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: Che Osh mua Daily Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer dimes VOL. 6--~NO. 90 Day Encens Sumdare. and v Every OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930 15 Cents 8 Week; 3 Cents a Copy SIXTEEN PAGES { News in Brie | ' Fined ¥or Theft 8. Powlenchuk appeared in Po- ice Court this morning charged with the theft of a quantity of gro- ceries from the Loblaw Groceteria, 1t is alleged that the police found some goods concealed on his per- gon when he was taken into cus tody. Powlenchuk pleaded gullty to the charge and was fined $100 and costs amounting to $8.76 with the option of spending three months Iu jail, . » Holidey Mail Good Friday being a Statutory Holiday, the City Post Office will give the following service, The public lobby will be opew from 8 a.m, to' 6 p.m, The general deliv. ery, registration ond postage stamp wickets will be open from 9 a.m, to 11 a.m, The money or- 'der and savings'bank wickets will be closed all day, The public should take notice that there will be no letter carrier delivery on Friday. One collection will be made from the letter boxes during the day. This collection will be made at 5 p.m, Mail posted at the office before 12 o'clock noon will be. dispatched us usual, * Na » Motorists Beware The Police Department have peen checking up closely on viola- tions of the Highway Trafic Act and as a result motorists have felt the power of the law, The motor. ing public will learn in time that they cannot break the law and get away with it, » Cha v Ld ed With ¥Frand Stanley heeier was arrested this morning by Detective ber- geants Flintoff and McGee on a charge of fraud, The police here were informed that he was wanted in Peterboro. He is being held for transportation to Peterboro where he will face the fraud charge. * » L] More Grass Fires The Fire Department had their usual quota of grass fires this morning. The first took place on Mary Street at about 7.30 a.m. The other was a call trom Centre Street South, where fire was burn ing back of the Children's Shelter, LJ » LJ Division Court Division Court was in session this morning with His Honor Judge Ruddy presiding. Tt was not learned whether there was a heavy docket or not. w v New Tariff Adopted Washington, D.C~The house du- wties on: hides, leather and shoes, all now on the free list, were agreed upon today by the congressional con terees on the tariff bill. The rates accepted arc 10 per cent. on hides, 12 1-2 to 30 per cent. on leathers and 20 per cent on shoes, Burglar Alarm Saves Poorbox Chicago.~Credit men estimate that 95 per cent, of the people are hon- est, but just the same some Chicago churches have burglar alarms on their poor boxes, The Rev. Father Dugan was conducting funeral services yes- terday at the St. Carthage Catholic Church when the poor box alarm rang. The services were interrupted just long enough for the priest to apprehend a man in whose pocket ee said they found $1.31 of poor box money. + WEATHER Pressure is high over East ern Canada and low to the northward over Manitoba; while a fairly deep depression centred over Kansas Is moving slowly castward. Rain has fall- en in extreme southwest One 'tario and local showers of snow and rain have occurred in the west; elsowhere the weather has been fair and cool. Forecasts: Lower Lake Reo gion and Georgian Bay: Strong easterly winds; cobl with occasional rain tonight and Thursday. » UNREST GROWS RAPIDLY IN INDIA Ontario Govt. Is Investigating Cancer Treatment DEPARTMENT BELIEVES CURE HAS BEEN FOUND FOR MOST Tests Have Lent Consider- able. Faith to the Possi- bility of New Discovery Becoming a Cure MYSTERY SURROUNDS THE INVESTIGATION No Details Have As Yet Been Given Out, and Secret of Serum is Being Closely Guarded (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 16---A new treat- mont for cancer {s at present under investigation by Hon, Forbes God- frey, Minister of Health in the Ontario Government. Considerable mystery surrounds the inquiry into the discovery at the Department of Health, but it is sald the tests so far made lent a considerable amount of faith to the possibility of it becoming on cure to one of the most dreaded diseases, Dr. Godfrey was recently in De- troit where he made some prelim- inary inquiries into the serum and admitted having inquired into the serum which there but declined to further discuss the discovery at present. Dr, Godfrey intimated that something of considerable