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Page 6 Z Sc ei ee THURSDAY, JULY 30th, 1936 WELL, FER GOODNESS SAKE! | MUSTA PuT Too MUCH REDUCING SALTS 'N THE BATATUB / ~, Late News Pictures and Cartoons .:. : j FRENCH MEMORIAL TO KING ALBERT RENEWS FIGHT TO ESCAPE CHAIR : is FANCIFUL FABLES eens OA, THASS ALLRIGHT, SIQ! SOMETIMES THEY GET STucK A LITTLE. TAAT'S WHY WE KEEP THE AXE HANDY. A memorial to the late King Albert of the Belgians has been erected at Saint Quentin, and was unveiled by M. Daladier, French Minister of National Defence. It takes the form of a ; Pe ", : a he late K ifor tanding bareheaded and Maintaining that she drowned her son to "keep him from é "yt g or std ¢ g areneadec é > 9° > ~ f - rid] r a MM ocean ey tas ; starving", Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood refused to plead guilty to manslaughter when she appeared in court at Newburgh, a + : 4 ~ fo ae he elec above. She had previously been sentenced to die in the elec- tric chair but was granted a new trial. She is scheduled to stand trial on first degree murder charges in September looking into the distance. This picture shows school children laying wreaths at the foot of the monument during the inau- guration ceremonies. CANADIAN WAR VETERANS REACH LONDON EN ROUTE TO VIMY PS + EK ig + FY eas eM =| 91983, King Fearires Sy Canada's First Engine and World's Largest Streamliner Featured at Railway Centenary & When Brigadier-General Alex. Ross (centre) Dominion President of the Canadian Legion, arrived in London en route to Vimy, he was greeted by Sir Ian Hamilton (left) and General Sir Archibald Horne (right). General Ross and some 5,000 Canadian war veterans were on hand at Vimy Ridge when King Edward unveiled the beautiful War Memorial on Sunday last. KING AND GUARDS IN GREAT MILITARY PARADE Railway Pioneers' Hopes far Exceeded Speaking at the recent celebra- tion of Canada's railway centenary held at St. Johns, Quebec, the southern terminus of the Champlain and St. Lawrence, the first line in the Dominion, S. J. Hungerford president of the Canadian National Railways, outlined the tremendous strides that had been made in railroading since he entered the railway business 50 years ago. "T can say in all truth that which has been accomplished has tran- scended the vision of the pioneers", Mr. Hungerford said. 'Those who pinned the Champlain and St. awrence and brought it into being no matter how optimistic they might have been, could hardly have foreseen what a mighty instrument of national welfare the railway was to be in Canada. The railway has been, and is the mightiest. single force in the welding together of Canada and in the preservation of At the ceremony at St. Johns, Quebec, commemorating the one it as a nation. It is a mighty » hundredth anniversary of the operation of the first Canadian pas- saileay of the pede: 4 yuee ee senger train, a full-sized model of the "Dorchester"', the first Canadian likewise brought into being, that engine, was shown in comparison with one of the new 6400 type of chain of circumstances which led the Canadian National Railways, the largest streamlined locomotive to the formation of the Canadian in the world. The "Dorchester", with tender, was 21 feet long; the National Railways, with its ser- 6400, with tender, 94 feet 734 inches. The 6400 is longer than the ; 4 oe Ke : 2 ; vices to every province of the entire passenger train of 1836. His Majesty the King, as Colonel-in-Chief of the Brigade of Guards, presented new colors to Rosato a iy oe of the The lower picture shows (from left to right) Mayor Camillien six battalions in Hyde Park and later was the principal figure in the amazing attempt on his life. INSeatGAR EE rege ne Houde, C.B.E., of Montreal, George F. Moran, S. J. Hungerford, In the picture the King (left) is leaving the Royal Box, in which may be seen Queen Mary and American continent, still to be in President, Canadian National System, and A. J. Shapter. Messrs. other members of the Royal Family, for the presentation ceremony.. Following this ceremony, the vanguard of progress; to be a Moran and Shapter, retired Canadian National Railways engineers he led the Brigade of Guards from the Park to Buckingham Palace, and it was during this par- worthy instrument in the develop- with over 50 years of service, impersonated the original crew of the gene a ade that a man was arrested for apparently attempting to assassinate His Majesty. ment of this great nation. "Dorchester" at the celebration. 9%