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(Hy Consdian Frese) Wins H A Ny November Pp today, the last important vace of the yesr, a hats Sliver H ye oy and Bir Charles do's Ma; n was third fn the iio 10 y Three Burned To Death Alpens, Mich, ~~Two boys any sn unidentitled hnnter, believed to have been from Detroit, were burn- od to death last midnight in un five which destroyed the farm home of James Bondette, 18 miles south of Atlanta In Montmerency County, » Pive-Yoar pig Welland, Ont, Roy Tice, aged 80, wan sentenced to five years in Portsmouth penitentiary today at Welland city polite court by Magis trate John Goodwin on & charge of breaking into and stealing jewel. ry from the store of Harold Rob- fpwon, jeweller, Ta) Beek Man in Toronto Toronto, Ont~Search Is to be made in Toroute for the companion of the manknown German trapper found shot to death in the bush near Lindsay, Checkup of all the eireum- stances surrounding the death reveals edito provincial constable Frank Weatherall of Lindsay, that the home of the man now sought was in To» ronto, vi " Four Charged With Robbe Welland, Ont,=Four outhy, Hurry Jones, Ridgeway; Clarence Amith, Donald Green and Roy Wil- son, Dunnville; were arrested by provinelal police at Dunnville yes. torday Sharked with implication in attempted holdup 'of Aeron Farr, Cham Corners, Monday last, They were remanded until Nov, 80, when they Appeared in court today, Killed in Auto Orash Gravenhurst, Ont.~-Mrs, Amos Kelly, of Fenelon ¥alls, Ont, was fatally injured In an automobile accident naar here yesterday, 'The car in which she and her husband were driving overturned, owing te the snow-covered road, and Mrs, Kelly was pinned under the ear, She died after reaching the hospi tal here, * New Zealand Ea Wellington, New Zealand =A pro- longed and fairly severe earthquake was felt in New Zealand early to. day, with its centre apparently near iotucks. The tremor was felt sharp- here, severely at Westport and lesp severely at Nelson, Its duration wap nearly a minute, Loud rumblings preceded the quake which shook hou ges, No damage was reported, Joanie Woodrow = Wilson d toda y for Vancouver, B.C, to complete a world tour, or fm Dine of Canada, upon which Mrs, ison sailed, Is understood to be tempt to break Sn record made, in THI9. 1s olght days 10 owes n , 1s ours and 53 minutes, ". Ball Hot at BB at 000 Toronto~~Bail of $80,000 each aa set Jor Jeorge A, 3: enson, uptey trus an wrence A Barling by pre] Attorney- General W, A, Rogers yesterday afternoon: , The two have been charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with the bankruptey of the Sterling Refrigerator Com- Jeary. The two men appeared be- ore Judge Coatswerth earlier in the day and were remanded for one week, . 0» 101st Auto Death in Toronto Toronto, Ont=The automobile claimed another Mie when Dotty Cowell, nine years old, died in the Toronto General Hospital of injuries received when was knocked down by a car driven by nard ks, The death of the little girl brings the total auto fa- talities in Toronto for this yea: to 101, Leeks Was placed under Arrest on a charge of criminal neg- ligence, He was released on ball of $2,000, . Explosion Injures Twe Toronto,~~An explosion In a huge tar tank on the premises of the Barrett Roofing Company on Villlers street, Ashbridge's Bay, Josterday hurled two Iy burned and injured, a dis 'tance of 20 feet to the ground from Dgeily surrounding the' tank, more seriously injured of the two, John Mowat, of § Sneath 8t,, Hoarboro, in believed to have auf fered a fracture of the e, and may not recover, while J, W, Jack: , of 88 Dewhurst avenue was lean critically injured, but was sev erely burned, 3 Ma -------- WEATHER An area of Pressure covers the Provinces and New England States and other vers the Pacific Baten 8 British Columbia, *1The former CLEM ENCE ad OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1929 AU AT THE POINT OF DEATH awa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in & Growing City 16 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy. TWELVE PAGES THE TIGER OF FRANCE NEAR END OF LIFE Doctors Definitely Give Up Hope for Recovery of the "Tiger of France", Who + Is in State of Coma DEATH EXPECTED _ ANY TIME TODAY Clemenceau Expressed Wish That He Might Be Buried Erect Beside His Father in His Beloved Vendee Forest (By Canadian Pyess Lossed Wine) Paris, Nov, 28, ~Former Premier Geo, Clemenceau, veteran French statesman, was making a valiant fight against death today but the end did not seem