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"Al the News While I Ie News" hawa Daily Times Succeed' fing The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Hinmpaper in 2 Growing City 1 A Fyblieed ot Oukavs. Ont Ca "VOL. 5--NO. 28° ay oo fy ; News in Brief (By Canadian Press) : 'Hotel Rideau Sold Smith's Falls.--C. O'Reilly yes- terday sold the Hotel. Rideau, Smith's Falls, to T. M. Powers of Brockville. The hotel was erected by Mr. O'Reilly in 1901, . * * - ! Injured Boy Weaker Port Arthur.--The condition of . Joseph Ogama, 6-year-old boy, who fell 100 feet off the Jackfish cliffs on Tuesday, is unchanged. Last night he partly recovered conscious ness, but to-day 1s unconscious, and is weaker. * * - Purchase Store Site 'Fort William.--Safeway Stores * of Los Angeles have purchased 66 feet on Arthur Street above and " immediately adjoining the Ruttan Block, Port Arthur, from Mrs, T. Penfold of this city, and will erect a groceteria. * * * Killed By Hayfork Buckingham, Que.--Alphonse Jo- aaisse, 18 years of age, was instant- 1y killed near Thurso yesterday when an automatic hayfork fell from a barn 'and one point passed through his lungs and heart. He was work- ing on the farm of Douglas Hardy, unloading hay. The Coroner decided Bn inquest unnocessary. =» Body Recoverd Montreal.--The body of John Stewplowsky of Thorold, Ont. was recovered from the Lachine Canal yesterday. Stewplowsky, who was a member of the crew of the Mon- treal Light, Heat and Power Com- pany's ship, the Keystate, was drowned on July 22 while the boat was docked at Ville Lasalle, a Mon- weal suburb. * ® * Body Recovered Montreal.--Tiie body of John Stewplowsky, 18, of Thorold, Ont., was recovered from the Lachine canal yesterday. Stewplowsky, who was a member of the crew of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power company's ship, the Keysate, was drowned on July 22 while the boat was docked at Ville LaSalle, a . Montreal suburb. * Drowned in Lake Kenoera, Ont, -- John Hermonson of Keewatin was drowned in Lake of the Woods yesterday when a boat in which he and three friends were rowing about 300 yards from shore capsized. Despite heroic efforts by "his brother, Ben, who also was an occupant of the boat, John sank he 'body has not been recovered. * Ld * ; Farm Congress Pretoria, South Africa.--The most important international con- gress of its kind ever held in "South Africa, the Pan-African Ag- ricultural Congress opened here today. Major Walter Elliott an- nounced the Empire Marketing Board contemplated establishing three Empire research fellowships, of $5,000 each to be held at the Ondersteopoort Laboratory at Pre- toria in the near future. * * %x $25,000 for Berth Howden, England. -- Several hundred applications, with offers ranging up to $25,000 'for a single "berth, have been received for the first trans-atlantic flight of the British-built dirigible R-100. The airship is now being inflated for trials here, but no date has been set for its flight to Samda. ¥ British Warship Docks Montreal.--Mis Majesty's ship Despatch, flagship of the Ameri- can and West Indies squadron, docked here Thursday night hav- ing sailed up the St. Lawrence from Quebec. Navigation of a class o be seen nowhere outside of the Foal navy brought this man o'war Jo her berth without tugs and to pler ten feet less than the length f the ship. * * »> Girl Jumps From Deck Buffalo.--The waters of Lake Erie between this city and crystal Beach, Ont., were being searched. yesterday afternoon for the body of an unidentified girl who was seen to leap from the deck of the steamer Canadiana. The only clue to the girl's identity was a pair of 'black high heeled shoes which she removed before taking the fatal plunge. Captain Oscar Wilcox of the steamer reported the suicide. Three Children Stricken Ottawa.--Infantile paralysis has been discovered in Ottawa, three cases being reported to the city health authorities. The sufferers are children from three to six years of age. : The outbreak while not regarded as alarming is receiving the most careful attention of health officials. The cases are not confined to any particular section - of the city, it was stated, but are. in different areas. WEATHER Thunderstorms have occurred in the Maritime Provinces and . except for a light shower in Northern Manitoba the weath- er has been fair in all other provinces. It has become cool- er in Saskatchewan and Al- berta. Pressure is high over the Great Lakes and low over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, North- ern Manitoba and Nebraska. Foxpcasts: : Lower Lake region, Georgian Bay and Northern Ontario: Light to moderate winds, fine and moderately warm. Satur day: Southeasterly winds, rtly cloudy with local thun- i dershowers, A GIANT Di 'Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. FOURTEEN PAGES IGIBLE WELL OVER ATLANTI TO MAKE Dr. Hugo Eckener