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Loses Ball-- Edmonton To Finds $15,000 Help Alberta W in nip eg Man to Receive $ 3 0 0 . 0 0 Reward for Returning: G em s WINNIPEG -- A missed ball led to recovery of the greater portion of jewelry, valued at $15,000, lost May 24 by Mis3 Alice Beuriot, o f Paris, France. The French woman's purse, con taining the jewelry and a sum of money, was found in grass on the bank of the Assiniboine River at the foot of Spence street by Norman Chalmers, clerk in a Winnipeg hotel, while searching fo r a ball with which he and a companion were playing catch. Chambers communicated with auth orities who had offered a $300 re ward on Miss Beuriot's behalf for re turn of the jewelry. Examination of the purse's contents revealed all but about $2,500 worth of the jewelry. It also contained two of the three Can adian $10 bills in it when lost and one o f the 10 hundred franc French notes. Miss Beuriot missed the purse after returning to her downtown hotel from Whittier Park race track across the Bed River from Winnipeg. It was in timated Chambers will receive the reward. Smallest Licensed Car and Young Driver Merle Okeron Romance Seen British Actor - W anderer SaysJ He's Anchored B y Her Eyes HOLLYW OOD -- Merle Obernon'a midnight eyes have taken a soldier-of-1 fortune out o f circulation. i " T h ere's m ore romance and mys-, tery and glamor in them than in all I the odd corners of the earth put to-» gether," David Niven, young British actor, said last week. " My wandering days are over." Their friends expect the two movie players to set the date any day now. They are inseparable companions.) Niven frankly admits that " romance has caught up with Niven " Niven, tawny-haired, blue-eyed, and more Irish than English, started out by joining the army -- the Highland Light Infantry. Then he fished and lum berjacked in Canada. He tried " journalism " in New York but he left newspaper work to becom e a delivery boy for a Chinese laundry. Mean while he was living in a Class A hotel and making deliveries in a frifcnd's limousine. That palled. H * becam e a win* salesman, then a racetrack habitue on the Atlantic Coast. Quite by acci dent, he said, he becam e enmeshed in other activities which led to his de parture from a Latin-American coun try in a manner just short o f physical compulsion. In between times, he was frequent ly on ships. A paying guest on liners, som etim es a hired hand on freight ers m ore frequently. Finally his trail led to H ollyw ood.' H e met Miss Oberon shortly after his first flight at movie acUng"All the lure o f distant places and strange occupations waned tho rcionv ent I set eyes on her," he said. Prosperity Bonds. C ity Likely T o T a k e P ait o f New Issue EDMONTON -- Possibility of co operation between the Alberta Gov ernment and the city of Edmonton on the government's proposed " pros perity bond" issue which would be used as a medium of exchange in place o f cash transactions was seen re cently. The civ:c finance committee recent ly recommended to council that the city confer with provincial authorities with a view to co-ordinating civic and provincial action in this direction. Mayor Joseph Clarke discussed the prosperity bond issue with Premier Aberhart, Hon. Lucien Maynard, min ister without portfolio, and A. R. Smith, legislative counsel. Following this conference, the mayor said the government was an xious the city co-operate by not standing in the way o f a free circula tion of the certificates in Edmonton. The mayor stated he could see no objection to the bonds being circulat ed here or to the city itself obtaining a certain amount o f the issue and de positing a security with the govern ment for such amount. City Solicitor Thomas Carlisle will confer with Mr. Smith on the various legal aspects o f the question as far as the city is concerned. At the civic finance committee meeting, Aid. Guy Patterson's pro posal that council authorize the issu ing o f negotiable baby bonds which would be used as a medium of ex change in place o f cash was discussed by aldermen and commissioners. As the government already has a similar scheme under review, the com mittee recommended to council that a committee be appointed to confer with the government with a view to co-ordinated action along this or simi lar lines. Eloise Lancaster, 8,^of Long Beach, Cal., is youngest owner-driver of smallest registered car. The automobile, built by her father, weighs 320 pounds and can rcach speed o f 35 miles per hour. Increase Skown In Employment Pronounced G ain W a s Shown May 1st, Compared to Previous Month O TTAW A, -- A pronounced gain was shown in employment on May 1st, compared with the previous month, and also in comparison with the cor responding date last year, according to a report issued by the Dominion bureau of statistics. Reports from 9,544 firms on May 1, show ed aggregate staffs of 939,409 an increase or 20,426 over April 1st, ·while on May 1, 1935, reports from 9,203 employers showed 892,506 were employed. The crude j I1(]eXj on tlie base 1926 equals 100, rose from 97.4 on April 1st to 99.5 on May 1, and was higher than I Burgess Meredith's Name Put any comparable date since 1931. In Larger T y p e Th an The unadjusted index at May 1 for which records are available follow T h s PI:* / 1936. 