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PAGE TEN: WINDSOR DAILY STAR, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1945 Mourned Where United States Marines Landed oil Strategic Island 3 Backs Tax Exemptions Brief Says Co-opg Aidj National Economy rt 'X A Mr. Justice W. R.

Riddell Dies at 92 Member of Supreme Court for 39 Years Algonquin Crew Home On Leave Waiting for Crack At Japanese Fleet i irXii ilPfl I 6.T. iff 4 '2- -Jg r. jrxx -n a WA, MR. JUSTICE WILLIAM R. RIDDELL.

'4. OTTAWA, Feb. 19 The Roy all commission investigating the taxation! of co-ojicratives, its first series of Ottawa hearings concluded, will open sittings in Montreal today and return to Ottawa for further hearings at a date to be set. SECTION WITHDRAWN Briefs were placed before the five man commission by P. Casselm.an, associated director of the social centre of the University of Ottawa, and Roger ceBellifeuilly, secretary of the Catholiej Union of French-speaking Farmers of Ontario.

Mr. Casselman withdrew a short ctction of his brief after he had been questioned at length by E. J. Parker, commission counsel, on whether the views expressed in the submission were those of the University of Ottawa or of Mr. Casselman personally.

Mr. Casselman said presentation of I the brief had been authorized by the university and it contained his own views with those generally held by the social centre, which is an extension department of the university and is concerned particularly in educatien on the principles of co-operatives. The part of the brief which was withdrawn said that if co-operativea were taxed es corporations democracy's last chance for survival will receive a severe blow. At another point the section said "if the co-operative position is too severely weakened the inevitable result will be outright socialism. It is probably an exaggerated state.

I ment, Mr. Casselman said in askiny for the withdrawal The social centre brief said co operatives were the most efficient an tidote for state paternalism. ECONOMY STABILIZED Capitalistic interests Instead of fighting co-operatives should welcome them since they represent the only sj-stem yet found which can effect the emancipation of the masses, the stabilization of the economy and a reduc- I tion in the necessity for government intervention and taxation. the brief said. It accomplishes all this in addi-1 tion to permitting private-profit busi- ness to continue on its own, The Catholic union brief said cooperatives were necessary to economic stability and social peace and making them subject to corporate taxation was contrary to the principles on which they were founded.

The union described co-operative as a bulwark against socialism and communism. By DON MACKAY Canadian Press Staff Writer HALIFAX. Feb. 19. After a year of fighting and patrolling with the British hon.

fleet in the English Channel and the chill northern seas, the crew of H.M.C.S. Algonquin is in Canada on leave, waiting for a crack at the Japanese fleet in the Pacific. FLEET DESTROYER Commanded by 31year-old Desmond W. Piers, DB.C., of Halifax, the Algonquin was commissioned a year ago on the Clyde River in Scotland. She is a fleet destroyer whose job is to escort fleets of heavy fighting ships, accompanied by her Canadian sister ship, the Sioux.

The Algonquin was iald down as H.M.S. Valentine and launched September 2. 1943. Early in 1944 a handpicked Canadian crew under Piers sailed to the United Kingdom as part of the crew of a British cruiser. On February 17, at a ceremony attended by Rear Admiral P.

W. Nelles. chief of the naval staff of Canada, the vessel wa3 commissioned and renamed the Algonquin. The men who filed aboard to man her that day are the same men aboard her now. RAIDED TIRPITZ In April.

1944, she escorted aircraft carriers to Norway for a raid on the German battleship Tirpltz. A report on the raid read: "Attack successful. After that the fleet operations of the German-held coast of Norway became routine. For no apparent reason training later became intensive and the men sensed something big in the offing. Preparation for D-Day had begun On May 27 the Algonquin steamed down to Portsmouth to stand by for cruisers.

BLASTED BATTERIES The Algonquin with some of her sister destroyers spearheaded the centre of the Allied offensive on the Normandy shores. Gliding in after the minesweepers, she anchored 12 miles from shore. Eight minutes past seven just as dawn showed over the chan nel she began to blast Nazi shore batteries. She was the first ship to open fire in the Seine Bay area of the attack. The first wave of troops swarmed ashore after 40 minutes of bombardment.

