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The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-03, Page 2PAGE 2 tClinton News.Record With which is Incorpr,rated THE NEW ERA Terms 'of Subscription—$2,110 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses; $2,50 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears nil?' paid unless at the caption 'of the publisher. The date 00 which every, subscription isd aid is denoted d P e on the label. Advertising' Rates—Transient, advert tising 12c per count line for first insertion. Sc fro, each subsequent insertion. 'heading counts 2 lines. Smalladvertisements, not to ex- ceed 'one inch, such as "Wanted "Lost," ;`Strayed" etc., inserted once for' 35c, each stebsegocnt in sertion 7 5e. Rates far display ad vectising Made' known on applica- tign. Communications intended for pub- tiication must, as a .guarantee of good i'faith, be accompanied by the name 'of •=the writer. •G. E. HALL, . M. R. GLARE, Proprietor. , Editor,. McTAGGAR7 Banker A general Banking Business --transacted. Notes D2scoullt- •ea• Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed on 'Deposits. Sale Notes Purchased. H. T. RANCE 'Notary Public, Conveyancer -Financial, Real Estate and Fire In• -suranee Agent. Representing 14 Eire 'Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LLB. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publio Successor to W. Brydone, I{.C; Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovev's Drug Store CLINTON,, ONT. V. T. FOLEY Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public. Estate and General Practice in all Courts. Money to loan. New Bank of Toronto Bldg., London, Ontario. 'Phone: Office Metcalf 1723; resi- dence Metealf 2172. 58-12. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire 'Wind. Sickness and Accident, Antq- mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage 'Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.U. Telephone 57. DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.30 to 8.30 pan., +6.30 to 8.00 pan. Sundays, 12,30 to 1.30 pin. Other hours by appotntment only. -Office and Residence — Victoria St DR. FRED G. T}IOMPSON Offiee and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont 'One door west of Anglican Church Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted 'DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street Clinton, Ont. Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) (ayes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. MCINTYRE DENTIST I1:2"RACTION A SPECIALTY "Office over Canadian National Ex- press, Clinton, Ont. Phone 21 D. IL McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur 'Office: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Bank). Boars -Tues., Thurs. and Sat., at/ 'day. Other hours by appointment :Hensall Office—Mon., Wed, and Fri -forenoons. Seaforth Office.—Mon„ 'Wed. and Friday, afternoons. Phone '207. GEORGE ELLIOTT '!Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered. 'Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record. 'Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate • and Satisfactior ' Guaranteed., AN''D I tAt; TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton' as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div, 'Going East, depart 6.58 a.m Going East depart Going West, depart 3.05 p.nt: 11.55 ,.m. „ 0 a9.44 p.ni. London. Huron Sc Bruce South 8.08 p,in. North 11.58 a no. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS.,'MARCH 3, 193% 701=101=201=0 0=i0) t iw10a a Ol It ed to—and he'd want to, right e TILE nough, if it was necessary to his progress; "Morality', � • after all, es rt z d e its P .complications, pretty well :5oal8 down. to one ,thing---7-the faculty ; of taking + the other fellow'; point of`view. You know that somebody else would alis-. like being 'robbed or killed or cheat- ed just as, you would dislike it. You Put yourself in his place Teel his sit- uation as your own. Call.