Oakville Star & Independent (Oakville, ON), 3 May 1929, p. 9

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A Five Victims f of Car Accidents Over Week-end R ailw ay Crossings and Bo'oScS Play Part in Claiming V ictim s ; / M A N Y INJURED Chatham, A p ril 28.-- Barney E. Jarrett, Brooklyn, N .Y ., was killed late tonight when his car w as hit by a C.N.R. train at the provincial highw y crossing west o f the city. One child died in General Hospital a few minutes a fter being admitted. Mrs. Jarrett and another child are in the hospital but are not badly hurt. TO RO N TO M O TO R ISTS H U R T St. Catharines, A p ril 28.-- F ou r T o ronto persons w ere injured, one ser iously, about 4 o'clock this afternoon, when their Hudson coach crashed into the traffic signal in the centre o f the provincial highw ay at the east ap proach to thet sw ing bridge over the present W elland canal near Homer. The traffic signal, being o f concrete, ditched the fron t wheel and sent the ca r through the fence at the side o f the road and into a small ravine about eight feet deep, where it landed on its wheels. London, Ont., A p ril 28.-- Tw o per sons are dead, seven are in a fairly critical condition and one o f the latter is under arrest as the result o f a m otor accident on Lambeth highway nine miles south o f London, on Satur d a y afternoon at 5.30 o 'clock. The dead are: Mrs. H enry T aylor, 1 Meda street, St. T hom as; James Johnstone, R.R. 1, Glanworth, Ont. Those injured are: Mrs. George H. E thridge, 1 Meda street, St. Thomas, serious head in ju ries; Mrs. George H. E thridge, sr., St. Thomas, broken ribs and body in ju ries; M rs. J. E. Hop kins, 146 Centre street, St. Thomas, abrasion and shock; Mrs. Jack Eth ridge, M erritton, Ont., abrasions, cuts and shock; Miss P atsy Ethridge, age five, minor cuts, bruises and shock; A lfred H all, London, serious head and body injuries, and John Allen, Glen coe, cuts and abrasions. F IN D B E E R B O T T L E S Broken bee? bottles, cartons and 3 bottU>3 still intact, w ere picked up by county police near the w reckage o f H a ll's car. Hall, f o ' ice allege, w is in a drunken condition immediately fo l low in g the crash. A ccording to the police version of the mishap, Hall was driving north at a fa s t rate o f speed an3 " cutting in" c n cars ahead. Just as he was abreast o f the other machine he swerved eharply into its path. W indsor, A pril 28.-- Leo J. Keenan, 22 years old, employe o f the M ichigan State Telephone Co., D etroit, was fa ta lly injured shortly after six o 'clock ton ight when an automobile he w as driving collided with another ma chine in charge o f Pierre R. Gosselin, B2. 12344 W oodw ard avenue, Detroit, on a sharp curve on the Riverside drive, Riverside. Frank J. Jaster, 27, and his brother, W illiam Jaster, 29, both o f 8927 K im berley avenue, D etroit, are believed dying. They w ere passengers in the K eenan par. The police investigation indicates that Keenan, who was driving east on the drive, cut across the pavement to the w rong side in the path o f Gossetin's car. Both machines, the police believe, w ere exceeding the speed limit. The skid marks show, the police say, that Gosselin swerved his car onto the dirt to avoid the collision. B rantford, A pril 28.-- The week-end traffic here resulted in several arrests and two accidents. No lives were lost, although there wrere several hospital cases. Americas W a r A m bassador I Honoured in Death MARKETS G R A IN Q U O T A T IO N S. G rain dealers on the T oronto Board o f Trade are m aking the follow ing quotations fo r car lots: Man. wheat-- No. 2 N orth., $1.23% ; No. 3 N orth., $1 .19% ; No. 4 wheat, $1 .14% ; No. 5 wheat, $1 .05% ; No. 6 wheat 9 0 % c ; feed wheat, 79% c. (c.i.f. Goderich and Bay ports. P rice on track, l c higher than above.) Man. oats-- No. 1 feed, 5 0 % c ; No. 2 feed, 4 8 % c. (c.i.f. Goderich and Bay ports.) Am . corr.