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two people asphyxiated in london garage obeying a dare man loses life d climbs tree at port burwell touches hydro wire j st thomas oct 15 clyde ash- r liv i tr j r j f i burn a y married man of port koand jarvis and daughter round uead in car burweil was killed about 430 oclock i engine left on lb afternoon when his hand came in contact with a live hydro wire run- l mdon ont oct 15 shortly be fore 11 oclock tonight dr roland d jarfls g3 elmwood avenue and his daughter beatrice aged 20 were found dead in their garage asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes from their automobile the doctor for over so years one of the most prominent dentists in the city and his daughter apparently had been sitting in the car talking and failed to realize that they had left the engine of the auto running doctors kelly and graham and cor oner dr j c wilson were called for almost an hour the physicians worked over the two but without reviving a spark of life coroner wilson was informed that ir jarvis and his daughter had left tiieir homa about 6 oclock this even ing after telling his sister miss bertha jarvis that they intended to go for a n througu ot a tree near drive she was somewhat disturbed j his home when they had not returned and dej the v fe from the tree a dls cided to investigate they were found of 13 or fem emplovees of lifeless in the car in the garage thft rura hvdro ue arlmeilt- ecper robert p haskett a neighbor sum- enced resusci worked on thc moned by miss jarvis entered the or an hour tuc victims right garage and pulled both bodies into the hand and one foot were burnej al open air but subsequent examination i f has mt beeq dcemed showed they had been dead for about sar five hours j according to the report made ash- no inquest will be held burn cllmbed a iuaple trec in a spirit a son of the late dewitt jarvis of of fc suggestion ot one of this city dr jarvis was born here he attended london schools and gradu ated from the ontario dental college in toronto he had practiced hero ever since dr jarvis is survived by two broth crs covert in philadelphia and clif ford in western canada and a sister bertha geneva speakers attack germany lord cecil accuses country of obstructing disarmament geneva oct 15 german was sub jected to ri bitter attack by speakers before a huge peace manifestation to- right the mass hwcing passed a lesolution expressing its earliest de sire for a successful issue of tlw dis armament conference iord cecil of england heading the battery of orators declared to the crowd which packed the hall of the reformation that failure of the con ference would perhaps irretrievably wreck world peace he flatly accus ed germany of obstructing disarm ament germany has done her best he said to prevent disarmament but her attitude is one which must not be permed to paralyze the action of all the others he urged that the rest of the na tions should draft a convention and give germany the chance to accept or shoulder responsibility for the rejec tion he said the state of anxiety already existing in europe was ren dered acute by germanys withdrawal from the conference it is no exaggeration to say he declared that if the disarmament conference fails war will be brought definitely nearer prolonged applause followed lord cecils declaration that the glorifica tion of militarism cannot be allowed to turn the world into a human eliambles the manifestation was organized by the international consultative group for disarmament which is composed of the federation of the league of nation societies the interparliament ary union and several similar organ isations brief messages of greetings from prime minister ramsay macdonald president roosevelt and other slates- lioii were read 427 left service on september 1 onethird of veterans retir ed were employed at ottawa ottawa only 427 were retired from this civil service as of septemberl last under the new government order mak ing 03 years the retirement age less than half probably about onethird of thc number were in the service in ot tawa the remainder scattered through put the rest of the dominion the total net saving to the country in respect to salaries will be s27500 knmintly after the periods ot retire ment leave with full pay have lapsed ithese periods extend from one or two months up to six months dating in the cases of all the 427 retired from sep tember 1 there had been all sorts ot estimates s to the effect ot the order with pre dictions that it would mean 1500 or more leaving the service while there la that number it not more at or past hc age of go the government applied tho order only in respect to those whoso positions could be abolished others who would have had to be re- jplaced were not affected the order was dated july 31 and ap plied only to civil servants who were 65 years of age on september 1 it tioes not apply to any reaching 65 sin jthcn and it is learned that there is no bispositlon to do so since there has been n fairly thorough canvass of do- imrtments in ottawa and government filllcos elsowhcro and it is felt that rc- iireicnts have covered most ot the positions that could be abolished canadas trade up by millions exports for september show increase of 15500000 imports up 3- 700000 ottawa an increase of more than 