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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-05-02, Page 3Thursday, May grid, 1935 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES BROWN LABEL - 334 1/2 lb. ORANGE PEKOE - 40( 1/2 lb® AMR 1.. , .....0.1,a...010.sA.tim.o.... 0.1161.00 moo• World Wide News in Brief Form Alberta Approves Drought Scheme Calgary—Federal plans for combat- ing drought ravages through the three Prairie Provinces have, so far as Al- berta is concerned, received distinct approval, Hon, Robert Weir, Minis- ter of Agriculture, under whose de- partment the drought campaign is be- ing directed/ came to Calgary and in - mediately went into conference with Provincial officials. Mounted Polce Get Their Man Calgary—The short-lived shooting career of David Knox, recluse farm- er, was brought to an endwhen Con- stable R. C. Fenn of the 'Royal Can- adian Mounted. Police drove a speed- ing automobile toward the farmer and crushed hint to death against a gran- ary. He had shot and killed Corporal Michael Moriarity, 48 -year-old R.C.M. P. veteran, who went to Knox's farm near Drumheller, Alta., to serve a summons. Knox was armed with a rifle. New Nurses for Quints Different nursing hands will care for the Dionne quintuplets when the five baby girls awake on June 1st in the Dafoe Hospital at Callander. Members of the Order of the Grey Nuns of Pembroke Diocese, will then take change of the babies. Mr. and Mrs. Dionne's Manager Speaks Out Terming the Ontario Government "the exploiters" and charging them with "cheap methods in commercial- izing on the Dionne quintuplets, Leo Xervine, manager to Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, tore down the veil of reticence that has surrounded the par- ents since their vaudeville tour to the United;:' States in an interview, with The Globe. "The Dionnes are deter- mined to get full control of their fam- ily, and will not give up trying until they' do," Mr. Kervine declared. "If Premier Hepburn knew the true facts, he would not be a partyto the thing at all." Rejected Christianity Berlin—Leaders of the rapidly growing Germanic pagan faith move- ment rejected Christianity at a Nazi - sanctioned rally, and said God had "revealed Himself to us" through Adolf Hitler. Ex -King May Get. Throne Back Paris—A few weeks, Greek royal- ists said 'here, will see ex -King II. back on the Throne he lost twelve years ago. The fortifier monarch pass- ed through Paris en route to London and heard plans to restore him, if the 1lonarchists score the victory they ex- pect in Greece's elections on May 19. Says Sabotage Tried on Hydro Quebec -After the death of Sir Ad- am Baelz, founder of the Ontario Hy- dro -Electric Commission, "our great financiers trie,d to commit sabotage on the Hydro," declared Hon. T. D. Bouchard, speaker of the Quebec Leg- islative Assembly, in a speech before the Legislature as private member of St. Hyacinthe. They would have suc- ceeded, said Mr. Bouchard, had it not been for the intervention of a Prem- ier "conscious that the salvation of the people is the supreme law." May Have Compulsory Medical Examination Ottawa—The compulsory 'medical examination of the Canadian people at beast once a year loomed as a pos- sible recommendation of the first Do- it( o- • A1ed tri S -Trice :.,. Anti 01 .4.621,2.111 Shf lantrpa le the Houser Wingham Utilities Commission Crawford Black. ` Phone 156.. ifor Mii 14.41 reie low t n on- rovincial Health Conference, which, under the chairmanships of Col- onel the Hon, D. M, Sutherland, Min- ister of National Health. German Press Muzzled I3erlin—Germany 'moved to elimin- ate the last vestiges of non -Nazi in- fluence from the German press. A new law, effective immediately, makes the entire Church press, Catholic .and Protestant, -and all Jewish organs still existing, directly subject to Nazi cons trot, . Stevens May Run in Kent Blenheim -Hon. H. H. Stevens may be the Conservative candidate in Kent County, for the coining Dominion el- ection, according to rumor among Conservatives in this district. Other political revelations here disclosed that a third man in the Kent race is almost a certainty. Want Another Imperial Conference London — Unofficial complaints were voiced on behalf of manufactur- ers and the grain trade against Can- ada for alleged failure to live up to the Ottawa agreements, with a de- mand for an Imperial Conference to discuss trade, foreign policy, and Im- perial defense. Hepburn Tour of Inspection Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn and three members of his Cabinet gained first-hand knowledge of conditions in the homes of relief recipients. They undertook an extensive tour through East York, Scarboro', Mimico, Long Branch and New Toronto—five mun- icipalities in default whose relief bur- den is being borne almost entirely by the Provinical Government. 