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Mews While kk News" ny Ch £1 | ig " £ 4 Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer Oshawa Daily Times ' A Growing Mawepnper ba 8 Growing Clty / OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929 + 18 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy, TWELVE PAGES VOL, 5-NO, | 2 ih bij HAWA MERCHANT SHOT BY BANDIT Dave Daratie 30 striet thet It is expected, additional police protection + will he asked when the council meets Monday night, LJ Nomb Kills Mexico Clty.~=A dispatch to Xi Universal from an today said the "merchant Heverians Moves nnd His five sons were killed by a bomb which an uniden~ tiffed mon tossed into store nt Tapeyangd, in the state of Tiexcals, Aged Bdueationist Dies BailgViile A iegtoaty. of the local board of education for half n century, Wellington Jeffers Dia- mond, 01, dled Bunday afternoon Me had been {11 but a few days and atterded to his duties in the looal collegiate up unui that time, Suspects Arvested Toronto ~~Rohert Beott Clarke, Thornhill, and R, L. Heyden, Lan~ sing, were arrested last night by provineial and postal department police on a sliatie of entering the Thornhill pestotfice and taking a book of blank postal money orders and a date stamp, * \ [J] Veteran Priest Passes Brockville ~-Rt, Rey, Mgr, Char. Jes Murray, parish priest of Brocks ville for 24 years, who relin. quishod his duties about five years ago due to falling hesith pagsed away in Ht, Vincent de Paul hos- pital here at the nge of 84 years, » Ld Vessel Safe s Buva, Yiji Islands ~~Radio men sages received here said the wreck- ed British freighter, Norwich City, had reached the shore of Gardner island, of the Phoenix group, 1,800 miles southwest of the Hawaiian islands, The freighter was wreck. ed Saturday, . Mixed Missiles fhanghal, ~~ Bombs, bages snd bags of soot are being Wropped by Russian raiders on the city of Pokota md on the eastern Man- churian frontier, south of Pograni- ohpaya, sald dispatohea from Chis nese sources at Harbin today, Hummer Home royed Kingston ~The lakeside coun try home in course of construction by R, O, Bweesoy of Montreal, president of the Beauharnols Pow. er corporation, and which was within three weeks of completion, wan totally destroyed by fire early this morn ng. naw Five Malta Ball Bt, Thomag.~Firemen were calls od from (helr annual ball early Saturday morning Wing the height of festivities, to fight a Stubbm Hire at oy amavues of . G, Grayling, avenue, hen, they bad put the blase out, they feturned to find thelp dance and the B00 Juests departed. } Charge Car Theft Toron «Charged with steals ing a new sedan of expepsi Al ve from ear of the Cadillag rooms a Church and streets a week ago, Charles | 1 of Eimhurat avenue, La was arrested hb Gadd and ptation, Hill of. * Acquitted of } Mexico Olty~~fenora _ Maris Theresa Landa de Vidal, who was "Miss Mexico!' at a beauty contest in Galveston, was by a jury after trial on a charge of murdering General Molses Vidal, who ' married hes bigamously, gn ; Taw, and Poet Dies | Ottawa, Norman JG Nuthtle, well-known Ottawa l§ dle here Sunday morning. brother of Hon, Conservative member ton gout , Guthrie ha Sontbutomt to Canadian under the pem-name of Orighton," ". made E3onn CRC # I Simooa-----Goorg 34, of Bridgep tly k # Hh i fy iE tii it 3 i i H "Lake Storm Takes Toll of Ships an Was Shot From Rear When He Fled From Bandits Whe Entered His Store on Saturday Night BULLET LODGED IN VICTIM'S SPINE -- Holdup Men Escaped, But Good Description Has Been Given to Police by Mrs. Gauter and a Neigh- bour Although John Gauter, Olive av. enue grocer whe was shot by a gunman late Saturday, spent a falr night last night and is resting com fortably, little change has been noted in his condition, Dr, V, J, Rundle, his physician, informed The Times this morning. Dr, Run dle visited his patient again at the Hospital today and after examining him decided that it would not be oppertune to operate at the present time owing to the man's condition, The bullet lodged in his spine and did not plerce the abdomen, The patient is also being attended by Dr, Rundle's assistant, Dr, Fergu. fhot In the spine by one of a pair of Armed thugs, John Gauter, grocer at 188 Olive avenue, fs lying in the General Hospital here with only a slight chapce for ree covery as the result of the das tardly action of the men who fi a revolver at him, as, suspect! that they were going to rob the store Haturday night, he Attempts