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Premier Expected To Make Announcement that Speaker of Legislature Will Officially Represent Ontario in London Preston and the riding of South Waterloo shared the limelight toâ€" day as the announcement was made that Hon. Norman O. Hipel, Speaker of the Legislature, will in all likeliâ€" hood represent the government of the Province of Ontario at the coronation ceremonies in London on May 12. _ _ c This distinct honour was conferred on the popular member for South Waterloo following a cabinet counâ€" cil on Thursday, at which Premier M. F. Hepburn again stated_ that pressure of urgent government busiâ€" ness at home would prevent him from going abroad to the cereâ€" monies for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, next month. During the past week many memâ€" bers of the Legislature, both Liberal and Opposition, are said to have urged the choice of Mr. Hipel upon the Cabinet. â€" Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister of Lands and Forests, sails for Europe on April 21, but his presence at the coronation will be simply as a member of the Government. Vol. 81, No. 29 S.W. Member Brings Honor To County Hon. Mr. Hipel is a native of Waterloo County, being born near Breslau. His appointment brings flreat honour to this county. Mr. ipel was first elected to the Legisâ€" lature in 1934, and was ifffmediately honoured by being named Speaker of the Ontario House. _ Hon. Mr. Hi;el and Mrs. Hipel will sail for London some time this month. > Hepburn Definite On No Election HIPEL IS ONTARIO DELEGATE TO CORONATION Seek Sculptor In ‘ Triple Slaying Easterâ€"Eve New York Crime Traced to Divinity Student. APPOINTMENT PLEASES NEW YORK.â€"Investigators conâ€" ducting one of the most intensive man hunts in year are confident that they will soon find Robert Irwin, 29â€" yearâ€"old sculptor named by police as the Easterâ€"eve slayer of pretty Veroâ€" nica Gedeon, her mother and a lodger in a Beekman Hill avartment. Police throughout the nation were asked to aid in the search for the former theological student and inâ€" sane asylum inmate who was frusâ€" trated in his love for Veronica‘s sisâ€" ter, Ethel. Vengeance was believed to have been the motive. Evidence has hbeen discovered defâ€" initely placing Irwin in the Gedeon apartment the night the crimes were committed, the police declared. It was reported that they had found the weapon with which the lodger, Frank Byrnes, was stabbed. Irwin, according to his friends, habituggly carried a chiselling inâ€" siurment of a type commonly used by seulptors. It was about eight inches long. with a sharp point. Byrnes‘ wounds at first were believed to have been made by an ice pick. British Destroyer Is Bomb Target TORONTO. â€" Both the town of GIBRALTAR â€"The â€" British _ deâ€" stroyer Gallant was reported to have opened fire with antiâ€"aireraft guns on an airplane which dropped a bomb near here n the Mediterranean TORONTO.â€"Just back from a tenâ€"day holiday in Miami, Preâ€" mier Hepburn dissipated various postâ€"Legislature rumors regard. ing a Provincial general election with the definite statement that his Government would not appeal to the country until after another session. at May 12 Ceremonies. And that session, he voiced aseurance, will be a regular ser sion, and no special session that could, if circumstances warrantâ€" ed, be held before the close of the present year. Which means, according to Liberal M.L.A.‘s who were at Queen‘s Park to welâ€" come him back to his official post, that the next big ballot will ma~] THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE| : Government Opens District Agricultural Office in County Buildings Soon not develop untit 1938. The announcement was made Waterloo as first is yesterday by Nich. Asmussen, as a surprise. Mr. M.L.A., that the Ontario Agriâ€" Lorne B. Weber, ¢ cultural Minister, Hon. Mr. Waterioo township, Marshall, has _ approved _ the the farming commu opening of a part time office ty, felt that Kitcher for the County representative, central point, it wo E. 1. McLoughry, at Kitchener, venient to the maj instead of Waterloo. It will be who have occasion located in the county building _ McLoughry, the rej in vacant quarters adjoining stated the office wa: that of the county school inâ€" with ample parking spector‘s office. It is understood L. 8. Duncan, dej the office will be provided free formed Mt. Asmuss by the county. would be open to ‘l%n announcement that the office Saturday morning would be in Kitchener instead of Loughry in charge. ALBERTA CUTS DEBTS IN HALF, INTEREST STANDS Waterloo Earning Big Dividends On School Investment, Says