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Three R.C.A.F. Officers Killed TltKNTON.â€" Three flying ollh'ois of the If.O.A.K. wore killed when their planes cnishod In midair over Iho air Hold here this week, as both pilots Bwung In for a lanUiiig. The dead: Pilot Ollloor R. L. Do'.u-el. Fit. Sergt. E. F. O't'onnor, FU. I^ieut. J. A. Mac- Innis. Over 80 inuehiiieB v.cre in the air, ollioials reported, at tiio time ol the crush. Vl:iil/lllty was poor with showers tlireatoniii.';. Hotli airplanes â- were completely demolished. Weeping Statuette CuilNVVALL. -Iluiitire!!!: of visitors. many friends urnictrd by iMiits.s and deforr.iity, Hocked liiis Wfok to the home of a 30year-old paralytic woman whiij a sl.ituctte of Christ has been "wjc.-ing" for ten days. Lsoaa Villeiiemo, suffering fnini in- tena'tent p '.rr.iys;.*. epilepsy and In- testhi ! dii! -rders since she uiid^r- worn ."n appendicllis operation fifteen ye--.;-3 ago, said shs; believed the sta- tu.'se was v.ee.'ing in response to her pr.iy; >'^ for recovei-y. Foir,-..:r Whei.t King Passes mUTLK, MAN'.-Samuel Larcombe, 'â- grai.d old ir.un" of Wentern Canada ap.. icuiliire. and world wheat king in IP '7, died in hospital here. The 8" year-old retired farmer, fain^d aj th«» producer of Axminster wheal, a ruBtrosistanl variety, was br.'i;-.:'.t to hospital several days be- fo •. ririrrin.T injuries loccnved in a fa ! ';('sido.< piving I he world rust- re i.-::iiu wlieat in 101:;, Mr. Lar- rnni')'- won :!.000 prises for soil pro- dudj in his forly-tliree years of farm- Jn:-, ill Maiiiloha. liis farming career wa.<i capijcd with victory at the Inter- nal i;r,'.l Grain Exposition at Peoria, III. in i:U7, wlien he wa.'! crowned u!ii I king. E?;p!c?-r,n Damage $25,000 .MO;.TUKAL.â€" Dlliciuls of Canadian Indu.r. \: .i I imited liave revised from $4", '"10 IM Sl'S.OOO the estimate of dam- age cruised by an explosion In a nitra- tor houje ;'.t the company's plant near Bi'ijcj!. lwe:ily-five miles southeast of H'i:itri;i!. Ca'':;e of the explosion, whirh partly V reeled a building used in the manu- fifl • (• of iiitio-silyccrine. was not I own. No one was iM'rt. Inv.t't? to Visit Stalin l.().\DO.\. ICng.â€" The I) lily Miinir this week retiorted that the l)':)e and DuchesB of VVind.sor had hrr>n invited to viil th" Soviet I'i'.ioii by .Jo loph Stalip. Ad . I'lin:,' In the Warsaw coirca- pnii'l'iit rt' I he newspaper, •â- ilnlii! hi'S Insi.iictel Con^lantin Yreneff. Kdviet anil i::;fi'ie'- .it lierlin, to convey the lnvi:;iiic!n i;) the iJuke. Aic!:-?'c<:c:- ?. Victim MOSeOvV.- licia Kuii. ai< h-pl-ilter of lioishevl.sin. has fall* n viclim of the Soviet Uussiui ''purMe.' that has reached more merciless propoilhuis than the trail of terror which ho bla!;e(l lliiou.^'h ;iO.<l-w:ir Hinrr.iry. Arr.'.-t of the ."ilyear-old Ihininrlan on charpes llinl aimnst nnfailinyly re- sult In 'iealh before a Red flrini; p.iuad â- was revealed by the ofllcial Cimniun- ist Internal ioiKil magazine. Wor-.t Air Crash SAI/r KAKI': CITY A mountaineer â€" on'y eyewitness to America's worst airplane disaster told a vivid story of a Iransport pilot flying blindly throegh a moiinlain blizzard, then a terriMc crash which klll-d niiieleen pen:oiii!. H(!,i;l:t I'rotitl. youlliful liapper from Northeastern I'tah's trackless wilderness, uald he saw the Unlli'd Air Lines twenty-one-pasienger Malnllner barely miss towerinr; pines in his backviirii. Sun<lay nifht. watched the craft's lights vanish In the storm, then heard il plow into n granite ridge. Ana chists Sack Port HIC.N'D.WH. Kraiico-Sp:iMish Fron- tier. -Austrian anarclilsts are burning and sacking the ancient Hiscay sea- port of Gljon and siirenclliig terror among 130,000 cIvIII.