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ge Cin Sah L LEAR SR a LTE v ER ee « News in Brief » Cattle Shipped From West For Feeding GUELPH. -- Lush pasturage here combined with marked increases in meat prices generally has been re- sponsible for large importations into Wellington County of beet cattle from Western Canada, according to farm. ers throughout this district. The first group of Western cattle brought here for feeding was readily disposed of. Ned Sparks Big Attraction -. ST. THOMAS.--Passing a big auto- mobile owned by Ned Sparks, the mo- tion-picture comedian, on the long, winding hill leading into the Water- works Park, a youth drove his old automobile into the fence along the hillside ..nd smashed into a pole car- rying Hydro power to the city's pump. Ing statior. The accident snapped the Joie and cut off the power to the sta- ion for nearly two hours until Public Utilities" Commission linesmen could Ax up an emergency service. The youth is believed to have beer looking at Sparks, and his auto so intently that he failed to see where he was go- Ing until he shelved oft the side of i road. Damage wil) teta)l aboyt Loose Gravel Causes Injuries to Thirteen SALTCOATS, - S8ask.--Thirtecn chil- dren between six and 18 years of age ure recovering from injuries received in a highway accident five miles south ot this town, 125 miles northwest of 'Regina. All were occupants of an automobile that struck loose gravel on a curve, skidded, broke its steer- ing gear and rolled over. Most serl- ously hurt were Peter Wilson, 13, broken leg; Travis Thorvaldson, 9, broken wrists; Walter Thorvaldson, 6, severed leg artery. More "Luxury" Spending Shows Times Are Better WASHINGTON. -- Agriculture de- partment economists declare a sharp Increase in sales of "luxury items" the first part of this "year, indicated the Unite1 States public had more money to spend. They reported sales of furs, nechanical refrigerators, liq- - uors, toilet preparations, cameras and lenses, the theatre admissions in the first five months of 1937 ranged from 10 to 75 per cent. ahead of the same 1936 period. Twin Wives' Worries Them Ia Paris =' LOS ANGELES. -- Marital difficul- ties continued simultaneous visits to Haunt Lois and Louise Coats, identical twins. The twin brothers they mar- ried Dec. 28 in 'Marian, Ark. filed suits for annulment. The plaintiffs, Hubert O. and Herbert M. Sharp, charged that their brides had not received final divorce decrees from. * their previous husbands, Roy and Ray Bebringz, a'so twins. Accused Makes a Clean Breast of His Innocence LOS ANGELES.--Asked If he could identify Harry Geer, in court on a forgery charge, as the culprit, wit- ness Harry Greenberg, replied ¢I can't tell definitely unless he opens his shirt at the neck. The man who forged the 'cheque had lots of hair on his' chest." Geer opened his shirt, bared his chest. It was as smooth as an onfon. "Case dismissed," sald the court. Walker Not Candidate For New York Mayoralty NEW YORK.--The name of James J. Walwer was mentioned in some ~~ "Tammany quarters as a possible can- didate in New York's mayoralty cam. paign, but the dapper, former mayor quickly eliminated himself from the picture. "I'm on the jury now," Wal- ker sald upon leaving a white house chat ith President Roosevelt in Washigton. "I only listen to argu- ments, and don't intend to take part in.any of them. Mary and Buddy Leave Honolulu On The Clipper ALEMELA, Calif. -- Pan-American Airways said that Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers, returning from a Hon. olulu hcnevmoon, were among seven passengers aboard when the Philip- pine Clipper left Honolulu for San Francisco. Groceryman's Watchdog BRANDENTON., Fla--H. E. Mow- er, Brandenton grocer, objects to the * persistent casting of the snake as the villain in fiction, and says his ten- foot boa constrictor was the hero of a real life crime story. Mower sald thieves pried open a rear window of his store and entered the building. . They left in a hurry without loot and even forgot the crowbar they used to open the window. Mower says he's convinced the gleam of the serpent's eyes in a flashlight beam---with, per- haps a hiss thrown in--caused the Klight, i Westerners to Help Harvest KITCHENER,--Things have chang- gd, A fow years ago Waterloo Co. youths used