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ATTAWATOOPEN NEGUTI" "ONS WITH QUEBEL, SAYS KING Province's Stand on St. Law- rence Plan Will Be Seo a. -- b 33. --Although A 3 velopment abou C] w= rence ject is likely to be cauti- ous, King said that the next step would be to open up nego- tiations with rio and Quebes the subject. was asked as what progress could be made tl wer issue is decided and at while this is para- t, there are "other aspects Ww properly may. be discussed in time." Presumably these to the , engineering questions and also to the broad principle of the scheme itself, Hon, C. A. Dunning also said the provinces would be consulted, but no details had been arranged, It was possible, he said, that there would be a conference between the federal and the provincial shetn- eers with a view to an aceord be- fore the matter was again taken up internationally, a matter of fact, however, the railway minister believed although there had not been any formal consultation of the provincial engineers so far, there had heen very elose co-opera- tion between them and the federal engineers, so that the two parties might be regarded as being in prac. tical accord at the present time up- on the two-stage scheme which the Canadian section of the joint beard had favored, Mr. Dunning intimated that the Canadian objections to the Ameri- can scheme, which would provide for a large section of Ontarlp terri- tory being below the level of the water, were very tangible and he was of the view that the American engineers would be able to see their force, No Undue Haste So far as official Ottawa is con- cerned, there is no undue haste in evidence to prosecute the develop- ment, No steps have heen taken to- wards further conference upon the engineering differences which exist between the two countries and fur- ther action is apparently waiting upon the result of the reference which the Supreme Court will con- the Federal-Provincial jurisdiction in the matter. There is still eral discussion of the correspon- dence which was made public. In- trest centres, to a large extent, up- on the ground which Federal Gov- ernment has taken to strengthen its hand in the negotiations which are under way. The desire of the Federal Government, ---- min- isters state, was to at fold submission in the note Ww. was drafted, namely, that the sea- way was of less importance to Canada than to the United States because of the lower freight rates which Canada enjoys, secondly that it was of hoy vital importance be- ca of the alternative routes of shipment that Canada will have with the completion of the Hud- son Bay railroad and finally, that the way to secure friendly co-op- eration from the Canadian people in the scheme was not by iting tariff barriers to a height whic shut Canadian producers from the American market. The intention was to emphasize the connect which United States tariff policy would have upon the spirit of Can- adian co-operation. STORE BREAKER STEALS COMPACTS Hamilton, April 18.--OCharles Canute, who appeared In police court here yesterday on a charge of entering a drug store and taking compacts, furnished Orown At- torney Ballard with a surprise when he informed the Crown that he distributed the compacts among his boy friends, adding that "most young men consider a compact a necessity in these times." Despite a plea for leniency on the ground that Canute was intoxi- cated when he broke into the drug store, accused was sentenced to three months in the Ontar'a Re- formatory. FOR SALE--6 ROOMED FRAME house, garage, all epnyeniences. Twenty-five month carries, Bar- gain, Owner leaving city, 74 Fisher street. Phone 1005F, : (98-b) SOME NEW PORTFOLIOS OREATED IN MANITOBA Winnipeg, April 18.--Premier John Bracken was formally sworn In as Minister of Mines and Natural Resources at the Legislative Bulld- ing here today. Hon. W. R. Clubb, Minister of Public Works, was sworn in as Minister. of Tele- phones, the portfolio formerly held by Premier Bracken, The reshuf- fling of the Cahinet was necessitat- ed by the creation of the Depart- ment of Mines and Natural Re- sider at its May sitting relative to The First Annual Concert of the O.C.I. Music Club will be held in THE COLLEGIATE AUDITORIUM Tuesday, April 24th Assisting Artist LAWRENCE J. LUGSDIN Tickets may be obtained from Collegiate pupils or at the door ADMISSION 25 CENTS sources, BR A A EY 'The Carew Lumber Co., Limited. 