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"PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES, FIRE (Continued from page 1) will stagger you. I do not mind admitting that they staggered me", said Mr, Heaton. "In the last seven years fire losses have not increased one per cent.nbut in that same period property val- ue has been increased by three billion dollars, with insurance carried being increased by a sim- ilar amount. "The population, tha values of property, and other assets have been tremendously multiplied but yet we stand today, so far as fire losg is concerned, exactly where we did seven years ago. "So far as Ontario is concern- od we have less fire waste now than we had in 1916 when the - Fire Marshal's office was first g, established, and yet you all know x of the tremendous growth in population, industrially, and com- mercially that has taken place in that period in this province. "How are we going to explain all this? The answer is easy. I throw it all on your shoulders. It is true that there have been reinarkable development in water supplies and fire fighting appar- stus, but the intelligence of the men who operate this equipment is responsible for the results. Do E> you wonder that I am proud to : attend this convention and be called 'Brother Heaton' in your deliberations? "One other amazing fact. Ten years ago the average rate 5 charged by fire Insurance com- Ex panies was $1.11 per $100. In 1930, the average rate was 79c, nd 4 or we a reduction of 32:. Rates wouldturns I do not know but I hope the time will not be short and that it will be my privilege to be with you on many more sim- ilar occasions'. Mr. Heaton was given'a great by the convention, a very sincere vote of thanks for being unanimously adopted amidst, a scene of en- certainly not have dropped un- less the fire losses dropped, "We stand today with twelve billion dollars worth of fire in- surance in force in Canada, Sup- pose this was paid for at the same average rate as charged ten years ago? How good are you at men- tal arithmetic? It means that the people of this Dominion have saved the enormous sum of thirty-six, million dollars because fire losses have been reduced, and this chiefly through the in- telligent manner in which you firefighters do your jobs. "You should leave this room and this convention proud that youn have been engaged in such a remarkably profitable occupa- tion, a work so highly desirable and worth-while."" Mr. Heaton brought a personal touch into his address. Referring to the recent legislation enacted by the Ontario Government he explained that under the new amendments tos the Civil Service Act all civil servants have to re- sign on attaining the age of 70. "This bill received the Royal as- sent on May 23rd, and on June 1 I became superannuated. On the fifth of June, on" an order of the Governor of Council, I was told to forget it and carry on as usual, "One of the happiest things about my continuance in office is that I shall still have the privil- ege of keeping up my connection with this body, After sixty-one years of work and attaining seventy-two years of age [I still look forward to many years of affiliation with this Federation and attendance at your conven- tions. I am the oldest Fire Mar- shal on the American Continent both as regards age and years of service. I wish I was still young with the. hills to climb. How long it will be before I take the road from which no traveller ever re- Another speaker at the after- a noon i on Wed y was Fred Baer, President of the In- ternational Association of Fire- fighters who makes his head- quarters at Washington, D.C. Mr. Baer brought fraternal greetings from the International body and dealt at some length with the controversy which has raged in Montreal regarding af- filiation with the United States organization, D &H Cone-Cleaned Anthracite Premium By-product Coke Welsh Blower Coal Fill Your Bin Now At Low Summer Prices DIXON COAL CO. , TELEPHONE 262, Five Direct Lines 3 f. 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That is about 15 per cent. of the export business of this region, 'and in this respect Canada is New England's best individual customer. "Exactly how much the new tariff will affect this business cannot be stated as yet with accuracy," wrote Mr. Peterson, "though there are numerous concerns: in New Eng- land that can forécast their onw individual experience with it. To some of them it will mean more than the payment of a higher duty on' what they may have been plan- ning to sell on the Canadian mar- ket; because the action of the Can- adian Government is intended ma- terially to curtail imports from the United States in order that Cana- dian Industries may be protected against competition so as to be war- ranted in increasing their own pro- duction and may thereby absorb some of the present unemployed la- bor in Canada, "Maine, Rhode Island and Con- necticut are more dependent upon the Canadian market than is Mas- sachusetts, New