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- BO Ap PII A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City iv Oshawa Daily Tones Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer "All the News While It Is News" VOL. 7--NO., 65 Published ot Oshawa. Out, Canads, Eves y Usy Kacopt Sundays and Public Holideys OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930 15 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PACES News in Brief Kellog on World Court Geneva, Bwitzerland.-- Frank B, Kellogg, formeriy United States secretary of state, today was elect ed member of the Permanent Court of International Justice, to replace Charles Evans Hughes, who resign ed to become chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, Wants Canadian Ald London, Eng.~~The Earl of Am- herst, who recently joined the board of the Atlantic Alrways Lim- ited, has sailed for Canada on a special mission haylog for its ob- ject the re-opening of negotiations with the Dominion regarding Cana- dian co-operation with the airways in the West Indies, . LJ » Return Port to China shantung, China. ~--~OMeial nouncement this city and port would be return- ed to Chinese jurisdiction by the an- was made today that | DUTY INCREAS Textiles, Iron "and Steel, | British October 1, (Great Britain has held the place under a long | term leasehold, Ld Atlantic Fliers at Akron Cleveland.,--The French trans- Atlantic filers, Major Dieudonne Coste and Lieutenant Maurice Bel- lonte, took off from the Cleveland municipal airport today for Akron, » Ll LJ Start World's Biggest Dam Las Vegas, Nevada.--Govern- ment officials and representatives of six' western states assembled here today to take part in the cere- monies marking the begipning of work on the greatest dam ever un- dertaken---the $1656,000,000 Boul. Farm Implements, Cloth- | ing and Agricultural Prod- | ucts Are Chiefly Affected | by Changes COUNTERVAILING | DUTIES REMOVED | Other Items Included in In- creases Are Carpets, Print. ed Matter, Gasoline, Boots and Shoes, Fire Engines, der Dam project of the Colorado river, NORTHERN ROUTE FOR | HIGHWAY FAVORED | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Cochrane, Sept, 17.--Passage of a resolution favoring the route across the northern part of the provines for the trans-Canada highway featured the Northern Ontario = Associated Boards of Trade meeting held here, It urged the Ontario govern- ment to build the provincial sec. tion of the highway by extending the Ferguson highway west from Hearst to Long Lac and Nipigon, The resolution also contained recommendations that feeders be built from Sault Ste, Marie, Chap: pleau and Sudbury, and' al80 urked the government to vonwider the eventual extension of the road east from Cochrane inte Northern Quebec, POTATO GROP IS SANE AS IN 1929 Drought and Blight Reduce Yield in Canadian Districts Toronto, Sept, 17-Indications are the potato crop in North America as a whole will be little if any better than the crop of last vear, says the Ontario Department of Agriculture The Canadian crop had been esti- mated as higher than last year, said the department, but blight now re. ported in some provinces would offset this In the - heavy producing districts of central Ontario the quality is ex- cellent but the yield will ba consis derably lower than last year owing to the midsummer drought, Dry weather also is responsible for the very short crop in the southwestern counties but the erop in the north and east of the province is heavier than last year. Some cases of blight have been reported in eastern On- tario but this has not been confirmed by the department, WEATHER A deep low area extend from Ontario to the Maritime prov. inces and pressure is low in the MacKenzie valley but compara tively high over ' Manitoba and the western states, Showers have been general in Ontario, and New Brunswick while in the west the weather has been fair, cool in Manitoba and moderately warm in Alberta and Saskatch- ewan, Lower Lakes and Georgian Bay--Fresh to strong southwest and west winds; falr today and Thursday; cool tonight, | Canadian Heating Appliances, Re- frigerators and Washing | Machines Ottawa, Sept, 17 Jebate. on the tariff changes proposed by the | Bennett government will begin to- day in the House of Commons, Rt, | Hon, - Mackenzle - King, Liberal | leader, will be tha first speaker from the opposition benches The first item on today's agendas wit) be third reading of the gov ernment hill to amend the pro. visions of the Customs Act affect. | ing dumping regulations, This bill | was advanced one stage yesterday | after the government, by a margin of i4 votes, turned down an amendment sponsored hy Mr, King From that, the house will ga Into mamitton of Ways and means to study the tariff changes, There will be no other legislation laid before parliament this session, Premier Nennett sald last night, Tariffs Shoved Higher Sweeping upward revision In tariffs was announced yestarday hy the government as one of the solutions to unemploy ment, Before a crowded chamber and with the