to go West on the "har. Vvesters' excursions." Now ft was fearned here that two Saskatchewan 2 4 youths, 21 and 20, will leave their homes there next week seeking farm work in Waterloo County. They will probably get it, Employment Bureau officials declare, New Trick NORTH YORK. -- A new trick of hitch-hikers to obtain rides into the city was revealed this week to a mo- torist on Dufferin Street. P.C. "Weller (412) of Torontd, and Mrs. Weller, were driving on Dufferin Street when they spied a lad of about 18 lying on his back with both arms outstretched and his legs about three feet on the pavement, in the path of their car, As the prostrate boy was motion. less, they presumed he had been the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and was either unconscious or dead, Stop- ping their car quickly, they hurried to him, only 'to have him jump to his feet and ask for a ride into the city. "Apparently he had been unsuccess- ful in 'thumbing' a ride and tried this new way of getting some motorist to stop," :ommented P.C. Weller, who added that the incident had rather frightened and upset Mrs. Weller. Second Plane To Cross Sea MONTREAL. -- Sister ship of the huge flying boat Caledonia, Imperial Airways' Cambria will take of from Foynes, Ireland, during the first week of August on 2 North Atlantic cross: ing, Trans-Canada Air Line Oflicials announced heére this week. Cable advices received here by the company aid the Cambria would fol- low the same trail-blazing course of the Caledonia,*§which completed fits westward crossing in four legs. From Southampton the Cambria would go to Foynes, then to Botwood, Nfld., on to Montreal, and from there to Port Washington, N.Y. The Pan American Clipper III, which completed a two-way flight of the North Atlantic at the same time as the Ca..donla, but in reversed or- der, also will make the crossing some time in August. The Cambria, after completing the fourth lex of its journey, may visit Windsor, Toronto and Hamilton. "If the Cambria js unable to do so, the Caledonia will visit the three Ontario cities when it makes its third Atlantic flight. Round-World flight Hinted EDMONTON. -- Aviation officials here speculated on the possibility of a secret round-the-world airplane flight being made in the near future with a refueling stop at Edmonton, where a consignment of more than 600 gallons of high-test gasoline ar- rived from New York and San Fran- cisco and forty-five gallons of special oil from Germany. Identity of the flier who is believed planning a world- girdling flight, with a scheduled take- off about the first of next week, was not learned. Persistent rumors in fly- ing circles here have indicated such a flight _is pending. Forted Landing Without Mishap BELLEVILLE. -- Robert Newman and Chick Dixon, of Akron, O. made a forced landing in the village of Shannonville, five miles east of here, when their plane ran out of gaso- line. After filling their tanks from the pumps of a local garage, the two fliers continued on their way eastward, The fliers wer. unhurt and their plane was undamaged. "New Giant Eggs A giant cgg, eight inches in -cir- cumference one way and 'six the other, three and a half inches long and two and a quarter in depth, was produced by a hen in the flock of Joe Ciroti, Blakeburn, B.C. Poison ivy is not always three- leaved. leaves. It has 'been estimated that the number of families on American farms during 1936 totalled 7,464,- 000." Occasionally it has four } Week-End Accidents 'Take Toll of 13 Lives 4 istrate's Wife Among Victims of Road Fatalities--Two Killed In Crash Near Windsor--Two Torontonians Drown TORONTO--Thirteen persons were killed and more than twenty injured in highway and water tragedies in Ontario over the week-end. Four women, including the wife of Magis- trate J. S. McKessock, of Sudbury, were among the victims who met death on the open road. There were two drownings, both caused by heart seizures. The dead are: * Mrs. J. S. McKessock, 60, Sudbury. Mrs. Frank Searles, 69, Wisconsin. Mrs. Cypriss Gauthier, 55, Outre- mont, Que, Mrs. Margaret Campbell, 54, Co- "lumbia, South Carolina. Stanton W. Berkey, 22, Highland Park, Mich, Paul Stefula, 83, near Smithville. Margaret Sterling, 3, Sarnia. Clifford West, 26, Carleton Place. Thomas Harris, 57, of 39 Maitland Street, Toronto. Thomas Carey, 52, of 2053 Daven- port Rd., Toronto. Arthur Taylor, 25, of 295% Viec- toria Park Ave. Toronto. THE -- | MARKETS POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers: Dressed Milk Sel. A. Sel. B. Fed A. Spring chickens-- 1 to 2 lbs. ........ 