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. WIifrid Grenfell and. in official quarters, A 'to get to 'their homes t Christmas were delayed on board , and "a protest, it is said, la C memory recalls, he said, his working in a ship- During the years of his wanderings up and down the seaways of the world, 'of which he recalls vaguely Australian | and South American ports, and the | Atlantic seaboard, Burgess said he be- | Heved he had an instinctive desire to return to his boyhood home and that Quest for Clues Led Into "tending his knitti] city brother, who is re the indefatiguable * p colints that day lost upon is unable fo add one more the Hay H Many Cities of U.S. and | the perfection of his business or ins Canada. ¥ dustrial 'machine, a i : k : 5ikE IN CANADA Farm Machinery Worth $300,- SOVIETS PLACE BIG ORDERS R. F. Preston, Carleton Place, repre sents Lanark county in the federal House, Retail Merchants Montreal. -- The biggest narcotic drug ring on the continent was smash- ed at a blow, officials claim, when officers of the narcotic squad of the! Royal Canadian Mounted Police closed ! sale, and worth many times that sum | at peddlers' prices, were seized. Other | arrests are expected to follow. One of the men arrested, Joseph THE U. 8. RECORD. 4 Secretary Jardine, of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, said recent'y that dur- ing the past fifty years the number of persons engaged in farming in that country has increased eighty per cent. while the output of farm pro- duce has increased 300 per cent. Not- withstanding all that is said concern- yard at Hantsport, of helping to put such an ot Ni who died Te for 20 in on five of the men who are alleged us medical missionary of Labra-| the epare and-sails on a new ship and || this year, and ' y aS a, county fn the | to be major operatives. fs theo To arrow spi > detained at New York |safling away in her. the sensation of the circuit. provincial House, A brother, Hon. Dr.| Narcotics valued at $25,000 whole- ; temporary south of the line points out that the stubborn fact still remains that the American farmer has In- creased in effi¢iency, and, what is Farley, is thought by police to be the head of this far-flung organization of | smugglers. Three of the others are more, he produces larger quantities of agricultural products per person than any farmer in the world. When the accident occurred which re-| © (000 Bought During Past rallwa: : A CHALLENGE FROM CANADA. ymen, two of them being color- 's Hospital, Port Arthur, stored he memory, he had been work- Month. . Lose Offcial od porters on the 'Chicago-Montreal | javhat Sbogk ho Candian {atmer} : Ta mors ait oh rere te Senteod | Montreal. --"During the past month Tua, who, police believe, acted as div. |, "7. 'orace) "In apsicaltures pes | : : i a a tributors. These are George Edwards | . E » he expected that if he saw a tll etic ber and being victimized 'by crooks the" Union of Soviet Republics have . . | with an annual production of 242 mil- EE an engine and : the wharf at Boston, ts oy placed in Canada orders for $300,000) William Miller Answers Sud-|#nd Sam Reed, while their companion lion dollars. In 1925 we had a rural headlight. The lights which he prob- |. Back from. States od taking ship for Nova Scotia. man sald he was about 15 years ho first went to sea. At Gibraltar he made a remarkable re- covery but his illness took away his memory @nd he started his roving with no more background than the name under which he was placed in the hands of shone authorities. worth of farm implements and we are in the market for more," Longin F. Gerus, Official Agent and Trade Representative for Russia in Canada, here. M. Gerus added that | | more binders than any other imple- ments were bought, because the co- operative purchase of a binder by a group of peasants makes possible the co-operative system of agriculture. den Call at Toronto Home. Toronto, Jan. 8. --Willtam C. Miller, Becretary of the Ontarto Branch of the Retali Merchants' Association, died et his home, 266 Dovercourt Road, yes terday morning, after a very brief ill ness, Mr. Miller hed been at his of- fice on Friday and that evening at- tended a dance with his wife. On his is Charles Galley, a trainman on the | Montreal-Toronto C.P.R. express. The | fifth man arrested is Fred Monaghan | of St. Catharines Street West. Except Edwards, who is charged with having drugs in his possession, all are charged with conspiracy to! smuggle and sell drugs, and with sell- | ing drugs. Farley, Galley and Reed | were all held under remand, and bail | population of about 4,700,000 with a production of 1,468 million dollars, and that was a low crop year. Our increase of production in 55 years is 00 per cent, with an increase in rural population of approximately 100 per cent. Our system of agriculture Is almost precisely the same as in the United States with value of produc. From {nuiries made to-night by long tion per man enormously in favor of the latter on account of higher prices, wes set at $25,000 for Monaghan and | $10,000 for Edwards. way home he had complained of iil distance telephone it- was learned ; : ) ness, retired immediately after i oo fo the Deparment. tas sou 3 is | Code Expresses Sympathy |1oos, tei, ried nut stor 50 ror nd Rew, cho two post. The Canadian farmer hus apparently . # Immigration and