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\ i: i eel on HY "All the News While It Is News" hy The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City 4 Dey i! ost SIE nb OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929 18 Cents » Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES VOL. 5-NO. 145 to] News in Brief (By Lanading Freee) Medal for : New York~Award fo muder Richard 1, Byrd of the David Living. stone. Centenury Medal was announ ced Jast night by the National Geo: graphic Soclety. He Still Urge Conference Vancouver ~A resolution was passe ed by the city council yesterday re: questing that the Deminion govern: ment call & conterence of officiuls or all the provinges to consider theaun: employment sifust on Canada, Another Robbery Winnlpeg~1'wo gunmen last night held up W, Herbert, 42, Montreal slesman, on the main street of, Bt, oniface, Winnipeg suburb, and se: sured close to $2,700, more than half in cash, Pilots Killed Berlin~Two Lufthansa pilots were killed and uw mechanic was slightly injured when they made a forged Junding 40 miles northwest of Berlin while returning front a test flight tv the Conary Ie) ands, ' Rallway Btrike Ends Mexico Cltye=The strike on the Mexican rallway, which has lasted ten days, ended yesterday, when train service was resumed between Mexico city and Vera Cruz. 'I'he strikers won thelr points, y Chicken-Thieves Asctive Cobourg~Chicken thieves are a ain nective In this district, Two nelgh boring farmers on the Provineial highway have just been robbed ot 88 birds, One man lost 50 und the other 35, ' Tardieu Is Forgiving Parls~Premier Andro Tardieu in. timated that he would recommend to President Doumergue amnesty for Leon Daudet, Royalist leader, who has been living in exile in Belgium, M. Daudet Is the son of the novelist, Alphonso Dagdet, Wins C. PF. R, Prise Milton ~Charles Lewington, Milton, foreman of the Horn: section of the Canadlan Pa: fic Rallway, has been awarded the uperintendent's first prize for the best section on the Landon Division, of Ambassador Received Londen~The Prince of Wales to- day recelved the new Soviet ambas- or to Great Britain, Gregory Sos I hrs Palace, The kein by A rede on pr who was . hall of His i oncy, King He 4 Fishermen Missing Charlevoix, Mich.~Anxlety Is felt for the safety of 15 men aboard five commercial fishing boats that left here five days ago for the whitefish | grounds off Fox island in Lake Mi. chigan, All were expected to return M onday, ae Five Control Winnipeg~~After a battle of sev- eral hours, fire which awept theouh fhe nt of the Prairie Paper Mills ted, was proutht under contr ' t y amage of approxis pal $10,000 ad to the bul ing and stock, " Granted Respite us, Ohlo,~Dr, James Enock, slayer of Theora K, Hix | sweetheart, was granted respite from death In the el: 'when the state supreme " nued bs stay of He. to permit more consideration, A his appeal ured r Maton. of Kaufmann, Tor tod - n men Ing ud: Army officer and a for ho were ace 3 dt a wore strik it will be the firet 8 ding C--O na-- Freakish Weather Passes Eastward, Leaving Behind It Trail of Wrecked Com: munication Systems and Snow-Blocked Roads COLDER WEATHER AND MORE SNOW AHEAD Storm, However, Will Be Godsend to Thousands of Unemployed Men in Cities, Towns and Villages Throughout Ontario (By Canadian Press Lensed Wire Toronto, Dee, 20--The freakish weather which King Winter has be- stowed upon Ontario during the past few days, causing moro than a mil: lion dollars damage throughout the ywrovinge In one of the worst Becem- r storms in history, slowly relin- quished its grip as It moved east wards with decreasing force, The weather man predicted generally colder weather throughout the proves ince, but failed to promise a total abatement of the heavy snowfall which has caused material damage to sractically every Industrial centre ho Windsor to Kingston and from the Georglan Bay to Lake Ontarlo, A skeleton service has been re- sumed by telegraph, telephone and ublie utility service throughout he province, but the services a yt far feom normal, Telegraph facilis ties seemed" to have wiffered ast, and with the exception of St. Cathe arines, all elles in the province have a more or less regular service, In the far corner of the peninsula, es- veclally between Niagara and Buf alo, the Western Unlon lines are out of commission, Telegraph offi clals estimated today that there were more than thousand breaks in this district alohe, some of which will not be wvepaired for some time, In the vielnity of London and Stratford, service In