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Oshawa Daily Times, 26 Nov 1930, p. 1

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"All the News While It Is News" A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Che Oshauva Daily Times VOL. 7--=NO. 124 "Sota ers 'ai Sone itsndors . OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1930 WESTERN BLIZZARD TAKES SIX LIVES 250 Are Killed by Earthquake That Rocks J apan| ; COLD WAVE DESCENDS ON OVER 700 BUILDINGS ARE STORAGE GRAIN |PRAIRIE-WIDE | CANADIAN VESSEL PRAIRIES; SNOW BLANKET DESTROYED BY SHOCK AND SHOWS INCREASE SY GOOD LUCK SEED, TIES UP TRANSPORTATION | } Tiree Die From Exposure, W W | Than Last Year, However, | FIRE HICH FOLLO ED IT ; R ¢ Sh re Two From Auto Accidents epor 0 fe | Po Farmers of Four Provinces Caused by Storm and One Number of f Known Dead! PE (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) } Meet in Saskatoon to (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 5 PER CENT. OF CROP Winnipeg, Man, Nov. 26--Cana- o Washington D.C., Nov. 26.--No ! Reached 250 Towiehi, WEST DE NDS T 0 | dian i, at in store ar Nov. 21, ac- f Discuss Problems protest against the seizure of the " cording to reports received here to- - vessel, Good | Alberta Organization Sold | | SITUATION GR GROWING MU H N 00 Canadian Legation today, ecrease of nearly 2. Stabilization of grain prices Reports were that counsel fol plete 0000" "bushels as com pared to through government intervention, | Captain Donovan, Lunenburg, N.S. -- | master of the vessel, planned a -- Q compared with 3,554,159 Jor the prey? meeting opening here today. The pie Bs the Theat 28 tiv IY, Ala, # 1018 week. 'rom anadian pacihe >. sess , called t ron- | m runner, 1e 1 QOC JUCK | 'e an six-tenths percent of all | Bacon Market ihrée-qay sessions, called to. eon was captured Sunday by the des- [the wheat marketed in Alberta dur- (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) | ports, 1,679,265 . - service ' yells prices, will be attended by repre- : at The R.T. Members of the crew represented 35,442,410 bushels as en But Not Seriously Eater wan ans Ostario farm | vessel had been beyond | compared with 45.5 per cent, of the ern Canada farmers are "putting all | try bodies, {the 12-mile limit. From Fall Caused by Ice With Reports From All! wens Canadian ofl screw | talled 200,466,565 bushels--a gain of (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) at 35 Million Bushels Last | WORSE EVERY HOUR -- | year ago. Ocean. shipments during a t of ic | Should Raise More Stock pments during | stands high in the list of topics protest to Canadian authorities i Canadian Press Lossed Wire) | OVER WIDE AREA wee m p seaboard ports, shipments totalled 1,- ave ing west 7 ' ? ; Sider the grave erigis lacing West troyer Porter of the Coastguffd [ing the season of 1929-30 was hand- Toronto, Nov. 26--In depending for The crew was | €rop represented by 67,168,756 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy EIGHT PAGES News in Brief {By Canedion Frost) Rich Gold Strike umored Brisbane, Australia, -- A rich gold find is reported from Ban- nockburn 50 miles from Rochamp- ton, Many claims have been peg- ged out, a LJ LJ] Limit Juvenile Settlers Ottawa.--Juvenile immigration into Canada will be limited in the future to actual demands, it was decided here at a conference at- tended by representatives of govern- ments and societies interested im boy settlement work. ASK MORE MONEY FOR WORK IN NORTH 1,450 Unemployed Being Used to Clear Fire Haz- ards and Townsites 26..~--Application Toronto, Nov. 2 to the provincial treasurer for an additional $40,000 to spend on clearing fire hazards and townsites in morthern Ontario using unem- ployed labor has been made by Hon. William Finlayson, minister lands and forests, who states e appropriation of $80,000 had ia been exhausted, The additional funds will be used | Crew Claims It Was Captur- !" ed Outside 12-Mile Limit; -- Gunfire Used the : Snow Blocking Highways in Manitoba, Wire Services Disorganized, Street Cars Moving With Difficulty (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, Nov, 26.--A cold wave, sweeping down from the northwest brought death and suffering to the greatest change in the status na rage occurred in western coun- elevators stocks which were soact | Luck had been received Districts Not Yet _ | Juak. ad Sushila from- the preceding! Saskatoon, Sask., Nov. f d or | Season the week totalled 5,154,946 Mn hig before the interprovincial agrari » | before ovincial agrarian | Fine Opportunity in p against the seizure of the boat as Jalgary, Alta., Nov. 26.