The Seaforth News, 1923-08-09, Page 6PRESIDENT ARDINC DIES
SUDDENLY AT SAN FRANCISCO
Tragic Termination to Fatiguing Trip to Alaska -Apoplexy
Ascribed as Cause of Death Vice -President
Coolidge Takes Up the Reins of
Government.
A despatch from San Francisco
says: -The President died without
warning to those about him. He had
been particularly comfortable and
Mrs. Harding was reading to hint, as
has been her habit, before he went to
sleep,
She and the twe nurses were the
onlypersons with him at the time.
Doctors Sawyer and Boone were in
the adjoining apartment. The local
physicians were out of the hotel.
The doctors heard Mrs. Harding
call and ran in.
It was just 7.50 when a secretary
ran outofthe President's apartments
and handed the formal notice of his
death. It read:
"The President died at 7.30 p,m.
Mrs. Harding and the two nurses,
Miss Ruth Fowderly and Miss Sue
Dauser, were in the room at the time.
Mrs. Harding was reading to the
President, when utterly without warn-
ing, a light shudder passed through
his frame. He collapsed and all
' recognized that the end had come.
Stroke of apoplexy was the cause of
his death."
Within a - few moments all of the
President's official party had been
summoned.
This was followed immediately by
this notice signedby his physicians:
"The President died instantaneous-
ly, without warning, and while con-
versing with members of his family,
at 7.30 pen. Death was apparently d
due to some brain evolvement, probab-s
ly an apoplexy. During the day he
had been free from discomfort and
there was every justification for'an- a
ticipating a prompt recovery.
CHIEF EVENTS OF HARDING'S
LIFE.
BORN -Nov. 2, 1865, on a farm
near Blooming Grove, Morrow Coon
BUSINESS LIFE -As a young
man, became a printer and linotype
operator, and in 1884 became pro
prletor of the Marion (O.) Star.
POLITICAL LIFE -From 1899 to
1903 represented his district in the
Senate of Ohio. In 1904 and .1905
was' Lieutenant -Governor of the'State..
In 1914 was elected to the United
States Senate by a majority of more
than 100,000. Elected President in
1920 by plurality of 7,000,000.
FAMILY `LIFE -Married in 1891
to Miss Florence Kling.
Calvin Coolidge, Vice -President of
the United States, who automatically
succeeds the late Warren G. Harding
as President, was born at Plymouth,
Vermont, on July 4, 1872, of old New
England stock. He worked on his
father's .£arm as a boy and through
hard effort obtained an education,
graduating at. Amherst College and
afterward practising law at North-
ampton, Mass. Before being elected
Vice -President of the United States in
November, 1920, he was successively
Mayor of Northampton, member of
the State House of Representatives
and the State Senate, and Lieutenant -
Governor and Governor of cMassa-
husetts. His success as Governor in
Baling with the serious Boston police
trike was, in the public mind, largely
responsible for his being chosen as
Mr. Harding's runnhrg mate. He has
wife and two sons and is known for
is simple tastes.
THE LATE PRESIDENT HARDING
Prince Coming as the
Duke of Cornwall.
A despatch from London says: -
The Prince of Wales is completing
plans for a trip to Canada in Septem-
ber, when, as the Duke of Cornwall,
he will spend a month, onhis ranch in
Alberta. Itis to be a strictly private
visit. If he traveled as the Prince of
Wales every municipal official the
length and breadth of the land would
want to give him the freedom of the
city and he would have to fight his
way through a month of banquets.
His desire is to see his ranch again,
as well as to have a real vacation in
the open. These are the chief reasons
why the heir to the throne is about to e
take this long jaunt. But it is also t
partly due to the wanderlust which
the Prince' has been suffering from
since his recent trip to the far East.
Plans are now maturing for an early
visit to South Africa, but when this is
undertaken it will be official. There
are some of his father's subjects who
believe one of the Prince's aversions
to marrying just yet is due to the
travel fever.
STRIKE CAI .T .T' D OFF
IN SYDNEY STEEL
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Xi.jnIo n
Mass Meeting Votes to
Resuine Work Dropped
on June 27.
A despatch from Sydney, N.S.,
says: -The Sydney. steel strike is over.
At a mass meeting of steel workers
at union headquarters, about 65 per
cent. of those present voted to end the
strike and return to work. The union
executive will notify the British Ern
In their resolution, which formally1
ends the strike, the steel workers com-1
plain that every man's hand is against'
and they censure people, courts,
police, newspaper and the Federal and
Provincial Governments.
The Steel Company stated that 2,-
505 men were working at the plant out
of approximately 3,500 who were
there when the strike began.
