TUESDAY, tiiarkdolo‘ W. I. Annual Meeting

retinas wesidem graciously thanked the members and fellow officers for their will- ing co~ooerstion durint the D8511 yeiltleport of secretary WM l8

follows: Balance from previous yell’. ‘ ,' 412s

Members fees f0!‘ WM‘- Grantu from Governrpxetnst ‘- ye“ Misce anemia reoe or .

. 2421.46 Expenditures Expenses of meetlitﬂs Spent on school. i painting, eto Cards and fruit Gifts Repairs on hail

and

etc. 5.50 C.

and nurses overseas Material for Red Cross

or. mens socks.

scarves, 7 pr toe cape- bies beetle; 1 aero cap. 9 rens’ swea rs.

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sick committee reported semi- lug several cards and makins 0m

cull. The election of officers follow- ed fc-r the ensulnil Yeﬂ-T- Pm» F, Rodd. Vice Wet. 1111 Tress

K. (rel ted) m. Harold Mac-

J. J. Duffy ‘Hen

Auditors. and Miss Mable Auld.

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School comm. Mrs H Dug. lggdmrs. M. MaoFadyen. M11 - Coo y.

Mrs. Edwin Cook was a 005119911

esentative from the itlliie no help organize a musical festi- val to be held at, some future w.

f Dec. - Lumh “miiiizéiir Mrs. Percy

appointed to hold dance in hall sometime in NW- Mrs RalDh GM’ MW» P- (my Mrs P Sentner. Parkdale fire- anan- kindlv Offered

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OEOEMB Support Theory 0f Indians’ Origin

LONDON. Dec. 1c_ “m- Boviet scientists inmaiiuhog Peninsula, on the Siberian m of Bering Strait, have lhﬂde d“, cover-Isl‘. confirmina the than that the North American Inﬂ originally cams from Asia 1 Spvriﬁt news agency ‘has said ng .

A report from Professor 0 Dihets, expedition carried outmzrlr‘. first anthropological study settled and nomadic illhlbitlntg the peninsula and of the Diomld Islands, in the Bering 51ml; The report said the, expgdju possessed materiel ‘ caring o the theory of a number of Ame can and Russian scientists that 1 North ‘American Indians originally went rom Asia to North ~ across Bering Strait. Amen"

intermediate Hockey LoopsAt Fredericton,

FREDERICTON, Dec. 10—(CP)_ Efforts to revive organized hockey here have resulted in formation of a Fredericton and District 1n. termediate Hockey League, '11,. new loop will comprise eight M nine teams, and will .bc Pep“), sented in the Provincial and Marl. time playdowns,

LINDSAY. Ont, Dec. 10-109) -Thomas Roberts of Hsliburton, known throughout this area i; "The Big Bear Man," lays u‘ during his 74 years he has bagg

more than 400 bears. His bear rugs may be found on the floors of homes in New Yor

Buffalo, Chicago and throughau

Wooden iiiits Arc Featured atiihristmac

BY FLORA LEWIS ~ LONDON, Dec. l0—(AP)—Brit- sin’: first peace time Christmas in six years will be a wooden and paper one.

Toys, trays, and book-ends of wood are about all crowds throng- ing through London's stores can find to fill their Christmas lists. And for tree trimmings-scraps of colored paper and white or yellow candles.

Since housewives know that sparsely filled shelves are bound to empty quickly, Christmas shopping started early,

Most of the stores made some effort io decorate. One has bits of red and green paper around the pillars, Another, one of the more exclusive, has found some scrubby little trees to set up in its toy de- partment. Their branches have clearly borne the joys of more than one past Christmas,

nani-rv sale on Livingston

Mrs; H Maclnnis.

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Few War Toys

Toys consist of wooden trucks, carts, animals, blocks and little al habet games. There are plenty o moiicl airplanes for lads with their hcatis on the skins but thcrc are few modcl tanks, soldier lolis or oihcr reminders of grim days.

There are no mechanical toy! and very little sports equipment» Electric trains, roller skates u!‘ bicycles are out of the question,

For young ladies of two to 1.2. there are pink and blackfaced dolls of cotton. Thoush none have delicate porcelain noses or real golden curls. they are undoubted- ly just as lovable companions,

Prices are fabulously high. A tiny puff of cotton that looks like a cat is $3. Crepe paper hats--the kind that used to cost five or 10 cents each-are 50 and 76 cents.

