The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

commentary on the highlights of the weeks news- by peter randal reindeer trek ends the famous reindeer drive across the northern tundras from alaska to the mackenzie delta is now bearing an end andy bahr and his gallant band of herders expect to complete the 200cmile journey this fall and hand over to the eskimos in the delta region a permanent meat supply in one of the four years since the trek got under way the herd advanced only 00 miles since in winter progress was delayed by wolves blizzards and treacherous ico conditions in sum mer by maddening insects at the final roundup the reindeer will he driven into a huge corral and count ed it is expected the total will reach 6000 in the annals of canadian his tory the reindeer trek provides a ro mantic and enthralling page new trends in education in an address before the canadian institute of economics and politics convention meeting on lake couch- iching dr duncan mcarthur on tario deputy minister of education paid that the development of the on tario system of education had been liko building the middlo storey of a house before the foundation in pion eer days the first schools to be estab lished had as their purpose the prep aration of the children of the wealthy for law and the church later com mon schools were introduced he said for the benefit of farmers and fron tiersmen followed by the public schools but none of these schools functioned with a view to preparing their students for later life the aim of the new education now is dr mc arthur declared to fit pupils for life and towards that end changes are be ing made in the present ontario sys tem for example in the teaching of the french language less stress will be laid on learning the dry structure of the grammar instead pupils will be taught a conversational use of french so that they may learn to peak it as an actual living language crisis in alberta premier aberhart rode into the headship of the government of al berta on the crest of a strong wave of popular feeling he was the great hope of the people who hailed him as deliverer from the sad state into wliich provincial affairs had slipped the eyes of the world too were on him and the social credit gospel but opposition camo from many quarters so that to accomplish what he set out to do he had practically to declare a dictatorship now a constitutional struggle of tho first magnitude is gcng on in alberta following tho introduction of the gov ernments bill to license bankers op- crating in the provinco and control some of their activities a provincial credit commission is being named to undertake the control measures the control issue may go to the courts authoritative sources say and tho dominion government may step in to protect the citizens of alberta from losing rights they possess in common with citizens of other prov inces another piece of legislation in troduced this week proposes to close the courts of alberta to any action in volving a constitutional test of al berta statutes then only by a license granted by the aberhart government could the courts of the province pass on the constitutionality of a provin cial law such legislation is looked upon by some as clashing with the british north america act premier lays new bank of canada cornerstone in brie ief recall early days of telephone brantford six pioneers in oral communication associated with alexander graham bell in this dis trict in 1876 when he made improve ments on the newlyinvented tele phone visited the district this week and recalled experiments of half a century ago the visit was part of brantfords old home week celebra tion the men met at the bell memorial and toured scenes of the first tele- phono business office in canada the bell homestead where bell con ducted his experiments and the site of tho worlds first telephone fac tory then the workshop of j 11 and thomas cowherd has been happily delivered of four goodly children i john clark town crier call upon this town to rejoice at these fourfold blessings god save tho king but a few hours later two of the tots died davia and adrien the mother was reported recovering mrs lingwood is a daughter of charles carter home steward of dorothy paget famous woman horsetraine and daughter of lord queensborjugh mrs lingwood is 2c her husband 35 one of the two living children was reported lively but the other not quite so well- france recovering following the fall of blums popu lar front government in france this summer a great many things could have happened a gory revolution might have occurred with the country swinging over to fascism violence however was avoided and according to the new premier camille chau- temps a profound social transforma tion carried out quietly chautemps less of a real socialist than blum declares that france has now over come the initial obstacles on the road to economic recovery and is able to embark on a program designed to in crease production rt hon w l mackenzie king is here seen trowel in hand as he well and truly laid the cornerstone of the new bank of canada building in ottawa to the right is graham f towers governor of the bank lindbergh continues scientific work calais france colonel chas a- lindbergh in a surprise flight from england came to france again for his third visit in five weeks to dr alexis carrel his collaborator in the invention of the artificial heart the flier maintained his usual silence but villagers said the par were working on another very im portant invention kept closely se cret at st gildas island dr carrels home nineteen lose lives in tenement collapse may ask apology from jose iturbi drought in england in some sections of england dart moor for instance if it doesnt rain for three days local farmers begin worrying over the drought but this year when no rain fell on the entire island for two weeks it was a matter of general concern the british de partment of agriculture ran up offi cial drought signals in many parts of the country and newspapers this week featured drought news