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News While It Is News" The Oshawa Dail Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer dines A Growing. Newspaper in & Growing City VOL. 5--NO. 151 Published ot Oshawa, Ont. Canada Every Day Except Sundays and Public Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES News in Brief (By Canadian Press) : Will Represent India """ London. ~The India office announ- ced that the Indian representative at the naval conference will be Sir Atul Chatterjee, Indian high commissioner in London, * * * Goes On Trial i Three Rivers, Que.~Andrew Day, self-confessed slayer of his wife and sevent sons, was placed under arrest yesterday on a coroner's warrant charging him with murder, 4 Retires From Bench Winipeg.--Hon. William Edgerton Perdde, chief justice of the court of appeal for Manitoba for 11 years, said farewell to his colleagues of bench and bar at a valedictory gath- ering last night. The retiring chief justice is 75 years of age. Alleged Racketeers Shot Chicago. -- Three reputed labor racketecrs, said by police to have been trying to "shake down" officials of a union, were shot and killed in 4 gun battle with police on the west side late yesterday, . w . LJ Brokerage House Fails New York.--A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in federal court by G. W, Townsend and Co, Inc, a stock brokerage concern at 120 Broadway. The firm has branch offices in Albany, Syracuse and Buf- falo, * ¥ x Struck By Car Toronto.--~A fractured collarbone was suffered by Mrs. Mary Jones, 62, 10 Lawrence avenue west, when she was struck and' knocked down last evening by a bicycle ridden by Gus tave Brusgoat, 120 Church street, LJ » Painfully Injured Toronto. --Serious and painful lac- erations on his leg were suffered by Colsen Jeffery, aged 65, 67 Lee ave- nue, last evening, when the rear wheel of a motér truck passed over his left leg below the knee, * » =» Lumberman Dies Ottawa.--Henry D. Chapman, 62, known throughout eastern Can- ada as a lumberman and forestry authority, dled here yesterday af- ter a short illness. He was born at Dorchester, N.B., and spent the early years of his life at Moncton. * % % Injured By Axe Orillia ~Sydney Bullock of South Portage, Lake of Bays, arrived at the rillia Memorial hospital this week with part of the bone of his left shoulder sliced off. The accident happened while Bullock was out chopping trees and the axe of an- other man glanced down his shoulder and into the bone, It is a clean cut. Ad Ww * Smuts To Visit Canada Ottawa.--An official welcome to General Jan Christian Smuts will be extended by Premier Mackenzie King at the joint dinner of the Canadian club and the League of Nations society of Canada here next Thursday evening. Upwards of 800 persons are expected to hear the ad- dress of General Smuts, BENCH BELIEVES ACCUSED KNOWS MORE THAN HE SAYS Fred Montgomery, Who, Pleaded Guilty to Theft, Is Again Remanded Fred Montgomery again appear- ed before Magistrate Willis in po- lice court this morning for a fur- ther hearing of his charge of stegling cigars and cigarettes from the store of his employer, A, Ger- mond, on King street. He had pleaded guilty at his hearing yes- terday, but further thefts had been discovered by the police since, and he was closely questioned about these. He admitted taking other cigars than those found at his home and which he had given 10 some friends on Christmas day. It appears that he had visited the home of a friend on that day and had had a drink and had then returned to the store and stolen more cigars. He told the Magis- trate where he got the liquor, but could not explain where he was the whole of the day. When asked if he had anything to say, he answered: "I'm sorry. It' will not happen again." The magistrate stated that he thought that there was something that the accused was hiding and he would remand him again until Friday, January 3rd. He refused Mont- mer the privilege of being re- ed on bail pending his hearing. SP, SEAS WEATHER Pressure continues low to the northward over the great- er part of the Dominion and off the South Atlantic ,' coast and over the Pacific States. It has been mild in all provinces, cloudy with some * light local rain or snow in Eastern Canada, and for the most part fair in tho west. Lower Lake Reglon--Moder- 'ate southwesterly winds; cloudy with possibly some light local rain, Sunday--Mod. erate westerly winds; mostly cloudy end mild. n * Bay--=Moderate winds; cloudy 'and mild; probably some light local snow. Sunday-- Moderate westerly winds; | Follows The mostly cloudy and mild, ' FRANCE MAY UPSET NAVAL PARLEYS Zeppelin's Polar Flight Called Off GERMAN AEROARCTIC BODY DEMAND FOR SECURITY IS PARAMOUNT FEATURE OF DISCUSSIONS IN FRANCE! French Leaders Still Uneasy Over Relaxation of the Terms Imposed on Ger- many in the Treaty of Versailles SEEKS PROTECTION FOR POSSESSIONS Memories of 1870 and 1914 Will Play Large Part in Determining French Stand on Disarmament (By George Hambleton, Cana- dian Press Staff Correspondent Paris, Dec, 28.