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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-10-28, Page 2Tee R.C.A.F. Officers Killed TI'awTON,—Three flying, officers of the R.C.A.F. were killed 'when their planes crashed in mill. -air over the air field here this week, as both pilots swung iu for a landing. The dead; Pilot Officer R. L, Doucet, Flt, Sergt. E. F. O'Connor, Flt. Lieut. J. A. lViao Innis. Over 30 machines were in the air, officials reported, at the time of the crash. Visibility was poor with showers threatening. Both airplanes were completely demolished. WeepingStatuette CORNWALL,—Hundreds of viSitors, many friends afflicted by illness and deformity, flocked this week to the home of a 30 -year-old paralytic woman wh:ro a statuette of Christ has been "z-eping" for ten days. Leona Villeneuve, suffering from in- termittent paralysis, epilepsy and in- tsstinai disorders since she under- went an appendicitis operation fifteen yearn ago, said she believed the sta- tuette was weeping in response to her prayers for recovery, • Former Wheat King Passes BIRTiE, MAN.—Samuel Larcombe, "grand old man" of Western Canada as_iculture, and world wheat king in 1.""7,, died in hospital here. The 86 -year-old retired farmer, famed as the producer of Axminster wheat, a rust -resistant variety, was brarght to hospital several days be - foss, suffering injuries received in a fel. Besides giving the world rust - resistant wheat in 1912, Mr. Lar- ccmbe won 3,000 prizes for soil pro- ducts in his forty-three years of farm - ins, in Manitoba. His farming career was capped with victory at the Inter- national Grain Exposition at Peoria, 111., in 1917, when he was crowned wheat king. Explosion Damage $26,000 MONTREAL.—Officials of Canadian Industries Limited have revised from $40,000 to $25,000 the estimate of dam- n.' s caused by an explosion in a nitre - tor house at the company's plant near Be:oeil, twenty-five miles southeast of i:ontreal. Cause of the explosion, which partly v .ecked a building used in the mane f.�.^tare of nitro-glycerine, was not 1 nwn. No one was hurt. Invited to Visit Stalin LONDON, Eng.—The Daily Mirror this week reported that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had been invited to visit the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. According to the Warsaw corres- pondent of the newspaper,Stalin has instructed Constantin Yreneff, Soviet ambassador at Berlin, to convey the invitation to the Duke, Axcb-Plotier a Victim ;... MOSC_.1At— -;eta Kun _arejarh� reached more merciless proportions .than the trail of terror: which he blazed through postwar Hungary. Arrest of the 51 -year-old Hungarian on charges that almost unfailingly re- sult in Leath before a Red firing squad was revealed by the official Commun- ist International magazine. a which came as a surprise even to Italian diplomats in Rome, held out hopes of solving a three-way dead- lock with the Non -Intervention Com- mittee and averting a crisis crammed with possibilities of war, The Non-intervention delegates, quick to seize upon Italy's consent to sending a neutral volunteers commission to Spain .at once, agreed that it constituted "a substantial de- gree of progress" and asked that im- mediate steps be taken to put the proposals into operation. "Token" Withdrawal Approved PARIS. —• The French Government has agreed to Premier Mussolini's con- ciliatory plan for a "token" with- drawal of foreign volunteers in equal nuinbers from the Spanish insurgent and loyalist fighting ranks. Charles Andre Corbin; Ambassador to London, was instructed to announce before the meeting of the Non -Inter- vention Committee that. France has abandoned her demands for a "pro- f.portionate" withdrawal. Charged With Conspiracy VALENCIA. — Three loyalist com- manders were ordered to stand trial this week on a charge of "conspiracy against the republic" They will be tried by's. special judge of the Supreme Court and, under military law, are liable to sentences of execution by a firing squad. The charges against two were based specifically on the fall of the seaport of Malaga, which the nationalists cap- tured February 8, Indian Border Clash. SIMLA, India.