•it imagina- tion, sympathy, the faculty of get- ting out of yourown skin. Now and then somebody' lacks that :faculty,.. And if he does, the moral cade to him is merely a convenient artifice, like etiquette. He eats with his fork because in general it's the easiest thing to do. ‘But if eating• with hie. fork became inconvenient to him, he'd throw the :fork away without hesitation. The ogoiest is the sin- gle-minded person. Because he is single-minded, given native ability,, he will go far 'in his chosen direction.. "But i;f.lte meets with an ,abstaele which cannot be circumvented, he 'will destroy it, without regard to the. rights of the obstacle. In other words, ,he will comMit a crime dic- tated by his egoism, and will conceal it by his intellectual astuteness," "Yee," . said Peter, "I've heard something -like that before, in 'anoth er connection." • TU -L[ 11 STORY OF A 114ISSING 6O6 TAXING OF WITS TO ' IA SJ MARSH MUIICER ACTRESS 'AND THE EXPLAIN HER FATE. BY NANCY BARR MAVITY :�®L�S91C"'r""a"".eCDL'�6) "e"".:..�®3.�i©"'�"e'�",• OSLO.-*..�....-.d... • SYNOPSIS it. It did not hitch on to thein. That murder was coniniitted b Don Ellsworth wife, formerly y sonmone'who knew exactly what he actress 'Sheila O'Shay, disappears. Di•: Cavanaugh, criminal psycho;log-, ist,, identifies;. a charred hody found 'in the tule .march as that Of Sheila., Barbara, his 'd'aughter, Taints when she hears him tell this to Peter. Pip- er, a 'Herald reporter. Mrs. Kane's or Ellsworth's When Mrs. Kane, Sheila's maid, •is As for 'Barbai.'a; her bare word was arrested she admits that Ellsworth better than a thousand proofs. She married Sheila under threat of breach of promise. A threatening note signed "David Orme" is found in the murdered woman's safe. Pet- er ` trails ' Orme and` arrests Peter sees Barbara destroy a jewel- led comb ,of ,Sheila's and when she refuses to talk he realizes she is protecting someone. .At Crme's',trial Mrs. Kane states that Orme. is Sheila's reel Husband. Dr. Ca.vaas angle hakes the stand and practically clears Orme. The jury retire. ,,was doing. The case had not progres- sed one inch nearer to solution than 'in the beginning. It was deep—far deeper thane anyone ' had yet pone, trated. Tliei'e was a mindbehind it a mind far ;superior to Orme's or CIH'APTER XLVIII,—(Oont5d.) "I odes and gentlemen of the' jury, have you considered your verdict?" "We. have." Dcwn • the mm•nniirous lines of an interminable rigmarole droned a voice. "The ease of the people against David Oi.me.... Do you find the de- fendant guilty or not 'guilty?" "Not guilty." "So say you all?" "So say we all" Somebody was trying toe scramble over Peter's outstretched legs. Some- body leaped a chair to reach the aisle. "Peter have you gone to sleep?" Peter stared blankly at Harry, the "Q" twin, who was shaking him by the elbow: . "I believe you and I are working on a rag called the 'Herald' It's supposed to be e daily paper. It's` city editor is one Jimmy Sears, who at this moment is shouting himself hoarse and tearing out handfuls of red hair. Suppose you postpone Your little dream and come along!" The dazed look received from Pet- er':, eyes. "Call a taxi, Harry, while I phone M. With luck we'll make the 1 o'clock deadline!" Love and sorrow and joy and life !tilting his glass against the light and squinting through it, "the only rea- son that the oriminals who under- take to perpetrate the''perfect crime' seem such utter asses is beeause they were asses. Their jelly would- n't jell; but that's no reason to deny Peter knew he should 'feel flatter- that there is such a thing as jelly. ed by Professor Gambion's invitation' Of course we don't know about any to dinner.. Besides, be had always successful 'perfect crimes!' If they liked the old professer,•and he knew were successful, we wouldn't know a - that, despite the difference in their bout. them. But that's no ground for ages, the liking was reciprocated. saying that they don't happen. The IIe .smiled a little at the transpar- normal criminal is stupid, because ent eraftiness which bad led Gam- the normal intelligent met knows bion, on this particular occasion, tc that he can go farther and with less invite him to meet the distinguished risk by sticking to the paths of re - Judge Hood, visitor from another etitucle. state. had intellect but she also had char- acter. She had the temperament for truth. Site was crystalline. It wasn't a code ' of :moral teachings with her something imposed from; without, to be sloughed off : when the domande of self,interest became too strong. It was herself. Peter sat back in the shadow' just beyondthe' firelight, smoking one cigarette after another and now and. then sipping at the glass of sherry on the arm 'of hie, chair. The old .professor' had •saved •a small cellar from the pre Volstead era, and one of his precious bottles had been brought out in honor of this old Mead, the judge. Now and then Peter' roused himself to