4 NEWS of the DISTRICT Fell 35 Feet front Bridge High diving in Goderich got away to ,'an early start when Sam Mahon, 'teen aged :son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam- uel Mahon of Goderich, was shot from his bicycle over the guard rail of the Saltford bridge and plunged into the Waters of the Maitland River some thirty-five feet below. Sammy escap- ed injury most miraculously. A Tailless Calf Robt, Dures of R. R. No. 6, near Goderich, was presented with some- thing unique in the way of olves, A new arrival was expected but on going into the barn in the morning Mr. Dures found it hard to recognize the object lying on the stall floor be- side its mother. It was only when it' stood up that it was seen to be a calf minus a tail. Neighbors say that it is hard to believe what a curious change it makes in the appearance of the ani- ro mal until it is seen'. This is the first fr to FAGS THREE twenty-four young pigs fifteen of which are alive and doing well. In her previous two litters there were nineteen each, all alive and all of good size.—Arthur Enterprise -News. Initial "Shipment • to TJ, S. 4,Councillor Alex, George recently sold to Mr. Stanley Darling, drover of Mildmay, a fine bunch. of 24 head of choice cattle for which he received 6, cts, per„ lb, at the home scales. The herd were loaded here in one car on Monday last and shipped direct to the Chicago stock yards, which is the first consignment from these parts to be put on the American .market, and the result of the venture will be awaited with interest. •— Walkerton Herald' Times,, Fish Hatchery for Grey County Erection of a trout hatchery by the Ontario Government somewhere in Grey County was announced by Pro- vincial Secretary II. C. Nixon, says a Canadian Press despatch. Some tithe ago a Grey County and Owen Sound delegation asked that the hatchery be established in Sullivan Township, south of Owen Sound, but Mr, Nixon did not state the location of the hat- chery but it is almost certain that the Sullivan township site has been chos- m —Durham Chronicle. Comes to Auburn Rev. Hugh C, Wilson, who for the last eight years has been in charge of the United Church at Oakland, has been invited to Auburn, and, if the change is sanctioned by the settle- ment connnittee of the London Con- ference, will move to his new charge at the first of July next. Former Wawanosh Resident Passes Word, has been received of the death at Maple Creek, Sask., of Mrs. John T. Pickett, after an illness of about a year from heart trouble, Kate McCulloch was born in East Wawa - nosh 64 years ago, where she received her education. In 1898 she was mar- ried to John T. Pickett, also• of East Wawanosh. After their marriage they lived in Morris until 1907 when they moved to the west, living there for some 28 years. Besides her husband she is survived by- two sons and two daughters, one brother, James, in the west; two sisters, Mrs. Maines, Blyth, and Mrs. Buchanan, Westfield. She was an aunt of Wesley Buchanan of Auburn. She attended the United Church and was buried in 'Maple Creek cemetery: • Starved Pig Went 815 Lbs. Out in Culross township they do things in a big way. A year ago a re- cord sized soft elm tree was felled, now they are turning their attention to growing champion sized pigs. Af- ter slaughter, the monster still weigh- ed 815 lbs,, which is perhaps a record for heft of a swine in these parts. There was 17.5 pounds of lard render- ed from the interior of the beast, and a string of sausage long enough to pe off a softball diamond emanated oin the same meat plant,—Walker- n Herald -Times. occasion on which a tailless calf has been know to be born in this district. —Goderich Star. Lucknow Child Struck By Car Alma Solomon, 8 -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Solomon, Luck - now, is in Wingham hospital suffer- ing from severe cuts on'her head and also undetermined head injuries, as thi result of being struck on Thurs- day afternoon, by a car driven by Harvey Miller of .Lanes. Alma and her sisters, Marjorie And Beryl, along with other little chums were Proceed- ing along the ditch to Taylor's woods just south of the village, They had reached a point in front of Ewart Taylor's, when Alma, unnoticed by he driver of the car, started to cross he road towards Taylor's gate. Mill- er tried to avoid hitting the child but vas unsuccessful. He ditched his car nd struck a telephone post; couitplete- y wrecking the vehicle, but he him- elf was uninjured. Tories May Enter Fight Conservatives of the new Grey and Bruce Federal Riding, who have