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News While VOL. 4--NO. 66 at $.8.2.0.8 8 2.20 5 288 80s 808 TETTTTETTTTTTTTTTTTTY a + a Se 2888848 2 : 5 & ho PTI SE NE SEO CS TT TTTTTTTTTTT TTT TTY Obstructed Niagara Falls, Ont.--A fine of $216 was imposed on Joe Gerrard, this city, this afternoon when he pleaded guilty to obstructing the police. . * LJ Ll Rody Identified St. Catharines. -- The man who dropped dead in a local store Sat- urday was identified today as John Hill of Caledonia, He had been gelling elad pencils. Investigating Report Ottawa.--The department of In- dian affairs is investigating the res port that much illness prevails among the Indians in the vicinity of Mose Factory, on James Bay, LJ Parties May Unite Winnipeg, -- Manitood Liberal Jeaders will gather here today to discuss the possibility of an amal- gamation with the provincial Bracken government. LJ LJ * Commissioner Named Niagara Falls, Ont, -- The com- mittee today appointed William A, Marriott, Hamilton, Ont.,, to the new position of industrial and pub- licity commissioner, at a salary of $4,000 a year. ' Lord Lofat Resigns London.,--Lord Lovat has rekign- ed from the chairmanship of the Overseas Settlement committee owing to ill-health, He has now almost compeltely given up pub- lie life, . . * Claims Back Salary Ottawa, -- A case involving a claim against the Dominion gov- ernment of $10,000 back. salary, by Dr, Peter H, Bryce, of Ottawa, was aired in exchequer court yes- terday. £3 Ld LJ Mr, Lapointe Better Ottawa, -- Hon, Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, wno unas been confined to his home for several weeks with an injureq nuve, nas so far recovered that the plaster cast has been removed, a * » Tractor Goes Through Ice Port Arthur, -- When a heavy tractor engine crashed through the ice on Bavant Lake, Laurence Mayo, 45, was drowned and his ¢compan- ion, Alex, McGuire, narrowly es- caped the same fate, * » - Flood Loss Serious Georgetown, -- Flood conditions on the Credit river north and east of Georgetown have proven & less ; menace this year than fore merly, owing chiefly to the thin ice which formed, Ld LJ LJ] Waters heceurng ! Atlanta, Ga. -- Receding waters today improved conditions rapid- ly in most of the flood-swept re- gions of the south in which the known death list stood at 20 and property damage at severat mil- Jions of dollars, Ld » Ld Juvenile Car Thieves Toronto, -- Four boys, two of them juveniles, were brought to Toronto by Detective-Sergeants Jhns and Clark last night from Guelph after their arrest there charged with theft of five motor care, * * LJ Surplus in Fund Toronto, -- A total surplus of $2,804,842.46 is being carried In the Ontario Civil Servants Super- snnuation fund, according to the report for the year ending October 81 last, which was presented yes- terday afternoon in the legislature, » Dying of Wounds Toronto, -- Growing gradually weaker as the result of wounds said to have been inflicted by an ice pick in the hands of 70-year-old Charles Wright, Mrs, Doris Sutton of 4 Rideau street, 45 years old, is thought to be dying in Western hospital, ® LJ E Starvation Diet Knoxville, Tenn, -- Starving, the family of Cobb Mannery, who lives on Conasauga Creek, a few miles east of Etowah, ate dirt, ashes, oak leaves, and even bits of cement from a brick out of a chimney. Two little children have died snd two more are Bot expeciey to live, Called to Olivet Church Toronto.--Rev. H. Good, a grad- uate of McMaster University, has accepted a call to Olivet church, Toronto, and will come from Bracebridge shortly to take charge of his new pastorate. There has been a vacancy in the chureh for some time, . » * Slowly Paris.--Marshal or SA Foch last night was at another erisis in his long and apparently hopeless illness. His physicians, in leaving him for a while last evening, said that he had had no actusl new at- tack, but that it was case merely of gradual slow sinking and a weakening of his heart. 