74 Athol Street West LUMBER MERCHANTS Estimates gladly given ts promptly filled Phones 12 and 1111 OER EARS ERE eeds -Seeds AIA Clover, Alsike, Alfalfa Timothy Seed GOVERNMENT oe NO. 1 Sugar Beets, Mangels Turnip 'Seed y » Germination Tested. COBBLER SEED ot toes From Prince Edward Island THT FETT [HII Tm A THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, AFRIL 20, 1928 SAYS CANADA OPEN TO BRITISH BOYS YALL POWDER er TAINS | SE RIELED HOUSEWIVES VoL rine |e BAKING POWDER to assure SUCCESSFUL BAKING Mad Vo A EW GILLETT CD: LY TORONT( aN A A MANY MASCOTS ON DIRIGIBLE ITALIA Airship Carries Cross Given by Pope to Drop on Pole Stolp, Germany, Apr. 19.--When the dirvigible Italia, with Gen. Um- berto Nobile, flies over the Arctic wastes on her comnig flight to the North Pole her cabin will contain 8 large wooden cross, a framed Madonna, a vase filled with artl- ficial roses and numerous mascots presented to the Italian crew, * Conducting the correspondent for the Associated Press through the interior of the Italia, which is heing overhauled here for her nex hop for King's Bay, Spitzbergen Gen Nobile pointed out the various objects which are being carried, She cahin contains a framed Ma- donna which accompanied Gen, No- bile on his first trip over the Pole in the dirigible Norge. Under the Madonna is a vase filled with ar- tificial roses. "My wite put them there to con- jure up a vision of flowery Italy even as we hover over the desert ofeice,'"»4he @eneral obsepyed.s* A six*foot cppss present by Pope Pius, which will be dropped over the' Pole was stowed with partigu- lar care in a space ahove the cab in. 'It contains an aperture op the top into which the Popa has placed a handwritten parchment,' Nobile told the correspondent, + In the cabin also ore pictures of Nobile's wife and daughter, signed photographs of King Victor Em- manuel, Queen Helena and Premier Mussolini and numerous mascots, such as lucky pigs and teddy bears, While going through the Italia Gen. Nobile asserted proudly that its collection of scientific ipstru- ments and charts was the most complete ever assembled for a po- lar expedition. Strongly contrasts ing with the profusion of instru- ments was the spartan simplicity of the accommodation for the per- sonal comfort of those aboard the ship. There was no seats and chairs, for instance. *It is better to have the equivalent of their weight in additional fuel than to be caught short of juice," Comman- der Zappi explained, So full of confidence is Gen. No~ bile in the ability of the Italia to withstand her coming Arctic flight, that he announced no further trial flights were planned before the start for King's Bay, which will gerve as the northern base. "The Italia showed her metal 80 well, there is' po need fin testing her put once more," the General said, *'I will wait for word of the Citta df Milano's arrival at King's Bay and, in the meantime, quietly complete our' scientific prepara- tions." PUPILS OF MARKDALE SCHOOL WINS DR. JAMIESON MEDAL Markdale April 19.--Miss Ruth Armstrong of Markdale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Armstrong, and former pupil of Principal W. J. Messenger of the public school, has been awarded the Jamieson Medal for 1927. This medal is awarded by Hou. Dr. Jamieson to the candidate having the highest number of marks at the high school entrance examinations in the constituency of South Grey. Ruth was 12 years old last June, and was successful over some 3560 candidates, gaining an average mark of 93 per cent. Pupils of the same school won the medal in 1924 and 1926. DISCOVERER HONOBED London, April 19.--Ethelburgas Church, Bishopsgate, where Henry son, the explorer, took Holy munion with his ship's com- pany on the .eve of his first woy- age, was the scene of an interest- ing ceremony today, when a mem- orial window consisting of a life- size study of the navigator and de- picting incidents of his life was dedicated. London, April 19.