The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-12-07, Page 3Thursday, December 7, 1933
orJd Wide News
In Brief Form
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Shot in Stomach by Robber --
Died Sunday ,
In a sei•irrimage with a burglar in
the backyard of' his father's home, • 96
Wellesley Streets Thursday, John C,
Copp, star left halfback of the Uni-
versity of Toronto football team, was
shot in the abdomen, and taken to
Wellesley Hospital in a serious eon-
dition, John Copp had just left his
friend upstairs 'while he went to the
second floor to his father's room to
telephone, and saw a man looking in-
to the window from the top of the
balcony. Getting a second glimpse of
the thief, Copp called to Houston to
come down, Houston doing so in
time to see .the'man's back. Copp ask-
ed Houston to tell his sister to tele-
phone for the police, and ran -down-
stairs and: into the yard.- Here he met
the armed robber dropping- a distance
of some fifteen feet from the roof
of
the
balcony on
Y to thea yard. Copp
plunged forward and managed to get
hold of the thief, but the latter had
his revolver in readiness and fired,
one shot penetrating Copp's stomach.
The thief ran ,to the foot of the yard,
jumped the fence at the west cor-
ner and esecaped; Copp died Sunday
night.
Smith Ridicules Roosevelt Plans
New York ---Alfred E. Smith said
the 'United States public works ad-
ministration ha roken down and
• that the civil works program was set
up to hide its failure, "Instead of ac
lenowledging the failure of the public.
works administration," said the for-
mer Governor, ". ...`this crazy,top-
heavy structure, choked with red tape
and bureaucracy, it !being left as it is,
and out of it is being created ed the civil
works administrai6iom 'to raise relief
wages and get more people to work
'during the winter. It looks as though
one ' of the absent-minded professors
had played anagrams with the alpha-
bet soup. The 'soup got, cold while he
-was unconsciously inventing a new
game for the dation, a game which
beats the cross -word puzzle - the
game of identifying new departrrients
by their 'initials."
Ryckman ."Retiring Matthews'
Successor
Ottawa — Prime Minister Bennett
announced that the Hon. E. R Ryck-
man, 'Minister of National Revenue,
has been ,compelled to relinquish his
Ministerial duties because of failing
health. Mr. Bennett said that Mr.
Ryckman has handed his resignation
to the 'Prime Minister, and that his
Excellency the Governor-General had
,accepted it. Mr. Ryckman remains a
meniber of the House of Commons,
'representing Toronto East. While •on
decision has been reached about a
successor to Mr. Ryckman, it has
'beenw rde 1
'.
o ed
Y .rum r for several
weeks `that R. -C. Matthews, M.P. for
'Toronto East Centre, would be invit-
•ed to *join the Cabinet.
Senator 7,'H. Fisher Dead
Paris, Ont.—Senator John Henry
Fisher, appointed to the Red Chain-
ber in 1917 after a busy quarterecen-
tury of public life, died here Friday.
eernoon at the age of 78, He had
n critically ill for, three weeks.
He was Mayor of Paris for five
ytaars and at other times was Reeve
:and Alderman, and Warden of Brant from
County, before he entered the wider,
political field of Ontario and Caneda
in 1802. He was elected to the On-
tario
star
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,e
g e in 1905 and 180$.:.
In 1911 he was elected to the House
of Commons:
Young' Girl Escapes
From Hold) -up Men.
Guelph—Eighteen-year-old Miriam
Westlake walked into the Bank - 'of
Toronto at Morrison, near here, Fri-
day afternoon and surprised busy
hold-up men, who threatened to kid-
nap her. She escaped by running
down the street after the robbers had
escorted her to the door with the in-
tention of taking her with them in an
automobile. :T,he teller's cage yielded
about $500 to the two roughly dressed
men who entered the bank while the
manager was out tolunch and .C. F.
