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z=] The Oshawa Daily Times [= It Is News" : : d 3 : oo. Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer wile FEL Se: fa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929 70 Cents » Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TER REIL Berri JPR Co Meet , . 7 " % | To Meet in Toronto Toronto.--The 1930 convention of the International Society for Crippled Children will be held next March in Toronto, . Debate to Drag On Ottawa.--Parliamentarians were of the unanimous opinion this ev- ening that debate on the budget will not bp concluded before the Easter recess. ® LJ Plan Convention Cobourg.--An interesting public meeting of citizens was held here to make arrangements for the Fire ' Chief's convention which is to be held here in July. * LJ To Wed in June Mexico City, Mex, ~ Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his fi- ancee, Miss Anne Morrow, expect to be married some time during the month of J une, : Five Calves to One Cow Canwood, Sask. -- A cow owned by Alfred Rasmussen, farmer. u. this district, gave birth to five calves, They were all born deaa but fully developed. Mill President Dies St. Thomas, -- Neil C, Sinclair, president and general manager of the Empire Flour Mills, of St, Thomas died in Woodstock Gener- al hospital this morning in his 61st year, * » Governor Deposed Oklahoma Cty, -- Oklohoma im- peaches its second successive elec ted governor late today, when the senate by a vote of 35 to 9 declar- ed that Governor Henry 8. John- ston is incompetent. » Change Police System Toronto,~--All county police for- ces will be under the control of the provincial police under reorganiz- ation bill whih Hom, W, H, Price, attorney general, introduced yes- terday in the legislature, . LJ LJ Rebels Compel *'Loan" London,--The Bank of Montreal at Vera Cruz, Mexico, had been forced- to pay a rebel force a *loan'"' of 50,000 pesos, according to word received from the British representative there on March 6, * LJ * Hydro for Mine Area Toronto.--Announcement is ex» pected today of the completion of an agreement between the provin- cial hydro-electric commission and 4he Howey mines for the supplying "of power to the Howey mill at Red Lake. - = hot - 4 New Trade Office Ottawa,--Announcement is maae by Hon, James Malcolm that a new trade commission office is to be opened at Oslo, Norway, and the « territory to be covered will also in- clude Sweden, Denmark, and Fin- land, : * x 8 Two Men Drowned Sault Ste, Marie, Ont.--Two men, still unknown, met death through the ice in St. Mary's river, at the head of Sugar Island at 8.30 o'clock this morning, and their bodies cannot be recovered until the ice moves out in the spring, LJ] ® * Still a Mystery Kitcheiier. -- Another day of in- vestigation by police officers and widespread search by neighbors has failed to throw even a glim- "mer of light on the fate of Mrs, Vietor Balzer, missing since the disastrous blaze of Tuesday last, ® LJ *® Swans Go Over Falls Niagara Falls, Ont,--The annu- al slaughter of wild swans over the folls took place last night and during the fog early this morning, It is conservatively estimated that "st least 150 birds were dashed to death on the rocks below the falls. * - * Plan Industrial Schoos Toronto,--The erection of an in- dustrial school at Gwallior mission, India, as a memorial to the late "Dr. John Wilkie who for 40 years labored there, was recommended yesterday at the meeting of the general board of Preshyterian mis- sions, LJ] LJ Ld Niagama Gorge Blocked Niagara Falls, Ont. -- Recent heavy rains loosened a giant boul- der from the precipice above the gorge route tracks early this morn- ing, which in its fall, dislodged many tons of debris on its way | C down, The tracks were complete- ly blocked, , Ld To Increase Yardage Fort William.