Principal HENRY FORD REFUSES TO RECOCNIZE UNIONS C. J. MacGregor Heard as Guest Speaker at Board of Trade. Waterloo, paying over 40 per cent. of its taxes for education, could have no better investment, C. J. MacGregor, Supervising Principal of the Waterloo Public Schools, told the largest gathering of members of the Board of Trade at their April luncheon in the Hotel Waterloo on Thursday noon, "Children spend 25 per cent. of their total year in the classroom," Mr. MacGregor said. "Your investâ€" ment takes care of these children, giving them a thorough training, and doing for them that which parâ€" ents in this tooâ€"busy world in some cases cannot find time to do." Members of the School Board, of the Young Men‘s Club and dentists of Waterloo were in attendance at the luncheon. The two latter proâ€" vide much in the way of free health services to Waterloo school children. While the three "essentials", the three "R‘s", reading, writing and arithmetic, are still being given full attention, the speaker said that the trend is towards a more general education in the public schools, where the pupils will be fitted to go out and take their places in the world. In this connection Mr. Macâ€" Gregor stated that public platform speaking is being stressed. _ ‘"More and more is the duty of the home falling on the schools. As a result citizens of Waterloo can point with pride to the fine school buildings, their fine teachers and (Continued on Page 10) Hon. Mr. Hipel was expected to be named on Thursday as the official delegate for the Province of Ontario to represent the Province at the King George VI coronation ceremonies in London on May 12. Twinâ€"City Company Formed for Coâ€"operative Buying. The current issue of the Ontario Gazette carries official government rotice granting letters patent to the Kitchener â€" Waterloo _ Coâ€"operative Limited, a company formed "manuâ€" facture, import, buy, sell and deal in goods. wares and merchandise of every form and description and for other purposes." The company is formed with a caâ€" pital of $10,000 divided into two tlousand shares of $5 each. The letters patent name the proâ€" Vimional directors as Enoch Hongberâ€" ger, Waterloo; Varden Latsch, Kitchâ€" errer; _ Wm. Armstrong, Waterloo; Harry Cook. Rev. Geo. H. Thomas, Rov. G. Ewart Hinds, Henry E. Gladâ€" The provisional directors are the men who formed the company Jast fali. stone, and Kitchener. Waterloo as first announced came as a surprise. Mr. Asmussen stated Lorne B. Weber, deputy reeve of Waterioo township, w‘:n represented the farming community of the coun ty, felt that Kitchener being a more central point, it would be more conâ€" venient to the majority of farmers who have occasion to consult Mr. McLoughry, the representative. He stated the office was close to market with ample parking space in vicinity. L,. 8. Duncan, deputy minister, inâ€" formed Mr. Asmussen that the office would be open to the public every Saturday morning with E. I. Meâ€" â€"Operative Club Gets Letters Patent Harper Schofield, all of HON. NORMAN O. HIPEL AND MRS. HIPEL Estahlished 1856 Fascist Press "Blasts" France ROME. â€" Italy‘s Governmentâ€"conâ€" trolled press redoubled an attack on France â€" ‘Tuesday, warning _ that "French duplicity ‘will be to blame if Premier Mussolini eventually decides to abandon the 27â€"power "hands off soain" pact. The Corriere Padano â€" accused France of trying, "under the false standard of nonâ€"intervention, to proâ€" voke a coalition war against Italy and the Reich Cahan Attacks Privy Counil Charges Supreme Council Had No Grounds for Invalidating Bennett Reform Acts. OTTAWA.â€"Members of the Privy Council had stepped outside the law and invaded the political field when they wrote the recent judgments inâ€" walidating the Bennett reform laws, it was charged in the House of Comâ€" mons by Hon. C. H. Cahan (Cons., St. LawrenceISt. George). The former secretary of state charged the Privy Council disregardâ€" ed the constitution of Canada when they wrote the judgments. He charged them with attempting to reâ€" logate Canada to & colonial status by referring to a nonexistent imâ€" perial executive with powers to obliâ€" gate Canada in foreign policies. Find Missing Plane and Eight Persons SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz.â€"A ground party led by Sheriff Johrf Nunn plodâ€" ded up the snowâ€"clogged slopes of Mount Baldy late Tuesday toward the tangled wreckage of a huge sky liner sighted several hours earlier from a searching plane. Major A. D. Smith, Albuquerque, from whose plane the wreckage first was seen, sprawled lifeless against the mountaingide, expressed belief it was the 21â€"passenger Douglas air liver which vanished Saturday with i\ men and two women aboard Duplessis Gov‘t. Reports Surplus ferecast | hy _ Provincial 'I‘ranmrprl Mrâ€" Schnmmer, now in his 86th Fisher, delivering his budget address | year. has served as clerk of the muâ€" hrefore the Quebee Legislature. ‘The |nicipality for 40 years. Born in Byâ€" (speech shower, however, a deficit Of |rieure, NY.. he came to Kitchener #1.215.016 on ordinary accounts fOf | n the age of 18 to attend St. Jorâ€" the eight months ending March the |ome‘s R C. College. Fout years later 18t lie obtained a position as teacher of In the period from July 1, 19%6, to |the St_ (Clements school, and has March 1. 1937. ordinary receipts to |s mee lived in thafyillage. Ho taught tolled $26.780,097 against disburse|schoo}l for three years and then enâ€" ments of $27.995.113 Comparison | tered the general store business, , with the corresponding period of the which he “”‘” condncts, although his | preceding year showed receipta of sin, Aff P Schiinmar. naw "is in C parContte _ 3 t ve charge _ Another son, Frank \"â€"’-“23-““9 againat diabursemenDt® 0f |&. hummer, operates the â€" general $29,980,330, a daficit of $6,856,722. atore at Linwood. Quebec Has Deficit, However, on Full Year. QUBBREC. _ Surplus of ordinary re venue over ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30 was fevecast hy â€" Provincial | Treasurer Fisher, delivering his budget address hr fore the Quebee Legislature. ‘The «peech shower, however, a deficit of #1.215.016 on ordinary accounts for the cight months ending March the General Motors Emplpyegs Are Out On Strike 85,000 Back On Jobs As Strike Chrysler Heads Grant Recogâ€" nition to United Auto Workers‘ Union. LANSING, Mich.â€"Governor Frank Murphy announced Wednesday that an agreement had been reached endâ€" ing the Chrysler automotive strikes. It provided for recognition by the corporation of the United Automobile Workers of America as the collecâ€" tive bargaining agency of its memâ€" bers employed by the firm. ‘Settlement of the strike, called on March $8, will return approximately 65,000 Chrysler workers and some 20,000 employees of dependent parts munufacturers to their jobs. Over 40 Years Service As Township Clerk Ends As P.F. Schummer Retires Has Held Wellesley Clerkship Since 1897, As Well as Postmaster ‘of St. Clements. CROSSHILLâ€"Wellesley township council here on Monday accepted wth regret the resignation of their veteran clerk, Peter F. Schummer, and named Cecil B. Barbour as temâ€" porary clerk until applications are called to fll the vacancy. OSHAWA, April 8.â€"Sitâ€"down strikers here toâ€"day caused the complete shutâ€"down of the large plants of the Gemeral Motors Corporation Canadiaa Corporaâ€" tion, and suspended all work. _ Recognition of" United Automobile Union of America is dema by repreâ€" sentatives of Johrt L. Lewis, Union head, who yesterday declared that Henry Ford, of the Ford Motor Company, would grant union recognition or have his plants closed. Ends In Lansing John L. Lewis Says ‘We‘ll See‘ Labour Chieftain â€" Confident Ford Manufacturer Will Be Brought to Terms. NO FORD STRIKE TO BE CALLED JUST YET DENROIT.â€"John L. Lewis, head of the committee for industrial organtâ€" zation, asserted late\Wednesday that unionization of the Ford Motor Comâ€" pany‘s employees is the next objecâ€" tive of the United Automobile Workâ€" ers of Ameiica. ‘The Reo Motor Car Company, whose Lansing truck plant has been keld up by sitâ€"down strikers for a month, and the union signed an agreement Wiednesday similar to that Tues@ay which ended the fourâ€"weekâ€" old strike in the Chrysier ‘Corporaâ€" )tlon's Detroit plants. . Lewis mide his assertion in an address at ; union rally, adding the organization of the Ford workers would not be undertaken until "this problem is before us." ‘The labor chieftain spoke a few hours after Henry Ford had said at ‘Ways, Ga, that "we‘ll never recogâ€" ize the United Automobile Workers‘ Union or any other union." » Accepts Challenge ‘‘Mr. Ford issued a statement sayâ€" ing he will never recognize the U.A.W.A. or any other union and that he will deal only with individual members," Lewis said. "I have no doubt that Mr. Ford will do that as long as his employees permit him to pull that policy and no other. I have no doubt, however, that Mr. Ford will change hig mind." Increase Pay For {} Town Employees Reo and Chrysler both recognized the U.A.W.A. as the collective barâ€" gaining agent for its members. 5 Cents Per Hour Raise.