-ium. accoiding to Spanish loyalist aviil'irs who flew to the frontier. The anarchists, they said, are de- termined to leave the city In ruins be- fore fl'-«lng from the Insurgent ad- vance that Is less tlnm a few miles away. Che^y King and Queen I.KISDS. -The King and Quern this weekend toured the I.eeds air raid prec-iuiions centre as they continued theii- (liiei day visil to Yorkshire. The Karl of ILnrewood and Alan Lasc lies, the King's assistant private secretary, donned gas masks for a few nilnules at the King's suggi-stlon. Th^ir Majesties received nn ovation from 150,000 people when they ap- peared on the h.iUony of the Leeds Town llnll. Miutolini Backs Down LONDON. â€" Premier Mussolini, running up against a dangerous nril- i.sh-Krench front, suddenly dropped his defiant attitude and agreed this wcci( to collaborate in a plan to withdraw his Fascist Hlacksihirts and ithcr foreign "volunteers" from Spain. II Duee's conciliatory gesture, C-N which came as a surprise even to Italian diplomats in Uome, held out hopes of solving a three-way dead- lock with the Non-intervention Com- mittee and averting a crisis crammed with possibilities of war. The Non-intervention delegates, quick to seize upon Italy's consent to sending a neutral "volunteers" commission to Spain at once, agreed that it constituted "a substantial de- gree of progress" and asked that im- mediate steps be taken to put tlie proposals into operation. "Token" Withdrawal Approved I'AltlS. - The French Government has agreed to Premier Mussolini's con- ciliatory plan for a "token" with- drawaV of foreign volunteers In equal numbers from the Spanish insurgent and loyalist lighting ranks. Charles Andre Corbin, Ambassador to London, was instructed to announce before the meeting of the Non-inter- vention Committee that France has abandoned her demands for a '"pro- portionate" withdrswal. Charged With Conspiracy VALKNCIA. â€" Three loyalist com- manders were ordered to stand trial this week on a charge of "conspiracy against the republic." They will be tried by a 8i>ecial judge of the Supreme Court and, under military law, are liable to sentences of execution by a firing squad. The charges against two were based specifically on the fall of the seaport of Malaga, which the nationalists cap- tured February 8. Indian Border Clash SIMLA. India. â€" An Indian olfu er and thrc^e Indian .soldiers were slain and live Indian troopers wounded when Hrilish forces clashed with rebel tribesmen in the Waziristan-Northwcst Frontier this week. The clashes occurred at Splnwan and Inzarmaria. The four fatalities occurred in the Splnwan en!;;ipement, which also saw two troopers wounded. Two soldiers were wounded In the In- zarmaria light ing. In both cnt;age- ments the rebels were dispersed after suffering many casuallios. Argentine Elections HUKNOS AlKES. I'oriner Finance Minister Koixrto M. Orliz this week- end was formally eli'cted President of the Argentine Kepnblic by members of the Flee toral College chosen at the September 5 elections. Uamon Castillo was elected \'ire- I'resldenl. Good-Will Flight MONTRKAL.â€" Dr. K. Ginebrn, Con- sul General for the Dominican Repub- lic here, announced this week-end four pl;ines would make a 20.000-mlle good- will fll'/h( from Santo I><imlni;o to Montreal at the end of December. The planes will visit Caribbean Island, South America and the tliiiled States beforo coming to Montreal. Sentenced to Hang SUDIiimy. â€" Tom Pornomarenko will die for the murder of Sudbury Police Sergeant Fred Davidson, who fell under a hall of liiiUots .July 11 from the gun of Pornoniareiiko's com- panion. Victor Gray. Pornoniareiiko's defense â€" that he was Intlinldaled by Gray Into Joining hiiii In a crime trail through Northern Ontario â€" failed, and Ibis week-end an Assize Court jury, after one hour and 45 minutes' deliberation, brought In a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice G. F. McFarland sentenced him to be hanged .lanuary 22, 1938. Bing Crosby a Ph.D. SPOKANi:. Wash. - - Ciooiuj- Ming Crosby became! Harry Llllis (Jrosby, Ph.D.. this week. Father Loo J. Uobinson, President of Conzaga tfniversity, conferred the Honorary Doctor of Philosophy de- gree upon the school's niii.st noted alumnus before an audience of stu- dents, alumni and fiiinds who janinied into the eamiius audiloiiuin. The university President conferred the h<uior "because of his euilneiice" and the pleasure he has 'brought to millions of peopl(^" Stalin Nominated MOSCOW. Soviet Russia's political leader. Premier ami President were nominated as the firsl enndldalea for election to the Supreme Soviet under the new constitution. Workers In a but I on factory and power plant In (he .Stalin section of Moscow iinaiiimoi.'sly adopted a resolu- tion pulling forward the name of .los- eph Stalin, Secretary of Ihe Central Coinmlltee of the Communist Party, as "leader of the people." Medical Experts For China P.