-- No. 2 yellow, kiln dried, $1 .03% ; No. 3 yellow , kiln dried, $1.02%. (D elivered T oronto.) M illfeed, del., Montreal freights, bags included-- Bran, per ton. $28.25; shorts, per ton, $28.25; middlings, per ton. $35.25. Ont. oats-- Good, sound, heavy oats -in ca r lots, 45 to 50c, f.o.b. shipping points. O ntario good m illing wheat, f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights, $1.28 to $1.30. B arley-- M alting, 70 to 73c. Buckwheat-- 85 to 87c. Rye-- No. 2, $1.05. Man. flour-- F irst pats., in jute, $7.30; T oronto; second pats., in jute, $6.30. Ont. flour-- Track, M ontreal, _car lots, 90 per cent, pats., per bbl., $5.70. PR O D U C E Toronto wholesala dealers are pay ing the -'ollowing pi ices, delivered T o ronto: E ggs, ungraded, cases returned-- Fresh extras, 27c; fresh firsts, 25c; seconds, 22c. Butter-- Creamery, solids, pasteur ized, No. 1, 41 to 42c; N o. 2, 39% to 40 % c. _ j Churning cream -- Special, 42c; No. 1, 41c; No. 2, 38c. Cheese-- No. 1 large, colored, par affined and government graded, 20% to 21 % c. P R O V ISIO N S T oronto wholesale dealers are qu ot-i ing the follow in g prices to the trade: Smoked meats-- Hams, med., 31 to 33c; "cooked hams, 47c; smoked rolls, 1 25c; breakfast bacon, 26 to 38c; backs,! peamealed, 34 to 38c; do, smoked, 30 to 40c. Cured meats-- Lon g clear bacon, 50, to 70 lbs., $21; 70 to 90 lbs., $19; 9 0 j to 100 lbs. and up, $18; lightw eight: rolls, in barrels, $11.50; heavyweight, rolls, $38.50 per barrel. Lard-- Pure, tierces, 1 6 % c; tubs,i 16 to 1 6 % c; pails, 1 6 % c ; prints. 18% to 19c. Shortening, tierces, 13% tol 1 4 % c; tubs, l f % c ; pails, 1 4 % c ; tins,I 1 6 % c; prints, 15% c. 1 Pork loins,, 32c; New Y ork shoul ders, 2 2 % c ; pork butts 27c; p o r k ' hams, 27c. L IV E S T O C K Heavy beef steers, $10 to $11.25; butcher steers, choice, $10.25 to $11;' do, fa ir to good, $9.50 to $10; do, com., $8.75 to ip9; butcher heifers, choice, $10 to $10.75; do, fa ir to good, $9;50 to $9.75; do, com., $8.75 to $9; butcher cows, good to choice, $8 _to $9; do, com. to med., $6.50 to $7.50; do, canners and cutters, $4.50 to $5.50; butcher bulls, good to choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, com. to med., $6 to $6.75; do, bolognas, $6.50 to $7.25; baby beef, $10 to $12; feeders, choice, $9.50 to $9.75; do, fa ir to good, $8 to $8.50; stockers, choice, $8.50 to $9.25; do, fa ir, $8 to $8.25; calves, choice, $14.50 to $16; do, med., $9 to $13.50; do, grassers, $6 to $8 ; springers, $85 to $125; milkers, $75 to $110; lambs, per cwt., $14.50 to $15; do, culls, per cwt., $10 to $13.50; buck lambs, S l l to $11.50; sheep, choice, $8 to $9; do, med., $6 to $7; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, selects, w.o.C., $13.75; do, do, fed, $13.45; do, do, f.o.b., $12.75; do, thick smooths, v'.o.c., $13.25. r> - MYRON H E R R IC K COMES HOME Body o f late envoy Myron T. Herrick arrives in New York on French cruiser Tourville. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen and Mayor W alker of New York met tlie cruiser. Col. Lindbergh, The I'm Alone Case Host of "Friends of the Horse" Meet on Common Ground of Admiration Highlights from Official Notes O n Sinking o f Randell's Vessel Industry Far From a " Has B een" , Speakers at Boston Ban quet Prove-- W ill Rogers Rises to D efend Equine Race -- Census Shows 14,000,000 Used on Farms Canada accepts the proposal o f the United States that the I 'm Alone in cident be submitted to arbitration as More than S00 " friends of the to-day. and approximately 1,500.000 provided fo r in the convention between horse" have just met at a Boston ban horses and mules in nonagricultural quet on the common ground of admira work, according to the latest census Great Britain and the United States tion. Automotive age notwithstand ot its kind, complete to January 1," in 1924 to which Canada adhered. ing, they were authoritatively reas Mr. Dinsmore declared. , The I 'm Alone was a schooner of sured, " horse breeding and use is on " An industry that represents al Lunenberg, N.S. registry, equipped a sounder basis now than at any time most $1,500,000,000 capital invest ment." he said, " that exceeds the with engines and sails. The United in the past 20. years." W ill Rogers, humorist and horse combined value ot all sheep and