to Chive] One of Two Routes When He Arrives Off the Azores OFFICIALS CONCERNED OVER SLOW PROGRESS Travelling Very Slowly When Compared to Its Successful Flight of 1928, Due to Adverse Weather Conditions (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Fredrichshafen, Germany, Aug. 2. --The dirigible Graf Zeppelin dispell- ed all anxiety over her failure to communicate her position to her home port since passing Gibraltar by an- nouncing at 825 am. (225 a.m, E. S.T.) today she was making good speed about 300 miles west of Gib- raltar, The Zeppelin works reported re- ceipt of the following message from the airliner: "825 a.m. central European time, (2.25 am, E.S.T.), 300 nautical miles west of Gibraltar, Travelling at 100 kilometers an hour, Weathzr good." This was the first message frem the Zeppelin at the home office since early morning. Her speed of 190 kilo- metres an hour made her average speed about 63 miles an hour. London, Aug. 2--A Lloyd's report from the Corunna, Spain, wireless sta- tion this afternoon said the dirigible Graf Zeppelin was out to sea on her way to the Azores well beyond, the pillars of Hercules and Gibraltar, The na wireless station in the commupication with the. dicigible 7 a. m, a, m, EST.), the Zeppelin gave her position as 36 lat- itude north and 10 longitude west. This would put her about 265 miles due west of Gibraltar, The big airship entered on' lier 3,- 000-mile journey across the Atlantic THREE ARMED MEN FOILED BY DRIVER OF HELD UP TAXI Believed by Police to be Same Gang That As- saulted Riley (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Ont, August 2--Held up by three armed men and ordered to drive along the Kingston road last night, Harold Goodfellow, taxi driver, managed to drive his car into a gas- oline station and wrench himself free from his captors. Although he had a large sum of money with him at the time he: was not forced to give it up. Police believe that these three men were the same who as- saulted another taxi driver, William Riley, who was hit on the head with a blunt instrument early Wednesday morning by passengers who after- wards escaped. Prince Meets 'Boy Scouts (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Arrowe Park, Eng, Aug. 2--~The Prince of Wales, representing . the King at the great world boy scout jamboree, today shok hands and fra- ternized with the youth of all nations in a tour of this great tent city of 50,000 youngsters. The boys all looked dry in spite of a long and ineffectual wait in the rain for the Prince last night and all but a very few were waiting for him this time with cameras, Apparently every boy scout was determined to be his own news cam- eraman, ay! WEATHER CONDITIONS IMPROVE ENABLING SHIP BETTER SPEED "Rum Runner Burns With $9,000 Cargo Cleveland, O., Aug. 2,--The Red Boy, a lake Erie rum runner, was burned to the water's edge, and its $9,000 cargo of Canadian ale de- stroyed in a mysterious fire and series of gasoline explosions four 'miles off Edgewater Beach today. Whether the crew escaped was not learned. Young Chinese Prince is Shot Mysterious Circumstances Surround Serious Wounding (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Tokyo, Aug. 2--~Chang Tsung Chang, former war lord of Manchur- ia, early today shot and seriously wounded Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of the. former boy emperor of China, Piu-Yi. Most mysterious circumstan- ces surrounded the affair, which Chang claimed was accidental. Chang's version of the shooting of the young Manchu was that a re- volver which he was handling upstairs at his hotel at Beppu, Island of Kui- shiu, exploded hitting the Prince who was standing in the garden below. Father and Sons Charged Pembroke.---Alex Ryan, farmer. Pembroke township, and his three sons Alex, Archie and How- ell, will appear before Police Mag- istrate W. K, MacGregor next Wed- nseday on a charge of arson aris- ing out of an alleged attempt to burn a bush lot owned by G. C. L. Cotnam of Pembroke. Bail was set at $2,000 for each when they appeared in court today. "Dlscosery id Raises Anchor Once More SAILS FROM Continuing the scientific invest. igations of the south polar regions begun in 1911 the Discovery, fam- ous vessel of Capt. Scott, left the East India docks this evening on another voyage to the Antarctic. iL EAST INDIA DOCKS FOR ANTARCTIC CRUISE Sir Douglas Mawson, commander of the expedition, will join the ves- sel at Cape Town. The expedition is being sponsored by the British. Australian and New Zealand gov- ernments and its aims include ex- amination of fishing possibilities and the economic resources of the region, as well as the commercial possibilities of whaling in the far south. Left, Sir Douglas Mawson and right the Discovery. Duchess Will Fly to India (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Lympne, Eng., Aug. 2.