The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 5

1 I i MATRICULATION IN 10 MONTHS rj or Nicbt School all Term Now Open I or free calendar phone ME 1321 or write THE DOMINION BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED 525 BLOOR STREET WEST 5 9 TORONTO DAILY STAR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1938 UNITED STATES PURSUIT AIRPLANE EXPLODES AT GLENCOE Th 3 URNITURE CO TORONTO LIMITED BIG ON ALL HyK vAX 'irfV ZERO ZERO CEILING COSTS US ARMY PILOT HIS LIE I TRAIC DEATHS HEAR DUPONT BUYER 2 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES A STAR RESH AIR UND the i ft 2 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES to go at I 600 2 a 3 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES 200 $9 75 S27 41586 2 a 3 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES 1 595 CHESTERIELD SUITES HEIHTZMANS 519 75 Mohair Velour and ALL SALE of GRAND PIANOS SUITES (L three of our chapels have dis 2 a 3 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES NAME LENGTH DESIGN HEINTZMAN $975 This piano 'selected for store 81550 $895 STEINWAY $485 BRAMBACH (NY) 81095 $695 CHICKERING (Boston) $495 $1250 in BECHSTEIN $595 $1050 MASON RISCH Over 65 of McDougall Brown Colonial in mahogany I i services cost less than $200 $545 GERHARD HEINTZMAN $1150 $775 HEINTZMAN fuuetal Uta 8 95 $595 GERHARD New of bargain! HEINTZMAN CO ELgin 6201 Open Evenings 195 Yonge St i PRICE NEW TODAY 24850 100 500 1000 100 100 489 i 5 Washington DC He was thrown from the airplane after it had lopped off several limbs from a huge elm tree After crowds of sightseers began to strip the wreckage a detachment of the Royal Canadian Regiment from London Ont was sent to guard it until the arrival of US officers OUR SPECIAL SALE PRICE Toll to date last year: Dead 41 injured 2375 accidents 4838 i the cn i I i JOHN GARDE 77 DEAD MACHINE IRM HEAD When this high speed Seversky pursuit airplane crashed into a tree exploded and crashed near Glencoe Ont Second Lieut James Breathitt of the United States air force was instantly killed The pilot is believed to have lost his bearings while returning to Selfridge ield Mich from Mohair Jacquard Velour and Tapes try Coverings ive only to goat i New York Sept 12 Earl Car roll the girl show man and Nils Granlund night club impresario brought Miss America No 2 to town today announcing indignantly she should have won the crowd awarded to Miss Ohio at the national beauty pageant at Atlantic City Miss America No 2 will be made the official pretender to Miss honors by Carroll and Granlund to night They will crown her in a hotel ballroom and give her an other cup She is Miss California or Claire James 19 of Los Angeles 200 200 100 CROWN PRETENDER TO BEAUTY THRONE NO TELEPHONE or MAIL ORDERS CITY DELIVERY ONLY ARABS KILL SIX JEWS Jerusalem Sept 12 Six Jewish supernumerary constables were dead today victims of an Arab ambush as they escorted telephone workers between Jaffa and Gaza Port Hope Sept 13 our persons were believed buried under tons of debris when the east wall of the Canadian Canners Ltd plant col lapsed during a fire at 1045 am today Police and fire departments rushed equipment to the shattered building Tapestry Mohair and Velour Covers Three only to go at BANKER DIES Henwood vice president and general manager of the Bank of Toronto died yesterday after a short illness at Lake Placid NY He was born in Canton Ont ftp A Bad Weather Blamed Buffalo Sept 12 Bad weather was blamed today for the death of Lieut James Breathitt army pilot in a crash near Glencoe Ont Lieut John Chenault' pilot of another plane who left here with Breathitt for Selfridge ield Mich Saturday said he turned back to Buffalo when they encountered weather over Ontario but Breathitt went on Assorted Coverings ive only or your home a fine Grand Piano Here at cash savings are some new and renewed fine Grand Pianos These Pianos all carry the guarantee of Heintzman Co for 88 years one of the greatest builders of Pianos LABOR TO CONTEST PARKDALE George Thompson will repre sent the Socialist Labor party of Canada in the Parkdale by election it was announced last night Sale of the 21 storey Victory Building to the Toronto Terminal Warehouses Ltd was confirmed to day by Paul Jones chairman of Toronto Terminal Warehouses The vendor was A Roberts president of Baymond Corporation owner of the securities of the Vic tory Building The broker