[0 All the News While It Is News" The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer * A Grewing Newspaper in 8 Growing City VOL. 6--NO. 58 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TWELVE PACES News in Brief (By Canadian Press) Government Sustains Defeat New Delhi, India--The Indian Government sustained its first de- feat at the present session of the Legislative Assembly yesterday when the House rejected the army secretarial budget by a vote of 49 to 44. The Government's defeat by a close margin followed the voicing of strong protests in the Assembly againgt the heavy cost of military expenditure, the = Government's failure to establish an Indian Sand- hurst and the present method of recruiting Indian officers. . M Floods Take 11 Lives Capetown, South Africa--™loods have swept over Northern Natal, cut the railways to the Transvaal, swept away bridges and taken a toll, already known, of 11 lives. The Little Bushman River, rising. in huge, churning waves, has torn down a massive bridge 40 feet above its near Estcourt. Ld " » 46 British Youths Arrive Montreal.--Juvenile immigra- jon was inaugurated for 1930 dur- ing the week-end when the 'first parties of British youths for Cana- dian farms landed at Halifax, hav- ing been brought forward under the auspices of the Canadian Na- tional Railways. Two parties, to- talling 46 boys, reached Halifax during the week-end, and will be placed on farms in Ontario by the British Immigration and Coloniza- | tion Association. Bronfman Acquitted Estevan, Sask.--After being out a little more than four hours. the jury trying Harry Bronfman on & charge of attempting to cause a customs officer to make a false re- turn to the Government, brought in a verdict of not guilty, here late | Saturday night. Wrecks Valuable Bowl Detroit.--The Rhages Bowl, one | of the world's rarest art treasures, | valued at $50,000 and owned by Edsel Ford, has heen smashed in- to half a hundred pieces. It was wrecked hy the carelessness of a repairman, who dropped the wood- én cover-of a console on the price- less bit of Persian pottery while he was renairing the pipe organ in Ford's home. . * » six Killed in Crash Lancaster.--Six persons were killed last night when a Pennsyl- vania Raioa .ae lpsrgrdnsePa.G,M vania Railroad passenger .tralu struck their automobile at a grade erossing in Florin, about 10 miles west of here, According to tenta- tive identifications. all of the vie- tims were from this eity. - * . Aides to Start Disobedience Ahmadabad, India.--Mahatma Gandhi yesterday sent a message to Bengal through Satindranath Sen, leader of the passive resist-- ance movement in the Barisal dis- friet, saying. "Compose your dif- ferences and start civil disobedi- ence." Satindranath Sen left for Benzal vesterdav morning after visiting Gandhi here. * Ld ¢ Byrd Reaches New Zealand Dunedin, New Zealand.--Rear- Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members of his Antaretic expedi- tion arrived here this afternoon ahoord the bargne City of New York. after spending more than a year on the ice barrier of Ross Sea. * - * | U.S. Films Villitving World / New York.--Dr. Harry Emerson / Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church. in a sermon vesterday said American motion pictures are vil- lifving America all over the world. snd are doing as much harm as a foreign war. .. Approves Haiti Provisional Gov't. Hinche, Haitl.--President, Hoov- or's investigating committee last night announced that the president had approved their plan for a pro- BEYREWAS Tae yisional government in Haitl. The plan has also been personally ap- proved by President Louis Borno. Ld % LN Samoan Troubles Near End Wellington, N.Z.--Latest reports trom Apia, in the Samoan archi- elago, 1; the trouble with the Mau mili- tant organization of the natives, which has been agitating for home rule. Sir Joseph Bard, rime Minister of New Zealand, which 1dministers Samoa under a man- fate from the League of Nations, has been informed that 20 men wanted in connection with disturb- ances, have sarrendered to the ad- ninistrator. . v Ld Ld Two Women Die In Fire Memphis; Tenn,.