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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2Sth, 1921 Bo.tou know, nmi FINANCIERS ARRESTED READ TnEJi01'ACT' CANNOT ENTER CANADA ensatlonal Failure Followed by ] Charge of Theft I Uls aft( In M-t; Metal Co Even the Byng Boys will hardly recognize .their former leader in the above. It is, however, Lord Byng'a very latest picture, specially posed for the Canadian National Exhibition, a few days before he sailed for Canada, for reproduction on a* medal commemorating the opening of Jthe 1921 Fair, over which he will preside on Aug. 27. Divested of his military attire the new Governor-General looks a very different person to the stern soldier Canadians knew through hi* wa» photos. UMBRELLAS RE-COVERED AND REPAIRED BROWN'S UMERELLA STORE 10 Camabeli Street, Belleville When in Cobourg Call at the ALBION HOTEL Good Meals and Service EDWARD LISTER, Prop. Brunswieic House Colborne UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT First-class Men's m:d AVcm.xlatioii (live i-,s a call when in Ci.lbunie J. F. WGLFRAIM, Proprietor E, .QU1NN edls Over $700,000--One of the Biggest Cases of Its Kind In Canada's History. TORONTO, Sept. 27. -- Alleging frauds involving some $700,000, the misappropriation of $7,000 of company funds through theft, and other I irregularities, the Toronto police on Saturday afternoon arrested Nathan Brenner, 11 Wells Hill drive, Meyer Brenner, 317 Russell Hill road, son of Nathan Brenner, and Gordon I. Blackford, bookkeeper for the firm of N. Brenner & Co. The firm failed on November 10 last, and investigations which have been proceeding since last May and which culminated a few ! days ago resulted in the arrest. The | details of the investigation, which was made on behalf of Osier, Wade & Co., assignees, by Mr. Harry J. Wright of the firm of Aylesworth, Wright, Thompson & Lawr, and Col. R. H. Greer, K.C., were laid before j County Crown Attorney Armour, who ordered the arrests. I The firm had considerable dealings in new metals during the war, and did much of its business with the Imperial Munitions ,Board during 1917 and 3 918. It is stated that large deals in exchange, principally sterling exchange, were made through sales of metal, and that on a single deal as much as $400,000 profit was netted. The failure is said to have come when metal prices dropped and exchange also went down, causing enormous losses to the firm. The total failure is reported as well over $1,000,000, and the I creditors are mainly New York and I European firms, only a few scattered creditors residing in Canada. It was upon the initiative of the New York I creditors that the investigation was instituted. When the firm started business it | was in a small way, but dealings i grew to enormous proportions and a I company was formed with an initial j capital of $50,000. This was largely I increased. I The specific charges against the •three men indict Nathan and Meyer Brenner for conspiracy to defraud j creditors, theft of $7,000 in cheques, the property of the company, which were alleged to be diverted to the personal uses of the Brenners; receiving stolen funds and fraud. Blackford is charged with omitting to make entries in the books and with making false entries. The arrest of the trio was sensational in some respects. Meyer conference here with the military and police Monday afternoon, announced that it had been decided to mobilize*-special constabulary in certain parts of Northern Ireland for the maintenance of order. The "riot act" was" read in Belfast's disturbed areas Monday afternoon for the first time in history. Reinforcements were rushed to the Ulster capital and the military and police redoubled their efforts to check the sporadic outbursts of fighting, which continued. The military during the-morning was engaged in erecting barbed wire and sandbag barricades in the Bally-nacarrett district. Pickets were posted at the danger points. Fresh rioting occurred shortly before noon Monday, and several more persons were seriously wounded. Crown forces which had temporarily stopped the sectarian warfare of the early morning, were again called out in armored cars and forced to pour machine gun fire into the opposing Volleys of revolver and rifle fire poured down York street, by opposing gunmen shortly after midnight, brought out the armored cars and repeated bursts of machine gun fire cleared the battle area of rioters. No sooner had the crown forces left the scene than the mobs again came Eight deaths, four resulting from a bomb explosion earlier in the night's fighting and