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Oshawa Daily Times, 6 Aug 1929, p. 1

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a Daily T Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Red Plane On Tour Berlin--The Russian plane "Wings of the Soviets" landed at Tempelhof acrodrome Monday en route home to Moscow after touring European cap- itals, M. Sarsar, Chief of Russian ci- vil aviation, expressed satisfaction with 'the tour. * * Riot in Narcotic Hospital Los Angeles. Calif.--A riot by in- mates on the Spadra state narcotic hospital near here yesterday result- ed in the escape of 13 men. The outbreak was quelled only after au- thorities, 'reinforced by a squad of deputy sheriffs, threatened the riot- ers 'with sawed-off shotguns. : ¥ % ft Tries to Electrocute Self 'Winnipeg--Unable to find employ- ment, Charles J. Redfern, a laborer, attempted suicide in a novel manner here Sunday night. Securing an iron bar, Redfern climbed a hydro pole. He touched a 60,000 volt wire with the bar, and was thrown to the ground. He suffered severe burns io the face and body and was uncon- scious: when picked up. * * Murdered Baby Toronto.--The body of a baby girl; with the top of her head crushed in, was taken from the turning basin at the foot of Carlaw avenue yesterday. Condition of the body points to mur- der, but clus to the identity of the child are totally lacking. The child was judged to_be one, year old, 3 A Sues for Lost Happiness New York.--Judge Riegelmann of the Brooklvn supreme court Monday dismissed a suit for compensation for "lost happiness," brought by Miss Sarah Geisenfeld, former Chicago stenographer, against Samuel R. Boggs, Philadelphia, former head of the Gideon society, which places Bi- bles in hotel rooms, * : Swept Over Falls Niagara Falls, N.Y.--Leaving a grey suit coat 'on the bank, a man, identified from papers in the coat, po- cket as Clarence Tuttle, Five Days Park, Buffalo, leaped over 'the rail. ing at Prospect Point, waded into the torrent and was swept to death over the American Falls at. 12.30 o- clock Monday. The body ha: not beeri recovered. * * » Gored and Tossed By Bull Winnipeg,--Gored and mauled by 2 bull, David Bruce, 50, pioneer far- mer of the Dacotan district, west of here, was so severely injured Sun- day that he died a few minutes after being found by members of his fam- ily, He was attacked by a two-year- old bull, gored and tossed into the bush' adjoming his farin. i Three Hines Wrecked Philadelphia, Pa.--A stick of dyna- mite with a flaming fuse was tossed from a speeding automobile Monday wrecking three houses in the north- ern part of the city. Hundreds of persons were terrorized by the blast but no one was injured. Police believe the explosion was taused by persons in sympathy with striking hosiery workers, : Take 52 Dead Foon Mine Tokio.--Fifty-two bodies have been taken from the Sumitomo Bantan coal mine, and it was believed 24 oth- er miners who are missing were dead. Of the number who escaped five were injured. Rescue squads who worked their way into the diggings following an explosion yesterday were handicapped by the extreme depth of the mine, The explosion occurred 36,000 fcet (almost seven miles) below ground. To Buil Pastel > Zeppelin Lakehurst, N.J.,--Dr. Hugo Ecken- er today disclosed that by the end of 030 a new Zeppelin, shorter and thicker but faster than the Graf Zep- pelin, would be completed at Fried- richshafen. The new ship, the master of the Graf Zeppelin said, will have eight engines instead of five, and will be 'able under similar weather conditions to make the trans-Atlan- tic trip 12° hours faster than the Graf, * » * Siner Stays in Jail Toronto--Louis M. Singer, K. C,, is still in Toronto jail and his legal advisers have not yet been success- ful in getting: him from behind the bars where hc was ordered to be committed following his refusel to tell Gordon Waldron, royal commission- er, all he knows about the Amal- gamated Builders' Council, The appeal made by Mr. Singer to Mr. Justice Newcombe, of the Su- preme Court of Canada at Ottawa ha$ not yet been decided, it was sta- ted last night, USING HIS HEAD A young fellow pamed Goldstein got a job as conductor on the Spring street trolley line, which averages $9 to $10 a day in fares. After two trips Goldstein turned in to the superintendent $19.85. The sup- erintendent looked at Goldstein and said, "You are a wonder Goldstein ; how in the world did you do it?" "Boss, I'll tell you," said Goldstein, "business was bad on Spring street, so I took the car up Broadway." WEATHER The depression over North. ern Quebec yesterday morning has passed to the Labrador Coast, causing showers in some districts "of eastern Canada. High pressure with mostly fair and comparatively cool wea- ther covers the Western Prove, inces. Pressure is low over the Southwest States. Forecasts: Lower lake re: gion and Georgian Bay--Mod- erate northwesterly winds; fair with not much change in temperature. Wednesday--' Moderate winds; mostly clou- | dy with scattered showers | Woman an even Children Lost in Bush Return Laundryman Shot to Death | at His Ironing Board-- Two Chinese Killed in Boston -- Police Deceived by Leaders LEADERS DENY PLANNING WAR Outbreak Declared to be Nation-wide-- Begun, It Is Believed, Over Rice Liquor Trade (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, N.Y., Aug. 6.