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taining over 31.000 by false prtences and uttering forged promissory notes. Harold Boyd, R. R. 7. St. Marys. was not asked to plead when he appeared before Magistrate A. F. Cook in police court on Saturday morning. On re- quest of his counsel. John R. Ander- son. an adjournment was made until December 20. Three charges have been camps across Canada regarding the relaxation of restrictions on inter- urban bus travel to facilitate the movement of personnel of the armed forces in the Christmas and New Year leaxe periods. it was learned Sunday night. A London. Ont. despatch Sat- urda} said existing restrictions will OTI‘A\\‘A.-â€"Instructions have been issued to all military districts and camps across Canada regarding the relaxation of restrictions on inter- say the man answers to the descrip- tion of a civilian given a lift to Tren- ton by Mr. Gardiner. along with a sailor and another civilian. all three of whom were bound for Montreal. The car was found two miles north of here in a snow drift. and the tracks of three men led into the woods and out again onto the Stockdale highway police say. A. McLeod. formerly of Trenton. reported to police that he had given a lift hack to Trenton to three men answering to the descrip- tion of Mr. Gardiner‘s passengers. BELLEVILLE, ~ City police are holding a Toronto man for Trenton police on suspicion of being connect- ed with the theft of an automobile owned by K. .1. Gardiner. 646 Eastern Ave, Toronto, which was stolen in Trenton last week-end. Police here PIC’l‘ON.â€"â€"-Plunging into the Bay of Quinte when thin ice gave way, John Simpson was drowned near his home at Green Point. six miles east of Pic- ton. He was walking along the shore‘ of the bay to visit a neighbour, and; attempted to take a short cut across a cove. His cries were heard by his} wife, but by the time she reached the! scene he had disappeared. Neighbours! were quickly on the scene and the. body was recovered an hour later. Mr. a Simpson was in his 46th year and; was a farmer. lie had moved to Green . Point last spring. Survivors are hisi widow and two children. I TORONTO.â€"Seven-month-old Wil- liam. son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gras- by of nearby Norval. died in hospital Saturday a few hours after his par- ents made a two-hour hectic trip a- mong snow drifts. in a friend's auto- mobile. in an effortto save their son. Young William. ill with pneumonia, reached the hospital in time, a doctor said. but "other complications" caused his death. The parents. in a car driven by a friend. made the trip before plows had cleared the roads, following a trail broken by a bus and a truck along part of the road a short time previously. CHATHAM.â€"Mrs. Irene Walrath, 25, of 168 King street west. Friday was remanded for a week when she pleaded not guilty to vagrancy and creating a disturbance while drunk. She was arrested following her threats late last Thursday night to jump off the loot bridge into McGregor’s Creek and “end it all." Some weeks ago she was rescued from the River Thames by a couple of soldiers who discovered her struggling in the water. PAGE 2 News of the World 2,: Interesting Items BrieflyTold for Busy Readers CU? COARSE FOR [HE PIPE CUT FINE FOI IOlLING YOUR OWN 'HIII'S NO OYHER YOIACCO JUST [IKE '13." Charg $1. 000 by forged pm larged “uh oh- :d a b\ false prtences Sana promissor} notes. ia a 7. St. Marys. was . . ‘ ‘1 vhen he appeared L“ t F. Cook in police ‘ ‘ ept. morning. On re. ‘fl PO" Bruce. south of Aylmer. Ralph Welsh, ‘mitinz 1 hearing on a minor the ST THOMAS.~â€"Four prisoners a- waiting hearings on theft charges smn ed their way out of the lower east eel] block in the Elgin County jail. climbed over a 12 to 14 foot jail With the aid of a packing case. and made their getaway in a motor car stolen from Magistrate E. Donald Smith ear- 13' Sunday morning. Within six hours of the jailbreak. police received word that the four men had been captlmed at Windsor and the stolen car had been recovered there. The men who the stolen car, a coupe. Lyle See, ne- turning home early Sunday morning heard a commotion and saw two young men in the vicinity but failed to investigate. Wheatley’s constable, Bil] Chute. is laid up with a fractured ankle. nee said they found 8211 in L'nited States money of the $1,800 in Cana- dian and $54 in United States money stolen from Song's dwelling in Cu]- urinos’ possession. The money belong- ed to the Kwong Tai Club, of which Song: was treasurer. The girl worked as a domestic in Windsor and lived in the house where the money was kept. She met Culurinos in Detroit. W'INDSOR.