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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-06-13, Page 3T x1<irsda , Juoe 13th, 19$5 You'll Nike the rich, Full Flavour of Salada Orange Pekoe Blend. Try a package. 43 SALADA TEA World Wide News In Brief Form Opposed 40 -Hour Week London, Eng. -A, R. Goldie, Galt, Ont., Canadian Employers' , expressed Declaring the aid he would do his best its ratification, e Toronto—Mandatory and regula t ed federal trade and industry codel gate at the International Labor Co ference in session ]fereo position to°the proposal to adopt a 4 hour week. 40-hou was unsuited to Gana da, Gold sto preven St vens Still Not Satisfied orY' powers were asked for the'pro jec n mission by Hon. Harry H. Steven former minister of trade and coin• of e- n1- p- 0- ie t t- 11- s, y s f r e y f r n coerce, speaking to 3,000 in Masse Hall here. "I welcome the introduc tion of this bill for the fact that it i an' admission by the government o the principle+ of establishing a fai trade board and that it is a desirabl thing," he told the gathering called b the Retail Merchants' Association o Ontario. "It is a start, a very poo start perhaps, but the great questio is, how it will finish?" Industry Board to be Established Ottawa—Legislation partially im plementing the principal recommenda tion of the Price Spreads Commis sion, that a Federal Trade and In dustry Board be established to regu ate and control internal trade and in 1 dustry in Canada, was introduced in the Commons. N.R.A. Head Resigns Washington—President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Donald Randall :Richberg, chairman of the National 'Industrial Recovery Board and who only six months ago was dubbed "Assistant President." He will return to private law practice on June 16th. Will Co -Operate With Provinces Against Reds Ottawa — Communistic 'operations generally throughout Canada are un- der close Government surveillance and the. Federal authority is prepared to co-operate with the Provinces at any time when the latter ask for assist- ance in handling the "army" of men who left Western unemployment re- lief camps and are heading for Ot- tawa. Baldwin Again Prime Minister London—The Cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was re- placed Saturday by a National Gov- ernment Cabinet containing younger elements and with Conservative Lead- er Stanley Baldwin as Premier of Great Britain, for the third tinne. Ram- say MacDonald resigned the Premier - ship after six continuous years in of- fice. He will remain in the Cabinet, which retains the National. Govern- ment complexion of the previous. one, but in the nominal position of Lord President of.the -Council. Failing health cause him to change places with 11/Ir. Baldwin, and the latter seems to have made the most of the opportunity to instil a new vigor in- to the Cabinet. Says Inspector Dawson Made Statement Ottawa—Dramatic corroboration of the story that Penitentiary Inspector J. D. Dawson, said Miss Agnes Mac- phail, M.P., "made a — fool of her- self" came from former Warden W. B. Meglouglin. Died of Arsenic Poisoning Woodstock—Tyrell Tilford, Wood- stock ° teamster, died from arsenic poison, ""administered by some person or Persons unknown," according to the finding of the Woodstock inquest jury. Mrs. Elizabeth Tilford, wife of the dead man, was not in the court room wlt'en the jury filed. in. After a strained moment of silence, Dr..Craw- ford read the verdict. He made no comment upon it, and dismissed the ten jurors. "You may say that we ex- pect developments very soon," Special Attorney Snider said shortly after the jury had returned its verdict. New French Premier Given Great Power Paris -Premier Pierre Laval was given extraordinary powers to deal with France's financial crisis, an issue on which two previous Cabinets fell within the space of four days. By a vote of 324 to 160, the 'Chamber of Deputies 'entrusted to him and his Government the task of crushing speculation and safeguarding the franc, bringing to an end a week-old political impasse. Japan Threatens Action Shanghai—Japan delivered a virtual ultimatum to China, military and dip- lomatic .officials alike threatening "drastic action" by the Japanese Army in North China unless issues there are settled quickly — and in accordance with Japanese views. Break Out of Cobourg Jail Forcing their way out of the Co- bourg town lockup,' while their police escort was eating supper, Alex. Cross, alias Walter Howse, and Fred Shaw,' alias Frank Hart, suspects in the loot- ing of the North York Township vault and a dozen other robberies, made a' clean getaway. In a sensa- tional dash which left their pursuers Hydro range Campaign 20% Off Regular Prices SMALL DOWN PAYMENT. 