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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNEI ONT., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927. TORONTO BANK ROBBED OF $17,841 BANDITS FORCE STAFF INTO VAET 3 it was learned that :arillon Development Plans' Not Approved by Govern- j e was a carr er- ^_ ment--Ontario and Quebec: Rome Celebrates 2,681st Agree on Rouyn Extension --Floods in Western Canada. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF WORLD'S NEWS. Birthday and Labor Day Rome.--the 2.681st birthday of Rome was celebrated throughout Italy on Thursday as a national holiday, in conjunction with the Fascist Labor Day, which was featured by parades of black-shirted workmen belonging second largest t0 the Fascist syndicates. Toronto.-- . bank robbery in the history of To- # Tonto, three iron-nerved gunmen, with Princess Elizabeth Honored revolvers drawn, walked into the Bank on Her First Birthday of Toronto branch at the northeast _ cor. sr of King and Bathurst streets; London.--The little Princess Eliza- about 12.20 noon, herded the manager beth( daughter of the Duke and Duch- and four members of his staff into ess of York, was an important person the vault, stole $17,841 in cash, and in the British Empire on April 21. ne"d- . On the other side of the world war- While the building is equipped with ghips of tht. Australian naval squa- a burglar alarm, the members of the dron whicll are escorting to Mel-staff were taken unawares, and found bourne the battle cruiser Renown with themselves confronted with long- the Duke and Duchess aboard fired a barr >lled, black revolvers before they ga]ue of 21 guns in honor of Princess had time to sound any warning. Elizabeth's first birthday. After placing all five into the vault _._ and closing the door on them the trio Tho^a^fe Df War Medals with the money m a white bag, left . . . . . the bank and escaped in a motor car Are Awaiting Claimants they had left parked on the east side ■- of Bathurst street, some fifty feet Ottawa.--Some 108,000 medals, in above King street. j addition to decorations, are unclaim- No member of 'the staff was able ed by men and women who served to get to the button to ring the burg- with the Canadian Expeditionary lar alarm until the robbers had left. Force in the Great War, according to The whole affair took place so an order published by the De- quickly and quietly that no one on the partment of National Defence. These Street was aware of anything hap- awards are in stock at the headquar- pening. No shots were fired, and ters office here, and are made up as New York Evening Post: (Forty-even when the burglar alarm did follows: 1,915 unclaimed 1914-15 two broadcast stations have been sound persons near by thought it was Stars; 67,636 British War Medals, ordered to get off Canada's wave- a sprinkler system alarm and paid and 40,390 Victory Medals, together' lengths.) They may go down to the no attention to it. The bank victims, with the Distinguished Conduct Me-1 lower edge of the broadcast band, freeing themselves from the vault,; dais, Military Medals, Medals of the where no station wants to be. or they telephoned to the police. ; Order of the British Empire, Meri-' Except for a workman seeing what torious Service Medals and French apparently were the robbers flee away \ medals. In the motor car, no trace of the i T *--~ . bandits has been found. j Canada to Open Legation A careful survey had been made Home in Washington by the robbers of the time when the] _ fewest number of persons would be Washington.--An imposing gray In the bank. A constable had just store building in the diplomatic quar-"pulled the box," thereby reporting ter is to be Canada>s permanent home ' i Washi ■ Press Comment the World Over Ordered Off the Air. to headquarters at King and Bathurst five minutes before the bank was entered. Several members of the office staff were at lunch in a room above the bank. France Will Unite With Powers in Hankow Affair Paris.--The French Government is quite decided to make common cause with the other powers in any measures agreed upon in regard to the Cantonese Government in Hankow, it is announced here. During these Chinese negotiations France is also requesting Great Britain to use her influence to settle differences between Italy and Jugoslavia, it is understood. Active exchange of views are already taking place at Paris, London and Berlin and the British Ambassador is understood to have had a long conversation on the subject with Premier Mussolini. It is a five-storey 40-room house, at 1746 Massachusetts Avenue, built about 20 years ago as a private residence, but equipped with such modern things as telephone exchange and elevator, so that the business offices of the legation can be opened at once. No remodelling or refurnishing is necessary to accommodate either the offices or residence quarters, so that Vincent Maasey, his family and his secretariat probably will move in within a week or two. The purchase price of the new legation Is understood to have been around $470,000, including furniture and equipment. The transaction was concluded In New York between representatives of the Canadian Government and the owners. The area of the lot on which the new Canada house stands is 20,1 "Sound of a Face" Sent Across the Atlantic feet. 