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•f * • 4 i '^ , i * I • 1 4 f .7 '1- ; I : * Wheat Mixinx Endorsed VANCOUVER.â€" The practice of blending lower grades of wheat, per- mitted by law, allowed the merchan- dising and sale of lower grades at a profit to producers, said John Whit- tle of Vancouver, when he appeared before the Turgeon Royal Grain Com- mission Thursday. Blending or mixing, said the Gen- eral Manager of the Midland Paci- fic Terminals, Limited, aided sale of the wheat and should be continued. Mr. Whittle termed the practice "a service to the producer." Provisions of the Canada Grain Act prevented mixing of the four top grades of wheat â€" No. 1 hard and Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Northern but in other gfrades terminal companies treated the grain and sought to pro- duce a wheat that wag merchantable and of value to t\ie buyer. Loading of ships direct from freight cars cairying grain in bulk would *}€ "commercially impossible," said Mr. Whittle, in explaining oper- ation of terminal elevators. Direct freight car to ship load'ng might be done if the grain wera sacked. All Caradian gi'ain is handled in bulk. Farmers Open Road SLIMAX, SASK.â€" A roal-opening "bee" is the latest thing in self-help Introduced by 13 farmers of Freelon district, near here. Anxious about getting their seed grain over snow- drifted roads, they armed themselves with scoop shovels and cleared twelve miles of roads into Climax. Protect Rail Crossing GALT. â€" Present protection at the Pundaa Street crossing of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway here, where 3 lives were snuffed out Good Friday is "inadequate," a Coroner's Jury de- clared at an inquest mto the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. John Macey an-1 Miss Olive Moore, all Gait residents. The jury found the deaths of the three, passengers in an automobile driven by Macey, was p.ccidentaly and ;xon- orated the traLn cew A rider to the verdict recommend- ed establishment of « twenty-four- houv protection immediately and sug- gested steps be taken to provide more permanent protection. Because there are eight tracks at the crossing, on a heavily travelled main highway, the jury recommei)3ed standing freight cars ba placed so as not to obstruct the view in either direction. Heavy Fire Loss EDMONTON.â€" Loss of stock and damage to the warehouse of Western Transfer and Storage, Limited, in a fire here this week may reach $25,- 000 it is estimated. Large quanti- ties of wheat, some owned by Her- man Trelle, world wheat king, were Stored in the building. Should Pay Marriet' j sn More LUBBOCK, TEXAS- ' •. Paul Po- penoe, Los .\ngeles socioiogist criti- eised the existing system of paying bachelors and married men the same wage scale as "economically unfair, socially unjust and eugenically un- sound." Addrt-s-iirg Texas Technolo- gical College students, he proposed a basic wage for all jobs, with an ad- ditional allowanee "of, say, 20 per tent, for a wife and 15 per cent, for •ach dependent child." Anti-Lynching Bill WASHINGTON.â€" The House Judi- cial Committee have voted 8 to 7 to report favorably an anti-lynching bill sponsored by Rep. Arthur W. Mitch- ell (D., III.), the only negro Con- gressman. The measure carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a ?5,000 fine for any tate, city of $5,000 fine for any state, icity or permit'' a prisoner to be taken from his custody and "injured or put to death." Girls Poor Dishwashers WOODSTOCK. â€" (V.iinaian siris lire not efficient in dishwashiiis:, and are nearly a total loss in darning socks, Miss Maud Mclntyro, general secretary of the Woodstock Y.W.C. A., told members of a service club iere. Use Roller Skates TORONTO.â€" Somewhat lost on lOO.COO square feet 'f floor space in new and larger quarters, 18 employ- ees of the Canadian Tire Corporation havo solved the problem of providing snappy custonior-.scrvico by wearing roller .skates. Alfred Stevens, 200- pound manager, conceded that he and a few others had provided customer- laughs as well by falling. But the cxpoviinont was such a success that 18 pairs of skates were ordered. They'nre the type used in roller- skating rinVs. Canz^da's Population Placed at 11.100,000 OTT.-V\V.