TODAY'S LIGHTING-UP TIME Sunrise: 7.04 a.m.—Sunset: 6.03 p.m. TODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST Lighting-uptime: 6.33p.m. Rule of Road: KEEP XJSFT—PASS ON THE RIGHT Mainly Fine INCORPORATING THE JtOYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 19—NO. 45 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1934 3D PER COPY—40/- PER ANNUM PUBLIC MEETING IN FAVOUR OF LIMITED SUNDAY TRADING NEW BELGIAN MONARCH MAY IN THE HOUSE THEY SAY BUSINESS MEN VOTE FOR That the shipping conferences have INFLUENCE POWERS been most successfully conduct­ SUNDAY TRADING No Ads. in Railway ed. * * * That this will always happen when AN EIGHT-DAY AUSTRIAN TRUCE Cars Allowed both parties consider both sides Favour Shops Opening Four Hours of an argument. 0 0 0 for Sales to All-Comers Another Bomb in Havana—U. S. Planes Sold to Customs Tariff Act That it was Earl Grey who said he always believed in compromise— The considerable change in op­ Bermuda was primarily interested when it was in his favour. inion which has followed the de­ Soviet—Canadian Flag Resolution Buried— 0 0 0 in the tourist business and had Amended cline of business in Bermuda was lost and was losing a considerable Admiral Keyes Wins in Portsmouth— That fortunately, tn this case, the reflected yesterday morning at a amount of income. It wa? up to eompromise is said to favour both two-hour meeting called by the them to see that every possible Anthony Eden in Berlin—Australian Advertisements in railway cars j sides. must continue to be conspicuous j Chamber of Commerce to consider step was taken to increase the * * * the question of Sunday trading. business. Conversion Loan—Winter Comes by their absence. Such was tbe j That meetings are the order of the House of Assembly's ruling on The meeting was open to all busi­ MOTION MOVED •Say just now. ness men, whether members of the to New York—Italian Train consideration of the Railway Com­ * a* * Chamber or not. Mr. Spurling moved the follow­ pany's petition in the House yester­ That the lawyers are having a fine Accident—Pacific Fleet in day afternoon. By 65 votes to 31 the meeting ing motion: "Moved that it is re­ time on knotty points of law. recorded its approval of an solved that this meeting of bus­ The question was raised by Mr. * at * Battle Play—Count Ito Toddings as to whether the ad­ amendment of the Summary iness men and those indirectly in­ That "Common Law" is to a lawyer Offences Act so that articles may terested in the general business Dead—Five Hunger vertisements at present placed in what "Mesopotamia" was to the the cars, bearing the name of the be purchased by anyone (not of the Colony . approve of the devout old lady. tourists only) on Sundays and bill now before the Legislature Strikers in Cork Jail Company manager and advertis­ at * * any other public holiday between amending The Summary Offences ing the Government Aquarium, That the horse-lovers are rejoicing -Noted Editor Pas­ the Caves etc, were legal. If so the hours of 1 and 4 p.m. Act, 1926, as follows: '1. Sub­ over Front Street. In point of attendance the meet­ section (9) of Section 6 is hereby there was no reason why anyone at at at ses—Canada Ready should not advertise provided the ing was probably the largest the amended by inserting the follow­ That if the new surface doesn't Chamber of Commerce has held ing sub-section as sub-section (C): Railway Company manager's name suit, the only thing remaining for Reciprocity appeared on the advertisements, in the last several years. Mr. S. P. the sale or purchase of any goods Mr. Toddings urged. is to do without horses. Eve, president of the Chamber, to tourists arriving in the Colony 0 0 0 presided. Mr. Tucker's principal objection on any Sunday, Christmas Day, merge, Edouard Herriot and Andre That it is curious that no horse- ROYAL DEATH AFFECTS to the proposed railway couch ad­ CHANGED CONDITIONS Good Friday or other day declared Tardieu, who took train shortly lover seems to remember the vertisements was that they would At a meeting of the Council of by the Governor-in-Council to be a EUROPE after the Chamber of Deputies sus­ frightf al state of the old roads. be subject to bawdy disfiguration the Chamber last Friday, he re­ public holiday for the purposes of pended its session yesterday for and that tenders waiting on steam­ * * * capitulated, the question of Sunday this Act, and departing therefrom fifteen minutes as a sign of mourn­ France in Quandary-Belgian An­ ships would ask, and rightly so, That the Tennis Tournament looks trading was raised and it was the same day. Provided that such ing. like being the best ever held. sale or purchase shall be made only tagonism—Nazi Ultimatum for the same privilege of being deemed desirable to call a meeting FRENCH NERVOUS allowed to have advertisements * * * not only of the members of the between the hours of 1 p.m. and to Dollfuss in their saloons. That the entry of so many high Chamber but of the business com­ 4 p.m. ' " The French are wondering if ranking players is most gratify* munity as a whole. "Last year Mr. Spurling added that he was Prince Leopold as King Leopold the LEGAL POSITIONS ihg. this matter was taken up and dis­ not in favour of the indiscriminate PARIS, Feb. 20 (CP).