--Miss Fait Carl- ton, 30, and another woman known as Myrtle," were burned to death .in an apartment house fire here to- day. The fire started in the room secupled by the women. Property damage was slight. "THE WEATHER Pressure is low over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and in Western Canada and high in the South- eastern States and on 'the Pa. cific coast. A shallow ion is approaching the Great Lakes. Some rain or snow, has occur- red in the Maritime provinces, whils in other parts of the Do- minion the weather has been fair and mild. Forecasts: Lower Lake ion Partly cloudy and mild tonight and To sdey, some light rain; moderate southerly winds. indicate an early settlement N MAN DROWNED IN DUFFIN'S CREEK 29 Die in South Africa Mine Disaste 104 Persons Die in Theatre Fire in Southern Korea ~~ TLLOWD GEORGE MORE THAN 100 OTHERS HURT; BUILDING GUTTED WHEN FILM TAKES FIRE * Death Toll Composed Most- ly of Children Who Num- | bered Among 600 Persons | Attending Patriotic Show- | ing of Scenes During] Russo-Jap War FIRE FIGHTERS SAVE | NEARBY MAGAZINE | Most of Those Who Perish-| ed Were Trapped in Naval Warehouse Building -- | Show in Honor of 25th] Anniversary of Capture of Mukden by Japanese (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) | Seoul, Korea, March 10--One hundred and four persons were | killed and more than 100 injured today in a fire which broke out at a-motion picture show at the Chin- kai Naval Base in Southern Korea. "Most of the victims were Japanese | naval men and their wives and children. The show was heing held in a warchouse at the naval base in ob- servance of the 25 anniversary of the capture by the Japanese of Mukden in the Russo-Japanese war. The anniversary was celebrat- ed throughout the empire today. The film, which ignited and caus- ed the fire was a patriotic repro- duction of scenes in the Russo- Japanese conflict. About 600 per- sons were in the building when the film burst into flames and fired the structure. Most of those who perished were trapped in the building. The blaze broke out at 3 o'clock in the after- noon and raged for two hours. The majority ofthe victims were small children. Flames from the warehouse for a time threatened to spread to a nearby ammunition magazine. The blue jacket fire fighters barely managed to prevent this. WORLD'S THEATRE FIRES IN 80 YEARS New York, March 10.-- Among the largest theatre disasters in the world during the past 80 years were the following: Dee. 5, 1876--Conway's Brooklyn Theatre, 205 killed. Dee. 8, 1881--Ring Thea- tre, Vienna, 800 killed. May 25, 1887--Opera Com- loue, Paris, fire, 200 killed. Sept. 5, 1887--Exeter Theatre, New York, fire, 756 killed. April 9, 1804--Davidson's Theatre, Milwaukee, fire, 75 killed.' . Feb. -- 1897 -- Quanton theatre, Peiping, China, 230 killed. May 3, 1897--Grand Char- ity Bazaar, Paris, fire, 148 killed. Jan. 12, 1903--Rhoades theatre, Boycrtown, Pa., fire 169 killed. : Dec. 30, 1903--Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, fire, 602 killed. . Dec. 25, 1913--FPanic, Cal- muet, Mich., 72 killed. Jan. 28, 1922--Knicker- bocker Theatre, Washington, collapsed, £8 killed. Sept. 24, 1928---Novedades Theatre, Madrid, Spain, 120 killed. Jan, 28, Theatre, Montreal, killed. E'S Dec. 3, 1920---ilen Cinema, Paisley, Scotland, panic, 72 children killed. 1927 --Laurier fire, 77 New York.--The Chamber of Commerce of New York City today announced plans for a militant drive against Communism = with avowed purpose of bringing about the deportation of "shiploads of alien agitators." The announce- ment came on the heels of a state- ment by Police Commissioner Grover A, Whalen that Reds were boring into business, schools and city bureaus. Murderer Is Hanged Rawlins, Wyo.--Joseph Brown- fleld, 54, was hanged at the state prison today. Brownfield was con- victed of the murder of Theodore Thomas last Novewber. He shot Thomas and then assauited Mrs. Thomas last July, He was calm and made no statement. Ravinsky Will Hang Tomorrow {By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, Mar. 10.~Herman Revinsky, now in jall at Re- gina, Sask., must pay the death penalty tomorrow mori. ing for murder. The Cabin. et having reviewed the case carefully has decided that there will be no interfer with the sentence of court, mr ---- Heavy Rains Hinder French Rescue Work! Torrential "Rains Threaten Flooded Rivers in Southern France (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Agen. France, March 10.