in the transaction was rank McLaughlin manager of the real estate department of the Char tered Trust and Executor Co who will manage the building for the new owners Mr Jones said the sale was to Toronto Terminal Warehouse Ltd as a private corporation condition of the sale by me of the securities of the Baymond Corp to Toronto Terminal Ware houses Ltd was that the name of the ultimate buyer should be re vealed to me in advance as I am remaining in the building as a Mr Roberts Paul Jones informed me in the presence of witnesses that the buyer was Mr Irenee du (Mr du Pont is president ofEL du Pont de Nemours ahd Co) can be denied that Mr du Pont has anything to do with said Mr McLaughlin The sale price was not announced Harvey Henwood vice presi dent and general manager of the Bank of Toronto died suddenly of a heart attack at Lake Placid yes terday three days after his arrival at the New York resort Mr Hen wood whose home was on Hill holme Rd Toronto was in his 66th year The body will betaken from the Lake Placid club where Mr Hen wood was staying at the time of his death to Montreal It will later be brought to Toronto The funeral will be held Wednes day 2 pm from the family resi dence Hillholme Rd interment being made at Port Hope Mr Henwood was born in Port Hope on July 8 1873 the son of James and Elizabeth Henwood He received his early education in Port Hope schools before entering the service of the Bank of Toronto there in 1888 His first manager ship was in the Barrie branch He later served the bank in Van couver and Montreal before his ap pointment as assistant general man ager in 1922 and general manager in 1928 He married Helen A White in Montreal in 1905 He was a member of the Mount Royal club Montreal York club Toronto and the To ronto Golf club He was a member of the United Church of Canada 50 Io 75 REDUCTION but is rumored to be in the vicinity of 5900000 After the market crash of 1929 the 21 storey building stood for seven years as a monument to the depression Built on the site of the old Gaiety theatre the skyscraper at 80 Richmond St powered empty and unfinished In September 1936 Mr Justice Kingstone approved an order per mitting the Royal Trust Co to ac cept from A Roberts his offer to buy the unfinished skyscraper The price was $115000 the cost of completing the structure was in the neighborhood of $800000 our only to go at MASS OR HENRY JOHN SHEAN Dixie Sept 12 uneral mass for Henry John Shean will be sung in St church here Tuesday Mr Shean died suddenly on Satur day Interment will be in Mount Peace cemetery His wife the former Mamie Rundle predeceased him HENWOOD DIES AT LAKE PLACID NY Re Conditioned CHESTERIELD SUITES VICTORY BUILDING IS SOLD ABOUT $1000000 INVOLVED MONTHS TO PAY NO INTEREST NO SURCHARGE Toronto Terminal Warehouse Ltd Secure Old Gaiety Theatre Site Us ARMY PLANE CRASHES PILOT DIES AS IT BURNS I i i I 1 ODD CHESTERIELDS 4 only Mohair and Repp Coverings to go ait play rooms and each casket is marked with the cost of a complete funeral with that choice DAY 11 YEAR Was Past District Master of Orange Order Special to The Star Glencoe Ont Sept A United army high speed pursuit air st Piane lost its bearings in a torren rainstorm over Ekfrid township 4 5 Saturdav night struck a tree top exploded and instantly killed Second Lieut James Breathitt He was a Kentuckian stationed at Selfridge ield Mount Clemens Mich His body was found near the flaming wreck terribly mangled The opened parachute was found nearby The machine had flown from Washington DC in Jess than four hours A burst of flame seen for miles attracted hundreds and before dawn souvenir hunters are reported to have carried off motor and navica tion instruments and innumerable parts which might have given investigators a clue to the trouble that cost the flier his life Two machine guns which had been 1 mounted in the cabin of the tiny all metal craft were seen by farmers among the scattered debris A few minutes later they disappeared Provincial Officer William Markle of Glencoe ound they had been taken by two residents for safe keeping The men who held the guns advised Markle that they had the weapons i Ran Into Bad Storm 5 (John Chevault US army pilot flying the airplane that had accompanied the ill fated machine from Bowling ield DC today told The Star by telephone that he was flying some distance ahead and above airplane He did not learn of the crash