Perkins wasein charge; They tied up
Perkins and G. C. Gilmour, teller,
with strong rope, forcing them to lie
on the floor,
Dominion Status for Newfoundland"
St. Johns, Nfld.—Newfoundland's
rights to the status of a`Dominion 'in
the British Commonwealth of Nations
were temporarily signed away when
the Legislative Council 'unanimously
passed a resolution from the Lower
House,- petitioning his M'asjesty to
implement recommendations of the
Royal Commission which investigated
the island's financial and economic
condition, According to proposals in
the Amulee report, the Legislature
will be susPended in favor of gover-
ment by Commission until the island
becomes .self-supporting again, and
the United Kingdom Parliament will.
take . action toward a solution of fin-
ancial problems ,emisateassing the is-
jand.
Heroine of Aeroplane Crash
Windsor—C1in31bing from the sub-
merged cabin of •a large aeroplane,
nine passengers and a crew of three
sat on top of the wings of the ship
until rescuers "'(stroke their way thru
ice to bring them .safely ashore. Miss
Kathleen Smith, (Chicago,hostess oil
the plane, was 'the heroine of the oc-
casion. She rcalnily opened the door.
of the cabin and assisted the passeng-
ers to climb +through the struts of the
.machine ;to a place of comparative
:safety and dryness on top of the
wings. By 'the tune all were out, she
,was standrng in water up to her neck,'
but her -passengers were safe. Sir
then a rribed up beside them.
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U. S. 'to 'Barter Farm
Products for Liquor
Washington The United States
will }give Canada and other countries
a market for their liquors in exchange
for •a 'place to sell surplus farm and
in
dusty'
ial ,products. Such reciprocal
trade agreements are now in process
of negotiation with several countries.
'Government officials made this known
today at -a hearing on a code for 'im
porters •that would give the Federal
Alcdhoi'Control Administration aufh.-
ority to 'limit the volume and 'origin
of wine and spirits imports on a -quota
1sasis.
Tariff 'Decisions
'Ottawa -Two important tariff de-
cisions, one relating to importations
'the United States and the la't'her
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by the Government, It was made
known that no dump duty will be im-
posed by Canada on imports coining
in from countr]es of depreciated carr-
rencies unless that depreciation rea-
ches or exceeds 5 per cent. Of im-
portance to the Irish linen industry is
an Order -in -Council '
rr Coancil passed, by the
Dominion Cabinet to carry into ef-
feet the spirit of the Conference trade
pact between Canada and the United
Kingdom and Northern Ireland, call-
ing for reciprocal trade Concessions.
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Alleged Confession to 'Killing
Lifting the veil of mystery that has
shrouded the death of William Sim,
Toronto, 54 -year-old insurance agent,
found dead early. Thursday morning
on a couch in his apartment at 2 Ver-
mont Avenue, Creighton Robert Kirk,
Toronto, aged 21, is alleged to have
confessed to killing Sim, Who was the
father of his fiance.
Laboring under an intense mental
strain, for forty hours, Kirk walked
into the office of Coroner Dr. J. P.
F. .Williams, 550 Palmerston Avenue,
shortly after 5 o'clock Friday after-
noun, and, it is alleged, told the Cor-
oner he wanted to make a confession
to "save the girl."
The voluntary statement was tak-
en by Dr. Williams, who then detain-
ed Kirk in hisoffice, while he sum-
moned detectives from headquarters,
Kirk was arrestedon a charge of
murder.
De Valera Elected in N. Ireland
Belfast, Northern Ireland—Presi-
dent Eamon De Valera of the Irish
Free State was elected to a Northern
Ireland Parliament seat from South
Down. ''He received 7,040 votes, and
his opponent, Thomas . Gerard Mc-
Grath, a Republican, 662. Two differ-
ent views of De Valera's election have
been expressed: That the Irish Free
State executive saw in it a possibility
of uniting the two Ire'l'ands, and that
he might not assume the seat, be-
cause of laws providing for the de-
portation of persons crossing the
boundary.
