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and after he had been in a deep sleep since late the previous Ffiday. Disâ€" charged from the jail on Friday mornâ€" ing, the 48â€"yearâ€"old man was picked up in Cobalt during the afterfioon by Chief of Police Clarence Connelly, who thought him imt:oxicated. Later in the + same day, while in the town hall cells, McConnachie fell asleep and did not: again awaken. l On Monday afternoon, the man‘s condition‘alarmed. the chief, who had him removed to hespital, but death folâ€" lowed almost immediately on arrival there. Previously, the chief had sumâ€" moned Dr. F. M. Wallingford when Mcâ€" Connachie was still asleep on the Satâ€" urday morning, and when it developed the man had taken an unknown quanâ€" tity of tablets from a bottle empty when police found it, the officer said he was told by the doctor the former soldier probably would not awaken for two or three days. Later, it was learned that McConnachie, while in jail servâ€" ing a 30â€"day term imposed on him at Kirkland Lake late in July, had been given the bottle, then containing 100 tablets, on account of his physical conâ€" dition. b fellowâ€"Scot in Cobalt last Friday, it was learned MceConnachic was a native the jail in â€"Haileybury indicated his home address was Winnipeg. He also had told police he was single and that his mother was his nextâ€"ofâ€"kin. From a chance conversation with a Canada and England, was discharged on January 30, 1919. It is believed the man had been a cook and had been employed with Crawley and McCracken, while the information he had given to the authorities when he was received at MceConnachie was a stranger here and it was not until Tuesday morning that his identity was learned from the copy of his discharge papers carried on his person and found when his clothing was examined after his death. It developed that he had enlisted with the CEF. on June 28, 1918, and after serving in in the municipal hospital here a few minutes after he had been admitted Cobalt, Sept. 2.â€"(Special to The Adâ€" vance)â€"Victim of poisoning induced by an overdose of phenobarbital tablets prescribed for him while serving a short term in the district jail at Haileybury, William McConnachie, a native of Bcotland who had spent most Oof his life in Canada, died Monday afternoon Dies in Cobalt from Overdose of Tablets Just Released from Haileyâ€" bury Jail, Returned Solâ€" dier Passes Away. 13 Years in Thmmins of Reliable Sign Work. KRESGE STORE )3 TURNER SQON LMIP _""THE PETERBOROUGH TENT AND AWNING COMPANY Peterborough Ontario Lawrence Signs **{@s} § * # 4 THE AWNINGS DESIGNED, PRODUCED AND INSTALLED BY US, WILL, WE FEEL SUBE, ENHANCE THE APPEARANCE OF THIS FINE MODERN BUILDING. on the opening of the TIMMINS STORE was executed by for the new Try The Advance Want Advertisements The confession does further, if uninâ€" tentional service. It illuminates the causes of the terror, uncertainty and mistrust that have enveloped Russia since the current purge got under way. Workers in industry where heads roll for everything that goes wrong, and whenever there is a suspicion that all is not right; workers who dre drafted into mass espionage corps to spy out the "wreckers" among theiz colleagues, cannot feel very secure against recurâ€" rence of the "mistakes." Accept the Vishinsky discovery as absolute truth, and the best you have is selfâ€"condemâ€" nation of the bureaucratic system in general, and the Communist "demoâ€" cracy" in particular. One cannot miss the implication of the confession at this particular time. It will serve, of course, to enlarge the frankenstein stature of the "wrecker" in the minds of the proletariat. But more logically it is an effort to explain away official injustice and propitiate the peasants who have not forgotten, and who, like the starving victims of the collectivization drive of five years ago, still exist under what Vishinsky has called the "extenuating circumâ€" stances" which drive men to “steal” their own grain. | tims of mistakes. Andrei Vishinsky, chief prosecutor, according to the New York Times, has charged the "mistakes" to his predecessor and other ‘"‘Trotskyâ€" ist wreckers and traitors" in the Deâ€" partmentâ€" of Justice andâ€"intelligence service. They were, he declared, deâ€" liberate perversion of court policy in an attempt to stir up "dissatisfaction and rage against the law, the governâ€" ment and the (Communist) Party." (From