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1HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 Financial Guarantee Draft ith Plans For World Disarmament Geneva, Mar. 12---The draft con- vention viding financial guar antee for Py passed 'on by the Council of the League of Nations to the next assembly is linked with disarmament, It aims to guarantee the States the pos- sibility of securing rapid and ef fective financial assistance not only in «tase of war but in the event of threat of war, The i accompanying the draft convention from the commit- tee emphasized the possibility of setting in motion machinery for financial ist would id efably increase the choice 'of meas- ures open to the Council in case of an international ecrigls 'A country meditating attack wouw.d more than ever hesitate if there were a risk that the other state might receive financial assistance from members of the League," said A. De Aguero ' Bethancourt of Cuba, submitting the original re- port on the convention, » SERIOUS LESSON 18 TAUGHT EUROPE Utrecht Fake Discloses Smouldering Fires of Na- . tional Animosities Paris, March 12--Europe learned in the course of the last two weeks a lesson far from pleasant, The gov- ernment and the public. discovered that in spite of the numerous Geneva conferences in spite of Locarno trea- ties and the Kellogg pact, peace on the old continent is still a thing so frail that a vulgar joke played by an dventurer can bring about a serious diplomatic crisis and embitter the re- neighboring lations between two countries,. : Publication by the Dutch provin- cial paper--Utrechtsch Bagblad--of the presumed Franco-Belgian military treaty which was soon proved to be a childish fake, aroused here the old enmities and deeply rooted distrust, It showed the existence of twe camps; on the one side France and Belgium, on the other side Germany and Holland, The faked Utrecht document will long remain one of the most sensational farces in European history. Tt was sold to the Utrecht editor as original, was published on a blank of the Belgian War Ministry with the French and Belgian scals, and the signatures of members of the French and Belgian general ssaff. Accord- ing to it, France and Belgium, with Britain's assent, decided in the case of war with Germany. to cross Dutch territory and invade Germany from the northwest, The publication im- mediately caused in Germany and Holland a tremendous uproar. 'The Dutch and German diplomatic repre- sentatives in Paris and Brussels paid visits to foreign ministries demand- ing explanations, The presumed trea 1ytbasame the subject of debates in the German Reichstag and the Bel- gian and British and Belgian gov- ernments immediately published de- nials, saying that a military treaty was never concluded but only a de- fensive agreement between France and Belgium which was registered with the League of Nations, Dr, Stresemann made a speech ap- .peasing German public opinion, At the moment when general excitement reached a culminating poing, the Bel- gian police caused a still greater sen- sation by arresting the author of the faked document, disclosing how the fake was made. Albert Frank Heine, who confessed proudly of having sold the document to the Utrecht paper and fooled European governments and parliaments, is a most extraordinary figure, an international, modern ad- venteurer. Of Dutch and German origin, he chose Belgian nationality, but enlisted in the German navy and then deserted and lived in England where he was .arrested during the war, He tried to play the role of a Belgian patriot, but at the same time he worked for German propaganda, After the war he lived in Bruges and Louvain, and was the correspondent of a Communist paper, Humanite, but also tried to acquire the leadership of the French, Monarchist leader, Leon Raudet, When arrested he told them that the counterfeited French state seal on the document was made with a twenty-five centime coin and signed the treaty with the names of two well known generals, but in his own handwriting, Old Hatred Revived The disclosure of the author of the document, which is now called here ironically "the Utrecht Treaty," suf- ficed to soothe down the feelings of discomfort aroused in Germany and France. But the bitterness between Belgium and Holland only increased instead of being appeased, The cld hatred between these two small neighbor countries, that dates back to 1830 when Belgium acquired indepen- dence from Holland, was stirred up again, The Belgian press openely ac- cused the Dutch government, especi- ally the Yonkheer Bellaerts Van Blookland, Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, of having seen the Utrecht doc- ument before its publication and not having forbidden its issue, Old of- fenses done to Belgium by Holland were remembered, The Brussels papers in their turn published secret documents, carefully proving their authenticity, which resort 4 Polo Fields A RESORT HOTEL witha COUNTRY CLUB ATMOSPHERE AUTILUS MIAMI BEACH." FLORIDA One of America's finest and most modern fireproof An Unequalled Winter Playground $0 Acres of grounds in the center of all sport activities, Every known out-of-door sport and hesith-giving re. creation under ideal climatic comditions, Bathing--Tochting----Motor Booting athing-- 0 Fishing ge Sg Rg sixteen non-housekeeping villas, hotels, Buperd Tennis Courts by 0) showed that the Dutch government allowed 'during the great war the transport of German war material through their territory, This dis- closure aroused again indignation against Holland in France, the French press demanding openly for the resignation of the Dutch Foreign Minister, Although it may be ex- pected that now the diplomatic inci- dent caused by the Utrecht fake is finally closed, at least there are deep scars on both sides of the Rhine, Briand and Stresemann, the two peacemakers of Europe, will long re- member Frank Heine, the adventurer who very nearly upset their skilful work, Peanuts Are Taboo In Famous Park In British Columbia Vancouver,Mar, 12.-"Yes, we have no peanuts" will be the song at all the stores and booths adjacent to Van- couver's famous Stanley Park this spring when the crowds go forth to feed the monkeys and other animals quartered there, "Peafiuts make an awful mess in the park," said Park Commissioner C, E, Tisdall at a racent meeting of the board, "I move that we do some- thing to prevent their sale in the park." Commissioner E, G," Baynes seconded the motion, After some discussion it was de- cided that it wouldn't be quite so bad if the crowds were able to buy pea- nuts of the shelled variety; so when the resolution was finally adopted it provided only for a ban on the pea- nuts in their natural state. And so the concessionaires and store owners are cancelling their or- ders for the raw material and specify- ing shelled peanuts, In that way they will contribute to the joy of the crowd and the monkeys and, at the same time, do their bit towards civic cleanliness. Park Superintendent W, S. Rawl- ings, however, is skeptical about the whole procedure, "That won't stop folks from carrying peanuts into the park from outside and there'll be the same mess to clean up"; besides the children won't get the same kick out f feeding the animals on shelled pea- » ts, But the edict stands, Former Lieutenant. Governor Of Quebec Seriously Ill Montreal, Que.,, Mar. 12--Hon. Marcisse Perodeau, former Lieut- enant Governor of the Province of Quebec, is suffering from double pneumonia, it was stated in a mes- sage received here yesterday from Calcutta, India, where Hon, Mr, Perodeau is seriously ill. First in- timation of former Lieutenant Gov- eraor's illness was received in » message to members of hig family here Sunday night, His condition was then reported the mature of his ailment was not given, In yesterday's cablegrom it was stated his condition was un- changed, Hon. Mr. Perodeau's two sons have been notified of their father's illness. One son, Jean, is in New York, and the other, Arthur, is in Paris. According to the cable Ar- thur planned to fly to his father's bedside in an aerplane leaying Par- is some time to-day for Calcutta, AA ' setting | y O for the home beautiful I i { to be grave but. SCIENCE FINDS HUGE ERRORS IN STAR DISTANCES Voluminous Published Data Invalidated by Wrong Figures, Says Moreux VARIATION 30 P.C. "Everything is Put in Ques- tion," ls Astronomer's Comment Paris, Mar, 12,--The Abbe Th, Moreux, noted French savant and Director of the Qbservatory of Bourges, recently contributed to "Le Petit Journal" an article il- luminating the vexed problem of measuring distance of the stars from the earth, In it he says: "The layman is always astounds ed to learn that astronomers can measure the distance which separ- ates us from the celestial bodies and generally smiles incredulously at the figures which we find glory in presenting to him, Nevertheless, certain methods of celestial mea- surement are. no less valid: than those employed to measure terres- trial distances. "Taking as a base the earth's ras dius it is possible to figure out the distances from us of the sun, the moon and the planets, But when we pass to the stars it is another story, There i8 no star at a less distance than 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, which is 149,400,000 kilometers The nearest, 2 very small star in the centaur constellation, visible in the southern hemisphere, Proxina Centauri, is more than thirty-four trillions of kilometers away, A Long Trip It is better to say that light, which travels 300,000 kilometers a second would take no less than 3 years and eight months to reach us from our nearest neighbor lost in the side-real immensities, "In this case the trigonomerical base used is not the earth's radius or diameter, but the radius or dia- meter of the earth's orbit, Thanks to this it is possible to measure the distances of about 1,400 stars, of which the most remote are 325 light years away, "That is where we were ~ 15 years ago when an American astro- nomer had the idea of applying photometry to stellar distances, That process had its difficultics, but we have now reached some inter esting conclusions, "On the