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/THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 1927 3 OTTAWA AND PROVINCES WILL WORK TOGETHER' An Alberta Oil Refinery Hard Times Ahead For Fake Promotion and Get Rich Quick Schemes LAWS TO BE UNIFORM Ontario Attorney-General Pleased With Result ' In a wire sent from Ottawa to his j sales of stock by companies under Do-office in the Parliament Buildings, I minion incorporation, which will recently, Attorney-General W. H.! strengthen the hands of the provinces Price told of arrangements which1 considerably in dealing with fraud-have been made by the Dominion Gov-1 ulent promoters. ernment to aid the provinces in foiling; An effort will also be made to ob-fraudulent stock companies. j tain uniformity in the forms to be filed Mr. Price stated that the Govern- with the Dominion and Provincial ment had pledged itself to three defi- j Governments by companies seeking in-nite actions designed to make more corporation, and also to compel the difficult the flotation and operate of fraudulent companies. It is understood that these promises will be implemented by legislation in the House of Conrmons at next session. In the first place the Dominion will refuse incorporation to companies which are designed to do business solely within a certain province. This action is expected to remove the problem of dual control under which many "fake" companies have hidden in the past. Another regulation will give to the province greater powers in l-egulating I suspicion. lection of the same date for filing papers both with the province and the Dominion. This action is believed to be a direct outcome of the deliberations of the committee on "blue sky" laws in connection with the inter-provincial conference of which'Hon. Mr. Price was a member. The Ontario Attorney-General was most active in the committee in urging reforms to the Companies Act, due to the "clean-up" which he is now attempting among Ontario companies which have come under Former Canadian Army Officer Burned to Death in London Fire | Agonized Spectators Watched Him Fall Back Into the Flames After Making BraveFight for Life NEW SOURCE OF WEALTH Western Canada is fast assuming importance as an oil producing section. Discoveries at Vimy Ridge Only Intact Portion of Line Canadian Engineers Have Discovered the Only Portion left Intact of all the Battle Fields Along the Western Front Coaster Founders in Season's First Gale Crew Luckily Escape in Life Boat as "Wacouta" Sank ; .GALES GENERAL Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Nov. 13.-- The Jocal passenger and freight steamer Wacouta, which plied between the Soo and Bruce Mines, was sunk in from 30 to 35 feet of water in the line of traffic in Wilson channel, 200 or SOO yards out from the Richards Landing dock, during the blizzard on St. Mary's River early yesterday afternoon. The Wacouta had just unloaded its six passengers at the landing and was trying to make a turn in the rough sea, en route to Hilton, when her cargo of 35 or 40 barrels of gasoline and oil and other freight suddenly shifted, a squall came up and the boat commenced to sink. A lifeboat was quickly lowered and the crew, consisting of Captain Percy Kent, of Richards Landing, owner of the boat; Engineer Charles Harrison, of the Soo; and the cook, Miss Dorothy Malt-man, of the Soo, got away in safety. The boat sank in five minutes. LINER ALBERTA DAMAGED, j The C.P.R. passenger liner Alberta arrived at the Government dock last wight in a damaged condition from Fort William, after experiencing one hi the roughest trips in its history. The waves in Lake Superior were running 30 feet high, according to mate Fred Logan, of Collingwcod, who said it was the most hazardous trip he had ever undertaken. The boat was blown on to rocks in St. Mary's River, near the Government dock, and was released after three hours' strenuous work by a tug of tha Great Lakes7 Towing Co. Seven or eight doors were stove in, and and old curved stairway in the stern cf the boat was blown to; matchwood. The steamer Manitoba1 way to the Soo, and she too, suffereed slight damage, but proceeded on way. BREAKS TOWLINE. Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 13.