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Zurich Herald, 1937-08-12, Page 3" "`.•e•-' ' News in Brid Britsh Group Accepts Abitibi Plan TORONTQ, — A spokesman f or the -Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Bondholders' Representative Com- inittee states that their official or- ganiza,tion plan has been approved by a committee of the Association of British Investment Trusts, • This committee was appointed to watch the interests of the association in the Abitibi reorganization. The .spokes - Man understands , that more than $4 millions par value of the first Mortgage bonds are held by this group. Eden Nominated for Nobel Prize LONDON, .Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's efforts to keep Great Britain at peace at almost any price are about to receive the high- est recognition available such dip- lomacy — nomination for the Nobel peace prize. Capt Eden's sponsor is not Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, or the Spanish combatants, to whom Tie has so often 'turned a charitably blind eye and, when necesary, the other cheek, but the Norwegians. (1. S. Corn Crop Best Since 1929 CHICAGO—A corn crop valued at $1,750,000,000, the biggest money crop United States farmers have had since 1929, was ripening in the corn belt,' the August estimates of six Chicago grain experts indicated this week. Basing their estimates on reports from farmers throughout the produc- ing area and on the latest official acreage figures, the private crop auth- orities here, most of whom have just returned from persenal field inspect- ion trips, forecast 1937 domestic corn production would total 2,771,000,000 bushels. • This would be the biggest United States crop since the record-breaking i.. harvest in 1932 of 2,926,000,000 bush- els. It would be more than a billion bushels larger than the crop of 1,524,. 317,000 harvested in 1936. .., The. estimates of the private auth- °rides ranged from 2,715,000,000 bush- els to 2,834,000,000 but the average Was 2,771,000,000. This represents au increase of 200,000,000 bushels com- pared with the latest Government fig- ures based on conditions as of July 1. .': Dies After Claiming Huge Fortune MELBOURNE, Australia. — Mrs. A Houston a claimant to -the estim- ated $24,893,75I, estate left by the late Lady Houston in England, died this week. Mrs. Houston was an elderly , woman in poor circumstances. She advanced her claim only three days previously on the grounds that her husband, Geea,„e/lVlula.,,Hameton, was a -., nephew of Sir rbert ,Heuston, who amassed the huge fortune in shipping. How Indians Should Be Treated WINNIPEG, — Grey Owl, well- known Prince Albert naturalist, is advocating a new attitude towards Indians. He said "Treat the Indian ,e4s an Indian and don't try to change him. My suggestion would be that the Indians be put to work conserv- ing wild life. There's nothing left to hunt, so they can't live hunting and trapping as they used to do, but they could conserve what animal life there is left." he said. C. N. Revenue Up 10 Millions VANCOUVER,—President S. J Hun- gerford of Canadian National Rail- ways estimated in an acnress to Van- couver Board of Trade this week that operating revenues of the C.N.R. sYs- tem during the seven months of 1937 have been $10,Q00,000 more than in the saine pdridd !aft year. Mr. Hungerford said he was "un- ticipating the actual figures a little," but he also estimated net operating revenue had been about $4,500,00 above the cervcs-enel,ea reeled of 1936. The C.N.R. Presiaent e..1 `a tour of Inspection of the railway system, said the railway directors had looked for- ward to a continuation of these rev- enue increases, but now "it seems cer- tain that on our Western lines which have been built and equipped to handle a very largo volume of wheat tonnage, the• amount of wheat which we will Italie to move in this year's crop sea - aim will be far less than could have been anticipated." Health Record Toronto in 1936 had only one resi- dent die df typhoid fever; one of meas- les; one of infantile paralysis; two of diphtheria; none of smallpox. Diph• theria, smallpox, typhoid, those once - great" scourges, are yielding to toxoid, . 'vaccination and the purification of Water and milk supplies. Tubercul- osis is also coming under control. In. eluding the deaths of Toronto people • In -sanatoria, the tuborculoSis victims • In 1936 numbered 275. If the pre-war rate had been in effect, they would have numbered 742. • • Record Number of Farm Jobs OTTAWA—'Reporting the best farm placement record ever experienced at tIlo Government employment office, George Hamilton, superintendent has 'fold The Journal that 275 men had 'peen sent to good farm jobs during the month of July, "It was an.exceptionally.good month and 1 ani very pleased," Mr, Hamilton !old. Ho estimated the men placed .