been amtaining a very discreet silence for Dune months, are now .considering ery seriously the advisability of put- ng a candidate in the field to oppose Miss Macpilail and Dr, Hall. As the ection will likely be held in Septetn- et•, some action is likely to be taken ery soon —Mildmay Gazette. The Perch. Are Itil The perch .run is in on the Lake Huron shote of the .Bruce Peninsula: Word "receiped recently is to the ef- fect that splendid catches have been made and there is every likelihood that the flailing will be good from now on. Hundreds of people from all over Grey :and Urtica take advantage of this fishing: each spring and hund- reds more froth outgide the district-- Port Elgin `Times, A .Remarkable Sow W.11', Townsend of West Garafraxa has. a sow that recently gave birth to a s in 5 ti el b TIMOTHY HAS THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS IN FOR AN EVENING To the Editur av all thim Wingham paypers. Deer Sur; 'Tis sorry I am intoirely, so I am, to rade in the paypers, an .hear over the radio, that our byes in Toronto an Ottawa are not tattier wurrukin together as well as they spud. It looks as if the Tories wud soon be as bad as thim Grits, wid.'playin the pol- lytickle game fer what they kin git out av it, an not fer what they kin put into it, fer the good av the parthy an the counthry. Whin ye are playin hockey it isn't in the game that ye shud shtart swattin mitnbers av yer own tame over the head wid yer hoc- key shticks, aven if they snake some misplays. Wan noight, whin the missus wus down town, I got so fell up wid raid - in the paypers an learnin .how thim Grits same to be havin tingsconiin theer way ivirywheer, that r tought I wud ask thim Hoigh School,byes into the kitchen to shpind tinhour wid, me. Ye renumber I tould ye that we had to take in two av thim lads: to boord wid us to ,hilp out wid 'the ixpinses. They torrid me that they would be glad to come! as they had finished some ww •uic theer taicher liad .given thinr tobring inthe nist martlin. I tout(' thim to bring it out wid thim, an mebby I cud hilp thim wid it, "What is it ye do be afflict wurruk- in at?" ser I, whin we '€got sittled; down arround the kitchentable, They tould ,rte that they had to wt'oite a composition on "Will Winghatn ever be a. city, an if not, whoy not?" "An how fer hey ye gotP" sez 1. 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STANDARD SERIES MODELS AS LOW AS 722 A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE C -75C. rawfor ameonscoossmsameeeemoicreantigasaimmannew me tink a whole, an thin I'll be wid ye," I sez. In about foive minnits, arr mebby tin, I got caught up wid me tinkin, so to shpake, an titin sez I to the byes, "Wingham is only a counthry town" sez I, "an will nivir be a city unless a lot av our payple move out," I sez. "I suppose ye tint: I am all ashtray in the talk," sez I, "an that if a lot av payple move away we shall soon be no betther ner bigger than Blyth arr Lucknow, arr aven lel- grave, but jist wait till I am afther tellin ye me raysons, "How kin a place ivir grow to be a city' whin it is filled up wid Fields an 13ushfields?" sez I. " 'Tis a bush town, so it is," T sez. Tlie byes caught the oidea at wance, C arage r _ltishter Hay, an we have Groves an Ian wan av thiin sez "Roight ye are 11lusgro -es art Hazelgroves, as well." "Yes," sez the other lad, "And also Oaks an Wilds, an Fells, an Atwood,: and lilackwoods, with Hares and l.e- pards runnin 'around town i•viry day." Jist thin we hetred the missus cam- ) in up the shteps, an so hacl to adjourn I the tnaytin, so to shpake, an the byes nivir tould me how the taicher le,iked itheer compositions, ] but; annyway they 'are shinart .tads an so quick to catch on to a new oidea that they shod snake good, Tories, whin they ;grow up, if they rade the might paypers in the manetoime. Yours till afther the sale is in the 1 1 ground, Timothy Hay. THE IMPORTANCE OF SCREENING Ontario Safety League Issues Appeal ThG danger to health caused by the. 1 conlnton fly has lecl the Ontario Safe ty I-eague to appeal to householders all over Ontario this Spring to keep' j flies out of their homes. There is on- ly one way to do this properly . . 1 screen every door and window. j When screen doors and windows are on harm, they should be checked 1 carefully, and, if damaged, the screen 'wire should be replaced. A defective screen is worse than useless as at gives a false feeling of security. It is a well known fact that the common fly is a carrier of disease germs. MUSSOLINI INSPECTS GUARD OF HONOR Premier Benito .14ussolini, 'Dictator ed the guard, of honor at Isola Ilona, Italy, is shown here as :he inspect ,where the;:faniotts 'three powers' con- _ ercnce was held.