--A barge which broke loose from its tug yesterday in the storm which swept down < Lake Ontario from the west, and coastguard lifeboat, which put out to aid the barge, were safe in port to- also •epoi i her Answer Honor With Honor "Our Enemies Broke It; Our Dead Kept it," States Rev. W. A. Comeron at Christie Street Service "Our enemies broke their contract with human society; our dead kept that contract," said Rev. (Capt.) W. A. Cameron in his address at the Armistice memorial service in Chris'-tie Street Hospital. "The only way that we can keep that contract between the dead, the living and the born is to remember that we must answer honor with honor, unselfishness with unselfishness, sacrifice with sacrifice. Unless we intend to do something like that a service like this is nothing more or less than a farce; let us stop building war memorials, and let us stop putting the names of those men on war memorial tablets. If we don't intend to keep faith, the best thing we can do is to bury dead so deeply that they can't c back to disturb and haunt us." The legacy of the dead was both a memorial and a mandate, said Capt. Cam- The hospital auditorium was thronged to capacity for the service, which opened promptly at ten o'clock. Along side and back walls were lined the wheel chairs of severely disabled men, and for those unable to leav their beds to share in the service with and for their comrades, it was broadcast through the wards. Flood Scenes (Above) A garage and service station on a main Highway in the flood area near Westfleld, Mass, (Below) This photo gives a good idea of how extensive the flood really waa. To Be Preserved as a Permanent Memorial MOVING SIGHT By "A Canadian in France" Vimy Ridge, Monday, Oct. 17 Thousands of former soldiers are visiting the battlefields of France and Belgium in the hope of finding trenches, dug-outs, or the exact spot where they received their "bllghties." In the Ypres Salient they see nothing but flourishing fields of corn; flax, oats, and barley. There is not a trench left in Belgium except a few doubtful examples on Hill 60. In France the scars of war are more visible, but a strenuous peasantry has filled the shell holes and has rebuilt its farms on the front line. It is amazing how swiftly the plough and the building contractor have wiped t all t 5 Of V Sniper's Post I found to-day the only spot in France where a man can feel that he is back again in 1914-1918; where he can stand at a sniper's post and fit the rotted butt of a rusted rifle to his shoulder as he peeps out between the bushes towards the German trenches. The wire is still up in "No man's Land," duck boards lie in the trenches, officers' beds, rotting and collapsed, still lie in the chalk dug-Hundreds of names and many mesj ages are written on the chalk delible pencil, as fresh as when were written ten years ago Mills bombs with the pins in them repose on ledges, cans of bully beef, tin hats--all the familiar debris of those sad days--are to be seen as they were left. ng spot is the famous Grange Tunnel, on Vimy Ridge, which just been opened up by the Canadian Battlefield Memorial Commission. It is to be preserved for the benefit of posterity as a kind of textbook on trench warfare, and is destined to become the most remarkable relic of the war. Living Memorial The project began a year ago as a side-line to the Canadian memorial on Vimy Ridge, which will not be completed until 1931. The stone for this stupendous shrine comes from the ancient Roman quarries round the Bay of Spalato in Dalmatia. While waiting for supplies of this stone to arrive, it occurred to the Canadian engineers that it might be interesting to try to locate the famous Grange Labyrinth--the miles of underground passages which the Canadians pushed out to within a few yards of the enemy's lines. Map references werd taken, and the ltrance to the tunnel was discovered choked up with brushwood. The work of clearing the "tunnel has taken a year, and it is not yet completed. So interesting were tho discoveries that the commission decided to rebuild the trenches, preserve the dugouts, and make the Grange Tunnel a permanent sight. The trenches have been lined with concrete sandbags. The concrete is poured in wet, so that when the sandbags rot the marks of the mesh will remain; the duck-boards have been cast in concrete, all ood has been taken out of the dugouts, and the passages have been reinforced with concrete and metal. The Grange Tunnel has at least a century of life before it. shown around the tunnel by Captain Unwin Simpson, Royal. Canadian Engineers, who is in charge of the work. On the way down is a notice: "These walls are sacred to the names of soldiers who inscribed them during their occupation in the of 914-1918. Please omit yours." A Labyrint,.~" a entered a dark tunnel and found ourselves in a labyrinth of passages, dug-outs and battalion headquarters cut far below the ground level in the white chalk of Vimy Ridge. It was as thought we had been switched back to April 1917-- that time when the Canadian divisions advonced to the conquest of Vimy Ridge. Nothing had changed. The smoket from the candles once it in niches to light the passages as still black on the chalk. The dug-outs and the walls of the com- municating passages were covered with names carved in the chalk or written in pencil and as legible as when they were inscribed during the great battle of Arras. The maple leaf of Canada was carved with an original variety in a hundred different places, and on the wall* I read at random such inscriptions as these: -- 108234. James Burton, A Company, the Royal Canadian Regiment, May 8, 1917. Still alive and kicking. 