\. â€" The estimated popu- ition of Canada in 1937 is 11,100,- acording to a return tables in lie House of Commons from the De- rtment of Trade and Commerce for C-»» Pierre Gauthier (Lib., Portneuf). At the last census, in 1931, the popula- tion was 10,376,786. Natural increase of births over deaths was then esti- mated at 135,956 a year. In the de- cade from 1921 to 1931 immigration amounted to 1,166,290. In the same period the natural increase of popula- tion was estimated at 1,362,000. Would Prevent Dni« Stores Serving Meab TORONTO.â€" Dr. Gordon P. Jack- son, medical officer of health, said his deparment '/ad received protests from restaurants against the grant- ing ef victualling licenses to chain and neighborhood drug stores to serve meals and lunches. Dr. Jackson said It was a matter for jurisdiction by the police commission or city council. "Fire-Bug" SARNIA.â€" Police are patrolling the St. Clair River front here following a series of Area which Investigators term the work of i "fire-bug." Discovery of some oily waste, ap- parently taken from the journal boxes of railway freight cars near the scene of the outbreaks, prompted In- spector E. L. Jordan and Investigator P. S. D. Harding of the Ontario Fire Marshal's Department to express on opinion the fires were of incendiary origin and th" work if one person. The flres broke out at Intervals. Three occurred in the yards of the Laidlaw Belton Lumber Company and caused damage estimated at $2,000. Others were in the old Grand Trunk freight shed, in a small frame build- ing owned by Samuel Lampel and a sixth in the Sarnia Ice Company's t rse barn. All occurred within two hours. Last Winter Mail CHURCHILL.â€" The uail man head- ed for the Arctic this week. The Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice dog team left here with a full load of first-class mail for many northern outposts, including the British Cana- dian Arctic expedition now wintering at Repulse Ba>. on the Arctic Circle at the top of Hudson Bay. This will be the last mail delivered to the north from here until a boat sails for northern ports about Aug. 1. Farm Minister Acts Also As Pilot QUEBEC. â€" Hon. Bona Dussault, Quebec Minister of Agriculture, has no intention of ccnflning bis activities t the soil, he declares. The Minister is a steamer pilot by profession and plans to pilot the steamship Manchester Port up the St. Lawrence U Montreal when she ar- rives from overseas in a few days. â- 'It will give me a rest." the pilot- legislator said. Radio-Phone For Ships OTT.WV.i.- To cope with perils of navigation on the Great Lakes the Government is seeking to have radio- telephone stations installed between the Head of the Lakes and Kingston, Lleut.-Commander C. P. Edwards, Chief of Air Services, announced here. Ships which do not feel they can afford a wireless operator to carry on wireless code transmission probably would be willing to instal telephone I qulpment if there were telephone sta- tions easily reached on shore, Mr. Ed- wards said. A regular operator would not be necessary and any member â- ( the ship's crew could call for help in time of emergency. Honors Vincent Massey ABERDEEN.- Aberdeen University has conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and Literature (LL. D.) upon Hon. Vincent Massey, Cana- dian High Commissioner. Principal of the u.uversity is Dr. W. Hamilton Fyfe, former Principal of Queen's Uni- versity, Kingston, Ont. Canada's War Memorial OTTAWA. â€" The National War Monument will be erected in Ottawa some time this summer. Works Minis- t r Cardiu told the House of Com- moas this week. The monument, the work of the March brothers, has been completed in England for many months. One reason for not bringing it to Ottawa has bee'", tho contlicting views on where it should be erected here. The Minister said the Coverument "will 'uve to make up its mind pretty quick becauso it will be erected some time this summer."' The monument probably will be placed in Connaught Square, in the downtown section of the city, which eventually will be a wide plaza. Threaten Strike in May LONDON.â€" Autobus conductors and drivers theeraten to clog the Corona- tiju machinery by calling a strike for early in May unless their present 8- hour workiufe day is cut to 7% hours. Ernest Beviu, General Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, con- Hraied his organization had given the bus company a mouth to maKe up its mind. Employers indicated a willing- ness to discuss the matter, and it was believed a crisis would be averted. Merits of Latin TORONTO.