--Five tracks will be added this summer to the classi- fication yards of the Canadian ra- cific Railway at West Fort William . bringing the box car capacity up fo 1,630. Other yardage, round- house and car shops improvements will also be done. Nearly Two Hundred Reached Surface in Investigation of Train Disaster Near Parry Sound by Railway Commissioner is Started Today LIST OF DEAD IN YESTERDAY MORNING'S TRAG- EDY STANDS AT NINETEEN, BUT ONLY SEVEN OF THESE HAVE SO MANY OF THE VICTIMS BEING BURNED BE- YOND RECOGNITION COLONIST CAR AFTER COLLISION OF TWO CN.R. PASSENGER TRAINS Disregarding of Order in Connection With Meeting of the Two Crack Trains is Said to Have Been Responsible for the Crash -- Nine Injured Persons Taken to Hos- pital in Parry Sound, But Only One of Them is Re- ported to Be in a Grave Condition -- Survivors Tell Heartrending Stories of the Disaster LIST OF KNOWN DEAD BEN BARSTEAD, conductor, No. 3 train, 1797 Dufferin Street, Toronto, HORACE SMITH, fireman, No, 4 train, Souris, Man., died in hospital at Parry Sound, W. G, WHITE, brakeman, of Orillia, died on relief train, ROY FERGUSON, brakeman, 44 Alameda avenue, Toronto, GEORGE MILLAR, news agent, Huron street, Toronto. EDWIN STRUTT, express messeng er, New Dundee, Ont, BELIEVED DEAD Unidentified man, with wife and two children, believed to have been travel ing to intermediate point between Saskatoon and Regina, ROBERT P, NELSON, Washington, D.C,, believed to have been travelling MISSING, to Cardston, Alta, Eight other passengers believed dead. INJURED PAUL SAUVREAU, engineer, No, 4, Parry Sound, burns and both legs roken, L. V. SAVAGE, brakeman, No. 3, 767 Windermere avenue, Toronto, serious- ly injure jured. J. H. McROBERTS, expressman, No, 3, 216 Milverton boulevard, Toronto, slightly injured, FRANCIS F, FROBE, 514 Victoria Park avenue, Toronto, express messen- er, No, 3, possible fracture of skull, , Sy E. V. ALEXANDER, engineer, train No, 3, slightly injured, PASSENGERS : JACOB FORTNEY, Mildmay, Ont., slight head injuries, WILFRED FORTNEY, Mildmay, Ont., slight head injurics, A. F, BATEMAN, Brandon, Man, minor injuries, MRS, MITCHELL, Brandon, Man,, head injuries, Investigation Opens (By Canadian Press) Parry Sound, Mar, 21--Investiga- tions by the Dominion Board of Rail- way Commissioners and the Cana- dian National Railways in addition to the official inquest by the coroner are expected to start today to deter- mine the responsibility for the head- on collision between two Canadian National . trains at Drocourt, yester- day morning, in which 19 persons lost their lives, nine suffered injuries, while several are still reported miss- ng. Today, as a horrified public read reports of the worst railroad wreck in Canada since 1910, an explanation is anxiously awaited as to the rea- scns for the aparent disregarding of an order by which the two Toronto- Winnipeg trains were intended to pass at a switch near Drocourt, Failure to obey this instruction-- an order involving one of cardinal rules of railroading--resulted in the o steel-equipped trains meeting with a terrific impact on 2 lonely stretch of road. Some forty miles northwest of here before hastily ap- plied brakes €ould bring them to a standstill, according to reports re- ceived here the regular "meet" at Waubamik was cancelled as the southbound train No, 4 was running behind schedule and orders were given for = the trains to pass at a siding. e collision occurred some miles north of this point. May Never Know Number It is possible that the number travelling in the colonist coach who lost their lives may never be known as they were believed to include several immigrants travelling to wes- tern destinations, The Dominion Board of Railway oC issi $ ed last night that officials of the board would pro- ceed at once to investigaté the wreck. This investigation is con- ducted independently of the inquest, the preliminaries of which will take lace today - under Magistrate roughton who will act as coroner. The engineers of the two trains escaped th and while Paul Gauy- reau of the Toronto bound train lies severely injured with both legs bro- ken and his face and body badly burned, E. V. Alexander the engineer on No, 3, westbound, who jumped when he saw a disaster could not be averted, suffered slight injuries, The charred remains of the dead were taken to a local undertaking establishment. I in the re- mains were five skulls, the trunk of one body, believed to be that of a Jroman, and 2 number of smaller nes, Engineer's Story Suffering from terrible burrs caused by escaping steam and wiht two brokem legs, Paul Gauvreau, engineer of train No. 4, gave a re- porter today a tragically belief ac- count of the collision. "We had just come out of a FAR BEEN IDENTIFIED, WHEN FIRE CONSUMED VICTIMS OF CREW rock cut and were rounding a curve when, suddenly, but a tele- graph pole's length away, I saw the other train coming full speed," he said. "We must have both jam- med on our emergency brakes about the same time but they had just started to take hold and we were still going about 40 miles an hour when we collided, There was a terrible crash and that is all I remember." Inquest Opened Parry Sound, Mar, 21.