited, originators and distributors of Government and cor- poration bonds, and one of the names to be conjured with where Govern- ment, municipal or corporation fin- ancing is concerned. Mrs. D. C. Ross of Brussels, is a cousin, Labatt Kidnapping Suspect Surrenders Detroit—Asserting that he did not "have the first thing to do with this kidnapping," David Meisner, one of two men sought by Canadian and De- troit authorities in connection with the kidnapping a month ago of John Lab- att, Ontario brewer, surrendered to dectectives here Thursday, He will be brought to Canada to stand trial, NEWS of the DISTRICT „l,,,,,,„,„,Ii,,,,c tt t,,,,,tt,,,, tt,tt,,,ttt,,,,,,,t.,t,,,,.,,.,t Open Safety Pin Taken From Throat of Baby Shirley, 7 -month-old baby of Iblr, and Mrs. Frank Hamilton, Con. 12, Ashfield, swallowed a safety pin. The fact that the pin was open made the danger greater. A doctor from Ripley succeeded in securing the pin which had lodged in one side of her throat almest out of sight, and she was soon none the forse for the .experience. Potato Quintuplets Our foreman, Mr. 5, S. Blackburn, dug up an odd -shaped potato, or clus- ter of potatoes in his garden yester- day miming. There was a good-sized central potato, and round about it there were closely attached: to it rive smaller, but fair sized potatoes, qtt i'. tuplets, the whole eontprising a pectt liar looking group.-1Vlourit Forest Confederate, Given. Suspended Sentence Remanded after evidence had been taken concerning the motor accident early" in July when Russ Johnston's car was demolished, Sid Whitby ap- peared before Magistr,ate Walker in Walkerton, when two years' suspend- ecl sentence was the judgment handed down by his worship.—Lucknow Sen- tinel. Second Growth Cabbage Sam Bellamy of Dundalk saw bis name in the papers because he raised a cabbage that tipped the scales at 14 pounds. That was a fairly large cab- bage but Bellamy has other claims to greatness as a cabbage -head special- ist. He has several second -growth cabbages growing on stocks from which the original top had been cut. Some of these stocks have as many as four heads and weigh nearly three pounds.—Arthur Enterprise -News. Autumn Race Meet at Goderich The Goderich Trotting and Pacing Association is making arrangements for a race meet on Thanksgiving Day, October 8th, when, $450 will be off- ered in purses. • The classes will be 2.28, 2.22 and 2.16, with a purse of $150 for each. Already a large num- ber of owners have signified their in- tention of entering their horses in this meet, and horsemen are looking for- ward to a good afternoon's sport. Goderich Signal. Oats and Barley .Yield 30 to 50 Bushels An Acre The farmers in this vicinity, al- though losses from fall wheat thresh- ing caused by freezing out large por- tions last winter, and to buckwheat early this fall, report the other grains —oats and barley, have been yielding 30 to 50 bushels to the acre. There is no hay for sale, with not enough for local feeding. In some cases dur- the haying season it sold for $25 a ton from the field.—Palmerston Obesrver. A Pail., a.. Rag and the Gall Equipped with a ten quart pail and nerve to burn, a 'gentleman' canvass- ed Teesvvater seeking windows to wash. 15c to clean all the windows in your home, irrespective of the size of house or windows. As he had no ladders or other equipment it would be necessary to clean the glass from inside the house, therefore he secured no jobs, people not caring to risk a stranger into their premises. No job, he requested a help out and in most cases received his 15 cents. The in- come from his day in Teeswater net- ted his treasury about $4.00. Yes, come again, we are all "suckers" once. He never even wet the rag. Easy money! —Teeswater News. Seeking Liberal Nomination Mr, Jacob Lembke, a former reeve of Sullivan township, and an ex -War- den of Grey County, was here Mon- day calling on leading Liberals. Mr. Lembke has been pressed by many to stand for the Liberal nomination for the House of Commons to, oppose Miss Macphail, and will do so. He is quite well known in both counties, and was a former resident of Carrick, having lived for three years on the 13e11 farm on the 14th concession— Mildmay Gazette. A Queer Animal Due to the kindness of Mrs, (Dr.) R. N. Kyles of Orangeville, who is spending a few holidays at the beach, a rather ttnusttal looking four -legged creature, resembling a lizard, is on ex- hibition at The Times Office. Mrs. Kyles found the little animal near her cottage recently and so far its iden- tity is a mystery.