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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1932-12-22, Page 9Thurs., December 22, 1932. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES PAGE, NIN . SAY YOU WERE LOOKING FOR A GIFT "HUNCH"? Make is something the whole family can en- joy. Comics and features for the children . . inter- esting household items for Mother , the latest news for yourself the year around. Subscribe To The Advance- Tlmes. $2.00 a year. R7�4�r0.y�.le Phone 34. r S •r. rte., World Wide News In Brief Form ' Restriction, on Foreign. Meat London, Eng.—The house of Com- mons approved, by a vote of 163 to 36, an order controlling the impor- tation of meat to the United King- dom, sunder terms of the Ottawa Ec- onomic Conference agreements. The order already had been approved by the House 'of Lords. Importation of meat from foreign countries will be prohibited after Jan. 1, except -under license and by recog- nized. importers. The importers, however, would not be under restric- tiosn regarding the amount of meat they brought into the country. r New Town is Arising On Ruins of Spragge Spragge—A new town is . arising from 'the ashes of the old one, more, than 'half wiped out by a fire on Sept. 14. Stores, offices and dwell- ings ,are being moved from the al- most -deserted lumber village of Nes- torville, sixty miles west on Georgian Bay ,to Spragge. Both Nestorville and Spragge are owned by the Mc- Fadden Lumber Company.. Car For Every 10 Ottawa -Canadians operated 1,- 051,336 motor vehicles in the first nine months of this year, one for each ten persons, the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics reports. This was a decrease off 1:8 per cent. from last year. Gasoline sales dropped 10 per. cent. in the same period The following is the number of motor 'vehicles in use in the Provin- ces, with the decrease from last year in brackets: Prince Edward Island, 6,879 (10.2%); Nova Scotia 39,737. (6,6%); Quebec, 162,917 (7%); On- tario, 517,176 (5.4%); Manitoba 64,- 800 4;800 8(13..2%); Saskatchewan, 88,265 15.7%); Alberta, 82,9.33 ;(11.6%); and British Columbia, 88,629 (6.9%. Canadian owned 770,436 radio sets in 1931, an average of '74 for each 1,000 of population. There were .46 sets for each 1,000 people in rural centres, 99 in the urban:. Oil Strike near Chatham Catham-"Black gold," the thick, pungent fluid which once swept On- tario into the front rank of the world's oil -producers, is flowing slowly from the oil well =drilled and "shot" on the farm of Earl Flaok, near Doyle Postoffice. Not until the debris which follow- ed the shooting has been cleared away will the worth of the well be proved. More than 150 sauarts of ni- troglycerine was exploded 1;500 feet below the earth's surface, and now the resultant choking has practically stopped the flow of oil and gas. New U. S. Minister Ottawa—Canada may shortly wel- come the thirdUnited States Min- ister to this country—Nathan Will- iam MacChesney. The Chicago law- yer and man of public .affairs has been named for the post by Presi- dent Hoover. Official advice to this effect was received from "Washing- ton by Right Hon. 'S'ir George Per- Iey, Acting Priime Minister. The appointment, however, must receive the approval of the United States Senate, and. the 'Washington communication to Sr. 'George stated that the name of Mr. Mac'Chesney would be placed immediately before that body for ratification. Canadian Radium Soon on 1Sale Calgary—Two grammes of radium extracted from pitchblende found in the North country- around' Great 'Bear Lake, will be placed on the )market yvpifr.ER F��ES neo rn��nA•s evergreen PLAYGROUND Reduced by Return FARE from VANCOUVER VICTORIA SEATTLE 012.10 $50 to VANCOUVER— VICTORIA, S.C. alsd to Seattle, Washington For health and pleasure escape from Winter to.. Canada's Evergreen' Playground on. the sunny Pacific Coast—tobalmy days : of golf and other summer activities, with winter sports nearby amid mountain grandeur, Fares this winter are approximately $50 lower than ever before and reduced rates at hotels make your holiday still anoreeconomical. Tickets good going until Feb. 28. Return Unl- it, April 30. Generous stop -over ;privileges at intermediate points, Low Short -Limit Tickets also on sale mill Full information Dec. 22 to other Pacific. Coast points, meind from ing 'California, return lttlttt Jan. 25. CANALOIAN lEbACIF by Jan. 15—the first Great Bear Lake radium, produced. This is the report brought to Cal- gary by H. 13. Montgomery and Pete li)avidson, prominent Northland pro- spectors, who have just completed months of work at Great Bear Lake silver and pitchblende fields. They predict a' great future for the area. "It takes eight or ten tons of pitch- blende to make a gramme of radium worth $70,000," he