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. SAVE $420,000 BY MOUNTED POLICE RESERVES Backchecking By carrying the play to Midland and ‘backchecking religiously to bolâ€" ster their defence, Siskins made up for the disadvantage of weight in faâ€" vor of Midland. Bob Cotey stood out throughout the game, leading attacks and then getting back to break up Consols‘ rushes. Ray Bauer was the star of the game, scoring two goals and giving the pass for the third. Bill Lang gave two assists, and scored ‘the prettiest goal of the evenâ€" ing, stickhandling through the entire Midland team to beat Hepworth after the goalie had been drawn out of the nets. (By Staff Reporter) TORONTO, April 1.â€"Carrying the play throughout the game into their opponent‘s zone, Waterloo Siskins at Maple Leaft Gardens, last night tacked a 5â€"2 reverse on the Midland British Consols to win the one brackâ€" et of the Ontario semiâ€"finals and adâ€" vance into the sudden death final game against Oshawa Dairies for the Ontario Juvenile Hockey Association Championship, ‘The final game will be played at Galt tonight at 8.15 (Thursday). Paced ‘by the Bauer brothers and Robert Cotey, Siskins notched one goal in the first period, and two more early in the second to lead 3â€"1. Midâ€" land cut the lead to 3â€"2, but at the end of the period another goal put Waterloo in front 4â€"2. Bob Cotey stole the puck from a Midland deâ€" fence player on the latter‘s blue line in the third period to waltz in alone and beat Hepworth easily to end the scoring at 5â€"2. Only two penalties were handed out during the game, one to each team, both for trips in the defence zones. Midland‘s error early in the game in shooting the puck down the ice when Waterloo hemmed them in, proved their downfall, giving Siskins (Continued on Page 6) Historic Seagram Racing Farm _ _ Sold To J. M. Schneider Company _The Seagram Stables and Farm for over half a century famous for breedâ€" ing and training of pureâ€"bred race horses has changed hands. The proâ€" perty comprising over one hundred acres was bought by J. M. Schneider Limited, one of Canada‘s leading packing firms. The closing of the Seagram Stables which have brought great honor and valuable publicity to Waterloo was learned with regret by citizens. The purchase was confirmed by J. M. Schneider Ltd. The farm and buildings will not be used for anyâ€" thing other than in connection with their ever increasing packing bustâ€" ness. The principal reason for the purchase was to have premises on which to finish and fatten cattle which are received from time to time. In the past the firm has been sendâ€" ing feeders as well as hogs and lambs to farmers in the vicinity of Kitchâ€" ener for fall and winter feeding. The arrangement has not, however, proâ€" ven satisfactory. Home for More than Half a Century of King‘s Plate Winâ€" ners Purchased by Meat Packing Firm. Siskins Balance Weight With Speed Bauer Brothers, Lang, Frickey and Cotey Are Best on Ice. The acquiring of the Seagram proâ€" perty, Mr. Schneider stated, will enâ€" able the company to specialize on a / larger scale the finishing and fattenâ€". ing of cattle, hogs, lambs, poultry and . especially baby beef cattle. The company will be enabled to keep a good supply of high quality beef catâ€" tle in the winter when it is difficult to obtain. They will also raise for show purchases high grade butcher cattle. â€" Bruised cattle received in shipments wil hbe placed on farm unâ€" til in fit shape. J. M. Schneider‘s Limited employ hundreds of hands and the deal just negotiated is evidence of the conâ€" tinued growth of this concern which «hips it« products throughout the Dominion and across the seas. Not Definitely Out Of Racing Questioned regarding the future of the racing stables, Mr. J. E. Frowde Seagram stated that the sale of the farm did not necessarily mean he and is brothers would not continue acâ€" tice in racing carried on so successâ€" fully in the past decades by the late Joseph E Seagram and his sons, Edâ€" ward F.. Norman and Thomas Seaâ€" gram. The Schneider Packing Comâ€" ponvy intimated they were prepared to provide accommodation at the farm if Messrs. Frowde, Camphbell ard Philip Seagram desire to nse the stables and track for preparing WATERLOO JUVENILE HOCKEY TEAM DEFEATS MIDLAND 5â€"2; PLAY OSHAWA FOR TITLE AT GALT THURSDAY Vol. 81, No. 27 pony n DMaieo [hey whe PDOPRTO! to provide accommodation at the farm if Messrs. Frowde, Camphbell ard Philip Seagram desire to nse the stables and track for preparing horses for Spring races The deal was negotiated hy George Whitnev. Kitchener realtor, who had been assigned the task of secnring anitahle accommodation for Schnei ain‘tahle accommodation for Schnei OTTAWA.