Clothes are impossible to think of as Christmas gifts. They all take coupons, which are precious to threadbare Britons.

The joking gift-giver can find a few fancy gewgaws that should make for merriment on Dec. 2 however. Pink and white lace garters or daring red satin ones are on sale for about $1.50.

Housewives are already collect- ing stable rations for Christmas dinner, but there will be very few turkeys or chickens.

Whisky and gin is likely to be just n5 hard to ferret out at yule- i‘ c "a it is now. But Britain is panning on a merry, peaceful Chzustmns.

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Strange Accidents During ThisiYcar

CHICAGO, Dec. 10-(0 P)—For most Canadians and Americans. 1945 will be remembered as a year of triumph and the end of history's greatest and most te-r- rible war. Scientists may hall it as the birth of the atomic age.

For Stanley J. Bonner of Hous- ton, Tex., it will always be 11-;- caiied as the year he was shot by a duck.

Bonner went hunting in his Eacic yard for a couple of domestic ducks. He dropped the first one, as planned, with a shot from his automatic pistiol. The second duck, having different ideas, banked into his gun hand and the slug struck the hunter in the knee.

ing.

Fate was a shade more gentle with Mrs. Margaret Cook of Toledo, 0. Her car blew a tire at a railroad crossing and careenrd down the truck to greet an ap- proaching freight. However, lifll‘ car snagged a signal switch and threw a red block against the train, automatically stopping it.

LONDON (CP) -— Trude statistics for July and AllZll-‘i- 1945. show goods to the value of about £8,000,000 037,440,000) were export ed from Britain for the relief of Europe.

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dqys — that's iusi another woy oi saying “Agnew-Surpass slippers ior men”. We have i em now in wide variety, and _ every pair’: e prize because |i’s packed with traditional Agnow-Surpﬁ value. We've pui oil the downright comiori into them you’|i ﬁnd in any and wo’ve added lots oi looks to make the

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Squire "in M." 9| phobia reversal sheepskin. VIIOIY tu‘ i" h’ warmth. lies liariblltliﬂii‘ gala. Cemsﬂn lea, wine. blue

and netmal brawn.

Taxi driver Ethel Sheffield‘s oar also crossed her up and then tried to right things. Her cab skidded into a lamp post in Re- gina, Sasic, in ld-degrce-belrnv- zero weather last January. She was knocked unconscious by thr». impact, but the crash set off a fire alarm box on the post and firemen rescued her from pos- ~sible death by freezing,

Jessie Spitzer of Denver got run over by a train the hard way and lived to tell about it. His auto- mobile wns involved in a collision that shot hom through the roof of his car and onto the tracks in front of an approaching freight train. He lay quietly between the rails brooding over his broken leg and bruises while the train sped over him.

Australian Letter

BY .1. D. IIOLDSWORTII Canadian Press Staff Writer SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 10- (CP (‘labial-Australians during the last month began to feel the

ngs of Wat's hangover. They ound that the end of the war still meant hardships, rationing, high taxes and ong working hours. They found, too, that the hangover involved an increase in crime ‘and a decrease in indust- rlsl stability,

Many had thought that the end of the war would mean a new era of prosperity. When few signs of prosperity and more signs of con- tinued hardship appeared, some took exception to it in violent

rm.

Crimes of violence rose to rec ord heights throughout the Com- monwealth, In Sydney, Australia's biggest city with a opuiatlon of 1.25011», nearly 40 volent crimes were reported during November. Indultrially the scene also Wu! unealy. Every state and every capital city saw instances of what some newspapers termed "indust- rial lawlessness. In Sydney, Bris- bane and Adelaide workers had to walk or hitch-hike their way to work ‘ of poﬁodic strikes affecting bus and street car ser- vices, In New South Wales there were strikes o! metal-workers, coal miners and printers, tiei up not only the: own induat u but associated ' in other

states.

0n matters affecting than more personally Australians had both shocks and pleasant surprises, Hats, footwear and some woollen ﬂoods came off tho cloths ration

at but this move was followed by a warning that cloths rationing vltolxiadnlaat at least gntii the and 0 .

uni-mini vauoowan-(o ' the hair _osal, once considered

worthless, now bat! d’ market value considerably t

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Hope Sharpost iieconvcrsions impart Passed

av JACK WILLIAMS

Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA, Dec. 1()—(C Pl- Can inn industry will chalk down 1945 as the year of reconversinn headaches. At the year-end those headaches were by no means over but there was at least hope in the minds of both employers and cm- ployees that the sharpest impact had passed.

