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The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 7

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The Windsor Stari
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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7
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PAGE SEVEN Newly-Hatclied Ostrich and Its Proud Father New President of Mexico Relaxes With Family al Home Killer Hun Author Will Hang Is Mourned For Helping Slay War Prisoner Archie I. McKishnie Educated in Kent THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, WINDSOR. ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JULY By Canadian Pryiw MEDICINE HAT. Alta Sgt. Walter Wolfe, 28.

the second German prisoner of war to be tried for the hanging murder of a fellow prisoner. Cpl. Karl Lehmann, at the Medicine Hat internment camp, September 10. 1944, Monday night was convicted by a six-man Alberta Supreme Court jury and sentenced by Chief Justice W. R.

Howson to be hanged on October 16 in Lethbridge jail. PONDERED LONG The jury deliberated almost three hours. Wolfe, former member of Rommels Afnka Korps, told the court before sentence had been passed upon him. he was fully convinced his trial had been a very fair" one. He said he hoped that Sgt.

Major Bruno Perzenowski. also convicted of the Lehmann murder and sentenced to be hanged at Lethbridge jail October 16. would open up" and reveal the names of those responsible for the hanging of Lehmann. Perzenowski was convicted for his part in the crime at the conclusion of his trial June 29. TWO MORE INVOLVED Two other prisoners, Sgt.

Major Henrich Busch and Sgt. Major Willi Mueller are also charged with the murder of Lehmann and will be tried separately. Busch's trial will open at the sittings of the Alberta Supreme Court today. CHATHAM With the death of Archie McKishme in Toronto, Kent I Cour.tv Inst one of its greatest historians and Canada one of its best authors. WIDELY KNOWN Well remembered here, the late Mr.

McKishme was a contemporary Arthur Stringer, the Canadian poet and Victor Launston, author and historian. He was educated in County schools, graduated from F.idgetown High School and through the insistence of his sister, the late Mrs. Jean Blewett. started to send poems and short stories to many publications. In 1897 Mr.

McKishnie married Jennie Murdoch of Cedar Springs who died several years ago. Two sons, Frank and Will, both of this city, survive, with one daughter Miss Phyllis McKishnie, Toronto. FIRST KENT NOVEL His first novel of Kent County, Gaff Linkum. a story of Morpeth life, was published in Toronto, in 1907. and in 1910 Mr.

McKishnie moved to Toronto and became editor of the Sunday World. In 1915 he moved to Montreal to run the Canadian Century, but moved back to Toronto in 1915 with the Canadian Countryman. His books included Will the Wisp, Sons of Courage. Brains Limited," Open Way, Mates of the Tangle, and Dwellers in the Marshland. The last three were nature sories and the loca'e was set in Kent County, in end around Rondeau.

Mexican President Miguel Aleman, 42, relaxes in the garden of his Mexico City home with his wife, Senora Beatriz Velasco de Aleman. and their two children, Miguel, 13, and Beatriz, 14. Aleman, former secretary of the interior and candidate of the Institutional Revolutionist Party, was elected Sunday over four aspirants in elections in which voters cast secret ballots for the first time in the nation's history. Associated rrc'; rhoto.) TO BECOME PARK WASHINGTON Isle Royale. Michigan.

will be formally dedicated as a United States national park August 27, I thp Interior Department announced. Professional screwball Jim Moran proudly looks at the one-pound nine-ounce ostrich he hatched in 23 days at the Los Angeles ostrich farm. Jim took over the hatching job when the mother ostrich deserted the egg in' a fit of jealousy over her mates attentions to a younger hen. Acme Photo.) HcGaulIe's Son Trains in U.S. to Be Savy Flier Lt.

(JGt Philippe Henri DeGaulIe, 24. image of his famous father, General Charles DeGaulIe, former French president, plans to follow a naval, rather than a political, career when he returns to his native country. Selected as one of 43 French naval officers to come to the U.S. in June, 1945, to study flight training, he has managed to keep out of the public eye. Young DeGaulIe.

who has a noteworthy war record and holds the American presidential unit citation which he earned with General Patton's Third Army, will graduate from the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation in Florida in early September and return to France for assignment to naval duty by the minister of aviation. DeGaulIe (left) checks a Florida map with his instructor, Laurence DeMarco. Miami Springs, before a training flight. (2) QUICKER STARTING! Touch your starter see how quicklyNewShell Premium Gasoline with 224 T.M.P. warms up, get you off to a flying start! (3) FASTER PICKUP! New Shell Premium Gasoline with 224 T.M.P.

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In some individual cases, he said, the losses might be considerable but In the over-all picture the sum would not be great, certainly not as great as it could have been if Britain had not begun to adopt a more liberal attitude toward her blocking regulations some time ago. THE NEWLY FORMED ASSOCIATION. of the Independent Rural Suburban Retail Gasoline Dealers Association Will hold a Meeting Tuesday, July 9th, at 8:30 p.m. Sandwich East Town Hall Operators of all Service Stations Rural and Suburban area who are affected by the new closing law are urgently requested to attend. v' OVERCOME HOLSING SHORTAGE AUCKLAND.

N. Z. Legislation to' give local authorities the power to enter empty houses and place tenants in them for limited periods will be introduced in the next session of the New Zealand This is an effort to overcome the housing short-see, which is acute in all parts of the Dominion..

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