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. an automobile and a Pere a "All the News While It Is News" The B Oshawa Daily Tone Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer in ------------------ A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 40 Ont, Canada Every Fer Econ Suntan and Publis Holigare OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY "17, '1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PAGES saahas ry SALE LSS aaa News in Brief Gn cgnadian Prom) JR PTT e Man Dies in Church ord.--While the Ontario Baptist Church here was filled with people for evening's ser- vice, Charles Schaefer, aged 64, lay dying of heart failure in the aisle. He died before the physician could arrive. hdd Suicide Believed Port Credit.--Financial worries are believed to have been the cause of the suicide of a farmer on the third line, two miles north of Burn- hamthorpe on Saturday. He was found frozen in a bush on his 100- acre farm, a plow-line around his neck, Ld - "= Three Killed rand Rapids, Mich.--Three mem- bers of a family were killed and two injured in a collision between Mar- quette passenger train 14 miles east of here last night. x. * .¥ Hits Out at Skyscrapers Washington.--Alister G. Mac- Donald, son of the British Prime Minister, expressed to a radio aud- fence last night his dislike for American skyscrapers, terming them sits nd ib folly." Ship Marooned Saint John: s, Nfld.--Locked in the ice at the mouth of Bay of ls- lands, the steamers Cornerbrook and Kyle await the outcome at- tempts to secure a plane for the purpose of providing them with supplies. * % % % Still Explodes Reading, Pa.--Two men were killed and seven injured when nr huge alcohoi "cooking" plant and still exploded, razing a three-storey brick building, covering almost a half city block. Dog Woh Family 'Windsor.--The Bod sin 4 of an Afredale _ terrier wakened Mrs. Frank Cogan, 31, and her two children, Johnny, 7, and Richard, 3, when their home was swept by fire. Mrs. Coogan and the children were carried from the second storey window by Johm Cuthbert and Archie Munroe, neighbors. Man's Body Found Guelph.--Provincial police are endeavoring tonight to identify the body of an aged man found dead in a barn on a deserted farm in Nassagaweya Township, four miles from the villge of Moffat, Ld Ee Hold For Murder + Texas.--Fred H. Mertz, federal narcotic agent, was arrest- ed here on charges of murder, kid- napping and theft of an automo- bile preferred by the Canadian Government. : Charge on Conspiracy. San Francisco.--United States Attorney George J. Hatfield has filed suit against 19 California oil companies to enjoin them from "conspiracy to maintain an unfair price for gasoline." Ottawa Movie Fire Ottawa.--A fire occurred Satur- day at one of the local downtown motion picture theatres. The place was well filled at the time but all got out without any confusion. The damage was slight. . Ld Held For Accident Welland.--Earl Hoffman, taxi driver, Port Colborne, is being held by Welland Provincial police as the result of 2 mishap on the Port Col- borne highway in which an un- known man was knocked down and sustained a fractured skull. . Ld LJ Serious Fire North Bay,--The Canada Power Company suffered heavy loss from a fire which broke out Sunday | afternoon on the company's pro- perty in the village of Deux Rivier- | es, 20 miles east of Mattawa. A special train was rushed from Mat- | tawa with volunteers fire-fighters | through the | 'to aid in extinguishing the blaze. x * = Noted Doctor Dies New York.--Dr. Richard Mills Pearce, pathologist and general of the Division of Medical Education of the Rockefeller Foundation, died last night at his home of a heart attack. He was 65 years old. wom. More Churches Closed Moscow.--The Soviet government over the week-end ordered more than a score of churches, synagog- ues and mosques to be converted S$ into workers' clubs, schools, grain warehouses, and the like. | * * % $200,000 Loss in Fire Nashua, N-H.--Fire which swept Merchants' Exchange, three storey brick block in the busi- ness district caused Toss estimated at 'wore than LULU. tic States, while areas of low arama 'extend over Hudson northern British Cole i Tower Lake Re- Four Are Injured in Ottawa Fire Overheated Stove Believed to Have Been Cause of Fire Which Took Lives of Helpless Victims WLOLDER CHILD ESCAPED FROM BURNING HOUSE Eighty-Year-Old Man Was Bed-Ridden Invalid And the Flames (By Croadian Press Leased Wire) B: ord, Feb. 17~A bed ridden old man and a two-months-old baby were burned to death when fire de- stroyed the tiny home of Albert Gar- low on the Six Nations Reserve on Saturday evening. The old man was Benjamin Garlow, in his 80th year. Albert Garlow, the man of the house was