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king albert of belgium dashed to death on rocks soldiermonarch falls over precipice during lonely climb- search party finds body ten hours later brussels feb is the broken body i albert king ot the belgians stmt tered in a fatal plunge from a roeky crag while mountain climbing lay in state tonight at laeken palace out side brussels while the world joined the nation in mourning the heroic leader beloved for his bravery in wartime and his neighbor ing with his subjects came to his tragic death in a lonely rocky ravine near the village of marche les dames so mil south ot the capital alone he went into the bills yesterday after noon for a few hours of his favorite sport never to return alive he was elt years old leopold accession leopold the crown prince immedi ately became king- he will take the oath of office within 24 hours alter the funeral services thursday he is 33 queen elizabeth took the shock stoically when word was telephoned of the accident during the night word of the tragedy came from the kings footman who drove with the monarch to the hills through which al bert frequently roamed th man dis traught when the king failed to reach an inn at the village of marche les dames went in search of his master failing to find him the servant hur ried back to the hotel and urgently telephoned the palate in brussels for aid the rescue parly reported they came across the lody and gazed in horror at the mutilated form blood trailed co feet down the rocks where he had pluuged apparently clutching in vain for a foothold the king had visited marche les dames every 1- weeks for the last six months climbed a perilous peak known the chimney on his last visit remarked it was too easy and attempt ed a more difficult rock face in his iinal fatal climb saturday the government decreed one month of official mourning during which all flags will be flown at half mast ofb- cial ceremonies were cancelled wo and as ik- all government officials will wear signs of mourning official report an official inquiry reported that the king climbed a peak and apparently was leaningoil a large stone which he presumed safe when it gave way the king lost his balance and fell to a ledge which blood stains showed to he the spot where he died the body bounced off the ledge and fell another 150 feet leaving a tragic trail of his spectacles cap knapsack and belt the body crashed at the foot of a rock hill called calvaire du grand bon dieu the natives said the rocks there crumble after extreme cold and previously had warned the king of danger in climbing that vicinity the search party immediately sent word of the tragedy to the queen the cabinet held an extraordinary ses sion the government will continue to function until after the funeral man of 60 slays brother sister thea5h66tshimself to death before police can enter house wife son escape st thomas feb is joseph philp on shot and killed his brother her bert 55 and his sister miss florence fillip 5s and then shot himself to deatli at their farm home in sparta saturday before killing himself philp waited with the shotgun for his wife and son donald who had gone to london when they iftiirned they were con fronted iu the hnuse by the man and they shouted lor him not to shoot flee- in- o a neighbors by jumping out a parlor window they called for medi cal d and police the mother and son ran to the home of roy harvey about 100 persons gut tiered later in the neighborhood ot the philp home but they were unable to enter and waited until police ar rived a tew or the crowd got near enough to see philp reading and de clared he had his gun nearby philp police said had been suffer ing mental derangement for some time accentuated it is believed by a series of fires on his farm for several years the officers said he had labored under the impression his brother and sister were attempting to acquire the farm fom him although the brother anil sister were not seriously alarmed ot threats to shoot them v they had locked nil fire arms in the garage more money spent in january 1934 than in january 1933 consumers in the united states planned not only o spend more money in january than they did a year ago in that month but also indicated that thi- expanded purchasing power would to toward higher quality merchandise than was bought last year it was re- veaed in a survey on consumer re quirements in four major markets nov york philadelphia pittsburgh and milwaukee conducted by david houser associates research organiza tion in all 10001 personal interviews were made which represented the opin ions of more than 7000000 house wives who they figured spent 82 per cent of all the money going into re tail channels while the survey dis closed that the consumer was willing to pay higher prices than she did a year ago it also showed that these prices fell largely into the moderate and inexpensive price levels it also announced that the much heraldod renaissance of home dress making is not apparent in the current demand