—An Indian officer and three Indian soldiers were slain and five Indian troopers wounded when British forces clashed with rebel tribesmen in the Waziristan -Northwest Frontier this week. The clashes occurred at Spinwan and Inzarmaria. The four fatalities occurred in the Spinwan engagement, which also saw two troopers wounded. Two soldiers were wounded in the In- zarmaria fighting. In both engage- ments the rebels were dispersed after suffering many casualties. Argentine Elections BUENOS AIRES Former Finance Minister Roberto M. Ortiz this week- end was formally elected President of the Argentine Republic by members of the Electoral College chosen at the September 5 elections. Ramon Castillo was President. Worst Air Crash SALT LAKE CITY.—A mountaineer —only eyewitness to America's worst airplane disaster—told a vivid story of a transport pilot 'flying blindly through a mountain blizzard, then a terrific crash which killed nineteen persons. Height Proffitt, youthful trapper from Northeastern Utah's trackless wilderness, said he saw the United Air Lines twenty -one -passenger Mainliner barely miss towering pines in his backyard, Sunday night, watched the craft's lights vanish in the storm, then heard it plow into a granite ridge. Anarchists Sack Port HENDAYE, Franco -Spanish Fron- tier.—Austrian anarchists are burning and sacking the ancient Biscay sea- port of Gijon and spreading terror among 1$0;000 civilians, according to Spanish loyalist aviators who flew to the frontier. The anarchists, they said, are de- termined to leave the city in ruins be- fore fleeing from the insurgent ad- vance that is lees than a few miles away. Cheer King and Queen LEEDS.—The King and Queen this week -end toured the Leeds air raid precautions centre as they continued their three-day visit to Yorkshire. The Earl of I3arewood and Alan Lascelles, the King's assistant private secretary, donned gas masks for a few minutes at the King's suggestion. Their Majesties received an ovation from 150,000 people when they ap- peared on the balcony of the Leeds Town hall. Mussolini Backs Down LONDON. — Premier Mussolini, running up against a dangerous Brit- ish -French front, suddenly dropped his ;defiant attitude and agreed this week to collaborate in a plan to withdraw his Fascist Blackslirrts and ether foreign "volunteers" from Spain. I1 Duce's conciliatory gesture, C—N even. Ontario Li'ves Lost In Weeland .ccidents Five Are Killed by Highway. Mishaps, Two of Thelon In Toronto— Many More Injured in Car Crashes and Hunting Accidents Throughout the Province. million men were locked in furious combat along a 20 -mile trent this week -end in what both Japanese and Chinese military leaders predicted would be a "showdown battle for. Shanghai." The Japanese High Command, in - termed by diplomatic leaders that -it must win a major victory before the meeting of the nine -power treaty aa - tions in Brussels later this week, or- dered every resource thrown into the battle to drive the Chinese off the Yangtse delta. Massey Returns OTTAWA.—After three days in Ot- tawa, where ho conferred with Prime Minister Mackenzie King and officials of the External Affairs Department, Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner in London left Friday morning for Quebec. He sailed Sat- urday aturday to return to his post,, Purge Is Extended MOSCOW.—Fifty-four persons have been •executed at Ulan -Ude, capital of the Buryat-Mongol Republic of the U.S.S.R., for espionage on behalf of the Japanese secret service, according to the Buryat-Mongol Pravda of Oc- tober 12, received ;in 'Moscow this week -end. elected Vice- • Good -Will Flight MONTREAL.—Dr. E. Ginebra,' Con- sul -General for the Dominican Repub- lic here, announced this week -end four planes would make a 20,000 -mile good- will f - s wrli visit Caribbean island, South America and the United States. before coming to Montreal. Sentenced to Hang SUDBURY. — Tom Pornomarenko will die for the murder of Sudbury Police Sergeant Fred Davidson, who fell under a hail of bullets July 11 from the gun of Pornomarenko's com- panion, Victor Gray. Pornomarenko's defense — that he was intimidated by Gray iuto joining him in a erime trail through Northern Ontario—failed, and this week -end an Assize Court jury, after one hour and 45 minutes' deliberation, brought in a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice G. F. McFarland sentenced him to be hanged January 22, 1938.' More Doctors Arrested LONDON, Ont.