--The.Du- chess of Bedford, England's flying Duchess, started in her blue mono- plane today on an attempt to fly 10,000 miles to India and back in a week. Captain T. D. Barnard piloted the machine with Bob Little acting as engineer and second pilot. The plane is called the "Spider." "International Red Day" in Ontario Cities Passes Quietly Toronto, Aug. ug. Z.=-Celebration of 'International Red Day," in sev- eral Ontario cities, yesterday, pass- ed off quietly. Except for two ar- rests, Communists demonstrations were handled without recourse to prosecution and were. kept within bounds by police supervision. Swift action by Toronto police resulted in the dispersal of what had been advertised by Commun- ists as a monster mass meeting. Officers kept the crowd moving, leading Communists who were an- nounced as speakers were hustled away and the ground was cleared before the projected parade could materialize. Tim Buck, national organizer of the Communist party of Canada, is afflicted today with split lips and loosened teeth which he says were given him by police who rushed him away from the speakers' stand. At Sudbury police suppressea tne red parade after speeches had been: given by leading Communists and the affair was terminated without violence. Oscar Ryan, Toronto Communist, and S. G. Neill, com- mittee chairman of Sudbury, were arrested charged with obstructing the police and inciting an unlaw- ful assembly when they objected to the action of officers in stopping the parade.' A small crowd at Windsor heard four orators denounce China's stand in the far eastern dispute. Police ignored the meeting, follow- ing 'the position taken by Crown Attorney James S. Allan, who stat- ed the best method was to "let them rave as they do in Hyde Park." Kitchener authorities re- fused permission asked by Charles Sims, Toronto Communist, to speak from the city hall steps. Sims is said to have addressed a private club later. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Charlestown, Mass.,, Aug. 2.--Jess Harding Pomeroy rode out yesterday through the grim high gates of Charlestown State prison, his com- pulsory home for the past 53 years, on his way to Bridgewater State farm, about 40 miles away, It was the first time singe his in- carceration 53 years ago for the mur- der of Horace Millan, that the 68- year prisoner had seen the outer world, His transfer to the prison farm was arranged because he was ill. Shortly after 11.30 a.m. the prison. Muyrderer-Convict Sheds Tears Leaving Jail After 53 Years gates swung open and two automo- biles containing long term prisoners, including Pomeroy, filed out followed by two other cars containing news- papernien, Pomeroy was in the first automo- bile with two other prisoners and two agents of the Department of Correction, Pomeroy was. dressed in a gray flannel shirt, gray suit and black tic. His eyes were filled with tears, He had just bid good-bye to his fellow- prisoners as he passed down the long corridors from his cell to the ward- en's office, Flying Officer Goes to Jail Reckless Handling of Plane Results in Companion's Death (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Aug. 2.--A year's im- prisonment and dismissal from the Royal Air Force is the punishment meted out to Flying Officer Dennis Thomas as the result of an acci- dent last June in which Aircrafts- man Mason was killed. According to witnesses for the prosecution, Thomas flew an aero- plane along a winding road at a height of only 65 feet. He crashed into a string of telegraph wires and Mason jumped out, sustaining fatal injuries. BALDWIN SAYS GOVERNMENT RASH Disagrees With Interference With the Naval Programme ! (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Malvern, Worcestershire, Aug. 2.-- "Seven hundred men have been thrown out of work on the Cylde through cancellation of the order for a .submarine," said former Premier Stanley Baldwin here last night, speaking to his constituents. "I have no complaint if the government think they have a real chance of agree- .ment with other countries, but think it is unnecessary and rash in- terference with 'the existing naval programme.' Work has been suspended on two 10,000 ton cruisers. and two submar- ines, and a spot ship been cancelled. The vessels were all party of the long-term replacement programme agopeed by the Labor Government in Capone In Bomb Business Chicago.