E o’ Auxiliary .0,y,ll.c.A. Hold ' Annual Meeting

mus] meeting of the suxularvoztnsmsacaa. held yams-day afternoon in till lours. The Pmldentplldrs. M, wmpbell, occupied the

' m... showed the (simple- duplgndld year's work. The activity of the society has uw-mg for the Thursday Y's Men's supper. nts were made for the rummage sale tolls held

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'__ 31s] half hour was spent and . n, served by the members. wmg is the list of officers v ,. {or the ensuing year: Meant, Mrs. Jean Crockett. m President, Mrs. W. Johnson. hump-gr, Mrs. Doble. ‘ ' . my, Mrs. Nell McLean. n, vice presidents from the var- ‘ churches are as follows: Iwtlst: Mrs. (Dr.) J. A.'Clark , m. J. D. Jenkins. “James: Mrs. D. McLean and .. llcnry Larthcm- , mnjty: Mrs. Roy Kendall, Mrs. ' gudmore. Mrs. J. McNeil‘ and b w. Rowe. ' _ 5;, Peters: Mrs. Harris and Mrs.

s; Paul's: Mrs. Miller/and Mrs.

l gmll. .wtral Christian: ma. Lelth

t, and Mrs. Frank Stewart. ‘m: Mrs.‘ A. Millen- nnd Mrs. l . Dillon. '

x’ DAYLIGHT unusual.

ppm, N. v, April zc-Mcst i New York State will g0 on day- . saving time late th's month. i. some communities, however, ,...; opposition continues to the system which wes a United- govemment requirement dur- ,. the World War and has found i- in many cities and villages u. _.lll of the state's lerse cities ex- . Syracuse and Rochester will their clocks ahead sp 1mm,- .- most oi the warm months. i New York City and most upstate lu-u the ichanse will be .-. Sunday, April M." flies of the State Mbyors Con- issncc show that the daylight sav- . controversy has come practically pa standstill. With one exception .~ cities this year have indicated hi they will change from the sys- cf time keeping they‘ employed i summer. ' [cities that are expected to use Vbyllght saving this year include: loony, Anlsterdam’ Buffalo, Glens vhlls, Cloversvillg, New York, New- hlfll. Poughk -sle, Schenectady . Saratoga Springs, Troy, lllllte Plains, Yonkers. l; Among those expected to remain I standard flme include: Auburn, “Mavis, Coming, Dunkirk, Elmira, uloisvs. Hornell, Ithaca and Niag- lfl Falls.

‘DIN IN WAR AGAINST RATS

- WW YORK, N. Y., April 26 - iliiy-two ship companies ope illller the flagaof fourteen nations l" mportirlg the United States Mlle Health Service in its efforts h New York to prevent the mead §tl disease by ellmlnatng breeding ‘M! for rats on their ships. ac- Miilig to Surgeon General Hugh I ouznming. In summarising the Ink Dr. Cumming says 328 ships at Yolk are being renovated with " in view. , 1h the sovernments drive to slim ‘lluie the menace of rate on ships ililily difficult problems were en- ~'lered, and in some instances fills were folmd to have become so "liilllsly entrenched that they suc- "wiiliy resisted all the customary ‘ilim or dislodge them. Contrary ‘i’ “it senernl impression that the Jfilvities of rstg wary nonlinear filo holds, store rooms, galls , Nines and crews‘ quarters, sur- Iils made by officers and mspect- ln of the Public Health Service have revealed s. wide distribution - if rat life, . ‘Hwy have built nests under the his oi u» mighty’ in the captain's .f“"'i°"»" says nr. cumming. y quenched their thirst with water Fished from wash stands unnu- .“ la do luxe suites, reared families iii ihe covered spaces at the botiom P‘ ‘Mimosa. feasted on midnight to in cabins, smoking rooms hum. sun, frequented first- bathroonle and played hide- . “W! behind rtdisfor recesses in 3mm‘! "ill public rooms-In‘ one llama" tnrv invaded the cabin of i esval officer said nested on the c from of his mil-dress uniform. "who thoughtwsesafeiyetossd i "1 the all-metal dressi- locates ina- ~ 08f hi‘ baa“, :

