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jugoslavia threatens to take direct action with hungary warns if league fails to satisfy she will deal with hun gary alone backed by allies demand for revision of treaties intensifies balkan crisis geneva monday hungarian disclosures that jugoslavia has threatened to withdraw her appeal to the league and act on her own unless sho obtain- satisfaction from hungary in the assassination back wash caused grave concern here the jugoslav threat revealed sun day night by hungarians was said to have the support of roumania and czechoslovakia the other members of the little entente in the early morning hours after ceaseless conversations between the lawrence waterways treaty will be ratified next session with ballots to spare if the issue conies to a vote a test is almost certain since president roosevelt already has an nounced he would resubmit a modi fied treaty provided canada agrees to some slight changes belief that the administration can bring about approval of the pact which provides for the building of i a seaway from the great lakes to the i tne atlantic was by no means un- com- animous a strong combination of but senators closely in touch with prevailing sentiment assert president roosevelt can not only secure st lawrence ratification but united states adherence to the world court if he desires it legislators said they had heard nothing to indicate the president would urge adherence but on the other hand nothing to indi cate he would not canada sweeps athletic meet in new zealand school boy athletes win invent track and field british french and italians british delegation announced a promise formula had been worked democrats and republicans defeated t the treaty last session and some of anthony eden lord privy seal of hem feel they can do it again britain will submit tho text to the little entente and hungary and try to get their formal adhesion at the quickly called meetings capt eden pierre laval of france eduard benes of czechoslovakia and baron pompeo aloisi of italy were in solemn parley until after midnight the developments as a result of the new disclosure caused tho entire central european conflict to be viewed as having reached its most delicate and dangerous stage by acting on her own jugo slavia would no longer accept a league of nations solution to the j charges against hungary of harboring j terrorists and the assassins respon sible for the killing of king alexan der it was explained jugoslavia would seel a direct accounting with hungary laval and aloisi acting as gobetweens for the little en tente aiu iui respectively ear lier met with n fruitful result it was stated that at this meet ing m laval communicated the little entente threat to baron al- 1 1 i who later informed tiber eck- lmidt hungarian minister to the lea ae of nations a a second interview sunday 11 1 it laval and aloisi likewise fail- ei o reach any solution val aso discussed the admitted ly jllcate situatilon with anthony imc foreign minister bdward banes of czechoslovakia and nich olas polilis of greece chairman of a special committee of the disarma ment conference in view of the continuing and even increasing tension the session of the leagi 3 council scheduled for this morn lg was postponed probably to tiie rterncon although the hour had not b eu fixed early today frances position unequivocal foreign minister laval speaking for fiance saturday said dramatical ly delicate situation with anthony via in this grave conflict and re peated his recent assertion before the french chamber of deputies whoever seeks to remove change the position of a frontier stone troubes the peace of europe after lavals dramatic address arifhcriy eden of great britain rose to tell the packed and tenso coun cil hall our duty is to refrain from language which will create bitter ness we must circumscribe and not extend the limits of the question captain eden continued urging the neccjity of proceeding with ex- troaie caution tho british lord privy seal la condemning terrorism referred to the abuse of the socalled right of asy lum and said britain does not tolerate the abuse of personal freedom which consists of employing or advocating the em- aioyment of ullegal action against constituted authority whether at homo or abroad the points raised are in the leagues custody for the time being but the leagues efforts cannot be expected to come to fruition unless thero is determined effort on the part of all states toward moderation in word and deed baron alois the italian represen tative whose government previously had announced its support of hun garys defence against jugoslavias charges that she harbored alexand ers assassins declared revision is not terrorism my country was the lirst to af firm that the principle of the treat ies must be adapted to modern con ditions as the best means of conser ving peace aloisi said but has always insisted that adaptation must follow legal channels while praising hungarys honor and loyalty and the proud man- ner in which sho had repudiated jugoslav accusation of her compli city aloisi in his address took no sldo in the dispute admitting it mlgbt menace peace and declaring tho league must strive to pacify the dispute royal bank promotions the markets voice of the press produce prices united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying the following prices for produce eggs grade al in cartons through associations 43c and with cases returned a large 31c a medium 24c a pullets 20c b 17c cv 15c butter ontario no 1 cream- cry 21c no 2 2014c poultry quotations in cents dressed live dressed mllkfed from left to right sir henry s holt has relinquished the presidency of the royal bank of canada and now becomes chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee morris w wilson former vice president and general manager has been appointed president and managing