HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-09-12, Page 3�� ever had was a short one around the
fit:
if er Pomeroy , •s ever a yard several years aro'
rut
1 IIe saw an elevated train bo
Man d� 1N011�1 11��i'S t t ted to �a�e cit the �n"-'
road-rotler,.became i.rt6htelted to t
How the Press Viewed the,rv,';04u4elas
of traffic he never di•eameci lie
Advent of Pomeroy After see, much less pass Wrougb
53 Years ' in Prison
The
, a int^ pail ; urs
1 dere 'of at eteaueshovel and a steam
he
and asked, childlike, where horses lad
The Man From Mara,it might have gone to, froth lila rotrds.
i When his car reached. aandotPh, Joe
been whoa sat hi thea rear seat ofe the! (YB.rien ran. into a drug -store and
oleate. ear, His face was pressed bought three vanilla .ice-cream cones
age at the glass as he gazed iota, acid three bottles of gingeteale, fie
awe at wonders he had beard cr, but tendered a cone to. Pomeroy, who die.
hover saeu, A train roared by, t?nieigh ,tendered
it, but he took the proffered
in the air
hine was head.
diggingT�appai iginge•-ale. .He said. it. tasted „file,"
sate He said lie had had ice-cream; but
tally by itself. Strange vehicles, like I never saw it in a code before; then he
the sue In which he was riding, clash munelxed it auci enjoyed to
ed by, but there were no horses hitch^ I. stop was in front of a news
t.
ed to then!. There were refreshments ;lin Onet office. A In bulletin board,
—act antber-colored fa ith a sharp, ! with red and blue letters announced
pleasantwih taste, and f a brittle cone fil1 that Pomeroy had been transferred, I+
h with ta cow, wonder
stuff.aThen came land the bulletin described. him as 'Boy
the greatest wonder tl all. The party laud
Though he had lost the sight
stopped by an open held where stood Iot one eye and the sight et the other
an outlandish contraption, It was not' is dimmed, he read the bulletin, and
unlike a boat in shape, but broad Its
why so, much should la.made
'wings extended from its shies. The
of so little an a,f.L'air, and why the
Machine began to• roar. It rushed world persisted in calling him stayer,
along the ground. It soared into the 1 Ahead, obscuring the road, was a
air and flew away, It was all strange, I dense aloud. 'Then it eaeared a little
Premier Ferguso
Asks Cooper f.
������ of Earl
Causes Anxiety �
Importance of Agriculture in
Preparations for Birthday.
neW, wonderful to the man who hal
never encountered suck every -day ob-
jects as elevated trains, steam -shovels,
.automobiles, ginger - ale, ice • cream
•cones, and airplanes. it was frighten
lug too, and the "Man from Mars"
longed to be back in his home of half
a century, even though that home was
a prison cell. prison, but I never saw one get s
For this "Man from Mars" had lived I ed," he said, as he watched it disap
fill this earth for seventy years, But pear.
for fifty-three of theta he has been a
prisoner. He is Jesse Pomeroy,
America's most famous lifer, the man
the world passel by, as the Minneap-
olis Tribune aptly calls him. In 1870,
when he was seventeen years old, he
was sent to prison for life for murder.
For forty years or more he was ill � �corey of Forest Fires Burn -
solitary confinement. The whole span in
of more than half a century has been g in Widely Scattered
spent, save for sue brief period, in the Areas
Massachusetts State Prison at.Charles-
towu, neat Boston. Recently, very
much against his will, he was trans-
:ferreil to the State prison farm at
Bridgewater; because of his age. The
-transfer required a forty -mile automo-
'bile ride for him, lasting less than two
.hours. It was his first glimpse of the
world since his incarceration; and the
Ivo eters he saw during this brief
and the transfer officers told L'omeroY'
it was the dust raised by an airplane
which just landed at the Brockton air-
port. 13111ie Robinson slowed down to
avoid the dust. The plane roared and
lifted, and Pomeroy saw the big ship
rise gracefully and sail away, "I've
seen them things in the air from the
Dense Smog;,. P 11
Hides Sun i t West
Many Square Miles of Timber
Lands Falling Prey to
Flames
Winnipeg.—A smoke pall so dense
that at tines it blotted out the sun,
hung over a large area of northwest-
ern Ontario, particularly in the Ken -
ora district and Manitoba recently.