--With reduction in armaments, France wants secur- ity. Security echoes through her parliamentary discussions, Socur- ity is the constant refrain of press comment. She wants security for her frontiers, security for her coastline, on the seaways to the empire she is building for herself in Africa. For, despite the Kellogg pact and Locarno treaties, there remains the haunting shadow of 1870 and 1914, To the epic stories of Verdun are linked the more sordid stories of treason purchased in France with French bank. Notes wrung in levies by an invading Germany army. And when the five power naval conference meets in London in January, there is little doubt that the Tardleu govern- ent will, in effect, take its stand on the qualifying provision of the eighth article of the league cov- enant namely. "The reduction of national ar- maments to the lowest point con- sistent with national safety," and further, that plans for such reduc tion shall take into account *'the geographical situation and circum- stances of each state." In French official circles, it Is expected Germany will give full effect to the Young plan and that French troops will in. consequ- ence evacuate the third Rhine zone before the end of June, If Germany does not give effect to the Young plan French troops will remain on the Rhine, Yet ar- rangements made at the Hague (Continued on page 2) - (oes Hunting he H For Hounds First Time in Sev- eral Months (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Melton Mowbray, Eng., Dec, 28.-- The Prince of Wales came into the hunting field today for the first time in several months and rode with the Belvoir Hounds, He came over from from Sandringham with his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, after a Christmas spent with King George and Queen Mary at a family reunion. The "call of the hunt" apparently has proved too strong for the prince after his quiet Christmas at San ringham. It had been supposed that he had foreswbrn hunting to hounds as well cross-country horse rac- ing. "Baldness is often the badge of the successful business . man" says a writer, It certainly means that he has come out on top.--The Humorist, ART TREASURES ON WAY T0 LONDON Italy Sends Paintings Valued at One Billion Dollars Rome, Dec. 28.---Ten motor trucks, hermetically sealed, lined inside with thick zin¢ plates and painted on the outside with the Italian national colors, were placed on board the steamer Leonardo da Vinel at Genoa. The trucks con- tained art treasures moderately valued at one billion dollars, There are 700 masterpieces of Italian painters with destination for Lon- don, where they are to be exhibit- ed for a month at the Royal Academy. r The route the ship wag to take was kept a strict secret. It was escorted all the way to Southamp- ton by three Italian warships, which also will convoy the pre- cious cargo to Italy in a month's time, \ |in London. CNR. WILL CARRY QUT 7S PROGRAM Sir Henry Thornton Says Present No Time for Pessimism Ottawa, Dec. 2§8.--The Canadian National would go ahead with its program of betterments and ex- tensions, Sir Henry Thornton, pre- sldent of the railway company as- surred a party of newspaper men yesterday, Sir Henry spent the morning in conference with Hon. C. A. Dunning and had lunch with Premier King. This was his first visit to Ottawa since his return from England, "This is no time to take to one's heels," Sir Henry sald. "It is no time to shout pessimism, but it is a time to be prudently courage- ous." His company had embark- ed on new works because they were needed in order that it could bet- ter fulfil its transportation respon- sibilities to the people of this country. These would be gone ahead with, The company could continue to do its utmost to give employees work and he did not see any reason for anxiety. For the $75,000 which Harry Thaw will have to pay for biting a night club hostess he probably could have bought two sandwiches in the same club.--Detroit News, te e-- TO BE GIVEN HIGH CHURCH QFFICE CARDINAL PACELLI TO BE PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE Cardinal Pacelll, who was elevated at a recent secret consistory, has been nanfed successor to Candinal Gaasparrl as papal secretary of state, Cardinal Pacelll was papal nuncio at Berlin and is considered a brilliant diplomat. GALT UTILITIE HAVE BIG PROFIT Hydro and Water Systems Show 1929 Surplus of $23,000 Galt, Dec, 28.--At the final meeting of the year of the Public Utilities commission, it was report- ed that Galt now has a local In- vestment in Hydro of $800,000, of which 62 per cent, is free from debt, and of $1,250,000 in the On- tario system, of which 20 per cent, has been paid, With a credit expected in the 15th bill from the Ontario com- mission, It is estimated the Galt commission will have a not profit for 1929 of $11,000, In the water works department there is a gross profit of $12,000. SLAYER OF SONS TAKEN T0 GUFLPH Guelph, Dec. 28.