listen to their desultory talk. "You're on a newspaper. I believe Gambian said?" Judge Hood turned to Peter, courteouslyincluding him in the topic 'of conversation. They had been discussing, as everyone was discussing, the Ellsworth case, and front that had drifted: to famous unsolved crimes of the past. "Guilty, your honor," Peter admit- ted, smilin; "Then I'm sure you'll 'bear mo out against the professor that many of the great unsolved crimes were not really unsolved at all. A group of se- lected editors and newspaper men, in the mood and with their tongues loosened, could reveal what I believe you youngsters call the 'low down' on ninny of them. The solution is merely 'not for publication,' :for var ious reasons, influence sometimes, or lack of evidence sufficiently con, elusive for a court of law. The El- well an:I Hail-tlliIls murders in New York, the Taylor and Ferguson cases in California, 1050 supposed ley marry people to fall into that class." "Still," the professor maintained, rust wait, "Peter Piper of the 'Here aid' was again on the job. CHAPTER XLJx, Gambion had seized mem Peter as the most promising of his students, and Peter suspected that in the pre- fessor's eyes he bad fallen from grace in taking to journalism instead of concentrating on the finishing of his Mw course—with an income of The •words of Dr. Cavanaugh came back to him, as clearly it's if lie -heard them, again inthe'• doctor's quiet, authoritative tones. "The few who can pull their threads out to the end are the great single-minded people; artists, financers, scientists, even arch criminals." ' Then something crashed in his brain. A light, like a dozen fiery globules of •a bursting r'o'cket, each' separate against the sky, but all em- ereging from a single sauce, flamed in the darkness of his mind. FIe leap- ed to his feet, knocking the ovine glass from the chair arm. The gleaming fragments of glass taught the firelight, and a thin trickle of fluid darkened the hearth -rug. "My God!" he said wildly; and again, in a. low, awed voice, "My God!" Hood and Gambion were both star- ing et him. startled into immobility. "What's the matter?' Are you ill?" the judge exclaimer]. "I may be crazy, but I dtfs't think so. I believe I've got it. I think I've sc.lverl the Ellsworth case!" Bareheaded, banging the door *,be- hind him; Peter rushed front tite horse,. (To bo continued.) DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD 80,000 Scouts In The Empire At the end of 1931 there wore 808,307 Boy Scouts :Mk leaders int the British Empire, an increase dur- ing the year of 51,424. Canada's to- tal was 53,568, an increase of 5,990. Loyalty Without Antagonism A noted French educationalist has said that the Boy Scour Movement has two tendencies which appear contradictory, yet which have work - "But nut perfectly, These ere, loyal - But there is such a,thing as the ty to one's own nation, and the ab - abnormal criminal mind—the man of itity to understand and appreciate sufficient intelligence to fool the Po- others, lice and the public and make his way unscathed through the -whole elabor- ate machinery we have constructed for the protection of society, but a man's intelligence has a fatal flaw; We have one particularly effective agency for bringing about a mutual understanding !between the French and English-speaking and .other les, ser national groups represented in Canada, declared ItIr, F. S. Rugg, K.C., in a recent address fit Sher- brooke, Que. This agency was the Boy Scout Movement. Of Racial Value to Canada nothing a week. Jtulge Food wonld a limitation which allows him to dis- be set forth as a shining example) regard the rights of his :Fellows and "There, if you stick to the straight became a criminal," and narrow paths of jurisprudence, "Yes," he judge agreed, "there goes Peter Piper at fiftyl" are men like that—though they don't always 'turn to crime. There was Dawson, for instance. Remember him?" ' "Dawson? Let nye see—Oh, yes, the queer fellow, with delusions of grandeur whenever he got drunk, in our class at law school! What made you think of him?" "I happened to .run across Jilin not long ago." "Committing the, perfect crime?" Peter suggested. Yet 'Peter did not want to go to Professor Gautbion's house for dine her. He wanted to 'do nothing but think --even though thinking had be - tome a single reiterated circle. His thoughts padded on, round and round and round again, wearing ever deep- er a track that led nowhere save