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Whitby Hockey Club is ·Planning An Active , .. :;ea:&o Officers Elected and Plans M~de for a Euchre and Dance on November 3, to Open Season - Believe Plenty of Material For T elllll This Year A large and enthusiastic meethq of the Whitby Intermediate Hockey Club was held at the County Home on Monday evening when plans fr,r w.hat Is expe:ted to be an outstan~ -. lng hockey season were discussN!. President Wllllnm Davidson pre- sided, and the following officer., were elected: Pres:dent. William Davidson: vice-president. James Slelghtholm; manager. William · Cook; treasurer .. James Rei~; secretary, James Ross: directors. Duncan Mcintyre. Die~ Adams, Wm. Pringle, Percy Glover: honoraiy presidents, James Heffe:- lng, CEfford Brown. Russell Hatch, Dr. Beaton, Ed. Bowman. While It Is a little too early to .speculate on the Intermediate Her--key prcispects for the season, il ls known that there Is plenty of , gOOd material with quite a numbe~ of last year's team available. It was decided to hOld a pro- gram euchre part.y and bridge on November 3rd, In the Town Hall . Two Team~ Entered in Rifle Competition for Dominion Marks- men Challenge Shield ~· second year In suc~ee~~~)u nltlon of his year. ·oN:JA-RIG _HOSP.·ITAL · .. LADIES' BOWLING LEAG At the conclusion of the first • slble round of play the teams were able \': ·I Clause to Make Them Eli- ! 98 P. C. Eclipse gible for Relief is In- I Of Moon Friday vokecJ by Province . ___ Whltby citizens wlll have an op-· Toronto. Oct 24.-Invoking n : portunity to see an almost total clat~:;e iu the new Dominlon-Pror·· ; rcllpoe of the moon on , Friday, lnclal unemployment relief . ag rt~- October 27. n 1e eelipse will start ment or Aug. 4, the OntariO Gor · • 11 . , . ernment yesterday swepL aside :·crt ' ~ L ac::' p.m. and continue unt11 3.13 tape which threatene:l to dcprirr 1 :·:m .. . ~aturday morning. The moo~ unemployed men, who had enlis • ~d '1_1ll oe 98 per_ cent tr. ecllpse. I, and had not been called up . of ~ ' rllll be high m the heavens. In Uvlng, nnd- placed them in n en :,' · , ~. ddltlOn to the ecllp~e the heavens · ll lbl to re e:ve relief. · IJiesent a particularly Interesting gory e g e c ' pectacle at the present time. The Hllher and yon In Canada, National. Hockey Leacue · play~ are eu~tlnr Ice ca~rs as they prepare The decision was reached nt. ~ three "sinister" planets, Saturn, for another season. A trio Is shown here •.. twn players anU~tJnr tbelr firSt N.H.L. eampalp, a~d an- bconfereHnce bEet1weecnossPreMm:~~st~:·:,; Jupit<!r and Mars, are all In view other not sr.heduled to see major league actlon:-n_o& a&· tbk< point, at least. The rookies are SUinowsky urn, on. r c r ·. ' · .. c- at. th~ same time, a most unusual and Shannon, botb up from Syracuse Stars In &h~ ID~tlonal-American League, the former with Tor- Welfare, and E. A. Horton. Du~. A situation. They are closer to the onto i\laple Leafs and the latter wlih New York America~ .StanoWsky was a junior sensation two years tor of Unemployment Relief. T :: earth than they have been in aro with st. Boniface Seals, domlnlon champions, aDd ~e loeaf manarement is counting on him as the conference was called by the Pt ; 11eMly 100 years. rusl!lnr delenceman they have been . seeking for ~me time • .. Shanncn was also Lea.f proper;&y but went mier directly after he had lcarnrt. ------- to the Amerks· In the deal that saw Sweeney Schriner become -~-~-~. Le,·insky tolled with Chlearo last that Ottawa, in a wire to t.he Wrl- 1 season r;oinr in Ranrers late In the year, From there he ·.wu •¥Ut in the Philadelphia. Int.