â€"The estimated popuâ€" der‘s Limited lation of Canada in 1937 is 11,100,â€" e onrovemmernnes camen resam 000, according to a return tabled in DOGS MUST BE TIED the House of Commons from the The holiday season for dogs came Department of Trade and Commerce to an end April 1st when Waterloo‘s for Pierre Gauthier (Lib., Portâ€" dog byâ€"law requires they be not neuf). allowed to roam streets but must ho‘ At the last census, in 1931, the kept tied. ‘population was 10,376,786. Natural s=o>~| THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE 2 |__Dr. Ward Woloner, Ayr, chief coroâ€" nor, Waterloo; Dr. C. Belyea, Kitchâ€" ener coroner, and Crown Attorney | W. P. Clement investigated the misâ€" thap and termed it "entirely accidenâ€" talst Aberhart Given Another Reprieve Adjournment of the Legislature, perhaps for two months, may come by the end of week, it was indicated, after the House has dealt with variâ€" ous Social Credit measures. EDMONTON.â€"After a day of sudâ€" den changes the Alberta Legislature Tuesday paved the way for early adâ€" journment to permit the Aberhart Covernment to complete its plans fer a Social Credit program. TORONTO.â€"Dr. C. E. Mark, of the London Normal School, suggestâ€" ed Tuesday the strap might be good for a child when he becomes unruly, in an address before the training section of the Ontario Educational Association. An interism supply bill, calling for $5.500,000, was introduced and given first and second readings. ‘The House then rose to meet again toâ€" morrow afternoon. He said mothers turned to the oldâ€"fashioned castor oil idea when the child had a stomach aché so they might also turn to the strap when the child becomes obstreperous. Sentimentalists who would place a label on a child, "Do not handle," might be reminded there were some things such as putty which improve with handling. The better label might be "Handle with care". Don‘t Spare Rod, Says Educationist Kelly died in a Kitchener hospital Tuesday without regaining consciousâ€" ness, after his bicycle had been in collision with Bernhardt‘s yehicle M\onday afternoon. Cyclist‘s Injuries Prove To Be Fatal Joseph Kelly, 57, Dies After Collision with Car at Preston. PRESTON.â€"Frank Bernhardt, 19, Preston, driver of a motor car which figured in an accident that resulted in the death of Joseph Kelly, 57, was exonerated by authorities, Mr. Kelly, a well known horticulâ€" turist, was proceeding towards Presâ€" ton on his biecycle, followed by two cars He was struck when he turned litt to go off the highway and came into collision with the second car which had also turned out to pass. The impact came on the right hand dcor of the car, the window of which was smashed and the handle torn off. Frank Bernhardt, driver of the car, received a slight cut over the Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Dominion Cabinet and member for North Waterloo, who resumed his seat in the House of Commons at Ottawa this week. Mr. Euler, just back from a threeâ€" months trip to Australia and New Zealand, is expected to make pubâ€" lic shortly details of a new trade pact between these two countries and Canada. 723,214 Gain in Canadian Population _ Brings 1936 Figure to 11,100,000 Back in House HON. W. D. EULER Established 1856 OTTAWA.