—Two London doc- tors and two women were arrested this week charged with performing illegal operations. They are: Dr. J. E. McGillicuddy, 54; Dr. Charles A. Cline, Jr., 37; Mrs. Rachael Stock, 66; Mrs. Iris Murray. Bail for each was set at $10,000. Arrests were the result of an in- vestigation launched after the body of Miss Mary Wilkinson, London school teacher, was found in the Thames River. Husband Seeks Divorce DALLAS, Tex.—Arthur Jarrett, ac- tor -husband of Eleanor Holm, 1936 Olympic swimmer, screen actress, said here that he was taking up legal resi- dence in Texas to obtain a divorce. French Labor Consolidated PARIS.—The French Labor move- ment insofar as the steel trade is con- cerned was at one time divided into 32 different groups, but this week it is consolidated into a unite1 front and has a single voice. This is the picture of the steel workers In France that Albert Costes, Communist reprepcnta- reno ii'fi'itiea t ed for his hearers at a meeting in the Public Assistance hall. M. Costes is also secretary of the French Federa- tion of Steel Workers, ,an organization involving 900,000 mefi. Bing Crosby a 'Ph.D. SPOKANE, Wash. — Crooner Bing Crosby became Harry Lillis Crosby, Ph.D., this week. Father Leo J. Robinson, President of Conzaga University, conferred the Honorary Doctor of Philosophy de- gree upon the school's most noted alumnus before an audience of stu- dents, alumni and friends who jammed into the campus auditorium. The university President conferred the honor "because of his eminence" and ,the pleasure he has "brought to millions of people." Stalin Nominated MOSCOW.—Soviet Russia's political leader, Premier and President were nominated as the first candidates for election to the Supreme Soviet under the new constitution. Workers in a button factory and power plant in the Stalin Section of Moscow unanimously adopted a resolu- tion putting forward the name of Jos- eph Stalin, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, as "leader of the people." Medical Experts For China PARIS. — The League of Nations Control Committee has approved plans to send a corps of medical ex. pests to aid China. Delegates of Venezuela, France, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Pol- and, Hungary, meeting fn Paris, authorized this use of 2;000,000 Swiss francs ($490,000) voted Oct. 5 by the League Assembly "to help the Chinese Government in its fight against epi- demics." "Showdown" Battle SHANCHAL -- Moro than a half - Highway crashes, :a backwoods fire avid a shooting accident took the lives of seven Ontario persons over the week -end. Two of the motor -mishap deaths wero in Toronto, The charred body of Charles Koski, 53 -year-old Finn, was recovered from the ashes of his cabin in Narin ']own- ship, near Sudbury, Saturday morn- ing. The cause of the fire was not determined. A verdict of accidental death was brought in by a Coroner's jury Satur- day night. Shot Through Heart On the outskirts of Port Arthur, Douglas Beatty, 16, was shot through the heart by a bullet from the rifle of another young hunter. He died al- most instantly. Beatty and Cyrill Cor- nell, 14, were climbing a high rock ridge while in the gully below two Other lads, Walter Clark, 17, and Ar- thur Pierce, 16, were shooting un- aware of the pair above them. James Mitchell 28, a foreman in a Gravenhrirst brush factory, was killed instantly when an auto in which. he was riding collided with another car on the road near Brechin. He and his brother, Laverne, 30, who was injured critically, wero on the way to Lindsay for a family reunion. Laverne Mitchell was rushed to Orillia Hospital. Killed By Auto Joseph Murphy, 46, was killed in- stantly Saturday night when the buggy in which he was driving was struck by a car, said by police to have been driven by Ross Rennie, Seaforth col- legiate student. The accident occurred two miles east of Seaforth. At the time a snow- storm was raging, which reduced