seventy wounded was the role of casualties for the week-end. Two young girls and a boy were wounded by rifle fire early Monday. Early Sunday night a bomb was thrown into the midst of a Roman Catholic mob, which was drawn up opposite a crowd of Unionists in Sea-ford street. It failed to explode and someone hurled it into the Protestant crowd. There it burst with terrible effect, killing four and wounding at least 57. [ Brer \he i his Woodbine day evening, when detectives jumped I on "the running-board and ordered I him to drive to Court Street Station. Chief • Brenner i .nd Heat \ C. L. C R'Y.D E R I'AA N I Funeral. Director Troop & McArthur FUNERAL DIRECTORS COLBORNE Telephone Motor | Connection Equipment j ROOMS IN PHILP BLOCK Is Ironing Hard Work? If you have to stand over a hot stove, beating old-fashioned sad-irons, and walk backwards and forwards between the stove and your ironing board, it undoubtedly is. But, if you use a SOVEREIGN Electric Iron you can do your '{rolling on the back porch if necessary. The " Sovereign " Electric Iron is truly the housewife's friend. It has a cool handle, tapering nose, and is beautifully balanced. Telephone, us, and we will deliver a "Sovereign" immediately. It sells for the remarkably iow price of ran second in the King's Plate at the spring meeting. Nathan. Brenner was arrested in the Turkish Bath Hotel, while Blackford was arrested at his home. Blackford has been an accountant for the past fifteen years. Afterwards the three were released on bail. The sum of $50,000 was demanded for Nathan Brenner and $100,000 for Meyer Brenner. The two found bondsmen in Elias Pullen and John S. Granatstein, while Mrs. Dora Brenner, wife of Meyer, furnished the $25,000' bond asked for Gordon Blackford. County Crown Attorney. Armour said that the details of the company's operations were somewhat obscure at present and it is not yet possible to say whether the partners can be brought to trial at the fall sessions of the Criminal Court. According to the police whole pages of ledgers have been ripped out, cheque books and stubs are missing, and pages, have disappeared from bank books. As details came to light which indicated the possibility of a criminal charge Mr. Wright retired on behalf of the creditors and further details were investigated by Col. R. H. Greer, K.C., former County Crown Attorney. Officials say that the case, upon present indications, will prove the largest fraud charge for many years, and that the old Central Bank alone rivals it in Toronto legal history. Previous to the assignment to Osier Wade & Co., made last November for the benefit of the creditors, with liabilities exceeding assets of well over $1,000,000, the Brenners enjoyed a good reputation throughout the city and, in fact, in London and New York. Portugal's Status at Conference. LISBON, Sept. 27. -- In answer to e Portuguese Government's request for permission to take part in the approaching conference in Washington on Far Eastern affairs, an official communication issued here says the United States Government will propose that Portugal, having interests to defend in the Far East, be admitted under the same conditions as Holland. UNREST IN LONDON. Unemployment May Lead to Grave Crisis In England. LONDON, Sept. 27. -- Unemployment and attendant economic problems have overshadowed even the Irish problem. The attempt by the unemployed to rush Mr. Churchill's meeting at Dundee on Saturday is another sign of growing ill-temper. In London a breakdown of the local governmehlkis feared In the near future as Stepney, Edmonton and ..Bethnal Green have threatened to follow Poplar's example and refuse to levy rates for the London County Council. ___i The Government announces that legislation authorizing the direct collection of rates in London bor-dughs by the London County Council is under^consideration. This will not solve the problem because the money simply is not there to be collected. Poplar has already spent every penny it could collect or borrow for unemployment relief and the ratepayers are extremely poor. The Government's latest big scheme to solve the unemployment problem is an answer to the labor policy which undoubtedly appealed to. the public imagination, and is far more adequate than the original scheme of the Cabinet committee. : The latest Government proposals are in outline only and are not closely defined. Credit will be given to the export trade as the labor party suggested and banks will be given inducements to finance home traders snore liberally. While comment of business men on the Government's proposals is