—Port Elgin Times. Cattle Succumb to Blackleg in Arran A serious epidemic of blackleg has broken otu in Arran Township and several head of cattle have succumbed to the fatal disease. Innoculation is the only safe way to ,prevent the very contagious disease and every farmer should take ;such steps without delay in order to head off serious loss to his stock. -Tara' Leader. 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Doig, reputed to be worth $15,000, on the day of his death, left the home of his sister, Mrs. Simpson, in Egmondville, near Seaforth, after eating a hearty breakfast. He was healthy and happy and was not known to have a care in the world. Constable Shot at Near Fergus Early this week, this district was excited about the story of a shooting on the Orangeville road, some six miles from town. It appears to have been an attempt to shoot W, G. Bayne of Belwood, who is a county con- stable, and many versions of the tale have been going around.—Fergus News -Record. Kicked by Horse Kicked in the stomach by a horse, Jack Consist, age sixteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Consitt, Tuckersniith, lies in Scott Memorial Hospital here in a serious condition. Young Consitt had been driving some horses to the barn from a field and when he failed to appear a search was begun. He was found lying in a field and was rushed to the hospital here, where an operation was performed.—Seaforth Huron Expositor, Seven Tons of Grain Donated to Church For their "harvest home" offering the farm members of Riverview 'Unit- ed Church congregation, Dundalk, de- cided to give ten pounds of grain for every acre they had in crop, and these contributions alone amounted to over seven tons. The grain was sold to H. C. Moody of Dundalk, and the ,funds will go to swell the coffers of the. church. The idea was originated by the church pastor, Rev. A, H, Terry. "Friendship is a sheltering tree. Coleridge. TIM COMMENTS ON THE RECENT BYE ELECTIONS To the Editur av all thine Wingham paypers. Deer Sur:— Monday av this wake wus a bad day fer the Tory parthy, so. it wus, but, av coorse, our byes picked on the wrong day to hould the elickshuns. If they had asked nee I wud hev tould thim to hev the votin on the sivin- teenth av Siptimber an not on the twinty foorth, Av coorse a lot av thim young fellalrs who do be iunnin the parthy at the prisint toime will want to know the rayson fer this oidea av nioine, so I may as well give thine the infarmation. It wus on the siv- inteenth av Septiniber 1878 that ould Sir Jawn A. defaited the Mackenrie- Cartwroight Govermint wid his Nash- ional Polishy, so ye sde the sivin- teenth is a luck day wid us, an if we cudden't git ready to hould the click - shuns on Simtimbcr sivinteenth we Mead hev waited till the sivinteenth av March. itf ebby thim Grits wud hev raised a big row about laivin foive sates vacant fer so long, but does army sinsible pan belave that it wud hev made anny differ to the counthry, at all, at all? Shure, it wudden't make much differ if all the Grits in Parleymint wus to shtay at home inshtid av hangin ar- round the Chataw Laurier in Ottawa fer wakes an months. Mishter Binnit is the boss, an does what he loikes,, in shpoite av the Grits, so he does- Av coorse tings moight hev been wurse wid us on Monday than they wus, fer we only losht foor sates out av foive, be rayson av that C.C.F. bye hilpin Tommy Church to win in Aist, Toronto. Thim Grits do be gettin too. shtrong, an the only way to bate thim whin the giniral elickshun he vto be hild nixt year, is fer us to see that a C.C.F. arr a U,F,O, arr a Rid Shurt, arr a Grane Steurt is put up fer iviry sate in Canada, an in that way we kin divoide the ininiy, to so shpake, an defate thim. Aven if a few C.C.F.'s shud be elickted it won't make much differ,. fer they wud be more loikely to vote wid us than wid thine Grits. Me pertaties do be turnin out party well afther all, an me cabbages nivir wus betther, so I hope we shall be able to live troo the winther, avcn if thim Hipburnoites do be pullin dcwrs the rate av intrust on bonds. 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