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Be Felipe or and women when wheat crash- {been advanced 40 cents a bar cents 'on Thursday, wiping | if these advances are sustained fortunes by the hundreds. | be 'advanced another. dollar. oot a the most spectacular condition| A later despatch from Winnipeg ever witnessed on the local market, says:--The wheat market was muc ahd the victims were almost wholly; people who are not engaged in the pe other than many who have been taking a fling making easy money out of the ir rise in the option market. And it was as sudden as it was un- expected, following the steady ad- vances since harvest, but the dealers advanced their margin charge to 26 steadier on Friday, and a'though the 'range in prices was about four cents, the session was a rather quiet affair, | in contrast to the past few days, Fol-| lowing the opening, which was 1 cent to 2 cents higher, a fair demand came out, and prices worked higher, only to meet with further setbacks when the buying demand became satisfied. At the close, which was fairly strong, cents in the hope of discouraging fur-| all three futures showed good gains, ther speculation on the part of the May improving 2% cents, July 1% speculators. No shoestring options | cents, and October 2% cents. are now possible, and as a further precaution all houses refuse to guar- antes stop loss orders, for they can- not be executed fast enough. Millers and exporters were in the markt early for a fair amount of wheat, but when the May touched a low of $2.183%, beth these interests -- At the the opening thousands of | caste Pack into the market strong, and orders given the day before and thou-| prices gradually worked to $2.18, the sands of wires had not been delivered. | high point of the day, only to weaken It was a physical impossibjlity. One|1% cents before the close. man who saw a fortune built up on a| Barley and oats were very strong, shoestring disappearing on the drop the former advancing as much as 8% unless he provided more margins, col- cents at the close. 'when he discovered his inabil-| At ne time was the market weak, ty to protect his paper fortune, which there being a little pressure in evi- meant $25,000 since Monday. In spite dence from the short side, and "longs" of the danger signals and the drop,/ that went out on stopless orders on the small hamlets over the prairies Thursday were reinstating their lines and Ontario simply swamped dealers on Friday. Trade volume was not ex- with further orders to buy. Appar-| ceptionally large Directions: Each square in this puzzle represents one letter only. The 'frst 'Horizons tal word begins {n the square numbered "1," the second horizontal word in "5" and the third vertical word in "2" and so on. that is if you correctly fill "I" and "5" horizontal, the second letters of each will prove.right for the start of "2" and "6" vertical' 'Horizontal and ver- ticals are thus a check on one another and you may write in a word that bas the right number of letters and the right meaning yet And that it does not Mon "key" within the words going In the other directions. 'Then you must find another word that does. For this reason it is well to do all the first work lightly in pencil. There will be another pussle next week. Also the answer to ently plenty are to be found to take the places of those who lost all on the decline. The business of buying and exporting actual grain has been par. CENTRAL BOARD TO OVERSEE DRUG TRADE| Nations Will App Appoint Opium Controllers, Final Decision by League A despatch from Geneva says:-- The Central Board of Control of the drug traffic, provided for in the Am- erican opium plan, and which has been repeatedly mutilated in past days, was pieced together Friday afternoon and adopted in the subcom- mittee in something near its original form. The most important difficulty over- come in connection with the board was the settlement of the problem of se- lection of the members. It is hoped that these difficulties have been entirely overcome by the | of Lord Ceéil, which was adopted Friday afternoon. Lord Cecil proposed that the Central Board be chosen by France," Great Britain, Outside news continued bullish, a large export business being reported overnight from the Argentine, Aus- "tralia and India. | WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS STRIKES WEST Snowdrifts Piled Up Twenty Feet High, Delaying Trans- portation. Winnipeg, Feb. 1.