99.5; 1935, 95 2; 1934, 92; 1933, 77.6; 1932, 87.5; 1932,102.2; 1930, 111.4 NEW YORK -- When " Winterset," 1929, 116.2; 1928, 106.8; 1927, 101.8; 1926, 95.4; 1925, 91.9; 1924, 92.9; 1923, winner of the New York critics' Circle 92.5; 1922, 84.3; 1921, 85.1. Award, returns to New York June 1 Improvement was reported in man for its farewell engagement, there will ufacturing- chiefly in food, lumber, be a change in the houseboards o f the pulp and paper, clay, glass, stone and Martin Beck theatre. The sign painter iron and steel divisions. W hile activ will change " Guthrie McClintic pre ity was also shown in transportation, sents " Winterset," to " Guthrie Mc construction and maintenance, ser Clintic presents Burgess Meredith in vices and trade. The gain in each of Maxwell Anderson's `Winterset.' " these groups with the exception of In short, Burgess Meredith, native construction, exceeded the average o f Cobourg, Ont., at the age of 27, is increases bn May 1st for the last 15 now a full-fledged star. The subtle years, the report said. On the other difference between placing the star's hand the release of a large number name above the play and placing it o f workers from the logging camps, below means the producer considers coal mines, tobacco and non-ferrous the player as great a box office draw metal factories, were of a seasonable as all the other elements in the play character. put together. Yount* Ontario Actor Is Star In the Swim Style Another sure sign that an actor has reached stardom appears when play wrights begin to write plays especial ly for him. All season Meredith has been the recipient of scrips written as " vehicles" for him. There is even a plan afoot for a musical, in which he will have an opportunity to display his talents as a dancer and to air his tenor voice. But the rumor is that Maxwell An derson has just begun a new play for him, and that if it is finished in time for next season the other scrips won't stand a chance. Looks Spoiled By E a r s , Waistlines Member fo r Y ukon Sticks to Decision About House Members OTTAWA -- Projecting ears and protruding waistlines o f members of Canada's house o f commons prevent her from calling any o f them hand some, Mrs. George Black, member for the Yukon, disclosed to an audi ence here. Agnds Macphail, the other woman member of the house, drew up a list of the 10 most handsome men but Mrs. Black vould not name one. " I argued then that there wasn't a handsome man in the house and I still stick to my belief," said Mrs. Black. " How can I truthfully say that the men are handsome when their ears stick out and their waistlines bulge?" she asked. Mrs. Black disclosed also she had received a telegram from her young est son asking if he qualified as handsome. " I told him that he eartainly didn't," Mrs. Black confided. June Travis, winsome movie actress, wearing her new swim suit o f Paisley silk rubber and white rubber cloak having lapels and cuffs matching the suit. W rites the Kingston Whig-Stand ard -- " Like the law -- only in a dif ferent way science som etim es shows a long arm. Its discoveries sometimes have the most remote and unforseen consequences. A recent report o f the Smithsonian Institution provides a strikingly in teresting illustration of this. Dealing with the work of Dr. Paul Bartsch, its curator of molluscs, it tells How in the year 1896, he discovered that the snails living in the Potom ac River differed considerably from those in tributary streams and established the difference was due to the acidity of the water. Here was a simple scien tific dijcov ery o f no apparent imporQ n t practical significance, but it was Dr- D. E. Robertson, H. R~ destined to prove the means o f saving " Purchasing power is the secret of Ihd Alfred Scadding, of Toront^ were a great number of human lives. prosperity. When the people have the entombed April 12 by a c a v e j in a At that time, the report tells us, money to spend, and a little over to gold mine at Moose River, N.S Magill died during the ordeal but Robertson thousands of people in China, Japan, put away, industry and commerce and Scadding lived for 10 days while Formosa, the Philippine Islands, and m ove along normal lines and unem an em ergency shaft was driven down other Oriental countries were dying ployment is reduced to a minimum, year from a strange disease called observes the K itchener Record. There 141 feet to rescue them. Research p r o v e d is no other real solution to our un Dr. D. E. Robertson is 52, Scadding scistosom iasis. .this disease to be due to a tiny worm employment problem. There have al is 44 and Magill was 30. which bored through the skin and en ways been unemployed, and there tered the blood stream. It was par will