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| / The Page Gt oo vee hr Os ba | Rail Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer y Times TOSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930 16 Corts » Week; 3 Cents » Copy ! § Kon peuson "killed and three others injured in , an explosion ubogrd the Brith destroyer, Repoy, today, Details "were not Smmedintely; available, » » Girl Yound Unfie Vor Trial North Bay.~The Foster murder ease had its sequel yesterday when atthe Hpriug assizos Irene Voster 16-year-old girl, wos found by A » 1 jury mentally unfit to stand trial on the charge of murdering her mother, Mrs, W, ¥, Foster, in the gellar of the Voster 'home on the morning of Mare 2, 1] Employment Department Cr anion has arrived at the stage in her development when there should be established ® departmnt of industry nnd ome ployment, sald Joba WR, MacNicol, Pominipn Lib» president of the Association, soryative rea st the Toronto Northe Last Liberal-Uonservative Aswocla- tion meeting here at night, Navigation Opens Friday Port Colborne, = Navigation will open here Friday when the Midland Prince sails for an Ohio port for somal. The greatest fleet ever to winter in the logal harbor will require about 1,000 sailors to men it when general navigation opens about Apri) 21, LJ ] * Held Yor 1082 Crime Cleveland, Ohis,~--Bimon Rosen perg, alas Charlds Davis, was iden. tified '1st night by Charles John. son, butler, for Robert W, Cutten, Chioago multi-millionaire, as one of the gang Which rebbed the Cut » house party. Ww ¥ Thee Die In Plane Orash a Wi ao ows re, 1 filed and one injured a I ercirome today in a colli sion Of two planes shortly after their take-off, The pilot of one ma~ ohin® Commander Grigorianopous los, and two observers were killed while the pilot of the second ma- chine was seriously injured, Roth planes were Somrored. Impersonated Voters Montreal, ~TFitty-seven persons, on charges of impersonating vote ers in the municipal elections, ap: peared hefore the recorder's court here today, . . Brokers To gr ad Lomlouin M, Atwell an n, WOH, ding 'brokers, hs appear for volu temen vb 18, Judge Cusonm, in the a auiry Court today ordered men fage charges of conspiracy, hd Nye To Ball For Home Wellington, New Zealand---Rear Admiral Richard B, Byrd and & voup from Nis Antaretie. ex fon were entertained at a ciyie ve pection were tonight following their arrival from nedin, The PA are making preparation' to embark at the nest sallihg fro New York, : i OWEN SOUND ADOPTS DAYLIGHT SAVING (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) " Owen Sound, April B~-Owen Sound will operate on daylight saving time for three months this summer, the nedessary bylaw have ing beep passed hy the city coun: ofl at fis regular. meeting last night, This step was taken in. pes sponse to a largely signed petition ot citisens, and it is intended to submit the matter to a Yote of the 'people at the next municipal elec. 'tion, to nee whether they wish to ake it an annual change, . period 'of daylight saving is "fo be the months of June, July and August, SPEND LARGE SUM. TO ---- (By Canadisn Press Lonsed Wire) St. Thomas, Ont,, April §.«~The De nt of Publia Works, Ute ta has wet aside a portion of fue $150,000 appropriation tor Improvements t Port Stane for Hy of lana A number of cottagen & b Lake J 4 suis: v Wire Toronto, April 8-=DPleadl ty to a oha | rub ot tar off HARBOR ORK TO BE COMPLETED NEGLIGENCE CHARGE AS Mrs. May Topping, 618 Carnegie' Avenue, This City, Passenger in Street Car, Taken to Oshawa Houpital -------- MOTORMAN ALSO : SUFFERS INJURY Fall of Snow Which Made Rails Slippery Stated by Truck Driver to Have Been Remson He Could Not Avoid Crash When a eollision veeurred between a street car of the Oshawa Railway Comp y and & large truck on Sime coe street south about 1043 o'clock 5, of 018 Carnegie ave, and a pass: enger on the street car sustained se. rious injuries while the motorman, L. D, Shettler, of Harmony, way bruls sed and cut, The. street car, was south near the Canadian National Railways tracks when the collision occurred, The truck, which