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A ---- -- "All the News While It Is News" The Osha Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer a Daily Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 4--NO. 85 Published at Oshawa, Day ? News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Sun Life Bili Passes Ottawa.--The SunLife bill pel through the senate banking and com- merce committee wund was given its third reading' without amendment. » Seven Killed in Explosion Tokyo, Japan.--A De exploded aboard a Japanese mine iayer at the naval base at Yokosukz today during practice and killed seven naval stu- dents. Thirty here injured, Reds In Gun Battle Vienna. --Five men were seriously injured last night in an exchange of shots between Fascists and Com- munists at Liesing, a factory suburb, five miles from this city. To Rebuild Church Toronto.--First steps looking to the rebuilding of St. Alban's cathe- dral which was gutted by fire Mon- day afternoon, will be taken at a meeting of the Great Chapter to- night, it stated yesterday. { . Peace River Settlers . Edmonton.--Nearly 1,000 settlers with a «total capital estimated at approximately $1,150,000, have gone into the Peace River country as new settlers to date this year, according to colonization officers here. i * Pola Has Troubles Paris.--Pola Negri, film star and her Georgian husband, Prince Mdi- vani, are leading separate lives- for the moment, while persistent 'reports that they are to be divorced are cir- culating. * * Four Aviators Killed Brownsville, Texas.--Four persons were killed in an airplane crash at Tampico according to reports receiv- ed here. They were on a special plane of the Mexican Aviation com- pany bound for Brownsville. * Family Poisoned Newmarket.--Mistaking a tin of arsenic for baking soda and putting a teaspoonfulef the poison in a pie, resulted in almost fatal consequences for a Dutch family of four, now re- covering in York county hospital, - LJ > Addition To College Toronto.--Authority to construct an $11,000 addition to Branksome Hall, private girls' college at Elm avenue and Huntley street, was re- quested in application for a permit filed with' the city architect yester- day. Yo TE Found In Lake Topronto.--Investigation is being made by the police into the circum- stances surrounding «the death of Lewis Oliver, whose body was found in the lake near Mimico by as atten- dant of the Ontario hospital, at 11 a.m, yesterday. fi * x % Tax Rate Fixed Toronto.--After lengthy considera- tion of the estimates, York township council yesterday afternoon struck a tax rate of 22 mills for county and township purposes. Nine mills was set aside for county purposes and 13 mills for township. w Still Missing Sydney, Australia.--The air liner Canberra returned to Wyndham this morning via: Drysdale after. making an 'unsuccessful search in the Re- gent river district for the airplane .. Southern Cross and its missing pilot, Capt. Kingsford-Smith. LJ * LJ Radio Director Dies Montreal. --Alexander Roy Mec- Ewan, Director of Radio, Canadian National Railways, died here at the age of 53 years. He was born at Brooklyn, N.Y., and educated at the Polytechnic School of Brooklyn and the Boston School of Technology. x kx Face Serious Charge _ Toronto--Gordon Pullan, aged 24, living at 285 Russell road, and Leon- ard Mehr, 22, residing at 121 Lynd- hurst avenue, 'were arrested by P.C. Haykins of East York police shortly before midnight last night, charged with an offence against a young girl. we Beautify City Guelph.--Having . been promised the support of the city council in a campaign to beautify the city, the Guelph Horticultural society is ar- ranging to start its project at Royal City park where it is. planned to establish trial plots of peonies and iris in beds 50 feet deep. x x Pioneer Dies Toronto. -- Elizabeth Block Sharp, Port Credit, died yesterday in her 93rd year. She was a re- spected pioneer of the district where she settled with her hus- band, Captain Daniel Sharp, ior many years customs officer at Port Credit. * * Ll New Collegiate Wing Galt--To accommodate part-time classes for adolescents, the Board of Education is confronted with the necessity for a one-story addition to a wing of the Collegiate and Voca- tional School which, with necessary equipment, will cost $23,000. The City Council is being asked to pass a by-law for this amount. WEATHER Pressure continues high over the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valleys, while