also bad, but it is expected that a service of sorts will be in. stituted in all these centres today, There are yet no direct wires to New York, all local messages being shunt ed through Detroit, Telephone services throughout the province are being slowly put Into operation although Western Ontario Is still badly hit in this respeet, Tt is estimated that some three hundred poles are down and although it is ssible to reach most centres today, t will be some time before a com plete service {a restored, In the east, the grip of winter has (Continued on page 0) Long Journey To See Sister * But Too Late Port Hope, Deo, 30,~At the end of a 2,100-mile trip to see hin als ter for the first time In 10 years t C a8 with her, Unorgs Purdy of : onton found her dead last night, The aister was Mra, Henry Rey: nolds, 42 yeara old, and a Ife long resident of Port Hope, Rests Ing on a couch and talking to her husband of the anticipated ar vival of her brother within an hour, she wan selged with a heart |g atlaek and died within a few min MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE DONE IN PROVINCE DURING SEVERE DECEMBER STORM Slim Margin For British Government London, Dee, 0.~Ramssy Mue- Donald's Labor party cabinet was saved from possible resignation last night when the House of Com mons defeated a Conservative am- endment rejecting the coal mines bill, by the narrow margin of # voles, The vote was 281 ngalnst 278 in favor of giving the bill Its wseo- ond reading, The division of the house eli maxed the first serious orisis that bas confronted the administration, Triumph of the Conservative am endment would have defeated the measure, which was one of the chief projects of the government, The bill was framed to meet came palgn promises, The narrow margin of victory was due to a lessening of govern ment support which has hitherto come from the benches of the Lib. erals under the leadership of David Lloyd George, The Liberals them selves had prepared a dissenting amendment but it took exception to enly a few of the principal fea. tures of the bil land the Conserve. tives manoesuvred themselves into the front of the battle hy offering thelr comprehensive rejection am- endment, Lloyd George Denounces Bill In the debate that preceded the vote Lloyd George denounced the bill as vielous and as MHkely to vals the price of coml to the con sumers, But he indleated that his party would not oppose a second reading If MacDonald would as sure them that opportunity would be given to deal with unsatisfao tory aspects of the measure while the bill was still In the commities sage, ----------------------" Pope Observes Anniversary First Pontiff to Leave Vat. ican Grounds in Seventy Years bm (By Canadian Presa Lessed Wire Rome, Deo, 20.-~Pope Plus XI, left the Vatloan today, entering Itallan territory, It was the first exit of a Pontiff from the Vatloan grounds in 70 years, The exit was made on the B0th anniversary of the Pope's priests hood, It followed & conslatory this week at which slx new oar dinals were oreated and issuance of an encyelical yesterday in whieh the pontiff pleaded for a devoted layity, Without notifying anybody the JLope left the Vatican at 0.40 a, m,, and drove In an automobile to the Palace of St, John Lateran, where he celebrated mass com memorating the B0\h anniversary of his ordination, Given Huge Damages Datroite=A jury of eight women and four men returned a verdict a- warding Miss, Bertha Cleavenger 50,000 in her breach of promise suit against John H, Castle, weelthy De. trolt real estate operator, Announcement That King " wes felt no move could so much have stimulated publie inter have ng wond-oft, on of the . an international Wik wen od nen ¢ y the BOV artioularly astute co of the, matter. Will Open Conference is recovery from the serious illness which beset him last winter, The Morning Telegraph, Con: servative, today sald "it will ap. peal to the whole world that the naval conference to whieh all eyes are turned will be opened by the Sallor King." The Dally News, Liberal, thinks the action of Mix Majesty will be hatled with pleasure not only in Great Britain but in the United aud the entire peace-loving ld ne: will be Solned are aM Prince : FA AOR i m r the traditional Christmas gather Ing. They will not return to Lon: don wngil the uve of the naval con. ference. A -- Storm Relinquishes Grip On Ontario Radial Car Crashes Into Snowplow The photograph above shows res sult of crash between a speeding radial. car on Toronto-Guelph line and a snow plow on a curve just British Gov't Seeking Better