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| pare to "for Carl News While It Is News" The Oshmua Daily Tones Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL, 5--NO. 15 Day Excent Published' at Oshawa, Ont. Canada Every Sundays and Public Holidays OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY: 18, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES ShEaa aa y TT News in Shi i iis tlds Brief $ (8 Canadien Press) vrverrere a a J - Sd FEVER RAGING - Kitchener--Tho number. of scarlet ) 'cases in Kitchener bas praetic- ally doubled in less than 3 week, according to health department of- ficials yesterday. . * Nd * : Dies After Fall Brockville.--Sustaining concus- sion as the result of a fall, Ben- jamin W. Slack, aged 40, of Char- leston, Leeds County, died last night at his home after a few hours illness. * * * Faces Seven Charges Toronto.--Harry Wisebrod, 28, president of the Wisebrod Fur Gom- y, Limited, Toronto, was arrested, st night on seven charges involving' theft of $48,000 from the Wisebrod Fur Company, uttering forged docu- ments and five breaches of the bank- ruptey act. aig NOTED JUDGE DIES Boston -- Judge David A. Lourie, 61, 'a Justice of 'the Massachusetts Buperior Court, died at his home early today. Judge Lourie was a prominent figure in Jewish organi- zations. He served as hoporary pres- ident of the Ziomist organization of America, LJ wv ¥ > WHEAT BID INCREASED Chicago -- The Farmers National Grain Corporation today increased {ts bid for cash wheat in the Chicago Market from $1.18 to $1.20. It was announced also the corporation has been buying corn at Kansas City for some time. " » » w PETERBORO MAN DIES SUDDENLY Peterboro -- William Robert Wid- dess, veteran curler and district man. ager of the Canadian Life Assurance Company, died at his home in this city very suddenly last night. % %® a * BELLEVILLE MAN INJURED Belleville -- J. D. Nelson, coal dealer, of this city, and his son, Donald, are in the Belleville Hos- pital, the result of an accident yes terday when the car in which they were riding was struck by a way freight going west on the Canadian National Railways. * % Accused of Taking Bribe Buffalo.--Accused of accepting a bribe from a rum runner for the release of a seized boat, three coast guardsmen were under ar- rset in the Erie County jail today while a countrywide search was underway for a fourth man. w * * * i TOWNSHIP FLOODED Decker, Indiana -- A. 100-foot break ini the White River levee, five miles out of here, late yesterday, loosed: = minefoot 'torrent which 2d fan-shape over an entire town. flooding more than 20,000 acres of' land and imferiling approx- tmately 150 farm families. . w - Xd To Investigate Stock Toronto.--At a meeting of Pend Oreille zinc and metal sharehold- ers.-here last night it was decided to organize for the purpose ef pro- curing vital information neces- sary to the sharcholders in connec- tion with the movements of the stock on certain stock exchanges. * Ld * Chafged With Conversion Ottawa.--Sidney Starfield, form- er. merchant of Ottawa, was charged in police court yesterday wiht converting to His own use $1.000 in connection with a busi- ness arrangement between the ac- cused and the firm of Edwin Chown nad Son, Kingston. TWO PLANES READY - TO SEARCH ARCTIC Captain Pat Reid Will Again : Venture Forth on Search (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Nome, Alaska, Jan. 18.--Two cabin here were ready for a take- oft today for Teller, Alaska, to pre- search the Siberian wastes Ben Efelson and Earl Bor- land, United States aviators, missing since Nov. 9, when they attempted a flight to the. fur trading . shi Natur, icebound at North Cape, Si- a. i At Teller the planes will be loaded with gasoline and other' supplies for the 500-mile hop to the Nanuk. The 'pilots, Captain Pat Reid and Ed. Young, will take provisions to the 'which is short of supplies. a a e Arctic, promising better visibility for flying, encouraged those engaged in the git '|sion last night at which agreement STAGE IS SET FOR NAVAL GONFE ENCE Large Gathering Assembled to do Honor to Port Perry's Most Famous Nat- ive Son CANADIAN LEGION WORK EXPLAINED Executive Representative, Spoke on Achievements (By Staff Reporter) Port Perry, Jan. 18.