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pom - first appearance at Covent Garden. N "Tossed Over Station Parapet To Cement Driveway 20 3 Feet Below Toronto Manhole Explosion Causes Death of Goderich Man Toronto. -- Stepping on a Front Street manhole cover at the precise instant when sewer gas exploded in the pit directly underneath him, Nor- man Lewis, aged about 45, of Goder- ich, at 9.25 Sunday night, was hurled bodily into the air, over the Union Station parapet, and dropped 20 feet to the cab driveway below. He died 10 minutes after reaching St. Mich- ael"s Hospital in a police ambulance. With a thunderous detonation that shook the Union Station and nearby buildings, the blast shattered the cold silence of Front Street, folding up large sections of sidewalk like so much breadcrust, breaking the heavy iron lid into a dozen jagged fragments and scattering stones, cinders and chunks of concrete for yards around. Large chips were knocked out of the granite parapet by flying cement, A dark cloud of dust floated away in the breeze. Lewis lay sprawling in the roadway below and a great jagged hole gaped where he had just been walking. | Lying near death in the Allan Court apartments, Carlton Street, Judge E.| N. Lewis, Huron County court judge, father of Norman Lewis, was spared the knowledge of his son's death, Mrs, | Lewis, a frail, old lady, who helps two nurses care for her rapidly declining husband, immediately collapsed on learning that her boy had been hurt." Cars Hurriedly Leave Cars which had been parked at the curb on the south side of Front Street not far from the spot scurried away expecting a second blast, and although | the street had been comparatively idle, bystanders and pedestrians, red- caps and postal employees from the station, hurried out and crowded around the hole. Leo Barbeau, station redcap, who was standing near the entrance to Postal Terminal "A," looked around quickly at the sound of the explosion, and saw Lewis sail up five feet above the edge of the stome rail, which is four feet high. There was a pro- nounced odor of marsh or sewer gas hanging about for some time after- wards, and newspaper photographers were warned to use no open flashes. The twisted ends of one small tele- phone cable hung into the concrete- walled pit, the only "works" of any kind. Bell telephone employees who examined the manhole said they were not sure that even that cable had been in use, as no reports of disrupted ser- vice had been received up until their inspection was made an hour after the explosion. Dame Melba Dies Of Rare Disease Australian Diva Succumbs : Few Weeks After Return Home Melbourne, Australia. --Dame Nellie Melba, famous Australian soprano,' died here early idohday after an ill- mess of several weeks. Her illness took the strange skin disease which baffled physicians. She was 65 years old. Somewhere around 70 years ago a small farmer from Torfarshire Scot. land, named David Mitchell, had a homestead known as Coombe Cottage, 70 miles from Melbou ne, Australia. Here it was that Nellie Mitchell, afterwards to be over as "Melba, the Queen of Song," | was born and spent her early life. To jump for a moment from the be- ginning of Melba's story:to the lose of it--Melba used often to declare that she rejoiced in her warm friend.' ship with Lord Mountstephen because ' he reminded her so much of her father. They both began life en- niless, she said, and attained posi tions of prominence. Melba was taken when still a girl in her 'teens to Queensland. Here | she married a sugar planted named Armstrong, and it was here, too, that her only child, a son, was born, For more than one reason Melba evident-, ly found life imwossible in Qu er s-, land, and she soon returned to her father near Melbourne. In 1886, with little but her pa:sage money, | she came to London determined to! learn more of her art. Sir Arthur Sulljvan, with rather a bored air, lis-| tened to her singing--and then sug-. gested it was just possible she was | fitted for a small part in "The Mik- | ado." which was shortly to be vro-| duced. It was only when she! pushed on to Paris and sang to Madame Marchesi that Melba found a judge of sufficient discrenment to truly appreciate her latent powers. Melba always attributed much of her success to Marchesl's enthusiastic support and devoted tuition. Melba's operatic debut was made in Brussels, as Gilda in "Rigoletto." Two years later, in 1888, she made her In May, 1918, Melba celebrated the twénty-fifth anniversary of her as. sociation .with Covent Garden. In June, 1926, she appeared for the last time here In opera, an¢ the aame month held a memorable concert of farewell in the Albert Hall, Melba was created a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 in reccgnition of her efforts for war | charities, and was accorded the Grand Cross of the Order in 1927, --; = 77,189 Radio Licenses Issued In Toronto Ottawa.