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"All the * News While It Is News" ' Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer The Oshawa Dail y Times AG - Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 4--NO. 94 Published at Oshawa, Day Bei fected te Bocte tests tects touleite il, CJ J J J A i ha J a bo . News in Brie 4 (By 2.8.8.8 a * Canadian Press) TTIW rET we Bolofodrbodrboddobdrdodobibdd tine Re-Imposed Paris.--The French quarantine on travellers coming from England because of smallpox in that coun- try was declared again today, and this time made effective at once. * * * To Tour Ontario Ottawa.--Hon Richard B. Ben- nett, Leader of the Conservative Party, will tour Ontario following prorogation of Parliament, which is' expected to be some time in June. ee. Dies in Pulpit London, Ont.--Rev. William Merton Shore died in the pulpit of the Church of the Epiphany, Man- or park, while delivering his even- ing sermon at 7.50 o'clock last night. ' Ld » Population Jumps Windsor.--Ford City's popula- tion has jumped to nearly 16,5600 an increase of approximately 1,400 since last autumn, it is reported by D. J. Adam, its assessment com- missioner. 3 ¥ Storm Claims Many Lives Tokio.--Violent windstorms yes- terday caused at least a score of deaths and destroyed hundreds of houses. Two coastal steamers from Nigata, with 150 persons aboard, were missing late last night. Jie eae Arrested For Holdups Hamilton.--Held responsible for five daring hold-ups during the week-end, Malcolm Young, who gave his address as Caroline street north, was arrested after a long and difficult chase. * * * First Ship at Montreal Montreal.--Forerunner of the many ships which will use the St. Lawrence River during the 1929 season, the S.S. Amaranto docked here yesterday from Italy. The boat, a tramp, crossed light to load grain. bd Ld * Held For Murder Port Arthur.--Held responsible for the death of his aunt, whose frozen body was found on a trail, Jack Boucher, young Indian of the Kely Lake district, was. formally charged with murder in police court here on Saturday. iH * * Dies of Burns Hawkesburp, Ont.--Mrs. George Radford, 35, died here last night from terrible burns which she re- ceived when her clothes caught fire from the stove. She was im- mediately rushed ta the hospital but died soom after being admit- ted. Ld * * Seek Church Vandals Winnipeg.--Police tonight are searching for vandals who held a party in Parkview United Church, St. James, a suburb, early today. After a drinking orgy, the vandals smashed the organ and a piano and started a fire in the church base- ment which caused damage esti- mated at $3,000. LJ * ® Fund For Child Welfare Detroit.--Creation of a trust fund of $10,000,000 by United States Senator James .Couzens "to be used to promote the health, welfare, happiness and develop- ment of the children of Michigan, primarily--and elsewhere in the world," is announced. * * = Baby Abandoned Toronto.--Police of Court street station are investigating the dis- covery of the body of a newly born male infant which was found at 7.30 yesterday morning by P. C. Bell (372) on a vacant lot on Wellington street near Peter street. * * * Girl Missing Toronto.--Missing from her home since 8.30 a.m. Friday, the police have been asked to locate Miss Jean Routcliffe, 22, of 11 Roseheath avenue, Miss Routcliffe left her home at the usual time on Friday morning for her office in the Federal building, where she is employed as a stenographer. y w *® - New Building Record Ottawa.--Building during March set a new high record for that month in Canada. Building permitg totalled $24,056.656. This more than. doubled the figure of $10,- 473,479 for February and was 59 per cent. higher than the aggreg- ate of $15,128,413 for March 1928. x * * * Explosion in House St. Catharines.--Two persons were injured, one seriously, last nigh tas a result of an explosion in the home of John Kozah, Welland "avenue and John street. The ex- plosion,, said to have been caused by escaped gas, lifted the roof of the stuccoed brick cottage two feet in the air and then set it down Again. WEATHER Pressure is low over the Rocky Mountain States and off the Atlantic Coast, while a pronounced area of high pres- sure extends from the Gulf of Mexico northward across the Great Lakes to the Arctic. Local showers have occurred in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Western Nova Scotia, while in other parts of the Dominion the weather has been fair. Forecasts: Lower Lakes and Georgian