od to flee to the living quarters at Re rear of tha building. The two hold-up men then fled before taking any loot, and their identity has not yet béen ascertained, Cauter was sweeping out his store at 183 Olive Avenue about 10 o'clock Saturday night when two men walked in and demanded money, speaking in Polish, Gauter, who understan Pollsh as his store is in the foreign section of the .oity, although he himself is a German, turned and fled toward the rear of the store as he sus pectad that the men had intent to rob him, As he reached a doof which connects the store with lw Ing. quarters in the rear one Of the men fired and the grocer fel in his tracks, Evidently frighten by t they had done the men made no effort to rob the till but [iahed out 'of the front door of the ding, jumped inte a ear a Arave eastward, No one was able to pursue them, Poastibed Witness John Bimoo, Los resides In apartments above the store, and whe ®. the shot was fired, has given a description of them to the police, They were described police say, as slim and SibarItly oung men, one about six feet tall and the orter, the tall man w 8 bilge overcoat and the other oaps 00 \ ey are sald to have Continued on page 13) EA A Neu gramme, however, py wh. Le eT ion ramme, which will lop off a i £ { | $ and norms] individual incomes of 1929, y EE of the fac Iniversity of Aix-Marseille are on ; shies ike Canadian or American students they are not protesting a- JOHNGAUTER, OLIVE AVE, IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION IN THE GENERAL HOSPITAL FROZEN CORPSE IS FOUND IN TORONTO Man's Throat Had Been Cut, But No Weapon i (By Canadian Press Lensed Wire) Toronto, Dee, #&-~Tha frosen corpse of a man aged about 80 was found yesterday on the Don Flats beneath Bloor Btreet viaduet here, He wan of medium height and averags weight, The man's throat bore a deep wide cut, No waapon of any sort could he found in the vicinity of the body, The hody was frosen so hard, Dr, M, M, Crawford, chief coroner said, that a post mortem cannot be held until 86 hours have elapsed, Polles belleve they 'will learn the identity of the man through letters "Meg" tattooed on his arm, Lower down on the arm is a mill tary insignia marked: "2nd Staffs 3 Div," WHERE JOHN GAUTER WAS WOUNDED ORHAWA GROCER WAN SHOT BY HOLDUP MEN When he waa closing his grocery store at 183 Olive Ave, Oshawn, late or Baturday night, John Gauter was shot by one of two hold-up men who entered the store and demanded the contents of the till, He turned to get to the tele: phone to give an alarm when one of the men shot him in the back Oshawa General hospital, where his condition was reported at noon to-day te The pleture shows the scene of the crime and Inset is the vietln be aritical, of the shooting, bol Hels In ftatement CLAIMS ADDRESS MISINTERPRETED W. E. N. Sinclalyr Writes Letter to the Canadian Press rp (By Canadian Press Lessed Wire) Toronto, Dee, %-~In his speech at Grimsby, last Thursday night, W. BE, N, Binclalr, K.C,, leader of the Liberal Party in Ontario, exs lains In a letter to the Canadian Press, he was arguing that the Progressives had been a handicap to the ILdberal party wince 101w, by causing a division in the non- Conservative vote, and that In » provines such as Ontario, it was necessary that all this vote should be consolidated, to oppose the Con servative party, "he headlines of most of the papers carried the Impregsion tha I blamed the Progressives for the Ldberal defeat in the last election," Mr, Sinclair said, I made no such It would be utter non» sense to think that the Progres: slves were to hlame for the Liberal defeat, hecause Progressives In all the riding where there was no Pro- gressive candidate, certainly vot. od for the Liberal candidates, 1 | do not see why sulh misinterpreta- tion of a speech should he made" It takes & mighty tactful physician to eure & woman who has nothing the matter with her, d Their Crews SIX MEN LOST IN WRECK OF GRAIN FREIGHTER ON SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR DANISH KING AND (UEEN IN WRECK Land on English Const After Unfortunate Mise hap (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire) London, Dee, §.~King Christian and Queen Louisa of Denmark ar- rived here today from Harwich where they landed from the motors ship Esbjerg after being aground peven hours on the Danish coast, Neither thelr majesties nor other passengers were sald to' have heen alarmed at the ship's mishap, which occurred so gently many wera not aware of It until later, The king and queen walked about the ship and mixed with ether passengers, The Prince of Wales met the visitors here, They will remain at the Danish legation for abouts a week before going to Sandringham th visit King George, mp gra ------------ Torohto, Deo, 2.