import ance may develop when further in- vestigations are made. Final Session Parley Tuesday Agreement Reached on Safeguarding Clause to Protect Powers (By Canadian Press. Leased Wire) Paris, April 16---Forelgn Minis- ter Briand told the committee on Foreign Affairs in the Chamber of Deputies today he hoped that an agreement on the naval questions would be reached between France and Italy. London, April 16--Promier Mac- Donald, United States Secretary of State Stimson and Reljiro Wakat- suki, of Japan, today reached an agreement on the safeguarding clause which had been left in abey- ance over night to enable the Jap anese to study the proposed clause. The werding of the clause, which ip designed to protect the three big naval powers in the event that non signatories should begin a big building program is being cabled to Tokyo by the Japanese delega~ tion, The closing plenary session of the conference, tentatively has been set for set for 10.30 a.m. next Tues: day morning. Betweon 70 and 80 per cent, of the treaty drafting was complete today and the draft ought to be finished tomorrow and then sent to he governments for their approval, British Bankers Combine In Big Financial Company © London, April 16.~Rt. Hon, J. "$1, Thomas outlined in Parliament yesterday the latest scheme for © bolstering up Britain's export trade, It is the formation of the Bankers' Industrial Development Company, an organization which © Las the strongest of financial back _ ing, and which will ald in the re- 'urganization and rationalisation of the basic industries of Great ritalin, 1a Mr. Thomas declared the or- ganization had been registered at ' Somerset House with a nominal "oapital of £6,000,000 (about $30,- © 000,000). hy ae in AB pas hares and 15 "B" shares, nan of £100,000 ($500,000). The company has the support of a very considerable proportion of * most of the influential banking and financial institutions of the couns 'try, by whom the shares have been auf , Mr, Thomas explained, The Securities Management Trust, _ Tdmited, has subscribed the "DB" _ shares, : The company is to receive and . consider schem submitted by basi¢ industries for the purpose of 4 zation, either by industries 'regions. In 4 the - al will be made available for combining various groups of busi- nossel in the interests of general efficiency and elimination of waste, But no public money will be in- volved, Mr, Thomas made plain, He declared the directors of the new company are Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, chairman (8ir Guy Gran et, alternate); Baron Bruno Schroder' (Major Albert de Pass, alternate); A. 1. Wagg (Nigel Campbell, alternate); E. R, Pea- cock, native of Glengarry, Ont, and C. Bruce Gardner, managing director of Securities Management Trust, In addition to this strong directorate, the company will have the services of an advisory council on which a number of influential financial leaders will be invited to so0rve. The advisory council will have no other duties to perform, its services, either collectively' or individually, being available to the board of directors in a consultative oapacity, | In the case of schemes which may be approved, arrangements will be made for provision In one way or another, and through exist- ing agencies, of such moneys as may seem to be essential, Mr. Thomas declared, ald 'DREADED DISEASE DURHAM COUNTY NATIVE BECOMES DEPUTY MINISTER (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 16---James B, Fairbairn, friut grower of Beams- ville, has been appointed Deputy- minister of Agriculture in the On- tario government, Hon, John 8, Martin, Minister of Agriculture, an nounced today. Mr. Fairbairn was born in Clark Township, Durham County; and attended publie and high schools in Toronto and afterwards entered the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, completing the associated course in 19065. FIRE CRIPPLES NIPIGON FISHERY Suppy to Toronto and to Railway Diners is Affected (By Conadian Press Leased Wire) Port Arthur, Ont, April 16~Fire early this morning destroyed ahout half the shore equipment of the Take Nipigon fishing industry at Mac. Diarmid, The blaze, starting in the F. W. Bowman sheds spread through the dry frame building and burning amohg 'the oiled corks caused such heat 'that the volunteer beighite 5 Aste two _ punps and lines the (oN Reforestry Patrol ger- vice' were able to do: but little to block" them. The losing firms were F, WV. Dow. man, Angus McLeod, J. Waoldridee, R. McLeod