for yard goods the survey disclosing that 25 per cent of those interviewed planned to make such pur chases but 10 per cent of the house wives in the four cities it was brought out made wearing apparel at home in new york 15 per cent of the consumers said they planned to buy carpets and rugs this month and 52 per cent of this number indicated an interest in oriental rugs of the 10 ir cent who said they would buy furniture 10 per cent declared it might be modern furniture just 55 per cent of thoso seen declared they voulr buy underwear 56 per cent dresses- 24 per cent bedspreads 17 per cent fur and cloth coats nine per cent mens overcoats and 13 per cent draperies royalty honors dame ethel smyth the queen will attend the presentation of the distin guished woman com posers works at albert hall london queen mary has promised to attend the presentation of dame ethel smyths works which is to be given at albert hall march 3 in honor of the composers 75th birth day in view of this mark ot royal favor there is some lively speculation as to whether dame ethel smyths march of the women which the composer herself is announced to conduct will remain in the program militant suffragette dame smyth was prominent in the days of the militant suffragist move ment the march was composed as a battle song for the militants and there is a story that when dame smyth wa imprisoned in holloway gaol she conducted a performance of the march by a band of women out side the walls by beating time with a toothbrush through the barred win dow of her cell born too soon at 75 years of age dame smyth in appearance at least is one of the youngest figures in contemporary english music i was born 50 years too soon she declares in allusion to the fact that her works havo only been recognized within the last few years her most notable work the mass in d which will be presented at the birthday conceit had an initial ap pearance as long ago as 1s93 and then had to wait 11 years for a sec- oud rendering hunsley gets seven years pleads guilty to firing of barn dereham township woodstock seven years imprison ment was the penalty passed on har old hunsley dereham township for firing the barn on the farm of fred pettman hunsley was arrested after he had been threatened with manhandling by a- crowd of enraged farmors who gathered to extinguish tho blaze in pettmans barn ho was charged with arson following further iuvesti gatlon by pollco in connection with the pettman blaze and two other barn fires he pleadod guilty to the first charge and the others were not pressed fire in north bay store causes 10000 damage north pay approximately 10000 damage resulted from the recent fire in tho basement of harry mulligans mens wear store smoke and water were responsible for tho biggest part of the loss although three was con slderable damage done to the base ment ohearns brokerage office and oinys mens wear store so suf fered damage from smoke toronto has deficit toronto torontos estimated maxi mum deficit for 1013 will bo 057000 according to the report presented to the board of control by mr george wilson finance commissioner this amount will bo absorbed in the tax rate making an approximate differ ence of one mill in the rate last year the deficit was j1i5s000 king albert i courtesy of mail and empire ontario to honor memory of king memorial service for belgian sovereign likely at chatham toronto feb 19 a memorial ser vice for the late king of the belgians would undoubtedly be held in all like lihood in chatham centre of the largest belgian settlement in ontario in the belief of charles rochereau de la sahliere consular agent for bel gium at toronto he assumed he would be delegated to make arrangements for the service but at a late hour last night had re ceived neither notification of the deatli nor any instructions from the montreal office of the belgian consul ategeneral tho memorial service if directed would probably be held in chatham rather than toronto since lie explained nearly all of the bel gians in ontario resided near chat ham and other parts of essex county while there were only 25 or 30 bel gians iu the toronto district italy reconditioning heavy battle fleet homo italy lias started moderniz iug its heavy battle fleet it was learn ed last week to bring the navy into what italian experts consider a posi tion of not excessive inferiority compared to other navies work has already started on the lattleships giulio cesare and conte di cavour each of 21500 tons and will be started soon on the andre doria and the duhio of 22700 tons each the four compriso italys heavy battleship fleet subject bo modern ization all have been in reserve since retirement from active service in august 1032 the giulio cesare ivas commissioned in 1913 and the ithers in 1915 scotland takes less canadian eggs the production of oggs in scotland according to statistics of the depart ment of agriculture for scotland has greatly increased in recent years but a largo proportion of the require ments of the industrial