2 YEARS TO COMPLETE PAYMENT Also Range Wiring finance;d under above plan. New Low Prices on all reliable makes of Electric Ranges. CALL ATYU '. YOUR HYDRO SHOP FOR, FULL INFORMATION. Wingham. Utilities ; Commission VI TOT l A,DVAANCJ -TI :I S PAGE ' TI R~ far behind, Cross and Shaw, who were on their way in custody to Toronto following their arrest in Montreal, es - en ed in a car and in a round -about way headed for Toronto. The .car they used was found near there: With paralyzing suddenness the two young men smashed their way out of the lock-up, leaving behind two girl com- panions who were also under arrest. U. S. to Build Air Bases Washington—A bill to authorize construction of half a dozen United States army air bases to guard Alaska, the Panama Canal and other United States frontiers against any enemy at- tacks was passed by the House. of Re- presentatives and sent to the Senate. Mounted Police Given Clean Sheet Ottawa --Chief Justice J. B, M. Baxter of New Brunswick gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police com- plete absolution •in his findings as .a Commissioner to investigate charges levelled at the force by Hon. Peter Veniot, Liberal member for Gloucest- er. NEWS of the DISTRICT Formosa Man Hanged Self - John Stemmler was found hanging by a rope from the roof of the barn on his farm near Formosa. He was 45 years of age and survived by his, widow and seven children, six girls and one boy, the eldest 15 years of age. Misfortune has laid a heavy hand on this family. Ten years ago while living at Hesson, Ont., their house was burned to the ground, the eldest daughter meeting death in the fire. A year ago, joseph Stemmler, Sr., died at Linwood, and six months age Geo. Stemmler ,a brother, died at Toronto. Appointed Clinton Customs Officer The appointment of Melvin J. Schoenhals to the position of collect- or of national revenue at the Clinton sub -office to fill the vacancy. caused by the transfer to the port of Goder- ich of H. S. Turner, is a popular one. Melvin is the younger son 61 Mr. and Mrs. John Schoenhals, and is well and favorably known. He is an overseas man and is married. Girl, 7 Years, Killed by Car Marie Stinson, seven, was fatally injured as she alighted from a neigh- bor's car and ran into the path of a roadster and trailer at Victoria Corn- ers' school, five miles north of Dun- dalk. The car was driven by Ernest Woods, R.R. 5, Orangeville. The in- jured child died in the office of Dr. Frank Martin. Speckled Beauties Jackie Wendt and Jackie Kauffman are showing the folks of this town how to 'capture the speckled beauties. During the past week, both lads pull- ed out two -pound trout from the local streams.—Milmay Gazette. Teacher to be Hired Following a special meeting of the School Board last week, six of the eight positions on the public and high school staff were thrown open for ap- plications, both from the present tea- chers and others desiring to apply. Teachers affected were advised of the Board's action.—Lucknow Sentinel. Fancied His Own Pig The other day Mr. Thos, H. Jasper, a prominent farmer and ex -council lor of Carrick delivered a load of fat hogs to a drover, and on the return tri brow h with' hi t p g m a load of the unfinished product to feed up • to the select grade. He found in the latter consignment a particularly appealing type of pig' and as T. H. is an. auth- orized judge of live stock at fall fairs he decided upon reserving this favor- ite for breeding purposes on his stock farm, and 'upon informing the buyer of his decision, the latter looked up bis memo -book to see from whom he purchased the grunter, and discovered. it had been sold by the very man who now wanted it.—Walkerton Herald - Times. Aged Lucknow Lady Passes The death of Mrs. Angus •McKin non occurred at'her hone, Lucknow, on Tuesday, June 4th, following an illness of_.hnore than a week with pneumonia. The funeral left her resi- dence, Victoria street, on Saturday morning for St. Patrick's R. C. Church, Holyrood for mass. The, death of Mrs. McKinnon removed the fourth of the older residents of the village in the past week. They were Duncan McKenzie, Mrs. Roderick Campbell, Mrs. W. E. ivlcDonald and Mrs, McKinnon, Me nister Carp Large carp frequenting the bank water of the Maitland :Rivernear the C.i?.R. bridge .are providing ,the latest fishing sport. One young boy caught two vo Saturday afternoon weighing fourteen and seventeen ',pounds, and, others have caught whoppers weigh- ing as much as nineteen pounds. All the fish, without the elasticity' usually accompanying the telling, were three feet in length.