5 : | | ing eastward over While pressure has I i hi LN] Es Hak strong southwest winds, fair lower : 5 : | ] Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer 2:2] The Oshawa Daily Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARC H19, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TWELVE PAGES OUNGIL AGAIN DISGU Report Presented to Council by Relentless Pursuit of Revolutionaries Planned By Mexican Government General Calles Promises the Mexican President That He Will Carry on a Cam- paign of Extermination Aguinst Retreating Rebel Army of General Escobar TORREON IS OCCUPIED BY FEDERAL TROOPS Main City Held By the Rev- olutionary Army Fell In- to Hands of the Govern: ment Without Fighting as Rebels Retreated to the North (By Canadian Press) Mexico City, Mar, 19,--General Plutarco Elias Calles promised President Portes Gil today a cam- paign of 'extermination' against the retreating army of the rebel general, Jose Gonzalo Escobar, The former Mexican president said he was "commencing immedi- ately the organization of the col- umn which will march on Chihua- hua to fight and exterminate the traitors," The promise was contained in a message from Guadalupe Victoria Durango, It said that temporary headquarters had been established there, but that the fedegal general- issimo was leaving shortly either by automobile or aeroplane for Torreon. The message stated occupation of Torreon was complete and that aviators had told him the rebel army had stopped its retreat at Es- calon, in the south-eastern corner of Chihuahua, Five troop trains were on a siding there, Much Jubilation The message of General Calles, following as it did reports of an- other bloodless victory yesterday, aroused what was almost jubilation in Mexico City and at Chapultepec Castle, the presidential headquar- ters, where it was considered cer- tain that the rebellion was dying rapidly. Rebels Jetreating Mexico City, Mar, 1).---Covered bz a rebel rear guard left in Gom- es Palacio, seven miles north of Torreon, to check federal pursuit, the army of Gen, Jose Escobar yes- terday evacuated Torreon, the key city of the north, and retreated to Escalon, Chihuahua, 100 miles north of Torreon, The rear guard was evacuating Gomez Palacion last night and re- treating northward, evidently head- ed for Jiminez, 125 miles north of Torreon and an equal distance south of Chihuahua City, Truce Refused After announcing the evacuation of Torreon by the rebels and its re-occupation by federal troops, President Portes Gil declared that the government would make mo truce with the rebels, He stated that he had refused an offer of (Continued on Page 2) Clean Docket London Ont. -- A pair of white gloves, symbolic of a clear crim- inal docket, was pr ted to Mr, Justice Raney at the opening of the spring ssize court. today. #White gloves are cheaper than criminal prosecutions," the judge said, in acknowledging the presen- tation. True Bill Against M.P, Ottawa.--Louis M. Auger, youth- ful member of parliament, charged with committing a serious offence inst a young girl, will face tri- al on two separate counts at the spring assizes of the supreme court of Ontario, which opened here yesterday, After deliberating for three and one-half hours, the as- sizes grand jury returned a "tru Dill" in the case early yesterday. "Makes Offer of Planes to Help Sick Indians (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Mar, 19.--~--Care of the Indians (is entirely a Dominion matter, Hon, Willlam Finlayson, Provincial Minister of Lands and Forests, sald last night, But if the Dominion Government wishes to send medical ald to the James Bay district, the * province will gladly furnish an aeroplane, "We have not received any re- quest for a plane, but if we did, | we should be delighted to be of service," Mr, Finlayson stated, *'Of course, the Dominion Government has its own air service and it may have its own plans." JUDGES MOTIVES IN AIDING EVANGELIST T0 BE REVEALED Impeachment Trial of Judge Hardy Opens at Sacra- mento, Cal. Sacramento, Calif,, Mar. 19.-- 'The motives which impelled Super- ior Judge Carlos 8. Hardy to assist Aimee Semple McPherson, evan- gelist, in defending her kidnap- ping story were due for a discus- sion by defense attorneys in the impeachment trial of the jurist be- fore the state senate here today, Hardy was brought to trial yes- terday, charged with misdemeanor in office in'accepting $2,500 from ' Mrs, McPherson, while the Los Angeles district attorney was in- vestigating her story two years ago, The jurist also 1s accused of obstructing justice by defending the evangelist's story after he had received reliable information" that she had net been kidnapped. Continuing arguments in sup- port of the demurrer fyled yester- day, the defense attorneys were ex- pected to éontend that Judge Har- dy was moved by friendship in aiding the evangelist, and that he acted as a fellow churchman, and not as a judge in her behalf, London.