16 14 18 2 to 8 lbs. ........ 18 16 20 3 to 4 lbs, ........ 19 17 21 4 lbs. and over 20 18 22 Dressed. Sel. A. Sel. B. Fatted Hens-- Over 6 lbs. oun. 15 13 4d 10 § Ibs. cursive ininese 14 12 8% to 4 lbs. ................ 12 11 3 to 3% lbs. ...... ides enn 11 10 Old Roosters -- Over 8 Ibs. cine 12 10 (Red and black feath- ered birds 2¢ per lb. less than above prices). Other Fowl-- Guinea fowl], per pair 75 00 Note: C grade poultry 3c below B grade. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter-- Quotations to wholesale trade. Creamery solids, No. 1 26% to 00 do 38 score .............. 251% to 00 do 37 score .............. 243% to 00 do 36 score .............. 24 to 00 Cheese-- " New large (paraffined) .14% to..14% do twins cece... T43% to 156 do triplets ............... A5 to.15% (Average price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country points.) : New, lge. (paraffined) .14 to .00 do triplets ................ 14% to .00 Attacking Rabbit Pests CANBERRA.,--Australia's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has laid plans for a new attack on the Commonwealth's rabbit hordes with a new virus disease developed "in England by Sir Henry Martin, The attack will be launched on Clarke Island off the Tasmanian- coast and, if successful there will be extended to the mainland. First tests will de- termine whether the disease myxoma- tosis, is" fatal only to rabbits as Sir Henry claims. If such is the case, infected rabbits will be turned loose on the island to spread the disease among their entire species. ' Wesley Clow, 71, near Blénheim, Harold Faber, 21, Tavistock. Magistrate's Wife Killed Mrs. J. S. McKessock, 60-year-old wife of Magistrate McKessock of Sudbury, died in. Sudbury Hospital ten minutes after she was admitted with critical injuries suffered in a highway accident one mile south of Trout Creek, a short time before. She was in the back seat of the car driven by her daughter, Jean, and was hurled with terrific force against the front seat when the car skidded on loose gravel and crashed into a pile of rocks at the base of a tele- phone pole. : Wisconsin Woman Dies A collision between two cars near Ingersoll brought death to Mrs. Frank Searles, 69, of Broadhead, Wis- consin. Her husband, 71, is said to be in a critical condition. They were accompanied in the car by their son, Charles, and Mrs. Searles, of Clandford, N.J., and were proceeding west at the time of the accident. Mrs. Cypriss Gauthier, 55, of 107 St. Catherine Street, Outremont, Que. was killed and her son-in-law and daughter seriously injured when their car became involved in a highway accident 16 miles east of Mattawa on Saturday. Cypriss Gauthier and Car- men Gauthier, husband and daughter of the dead woman, were only slight- ly hurt. Two Killed Near Windsor Two were killed and eight injured when two Michigan cars collided at a road intersection eight miles south of Windsor, Saturday afternoon. - Stan- ton W. Berkey, 22, of Highland Park, Mich., driver of one of the cars, was instantly killed. He died of a broken back. Mrs. Margaret Campbell, 54,- of Columbia, South. Carolina, died from injuries shortly after being ad- mitted "to hospital. Her 17-year-old daughter, Mary, suffered a fractured pelvis, Toronto Fisherman Dies "A heart attack, suffered while fishing - in Georgian Bay, off Wau- "baushene, proved fatal for Thomas Harris, 57, of 89 Maitland Street, Toronto, Sunday Harris was fishing with a friend, George Collins of To- ronto, when he was seen to collapse and fall in the water. The body was recovered an hour and a half later. The victim was a widower and has relatives living in Toronto, it was learned. An attempt to get in touch with them was made by Toronto authorities. A drowning under similar circum- stances was that of Thomas Carey, 52, of 2053 Davenport Road, Toronto, who was drowned in the Severn River. He dived into the water and failed to come to the surface. It is believed he suffered a' heart attack on hitting the water as he was be- see to have had heart trouble