--Prospects of one of the bloodiest tong wars in years were seen today by ad- ditional killings both in this city and Boston, bringing the dead to five in two days in addition to sev- eral wounded. A few hours after U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle and Samuel Sung Young, Chinese Consul General, had warned Tong leaders here that no violence would be tolerated pending a peace conference today a Larlem laundryman was shot and killed at his ironing board. Similarly in Boston two Chinese were shot and killed within a few hours after Tong leaders had as- sured the police there would be no Tong warfare in that city. Police officials said it was the first time Tong leaders had deliberately de- ceived them and expressed the belief the k illings would result in the bloodiest Tong war ever known. In Chicago and Newark, N.J, where the killings started with one death each on Sunday, a tense quiet prevailed. Police maintained close (Continued on page 2) TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRLINE MAY BE SOON ESTABLISHED Speed of Zeppelins Must be Increased Says Authorities (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Aug. 6.--Cabled reports from Lakehurst that the Graf Zeppelin's successful trip to Amer- ica probably would be followed soon with establishment of a regu- lar trans-Atlantic airline brought considerable speculation in London morning papers as to the possibil- ity of British competition. Greater speed, or at least a cut in elapsed time of the trips was held to a necessity for success of such a line and the hope was ex- pressed the two British giants now nearing completion, the R-100, and the R-101, would prove much faster, Sir Dennis Burney, M.P., head of the company which built R-100, talking to the Daily News, opined that the Graf's time did not give margin enough over fast steamers and an airship to be successful must be able to do a trip in G0 hours outward, and 48 returning. This would imply a cruising aver- age of 90 miles per hour. 21 Elevator Passengers Hurt New York, Aug. 6.--Twenty-one persons, five of them women, were injured when the elevator in which they were riding fell from the 7th' floor of a midtown loft building.to theb asement today. Two of the injured were said to be in a seri- ous condition. dnl' § 11 Dead--Three Missing Ostend, Belgium.--Latest casualty lists show 11 dead, 23 injured and 5 missing in the Ostend harbor disast- er Sunday, when two pleasure steam- ers crashed. Nine bodies have been recovered. Twenty-one survivors are in the Ostend hospital. | conference some trouble, but is 'proportionate FIVE DEATHS BELIEVED BEGINNING OF BLOODIEST TONG WAR EVER KNOWN ' Mauretania Beats Her Own Record (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, N.Y. Aug. 6.--Steam- ing westward across the Atlantic 'in quest of its shorn speed laurels, the Cunard liner Mauretania clipped off 680 miles in its run from noon Sunday to noon Monday, radio mes- sage from Captain S, G. S. McNeil to the Line's offices here yesterday said. Wheat Prices Take Tumble Bounded Upward to Within Twenty of Saturday's Close Winnipeg, Aug. 6.--The bottom temporarily fell out of the wheat market this morning when bears were rampant and subjected the market to the greatest selling del- uge of the year. At noon prices had slumped sensationally from 11% to 93 cents per busuhel, and the wave of selling had not been conquered. October wheat was down 113 cents to $1.54, its low- est figure in weeks. December de- livery wheat had dropped 94% cents to $1.51%, and May 9% cents to $1.66%. Scattered rains throughout the West had very little effect on the trading. . Operators, did not consid- er the moisture cient to affect the price trend, as only a few sec- tions of the wheat-growing districts received the precipitation. Three Cambridge students snap- ped in Toronto just as they were starting out. for Winnipeg in their ancient little car, "Florence" sold to them by Lady Eaton, their hos- tess, at a nominal sum. The car, which has been carrying ice in Muskoka of recent years, once be- longed to the late Sir John Eaton's private garage. Of 1917 vintage, it will carry the boys to their des- ination, the home of Ralph Con- nor, an uncle of Bob Reid, who appears in the centre of the group. Eric Wiseman is on the left and Kenneth Mayall on the right, en- joying a. smoke. Snow Falls In Ottawa Ottawa, Aug. 6--A 15-minute snow flurry chilled the August ardor of capital residents Sunday night. Borne on. a gentic but markedly frigid breeze, a light fall of snow flakes was noticed at 9.30 o'clock. In some places, the wintry precipitation set- tled on the ground in small quan- tities. Newspaper Barred from Canada Ottawa.