--Last night was a gala hight for the citizens of Port Perry, who turned out in splendid numbers to extend a cor- dial welcome home to the commun- ity's most distinguished son, Ma}- or-General J. H. MacBrien, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.0., and to tender him a banquet in recognition of his splendid services to Canada and the Empire. First of all, the town hall was filled with a splendia gathering of citizens, assembled under the auspices of the Por. Perry Branch of the Canadian Le- gion, to hear the report of M, Mc Intyre Hood, district representative on the provincial executive, on the accomplishments and aims of the Legion, and on the recent Domin- fon convention at Regina, and to hear an address by General Mac- Brien on the development of avia- tion in Canada. General MacBrien was given an enthusiastic recep tion, befitting one who had brought glory to himself and to his native town, and later when a large cum- pany of citizens, including the exe- cutive of Scugog Chapter, 1.0.D.E,, and the war veterans of the com- munity gathered around the ban: quet table at the Sebert House, that loving and cordial greeting was intensified. The large audience in the town hall gave splendid attention to the exposition of Comrade Hood of Oshawa, on. the achievements and aims of the Canadian Legion, and particularly to the illustrations given of problem cases of disabled veterans and dependents for whom relief was being sought from the parliament of Canada. The speak- er also made a strong appeal to all ex-service men in the community to give their support to the cause of their broken-down and burnt- out comrades, by associating them- selves with the work of the Loglon, and to the citizens generally to lend a sympathetic ear to the claims of the men who were suf- fering because of their service to their country in its time of need. General MacBrien General MacBrien, on being call- ed to speak, was loudly cheered, and he gave a clear and comprehen- (Continued on Page 5) New York, Jan. 18.--Gene Tunney was recovering so*rapidly today from a kidney operation performed Mon- W. Fish, announced at Presbyterian Hospital that no more bulletins on the condition of the retired heavy- weight boxing champion would be issued. Will Build Boats For Speed Honors New York, Jan. 18.--Hubert Scott- Paine, British speedboat designer, will arrive here Wednesday. It is reported he will design and build two challengers for the Harmsworth speed-boat trophy now held by Gar 'Wood of Detroit. One of the boats is to be delivered to Sir Henry Sea- grave, who already has announced his intention of challenging for the trophy this year. and Aims of Organization | day that his physician, Dr. George DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN TENDERED BANQUET BY THE CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH CONFERENGE MAY END NICKEL HILL STOCK DEADLOCK Harry Lyons Denies He Seeks Revenge for Market Losses (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Jan. 18--The deadlock be- tween a group controling the Nickel Hill Syndicate and the brokers who were caught short may be partly bro- ken today by several conferences be- tween the interested parties. First, Harry Lyons, son of Hom. James Lyons, and his associates who dom- inate the situation, will confer with D. L. McCarthy, K.C.,, who has been retained to prosecute the campaign against the defaulting brokers in the courts, Later there will be another confer- ence between Mr. McCarthy and solicitors retained by a few of the brokers who are said to have been written undertakings to deliver to the Lyons group 221 unit certificates of Nickel Hill which they did not have, have not got now and apparently cannot get. The floating speculatjve price of the missing units is reported to have gone up to between $10,000 and $13,000 apiece. Replying to rumors that he had engineered a cormer in Nickel Hi ds revenge for similar trimmings handed him by brokers on other stocks in the past, Mr .Lyons said last night the brokers had "taken him for a ride" in several 'market opera- tions. but denied the present coup had originated from any plan of re- venge or intention to make the brokers more than pay for what losses he had suffered. At the Ontario attorney-general's department it was stated the nickel! hill syndicate matter had been look- ed into and it was found it was sim- ply an issue for the brokers to settle, and the department had no intention of interfering. Ten Rescued In Toronto Fire Spectacular Work Done by Firemen Early This j Morning Toronto, Jan. 19--TFen persons, two men, three women and oo children, were rescued from a tenement house at 765 King Street West at 2 o'clock this morning by firemen under Dis- trict Chief Sandy Deans, who res- ponded to an alarm when fire broke out in the cellar, The cause of the fire, firemen said, was an overheated furnace. The firemen carried Mr, and Mrs. Bennie Safianoff and their three children down ladders from the second floor, whence they rushed to escape from the flames. All the per- sons in the house suffered from the (effects of smole, The damage was estimated at $400. LECTURERS START ON SEED CAMPAIGN Guelph, Jan, 13.