States notes refer to her as " a notor ious sm uggling vessel." The Canadian man. temporarily deserted the stage swine--is far from being a `has been' , notes admit she had fo r som e years to add his word o f praise for the particularly when we recall that " Your automobile," he de br.rses ana mules furnish most o f the been in the liquor-sm uggling business. horse. clared, " must be the last word in power that makes the American farm On March 20 last, the I'm Alone was fashion to attract attention nowadays. er the most efficient, measured In sighted off the coast o f United States, But heads will never cease to turn as production per man, of any farmer iu having cleared from Belize, British a good horse moves down the sTTPfrH*) the wovld " Honduras, with a cargo o f liquor. . As for the idea o f one horse being The vessel was ordered to heave to H,e " rgefid ` he e q u a t i o n each year by the captain o f the United States of ` his « » t meeting of its kind here. necessary for the attainment of one i W ayne Dinsmore ot Chicago, sec- horsepower, or at best only four or coastguard cutter W olcott. Capt retary of the Horse Association ot five horsepower for a short time, Mr. Randell o f the I'm A lone refused and America, contributed what were con Dinsmore showed actual tests where proceeded out to sea. A fter the W ol sidered surprising statistics in proof a single horse could produce 10 horse cott had fired through the sails and of the fact that horsepower is still power, and a team of horses 25 horse riggin g o f the schooner, the gun on the power, while a good horse exerts well indeed furnished by the horse. cutter jamm ed, according to the Un " There are more than . 14,000,000 over a single horsepower for a solid ited States notes, and she asked fo r horses and 5,447,000 mules on farms I 10-hour period o f work. assistance from the coastguard head quarters. even had the hailng been within the Railway Development On M arch 22, another coastguard required limits, in pursuing the shep London Evening Standard (Ind. vessel, the Dexter, came up and order so fa r into the high seas. C on s.): Little has been done in the ed the I 'm Alone to heave to. On the With regard to the actual sinking matter of ppsed during the last 70 or continued refusal o f the latter, the o f the vessel, United States placed the SO years, and we are still far from the Dexter shelled the schooner and ulti mately sank her, some 200 miles from blamef <>" the caPtain f th« JJ» Alonfe maximum speed of J.50 miles an hour shore One member o f the crew of the ln n° the « rd" o f \he coast' and the whole-run speed o f 120 miles I'm Alone was drowned. , Kuard The Canadian gov- an hour which such an expert as Logd . ., crnment disagrees with this. The convention o f 1924 gave th e, The Canadian notes assert that the Monkswell considers perfectly feas United States authorities, in its sup evidence shows the coastguard officers ible. If the railways had devoted to pressior. of rum -running, certain could have boarded the I 'm Alone and experiments of this nature half the privileges o f search and seizure out that the firing on the schooner and energy and enterprise which the motor side the territorial waters, which ex the putting o f the crew in irons gave industry has shown in the pursuit of tend three miles from shore. The con the impression o f distinctly punitive high speeds, they would give us serv ices of a much higher value. vention permits search and seizure of intent. vessels suspected o f endeavoring to Canada is anxious solely to uphold smuggle liquor into the United States, The old*r soma women get the more the perform ance o f treaty obligations within the distance from the United and to maintain in full integrity the girlish they try to act. States coast that the suspected vessel rules which protect the freedom o f Vienna.