'It is Tated at a high real estate value, but diplomatic quarters being immune from taxation when owned outright, there will be no bill for taxes. may go out of business, but off they get. Canada's radio problem is thus solved with a single determined gesture. Some of these stations are among the latest comers, some have been; ne,id operating a long time, but all have' come under the ban simply because they are demonstrated opportunists. The stations which have virtually been ruled off the air are scattered from the Canadian border to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Some of them are small stations, some powerful; some good, some of poor quality. But as they settled or jumped on the Canadian wave lengths none of them is to have the benefit of those nice tests as to the public's interest, convenience, etc., before being selected for oblivion. Britain Stand* Fir, BANDITS SLAY MISSIONARY AND DAUGHTER The upheaval in China was brought home to Toronto with the news of the murder in the distent province of Yunnan of Rev.'Morris Slichter and hte little daughter by bandits. His wife and young son, John, are reported to be Above group shows Rev. and Mrs. Slichter and .their children. At left is Miss Mary T. Craig,' a Philadelphia nurse, who, with others believed to be in the Slichter party.endeavoring to make their escape by rail southward, is also reported a prisoner. The map below shows the location of Yunnanf u, in the province of Yunnan, near where Rev. Morris Slichter and his little daughter were murdered by Chinese bandits. Efforts are now under way to obtain the release of the captives.____ miring its splendid site and all that has been done to enhance its charm. We should at least be as familiar with it as Americans are with Washing- The Tientsin Concession Restored i to Chinese by British Consent London.--The latest accomplishment in the progress of science to-ward making all the world a mirror j London--Negotiations for the re-by means of television is just an-! storatkm to the Chinese of the Brit-nounced The "sound of a face it igh concesglon at TIentsin have w Was declaredhad been transmitted, satisfactorily conchlded under the across the Atlantic J. L. Baird, in- refer]fed to the respective Cov- entor of the television, was the sub- ( ernments for approval Bays a Pekin {divisor n LondonVnd thf Tound ^dfesJ!atcn to The Westminster Gazette, produced by his image was recorded In New York. The receiver reported that receipt of the face flash "sounded like a scratch" and that was all there was to it. Windsor Investigation Reveals Many Liquor Irregularities The concession will be controlled by a Council made up of five British members and five Chinese members, with the Chinese chairman possessing the deciding vote. "> Man and Woman Drown in Thames When Boat Capsized London Morning Post (C< talk of any further concessk face of such outrages is absurd. British are now in st: at Shanghai and on the sea. The action of the Cantonese in letting loose mob violence against all foreign nations has ranged those alongside the British. It is not now for the Cantonese to make any demands. On the contrary, it is for them to make restitution and to promise amendment. Coke From Nova Scotia. Halifax Herabi. (Cons.): It is ridiculous for this nation to continue importing tens of millions of dollars worth of United States coal annually, when the enormous reserves of Nova Scotia coal can be treated to supply a suitable substitute for the best United States anthracite and thus meet the exacting requirements of the domestic markets of the Central Pro- LJnited States and the League. Sydney Bulletin: The U. S. A. has had two opportunist victories in world politics; but, however pure its intentions, it is unlikely to gain an-^ other in 1927. Perhaps it will never strong force both gain anotber until lt joins tbe Ijeague which was fathered by Woodrow Wilson and rejected by the Senate, and formall" ""bscribes to the principle, already accepted by Britain, France, Italy and Japan, that "the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations." | Lease of National Hydro Com-j pany Expires May First. I Ottawa.--The Government will not approve the plans of the National Hydro Co. for the Carillon Power Development, and this is equivalent to cancelling the lease, which expires May 1st. There remains after this but a small 250-horsepower concession at Carillon which will be expropriated, thus leaving a clear field for Federal, Provincial or joint Federal and Provincial power development on the Ottawa. In the meantime the engineers of the Dept. of Railways and Canals are investigating the power development possibilities at Carillon. The Government has made no decision, nor will any be made, until the jurisdiction of the Federal and Provincial Governments on the Ottawa River is definitely defined. This question is now before the law officers. In any development at Carillon the canal will be increased in size and also in depth from nine to fourteen feet. There is no immediate prospect of ly arrangement being made for this power development A conference representatives of the interested [rovinccs and the Federal Government will be called some time this summer to discuss the problem. Line Into Mining Field Will be Ready in December Toronto.