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Vi a The Oshawa Daily Reformer he Oshawa Daily Times VOL. 1--NO. 72 J PE Si le Rie OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927 News While "It ls News" Ee ae aS = EE ae] 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. Second Section--Pages 9-12 p Three Men Killed in Auto Collision at Cornwall WINDSOR COUNGIL ASKS STATEMENT FEES PAID POLICE Alderman Curry Makes Spe- cific Charges Against Police Chief MAY DEMAND INQUIRY Alderman Says Chief Admits Charging $1 for Character Certificates Windsor, Sept, 26.--Charging Chief Constable Daniel Thompson and Sergeant James R. Wilkinson with receiving "certain fees" and rot accounting for them, Ald. Clyde Curry tonight induced the City Council to accept his resolution, asking for a judicial Investigation of the Police Department in the event"of the Police Commission not furnishing a statement by Oct. 6 showing the amount of fees paid to members of the department last year. Ald. Curry also suggested that Chief Thompson should be im- mediately suspended pending an investigation, Resolution Carries The resolution sponsored by Ald. Curry was as follows: "That a statement of all fees re- ceived by the Chief Constable and their members of the police force of the city Windsor be furnished to the Police Commission and the clerk of the municipality for the year 1926 and previously and subse- guently thereto, on or before the 4th day of October, 1927, and that in case a bona fide statement for the year 1926 is not furnished with- in that time, that application be made to the Lieutehant-Governor-in- Couneil or tothe Judge-~of - the County Court of the County Essex or a public inquiry into af- fairs of the Police Department." In pressing his resolution, Alder- man Curry severey arraigned Chief Thompson, who, he asserted had been charging citizens $1 for char- gcter certificates, which are now necessary before Canadians can en- ter the Upited States. The Alder- man said the Chief had admitted taking the fees, "But he tried to 'crawfish' and pass the buck to his secretary," Al- derman Curry said in a carefully worded statement. The Alderman suggested - that many hundred dol- lars had been poid to members of + Police Department for c.rul'- cates, specifically mentioa:ng Chiat Thompson and Sergeant Wilkinson as the recipien.s of "tha velvet." Alderman Curry went on to say that the Chief nad publicly echal- lenged him v» muke: spe:zific char- ges. Maden Specific Charges "I do nu= intend at present to put the charges in writing, but I hereby mage specific charges against Chief Constable Daniel Thompson and Sergeant Wilkinson." Alderman Curry declared, accepting the gauntlet, which, he said, had been thrown down by the Chief. "I accuse these officers of receiving fees over and above their straight sal- ary, which have not been paid into the City Treasury, so far as I have been able to find. The demand of Ald. Curry was greeted with prolonged applause by a crowd of ratepayers who filled the City Hall and the corridors. The demonstration was suppressed by Mayor C. E. Jackson, who reminded the audience that "very grave charges" had been made. City Solicitor Frank D. Davis said he knew nothing of the nature of the charges. He was concerned only he said, with the jurisdiction of the Council in the matter, and advised that the charges might mot be as serious as believed. It might, he said, be only a gueslion as to whether the police are entitled to the fees in question. Ald. Thomas Eansor dealt with the Police Commission and Chief Thompson in 2a manner even more severe than that of Ald. Curry. Ald. Eansor declared that an investiga- tion by the Police Commission, as suggested by Ald. Winter, would "be as much of a joke as when eGneral Williams was here." Asks Sweeping Probe "The fee question is only a small matter," + ap Eansor declared, pounding his desk. "I would like ax investigation of the siluation re- garding blind pigs and gambling and why and how these places were allowed to run previous to the demand for a cleanup." The resolution was finally adopt- ed, with only Ald. Douglas voting against A second resolution, sponsored by Ald. Garnet Edwards, called on the Attorney-General to investigate con- ditions all along the border. The gesolution was carried, ~~ Whitby W. C. Reinke, Representative, Phones 22-J and 342 NOTICE TO WHITBY SUBSCRIBERS Any Whithy subscriber who is now getting The Times by mail may have same delivered by carrier boy at the delivery rate of 10¢ a week If thay will notify the Whitby vepresentative, Mr, W. O. Reinke, or the office of publication at Oshawa, WHITBY TOWN COUNCIL AUTHORIZES PURCHASE OF NEW STREET GRADER To Buy Equipment to Take Care of Town's 50 Miles of Streets -- Amendment to Defer Matter is Defeated (By Stat Reporter) Whitby, Sept. 27.