â€" Extend Garbage Contract. Waterloo Board of Works emâ€" ployees were granted a 12 to 14 per cent. raise by town council in their April session Monday night. The foreman will receive 45 cents inâ€" stead of .40 cents and the workmen were raised from 35 to 40 cents an hour. Teams used by the board will be paid for at the same rate as preâ€" viously, 75 cents an hour. Wages of street cleaners were increased $2.50 a week to $19. _ _ _ Mn Mayor Wes. McKersie and Reeve Albert Heer were appointed to meet with school boards to confer on plans for observini the coronation. Council decided that some recogâ€" nition of the day should be given to the students. The tax rate of 42 mills on $5,907,455 was confirmed and passâ€" ed. This will give the town an inâ€" come of $248,113 flus the rateâ€" payers‘ share for local improvements of $36,170, which makes a total â€"inâ€" come of $290,774. e Adam Schleuter was awarded the contract for garbage collection for (Continued on Page 10) Mr. Barbour has held the post of township treasurer for a number of years. Mr. Schummer was born in the. city of Syracuse, in the State of New York, in 1851. At the age of fourteen he entered, as an apprentice, the deâ€" partmental store of his uncle of that city. He subsequently spent two years at the tinsmith trade at Bufâ€" falo, N.Y., and thereafrer attended the gcolleges at Buffalo, Baltimore, ind Berlin, Ont. At the age of twenâ€" tyâ€"two he was appointed teacher at the Separate School, St. Clements, Ont., filling the position for three ‘_\nnrn At the same time he was appointed orgapist mt the R.C. Church there which latter position he held for an ubroken period of 35 years He jater entered into rtnership with Mr. A. Starr, pn'r?n‘?:: the Mcâ€" Nab store which the¢ continued for several years when Mr. Starr sold his intereat to his partner who be mme the sole owner, carrying on A genera) store and tin business. At the age of 4% he built his present . (Continued on Page 10) Miss Anne Lindsay Clark, above, member of a prominent Boston, Mass., family, whose engagement to John Roosevelt, youngest son of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, has been rumored. At a press conferâ€" ence in Washington, D.C., April 5, Mrs. Roosevelt states she was unâ€" aware of the engagement, pointing out that it was customary for anâ€" nouncement of an engagement to come from the family of the young lady, and further stating that she didn‘t believe that John was engaged to anyone. 36 Hours California To Waterloo REPORTED Waterloo is beginning to enjoy the benefits of an improved air mail service. _ Yesterday Charles A. Boehm received an air mail letter from Los Angeles, California, in 36 hours, and according to Postmaster C. Dotzert it is the best service yet received from this point. Mailed in the morning in Los A:geles, it was received the â€" next ternoon in Waterloo. Postmaster Dotzert looks for further improvement in air mail serâ€" vice this year with the Federal government on or about April 25th enlarging the transâ€"Canada ‘nnd transâ€"Atlantic air mail gerâ€" vice to cover land and sea, to European countries. A letter mailed at Waterloo at 9 o‘clock in the morning will reach Kingston, Jamâ€" aica, the following day at 2 p.m. Mail to Australia via England will take three weeks as compared to gix weeks. To Vancouver, air mail posted at Waterloo at 4 p.m. will reach Winnipeg the next morning, or Vancouver in the afternoon. Organize For ~â€" Ontario Election Provincial Conservatives Firmâ€" ly Believe Hepburn Will Go To Polls This Year. TORONTO.â€"Firmly of the belief the Ontario Government will go to the country some time this year, the executive of the Central Ontario Asâ€" sociation of the Conservative party met at the Albany Club Tuesday and adopted a policy of immediate inâ€" tensive reorganization in all â€"ridings: Where suitable candidates for the election are now available, convenâ€" tions will be held without further de lay, it is learned. The first of such conventions wil be held in South York, with Hon. Leopold Macaulay, former minister of highways, reportâ€" edly assured of the nomination. The conference was attended by former Premier George Henry, party leader in th Legislature; Col. George A. Drew, provincial campaign direc ter; Cecil Frost, of Lindsay, Central Ontario organizer; William H. Ire land, president of the Ontario Con:â€" servative Association, and by all the Toronto and Central Ontario Conserâ€" vative members of the Legislature. Owing to his parliamentary duties in Ottawa. Hon. Earl Rowe, M.P., provincial leader. was unable to be present. LAD‘S SKULL FRACTURED Earl Clemens, a fiveâ€"yearâ€"old lad who fell out of his father‘s motor car, was treated for a fractured skull by Dr. Pequegnat. formed in an effort to save the boy‘s arms, but this was« finally