--After long im- prisonment in Picton county jail, Dr. Charles Twells, of Consecon, who was declared insane after being found guilty of murdering his two sons, is now an inmate Qf the psy chiatric ward at the Ontario hospi tal in connection with the reform- atory here, Twells has given no trouble since his arrival at the local institution, The number of criminally insane confined in the reformatory - build- ing totals slightly over 100. FRANCE TO FORTIFY GERMAN FRONTIERS Huge Sum To Be Spent in Alsace and Lor- raine (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, Dec. 28.--Fortification of the Rhineland frontier in Al- pace and Lorraine will cost France, 1,000,800,000 francs or ayoul $40,- 000,000 in 1930, An appropriation amount has been French parliament, closing days of the current ses- sion, Tho engineering saction of the army will have three-quarters of the appropriation, An earlier agreement provides for expenditure of 3,000,000,000 francs on the frontiers between 1930 and 1934. bill for that passed by the acting in the Minister Improving Ottawa.--Improvement {in the condition of Hon. W. R, Mother well continues to be noted, his phy- slcian announced. The Minister of Agriculture 1s in Clvic Hospital suffering from pneumonia, At Nava 28.--~There were pre- here London, Dee. three developments in the naval conference situation yesterday, They were: Publication ofythe French gov- ernment"s memorandum on the conference made possible a frank exposition of several points whose elaboration hitherto would have exposed the commentators to the charge of being pessimists, The Japanese delegation arrived A statement from an inspired source here suggested that "it is desirable to avoid public declara- tions of principle at the opening of the conference," Overshadowing everything else Is the French communication in | which, with courtesy, clarity, and {extreme frankness, as the docu ment is read here, France definite- ly makes impossible any five- power agreement at all, while stating that she has no objection to other powers making a "bind- ing agreement," before a general scaling down of armaments on land, sea and alr is decreed by the League of Nations. In some quarters it was not ex pected that France would openly and in advance of the conference (Continued on page 12) ° Builders Face Fraud Charge | Two Toronto Men Charged in Case Involving | $100,000 Toroyto, Dec. 28.--Following an exciting meeting of creditors here yesterday during which a chair was hurled across the room, Norman Fegeluran and Charles Zuckerman, bujlders of a local apartment house, were arrested on warrants charging them with conspiracy to defraud their creditors of $100,- 000. Bail for the release of accus- ed was set at $50,000 each. Five local companies and a Cooksville brick company are nam- ed as complainants in the warrant, Fined For Killing Pigeons St. Catharines.--The shooting of two Archangel pigeons on Nov, 29, the last "open" day for pheasant shooting in this district, cost Ar- nold Forbes $49. This included a fine of $15, $10 for the pigeons, and the police court costs. Earth Tremors in U.S, Oklahoma City, Okla.-- Earth tremors of sufficient intensity to cause persons to rum from their homes in alarm occurred last night at El Reno, Union City and Okla- homa City, So far as could be ascertained immediately no damage was done. { that the public ebtain 1 Conference Hares Damage - Fruit Trees Grimsby, Dee. 28.----With their) customary ground food hidden b) the heavy snowfalls of last week, Belglan hares are causing thous- {ands of dollars' damage in this dis trict by nibbling the peach and plum tree branches, which they are able easily to reach from the high snowbanks, Alarmed by their depredations, forty or fifty towns- folk and frult farmers of the dis trict went out on a rabbit hunt, Only six rabbits, however, fell to the formidable posse. Neverthe less the same party plans another | rabbit hunt on Saturday. Message From Labor Leader President Mosher Says Can- adian Workers Cannot Live 'Up to Standards (By Canadian' Press Lived Wire) Ottawa, Dec, 28.--In a New Year's message to the Canadian people, A, R, Mosher, president of the All-Canadian Congress of La- | bor, and the Canadian Drother- hood of Railway Employes, urges a clearer understanding of the labor situa- tion in Canada, He asks for recog- nition not only of labor's right to organize and bargain collectively, but also to be represented directly in legislative bod{es. Mr, Mosher maintains that, al- though the general level of ving conditions is higher in Canada than in any other country, Canadian workers are not able to lve in accordance with the better stand ards. FOREIGN EXHANGE New York, Dec. 28.