away, leaving his wife and two small sons and the old man, a reia- tive, alone. The wife, who was pre- paring to do a washing, made the fire up to boil the water and stepped out for a short time, leaving the old man and the children, one a little chap running around, while she went to the home of her father-in-law, Alex Garlow, only about a hundred yards away, It is presumed that the stove became overheated and start- ed the fire which the old man, help- less in bed. vag: unable 40 -combat. The older child ran out doors, but was too bewildered and frightened to attempt to bring out the baby. The mother, returning, discovered her home in 'flames, which had secured such a hold on the frame structure that rescue of the trapped victims was impossible. The building was completely razed. Searchers. this morning located the body of the old man, but the remains of the infant had still not been found. The house was located about a mile and a half west of Medina, near the Christian Aid Hall. ~~ Aid Hall. TARIFF TRUCE BODY ASSFMPRLES ~ INGENEVA TODAY Nations Will Try To Make @» Plans for Tariff Holiday (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Geneva, Feb 17.--Representa- tives of 29 national governments, meeting here today to seek an agreement for a tariff truce, hoped for some measure of success in eli- minating "obstacles to trade" be- tween the nations of the world. The conference was called for by the League of Nations assembly last September, with its immediate aim to engage nations not to raise present customs duties for a stated period for perhaps any new duties. One person in every 200 in the United States is said to be deaf. NEXT C.N.E. HEAD © BAM HARRIS Member of the C.\.E. board, who to the pi upon retirement this month of T. A. Bradshaw, who has held the posi- tion for the customary two-year term, Was Unable to Combat| HOME OX INDIAN RESERVE BURNEL T0 GROUND; LIVES OF TWG OCCUPANAS LOST 'HELD BY POLICE AFTER FAMILY DIES IN BLAZE Farmer Arrested While Police Investigate Thfee Deaths Orangeville, Feb 17--Following the death of his wife and two chil- dren in a fire at their home in Me- lancthon Township, Roy Lonsway, 36-year-old farmer, was placed un- der arrest yesterday and brought to Dufferin County jail at Orange- ville. He is held as a material wit- ness. Provincial Inspector Rae of Kit- chener and Provincial Constable Butler made the arrest, and drove by cutter into Orangeville with their prisoner. The victims of the fire were Mrs. Lonsway, a b-year-old son, Arthur and a two-year-old daughter, The tragedy occurred about 7 o'clock Saturday morning at their home, four miles east of Dunkirk. The two children were found dead in bed, and Mrs. Lonsway's body was discovered outside the wood-shed by a neighbor, who had seen smoke issuing from the house, "A coal-ofl can' wag found Tn the bedroom, and a holp was burned in the kitchen floor in front of the stove. Coroner F. Martin and Dr. T. P, Carter of Dundalk were called, and the Provincial Police were notified. Inspector Rae and Constable But- ler continued investigations at the Lonsway home all Saturday and Sunday, finally removing Lonsway to the jail here. TARDIEU ILLNESS MAY DELAY WORK OF CONFERENCE Serious Obstacle Arises From French Demand for Big Navy (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Feb. 17.--~As the five pow- er naval conference enters its fifth week it is minus an all important fi- gure, Andre Tardieu, French prem- ier, whose demand of 725,000 naval tons for his government has threat- ened serious possibilities for the out- come of the conference. M. Tardieu will remain in Paris, pomsbly for a week, getting over an attack of grippe which developed from a severe cold which he had when he left here for his capital Fri- ay. Replacing him temporarily at the head of the French delegation was Aristide Briand, French foreign min- ister, M. Briand is a past master at diplomacy and international dicker- ing, but he is neither the highly na- tionalistic M. Tardieu nor F rench pre mier, and he cannot replace his chief in the conférence network, * Officially the delegations expressed M. Tardieu's absence, but some ob- servers put it badly that very little (Continue on Page 2) Bill to Control Real Estaters Ld (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Feb. 17.--~With the inten- tion of securing the same control ov- er the real estate dealers and their transactions as 'they now enjoy in respect of stock brokers, the 'On- tario government, at the present ses- sion will introduce entirely new leg- | ; islation to prevent frauds against the public. This legislation will not come down to the house in the same form that characterized the Real Estate Agents Act of 1929 but will take the shape of either a direct amendment to the Security Frauds Prevention Act or visions of this last-named. an incorporation of most of the pro- law,.