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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-07-11, Page 31 • Thursday, July Mk tea 1935. S [Todd Wide Ne 0a41..n.o.tuna...ovit. armso•ur,cmnuamaamo..roacooam $ hi Brief For ._. ,.... ..., ,.. ........ .....oar, 'Saskatchewan Premier to Probe Riots Regina—Appointment of a judicial commission to investigate the trip of relief camp workers through Saskat- chewan and consequent rioting, was made by the Saskatchewan Govern- ment as 1,500 strikers from the camps sped east and west to their homes or relief camps, Complete investigation will be made with specific attention to Dominion Day rioting that cost the life of Detective Charles Millar, in- jury to about 100 persons, arrest of 120 and damage to city property es- timated at $25,000. Bennett Will Lead Party Ottawa—Prime Minister Bennett Will continue as Conservative Leader in the approaching general election. Following the Government caucus, Mr, Bennett said: "I told. them I will continue to lead the party as long as my health permits." Members who were present at the caucus reported that Mr. Bennett had said: "I'11 die in harness rather than quit now; we have a record to be proud of.. Italy Military Active Rome Italy Supreme Naval Coun- cil decided to increase the effective- ness of the Italian fleet in case of a war with Ethiopia. Premier Mussolini is understood to have decided finally that, unless the League of Nations es- tablishes a mandate over Ethiopia, Italian troops will wage war to re- claim lands which Italy considers be- long to her. Otto Will Not Be King this Summer Vienna—Foreign Minister Egon Berger-Waldenegg denied that form er Empress Zita and Archduke Otto, her eldest son and Hapsburg claim- ant to the Austrian throne, would visit. Austria soon. ,He described as non- sense reports from Brussels, where the exiled royal family lives, that Zita and her children were planning to spend the summer in their native country, saying emphatically: "The. head of the house of Hapsburg (Otto) positively will not come to Austria r FOR D ° t{OTEL HOOSE RATES 1.50 to 250 sinus HOWEVER CONOMY MODERN FIREPROOF I. HOTELS CONVENfhilY LOCATED / EASY FAWN FfOur1ES this summer." In Brussels it was reported that a family council .of Hapsburgs was held at Steenockerzeel Castle. U. S. Will Not Aid Ethiopia Washington—The United States sidestepped entanglement in the Italo- Ethiopian. crisis by suggesting that the League of Nations, which already is arbitrating the dispute, will continue its efforts to achieve a peaceful solu- tion, Ethiopia asked the United States to find some way to make Italy ob- serve her obligations under the Kel- lagg-Briand pact, bay, which she re- nounced war as an instrument of na- tional policy. Flooded; in Peace River District Edmonton—Most striking sign of a general improvement in flood condi- tions throughout the West, waters of the Peace River were dropping al- most as rapidly as they rose a week ago. Citizens were busy repairing the heavy damage caused in Peace River Town by the flood. But relief was not yet complete, there was a further ten -inch rise in the' Lesser Slave Lake, Slave Lake Village is completely cut off from the outside world, except by boat. Will Not Dump Wheat Ottawa -Canada's proposed Wheat Board will not launch a dumping pol- icy to liquidate at fire -sale prices the 200,000,000 bushels it will inherit frons Canadian Co-operative Wheat Produc- ers Limited, Premier R. B. Bennett stated. Odette Not to Retire Premier Hepburn entered absolute denial to a newspaper story suggest - ng that Liquor Control Commission- er E. G. Odette was to be retired. `That's absolutely untrue," Premier Hepburn said, as he stated that both Mr, Odette and Arnold Smith—named a replace the Commissioner in the tory—were needed at the Liquor Board. Some Municipalities Get Hydro Cut Ontario Hydro announced 'arrange- ments to ease overly heavy power osts burdening a half-dozen munici- alities, Lancaster, Port Rowan, Al- inston, Priceville, Holstein and Neu- tadt were named as the benefited municipalities. In the latter three a esulting sharp reduction in original otnestic and commercial rates is precast. In general the affected mun- cipalities had built tip heavy -powered Hydro plants to feedsome large local ndustry. When the industry collapsed t was explained, the local consumers t s c p v $ d f ydro ange 20% riff Regular Prices SMALL DOWN PAYMENT. 2 YEARS TO COMPLETE PAYMENT Also Range Wiring financed under above plan. New'Low .Prices on all reliable makes of Electric Ranges. CALL AT YOUR HYDRO SHOP ,FOR .FULL INFORMATION. Wingharn Utilities Commission 1 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMI $ were saddled' with Hydro equipment far beyond their purses, As a result they fell behind in their payments. to Ontario Hydro Dairy Bonus for F,artners: Ottawa—The House of Cotnntons. established a fund of $1,000,000 to be used to bonus the dairy industry, Minister of Agriculture Robert Weir said payments of 1.14 cents a pound, cheese weight, will be made in July. to every farmer 'sending milk to a;. cheese factory, Tlir: idea behind, the. bonus scheme is to discourage farm- ers from piling up high production of butter and forcing Canadian prices down to the world level. The fund will operate until the end of October, when, the Minister said, he expeeted the dairy industry would institute a scheme of its oven. Payments will be. made through cheese factories which are Government inspected. Mount Vesuvius Active Naples, Italy—Mount Vesuvius al- armed citizens of Naples and near- by towns with a terrifying eruption but observers at the Vesuvius Obesrv- atory assured the populace there was no danger, Roaring flames spouting from the volcano, whose lava and ashies buried the ancient city of Pom- peii, provided a magnificent display for hundreds of thousands of Neapol- itans and tourists in the district. Mayor of London Loses Action The manner in which Mayor Geo. A. Wenige of London, Ontario, had stopped a sale being conducted by George R. Gardiner, auctioneer, last October, was 'termed "inexcusable and open to censure", by Mr, justice Kel- ly in a judgment handed down at Os- goode Hall, His Lordship granted Gardiner $2,000 and costs against Mayor Wenige, but dismissed Gardin- er's action against the city of London. Mayor Wenige is entering an appeal. NEWS of the I.STRICT Sql$ .,,p......lUU: Boy Swimmer Injured Harriston—Glen Tomlin, 10 -year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Tomlin, received painful injuries to his head while swimming here. Medical as- asistance was rendered necessitating several stitches to close the wound. Porcupine Visits Dundalk Dundalk—This village had an untis- ual caller in the form of a full-grown porcupine, which undertook to make an inspection of the business section, but alas, some small boys were the first to be aware of its presence and clubbed the animal to death ere more sympathetic humans had a chance to intervene, Clinton Man Injured by Automobile When struck by an automobile on Highway No. 4 Friday, Joseph Quig- ley, Clinton, suffered two broken legs, a compound fracture of one, and oth- er injuries. He is in Clinton Hospi- taI. A. Hilburn, the driver of the car which struck Quigley, was not held. Traffic Officers Robinson and Lever investigated.Quigley had driven his car a short distance north of the town to deliver a parcel at a farmhouse. Reaching the gateway, he pulled up on the right-hand side of the road, alighted and walked behind the ve- hicle and into the path of the oncom- ing Hilburn automobile. He was hit by the right fender and thrown vio- lently to the pavement. Stolen Good Recovered Orangeville—Word reached town goods, part of the valued at $1600 stolen early on Sunday morning from the store of Hughes and Norris here, it had been recovered in Toronto, and one pian arrested. Listowel Plant to Reopen Backed by Mcmtreal interests, a new industry is being started in the for- mer or- me > Perfect Knit Mills factory on Wallace Street, Listowel, A. E. Wil- liams, formerly of Oshawa, who has been Superintendent of the 'A, Shack- leton Company here for thepast few years, will head the new industry, to be known as the Victoria Woollens and Worsteds. Only local labor will be employed, and all yarns used in weaving will be secured locally from the Maitand Spinning' Mills. As soon as arrangements are conijleted four machines will be installed and four more added every two months t ntil capacity is reached. Steal Car from Garage The garage of Leslie Ball, Landes boro, was broken into and it car be- longing to the mechanic was : stolen and, as yet, has not been recovered. A car belonging to a London:man was left at the garage which the thieves filled with gas, .but it is sup - ;posed they could not get the ,ear start- y�'.':i l•:.?3f.t�isSf•S•>:"i.+'2<?<^{i'.:i's8iy'i. ry%%`�y, f Wi,++•�,'uvn.'y'%�N.•%�r:%w '::L ,.... .:.,,.. F ,.• r.Li �v..,9n�:.w�. IOING VACATIONING soon? Start–out in a new Master Chevrolet and assure the success of, your holiday plans! You' travel smartly in this aristocrat of low-priced cars, "You travel dependably, economically, care -free. 