Western Star (Corner Brook, N.L.), 1931-07-08

              The Western Star  Vol. 32 Curling, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, Wednesday, July 8, 193J No, 11 Grand Falls Notes (By Our Correspondent) Mr. Jos. Lane, who spent the past two weeks on vacation in Grand Falls, returned to St. John's by Friday nights express. • 1 ** * * The Bishops Falls Tennis Club held an enjoyable dance in the Albert Hall on Tuesday evening. Quite a number of Grand Falls people, including the Riverside Orchestra, motored to Bishops and all claim to have thoroughly enjoyed the proceedings. ** • • "First Railway in America to run last train" says Popular Mechanics magazine, "America's first steam railway line, operated between Carbondale and Honesdale Junction, Pa., a distance of 23 miles, will be abandoned, its owners have announced. They gave bus and truck competition as the reason." • * * The Scouts baseball team registered another victory when they played the Guards on Friday evening. Played a snappy brand ball they hammered out fourteen runs and held their opponents down tp a tally of four. Fourteen seems to make its appearance on the score board very frequently this season, but who knows but we may see a 3-2 score before the "pill" is stowed away for its annual rest period. •* • • The Scouts defeated the C.C.C. in Monday night's baseball game by a wide margin. The C.C.C. team were without the services of "Buck" Hannaford who at this writing is situated "somewhere on the Gander" engaged in throwing "out curves" to the frisky and agile salmon. Some of them are due to get "struck out" alright as "Buck" is an expert at casting the old Silver Doctor where it will do the most good. * * • The St. Pats Football team went down to defeat when they tried conclusions with the C.L.B. in he Football Arena on Tuesday evening. Having drawn with the Cadets recently, it was thought that the "Pats" would offer their opponents some pretty stiff opposition in this game but the fates were against them however, and they were only successful in finding the net once while the C.L.B. forced the leather through for a total of four goals. • *. * Miss Netta Newhook, and Mrs. Geo. Sheppard sailed on the s.s. Geraldine Mary from Botwood, en route to Forlease, Hants, Eng., where they will represent the G. F. Company of Girl Guides at the training quarters of the G. G. Association, which wilj be in operation at the previously mentioned centre during the next month. No doubt the representatives from our town will render a good account of themselves, and help to . make Newfoundland loom larger than ever on the map in Guide Circles. Guards Defeat C.C.C. _ • fc (By Our Grand Falls Correspondent) On Thursday evening the Guards and the C. C. C. football teams met in what turned out to be one of the most strongly conested games for his season to date. Quite a large number of fans adorned the side lines while the Grand stand held a far larger number than usual "Dime Bank Look-out" situated outside the grounds on a fairly high hill was thickly populated with Trily Hats and flannel trousers, which made the old hillside look more picturesque than ever. For the benefit of the uninitiated it may be as well to add that "Dime Bank Lookout" is the place where you can watch the game and save your dime while doing so. Die Guards forwards opened the game in their us|ial brisk manner, and combining nicely gpt away to a 2 goal lead during the first half of the game. During the rest period a rosy cheeked gentleman was observed crossing the arena and it is surmised that he must have given some very valuable advice to the C.C. Boys, as upon their entry into the field for the second half they adopted different tactics, and when the final solo sounded they had secured 2 goals to line up against the 3 scored by their opponents. Hie Conway Brothers, and C. Anstey were well to the fore for the C.C.C. team, while the Dawe Bros., TiUey, and Oliver Downton were the outstanding players for the Guards on this occasion. Tommy Howse and Les. Christian put in some busy moments in the back division, while Hartley and Jimmie Griffin of the Cadets defence were kept "on the drive" very nearly all one period. Guspie Harvey received'a little shaking up that affected his play adversely, but be managed to stay on the Job until the finish. Schmelling Retains Heavyweight Title Young Stribling Loses on Technical Knockout in Last Round ONLY 14 SECONDS OF FIGHT LEFT Cleveland, July 4.