--A special meet- ng of the Town Council of Whithy was held last night in the Clerk's of- nce. * Several matters were deait with, the most important of which was the purchase of a grader for the upkeep ot Whithy's fifty miles of streets, The grader, whose merits were being con- sidered, was of the same type as the one that was used in grading Ander- scn and Garden streets, The comp- any's representative offered to sell the machine and wait until next year for payment. Mayor Bateman, in intro- ducing the matter to the Council, questioned the propriety of pledging the next year's council to the carry- ing out of the deal. J. M. Kenny, chairman of the Streets Committee, spoke, favouring the purchase of some adequate machinery for keeping the sireets in condition, "The greatest problem is that of drainage," said Mr. Kinny, "The streets are not graded, the water lies in the ditches, sometimes as high as the road and the road be- comes waterlogged, and soon goes to picces. We Wave money to spend on the road to the bay. If we fill in the holes with gravel the cars will cut through it and the work will be wast- ed. If we get a sacrifier, and use the material in the road, and fix the drain- age, we would get somewhere. I am entirely in favour of this machine." Councillor Underwood asked if the machine might be demonstrated to the Council, some of whom had pot seen a grader of this type in action, The answer was given that the. machine would be shipped in, set up and tried out for three days on any road the Council might select and if it was not all that was claimed for it, it would be taken away without any cost to the Town. I'he salesman then proceeded to give a demonstratiion of how the machine works, using a small scale model to illustrate and prove the various 'points of alleged superiority. At the conclusion of the demonstra- tion, J. M. Kenny moved that the Council have a machiihe brought and triicd out for the Council's approval. Deputy Reeve Underwood sc. aded the motion. Councillor Broughtcn moved an amendment, that the matter be left over for further consideration, and adyising against the purchase be- cause of the cost of operaliing a frac- tor to draw the grader. br. Cowan seconded the amendment, believing that the matter shonré ne '2it to the Council next year to decide. Town Clerk Frost then read a, scc- tion from an act corcerning towns, which stated that purchases could not be made for which no appropriation bad been made, suggesting that the proposal to purchase the grader, al- though payment was not to he made till next year, came under the mean-- ing of the section. Reeve Jackson, who had throughout the meeting been taking no part in the discussion, stated his view of the proposition as a retiring member of the Council, stressing the need of uew equipment. "I have learned this year, something about roads as War- den, going about the county inspect- ing results and talking machinery. Whoever may be on the Council next year, jt will be their duty to purchase adequate equipment. The very bad condition of the roads in Whitby has been a matter of comment in the County Council. We can get plenty of grayel. I would advocate the pur- chase of a grader,\a tractor, and a truck to haul the gravel. There is no use in grading mud roads and leaving them unsurfaced. I understand Gar- den and Anderson streets are becoming cut up already. If it had rained the whole expenditure of grading them would have been wasted. Nearly all the work done in the Town in past years has been wasted. I believe this machine would do the work. It is true that in buying it we are creating a debt for mext year. I don't know whether it is strictly legal or not but who will protest. I will not urge pur- chase because I will not be here but the time has come to get up-to-date machinery. The saving will more than balance the upkeep. We are now wastiing a large part of the money spent on streets. The system of patching the streets has been in mee as long as I can remember and it is time we made a change" On a vote, the amendment was de- Reated, and the motion was carried, RELIEVE CONGESTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL BY MOVING CLASS (By Saft Reporter) Whitby, Sept,' 27.