—Goderich Signal. Lucknow School Now High School A delegation from the Lucknow School Board waited on the 13rpcc County Council in session at Kincar- dine and, were successful in having the Continuation Schoolraised to the sta- tus of a high school. Doctor Hadi Close Cale As Dr, O'Toole, of Walkerton, was hurrying to Cargill on an urgent call, he had a narrow .escape from crashing into -the afternoon southbound train at Lundy's crossing, west of Walker- to>yi. The train was quite close when. the doctor saw it first, and although he applied thefull_ force of the brak- es, he realized that he could not stop the machine before it reached the track. He therefore turned the car to the left, and banged through a fence, and into a ditch, but he was success ful` in avoiding the train, The car was badly damaged, and the doctor sus- tained some chest injruies, but not sufficiently severe to lay him up. --,. Mildmay Gazette. Highway May Miss Lake Shore Towns Members of Bruce County Council, insession at Kincardine ,at least those on municipalities bordering the Blue Water highway, recently taken . over by the province, are perturbed about proposed plans of the highways de- partment to routethe new road so thatit does not pass through either Kincardine, or Southampton, two of the main towns between Goderich and Owen Sound. Knocked Off Bicycle by Car George Miller, Huron road service station proprietor, miraculously escap- ed serious injury on Wednesday night when he was struck by a car driven by Dr. N. Jackson and owned by Roy- al Lloyd, both of Goderich. Miller, riding a bicycle around the corner of Elgin avenue and Toronto street, suf- fered severe cuts and bruises and was removed to hospital where he spent the night. . COUNTY COUNCIL JUNE SESSION (Continued from Page Two) year. W. Coulthurst, chairman of the Goderich Collegiate Institute Board and. E. D. Brown, finance committee chairman of the town council, ad- dressed the council in respect to an advancement to the Goderich Colleg- iate Institute of $2,000 on Oct. 1 and $2,000 on Nov. 1, pending payment of the yearly county grant which is re- ceived in December, such sums to be deducted from the grant. Mr. Coul- thurst explained tliat a collegiate board has no power to borrow phon- ey. Bert Thompson, former reeve of E. Wawanosh, and Mrs. R. Davidson of Dungannon requested 0 grant of $50 to the Huron County Trustees' and Ratepayers' Association, of which Mrs. Davidson is the secretary. The request was referred to the executive committee. Motions Moser -Davidson: That Cambria Road in the town of Goderich be tak- en over as part of the county roads system. Good roads conunittee. Hanley -Davidson: That we deport George Poulder, now an inmate of the county home, to Roumania. Fin- ance committee: Bryans-Lovell: That we recommend the good roads commission to treat County road No, 29 . with calcium chloride for the purpose of preserv- ing the said road. Good roads com- mittee. Feagan-Matheson: That the bound- ary road between Ashfield, Wawa - nosh and Colborne be taken over by the county from Auburn to Sheppard - ton to connect county road at Au- burn with 13luewater Highway. Thursday. Session Tax Rate 514 Mills Huron County Council fixed the 1935 tax rate at •5x/s mills, a reduction of half a mill. This was accomplish- ed by splitting in two a $60,000 high- way paving bill owing to the prov- ince, $35,000 to be paid this year and $25,000 next. The county will pay': the province 34. per cent. interest on the outstanding amount. The 51/3 mill rate was unanimously sttpported.' It was decided to pay municipal cleric $1' per application for Old Age Pensions and 'tett cents per, mile one way. Since the change of government in Ontario clerks have been doing this work gratis. Returning to tite attack on the leg- islature for usurpation of its powers council passed a strong resolution of protest. fr , O you realize that the Master Chevrolet is the only car in its class that gives you all this year's up-to-date features? Here are just a few of the modern advantages ex- clusive to Chevrolet in the lowest pride field: The TURRET TOP roof of solid steel! KNEE -ACTION, in addition to balanced weight! Bodies by Fisher with Fisher Ventilation! Blue Flanie Engine! Cable- Cbntrolled Brakes! Drive the car itself for as little as ten minutes, and you'll be convinced that you save money—and get everything that is up-to-date—when you choose a Master Chevrolet! Easy GMAC terms. PRICED $ FROM 5 (for the Master 2 -Pass. Coupe) Delivered, fully equipped at factory, Oshawa, Government Registration Fee only extra. See the new Standard Series models priced as low as $712 C.f65C fifeiN b.'ikia'. 