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§ 3 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1930 Xondahes gt is Sztiepey. ooh. Torting to Can of wi ions inter ai w things are prosTo. ing on my side and as to how we are pulling out of our difficulties," said Sir Alfred Cope, former under secretary for Ireland under Lloyd George and former principal organ- fzer of the Liberal Party, in an in- terview on his arpival in England flor de a visit to Que- EY [I New fo nine days, and was full of enthusiasm for Canada "nu Canadians, d Tour Arrange Although this has not been the first visit of Sir Alfred to wns country having accompanied Lloyd George and arranged for his Can- adian tour in 1922 and made sev- eral trips to Canada since that year, he stated that his brief. visit just concluded had only servea to further establish him his mind the impressions he had already formed with regard to the business-like manner in which the people of Canada, and the United States as well, carried on their affairs, in comparing conditions in England * with Canada and the United States, Sir Alfred was most positive in his tements, on America," he declared, "I find that it is not only the older men in business who take their jobs so seriously, but the younger men as well, An atmosphere of keen . intevest. and competition prevails everywhere and as a general rule there 8 no thought of pleasure and yecreation until the last item of the day's work: has been concluded, In Great Britain it seems to me that too much thought during the office hours is given to:football matches and other forms of sport, and the sooner Englishmen realize this fact and get down to real earnest busi. ness, the faster they will pull out of thelr prevailing difficulties, In shovt, I find that on our side of the water a little work ix the relaxation for pleasure, instead of a little pleasure heing the relaxation for work as it is in America." Head of Company ' Sir Alfred Cope, Who retired from polities in 1922, and who stat- ed that he had no intention of re- turning to that profession because he believed that there are too many politicians and too much politics in Great Britain, and that England needed "a bit of a rest from legls- lation," is, at the present time, managing director of the Amalga- mated Anthracite Colleries of Lon- dom and Swansea, He has heen coming to Canada and the United States once a year since his retire- ment 'from politics, and has Just concluded arsangements for the Canadian importation of Welsh an thracite, "Canada seems almost under way for the importation of Welsh an- thracite," he declared, "for unlike last year, owing to the difficulty of securing ships 'on agcount of the grain sityation, this year we have nrranged for the conveyance of our coal, chiefly because shipping au- thorities are expecting grain move- ment soon to he hack to normal again thus enabling the ships to cargo both ways. reducing the carrying costs to our mutual satis- faction. ) Tdeal Trade Plan In my opinion the interchange of anthracite coal and wheat Is the ideal form of trade hetween the two countries fn that neither pro. duct displaces a product of the country receiving ft. It shows what can be done in the way of pro- moting trade within the empire, let alone the fact that the exportation of Welsh, anthracite to Canada gives work to at least 5,000 miners during the summer when the coal . Yrade is the slackost, thus helping 'relieve the unemployment sit tion in Great Britain, "It is very interesting to. oh- horve," continued Sir Alfred how in the fan cities the méthod of heating is changed over to the use of buckwheat coal in blower in. stallations, where wink to the istics of the Welsh, - 2 iat ure is so ermostatically, thus | what is practically the heat value from the coal. in my, opinion, * pro- yp fuel technicallity more 'oronto, Boston and |, The photographs here show ine teresting personalities in India's drive for freedom, Pandit Motilal Nehru, president of the Netional Indian congress, He takes an active part in the boycott movement MOHAMMEDAN LEADER DISAGREES WITH GANDHI--FORMER 1. agidinst British goods, in India's passive campaign, (8) Most recent Photograph "of Maulana M Ie med, All leader of the Indian Mo finmmedans, who does not agree with ides pf Mahatma Gandhi, In ISLATURE PRESIDENT his passive resistance 3 for gaining India's freedom from England, and (8) V. J. Patel, former president of the wlio ture, official parlinwment in India, who now heads the boycott