â€" Attackiug the propos- ed courses of study for secondary schools on the grounds that Latin was not included as a first-year subject, Prof. C. B. Sissons of Victoria Col- lege charged that the revised courses were the greatest propaganda for pri- vate schools that had been promoted "In our day." It would be turning back the hands of the clock" if the program went in- â-  - operation in its present form, he maintained, craving the right for a school Principal to be allowed to choose between Latin and French in the first year. Dr. George F. Rogers, Chief Inspec- tor of Secondary Schools, replied it was likely permission would be grant- ed to substitute Latin for French if a teacher craved it. But he did not think it would be a good thing to do. ''We are not trying to kill Latin but to help it. We are trying to keep away from it a lot of pupils who are not congenltally disposed to Latin. A classics man, a principal not far from Toronto, tried out the experiment and found that the pupils 'n the second year made more progress in Latin be- cause they were a selected group," Dr. Rogers .said. The plan is to make French a com- pulsory subject In the first year; then in the second year, if the pupil has a taste for languages, he may take Lat- in. inquiring into their claims for high- er pay. The C.B.R.E., seeking full return of 10 per cent, depression wage-cuts for its 15,000 C.N.R. workers, was not included in the Easter Monday settlement by which the two major roads will return 10 per cent, cuts by next April 1 to 117,000 members of eighteen international unionH. They negotiated separately with the National Railway. On Saturday, Grand Chairman A. R. Mosher and other C.B.R.E. oflS- cers met with A. J. Hills, C.N.R. personnel director, and other com- pany officers. After that the union men met together, and later announ- ced the m.eeting would be reported to the Smiley board, whose report is due shortly. There was no annoutj^ement on what had transpired at the meetings. Board To Get Parley Report C.B.R.E. Officials Confer With C.N.R. on Mgher-Pay Claims MONTREAL. â€" Officers of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees announced Sunday night that a report on their Saturday wage conference with Canadian National Railways officials would be laid be- fore the Smiley Conciliation Board, Quit in Disgust Goderich Music Society Tender Resignations GODERICH. â€" Partly because of a poor attendance at a concert in aid of the Citizens' Band, and for other reasons, all officers of the God- erich Music Society and Bandmaster J. E. Huckins, have tendered their resignations to the Town Council. The offic-ars are: E. R. Wigle, Presi- dent; D. A. Campbell, Secretary, and J. M. Roberts, Treasurer. "What's the use?" an official asked. "The public doesn't care, the bandsmen are indifferent, 30 wh^ should we work our heads off and get nowhere?" The resignations have not yet been accepted. Town Council is aiak- ing an effort to keep the organiza- tion together, in view of the sum- mer's program of Coronation Day, Dominion Day, and Old Home Week. 45 Hotels, 12 Clubs Lose Beer License Continued Violation of Rules De- spite Warnings Given As the Reason. Forty-five hotels and twelve clubs will not be allowed to renew their beer and wine licences, it was an- nounced April 1st by Chairman E. G. Odette of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Continued violation of rulings of the board, despite numerous requests and warnings that regulations be strictly regarded, causes the cancel- lation of the authorities of most of the hotels. Mr. Odette stated. Decision of the board, after care- ful study, that the clubs were being operated, "for purely pecuniary gain" caused cancellation of club authorit- ies, he said. In the case of a "very few" of the hotels, applications for renew- als will be considered If structural changes of the premises are made. The hotels are scattered over a wide area, ranging from Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie to Eastview and Thorold. The complete list, as re- leased by .Mr. Odette, follows, listed alphabetically under their municipal- ities. HOTELS: â€" Alfred. Tierney