and A, Sutherland, The loss is: about $15.000 and on the eve of asnew season largely cripples an industry that supplies northern fish to Téronto, New York and other eastern cities besides the railway di ning cars, Light Ray Travels 100,000,000,000,000 Years Thru Cosmos (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Berkeley, Calif, April 16,~ Light on the size of the cosmo is afforded by computations: of Prof, R. J, Trumpler of the University of California, Prof, Trumpler, an astronomer of Lick Observatory, operated by the university, estimates that it would take a ray of light one hundred trillion years to travel from one end of the cosmos to the other, Light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, Multiply 180,000 by sixty and 'the answer by sixty and then by twenty-four and then 3656 and then Ly 100 trillion .and you have the rough idea, Gunmen Get 8 Years and Strap Detroiters Who Held Up Toronto Gasoline Stations Will Be Deported Ire -- (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, April 16~Eight years in Portsmouth Penitentiary, thirty stro. kes of the strap followed by deporta- tion to the United States, was the sentence imposed today by Judge Coatsworth on James Norlin, 23, anc James Alexander, 30, of Detroit, |" "The men on the night of March 29, held up and robbed the attend- ants of three gasoline stations in Toronto, escaping with $589 in cash, a gold watch and numerous negoti- able securities, Both pleaded guilty The men were arrested in Detroit shortly after the robbery. The crown demanded an exemplary sentence as a warning to other gun. men TOURING BRITISH -SCHOOLMASTERS ARE IN TORONTO TODAY Toronto, April 16---Headed by Dr. Meyril Norwood, of Harrow, the party of 16 headmasters of British schools, 'who are touring Canada for the purpose of study- ing the educational system, arrlv- ed in Toronto today. The party was entertained at luncheon and later visited various educational institutions in the city. German Naval Extension Now A Lively Topic Reichsrat Proposes to Spend $725,000 on New Cruiser (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Berlin, April 16~The question of further naval construction by Ger many, which seemed to have been disposed of negatively during the Mueller ministry, has been suddenly thrown into the foreground of poli tical discussion by-a Reichsrat amend ment carrying an appropriation ior such a purpose, The budget estimates prepared by the Mueller cabinet made no provi- sion for another crpiser of the Esatz Preussen type. The Reichsrat today, however, amended the government's proposed budget by the introduction of an item for 2,900,000 marks (about $725,000) as the first instalment for | an armored cruiser "B"" ! The question will next go to the | Reichstag which will reassemble af-| ter Faster and may be expected tol provide stormy scenes, | Textile Mill Workers | Return Most of Strikers Still Holding Out For Their Demands, However ( Thomas T, yi Cannes Ala Prom WARE Cormsepoudont) don, 1 18.-~Although on Eo Rte omen ad textile industries dispute remains obscure' owing to the yariety 'of interests and the wide are concern- ed in it, It seems hat Nradford apd Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, consti- tute the centres weher the strong est opposition Is being offered to the wage reductions. But at Hudders- fleld, 2,600 employees are stated to be working at reduced rates, Wir- ther returns to work are reported at Leeds, and at Sowerby Bridge, 300 re-entered the mills yesterday. Holds Court and Gives Judgment Over Telephone (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Grimsby, April 16.-=When his auto mobile broke down on his way to Grimshy court, yesterday Magistrate Campbell returned to his home at St, Catharines anl over long-distance telephone tried and rendered judg- ment in the case of Violet Burnham, age 22, Indian girl, charged with failure to support her two children, The verdict of the magistrate, af- ter long distance telephone conver« sations was that there would he no penalty of the law providing she went hack home and looked after the children, FarmersReduce Wheat Acreage United States Farm Board Request Met With Favor (By Ken Clark, Canadian Press staff Correspondent) Washington, D.C., April 10, The Federal Farm Board is asking farmers to reduce their production of wheat because "it does not be- | lieve they can put thelr industry. on nt profitable basis in any other way," Chairman Alexander Legge of the farm