A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City YOL.---NO.\4 1--NO. 104 The Oshawa Daily G The Oshawa Daily Reformer mes Fe Th Sr OSHAWA, C ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. SIXTEEN PAGES TEER PROVINCIAL PREMIERS START SESSION Liner Crashes F. erry, 10 Drowned NELSON CASE MAY REACH JURY TONIGHT Third Day of "Strangler's" Trial Sees Crown Case Proceeding INTEREST DROPS Today's Scene Quite in Con- trast With Yesterday's Mad Scramble (By Canadian Press) Wipnipeg, Nov, 3.--The third day of the trial of Earl Nelson, alleged strangler of Mrs. Emily Patterson of Winnipeg, witnessed a noticeable flapse of interest on the part of the public, Only a handful of womenwere waiting at the entrance to the Court room in contrast to the mad scram- ble yesterday and on Tuesday, The Crown proceeded with the evidence of the remaining eighteen witnesses and there was the possibility the case would go to the jury tonight. Mrs. Catherine Hill, rooming house keeper, testified that the ac- cused had given the name '"Wood- cots" when he applied for a room, Detective Alex Calder of the Win- nipeg police said that Nelson, (Continued on page 3) START PUBLISHING RADIO PROGRAMS Complete List i in Convenient Form Appears on Page 13 of Today's Issue The Oshawa Daily Times today commences publication of complete Radio Programs which it is believed will be very much appreciated by a large per centage of raéders, The list of pograms is arranged in a novel and convenient form, wLue programs being grouped under head ings such as "Popu'ar Programs," "Classical Concerts," '"'Radio Talks and Plays," "Dance to These," ete. A list of regular daily features will also be published, In each day's paper the best fea- tures for that evening will be pub- lished together with a list of silent stations and the complete program for the following day will be giv- en, , The Oshawa Daily Times will pe glad to receive suggestions from is readers for the improvement of this department, In today's isue"the programs will be found on page 13. CHAIRMAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESIGNS When the French Parliament Convenes for Autumn Session (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Paris, Nov. 3.--French Parlia- ment, which will determine the fate of the present Poincare National Union Government, convened today in regular Autumn session to take up the budget question as the chief problem. M. Franklin Bouillon start- ed the fireworks by resigning his chairmanship of the Foreign Af- fairs' Committee of the Chamber, following his break with the radi- eal party which quit Poincare's Na- tional Union. REMARKABLE SCENES AS GREAT RELIGIOUS DRIVE IS LAUNCHED Nov. 3--Remarkable scenes of religious fervour and de- votion were witnessed when crowds filled the City Hall here last might for the night of prayer with 71.year- old General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army, in launching 2 great nation-wide "salvation seige" for the conversion of Britain. People Sinks (Cable Service To The Times Ry Canadian Press) Sydney, N. 8, W,, Nov, 8 -- Peaceful decks of the plodding ferry boat were thrown into an uproar of horror and death to- day when the boat carrying 150 persons, many of them school children, was crushed beneath the bow of the British liner Tahiti, outward bound for San Francisco, There was a dreadful explos- fon and timber was hurled in every direction, while the ferry Ferry Boat Carrying 150 In 3 Minutes Death Toll May Reach 16 Crash in Sydney Harbor Followed By Terrific Explosion-- Passengers Thrown Struggling Into Water--Some Believed Trapped in Cabins of Ferry--Liner Was Leaving Sydney for San Francisco boa¢ settled rapidly and sank within three minutes, Ten bodies had been recovers ed this afternoon, fifty persons were treated for injuries while number of these rescued could not be defin't:ly determined since scores of small boats sped t « the scene and picied up sar. vivors, carrying them to scatters &d points along the harbor, The belief that some among the pas. sengers had been trapped in the cabins of ferry boat led to the fear that, at least 16 lives were lost in the tragedy, NEW $30,000 GYM AND AUDITORIUM TO BE READY IN A WEEK (By Staff Reporter) Whitby, Nov, 8.~Whithy High School's new $30,000 gym- nasiom and auditorium will be ready for use by the end of next week, according to Principal A, Archibald, A list of the pieces of equipment needed for the gym is now under preparation, No formal opening will be held at this time, The intention #5 to have the ceremony on the rme night as the Commence ment Exercises, early in Decem. Ler, An effort is to be made to kave Hon. Gi. Howard Ferguson present to open the new wing, and the date will be fixed to suit his convenience, REPORT ON FIRE NOT YET COMPLETE Deputy Fire "Marshal Says Developments May Be Expected Shortly Inquiry at the Ontario Fire Mar- shall's Department at Toronto today revealed the fact that the investiga- tion in to the fire which occurred last week at the Alger Press block on King street east, doing total dam- age estimated to be in the neighbor- hood of $100,000, is progressing favorably