--Magistrate J. D. Broughton, the acting coroner, 'opened an inquest this morning into the deaths of Horace Smith, Capreol, Edwin Strutt, New Dundee, and W.|7 D, White, Orillia, who were killed in the collision between two trains {Continued on Page 5) NEWSPAPER OF GERMANY ASSAIL FOCH Features of Editorial Comment (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Berlin, Mar, 21,--Many Germans never forgave Marshal Foch tor the brusqueness of the final scene in the signing of the Armistce. In that feeling may be found, perhaps, the explapation of much of the coldness and in some cases oven. hostility of editorial com- ment in German newspapers "to- day at his death, "He spared us mothing," force- fully says the Beorsen Courier, se- marking that Foch must have been sorely disappointed at giving up his dream of invading Germany. The Lokal Anzeiger assailed the dead marshal bitterly as an inveterate German hater. "Toward a beaten enemy Foch showed no chivalry," said the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, "He remained our enemy until his death." In the eyes of the Na- tionalist Aligemeine Zeitung, Foch | was the "brutal benchman of Poincare's ruthlessness." The average height of humun beings is 5 feet § inches. The tall- est group are the Australiaus, 6 feet 1 inch, and the shortest the African Negrilos, 4 feet, 3 inches, and the Eskimos, TREPORTS INTERNAL TROUBLE IN CHINA Bishop Asks for Protection Against Uprisings of Communists Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Canton, China, Mar. 21.--A tele- gram received here from the Lazar- ist bishop, O'Shea, from Kanchow, Southern Kiangsi, reported internal troubie in that area, The telegram said : "Communist up- risings are occurring everywhere, Several missions have been burned down at Nanfu, and foreign mission- aries have been forced to flee. Local Chinese authorities admit they are unable to protect life and property and have asked vainly for reinforce- ments. I urgently request assistance as danger is imminent." There was little probability that the Canton authorities would send troops. Sydney, N.8S.--Two persons were burned to death when fire destroy- ed a house at McIntyres lake, near Point Tupper, yesterday afternoon, It is always correct to say that the war is over in China if you specify which war.--Dallas News, REPARATIONS OFFER GOES T0 GERMANY GERMAN BANK PRESI- DENT ORDERS MEETING FOR DISCUSSION Allied Experts Willing to Accept Greatly Reduced Amount (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press Paris, Mar. 21--Dr. Hjalmar Schasht, President of the Reichsbank, will take with him to Berlin tonight, it is learned, the offer of the allied experts on reparations to accept 1, 50,000,000 marks (about $420,000,000) as the figure for, the German repara- tions annuities, } The allies' offer carried with it var- ious other conditions which were not revealed, Dr. Schasht has given on indica- tion that the German government will accept the allies' offer. He has telegraphed Dr. Rudolf Helferding, minister of finance, to call a meeting at Berlin of the great provincial in- dustrialists and heads of the German fustitations so that he may explain he present situation of the repara- tions negotiations, i: The German banker asked this meeting deliberately, it was under- stood, so that responsibility for ac- ceptance or conditional refusal would be widely shared, not only by the government but by the great leaders of German industry and finance. The figure of 1,750,000,000 marks 1s understood to represent reparations payments of all categories, This would entail a reduction of the pre- sent annuities under the Dawes plan of between seven and eight hundred million gold marks. WHEAT MARKETING BEING DISCUSSED Otawa, Mar, 21,--The marketing of Canada's 1928 wheat crop came before Parliament in no uncertain way today. Following reports from the West of dissatisfaction with the work of the Board of Grain commissioners, and the way the crop was handled this year, three resolutions were placed on the order paper of the House of Commons. One asked that in grading wheat, it protein content be taken into consideration. A sec ond referred to the mixing of grain and a third condemned the Board of Grain