director sydney g dobson succeeds mr wilson as general manager having been assistant general manager for the last twelve years five- year trek of reindeer herd across arctic now nearing end 3000 animals will be released near aklavik after 3000- mile march from alaska victory for laplander will take them across the mackenzie delta to kittigazuit east of aklavik moose river nwt the drum of hoofs across the rim of canadas arctic circle wrote a march of vic tory for andrew bahr it sounded the end of a five year struggle across a 3000 mile stretch of ice to reestab lish a lost reindeer herd for 25000 eskimos in scattered settlements from kittigazuit to coronation gulf led by bahr diminutive lapland first place in all bllt one eider and his nine windtanned as sistants 3 000 sturdy reindeer set out predict seaway to pass in us republican and democrat senate leaders op timistic washington senate leaders both republicans and democrats sunday indicated they were convinced the st auckland n5c canadas school boy athletes conquered the stifiest opposition of their antipodean tour here sunday when they swept through a track and field meet against college and senior stars to collect first place in all but one event the high jump andy zizis torontos dominion sprint champio started the parade of canadian winners to the tape when he sped over the 120yard hurdles in 104 seconds the speedy ontario youngster raced i a com manding lead from the gun and eas ed up in the final 10 yards howard mcpeo and marshall li- mon of vancouver repeated their srecess of the two previous antipo dean track meets when they captured the sprints and middle distance events mcphee won the 100 yards after a stirring battle with elliott of new- zealand and bill savage of hamil ton out the british columbia sprinter hit the tape a scant foot ahead of his new zealand opponent savage was another step back in third place mcphee repeated in the 220 again nosing out elliott with zizis a close third mcphees time was 22 seconds flat and 102 for the shorter dis tance limon won the 440yard event in a close finish with lyle fleming of blenheim ont no time available eddie wares of calgary captured first place in the shot put with a heave of 47 feet seven inches less than a foot under the unofficial re cord he set at the hamilton trials several months ago subsequently disallowed when the ball proved to be underweight sam richardson youthful empire broad jump champion from toronto won the broad jump with a mark of 22 feet five inches canadians captured first and sei- ond places in the halfmile bob mitchell of toronto placing first and tom ferris of london ont sec ond no time available richardson hung up his second victory when he stepped 43 feet nine inches in the hop step and jump wares was second with a mark of 40 feet 5v4 inches mackctt of new zealand won the high jump clearing the bar at six feet ray jensen of stovensville ont tied with chadwick of new zealand at five feet nine inches for second place the canadian relay team captured that event defeating the new zealand college team by 40 yards manitoba proclaims boxing day holiday day after christmas winnipeg observance of boxing day just an old english custom has spread to manitoba under a pro clamation of licutgov w j tup- per december 2g will be a statutory holiday in this province the retail merchants association offers full co- fiom kutebue alaska christmas day 1929 now it is moving slowly across the mackenzie delta to kittigazuit east of aklavik where it will be re leased the animals spent the sum mer at this arctic coast point 150 mile northwest of aklavik to aid eskimos behind the venture was the decis ion of the dominion government to replenish depleted reindeer herds- since 1929 starvation has stalked es kimo camps throughout the barren lands invasion of the white man drove out the caribou and for five years natives have subsisted almost entirely on the white mans diet ot canned beef and tea the fiveyeartrek told an arctic saga destined to live forever in the lore of the north country long jour neys over frozen trails in 50 below- weather daring drives through per ilous mountain passes when a slip of the foot meant sudden death and bat tles at night with packs of hungry wolves that continuously stampeded the herd despite he addition of 1000 spring fawns to the original herd bahr ex pected to deliver only 2300 head their arrival however will inaugurate an arctic new deal with a full din ner pail and eventually two reindeer sleds in every eskimo garage bahr and his assistants will remain with the herd long enough to instruct the natives in the fundamentals ot rein deer breeding despite the long struggle bahr be lieves the real battle is now just be ginning the establishing of the herd will give the eskimo something ap proaching their primitive foods but the animals must be protected from tthe ravages of extermination by the wolves until tho herd is built up the handpicked cavalcade left el ephant point alaika in late decem ber 1929 in preparation for the long march bahr sercured 53 specially made sleds drawn by trained teams of domesticated reindeer to trans port equipment and supplies the great herd was able to move only in uie winter months this allowed for tho fawning season and eliminated the dangers of arctic travel in the summer months the route lay through the noazak river valley in a northeasterly dir ection to tho arctic watershed and thence across the continental divldo through the littlo used pass to tho head ot colville basin southeast of point barrow here the herd rested in tho spring of 1930 300 added to herd with 300 fawns added to tho herd bahr pushed on with freezeup in the fall and reached a point southeast of point barrow tho following spring after a summers rest the expedition arrived at flaxlman island southeast of harrison bay on tho arctic coast line bluo river 300 miles oast