+ Old Man and Baby Burned to Death Near Brantford Whose appointment to a seat in the Canadian Senate has 8 Jun been by P Mrs. Wilson, Fars is the of eight children, is not on ly the first woman to be appointed CANADA'S FIRST. WOMAN SENATOR 8 NORMAN F. WIL SON OF OTTAWA to the Canadian Senate, but sheyis the first woman to enter the upper house on the North American conti nent and the British empire. Photograph by John Powis, Ottawa, Body of Lost Aviator " Is Found'in Arctic Point Barrow, Alaska, Feb. 17-- The body of Earl Borland was found last Thursday, wireless advices re- ceived here today said. The body was covered with five feet of snow and was near the engine which had been thrown 100 feet from the wrecked plane in which Carl Ben Eielson and Borland were flying to the ice bound steamer Nanuk, Nov. 9. Serious Storm In Maritimes Much Damage Done in Nova Scotia and Cape | Breton (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Halifax, N.S., Feb. 17.--Heavy damage, particularly in Cape Bret- on Island, was being surveyed in the Maritime Provinces today fol- lowing a severe snowstorm thay swept Nova Scotia from Cape Sable to Cape North, and also struck hard at Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Nova Scotia wr lashed for fif-| teen hours by gales of more than fifty miles an hour, Bitter weather four below zero here early today. accompanied the storm. It was four below zero here early today. All telegraph and telephone lines to Cape Breton were out of order this morning. Advices last night indicated the loss of fishermen's storehouses and gear was the heaviest damage there, Other damage consisted of dis rupted train schedules, roofless buildings, several demolished struc. tures, falled chimneys and derail ed tram cars and a locomotive. The wind was strong enough to flatten a concrete transform :r house at New Aberdeen. tear off a church roof and hurl it through the side of a nearhy dwelling, and blow a small store from a whart to thé deck of a schooner in Syd- ney Harbor. ' A writer points out thit most of the confidential posts are filled by Scots. 'Because they are least likely to give anything away.--London Star Spot. Is Avrested For Vancouver Murder Vancouver, Feb. 17. ---The police have arrested a man, whose name they refuse to_ divulge, following the shooting to death of Archibald A. Johnston, former police chief of Medicine Hat, Ala., here yester- day. The man was arrested late Sunday. Wheat Prices Show Collapse At Winnipeg Lack of Buying Power Sends Quotations To New Low Levels (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Winnipeg, Feb. 17.--Further un- loading of wheat pushed the bot- tom out of the Winnipeg marke. today and noon values had collaps- ed 43 to 6§ cents. New lows had been set up for the season in all 8 futures and the decline showed no sign of let up. Buying power failed to eventual- ize even when quotations had fallen to unforecast levels, some cents be- low last year's quotations at this time, when the west"s crop was larger and the world yleld the larg- est ever. Export demand, negli- gible for some time, still was non- evident, Brokerage Co. [s Restrained (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, Feb 17--Judge Carpen- ter this morning granted an interim injunction to Simon Hershman to restrain the Solloway-Mills Company from selling his stock, held by them on margin. Hershman claims that he contracted with Solloway-Mills to carry his stock, about $6,000 worth on one third margin, and that he had kept the necessary collateral up. Now, he declares a 50 per cent mar- gin is required by the broker if his stock is not to be sold. ' He has ap- plied for an accounting. Motorist Is Killed ; Near Niagara Falls (By Canadian Press Leased Wire)' Niagara Falls, Ont., Feb, 17.-- Frank Pierson, 29 years old, sus- tained such serious internal in- juries in an automobile accident that he succumbed in the hospital here on Sunday. He was driving to Niagraa Falls, near Black Crook, on the Niagara Boulevard, when his car skidded »n the icy'road- way into a tree. Ho terrific was the impact that the car was liter- ally wrapped around the tree. Pier son was driving, and his compan- fon, Fred Schieffel, this city, es- caped with minor cuts and bruises Only about 70000 Americans live in $100,000 Loss Sede by Fire'in Ottawa LIVES OF 45 PEOPLE EN- HE CoR ED BY FIRE Department t Store And Apartment House Are Involved Ottawa, Feb. 17--Lives of 45 peo- ple, occupants of the six apartments over the departmental store of Frank Slover, corner of William and York streets, were endangered when fire breaking out shortly after 12.30 