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Zurich Herald, 1937-12-09, Page 6w ews in Defeat For de Valera GALWAY, Irish Free State,—Presdent Eamon de Valera suffered a political reverse in the Galway (torpor- ation elections this week when only , out of 12 contested seats was won inr his Fianna, Fail Party. Nino Inde- pendent business candidates and two Labor mon were re-elected. Mr. de Valera's party entered seven contest- ants. Begins imPortant Tor PARIS. -- Foreign Minister Yven Delbosew armed with a declaration re- affirming the community tif outlook and the attitude of France and Great Britaiu on world problems, left last week -end on an important diploraatie tour of Central and Eastern Europe. His tour, which will take him to four capitals by December 18,, was described by French diplomats as the third and perhaps key phase of the preliminary conversations which must precede any eventual round table dis- cussions pointing at a general Euro- pean settlement. " Accompanied by several political experts of the Foreign Office, Delbos first will visit the Polish capital of Warsaw, then Bucharest, Rumania, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Prague, Ozolioslovakia. Roan Allies' Conference VIENNA.—It is announced in well- informed circles here that the next conference of the Roman Protocol States will be held in Budapest in the middle of January. Preparatory steps have already been taken and the offi- cial invitations are awaited this week. Periodical meetings of the three Ro- man allies,Italy, Austria and Hun- gary, were foreseen in the consulta- tive agreement which was added to the forthcoming conference on account of the recent efforts to obtain a European settlement which began with. Viscount Halifax's visit to Berliu and wcre continued in London. - Russian Planes Arrive SHANGHAL—China last week was reported to be massing a fleet of 300 Ttussian-built warplanes for an attack on advancing Japanese. Well-informed and responsible for- eigners at Hankow, one of China's new seats of government 300 miles up the Yangtze river from Nanking, said, at least. 20 twin -engined bombers have arrived there. Monarchist Spanish Flag TOKIO.—The gold and red flag of Monarchist Spain was raised over the Spanish Legation here this week fol- lowing Japan's recognition of the Spanish rebel regime headed by Gen- eralissimo Francisco Franco as the legal Government of the -Spanish na- tion. Imports Increase OTTAWA.—The Dominion Bureau Of Statistics has reported an increase of 32.1 per cent. in Canadian imports for the first seven months of the cur- rent fiscal year (April 1- Oct. 31) in comparison with the corresponding previous fiscal period. Accord With Austria ROME—Italy last week signed a commercial accord with Austria sim- ilar to one concluded with Hungary In November. Economic observers said the Hun- garian pact was negotiated to lighten the financial burden placed on Italy by the 1934 Rome protocols which." gave Austria and Hungary preferential 111'. were given up for dead this week •by Mihail Vodopyanoff, Ruseian Arctic flier, upon leis return from an extend- ed search of the icy wastes in which the Levaneffslty plane disappeared, Charge Barrister With Robbery VANCOUVER.—Charles H, Jr., Vancouver barrister and son of a prominent Montreal family, last week- end was arrested by city police on a charge of bank robbery, The charge named Cahan as the lone gunman who held up a suburban branch of the Canadian Bank of Com- raerce here and escaped with about *V) in cash. Will Not Separate CAIRO, Egypt.—The Coptic Church patriarch who resides in Cairo refused this week to recognize a proposal at- tributed to Italy for separation of the Egyptian and Ethiopian ehurches, which have been united eince the fourth century. He declared he would excommuni- cate Abuna Abraham, 75 -year-old blind prelate, whom Italy reportedly has named Archbishop of Ethiopia. "Go Abend With Trip" GLASGOW.—George Bernard Shaw this week urged the Duke and Duch- ess of Windsor to visit the United States. Their indefinitely postponed trip, he wrote in the Glasgow Labor periodical Forward, "would have been enorm- ously useful to us both diplomatically and commercially." Brilliant Meteor Palls WINDSOR, Ont,—In a blaze of white light that illuminated the country for miles around, a huge meteor fell to earth in the Windsor district last week, according to many observers. The. light was particularly bright south of the city where the path of the fiery projectile was easily follow- ed. The sky was bright as day and objects stood out elearly. Lloyd George Lashes Out LONDON.—Delivering a blistering indictment of the "limp, flaccid hands" of democratic 'quitters," Dav- id Lloyd George told a peace audience here that enemies, "growing in strength and audacity and reckless power," were on tb.e,oerch along the Mediterranean and 'Threatened Brit- ain's communications in time of war. Prince Marries Actress VIENNA.—In a mountain church overlooking the Danube, Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, swaggering chief of Austria's outlawed Fascist "Heimweler," this week took as his . bride beautiful Nora Gregor, the Vien- nese actress whom he elevated to star- dom. sew' Assassination Suspects CAIRO.