Commissioners for issuing the so termed "hybrid" ticket. It was on a recommendation of the committee on agriculture that it be empowered to investigate all tnese voints at one time that the dscus- fon burst forth in the Commons and forced the budget debate to give way, . Local Men on Wrecked Train Thought Safe Myron and George Drew of this city were the only Oshawa 'passen- gers travelling on the Canadian National trains wrecked at Dro- court yesterday as far as could be learned today. These men were westbound for Saskatchewan, and although no definite word of them had been obtained by Canadian National officials here at noon to- day, it was believed that they naa escaped injury. It was stated at the city ticket office that they were passengers in a sleeping car and since the sleeping car passengers escaped injury, they were consider- ed safe. They were not reported in the list of injured, and it is thought by the local agent that they proceeded on their way in a later train. They are both broth- ers of A. V, Drew, 442 King street east. INVESTIGATION WILL SEEK CAUSE FOR TRAIN WRECK To Probe Why Westbound Train Did Not Stop at Siding ONE TRAIN LATE Orders Given to Other to Wait at Siding Were Not Carried Out Toronto, Mar, 21.--The reason why the north. and , west-bound train, which collided head-on with hte Vancouver to Toponto.flier -at the Vancouver to Toronto flier at a turnout siding as ordered, in- stead of proceeding beyond it on the single track, is one of the qut- standing questions to be answered during the investigation into the wreck and its causes. Under ordinary circumstances the two trains, which opera.e be- tween Toronto and Vancouver, only in different directions, meet at a siding at Wabamik, outside Parry Sound, and pass each other there. Yesterday, however, the east and south-bound train, No. 4, was nearly two and a half hours late. The north and west-bound train was 20 minutes late, Running orders issued to Train No. 3, north and west bound, instructed the en- gineer to proceed to a siding this side of Drocourt and wait there for the incoming No, 4. Train Beyond Siding But, according to information received here, No. 3 was a mile and a half beyond this siding when the crash occurred. It was not known last night whether the en- gineer of No. 3, accustomed to running without interruption from Wabamik to Sudbury, failed to see the siding, his orders or failed to receive them completely, or whether he believed Train No. 4 was later than it actu- ally was and that he could make another siding before the two trains connected. | Engineer Alexander of Train No, 3, jumped when he saw the oncoming headlight of the other express approaching, and though suffering from minor injuries, still lives to explain why the speeding metal monster in his charge ovet- ran the switch at which he was instructed to wait. Conductor Bar-|greatest soldier the world had seen stead of the same train, is dead, but passengers reported yesterday that just before the crash occurred they saw him running into the colonist car and heard the emer- gency signal cord signalling to the engineer to slop. In other words, | Marshal Ferdinand Foch, who led the conductor apparently discover- ed that the train had exceeded or- ders and was making frantic ef- forts to stop it--but too late. Officials of the dominion board of railway commissioners will pro- ceed at once to the scene of tho wreck for an investigation, ac- cordimg to notification received last night at regional headquart- ers of the Canadian National rail- ways. This investigation is in ac-|Major H. O. D. Segrave, holder of cordance with the duties of the, the world's automobile speed rec- railway board, and will be con-|ord and pilot of the ducted separately from the cor-| 'Miss England" prepared today for oner's inquest. NORWAY, SWEDEN ARE of two races between the two boats UNITED BY MARRIAGE 7! 0 oh "Beach Yacht Club's (Cable Service To The Times By|sixteenth annual regatta, Canadian Press) Wood had been forced to withdraw Oslo, Norway, Mar. 21.--A firm during thethird lap. link was forged between the Royal families and people of Norway and | pected to Sweden and two young hearts were made glad today as the solemn words were pronounced in the old | mile on a straightaway course. church of Our Holy Saviour whicn made Crown Prince Olaf of Nor- way and Princess Martha of Sweden man and wife, whether he misread F of Gar Wood and the "Miss Amer-| fca VIL" } ent commendation.