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Miners Use. Modern Methods

EDMONTON, Alta, April se-(ny The Canadian Pressl-Droning of s‘ 6089p or more propellers flashing a- cross the levivlng bsrrens in spring “flight sounds the prologue 'for developments on the shores of Great Bess-Lake Andbeckinthe elites and towns and villages scores of 1100i‘! veterans of the Trail of '08 are wearing sardonic grins. Itlsnotbecausethelfykonvet- erans are pessimistic. It is because they recall the mashing with dog foams in so and co below eero weather as compared with the mod- ern prospectors who isrsummcr or in will"! flaring or autumn, step inio cabin ‘planes and look down from four or five thousand feet on the nursed ground below. Plush seats in trains to the end of steel and a warm cabin mcnoplane to the scene of prospecting carry the wealthy hunters in a,few hours over the some distance that took toll of hundreds of lives and maimed hundreds of others in the search for the yellow metal elf the northland. Gold is only a passing fancy of‘ i318 0308900001! holding for Great Bear Lake as spring breaks, but the path is not so may as the Yu- kon veterans imagine. The modem prospector has his trouble; and the 'plane pilots face some dangers the Yukon musher never thought about. Redium-bearlng pitohblonde is the lure of the north today, along with silver, copper and chances of gold. Up to late last autumn 500 claims 118d been staked along the eastern shores of the lake, and the plos- pectors who risked their lives dur- 1118 the winter months and those who challenged rigors of early mring have filed mother 200 claims

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Reserve Created For Beavers In Northern Quebec

QUEBEC, Que, April iii-thy the Canadian Press) - Is the beaver, that aquatic little bulyboliy. whose name is linked with the maple leaf as Canada's national unblem. in danger of becoming extinct? This is a question which has oft been repeated of late, and a recent proc- lamation by the Quebec Government would tend lo show that fear is felt for the little furry beasts ex- istence in this province, at least. I'm some years past great inroads have been made on the life of the beaver by nomadic hunters and tmppers to such an extent that its rapilfdecllne in numbers, partic- ularly ln the region of Mlslesslnl and the James Bay district has mov- ed the provinclel government to in- stitute measures whereby the in- dustrlous little dam builder would he saved from complete extermin- ation. According to an order in colmcil issued by the provincial min- ister of colonTaatlon and fisheries a hunting reserve 7,200 miles in area will be created in the Mistassinl and James Bay districts where the hunt- ingof beaver will be prohibited dur- ing a period of, fifteen year to all except the Indians’ inhabitln, that particular section of country and who make a living by that type of hunting. The restricted area is bolmded on the west by James. Bay, on the north by the Eastmain Riv- er, on the south by the Rupert Riv- er and easterly by the 76th meridian 0f latitude. The colonization in- lster has recomended that a num- her of beaver be caught and taken from other districts to be used as a nucleus in the re-stocklrlg oi the reserve.

Oldest mtabitdnt: "No, sir, I

m“ 7°" m date‘ The? ‘might ‘Mann's been the same since I were

north in staking the'r claims, and lflm over;-

what wealth oi.’ the earth they can find. '"

Points of concentration during the

’ _, short summer season under an Arctice sun-June, July and Aug- lllt. Willi DB-fls oi late May and most of September thrown ln-wlll be Fort Norman, Echo Bay, Lablne Point, Conjurer Bay, Hunter Bay and unnamed territory along the whole eastern shore of the lake. Within the boundaries of Alberta, Iibrt Vermillion and the territory. around McMul-ray and Waterways prospecting is likely but it will be without the giamor of the more northerly section within the shad- ow of the" Arotlce Circle.

Visitor: “I didn't know you'd had a motor accident."