--More radio licenses have been issued in Toronto for the first ten months of the present fiscal year than were issued in any other city in Canada, according to a report for the fiscal year 1930-31 up to the end of January, given out by C. P, Edwards, director of radio service. There have been 69,030 more licenses issued in Canada for the 10 months of this year than there were for the full 12 months of last year, the figures being as follows: 1930-31 (ten months) 1920-30 .oviiriniireneen For Toronto it is: 1930-31 (ten months) 1929-30 .... * Montreal comes next with and 43,051 respectively. . 493,176 . 424,146 T17,194 61,863 41,378 ete Aree When he was about to have a tooth extracted, a patient suddenly attacked the dentist. As the dentist won, how- ever, it ended in a draw. -- en You can"keep parsley fresh a long time by keeping it in a g'ass of water containing a teaspoonful of vinegar? | Says France Leads In Reducing Army Deputy Presents. Figures 'in Introducing $258,000, 000 War Budget Paris -- Introducing a $258,000,000 Ministry of War budget in" Parlia- ment on Friday, Deputy Bouilloux | Lafonte offered a report tending to|y.a¢ navigation on form of a establish, he said, that France has|piver onened on April 21. gone farther along the road to dis- armament than any other nation. Metropolitan troops are allocated $190,000,000 and overseas colonial trocps. $68,000,000 in the 1931 budget. The total is about $3,000,000 over last year's. in spending thé amount requested known the world ©0 the maintenance of her army, La-', fonte said, France is devoting 16 per cent. less to that purpose than in 19183, and, in comparison with other nations and in proportion to defence needs, 14 to 48 per cent. less than in pre-war times. His report said the French metro- politan army numbered 522,000, with 36,000 gendarmes, in addition. Great Britain, he said, has 510,000 regulars and 277,000 militia; Ttaly, 308,000 reg- ulars and 110,000 caribiniers; the United States, 157,000 regulars and 395,000 national guards. Although the budget increase is $3,000,000 over 1930, said Lafonte, the United States army expenditures showed an 86 per cent. increase, the Japanese 48 per cent. over pre-war gures, _ His report said Germany wag spend. ing $120,000,000 to maintain the "treaty army" of 100,000 men, plus 150,000 gendarmes and 30,000 frontier guards and customs officers. Boy Awakens After Ten-Day Sleep Physicians Are Confident That He Will Recover Montreal.--On February 13th fifteen- year-old Rodalph Robinet, of this city, was brought to the Notre Dame Hos- pital, He was sound asleep and had been sleepng for seven days. Physi- cans had worked over the boy at his home, but the mysterious illness falled to respond to treatment, Forced feeding was necessary to keep life within the sleeping youth, but even then he was gradually weakening. In a last despairing effort to save his life he was taken to the hospital, Injections were given every few hours and all the science and skill of one of Montreal's largest hospitals con- verged to the bed of the sleeping boy. Science won, Gradually he started to improve and on February 16th the boy awakened, and although still feel- ing the affects of the unknown malady | appeared to be stronger. Medical men afe confident that he will live, re meee dla Capt. Campbell Created Knight Cherbourg, France.--Capt. Malcolm Campbell, who recently set a new world's automobile speed record at Daytona Beach, received a knight. hood on Feb, 19th, The British wvice-consul communi- cated the King's desires to Capt. Campbell while the speed-driver was still aboard the $8.8, Mauretania in the roads off Cherbourg, Capt. Campbell answered the com- munication from the vice-consul, expressing hig appreciation for the honor. He set a record of 245 miles an hour at Daytona, -- . Life insurance in force in Ontario at the close of 1929 amounted to $2,- 542,528,235, an indication that even during boom times the people were not altogether frivolous "in their ex- penditure.