A Nazi battery of three 88 millimetre guns six miles inland had been smashed in record time by 13 salvoes many of them direct hits from the Algonquin. She had no casualties. INSPECTION TRIP After D-Day the destroyers were assigned to clean up strong-points along the invasion coast and to patrol for Nazi E-boats. On D-plus-4 she put back to Portsmouth for ammunition and on her return trip she ferried Admiral Nelles to France on an inspection tour. Shortly afterward she carried Gen.

Crerar and his staff across to France. Before the Algonquin returned to the home fleet in the north she had her closest call of the invasion. On D-plus-16 she was cruising up and down on patrol about six miles off the French coast, when two orange flares floated down out of the night just forward of her bridge. Two bombs whistled down. One was a dud.

but the other exploded close enough to drench the men on the decks with spray. The Nazis circled away and tried unsuccessfully for a destroyer nearby. Then they came back but by this time the Algonquin was doing 30 knots and zigzagging like mad. With the home fleet there were the convoys to Northern Russia and attacks on the Tirpitz. Only two ships out of three convoys were lost to them, Piers reported.

Here is a typical expanse of shore line on Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean, which United States Marines have invaded, and where they now hold a 500-yard deep bridgehead. Thunderous and obliterating barrages by hundreds of naval ships and planes preceded the invasion. Asks Palestine For Homeland Mizraclii Makes Four-Point Declaration make known in Canada the ideals and workings of the league. He was an active worker for the Toronto General Hospital. He was a Presbyterian and a Liberal.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday from his home here with burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. N.B. Wants Basic Development FREDERICTON, Feb. 19. Premier J.

B. McNair said Saturday wo are all familiar with the lack of balance which prevails throughout Canada in the field of industrial and commercial development and added that New Brunswick is seeking a correction of those conditions. The Liberal provincial government chief was welcoming to the city members of the Royal Commission on coal. It is realized, Mr. McNair said, that initial improvement rests primarily on the expansion of our basic industries and the development of industrial undertakings based on natural resources.

TORONTO, Feb. 19. A member of the supreme court of Ontario for 39 years, Mr. Justice William Renick Riddell died at his home here early yesterday. He was 92 years old, and as predeceased by his wife last Monday.

BORN IN NORTHUMBERLAND Bom in Hamilton township, Northumberland county, April 6, 1852, Mr. Justice Riddell was educated at Cobourg Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, Toronto. He was gold medallist at Osgoode Hall from where he graduated in 1883. Interviewed on his 92nd birthday last year, he said he had no intention of retiring from the bench and told newspapermen to "come back next year and each year after. I figure about another 24 years should be about right.

HEALTH LEAGUE HEAD Last November he was elected to his 25th consecutive term as president of the Health League of Canada and took a leading part in that organization's fight against venereal disease. Officials of the league today expressed the deepest gratitude for the long years of continued interest Mr. Justice Riddell devoted to work in the field of health. Mr. Justice Riddell was holder of 11 honorary doctorates and was senior honorary member of the American Bar Association.

He also was honorary member of 13 state bar associations, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Though his position as justice of appeal in the Ontario Supreme Court took much of his time, he was working on an abridgement of Canadian law decisions, 47 volumes of which have already been published. WORKED HARD His one recipe for long life was work. On his 82nd birthday he said: I celebrate my birthday by doing as much work as I can. I think that is the best way one can keep alive.

His favorite story "The funniest episode in my somewhat elongated career concerned the last report of my death. A certain United States medical record, to which he. had often been a contributor, addressed a letter to the estate of the late Justice Riddell asking an account of his early life. He wrote in reply that his executors declined to act unless they had been seated formally in their positions and had been appointed by the courts, which refused to act until I was dead. I pointed out that I was not yet 92, which is considered almost juvenile in my family, he chuckled.

PUBLISHED WORKS Among his published works are found "legal profession in Upper Canada, The Constitution of Canada, William Kirby, F.R.S.C., "La Roche-foucault's Travels in Canada, 1795, The Salve in Canada, "Old Province Tales, Michigan Under British Rule, and many others. Beside writings in book form, Mr. Justice Riddell contributed many ai tides in literary, legal and scientific journals. His ability and scholarship were recognized by many universities which honored him with degrees. Among these were University of Toronto, Syracuse University, Trinity College, Hartford.