other hand, we have succeeded - in establishing a reas tion between the brilliancy of a variable star, its period of varia- tion and what is called its absolute size, The results obtained have upset all our old ideas about the extent of the sidereal universe, "The sclar system is thrust into the midst of a gigantic stellar mass, the greatest that we know about, It is the Milky Way, of which wg are an integral part and whose diameter, about 1915, was put at 15,000 light years, at the extreme maximum, Dimensions Again Magnified "Application of new methods to the small stellar masses which bor- der on the Milky Way has led an American astronomer, Shapley, to amplify that it would take 300,000 light years to travel from one end to the other. Most of the nebulae, which number millions, would be at fantastic distances---800,000 light years for the beautiful nebu- la of Andromeda, the nearest to us. It would be millions of light years to many others, "All these figures have been published with juvenile enthusiasm but do you know what is the last 'find' on the subject? "It has just been perceived that all these new photometric methods are involved in colossal error, Er- rors of 30 per cent. have been an- nounced according to recent obser- vations this per centage must be in- creased. The variable stars .in the far-off masses and the nebulae do not obey the law of Miss Leavitt, on which the computations had been made, so that the hope of sounding the depths of the universe by an in- fallible measure has vanished in smoke, Everything has been put in question. Perhaps the next century will solve the engima}" R.C. CHURCH WAS VALUED AT $75,000, BURNED TO GROUND Souris, P.E,I,, Mar. 12, -- St. Mary's Catholic Church here whieh was destroyed by fire Sunday night, was built in 1903 and valued at $75,000, Partly covered by finsur- ance, The building seated 900 peo- ple. It was presumed the fire orig- inated from the furance. The town fire brigade was able to save the parochial home, sixty feet from the church, REFUSE TOWNSHIP LOWER SCHOOL FEES - (Continued from Page 3) to have children's future blighted by being unable to get an educa- tion, he declared. He had no fault to find with the Oshawa Board of Education, which, he sald, was not to be blamed for asking the outside municipalities to pay the full cost of the mainten- ance of their pupils, but because of the battle betwen "North and South" in the county council, it had refused to shoulder the full cost of maintenance, Chairman of the Board A, W. Bell stated it would not be fair to lower the rate for any particular district in the County, and that he did not see that the Board could take any action. ¥ One Cent Each Trustee E, L, Vickery repeated that the full blame was to be laid on the county council. Before the charge of $15 per pupil per year was assesssed on county pupils last year, he said the city was shoulder- ing the full cost of city pupils and a difference of more than $15 in the cost of county pupils, In re- gard to the township's complaint, he said that one cent per capita on the township would pay for the ad- ditional fees on township pupils, Trustee Annis stated that before the new system was put into ef- fect, the average cost of each pup- il per year was $84, whereas the county was paying only $62 per pupil per year, a difference of $22 per year, Oshawa had to shoulder the extra $22 per county pupil, making the actual cost for Oshawa pupils $88 per year each, Have Township Pay Fee He continued that city could not force the county to pay more than 80 per cent, of the cos®, but it could refuse to educate county pupils, unless the pupils themselves Board could not demand this cil, but he thought that the proper action would be for the township council to take over the payment of the fee for the township pupils, Mr, Annis continued that, in his opinion, the provincial Education Act was wrong in this respect, and that the Minister of Education would be well advised to have the Act amended so that the county would be forced to pay 100 per cent of the maintenance cost of pupils attersling a rural school, Non-Resident Taxpayers In connection with this matter, the Board received from City Treasurer P, A, Blackburn a re- port which it had requested on one phase of the situation, Treasurer Blackburn stated that pupils whose parents resided outside the city but paid taxes on property whose assessment was as high as the av- erage assessment of public school ratepayers in the city, were entit- led to have their children attend the Collegiate without paying the extra fee, In making the computa- tion of the "average assessment," however, the extra assessments paid by some taxpayers on pave- ments and other improvements should be taken into consideration. In any case, where a man paid taxes on less than the average as- sessment, and the fee of $15 per pupil per year over and above the county's share of the maintenance cost was charged, whatever the man paid in school taxes should be deducted from this fee, and the balance appropriated as a monthly ee, TWO INJURED 4 Woodstock, Mar, 