back to its own beginning, He believed Barbara. Ile believed Ellsworth. Ile believed Mrs. Kane. Ile believed Orme. Not one of those four had killed Sheila O'Shay. They were simply not the sight people for THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth. Ont. President, J. Bennewies, lirodhag• en, vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich. Sec. -treasurer, D. F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: ,James Evans, Beeeh- wood James Shoulclice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesborea Robt. Ferris, Mul- lett; John Pepper, .Brucefield; A Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. F. laleCert- ney, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3. Clinton; • Jelin Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Finchley Seaforth. Any money to be paid inay be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, ex at Calvin Cutt's Groee.4'y, Goderich. Parties desiring to. `.effect insur mice or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies., tion to any of the 'above officers addressed to their respective post 'or rices. Losses inspected by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene, "Nothing quite so dramatic. But the only reason that Dawson has not committed a perfect crime is because he has had not occasion to. You may be surprised to know, Gambion that Aawson has trade a name for him self as one of the most brilliant pro- secuting attorneys in the history of my state." "You don't say' se!" . Gambion blinked. "Why, in our young days Dawson was' avoided by the fellows whom most of the other fellows a. voided! He was a complete and per. feet rotten." "He still it. Among the_:few who know him,. thee° is no -more tntsavory. reputation in the city, than Dawson's But you forget those delusions of grandeur that used to disgust pa, and tales of the great things he was go- ing, to do that he told when he ,was drunk." Cenotaph Custodians Boy Scouts -are the' official custe- diens of the Cenotaph at Hamilton, Ont. A Scoutmaster and four boys from each troop in turn mark war anniversaries by running tip new flags. The duty was. turned over to tate Scouts in consequence of anni- versary dates being overlooked at the City Hall. Not Taking Him Too Seriously "Don't take yourself to 'serious- ly," one of Barden-Powell's philosoph- ies, was interpreted to the Chief Scout in amusing fashion by Cam- bridge University Rovers. On the evening prior to the 'conferring upon him of the degree of Doctor of Laws, he was invited to a banquet, Put through a mock ceremony and in nonsensical terms created a "Doe - tonna Scoutorum Pelargonium." 33. P.'s account of the affair reflected as much .enjoyment as that of the hover undet•gr'ads. 'Yoe?" Common Table Sall!' "Well, lie's done just those things. Often Helps Stomach Ana'he's done 'them, because he sone- Drink plenty of water with Pinch bines uncommon ability witheonsunt- of salt. `If bloated ”' t*h ea.s add a. ing egoism, '.That's why 1 said he Si) 0n of A,dlmalca. This washes out b0^1H stomach and bowels and rids would be ag7eat criminal if he want, you of all gas, J. L, Ilovey..Drugigst. CANADIANS GET TTIE 131I11)' r the hand of thc'male member 'of the household, who sits, serenely by as the women right it out. !Canadians are 'becoming "canary The express hien' are also experts minded" edd" to judge from the large i hi . looking after the .welfare of all number of feathered songsters which sorts of animals en route. Last year. reached Canada._ from overseas' last many live :foxes were ‘shipped ever - year. The Canadian National Ek- sews for breed'ing ;purposes to 'Paige press alone, which handles a Targe land, Germanyaril other European ,proportion of canary imports, state eountrtes, and live (itches ib!y the that daring 1931 well over 5,000 of dozed were brought to Canada from these birds were brought, from points the land of the Soviet. • One 'of the in Germany and England for dealers prize exhibits 'of last year's' 'Gana-• in 1'ai'oisto, 'liiontreal, Winnipeg ,and dian National Express r shipments' even as far west as Victoria, B.C. was a playful bear cub from Jasper The majority of the :birds come National Park, which made ' asiic - from the Martz Njourneyfonntains of Ger- oessful .y of nearly 6,00.0 iuriIes' many, the home of the famous from the Rockies es to the Zoo in Lon:. Hartz Mountain Roller: here the cion, England. birds are trained for singing as care- fully as many ct prima donna, -fan- ciers and breeders using many novel means to teach them different WHALES DIVES? notes. The birds are very imitative and ione''of the most popular methods of training is to place the cages near It is not known definitely hbw an `artificial tvater'fail, where , the deep whales sound, but 1t is believed water, being •allowed to fall over that the maximum depth ep h of their. glass, ,gives an attractive musical soundings. is about 600 feet.