--The worst bliz- zard in many years roared across the western prairies Friday night, piling snowdrifts 10 to 20 feet high in some places and causing great hardship to Hive riock. The temperatures ranged from 8 to 30 below zero in the storm- Swept area. Railway transportation throvighou: the West was seriously delayed, de- spite the fact that all available snow clearing apparatus was thrown into service, In Winnipeg the storm raged with great fury and street-car traffic 'was disorganized for| the greater por- tion o" the night. "Lines to the su'- urban districts were completely *led up, and not until late to-day had nor- mal sorvice been restored. you can see if your solution was correct--The Editor, HORIZONTAL 1=--A country of Europe 8A country of Asia 10--A short poem 18--Moved swiftly 14--Near 16--A Turk 19--Upon 20--A, compound of atoms with electrons 22--A title used in India 23---Con junction 24--A weaving machine 26--Prefix meaning opposed to 27--A garden Implement 28--An organ of the body (pl.) 29--An Australian bird 30--Possess $2--Below 84--A farce 36--Pegs 88--Portion of a surface 40--Reply (abbr.) 41--Portlons 44--The sun 48---Amidst 46--Scolded A8--Part of Bible (abbr.) /49--Part of the body 850A color 82--Hogs (male) Ba pit (musle) VERTICAL 2--Toward 8--Bustle 4--Allows 6--Native of North Africa 7--Cooking utensil 8--Article 9--Cries 11--Bohemia (abbr.) 13--A country of Asla 18--LIkewlse . 17--To gain possession 18--Possessive pronoun 19--A division of Camada (abbr) 21--Natives of Normandy (pl.) 23--Response (pl) 25--Abuses 26--Odor 81--European country 83--Have on 84--A glove 86--A« Mediterranean Island 87--Tavern 39--Eternity 41--8orutinize 424A plece of cloth 48--To wither 46--A large serpent 47--Lalr 40--Toward 81--Perform '| 106,341 bushels, and All words must interlock-- | gg treal. ge ag py ve prin: ng--wi barley, Berend rye--at the head of the Lakes during 1924 totalled 280,-| pments. sa 889,004 bushels, according to a 20,000 \ ment issued by the statistician of the delivered by the end of | The Week's yi TORONTO. Man, wheat--No. 1 Nosh, $2.33% aon: Ned Shoat $2 oe Nes t, a fs No'2 a A %,3 (fo sil ly bag, ' ¢; extra No. ] y of per No. 1 feed, 72¢; No. 0 foul 000, say lots; $1.05. 10. $110 : All the above c.f. bay ports. oA Cannors Am. :, track, Toronto--No. yellow, $1. Millfeed--Del. Montreal i Hh 4 . b "increasing success. Dur- nths ding Novem- | with 'butter, 8 was sapesa and cream. bags included: Bran, per of butter for outside shouts, per fon, $38; middlin sed flour, per ba Y 088 i pounds the ast twelve months, A as nst 12,985, pounds a year TO oot This butter, than whieh, 4 5 _ 5 | ter is made, was supplied to fwent each countries. The ES to $1.76; No. 8 Nitar, $1.69 to $1. - HES No. 1 commerolal $1.68 OL Tob. : ; Es points, ini) to freights. AntiToxin Cannot arley. alting, 90 to 94ec. kwheat--No. 2; 86 to 90c. i. 2, $1.36 to $1.48. flour, first pat. $11.40, To- ronto, do, second .pat., $10 Toronto. Ont. flour--90 per cent. pat, now-} inal, in bags, Montreal or Toronto; do, | _-- wR iran is tak i Rows Bal, sof often per ton i i serious here on account of the lack of Toronto, $14.60; No. 8, $12.50. anti-toxin, But a supply is on contributed 21,676, Italy, Japan, the United States, Ger-| Extremely cold weather prevails SL id Pow many and the six non-permanent na-| over the entire northern territory of Canadien Wheat Prices Isix WOLVES SHOT AT Straw--Carlots, per tom, kom, 10 Fouts: Thrve Jundred Shougands yo EE tions sitting in the Council of the | the western provinces, the mercury On Increase in England| THE END OF 1 THE STEEL |,». Sercentnigs---Stisdur ps : Thiiradey oe "In the above Loagas, the delegates % be Aphoimied having dropped to 50 below zero at Cheese-- 4 i as a large, 28 81a ow a distance of 800 miles. ~ vy overnments. Each signa several poin A despatch from London says:-- 22%¢; er triplets, 93; Hiltons, Bde. 1d, teams sta: from bot! of the convention 'has' thé right to RA Keen continental 'demand 'has toreed] Bounty. of $18 Por Animal large, 24 to. 25¢; 25 to 26¢; trip: | ends. an" Tin Nom hs gd vost! are nominate one expert. up the price of wheat in England and! ood o lets, 26 to 27c. out, Leonard Seppa all-Alaska of Sond the upward movement stili continues. for Hunters. In explanation to the. Dutch and) Hostility Against Jugo-Slavia'| Buttér---Finest croame Tomer Pammdt S reserva. All classes of wheat are affected.| Swiss delegates, who made a bo 88c; No. 1 creamery, 34 t8 36¢; No. tion, as they have no assurance of Gover ent on Incr Seventy-eight shillings per quarter, wolf story, brought into town from os--Fresh extras, in cartons, 67 ind bi | being among the non-permanent mem-| ris, Feb. 1.--Concentration camps| for. instance, is now quoted for No. '| the present end of the steel on the T.