reserved, labor criticizes them as doles for capitalists involving inflation of prices. Labor asserts that the Government has borrowed the leading features of labor's own plan but, instead of having direct government trading, the Government finds the money and the capitalists take the profits. | British Musician Was Barred 1 I From the Dominion, j j The Fact that Union Officials In the United States Took High-handed Action Regarding This Country May Lead to International Com- | plications--Action of Americans j Reported to Ottawa. LONDON, Eng., Sept. 27. -- Surprise is expressed at the alleged barring of an English orchestral musician from appearing in Canada by order of the American Federation of Musicians, controlled from New York. The case has arisen in connection with the forthcoming presentation of the Revue by an all-English company from England. The producer proposed taking a member of the recognized English Musical Trade Union as musical director, but he now learns that this is impossible, because, as members of the American Federation, the Canadian instrumentalists cannot play with a non-member. The producer has indignantly cabled Premier Meighen, asking whether he proposes to allow a British subject to be flung out of work because he is not allowed to play in a British Dominion by an American body. Will Bring Culrick Anyway. MONTREAL, Sept. 27.--George F. Driscoll, theatrical impressario, who was responsible for bringing the Revue by an all-English company over to Canada, interviewed by the Canadian Press, stated that the man in question, named Culrick, was a conductor who had handled big shows at the Gaiety and Hippodrome, London, and was absolutely essential to the success of the Revue here. The Revue was now going out to Canada, and in view of this fact, Mr. Driscoll said he had wired Joseph Webber, president of the American Federation of Musicians, asking for the rescinding of the order against Culrick. Mr. Webber had wired back a refusal. Thereupon, Mr. Driscoll had cabled to the London producers, telling them to bring over Culrick, anyway. "The matter is now an international question^' said Mr. Driscoll, "and will be takeh up with Washington through Ottawa." PERISHED IN STORM. Eight People Drowned In Squall on Lake Superior. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Sept. 27.--Eight persons lost their lives in a squall that swept over Lake Superior two weeks ago, it became known Sunday night, when the disappi ance of a party of berry-pickers reported to the authorities here Adam Lewis. The party set out i sailboat from Shell- Drake, north of 'flfew; for-Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. vestigation showed that the sailboat capsized about a mile off the beach between here and Shell Drake. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Lewis,. College Field and three children. Harry Brooks, a lumber . camp worker, declared he saw the craft in trouble about five miles north of here. It labored for the heavy Adam Le appearance lived on tt Garden Riv Ste. Mari he said, and finally Ploughing by Moonlight. WINDSOR, Sept. 27.--The annual pest of sandflies and other insects is here and in several parts of the county farmers have found them so troublesome to the horses that they have been doing their ploughing and fall wh^eat tilling by moonlight. The experiment has been wholly ful, the farmers say. AVENGED HER SISTER. Woman Who Shot Man Was Not Held Responsible. CORNWALL, Ont., Sept. 27.--In the police court here on Saturday, Mrs. J. J. O'Neil, of Montreal, who was arrested on a charge of wounding Bmile Mitski, a married man who is alleged to have taken her sister away from Montreal, was giv-a preliminary hearing. Mrs. O'Neil, who appeared extremely nervous in court, was asked how she wished to be tried and was so excited that she could not give any definite answer. However, she admitted that she did the shooting and said that for several days now she and her father, Louis Knapik, had been without sleep in an effort to locate her sister, Irene, and when she came to Cornwall she was a nervous wreck. She had asked Mitski where her sister was and he only laughed and jeered at her. This, she said, so upset her that she drew the revolver and shot him in the jaw. The magistrate, after hearing her plea and the crown attorney, feeling that the circumstances were such as to call for leniency, let the woman go on suspended sentence. He told her, however, that in future neither she nor her father were to keep a gun in the house. 