the depression which was over the southwestern states yesterday had moved northeast to Iowa. The weather has been fair and cool from On- tario eastward and fair with ris. ing temperature in the western provinces. or ts: Lower lakes: Strong easterly winds or gales with rain tonight and Friday. Georgian Bay: Strong easterly winds or pales with rain tonight and Fri- day, possibly part snow, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. SIXTEEN PAGES -~ : Except Sundays and Public Fiotidaye. we WO ARE KILL ED IN TORNADO Principal Conspirators Are Believed Known, And Are Expected to be Arrested Soon by the Federal Au- thorities Investigating At- tempt to Dynamite Train REBELLION IN NORTH SLOWLY DYING OUT Belief in Federal Circles Is That Within Two Weeks the Military Angles of the Rebellion . Will All Be Definitely Cleared Up 0 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Mexico City, April 11.--The chief of the military garrison here today disclosed that an' unsuccess- ful attempt had been made to bomb the special train of General Plu- tarco Elias Calles and assassinate him in the state bf Jalisco a few days ago. ; A man and a woman, the prinei- pal conspirators, are being sought and should be arrested soon, the garrison commander said, while certain residents of Torreon Coahu- ila, were implicated and will be arrested also. The plot was made, with the cog- nizance of the rebel generals Es- cobar, Manzo, Cruz and Caraveo, who sent a man named Santiago Perez and an unnamed woman to Mexico City to secure explosives in Jalisco, who were to arrange the dynamiting of the train. Mexico City, April 11 -- Little further major fighting is expected by the Government authorities to be needed to stamp out the last vestiges of revolt in Northern Mex- ico. In some quarters the pre- diction was made today that within two weeks the military problem presented by the rebellion would be definitely solved. « The fall of Ciudad Juarez to Fed- eral troops yesterday aroused lit~ tle comment here, since the evac- uation of Chihuahua had come to be taken for granted. Advices of the city's evacuation and subse- quent occupation by loyal troops comprised the only news of mili- (Continued on Page 9) INTENSIFY SEARGH FOR MISSING FLIERS Former Report That They Had Been Located Ap- parently Not Confirmed (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sydney, N.S.W,, April 11.--Search for Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and the missing flyers of the South- ern Cross was intensified today as the government of Western Austra- lia put all its resources into 'the hunt. Friends of the aviators, who drop- ped out of sight eleven days ago on a flight from Sydney to Wyndham, found considerable hope for their safety in the government's statement that the chances for their having sur- vived their forced landing were good "if they landed safely." Large Area in Kent Inundated (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chatham, April 11.--More than 3,000 acres of low lying land in the vicinity of Erieau, devoted to the growing of onions, is today in dan- ger of being flooded by the rising waters of Lake Erie. The water is 12 inches higher than last year's high mark. Farmers and local re- sidents now fear the giving way of the "earthworks" which are being pounded by the monstrous waves sweeping well back to the roads. Attemptis Made to Assassinate Calles By Wrecking Train 4 + . Fitzmaurice to Make Another Atlantic Flight (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) . Rochester, N.Y., April 11,--Colonel James A. Fitzmaurice, co-pilot of the Bremen, will make his second trans- Atlantic flight in June, taking off .at Berlin and landing in New York, he announced here last night during a stopover on his way to Detroit for the, aircraft show. SHIPPING IS EXPECTED TO OPEN. FRIDAY ICE IS BROKEN UP AND NOT CONSIDERED A MENACE Shipping Expected to Leave which were to be sent to insurgents. Cleveland for Sault Ste. Marie (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sault' Ste. Marie, Ont., April 11, ~The expectation in local marine circles is that the first boats will likely. reach Sault Ste. Marie to- morrow coming from. the lake head, instead of, -as {s 'usually the case, from the east. The U.S. Hydrographic Office in Sault Ste, Marie, Mich., and other reliable sources expressed the opinion to- day vessels could now quite easily reach the Sault from either direc- tion. The ice jam