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The Oshawa Daily Times Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer VOL, 7==NO, 3 News in Brie | Fivp Are Drowned Quebec. ~Five persons were drown ed Just night when their automobile Plumged Ine the river at La Mal: ele, near here, The vietims were Vrench-Comadians, Bad Drought Malhourne, Australia hn fell in Central and South Australia yesters day, and cheer vepluced a sate of neas=despaly in the hearts of the wheat growers, The rain ended the worst drought in the history of the Commonwenlth, . LJ Crew Landed from Wreck st, Pierre, Mig ~The French way: ship Ville D'ys landed the 43 mem» bers of the French fishing schoons er Notre Dame Du Salut's crew here yesterday, The Notre, Dame Du Bulut went aground al ort Dix Bawques, # Baby Starts Bad Fire : Harrle=Pulling a dresser wearf which tipped aver a conl-oil lamp the one-year-old baby of Mr, and Mrs, William Kiley, 53 Sophia st, vesterduy started a fire which drove the family from thelr beds and ro: sulted In the complete gutting of thelr tittle home and the loss of all contents, ¥ * Ind Fugitive (By coniiian, Fughive Wire) Port Arthur, July 4,--Belleving they have at last found 'traces of Simon Collins Indian wanted in connection with the murder of Morton Johnson provincial police offiodrs are placing a cordon of men around a section of land near Wolfe River in the hope of arrest ing the fumitive, Johnson, a rafis- man, was slain on Wednesday near Hurkett, and Collins is wanted in connection with the affair, LJ w » Many Sheep Killed Cookaville, Drastie measures are contemplated by the Counell of Toronto Township to cope with the recent sheep killing, whieh has this yoar become an expensive item for the munieipality, 1] 1] » Train Robber Deported Ohatham,==Advices vecelved in Toon) police olpcles are to the effet that John Grhie, Detroit. bandit whose sensational robbery of a westbound ON, mall train In Otobor, 1088, stirred the distriot, hag been deported to the United Niates, and ls now In 'an Institus tien In Michigan, Kiwanians mi 1 Tegaion of Kiwanis International selected Miaml, Fla, for next year's cons vention, 1 . Ll Nefuse Power Male Washington A propossl to Authorike the War Department to soll Musio Shoals electric power to municipalities or counties, was Aquelohed and killed for the sess slon yesterday, Wot Te -- WHISTLES UPSET HIM S0 DRIVER LOSES LICENSE Court Couldn't Control Cheeping, So Suspended Driving Permit Kvanaton, 1 == Whistle, and Joseph Griffin fous all to pieces, "I can't stand whistles," he ex- plained to Magistrate Porter, ans awering a charge of yeckloss drive Ing, "They upset me," "But what," inquired the court, "had that to do with your drjvs ing your ear over a ourb and oth. orwlne disporting In an unseemly manner?" "Whintlen," repeated Griffin, Are i demoralining Influence, Pere hapd I am high strung, Perhaps Tam out of tune, Dut whistiops" and he shuddered, "I win d along and 1 heard & Whistle, hands went limp on the wheel, I went all to pleces, 1 simply oannot stand" "I know," sald the Whistles," R y } Wo polige ape ™ cour, At thin point proached the eourtroom, oy wee whistling, Qriffin became anitated, "Hop IL" he erledi "Don't they realise I can't atand-=" Yen, ven" sald the court, "You can't stand widstling, i an odd situation and one, I fear, not adequately covered statutes, 1 cannot Mop Doeople ana -tealng and steamboats' a We nut wagons from whistling, But 1 oan stop you driving an Autamobile, and we'll loave it that way, WEATHER a -- . over Kast the |! sf Which seriously Lala Baty viata WRIGHT BEATEN BUT GUEST WINS "All the News While It Is News" OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930 15 Cents » Week; 3 Conts 8s Copy TWELVE PAGES |SEVEN DIE, SCORE HURT IN BIG BLAST Many of Injured So Serious. ly Hurt That They Are Not Expected to Survive From Effects TWO ARE MISSING, THOUGHT KILLED ---- Explosion So Terrific It Was Heard and Felt in Towns Ten Miles Away~--Assist- ance Rushed to Scene ------ (By Canadian Press Lossed Wire) Castleford, lng, July 4.