of flaxman was the next stopping point- the original schedule called for tho crossing of the mackenzie river basin in tho spring of 193132 but timber wolves lean and hungry from long years ot privation swooped down on tho strango procession and took their toll bahr and ills men oscaped death by keen vigilance and sharp aim with the rifle but their antlcrcd charges were less fortunate for many months tho location of tho herd was not known to the out- operation under enabling legislation passed f last oc within strl at the last session of the manitoba klng listnc of cir goal uio party legislature the lieutenantgovernor slarci on tho hist lap of a drive that proclaimed the holiday saturday his action followed a strong drive hero 17 16 where they will be released speaking of the wolf menace bahr in his first account ot the trek said they would come in the bleak hours before dawn timber wolves in packs of from four to 12 they would hover in the shadows terrify the herd and then leap in for the kill oftentimes days were lpeiit in quieting the deer and persuading them to move for ward again in orderly fashion then when the move was made the wolf menace would assert itself again with in a period of 24 hours r t porsild dominion govern ment reindeer expert and his brother a k porsild kept the party supplied with provisions while the herd trav elled through biting blizzards they drove their dog teams more than 2000 miles during the winter back and forth between herschel isiand and aklavik germany loses famous der tag prewar neutral forum joins long- list of extinct free journals berlin der tag is now added to the list of german newspapers which have disappeared since na tional socialism came to power less than two years ago der tag was formerly the organ of the german nationalist peoples party it has now been incorporated in the ber liner lokalanzeiger another news paper of the same company the scherl vcrlag der tag occupied a place of its own in german journalism before the world war it was looked upon as a more or less neutral forum in which current questions could be discussed particularly by its readers- today it cannot perform this function since few germans now venture to express their opinions on some of the most outstanding ques tions in their own press the deutsche zeitung formerly tho organ of the panamerican movement and since jan 30 1933 the journal of the reich food de partment also announces that it will discontinue its afternoon edition in addition to the scores of so cialist communist and other lib eral newsapapers and periodicals which have ceased or been compell ed to cease publication in the last 22 months there have also disappeared such onceprominent berlin dailies as the vossische zeitung berliner bor- sencouricr tagliche rundschau and deutsche tageszeitung from the view point of the ger man public it shows increased apathy toward newspaper reading since these losses arc not made up in more subscribers to the national socialist papers the german journalistic profession finds it to mean greater hardship and unemployment customsexcise revenues continue to show increase continue increases in customs and excise revenue for the month of oc tober were rtcenliy announce by hon r c matthevs minister of national keenue net collections totalled 520820015 compared with 19503483 collected during the same month of 1933 a net increase of 51- 358532 customsexcise revenue collected in the seven months period april 1 to october 31 amountd to 135971323 as against 5114190194 rceived in the same period last year a net increase of 521781129 re ceipts in detail were customs duties 15116097 increase 59076950 ex cise taxes 563863377 increase 57 935861 excise duties 526573812 increase 54829010- sundry collec tions totalled 5418037 total net collections of the depart ment including customs excise and income tax divisions for the seven months period amounted to 185518 159 this compares with 162666497 collected in the corresponding period of last year showing a total net in crease of 522851661 queen and duchess of york name new colors hens over 5 lbs 4 to 5 lbs 32 to 4 lbs 3 to 3 lbs old roosters spring chickens- 514 to 6 lbs 5 to 5 lbs 4v4 to 5 lbs under 4v lbs turkeys young geese broilers li to 2 lbs 11 a 9 6 6 12 11 10 9 a 12 11 10 9 1g 15 14 13 16 10 15 a 18 17 16 15 17 1 canada mussolinis jobs one of the latest photographs of mussolini shows him pushing a wheel barrow load of sand at the start of work on an orphan asylum we have lost unt of the number of job- he docs kingston whig standard it is announced tho queen and the duohess ot york have acceded to the request of lord derby the president of the british textllos exhibition made on behalf of the committee of the exhibition to name two new co lors in which british dress fabrics will he displayed by manufacturers at the textile section of the british industries fair in february the color to be ohoen by tho queen will be named jubilee and that chosen by the duchess ot york will be named margaret rose no rehearsal necessary hay and straw no 2 timothy hay baled ton 1750 to 1850 no 3 timothy hay ton 15 to 16 straw wheat baled ton 10 oat straw 750 to 5850 wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers arc quoting the following prices to to ronto retail dealers pork ham 17ic shoulders 13c butts 15c pork loins 19c picnics 12 me lard pure tierces 12c tubs 12c pails 13c prints 13c shortening tierces 9c tubs 91ie pails 10c prints 9ac grain quotations following are sundays closing quotations on toronto grain trans actions for car lots prices on basis cif bay ports manitoba wheat no 1 northern 87 no 2 northern 83c no 3 northern 80f no 4 northern 78c no 5 northern 77c no c northern 79c mantcn crt no 2 cw 51c no 3 cw l-vu- no 1 feed 44c nvxrd ni oat 3c manitoba barley no 3 61 vie no 1 feed screenings per ton south african corn 96c ontario grain approximate es