at Point Aux Frenes, below Mud Lake, is broken and the ice is drifting down in small broken pieces to Detrour, This morning Whitefish Point reported that the entrance to the bay was filled with broken ice, brought in by a 10 mile northeast wind yes- terday but was quite navigable, Similar conditions are reported from Eagle Harbor and Grand Maraie. Everywhere what ice re- mains is reported to be broken and drifting and no longer a men- ace to navigation. The canal here is all ready for the reception of vessels. A report has reached the canal office that some vessels. are due to leave Cleveland on Saturday for the Sault, 300 MILL OPENS AFTER TWO YEARS Departed Population of the Town of Spragge Is Now Returning (By Canadian Press 'Leased Wire) Sault Ste, Marie, April 11.--Af- ter a shut-down of two years the J. J. McFadden Sawmill at Spragge will open up at capacity on Monday, the officers of the company at Spragge announced today. The closing down of the mill depleted Spragge of citizens, who went else- where to seek employment, but these are now returning, and the place is becoming quite active. The mill provides employment or around 200 men, EXPLOSION ABOARD LINER KILLS MAN (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hoboken, N.J., April 11.--0One man was killed and five seriously burned, police reported, in an ex- plosion today aboard the United States liner President Roosevelt, docked at Hoboken. Toronto, April 11.--Boston in- terests may establish a large smel- ter in Ontario, Alfred Maguire, a member of the Ontario Hydro- Electric Power Commission an- nounced here last night. Mr. Ma- guire said that recently a Boston organization asked the commission concerning power possibilities. The Boston . interests, he added, have United States Interests Plan to Establish Smelter in Ontario (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) not yet selected a site but the On- tario commission had given them a 'fifty percent better offer for their requirements" than they received in Quebec. Mr. Maguire's speech was large- ly devoted to the affairs ef the commission. He re-iterated that there was no thought of putting the Hydro-Blectric Power Com- mission in politics, GIRL STUDENT AT WMASTER WINS Wrote Best Essay Dealing With One of Canada's Economic Problems (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Montreal, April 11--Miss Kath- leen Best, of McMaster Universitp, Toronto, won the $1,000 prize of- fered by the Royal Bank of Cana- da for the best paper written by a student of any Canadian university on any one of certain specified economic problems. Miss west took ag her subject "The Economic Aspect of the St. Lawrence Wat- erways Plan." The results weré announced today, 8. A, Saunders, B.A., of Dalhous- ie University, Halifax, now doing post-graduate work at Toronto uni- versity, was awarded second place, He wrote on "The Coal Problem of Canada." Rand Matheson, Dalhousie Uni- versity was third; .R C. Baird, McGill University, fourth; Miss M. L. Girdan, MeGill, fifth; and N. H. Jacoby, University of Saskatchew- an, sixth, The prize Is in the form of a $1,000 fellowship to enable the winner to pursue her studies in any Canadian university she may select. PRESIDENT OF CHINA IS RESIGNING Says He Wishes to Take a Rest and Study Abroad (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Nanking, China, April 11.-- Chinese political circles are great- ly interested in a circular telegram given out by President Chiang Kai- Shek stating that he plans to re- sign the presidency of the state council in order to 'go abroad, study and rest." The telegram was issued at Hankow, where the presi- dent is now staying in connection with the campaign against the Wu- han opposition. Nationalist government political observers are inclined to regard the telegram as a "political move." It is recalled that Chiang Kai-Shek followed a similar action twice dur- ing the past two years when he de- sired to strengthen his position by obtaining an expression of approval of his policies form the Nationalist government. Four Killed In Plane Crash (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Rome.--Four men were killed to- day in a crash of two seaplanes manoeuvering near the Augusta sea- plane drome. The planes were at a height of 300 feet when they collided and were hurtled to the water in a tangled mass. The occupants of both planes were killed, namely one lieutenant and three enlisted men, SAYS EMPIRE TRADE HOPE OF INDUSTRY President 'of British Cham- bers of Commerce Urges Free Trade in Empire (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, April 11.