--Tor- rential rains after five days of magnificent weather again. de- scended upon the tlood regions of Southern France today at Agen. Moissac and Montauban, greatly hampering work of excavating io the search for bodies in the two latter towns, 8 . The rain, if it does not lessen, threatened to make the waters rise again. Little donkey-engines were stafioned at nearly every door pumping out cellars, and making no headway ag the water com- menced to seep in again. The homeless of lloissac were sheltered in an army barracks while those of Agen are being taken care of at the artillery school building here. Running water in this town is now practically normal. All wreck- age has been cleared and the total loss of life fixed at nine, all women and children. In Moissac the bodies recovered number 131. Only a smal! area on which there was debris remained to be cleared but it was expecteq the deaths there alone would number 150. Estimates in the total number of dead ranged be:ween 400 and 500. ee -- ort ee BROKER GETS ONE YR, FOR FALSE PRETENCES (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Stratford, Ont., March 10.--Con- victed on' two charges of false pretences in connection with the sale of stock in a rubber tire com- pany, Frederick T, Gilroy, Toronto stock broker, was sentenced today to 18 months in the Ontario re- formatory on each charge. The sentences will run concurrently. WINNIPEG BANDIT MAKES FAST VISIT Orders Cletks into Vault and Escapes With $1,000 as Bank Opens Doors ' (By Canadian Press Loased Wire) Winnipeg, Mar. 10.--Unmasked and armed with a revolver a soli tary bandit strode into a ddwn- town branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce today, ordered four clerks into the open vault and es- caped with $2,600 in cash. The robbery occurred before the bank's doors were opened for business. Waving the clérks ahead of him with a revolver held in his coat pocket. the robber marshalled them into the vault and slammed the door.shut, He scooped up all the loose cash in the teller's cage and disappeared. Soon afterward the bank clerks discovered that the vault catch had not snappeu. and gained their freedom. The bank branch is located at the corner of Princess street and 'William avenue, across the marker square from Winnipeg's city hall At the time of the hold-up, street cars were clanging along = twe streets past the bank and passers by were numerous onthe sjdewalk. | WILLIAM HOWARD TAF | Former Chief Justice and ex-Presi- from a died Saturday FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT IS DEAD dent of the United States, who | stroke | brought on by a lengthy illness, | and for whom the nation has | gone into a 30-day wmounrning. His body will lie in state on an historic catafalque upon which rested the bodies of four former presidents, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Harding. DEAD AFTER STROKE Remains of 'Great Jurist and Former President Lie in State (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Mar, 10.--Williaws| Howard Taft, former president and | former Chief Justice of the Unit- | ed States, passed peacefully from life late Saturday, after weeks of illness. A stroke from hardening of the arteries preceded death by half an hour. He was in his 73rd | year, The resting of his body in state at the Capitol and other hon- ors befitting the exalted place he won for himself in the heart and history of his countrymen will be accorded, and his remains, at his | own request, will rest in Arlington | cemetery, the citadel of the na-! tion's heroic dead. President Hoover was foremost among the many who went last night to the resident of Wyoming Avenue, where the only man in history toc hold the two highest (Continued on page 2) ARREST TEN IN RAID ON FASHIONABLE INN New York, Mar. 10.--Resuming his drive against the sale of liquor in New York hotels, Major Maur- ice Campbell, early yesterday di- rected 20 prohibition agents in a raid on the famous and fashion- able Forest Hills Inn, social cen- tre of a rigidly restricted residen- tial community, and arrested Louis C. Gosdorfer, 'owner of the inn, and' a prominent Queens Republi- can, and nine employees for al- leged violation of the Volstead Act, Before a committee of the United States Congress the other day the wife of a Philadelphia banker asked that some action be taken "to keep the saloon out of the kitchen."