â€"How a shirt ironing episode in Akron. Ohio. led to the ar- rest of Steve Peter Culurinos. Alias Kramer. 22. of Akron. and Jean Vir- zinia Bailey. 22. of Sault Ste. Marie. Ont.. on a charge of stealing more than 31.800 from the home of Lee Song here Nov. 18. was revealed n court Friday. The pair elected sum- mary trial before Maxistrate Angus an ts on the report that the prisoner hadlt been on a hunger strike. It was ad-‘ mitted however that the man who? has been in custody since last May has ; been in a highly excitable frame of . mind lately while awaiting the out-’ come of his appeal and has been a' S‘ |\‘?‘C9 is awaiting the decision of the court of appeal which considered his case last week. Officials were reticent regard- ing the incident and refused comment SARNIArâ€"The condition of Dalton Reardon, prisoner at the county jail who received treatment at the Sa'rnia General Hospital for self-inflicted in- juries 18 not. causing serious concern. according to reports received from of- ficials. Reardon is said to have slashed his abdomen with the ragged edge of a broken dish but his injuries were not regarded by officials as serious and he was returned to the jail after being treated at the hospital. Rear- don is under sentence of three years in Kingston penitentiary for a serious offence against a 15-year-old girl. and on, but the locomotive would have struck the children if MacMunn had not acted so promptly. A veteran of the first Great War MacMunn served four years in the present conflict. HAMILTON,‘-â€"Two little girls today jowe their lives to the prompt action 'of William MacMunn, a veteran of .two wars and a hero of a level cross- ing incident Friday afternoon. Mac- Munn. a Hamilton Street Railway signal man at the Cage Ave. and .Main St. crossing of the T. H. and B. .Railway. was on duty when he no- ticed a ten-year-old girl pulling her 17-month5oold sister on a sled on the crossing. The older child apparently was rooted to the spot by fear of an approaching freight train. MacMunn‘ acted instantly, hurling himself at the youngsters and tossing them off the. track. He himself had to dive into a* snowbank to escape the train. Details! of the rescue came to light by chance‘ but in the excitement the children. slipped away home before anyonef could obtain their names. The air' brakes of the freight had been put. .\ “x u .uu. .‘LALA\I\ Ll.t' F111. .1BIUH :02“ 1m 9513:3212: fillhd fie pm" {2‘0 \x'. RIM“. in ‘Cindsm‘ and I“ “V 02“» :‘emmr‘i fliero last Tuesdav 130-: >3} thex‘ found 8311 it} I'nitc‘d laid involving the uttering of forged promissory notes. while the other three cover the obtaining of money by false pretences from the Stratford branch of the Bank of Montreal. The offences are alleged to have taken place between October 30 and Dec. 4. One of the charges of false pretences was read a week ago, but the re- maining five were read on Saturday for the first time. Bail has been set at two sureties of $2,500. of troubie to the jail attendâ€"4 THE DURHAM, ONTARIO, CHRONICLE been cut so that only essential ves- sels are allowed to pass in and out of the harbor. at least four slight acci- dents have occurred. Meanwhile, Van- couver police estimated a total of ap- proximately 150 accidents since the fog descended. Many minor accidents have not been reported. The dense mist has spread approximately 100 . VANCOUVERâ€"Fog which descen- ded over this city again Friday night, was costing Vancouver shipyard work- ers approximately $10,000 a day in lost wages. Some 1,300 men on outside jobs have been instructed not to come to work if the mist is too heavy since darkness makes their work hazardous. The dense fog has slowed production and is hampering production in other city plants were lateness and absent- eeism have increased. In South Bar- rad shipyard 136 men showed up for work. compared with the usual 700. Both afternoon and “graveyard“ shifts at North Burrard were cancelled. De- spite the fact that marine traffic has the laneway at the side of his resi- dence on Margaret street because of the extended drive to his garage being . piled high with snow from last week's blizzard. The magistrate’s brief case, containing the records of the four prisoners and other official records was found at Wellington and William streets, a short distance from where the car was stolen. I prisoners had to make 16 cuts through bars about an inch in diameter to gain their release and must have stood on one another‘s shoulders to get over the jail wall. Magistrate Smith's motor car, a 1940 coach, had been left in in; UP in poljce court