be- ore. Arthur Taylor, 25, of 295% Vic. toria Park -Avenue, Toronto, was fatally injured late Sundav afternvon on the Niagara Parkwa above Chip- pawa, when his motorcycle skidded during a heavy rainstorm. He was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to the Niagara Falls General Hospital, where he died at 9.30 Sun- sciousness. . Death is believed due to a fracture of the skull. Motorists near by at the time said his motorcycle skidded to the left and-threw him on the pave- ment. He was alone on his motor- cycle going towards Niagara Falls. The body was removed to "the Morse Funeral Home where Coroner E. T. Kellam will open an inquest. ~day night without "regaining con- NEWS PARADE | Commentary on' the : HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS w. By Peter Randal ph hs ------ The world this week saw the Span- ish war sweeping to. a climax while fo the far East the first rumbles of a new conflict were heard. ; Lashing out Yrom Madrid, General: Jose Miaja's" reorganized Loyalist army executed its first great offen- sive in the yearpld civil war and struck fifteen miles into the insur. gent ring which almest surrounded" Madrid and threatened General Fran- cisco Franco's line of communication with the sea, Franco struck back with a violent counteér-offensive in an attempt to regain lost territory before the Loyalists could" strengthen ' their newly won positions. Hundreds of planes, tons of high explosives, and a quarter of a million men were hurled by both armies at the 'point of the loyalists' newly-won salient in the mountains at Brunete, 12 miles west of Madrid. This may be the deciding battle of the civil war. It the Rebels are driven back from the position they have held for near. ly a year at the gates of Madrid it is likely thdt new agreements will be formed by the great European pow- ers with Germany and Italy with. drawing much of. the support which has so far bolstered the Rebel attack. One million nien, women 'and chil dren have lost their lives, it is esti. | SPORT REPORTER 'By KEN EDWARDS £ of Speaking of fish, we have our own Canadian waters, 'and journey to Bermuda from whence comes news that a new 'récord has been established. Harry J. Tucker of Flatts, Ber- muda, ~ has just established a new Atlantic Ocean tecord - for "wa- hoo." It weighed 91 pounds and was six 'feet, two 'inches long. Tucker fought it 'for 20 minutes before land. ing it. He used a 12-ounce-tip and a 24-thread line. An 86-pounder, caught' by W. E. Carlin in 1911, was the prev- fous "wahoo" record for those waters, What player on a baseball team touches the ball more than any other? . . . the pitcher, - Did you know that 'way back in 1887 or thereabouts, the nigger pitcher, Geo. Storey of Newark, won 356 games, the most ever recorded. Lefty Grove had 330 strikéouts for Baltim -e in 1923. Tighten Control Over Adoption LONDON.--Recommenidations aim- ed at tightening control over the adoption of children in Great Britain were made by the majority of a home office. committee appointed to investi- gate 'the niethods of adoption socie- ties and agencies. = After reviewing several ¢ases -of indiscriminate trafficking of children, the committee suggestea: ] Adoption organizations should 'be ~licensed-by 'local boroughs or county councils: They should be forbidden to ar- range adoptions abroad by any for- eigner or to let a British subject take a child abroad until a magistfhte has granted, in open court, a license per- mitting it; They should insist that all adopt: ers apply to court for confirmation of the adoption after a probationary period, , Vessel Will Carry Evangel to Arctic Regions ih 0 \ far North, The picture shows the Diesel-engined M. F, Therese which willearry Bishop Turquetil and other missionaries to stations in the ~_pleted fits - southern § mated 'sluce the 'war began on July 19, 1937. : "Japan's militant' Imperialist' govern. ment which has held the nation in readiness for war for several years, made its first move in North China this week when Nipponese troops en- tered Mopei province which "adjoins "Japanese territory in newly-conquered Manchukun. E Japanese soldiers were repulsed however hy unexpected and determ- 4 ined opposition by Chinese Commun- ist and Bandit troops, united against the Japanese threat, under the Nan. kin government. Peace