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"All the 1; News While It Is News" The Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer shawna Daily Times A Crowley] Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 5--NO. 20 Published at Oshawa, Ont., Day Sundays and Public SL A SLA re ee -- tA ei Me a a Shan News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Addit biad Pensions Board Orginises % i Stratford. --Ald. Harry C. Clark 1s the Chairman of the Old-age Pen- sions Board, and A. J. Pigeon the Secretary. Other members of the board are: Mrs. J. Neal, City Trea- surer, Thomas Ballantyne, and Ald. Ww. T. Skidmore. ' Fire At Prescott Prescott. --Fire believed to have originated from sparks from an en- gine caused considerable damage: to a large storage building containing several hundred bags of feed belong- ing to T. W. Ralph, Prescott, near the tracks here last night. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Kaiser To Remain In Holland Amsterdam. --It was authoritatively stated here today that former Kaiser Wilhelm has not the slightest inten- tion of leaving Holland, although ex- piration of the German Defense of the Republic Act 'today appeared to remove any legal obstacle to his re- n to Germany. tur Hy: Takes Match to Seek Gas Leak Toronto.--Allen Ealey, 218 Sher- bourne street, smelled gas in his home last night and began looking for a leak with a match. He found the leak. Damage to the house done by the 'explosion and resultant fire, was confined to $100, according to official estimates. ' Veterans Get Job St. Thomas. --The returned men had their inning today when the board of education filled the janitorships in four public schools, made vacant by dismissals. The four appointed are all ex-soldiers and were recommend- ed by the St. Thomas legion They are: Harry McLean, Arthur Coon, James Reilly and _Aaron Palmer, Suslatchewan ion Regina. -- No harvest excursio ing from Eastern Canada will be sought this year by the Saskatchewan Government, it was announced today by Thomas Molloy, Deputy Minister of Railways, Labor and Industries, prior to. his departure to attend the conference tomorrow in Winnipeg on Western Canada's. harvest require- ments. *x ¥ 0% Catches 5 34-Pound Bass Brantford--J. Simons, Newport, has set a record here for a large mouth black bass with 3 five and 2a quarter-pound . specimen, which he caught in Oakland pond and brought to the city, today . The best last year was four pounds, and that was con- sidered a beauty" - Dress ht in Hay Loader Ingersoll--Her dress caught in a hay loader which was in operation on the farm of W, W. Nancekivell, North Oxford, where her father is employed, Edith Bott, 9-year-old daughter of George D. Bott, received painful injuries. Her dress was blown into the machine by a gust of wind, and injuries inflicted to her body by the hooks required ten stitches. ; ; * kX U.S. Driver Exonerated Tilbury.--The coroner's jury em- panelled to inquire into the death of five-year-old Stanley Reume, who was Yilled on Highway No. % last day afternoon, by a car driv Fun Wesley Yost, 8103 Radcliffe avenue, Detroit, returned a verdict that the fatality was purely acciden- tal and that no blame could be at- d to anyone. . tache ye Bodies Recovered From Lake Windsor.--The bodies of two rum- runners who are believed to have been drowned while attempting to cross Lake Erie with liquor from Canada, were recovered today near Monroe, Mich. The bodies were identied as those of Harold Corneil, 35, of Saginaw, and Phillip Teachout, 35, of Pontiac, American police be- lieve their boat had been upset in the heavy seas last Friday night. : Found Dead in Bed : Brantford--N. K. Bell of the in- dustrial firm of B. Bell & Sons, St. George, was found dead in be vesterday morning. Coroner D. Hutton of Brantford decided an in- quest was unnecessary, death being caused by a heart attack. Mr. Bell last winter was the victim of an acci- dent on the Dundas Highway, after- ward suffering from nervous attacks. He was a bachelor, in his sixty-third year. He had retired last night, ap- parently in his usual Health. Governor of New York Prescott.--Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his official party on board the yacht Inspector were in port here yesterday afternoon await- ing Hon. William Phillips, United States Minister to Canada, and were given an official welcome by Mayor W. J." L. Kugher and representative | citizens of the town, Governor Roosevelt was en route to Ogdens- burg, where upon his arrival he was tendered a big reception, The entire population turned out to greet him, No Harvesters' Sought by WEATHER Pressure is high over the east- ern half of the continent and on the Pacific coast and rela- tively low over Newfoundland and to the westward of the Great Lakes. Light scattered showers have occurred in east- ern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and from southern Ontario to the Maritime Provinces, but the weather over the Domin- ion has been mostly fair and warm. Forecasts: Lower Lake region and Geor- Bay--Moderate easterly to southerly winds, mostly fair and war fomht and Thurs- dag; pro scattered thun- f GEEbOTEIS oe ik OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. FOURTEEN PAGES KILL ON ROAD NEAR OSHAWA Britain Cancels Naval Construction Program | 1 {JAMES FREW OF TORONTO STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE LEADS WAY IN NAVAL REDUCTION Suspend Work on Two Cruisers, Cancel Building of Submarine Depot Ship, Cancel Contracts for Sub- marines und Slow Down Other Naval Construc- tion U.S. AND BRITAIN MAKE FRESH START Will Not Allow Technical Points to Override Great Public Issues, Declares British Premier London, July 24.--Prime Minis- ter Ramsay MacDonald announced in the House of Commons today the British Government had decid- ed to suspend work on the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, to cancel the building of the submar- ine depot ship Maidstone, to cancel two contracts for submarines anu to slow down dockyard work and other naval construction. MacDonald said the British nava construction program of 1929-30 would further be considered befare any further commitments are en- tered into. The Prime Minister said: "I am now in a position to make a state- ment as'to the immediate intention of the government regarding the naval building program. "The government's general po- sition is that the defence of the country must be devised with two main, considerations in view. "First, the chances of defenses having to be used, and then the effi- ciency and economy shown in' their magnitude and character. "The government has kept in view the changes in policy and in the problem of national' security as affected by the peace pact if that pact is to be made an effective in- fluence in international relations. "To. make it so is the controlling purpose of the government, and a systematic policy is being develop- ed which will take a little time to complete to carry out that inten- tion. "It is well known that in the midst of multifarious concerns which the formation of a new government en- tailed and the specially pressing and complicated nature of our tasks, conversations have Been actively car- ried on between the United States and ourselves for the purpose of opening the* way for agreement on naval matters which hitherto have defied settlement. : "By. happy coincidence our as- sumption of office corresponded in time with the arrival in this coun- try of the new American ambassa- dor, General Dawes, who came to this country charged by the Presi- dent of the United States with a mis- sion to prepare the ground for an international agreement for reduction and limitation of naval armaments." "Already the whole field of these differences with the United States has been surveyed and the two gov- ernments have made a fresh start in their solution. "We have agreed upon the prin- ciple of parity. We have agreed *(Continued on Page 5) Earl Joins Ranks Of Socialists (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, July 24.--The Daily Ex- press today said the Earl of Kim- noull has aplied to the Socialist party for admisison and has been accepted. He frequently has at- tended debate in the House wu. Lords during the present session and will add to the numerical strength of the Laborites in the Upper House. A year ago he married Mary Ethel Isobel Merrick, daughter or the London night club proprietess, Mrs, Kate Merrick. Where Lake Liners Will Go Ferough Under Own Power BUSINESS MEN RISE TO OCCASION Wainwright Takes Steps to Clean Up After Disast- rous Fire (By 'Canadian Press Leased Wire) Edmonton, Alta, July 24.----Wain- wright business men are rapidlv get- ting back into position where they can give their customers service, af- ter the disastrous fire of Sunday. Garages that were formerly behind residences on the outskirts of the town have been pressed into service and 'by placing a window or two in the structures, building a counter and arranging for a single deor; merch- ants have been able to display groc- eries and other necessities. While some of the people are suf- fering from lack of suitable sleep- ing quarters, no one is in danger and bedding, clothing ard other articles that will enable them to live more comfortable until such time as they are properly housed, has all been de- livered from furniture dealers in Ed- monton. Aid for the fire sufferers may be sought from the provincial govern- ment, but nothing definite has yet been 'decided. Séveral government of- ficials visited the town 4nd surveyed the fire swept streets. Confer With Department Windsor.--Mayor Harry Drouil- lard of Riverside, and Dr. Paul Pois- son, M.P.P., North Essex, left last night for a conference in Toronto tomorrow with the department of public works, respecting Riverside's plans for construction of a break- water along the Detroit river and Lake St. Clair, GET TENDERS FOR REMOVING SHOALS J. P. Porter and Sons of St. Catharines, Were Lowest - (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Ont., July 24.--J. P. Port- er, and: Sons, of' St. Catharines, was the lowest tender for the contract of removing shoals in the St. Lawrence river near Brockville. The work 1s in connection with the deep waterway to Prescott in order to provide a channel wide enough and deep en- ough to accomodate the big Upper Lake boats when the new Welland ship canal makes it possible for them to reach Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. The Porter tender was $389 er cubic vard and there arc 78000 cubic yards to be removed. The Canadian Dredging Company, Midland, tendered $4.90; C. S. Bome Dredging and Construction Company, $5.48; St. Lawrence and Great Lakes Dredging and Construction Company, . Randolph and MacDonald, immer, . Gibson and Vanhostrand Credit is something men who have no money use to let the neigh- bors know they have money.--Chi- cago Daily News. : Alice, Circus Elephant, Does Not Fail to Remember Her Pal (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) St. Thomas, Ont, July 24.--The prodigious memory of elephants was well illustrated for St. Thomas resi- dents who learned that they were not the only ones to recall the death of Jumbo at the local station Sep- tember 15, 1895. Alice, 110 year old elephant and with Barnum's circus as companion to Jumbo when he was killed by a train here, came to town thismofn- ing with Christie's circus. When she stepped out of her wagon apd: agylw rived at the fatal spot she suddenly stopped, went down on her knees, stamped and writhed and trumpted shrilly. Eight other elephants began rampage at the sound and after keep- er G. W. Walker had pacified them with difficulty Alice had to cross the spot again to the lot, repeating her demonstrations of sorrow. The dog which is Alice's constant companion was used to bring her a- way and the other animals aftes- ma CANAL ENGINEERS DENY DAN GER TO CRAFTS The photographs here show views of the new Welland candl. which is expected to be completed by August, 1980, and through where, so it is claimed, the largest lake liners. will. be able to pass, under their "own power. without danger. Authorities have suggest. ed that ships will be unable to navigate under their own power, but this is refuted by canal engin- eers. (1) Lake Erie water press- ing against unwater. gate of Lock No. 8; (2) guard lock at regulat. ing weir, now 95 per cent. com. pleted; (8) freighters at Port Colborne unloading at elevator. No Breakin 'Great Drought Ten Million Gallons Water Being Saved Daily of Ai Empire Trade Is Progressing Overseas Empire Absorbs Nearly Half of United Kingdom's Exports (By C Press Leased Wire) ai (By George Hambleton, Ca Press Staff Correspondent) London, July 24.--The great drought continues without a real break in sight. Guisely, Yorkslire, is threatened with a cut-off in its main supply, having only enough water to last seven days. Halifax, Yorkshire, has 43 days' supplies left. In Halifax all supplies have been stopped from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. This saves a million gallons a day. Light rainfall has done little to relieve the situation in Manchester, which has just 26 days' supply in reserve. By appeals for economy in water usage and various devices, 10 million gallons a day are being saved. ; Lincolnshire"s wells and streams are drying up. Water {is being taken by cart to outlying home- steads. Heat Claims Five Lives Warsaw, Poland.--Five deaths in this city alone have resulted from the heat wave and two others were killed by lightning during a violent thunderstorm. Numerous forest fires 'had been reported during the past few days. Earthshocks Felt In Iceland London, July 24, -- Reykjavik despatches to the London Daily Mail today said the southwest coast of Iceland yesterday at5 :45 p.m. (1:45 E.S.T.) experienced its most severe earthshock in 50 years. Big concete buildings in the capital swayed and terror-stricken inhabitants abandoned all houses in a few seconds The shock was most severe near Mount Hekla. No casualties have been report- ed. Many of the island's residenus spent last night under the open sky. Exchange Telegraph Company despatches from Reykjavik saw that city semed not to have suffer- ed much beyond cracked walls and tumbled chimneys. Barnardo Boy Missing Chatham. --George H. Lombrenos, a Barnardo boy, who has been mak- ing his home with H. Beatty, Dover township farmer, for more than a year, has been missing since Satur~ day and the police have been asked to aid in the search. The lad, 'who is 16 <vears of age, left the Beatty home while members of the family were away Saturday afternoon. His bicycle is also gone. @iip London, July 24.--A striking re- view of the progress of trade with- in the Empire is contained in the third annual report of the Empire Marketing Board, made public to- day. The report says the tide of Empire is flowing strongly, with the dominions and colonies able to supply more and more the needs of the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom is finding in the Empire overseas a growing de- mand for British goods. Already, with many of the do- minions and colonies only on the threshold of '"'economic manhooa,* the overseas Empire absorbs nearly half of the United Kingdom's ex- ports, though it comprises just a quarter of the world's surface and population. The report includes a survey of the leading exports in the past half century, showing every dominion and colony has advanced from a relatively modest position into that of important contributors and pur- chasers in the great markets of the world. Investigating | Mystery Fires /By Canadian Press Leased Wire) fttawa, Ont., July 24.--Police in- vestigation in conection with mys- terious outbreaks of fire at the home of George Armstrong, on Gloucester street here, took on new life when an incendiary blaze de- stroyd a shed at the rear of the house yesterday. Three fires which occurred last week were of minor nature and caused litttle damage. But the latest) laze re- sulted in a $400 loss. Members of the Armstrong fam- ily are unable to offer any clue which might result in identifying the supposed pyromaniac. Cleaning Clothes With Gasoline Is Fatal Winnipeg, Man, July 24--Cleaning clothes with, gasoline and smoking at the same time proved fatal for Fred Weston who died of severe burns here Tuesday. He received his injuries a week ago when he drop- ped a cigarette into a gasoline con- tainer. - ae Ao = $13,000 NARGOTIGY refurn, SEIZED BY POLICE Men Face Charges Under Narcotics Act (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Man., July 24. -- A thrilling incident experienced by a squad of Royal Canadian Mount ed Police officers in the course of a $15,000 Narcotics Drug seizure, as a result of which four local men now face chgrges under, the Narcot- ics Act. Snooping down on a farmhouse on the Rosser road a short am- tance west-of the-eity.- the officers were suddenly confronted in the dakness b ythe excited occupant of the dwelling--Arthur L. Fowley --who, believing they were bandits, met them at the door brandishing a shotgun in their faces with gun pointed ready to fire, Fowley re- fused them entrance The officers refused to retreat, and finally the house owner was convinced it was not a bandit raid. Search of the house revealed 21 grains of heroin which had been cached there. Fowley denied knowledge of the cache, and later investigations showed him not to be implicated. Yesterday, Fowley faced a charge of obstructing police offic- ers in the course of their duties, but was granted a stay of proceed- ings. Of the four men awaiting trial of the Narcottics Act, one is Pat Cann, former amateur base- ball star. WAR WITH STATES 1S UNTHINKABLE First Lord of Admiralty En- dorses Statement of Austin Chamberlain London, July 24.--First lord of the admiralty Alexander endorsed in the house of commons today 2 Four statement of Sir Austen Chamber- lain on Feb. 8, 1928, that 'pre- parations far war with the United States have never been and never will be a basis of our policy in any case." The statement of the first lord of the admiralty was made in reply to a question whether it was the Labor government's intention to rule out entirely the United States as a possible enemy. Sir Austen Chamberlain, then British secretary for foreign affairs on Feb. 8, 1928, declared in tue house of commons that war with the United States was unthinkable and that the prospect of war with the United States or of preparation for war with the United States had never been and never would be the basis of British policy. The foreign minister was discussing' arbitra- tion. British ship building, he said, was not competitive and Great Bri- tain's programs were framed with only a view to the necessary pro- tection of British interests. Hailstones Big as Eggs Lindsay.--A storm of short dura- tion passed over here yesterday af- ternoon, the hail, in some sections, flatening tender crops. Hail as large as bantam eggs fell for a space of five minutes. Diver Breaks Neck Vancouver--A. Davidson, 43, was instantly killed last night when he dived from the springboard of a local swimming pool and struck his head against another swimmer who had SOVIET WHILE WALKING ROSSO-GHINESE OFFICIALS SEEK T0 END DISPUTE REPRESENT- ATIVE GIVES ASSUR- ANCE OF PEACE Many Incidents Point To- ward a Settlement With. out Arms (By Canadian Press Leasea Wire) Tokyo, July 24.--Advices from Manchuria today Indicated that Chinese and Russian officials were endeavoring to get together at Changchun in an effort to arrange a peaceful settlement of the Chin- ese eastern railway controversy. Despatches from Changchun to the Japanese news agency Rengo said that M. Melnikov, Russian con- sul general, had arrived there un- expectedly from Harbin thig morn- ing. He was accompanied by the Chinse commissioner for foreign affairs in Harbin, The consul general met Chang Tso-Hsiang, head of the Kirin pro- vincial government and chief lieuteant of Chang Hseuhliang, governor of Mwachuria, The con- Terénce was regarded as a signific- ant approach to direct Russo-Chin- es contact by which a peaceful settlement might be arranged. Several other incidents also point- ed in the same direction. Tokyo, July 24.--The Japanese war office has instructed the com- mander of Japanese garrison in Manchuria to permit the transport of unarmed Chinese troops and military supplied along the south Manchurian railway so long as no actual acts of warfare have occur- red between China and Soviet Rus- sia. (Advices received in London yesterday indicated that the Japan- ese would refuse to tansport Chin- ese troops and munitions over the South Manchurian railway to Changchun where it joins with the Chinese eastern). Paris, July 24.--Ambassador Dovgalevsky, Soviet representative in France, called on foreign min- ister Briand today and {is under- stood to have again assured the French Minister that Russia in- tended to make every effort to re- main on a peaceful footing with China. He thanked foreign minister Briand for the friendly interest of France in a peaceful solution of the Russo-Chinese difficulty but said that he regretted China itself had made it hard for Russia to proceed as Briand had suggested, to direct conversations seeking a settlement, Young Golfers Hole in One Sandwich, England, July 24--The hole in one by nine-year-old Maurice Regimbal at North Bay, Ontario, two days ago, provoked comparison with the only other similar recorded in- stance. Percy B. Lucas of Sandwich, 10 years of age at the time, holed out from the tee at the third hole on the princes' golf course here, the drive measuring 154 yards, so that fowned 'by age and distance considered the performances were somewhat similar. ON ROAD Car Which Struck Man Was Driven by Mrs, Allan M. Phillips, 69 Park Road N., Who Declares She Was Blinded by Glaring Head " lights TWO OTHER MEN SUFFER INJURIES Automobile Ran Into Men As They Were Walking Towards Oshawa at a Late Hour Last Night-- Inquest Opened This Afternoon James Frew, aged 23, of 45 Wy att avenue, Toronto, was almost instantly killed, and John Kenneuy, and Robert Hutchinson, whose ad- dresses are so far unknown, in an accident on the Kingston highway, about one mile west of Oshawa, at 11.30 last night. Kennedy and Hutchinson are in the Oshawa uen- eral Hospital, where they are ex- pected to recover. : The three men were walking to+ gether with the traffic on the south side of the highway, Somiog to- wards Oshawa. The car, which wat 5 Allan" pnulps: FH Park road north, and driven by Mrs. Phillips, struck the men from behind. Mrs. Phillips stated this Morning that she had been blinded by the lights of an approaching car and did not' see the men. ! Died Quickly : Frew was terribly injured, and died almost immediately. The three were rushed to the hospital in tne Phillips' car, but Frew was pro= nounced dead upon arrival there. Kennedy and Hutchinson sufferew considerably from shock and also sustained minor cuts and bruises, but as far as could be learned bw the hospital staff this morning, they suffered no internal injuries, They are being attended by Dr. H. Lewis, of Dr. T. W. G. McKay's office. The Oshawa police departments was immediately notified of 'the accident, and Sergeant M.- Bowman, went to the scene of the mishap. He stayed on duty there until Pro- vincial officers T. Mitchell and C. Taylor arrived, and took over the case, as the accident occurred a the township of East Whitby. : Stepped in Front of Car Mr. Phillips stated to The Times today that the three men had step- ped off the highway to allow an- other car; in front of the Phillips" car, to pass, and had stepped back right in front of the Phillips' auto- mobile, giving no time for the drive er to either swerve and miss them, or stop. The men had walked all the way from Toronto, Mr. Phillips said, and were very weary and ap- parently had not noticed his cas approaching them from the rear. Inquest Ordered Coroner F. J. Rundle has order- ed an inquest into Frew's death; and the preliminary sitting was held at three o'clock this afternoon, when the jury viewed the body and adjourned. Working Union Men Vote New Orleans, La.,--Organized las bor last night voted against calling a general strike in New Orleans in sympathy with the striking street car men, but agreed to donate five pen cent of their earnings to the idle union. conductors and motormen for the duration of the strike. St. Malo, France, July 24--Pipe all hands down the fo'cas'le head of the. good ship Alcyon and you will see the strangest crew ever come tumb- ling on deck--20 sailor girls in com- plete seaman's rig, even to bell-bot- tomed trousers. The Alcyon is the first school ship for women in the world. The idea js mainly to provide a new kind of phy- sical training for girls in addition to a knowledge of seamanship gained in cruises along the French Atlantic and Mediterranean Coasts. Wealthy society women have shipped in'her and other craft are being outfitted to cope with the sudden smart rush to become female mariners. Once an Iceland cod-fisherman, the Aleyon' is a barquentine fitted with motors and a hard craft to sail When the ship is at sea, the girls scurry aloft in the rigging with the dived just before him, His neck was Droken, Tras a rg dl A agility of midshipmen. : Since 'the task of runnipg the ship * - Former Iceland Barquentine Manned Entirely by Girls (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) entirely on their own is somewhat off a drain on girlish stamina, a sailing crew of five men, including Capt Hebert, a retired naval officer, saily with them. Madame Hebert chaper< ones the girls. . The life is fairly exacting at sea, The girls work hard. They cook and. clean, holystone the deck when necessary, furl the shrouds, pipe th captain aboard, "man" the rigging ind make themselves generally use« ul. Most of them sleep in hammec) and eat all together in their gener messroom, taking turns as cabin boy and galley cook. All dressed up in their sailor suits, they are a trim lot. Their trousers and blouses are white linen and they wear the traditional beret of the Bre« ton fishermen. Curls escaping from under the berets are about the only thing to indicate the crew of the Ales yon are got regular jolly jack tars. r