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PAGE ikaN . L THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928 KAMLOOPS STORY 1S CONFIRMED BY NOTE IN BOTTLE Trapper Arrives in the Sault But Keeps the Message Secret Sault Ste, Marie, Ont,, Dec, 27,-- Louis Coutu, the Sault trapper and guide who during the week found a bottle on the shore of Lake Super- jor, just west of the mouth of the Agawa River, containing a note written by one of the crew of the ill-fated steamer Kamloops, ar- rived in the city on the A.C.R, train Sunday night, confirming the news which: had preceded him to the ei y. Refuses to Show Note Coutu, however, refused to part with the note or divulge its con- tents in full until twelve hours had passed, He told newspapermen who met him at the train that he had a duty fo perform before he could allow any one to see the note, However, he did say. that the foun- dering of the Kamloops took place almost exactly as related in the papers, and almost at the spot where she was seen by the steamer Quedoc on Dec, 6, 1927. The man who wrote the note, sealed it in a bottle and threw it overboard, said. that he was the last man alive and was slowly freezing to death, No intimation 18 given in the note, Coutu says, as io how long the vessel lasted after smashed up on the rocks. The is signed *Al," who is now there appears to be a code message following the name which he cannot decipher, and the date, Dec. 6, Is followed by a question mark, as if the man was in doubt as to the day of the month. The man was on the vessel when he wrote the note, Writing Easily Decipherable picked the bottle up on the beach about 150 miles from the spot where the Kamloops foun- dered. Tlie glass of the hottle was quite clear, and he noticed the nof® inside of it So tightly was the bottle corked that he was com- pelled to smash it fo get at the contents, He says what little writ- fng there is on the note is easily decipherable, except for what he believes to be a code message. it js believed here by those who con- yersed with Coutu tonight that he she note dead, Coutu say Contu TIME TABLES C.P.R, TIME TABLE, Mew Schedule taking efiect 1201 ».m. Junday, April 29, 1928, Going West 5.42 am Daily, 6.23 a.m. Daily 8.40 a.m. Daily except Sunday, 4.35 pn Daily ; 7.34 p.m. Daily except Susgsy, Going it 10.05 a.m. Daily. ; 2.04 p.m. Daily except Sunday. 803 pan Daily except Sunday. 1 p.m. 12.09 a.m. Daily Xt : All times shown above are times trains depart from Oshawa Station. Cn. TIME TABLE Effective dept. 30, 1928. Eastbo! und £23 a.m. Daily except Sunday. nday ouly. ly Daily except Sunday. . Daily except Sunday, Daily except Sunday. y except Saturday. except Sunday. 20 a.m. Daily a.m. Daily except Sunday. nw Daily except Sunday. 7 cept Sundty. 7.14 pm. St only. _ 8.45 p.m. Daily t Sunday. ---- Whitby, Oshawa, Bowmanville BUS LINE WEEK DAY SCHEDULE (Effective on and aites Nov. L] Going West : Arrive Arrive Leave Hospital Leave Bowmanville Oshawa 6.15 7.10 am 10.50 a.m. 10.3 0 12.45 pam. 35 a. 12.30 p.m. 4.35 pam. 6.45 pan. 10.55 pan. Leave Ar-=e Oshawa Bowmanville ital is 6.50 am. A24 am. 11.00 a.m, 1.00 p.m. 438 pm. 6.50 p.m. 11.00 p.m. Time marked Whitby Hospital. SUNDAY AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Going West Leave Arrive knows the man who signed the note, and that he wants to com- municate with the family before divulging the message. The Kamloops of the Canada Steamship Lines was lost Dec. 6, 1927, while carrying a cargo of barbed wire to Fort William, It was to be her last trip. She passed up Lake Superior, just astern of the steamer Quedoe, The two ships parted company near Isle Royale, proceeding slowly through thick frost fog. Captain R. Simpson of the Quedoc sighted what he be- lieved Isle Royale rocks, He blew a warning to the Kamloops, which was a quarter of a mile astern, but whether the signal was heard was never learned, No one ever saw the Kamloops after that, Two Theories Advanced Two theories of her fate were advanced, One was that the Kam- loops struck Isle Royale rocks and some of the crew made shore while she sank, leaving no trace. The other theory was that she escaped destruction, rounded Isle Royale and foundered in a storm that followed. Where the Kamloops sank has never been learned Bodies of her crew have been found on Isle Royale, presumably frozen. Four other ships were lost during the storm that claimed Kamloops. The steamer Agawa, with grain, went on Advance Reef, off Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Her crew was saved by the tug General of Detour and the Strathbogie of Midland, The Altadoc crashed on Kewee- naw and her crew, after much hardship, was saved by the crew of the Coast Guard station with the assistance of the Coast Guard cutter Crawford. The E. W. Ogle- bay went aground at Shot Point, above Marquette and the Lambton went on Isle Parisienne, All ex- cept two of the crew were saved Two sailors lost their lives when they jumped overboard to swim ashore in an effort to bring aid to their comrades, DO YOUR BEST, NEVER WORRY, IS ADVICE OF 108-YEAR-OLD Petite Riviere, N.S., Dee, 27.-- "Do vour best, and never worry, I have got along through 108 years using that as my motto, and, de- spite my advanced age, I'm not vorrying yet." This is the advice for well-being offered by William Samuel Holden, of Jordan River, Shelburne County, who on Wednes- day, December 26, will celebrate his 108th birthday. He has spent his life in building ships and keep- ing a general store. TORONTO TP, COUNCIL Cooksville, Dee. 27.