Hampshire or Ver- mont, because a larger proportion of their products go to Canada, al- {this applying to the "ladian market though Massachusetts exports a much larger volume of manufac- 8 |iires to Canada than do any of the YOU SAVE WHEN YOU SPEND AT Niel BY: Sailonia ORANGER. elle] e ther New England States. Infor- | mation on this business is based on {the situation | which is the year for which the Un- {ited States obtaining in' 1928, Department of Com- merce made a comprehensive for- |cign trade survey of New England im conjunction with the New Eng- {'and Council; and while the volume {of business that year may have been larger than at present it is not larger than what New England hopes to maintain in normal times, or even as large as it logically would become in the near future. "Tariff relations between the Un- ited States and Canada will always have a most important bearing upon New England, because of proximity and the nature of the industries on the opposite sides of the border, This is fully realized on both sides of the line, and the Canadian Goy- ernment shows its appreciation of it in the present revision when it |does not touch" the tariff on agri- | cultural implements which it needs to buy in New England. Yet New England is selling more than it is {buying on the Canadian market, "To see at a glance the probable effect of the tariff it may be well to notice that the increase applies :0 such commodities as automobiles, il and coke, food products, util- ity products, leather and leather products, stell and iron products, wood products, textile products, pre- pared roofing, building stone, feld- spar, clocks, and watches and win- dow glass. These are only a few of the 200 items listed in the Canadian tariff revision, but they are com- modities that New England has to offer, and include the principal New England exports to Canada. "Considering New England as a whole, section exports about thirty major. classifications of goods to Canada, making up the $27,000,000 total referred to, and in .this group- ng cotton manufactures, on which f the tariff is increased, is the most important and amounted to $3,666, {900 in the year under review; metal { manufactures come mext with $3,- 200,000. Leather and leather manu- lactures are not so important in the New England trade with Canada, though the exports amount to per haps $2,000,000. Paper manufactur- es represent a $1,500,000 business, textile machinery going to Canada from New England mills represents more $1,000,000, and industrial mach- inery of various kinds about $2,600, "Much importance is attached by the New England States to their Canadian trade in office supplies and furniture, rubber manufacfures, machine tools, electrical machinery. industrial chemical specialties, jew- elry, also stone and other non-ne- tallic mineral products, "Business between Canada and New England is rowing year by year, a fact that the railroads have recognized or facilitated by their establishment of superior service, Boston & Maine as well as to the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Rail- ways, New England will draw in increasing measure upon the rich natural resources of the Province of Quebec, and Quebec will rely upon the New England mills for the ma- chinery and other finished products, Speaking in general terms Fug ope and the Near East take about 40 per cent. of the New England exports, but In that case the New England manufacturers have many markets to deal with; Canada takes 15 per cent, South America 14 per cent, Cuba and Porto Rico almost 6 per cent. 'Itt the'exports of Maine the Can- than that of Edrope. Its propor- tion of exports to Canada is high- er than that of any other State, which is a natural result of the geo- graphical location," is 'more important | THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931" Federation of Firefighters Receives BellevilleBranch The Belleville branch of the Provincial Fedeartion of Fire- fighters, suspended some months ago for action considered con- trary to the constitution, was re- instated at the convention now in session, a recommendation to this effect from the Executive Committee being unanimously adopted. , Belleville, according to what was learned from the discussion on this subject, took independent action regarding the movement of the Federation towards the enactment of the Pensions and Superannuation legislation by the Ontario Legislature, the re- sult being that Belleville was forced to bear some of the blame {vr the failure of definite results, As the result of this, action was taken to suspend the branch hy the Executive Committee, this ac- tion being upheld by the general membership in convention. Following this representa tives of the Belleville local ap- peared before the Executive Com nittee when that body met in the Genosha Hotel on Tuesday of this week, asking for re-instate- ment and agreeing to the terms lzid down, namely that all mon- fes which would have been due to the head office of the Federa- tion during the period that sus- peneion remained 'in force, . be paid. The recommendation of the Ex- ecutive Committee regarding re- instatement was also unanimous- ly approved by the convention, RETAIL PRICES SHOW DECLINE Commodities Go To Still Lower Levels, According to Statistics Ottawa, June 17.