â€"Canada will shortl{ conclude new trade agreements wit Australia and New Zealand which are designed to expand the flow of commodities in both directions across the Pacific, it was intimated by Hon. William D. Euler, Minister of Trade and Commerce, upon his return from the Antipodes Tuesday. But the existing agreements will reâ€" main in force until one of two diffiâ€" culties can be removed and in the meantime the Minister will make no statement about the details of the new commercial undertakings. Ovation Tendered. The Minister was tendered an ovation by all parties and groups in the Commons Chamber Tuesday afternoon when he resumed his seat after a threeâ€"months‘ absence on his important .mission. He anâ€" nounced that sufficient progress had been made in the negotiations to make him believe that "a satisâ€" factory arrangement will be made." Euler Forecasts Antipodes Pact The trade emissary was welcomed back by Right Hon. R. B. Bennett, who referred to Mr. Euler‘s jourâ€" neyings to various parts of the world since the last session closed, his visits being to Russia, Germany, Britain and the Antipodes. _ _ The Conservative Leader jocularâ€" ly surmised Mr. Euler might be able to regale the House with a luminous picture of what dictatorâ€" ships are like in Europe. Minister of Trade and Comâ€" merce Returns to Commons After Trip. Lost at Ypres, Flag is Returned 240 Water Heaters Now In Waterloo ST. CATHARINES. â€"Twentyâ€"two years ago QuartermasterSergeant Jchn B. Dunklee of the 7th Field Batâ€" tery narrowly escaped with his life in the second battle of Ypres. Left behind was a flag on which was writâ€" ten the names of the officers of the battery. A few days ago the historic flag was returned to (Mr. Dunklee, now secretary of the St. Catharines P.U.C. Enjoys Fine Increase in Power.â€"Buy Heaters Outright. water commission Waterloo has 240 flat rate water heaters and 70 boosters now in the homes of citizens, Manager Geo. Grosz told the Public Utilities Comâ€" mission this week in commenting on the charge of $5,800 for the heaters according to the account owing to the HE.P.C. Winterbourne and Conestogo Bridges The amount represents the amount | to be paid for the purchase of the heaters outright from the Ontario Commission, instead of paying rent) each year for their use. The inâ€" creased use of power through the inâ€" | stallation of the heaters will more than.take care of the purchase. | "We‘ll pay this bill, buy the heatâ€" ets and from then on will be conâ€" ducting our own business," said Chairman Henderson. END RELIEF FOR SINGLE JOBLESS AT KITCHENER KITCHENER. â€" Kitchener relief board has decided to strike off reâ€" lief all single ableâ€"bodied men on April 10. About 70 men will be affected. evye from flying glass Witnesses were Harry Cook, Kitchâ€" ener, driver of the first car; Vardon Latsch, Kitchener, a passenger, and Herbert Patterson, Queen . atreet, Preston. Investigations were made by Police Constable C. Thompson, Galt, and Provincial Offfeer Hayes, Kitchener. increase of births over deaths was then estimated at 135,956 a year. In the decade from 1921 to 1931 immigrants were admitted to Canâ€" ada numbering 1,166,290. In the same period the natural increase of population was estimated at 1,362,â€" 000. (By our Conestogo Correspondent) The pages of the diary, reveal that 33 years ago on the night of March 31ist to April 1st, the Winâ€" terbourne and Conestogo Grand River bridges were swept away by the spring floods which were very high and extended for some weeks. Swept Away 1904 WarerLroo, OntaRio, Frmar, Arau. 2, 1937 _ Cost of the reserve would be about $80,000 a year, the minister said, comâ€" pared with $500,000 if the permanâ€" ent force were increased to the same extent. "We would naturally hag liked to have seen a credit but this small amount means little to the commisâ€" sion. Citizens benefitted by a cut in electric rates last year and will again this year. The power bill represents the difference between the amount paid to the commission in 1936 and the actual cost of power supplied by the provincial body," said Chairman Henderson. Chairman Wm. Henderson Sr., Commissioner, C. R. Gies, Sam Schaab and W. P. Kress, Mayor Mcâ€" Kersie, Manager Geo. Grosz and Secretary J. F. Hertel attended the meeting. "Civilian vigilantes" and "stormâ€" troopers" were designations used by opponents of the measure in referâ€" rimg to the 300 young men the Govâ€" ernment proposes to enlist in a voâ€" lunteer reserve for the Mounties. This group would be called out for training for a maximum of three months a year, or in event of an emergency, and would be paid only when in training or service. Public Utilities Commission Satisfied With 1936 Account. Waterloo‘s thirteenth power bill as received from the Ontario Hydro Commission and presented to the Public Utilities Commission Monday showed a deficit for the local comâ€" mission of $674.29. f Manager Geo. Grosz stated that Kitchener had a credit of $24,000 in their 13th bill, due, the manager said, to the neighboring city installâ€" ing their own feed power lines, whereas Waterloo pays rent for the use of the H.E.P.C.