was # large sixswh,.! combination tractors trafler outfit, wan going north, and was being driven by Charles Ford, of Toronto, for Smith Trunsport of this city, Tried to Turn Out According to information which Ford gave the police, he had seen the street ear coming sone distance away, and had tried to tum outs The light fall 'of snow, however, made the street very slippery, and the: trailer wheels became caught in the car tracks, making it imposible 10 turn out completely, Me declared that the po car did nov slacken speed une tl nearly up to the truck, and thar the hmpact came with terrific forge, The left front side of the street oar was smashed In, and Mey, Tops Ping was seriously injured about the 5: The motorman, L. D. Shettler of Harmony, also sustained injuries proveeding Ie Hien were stated to be not serious, he car was of the one-man type Was in Front Seat Police Constables Themis England and William Goodwin {vestigated the case and rendered first aid, Dr, |B, A. Brown, who was called had the infured woman transferred to the shawa General Hospital in an ams bulance, She wan sitting in the front scat of the eat and received much of the foreq of the smash; eo condition of Mrs, Topping was much improved this morning, Dr Brown inforined The Times, She {5 suffering from shock and severe la- cerations of the legs, X-ray photo- graphs have been taken in order to eterming whether she suffered any fractures of the lower limbs, Ford was charged with erfininal negligence in police court this mor. ning, and was remanded for one Ball was set at $1,000, to Make New Tomorrow ------------ (By Canadian Prose Loased Wine) Daytona Breach, Ila, April Sew After many delays Kay Don, vote eran British racing driver, Ropes to'm an attempt to lower the 3 - Apeed rd for autemo- bl hat igmotrow. An inspection hol course today after low tide was the guiding factor in 's plans, , . Mechanics have lowered the gear 'ratio In the powerful machine in RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT IDENTIFICATION fon country estate in 1923 during fan night, Mrs. May Topping, aged |: DYNAMITE SHATTERS order to create A maximum speed fand Hon beliaves the ear to be in TRIAL SENSATION Accuses Prisoners of Killing Husband ---- / (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Hamilton, April 8--The Crown's onse against Mike Smith, aeqused of the murder of John Iwants, wis continued this morning before Jus tice Jeffrey in supreme gourt, The wife of the murdered man, Mrs, Mary Iwants, gave avidence, A dramatic feature of her testimony when the crown asked if whe could state positively who was guilty of the slaying, "Yes," responded the woman promptly, She pointed an seousing finger at the prisoners, Dry Agents' Act Stirs Colborne wr B. H. Coyle Suffers $1,000 Loss When Apple Shipment Is Wantonly Destroyed (Special to The Times) Cobourg, April B=The destruction of 160 burrels of apples, valued at $1,000, shipped by 1, MH, Coyle, pros miuent fruit grower of Colhorn, by. United States prohibition officers al Bluck Rock, on the United States border, hus sroused considerable feel ing in this digtriet, fie, Coyle shipped 200 barrels of cholee apples to Ridgeway, FPewnsyl vaftla, a few weeks ago. At Black Rock, they were seized by prohibition officers and 100 barrels werg opens and the apples emptied out on the flogr of a shed and hopelessly dame aged. No trace. of any liquor was found tn the apples, but Mr, Coyle has received notiog that the apples were rendered practically worthless and we in the loser to the extent of about $1,000, Me. Coyle Is a highly respected and reputable farmer of Colborne, and there is much indignation fn the dis trict over the loss to which he has been subjected as the result of the action of the prohibition officials in the United States, oem ---- ANOTHER ELECTION DAY IN CHICAGO (By Canadian Press Lensed Wire) Glicago, April §.