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WINCI^IAM ADVANCE -TIMES
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World Wide News in Brief Fore
Hon. H. H. Stevens'
Daughter Dies
Montreal—Miss Sylvia Stevens, ag-
ed 22, daughter of the Hon. H. H.
Stevens, former Minister of Trade
and Commerce, died at Montreal 'Gen-
eral Hospital, where she had been a
patient for almost ten weeks, and
where she underwent a very serious
dual operation on Oct. 15. She had
been ill for three years, and, after
consultations with .leading physicians,
it was decided to operate as a last
possiblity of saving her life.
Britain to Probe Sale of Arms
London—Prime Minister • Ramsay
MacDonald announced briefly that a
Royal Commission would be appoint-
ed
ppointed to investigate activities of British
armament -making firms. .He made the
announcement before the House of
Commons recessed for Christmas, but
said he was unable at the moment to
elaborate on it.
Grief Stricken Lad Shoots Himself
Sudbury—Bitter remorse led 15 -
year -old Sula Banta to shoot himself
through the head after he had acci-
dentally killed his sister near `Creigh-
ton Mine.
West Approves Poultry Marketing
An order -in -Council was passed ap-
proving the scheme of the 'Thr•.ee.
Prairie Provinces to control the mar-
keting of poultry under the Natural
Products Marketing Act. During the
last two years, the Canadian Poultry
Pool has been able to market iii Eng-
land one and a half million pounds of
poultry annually, mostly turkeys, and
it is stated that fanners throughout
Canada have 'benefited financially by
reason of that amount being removed
from the domestic market.
Woman Lawyer Among New KC.'a
A patent of King's Counsel was •ex
tended to an Ontario woman, first of
her sex—as far as could be learned—
to receive the British Empire's legal
honor of "the silks." The name of
Miss Helen Kinnear, :Osgoode Hall
graduate and Port Colborne barrister,
featured a list of eighty-two new "K.
C.'s" announced by Attorney -General
Hon. Arthur Roebuck,
Martin Instill Acquitted
Chicago -Martin Instill was acquit-
ted on embezzlement charges. The
jury filed into the crowded court
chamber after 6 hours. and 45 minutes
of formal deliberation,' Amid a tease
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silence they announced that they
found the rdefendant not guilty of.
stealing $344,720 from the Middle
West Utilities Company he headed to
carry on his private stock -market op-
erations. He will appear on another
charge on Jan. 15th.
Reports Political Unrest in Geramny
Paris—Intense troop and police ac-
tivity around the Nazi Ministry of
National Defense, and wholesale ar-
rests in all quarters of the German
Capital, were reported by the Berlin
correspondent ' of Le Journal. In a
'despatch the correspondent said dip-
lomatic circles, as well as political
quarters, were the source of his in-
formation regarding the sudden ac-
tivity.
substantially widened,
Lloyd George to Announce Policy
London—Former Premier- David
Lloyd George will shortly announce
a new deal program calculated to lift
hire above politics and invest him
with the balance of power after the
next. elections. To be pttblislted in
full in early January, the independent
Liberal Leader's five point project
will urge improvements in sluni elim-
ination, relief works,. swamp reclama-
tion and reforestation, and will repeat
the demand for State control of the
Bank of England.
"Four X Spike" Threatens
London. Lawyer
London, Ont. Crown Attorney
Norman F. Newton admitted that he
has received a threatening letter from
"Four X Spike" mailed; from Toron-
to, and that in the missive was en-
closed a hacksaw, with the request
that it be passed along to Vincent T.
Foley, local barrister, now serving a,
four-year term in Kingston Peniten-
tiary for theft of funds from clients.
Snatch' $1000 in Bank Hold-up .
Two .armed robbers walked into the
Canadian Bank of Commerce branch.
at 324 Broadview Avenue, Toronto.,
shortly after the bank opened Friday
morning, and herding the manager
and three of the office staff into the
vault scooped about $1,000 in bills and
change into a canvas bag and fled.