--The Index number of retail prices, remts and costs of services fell from 91.7 in April to 90.4 in May, ac- cording to a report just issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics. The index for 46 food items de- clined from 80.5 to 77.7, due chiefly to lower prices for but- ter, eggs, milk, cheese, lard and certain meats. Creamery butter dropped from 33.2¢ to 32.8¢c and dairy butter from 33.2¢ to 28.9¢ per 1b. Fresh eggs were down from 28.4c to 25.5¢c per doz., while the cooking and stor- age variety were 23.2¢ and 20.6¢ respectively, for April and May. Milk showed a seasonal decline, from 11.9¢ to 11.6¢ per qt. Lard was 16.1c as against an average of 16.7c per 1b. in April. Canned salmon dropped from 29.2¢ to 28.3c per 1 1b. tin. Beef shoul- der, fell from 17.0c to 16.3¢c; veal, roast, from 19.7¢ to 18.2¢; fresh pork from 22.9¢ to 22.6¢c; salt pork from 23.9¢c to 23.2¢; breakfast bacon from 31.9¢ to 31.1¢c and cooked ham from 50.9¢ to 50.2¢ per 1b. The fuel and lighting index dropped from 95.6 to 94.2, prin- cipally on account of seasonal declines in the prices of coal and coke. This index has been re- vised back to January, 1930, in order to indicate declines in the two sub-goups, gas and electric- ity. Index numbers for the afore- mentioned sections are reckoned once a year, The index for rentals declined from 105.5 to 103.3. Workmen's dwellings showed, on the whole, sharper declines than those of medium grade. The one excep- tion was in the case of medium grade apartments which regis- tered the most drastic drop of any class of dwelling included in the index. The index for miscellaneous items was unchanged at 98.1. The index for this group has been revised for 1930 to show changes in the index numbers for certain sub-groups, which behaved as follows: Tramways, amusements and newspapers were higher; while books and dentists' charges were lower. The advances tended to offset the declines leaving the index practically unchanged. Firemen to Hold Memorial Services Several important resolutions were contained in the report of the Resolutions Committee tabled at this morning's session of the annual convention of the Provin- cial Federation of Ontario Fire- fighters. Among those which met with the approval of the convention wag that emanating from the Osh- awa branch and as the result of which a memorial service will he held at the opening of the first session of each annual convention in order to pay honor to members of the Federation who have pasg- ed over the Great Divide during the past year, HAD NO LICENSE William Drayton, was found guil- ty in police court this morning, of having a dog for which no license had been taken out and was fined 1 and costs. Evidence was given y Dog Catcher Orr who told of visiting the street where the ac- cused lived and finding a dog with- out a license which he suspected of belonging to accused. He told court that Drayton admitted that dog had belonged to him but claimed that he had given it to a farmer at Pon- typool but the dog had returned home and that it was to be taken back sthe next day. He admitted that he had never had a tag for it and did not want it taken to the pound for fear that it would not be called for. During a trial it became neces- sary to call to the witness-box a lady's maid. THE MODERN GESTURE "Do you believe," said Grace, meditatively, "that absence makes the heart grow fonder?" "Well." answered her friend, "not always, but I'd think it would if the ab- sent person telephoned one often, don't you? After all, one couldn't i belp appreciating such thought- ; that" . : 3: was the response. "Now," said counsel, very solemnly, "think very carefully be- fore you answer. Was or was not your mistress in the room at that time?" The natural tendency of man was impossible to avoid striking out advice.--Galt Reporter. Tragedy of 1868, in Which also a boy named Ayles. I replied ing establishment in Grand Rapids tioned being form Canada and YOUTH KILLED AT LOGAL FACTORY Alex. Kyle Was Fatally Injured, Recalled by Grand Rapids' Man Some time ago, A. Falkel, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, sent an interesting letter to The Times, giving some details of the early history of the old 34th Ontario Regiment. This letter attracted much attention. The Times has now received another letter from Mr. Falkel, in which he recalls a tragic incident, affecting one of Oshawa's best known families, that of the late Peter Kyle which occured in one of the local factor- fes. Mr. Falkel's- letter is as fol- lows: "Dear Sir, A ghort time ago my nephew, Fred Jacobs, of Oshawa, happened to be in Grand Rapids on a business trip, and from him I learned that Pete Kyle, ag we all called him, had joined the innum- erable caravan. 