‘s lines, amountâ€" ing to 60 per cent horse power addiâ€" tional. Changes In Election System To Save Canadians More Than $1,145,000 "If our rate had been left at $27.50 we would have a credit," said Chairâ€" man Henderson. At $27.00, our presâ€" ent figure, we have this $674 debit. OTTAWA.â€"Creation of a reserve force for Canada‘s scarletâ€"coated Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be called out in event of an emerâ€" gency and to furnish a ready supply of trained men for recruits is proâ€" posed in & measure given first readâ€" ing in the House of Commons, Strong opposition came from three members of the C.C.F. group when Justice Minister Lapointe moved the necessary resolution. They urged if the force needed reinforcements it be increased in the customary manâ€" ner. 13th Power Bill Is $674.26 Debit Commissioner C. R. Gies remarked that the power bill appeared very fair to Waterloo. Return to System in Use Prior to 1935 Proposed by House Committee. Will Provide Troops For Emergencies OTTAWA. â€" Recommendations designed to cut the costs of federal elections will be submitted to Parliaâ€" ment by the Commons committee on elections. Reductions proposed in Tuesday‘s meeting of the committee follow: Division of polling subdivisions only when there are more than 350 names on the lists. At present a second poll is provided when a poll has more than 300 names. The change would entail a saving of $1,000,000 based on 1935 election returns. Elimination of registrars so reâ€" turns of enumerators will go direct to the revising officer in each conâ€" stituency. It is estimated this will save $45,000. Announcement by Lapointe Brings Criticism from Reducing the days enumerators will sit revising their own lists from three days to one day. This is also expected to reduce the cost by $100,000. Model Youth, 18, Confesses Murder BUFFALO.â€"Police Commissioner Higging announced Tuesday Thomas Smith, 18, had confessed the slaying of Mary Ellien Babcock. Tha youth had been arreated for questioning in connection with a mysterious iteâ€"pick injury suffered by a 14â€"yearâ€"old Bafâ€" falo girl. The body of Miss Rabcock, 18, was found two months ago in a field. There were a dozen stah wounds in her body, any of them deep enough to have caused death. Her nose had been broken and two teathe knocked out. Commons C.C.F. Mr. Winger, who will soon cele brate his 85th birthday, was but 22 years of age when he received his appointments. He has been a lifeâ€" long resident of Waterloo County and for the past 40 years had lived in Preston. _ The Dominion Life head office staff at Waterloo resumed its fiveâ€" day week schedule this week. Started two years ago, the schedule ‘has worked out well. The office is closed Saturday with only a few of the staff on duty to take care of routine on that day. The time lost Saturday is made up during the week by the staff. Summer hour schedule goes into effect May 1st. PRESTON.â€"Reuben Winger on Wednesday marked his 62nd year as notary public in Ontario and County of Wiaterloo, an honor few, if any, in the province may equal. While living in the village of El mira (Mr. Winger received his first certifiicate on (March 31, 1875, the certifiicate being signed by Hon. ‘Donald Alexander MacDonald, then licutenantâ€"governor of the province. Printed in linar script the certificate is on a heavy plece of large paper, a blue seal and coat of arms being clearly stamped in the top left corâ€" ner. ‘The certificate, still retained and treasured by Mr. Winger, re mains legible today. Murder Charge Laid to Woman Beaudoin, of Timmins, was charged with murder Tuesday as a result of & coroner‘s jury verdict at the inâ€" quest into the death of Evelyn Leâ€" pine. _ _ s 2s â€" Mrs. Beaudoin, formerly charged with attempting to procure an aborâ€" tion with the use of instruments, is held in the Timmins police station without bail pending tfie hearing. Reuben Winger of Preston Holds Distinction in Notary Public For 62 Years Forecast Another Cut in Electric Rates for Waterloo A further reduction of one decimal in the town electric rates was fore cast at the P.U.C. meeting Monday when Chairman Henderson told Comâ€" missioner Schaab that at least .1 would probably be cut from the rates at the Commissions‘ April meeting. $500 Reward in Taxi Murder Sisters Meet After 37 Years Apart WINDSOR. â€" Easter was an esâ€" pecially joyous season for Mrs. Alâ€" fred E. Sherlock of Toronto, and Mrs. Herbert Stewart of Windsor. After a separation of thirtyâ€"seven years, while each believed the other dead, the two sisters met here over the weekâ€"end through a newspaper advertisement. MOSOOW.