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JANUARY 8 VV 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SECOND SECTION PAGES 13 TO 22 VOL. CLXX. No. 25 MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1941. TRICE FIVE CENTS WATER TAX BURDEN D.F.C.

Pinned on Roy McGregorMM ACTION HELD R.C.A.F. ISSUES CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS HUGH PATON IS DEAD AT HIS HOME HERE VITAL FOR VICTORY t7 Mi 4 xm: 4 Canadians are beckoned to "Adventure in the Skies" in this Royal Canadian Air Force recruiting poster, recently distributed throughout the country. Driver Wins Damages After Crash With Horses Straying on Highway article 1055 of the Civil Code which decrees that the proprietor of an animal is responsible for damage PUT ON PROPRIETOR IN DRAFT CITY BILL Levy Shifted from Tenants, With Provision for Leases Unexpired May 1 INCOME TAX SCOPE WIDE Covers Every Earner Municipal Area Who Pays Federal Impost, Whether Resident Here or Not By M. N. NEGRU.

Official draft of this year' Mont real Bill to amend the city charter, while containing no new taxes in the sense of creating municipal revenue source's, contemplates im portant revision in the Incidence of certain existing Imposts particu larly the water tax and the income tax. As already anticipated, ine annual measure shuts responsiDuuy in me first instance for the water levy onto the proprietor as of May 1 instead of the tenanj. with whom the former is now jointly uaQic. a- justment is made, however, ior leases that will be unexpired on that date. It also brings within the scope of liability for the municipal income tax practically all persons earning any income in the local taxing area, whether resident there or not, provided they pay the federal income levy.

Authorization is also established for the city to set a maximum sum which a person may be called upon to pay under this import. Released yesterday by Executive Commute: Chairman J. O. Asselin, the till is slated to come before City Council for adoption at a special meeting called for tomorrow morning and which is expect ed to last for several days. Once through Council, where its provisions are normally subject to amendment or quashing, it goes before the provincial Legislature for enactment.

Under terms of the projected legislation. Concordia would be given broad powers to adjust the price of permits and licences without having to seek authority from tne Legislature each time a change is thought necessary. FUNCTIONS CLARIFIED. The bill also clarifies the respec tive powers of the Executive committee and of the City Council, bringing the latter, in effect, to the status of a parliamentary legislative body while the former becomes the equivalent of a cabinet. This is the controversial provision concerning the collection of watr tix: "As from the first of May.

1941, the water tax in the City of Montreal shall be imposed by by-law upon the proprietors of the immovables to which water is furnished "In every case where a lease has been made prior- to the sanction of this act for term expiring after the 30th April. 1941. the proprietor unless under the terms of the said lease be bs obliged to pay the water tax for the occupied premises, shall have the right to force the tenant to reimburse him the amount of such tax by equal monthly payments of one twelfth of the said tax. beginning on the first of May 1941. "The Council is authorized to determine bv bv-law periods for the payment without interest, of the water tax ana to grant a account not to exceed 10 per cent, if payment is made within the delay set by the by-la Where water Is furnished by meter under contract, the contracting consumer continues to pay the levy.

As of the coming fiscal year opening, also, the cltv will collect for water furnished Outremont. West-mount, Montreal East. Ville St. Pierre and Pointe aux Trembles directly from those municipalities at a flat rate of 74 per cent of 7 per cent of realty valuations. Residents: there will pay their own rates directly to their own municipalities, instead of to Montreal.

HAMPSTEAD INCLUDED. For the purposes of the income tax, the town of Hampstead is brought within the meaning of the local taxing area. Whereas the impost now applies to an individual "having his usual residence, domicile or place of business within the said territory." it will in future fall on every person who (a) Has his residence or his ordinary residence or his place of business in Montreal or in one of the municipalities under the control of the Montreal Metropolitan Commission during the year. (b) Remains in Montreal or in one of the municipalities under the r.l Mnntroal MT-ornli- tan Commission during a period or i for periods representing 183 days of the year or more. T.niHn! M.Hmd the control of the Montreal Metro- (Continued on Page 14.