-Am. farm fare · Department. had promised to 1 PLI\N PICKERING team 'or which squad It was recently announced he was elected captain for the 1939-CO eampalp. Not accept responslblllty for mlis :r ·. RED CROSS GROUP overl; stronr In a defensive way, Rangers may be calllnr hlm!back. , men only after they had been calk'! / , I to the!r units. -------------------------------------------~ "~e~ m~~ the Prem~ s Ji~ ' Pk~~~O~~-~are~- cl b • M · • ,· reformatory .superintendents. In announcing the new regulat.io't' ticnce, there wUI be tots of work fo! Almost Every u In· · . . 8JQfs . .- · In announcing tne highway con- "have been coming Into t.hc mill - I ;·ou ~0 dol for no one can estlmat~ struction program, both the Pre- tary centres to enlist and ha.r.' 1 tlle proportions to whlr.h this con- U Could··_ Have Had "Ch·as·· .• ·. Ke·" ller mter and Mr. NJxon stressed that found that they cannot get into 1. 1~ I file~ ~·iii grow," counselled Maju:· congestion In the ~eCormatorles army. I found, Cor ~xample. tlw , Watson or Islington, representatin was cause-:! directly by the Govern- case of one man who threw up :. :.' of the canadian Red cross. In ment's presentation to defense au- job In the United States with •.!" I speaking to ari enthusla.Stlc group thorities of the new St. Thomas 1 expectation of . getting into t' ~ " or representatives from Pickering, mental hospital for air force train- army and was stranded here "";I I Dunbartcn. Whltevale. Audley. and htg purposes. In order to relieve was finally . arrested as n ,.~ ~rnlt l. intervening points, which met in t:1e the population strain on mental I don't want to see men of ~!J · c Town Hall here on Friday evening ~~------~~~~ ----------- Everi the. Best -of Managers CONANT STUDIES. Sometimes Pass Up Play- . · ,_, . era Who· Later Turn Out To Be Stars . I ALltON 'A6AINST PACIFIST PAStORS ' I 1 • United Church Calla· Emer- gency Meeting to Scan Manifesto hospitals by the ~rans!er _of the St. type listed as vagrants." ior the purp~<e or organizing fOI Thomas lnstltuhon, pr.soners at Clause Covers Cases Red Cross work In the ·community. the Jail Farm at Langstaff were Mr. Horton· said the relief ngrrc·· moved to Mlmlco and Guelph Ref- ment clauEe, which allowed !·' r ormaiorles and the farm became a payment of costs on n 50-50 hnm mental hospital for male patients. between the Federal an:! Pron•· It was decided tr. establish 11 branch to be known as "Th<e Picl:- >rlng Red Cross Society, which \viii The highway construction plan, cia!- Governments, and left II:~ head up the work In _the southern added the Premier~ was almost municipalities only the costs of nd· 1 part of Pickering township. Identical to the Government's pro- ministration, provided for the gi·:· A nominating committee or A. _posal to Ottawa to employ Interned lng of relief to "lnd:vlduals In !le - s pears, M. s. Chapman, Mrs. F . T. enemy aliens for highway buUdlng. cessitous clrc\lmstances." Bunting, Miss A. E. Richardson and The suggest!on, which was refused, "It fits particularly well Into th-: Mrs. A. w. Mitchell \Vas appointed carried with It an offer to accept presen~ .situation," he added. " a!l d 10 submit a slate of officers to a full responslbillty for the main ten- It brings In aiEo men who hn .. ~ public meeting to be held In tht• ance of t11e Internment !:amps. volunteered, but who have_ been .. r0· town hall, on Wednesday, octobe•· Provincial Secretary Nixon sa!d Jetted for physical disabilit-Ies. ~-th · 1 1 • t Under the terms of the agree- J • botll Canadian and Provine a ~.a - t 1 ed t t M s Chapman local pollee trus-ltt d th r 1 men • It s propos o quar er · . • utes penn e e use o pr soners t '--t 1 d .. ·ee was chairman for the evenln<t. In road construction, and that the rans..,.. unemp oye among •-1~ ' • Toronto, Oct. 24.