--~The Co-n gestion of pupils in the King street school has been somewhat relieved, by the adoption of the measures advised by Mr, Sen. nett at the last school hoard meeting, The senior 'third class of twentysfour has been moved to the Dundas street school where there was an unused room, and the other classes at King street school havé been re- arranged, Another teac A Miss Carson, has been engaged for the King street school which is still overcrowded, there being 268 pupils in the six rooms or an average of over 44, DENIES CHARGES DIVERTING GRAVEL Deputy Reeve Underwood Resents Allegations Against Him" (By Staff Reporter) Whitby, Sept. 27.--The matter of getting gravel, from the pit which the Town uses by arrangement with the Provincial Government, for other than purely municipal pur- poses was brought up for discussion in Council last night. Deputy-reeve Underwood stated that allegations had been made that he was divert- ing gravel that he had asked for, for specified purposes, to other uses, and denied any such dealing, Mr. Lnderwood asked at the same time for leave to get about a hundred more loads of gravel which wili be : needed for two important construc- tion jobs, soo. Councillor Kenny ob- jected to allowing the gravel to be used for such 'purposes, on the ground that the agreement with the Government states that the gravel is to be used for municipal purposes and abuse of the arrangement might lead to its termination. Mr. Jackson moved that Under- wood be given leave to secure the gravel, stating that, when the deal was made, the Government agreed that in case of emergencies, gravel could be sold to contractors at 25 cents a load. Taking the view that an emergency had arisen, Mr. Jack- son put his motion and on a vote being taken, his contentio was sus- tained. PURCHASERS FOR HOUSES (By Staff Reporter) Whitby, Sept. 27.--At the special council meeting last night, A. W. Jackson announced that he had se- cuped purchasers for kwo of the houses, held by the Whitby Housing Commission. The price was $3500 in each case. Mr. Jackson stated that he was claiming his commission on the deal but would reduce the amount, which at the usual rate would be $87.50, to $50 in each case. A motion was put and car- ried, accepting the offer with a vote of thanks. EPENDENCE OF CANADA ww WAS NOT E PHASIZED Geneva, Sept. 26--Senator Raoul 4 Dandurand, Canadian representa- tive of the League of Nations, as- sures Reuter"s News Agency that the allegation that he emphasized Canada's independence as a mem- ber of the League Council, was anite untrue. The only statement for which he was responsible was the statement made before the League A bly when C da was elected to a seat on the Council Senator Dandurand qualified the word "Independence" - as absurd. and he failed to understand what it meant in conmedtion with the matter. -- asking to have a grader broucht and demonstrated to the Council. The ma- chine specified is an eight-goot grad- er, fitted with scarifier and back-slop- er, for ditching, at a complete cost of $1,482. The agreement gives the Town until July 1st, 1928. to pay for the : for these institutions, most of which machine. FRANGE T0 AVOID I. TARIFF WAR Likely Yield to Demand for Most Favored Treatment-- Reply to Protest Paris, Sept. 26--r"oreign Minister Briand is returning from Geneva and Minister of Commerce Bokanowski feom Prague, where he has been opening negotiations for a Franco- Czech commercial treaty, and will confer tomorrow on a reply to Washington's protest against the French tariff, In French Government eircles it is sald France is anxious to avoid a tariff war with the United States over the preferential duties granted Germany on many classes of manu- factures. France wishes to go as far as she can in yielding to Wash- ineton's demand for most favored treatment without losing all chance of getting American tariffs against French imports lowered. The correspondence between the two countries will he primed prob- ably tomorrow at Washington's re- quest. The negotiators involved do not believe this will make it easier for France to better the offer al. ready made to reduce the tariff against American goods fifty per cent. This would still leave them twice as high as the Germans must pay, The United States note made pointed reference to article 317 of the United States Tariff Act. This permits the President to raise du- ties fifty per cent against a country not giving American exporters fair treatment, and even to place an em- bargo against that country if he wishes, Threat is Expected, When the note is published the threat of the tariff war is expected to stick out so obviously that it ap- pears France, in offering the fifty per cent cut, did so because of the threat. This naturally would have a bad effect on opinion here so far Bs further concessions are concern- e United States -,usinessmen in Pa- ris who are not