--In his presi- dential address at the annual meeting of the Association of Brit- ish Chambers of Commerce today George Mitchell said the exten- gion of imperial trade seemed to offer so soution of the difficul- ties confronting British industry. "The ideal of the British Em- pire would be to have free trade throughout the Empire, and with such free trade an enormous growth in trade could be expect- ed," he declared. T. B. DEATH RATE IN TORONTO DROPS Toronto, April 11.--The death rate from tuberculosis Tn Toronto has dropped to 54.5 per 100,000 of the population, Dr. Charles J. Hastings, medical health officer, re- ported to the Board of Health to- day. This is the lowest rate on rec- ord, and includes deaths of Toron- to people who died in-outside san- itoria. In 1926 the rate was 69 per 100,000, and'in 1910, 130 per 100,00, 2 - PRIZE OF $1,000 Features of C.N.R. Report Ottawa, April 11.--Features of the Canadian National Railways report for the calendar year, 1928, tabled yesterday in the House of Commons, including eastern lines operated un- der the 20 per cent. reduced Mari- time freight rate act of 1927:-- Gross earnings . Operating expenses ... Increase Net operating revenues. Increase .... Taxes Increase Interest on funded debt in hands of public.... Increase 41,810,000 1,284,000 Ratio operating expenses to gross earnings .... 78. 89 Decrease . . 2. 8 Average number of em- : ployes 107,602 Total system payroll for 168,728,000 PROBLEM OF HOUSING TO BE STUDIED British Labor Party Makes This One of Its Platform Planks (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, April 17--The Labor Party if it is successfulin the com- ing general elections, will, as one of its first cares, deal with the housing problem, Hon. Arthur Greenwood, deputy minister of health in the for- mer Labor government, announced today following consultations be- tween the party and building trades representatives. Mr, Greenwood indicated the La- bor party if in power would "go full steam ahead" in, the provision of houses for the working-classes at a moderate rental, and with the des- truction of slums. The partnership between the state and the building industry begun in 1924 will be re- newed if a Labor government is re- turned to power, he declared. PLAN COMPETITION FOR THE NEORIAL T0 SIR ADAM BECK Prize of $2,500 May Be Offered for the Best Design Submitted (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 11.--A first prize of $2500 for the winner of the competition open to Canadians for competitive design in connection with the proposed memorial to Sir Adam Beck, founder of the On- tario Hydro-Electric organization is recommended to the memorial committee by J. J. Woolought, Propery Commissioner Chisholm. It has been recommended that the memorial, to cost $25,000, be erected opposite the Hydro build- ing on University avenue, Toronto. Archbishop McNeil Celebrates Jubilee Toronto, April 11.--Completion of hal fa century as an ordained priest is being fittingly marked to- day by the Most Rev. Neil McNeil, Archbishop of the Roman Cath- olic diocese of Toronto. He was born at Hillsboro, N.S. No. 1, 1851. A special mass was held at St. Michael's Cathedral this moirn- ing. Quadruplets Born Florence, Italy.--Signora Fausta Belli, aged 43, of the village of Brozzi, today gave birth to quad- ruplets--three girls and one boy. She will name them Italia, Roma, Vit- toria and Benito. Churchill Keen To Be Bricklayer London, April 11.---Rt. Hon. Win- ston Churchill has been varying his preparatory work on the "election budget" with the work of bricklaying. A press man who visited his home at Westerham, discovered the chan- cellor of the exchequer and a brick- layer's miate, who described Mr. Churchill as a "great improver." He said the chancellor had been working seven hours a day on a brick wall which has been finished, and that he now contemplates building a wing to the manor house, TRADE DISPUTES BILL IS APPROVED BY INDIAN COUNCIL Provides Penalties For Efforts to Tie Up Public Utilities by Strike (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New Delhi, India, April 11.