vis- ibility to a minimum. Force of the impact threw Murphy to the pavement, where he landed on his head. The car continued for fifty feet, shoving the buggy and horse be- fore it. The horse suffered a broken leg, and was destroyed. Walked Across Road George Watts, 76, Larder Lake pros- pector and well-known former resi- dent of Cobalt, was instantly killed Sunday at Larder Lake wb.en struck by an automobile alleged to have been driven by Louis Arsenault, Larder Lake. Watts was walking to his claims near Larder Lake when he crossed the road into the path of the car. - Three persons were injured in three mof6ar accidents in the Welland vicin- ity. Alfred Kent, 32, of Port Coa.borne;. John elan, 72, Fontbill, and Frank sex'=",'-• 'aeastns victiris- ' eriouo-Ss Four Injured A collision between a truck and an auto injured four St. Catharines resi- 3dents near Niagara Falls Out., Satur- day, The car, driven by Arthur Cole, 22, skidded on a wet pavement and crashed into the truck. Most seriously injured was K. L. Armstrong, 21, who has a fractured pelvis and lower spine. Shot in the back when a comp2n- ion's shotgun discharged accidentally, Norman Libby, 19, Sandwich South Township, near Windsor. was injured dangerously Saturday. He and two companions were hunting rabbits. Two persons were injured in a collision on No. 8 Highway, west of Grimsby, Sat- urday night. They were Miss Marion Hutchinson and Frederick Sims, both .of Hamilton. --r Bombed by Soviet Planes TOKYO.—'The newspaper Asahi this week -end reported '• that 50 Soviet planes bombed several cities in south- western Sinkiang, China's Western province bordering on Russian Turk- estan. Red Army troops are now oc- cupying Kashgar, chief Sinkiang city, Asahi charged. The report said the attack resulted from a dispute between the Russians and local Moslems who challenged the pro -Soviet Chinese authorities. • �--TFIE NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. • By ELIZABETH EEPv ) Babes In Gas Masks The British Home Office last week practised with babies in a nursing home at Hawkshurst, Kent, as models for fitting gas masks that will serve the rest of Great Britain's baby popu- lation in the event of an air raid. A very wise move on the part of the Home Office, we think, since should another war breakout, is it not the babes in arms who will get the worst of it? Stock Market Toboggans Weakened by a steady retreat since mid-August, the New York, Montreal and Toronto stock markets went down before a selling whirlwind last week into the worst crash in more than four years. Losses in some leading indus- trial issues mounted as high as $10 a share, and sixty-five per cent. of the gains of 'the past two years were wiped out. Though the cause of the crash largely remains a mystery, some authorities blamed the undue optim- ism at the beginning of 1937, and the excessively glowing reports on busi- ness that were made at that time. President Roosevelt refused to inter- vene, would not close the New York exchange nor lift trading restrictions. The day following the crash, however, saw a revival of the market when huge international investment trusts with billions of dollars in resources stepped in and bought from speculators who were frantic to sell. It was feared in some quarters that a major depression would follow close upon the crash, but it is now pretty generally felt that the set -back is only temporary. Asks Improved Banking System President Roosevelt speaking at ceremonies dedicating the new Fed- eral Reserve Building at Washington declared that the Government of the United States must improve and co- ordinate credit machinery if it is to "achieve and maintain an enduring prosperity, free from the disastrous extremes of booms and depressions." The banking system will have to be further improved, he said. May Solve Our Biggest Problem Canada's "greatest problem," find- ing a satisfactory basis for. relations between the Dominion and the Prov inces—inn other words, "keeping Con. ada united"—map be solved by the Royal Commission on Dominion -Pro- vincial Relations, headed by Chief Justice Rowell, in the opinion of Fed- eral Revenue Minister, Isley, just re- turned from a conference at