says, Premier Bennett Honored London -Prime Minister R. B. Ben- nett of Canada, was invested by King George with the :insignia of Knight of Grace of the. Venerable Oircler of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusal- dni in the British Realm. The honor carries no title. Mr. Bennett dined at Buckingham Palace with the King and Queen and King Christian and Queen Alexandria of Denmark, who. have been visiting their Majesties for a'week. Report on Riots. Presented Ottawa—The report on the riots at Portsmouth Penitentiary were hand- ed to Hon, Hugh, Guthrie, Minister of Justice. Containing more than 1,000 pages, findings and evidence, included' the document will receive the full consideration of 'the Minister No revision of financial structure, he said, would enable the system to pay its way unless the Government of Canada wiped out the whole debt date it from the railway and, in ad- dition, assumed, a part of the rail- way's liabilities to the public. NEWS of the DISTRICT Takes Over Secretaryship Mr. Alex, B. McKague took over the Secretaryship of the Teeswater Agricultural Society last week on ac- count of the severe illness of Mr. Kenneth McKenzie, who has acted for the society for many years. We hope the veteran Clerk of Culross will be able to ' resume his duties, both as Clerk of the Township and Secretary of the Agricultural Society before long.—Teeswater News. 'Telephone Rates Reduced The directors of the South Bruce Rural Telephone Company held a special meeting at Mildmay on Mon - and be placed before Cabinet Coun- day, to consider the rates for the cil later. coming year. It was decided to give a ten per cent. reduction to all sub- scribers who pay their rentals in January, and to all urban subscrib- ers who pay their accounts not later than the 20th of each month. The salaries of the officials and work- men were also given a substantial cut—Mildmay Gazette. Ate the Evidence The editor of a paper within sev- enteen miles of Grand Valley is re- ported to have received a plump chicken a few days ago, which he supposed came rfom an appreciative subscriber. Next day the chicken was gratefully devoured, and that evening a letter reached the editor which said: "I have sent you a chick- en iii order to settle a dispute. Can you tell us what the chicken died of?"—Star & Vidette. Britain and Five Other Nations Pay U. S. U. S. war debts accounts, cast up at the treasury definitely classed five nationsin default, while six others, led by Great : Britain, were marked as honoring the bond of their inter- national obligations. Nearly $100,000,000 was paid, .vir- tually all in gold or U.S. bonds, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In London, a stack of gold bars was rolled from one side of an un- derground vault t9theopposite wall, to await the Reserve Bank's with- drawal. Leaders of the U.S. defin- itely turned their attention to win- ning a revision of the present debt funding; agreement. Defaulting 'nations are France„ Belgium, Poland, Hungary asad Es- thonia. Paying are Great Britain., 7t`' aly, Szecho-Slovakia, Finland, La''tvia'. and Lithuania. 1 Premier Ask Aid 'For Home Owners Ottawa—The suggestion 'that spe- cial provision be made to aid the man who is buying his own 'home and' finds himself' out of work, -was put forward by Premier Henry 'in a con- ference with Hon. Wesley A. Gor- don, federal minister of labor. Mr. Henry stated this situation had become very serious. .At pres- ent, a tenant who becomes unem- ployed is eligible for relief 'but the man who, when he had a job, was putting his savings into ;the 'purchase of a house, can get nothing "from the state. Mr. Henry expressed the op- inion that this refusal to .aid the home -owner was most unfair. Want Members to Make. Inspection Port Arthur—The entire •member- ship of the Ontario Legislature will be invited to tour Nnrfhawestern Ontario next, summer, and a coni- mittee from this section will ;journey to Toronto early in the mew year bearing their invitation. Wheat Hits New Level Winnipeg—For the fourth ;time in a week, wheat prices plumbed new low levels. Carried away by a steady ,rush of distress selling which 'struck the market, No. 1 Northern wheat sold at the lowest, price in the his- tory of grain marketing on this •con- tinent when it sold at 38 cents.. The decline represented a break of four cents a bushel. Big Gold Rush Expected Truro, N,S.