--rhe Council of State of India today ap- proved without change the trades disputes bill passed by the Legisla- tive assembly three days ago. The Bill a Government measure, is based on sections of the British Trades Union legislation and es- tablishes a court of inquiry and a Board of Conciliation. The court of inquiry will be composed of dis- interested persons to investigate trade disputes. The joint board of conciliation will have powers of laying down penalties on monthly wages, and penalties for persons fostering strikes and lockouts with the in- tention of coercing the government or with any object other than the furtherance of the trade dispute within the industry in which the disputants are directly engaged, Ice Bridge Moves Out Niagara Falls, Ont--The new ice bridge, the second of the present season, broke up yesterday and float- ed down the river to the lake. REVOLVER IS IDENTIFIED BY WITNESS Girl Gives Sensational Evi- dence in Cochrane Murder Trial Cochrane, April 11--A new mauser revolver produced in court this morn ing by A. B. Cunningham, K.C, crown prosecutor, was - said by Sophio Dincorn to be similar to that handed to her by John Ivanchuk on the night of October 15, 1926, when License Inspector Harry Constable was murdered, according to the story told by the girl today. Ivanchuk is charged with the mur der of the constable. The weapon with which the crime was commit- ted has never been found, Mr. Cun- ningham told Mr. Justice Wright. Witness said that, about midnight on October 15, she had met Ivanchuk on fourth avenue and he had hand- ed her the revolver and kept on his way. About a week later Ivanchuk had asked her to return the gun, which she did. The girls, who is not 18 years of age, said Ivanchuk had told her on different occasions he would "get even" with the constable, and sub- sequently he had stated he was glad he had shot him. Three Injured In Car Smash Hamilton.--Three persons were in- jured, one seriously as the result of a head-on collision between two motor cars on the Guelph highway near Freelton about 145 o'clock this morning. LONDONER FAGES DRIVING CHARGE Plunged Through Barrier and Injured Man on Hamilton Street (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, April 11--Russell L. Morris, of London, Ont, was re- manded in police court today on a charge of criminal negligence. Mor- ris, who was driving for a transport company, was bringing a heavy truck down King Street at three o'clock this morning when he reached Caro- line Street. He encountered Fred Myer, 23rd Street who was employ- ed welding tracks for the Street Railway Company. Myer was sur- rounded by a barrier and a cluster of red lights, but the truck plough- ed through the obstructions, hit the welding machine and. Mr. Myer, Myer, smashing the former and in- flicting a broken leg of the operator. WINNIPEG CHILD IS FATALLY SCALDED Winnipeg, April 11.--Jarjoria Johnston, aged. 3, is dead today as a result of burns received when she fell into a pall of boiling water. Her mother, out of the room at the time, heard the chiid's screams, but arrived too late io prevent fatal scalding. Relief Being Rushed to Stricken Area in the South HeavyDeath Tollin Tornado Which Hit State of Religion Causes Royal Marriage to be Abandoned (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris; April 11. -- The echo de Paris announced today that the projected marriage of King Boris of Bulgaria and Princess Giovanna of Italy had been definitely aban- doned owing to religious differen- ces between the two. The pope, it 1s said, refused to grant a dispos- ition unless any children oi tne marriage were to be reared in the Roman Catholic faith. KING HONORS ONE OF OLD SHIPMATES OLD SEAMAN INVITED TO PAY VISIT TO HIS MAJESTY King and Sailor Chatted About Old Times on Board the Bacchante (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Bognor, Sussex, April 11.--Wil- liam King, 75-year-old retired sea- man who served with the King aborad H.M.S, Bacchante from 1879 to 1882, was the proudest man in Bognor today for at the invitation of His Majesty he went to Craigwell House with his faith- fully-posted loghook and photo- graphs of the Bacchante, and was greeted by both the King and Queen in the gardens» Their Majesties shook hands with the old sailor and bade him take a seat with them. The King and the sailor after shaking hands chatted about the old times. Al- together His Majesty talked to King for twenty minutes and be- fore he left, presented him with an autographed photograph of himself in admiral's uniform. "The King was very nice and Jolly," said the aged man after- wards. "We laughed and talked of the days when we were boys to- gether and I used to pull him ashore in the captain's cutter." William King was coxswain aboard .the . Bacchante when the present ruler was a midshipman commeneing a naval career that was cut short when he was placed in the direct line of succession to the throne by the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clar- ence, in 1892, NAMES OPPONENTS T0 COMMISSION Newfoundland Premier Ad- opts Unusual Plan in Filling Posts (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) St. John's, Nfld, April 11.