move. ADS. BOYCOTT MOVE mgnt against British gods in tho passive resistance campaign, This An the , first. photograph whigh Patel dver allowed made in his home at New Delhi, » r-- hillside shortly after leaving Lon- don for the continent last Novem. ber 6, The seven other occupants, including Prince Eugene of Schaumburglippe, were burned to death but Kidston escaped almost unharmed, \ NAN CONFESSES 70 TEN MURDERS German Wants to Have His Head Cut Off Im- mediately May 27, Duesseldorf, Germany, quietly -Poter Kuerten, 47, smoked cigars in prison as » u- fessed murder after mura. ud added: "It would suit me best to have my head chopped off immedi- ately." Among the 10 murders he deo- geribed in minute detail, taking all the blame, were thore of a H-year- old girl and a O4-yzar-old laborer, for which another man was tried and found guilty, The convicted men, Johann Straiyberg, was ad. judged insane and sent to' An asylum, a circumstance which may have saved him from paying the death 'penalty for another man's crimes. Kuerten has 14 previous convice tions for burglary aud fraud, When osked why he turned to rder, he said, according , to polige, "I wanted to avenge myself on man- kind, which persecuted me." The prisoner also confessed Lo several attacks on women, similar to those attributed "to Duéssc)- dorf's famous "rloper murderer" of the past year, Tne 'ripper! be. gan his murder caveer early In 1920 and fustfated police efforts to locate him, ' Montreal Bridge Is Opened From Ottawa ---- i i Montreal, May 27-~Riyers and mountains often make, for sepgra- tion and misunderstanding bridges and tunnels make for unity and friendship,' declared ut Hon, W, L. Mackensie King, Prime Minister of Canada, declaring "open to the people of our eounty and to all who may come to visit us fron othev lands" the Mentreal Harbor bridge. The words were spoken into a telephone in the ol- fice of the Prime Minister in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawn, 120 miles away, but the words came clear and strong through loudspeakers to the 4,000 invited guests gathered on 'the centre of the bridge, JAPAN AGREES WIT} UNITED STATES VIEW a -- - (By Canadian Pros Leased Wire) Tokyo, . May 27.-The foreign fice has sent United States Am- sador Willlam R. Castle, Jr, a formal communication concurring with the United States interpreta- tion, of article 19 of the London pact that no signatory may replace six inch gun cruisers with: craft carrying eight inch guns, : Mroday's reply answered an Ade erican inquiry submitted to Fri s | day's cabinet sessicn by the!Am. erman Lutte hed into a S\ erican Ambassador, Fears of some senators that the article would permit Great Britain to make such replacements was understood to have prompted the inquirys 8350 DAMAGES WON o tated "in a, neh in the King's ontague square, London, ] I Mr, Dinkwater, a post office sorter, or own oasy, M A maid, who 3 EL) Clara Meeks, of | Mr, Elwes sald Mr, Dinkwater's reply te the claim was: "It 18 quite untrue we were ever engaged, You repeated) proposed but | never accepted." Mr, Drinkwater and Miss Meeks, said counsel, became friendly in 1913 and "kept company' until 1016, when Mr, Drinkwater was called up, All through the war affectionate letters passed," Mr, Drinkwater us- ing such phrases as, "If you only knew how much 1 realy do love you, 1 long to have you for my very own," Ring Worn For 30 Years In 1910 they bacame engaged und Miss Megks was given an eu: gagement ring which said counsel, she wore for 10 years, On two or throe occasions the wedding dante was fixed, but was postponed In one case many wedding presents bad br ven to Miss Meeks, In Muy, 1928, however, Miss Moeks received a letter asking her to free her flance from his prom- fees, Mr. Drinkwater wrote that he felt the biggest scroundrel on oarth, for he had committed 1 Eroat wrong, Later, said Mr, Elwes, It was djs- covered that he had married some- one ela, Miss Meoks had refused another offer of marrisge when she felt herself bound, and she had spent $610 on things for the home, Decent. Husband Wanted Mr, Drinkwaert was asked by Mr, Justice Swift if he had any questions to ask Miss Meeks, "Nothing Whatever was about an epgagement ring," declared, "Don't tel} storier," replied Miss Meeks, Mr. Drinkwater: I have never promised to marry you?" "You are a liar." "Will you both. remember that you are not married, romarked Mr, Justice Swift, "I want to bave a decent hums band when I do get married," re. marked Miss Meeks, Mr, Drinkwiter: "I am mar. ried." (Laughter), 4 Mr, Justice Swift; "Yes, but not to her," Laughter), Miss Meoks wns awarded $350 damages after (he judge had re marked that the jury would prob- ably think.the married life the coyple might have had was not worth very much, GRETNA MARRIAGE * QUITE IRREGULAR London, Eng.