--*'Scarface Al" Capone, Chicago gang chief serving a jail sentence in. Philadelphia, was named today as head of a bomb trust uncovered by the arrest of 17 men here, "Shorty" Horne Toronto Hockey Player Drowns STAR RIGHT WINGER TORONTO MAPLE LEAF NATIONAL TEAM Wave Upsets Canoe---Boy- hood Companions ! Safe (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Gogama, Ont, Aug. 2--"Shorty" Horne, star right winger of the To- ronto Maple Leaf National Hockey League team, was drowned yesterday while on a prospecting trip north of here. The body has not yet been re- covered, With three companions from Sud- bury, Horne was thrown into the water when swamped by a wave and although he was the best swimmer in the party, he suddenly vanished from view. Two boyhood friends, Jak Jessop and Jack Stafford, Sud- bury, and another prospector by the name of Perdu were with him at the time, Born in Sudbury, George "Shorty" Horne broke into the hockey lime- light with the Sudbury Cub juniors of the Northern Ontario Hockey As- sociation, before he turned profes- sional, with the North Bay Trappers and Grimsby intermediates. He sign- ed with the Montreal Maroons in 1926. Illness handicapped his work there and he was sent to Stratford in the Canadian Professiohal Hockey League, His showing with Stretford led to Horne's being signed up by 'the To- ronto Maple Leafs last season with whom he became popular immediate- ly. He had spent the summer tramn- ing at his Fire Rangers' camp near Burwash Industrial Farm. Horne was 25 years of ag survived by three sisters an brothers. and is three SHORTY" HORNE Toronto Leaf player, drowned when canoe was by wave. Convict | Dead United States Penitentiary, Leav- enworth, Kans., Aug. 2.--One con- viet was killed, four others were shot, three dangerously and sev- eral were slightly injured in a riot at the prison here yesterday that lasted more than a half day before it was quelled. The riot started in the dining- Hon. Henderson's Attitude Upheld by British Press RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN, SAYS POST Jealous Lover Shoots His Rival Morristown, Pa. Aug. 2.--A jeal- ous suitor shot and killed Miss Ed- ith Basford and William E. tn- gram as they conversed in front of the girl's home here last night. The assailant, Earl Oberholtzer, then shot himself through the head. Physicians said today his chances for recovery were slight. Labor Retains Constituencies James Milner Elected at Leeds By-election De- * eating Brain Leeds, Eng, Aug. 2--James Mil- ner, Labor, was elected in the south- east Leeds by-election yesterday with 11,804 votes. His only opponent, Wil- liam Brain, Communist, received but 512 votes. Thus in the two by-clections since the general elections, the government supporters have retained constituen- cies which voted Labor en May 30. The by-election was due to the ele- vation of Sir Henry Slesser to the Bench as Lord Justice of Appeal. Sir Henry as' Labor candidate had an overwhelming majority over a Con- servative on May 30. The wheat growing area of Wes= tern Australia has beén increased in to nearly 3,00,0000 tiary at noon yesterday and kept up for six hours before the 3,758 convicts could be forced into their room of the United States peniten- cells. Gathering Clouds Promise Relief For Fi ire- -Gutted Areas Enjoys Music Before Hanging Plays Classical Records Be- fore Going to the Gallows San Quentin, Calif., Aug. 2.-- Strains of classical music echoed through the cells in condemned row as the state made ready to hang Russel St. Clair Beitzel on San Quentin's galllows at 10 a.m., today, for the murder of Barbara. Mauger, hig 19 year old common law wife in Los Angeles last year. Beitzel, apparently unmoved played record after record on a portable phonograph. He ate a hearty supper last night and or- dered a good breakfast for this morning. ITALIAN DELEGATE T0 REPARATIONS Premier Mussolini Today Named Mosconi, Minis- ter of Finance Rome, Aug. 2.--Premier Musso- lini today named minister of fin- ance Mosconi, chief Italian dele- gate to the Hague reparations con- ference on Aug. 6. Signor Alberto Pirelli of the Young plan committee, will again represent Italy as a delegate at the Hague. Together with Under- secretary for Foreign Affairs Fran- di and Ambassador Durazzo of the diplomatic corps. There will ne 9 technical experts, one secretary- general and six secretaries. Music Teacher Robbed Birch Cliff. --Thieves ransack- ed the home of J..M. Sherlock, well-known music teacher of Scar- boro village, during his absence. Mr. Sherlock was in a Toronto hospital at the time @nd it is not known now how much has been taken. The discovery was made by a neighbor who had been request- ed 9 the owner to watch the JDremises in his absence. 5 Winnipeg, Aug. 2.--Huge black clouds hovered promisingly over the fire-gutted districts of north- western Ontario today. The rain that hundreds of rangers and vol- unteer fire fighters in those iso- lated regions of bushland have im- patiently awaited is close at hand. They believe, and official weather predictions were that their hopes will be fulfilled tonight. Not one of the sections fire was rampant yesterday report- ed rainfall but the weather has re- tained its unsettled aspect, urging the fighters to work unceasingly to check the menacing blazes un- til they are stamped out by rain. Showers tonight would probably be sufficient to definitely thwart the advance of the raging flames. Weather all over the stricken area, as well as the head of the lakes, bears promise of immediate relief from the existing drought. Temperatures are quite low. Vancouver, B.C., Aug. 2.