overtures have been made by Tokio and an armistice is expected to relieve tha troubled situation in the Far- East. With Soviet Russia disturbed by es- plonage trials and the execution of army leaders ft is not unlikely that Japan 'vill push forward in her mrarch | toward the rich stores of war ma- terials {n the heart of China, ~- Hope died this week in two widely distant parts of the world. In the Pacific ocean's wide southern expanse where the United 'States navy com- two 'weeks, '$4,000,000 search for Amelia Earhart 'and 'Geo. Noonan, and on the wide stretches of Western Canada's wheat country where farmers faced the greatest crop "failure in the history of the west, The United States navy after comb- ing 200,000 square milés of trackless ocean for the lost fliers, gave up hope and pronounced them dead. The only gain from their attempted trans- Pacific flight being the 'U. S. govern. ment's .zarning "Such flights will not -be permitted in future." : Federal * Minister of Agricultura James G. Gardiner predicted this week in Ottawa that this year's wheat crop would be not over 150 million bushels, the smallest since the west first became a great wheat-producin area. . Saskatchewan bore the brunt of the droucht and 114 degree heat ang Gardiner estimated that (00,000 or 60 per cent. of the population would: need government aid of some kind before the winter was over. Scant Following his -annouiicement the Federal government led by recently returned Premier King promised im- mediate and planned remedial action and better still, heavy rains fell for several days in most parts of the 8 .& -katchewan dust bowl ds well as in the northern parts of the province. mre Hardy westerners immediately washed off their sense of humor and produced drought jokes of which tha following is a sample. The rains were so .héavy around Shaunavon, dust bowl centre, that a large drop struck a farmer on the forehead and knocked him to the ground unconscious, and the hired man had to throw three buckets of dust over him to revive him. 'Tall girls all over the land rejoiced when they read that Miss Toronto "19317, chosen after a week's. ellmina- tion was statuesque 17-year-old Billie Hallam, five feet ten and a half in. 'ches in height and weighing approxi mately "150- pounds (she wasn't quite sure). This fine Canadian lassie is an accomplished softball pitcher and says she owes her success to her Irish mother and English father, also she eats 'anything she likes and hopes to get into the movies. The 20,000 spec 'at which Miss Hallam was chosen as Toronto's loveliest all agreed that the Judges. picked a 'typicdl and admirable Canadian 'girl and one well qualified to represent the city in Hollywood. Three day sensations in Canadian newspapers were many this week, featured by the discovery and convic- tion on bigamy charges of George Roediger, a modern Bluebeard if there ever was ome. This dark and handsome - 66-year-old German had married, robbed and 'déserted at least ten- women fin all parts 'of Canada in. the last.ten years. He pleaded guilty and received nine years in Stony Mountain penitentiary but alert pro- vincial police Sergeant McKay, of To- ronto, thinks that the ctse {s not yet closed, for Roediger ia alléged to hava cdused the disappearance of Mra. Christina 'MacKenzie whom he mar. riled in Barrie, Ont, fn 1935. Mrs. MacKenzie has not been seen since .she left a house on Vauhan Rd., To- ronto, a few days after her marriage, Outside of a postcard, allegedly from .her, but' thought to be a forgery, that her relatives received in December, 1935, there is no trace of the missing widow. Two of Roediger's former wives died violent deaths, one by poisoning, the other by drowning In a well, 'In the latter case Roediger was charged with murder and acquitted although he served two years in a New York prison for bigamy in the same case, The finding of sharp butcher knives and quantities of arsenic in his lug: sage by police after his recent arrest" increased suspicion that this sinister and handsome fortune hunter [left many mysteries unsolved in his ob: scure ast." Roediger's son {3 being sought by police in California for questioning on his father's activities and the fly-by-night German Romeo may yet face changes mora serious than bigamy. Death Claims * "Noted Scientist TORONTO.