-=Folicomen, with pistols strapped outside their blue conts, patrolled the city today under orders for special vigilance, Detectives, in squad cars equipped with riot guns, toured the town, Thousands of civilian volunteers stood watoh over polling places, It Was another election day in Chies -------------- BUILDING, ONE DEAD Montreal, April §,=~F'iltosn hun dred pounds of dynamite exploded in a bullding at" the plant of Cannas dia Industries, Limited, at Helos ell, Que, today, shatteriog the building and killing ts only ou oupant, James Qunaingham, is Albert B. Dorlaid, ive or Tmate of PorAmMOWh tary, waa today i to rob & bank, : vagrancy neal Ham! anot ] {- 8 CR Can Dusrate ot nat Be ---- years fn the institution, Ni oharge | Albert waa preferred against him inaten charge of jo ik A HW BAn "anders 4 vt Whe loos! police des and shatted the suspects at the t sume tl gunmen A ight of y Sah iin 0 4 in "a lane the bandits were trapped when the poli te od the oar at the exit to the alley ) Donita driver oft Alleged holdup men, atepped on the gas and . med the po oar with termine force, But It did not clear a path to freedom aud defore he could swing bis machine around to cin ole the police car, detectives sun rounded the bandit car and after a tuatlade of shot, arrested and his companion, Archie Gordon, to noliee to ed Ld Fal Dor pice. { thin 'Gandhi Calls a (By and § today Btowa low, 1» and bh Plant Th EUGENY BARNADBE Who has been arvestod in Hallfus and has confessed to an Ottawa ovime for which two innocent men are in prison, STARVING CHINESE EATING CHILDREN Population of One District Being Cut in Half by Famine (By Canadian Press Lensed Wire) Pelping, China, April 8-Reports rocalyed by the China Internationa! Relfet Commission say that so ter rible have famine conditions bes come in the Wel river district. that In some caves parents have entva thelr children, V, 4. Plymire, missionary, writ. Ing from Tsinghai on Mareh §, to John Earl Baker, director of rene operations sald: "Only two days from here several families ate thelr obiidren," Findlay Androw, traveling Ine apegtor, veporting. conditions in the central Fhens! distriet, wrote! "It in estimntad by the time of the wheat harvest in May there will be only 8,000,000 inhabitents remais ing of 6,000,000 when tha famine hogan, The agony of the past win. ter ean never be described." A --------------" Agre (By Ares the Ir fue oa Wh going of Vy will day, (My ing to Apa Protest Strike Seven Injured as Police canion brigad 000 Justice promissory notes London, dow when all exits were by smoke and flames, W, J, Jelly, of Woman Is Injured When Street Car Hits Truck DRIVER OF TRUCK FACES Local Doctor Gets Judgment For 15,000 Canadian Press Lossed Wire) Toronto, April §.~=Judgment by consent for plaintitt for #16,000 BOO costs was coutirmed by Logle In non-jury assiees in an action brought over by Alvig Earl rt, medical practitioner, Ushe Awa, against Henry Bummers Ware medical doctor, Merlin, Unt, is wite, Allee M, Uarlow, iE claimed WV, 600, RT, ree Powers In Accord on Disarmament ement on Nearly All Points Arrived at Today -------- Canadian Prose Lossed Wire) April 8, == Complete nent was reached today by United Btates Becrotary of State Btimaon, Relfiro Wakatsuki on all points re. garding a three-power pact except Premier MacDonald and nportant Japaneses point ps garding the transfer of 20,000 tons from the destroyer to the submar tegory, This Intter problem will be dis- oussed at another meeting of the big three leader stomorrow, The three statesmen agreed gn earlier replacement program for light erulsers and destroyers, fle these conversations were on foreight minister Briand nee, arrived in England aud oot Premier MacDonald at the House of Commons later in the EP ------ LEAPS TO SAFETY FROM BURNING HOME Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Ont, April 8.