Spirit In India ------ Resolution Aimed at Secur- ing Co-operation Passed by Commons (Ny Thos, T, Champlon, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent) London, Dec, 30,-"Wa are ¢los Ing a painful chapter and we are moving towards uniform goodwill In India declared Rt, Hon, Wedgwood Denn, asecrstary of state for India, speaking in a de bate on hte polltiean situation in India In the House of Commons late last night, The matter was ralsed by a motion by Fenner Hroockway, La- hor member for Leyton Kast, which welcomed co-operation of Indians In the settlement of the constitu tional question and expressed reli ance of the government of India to promote goodwill by sympath otlo administration, The house adopted the motion, Contest in Cobourg Cobourg ~Caobourg 1s assured of a contest for the mayoralty Deputy Reeve A, R, Willmott announced yes terday that he is a candidate, A few days before Reeve George Thomp son announced that he would seek re- election, BROTHERS HANGED IN MONTREAL JAIL, Norman and Lawrence Men. ard Paid Last Penalty For Murder Montreal, Deo, 30.Two young men, brothers, Norman and Law ence Menard, both under twenty years of age, were hanged at Hors deaux Jail here thin morning for the murder of John Earl Durham last February, The young men went to their deaths together in a snowstorm, in the presence of small crowd of offiolals, Arthur Ellis was the exeputioner, While executive clemency was refused it was hoped by friends of the condemned men that Lawr ence, who was only nineteen years old, might be reprived on account of his age, The young man him. wolf expressed his satisfaction that he was to die with his brother when hope of commutation finally abandoned, CHA Japan Will Have Royal Wedding ------------ Was Press Lonsed Wire Tokyo, Dee, 20,--Officlal an- nouncement was made today of the ap ching marriage of Prince Takamatau, brother of the Mm: peron, to Kikuko Tokugawa, grand. daughter of the last of the Sho ung, The wedding will be held on em e------ anuary 17, . srs ---- VENT HEADCON ON CURVE NEAR NORVAL STATION wont of Norval station, The car plunged headson into snow plow, which was eastbound, Three mem bers of the crew were rushed to Toronto hospital and other om« Flier Starts On Long Fight To Australia (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire London, Deo, 30.~Captain ¥, C, Ohlghester olimbed into the cook: pit at Croydon today of a tiny Moth aeroplane, and told his friends: "Cheerio; I'm off to Aus tralia," He got his plane into the alr und took the direction of the cons tinent, Officials believed he hoped to heat Bert Hinkler's record of 15 days between England and the Australian continent established In February, 1088, Critics Glad Government Is Not Defeated Nobody Anxious To Have Political Crisis and Dissolution (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire London, Dee, 20-<Now that the government has successfully passed the critical test over the Coal Mines Bill, seraping through with a bare majority of elght votes on the sec ond reading last night, its erities ad mit it Is Just ax well the government was not defeated, Dut the govern ment's opponents make the most ol the narrow majority and stress the wint the government must do its ul Ost to improve the measure, it it is to avoid defeat later, The vote was 281 to 27), Ihe Liberal 'Daily News" today says the minority in the house of commons, which would have clearly been a majority except for the ab sentee Conservative votes, represents a decisive majority in the country On the whale however, the News continues, "It is a good thing the government was not actually defeat ed, Nobody really wants a firstsclass political "crisis, still less dissolution, im Christmas week, but the narrow ness of the majority should convince the government of the absolute ne cossify of reconstructing the measure for it is deubtiul whether it can ehrry it in its present form" Five Killed In Crash of Aeroplane Washington, Dee, 30. ~Representa. tive M, K, Kaynor, of Massachusetts and four others were killed today in the erash of an army plane at Bell. Field, gy Representative Kaynor, those killed included his ascoretary, Stanley B, Love, Captain Harvy A Dinger, pilot of the army transport plane, wae killed, an were two army privates, Charles Kunsler and Me. I. The plane had started on a flight to Springfield, Mass, Representative Kaynor's home, It veached a height of about 300 feet and then evashed te the ground. (Claims Wheat ployees and passengers suffored minor Injuries, The pletnre' shows radial car