population is still obtained from abroad from time to time changes occur in the sources of overseas supplies irish and danish eggs have been popular in glasgow for many years and more recently polish and belgian eggs have come into favour but canadian dutch and swedish supplies have fallen off during 1932 australian eggs were quoted for four months only while chinese and egyptian eggs ere tcarceu- considerable wests way to raise funds for hospital regiua sweepstakes may provide irish free state hospitals with money but in vanguard sask jack rabbits do the trick tho town btaged the biggest rabbit drive in its history re cently cornering the animals in a sandpit and then shooting them the bunnies will bo sold and the pro ceeds handed over to vanguard hos pltal returns home after 3 months in hospital cameron bay nwt feb 18 after three months in hospital at ak- lavik under the care of dr j a urquhart vic ingraham captain of the illfated gas boat speed which exploded and sank while crossing great bear lake on oct 20 arrived at his home here friday in a canadian airways plane piloted by con farrell ingraham is still walking about on crutches and as soon as he has recov ered sufficiently will go outside for a vacation he stated he received serious injuries to both feejfrom frost bite when he escaped from the blazing boat two men were burned to death and ingraham was the most s injured of the seven survivors he was rushed by airplane to aklavik for an operation blast destroys boat vancouver feb is the 33ft seine fishing boat mary island was destroy ed by fire and explosion yesterday in the strait of georgia off point ro berts south of here the two men aboard at the time escaped uninjur ed in the dinghy and landed at point roberts less than 25 per cent of drivers are women while the percentage of women drivers is steadily increasing more than 75 per cent of the women in the carowning group are members of the backseat club acording to informa tion obtained by oldsmobile f rom var ious state motor vehicle officials who made a check of the driving licenses which they have issued for example a h vey traffic en gineer for the new jersey motor ve hicle department reports that 223 per cent of those having drivers li censes in new jersey are women- michael a connor commissioner of motor vehicles for connecticut states that in 1932 there were 329856 men drivers and 77877 women drivers this gives a little over 23 per cent women drivers the latest figures obtainable from w w matthews director of the di vision of safety of pennsylvania showed that approximately 24 per cent of the operators licensed to drive were women morgan ryan register of motor vehicle- for massachusetts estimates that 200000 out of 1000- 000 licensed operators are women giv ing 20 per cent what does your handwriting show by geoffrey st clair handwriting analysis to be accur ate and helpful to the writer must be based on lengthy research and a painstaking regard for basic values i am repeatedly asked if thero is anything magical about character reading from handwriting so i am taking this opportunity of again stress ing that when i make an analysis of a sample of handwriting i am not liter ally taking a rabbit out of your best hat it may seem to the lay person that for a graphoanalysl to give what turns out to he an accurate analysis from handwriting is to perform a re gular magicians trick a sort of hou- dini cum maskelyne cum thurston de vice nothing could bo further from the truth it is simply a scientific evalua tion of tho indications revealed to the practiced graphoanalystlc eye by tho handwriting sample when you go to a doctor and he tells yon that you havo a certain organic ailmont you do not imbue him mentally as a magi cian you know that his medical edu cation his training his research and his practice havo all coalesced into an ability to diagnose ailments he himself will not regard himself as in fallible ho may quite possibly call in extramedical advice from his con freres and even if as on occasion doctors do he makes a mistake you do not stigmatise medical men as quacks be- causo doctors have not yet found a euro for cancer you do not hesitate to go to a medical man when you are suf fering pain or feel that you have some physical disarrangement grahpoanalysis like medlcino and surgery is still searching for hidden truths about its own science it is making tremendous and rapid trldcs but do not damn it because sometime in the pajt you have been dissatisfied with one particular members analy sis i have been asked of what practical value is it to people to have their handwriting analysed as well might one ask what use is it to a salesman to learn how to become a belter sales man or a business man to know more about his business or a nurse to gain a better understanding of and more tolerant sympathy with her patients for as all these are sensible sug gestions so is it just as essential for you to know yourself grapho-analy- sis shows you not only your general characteristics but hidden