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Back Aberhart
Calgary. ---,' Endorsatiomi of the
Govek inient of Premier' .William
Aberl'iari 'has been voted, by reso-
lutio'is, by all peeps of the Alber-
ta $oculi . Credit,,l.,eague hard from
but. chic -- Red Deer -the Premier
amunouneed Sunday at the Calgary
Prepll <io Bible institute.
"NA hll groups have been heard
:Trois yet, but they response has
been ma gratifying," the Premier
said. Mille majority are opposed to
any change."
' Canada Will Shun War
Lono,00ti;.-Canadian and Austral-
ian soldiers aro unlikely over again
to cense to Europa to tett, the Sun-
day Tidies said Sunday in an edi-
torial en the i'mper'ial conference
to be,bad after the Coronation.
Steesiing its view that interna-
tional eifairs and Imperia, defense
will take up most of the confer-
enee"s *hale, the Izewspaper says the.
Domi'siienis reject the doctrine that
"Peace ea one and indivisible," at
least in ;lip more inflexible forms.
"Hee the editorial continues,
"their view accords substantially
with thy;: of the British Government.
The, people of the Dominions also
share; with the people of .Great Brit-
ain'. peefound aversion to the idea -
of 'coneelipting
dea'of''coneeliiiting young men to fight
once. Chore in masa battles on the
Continent of Europe. "No more
Caniadiati or Australian army corps.
azo likely to travel overseas, even
for F anee or for Flanders."
Gorge VI rt::.,. J3 Ready On
OtRiW ,-The Postoffi'ce , Depart.
meat has announced a new, non.
eomnlernorative regular issue of
Canadian postage stamps, bearing
the, portrait of Ding George VL
will be'.envailable April 1 in demnom-
iititiens of 1 Bent green, 2 cents
brow's apt] 3 cents red.
Fate* denominations of this
seriOs in 4, 5 and 8 cent issues
were: expected to be issued later.
Details of the new Coronation
test- wilt he announced later.
Oshawa, -General Motors has ex-
' tended si either benefit to the work:-
crs it was learned here over the
week -end
Effective Monday the weekly siek-
ne$ ani non -occupational accident
beltefili, payable 'ander the General
Motors irons -insurance policy; will
ltes4screassed fron. 810 to $14 per
rsvO1k,••,,"Tis' is 'ctn increase Of' ,40
per, cent. in the benefit rates,. and
Will be ninths available to the eim-
filgyees without any additional pay -
Ment by ti'p's, the company absorb-
ing the added cost
The elan w 11 :-hen provide "week-
ly sieict_ess : nd non -occupational
accident rnee t of els c ';pe' 1 -en-
able for thirteen weeks for any one
illness or non -occupational acci-
dent."
Letze iU1; :1 �a Le '.'‘'itie-Ptine Sounds
Edmonton. - Confused citizens
"mailing tetters i n fire -alarm 'boxes"
were given es the "cause!' of two
false tire alevms in F'dii'onten in
1930, aceeediee to the annuel re-
port of Fire chief Albert 'Mitten.
George de Warfaz of London Sat-
urday selected as the best of eight
plays presented in the Saskatchewan
Regional Festival the offering "Re-
lief," written and directed by Mrs.
Fred Bicknell, who also took a role. -
Mr. Bicknell, Archie McArthur and
Anne McIntyre enmplete the cast,
The four represent a club of only
ten members fostering the drama in
the hamlet of Marshall, with a pop-
ulation of seventy-five. It lies near
the Alberta border, 250 miles north-
west of Paslcataon
"Relief" tells of the struggle of
a farm family' in the drought -rid-
den plains of Southern Saskatche-
wan. Good news from two children
in British Columbia comes by tele-
graph, meaning release from the
prairies' bare subsistence; but at
that moment the farmer, his spirit
broken by his weary wait for better
times, commits Suicide.
