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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-02-21, Page 3VG1YiJwi:INr:i"�i1 Thursday, February 21, 1935 WINTGHAM ADVANCE -TIME$• .r HYDRO L..MPS The Lan$ life lamps" Fl es., Hy, OP vice and Guaranteed NM° Carla oo/ Jl Lamps Wham Utilities s Comrnissio,n. Crawford Block. 4 1,44.1 Phone 156. On La.. yea World Wide News In Brief Form Two Babies Murdered in .Toronto Two babies were murdered in Tor- onto within a period of• twelve hours on Friday. In one case a three -weeks - old boy is alleged to have been de- liberately strangled in bed by his mo- ther, who is under arrest. In the oth- er case a one -day old girl is believed to have been thrown against a brick wall and left in an alleyway, to die of exposure. Gambling Club Raided Battering down the door of the Brown Derby, a lakeshire club, near Toronto, a large squad of police on Saturday afternoon carried out a sur- prise •raid which netted 81 men, a truckload of alleged gambling equip- ment, $2,000 in cash, and a quantity of betting slips. 'PkCO1O .Pete" to Face Charge in London mon, ,Ky.-X.tingston 3? {Pic- colo Pete") Murray, bitter at the re- jection of his alibi testimony, awaits removal to Ontario for trial on charg- es...arisin,g.:from..the .kidnapping last August of John S. Labatt, wealthy London, Ont., brewer. I : Half School Children Defective Winnipeg -Defects were found in children, examined by Public Health nurses last year, according to the an= nual report of the Provincial Nursing Service. Of 7,283 children examined, 4.189 were found to have defects, Miss E. A. Russell, R.N., director, reported. Woman Warden Hero of Prison . Break Granite, Okla.—Thirty-one prison- ers, most of them convicted of`violent crimes, killed a tower guard and broke from the much -investigated State re- formatory here, despite the heroic re- sistance of its feminine warden. Pet- er Jones, the guard, was felled by a charge from a prison, shotgun as the young convicts fled behind a shield of visiting women and children. Eight of the fugitives were wounded by a shotgun charge. They and three oth- ers were captured immediately outside the walls. Mrs. G. A. Waters, the warden, the only feminine head of a analeprison in -tire nation, directed the work of the..guards, exposing herself to the fugitives' gunfire. Election May or September? Ottawa—Election talk dominated, political conversation. on Parliament Hill over the week -end. There are two guesses .as to the tune of polling. Sonie favor a late May -early June de S0 per cent. of Manitoba's school cision. Others predict a late August- HAUPTMANN SMILES IN CELL 13runo Haputma lit, condemned to die as the kidnap -killer of the Lind- bergh baby, couldstill smile for the carnpra when the photographer visit- ed him in his cell in Flemington, N. J. to take the first pictures sit ce his convictio i. early September verdict, Each date has its advocates :among Government supporters. To Change Ontario's Fiscal. Year The Hepburn Government will, close its books on March 31, initiate fiscal calendar reform, and wipe out the old Henry Government's still standing money votes, A new supply bill is to be voted for a new fiscal year—April 1, 1935, to April 1, 1936. For seven months—until November of this ;year—thenew supplies will supersede the appropriations voted for that period by the Henry Gov- ernment. Says Japanese in China to Stay. 'Victoria—Johnson Goforth, D.D., 76 -year-old veteran of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, returned to Canada Saturday, after forty-seven years in the mission fields of the Or- ient. He is retiring to his former home, Toronto, because of threaten- ed blindness. "The Japanese are there to stay unless Russia' drives them out," he said. "China cannot do it, Russia has a great fleet of aeroplanes and could do it. The aeroplane must decide the fate of Manchuria. How- ever, I don't think there will, be a clash, now. Some years ago it look- ed as if every hour would bring a dis- trubance, but Japan is easier now and Russia is not pressing." Sterilization Bill May Come in Manitoba House WinniAeg—Legislation for steriliza- tion of mental defectives will be in- troduced in the 1935 session of the Manitoba assembly, if present plans of the bills sponsors are carried out. The measure will be in the form of a private :member's bill. Ready to Adopt, Bradshaw Recommendations Toronto—Not only is the Hepburn Government prepared to adopt the re- commendations of Thomas Bradshaw in regard to partial cancellation of municipal debt in Border municipal- ities, but is ready to launch a move- ment with the object of reducing both principal and interest generally in Ontario municipalities, according to reports from Queen's Park. Stevens May Run in Kootenay Fernie, B.C. - Consensus among prominent Conservatives of this sec- tion of East Kootenay Federal con- stituency is that Hon. H. H. Stevens, former Minister of Trade and. Com- merce will reecive that party'•s nomi- nation without opposition. Germany Ready for Discussions Berlin—Germany declared herself ready in ,principle to use her air forc- es to preserve the .peace of Western Europe, inviting Great Britain to in- augurate bilateral discussions to that end. To Investigate Vancouver Affairs Vancouver -Thomas Bradshaw of Toronto, President of the North Am- erican Life Asurance