15500000 in exports together with rise in imports of approximately 3- 700000 featured canadian trade dur ing september according to the month- 1 report issued by the dept of na tional revnue total trade for the month amounted in value of 96084- 227 compared with 70690944 for september 1932 for the first six months of the cur rent fiscal years the eternal trade of canada was up by 10000000 over the corresponding period of a year ago exports increased by more than 31- 000000 but there was a drop in im ports amounting to approximately 20000000 total trade volume had a value of 465196491 made up of 265408829 in exports and 199787662 in im ports this compared with a trade volume for the corresponding six months of last year of 455716044 composed of 234075369 in exports and 221640675 in imports poultry thieves take big risks in london london catching a robber of hen roosts by making him take his own photograph in the act was so ingenius the magistrate who tried the culprit complimented the complainant the thief wisely said he had no de fence the accused frederick barnwell charged with stealing two eggs from a hen house had to face the photo graph of himself in court william norbury complainant said the photograph had been taken by the prisoner himself he said that owing to losses from his fowl house he fixed a camera which worked auto matically the magistrate sir william rice complimented mr norbury on his in genuity and remarked to the police ispector have you a vacancy in the force for a young man of prom ise i must have him around at my place sir william added mr norbury had arranged his cam era so that when anyone entered the fowlhouse the shutter of the camera would open a second device produc ed a click thereupon the intruder turned his face toward the camera and the photograph was taken young men with whom he was walk ing as he reached up to the clutch of a limb his hand touched the high voltage wire he was 31 years old and leaves a young wife and child swimmer attendr school woman accidentally shot by husband while hunting parry sound oct 13 mrs h pol kinghorne is in hospital here recover ing from wounds inflicted when she stepped in front ot her husband just as he was firing a shotgun with four others mr and mrs polkinghorne were hunting the party had spread out and just as her husband tired she stepped from behind a large rock a number ot pellets struck her in the back her conditlou is regarded as favorable friday the thirteenth fatal for cat sparrow winnipeg seven spar ows pecked at a dribble of oat grains which fell from the feed bag of a tired milkmans horse early friday a cat leaped through the air and six flew away while the seventh lay in the cats jaws frightened by the flutter of wings the horse sprang forward and a wheel passed over the cats body some folks dont ttke any stock in this friday the 13th stuff mutter ed the milkman as he watched the performance busy day for stork kitchener what a trouncing the friday the 13th hoodoo took from the bowman brothers alfred norman and richard bowman wont forget it ever ah three are fathers unable to carry the three youngsters to three different homes in one day the stork got away to a fast start by leaving a baby son at the home- of richard he com pleted the triple blessing by deliver ing a son to alfreds home and a daughter to normans house at shantz station the other two brothers live at winterbourue william tell trick blamed for fatal shooting of boy apple and rifle used by bowmanville lads ends in death and game julia judy geiger 19yearold st catharines ont swimmer a3 she arrived recently in los ange les aboard a liner to attend tha university of california blown to bits calumet mich thrusting a lighted stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket john korr 55yearold resident of franklin mine near here chased his landlady and her daughter from their home and was blown to bits as the dnamite exploded korr lighted the fuse in his room then dashed to the bedroom of mrs mary chopp the landlady mrs chopp and her daugh ter fled screaming into the yard with korr in pursuit they were at a safe distance when the explosion came mrs chop said korr has been despond ent over ill health bowmanville oct 15 shot through the head by a charge from a 22- calibre rifle in the hands of his brotherinlaw arthur hockett ar thur e lewis a 15yearold bowman ville lad was fatally injured in the presence of his father on saturday afternoon thc father son and hockett had gone out shooting after dinner near the goodyear plant flats and were re turning when the lewis lad is said to have challenged hockett to hit his hat as he threw it in thc air placing an apple in it he threw it and hock ett tired and missed taking the ap ple out the lad threw it in the air again and hockett aimed and fired as it came down just as he pulled the trigger the latter told chief con stable sydney venton he saw young lewis either step or trip in front of him and the charge hit him just be hind the temple coming out at the back of the head seeing his son fall to the ground bureau issues wage statement earnings among wageearn ers at last census show railwaymen to be highest paid the number of wageearners ot all classes in canada at the census ot 1931 was 25c6001 and they earned 2102- 877400 during the twelve months prior