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LOCAL MEMORIAL SERVICE
St. John's Cathedral Ceremony
ples of
mason's art.
WHOLE CONTINENT
(By Harrison Brown)
.?
at New Orleans in 1812, and the Senets are buried. great-grandson of Peter Smith. The other tombs are those of half Indian, who fought in the Richard's mother, Eleanor of Revolutionary War under General Aquitaine, and John's wife, Isa-
(URE,” said my friend, priest. Save for one trip to bella. Washington.
has not wandered "Coughlin is going to be Europe he They all date from about 1220,
of the most important far. In 1923 he was appointed and are particularly fine erat one
the mediaeval stone people in the land for a time" to the diocese of Detroit.
His radio career began a few I had just arrived in Detroit, These tombs paradoxically re- and because it was difficult to years later when he begged for call the dissensions of that tur. talk whilst driving round the one hour a week on the air in crowded streets we had parked order to build up his parish." bulent family.
After the dying Henry II had by the ferry. Dusk fell as we His request was granted; it was Greater Safety At Sea
been forced to yield to the French chatted, the clammy duck of a good business for the station, typical winter afternoon in the since Detroit is more than half King, with whom were leagued
*Catholic. Great Lakes country- ; Public opinion, which has
Richard and John, he told his at-
It was during the banking been deeply disturbed by the PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND tendants to carry him to the ab- Across the swift-flowing river crisis of 1933 that he reached reports of the recent series of
bey church of Foatebrauit.
which separated
from the first pinnacle of his fame. enquiries into the losses of Bri- In connection with the Memorial Richard went there on learning Canada the lights of Windsor At that time he was still wel- tish ships, will give careful con- Service on the day of the funeral of his father's death and threw began to twinkle. "He's likely come to the Administration, a sideration to the general state-of His Majesty King George V. himself in an agony of remorse to raise a lot of hell before he's fact which did not endear either ment on the safety of life at sea Tuesday. January 23. at 11:30 before his father's body.
through," went on my friend Coughlin or Roosevelt to the recently issued by the Chamber am, the following announcement On his own deathbed he gave "but you'll see. Just so far and financial interests which the of Shipping. By the irrefutable is issued from St. John's Cathe-orders, that he was to be buried by no farther. Sky Pilot he may former was attacking. evidence of records of loss of jarak
be, but the sky is not his cell that year he was principal wit vessels and loss-of-life, this!
At the official and public Queen Eleanor, who sympathis-Jing.”
ness in an inquiry into local" document proves that the shock-Memorial Service places will be
Wanderers used to come to banking conditions. ing disasters of the last year reserved for those who have re-be baried beside the most famous this "Capital of American In-
Reckless Evidence are not to be taken as indicating ceived invitations *Tox
dastry" to see Henry Ford ar
His evidence was. reckless Walter Chrysler: Now they
He mostly come to hear Father and rarely substantiated. Charles E. Coughlin or to look demanded the foundation of a From the witness- at his famous Church-office, the new bank
chair he thumped the table, The man who now talks to shouting. The United States is
a deterioration in the conditions Colonial Secretary's Office.
his father's side.
ed with her sons, later chose to
be
of them
Your Daily Smile!
179
Later
of our merchant fleet involving All other places in the Cathedral an increase of the hazards of will be reserved and open the officers and men. Weather any member of the public. conditions vary. and recent Ministers of religion are asked After ten minutes without secur- Shrine of the Little Flower. years have been stormy to regard this notice as sufficient ing attention. a lady in a teashop Nevertheless, measured by los-invitation, and to be at the Cathe-caught hold of the next waitress who millions is one of the pioneer no Jesus Christ. It cannot go ses of vessels, British shipping dral Halk robed. by 11.15 am
went past her table.
radio personalities of America; down into a graveyard and raise "Can I see the manageress ?
he has been broadcasting for 15 a stinking Lazarus. God Al- "Complaint?" replied The girl years. Numbers of people have mighty could not raise the First haughtily, this is a cafe, not a mus-made large fortunes by means National Bank." In the end De- of the wireless; more still have troit got the bank he had ad- used it as an aid to greater vocated
His rise as a national figure wealth and wider popularity.
Fing home."
is two and a-half times as safe they are asked to inform the Chap-have a complaint." as it was before the war. Dur-lain of their intention to attend. ing the last 15 years the stan- dard of safety has risen fast. In the 1920-22 period Britain flost one-in 156 of our sea-going vessels; in 1932-34 the figures
OBITUARY
נ-
were one in 242 Still mare DAME CLARA BUTT satisfactory are the statistics of loss of life. British seamen are how from four to six times ás safe as they were before the
war.