--Forty- | V 1 190,681 and from Canadian Atlantic | orn farmers due to low rain Tokyo and Yokol Shak- armors. dve y! 2 and towed to Providence, [led by the Albert a wheat pool, and | , to. sentatives of Manitoba, Alberta, their livelihood on wheat alone west- | of ste serted the in the Port Arthur district. Ap- proximately 1,450 men are at pres- ent engaged in this class of work, exclusive of the men who will be given jobs in the Port Arthur dis- trict. Distribution of the first alloca- tion of $80,000: Hudson inspecto- rate, $15,000; Kenora, $2,000; Thunder Bay, $40,000; Oba, $3,- 500% Cochrane, $12,000; Sault Ste. Marie, $12,000; Sudbury, $18,500; North Bay, $5,500; Georgian Bay, $1,000; Algonquin Park, $2,600; Trent, $1,950. In addition to the $12,000 spent in Cochrane, Kirkland Lake is con- tributing $2,000 to relief projects. BiG LOSS FROM CATTLE DISEASES Abortion Causes $3,500,000 Loss Yearly and Spreads to Humans Toronto, Nov. 26.--More than 150 stock-breeders attended a meet- ing held at the Royal Winter Fair by the Ontario Research Founda- tion to hear reports of progress made in the study of a disease which in cattle is causing an econo- mic loss of about $3,500,000 yearly in Ontario, and which, when com- municated to humans, causes a great loss in man-power. Dr. T. A. Russell chairman of the Foundation's committee on infec- tious abortion among cattle, pre- sided at the meeting. He mention. ed that a conservative estimate of the loss, according to data gathered by the committee, is $3,5600,,000 an- | nually in this province alone. He emphasized the importance to breeders, especially, of cleaning up their herds by discovering cattle in- fected, and either segregating or slaughtering those diseased, thus preventing spread of the malady. INCENDIARY FIRE DESTROYS FACTORY Halifax, N.S., Nov. 26.--Fire be- lieved to. be of incendiary origin, last night destroyed the old fac- tory of John P, Mott and Company in Dartmouth. Until a few years ago well known brands of choco- late, cocoa and spices had been produced there, and practically all the machinery, idle since suspen- sion of activities, was destroyed in the blaze, The loss was estimated to be in excess of $25,000, COMMITS SUICIDE. AFTER OPERATION '" Welland, Nov. 26--Oliver Chouiu- ard, 30, Welland, was drowned late vesterday, when, it is believed, he became mentally deranged and plung- ed into the Welland river. A widow and one child survive. Chouinard was a patient at the Welland county hospital where he had been taken to have an operation performed for appendicitis. The op- ~ration had been successfully per- syrmed and doctors said he was mak- { A deep low area covers the easiern portion of Canada with its centre to the northward of Ungava (28.62 inches at Reso- Jution Island) while high pres- sure covers the western half of the continent, The weather has turned colder in Ontario and Quebec with local snow. falls and flurries and strong winds and moderate gales with heavy rains have occurred in the Maritime provinces. Tem- peratures of ten degrees below zero were general in Manitoba Jast night, while in Alberta the weather has continued compar atively mild, Lower Lake Region and Georgian Bay: Strong west to northwest winds tonight and Thursday: partly cloudy and cold with local snowfalls or flurries, Followed Series of Minor Earth Shocks Since Nov- ember 10 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Tokyo, Nov. 26.---The death toll of today's earthquake on the Izu peninsula reached 250 tonight when reports from nearly all districts had been compiled. The home office listed the number of seriously in- jured at 182. Houses destroyed numbered 645 and 4,449 buildings were seriously damaged, Seventy- nine other buildings were razed by fire. The home office announced there were 223 dead in the Izu region. The governor of Kanagaw prefec- ture reported 27 deaths in the Ha- kone district, Communications Down Cripled communication lines de- layed reports from many districts and Shizuoka authorties dispatched two airplanes to survey the stricken district in an attempt to determine the full extent of the disaster. A report to the ministry of rail- ways that ninety persons were kill- ed in a landslide at Shuzenji Hot Springs was not confirmed. Au- thorities sought information con- cerning the famous Tanna Tunnel between Atami and Numazu near- ing completion after ten years of labor. It was feared many work- men were inside the tunnel when the western entrance collapsed dur- Ing the quake. Felt Over Wide Area The quake was felt over a wide area, Tokyo and Yokohama felt the shock, but no serious damage was done in these two cities. Fire followed the quake in many places, adding materially to the damage. Homes, bridges and rail- ways were destroyed. The quake apparently was the climax of a series which have been felt recently through the northern part of the peninsula, The region experienced an aver- age of 3300 minor shocks dally since November 10, . including a severe quake yesterday afternoon. Tokyo central observatory re- corded the quake as beginning at 4:03 am. today (2.30 p.m, Tues- day, E.S.T.), and quickly reaching a dimension of forty milimeters. The seismograph continued to rec. ord shocks for thirty minutes, TWO ARE INJURED BY HOSPITAL CAR (By Canadian Press Léased Wire) Barrie, Nov, 26.