*Ould have work Of varying periods, probably until the end of Anima 1 The wages being paid to the men range from $25 to $30 and keep, with many farmers offering the straight one dollar a day. • Bride First Time at 78 LOS ANGELES,—Annie M. Cotton, 78, "can hardly wait" until Friday to marry John 11, Scott, 79. That's what she said when they drove up to the marriage license bureau and wrote out an application at the curb be- cause of their infirmity. It will be Miss Cotton's first wedding, the fourth for Scott. Rattlesnake Killed at Niagara NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.—Four men walking in the Niagara Glen came ac- ross a four -foot rattlesnake with three rattles and killed it after a short skir- mish. Roger Hunt, John Disher and his son Engin and Norman Irvine, all of Niagara Falls were walking in the Glen when Hunt, at the rear of the Party, heard a noise about his head. Hunt turned his flashlight up and saw the snake coiled on a ledge above his head. He shouted to his companions, who aided him in killing it. Lindbergh Passes Unnoticed PARIS,—Interrupting a flight to England, Col, Charles A. Lindbergh lauded at Le Bourget Airfield to thank the commander for radio ad- vice given him on recent flights ar- ound Europe, His visit to the field, where he completed his trail -blazing trans-Atlantic flight 10 years ago, went unnoticed for half an hour. He was on his way home after a week -end with Dr. Alexis Carrel, with whom he invented the "artificial heart," at Dr. Carrel's home on St. Gildas Island off the coast of Brittany. Queen Mary's Brother Visits Duke LONDON,—Princess Alice, grand- daughter of Queen Victoria, left today with her husband, the Dart of Athlone, for an automobile tour of the contin- ent. They planned to visit the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Lord Ath- lone is Queen Mary's brother. . Souvenir Hunters Menace Casa Loma TORONTO,—Souvenir hunters am- ong tourist visitors to Casa Loma are causing concerti to the service club, (West Toronto Kiwanis) which guides them through the famed castle built by Sir Henry Pellatt. Two knobs were removed from the sewing box of the late Lay Pellatt, a knob from a val- uable chest of drawers and a guide's autographed book were mission this week after more than 5,100 had been conducted during the holiday weekend through. the building taken over by the city for unpaid taxes five years ago. Net of Railroads Rises 59 Millions WASHINGTON—Class I railroads of the United States earned an oper- ating income of $297,341,777 in the first six months of this year, the As - sedation of American Railroads re- ported. -' This was 'an increase of approxim- ately $59,000,000 over the first six months of last year. Franco -Canadian Treaty Signed PARIS,—The revised Franco -Can. adian trade agreement has been sign- ed by Canadian Minister Philippe Roy and Paul Bargeton, director of pia- litical and commercial affairs in the French Foreign Ministry. Under the revised terms a number of additional products are given the right to enter France at minimum tariff rates. At the same time Canada has agreed to grant tariff reductions on a number of French products and to make some quota changes in lino with requests from Frcaaeli Aquitania l'aize.e...; easiest Crossing NEW YORK,—Still going strong at the ripe ()Id age of 23, the Cunard White Star liner Aquitania docked this week after the fastest oast to west Atlantic crossing in her history. The ship, fitted a year ago with new propellers of the type used on the Queen Ma,ry, covered the 3,090 miles from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light in five days, seven hours and 19 minutes at an ry,,ernee • ' 21.27 knots. Cairaaeax, a:a Smallest WINNIPEG,—Canada has entered the now crop year with prospects of its smallest wheat carryover since 1926. While no official estimate of the carryover has been announced, Board of Grain Commission statistics indicate a carryover of less than 40,- 000,000 bushels of wheat at the end of the last crop year, closing July 31. Carryover last year was 128,703,298 bushels, and in 1926 was 40,139,863 bushels. It has anticipated that offic- ial figures on the 1936-37 carryover will be announced this week. Farm Worker is Killed EAST-ANGUS, Que., — Herbert Archibald:Briggs, 60, was killed this week when he fell from the top of a loaded hay wagon. Striking the ground on his back, the aged man suffered a broken spine at the base of the skull. A coroner's jury which probed the accident shortly after- ward, returned a verdict of are. dental death. Dream Provat EDINBUBGH.