Bay:--Moder- ate northerly winds; fair to- day and Tuesday; not much change - in temperatuuz, Ont., Canada, Every Holidays Except Sundays and Public SIX YEAR OLD BOY DROWNS IN POND OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1929 10 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TWELVE PAGES (UNITED STATES SPEAKER MAKES APPEAL; BRITISH DELEGATE JOINS IN IT Hugh S. Gibson Says United States Is Willing to Agree With Proposals Providing for Definite Reductions in Naval Tonnage 'WOULD ACCEPT THE PROPOSALS OF FRANCE Lord Cushendun, Speaking for Great Britain, Says His Country in the Fullest Agreement With Prin- ciples Laid Down by Unit- ed States' Spokesman di (By George Hambleton, Ca Press Staff Correspondent) Geneva, April 22.--Britain and the United States joined hands be- fore the League of Nations' pre- paratory commission on disarma- ment today in a stand not only for limitation but for reduction of armaments. "Let's take a bold course," urg- ed Hugh S. Gibson, United States delegate, in submitting new United States proposals, 'and begin by scrapping the term limitation in or- der to concentrate on a general re- duction of armaments." To the American proposals, Lord Cushendun, under-secretary for for- eign affairs of Great Britain, gave a most cordial welcome. "I am in the fullest agreement with Mr. Gib- gon," he said, "when he says that in naval matters we desire not only limitation but reduction. That fs ernment and we 'desire that limiva~ tion and reduction to be applied to all classes of vessels--to all classes of vessels," he emphasized. "And if in some negotiations which have taken place we have provisionally, at all events, con- sented to a scheme of reduction which left any class of vessels ou's side, it was not because we consid ered it an ideal solution of the problem, but merely because in the interests of agreement we were willing to forego some part of our ideal in order to get agreement," he added. "We have never con- cealed the facet that we desire to get agreement on limitation and reduction as applied to all classes of vessels." The American proposals dealt (Continued on Page 2 THREE KILLED AT RAIL CROSSING Fatal Accident to Man And Two Young Girls (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Reading, Pa., April 22. -- Three , persons were instantly killed today when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad. express at Dauberville crossing, eight miles north of this city. Dead are: Zell Harvey, 60, Dauberville §river of the automobile; Nia Harvey, 12, daughter of the driver; Alice R. Webber, 14, school chum of the Harvey girl. Muskrats of Rice Lake are In Demand (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lindsay, April 22--The demand for Rice Lake muskrats is increasing, and with a shipment by a local com- pany today to England, the record price of $50.00 a pair was paid for breeders. These muskrats have already been shipped to Belgium, Germany an other foreign countries. also the desire of the British gov-| POINCARE HOLDS FRANCE BLAMELESS Says His Country Not Re- sponsible for Failure in Reparation Parley (By Canadian Press Leased ire) Bar-Le-Duc, April 22 -- Premier Poincare, addressing the general council of the Meuse department, declared today ' that should the re- reparations conference fail it would be through no fault of France which was perfectly willing to revert to the original Dawes plan, having reached the limits of its concessions. In his speech, which was the most important political pronouncement since the beginning of the year, thé premier fired the first gun in the campaign of municipal elections to be held throughout France on May 5, Japan Stricken BySevereStorm Over a Score Killed and Much Damage Done to Property (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) "Tokyo, Apeil-22.--Japan counted the cost 'today of windstorms which swept the islands last night, killing more than a score, inpuring others, and leaving many missing. The naval office announced two place crews totalling four, belonging to the cruiser Akagi, were missing as a result of the storm. Three blue- jackets were washed off the decks of destroyers which were practising off the Korean coast. More than 400 houses were destroy- ed, nearly 3,000 damaged, and a pro- perty loss of several million yen pro- bably sustained in the parts of the is- lands hardest hit. The winds fanned disastrous fires in two northern towns and caused four deaths, MANY SECTIONS ARE FLOODED IN BORDER DISTRICT Heavy Rains Cause Inunda- tions in Kent and Essex Counties (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Windsor, Aprii 22.