â€"Josef Stain‘s crusade of selfâ€"condemnation and demands Larger Town, More Transients, Shown â€" By Figures in Waterloo and Elmira ANNOUNCES TOTAL REVOLUTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL*CURRICULUM IN ONTARIO : HIGH SCHOOLS for a purse of Trotzkyist "spies and wreckers" reached out to the Soviet Union‘s motionâ€"picture industry. Transients who are working their way via the thumb method through this section of the province must be working on the law of averages, if Agures obtained from Waterloo and F‘mira police offices are any indicaâ€" tlon. At Elmira, where the population is over 2.000, close to 100 transients have obtained lodging in the police cellae overnight. At Waterloo, four times the size of the northern town, more than 400 of the "wayfarers of TORONTO.â€"Deputy Attorneyâ€" General |. A. Humphries on Wed. nesday announced the Governâ€" ment had authorized a $500 reâ€" ward for information jeading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of Lawrâ€" ence Howitt, Kitchener taxiâ€"driâ€" Hewitt was slain two weeks ago, his body found in a ditch on the Kitchenerâ€"Preston highâ€" way. The body, beside the tax!â€" driver‘s car, had a bullet wound through the chest. TIMMINS, Ont. â€" Mrs. Emma FIVEâ€"DAY WEEK Ontario Health Engineer Suggests Temporary Kitchener Sewage Remedy Registered Nurses Meet at London KITCHEBNER.â€"A large number of Kitchener plan to attend the annual meeting of the Registered Nurses‘ Association of Ontario, which openâ€" ed Wednesday at London. Miss E. MacPherson, of Toronto, will present the report of the comâ€" mittee on dominion registration, while Professor Wallace of Queen‘s University will speak. A demonstraâ€" tion of orthopedic nursing will be given by a New York authority. Caledonia Caveâ€"In Costs One Life CALEDONIA. â€" Frederick Allan Robinson, 39, was killed almost inâ€" stantly and his companion, John Grinyer, 43, of Caledonia, was critically injured just before noon Tuesday in the Caledonia mine of the Gypsum, Lime & Alabastine, Canada, Ltd., in the first serious accident at the gypsum mine here in many years. Jack Cunningham, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cunningham, Herbert street, Waterloo, has received the appointment to customs post and started his duties April 1st. Louis Feick, Kitchener customs collector, stated that he will be stationed at the Waterloo port. Vacate Stores On New P. 0. Site Work on Kitchener‘s New Pubâ€" lic Building To Be Comâ€" menced Shortly. KITCHENER.â€"Most of the preâ€" mises on the new site selected for the erection of the new Federal building in this city will be vacated during this week. _ _ While no definite information has been received, it is expected that the plans for the $300,000 structure will be ready for the contractors to submit their tenders during April, and that building operations will be commenced in May. It is expected that the levelling of the grounds after the removal of the buildings, and the construction of the foundation walls, will provide employment for a large number of men at present an relief in the city. Some of the old sheds and other buildings on the premises, which faces Duke street, from Queen to Frederick streets, are being removed and others will be torn down as soon as the tenants secure other quarters. s s Chief of Police Ernest Moreau told the Chronicle that in the first three months of the current year 147 reâ€" ccived lodging in the cells in Januâ€" ary. 130 in February and 123 in March. On the other hand Elmira‘s total has risen from 25 in January, 23 in February and more than 30 in v March. GETS CUSTOM APPOINTMENT the roads" have obtained a night‘s «helter in the first three months of 1937. Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario, whose anâ€" nouncement of sweeping changes in the secondary schools curricuâ€" lum surprised the delegates at the annual convention of the Ontario Educational Association in session in Toronto this week. To Make Changes Ken Pages HON. DR. J. L. SIMPSON ‘KITOHENER.â€"The report of Dr. E.: A. Borry, director of the sanitary engineering division of the provinâ€" cial dopartment of health, on the sugâ€" gested plan for Kitchener sewage disâ€" posal was presented to the city council Monday night. The report deals chiefly with the sewago disâ€" posal at the Grand river plant at Doon, which is operating above norâ€" mal capacity. City Can‘t Meet Situation at Low Cost Until Waldemar First year classes under the new system will start next fall, the minâ€" ister said. First graduation under it will be in 1941. Students started on the present courses will finish them where desired. Tentative At First ‘The proposed courses of study are presented to the teachers and to the public in a purely tentative form," he said. "It is offered to you for your careful examination and criticism. It is not intended to become effective in a final form until it has been tried in practice and has received the ecriâ€" (Continued on Page 7) Because the Grand river conserâ€" vation scheme would guarantee an even daily flow, Dr. Berry suggests only a temporary plan to serve until the dam at Waldemar which is the main objective of the conservation scheme is built. ‘The report states that pending the enlarging of the Doon plant there are two alternaâ€" tives. One would cost the city $37,â€" 000 for a third settling tank and ten acres of filter beds, and the other, costing $65,000 would entail the builâ€" ding of a low concrete dam at this point and the construction of 30 acres of filter beds. Four courses will be given in the secondary schools and in all four the central core will be English, soâ€" clal science and health. Stress will be laid on shopwork and manual training for boys and on domestic science for girls, the latter in reâ€" cognitio of the fact training in the hcusehold arts is not received in the home in most cases, In summarizing his report Dr. Berry stated that the situation at Kitchener might be met temporarily by the conâ€" struction of additional settling capaâ€" city, by the use of natural filter beds near the river, and by the treatment of the balaace of the sewage by chemical precipitation. i TORONTO.â€"Complete revision of secondary school curricula in Onâ€" tario, together with other major changes, including the scrapping of the matriculation standard, was â€" nounced ‘Tuesday Hon. Dr. L.%. S‘mpson, minister of education. Union Seeks Secondary school education has become the right of every boy and girl today, said Dr. Simpson, and the old conception of a high school as a prelude to university must be abandoned in the modern world. The forum chosen by Dr. Simpson for his announcements, sensational to the educationists, was a general meeting of the Ontario Educational Associatfon, now in convention here. Settlement of the strike at the B. F. Goodrich plant was expected to be made this (Friday) afternoon at the fourth conference between company officials and strike leaders, the Chronicle was informed. For the 547 B. F. Goodrich Employees on Strike for Past Week.â€"Conferâ€" ence Today. Meeting in a long session Tuesâ€" day and Wednesday, the final meetâ€" ing planned for Thursday has been postponed until today. 547 union members, employees of the B. F. Goodrich Company of Canada plant at Kitchener, who have been on strike for more than a week, are being cared for by the union leaders who seek to gain for them higher wages. Hon. Dr. Simpson Makes Senâ€" sational Announcement at O.E.A. Convention. According to C. D. Lesley, union organizer, & rise of perhaps 15 to 20 per cent. in the lower wage brnciets and 10 per cent. in the higher brackets is being sought by the union. Drop Latin ® To Feature â€" Social Science PRESTON CUTS TAX RATE Ratepayers of Presaton were given a ®urprise packet in a three mill eut in the tax rate which was fixed by the council Monday night at 44, a drop of thrée mills. Dam Built. TUESDAY Higher Pay FRIDAY Price 3 Cents