—Max Schmelling successfully defended his championship, defeating Young Stribling by a technical knockout, in the fifteenth round with only fourteen seconds left. Stribling out-boxed the German in the early rounds but weakened towards the end when the fight was on the verge of a knockout. Max Schmelling the German boy who won the world's championship from Jack Sharkey on a foul and who ever since has been looked on more or less as a champion by mistake, showed the world that he well deserves the title, last night when the fifteen-; th round of his scheduled fifteen round bout with Young Stribling he was given the honors by a' technical knockout after 2 mins.l and 46 seconds of the time had elapsed. But whether or not there had been that K.O. Schmelling would have won; from the fourth! round on there was no doubt about what was going to happen and the wonder is that Stribling was able to hang on as long as he' did. It shows that he *as in con-J dition and that he had lots of ring experience. In the tenth he was alll but out when the bell saved him and from that on he spent most of the time holding and endeavoring to evade the punishment. Throughout the entire fifteen rounds Schmelling followed his man right up; none of the clinches were his and in the infighting he had it all over his man. [Through the courtsey of Simon Basha of Curling, who has about the most satisfactory radio in Curling, the people of this community were permitted to listen in and enjoy this championship fight broadcasted over the air. Mr. Basha entertained about 50 guests at his home while many others lined along the highway close by and were thus enabled to listen in.] Convention Headquarters I Towering snow-capped mountains, broad prairie lands and vast land-locked seas vie with one another for the place of honor in the hall of memory. Regina, with the 1931 Convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, July 2 and 3, may be taken as the centre of a series of journeyings east and west over Canadian Pacific lines, with the Great Lakes and the Rockies as its boundaries. The meetings of the Convention have become history; the gracious Georgian building in which they were held has become history, too, for nobody who stayed at the C.P. R.'s great Hotel Saskatchewan is likely to forget it. Towering above all other buildings in its neighborhood, located on one of the best sites in the city, on Victoria Avenue, covering the block between Scarth and Cornwall streets, facing on the park, the hotel is both central and handy to the station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, being only a few minutes' wall from it. The first two storeys above street level are faced with Tyndal stone, the balance of the structure being of grey brick, trimmed with Tyndal. The centre of the Victoria Avenue frontage carries simplified (Corinthian columns for two stories with arched windows between. Stone belts mark the third and ninth floors, while the tenth carries a stone cornice. A copper cornice surmounts the higher section of the building. Entrances from both Victoria Avenue and Scarth street lead to the main rotunda, which is of Spanish character, through which 'the dining and tea-rooms are reached, the former being in the Italian style, as is the- grill-room which is reached from an antechamber, leading from the main floor. The first floor includes both private guest rooms and a spacious lounge and also the hotel's ball room, in George Adams style, and equipped with a stage for concerts and entertainments, which was the actual scene of the Association's meetings. A large private dining room, with dividing doors, permitting its being made into a series of small committee rooms, was also found very useKil. The second floor comprises a number of sample rooms, while the eight upr 'oorfe have 252 bedrooms, eacii h private bath. In the basement, the coffee-shop, billiard room, and C.P.R. telegraph and ticket office are found. The Hotel Saskatchewan, at Regina, where the members of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association held their successful convention. This modem Canadian Pacific hotel provided every comfort for the visiting editors and. the members of their families. r* "Weakly Poam" (By Our Grand Falls Correspondent) I think that Editors are sure a brainy class of Guys, No matter if they're large or small, or only mejum size. ,• Just take My Ed: fer instance now, he don't get mad ez hops, Becos I spell phonetic, and omit a bunch of "stops:" He takes his blacklead pencil, and jess smiles a cheerful grin, An fore y' know what he's about, he fills the blighters in. An sometimes when I'm feeling hot, on politicks and things, I kinda give my pen the gun, and strong my langwidge rings. My Ed: he don't get mad atall, because I've written "Clown" He grips his old BLUE pencil, an he "tones my langwidge down;" And makes it read so folks can't tell I sometimes lose my head, An when I "See My Spiel in print, I bless the wise old Ed: I think that Editors are all, why, most ez wise as sin, To know jess what they should delete, an what they should leave in: But keep from me the swivel chair, I do not want the job; For jest as like as not ya see, I'd soon be raisin hob. At "leavin out" I'd be a dud, an "puttin in" I think, I'd likely print the kind of dope that lands a Guy in "Clink." ' Canada Anticipates Large Revenue Prime Minister Expects $7,500,- 000~ From Special Excise Tax L OTTAWA, Ont., July 2.