Boston University. University of Edinburgh, McMaster University. Northwestern University, Yale University ard others. He was also honored by the state bar associations of New York. Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri.

Georgia, Maine, North Dakota, Vermont, Nebraska, Ohio, and the Law Academy of Philadelphia. As a student at Victoria University he specialized first in history, obtaining his A. in 1876. He then turned to mathematical and natural sciences and obtained the degree of B.Sc. in 1876.

His next academic pursuit was law and an LL.B. in 1878. As a judge he was equally at home handing down a stern judgment from the bench, delivering an official welcome to a distinguished visitor on behalf of the city or lecturing in a great American university on the superiority of the Canadian constitution. William Renwicb Riddell was for a number of years mathematical master at the Ottawa Normal School. He was called to the Bar in 1883, and practiced law at Cobourg from 1883 until 1892.

He then came to Toronto and was for a time with the firm of Fasken, Robertson and Company. Elected a bencher in the Law Society in 1892. he was re-elected every year until his appointment to the bench. He was made a Queen Counsel In 1898. He enjoyed a very large prac- We Want To Buy for Cash RIDING BOOTS ROLLS RAZORS SKATES AND BOOTS TORONTO.

Feb. 19. A four-point declaration, calling for unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine and the re-establishment of the country as a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth, was adopted last night at the fourth annual meeting of the Mizrachi organization of Canada. The Mizrachi is the religious wing of the world Zionist movement. M.

H. Rubinstein of New- York said in an address to the convention that the Jewish people will never acquire title to Palestine unless they own the land. He urged the Jewish national fund to embark on an intensive, land-purchasing campaign in Palestine. A Canadian Jewish agricultural school to train Jewish youth of this country for pioneer colonist work Palestine is to be established at Bronte, by the Mizrachi organization of Canada, it was announced. The agricultural school will be housed on the 190-acre Osier estate or the Lakeshore road at Bronte, purchased by the Mizrachi.

The school will also aid in the rehabilitation of Canadian Jewish servicemen who Intend to settle on land after the war, it was stated. A leading argricultural scientist from the Jewish Agricultural Institute in the United States will head the school. Labor Ministers Plan Meeting OTTAWA. Feb. 19.

Labor Minister Mitchell announced yesterday he has asked provincial ministers of labor to consider the desirability of conferring with him on proposals to give provincial authorities greater latitude on) establishing minimum wage schedules. The date proposed for the confer, cnce is the week of March 19, and in writing to the provincial ministers Mr. Mitchell emphasized his department's view that the policy of price and wage control as implemented by the wage control order must be maintained. Transferable Vote Unlikely Time Factor Cited by Coblwell OTTAWA, Feb. 19.

Any session of the Commons called between now and the expiration of Parliament April 17 would be confined entirely to voting money necessary for the conduct of the war and other government expenditures. M. J. Coldwell, C.C.F. leader, said today.

It would be impossible to put through any other legislation because of the lack of time, he added. There has been some speculation that legislation might be introduced to provide for single transferable vote. It is understood a numoer of appeals have been made to the government and to Progressive Conservative headquarters that such legislation be passed in time to be effective in the coming general election. A Progressive Conservative spokesman said no canvass had been made of the members of the oflicial opposition on this matter but he was inclined to Think they would be ready to co-operate with the government in such a move. However, in view of Mr.

Coldwell's statement it is not thought any such attempt would be made. Members of the C.C.F. gioup stated that while their party was strongly In favor of proportional representation that insured minorities having representation in the Commons it had never supported the transferable vote designed to insure that the member of Parliament elected had the support of the majority of the electors in his constituency. The party would oppose rushing through transferable vote legislation in such a short session. Transferable vote gives minorities no show at all, one member said.

tice and his opinion was much sought by other lawyers in important cases. APPOINTED JUDGE IN 1906 In 1906 he was made a judge of the King's Bench division, and in October 1925 he was appointed a justice cf Appeal of the Second Divisional Court. As a judge he was very highly regarded by his colleagues and by the legal profession as a whole. Shortly after his appointment he created a precedent by sentencing a man to life imprisonment for negligence in connection with a railway accident. He was a member of the royal commission appointed in 1920 to enquire Into timber operations in Ontario.