--The mem- hers of the Toronto Township Coun- cil for 1928 were accorder re-elec- tion when the additional nominees withdrew from the election field. The members are as follows: Reeve J. J. Jamieson; First Deputy Reeve, J. H. Pinchin; Second Deputy Reeve, Thomas Bryans; Third De- puty Reeve, H. W. Hubbs; Coun- cillor, G. Bonham; Hydro Commis- sioner, J. W. Irwin, DISNEY-COTT - AMBULANCE 87 Celina St. Phone 1082 PHONE 22 For Your Drug Needs THOMPSON'S 10 Simcoe St. 8.--We Deliver ON SALE TOMORROW | MORNING | Sto 10 o'dock | i Customers are assured of Leave Bowmanville Oshawa Whithy Eb n 9.30 a.m. 12.00 p.m. 2.15 pm. 4.15 p.m. 6.15 p.m. 8.15 pm. 10.30 pam. 10.15 a.m. 12.45 pm. 245 pm. 4.45 pan m. 11.30 p.m. 1200 p.m ir " ave through busses to Whitby Hospital. : Special Busses For All Occasions Reasonable Rates and Careful Drivers I. A. GARTON. Proprietor Bowmanville--Pbone 412 or 346 Phone 2283 HOW WOMAN PONZI ACQUIRED FORTUNE French Financial "Witch" Obtained Millions from Small Investors Paris, Dec. 27,--Paris has had its first taste of the modern business woman gone wrong. Her name is Mme, Marthe Hanau, known to her followers as "La Grande Catherine of Finance" and she is the most daring speculator, male or female, that France has known since the time of Mme, Theresa Humbert, Mme. Hanau pyramided companies and turned the heads of many tens of thousand of French investors with promises of 40, 50 and even 80 per cent, profits, She was so convincing that even her agents, expert dn catch- ing the suckers just after they got their month's salary, put their own, their mother's, their servants' money into Mme. Hanau's wildcat com- panies. Behind Mme. Hanau, there was an- other woman, Mme, Pollack, former- ly Mme. Joseph, who inspired her, then disappeared from the scene be fore the crash came. This Mme. Jo- seph, who had been in New York and boasted she worked "a I'Americane," and Mme. Hanau were very intimate friends, inseparable friends, an as- pect of the affair which has added, in the Parisian mind, to the interest in the affair. How She Got Money They had a clever way of getting confidence, Every one in France was thinking about the stability of the franc. Every one was also thinking of national security, the work of the League of Nations and later on, of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of Paris. So they founded a finan- cial newspaper called "La Gazette du Franc et des Nations," and induced writers on peace and on finance to write articles at high prices, As general manager for the newspaper they hired Pierre Audibert, well known in financial circles as he was Chef de Cabinet of Senator Anatole de Monzie when he was Minister of Finance. They also induced the news editor of one of the most con- servative newspapers in Paris to re- sign and become their managing edi- tor. The names of these two men were sufficient to assure writers that the Gazette du Franc et des Nations was serious, Whether they knew it or not is not certain. They might easily have heen deceived along with almost all the other employees of the powerful Mme, Hanau, known to them all as Madame La Presidente." She did not stop with mere paci- fism, but also considered founding a company for the making of religious films, hoping to get the funds from country priests and religious pea- sants, The writers could in fact hardly have known the operations, as Mme, Hanau had them all in her head. If the police had not intervened it is possible Mme, Hanau would have put over an enormous fortune, Some of the biggest fortunes in existence have heen accumulated by no more scrupu- lous. means than those of Mme. Jo- seph and of Mme. Hanau. They organized nationally. In every provincial town they had branches and they had no trouble getting money, In a few months they collected from suckers on their various issues of stocks more than 125,000,000 francs, some $5,000,000. Lille furnished 380,000,000 francs alone, They took options on good business real estate, successful com- mercial houses, flourishing enter- prises of all kinds. The idea was to issue fresh stock as against the op- tions acquired and, buying control, to form, holding companies so powerful they could not he attacked. But there was that dangerous piece of road to get over between taking the options and the raising of the money to cover, There were hundreds of these options scattered throughout France and Mme. Hanau had just is- sued 20,000,000 francs worth of stock to take in the money with which to make the first purchase payments when the police, following a newspa- per campaign, came in on the Ga- zette du Franc and spoiled the game. Had to Take Up Options Her financial idea may prove to have been within the law, It does not sound very wild. She proposed to investors to buy the stocks of her various holding companies which were organized to buy up good con- cerns with long-term bonds; the owners of the stocks to get the big dividends the profits of the companies were to provide, The trouble was that the game went so fast the money rolled in with astonishing speed, she had bigger and bigger ideas every day, meanwhile putting aside invest- ors' money, paying them dividends they might have had if she had ever had the time to issue the long-term honds and get control of the com- panies. GEORGE KIRWIN DIES NIAGARA HIGHWAY Grimshy, Dec. 27--George Kirwin of Birch Cliff was fatally injured Sunday afternoon on the Niagara Highway, a quarter of a mile east of the Saltflect Monument, when his car turned over twice and landed up- side down on top of him. Three wo- men passengers, all from Hamilton, escaped with bruises and a severe shaking up. The Kirwin car was going west and cut in in front of a Hamilton- St. Catharines bus. 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