forest
d h served to show es graphs -i The conditions of scores of 1 to none tip while it is almost impossblr
•
EMPIRE'S GREAT SCOUT JAMBOREE
Canadian Boy Scouts, dressed 'as 'snake charmers, having some fun at
Arrow Park, England, where wcrld scouts gathered for the, jamboree_
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Canadian Salmon Cancer Hospital
Celebrations for, Lord
,Harewood Dimmed
London Cnalsiderable anxiety was
manifested recently over the health
of the ' Berl of Harewood, 83 -year-old
father.in-law of Princess Mary, which
dimmed the preparation for the joint
celebration of the birthdays of the
c
iciest and youngest male members of
the Douse of Harewood.
Plans bad been made for the Earl
and Gerald Lascelles, youngest son
of Princess Mary and Viscount Laseel
les, who is5 years old to celebrate to'
gether, The illness of the Earl in his
home at Harewcod House, near
Leeds, however, has interfered with
the plans. Debility due to extreme
age is given as the cause of the
Earl's indisposition,
The Earl and his lively mischievous
grandson are the best of pals, The
Earl and Countess of Harewood al
Affairs of Canada
Emphasized
SPEAKS AT OR,ONTC
New C,N.R. Oil -Electric Loco-
motive Makes Fast Run
from Montreal
Toronto.—Premier G. H. Fergus( n,
of Ontario, emphasized the importance
agriculture plays In the affairs of the
country la alt address at the Canadian
National Exhibition directors' lunch•
eon recently. He said that the auto•
motive industry would have had'still
further progress . this summer 11
Western Canada farmers had more
money available to expend on cars.
"The manufacturers' organization,"
he said, "is a wonderful force in Can-
ada. You do not get the co-opera-
tion of agriculture and wonder wby
It is because you do not co-operate
ways make a great fuss over George
ion.
the
organization
and Gerald Lasceiles when the young- with it. You have g
sters visit Harewood House In Leeds. the publicity methods, alt the features
The Harewool residence has been a necessary to cooperate with the un
st house of Kings and Queens organized farming communities, If
the Manufacturers' Association chang-
ed
lxang
ed its name to something more use-
ful, say an industrial association, and
brought in an agricultural branch and
recognized agriculture, we would get
some great results."
Appeals for the development o:t
inter -Empire trade were made in ad•
dresses by Sir Stanley Bois, of the
Rubber Association, Lieut. -Col. J. H.
Levey, Commissioner for British West
Africa, and 3. O. Outerbridge, secre-
tary of the Trade Development Board
of Bermuda, at a luncheon tendered
by the council of the Toronto Board
of Trade to commissioners of British
Empire Exhibits at the Canadian Na -
Prices Advance',`, To . pen in ond:''n
Excessive Demand in Europe Four of Great Radium
Takes All Available Specialists to Take
Charge
AUC
since it was built over a century and
a half ago, The ruins of Harewood
Castle are included in the grounds.
The Earl owns almost 30,000 acres.
Grandfathe. and grandsc.n form a
combination of one of England's
wealthiest elderly Peers and a most
vacicious and interesting youngster.
Gerald is a regular boy, interested in
everything he sees, with just enough
fire in his eyes to make him complete-
ly lovable. At the age of five his
smile has already become well knnwn
in England and the Dominions. He
is a great'favorite with the King and
1 Queen.
Much of the Harewood family lienal Exhibition.
wealth came froni sugar plantations West African Market
in Barbados. The family has been
connected with the industry since the Col. Levey said that a potential mar•
beginning of the eighteenth century ket of 25,000,000 people in British
hemm�in�
Supplies
London.—Mount Vermont Hospital
Quebec.—Due Canadian she excessivenfrom
ur-� at North Wood, Middlesex is being
'hied tor salmon from. Eur- ', reorganized as a special cancer hos-
ope,
h rice of the product from - t research station with sc-
Norhep �,ital and t
North Shore, Gaspe and Saguenay, h'as•' ccmmodation for 250 patients.
period have
11 how v much has happened in hie fires, largo and small, that caused un to obtain it here, according to J. H.