Counterfeiter Armed
Rochester—Canadian and ]United
States officials were attenn .ting' to
ran down a gang of international
Counterfeiters, following Che arrest
here of Milton "(Midge) Staled of this
city, on a 'Canadian charge -of 'passing
forged -United `States Federa1'Reserve
nates Ion a Hamilton, Oat,, evinery.
NEWS
of the
DISTRICT
S.wualluws :;False Teeth •
Walketton—Anthony Albrecht cat of
-Walk r
e tarne
was in Owen Sound Hos-
pital, a dental plate .still stuck in his
lt.roat'deepite hours of labor by phy-
sicians ,to remove it. He swallowed
the .plate ,during a coughing spell.
/Burned as ::Police -Dog
Drags Tot Against •Stove.
Walkerton -'—Dragged against a hot
storey lean-to not in use at present.
In. the storethem at the time of the
fire was. Considerable Christmas
goods which were damaged the most,
The goods in the store sizffered some
dantage by smoke. Upstairs the fire
was confined mostly to the two,
rooms. Before making further head-
waythe t e fire was extinguished by the
fire department. The building . was
not damaged.
A Remarkable Potato Yield
Mr. Jos. Stewart reports an inter-
esting result from a late planting of
potatoes at the Benmiller Nurseries,.
A bit of ground not larger than 12 ft.
by 12 ft. was planted on August 7th.
As may be remembered, August was
very dry and there was practically no
rain until the third week in Septem-
ber. The plot wasnot artificially wa-
tered, but . was well cultivated. Late
in October, eleven weeks after plant.•
ing, over ten bushels of a good sam-
ple of potatoes were gathered.—God-
brich Signal.
Bird Hanged. in Tree Citotch
One morula last
found. hanging in the crotch of a tree 1
in front of Mr, H. C, Baird's huge Shipping Fish From Goderich
that was easily recognized as belong- to New York, a Failure
ing to the variety of water fowl Goderich-e-A shipment of 110 lbs..
known as waders but it was not un-.tpf the finest trout Lake or
til it was brought to The Sun office produce, made to New Yorkr Hurony
a day or two later where quite a. large few days ago as a test in an effort to
number of people came in to see it, find a new market, netted the local
that it was definitely identified as 'a shipper, M. Robins, two and a half
hell -diver by Mr. Menno ,•Eckstein
and Mr. Edward Noll.
It is_ also
known as the dabchick' or glebe. It
is noted for its wonderful agility as a
driver and is usually found in the
larger `ponds and lakes,—Milverton
Sun.
a rabbit' hunt in a bush near the river
on Jos. Whitehead's farm, 2i miles
northeast of Walkerton last Saturday
noon,-.-rWalkerton ,Herald -Times,
Walkerton. to Have Market
An effort is being made to estab-
lisp a big Saturday market in Walk-
erton, such as this town was widely
noted for about two score years ago,
and with this end in view farmers of
the surrounding country have arrange
ed a series of meetings. The Town
Council is co-operating with the ag-
riculturalists in this regard, and will
have the market place in the Town
Hall• specially set aside for' their use
and convenience each Saturday mor-
ning, commencing with the formai op-
ening date, Saturday, Dec. 9th.
There will be no fees or charge of
any kind in connection with the serv-
ice. The market will be preserved
for the purchasing public and con- 5>.;
sumers from 8 to 10 o'clock ,each Sat-
urday morning, at which latter hour
the bell will ring and allow hawksters
and others to come on and bid for
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the' produce, -- Walkerton Herald -
One week a bifd was Tuxes,
Water Supply Low
The water supply at the Creamery,
due > to the long dry period, became
so low recently, that it became nec-
essary to connect `pp with the village
system until -alterations could be
made in the pumping system at the
factory, The rotary pump is being
owered an :additional 13 feet to im-
prove the pumping facilities.--Mild-
may
acilities,- 14ri'ld-may Gazette. •
Ashfield 1$'artner Meets
With Painful. Injury
Mr, Will -Finlay met wroth :a -pain-
ful acident while running ,a :gasoline
engine.. die sweater sleeve .caught in
the snachinery and he was thrown
down with such force as to 'dislocate
his right "shoulder, as wel'1 ars receiv-
ing ;several cuts and 3nauiises on his
arm and head. The engine was a
snaallli 'one and his weight stopped it,
otheneiise the consegneences would, in
sill -probabilities, have proved fatal:
L•tnlcnew Sentinel.