-BOdy of Rich- ard Plude, 31, Toronto milk driver missing since last July 10. was dis- covered Sunday In a shallow grave · In a garage behind a house In the west end of the city. A double loop of quarter-Inch rope was about the man's neck and a small claw ham- mer, with hairs clinging to It, was found beside the. body. Discovery of the body was made by stanley Korzak when he went to the garage behind the house he lives :n at 601 Osslngton avenue. He told pollee he opened the garage by kicking at the door be- cause the man who rented It for the months of July. AugUst and september failed to return and pay the rent for October. Korzak said the man gave the name "Jack O'Brien." In the garage also was found an ~ utomobllc stolen from Aclam Mor- rison of Toronto, the day Plude dlsap.peared. Pollee said f'!ude ap- peared to have been stranF:led and struck several times on t.lle head. Pollee said t.hat besides the man who gave the na:me of "O'Brien," they were searching for an un- Identified couple 'l'.'ho were said to have threatened Plude previous to his disappearance. Pollee refused to enlarge · on the angle. Plude disappeared while making collections on his milk route In East York Township-the other side of the city from where the body was found. His truck was found In East York Township with a rear tire flat. The Ignition keys and account books of h!s routa ~·ere found in the cal. Toronto, Oct. 24.-Declarlng that no Independent group of ministers had a.uthorlty to speak for the Church, Rev. Dr. Gordon A. Sisco, general secretary or · the , ·United bhurch or Canada, announced last nl.ght that the sub-executive _of thf fast road work was done In 1910, - ----------------- when a forty-mil<! right or-,. way Church ~Ill hold an e~en~y was cut rrom the T. & N'.o. Rail- meeting m To~onto Wednesday •0 way to the Porcupine gold camo. consl~er the Issue raised b~ Its 75· Road work was also done by prison pacifist ministers who ~. Prld~:v: labor subSequently, 1n the Burwash expressed their publlc dl.sapprovll of Refo~ainry area. "this or any other war." A_- s~te- He said there was no problem li1 ment wlll be made, then ~~~ · transportation, as Burwash nnd the United Churchs official, stand,_, Long Lac were on the same ra;l on the "witness against war" ,m.anl;.< line. "TlltS may be regarded ns only fe.sto In which the stgnatorie:i,. start In the program, If It· Is .sue- charge that all nations "share In Ul ~ ... ~ !le. said. "This year the responsibility for creating the sit - . ~~;i. wlll. be llmlted to three tlon which makA!.s war necesso. . . . • • ·; •and: It'. will take the entire Meanwhtie clvU ramifications ci~ ! ie8aOn 'to clear . the rlght-o!-wa:,, v.eloped as Ron. Gordon• Conant: ~d-~ a,tump ~nd ditch lt." Attorney-General, ordered an lm'- ' . Camps Cos~ $5,000 mediate Investigation of . the docu- , • The -plan was developed In close me11:t, and hinted at legal proceed• Cl)Uabo~tlon with the Department lngs against Its .sponsor~~. Descrlbr or Hilb,Vays. R. M. Smith, Deputy lng the action of the algners as WnJ.stel; or Highways, In a report. "pusillanimous," Mr. Con~t Wall;!•· &ald j:._the .· Geraldton-Hearst link ed he would "seriously consider prO:.· pi.Ssed; through comp!lratlvely level secutlon If It contravenes SecLton 39 country, where construction co.