~Syrus, Safety Explosion in Pennsylvania Mine This Morning Imperils Lives of The Entire Day Shift of Miners ANOTHER BATTLE | LOOMS IN MEXICO Civilians Are Fleeing to the United States for Safety (By Caadian Press) - pu Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, Mar. 21.--American and Mexican officers at the border here announc- ed this morning that rebellious Ya~ qui Indians under the command of General Ramon Yucupicio, had moved from the garrison here to- wards Naco, Sonora, where an at- tack on the Federals was believed imminent. The troops left in mo- tor cars and were fully equipped, No estimate could be made as to the probable strength of the force movisg toward the federal strong- ola, Fleeing into States Bisbee, Ariz.,, Mar. 21.--Mexi. can families on the Sonora side of the international boundary line be- gan pouring across the border here early this morning, bringing their household goods with them, A bat- tle at Naco, Sonora, eight miles south of here, was expected mo- mentarily, FUNERAL OF FOCH WILL BE GREAT EVENT DEPUTIES PASS SPECIAL BILL FOR NATIONAL CEREMONY London Newspapers Eulo- gize the Departed French Marshal (Cable Service to The Times by Canadian Press) Paris, Mar, 21.--The French cham- ber of deputics voted with raised hand today the special bill providing a na- tional funeral for Marshal Foch, The bill was passed with the spaces for figures purposely left blank, so that every necessary expense might be included.. It went through almost immediately and without discussion, the communists remaining silent throughout, A government spokesman declared that all arrangements would be sub- Grdinated to the wishes of Mme. och, London's Tributes London, Mar. 21.--London newspa- pers today paid editorial tribute to Marshal och, who died yesterday in aris. "It was given to him to save the allied cause, and he saved it," The Times said today, "A soldier of gen- ius and a simple chivalrous gentle- man," the paper calls him, Another paper called him the "greatest Frenchman of his age" and another said he was "Perhaps the since Napoleon." All accorded him undoubted pre- eminence among the commanders in the great war, Body Lies in State Paris, Mar. 21.--The body of (Continued on Page 3) SECOND SPEED BOAT RACE IS ON TODAY Miami Beach, Fla., Mar, 21.-- speedboat, hig second race against the skill Segrave yesterday won the first after Neither of the men, however, ex- approach today the world's record of 92.838 miles an hour held by Wood for a measured A pleasing countenance is a sil- | sympathy to the people of France WAY TO THE SURFACE THROUGH ANOTHER MINE FOUND BY LARGE NUMBER OF MEN IM- PRISONED IN BURNING MINE, AND HOPES ARE ENTERTAINED THAT GREAT MAJORITY OF THE MEN STILL IN MINE MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR ESCAPE IN THE SAME WAY Sheet of Flame Shot High in Occurred, Killing Those and Preventing Work of derground--Five Bodies the Air When the Explosion in the Immediate Vicinity, Rescue of the Men Still Un- Are Already Reported to Be - Recovered from the Pit--Rescue Crews Rushing to the Scene from Headquarters of Bureau of Mines (By. Canadian Press) Parnassus, Pa., Mar, 21--Three hundred miners were entomb- ed by an explosion in the Kinloe Company near here today, but had escaped two hours after the h Mine of the Valley Camp Coal approximately one hundred men blast, and company officials said there was a possibility that many of the others might find their way to safety, More than three hundred miners were in the workings when the explosion occurred. Of these, the greater number were believed to have been at work near the main heading and rescue workers feared that they were near the centre of the explosion. Those who escaped came from an entry about 5 miles from that known as the Kinloch Entry, the centre of the operations, The explosion occurred shortly after 7 am. The day shift of workmen had entered the mine not long before. were two blasts, one immediately A sheet of flame shot three I said, at the main tipple at Kinl tipple were injured, but were not Canada Sends Her Sympathy "By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Mar, 21.