The strike began on the morning of
June 27 for a 20 per cent. wage in-
crease.
Disturbances followed, in the course
of which a number of police were
stoned and, a magistrate hit and prac-
tioally stunned by a missile. As a
result of the disturbance, Provincial
police and about 1,500 troops from all
sections of Canada' occupied' the strike
district.
At midnight July 3 the eight thou-
sand miners of Cape Breton came out
in sympathy to force withdrawal of
the troops and police. On July'6 the'
miners' leaders, J. B. MacLachlan and
Dan Livingstone, were arrested on
barges of sedition, and on July 18
hey were deposed by John L. Lewis
from their respective offices of secre-
tary and president of District 26 of
the United Mine Workers. The inter-
national president instructed the min-
ers to return to work: On July 21 the
miners returned to work,
pire Steel Corporation accordingly.
An .easily replaced abrasive` belt
features a new machine for grind-
ing small metal or wood articles.
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EST 1 ' IJSlMENT OF NEW CANADIAN
INDUSTRY BACKED BY BRITISH CAPITAL
A despatch from London says: -The
development of Canadian milling In.
terests on. a great scale by British
capital is foreshadowed by the do..
parture for Canada, on the Empress of
%'canoe, Aug. 8, of Sir William Nichola,
Sir William is. chairman and govern-
ing dbreotor of Spillers Milling and
Associated Industries, Limited, a huge
combination of interests which owe
thein owe steamships and insurance
companies, and are thus completely
self-contained,
Sir William who is acoompanlad
by Lady and Miss Nicholls and J. T.
Anner, secretary of the company, will
visit Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Wien_
nlpex,. Calgary and Vancouver. He will
spend three months in Canada investi-
gating; the growing cad handling of
whea.t. Canada, he considers, is be-
coming the controlling factor in the
.production and price of grain, and he
wishes to study its course from the
farm to the British consumer, He will
look into the possibilities of flour mill..
Seg. in: Western Canada and into ship-
ping facilities which exist for wheat
and flour via Vancouver. If he finds
an opportunity exists for improving
these facilities and reducing the cost
of marketing Canadian wheat. he and
his associates are ready to invest
large sums of money for the purpose:
How large these sums maybe is indi-
cated by the fact that Spillers. Indust
tries control $35,000,000 and that Sir
William himself is a director of Dar..
clays' Bank.
In view of the dominating position,,
of Spillers In the British grain trade,
its.. decision to consider large invest-
ments. in Canadian milling ie a matter
05 great Importance to Canada, while
its dnsuranoe of Imperial; control of
Imperial foodstuffs, augurs w•ei' for the.
forthcoming Dconomdc Conference. Not
since before` the war has British in-
dustry showed a disposition to parte
oipeto in Garnadian development on
such a large scale. The fact :that it
will mean,the establishment of a new
industry, rather than the mere In.
vestment of British capital, makes it
still more conetructive.
ROUND -GREAT -BRITAIN AIR RACE
T, Courtney being congratulated after winning the Ring's Cup offered for the successful entrant into a
race which encircled Great Britain.
Dominion News in Brief
Vancouver, B.C.-It has been an-
nounced bythe contractors that the
additional unit of 700,000 bushels for
the old Government elevator will be
completed by the end of September,
This increases the storage capacity of
the elevator to 2,000,000 bushels.
Medicine Hat, Alta. -The adult
foxes and pups onthe local fox farm
rapidly increased in number during
the past year. There are now 54
adult foxes and 56 pups. 'It is the
intention this ,tial] to increase the
number of breeding pens and dog pens
from 25 to 34 of each.
Regina, Sask.-There has been no
let-up this year in the government's
policy of highway construction and
contractors are busily engaged in
building roads joining the small towns
with the provincial marketing centres.
The latest contract to be awarded by
the Government is for a stretch of
road 1731 miles long between Regina
and Pense, at a cost of $18,000.
Winnipeg, Man. -Western Canada
will require 61,000 harvesters this
year, according to an estimate made
at a meeting here of officials of the
Employment Service of Canada, Can-
adian Pacific and Canadian National
Railways and farmers organizations.
It is estimated 15,000 will be needed
in Manitoba, 88,000 in Saskatchewan
and 13,000 in Alberta, and most of
them will be brought in from Eastern.
Canadian districts.
Russia Will Celebrate
Next Christmas on Dec. 25.
A despatch from . Moscow says :-
The Council of Commissars have fixed
upon ten church holidays, to be ob-
served according to the new style
calendar: Thus this year will be the
first that Russia will celebrate Christ-
mas simultaneously with the rest of
the world.