|to 6 Res loose, 65c; storage, extrag in| team in the vicinity of | 116,982,600 bers 'of the Council, Lord Oecll sald' ¢ 4", the Jugo-Slav Government} Northern Manitoba. The increase is/& N. O. James Bay Branch, 70 miles cartons, 58 to 60c; loose, 56 to B7c;| trace his track post haste with the Roda in 1928 to 120,116,200 pounds Germany was named specifically be-| | oy o7 1 001 the arrested members| MOSt notable, however, in the price of north of this place. firets, 54 to 5b; Hoyo sec serum. ¥ : lin 1924, cause he hoped it soon would be a| ¢%p "ci tian Peasant party ruard. | Australian wheat, the price of which| K. Massere and W. McDonald, two nin 47 to dsc. The weather is mild, ranging from| "The United States takes practically menor of the league, with 4 fot 1) by Serbian soldiers, have increased 1-day advanced a shilling to 70 shil.| trappers, who run a line 35 miles long] , Live poultry Hens, over § Ibs. 2163 | sara to 20 below. -There has been lit-| our entire exports snot h| the discon : | lings per quarter. Argentiné wheat|from New Post to Smoky Falls, had vl ; - tariff. he said, it was named by virtue of ite, 10 CUCHeRE OF, the Popuice andl guanced a shilling and three pence|w brash with timber wolves the other we Ene sig, EL wnt 0 the en mber, particular position, and be added the permitted to be taken, against the !0 72 Shillings a quarter. The great day which made them possessors of |18¢. =» United States was one of 'the nations, present Government. size of the Argentine wheat accounts| six fine skins, none of which measured tensed po Hens, over 5 Ibs., mentioned in the Covenant of the P Hostility in Zagreb to the Belgrade for its cheapness compared to the|less than 6 feet 6 Inches. 23c;. do, 4 Ly bs., 22¢; 8 to 4 League. | Govrament has grown almost to the Canadian and other varieties. As dusk was falling the trappers Is. Aso spring Mo AR 2'1b Say 8 Pa ITI surprised a dozen wolves feasting on roosters, ; ducklin | point i Trotsky's Former Post | pols, of peti. wD Pos. Fishermen at Mercy of a moose they had cut out of a herd. Tht "hens oy be o%es Taken by Ge General Frunse Radich, chief of the Croatian Peas- | Atlantic Storm Four Days| The animals were. so busily engaged 2 d | ants Party, for treason, in Zagreb, b : in gorging themselves that onged Prine a ea uh E550 Fairbanks A despatch from Paris says: -- | now has decided to transfer the rial Halifax, N.S., Feb. 1.--Two Rhode| 80d Massere were able to approach|gal, $2.40; per Sql 30. per an General M. W. Frunse, who has been | to Belgrade, which has made the dis-| Island fishermen were landed here to-| Sufficiently close to reduce their num-|&al:; maple & dg : : oney--60-1b, tins Tse gh pind tor th ts, 13%; 5 5-lb. tine, 1de; 2% % : months'; period 717,576 pounds of grands aa Prim - ad = The 'amount weggstakse. Latin divine twenty | from ee Cochrane, Feb: 1,--Here is a true 2, seid to 84c. Dairy prints, 26 to 280. | Siberian X 'the period, also, our gondii . it to i appointed to Trotzky's former post as' content still more violent. day by the Newfoundland schooner ber by half. Commissary for the Army and Navy,! Faustine, which picked them up from 'With the bounty at $15 per antinal 3 "tins; 18% to 16 is one of the Red Army's most suc- --_--r | 8 50-foot motor boat last Wednesday, | the trappers figure they had a good cessful leaders at the front. He is a! {J.S. Government Levies after they had been tossed about at|d8y's work. 26c; cooked od ham, Ey to on Moldavian of mixed Russion and Rou- rol manian descent, and 16 of the as 1, t; He vesembles Nicholas II bby Toc eid? that he is stronger in appear-| A despatch from New York says: -- ance. What was declared the largest assess-| axpedition General Frunse is an old Bolshevik,| ment ever levied by the United States, blown out to sea. The having been an active revolutionist. Government against an individual for, carrying a liquor cargo to since 1004, when he was a 28-year-old nofi-payment of income taxes was filed| and came into Haltfax student in Petrograd. In 1907 he was|in Federal Court on Friday against haying been da to Siberia for revolution-| Emanuel H. Kessler, ex-king of thej = the / of an Atlantic storm f ---- Largest Assessment | four days. - = ae | Night Work For Their boat became disabled, they tated; while they were on a fishing off-shore and they were| Figures issued for ged in @ storm. High bidden for Women Each, once, 25 to Tove - -- 4% dieu lice of the Agu tional 5 he: LER $50 Pierre, !s rteen na ns have rat. rolls, in Th repairs, fied the convention prohibiting the igh work of wom n and minors, name of served in line of ultaneously work: 54 op edi bootleggers, against whom a claim; fi was entered for $7,448,673.24. A sim- Tar claim for $91,187.18 was entered ' against Robert P. Brindell, picoled former Labor leader, who fages eral trialsthis spring on 'the charge % falsifyir fncope tax) returns, ¢