7Z CHEVROLET MODELS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY CRAWFORD'S GARAGE Protest Legislation The resolution arose from a lengthy discussion of two recent pieces of leg- islation, one which takes from county councils, participation in the recom- mending of Old Age Pensions, but neglecting to provide a schedule of re- muneration for municipal clerks for investigating and filling out the appli- cations. Heretofore, this was handled by a committee of county council. The second was legislation that says that road superintendents must henceforth be either graduate engineers or sur- veyors. Council adopted the report of the finance committee refusing to advance $4,000 to the Goderich Collegiate Board pending receipt of the 1935 county grant in December. A. T. Cooper, Clinton, a member of the Mother's Allowance Board, ad- dressed cotincil, explaining that the Act called for two lady members on. the Board and Council had erred in naming Merton Reid of Seaforth to fill the vacancy. The appointee must be a lady, Mr. Cooper said. Mrs. Mer- ton Reid was later named to fill the vacancy. There are 58 mothers and 182 child- ren in Huron Gounty benefitting at the present time and there were 25 applications from mothers with one child, now eligible for the first time, The council refused to endorse a ' clause in the report of the education committee stipulating that all second- ary school .pupils beyond lower..school be required to pay a fee for their ed ucation. The salary of County Constable John Ferguson was raised $100 and $50 additional allowed for unifornli, as contained in the executive commit- tee's report. A grant of $300 was made to the 161st Battalion for its reunion at Clin- ton in August and $50 was granted the Huron County Bdncation Assoc- iation of .Trustees and Ratepayers, The annual county council picnic will be held at Goderich on July 24, Friday Session Members paid tribute to lord Byng at their final session Friday, by stand- ing at attention while the flag was lowered for the great war leader and former governor-general. The coun- ty roads commission report was taken up clause by clause. A lengthy discus- sion followed the reading of clause 17 which stated Mr. Martin of Ashfield Township had presented a claim of $250 for damages against the county on account of water flooding over the county road. The commission exam- ined the situation, and the Township of Ashfield appears to be primarily responsible for the condition by rea- son of conducttn;, water in a ditch to this point, The township council have refused to admit any liability, and if the matter is taken to court, it is in- tended to have the township added as co-defendants. The following will be made county roads: The road south of the town line of Stephen from Corbett's easterl3r to the London Road; road between con- cessions 8 and 9, Usborne, from the Thames Road southerly to Whalen's Cortiers; road through Varna from the Zurich Road to Holnnesville; Cambria Road in the town of Goder- ich, road between concession 8 and 9 West Wawanosh; road between coal - cessions 8 and 9 McKillop; the cut line, Goderich Township; road north of the town line of Turnberry from highway No. 4 to Belmore. Council joined in the request to the minister of highways to take over as, a provincial highway the road from Amberley to Wingham, Harriston, Listowel and Elmira. House of Refuge Committee re- port: The amount carried forward from the last quarter was $3,217.80; .80• ex- penses for the present quarter $4,513.- 15; 4,513:15; total $7,790.95. Receipts carried forward $1,384.44. Receipts for the present quarter $2;963.80. Total $4,- 348.4. The committee a•eported the various. buildings to be in a most satisfactory condition. The report was adopted. Educational Committee The supplementary report of the - Educational Committee recommended. that representatives of this council' meet the London Board of Education to make arrangements for admission of Huron County pupils to the Tech- nical School in London and payment of fees. Re school inspector's expenses: As this seems to involve a technical point of law and we have the decision of His Honor Judge Costello ordering- the rderingthe County of Huron to pay these ex (Continued on Page Seven) •1;41!:1„Mie- 'ti: 'f ntxh hn.45 THE STANDARD OF QUALITY throughout the World