--Thousands of acres of low lying land in Es- sex and adjoining counties were under water today in the wake of the heavy rains which swept inter- mittently over the district during the week end. Sligh. improvemeut was noted in the county situation today as the waters receded in flooded areas. Several sections of land around Tecumseh were under water yes- terday but the situation was not serious. Reports indicated, how- ever, that residents were getting muddy water through wa ¢- but this was clearicg up today. At Sandwich, where Friday's night's rainfall overflowed the banks of the Detroit River along the lowlying rive front, the situa- tion was unchanged today. All low lying areas between La- Salle and Amherstburg along the Detroit' River were inundated. Low spots between Windsor and d | Leamington and Kingsville were flooded. (By Sydney, N.S.W., April 22.--S8ix aeroplanes were headed today to- ward the fastness of the Tanimi Desert, Northern territory, where the plane Kookaburra of Lieuren- ant Keith Anderson was seen yes- terday wth a body beneath one of its wings. > The planes, carrying food and medical supplies, sought to learn the fate of Liuet. Anderson and Fleet of Aeroplanes Rushing to Aid of Australian Fliers Canadian Press Leasea Wire) Robert Hitchcock, who 13 days ago started in search of the then lost Southern Cross, only to come to grief themselves. The Kookaburra was sighted yes- terday by a searching plane, the Atlanta, in charge of a pilot nam. ed Brain. Brain was on his way to Wave Hill to join the party searching for the .flyers when smoke attracted his attention, . oint Appeal Made For Disarmament Third Birthday of Little Princess London, April 22, -- Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, on Sunday celebrated her third birthday. When she awoke yesterday morn- ing she found her nursery crowd- ed with toys and presents of every description received during the past few days. Two special gifts were sent from Craigwel House, the Queen's being a clockwork monkey. There has been an air of sup- pressed excitement in the nursery for some days past, and the little princess has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the great day. She is utterly unspoiled, and loves playing most with simple little toys. At Christmas when she received hundreds of gifts of dolls, animals and elaborate mechani-~ cal toys the one which gave her most pleasure was g Christmas cake with four sugar mice on it. Tornadoes and Floods Do Much Damage in US. THIRTY - TWO LIVES LOST IN WEEK-END STORMS Wide Area Is Covered, With Arkansas and Mississippi Hit the Hardest Chicago, April 22.--Outbursts of the elements -- floods, tornadoes and wind, hail and rainstorams-- took 32 lives in, the mid-west, southwest and south over the weex end; injured 'twi score persons or more, and did hundreds of thou- ands of dollars worth o. damage. Arkansas tornadoes killed 13 persons, 11 of them negroes work- ing on a plantation at Tillar. Property damage was reported from other sections of that State. Arkansas also was fighting against the rising waters of the Mississippi River, 500 workmen re-enforcng tHe levee at Knowton's Landing near Snow Lake. After many hours' work, engineers beueved that the danger of a break at that point had been averted. Many Killed A 15-minute storm at Louisville and at New Albany, Ind., across the Ohio river, cost two llves and did property 'damage of approxi- mately a half a million dollars. Wind and hail shattered windows in many buildings. At Walton, Ky., two boys were killed when lightning struck a barn on which they had perched to watch a ball game... Five negroes wer killed and 25 persons were injured when anoth- er of the series of tornadoes car- omed about the south ana south- west. struck Dahomey, Miss. A twister also descended upon Wham, La., but no loss of life was reported there. Widespread Damage Two persons were killed at Oak Ridge, La., when a tornado struck there yesterday afternoon, Two negroes were killed on plantations near Shaw, Miss. TRAIN DERAILED INNEW BRUNSWICK Only One Passenger, How- ever, Was Slightly Injured in Accident (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Moncton, N.B., April 22.