~After leaps safety through a bedrdom win blocked was forged to wateh his beays ul residence burn to the ground shortly after midnight ldst night, In the high wind, a nearby lumber yard and mill ignited on several oe- & but were saved by uw bucket 0. The loss is estimated at $4, Clash With Illegal Salt Gatherers New Delhi, India, April 8~Seven persons were injured at Shahdara, neur here, today in a clash between police and volunteers who arg sup» parting Mahatma's Gandhi's came palgn by collecting salt illegally, Four others who were rendered un conscious were rescued by thelr coms panions, trike Called Bombay, lndia, April 8~Most of the Hindu and Paris shops in Home buy city suspended business today in repponse to the hartal or strike call of the Bombay congress committee of the India National Congress, The hartal 48 In protest at arrest of K, Fy Nukiman wnd Jomanial Baja) for their activities In behalf of Mahats ma Gandhi's salt law violators, Most of the local shops closed but a number of muslin shiops remained open, Two thousand school boys threw down their bobks und joined the hartal, i To Tour Villages A message fron Jalapur today said that Gandhi, Thursday would eqns mence a tour of the villages aboyt him and urge that the inhabitants 10 Sho mass disobedience of the salt Wh | Gangadharrao Despande, promine went Indian Nationa leader of Del goum, near Bombay, was arrested to y With three others for violating Whe salt laws, The town of Belgaum is observing the general hartal, During the day Jamwalal Bajul wealthy Bowbay follower of Gandhi, was sentensed to two yeary' impris. onment dg ineiting the suburban res sidenty © bay to break the sat laws, He had been specially selects o take charge of the civil diss lence oa | in the Bombay region ; © Son Gets Six Months Surat, ladia, April 8-~Ram Das Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, whe was arrested at Chimrad: with volunteers Sunday for breaking the alt lows, was sentenced to aly months' rigorous fnprisoninent. today, You he h nied Four companions 'were' given shnilar a sentences. {Con wm road to Hid In M i 1) a Hadar Bu in Hawilion, ¥ Ni 1 alge) | d } Sha Winnie Nowthy dete! Koverdy ¢ k part in the t altuation, ont situ a e Hens Cons earns Aanenburg) ; '$5 ldwin (Lib, FA, Meleod)y Dr, W mit (Cons, indi, st i Fe En Ottawa, April 8~Today in parlias Senate will ait this even . Howe .of Commons will eon. he debate on the Heaps ams erday in parliament : Senate «did not wit House continued the debate \. A Heaps wirieh asks t. to take. ime ve the unems Speakers who te were Hon, "action niater, of the Ins Ji WK " W. Ki Eling (Cons West); General A, BE, Rosy "Kingston; GG Coote (LL Ly Juhustone Cape Hreton North); RB, K Cutberland): 1, Cong, ra West): FB Ce | So vn Sou L Vancouver: \ Py \ "| which the provinces will designate (Cons: Ksvex eh (Lib. Beaues) te) id Peer MeG on and E, ie ATE DIES IN TORONTO HON, WALLACE NESBITT Une of Canada's most prominent Jurists, who died at his home in Toronto yesterday, MANY TRIBUTES TO LIFE OF NESBITT Widely Known Jurist Died in Toronto Yesterday at Age of 72 Toronto, April Be=From many | parts. of Canada tributes continued | to pour into the residence here of | Hon, Wallace Nesbitt, KC. former | Justice of the Supreme Court of Gas nada, treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada and widely known jurist, whe died at his home yes terday following a lengthy illness at the age of 72 Hon, Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, Hon, R. B. Bennett, leader of the Dominion Conservative party, |g Hon, W, H, Price, Ontario Attorney General, Chief Justice Latehford and many other noted Canadiany, united In paying tribute to Mr, Neshitt Funeral services wilt be hely here tomorrow afternoon Conference on Unemployment Provinces to. " Meet Federal Govt. at Parley in June Ottawa, April §==Immigration and unemployment will be the sub- Jeots of a Dominionsprovinelal cone ference at which the CPR, and O,N.R, presidents and other large employers of lobar will attend, to be held in Ottawa early in June, Mon, Charles Stewart, minister of the Interior, announced yesterday in the House of Commons, While ealled primarily to discuss the new immigration scheme under the number and nationality of the newogommers they annually desire, the conference, Mp, Stewart em phasined, will conduct a thorough canvass of the question of winter unemployment and how to oir cumvent it, Construction work and other acs tivitien could be done as easily in winter as in summer, and at little extra cost, sald Mr, Stewart, While he elung to the Dominion's refusal to share any