--Ot- tawa Journal. Rev. John McNeil Accepts | New Post Toronto, March 10.--Rev. Dr, John McNeil, pastor of Walmer road Baptist church. yesterday announced acceptance of the offer tendered to him by the senate and board of McMaster university to become pri- nicipal of the Theological depart- ment and professor of Practical Theology 'of that institution. Dr. McNeil tendered his resigna« tion as pastor of the church before a gathering of members which fill ed to capacity the auditorium fol- lowing communion service. It will take cffect on June 18. JUSTICE, W. H. TAFT WHEN MINE CAGE FALLS Eight Others Are Injured in Underground Mine Catastrophe (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Johauneshurg, Union of Africa, Mar. 10 One European and 28 natives were killed and 2 Europeans and six natives injured today in an accident in-an under- ground shaft of the Crown mine. A cage containing 28 native miners broke away and carried to the bottom of the aft, a distance of about 1,600 feet. All the na- tives were killed outright. Another rage working in conjunction with the run-away was badly damaged by the other car's rope. Its door was torn open, and one of three European miners inside fell out and plunged 1,000 feet to the bottom of the shaft. The rope also injured two other Europeans and six natives in the same cage. PLEADS GUILTY T0 UNLAWFUL ENTRY Kingston Youth Gets Re- mand on Charges of Break- ing Into Stores Kingston, March 10.--In police court here tdday Varley Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to breaking iuto the drug store of Ward and Hamilton and the Ited Indian service station. He 'also pleaded Bullty to stealing an automobile belonging to Wil- mot Ballance, of Strathcona, Smith blamed over indulgence in strong drink to his downfall, He was re- manded until Wednesday for sent- ence. A police constable stated he had seen Smith in the drug store early Sunday morning, but the accused managed to make his escape, only fo be captired later when officers traced hig footsteps in the snow. He stole $4 from the service sta- tion but took nothing from the drug store. adem Aron ns Plane Slower than Parachute New York, N.Y.-~A stalled plane can drift to eartt more slowly than a parachute, Clarence Chamberlain proved it yesterday at Roosevelt field. Fifteen . hundred feet up a passenger leaped with a parachute and Chamberlain mushed the plane down, landing 63 seconds after the parachute, SE A tv a Ba he South | | | In STARTS ATTACK ON LABOR GOVT. Unemployment Is Worse! Now Than Same Time Last Year (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Mar, 10.--Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George today opened the Li- beral guns on the gover: dling of the unemployment accordance with an announce ment made from Liberal headquart- ers last Saturday that the "period of 3 { problem was definitely at an end | | | | | | The former premier inaugurated in the House of Com by calling attention to hgures showing that the number of ur ployed when the Labor government took ofhce 1,100,000 while the latest hgur show 1,539,300 jobless He said that Rt. Hon, J. H. Thomas, cabinet minister who 1s in charge of the unemployment prob- lem, while rightly pleading for pa- tience, had Jed the house to be- lieve that a definite impression © the alarming figures we uld be m by February but that today's figures were 147,000 worse than the same time last year. "The timc has come a very candid and of the whole position not in a spirit of criticism as in of helpfulness and of converting House into a council of state." The Liberal leader declared that the House of Commons could not escape its responsibility in this mat- ter. Mr. Thomas had worked hard but as far as his remedies were cons cerned he had taken too narrow, limited and far too timid a view of his responsibility. Effective steps, Lloyd George said, had not been ta. ken to overcome the present emer gency. SECTION HAND DIES AFTER DRINKING HIS BEER WITH FRIEND therefore fearless review so much 1a spint the Belleville Man Lepves Guest