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"All the News While It Is News" The Osh a awa Daily Time Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 9 Published at Oshawa. Day Except Sunday: Canada Every Ont., s and Public Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy SECOND SECTION--PAGES 13-24 i, a SG 4 News in Brief - (By canadian Frese) 3 Murderer Extricated Toronto.--Alexander Kusziey, Hun- garian ex-soldier, was commutted for - extradition by Judge Denton yester- day to complete the serving of a life ~ sentence in Hungary for murder. » * »* Conference Date Set Toronto.-- Lhe waterpower develop ment conference at Ottawa between Premier Mackenzie King and Pre- miers Ferguson and Taschereau has been set for Jan. 24. . * * Rat Attacks Woman Owen Sound.--Attacked by a huge rat as she slept, Mrs. B. Herbison had one finger severely bitten early yesterday. Her husband, wakened by her screams killed the rat which was almost 15 inches long. Great Canadian Victory Davos, Switzerland.--The Canada's hockey team of Toronto scored their most decisive victory of their pres- ent tour last night when they defeat- ed the Villars sextette by a score of 23 to 0. * * * Prevents Coal Famine Kingston--~1he Salvage Prince, a small tug under command of Cap- tain Pyke, smashed its way through miles of ice yesterday with a laden coal barge in tow and prevented a coal famine at Amherst Island. - - - Cairo to Cape Flight Cairo, Egypt--Four machines of the Royal Air Force took off today for Cape Town where they expect to arrive Feb. 1. The men are on the fifth successive annual flight of the air force from Cairo to Cape Town, * * Belgian Burned to Death Simcoe.--George Boniface, Belgian tobacco grower, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed his home near Walsingham Centre yesterday. His wife and little son escaped with minor burns. * » To Build Erie Canal Washington.--Inclusion in the riv- ers and harbors bill of an authoriza- tion for $40,000,000 to give the Erie canal a navigable depth of 12 feet was assured by Representative S. Wallace Dempsey of Lockport, N.Y, chairman of the committee. * Ld ® Banquet for Dunning Regina--A complimentary banquet will be tendered Hon. Charles A. Dunnine, minister of finance, here on Feb. 6, by Regina and Saskatchewan Liberals. Arrangements are now be- ing made for the event and it is ex- pected that at, least 500 will attend. Policeman . Faces Trial Kitchener--Poilce constable F. Teahen and J. P, Weber uf this city were charged in police court here with making the home of Mrs. Harry 'Klinck unfit for children. Both plead ed not guilty. x * Phea . nts Starving London, Ont.--Pheasants, protect- ed by law from the hunter's gun are dying in scores from starvation, ac- cording to reports reaching George Tustin, inspector for the Humane so- ciety at London. The society is feed- ing large numbers of the birds here. Infantile Paralysis Report Toronto.--A total of 473 cases of infantile paralysis occurred in On- tario -between July 20, and Nov. 23, last year, it was announced yester- day by the Ontario Department Health. This is 388 more than .oc- curred during the whole of 1928. On- ly 26 cases proved fatal in 1929, * * Man Loses Arm Rouyn.--Retaining consciousness although one arm 'had been torn from its socket, Arthur Lewis, 33- year-old Welsh veteran employed at the Noranda, walked without assist- ance to the first-aid room and re- ported the accident. ~ KNOWS NOTHING OF NATIONAL PARK IDEA (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Jan. 11.--Premier G. H. Ferguson stated today that no pro- posals for the establishment in On- tario of a National Park had reached him. It was reported that Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the In- terior in the Dominion Government, had suggested a National Park in each Province and had indicated a suitable site in Ontario. THOUGHT HOLDUP JOKE, MAN MAY DIE Chicago, Jan. 11. ZA hold-up last night on Hoyne Avenue was no joke, but Leo Weisskopf thought it was, Two men accosted him and de- manded his money. "I thought it was a joke," he said. "1 told them to get away and quit fooling, and when they persisted, I gave one of them a playful shove. He got up and shot me." At the hospital doctors sald he probably would not survive his wounds, WEATHER An area of unusually high pres- sure is centred in Quebec, ex- tending over the Eastern States and Great Lakes, while a depres- sion is developing in the South- western States. Local snowfalls have occurred in the St. Law- rence Valley and Maritime Pro- vinces. The weather is cold throaghout the Dominion. Forecasts: Lower Lake Re- gion and Georgian. Bay: Fresh easterly winds: cloudy not quite so cold tonight Sun. dey; probably some light snow, ermans Known Brokerage House Is Held on Unknown Not Detained WARRANTS ISSUED BY ALBERTA POLICE Firm of Solloway-Mills, Ltd., Is Well-Known, Branches in Practically All Cities in Canada Edmonton, Alta., Jan, 11.