—The Prime Minister # hopes to secure about $7,500,000 from the special one per cent excise tax on all imports into Canada, he told G.G. Coote, U.F.A., McLeod, in the House of Commons today, when Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Oposition leader, suggested that this was not an excise tax so much as a customs tariff, the Premier said it was purely a revenue tax. Bowdoin Sails For Labrador , .-| Commander Donald B. MacMillan Starts On Latest Expedition Rockland, Maine, July 2.—The schooner Bowdoin of the Donald B. MacMillan Expedition sailed today for northern Labrador after being delayed some time by fog. Commander MacMillan. will leave Sunday morning in a plane which he will use in maptng 3,000 square miles of the Labrador coast Ah summer. Our Salmon Streams 'Hie government of Newfoundland has inserted the thin edge of a wedge, which, it is hoped, will eventually pry the insufferable fish hog from its fine salmon streams. For years these gentry have squatted on pools of some of the Colony's best rivers, and by their tactics have driven away from the country some of its best patrons. Cabins have been errected on choice stretches of water. These are occupied by foreigners early in the season, and at no time during the summer may a line be cast on the pool except by the "owner" or one of his friends. When the fishing is not good, the ' plutocrat squatter stations guides on the river, who, at approach of a fisherman, issues warning to the master. That worthy then grabs his rod, proceed§ to the pool and commences to thrash the water. The newcomer, seeing the pool occupied and not being invited to step in and wet a line, passes on. As he disappears from view, the Hog returns to his tent where he reclines until suqji time as he is again called forth to protect his "rights." The visitor who does not belong to the squatting breed, as he journeys up or down stream will find every best bit of water commandeered by these undesirables, with the result he does little fishing, and that little in unprolific runs. After a few such experiences he packs up his tackle, gets out of the country with all possible despatch and does not again return. Through this ghastly practice, Newfoundland has lost many hundreds of thousands of dollars, and alienated hosts of friends whose confidence it will not be an easy matter to restore. The Legislative Assembly at it's Winter session, held at St. John's, taking cognizance of this serious condition, inserted a clause in the fisheries regulations making it an Indictable offence for any person to monopolize any stretch of water in the Country. Persons f&ind guilty of infringing this law will have their licenses revoked and may be refused further privilege of fishing in the country. Friends of Newfoundland in all partis of the globe are hopeful that this new law will be carried out to the letter, and if it is, the country is bound to benefit financially and otherwise. The present writer has not heard what arrangements, if any, have been made to have this law observed. Certainly every guardian should be invested with authority to arrest any person found guilty of breaching the regulations and, in addition, the government should detail special officers to patrol some of the most popular rivers, at least for the first year the law is injoperation. No doubt some of the more insolent of the squatters will ignore the regulation, and these should be summarily dealt with. When apprehended they should' be given the extreme penalty, warning-to other river hogs that the Colony authorities mean business. The Evening Telegrame and The Western Star are to be congratulated for their campaign inaugrated last summer to put an end to an intolerable situation on the salmon streams of the island. Through their columns they exposed the practices of foreigners in "hogging" the pools and posted the authorities as to ways and means to offset this nuisance. As an illustration of the highhanded manner in which these squatters carried on, the following incident may be of interest: * ~ A party of four young men from New York, fishing the Grand fcodroy, came to a pool that was not occupied. They had been fishing but a short time when an aged continental waddled down the bank, with arms wildly waving, and in stentorian tones he ordered the quartette to get off the pool. "How dare you fish in this water without my consent," he bellowed, "this pool belongs to me." The anglers kept on casting. Their impertubability further angered the choleric one, who advancing to the nearest of the intruders, shouted vociferously: "Young man, I