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"All the News While It Is News" RI 2 VOL. 4--NO. 8: A L News in Brief (By Canadian Press) BRAILLE University President Montreal.--Senator F. L. Beique of Montreal, was elected president of the University of Montreal to succeed the late Sir JLomer Gouin. Spectacular Fire Markstay, Ont.--The village ho- tel, general store and a stable were destroyed in a spectacular fire here today. The damage is estimated at $15,000. Ai Publisher Dies * Orillia.--Howard Chester, 70, clerk and treasurer of the village of Coldwater, Ont., and publisher of the Planet newspaper, died at his home there today. +s ® Former U.S. Treasurer Dies Colchester; Conn.--James Gil- fillan, treasurer of the United States under President Hayes and Garfield, died at his home here today. He was 93 years old. LJ] * NN Heads Military Engineers Ottawa.--Col Henry Harrison, of Montreal, was re-elected by accla- mation as president of the Military Engineers' association, at the an- nual meeting of the organization. * x x Hindenburg Better Berlin.--President Paul von Hin- denburg, who has been ill with fn- -fluenza and gastric complications, continued today to improve and hoped to receive King Boris of Bul- garia. LJ Ld * Engineer Resigns .. Birch Cliff.--The resignation of the township engineer, C. E. Fras- er, was received at the municipal council meeting and was accepted without comment. He was appoint- ed in 1922, vu Communists Wounded Bucharest, Rumania. -- Eight Communists in a battle with police in the Pet- rozeni mining district. The Com- munists attempted to hold a meet- ing outside the town hall. * LJ LJ Mimico Increases Tax Rate Mimico.--A tax rate of 53% mills was set by Mimico council last night, an increase of one and a half mills over the rate set last year. Routine business occupied the ma- jor portion of the session. ook ok Sleeping Sickness Windser.--I11 for two weeks with sleeping sickness, Allan Coom- ber, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Coomber, 713 Labadie road, Ford City, passed away in Metropolitan General hospital here, * * LJ Baby's Body Found Wiarton.--An oflcloth sack con- taining the body of a newborn baby was found in Daylor St. Creek here by Thomas Cordick, town employe. It is believed that the infant had been in the water since last Thuis day's flood. LR New Post Office at Falls Niagara Falls.--Niagara Falls will have a general post office building, located on Queen street, on a site now occupied by the manse of St. Andrew's church, The order- in-council has been passed approv= ing of the purchase of the land at a price of $35,000. * ® x Sold Fake Stock New York.--John T. Locke and Herbert C. Locke, brothers, were sentenced to three years each in Atlanta penitentiary and George F. Shurtleff was sentenced to 4 years for using the mails to defraud in the sale of Canario Copper stock. ® ap Fake Bomb Sent New York.--The bomb found in a parcel post package 'addressed to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt contained only black powder, in- stead of dynamite, and was mere- ly of the variety known as a "scare bomb," bomb squad detectives an- nounced. \ LJ - Home Principal Acquitted Albuquerque, N.M.--Miss Ber- tha Lips, former head of New Mex- ico Girls' Welfare Home, was ac- quitted by a jury here last night of charges of manslaughter which grew out of the death of Helen Has- kew, an 18-year-old inmate of the home, following an injection of twi- light sleep. > *. ok x Workman Badly Injured Ingersoll.--When a quarry 'car containing several tons of limestone overturned at Beachville, Alex «Smith of that village, an employe of the American Cyanamid Co., sus< tained very severe injuries. : His right leg and several ribs were broken and he is suffering from u- ternal injuries. J * * * Family of 17 on Wa; Montreal.--Now on the high seas bound for Canada, the Walters family of Llanelly, Wales, present something of a record in immigra- tion and settlement. Morgan Wal- ters, his wife, and their 15 children are now on board the S.S. Scythia, which is making for Halifax where ghe is due this week. WEATHER An area of high pressure covers Manitoba and the Great Lakes while pressure is low over the southwestern states and off the . terday was ul Y ha Cre, maar and sn in the Western 3] srowiurtios Forecasts: Lower Lakes: Fair and cool. 