Junior Farmers Judge
Georgetown. - Close competition
in all classes marked the Halton
County Seed Fair and Junior Far-
mers' J'tdging comp.etition held in
the Town. Hall on Saturday. A un-
ique feature of the fair is that no
seed may be entered in competition
unless the exhibitor is prepared to
sell. a reasonable amount of it. The
exhibition is sponsored by the agri-
cultural societies of Halton County,
Esquesing Township, and Acton.
in the cream grading division.
Speakers included Dr G. L. Chrs-
tie, President of the Ontario Agri-
cultural College, Guelph; Professor
E. J. ' Gsvitz and J. E. Whitelock,
Halton County Agricultural repre-
sentative Dr. Christie congratulat-
ed the exhibitors at the fair, on the
high standards of the products dis-
played, and the capability of the
entrants in the judging competi-
tion.
Punchboards Fined
London., Ont.- Six punchboards
in his hotelroom resulted in $50
and costs or 30 days in jail for
Leo Hamany of Toronto. The ae-
cused denied to Magistrate Menzies,
trying to sell the punchboards.
"Someone in Toronto gave them
to me to try and.' ell," declared Ha -
many. '.However. when I beard they
objected to punchboards here I did
not try to sell them."
War Not Inevitable.
Says , . D. Royden
,-�*�r,�-c.-+>•a-a-a-�r-w-�-'-'•-�-cu+-m-
Woman Minister Discusses How
Cause of Peace May 'Pest
Be Served
HALIFAX. -- Dr, A. 1Vfaude Roy -
den of London, England, only woman
to hold a doctor of divinity degree in
the Churah of I7uglancl, said here last
week she did not believe "war is in-
evitable In Europe."
En route to England after a tour
of America; in the interests of the
national emergency peace campaign
of the United States, Dr, Hoyden
said the best way worsen could con-
tribute to the Cause of the peace was
"by joining organizations' 'committed
to that cause and v: hen anyone says
war is inevitable, challenge their
statement."
Dr, Roydeu who preached at Deer
Park 'United Church Toronto last '
summer, conducted services at St.
Andrew's United here before eailingt
for England,
Higher Wages Seen
Toronto. -"A t,rovince can only
be prosperous as long as the people
in .that , province are prosperous,"
asserted- Elroy Robson, president of
the -National Labor Connell of To-
ronto, this week in commenting on
the statement of Hon. Arthur Roe-
buck that "any industry which can-
not pay the minimum to be set by
the government can go out of busi-
ness or out Of the province." •
"Any exploitation of the workers
by finance or capital that causes
poverty and misery among the
people is not goo for the province,
not good for the capital nor for the
people, ' Mr. Robson added.
The minimum wage taw now be-
fore the legislature is good, in his
opinion. "The legislation on the
whole is good fez the great masses
or workers, but it should be ade-
quately policed," Mr. Robson stated.
"The best way to police it would be
to inc1u :e a clause giving workers
in indastry the right to organize
and provide a very severe penalty
on any employer who discriminates
against workers, either directly or
indirectly for becoming members in
trade unions,"
Seattle, --The first ten years of
married life pre the most difficult
-ani[ the third year is the worst
of all -Divorce FrPoctor Evangel-
ine Stary stated in her annual re-
port to Prosecutor Grav Werner.
She said her statistics indicated hus-
bands' fondness for liquor is the
1�ritiefpal cai.v c of divorce. •
Edmonton. --Wase increases af-
fecting about 1,000. hien and women
employed by fete Edmonton peck-
ing plants were ennou ced Satur-
day. Len eases, effective at once, of
8% cents an hour for all hourly
paid male employees and G•?!; cents
for. females were decided upon by
Swift. Canadian, Burns, Gainers and
Canada packers Companies,
Minimem wage rates of 45 . cents
an hour for Hien and 36 cents for
women will be in force in all plants
under thenecv plan, officials of the
contpaniee said.
Ouee^" Mare 111
Bucharest, numanian,---Dowager
Queen Marie, one of the most color-
ful inembers of European royalty,
was seriously ill cf intestinal poison-
-Ng Sunday night She is in her 6.2ed
year. alembers of her family have.
been su,ninoned• to her bedside.