Oldest lnhabitant: ""l‘warn't a motor. "Twas the mail coach, Mbhaelmas, IBSQP-Husnorist Lon- don.

Geology of the whole area around Great Bear Lake is complex and intriguing. A coarse crystalline pink granite makes an intrusive contact with an older series 0f sediments and volcanics. and these granites, widespread, form the boundaries of the mheralized areas.

The contact is marked by an ex- tensive zone of dark red - dense syenlte and syenile porphyry. Min-

Discpvcry of the radium-laden pitchblolide, silver and copper ores‘ have been made along the east ;

eralizatlon appears definitely asso- ciated with the syenltes and P01‘- phyrles.

The federal government has shown

shores. Gold ores, running betweenimgeregt m the area, one gurvey $18 and $30 to the i011 hi" 00°" has been completed and another is mum!’ but the 5°15 ‘i450! 1-! miunder way. Dr. Hugh S. Spence,

stages even loss developed than the‘ pi‘ blonde, silver and copper. Fort Norman is chiefly noted for oil discoveries made by early pros- pectors in 1m, when crude oil was discovered at a depth between 900 and 1,000 feet. The field has lain lmdeveloped since, but this spring crews were sent, into the territory by the Imperial Oil Company and the prospects for the wells supply- ing prospectors with fuel oil this simmer run high. Fort Norman also boasts deposits of lignite, but de- velopments in llgnite mining are not anticipated for some tfme be- cause of the lrli; 0i transportation facilities, which warrant the remov- al of only the riches of ores because of the high oosis of bringing out pay loads.

Copper and what else °ould be found lured Gilbert Lablne to Great Bear Lake in May, 1030, and there he found Cobalt biqcm on rock out- crops on the extreme northwcstcrly point of land bounding Ebho Bay. At Hunter Bay. .10 miles north of Echo Bay, prospectors under Mc- Alp'ne‘s directions located copper de- posits a year earlier. Both expeditions lmderwent the rigors of the north, ahd MoAlpine and his party fought storms of great severity before they made they way back to civilization.

Along with the Cobalt bloom, Ln- bine discovered an extensive vein gyghm of highly mlnersllud mater- 141 carrying cobalt, Vsmuth, copper. 1954, manganese, silver and most intriguing of all, a dark pitehy look- ing heavy mincral-pltchblende.

The rumor broke throush 11'0"! the Arctic. The report proved im- nut it was a ions time before rub- lle attention was generally directed to the Asotiok fringe. Twelve months after Lebine found the puehblende the race was on for the radium.

Besides Gilbert mum and h" “sly associates of the llllderlde

qqmpgny, numerous other my" gfimpanios hsvt sent pm!- pgetorg into the field-Consolidated lining and smelting Company. 10°- mlnicn Iiimlorers. Vmlm" ‘"4 n others are still loiilifll m, . Borne have gone far bey- ond Great Bear Lake. 1411008 i110!" the’ planes of Consolidated Smelt-

mAIfstant-Oll. sir, iv. only mar Way. the lion-tamer. she's out l Mimi .

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mineral technologist of tho geolog- ical staff, Department of lidines, made the initial survey Over the territory, and this year the work started by Dr. Spence is belns carried on by Dr. D. F. Kidd. I member of his staff. Dr. Kidd will establish headquarters at Echo Bay and in July he is expected to be joined by s. larger staff of experts who will work under his direction during the summer.

There will be more men in the district this year than ever before. Every train for Waterways carries more than one prospector. And. important, ‘planes are leaving Ed- monton and MoMurraywith more regularity. For,‘ 1s being carried in by ‘plane, and the same is true 0i clothing and mining moment And the true start of the best prospect- ing period is still two or three weeks away]

A report made by Dr. Spence says the ptchblende is found in persist- ent veins, within or along the con- tacts of what appear to be highly sheared and often becciated green- stone band", 121m: bands are usu- ally narrow, 10 or 20 feet, but some times reach b0 feet or time, ‘PM? have an almost vertical dip, s very persistent strike, and can often be traced for long distances by their eroded outcrops. They occur at fre- quent intervals, 50 to lei/oral hull- dred feet apart, along the lake shore striking inland Ind converging slightly. ‘firs, says Dr. Span”. 808- gests they possibly run together somewhere to the northeast.