far off, \ When Dr, Degennes visited him shortly after noon today he found his patjent "sleeping Mke a ehild" and marveled at the vitality that kept the "Tiger" alive after such a long crisis and sueh acute suffers ing, Gives Up Hope "Death may come at any time,' the doctor sald, "It is probable that it will come within 24 hours, But with Clemenceau the miracle Is ale ways possible," It was plain, how ever, that this time the doctor had definitely given up hops, The former premier, who has been In a coma most of the time, regained semi-conselousness when Dr. Laubry, another of the medioal ptaff, visited him this afternoon, but it was only fer a moment, and goon after Prof, Gosset, kidney gpe= sali, found the patient "unchans | i The uremia has increased and there appeared nothing the dootors gould do to eliminate the polson. Joiory heart, how» ever, was still stronger thwn had been expected in view of the Heavy toll of strength that has been taken during ts past 80 hours, vis Sympathizes ' All Paria was gripped with ten. sity and aympatny, for the dying statesman today, "The newapa news agencies and publia ofees were bealeged by telephone ealls, Among those who called at the Cle- menceau home today was Colonel Alfred Dreyfus, whose champion Clemenceau had been many years ago during the famous Dreyfus cane, To Be Buried Deside Father Paris, Nov, 88.-=The newspaper Commoedia today says that former Premier Clemenceau, who now lied at the point of death, han express ed the desire that he be buried In his beloved Vendee erect by the side of the body of that of his father who also was buried erect, The paper says that in Clemens oeau's testament the wish will be found that his body be spared fun eral orations and honorific corts eges, The testament is further quoted as reading! "Lot me be carried into the sil (Continued on page 3) Storm Delays Relief Patrol Party Sill MacAlpine C™ ol Weather (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg Man, Nov, 28,0 Word had been received here to day from Fort Resolution radio station and it was belleved that Andy Crulokehank, senior pilot of the relief patrol that is bringing the MacAlpine party out of the far north, waa still waiting improved weather before returning to Fort Reliance, where Col, Macs Alpine and his. companions are stranded, ' Crulekshank arrived at Resolus tion Thursday, flying the 200 milena from Reliance through a dense fog He intended to return yeaterday after sending several messages from members. of his ,| praty, but was held up by storms and uncertain weather conditions, Ty was indicated that it would be several days before the Mae Ipine men will be brought to lution, though Orulokshank wha expected to make the return alr Journey to Rellance sometime today or at least over thy en i] A ------------------ Alrplane service is being developed Iraq The photoreanhs have of Attractive birds and alse ChAp.On Josey 00.0 hin of gran ARISTOCRATS AT THE ROYAL WINTER FAIR ve i TT JIC PIGEONS ANG DOM TU BIRDS DELIGHT VISITORK AT WINTER FAIR arer (1) English Pouter, imported vam Holland by CO, M, Bhults, To» vont, (8) m NW, Nesbitt, | at the Royal Winter Fair, They | Woodstock, with grand ehamplon Fantail, owned by Geo K. tpabam, | owned by (leo, X, Graham, derwoy cow "Melody Dox," (8), Pygmy Poutor, owned by Rey) Pane of Wichita, Kansas, (4) Don | Bolleville, Ont, (85) Melody Box, grund ohamplon Jersey cows. (8) 'hite Fantall, champlon, also Empire Trade in Forefront of Tories' Policy Inquiry Into Question by British Conservatives to be Thorough Nov, 2)~Conservatives are Preparin to place Empire Trade In the forefroi: of their program, The inquiry into the matter indicated by Rt, Hon, Stanley Baldwin, party leader, at Albert Hall, Thursday, is to be thorough and systematic" and according to the political correspond. end of the Daily Telegraph it ia hop- ed In consequence "to' frame a policy in detail which will avoid the stale theories of twenty years ago and will take full account of modern cons ditions," "We understand," the paper con. cludes, "the inquiry will start with the basic assumption that food taxes are ruled out, It was on that rock that tariff reform foundered and if any real progress is to be made now there must be the understanding that food taxes are barred, Else the odd clouvage in the Conservative ranks would at once reveal itself anew" London, Modernize Russia's Alphabet (By Canadian Press Leased Wine) Mosgow, Nov, 380.