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Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer I The Oshawa Daily Times A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City Published at Osha Ont, Canads Every Day Excopt Sundays and Public Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy FOURTEEN PAGES "News in Brief (By canadien Press). Reds in Control l Hongkong.--Communist forces con-) trol the city of Hoihow, said a radio dispatch from Chinese at the Hain- an island port. No ships are allow- ed to arrive or depart. + +. Tunney Recovering New York.--Gene Tunney contin- ued his fine recovery from Monday's operation today, Bulleting issued at the Presbyterian hospital through the day indicated Satisfactory progress. Banquet for Bennett i . Ottawa.--On his return from his tour in western Canada, Hon. R. B. ennett, Dominion Conservative lea- ler, will be the guest of honor at a banquet in Clinton, Ont, on Jan. 29. | Hoover Will Not Attend Washington.--A report that Pre- sident Hoover might receive and ac- cept an invitation from the Shriners to attend their convention in Tgron- to next summer could not be vePified here. * LJ » s Capital Penalty London.--A forceful appeal for a- bolition of capital! punishment was uttered by Rt. Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, speaking at St. Martin's, Trafalgar Square, last night. sa Wheat Exports Drop Ottawa. --Wheat exports: for the last five months in' 1929 amounted to 76,693,000 bushels, a drop of two- thirds compared with the total of 220,172,000 bushels in the same period in 1928. RY Ee] Whole Council Resigns Peterboro--All members of the Alnwick township council resigned and January 20 has been set as no- mination day. It was found on in- vestigation that the members of the council had failed before the recent contest to declare that they had paid Bombs for Liquor War Lansing.--Michigan state police will use machine guns and tear bombs 'in a determined effort to stop rum running between Detroit, Chicago and the southwest, according to plans announced last night by Os- car G. Olander, state' commissioner of public safety. : * Found Dead in Hotel New. York.--The body of Frank D. Austin, 36, president of -Laporic A Austin, advertising agency, was found' in. a room in the hotel New Yorker last - night, His throat was slashed and: beside the body lay a straight-edge razor, y . Want Lir Mai Ottawa.--The post office depart- ment is. considering a request from citizens of Charlottetown, P.E.L;, that the air mail service between that city and Moncton, NB, which was op- erated during past of last winter, be resumed; * *: 0% Tire Thief Strangled Detroit.--A tire thief was strangled to death when he was caught between a jack handle and the rear spring of the automobile on which he had: been operating. The body found under the car on Ferry avenue, near Chene street, was identified as that of Char- les Ruzick. = % Death Sentence Regina--The Saskatchewan court of appeal at a special sitting here allowed the appeal of Omish Primak from the death sentence imposed on him 'following 'his conviction of hav- ing murdered Charles Forkey in a drunken brawl at Lanigan. The con- viction was quashed and 'a new trial ordered by the court, Floods In Palestine Jerusalem~--Torrential rains swept over Palestine on a fierce gale last night, dislocating traffic on the affa-Jerusalem road. A train at aza, with European mails aboard, was held up because the line further along was flooded. a. * * To Aid Farmers Toronto.--The Ontario depart: ment of Game and Fisheries in- tends to ald fruit farmers in the Clarkson-Lorne park area, who suf- fered the loss of fruit 'rees through the depredations of rabbits from the game sanctuary along the banks of the Credit River, . . . Home Bombed Chicago.--Morris Eller, city col- r, and Mrs. Eller were thrown om thelr beds early todidy by the explosion of a bomb at the rear of their home in a three--storey apartment building. LJ % * . Favors Age Limit Reduction Toronto.