~A "marriage. a Gretna Green was described in a suit concerning a marriage settle- ment, heard by Mr. Justice Maugh- an in the Chancery Division, rune on, Sir Thomas Hughes, K.C,, for the woman plaintiff, described as Miss Helen Sefton Toms, sald that when she and her present husband, Mr, Calens presented themselves at Gretua, neither had been in Scot- land tor 21 days, sald he Mr, Cairns told .the judge that they were not asked about this, He (Mr, Cairns) had, in fact, never been in Scotland before, Counsel added that the couple were regularly married In London on January 22, The Judge sald the Gretna mar. riage was quite irregular, and that, there, a power of appointment be exercised before It wag valid, MOTHER WINS CASE AGAINST HER SON Sued Him For _ Damages in Causing Death of Her Husband Birmingham, .Eng-~A mother sucoessfully sued her son at Birm- Ingham County Court for L500 for the loss of her husband in a motor car acoldent, On behalf of the widow, Mrs, Rose Pearce, of Cranmore street, Birmingham, it was alleged that her husband lost his life through the joint negligence of her son, Thomas Pearce, and another motors ist, Frederick Gregson Aitchison, Thomas Pearce was driving » touring car in which were several persons, including his father, Mr T, H, Pearce, a bookmaker and coal yard proprietor, Tho speed of the touring car was described by a witness as "terrific" and on police constable said the car which came into collision with ane other car driven by Altchison, skid. ded 60 yards on a grass horder and then went on for another 32 yuras, It knocked down a lamp-post and finally turned aver, Mr, Pearce was killed and other passengers were injured. Mr, Altehison "was sued ps hav- ing contributed to the accident by mishandling his ear, but judgment was given in his favor with costs CONVENTION WILL STUDY FUTURE OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS Six Thousand Leaders in Religious Education to Meet in Toronto Toronto, May 27.--What future has the Sunday School, This will be among the questions to be stu- dled at the International Conven- tion of Religious Bdueation, in Tor- onto, June 23-20, Six thousand leaders in the movement will gath- er from all parts of the North Am- A wonderful example of what oan be dono with a jack-knite plus FRE RET Garnet. Brock, a 13-yearold farm hoy from Utterson, Ont, has con. structed this scale model of an 'Rlizabothan galleon of the period 1580-1000, All who have seen the gallcon consider it « fine piece of workmanship, Garnot is the son of My, and Mrs, W. R. Brock and was born on a farm' near: Emsdale, Ont, | to comfort her hushan orican Continent and beyond to face bakic questions arising out ot the programme of progress for the future, The convention will gele- brate the sesqui-centennial of the Sunday School and honor the mem. ory of the founder, Robert Kaikes, by unveiling a statue, "The Bunday School has always been more or less the object of ridienle or criticism as an educa tional} Institution," says an ane nouncement of the Convention manager, Many ministers are finding it divisive factor In church fe, A great religious educator in na book on religious education says that the Sunday Sehool is an obso- tote institution and should be abol- Ished, the church itself carrying forward the teaching function, What future has the Sunday school | anyway? "The slogan of the Convention, every church a school in Christian living, implies a new conception of the place of Christian education in the church's programme, Ingtead of boing a side issue, it hocomes the very centre of the programme, Such a conception does, indeed, render the traditional Sunday School ob. | wolete and sugests a reconstruction of the total church programme to give a new and central place to the teaching ministry," Russe! Colgate, of Chiengo, Jl, is president of the International Counell of Religlous Kducation,.He will deliver the Presidential ad. dress at the Convention June 23, and preside at several of the Con- vention sessions, Rev. Dr. €, W, Gordon, of Wins nipeg, Man, known in his books as "Ralph Connor will lead ane of the interesting events at the Convention when, on Sunday morn. ing, June ° 20, a commemoration service will he