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¢ Olen Bally Times SUCCEEDING _ The Oshawa Daily Reformer VOL. 1--NO. 98 Mublished Osh: Canada E: Eorert Sandee ond" Public. Holage Dav » OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. Cmm-- Second Section--Pages 9-16 F. W. Thompson, Druggist, Winner of Po History of Conant Estate Goes Back to the Days of Ontario County Pioneers COAL MINE OPERATORS REFUSE UNION CLAIMS Calgary, Oct. 26.--With refusal of other Drumheller Valley miners to join crews of the six mines closed because of the Canas'lan Mine Work- ers' Union 'recognition strike," in- dications are that the dispute will automatically peter out in the near future. No {important move has been made by the miners since the sirine beghn, gpd 'the operators of the mines affected are "standing pat.' The operators are offering a stand- ard union wages, but are adaman. in refusing the right of check-off for union dues to the Canadian Union. Mines manned by the United Mine Workers of America are still being operated. Most of the striking min- ers are working in the harvest fields BANKERS REFUSE 10 HEAR FARMERS Delegation to U.S. Conven- tion Told "Program | is Full" Houston, Texas, Oct. 27.--National issues took a foremost position before the fifty-third annual session of the American Bankers' Association Tues- y. Farm relief was a dominant issue A farm group, headed by former Gov- ernor George W. Donaghey and Sen- ator T. H. Caraway of Arkansas, ap- peared before the Agrciultural Com- mission and asked permission to ad dress the convention, They were told that the program was full, it was un- derstood, p "We got less time to present the problems of 45,000,000 people than we would have had if oné of those bank- ers had allowed us to make applica- tion for enough money to buy a mule," Caraway said, Former Governor Donaghey said the group came to place the farm ques- tion before the bankers. 260 PEOPLE KILLED IN- WRECK OF TRAIN London, O-t, 26.--The Vienna co respondent of the Exchange Tele graph Compayn learns that 260 per: sons are reported to have been killed when a passenger train plunged ove. a precipice betwee: Sarajevo and Mostar, Jugo Slavia. A narrow-gauge and partly rack-and-opinion railway runs through a mountain district between Sarajevo and Mostar. It traverses the ridge of Ivan Planina (3.172 feet), the watershed between the Adriatic and Black Sea by a tunnel, crosses several rivers and then descends through the wild Narenta Valley, a defile, and near Mostar passes the precipices of the Velez (6,225 feet). i tronsported the lumber Large Property South of C. N. R. Now Being Developed on Town Planning Scheme Recalls Days When Fleet of Sailing Vessels Anchor- ed in Oshawa Creek for Lumber Cargoes The subdivision of the Conant property under the name of Vista jeights announced on Saturday is n event not without historical in- erest, These lands have been in the Jonant family for practically a cen. tury. The present owner, G. D. Con- wnt, a barrister of this city, was orn and has always lived in the esidence in the very centre of this state, although the residence was modelled a few years ago. His father, the late Thomas Con- nt, built the original residence in he year 1872 and died there in the ear 1905. The late Thomas Conant vas a writer of some distinction and len a traveller of renown, For many 'ears he was a correspondent for the "oronto Globe at a time when qvels to foreign lands were matters f considerable interest and much of 'g correspondence dealt with mat- ars and sights having to do with his "ips, The area comprising this sub- ivision was owned before the late Thomas Conant entered into the en- 'ovment of the same, by his father nd previously by his grandfather. The Conants cleared the lands of he original white pine which grew on it in abnndance. Along the West- erly limits of Vista Heights sub- division the ravine of the Oshawa sreck extends and there is still visible on the West side of Thomas street, where iit runs North and South 'along the edge of the ravine, the remains of the old saw-mill which was operated by the Conant family. With this mill they convert- ed into lumber the pine which was ent from the surrounding district. At that time, the Oshawa Creek was much larger than at present, which enabled them to float the lumber to Lake Ontario, They owned a fleet of sailing vessels with which they to Oswega, "harlotte, and other centre of com- nerce, . Pioneer Home The site of the present Conant 'esidence was originally nceunied by v log house in front of which there was a well. Evidences of this can Je still seen in the depression of the rround under part of the foundation of the Conant residence. Of course »t the time of the construction of the original residence, in 1872 Osh- awa