--Old age pensions for returned soldiers at the os fayored by Col. T. L, Kennedy, M.L.A., for Peel County, who will introduce a bill to this effect in the legislature, e of 65 |- MAGDONALD'S PROPOSALS GRITICIZED Question Reparations GERMAN DELEGATES AGAIN OBTAIN DELAY IN ORDER TO CONSULT THEIR EXPERTS France Seeks Undertaking That Germany Will Not Float Loan in Foreign Markets Till Reparations Bonds Are Sold DR. SCHACHT MAY RESIGN FROM BANK Says He Will Have to Decide for Himself Whether He Can Conform to New Re- quirements of Germany The Hague, Jan, 16--The Hague reparations conference, which has reached agreement on many of the important points at issue encourt- ered another obstacle today when a solution was sought for the con- dition of commercialization of part o fGerman's reparations debt. Premier Tardieu of France, raised the question of other Ger- man loans that might interfere with marketing the reparations bonds. He asked an engagement by the German government that no loans would be floated in foreign markets until the first instalment of reparations bonds had been dis- posed of. Thhe German delegation said it could not give such an undertak- ing without consulting its experts. The experts have been sent for and will be consulted tomorrow morn- ing, after which discussion of the problem will be resumed. Schacht May Resign Berlin, Jan, 16.--The first dir- ect intimation from Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reich- band, that he may resign as a con- sequence of his defeat at the Hague on matters of German policy, was given today to the cor- respondent of Rhelnischwestfae- lische Zeitung After emphaszing that his at- titude toward "adulteration" of the Young plan was absolutely un altered. Dr, Schacht said the Reichbank naturally will and | must accommodate itself to the projected new statute making par- ticipation in the Young ome\of its functions. He added, however, 'on the other hand the Reichsbank presi- dent will have to decide for him- (Cqntinued on Page 3) MORF ELIERS IN ALASKA SEARCH Two Cabin Planes Leave for Nome With Further Supplies Fairbanks, Alaska, Jan. 16.-- Gifford Swartman and C. F, Mews. members of the Aviation Corpora- tion-Biclgon expedition, .took' off for Nome yesterday, with parts and supplies for the Fairchild planes, which are to be used in the search for the missing fliers between Tall- er and North Cape, Siberia, = The fliers with William Glasgow. oper- ator in charge of the radio station here, left the Fairbanks airport at 9.30 'a.m. Glasgow was going as far as Nulato, where he will act as relief operator during the hunt tor Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Bor- land. 5; Repairs for Captain Reid's plane, which was damaged in a storm more than a week ago, were taken by Swartman. Reld, who with Wil- liam Hughes and Jim Hutchinson, has been at Unalaklett .s&ince he flow out of the Nulato district, where he was lost a week, will fly his ship to Nome before perman- ent repairs are made. Admits Shooting Constable at Soo BENNETT OPENS WESTERN TOUR ATVIGTORIA, B.. Makes Strong References To Unemployment and War Pensions (By Thomas Green, Canadian Press Staff Writer) Victoria, B.C., Jan, 16.--Facing a capacity audience in the. iniflal speech of his second Western Can- ada speakng tour since prorogation Hon. R. B. Benneit spoke here last night, The Conservative lead- er devoted early attention to the proposed' Canada-United States sockeye salmon fisheries treaty. "There never was any doubt about the desirability of the Conservative party for a treaty," Mr. Bennett declared. Regrets Unemployment Deploring unemployment in- the Dominion, the Conservative leader sald it was regrctable certain men with ambition should be forced to obtain sustenance at soup kitchens, He spoke of ono soup kitchen in Montreal 'alone where 1,245 men had been served in one day. "Why is there unemployment." he asked. (Cont ifhed on Page 3) Lero Weather On the Prairies Edmonton Stands Lowest With Reading of Forty Below (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Jan. 16.--Mr. Zero kept busy in the West today, pushing the mercury far down into the lowers recesses of harassed thermometers. From Winnipeg to the Rockies, wea- ther records told of increasingly se- vere cold, with frigid forties dotted generously readings. through the mercury Edmonton stood as the coldest spot on the chill prairies at 42 below, but Saskatoon and The Pas reported 41 and 40. Prince Albert and Battleford other Upper r Saskatchewan points, felt 'the chill grasp of even 40-be- low. Other figures, far under the zero were: Winnipeg, 29; Calgary, 34; Regina, 36. Report Missing Fliers Located Not Confirmed Moscow, Jan. 16.--~A report that Carl Ben Eielson and his hanic, Earl Borland, were near the River Anguemy, Siberia, was received by the Soviet gov. ernment today. Although it was Scene from picturesque pageant, | in which some 4,000 natives, in gay attire, danced and sang in streets ALL ITALY FETES ROYAL BRID AL PAIR ON EVE OF WEDDING CEREMONY of Rome, in honor of Prince Hum- bert and Princess Marie Jose on eve of their wedding.--Copyright "930 b ythe Pacific and Atlantic hotos Inc. Deaf Man Killed By Railway Train (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Midland, Jan, 16.