ICe1UI 'Feet Caused (Blaze
•A mildmay bachelor, who does his
own light housekeeping, had a painful
eri
�ecce. When he retired to bed
kis feet were so cold :that he put the
electric light under the covers with
flim, and it was not long until he was
.fast asleep. But what a rude awake
eningl A short circuit caused the bed-
clothes to ignite, and while the bach-
elor slept the gth'lts and mattress
started to blaze. It 'took very prompt
and strenuous efforts to extinguish
ire, and it was mot accomplished
e the bedding was almost en-
ruined,—Mil:dinay Gazette.
ose
Call :•
aciclent at flee Wearwell Knit-
plant, which 'might have been
serious, but which resulted in
Mr. W, W. :hutch a severe
c shock. Mr.:tllutch was look -
r a leak in a dye vat and took
a light on an ,•extension to look
corner. His hand was wet a't
tie time and he got a shock, falling
Where he stood, Mr. James McNeil,
who was right at hand, immediately
turned off the power. Mr. Mutch was
:soon able to be removed to his home.
Clinton News -Record.
Seventeen Granted Old Age Pensions
A meeting of the old -age pensions
conneiittee of the county council was
held at the county building on Tues-
day last week when thirty-one cases
were rip for consideration, There
were twenty new applications, and
the remaining eleven cases were "re-
considerations." Seventeen applica-
tions were granted, four were refusecl
because of lack of satisfactory details
and the t'emnainder were deferred,
Since the Act carne into force 1156
pensioners have been registered in
:Huron Comity, andof' these about
665 are now on the paysheet. There
has been a heavy death rate among
the .Pensioners, btyt, no doubt owing
to the hard tirncs, the number of new
applicants also hs been large.•—God
erich Signal,
Shot Piece Out of` Arne
Murray Carr, youngest son of Mr,
Alex„ Carr of towtt, and well-known
local youth in his early twentiee, fitd
a hole six inches long bltwtt in his
left arm betweeh the elbow and wrist
by the falling end accidental dis-
th"tt'ge of a 'shot -gun white he and
Bert Weiler of town were engaged in
the
stove by a large police dog whaiie'Ibefor
'playfully 'holding it about the neck, 'rtirely
(little .three-year-old Betty-Honsperg- J
A 'Cl
An
.ting
more
er,
daughter of lir. and Mrs. Eail
ii .ons;3erger, was painfully binned
about 'the 'face and hand,
rAippoirsted 'Brussels Postmaster giving
Brussels -P, A. -Hunter of the vii- eelectri
lige of 'Craribrook, five miles from i ing fo
'here, 'has 'been -Chosen the new post- ; cdown
master far Brussels to succeed W. H.
nu'to a
Bell, who recently resigned. Mr.
'Planter is a former Brussels merch-
ant, a veterans df the Great Warand
a pensioner. 'There were 18 applicae
tions for the 'position, When the.
change will take •place has not been
',decided.