=Kxplod- Ing chemical killed seven persons in stantly and wrecked the plant of the Hickson and Parsons chemies! works ers here this afternoon, More than # score were taken to hospitals, some 50 seriously Injured they were not oapeeted to survive, Ine of the dead was a man walks Ing slong a river bank some dist ance from the seene of the blast, He wis thrown inte the stream by the force of the detonation and was drowned, ' The explosion was se terrific that authorities in towns ten miles away heard and felt it and, after hurried telephone inquiries, rushed fire ap: fargtus and ambulances to Castles ord without walting for calls for ase sistance, Reagupers wont nto the debris of the chemieal plant only after dense clouds of deadly smoke had been wafted from the seene by the wind, Search of the ruins was gontinting thin evening it was feared that at least two other workmen had been enugiht in the collapse of the fac: tory, BRITAIN ENTERS. PARLEY UNBIASED Imperial Conference Will Permit of Free Discussion of Problems (By Canadian Prose Leased Wire) London, England, July 4, ==The British government intends to ene ter the imperial conference froe unfettered by prejudice or biaw, ae. olared Rt, Hon, J, H, Thomas, see: retary for the deminions, In ads dressing the ampire luncheon of Yolvie and empire week," at Cols chester, Mawex, today, "Ought net the vetionalisation of of the ampire he under considera: tion?" Mr, Thomas asked, He pros ceeded ta discuss the unemploy- ment problem and Great Britain's handieapn an the result of the fine anclal burdens of the war, Held for $15,000 Stock Forgery (Ry Canadian Press Loassd Wire) Ottawa, July 4.-=Ralph Homper, ened ) h he detshudad Huaihay uy Ul Wa Nieo brokers, of 16,000 by having them sell for him stock cartitioates later found to have heen forged, was arrested in Montreal yeaterday hue wan hraueht to the olty last nigh by Detective Aubrey MacDonald, Homner will appear in pollos son today to answer to a ohare ol false pretences, Holland Opposed To Federation (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Paris, Vrance, July 4,+The Gov ernment of the Netherlands today informed the French Vorelgn affice of her belief that the ground had not heen sufficiently prepared for a federation of Kuropean states, as recently sugested hy Yorelgn Min: ister Briand, The memorandum submitted by Holland expressed foar that such a federation might prove an embar rassment to the League of Nations and that continental grouping might, in practice ageravuia dif ferences hetweon the continents, Trains Collide Near Kingston Freights in RearEnd Col: lision, But No One Is | Injured (By Conndisn Prose Loassd Wire) Kingston, July 4.-=The second wrook of the year on the Canadian National Hallway lines at Calling Bay, about six miles west of Lere, occurred about non today when a through freight erashed Inte the rear of a way freight, No one was Infured but considerable damage WAN done, The way frelght was proceeding west, and was hauling two new Jo comotives just finished by the Cane adian Locomotive Company here, The through freight, hauling AAVeNniy-0ne cars, was tearing along at a speed of forty-five miles an hour, and erashed Into the pear of the way frieght, The ('ondue- tor and brakeman of the way trelght jumned before the orash, And the van or coboose at the pear of the way freight was practioaly demolished while connideruble damare wan done to the front of the through feslght, 1Mreman Kdwar. of Belleville, who was on the through freight, jumped just before the trains erarhed, Two Years for Theft Hamilton, ==A term of two years lean one day in Guelph Reforma tory was imposed on Albert Hians ley by Depuly Magistrate MacKay In vpelice eourt today on » theft oharme of 8200, Hianley, who on several occasions recently pleaded gullty to other eharges of burs glary, vleaded not guilty today, was convioted and hin term Will rn conourrently with previous sentences, : Committed Nor Trial Kitehenep,-- Rising from death of Willan Aberhart, Stratford whose motoroyele atruok by a moter ear dbiven James HULL prominent Kitohener baweball and rugby player, Mil WAR today committed for trial at the Fall Asalsen on a charge of the of wan by (Ny Ray Brown, Canadian Press " Aurfesgondent PY Alta, July all ; foe Intertored In Onlgary last Mahl bi aura of persistent distup during a huge meeting addressed by Promier Mackensle King, when the prime minister was discussing unemployment, from various seo: (ona of the jammed bull shouts, hooes and I hy, At one time Mr, King ins "imated that he might