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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1938-04-28, Page 3Thursday, April 28th, 1938 *WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES 18 hours and 15 minutes, (S SHE GCHflJ<sTo\ BIPI^T-HATUPJ "-a agai n’? I (KMOW away. TO FIX ]1 HER J JW * * * L L a * Al Li Agreement Reached Between U, K. and Eire London —• The United Kingdom and Eire have reached an agreement on long-standing differences. A cryp­ tic announcement to this effect from the Dominion’s office raised hopes of a new era. of friendly relations be­ tween the island neighbors, and spec­ ulation on the scope of the agree­ ment. Z2Z HERES A SPECIAL CONSOLATION PRIZE FOR. y<7u,mamib, BECAUSE YOU HAD SUCH BAD LUCKj—" You MUSI? PROMISE V J I WAS feeling J (SO WRETCHED T<to*)(MoTTooVW ' S I COULPNT SEE •“> IT UNTIL You get home 'AT FIRST I WAS TERRIBLY MAD*') WHEN I FOUND THEY HAD GIVEN / ► ME A PACKAGE KBLLOG6S 1 ALLrBRAN (ANP , LL BET ATHEN I SAW ’ .THE POINT . % SAY, ITS GOOD.1 l" • ■«»» I" 1-V-L. A / WHOLE LOT BETTER. LFOR YOU THAN TAW WG ( THOSE HARSH Vcathartics^xA Church Heads Protest to Hitler Archbishpp Derwyn T. Owen, An­ glican Primate of All Canada, and Right Rev, Peter Bryce,'Moderator of the United Church of Canada, wrote Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany protesting the recent detention by German secret police of Martin Nie- moellerj pastor of the Confessional Church in Germany, after a civil court had granted him freedom. 4 4-Az Arrests Made Following Riots Paris — French troops and ’police continued wholesale arrests in Tun­ isia, French North African protector­ ate, in an effort to crush the Ncodes- tour organization of Nationalist nat­ ives. At least 1,000 persons have been arrested since rioting, in which 13 persons were killed broke out April 10th. SOMETIME LATER K; 'fOhT3iRLS!VOIH<N^ HOW I USED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT MY CONSTIPATION w FORGET IT,, MAMIE, < , YOURE ONE / OF THE , ( -REGULARS '-i NOW/ r4 7. $ft##*#! *yiouat I ^^^*****Ui*lLSn "I W r< V**I 1 Miners Trapped Hangar, Va.—At least seventy-five ■ miners were trapped in the Red Jack­ et Coal Company mine here after a terrific “dust” explosion as the shifts were changing. So violent was the blast, Harman, mine foreman said', that he with oth­ ers felt the explosion 1,400 yards away on the Grundy-Raven Road. Commission Hearing Ontario Briefs The Royal Commission on Domin­ ion-Provincial Relations, of which Hon. N. W. Rowell, Chief Justice’ of Ontario, is chairman, opened a series of meetings in the Legislative Cham- Italy and France. Start Formal Talks Rome — Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d’Affaires, Jules F. Blondel, “struck at the core” of long-standing differences in a half-hour talk start­ ing formal negotiations on an Italo- French pact of friendship. A LOT OF CAR # ♦ AT A LOWER PRICE I Why JnSfea<l ofesl°i/.ack of*"!' di/fr.’ ^£e/lo^s 4^ a **4/2^ containcWt an- Th;* fax«twe 'S NaIur “/ M riches. -r- y Srocers g KeliogZ„ nTd drinkT. . • Se^d by XIol>doo, , J ' - - . Z """— t’A :¥#::1W;! shipped to the loyalists or insurgents. ber of the Ontario Parliament Build­ ings at Queen’s Park Monday. The brief of the Province of Ontario will not be presented- mrt'il the following Monday. May 2. The first week of the Commission will be devoted to hearing the briefs of Ontario organi­ zations and certain Dominion organi­ zations which were not heard at Ot­ tawa. U.S. Continues Neutrality Policy Washington — Informed officials concluded from President Roosevelt’s statements at a press conference that the United States neutrality policy to­ ward the Spanish civil war would con­ tinue in effect. Munitions are being To Testify at Sanitarium Probe A formal order issued by F. H. Barlow, K.C., Commissioner investi­ gating the conduct of the Homewood Sanitarium at Guelph", directed Mrs. Angus McIntosh, Montreal, to appear before the inquiry at Osgoode Hall for examination on charges that she kept her husband confined in That in­ stitution illegally. Set Solo Record Australia- to-England Lympne, England — H. F. Broad­ bent, Australian aviator, capped 12 hours and 53 minutes off the Aus­ tralia to England solo flight record established by Miss Jean Batten, New Zealand flier. The old record was set by Miss Batten on Oct. 24, 1937., when she completed the flight in five 'days, ARCHBISHOP PERFORMS TRADITIONAL CEREMONY toSpanish loyalists were reported be holding the insurgents April 23, but General Franco’s troops ended the week rejoicing in their success in reaching the coast and threatening Madrid again. At VliiftroE (UPPER) insurgent soldiers rested only at meal­ time as they were ordered to consoli­ date theif tiew position on the Med­ iterranean. In Paris, Cardinal Verd- ier, archbishop of Paris, Spent Maun­ dy Thursday somewhat differently than the Spaniards to the south. He presided at the traditional ceremony of the “Mandatum” or washing of the feel (LOWER) at Notre Dame cath­ edral. The British House of Com­ mons - heard from Sir John Simon. He has been preparing his speech on the budget for weeks. As chancellor of the!exchequer he Informed British taxpayers what they will be obliged to. . this year. ......' Mine Disaster in Northern Ontario Port Arthur — While the funeral of the first victim of Wednesday's dis­ aster at Northern Empire Gold Mine was being held here, the body of a second lay in a Port Arthur morgue, and surgeons were deliberating the necessity of amputating the leg of a third, whose condition is regarded as grave. The cage at the mine plunged 800 feet down a shaft. Appointed Lord Chamberlain London—Appointment of the Earl of Clarendon by the King to succeed the Earl of Cromer as Lord Chamb­ erlain, was announced from Windsor Castle. Lord Clarendon will take ov­ er the position, the most important in