"Nurse, did you kill all the germs in
baby's milk?"
"Yes, ma'am. I run it through the
meat ohopper twice."
Probably a miser saves money be-
cause he doesn't know what else to do
with it.
Ottawa, Ont. -Only once in the his-
tory of Canada was the gold produc-
tion record set in 1922 exceeded, and
that was in 1900, when the Yukon
placers reached the peak of their,
yield. During 1922, 1,263,364 ounces
of gold were mined in the Dominion.
The value is set at $26,118,050, an in-
crease of 36 per cent. over the pre-
vious year's figures. In 1900, 1,350,-
067 ounces of gold were mined and
the value was $27,908,153,
Shawinigan Falls, Que.-Work on
the extension of the plant of the Belga
Paper Co. is now about 60 per cent.
completed. The Belga Co. are making
arrangements to place another paper
machine in operation, which work will
not be completed before the end of
November next.
St. John, N.B,-Lumber exporters
in this district are experiencing a
steady run of orders for their product
from foreign countries, and scarcely a
day goes by but some ship leaves port
with a cargo of New Brunswick lum-
ber. The United States has been an
extensive buyer, with the United
IKingdom not far behind.
Aylesford, N.S.-Work has been go-
ing on steadily at the mine of the
Aylesford Manganese Mining Co.,
which is located about three miles
south of Auburn. The engineer in
charge reports that developments to
date are quite satisfactory.
A discovery of excellent ochre (raw
sienna) was: recently made near .E1-
lershouse Station, N.S., on the Do-
minion Atlantic Railway, The color
is uniform throughout, with very lit-
tle gritty matter in the main body,
The material can be burnt to produce
a variety of colors, from reddish
brown to black. Prospecting is still
going on.
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Over 13,000 cattle were exported
during June and of that number 10,-
473 were shipped to the British mar-
ket and 1,785 to the United States.
The total for the first six months of
1928 is 55,583 head, as compared with
19,867 last year. Of these amounts
30,029 and 4,185, respectively, went
overseas and 23,659 and 12,796, re-
spectively, to the United States.
Inland Revenue Stamps
Replace Postage on Oct. 1.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -An
explanation of the changes inthe
stamp taxes effective on August 1 has
been made by the Post -Office Depart-
ment„ The requirement that Inland
Revenue stamps must be used on
cheques, it is pointed out, does not
come into effect until October 1st. The
Special War Revenue Aet has provid-I
ed explicitly that postage stamps may
be used in the payment of stamp du-
ties under the Act, but after the first
of October this permission ceases to
exist,
Official announcement of the secur-
ing of new, premises for the Canadian
Government offices in London, has
been made by Hon. P. C. Larkin, Can-
adian High Commissioner. The High
Commissioner estates that the Crown
lease of the premises in Trafalgar
Square on the West Side, belonging to
the Union Club, has been purchased
by the Canadian Government. '
VICE-PRES. CALVIN COOLIDGE.
Whom the death of President
Harding calls to the White House. Mr.
Coolidge is the. first Vice -President to
become Chief Executive of the United
States since Theodora Roosvelt suc-
ceeded William McKinley on the lat-
ter's death.
THE COMING CHAMPION
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The Week's .1"darkets
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Norther
Manitoba oats=No. 3 CW, 4841c
No. 1 feed, 47e.
Manitoba. barley -Nominal.
All the above track, bay ports.
American corn -No, 3 yellow, 31..08
Barley --Nominal,
Buckwheat -No, 2, nominal.
Rye -No. 2, nominal.
Peas,No. 2, nominal.
Millfeed-Del., Montreal freight
bags included: Bran, per ton;• 325 t
326; Shorts, per ton, $27 to 329; mid
clings, 333 to 335; good feed lion
32.15 to 32,25.
Ontario wheat -No: 2 white, nom
inal. .
Ontario No. 2 white oats -45 to 46
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent, pat.
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship
mein, 35.10 to $5,20; Toronto basis
3$
55.05 to 35:15; bulk seaboard, $4.95 t
Man. flour -1st patents, in cotton
si:eks, 36.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats;, 36.85.