galleries filled to overflowing, Premier BR. B. Ben- nett presented a werles of resol. tions recommending high imposts on a long and varisd list of com modities, Tt was the first ""hudget the Conservative leader ever pre- sented and its principles will form Canada's fiscal policy for at least the next four years Mr, Bennett, as minister of fin ance, announced thers would he a general revision of the whole tar. Hf structure at the next session of parliament, Meanwhile, the BOV» ernment proposed approximately 130 changes chiefly affecting kay Industries, His earlier estimate that 25,000 persons would find employment through the Rovern- ment's proposals would have to he revised, he sald. The figure way (Continued on Page 10) (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) | Nurse In Killeg North Bay.---Dorls Gale, grad. uate nurse of Chapleau, was killed when her sister. lost control of a car while descending a hill near Rutherglen, 40 miles east of here, yesterday, The car plunged into a ditch and overturned a couple of times, Free State Takes , Canada's Seat Geneva, Switzerland, Sept, 17, The Irish Free Stato today replac- od the Dominion of Canada as a member of the council of the Lea- Kue of Nations, There were threa retiring members of the council, namely, Cuba, Canada and Finland, and Guatemala, Norway and tho Trish Free State were chosen to fill the vacancies, Canada will not be eligible for re-election to the council until three years have expired, White Trappers Menace Food Supply of Canadian Indians Ottawa, Sept. 17.--The Domin- fon government will be asked to restrict the activities of white trappers who are making it almost fmpossible for Indians to eke out an existence in northern Ontario and Manitoba, Representations are ta be made to Hon, T, C, Murphy, Minister of Indian Affairs, by the Church of England in Canada as a result of protests wade before the board of management of the missionary society of the Church, The chief boards of the church are in anvual session here, Itt. Rev, A. D. A, Downey, bish- op of Keewatin diocese, and G. B. Nicholson, member of parliament for Algoma East, described the plight of the Indiana, White trap« pers had penetrated into Indian trapping grounds and by the use of steel traps and poisons had taken so much game that the red. men wera facing starvation, The comigercializing of flghing fn lakes adjacent to the Indian reserves was stated to he another cause of anxiety to the Indians, The Anglican policy of making missionary work among the Cana« dian Indians both evangelical and educational was reiterated as was that of encouraging the entrance of natives inte the ministry in mis. slon fields. ED ON LIST OF 130 COMMODITIES IN BENNETT'S TARIFF BILL Family Feud Has Innccent Victim (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Chicago, His, Bept, 17.-~A gun fight between members of a family neross the street may cost Cleveland Charles Maclane, his life, Dr, MacLano wax wounded in a vol ley of shots from which hig wife and son escaped by throwing them selvey on the ground, The shots came from the house of James Thompson, A dispute had arisen between Thompson und If son, Roy, and the elder Thon = won, police were told, opened fire The two men, father and son, hluz od away at each other until their ammunition wus exhausted A third son, held his father at the point of a shot gun until police ar rived One Man Killed In Train Crash Second Injured as C.N.R. Grain Trains Collide at Sioux Lookout (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Sloux Lookout, mapt, 17 One traluman wan killed fured when two Canadian National Rallway grain trains, en route to the head of the lakes, colllded in the Melntosh yurds, 80 miles east of here, this morning Leslie White, n brakeman, was Instantly killed™ when struck by grain cur trucks, which wers hur! ed through the air, while Jos eph Hunter, another brakeman, ed a broken leg Grain cars were piled up along the right-of-way and one of the ergines was thrown clear of the tracks, so Ereat was the Impact Seek Reduction of Fees, Local Estate (Special to The Times) l'oronto, Sept, 17--By motion in weekly court before Mr, Justice Gar row, today, MacGreger Young, offi cial guardian representing the infant heirs of the late Arthur Wilkinson of Oshawa, seeks to compel the exe cutors of the estate to reduce their present fee of $5,101 for the hand ling of the estate The National Trust Co l'or onto is named as the executors of the estate which totals $127,000. The Trust Co, is contesting the motion which seeks to reduce their fee hy $1,500, LEVINE CANGELS TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT TO LONDON Boyd and Connor Will Re. turn to Montreal From Charlottetown of (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Roosevelt Field, N.Y, Sept, 17, ~The proposed flight of Captain Errol Boyd and Lieutenant Harry Connor to England has been can. celled, necording to a cablogram reo. celved here from Charles A. Levine, owner of the trans-Atlantio plane Columbia in which the flight was to have been made