-^RIS. - â-  The League of Nations Control Comniillee l.as approved plans to siMid a corps of medical ex- perts to aid China. -Delegates of Venezuela, France, IliiHsIa, Czechoslovakia, Norway, I'ol- and, Hi!ii;,'ary, meeiing in Paris, nulhorized this use of 2.000,000 Swiss francs ($lf;0,000) voted Oct. 5 by the League Assembly ''lo help Uiu Chinese Governin ent in Its fi^ht against epi- demics." "Showdov/n" Fatlle SIIANGH.M. â€" .Moro ilian a half- Seven Ontario Lives Lost In Week-End Accidents tive Are Killed by Highway Mishaps, Two of Them In Torontc Many More Injured in Car Crashes and Hunting Accidents Throughout the Province. millioa men were locked In furious combat along a 20-milo front this week-end In what both Japanese and Chinese military leaders predicted would be a "showdown battle for Shanghai." The Japanese High Command, in- formed by diplomatic leaders that it must win a major victory before the meeting of the nine-power treaty na- tions In Brussels later this week, or- dered every resource thrown into the battle to drive the Chinese off the Yangtso delta. Massey Returns OTTAWA.â€" After three days In Ot- tawa, where he conferred with Prime Minister Mackenzie King and olllcials of the External Affairs Department, Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner in London left Friday morning for Quebec. Ho sailed Sat- urday to return to his post. Purge Is Extended MOSCOW.â€" Fif I y-four persons have been executed at Ulan-Ude, capital of the Buryat-Mongol Kepnblic of the TI.S.S.R., for espionage on behalf of the Japanese secret service, according to the Buryat-Mongol Pravda of Oc- tober 12, received in Moscow this week-end. More Doctors Arrested LONDON, Out.â€" Two London doc- tors and two women were arrested this week charged with performing illegal operations. They are: Dr. J. E. McGillicuddy. 54; Dr. Cluirles A. Cline. Jr., 37; Mrs. Raehael Stock, C6; Mrs. Iris Muriay. Rail for e:ich was set at $10,000. Arrests were the result of an in- vesfigalioii lai nelied after the body of Miss Mary Wilkinson. London school teacher, was found in Hie Thames River. Husband Seeks Divorce DALLAS. Tex. Arlluir Jan<>tl. ac- tor-husband of Kkanor llolin, 1930 Olympic swimmer, screen actress, said hero that he was taking up legal resi- dence in Texas to o!)t:iiii a divorce. French Labor Consolidated PARIS. -The French Labor move- ment insofar as Ihe steel trade Is con- cerned was at one time divided into ;!2 different group:^ but lb:-; week it is consolidated into a iiiiilel front and has a single voice. This is the picture of the steel workers In France that Albert Costes. Cnmmiiiiist representa- tive for the districi of la Seine in the French Cliiimlier of Depulles, sketch- ed for his hearers at a meeting in Ihe Public Assislanee hall. M. Cosies Is also secretary of the French Federa- tion of Steel Workers, an organization involving flOO.OOO men. Bombed by Soviet Planes TOKYO. -The newspaper Asahl this week-end reported that 50 Soviet planes bombed several cities in south- western Sinklang, Cliina's western province bordering on Russian Turk- estan. Red Army troops are now oc- cupying Kashgnr, chief Sinklang city, Asahl charged. The report said the attack resulted from a dispute between the Russians and local Moslems who challenged the pro-Soviet Chinese authorities. Highway crashes, a backwoods fire and a shooting accident took the lives of seven Ontario persons over the week-end. Two of the motor-mishap deaths were In Toronto. The charred body of Charles Koski, 53-year-oId Finn, was recovered from the ashes of his cabin in Narin Town- ship, near Sudbury, Saturday morn- ing. The cause of the fire was not determined. A verdict of accidental death was brought in by a Coroner's jury Satur- day night. Shot Through Heart On the outskirts of Port Arthur, Douglas P.eatty, 16, was shot through the heart by a bullet from the rifle of another young hunter. He died al- most Instantly. Realty and Cyrill Cor- nell. 14, were climbing a high rock ridge while in the gully below two other lads, Walter Clark, 17, and Ar- thur Pierce, 16, were shooting un- aware of the pair above them. James Mitchell 28, a foreman in a Oravonhurst brush factory, was killed Instantly when an auto in which he was riding collided with another car on the road near Rrechln. He and his brother. L.Tverne. 