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Port Perry Star (1907-), 27 Apr 1939, p. 7

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--r---- gt me An ar ip, | 3 H ~ Deer Intruder™_ Wouldn't Leave Entering By Closed Window Into Sudbury © Hotel, - He Made Himself At Home And Refused To Go. \ The International Nickel Com pany Hotel, which houses miner: working at Levack Mine, 40 miles west of Sudbury, bad a new kind. of bréak-in one day last month ard although - the culprit was rapidly ejected, an, entrance was made again, | this time through the front LE oor, "The sound of smashing 'glass "brought hotel attendants running to a bedroom on the malin floor, "and found a one-year-old deer in the room examining the bed, The deer had jumped through the glass window and escaped injury. The animal then strolled into the kitch- "en and after a careful 'scrutiny marched into the rotunda, where a aumber of miners were sitting round reading papers, writing let. ters, ete. The unexpected guest was ush-. sred "out of the front door, but when it showed reluctance to leave was re-admitted -- through the door--for fear It would try another of the windows. A call was dis patch to Game Warden Joo Loiselle, at. Sudbury to _take pos. session of the animal." Return Of The Native Col. A, Lindbergh was fanked by policemen and: -detec- tives as he arrived in New York for his second visit to the United States since he began a self-im- Charles posed exile abroad. td to. confer with the U.S. Foreign Affairs committee on the strength M FRTlon foreign alr fleets. Artist Urges Us Back To Nature He is expect- Parliamentary Doings Wilk Oatarle's Lagtalntere, Spring, 1 % »¥ BEDY PARLIAMENTARY DOINGS _ This business of governing gels serlous atitimes , ,. , so serious in fact that last week Ontario's M. L. A's were asked to spend every evening as well as every afternoon --} {from 3 to 6) In the House passing "bills and things ,... Heavy was the agenda, with motions being in- troduced right and.left to amend almost every Act on the statute books . , . , sometimes the amend- ment dmounted solely to the cor: rection of a typographical error, but it had to be dealt with just the same. , .. Into the niidst of this .preoccu- pled (with oficial business) atmos. phere, was precipitated the Strange Case of the University Professors Who Refused to Conform ., . . . Busy members on both sides of the House dropped their papers, eye- glasses and don't-bother-me alr to . give full attention to this: ripe, juicy scandal ,... "Tut! tut! tchk! tchk!" on every hand, and "let me at 'em" . .. , You all know what --{t-was-that Professor Grube of Trine. fty College said that he shouldn't have (that Canada's expenditure for defence would only be a contri. bution in support of British Imper- ialism), but Professor Underhill's alleged utterances (tchk! tchk!) are only vaguely reported . . . . something about hanging out wool- len flags 'which would shrink like the British Empire is shrinking.... And the question. of free speech gone into all over again . , , there's nothing like a little free speech now and then to stir people up and. get everybody gobd and mad at the other fellow but pleased with themselves, . . . Stormy peseel of the Conserva- tive Party, "Holly" Acres, provided .the House. with some squally | scenes when fie accused the Lib: oral memick. for 'Temtskaming of certain practices and attacked the administration for' its lack of con- structive policy toward the relief of unemployment . . .-. Now you're getting something . . . | because the rampant unemployment, par- ticularly among the youth of this country, is a heap sore spot with every parliamentarian in small Lalls and great .... There's a spec- tre at every feast, and a skeleton in most legislative closets today in Canada. . . . . The situation im- proves not a whit while over the ~{--past_nine 'years §900,000,000 has | been spent in the Dominion for un: employment relief, direct and fn- direct. A constructive poliey of works projects is indicated as "the immediate solution. Symbolically, the wolf was at the door of the Ontario Parliament Joe LaFlamme's tame wolf from ter . ... but more than one M, L., A. was séen to start. at the ap- parition, ~ - The Opposition busied itself with inquirfes into various "deals" the Government Is reported to have made with such companies as the Lakb Sulphite, Abitibi and Pulp- wood Supply , . .. The Lake Sul- For Re-Education As Well As Recreation: -- Health, Wisdom, Beauty ?y A réturn to Nature, not only for recreation but for re-education was urged this week by Hoyland Bettin- ger,-Bosten artist.and naturalist --areas of extremely valuable timber but before they reached production they went Into "liquidation. The Abitibl company has been in liqui- and the government has been In the' "picture" jn every attempt at reorganization. : in a democratic country had to be. Buildings last week, but it was only Sudbury, accompanied by his mas." phite Company wors grantedfarge |: dation for upwards of seven years "| tg ~Master John Kershaw ably demonstrated that the age of chivalry is nat yet dead in England as he presented officiated at the opening of the new holiday home for wor! ing mothers at nn) Master Kershaw bowed Stansted, Eng. After making the like a closing ackknife, but his per mirth of the Queen Mother, THE NEW CRUSADERS Queen Mary with a urse, when she ormance evidently aroused the royal NTARIO UTDOORS By VIC-BAKER ANTICIPATING MAY 1st +» Many thousands of Ontavio's anglers are cagerly anticipat- ing the opening of the trout season on May 1st as the month of April slowly wends its way through the calendar, This im- portant date in the anglel's al- manac introduces a long season of outdoor happiness and pisca- torial thrills, April 1st may be "all fools" day and lend itself to the per- petration of practical jokes of doubtful humour, but May Ist spells freedom from the social conventions of "soup and fish" leaving us free to eliminate the soup and just fish. As a rule, most anglers have - put - away their equipment by October, not because they are tired of fish- "ing, but because the climate and - Doubts Value | Of Bombings U. S. Envoy Says Civilians Become Accustomed to Raids --DMorale Can't Be Broken That Feslly,- Bombing of civilian populations in an effort to break their morale proved a boomerang in the recent "Spanish civil war, says Claude G. Bowers, U, S. ambassador to Spain "for-thetast-six-years.---------- "Instead of "breaking "down the morale," he sald, "the effect seem. ed to be very perceptibly A stiffen. ing of the. morale of the people--a rise in thejr resentment, "The first effect on the civilian populations, of course, yivas to throw them into a state of terror. The amazing thing, however, is that in a very short time--a matter of weeks only--they become accus- tomed to it and hardened to it." --closed- seasons force --them--to S Therefore, it seems a long time between bites and so as the season once more ap- proaches we are all on cdge and "rarin' tp go." - WE WONDER "As May 1st this year falls qn - a Monday, we wonder if the Ontario Fish and Game Depart- mént will be kind enough to ad- vance the -opening date for trout fishing to Saturday, April 20, to give us an_extra week- - end. Last year the opening date was advanced to April 30th and anglers were enabled to hic themselves away to their .fa= vourite stream on the preceding Saturday for a week-end of The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY THE CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE _ "By Anthony Boucher The telegram so startled Colonel Rand that he took the next plane to Los Angeles. He arrived just in time to be an invaluable witness at the inquest on Humphrey Garpett's body, Dead by poison, and in hig hand "fishing." J Sey NYLON FISHING LEADERS A new fishing leader, which will not fray, split. or heconie. "brittle, is invisible in water and ' possesses elastic qualities per- } mitting a. uniform "give" of t-odie-ineh pox foot-and.xre. the-elue-that-pointed to the mur: derer--a crumpled jack of diam- onds: Colonel Rand knew the signifl- cance of the crumpled knave. But ho didn't know anything about the "Hector" mentioned 'in that amaz- ing telegram, Many detective story writers are pe 9 ¥ "It is unfortunate," Mr. Bettin- ger pointed out, "that our formal education, in" schools and universi- ties, should be concerned with the acquirement of knowledge which sooner or later is forgotten. "What the world needs today, as far as education Is concerned, is a return to the curiosity and imag- ination of childhood. Formal edu- .. cation is not a benefit, but rather a loss, if it blunts childhood curl oaity. "1 would like to see greater| ad: + 'vantage taken on this continent of the opportunities," to siudy plant "and animai Tifé," Comparatively lite | tle equipment {s.necessary and the returns are often far greater than that obtained through the pursuit of text-books, There Is health and wisdom to be gleaned from,Nature, as well as apprecjation of beauty," Sheriff Thumbs ~~~ Airplane Ride Sheriff Victor Meekins," of Man- teo, S.C., was 40 miles out in the sand dunes when his car broke down, ' Not anather automobile was in sight, by The sheriff looked into the air. A red monoplane came zooming along. Up went the sheriff's hand, his thumb pointed in collegiate fashion, Down came the plane. The pilot brought Meeking to Roanoke Island. pC : v The Big Question Mark: What "stand will Bremier Hepburn take _ In the next federal election? (It ig recalled that while Mr. Hepburn has stated he will not aid Mr. King, he has not gone the length of definitely stating that Conservative Leader R. J. Manion can count on him for all he can give). t Next week we shall review the session In {tg "perspective as soon ag tho clouds and the smoke have rolled away. Hie German Toe Made A Rumpus Rev, H. M, Hamnett of Calgary had one of his big toes which was grafted from the amputated fodt of a German' soldier during the Great War, rerfoved last week be- cause it, had' been "kicking up" during récent Europ¢an crisis, "It's the first time since the toé was grafted to 'my foot that it had acted" up," Hamnett said, = "Perhaps "I'd* better ask Hitler what to do with it now that it's removed," Nearly 8,000 waltresses and dancers accepted the invitation of the police 9f Tokio to gather in a hall and hear a friendly discussion of public morals and the part they play .in Japan's present Shierpsns cy. \ suming normal Jength with - much the same action as a rub- ber band, is now available to - the Canadian angling world. Designed to fill the place place among the fishing frater- nity 'now occupied by Spanish silk-worm gut, the new leader is on the market in standard ° © weights and lengths, both level and tapered. masters of the double bluff. In "The Case of the Crumple nave Anthony Boucher triples it, -and proveg conclusively that the hand of the writer is quicker than the eye of the reader. ~ : It's an "Inner tery. "The Case of the Crumpled Knave," by Anthony Boucher... . Toronto: Musson Book Co. . . Sanctum" mys. $2.25, 4 ----trapper-from-the-hinterlands-of-On---}- "worked a full team of wild wolves - showman, 'between wolves and women, a phil lo-flesi-time,. you mis' he yer VOICE of the PRESS APPEASEMENT BUTTER One thing they never thought of in appeasement was giving Ger. many some New Zealand butter, - --Hamilton Spectator, « Agnes MacPhail visualizes wo- 'men as "criSaders Tor world peace, Perhaps, but not in those "new spring hats. --Ritchener Record. TOURISTS MAKE UP FOR IT Canada's unfavorable trade bal- anges with the United States in 169% was almost $68,000,000, That is where a tourist trade balance in favor of Canada helps out.--- Sault Daily Star, LEFT PRETTIEST 4 AT HOME A member of the Post staff, following a holiday in . Florida, tells us thut he saw only one pret- ty girl from the time he left To- ronto on the way south until he returned to this snow-crusted land. -- Lindsay Post. FROM FARM TO UNIVERSITY The statement of Premier Hep- burn that Ontario Universities are cluttered up with the sons and daughters of wealthy people will not go down very well with the farmers who make sacrifices to put their sons in the professions. There have been thousands of them in the past who have made distin- guished contribution to their country.--S8t. Catharins Standard. LOAN SHARKS Govenment action at Ottawa, to bring down legislation designed to curtdil the operations of loan sharks, wins widespread attention and approval. - The topic aroused considerable interest when the Hon. Mr, Hsley forecast its intro- duction, Reaction in the press of many parts of Canada has been such legislation in the Upper House by Senator. Dandurand has stimulated the laudatory eo omment. -- Halifax Chronicle. Taming Wolves, Women Similar Jot La Flamme, ma, out. , of Gog 1s 00 years of ave, feet tall, weighs 200 pounds, sports a full beard and long silver hair; he talks brokenly, as you would expect-of a tarlo; ho wears moccasins: as he- talks, his almost black eyes spar: kle. Joe, you kaow, is believed to be the first man in history to have as sled dogs, and he looks the part. Ile has the distinction of having 'the first wolves that ever flew in an airplane. He brought them to Sudbury by air for his sportsmans' show, says a writer in the Windsor Daily Star." - Joe didn't begin training wild wolves because he wanted to be a The reason was much more practical. At first a, trapper, and mow a prospector and assess ment worker, he remembers (hat back in 1923 he was trapp.ag. There were plenty of sled. dogs, but a plague of distemper struck, wolf then flies. 16 trapped his first her in his and got the idea of us sled pack. At this point, ko drew a parallel : osophy of which he is a strong dis- ciple. "Wolves are like women," he sald. "When you meot dem for "_gen- able, and the introduction of | 8 Pallbearers Aren't "Enough At Funeral in London, Ont, Of 500-Pound Woran Dominje Pallaria, he largest Mrs, to be belleted in St, Ont, pounds, was <laid at rest Peter's cemetery, London, early in April, An funeral cortege in tion to St, requichy high pass was sung: parade forma. of brass instruments, wa Comprised of MsmbErs of the Lou don Veterans' Band and members of the old. London Marconi Club Orchestra, Largest Coffin Ever _ Eight husky pall-bearerd and two funeral home attendants had dif culty bearing the weighty coffin, the largest ever constructed in London, measaring 36 inchos by six feet, six inches, The total weight Cot coflin was more than 600 ponnag, The 'Richest Man Lives In India World's Most Wealthy Individ- ual, The Nizam Of Hydera- bad,. Is' Thought To Be 1--=Worth $600,000,000.------ Picturesque, a character who might have stepped out of the Old Testament, the Nizam of Hydera- bad conducts one of the' strangest reigns of modern time; rule of tho richest man in the world. B woman in On-, tario if not all Canada, weighing 500° 18-plece band preceded the- Peter's Cathedral, where . The band, which consisted Sh tirely == _-- From the sultry, showy place In the city of Hyderabad, capital of this south central Indian province, the nizam wields his. power over some 14,000,000 subjects. In a huge red and gold room he directs the routine business of his nalive state, reaching decisions quickly. He attends his.ofMclal duties with utter lack of ceremony. He wears 'the simplest attire, On state oc- caslons, however, he stages vast Oriental splendor, ' Rules 14,000,000 Subjects < Fabulously. wealthy, the nizam 'fs' sald to' be worth $600,000,000, Yet he is virtually a prisoner in his own land. "Ancient customs de-' cree that hé shall never leave In- dian shdres. Actually ho never. "Teaves (ho Capviareny, wer qe Tre the torrid summers. Ww PIR s ¥ 4 : . AL 3 Tanneries Use a. oh . 4 Cattle Hides we -r Cattle hides comprise the 'prin- A cipal material used in the Canadian tupning industry, which is now one i of the chief manufacturing fudus- % of tries in the Dominfon. Approxim- { ately 70 per cent. of the cattle hides como originally from Cana. if dian farms, the remainder being : imported. A similar percentage ap- \ plies to the next. important mater- 1 ial "call aud kip skins", while - ' sheep skins usually attain a fifty. = f + |_Afty basis, itty per cent. Canadian © © & and fifty per cent. imported, Ac- cording to tho latest statistics tho total number of hides and skins used in the InduStry in 1937 was 3,475,801, of which 2,313,957 were Canadian and 1,159,824 of foreign--- origin, GREATEST TOBACCO BARGAIN RITTI Jolley -\: 13 30 (0): Nelo} 55¢ [EEE % LB. TIN = 3 YENI [TTL ETT CL and 25% Tins LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred N:zh:r +3 tle. Aften ten year you have to watch for frying pan and de sticks. It you know how to handle women, you can handle wolf. De more women, de more danger. De more wolf de more danger." Dropped _ shoulders to go with dropped fullness in slecves for a new style gesture, "dropping" lines. ov ------ | io WONDERLAND OF OZ the conquest alone," sald he, demand more t ban For 4 while the King was thoughtful. "I am almost sorry we did not undertake allles are dangerous people and they may you have promised have been better to con. us, "My than replied the King, gnomes, can. "All of these i "That was because they "rolled eggs at with a shudder. Sant stand eggs any more ey are Polson to all who live vnderground. "That Is true enough," Copyrighted 1007 Sify A Lae Ce Oz now, so there ould "On the contrary, hundreds of chile agreed Guph, "But we might have taken on my way. outside... assistance." the Oz people by surprise and conquered \ been there and had seen them." the General, them before. théy had 'a chance to ner a bad report" sald the King, riervous! kno an. eggs," sald the King, "Our for "Very bad, indeed. My ad one experience ith defeat was due to the fact that Doro} to fight, but they simply can't face esky, had a Jeon hen with her." and don't t blame them," ul don't know what became of that hen,' but I belleve there are no more hens in sald Guph, (ens fn Oz. I met a hawk home who told me he had CWILL-YUM.! - ---- : by . LU : JESUS a . 3 AW, Co h Rp 2 TY I 2 3 TL . - : ~ 1 NE Neste. 3-8 (Cepreght- 1483. 17 Food Neder) == : "1 think I'll go over and sit on the sofa _for a while vol can't make any money playing here with you." : 8) i > : 4) - bo i be no eggs there." "there nre wone." "That i ments," nomes are willin ible." "They won't need to fave then guph. tha lime we pet there, "Perhaps," _ "but 1 want it understood that Ozma and Dorothy belong to me. They are nice girls and I won't let them be hurt. them here and transform them into orna- "Very well" sald. Guph, fet the tunnel finished as goon as "It will be refdy in three days," promised the King. ar Well send our wllies Orst and by b the egus will be - returned the King, - I will bring "let us POLa.

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