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PAGE SIX THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1930 ; KEPT HIS FATHER'S BODY TWO MONTHS Police Use Tear Gas to Force Son to Allow Its Removal (By Capadion Press Leased Wing) | Seattle, Washi, April. 25-~+Seattle were forced 10 Ung tenr gas ba to gain entrance to oe 'ednesday and overcome ito rigm me's resistance to the removal body of his father, Henry, who n ded for two menths, Ll mnots of a house owned by the father, alarmed hecnuse he had not appeared. to collect the rent, went 10 44 home to inguire if the seventy- yaursold man was ill, The son slam. med the door in their faces and the police were ealled, The 45-year-old son will be given a sanity hearing, police vuid, CALLS CONFERENCE ON AUTO KILLINGS Hoover Says * Traffic Condi. tions Have Outrun All Safety Measures Washington, April 25=President Hoover vesterduy turned his mind to the predicament of the man whe dodges---=and the appalling number of those who fail to dodge-=automohiles snd also to him who is moved to rofanity, or thereabouts by traffic ams, He announced that governors of all states and mayors of leading cities have accepted invitations to send delegates to a national conference on street and highway safety, As com» merce secretary, Mr, Hoover pros moted several such conferences and the drafting of a uniform traffic code, which has perhaps retarded but not eut down mueh the slaughter of the automobile, Increasing congestion of sireeis and roads, Mr, Hoover said in dis cussing plans for the conference here May 27, 28 and 29, "have eutrun all measures of safety," State and local authorities are re. sponsible for the traffic situation, he ointed out, adding that the Federal jovernment hins loaned its facilities smd enlled the eonference "in a view ta securing a spread of information with eorordinution in activities," ENFORCE. LAW ON INDIAN RFSERVE Man Whe Crashed Gate at Dance Gets 18 Months Brantford, April 25. Efforts to ens force law on the Six Nations Res jlrve were supported yesterday ns Aghard. Maracle, 17, was sentenced | to 18 months in Burwash prison for | nssdulting police.» Maracle "erashed Andrew Stauts on the reserve, 10 celebrate the marriage of Mr, and RT (PY NT A ~tonight, Your eliminative organs will be functioning prop. stipation will end with a bowel action as free and easy as na. pales no griping. it Hild, ly v Lh the gate" at wu dance ut the home of Mrs. Albert Staats, Take NU~NATURE'S REMEDY arly by morning and your eon. iF Vere at her best--positively no FREY Righard Maracle and his twe bro- thers, John and Lsaae, displeased the hosts, and R.CM.P, Constable Tra~ ves was asked to met as bouncer af ter Richard had danced with u young Tady in an Improper m anner, free-for-all started, during which Traves was knocked unconscious, stove wood being used, and the stove overturned, The Maracles got away before reinforcements could arrive but Richard was captured and the police are still looking for the other twain, Cobalt Mayor did Wear Chain (By Canadian Press Lassed Wire) Cobalt, Ag 25, After xin V.dned In 0 ww hall vaul twenty years, the chain of office worn by a former mayor of Cos halt, and by him bequeathed to his su-cossors, has 'e11 polished, and probably will be wonned by the present chief magistrate, ¥red A, Bullivan, at an early meeting of the counell, Composed of rich pleces of silver ore, strung together with links of silver, this unique symbol of the mayor's office was prepared at the instance of H, H, Lang, second mayor of Cobalt, and was worn by him duriug his term ot office, one of his cight successors has donned it, Mr, Lang was presi dent of the City of Cobalt Mining Company, and the ore came from AN WAGES BLIND MAN WAR ON ACCIDENTS Speaker Tells Safety Con- vention of Resolve Made At Parents' Graves Toronto," April 26--Only 15 pers cent, of safety can be assured by perfection of mechanical detail and the remaining 85 per cent, Is a matter of education, declared W, KE. Darling, of Cincinati, before the Ontario Safety Convention to. day, Mr, Darling, a blind man, told un attentive audience of his own personal experience, of an aoe. dent which brought disfigurement and loss of sight, and he urged with eloquence that the work of preventing industrial accidents should be prosecuted with unre. mitting energy, It was only a few years ago, sald the speaker, that safety was a vague idea, The War brought a general speeding and also an in. crease of the accident rate, Fae. tories were virtually forced to adopt safetly ideas and today none were without them, Modern Fools Those who helleve safely (alk is "the bunk," sald Mr, Darling, | | | are far behind times, Exports are not trying to make machinery | "fool proof" because they helleve most workmen fools, But the man who is egotistical enoogh to think he can escape hasards is a fool, No man, pointed out the speaker, can hope to duck the fly. ing pleves of a broken emery whee! nor can mere quickness save him from a slipping crane load, Safety work is not haphazard tos | day, continued My, Darling, It is built np of long, and oft-times sad experience, When a shop machanie | crossing a street Intersection is protected by a guard it Is not