have been fishing this pool for the past twenty-five years, and this is the first occasion on which I have been bothered by interlopers." The New York lad coolly and casually surveyed the -river hog and then replied: "You have the better of me, sir, I have been fishing here less thqg twenty-five minutes, and I can assure you, I was never so bothered before In all my life. East and West Unites AT THE C. W. N. A. CONVENTION The Convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association annually marks the uniting of East and West. In the above can be seen A. L. Barrett, (left) editor of this paper, and the most Easterly member of the association, with J. D. Skinner, (right), editor of the "Whitehorse Star," of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, the most Western member.  The twelth annual convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association was held Thursday and Friday of last week at Regina, Sask. On Saturday the editors with their wives, or others members of their family, were guests of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff, Alberta. Tragic Opening To Trans-Canada Air Pageant Newspaper Agency Manager and Four Others Killed in Crash At Hamilton Hamilton, July I.—What was to have been a brilliant opening of the trans-Canada air tour to help to make Canada more air-minded was marked by a tragedy here today when a Travelair monoplane crashed from a height of 200 feet, killing the pilot and four passengers.One of the victims was Harold Raine, of Toronto, general superintendent of Canadian Press, who had come to Hamilton to cover the opening' ceremonies of the trans- Canada air pageant. Botwood News Budget (By Our Correspondent) C. L. March, from Corner Brook was in town Tuesday oil  He left Wednesday morning for Bishop's Falls. Mrs. Stanley Jeanes, and her daughter, Miss Netta, who had been to St. John's, arrived home by Sunday Night's express. •* • • Miss Alice Peyton, who had been spending her holidays here with her sister, left by Monday's express for Brooklyn, U.S.A. •• * • The lumber scow, of the Horwood Lumber Co., arrived Wednesday with a cargo of over one thousand feet of lumber for Grand Falls. ** * • A. J. Elliott arrived from Corner Brook by Wednesday's express. We understand that it is Mr. Elliott's intention to sell out here and move to Corner Brook. •• • ♦ Miss Vera Adams, who had been attending the Memorial College at St. John's, during the past year, returned home Monday morning to spend the holidays. ** * • The s.s. Verdulia arrived from Immingham, Eng., Wednesday morning, with 8,050 tons of coal for the A. N. D. Co. After discharging the ship will return with a load of paper for England. m 0 • * The motor ship Luiea arrived here Wednesday from Montreal to load lead and zinc concentrates from the Buchan's Mining Co., sailed for Anterwerp with about 75,00 tons, Saturday morning. *• • * The s.s. Geraldine Mary sailed for London with about 5,400 tons of newsprint from the. A. N. D. Co., Wednesday. Twelve persons also took passage by her, among whom were Rev. E. M. and Mrs. Bishop of Grand Falls. •• ♦ • The motor boats, I'm Alone, and C. M. Wheeler, arrived here early Wednesday morning from Twillingate, bringing quite a number of excursioners enroute to spend the day at Grand Falls. The boats left again around midnight. •* * * i * Mrs. H. B. Poole arrived herw from Norris Arm during the week to take over the Postal Telegraph office during the next three months, relieving Miss L. Payne, who will spend three months vacation at her home in Cow Head. •* * * The first social dance for the season, by visiting steamers, was given Monday night by the officers of the s.s. Geraldine Mary, in the Monarch Theatre. A large number of guests were present, including about fifty from Grand Falls, light lunch was served by the officers of the ship about 11.30 p.m. The young folks tripped the light fantastic until early morn. There were also other forms of amusements. The occasion was quite a success, and all present had a very enjoyable time. •• • • A football match was played Thursday night between our regular team and a team that has sprung into existence known' as the Bushrangers. The kick off took place at 7.30 p.m. Max Adams referred, while Grant Sceviour and Douglas Foote acted as goal keepers. . Bushrangers went into the game with the determination to win, but within five minutes after the start of the the game the local team scored a goal. Hie ball was then kicked back and forth across the field by both teams with no further showing until near the end of the game when the Bush- (Continued on pig* 2) Ah independent newspaper devoted to the development and prosperity of Newfoundland Representing the? local Interests of the West. Coast of the Island ■ READ the Advertisements in This Paper and Do Your BUYING Accordingly