as front page stories new york weary searchers and official investigators are focus sing their attention on the debris of the staten island tenement building in which at least nineteen persons lost their lives this week five were injured and in hospitals two were possibly missing and were sought in the wreckage of the struc ture which collapsed after flood waters undermined its foundations fallen bricks and splintered wood still filled the deep cellars under the 40yearold building that housed eight families and went down in the rush ing stream flowing down the narrow cobbled street after a thunder show er- in eice county alone two lose lives in highway crashes death confined its weekend harvest of tragedies in ontario to three fatal ities two ii essex county an 11yearold chicago boy thomas brrke was killed and eight other per sons including his parents were in jured when two united states cars collided near leamington they hit headon at a highway turn known locill as dead mans corner at windsor alcido garant aged 53 was run over b an auto and fatally injured james j hands former mayor of perth was found drowned in a bath tub at bis borne chicaso lad killed leamington elevenyear old thomas burke son of mr and mrs patrick burke s311 south queen st chicago was killed and eight other persons including his parents injured during the weekend when two united states automobiles collided headon at dead mans corner one and one- half miles v est of cottan on no 3 highway cottam is ten miles north west of leamington and the injured wore brought to hospital here thomas died of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain tissue the burke car contained the family of five while tho other car driven by frank wablk 34 71 england ave lackawanna ny contained three passengers the accident occurred lato saturday tho injured william burke 13 severe cut to tho right eye which damaged the optic nerve and severe brain concussion patrick iurko 42 his father frac tured right arm fracture and disloca tion of the left wrist and lacerations to tho nose mrs anna burke 40 hl3 mother fractured left kneo fractured ribs and deep facial cuts virginia burke 9 severe faco and head lacerations frank wablk dislocated hip frac tured pelvis and fractured breast bone mrs anna wablk 36 fractured ribs lacerations to both legs and facial cuts esther wablk 13 niece of tho driv er fractured skull with left eye con tusions clare wablk is sister of the driver minor cuts hospital authorities and attend ing physicians reported willlanj burke and esther wablk were most seriously injured although conscious all in jured were reported to be making fav orable progress dr james young chief coroner of essex county has ordered an inquest which will bo postponed indefinitely until those injured are able to testify romance blooms in mental hospital windsor man loses life windsor alclde garant 53 windsor was killed sunday when he was run over by an automobile in charge of louis hebert 25 windsor garant died of a fractured skull and laceration of the brain and also suf fered a fractured left leg and multiple bruises hebert held b police for investiga tion said he noticed an object lying on the road but could not swerve his machine in time to avoid striking the lower part of tho body london eng two inmates of brookwood mental hospital have eloped they are ernest hibbard 26 and winifred harding 23 whose secret romance has been going on for two years mostly through note pass ing and lipreading in church if they elude police for 10 days the law requires that they will be entitled to claim freedom unless they are re certified to the institution new york asserting its just too bad that mr iturbi does not like our music an official of the ameri can society of composers authors and publishers suggested that the conductor might be forbidden the use of american compositions unless he apologizes for the remarks he made about them in philadelphia- e c mills chairman of ascaps administrative committee said it was regrettable that such a distinguish ed artist should have so narrow a mind and so intemperate a tongue and added american composers would be well within their reasonable rights in henceforth forbidding him under any circumstances or at any time to ren der any of their copyrighted compo sitions and it may be that they will do this unless he retracts his remarks and apologizes for them to form league of protection selborne eng lord wolmer mp presided at a meeting at sel- borne hants vicarage at which it was decided to form a selborne de fence league to preserve the village from modernization villagers are unappeased by a statement that a bypass road plan ned for the village will not be made within the next 20 years leopard society reported crushed monrovia liberia the gov ernment is reported to have crushed the dreaded human leopard society whose members cut out the hearts of their victims thirty ringleaders have been ar rested tried and imprisoned police said the society was led by george cainc of bassa liberia who attempt ed to gain control of the natives by death and terror members of tho society wore leo pard skins when they made their night time murder forays col t e davis liberias best fighter broke up the society he gathered evidence from fearstricken natives then arrested the leaders sport today by ken edwards d n barbed wire put on suicide bridge pasadena calif suicide- proofing the colorado street bridge across the arroyo seco from which 79 persons have leaped to their deaths ncars completion a scvon- ancahalf foot fence topped by strands of barbed wire is being built along the sides of the bridge well here we are again after pulling in the big ones up north but thats a long story- the swimmer martha norelius wright who with the 10000 prizo money at the c n e pro swim is attempt ing a comeback we may see her soon did you kiow that bill dineen is completing his 28th year as a major league umpire james j braddock who was tor ontos guest a few days ago says he wants to fight with cither baer or schmeling in