-- In an ad- dress in Glasgow Sir Robert Horne said it could be assumed that there would be no outlet in the Domin- fons for a larger portion of those at present unemployed in Britain, but the Dominion would gladly take large numbers of boys under 17 years of age. He continued. "The societies which helped the work of emigration were grievious- ly ham for funds. By the Em- Pe Settlement Aet of 1922 which , a8 Chancellor of the Exechequer, was the means of passing, the Ex- ayo is under obligation to pro vide $15,000,000 yearly to ald suit- able schemes of emigration but this vision is clogged with condi- long, that the Treasury will only give half the money required by any particular plan and somebody 2 must furnish the other haif. The result is that only a compara. tively amall portion of the Exche- quer's money has ever been claim- ed, I am strongly of the opinion that the time has now arrived te dispense with all such restrictive conditions and to make Treasury grants possible up to 100 per cent fally: "The need of a larger trans- ference of population from Great Britain to the Dominions is so ur- gent in the interests of both that tention can usefully be drawn to the suggestion by Sir Robert Horne --boys under 17- would beyond question make excellent settlers and as they are welcome all who are willing should be helped to go. But in their case the work of or- ganizations is indispensable and ua- less the State finances them more fully these bodies can never act on the scale the situation demands. PAGE ELEVIM Do You Own The building up in human material of our overseas inlons was really one of the duties de- volving on the Bri people af. ter the War, also it 1s one whose discharge is far from burdening Britain, but actually relieves her own need, for she has a varying margin of over a million workers for which during the past eight years she has failed to find work. These circumstances and the fact that the scale of our migration to the Dominions should havd been so enormously less since the War than before is a standing reproach to our statesmanship. There are many reasons and not all can be dealt with but at least what can be done ought to be and the British Government and Treasury should be whole-hearted in the cause." ee ee FAMILIAR DISPLAY SIGN TOPPLED OVER BY WIND Birch Cliff, April 19,--This morning's high wind did consider- able minor damage to property in ETE EET PENPTTTTTTeew | 2 8888800800000 000080088 88 Elgin Street Attractive home with 8 good rooms, all nicely dee- orated, electric fixtures in- cluded, garage. TETTTTTTTETTT W. J. SULLEY Real Estate ev CARTER'S Real Estate ] St E - he pine 1280 gain for family residence or rooming house, $7,200. Cutler & Preston 64 King St, West Telephones 573, 228 Night calls 510, 1500, 2468F House For Sale 6 rooms, Sonventences, Jat age. Immediate possession. Close - $2,200 with $350 cash, Terms easy. Apply-- HORION & FRENCH Scarboro'. The large display sign |down, causing a temporary cessa- REAL ESTATE Homes built to suit purchsers. Real Estate in order to carry out a program of | which has been a to the welfare of Britain and the development of the Dominions." Comments T"® night was hot, unbearably sticky, emerva- ting. Even the tropical shower, that rattled like the tattoo of a corps of snaredrums on the galvanized iron roof of the bungalow, seemed to have brought with it nothing of refreshment. Peter's eyes fixed now on a sharp-faced, bearded man of middle age who sat on a camp stool befor: the open door of the safe, and at whose side, on a small table, lay numerous little heaps of pearls-- obviously in the process of being sorted. The sharp-faced man rose suddenly from his stool, stepped across to the writing desk, poured put a drink for himself, stared for a moment ar Peter, and returned to his seat. "Well, I must say, you're the most amazing port of chap that it's ever been my Juck to run pcross!'" he exclaimed. "Here you insist on leaving On account of that bit of a row this afternoon, and yet you do not seem to bear me the slightest ani- mosity." Peter's lips expanded in a broad grin. "Not in the slightest, Mr. Murchison," he said genially. "As a matter of fact, bear you no end of good-will. But you know as well as I do, since the row occurred in the presence of some of the na- tives, that it will be all over the island in less than po time, and my authority will have received a gentle little knock on the head that I'm afraid it won't survive, I's to your interest if I'm on the wing again." "I'll risk that," said Murchison curtly. "I've told you that's an entirely exaggerated view of it, You'd better think it over." Peter shook his head. "No earthly use," he sald, with his engaging grin again. "I warned you when you picked me up in Vavau that there was nothing permanent about