CoL 7.) Great" Everyone, ROBBINS CHALLIS tf EDITH tf WILD By the King as London. January 28. fl Two Canadian winners of the Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry the skv wariare received their wards today from the hands of the King after His Majesty and the Queen had chatted with members of the All-Canadian Squadron of the Royal Air Force. Roy McGregor of Montreal and Flying Officer Wil fred J. Lewis of Port Hope, Ont, each received a cross and a firm handclasp from the King.

McGregor, who now is helping to whin the Royal Canadian Air Force No. 2 Fighter Squadron into shape, won the decoration while a flight lieutenant with the R.C.A.F.'s Nc. 1 unit for destroying a number of German planes. Three times winner before the war of the John Webster Memorial Trophy awarded the foremost amateur aviator in Canada, McGregor was cited last October for the D.F.C. The citation said he haa destroyed at least three enemy air craft and damaged many others," and commended his "gallantry and dash He was appointed January 8, 1941.

to the command of the 2nd Fighter Squadron. R.C.A.F. Lewis pressed home a successful bombing attack against invasion barges tied up at Antwerp, al though anti-aircraft shrapnel rid dled his bomber seven times. The plane went out of control more than once but he brought the craft home. It was announced last September that he was to receive the D.F.C.

Then on New Year's Eve it was announced that he had been listed in the Kind's New Year's honors list as mentioned in dispatches. The King was winding up a two- day tour of airdromes scattered over the United Kingdom when he met Douglas Bader, legless leader of the All-Canadian Squadron. Members of this outfit then met anr chatted with the roy- ST. GEORGE SOCIETY HELPS MOTHERLAND Decides to Send Its Cash Surplus to Royal St, George Society in London Members of St. George's Society of Montreal, at their 106th annual meeting last night at the.

Windsor Hotel, unanimously supported a motion to send to the Royal St George Society in London. England, the cash surplus reported by the treasurer as accruing from the 1940 operations of the society. The exact amount of the surplus. nas not yet been calculated. With the donation will go the sympathy and admiration of the Montreal group for the society in London in the stress of the struggle that is at present being waged over England.

G. J. Jotcham, newly-elected pre sident of the society, in a brief address to the members remarked on the place of England in the forefront of the battle for democracy. Never, in history, has the spirit of St Gaorge been more in evidence than it is in England today, he said. "Since the time of the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, England and the English have hated the bully," he said, and paid tribute to Prime Minister Churchill for his recent assurance that following the victory the lands of those who had suffer ed the sword of the tyrant would be returned to them.

Other officers elected were: The Governor Genera! of Canada, hon orary president: Rt. Rev. Arthur Carlisle. Lord Bishop of honorary vice-president; Randolph Rridsrman. first vice-president: L.

Bond, second vice-president; Fred Hunt, third vice-president; George F. Livermore, treasurer; Arthur S. Mitchell, secretary; C. L. Chapman.

E. A. Cousins. John Cow ling. It.

F. Glass, R. S. Griffith, H. R.

Harrison. John W. Jenkins. C. N.

Knowles. John J. Lomax. H. G.

Norman, H. E. Smith. J. W.

C. Taylor and E. F. Tolhurst, directors. In his annual report, the retiring president, Edgar F.

Tolhurst, re viewed the work of the society for the past year, mentioning particu larly that more than $1,600 had been raised for Christmas Cheer, $600 of which was received from a friend of the society and used for the assistance of needy English war guests in the city. He referred also to an arrangement made with the Royal St. George Society of England whereby needy English war guests here could be helped by friends in England depositing money with the Royal St. George Society where it would remain until the end of the conflict and the local society advancing the equivalent to the needy here. Miss E.