'Wednesday--Fresh northwest winds; mostly fair and cool, followed by showers in southwestern counties. Georgian + Fair and cool. Wednesday: Fresh northeast winds; fair and cool, were wounded today- Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer AG Newspaper in a Growing City OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TWELVE PAGES UYS TORONTO-OSHAWA L ig Of British Parties Take Definite Form Appeal to the Electors Now tor Car Caravan Speeches, Pamphlets and Cartoons, While Leaders Make Posi- tion Known -- SUGGESTIONS OF AN ALLIANCE REFUTED Public Waiting with Expect: ancy for the Election Budget of Rt. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for Election ' Statement of Premier Baldwin (By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Stag Correspondent) London, April 9.--The general cl- ection battle has begun. By radio, motorcars, caravan speeches, pamph- lets and cartoons the three main parties of British politics are out 10 persuade the electorate. And the bat- tle has begun with formal declara- tions from both the Conservatives and the Liberals against election pacts with each other. by . Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, min- ister of health, yesterday called a policy of such a pact "a policy of cowardice and futility." He declar- ed: "Speaking for myself I have no hesitation in saying that not even the pleasure of getting alongside Lloyd George in the cabinet would induce me to support him in putting into operation ideas which I am convin- ced are utterly simptacticable, . and which if embarked upon would in- volve the country in inevitable dis- aster." He was referring to the Liberal feader's scheme of solving the unem- ployment problem by widespread construction and = development of British roads. ; l Liberal Leader Emphatic Down at- Land's End, where John Wesley began his great revival 150 years ago, Sir Herbert Samuel, chief Liberal organizer, was equally em- phatic. "Sometimes," he said, "the suggestion is made for an arrange- ment with Labor, and sometimes with the Conservatives. The Liberal party has not for a moment contemplated any such understanding. "As chairman of the Liberal party, organization, say categorically that the party has not made and will not make any such compacts with either of its opponents," Sir Samuel assert- Liberals Optimistic Stimulated by their capture of two seats from the Conservatives in re- cent by-elections, the Liberals are hotly campaigning. While Sir Her- bert Samuel continues his motorcar pilgrimage through Cornwall, the Continued on Page 2) BLAME COMMUNISTS FOR BOMB OUTRAGE British , Newspapers See Hand of Moscow in ' Indian Trouble (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, April 9--=Charges of Rus- sian communistic plotting were made by a section of the British press to- day in connection with yesterday's bomb. outrages in the Indian assem- bly chamber at New Delhi. The Daily Mail quoted a recent issue of Pravda, Moscow, as saying: "The battle now in progress in India are part of the world revolution, organized and led by the Communist international"--an agency which, the Pravda said, would "Strain all its energies for the destruction of Bri- tish Imperialism." Papers here cited among other things the announcement of the Moscow congress of last August, of the international's: intention' to form a strong native Communist party in India. ; Son-in-Law of Foch Passes Away (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, April 9--Death today for the second time visited the Foch family. Colonel Alex. Fournier, son-in-law of the late Marshal, died after a heart attack similar to that which ended his fatherlin-law's life. RBe- cause of his illness, Col. Fournier had been unable to be at. the Mat- shaf's bedside or to attend his fun- efi Being Made by Radio, Mo-|' Kissing Bible is Held Unsanitary Winnipeg, April 9.--Witnesses in Magistrate R. B. Graham's city police court will not, in future, be required to kiss the Bible on being sworn in. Future witnesses will only have to hold the Bible in the right hand. "It is an unsanitary practice," declared Magistrate Graham on issuing his new rule "and I will not ask persons to kiss a book which 'is handled and kissed as frequently as the police. court Bible." CHICAGO BANDITS ROB CONGREGATION WHILE IN CHURCH $75,000 IN MONEY AND JEWELS STOLEN IN ARMED HOLD-UP Five Gunmen Took Part in Daring Robbery Inside "Place of Worship (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, April 9--Five snarling, cursing . thieves, masked and armed