--The Toronto Globe. : Wed A Nose Dive! ; : 4 ' ! A i { | l | ! Wreck of aeroplane that suddenly decided to make a visit in one of the pretty gardens with which town of Brixton, suburb of Lon- don, abounds. Two persons in plane were injured, Navigation Start !Avalanches in Alps May Set a Record Take Fifteen Lives Open Winter Leaves Many Family of Seven Murled to Harbors Clear in : Their Deaths--In Superior Landslide Marie, Ont--The ear on. Avalanches . in the Alps liest opening of navigation in years were reported on Feb. 20th to have is being predicted as a result of the taken 15 lives including nine chil: almost unprecedented open Winter dren at two separate places. i | which has left some Lake Superior Advices from Berne, Switzerland, harbors practically without ice. said that a family of seven including | The earliest opening of naviga- two children were thought to have tion on record is April 1, 1902. Last perished in an avalanche that hurt. the St. Marys led down the mountain side, crush- ing and partly carrying away the Post Hotel in Lukmanier Pass in the ' Canton of Grisons, } The building was inhabited by an aged couple named Wenzig and thelr family, Two of the hodies were re. | covered and there wag small hope of finding the missing persons alive. | From Vienna came news that a' Sault Ste. Grand® Marais, Michigan and Min- I nesota report no ice and open water (28 far as visible. Eagle Harbor has {no ice, and Marquette Harbor and Lake Superior are free from f{ce. Most of the bays and rivers along the shore of Lake Superior are frozen over, but with less than the thickness of ice. The St. peasant named Mair and seven chil- Marys River is frozen over, but dren were killed when their Louse | there is not the thickness thers has wag dsstroyed by a huge avalanche | ybeen In previous years. { which swept down upon the valley of. indo ens Villgraaten in the eastern Tyrol, . {Ausuin Three mills also were ed | swept away. Villgraaten mountain Sp ott . Fever Hits is near Innsbruck. British Services rem Mauretania Sets All Military and Naval For- Ccean Travel Record mations Cancelled O-wvizg | Lotdon--The Cunard liner Maure- , tania is not content to rest on past to Outbreak + laurels, for by crossing the Atlantic Portsmouth, England.--All military four times within 31 days she has es- and naval formations among the Bri- tablished a record. Sailing from tish forces here have been cancelled | Southampton on Dec. 10 she was back as a precaution in view of the out-| thera on Dec. 22. Sailing again two break of spotted fever in the services days after Christmas she arrived in last week. New York on Jan. 2 and reached Ply- Already eight soldiers have died mouth on her return journey on Jan. from the disease, which otherwise is oth. known as cerebro-spinal meningitis, at| The Mauretania thus steamed some Aldersot, a suspected case has been | 13000 miles in 31 days, which aver- discovered aboard H.M.S, Repulse at| ages, including the time spent in port, Gibraltar, and 272 cases have been re-| more than 400 miles per day. Five corded among English civilians in the fang a half weeks is the time usually past 11 weeks. allowed by the big liners for these -------------- four crossings. Queen Mary Dislikes | ee Long Skirt Styles Record Year's Trade London. --Add the Queen to the ligt For Port of London of those who dont' like these new long | London.--In spite of the general de- skirts, pression in trade and the reduction in «I like frocks that come just above | shipbuilding, the Port of London has the ankle," she said recently as she | been able to report a record year for watohed a parade of mannequins at 1930. Provisional figures show that the artificial silk exhibition, "these | 58,083,575 tons net of shipping used very long dresses with flared skirts | the port. This is an increase of over are difficult to wear, I think. Only an 500,000 tons over the total for 1929 expert like a mannequin can really and is a record for any calendar year wear them effectively.' |in the history of the port, New Baseball Whether or not new style baseball (above) adopted fir 1931, will slow