—More than 300 members of the Egyptian Greenshirt Nationalist organization have been arrested in the round -up resulting from an unsuccese- Pal attempt to assassinate Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha last week. No official figures have yet been released. See Herring Comeback PORT DOVER.—Veteran fishermen here are of the opinion recent catches of herring In Lake Erie indicate this type of fish is definitely on the way back in the lake. For some years few, if any, herring were caught. Now catches are being reported from nearly every port. Cont: 1 Over Resources Suggested For r limes Before Rowell Commission It Is Asked That Dominion Government Should Do Research In Mining, Forestry, Fisheries—Provincial Governments Having Administration of the Practical Work. WINNIPEG.—Before the Domini- gus diseases. A recent outbreak in Gaspe Peninsula has still more re- cently appeared in Manitoba. So what happens to forests in Nova Sco- tia or' New Brunswick is important to every Province. If stamped out in •one locality, it might save the for- ests of all Canada, It was Manito- ba's interest to have it stamped out not in Manitoba, but at the source; so that it would never get to Mani. • toba. There was not close collab- oration between the Federal Techni- cal men and the Provincial practical men. The later could, on their jobs, collect a lot •of information to help the Federal men. More work would • be done with less money in that way. The Dominion Entomologist should make more use of the practical for- ester, he believed. on-Provineial Relations Commission Saturday, two Deputy Ministers, see). arately and consecutively expressed the view that the proper function the Dominion Government is to do research work in mining, forestry and fisheries in the appropriate depart- rnents, and the corresponding depart- ments of Provincial Governments should have full control and admin. istration of the practical work in each. Provincial area. These men, Dr. F. W. Jackson, Deputy Minister of Health and Public Welfare, and E. J, Allen, Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resour- ces, were asked to give their Opinion as to means by which any overlap- ping in the work of these depart- ments might be cut out and economies thus made.. Speaking broadly, there had been little overlapping- due to collaboration and close co-operation between Federal and Manitoba De- partments, but nevertheless serious evils had arisen in some cases be- cause the DoneiniOn was not living up to its responsibilities. Ottawa's Best Service Mr. Allen said that the only places where the forestry services of Do- minion and of Manitoba could con- flict are in the national parks and in the experimental areas operated un- der Federal supervision. Ottawa's best service to all Canada ewas to conduct research work to prevent markets in Italy. Uncover Illicit Munitions • PARIS.—Discovery of the first ex- --- Recommend Five Provinces plosive facteey operated by the Cag- WINNIPEG, -- Five Provinces in- oulards, Rightist organization alleged - stead of nine to cut duplicate costs ly plotting overthrow of the Republic, of Provincial Government and parlia- was announced by police last week, • mentary administration to a minimum, end. is part of a plan submitted to the Do- The factory was found in the Fon- minion-Provincial Relations Commis- tainebleau Forest. Hundreds of gren- sion this week. It proposes to unite ' axle cases, powder, detonators and the three Maritime Provinces in one; fuses were seized. Arrest of technic - the three Prairie Provinces in one isms charged with manufacturing mu - and British Columbia and the Yukon nitrons was expected shortly. in one. Ontario and Quebec would re- ! .. main as at present, Indian Burial Site Found BRAMPTON, Ont.—The discovery • Social Defeat of what was apparently an Indian bur- LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—In its first e,,p- lal site on an Esqu,esing Township peal to the electorate in Southern farm this week, may assume import- Alberta, the Unity Party won a vie- ance as an atchaeological 'find; ac - tory over Social Credit last week -end in the Lethbridge Provincial by-elec- {ion, Dr, Peter M. Campbell, physician of frontier days, defeated A. J. Bur- • nap, Social Credit. Neglecting the Field • As between Federal and Manitoba Fisheries Departments, the Manitoba men feel that Ottawa is neglecting the field given it under the constitu- tion, The Province collects all li- • cense fees, and suggests regulations to Ottawa, which passes them. The • Dominion spends no money. Regula- tions passed by the Dominion because • of this set-up differ in every Province. It is a very awkward set-up. "The Province should occupy the whole field except research, and in the latter department Ottawa is not living up to its responsibilities under the present nebulous jurisdiction set - spread of insect infestations and fun- up," said Mr. Allen. standards of radio programs must be improved—by law, if necessary—was gerved upon broadcasters of the Unit- ed States this week by Federal Com- munications Commissioner George Henry Payne. Postpone Air Service CANBERRA, Australia.