Levine cabled he had ordered cancellation of the (light, The cablegram sald the fliers would re- turn to Montreal, The cablegram was recoived at Rooseveit Fleld by Roger Q. Wil Hams, Willlamg delayed start of the trans-Atlantic flight when he seized the 'Gulumbia at Montreal on a Judgment for a debt allegedly due him from Levine, A Canadian court, however, dissolved the writ holding the Columbia on the ground that the debt had been contracted In a foreign country, Boyd and Connor hopped {rom Montreal for Harber Grace New: foundland, Saturday, but were fore. ed down at Charlcttetown, MEI They have been walting at Charlot. tetown since that time for favers able weather to continue to Har bor Grace and then take off on the ocean hop to England, anortrer= te suffers | br, | | | | | | | | | | OSHAWA MURDER CASE AIRED IN COURT PRINCIPALS AND SCENE OF MU RDER HERE Above are shown William Mors vison of this City, and his wife whom he In accused of murdering with a hatchet on April 20 last, Below Is the Morrison home on Kingndale Avenue, where Mrs, | Morrison was found in a dying | comdition, terribly battered, Shamrock V is Disabled, Enterprise Continues Race Mainsail Halyard Snaps When Challenger Is On Even Terms With Defender, and United States Entry Sails Away to an Easy Victory (Ry Canadian Press Leased Wire) U.S. 8, Kane, off America course, Sept, 17 The third of the series for the Ameriea's Cup today ended disastrously for sham rock V, the British challenger, three quarters of an hour after the start, Footing It with Enterprise, Shamrock lost hey billowad down, hall and half in the water, She immed. fately lost way and came about, It appeared that the main halyard, which holds the hig wing to the mast head, had parted Enterprise started to come around when the mishap of Sham rock occurred, but then turned back on the course, apparently deters mined to sail @ut the race and claim the victory, evey though it be a walkover, Up to the time of the mishap, Shamrock had given the best pers Cup rnee along on even terms the defender, mainsail, which on her deck in Third America's Cup Race | formance of the reries and had | shown avary Indication of making | n real battle of today's contest, had all the hetter of the sturt, going across almost bow to how with the defender but in the windward berth, which gave her a larga advantage To this slight margin she had clung with grim determination un« til the neeident to her rigging, The Enterprise was creeping up, how. | ever, and the end of, the race was doubtful It was not believed the accident to. Hhamrock was sorfous enough to require extensive vepalrs, but with today's race gone she had a stags goring margin to overcome, Enter. prise would need only one more vietory after today to clineh the cup The Ynterpriee continued her course, almost alone, and by now in almoost loost In the haze, She THREE KILLED AS TRAIN HITS TRUCK Montrealers Die When Driv. er Fails to Take Pre. cautions Laval, Sur-du-Lac, Que, Sept, 17, «Three Montrealers were killed when a Canadian National Railway train erashed lnto a truck on which they wera riding on a lovel eross- ing at the Wilsonvale station here, The dead ave: Louls Gross 48, Are cade street, Louis Brong, St, Zeti- que Street west, and a German whose name Is not available, An eye witness of the accldent sald tho driver of the truck ran hig vehicla over the track without stopping to see if a train was coms Ing, The truck was thrown a cons slderable distance hy the impact, Britain Recognizes New Govt, London, Eng. ~The Dally Hey ald, organ of the Labour goveru ment, anhounces that Great Writ ain haa decided to recognize im mediately the new Argentine gov. ernmnt formed by revolution Necessary inatructions have heen sent to the British ambassador in Buenos Aires, the paper adds. BRITISH FIRM MOVES T0 CANADA Production of Waoollens ' Starts in Mill at Hunt. ingdon, Que, (Ay Canadian Pross Loased Wire) Huntingdon, Que, Hept, 17. started yesterday at the factory of Hiram Leach and Song (Canada), a firm whieh t(ranaferred thelr ac- tivities from Bradford, Kugland, to this district, bringing with them 40 operatives, all sehooled in the Eng- lish milla of the concern All the looms and auxiliary mas chinery, nevessary for the weaving of woollen fabvios, were imported from England, having heen removed from the factory of the parent body at Hradtord, The looms are 60 in number aud in addition there are grimping and warping machines, all driven hy motive power, E When operation is in full swing it ia the lutention of the firm to hive a score of local workers whom they will train to be competent weavers, | York trom Washington says Production of woolens and worsteds Manufacturers Are Optimistic About Tariff (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Sept, 17=Leading manu facturers, merchants, dairymen and others were practically unanimous in their views today that the tariff changes brought down in the Tlouse of Commons at Ottawa vesterday would prove beneficial to the nation Muny hailed the new schedule a a step toward release