me. I should have been off again in another month or so anyway. The last thing I'd want to do would be to make it awkward for you; but you won't have apy trouble in getting some one to carry on with the bit of job I've been holding down--and I certainly won't go until you do." Mr. Murchison was obviously of an iraseible disposition--he thumped the table suddenly with his fist, and the little heaps of pearls ran in riot Ppe into another, "Damn it," he claimed, "you 'don't seem to get me right! There'll be no trouble, not the slightest, in filling your place. I'm apparently fool enough to be thinking about you. When I picked you up familiar land-| tion of power and light supply in mark at Kingston Road and Dan-| Birch Cliff. Overhead cable work- forth Highway was completely de-|ers on telephone and Hydro lines molished, and in its fall the local | worked under considerable difficul- per The Dally Chronicle says editor-| Hydro lines were also brought ty, R. M, KELLY 010 Simcoe §t. N, DISNEY Phone 1668W in Vavau you were stranded. According to your own story it wasn't the first time. You've been, to put it mildly, aimless since the war, and that's over two years ago now. I don't know what you did in the war--" "Ob, frightfull restricted activities, sir," said Peter pleasantly, and once more his grin broad- ened. "Youth has it drawbacks. I didn't get into the blooming show until it was almost over." A smile relaxed the elder man's features, "Damnation, Peter," he exploded. "I like you-- that's the whole trouble. And you're just a care- free, irresponsible idiot. You're a bird of passage. You can carry that a bit too far, though! I've lived in the islands here for thirty years. I've seén them get many a man when he lets himself drift. Even birds of passage have to end up somewhere, you know. I'll tell you where it is. You'll find their carcasses strewn on a hundred beaches--human birds dead from mental inanition and gin-rotted livers. I don't want to see you go that way." "That's very decent of you, sir," said Peter gravely--and helped himself, in turn, to a drink from the bottle on the desk. "I appreciate all you say--but I'm afraid it's no use. I fancy it's in my blood---not an irresponsible contentment in drift. ing the easiest way; but what, I suppose, 8 more a restless spirit of adventure, if you know what I mean. I haven't a relation in the world, not a soul who could in any way be affected by apything I did or did not do, and"--he leaned back suddenly in his chair and laughed infectiously--*I've tre- mendous faith in my destiny?'t Out of the of the night My ald lared Mandciog betw fhe slats of by buidde "Don't look!" whispered Blake, "some Is watchs ing you Bort the pearls." "My word!" ejaculated Murchison a little helps lessly. "And may I ask where, specifically, as the next stopping point, you expect this destiny of yours to lead you, when you leave this island?" "I haven't the faintest idea, sir," replied Peter naively. "That's the charm of it." "H'm!" grunted Murchison, "What you need, young man, is 8 jolt hard enough and nasty enough to wake you up body and soul, and | hope to God you get it before it's too late! If you think you can play with life, you're calamitously mistaken, Why the devil can't you ever take things seriously?" Peter did not answer for a minute. He had lifted his glass to his lips, and, over the rim, his eyes had rested on the slatted window-blind just oppo- site where he sat. The thing seemed to move very stealthily, very slowly. Peter sipped at the con- tents of his glass, The interstices between the slats were plainly in evidence now---and now a pair of eyes stared into the room "I do sometimes, sir," said Peter quietly, as he set down his glass. "Don't show any particular in- terest in what I am saying, or look in that direcs tion, but there's some one outside the window with his face glued to the slats." + » » There began the first of the peculiarly terrifying experiences that tested the soul of Peter Blake--gentleman adventurer, Here is a story of Mystery . . of Love . . of a deadly man bunt , . . deep villainy . . , carried along on the crest of high adventure to a smashing climax that will delight the heart of every lover of thrilling fiction. CONTINUE THIS NERVE-TINGLING TALE OF ADVENTURE AND FASCINATING INTRIGUE TOMORROW IN THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES and Insurance