--A special Canadian National Rail- ways' steamer passenger train, carrying passengers from the liner Caronia which docked at Halifax vesterday, became derailed a short distance west of Eel River, N.B,, between Charlo and Dalhousie Junction this morning. The tender of the engine, a baggage car, three colonist cars and a first class coach went off the track. Only one passenger, Miss Annie Backs, travelling to Hamilton, was injured and that but slightly. SPANISH AEROPLANE STARTS LONG TRIP Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 22,--A despatch to La Nacion from .Santiago, Chile, says that the Spanish TransAtlantic plane Jesus de Gran Poder in command of Cap- tain Ignacio Umenez and Frances- co Iglesias, hopped off for Arca, Chile, today. John Parks is Under Arrest At Moose Jaw Man Who Escaped From Peterboro Jail, Caught at Last HAS LONG RECORD Was Caught by Oshawa Police Some Time Ago-- Faces Many Charges (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Moose Jaw, April 22--After a struggle to escape from city police, John Parks, who admitted that he broke out of Peterboro jail, was re- arrested here on Saturday afternoon. It was only after a revolver had been pointed at his head by Detective McLellan and he had been dragged struggling from an automobile and handcuffed that he gave up the fight. With him in the automobile was Pearl Bowerman of Malahide Town- ship, Ont, a girl of 17 years of age, who states that she has known Parks for some years. Parks was travelling in the name of Oscar Fleming, whose coupe car he admits he stole from Windsor, and in which, together with the Bowerman girl, he made his way to Moose Jaw, via Chicago. The girl told the police that they crossed into Canada at Emerson, Man. Trying to Sell Car At the time of his arrest here Parks was trying to dispose of the car at a motor car exchange. His money was exhausted. The couple reached Moose Jaw on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock and at 4 pm. word reached the city police that they were headed west. The arrest took place before 5 p.m. and infor- mation was at once telegraphed to Windsor. Parks stated that after his escape from Peterboro jail he made his way to the United States, afterward doubling on his tracks and returning to Windsor, where he met the Bowerman girl. He was on re- mand awaiting trial for alleged auto! mobile theft when he made his jail- break. He admits two previous con- (Continued on page 2) RESTRICTIONS ON TOURISTS FROM ENGLANDRENEWED Regulations to Prevent Spread of Smallpox Made More Stringent Paris, April 22. -- French quar- antine on travellers entering the country from England has been enforced again, with more string- ent requirements than ever. Under the rules laid down and made effective yesterday travellers from England by the Channer ports must either show a certifi- cate of smallpox vaccination within the past eight days, submit to med- ical examination or carry a sani- tary passport to be presented to the medical authorities of each French city they visit for a fort- night. The action was taken.by Louis Loucheur, minister of labor and health, after the failure of French and British health department rep- resentatives to agree at Calais yes- terday to a proper method of pre- venting the spread of smallpox from England to France. Previous similar orders, requiring the vac- cination to have been within the past 30 days, were supended tem- porarily after diplomatic represen- tations by England. Resented in Britain, London, April 22. -- Clamping down once more of quanarntine re- strictions on British travellers bp France has occasioned considerable (Continued on page 2) Canada Best Customer of U.S. in 1928}: (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 'Washington, April 22--Canada in 1928 for the first time was both the best salesman and best customer of the United States according to a re- -port of the chamber of commerce of the United States. Canada sold the $448999,000 worth « of goods - and bought of her = southern neighbor $916,156,000 worth, Their total trade United States thus reached the record sum of §1,- . 365,155,000, 1 Waiting Final Battle in Mexico (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) STANLEY CRAWCHUK VICTIM OF FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE PLAYING ON RAFT TODAY Mexico Cty, April 22.