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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FLOODS AT OTTAWA wit There js a possibility that snd district will escape en- without any river floods this : A ueeprding to river und canil officials, to the unusually mild in the earlier piurt of the year, which bas been followed by muder- ately cold weather, "WINNER THIRD TIME Athprior=Vor the third year In : nn James Digas Jacks, sec ond son of Deputy Reeve and Mrs, w GM. Jack, has won the Toxiy gold medal, awarded annual 10 the youth, in the towns and small: or cities, who raises the greatest amount of money in the annual bonds selling campaign, 'RETURNING OFFICER NAMED Brockville, == Announcement hay been made here vf the appointment of W., I, Rogers, to be returning of- ficer for the federal electoral district of Lee, syceeeing A.J Tealll, who resigned owing to ll health, USKRATS ARE PLENTIFUL ingston, = Following the recent comparatively mild weather trappers ure bringing muskrat pelts into the city in fairly large quantities, the streams and marshy Junds inhabited hy these little fur-bearing wnimals being now 'practically free of ice, Muskrat ure reported to he quite as plentiful as in former years, with milny of the feappers reporting ex- cellent catches, 4 REBUILD FACTORY Prescott ~Work on the reconstruc, tion of the Life Savers, Lid, factory, which was towlly destroyed by fire on the night of December 31, 1929, has been begun and will be carried off under the supervision of J, J) Mzgerald, contractor, of Prescott, GENERAL DRAPER TO SPEAK | iobourg ~Brig-Gen, 1. C, Draper, Chief of Toronto Police Fores, will ha chief speaker at the joint ban auet of the Sons of Fngland and the Men's 'Association of Si, Peter's Church to be held here, St. George's Day, April 23, --_ COLONEL E. BYWATER ILL Pietan~While addressing a young people's meeting here Colonel IL, Dy- water of Trenton suddenly collapsed and required medical attention, BARN BURNED Peterboro~A fire of unknown ori gin completely destroyed the barn and outbuildings on. the furin of Jo- seph Tully, who resides between the second and third lines of Smith, about five miles from Peterboro, MERCHANTS ORGANIZE Peterboro.~W, F, Dutcher of the Canadian Department Stores way elected chairman of the newly formed Merchants Section of the Peterboro Chamber of Commerce, WV, IH. Freel was olected un vice-chairman with Frank CG. Stinson as ex-officio secre- tary-terasurer, AYRSHIRE FIELD DAY Cobourg. =~An Ayrshire Vicld Day will be held at the home of J. Gore don Mann and Son, Bridgenorth, on une 18, when Professor Bell, of semptville Agricultural College and other prominent men will speak, TALKIES AT STIRLING Stirling ~The council is having the necessary changes made at the Stirl- ing Theatre for the installation of talkies and planning to have the opening night on Good Friday, NEW TRAINS WILL NOT STOP Cornwall,=New high speed trains which will link Toronto and Mon- treal on a six hour schedule will not stop at Cornwall, Information to this effect was secured by Mayor Aaron Horovitz who had a personal interview at Montreal with R. L, Fait. bairn, Traffic Manager of the Cana dian National Railways, SR. EARLIEST IN 26 YEARS Cornwall=The crossover light in the American channel opposite Ouk Point 1s now llumipated for the sea son, the date being the carliest for 26 years, BRIDGE TENDER ACCEPTED Belleyille~Belleville City Council has accepted the tender of the Hold- croft Construction Company of To- ronto for the construction. of a cems ent bridge across the Moira River, at # cost of 853955, Tourist traffic will be routed through a différent part of the city while the work is progress» ing. a -------------------- ON WHEAT STOCKS 45,524,000 Bushels In Farm- ors' Hands Includes Seed Grain | Winnipeg, April 14 Ihe Mam | taba Tree Press published the fol | lowing | "Some confusion is like from figures contained in a issued April 10, by the Dominion dealing Canada as {the Canadian Press stocks of wheat in Murch. 