ca Y 11
ogress in half a century. When blanket of smoke, was considered
I d light) DeRonae manager. of the Quebec Hare pr t
Pomeroy entered prison says the St. changed
though it was tare a
U t dusk bot Commission f
Globe D mocrat commenting breeze, whichi and inventor of a n .
alae Cus- Reports that the town of Reddltt,
told. storage plant; will take charge. An order has al
Louis o e e sprang up about
Four of the greatest radium sp
cialists—Dr, Donaldson, Mr. Stanford
Carle, Lady Barret and Mr. Keynes
new method. o !
ready been placed for platinum
on a Boston editorial: might accentuate the danger. freezing salmon, needles containing from one•haif m
country seethed over Canadian "When fish was frozen the old way three milligrammes each of radium,
The c the Cat ctt
ter massacre. Mayor Samuel C. Robb , Nationalton the main line of as in former years, there was pra Notable results are expected.
to
of Boston was engaged in a campaign I were relays, was in serious clan- dally no European demand, as the fish ;,�
law , and
veiew. downTre the liquor) ger refuted when a dispatch could not e kept sufficiently fresh •td
Tremont Street from Kenora stated that Redditt was ensure acceptance on arrival, ane Sa , anted to unemployed
Africa, and whet
ing
laws, and a v.evv_ down
lovas a view of "muddy ,streets, horse- ,now free from the forest fire menace, large quantttles were p ssecl fol , i ting successful in t"Yning employ
for shacks... Only capable fire -fighting' saved the the local market, the' {meet? aectded to 7
•cars, ori -lamps, two-story
railway division point. There was be -•ala nx Tu malty f m civilization
,1
Riding to •the hospital in an auto,' -fer
the first time In his ho seless units as he saw traffic i heves to, bee forced o truth in tothe waiteseveral
rt that
familiar in its
tlalll
hours before proeeding through the
town. •
Regarded. as the most serious in the
craft whose size 'history of the province, forest Glazes
thus enumerates wonders of whose
in Manitoba assumed gravely danger -
universal use only whispers can have out proportions.
portionItSwan tv01 area, adjacent to
come to Jesse in his cell: radio, elec
. is light, elevators, airplanes, 11in- the large Duck-Porcupine
broke out
tr g telephones, Forest,saw the flames
proved Paving materials, ,itke• such rapid advances that it was
motor vehicles, arctric cars, elevated feared the enormous district, consti-
.and subway cars, motion -pictures,
luting the provinc's largest part,
wri�tw tche5,rr, electric-prtoeesses, but door which was open, he stumb
lyrist -watches, rotary printing -presses, would fall prey. In the Rennie district 1 pouucis, Next yeas there vvr 1 st e
am -heating and other new methods a dozen sinal bush fires` made such 1 evert greater demand for Canadian
steam -heating salmon, tor Germany will be on the led and ell, too precipitately for the
,ot heating, fountainpens, safetyrazors, heachyay over the week -end that the market." leen to recover,. which bprecipitately
ince
With the salmon market for the sea the hot, When the man pickednhim-
have
steam -rollers. flames
were sweeping
eeRennie village many
was self hunt he quickly t pulledmathe hut him -
The out mighto be extended. WeI 1 son almost over, attention will focus
menaced and forest rangers and home- to, and shouted to his mates inside,
leave fought two wars in this time,
mak-
i re i rushed from Winnipeg, from next
ts Qu bed ships on e around l 1ar-
,- 1; "sere you are! Skin that whilst I
'as y" crossed.
its volume is astonishing,
bridges such as he never dreamed of,
,caught • sight on distant waters of
amazes.The Herald
rode fib a
e was not suifi ,h ourney •up country,
casedemand for ; .e , f
t � " �.we have had `where, tar away•�- ro .
cases several years ago, 1 ey'`came across an explorers' depot,1
West Africa, who are las
educated to western standards, should
Barrier Blown Up ! be taken advantage of by Canada.
In Welland Carnal Mr. Outerbridge said travel between
Canada and Bermuda had increased
considerably since last FebluarY
when. extra. steamships.. had.. been
placed in service between the two
countries.
Sir Stanley informed his audience
that Great Britain produces approx-
imately SO per cent. of the world's
supply of rubber, the hulk of which is
used by the United. States.