—The boat service, originally scheduled to start early ID January between Eng- land and Australia, has struck a tenae porary snag. Its inauguration may be delayed until next summer. • Prime Minister Joseph Lyons uted the postponement to uncontroll- High Command Shake-up LONDON,—Major-General Viscount Gort, V.C., this week was named Chief of the Imperial General Staff in what military circles considered a drastic shakeup of the high command. The 51 -year-old Great War hero was promoted to the rank of general. He aucceeded Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, who resigned. This was the most important of a series of changes involving resignatien of three of the four inilitary members of the Army Connell and • their replacement by younger men. • :W.... • Given Up As Dead ivloSCOW.—Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions 'who vanished .A.tzgust 13 on a traniePolar flight from Moscow toward the United States cording to A. E. Cooper, authority on IndianologY. The find was made on a farm in West Esquesing Township. Although the low circular mound of sandreell is believed to have constituted an early Indian burial -ground from the nature of the discoveries made, it 19 thought that the discovery of an In- dian village site may follow shortly. Japanese Parade Bombed SHANGI-IAL—A bomb exploded in Nanking Road last week -end as 5,000 Japanese troops marched through Shanghai in a victory parade. The Parade scattered immediately. The explosion was about one block from the Wing On department store. Soldiers ran in all directions. The parade had passed through In- ternational Settlement side streets along the boundary between the French Concession and the Settlement and entered Nanking Road without iticident„ • Ra&o M tBe iI us mprove_ CHICA00.—A blunt notice that the able circumstances. Nazis Criticize "Times" BERLIN.—Two German newspapers this week Criticized the New" Yor •Times for an ..editorial urging co-op- ' eration among the democracies. The newspaper Nachtausgabe de- voted. much front page space to com- ment on the editorial, published by the New York newspaper Tuesday, calling for United States co-operation with Great Britain and other democ- racies toward "understandings on trade, money and credit" which the paper suggested would "serve as cer- tain weapons against the treaty - breakers." French Newspaper Ban PARIS.--eThe Legislation Committee of the Chamber of Deputies this week approved a bill empowering the Gov- ernment to enforce an export import ban on any newspapers arid magazines containing writings capable of troub- ling foreign opinion or diminishing French prestige. Jap Apology to U.S. SHANGHAI.—Japanese authoritiee returned the American -owned tug, Felting, this week and formal& aria. ogized. Vice -Admiral Kyoshu Hasegawa, • commander-in-chief of the Japanese 3rd fleet was understood to have made the apology to Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, and United States Consul Clarence E. Gauss. Yarnell had protested to Japanese authorities when the tug, property of the William Hunt interests in the Far East, was hijeckecl from its base at the Kin Lee -Yuan wharf in the French concession. The Japanese naval party ripped the American flag from its standard and threw it Into the Whang- Roo, river. s., Blaze bit Palestine JERUSALEM.—Five persons died and five others were seriously burned in a roaring blaze, believed to have been. started' by Arab terrorists, that consufned a Public Works Department storehouse at Tulkharem last week- end. Firefighters were unable to quench • the flames, fed by inflammablema- terial stored in the building. ;Rescue work was Impossible. The son of the Arab watchman and four others died in the fire, while five Arabs, including a policeman, were seriously injured as they sought to quell the blaze. May Probe Fascist Activities ,OTTAWA.—The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada may press for a Federal investigation into Fascist and Nazi activities in Canada, P. M. Dra- per, President of the Congress, indi- cated thii week. Succession Duty Penalties TORONTO.—Penalties involving a fine of $60,000 or imprisonment for two years, or both, are provided in the bill to amend the Succession Duty Act, presented in the opening -day ses- sion of the Ontario Legislature by Hon. Gordon Conant, Attorney -Gen- eral. The amendments make it an offense NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH SEDY • • ^ , • • KEY POSITION: In the new trade negotiations now going forward be- tween Great Britain and the United States, Canada holds the key position, says the Financial Post. The impend- ing deal, so it is claimed, Made the Dominion in the place of one who has an option that OEM be swapped for valuable concessions; practically nothing can be done without this country's approval; and Canada will undoubtedly have the final word. Although the new trade pacts in the proposed three-way arrangement may result in no great economic benefits, it is thought that the political effects of such an agreement will be far- reaching. When the Fascist nations see the two richest eountries of the world joined as links in an economic chain, they will be obliged to pause and reflect before initiating any new aggression. Therefore in the long run it is believed that the coming agree- ment may lend a much-needed stabil- ity to the wavering cause of world peace. RUSSIAN ELECTION: Nealy 000,000 people (think of it)! are ex- pected to cast their ballots next week in the first direct, universal and sec- ret voting ever staged in the U.S.S.R. The election called under the consti- tution of December, 1936, will see the I new supreme legislative body, to be known as the Supreme Soviet, elitism by the ordinary citizen for the Brat time. Some