>:..; o! the Defense or Canadr. Regula .. _ .woUld ·n~ ·.be excessive. He estl- ~lons ." The investigation was as- mated that the completion or the signed in Clifford Magone, KC., of 112';. miles' · stretch to the gra v~l the--Attorney-General's departtnen~. stage, .should ,not exceed $5,000,00(). Dr. Sisco refused to elabora te on · Tile cam!)S.-by agreement., are to be the announcement of the special built by the IDghways Departm(!!l~ b- r tl b t ld It at points five, . thirteen nnd twenty. su exeeu 1ve mee ng, u sa miles ea.st of Long Lac. hnd been ca.Ued after consultaLtcn one . , ToG AU The News -----(:aad Oatario CouiJ - . .; ... " ' . . : .. _ . " must_ The WBIDY ,, ' • - I ' GAZETTE and CDDIICLE ' . .·.> -= ·to measure up their respective w~ olfered with the church's Moderator, Right · ]l:aCq camp, to cost an estimated Rev. Dr. John w. woodsfdr . Only $6,000,- l.s to be constructed so t.h3.t th general council Its execuli1·e or' the:l\ ·m&Y b!' used later !or tourL-;t Ontario County's Leading Weekly atre,ngth and the :~eries promises to and the Cleveland club down. 'This may !dok be evenly and keenly contested. A large nun~ber of the•players are IWI .. IWIIU.IIdi&liatel.~ at · first glance, but the novices r.~the game, b'.lt where Heath, up to la .. , t akiil Is lacltlng there Is lots of en- or less proven he thu.slasm· displayed · and with more Lear;ue !ltandinc , 1 ,~~.-.··~:-·.- JIIOtt~ntllalltles and Keller practice there wlll be some record Ptaye4 \Von ....... ~ ,.,.. tried In the cruc- /ICOreS chalked UP. , Storm Troopers 6 5 league competition. Last week's play_ resulted In the ·Blacksmiths . . 3 3 would have storm~Troopers leading the way up Probles Jr. . . 6 3 random, alwa.ys tnocltlng down the Probles Jr. for Gladiators . . 3 2 with Its praL~e the full count , while the Oo- Go-Getters . . 3 2 .- a;.pund the ears Getters got their men for the score Toilers . . . . . . 3 1 of ' rou1·, when th~ defeated the Knockouts 3 1 KnOCkouts. In the other bracket Thunderbolts 3 1 Pro~es Jr. reversed their form and Neutrals .. .... 3 o trimmed Probles Inter. for the pos- Probles Inter. 3 o or ·, major league -chances , at a fu- and ·mwlng that overdone: There club ' an~· hardly a Ullery, one or the veteran .scout who hun't at one men ln the Halilax !IJIIlU!lJ. Id•i~r.·•Oithlet let the golden oppor-SEVEN. SOLDIERS IS PROUD ~BOAST OF ONE FAMII.Y Halifax N.C.O. Has Fout Sons in Army·~ Three · Brothers Want to be Pilots Halifax, Oct. 18 - Recruttl n~; records In Halifax reveal ' 'the gill'· ri.son of t!:!s historic 1\Caport hu$ 11 quota Qf "soldirr-fnm !lle.~" th <~ t wouJ.j be hard to beat anywhere In the Dominion. Topping them all Is the Merlin family, which has the proud dis- tinction or having seven proLhers In the servloes. Veteran of this brother combln- aUon Is Staff Sergeant J . w . Mrr- l:n, with 16 years in the Roynl Car.- adlan Army Pny Corps to his cred; t The other brothers Include Rlfle- mfln J. E. Merlin, Hallfal< Rille.>: .Gunner J . A. Merlln, Halifax Co.l;t Brigade, Royul Ca nudlan Artillery: Private G. Marlin, The Royal Can- adian R~giment. and Sapper R M'r run. P..oyal canadian Engineers In addition• two other brothers on· meinber.s of t~e Halifax Rifles nmi aie: ellglble for n~ tlve sen •lce \\'hen qallfd. four sons ser\'lng. by. France. They arc Ano rews, F. S. l\nd re~;,ws; 1 ~~;~;f~~~::~~¥r~ Andrews Of the Ro~· aJ Q~l;&UIDg Artillery and Private ~n 1\Ql~..- who Is fighting In the l'ftiiltlir~:but Manchester Regiment or the elll,eW.hel~e Ia! Army In France Another brother ·com enrolled ln the rank.