-- I. W. C. Solloway, partner in the brokerage house of Sollo- way-Mills, Limited, of Van- couver, is wanted by the officers of the British Columbia Provincial Police, on a warrant issued by the Alberta Provincial Police, at the instance of the Attorney General's department, it was announced here today. Advices from Vancouver state that he has not been de- tained by the police there. Commissioner W. C. Bryan, head of the Alberta force, left last night for Vancouver. Harvey Mills, Solloway's partner, was placed under arrest in Toronto at the same time. Not Detained Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 11.--Provin- cial Police stated today that they were not detaining I. W, C, way, partner in the brokerage house ges of conspiracy made by the Al- berta attorney-general's dept, (By Canadian Press Coot Wire) Mills Held in Toronto Toronto, Jan. 11.--Provincla' police officers today arrested Har- vey Mills, member of the broker- age house of Solloway-Mills, Ltd., on request of the attorney-general of Alberta. The Solloway-Mills company has been operating for some years, dealing mainly, in. mining and oi! stocks and maintain offices in prac- tically all cities from Montreal westward. In Ontario the firm's activities extend to numerous cen- tres. Alfred Cuddy, deputy c¢ommis- sioner of provincial police, said Mills was arrested this morhing on receipt of a telegram from the Al- berta authorities which merely re- | quested the Ontario police to take | Mills into custody. The f#'egram |zave no details of the charge against Mills, and after the brok- er's arrest, Mr. Cuddy said he wir- ed to Edmonton asking the Alber- to Provincial Police to notify him as to the natur\ of the charge. Mills was takin to a downtown police station. Irish Magistrate: -- The defendant swears he was perfectly sober. Policeman: He was absolutely in- toxicated. If he had been perfectly sober he would have known-he-was drunk and not made a disturbance. Charge -- Other Partner | Having | Sollo-!} of Solloway Mills, Ltd.,, who was re- | ported to be held here pending char- | HARVEY MILLS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AT REQUEST OF ALBERTA ATT' GENERAL | One of Partners of Well] 'Thousands Of Chinese Die of Cold Peiping, China, Jan. 11.--Half of China for days has been experi- encing the severest cold in 60 years, with the dead nung VWe® in the thousands and with thousands suffering cruelly lack of shelter. Undernourished populations in he districts where famine had fol- lowed crop failures this summer were hard hit and many died in the hovels into which they crawled in vain search of warmth. The ~reatest mortality from the wintry blasts was in the Suiyuan dic "gt of Northern Shansi and inner Mon- rolia, where it was estimated that 15,000 undernourished persons, most of them aged and children, were dead from exposure. In the town of Fengchen 2,500 were frozen to death, in Sahsien another 2,000 died, while in Pao- towchen 800 succumbed to the cold. Honan province reported the coldest weather since 1870, with below zero temperatures reported in the three Wuhan cities in Hu- neh province. The Han river was tilled with blocks of ice which had ~rushed thousands of junks and Arowned hundreds of persons. The Rengo News Agency sald 700 soldiers were frozen during the movement of the second army. Bodies were sent back to Hankow on freight trains where soldiers and relatives were summoned by the beating of gongs to come to the railroad yards and take charge of the dead. = Lindsay Manls Suing Doctors from | Claims He Was Illegally Sent to Institution at Whitby Toronto, Jan, 11.--Conduecting his own cage, John B. Chamber- lain, market gardener and late re- sident of Lindsay, began action vesterday before Mr. Justice Me- Evoy against four doctors of Lind- say. He claims they wrongfully signed certificate of Insanity by which he was incarcerated in the Ontario hospital for the insane at Whitby. The plaintiff is seeking damages of $25,000 from Drs. W. G. Collison, FP. A. Loran, C. V. l} Mulligan and J. A. White, The plaintiff states that he was never insane and never examined by the doctors as their certificates state. Fe was only released on condition that he would not return to his native town of Lindsay, and therefore sufferes loss, he alleges, through not being able to use his property there. Both the commit- ment to the jail and the hospital at Whitby were signed by Magistrate Bradford, now retired. The defendants claim that the nlaintiff was-properly examined by each separately. {By Canadian Press Ledsed Wire) Peterboro, Jan. 11.