—The death Third will fight with his illustrious 0 0 0 of the Belgian King is already hav- cussed at a general meeting. Yoa opening of businesses, which, he father's firmness against "the Nazi Col. Dill quoted the Advertise­ That public support should be all know what the results were," thought, should be allowed to open a political effect on Europe, and intrigues" in Belgium. Many of ment Act of 1911, which stipulates liberal. even in Paris concern was mani­ Mr. Eve stated. "In view of changed only under permits issued for that these political are encouraged by certain exemptions for Government * * * fested in official quarters yester­ conditions it has been considered purpose. Flemish extremists. Departments, and gave it as his That the Manchesters have a fine day regarding the possible effects desirable to take the matter up Mr. A. Mercer moved an amend­ Continued on page 12 soccer team. on France's line-up of the smaller again." ment to this motion which had the BELGIAN STRIKE MANIFESTO 0 0 0 effect of deleting tha words "to nations against Hitler's rearma­ AUSTRIAN CaASUALTIES That they will doubtless improve Stating that the question was one ment demands. Belgium occupies which had received very careful tourists arriving in the Colony." BRUSSELS^ Feb. 20 (OP)—A com­ the game in Bermuda. a vital position in this line-up, for consideration by--the more serio_s- .He. stated that confusion might bs munist declaration calling on work­ Arguments Over Victims of J 0 0 0 the French are strengthening their minded people in the community, caused, as store clerks could not ers to iefuse to recognise the future That the ruggerites are looking fortifications in the Rhineland Mr. W. E. Spurling added that be expected to distinguish between King Leopold the Third, and invit­ Shell Fire forward to the visit of the U. S. region for fear that the Belgian ordinarily he was opposed to Sun­ Bermudians and bona fide tourists ing them to rise against the Gov­ team. military defences are too weak. At day trading. "But I feel that with hetior one day. ernment, left other political fac­ VIENNA, Feb. 20 (CP)—The * » * home some French statesmen had the present business situation in A gloomy picture of the harm tions, even the opposition groups, shelling of workers' apartment even proposed to extend the steel That some fast work will be seen. Bermuda what it is," he added, being done to Bermuda by the pre­ cold yesterday. Leaders of the vari­ houses in Vienna in the recent civil 0 0 0 chain and concrete along the Bel­ "special consideration should be sent "blue laws" was painted by ous political groups considered that warfare found an aftermath yester­ That the Sunday Trading and Un­ gian border. given to this matter." Continued on Page ? this manifesto was a little ill-timed day in a Europe-wide conflict over employment are curious in jux­ With these matters uppermost and an improper move, coming as it the casualty figures. Officially ( taposition. in the minds of French officials did when all factions were united Chancellor Dollfuss declared on 0 0 0 BERMUDA AS GARDENERS' NEW MOVIES OF BERMUDA three of the highest ranking mem­ in common sympathy. Especially Sunday that the deaths totalled That forbidding the first goes some bers of the French Cabinet went as political observers pointed out, 241, and a Government commun­ way to maintaining the second. PARADISE Five new movie reels of Bermuda to Brussels yesterday to pay tribute that Emile Vandervelde, head of ique can add, without argument, * * * that are to be shown throughout at King Albert's bier as envoys of the Second Internationale, had five socialists who were killed by That one wonders how the Govern­ Woman Garden Artist Lectures the world are the result of the recent sympathy to France's closest Ally. publicly acclaimed King Albert as Home Guard bayonets on Sunday, Visit of the Fox Movietoi es group The members were Premier Dou- ment is justified in opening the a personal friend.