Port Colborne, Ont.—The final blast
of- the barrier between the present
and the new Welland ship canals at
Rainey's Bend was fired recently.
The shot was composed of several
tens of dynamite and was quite spec-
tacular. A huge wave was flung up
and washed high over the banks,
while debris of all sorts was hurled
onto the Humberstone -Welland high-
way.
Many high teusion wire poles, from
'which the wires had been removed in
anticipation, were bent over, while
• the
thrown 15 Yards a
one was breaking atendance marks
read., Men cleared the thorough 1 day of the Canadian National Exhibi-
fare at once, so.that traffic was not, tion.
ntaterial�ky hampered. for more than The electric locomotive left the
naventure station., Montreal, mill-
ing
ing the second section of the Inter-
national Limited at 11.30 Daylight'
Saving Time Monday morning.
Oil -Electric Engine
Opening of the new automotive .
building; arrival of "oil -electric loco-
motive No. 9,000 of the Canadian Na-
tional Railways" and another record.'
as many as 1,500 oxer of salmon spo,
ed on account of their being no de-
mand for them," declared Mr. De -
Rome, in discussing the sttuat.on, I eKhauq
"Now, with the demand oar exceed -
v very
hungry,o go fnsne ot their search of food, number
dr -
ing the
supply, advantage prices,
t a excessaof local rims,
fishdexporters i something - avowed determination
ent if bring itwerecla
tura markets assured, searched
are naturally shipping all they can to I helencount .rediiatlion, Whichar when
was also
Europe. I
"The last shipment to be made from � in search of L`o.od, The Lion at once
Quebec will be rbedaroud ndne25,000 andnspedtoward
rapidly asmem
humanlyturned
pos-
soon, and will'11 be an •bl toward the hut, On nearing the
to
al
fairly well stocked with food, Atter
few days, when the stores had become
ted, and all three fed up, yet
h
Japan - .. tough
t t e and won , stead Pts
and Russia has fought several with ing a brave attempt to check theket, and
000,000
Vases of itspounds of eels each year,
final upheaval in one vary flames.
ivitY
society. Many political and even re-
1 Conditions at Winnipeg Beach were' there will be considerable actfrom
ligious view points have veered almost ,improved, Fires threatened to des -1
around the Island oand all f Orleans,
The Panama Canal has l troy the summer resort but the flames Levi:,
eev;Quebec to d strict Germany takes
'h reversal.were put under control.
ben built and the Prussire 18 that
laid its
beegiunrng 1 f 1S7G has { Winnipeg 'MIS shadowed by an over -1 the bulls of the Quebec eel catch.
• m poke pall.
n 'est before
I
hanging smoke I
been overthrown.mer stand, we are told, cVrtU two
Situation Serious I
Pomeroy did not want to leave' , p, fila. actress yr+t,o has beeu mar sleeves gone, the front excised,
Kalispel, Mont—Fires continued to i about to be wed.
Charlestown which, during.his long im;
spread through the forests` of
•eat had come to seem like
fetch "
an lion
The engine ,the biggest of s kind
in the world, a.celerated rapidly as
it left the yards and gained a run-
ning speed that varied between six-
ty and seventy-five miles an hour over
the 324 mile run ,averaging more than
fifty-five miles an hour.
Arriving at Toronto at 7.10 (East-
ern Standard Time) the special train
was switched to a track leading to the
Canadian National Exhibition grounds,
where all aboard were received as
guests for the grand �stand af after paling
mance for the evening,
t'When you take a girl out in a ma- welcomed by Mayor McBride of To -
chine do you drive with one arm?" 'onto and President Bradshaw rf the
"When 1 take a girl out I hire a EPremie Ferguson officiated at the
cab." •
Ht redicted that good highways
opening ceremonies of the new build -
I ing. p
another.
'rite traveler was on his way east would be built in the near n
General Escobar has been named 1 but he had gotten no further than the from one end of the province to the
provisional President fever -and -ague district of a Southern other and that all people of. Ontario
rebels p benefits of
by the
State. As the train jerked to a stop would be able to enjoy
provided
Mexico, he which means, we take it improved transportation,
provided can get it. at one particularly desolate town he
put Ms head out of the window and' A Network of highways had been
The backless gown is due for• a suer called to a native propped against a'. developed in Ontario he said, but this
post; "Tell me, what do you call this I was not enough, "We must push this
s and dried-up, dreary, ornery, low-down 1 transportation system to the remote
north- teed four times
and one of. hrr divorced hoe' the skirt doing a fade-out, it wont be place?" That's near enough, strang sections of the country. We give
Idaho again, long before those ;wo cut' little ler,„ was the melancholy answer.. everyone who makes his home in the
hurt- bands is acting ind hrCetryi�yaneeda is Just let it go at that," !province equal oppurtunities, The
ado its
surely what ce Y shoulder straps will have nothing to . ,, an who chooses to make his home in
a referee to cep the score, hold on to.
mental _ . — ,�.�.-._.—_ _. --•
pitsonm ,
home to him. Even though a better western Montana and uorthertr
life, in the country, awaited Min, he! The great half-moon fire, which
was dissatisfied, peevish, almost surly, i ;.reds of ;nen were fighting, m
whet the time carne for him
according to Charles Drury in the Bos-
ton Herald, where we read farther:
Deprived of the privileges of being who has characterized the situation
considered "famous" and permitted to I in the forests as nothing short of a
accept little favors from visitors, and j catastrophe, held a conference with
to occasionally take a little flyer in I other forest officials and decided upon
the stock market, Pomeotorwas ious,li and
, d
a general reorganization of the crews.
way toward the top of the Con
Divide in Glacier National Park
• E W. Elley, district forester,
at the 'farm as bus_
told that he will live out the remain-
der of his life as an ordinary convict
transferee.
IIe lost his crown as the most wide -
Camps Wiped Out
Nelson, B.C. — Seventeen C.P.R.
construction camps were believed to
have been wiped out by fiances which
sechlenly swept form Kootenay Lalte,
•
ly tallied -about, written -around and,
ear hero, Going a 'vide fi a Eton,
gazed upon life prisoner whet' he step -1 -
while scores of railway workers fled
ped through the portals of the State to high ground before 'them.
t Charlestown and into an No one was trapped, reports added
prison a
automibile in which he 'vas whisk Pct
away to Bridgewater where he was
re -
caved as "just another . transferee,"'
booked and taken downfrom bonwhig r-
ridor to:the infirmary,
e
will never be released except by
death.
lie+left the prison as he entterredbit
flftY'theee years ago, surly,
cause he was going into the State
prison, but because' he was being
taken away from it, and against his
wishes and will,
the mer
Yet for nearly two hours 1e
deter" gazed upon a'now world, on�
Wonders of creation of which he kneW
only 'from pictures and magazie and',
newspaper storie.thelbetoadl latg ter
ah I
first time along
sent in an • automobile. '
of itliSSacliusett,,
The only other ' et.tenro'1)i1e ride ho
"Yost say you have a brill'int idea
for 'malting a fortune?" io open a
'Sure thing; 1'n1` going'.:.
barber shop for Men,"
:.
DISTANT AND DARK SCOUTS Al' JAMBOREE l find, England -
man
Indian 110Y Scouts With some of their curious instruments at 'lamp
m
the remote secticns of Ontario is
surely entitled to the same privilege
of economical social prosperity that
the man in the more populated. area
has." -
Tlle arrival of the C.N.R. oil.
electric locomotive was greeted by a
large crowd, eager to see Canada's
contribution to improved railway
transportation facilities.
Health Program
Hon. Dr. Forbes Godfrey Ontario
Minister of Health, opened the health.
Program at the headquart.er's bc•oth
of the National Council of Women of
Canada. Referring to the council, he
said: "This little group is the key-
stone and foundation of the whrle
Canadian. National. Exhibition. It
we did not have health, where would
we be. Without health there is no
happiness."
He said he was . pleased at the
growth of a "health attitude" among
Canadians, and printed out that when
Premier Ferguson announced $1,000,-
000 for a research foundation, citizens
responded by contributing $2,000,000
toward the 'cork,
Dr, Helen Mf caltireby, Ottawa, De.'
partneent of National Health, spoke
on maternal mortality
In dealing with neglected children
the aim should be to influence the
heart rather than the intellect,