up America's national pastime will be burning questicn of early season. New and old style balls are shown above and bg ow; respec. tively. Air Mail Crash Dr. R. E. Alleyn, Winnipeg, crash in tha history of the Western o| flames, The Markets PRODUCE QUUIYALIU.LD Toronto dealers are buymg pro.uce at the 1ollowing prices: Lggs--ungrauecy, caizy rewnrnd fresn extras, z6 tu ZC; aresn nrsts, 23 to z4c; seconds, li te lec, putter--No. 1 untarie creamery, 80.148, 81% to zc; No- &, He churning eream---=3p Canada Air Mail Service on Feb, 20th Zc; No. a, #0 0 3lc; No. 2, 20 claimed two lives. Caught in a sud. = : den fog about 75 miles west of Winni- peg the Moose Jaw bound mail-carrier broke up in landing and burst into The dead: Dr. Richard E. Alley , Winnipeg, George I. Lewis Regina. lve; over 4a Pilot N. @. Forrester, of Western 4% lbs, 16¢; Canada Airways, who was at the con-| Vatted hens, 5 ; ; trols, was injured, but will recover.' lbs, 18¢, vyer 34% to 4 ibs, 16e; under | He is being treated at hospital at Por ts Ihe, Lh, Sung tar keys, ove tage La Prairie, 15 miles east of where 1." 3 ce, Old ttrhos Godse i the plane crashed. Dr. Alleyn and ,.. ket © Old Tot ' market prices Lewis were killed instantly, it was Ls. 14c. White duckli stated. 2 'T: te3 Two Lives and G. Lewis, Regina, Die Near 'Peg. Winnipeg.--The second fatal air Lheesi--No. 1 larg, ¢ fined and government Quotations te poultry as 10llows Poultry, "A" grade, ali chickens, 6 lbs, Ze; ov o--Snring Muscovie | ait @ ove 4 to b lbs. Dr. Alleyn, who is medical officer ducks, ver b lbs, ¢ to 5 lbs., 16¢. | for Western Canada Airways, has Guinea fowl, pir pe ! been termed Winnipeg's "flying doc Poultry, "A" grade, dresse --Spring chickens, 6 lbs, © to 6 lbs., 23c; over 4% over 4 to 4% ibs, under, 19¢. Fatted a m1 tor." He' was en route westward to examine pilots for the company. Lewis was bound for Regina, k. The mail was recovered, it wi nnounced here. 99¢: gover 4 to 6 ib ay : 4 lbs, 19¢; und ba., 16. Old roosters, over H . White duck- Sault Starts 1931 lings, over 5 lbs, 28c¢; over 4 to J 26¢. WHOLESALE PROVISIONS Wholesale provision deulers are quoting the following prices to re tail dealers: | Ibs., Drive For Tourists Opening of $650,000 Hotel Is Initial Sten Sault Ste, Marie, Ont. -- Algoma's capital commenced its 3831 drive for tourists Monday night with the open- ing of what is claimed to be the finest hotel between Toronto and Winnipeg The New Windsor, built at a cost of $650,000 and offering the most modern 32¢; nea-mealed, 20 to 30c; do, smoked, 36 to 38c. Pork hams, 19%c; shoulder, 14%2c;! butt, 16¢; ham, 16 to 17c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 5 to 70 lbs., 20¢; 70 to 90 Ibs, 18¢; ¢ to 110 lbs., 17¢; lightweight rolls, 19¢; accommodation for tourists, was of- a og Lic; tubs, ficially opened at a banquet. 14% ils, 15¢; pri Al to 16e¢. The Windsor is a community enter- Shortening--Tierces, e tubs, | prise and a direct result of the news 12%ec. | rtening--Tierces, v rails, 16c. GRAIN QUOTATIONS Grain dealers on ze Toronto Board, of Trade are making the following quotations for car lots: stories which have spread abroad Al! goma's fame as a hunting and fishing paradise. The idea started with John Milter, president of the company, and his partner, Paul Everett, but tha Cana- i i allway, tt ! Manitobs wheat--No. 1 hard,| dian Pacific Railway, the Algoma _* y ae N Steel Company and the Algoma Cen- Gd%e: No. 1 Northern, Bes No, 2 Ip A (BOTH do, 66%e (cif. Goderich and bay tral Railway are large soareholders. ports) Many private citizens subscribed. The Windsor is Sanlt Ste. Marie's first skyscraper. Manitoba oats--No. 3 C.W. % e; | No. 1 feed, 363¢; No. 2 feed, 30. Manitoba barley--No." 3 C.W., 29¢.} No. 4 C.W., 28e. : a Argentine corn, 66¢ (c.i.f. Port Col-| borne). Miilfeed, bags included Leads the World Laying 357 eggs in 365 days in the del. Montreal "f Bran, per ton, $ pig ts, | | British Columbia Egg Laying Con- oh per ton, $21.25; middlings, test conducted at the Experimental 5 Farm of the Dominion Department of | grain--Wh 65¢: barley, Africulture at Agassiz, B.C. *"No.