--The Russian alphabet of 348 letters Is to be Latinlsed and made to eonform with the alphabets of European polghbore, In Its present ocom« plionted form the alphabey for cen turies has been the terror of fore elgners entering Russia for resis dence, Annpuncement was made today that the gogarnment had appointed several spel commissions for res forming the present Russian ortho raphy, thelr work to be completed y Deo, 18, In all there will he 18 import ant changes whieh, it Is expected, will make the present Intricate flav alphabet and orthography as simple as the international Latin alhphabet and system of spelling, The question of ohanging the resent Hebrew orthography and he conversion of the Ruryat, Mongol, and Kalmik alphabets inte Latin characters Is also ens gaging the attention of the gov- ernment, Turkey, Jugo HBlavia and other countries recently have adopted the Latin alphabet, Toronto, Nov, 28, ~=Pleagant and exalted indeed it in to be minister of immigration and colonization in the Dominion eabinet but Hon. Robert Forke, who holds that poals tion, would rather be hack at work on hin 1,600 acres at Pipestone, Manitoba, fo he confessed---and his Roots tiah burr was the ring of sincerity {taelf~--to some 60 fellow-Manito- bans, all exhibitors and many of them prize-winners at the Royal Winter Fair, for whom he gave a dinner last night at the Royal York, Hin Brandon constituents put hm "in exile," he sald, when they sent him to Ottawa, "People often ask me how I liv ed through those days," he pro. ceeded, referring to the difoulties that an ambitious young Soot wueh as he endured In the eighties on the Manitoba prairie, "Well, I was hap: pler then than I am now, 1 ean tell you" Hin wuesta were typleal of the weather-hardened breed that has made Canada's prairies Tamous, They were dining in a red-carpeted rivate dining room at the Royal ork but it might have been sup. r time In one of Manitoba's hie rmhouse kitchens, Home of them wore sweaters, others black' or khaki abirta, Big toll-hardened ) Hon. Robert Forke is Happier On Farm Than as a Minister hihde Juggled gleaming silver and ohina, Mr, Forke declared that he was prouder of the 88 years he spent an reeve, helping to build up hia home township, than he ia of being a oabinet minister N Ottawa, "And when the Nranden people met tired of me or I Li of 'I'm this Job," he added, ing back farming." Hon, Albert Prefontaine, Mank toba's minister of agrionlture, sat healde Mr, Forke at the head table, Mp Forke colalmed 47 years In Manitoba, Mr, Prefontéine rose to pooh=pooh so brief a domlelle, Hin record beat Mr, Forke's by three Years, ! On Mr, Forke's left sat a Mant taba newapaperwoman who fe fam. ed throughout Canada, In fact, Mise Cora Hinde, agricultural edi tor of the Manitoba Free Pras, long since ceased to be regarded af a Manitoa newapaperwoman, fhe Is a Manitoba inatitntion, She war. not the only Dominton~ known product of Manitoba jour nallam who was present, Another gent was J.'F, B, Livesay, general manaeer of the Canadian Press acolaimed proudly as friend by many a Winnipegrer who made hia acanatitance during hin 17 years on newspapers there, TIDAL WAVE ALTERED THE NFLD. COAST Boy Dies In Attempt to Save Sister Cobalt, Nov, 88.--A gallant ats tempt to save his younger sister when the girl broke through the FORMER DEEP WATERS NOW TOO SI/ALLOW Survivors Tell Story of Des: truction--Death Toll Now Set at 22 (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire) Ht, John's Nfld, Nov, 88. ~Rear Ing tidings of death and deatruo tion an a result of the tidal wave on Monday, a delegation from Hu. rin, Nfld, arrived here to present information to the government res garding the situation in the striek- en area, Otustanding was a states mant that the coastline at Rurin had been changed, Hon, George Bartlett, prominent merchant of Purin an heavy sufferer from the wave, sald the coastal watera in the vielnity of Durin, formerly oa- pable of accommodating vessels of 16 tons, were too shallow for navi gation, Death Toll 99 In an offotal report to his sue erlors here, Revenue Inspector , Who arrived with the firet roe of survivors, set the known eath toll at 28, Dee sald there were two dead at Kelly's cove, seven at Port Au Bran, one at Allan's Island, elght at Point Aux Gauls and four at Taylor Bay, He sald that the pers son at Allan's Inland died several hours after being injured, At Point Aux Gauls all traps, provi slons and hundreds of tons of coal were awept away At Taylor's! Bay 18 families were homeless and all fishing pro- perty and winter stores deatroyed, Intimate stories of