—A gold -rush in Lab- rador equal to. the Klondyke is for - seen by Newfoundland Government offiicals who have been • here for sev- eral days "on a private business mis- Sion. " The path of, prospectors is paved by a. recent announcement of the Newfoundland Government that La- brador will be open to them after Jan. 1, 1933. An initial fee' of $1000 will be charged on each claim of 100 square mires. P. J, Lewis, member of the New- foundland Legislature, said the re- cent discovery of gold in Labrador near the Canadian border moved the Government to admit prospectors. C.N.R, Cannot Pay Hon. 1)r. Robert J. Manion, Min- ister of Railways,. speaking to the. Commercial Trevellers' Association, endeavored: to correct what he dec- lared had come to be a 'misapprehen- sion ten.ong the public, that with fin- ancial re -organization the Canadian National . Railways could be made to pay its ay and jobs be give] the u •�e 'IplOyed; work'' Repairing Hydro Dam Preparations on an extensive scale have been contntenced towards the repair and reinforcing of the Hydro power dam, two miles south of Wal- kerton. Some machinery, a boiler, etc., were unloaded Friday at the scene, and at time of writing this Wednesday ten men are on duty an - der Construction Foreman. Fred J. Coyle of Toronto, 'doing tire prelim- inary work, and when actual ,opera- tions opera -tions start, which it is expected, will be next week, some thirty local lab- orers will be given employ1ment. — Walkerton Herald -Times. Horse Killed By, Track Saturday evening just about :six &clock as Mr.. Paul. Zininterman, of the 14th concession of Howi.ck Tp., was driving towards home and al- most directly in front of Mir. W. 'C. Dryden's on No. 9 Highway, a truck owned by National Grocers, ran in- to the wagon,' hitting the horse's shoulder and the wagon on the front wheel and knocking the outfit up against the fence. One of the horses was killed and Mr. Zimmerman -was thrown from the wagon, he luckily escaping injury. The truck which was (making the return trip to Strat- ford, plowed into the ditch which is quite deep at this point and the front end was considerably damaged, below the radiator, the wheels being knocked back when they hit the bank. The driver escaped with a sprained wrist. The truck was brought to Harris ton where repairs were made, soit could be driven back,—Harriston Re- view. Third Place in Contest Walkerton attained third place in the Buckinbatn Tobacco Contest, which closed on Saturday last, ' this tcwn being only exceeded by Mit- chell and Acton, 1st and 2nd win- ners, respectively, in the number of empty tobacco packages sent in by town of 2500 and under in the Do- minion. As third place entitles the 11111NI11®Ill II *IIIIIIIIMIIII dA WI A See M. ae For 'aaa tt� Government and Municipal Bonds Also All Kinds of 1 INSURANCE SURANCE Phone 226 Wrx •ba i►? LUBRICATES PERFECTLY AT WY :BELOW ZERO Made to give you the extra lubricating efficiency you need for Winter driving yet it costs no more. MOTOR OIL 100% PENNSYLVANIA , TEMPERATURE -TESTED FOR CANADA Crown-Doimnion Oil Co:, Limited, Distributor, Hamilton, Toronto,. St. Catharines Wingham Dealer: OBERSTON'S GARAGE winner to 150 ` toys, together with a similar number of bags of candies and nuts, this will practically- go round the 153 children of the local war veterans, The Walkerton Post of the Canadian Legion who spon- sored the campaign,will paps out the prizes from their annual Christmas Tree in the Town Hall, Herald - Times. Treaded on Thin Ice On Sunday a young gent and his lady friend went down to the pond, whether for a skate or just a little stroll, we do not know. While out from shore some distance, the ice gave way under the young man and he was precipitated into chilly wat- ers, Only his head showed above the surface, and in this manner he had to battle his way to shore by breaking the ice in front of him. He certainly had a narrow escape from drowning andit was fortunate that he was able to make his way to land. The lady escaped. The accident was witnessed by a lady residing on St. George Street who happened to be standing at her back door, and was about to send in an alarm, but see- ing that 'th'e man was reaching shore safely changed her mind. — Mitchell Advocate. Straek "by Hit and Run Driver— As Mr. Russel Riley, his sister, Mrs. Robinson, and nephew, Harold Riley, were driving home frdm a meeting in St. Paul's United (Church on Thursday evening, their buggy was 'hit and partially demolished. Mr. Riley had just driven 'out of the church yard and was nearly on the iourb opposite the church directly un- der a hydro light when :a, :car struck the rear of his buggy. Only the spokes of the left rear wheel remain -s, ed and Mrs. Robinson was thrown out of the buggy on the spokes. Mr. Riley was thrown out on top of her and Harold was also pitched out. Mrs. Robinson was badly :shaken up and bruised and was fortunate to have escaped with so little injury un- der the circumstances. 'The other passengers were not hurt. The driv- er of the car did not stop nor re- turn to the scene of the accident. However, some witnesses 'of the ac- cident followed hirer in .a tear to get his number. Mr. Riley is following up the case.