--Albert Kinross, journ- alist, novelist gnd one-time Lon- don correspondent for the Boston Transcript, died of pneumonia at 58 years. BROCKVILLE SECURES BRITISH INDUSTRY Brockville, March 19.--A cable- gram has been received by the Chamber of Commerce from the management of the Sheffield, Eng- land, concern a representative of which visited Brockville some months ago for the purpose of studying opportunity for the estab- lishment of a branch works, stat- ing that the concern was certainly coming to Brockville, but that the delay in commencing manufactur- ing operations was due to the necessity of recruiting ten or twelve experienced operatives to form the nucleus of the working staff of the branch plant, It is, however, ex- pected that these men and the necessary machivery will arrive in the course of a few weeks' time. At the commencement of work employment will be given to ap- proximately 25 hands, with the prospect that a larger mumber will be employed at a later date Biblical Story of the Flood Is Confirmed by Scientists and yet another flood 600 years before that, Prof. Stephen Lang- don, head of the expedition, re- ally wiped out Kish, but the people came again, rebuilt their homes and developed the eity (By Canadian Chicago, ' March. 18.--Nosh did Press) earliest civilfzation, The Babylonian and Hebrew ac- counts of the delugé are fully con- firmed by the expedition's find- ings, The lower stratum has a thick- ness of 18 inches. From traces of the water damage, from tablets found and from the depths of the deposit, Prof. Langdon estimates tha this first flood took place about 4,000 B.C. Then the people rebuilt Kish, only to have it de- vastated by another flood about 3,400 B.C. This latter one fis-be- lieved to be the Biblical flood in which Noak and his ark took part. b a Tunbridge Wells yesieruay, wh King's Son Has To Leave Navy For Land Post Takes Foreign Office Posi- tion on Account of His Health London, March 19.--The retirement of Prince George, youngest of the four sons of the king, from active participation in the work of the na- vy, was officially announced last night, The king, acting on medical advice, was said to have approved the re- tirement and to have further deci- ded with the concurrence of the prime minister, that the prince shall be attached to the foreign office, in order to gain knowledge of the ad- ministration and work of that de- partment. Prince George will be the first of the brothers to enter a governmental peace department, The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York both served in the navy, and the Duke of Gloucester saw service with the army, ! It was understood that Prince , George was quitting the navy solely for reasons of health, his constitu: tion being considered not sufficiently robust for a strenuous sea career, He has completed 12 years of naval ser- vice, including the Mediterranean and China stations, Most recently he had been with the West Indian squadron based at Bermuda. ' ROTARIANS PAY $10,000 OF BIG GIFT at Bowmanville is "Acknowledged Toronto, Mar, 19.--Ten thous- any dollars of the $30,000 Rotar- fans from Toronto, Hamilton, Ot- tawa, Peterboro', Lindsay and Bow- manville intend raising for the establishment of a, (first-class gymnasium at the Boys' Training School, Bowmanville, were turned over to the Ontario Government yesterday by a Rotarian deputa- tion comprising Charles Buchanan, President of the Toronto Club; Frank Waterman, Judge Mott and George Hambly, Public acknowledgment of the gift was made by the Ontario Legislature later in the day, when Premier Ferguson held the $10, 000 in bonds aloft, and told briefly of the great public spirit behind the donation and what it would mean in the {furtherance of the work at the training school, Hearty desk-thumping from the whole House was heard in ack- nowledgment, Henry C, Schofield, M.P.P., who has taken the greatest of interest in the work of the Bowmanville school since fits inception," intro- duced the Rotarian deputation to Premier Ferguson and his Cabinet, SOLE SURVIVOR OF AEROPLANE WRECK LIKELY T0 RECOVER Authorities Depending on Pilot for Authentic Story of Disaster Newark, N.J., Mar, 19. -- While hope for