tendencies that may burst into characteristics at any time it shows you where are your faults and thereby gives you a clianc to cor rect them and it always tits a per son on the path to greater personal understanding and enables one to get more from others e c there is a frank generous and sympathetic nature revealed one who longs for affection but is sensi tive to praise or blame with a strong desire for intellectual companionship and with a love of tho beautiful iu na ture or art t a your writing shows that you have an enquiring turn of mind you wish to got at the bottom of things hut you are inclined to be a llttlo for getful about those things in which you aro interested and to slight them a w you have a material nature and ari likely to consider your own interest at all times before respond ing to appeals for help you aro not inherently generous do not let this tendency develop into tightness or meanness readers of this newspaper are in vited to send samples of their hand writing to the author for a character analysis send as long a letter as possible and write your usual script address your letters to geoffrey st clair room 471 73 adelaide st w of course are confidential toronto and enclose 10 cents and a stamped addressed envelope letters world mourns j voice of the press death of king caa r just making sounds death of albert kinof the bigiail j j great britain 0 t didnt know what they wen from great britain king george repeating every morning one of lb and queen mary sent the following commonest mistakes was in the see message to kiug leopold 111 ond clause which several wrote as it is with the most profound sor- harold be thy name another to row that i and my people have learned ronto school teacher had been tellln of the tragic death of your illustrious a fairy story beginning with the usual father and i hasten to offer our heart- once upon a time when she askec felt sympathy to you and the people for a synopsis sh was surprised t of belgium tho british empire can never for get the heroic figure whose courage was an inspiration to the allies throughout the dark years of the war and will join with the belgian people in mourning the less of a true friend and ally iu addition the king and queen also sent leopold a private message which was not made public the united states president roosevelt sent this mess age to queen klizaheth i am shocked beyond expression to learn of the untimely death of his ma jesty the king the government and people of the united states condole with your majesty the loss of a ruler so universally beloved and whose energy and wisdom was so devoted to the ideal of peace and justice among the nations of the world germany president paul von hltidenburg tele graphed queen klizaheth i am shocked at the news of the sudden deatli of his majesty the king of the belgians 1 beg you to accept my most profound sympathy italy king victor emmanuel and queen ilelene telegraphed condolences to the belgian royal family today deep grief permeated tho entire i royal family here the king and i find ore girl beginning her story witi one pound of lino there was fergus newsrecord no teachers pets children of a winnipeg school held a pot show but none of tho teach ers variety were exhibited winni peg free press beauty and business thanks to the admirable concert ot womankind for their persona beauty canada has one indtistrj which has flourished even when everj other was going to ruin the rnanu facturers of beauty preparations id canada had a production of j3s7354c iu 1929 in 1932 it reached j4771 09s which represents an expansion o 20 per cent approximately right in the period ot general depression thla industry has a very ultililarian side to it it employs many hands and distributes a million dollars a year id salaries la patrie montreal from the same place seeing a pretty girl is as good as a touic says an enthusiast and sometimes they are made up at the same druggists reglna leaderpost canadas place we are interested to see the sug gestion iu a london evening news paper that the westminster citj queen were informed of alberts death j council should give to the island site at 7 am the king immediately or- on which canada house and the dm dered the royal train to be prepared sun life of canada building standi for a trip to brussels simultaneous- the name of canada place iy he cancelled all royal engagements court mourning for 30 days was or dered and flags flown at half mast premier benito mussolini sent con dolences news of king alberts death an official communique said was officially communicated throughout the king- years ago canada suggested thai the short length of cockspur streel might be advantageously changed tt canada street as it contains the offices on the south side of the can adian national railways and the 1m perial life of canada and on the north side the great block of the lorn officials of all villages towns sun life of canada adjoining canada and cities were instructed to join in house mourning for the house of