Hay=Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, 315; No, 3 timothy,
$18; mixed, 312.80' to 313.50.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To
ionto, $9.50;
Cheese -New, large,22c;. twins
2232 to 23c; triplets, 23e. Stiltons, 240
Old, large, 32c; twins, 8223te; triplets
33e; Stiltons, 3341c. New Zealand old
cheese,, 30c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints
36 to 37c; ordinary creamery, 34 to
35c; No: 2, 32 to 330,
Eggs Extras in cartons, 36 to 37c;
extras, 34 to 35e; firsts, 29, to 30a;
seconds, 20 to 22c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens 20c;
hens, over, 5 lbs., 22c; do, 4 to 5 lbs.,
20c; do, 3 to 4 lbs,, 17e; roosters, 12c;
ducklings, over 5 lbs,, 25c; do, 4 to 5
lbs,, 20c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and
up, 25c.
Dressed , poultry -Spring chickens,
40c; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5
lbs., 24c; do, 3 to 4lbs ., 20c; roosters,
16c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 26c; do, 4
to 6 lbs., 250; turkeys, young, 10 lbs,
and up, 300.
Beans -Gan. hand-picked, lb., 7c;
primes, 6%c.
Maplo products -Syrup, per imp,
gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tine $2.40 per
gal. Maple sugar, lb., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb, tins, 105 to 110 per
Ib.; 8 and 2% lb. tins, 11 to 121/,0 per
ib.; Ontario comb honey, per doz., No.
1, $4.60 to 35; No. 2,' $3.75 to $4.26.
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 27 to
29c; cooked hams, 43 to 45c; smoked
rolls, 22 to; 24c; cottage rolls, 28 to
26c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c; ape-
cial brand breakfast baron, 34 to 38ci
backs, boneless, 32 to 88c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., 318; 70 to 90 lbs., 317.50;
90 lbs. and up, $16.50; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight
rolls, 393.
Lard -Pure tierces, 15% to 153 c;
tubs, 16 to 161,10; pails, 1611 to 17c;
prints, 18c. Shortening, tierces, 1411
to 15c; tubs, 16 to 153tic; pails, 1534
to 16c; prints, 17 to 1735a
Choice heavy steers, 37 to $7,60;
butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7,50;
do, good, 36.50 to $7; do, med., $6 to
36.50; do, com., $4.25 to 35.50; butcher
heifers, choice, 36.76 to 37.25; do,
med., 35.75 to 36.50; do, com., 34,25 to
$5.50;• butcher cows, choice, 34 to $5;
do, need., 33 to $4; canners and but-
ters, 31.50 to $2; feeding steers, good,
$5 to 36; do, fair, $4.50 to 35; stock-
ers, good, 34.50 to $5.50; do, fair, $3.25
to $4.50; milkers, springers, each, 360
to $80; calves, choice, $10 to $11; do,
med., $8: to 39;. do,' com„ $4 to $5;
lambs, spring, 313.25 to $18.50; sheep,
choice, light, $5 to $6; do, choice,
heavy, 34 to 35; do, culls and bucks,
$2.75 to 38.50; hogs, fed and watered,
$8.85; do,f.o.b., 38.25; do, country
points, 38.
MONTREAL.
Oats, No. 2 CW, 57o; No. 3 CW,
65c; extra No. 1 feed 58.%c; No. 2
local- white, ` 52%c. Flour, Manitoba
spring wheat pats., lsts,36.90; do,
2nds, $6.40; do, strong bakers', $6.20;
do winter pats., choice, $5.75 to $6.85;
Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $3.06 to 33.15.
Bran, 325 to $26. Shorts $28 to 329.
Middlings, $33 to $34. 'Hay, No. 2,
per ton, car, lots, $15.
Cheese, finest easterns, 19 to 19%c.
Butter, choicest creamery, 3$74 e,
Eggs, selected, 33c. Potatoes, per
bag, car' lots, 31.20 to $1.25.
Com. cattle, $3.50 to 35; mixed qual-
ity steers,
uality,steers, $6; hogs, $9.75 to $10.
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IRISH COURT SAYS
NO STATE OF WAR NOW
Decision MVIonnentolis as Ef-
fecting Thousands of
Prisoners Held by
Government.
A despatoh from Dublin says: -A;
state of war does not exist in Ireland,
the' Court of Appeals decided in giv-
ing ,lodgment in the case of Mrs. Nora
Connelly O'Brien, reversing the opin-
e; ion of the Master of the Rolle of the
o Chancery Division, who held that civil
war did exist in Ireland on Juno 15th.
r•' The'court's decision was looked' for
_ ward to with great interest and its
announcement caused much excitement
c, as it governs the position of thousands
of prisoners held by the Governinent
, under the plea of military necessity.