Hotel; Belleville, Crystal Hotel; Bridgeport. Lancaster Hotel; Drayton, Royal Hotel- East- view, Beechwood Hotel; Hamilton, Star Hotel; Markdale, Revere House: Niagara Falls. New Arlington Hotel, Victoria Hotel; North Bay. Royal noyal Hotel: Ottawa. Capital Hotel. Gilmour Hotel, Rttz Hotel. York Ho- tel; Sandwich West, Elmwood Hotel; Sault Stt. JIarie. American Hotel, In- ternational Hotel, Lock City Hotel, New Ontario Hotel, Victoria Hotel, New Toronto Hotel; South Woodslee, Elm Inn; Thorold, Ormond Hotel. Summit Hotel; Tiramlns, Floria Hotel, Kingston Hotel; Toronto, Baltimore Hotel, Commerce Hotel, Frontanac AnnB Hotel, Savoy Hotel. Shamrock Hotel, Tudor Hotel: Welland. Roma Hotel: Windsor, Bodega Hotel, Col- lege Avenue Inn, Dixie Hotel, Grand Hotel. Highway Hotel. Hollywood Ho- tel, Imperial Hotel, Klllarney Castle Hotel, Ontario Hotel, Shamrock Ho- tel. Verdi Hotel. CLUBS:â€" Amherstburg. Young Rangers Club; Ottawa, Preston Athletic and Social Club; S.iult Ste Marie. Old Stone House Social Club, Troubadour Club; Toronto, -Arlington Club, Elm Grove Athletic Club, Irish-Canadian Club. Italian .-" >cial Club, Macedonian So- cial Club, Recess Club, St. Andrew's Bridge Club; Welland, Hungarian Self-Culture Society. Canada Will Enter Show At Glasgow OTTAW.A.â€" Canada will be repre- sented in the British Empire Exhibi- tion to be held in Glasgow in 1938, the Department of Agriculture dis- closed recently. The Canadian pavilion was one of the outstanding features to be seen at the last great show held at Wem- bley in 1924-25, it said. Huge crowds are expected to witness the Glasgow show, for, with better facili- ties in transportation the 1001 rec- ord at Glasgow of 11,000,000 visit- ors will be greatly surpassed, said the department. Ninety per cent of the 1,750,000 insurable persons in London County. Eng., are at work. Steel Plants To Benefit From British Boom SAULT STE. MARIE. â€" Canadi- an steel plants are bound to benefit from a boom that has swept over the English steel industry, Lord Riverdale, industralist of Sheffield, England, said on his arrival in the Sault Sunday. Conditions that have created a "terrible shortage" in the British in- dustry, necessitating delays of as much as two years in delivery of steel machinery, should work to Canada's good, the British peer de- clared. "We broke up our ships for strap and now we haven't enough ships" he went on, declaring Britain faced a deficiency of 2,000,000 tons of scrap and 2,000,000 tons of pig iron. Lord Riverside estimated the cur- rent boom would last three or four years. The mills operated at 95 per cent, of capacity before the rearm- ament program was instituted. Now improving domestic conditions and an upward trend in export business have helped swell the demand. But there will be no general European war during the next few years. Lord Riverdale believes. "May- be not for fifty years," he declared. Auto Crashes Take Four Lives Two Persons Killed Near Corn- wall and One at IngersoU TOP.ONTO. â€" Four people were killed in Ontario motor accidents over the week-end and many others were injured. The worst crash took place two miles east of Cornwall when a sedan carrying six people leaped from the highway and struck a large tree, killing two. One man was killed near Chat- ham when his light roadster crash- ed into the back end of • truck, and another lost his life near In- gersoU when he allowed his ear to get out of control while reaching to receive an object from his small son. The dead are: Alfred Craincer, 52, of Detroit, Mich. Alfred M. Sawyer, 28 of Merlin. FraacU St. Loui*, 23 of Cornwall. Mrs. Lionel Maisen, 21, of Corn. wall. SEVERAL INJURED Among the injured, some of whom are in a critical condition, are Mrs. Francis St. Louis, Floyd Bodway, Massena, N.Y.; Mrs. Mamie Terriah and Leo Carriere, Cornwall; Jerry Macdonald, Merlin; and Miss Mary Marshall, Blenheim. Floyd Bodway was at the wheel of the car that crashed into the tree at Cornwall Saturday night. Be- cause of the serious condition of the survivors, the police have not been able to ascertain definitely what caused the crash. The wrecked car was so tightly wrapped around the tree that a powerful tow truck failed to budire it until some of the part had been removed. Winnipec Ratepayers Threaten T2uc Strike WINNIPEG. â€" A tax .strike looms in Winnipeg unless the city reduces expenditures. .