savoy which lost a relative through princess marie jose the markets co produce prices united farmers cooperative saturday were paying the following prices for produce at toronto eggs prices to farmers cases re turned fresh extras 35c fresh firsts 33c pullets 29c and seconds 27c butter ontario creamery solids no 1 26 yi to 26 c no 2 26c poultry a grade alive spring chickens over 6 lbs lie over 5 to 6 lbs 10c over 4 to 5 lbs 9c over 2 to lbs 8c broilers over iu to 2 lbs 10c fatted hens over 5 lbs lie over 4 to 5 lbs 10c over 3 to 4 lbs 8c old roosters over 5 lbs 7c white ducklings over 5 lbs 12c do 4 to 5 lbs lie guinea fowl per pair 75c pojltry a grade dressed spring chickens over 6 lbs 16c over 5 to g lbs lac over 4 to 5 lbs 13c over 2 to 1 lbs 12c broilers over ivi to 2 lbs 15c fatted hens over lbs 13c over 4 to 5 lbs 12c over 3 to 4 lbs 10c old roosters over 5 lbs 10c white ducklings over 5 lbs 14c do 1 to 5 lbs 13c young turkevs over 8 lbs 17c b grade poultry 2c lb less than a grade c grade 2c lb less than b wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to to ronto retail dealers pork hams 20mic shoulders 16c butts 174c pork loins 20ic pic nics 15cj lard pure tierces 10c tubs lie pails hv4c prints hv4c shortening tierces 9c tubs 10c pails lie prints lohc livestock quotations steers up to 1050 lbs good and choice 475 to 525 do med 425 to 475 do com 325 to 425 steers over 1050 lbs good and choice 550 to 625 do mod 5 to 525 do com 425 to 475 heifers good and choice 475 to 525 do med 425 to 475 do com 325 to 425 fed calves good and choice 675 to 725 do med 5 to 650 cows good 350 to 4 do med 3 to 325 do com 225 to 275 can- ners nnd cutters 1 to 2 bulls good 3 to 350 do com 225 to 275 stockcrs and feeder steers good 4 to 450 docom 325 to 375 milkers and springers 30 to 55 calves good and choice veals 9 to 950 do com and med 5 to 850 grassers 250 to 3 hogs bacon fob 865 do off trucks 9 do off cars 940 good ewes and wether lambs 8 do med 750 to 775 do bucks 6 to 750 do culls 350 to 7 sheep good light 4 to 450 do heavies 250 to 350 do culls 160 to 223 possibly our contemporarys sugges tion might be more acceptable to the westminster authorities because li would not do away with the old streel names but would merely give a new postal direction to the few buildings on the island side which consists onlj of the white star line sun life ol canada canada house and the royal college of physicians we can warmlj commend the suggestion to the west minster city council canada london living in the present halifax harbor has had an excel lent year with tonnage considerably larger than 1932 and 1931 the east ern port now is among the keenesl bidders for ocean traffic and has qutl dwelling upon the great days of iti building and sailing of wooden ships toronto globe cheap licenses for old cars an innovation by the provincial government in issuing cheap licenses to aged and more or less decrepil trucks and cars may not prove an un mixed blessing owners of old cars presumably aro not affluent giving them a ten dollar license will win their approval but careful inspeo tion of aged vehicles should precede tho granting of a permit to operate them on the public highway unlesi government officials are satisfied they aro roadworthy that they are not potential menaces to other traffic the experiment is apt to result un happily edmonton journal protect art treasures tho fire at ottawa in which a large number of valuable classical paintings wero destroyed in a private house cails attention to the necessity ol protection from lire for art treasures of every description tho national gallery at ottawa is no exception to this rule and needs attention there will bo sympathy for mr john gleeson hamilton herald changing time a recent item ot news from great britain drew attention to the fact that an old family had been forced by the pressure of a changing world to give up an estate on which for 28 gener ations it had mado its home it was the grosley family one of the last families to remain in poiaesslon of an estato granted in the time of william the conqueror hero is a family which has seen britain develop from a feudal king dom to an industrial democracy haa seon ruling dynasties come and go and it had itself remained unchanged but now tho end has come economic conditions have forced the family to put the estate up for sale it haa been bought according to tho news cable by a real estato firm for spec ulative purposes changing times and business de- young men too lazy so new york emnloys only those over 30 new york fell is the new york i department of sanitation hereafter pression have cut wide swaths in will hire only unemployed men over wna is familiarly known as britains 30 years od to take the snow off city aristocracy the breaking of the streets gordon c poole doputy gresley tie with feudal days is a commissioner of sanitation oxplain- symbol of the shift which that arls- ed today that he found younger men tocracy 13 undergoing victoria too lazy and inefficient times