�o note which is quickly taken up by whale can descend to the'bettonn of the bird. Other fanciers use •special musical instruments which are' played regault<arly 'within tearing of the 'young (birds. 1 I ! According toile Canadian Nation- al Express officials, who have apec- i.allzed in ihanidling this type •sof "merdhandise," canaries are excel- lent travellers provided they are giv- en reasonable case and are kept ac way front draughts. In shipments of 500 or even 'a thousand birds it is seldom that any are lost. On the oeean the birds are left in oioerge of the ship's butcher but if there are more than 1,500 in a ship- ment a special messenger travels with them as personal attendant. On the train in Canada the birds are looked •after by -Canadian Natidtiai ;Cxps'ess officials specially trained in the ways of birds. As `soon as the bind's reach the dealers rooms the ladies are turned loose into n large exercising cage but the males cannot be allowed to mingle with each other so readily as they are almost invariably pugnac- ious after along ocean ea, rail jour- ney. "Leve birds" are particularly difficult td handle owing to their warlike propensities. If a female love bird gets out of 'her :cage, state the Canadian National Express men, she frequently invades the home . of her neighbor, when there is a battle royal, frequently to the death, for the oceaen in the deepest places, for their bodies are not adapted to with- stand the pressures encountered at such depths, ' Advertisements are your pocket book editorials. They interpret the merchandise news, Child Drowned at Ailsa Craig Seven -iy ecai;c• - c i• d Lloyd MiePonald son of IVbr, and WS. Norman McDonald, of this vil- lage, was drowned about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, when he tate bled from the girders of the Madge. of No. 7 highway, into the waters ,of the Aux ,Bauble River. The bridge spans the river at a point inane-, diately west of Ailsa Craig.' Lloyd, with his brother,', Gordon, and a group of other boys, was play- ing about the bridge, but wlhen he clambered out 'on to the girders, Gor- don endeavored to coax 'him away from the precarious location, Lloyd stayed put, however, end it is thought lost his balance, with the rem suit he fell into the water. Boys who were near the scene gave the alarin, and' John Hansen and a Mr. Gardiner made an attempt at rescue. • They were unsuccessful, but after' the !body was recovered, Dr. Jarrett worked' for some tinge in an effort to resuscitate the little lad. The •attempt was fruitless. The victim was the youngest of three boys, and was an exceptionally bright little chap. Iiie attended the local public school . Surviving are his father and mother, lair. and 'Mrs. Norman McDonald, .and two broth - Ms, Hugh and Gordon, GC Id Crusty takes the Aix" Presented, at Chautauqua CLINTON TOWN HALL, MARC II 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 28th. 1 t it tut al I I1E1.E IS A MESSAGE T() ALL SHOPPERS—OF BOTH SEXES AND VARYING INCOMES. Insist Upon Branded, trade -marked and advertised merchandise, Do not accept a substitute for what you name. Long experience has shown that goods which are widely and steadily advertised in the newspapers are the ones that are worthy of your faith.' Modern newspaper advertising does you a great service,; it per- inits you to accept without fear goods you have never tested. What others have believed in and accepted you also may buy with confid- ence. Advertisers must be, and remain, honest if they want to be successful in business today. Their announcements bear their names and signatures. They tell the truth to protect themselves as well as to safeguard you. A newspaper advertisement is a publicly printed bond between advertising merchants and the buying public. It is the strongest guarantee for,goods of honest quality at fair and competitive prices. THRIFTY SHOPPERS WILL BUY ADVERTISED GOODS AND REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANY SUIBSTITUTE. THE GLINTN NE S.REC PHONE 4