held In historic Met. ropolitan Church of Toronto, Dr, Gordon will be in charge. Forty-nine years ago and again 26 years ago, the International Convention met In Toronto, On both occasions Metropolitan chureh was the Convention chureh Sm ---- TORONTO PAIR DIE IN SUICIDE PACT Chicago, May 27--Seated wide by side in the light coupe which they had driven to Detroit for thejr mar. riage n few days proviously, Wil. liam Cochrane Murray, war veteran, wanderer, bigamist and ne'er-do- well, remittance man, sone of South African shipping agent, and Mary Hogg, pretty 26-year-old Toronto nurse, died together at Glencoe, 111, a suburb of Chicago, In a brief note in their room a Chicago hotel they told of the suicide pact they plans ned, TALES OF FAMOUS VICTORIANS TOLD -------- When King Edward Caused Dismay--~Lord Beresfords Strange Meal London,~-A number of entertain. ing stories about famous Victorian ave told by Colonel Arthur Montagu Brookfield in his book "Annals of a Chequenad Life" just published, the author was the son of Preben. dary Brookfield, who was one of Tennyson's most intimate 'friends and was himself distinguished for his eloquence and wit, Of Carlyle, Colonel Drookfleld says: The first time 1 oversaw him ha wan in his own house, phliosophicals ly pufting away at one' of hia churehswardens while his wife lay on the floor complaining of neural gla, It was not very surprising that her doctor used to tell her that what she most needed was plenty of fresh aly, Her death, he declares, was the result of a selzure brought on by the loss of her pet dag, wich was run over and killed, To one of the friends who tried in his sin. core afflictions, he sald with great emotion: "And she never knew I Jove her, She never knew I loved or." Colonel Nropkfleld was with the force assembled for manoeuvres when King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, visited India, Ha caused dismay by writing on a bill of fare sent for his approval: "I am getting rather tired of boiled turkey and tongue," Lord Charles Bergaford became a great friend of Colonel Hrook- field when they were both in the Avid of Commons, Of him he all He could tell a very g story en he choge, He described how Ie hid once edten ou ont, 'MH ber onged to the wardroom end un awfully fat captain of marines" ivaving accidentally set on it and ) gauwed. its suffocation, Deress oid had proposed making it into |, 4 curry and eating it, Je had done this and had found the ex | periment so satisfactory that he had [ngain went for the curried ont cold { the next morning when he had fin~ ished every bit of it. Although I did not happen to believe tls story, it wag told in a very amusing way, ¢ SEAL HUNTERS "HAD GOOD CATCH Nearly Quarter Million Pelts J Browshi ig From Bt, John's, Nfld,--~Fears that ng herds were being decimated lessened as 'a result of the large catch brought In this season, Seal. ing skippers reported herds in ex- oess of any seen for many years, The total catch of all vessels on. faked in the industry was 241, 86 seals, with a value/of $405, 800.57, as compared with 201,866 jens nd a value of $369,010.98 n y The steamer Eagle was high liner with 26,392 seals, but as the hulk of her cargo was secured early in the season, the weight Was only 420 tons, The 2,756 pelts obtain. ed hy the steamer Ungave weigh- od 787 tons, The fishery was prosecuted this year by six auxiliary schooners in addition to eleven steamers, and with one exception all the former made good voyages. The highest wage bill, #105.65, paid to the men on the share system, was secured by the erew of the auxiliary schoons er Young Harp, The industry was principally cons fined to the northern front of New- foundland. The Thetis and Terra Nova, only Newfoundland ships In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, had poor results owing to heavy ice, The former captured 151 seals and the latter, 8,688, Ice conditions to the North were the most favorable in several years, and some captains reported the most numerous seals in their ex- perience, Even late in the season the Ungave encountered immense herds of old séals in the mouth of the Straits of Belle Isle, and it was only due to the fact that her sup. plies of ammunition ran out that the steamer did not procure the largest eateh on record, RECORD POTATO CROP IN MAINE Greater Than Previous High Year Bangor, Me, ~The 10260 Maine potato crop established a record for production, quality and consider. ably higher than the average price, Production for 1920 was over