plled up on the snow plow by the impact of the colli. slon, Prices Hinder | Flour Exports President of Association | Says Canada Losing Foreign Markets Toronto, De 10 I'he high level of Canadian wheat prices Is creating a serious condition in the export market for Canadian flour, C, H, G, Short, president of the Canadian Millers' Awsoelation stated In an Interview today, Mr, Short returned recently from a tour of foreign markets in Great Britain and Kurope and exprossed little hope for the recovery of Canada's overseas flour market until Canadian wheat prices drop to "international parity." "The situation is such," "That Canada's exports of flour have declined 00 per cent, In the past few months from the levels of corresponding montha last year," "They have thelr own Interests to consider," he went on, "and presume they are serving them well by holding out for the price they consider Canadian wheat should bring, What I am trying to point out, however, is that this ia having an effect upon the millers The millers are making no coms plaint, Conditions will, I presume, adjust themselves but Wo oer tainly look for much reduced ex. ports this year." FIFTY INJURED INN.Y. SUBWAY Train Ran Into Grounded Rail, and Panic Ensued Now York, Dee, 20-1 ifty pers RONEN, mauy of them wonien, were injured today when a Soar Rrooks Iyn=Manhattan transit subway train ran Into a grounded thivd rall in the tunnel under the east river connecting Manhattan with Queens In thelr efforts to cscape from tha train some of the more exoits od passengers broke windows in some of the ears, cutting them: nelves with glass, Meanwhile the fumes of burning Insulation jeoped into the oars with the result that many passens gers hecame excited and hegan to fight thelr way out, Windows were broken and many passengers were cut and braised Notable Bitish Surgeon Passes Manchester, Eng, Dec, N-Sit William Milligan, distinguished Man chester surgeon who devoted mich of his work to medical (harities, died today at the age of 68 years, He was one of the greatest specialists on di soase of the ear, nose and throat in Great Hreitatn, and was also noted for his cancer research work, he sald | afternoon, THREE RJN FOR TORONTO MAYORALTY MAYOR McBRIDE OPPOSED BY CONTROLLERS HACKER AND WEMP IN ELECTION Suspensions Are Result of Ottawa Riot (By Canadian Press Leossed Wire Montreal, Dec, 30.~~Indofinite suspension of the Rideau Football Club; suspension for life of Plays er A, Morrison; suspension for 1080 und 1081 of Player R, John son) suspension for 1080 of Player Donaldson; suspension for life of H, Bhouldice as n official In games under the Canadian Rugby Unlon; prohibition of any junior playoff game In Ottawa for a period of three years were the penalties imposed hy the hbard of governors of the CRY, on the Rideau ¥Foot- ball Club of Ottawa and its memes bers for thelr part In the injure lew Inflieted on the Ht, Thomas, Ont,, Tigers Rugby Club and the blemish administered to the grid. fron sport in the Eastern Canada final at Ottawa on Nov, 80, The Rideau Aquatis Club was nhsolved from blame in the mats ter, No football club will be al. lowed to operate under the Cana~ dian Rugby Union using the name, however, The suspended club was an affiliated body with the aquatio club QUEBEC MAN HAD CHILLY EXPERIENCES (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire Quebee, Que, Deo, 20.-~Josoph Vallee, a resident of Wolfe's Cove, was caught yesterday afternoon in a snowslide that swept down the hundred foot fuce ¢f the eltadel, hurled him into a fountain and buried him under twenty-feet of snow, The mishap was witnessed by several people who At once surted rescue pperations but it was not until two and a halt hours inter that he was extricated, He wins entirely uninjured and shows ed no {ll-effects except chill, He had been half submerged in the water of the fountain throughout hin entombment, Vessels Fast in Lake Erie Ice Christmas "Shoppers on Mainland Unable to Reach Island Homes Sandusky, 0, Dee, 20,~Crews of two vessels today fought to free the passenger ship Tourist from the grip of a Lake Erie lee jam while her 80 passengers, safe ashore after a perilous tramp aoross orackling loce wondered whether they would be able to spend Christmas at their Kelley's Inland homes, The Tourist, which had brought 30 Christmas shoppers here, set out for Kelley's Island yesterday but she had no more than made the turn into the lake channel! when aun joe floe driven by a sudden northeast storm shove od her into the shallow water of Sandusky Bay, The Tourist struck