Authorities notified the Queen's
Mire daughters -- Queen Mother
Mario of Jugoslavia, ex -Queen Eliza-
lteth of . Greece and the Archduchess
Axtten of Hapsburg, The Jugoslav -
Ian Queen Mother Was understood to
the hurrying here from . Belgrade.
Farmer's' Wife 'Mites Winning
Play
grey-haired fawn wo
atum, her husband and a boy and a
irk
from the Marshall Dramatie
,Iub will represent Saskatchewan at
theiDoinnittion Drafna Festival it Ota
f avnk neat month.
SPORT REPORTER
B KEN .EDW A£.OS
8 •EDWAROS
Hi folks! Here
are just a few
facts that are
worth placing in
that old scrap-
book, from time
to time:
Did you "know,
by any chance,
that . Mr. Sea
gram's horse,
"Inferno," was
the greatest race
horse to ever
win the King's
Plate. Also, when "Inferno's" re-
mains were sent to the Veterinary
College for autopsy, it was discover-.
ed that . the great racer's big heart
weighed 17 pounds --just about five
more than the heart of the average
blood ears°.
Wage lnerease Granted
MONTREAL -• Increased wages
for 3,000 employees bas been an-
nounced by the Aluminum Company
of Canada. The new scale affects
regular hourly paid workers in the
company's plants, at Toronto, Shaw-
inigan Palls, Que„ and Arvida, Que.
Interesting, too, is the fact that
Belle Mahone, wt ich won the Plate
in 1917, is the eldest living King's
Plate winner.
xi Owner Found
Dead In itch
Kikchener Spo. tsrann's Murder
Aaffies Police ---»$I7 Remaining
in Pockets Ruling Out Robbery
Theory ---Car Half Off Road
Near By
x UTCHBN17R--Local and Provincial
police are faced with one of the most
baffling murder lnysterles in this city's
history following the discovery early
Sunday morning of the body of T.aix-
rouce Hewitt, 30 -year-old taxicab pro-
prietor and prominent Kitchener
sllnrtsivain.
.Shot through the Heart; with a .32-
eelibre bullet, Hewitt was found
sisiortly after 2 a,m., sprawled in the
ltaiuddy ditch' beside t. he Kitchener -
Preston Highway, two mites east of
Here and near Centreville, Half off
the road was his sedan car, its ligbt
switch turned on ane the battery dead,
A robbery theory was blasted when
the' pollee found in the dead man's poc-
kets 317 in bills and a few cents in
cash. Hewitt was extremely popular
here and, so far as his faintly is aware,
he had no enemies.
Called Out by Telephone
,.At 10 o'clock Sunday night the tele-
phone rang in leis borne, where he sat
listeningto a hockey broadcast with
Ids wife and Bernard McGinnis, a
Close friend. After answering the tele-
phone, be returned to the room and
announced that he had to go after a
fere because one of this two drivers
was out on a call and the other was
Of duty. "I'll be back in five min -
j tes," he said. Then he put on his
jpat and went out. It was the last time
he was seen alive. An effort was made
to trace the mysterious call that took
sbhe- young man away from his home
Fend lured him. 'to his death, but tele-
phone officials were unable to throw
any light upon. its origin,
Didn't Catch Conversation
McGinnis declared he was unable to
•cateh,;so,ny of Hewitt's conversation
.Whiiii0e was answering the mysteri-
ous Can. ` The radia was going pretty
•loudly," said he, "and drowned oat his
words. Tho telephone is in another
'room. Ho was not speaking very long
°before he returned. 1 didn't think
there was anything unusual about the
call, because he often went out on
rens while I was there.
If you don't believe in ghosts.,
maybe you lean towards fairy
tales. ...-
Do you remember Milo? Well, he
is said to have been the greatest of
all wrestlers. Milo could actually
carry an ox about on his shoulders
and write his name on a wall with
a 100 -pound: weight hanging from
his wrist. . Oh me, a glass of
water, Hives! .. .