--Frank E. Moose, aged about 00, died fifteen minutes after being struck by a Canadian Pa- cific Railway train in the raliway yards here today. Moore, who was deaf, was on his way to work when the accident occurred, He apparent! did not notice the approaching train. NO PAGEANTRY AT NAVAL CONFERENCE King Will Not Travel in State to the House of Lords London, © Jan, 16.--The King will participate without pageantry of state in the opening of the five- | ¢ power naval conference on Tues- Attired in morning dress he will drive an orinary closed motor car from Bdckingham Palace to the House of Lords, where officials conduct him to a place in the Royal Gallery, from which he will deliver his address, The address will be broadcast, t After finishing this he will|t drive back to the Palace and leave | § almost immediately for another visit at Sandringham; his favorite country estate, DELEGATES' SHIP t c (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) 8S. S. George Washington, Jan. 16.--This ship, carrying the United States dleegation to the London naval conference today ran head- on into a gale with wind blowing not confirmed, the Soviet auth- orities ordered a dog sled ex- pedition to the place. (N 80 miles an hour, Giant seas smash- ed port holes, mounted the decks and cut the speed to ten knots, Veterans Drill Striking Miners In New South Wales Coal Field r (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Melbourne, Australia, Jan, 16,-- After a long conversation with a delegation of N.8.W. coal miners, Prime Minister James H. deullin declared last night a serious situa- tion had developed in the South Wales coalfields New The striking miners are being drilled .in thousands by ex-service men, and gatherings of 2,000 and 5,000 were dispersed by police in the affected state. The serious position has develop- ed the most intense feeling and re- actions had followed in all coal mining districts, leading to de- velopments which were regrettable in a country like Australia, the t prime minister said. §' MacDonald Relying On The Three Important Matters cil session were three: Kellogg pact, warfare altogether. February RUNS INTO STORM | international trade. a special commission of three per- sons claims regarding the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem. Indians Told To Wait Command Nationalist "Leader Says They Will Not Be Long in Coming dit Motilal Nehru, Party in the Central Asscmbly, has issued a call to In- dian Nationalists to "trust in your general, wait for the word of command." SESSION OF | LEAGUE IS ADJOURNED Were Made Subject of | Decisions (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Genava, Jan, 16,--The 58th sesion of the council of the Leauge of Nations adjourned this morn- ing shortly after the delegates con- vened for the morning meeting. Many delegates were in a hurry to leave Geneva to attend the forth- coming naval conference at Lon- don, Throughout the session of the council, which was one of the shortest in its history, it was ap- | day. parent that the members were pre- occupied with the coming London conference and wished very much to avoid any subject which might give rise to conflict nd delay their will meet him at the entrance and | adjournment. Accomplisliments of the coun- Sellection of a committee of 11 o draft changes in the covenant of he League of Nations to bring it nto conformity with the Briand- and ban aggressive Second voting of a conference on 17 to consider a cus- oms truce, a stage in the League's campaign to reduce restrictions to And third agreement to appoint to determine rights and Calcutta, India, Jan, 16.--Pan- prominent Na- fonalist and leader of the Congress Legislative Mahtama Sandhi, and $100,000 Damage In Saskatoon Fire Saskatchewan, Sask, Jan. 16-- Cloaked in an ice-crusted coats, fire- men halted .a downtown conflagra- tion after a three-hour early morn. ing battle today. An entire city block on Saskatoon's main street was threatened, and four business places of frame construction were destroy- ed before the blaze was brought un- der control. Estimates placed dam- age at $100,000. QUOTA HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON CANADA Number Allowed to Enter States Would Be About 50,000 (By Ken Clark, Canadian Press Staff Writer) Washington, Jan. 16.