-- Widespread comment has been announcement yesterday from Premier Sir Richard Squires, show- ing that two out of the three men appointed to form a special unem- ployment and poor relief commis- sion are aggressive opponents of Sir Richard and his policies. The members appointed by Sir Richard are Rt. Hon. Sir William Lloyd, registrar of the Supreme Court bf Newfoundland; Sir Pat- rick. McGrath, President of the legislative council, and 'Charles Hutchings, K:.C., inspector-general of the Newfoundland constabulary. Both Lloyd and McGrath have al- ways been politically hostile to Sir Richard, while Hutchings is re- garded as friendly. Arkansas Forty-Two Persons Are Known to be Dead, and Several Others Are Miss ing and Believed Dead in Terrific Wind Storm VILLAGE BLOWN AWAY BY TORNADO List of Injured Totals One Hundred, and Property Losses Very Heavy--Vil- lage of Guion, Arkansas, Centre of the Storm (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Litle Rock, Ark., April 11.--For= ty-two persons were known dead, several missing and believed dead and almost one hundred injured in a tornado which swept through sec- tions of North Central Arkansas last night. Twenty-one persons were dead at - Swifton, 20 miles north of New- port and five at Guion. The lat- ter town was reported to have been blown compeltely away. All the victims were white. Six negroes were reported killed in the vicinity of Parkin and four negroes at Princedale. At the village of Lorado, ten miles north of Jonesboro, six per- sons were killed. The village of Guion and a farm settlement near Swifton apparent- ly bore the brunt of the wind's fury. Guion was reported to have been blown completelp away ree sulting in the death of five persons and injuries to 50. ~ Fourteen bod- ies had been recovered at dawn from the vicinity near Swifton, All of the victims were white, Believe 40 Dead Memphis, Tenn., April 11.--The Altman Mercantile Company, an undertaking establishment at Swif- ton, Ark., reported by telephone at 10.30 last night that possibly 40 persons were killed by the deadly tornado that swept an area be- tween Swifton and Alicia early last night. It was stated an all-night effort would be necessary to care for the victims, and an accurate check would be impossible before morn- ng. Other reports of damage reached here via the Missouri Pacific de- spatcher's office, where it was re- ported two negroes were killed when a stave mill was demolished at Parkin, and communication wag (Continued on Page 9) ACQUITTED MAN FEARS FOR LIFE Frank Abramo Appeals to Police at Hamilton for Protection (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, April 11.--Fravk Abramo, liberated Tuesday night after a jury had found him not guilty of murdering his wife on March 5, yesterday appealed to the police for protection, He declared he lived in fear of his life but did not say if he had been threatened or whom he fear- ed. The police advised him to con- sult his lawyer, C. W. Bell, and suggested he leave the city for a time. : : Places Ban on Paid Informers (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, April 11, -- Paid police informers as the principal source of information and evidence against bootleggers, gamblers ana other law violators have been place ed under a ban by Henry G. Pratt, new superintendent of Washington police. Two Hundred Miners Coming as Laborers For Farms in Ontario (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 11.--Two hun- dred Welsh miners will be brought to Ontario this summer and placed on farms as a result of negotia- tions now virtually completed be- tween the Province of Ontario and the British Government, according to announcement last night by Hon. J. S. Martin, Minister of Agriculture. The British Govern- ment, he said, has agreed to pay the men's transportation costs and the province will assume the re- sponsibility of finding them posi tions. The men will come in par- ties of 50 eaeh between now and July 15.