to the census there were 191s509 males whose earnings were stated and 52s53s females the balance which did not report earnings was ss9g3 tha shot fred lewis fainted and it was average yearly earnings of all ages was not until hockett had revived him that 927 for males and 5c0 for females the two were able to carry the ladj at the age of seventeen or under half a mile to the goodyear plant there were 11cc72 of whom 700gj where dr c w slemon was called to attend him he was taken to bow manville hospital but he died seven hours later at 8 oclock on saturday evening coroner dr v ii storey after questioning the two who wit nessed the accident decided that an inquest was not necessary arthur lewis an only son is survived by his parents and two sisters business better declares doctor severe weather is predicted honored by france montreal pierre charton coun cilor of foreign trade has been nam- w knight of tho legion of honor one pf tho highest honors bestowed by the trench government he received thc distinction in recognition of his efforts sn promoting trade between france pud canada premier is named in island province charlottetown hon dr w j p macmillan designated premier of prince edward island to succeed the late hon j stewart kc submit ted his selection of cabinet ministers to lieutenantgovernor charles dal- ton the list includes all members of the stewart administrate and adds hon dr augustine a macdonald of souris kings county present speak er and oldest member of thc legisla tive assembly rice lake hunters report season good cobourg duck hunurs returning from rice lake report thc best of luck they say the majority of hunt ers secured their full allowance of birds it is stated that the abundant crop of wild rice and celery has been the great attraction for these birds this season the past three or four years thc shooting has been very poor on account of thc feed shortage blame bear for killing sheep at glasgow farm glasgow ont following the kill ing of a sheep at the farm of henry simpson here and the sighting of a big black bear believed to be the killer residents of this district were on a hunt for the marauder car loads of arrrod men scattered throughout the vicinity of thc simpson farm watching for mr bruin tiger footballer has neck broken raymond roach of cubs in cast hurt at halftime hamilton oct 15 raymond roach a halfback on the hamilton tiger cubs football team had his neck broken in the game with balmy beach here on saturday afternoon catching a kick a yard behind his own goalline just before the halftime whistle roach was trying to run the ball out when two balmy beach wing- men closed in on him he went down dropped the ball and the play cost tigers a safety touch carried from the field on a stretcher roach was found by dr j w tice the club physician and dr j k mc gregor tj bo paralyzed in one arm he is in a cast at st josephs hospi tal where physicians predict his re covery fort erie weather prophet gives reason for his forecast of cold weather fort erie ont the annual goose- bone prophecy for the niagara penin sula has been issued by jcey ocon nor 60yearold resident of fort erie south mr oconnor has been prog nosticating for 12 years in fort erie and claims never to have made a wrong prediction here are his reasons tke coming winter will be a cold and harsh one the thickness of bark on the north sides of elm trees size of bush in the tails of squirrels and the earliness of dogs in shedding their coats the height of the weeds will be the depth of the amount of snow to fall and are said to be unusually high prior to coming to fort erie oconnor obtain ed a wide reputation as a goosebone prophet in ridgeway pa where folks ordered their coal supply in accord ance with his prediction he claims remarkable pickup in many canadian industries noted othwa definite and tangible evi dence of business improvement has been provided by a remarkable pick up in many canadian industries g f towers assistant to the general manager of the royal bank of can ada stated in a speech here he vns addressing the annual convention of the canadian chambers of commerce he referred particularly to the im provement in profit and loss accounts watching the monthly statements he declared one cannot help being amazed at the remarkable change in the results being obtained by a num ber of canadian companies he pro phesied satisfactory business in can ada during the course of the next few years it has been pointed out on many occasions that canadas prosperity depends almost entirely on the export of the products of our farms forests mines and fisheries mr towers said this being the case there is little this country can do by itself to pro mote a really substantial increase in our activities true we can and should do everything possible to put our house in order from a financial point of view and also to reduce co3ts to meet world competition central bank for canada bennett parley makes plain world resolution meant dominion edmonton premier bennett ad dressing a capacity audience in mc- dougall united church here left no shadow of doubt as o his meaning when he declared in favor of a cen- t al bank for canada during his ad dress at winnipeg on october 10 one of the resolutions unanimously agreed upon at the world economic conference stated mr bennett was rat in