0f the numerous sheared bands on and srwnd Iebine Point. four have been found to carry pitch- blende veins. Many of them are probably barren but prospecting and development to dais have be con- fined principally to two veins and little attempt has yet been made to explore others.

‘There is in short, every evidence that there exists at ublns Point an extensive and fairly closely-graced pltehblende vein thereon readily be en,.loltsd by underground devel- qpmmt," ssys m. Spence. "Pitch- blende, however. is seldom visas on the actual surface owing to westb-

m; which have nosed into the north co make mrvm in i?! . I s git.‘ l.

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Bay State Rivers Free To Anglers.

moron, ma. April, Iii-(By the Canadian mean-Massachusetts fishennen are digging bait and wind 1118 flies. In order 1100190100‘ m9 earliest colonial which pro- vlded that hunting and flshlnl should be free to all the inhabitnnts of the Commonwealth, and at the same time to adjust an apparent conflict between rights of llild owners and fllllinl "Sh" 0f sportsmen, the stale has embarked on s. new departure, when the fish- i118 ace-son opened on April 15. 91° local Isaak Waltons, for the first time in history, were able to Willi? stretches along one of its best known rivers, leased by the state for the sole purpose or fishing.

The stream Lg the Westfield River. an excellent stretch of trout water. Strips of land extending ten feet back from the water along the east branch, and totalling more than 25 miles, are already under lease by the state. with the prospect of more than 50 miles eventually being turn- ed into public fishing grounds, ac- cording to R. J. Kenney, director of the Commonwealth's fisheries and game division. _

Twp years B80 a balance of funds in one of the dlvlslonibranches en- abled the groundwork to be laid, The Westfleld was selected and a few leases obtained. Stretches of land along both sides of the river and covering some of the most de- sirable trout pools in the stream have since obtained in the towns of Huntington, Chesterfield, Cumming- ton, Worthington, Chester and Mid- dlefield. lit is eventually hoped to secure leases along the river's three branches, at $20. a mile per year for the ten foot strips, and to purchase the strips at the end of a five year period. In this manner a consider- able area of land for fishing will gradually become state property, to be maintained for the sportsmans berlefit.

All the leased stretches have been plainly marked by signs to avoid trespass on private property, and rights of way have been clearly in- dicated.

To insure that both the owners of the leased lands and adjoining property holders will be amply pro- tected, special game wardens have been assigned.

NEW DEVICE ENABLES DEAF MUTES T0 FEEL MUSIC AND ORATORY

EVANSTON, Ill., April 28—1f you were struck deaf, mute- and blind tomorrow, could you learn to feel the world's most beautiful symphon- ies or the moss inspiring oratlons within s'x months.

This posible s Jacement of man's sensory organs has been brought about by the development of a strange little machine called the teletactor upon which Dr. Robert H. Gault, professor of psychology at Northwestern Universit, has been experimenting for eight years.

It is only during the pass year. Dr. Gault declares, that definite re- sults have been obtained.

Dr. Cault measures his results In a somewhat unusual manner. Ai- though many of his instruments are in use at the. Illinois School for the Deaf at Jacksonville Ill., from which he has been receiving en- couraging reports, no "genuine" op- portunity to test the apparatus ap- peared until he discovered Miss Hel- en Mhy Martin, 88, who has been a blind deaf mute since she was four.

