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1HE USHAWA DAILY 1IMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 9% [EASTERN ONTARIO NEWS "TAG DAY FOR Saturday, September Tag Day in Peterborough for the Children's Aid Society. This is the only appeal made to the public. The care of the little children a to every one. The society asks for the assistance of every person i the city and country -of Peterborough. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE Gashin| hi throat with a razor, Charles il on Barber of Campbell ford made an unsuccessful attempt to end his life on Saturday evening about 8 o'clock and only prompt ac- tion on the part of Constable Charles Duncalie, who happened to be on duty near by, stopped the unfortunate man. POPULATION INCREASED At a special meeting of the Gan- anoque town council matters pertain- ing to the town's assessment were discussed. The assessor's roll showed the town' population to be 3,497 last year, showing an increase of 187. The total assessment stands at $2,281814 this year, as compared with $2,220,455 in 1927, which shows an increase of $61,359. 2, will be NEW WEEKLY AT PETERBORO A weekly Raper, edited by J. H. Burnham, ex-M.P. for West Peter- boro, who gained notoriety several years ago when he broke with Hon. Arthur Meighen, the Prime Minis- ter, and resigned his seat in the House of Commons, made its initial appearance in Peterboro Saturday. It is a small magazine devoted to the discussion of politics, business and all matters of national importance. It is publiched by Dawe & Pearson. AUTHORIZE 1KUST CORPORA- TION Shareholders of the Brockville Loan and Savings Company, at a gen- eral meeting held Friday night, rati- fied the proposals made by the board of directors that the company should trust corporation providing the me- cessary authority is forthcoming and that the balance of the authorized common stock, dmounting to $150,000, be issued. KIWANIS CONVENTION Kiwanians of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Novy Scotia are gath- ering in Kingston for the district convention. At 815 p.m. Yesterday in Grant Hall a religious musical was held, with Kiwanian Elmer Davis, Kingston, as Chairman. On Monday the convention will open in Memorial Hall, City Buildings, with a sing-song and welcoming addresses by Mayor Craig, A. C. Hanley, Pre- sident of Chamber of Commerce, and Stuart Crawford, President of the Kingston club. In the afternoon there will be a trip among the Thou- sand Islands and the Governor's ball in Ontario Hall. Montreal and Bar- rie are seeking the 1929 convention, PETERBORO BUILDINGS | Building in Peterborough during the past week kept up its previous record of the season when 14 per- mits for work valued at $17,255.00 were issued by City Engineer R. H. Parsons. Applications were made for the erection of three new dwell- ings, two of them valued together at $13,000 by Alderman Walter Stocker and the third estimated to cost $3,000 by C. Robson. Mr. Robson is build- ing his new house at 574 Waterford street while Mr. Stocker is building his on Downie street. The De Laval Company took'out a permit to build a new garage at its plant which will cost $600. Eight permits in all were taken out for the erection of private garages. The other permits were for the making of repairs and the mov- ing of buildings. RAILROAD MAN PASSES Word has been received of the death in Haileybury on September 20th, of John Shibley, a former well-known resident of the Town- ship of Portland, and of the city of assume the additional powers of a Kingston, The funeral will be held TELEPHONE 4 Direct Lines to Cental The DIXON COAL CO. Your Furnace, Registers or Hot Water Plant, your Cook Stove or any Heating Unit, may require a minor adjust- ment, We will send an expert to your home, office or store, correct your trouble at no cost to you. Buy Your Coal r Jeddo m5: Produc Coke r Solvay Wood - Gen, Motors Dixon Coal Co. QUALITY, SERVICE ASSURED on S$ at Haileybury and inter- a ce there. The late John Shibley was born in Fergus dis- trict but when he was three weeks old, his parents moved to the Town- ship of Portland where the yogng lad grew up until the age of sixteen years when he entered the service of the Kingston and Pembroke Rail- way. He held various positions on the Kingston and Pembroke line and was agent at several stations, latter- ly bet despatcher at Kingston. Twenty-five years ago he went to Haileybury asthe first agent there for the T. N. & O. Line and for two years carried on the business of the station in a box car. He was one of the first settlers in Haileybury and saw the town built, burned down and rebuilt. JAPAN PLANS TO ERADICATE R i of Propaganda Campaign at Coronation London, Sept. 24. -- The Daily Telegraph's newspaper at Tokio, the Jiji Shimpo, claims to possess infor- mation that communist activities have been planned coincidental with the date for enthronement of the Emperor. The newspaper said that the Gov- ernment has ample evidence which involves influential communist sus- pects under direction of the third in- ternationale in preparations for a propaganda campaign in November. The Government has taken steps to eradicate the' propagandists even at the risk of severing Russo-Japa- nese diplomatic relations. Elaborate plans have been made for the enthronement in November. BARNS ARE DESTROYED St. Thomas, Sept. 23.--Fire that started in the blower of a threshing machine, in operation, destroyed the fine large barns and contents on the farm of William H. Ford, Hogg street, Dunwich Township, Saturday afternoon. The loss will total sev- eral thousand dollars, partly covered by insurance. Who is Your Skinny Friend, Ethel? Tell him to take McCoy's Cod Liver Ex.ract Talets for a couple of months and get enough good healthy flesh on his bones to look like a real man, Tell him, it's the only way to take those gravel-like hollows from his cheeks and neck, Tell him that thousands of thin, puny, peaked, scrawny men all over America have improved their physical health and appearance and bless. thé day they first heard of these wonderful sugar coated tah- lets so full of weight producing and health building essentials, Ask for McCoy's Cod Liver Ex- tract Tablets, Jury & Lovell, T, B. Mitchell, W, H. Karn and every druggist sells them--60 tahlets-- 60 cents --economy size $1.00, Al- most any thin man or woman can put on five pounds of healthy flesh in 30 days or your money will he refunded. One woman put on 15 pounds in six weeks, Children grow robust and strong--feeble old people feel younger in a few weeks. The Oshawa Daily Times CARRIER BOYS ARE men, possible service. We courteous, hustling young bent on giving you the best point out to every new carrier boy the importance of making his deliveries on schedule time , , , The importance of cour- teous service--and we show him just why and how this type of service pays him in the long run, ~The Oshawa Daily Times Circulation Depariment Government Has Evidence| SCTE : : 5. 8 fg i o 8 i pi f i 2 4 B i I ; DODDS KIONEY ALLEN PILLS (I [LLLLLY \ al TTF Te we | Is Smith's Plank--Outlines . . Policy in Spezch at Denver Denver, Sept. 23.--Governor Smith last night made water-power development a major issue in his Western campaign, announcing his position to he unequivocally in fa- vor of public ownership and contral of the nation's hydro-electric re- sources, and accusing Herbert Hoover, Republican Presidential candidate with symp,athy for pri- vate power interests. Associates of Mr. Governor declared, connected with the ! which had sent propaganda into public schools and colleges, em- bodied i in textbooks, and even spread it in the halls of Congress. Hoover Criticized The appointment of Roy 0. West as Secretary of the Interior and the election of H. Edmund Machold as Chairman of the New York State Republican Committee, hoth pre- viously identified with private water-power companies, furnished further evidence of the attitude of the Republican party, he proclaim- ed. On the much-debated subject of the Boulder Dam proposal to con- trol the Colorado River the Gov- ernor stated he was determined to get Immediate action if he was elected, and he. expressed his will- ingness to support a plan of Goy- ernmental construction of the pro- Jeet, provided the authorzed en- gineers' report, due on Dee. 1, and the attitude of the States involved, indicated that method as heing the speediest. \ However, this dam should be constructed, one thing was sure. He pledged if he became President the site of the dam and the mach- inery gencrating the water power would be preserved in public own- ership. m Consumer Protected Never should this priceless right be given away for private exploita- tion, and, in whatever form the power generated at Boulder Dam shoold be distribhted, public auth- ority must retain the contractual right to control the rates to he charged to the ultimate consumer, and to control hy contract the fair and reasonable distribution of the power, The Governor announced his support for applyinz the same prin- ciple to the project at Muscle 'hoals, on the Tennessee River, in Alabama. He urged the full and complete Governmenta deveop- ment of that pant and the mainten- ance of Government ownership and control. Reverting to the words of his speech of acceptance, Governor Smith laid down as his definite pol- icy in regard to water-power re- sources thy retention of Federal control where they were owned by the Government, the retention of State control where they were own- ed by an individual State, and the retention of joint control where they were owned by States jointly. HONOLULU MURDERER IS JAPANESE YOUTH Honolulu, Sept. 28.--Firemen were called out to shower streams of cold water on crowds gathered around the Honolulu jail, where Yutaka Fukunaca, aged 19, kid- napper and slayer of 10-year-old Gil Jamieson, son of a Honolulu banker, was incarcerated after the Japanese was arrested last might and confessed. The killer, who was traced to his room through a purchase he bad made with one of the $4,000 ransom bills paid to him by the boy's father, was undisturbed by the presence of the threatening crowd. He speaks faultless Eng- 'sh and was graduated at the head of his class in high school here. The crowd was dispersed by the olay of water after local authori- ties had been unsuccessful fn speeches outside the jail urging that the band disperse and let the orderly process of law prevail in the handling of the youthful Ori- >ntal. The confessed slayer of banker's son modelled his crime af- ter that of Willam E. Hickman, killer of Marion Parker, daughter of a Los Angeles banker. Like Hickman, the Japanese went to the school the boy attended, obtained his release from class through a ruse and then carried him away to Hoover, the had become power lobhy his death. MORMON MISSIONS GROW IN EUROPE m---------- Paris, Sept. 22.--Paris is inter- ested in the presemce in a beauti- ful country suburb of one of eight Mormon missionaries, the heads of the Mormon organizations of Eur- ope, who have opened a convention under the presidency of Dr. John A. Widsoe, of Liverpool, the Brit- ish pead of the European mission. The missionaries have taken a villa at Meudon-val-Fleury, oun the edge of the forest, eight miles from Paris. Their wives--one each--ac- company them. Dr. Widsoe told a newspaperman that the meeting of the Mormon missionaries has been "necessitat- ed by the great progress the mris- sion has made in Europe" since it was founded only a few years ago. "There are already 30,000 Mor- mons in Europe," he said "and the number is rapidly increasing. Our greatest following is in Great Bri- tain. After that come the Scandin- avian States and Germany. Our Paris mission was started seven months ago and numbers only 600. "Our greatest problem at the moment is that of building up per- manent Mormon communities fin different countries. Formerly it was usual for converts to emigrate to Utah, United States but we have no sbained extensive property in several continental capitals, and are striving to establish our fol- lowers in these." Dr. Widsoe, who was trainad as a chemist, was formerly president of Utah University, and subse- quently returned to Liverpool as head of the mission to Europe. LOSS OF MEMORY CAUSES JAIL TERM -- Windsor, Sept. 283.--His memory a blank since coming to Canada a month ago, a man who says he is Dr. James A. Neal, 54 years old, of Toledo, Ohio, is in the county jail at Sandwich, serving a 30-day term for violating the Liauor Con- trol Act and being in possession of an offensive weanon. Dr. Neal told the police, after being convict- ed he conld not rememher what hank in the United States he had money on deposit. Dr, Neal was arrested in Windenr Thursday nizght on eharees of driving an auto- mohile while drunk and heing in nosgession of a revolver and hov- ing lionor in his automobile. He remembered his name, hut he conld not rememher his enrrect address, nor econld he give fne nolice anv information ahont the hank which he says, he has a large sum on de- posit. The physician eame Into Canada at Niagara Falls. and believes that ome of hig sietere was with him at that time. In his car was fish- ine tackle and camnine eaninment with nother evidence that he was on a holiday trip. THE ARCADE, Limited fresh cotton, Size Bed Comforters $2.39 Covered with Silkoline in igh Jrevy color combinations and filled with White Wool Blankets $7.50 pair Fine soft Wool Blankets, each Blanket finished singly. BI Ui. borders, Size 64 x 84, Rished singly ue or Pink Bed Pillows 75¢ each Made of good strong ticking and filled with feathers, Cotton Blankets $1.95 pair Single Bed Cotton Blankets, soft finish, Blue and Pink Borders, KALAHARI DESERT MAN'S BIRTHPLACE Cameron-Cadle Expedition Finds Human Race Orig- inated in Africa Johannesburg, South "Africa, Sept. 24. -- The human race began in the Kalahari desert. This is the definite conclusion of the Cameron-Cadle ex- pedition which came to South Af- rica from America specially to trace the birthplace of mankind, The ex- pedition's geologist has discovered that there have been no geological metamorphosis in the Kalahari de- sert since man began, while other scientists of the party have announ- ced that they have collected suffi- cient proof to satisfy them that Af- rica and not Asia was the original scene of human evolution which de- veloped under the genial climate and once fertile soil of the Kalahari. The expedition now hopes to find in the heart of the Kalahari a bush- man tribe more primitive than any vet studied and the lowest type of humanity now on earth, ists did their best REVIEW PRAISES HARVESTER PLAN "Nation" Says Scheme Well. intentioned Attempt to Help Workers London, Sept. 28. -- The Nation, a weekly review, whose general out- look is towards the left wing of Lib- eralism and which seldom finds any enterprise sponsored by the Baldwin Government worthy of commenda- tion, regards the experiment of sending British miners to the Cana- dian harvest fields as "certainly a well intentioned attempt to help the unemployed." 3 "The scheme was hastily organized and was marred by defective co-op- eration among many of the authori- ties concerned, but it was no small achievement to get 8,000 idle men from the mining villages on the job in Canada," the Nation says. "There is plenty of evidence that commun- to deliberately crab the scheme." The Nation says there are criti- cisms to be made about the Canadian immigration machinery, but it would be "grossly unfair to rush to conclu- sions about anything from the grum- bling of returned misfits." A Bohemian student at Neo-byd- sovo ate 101 dumplings, or "zwetchenknoedel," at one sitting. 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