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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929 "Steamboat Bill, Jr." Brings Buster Keaton With Ernest [orreneeto Regent "'Steamboat Bill Jr." called by many who have seen it, Buster Keaton's funniest comedy, will head the bill at the Regent Theatre s.arting Thursday. The frozen-faced funny man who gave us such farces as "College," "The General" and ,"Go West", NOW UULUILES Lut we-Ambicd sud Of a burly Mississippi River boat cap- tain, When things start going from bad to worse for the father, his "softy" sons arrives on the stene. 'Bil Jr, doesn't exactly give dad any helping hand when he falls in love with the daughter of the rival captain, nor does he help to regain the business which the other has stolen from his father However, a cyclone comes along and then Bus er--but it doesn't require. such imagination to think of the antics he indulges in! | Krnest Torrence featured player in many fi.ms since "The Covered Wagon," won a juicy role when he was cast as Buster's he-man parent. It marks his first comédy characteriza .ion in many a day. Heading Keaton's supporting cast are Marion Byron, a pretty little new-comer; Tom Lewis, and Tom McGuire. If you saw "Charley's Aunt" or "The Better 'Qle," you don't need to be told that Charles *"Chuck" Reisner 18 a good comedy direc- tor. Why shouidn't he be? His early training was secured at the elbow of Charlie Chapiin! "Steamboat Bill Jr.," Buster's third comedy for United Artists release, was filmed by Devereaux Jennings and ert Haines, Carl Harbaugh prepared it as an origin- al screen story, Harry Brand acted in a supervisory capacity, PRINCE HOPES T0 VISIT CANADA AGAIN States Intention of Doing So -- Visits Industries * Fair London, Feb, 20 --The Prince of Wales revealed during his visit to the Canadian section of the British industries fair yesterday that he in ends to endeavor to visit Canada again in the near future, Mr. Duckles, guiding the Prince through the section, ex- pressed a hope that his royal high- ness would take an early oppor- tunity of paying another visit to the Dominion and the Prince then indicated his intention of doing 80. " While examining the exhibits the Prince recognized two colored pictures of his Alberta ranch nea» High River, and displayed the keenest interest in these as well as another representation of the gate- way of the Canadian National Ex- hibition at Toronto named after himself, and which he with Prince George opened in 1927. Queen Mary, who also attended the fair today, visited. the Cana- dian section Lwice and described it as "gorgeous." She was par- ticularly interested in the price of Canadian honey, an exhibit of whieh resulted in 'an order for $50,000 worth shortly after the opening of the fair yesterday, ' BODY IS FOUND BESIDE RAILWAY Port Arthur, Ont.,, Feb, 20.-- Badly mangled and lying beside ! the railway track at Jackfish, Ont., | the body of Dan F. Keller, 56, has been discovered and .an inquest will be held. Keller, a trapper be- lieved to have come from the Unit- ed States, is thought to have beer run down by a train while walk ing the track. " KILLED WHEN SHOT BY A DETECTIVE Winnipeg Man Was At. tempting to Kill His Wife on the Street Winnipeg, Feb. 19.--~When he at- tempted to shoot and kill his wife and her companion on a downtown strect late yesterday afternoon, Har- old A. Reid was shot down by a city detective. He died in the police am- bulance while en route to hospital. William Arlington Ross, a taxi driver, Mrs, Reid's companion, was injured when Reid opened fire on him, but his condition was not con- sidered serious by hospital authori- ties. Mrs, Reid was in hospital in a state of collapse. Detective James Thompson was passing the scene of the shooting in a street car, he saw Reid pursuing his wife and Ross down the street, gun in hand, and witnessed the wo- man's companion drop to the side- walk, Thompson jumped from the street car, and shot Reid down, Domestic strife prompted Reid's action, The couple had been separ- ated for some time. Mrs. Reid and the taxi driver had been released from morals court just a short time before the shooting, which occurred within two blocks of police headquarters, They had been arrested in a downtown house Sun- day night on a liquor act charge. MAN FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH IN SHACK Carlyle, Sask., Feb. 20.--George Wall, aged 65, a bachelor in the Moose Creek district, was found frozen to death in his shack Mon- day. He had been ill with influen- za for two weeks. He came from Glasgow and settled near Frobish- er and in 1916 came to Moose Creek district, A brother lives at Frobisher and two sisters in Scot: land, HA Coming A For Three Winging Glory! Soaring Love ' See~ : The Son Scudding Wine AN {VON BEN LYON ANTONIO MORENO Thursday Days! | COMEDY | sivsrens wines: A New Martin Theatre THE ORPEUS Composed of Messrs. Arthur Davies, William Fisher, Robert Pawner | and Arthur Fisher of Toronto who will take part in the anniversary MALE QUARTETTE services of King St. Church to be held on Sunday Feb. 24 and who will put on the concert in connection with the Anniversary on Monday, Feb. 25. DE LUXE TRAIN . FOR POPE'S TOUR THROUGH ITALY Rome, Feb. 20.--Pope Pius XI. is certain to travel through Italy to the various shrines, and it was be- lieved that his first long journey would be to Milan, where he form- erly was Archbishop, A new Papal train, luxuriously equipped and with the most modern fittings, was ordered for immedi- ate construction today by the man- agement of the Italian state rail- roads. The new Papal train will he mnd- eled after the Italian royal train, but it will be painted white and yellow--the Papal colors. The most modern system of suspension, for easy riding, will be used on the coaches, and the interior appoint- ments will be lavish, All furniture will be upholstered with the costli- est of materials, and will bear the Papal coat of arms, POLICE INTERFERE AHILTON STRIKE Two Arraigned Before Mag- istrate--First Since Strike Started Hamilton, Feb, 20.--The strike at the plant of the Canadian Cot- tons Company came to the atten- tion of the police for the first time yesterday when Delia Vanzlett, Fer- rie street, and Mary Krakauskas, John street north, were charged with: intimidating Margaret Thorpe. At the request of Ewart Dixon, who appeared for the defendants in police court, the case was laid over for eight days, the magistrate re- marking that he hoped a settlement of the strike would be reached in the meantime. A . BE, Adams, manager of the company, stated that he objected to pickets blocking doorways at the plant, or following and molesting the workers. He claimed that the mills were gradually returning to full activity. Members of the strike committee declared that the strikers still pre- sented a strong front, and that they numbered fully 600. Three weeks have elapsed mow since the day of the walkout, DOMINION OFFERS TO RETURN NATURAL RESOURCES TO SASK. Ottawa, Feb, 20.--Dominion re- presentatives offered yesterday to return to Saskatchewan its na- tural resources and continue to pay the present annual subsidy to that province, While no official state- ment was made at the conclusion of the meeting, this offer, it is stated, was the feature of the opening conference yesterday morn- ing between representatives of the two governments on the return of natural resources to Saskatchewan. CHINESE POLICEMEN GO ON STRIKE, EXTRA GUARDS CALLED OUT Peking, Feb, 20,--Extra guards were called out yesterday for duty in the fortress-like legation quar- ter where the Chinese policemen have gone on strike. The police who are employed by the Interna- tional Settlement Administrative Council have made various demands including a wage increase. The Le- gation gates were guarded by Bri- tish, French, Japanese, Italtan and | United States marines. : TURBULENT SCENES MARK REOPENING PEACE CONFERENCE Sydney, Australia, Feb 20.-- Turbulent scenes occurred when the Industrial Peach Conference resumed fits sessions here after a lapse of some weeks, Jeffrey, dele- gate from the Labor Couneil, caused a stir by withdrawing. Thirty noisy interrupters had to Presenting what is described by critics as a most appealing epic of the intrepid flyers who carry the mails across country through storm and stress by night and day, "The Air Legion," with Ben Lyon, Antonio Moreno and Mar- tha Sleeper, comes to the New Martin Theatre for a stay of three days. Based upon an original story by James Ashmore Creelman, the photoplay depicts with rare fidelity the hazards that are faced by the air mail pilots on every trip tha' is undertaken in their fleet but fragile planes, which must go for- ward in every variety of weather that the mail connections may be maintained, Perils of the Air Mail Coming to New Martin Theatre Against this background is presen.ed a gripping dramatic nar- rative involivng the "ace" pilot of an air mail office and the son uf a flying captain under whom the former served in France until the captain's heroic death, The boy develops a "yellow" streak in the mail service, which is drastically cured by the ex-soldier, notwith- standing that both are in love with the same girl. The picture was directed by Pert Glennon, himself a former army flyer and aviation instructor at March Field agd the camera work, much of it aerial, was in charge of Paul Perry, who also served on the cinematographic g aff in the making of "Wings" Jana '""Hell's Angels,' BUSTER KEATON Who wili be seen in ¢Steamboai | Bill" at the Regent Theatre this | week-end, ACADEMIC WORK TURNS TO PAR11LS AS CO.EDS TAKE CHARGE Toronto, Fcbh, 20.--Women lec- turers in University college, Uni- versity of Toronto, are not only failures themselves, but a serious hindrance to the education of their students, causing academic work to deteriorate into gocial outings and occasional class parties, J. H, Gringorten, a third-year student, thus criticized women on the staff of the college, while up- holding the motion "that this house deplores the co-educational system as it is practiced in University col- lege' in the final inter-year debate of the University College Literary and Athletic society last night, Gringorten complained that it was bad enough to have the women lecturers inflicting their personal foibles on classes to the detriment of serious 'work but the climax had come when a two-hour class in the English novel was transformed in- to an afternoon tea party. The students, he said, met in a St, George street tea room, and, after- daintily sipping tea, discussed the English novel in a superficial, sup- ercilous way, The motion deploring co-educa- tion as practiced in University col- lege was carried by a popular vote, though the attendance of eligible voters was small "due to the un- fortunate influence of the co-eds," as one speaker pointed out, The debaters were: for the ayes: J. H. Gringorten and H. Bell; for the naes; A, Wood and J. Sheppard. he honorary president, F, C. Car- ter, acted as speaker, Speakers in the open discussion, with one exception, spoke against conditions in their college. $80,000 LOSS AS SAULT STORES RAZED Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Feb. 20. --Fire which started above the R. H. Knight Limited store here at 9 o'clock last night, from a cause as yet unknown involved a loss of around $80,000. The Knight Block in which the Knight store and Dominion stores are located, was almost completely gutted, and. will suffer to' the extent of $30,000, The Knight stock loss will probab- ly run into $40,000 and the loss to the stock at the Dominion Stores will be around $10,000. The fire- be ejec'ed. At the conclusion of the addresses hecklers were par- | ticularly birulent, shouting the conference was "'tomfoolery" while 12,000 miners were locked out. men had great difficulty in hand- ling the blaze in zero weather. The loss is covered by insurance in ev- ery instance. 'DRY' LAUNGHINGS POOR SUBSTITUTED Old Marines Fear No Good as Result of Ginger Ale Christening Bath, Me., Feb. 20.--Many mut- terings and ominous shakes of the head followed the recent launch- ing of three fine steel beam traw- lers ,the Georgetown, Holy Cross and Boston College, It was the ve eran ~ shipbuilders and the 4 ed-in-the wool old mariners who saw no good in the new or- der of things, For, be it known, 'in each and every launching the pers' christening ceremony was formed by men and a libation of girger-pop was - substituted for Mumm's Extra Dry or other spirit- uous beverage! It was the first time in all of Bath's shipbuilding history that mere men had usurped woman's time-honored privilege and right. No wonder the grizzled o!dsters forésaw trouble ahead How could a vessel give a good account of | herself to her owners after such a send-off? Had their dire pre- dictions come true the three trawlers would have all piled up in Fiddlers Reach or on the Doubling Point or elsewhere on their maiden trips down the Ken- ne ec to the sea, But they diun't and strangely enough, despite pes- simistic prophecies, they have all been bringing record catches of ground fish in to Boston. Christening ceremonies at the launching of véssels are a sur- vival of a sanguinary custom of medievalism., When the Vikings launched a ship it was customary to bind a human sacrifice to the rollers over which the war gal- lery was run down to the water so that the stem became be- sprinkled with blood, This was known as the "roller reddening" or "hlunn-rod," Later red wine became a more agreeable sub- stitute for red blood. In early Catholic times ships were always "blessed" at their launching. In Russia pavy christ- enings are performed by priests, At Yarmouth, England, before the Reformation, priests visited the fishing fleet once a year and blessed craft and crews, while local ministers preached a sermon the purport of which was to in- voke divine guidance to the fisher folk, ! . Oblations to the sea were fre- quently festooned with flowers and as the ship moves down the waves the master sips wine from a flagon and them pours the re- mainder over the docks. Up to within comparatively re- cent years in New England it would have been considered little short of heresy to launch a ship without the sponsorship of fair woman and a baptism of liquor, One of the first "dry" launch- ings in Maine was at Yarmouth in Casco Bay. In 1877 the bark George. A. Wright left the ways with 'a wreath of flowers fasten- ed to her jibboom instead of New England rum trickling down her stem! That ceremony also drew forth ominous predictions. Oddly enough six weeks later, on the Grand Banks of Newfound- land, the Wright's cargo of grain shifted and she went to the bot- tom? IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE FOR TAKING "TOKEN" CONSIDERED Los Angeles, Feb. 20.--A state assembly investigating committee which held Aimee Semple McPher- son's past up to renewed public in- spections was considering whether or not Superior Judge Carlos 8, Hardy should be impeached be- cause he accepted a $2,500 'love offering" from Angelus Temple. The committee will report its findings to the state assembly in Sacramento "after surveying the facts presented in the last three weeks by numerous witnesses, in- cluding Mrs, McPherson, The investigating group must de- termine if Judge Hardy accepted the check, issued undcr a legal and defence' hearing for legal advice. It was given him at a time when the red-haired evangelist's wild kidnapping by the sea and return from the desert story was being viewed by a critical public eye. The committee called witnesses here in an effort to determine just what Judge Hardy's connection with the Temple has becn, In its research the investigators delved into the quarrel between Mrs. Mec- Pherson and her mother, Mrs, Min- nie Kennedy, Judge Hardy's deal- ing with thre lawyer who said he re- presented the kidnappers and the famous love nest by the sea. Kenneth G, Ormiston, the radio man who occupied the love nest during the kidnapping---many said that Aimee was with him and not in the hands of abductors--was called as a witness but disappointed a thrill-hungry crowd whi-h hoped to hrar him questioned regarding the secrets of the cottage, COOLIDGE TO BECOME NEWSPAPER WRITER? Washington, D.C,, Feb, 20.-- President Coolidge has not yet arrived at a decision as to his oe- cupation after retirement from of- fice, although he has heen ap- proached by several persons with proposals that he write syndicated articles' for newspapers. White Dog Festival is Held Brantford, Feb. 20.--In- dians of the Upper Cayuga Long House on the Six Na- tions Indian Reserve are ga- thering there in large num- bers for their annual winter festival, which is being ob- served today and tomorrow with solemn religious ceres mony. This is the festival formerly associated with the Sacrifice of the White Dog, an incident which, owing pos= sibly to the difficulty of pro- curing a pure white dog, has not always been included in the observance in recent years. Each Long House has its own observance for its own congregation of wor- shippers. LINDBERGH'S ROMANCE A' COLORFUL AFFAIR on the romance of Miss Anne Spen- cer Morrow, the demure, home-lov- ing daughter of the United States Ambassador to Mexico, and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the world's most famous flier, whose engage- ment has just been announced, and tributes to Miss Morrow from her schoolmates in the class of 1928 at Smith College were given recently by friends of the couple. It was in Englewood, N.J., a con- servative suburb of wealthy famil- ies just across the Hudson River from New York, that Miss Morrow New York, Feb, 20.