held up 80 members of the First Rumanian Synagogue = Congregation last night, taking $75,000..in money and jewels, It "was 'the first ins stance in Chicago police records of a hold up inside a place of worship. Laurence Bungardean, Rumanian Vice-Consul, was among the few to escape loss. He was mistaken for one who already had been searched, and was ordered to one side. For nearly half an hour the rob- bers, some with pistols, some with shotguns, moved among the congre- gation which 'had been ordered to line up against a wall. From the, arms and hands of the women the robbers snatched bracelets and rings. - The men's pockets yielded billfolds..and watches. The robbers frequently breaking the silence of the church with cur- ses, held handkerchiefs to their faces, but before the robbery was finished two of them had abandoned this method of concealment." Some members of the congregation said they recognized these two, and their names were later given police. FAMINE IN THE CONGO Situation of the Perisking Tribes Deplorable Despite Brighter Hopes (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Kampala, Uganda, British East Africa, April 9.--The famine and drought-stricken Ruanda area of Belgian congo was visited by heavy rains today, making prospects for future crops excellent but leaving the immediate situation of the per- ishing Bahut tribesmen still de- plorable. Condftions have improved with the organization of relief efforts. Government food distribution is working well and agricultural sta- tions have given seeds wifh super vision to ensure that they are really planted. ¢ The Congo. government has been apparently unable to compel the rich Batusi, the dominant tribe to kill their cattle and feed the slave Bahutis during the famine. ------------------ I'm Alone Crew and '+ Captain Are Dismissed (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New Orleans, 'La, April 9--Cap- tain Thomas E. Randall ' and his crew of the Canadian schooner I'm Alone, which" was _ sunk by coast guard craft ds a rum runner in' the 'Gulf of Mexico, were dismissed to- day by the United States Conunis- sioner at the request of the district attorney. X It a man is wrong, don't argue with him; he will soon be whipped into line by the silent facts.--E. W, Howa.' GEN, VON. HINDENBURG Former German Generalissimo and now President of the German Republic, is reported to be ill at the presidential id in Berlin. NO DECISION ONHOLDING OF INQUEST INVESTIGATORS NOT CERTAIN IF OFFICIAL INQUIRY WARRANTED Still Searching for Body of Helen Wright at Harmony No decision "hag been arrived at by those who are investigating the death by drowning at Harmony Creek last Saturday morning of Miss Helen Wright and Walter Nor- 'thop of: Peterboro as to the advis- ability. of holding an inquest. The opinion of Dr. F. J. Rundle and Crown' Attorney J. A. McGibbon is that 'no further information than that already received would be brought to light by an inquest, al- though he admitted to The Times that he had pointed out to the de- partment of highways that the bridge whi¢h caved in and was In- directly the cause of the fata] ac- cident, was not the correct type for the position it occupied. He fur- ther stated yesterday that the bridge was not: at the right angle to the flood so that swollen waters would be very liable to undermine the structure as it existed at the highway west of Harmony. Police, provincial and local, with the survivors of the accident ana Crown , Attorney McGibbon are meeting for a second time this af- -{ternoon in an attempt to decide the issue. A decision is expected to be reached today. Search Going On A search for the body of Misa Helen Wright. who was drowned following the fatal accident is con- tinuing and 'although local fire- men were recalled : yesterday, pri- vate citizens are patrolling the banks of the Harmony creek in the hope of bringing to light some clue which will lead to :the location of the hody. The scarf of the young lady which was found about half a mile from the scene of the acci- dent, does not necessarily mean that the body has gone down stream, but, opinion is that it has floated out to the lake. Fire: Chief Elliott and a posse resumed the search this afternoon and are, using grappling irons in the hope of finding the body at the bridge where a great amount. of de- bris and concrete has. collected. Up until press time however) the body had not Ween, found, FISHING BOAT SUN, THREE MENRESGUED