L. Martin, social worker for the society, reported on the year's work among the English in this city who came to the society seeking assistance. She spoke of aid to transients, the providing of transportation to those desiring to return to England to enter war work of some nature and outlined in detail the difficulties met and surmounted during the past 12 months. The financial report showed a strong position at the end of the fiscal year. At the close of the business session, colored pictures were shown by M.

Poley, a native of Switzerland and a former photographer of the Swiss Flying Corps, who has travelled over many countries of the world in search of subjects for exceptional color camera work. JAMES, DAVID TO SPEAK Appear With MacCormac at Philadelphia Meeting Principal F. Cyril James of Mc-Gill University. Senator Athanase David and John MacCormac, author of "Canada Ame-ica's Problem," will address a meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Tuesday next in Philadelphia. The subject the three addresses will be "Canada and the United States." Principal James will preside at this meeting.

Queen Looks On al couple. Seventy-five per cent of Bader command call Canada their home. At one airport Their Majesties heard from Air Marshal W. S. Douglas, deputy chief of air staff, about G.

R. McGREGOR night fighters and the difficulties of intercepting bombers in inky aaricness. They also were told of the secrets of new "hush-hush" equipment with wnicn aireran now are Deing iniea. At nnnthpr airdrome the Kin? in- ernvtrrt a new secret, hnmber which is so massive it filled the whole end of a P.efnro finishing the tour Their Majesties sampled the iron rations or chocolate ana meat extract sup plied DomDer crews. Internees Donate $25 To 'Dorothy' Spitfire A cheque for $25 from 11 inter nees at internment camp was received in favor of the Dorothy Spitfire Fund yesterday.

Mrs. K. fViTMctip an riffi'ial of the fund re. vealed iast night. With the cheque was a letter from the camp commandant saying that the prisoners, who were not identified as to na tionality, desired to help Canada's war effort.

The cheque was made out on the account of the prisoners' trust fund and signed by camp of ficers. This is the second cheque re ceived by the fund. Previously one came from Camp 'N. for $44.71. It was understod by Mrs.

Christie that this latter cheque was from antl- Piazi Germans picked up Bri tain at the start of the war. Both cheques will go towards the funds being collected by women whose given name is 'Dorothy' to buy a bpitfire airplane. WANTS FUNDS KEPT FOR POSTWAR WORK Jean Charles Harvey Says Government Should Facili tate Tax-Free Saving Maintaining that the best brains of both Government and industry should be brought to bear on the problem of post-war rehabilitation Jean Charles Harvey, editor of the locaj french newspaper, Le Jour, suggested last night that "industry should receive co-operation from the Government by being allowed to set up tax-free funds now that will be used later to keep the wheels of business turning during me period or readjustment." Addressing members of the Jim ior Hoard or Trade in another of a series of lectures sponsored by the board's "Background of Democracy Committee," Mr. Harvey emnhasiz ed that "whereas I do not believe our energies should be diverted from the main issue of winning the war, I do stress the necessity of both business and Government agencies realizing that the after- war problem must be faced by them both, that this responsibility can only be met through mutual co operation." Disagreeing with the view that a social revolution must follow this war, the lecturer volunteered that the North American peoples have not yet sunered enough to make revolutions comparable to those which occurred in the old world "We must not forget that, despite our 10 years of economic depression, our large army of unemployed, our thousands of men and families under state relief, the greatest part of our people has lived relatively well while the unemployed were cared for in a large measure," Mr. Harvey stated.

"Remember also that those nations where revolutions happened had endured for centuries all kinds of miseries and had never been adapted to the conditions of a changing world." One of the defects of modern democracy is the abuse of competition, Mr. Harvey held, to the extent that in time the strongest and less scrupulous crush and destroy the weaker. Suppression of competition, as advocated by some reformers, will not check this abuse, the audience was told. "If you kill competition." Mr. Harvey added, "you also kill all human progress at its root.

