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| MONDAY, MARCH 24, 194) THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINE 'Burt Glad Ford Prices Were Cut Windsor, Ont., March 24--(CP)-- George Burt, Canadian director of the United Automobile Workers (C.1.0.), said here the $35 reduc- tion in prices of automobiles and * trucks manufactured by the Ford © Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. "should be welcomed by everyone," The reduction was announced by Douglas B. Greig, Ford president. A prepared statement by Burt said: "It is to be hoped that the action taken by the Ford Motor Company will be followed by other manufacturers and in other indus- tries. A general reduction of prices is imperative today unless we are prepared to enter a period of une- employment caused by low pur- chasing power." Troops Taught Sourdough Tricks Ottawa--(CP)--Army headquar- ters has announced details of a new military exercise in Canada's north country. Called Exercise Haines, its pur- pose is to train some 60 officers and men of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in how to live in the barren, snow-covered Arctic. With the help of trappers, pros- pectors and bushmen living in the area, the men are learning the ways of the sourdoughs who 50 years ago--in October, 1896--rush-|- ed into Whitehorse after the north's first major gold strike. They are training on what army officials call a "strictly man-power basis," and are without aid of sci- entific over-snow equipment. Two of the squads, each consi g of five men, are being train y the northerners in the use of sleds and dog teams for longer treks. Later in the exercise, the men will make two 70 and 90-mile jaunts through the tough country- side. In this final test, each man cary His own 70-pound rucksack with rations, parka, extra clothing, sleeping bag, moccasins and rifle, Pastors Oppose Sunday Tours Inverness, Scotland--(CP)--Ex- pansion of tourist traffic, one of the main sources of Highland in- come, will be detrimental to Scot- tish life and character and to Scot- land's heritage of Sabbath obser- vance, say two Free Church minis- ters. Rev. Andrew Sutherland, Glen- shiel, and Rev. Peter Chisholm, Lochalsh, said they deplored activi- ties of the Strathpeffer Develop- ment Association in fighting for road licenses to be granted a road . transport ccmpany to carry tour | ists to this Ross-shire resort. If the 'association succeeded, Strath- peffer would become a tourist cen- tre "and touring buses will arrive and depart on tlie Lord's Day." "If these ministers would attend to their own business and leave us get on with ours, it would be in the best interests of the Highlands," said J. E. Adams, secretary of the association. o "Our support for the licenses was given on the clear understanding that the traditional Highland Sab- bath would not be interfered with and we have been assured by the company concerned that they' will not run bus tours on Sundays." Pays $2.50 Debt 48 Years Old Ottawa, March 24 -- (CP) -- To some $2.50 might sound like small potatoes but not to an unidentified Mattawa woman whose debt in that amount preyed on her mind for 48 years, Albert J. Landreville of an Ot- tawa funeral parlor said here he had received a cheque for $2.50 from a 79-year-old Mattawa wom- an whose child his grandfather had buried. It was the balance.of an account for the funeral held 48 years ago. "Her letter sald she was 79 years old and she wanted to die in . peace," Landreville said. "She even enclosed a four-cent stamp for the receipt." British Honduras Won't Be Ceded London, March 24-- (AP)--British Colonial officials said here there Was no prospect that Britain would cede part or all of British Hon- duras to the United States, The Guatemalan legation here had protested to the Foreign Office the suggestion, raised by a Laborite member in the House of Commons last month, that Britain might pay for American goods by giving up her possessions in the Western. Hemisphere, \ Honduras was not mentioned spe- cifically in the suggestion. AIR TRAVEL UPPED New Delhi--(CP)--India's 1946 air services passenger traffic has increased almost five-fold from that of 1945 when civil operators car- ried a total of 22,000 passengers. In 1946 passengers totalled 104,000. THIS IS A MUST. 1947 THIS IS THE SOCIETYS SILVER THESE EASTER SEALS WILL MEAN A BRIGHTER TOMORROW FOR SOME CRIPPLED CHILD - SO ITS UP TO US WHO CAN STAND ON OUR OWN FEET -- TO PUT ITOVER/ CRIPPLED CHILDREN = WED 2 ANNIVERSARY! WED TO SEE SOME GREEN BACKS -Too/& (THIS SPACE IS DONATED BY THIS NEWSPAPER AS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE APPEAL BY THE ONTARIO SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN= MARCH 207" TO APRIL ew) Five Africans Must Hang Today For Ritual Deaths Accra, West Africa, March 24-- (Reuters)--The hanging of five | West Africans for a ritual murder three years ago--postponed as a re- sult of the intervention of Colonial Secretary Creech Jones March 4-- has been ordered to take place to- day, it is learned. Eight men were originally con- demned for the ritual murder of Akyea Measah, sib-chief of Apedwa who disappeared during the funeral in February, 1944, of Sir Ofori Atta, paramount chief of the Kibi tribe. | One of the eight died later and two were reprieved. The remaining five were sen- tenced to die Dec. 1, 1944, but four appeals, on the grounds that there was some doubt whether the re- mains found were those of Akyea Mensah, brought four stays of exe- cution before the Colonial Secre- tary intervened the fifth time after the matter had been brought up in the House of Commons. 