on Tuesday. The ' miles along the coast and in _some sec- Canada ;‘ Miss Marjorie Stevens and pupils ' presented their annual Christmas pro- I,gram on Monday night to a full . school house. Mr. Frank Murdock was r chairman for the program, which in- fifcluded some outside talent. Messrs. ' Hepburn, Monke and Miske with vio- lin, guitar and banjo played several *numbers. the latter singing cowboy songs with guitar accompaniment. jMessrs. Berry and McKechnie, with vi- !olins, accompanied by Miss McKech- fn‘ie at the organ. played “Christmas I'Carol”. This was a much enjoyed inumber. The girls' pantomine “The IOld Rugged Cross" with Mrs. Stevens lsinging the solo to violin accompani-' ment was a beautiful number. Popu- lar on the program was the boys’ {Backward Drill" and the girls’ rainy !bow drill" as well as the dialogues rRastus Rambles On. Courtship under aDifficulties and Christmas in Naugh- lty Land. Miss Schram, the music tea-‘ icher accompanied the school choruses. 3 gRecitations were given by Ross Petty, ,Norman Hopkins. Elsie Atkinson, ‘Jackie Lawrence. Edna Hopkins and, ;Barbara Picken. Other enjoyable it- ‘ems were “The Whooping Cough Germs" and “ The Kitchen Rhythm Band. Oren Noble sang two numbers to his own accompaniment. The forty-five minute play “Flying High" was presented by the following characters, Gordon Armstrong. Alvin Mama, Royden Hopkins, Mrs. Reuben The Season's Greetings to the Ed- itor, staff and readers of The Chron- icle. (ions is reborted 1,000 feet deep. Hutton Hill accompaniment. (Intended for Last Weeki [cKechnie “V1111 ‘1' Since Mrs. Robert Kinnell’s return b.‘ “155 MCKeC11'ifrom Toronto she s not so well we 1839(1 "(311115111135 ‘ are sorrx to hear. Her daughter, Mrs. a 1‘11““ 911303.911 Ed. Haw . is with her at present. Mrs don't jump the YfllflW liqht Quite a number from here attended the memorial senice held at Price. vilI e on Sundas for Mania Sturrock. On Thursday evening this division of Proton Township Red Cross packed nine boxes for members of the armed services at the home of Mrs. N. S. Campbell. Salem Ladies Aid met last Wednes- day at the home of Mrs. A. E. Haw. Thursday afternoon. the sewing cir- cle of Concession 19 West. Proton, met at the home of Mrs. Eli Ostrander. Mr. and Mrs. James Hardy and daughter. Eleanor, motored to Strato ford last week. Mrs. Hardy, Sr., re- turned home with them. Christina Ferguson spenf a few days last week with Mrs. Kinnell. ' Noble, Cyril Noble, Mrs. Thomas Law- :rence, Donnetta Langrlll, Mr. and 2Mrs. Thomas Milligan, Ernest Mur- gdock and Clarence Trafford. . Santa Claus appeared on the scene and distributed gifts and candy from "the tree. ~' Mr. Thomas Milligan enjoyed a short holiday with Mr. and Mrs. John Clark in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Campbell were in Toronto recently. While there they enjoyed seeing the Ice-Capades. The Red Cross unit met at the homes of Mrs. Albert McRonald and Mrs. William Manta last week for quilting and completion of civilian sewing. We can't neglect them just so that some ofua here at home can get a little more. Don‘t confuse the signalsâ€"(This is the YELLOW LIGHT 0.VL Y). It means a little more of some things and it hetps business men get ready for the time when then will be more materials and workers uailable. It does not mean the end of shortages! Getting back to peacetime production will access sarily be piecemeal and gradual. “Patience" is the word. Some restrictions are now being lifted. but it does not mean lots of goods right away. Wat-'9 demands are still huge and must come first. Some restrictions are War came. The manufacture of most cfiilian goods had to be cut down or stopped to make way for war production. That caused shortages of civilian goodsâ€"that was the RED LIGHT Swinton Park at John: “I think Sybil will make anideal wife. Every time I go the. {in}! her angling her father's sack “ “WV“. Jaxpes: “That caught me, '00 until I noticed it was always the samé Sock â€"â€"Exchange. ° It will gay you to advertise in The Chronic. Swinwn Park and Salem ch’u were closed that day. Inn Tenn Ferguson, Toronto a few days With friends here. . Mr. Alfred Hardy of Deloraine Man 1; the guest of the Hardy and Martin (amnion Tim. December 2| ch'urchu tummflrstwp mm'umn‘ Whitefiew Our naval “atom 11 ten proved to be evq Wm men shop! nerdk But we of the swore We. too. we wors‘m; m tunâ€"Lhmu And lo we are be We men of the s; “to in the Emil Venom smileq $030 0! “fl. 1,140“?! ‘ RBI"! Except the Enter our Except If» ('U‘II'URT I HR THUS}; \\ ”H \14 pl R 81'“. R. (I. 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