Raid Nazis in Vienna
Vienna— Raids by police in Upper
Austria were reported to have reveal-
ed plans to reorganize. the Nazi party
banned after the July "putsch" in
which Chancellor Dollfuss was slain,
on a completely military basis. A
number of arrests were made and sev-
eral cachesof arms and hand gren-
ades were confiscated,
Anti-Soviet Men. Arrested
Moscow—Leonid Nicolaieff, the .ac-
cused assassin of Sergei Kiroff, and
thirteen other alleged members of an
:anti-Soviet group, were handed over
to the military collegium of the Sup-
reme Court, marking the end of the
police investigation of the assassina-
tion of the Soviet official on Dec, 1
and paving the way for an early trial.
Edward. Johnson Honored at Guelph
Guelph—Dr, Edward Johnson, the
world. famous tenor, was signally hon-
ored when a handsome portrait of
himself was unveiled before a large
audience in the collegiate institute
auditorium. The occasion was the re-
cognition of Dr. Johnson's presenta-
tion to the schools of Guelph, of $25,••
000 for musical instruction.
Would Wipe Out Internal Debt
Montreal—A plan for rehabilitation
of Canada's finances for calling in a
huge amount of internal debt, to be.
replaced by : paper money, was ex-
plained by Mayor Canirllien tToude
before the Montreal City Council.
The plan was outlined during discus-
sion of Montreal's financial position
and proposed new taxes for this city.
Expect Better Trade With Australia
Ottawa—Canada's trade with Aus-
tralia should be further improved by
the changes in the tariff made in the
Budget recently brought down in the'.
Australian Parliament: A study of the
revisions by tariff experts of the De-
iartrnent of Trade and Commerce
shows' that on many iterns the pr"ef-
erenee to British countries has been
May Market Feed Grain in U.S.
Ottawa -Plans to enable Canada to
find a market for some 50,000,000 bus-
hels of feed grain by sending it to
the drought -stricken districts of the
United States moved forward today
when a meeting was held in the office
of Minister of Railways, R. J. Man-
ion. Lower freight rates will be ne-
cessary to take advantage of this mar-
ket, and the discussion was between
members of the Governmentand of-
ficials of the railway companies with
this end in view.
Naval Race on Again
London—The expected Japanese
denunciation of the Washington Nav-
al Limitation Treaty leaves the world.
powers without international barriers
to a building race after Dec. 31, 1936.
It was the continuance of just such
a race which led to the treaty nego-
tiations in 1922, a year after the five
principal naval powers spent a total
of $1,605,814,000 on marine arma-
ment.
New Si perintendent
Walkerton—Miss O. Langstaff has
been appointed Superintendent of the
Bruce County Hospital, to succeed
Miss Edna Campbell, who resigned
the post after fourteen years' service,
to take a similar position at Alliston
General Hospital. Langstaff has been
Assistant Superintendent since 1919,
Another Arrest in Cargill Bank
Case—Throe Sentenced
Walkerton—Police made a fourth
arrest in connection with the $2,000
Royal Bank robbery at Cargill, Aug.
14, when they took John Diebold, 45 -
year -old bachelor farmer, into cus-
tody. Diebold, who resides west of
Walkerton, is charged with receiving
a portion of the money obtained in
the armed holdup, perpetrated by
five men. John Swick of Buffalo was
sentenced to six years; Frank Adam-
zyck of Buffalo to four years, and
Anthony 'Diebold, native of Greenock
Township, where Cargill is located,
received six years. They will serve
their terms in Kingston penitentiary.
Fire at Blyth Woollen Mills
Blyth—Fire swept, the interior of
the Blyth Woollen Mills here and
destroyed a Iarge stock of goods. The
flames originated in a dry -kiln, and
spread rapidly, despite vigorous ef-
forts of the local fire department.