and developments may be expected shortly, Speaking to The Oshawa Daily Times, Geo. F, Lewis, deputy fire marshall, stated he had a telephone conversation from Major H. A. Nealon, the inspector who is inouiring into the local blaze, He had not yet had, Mr, Lewis claimed, a complete report from the deputy and therefore could not state any- thing definite about the matter. Queries around town today failed to locate Majur Nealon and it is stated unofficially that he is in To- ronto discussing the matter with de- partment heads, REACH SETTLEMENT . $25,000 LIBEL SUIT manager of the Toronto branch of the Royal Bank has been appointed Supervisor of Ontario branches as a result of the retirement of Norman Hillary, effective December 1. IMPORTANT USES ARE DESIGNATED FOR OLD G.M. OFFICE BUILDING TSouth Wing to Be Devoted to Industrial Relations Work to House Assembly ' Hall for Conventions, etc., and Class Rooms to Be Used Chiefly for Lectures MOTION PICTURE FACILITIES First Floor of Wing Occupied By Factory Manager's De- partment Will Be Remod- elled Into General Motors Truck Service Station--Re- search Department on Sec- ond Floor The office building of General Mo- tors of Canada, Limited at Richmond and Mary streets, which will be va- cated on completion of the new office building, is to be put'to several im- portant uses by the corporation, The south wing of that pari of the building which fronts on Mary street, at present occupied by the execut:ve, purchasing, and accounting depart- ments, is to he dedicated largely to the work 'of the Industrial Relations De- partment. The first floor will be re- modelled to serve as a large and fully equipped assembly hall replacing the wooden structure now in use, Upstairs it is still under consideration, th floor space will be put into use a: class rooms. Some to be used in cen nection with lectures given to plu superintendents and foremen, first ad (Continued on page 3) HORSE AND WAGON RUN INTO MOTOR CAR, GLASS BROKEN. For once, the lowly horse and wagon came into its own again, While H, Boyce, R. R. 6, Belleville, was driving his car at King and Church streets here, a bread wag- on ran into it and broke a window in the right side of the car. But unfortunately the driver of the bread wagon did not stop to turn bdek to ascertain the extent of the damage, so perforce the matter was reported to the local police officers for action. The accident occurred about one o'clock yesterday after- noon, DOGS ON RAMPAGE IN ROYAL CITY DESTROYING SHEEP (By Canadian Press) Ont, Nov. 3--Ravages upon their flocks by dogs sheep | $12668 |0CT. BUILDING IN CITY OVER HALF MILLION $520,973 Year's Record $4,614,678 CITY'S GREATEST YEAR Nearing $5,000,000--Novem- ber Shou'd See Plenty of Activity Here October added over a half a million dollars of new buliding to the ever- mounting total of Oshawa's greatest building year. The month's total was $520973 of permits ieaned This brings the year's total up to $4 5914678, leaving only $3843 2 aised to reach the I'hat the goal will be reached is freely redicted by citizens in close touch with building promotion activity, Compared with the buliding audit on October 31, 1926, Oshawa's ten month's | building record then stood at only | $934,020 for that year's first ten months. On October 31 last, the rec- | ord was practically five times as high. October 1926 was considered a won- | derful month with 65 permits totalling | $112300 in value registered, This past October, however, was also near- ly five times as great, | Analysis of the 184 permits issued in the past October shows 102 houses authorized at a total of $375600; 53 garages were built at a total of $7,- 463; fifteen general alteration permits were issued at total value of $10,210; three other structures valued at $9.500 were begun; and three business pre- mises were authorized on a valuation | of $2,900, Five electric signs worth $300 were erected; one factory valued at $35000 was authorized ; and two apartment houses valued at $80,000 were begun. Up to the end of October 1926 only 351 permits were issued as compared wh 1,029 issued to that date this | year, | Oshawa's building this year hegan with January's unimpressive total of February followed with a| jump to $1000; March's total was| $225,150; April icoorded $518,040; May | dropped back to $292515, June forged | ahead to $1,254,950, more in one mr wth | than any previous year's grand total July followed with $566,326; August | slowed up a little to $353,375; but Se ./ tember passed the three-quarter mot ion mark to set up a record of $775, 490; October's $520,973 carries the | year's expansion a long step forward | toward the: vear's goal of five million | dollars of 'mew building which even | the most pessimistic now concede will | he reached and passed. WOMAN DIES FROM POISON ADMINISTERED BY HER DAUGHTER (Cable Service to The Times By Canadian Press) Longbridge, Kent, Nov. 3--Two days after her daughter had been ac- cused of administering poison to her with the intention of ending her sufferings from an - incurable di- sease, Mrs. Margaret Watts died to- day. Her daughter, Mrs. Margaret | Delvigne, is awaiting trial. The