--Given final instructions by a corps of lecturers at the Ontario Agricultural College yesterday, the will participate in the 752 meet: ings planned by the provincial De- partment of Agriculture in the seed and crop improvements campaign left last night to prepare the pro- ject which begins on Feb, 11, « The Hague, Jan. 18.--Delegates to the second session of the Hague reparations conference on applica. today to leave this city Monday af- today tol eave this city Monday -af- ter formal signing of a protocol making the Young nlan effective. . The last obstacle to signing of the protocol was relieved in a ses-. wag reached on a point of issuance of the first reparations bonds. i Members of the Little Entente, their meeting lasting well into this Hague Conference Will End Monday As Complete Success morning, agreed to disagree, and td continue their conferences at Paris after adjournment of the Ha- gue meeting. In-order to furnish Germany money needed for railroads and other Internal needs it was decid- ed to increase the first issue of re- parations bands from $200,000, 000 to $300,000,000 with the am- ount of the increase assigned to Germany. The bonds will be issued to bear from five to six per cent interest. =: Bennett Ends 40 speakers who | When Dr. Edward Mulligan, noted Rochester, N.Y., surgeon died on January 2nd it was learn. ed that he had been born on an Ontario farm. Neither friends nor relatives could give the location of his birthplace except to say it! was in Ontario. In his will pro- bated in Rochester, the doctor be- queathed more than $700,000 and half the residue of the estate to his eighteen-year-old daughter, Mary, a sophomore at Smith ladies' college, Mass. Photographs show: ligan's LEAVES FORTUNE OF OVER A MILLION TO SON AND DAUGHT ER (1) Mary Mulligan, the heiress to almost three-quarters of her fath- er's fortune; (2) the late Dr. Mul- Rochesgter's clusive residential district, and (3) the late Dr. Mulligan, noted as one of the foremost sur- home in who goons in the eastern states, ex. was MIDDLE WESTIS SUFFERING FROM EXTREME COLD | Central States Gasping at] Readings Far Below Zero Chicago, Jan. 18.--Blasted tou ed at thermometers today. Preying eastward, the wave clutched nearly all the mid- dle west--leaving in its wake re- signation to still colder weather and hopes for a rise. In Chicago early today, it was 15 below and colder still in the surrounding suburbs. A rise is predicted for Sunday with resora- tion of normal January tempera- ture looked tor by Monday. ¥rom Illinois to the north and west, the polar blast clung ou steadily. At Duluth, Minn, it was 26 below; in Des Moines, la., it was the same. All over Nebraska the mercury slid below the zero mark. In north and central Illinois, the wave swirled on. In Springtield, it was 15 degrees below at mid- night with a forecast of still cold- er today. Quincy reported six be- low while at Decatur it was 13 be- low. His B. C. Tour Speaks Tonight at Meeting in Kamloops Before Starting East (By Thomas Green, Canadian Press Staff Writer) Kamloops, Jan. 18.~Hon. R. B. Bennett will conclude the British Columbia portion of his 1930 pre-ses- sional Western Canada speaking tour here to-night. The address of the Consefvative leader, who is enroute from Vancouver this morning, will be his fourth since coming to the Pacific Coast Province, Delivering his keynote speech at Victoria on Wednesday, Mr. Bennett spoke at a rally in Vancouver on Thursday. Yes- terday he addressed the Wortien's Canadian Club in Vancouver. The greatness and success of the British Empire was the subject of the remarks of the opposition leader in his address of yesterday. CAMP SITE GIVEN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Property on Lake Simcoe In . Ontario County Donated to Church & -------- Toronto, Jan. 18--A camp site consisting of ten acres of valuable ground on the castern shore of Lake Simcoe, was presented to the Presbyterian Synod of Toronto and Kingston by Mr. and Mrs. James Playfair of Midland, Ont.. The site is situated about two miles from the village of Gamebridge, familiarly known as Point Mara, and the name e camp which has been chosen by Me~Playfair will be "Glenmohr fp for Presbyterian Young Peo- ple." Mr. and Mrs. Playfair are also erecting the first unit which makes provisions for a spacious dining hall and kitchen. Latgs Acreage of ¥ . . heat in Punjab Rome, Jan. 19.--~The International Institute of Agriculture today was advised by the government of the Punjab that the area sown to wheat was estimated at 10,782,000 acres. This is 100.3 per cent. of the area for the preceding year and 102.4 per cent, for the average for five years. Crop conditions were estimated at 88 per cent. normal. The trouble {¢ most of us know hundreds of ways 'to spend money 4nd only one way to make it, = Bible. Orillia or Belleville, Charged With Conspiring to Swedish Minister Has Little Faith In Disarmament, Stockholm, Sweden, Jan, 18.