The village willfeel the loss of the
mill, as plans had been aid to increase
production and envoy additional help.
Ten men worked at the plant, which
is owned by F. T. Bainton.
To Investigate "Mystery Race"
at Vancouver
Vancouver — Further investigation
of the origin and complete disappear-
ance of a "mystery" race of men, who
inhabited Canada's West coast 2,000.
years before the white settlement of
what is now British Columbia, de-
pended upon the acquisition of funds
for excavation of middens buried in
practically unexplored inlets. Careful
study of skeletons excavated from
the Great Fraser Midden at Marpole,
a suburb of Vancouver, on the Fras-
er River, has convinced anthropolo-
gists such a race existed.
Bank Bandits Sentenced
Toronto—Albert Dorland of Toron-
to, John Valkoff of Montreal and Ray
Alderman of Detroit, were sentenced
to 12 years in Kingston penitentiary
for participation last summer in the
$23,034 armed robbery of the Union
Stockyards Branch of the Bank of
Montreal, Toronto. In addition Dor-
land was sentenced to five years for
theft of an autmobile used in the
hold-up and Valkoff to three years for
receiving and retaining the car. The
sentences will be concurrent with the
major terms.
NEWS
of the
DISTRICT
Drives Car Into Train
Harriston—J. H. Jones, Ripley, nar-
rowly escaped ,death here when a car
in which he was driving crashed into
a standing Canadian National Rail-
way freight train, The front of the
car was badly demolished but lttekily
Mr. Jones was travelling at a low rate
of speed owing to the blinding snow-
stortns and escaped serious injury.
Child's Leg Fractured When
Hit by Car
Little Marjory Bateman, age four
years, •her brother,. Robert, children
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bateman, of
Ethel, were playing on Tuesday last
week in the:,, centre of the road when
a car driven by Mr. Wiegil, .a traveler
from Kitchener, carte' down the hill
en route to Kitchener. On seeing the
children he applied the brakes but the
car skidded. Both children ran brit
the car sideswiped the girl fracturing
her leg between .the knee and the hip.
No blame is attached to the driver as
he did not see the children in time.
Celebrated 90th Birthday
Goderich-•-Mrs. Martha Ann Fergu-
son, South street, quietly celebrated
her 90th birthday with her, sister-in-
law, Mrs, Robert Young, aged $8.
Mrs: Ferguson is a remarkably active
woman and in spite of the icy, treach-
erous streets, walked a half i rile to,'
the business section to do her Xtatas
shopping.
New Teacher for Teeswater
The School Board have chosen
Miss Grace Fuller of St. Marys, and
Miss Honey, as the teachers , to fill
the vacancies on the Continuation
Staff, and Mr. Melvin McLennan, •of
Teeswater, as principal of the Public
School, to take the place of Miss
Alexander.—Teeswater News.
Christmas Geese Stolen at Ospringe
Eleven Christmas geese, fattened
for the Yuletide table, were stolen
from Mrs. Cooke, of Ospringe. The
birds, fine fat specimens, were taken
just as they were from a chicken
house on Mrs. Cooke's premises.
Provincial Constable A. L. Mennie is
investigating the theft.—Palmerston
Observer.
Miss McPherson, New Registrar
Miss Lillian McPherson has been
appointed registrar of deeds for Hur-
on county, replacing A. H. Neeb, who
has held the position since June, 1932.
Miss 'McPherson has been deputy re-
gistrar under Mr. Neeb and also was
for years deputy under the late Alex-
ander Coates, and it not only exper-
ienced but thoroughly capable. The
announcement of the appointment by
Hon. A. W. Roebuck, Attorney -Gen-
eral of Ontario, states that Miss Mc-
Pherson received a salary of $1,500 a
year as deputy, and that her salary
as registrar will be $2,000. There will
be no addition to the office staff. It
is estimated that the change means a
saving of $2,800 a year to Huron.—
Goderich Signal.