hoard declared in a radio addross today. Reports from Minnesota, North and South Da- kota and Montana Indicate the tarmors there are responding fav- orably to the request they plant lees wheat and the board is getting encouragement from the Pacific Northwest and from the winter wheat belt in its campaign for reduction of ten percent, In plants dng, Logge sald. (wi Soy "All the consuming eountries in the world are watéhing us olosely," he sald, "I am satisfied they wou.d take prompt messures to retaliate in the event exporting was done on 8 basis which they believe un- fair to thier own growers, In ask- ing the wheat farmer to reduce his' acreage the board is not 'asking him to reduce his income, Instead the board confidently Believes his income will be improved. Fy British Public School Headmasters Arrive in Toronto of country public schools touring Canada who arrived ato to-day. (1) H, H, Hem: dn ER Ao - . ; Anda LEADING PEDAGOGUES OF OLD COUNTRY ON TOUR OF ( The photographs here show head. | (2) J. Talbot, Malleybury school, (8) F. B, Malin, Wellington college. (4)F. Fletcher, Charterhouse. (5) Dr. ©. Norwood @) 6.0." 0 AX) Harrow school Mariborougt ANADA (1) W. L. Jnoks, Mill Hill woh (8) J. Bell, 8t. Paul's school. (L) ing » Nevill, Ampleforth {oto y TY WOME, Dann: sey school. (18) Geo, Rober | woo, Watson's college, Edinburgh J have ue. Gur W. L. Fyfe, Christ's hospital coat school), and (14) 8, R. ner, Whitgitt Grammar school. | | procedure would be adopted MOB STORMS ONE KILLED, MANY HURT AS COURT-RAD | THREATENS ON SALT DEPOT OTTAWA TAKES ACTION IN CASE OF MISSIONARY United Church Will Refuse to Provide $200,000 Ransom Asked (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Ottawa, April 16~Prompt has been taken by the Dominion gov ernment in connectign with the case of Rev, C, A. Bridgman, Canadian missionary who is reported to have been captured by bandits in China, O: D. Skelton, under-secretary of state for external affairs, said today the government was investigating the re- port and' gathering all the informa. tion it could. He declined to say what when the investigations were completed, In gathering information in con- nection with the case the government had been in communication with Bri- tish consular offices in China. No representations have been made to the Chinese government as yet, Toronto, April 16~It is unlikely the forcign mission board of the Uni- ted Church in Canada will make any attempt to provide the $200,000 ran- som demanded by Yangtse bandits for the release of Rev. C. A, Bridg- man, Canadian missionary captured yesterday at Chanchow, Commenting on the request or ran- som by bandits, Rev, Dr, James End- icott, head of the mission board, said any attempts to furnish the ransam might jeopardize the safety of scores of fellow workers in the mission field, ---------------- Be Cut in Half Drastic Restrictions Im- posed by Govt. to Reduce Total to 90,000 Ottawa, April 16~Immigration to Canada will be reduced by 50 per cent; this year as a result of dras tic restrictions imposed by the Dos minion Government, ob al tion for the calendar year of 1929 was' 164993. This year the number of newcomers will not reach 90,000 it is officially estimated, Only 8,000 Central European farm laborers are to be admitted, as compared with 11,- 000 last year and 34,000 the year be- fore, Next year only those obtaining permits will be allowed to come in, as the agreement with the transpor- tation companies who bring them ex- pires on May 31 this year, and will not be renewed. Sixty-size thousand British settlers came to Canada in 1929, including 3,- 600 trainees for farm work. his year only 1,000 trainees will come. They will all be unmarried men, and 800 of them are to be here by the middle of May, Jobs are awaiting them in Prince Edward Island, the Eastern Townships of Quebec, On- tario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, They are coming forward at the re- quest of the Provincial Governments, Most of the immigrants who come from the United Kingdom pay their own fares, and no restrictions are placed on such immigrants, provided they are physically and mentally fit and have sufficient money when they land in Canada to tide them over un- til they obtain employment, (Continued on Page 2) action | gration to |; Serious Trouble Looms as Three Hundred Nation- alists Start March to Raid Salt Works at Wadal SIX LEADERS ARE | UNDER ARREST Mob Attacks Hospital in Which Wounded Europ- eans Are Being Treated | at Calcutta | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Bombay, India, April 16~The Ex- change Telegraph Company in a de- spatch from Bombay today said there was danger of serious trouble there later this evening, = Three hundred Nationalist volunteers marched from' Congress House at noon with the deliberate object of raiding the goy- ernment's salt pans and depots af Wadal, eight miles away, Mob Storms Courthouse Karachi, India, April 16---One person killed, seven were seriously injured and twenty-six others were slightly injured in rioting here to~ day after a mob had stormed the' magistrate's court, : Police fired on the mob and 'beat off many of the rioters with staves, Then, aided by Indian tropps, they arrested the leaders and took them to the Karachl jail, Six Leaders Arrested Dock laborers and sweepers went, on strike this afternoon in protest against the arrest of six Josdors of the All-India National Congress earlior today. ' The leaders were. charged with participating dn the eivil disobedis ence campaign of Mahatma Gande Hospital Attacked Caloutts Bengal, India, April 16 ~--Rioting on the streets of Calcutta last night spent. itself finally before dawn today in a futile attack on the presidency of the General Hos- pital: to. which nine Buropeans in Jured in yesterday's clash had been taken, Magistrate Injured Poona, Bombay, Presidency, In« dla, April 16--A conference on the serious 'situation here. today reveal. od that the magistrate and the sup- erintendent of police were among those injured last night. by a de- monstrating crowd. . Police finally routed the mob, and arrested twenty of their num- ber, nine being found on roof tops with piles of bricks and stones be- side them. The city was quieter today after renewal of the clashes last night when Europeans'driving home after the evening out were stoned. After a mass meeting in protest against the conviction of the Pane dit Jawarhalal Behru the crowd started to march on police heads quarters. When the police attempte ed to clear the streets they were stoned from the windows of houses opposite. Causing Concern London, April 16~The Indian sit- uation was raised in the House of Commons this afternoon during the question period, Rt. Hon, Wedgwood Benn, secretary of state for India, said the state of affairs in India was rausing "constant and anxious cone cern to the government" A. F. Brockway, a leftwinger ae mong those prodding the governs ment on the present India rest, asked Br. Benn if he did not "That the situation throughout In« dia today is rapidly reaching the pos sition in which Ireland was" Benn made no reply. Beaverbrook and Baldwin = Again Clash on Free Trade (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, April 16---Protest so blunt and vigorous as to render unmistakable the possibility of another open rupture between the Empire Crusaders and the Con- servative party, was launched last night in a latter to the press by Lord Beaverbrook. The Canadian peer's abrupt re- entry into the field of controversy was provoked by literature issued from conservative party head. quarters which Lord Beaver. brook feels indicates a measure of backsliding from the pledge with which Rt, Ho. Stanley Baldwin brought about the reunion of Lord Beaverbrook's then newly-formed Bolition party with the Conserva- tives, Lord Beaverbroook specifically attacked a leaflet bearing the title: "This is Baldwin's Pledge to You," being gradually made the present poaition oxtremely ' diffi cult. He quotes the leaflet as explain- ing that the Conservative party seoks power to go into vonference = with the dominions which will'en- able us to sell more manufactured goods to them, and if the domine fons then ask us to help them bw putting theirs to enter free, the question will be put to the country by means of a referendum," Lord Beaverbrook objects to this in measured terms. "I desire," he says, "to state as plainly and emphatically as possible that this is not in consonance with the po- Hey which the Empire Crush advocated, mor with the a ment under which we accepted the referendum in order to facilitate the adobtion of that policy by the Conservative party. ET "It puts the onus for asking for duties on foreign food on the Doe minions, instead of making those duties tho extent of a constructive policy which Great Britain ought to put forward. The pu A tion of this leatlet is one in a chain of events which have gradually made the present position-extremes ly: dificult." ;