There may come a time when some people, by numerous abuses, become so powerful as to render competition impossible for others. Those Individuals must be stopped by the power of the law because they violate the essence of democracy, the freedom of the individual." M. Gardiner presided and Mr. Harvey was thanked by D. H.

Black. Four Die Suddenly Here Four suddeen deaths reported to morpue authorities yesterday were attributed to natural causes. The dead are Mrs. Minnie Myers. 5fl.

of 4261 St. Lawrence boulevard; Nelson Chalifoux, 68, 6671 Boyer street; Timofey Fedorenko, SB, 926 St. Alexandre street and Mrs. Albert Clermont, 44, 5317 St. Deenis street.

'X fx I a iii Hill fcimlr fcnnmnnmMf C. H. G. Short, Leaving B. of T.

Presidency, Urges Coordinated Effort OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED C. D. Harrington Is President Short Says Sirois Report Will Yet Be Adopted in Part "Action, quick action, is impera on the part of Canadians if the war is to be won, C. H. G.

Short, retiring president of the Board of Trade declared in his val edictory address to members at the annual meeting yesterday. The meeting took the form of a lunch eon the Canada Club. "Our present and future situa tions are involved in the fate of that Empire democracy of which we are a part, and the demand for service and sacrifice is a clear and clarion call tc Canads. and Canadi ans." said Mr. Short The new officers, previously elec ted by acclamation and headed by C.

Harrington, were installed. In the election for members of the board council the following were chosen: F. D. Chapman, D. Grant D.

A. Hanson. H. K. Hep burn, J.

Edouard Labelle, Owen Lobley. D. G. Macpherson. K.

H. Olive, F. Walls, D. A. Whittaker.

R. J. Williams, and Fred G. Wood. Other officers installed were E.

A. MacNutt, first vice-president; T. B. Weatherbee. 2nd vice-president, and J.

A. Eccles treasurer. H. C. Beatty is secretary "Complacency or smugness can find no place in our national life in 1941," said Mr.

Short. "To produce and furnish the Motherland an unending supply of all kinds of war material is the gigantic task before us. It is the first consideration; everything else is secondary. We must not fail in any particular instance. The word 'impossible' must be deleted from our lexicon in respect to the production of war ma terials.

Kegardless or the oniicui-ties encountered, neither a 'let-up' nor a 'fall-down must ever be en countered in our national effort. "Generally speaking, we have the material. Rapidly we are open- ing up abandoned factories, making extensions and bunding new ones. One of the major problems is the harnessing of man power for war purposes; it is available and it is essential that it should be used properly. WOULD CUT LUXURIES.

"It is becoming more and -more apparent that those engaged in non essential pursuits, whether it be in manufacturing in any other lines of activity, not of material benefit to the prosecution of the war, must be transferred quickly into war effort None should be allowed to engage in any other kind of work. There is, of course, a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes war work. It certainly embraces many fields. We can. I think, safely follow the decision of those men engaged by the Government to deal with the question, and, in my opinion, it should be decided and promulgated to the Canadian people at the earliest possible moment.

There is no time to lose. Every day, every hour lost, defers victory, and could even imperil it." Canadian business and industry must co-operate with the Government as never before, Mr. Short. There will be new and greater taxes, both for the individual ind for business, but we should think of what the people of Britain have done, ana are doing, if there is any suggestion of complaint, he said. "How little, up to the present, have we been called upon to suffer or to do, relatively." A committee he named to study the membership problem of the board had advised raising fees, but further studies are to be made of the services the board gives its members.

"Notwithstanding the dissident views of parochial demagogues, more than one recommendation of the Sirois report will, by the very force of the exigencies of circumstance, be brought about within the next year or two," said the retiring president. Mr. Short paid tribute to the memory of J. Stanley Cook, former secretary of the board, who died last December 4. and said he believed Mr.

Cook's successor, H. C. Beatty, was well qualified to carry on the task. Ross Clarkson. a former president, praised the work of Mr.