--A forest fire at South Wellington, Vancouver Island, which got out of control and jumped from the south to the north bank of the Nanaimo River, covered 150 'acres ahd fis being fought by a crew of forty men. Fire broke out in the Cedar dis- trict, south of Nanaimo, but after spreading to an ear of fifty acres, it. was brought under control by a gang of 25 fire-fighters. The weather continued hot and dry over the entire province. Nelson, B.C., Aug. 2.--About 580 men are fighting raging forest fires in the west Kootenay district. Mose of the blazes are being confined to narrow limits, but a big fire started today at Waneta, near the international boundary line south of Nelson. five years from about' 1,650,000 acers where | Foreign Secretary Wants Settlement Before Recoga nition; Soviet Wants Recognition Before Settles ment WOULD HAVE TO : EAT OWN WORDS Represents Complete Res versal of Labor's Attitudef and Abandonment of Car« dinal. Points in Labon Party Programme -- A (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Aug. 2.--The hitch im} the negotiations looking to re- sumption of commercial and diplo~ maic relations between Great Brit ain and Russia is featured in Lon- don newspapers today. The Daily Telegraph remarks that no one who followed the long course of the negotiations could fail to see that Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson's pro-: posals were much more than, the Soviet 'could agree to "withou eating their own words." \ "The Soviet Government's in-! tention was that relations should] be resumed, ambassadors. appoint. ed at once and discussions on nt matters outstanding between. the two governments should" f: said the Telegraph. "Mr. Hender-! son's reply was quite unexpected' in character. The Russian accpunt/ is highly colored 'and perhaps i not quite an accurate account o what was said, but the foreign of-4 fice statement shows Mr. Hender-| son spoke of setting up machinery] and he contemplated the possibility| at least of complete settlement of all outstanding questions before; parliaments reassembling in Octo- er. "This is a development of the policy on which the governmens DRASTIC TERMS OFFERED CHINA BY SOVIET UNION Take First Public Notice of Efforts for Peaceful Settlement Moscow, Aug. 2.--The Soviet Union Government, taking its first public notice of quasi-official ef-- forts to reach a peaceable settle- ment of the Chinese eastern rail- way controversy with China, today announced three drastic conditions to solution of the problem raised by Chinese seizure of the railro=d. The conditions were: (1) Libera- tion of Soviet workers and civil service men held in Maneharia. (2) Appointment by the Soviet govern- ment of both manager amd assist- ant manager of the disputed rail- road. (3) A conferemce to be call- ed immediately: far npgotiating JJentions arisiag out of the con- flict. In addition ft was said both Chi- na and Russia would have to agres to admit a status of the railway changed as a result of its seizure and subject to further change in accordance with the Peking and Mukden agreements of 1924. Maniac Kills Three Spartanburg, S.C.--Three men were killed, two others probably fatally wounded, and the entire west end of the city thrown into confusion here yesterday when T. Earl Robertson, a shipping clerk, becoming suddenly insane, ran' amuck with a hand axe. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Montreal, Aug. 2--An exciting chase which lasted for three hours and which brought pursued and pur- suer over house-tops through lanes and back yards, until finally a shot was fired from the constable's revol- ver was described by Elie Albert, of the High Constable's Office, in re- porting to his superiors yesterday the arrest of Hector Marsolais, 22 of Ma- rianna street, The latter was shot through the right arm by the con- stable and is now being treated for is wound at the Notre Dame hospi- tal, Armed with a 'warrant charging theft. Albert was assigned to serve it High Constable's Officer Ends House-Top Chase With Bullet on Marsolais. When the constable arrived at the address mentioned m the document, Marsolais appeared at the door and, after having the cou- tents of the warrant explained to him, agreed to accompany 'Albert to court, Shortly after they left the Marian~ na street house, however, Marsolais bolted and the chase followed. Over house tops they ran and on one oc- casion when Albert had cornered hus quarry the latter jumped from ihe roof of a two-storey building. Albert drew his revolver and fired. Marso- lais' surrender to the constable fol- lowed and after his arm had been treated he will leave the hospital io appear gn court, A rE ------ v