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Ask Drainage Probe Harriston Board of Health received a petition asking for investigation in- to the drainage entering the Maitland River and at a meeting it was decided to appeal to the Provincial Board o Healfh and have an engineer visi Harriston and make a thorough in vestigation of the river as it passes through the town. The petition was signed by several residents in the im- mediate vicinity and by representativ- es of recreation organizations. Lucknow Teachers Re -Engaged Members of the staff: of the High and Public Schools, Lucknow, have been re-engaged with one exception, G. S. MacIntyre, of Paisley, will suc- ceed C. E. Hutchinson, who resigned. Other members of the staff have been re -hired upon acceptance of reductions in salaries made the board totalling approximately $1,000. • f Deer Sur:— I wasn't afther wroitin ye lasht wake, at all, at all, so I wasn't, be rayson av bein purty near knocked out wid hearin how thine elickshuns wint, down in New Brunswick. Whin a fellah has a wake shpot, that's wheer anyy thrubble will strike him fursht, an, shure, me ould back hasn't been so bad fer years. I tought mebby I wud be betther av a few days out nn the ould farrum, so I sint warr- rud to the bye to come in afther me wid the car. If he hadn't come I wud hev walked all the way theer in shpoite av me lane back, in orddher to git out av town fer a whoiie, wheel- theer heertheer wudden't be so many Grits ask - in ins if I had heered how the elick- shuns wint in New Brunswick, Shure, a walk av eight arr tin nioiles is a shmall Matthcr whin a fellah has wurse thrubbles. Yis, at fursht, I tuk tings puny harrud whin I heeredav that New Brunswick landshloide, but out in the counthry, sittin under the shade av a big maple tree, I tought tings otu fer ins ailf an foundanc that wus all wrong intoirely in me fursht oidea that the defatc av the Tory Governint in New Brunswick wud mane that thin Grits wud win in the cumin Dominion elick- shuns. I rrmirnbeder what some wan said about Great Britain sometoiines loosin battles, but nivir loosin wars, an 'tis the saute way wid the Tory parthy, $o it is. We may git licked insome av the skerinishes, arr even hev to retrate fer a toitue aid our whole army, but we always save our guns, an atntnunislnin, an the old flag, so as to be ready fer the ni:t big sthrap. An 'tis ready we are at the presint toitue to taich thine Grits that we don't intind thine to hev the rennin av the couttthry as long as os ottld oidintities conthrol tings itt the Tory parthy. Thitn young shpalpancs who shud be wurrukin wid us to save the counthry front thitn Grits and C.C.:F.', wur rather shpind theer toitue playin ball, are rowlin bowls on the grane. It wudden't look tuoite so bad if they wud take an intrust in pitchin harse shoes, arr play'in checkers, arr some other manly game. Ye will remitnber that I tould ye befoor av how 1 shwam the Maitland River, whin I wus only a, bye av twin- ty, wan. could marnin, in ordher to git itt zee vote befoor the Grit scrootin- eet crud raid the ollin 1 cc Mi dead when it fell and the other expir- ed in a couple of minutes. The driver himself did not experience the slight- e^'t shock. TIM THINKS THINGS OUT To the Editur av all thin Wingham paypers. Boy Drowned at Grand Bend Running into the cold water of Lake Huron opposite the Grand Bend Casino while overheated, was blamed for the drowning of ten -year-old Ed- ward "Teddy" Colville, son of James Colville, mechanic on the Pere Mar- quette Railway in Detroit. The boy had been in bathing but a few minutes when his body was found floating on thet vva er byMcLau- ghlin, IC t a relative, E. J. 11 I_a t- ghlin, of Chicago, who followed him into the water, where they had gone for an afternoon's ousting, Dust Caused Driver to Miss Turn in Road As a result of missing a turn a mile south of Antbet l,;y, Mrs. i. 5, Hoeft - :eel and young danghter of 6998 Blaine St., Cleveland, were taken to Kiticar- dine Hospital suffering painful but not serious injuries caesed when they were thrown frutn the coupe in which they were riling, Mr. I•ioeltzcl was trailing another car, and failed to see the turn near the "Gospel Hall" itt Ashfield Township on account of the dust raised by the car ahead. His car left the road, crashed through a ditch and landed between fence posts, Mrs, I4oeltzel and daughter were thrown from the car and received gashes from broken glass as well, Horses IiIled by Lightning Arthur—To have the team of horses he was driving suddenly, drop dead, killed by a bolt of lightning, was the startling experience of William Cook, a West, Luther fanner living about sty miles from here. Cook was oper- ating a seed drill sowing a field of barley and buckwheat when the light- ning sttttd4 One of the anini.als wag. A'' 'E.. ONTARIO vvus min in thin days, an Tories wus Tories. I hope the byes will hev a foine day fer neer sillybrashun on Froiday. Yours as befoor, Timothy Hay. this at roo maid y 41' y ,• e? Don't live in just a "house" -- make it a REAL HOME by install- ing a new, modern bathroom and a Duro Automatic Pumping System. The Duro-Special Pumping System, all Canadian -made, having a capacity of 250 gals. per hour, complete with 30 gal. 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