Time marches on, and -with it
more "believe it or mots", to find
that Strangler Lewis of modern-day.
wrestling, once threw an 180(1,.
pound steer on his farm!
Send any interesting sport facts
to Ken. Edwards c o Wilsuu „nlinissa.
ing, 73 Adelaide St., W., 'i'c,onf
and the sender's name will be pub-
lished in this column along with the
fact given. Tha'tk you.
End of Aix Fatagiirie3
By 1939 is Forecast
NEW YORK- Advancement in
aeronautical design will make it pos-
sible by 1939 to operate transeort
planes throughout the year without
a single fatality, according to E. R.
Breech, chairman of the Board of
North _American Aviation.
Mr. Breech made his prediction
before a group et airmen and ex
ecutives of transport lines and stir
craft manufacturing companies at
a luncheon given by the Advertising
Club to honor Howard linghesa the
transcon:tinenntal speed ease.
Mr. Hughes, wealthy sportsman
pilot, spanned th' continent on Jan.
19, in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25
seconds, His avenge speed was 832
miles an hour or 5% miles a min
ute. He said recently that it.
would re a hard battle with nature
to accomplish. greeter speed,;•
On this point Mr. Hughes 'finish-
ed his speech, which had to do
mainly with technical and other dif-
ficulties in rapid flight.
"I am glad Mr Hughes deflated
speed," Mr. Breech said. "Ameri-
cans oapect the impossible, and usu-
ally get it. But T am glad he told
about the difficulties so that the
public won't expect too much."
Mr. Breech noted tbat c ea1'iners
were concentrating their efforts on
comfort, safety and quiet, rather
than speed. In the designs for " the
conning year (1938), he said: you
will see comfort, not speed, repre-
senting the greatest advancement."
Engineers also are placing great
emphasis on the safety factor, he
added.
Capt. E. V. Eickenbacker, war
ace and general manager of Eastern
Air Lines, told the gathering it
would rot be long before airlines
gave passengers "in comfort what
you (Iiiughes) gave them in speed."
He said aviation to him now was "a
parade of youth and, we old-timers
:feel obsolete,"
alk,-rton Cautde
Hanged 54 Years
Walkerton. -Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Denny celebrated the fifty-
fourth anniversary of their wedding
Sunday,• and for the event all mem-
bers of their family, six sons and
two daughters, were present at a
dinner served and the bride and
groom of over a half century ago
were at home to receive the felici-
tations of their family and friends.
Mr. William Denny, who celebrat-
ed his natal day itt March, was born
in Brant. and is a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. William Denny, who
pioneered there. For fifty years af-
ter graduating from the rural school
Mr, Denny carrlcd on farthing and
threshing business. For the last 2ii
years he has been engineer with the
Canada Spool and dobbin oinpany.
His bride, the former Miss " Mary
Sparling, was born in Brock Town.
ship, June 19, 1884. Following their.
marriage by Itev. Mr. Moffat, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church, Wal-
kerton, they took up residence on
the old Danny horneetead, Where
they lived until their removal to
Walkerton. about a 'quarter tenntur;,r
age.
Ontario Leads
in4 e Loans
mini
ack
Proteetio
r
It SecMflhe$
For Public Is. Assured-Torofto Meeting .:,stis That Conn.
p nies Act Be Under Provincial Jurisdiction -
Rules Are Laid Down
TORONTO. ---Complete accord on
the minimum essentials of effective
securities fraud prevention laws and
their administration all over Canada
was reached by the conference of Do-
minion and Provincial officials con-
vened at Toronto last week by W. P.
J. O'Meara, I ,C., Assistant Under -Sec•
retary of State. And therefore this
has boon the most momentous confer-
ence yet held in Canada with regard
to company or securities legislation,
because few thought a basis for cone
mon action could be decided on so
soon. But experts from every part of
the Dominion pooled their experience
and were able to find in the midst of
diversity of opinion, common ground
for co-operative action in every Pro-
vince.