--Ten thou- sand Federal soldiers under Gen- eral Putarco Elias Caites forced northward today across the South- ern Boundary for what may be the last big battle of the revolution. At Mastaca and San Antonio, Sonora, fifty miles north of the Federals' starting point a rebel army of betwen 6,000 and 7,000 men was entrenched, apparently intending to contest the Federal advance. Between Geenral Calles' main army and the rebel earth works was Genral Talmantes with 2,500 Federal cavalry and news was ex- pected here hourly of the uaual clash of the encounter, Conference on Reparations to Close Tuesday TOMORROW'S SESSION LIKELY TO BE THE FINAL ONE Not Likely That Germans Have Brought New Offer Back From Berlin (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, April 22.--Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Dr. Albert Voegler, chief representatives of Germany to the reparations conference, ar- rived in Paris this afternoon after a week-end of consultations in Berlin with leading German per- sonalities in the world of finance and in the government. Their return brought near to its climax the deadlock over payment of German war reparations between thea Ilied and the German repre- sentatives to the second repara- tions committee. In Berlin, they informed fully the German cabinet of the status of the negotiations at Paris. The crucial session of the com- mittee is thus scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, just one week to the day since Dr. Schacht preci- pitated the deadlock by declaring that the allied reparations demands, proposed on April 13, exceeded Germany's capacity to pay. Observers of the committee's work here had little hope that Dr. Schacht would sav anything ecan- able 'of retrieving the ten weeks of work on the reparations problem by the world's leading financial ex~ perts. The chief interest in tomor- row's session lies in what manner the experts will conclude their con- ference and explain its failure. Obsequies Delayed Paris, April 22.--The final show- down of the reparations conference was once more delayed this fore- noon when the experts met in plen- ary session at the Hotel George V but almost immediately adjourned until 11 a.m. tomorrow. Opening of the plenary session was delayed somewhat while the experts attended a memorial ser- vice at the English Church for Lord (Continued on Page 2) WAITING REPORT ~ ON'BOAT SEIZURE Department of National Rev- enue Will Consider Un- usual Case Ottawa, April 22--The department of national revenue today was await- ing the report of its officers at Bridgeburg, Ont., into the full cir- cumstances surrounding the arrest early on Saturday of two United States coast guardsmen after their rum-chasing boat had landed on the Canadian shore of the Niagara River near Bridgeburg. ilar one which flooded 4,000 on and the point where it empties into the lar- ger stream. A portion of the Mis- sissippi levee night sb could escape. this would equalize the pressure and save other levees in the flood dis- trict. Appeal Made one of the have searched for the Kookaburra since it vanished found it today 80 miles from Pow- e]l's creek in the sparsely inhabit- ed bush country of northern Aus- tralia. rough for him to land. altitude as thought he saw a body lying mo- tionless under a wing of the piane. He was unable to identify the man and saw: no sign of any life in the vicinity, of drinking water, attached to a parachute, but the wing made no effort to get it. MISSISSIPPIIS AGAIN ON RAMPAGE Break of Levee Results in Flooding of Over 200 Homes (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Canton, Mo., April 22--The Mis- sissippi was on a tear again today, throwing its strength, intensified by waters against the levees here and on the Illinois side of the rimer. ton levee crumbled yesterday, flood- ing more than 200 homes. from swollen tributaries, The Can- The Canton break: followed a sim- in the Fabius river levee farm land. break occurred near the : last fabius overflow It was expected that was dynamited that the In Liquor Case Attorney-General to Ques- tion Dismissal of Charge at Windsor Toronto, April' 22.--Hon. W. H. Price, attorney-general for Ontario stated today an appeal is to be made against the decision of Mag- istrate D. M. Brodie, of Windsor, who dismissed a charge under the Liquor Control Act against H. J. Bohne, head of the American Le- glon in Windsor, on April 15, At the time, the case aroused much interest in the border cities, in which the magistrate found there was not sufficient evidence to con- viet under sections of the act. number of men were found drink- ing beer in a hotel, and in the de- fence, Bohne, it is stated, claimed, the men were his guests. A The appeal will go before the county judge of Essex County. AEROPLANE FOGND, BUT FATE OF ITS CREW UNKNOWN Pack Train Hurrying to Re- lief Through Australian Desert (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sydney, N.S.M., April 22.--The airplane Kookaburra was sighted on Sunday Tanimi desert but fate of its Keith Anderson and Robert Hitch~ cock, depends on the slow progress of a pack horse expedition from a point 80 miles away. in the wastes of the word of the crew of two, Lieut. Pilot Brain of the plane Atlanta, several which have ten days abo, The country was too As he circled about at as low an he dared risk, he He dropped a contame: the figure under jing across 'the field, Danny Fudge, Companion of Boy Who Lost His Life, Was Rescued by Mrs. Lela Oblinski, Being Taken From Water in an Uncon, sious Condition @ {| BODY RECOVERED BY POLICE OFFICER Pond in Which Tragedy Oc« curred This Forenoon, Situated Immediately in Rear of the Plant of On- tario Malleable Iron Com- pany--Inquest to be Held Stanley Crawchuk,. six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Craw- chuk, Mill street was drowned about 11.30 o'clock this morning when he fell off a raft at the pond back of the Ontario Malleable Iron Company. He had been paying on the raftg in company with another boy, Danny Fudge, also six years of age. Fortunately the brother of the latter, Jimmie Fudge saw the plight of the boys and went scream-~ Mrs. Lela Oblinski, 214 Beattie avenue heard the boy, ran to the pond and was successful in rescuing Danny Fudge, who was unconscious and almost in a drowned condition. She carried him to a nearby resid- ence where he regained conscious« ness and apart from being thor oughly frightened, i8 none the worse for his experience. Body Recovered : Mrs. Oblinski returned to the pond but was unable to find the other lad. e notified some eme ployes of tHe Ontario Malleable Iron Compamy and called the police." As 80on ag Detective Ser= geant Herbert Flintoff arrived in company with Detective sergeant Norman McGee, he pulled off his coat and hat and immediately be« gan to wade about in the hope of finding the body of young Crawe chuk. This he accomplished, finds (Continued on page 2) NO TRACE OF THE ALLEGED GUNMEN Toronto Police Deny They Have Had Report on Suposed Hold-up (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 22, -- No trace has been obtained of the four gun men who were reported to have held up the "Banker" and othen participants in a gambling party, near Mimico, Ont.,, early Sunday morning. It was reported that the party was reieved of between $50,000 and $60,000. The suppos< ed robbery was reported to a coun= ty constable who notified police authorities of other districts. The Toronto Star says today an exhaus« tive search failed to disclose the victims of the alleged coup, or any clue to the identity of the robbers, The Toronto police deny having received any official word of the robbery. 1A No Reprieve To Be Granted Alberta Man ) (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, April 22.--The law will take its course in the case of Vers non Booher, sentenced to be hanged on 'Wednesday next for the murder of four persons. Booher was sentenced at Edmonton and the original date of execution was set for December 15 last. A ree prieve was granted, however, until April 24. As soon as' this report is received the department will consider its de- cision on the disposition of the rum- chaser seized in Canadian territory. on. D. Euler, minister of na- tional revenue, is out of the city, but will return to the capital tomorrow. SAYS SINCLAIR - MUST SERVE TERM Washington, April 22. -- The Supreme Court ruled today that Harry F. Sinclair, unless pardoned, must serve three months in jail for refusal to answer questions before the Senate Teapot Dome commit- tee. b Sal ivin po gold of Reported From Sioux Lookout, April 22. -- Pa- tricia, long acustomed to reportea gold strikes, is all excited over the latest wrd coustry. from the Red Lake A strike so rich is reported that even in an optimistic prospecting country, the rumor is received with unbelief. the mother lode of the northland has been uncovered, sticks out in chunks; actual visible Rumor has spread that that gold the kind that wedding Gold Discovery of Fabulous Wealth Red Lake District rings used to be mdde of, so the story goes. The location of what is reports ed as Red Lake's most sensational find is being kept a deep secret, but already prospectors are pres paring te pour into a new section, One report says that the gold is sticking out with 50 per cent vals ues in dark-blue quartz--no sul« phides showing. The vein so far traced, it is said, ranges from 8 to 40 feet. oh