3, "MADE IN. CANADA'! Sold in Colborne by G. M. PEEBLES ESTATE Colborne, Ontario BWPRCSS ADDS BRING RESULTS^; Harry Lauder Sails for America. [ LONDON, Sept. 27. -- Sir Haray j Lauder departed via the Aquitania \ on Sunday on a six months' tour of | the United States. He carried his j new mascot--a gnarled and crooked stick, five feet two inches long, which will appear on the stage with him in America--and a portfolio of songs, Four Children Killed. KINGSTON, Mass., Sept. 27.-- Four school children were killed here on Monday when a trolley pole came off a car which was carrying fhem to their homes, broke the feed wire and caused their electrocution when they jumped out of the car. The-car was set on fire, but other inside escaped injury. 'is, in reporting the dis-of his relatives, who » Indian reservation at ten miles from Sault he had not worried about their continued absence until a few days ago. r%ten Ont., : Three Days In Open Boat. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. after spending three and a half days in two small boats on tl When their ship, the Italian freighter Alacrita, foundered in a terrific hurricane, Captain Giuseppe Schiaf-fino and his crew of twenty-nine men arrived Sunday, none the worse for their experience, on the Spanish cargo boat Cabo Creux. , On September 16 th the Alacrita encountered the hurricane which fairly engulfed the ship and threw her into the trough of the seas. In the mountainous waves her rudder was disabled and she became unmanageable. At dawn on the morning of September 17th the crew put off in two small boats, hastily provisioned with a scant supply of bread and water, just a moment before the ship took her final plunge. For more than three days, the crew, drenched and hungry, took turns at the oars. At noon of the fourth day the Cabo Creux hove into sight and picked them up six miles north of_ where the Alacrita Valued His Fiddle. LONDON, Sept. 27.--Jan Kubelik, the famous violinist, on his way to England for the first time since the war, was aboard the Dover-Ostend packet, Jan Breydel, when, in a dense fog in the channel, she came into collision with the Norwegian cargo boat, Salina. Oblivious to his own risk, Kubelik ran to his cabin, seized his $125,000 Stradivarious fiddle and lest the Jan Breydel sank, tied the violin securely to a life preserver. But the Breydel remained afloat and aided in the rescue of some of those aboard the Norweigan vessel. Two of the Salina's complement were killed and nine are missing. Seek Buried Treasure. MILAN, Italy, Sept. 27.--An elaborate search for buried treasure has been started at Bisceglia. Last week Signore Pazenglia arrived from Jerusalem with plans jwhich had been given to her by a monk, indicating that gold valued at thirty milliard lire (nearly $6;000,008) is buried two miles from Bisceglia. Discoveries already made tend to confirm the monk's story, and developments are awaited with great interest. yourself unable to sleep well? Are you irritated by triOes? Do small troubles look big , to you? Do you sta; J at sudden noises? Are ybu unable to concentrate long on any one thing? If so, there's something wrong with your nervous system. These are danger signals. DR. MILES' NERVINE -- $1.20 will soothe the irritated and over strained nerves. Just one or two doses helps Nature to restore them to their normal functions. Guaranteed Safe and Sure. SOLD IN COLBORNE BY W. F. GR1FFIS, DRUGGIST, "THE REXALL STORE.' Ice Cream and Soft Beverages Headquarters not only for the best in Ice Cream and soft beverages, but also for the daintiest in Cakes, the choicest in Chocolates and Confectionery. New crisp reliable goods at clean honest, desirable prices. We put these facts before you and leave the rest to you. J. S. HODGENS THE COLBORNE BAKERY Will be closed every Wednesday afternoon during May, June, July, August 'and September J Grain Wanted Car Lots TRACK -- COLBORNE or GRAFTON Farmers, notify Mr Stephen Goodrich, Castleton, when you have grain for sale . "~ es will be v&'--J- J. J. COLLINS,. Hastings, Opt. nd all grain must be from smut. Banking by Mail MANY and varied are the types of men who conduct their banking with The Standard through the post Busy men who live far away from any bank find that our plan of banking by mail saves them making special trips to town, and is satisfactory in every way and quits simple. We pay interest at current rates on such account*,, I Write or call for full particulars. THE STANDARD BANK Colborne Branch: Grafton Branch: Castleton Branch: TOTAL'ASSETS OVER NINETY MILLIONS C. A. Bryans, Manager. N. J. Armour, Manager. M. 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