be perhaps more than usual in ticularly prevalent among the work the immediate future because of the ers in rice fields who waded about in large number o f people who have been their bare feet over the flooded landfl for so long on relief. But times are Eventually Japanese scientists found , getting better. that these worms, known as blood Government figures show that the flukes, lived during part of their life cash returns of agriculture in Ontar cycles in snails, and these snails had io were 13 percent greater in 1935 proved from Dr. Bartsch's work to be than in 1934, and that the purchasing the only ones which lived in slightly power o f the farmers o f the province acid water. W ith that fact established is 12 percent greater. The Bank of SARNIA, -- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur the remedy was simple. It involved Nova Scotia in a recent statement, Murphy were at home to their friends m erely the dumping of crushed lime says " Cash receipts for Ontario far recently ou the occasion of their 40th stone along the shores of streams and mers were at least 12 percent higher wedding anniversary. ponds. This turrfed the water alkaline in 1935 than in 1934; proceeds from Residents of Sarnia for the past 15 and destroyed the snails. Its adoption livestock showed the greatest advance years Mr. and Mrs. Murphy came to has resulted in the virtual elimination with a gain of 27 percent." A ccord Sarnia from W hitebread, near Walof the disease over large areas of Ja ing to the Canadian Countryman, the laceburg. Form erly a farmer, Mr. pan and other Asiatic countries. relative cash returns from Agricul Murphy has been a building contrac Thus the chance discovery of a ture for various years, in millions of tor for 25 years and boasts of having helped to construct 53 homes in Sar scientist in W ashington has meant dollars, w ere as follow s: the saving o f the lives o f millions of 1*131, $169; 1932, $131; 1933, $145; nia. ·: ' P 161 ; 1935. $182; Before her marriage at Chatham, people in the Orient. These figures says the Canadian JJune 4th, 1896, Mrs. Murphy was Ka therine Corby, of Corners' Creek, in Countryman do not tell the whole of the story so far as purchasing power Michigan. There are two daughters is concerned. It is pointed out that and five sons: Mrs. Frank Corrigan the costs of production in agrciulture and Mrs. Harry Spadwell of Sarnia; Harry, at hom e; Roy, Reuben and have fallen, and that the things the farmers buy have, generally speaking Percy of Sarnia, and Whitney of Poncom e down in price. ` W hile taxes in tias, Mich. Mr. Murphy has two sisters and cities like Toronto have gone up the tendency has been for the farm ers' two brothers; Mrs. Samuel Martin, taxes to come down. M oreover inter of W allaceburg; and Mrs. F. Bene est rates have been reduced, so that dick of W hitehead; A. T. Murphy of NEW YORK -- The world's motor Whitebread and W illiam Murphy in money costs farmers less than it did vehicle population rose 2,000,000 dur a few years ago, and a very large Saskatchewan. There are no surviv ing 1935, as gauged by registrations number of farmers have benefited ing members of Mrs. Murphy's imme with the United States contributing from a reduction in the principal of diate family. the m ajor portion o f the increase. their m ortgages." Total registration for the world for It w ill thus be seen that while the last year, J. Mack Young, president general increase in cash returns of of the Automobile Club o f New York, agricultural products has not been reported recently was 37,275,264, the spectacular, the reduction in the cost highest in history with the exception of things farmers buy, together with of 1929 and 1930. the reduction in capital burdens, have Residents of the United States own increased the purchasing power of STRATFORD, -- W. L. Sprung, the principal of the Stratford Collegiate- more than two-thirds of all registered farmers beyond the proportion of the actual increase in production. It Is Bocational Institute, does not agree motor vehicles, he said. W hile each m ajor geographical di said that quite a number of concerns with A. F Falls, F.C.A., retired city auditor of Windsor, who has launched vision showed an Increase, Young said who do both rural and urban trade re a campaign to introduce safe driving there was a drastic decline in war- port/that their business with farmers courses in every high school in Can torn Ethiopia. Its motor vehicles had is relatively better than their busin ada, as a means of reducing the death dropped, in number from 697 to 205 in ess in the larger cities. Farmers are the first to suffer dur a year. toll in traffic accidents. Mr. Sprung said young people Bermuda which has prided itself on ing a depression, and they are the should be educated in " safety first" at being virtually free from gasoline dri first to benefit from the return of the all times, but he believed it should be ven vehicles registered 47 last year, prosperity It is the old story; Canada done through "safety