the recovery of Pilot Lou Foote began to mount investigators today looked to him as the only person able to give an authentic account of why the Colonial apr- ways monoplane crashed near Newark airport on Sunday, killing fourteen. Foote is the sole survivor of the wreck. He is suffering from a fractured skull, fractured right foot, fractured left leg, contusions of the hip, a possible fracture of the spine, possible fracture of the left fore-arm, and bruises and con- tusions of the whole body. Donate Wading s ool Kitchener, -- The Kitchener Young Men's club has intimated to Secretary McKellar of the Kit- chener Playgrounds association, that it is willing to donate another wading pool so that kiddies who cannot leave the city during the hot summer, can have a little cool fun. "Jazz infuriates Paris monkey" says a Paris despatch, showing again how human these simians are.~Chicago Evening Post, Contribution to Boys' Home| PRINCE GEORGE Who has retired from the British Navy on account of his health, and has taken a position in the Foreign Office of the Government 80th Birthday of Admiral Tirpitz Celebrated Today (Cable Service To The Times By Canadian Press) Feldafing, Bavaria, Mar. 19.-- Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz, who led the Imperial Navy during the Great War, was 80 years old to- patriotic socie- League, student fraternities, and former submar- congratulating him, showing the life at his villa on Starnberger Lake, where he has resided for the past six months, TELEPHONE BILL PASSES COMMITTEE Amendment Attached Re- quiring Approval of Railway Board for Stock Issue (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Mar, 19.--The bill to authorize an increase in the capital stock of the Bell Telephone Com- pany from $75,000,000 to $150,- 000,000 passed the railway commit- tee of the House of Commons, in amended form, today, The amend- ment, which was moved by Hon. C. A. Dunning, Minister of Railways and Canals, provides that the com- pany shall not have the power to make any issue of stock without obtaining the approval of the board of railway commission to the wmw- ount, terms and disposition of the stock issue. . The amendment applies only to the new stock of the company. It passed the committee by a vote of 23 to 16. Just prior to the introduction of Mr. Dunning's amendment, another amendment moved by Colonel G. R. Geary, (Conservative, Toronto South), met with defeat by a vote of 16 for and 24 against. This smendment provided that there should be no issue of new stock ex- cept by public auction and after advertisement in the Canada Gaz- ette and newspapers in 'Toronto and Montreal. It costs $10 to wink at a New York policeman. Better wink at your wife and save money. -- New York Evening World. U.S. Guardsmen Sworn as Sheriffs Ie Strike Trouble (By Canadian Press) Elizabethton, Tenn., Mar. 19.-- National Guardsmen, acting as dep- uty sheriffs, and not as a military organization, today guarded plants of two rayon factories here agains 5,500 striking workmen whose de- mands for increases in pay nave been refused. Sheriff J, M. More- land commissioned the guardsmen yesterday sfternoon following dis- turbances. A demand for wage increases ranging as high as 30 per cent. bas been made, TURKEY MAY PLACE TAX ON UNMARRIED Transition from Harems to Bachelor Apartments is Causing Alarm (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Constantinople, Mar. 19.--Tur- key's swift transition from flour- ishing harems to bachelor apart- ments and the first generation of old maids has given rise to official alarm at the possibility of. depu- ulation and to the creation of a celibacy tax. This celibacy tax will be impos- ed on bachelors of from 25 to 45 years in age, and spinsters of from 20 to 35, and on childless widows and widowers. Twenty per cent. of the revenue of the celibacy tax will be distrib- uted to families with a minimum of five children, Murder Trial ruversed St. Catharines.