--A memorandum was is- sued Monday by the Department of National Revenue prohibiting the in- portation into Canada of the news- paper Radnik (The Workman), pub- lished in Chicago. "The 1929 Conference of The Hague" Gets Down to Business (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 6.-- The first business session of what is officially called "The 1929 Con- ference of the Hague" opened here at four o'clock this afternoon. In the words of Premier Briand of France, the conference got down to work in the hope of giving "a new decisive impulse to peace by liquidating the last important prpb- lems of the great war." It is assumed the Young plan will be given first place on the agenda since on its adoption depends the other question that will come before the conference under the agreement arrived at by the powers at Geneva. This question is the evacuation of allied troops from the Rhineland where they were stationed under the provisions of the Versailles treaty. Smooth sailing for the Young plan is hardly to be expected, but the attitude attributed to the British de- legation is regarded in some circles as a matter of tactics. It is not thought that Chancellor Snowden feels he has .any real chance of bringing about a revision of the Young plan, but it is admitted he is likely to make use of the demand for revision to obtain other advan- tages during the negotiations. Protests from Greece and Jugoslav- ia against the cut made:in their share of reparations may .give the is thought they cannot stand out against the argument that without sacrifices: by every- body, Europe's troubles can never be settled. British Cruiser > Collides With Steamer " London, Aug, 6--T] 6--The admiralty to- day announced the British cruiser Cornwall had collided early Sunday morning with the steamer Scheer of the Hamburg-American line at the entrance to the Hwang-Pu river near Woosung, Kiangsi Province, China. There were no casualties al- though both vessels were slightly damaged. Fear-Stricken Boys Woburn, Mass., Aug. 6--Two boys who accidentally shot and fatally wounded another, Arthur Gentile, 11 here today, in their fright tried to bury his body while he was still alive, They were stopped by a man, who investigated their actions, and the boy was taken to a hospital, where he died in a short time. The bpp, 49 0 Lig re Attempt To Bury Shooting Victim Alive lice they were shooting a .22 calibre rifle when Gentile, coming® from be- hind a building, was hit in the head. Frightened. the older one ran home, got shovels and picks and returned to the hill and dug a hole. Their actions aroused a worker neagby, who stopped them and summoned police. Gentile died in the Choate Hospital 'our hours later. The boys were ch rged with 'maaslaughter. _ Red Crane Held In Murder Case Pennsylvania | Ball Player Accused in Double Tragedy Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 6.---Sam- uel "Red" Crane, aged 34, of this city, major and minor league base- ball player, was in jail here yes- terday awaiting the formal Jodging of a murder charge against him, Crane is held in connection with the slaying of Jack Oren, aged 28, and the serious wounding of Miss Della Lyter, 26 years old, in a hotel room here late Saturday night. According to police, who said charges of murder would be placed against him today. Crane shot Oren and the girl while under the influence of liguor. WIND BLEW DOWN HYDRO STANDARD Peculiar Accident on 'King . Street East Yes- terday The force of a strong wes! wind proved too much yesterday for a hydro standard which was helping to support a banner advertising the guessing contest in connection with the Pontiac Big Six sedan to be given away at the annual Gen- eral Motors picnic. The banner was stretched from the pole situated in front of the Oshawa Hotel to another pole situated directly across the street. Shortly before noon yesterday the standard snap- ped off at its base and crashed heavily on to the street. By a mir- acle no car or person was in the path of the falling timber other- wise someone might have received serious injury, A few minutes was required to clear the street of the pole and wires. Venizelos Wins Election Athens.--Premier Venizelos receiv- ed a sizeable majority in Sunday's general elections, gaining 16: Depu- ties from 25 towns, Quiet prevailed everywhere except at Argos, where in a riot between 'opposing factions three were seriously. hurt, Suspect Foul Play in Mack's Disappearance Young American's Mother 'Says He Did Not Go Qut Alone Toronto, Ont., Aug. 6.