Watches As Leg 'is 'Cut Off
Thomas Kes'le, of Exeter, despite
his 80 years, sat •and watched a sur-
geon amputate his 'legbelow, the knee:
The operation was 'performed in Vic-
toria Hospital after gangrene had set
in. At his request lie was given spin-
al injection rather than a general an-
aesthetic and cheerfully watched the
surgeon work. He is recovering nice-
ly,
Fire . at Lucktiow
Lttc%crow--Fire diel cof sidcrahlc
damage on Friday morning to the
storeroom of the Geddes Vanity
Store, also to two rooms situated near
the stairway in the apartment above
which is occupied by iifr, and Mrs,
Jitn 'Geddes, the proprietors. The fire
was first noticed by Mr. Geddes wile
in pronceding downstairs was; -net by
choking' azizoke• and he was forced to
return to his rooms, Mrs. Geddes el-
se stnelling the smoke had in the
in.eantime opened cIT upstairs win-
dow and celled "fire," I(nowing their
eSeape was C,ttt Off by the stairway
they proceeded to get ottt of a win- .
dow beneath which there is e, oche -
i
eft
_ Fig/ (i fd5i.'
business men�C / ��'C+
�"est
A bank account often gives a young man or a
young woman a standing in the business corn -
'nullity. On . occasion it serves
as a reference which
business men readily acknowledge and
1 g respect,
A steadily growing balance is evidence of strength
of character. Do not delay in n establishing a bank
ction. You may open a savings account at
any branch of this bank by depositing
dollar or more. Interest compoundedp g' one
half-yeatity.
THE
DOMINION
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Thus he came before the Roman sun, struck him to the earth, and thei
ser
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Governor of the province, Fehx, and risen and glorified Lord commission-
ed him to carry the Gospel to both
Jews and Gentiles,
"Whereupon, 0 King Agrippa, I
was not disobedient unto the Heaven-
ly vision." And for this reason the
Jews wanted to kill him/ Yet Paul
had continued for almost thirty years
his obedient testimony to his Lord,
witnessing and "saying none other
things than those which the prophets
and Moses did say should come: that
Christ should suffer ,and that He
should be the first that should rise
from the dead, and should shew light
unto the people, and to the Gentiles."
King Agrippa interrupted, telling
Paul he was beside himself. Paul
respectfully denied this, and asked the
King: "Believest thrid the prophets?
I know that thou believes-.'•'
send Paul to Jerusalem to stand trial Then came Agrippa's immortal
before the Jews, Paul insisted upon word; '`Almost thou persuadest me to
his rights as a Roman citizen, saying, be a Christian."
"I appeal unto Caesar." This meant But when .the Kingand the Gov -
that his case must come into the
Cruor were alone' they said freely to
courts at the capital of the Empire, each other: "This .man doeth noth-
Rome,
Finan King ing worthy of death or of bonds,,"
YAgrippa came to
Caesarea, and when the Governor had
told him about the unusual case, the
King expressed a desire to hear the
pian, and this was arranged with
cents a pound, and, needless to say, after a few days, when the high priest
no more shipments will be made tog
that and the elders,- with a professional
point. The Commission House prosecutor, cane and brought their
allowed 10 cents per pound, or $11 for charges against him, Paul• made an
the shipment, deducted $1.65 for other defense before the Governor.
an a nor,
commission, the express company Y got Felix was profoundly impressed; he
$4.23, the -United States Government refused to release Paul to the Jews,
$1.65 duty, the cartage man 25 cents but kept hien in bonds, hoping for a
and the bank 30 cents for discount bribe to set hizp. free. Thus Paul
and exchange on the American check. spent twoears in tec
Even fish shrank on the y hnical impris-
journey, onment at Caesarea, but with person
weighing 115 pounds when they left al liberty; and a new Governor, Fes -
and 110 pounds on arrival in New tus, came into office,
York. They were caught 15 miles off Another plot of assassins was made
shore one one of the coldest days of against the missionary's life, but Fes -
the season, cleaned, packed in ice and tus kept his prisoner safe, and again
trucked 'a mile to the station. It ap- the Jews had to come from Jerusalem
pears as if it may be a tough winter and bring their false charges, "which
for the fishermen. They are wonder- they could not prove."
ing what people pay in New York As the Governor then offered to.
restaurants and hotels for these
choice fish.
TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
PAUL NN CAESAREA
Sunday, Dec. 10—Acts 24: 1043.
