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L i, aR Se NT ates a Paine J IRN SAS No A Cs A --. ae SAI Sa Baa |S==== « News in Brief » ! No Lenger Take Risk ' LONDON---British insurance com- panies have announced their decis- ion to refuse to accept war risk in- surance. They asserted that "development of aerial warfare alone has intro- duced an incalculable hazard." The statement said that this de- cision was effective October 1, 1937 and added that "nearly 300 insurance companies of all nat'onalities" were included in the agreement to ban such insurance. Il Duce's Visit Ends BERLIN --Premier Mussolini's vis- it to Chancellor IHit'er ended with a parade of the pick of the new Ger- man army. Twenty-five regiments of the army paraded past the I"ascist Duce and the Nazi Fuchror. . Then there was=a final luncheon at Hitler's chancellery, tae 'ast event on the program. Sleeping Beauty Dies 'Death brought an end to the 67- month coma of Patricia Maguire, Chicago's famous sleeping beauty, this week-end. Double pneumonia ended her life as physicians prepar- ed to operate upon her to remove a tumor which menaced her life. Vacancies in Senate OTTAWA -- Death of Senator Ro- do!phe Lemieux in Montreal increas- ed the number of vacancies in the Upper House to four. Two of these are in Quebec, one in Ontario and onc in Alberta. Youthful Murderer Confesses SARNIA---A s'gned confession of Willinm Labadie, 17, on tral for the murder of seven-year-old John Luck- ins, in which he allegedly states he was under the influence of liquor and struck the lad with a hammer, was admitted as evidence by Mr. Justice Keiller MacKay. Etruggle for Control of Border HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier. --A out Northeast Spain raged as Gov- ernment and insurgent forces strug- gled for control of principal avenues to the French border. The f ght was for possession of arcas which might provide, for the Government, a broad lane for trans- port of Irench munitions and sup plies, and, for insurgents, isolation of Government Spain from Barcelona and Upper Catalonia. France has in- timated she may open her border to supplies and arms if foreign "vol- unteers'" are not withdrawn from Spain. Robbed By Fake Doctor CHATHAM--A "fake" doctor rob- bed 87-year-old James Hawkins of $10 while the aged man lay helpless in bed at h's Ridgetown, Ont. home where he lives alone: Two $1,000 bonds were overlooked by the thief. Pope's Encyclical VATICAN CITY--Pope Pius XI has issued a dramatic encyclical which is construed as an attack on Communist Russia, Nazi Germany and the leftist-inclined governments 'of Spain and Mexico. The document, "An encyclical let- ter on the rosary of the blessed Vir- gin Mary," urged the Roman Cath- olic faithful to pray against the evils of Communism and the tend ncy of some state leaders who war against Communism to "exhume pagan er- rors and morals." ' ' Want Eight Hour Day TORONTO--The Provincial Fed- eration of the Ontario Fire Fighters' Association have renewed efforts to have the Provincial Government pass legislation for the establishing of the three-platoon system or eight-hour day for firemen. : Epidemic Like Dysontry TOKIO--DMore than 5,500 persons re ill of an cpidemic disease resem- bling dysentery in Fukuoka Prefee- 'Rure and 283 have died, the Domei gency reports. The disease was de- astating the town of Omuta, where he municipality was cy.periencing lifficulty in cremating corpses. Iif- een emergency infirmaries have en established there, ik 5.0 1 Break's World's Record \ LEXINGTON, Ky.--Thd 15-year «old mile, world's record for trotters svas broken here by Greyhound. ' In his sccond assault on the mark tablished by Peter Manning on the xington track in 1922, the five- ear-old grey ghost, wmder the pilot- g of -his trainer, Sep Palin, step- ed the distance in 1:56 flat, three- ourths second under the former img. .\ Japan Resents Animosity OKIO -- Japan's newspaper re- ntment over what were termed ust" accusations that her army onducted ruthless warfare in China large-scale battle through- _ Fire Does Great Damage CHICAGO -- A terrific explesion and fire damaged the main building of the Swift and Company plant in the stockyards this week. The blast followed an outbreak of fire on the third fourth floor and officials estimat ¢ damage might run as h'gh as $200,000. 4 Injured in Explosion BASLE, Switzerland --- Four men were killed and 11 injured when an a'r compressor producing pressure of 6,000 pounds per square inch explod- ed in the Burckardt machine factory while undergoing final tests. Sev- cral of the injured may die. Test Flights To Start WINNIPEG--Test flights over the western section of the Trans-Canada Airlines should be under way - in about two weeks, says Philip John: son, Vice-President in charge of op- erations of the airline. Officials expect to adhere to or iginal plans, beginning operations from Winnipeg westward, with eas- tern lines opening later, Johnson in- dicated. He said he believed regular operations on the western section would begin next spring. Russia Helping China TOKIO--A "certain quarter" (pre- sumably the War Office) .has been informed that Soviet Russia is fur- nishing