from the v JUDGE INF A TRIAL JUDGE present economic depression preval ent throughout the land, Predictions | were made that the unemployment | problem, considered serious in some | centres, would be soon partially ye. | lieved, and only an occasional pessi mistic wis sounded, Morrison, secretary of Parmers of Ontario, farmer had heen neglected manufacturers may, perhaps, be | taken care of under the new tariff | chedule, he said, but the farmers have been disregarded and their pur chasing power will he more depre ed than ever Trade War Seen As Possibility New Canadian Tariff Look. ed on as Reprisal Against U.S. Duties ---- Yorw, Bept, 16 The New Times un & special despatch note | the United declared the I'he Maw JUNTICE W, ¥. RANEY Presiding Justice at the Whithy Assizes, where Willlam Morrison of Oshawa Is heing tried for the murder of his wife, UNITED STATES WAY JOIN PARLEY denials of at the "Despite Canadian reciprocal action aimed Lnited States In the new Domine. lon tariff schedules and (he same expressed belief here, tha impres slon. appears to he rather general that Canada had made the. only answer possible te the American tariff hill, and in a form which might affect an intersnatiopal trade oltuation that has already shown alarming symptoms Canada is the best tomar of the [United versely, Canada In Individual seller of goods tg the United States, The United States polls the Dominion almost $1,000, 000.000 werth of goods a year and Imports from it goods to the value of ahout $500,000,000, "Recently announced figures for the first seven months of the year showed that generally depressed conditions had cut the exports in that period to §427,000,000, as comparad with $582,000,000 a Year ago, while imports from Cans ada had dropped from $202,000, 000 to $250,000,000 "In -the polite terminology of International dealings no hint of mn "trade war' has been or will hy pronsed that if the United States, dropped, but the fear has been ox- pressed that if the United States, through an unchanged tariff act, and Canada, through a new one With high rates, . proceed into a Slate amounting to that, hoth will muffer immeasurably," foreign cuss States, con the greatest FREE STATE IS OPPOSED TO THE PRIVY COUNGIL Representatives Will Ask Conference to Abolish Final Appeal Court (Ry Canadian Press Leased Wire) London, Kng, Sept, ,7.---=The ats titude which the Irish I'ree State delegation will take at the ap. proaching imperial conference ap. pears to ha the subject of a guess: Ing contest ameng the members of the London Press, On the question of the privy vouneil's status as a court of appeal for the dominions neither Patrick MeGilllgan, minister for external affairs, nor hin colleagues of the cabinet oan be sald to have an open mind, says Truth, a weekly paper, Ernest Blythe; vice-president and minister of finance, declared after the hearing of the Rray cepyright case that the [ree Htato attorney: general would never again appear 'before the privy counell, "I'he privy council {a dead and only awaita the imperal conference to receive a decent bhuvial" said Mr, Blythe at the time, The weekly "expresses pleasure that Patriek Hogan, the [righ min: later of agrioulture, ix to be a member of the delegation for if empire frea trade ia discussed, opines Truth, he can be trusted to see that no indiscretions are ocms mitted by his colleagues in their onl to seme a wate of soverign independence, * He knows what the Kuglish market means to lre- 'To Be Given Opportunity to Join Conference on European Union | | | | - | (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) | Geneva vitzerland, Sept | Assembly of the League of Nations today left open a path for the Un ited States to confer and collaborate with the + hudy on a plan for federation of Furopean states such as original suggested by Aristide Briand, French foreign minister I'he assembl 15 Was viously agreed M. Rriand's dum of 17, in which he 1 the of a Puropean federation to a cial committe represeis tatives of the European states and members of the league for furtheg study and report" to the assembly next vear Son 17="T"he Lien pre memorans sent Ma idea hroaelie of spe ol I'his was taken by unani mous consent, the resolution order ing it being presented hy M., Briand himself, This resolution was chang ed over night so as to suggest to the committee which may he formed ev. entually that it may avail itself of collaboration of any nation, including nan-members of the league and nons European members, I'his, of course, was considered as opening the 'possibility later of an fivitation to the - United States to have a representative on the commit tee which finally takes M, Briand's memorandum under advisement Noted Florist Dead Toronto, ~-John Hickman Duns lop, ploneer Torento merchant, died last night at hin residence, Richmond Hill, following a heart attack, Mr, Dunlop was 75 years old, The well-known Toronto flor {6t had acquired International fame as a grower of prise roses and as a hortloulturist generally, Hughes Leaves igh Naval Post (Hy Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, Sept, 17=Admiral Charles IY. Hughes hauled down his flag as chief of naval operations to. day to wake way for direction of naval policy by the chiel supporter of the London treaty, Admiral Vil lam V, Pratt, Because preparation for submiss sion to congress of a navy building program to fit the terms of the treaty must he tackled within the neat few weeks, Hughes voluntarily chose td surrender the highest post in the service, MORRISON'S FATE IN HANDS OF JURY Sweeping Upward Revision Made in Canadian Tariff ORMS JURY HE ~ WOULD HESITATE TO FIND IM GUILTY OF MURDER re r------_ . ; Too Much Doubt in Evis dence, Says Justice Raney, Yet Seems Impossible to Bring in Verdict of Not Guilty on Any Count THREE VERDICTS FOR JURY TO CHOOSE May Find Accused Eithen Guilty of Murder, Guilty of Manslaughter, or Not Guilty Because of Insane ity (By Whithy Staff Reporter) Whithy, 17="The fute of Wils lam Morrison, of Oshawa, charged, with the murder of his wife in thein home on Kingsdale Avenue, Oshawiy April 29th last, in the hands of the jury of twelve good men and trie, Shortly after noon today, tha trial judge, Mr, Justice Raney, hand« ed the case over to the jury, whiciy retired to consider its verdict, Tha fownoon had been taken uy iT) iddresses of the counsel for des fence and the crown to the jury, and the summing up by the judge, Juss tice Raney's charge to the jury was significant, While pointing out that the law requires specific proof of Insanity to satisfy it, he went on If I were one of you, I would hesis tate to find Morrison guilty of murs der, There Is too mueh doubt im of the lines of the evidence, Yet," he continued, "it would seem to be impossible to bring in a vere diet of not guilty on any count." Justice Raney left the jury thre alternatives as to the their verdicts L Guilty of murder, 2, Guilty of mans slanghter; 3 Not guilty because of Insanity Alex epi on 1] Vey ole Hall, counsel for the defence, in his address to the jury, based his defence plea entirely on insanity, contending that at the time of the crime Morrison was unable to gauge the intent and quality of his act, He stressed the fact that both of the mental experts had testified thae Morrison was insane at the time of his act, and did not know what he was doing, There was no motive for the crime, which would indicate that there was no reasoning power in the brain Mr. Hall attacked the statement submitted by the crown as having been made by Marrison," The whole statement," he said, "reeks of rottens ness, and Is not consistent with any of the other evidence," Te declared that if the officers had made a mistake about the date of the states ment it was just as likely to be wrong in other particutars. Mr, Hall's address to the jury in which he im« pressed upon it the seriousness of the decision which had to be made was an eloguent and moving effort, Crown's Sumn ing Up CA. Kingstone, counsel for tha crown, fn his address to the jury, said that there was no doubt that Morrison had committed the crime, and that his statement was purely voluntary ~~ He claimed that there was a motive in that Morrison had (Continued on Page I) . In Parliament -- Ottawa, Sept, 17,~To-day in par- liament: Tha senate will ait and will probably consider the unem- ployment Relief Rill if it passes the House of Commons, The House of Commons will take up. third reading of the Unems ployment Bill and will then cons tinue the debate on the tariff changes, : In the House of Commons: Pres miler Bennett introduced hia chang: ed In the tariff schedules affecting some 180 items, Amendments to the anti-dumping provisions in the Customs tavit were approved in committee and an amendment add- od, The house rejected a motion of Mr, MacKenzie King to give the bill a six months' holst, Trying to (By Canadian Presa Leased Wire) Toronte, Sept, 17,==With a buls let from his own 48 calibre police revolver lodged in hia throat, pros vinelal detective Harold Lloyd aged 13, was rushed to hoaptial last night following a mysterious ghoots Ing affair in his apartment A maze of conflicting storige from all parties faced the city pes lice when they attempted to polve the pugzale, 'Khe final vesult is that Lloyd 1s undgf arrest, charged with trying to murder hia mothemin-law Mrs. Elisabeth MeoPhee, of Ottawa, Three Held as Witnesses Mra, MoPhee, her husband, John land," concludes Truth, MePhee and their daughter, Dolly, Toronto Officer Charged With Kill Mother-in-Law twentysyear-old wife of Lloyd whom the wounded man accuses of shooting him, are held as material witnesses, Mra, Lloyd is also in 8t, Michael's hospital suffering from nervous preatvation, Lleyd had only returned from a fishing expedition in Northern Ons tario a ghort time prior to the af- fair, Police said he had heen wars ried six months ago and on hin re- turn found his wife {11 in hed from nervous atrain, Mra, MoPhee re- quested him to secure a bottle of spirits for his wife and this he did Afterward Lloyd and his mothersin- law retired to another room where (Continued on Page §) 4