Golden Teat:
Herein do :I exercise myself,
have always a conatience void of o
fens -e !toward God, and toward men
Acts •: t6.
to great pomp and ceremony. Paul's de-
f f rise before King Agrippa is one of
the classics of literature and Christian
history.
Respectfully,
courteously, with true
dignity, Patil addressed the King as
one exceptionally familiar with the
customs and teachings of the Jews.
This was Herod Agrippa II., a great-
grandson of Herod the Great, who
had tried to take the life of the babe
Jesus.
Paul appealed to the known facts
concerning his entire life as a strict,
law-abiding Jew and Pharisee, against
whom no legal or moral charge could
be brought. But "now I stand and
am judged for the hope of the prorn-
ise made of God unto our fathers."
Then he told of his early mistaken
zeal against the Christians, and of
the miracle of his conversion, when a
light from Heaven, brighter than the
Sensationel events now followed
thick ciz :a
nd fast st i
n Paul's s • e.eri
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en
p ce
Paul and 1his party, including Luke,
took ship from :Miletus, southeast
along the coact, then another slim
whose course took her south of the
island of Cyprus and directly to Tyre,
on the coast of Syria. Stopping there
for seven days they found a group of
Christian believers, "who said to Paul
through The Spirit, that' he should not
go up to Jerusalem," But Paul went,
evidently believing sincerely that he
Haight to go.
They pushed on south to Caesarea,.
and then on to Jerusalem, where seri-
ous trouble began.
Jews from Asia saw Paul in the
temple area and stirred up the people
against him, -making false charge of
course. An excitable Oriental mob
soon ran together, rushed Paul out
of the temple, and were about to kill
him, when word of the riot i Cached
the Roman chief captain, Who" took a
detachment of troops and rescued
Paul.
Bound, with chains, he was given
art opportunity to address the Jewish
mob froth the stairs of the military
castle near the temple area. He spoke
in Hebrew, which silenced: the crowd,
and told the story of his conversion
and his later Christian experience
and the mob clamored for his death.
As the chief captain was about to
have him scourged, Paul startled the
officer by protesting that he was an
uncondemned Roman, therefore they
had no legal right to scourge 'Min. He ..
was treated more respectfully then,
aril
c the next day was brought before
the highest Jewish council, the San-
hedrin.
His brief address there, t! stiff ing
to the hope of Israel and the resin -
rection of the dead, threw: the coun-
cil into a turmoil, and they would
have had Paul killed had not he been
rescued again by soldiers cif the chef
captain,'
The Lord Jesus 1y1:,imself appeared
to Paul the next eight, reassuring and
strengthening him, and covenanting
that he should bear witness of Him
at Rome,
Then Incite than forty . Jews trade
a solemn covenant'- to cat rno food un-
til they had assassinated Paull the
plot was disclosed to the Roman of -
firer, and he sent :Parti tinier heavy
Military escort, up the east toast to I
Ca.•esaree.
And
man
if he
Agrippa said to Festus: "This
might have been set at liberty,
had not appealed unto Caesar."
John: "Well, ]how's your wife keep-
ing, Pat?"
Pat: "Oh, her head's troubling her
a. lot."
John: "That's bad. Neuralgia?"
Pat: "No; she wants a new hat.'°
Life Saving EffOrtt
women iris dfochildren tuts• af navel
ceasing struggle at the Muskoka,
the Toronto and the Queen ,Wfary-
Hospitals,. where nearly a thbUtana
patients are now being treated for
tuberculosis,
Perhaps you do not fully realize
the predicament of the unfortunate
'victims of this dreaded disease, the
majority of whom came from the
families of the very poor.
Living^ in cramped quarters, where
sunshine and fresh air are often as
scanty as nourishing food, is it any
wonder that consumption ends
them out.
('ran and weak and tired, their
plight is pitiful, but a haven awaits
where, with your help, most of
thW illy may
please send what youh'Can
to assist in this great work. Please
address George A. Reid, Treasurer,
223 College Street, Toronto 2,
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