-~TraMe tie-ups, falls and collisions, fire outbreaks in overheated homes--all winter's bedavilments in sudden and unpre- cedented array descendd upon tario over the week-end when No- vember closed with weather of mid-January intensity, now, drifting six and slight feet deep at some points, eansed pre paration among highway depart. officials for an unusually early use of snowplows, Yonge street from OChurehill to Barrie wan reported blocked with snow still falling, Also impassable was the road between Orangeville and Shelburne and that trom Strat. ford to St, Mary's, Dangerously slippery pavements impeded trafo around Brampton, Cooksville and ftreetaville, Reports of further snow blockades were expected this morning. Trains Delayed Traine. frequently ran behind schedule, At Btratford all were on an average of 20 minutes late, At Owen Bound snowplows were he- ing sent out to clear the tracks, Two Toronto motor aceldents, causing injury to three people, nd | were attributed to the slipperiness of the snow that quietly ahd stead. {ly carpeted the city streets yes- terday, Several Jedbutriqus were hurt in falls and fire brought fire- men hurrying out 16 timea during w the men leave hurriedly | the day Records for several years back were broken at Niagara Falls by the earliness of the appearance of fee in the rivep, Shove fee formed thiokly in quieter parts of the great torrent, although the rush of wat. or was sped by a strong west wind {ling the waters .of Lake Erie at hat hody's eastern extremity. Many deaths due to cold weat were reported from the Und ftates, Several were frosen to death in onle while weilly sug Georgia repor nine dead as result of the wholly unprecedented Colder Tonight Colder Wedtnge taught ve is oOTrOW,; . more Tirony winds, was pradioted as the meteorologieal office here, A hd: 1 resslon over Lake Michi moving north-eastward, was causing the snow, It was said, '(FRENCH STUDENTS START NEW STRIKE break x bs : " 1 Marseilles, France, Dee, 2~Studs wity of leeters at the of Out- Ist one por cent, from corporation |with disi too'much work but against teo - nt an additional reader or of Hulk hin the ca~ atea refuse to grant, Two "ago the same situation existed Then the students themselves hronght an additional professor from Its aly but the rector looked upon him aver and he was obliged to flee to his native hand, The students have not forgotten this incident, Province Is Held in The Grip of Winter MacAlpine Party Heading South The Pas, Man, Dec, 8,--Col, C. D, 8, MacAlpine and his party are at Btoney Rapids, secording to a message received wt The Pas Hal. urday night, The report was made to Dr, N, G, Trimble by Dr, D, fruce, a member of the resgue pa- trol bringing the MacAlpine men down from the Arotle clrele after being lost for two months In the north, No detalls of the number of planes or of the personnel of the party were contained In the mess. age, Ask Japan to Define Needs Britain and United States Seek Data For Naval Parley (By Canadian Press Lotsed Wire) Tokyo, Deo, 3--Great Britain and the United Atates, It was learn od In offlolal circles today, have asked the Tokyo government to in. dicate the total number of auxils ary cruisers they will demand purposes of national defense rather than making the number a matter of ratio, The Tokyo officials have made no reply to the request but it is under stood they are considering the mat. fer, The request was accepted as indicating apparent fear hy the two oidental naval powers of possi fiity of an impasse if Japan in. gists on the 70 per cent ratio of big erujsers as compared to America and Great Britain, Ten Are Killed In Train Wreck Norfolk, Va, Dec, 8.-~Ten pers sons were killed, five whites and five negroes, and two score others were Injured, half of them sen fously, when efght ecofches of & Peunsylvania railroad Norfolk to New York excursion train jumped the track here this morning short iy After 13 o'clock and piled wp in a tangled: mass of wreckage, Of the Injured the Northampton and Ae compo Memorial hospital at Naw sawAdox, several were reported to be 10-4 eritical condition, POLICE RECOVERS VALUABLE JEWELS (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Rome, Dec. 2.