abandon his ! tthe Interruptions coms nied, YIE I ln the dealve of Ah ple who are interrupting te Determined Atte To Break Up King Meeting fi shite dsl Wo \ to the people A T Gaolds Who Is responsible," Mr. King aw dw Og WF § LE Made Almost from the outset it bes SAME Apparent that there was to be trouble, When Hon, Charles Stewart, minister of the interion a Men. ha " opR Whish, however, not interfere weriously with *his aheech, Then the prime minister tdok the Ll The first Interruption ocourred When' Mr. King, who was disons sing the condition of the country, anked. people to conalder, on the basis of the progress that had heen made, where Canada would 0fe | stand fn a few years, "In hell," came a shout, but 1 wan when the prime 1intater turns od to unemployment that tho real fan started, From the aide-linan - near "the Continued on Page 1) A Chemical Plant Is Wrecked in Terrific Explosion Today ENGLISH! SPEED QUEEN TRAINS FOR DETROIT BOAT RACES In preparation. for tha motor boat races which will, he hid at Dotrolt next month, Liss Marion BH Carstairs, speed queen of Kage land's waterways, and a staff of mechanios brought from Great MIRE MARION CARNTAINN THINS OUT ENTHLLE Britain are testing out the Mstelle IVi, the boat which Miss Carstairs will use in another attempt to wrest the speed title from Gar Wood, The pleture above shows the Netelle IV, outing through. the Two More Bodies Found in Wreck (By Canadian Pres: Leased Wire) Hrookeille, July 4,==The hull of darlll boat JN Kink besan to Yied ity ghastly cargo at noon to day when a diver brought to the surfaon the body of a man iden. {itled an Archie Kerr, aged 03, of Remptville, Another body was Io outed and twill 'ha brought up this afternoon, US. Sweeping Tennis Series British and French Players Practically All Eliminated (By Canadian Prose Leased Wire) Wimbledon, England, July dw Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn oined another. American doubles eam in the Anal for the men's eham- Plomship today by defeating J. Coliy sregory and Tan G, Collin, old' Rix Ay Sas in the semi-final round 4.6, \ by The Americans, defending champs tong, Will play Johnny Dox ahd George Lott, Davis Cup teammates, in the final round: Lett and Doe Wired to eliminate the great Frone doubles team o Yew ochet and fhe ute Bruner, h the aiher ain nal. 8 . nd keep the ball voila in the Yio of one aio over seen tn the historie Wimbledon ehampionships, The defeat of the | eitish and French pairs loft nothing but Amers foans in the final round of the men's ay 08 nt doubles ang the women's doubles, Mra, Helen Willa Moody ord champion, won. the first final thiv morning, Yefouding 0 women's files prawn © successfully against fan Elisabeth Ryan, Anglo-Amerhs CAN. Atar 0:2, 6-2, «Reuters Chior Rditor Dies London,=Herhert Jeans, Chief Hditor of Reuter's News Amengy, died early today during a heart At tack In hia © vealdence at Putney, He had been) il for seme time, Two Killedin Oil Refinery Blast, Sarnia Still Explodes This Morning, Five Suffering From Burns Sarnia, July 4==Two men were burned to death and five others sufs fored burns In an explosion in a coking still at the plant of the Ims perlal Oil Refineries Ltd, this mors LUIS The dead are Reginald D. Connors, #7, Nelson street, eity; William 71, Gilbert, 37, London road, The Injured William Hugging, Paint Edward, Clarence Devitt, Point Edward; J. Kat, William Johnson, John Horosky, elty, Only two of the injured are in the hospital, The men employed as still workers were standing fn front of the still, which' had just been "banked" when an explosion veeurred and they were enveloped by flames, Connors was burned beyond recognis tion and Gilbert wan horribly sears od: An ine edt has been ordered, The explosion occurred when the waven had charged the atill with oll and had commenced to start the five beneath the vat, One of them heard a rumbling nose and turned oft the fuel oll supply and ran to safety, The upper valves of the still however, apparently became released, causing a large quantity of Haming ofl to he shot several hundred feet tn the air, lHghting up the entire town, When it fell It enveloped the man Who waa trying to eheok the apread of flames about the structure, Despite the early hour, traftie Was jammed about the plant by 2,000 employeen and others who had hurried to the acens following the sound of the plant sirens, ; A Low Fire Low Stratford=The fire loss in Strats ford during: last month touched ane other law mark, the figure being set at exactly £20 the vost of one perfects ly ir of trousers whieh were doy reyes | Nurses Held. For Fihelir purpose," he sald, IV, AT MUNKOKA waters at Muskoka, Below Is Miss Carstairs on the left, with A, MH, "Hew! Hawker, who will drive the other of Miss Carstairs' boats, the Mutello Vo, In the races, and Miss Mabel Jonking, Miss Carstairs' travelling companion, $100,000 Ransom Peiping China, July 4.