--0ld man win- ter came down from the north with full force on this city last night when the thermometer dropped 15 degrees below last winter's record. At six o'clock this morning it was still 11 degrees below zero and at Mercury Drops to 25 Below Zero In District North of Peterboro nine o'clock it had not reached the zero mark. Apsley, 40 miles north of this city was 25 degrees below. Thirty-eight below is the record of this district, established some forty years ago but up until the last ten years it was quite common for the thermometer to register 28 and 30 below at times during the winter. (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. 11,--Feder- al Judge Lake Jones late yesterday ordered the British vessel Billy and Betty, seized by the coast guard off the Florida coast last fall, go of 1,060 cases of liquor. The coast guard claimed the seiz ure was made within the 12-mile lim- | it, and that the British vessel ap- po - / Seized British Vessél Is To Be Returned to Owners {parently was heading in to land ber cargo on American soil. W. B. Tucker, the master, said his vessel was plying between and Halifax and that he had been returned ' drifting for several days when seiz- to her owners, together with a car- ed. Judge Jones held that the coast 'guard had not proved that the vessel | was within the 12-mile limit, nor {that it intended to unload the cargo on United' States soil, tens ot' Toronto Broker Arrested, Partner Also Wanted Above is a photograph of first Public to be elected to operate the elec- tric, UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN GROWS, Fai Proven To Be Ineffective Press Staff Correspondent) Manchester, Eng., Jan. 11.--As if to emphasize the futility of ali efforts to relieve unemployment adopted so far, the number of un- employed this week, for the first time in more than a year, exceea- ed 1,500,000. So far the Labor government has adopted more o. less admitted "tinkering" methods --efforts to relieve unemployment y schemes of construction of puu lic works. But the government, and the man particularly concerned, Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, lord privy seal and minister of employment, re- cognizes that the ond effective | way to deal with the greatest prou- lem in Great Britain's present dif- | ficulties 1s to revive the expor. trade, and Mr. Thomas, making an eagerly awaited statement before (Continued on page 2) Prince Likely To Visit Epi Nassau | May Stop There On His Way Home From Hunt- ing Trip (By Cansdian. Press Leased Wire) London, Jan, 11.--~The Prince of Wales may, at the end of his Afri- can big game hunting tour, return to England via Egypt. It was stated at St. James' Palace today no plans for the return journey had yet been made, but it was quite likely, after hunting in East Africa, the Prince will decide to go up the River Nile and thence home trom Cairo. This would be his most direct route. It is expected the Prince will start the return journey in March, Fire in Teronto Toronto.--~Damage estimated at $5,000. was caused by a fire here to- day. The flames did $2,000 damage to the stock of the George T. Lan- ning Company, hat manufacturers and the damage to the premises of the company was estimated at nearly A 3 Steamer Is Now Reported As Safe (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 11.--Cap- tain David Bone, of the liner Trans- vlvania today informed the Anchor Line offices here that the steamer IE skbridge which sent out an S.0.S. "yesterday, no. longer required as- sistance, He reported that the Trans- ylvania 'was resuming her voyage to Glasgow. NEW PUBLIC BODY the picture was taken after the inau- ral meeting on Thursday, when | Conant. Mason was elected chair- | Mayor T. Mason, chairman, and John Stacey. (BRITISH PRESS Utilities Commission | 2 gas and water systems. The | NUMBER OF MEN | (By George Hambleton, Canadian | OSHAWA"S FIRST PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION | Frank L. | ma an. The members of the commis- sion are: standing, left to right, [Power Rates Are Reduced InE. Ontario : Brockville, --Appreci- | able reductions in service charges Government Plons Have So have been authorized by the hydro- sion for ap- \'e- Pres- In ad- usd ion electric power commiss plication to the Broce cott rural power district dition, a reduction in cons { has been authorized for the L.ock- ille portion of the district, all tw rates being effective as from Jan. 1 last, COLDS PELL EXPERIENCED IN ONTARIO | Twenty-Five Degrees Below Zero Registered at Aps- ley, North of City of Pet- erboro Toronto, Jan. 11.--Sweeping down from the north-west late yesterday a cold wave brought the lowest temperatures of the winter to Ontario, sub-zero levels being general throughout the province. Early report? indicate that the Peterboro district suffered the worst from the friged blast, 25 be- low being registered at Apsley, while in the city of Peterboro the mercury fell 15 degrees below tne zero mark. Coming on the heels of balmy spring-llke weather which was re- sponsible for the ice in many riv- ers breaking up, the severe tem- perature was all the more mark- ed, but meteorological advices to- day promise early relief in Ontario (Continued on Page 2) SEEK NEW TARIFF ON DAIRY PRODUCE National Dairy Council To Make Application to Tariff Board Ottawa, Jan, 11.