mere. {ly because someone conceives the | {dea of danger, IL is because some. | time, somewhere, accident and re- sulting injury occurred at such a place, Tells His Ntory Mr, Darling told his story--not for pity, he explained, but as a struck aeross the face with a plece struck across the fact with a piece of stes), He was disfigured and blinded, Parts of his face were re- built hy clever plastic surgery, Within a few months of his trou. ble his father and mother died and he swore at thelr graves (hat he | would dedicate his life to the pre. vention of accidents and to pre. vent suffering, such as his parents had suffered, when he was diss abled on the threshhold of a proms {sing )ife, H Hr i URGES SCHOOLS TO TEACH FIRST AID W. D. Robb Tells of Work Being Done for Safety On C. N. R. Toronto, April 25, == The first air aim of 8 great rallway---to make it impossible for sn aveie- ont to happen to employes or pas~ senger throughout 28,000 miles 'of system without there being available an employes with know ledge of frst ald-~was explained to the Ontario Safety Convention W, D, Robb, vies-president of the Canadian Nations] Railways, today, Mr, Robb went into the history of the system's first aid offorts for the last 20 years and, not only this, but traced hospital work back through the Middle Ages to the formation of the great hospital associations which came into being at the time of the Crusades, Tnstruetion Clnsses The Canadian National Rullwazy holds instruction clasess through- out its system: It has three instrue tion and emergency hospital cars and its Instructors ald boys and girls who ave studying first aid courses in the schools, sald Mr, Robb, "The Dominion of Canads,'" sald the rallway executive, "should have before It the same sim as we have on the rallway---that ne nocident could heppen anywhere in the country without the nuces~ sary aid heing immediately avall- able, This aim could be realized if first aid classes were Instructed universally in the schools," Youth Retains Knowledge "The course given to scholars nead not he as extensive as we have on the road," continued Mr, Robb, "But it could be made in. teresting and attractive, The knowledge acquired would stand the boys and girls In good stead throughout their lives, The school should he the first place of instrue- tion for the things learned by n plastic mind In youth are the things most likely to be retained by the memory through life," Mr, Robb told of work by C, N, R. Instructors to help students in schools in a first aid way, We instanced one case in which five boys and seven girls were present. od with first ald junior certifie Inst February at Edson, Alberta, The certificates were awarded by the Ht, John Ambulance Associs: tion==to which body Mr, Robb paid many tributes--as & result of the pupils passing examinations i = WALTER IRVING Canadian, who was one of the In. mates of the Ohio state prison at Columbus at the time of the fire which took B10 Hives, Sy -- preaking of the sanguinary custom nf our savage ancestors, paralleled hy the practice, at an officer's funeral of leading his charger as a symbol. feal suerifice at the grave Viking Launchings When w ship was launched by he Vikings it was the eustom for vies a acataamm--s {ims to be hound to the rollers over which the war«galley was '0 be run down to the sen, 50 the "stem was sprinkled with bLleod," for which in modern times, thf recent f Ai wine was generally substituted, The early Greeks decorated their newly completed ships with garlands of flowers and adorned the brow of the navigator with & floral erown, A priest "purified" he boat In some fitting manner and then consecrated it to the God whose image it hore, This custom of bedecking the boats with flowers still persists st some of the Gregan ports while the Cap~ tain, replacing the Prist takes 0 jar of wine, sips 4 little of it and pours the rest over the deck, A century wo, the supply of for. est timber for the small schooners was centered around small settle ments located about & mile back from the const of Maine, The smaller boats were constructed at these set- tlements and when completed were dragged in eradles to the shore hy many yokes of oxen and horses, The neighbors all turned out and lent a willing hand as long as the owners fept & goodly flow of good old New England rum running, First Dry Launching Tn 1851 Maine's first prohibition aw did away with this happy old function and in 1887 the hargue Geo rige A Wright was launched without the aid of "demon rum." A bouquet of flowers was hung over her Jib boom Ihstead of hardy old mariners RA: on such a namby-pamby send off predicted all sorts of dire fortunes for the craft, Bix weeks later while off the Kastern edge of the Newfoundland Bunks, bound from Boston to Liverpool, the Wright's cargo shifted, the vessel turned turtle and down she went Another boat, u sardine carrier, was faunched at Friendship, Me, and its owners being ardent prohibitionists decided to call it the W .C, T, U As the "sardiner" slid down the ways she was christened with a bottle of mineral water to the At dombaniment of temperance songs, The L1 UU, was an able boat and did good service "for a number of years hut 0 persusl of the maine