was a very small village and the Grand Trunk Railway--now the Canadian National---had only been completed a few years previously. The Conant residence was accord- ingly one of the show places of the district alone with the residence of the Honourable T. N. Gibbs and the residence then located on the site (Continued on page 13) | Hallowe'en Special Olde Tyme Square DANCE and Box Social At the . JUBILEE PAVILION " FRIDAY NIGHT October 28 at 8.30 Ladies be sure and put your names in the boxes as prizes will be awarded for the best decorated box. Everybody come and enjoy the best night of the season. Holden's Orchestra Mr. E. J. Pomery will auction the boxes--The dancing will be under the direction of Mr. G. A. Kemp. | countrigs on the basis of the mutual exehan "~ "T ranspoitation Assistant, C. P. R,, North Bay, promoted assistant superintendent, Trenton Division, wi uarters at Toronto. BOY KILLED ON BARRIE STREET | Struck By a Motor Car Lad Dies Soon After in the Hospital Barrie, O® 26.-- Suddenly out on the road to recover his cap which had been thrown there by a playmate, Clifford Urry, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Urry, 58 Owen street, was run down bv a pass ing auto driven by Newton Nash, 46 Grove street, and died five hours late in the Royal Victoria Hospital fron the effects of injuries received. The accident happened near the unfortfn ate lad's home. Nash reported the accident to the police, but was not taken into custody, indications point ing to-it being purely accidental. According to his story given to the police, Nash states that he brought hi: car to a halt almost within a car length. The injured lad was imme diately removed to the Royal Victoria Hospital, but internal . injuries were such as to _make recovery impossible Coroner Dr. Rodgers and Crown At: torney Evans after investigating the facts decided an inquest unnecessary dashing Y.M.C.A. NOW HAS - MILLION MEMBERS: Report Shows Property Doub- les in 10 Years to $205,184,000 Chicago, Oct. 27.--For the first time the total membership of the Young Men's Christian Association in Canada and the United States has exceeded the millfon mark, the an- nual report of the general board of the National Council of the Y. M.C.A. of the United States reveai- ed Tuesday. The pesent member- shi pis 1,005,714. The report,, presented at the fourth annual meeting of the coun- cil, also showed that the operating expenditures of the more than 1,- 600 associations in Canada and the United States together with their state and national. agencies and ser- vices abroad for the last year were $57,126,000, compared with $54,- 161,000 last year, and $21,919,000 ten years ago. The total net property and runds of the association has more than doubled in the last ten years it be- ing given as #$205,184,000 compar- ed with $101,701,000 ten years ago. The gross property was listed at $230,640,000. * The national eouncil executive body of the "Y" is composed of 375 'members. David W. Teachout, of Cleveland, is its president. | ¥OSSIL BACKBONE FOUND Bault; Ste. Marie, Ont., Oct. 26.-- While engaged in making repairs to the Richards Landing dock, Ww. Charters discovered an interesting fossil specimen, apparently a section ot the vertebrae of some large ani- mad or fish, possibly dating back to prehistoric times. It was firmly em- bedlded in a piece of granite, of which it seemed to form a part. Capt. PB. G. Foster of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, who is in the city and is very much interested in such things, believes it to be a por- tion of the backbone of an immense lizard. CANADA NOW ARRANGING TREATY WITH CZECHOSLOVAKIA Ottawa, Oct. 25.--Parliament will likely be asked at the coming session 4 to ratify a trade agreement between Canada and the Czechoslovak Re- public. Negotiations, it was learned today, are now well under way for a trade treaty between the two ge of : most-favored-nation treatment, PETLURA'S ASSASSIN IS FREED BY GOURT, VERDICT CHEERED "| Lengthy Trial Ends With Ac- quittal Decision Popular One AVENGED DEATHS Many Sensational Scenes Are Enacted During Unusual Trial Par's, Oct. 26.-- At the end of the eizhth dav of one of most re- markahle trials ever ronductea Paris, Samuel Schwartzbar, young Jewish watchmaker, who assassiu- ated General Simon Petlura, Ukrain fan separatist leader, on a Paris street corner fifteen months ago, was set free this evening, by the ourt of Assizes. Schwartzbar was acquitted on all criminal counts. but was eondemn- cd---as is the custom of French courts--to pay a nominal one 1ranc damages to the family of the victim. The verdict, which came after four and a half hours of summing up, with Henri Torres, counsel for the defence, taking less than a third of that time, was returned in thirty- two minutes. On the first of the five counts--was the accused guilty of striking blows causing the Injur- ies of the victim? the answer was negative: thus the four other counts were dismissed. The president of the jury in trem- hling voice but smiling, announced the acquittal which was greeted with a howl of approval by the jammed courtroom. Most of the 800 spectators who had spent the afternoon herdea .o- gether in a courtroom intended for less than 300, screamed and cheer- ed. laughed and cried. Counsel Tor- res was hoisted on the shoulders of a wildly excited group. Noisy Demonstration There were cries of 'long live Fr n-e; long live the French jury," and there were less loud but none tess deeply felt shouts of protests from the Ukrainians. Three squads of special guards stepped in' quickly and broke up a dozen fights which started in the corridors. Down- stairs, in the main hall, where sev- oral thousand S~hwartzbar sympa- thizers were held back by cordons of guards, the demonstration was even noisier. ror several hundred -yards from the Palace of Justice, as far as the old Pont Neuf and the Boul St. Mi- chel, the police had plenty of work separating the excited partisans. The final day of the trial moved as quickly as the others had drag- ged. The address of the prosecuting attorney was frequently interrupi- ed by all kinds of noises. Caesare Campinchi, counsel for the Petlura family, who spoke briefly, centest- ed Schwartzbar's right to assume responsibility for judging condemn- ing and executing Petulra. No Foreign Crimes M. Reynaud, the prosecutor, shock ed the spectators 'into noisy exclam- ations by declaring: "The foreigners cannot come here with their crimes; they can carry them to the soil of other nations' Finally M. Torres, counsel for the defence, with dramatic effect, Geitv- ered a stirring oration. "There is no question about trans forming Schwartzbar into a national hero," he said. "I do not want to apotheosize a man who is the prey of an implacable obsession." He traced the early life of the ac- cused and the sufferings of his fam- ily in pogroms, the simplicity of his habits. By this time a dozen wo- men were sobbing audibly, but Schwartzbar was calm. "This man,' continued M. Torres "hears on his forehead the imprint of the tragedy in his life. You are not trying him; you are trying po- groms." His peroration of 15 minutes was accompanied by beating his ~ chest with both fists while the accused's head sank lower and lower and the jurymen stared as if dazed. PRESENCE OF BABY BEAR . PUZZLES OAINSVILLE FOLK Brantford, Oct. 26--Apparently the last vestiges of the "wild and woolly" have not yet disappeared-- from the Cainsville district, at all events, W. Campbell, proprietor of the Maple Leaf Hotel, and Dennis Lockman today possessed a 90- pound bear cub which had been, ap- parently, in a near-hy bush for some time, and was captu~ed by them last night. Speculation is rife as to where Bruin could have come from. No bears have been seen in this locality since one visited Bow Park farm, years ago, and how this latest member of the family came to, stray so far from his nursery may never be known. No doubt some mother bear is wondering, * ere is my wandering boy tonight?" H. J. Main §epenstendent, Trenton Division, . .» with headquarters at Yeronto, transferred to Moose Jaw. DETROIT GUNMEN GET THREE YEARS Sentenced in Windsor--Cor- don of Armed Guards About Court House Windsor Oct. 26.-- With a cordon of armed guards thrown around the county Court House and jail at Sandwich this afternoon, Frank Cammarata and Thomas Licavoli, who lived togetlier at 1011 McDoug- all avenue, Detroit, and were ar- rested many times previously by De- troit police, but convicted only of disturbing the peace, were sentenced to serve three years each at Ports- month Penitentiary hy Mr. Justice Wright at the Fall Assizes of the tSupreme Court, - - The two men were found guilty of illegal possession of offensive weapons, Notice of appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court at Toronto was immediately filed by counsel for the two men. In passing sentence, Justice Wright said: "You men have had a fair trial. The penalty could be five years pander the Ontario law, and I am doubtful even now whether veu should not be given the maximum sentence, "You came here armed for no peaceful purpose, and that is a thing which Canada will not toler- ate from its own citizens. Certainly, then, it will not tolerate it from out- siders. You could not have had any- thing but criminal intent. "Our country protects its citizens a8 its protects its visitors. It is not necessary here for any one to 'travel armed. I am passing this sentence unon you as a warning to others of your kind." The two convicts will be taken immediately to the penitentiary. This will be done, jail authorities stated, because an attempt at jail delivery is feared. 