--In pre-war days the Aus can traverse in one hour. traffic on the high seas, the Canadian tro-Hungarian Empire was not re The two governments are at var notes explain. France is said to be considering a garded as a great colonizing power,, iance not only as to the distance the campaign against a new hat menace. and the only territory to which it laid] -------I'm Alone was from shore when first W e often get up In the morning The new species to invade that coun- claim "e y o r ' its own borders was aj hailed but how many knots she could feeling likp an altitude record and go try have black eyes, white bodies and small settlement in China and Franz travel in an hour. to bed at niglit feeling like en gin e' brown ears and tails. Scranton f Re- Josef Land. The United States coastguard auth- troilble. I Publican. The form er became Chinese pro orites claimed the schooner was 10% perty once more after the war, and First A ir Mail Plane from miles off shore when hailed and that the news has recently reached this' R im uoski Arrived in she was capable o f travelling over 1" Looks Like a Bit of France city that the Sovfet Government has', knots an hour. O ttawa annexed the latter and placed it un-j The officers o f the schooner claimed der the administrative control of the Ottawa-- The first airmail plane of they were 14% miles froth the shore district o f Archangel the season arrived in Ottawa Friday, and that the best speed the I 'm Alone Franz Josef Land is a group of is carrying on board letters from over had ever obtained w as 9 % knots. lands in the Arctic Ocean, northwest seas taken off the C.P.R. steamer A ccordingly, the two governments o f Spitzbergen. Its name was given Duchess o f York at Rimouski, Que. disagree as to whether the coastguard to it by the Austrian mountaineer and T he mail was taken on board a ma-J officials had any righ t to interfere explorer, Payer, who first visited th e ) chine of the Canadian Transcontin with the I 'm Aione when she was first polar regions as a member of a Ger ental Airways at Rimouski and rush hailed. man exploration expedition. In 1872 ed to Montreal where the consign The United States takes the positon an Austrian expedition set out for the ment for points west was loaded into that if the vessel is hailed within " one same islands, and during the year another plane waiting on the field at hour's sailng" o f shore, the coastguard 1874 Payer and his companions ex St. Hubert. ships are permtted to follow and cap plored part of the land. It is pointed out that the summer ture her regardless o f distance, prot A ryr-unid of stones was erected,, service during the period o f St. Law vided the chase has been continuous. the Austrian flag hoisted, and the ter-t rence navigation effects a saving of The situation is not altered, the Un ritory given the name of the Emper time of 4 hours on incoming mail and ited States sets forth, by the fa ct the or, Franz Josef. Eight years later an from 24 to 96 hours on outgoing postal cutter that hailed the I'm Alone was international polar commission w a s1 matter. set up and a number of research ex The first outgoing flight will be i n° t the one that sank her. Both cut periments carried out by experts fr o m ! made from Montreal on Thursday, ters w ere under the same command the leading European states and from , May 2, when a machine leaving long and co-operating, is the argument. The Canadian governm ent contends the U nit'd States. after the departure o f the Calgaric Franz Joseph Land ` uninhabited,'. w ill catch the ship at Rimouski and that to make use of the privileges o f M E X IC A N R A IL R O A D S D E S T R O Y E D BY R E B E L S " hot pursuit" the vessel must be hail-_ but polar bears and seals abound load the mail on board. Mexican federal troops had no difficulty in following the trail taken by ed within the territorial waters, three there, and it is thought that the No man cau 1>e truly happy without miles. It also contends the United fleeing rebels evacuating Torreon as they tore up the railway for 109 m iles} S oviet annexation is linked up with a well developed ability to forget. States ships exceeded their righ ts] in a vain effort to hold up the federal advance. I considerations for futiu* fur trade. Russia Annexes Franz Joseph Land, Austrian Colony Summer Here

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