Unidentified Vessel Passed on, Leaving Crew Strug- gling in Water (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hull, Mass., 'April: 9/<An 'unidenti- fied 'vessel rammed and sank a 35- foot 'fishing boat shortly before dawn today and passed on, leaving her crew of three struggling in the frigid wa-. ter. The sinking oecurred near the Graves. Jight son Leonard and his brother Samuel were, aking, their 'way out to. sea to haul" their' trawls in. a little ves- sel that represented their savings of The three fishermen were taken from the water two hours later by a passing lobster fisherman, who found' them floating on their life ,as Vesita Aeillo, his! ALLIES PLAN SUPRISE T0 THE GERMANS New Schedules Revise Pay- ments Upwards Instead of Downwards GERMANS STAGGERED Allied Nations May Be Foried to Make Reduc- tions in Demands. Paris, April 9. -- The Germans have secured a certain tactical ad- vatage in the manaeuyres attend- ing conference of experts on rep- arations which delegates of the Al- lied National today were trying to overcome. The advantage was an outgrowth of questioning by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Richsbank recently, of the Allied delegates as to the expected size and total of reparations disburse- ments sought 'by their countries. These figures, one obtained. staggered the Germans, who found them not only in excess of what they were willing to offer, but con- siderably in excess of the 2,5600,- 000,000 marks ($625,000,000) annuties specified in the - Dawes plan. It was because of allied recogni- tion of the burdensomeness of the Dawes plan annuities--or a pur- ported willingness to be shown-- that the conference was called. To be sure, the device known as the index of prosperity provided for an increase in the annuities beyond 2,- 500,000,000 marks if Germany should ever be able to pay a greav- er amount but this was regarded as very remote by the Germans themselves. : ' The unreasonableness of the sis- uation was apparent at once to both the Allied delegates and to the. Germans who were placed in a position in which they could ac- cuse the Allied Nations of seeking even more from them than at the end of the war. In other words, instead of revising the original Dawes plan downward they actual- ly were asking for higher annui- ties, Today the allied delegates' counter move took the form of pri- vate meetings to see if each nation could not so slash its claims as to reduce materially the total as they were given to Dr. Schacht, reduce it at least to the level of the Dawes plan annuities, ADDITION TO BUICK LINE ANNOUNCED General Motors Will Build New Six-Cylinder Car Announcement has been made by R. S. McLaughlin, President, General Motors of Canada, Limited, that Mc- Laughlin-Buick will add to its manu- facture of motor cars by building a new six-cylinder automobile. "The new car will offer a Buick- built product in a lower. price field," he said. "It will be entirely differ- ent in design and appearance and will in no way replace or conflict with the established McLaughlin- Buick line, The name of the new car, together with its details, will be made public in the early summer." Bandit Slain Hollywood, Calif.--John Gazick, 22, was killed and his companion, J. J. Davis, former Los Angeles policeman, was captured here late to hold up the box office of a mo- tion picture theatre. It's An Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good Toronto, April 9.--April downpours which carried de- struction over a wide section of Ontario, have left the prov- ince clothed in a blanket of green. It is years since spring was so far advanced at so early a date, and in that ad- vance another source of dan- ger exists. Heavy frosts which nearly every year occur 'in April, may catch the budding fruit trees, farmers state. Up until May 24 the frost danger exists in the province. Spring is at least a fortnight ahead last night after they had attempted |. of average schedule, ! appeared, SIR WILFRED GRENFELL Whose work on the Labrador Mis- sion field was vividly described in a lecture given in St. An- di2w's Church last night by his chief associate, Dr. H. L. Pad- don, PASSENGER SERVICE IS NEAR NORMAL CANADIAN NATIONAL SLOWLY RETURNING TO USUAL SCHEDULE C.P.R. Routing Passenger Trains Over C.N.R. Lines Toronto to Port Hope Service on the Canadian Na- tional Railways is slowly return- ing to normal, W. H. Hutchinson, local agent, informed The Oshawa Daily Times this 