'Pythias organization Three Pers ntiac Car ons Tied in Guessing Contest Held As Feature of Carnival Jar Contained 30,450 Beans --Two Toronto Men and Mr. Thompson Guess the Correct Number -- Three Compete in Guessing Con- test on Smaller Jar, Mr. Thompson Winning Who's the best guesser in town? Thompson the Druggist. There were three people tied for 'he Pontiac Coach given away at the Knights of Pythias Carnival, all ;uessing the correct number of "eans in the jar, /30,450, They were 1, W. Thompson, druggist who ve- ides at 230 Athol street, E. Kramer, 615 Dundas street, Toronto, and i. Starkman, 125 Markham strzet, 'oronto. The three gentlemen were yrought up on the stage before the hrong of people at the Carnival last ni~ht and allowed to guess on a 'maller jar of beans which contain- ad 903 beans, and Mr. Thompson aunessed 900. His other two guesses were 960 and 999, while Mr. Krame) suessed 925, 975 and 1000 and Vir. Starman guessed 922, 941 and 950. There were many guesses Very near the correct one in the original .ontest and the judges had a dif ficult task both in arriving at the aorrect count of such a large jar of heans and in deciding the winners. But there were many who were about as far ouy as they could nossibly he. Guesses ranged from 212 th 19000,560. Some of the worst 500, 553, 677, 712, and up thron~h 14,000,460, 15,000,520, 16.000.660, and 19.000085, Truly, beans must be deceiving things. The presentation of the car last nicht made a fitting climax to nine dave of enjoyment for which citizens are indebted to the local Knights of Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise was ziven awav, people often getting dol- lar's worth for dimes. The goods at take on the turn ~f a wheel varied rom chocolate hars to blankets and from novelties to electric light fix- tnenae, Last night in order to get rid af the gnods on hand $30 worth of merchandise was given for a quar- ter ataked on the wheel. he crowd last night wes the big- ~est of tha entire carnival, and in fart the old West End Rink was too "mall to. acrommodate them, show- 'ne the vre~t interest that the people had in the giving of the Pontiac. It was found impossible to stage a nrogram last night owing to the lack nf a etoge, but the visitors tn the Tarnival <eemed to enjoy them- elvag juet the same, Tha entire nvofits of the carnival ~n towards the s=orietv's charitable wor%, Thev provide necessities to mafly of the less fortunate of the CREW SAVED FROM DERELICT VESSEL Montreal, Oct. 26.--The Canadian Tran:porter today rescued the Cap- tain and crew of. the three-masted schooner Santa Rosa some 400 miles out of New York and afterward set .| fire to the vessel, which was water- 'ogged and had lost her rudder. The message from Captain R. P. Roberts of the Canadian Transporter was received at the offices of the "anadian Government Merchant Marine, stating that in Lat. 40.20 North and Long. 64.10 West he had taken off the crew of the schooner Santa Rosa of Pensacola, Flla., which was waterlogged and had lost her rudder. He stated that he was setting fire to the vessel, which was full of lumber. The message was sent at 21 G.M.T., or 4 p.m. Mont- real time. UNEXPECTED RIVAL Marquis Was On'y One Un- til Gagnon Filed at Last Minute Quebec. Oct. 27.--Eugene Marquis, Liberal candidate in Kamouraska coun-" ty, did not get his expected election by : accldhation in the by-election nomin- ation there Monday, for another Lib- eral candidaté, Pierre Gagnon, ap- peared just 'before nominations closed to file his papers with the intention of contesting the riding. | Gagnon, a Liberal, was defeated at the meeting to choose a candidate but has decided to see what the electors !have to say. Marquis, the official choice, is only 26 years old. A meeting held after the nomina- tions produced some hectic scenes with partisans of Gagnon frequently inter- rupting the Marquis speakers, among them Hector Laferte, Deputy Speaker. JUDGING CONTEST WINNERS Barrie, Oct. 26--As a result of the stock judging competition held at Barrie yesterday, the following boys, who are to represent North Simcoe at the Royal Windsor Fair in Toronto, as guests of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, have been chosen: Delno Jermey, Hawke- stone; Stewart Bell, Barrie R. R. No. 3; Merlin Coupland, Barrie R. R. No. 2; Elson Bishop, Barrie R.R. community every winter, and are a blessing to countless of the poorer citizens. Those who patronized the bazaar can therefore feel that they not only received the worth of their money in pleasure, but aided a gbed cause as well, Large Lots, .Restrietions, Very Low Prices and Excep- tionally Easy 1erms. Fairview Park Half Sold In Less 'Than a Week Careful