-- The minister of defense, upholding an increase in the national defense estimates, yestérday told parlia- ment international disarmament negotiations hitherto had had lit- tle result, and had tended to in- crease armaments rather than do crease them, Noted Doctor Leaves Estate 0 $1,200,000 Mother Came From Bow- manville, But Birthplace Is Mystery (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Rochester, Jan, 18.--The will of Dr. Edward W, Mulligan, noted physician and surgeon, who died here on Jan. 2, has been probated, and shows an estate valued at over $1,200,000. Of this amount, $700,850 and half the residue go to his 18 year old daught- er Mary. The birth place of Dr. Mulligan is a mystery to his friends and rela-| tives, His father came from Strat- | ford and his mother from Bowman- ville, according 'to an old family Friends state he was born in Man is Sought For Conspiracy Induce Witnesses to Commit Perjury (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Jan, 18.--Late last night Hamilton police officers were gearching in this eity for Court- land J. Kelly, said to be a private detective, upon a warrant issued yesterday by Magistrate H. A, Bur- 'bldge, Hamilton, charging suporna- tion of perjury, br 'conspiracy to induce witnesses to commit per- uw The charge arises out of the trial of J. J. Charteres Thomson, prominent Hamiltonian, who was acquitted by Judge Evans in Ham- {liton last Wendesday of charges involving the paternity 'of a child born to a 17-year-old girl of that Europe's Wheat Imports Small (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, Jan. 18.--Unexpected - ility shown by Europe to keep her wheat import purchasing down to an astonishing degree is attracting wide- spread notice in the grain Leading authorities here suggest as an explanation that oversea needs of wheat, according to latest able figures, are the smallest én' more than eight years, and that the sea- son's carry over of old wheat Europe has been underestimated Meanwhile, pur. the a mater chases Attracts Attention fal extent, chases of domestic wheat CHICAGO STILL INBAD POSITION Chicago, Jan, 18.--Chicago's finan- cial troubles were being aired anew today. According to Silas H. Strawn, chairman of the citizen's committee, formed to seek financial relief, Chi- cago would still be in debt $27,641, 600 even if the 1928 and 1929 taxes were collected. Computation Examiner today showed a total 28,844 unpaid employees in the city, county and public schools. tal, the newspaper said, would mount to 45,844 next week when additional salaries come due. includes 6,715 policemen and firemen, Montr: Taxes Paid eal, Jan, 18.--First St. of the company here today. The company stated that the han. gars were not destroyed, and that the approxi. damage mately The final test of greatness is success. would amount to $10,000, -------------------- Ability to Keep Down Pur-| trade. by Farmers' National Grain Corporation appear to be directed to current re- celpts from rural sources, and as yet | provide mo outlet for the big vis ible supply of wheat in elevators at terminal markets, Will Have $27,000.000 De- ficit If 1928 and 1929 by the Herald and of This to- The unpaid list 2,869 Loss Was Not So Bad As Reported (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) reports coming over the long distance tele- phone, very much exaggerated losses suffered by the Curtiss Reid Airways Company at Que, it was stated at headquarters Felicien, avail the In southern and central Missour: the thermometer hovered just above zero, but to the north the drop was general. Continuing eastward, Indiana, lower Michigan and Ohio were still free fro mthe sub-zero grasp --but ag the mercury rose ever so slightly in the north and west, the | drop was expected to be equalized in the east central states. Trains into Chicago from the east and west were running late; communication lines snapped from the cold; automobile radiators con- taining water froze while engines were running; suffering was to be seen everywhere--but carly today no deaths had been reported. The sub-zero wave practically wiped out fears of danger in flood- ed areas but made more fntense the misery of the homeless. Snowden Snubs Small Powers Tells Balkan Nations They Must Settle Differ ences in to the Hague, Jan. 18.--Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, giving a sharp spur to the second Hague repara- tions conference, as he did to the first, yesterday sent the smaller creditor powers into a final and decisive conference about the east- ern reparations question, Informing them and the big creditor powers that nothing but talking was being done about Aus- trian, Bulgarian and Hungarian re- parations, the dynamic labor chan- cellor proposed that the delegates interested in eastern European re- parations be locked in a room with. out food or drink until they had come to an agreement. The delegates thereupon decided to go into session with their debt- ors and to fight out the discussion if it took all night. numbness, the central states gas) I sub-zero U: S. Delegates Seek Accord of Italy and France Port Perry Honors Major General J. H. MacBrien HONORED ROCHESTER SURGEON BORN ON ONTARIO FARM HEAD OF UNITED STATES DELEGATION TAKES ACTIVE STEPS FOR AN AGREEMENT Arranges for Conference With French and Italians to Clear Up Misunders standings Before Confer ence MACDONALD'S VIEWS NOW MADE CLEAR Concern Over Rumored Pro- posal to Abolish Battle. ships Ended With Explan- tion. 7 (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Jan. 18.--Reassured as to the distance Premier MacDonald poseses to go toward abolishing battleships. Colonel Henry L. Stim= son, head of the United States dele- gation of the fortheoming naval conference, prepared for his ate tempt to dispel French and Italian suspicionc of an Anglo-American accord. Tomorrow the United States Secretary of State will confer with Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minis- ter, and Andre Tardieu, French premier, in separate conferences. These are intended more than any- thing else to establish the ac- quaintanceship of Colonel Stimson with the two men on a firm foundation permitting mutual understanding prior to opening of the five-power conference on Tues+ day. Will Explain Ideals Colonel Stimson will tell the two men, probably, that Great Bri- tain and United States have am {deal in common. That is limitation and reduction of the world's sea forces, not to 8 point where secu= rity is threatened, but sufficiently to reduce the heavy financial bur< den modern navies have come to be, and to remove large navies as a threat of war. He will repu' Wate. possibly tact ly, and not in so many word, the suggestion which has been mades on the continent that Great Britain and the United States have con- tracted an entente condial, the co operative nature of which is a threat to other nations, and that there is anything transcending an ordinary friendly alliance between them. day between Colonel Stimson and Mr, MacDonald at No. 10 Downing Street was believed to have relieve ed the United States' representa- tives minds of a misunderstanding as regards the premier's attitude toward battleships. The version of Mr. MacDonald's statement Wednesday on that score, as radioed to the George Washington, said he intended to propose "abolition" of battlesiias or capital ships, whereas he onl)' expressed hemself to newspapers men as hoping for eventual or ule timate abolition of battleships buw expecting at present to propose lengthening of age limits, or ex tention of the building holiday agreed upon at the Washington conference. ; The erroneous interpretation of Mr. MacDonald's statement to the newspapermen greatly concerned (Continued on page 3) Death Toll From Cold is Fourteen (By Canadian Preas Leased Wire) Kansas City, Jan. 18.--Cold, death and privation stalked hand in hand over the southwest today as the van of a blizzard slowly making its exit from the northern Rocky Moun- tain states roared out over the Gulf of Mexico. Temperature records of decades fell in a dozen states and fourteen lives have been taken. Toronto, Jan. 18--D. M. Johnston, local mortician, was found guilty last night of "infamous conduct," and his license suspended for six months dating *from February 1, by the provinciab-indertakers' board of examiners, which has been conduct« ing a probe into allegations ' that certain undertakers have been pay- ing commissions to physicians "for "professional service." The verdict returned by the board through its chairno., C. N. Green- Wood, Stratford, bre ght the en: quiry to a close. It was ordered following an assessment appeal case brought before Judge Denton in py Toronto Undertaker Is Found Guilty Of Infamous Conduct (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) court some weeks ago by the Johus ston Undertaki.g Firm, in which a bookkeeper, Bruce Keill, declared "Mr. Johnston paid commissions ta physicians and that all undertakery in Toronto do likewise." "We have been unable to prove any local physician did accept & commission fsom Mr. Johnston," said Mr. Greenwood. "But we ara of the unanimous opinion that Mr, Johnston's conduct professionally was infamous and disgraceful" Counsel for Johaston announced last night he will take an appeal bes fore the provincial minister' of health, Hon. Dr. Forbes Godfrey. _; A huried conference late yester- ; ere ere re