the havoo hi by the tidal wave were told here tonight by arrivala from the scene of the' disaster, Tells Q fo Tale Captain W, H, Hollett, of Durin sald: "1 had just finished my eves ning meal in company with the mate of the Dalay when the tidal wave hit Burin, ¥ home in forty (Continued on page 2) PELEE ERUPTION 1S IMMINENT (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) Fort de France, Martinique, Nov, foe on Mud lake, four miles north of here, while returning home from sohool at Gillies, yestorday after. noon, cost John Deagle, 14 years of nge, his fe, The girl, Audrey, two years hep brother's junior, was rescued uy T, and N.O, weotion men, who pull od her out with a stick, but the hoy disappeared, His body Wee recovered some hours later in about 10 feet of water, Hrother and slater were on thelr way to thelr home at Lorraine Junction, where their father, L, A, Deagle, in operator for the T, and N.O,, the boy in advance of the gir), who went down from the rallway tracks to test the ice, Hhe wens through when about 12 feet from the shore and the brother rushed to help her, He, tob, went through the loe and sank before ald arrivs ed, The girl had gone down once when the section men arrived, but had suffielent strength to grasp the pole, .\ The body of the boy was sent to Hrantford last night, R101 Flight Postponed Cardington, Kng.--Rad weather conditions today forced postpones ment for the second time of a tiight of 72 members of parliament in the new giant British dirigible Re 101, Airman Saves Hunter's Life In Northern Woods Bdmonton, Nov, 38. Halling nis monoplane through heavy snows storms which at times forced him within 100 feet of the ground, so that he could follow his routu mlong the rallway tracks, Pllot C, Becker of the Commercial Alrways, Limited, landed here yesterday with Mike Prichuk, hunter, who had been shot through the shout. der and chest at Kinuso, Alta, Dr, ¥, Q, Rodger, woman phy« plofan, mocompanied the Injurea man and reported at Xdmonton that the patient had experienced un excellent trip, With hospital at« tention now avallable for him, he has excellent chances for recovery, All Ford Plants Are Shut Down Détrnit, Nov, 38. Readjust- ments that must be made in pre- paration for next year's produc tion, will bring about a shutdown of from ten days to two weeks in each Yord assembly plant through- out the country, It was learned yosterday at the executive offices of the Yord Motor company, "This is not a shutdown for 'sensonal' reasons," an executive nothing 'sensonal' about it, It in solely that readjustments may be mude in all the planta for next yoar's business," Soviet Capture 8,000 Chinese, Many Stores Report of Chinese Settle. ment With Russia De- clared Groundless (By Cancdian Press Leased Wire) Khabarovak, Btheria, Nov, 38 w= The oficial Tass News Agency re orted last night that more than L000 Chinese soldiers and 300 of floors had been captured and dis armed by Boviet forces in a series of vigorous ocounter-attacks, The report stated that about 10, 000 rifles, a considerable guantny of fleld guns, ammunition, mince! laneous arms and equipment had been taken by the red soidiery, Settlement Donled Nanking, Nov, 28.-~The Nation alist government foreign office to. day characterized as "groundless' the report that Manchurian author itlen had decided to negotiate a separate settlement with Russia of the Chinese Hastern Railway dis- pute, Commenting this report, which came from Mukden yesters day through Tokyo, the apokes- man sald: "The Nationalist gov ernment is handling the 8ino-Rus. alan {seve 'with the full support of Mukden" on Hoover Starts Experiment ~ To Stabilize U.S. Business (By Ken Clark, Canadian Pros Stat. Correspondent) Washington, D, Q,, Nov, 28 Preatdent Hoover this week began & gigantic experiment, It la no loss than an attempt through Job suasian of the highly organised businean of the United States to preserve, to a degree, economic atability, A badly shaken stook market offered to the President an opportunity to teat the theaty that the level of prosperity might be maintained by stimulating busi. ness, To thin' end he summoned the heads of the great industries of the country to Waghington and received assurances that there would be no slackening in their ace tivities, "Coma back in a month or mx weeks, and wa shall wee," an opti miatlo official sald to the Canad 23~-0bservers at Mont Pelee today | Press, were practically certain an outpours ing of lava from three veriteal clefts in the volcanic cone on the Saint