on Couch But Awakes to Find Him Dead (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Belleville, Ont,, Mar, 10--An in- quest has been ordered by Coroner Dr. R. W. Tennant into the death of William Walter Austin, Cana- dian National Railway sectionhand, who was found dead early today at the ome of H. S. Ashley, a freind. Ashley told police Austin came to his home last night with a bottle of beer, of which he drank a portion of the contents. After drinking the beer, Ashley said, his friend fell off a couch on which he had been lying. Thinking him asleep, Ashley said, he picked Aus- tin up and placed him on the couch, He left him and went to bed, he said, but when he found this morning he was in the same posi- tion and dead, The remainder of the beer will be analyzed and an inquest will be held March 18. DOGS SAVE FAMILY HOME 1S GUTTED (By Canadign Press Leased Wire) Peterborough, Mar. 10..--~Two dogs, the property of William Sim- mons, aroused their master and six other members of his family when fire broke out in the Sime mons home last night, but them- selves perished in the blaze that destroyed the house, and its con- tents. The house, the property of the Department of National Defence, is situated on the rifle ranges, The Simmons family escaped in their night attire but were unable to save the dogs who attracted their attehtion to the flames in the left wing of he house. Wales Contindes Hunting Trip Nairobi, Kenya Colony, British East Africa, Mar! 10.--The Prince of Wales left here yesterday for Uganda to continue his hunting trip interrupted more than a week ago when he contracted sub-tertial malarial fever while on a Safar! near here, His departure was quite informal, only the governor and a few other people biddin® him farewell at the station. LJ ] | i rW Is Victim of Own Invention (By Canadion Press Leased Wire) Hammond, Ind, March 10.-- Skinno Summers, conductor of the local dog pound constructed a new and improved "death chamber." Yesterday he picked out a group of doomed dogs, turned on the gas and waited. After about an half hour, Sum- mers decided it should be all ov- er and went in to collect the corpses. Several hours later a policeman noticed a pair of fam- iliar feet protruding from the chamber. He found the dog cat- cher asleep--gassed--and the dogs romping around playfully, LLIAN L. SMITH, AGED 73 WASHED OVER DAM WHILE WORKING TO HALT FLOODS *Body Was Carried by Strong Current Under Ice on Duf- fin's Creek and Has Not Been Recovered [PARTY WAS TRYING TO PROTECT MILL DAM | Deceased Had Been Employ» ed at Whitevale M:ll for 23 Years, and Was Well Known in District (By Staff Correspondent) Pickering, March 10.--~When h a | fell into the water while assisting to Tackle French i 4 Naval Demands M. Briand Suggests Mutual Guarantee Between Four Big Powers (By GEORGE HAMBLETON, Canadian Press Staff Writer) | London, March 10.--Chicf dele gates of Great Britain, United Sta- tes and France to the Naval Con- ference here tackled the first great crisis of the Naval Conferenc- to- day when they raced each other a- cross a table at St. James' Palace for consideration of France's demand for a guarantee of security, The British and French conversa- tians will continue throughout the week. The exact nature of the Se- curity jact which France is askin as the ernative to her big naval programme, is not yet nounce But according to one report M. Br and's proposal is briefly that of a pact of mutual guarantee as between Britain, France, Italy apd Japan. Each would undertake to come the assistance of the other with an armed force in the case of argres- sion, In return for the added security France would be willing to reduce { her naval programme by 40 per cent The obligations of the United Sta- tes would be limited to a undertak- ing not to supply noney, raw mater- ial or munitions to the aggressor country, Such is the rumor, to In British circles no announcement will be made oh the nature of M, Briand's proposals beyond that they are not yet very definite and noth- ing has been decided. It may be sta- ted authoritatively, however, that no proposal of a mutual guarantee has yet been submitted to the British dominions, So far as Canada is con- cerned, it is observed the policy of the dominion in the past