~ Canadian 1\lr Force here. Earle, liownrd Rlld D<!IIIINI .. I MacKenzie ot Bridg~wa t er hope to see war serv:ce' pilots. They are son.~ or MacKenzie. Th ree of this sume fami il: first Great Wur ~<-lt h Forces in France e ' a~ommodatlon. Mr Smith he!;t sub-executive, can speak Cor the en- al!O that completion of this stretch tire Church, he explained. . , woUld open "another mining area. Very Rev. Dr. Peter Bnce. pa~t . bleb haS already proven Itself," Moderator of the United ~-lturchr ·:nd•.he named the Nipigon-Beard- will preside over Wednesda~ s se>- inore' road as "one of t.he most pi: ·· .slon. tnresQUe sections In t.he Province." Russell_ W. Treleaven, K.C., a · · Men Pn!fer camps member ol the ?burch's rxeculiv~ . An added ·ractor In the decision board since 192a, announced Ill to employ prisoners In the road Hamilton that he proposed Lo pru- · project h:IS b~n the clo.~lns down test agalnsL the manifesto In writ-· of the brlclt and tile Industry lit t.l:c tng. It did not express the opinlo11 ~co ·~rormatory because of u1e of the great majority or Unite'\ lack of ·market, and because t.ile Church ministers a_nd certainty no\ aovemment, due to the war, Is not the official atU tude or the Churctt. coa.Struetlng•:new buildings. ho asserted. . c:. P. Neelancls, Deputy Provincial ONTARIO TO USE seere~. -advlsed: "It has be;-n our, eicperlenee that the majority of t·he' prlaDDerll prefer the compna- tlve freedom' of a road camp, with rnNvlrrr LABOR , !:a~~~~~tlo~~n;~~~e?:~~g~~ c~~= lllJ lJ I 'tOiilal restrictions and lts grenler · comforts." , · FOR ROAD WORK fJiEV--'---HO-lET-PLANT Premier Hepburn An· . ·.RE-1 ny TO STRIKE nounces Three Campt ...... luJ . Will Be Eatablished Be-' ; .. , ... . ' tween Geraldton and ~P!~4 ; Per ·CenL Favor Ac- Hearat . ... · ~ion If Demands Not , - -Met Toronto. Oct. 24 .-Faccd • tt h. , ·~., __ _ the problem ol abnormn I tOngc,lt• lll • In the pr!s01• system. the Ontarin .':nlll!-, Ulch:. Oct. 24.-0ftlcials Government wilt lmmc<itl lrl·: n - of the Chevrolet local or the Cf\11- t;Bbllsh th ree camps hou<lni 100 sress o( 'Injl.u,trlal Organizations, men each, near Long Lac. on 1,1eo tJnl~ ,Automoblle Workers, ~ n­ projected line or the llll complr·t ecl ri~ a 93.ol per tent. member- 112-mlle section ol lhe Tran ' ·Cm - shiP v~te to authorize a strike i: ada Highway bcLween Gera!ctt o~ demand!> concerning the rehlr \ng and Hearst, Premier Hepbu1 n a 11. ' of .', ;.pprc)xlplately 2,000 rormcr nounced yestcl'dny. ~liS-.,~ not met by Geneml T!1e decl.~lon to empto;· 1., , on II(~ 9.orporatlon. labor On lhe highway COt!f. lt Uc tt Orl, . TDl'I'CJl Thotnpson, presldCIH O[ work was made only nftr r Ot:J w" ,thl\ ·l~al • .said 2,000 Chevrolet em - relused the Ontario Go1·ernwnt 'S plOf~ here had lost their senior - proposal to relieve conge;ttan b• ' I~ bic8u&e they were out of work eni:stlng In the arm)· 5GO 'hot/ ;t,or ..more than the 12-month period -term, prisoners. Hon . ll an_r :'ltxon, iUplil~ted !n the contract with the Prov.nclnl Secretary . rcrea l<·d t it ~t cgrpp,ratlon. He said the union hr, 821 Inmates of U1e spwficd Co · .1.,.· ·~·, that they be rehired before llca tlon . men convicted or tn:'s· ' aD)", Ib~w :e~loyees are put on the . Quartermaster Sergea nL A. E. An · drews o! \he Royal Canadian Ar· d emeanor.~. !·at her than cntnt.' It l.l ~II. ' · to volunteered for enli., tmrn! · ,:14 Mor.e "ttian 12,000 workers are em- that 623 had been rrcon~tn rn or~ b~' :plo~. \11 , Cht\'l'Olet'll Flint planL ~ . ,"-. .- ' & • • ' .. 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