affected by the new tariffs, which affect less thaw one-tenth of the volume of United States business here, openly express the hope that Washington does not get into a tariff war with France. They say there are many ways for France to retaliate besides putting an embargo on American goods. United States banks have grown very important here since the war and there are no corresponding French banks in America France could through taxation and regu- lation, make the situation diffieult are branches of New York banks. The same thing applies to United States commercial establishments here, However, there has been no hint that the French Government would adopt such reprisals. WHITBY H, $, FIELD DAY ON WEDNESDAY Medals Will Be Awarded in Addition to Cup-- Surprises Promised (By Staff Renorter) Whitby, Sept. 27.--Whitby's. field day and trials for the inter school athletic meet will be held on Wed- nesday afternooy of this week, in the Whitby Town Park. Some sur- prises are promised as there fis at least one prospective entrant who has never been seen here before ahd who is said to have lots of speed. In addition to the cups which have been awarded other years, medals will be given to the winners of the individual events. These are being given through the gemerosity of the local merchants. Medals have been promised for the following events. (Junior events.) 100 yd. R. J. Leach; 220 yds. F. Burns; % mile, Roy Talling; running broad jump, W. K. Cooke: standing broad jump, | M. B. Connor; running high jump, E. M. Brown; hop, step and jump, Scott Bros.; shot put, W. A. Holli- day and Son; pole vault, Frank Boothe. (Semior events). 100 yds., Geo. Rice; 226 yds., J. Frost; 440 yds. R. Peel; % mile, Mr. Millard; | 1 mile, J. M. Hicks; running high jump, A. Stanmlick; hop, step and jump, Roy Fowler; shot put, W. E. | Town. On Monday night, three events the runming broad, standing broad, ad pole vaulting the senior list had not been provided for but Lom Northey who has been taking a keen interest in the field day this year | hoped to secure medals for these' events, also. | There's this about the school of experience. They don't throw wou oui at the end of the first term be- cause you can't learn. --Kitcliener Record. ¢ ] -~ LINDSAY MAGISTRATE DEFENDS POSITION IN LETTER TO DEPARTMENT Tells Attorney General Os goode Hall Should Reverse Judgments -- Refutes the Charges of Fartisanship-- Says He Was Attacked for Enforcing O, T. A. Lindsay, Sept. .6.--Suggesting that Attornay-Genoral Price's inter- vention in the perjury case at Lind- say lust winter was a "dangerous in- novation," and that if an error of judgment was made by the Magia trate the cage should have been carried to the Court of Appeal. former Magistrate Jesse Bradford of Lindsay has sent an open letter to the Attorney-General giving his ver: sion of the incident, Mr. Bradford maintains th-t the cause of his dismissal is a matter in which the publie is vit lly eoncern- ed, and that people will not willingly let go the ch'ef co ner-stone of con stitutional libertv--the independence and security in office nf Judges and Magistrates. Mr, Bradford's Yettep The letter is #8 follows: "Dear Mr. Price: "I had not 'ntended to say any- thing in regard to my resignation of the position of Police Magistrate, but your pnhlic statements and the trend p FRUIT SHEDS WRECKED WHEN TRAINS CRASH Grimsby, Sept. 26.--A rear-end collision occurred on the Canadian National Railways at Vineland Sta- tion this afternoon when a heavy freight train plowed into the rear of the fruit express, which was on the Vineland siding loading fruit. Two members of the train crews were slightly injured. Several express cars on the fruit train were derailed and badly wrecked, The fruit platform and the storehouse of the Vineland Grow- ers' Co-operative Company were to- tally wrecked hy the locomotive of the freight when it left the rails and headed into the buildings. Sev- eral coal cars on- the freight also left the rails. The wreckage took fire. but the outhreak was quickly pnt down by the Vineland Fire De- partment. I'rnit was strewn on the rirht of way fdr some distance. Fortunately, there were only a few men on the fruit platform when the accident took place and they escaped injury, CHARGES FOLLOW of events since make it expedient that I should outline the whole situ- ation. "As an introduetion I point out that 1 filled the office of Police Magistrate at Sturgeon FP lls for ahout ten yeo'rs and ag»in at Lind- say for a further period of about ten years prior to the time when vou hecame Attorney-General on the resignation of the Hon, W. F, Nickle. My jurisdiction here was at