3 The murde: was said to have been carried out at the behest of "the sons of the Throne" in order that human blood could be poured on the chair of the late chief, The murdered man was alleged to have been seen outside the Throne House at Kibi with a sword through his cheeks and tongue. Three of the murderers were sons of Sir Ofari Atta, the dead chief, and the other five "Throné sons," Enter Nativity Steal Holy Statue Bethlehem. Palestine, March 24-- (Reuters) -- Thieves entered the grotto of the Church of the Nativ- ity here and smashed a glass case containing a statue of the Virgin Mary, and stole jewelry and ikons, it was officially announced, To | HYDRO USERS © The wintertime power shorfage in Southern Ontario has been relieved with the coming of spring and the longer hours of daylight. In the winter months the shorter and darker days create a maximum demand on your Hydro system. Conditions in this winter season are such that Hydro plants are loaded to the point where it becomes necessary to ask for the co-operation of all Hydro users in saving electricity by every possible voluntary means. In the spring and summer season the urgency for conservation is not so great as in the fall and winter. The voluntary saving of electricity in homes, offices, theatres, stores, and in industry, greatly relieves this condition. Your response was very helpful. To those who so willingly co-operated. during this emergency period, Hydro sqys, "Thank You." in many localities Hydro stations and lines are overloaded because of the delay in obtaining neces- sary new equipment. Therefore, do not waste electricity--use Hydro wisely at all times, Daring Doan Once Dangled Above Death Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.--(CP)-- Slender George Doan, a fearless 60- year-old native: of Niagara Falls, Ont., offers living proof that an aviation mechanic can experience as many thrills and enjoy as much fame as pilots. Doan, a one-time barnstorming stunt man and since 1924 a mech- anic with the Ontario Provincial Air Service, is a legendary charac- ter among the bush flyers of On- tario's northland. They talk about his exploits back in the pioneer days of flying--in 1919--when he almost came a cropper in attempt- ing a parachute jump over Burling- ton Bay at Hamilton, and the way he has scorned danger several times since. As a stunt man he won the nickname Daredevil Doan after he left his auto repair shop at Bur- lington to take to the air, becom- ing a member of a barnstorming group which included the late Capt. W. Roy Maxwell, for years director of the provincial air service, and Jack Hyde, now superintendent at its hangar here. His chief stunts were wing-walking and ladder- climbing from one aircraft to an- other. Finally he tried a parachute jump, one of the first on record in Canadian aviation. For the jump he used a balloon parachute of the type used by bal- loonists in the First World War. It was not folded into a neat bundle like modern parachutes but was stretched along the floor of the are craft, tied in 100 places to keep it from billowing out in the slip- stream, It was also attached te the axle of the aircraft by a slip- ring to be released by the pilot. Dangled Helplessly George had to climb out on the axle of the aircraft and go hand over hand down the hanging para- chute, cutting the cords on his des- cent. But when he reached the bottom, the parachute continued to hold and he looked back up to fina he'd missed two cords. Hastily, he attempted to climb back up the swaying 'chute to release the cords only to find his feet and hands firmly enmeshed in the billowing folds of the umbrella. He dangled helplessly in mid-air wondering what would come nexv-- an answer quickly provided by If It's Crowds You Want, You've About Had It In Moscow Underground | By ROSS MUNRO Canadian Press Staff Writer Moscow, March 24-- (CP) --To meet a high proportion of Moscow's 7,000,000 citinens you just pay your 40 kopecks for a ride on the city's underground at 6 p.m., peak of the Russian rush hour. Londoners, - New Yorkers and Parisians haven't a clue on how crowded an underground railway line can be. You start at Revolution Square station near the Kremlin. You've hardly got your ticket before you are caught up in a surging tide of Russians being swept down a wide escalator. Four hundred feet below you stand in the mass on the platform and the underground train swishes to a stop. The doors open and here there is a confused skirmish as though somebody fumbled the ball on the 10-yard line. In a couple of seconds you find yourself somehow inside the train with a couple of hundred Russians. This continues for two or three more marble-pillard stations which the Russians are justly proud of. Each 'stop produces another mas- sive surge in and out of the auto- matic doors of these modern trains. There is something relentless about a Soviet crowd. You return by the same line, be- ing compressed progressively more each stop as you approach the heart of the city. At Revolution Square you brace yourself, lunge jrom the train and totter to your ote! Maxwell who coasted gently water- wards before ditching the 'chutist into the bay from which he was rescued by some youngsters in a boat nearby. Out of this experience grew his decision to give up aerial stunting. He knew aircraft inside out be- fore he joined the Maxwell and Wilshire Air Service in 1919, part done in the days when engineers were carried in an aircraft to do on the spot repairs. He was aboard the first flying boat to venture mto the Moosonee country on an Ontario government assignment for aerial motion pictures of wild life. This boat, the first put togéther in Canada, was assembled by him and Jack Hyde. He had one hair-raising exper- fence here in the winter of 1925. In 20-below zero weather a tractor he was driving while moving flying boats on the St. Mary's River crashed through the ice and headed for the bottom with George still hanging onto the controls. Sec- onds later he reappeared through the same hole--minus the tractor. TENOR'S HOME BURNS Monasterevan, Eire--(CP) -- Fire caused serious damage to historic Moore Abbey, former home of the late John McCormack. The build- ing now is owned by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, TICKERS NOW TIP-TOP Canberra, Australia -- (CP) -- Australian clocks were 1/10th sec- ond wrong until a check was made between Mount Stromlo Observa- tory near Canberra and Greenwich Observatory. Checks with Green- wich by radio were carried on for three months before Australia's time was put right. Fats For Soap Very Scarce Hamilton, March 24 -- (CP)--Fat supply to the soap industry has dropped gharply and factories here and in other parts of Canada are reducing production, it is learned here. Employees of one Hamilton plant have appealed to the Domin- ion government for supplies to en- able them to retain their jobs. D. M. 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