30, who was Injured critically, were on the way to Lindsay for a family reunion. Laverne Mitchell was rushed to Orlllia Hospital. Killed By Auto Josi'ph Murphy, 4R. was killed In- stantly Saturday night when the buggy in which he was driving was struck by a car, said by police to have been driven by Ross Uennie, Seaforth col- legiate student. The accident occurred two miles cast of Seaforth. At the tim" a snow- .'•lorm wag raging, which reduced vis- ibility to a mininium. Force of the impact threw Murphy to Ihe pavcnnnit. where he landed on his head. The car continued for fifty feet, sliovin.g Ihe buggy and horse be- fore II. The horse suffered a broken leg. and was destroyed. Walked Across Road Geor.ie Walls. 70. I,ai(ler Lake pros- pector and well-known former resi- dent of Cobalt, was instantly killed Suiulay at Larder Lake when strcck by an automobile al'eged to have been driven by T,ouis Arseinult, Larder Lake. Watts was walkin.s to his claims near Larder TiP.kc when ho crossed the road into the path of llie ear. Three persons were ininrcd in three motor accidents in the Welbind vlcln- ily. Alfred Kent. 32. of Port Colborne; John Fei-.in. 72, Ponthlll, and Frank Swords, Welland, were the victims. Nnne were seriiiui'ly hurl. Four Injured .\ collision bel ween a truck and an aiilo Injured four Rt. Catharines resi- dents near Niagara Trills Out., Satur- day. The car. driven by .\rlhur Cole. 22, skidded on a wet pavement and cra.shed into the truck. Moat seriorsly injured was K. L. Armstrong. 21. v.ho b:!s a fraeturetl pelvis and lower spine. .Shot in the back when a comp.'^n- ion's shotgun discharged j.ccldentally, Norman IJbby, 19, Sandwich Soith Township, near Windsor, was injured dani^eronsly Saturday. He and two companions were hunting rabbits. Two pcrs(uis were injured in a collision on No. 8 Highway, west of Grimsby. Se.t- nrday night. They were Miss Marion Hiitchlnson and Frederick Sims, both of Hamilton. -Q â€" THE- NEWS INTERPRETED A Conunentary On the More Important Events of the Week. â- * â-  ft By ELIZABETH EEDY Babes In Gas Masks The British Home Offlco last week practised with babies in a nursing home at Hawkshurst, Kent, as models for ntting gas masks that will serve the rest of Great Britain's baby popu- lation in the event of an air raid. A very wise move on the part of the Home Oflice, we think, since should another war break out, is it not the babes In arms who will get the worst of if? Stock Market Toboggans Weakened by a steady retreat since mid-August, the New York, Montreal and Toronto stock markets went down before a selling whirlwind last week into the worst crash in more than four years. Losses in some leading indus- trial Issues mounted as high as $10 a share, and sixty-five per cent, of the gains of the past two years were wiped out. Though the cause of the crash largely remains a mystery, some authorities blamed the undue optim- ism at the beginning of 1937, and the excessively glowing reports on busi- ness that were made at that time. President Roosevelt refused to inter- vene, would not close the New York exchange nor lift trading restrictions. The day following the crash, however, saw a revival of the market when huge international investment trusts with billions of dollars in resources stepped in and bought from speculators who were frantic to sell. It was feared in some quarters that a major depression would follow close iipon the crash, but it is now pretty generally felt that the set-back Is only temporary. Asks Improved Banking System I'resident Roosevelt t;peaking at ceremonies dedicating the new Fed- eral Reserve Building at Washington declared that the Government of the United States must improve and co- ordinate credit machinery it it is to "achieve and maintain an enduring prosperity, free from the disastrous extremes of booms and depressions.'' The banking system will have to be further improved, he said. May Solve Our Biggest Problem Canada's "greatest problem,'' find- ing a satisfactory basis for relations between the Dominion and the Prov- inces â€" in other words, ''keeping Oaij. ada united"â€" may be solved by tlie Royal Commission on Dominion-Pro- vincial Relations, headed by Chief Justice Rowell, In the opinion of