case has an intense interest because of the recent acquittal of the father who killed his child to end its suf- ferings. FINED $100 ON James Guilty to Drinking in Public Place "Yes, I'm guifty all right, I was sit- ting there drinking when the police walked in," said James McQuarrie when asked to plead this morning in his trial before Magistrate J. E. Willis cn a charge of drinking liquor in a public place. He was fined $100 and costs of $7. : McQuarrie was found drinking liquor in the home of Philip Druz some days ago, and at the same time a charge of having liquor in an unlawful place was laid against Mrs. Druz. It was brought out however that McQuarrie bad taken the liquor to the place him- self, so the charge against Mrs. Druz Building Permits Last Month | vincial Prime Ministers to Capital -- Questions of Procedure First Business to Be Transacted AGENDA IS IN THREE SECTIONS Classification cf Discussions is Financial, Constitutional and Social -- Public and Press Excluded -- State- ment to Be Issued Daily (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Nov. 3--The Dominion Provincial Conference got down to business today without any prelim- inaries except a brief address of cual | a first item taken up was regulation | of aircraft and flying operations and to be | it decided to refer custom of juris- $5,000,000 mark. | diction over these, as between prov- | cumstance that this been lost since Tuesday, lay dead on LIQUOR CHARGE McQuarrie Pleads | shal Pilsudski. welcome by Premier King. The ince and Dominion, to the Supreme Court for decision. At the present i time the Dominion Government has | general control over flying. In a warm welcome iremier King declared it to be a fortunate eir- conference shonld he he'd when Cannda was celehratine the Jubilee of Confeder- ation. "This is conference, not cabinet nor convention', he said. "It is a bringing together of those charged with responsibility of car- rying on the affairs of Government with a view to discussing questions of procedure and agenda were the first business of the day. The agen- da is subject to a change it fs un- (Continued en page 8) BOY DROWNED IN CROSSING RIVER Body Found Near Home After a Two Days' Search (Cable Service to The Times By Canadian Press) Ivybridge, Eng., Nov. 3.--While two hundred horsemen were sour- ing wa desolate forbidding wastes of Dartmoor for him (.227 eight year-old Willie Thompson, who has the river bank near Red Lake close to his home. The body was found this afternoon after a two days' search. The boy is supposed to have been drowned attempting to cross the river in an effort to es- cape from the terrors of those great moorlands which, are among the most fearsome spots in Europe. DISSOLVES SENATE AMID UPROAR Opposition Denounces War-- saw Govt's Policies--Fiery Session (Cable Service to The Times By Canadian Press) Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 3--The Po- lish Diet and Senate today were dis- solved by Vice Premier Bartel amidst a great uproar, to prevent the opposition from airing its dis- satisfaction with the Government's policies. In a fiery three-minute session the opposition denounced the Government's policies and alleged dictatorial powers of Premier Mar. MRS, GRAYSON IS STILL DETERMINED TO CROSS ATLANTIC (By Associated Press) New York, Nov. 3.--Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, who is casting a- bout for a pilot to guide the am- phibian monoplane "Dawn" in its fourth start for Copenhagen, prom- ised today to reveal soon an interna tional "air scheme' which, she said, may take her to Europe by ship hoves to perfect. It is believed the scheme is for a continent flight sum- ilar to that carried out by command was withdrawn this morning. Since Druz has been convicted under the a "pubdc place, hence the charges. Liouor Control Act, his house is now | er De Pinedo, ltali-n avietor. She holds tenaciously to her de'ermin- ation to cross the Atlanti2s in tas Dav. n. REFER REGULATION OF AIRCRAFT AND FLYING TO THE SUPREME COURT Premier King Welcomes Pro. Limit Speeches In Commons to Forty Minutes (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Nov. 3.--The House of Commons will function un- der new Parliamentary rules at the coming session the changes representing a marked differ- ence from the old order of pro- ceedure. The limitation of speeches hy members to forty minutes is one of the leading features of the new rules, just officially: published. This does not include leaders of motions of extraordinary importance. No more all night sitting are to be allowed. TWO DAYS' BUILDING TGTAL 1S $27,473 November 'Starts Cut Well With Steady Activity Promised With only two days' building in Novemher recorded, ano her $27,475 has bec: added to 1927's relentless drive for a Dominion record and the putting of Oshawa this vear up amongst Canada's Big Four, namely, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Oshawa. George Clarke on Groome avenue has $7,000° brick bungalow underway, and Ward and Long Bottom have £10500 of new houses underway on Clarke Street and Eulalie Avenue. F H. Fife has a $3,000 house under con- struction on Mc cLaughlin Boulevard, and A. W. Blakeman is erecting a two story brick house on the same street to cost $3,000, McCall Brothers are erecting a $3. 