a.m. today destroyed about half the build- ing. Four persons were injured, and damage of $100,000 suffered. r Three persons were truck by fall- ing bricks when the top of the York Street side wall was blown out by a smoke explosion. A child, two and a half years old was injured when his mother dropped him from a first floor window to a mattress which she had thrown out. The infant suffer- |t ing a bfoken arm was the most ser- |t iously injured. stable Joseph St. Louis in the base- ment of Slove's departmental house. After arousing one of the families | t living in the apartment, St. Louis turned in an alarm and then return- |t ed to the building to assist in rescue work. On arrival at the scene thet firemen concentrated on getting all occupants of the building to safety before turning to a four hour fights which was necessary to halt the flames. The apartment dwellers were for- ced to' flee in scanty night attire, density of the smoke give off by the flames making it impossible for any to remove houschold effects. The major part of the loss, however, was suffered in the Departmental store. Four Seamen are Found Dead in Their Lifeboat Cape May, N.J.,, Feb. 17--An all- night search through the storm-swepth Atlantic for four seamen, the crew of the foundered coal barge Merrill, ended at 7 am. today when they were found dead in a life boat, ac- cording to a radio message received at the coast guard station here. Fire Destroys woman man Wilson of Ottawa. ceedingly important announcement was made from Block Saturday night by Premier Mackenzie King. She will be sworn Parliament. eight children. past years, will be followed in the case of Mrs, Wilson, although there is mo hard and fast rule about it, newly appointed member to be in- Speech from the Trone. The blaze was detected by Con- son will be accompanied by Senator Dandurand as Government Leader and a Senator table, of office. the toll of the G STORE BURGLARS SENTENGED MAGISTRATE SENDS ONE T0 PENI1ENTIARY; OTHER GOES TO REFORMATORY OTTAWA WOMAN FIRST T0 BECOME SENATE MEMBER Mrs. Norman Wilson Chosen as Member of Upper House Ottawa, Feb, 17.--Canada's first Senator will be Mrs, Nor- This ex- the historic Kast n on the day of the opening of She is the mother of Another appointment announced was that of Patrick Mulqueen of Toronto Toronto Harbor Commission. of the He eplaces the late Major Mulholland. New Member's Introduction The practice in the Senate in and it is presumed it to be a member is for the roduced almost immediately after he Governor-General has read the Mrs, Wil- from Ontario into he Red Chamber, where, at the the Clerk will administer he oath of allegiance and the oath After this she will be in- roduced to Hon. Blewitt Bostock, Speaker, and will then be accom- panied to her seat. be Hon. Cairine Wilson. Her title will "All this publicity overwhelms me," she sald yesterday to the Can- adian Press representative, as she declined to grant an interview. Re- quests for interviews graphs were pouring in on her Daly Avenue home, but she declined. TEN LOSE LIVES and photo- IN SEVERE STORM INNEW ENGLAND Fierce Gales and Heavy Snowstorm Sweep Several States (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Boston, Feb, 17.--Zero blasts gripped New England today with winter's fiercest Club Building Loss of $35,000 Sustained in (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Beleville, Feb, 17.--~A commodious club house owned b, Canada Cement Company at Anne, was totally destroyed by fire fire was of un- know origin, the loss amounting to 000 covered by insurance. Many of the executive officers of the plant romed at the club house, but were able to make their escape in scanty attire, but lost all their personal be- i The fire brigade and the oint from storm set at 10 lives. On the trail of bitter gales and a heavy snowfall which swept the coastline and the interior yesterday, the thermo- meter dropped radidly during the day. Cold exposure and accidents during the storw caused the fatali- ties. Exertion and exposure and acci- dents during the storm took three lives in this city and a railway em- ployee was fatally burned while thawing frozen switches. Deaths were attributed to the cold in Lo- well, Fall River, Webster and Pro- vidence, P.I. Those who died due to exertion and exposure in the cold were: John Brodeur, 38; Jeffrey Keating, 66; and Harry C. Crain, 58, Lo- well, Lyman L. Brooking, 73; Fall River, Thomas Martin, 44; Web- ster, Elias Belanger, 56; and Provi- dence, John' E. Ardeone, 80. Belleville went to the scene and al- though unable to save the club house were instrumental in confining the fire to one building. There was a strong north wind blowing, with the thermometer reg- istering ten below ero and all as- sistants . in subduing the blaze suf- fered from exposure. As the fire started in the roof, the workers were able to remove part of the furnish- ings from the lower half of the club house. The building which serves the recreation needs of a large number) of workmen, will be rebuilt, t An English' pathologist has discov- ered that bad temper increases the amount of sugar in the blood by 10 to 30 per cent. Rescue of Passengers From Wreck Expected Astoria, Ore, Feb. 17--Attempts will be made in today to rescue the crew of and seven or eight passengers aboard the steamship Admiral Benson, ashore on the sands of Peacock spit off the mouth of the Columbia River. Thirty-four pas- sengers were taken 'ashore yesterday fore rising seas forced coast guards- the Philinpines. 'The native popula- tion is 12,000,000, / mento halt the rescue operations, # by life boats and a breeches buoy be- |liament could abolish suits, or at least could limit A train killed Patrick A'Hearn, 43, a snow worker, during the storm at Revere and John Nee, 25, was fatally burned in railroad yards here by a hydro-carbon burn- er while thawing and cleaning frozen switches, A Yale sophomore, Ransom 8S. Hooker, Jr., of New York City, was fatally injured when an automo- bile skidded into a tree at Simse bury, Conn., and three companions were seriously injured. Oppose Idea of Divorce Court Montreal, Que. Feb. 172.--Opposi- tion to the erection of a divorce is pronounced in a pastoral letter sign- ed by Cardinal Rouleau, the Archbi- shops of Ottawa and Montreal, and all the bishops of the ectlesiastical provinces of Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa which was read in all church es in these provinces at mass yesterday. The pastoral parochial Harold Wallace and Ken- neth McEwen Both Plead- ed Guilty to Burglary of Jury and Lovell's Simcoe Street Store MAGISTRATE GIVES WALLACE LECTURE Penitentiary Term Given to One of Accused on Ac. count of His Previous Record of Convictions Harold Wallace and Kenneth Me- Ewen, of Toronto, youthful robbers who were caught in the act of breaking into the store of Jury and Lovell, at 528% Simcoe street south, on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 8, were sentenced to five years in Kingston penitentiary and 2 years in Guelph Reformatory respectively when they appeared before Magis- trate Willis in police court this morning. Wallace was the first to be call- ed and asked permission to change his plea of not guilty to guilty. So as to enable the magistrate to give a clear verdict, the two police offi- cers, Sergeant George Stauffer and P.C. Alexander were called and gave an account of the arrest of the two accused. They had been call- ed to the scene about five-thirty, on the morning of the robbery, they said, by a phone call from James Lavender, a night watch- man employed at the -plant of the Pedlar People, who had seen the pair drive up.in an automobile and force an entry into the store. Upon entering the store they had found the accused there and had arrested them. On the floor in the store and on a table at the back of the shop was a quantity of cigarettes and pipes which were being made ready to take away. In the pockets of the pair was found more cigarettes and pipes and shaving brushes also taken from the stock of the store. The two were arrested and taken (Continued on Page 2) HOPE OF REPRIEVE FOR H. RAVINSKY Man Held at Sydney Is Be- lieved Involved in. Murder 5 Sydney, N.S., Feb, 17.--That the arrest of Emmett Sloane, Montreal, committed to stand trial for the murder of Deblois Rehberg, here, will certainly bring a reprieve for Herman Ravinsky, hang at Regina on Feb. 19 for the murder of David Ratz, Toronto bond salesman, and native of Pie- ton at Duck Lake, Sask., last win- ter, was the statement made here today by Sergeant H, H. Bleakeney, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Rplice, Halifax, who, acting on in- structions from Commissioner Cort- landt Starnes, Ottawa, proceeded here and interviewed Sloane at the county jail in the presence of J. W. Maddin, K.C., for the Crown, artd D. A. Cameron, K.C., for the defence. The action of the Mounted Po- lice followed 'a wire from Miss Love, in Saskatchewan, described as Ravinsky's sweetheart Upon reading a newspaper story of the Sydney murder, she said she ine stantly recognized Sloane's descrip- tion as tallying almost exactly with that she had heard Ravinsky gave of "Jimmy Brown," the man Rav- insky claimed killed Ratz. Brown could not be located. sentenced to APPOINTED TO HARBOR BOARD ces that if it willed the federal par- divorce their the P. J. Mul who has been ap pointed to the Toronto harbor board, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of late Major Mulholland, ace to recent an (ve