670080. W. J. Auchlncloss, A Company, Royal Canadian Regiment, May 8, 1917. Untouched by whizz-bangs as yet, I cannot describe the feelings "ith which a man in these days approaches the inscriptions written below the earth of the Arras sector. In their cheery naivete we who have survived and can look back on 1917 with the calm unconcern of historians, seem to touch hands once more with these Canadian boys who, ten years ago, crouched in these chalk dug-outs, still "alive and kicking," still "untouched by whizzbangs," Joking, laughing, waiting, quite unconscious that they were carving not only their mes, but also history. ^, Headquarters We walked for about half a mile, going deeper into Grange subway, until we came to battalion headquarters. On the wall of a dark, damp chalk chamber, which had been used as an officers' mess during the Canadian advance on Vimy, were carved the following names: -- Major McCaghey, Major Collins, Lletnteiiant Abbott, Lieutenant Jamiesou, Lieutenant H. Cook, May 10, 1917. 52 Battalion Canadians (B Company). In a little carved shield were the words, "Dick Swift." We stood there, lighting matches in the dark, wondering what had happened to these men, wondering whether they still live somewhere at home in Canada, or whether they fell on Vimy Ridge. No matter whether they are alive or dead, their personalities live beneath the soil of France so vividly that one expects to meet them round the next corner. While we were going on towards Mine Shaft, which the Canadians drove beneath the enemy lines, my foot kicked a small object. It was a tin of bully beef! It had been opened, but it had not been eaten, and it was ten years old! I leave to\ •the imagination of any man who knows what bully beef was like when comparatively young to judge how this specimen looked and smelt. "See this?" said Captain Simpson, holding up a queer grey slab. It was gun cotton, stamped 1916. "Down there, about 100 feet below our present level," he said, "we found a dump of Mills bombs and also sacks of T.N.T. We have removed them reverently." In the amazing collection of names written on the walls I came across two which roused by curiosity. They Ship No. 7,129, 1st Section, 7th Division, U.S.M.C., Texas Leather Neck Corps. Ship No. 3,112, G.M., 2nd Class, 3rd Division, Flagship, U.S.S., Saratoga, Asiatic Fleet. Problem of the Ridge What on earth were these two American sailors doing with the Canadian armies on- Vimy Ridge? How did they get there? Were they deserters from the American Navy who, becoming weary of America's indecision, had joined up with the Canadians? Or were they shipwrecked mariners who had gone to Vimy in search of life? I prophesy that books will soma day be written about Grange Tunnel, and the names which it perpetuates. The Canadian Battlefields Memorial Commission has carved, perhaps unwittingly, a greater memorial even than that expensive shrine which the Canadian Government is now building on the orest of Vimy Ridge. London.--Fire which gutted a row of twelve houses at Windsor early Wednesday morning claimed as a victim George Leonard Bull, aged 42, a former lifaguardsman who served during the war as a captain in the Canadian army. A woman also lost her life in the fire. Captain Bull, who was known locally as "John Bull," and was steward in a local territorial club, made a brave fight for his life and finally fell back into the flames in full view of tha agonized spectators. He was handicapped by a broken leg and unable to mount the window sill ii upper room from which he had previously pushed his wife to save her from the fire after she had dropped their baby from the window into a blanket being held for it. The baby was not injured and the mother's injuries were slight. After his wife and child were out of the burning dwelling, Bull shouted to his v'oul'd-be rescuers to go to tha rear of the house, but when they arrived there they realized that it was impossible to enter the building owing to the rapid work of the flames. Bull made a last desperate attempt to climb out of the window, but was unable to do so. Fifty people were rendered hornet less by the fire.' Many of them narrowly escaped from the burning build^ ings, fleeing in their night apparelJ All their belongings were burned. In the furniture, which was destroyed,1 were suites belonging to two couples who