--Struck by an Ontario hospital motor car while walking along the highway near here last night, Elmer Matthews, 40, and Philip Desjardines, 42, of this town, are lying in a hospital here in a critical condition, Morley Ferguson, chauffeur em- ployed at the hospital, who was driving the car which struck the men, stated both were walking along the road on the "wrong side." The men were walking in the same direction as the car, and snow freez- ing on the windshield made visi- bility poor, Morley claimed, their eggs into ong basket," ed G. I. Christie, IPS. A., president of the Ontario Agricultural College addressing, the Canadian Fe at we ame | Telephone Association here at its an- nua' convention. "Low price grain ryin to the farmers, where you can grow raise live stock," said not does Kran Dr Canada, he added, had a great chance | to break into the bacon arkets, which are now being virtually opolized by the danes. Pessimism Here Predicts Canada Will Make More Rapid Recovery Than Most Nations (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Montreal, Nov. 26.--There Is nothing in the economic condition of Canada today to warrant a pes- simistic outlook, in the opinion of Anthony J. McMillan, general in London for who returned to Montreal yester- day after making his annual trip tcross the dominion on behalf of the Financial Times, London, of | spelt | for in a country | mon- | | Were Huddled Together in No Ground For former agent- | Manitoba, | declar- | shown at 72,720,564 bushels as com- | pard | week. with 78,163,679 the preceding Find Bodies of Child Victims One End of Burned Barn Near Belleville (By Canadiap Press Leased Wire) Belleville, Nov. 26.--The bodies of Hazel, Lorne and James Will- man, children of Mr, and Mrs Thomas Willman who perished in a fire, when the barn on the Will- man property was razed to the ground yesterday, were discovered by searchers early today. The bodies were huddled to- gether in ome end of the cow barn where they apparéntly took refuge from the fire instead of trying to beat a retreat from the burning building. Colin Bain, an employee on another closeby farm, who tried to rescue the children, is suffering from the effects of his effort of yesterday, when he was nearly overcome with smoke trying to force his way into rescue the little ones: Mrs, Willman is suffering greatly from shock and is which paper his is a special repre-| (he care of a physician, sentative, He sailed on the Duchess of Bedford, today. "I have made many |an journeys | from The bodies have been taken to undertaking parlor in whence the funeral will be across Canada," said Mr, McMillan, | held. "but on this trip, while I have heard | more pessimistic talk than about two hopeful the past men who are very the future. During months I ously over the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, gathering accurate information te put before British public concerning conditions here. Canada, in com mon with most other countries, suffering from low prices for our | kinds from cons volume modities of all quent bad trade and a unemployment, recover from depres- the present sion more quickly than we shall in | most | England, more quickly than countries. On two or three years gone by, I have k ada to pass through periods of de- pression when times were worse than they are today but she always emerged from these difficulties and developed on a larger occasions, in ad heard during the last months I am confident she will do so again." Liner Sinks Tug Vancouver.--The harbor tug Mer- rylea was rammed and sunk by the Princess Elaine, Canadian Pacific passenger vessel, outbound for Nan- almo, in a heavy mist just outside Prospect point last night. Mem- bers of the tug crew were rescued. Nations Planned Large Army to Overthrow Soviet, Traitor Says (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Moscow, Nov. 26--Great Britain and France were depicted as melevo- lent plotters secking to intervene in Soviet Russia and overthrow the Commumst regime, -by Professor Leonid Ramzin, "confessing" before a revolutionary tribunal which is trying him for high treason. Professor Ramzin, speaking into a microphone which carried his voice to the furthest reaches of the Com- munist federation told an amazing story of intrigue, mentioning casually as co plotters with him, former pres- ident Poincare of France, Airstide Briand, French foreign minister, "col- onel Lawrence™ and "Lord Church- ill" of England, and other figures of the two countries, The defendant, who is tle leader of a group of eight prominent So- viet engineers who are facing death sentences on their pleas of guilty to the counter revolutionary conspiracy, declared that British support to the plot waned after the second Mac- Donald