=Dan- dita captured Miss Nettleton and Misa Harrison of the Chureh Miss slonary Roelety and are holding them to net an nurses for thelr plo, and for $100,000 ransom, The two were travelling from Chungen to Klenningfa in Fukien where they were taken, Wheat Pool Is Hotly Assailed Has Shaken Canada's Eco- nomic Structure, Declares Hon. Frank Oliver ---- Winnipeg July 4==Canada's on- tire economlo structure han been phen to ie foundations through the 'disrerard of wall astpghiished business prineiples" In the wheat poole' method of hundhng vio declared Mon, Frank Oliver of Kd. monton, Alta, former cabinet mins tater and publisher and a member of the Doard, of Railway Commi sloners, In a woathing denunelas tion of the Canadian pools' markei. ing activities before the NWmpire Club of Winnipeg last night, The principles of pool market Ing, expounded in Western Canada by Aaron Sapive, had "failed in YRY hE arguments, sald Mw Ollver, "Aaron Hapire suggested that the control of price achieved* by the manufacturer through, cone val of output could be achieved by the farmer through control of diatribution, As a matter of faot there (a a wide difference between control of output and control of distribution and the idea that con: trol of distribution ean have the me ultimate effect on market prices as vestelotion of output in an eoconomio fallacy that oan only load; to disaster, It wan on thi fallioy that the Oanadian wheat pop! war founded and its opera: tions onreied on' The pool #x a business organises 5,000 Policemen For Red Meeting (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chiongo, July 4,==¥ive thousand policemen were ordered mobilised early today to prevent trouble feared nt communist domonsiras tions . Acting Commissioner Alcock ore dered the mobilisation when he received reports that a convention had hean culled for today of 10, 000 delegates representing the un. employed of the United States and Canada, Kvery police capiain in Chlengo was ordered to be at hig offiea promptly this morning, Re worves were to bo kept on duty une tl all danger of disorder was over, Would Destroy City of Bombay Sucking Blood of Poor Farmers (By Canadian Press' Leased Wire) Hombay, India, July 4.--Bandit Linllabhal Patel, who since tha imprisonment of Motalil Mehru, has become president of the Nas tional Congress, soored the ine "dustrinlism of Bombay mercilessly In a publio address last night In which he dealt with the relation of Rombay to the kKatyagraha, or civil resistance movement, The Kxohange Telegraph Come Lany's report of the meeting quotes him ai saying: "Some Nombay people have told me that owing to the satyagraha movement in Bombay, the trade and (ndusiry of the city is almost broken down, Rut I tell you plain. ly that 1 .do not feel any regret on that account "If Bombay wore ablare from end to end or were absolutely subs merged in the sea or if It were destroyed In any other way I for one would be giad because until now. Hombay has )ived for noths ing but to suck the blood of the poor agrioulturists of India, The same report quotes Patel as Buying at another point, "wet tire to the colleges, broak the schools tn pléces and If you have not the courage come to me, Put do not talk to me about trade, Have we done an honest trade for the last 160 yoars?" I -------- To Review Smith Case Hamilton=Hon, Ernest Lapointe, mintster of justice, will personally review the cane of Mike Smith, sen. tenced to he hanged July B for the murder of John Twants, Winona favs mer on November 26 last, it Is ane nounced ' Special Nenate Session Washington, == President Hoover today called the senate into specs fal nesxion' Monday for consideras by Indien Leader Declares It-1} 4) HEAT GERMAN ACE, JACK GUEST