--Extension of the Timte-kaming & Northeir Ontai-io Railway into tin- Rouyn minJng field of Quebec Province is now a certainty. Premier Ferguson announced that tenders, to be received up to May 12, will be advertised for immediately, that construction work will be in pro-! by June 1 and that the exten-will be completed and ready for operation) by Dec. 1. The Government is prepared to spend $1,000,000 the enterprise. The extension wiy be built from the Swastika branch of the Nipissing-Central line. Twenty-seven miles of right of way in the Province of Que-involved. Very satisfactory arrangements with Quebec for the purchase of this land by Ontario have only recently been reached. Floods in Three Districts Drive Families from Homes Winnipeg.--Three widely separated districts in Western Canada to-night were in the grim grasp of flood wat-At Brandon, Man., waters of Hospitals and the Needy. Le Monde Ouvier (Ind.): Far tooj&e AVs^nmdne" River""have""driven many people are treated in hospitals. residents from their homes.' The object of these institutions is to gather in the indigent sick who have no homes, but this object is never attained, because_rihe beds which were intended for the destitul Soldier Land Settlement. Victoria Times (Lib.) : Soldier land settlement in Canada was a peculiarly difficult work. Canadian soldiers given the opportunity of assisted rehabilitation by way of the land were settled in a period of peak land values when top prices had to be paid for stock and other equipment. Immed; down-and-out are occupied by the wealthy, who have both warmth and roof over their heads. ... In principle those who have homes should not take the place of the poor who have not even stones on which to lay their heads, yet in practice it is these who are the most welcome. In the old days one used to believe that the rich paid for the poorly-clad and the penniless, but in sober fact they chase them out. Much grief will come this year to those farmers who do not take time to test their seed corn. At Lumsden, Sask., families have been forced from their homes. At Ponoka, Alta., the Battle River is lnj flood, the town has been isolatttl from, the rural districts. Morris de Speg-j liare, a 25-year-old Belgian, was' drowned when he tried to cross the! raging waters.- He had been riding] bareback in an attempt to ford the river when his mount was swept off its feet by the force of the current.; Then She'd Know. 'My gracious!" remarked the taitt] girl. "Since Carrie's steady took her the auto show, she thinks there's! nothing like him." "Humph!" said her companion spite-] fully, "she'll find out differently when] hei takes her to the zoo." London, Ont.--Miss Annie Wright-man, aged 18, and Harold Williams, j aged 19, were victims of a double j ^1 drowning in a treacherous stretch of I )m water in the River Thames at Middle-1 an miss, a few miles southwest of here,1 Jrj about 9 o'clock Friday night. The; be two young people, together with Lorne pe_ Lilly, were crossing the river in a: )n< rowboat from the farm of Harry! no> Lilly, brother of Lorne and brother- j in-law of Miss Wrightman, when the'. boat capsized, plunging the three oc-1 ©upants into the icy water. Lilly,! an expert swimmer, was successful I in reaching land. Windsor.--The Royal Commission on Customs was given some inkling to-day of why the Port of Windsor is the TTi-eiitest liquor exporting po' to the United States in Canada. Fr two members of the Royal Canadi ^Mounted Prliee, who patrol the b der, and have been doing so since 1 summer of 1.926, the commissioner received some arresting information. Boats from the United States coming Into outports under the jurisdiction of Windsor without supervision or examination; vessels loading liquor "after hours'"; clearances of liquor-laden vessels issued before the boats Wore actually loaded; vessels loaded * liquor on Sunday; boats cleared with- Car Found Near Ottawa May ^TSlSSSS /TIT test Have Carried Bank Bandits mony of the mounted policemen and other witnesses examined. Ottawa.