'morning. Passen- ger service is running on practic- ally the regular schedule, although freight movements are confined today to perishable freight. It was not expected that any trains would be run over the local line of the Canadian Pacific for two or three days, the station agent said this morning. A num- ber of the Toronto-Montreal trains, including practically all of the night trains and most of the day trains, are being routed over the Canadian National from To- ronto to Port Hope, then over C. P.R. lines east. Auxiliary crews are still working repairing the big washout about three miles east of Oshawa, and on those between Oshawa and Toronto. C. N. R. Official Statement A. E. Warren, general manager of the central region, Canadian National railways, issued the fol- lowing statement last night: "Regular train operation, freight and passneger, over the main line between Toronto, Ot- tawa and Montreal was resumed at (Continued on page 2) TORONTO MAN WAS - FOUND AT PICKERING Toronto, April 9.--After being ab- sent from his' home since Thursday morning, when hc left to. go to his office at the National Cash Register Company, Bay and Albert strects, Charles F. Bond, 75 Scarboro' road, was found walking along the King- ston road near . Pickering Sunday morning, It is believed Mr. Bond was suffering: froma nervous break- down. He was not feeling well on Thursday morning, according to his wife. "How do you like this new lighter?' "Pretty well; how many cigarettes do you get on a' gal- lon?""--Cornell Widow. TORONTO BANDIT WAS RESOURCEFUL | Robbed Restaurant and Es- caped in Taxi Which He Had Ordered (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, who escaped with $50 from a Chi- nese , restaurant. early . today set a new mark for resourcefulness. He ordered a meal and 'a taxicab at the same time and when he finished the meal the 'taxicab was waiting. The robber thrust a revolver at the res- taurant proprietor, Fong Ton, Queen Street East, grabbed $50 from the till and leaped into the taxi, forcing the driver. .to take him at fifty miles an hour, to a point .many blocks away, where he left the cab: and dis- a p April 9--A hold-up man | M + Promised Skunk's Misery Myth Exploded Bothwell, April 9.--Reeve Gold- ing of Bothwell, champion of Or- val Shaw, last night blasted what he termed the Skunk's Misery myth. The area made famous last '|summer by the first man hunt for the outlaw caveman ,is less than 15 instead of 10,000 acres in ex- tent, the reeve stated. There is more swamp around Toronto, than there is in the whole Misery, the reeve claims, And as for caves, the reeve says there aren't any. The name itself, he adds, is just a joke, almost as big a joke locally as the barnyard derby across On- tario for the capture of Shaw. SELF-APPOINTED PRESIDENT HAS ARMY OF 6,000 GENERAL ESCOBAR IS NAMED AS RULER OF INSURGENTS Is Preparing to Launch Vig- orous Attack on Federal Armies (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, April 9.--Proclaimed "Provisional Presi- dent" of Mexico by the insurgents, Jose Gonzalo Escobar, rebel gener- alissimi, today was on his way to the mountains in Western Chihua- hua with 6,000 well equipped troops. Before his departure from here yesterday on a three section train, the "Provisional President" said the revolutionists would make a stand in Chihuahua or Sonora, de- pending upon circumstances, and then put into force a rigia ceusor- ship to protect the movement of rebel forces in Sonora after going through the treacherous Pulpeto Pass in Sierra Madre or continue south and attack Chihuahua City from the West. The rebel general, Marcelo Car- aveo, with 4,000 troops, was be- lieved to be in the vicinity of Chi- huahua City. When the revolu- tionaries retreated -north several weeks ago, General Caraveo and his forces remained there but it. was said at rebel headquarters here (Continued on page 2) LOST PLANE DISCOVERED Southern Cross, With Crew Safe, Reported in West- ern Australia (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sydney, N.S.W., April 9.--The aeroplane, Southern Cross, missing for nearly ten days with Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and three companions on an attempted flight to England from Sydney, was re- ported today by the Drysdale Mis- sion station in Western Australia to have been found on the coast 30 miles southwest of the station, A boat was standing by to take off the aviators, according to the missing report which was forward- ed by way of Derby. Caution in accepting this report, however, was urged by Captain Chater, who had been prominent in the search for the missing Southern ross. Breach of Promise Action by Minister ; Against Mrs. Kennedy (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Seattle, April 9.