the King’s household, on July 1. The' new appointee is well known in Can­ ada. He was a fruit farmer in Ontario for several years. He returned England last April after a term Governor-General of the Union South Africa. to as of Brazil Bans Nazis « New York—First response to Pres­ ident Roosevelt’s recent implied warn­ ing to Latin-America to defend dem­ ocracy against Fascist inroads came when Brazil banned all foreign polit­ ical activities in that country. While embracing all alien doctrines, the ban was aimed particularly at Nazi activ­ ities. Wants Inquiry into Quints’ « Management Ottawa — A request for a judicial inquiry into the Guardians’ Manage­ ment of the Dionne quintuplets has been lodged with the Ontario Attorn­ ey-General’s Department by Henri St. Jacques, Ottawa barrister, acting for Oliva Dionne, father of the quints. The fight for possession of the Di­ onne quintuplets and control of their fortune of $600,0000 found Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, country doctor-saviour of the babies’ lives, opposing Oliva Di­ onne, their dissatisfied farmer father. Powell to Leave for England Soon Edmonton — The Edmonton Jour­ nal says it is reported G. F. Powell, serving a six-month term in Fort Sas­ katchewan jail for defamatory libel, will be released shortly and will leave Canada for his home in England. . Violence at Jerusalem Jerusalem Murder of ttvo British soldiers, arrest of thirteen Jews for counter-attacks on Arabs, wounding of two Arabs by a bomb explosion in this Capital, and Arab and Jewish hunger strikes occurred as violence swept over Palestine. Tc> Study English Tax System Ottawa — The English system of taxing the annual occupancy of real estate, instead of taxing its capital value, as in Canada, does away with municipalities taking Over land for taxes and unpaid taxes become only a small problem, according to Dr. W. Ivor Jennings of the University of London, Dr, Jennings, an expert on financial relations between the central and local Governments in England, conferred het privately with some members of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations and a number of their research staff. Canada-U.S. Start Tirade Negotiations Ottawa Direct uegofiatiofis be- The Ford effort to make your dollars buy a constantly better car is well illustrated in the Standard Ford V-8. It has all the basic Ford, advantages. It is built on the same wheelbase as the De Luxe Ford V-8. It gives you the smooth 85-horsepower V-8 engine that powers the De Luxe. But it sells at a lower price, and includes bumpers, spare tire, cigar lighter, twin horns and other equipment that you would ordinarily ex- A. MONTH, with reasonable down-payment, buys any new Ford V-8 car under T.F.C. National Finance Plan pect to pay extra for. Ford V-8 economy starts at the purchase price. The V-8 engine gives you the greatest gas economy in Ford history. Owners report averages of 22 to 27 miles a gallon. Simple de­ sign, precision manufacture and high- quality materials give long trouble-free performance. Your pocketbook will approve the Standard Ford in every way. And so will you when you drive it. THE STANDARD FORD HURON MOTORS, WINGHAM FORD SALES AND SERVICE tween United States and Canadian trade experts leading to revision of the Canada-United States trade ag­ reement of 1935, opened immediately after conclusion of public hearings in Washington on. the list ities which may figure agreement. of comniod- in the new the WestCrop Outlook Bright in Regina, S^sk — Smiles have return* ed to the faces of Saskatchewan peo­ ple. The main reason is the crop out­ look and the fact the economic situa­ tion is reasonably stable at a fair en­ ough monetary return for the produce of the farm. It is many years since the spring moisture condition was as good as it is today. Those who keep tab oil moisture conditions say there is enough to take the crop through to June 1 and the rainy season is about to commence. So prospects are more favorable than they have been for years. Mackenzie Talks of Defense Plans Vancouver —“ Pion. Ian Mackenzie, Minister of National Defense, said in address here that Canada could not expect to see “very definite results” from ber program of augmented na­ tional defense for at least two years. But, he told his audience of business men that the program was not a for­ tuitous or haphazard one, for “it has been carefully thought out in all its details.” He said the three-fold aim was protection of strategic trade rout­ es, the country’s ports and coast line and of the nation’s neutrality, Peace Rivet District Wants To Be A Province Peace 'River, Alta, — Separation of the Peace 'River block of Alberta and British Columbia from their respect­ ive Provinces to form with the Yukon Territory a separate Province or au­ tonomous area was urged in a brief adopted here by the Peace River Chamber of Commerce, A Bride at 12 Years of Age Lewes, Del. — In a new gingham dress and a pink ribbon in her hair, IS-year-old Mrs. Almira Walls Me* Chesney declared that she loves her. to run for president in the May 31 el- 37-year-old husband, Samuel, and that I ection. I .they intend to continue their married life. Authorities separated the couple and will likely annul the marriage as the state law does not allow marriages. child Nominated as Eire' President Dublin — Dr. Douglas Hyde, historian and retired university pro­ fessor, accepted the nomination of Ireland’s two largest political parties poet, Quite A Colt On the farm of Stanley Lepard of the Dundalk district is a colt that is a whopper. When it was one year old it stood thirteen and one half hands high, had a girth measurement of five feet, ten inches, and weighed 920 pounds, almost twice as much as the average colt of its age.—Arthur Ent­ erprise-News. DM HYDRO LAMPS The Lon$ Life bump Im •«4 guaranteed Utilities Commission Phone 156.