~Foreign exchanges easy, Great Britain in dollars, Others in cents, Great Britain 4.87%; Italy ©5.28%:; Montreal 99.03%. U.S. Steel Makes New Stock Issue (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) {ew York, Dec. 28,--~The United Statps Steel Corporation's total ssels with $2,442,030,233 on Dec. 1929, it was stated in a bal- ance sheet submitted to the New York Stock Exchange in applying to list 180,000 additional shares of commoh stock. The new stock is to be used in payment for the Atlas Portland Cement Co. Its liste ing has been approved, France Blocks the Way | ance Blocks the Way DIS[OVERY (OF NEW LAND 1S REPORTED [ Norwegian Explorers Raise Country's Flag in Antarctic 1 | - . | Oslo, Norway, Dec, 28 Captain R. Larsen, who is participating in [an Antarctic exploring expedition in the steamer Norwegla, reported |to the newspaper, Tidens Tegn, to- day that he and his fellow airman, Lieutenant Luetzow Holm, had dis. covered new land between Enderby | Land and Coatsland | The two airmen left the Norwe- la in their plane and alighted on |the open fce near the island. From {there they went ashore and raised the Norwegian flag, taking posses- of it in the name of their try, according to international 1] son coun { form wegla which was waiting a hun- | dred miles away | Enderby Land is located at the | eastern extremity of the so-called | Enderby Quadrant of Antarctica, | in about 50 east 65 south, Coats- | land is located at the western edge lof the Enderby Quadrant at about [ west 756 south, Fires Raging Underground | Bush Fires Reported In Ken- ora and Fort Frances Districts Toronto, Dec. 28 Tour bush have been reported to the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, it 'was announced here last night, They have been burning in the Kenora and Fort Frances districts for a week. Officials of the department de- goribe them as "left-overs'" from the numerous bush fires which raged in those districts last sum- mer and fall, They are burning in Muskeg, quite a distapce below ground. level, unimpeded by zero weather and a three-foot covering of snow, The fires may have to be watch- closely, officials said, as the Kenora district ig still very dry and they keep spreading . until spring, and then break out, above the ground,. with disastrous re sults to timber, Serious Fire in Ottawa Ottawa.--Fire which originated in a basement pile of waste paper, last night caused $20,000 damage to the premises of an office furni- ture manufacturing company on Queen street here, od They then returned to the Nor- { | | Big British Dirigible To Undergo Operation To Increase Its Size France Plans Heavy Program (By Canadian Press loosed Wire) Paris, Dec. 28.--The chamber of deputies today voted appropria- tions of 2,900,000,000 francs (ap- proximately $180,000,000) for na- tional defense, This is the com- plete program of expenditures for the years from 1980 and 1034 along French frontiers. An appropriation of a billion francs for 1930 along the Rhine- land frontier in Alsace and Lore raine was voted last night, Pope Receives Italian Princes Gifts Exchanged at Recep- tion in Vatican City Today (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Vatican City, Dec, 28.--Pope Pius received additional princes of, the ruling house of Savoy in audience to- day. They included the Duke and Duchess of Genoa, the Prince of Ud- ine, the Duke of Pistoia, the Duke of Bergamo, Princess Maria Adel- aide and the Duke of Ancona, The Duke of Genoa presented the pope with a gold chalice on which was engraved the Savoy coat of arms. The pontiff gave the prin. cesses gold rosaries with precious stones, The party then visited Cardinal Gasparri and' later went to St, Pet. er's for worship, At St. Peter's they were received byythe cathedral chap- ter among whom were Prince George of Bavaria, now a canon of the cathedral, A man being tried for murder in New York insists he is not insane. He must be crazy! -- Southern Lumberman, Car Disappeared In Snow Drift Kitchener, Dec. 28.~~Recently a traveller motoring to this eity be- came stuck in the snow near Free- port, and, after falling to get out, he abandoned the nfachine and walked to this city. The next day he returned, but his car had van- ished, He poked around in a large drift, and finally came upon some- thing hard, the car being discover- ed completely buried. A truck also became stuck the same drift, and the crew, digging it out, covered up smaller machine, in in the (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Dec. 28.