the early fall the big likeable braddock exstevedore and exworld champ tells tho whole world that ho remembers when he was a poor kid with nothing to look forward to in life probably this straight and natural frankness en dears him to our hearts more than anything he tells us too that his father who is now living was once a piano mover tommy farr british and french and belgian heavyweight champion says that when louis lets go his dy namite left ho will sink his right into his middle farr is only twenty- one and some believe him to be louis worst menace until next week so playwrights speech at opening censored london laurence housman great britains most censored drama tist has had a speech censored thirtytwo of housmans plays are under the censors ban his play victoria regina which had been banned for years because it portrays queen victoria on the stage has at last been allowed to be played in london after the first and wildly success ful night housman was called to the stage and he had prepared this speech your royal highnesses my lord ladies and gentlemen at the gra cious and unusual common sense of his late majesty king edward viii now duke of windsor this play ap pears and i tender my grateful thanks but he was not allowed to meka the speech- a journalistis truce london the british govern ment has decided upon an armistice in its journalistic war with ger many but may take other action to curb nazi activity among german residents of britain the armistice is dependent upon whether the nazi government serves notice on more british correspond ents to leave germany so far the only briton asked to leave germany has been norman ebhutt chief of the london times berlin bureau whose order of expulsion followed re fusal of britain to extend the labor permits of three german correspond ents while the journalistic armistice continues however the evening standard reported it understood that further action would be taken in connection with alleged political ac tivities of certain germans residing in england it said the home of fice possessed remarkable inform ation that many germans living in england are enrolled as secret pol ice charged with the duty of follow ing fellow germans zionists split on palestine cut zurich switzerland a minor- icy resolution expressing firm oppos ition to great britains plan to par tition palestine was introduced at a special session of the world zion- jst congress the congress earlier split into two factions over the partitioning scheme and it was only after hours of negotiation that opposition dele gates were induced to meet with the others a majority resolution was being drawn up to embody the opinions of chair- weizman zionist presi dent and many others that the british plan should be considered as a basis for negotiations with a view to achieving a larger jewish state in palestine than that contemplated in the royal commisions report chinese will fightinvaders japanese invasion of china to be resisted weekcad state ment says nanking the chiuese foreign office sunday issued a statement re iterating chinas intention to resist japans invasion in the face of japans unlimited appetite for conquest china is obliged to take all the necessary measures for defense the statement said china is fighting now not only for tho de fense of its territory but also for re spect for international law if japan has no territorial ambi tions in china then tokio must agree to negotiate a reasonable settlement of all sinojapanese problems china is ready to make every effort to avert tho moral peril that threatens asia and the whole world but declares that japan has not respected chinese sov- ereignty and has violated treaties notably the ninepower pact the cov enant of the league of nations and the briandkellogg peace pact textile mills quiet peterborough ont two hundred nonstrikers were ushered into the two plants of the dominion woollens and worsteds limited this week without trouble although they were jeered by pickets paralysis news censored toronto censorship was this week clamped down on further in fantile paralysis figures by dr gor don jackson medical health officer the action was taken it was be lieved in order that toronto citizens and prospectve visitors to the city might not become alarmed over the outbreak which has taken six lives turner valley activity gains calgary eight oil wells in the turner valley section of alberta are now in action as activity gains twelve more wells are expected in during the first few months of the new year eight are drilling shesd with ample capital to insure com pletion while a few are held up temporarily early in 1938 it is ex pected a total of 41 wells will be producing or drilling german press attacks czechs berlin germanys coordinated press attacked czcchoslovakia for her refusal to permit 600 czccho-slo- vakian children of german blood to visit the third reich all newspapers in berlin printed a statement released through the offi cial news agency protesting the czech explanation of the ban on tho chil drens visit which was to have been sponsored by a welfare organization of the sudeten party german mino rity group in czechosiovakia the reason given by tlie german press for the visit had been that the children were undernourished to which prague replied the ban was is sued because of the food shortage in tho reich syrian uprising deirelzor syria french ar my bombers and troops went into action this week against an open re bellion in eastern syria army airplanes bombed three vil lages where the rebels had set up headquarters the general staff at bierut sent motorized infantry to reestablish order in the territory the rebels pillaged the village of amouda and fired upon two army officers who tried to intervene the news was slow in getting out because the communication lines in eastern syria are primitive also the french authorities kept the in cident quiet slashed by maniac in downtown store toronto mrs jack wooding wife of a rcamc corporal from london was slashed across the back with a razor or sharp instrument