men and munitions to Ch'na in her war with Japan, the Domei Agency reports. Ten Russian officers are assisting in the defense of China's national Capital, Nanking, according to the report, and Marshal Vassili Bluech- er, commander of the Soviet Far Eastern army, is in daily radio-tele- phone conversation with the Soviet military attache in Nanking, .Gen- eral Lepin. $50,000 Building Addition ORILLIA--Word of a new $50,000 building to be started immediately at the Ontario Hospital near here, was received. this week. The three- storey building will accommodate additional dining facilities in the basement and day rooms on all oth- er flcors. Says Bombing Was Necessary TOKIO --_ The Japanese Govern- ment has defended as strategicaily necessary (he aerial bombing of. Nan- king, which drew protests from world Governments, including Creat Brit- ain and the United States. The Japanese point of view was contained in a reply, to the formal United States protest of Sept. 22, transmitted after oral representa-. tions against Japan's announced in- tentions of subjecting the Chinese Capita! to a mass aerial bombard. ment, Shanghai Lines Hold SHANGHAI -- Chinese defenders of Shanghai held their lines intact after weathering a terrific offensive into which Japan hurled every wea- pon she could muster. After some of the fiercest close- range fighting on the Shanghai front since the outbreak of the conflict, the front was silent. Urge Japanese Boycott "[~ LONDON--Great Britain's resent- ment against Japanese aerial activi- ty in China was voiced this week by industrialists and labor leaders in separate meetings. _-- Exprossing deep horror at the. "barbarous and systematic massacre by Japanese aircraft and submarines of the defenseless Chinese civilian population," the National Council of Labor urged the Government to ban war material sales or monetary loans to Japan. 7000 Ask Aberhart Resign EDMONTON---Resolutions approv- ed at a meeting sponsored by the People's League of Alberta demand- ed resignation of Premier Aberhart and his government and urged unity of opposition parties in an effort to "free the people from the tyranny of the Social Credit Government." 700 were present at the meeting. Wants International Crime Commission WASHINGTON--Establishment of an 'International Crime Commission linking Canadian, United States 'and Mexican police, was proposed this week by Colonel S. T. Wood of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Plane Ride Cures Whooping Cough Jean Planchenault, French ama- teur aviator, of Le Havre, claimed that an airplane ride at 8,000 feet altitude was a' successful "home cure" for whooping cough. Planchenault's daughter, aged three, had whooping cough and sev- eral doctors were unable to cure her, After an hour's ride over the Ble- ville airdrome, the father said, the child was complately eured. Canada - US. Bond World Stabilizer Kiwanis Speaker at Windsor Declares Unbreakable Bond Between the English-Speaking People Could be Savior of Civilization In an address in which he contended that Mussolini is attempting to form a "second Roman Empire similar to that of the time of the Caesars," Rev. M. C. Davies, of Windsor, advanced an unbreakable bond between the Eng- lish-speaking people a% the salvation of a world that is in the greatest tur- moil in its history. For Closer Understanding Speaking at the weékly meeting of the Windsor Kiwanis Club the rector "ot St, George's Anglican Church stressed the important part the people of Canada can play in the forming of such a bond. "The Possibility of Closer Relation- ship and Understanding Among the Anglo-Saxon People" was the topic of Mr. Davies' talk, He explained that he was referring to the people of the British Empire and the United States. " "The world has never been in such a turmoil as we find it today," re- marked Mr. Davies. "We are afraid to look at the papers. We do not know what is going to happen in between editions has may plunge the world into a catastrophe, -- "This Is indeed a sad picture," re- marked Mr. Davies after his review of the nations. "It seems that the older civilization becomes the less stability there is in the lives of the people." In advocating the necessity of form- ing a stronger bond between the peo- ple of the British Empire and the United States, the speaker pointed out that those two nations have one out- look on life, the same heritage, and reasonably the same ancestry. Position of The U.S. "Although there may be some peo- ple in the United States who still glory in the revolution, the thinking people of that country recognize the necessity of a binding of themselves with those of the Empire, not with diplomats or signed treaties, for after all blood is thicker than water," sald Mr. Davies. . * The United States is going through 'a period of growing pains," he added. "We Britishers may not like their form of government, and may wonder what their outlook fs with their neu- trality policy, but we must remember that they are just national growing pains." "The geographical position of our country results in us representing British idealism to the United States and the American idealism to Britain. We don't believe everything