Geneva, Switzerland. "At the present time," tte said, "we have an outbreak of,seetion- alism in Alberta that is formidable!' Campaign Against Czechoslovakia Germany this week intimated that it will not cease its "aggressive men- acing press campaign" against the Czechoslovakian Government as long as the Czech police continue to down pro -Nazi demonstrations in that coun- try. The German Government alleges. that the German minority in Czecho- slovakia are receiving brutal treat- ment reatment at the hands of the police. The pro -Nazi . agitation in Czechoslovakia has, of course, the approval of the German Government which hopes to gain independence for the region in which most of the Czech -German min- ority live. Italy Capitulates Finding that he could no longer stall on the Spanish war participation issue, Mussolini, after giving all the coun- tries of the world a bad ',care last week, dropped his defiant attitude and agreed to co-operate in clearing Spain of "volunteer" foreign troops. Faced up against a formidable British-Freneh front, he discovered that withdrawal from his belligerent attitude was the only way out. Thus another crisis crammed with possibilities of war was averted. Kellogg Brands Japan Declaring that he could reconcile Japan's present policy in China "neither with the letter nor spirit of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact," Frank B. Kellogg, co-author of the pact and former U. S. Secretary of State, said at St. Paul, Minnesota, last week, that the hope of the world for peace de- pends upon the faithful adherence of 'nations to their plighted word. The society of nations can exist only upon a foundation of mutual confidence, he believes. Bermuda Tourists Spend $8,250,000 The Bermuda Trade Development Board last week estimated that re- venue evenue from tot,s,.during the 1936- - .. ccaa..,axix�tiX3tt63cl-:.t,O:;,:a,',�1r.USlm ately $8,250,000. More than 80,500 visitors came to the colony during, the period, with 2,700 coming from Canada. The board estimated that the 'sverage Ca- nadian tourist spent $100 in Bermu- da, the average from the United States, $140, and typical English tourists, $125. A world's record for a warship over a distance of over 1,000 miles is believ- ed to have been made by the H.M.S. Amphion in carrying a sick officer from Maocambique to Durban, South Africa, in 37 hours, an average of 30.2 knots an hour. Duke and Duchess of Windsor In Paris The Duke and Duchess of `i-1n(1Stri, centre, are surrounded by guards Lions the $ rU e. Lass i+.. as friendly crowds push and shove forward to see the famous couple ,during a visit to the' Paris They are planning to sail for the United States early in November, after a visit to Germany to study public lnoudllrg projects. THE MARKETS . -=... trAiRY PRODUCE, Butter -- Quotations to wholesale trade Toronto this .week -end. •,�� Creamery solids, No. 1. 2874 do 38 score ._-_-.---_- 271/4 do 37 score 261/4 score 251/4 do Cheese36 New large (parafiined)141/4 to 14% do twins 141 to 14%do triplets 14% to 15 (Average price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country points.) New large (paraffined)i3% to.I3% do triplets 14 to 141/e. POULTRY AND EGGS Buying prices: Toronto dealers this w,'zk-end were quoting pre. uccrs for ungraded eggs, delivered, cases returned: Eggs— Grade A large 37 to 00 Grade A medium 34 to 00 ' Pullets 27 to 00 Grade B 22 to 23 Grade C 18 to 00 Dealers were quoted on graded eggs cases free: Grade A large 39 to 40 Grade A medium 36 to 37 Pullets 30 to .00. Grade B 25 to 26 Grade C 22 to 23 POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers: Dressed. Milk Sel. A Sel. B. Fed A. to 00 to 00 to 00 to 00 at Spring Chickens I. to 2 lbs. 20 2 to 3 lbs. i9 3to4lbs. -- 21 4 to 5 lbs. 22 5 lbs. and over 23 Fatted Hens - 18 17 19 20 21 22 21 23 24 25 Dresse Sel. .A. Sel. 13 Over 5 lbs. 16 14d. 4 to 5 lbs. 15 13 3% to 4 'fbs. 14 12 3 to 3% lbs- ------------ 12 11 Old Roosters— Over 5 lbs. 12 10 (lied and black feath- ered birds 2c per lb.' less than above prices.) Other Fowl,.. Guinea fowl, per pair 75 90 Note: 0 grade poultry 3e below 13 ;rade, 'E tir.ieys-- A grade, 10 lbs. and over, dressed .28 Geeso� A' grade, dressed .17