--If legis- lation should be enacted by con- gress to check the flow of immi- gration from countries of the West- ern Hemisphere to the United States the annual quota of Tanada would not be materially less than 50,000 in the opinion of Congress: man John C. Box, of Texas. Bills submitted in the House of Represeptatives were, he said, mengly/ drafts and working plans which might be modified in com- mittee and it was his impression the suggested estimate for Canada of 42,000 was more likely to be enlarged than decreased. There was little disposition as far as he knew either in the immi- gration committee or the house to greatly reduce immigration from the dominion. FIVECHARGESIN SOLLOWAY-MILLS BROKERAGE. CASE | Accused Elect Trial by Judge and Jury and Are Remanded | Calgary, Jan. 16.--Officials of | Alberta's Goversment were busily | preparing today for opening of the | Solloway-Mills court case on Thurs- | day of next week. Charges of ov erating ab ucket shop and defraud- ing the public were entered in Cal gary Police Court yesterday again- st Isaac W. C. Solloway and Hare vey Mills, heads of the Canada- wide brokerage organization bear- ing their name. The two executives appeared in a crowded courtroom yesterday | morning for preliminary hearing, and pleaded not guilty to a series of five charges. They were re- leased on an extension of bail to- talling $150,009. First charge cn- tered alleged common law conspir- lacy. All foiir others were based on the Criminal Code; three in- volved conspiracy to affect market prices of stock ,to defraud the pub- lic, and to gamble in stocks; the ast charged gambling in stocks, | commonly known as bucketing. Trial by Jury | Trial by judge and jury was eected by Mr. Solloway and Mr. Mills at the hearing. No epposi- tion was offered the Crown's re- quest that adjournment of eight days should be granted {in order that adequate preparations might be made. C. Hendrickson, L. L. Massen, directors of Solloway- Mills, and "divers other persons" were mentioned in the charges ad- veticed by the Alberta Attorney- General's Department. Flood in Valley Of Mississipi | Thousands of Acres of Farm Land Inundated by | i Rivers | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Memphis, {Tenn,, Jan, 16.--Swollen streams broke their bounds today in two states in the lower Mississippi Valley. Smashing a gap in the levee between Lambert and Marks, Miss, water trom Coldwater River was spreading over several thousand ac- res of farm land in Quitman County, and in Arkansas the St. Francis Ri- ver over-topped its banks in Greene county, near the town of Bertig. PROMINENT TORONTO CITIZEN HAS DIED Toronto, Jan. 16.--Hugh Blain, Toronto's grand old man of com- morce doyen of its board of trade, public spirited citizen, and presi- dent of the well-known wholesale grocery house of Eby-Blain Ltd. now merged in National Grocers Ltd., is dead. He passed away yes- terday morning after several months illness, in his 86th year. Vancouver, Jan. 16.--Mrs, Etha {lengenberg Bolt, a picturesque figure, has entered the list of those who have been named as possibili- ties for the first appointment of a woman to the senate of Canada. She 8 the daughter of Captain Charles Klengenberg, retired Arc tic trader, who makes his home here. Her mother is described as an "Eskimo princess." Mrs, Bolt's Picturesque Woman of Arctic Is Proposed For Canadian Senate husband is a full-blooded Eskimo. Sponsors of Mrs. Bolt . propos} appointment because, they state, the northwest territories are now being taxed by the dominion gov- ernment without having represen- tation in parliament and because the northland has a woman whose service to the Arctic community is equal to that Canada. of any woman in Lifeboat Takes Relief of Cruiser Strength is Cause of Anxiety Conference is Again in Difficulty REJOICING FOR ROYAL WEDDING IN ITALY BATTLESHIPS APPEAR TO BE DOOMED, JUDGING FROM PRE-CONFERENCE VIEWS Omission of Definite Refers ence to Cruisers in British Premier's Statement is Considered Disquieting NAVAL AUTHORITIES RAISING OBJECTIONS Leading Newspapers, How ever, Have No Objection to Elimination of Battles ships From Navies of World ( By George Hambleton, Cana~ dian Press Staff Correspondent ) London, Jan. 16.--Is the big battleship doomed? 