—Beeause her 7 -yr. - old son told her -he bad dreamed his broi4..ov Lad lien drowned, Mrs. Fifteen Violent rieaths niffic Toll Two Drownings — Hudson Bay Factor and 11Fdro Workman — London Woman and Daughter Instantly Killed When Car Swerves Off Highway. Fifteen persons died and forty were injured in the toll of violent deaths and accidents across the Prov- ince over the week -end. Highway traffic crashes accounted for the •rna- jority of tragedies. A Hudson's . Bay Company factor was drowned at Bear Island in Lake Timagami. And a Hy- dro workman from Toronto was drowned at Bala. The dead are; Sherman IL Thorpe, Lake Time- gami. , Mrs, E. Thoma., Guelph. William Churchill Jr., Forest. Frank Brine, Sudbury. Mrs, Ida Fisher, Doon. Lucy Janes, Cobalt. James Warrington rushed to Gran- ton, where the brother was -cramp- ing. She was met by a woman who told her police "have just taken two boys' bodies from the water." One was 9 -year old Robert Warrington, her son, • Advises Early Marriage ROCHDALE, Lancashire, The young people were advised to marry "as soon as possible" by Joseph 3. Cannon, president of .the • British section of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, addressing the church's centenary conference this week. Youth, Cannon said, thus would follow the church's teachings: Three Sets of Twins • LONDON,—A third set of twine has been born to Mrs. Ivy Gonning, 28, in less than four years. The children, both girls, weigf'ied fivts and a half pounds at birth. Colored Man Finds Way FORT ERIE, Ont.— Financial troubles of Francis K. Farley, 32, New York negro facing a charge of reckless driving and two repair bills with no money, are ended. Parley left his sister's automobile with po- lice after it struck a bakery truck Friday, while he went to Buffalo o rase scene money. "Boy, I broke up two crap games in Buffalo last. night and I want to pay off the works," Farley told police as he strode into headquarters Saturday. The automobile' was released and he and his wife continued their trip to Detroit. Farnii3r Wiped Out . RAND, Col.,—Six persons were .1 . burned to death this week in a fire t which trapped them in the cabin t home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Briggs. a The victims were: Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, both about 26; Logan Boltz f 45, ranch hand; three Briggs child- b ren, Colleen 3, another child aged 51 2 years and one 10 months. Largest Jamboree Ever Bald VOGELENZANG, The Nether- lands,—Queen Wilhelmina opened the fifth Boy Scout world pambpr- ee with 30,000 Scots from 31 coun- tries standing at attention. Eight thousand British Scouts, including 17 Canadians, are .attending. It was the greatest gathering in the history of scoutcraft, the first jam- boree since the 1933 meeting at Godollo, Hungary. Beraarcline Anderson., Sudbury, Stanley Strickland, Oakville. Daniel McGinnis, Desbarats. Gertrude Coveyaluck, Richmond Hill, • Mrs. R. Hamilton, London. Betty Hamilton, London. jack MacDonald, Toronto, Elaine Needham, London, paul McGhee, Borning's Mill, , linen the ear in which they were driving swerved off thuhighway near Clinton; for some as yee unexplained reason, Sunday afternoon, Mrs. R. Hamiltou was instantly killed and her daughter, BettY, was fatally injured, dying a few hours later in Clinton Hospital, William G. Shaw, of King Street E., London, driver of the car, and three others, Mrs. Shaw,. Earl Valentine and Mr.,',Hamilton were injured. Of these Mr. •Hamilton is in the most serious conditionsuffering a fractured skull. All are from London. • Stanley Strickland, 'aged 54, of Oak- ville„ was instantly killed at 2 a.m, Sunday morning, when riding his bicycle on the Lake Shore Highway he Was struck by a car driven by Vic, tor Waling, Leslie Street, Toronto. The -car, after hitting him, veered across the highway; crashed into a wrecking truck, driven by Alfred Whit- aker, of Oakville. Waring suffered head injuries and a passenger in his car, Like Harrison, of Rose Avenue, TorOino,- received head injuries while another passenger sprained a leg. The truck driver received cuts about t11;k11:4nad' Child Is Victim Mrs. Newton I3ryant, of De- troit, blinded by dust, failed to take her .car around a sharp curve near Espanola, the 'auto was ditched and 19 -month-old Bernardine Anderson was fatally injured. She was the baby daughter of Mrs, Stella Anderson, of Sudbury, Mrs. Anderson, three other passengers, and Mrs. Bryant suffered minor injuries and shock. Gertrude Nellie Coveyduck, aged 15, Of Richmond Hill, was killed when she ivas on her way home from a Sunday swimming party at Richmond Hill. With