regime . was established in 1929 'and relations with the Soviet were re-established; thereafter, he said, the French and border coun- tries, Poland and 'Rumania, and Jug- oslavia were the principal conspira- tors Ramzin told of meeting a General Janville of the French general staff in Paris and, in company with a former Czarist general Lukomsky, of discussing with him plans for inter-. vention in Soviet Russia, They a- greed that a force of 600,000 or 700, 000 men, to be furnished: principally by Rumania, Poland and Jugoslavia, with aid from White Russian sources would 'be sufficient for their purpose once the plotters had been able to pave the way inside the Soviet Uu- ion, usum, | | on the other hand I have met many | have travelled continu- | |4sm to defeat general | It will no doubt, | nown Can. ! scale than | before, and from what I have seen | two | Edison Studies Fog I'roblem West Orange, N.J.--Thomas A Edison is devoting his {inventive ability toward developing mechan- aviation"s greatest | 108, PARTY MAY GIVE FERGUSON LEAVE enemy ~ TOGO TO LONDON Cabinet Discusses Appoint- | ment; Party Caucus to be Held Thursday (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Nov. 26,--The Provin-' cial situation with the acceptance or refusal by Hon. G. Howard Fer- guson, Premier of Ontario, of the post of Canadian High Commis- sioner in London, was discussed yesterday at the first meeting of the Ontario Cabinet since Mr. Fer- guson returned from England. Premier Ferguson declined to make any statement at the con- clusion of the Cabinet Council, but the Cabinet decided on a course of action to be pursued the Conservative Party caucus to be held on Thursday at which the rank and file of the government's supporters will hear the situation discussed, Premler Ierguson, while still on the high seas sald he would put the matter of his acceptance or refusal of the High Commissioner- ship before his party and abide by their wishes.' In line with his declaration, it is belicved a deci gion will be reached at the caucus. Thoso in touch with provincial affairs believe the Ontario Premier received the support of his cabinet at the conference = yesterday and look for the caucus on Thursday approving of Premier Ferguson accepting the post. On the other hand, it is expect- ed strong opposition will be voie- ed to Mr. Ferglison leaving On- tario as a considerable faction of the Conservative party hag already expressed its opinlon that the ser- vices of the premier are indispen- sible. nh av The gathering plans to late a stand to be adopted by or- ganized agriculture for communi- cation to premier R. B., Bennett on under | Stirling | '} Dr his return possibly early next { month from overseas. It is expect. | | ed the proposal for a prairie-wide | compulsory grain pool will also come before the meeting, as well as suggesting for freight rate and crop Insurance assistance, The 100 per cent. pool has al- ready been sponsored by United Farmers of Canada, Saskatchewan Section, and favorably ballotted on by members of the Saskatchewan Pool, Members of the Manitoba Pool plan an educational campaign followed by a plebiscite on the question, and the United Farmers of Manitoba at thelr annual con- vention last week entered a re quest for legislation enabling a plebiscite, United Farmors of Al- berta so far have not voiced ap. proval of the plan, [GE RAFT SAVES MAROONED MAN Uses Unique Method to Save Himself (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Point Barrow, Alaska, Nov, 26. Marooned on a small {sland of {cc while hunting a polar bear, Joe, an Eskimo, fashioned a rough raft from the ice and used a rifle stock | as a paddle to make 'his way to | safety in a 42-hour battle, finally | | reaching shore jce near here yes. terday. He was exhausted, hungry and By frost bitten fingers. While he was on the jce temperatures rang- | 20 to 30 degrees below ed from zero. Killing one bear and wounding another, the Eskimo tracked down | | the second animal and killed it. the hunt he had left the shore sev- 1 miles behind him, The ice be- id drifting rapidly northward, Knowing rescue was impossible the | Eskimo made his raft and started | on the return journey. NORWEGIAN KING'S Attends Special Cere- mony in Oslo (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Oslo, Norway, Nov, 26.