until he had made a safe landing at the munici pal airport in Buffalo he said ran into a bad storm south east of Pilot Chevault said minute we hit it I figured that by getting altitude I might get above what appeared to be a low rainy ceiling I got up to 1000 feet and could see clear and flew on by compass and my instrument board I knew it was a bad storm but as I was some distance ahead of the other plane and knew Breathitt to be an experienced able flier I con tinued right on I arrived there shortly before 10 that the first you knew of the he was asked he replied did not know about it until after I arrived in Buffalo Chevaut said he out storm by getting above Had he had any knowledge of difficulty his fellow pilot was countering he said he would have put his ship about and rendered any service possible) Soldiers in Cliarire Norman Newton of London crown attorney took personal charge at the scene and Inspector Sydney Oliver of London sent a detachment when the crowd became Sunday morning gi Sunday night Brig Mac rf Donald officer commanding mili tary district No 1 at London took over the field with a detachment of soldiers from the Royal Canadian Regiment The arrangement was made be tween the US army authorities and Ottawa Brig MacDonald and Lt Col Hill of MD No 1 head quarters staff visited the scene Sun day morning During the afternoon Major Hickey an investigator from the US army air corps came with a crew of assistants and made a detailed examination Parts were taken back to Mount Clemens Mich and arrangements were made to send trucking equipment for the wrecked fuselage Monday The body of Lieut Breathitt was removed to a Glencoe mortuary where a preliminary inquest was held Sunday morning by Coroner Dr A Gregory of Lambeth Crown Attorney Newton and offi cials gave orders to extend every courtesy to the American authori ties Washington ordered the US consul at Windsor to make neces sary arrangements for the release of body and the wreckage of the airplane but this had already been prearranged The body was removed to Mount Clemens Sunday afternoon and the inquest stands adjourned sine die awaiting the re sult of the usual inquiry conducted by Canadian army aviation authori ties in all wrecks On Special Mission lying orders In pockets indicated he was flying a Seversky of the high speed pursuit squadron said to be capable of 250 miles an hour The orders stated he was to fly to Bolling ield Wash ington DC a special A second ship accompanied him They were to leave Selfridge ield Mount Clemens for "Washington at 12 noon riday and the return orders were to leave Bolling ield Washington at 5 pm (EST) Saturday our hours after that time farmers in the vicinity were startled to hear the roar of a powerful motor flying close over the house tops John Rankin whose home is near Appin said the ship flew so low thought he would strike my It had rained incessantly since noon and highway traffic was pro ceeding with great difficulty Sud denly the countryside was illumin ated by a huge red flare It came from the edge of a bush on the back of the Lee Simpson farm lot 18 concession 2 Ekfred Cameron McTaggart whose farm abuts the Simpson farm said he heard the crash in his house and accompanied by his hired man ran back through the woods and was first on the scene was a terrific crash and evidently an he said fire lighted everything for only a few seconds then died away and burned itself out half an hour later I found the burning plane at the edge of the woods Parts were scat tered for 200 yards and the whole grass area was on fire from the gasoline in spite of the rain We found the pilot clear ter ribly battered and already Worst Conditions Dense masses of unbroken clouds extended over the whole of the southwestern peninsula and hung ast ighter Cracks Up in Storm at Glencoe Ont Amount previously acknow ledged $2737062 No Name In His Name Anne Kapuskasing Proceeds of a bazaar held at the corner of Dew hurst and Danforth Ave by Marilyn and Beverley Robinson Ann and Bert Walker Lilian Penford and Ted Bickle all of Strathmore Blvd Beam Well Wisher Douglas In Memory of our Daddy New Liskeard A riend Proceeds of bazaar held at corner of Yonge and Hayden St by June and Doreen Star Counter resh Air Box Mrs Poulton Mr and Mrs Wood 23 Colin III LimiTEO ST CLAIR and PINEWOOD ME Irose 2423 3045 DUNDAS (at High Park) JU nction 0947 1491 DANORTH (at Coxwell) GE rrard 5975 