two and a half million bushels greater than the previous high record in Maine and carlot shipments Nave already reached a total nearly ten thousand cars higher than any oth. er yoar with the prospect of the total going much higher before the stock is exhausted, Figures from estimates published by the Division of Livestock and Crop Estimates show that on Noy, 1, 1029, the quality of the Maine crop (the per. contage that would grade U, 8, No, 1) wan as' high as any shown in the records since 1922, and equals od the 1026 crop. As fav.as prices are concerned, the value of the 1089 orop if it is to be computed on the basis of carlot shipments surpasses all other years, The Division of Livestock and Crop Estimates showed that .on Deo, the 1930; crop was 47.644, 000 bushels, This figure surpasses the 1984 record of 45,045,000 bushels by more than 2,600,000 bushels and was 8,000,000 bushels more than the 1928 Maine crop, The total potato production of the United States in 1929 was 367,451,» 000 bushels or about 108,000,0vv bushels less than 1998, und this disparity of production in the re- spective Years gave Maine slightly over twelve and one halt per cent of the total U.S, production in 1980 as compared with he and one half per gent in nn v late or storage crop, of whoh the Maine orop i a plrt, wag twenty per cent Maine in 1030, compared with about ten per cent in 1938 Acreage Smaller Although the 1020 acredge pant od to potatoes in Maine was mul smallep than 1088 the yields were considerably higher and with the exception of the 1984 orop set an all time revord, ' Carlot shipments up to April 96, in the geason just ng, totalled 03,608 cars estimate the remaining stock. to be between 4,000 and 7,000 . The pre- vious revo in-fwypww vious recor ts for one 0. hb. prices ate slightly under gvel of from Oct, 10 to the and of the year, Trends during both years are about the same Hhauth the decline in No. vember of 1939 were pronounced, In hoth seasons prices paid to growers for U, 8. No, 1 reon Mountains ranged between §3 and §4¢ per barrel during this per fod. The year end adyance in Biloes came about a week later in 980 ¢ 1989 but the peak prices nak both cases were about the same, about $4 per pare Production in 1929 Much) More cups to the tang to the te. ! 50 populas, TE d, mor® flavor in what makes very, Package guaranteed, th 5 INOE¢ Red Ross The ig good ted' RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE is sxfra good rol, ¥rom Jan, 1 to March 1 in both years prices paid to growers declined from $4 to $2.60-92.70 per barrel, the trends in both years being the same except that 1930 prices declined slightly more slow ly, The reaction in March wus about three weeks later this soason put much more sharp, Since April 1 prices in Maine have been fairly well sustained at around $4 per barrel to growers, - Recelving mur- kots followed closely the trends at shipping points with 'both the maximum and the minimum prices of 1029-30 and 1926-27 aboul the same, BE Quality The quality of the 1020 crop at harvesting was equal to the best ever produced in the state, How- over, for some reason the potatoes were bruised much more this sea pon and thig with other defects whieh developed, reduced the gual ity of shipments after harvesting very materially, Many shippers ex. pressed the helief that the potatoes were & little more brittle this sea pon on account of the dry summer increase in bhrulsing. At any rate the quality of shipments from stor. age during the fall and winter was one of the major disappointments of the 1929 erop. wan perhaps the widest ever secure ed. Shipments to the Appalachian Mountain reglon were heavier than usual and many shipments were made to Ohlo, Michigan and Indi. ana. In April many were made into Chicago, A few cars of table stock have been ship. ped to Texas markets, Although the season as a whole may not have heen satisfactory to some of the shippers the returns to the growers have been very pleasing. Prices to growers aa. vanced early In the fall and have been well above the cost of produc: and the season of 1020-50 doubtless be remembered ay among HEALTH AUTHORITY Sir George Newman Gives Evidence Before Licensing ~ Commission London--No less an authority than Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the : Ministry of Health, raised his voice against the cocktail hgbit when le gave evidence at the Royal Commission on Licensing recently, "From the medical point "of view," he sald, "I think it is most indefensible to have