a number of girl compan- ions -in a car, she was standing on the running -board. The tar swerved and she struck her head against an oak tree.' Peculiar Fatality '• A peculiar. accident proved fatal to Mrs. :E. Thomas of Foster Street, Guelph, In Hamilton, where she was ieitine.a sick friend, she stepped on 'litY401,0fig.boarcl. of- a zar,naltink,a• ift to a home -bound bus. She rode rue, for a time, and then, as she left he car, she fell, striking her head on trolly track. Eight -month-old Lucy Janes was atally injured and two other mem- ors of the same Cobalt family were ightly hurt in a car crash near aileybury on Saturday night. Auto -Radial Smash Mrs. Ida Fisher, aged 55, of Doon, lost her life in an auto -radial colli- sion just east of Kitchener late Sat- urday night. Factor Drowned Sherman R. Thorpe, Hudson's Bay Company factor, suffered a weak spell when standing at his boathouse at Bear Island, Lake Timagami. He toppled in the water and lost his life. He had been suffering illness for a month. LOIS BOOTH ON HONEYMOON The fernier Ottawa girl,Lois tooth, is here seen above, with her ram husband, Thorkild Juelsberg, her secretary., when she was Princess Er k, wife of rrince Erik of Dernintric. Her firet Marriage was dissejved by Danish .11oyal deoreo A. daughter by the first marriage is with her father. The four-year;,old son of Prince and Princess Erik, who lives with his mother, it :seen in the lower pic- ture playing in h's Mother's garden, ti E Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS By Peter Randal 44.1.111111N • Large -Scale Irrigation impossible To all tbinklag Canadians the crop situation in the West is a matter of considerable concern, but to the far - mere of the drought-strieken areas who for the past ten years have suf- fered one failtire after another and have seen their land swallowed UP in dust, it spells financial disaster and personal tragedy. But still they dream that Southern Saskatchewan may once more become one of the great wheat - producing areas of the world. Since nature appears unwilling to co-oper- ate, irrigation is talked of as the po- tential saviour of western farm lands. Already there are many schemes un- der advisement or in actual opera- tion, the biggest of which is on the Frenchman River in the south-west corner of Saskatchewan, but these will supply only sinal] areas. It is now coming to be believed that any- thing but small local projects is out of the question. There is not en•ough water. There are no large lakes, and with the exception of the South Sas- katchewan, no rivers of any size. An authority on irrigation says that to talk of watering the whole south—an area 400 miles wide by several hun- dred miles north and south—is to talk of the impossible. Even the topo- graphy of the country is against the scheme since water of necessity would flow the other way, towards Alberta. Quint No. 3 Recovers Throat trouble contracted from "outside sources" served to isolate Emilie Dionne, middleweight member of the Quintuplet troupe, from her four sisters last week, an unusual oc- currence since any illness among the Famous Five is as rare as hay fever in a horse. But she is making a quick recovery and this week the tourist hundreds who gather daily to wateh the Quints go on parade will see the quota of sisters completed, Who'll Be Next In Russia? A series. of "purges" in Soviet Rus-: sia having swept away to an inglord, • ious death some of the ablest men in: the country, those leaders who are! left shiver in a state of mortal feak) lest they be next, Influential French' newspapers claim that Maxim Litvia, off, Commissar of Foreign Affairsa will be an early victim and that his' arrest will follow that of Admiral Or -1 loff, Commander of the Soviet Fleet who attended the Coronation in Lona' don with Litvinoff. Marshall Blucher who commanded the, Russian forces) in the Far East is expected to meet• a similar fate. According to Le jour.' (Paris), Stalin intended to include; Litvinoil in his last purge but feared) the reaction on France and other foreign powers with whom the Foreign Affairs Comissar had enjoyed good ' relations, • China on a War Basis For the first time in Chinese his- tory the financial and, economic re- sources of the nation have been placed under the personal control of the Generalissimo, as Chief of the Government and the Army, and the entire country made subservient to the needs of the military. China is on a war basis. Central Government div- isions, resisting Japanese aggression northwest of Peiping, have been or- dered "to fight to the death." The war is well started and nobody, least of all the two belligerents, seems to be able to do anything to check