Company, ac- cepted Mayor G. G. McGeer's invita- tion to investigate Vancouver's finan- cial position. He will advise the May- or later as to when he will arrive. Prince to Have Meeting of Mayors London—The Prince of \Vales has called a meeting at St. Jaynes' Palace for March 1st,, at which he will sub- mit a scheme for a national .thank - offering on the occasion of the IKing's silver jubilee. Invitations have been issued to the Lords -Lieutenant of the Counties, the Lorca Mayors and May- ors of England, and the Lord Pro- vost and Provosts of Scotland. Trade Agreement with U. S. Soon Ottawa— Consummation of a trade agreement with the United States be- fore the general election—Which is ex- pected this summer—is the objective of the Prime Minister, ` The Canad- ian proposals will he completely for- mulated early in April, and the pres- ent plan contemplates negotiations between the Dominion's delegates and. the spokesmen of the United States during the month of April. Plan. to Come Under Marketing Act Hamilton—After a long discussion in which many growers showed con- siderable distrust of the scheme, the Ontario and Niagara Fruit Growers' Associations, in joint convention here, a'pprr,ved the plan to organize' the fruit -growing industry so as to drake the, provisions isions of the Natural Pro- ducts 'ro-ducts Marketing. Act effective to it. Wheat Carryover to be Less This Year Moose Jaw, Sask.—Canada's, wheat carryover' will be well under 100,000,- 000 bushels on Aug' 1 next, John 1, McFarland, General Manager, Canad- ian Co -Operative Wheat. Producers, Limited, said in an address before the Saskatchewan School Trustees' Assoc- iation here. "With a prospective car- ryover down to around 80,000,000 bu- shels, as cotn'pared with 194,000,000' last year, and 211,000,00 in 1933, fol ' lowing the big 'crop of 1932, and, fin- 'ally, in-Ially, compared with, 127,00,000 in U'80," said Mr, McFarland, "there is surely ample proof that the scene has completely changed for this year at least, Cutten Ruled Off Grain Exchange Chicago—Arthur' W., Cutten, des- cribing the Grain Futures ,Commis- sion decree, ruling him off the floors for two years, as "unconstitutional," "outrageous" and "bureaucratic," pre- pared to take his case from the exec- utive to the judicial branch of the Government :Cotten, born at Guelph, Ont,, was penalized for, manipulating prices, concealing transactions, and snaking irregular reports or none at all to the Commission in 1930 and 1931. Orangemen. Interview Hepburn Orangemen made formal protest..to the Hepburn Government against an increase in separate school tax chan- nels, The brief of the Grand Lodges —backed by Protestant clergymen and public 'school representatives— was in line with long-time public school policies. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn returned an avowedly non- committal answer. "I'm not going to make any statement of policy today," he said. "You didn't expect that." , Will Not Further Tax Hydro The Ontario Government has no in- tention of introducing legislation whereby additional taxation might be imposed on the Hydro -Electric Pow- er Commission. The Government's stand was conveyed by Premier Mit- chell F. Hepburn to executive mem- bers of the Ontario Municipal Elec- thric Association, who visited Queen's Park to express their opposition to any move which might increase the. Hydro burden. nunmmntnnnmr NEWS of the DISTRICT n. wna„e. i Fatal Accident on Palmerston Road Robert Joseph Armstrong, 24 years old, of 198 Browning Avenue, Toron- to ,was fatally injured on Tuesday of last wek when an automobile driven by his brother skidded 180 feet around a curve on the highway leading from Wallace to Palmerston and went in- to a ditch. Joseph W. Armstrong, the brother, of 99 Westwood Avenue, Toronto, incurred fractures to his ribs and internal injuries. Both were taken to the hospital at Palmerston, where Robert died.—Listowel Stand- ard, Buys Registered Stock Reeve GeorgeWalkey of Harriston, is going into the raising of pure bred cattle and has purchased several of the. Jersey breed registered stock which he will place on one of his farms in Minto Township. The reeve claims that the cost of raising pure- bred stock is no greater than for in- ferior stock and with a much better market for purebred than for stock of inferior breeding. Getting The "Breaks" Kathleen Game fell on the slide by Mr. Roy Robertson's residence on Friday afternoon and unfortunately broke off most of one of her upper front teeth. A local dentist who is treating the patient thinks that there is a possibility of building an artific- ial tooth on he root after it has at- tained its full growth. This is the third tooth that Kathleen has had knocked out bu in the case of the other two they were only in the tem- porary set. This child is getting used to hard knocks. In 1930 she broke her right elbow and last July a fall from tate same tree where she had the for- mer accident resuled in a fracture of the left elbow,—Walkerton Herald - Times. What's This a Sign Of? Mr, Robert Cunningham, who re- sides one mile norh of Burgoyne, re- ports seeing six wild geese flying north early Tuesday morning. Local weather prognosticatorswill please take notice,—Port Elgin Times. Smaller Children Will Skate Free ]"he .Listowel Commtmity Club in co-operation with the Arena manage anent, have arranged certain, periods each week when children itti, to the age of tet, years will be allowed to skate free of charge, Mothers of the small children will also by extended the privilege.