--Jewola stolen from Ht, Peter's in 1036 including the sowoalled eplscopal ring of St, Peter with sapphires and dia- monds, have been recovered by the Roman police, They were identi: fled by Manaignor Bacohini, euato- dian of Ht, Peter's Treasury, Thieves broke into the treasury of #t, Peter's on the night of July 8, 1925, and stole various precious objects whose value was estimated up to $150,000, HEAVY GALE IS RAGING IN GT. BRITAIN Ships Forced Into Shelter and Communication Is Cut Off London, Dee, 8.+A heavy gale was raging over Southern England today, forcing channel ships to take shelter in Dover and causing flood conditions on many rivers, Ineluding the Thames, Hervice to tha Orkney Jelands was interrupted while Plymouth had a deluge of rain making the fall there for this period of the year the heaviest in sixty years, Waather conditions at Howden, Yorkshire, wera unfavorable for the launching of the Glant Dirlgs ible R100 and the crew and handling party were standing by waiting for more settled condi tons, Lowlylng parts of Nast Kent wera flooded and all rivers In southern Kngland were heavily awollen many overflowing thelr banks, The Thames helow Hheppers ton was more than six feet above normal and was a quarter of 4 mile wide above Walton Rridge, Cele lars and riverside hotels were flooded and gdvdens turned inte iakes, The rainfall was continuing and there was a prospect of aers fons diffieulties shortly, Man Found Dead In Home at Brockville Brockville, Peo, 2. -~Warren M, Lockwood, aged about 85, un vom- mercial traveller, employed by wie Massey-Harra Company, was found dead {n his home heve today L) search party which was alarmed by his Rok-ajiigatence for several days, Lockwood came here from Bt, Thoma tows WO years Ne and his wife at the moment tn in Niagara Falls, Ontario, visiting a daughter, Investigations are pro- Six Killed In Crossing Smash prews-- (By Canadien Press Lossed Wire) Whittier, Cal, Dee, B.Rix por pons were killed at a grade qross- ing here yesterday when the autos mobile In which they were riding was struck hy a southbound Banta Fe train, Tae dead include Joseph MoCann and wife, of Centralia, Wash,; who were sald to have heen in Los Angeles on a honey. moon, Labor Members Seek Apology Left Wing Leader Incensed By Threat to Discipline Members Glasgow, Hoetland, Dec, 8.-=De- mand for an apology from offela) leaders of the Hritlah Labor Party to the party's left wing was made in a speech here last evening hy James Maxton, leader of the Labor panty loft wing, His speech was ac onsegquence, he sald, of a motion submitted at a meeting of the party executive iu London last week to diseipline five leading membera of the left wing, Maxton, Wheatley, {Krkwood, Ste- phen, and Buchanan, in conneotion with their stand on the unemploy- ment Insurance bill, Denial has heen made that the motion waa submitted, but Maxten insisted It had been and added for himself: "Wa should never dream of taking auch a thing lying down," Theatre Burns, But All Escape (By Canadian Press Lossed Wine) Atlantio, Ia,, Deo, 8, Fire that out in the Atlantie Theatre last night while 800 persons were watohing the moving pleture pen form burned the theatre to the badonr and apread to several oth. or business places in the same block, The theatre patrons march. ed out in order shion before the tlamen gained headway, The total loss was estimated at $68,000, Speaking of water power, did Vu ever notice how feminine od at 'the proses Womuny, inva y anceeed In changing the couree of eventat--Qalt Reporter, GOVERNOR-GFNERAL LANDS IN BERMUDA (By Consdian Press Lossed Wire) Hamilton, Rermuda, Deo, 2. Their Nenoles, the Governon General of Canada and Viscountess 1 on, aboard the steamer wking, arrived today from N&, and were welcomed Louis Role, Governor-Gen. eral and Hon, A, W, Bluck, speak: or of the house of assembly, The visitors had breakfast at governs crensing trade to lands and Western - ment house, Ottawa's Rugby Riot . Brings Strong Comment Ottawa, Deo, 3,--The Journal published the following in its news columns today) "The mobbing of oMelals and visiting players hy some of the eau players and their supporters in the dying minutes of the Rideau» Bt, Thomas junier Shamplonship gama at Lansdowne Park Saturday afternoon may got as a boomerans, and result In Rideaus being ots leotively and individually barred from Canadian Rugby Unlon com- petition neyt year, "Knocked unconscious during the meles, Harold Halley, of Tors pe, secretary of the Ontarle