Colonization. This | gee ny Ey aun on Death of Mikado! or ad been suffering from an absosss | man porters, wero arrested as they | Ponter, ven the Production resrd § [1s an increase of SL per cet, over the mothe, theve, was ad | poo. am oon Of the stomach and, acconding to his stoppsd off theis traiy Tiureday OD blow | oe AYE | imnvigration: ea of 115. whe the totally oeq of yellow oe cxpression of profound. physician, pneumonia developed. The Ing, Se Tayine a fon THE PARAMOUNT POBITION, = Camadd's oldest 'twin, passed away re: | 'For the month of , 1928, 1812 immigration to Canada was 7,721, con- sisting of 2,471 British, 1,311 from the United States and 8,939 from other countries... The total immigration in November 1926 was 5,323. : '| turned to Canada in November, declar- ing their intention of now remaining permanently in Canada, amounted to +1:3,286. The 'total - of stich - J returned Canadians since April 1, 1926, is 45, ST hr The "magui,"' a Mexican tree, sup- piles from its bark a thread three times as strong as ordinary cotton. hema Ocean Salt Would Cover Canada. 4 hortly after, His ne to her and he 0 of the man on Battlefields Park ~ Quebec.--Plans are being prepared for the erection of a building In Bat- tlefields Park to serve as thé reposi- tory of the archives of the province and also as a Provincia] Museum. Wil- frid Lacroix is the architect, and the plans will be submitted to the Pro- vineial Government for approval in [ sympathy with the people of Japan in {the death of Emperor Yoshthito was! {extended on behalf of Canada by Premier Mackenzie King in a letter] written to the Japanese Consul-Gen-| {eral at Ottawa. The Prime Minister has received from the Japanese Consul-General an acknowledgment rand appreciation of the message sent | by him. n+ cant fpr nan mm on Manitoba Legislature Will Meet on February 3 session of the present Legislature of Manitoba will open on Feb, 8, it om few years. Recently he had been | was announced by Premier John Bracken. . An imposing legislative program awaits the consideration of | the members, amendments to the Pro- | end came at about 11.30 am. Fully conscious until about thrée minutes prior to his death, asked elections. With Mr. Miller's passing the- retail merchants of the Province suffer a dis- tinct loss, for, during the time he was Secretary of the association, about 156 years, he had been a most efficient executive, and had been largely ne sponsible for the building up of the] organization im Ontario. Mr. Miller hed about the result of the municipal | previously in other parts of the city. With the arrest of the two porters, a four-months investigation by the R.C. M.P., alded by Arnold C. Lachenauer, U.S. Internal Revenue officer, of De- troit, and J. E, Knox, special Customs officer for the Canadian ernment, was brought to a successful culmina- ton. F. W. Cowan, head of the Narcotics Branch of the Dept. of Health, the Minister of which, Hon. Dr, J. H. King, instituted the Investigation, was There is no urban Industry that can boast of any such spectacular increase fn per capita output, as far as I am aware. The plain fact is, that the Canadian farmer evidently stands as the very top of world agriculture in point of efficiency, and, while we are on the subject, I might further point out that in the spheres of economy of management, hours of work and in- tensity of application, he can unques- tionably teach the urban dweller very T6 Mr. Miller's credit stands much {emphatic Inhis declarations of the valuable lessons indeed. -The farmer Winnipeg. ~The fifth and final] Of the legislation which has been ad-| size of the ring which had been un-{ appreciates deeply an i ligent in= vantageous to the mercheunts in the! covered. Mr, Cowan directed a large terest in his problems by all and sun- working on a system for licensing ped- dlers and hawkers. Born in Edinburgh, Mr, Miller came to Canada ae a young man, and until part of the investigation, "There was no bigger base on the| North American Continent," he said. "It has been the base of half the trade for the continent for many years." Hundreds of ounces of drugs were dry. But he is weary of unintelligent criticism. While there Is always room for improvement, Canadian agricul ture is evidently very efficient. DOUBLE THE OUTPUT. ) There is enough salt In the ocean |the near future. It is estimated that|vincial lquor laws, and immigration Pout fifteen years ago, when he joined Canada is not, however, producing Suptly In his 94th year, while at his| = oo cover @ mile and halt thick | the cast would be about half a million | policy, a among. the i con-| the association, he had successfully | smuggled the border dally,iq sufficient volume of agricultural son's residence, Toronto, for Canada. Fa = dollars, and, should the plans be ac-| troversial. Spernied @ grocery business in Toron- | police believe. products for export to sustain and , work will commence next Some years ago he was appointed The American and the Canadian furnish full time employment to our am y y DUT we : "| spri { Governments co-operated under the|urban population. This is where the = : THE WEEK'S MARKETS AR re -- pe ian. Record in Shipments Consul for Greece in Ontario and later | narcotic drug treaty in the work of economic shoe pinches rather than ins : rh AR RT HA | Brother Co : Vice Consul for the same