Short during the latter's term, and Mr. Harrington said he would do nis best to carry on in the tradi tion of the board. W. Taylor-Bailey, retiring treas urer, reported a surplus of $4,963 against a deficit of $1,800 for the previous year. A number of past presidents of the board were at a special table.

Today's Meetings Canadian Pulp and Paper Assoriation, Mount Royal Hotel, 8. JO a.m. Annual convention. Montreal Dy Nursery, 865 Richmond square, 12 noon Annual meeting. Advertising and Sales Executives Club, Mount Royal Hotel.

12.30 p.m. B. W. Keightley on "Advertising Now." St Lawrence Kiwanis Club. Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

12.30 p.m. Commander H. D. Simonds, speaker. Electrical Club.

Queen's Hotel. 12.45 p.m. A. O'Brien, on "Canadian war Drama Backstage." Rotary Club of Westmount, Victoria Hall, 12.45 p.m. Walter O'Hearn, speaker.

Montreal Corn Exchange. Board of Trade, 3.30 p.m. Annual meeting. Canadian Assoriation of Sorial Work-en, mio University street, 6 15 p.m. Dr.

Leonard C. Marsh, on "Rowell-Sirois Report." Navy League of Canada, 1429 street, east 8.30 p.m. Annual meeting Montreal Botanical Garden, 4101 Sherbrooke street east, 8.30 p.m. Pierre Dansercau, speaker. Town of Mount Royal Town Hall, 8.30 pm.

George Ducharme. on "My Trip to Furope on the Clipper and back by Tramp Steamer." Outstanding Citizen, 88, Failed to Rally from Illness Caught at New Year NOTED FOR GENEROSITY Leader in Sport and Busi-ness, He EuiL Great Career After Coming Over from Scotland in 1871 Hugh Paton, president of Shed-cea Forwarding Company, Limited, and a director cf the Montreal Trust Company, died yesterday in his 89th year. Death occurred at 12,30 v.xn. at bis city home, 1121 Sherbrooke treet west, after a 'irief iUnesr. While, owing to his -d-vanced year, he had withdrav.i from acuve business participation, he had been in good health 1 tee New Year when he contracted influenza followed by pneumonia, the severity of the attack in con-vsnction with his aee and general condition precluding the possibility of recovery.

In his death Montreal loses a citi en of 68 years' standing; a busi nessman whose soundness and in sight made his voice a welcome one in the councils of great corporator; ard in matters affecting public welfare: a philanthropist whose ear as alwsys tuned to a plea from any worthy cause, and whose chari ties were bestowed witnout con sideration of race, creed or station in life; a sportsman, outstanding in an era when the game was much msre the thing than it is today; a traveller, student and collector: a mechanical genius of no mean note; always an agriculturist with hi3 feet in the soil; a man with a real Cair for kindness and tolerance who had developed many deep and HUGH PATON lasting friendships with a multitude of his fellow men in all walks of Lie. In short, one must conclude, on drawing aside the veil of un-obtrusiveness under which he lived his life, citizenship in Hugh Paton reached its highest plane. BORN IN RENFREWSHIRE. He was born at Johnstone, Ren frewshire. Scotland, October 15.

1S52. His father. William Paton, and his mother, Mary Shedden, sister the late John Shedden, were catives of Kilburnie. Mr. Paton was educated in the Grammar School of Paisley, Scotland, and came to Can da in 1871 to become private secrc tary to hi unrle, John Shedden.

at Toronto. Mr. Shedden, as a leading railway contractor, had built the Toronto and Nipi.sing Railway, the Union Station at Toronto and other public works. Mr. Shedden was kiliec on May 16, 1873, at Canning Vm.

where he fell between cars on the occasion of a cere mony surrounding the driving of the last spike in the construction of tht T. N. Railway. Mr. Paton inherited his interests and in the same year came to Mont real, entering the business already established by his uncle under the name of Shedaen Company.