first eonfined t Town « ndsay, but in 1922 my jurisdiction was ex- tended to include the whole of Vie- toria and Haliburton Counties, This took place when Hon. W. E. Raney was Attornev-General. Prior to your assuming the Attorney-tieneral's office 1 had served under four differ- ent 'Attorneys-General, namely, Hon. J. J. Foy, Hon. I. B, Lucas, Hon, W. E. Raney and Hon. W. F. Nickle, and durine all that time I had noth- ing but the best of co operation and gave apparent satisfaction, and none of my official acts were ever called in question by any of them. Moreover, I may state that during the whole period of my tenure of office it was my good fortune, so far as I can recollect, to have only one judgment reversed on appeal and two or three other slightly modified as to the penalty imposed, Says Opposition Developed "During the latter part of my tenure of office while at Lindsay an opposition gradually developed owing chiefly to my fearless en- forcement of the Ontario Temper- ance Act, and my refusal to be dic- tated to in the matter of my judg- ments by certain. politicians, ex- Mayors and others who had no right to interfere. 1 would not counten- ance this improper interference with the functioning of my court. It was the policy of some who were not in sympathy with the O. T. A, and of those who were nog permitted to im- properly influence the court to stir up dissatisfaction with my adminis- tration of the law, and this developed into active propaganda to have me dismissed from office. In some in- stances, as you known, they went the lengths of carrying their supposed grievances to you, sir, at your office in Toronto. "Among other accusations made and dealt with was a charge of of- fensive partisanship during the last election for .the Legislative Assem- bly. I was summoned, 28 you know, (Continued on page 10) MOTHER ATTEMPTS TO SHIELD SON WHO KILLED STEPFATHER Berkeley, Cal., Sept, 26--C. Van Alderwelt, 39, department manager of the Sap Francisco office of the American Railway Express Com- pany, was shot to death by his 13- year-old stepson, Jerome Cornell, during a Quarrel between Van Al- ' derwelt and his wife at their home here today. Thé boy readily admitted shoot- ing his stepfather. His mother tried to shield him, insisting she did the shooting, but after Jerome's story was checked and corroborated by his 13-year-old stepbrother, Charles Van Alderwelt, Jr., the mother ad- mitted her son fired the shot Both the Van Alderwelt and the Cornell boy told the police that Van Alderwelt was choking his wife when the stepson warned him to stop and then sent a 22 ealibre | ' bullet through the man's body. Mrs. | Van Alderwelt told the police her husband had attacked her om previ- ous occasions. Streihis was fingd $149 for being drumk. and costs A STRATFORD MISHAP Autoist Held on $1,000 for Driving Car While Drunk-- Crashed Into Car Stratford, Ont, Sept, 26--The aftermath of week-end auto acei- dents came up in the police court here today, Leo Bowman, of Cleve- land, Ohio , whose car sideswiped an auto driven by V, Essig, Galt. on the Downie road near Flanni- gan's Corners , steered into the diteh and crashed through a fence and into a field beyond, faced a charge of driving a car while in- toxicated. It was adjourned until Saturday morning, and bail of $1, 000 in three sureties was granted, A second charge of reckless driving was withdrawn. W. Musselman. 565 Ontario street, was charged with criminal negligence as a result of an aceci- dent near New Hamburg Saturday night, in which his car struck Mi. chael Cunningham, 289 Cobourg COACH SIDESWIPES LIGHT MOTOR CAR PILING INTO DITCH Triple Fatality Occurs at a Dark Place on the Highway INSTANTLY KILLED Bodies Are Found Under the Wreckage of Overturned Car Cornwall, Ont, Sept. 26--Three men, two of them Montreal resi. dents, were instantly killed here to- night when the coach automobile they were riding in crashed into a licht auto, sideswiped another, and then piled into a diteh, THE DEAD: C. M. CABANA, Montreal, OSCAR BRANCHAUD, Montreal ALBERT MARSILOIS, Cornwall. The occupants of the two other autos escaped injury. The aceident occurred at 8.30 o'- clock on the Bast Front Road, Ca. bana was at the wheel of the death car, No explanation of the cause of the crash could be gained by ear- ly investigations by the police. The highway takes a rather sharp curve at the point where the Ca- hana coach struck the light car, tearing away a front wheel and the running-hoard, The driver of the third auto to figure in the accident swerved his heavy machine in an attempt to avoid the collision, but the coach struek it a glancing blow and was thrown into the roadside ditch, The Cabana car overturned and was completely wrecked, the three occupants heing badly mangl- ed. They were all dead when re- moved from the splintered and twisted car, Seite Cabana and Branchaud resided in this town until last year, when they moved to Montreal. They returned today and were motoring back to their Montreal homes when they met death. ' Branchaud leaves a widow and two children, while Marsilois is sur- vived by his widow and three young children, ater stememndl ao GFRMAN AVIATOR street, who was riding a bicycle on the Provincial highway and severe- ly dnjured him. He elected trial at the next court, and the preliminary hearing will be on October 2, bail of $6,000 was granted. Magistrate Makins fined J. Rae- gele, 85 Dufferin Street, $1 and costs and in addition suspended his driving permit for 30 days. W. J. Jacobs, 86 Falstaff street, was fined $12 and $3 costs for excessive speed- inz., It was claimed he was going 50 miles an hour on the highway, War has been declared on glar- ing headlights fin the city, and henceforth motorists whose car lights are a menace to traffic will either be forced to have them fixed or he prosecuted. Traffic Officer J. Clements had a busy time cheek- nz up motorists last night, and before the evening was over he had ordered 25 motorists to have glar- ing headlights fixed immediately. DANDURAND REPUDIATES "INDEPENDEXCE" REMARKS Geneva, Sept. 26.--Senator Raou! Dandurand, Canadian representa- tive on the Council of tlle League cf Nagions, assures Reuter's News Agency that the allegation that he emphasized Canada's independence as a member of the League Couneil wae quite untrue. The only state- ment for whih he was responsible was the statement he made before the League Acsembly when Canada was elected to a seat on the Coun-: cil. Senator Dandurand qualified tne word "independence" as absurd. and he failed to understand what it meant in connection with the mat- ter. ' TWO BARNS PREY TO FLAMES IN SYDENHAM TOWNSHIP Owen Sound. Ont., Sept. 26--Two fires in Sydenham Township, on Saturday at noon, caused that see- tion of the county much excitement. The barns of George Fraser and W. J. Miller, situated within 60 rods of each other, mear the village of Bosmor, were destroyed by a fire that started in the structure owned by. Mr Fraser. A threshing outfit had mearly completed its work at the Miller's barn when smoke was | seem issuing from the mow of Fras- er"s barn. m-+h harps were completely de- melished. The implements were Fovmed and a fow hogs were de. stroved. The barms were mode ! we ho of hoth { farxpers will be extremely heavy, ote loacae | Ariss farm laborer, | edral, Alexandria. s REPORTED MISSING Lieut. Otto Koennecke, En Route to Basra, Feared Lost London, Sept. 26----The ahsence of news here and in Berlin of the pro- gress of Lieut. Otto Koennecke, German flier, who left Angora, Turkey, Saturday morning for Bas- ra, Iraq, has ralsed the fear here that the world has to face another air tragedy. There are so many possibilities, however, in this overland journey of the plane Germania. especially over a region which is largely des- ert or mostly thinly populated and unprovided with the. best means of communication, that the dwindling hope has not gisen way to despair, An ominous aspect of the complete silence is the faect.that the plane was provided with a wireless outfit able to communicate on a 600-me- tre wave-length with ships and 900 for land stations, They should bave reached Basra the same evening, and special in- quiry at Constantinople, Basra and Bagdad showed that nothing has heen heard here. CONFESSES TO FAKE STORY OF BEING THROWN INTO RIVER Guelph, Ont., Sept. 26--Follows ing close questioning by the author. ities this morning, Joseph Streibig, acknowledged that the story he had told the po- lice on Saturdav to the effect that he had been attacked, robbed and thrown into the Speed River was but a figment of his imagination. H& informed the court on his ap- pearance on a charge of drunken- ness thet he had been intoxicated an® had fallen into the river, John Johmsom, colered man. who sneat two Aays jail om the strength of Streibl@'s story with a charge of attempted robbery with violence hanging over his head, was released. NEW APPOINTMUNT RUMOR- ED TO AWA ARCHDIOCESE Ottawa, Ont. Seat. 26 --The Ottawa Citizen, 'n 2 news page <tory, states that it earns on rR it anthority, that His 1.ords" 'in Bichon Felix Cout- mrier, "BE. M7. DD. oF Alexan- Aris Ont, withiufh i s~arosal 4 roh. hick an of he a on wa, and that the RBighone'~ 7° 4° 'ria wi ho filled dw Rav Fost Ean ff Macdona'd. tr of St. Finan' C:*" - tor .