Meantime at the oapital a die organised senate continued its struggle with the taritf bill, Yes. Pierre side was imminent, terday an oud was made to this special session. The regular Re- publioan leaders had failed to put through a bill which would have largely increased the industrial rates, They had n #0 soundly whipped by a combination of Ine dependent Republicans from the farm states and Demoorata that they ware willing to adjourn a forts night ago. But newly elected Re publican senators, regulars, broke away from the leadership, and de- manded a bill should passed, They failed tn that aim, but they did hold the senate together watil the agrionltural schedule, with ine oreaned rates on many Canadian ots had gone through, he senate will now have a week's reat bafore the regular sess slo of Congress begin on Decem- | 1 On Thursday it was announced that Dwight W, Merrow, ambassa- Charles ry of the Navy, go to London asx delegates 10 the disarmament | hha he ginning on January 21, of the company asserted, "There's | Pu Franota | ela, ew Higher Tariff Has Been Adopted in Australia HIGH DUTIES ON AUTOS, RUBBER GOODS, FEATURE THE AUSTRALIAN BUDGET New Government Seeks To Provide New Revenue and a Better Market For Home Products of the Dominion DUTIES ON AUTOS ARE INCREASED Upward Revision Includes Various Parts as Well as on the Assembled Chassis, and on Encosed Type of Bodies (By Canadian Press Lonsed Wire) New York, Nov, 80-The new government which took office in Australia on Oct, 83, proposes an upward revision of the tariff in or« der to provide new revenue and to provide a better market for heme products, according to a cablegram received today by Herbory Brookes, ecommissioner-general for Australia in the United Btates, The wohedule an drawn up covers 281 {tems and sub-ltemn of the customs tariff and 18 jtems In the excise tarift, "Innreased duties will be imposes od on leather and rubber manufac ituren, Mits Auto Industry "I'he automobile Industry, mnd especially the manufacture of the enclosed type of bodies, has had rther attention and the mixed rato of duties on thin class of body will be increased, Attention hap been devoted to parts of the chase TaN an springs and gears, Fyre hy incroases will be made in the intermediate and general tariff rates on assembled chassis, 'Cotton growers, together with the spinners of hoth cotton and waollen yarns, will receive inoreans od assistance by way of duties un« der tha proposed sohedule, This notion will be taken In order te help' the absorption of Australian raw products of cotton and wool, Duties on Deer "In regard to the exoclse duty on beer, the inorease of three pence per gallon will be reduced to one penny per gallon, "No further increase in the duty on excise spirits delivered from oustoms control in bottles is cone templated, but inoreases on excise spirits, other than rum delivered in bulk for home consumption, will be proposed. "Under the excise tariff the rate of duty of two shillings per gallon beer, Imposed by the schedule tabls ed on August 22, 1929, will be re~ duced from Deo, 31, 1029 (that ia the day after the schedule referred to expires) to one shilling and ten pence per gallon, Assist Cigar Makers ' "An endeavor ia being made ta' anni the olgar making industry by admitting olgar leat (which, it Is admitted, Is not being grown in Australia) at the rates of duty Re valling before Aug, 23, 1089, The import duty on clgara will be ine creased in order to give the loeal olgar manufacturer a larger margin of protection against imported of- gars, In addition, it is Broposeq to (Continued on page 3) Shipments of Grain Reduced Montreal Reports Deliveries 1120,000,000 Bushels Under Last Year Montreal, Que, Nov, 28-«As the 1929 grain movement through the Port of Montreal draws to a slots; it te rent that the volume deliveries will fall far short of the total shipments for last year over 120,000,000 bushels, the present time, the Montreal Harbor Commission elevators nave handled 85,831,088 . bushels of rain outwards, which ia close to 18,000,000 bushels behind last season's exports to the same date, Flgurea for shipments for tha pant 35 years show that total outs ward handlings for any one year have not dropped below the hun. dred million bushels mark Hue 1820, in which year they atood a Sghtly over 63,000,000 bushels, This year, it appears that deliveries will not 90,000,000 bush= Od total onty ors on hand on $28,748 bushels, aud Rt doen © that there is su : before the olose of na y alleviate the situation.