Limit ed. This company looked after freight transfer for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at most principal cities of Canada with racuii rations extending into the United States. At the age of 27 Hugh Paton assumed full charge of this great and complex business on the oeath of the late Thomas Sym angton. A story is told of the young Hugh Paton of that day which just about keynotes his business career. He was approached by several young financiers whose circle he moved tf erter a pool in a certain stock.

It was his first speculative ven ture and he handed over his con tributicn of $10,000 to the pool man ager. who later became a bank president and won a knighthood, without being too clear as to what it was all about. A couple of days passed and the stock declined three points in price. Whereupon ap peared before the pool manager Hugh Paton with the calm declar ation: "I am going to sell me stock Would you like to buy it?" "Oh don't worry about that little drop in price, he was told, "it is lust temporary readjustment and it will come out all right. "Nevertheless.

Mr. Paton declared, "I am selling the stock. I have made up my mma that any financial worries ever have will be regarding my own Business. HELD MANY DIRECTORATES. And so he made his way, con tnbuung largely to the upbuilding of Montreal, winning the respect of nut fellow citizens and making many friends.

He was called to the di rectoratcs of numerous corpora Hem irsciud ng the Koyal Hank of Can sda. Bell Telephone Company of Canada, and the Montreal Trust Company. At his death he wa the oldest living director of the lat institution, as he had been of the first two on his retirement. also was the oldest member of (Continued on Page 14, CoL 4.) l.r 1 I PULP, PAPER GROUP MEETS HERE TODAY E. W.

Tinker of New York to Address Woodlands Section at Luncheon For the second time in as many years, a wartime setting marks the three-day annual xneeting of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, which opens this morning in the Mount Royal Hotel here. A record number of members are expected to attend the important deliberations and will be welcomed by F. G. Robinson, president. Sessions are to be held by both the Technical Section, for which this constitutes the 27th yearly gathering, and the VToodlands Section, for which it is the 23rd.

At the Woodlands Section annual luncheon today, E. W. Tinker, executive secretary of the American Pulp and Paper Association. New York City, will deliver an address on "The impact of war on the pulp and paper industry in the United States." The luncheon will be preceded by a closed meeting of woods managers and will be followed by a business sitting, at which reports will be heard and a nominating committee appointed for election of officers. Retiring chairman of the section is L.

A. Nix. woods manager for Bathurst Power and Paper Company, Bathurst. N.B. During the afternoon, as well, A.

M. Koroleff, secretary-forester of the association, will report on the progress of a study of pulpwood technique. Technical Section members will have a luncheon of' their own. at which a chairman to succeed V. H.

Emory, general superintendent of Fraser Companies, Edmund-ston N.B.. will be chosen. Reading and discussion of technical papers will precede and follow the luncheon. Tomorrow, while separate business discussions will be held by the two sections, a joint luncheon will be featured by an address by West-brook Steele, executive director of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Aroleton. WlS.

n. VJsh in be concluded and the annual lun- Paper Association held, when Mr. RobinsoiCwho is vice-president of; S'SJFli pnny. win oeuver nis presjui'iumi i address. Motorists travelling on the pub lic roads of the province are entitled to protection against horses straying from the fields at one o'clock in the morning, held Mr.

Justice Alfred Duranleau in a judgment handed down yesterday tne Superior Court for the district of Richelieu. Louis Onil Archambault, of St. Denis-on-the-Richelieu, is the pro prietor of an autobus service between Sorel and St. Hyacinthe. He was driving his bus from Sorel to St.

Hyacinthe the morning of October 15, 1938, when he noticed two stray horses in the road. Turn ing to avoid them in his own saiety and that of his passengers, he crashed through the ditch and into the field. A third horse which he had not noticed appeared and did con siderable damage to the bus. He surd Joseph Ethier. farmer of St.