--The case of Ar- thur Walter Grimes, charged with the murder of Mrs. Pearl Stuart, wife of James Stuart, Grassies far- mer, was traversed to the next assizes in October, by Hon, Mr, Justice Logie, at the opening of the spring ussizes today, MAY SUPPLY WATER RESIDENTS OF EAST WHITBY TOWNSHIP Reeve Ross States Water of North Oshawa Wells Not Good A move in the direction of sy ly- ing water to residents of East Whit- by township, particularly in North Oshawa, was made last night by the city council when it referred a re- quest of a deputation from the town- ship council for more water to the Board of Works, with a request that this committee consider the matter fully and report to the council, The deputation from East Whitby township was headed by Reeve John Ross, who stated that many residents of the townhip, in North Oshawa par- ticularly and in Westmount, as well, wanted water, The city water com- mission was favorable, and the town- ship would pay all expenses of laying mains, etc, in cash, It was very hard to get water fit to drink in North Ohawa from wells, he said. One petition from North Oshawa to the township council was si by 29 residents, he said, and several others had asked from time to time. Only one well excavated in North Oshawa recently had proven good water, he said. Alderman E. Jackson and Alder- man Hart moved that it be referred to the Board of Works and the city solicitor to go into the matter. The township will be asked to make appli- cation in writing stating the exten of the system needed, and the method of paying for same. His motion was approved by the council, Special C SES SUBWAY Negotiations Employment At High Peak For All Time (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Mar, 19.--During the last six months of 1928, employment in Canada was at the highset point which it has ever reached since Gov- ernment statistics were kept, This was one of the statements made by Hon, J. L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence, in the House of Commons, Col, Ralston was speaking in the continued debate on the budget, and his speech was an answer to criticisms of the Government voiced by Hon. Hugh Guthrie, chief opposi- tion financial critic, and member for South Wellington, LOWER RATES FOR HYDRO FOREGAST BY HON. J. COOKE Downward Revision Likely to Come Into Effect This Summer Toronto, Mar, 19.--Forecasting a general downward revision of hydro rates by mid-summer, Hon, J. R. Cooke last night, in the legis- lature, answered the suggestion of W. E. N, Sinclair that Mr, Cooke had hinted at lower rates earlier in the session "with an election looming near." The house was in committee ot] supply discussing the hydro sup- plementary estimates. Mr, Sinclair stated that it was a suitable time for the minister to make any an- nouncements, . Mr, Cooke: "The commission has adopted a policy of a downward revision of rates, This has grad- ually brought rates down all over the rural lines, In the London district, for instance, I believe the rate is now $2.30 for service eharge, We think we can make revisions annually as we see our way clear, I think by midsummer there will be another general re- vision downward. The premier jocularly remarked that this had been arrived at "without an election." Mr, Sinclair urged that con- sumers of power supplied by the Central Ontario system were an- (Continued on Page 2) POLICEMAN KILLED IN BATTLE WITH GANG New York, Mar. 19.--A policeman, Daniel Maloney, 28, was shot- and killed and two other men were wounded in 2 gun battle last night between ten gangsters 'in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, which po- lice said was over liquor smuggling. The policeman came upon the gangs while the firing was in progress, Three of the alleged gangsters were finally arrested. BOMB EXPLOSION IN APARTMENT DISTRICT OF GARY, INDIANA Gary, Ind., Mar, 19.--A gun cot- ton bomb exploded early today in an apartment district, wrecking the fronts of two stores and blow- ing the glass from several large flat buildings. The estimated damage was $15,000. Wiitam Herman, his wife and six children, living above one of the stores, were severely shaken, but not oth- ommittee Favorable In Subway Discussion With Canadian National % J Although Railways Refused to Consider Compensating City for Closing Albert Street, They Have Agreed to Submit Other Matters to Railway Board Engi. neer SUBMIT PAVEMENT IS PART OF THE SUBWAY City Contends That Cost of Paving Should Be Borne By Railways, Grade Sep- aration Fund and City of Oshawa in Proportion Negotiations on the Simcoe street subway between the city and the Canadian National Railways are pro- gressing favorably so far, according to a report presented by the Board of Works to the city council last night. Although the railway has