--Den- mark joined with Norway yesterday in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of assumption of King Haakon VII of the country's throne, King Haakon, until he became ruler of Norway, was Prince Carl of Den- mark, King Haakon and Queen - Maud naturally were the chief figures in the national celebration but group. ed around them iu the capital's principal church in a solemn com- memorative ceremony was a royal company who included King Chris tian and Queen Alexandria of Deh- mark, other members of the Danish royal family, and Prince George of Great Britain, who is the nephew of Queen Maud, Many thousands of Oslo's popu- lation turned out to applaud the royal figures as they arrived at the church for the ceremony and the of the city's prominent peoplé as it could contain after officials were seated. The commemorative ser vice was of simple character with a suitable ritual and music, mon being delivered by the rector, Maront formu- | der way to confiscate the ship and | | slayer owner of the place. Trapped on Ice Floe, Eskimo | | of | while returning In | SILVER JUBILEE Prince George of England] | Boyd, | Atlantic, edifice was crowded with' as many, | four hours and 33 the ser-!ing out nt 10.27 yesterday morning | older heads. released but preparations arc un- its cargo of 501 cases of liquor, Smiles at Thugs Broker is Killed Shot Down by by Bandits Who | Stage Raid on Road . e a House in Illinois Glen View, fl1l.,, Nov. 26.--Be- cause he smiled when four masked robbers commanded the patrons of a roadside saloon to 'throw up your hands" Russell Thompson, 35, Evanston broker, was shot down and instantly killed today. "Don't smile," the bandit lead- | er qrdered, when Thompgon, one of thyee men at a side table, look- ed his way, At the same time he rafsed his gun and fired blank, the charge striking broker in the left breast, "You can see we're tough," called to Frank "Now open up We're in a hurry." one of the robbers guard- ed him, Engel nervously dialed the combination. The robbers scooped up about $150 and fled with two companions, who had remained outside, in a large sedan, the | that safe, While ' DOCTOR HELD UP, THUGS GET NOTHING Stratford, Nov. 26. -Dr, C. A Houze of Mite hell, Ont., veterinary surgeon, was held up at the point a revolver by two armed thugs from a profes- sional call early this morning, The two thugs escaped with no loot. Before they left him Dr. | Houze's clothing was torn and a [ bullet whizzed by | itself in the roof of the him and buried car, BOYD GIVEN BIG REGEPTION ON HIS ARRIVAL AT HOME Crowds Welcome Him Toronto After Flight in Bad Weather Toronto, Nov. 26-~--Displaying the same adroit' handling of his ma- | chine which saved him many a time {during his wartime civilian career, Captain J. Errol first Canadian to span the arrived back home for a triumphal welcome yesterday after- noon in the Jlaple Leaf monoplane, erstwhile Columbia. From the first moments of his arrival congratulations were heaped upon him by his immediate family, local aviators and citizens general- ly. There was little let-up in the welcome he received till late last night when he retired in his suite at the Royal York Hotel. Four hundred persons braved the raw, biting westerly wind to greet him when he landed at the airport and thousands cheered him at the civic reception in front of the city hall later on, Captain Boyd was faced with & ticklish problem in landing the Maple Leaf at the Century airport. Dufferin Street, With such a wido wing expansion and nosing into a strong head wind, the battered old monoplane came to earth like a glider at precisely three o'clock, Forced to buck head winds of 50 miles an hour, the plane had made a slow trip from Montreal, cover- ing the 330-0odd miles in exactly minutes, Start. and flying it had encountered poor visibility 'and low ceiling as far as Kingston. point | the | Engel, | in| | bushels the year before. This was shown in the report of R. D. Purdy, general manager of the pool in Alberta, presented at the annual' meeting of the wheat pool here. In addition, the 680 bushels of coarse grains, "Operation and administration $275,- the past season amounted to 873.99 or .76 cents per bushel (ap- proximately 3-4 of one cent) on wheat handlings compared to .52 cents per bushel (approximately 1-2 of one cent) in the 1928-29 | season. Border Patrol Officers Held | Twenty Charged With Con- | spiracy to Smuggle Beer From Canada to Detroit (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Detroit, Nov. 26.--Charges of engaging in a conspiracy to smug- gle beer and liquor from Canada were made against approximately 20 men, some of them former cus- toms border patrolmen, in war- rants issued federal authorities to- | day. Nine of the men named are un- | der arrest, They were ordered ar- raigned today before Commission- cr J. Stanley Hurd. Six of them are former customs border inspec- | tors and the others were described | as down-river bootleggers, "Nearly a dozen" other men | were named in the same warrant, Gregory YI. Frederick, chief assist- | ant district attorney said. Their f names were withheld pending ar- | rest. Some of them are former in- spectors and gers, he said. Canadian brewers are alleged to | have paid bribes to customs bor- der patrolmen to insure uninter oe | | Pilots Would Be Trained in rupted passage for boat loads of beer across the Detroit river. Some brewing companies are { said to have evaded the Canadian | | anti-export law by establishing | warehouses some distance from their main plants and diverting to |'the river trackloads of beer osten- fuibiy enroute to those warehouses. Along the waterfront, the beer | would he loaded into boats, and | smuggled into the United States. Textile Executive Dies St. Catharines.