\t a mcetinii: presid- ed over by Jo.seph Stepnuk. Presi- dent of the North Winnipeg Tax- payers' .Association. 100 citizens agreed to refuse payment of taxes unless the city slashes its expendi- f.ire. When The Sky Was The Limit of Enjoyment F:'i7idreds of school children crowd beach at Long Beach. Ca!., to participate in a::r.ual kite flying' contest. Kites of all sizes battled for supremacy. Some of the larger ones reached an altitude of 700 feet. Oshawa Girl Seriously Hurt Hurled From Open Roadster When Car Hits Bridge â€" Drives Elscapes. OSHAWA. â€" Helen Fontaine, aged 18, of 63 Tamarac Avenue, Oshawa, suffered a fractured spine when an automobile in which she was riding with Bernard Higgins, 19, of .306 Olive .Avenue, Oshawa, crasli* ed into a bridge near Cream of Bar- ley Park Sunday afternoon. Higgins told Provincial Constable Price NoitIs that a tire blow-out had caused him to lose control of the car as it approached the bridge. The girl was thrown out of the open roadste>' <>nd aser^_ bank. She was taken ti and examine after which hospital at ( Higgins ri juries. No charges mrve ucci. .,«.v by the police. Australian Girl Touring World to Study Its Peoole Educationist in Sydney Agricultur- al Bureau Interested in Winni- peg's Activities. WINNIPEG. â€" .Miss Lorna Byrne, Bachelor of Science in .Agriculture from the University of Sydney. Aus- tralia, is very interested in this city because she saw the Grain Exchange at work, attended the Manitoba Dairy Association's Convention, and spoke to the Beekeepers' convention. Miss Bryne does educational work in the agricultural bureau, a divis- ion of the department of agriculture New South Wales. Miss Byrne is on the last lap of a round-the-world trip financed 'oj the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who gave her a "visitor's grant" to undertake her work of observation and study. The grant has taken her to Russia, Germany. Poland. Sweden, the British Isles, the United States and now Canada. She laughed about the handclasp. "We have a frightful handirripDing in Australia I've found out by trav- elling around the world. In England some of the women I greeted heart- ily I found winced." Because her job in .Australia is to travel all over the state of New South Wales to help farm men and women organize to teach them whit facilities are available for their as- sistance. Miss Byrne has studied rural people particularly everywhere she went. In Russia, for instance, she asked about the large blue van that stood in a field. "Oh, that's the blue wagon," they told her proud- ly. "Mothers who are working in the fields come hero at noon to look af- ter their children." It was kind of a travelling nursery. There was work thriving every- where in Germany, too. but with a difference. Though the Hitler Youth Movement trained children in camps, you had to admit it had its advan- tages when you saw "those sturdy little bodies". She asked the children if they liked wearing their uniforms; there was no doubt in the exumber- aiic.' of their answer. Quakers Object To Anti-Gas Drills Think They Give Children Wrong Ideas: Need Faith rHlI.ADF.l.PHIA. â€" A memoran- (liiiii issued by the English Friends' Guild of Teachers on t!ie i|uestion of anti-gas drills in schools, has been received by tile Kracrgency Peace Campaign Office he:o. The stand cf the British Quakers on the question is warmly approved by officials of the campaign and by Quaker grouj^a in Philadelphia. "The Friends Guild of Teachers." says the memorandum, "views with alarm the po.s.sjble effect of such drill. "It is inevitable that the idea.i set up by such drill must cause great harm to children ... by bringing possible horrors foi'cibly before them at a highly impressionable age . . . The danger of gas warfare in admit- tedly real. Yet it is certain that anti- cas drill must deepen our mutual fear and distru.st and so help "^o destroy the faith that war can iie avoided. "Without committing ourselves as to possible action in time of war, we feel obliged as educators to pro- test vigorously against any atte:npt to enforce anti-gas dill in time of peace on the child population, as be- ing pschologically bad for the chTd- ren and in every way onposed to the growth of right relitions'iins between the nations!." i