The meeting in Toronto was an out-
growth of the meeting of the Domini-
on -Provincial Committee on company
law in Canada in Ottawa last Novem-
ber. On the question of getting a uni-
form Companies Aet for Dominion and
all the Provinces the first real spade-
work was then Clone, but differences
of opinion on many points have to be
ironed out and sub -committees will
work on these at various times
throughout 1937 with the object of
having draft legislation ready for Par-
liament and Legislatures by 1938.
Set Forth Minimum Needs
The need of affording in the mean-
time the greatest possible protection
to the Canadian investing public lett
to the confereuce in Toronto last
week. The decisions made at this
conference do not need new legisla-
tion in many cases. In most Provinces
the power already' exists to put them
lute inreediate effect by means of re-
gulations or by simply deciding on the
new policy. They are the minimum
requirements for effective securities
fraud prevention, and each Province
can go much further if it wishes.
Some of them definitely intend to do
so.
About the much-discussed proposal
for a Domiuien Securities Commission,
the conference is understood to have
been unanimous. After considerable
discussion a resolution was passed to
the effect that a Federal Commission
is neither necessary nor desirable. The
results desi;ed can be obtained, it was
decided, by co-operation between the
Dominion and each Provincial Secur-
ities Commission: Legislation is ask-
ed to hating the Dominion Companies
14 ,1,67SS,S9 Teal -- Wir.dcor
For Cites Up To
Feb. 1Z.
Ottawa. -Wirtz 4,377' home im-
'provement loans recorded across
,;Canada up to February 13, Finance
ithfiter Dunning ,announced recent-
ly' $1,675,398 had been loaned up
to that date. Increase in loans
from January 31 numbered 418 and
an:oiuited'to 8174.23(1,
Number of loans made in Ontario
is, 'izow more than double that in
any other province. the minister
said. On -February 15, Ontario had
Made 1,609 loans with a total of
$584, 41. Quebec 748 ]oans amoun-
ting to $587,264 and British Col-
umbia was third with 584 loans to -
379, 3156,739.E.
Total loans and amount for the
otter provinces follow: 14 -
Prince Edward Island: 4
940.88; Nova Scotia 476, $147,725.-
311 New Brunswick 235, $82,152.95;
Manitoba 180, $66,570.99; Saskat-
chewan 125, $39,385.28; Alberta,
379 $150,739. 84.
game inproven:ent loans in cities
edrt'towns with population of 10,-
000
0;000 and over on February 15 num-
bered 2,506 and totalled $1,019,968.
Of this .1,696 loans totalling $711,-
$7.2' had been made in cities of 40,-
1100
0;'000 pope1ation and over. Li cities
from 20,060 to 40,01 i'bc:re . --e
409 loans totalling' $150,697. Towns
and cities with populations rang-
ing, from 10,000 to 20,000 accoun-
ted . for the remaining 401 loans to-
talling $152,197.
Toroix :o heads the list of cines
both in number of loans and in
amount with 398 loans totalling
29Montreal
otal of i
ext with
..71loans $148,297.
Tongue Tzapped-W-b'oe having said
in a restaurant that the German
armed forces were working for war
a Iran has been s.ntenccd at Bruns-
v:icl; to five months' imprisonment,
Act under the jurisdiction of each Pro.
v'?.cial Commission for administration
purposes in its region. All Securities
Acts in the Dominion for all ,,ractical
purposes are uniform now, but it is
considered important that in future
there should be common consideration
by Securities Commissions of all the
Provinces of amendments considered
necessary to the Securities Acts so
that uniformity in administration can
be maintained.
Two Countries Represented
The conference of Dominion and
Provincial officials administering the
laws relating to the prevention of
fraud in connection with securities in-
cluded the following:
Prince Edward Island ---P. S. Field-
ing, Deprty Provincial Secretary.
Nova Scotia -P. F. Mathers, Deputy
Attorney -General, and H. J. Egan, C.
A, Registrar, Securities Act.
New Brunswick -E. B. McLatChy,
counsel, Department of Attorney -Gen.
eral.
Quebec Hon. T. J. Coonan, K.C.,
Minister without portfolio; Adolph
Routitier, K.C., Solicitor to Securities
Department; J. X. Mercier, Attorney:
Department of Mines; and H. Ough-
tred, Accountant -Investigator:
Ontario --John M. Godfrey, K.C., Se-
curities Commissioner- W. A. Brant,
Registrar, Securities Act; and G.
Frank Beer.
Manitoba -W. R. Cottingham, K.C.,
Chairman, Municipal and. Public Util-
ities Board; and A. B. Lawford, Regis -
tsar, Securities Act.
Saskatchewan -A. B. Lawford, at
the request of A. E. Fisher, represent.
ed Saskatchewan.
Alberta -A. A. Carpenter, Chairman
Public Utilities Commission.
British Columbia -H. G. Garrett, Su-
perintendent of Brokers.
The representatives of the Domini-
on were: E. H. Coleman, K.C., Under-
Secretary of State; W. P. J. O'Meara,
K.C., Assistant Under-Secretary of
State; and K. 13. Daly, senior solicitor,
Department of Mines and Resources.
The Securities and Exchange Cora -
mission was represented by: Baldwin
B. Bane, chief, Registration Division.
Washington; Ernest Angell, Regional
Administrator, New York; and W. W.
Prager, Chief Regional Attorney, New
York.
Hon. A. W. Roebuck, Attorney -Gen•
era[, welcomed the visitors at the op-
ening meeting.
Vancouver was third with 199 loans
totallin, $66,408 then came Win-
nipeg with 104 loans amounting to
$44,733 and Edmonton with 99
loans totalling $4'7,116.
Total loans and amounts for other
cities of 40,000 and over fnfo to n
Halifax 69, $25.521.04;
73, $32,343.93; Quebec n" $20,-
586.32; Verdun 21, $9,400; Hamil-
ton 83, $22,867.21; London 64, $24,-
207.27; Ottawa, 84, $41,231.77;
Windsor 79, $26,x21.77; Regina 14,
$5,514.82; Saskatoon 8, $2,911;
Calgary 65, $30."01.14; Victoria 38,
$13,265.92.
S'1.73 C:1ESEP3 Drove
Her Out of Home
V 0
Mr'. Micihnelis RPturnad To F . tr
liwo>raa el r.nd Two Children
After 12 Days' Absence
Windsor. -"She was driven away
by gossip," said Leonard Michaelis
when his 226 -year-old wife returned to
him and their two small children af-
ter a 12 -day disappearance. She had
been with friends in Detroit, he said
and left here for her former home
in London, Ont., where her mother
was stricken ill with worry over her
daughter's disappearance.
""I think it 18 a gift of God that
this happened," seed Michael. "It
should teach others a lesson.
Yan!cees Rush Into Training
People today `.do- not seem . t+f lice
right. All they do is talk nincristees
sip. Here is an example where gos-
sip drove a mother front her
home."
His wife gave no reason for her
disappearance other than that she
"wanted to get away from every-
thing," Michaels said. They have
two small children, a daughter, age
6, and a sou, aged 4. The young
mother had been missing since Feb.
22, when she left for Detroit, "to
go shopping and perhaps see a
shoe'."
Report On Census
Takers is Tabled
OTT;. y'A Enumerators employ-
ed in taking the census last year in
the Prairie Provinces numbered
3,446, Hon. Norman Rogers, acting
riaister of Trade and Commerce,
told the House of Commons recent-
ly in answer to questons by Joseph
Needham (S.C.-the Battlefords)•
"How many of these were return-
ed men?" the Saskatchewan mem-
ber asked,
"Forty-seven of 65 connmissioners1
reported 452," the Minister re-
plied.
Lo0ametives of the express type
use about two tons of coal every
100 miles.
getting rid of the avoirdupois accumulated during the winter roe. ,ee,
i fmber]ng up and gots under way at
'New York Yankee jog around the field as spring training g
eannp,
e