| 8Rec: oats, 27¢; buckwheat, Drone 5H," a White Leghorn owned d48c. by Wm. Whiting, of Port Kells, B.C, HAY AND STRAW PRICES qualified as a real champion e lay Dealers are quoting shippers for ed. This bird, a beautiful specimen hay and straw, earload lots, delivered of the breed, weighs just §.2 pounds. | oO track, Toronto, the following rye, 85¢; From November 1, 1920, to October, ) timothy, ton, $14 to $14.50; 30, 1930, she laid 29.9 dozen eggs N do, $13 to s wheat straw, which weighed 52 pounds, or just g754 t+, $8: oat straw, ) to $8. ten times her own weight Her re. LIVE STOCK QUO S cord is official in the fullest sense Heavy beef steers, $6 b steers, choice, do, fair to good $5.50 to 5; butcher heifers do, fair to good 1.50 to $5; t , $4 to $4.75; of the term. During the entrie period of the contest she was entirely out of the hands of her owner and under the competent neutral supervision of the federal egg-laying contest. This hen shows conclusively the possibili do, com., choice, | 0 t | er COWS, do, med., x 3 to 5: canners and cutters, $2 ties of Canada's national poultry: ¢, $2.50; butcher bulls, good to choice, breeding policy. ! 50; do, bolognas, $3 to $3.50; " $7 to $9; feeders, good, arp etera | bs ' $5.75; stockers, $1 to $5.25; springers, $60 to $85; calves, good to « Sense of Time Becomes { choice, $9 to $9.50; milkers, $40 to Less In Old Age $60; do, med., $8 to $8.50; do, com, Disturbances of the senses of time gg t, 0: do, grass $1 to $5, | lambs, choice, $9; buck lambs, $7; sheep, $2 to $5.50; hogs, bacon, fob. $7; do, do, w.o.c., Tc to $1 above f.o. b.; do, butchers, $1 per hog discount; do, selects, $1 per hog premium. win p-- London Gives Chaplin and space in persons with mental dis- ease and In very old people were des- cribed recently to the Physiological Institute of Vienna, Austria, by Dr. Eugene Minkowski, Ordinary healthy people, Dr. Minkowski stated, have time and space senses which are more or less automatic. Both may be Enthusiastic Welcome | boreal It 15 admitted too, {lat tha in London on Feb, 16th, A iremend- | 5 8 ' LA ous welcome had been prepared toby accuracy of both the time sense and him and at the station his autemo- the space sense differ greatly in dif- bile was surrounded by a surgi | ferent people, there being individuals crowd trying to shake his hand, Wav- whose automatic space sense fails and tnx his h it and cane, lie climbed on confuses them if they are merely led , > = oo a | the roof of the car and as it moved at random around the corners of a vwav hte squatted there few adjacent city blocks Victims of | pla ih mein distinct mental dise oa general | . paralysis of the insane are said to Canadian Oranges show, however, much mors complete Regina, -- Tyvan distri boasts ¢ disturbances and inaccuracies of both | farmer who, beside 0 t | these sen a crop of oranges, small though it | One patient studied by has ' | Dr. Minkowski experienced, for ex-{ be. The man is Donald W. Houston, ample, the hallucination of a trip to three miles north of town. Mr. Hous- the United States, a journey around | ton, no matter how hard the year, al- the country and many detailed ex-| ways has had, for the past six yous, periences, all within a single day. Such | oranges from his own tree for Christ. time and space illusions imply, Dr. mas, except the Christmas of 1930, In Minkowski believes, that these two | 1030 the tree had a lazy fit, and did senses are not ancient or deep-seated not produce the oranges that could be in the animal mind, but have been! eaten until after Christmas. The tree acquired recently in human evolution,| bears from five to nine oranges each perhaps "even since savage times, | year. - Similar incompetence of the time - rete g sense may be fou I, he also reported, A good plant for the conservatory is in very young ¢ ildren and in very the Streptocarpus. If the seeds are old people. The iter often confuse, sown in January or February, they for example, the 'ime of events, re. will bloom freely the following sum- membering th! that happened in' mer, and if the flowers are cut back childhood as simi necus with things | the latter par. of September thé that happened yc day, plants will give a mass of bloom in -- the early spring. They may be had in "The great enemy ¢: the day is un-! six or eight shades. employment, the man going through Semen igen life with his head hanging down." --J. Mothers Allowances are paid, most. Ramsay MacDonald. ly, to young widows with dependent repre eens children. Ontario spends over two The Christmas rose is a rock-garden and a