--The applica- tion for an increase in the tariil on butter and ch2ese will be be- fore the tariff advisory board next week. The national dairy council of Canada will press its application that instead of the present duty of one cent a pound all round, the rate on butter coming into this country be four cents a pound British preferential, including but- ter from Australia or New Zealand, and seven cents a pound from all c'hor countries. The dairy council will ask that the duty on cheese which now cor in free, be two cents = from tish Empire countricg and four cents a pound from other nations. It ig claimed there is a NOW IN OPERATION SHARP DEMAND MADE AT THE HAGUE alled Upon to Furnish Statement at Once CREDITOR NATIONS LOSE PATIENCE AT DELAYS, AND William H. Ross and Gordon D. Sitting, left to right, B. Mitchell, Frank L. NOT PARTIAL T0 NAVAL STATEMENT Warning Enpressed That Kellogg Pact Is Being Over-Rated (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Jan. 11. -- Announcement of Rt. Hon. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, that Great Britain is willing to reduce its cruis- er complement from 70 to 50 at the forthcoming London conference has not found so strong a welcome from the British press as he may have hoped. But two papers commented on his speech, madeé at Sheffield, and in ed. itorials of both these there was a distinct note of warning and fear lest the Briand-Kellogg pact as al guarantee of peace was ebing over- rated, and Great Britain's. security be compromised. | tailed explanation as to how the re. {that the peaceful outlook of the mo: The Times called for a more de duction was justified, and argued ment was due rather to universal war weariness than to internation. al agreements, To Popularize "Travel By Air Transcontinental of $107.51. growing importation .of cheese, Rates Are Reduced Below Those of Passenger Trains (By Canadian Prees Leased Wire) New York, Jan. 11.--A new move to place air passenger travel on a popular basis in the United States was made today when the Afr '"Transport- Maddux Air Lines announced the most drastic cut In air travel rates British people at authoritatively o~act position of thelr government on the cruiser question. Allegedly inspired statements following the lines of the speech by Mr, ander had been circulated, ever, few -months. that the total of 50 would be made up of 10,000 tons and 35 vessels of a smaller type guns. Naval Plan Is Revealed Sheffield. England, Jan, 11.-- Great Britain last night through its first lord of admiralty made its first public move in precise figures toward reducticn in naval arma- ments. Rt, Hon. A. V. Alexander, the first lord, speaking in his own con- stituency, announced that the em- pire at the coming five-power con- ference intended to propose reduc- ing her requirement strength from of Paris was said by him to have so altered the situation that the admiralty felt warranted to set its irreducible minimum at 50 instead of the 70 considered necessary Washington conference. in cruiser 70 to 50. The pact of cruisers at the time of the This was the first time that the large had been informed of the Alex- how- in Britain during the last These reports were of 15 eight-inch gun vessels to carry six-inch Mr. Alexander emphasized that these figures would be operative pending a further naval conference in 1936 which he hoped would con= firm and extend the present agree- ment. Important Aamxouncement The first lord of' the admiralty made another important announce- ment in reference in capital ships He declared that his government would like to see, are to take place, as they must, a capital ship which would be less expensive both maintain than the ship which is in- volved in the rule laid dcwn in the Washington treaty." Hockey Players "if replacements to build and to maximum tonnage Badly Injured Members of Oakville Team Hurt in Automobile Collision Toronto, Jan. 11.--Three mem- bers of the Oakville junior hockey team were badly injured in-an au- tomobile accident last night, | Good, goaltender, and Basil Earle, left wing, were the most seriously injured and were taken to St. Jo- seph's Hospital here, son, another member of the team sustained but was able to be taken to his home in Mimico, Geo. Jim David- several fractured ribs, Bert Peer, and John Shannon, two other members of the team, suffered minor injuries but were able to proceed The accident occurred just outside Port Credit when the car in which the hockey players were driving collided with another. to their homes. DECIDE TO TAKE FIRM STAND Britain's French and British Delegates Call on German Foreign Minister for Reply to De mands of Creditors MANY QUESTIONS ARE NOW INVOLVED Further Meeting of German and Creditor Delegates to be Held After Reply is Received (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) x The Hague, Jan. 11.