--S8ir Charles Mund- ers, who won /orid-wioe recogniti fcr his development! of Nargis wheat, died at" his tome, 45 Munro Park, Sunday, in his seve#ig first year. He had been in ill health since "the death of hs wife one 'year ago and for the Jast two months had been 'seriously ili : x who was knighted in King George's --~buthday horors in 1934, was respon- gible for 'developing many varieties L "of Canadian grain, but it was for his "development of 'Marquis 'wheat th he 'won world-wide attention. It is $3id that Le added more to Canad¥s wealth by this discovery than has any other individual, and that what- ever honors he received during his irfe the value of his research has been bat d'mly 1ecognized by this gppera- tion. Of Enormous Value 'Marquis 'wheat succeeded 'Red Fife as the 'most widely grown wheat in Canada, and "it is now grown"in Western Canada almost to the exclusion of any other varigly. Thousands of square miles of wheat tields in the western half of the con- tinent are his monument, and the value of his discovery in dollars is up in the scores of millions. The value of Marquis wheat to the west- ern 'farmer was its early ripening cuality, its larger yield, and its bet-. ter milling quality. - a. In appearance and manner Te was the typical scientist. . He wa! slight, grey-bearded, quiet and retir- ing, almost shy, and shunned publc- ity. He had a passionate devotion to his work, and to music, to which he life. _He was born in London, Ont.,gin Confederation year, the son of Dr.. William Saunders, C.M.G., who de- veloped the Dominion system of Ex- perimental Farms, and Sarah Agnes University of Toronto'in 1888, with- hono:s in science. For a'year he was Proiessor of Chemistry and geolog at Central University, Kentucky, and then tvrned to music. He studied in New York and Boston, and taught music at Havergal and St. Marguret's Women's Colleges in Toronto. ~ Fashion Terms 'Sore of Them are Quite Familiar To the Average Person NEW YORK.--In order to famjli- arize oneself with the terms used by- glib fashion reporters it may be well to take a look at the definitions herew"th. Some of them are quite one say laywoman) while others are not. / For instance: Ajour is the French term for "drawn work", that is, drawn out threads from the fabric, formerly as- sociated with lingerie, but 'now fa- vored in lightweight woollens as weli- as crepes. i A Punch work is an oJpenwork em- broidery, the holes made with a punch needle. i 18 Both terms have been used re- blouses and accessories, ain ---- What is fiore generally known as 'oflenwork 'embroidery is 'really bro- 'derle 'anglaise, With 'niimerous pierc- ed 'holes or eyeléts in round, oval, flower or leaf shapes, combined with solid dots or other 'motifs. Or 'open -work spaces, varying in: shape an size, cut or punched with a stiletto, then overcast at the edges. Another frequently encountered term i8 petit point, an embroidery in which only hal? of the ¢rogs-stitch is repeated, producing a 'solidly 'filled pattérn. 'Gros. pont is' a heavier version, : Crewel embroidery is a 'techhique which- sows stitches placed next to each other to inmitate the twist of a rope in a loosely 'twisted, fine two- ply worsted yarn. Beauvais ~ embroidery takes its name from the ~ town where it was first an important type of hand work. usually in delidate' leaf 'and flower motifs, with pastel colors chatacter- istic. It 'is now copied "by various embroidery machines, It is popular form that is "Faithful unto death" was a mo- ther elk of upper Naches, Washington says the Northport News of that state. A. month ago her: calf AS then she had not 'Moved from the - spot where he. baby was knotked down. Beside the road she died from a proken heart, "authorities said, as she Had ample food supplied her dur- ing her long vigil. Natives of East Africa churn milk for their hair and "not for 'eating. * As Domuhion Cerealist, Sir Chatica™ hil J had intended at first to devote be -Rob'ngon. 'He gradudted from th&- familiar to the layman, (or shouldg Ey Throws Light On JE oy in" Francg It is usually a mas: sive of chain Stitches in fine threads \ peatedly in describing summer frocks, & invariably prod ed' when, as- this se, ombrolder IP : scheduled. 3 killed by a logging truck and since. J into butter, to ute it as a dressingae'