WORLD FAMOUS SINGER
London, Yesterday.
A TOUGH WORLD
Ee seized her in the dark and kissed
her,
For a moment bliss was his.
“Oh," he said. "I thought it was my
sister."
She laughed and said, “It is.”
T
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A PINK PARASOL The late John Wanamaker was
stories to classes of small children.:
sertions.
As
But only Coughlin, has used was very gradual at first. For that instrument alone as a path years he had mixed a little poli- to power. If his microphonetics into his
for-economic conditions grew worse were stolen he would be gotten in a month. The large he adventured more boldly, and chains closed their circuits to the more he attacked the faster him long ago, but he has forged his fan mail grew. His chief banking, Communism, Prohibi- his own and now is out of danger themes have been currency and tion, and now again "interna- on that score.
Early History
tional finanĉt.” In 1930 he
Yet recalling the reports of The death has occurred of Dame Lord Merrivale and his col-Clara Batt at North-Stoke, Oxford very active in charsh and Sunday leagues on the sinking of the She has been an invalid, suffering school work during his long and use Usworth, Millpool, Blairgowrie from a spinal complaint, for some ful career. He loved to tell Bible and La Crescenta we cannot be years-Reuter's Balletin Service. It was after a particularly inspir Charle E. Coughlin was born organised his Radio League of satisfied with evidence of gen
Madame Clara Butt, created aling session of such stories that the in Canada 43 years ago. His the Little Flower and began eral efficiency or improvement. Dame of the British Empire in benign gentleman looked around at
of the Cathedral at Mellon and Morgan. In the first three of these cases 1920, possessed one of the purest the attentive youngsters and inquir father, an American, was then hunting seriously after Hoover, Hamilton, Ontario. At the age Hoover he dubbed "the Holy it was found that there had contralto voices ever heard. Rolled, "Now, children, are there any sexton
Came the timid voice of a little (of 20 Charles became a Doctor Ghost of the Rich," Mellon was been no wrongful act or default lowing her debut in a Royal Cor questions you want to ask?"
of Philosophy of Toronto Judas Iscariot, Morgan was "Please, M. Wanamaker, how) vidual responsibility is not now jance of "Orfeo" at
was ordained as a Catholic) (Continued on Page 8): the issue. Lord Merrivale made Theatre on December 5, 1892, her much is that little pink parasol in University and four years later all kinds of things. it clear that the disasters raised career was one long succession of your store window? the gravest questions as to the triumphs Among the distin- adequacy of the existing law guished audience present on that and practice in shipping. He occasion was the then Prince of reported the employment of Wales, afterwards King Edward steering-gear "of a kind which VL
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Introduced by her at the old Chap-
.
Here is an unanswerable case pell Concerts held for so many for speedy reform. Mr. Runci- tears in London at the Queen's imman has shown that he is Hall. One of the best known of aware of the necessity and of her songs was Liddle's setting of the strength of public feeling."Abide With Me," which was an He admitted in the House of instant success at its first hearing- Commons that the disasters had In 1900 Dame Clara Butt mar- given the country some rude ried Mr. Kemerley Rumford, the shocks," and we may accept his well-known English bass singer, assurance that he is as much and there is one daughter of the concerned about the matter as marriage.
anyone. He has already set
the machinery of reform to SIR WILLIAM PEATS DEATH
work Some time ago a special·
ANNOUNCED
London, To-day. The death
committee was appointed to ex- amine the basic question of steering gear. The Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee has occurred of the celebrated was asked to reconsider the pro-accountant Sir William Peat. blems of manning, and Mr. senior partner of Peat, Mar- Runciman indicated that modi-wick, Mitchell and Co. He was fications would be necessary and Financial Secretary and Ac must be enforced as early as counting Officer to the Ministry possible. The rules are certain-of Food from 1917 to 1920 ly inadequate at present, even Reuter's Bulletin Service. if obeyed: Sir Roger Keyes!
has given his opinion that a DEATH OF LADY EVELYN
master and theserantis
necessary to the safely of In
ocean-going ship. The present
London, to-dayThe death has
faw requires only a master and occurred of Lady Evelyn Young, one mate to be certificated offi- wife af Sir Arthur: Henderson. cers in a ship bound foreign. YoungBetter.
In the home trade a ship may sall without a single certificated officer General practice among good shipowners mob-
serves a far higher standard. It is in their interest that the less scrupulous should "be com- pelled the same level The ill-found, overloaded mensée to sound eco-
the industry:
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