fed- eral Revenue Minister, Isley, Just re- turned from a conference at Geneva, Switzerland. "At the present tlme,".he said, "we have an outbreak of section- alism In Alberta that is formldabfe." Campaign Against Czechoslovakia Germany this week intimated ttat it will not cease its "aggressive nuaa- acing press campaign" against the Czechoslovaklan Government as 16ng as the Czech police continue to down pro-Nazi demonstrations in that coun- try. The German Government alioges that the German minority in Czecho- slovakia are receiving brutal treat- ment at the hands of the police. ^The pro-Nazi agitation in CzechosIoTjakia has, of course, the approval of the German Government which hop^s to gain independence for the regiop in which most of the Czech-German min- ority live. Italy Capitulates Finding that he could no longer Stall on the Spanish war participation Is^sue, Mussolini, after giving all the coun- tries of the world a bad scare Jast week, dropped his defiant attitude and agreed to co-operate in clearing S^aln of "volunteer" foreign troops. Fsced up against a formidable British-FrencH front, he discovered that withdrawal from his belligerent attitude was the only way out. Thus another crisis crammed with possibilities of wariwaa averted. Kellcjg Brands Japan • Declaring that he could reconcile Japan's present policy in China "neither with the letter nor spirit of the Kellogg Briand Peace Pact," Frank B. Kellogg, co-author of the pact .and former U. S. Secretary of State, said at St. Paul, Minnesota, I.ast week, that the hope of the world for peace de- pends upon the faithful adherence of nations to their plighted word. .The society of nations can exist only ujjon a foundation of mutual confidence, he believes. Bermuda Tourists Spend $8,250,000 The IJcrnuuia Trade Development Hourd last week estimated that re- venue from touri,5ts during the ly36- li)37 sea.soii amounted to approxim- a'.ely ?8, 250,000. More than 80,500 visitors came to the colony (luring the period, with 2.700 coniing from Canada. The board estimated that the .vcratrc Ca- nadian tourist spent ?100 in Bermu- da, the average from the United States, $110, and typical English tourist-s, ?125. A world's record for a warship over a distance of over 1,000 miles Is believ- ed to have been made by the H.M.S. Amphion In carrying a sick officer from Maocambi(iHo to Durban, South Africa, in 37 hours, an average of 30.2 knots an hour. Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris THE . MARKETS Tln) Duke and llucliir.-:.'» of X.liidso., cinlre, aio surrouiKli-d by s^u.irds fiu.u liio t.uco ii .,; u. .'la filcndly crow. Is pu.-'h and k'.w.o forward to see the famous couple during a visit to the Paris 1... .on. Tliuy are pluiiiiiaR to sail tor Gie United States early in November, after a visit to Germany to uiudy public housing projects. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter â€" Quotations to wholesale trade at Toronto this week-end. Creamery solids, No. 1 28 U to t)0 do 38 score 27Vi to 00 do 37 score â€" 26 Vi to 00 do 36 score 25 H to 00 9 Cheese New large (paraffined) 14 Vi to SiVi do twins 14>2 to 14% do triplets 14?i to 15 (.\verage price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country * points.) New large (paiaffined)13% to IZ% do triplets 14 to }.i% POULTRY AND EGGS - Buying prices: . Toronto dealers this w>tK-end were quoting prj^uctvs for un..raded eggs, delivered, cases returned: Eggs â€" Grade A large 37 to'OO Grade A medium 34 to ^00 Pullets 27 to PO Grade B 22 to 23 Grade C 18 to 00 Dealers were quoted on gfradfed eggs cases free: Grade A large 39 to 40 Grade A medium 36 to 37 Pullets 30 to 00 Grade B 25 to 8fi Gnule C 22 to 83 POULTRY Prices paid to country shippers: , Dressed. Milk Sel. A Sel. B. Fed A. Spring Chickens T 1 to 2 lbs 20 18 22 2 to 3 lbs 19 17 21* 3 to 4. lbs 21 1!> 23 . 4 to 5 Ibs! 22 20 24 ^ 5 lbs. and over 23 21 25 ' F«tted Hens â€" Dresse.l. Sel. A. Sel. B Over 5 lbs 16 14 4 to 5 lbs 15 13' ;'.'â- ! to 4 lbs 14 12. 3 to S^<i lbs 12 11 Old Roosters Over 5 lbs. . 12 10" ( Ked and black feath- ered birds 2c per lb. less than above prices.) Other Fowl â€" Guinea fowl, per pair 75 00* Note: C (vrade poultry 3c below* B irr.Ttlc. Tur' cys â€" .\ ,'-r;'.de, 10 Ibr. r.nd over, dressed .58 Geese â€" .\ grade, dressed t7