--Fred R. War. | ren, vice-president and general ! manager of Warren Bros. Knitting { Company, diea suddenly: last night of acute indigestion. - - LJ ~The King today re- ceived Charles Bentick, British Minister at Lima, Peru, in an au- Jdience at Buckingham Palace. London.- Alberta | pool lagt year also handled 1,938,-| |and exposure expenses of our provincial pool for | | woman was killed when her auto- others are bootleg- | middle® west, many gections of which were blanketed with snow, At least six deaths were attribut- ed, directly or indirectly to the storm, Two were in Chicago, where a railroad switchman slipped from the icy top of a car in a fatal fail, accounted for anotb-~ er victim, At West Bent, Iowa, a mobile skidded on an icy road and turned over, and another met death at Lebanon, Ind. where a blinding snow prevented her from seeing an | approaching train. Deaths From Exposure Milwaukee reported one death from exposure, as temperatures throughout Wisconsin ranged from 20 above to near zero. Peoria, I11., also reported one death from the game cause, In Chfcago, more than 2,500 men sought protection during a night of biting cold in police stations and shelters for the unemployed as plang went forward to make further pro- vision for their comfort. The tem- perature sank as low as 16 above yesterday, with snow flurries and colder weather predicted for today for Chicago and other parts. of the middle west. Blizzard Hits Manitoba Winnipeg, Nov. 26--Blizzard conditions prevailed in Manitoba today. A windswept snow was fast L'ocking highways and "making transportation services in the cities operate under difficulties. Portage La Prairie, hit by last i'riday's storm, reported the worst blizzard of the year, with trafic completely tied up, and disorganiz- ed wire services, In Winnipeg, sireet car and motor traffic moved under difficulties as a stiff northwest breeze whipped the snow into whirling blinding masses. Conditions were growing worse hourly. AIR SCHOOL 15 BRITISH SCHEME Elements of Efficient Air Transport London, Nov. 26.--~A scheme to establish an imperial school of air pilotage, for training and testing future professional pilots in pilot- age, navigation, meteorology, the economics of air transport and in- ternational air legislation, etc., is being submitted to the British air ministry by the special sub-commit- tee appointed by the late air minis- ter, Lord Thomson. This was revealed at the first an- nual meeting of the guild of air pilots and air navigators of the British empire. It is suggested the course would last one or two years and would be available to picked, experienced pilots, including over- seas and foreign aviators, (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Buffalo, N.Y. Nov. 26--Anxiety of Herbert O'Connor, Shakesperian act- or, for the safety ot his little daugh- ter, Rosemary, has turned to pride, days, has been found and has demon- strated ability to take car of herself. Her father came here recently from Hamilton Ont, to 'reside and last Thursday" his little daughter left a Hamilton convent to come here and join him. A telegram telling of her trip failed to reach the parent, and when she stepped from a train into a strange city, no one was on hand to greet her. The child was perpléxed, but un- daunted. Sho took a room for the night at the Y.W.CA, and next morning had only 35 cents left. It took her only a few minutes fo work out a problem that has baffled many Shie invested her meager capital in 'Christmas cards, at a. penny apiece for the 13-year-old: girl, missing five' Hamilton Child, Lost in Buffale, Proves Ability to Pay Her Way Fortified with her fetching smile, she sallied forth to the street corners and sold her cards at 5 cents each, get- ting enough funds with which to eat. After supper, she took a stroll, pass- ed a theatre displaying an amateur ni 'ht sigh and determined to put her talents to a test. Entering, she first canvassed the audience, asking mem- bers if they would "give a little girl a big hand," Then she did a tap dance, sang two songs and told a couple of jokes. The applause was spontaneous, The management of the theatre awarded her first prize--$1.50. She paid her room rent and bought more greeting cards. The newspapers car« ried a story of the child's disappear- ance. A woman who had seen the little performer in the. theatre called up the police station and two big police officers aud a police-woman finally located Rosemary in another theatre. She was pre parin g& again 10 put her histronic abilities to a test. >

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