--~Charges that Mrs. innie Kennedy mother of Aimec Semple McPherson, evangelist, made "violent and passionate love" to him and then refused to marry him were on fyle here today in a $50,000 breach of promise suit by the Rev. H, H. Clark, middle aged minister of the Christian. denomination here. Dies of Wound Niagara Falls, Ont.--Edson Frank- lin Allen, aged 37 years, of Chipp- awa, died in the General Hospital here today from a 'self-inflicted bul- let wound late yesterday. Deal For DellRay Bus System WORK DESCRIBED | Legislation Validating Bus Line Purchase is by Premier LJ nd Del-Ray Bus System Only One of Four Lines Recom- mended to be Approved for Purchase, the Price Set in the Agreement Being $170,000 OSHAWA EASTERN LIMIT OF SERVICE Plan to Purchase the Colla- cut Bus Line to Oshawa for Sum of $120,000 Was Defeated, as Were Two Other Projects -- Counsel Says Oshawa Most Thriv- ing City Between Toronto and Montreal (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 9.--The Toronto Board of Control today approved the purchase by the city-owned Toronto Transportation Commis- slon of one of the four motorbus lines, running outside the city, which the commission had sought permission to acquire. The line approved was the Del Ray line be- tween Toronto and Oshawa, offer- ed the civic system for $170,000. The board had previously today received assurance from Premier G; H. Ferguson that the govern= ment would recommend the passage at the next session of the legisla= ture of legislation to validate the Toronto commission's purchase of outside motorbus lines. This as« surance was secured by civic re- presentatiVes who conferred with tthe Premier and Hon. G. S, Henry, minister of highways, earlier today. A Thriving City When argument arose in the Board of Control, T. J. Lennox, K. C., for the Commission, pointed out Oshawa was one of the most thriv- ing cities between Toronto and Montreal, and it was the Commis- sion's aim to bring as many people to Toronto as possible. Purchase of the Oshawa line would round out the entrances to Toronto "and this is as far as we are going," he said. General Manager Harvey of the T.T.C. pointed out trips to Niagara Falls had been instituted because this was one of the gateways for a great number of tourists and ex- tension to Buffalo was a natural step, in replying to assertions by Controller Summerville and Con- troller Wemp that the Toronto Commission was spreading out too much. Controllers Wemp, and Hacker voted against the pur- chase of the Collacutt line to Osh- awa for $120,000--the Highway Queen to Brampton for $50,000 and the Maple Leaf to Markham and Cooksville for $52,500. Mayor McBride and Con. Gibbons voted for all the purchases. Members of the council, before whom the report was to come lat- er in order that the option expiring at noon today might be taken up, watched the proceedings with in- terest. The Board of Control adjourned at 12.45 and council met to congid- er the report, recommending the purchase of the Del Ray bus lines and the application for legislation to validate the purchase and opera= tion of buses outside the city, The board rejected a motion of Con, Wemp to require the T.T.C. to put in writing its application for legislation. While the seatings were in progress, General Manager Harvey in answer to a question, (Continued on Page 2). NAVIGATION SEASON (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Green Bay, Wis, April 9A hard fight against -ice, hea: seas and storms were encountered by Captain H. B. McCool of the steamér Pro- gress which marked the formal open ing of navigation of the upper lakes when it arrived here from Detroit yesterday. The storms and ice fields delayed the trip for one day, Capt, McCool said. Monoxide Gas is Cause of Deaths (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, April 9--=Monoxide gas 'poisoning today caused the deaths of three persons in the Flatbush sec tion of Brooklyn. They were Mrs, Bertha Wagner, aged 29; her son, Wilfred, aged 8, and Mrs. Wagner's sister, Mrs. Loretta Eames, 33 years old, of Elmira, who had been visit ing her. A defective gas heater was held re ea Summerville