Britain does is right and everything the Unit- ed States does is wrong," he contin- ued. Air Troubles On The Stage Nervous Hubbies and Wives Squabble in Therapeutic Thea- tre and Are Cured. "a Troubled husbands and nervous wives have found a new cure for family rifts, a therapeutic theatre at Beacon, N.Y., where they go on the stage and quarrel to their hearts' content. The results of the first six months' use of this theatre for domestic, and for more serious mental troubles, is reported in a new publication, "Socio metry, a Journal of Inter-Personal Relations." The editor is Dr. Gard- ner Murphy of Columbia University. The publisher is J. L. Moreno, M.D,, who built the theatre. Comes To Surface The idea is defined thus--"The full psychodrama of our inter-relations does not emerge; it is buried in and between us." In this theatre, spon- taneous play-acting, done under medi- cal supervision, has brought out some of the hidden facts of married lives. The new journal describes the play- acting of "Robert" and his wife, "Mary." They re-enacted some of their tiffs, and at the same time spoke aloud the thoughts they had felt, but not uttered, during the quarrels, "She never puts things in the right place," was one of "Robert's asides. One of "Mary's" was: "He is so rest- less. Why didn't he lct me wash the d'shes ?" . When Things Went Wrong "Robert's" trouble, it developed, was two neuroses, one about time and the other about space. He always worried for fear of being late for ap- pointments, This "time" so bad he went to on ppointment three hours early to (ec ape worry over being late. In "spacd" anything misplaced, even the slikh up-tilted corner of a rug, worried Kim. "Robert" and "Mary" found the cure for their troubles on the thera- peutic stage. They learned how to talk to each other when things went wrong. {| sPORT REPORTER By KEN EDWARDS Little Alma Shep- pard has the un- usual distinction and honor of driv- ing a harness morse for the measured mile faster than any amateur, man or woman. Eleven- year - old Alma drove her father's horse, "Dean Han- over," a three- year-old. * * * Turning: to baseball, we point 'out that Lefty Grove holds the record winning percentage for pitchers for a season, with a mark of ,886, made in 1931 when he pitched for the Ath- letics, winning 31 games and losing four. Despite the poor showing of the St. Louis Cardinals this year, un- der the managership of Frankie Frisch, the latter has been signed to pilot the club for 1938. Believe it or not! The St. Louis Cardinals have a member of their team who they say can play every position on the baseball diamond!- * * * Well, with Tommy Farr all set to take Maxie Baer after Farr's trip home, we'll say so-long unt] next week. * . * This column is dedicated to our friends, Bobby and. Donnie Rutledge --good Jittle sportsmen, Lovers Struck by Lightning Two lovers were struck by light- ning while sitting under an umbrel- la at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, The girl was Killed instantly-a d-the man was hurled several yards by the shock and severely injured, : Jap Warship's Guns Cover Infantrymen As the big guns of a Japanese warship blast away forts, near Shanghai, Nipponese infantrymen land do the gaps left in the:§apanese ranks by the fierce small boats to fill up § -- ee ------ at the Woosung wn the river from resjstance of the Chinese at Shanghal, NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events by of the Week. "By ELIZABETH EEDY i Qs A New Civilization In North Just back from a tour by airplane of the Central Manitoba mining area, Northern Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories as far north as the Arctic Circle on Great Bear Lake, the Dominion Minister of Mines, Hon. TT. A. Crerar sees in the Canadian North with its slower tempo, a more contemplative people arising, a peo- ple with more time and aptitude for thought, not beset by city excitement and quite content to do without it. The Minister declared that a pros- perous future lies ahead of the newer mining fields vp there and there is room for tremendous development. With water transportation everywhere in the summertime, and almost year-round air service, it is be- lieved facilities will be ideal'for estab- lishment of a comfortable civilization. yints Have Complete Set This week Yvonne Dionne cut her twentieth tooth, the last of the Quin- tuplets to acquire the full score of baby grinders. The Five now have 100 teeth amongst them. . Rome-Berlin Axis Ever since the autumn of 1935 when Germany refused to join with the other European nations in imposing sanctions on Italy for her aggression in Abyssinia, we have been hearing the phrase, "Rome-Berlin axis." Es- pecially of late, in the Mediterranean crisis when Italy was accused of pir- acy and nations rallied to cne side or another. Last week the "axis" was made doubly solid by the visit of Mussolini to Adolf Hitler. The available. i H 3 -- | speeches of both men on that occasion while "reafirming their united front against Bolshevism, declared also that Naziism and Fascism are Joined in a common desire for world peace. With the cementing of such a bond, entered also by Britain, and