M'ss Martin, who-oddly enough —has been using her big toe as an ear taught herself to play a few pieces on the piano by pressing that big toe against the middle peddle of the instrument. Her music was halt- ing, crude, expressionless and s trifle wlerd. Nevertheless, she ev- entually pjeced together "A Perfect Day." ’

The teletsctovr consists of a smell vibrat'ng disk, upon which the deaf person places his finger. It is con- nected with a microphone through a battery and amplifier. with this outfit sounds of spoken language can be felt. Inasmuch u no two sounds feel alike, a deaf person's understanding develops as he dif- ferentfates between the lntmsity of the vibrstio .

By patient application, Dr. Cault is slowly teaching Miss Martin the differences in sound. The woman has learned only b0 basic words, but herprogressinmusichssbeenhst- ter.

"By playing ‘A Perfect Day‘ on the phonograph for her," he said "we finally taught her that it was t!!! piece she had been Pllillll en the piano. Then, slowly, she noted the differences between her rendit- imolthssongandthatofthe orchestra. In the past few weeks shellas been putting color into her music."

"More money,” he sighed. "You're always wanting money. This life's 1130.0 lilsne of chess. Nothing but 0110000. absenc- 011mm"

‘Will.’ she replied, "if you don't give use money it wi'l be even milk like s' game of chess. It will

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Veteran Sealers Return To Port With Small Fare

sr. JOHN'S, Nfld., April sis-nay The Canadian Press) -— Newfound- 1and's annual foray lnio the north- ern icefields is over for another year. The sealers are back. First to arrlveinportaftermorethana month among the floes was the Beothlc. well known to Arctic wat- ers through her VOYIIOI to the Canadian government's outposts in the north. She slipped into St. John's harbor on April 12, with 5.000 sell-l. leaving her three sister vel- sels in the smallest fleet ever to set out in pursuit of the whiteeosts and harps, to stow their gear and follow. But for heavy winds and thick fog with unusually heavy ice conditions. this year's fishery would have been a good one, insofar as the average take was concerned. But the ele- ments conspired against the "swil- ers." Captain W. C. Windsor of the Beothic reported "one of the worst springs for many years." The fleet. small at the outset, was further depleted a week after sall- ing, when in mid-March both the Neptune and Ranger were caught in the ice and lost their propellors. necessitating townge’ back to St. John's. That left the Beothic, llhgle Terra Nova and Iomege, all steam- ers well known in the annals of the seal fishery, to carry on. Tile weather being what is was. the Beothlc bore up for home on Alpril 9, dropping her crew off at coastal villages in Bonavista and conception Bays, until only a skele- ton roster remained on her arrival hers. While this year's catch of the four vessels engaged was small in com- parison with the ordinary year's take fo 200,000 or so, the season was without any major misadventure such as the loss of the Viking off Horse Island last March, when a score of men were killed in the ex- plosion which wrecked the ship. The men's health generally was good. Minor misfortunes, however, were plentiful and kept the catch low, Just after sailing the Beothic spent several days caught in an ice-jam. On March 11 she was again impris-

Rockfellefs Nephew l Is Questioned

WASHINGTON, April 26—(By Ken Clark, Canadian Press Staff. Corresondent)- The magic name of Rockefeller today entered thg "D011 of the United States senatr committee investigating short soi- ling.

Percy A. Rockefeller, nephew u; John D. took the stand and sub- mitted himself to the questioning of William A. Gray, a bespectacled

big-jawed lawyer from Philadel- phia. ROCKEICIIG!‘ said his present

market position was long. He had sometimes been on the short side. He was doubtful about the propo- sition that short selling caused prices of securities to decline for any length of time.

Rockefellerk answers were made in such a low tone that chairman Norbeck asked him to speak more loudly. He is a tall man of middle age. He wore a blue suit, a. light blue shirt, a dark blue tie and a white collar. He looks like a young edition of his uncle.

Matthew C. Brush. self described as a. "substantial trader" on the exchange, admitted today that short selling depressed prices when some other operator was liquidat- ing e. large block of stock.

"I am going to get shot anyway when I get back to New York." said the trader, amid laughter, “so I might as well tell you." He referred to his admission that short selling could depress the market.