--~--Sus- picion of foul play in connection with the disappearance of Frank- lin D, Mack, 'young New York broker, missing since he left Tim- agami , Inn Wednesday night was voiced in an interview here by Mrs. H. Kouir. The missing man is the son of Mrs. Kouir by her first mar- riage. Her son was not alone when he made the mysterious trip in Mrs. Kouir's opinion but some one was with him in the canoe, in which he took the trip that resulted in his disappearance. Wednesday night, said Kouir, Mack left Timagmi saying that he was going to Island but instead went to Mrs. Kouir"s camp. On the way over he had damaged his skiff and taking a canoe, he had left her camp to pick up two friends, Next morning her son did not appear, said Mrs, Kouir, and in the afternoon his canoe was found floating right side up with his coat and hunting knife in it and one paddle missing. A search is now being conducted on land and walter with aeroplanes in an attempt to find Mack's body or solve the disappearance. MOTHER ( OF HON. G. N. GORDON IS DEAD Toronto, Ont., Aug. 6. -- Mrs. J. Wilmot Gordon, mother of Hon. George N. Gordon, Peterboro, died here Sunday. Mrs. Gordon whose maiden name was Elizabeth Newcome, was educa- ted at Brighton High School and Albert College, Belleville. She mar- ried J. W. Gordon, barrister of Brigton and moved to Toronto 25 years ago. She had been active here in the United Church, Women's Mis- sionary Society, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Red Cross Society. Mrs. Inn, SIR OSMOND ROCK Commander-in-chief Portsmouth division, British navy, since 1926, and a Jutland veteran has been appeinted Admiral of the Fleet, to succeed Sir Chap. les Madden. PN Bea | 1 taken Boy's Thirst Leads to Loss (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) New York, Aug. 6.--A boy's de- sire for a drink of water yesterday resulted in the disappearance of stocks and bonds valued at $200,000. James Waltz, 16, employed as a runner for Arthur E. Frank and Company, Lower Broadway Brokers, was given the securities to deliver to various stock houses. He. placed his black bag, containing the securi- ties, on a bench in the office and went to a water cooler. When he returned the bag was gone. Clerks reported seeing a strange man loitering near the door: Flying Duchess Arrives in India Karachi, India, Aug. 6.--The Duchess of Bedfod, England's flying duchess, reached here yesterday from Lympne, England. The Duchess took off in her blue monoplane on Friday in an attempt to fly 10,000 miles to India and back in a week. Murder Charge After Shooting Charge May Be Reduced to Manslaughter Police Intimate (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Vancouver, B.C, Aug. 6--Alex Kirkwood, who is proprietor of a private detective agency here, was charged early this morning as the result of the fatal shooting Monday night of David Spence, Vancouver. According to the storv' told to police by Kirkwood and a compan- ion, Spence approached them while they sat in their car on Richards street and made threatening re- marks. Spence, they state, reached for his pocket, saying: have something on my hip that will kill you. Kirkwood thereupon drew his gun, and, in a struggle which follow- ed, Spence was shot fatally in the chest, dying while enroute to hos- pital. Detectives said that they foun no gun on the man's body, but found a bottle of beer in his: hip pocket to which: he had put his hand. It was intimated at police head- quarters = this morning that the charge against Kirkwood might be way. reduced to manslaughter. Russo-Chinese Conference Develops Into Deadlock Shorty Horne's Body is Found Will Be Transported to Sud- bury by Aero- plane (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sudbury, Ont.,, Aug. 6.----Recov- ered from Lake Sagatosky where he was drowned last week the body of the late George Alexander "Shorty" Horne is being brought to Sudbury by plane this morning and is expected to arrive in Sud- bury about noon. The hody was found yesterday evening and word of the recovery reached Sudbury today. The recovery of the re- mains of the popular hockey play- er had been hampered by the rough weather prevailing on the lake where he lost his life. ANGLO-AMERIGAN NAVAL CONFERENCE Ambassador Dawes And Ramsay MacDonald Meet (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Aug. 6.--New steps in the series - of Anglo-American conversa: tions on naval disarmament were today when Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Premier Macdonald conferred at No. 10 Down- ing tseret this afternoon. Two attaches from the United States Embassy accompanied the Ambassador to the Premier's official residence. During the morning Premier Mac- donald had a talk with First Lord of the Admiralty A. V., Alezander. He also received Lord Thomson, Minister for Air. y Fireman Missing in Ice House Collapse Buffalo, N.Y, Aug. 6--One fireman was reported missing and six others were injured as an ice house collap- sed 'following a fire this morning which destroyed three buildings used for storing and -mapufacturipg ice. Ve (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Nanking, China, Aug. 6--The for- cign office of the Nationalist govern- ment announced today there was a deadlock at the conference between Russia and China, over scizure of the Chinese eastern railway, which has been in progress at Manchuli, Manchuria. The Nationalist authorities were unable to accept the Russian demand for reinstatement of the Russian associate managers of the railway before the opening of formal nego- tiations, The foreign office instructed