later France, we may see a better day dawn for Rur- ope and the world. Terminal Market Proposed "A terminal market in Toronto would do a great deal towards rectify- ing sorry conditions in Ontario where- by farmers in the Holland Marsh find themselves possessed of bountiful crops and no markets," declared the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, J, B. Fairbairn. "All produce would: come to the one market," he suggested, "thus permitting control of supply and demand, better prices to producers." Many parts of Ontario are similarly hit each year, the fruit-growing dis- tricts included, and the crops rot on farms because of poor markets. Right Jobs For Jobless Surveys being made under the head- ship of the Nationa] Employment Com- mission are attempting classification of all unemployed persons fn Canada -to discover forms of work to which they are best suited. Eventually it is hoped to have every 1eliet recipient classified according to his fitness for some form of employment. Special mention will be made also if the job- less man is permanently unemployable as a result of some physical, mental or social handicap. Newspapers are the records on which modern Canadian history will be written, David Williams, of Col- lingwood, president of the Ontario Historical Society, told its members at their evening session in the Nat- ional Museum, Ottawa when address- es were also delivered by H. P. Hill, K.C., Ottawa, and Louis Blake Duff, of Welland, says the Evening Jour- nal. "The press is of inestimable value for the writing of history," 'declared the president. He said that stories concerning pioneers were always ac- ceptable to newspapers. Mr. Wil- liams urged greater care in the pre- servation of newspaper files. In a fire at Meaford the files for 55 years of a local paper , were destroyed, which involved an irreparable loss to the community. GREAT INTEREST DEVELOPS Increasing interest was being man- ifested, said the president in the piecing - together of the history of -Ontario. This was being developed through' the Ontario society, and lo- cal historical societies. ; Mr." Williams commended the W. Perkins Bull Foundation in this con- nection, and the contributions of Brig. General E. A. Cruikshank, "Louis" Blake Duff, and Dr. J. H. Coyne, of St. Thomas, to historical research. Mr. Hill's paper was on: "The Inception of the Capital of Canada." He remarked that anything - that would excite the sense of romance in young people in respect to the Ca- pital should be done. He thought it was a fact worth bringing 'home to them that the site of the Capital Government. To Earthquakes Now Made To Order The problem of building ecarth- quake-proof buildings has been stud- ied for many years in those parts of the world where earth tremors are frequent, but little progress could be made, engineer has constructed a device which reproduces, in miniature, the effects of earth tremors on buidings built exactly to scale, Real earthquakes are recorded on a seismograph and the tremors ap- on a barometer recorder. The Ameri. can. engineer is using these seismo- graph . records to reproduce real earthquakes in miniature, A model building is mounted special shaking table. The quake record passes in front of a Photo-electric cell, and this converts the wavy lines into shakes and trem. ors 'by means of under the table. on a As a result of these tests the ine ventor has heen aMe to point out many once was the property of the British - Now, however, an American bear as wavy lines similar to those : earth" an electric motor : 'Weaknesses of Modern Canadian History Lives In Newspaper Files Declares President of Ontario Historical Society at Annual -- Urges Greater Care In Preservation of Newspaper Records Meeting buildings in earthquake zones, and it is claimed that his rescarches may yet lead, to the erection of bu'ld'ngs capable of withstanding the most violent earthquake shocks. *- 0 isit to Russian 'Farms Obstructed Many Obstacles Set In Woman's Path by Officials Speaking of her visit to Russa, among 27 other countries in a recent trip around the world, Dr. Cora Hind, well-known agricultural writer, told a Winnipeg audience last week of many obstacles set in her path by of- ficials who did not want her to visit the farming areas. - Dr. Hind was warned of bad roads, lack of transportation, unsuitable time for inspection and other things that indicated official unwillingness to have her carry out much personal investigation, Religion Not Dead "1 did not keep a diary while .on this part of my journey," she said. "1 did keep afew. notes--in some marking of my own, which meant a lot to me and nothing to them, " "I have been asked this question many times: Is religion dead in Rus- sia? On a visit to one of the churches there, I found the answer. As we were leaving the church I happened to look into a small chapel and there, kneeling in silent reverence, two wo- men were counting their beads, Re- ligion is not quite dead in Russia." Noiseless Streetcar Being Developed New Standard Car Designed In The United. States OTTAWA.--Development of a noise- less street car with fiew standards of comfort, was dosecribed to the Domin- fon Tariff Board at Ottawa by. George Gray, representing the Canadian Tran. sit Association, Montreal. The car had been designed at the instance of the United States Transit Association; Gray said, and $1,000,000 had, been, spent in experimental work before it had been put into service. "It 1s an attempt," he sald, "to standardize on a vehicle that will com. pete with buses and private cars, 'The hope has been to produce a Street car at from $15,000 to $17,000, ¥ As developed it has remarkable pow. ers of acceleration and. deceloration. It Ms silent and comfortable." The car .was described aa having 'hard rubber wheels which run on tracks, . "Some of the cars wero running in the :United States cities, Gray sald, but thera were..none in Canada yet. Claims Dogmatic Science Killed » Amelia Earhart Journalist Contends That Science Is Ignorant of the True Nature# and Dimensions of the Earth. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were. "murdered by Dogmatic Sci- ence," Tiffany Thayer charged insthe first issue of the Fortean Society ma_y gazine published at Los Angeles. "Unless by some mirgcle y found land and food' and fres) a. ter, they were sent to their death by the snug complacency of Authority, of the schoolmen and the physicists and the astronomers," wrote Thayer, » secretary of the society, a national group of scientific agnostics, includ- ing several prominent writers. To Blame For Failure Thayer contended Science is ignor- ant.of the true nature and dimensions of the earth and therefore is to blame for the tragic failure of the * Earhart - Noonan_'round - the - world flight. i The Fortean Society was' organ- ized in 1931 by J. David Stern, news. paper publisher, Thayer, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Burton Rascoe, Al- exander Woolcott, writers, Aaron Sussman and others, to perpetuate the ideas of Charles Fort, a scientific iconoclast who suggested, among other things, the stars might not be so far away and the earth might be® "nearly" stationary if all evidence was considered, Charts Are Guesswork In his treatment of the Earhart- Noonan flight; Thayer declared "the latest and most detailed charts of the South Pacific Ocean, prepared by the U.S. Navy, are a crazy-quilt of guess -< L 3 work." He pointed outa chart of the New Guinea-Howland Island route of Miss Barhart and her navigator shows 13 - islands and reefs marked "position doubtful." "The maonetic compass is erratic in this district, its variation in~reas- ing two minutes annual'y," said Thay- er, a novelist and former Hollywood * movie writer, now in New York. "This area is a sort of fairy hell where anything may happen." Britain to Launch Big "Health Drive" » Spend 10 MilF~ns in Phyzicel Fit- re:s Campaign Britain began September 30th, a campaign for health and physical fit- ness without parallel in the history of the nation. Prime Minister Chamberlain, who at 68 is fit enough to tramp miles of river bank with a fishing rod in his hand, opened the campaign with an address broadcast to the Empire." He touched off a £2,000,000 "health drive" which will run a wide gambit; from setting. * up exercises to maternity and child welfare services; from organized games to health films and better care of the teeth. Running side by side with Britain's rearmament program, it is proof that Britain's leaders are aware of the im. portance of national health in possible wars of the future. What Britain pro poses to do, it is pointed out, is com parable, on a less lavish scale, with what Italy, Germany and Russia have been doing for years: namely, empha: size national health as part of the pre paration for national emergencies. The new health program, approved a by the Government, has been in pre Dparation for the last year. It will be in the hands of district leaders. Part} cipation will be entirely voluntary, but the drive will be especially keen in the so-called "depressed" areas, the slum and large industrial areas. New and Better Way To Learn Geography of Java?" "Batavia!" replies John- "Johnnie Jones, what is the capital nie, thinking that's an easy one. For he has just received a letter from i the third officer of S. S. Adventur- * er, aryl the postmark was Batavia, This better way to learn geo. 'graphy started two years ago when four ships of a London, England, . shipping company were adopted by two clementary and two secondary schools. The British Ship Adoption Socicty encourages schools and col- leges' to associate themselves with certain ships, pnd to make friends with their officers and members of their crew. In this way interest is fostered, and geography becomes a living thing, ! Letters received from their sailor friends give them first-hand inform: ation about the world, and help break *, down a natural insularity. Visits to the ships themselves are eagerly- looked-forward-to delights. \ To-day 480 schools, including most of the well-known public schools, belong to the society. An appropriate motto for the members js "A friend in ev- ery port." / Miss Florence . Loft, aged 36, of Swanscombe, Kent, »Eng., an English fleld worker died from byrns after preventing somo children from going near a fire she had iit in a field. 4 A A ha Cl om Aw