this week while shopping in a down town store she was not injured the slasher ripped an eightinch cut in her dress and underclothing it was the first such incident since the epidemic of slaslrrg and stabbings a year ago corpse wakes up vksn put in jail mount forest while the members of the various old home week committees are enthusiastic over the success of their venture chief constable m h flynn found at least one nearly dead spot in the weeks proceedings early the other morning hearing quite a noise on the main thorough fare shortly after he retired for a wellearned sleep chief flynn grab bed his uniform and started toward the direction from which the noise came on reaching the main street he was astonished to see a group of boys carrying a rough box up tho middle of the street he was more astonshed however when he halted the procession and opened up the box which he had no ticed they were carrying with par ticular care and solemnity to see e man lying in the box apparently a little the worse for his profound celebrating he certainly was dead all right said chief flynn as he picked bin up and carried him to the local lock- np the corpse however revived shortly after he was placed in the police cells and was later allowed to go with a warning where the pallbearers obtained the rough box with all its trimmings remains a mystery although it is suspected by even chief flynn that it might have been borrowed from a local casket factory sheik seeks blue- eyed english girl girl aged 13 gives birth to a baby toronto the daily star said it had been told by a physician that a 13yearold toronto girl gave birth to an eightpound baby in a toronto hospital both mother and child are pro gressing excellently and arc rest ing now at home the star said the babys father is said to be 26 years old valencia bombed madrid- rebel bombers and pursuit planes raided valencia this week bombing the loyalist seat of government and its suburbs reports reaching here said it was estimated that a score of persons were killed or wounded dur ing the raid the markets more dead in purge moscow the execution of 72 alleged far eastern railroad wreck ers accused of conniving with the japanese secret service was report ed this week the executions followed others in series but the group was one of the largest to be executed in soviet rus sias farflung siberian purge now the total of known execut ions in this far eastern campaign to root out spies and wreckers is 320 to 26 to 25 to 24 to 14 castel gandolfo despite the heat wave pope plus xi takes his usual daily automobile ride in recent days he has used a room ier and more comfortable american car instead of a german made ma chine two of quadruplets die thetford england after 24 hours of celebration over the birth here of male quadruplets to mr3 ol iver lingwood of nearby brandon two of tho infants died hundreds of visitors poured into thetford to gather before the nurs ing home where tho children were born tho father a brandon furrier and pride of the local rugby team opened telegrams congratulating tho lingwoods on tho birth of the quadruplets named adrien ber nard conrad and david tho thetford town crier mounted the steps of the town squaro to read the following proclamation oyez oycz oyez whcrciu in this ancient and honorable town onetime saxon capital tho good wif of oliver lingwood of urandon hay and straw no 2 timothy old 10 to 11 new 9 to 10 per ton no 3 timo thy 8 to 9 oats and wheat straw 550 to 650 above prices fob toronto dairy produce nbultcr quotations to wholesale trade creamery solids no 1 27 to 27 u do 38 score 2g do 37 score 25 do 36 score 24 cheese new large paraffined 14 do twins 14 to 14 do triplets 14 to 15 average price paid to shippers fob country points new large paraffined 13 to 13 do triplets 13 to 13 poultry and eggs toronto dealers are this week quot ing producers for ungraded eggs de livered cases returned eggs grade a large 24 grade a medium 23 grade b id grade c 16 dealers arc quoted on graded eggs cases free grade a largo 26 grade a medium 25 grade b 22 grade c 19 poultry prices paid to country shippers dressed milk scl a sel b fed a spring chickens 1 to 2 lbs 16 2 to 3 lbs 17 3 to 4 lbs 19 4 lbs and over 20 5 lbs and over 21 remember that sheik craze when girls pined for romance with a dusky chief of araby well here comes a sheik of araby to reverse the process he is rich 23yearold mohamcd bey fahum and he has left the ara bian desert for england to marry an english girl his bride he says must be blonde blueeyed graceful able to play the piano and tennis and not be older than 27 i have been dreaming of her for years the sheik confessed to the london chronicle there are many beautiful arabian girls who would share my loneliness but i want only my english dream girl half my fortune will be settled on her she will not wear veils or livo in a harem so there you are girls escaping chimp3 shot by riflemen to 00 to 00 to 00 to 00 led eggs to 26 to 00 to 00 to 19 naples italy riflemen yester day killed three of six chimpanzees that escaped from dr serge voron- offs hospital three others were sought the animals fled the hospital as they were to be taken to an operation room for gland extraction they took refuge in a tall pine in the royal park at capodimonte at first riflemen did not shoot a the animals were valuable but nftci a long vigil they fired killing two the others leaped from tree to tree to escape one attacked a farmer and was in turn attacked by two wolfhounds the chimpanzee was shot as he maul- ed the dogs 14 18 16 20 17 21 18 22 19 23 art pays chicago convicted on charges of stealing wearing apparel from a home glover sudor was sentenced to 10 months in the house of correc- tion elated over the light r ence su dor penciled a sketch assistant states attorney frank donoghue glancing at the drawing donoghue handed it to judge michael l mc- kinlcy and proposed that the sen tence be changed to life on the contrary the judge re plied i think it is a very good like ness and i will reduce the sentence to nine months