country for | the investigation, which carried the|the matter of farm inefficiency. In tt ¥ vers 4,500 Miles | of Cape Breton Coal [all Canada. In this capacity he had | detectives ino many cities on both| other words, we want more farmers : TORONTO, - Man. heat.oNo, 3 North, , $1 x A North. $1.41%; No. orth, Man. oats--No. 2 CW, nominal; No. ~ 8, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 61%¢c; No. feed, nominal; Western grain quo- tations, in c.if. ports. m. corn, tr Toronto-=No. 2 Fellow, Bc; No. 8 yellow, 87c. radon Bro ae ion SHE & ne! . Bran, per ton, 2 shorts, pey to $35.25; { Zp oy ort pir oats, B0¢, f.o.b. Boing 80¢; cooked hams, 42¢; smcked abc; breakfast bacon, 82 to 85¢; boneless, 33 to 40e. % oh g Sister | : in Search - for: # 10.70 oar $53; 70 1 90 Toa Som 20% Ibs, and up, $21. Tolle, $38.64 a: Bob rols, 9 . ;!| Ho has covered 4,500 m | his search. Miss Con lated many years ago. » - member of the family out of six H Montreal, Que. Dec. 30. -- Bituminous coal shipments to Montreal from the Cape Breton mines amounted to 1,429,194 tons during the season of navi- gation that has recently been brought to a close, This is sald ||| to constitute & record for the port, being greater than the total for 1924 by 6,996 toms. { Dr done much to further trade hetween the two countries. seri i cm Bald-headed men are brainier than those with luxuriant heir, according to a noted sclentist, who believes that the growth of hair absorbs a large quantity of emergy. sides of the border, Montreal was the headquarters of the ring, and to it the narcotics came from the Mari- time Provinces and the State of Maine, hidden in cars of laths and other material. From Montreal the dope was distributed over the con tinent. Mr. Cowan stated that he was amazed at its extent. INVISIBLE "SEARCHLIGHT RAY" TO BE APPLIED TO MILITARY USE London.--British military author-| *{ province to open rather than better farmers. It will be found difficult to materially im- prove the very high standard of Cane adlan agriculture. Homes Urgently Needed. The great need just now is for good-hearted people throughout the thelr hearts and homes to the homeless child. The fol- lowing letter, sent by Mr. Kelso, Director of Child Welfare Wosk, to L. Putnam, Supt. of Women's Insti- tutes, should be taken up 'by all inter- ested in real philanthropy: Dear Mr. Putnam,--I cannot speak ra! Glace Bay, W.S.--A new: cord was made on the 14t} when the Dominion Coal Co, , duced 19,700 tons. 5 - tion would g hase been well tons but for a collision be | Slectele losomotives, smectic 'boxes but leaving no casua : N.B--0 ities are trying to keep for themselves | too highly of the splendid assistance the 'invisible "searchlight ray" which | given by the members of the Women's Institutes in equipping and supporting the various children's Shelters of the province, T hear frequently from my representatives of the substantial = gifts made and the encouragement that naturally follows from this gen- erous remembfance. ¥ re-| by sixteen successful Manitoba butter- .,| makers at the Royal Winter Show, ; ; 0-| Toronto, by presenting them each with | could follows enemy aircraft, or in fact | c-|a cheque of a similar amount. Mani- | any hostile military movements, while | 00] toba fn 1926 won twice as many prizes the enemy fondly imagined himself | £Wo | as were won by any other province of | unobserved. This ray was the most | 7 | theaDominion: surprising development of experi-, i na, Sask.--Thousands of dregs-| ments with the new 'televisor" in-| eys_and chickens left Saskat-, vented by John L. Baird, and design- | in for the eastern provinces and | ed to transmit radio portraits of per-| ted States to supply the, sons spetiking on a 'wireless telephone. | is needs. The shipments were; Baird had no special military idea | y out of Regina and Sas- in mind when he sought to improve. and were consigned to New| his '"televisor," but the military im- | hicago, Boston, Toronto, Mon-| portance of his discovery was appar- | milton and other points. entpand a special demonstration was | Alta--R. M. Bacon, of held before British' Air Force and, tchewan, Alberta, who | Military officlals. Then the inventor | Harlan, Towa, eleven years| was urgently directed to keep. his pro-| up a quarter section of | ces secret so the woundrous ray ehould | present district, now owns not fall into the hands of rival powers, Since he began in Alberta! Like many other great inventions, presi secretaries of the local Insti as home-finders, for however go shelter may be, it is only a shelter, and our earnest desire fs to see every child firmly established in some good family, At the present time we have nearly two hundred children for. someone to claim them, seems too bad they should ha main in storage for a wi orop has averaged 40 to Baird's ray was discovered largely by the acre and his oats 80 accident. The inventor explained that John Li Baird by re in his first demonstrations of tele- British inventor, who has developed an | Every B C.--Forty-three regu-. vision, it was necessary for the person | invisible ray by which it is possible to perate out of the being "transmitted" to sit before an|see In total darkness. It was demon- | Kelso. , the} intensely brilliant light. ~~ strated Its intensity was so great, in ig to | 'the sitter. mineral discove y od In! vi could