observers believe that the new democracy is more apparent than real, that Stalin intends still to dont- ina,te the political life of the vast nation, including the elections. It is now twenty years since the , Bolshevist Revolution of 1917. Should 1937 mark the inauguration of another era in the Soviet, next week may be- gin the story, FLAVOUR OF SAVAGERY:, And speaking once more of dictators, which would you rather have, Musso- lini, or his sons, Vittorio and Bruno? The man who plans the wars of ag- gression, or the ones who take an active part in the slaughter? Last week Son Vittorio announces to the world that "war is the quint- essence of beauty" and "bombing is magnificent sport." Says Vittorio further in describing the Abyssinian campaign: "I remember that one group of horsemen gave me the im- pression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst. It was ex- ceptioally good fun and they were easy to hit, offered a perfect target," This week his father backs up Jap- an's claims of victory over a helpless to mutilate, destroy, deface, alter or conceal books or documents relevant to any investigation that might be made on account of •collection of suc- cession duties, provided notice has been served of the investigation. SPORT TODAY By KEN EDWARDS This series of chats about boxing and the arrival of rack Dempsey in our town the other day to., referee a wrest - lin seems to lea kind of coin- cidence. Well, if it's 0.K; with Dempsey, who is• now recovering from acute appendi- citis since his trip here, we'll continue a synopsis of official boxing rules or notes on what to do and what not to do in and around a ring... 1. When a contestant is down, his opponent shall retire to the farthest neutral corner and remain there un- til the count is completed. Should he fail to do so, the referee and time- keeper may cease counting until he has so retired. Should a contestant who is down arise before the count of ten is reach- ed and again go down intentionally, without being struck, the referee and timekeeper shall resume the count where it left off. Should a contestant leave the ring during the one minute period between rounds and fail to be in the ring when the gong goes to resume box- ing, the referee shall count him out, the same as if be were down. And so folks, until next week, if Ali Baba is still matched around these parts, I'll be back with wrest- ling notes." So long. Lord Tweedsmuir Buys Calendar eeeeeseeiaeeeeeeieeeeeieSeeeeee. g. 1 -Xis Excellency Lord Twcedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, and president of the Canadian Red Cross Society, inaugurating the Junior Red Cross Calendar campaign, through whicl the Juniors of Canada raise funds to provide hospitalization for sick and crippled children. The subject, of the cat - ender this year is a picture of Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, used with the gracion; permission and goo 1 wishes of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Eliza- abeth. The Juniors in this photograph, which was taken on the steps of Government House, Ottawa, came from Hull Intermediate Seheol, and ire, reading from LEFT to RIGHT: English, French, His Excellency, Greek, Chinese and theof 1 -lull School, N. A, 'Todd. , Bears Go With', ut Air -Conditioned Dens Bruin residents of Vancouver end Victoria Park zoos seemingly are un- concerned over proposed legislation to air-condition their living quarters. " E E. Winch ( C.C.F.-Burnaby ) gave notice he would introduce in the British Columbia Legislature a bill for better bear dens. While the member drafted his plans for ventilated dens opening on hard surfaced court yards, three, shaded grass plots and concrete -lined bathing pools, park board officials„ - shrugged off such ideas as "toe ex: • pensive." "Besides," said A. S. Wootemaaj2; Vancouver parks superintendent; "grass plots wouldn't be sanitary and as for trees — well they'd have to be full grown to withstand the antics of such bears as Trotsky." Trotsky is a half -ton Siberian bear acquired a quarter of a, century ago. • THE MARKETS HAY AND STRAW No. 2 timothy, $10 to $11 per ton; No, 3 timothy, $9 to $10; oats and wheat straw, $6 to $7. Above prices f.o.b. Toronto. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter— Quotations to wholesale trade at Toronto this week -end. Creamery solids, No. 1 303 to 00 do 38 score 29% to 29% do 37 score 28% to 28% do 36 score 27% to 27% Cheese New large (paraffined)14% to 14% do twins 14% to 15 do triplets 15 to 1514 (Average price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country points.) New large (paeaffined)13% to 00 do triplets 14 'to 00 POULTRY AND EGGS Buying prices: Toronto dealers this w,a s -end were quoting praluccrs for uneracled eggs, delivered, cases returned: Eggs— Grade A lai:ge 29 to 00 Grade A medium 25,to 00 Pullets • 23 to 00 Grade B ...„ 21 to do' Grade C 18 to 00 Dealers were quoted on graded eggs cases free: Grade A large 31 to 00' Grade A medium 27 to 00 Pullets - 25 to 26 Grade B 23 to 00 Grade C 21 to 00 POULTRY Prices paid to country shipper: Dressed, Milk Sel. A Sel. B. Fed A. Spring Chickens '1 to 2 lbs. 20 18 22 2 to 3 lbs. 16 14 00 3 to 4 lbs. 18 14 00 4 to 5 lbs. 19 17 21 lbs, and over....20 18 22 Rabbit meat • 17 to 00 Note: C grade poultry 3e below B grade. Turkeys— xA grade, 10 lbs. and over, dressed •.26 Geese • ::A Grade, dressed .14 x—ITeminal.