'It called to my mind the tragedy of the death of his brother, Alezander Kyle. Alex Kyle was my chum--a good whole hearted boy. We were fellow em- ployees in the Oshawa Cabinet Co. factory, apprentices to the: chair-making craft. Another em- ployee was a youth named Ayles. He came from Toronto, and hav- ing fiery red hair, he became the butt of the other shop boys, and, like red-headed people are reputed to be, he had a peppy temper, and resented with force, at times, their impositions. "Temporarily tiring of Oshawa, I drifted back to Belleville, from whence I had come, One morning a fellow-employee in the plant where I was working, and whom I knew came from Oshawa, asked me if I knew a boy named Kyle. that I did, and he then told me that Ayles had cut Kyle in two with a drawing-knife, with the re- sult that Kyle died shortly after Instinctively I sense it to be my chum Alex, a presentiment which I confirmed when I later returned to Oshawa. "Some 40 years later I was in charge of a good-sized wood-work- when one day there drifted in a party looking for a job. He men- that he had worked in Oshawa Frompted by curiosity 1 asked him his name, and to mv roea ment he said it was Ayles. I ask-! po ed him, 'Are you the man who cut Kyle with a drmawing-knife* Then it was his turn to be amazed. Conversation developed that {t had been his brother who had done this; that he had struck at Kyle in a moment of passion with what he thought was a chair leg, Kyle had jeered at him about hig red hair, and this culminated in the tragedy, "Respectfully Yours "A. Falkel." The correctness of the facts in this letter are vouched for by J. 8. Kyle, local grocer, son of the late Peter Kyle and a nephew of the Alex Kyle referred to hy Mr. Falkel. His uncle, Alex. Kylé, he states, was horn in 185%, and the tragedy which caused hi death occurred in 1868, when he was 15 years and six months old The information contained in the letter is also confirmed by a reference to the files of the shawa Vindicator for the year 1368, These files show that the assault on Alex Kyle occurred on June 15, and that, in spite of hig terrible injuries, he lived until July 2. At the inquest, the jury brought in a verdict that he came to his death from a blow received from the hands of Ayles, without malice aforethought, Ayles wag arrested on a charge of assault, and at the assizes held on October 27, 1868, he was tried. After making a plea of not guilty, he charged this te one of guilty, and was sentenced to four months' imorizonment, with hard labor, in the county jail. DROVGHT SERICNS IN WESTERN Uo. Special Session of Cone gress Suggested to Arrange Relief Washington.--Rengwed demands by Democrats for a special session of Congress were heard as the seri= ousness of the drought in the northe vest becathe apparent. Wheat and other crops in an area from Wisconsin west to the Pacific Cuast arc suffering severely from lack of rain. The rainfall for nine according to J. B. Kincer years, of the weather bureau, and the ace cumulated lack of moisture may bring about a situation more serious than that in the south central states last year. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Dem, Mont, asserted that Congress should be called in special session to enact relief measures. The Gove ernment cannot grant loans to farmers in the northwest from the drought relief fund appropriated by the last Congress because these states were not specified in the measure, Senator T. H., Caraway, Dem, Ark., joined in Walsh's plea for a special session. He also said he would offer a bill at the next session He also. said he would offer a bill at the next session to create a fund of at least 50,000,000 from which drought relief loans could be made at any time within the next five years, | Western North Dakota and the castern parts of Montana, Oregon and Washington were said by Kin« cer to be especially hard hit. Spring wheat in the drought region is in the worst condition ever recorded by the Department of Agriculture, Much of it will never mature, "Cling to Your Youth," urges a contemporary. This applies speciale ly to the pillion girl. "We have it for at least one meal every day" "Of course Shredded Wheat is 'our breakfast every day in the year and we sometimes have it for lunch with luscious ripe berries and cream. Shredded Wheat with milk gives the childrenVitamin Band the min. eral salts which their growing bodies need. Having Shredded Wheat once a day they are sure of getting the needed nutritive elements--also all the bran in the whole wheat which, you know, induces regular habit." Canadian Shredded W heat is 1009, Canadian grain. Eat TWO Shredded Wheat Biscuits a day and help Canadd's Prosperity. + "Where were 'you at 645 on the \ evening in question?" was the first query put to her by examining \ An . . "Dressing the hair, of madam, ~ WHEAT 'WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT