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AR the 1 Wht, 1 RI News" > oF | @ hawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Published ot Ockaws, Out ack Brebit, member of the ung orkers' o ization, was arrest onthe outskirts of the city by Chief Jones of Crowland township yester- against the Ni seizure of the Manchurian railroad. Charge Dismissed Stratford --A charge of reckless 'driving against John Messner of Kitchener, a a sequel to an accident that occurred on the highway near New Hamburg July 11, was dismiss- ed in police court Saturday morning by Magistrate Makins. Tanker Hits Iceberg Halifax.--Badly damaged on the port side at the bow by striking an iceberg on Saturday, July 20, the British tank steamer Vimeira, Cap- tain Finlayson, was towed into this port yesterday by the British tanker Olna. Captain Finlayson said that at no time was there any thought of danger and the crew behaved splen- didly. . Mutiny Among Csinese Troops Moscow.--Reports from Chita, Si- beria, last. night said that Chinese troops at Fudiadian, near Harbin, had mutinied and raided shops and homes. Despite reassuring state- ments from the authorities, business houses in Harbin were said to suspending operations, while fears of the inhabitants increase. Undergoes Operation London, Ont.--A, minor nasal oper- ation, 'performed by Doctors : John Macgregor and Septimus 'Thompson, is the cause of the confinement in St. potepirs 'hospital of Hon. John C. ott, minister of public works Mr. Elliott is re- ir to bein qutisfagtory condi in a g Toe and. he is 'to leave the hospital Wednesday. . Soviet Envoy in London London. -- Valerian Dovgfialevsky Soviet. ambassador to France, ar- rived here from Paris last night. It was expected that he would have his first interview to-morrow with Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, minister of foreign affairs, on the procedure for resumption of diplomatic and commercial relation between the So- viet Union and Great Britain, ; Hold Picnic at Island Toronto--Postoffice veterans, mem- bers of the Canadian legion, were on picnic in force with their families on when the inital efforts of the newly Centre Island . Saturday . afternoon, formed ladies auxiliary helped the party to a complete success. Mrs. Smith, 70, won the special rize for .the oldest lady present and Ber. Thornton, 62, got the prize for the oldest man, °' Fliers Welcomed New York, N.Y.--Roger Q. Wil- liams and Lewis A. Yancey, whose transatlantic flight to Rome early this' month, was interrupted by a storm near Santander, Spain, re- + turriéd yesterday on the liner Repub- lic, : 'Despite the fact that it was Sun- day, the fliers were given a rousing welcome by an official welcoming party. Victims of Warship Tragedy Volo, Greece--~The sixteen marines killed in an explosion aboard the British cruiser Devonshire were bu- ried here Saturday with full military honors. British sailors commanded by Vice Admiral Kelly participated in the ceremony, which was wit- | nessed by a large crowd of townsfolk . After intefment had been made re- . presontatives of - the 'Greek govern- ment laid wreaths on the graves. Lh ' ort! ay. --Pleadin| ilty to , theft from the mails, Wittfar ham, aged 40; an ex-employee of the , North Bay Postoffice, was. sentenced to three years in the Portsmouth Penitentiary by Magistrate Weegar. | 'Lynham was arrested: in a recrea- 'tion club. When searched a marked _one-dollar bill was found in his pos- session, Postal officials testified that letters had been missing regularly for some time, stispicion eventually fast- | 'ening itself on Lynham. WEATHER : A deep deprssion is passing States and Pacific Coast. Showers and thcnderstorms have been.general from On- tario eastward, while in the Western provinces the wea- ther has been fair and warm, Forecasts: Yower Lake Region and 3 n Bay, Ottawa and Up- St. Lawrence Valley. Mod- erate to fresh westerly winds; fair and 'warm today and Tuesday. § 5 liam Lyne |. 1,500 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Conts a Copy, - TWELVE PAGE LANCASHIRE 18 Lives Claimed By Drownin HALF MILLION COTTON SPINNERS AND WEAVERS REFUSE TO START WORK Every City and Town in Lan- cashire Is Affected by the Strike, Which Is Expected to Cause a Loss in Wages of About $5,000,000 Weekly BLAME EMPLOYERS FOR SITUATION 100,000 Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers May Be Thrown Out of Work as a Consequence of the Cot- ton Strike--Miners Will Also Be Affected Manchester, England, July 29.-- The biggest stoppage in the British industrial world since the famous general tsrike of 1926 and the great- est tie-up in the cotton industry for a decade began in Lancashire today with approximately half a million hands idle. Some 1,500 mills, scattered over a wide territory but centreing in this big industrial city, were affected by the dispute in which the workers re- mained away from the factories ra- ther than accept a wage cut of 12¢. per cent, The heart of the British cotton in- dutsry is faced with probably the worst time in its Jong and frequently troubled history since mediation by the ministry of labor has failed. Fig- ures on the number of mills continy- ing to work at the old rates or in which the workers accepted the cut were slowly coming in £3 ted at noon that not more than a score of plants were operating with any degree of effectiveness. The strike 'was automatic, having been decided upon Saturday. - Last minute efforts to avert it Saturday and Sunday failed. It affected al- most the entire Lancashire cotton in- dustry with the exception of a few plants outside the Employers' Fed- eration which were still operating. It was the outgrowth of continued depression in the textile trade which three weeks ago led to an announce- ment by employers that a 12 1-2 per cent. reduction in wages would be made effective Saturday. The work- ers' 'unions refused to accept the reduction and = ordered the strike when efforts at negotiating their diff- erences were rebuffed by the employ- ers. Nearly every city and town in Lan- cashire was affected by the strike, which was expected to cause a los in wages ot about zi,U00,000 (about $5,000,000) 'weekly. All mills were open- as usual today for the work- 'ers but the unions were staunch in their defiance of the order. : Few Mills Open oe Mills remaining still open were those whose owners are not members of the Masters' Federation, They an- nounced yesterdav thev could contin- ue paying the old wage rate tempor- arily. They employed only a few thousands, however, out of Lanca- shire's half million workers. The ministry of labor, guided by Miss Maggie Bondfield, its minister, continued 'today its efforts to recon- cile the disputants but it was consid- .ered a hopeless task at least for the present, There was.a possibility Pre- mier MacDonald would attempt to harmonize the situation. Some, in reckoning the probable effect of the strike on other indus- tries, estimated 80,000 to 10,000 bleachers, dyers and finishers would be thrown out of work shortly or reduced as a result of the strike, The (Continued on Page 2) WL SEPTUAGENARIAN CYCLIST 'J. B. Grey, 64, Ottawa, known as the '"'eyeling, missionary;" who has just ridden his bicycle from Ad to Toronto to attend to personal busi- ness. id such dist: | Three Killed in Air Collision Two Gypsy Moth Aero- planes Crash in Mid-air London, July 29.--Three per- sons were killed in the collision of two gypsy moth aeraplanes in mid- air over Valley Farm, Kingsbury, today. Ome machine came down in flames, The occupants of the planes, which were believed to belong to the Stag Lane aerodrome, had not been identified this afternoon. NONE NEEDED (Christian Seience Monitor) Lady of the House: "Who was that at the doof, Dinah?" Dinah: "Sum pusson dat done want to sell you a vacuum clean- er." Lady of the House: "And what did you tell him?" Dinah: "Ah tol' him we ain't got any vacuum." {LEAVE WEDNESDAY Tacoma Crashes on Tokyo Take-off GRAF ZEPPELIN MAY Feverish Preparations Being Made for Atlantic Crossing Friedrichshafen, Germany, July 29.--Feverish activity prevailed to- day in the Zeppelin Company works to make the big airship vrar Zeppelin ready for her second flight over the Atlantic to America on Wednesday morning. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible, advanced the date for its departure after yesterday's successful test flight over southern Germany showed all the new mo- tors were working satisfactorily. Failure of the motors spoiled the attempt of the Graf Zeppelin to fly to the United States in May. PILOT CANADIAN ded the proposed monm- stop flight from Tacoma, Wash., to Tokio, Japan, yesterday, when the aeroplane City or Tacoma (shown TOP) was wrecked in the take-off from Tacoma Field. The pilot, Lieut. Harold Bromley (BOT- TOM), a Canadian from Vic- toria, B.C., was 'uninjured. The plane, a Lockheed Wasp- powered monopiane, swerved after travelling 150 feet down the runway, then crashed on yg. its right wing. The pilot leaped from the cockpit. GAIN IS REMANDED ON SERIOUS CHARGE Said to Have Admitted Beat- ing Little Betty Perry (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Ont., July 29.--Fred- erick Roy Cain, 40, charged with a serious offence against nine year old Betty Perry, East York Town- ship," was. remanded without hail until August 6 when he appeared in County Police Court today. He is charged with abduction the little girl under pretence of obtaining a companion at a sum- mer camp for a fictitious daughier of his own. Sergt. Wilkinson stated that Cain had admitted to him that he had beaten the little girl but denied that he had been in- And Accidents TWELVE VICTIMS CLAIMED BY LAKE AND RIVER IN RUSH TO ESCAPE HEAT No Reliet From Drought in West Edmonton Was Hottest Point Registering 102 Degrees (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Man., July 29.--Not the slightest relief from the wide- spread drought that is rapidly deteriorating all grain crops in western Ganada is in sight. There may be scattered showers on the prairies during the next 48 hours, but of a general rain that is so much needed there is no prospect. Th West experienced another dry and hot week-end, with tem- peratures ranging between 85 and 100 degrees. Edmonton, Alta., was the hottest point west of the Great Lakes with a mark of 102 degrees, A few points reported light showers, but they were widely timate with her. scattered. Aristide Briand, (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, July 29.--, Briand France's new premier will retain Intact the cabinet of his predeces- sor, Ramond Poincare, .save that M. Poincare will not be included in it. M. Briand will hold the post of and the portfolio of foreign af- fairs, the latter of which was his in the Poincare cebinet, The Premier called at the Elysee Palace at noon and told President Doumergue his decision. The Presi- dent concurred and then M. Briand called his cabinet meeting for 5 p.m, . He expected to present his min- isters to the President at 5 p.m: 11 a.m., E.S.T.) Prior to announcing his decision to the President, Premier Briand had tried to broaden his political support with addition of some ministers without portfolio and possibly some under secretaries of state, all of which posts would have gone to Radical Socialist members of the chamber. The idea was rejected however today at a party council. It was understood however,, the mew Premier would have Radical So- cialist support in the main pending problems of foreign affairs, such as negotiations with Germany, and affairs of the: League of Nations. Presdent Doumergue agreed that the old cabinet could obtain with- out difficulty a vote of confidence New Premier, Will Retain Poincare Cabinet Intact Plane Crashes France's Killing Pilot After Signalling All Going Well (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) Minneapolis, Minn.,, July 29.-- The endurance plane, the Minn- sota crashed into the ground at Wold Chamberlain field at 5.25 a.m. today killing Capt. P. J. Crichton and seriously injuring Owen Haugland, pilots, The plane plunged into the old concrete automobile racing track encircling hte field just five minutes after the ground crew had picked up a message from the Divers saying 'Everything is going fine." Preparations for making an- other refueling contact were under way by the ground crew before tha ship went into a spin, Crichton was instantly killed and Haugland was rushed to a hospital. The plane had been in the air 164 hours, 40 minutes. Members of the ground crew were unable to ascribe any reason from parliament that would send M. Briand to the Young plan con- ference and Geneva with adequate authority and prestige. It has been suggestd that the cabinet appear in parliament on Friday but it is possible that the date will be advanced although. it will take some time to reassemble the chamber of deputies and sen- ate which have adjourned. After leaving the Elysee palace, M. Briand said frankly that he had hoped simply to enlarge the government's majority by the ad- dition of men from the Radical Socialist ranks and recalled that M. Poincare himself had had this in mind. "I regret that I could not en- large the cabinet, but hope that it will not prevent me from en- larging the majority," said the new premier. "My cabinet therefore is a ready-made one and remains what it was with.this difference, that it no longer has at its head my friend Ramond Poincare which deprives it of great force. FRENCH AVIATRIX GLAINSNEW RECORD (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Le Bourget, France, July 29.-- Mlle. Maryse Bastie, woman aviator, landing her plane early to- day claimed to have made a new endurance record, remaining aloft 26 hours and 46 minutes. This she claimed was 22 minutes more than the mark held by Elinor Smith. Mlle. Bastie landed this morn- ing after a night in the fog and tor the crash. Some witnessed be- lived that the flyers sacrificed too much flying speed to drop what was their last message. They were up only 200 feet when the plane went into a spin, France wants to bar a lot of our movies. If she succeeds, maybe she'll tell us how she did it.--Syra- cuse Herald. » 3,000 HORSE POWER WOTOR SPEED BOAT Arrives From England to be Tried Out at Mus- koka Halifax, N.S.,, July 29.--Batty Carstair's new motor boat, built in East Cowes, England, was. landed here from the Red Star liner Ara- bic on Saturday and will be rushed to Muskoka, Ont., for tuning up and trials, after which it will be taken to Detroit to race for the motor boat speed championship. © Named the Estelle IV and carry- ing the British flag painted on both sides, the craft is 35 feet long and 9 feet 6 inches beam, built of Honduras cedar, She has bow and stern rudder comtrol and is equipped with a triple screw racing napier engine, developing 3,000 horse power. Hach engine 1s a twin of twelve cylinders. It was reported that H. B. Freening, Toronto, a - motor en- thusiast, will help Miss Carstairs five hours of rala. i ¥ ito race her boat, Two Killed as Convicts Battle For Freedom Eight Convicts Believed to Have Escaped From Auburn Jail Auburn, N.Y., July 29.--Follow- ing the example set by their fellow- convicts at Clinton prison, Danne- mora, last Monday, more than 1, 700 inmates of the Auburn state prison battled for more than five hours yesterday, using rifles, pis- tols, and fire in a desperate at- tempt fo gain their freedom. When guards and convicts alike drew back to reorganize their forces after thd bitter fighting of the first five hours, the results of the attempted prison break were: Two convicts killed. Four guards shot, one seriously. Eight convicts believed to have escaped. A fire $250,000. It was believed that some of the fiercest fighting of the day was yet in store for the guards, reinforced by state troopers, when they shoud attempt to dislodge the convicts who had taken shelter in the cloth- ing shop. While the riot was by no meuns at an end, Warden Edgar S. Jen- nings reported that after five hours the situation was believed to be in hand. There still remained be- fore the harassed guards the prob- lew of routing the convicts en- trenched in the clothing shop; the hunting down of isolated groups 1m various sections of the prison en- closure and the check-up to deter- mine the exact number of those who had escaped during the tur- mofl. loss of aproximateiy Mad Desire to Riot The defeated hope for liberty turned to a mad desire to riot. Buildings were fired and the con- (Continued on Page 11) | MOST TRAVELLED DoG Lassie, owned by John Graham, official scout of the Chicago Motor Club of the A.A.A., visited Toronto Dry Agents Find Liquor on Yacht Proceedings Will Be Taken by State As Against Rum-runners Washington, D.C., July 29.--As- sistant secretary Lowman announc- ed today that customs authorities had found 30 or 35 cases of choice liquors concealed on the $500,000 yacht Margo, chartered by Lewis Mendelsohn, seized at Detroit Sat- urday. Mendelsohn had chartered the yacht from its Chicago owner, and after visiting Canada docked at Detroit. Customs inspectors were reported to have discovered the liquor in the bathroom and iu a hidden compartment, under a corridor carpet. Lowman said the evidence had been turned over tu the United States attorney who would proceed against the yacht and Mendelsohn as ordinary rum runners. FOREST FIRES ARE UNDER CONTROL Edmonton, Alta, July 29.--(CP)-- Fire Fighters after struggling with threatening forest fires in the dis- trict near Coal Spur, Alta, believed this morning they had prevented any chance of the flames jumping west- ward into large areas of valuable timber land. The steady advance of the conflagration was blocked Sun- day night by a wide strip of muskeg and the menace was practically elim- inated today. LONG DROUGHT ENDS IN GREAT BRITAIN Rain Now Falling Expected to Continue for Some Days London, July 2--The windows of heaven have at last been opened on these islands. A sudden and un- heralded end of the drought has brought relief to thousands of agri- culturists and to the worried water supply, authorities of innumerable municipalities, great and small. The rain,' which is expected to continue, breaks whatlin London at least has been the longest drought experienced Many great fdwn had been cutting off water supplies during the night and anxiously arranging for emer- gency supplies from any possible source, in some case hundreds of miles distant. Down in the southern counties farmers on the higher land had secured water for domestic and agricultural purposes by cart from yesterday in a trip that makes her gta} mileage 150,000 Endurance Flight Aviators Enter on Seventeenth Day Aloft in "St. Louis Robin" 8t.. Louis, Mo., July 29. -- Tire- lessly winging on toward an amaz- ing all-time record for sustained flight, the monoplane "St. Louis Robin," and its determined crew, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, spent their third Sunday aloft, en~ tering upon their seventeenth day this morning, cruising smoothiy 4,000 feet above Lambert-St. Lou- is field. At 7:17 am. (ES.T.) this morning they had been in the air en a sustained flightt 384 hours. The motor showed no signs os faltering and the pilots still haa no thought of coming down to earth before the last of this week, or until after they had reeled off 600 or more hours. To Jackson and O'Brine it was just another day in the sky, away from the sweltering heat of one w. the hottest days of the year, unw® far above the dust on the field be- low, where tens of thousands of persons gatherd to watch them. They did have a few 'Sunday calle ers," relatives and friends who went up in other planes periodical- ly to fly beside them and wave greetings. Also, there was "a Sunday din- ner" prepared by their wives, and the sight of a parachute jump or two and an airplane race below them for the amusement of the crowds. But the Robin kept to its beaten air path and droned on, pil- ing up hours onto the record, and each hour enriching its pilots by fractionally more than $116, UNSKILLED LABOR EXCEEDS DEMAND The available supply of unskilled labor is much in excess of the de- mand according to information given The Times today by the local em- ployment office. There are a number of laborers who are at present with out employment and available place- ments are few as there are no large city. The employment office expects that the situation will improve la- ter in the season however, as there is considerable paving and other pub- lic work to be undertaken. Skilled labor, particularly in the building trades, is stiii in demand and there are few brick layers, carpent- ers, and other artisans who are with. out employment in their particular trade. The fact that several local indust- ries are not employing mien in cer- tain departments on full time is re- flected in the situation facing the employment office. Several men who are engaged only on part time work fice for odd jobs. Although in previous years a large contingent - of harvesters have left Oshawa each fall for the western grain fields there is no immediate prospect for harvesters on account of the general opinion that there will be a smaller wheat crop this year. Labor is also plentiful at Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton and other west- construction projects underway in the| have made applications at the of-|- Mother and Daughter Killed When Auto Plunges Through Railing and Drops 65 Feet Intq Ravine MANY HIGHWAY ; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTY Seventeen-year-old Girl Ig Swept to Death from Lighthouse Pier at Port Stanley by Huge Wave Despite Heroic Efforts af Rescue _ Toronto, July 29.-- Eighteerd lives were claimed in accidents throughout the province over iad week-end. Twelve of these werd drownings following the rush tq the beaches to escape the heat wave which made this the hottest week< end of the summer to date. Six others were killed, five of the from motor accidents. Leonard George Munt, 8 yi old, of Lindsay, drowned in th Scugog river. i Earl Brown, Vespra township, from Barrie dock. | John Wright, Blenheim, kille when trucks collided in Xen county. i John Smistik, 19 yearé old, Chatham, second victim of true colision, ! "Eugene T. Mallloux, Windsory drowned in Lake St, Clair. Miss Lucy Himmell, Windsor, drowned in Lake St. Clair. Miss Grace Morris, 17 years old, of Hamilton, drowned at Po Stanley. Denis B. Kelly, of Corinth, N.Y.4 drowned at Britannia. . Louis Gauthier, aged 18, of Hull, drowned at Britannia. Otto Hanson of Point Edward drowned in St. Clair Riyer. Hector Cadieux, 21 years, old, of St. Eugene drowned in Ottaw: River. ' Christina Eaton, 8 years old, 2 Verral avenue, Toronto, drowned ™ Otto Hanson, 50, Point Edward, died in the St. Clair River suppos- edly from an attack of cramps. Mrs. E. Stark, Buffalo, Minne sota, was killed and her daughter, May Stark, was seriously injured when their car got out of control and plunged 65 feet through a rail- ing into a ravine along the inter- notional highway between Port Ar- thur and Duluth. Percy McGinnis, Toronto, died when his mototcycle bounded off the highway. Mrs. Annie Rawn, Toronto, slipped and fell down the- stairs of her home, sustaining fatal injuries. Two Killed in Crash Ridgetown, July 28.--The fore- man, John Wright of Blenheim and two members of a construction gang met death yesterdayswhen a loaded stone truck .crashed into a lighter truck filled with workers (Continued on Page 11) 27 years old, killed by div Financial Wizard Dies, Aged 72 New York, N.Y.--Charles Sumner Ward, financial specialist who was credited with raising millions of dol« lars for the Red Cross and the Y.M.CA. during the world war, died yesterday. He was 72 years old. WEDS NOTED PLAYWRIGHT Carlotta Monterey, well-known on the American stage, who was wedded by Eugene O'Neill, celebrated Ray. wright, in Paris recently. O'Neill was divorced by his second wife in July last. Copyrizht, 1920, Pacific and Atlantic iia Photos. In" the nearest available supolv. i ern points. 0) EA ls iA a a A AES: ll Al LA MA