cocktails he. fore dinner, and that drinking cocktails, without relation to food, is also undesirable tor most people, It depends what is ih the cocktail." Refore this Sir George confessed that he had "no experience at all of drinking cocktails," Then the Rev, Henry Carter, a member of the Commission, asked Sir George whether he thought whisky was a oure for Influensa, Sir George: 1 should have thought that in most cases it would not fulfil that function, r. Carter: And stout for the nursing mother? Sir George, after a long pause, replibd: I think much would de« pend upon the habits of the lady in question, I should not like eith- or to commend or condemn it with. out knowing the facts of the case, "I cannot find myself able to say this beverage is good for all people or this beverage ia bad for all people," Sir George added. : "And what would be your view, Mr, Carter asked, "from a public health standpoint .of a concerted campaign urgig people to drink and blamed this for the pronounced | Distribution of the 1920-30 erop | shipments | | | | tion throughout the season to date, | move beer?" Bir George: 1 should hope it would fall, (Laughter), It would make it more difficult for the public health point of view, Sir George produced figures which showed that half the insured population visit thelr doctor ence 0 year, Mr, Whitbread: It is a terrible thing that half the insured populs- tion should have to go and ses a doctor once n year, Bir George: In America it would be much higher. They love to see their doctor and go onee a yer fo have what they eall an "overhaul" It is possible some of these people are like the Americans and want to be overhauled, INNOCENT WOMAN SUFFERS IN JAIL Journalist's Wife Undergoes Terrifying Experience in London London---A woman's ordeal in an amazing case of mistaken ident- ity was rovenlod when Mrs, Aghes Kirkwood, of Claverton-street, Vic- toria, 8, W., told how sho was ar. rested on a charge of theft, placed in & cell for the night, remanded to Holloway for a week, taken {11 and sont to prison infimary and paraded for identification, At the West London Police Court gounse! for the prosecution admitt- od that a 'mistake had been made and asked to withdraw the charge and mo apologise, The magistrate sald Mry, Kirk. wood would leave the court with will out any suspicion attaching to her, Shaken and distressed by her ox- the best of "good years In Maine, | periences, Mrs, Kirkwood, who is | wife, sald that the arted at a refresh- a journalist's whole affair st { mont room at Victoria, AGAINST COCKTAIL | 1 Was Dared." "While T was sitting there with a friend," sald Mrs, Korkwood, 'two men came In, "One of them came over to me end said, 'Hello! Conny.' I replied, 'My name is not Conny; what da You nienn?' He asked me to come' outside and sald he would tell me. I hesitated at first, aand then went with him, He said he was a detee- tive, and that he was going to ar. test me for theft, "1 wan daged. He took ma to the police' station, whore T was 'charg. od with stealing jowellery to the value of £120 from I. Denham, of Collingham-road, arl's Court, At Holloway "I sald: 'You are making a mis- take: my name is Kirkwood,' and gave my address, Dut they took no notice, and put me in a coll, "Phe. next morning T wan brought up at the pollee court and' remanded, They took me in na prison vap to Holloway, and put ma in a another horrible eell, T felt terribly 111, and in the morning they moved me into the prison in- firmary. The next afternoon I was reless- od on ball, When I came back 1 wan paraded with eight other girls for identifioation, The 'only excuse they made was that the women they wanted was wearing a cloak J lke mine, a dark cloak trimmed with skunk fur." Counsel Explains In court @. B, MeClure, who ap- peared for Denham, sald he had to express regret for the mistake. t year; he We a phe of Consanca Soe was en : by Pg -~ r she left pro- su he ni n m ty was per \ 8 to a pawnb M 0 v rvant Jwent de fled some of the los, whieh had "been 'the name ot "Constance hoa building? particula piece will work in | r Purpose, How can you unless your . material comes reputable lumber dealer? ISN'F "SAFETY FIRST" AN IMPORTANT RULE IN BUILDIN : Isn't the elimination of failures the important thing to be considered' in HN Is there anything else, just as necessary? After all, really successful building is more than just making a 'good-looks fg Jab Make sure that the muterial will never fail youm--that every perfectly for its fool _ this i nrance m a