registers for the lust four or five years fails to show her registered, Tt would rather interesting to know her fate, Miyhe she has lived up to her name, maybe not, Other Superstitions One of the earliest superstitions wis that rats leaving a host gen erally indicated ps, Boom This undoubiedly was a throwback from the iden that erows will not hyild thelr nests in trees that are likely to fall, Another was that certain ships were "Jonahs" and a skipper would have much difficulty in signing on a crew, no matter how sound or sea worthy his boat might be, if this dreaded rumor should hanpen to he spread shout the vessel, Trouble was exnerienced fn the old days liv some individuals, even if they were ex frowiing a a Only metal k " eep its gar freshness Backnges can _ 'Fresh from the gardens' pert fishermen, when they sought a berth, Merely a word to the effect that a certain person was a "Jonah" wis enough to keep the Old Man" from signing him on, A cherished early superstition was that i nn man tore Ws finger on u fish hook he should Immediately tei the hook from its ganging and keep it free from rust until the wound henled, thus forestalling blood pols oning, Sl unother had to do with the procuring of a nal! from a church and fashioning It inte a fishhook, It wis helleved that no fish In the sen could withstand the temptation of such a hook, The early Firing used to believe that the reason the flound er was white on 'one side was he cause the Virgin Mary bad laid her hand on one of them and the side she touched turned white and has so remained ever since throughout the flounder {amily Thess superstitions and many oth. ors have endured through the ages and today a group of "old timers gathered together to attend the ehris tening of some new schooner mutter: ings. of "treason" and predictions. of dire misfortung ean he heard against bouts that are sent down to the ser without the ald of time honored tra dition "I saw the moon late vestreen With the old moon in her armss And i we go out to sea master I fear we'll come to harm," a 0] through the assistance of C, N, R, instructors, MANCHESTER NEWS Manchester, April 24. Mrs, Pon. nock, Mrs, Robinson and son, of Toronto, were recent visitors at the home of MissiAnnie Rees, Mr. Chas, Lamb, Fred, Hattie, and Mrs, ¥, Johnston attended the funeral of the late Wm, Junken, at Fenelon Valls, on I'riday last, Interment was made at Boboaygeon comeatory, Mr, George Windrim and daught- or Rilla, of Lindsay, spent Sunday at the home of Mr, C, K, Lamb, We are very pleased to have Mr, and Mrs, Frank Lamb, who spent the winter. months at the home of Mrs, Carnegie, In Port Perry, back to thelr home in our village again. Mr, and Hrs, Tallor and daughts or Annie have been spending the last couple of weeks in Toronto, Miss Viola Mitchell, Buffalo, spent Easter with her parents Mr, and Mra, Pos, Mitohell, My, and Mrs, Joe Cooper of Whitby, were recent visitors here, On Monday, April Sth, the Quart. erly Board meeting will be held At the parsonage, Mrs, Ashton who has been fuls filling Miss Reosor's duties the lat. ter's illness and absence as teacher has returned to her home in Ashe burn, Nefors Ner departure she présented to each ohild an Easter ef and rabbit candy which the children greatly appreciated. We expect to have Miss Reesor with us again after Easter holldays, Mr, and Mrs, Wright Crozier at. tended special Kastor Services fn Toronto. on Sunday which they greatly enjoyed, Mr, and Mrs, Geo, Samells, of Sougog, were with thelr parents a day last week, Mr, Fred Masters has purchased A New Oar, The Auxilary will meet on Friday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the home of Mra, A, BE, Bpencer, Miss Hazel Gregg her Easter Holidays wit Aletha Barrett, In pending Ming Mesrs Fred Brooks, Elgle Lamb, } Wrneat Holtby, James Hitchens and A, Simpson, were recent visitors in Toronto, Mra, Coultls is visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Real of Greenbank, er mr -------- SUPERSTITIONS OF SEA ARE RECALLED First Ship Launched After Prohibition Had Disasts rous Career Portland, Me~The age old sup- erstitions which have endured since man first went down to the gea in ships are bowing to the onsiaughts of modern education, but a fow of them ail persist and probably al wa ; The early superstitions had more to do with the launching of a boat than ny the actual [anagl of the vessel, It is not imp blo that Captain Noah, when he cast off his shore lines and started his memers able cruise to Mt, Ararat, rubbed the hump of the camel for luck as he came up the gangplank, even as many a bottle of Brut Imperial Pons sardin or ery Sec, has been broken over the bows of vessels sails ing the Newfoundland Banks, The ' | To HeLr You GET Economical MoToRING py gE THE NEW THE assurance of good dealer service, at all times, Is as much a feature of the Ford car as its beauty of line and color, safety, com. fort, reliability, economy and ease of control, In addition to the main factory at East Windsor, Ontario, assembly branches are located at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, with sales and service branches at London, Saint John, Regina and Calgary. 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