quarter million dollars a year plant which may be used for forcing. in thus relieving the distress of wid- The leaves are evergreen, flowers ows and orphans--whose husbands white, somtimes flushed with purple. and fathers, in a very large number i Joe betireen February and of cases, were killed by preventable arch, i nv, tually." | diseases. | call a lady." Here and There Professional beggars make, in the uggrecate, at laast $30,000 a day in + New York City. Although the whale is a reammal its h" is not classed as meat but as fish. "How's your wife coming along with Ler driving?" "She took a turn for tea worse last week, sir." Another good ting about telling the truth is that you don't have to re. member what you say. id think is the best a seeking aftor we can ask intel (Clarence Darrow, The first pneumatic tires, made in 1815, wera manufactured out of cane | vas and lather and were for use om curt wheels. Ore of the most easily grow house s is the aspidistra. This thrives in a dark placc where nothi.g v | else will grow. true international is buill upon. patriotism; it is built upon na tional feeling: it is built upon national ride." --Nicholas Murray Butler, e "Higher material standards are ne good it you do not know how to use | Mem for a better life." --Sir Basil Blackett, A shrub for use in the background is the butterfly bush, which has long panicles of lilac-colored flowers and is very fragrant. When in bloom the butterflies swarm to it all day long. A brand 'new leather belt will brighten up an old coat a bit. It may either match the coat's color or contrast with ft. Labor-Saving Idea ~--O0ld Lady (wit nessing tug-of-war for the first time) --"Wouldn't it be simpler, dear, for them to get a knife and cut it?" --"Boston Transcript" Golf goods to the value of over $17,000,000 were bought by Americ. a golfers last year; this year's total is 'expected to exceed that figure. Johnny had dined at his uncle's, "Did you find Auntie's Christmas pud- ding rich?" asked his mother when he returned, "Oh, no,' was the boy's re- ply. "I only found one threepenny-bit in three helpings!" One of the most frequent questions is, when is the best time to plant. The answer depends on the material and location. Fall is the best time for plants that are hardy. A graceful and pretty lant for a winter basket or pot is the oxalis. This may be planted now, then put away dn the dark for about two weeks te allow root growth, after which place ir a sunny window. Teacher (to littla boy, who has just given her a large sugared almond) Thank you, Johnnie, What a nice white sweet. Johnnie: Yes, miss, It was pink when I bought it.--Mrs. D, T. (Bristol) Small Boy: "Do your glasses mag- nify things, grannie?" Grannie: "Oh, ves, dear." Small Boy: "Then I wish vou would not wear them when you help me to jam. I don't actually get as much as you think." The worst dancer in the room had secured a proficient partner. "I wish I were jp your shoes," he said ad miringly." Perhaps so," replied the girl, "but IT wish you'd refrain from trying to get into them now." During his absence of a month from his farm, an Ontario farmer discovered that thieves had removed the surface soil to a depth of eighteen inches r a considerable area, rendering arming, the land unfit A most practical material for spec tators sports is the triple chiffon. It not only tailors well, but may be fashioned in costumes of the semis type. Pleats are most attrac. arried out in this material. . As the heavy freez. has killed the flowers on the chrysanthemun:s it is time to cut them wn within two oe three inches of the ground. Cover with leaves or straw. In the spring after they have started growing it will be. time to divide. There still is a wide difference of opinion on the subject of what consté tutes a real lady. A taxi drives charged with using profane language protested that the complainant, a woe man, wis no "lady," "Indeed," said the magistrate. "i wonder if yom know a lady when you see one." "Of course J do," answered the driver ime dignantly. "Why, only the other day I saw one. She gave me a five-dollar bill for a fitty-cent fare an' walked: away, 'Here, lady, what about your change? I callet after her.. " 'Don't be blinkin' old {vol says she, 'Keep it an' get drunk enough to iss mother-in-law." N.w, that's wha a ers Ne > Es Gram Ban ee y A hy ne + »