all developed countries there should be a central bmk beyond gov ernment control to control credit and itstrict speculation and otherwise deal with international transactions that resolution which canada supported meant of course that this country should have a central bank mr bennett declared he referred to the recent inquiry by a royal commission on banking and its report which would shortly be published dealing among other things with the establishment of a central bank 1750000 elevator contract for the 2000000 bushel ele vator to be built at erie beach near fort erie has been let to a toronto firm estimated cost is 1750000 plans for the elevator were made after the british government agreed to al low sixcentsabushel tariff preference on wheat shipped through empire ports duke of york opens hostel at portree the duchess of york ate seaweed the occasion was the lunch at the opening of the new hostel at por tree presented by the earl of elgin every item on the menu except cof fee came from the island of skyc snipe cream and a special seaweed irould were the two delicacies skye lived up to its title of the misty isle but the mist that gather ed on the mountains did not damp the enthusiasm of the large crowds that awaited the arrival of the royal pair at the hostel tho duke of york declaring the hostel open said i have heard that its romance and beauty have earned for this island such titles as thc isle c mist and shadows and the isle of glowing morn and now i should like to add an other the isle of kind and loyal hearts had many troubles the ontario old age pension board receives many excises from sons who wish to place parents on the pensions list rather than sup port them last week however a farmer asked the board to look after his mother he sent in a letter which eclipsed all others crops are poor he said prices are away down my barn burned and yester day my wife presented me with trip lets all boys mangels sugar mangels and sugar beets excel in providing succulence for all casses ot swine both young and mature breeding stock and growing pigs for winter feeding were males and 4gg09 females ths average earnings ot the former wera 270 and the latter 251 there were 23421 wageearners ot seventy and ever of whom 214s4 wera males and 1940 females the average earnings of the former were 791 aud the latter 340 the age of greatest earning was be tween tytive and fiftytour when the average for males was 1203 and for females g9s amongst selected cecupations tha highest average earnings by nialea were 1 locomotive engineers 2198 2 railway conductors 2130 3 school teachers 157g 4 telegraph operat ors 1503 5 compositors and print ers 1360 0 street car conductor and motormen 1325 7 locomotive firemen 1297 8 bookkeepers cash iers etc 1232 9 electricians and wiremen 1222 10 stationary engine- men 11s3 school teachers were the highest paid amongst females the averaga earnings being 91s graduate nurses 914 bookkeepers and cashiers 841 office clerks s32 stenographers and typists s31 telephone operators cs2 hairdressers and manicurists g25 bookbinders g05 furriers 547 dressmakers 532 unemployment affected earnings la various classes of industry males in construction earned on the average ol 709 and females 732 in mining males 903 and females s20 in manu facturing males 1038 and females 542 in transportation and communi cation males 1171 and females 800 in trade males 1150 and femalei g30 in finance males 1730 and fe males s79 and in service malei 117g and females 502 charges of insincerity in di statesmen of four big powers confer throughout sunday on outcome of german withdrawal berlin germany in bitter anger announced her withdrawal from thc league of nations and the world dis armament conference although two years notice is re quired before germany ceases to bo a member of the league her dele gates were instructed not to attend a council meeting and to return home berlin oct 15 under thc dicta torial control of adolf hitler her reichstag and state parliaments dis solved germany stood tonight divorc ed in intention from the family of na tions at geneva and outside the dis armament conference on november 12 elections to the reichstag and a plebiscite will be held in order to enable the people to ex press their approval of the course of the nau regime indications arc that only nazi names will appear on thc ballots against which thc voters may write yea or nay gcnva oct is statesmen of thc four big powers decided today that thc disarmament conference should adjourn for approximately a week but there were asuranccs that if thc conference dies at least it will die slowly after a daylong discussion of the gravity of germanys withdrawal from the disarmament conference and the league of nations represen tatives of great britain the british dominions france italy and thc un ited states refused to admit that dis armament is a dead cause thc adjournment was considered necessary for a worldwide inventory of the international situation govern ments must deliberate cabinets must meet so serious indeed was germanys bit from thc machinery of interna tional life that governments will want to consult with one another without effective german participation the statesmen seemed fully to realize that it will scarcely be practical to make a convention prince is eulogized by