--A sedan, which, thought, may possibly be the car oi the three robbers who on Thursday got away with nearly $20,000 from a Toronto bank, was discovered on the ^Prescott highway, abandoned, four miles south of North Cower. The automobile carried no license markers, which leads the police to believe that the automobile was stolen. Ef-orts to locate the owner of the automobile and to establish the point from which it was stolen were futile, but it is expected that a 1926 license marker found beneath the •back seat may lead to the determining of these facts. The Capital of Canada. Edmonton Journal (Ind. Cons.) : The beautificatlon of Ottawa is an object which should appeal to all Canadians, regardless of how far away their homes may be. The pity is that so few of them have paid a visit | there and had the opportunity of ad- Markets TORONTO. , rolig; 25c; breakfast bacon, 28 to 33c J Man wheat--No. 1 North., $1.51%- j backs, boneless, 32 to 42c. ately following such establishment No. 2: North., $1.47%; No. S North.!^ ,f L tifi came the agricultural denressinn ?1.38%. ' i 50 to 70 lbs., $/!l; 70 to WU IDS., ?1» Ji star z?sz£5s? ™t is^ssr^ t^l-ttatrax** assimilation in this manner of a Am. corn, Toronto freights--No 2 I tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c)' largely untrained body of citizens was yellow, kiln dried, 86c; No. 3 yellow ' prints, 16% to 17c; shortening tierces; national rather than an economic kiln dried, 83c. ' 13%c: tubs, 13%c; pails, 14%c; block* Montreal freights, ■ and tins, 16%c. kiln dried, 83c. work, and it is to be noted that a not! Millfeed--Del. .._ inconsiderable proportion of failures DaEs included: Bran, per ton, $32.25;! Heavy export steers, $8.25 to $8.76; have been due to death and recurringP«r ton' $3425; middlings, | do, fair, $7.50 to $8; butchel, service disabilities One Typhoid-Carrier in Dairy Cause of Montreal Epidemic Montreal.--A man who had typhoid fever 20 years ago and remained a carrier, is the only source uncovered to account for the typhoid fever epidemic which started in Montreal on March 4 ar.d carried on for more than a month before being brought under control. Some 2,415 cases developed and over 180 victims died. This man unsuspectingly applied for and got work in a local dairy. He was dis- CANADA'S BIG LEGATION IN WASHINGTON -roomed house purchased by this country at $40.25. ' \ --4!steers, choice, $8.25 to $8.75; do, fall, Ont. oats, 50c f.o.b. shipping points, i to good, $7.50 to $8; butcher heif-Ont. good milling wheat^$1.23 to ers, choice, $8.25 to $8.50; do, com., $1.24, f.o.b. shipping points, accord- $6.75 to $7.25; butcher cows, good to! ing to freights. I choice, $6 to $6.75; do, fair to good. Barley--Malting, 68c. i $5.25 to $5.60; do, com. to med., $4.50 Buckwheat--70c, nominal. ito $5; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to Rye--No. 2, 98c. !$4; butcher bulls, good to choice, $6 Man. flour--First pat., $8.00, To- to $6.50; do, med., $5.25 to $5.75; do, ronto; do, second pat., $7.50. bolognas, $4.50 to $5; baby beef, $8.50 Ont. flour--Toronto, 90 per cent., to $11.00; feeders, choice, $7.00 to patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $7.50; do, fair, $6,25 to $6.75; stock-$6.25; ^aboard, in bulk, $5.30. :ers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, fair to Cheese--New, large, 18%c; twins, !med., $5.11 to $6; springers, $80 to 18% to 19c; triplets, 18% to 19c. Stil-$100; milch cows, $75 to $100; plain tons, 21 to 22c. Old, large, 21 to 22c; to med cows, $45 to $65; calves, twins, 21% to 22c. Old Stiltons, 23 choice, $11 to $13; do, med., $8.50 to to 24c ; ^i0; do, com., $4 to $7; lambs, choice, Butter--Finest creamery prints, $13.50 to $14; bucks, $10 to $11.26; 44c; No. 2, 42 to 43c. Dairy prints, Eheep, choice, $8 to $9; do, heavies, 35 to 37c. $g to $7.50; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, Eggs--Fresh extrj-, in cartons, thick smooths, fed and watered, 35 to 36c; fresh extras, loose, 34c; *io.25; do, f.o.b., $9.75; do, country fresh firsts, 32c; fresh seconds, 28c. points $9.50; do, off cars, $10.65; Poultry, dressed--Spring chickens, seject premium, per hog, $2. 60c; chickens, 5 lbs. up, 40c; do, 4 to _ 5 lbs., 38c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 35c; do, 2% j m™mtrw4t to 3%c, 34c; br.ilers, 1% to 2% lbs.,! TTrM°N^R^*7 . XT „ 38c; hens, over 5 lbs., 32c; do, 4 to 5 Oats, CW, No. 2; 75%c; do, No. 3, lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 28c; roosters, 66%c. Flour, Man. spring wheat 25c; turkeys, 46 to 47c; ducklings, 5 pats., firsts, $8; do, seconds, $7.50; lbs. and up, 35 to 38c. strong bakers', $7.30; winter pat-* Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to ents, choice, $5.90 to $6. Rolled #3.90 bushe;; primes, $3.45 to $3.60. oats, bag 90 lbs., $3.30 to $3.40, Maple products--Syrup, per imo. Bran, $32.25; shorts, $34.25; gal., $2.25 to $2.30; per 5 gal., $2.15 middlings, $40.25. Hay, No. 2, per to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 ton, car lots, $14.50. to 26c. i Cheese, finest westa., 16% to 17c. Honey--60-Ib. tins, 13 to 13%c; 10- Butter, No. 1, pasteurized, 38c. Eggs, lb. tins, 13% to 13%c; 5-lb. tins, 14 to fresh extras, 35c; fresh firsts, 33c. 14%c; 2%-lb. tins, 16c. Com. quality dairy type bulls, $4.50 Comb honey--$4 to $5 per dozen, to $4.85; cows, med., $5; better qual-Smoked meats--Hams, med., 30 to ity calves, $7; do, poorer, $6; hogs, 32c; cooked hams, 43c; smoked $11.50.