track shipping point wheat 93 to 95c oats 36 to 38c barley 46 to 48c corn 69 to 73c rye 52 to 56c buckwheat 40 to 42c malting bar ley 70 to 74e cw 521 pric- the children were arguing it is it isnt i tell you it i c03 mummy says it is- and if mummy says it is it is even it it isnt lorne ardiel the superior sex women students have lefcated men students in a debate m the university of western ontario but women usually get the better of an argument wtth the other sex london free press students and war a questionaire was recently distributed to students of toronto university asking thorn such dues- tions as would you support war under any circumstances when is war justified would you sup port the league of nation- a stand of absolute pacifism was taken by 99 of the 200 students who responded to the questionaire sent out by varsity the undergraduate newspaper in collaboration with the international students service at geneva there were 13 militant undergraduates who declared they would go to any war that the gov ernment declared seven of these were in the faculty of applied science there were 8s supporters ot a majority defined the latter as one in which canada was invaded as a means to avert war the students sup ported the league of nations and the world court of justice of course the number who re sponded to the questionaire is only a very small percentage of the total students registered at toronto uni- vcrsitv bnintford kxpositor londons traffic at present the number of moor vehicles in the greater city realties nearly 1000000 cars vans and lorries more than 5000 buses and 10000 taxicao besides there are 259 miles cf street car lines t com plicate surface traffic problems the motorization of tie metropolis and its environs is now progressing at such a pace that not many years will elapse before the tetrl liimber of motor vehicles is expected to ex ceed 25000000 frederielon gleaner streamlined locomon lowered co t of operation and greater speed are two of the reasjri for the introduction of streamlined trains that these objectives have been attained in some degrees at least is acknowledged apparently however the new york central lines officials ae not convinced that the new fancied trains with deiselengine develop ment are going to completely revolutionize rail travel they still have faith that the steam leco-no- tive is an economic and efficient power unit therefore they have about ready for service the first streamlined high powered steam locomotive which with its head resistance re duced 35 to 36 percent as compared with the present steam locomotive will more nearly meet modern re quirements st thomas timesjournal playing love scene without any help from a director i at i atcr- son happily welcomes her husband charles boycr back to new york from europe theyre both film stars nominated by shareholders of the new bank of canada from coast to coast and from practically every section of the dominion lome ardiel has agreed to stand for election to the board of direc tors in class cv mr ardiel is known throughout the length and breadth of canada and prior to the war served many years with the dominion bank at the early age of 22 carrying managerial duties he was born in london ontario in 1890 and from 1915 to 1919 served overseas with the canadian corps on returning to canada he immediately entered the auto motive industry building up such national organizations throughout the dominion as chevrolet olds- mobile and cadillac in 1930 he established the lome ardiel company business counsellors and acquired control of the press agency bureau limited one of canadas oldest national advertising agencies es tablished 1892 in addition in 1930 he founded the world insti tute of national advertising agen cies an international organiza tion of 50 members throughout the world functioning for the inter change of all valuable and useful information regarding each coun try its products economic trends and merchandising through this affiliation comes a volume of in formation that is most valuable for central banking operation he is regarded throughout can ada as possessing great experience in banking industrial and business affairs and has an intimate know ledge of every province and section of canada class c in the new board calls for candidates of wide knowledge and experience and actively in business ancient feud the immediate antagoniism be tween jugoslavia and hungary pro bably merits all the attention it is receiving however it is also worth remembering that the slavs who predominate jugoslavia have been fighting with the magyars who pre dominate in hungary for so long that the origin of their hostility is lost in the midst of history hamilton herald an improvement it is satisfactory to know that there were 1609 fewer families in relief in winnipeg on november 10 than at the snmc time last year the number of families on relief has declined continuously since last winter until the present time on june 2 there were 7146 families receiving relief on september 1 there were 5995 and on november 10 thero were 5979 winnipeg free press a fathers problem a st paul yuoth aged 18 went out on a holdup one night re cently got involved in a fight with police and shot and killed a patrol man he got away and drncged him self home seriously wounded when he got homo his father quickly learned what had happened what should a father do in such a case nurse his son back to health keep his mouth shut and pray that the whole affair could be hushed up or step forward with spartan cour age and let the law take its course this st paul father took the la tor alternative he called a doctor then i he called the parish priest and then i he called the police and saw his son takenaway to jail to he indicted for second degree murder this man had about as ban a dc- ci ion to make as anv fahc- ropi face- he met it with conshornfilo fortitude victoria timet