ARE IN FINAL Champion of Continental Europe Defeats Joe Wright, Toronto, by One Length and a Quarter to Enter Finals i GUEST'S TIME WAS - 10 SECONDS BETTER Canadian Is Favored to Win Diamond Sculls, But Con test Tomorrow Will Be & Close One (By Canadisn Press Leased Wire) Henley-on-Thames, King, July 4, ==Jack Guest, of the Don Rowing Club, Toronto, and Boetzelen, of the Berlin Rowing Club, will ment in the final tomorrow of the Dine mond Heulls, premier single scully event of the British empire, Cunadian hopes that the final would be an all-Canadian affair wero defeated today when the Gers man sculler, who entered this year's Henley a now comer to the competition, although holder of all the continental sculling champlon- whips, save that of Holland, de fonted Jos Wright, of the Toronto Argonauts, by a length and a quars ter, The race was fuirly close all the way, with the German's moras | even stroke triumphing, Guest's Time Better Boetrolen's time, however, was ten seconds behind that mel hy! Jack Guest when Guest defeated T, D, Collett, Leander R.C., in olght minutes and 42 seconds. Guest's Lime today was the same Ap pes of. Guothor, of Holland; last iF "when he won the Diamond Boulls, In view of his Menley record and his igning time today, Guest in favored lo win the great event, although his opponent, Collett, was by no means the equal of Wright, the man Doetkelen had to vane quish, | If the German wins tomorrow it will be the second year in success slon that a Kuropoun has taken the Diamond Houlls, 1. Gunther, of Holland, won last year, H Canadian Has Won Twice On the other hand, If Guest wins for Canada, it will be the third time in the sixty odd years of competition that the Diamond Noulls will go te Canada, Lou Boholes, of Toronto, won the soulling olamsio fn 1004 in olght! minutes and 21 weconds, whieh! Was not far behind the course recs ord of elght minutes, ten seconds, fet hy I, 8B, Kelly, the Leander, Rowimg Club, Wright's win im Continued on Page 7) ( Appointment Conformed ' Parle, France. Jean Knight, retiring I'rench Minister to Cane ada, has been confirmed as chief of the Press Nureau of the ministry of forelgn affairs, : F Ee m-- wn Two Hurt in York Township Brawl (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, July d.=Ag the result of a brawl in a York township hom last night, Thomas Anstey is in hose Jia) here with a bullet wound in hs side and Thomas Mattison is une der arrest on an assault charge, Mat tison -has a nasty cut on the head Ahidh he claimed was inflicted by Anstey, Both men were on the floor bleeds ing profusely: when police arrived at the Anstey home, Auordiny to the officers a drunken brawl developed after Mattison had been invited to tion of the Londen Naval Treaty. his home by Anitey, (By THOMAS GREEN, Canadian Press Staff Co \ Halifax, July d=Charging that the King Government had "played poli: tiea™ and had failed to carry out the recommendations of the Duncan' res fort made on Maritime right, Hon «I Bennett addressed a massed rally in the Forum here last night, "Why" he demanded, "has the Government at Ottawa not 'earried out the recommendations of the Dun aan Commission as made ?. Because f, King did not want to carry oat these recommendations as made, RBeowise you have a Conservative Government in Nova Scotia, Because you have a fivescent=piece Prime Min ser, who wants to play polities," Mr. Bennett "went ont "Although the judgment of the Duncan Cone wisslon was nade in June, 1926, no ton "haa achieved ( bankruptey", asserted Mr Oliver, : effort way made hy the Government King Played Politics With Maritimes, Bennett Says to deal with two of the most Ime portant items, iron and steel. The report recommended immediate acs tion, but enly in 1930 on the eve of an election is mn effort made in the matter by this Government at . Oty tawa, I cannot tell you what the res sult will be, because there has not been sufficient time; but this 1 da know; 1 said in my place in Pare Hament to the Minister from this Province (Hon, J. L. Ralston), 'Why have you not seen that this Judgment I is put into effect?' ' Where Was Ve lot? "Where was the Minister front New Brunswick (Hon, Peter Venoit), to see that this report was imples mented?" Again, he went ont "The Duncan report is not based upon w sectional (Continued on Page 6)