first campaigns. an Increase o f two. is prosperous when agriculture is Mr. Sprungs concurred In the opin In the United States, Young said, prosperous. It must always be remem ion of a member of the Toronto Board passenger cars outnumber truck* 5 bered, however, that it is not the of Education who felt it would tend to 1 hut in at least eleven nations the farmer who makes Canada prosper to produce a desire among the chil situation is reversed. In Russia there ous, but the people who buy their dren o f poorer parents for luxuries are 200,000 trucks and only 44,000 pas products; and these people dwell very which were beyond their meaas. senger cars. largely in the big community centres. LONDON, ENG., -- The Lancet, fa mous British professional medical journal, bases an article on the " peak of human endurance" largely on the experiences o f the three Toronto men who were entombed recently by a fall of rock in a Moose River, N.S., gold mine. " The rescue shows," says the Lan cet, " what men In extremity can en dure and to what extent the spark of life can flicker eventually to kindle once more to steady flam e." The Lancet expresses the opinion that peak endurance is probably rea ched at what is known as " early mid dle age." " T oo old at 40" is probably only applicable to enterprises where carelesslessness is not a liability and where speed is essential. As an example of the peak of hu man endurance the Lancet points out that no athlete has yet succeeded in running 12 miles in an hour, although a bare half-dozen have flgii e ^ formances some 200 yards ai1 ( this distance. Human Endurance Shown In N. S. Mine Case Clause Tip Saved Many Peak of Perfume for Pups Is The Very Last Word NEW YORK-- And now we have perfume for pups! A leading Fifth avenue department store is featur ing their new and exclusive leash cologne for dogs. It sounds slightly insane, but as a matter of fact it's a swell idea. We know more than one Fido who'd be much more popu lar if he smelled a little better. The leash cologne has a fresh, woodsy odor, with deodorizing quali ties. The plain bottle comes pack aged in a green and gold box shaped like a dog-house with a label of a gold scottie sitting at the kennel door. The shaker top makes it easy to sprinkle on canine coats. And while we haven't actually seen them, we hear that several more sensitive dogs on the Avenue have already walked right into the store and bought a bottle themselves. Movie Office Is Proposed Report F avors Film Institute for Canadian People OTTAW A, -- Canada is to have « film institute as soon as the recom mendations contained in " The Report on Educational and Cultural Films in Canada, published this week under ( grant from the Carnegie Corporation by the National Films Society of Can ada, can be carried out. Film insti tutes, such as those already existing in European countries, are national organizations established to promoti interest in educational and cultural films. The report, written by Donald W. Buchanan, of Ottawa, has been signed by a large number o f Canadian edu cationists and it contains a foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir, who, before he came to Canada as Governor-General, was a member o f the governing body o f the British Film Institute. Lord Tweedsmuir is now honorary presi dent of the National Film Society of Canada, and Sydney Smith, president of the University of Manitoba, is its president. " The film ," writes Lord Tweeds muir, " is a potent instrument, not only for instruction in the narrower sense, but for the formation o f opin ion and the moulding of a nation's mind. If that is true, it behooves us to do what we can to see that it is de veloped along wise lines." The report urged early formation of a national film office, to be supported by affiliated branches, by educational institutions and by provincial depart ments of education. Its functions will be: first, to encourage the use of the film as a visual aid to instruction; second, to assist in the public appre ciation o f tbe film as a cultural in strument. Purchasing Power of Canada's Farmer Pair Is Married For 40 Year s Total of Cars Up 2, Crossing Signals A r c Spurned in T o w n O f Their Origin MORLEY, Eng., -- This Yorkshire town spurns its own goods, and is giv ing m otorists a laught at the expense of traffic regulations- For " Belisha beacons," pedestrian crossing signal* which have becom e landmarks in thi noisiest city and the quietest village are manufactured here. Yet, Morley will have none of them in its own streets! Three times Morley Town Council has been asked by the Ministry of Transport to institute the pedestrian crossing system. Each time the coun cil has refused. The Ministry has now written ask ing that a scheme should be submit ted. They refer to tbe " happy results" of such crossings and assume that th4 council would wish to afford the in habitants the protection of an ade quate system ." So motorists are wait ing to see what happens. | Wouldn't Teach Pupils D r i v i n g 11 _ I