The Attorney -General made strenu-
ous efforts to convince the court that
o. the rebellion was not over and might
hrealc out again, but the court was
emphatic in its decision that a .state
of war does not exist and that the
Government has no authprity to deny -
its citizens the privileges of a writ of
- habeas corpus,
The court made a writ of habeas
' corpus, sought by Mrs. O'Brien's at-
torney, returnable on Thursday. She
has been in prison for some time. De-
spite this decision, it is regarded as
, unlikely that there will be any general
release of prisoners as the Govern -
Ment, anticipating the court's decision, s
has passed through all the stages in
the Dail and; Senate a bill legally
authorizing it to continue imprison-
ment and other repressive measures
for three months.
It is 'believed that this bill will
receive the assent of the Governor-
General by the end of the week.
The decision that the war is over
affects several other exart-lege] activi-
ties of the administration which up to
this time has been pursued on the
basis of military necessity.. Tho Re-
publicans talk of organizing a plebis-
cite on the bill under a provision of
the constitution.
Speaking in the Senate before the
Court of Appeals pronounced judg-
ment, Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of
Home'Affaiis, said that if the decision
were unfavorable to the Government
it would mean the release of 10,000
persons held in military custody.
And that, be added, might make it
necessary for the executive to have
legal authority for the retention of
those prisoners.
Germany Has Issued
500,000 Mark Note.
A despatch. Froin Berlin says;-
"Can you change a half million?" is
now a common question among people
in Berlin. The new hall million mark
notes have made their appearance and
relieve thepossessor of enough to buy
dinner from carrying' a bulging, vis-
ible bankroll.
Heretofore large pacicets of thou -
and mark bills had to be used in
:ansactions which often ran into the
niilione: The highest depomination of
urrency previous was the 100,000
mark, bill:
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Canada's trade is climbing ahead,
Total trade inthe three months end -
World Trip in 31 Days
May Soon Be Reality.
A despatch from Paris says: --The
dreams of a round -the -world trip in
81 days are nearing realization. Not
only is a British company planning a
74 -hour airplane service between Lon-
don and Bombay, but the French Gov-
ernment has given permission to a
French air mail company to organize
24-hour flights between Paris and
Bucharest, thereby cutting three days
from the normal travel schedule.
The planes will carry 16 passengers,
a cook and a porter to make up the
beds before sundown. Each machine
will have a -wireless telephone to keep
in touch with European broadcasting
stations. Extension of the line from
Bucharest. to Bombay is being con-
sidered and may be established before
the end of tho year.
In this event, allowing two days to.
catch a steamer on the Pacific, two
days to fly across North America and
six days to cross the Atlantic, it will '
be possible to make the trip around
the world is less than half Jules
Verne's 80 days.
Bees Possess Sense
Unknown to Humans.
A despatch from Paris says: -
Scientific interest has been aroused
over an incident in the Swiss canton
of Vaud which tends to demonstrate
that bees possess a sense unknown to
humans.
A farmer was taking a hundred
pounds of honey to market, when his
wagon overturned. in a few minutes
a number of bees Were noticed in the.
vicinity, and in a quarter of an hour
the sky was darkened by them. It
has since been learned that simul-
taneously every hive in the canton
was emptied,
A great number of people were
stung, and three children who were
riding on tho wagon at the time of the
accident were rescued with difficulty
from the angry insects.
Immigration returns a the Can-
dlan Government for the first live
months of the present year show a ono
undyed per cent. increaseimmigra-
tion from the British Isles over the:
gores of the same period last year,
and 71 per sent. Increase in the move-
ment of continental countries in Eur-
ope.' There is a decrease of 83 per
cent, In immigration from the United
States,
a
ing` June' was 3402,544,438,• an. in- }i
crease of 3110,841,056 over the coy-
respondingth
ree months of last year. fi
For Juno alone, total trade was 3179,-
720,516, an increase of 344,944,782
over last year. Domestic imports in
the three months increased approxi-
mately 350,000,000 and imports ap-
proximately- 361, 000,000.
A demonstration of the practicabil-
ity of the tar sands from McMurray,
north of Edmonton, for sidewalk and
road purposes, is being made at the
Edmonton Exhibition. A sidewalk
has been laid on the exhibition
grounds comprising' crushed gravel
and the tar sand just as it conies from
the ground: It is honed that such ex-
periments as these will' demonstrate
the value of the McMurray tar sands
in road making.
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During the season of 1922 and since
September of that year, the irrigated
district centring on Vauxhall, shipped
168 ears of wheat, 44 carve of potatoes,
17 oars of hay, 37 cars of sheep, 8
care of cattle, b ears of hogs', and 6
cars of mixed feed The above ship-
ments came front 10,000 acres, which
were in crop lid the district last year., •
and is an indication of what is being
accomplished on irrigated lands of
Southern Alberta,