new paris paper paris the new parisian daily news paper le jour appears with an eulo gistic odtorial on the prince of wales the prince with the physical resist ance of an athlete endowed with ex tremely keen intellectual faculties pos sessing unshakable moral stability is the master of himself as he will one day be the master of half the globe it said what one likes about him is that besides being the heir to a vast empire he is a man strong and inde pendent sure of himself and silently watching his destiny approaching him ottawa issues book covering the customs act ottawa a consolidation of the cus toms act together with all amend ments to the tariff has been completed by officials ot the national revenue department in a comprehensive vol- umo just issued the book contains all the canadian trade treaties and in terpretative notes for the guidance of importers a number of explanatory appendices also add to theelueidation of that complex element of fiscal ad ministration the tariff hamilton firestone plant increase wages 10 pc hamilton effective as of oct 9 wages at the local plant ot the fire stone tire and rubber company were increased 10 per cent all employees are included confirming thc report william h funston president and general man ager said the revision would mean payment of an additional 100000 per year late potatoes yielding better root crops improve recent rains encourage plant ing of fall wheat new road the frequent rains have encouraged a number of farm ers to put in some fall wheat even at this late date owing to thc dry wea ther unless the ground has been plow ed early working the soil was found impossible so the last week or so has seen quite an acreage sown following the rains apple picking is well under way but the reports from the orchards are not promising a very heavy yield of good fruit there is still a small amount of barn threshing to be done also some buckwheat and millet outside but as most of the threshing is from the stook only a few farmers put their grain in the barn and this veek will nearly finish the threshing the roots begin to show the effects of the rains and if fine weather con tinues there will still be a fair crop of turnips and other roots potatoes are also much better than the early ones but not of as good qual ity as is usual in these parts beans arc not yielding the usual crop the tobacco is now harvested and in the barns awaiting the buyers bridesmaids told to cover heads in church a wedding at st marys parish church acton england was interrupt ed for some minutes because the two bridesmaids were without headdress the procession to the chancel waa delayed while the verger went to tha vestry to obtain two pieces ot white material i- serve as headgear these hj iuided to the bridesmaid with the intimation that it wa3 tha rule at that church that the womena heads should be covered the bridesmaids donned the white coverings and the service proceeded conducted by the rector the rev per- cival gough the verger explained that a stock ol white material was kept in the vestr in readiness for such emergencies woman finds home too dear to leave london worlds end passage is be ing demolished but old mrs kent re- fuses to quit worlds end passage is a block ot slum houses in the chelsea district which have been condemned by tho london county council and mrs kent is a 74yearold partially paralyzed tenant whose one room gradually la being pulled down around her the lady steadfastly has declined the alternative accommodation offered her by the local authorities it takes her five hours to shuffle to the post of fice 250 yards away to collect her old- age pension ontario beavers to go o glasglow zoo toronto far from their nativa haunts two pairs of ontario beavers will soon be sitting in confinement wondering whether or not their strong sharp teeth will ever again bite upon thc woods with which they arc fa miliar the department of game and fisheries in cooperution with tha the late authorities at the rivcrdalc zoo ha ar anged to send them to the scottish zoological gardens in glasgow new trinidad stamps trinidad bwi trinidad may soon have a new issue ot postage stamps to take the place ot the present issue which was brought out in 1922 a com mittee has been appointed by the gov ernment to prepare a design which is expected to be based on drawings de picting local agricultural products no more sulphur simcoe for years a spring has spouted sulphurous water for genera tions of sifticoe people recently it suddenly ran dry its underground course presumably blocked or divert ed now just as suddenly it has started to gush again but there is not a trace of sulphur in its water conversion loan for nz subscribed 10 times oyei london the csoofiooo conversion ioaufor new zealand was subscribed 10 times over as with the recent canadian loau the small applicants will receive a full allotment but tha others will got only a portion of their application the loan was in 3i per cent bonds designed to cover a similar amount in 5 per cent bonds and was issued at 97 80 copies a day the macmillnn commission on bank ing in canada which has concluded its work travelled 11000 mlics held 21 sittings the cvidenc covering foul thousand pages of transcript tha work involving so copies day wai accomplished by tho thra reportcri and three typists