extra cost, he suggbats od that provinces and munielpalis ties enact legislation to permit more winter construction and urge od large employers of labor, such an railways, to do thely part by spending hall thelr year's construe. tion expenditures in winter, Coupled as it was with an appeal for a nonspolitical: discusion af unemployment and a recital of all that the King Government eolaima to have done for the provinces, Mr, Stewart's announcement Waa gen. erally accepted herve as the edge off Premier King's defiant outhurst against Cansarvating provincial governments lant week, SWIFT WIND STORM BRINGS FIVE DEATHS (Ry Canadian Press Leased Wie) Baltimore, Md, April §.-=IFive deaths were charged today to the awift wind and rain storm which out a path across Maryland yeaters day, Three negro oyster tongers wore thought to have drownod as the storm struck thelr motorboat In Chesapeake Hay, off the mouth of West river. Two n ateves dores were drowned in timore when the wind hit a stow they were trying to drag closer inshore and pulled them inte the hard 81x women were hurt when a hig plate glass window blew out where they had sought shelted in the ves tibule of an office building, Crisis Looms in DEVELOPMENT IN LINE WITH. * CITY'S NEEDS T0 BE MADE ° OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS NEW CANAL PLAN | WATERWAY THREAT Would Make Development| of St. Lawrence by U.S, | Unnecessary (By Canadian Press Lessed Wire) Buffalo, N.Y, April 8=Conments ing on a proposal to have the fed eral government wssume contrgl of the Erie and Oswego canals, Richard H, Templeton, United States diste riet attorney here, sald today that the value of these canals as links be- tween the Great Lakes and the Ate lantle frequently had been overlooks ed In the discussion of u possible St. Lawrence deep waterway canal, "If the United States government," sald Mr, Templeton, "is willing te spend 827,000,000 to pravide a deeper channel and maintain the canals, the people of New York State should welcome the opportunity to be rele. ved of the great cost of mulntens ance "With the improvement of the Lr le and Oswego canals, there would he nu need for the vast expenditures re. quired for a St, Lawrence canal" Woollen Mills -------- Workers Resent Wage Re ductions Becoming Effect. ive This Week (By Conndian Press Leased Wig) Bradford, England, April 8 Threat of u stoppage of work in the great Yorkshire woollen Industry loomed darker today, The employers have promptly rejected the sugges. tion by workers that' thé preposed wage reductions should be cut in half, The employers deeling to change In uny way the notices of reductions which are already posted in the milly, 'due to become effective this week, Apparently nothing short of the nceeptance by the trade union of the emuloyers' terms will avoid a knocks out 180,000 Workers Involved I'he notices come into effect at diflerent periods beginning tonight. Before the end of the week more than 1,200 firms and 150,000 workers will he lnvelyed, The operatives Unlon met at Brad ford today, Joined by a delegation from the council of the Trades Une ion Congress at London, ute Seem Inevitable The gloomy part of the situation in that the reductions in wages seem inevitable if the industry is to be kept on its feet, A royal commission of enquiry decided that in the pres sent seriously depressed condition of the industry, only reduction in pro duction costs could save it, Judging by the declarations from the unions, the workers haye. already faced the fact that some reduction is neces: sary. But how much, is the moot point, I -------------- TWO KILLED WHEN AUTO HITS TROLLEY (By Canadian Press Leased Wing) Wilkesbarre, Pay, April 8==Two men were dnstantly killed and three others seviously hurt today in a cos Nision between an automobile and a trolley car of the Wilkesbarre Ralls way Company. All the victims were occupants of the automobile, A | Report Presented to City Council on Chamber of Commerce ° Negotiations With Department of Pubs lic Works DREDGING WILL BE COMPLETED THIS YEAR No Further Appropriation Will Be Provided, Hows ever, for Work to be