The Globe and Mail) Russian peasants slaughtered by "the hundreéds" under a Government decree of August 7, 1932,.for "stealing vegetâ€" ables and grain" fromsstate farms, and for "missing stalks of grain in the cutâ€" ting," were, it has been discovered, vicâ€" Russia Forms Circle of Men to be Slaughtered of the Dennistoun district of Glasgow, ‘while the record at the district jail gives his length of residence in Canada as 30 years, He is said to have been a man of education, but otherwise little: was known of him in this district. The: funeral was held yesterday ‘afterroon to Eilverland cemetery, Rev. E. Gilmour Smith, another exâ€"soldier and now minâ€", ister of Cobalt United Church, offiâ€" clating. Arrangements for the funeral had been made by Frank Mountford, secretary of the Cobalt post of the Canadian Legion. Sixtyâ€"five girls, all of them from Timmins and locality, will be employed for the opening day. A regular staff of thirtyâ€"five or forty will be carried. The local workers will be trained under the manager. The Kresge system proâ€" vides for paid vacations for all emâ€" ployees after a year‘s service. ‘~‘The first comparatively modest Kfesge store was opened in 1897. Goods ai'e elaborately displayed and will be 801(1 under the Kresge 5, 10, 15 and 25 _cent policy. An almost endless variety of‘articles are displayed under a modâ€" ern lighting system. The stock which will be carried in the Timmins Kresge store will be valued at nearly $30,000. The new store presents a fine apâ€" pearance and is an addition to Third avenue. Over eightyâ€"four per cent. of the merchandise sold in Kresge stores every year is of Canadian manufacture. Local industries will be patronized as much as is possible. Hon. Peter Heenan Chosen Liberal Candidate Again The store here is what is known as a "medium" sized store. Kresge‘s build three sizes. The other two obviously are large and small. A feature of the new store will be the soda fountain ind meal counter which is equipped with the latest electric carbonic apâ€" paratus and built to accommodate thirâ€" ty people. It is finished in green, yelâ€" low and black tile with red leather covered â€"stools. The modern kitchen, which will be supervised by a chef, will haveâ€" the services of two dieticians. The new store is the fiftyâ€"fifth to open in Canada. It is under the manâ€" agement of O. R. Kennie, who was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and who has been with the S. S. Kresge Company for fifteen years and who has managed stores in Sarnia, Winnipeg, Victoria, Montreal and uther Canadian cities. Mr. Kennie has moved to Timâ€" mins with his wife and family. nue between Pine and Cedar streeis, would be, will be further satisfied on Friday when the store officially opens. The recently partially satisfied curiâ€" osity of Timmins‘ citizens who have been wondering since April what the appearance of the new Kresge store, behind the wooden wall on Third aveâ€" New Kresge Store Will Open Tomorrow Store is Under Management of 0. R. Kennie. . Will ‘Employ Thirtyâ€"five t o Forty: Timmins Girls Steadily. No one but "Grandma Joe" whose real name is Lanoise, can handle her business affairs, and she is pretty good that, too. This 97â€"yearâ€"old pioneer Acadian woâ€" man of Southeast Louisiana, who once declined to accept money from Jesse James in payment for a meal she had prepared for the notorious outlaw, reâ€" fuses to accept the passage of the years Lake Charles, La â€""Grandma Joe" LeBleu still can "roll her own" with the best, but lately she has decided that it‘s easier to smoke readyâ€"made cigarâ€" ettes. 100 252204 10 10008100000000000000000000000200220,28, 10 4 ooooooo300003030303\000003000003000\0000\0030303030303030300000003000ooooooo. "A Aged Woman Talks About Tobacco and the James Boys ville has just experiénced. Mr. Tremâ€" blay makes it plain that the chief of police may lawfully exercise a discreâ€" tion in deciding at what number the pickets threaten peace and good order. Responsibility in this regard is placed in the proper place, and the official who is just to act before a breach of the peace is committed, rather than wait until the threat is actually executed, always will ‘be sustained by public opinâ€" ion. In the interests of public order, it is equally essential that the sense of the minister of labour‘s timely statement concerning the manner in which pickâ€" ets may be legally regulated