—Listowel Sanclard. Hadi Finger Severed Last Friday afternoon Mr, Henry Horne, Ji',, while operating the shap- ing machine at the Andrew Malcolm Furniture Co,, had the misfortune to lose one firiger of his left hand and seriously injured another. He was ta- ken to the Mennorial Hospital for rneclic:tl attention, --Listowel Banner, . Will Improve Plant The egg grading station at the lo- cal creamery is being lined with cork to make it more suitable for handling the hen friut, We 'learn that Thomp- son Bros, will erect a large cold stop., age plant 46x20, in addition to their creamery, next fall.—Mildmay Gaz- ette. Saw Red Fox Soon is will not be news to see a deer or a flock of deer feeding quiet- ly on a north Wellington farm. Coun- cillor Passmore of 'West Luther, how- ever, had an experience the other day that is not so common, While going along the 4th Concession of West Lu- ther, a fine, red fox crossedhis path, Certainly, the .councillor wished then pretty hard for his rifle but to no avail. The fox was quite at ease, walk- ed quietly along the fence taking in the situation and then made off to- ward the marsh. Foxes in this section are very scarce although there may still be a few around, the marsh or in other swamps of that area.—Arth- ur Enterprise -News. Goderich to Have Museum Several rooms in the Goderich pub- lic library that have been undergoing alerations preparatory to the installa- tion of a museum are now in readi- ness. Residents of Goderich and the surrounding district are said to be in possession, of a wealth of documents, books, records, .pictures and imple- ments of on historical value. These will be placed on display and will pro- vide the nucleus of the Goderich mu- seum. Tot Breaks Leg Playing on his snow fort, of which he was inordinately proud, little Dick Farley, 6 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman L. Farley, Kincardine, fell down he six-foot wall of snow and suffered a fractured leg. • He is pro- gessing favorably. Payroll $106,000 Monthly Every day in the riding of Algoma - Manitoulin 1,900 men are at work un- der the supervision of the Northern Development in some kind of road work, and 3,000 secure employment on the roads each month under the rotation system. The monthly pay- roll is $106,000. The above was stat- ed by W. L. Miller, M.L.A., recent- ly at Blind River, when he told men on relief there that they would be expected to live on wages they are receiving while engaged on road work. EdWardsbung IROWN BRAND CDRN SYRUP "'THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOOD' A product of The CANADA STARCH CO., Limited -2- No doubt this is somewhat reduced now since the order from headquart- ers in Toronto to cut down on ex- penditures but the figures' show that immense sums of honey are being ex- pended for. relief purposes in this rid- ing.—Little Current.. Expositor., Kincardine Woman: Has{ 92nd Birthday ICin.cardine-Enjoying fairly good health and able to stow keen interest est in the affairs of the communityin which she has resided the past 52 years, Mrs. Caroline Rinker marked her 92nd birthday, receiving congrat- ulatory messages from a host , of friends. For more than a half cen- tury the name of Rinker has been well known throughout this district. Rol - son Rinker came to Kincardine front Ridgeville 52 years ago and entered the grocery business. Until two years ago it was carried on bytheRinker family. It was 72 years ago that Caro- line Armbrust, of Welland, wed Rol- game. son Rinker. He passed away 20 years ago. As a member of Kincardine Methodist, later United Church, Mrs. Rinker takes keen interest in many organizations. One of these, the choir, is conducted by her daughter, Miss N. E.' Rinker. While health per- mited she was actively connetced with church work. to play against : Seaforth on Tuesday of last week when Seaforth attempted touse Leppard ofMitchell, L pp and . C. Flannery, A. Hiduebrand and E. Ren- nie, of Seaforth, all of whom although of junior age, have been playing 'in- termediate hockey. Fractured Collarbone Playing Hockey .: Goderich-Colliding with a player in the Lion's Club juvenile hockey league on Saturday, Roy Atkinson, '13 - year -old son of Dr. A. N. and Mrs. Atkinson, South Street, suffered a broken collar bone. It was the first serious injury this season in any of the five local leagues. In a race for the puck just after the start of the game, Baechler vs. Powell, Roy col- lided wiht ' Marvin Gibson, a much bigger boy, and was knocked down, He took his place in the line, not realizing the extent of his injury, but almost immediately retired from the Goderich Juniors Withdraw from W.O.H,A. As a protest against the inconsist- ency of the executive of the Western Ontario Hockey Association, who rul- ed specifically, against the regula- tions, that a Mitchell man could play with the Seaforth juniors, also that Seaforth intermediate players of jun- ior age could play junior hockey, the execuive of the Goderich Marines an- nounced the team's withdrawal from the association. The Marines refused "I assure you, you will soon forget the faithless creature." 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