Care ried on in 1930 The Department of Public Works Intends continuing the development of the Oghawa harbour over a pets lod of yers uocording to the press ent navigation needs of the city but would be willing to provide ade ditional facilities should they be ' required by any industry situated here according to the report of the special sub-committee on the harbor question which was pree sented to members of the city edune ofl and divectors of the Chamber of Commerce at a meeting held previous to the regular session of tne counell last night, The gpecial sub-committee pointe ed out that an Interview had been obtained from Mr, Cameron, chief engineer, who had. explained the Department's polley with regard to the herbor and had also suggested that the government would probe ably provide additional facilities, other than those planned at the present time, if they were necos sary to the welfare of any industrs and if assurance were given that the harbor would be: used exten sively, 10 The sub-committes included G. D, Conant, chairman, president of the Chamber of Commeres; Mayor T, BN, Mitehell; George W, MeLaughe Hw; pant prevtdent Chamber of Tome merce: W, C, Smith, eity englueery (Continued on page 0) CHAIN STORES ARE FINED FOR SHORT WEIGHT SELLING St, Thomas, Ont, April In ety police court today Magistrate Maxe well delivered what is declared to ba the firsg definite ruling on the Welghts und Measures Act of Cans ada us It Applies to chain grocery stores and the practice of pre-packs agilg bulk goods, Seven: convictions against five stores of the city and nominal fines of $5 and $6 in engh caso were imposed, Charges of selling and delivering goods by weights which were short of the quantity purchased were. pros ven: against Loblaws, Dominion res, Arnolds Market, the T. Eaton Company and R, C, McKenaie, operates in the Red and White chains The magistrate declared it was the duty of the merchant to see that ale dowance was made for shrin their prepackaged 1) pind time they are standing in store and that the customer ia given dull weight, § Ro Kine Seve Torente, April §=Oanadiay Terminal System, Limited, -- nounce that plans have pleted for the erection of a two a halt million bushel elevator cated on Cataraqui Bay at lags ston; The proposal with regard. tixed taxation over a term of hv Ia now before the officials, ang Immediately this is adjusted it expected that arrangements be made to get this york und way early thia apring. 3 wh Thornton Explains Lower National Railway Revenues TX (By 'Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, April 8s=The decrease in the gross revenuéd of the Canadian National Railways was almost ons tively due to the reduced crop in the; prairie provinces and to marketing conditions, states Sir Henry Thornts on, chairman and president of the CNR, in his report covering the ape erations of the aystem wi 1939, The report is to be tabled iu the House of 'Commons this afternoon by Hon, T. Au Crovar, Minister of Railways and Canals, Operating revenues des clined six per cont of K16,752048, The net earnings were $45,062,080, "During the fisst, sevei Migs revenue maiitalned uo "says Sir Henry, "but Crop prospedty were re Hearn or Aur in the last three ! o most serious declines in revenuy were sustained, "decrense Lives venue from grain shipments alone ay mounted to $1S,309311; and the nous eptember, 8 of pabet anths pL in the | On Sheration of Matsesier SRSUrslons, X crea sae revenue 250.000, vi iat: fou Bhs was the dopreciat y stock warket and the rewulting ring 'the la 8 consensus argy 'in business part of the yearn opinion is that such effect should temporary and that the future n of «development in Canada' sh continue, \ ding' heavy hj adn ANCE OF way, structures and: : ment during the first halt of the La and wage increases Which became feetive in May and June, operat cad by SL OXPONRES WHY \ A (16 per eent) the total Shh ceount being 214814 enance of way and. str t hy way expended $46. and on maintenance. of The railway he word the year S100 and the average number of ces on ity payroll was 109,09, $ The report states hat sauwithatats i