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Bureaucracy's Tide. In Goderich, Ont., Walter Henry, 92, gave up riding his motorcycle because it was "too much red tape and too much nuisance getting a license...
Died. Laurence Adolphe Steinhardt, 57, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, early New Deal diplomat who since 1937 had served as Ambassador to Peru, Soviet Russia, Turkey and Czechoslovakia; in the crash of a U.S. embassy plane; near Ottawa, Ont. (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Skilled Hand. Mr. Ellis is Canada's closest approach to an official executioner. Legally, when a death sentence has been passed, the execution is the job of the county sheriff, but most sheriffs prefer the help of a skilled hand. They telegraph to the sheriff of York County, Ont., one of the few Canadians who knows Ellis' real name. A reservation is made for his services and Hangman Ellis slips quietly into the appointed town a day before the hanging is to take place...
...empire over for a fraction of its worth and continued to run it, with the help of Thomas Jr., until 1939. Then, just before the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, both fled the country. Thomas went to Canada, where he started a huge new Bata factory at "Batawa" near Frankford, Ont.; Jan came to the U.S., where he started a factory at Belcamp, Md. Muska had also fled, taking the Leader shares with him, but telling neither Jan nor Thomas about them. Not until 1942 did Muska privately reveal the existence of the shares. By that time, Jan had been blacklisted...
...Male Animal. In London, Ont., Police Constable Wallace Blanchard collided with a car, got out of his police car to press charges against the other driver, decided to drop the whole thing when he found that it was his wife...