2 only your OUT TOWN CUSTOMERS Colonial in satin finish mahogany Colonial in brown mahogany Louis XV in mahogany Colonial (double legs) Satin finish brown mahogany General Manager of Bank of Toronto Victim of Heart Attack Mohair and Repp Al BB Coverings Seven only to go at Colonial in satin finish mahogany Colonial in satin finish mahogany Colonial choice walnut or mahogany Mohair and Velour Covers our only to go at so low as to create the ceil ing so dreaded by fliers Motorists near by say the water ran down their windshields in a manner that would have made visibility over the dark fields out of the question The motor was roaring and seemed in order witnesses said The ship circled over the Simpson farmhouse then swerved toward the unseen trees The machine struck a huge elm 50 feet above the ground and chopped off five and six inch limbs as by the stroke of an axe The left wing stuck in the broken branches told the story rom there the crippled airplane plunged to the ground 75 feet west of the tree tearing a hole three feet deep where the nose struck and leaving the outline of the right wing a foot deep in the soft earth The big motor torn from the nose of the ship was tossed nearly 100 feet to the left one of the wheels and part of the undercarriage to the right and the fuselage 200 feet ifty feet beyond that on the far side of a little pond the body was discovered still strapped in his seat The other wheel vras in the pond Stumps where the air plane took the first plunge marked where torn electric wires exploded the gasoline tanks They burned all day Sunday Trees a hundred feet away though drenched in rain had all foliage seared The com partment and interior of the plane were blackened and the light metal torn outward in scores of places revealed the force of the explosion Heard It Over Town Residents of Glencoe said that they heard the ship fly over the town a few minutes before the crash The flier met disaster within less than five miles of the fully lighted Strathburn emergency land ing field of the American airlines I Its tall beacon was operating and 1111 4 7 uji uuuuuaiit anu vuoli UbLiUilo wcic alight Authorities here were told that the pilot of the ship flying with plane witnessed the disaster and flew back to Buffalo airport where he reported the crash to Selfridge ield The machine was radio equipped The mark of a large magnesium used in emergencies to reveal the country side was found within 50 feet of where body was discov ered People of the district expressed some surprise that US army planes made a regular practice of flying across western Ontario as a short route between points east and west but official' said that the practice is fully sanctioned by Ottawa as a neighborly arrangement John Garde 77 active in the sewing machine business and presi dent of the firm bearing his name died yesterday in St hos pital after a brief ilness Born in Toronto he was a past district master of the Orange order a mem ber of the Scarlett chapter and the Black Knights Preceptory a char ter member of Court Brunswick of the AO a member of Ulster lodge and Ulster chapter A and AM and an Anglican Surviving are two sons Chariot and Herbert and one daughter Doris Abbey all of Toronto and one sitser Mrs Albert Brown California The funeral will be held Tuesday at 330 pm from the Turner and Porter chapel Ronccsvalles Ave to Park Lawn cemetery Colonial in $1250 satin finish mahogany demonstrator because of fine tone As there are over 28 price ranges we can assure you that whatever your financial condition you will find a McDougall Brown quotation within CHESTERIELD AND ODD LIVING ROOM CHAIRS 11 only Various Coverings to go at 2 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES Assorted Coverings our only to go at fiTror 2 Pc CHESTERIELD SUITES Various Coverings our only 5 tO gO at BH your means Complete services including use of chapel are the same regardless of the price paid Silk Repp and Mohair Coverings Eight only to go OPEN TONIGHT ADAMS TRADE IN STOREmUUlCE: 211 YONGE STREET OPEN MONDAY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY UNTIL 930 PM Mt VI A 4 HI I "'z $1 5 I vBI iB 4 i 1 11 I ll dll mI BH 111 xJrfr 1 1 I I I a I e' fl 11 i I 1 1 I ti II I 4 a i I 11 1 1 1 jJk si $1 4W 1 Toronto traffic toll during the week end: Dead 1 Injured 24 Accidents 43 traffic toll so far this year: Dead A 49 Injured 2296 Accidents 4693 If I BL I I.