Admittedly there was a difficult winter ahead. Industry as a whole went through most of 1945 geared to intensive war production, able to give only limited attention to the problems that would be inevit- able when the war ended.

That and came more suddenly than industrialists, in common with others, had anticipated. It came, too, well toward the end of the year, at a time when employ- ment normally drops off and that added a further complication.

The la se between VE-Day, May 8, and J-Day, Aug. 15, provided a limited cushion in the recon- version of industry to a peacetime basis. ’

Direct war employment had touched its peak of $0,000 in September, 1943. By Jan. 1, 1945, it was down to 675,000, after VE- Day the trend turned more sharp- ly downward and from VJ-Day on the line became almost vertical until, it was estimated unofficially, there were fewer than 100,000 in war jobs at the end of November.

Augmenting this flow of war workers on to tLe labor market were the veterans being discharg- ed from the forces, more than 400,000 at the end of November.

Meantime. production engineers were making good time in switch- ing plants from war to peacetime products: but there were inevit- able layoffs while equipment was changed and retooled took place. Consumer goods-new cooking u- tonsils, refrigerators and scores of small gadgets-began coming off production lines.

While all this was Boinl’ on the lines on employment graphs were reﬂecting a sudden change, The employment line wont down while the line showing the number of unemployed roseabruptly. In mid- autumn the two lines crossed and for the first time since the early stages of the war Canada had m"? DEODIe looking for jobs than it had unfilled jobs, .

There was still a lot of work to be done. Men were needed in the mines; but they were largely skilled men, Men were needed in woods operations; but former factory workers were hesitant to leave city homes for distant lum- ber camps. Men were needed for housing; but many of those r.»- quired were experienced trades. men and construction was delayed by material shortages.

‘Those with their finger on the pulse of business and employment conditions believed it would sprin before raconversion troub es would end and Canada would be in the full swing of post- war production.

Ancient Farming Goaaunity ilncovorod

._,... CHICAGO, Dec. IO-(Ari-Ivi- denoa that man first sat aside his stone axe weapon for a ﬁmitiva hoe between 1,000 and s years reported by two in

the

ing was discovery of large stone hand axes, which the archaeolo- gists said probably were used as hoes for breaking the ground.

Tokyo Newspaper Causes Sensation

TOKYO, Dec. l0—(A Pi-Minpo. Tokyo's newest newspaper, created a sensation today by editorially declaring that Emperor Hirohito was responsible for the war and advocating his removal from politics through abdication.

The newspaper did not advocate elimination of the emperor system.

The paper report that the Government consl ered estab- lishing a regency shortly after tho surrender to provide for the Ein- peror’s virtual abdication. The matter was allowed to ‘die when the Government later came to be- lieve that “Allied authorities would not he severe on the quest- ion of the Emperor," Mlnpo ex- plained.

Curse 0f Pharoah ilr Old Age ?

CAIRO, Dec. l0—(A P)—Alfred Lucas, 7D, the last principal sun vivor of the British archaeological party that opened the tomb oi‘ King Tut-Ankh-Amen in 1922.died Sunday after suffering a heart attack in a Luxor hospital.

Lucas, a chemical advisor in the Egyptian Government's Antiquity Department, hud ofien humorous- ly cited his own advancing age as disproof of the ancient curse- --“deaih shall come on swift wings to him that touchcth the tomb of a Pharaoh."

The "curse" was given wide publicit when ‘Lord Carnavaron. who wth Howard Carter headed the party that opened the tomb. led six weeks afterwards. Car- cr's death did not occur until l6 years later, hut a score of others connected with the tomb "open- ing, including several workman, died in the intervening years,

Ontario.

This year he has killed. only nine bears, but he gayqg. "I can still hike across m‘ woods from morning to‘ night “q get up the next morning feeling fine. That is what outdoor lift

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BRIGHTON, England --(O P)- A preacher since he was nine, Rev. Thomas Rhondda Williams died at 86. 8e was ordained at 20 years of age.

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