in the matâ€" ter of numbers should be realized before more industriés are driven from their actual location in the way that Brockâ€" in view of a course of action which seems to have been officially tolerated in a number of instances recently. They command a strict observance. It is important, therefore, that the minâ€" ister‘s definition of the law of picketâ€" ing should be widely known so that a practice that has come to be widely abused may be kept within limits that the statute acknowledges to be "peaceâ€" ful." ’men he pointed out, have a right to place a number of individuals near works that may be affected by a strike, but the law will not permit them to interfere with the free action of any citizen. Pickets "have no right to stop any workman from entering the works and attending to his business." This implies that no attempt, however peaceâ€" ful, may be made to "persuade" a willâ€" ing hand to abstain from working. Mr. Tremblay‘s observations, are significant vincial minister of labour, yesterds clearly and pertinently defined what the law permits in this regard. Workâ€" Judge Explains Meaning of "Lawful Picketing" Only: one thing can take her away Montreal Gasgette) In relation to the practice of picketâ€" B ADVANCR. ONTARTO With all her smoking, the little Acaâ€" dian woman disapproves of the drinkâ€" ing and smoking of the present younger generation. But, because she never "learned to read or write," she thinks "Grandma Joe‘‘ prepared them a meal, and when they had finished, the one she later identified as Jesse, ofâ€" fered her $5. But she refused. Only when they were gone did she find a note, which she later lost, thanking her for the meal and her hospitality. "I was alone at the time," she recallâ€" ed, "when a couple of men came up on horseback. Something like veils was tied around each one‘s head. One of them said "I want you to fix us someâ€" thing to eat." "Grandma Joe‘" came to this section as a bride of 25. She started housekeep- ing in the LeBleu home , which not many years before oft,ena rovided a night‘s rest for Jean Lafitte, when that famous New Orleans pirate would make one of his many trips to Texas. It was at this house that she had her experience with the James brothers. from the worries and cares which she finds in running her plantation, five miles east of here. That is when she receives a letter from one of her 28 children and fosterâ€"children, who are scattered all over the world. â€"_THE 8. S. KRESGE STAR TRANSFER were naturally anxious to have the hauling of the building materials, fixtures and stock enâ€" trusted to a careful reliable transfer firm so was awarded the Cartage Contract For Reliable Local and Long Distance Haulingâ€"Phone 427 STAR TRANSFER is at your service. Tax Collections Not â€" â€" So Good as in 1936 One subject discussed was that of tax collections. The members of the committee went over recent tax colâ€" lectians and came to the conclusion that they were considerably in arrears, more so than at this time last year. Further efforts will be made to acâ€" The members of the Finance Comâ€" mittee of the town council, under the chairmanship of Councillor Laporte, held a meeting on Monday to discuss various subjects. No definite decision could, of course, be arrived at by the committee which would have to submit them to council for approval. Effort to be Made to Acâ€" celerate Collections. Fiâ€" nance Committee Met on Monday. all children should have an education. "I smoke," she admits “but nothing but cigarettes. It used to be as a girl that I would roll my own out of twist tobacco and corn husks. Now there‘s A good smoke!" of course North Bay Nugget:â€"If you stand on the sidelines and watch traffic for a short time, you‘ll come to the conclusâ€" ion that more drivers rely on the breaks than on the brakes. The request of Mr. Leblanc, who has charge of the disposition and collection of refuse in Timmins, was discussed. Mr. Leblanc asked for more money. A resoluticn granting him $125 more a month was ordered prepared. The ‘byâ€"law to license signs, which has been under consideration for some time, was further discussed. It. will probably be brought up at the next regular meeting of council. The matter of an addressograph for the new town hall was taken up. The clerk was instructed to write and obâ€" tain prices. The machine will cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of celerate collections. ty Hands