abandoned, and toâ€"day he i# armless. Neverthe leas he is in the junior fourth at |orhool. and is constantly on the honor rell OWEN SOUND â€"Seven years ago fate touched the life of Bert Rouse, son of Mr. and Mrs Archie Rouse, of Wiarton, when he took hold of a high voltage Hydro line. Toâ€"day, a lad of 12 years, he is struggling to overâ€" come one of the worst possible phyâ€" s1cal handicaps. After the accident, operation after operation was perâ€" 13â€"Â¥Yearâ€"Old Wiarton Youth Can Do Everything Except Dress Himself The lad writes with his mouth, holding a short pencil between his teeth. He has attracted interest in all parts of the continent, and reâ€" coives many letters aroh week from the United States, requesting samâ€" plee of hi« writing. ‘"The hoy is clever at sachool," Principal James Rebinson told the Preas. ‘‘The other children are very kood. helping him with such thinga as sharpening a pencil, but they TO JOHN ROOSEVELT EDMONTON.â€"Drafted to replace the Alberta Reduction and Settle ment of Debts Act of 1936, declared unconstitutional by the courts, new Social Credit debt legislatiqn was irtroduced in the Legislature Wedâ€" nesday. Introduced by Municipal Minister Lucien Maynard and given first reading, the bill provided for a 50 per cent, reduction in principal on all private debts contracted before July 1, 193% Interest rates were not chainged. ‘The old act, declared ultre vires by Mr. Justice A. F. Ewing, of the Alberta Supreme Court, dealt with interest reductions which the court ruled was a matter solely withâ€" ‘n Dominion jurisdiction. One Worker Injured Leaping to _ Safety in Geraldton $30,000 _ GERALDNON.â€"Fire wiped out the camp quarters at MacLeodâ€"Cockshutt (Mine Wednesday afternoon, causing damage which may reach $30,000, and endangering the lives O6f sleeping ‘vworkers, who were forced to jump from smokedfilled buildings, leaving |their personal belongings behind. Fire Causes Heavy Damage At Mine _ One employee, Tony Love, a Sudâ€" bury diamondâ€"drill worker, was badâ€" ly burned before he managed to jump from a secondâ€"story window of the bunkhouse, which was one of the first buildings destroyed. He suffered a broken arm in the fall, and was reâ€" moved to hospital in Geraldton, where it was later reported his conâ€" dition was fair. Supreme Court Throw Out Inâ€" terest Reduction, So Debts Themselves Are Cut. Aberhart Tries New Method Prime Minister May Call Parley Conferences Similar to Preâ€" Confederation Gatherings to Discuss B.N.A. ‘OTTAWA.â€"The Dominion Governâ€" ment is said to be thinking of conâ€" vcking a conference of Canadian poâ€" litical leadersâ€"similar to the pre Confederation parleysâ€"for the purâ€" pose of considering amendments to the Constitution which are deemed necessary for the social and econoâ€" mic security and progress of the naâ€" tion. No parley is possible in the very near future for the reason that Prime Minister Mackenzie King and several of his senior Ministers will be pre occupied for some time with the ‘Coronation festivities and the Im:â€" perial Conference in London, but it is believed that a conference may be proposed in the autumn which will include not only representatives of the parties in power but also of those in Opposition. HENDAYE, FrancoSpanish Fronâ€" ‘tler.â€"An arms ship, flying the flag of the Republic of Panama, slipped through the rebel blockade off Norâ€" thern â€" Spain early Sunday and brought eleventhâ€"hour aid to the Basque defenders of Bilbao, many of wHom had fought for three days with clubs as their only weapons. _ The ship, described in frontier deâ€" spatches as the steamer Adra unloadâ€" ‘fi‘d 50.000 rifles and 50,000,000 rounds o( ammunition. The arms and ammunition were sald to have been shipped from (idynia, Poland. Mrs. Rouse claims that it was an act of God that saved her son. Noâ€" thing in the world prevented him from being taken but the Almighty," she said make no difference with him; be is treated like one of themselves. It is quite common to sea another youngster drawing a line for him, but there is no class disturbance whatsoever." When the accident occurred Wiarâ€" ton residents thought the boy‘s caâ€" reer to be over, but Bert, after hi@ wounds had healed, told his mother that he wonld fight his way through life. Although he is limited in many ways, it is nothing for him to cut giasa, write with his teeth, or sail down the street on a bicycle. In fact, he has even strered an automoâ€" bile with his feet. Abont the only thing he cannot do is dress himself, but as his mother made this stateâ€" ment, Bert {nterrupted: "I can put my socks on, mother." is Slip Through Rebel Blockade Price 8 Cents