700 house on Wilkinson Avenue, and the remainder of November's first two days' permits are for garages, addi- tions, and so on. G. McQuaig, for instance, has a $150 kitchen extension underway on Division stdeet : John Rutter is building a $100 garage on Eulalie avenue the Fox Hardware Company has a $200 sign under ercc- tion for their Simcoe North store: A R. Ferguson is building a $100 garage on Tylor Crescent; and Mrs. Mary Cowie is the owner of a $125 garage being erected on Alexandra street. NO NOMINATIONS FOR BOY MEMBER Oshawa Tuxis and Trail Ranger Groups Must Act Promptly Unless tne Tuxis and Trail Rang- er mentors and boys of Oshawa get their nominations in. before mid- night, Saturday, November 5, Osh- uwa's seat in the Boys' Parliament will be vacant at the next session, unless some special action is taken by the Boys' Government. So far, J. C Young, returning officer tor C.S.E.T. groups in Oshawa, has received no nominations. Mr. Young believes, however that in city so keenly interested ir C.S8.E.T. work as Oshawa is, there will be mo trouble about nomina tions even if they do come in at the last minute. The city has numbers of fine youths and young men who, it is stated, could represent Oshawa wit} credit not only in a Boys' Parlia- ment but in one restricted to those elected in Provincial ele tions. The work of the Boys' Parliament bas been of the widest possible ser- vice since its establishment, and a- mongst many other benefits it has conferred, it has stimulated an inter est in government throughout the youth of the province which, it is believed, will bear fruit, in every community within the next few years. GIVEN TEN DAYS FOR BEATING WIFE Convicted of beating his wife by Judge Denton in Toronto yesterday at the sittings of the County Judge's Criminal Court, John McClure of Osh-wa was sentenced to tem days in jail. In passing sentence His Honor stated that were he not of the op'nion that both were under the in°lnence of liquor when he as canlt ceecn=red. he would have or fred McClure to be lashed. HOLDUP MEN MAY LAUNCH DRIVE HERE King Street Merchant Here Receives Letter from Justice of the Peace MUCH THIEVERY Says "You 'May tiave Some Master Minds Located About Oshawa" fellows Don't have You may "Say, let me tell you something round about. | too munh money around. | he called to put between this time and New Year's. "You have some Iiaster Minus lo- cated about Oshawa, directors of this organization." The above is the gist of a foot note attached to a letter received by a prominent King street merch- ant from a friend and business ac- quaintance in Kingston. The writer is a justice of the peace in the lime- stone city and had occasion to write to the Oshawa merchant in connec- tion with some quotations. The fact that during the past few months there has been considerable thieving and house-breaking going on in Oshawa bears out that there may be some truth in what the let- ter conveys, The series of house (Continued on page 3) NO BREACHES OF M.V.A. INOCTOBER In Bowwmivile, 4 According to Police Records in That Town (By Staff Reporter) Jowmanville, Nov. 3.--With the mast glorious month of the year for notoring just ended, police here re- port that not one charge was laid against any motorist during the 31 days for any b.each of the Motor Vehicles Act, This is in direct con- trast with September, when some- times as many as eight and ten faced Magistrate W. PF. Ward, charged with a breach of the act ranging in seriousness from driving with insuf- ficient lights to reckless driving. Police point out that the safety cam- paign which is being conducted by the Department of Highways in newspapers and other advertising media, has helped to a large extent in making motorists more careful. The local department adds that there has been no let up in their vigilant watch for offending motor- ists, Ccming Events RATES 8 Cents per yord each inner. Minbhnanm charge for oud insertion, Shc, MADAME ROSE, PALMIST, 21 Maple St. Hours 2 to 9. (101f£) IUCHRE AT WESTMOUNT School, Friday evening. Special prizes each night. First of series of euchres to be held this season. (104-109-115) terers, Plumbers, etc., wanted to attend an open mass meeting for all Building Trades Workers in Welsh's. Hall over Welsh Cake Store, 20 King street west, Thurs- day. November 3rd, at 8 p.m, All building trades mechanics want- ed. Prominent renresentatives of all trades will address the meet- ing. (104a) MADAME NEVADA, PALMIST, AT 267 French St. Phone 710J. Hours 2 to 9. (1040) MADAME ZFEDDA, SCIENTIFIC pslmis¢ and phrenologist, now at 224 St. Jul'en St. (1040) NANCING AT THE OSHAWA WIN- ter Garden. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday each week. Private parties arranged. Phone 2375. (T.T.8.t1) RUMMAGE SALE AT MARKET Friday, Nov. 4. 2 o'clock. Mary St. Home and School Club. (1042) COME TO TH¥ CHOSEN "RIENDS box social in the K. of P. Hall, Wednecdayv LN has NHL |} nAdjes bring baskets. No 2d» rm. 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