~--As a result of its recent trials Great Britain's glant new dirigible, the R-101, will undergo, among other modi- fications, a surgical operation, The big ship will be cut in two parts and a section of 75 foot lenght, and containing a gas bag capacity of 500,0000 cuble feet, in serted before the halves are '"'sew- ed" back together again, The length of the new ship will be 800 feet, which will make it larger than its twin, the R-100, and hence the largest dirigible in the world, The new section will give the ship an additional lift of fifteen tons, The gas bag wiring will also be enlarged and fittings which the trials indicated were not particul- arly useful will be removed, Predicts Lower Levels Windsor--Great lake levels will be considerably lower during 1930, ac- cording to A. J. Lothian, Riverside, who is a student of lake levels. Tak- ing a report of the chronological bureau at Washington in conjunction with his own. records, he predicts the lake levels will be noticeably lower than at the record peak of 1929, Russian Troops Leaving China Peaceful Conditions Are Be- ing Restored in Manchuria Toyko, Dec. 28.---Restoration of peacetime conditions in Manchuria proceeded steadily today, Julius Rudy, newly appointed Russian manager of the Chinese Eastern Rallway, arrived in Muk- den, accompanied by other Soviet officials, to confer with Chang- Hsuelh-Liang, governor of Man- churia, Simultancously it was ane nounced Soviet forces that had es tablished themselves on Chinese territory in Western Manchuria were being withdrawn, The Japanese consul at Man- chuli, in the occupied zone, report. ed by telegraph via Moscow that Russian troops began evacuation of Manchull Monday, Dec. 28, and that the commander left town the next day. Bishop Fatally Injured Davenport, Ia), Dec. 28.---The Right Rev. Theodore Nevin Morri- son, Episcopal bishop of Iowa, was fatally injured early last night when struck by an sutomobile driven by Miss Margaret Volz of Davenport. Miss Volz was placed under $2,000 bonds pending inves. tigation of the accident, HOPES PROJECT HAS ONLY BEEN POSTPONED FOR YEAR Failure to Secure Insurance for Propgsed Trip to North Pole Given as Rea+ son for Postponement ZEPPELIN MAY FLY TO SOUTH AMERICA Series of Demonstrations To Prove Ability of Graf Zeppelin as Long Distance Carrier To Be Undertaken (By Canadian Press Loased Wire) Berlin, Dec, 28. ~The Aeroarctia Society has issued a statement that the projected North Pole expedition in the dirigible Graf Zeppelin has been called off for 1930 but that it is 1ully expected the flight will ba made 1n 1931, On Dec, 23 the Berlin offices of the Zeppelin Company announced that the flight had been cancelled, Previously there had been a differs cence of opinion between Dr, Huga Eckener, commander of the craft, and Captain Walter Burns, secre tary of the Aeroarctic Society, as to the feasibility of the proposed flight, Dr, Eckener said that neither the Zeppelin Company nor the Aeroargs tic Society had been able to obtain insurance, and that the Zeppelin works were turning to other projects for further demonstrating the serve ice ability of the Zeppelin as a means of conveyances over long distances, Among other things a flight to La« tin Americans was being considered, Captain Bruns, however, said that the Aeroarctic Society hoped to se« cure insurance, Apparently these nes gotiations broke down, North Bay Payments North Bay.~--According to fig« ures compiled by James A, Smith, City Treasurer, 88 per cent of the city's taxes have been paid by the ratepayers, The available revenues for the year was $582,856, and of this, $507,695 had been paid, leave ing $74,261 outstanding, Germany Names Its Delegation Cabinet Ministers And Financial Experts To Discuss Reparations Berlin, Dec, 28,~-The German delegation to the coming Hague conference on reparations will con= sist of four members of the cabinet assisted by two members of the Relchsbank directorate as finane elal experts, The delegates selected by the cabinet today were Foreign Minis ter Curtius, Joseph Wirth, minise ter of the occupied areas; Finance Moldenhauer and Robert Schmidt, minister of economics. Carl Mel choir and Dr, Vocke of the Reichs bank will be the experts, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, head eof the Reichsbank, will participate in the negotiations when so request- ed by the delegation, particularly if his presence should be necessary in view of discussions affecting the new bank for international set tlement, CAPTAIN BLAMED . INWRECK INQUIRY Court Orders Certificate Suspended for Three Months Montreal, Dec, 28.--~Blame for the stranding on Oct, 20 of the 8.8. Maplecourt on Magnetic shoal, Cockburn island, Lake Huron, was attached to tho master, Captain Malcolm Stalker, in the report made public here yesterday of Cape tain L. A. Demers, dominion wreck commissioner, Captain Stalker's certificate was suspended for three months, Evidence had shown that when the skip left Goderich the two compasses were placed in position without being examined or ad Justed, They had been kept on the captain's bed in close proximity to a steel spring. go Se i