not considered giving the city any coms- pensation for the closing of Albert street, it has listened to several other arguments of the special subway com- mittee, and a further discussion will be held in Oshawa, possibly this week, on some of these questions, between the city council special committee, T, T. Irving, chief engineer of the Can- adian National Railways, and Mr, Simmons, chief engineer for the Do minion Railway Board, The reasons for judgment of the recent decision of the Board of Rail. way Commissioners for Canada, ap- portioning the cost of the subway, have been thoroughly discussed in conferences between the committee and Mr, Irving at Mr, Irving's office in Toronto, said the report. The Railways engineer refused to consider any argument on the closing of Albert street, the committee re- ported, but he did agree that the extra cost of the extra two feet of width and three feet of depth required by the railway in the subway which extra cost is to bs borne by the railways, should be de- termined by the actual extra cost of the work. This is to be made up of the items of extra depth, length and width of the subway proper, extra depth of sewer required, extra depth and length of approach to the subway from the east near the south end of the subway. The city also submitted in these ~onferences that the Railways should bear the whole cost of the removal of the present tracks of the Oshawa Railway Company and replacing them in the subway. This was not entire- ly concurred in by Mr, Irving; the committee reported, but he hal agreed to a further discussion of the subject before: Mr. Simmons of the Dominion Railway Board. . It was also pressed by the commit- tec that the pavement through the subway should be considered as a part of the subway and that the cost should be borne by the Grade Sep- aration Fund, the railways and the city, in their due proportions, After a lengthy argument, Mr. Irving agreed that this matter should also be submitted to Mr, Simmons, the committee reported, The committee stated that a further report of the subway would be sub- mitted as soon as a discussion of these questions has taken place be- fore the railway officials and Mr, Simmons. $11,252 PAID EXPERTS Ottawa. -- Eleven experts have been retained at various times to assist the Tariff Advisory Board since its creation in 1926, accord- ing to a return tabled in the House of Commons this afternoon. A to- tal of $11,252 has so far been paid in fees, Angora, Turkey.--The Turkish government today paid foreign bond holders the first instalment on the Ottoman debt, the total of $482,000,000 of which is to be erwise injured. paid within 27 years, (By Toronto, Mar. 19.--A means of overcoming the alleged evils of drinking in hotel rooms was put squarely before the hotelmen last night by Premier Ferguson in an interview, The prime minister declared that hotel drinking could be made illegal if the hotelmen really wanted it made illegal, Such, in effect, was the prem- fers reply to the hotelmen's wuiti- matum that either drinking in hotel rooms be made illegal or the hotell be given absolute con- Premier Tells Hotelmen How To Make Drinking Illegal Canadian Press) establishment. It was suggested in the latter connection that abso- lute control might include legaliza~ tion of the sale of wine and beer at meals. "It a hotelman objeets to drink- ing in the rooms of his hotel," smiled Mr. Ferguson, "we can give the liquor control board power to declare, upon application from the hotelnian, that all the rooms in his botel will be dry territory. All be will need to do is apply to the board and the board will make the rooms illegal drinking places keeper trol of all liquor taken into his under the act." The yy uy w taxps sibil] with lishe sale, was coun C. E recel vides rears Prope then the | for | sale. In cillor meas linqu than adver this + uction are a schen in otk there quent their step | before Ree prinei man's gested town any a orf the m to his name counte His not tl measu counci when vote, Ac from | gesting Slowly das sti the cl school. ing of cautios of the certain Educa signs therefc mittee the Bo Ar Comm] of Nui the to! Friday tee's a The the pu the co Indemt $234.3 sider | insurar Wilson Toront: Upor finance ling $1 counts finance relief, not pat Thos meeting Dudley, uty Re cillors R. 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