12,--A serious accident occurred yesterday about a mile north of Norwich, when a new car, purchased Saturday, fail- ed to respond on a turn and left the road, crashing into a Hydro pole, Miles Hartley, driver of the car, was bruised and cut about the face, while his son, Wray Hartley, a student at the Ontario Agricul- tural College, whom his father was taking to his train after a week- end spent at home, required sev- eral stitches to a cut in his chin while sustaining other minor in- juries, eT I quart size, Wednesday | 10 Only Heavy Enamelled Tea Kettles New royal blue outside with white lining, 7 Regular $3.50 value. Clearing the Counters of all Balances left ov- er from the March 3 | Big Days Sale of Price will move most things if it's low enough. And it sure is low enough to | accomplish a quick clearaway of all balances of Sale Lines tomorrow: | | ONE DAY ONLY--WEDNESDAY--ALL DAY - eS °ASR AA A On sale CITT $1.14 grey tweeds, | Boys' Tweed Bloomers | Strongly made School Bloomers in heavy Patent Governor fastener || at knee. Belt loops, brace buttons and 3 pockets. Sizes 6 to 14 yrs, $1 06 last sale, Wednesday, pair .......... LIAS ° Each Pure Linen Glass Cloths Check and plain. Only a limited quantity left from the Wednesday, Size 16 x 28 inches. 12Y/2¢ | cleared on Wednesday, Arrived too late for our 3 Big Day Sale. i Regular $1.29. On Sale for ......... ERR | | EXTRA~60 ONLY 3 PIECE KITCHEN SETS i 1 ROLLER TOWEL, 1 GLASS CLOTH, 1 TEA TOWEL--ALL PURE LINEN 69c Set Must be Each set packed in a box. I Men's Merino Work Sox Good weight for early Spring wear, Dark i heather and fawn with ribbed tops. ders. Just the same quality and size as b White heels and toes. Regular 16 is usually sold in sets. Special pur~ 5 25¢ value. Wednesday, pair .... Cc chase lot, On Sale Wednesday ........ Cc Linn B eakfast or ca Napkins 5c ach Cream Oyster Linen with colored bor- pay the extra fee of $15, The '} amount from the township coun- '}| | Strong Cotton Roller Towelling White with narrow red horder. A real value at the money. | 5 vards for ...niriremn " No less than 5 yards sold 49c 48 inches, All Linen Breakfast Cloths | With attractive Good, even, fine weight of an ex- cellent weight, Size 48 x Wednesday. 89c¢ colored borders, i THREE ARE HURT IN STABBING AFFRAY Man in Daze Runs Amuck With Knife--Two Seri- ously Injured New York, N.Y. March 12--Two women were critically wounded and a man less seriously stabbed by a man, according to the po- lice version, believed to have been mentally affected by the recent death of his wife, Three days ago Rosina Facciola of the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn was buried and since then her wid- ower, John Facciola, lived as one in a daze, And in that daze an old property quarrel with Frank Tardi, the hus- band of Rosina's sister, took in dis- torted proportions, police were told by Facciola's son, Leo, Yesterday morning Facciola and the son went to the Tardi home and argument waxed hot, Suddenly Fac- ciola, police were told, drew a long knife and laid about him without re- gard to who he struck, His wife's sister, Mrs, Elvira Tardi, fell first, and then the aged mother of Rosina and Elyira. Tardi, too, was slashed and then Facciola ran out of the house. The three wounded were taken to a hospital where the women were ex- pected to die, Police began a search for Facciola and took his son into custody for questioning, Yesterday's, slashings were similar | in nature, though more serious, to another attack in Brooklyn Thurs» day. In the earlier case Frank De Bona was walking with his wife and two children when he suddenly pull- ed out a small pen knife and stabbed them all, none being seriously wounded, LITTLE "BIRDIES" MAKE GOLFING A TRYING SITUATION Tokyo, Japan, Mar, 12.-Golf players at the country club links in Hodogaya are for the first time in the history of the club, hdving all the "birdies" they want. These birdies, however, are not the kind that bring joy to the golfers heart, but flocks of small winged creatures which fly over the links by the thousands and make goli play- ing almost impossible, Recently it was found that the grass on the links was teeming with small insects which were destroying the turf. At first a small flock of the little birds appeared, but soon thousands of them alighted in the field, feasting themselves on the in- sects, Now golfing is next to impos- sible. As the hunting of the birds on the links is prohibited by police regulations, the members of the club are helpless in trying to get rid of them. In desperation they have sent a petition to the Kanagawa prefec- ture asking for the privilege of fir» ing blank ammunition at the birds in order to frighten them away, No More Piles Pile sufferers can only get quick, safe and lasting relief by removing the cause--bad blood circulation in the lower howel. salves can't do this--an internal re- medy must be used, Dr, Leonhardt's Hem-Roid, a harmless tablet, sue- ceeds because it relieves this blood congestion and strengthens the af- fected parts. 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