has been to decline to accept any extension of commitments assumed under the Covenant of the League, Similar pro posals of a mutual guarantee when made at Geneva were rejected by the British and Dominion govern- ments alike. Furthermore, none of the dominions has yet accepted the obligations of the Locarno Treaty. HLANSHEN PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN OAKVILLE. CASE Three Members in Court on Charges of Unlawful Disguise (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Oakville, Ont,, March 10--Elect- ing summary trial and pleading not guilty, three Hamilton men, members of Ku Klux Klan, appear- ed in police court today on charges f "havifig their faces blackened or otherwise disguised without lawful excuse." The charged arose out of the action by some 200 members of tho organization who gathered bere at midnight a week ago and separated Ira Johnston, who boasts of Indian descent, from his white fiancee the couple possessed a mar- riage license, Those appearing in court were: William A. Phillips, Harold Orme and Ernest Taylor, all of Hamilton. A fourth man, Willlam Maloney also of Hamilton, could not be | dar found to be served with a sum- | mons. ve the planks in the waste gate the Whitevale Mill dam at White- le, last Saturd Wm, L, Smith, washed over the dang by a strong current un- Dufferin's Creek. His t yet been recovered ho was employed by the in oper the mill, had feared that the dam might be the high water as swollen with rains and melted 7 and ice. With Judson Pugh, a of Whitevale, he was lift« ing the planks out of the waste gate 1 ler to allow the water to es- re freely, His companion did g n swept. away by the creek was cape m | not see him take the fatal plunge but saw his body being swept over tha and under the ice of the creel | below the dam. He immediately sum- ned help but by this time Smitlg | had disappeared trom view. Searching for Body A iie-say crew was summoned from T , Saturday afternoon, and grappled in the creck for some time but without success. On Sun< day about one hundred men of the neighborhood scarched along the banks of the creck but were unable to fi trace of the drowned man scarch is being continued h no one actually saw thy occur it is thought that mith either missed his footing and. led into the swirling waters on iting spell and thus. felf < where he was stand- Well Known in District Wm, L. Smith had been employed at the Whitevale Mill for twenty three years and was well known and highly respected in the village and district. His death comes as a ses vere she to his wife and to hid many friends, The creck was higher than usual Saturday and it was for this reason that the deceased miller was at tenipting to open the waste gate ing order to protect the mill dam. Judgment Reserved Solloway-Mills Action Toronto, March 10---Mr. Justicq Garrow at Osgoode Hall today re- served judgment on a petition by Solloway, Mills Company, Limited, for an injunction to prevent Ons tario Provincial police from acting under a search warrant issued by* Magistrate W, Davidson, of Cale gary. MARIE STUDHOLME: ACTRESS, IS DEAD At One Time Was Most Popular Musical Star. in Britain BY THOS, T. CHAMPION (Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, March 10--Marie Stud holme, one of the most populan actresses of that era at the turn of! the century when musical comedy had becqgme super-imposed upon light opera and before the revu had been invented, died today a the age of 654 years. George Edwards, the emperor of entrepeneurs in the musical coms edy world, discovered Marie Stud« holme and brought her into pros minence through "A Gaiety Girl? and other pleces, just as he . did many another nicely-educated girt with stage ambitions, a fair share of looks and a more than common place singing voice. Marie Stude holme appeared on the stage when she was 16 years old, in "La Gigale" at the Lyric. The actress's hey-day coincided with the sudden rage for the pice ture postcard and her attractive features caused lier to become for the time perhaps the most photos graphed personage in the country. She married H. Gilesborrett, They had no children but adopted two in their infancy.. For soma years she had lived quietly in res tirement. at RETR REAER SAAS men EEE aa ee, --