R, which developed into a. miniature Donnybrook when hundreds of en raged fans poured into the fleld with Bt, Thomas leading 10<8 two minutes from full-time, made no attempt to mask his feell from the Journal reporter with him af ter the game, "It wan the most cowardly, des. pleable, unsportemanlike ocours rence 1 have ever witnessed in any olty during the twelve years I have heen connected with amateur sport,' he sald, 'It cannot mo NA unished, Ams secretary of the OR, JU, 1 can promise that there will he reprisals of some nature, I may mean that Rideaus will be out of organized rughy next year.' with the 8t, Thomas boys, "1 gould hardly believe what I saw with my own eyes,' he 'and words fall me when I attempt to give my opinion of the lawless and unwarranted attack, You ean» not possibly quote me tee strong» Ys ' 'George Vaughan, put out of action early, yo thrown to the ground, stamped on and kloked, ried to protect him and got a good trouncing, "Although every member of the team carried the marks of heo- tio battle in which tha game broke up=-it coat them $30 A land boom 1s reported in Ohb na, but it may turn out to be only the gun boom of still another ine surgent army.--HBrantford Exposks SEVEN WINERS ARE 10ST IN EXPLOSION Safety Devices In Mlinols Mine Saved Many Lives i rm---- (By Canadian Presa Lonesd Wir) West Frankfort, \Deoy' 2+ bodies of six eoal min Siiitaion by orteniy a me No, 8 near here, ¥ covered today, but rescuers ti sought the hody of a seventh "etme whe, mine officials said, was certain to, ave betiihed inlined 3 The SI] ized in one drift by Yafety donee which a toe matically released shale dust to extine mish the flames, and this is believs ed by officials to have saved the of fifteen other miners, the remainds er of a crew that was tedring wp tracke in the north part of the ming preparatory to abandonment, U, and umpire in the game |d " "Even ory Siphatie, It 8, Was M, ¥, Hepbura wy o Bigin West, who made the § medical | charred led § OK Bon fot Sarnia Steamer Goes Ashore on Main Ducks Island in Lake Ontario, and Crew of Eighteen in Peril VIOLENT STORMS SWEEP THE LAKES Eighteen Men Saved From Wrecked Vessel, But Caps tain and Five Others Lost From Lifeboat Bault Ste, Marie, Mich, Dee, 2m Paralyzed communication lines lsade ing Inte Grand Marais continued tos day ta withold details regarding the wreck of the Kiowa, Both telephone and telegraph lines were reported out and ave gonnecting the vils lage with the rest of the upper pens insula werg sald to be ¢hoked with Now, / It was reported here that the enly available list of the crew was in the possession of an official of the coms pany operating the vessel, This pfi+ olal was reported to he somewhere between Duluth and Grand Marais in an automobile enroute to the latter port, Efforts to reach him were not successful, The one hopeful feature today was the fact that wt shipping that han gen stop bound in the upper lakes ar the past fw days wan moving ones mere, Ships were passing here and approximately 30 others till in he Unper Lakes were expested to etting out, on In Pei Prose Lonsed Wire) Oswego, N.Y, Dee, §~The steamer Harnindoo, Canadian reg» tutry, was aground on Main Duek Island, 26 miles from here in Lake Ontario with heavy seas sweeping her today, The freighter, loaded with 5,100 tons of grain and carry ing & crew of about 18 men went rehore In a northwest gale yester ny, The freighter Valley Gamp of Olaveland, was reported standing by, Coast guardsmen were on the acena this morning, hut the heavy surf and rough water prevented them going to the freighter, At- tempts also were made to reach a salvage and wrecking steamer at Kingwton, Ont, The Harniadeo is ewned hy Jas, Playfair and Company, of Sarnia, Ont, one of a fleet of 66 freight~ oY pperated by the company, e Harnlados went aground in Tamanare' bilgsard, when viaibil ave no trouble Righteen wos at a minimum, fhe was fast on one af the numerous ja reels surrounding the Due slands and struck about 800 feet ore from a lighthouse en Main ok Island, Glam (By © Prose Lonsad Wire) fault Hte, Marie ~The freighter Kio with the ¢ ) | f Radio rh wards h ow the been staked against the first of what mariners the * lake n eis twice ) on ing season" for and how her aki Gropin storm and trying to hug the south shore A the Kiowa went aground Sat Publishers to U.S. Newspaper Men To Ops on "owt re wm fair to increase the newspr a the assoelation ph del the 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