--The German delegation to the sccond Hague con ference, on application of the Young plan, were called upon peremptorily, this morning to furnish a precise statement ot what Germany was will« ing to do to meet the demands of the creditors natesns. Dr. Julius Curtius, German foreign minister, who was about to leave herq for the meeting of the council of tha League of Nations at Geneva, was called upon by Henri Cheron, French finance minister and Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the ex-chequer, to tell exactly what hig delegation proposed to do. To Meet Later Here Curtius at once abandoned his idea of going to Geneva, and pros posed written proposals by 1.00 p.m, which the creditor nation represens tatives will meet again for furthes discussion of the situation, Take Firm Stand The creditor nations' action fol lowed conferences last night at which anxiety was expressed at the slug- gish progress of the meeting. Tha meeting of the "Big Six" accordingly was ghlled for this morning and the firm Stand taken there. Questions involved in the situation which has arisen are the matters of whether military sanctions as a guar- antee of German payments shall per= sist as part of the allied reparations policy, the question of an eventual moratorium, and maturity dates fos the reparations installments, Little Entente Discussions ; The Hague, Jan. 11.--The Littla Entente--Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia--had the floor today at the second Hague conference on application of the Young reparations plan. Those three nations arranged a meeting this morning to take inven- tory of negotiations with Australia, Bulgaria and Hungary for settlement of the eastern reparations problem, and to decide on a common line of action when the subject comes to a head next week. $121,000 INVOLVED IN LIEN ACTION Toronto, Jan, 11--O 11.--One of the big- gest actions ever launched under the Mechanics Liens Act was started at Osgoode Hall today when the Carter Halls, Aldinger Company, Limited, of Winnipeg, in default of payment of $121.215, alleged balance due on a contract for the erection of a grain elevator at Collingwood, Ont., sued the town of Collingwood "and Col- lingwood Terminals Limited." If the amount is not paid the plain~ tiffs will seek an order that the eles vator plant be sold, Toronto.--~John Shadbold, 2 Wan- sted street, suffered injuries to his back when he fell down a coal chute in the Canadia. National Railway yards at the Don yesterday. In the history of trans-continental flying. The new rate to the Pacific Coast from New York is $169.92, less than extra fare train and pull- man rates. After Jan, 14, a tariff of five cents a mile will he effec- tive for trips. The rate to the Pa- cific Coast repreSents a reduction Got Dates Mixed Brighton.--A ground hog which got his dates mixed and appeared three Strike of Parisian Taxi-Drivers Revives Antiquated Horse Cars (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, Jan. 11.--Paris spent fits second day today without taxis. An- tiquated horse cabs, or the "Fiacre" had a great success. ers of Paris yesterday went on a strike in protest against decision of the Paris municipal council to raise The taxi driv- the tariff on fares. The drivers contended that the big companies for which most of them work would be the chief bene- ficiaries and that they would gain only a coresponding decrease in tips. Out of 6,890 drivers in the union 6,807 responded to the strike. weeks before he should emerge--Feb. 2,--has paid with his life for his care- lessness. He was killed by a dog af- ter a brief skirmish in the middle of this town, Communist Riot In Berlin Street (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Berlin, Jan. 11.--About 275 men and women were arrested last night after a Communist riot in which a policeman was injured by a stone. Neighboring streets were closed by police who fired several shots into the air to frighten and disperse the crowd, U.S. Delegates Pleased With Britain's Statement (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 8.8. George Washington, Jan, 11.--- United. States delegates to the forth- coming naval conference at London are pleased over references by Rt. Hon. A. V, Alexander, British First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Briand. Kellogg anti-war pact as a basis for drastic British naval reduction. The Briand-Kellogg pact has been the major premise of all President Hoover's activity toward naval limi tation and disarmament, and Mr. Al. der's acknowled t of fits potentialities for peace was eminent- ly satisfying. Neither Colonel Stimso, of State, nor other deleg: would be quoted however, as to Alex« ander's action in announcing British cruiser needs would be stated at 50 at the coming London conference in. stead of the 70 held out for at the Geneva tri-parlite conference, ecretary --