Bossie Does Her Best
Colin McLeish of R. R. 2, Turn-
ers, has a cow that is more than do-
ing her bit to end the depression.
Last week she brought forth her 4th
pair of twin calves, in succession.
Both calves are larger than an ordin-
ary calf. Cow and calves are doing
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Will Sell It F r You!
Don't think that Buyers are as hard to find as the proverb-
ial ".needle in the hay stack". Not if you ADVERTISE! People,
these days, are "Bargain Hunters", and, nearly 2000 Families in
this district are constant readers of this paper, and make it a prac-
tice to watch the Classified Want Ad. Column for the "Buying Op-
portunities" listed C~ere.
RATES 11,./2 CENTS PER WORD WITH A MINIMUM OF 25c.
Telew
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well—Port Elgin Times.
Caught Jack With Bare Hands
One day- recently as Mr. Jim Blanc
was driving some cattle along a lane
on a farm on the 14th concession of
Minto, he saw a large jack rabbit in
a fence corner and, sneaking up on it,
grabbed it by the head and ears. It
had. been dozing but was quickly Wide
awake and did some real kicking; out-
ing and squirming to get away. Jim
held on. and succeeded in getting it
home alive. This is probably the first
time on record that a man has been
able to catch a jack of this size in
his bare hands.—Harriston Review.
Lucky' Wellington
In the matter of debenture debt,
Wellington is certainly lucky as the
county is free absolutely of debenture
obligations. In Peel County the de -
eminent as Division Court Clerk for
Walkerton and district, as successor
to the veteran J. A. McGill, who well
on in his 80's is being retired on ac-
count of advancing age. Mr. John
McCool, who was first slated for the
appointment and declined, has been
doing the work for Mr. McGill until terrific head-on crash.—Lucknow Sen-
a permanent successor be appointed. tinel.
—Walkerton Herald -Times.
Escape Serious Crash by
Takin to Ditch
Mr. J. R. McNab and "Wat" Ham-
ilton are both going about their work
this week, "strapped up" as a result
of injuries they received when they
were forced to take to a ditch as their
only chance of avoiding a head-on
collision with an approaching motor-
ist.. The accident occurred east of
Riversdale the end of the week, when
a tire traveller carne over the top of
a grade at a fast rate, it is said, tried
to miss a buggy which he found in
his path and in so doing clipped the
rear of the McNab car which had
benture debt now totals $531,519.96.
Interest payments on such a debt of
over half a million dollars must be
no small burden.—Artlfur Enterprise -
News.
Appointed' Division Court Clerk
Mr. Frank Rennie, ex41.P.P., has
been appointed by the Hepburn Gov -
been turned into the ditch to avert a
Sleighing Accident
Kincardine—Bill McCreath, young
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McCreath
is in Kincardine General Hospital
with a fractured leg sustained when
his sleigh overturned and threw him
to the icy roadway. It is the first ac-
cident of its kind in several years.
Bank Appeals Decision
The Royal Bank of Canada has ap-
pealed the judgment handed down on
Friday at Osgoode Hall by Mr. Jaus-
tice J. C. Makins, who, in dismissing
the suit instituted by the bank against
six Kincardine Township farmers, rul-
ed they did not have to pay $6,000
which the bank claimed they had
guaranteed on behalf of the now de-
funct United Farmers' Shipping As-
sociation of Kincardine. Stay of ex-
eoution for fifteen days was granted
in the judgment. This case was tried
at the Bruce Fall Assizes.—Ifildnay
Gazette.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM FASHION CENTRES OF PARIS
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Above are a selection of the latest
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in Paris styles. (1) Dress in simple
flowing lines of pale rose crepe. The
1coat is of Lyons velvet in beige.(2) It
looks especially. : well on
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The charming blackhorse-hair fisc1, r miss. (3) Here is an attractive dark
sets off this ale green tvetting dress: brrc-
red etitted: wool suit.Thecol-
lar is of white pique.