Chinese minister Wu at Washing- ton to notify signatories of the Kel- logg pact as to the discussion in full detail, Berlin, Aug. 6--Shanghai. despat- ches to the newspaper Nachtausgabe today said telegraphic communication between Urga, Mongolia and Kalgan, Chili Province, had been broken to- day to the consternation of Chinese circles who feared it meant invasion of China by outer Mongolian tribes. Russian influence is dominant in outer Mongolia. General Yen Chung-Chang, chief of police in Shanghai, has been in- formed of uprisings among the tribes of inner Mongolia against the Kuo- mintang. The headquarters staff of the Nationalists in inner Mongolia had fled. Lord Derby May Act As Peace Maker (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Aug. 6.--There were reports today that"Lord Derby, who has a record as successful mediator in trade. disputes, might be asked to mediate i the Lanca- shire cotton mill stoppage. Lord Derby himself would make no statement in the connection. Generally it was felt Such a move would be futile at this stage of the strike. (CHILDREN PRAISE MOTHER WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HOPE OF BEING FOUND * Mother Tells Fu Funny Stories to Keep Up Spirits of Children -- Badly Bitten by Mosquitos SEARCH PARTY HUNT ALL NIGHT, 100 Employees of the T. and N.O. Laid Down Tools to Search for Lost Party (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) North Bay, Aug. 6.--~Members of the party of one woman and sever children who were lost for several hours in dense, swampy bush near Abbatoir Lake yesterday, narrated their experiences to newspapermen, today. The party was found huddled together on a rock at the edge of a swamp late last night, badly bitten by mosquitos, but otherwise none th= worse for their experiences. The children were loud. in - their praises of Mrs, Herfbert Spariing, mother of three of the children cf the party. She refused to give . np hope that they would not have to spend the night in the 'bush. The youthful adventurers gleefully told how Mrs. Sparling and Germaine Bedard, 17-year-old member of the. berrypicking party, told humorous stories to keep up the spirits of the children and how 7-ycar-old Lindsay Sparling, the youngest member of the party, went to sleep in his mother's arms as he listened to'the story of the Babes in the Woods. "Why did you persist in still mov~ ing when you knew you were lost," one of the newspapermen asked. "You'd move if you had a million mosquitos chasing you," replied 12« year-old Carmen Bedard, as she dis} played a hundred and one stings on. her arms and legs. "You know," she sontiniied; "whem (Continued on page ENGLAND'S HOLIDAY TRAFFIC TAKES ITS HUGE TOLL OF LIVES Toentyons » Killed Over Week-end--Seventy-' . five Injured r London, Aug. 6.--Twenty-five: persons were killed in accidents on English highwiys, in the immense holiday traffic of yesterday, bank holiday, Seventy-five others suffer« ed injuries. The weather was fine --and the road casualty list great- er than ever. England is now liberally rib= boned with arterial roads, which provide broad direct pathwavs be- tween the main centres, Motorists naturally seek these roads with- the result they become gravely congested. For hours in some, places the homecoming throngs . last night were restricted to a crawl, Among the holiday accidents outside those. due io traffic, was the double drowning at Newquary, where Kenneth Broad and John Broad, .brothers, from Tunbridge: wells, lost their lives while surf« riding. A third brother was saved. The party apparenity misjudged the undercurrents, New Motorship ; Launched oday (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Belfast, Northern. Ireland, Aug. 6.--The White Star Line's news motorship Britannic, 27,000 tons, was launched today at Harland" and ' Wolfe' shipyards. It is the pioneer motorship of the company, and is the third liner to bear the name Britannic. Electricity will be used through- out the ship, the current being equal to that necessary for a town of 30,000 inhabitants, Montreal, Aug. =" Beware--Gas-- Death Inside," a notice in' two-inch letters on a piece of paper nailed to the door of Apartment 4, 2177, St. Luke street, led Harry Spark same address. to the discovery of the body of his brother-in-law, Robert Grant Steele, 26, 232 Cooper street, Ottawa, a suicide by gas within: the apart- ment. Three keys of the gas stove were open when Spark went in at 9 o'clock last night, Acting-Coroner Hebert, M.D., gave a verdict of suis Suicide Victim Pins Warning . Note About Gas on His Door cide at the inquest. Steele, who was unmartied, * wag studying accountancy in Montreal and had been studying hard, Spark told the coroner today. On Saturday af-' ternoon he went to the baseball game at the Stadium, Sunday he was alone in the apartment. A note beside hun on the bed was in the nature of a bequest. leaving all his personal ef- fects to his mother in Ottawa. Al brother came from Ottawa fe to. claim the bodys -

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