As a lecturer and writer Judge Riddell was widely known throughout Canada and the United States. He has delivered the Dodge lectures at Yale University and the Blumenthal lectures at Columbia. One of his favorite topics was the Canadian constitution, on which he was an authority. RESEARCH WORK Justice Riddell did a great deal of research on Canadian history. Much of his spare time was spent poring over old records in the Dominion Archives at Ottawa or at Osgoode Hall Most of his published works have been the outcome of this research.

They include: The Constitution of Canada in Its History and Practical Working, Old Provincial Tales. Travels of La Rochcfoucalt in Canada in 1795, The First Judge of Detroit and His Court, Life of Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe. and other works. Besides those writings published in book form Judge Riddell has contributed many articles to literary, legal and scientific journals. His ability and scholarship were recognized by many universities which have honored him with degrees.

Besides those of his Alma Mater, Victoria University, he held honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, Syracuse University, Trinity College, Hartford, Boston University, University of Edinburgh and others. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Hociety. GOOD FORM In court he was a great stickler for good form ana was always very-anxious to uphold the dignity of the court. He has often reproved barristers for what he regarded as improper or slangy language in the court room. The story is told that once while sitting as judge in a county town, in order to expedite business he consented to a night session.

When the time came for the opening of court the plaintiff in the action was nowhere to be found. Judge, jury and counsel were all kept waiting. Judge Riddell began to grow impatient at the delay and every one expected that the tardy litigant would receive a stern rebuke on his arrival. When he did arrive he was most elaborately dressed and carefully groomed. The judge smiled at this deference to the importance of the occasion, and the plaintiff got off without a harsh word.

Not content with being a popular judge and a great scholar. Judge Riddell took an active interest in fraternal, benevolent and educational affairs. He was a governor of the University of Toronto. At one time he was chairman of the board of of Cobourg Collegiate Institute, and president of the Educational Bocirty of Eastern Ontario. He was president of the Toronto branch of the League of Nations Society, and did much to Nephew Held Over Slaying Woman Is Killed In Quebec Home QUEBEC.

Feb. 19. Twentv-eight-year-old Paul Henri Dery is held by police here as a material witness for today's inquest into the slaying of Mrs. Alfred Giroux, Saturday night. The woman was found dying in her home by employes of a store downstairs, who were Investigating screams coming from the apartment.

Police said that Dery was found in the apartment by the store employes after they had gained entry through a rear window when they found the front door locked. Mrs. Giroux died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Hospital attendants said she attempted to speak while en route to hospital. She was the wife of a Quebec coal dealer, who was absent at the time, and police identified Dery as her nephew-.

The five-room Giroux apartment on Upper Town St. John street was on the third floor of a building occupied downstairs by a meat firm. Police said that when the employes of the meat firm entered the apartment they found the woman's blood-covered body in the kitchen. They said Dery. spattered with blood and holding a bloodstained knife and pipe wrench, stood nearby.

The store employes carried the women downstairs and summoned police. Officers from a radio car, which was passing, arrested Dery, who offered no resistance. Police said they believed Mrs. Giroux' death resulted from a quarrel over money matters. They said Dery had worked for the first husband of Mrs.

Giroux, who died several years ago. Former Mayor Dies at Winnipeg WINNIPEG, Feb. 19 Frank O. Fowler, 83, former mayor of Winnipeg, and former Liberal member of the Manitoba Legislature for South Brandon, died Saturday following a heart attack while going upstairs at the downtown Manitoba Club. Mr.

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Finney's original term was set at a minimum of 21 years on each of 30 forgery counts, but Gov. Andrew Schoppel reduced this to 18 to 36 years a year ago. Startled Kansans awoke one August day in 1933 to find their state had been victimized out, of nearly a million dollars by the substitution of forged bonds for valid ones in the treasury. As a result. State Treasurer Tom Boyd was sentenced to prison.

W. W. Finnpy. fathpr of Ronald Finney, and an officer in the Emporia. bank killed himself, and Leland Caldwell, a clerk of Finney's, was given a prison term.

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