hostil- ities. At Guelph, Daniel McGinnis of Des - berets, first of the ex -service men to register for the Western Ontario vet- erans' re -union, was fatally injured on Saturday. He was working with two midway employees, carting tent ma tenial in a truck. Tent poles hit a Hydro pole, and McGinnis was knocked from the vehicle. His neck was broken. Four-year-old Elaine Needham, of London, died M the Victoria Hospital, :London on Saturday, from injuries re- ceived when she was struck by a car, Frank ,Briue, aged 24, of Sudbury, was killed and five other Sudbury residents :were injured when ,their car somersaulted off the highway near Little Current late Saturday night. Tho 3 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Churchill of Forest was fatal- ly injured in a head-on collision near Cobourg on Saturday. Dies While Swimming Paul McGhee, aged 18, of Horn- ing's Mills, succumbed tp a heart at- tack when he went in 'Swimming at Wasaga Beach, Sunday afternoon, Tw Ca Live On 18 Week WINDSOR.— Angus Buchanan has issued his "miracle budget" for new- lyweds. Angus is in charge of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association Community Cen- tre work. He figures a couple can live on $18 a week and love. Not only does Secretary Buchanan have his young married pair sailing blithely througk the matrimonial sea on 18 bucks but he has them saving $3.66 a month. Mr. Buchanan doesn't allow any ex- pense for electricity or gas figuriu.g, apparently, a bride should be able to hunt up a cosy little nest for $15 a month that provides facilities for cooking: And, anyway, he allows $4 for education and surely the little Mrs. can learn on that. Here's the budget for the month: Rent, a15; food, $22.03; clothes, $8,71; tr.:. faro, $4,25; insurance, $5; medical eervice, $1.50; postage 30e; magazines, $3; library books, Sc; edu- cation, $4; entertainment, $2; parties, $1.50; and church, $1; total $68,34. Britain to Increase Home -Grown 17. ads LONDON,—Groat Britain is tak- ing steps to increase her supply of home-grown food. A Government bill, already through the House of Commons and given third reading by the House of Lords, has a trouble ob- jective. Production of the maximum quan- tity of fdocl in war -time, Efficient development of agricul- ture in peace -time. The bill does not seek to put ag- riculturd on a war-tirne footing. "In the opinion of the Govern- ment," W. S. Morrison, Minister of Agriculture, informed the House of CoMmons, "to put agriculture 011 a war -time footing with all the regu- lations and regimentation of the farming community and the heavy costs that it would undoubtedly in- volve, would not be practicable at the present time, 1.1M026•10111111100. THE 4< TS POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers; Daessed• Milk -Sel, A. Sel. B. Fed A. Spring Chickens -- 1 to 2 lbs 16 14 18 2 to 3 lbs. • 18 16 20 3 to 4 lbs. 19 17 21 4 lbs. and over --7,20 18 • 29 Fatted Hens— • Dressed. B. Sel. A. Sel. Over 5 lbs. 15 13 4 to 5 lbs. 14 12 3% to 4 lbs. ' 12 11 3 to 3/2 lbs. 11 10. OId Roosters-- . Over 5 lbs. 12 10 (Red and black feath- ered birds 2c per lb. less than above prices.) Other Fowl— Guinea fowl, per pair 75 00 Note: C grade poultry 3c below grade. POULTRY AND EGGS Buying prices: Toronto dealers are quoting pro- ducers for ungraded eggs, delivered, • cases returned: Eggs— Grade A large 26 to 00 Grade A medium ..„, 252 t too0000 Grade GradeideC B 2 18 to 00 Dealers are quoted on graded eggs, cases free: Grade A large 28 to 00 Grade A medium 2226 to o 00000 Grade B Grade C 20 to 00 TORONTO GRAIN QUOTATIONS Following are Saturday's quota- tions on Toronto grain transactions for carlots, prices, on basis c.i.f. bay polis: Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.39%; No. 2 Northern, 31.3514.; No. 3 Northern, $1.31%; No, 4 Nor- thern, $1.26%. No. 3 C.W., 54%c; No. 1 feed, 51'v:1e:tern oats --No. 2 C.W., 56 Man:toba barley—No. 3 C.W., 70%c; No. 5 C.W., 68%c; No, 1 feed screenings, $31.00 per ton delivered Ontario points. South African corn, 86e, track, Montreal, October shipment. Ontario grain, approximate prices track shipping point—Wheat, $1.05 to $1.07; oats, 40e to 43c; barley, 54c to 58c; corn, 78c to 82c; malting barley, 60c to 63r; milling oats, 40c to 43c. B. Indians Ask Union Pay PITTSBURGH.—Allegheny coun- ty offered a tribe of Calarnanca, N.Y., Indians 33 a day each to per- form tribal dances at the andel fair. They refused, "These Ind'ans won't give a whoop except at prevailing union rates," a fair representative reported back. Ho 'explained that the bravos Wore earning $4 a day from the Works Progress Administration. The comn. ty, hired 40 at the $4 rate. • • •F`: