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i ' EF) HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDA ILLBROOK FIELD DAY AL meeting of the Mill» feultural Associustion u res ation, Vig ot speghil commits ; 1980 fui be held on the sdiny and Friday in' Oetos ed, A conmittee was if : a to arrange for Ww sports y TT | OVERHEAD B venton, = Contractors for the i, over the ral. tracks ut Smithfield, taking the of the present wooden, struc: where many. necidents © hive ned are the Grant Bros, Cone tion Co, } »r HAD GRIMY. RIDE Belleville =Alleged to lave stolen bleyele in' Brockville, s Iad of ars Was picked up by Railway Cons ble White Jate last night, hiding a car-having jumped a freight Arom Brockville, Me was returned 10" that town) CHICKENS STOLEN Kingston ~Provineinl Officer G, V, Clubbe has been investigating chick en thefts at Cataraguli He has one win detained for questioning, has seovered thirty ont of forty-five hieds alleged to have been stolen and sae ng his investigation, Tt bs oy alleged that the birds were sold alive alter being stolen, Mrs. O'Reilly atid Messrs, Gardon and: Seal are the i Citarnqul reildents who reported the thei th ; WATER LEVEL HIGH Kingston ~The water Jevel remaing h " Kingston harbor, and accord ng to the dall eer kept 'at the shipyard, wis 1h feet 4 1-2 toches on Pridiy morning. SEEK SHARE OF LIQUOR " PROFITS Peterboro=A resolution wis piss sed last night by the Finance Com- mittee of the City Caunell request ing». pereentuge. of profit from the fiquor sold in the local government store, MARMORA'S OLDEST RESIDENT Marmors ailing y in the only infirmity which George Albert Wright, who celebrated his ninety. third birthday recently has to hear, He is Marmorn's oldest resident, BUY-AT-HOME CAMPAIGN Campbeliford~To stimulate busi ness and add to the pxpansion of the town, fiirty-these of the business men of Campbellford are staging a Buy-at-home Campaign, PEMBROKE CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS Pembroke,--~During the year which ended March 3ist, total receipts in the Pembroke customs office gmount- od to $1,385,20245, which wah an in WOOD Body Hard Hard Slabs Soft Slabs Cut to Stove Length and Guaranteed No. 1 Dry DIXON COAL CO. Telephone 262 Five Direct Lines For Furnace or Fire Place For Cook Stove or Heater For Kindling or Cooking ase. of 38 noni [eraiise of S19 In the ny fried during 'the yeur, on-- #, ; SURGEON piaAMOous » RAsON A Phy victa in this ity for many years, dead," after a Vingaring ness at Wis home, Kast Bridge, In his ears Her years he was a leading surgeon and Journeyed to' all parts of the Province in the practice of his pro- fessitn, + WEEK OF SPECIAL SERVICES Smiths Vall=The United Chureh of Brhiths Valls ly holding u week of speciul services, Speakers will ine clude Rev, J, I, Watts of Kingston, Rev, David Wren of Peterborog Rev, J.C Robertson of Toronto, and Rev, Cromley Hunter of Toronto, Rev, Dr. TI, Abert: Moore, Toronto, will preach at preparatory service Sup day, and Rev, Dr. J, Semple, the pastor, will open the series of ser. vices, "Ohidd Killed by M.'s Auto Ottawa, ~=An automobile driven by Leslie G, Bell, Conservative member of parliament Tor Haint Antoine m the federal legislature, struck and fatally injured nine-year old Florence Noy, pear her home on Main Ntreet, West Hawkosbury, Killed by Nadie Wire Ottawa. Failing to disconnect his olectrienlly controlled radio sel when he was working on the ground wire, William Carlyon, aged 19, of Ironsidos, Que, near herve was eloce troguted by the 110-volt connection, "INQUIRY AT KINGNTON Kingstop, = Kingston ratepayers will not be asked to vote as to whether 'they want to buy the street railway or have a hus trans. portation system until Norman D, Wilson, - consulting engineer, of Toronto, reports on the Kingston transportation problem, Mr, Wik won will start at oneo in his inves tigation, and present a report ut the end of the month, FR ROCHA, Horses Shipped ; Kingston, =Thirty-slx horses of the R.C.H.A, Brigade have bean shipped to Winnipeg for the use of "0" Battery, R.C.H.A,, Lord Strath. cona's Horse, R.C., and the other units of Military District No, 10, Further shipments of horses are being made from the R,C.H.A, to London, Toronto, Montreal, Quehae and Halifax, for the use of the permanent force units in those gare risons, while three horses are going te Bermuda for the use of the Im- perial troons in the Bermuda gurels son, By the end of next week the R.C.H.A, will he a mechanized brie gado of artillery, SHE DID HER BEST A lady motorist whose eat swerved across a suburban strect and erashed through a plate glass window, was being questioned hy the focal sergeant after "the acecldent "Surely on such a wide street us this," sald the interrogator," you could have done something to pre. vent this aceident?" "T did." the delinquent assured him quite earnestly; "I screamed as loud as I could!" to Wont had ATON ROCHE % nied i NVZ ESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, APRIL 8th, 9th and 10th. TERIA In addition to wo now offer Several Added Specials FOR YOU Oshawa and vicinity, oxtra spocials for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Shop, Early-=Store Open From 9 to 6 Including i Saturday ' our regular weekly specials the thrifty housewives of Health Salts Tins 23¢ Special Libby's Saurkraut Choice Quality % Special Assorted Jelly Eatonia Tomatoes Chole Quality Eatonia Aylmer Corn Ne. 21 Ti 13¢ | | | 2-25¢ Tin ras | | | { { ! Pumpkin Bananas Large Oranges o.. 69¢ Large Turnips co Se choice SPY Apples sue 29¢€ Dox. APC 350 od Ham, ih... s3¢ ~. MEATS : Flenle Hams, 1b. big 1c ¥ an Mie ] df, | Hl a / ie new y ove" and | that such The city Is nedessitated by the ens ormous steel works Hoing up in the sume region, which Js described as potentinlly another Bentyivania, The projected works, scheduled to begin voduetion in 1932, will tyra out 1,» D000 tows. ef iron apnually, huadly half @ milion tons of steel, over 700, 000 tons of steel [Lodilets, Tnis In these new. wills (int the population of Mugnitegorsk will: he! employed. New cities are going wp In many other: places, in connection with Ins dustrial expansion, DOZENS HURT IN CHICAGO RIOTING or ---- Two Seriously Injured When Communists and Antis Clash * Chiengo, April 7-=Dogens of pers sons were glugged ond trampled in un clash between members of an an- tlsgommunist organigation and pure sons anld by police to be communist sympathizers here yesterday, The disturbance opoeurred in front of Bt, Nicholas' Ukrainian Catholle Chureh, Spocial police riot squads ware required to disperse the pars tiolpants, Two of those Injured wore taken to the hospital In seri ous condition, The outbreak was a prelude to a demonstration organized by mem- bors of the Ukrainian anti-commun« ist organization of America, whieh wis to be featured by a parade starting from the chureh, An patvishionérs came from sere vices, un number of parsons attempts od to distribute communistio liters ature umong them, but were ejee. ted from the grounds by members of the opposing faction, Crowds gathered and the situntion soon de- veloped In a general fight, After police guellad the outhreak the parade was allowed to form, About 2,600 marchers were in the line which was preceded hy several poliee. squad cars and flanked by uniformed police, As the papade passed the peo ple's auditorium, communist een tre, un volley of jeors was hurled at the marchers but no physical vie lenes oecurred, Ba ---------- WKNIGHT HELD ON FRAUD COUNT Third Arrest Made in Alleg- ed $220,000 Theft at Hamilton New York, April T-0n a war rant fhsued by the State of New Jorsoy at the request of the Prov ince. of Ontario, Robert MoKnight, 65, 1s under arrest here charged with eompHeity In an alleged $220, 000 fraud on stock Investors near Hamilton, Ont, Oliver, b8,.and hin Charles A wife, Mary KE. Oliver, 67, are be ing held In jail at Hamilton as ao~ oessories, They are alleged to have fllegally turned over to McKnight $100,000 obtained from the sale of shares in the MeKnight-Oliver Holding Company In Ontario, But although MeKnight ia supe posed to have received this $190, 000, state police, found him living in squalor in Now Brunswick, New Jorgey, MeKnighy is president of the Me. Knight-Oliver Holding Company eof Hamilton, capitalized In the prov. ince of Ontario at $500,000, Oliver Is vice-president of the concern and Mra, Oliver secrelary, MANY OBJECT TO FAIR-WAGE BILL Manufacturers Send Delega- tion to Interview y .: Heenan 4} Ottawa, April T-~Telegramg are pouring in on Hon, Peter Heenan, Minister of Labor, objecting the provi of the bill he has intro duced dealing: mith fair wages on Government works, "Shoals of tele- by when the] wilding of | A -------------- Ton years ngo . Wavden J, VU, Ponsford, head of the penitentinry at, Ports hy. took contpol of the institution and has since filled the difffenlt with tact. apd wood Judgment, supported by | efficient staff, . Since . assuming charge many changes have taken place in the vemedell of the buildings and other portant work, all done by the inmates. Warden Ponsford lias been, thire toon years in the civil service, grams, all the way from the Ats lantie to 'the Pacifie," to use the Minister's own words, have reach- od the department, and as & result It han been decided to delay second reading of the bill until deputations have had an opportunity of cons forring with the Government on the matter, One deputation is coming representing . the Manufacturers' Assogiation, It will probably be here oh Tuesday, Another repre- senting construgtion contrdetors also have an appointment, fy AMERICAN WRITES OF FRENCH REGIME Interesting account of French In America is Com- pleted (By Canadian Pross Lensed Wire) Bpringflald, INA thriller has come out of Helleville, Hiinois. Strange to say, the thriller 'is a history of the French in América, done by an American sevant, Dr, J, H, Bchiarman, who ransacked libraries in two continents for source material, and who made » sure thing of his book by trying it out on n variet of intellects, before be published it, "From Quebec to' New Orleans' is the title of the Book, Its first thrill is ita cover, giving a color. ful and geographical correct ples ture of the 1ycach dispersion, showing that Belleville is almost in the eontre of the one-time French domain in Americas, Maps In the book are unique, in that they give the reader of today an adequate sense of French cecupas APRIL, 7,1 aries, ign, the loestion of si} the French ia w the Wiosnelpy Aiand Chloe A Li "the Grout rence and about ¢ Ta 'as, This Dy, Bohiarman assures fhe reader, has never been done ber ore, yriyrdom of ¥reneh mission- th struggles of settlers and savages, portraits of great Frenchmen who contributed 0 much to this. country's. histories buekground arg pletured In the book, on 50 full pages of Iustras n, Dr, Behlarman has endeavored, he says, and manifestly has wuae coedod in making bistory read ko a novel, Tis 66) pages sach hold the maximum of interest, that ro. mantic bistory of Dr, Sshlarman's method could put into them, After the. metorial was put into shape Dy, Schlarman said he had various (riends read the manuscript, Twen- ty-five of them In Texas, New York, Quabee and Delleyille read it, He had that point out passages, they would like to read move about, or passages diMeult for them tomnder- stand, After reposted changes; Dr, Schiarman said, he helleved he had 8 book with a maximum of In. terest: for the greatest number of readers, One reader expressed his opinion of the hook after spending aimost an entire night reading it, "It's not a novel," he sald, ""begause it 1s history, and its not history heecsuse is not written that way." His foot notes indicate the extent to which he has delved intn the archives of Europe' and America, searching out tong hidden facts of history, Where sontroversy has perpetuated two varsions, Dr, Schiarman has spent most time, enlisting the ald emin~ ont French historians and lbrar~ fans, in Prance and particularly in the province of Quebes, Beginning with the coming of Jacques Cartier to the site of Quer hee in 1685, the story follows the Froneh up the Bt, Lawrence, aeross the Grest Lakes and down the Mis- sinsinpl, and Ohio valleys to 'Fort de Chartres, which is one of Illi. nols' most historie spots, the New rieans, 1t deplets the confiioting Ine torosts of the British and French eolonists, the wars with the sav» ages, Iahors of the missionaries, the enies of explorers, the eventual clash between the British and French, the collapse of French power in Ameriea, the gradual de- velopment of the psychology of separation and Independence of the English colonies, and closes with the exploits of George Rogers Clark, which put an end to British domination in the Mid West, Dr, Bchiarman tells what hap 'soloeted a neighboring pened, 8 It happened, be says, und I meny instances fn the words of men who saw i happen, muking oxtonsive use of contemporary lot ters and momoiry, most of which are unfamiliar ty English renders, Dr, Beblarman selected the paper and type for his book, to sult his own comfort, demanded the great number of flustrations because he When books with pletures, and then publisher, Mr, Busehiler, and supervised 'eo printing and binding, doing all his own proof reading. CRISIS IN ENGLISH WOOL INDUSTRY Values Sliding | for two Years Has Brought Wave of Pessimism | -- (By Canadian Press hepspd Wire) Bradford William Wanter, former president of the British Wool Veders ation, addressing Bradford Textile society, sald that a wave of pessi- mism_ had swept over the whole of the wool textile industry of the world and made it feel that the future was without hope, With such a flood of wool It was only natural that any ehstacles which interfered with the freedom of mut keting and. distribution were hound to be far reaching in the effect, He was convinced that the lack of confidence, resulfing from world-wide monetary stringehey, had heen greats ly exaggerated, and values having been on the slide for nearly two years, it had been found impossible to generate sufficient confidence to "put the brake on" The impetus of the decline had taken them further down than the most confirmed pessimist ever ans ticipated, In his opinion the steps which the growers and pastoralists in Australia had taken to stabilize val ues~hy a slight extension of the sen- son, and the withdrawal of anv wool which did not realize prices equal to these ruling during the second half of Janvary=constituted an excellent corrective and would be an assurance to all wool buyers, yarn buyers and || cloth merchants that they could buy with the feeling that they were not likely to lose money, This would have the effect of als lowing buyers to anticipate their re quirements over a longer period, and should assist in creating more mach inery- activity, (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire) Montreal. ~Inspired with the spirit of his ancestors, Alme Joyal, a French Canadian, begins on May 1 to walk across the Dominion, Joyal is a Winnipeg man, His greatsgreats grandfather originated the walkin dea when, 'back in 1801, he walke out to the Red River Valleys, and in 1815 when he walked from Fort Doug- Follows Dad's Footsteps In Hike Across Canada las to Montreal with dispatches for Lord Selkirk, Jean Baptiste Lagimodiere, as Joy al's ancestor was called, trapesed around the Red River valleys trap pig for a living, This was 129 years Ago. fter six years of loneliness Lagimodiera married Marie Ange life bride, who was a Vert Douglas girl, In other wordss a Regina lassie, Agimodiere walked hack to the Ked River Valley and established himself in the Selkirk Colonies that had sprung up while he wap on his hon LyImoon; Lagimodiere's. crowning feat of walking was in 1815, Trouble wus arising between the Northwest Var Irading Company and the Hudson's biny traders, jeopardising the Yves of the Red River Colonists, War to the death had been declared between the two rival factions, Renowned Trapper The trapper, renowned even then fur Wis extraordinary strolls, was trusted with important documents to be delivered to Selkirk, whe was in Montreal, This hardy waylarer leit Fort Douglas, or Regina, as it is now called, with (he intention of walking to Montreal alone, His total tourist's caguiptent consisted of w hatehet, a pun and a blanket, He was forced tu wvold the beaten tracks, if any, bee cass gf the menace of Northwest erners, and Indians in thelr service, Betting ou In mid-winter, he walk ed al that spring, throughout the suramer, sauntered through the au+ tumn and winter of the next vear and landed fir Montreal as fresh as # daisy In January, 1816, He had been unable to stop at a civilized place for 1,800 miles because of the rival fur trading factions, Handing the papers to Lord Sels kirk, he was about to make prepara« tions for his walle back to his wif and little girl, when Selkirk, touched by the fidelity of this "voyageur." wnked hig whit he could give him in return, In a flash Lagimodiere ane swered: "Priests, sir, Give us priests!" 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