31, 1930. that 45,524,000 bushels of wheat were still in farmers' hands at the date and the general deduction will possi bly be that this amount of wheat has still to be delivered from the furms: whereas analysis of the figures show that the government has Included the amount required for seed for the new crop year to be sown this spring without making this.quite clear. "Taking the bureau's own figures as supplied by E, A, Ursell, statistls clan to the Board of Grain Comniis- sioners, it is seen that farmers in the theee prairie provinces delivered be tween August 1, 1929 and Mareh 31, | 1930, 'sei 222500000 bushels, On EXPLAINS FIGURES ° | | bg, Aris McKnight-Oliver Compan report | Bureau of Statistics and carried by | with This report stated | this Dasis therefore, only about 54,- WOM bushels of wheat remain on the fags and the usual amount al- lowed in the west for seed and feed requirements for one year is O00 bushels so that only 4,000,000 bushels of marketable gram should be delivered between April 1 and July 31, if the government's estimate of the size of the crop is correct, Includes ain "Chat the government has includ. ed seed requirements in its farm re- serve figures, can clearly scen if the comparison given for last year is analysed, 'The report states that on March 31, 1929, there were 04, 164,000 bushels of wheat in farmer's hasds, but the actual wheat deliver- ies between April 1, 1929 and July 31, 1929, were only 27,000,000 bushels, indicating that the balance of 37, 000,000 bushels or most of it, went into the ground us seed, as deliveries of cold crop wheat in August were very small, "In another part of the report it is. indicated that, the exportable sus- plus of wheat in Canada at March 31, 1930 was only 5837000 bushels, but this figure is only arrived at by allowing as for a carryover of 115, 000,000 bushels on August 1, or near ly as much as was carried over last yeur from a crop twice the size of the 1929 crop, "In submitting these figures, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics is an-|) ticipating an export demand for Canadian wheat this summer that does not even equal the small de- mand of the past eight months, Al- lowance is made for only 14,000,000 bushels monthly in the four months ending July 31, while the average for the past eight months, five of which found Argentine wheat of high quality almost excluding the Northern American' product. for Fu ropean markets, was about 14,500,000 bushels. Argentine competition since anuary first has dwindled to a point where it is hardly felt and Canadian wheat grade for grade with its world competitors is comparatively cheap and should get a proportionately lass ger share of the foreign business this summer than it did during the win- ter months," INVESTORS MAY RECOVER MONEY Assets May Cover All Claims April 4d Canadian Hamilton, ine Gloucester place, London, sued Jersey, but have now been turned over to @ receivership appointed fur settlement of cording to an antiouncement bere, creditors' claims, ace Instead of a barren 100 acres of 50,-| tand near New Brunswick which for- Mery represented the entire asscis o acres in industrial sites fronting on the Raritan River, three miles below New Brunswick, Knight, free under bond of $25,000 on fraud charges, has turned over, af- ter examination b rights on this land to the company. SPRING AND FALL the 'company, thete is now 171 Robert Me- Je Mr. Fair, all AFFAIR REVEALED Man of Seventy Gives Girl Automobile, Coat and Ring London, =~ A 70-year-old man's love for a young woman, a $500 en- gagement ring, a $2,250 fur coat, and 4 $9000 motor car figured in an ac- tion in the King's Bench Division in London, ' Miss Mary Belle Gavin, of Upper the Ltd, of lelephone Motor Works, Allsop place, W,, for the return of the car or for its value, The car, it was stated, had been deposited with the works as secur- ity for a loan of $425, The defence was that the car belonged to John Graham, of Maryville, Aberdeen, and It was admitted that it handed to his trustee. had been Sergeant Sullivan, K.C,; for Miss Gavin, sald Mr, Graham was over 70 years of age, and owned a motor bus service in Aberdeen, Miss Gavin was in business in London in 1928 when she met Mr, Graham first. Were Engaged After they had corresponded for some time, Mr, Graham returned to London and they became engaged in October of that year, Mr, Graham said he would take | her to the motor show and that he had a surprise for her. She suggest | ed that she wus not suitably dressed | and he bought her a fur cont for! which pounds, At the show she discovered that the surprise was a present of a beau- he paid several hundred yl tiful car which he presented to her I'he price was $9,180, but as Mr Graham was in the motor busifiess he obtained a discount of $1,375, Mr. Graham also bought her a diamond engagement ring, and when he returned home he wrote saying vestors who plunged almost a «quar. | that he had insured the fur coat for ter million dollars into stock of the MeKnight-Oliver Holdings Company " $2,250 and the ring for $500, He also wrote asking her to take and affiliated concerns and were then | a suite of rooms at a leading hotel informed that the firms were worth less may recover all their money, it] i was indicated here. Investigation 'by \. J. Arthur Fair, solicitor in the Department of the Attorney-General have disclosed assets amounting to between $150,000 and $300,000 to the eredit of the eom- panies, The greater part of those as it would not do him much good I it were thought he were marrying a girl in a humble position, but it would be to his advantage to have it thought he was marrying an heiress, i Man me Jealous Subsequently Mr, Graham became Jealous, said Sergeant. Sullivan, be- cause of a rumor that Miss Gavin holdings formerly lay in the name of | was going about with another man, the president, Robert McKnight, now under arrest at New Brunswick, New "In the = hotel you are termed wold-digger,'" he wrote, *I believed ESTEN VLETCHER Who left Toronto, Ontario, as n boy with ten cents in his pocket and returned a wealthy man, iy to receive the highest gift of the shrine Order, that of imperial potentate, at the forthcoming Shriners' convention next June. tained directly from peasant dealers «a boon for tens of thousands of children in Moscow whose rationed supply was not always forthcoming at the Government shops, due largely to inefficient methods of distribution and inadequate storage facilitics. JEWS TAKE BACK THEIR SYNAGOGUE SEIZED BY SOVIET Oust Communists From Building Converted Into Club Moscow, = The Jewish telegraphic agency says that Jews of Dubrovna (Minsk region) had taken over their confiscated synagogue and had bar red a Communist club from it, Theis action was unprecedented in Russia since the revolution, the agency said The Jews asked the chairman of the local Soviet to return the synu- gogue which had been converted into a Communist club against the wishes of the worshippers and without the knowledge of the Soviet central ex cutive committee, In this they were encouraged by the recent order of Joseph Stalin, head of the Commun. ist party = that no place of worship should be converted unless a major. ity of those concerned and the cen- tral executive committee sanctioned it, When the local chairman refused the request the Jews went to the synagogue, removed the Communist lock and put on their own Jock Members of the Communist arrived to learn they could not enter, The Jews said they felt Stalin's they intend to reopen the synagogue for Passover services, order made their action legal, CALLS WITNESS "LIAR" IN COURT English Court Astonished By Defendant's Action and London, April 14, == The Duchess of Leinster, the former May Ether idge, one-time musical comedy star, dramatically interrupted the testi- mony, of Stanley Williams, youthful chef, during her trial on a charge of attempted suicide, The testimony presented at the hearing was to the effect that she was living with Williams in Brixton when she was found unconscious near the gas oven, Williams testified that he and the Duchess had a quarrel and that he left the flat for five minutes. When he returned, he found the Duchess on the kitchen floor and the gas was turned on, "I put her on the bed," he said. "She lay quiet for half an hour and then started to rave like a lunatic, She raved about on the bed, trying to strangle herself." Du '1ess Denies Claim The Duchess jumped from her chair and shouted: "Liar, 1 did not and he knows | did not." When reprimanded by: the magis- trate, she subsided meekly und beg- ged pardon, Williams said that the Duchess kept up the raving for an hour and then he went to the police station, Here the defendant again interrupted saying: "He said goodbye to me." Williams told th: Court he was a chef and had been occupying a fure nished room with the Duchess for several weeks, Bail Refused I'he magistrate remanded the Du. chess for three days, although he ree fused to grant bail until he was sa- tisfied it would be safe, He said that he required the evidence of a doctor whom the defence counsel promised to bring later in the day Two doctors later testified that the Duchess had seemed quite ra- tional in the hospital. The magis- trate, however, said that, when he had granted bail, previously, he had not been in the possession of certain information he had now and that he could not grant the application for bail (The Duke of Leinster vas report- ed in despatches from Edinburgh several days ago to be planning to bring a second suit for divorce against the Duchess, He filed a suit some years ago but this was never pressed.) | Every nation represented at the London conference feels that fit must be prepared to meet the war that is not going to come, ~Toledo Man Struck by Train Lives to Pay $1 Fine Milton, == As the result of fre- quent accidents, many fatal, to peo- ple walking on the tracks, the Can- adian Pacific Railway is endeavoring to 'put a stop to the dangerous prac- tice, Samuel Wilson appeared be- fore Police Magistrate Moore here charged with trespassing on the C, P. R, tracks near Milton, and be- cause he had been struck by a train and narrowly escaped being killed, was allowed leniency and fined §| and .costs, FORMER KAISER STILL HAS HOPE Lisbon, Portugal.--The Journal Voz prints a purported interview with for- mer Emperor Wilhelm of Germany, in which the ex-Kaiser is said to have declared his certainty of returning to Germany, adding that if the German people don't want him, today, they are certain to hail. his return, some day, with joy. FINE ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE LONDON London,=Testimony to the fine work in architecture which is being performed in centres outside of Lon- don is afforded by the conferment of the Royal Gold Medal for this year upon Dr. Percy Worthington, of Manchester, It is the first time the King's Medal has been won by an architect practising in the Pro- vinces, Amongst his recent achieve- ments have been the Masonic Tem. ple in Manchester, the Ashburne Hall of the University, the new Grammar School, and many country houses in Cheshire and elsewhere, i Dr. Worthington's preference ap- pears to be for what may be termed the "modern classic." He, is 06 years of age, and the son of dn architect, After taking his Arts Degree at Cor~ pus Christi, Oxford, he had a brief experience with a London firm, Othe erwise his career has been spent in 'the Manchester district, CADI DRIVES 600 MILES IN WINTER IN OPEN SLEIGHS Gore Bay, Ont~Six hundred miles in open sleighs during the winter-- that is the mileage recorded by VF, W. Major, police magistrate for thé district, while performing his duties during the winter, "I wonder if you realize what that means?" Mr, Ma~ jor asked The Canadian Press res cently, "Imagine getting into ar open sleigh at 8 am, and sitting there all day while the horses trudge along for 40 or 50 miles, arriving at your destination at § or 6 pm. It may be that the weather is mild, with a soft, wet snow pelting into youf face all day, or it may be 20 below zero with a biting wind penetrating to the marrow, [ We long for the time in the spring when we can get our cars out, This spring we have been fortunate, for we have been using them since carly in March ...." WOOD Body Hard Hard Slabs Soft Slabs Cut to Stove Length and For Furnace or Fire Place For Cook Stove or Heater For Kindling or Cooking Guaranteed No. 1 Dry Blade, DIXON COAL CO. Telephone 262 Five Direct Lines and trusted you, and mew I am broken hearted, and consider life not worth living... You do not know how much I love you.' In a further letter he wrote: My Own Darling Billie~To keep you going 1 send postal orders for $50, which I hope will case your mind, 1 hope you have now got your hunger appeased, as I cannot afford to starve you. I do not wish people to think you are impecunious. People here say that I am marrying a millionairess, Please let them remain of that opin- fon, as it will do no harm. I hope fo will enjoy the car and make Ady ='s teeth water, Sergeant Sullivan said Mr, Graham sent down a chauffeur for the car, and Miss Gavin went to the hotel, Afterwards Mr, Gavin had a break- down. Miss Gavin received no mo- ney, and, as she had many bills to settle, she took the car to the de- fendants and received a loan of $425. Miss Gavin, in evidence, said Mr, Graham showed her the car, with the remark that it was one of a few Jedding presents he intended to give er Sevoral Added Specials FOR YOU In addition to our re gular weekly spocials wo now offer the thrifty housewives of Oshawa and vicinity, extra specials for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Shop Early--~Store Open From 9 to 6 Including Saturday Kitchen Furniture See Our Windows Porcelain Top Tables Stee 411% 227 in Reg. $1050. Special mr. 38:99 . 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