--Sidelights | BIRDS OF THE MONTH; , THE INSECTS' HOMER, FABRK'S BOOKS I receive so many inquiries about gulls, hawks, owls, woodpeckers, larks, crows, jays, sparrows, junce 0s, snow buntings, and nuthatches that I am giving ny readers a list of birds, any of which may appear at this time of year. Winter con- ditions ™ the bird world usually prevail until the end of ¥Mebruary. Then, should there be a few mild days like last Saturday and Sumn- day we may expect to hear an oc- casional flicker, prairie-horned lark, song sparrow, robin and blue- bird. Their songs will bid us keep watch for other early migrants like the cowbird, bronzed , grackle and red-winged blackbird. Here are the species to be on the look-out for: Bob-white, ruffed grouse, Marsh hawk, screech own, saw- whet owl barred owl, great horned owl downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, flicker, prairie horn- ed lark, crow, blue jay, starling, meadow lark, cowbird, bronzed grackle, song sparrow, house spar- row, pine siskin, snow bunting, tree sparrow, purple finch, junco, cedar waxwing, chickadee, white- breasted nuthatch; ' red-breasted nuthatch, robin, bluebird. LJ LJ LJ "Fourteen years ago there died an old man at the age or ninety- two; who all his long life had been studying the ways and peculiarities of insects. Jean Henri Fabre was a striking example of a man born in the direst poverty, who yet ov=- ercame all the difficulties of such who is 22, grew up. Friends and neighbors there of the Morrows have known for some time that the "Flying Colonel" was paying serious attention either to Miss Anne Mor- row or to her sister, Elizabeth, a few years her elder, who is a teach- er at the Dwight School for Girls av Englewood. What these neighbors reveal shows that in courtship, as a flying, Colonel Lindbergh plotted his own routes and that from time to time, -vhen Miss Morrow was at the home of her parents the community has been thrilled by the arrivals of the flier. That he often arrived late at night at the Morrow home was na- tural owing to the exigencies of his travel bs air. On several occasions, it is said, he came swooping out of the sky in the darkness to land at Teterboro airport, which is only a few minutes motor drive from the Morrow residence. _ On one occasion, however, and the polic. of Englewood are still talking and smiling over it, Colonel Lindbergh drove a big car through the town limits late at night ob- viously on his way fronr the airport to the Morrow home at a speed which attracted the attention of a patrokman on foot, who blew a warning blast on his whistle. According to the police, the car ing patrolman addressed a clean-cut young man who was behind the steering wheel and alone in the car When he was asked to show his drivers' license he repsonded that he 'had none, The patrolman then asked his name and the driver re- plied "Lindbergh." "Lindbergh," echoed the patrol- man as he turned on his flashlight and took another look 'Then he smiled, saluted and said: "You need no license town, Colonel," Colonel Lindbergh thanked him and drove away. in this Rheumatism in children causes 24 per cent. of the sufferers to be- | come chronic invalids, a position and rose to fame and honor, '""He was born in the tiny village of St. Leon, in France, and even as a boy he loved flowers and ani- mals, and would go into ecstasies over the wings of a butterfly, The family moved about and his educa- tion was spasmodic, and at one time he had to hawk lemons for a living. He disappeared, however, to Avignon and came back with a scholarship to the normal school, "Here, once a week, the students were permitted to picnic in the open country and this was his op- portunity for studying insects. For some years his life was given up to teaching, He saved every pos- sible penny to buy a text book on entomology and every moment of his spare time was given up to study. Desiring to inspire others with the same passion of his sub-- ject, he opened classes where he gave free lessons in natural his tory. "Soon afterwards he retired to a tiny cottage, where for fifty vears he patiently toiled. He was the author of many books, his most famous being his "Souvenirs Ento- mologiques," in ten volumes. He stopped immediately and the inquir- | never attained wealth and only on hig ninetieth birthday he received a modest pension. The President of the Academy of Sciences, accom | panied by delegates from all man~ ner of learned societies, came to his little house and presentd him with the gold plaque and the Lin~ naean Medal of the Royal Acad- emy of Stockholm." You may learn much more of the fascinating life of this son of Provence by reading 'Life of Jean Henri Fabre," by the Abbe Augustin Fabre, Of his own books, I recommend for first read~ ing "The Life of the Fly," "The Life of the Spider" and "The Life of the Scorpion," translated by Bernard Miall and A. T. DeMat~ tos. All four titles are in the Osha« | wa Public Library, COMING THURSDAY Joseph M. Schenck. P re s e n ts x To | Keaton ERNEST IT€NCEe Be ath mt Ah Al Ih Ea aa a Co QE 1) se er se at A be