--" The people of Canada extend a most heartfelt in their great national loss through the death of Marshal Ferdinand Foch," said Premier Mackenzie King this evening. "Canadians can- not but feel a deep sense of per- sonal loss and bereavemert." Hon, Phillip Roy, Canadian min- ister to France, will represent the dominion at the funeral of the late generalissimo of the Allied armies. A wreath will be laid by Mr. Roy upon the last resting place of the Marshal in Canada's name. Minister Sworn In Toronto.--Fred G. Smye, M.L.A,, Hamilton, was today sworn in by Hon. W. D. Ross, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, as minister without port- folio in the Ferguson cabinet, GENERALS EXECUTED ~ IN MEXICO Leader of Rebels in Vera Cruz Captured and Faces Firing Squad (By Associated Press) Mexico City, Mar. 21.--General Jesus M. Aguirre, chief rebel com- mander in the province of Vera Cruz, was execuied at La Magras, Vera Cruzz province, at 7 am, today after zcourt martial, The presidential castle did not state whether the body would be brought to Mexico City for burial. Aguirre was captured yesterday after a short fight between fed- erals and his few followers ip which two generals were killed, it was announced at Chapultepec Castle, PRESIDENT OF HUDSON MOTOR FIRM DIES Detroit, March 21--Stricken with influenza at Mentone, Southern Fraves, | Rosgos B. Jackson, Pres. nt and Ge Manager of - son boil Boi ll Rng the greatest captains of industry in the United States, died last night af- ter two days' illness. Word of his death was received im it today from Mrs. Jackson, who was with him. The Jacksons from New York five weeks ago. Mr. Jackson, with Roy D. Chapin, Howard E. Coffin. and - the late J. L. Hudson, founded the Hudson Company. in Some said there followed the other. hundred feet in the air, witnesses och. Six men at work near the ju a serious condition, 175 Now Safe Harrisburg, Pa, Mar, 21.--Df. ficial' reports to Walter a "Glase cow, secretary of mines, here to- day said that 175 men had made their way safely out of the Kin loch mine near Parnassus, Pa., in Westmoreland eounty today. These men came from the act ual working of the mine a mile or more from the place where the explosion took place. They said they hardly knew there was an explosion, Many Escape Harrisburg, Pa., Mar. 21.--The Department of Mines was inform- ed that fifty or sixty of the 800 miners entombed as a result of an explosion at Parnassus had reached the surface safely through AMOLHOE mine, alter H. Glascow, Secretary Mines, said that from at reaching him he was hopeful that all the entombed men would be saved, and that the only casualties would be the men working in the immediate vicinity of the explosion. Parnassus, Pa., Mar. 21,--Three hundred men were entombed in an explosion at the Valley Camp Coat Company mine today. The explo- sion occurred shortly after the day shift had entered the mine, Details of the blast were lacking. A terrific explosion was heard at 7:45 o'clock, The New Kensington fire department rushed to the mine and ambulances were summoned from nearby towns. Twelve men were killed in the same mine on February 21, 1928, Representatives of the company wen entered the workiugs at 6:80 a.m. The night shift had left the | mine several hours before, Rescue Crews on Scene Rescue crews were Jieparing to enter the pit and the United States bureau of mines was notified. The United States bureau of mines dis~ patched a truck load of ked res cue men from its Pittsburgh sta- tion and its rescue car No. 3, stas tioned at Russelton, also started for the scene, : The 'explosion occurred in the Kinloch mine which was visited last year by a senatorial committee investigating mine conditions throughout the western Pennsyl- vania coal belt. Flames shot out of the mine and jacent countryside after the explo- sion, The mine is located a mile and a half from Parnassus on the Greensburg. road. * Five bodies were reported recove ered from the explosion-ripped pit an hour after the blast. This re- port was not confirmed here ds company officials could not be reached. Two men at work on the mine tipple were burned when flames shot from the pit mouth. The Kinloch Mine is a slope op= eration, using electrical equipment. Its daily capacity is 4,000 tons of coal and normally it employs 392 men. There is more in coffee than in any other beverage. It contains water, sugar, fat, caseine, gum, oil, caffeine --a drug composed of nitrogen, 1910 with Jackson as General Mana- ger | carbon, bydrogen and water, I 4 said approximately three hundred - clouds of smoke shrouded the ade exemp mills | inconv: local 4 ted alc -- ) ) ) ) ) ) |