are to be married on Christmas Day. Capt. Bull left Canada in late 1916 with the 170th Batt of Toronto, and again served in France with tho Cavalry Brigade. Here in this dark tunnel, and here only, do we seem to meet the men who fought and died. Here only do we seem to see again in the long chalk passages those well-known faces; here only can we read their signatures--no doubt in many cases their last written words--written with the indelible pencils with which they wrote their letters home. Canada has., with splendid and characteristic foresight, carved a shrine which is sacred not Only to her army, but also to all the Allies. Here British, French, and Belgians will gather in years to come and say: 'This is how our men lived during the great war." The Grange Tunis, and always will be, the greatest and most touching sight on the west-', em front. Engineering Feat During the early months of 1917 eleven large subways were construct^ ed to aid the concentration of the Canadian troops for the attack on Vimy Ridge. The largest was the Grange Tunnel, built mainly by tho 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade. Grange Tunnel had three exists for the troops, and constant streams of men, wounded and unwounded, passed through it during the battle. Its minimum depth was twenty-five feet, it had electric light and a water supply, and there were numerous dugouts, dressing stations, and ammunW tion dumps. The Final Session Oriental Question Before Conference of Premiers at the Closing Session, But Was Subjected to Censorship Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 11.--One feature f the concluding session of the Do-ninion-interprovincial conference last ivening was subjected to censorship and cut out of the Federal announcement. It was the discussion initiated by Hon. A. M. Manson, Attorney-General of British Columbia, regarding the Oriental question. Mr. Manson, who was instrumental in having tha subject placed on the agenda, took very strong ground in favor of Oriental exclusion. He gave statistics to show how the Oriental population is increasing in British Columbia owing to tha fertility of the race and how the number of these children attending the schools is only a comparatively small distance behind whita pupils. Mr. Manson stressed, particularly, the danger of inter-racial marriages, stating that, if something were not done, that would soon become a great problem. Already it has made its appearance with white and Orien- j tals going to school together and the ! latter speaking perfect English and j acquiring English customs, it was' readily conceivable how relations might develop that would later lead to marriage. From such alliances would be an issue of a kind that would seriously affect the social structure of tha province. The general effect of Mr. Manson's argument was for the banning of Orientals and the maintenance of a white British Columbia. Some view was expressed that for imperial and other reasons the discussion so far as it went, should not be broadcast. Little else was said about it, and of course, no resolution was adopted, but the case was presented forcibly and seemed to create con-si<krabjo impression. * Of the nine premiers who attended the conference, only Messrs. Bracken and Baxter remained hare to-day, though other ministers are staying. Premiers McLean and Brownlee, who are making side trips, will return to the city before going home. They are scheduled in tha next few days to have an interview with the Minister of Railways respecting the development of the Peace River district. Heifetz Rejects $3,750 for a Broadcast News comes that Jascha Heifetz, the violinist, because of concert contract restrictions, turned down $3,750 offered him by the Broadcasting Company of Australia, for a microphone appearance of twenty minutes at Station 3LO, Melbourne. Whereupon a listener wrote: "If 3LO can afford to pay Heifetz a big fee to broadcast, why can't they afford to give us batter artists than they do?" "Complaint« are made of monot-as the station's rejoinder, "but ner does 3LO determine to •iticism of musical starvations by such a succulent dish as one of the greatest violinists in the world than back comes a stone, and a stentorian yell of 'Give us our old friends, but pay them more and they'll sing better; as if a singer sang mezzo voce for a guinea and fostissimo for two." All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. If It Could Have Been! THE FLOOD VISUALIZED If the Quebec-Vermont flood could have occured in Ontario the shaded; portion shows what a large area would have been affected. The actuaV loss of life is now reported oyer 250 and the loss well up to half a billion dollars in the whole flood area of Canada and the U.S. '