hottom and ile piled up to he decks, The steamer Messenger, alded by the tug Gillan, was unable to ap proach closer than a quarter of a mile of the stranded Tourist, As the lee continued to pile up, Cap tain John Gilbert ordered the Tourn ist passengers over the side, Lug ginh thelr Christmas purchases, they made thelr way across thin fen to the messenger, which hrought them to port, Contest Has Resolved Itself Inw a Fight Over the Pro- posed $19,000,000 Town Planning Scheme McBRIDE IN FAVOR; WEMP 1S OPPOSED Nine Candidates Are Nomin. ated to Contest the Four Seats on Toronto's Board of Control Toronto, Dee, 20,-~A three-cor= nered tight for the Queen City's highest munleipal office was assur ed this morning when three names were put forward at the Clty Hall an nominated for the mayoralty for 1080, Mayor Samuel MoBride, Controller Bert Wemp and Cons troller Albert Hacker, all of whom have had many years' experience in elvie politics, are the three poms inated, The contest has resolved itself into a fight as to the advisability of Toronto's proposed $10,000,000 town planning scheme, which, If passed, will open up Many new streets In downtown Toronto, and facilitate trafic movement, accords ing to its exponents, The citizens will vote for or againgt the plan an well an for mayor, hoard of cons trol candidates and aldermen, a res ferendum having heen decided on by the retiring counell, Mayor MeBride and Controller Hacker are both strongly in favor of the town plany while Controliss Wetip Is the leader of those wha, say the plan will cost a lot of money and do little to relleve the trafic situation, which both parte fen admit is a serious one, Nine candidates, all of them with past experience In elvie life, are slated to run for the four meats open on the hoard of control, These are: Willlam Summerville, at pres sent a member, Claude Pearce, Brooke Sykes, William Robbins, Benjamin Miller, Wesley Henson, James Simpson, Harry Nradley and Frank Whetter, Whetter wan rained to the post of controller late in the year when ex-Controller Gibhons was appointed eity hydro commissioner, BLIND INSTITUTE IN DANGER FROM FIRE Toronto, Dec, 20~The lives of 33 women Mmates of the Canadian Nas tional Institute for the blind wera endangered early today when fira broke out in an apartment building adjoining the institute, Forty persons living in the apartment escaped unin jured, while prompt work on the part of firemen saved the institute from the flames, Damage was estimated at $2,000, How the fire originated is un« known, Kills Four Soldiers San Blas, Sinaloa ~Emboldened by Marijuana, which Mexicans somes times smoke to induce exhilivation, Bernardino Domingues, = yesterday ran amuck and killed two officers and two of them enlisted men, Killed While Playing With Loaded Rifle Port Arthur, Deo, 20,+-Two boys playing with a loaded rifle proe duced tragedy for one yesterday in the section house at Arliss, a stae tion on the Canadian National rallways, 40 miles east of bere. George Rell, 9, was killed, the top of his head blower off when the gun in the hands of hia Tung er brother James, 7, was acoldents ally discharged, Fliers Leave to ' New Search (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire Seattle, Wash, Doe, 20=Two ress cueplanes piloted by Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam today were believed to have reached the northeastern Siberian mainland to inaugurat a Fscarch for Carl Ren Eielson, noted Arctic flyer and his mechanic, Karl Borland Crosson and Gillam hopped off vésterday at Teller; Alaska, for a 500 mile flight to the vicinity of North Cape, Siberia, where Eielson and Borland were last reported om November 9, For an hour and a half the planes of Crosson and Gillam could be seen from Teller: fighting their way wests ward over the Bering Sea, Although several attempts previously had heen made to fly through the fog and go Establish Base In Siberia 'in search Tol the lost alemen, none succeeded, Crosson and Gillam were the first to break through, : The fliers intended to establish a base in Siberia from which reseus planes can operate more advantages ously, The base will be w ed Tron the RMaskan mainlan planes detailed for that ' 08 Which will allow the Rn ted to scout duty to cruise over a wide area in Siberia, tor T to S00 The air distance from North Cape is approximat miles, a flight on which wasoling cons sumption is so heavy that little ordinarily remaind for scouti more planes are to take off Teller at the first favorable tunity to supply Crosson and with gasoline. from Clam