Ours who owned the horses, for $718. His Lordship found the farmer to blame for not having tnken the necessary precautions to the hors? off the highway, but found that the bus proprietor was also to blame in that he was driving at more than 25 miles an hour on a curve. Estimating the actual damages at $324, His Lordship held that the farmer was only 35 per cent, to blame, and the autobus proprietor 65 per cent to blame, and consequently gave judgment against Ethier for $113. As to the resiponsibility of the farmer. His Lordship pointed to CHANCE TO PUT END TO SYPHILIS IS SEEN Dr.

J. J. McGovern Says It Can Go Way of Smallpox If Effort Made With treatment made available at a low cost, or free, through public clinics, syphilis can be stamped out as successfully as has smallpox, Dr. J. J.

McGovern told the Optimist Club at a luncheon meeting yesterday in the Windsor Hotel. "In the Scandinavian countries where the same steps were taken years ago as are now proposed for the province of Quebec, society has almost been freed of syphilis," the speaker stated. Quebec is the only province in Canada, he said, where there are no clinics run by the provincial government for the specific purpose of combating the disease "What is needed is to make available a type of treatment at a low cost, or free. There must be public clinics, and cases must be made reportable as in other types of disr ease. Most important of all, there must be the means to follow up each cne till it has been definitely cured.

That requires a staff of some size, and in turn there must be financial support from the government to make such a development possible." The speaker criticized the general attitude of the public toward this disease, recalling that when vaccination lor smallpox was first intro- caused by the animal, whether the animal is under his guard or that of a servant, or whether he has escaped such guard. It had been established by jurisprudence that the owner of an animal must suffer the consequence of damage caused by bis animal unless he can establish something unforseen, or an impossibility to have prevented the harm. In this instance, no such defence had been advanced, and the cause of the trouble had been shown to be that the fences had not' been properly maintained. As to the responsibility of the autobus proprietor. His Lordship held that the evidence showed he had driven the car at a dangerous speed, and, therefore, imprudently.

Plaintiff, Archambault. had said he was driving at 25 miles an hour. The court believed he must have been going faster, but even if he had been going only at 25 miles an hour, such speed under the circumstances was dangerous. "On a number of occasions, the Court of Appeal of the province had effirmed the principle that the driver of a mo-tor vehicle must drive his car at a rate which will permit him to have his vehicle always under control, and to be able to stop before any obstacle which may arise," said His Lordship. If plaintiff, passing over a curve, with poor visibility, had slowed down, he might either have avoided the accident altogether, or at least suffered less damage.

Fmd Man Dead in Lane With Skull Fractured His skull fractured, his right hand ripped open, and his right knee cut, Wesley Wycliffe COleman, 53. 5373 Clark street, was found dead at 6.45 a.m. yesterday in a lane beside 3556 St. Dominique street. An immediate investigation was begun by the homicide squad led by George Allain.

Last night no witnesses to the tragedy had been discovered. Injector Alphonse Cantin. temporarily replacing Deputy-Director Armard Brodeur, chief of detec fives. reported that the case was not yet completed. He hinted, however, that the may be marked off as ar fcc'dent Dr.

Jean Marie Roussel, provincial medico-legal expert who examined the body, said last night his autopsy report at today's inquest would state death had been due to a fractured skull sustained in a fall. All indications were, the au-topsist stated, that the fatal fall had been accidental. "We are figuring for the present that the victim fell once or twice in the lane and that he ripped his hand and cut his knee on the ice. The skull fracture could have been caused by a fall," Allain said. i Detectives reported that Coleman is well known in the district where his body was found and that he was known to carry little money.

duced. it even led to riot3 In some places. In the same way that the public has been educated to the great social benefits cf vaccination for smallpox, so will it have to be educated to adopt a different attitude toward the control of venereal diseases, he said. Gerrge Stevenson presided at the meeting. THE TALK OF THE TOWN tLk "The Show Is ARCHIE BETH DAN JANE GIRLS! JjW PLI0C0 1258 STANLEY 4.