'The British government regards the battleship, according to Prin Minister Ram- say MacDonald, "as a very doubt= ful proposition." France and It aly have notb uilt these sea golia= ths since the war. Japan, for rea- song of economy if nothing else, is likely to agree to the treaty pro nouncing their eventual elimina» tion. The United States, judging by an earlier statement of Secre- tary Henry Stimson, still regards the big ship as the core of the fleet. Yet, al Ithings considered, naval critics seem agreed that an agree« ment limiting battleships even more stringently than they were limited at Washington in 1922, is the most probable outcome of the conference. But with agreement on: the bate tleship probable, there remains for the conference the far more diff- cult problem of cruisers. It was on this rock that both the Geneva tri- partite conference of 1927 failed. The proposal for the reduction of cruiser strength for the British Empire from seventy to fifty cruis- ers, is still meeting with severe op- position. Lord Bridgeman, first lord under the former Conserva- tive administration, describes it as glvidg something away for noth- ing. Lord Lloyd, speaks of it as creating grave unrest in the coun- try. Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor charges the first lord with hiding behind the admiralty and declares no admiral would be prepared to g0 to war with a maximum of fifty cruisers available, The Daily Telegraph describes the British government's policy as "perilously vague and incompete."" It adds a reference to Premier MacDonald's statement - that the most disquieting fact was no refers ence was made to respective cruise er strengths. Indeed, the prime minister com« fined himself to remarking the (Continued on Page 2) OLD JASTERS G0 FOR SHALL PRIGE Sales May Be Cancelled on Account of Technical Irregularity Paris, Jan. 16.--A Rembrand¥ for $12,000; a Raphael for a little less than $7,000; experts and amate eurs alike rubbed their eyes with incredulity today when they read these figures in the report of & sale at the French customs departe ment in Paris, Both pictures in question were acquired by Jenny Dolly of the dancing Dolly sisters. A campaign of protest was at once started and the sale may be cancelled on ac+ count of technical irregularity. The pictures were among a nume ber of other old masters smuggled into France by a Russian named Baranofi, supposed to be a Soviet agent. The French customs seized them and, after waiting years, des cided to sell them, : Lord Willingdon Is Back in Ottawa Ottawa, Jan. 16.--After an ab- "Take 'it from me, you won't have long to wait,"" he added. He said that steps would be taken for the celebration of of Independence Day on Jan. 26, which would test how far the country was prepared to take stronger steps which must follow. sence of six weeks spent in a cruise to Bermuda and the West Indies, their excellencies the Gov- ernor-General and Viscountess Willingdon returned to the capital last night. They were warmly greeted at the union station by a party of prominent persons. in cluding Premier Mackenzie King and Rt. Hon. F. A. Anglin, chiet Justice of the supreme court, who acted as administrator in his ei« cellency's absence, > 4 To Marooned Islanders (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Pullheli, Carnarvonshire, Wales, Jan. 16--The entire population of 43 on Bardsey Island. rushed to the water's edge yesterday to greet a life- boat bringing stocks of tobacco and meat, from which they had been cut off for five 'weeks by successive gales and storms. Several previous attempts to send Honor of Representatives (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Jan. 16--During' the prime minister's discussion of the forth- coming naval armament conference with' the journalists yesterday he was asked if, whether in following British policy in delaying replacements, any nation would 0 permitted to replace a battleship which 'accidentally was sunk by disaster of explosion, Sault Ste, Marie, Ont. Jan, 16.-- Howard Donovan, held in the Mich- igan Soo for several robberies which be has allegedly confessed, yesterday afternoon admitted to Chief: Herbert L. White of the Mitchigan' Soo police that he was the man who had shot Police Con- stable Rowswell of the Canadian Soo police force when surprised in the act of robbing Caputo's pool Toon on December 17, police here claim, over supplies {from this port had fail- ed. Yesterday a lifeboat was again loaded with foodstuffs and Christ- mas parcels and to the accompani- ment of the cheers of the towns- people, put out across the dangerous strait for the island. This town then waited in anxiety until sighting of the returning boat told that its mis- sion had been successful, Mr. MacDonald gave an affirmative answer, \ The journalist said "Then it would pay a nation to sink an old battle- ship?" ' + "1 shal lassume that the national representatives' are honorable men," Mr. MacDonald answered slowly and gravely. | "I" think: you will find "'F am right." + To Vote on Plant Qrillia--A by-law for raising $38,- 000 by dcbentures tor. extension of the sewage system will shortly be submitted to Orillia ratepayers.