—Milverton ; Sun. TOM'S BOY BECAME SUDDENLY ILL There was a banging at the door of a Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Northern Ontario early one Winter morning. So early it was that the sky was still dark except for a few pale streaks in the 'east, and so cold :that the blowing snow felt like sharp needles on the cheeks. "Come quick, please Nurse, my boy is very sick," said a man stand- ing on the steps, stamping his be- numbed feet and slapping his hands together. The nurse asked him to come inside, and, while he warmed himself at the stove, she questioned him as to the child's symptoms. Then quickly preparing for the journey and picking tip her bag, always pack- ed for, emergency calls, she strapped on her snowshoes and followed the man to the railroad tra,oks. A bitter wind howled over the ..frozen fields and little settlement. The snow creaked underfoot. At the railroad track there was no comfortable passenger coach to take her down the line. A speeder or gas jigger was to be her conveyance for ten ,Hiles against the wind. The nurse was equal to the occasion and stepped aboard. Site pinned a heavy blanket about her and ducked her head against the blast. Away they sped. The folk in the little cabins along the . track 'hearing the "chug" of the speeder would peer out of the windows. ' "Who's sick at Tom's" or "There is the Nurse, the lad will be all right. now" they would say as it. tore past. An unusual set of circumstances? "Oh, no,' 'said the nurse, "All in a day's work tip here.' post nurses is acute at the present gime and funds are getting low. These 24 Red Cross Outpost ,Hospi- tals are serving an area of hundreds of miles in the new sections of On- tario, where there is no other avail- able hospital or nursing care for.. the people in sickness, childbirth, acci- dent and emergency. There has been a great call on the funds of the Red Cross for this work. Some of these Hospitals, therefore, may have to close . . Keep. them open, peo- ple of Ontario. If everyone who is in sympathy with this splendid work will send what they can to the Edi- tor of this paper, who will forward it, or mail direct to Red Cross Head- quarters, 410 Sherbourne Street, To- ronto, little children, men and wo- men, will be saved a great deal of, suffering this winter. THOUSANDS ENTER COACH CONTEST More than 20,000 Canadian boys have enrolled this year as members of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild and have started in to build minia- ture model Napoleonic coaches in an effort to win some of the $85,000 in awards which the Guild offers in this year's competition. Many thousands of boys will yet enter the contest. There remains still a month for the young craftsmen to send in their en- trie to Guild Headquarters in Osh- awa, Ont. .oe Six 'University .scholarships,, worth $5,000 each, two to be exclusively for Canadians; trips to Toronto and the Chicago, Century of Progress Expo- sition; and more than 140 awards in gold, are offered. In schools through out Canada the work of the Fisher ' Body Craftsman's Guild has been ex- plained to pupils between the ages of twelve to nineteen years. And in many cases, school groups have been orianized to study the plans and spe- cifications furnished free by the Guild, and to build from them a col- orful miniature model coach. Boys ,niay enroll through any deal- er in General Motors cars, or write direct to the Fisher Body Crafts man's Guild,. Oshawa, Ontario. No enrollments, it is learned, will be ac- cepted after January 15th. FIGURE THIS ONE OUT A travelling salesman passed over to a hotel man a $100 bill to hold until he called for it. The hotel man needed this almount to pay his gar- age rental and so used it. The gar- age man then paid it to the grocer; the grocer bought some clothes with it; the clothing man paid it to a hardware firm, and the hardware merchant, owing the hotel man, paid the same $100 bill back into the lat- tre's possession just before the sales- man arrived on the, scene to reclaim it. It then developed that the bill was counterfeit, whereupon the sales- man lighted a cigar with the bad bill. IMPORTANT TRAIN SERVICE CHANGES: CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S TRAFFIC Kincar ineoPalmerston DECEMBER 26th: On this date train No. 332 will operate on later than regular schedule, leaving Kincardine 4.50 P.M., and connecting with special train leaving Palmerston, 7.30 P.M., for Toronto. JANUARY 3nd: On this date train No. 332 will operate on earlier than regu- lar schedule, leaving Kincardine at 11.45 a.m., but connecting,• with regular train No. 186 leaving Palmerston 4.25 P.M., for Toronto. For further particulars regarding special Christmas train. service consult local agent. 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