i / ' J FJ NECKWEAR THAT WILL WEAR Made from Imported Eng- lish, Swiss and Italian Silks mut Collier's Toggery YEAR 86: No. 288 a a AT a es a ir OR Ey SAR oF om Nba TR OM TION > i MEN appreciate a : that vetnins Its shape. Artifieinl SHE will net do thin. So we stock iarge. iy pure SHk, in Eagiish nad Swisp weaves. Collier's Toggery FRIDAY, PECEMBER 12 , 1919. INVESTIGATE TARIFF EFFECT i. | + ON NECESSARIES OF LIFE A. Robson, K.C., An- | nounces Inquiry Will Be Held in New Year | Will Find Out if Tariff is Used to Un- reasonably Enhance Prices. Winnipeg. Dec. 12.--Public sittings will be held by the Board of Com- ----Inerce early next year to determine theeffect of tho tariff on the nedessars] les of life. The following announcement was made by the Chief Commission- Chief Commissioner, H. er, H. A. Robson, K.C.: 4 "The cost of necessaries of life is enhanced in many 'cases by the | customs' tariff. This tariff may be merely protective it is a question w caries thereby is in present eircumstanges warranted. is revenue producing, then it is a question whe otherwise be raised and necessaries of Commerce can inquire into all items making up cost. authorized to see if the tariff is made use of to unreasonably prices. protective or revenue producing. If ther an increase in cost of neces- If a particular duty ther that revenue cannot to that extent relieved. The Board It Is specifically enhance "In: the course of inquiries instituted by the Manitoba and Saskatche- wan Governments through J. F. Frame, K.C., it has reason to further investigate into the cost item payment of customs duties and into protection. Thé board is thgrefore instituting inquiries It is accumulating information and it is fully expected held at appropriate points to go fully new year public sittings will be into these questions. X "This information is given so that any person m tions who desires to do so on any phase of the ques life are defined as any staple and ordinary article of preserved, canned or Otherwise treated), clothing an products, materials and ingredients from or of w whole or in part manufactured, composed, deri other articles of any kind as the board may from regulation prescribe. This now, also The matters to which Mr. Frame boots and shoes and textiles; that is there is even wider ground that may be A A THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Puimed and Pithy ay. -- 5 elk herd in Yellow- danger of extinction. Marshall has been re- Second term for mayor of Calgary, over Ald. I. G. Buttle, A Halifax man was fined one cent and costs for subletting two rooms Hithout permission from his land- ord. u Capt. Charles D. Wasson, of the St. John 'harbor tug Kenton, fell dead in the wheelhouse while towing stows, The two Tillsonburg papers, the a fhmated, to be issued as Tillson- burg News. v ' Viscount Grey, of Falloden, Bri- tish ambassador to the United States is returning to England very soon on leave of absence. el ign exchange rates at York sh The famous stone Park is (n Mayor R. C. elected for a New owed a slight improvement, Friday. Demand bills on the pound sterling rose to $8.69. Danish meetings in and pear Plenshourg 'have been broken up by Germans. One Danish speaker had / to be taken to the hospital. Arthur Boyle, ex-M.P. for Monck, and a prominent resident of Niagara Falls and formerly of Dunnville, is dead, aged seventy-eight. C. A. Stein, Liberal, who has been nominated in Kamouraska county to succeed Ernest Lapointe, will. most likely be elected by acclamation. Sir William ler, regius pro- fessor of medicine at Oxford Univer- sity, who has been {ll for some time! was slightly improved in condition to-day. § ¥ 'Hon, Mackenzie King is to tour the Maritime Provinces and after. wards will rat M.P., may ac- the west, Middleport, was fatally injured and Frank Lamphia seriously, in a collision on the Ham- ilton road near Cainville, between their motor car and a B. & H. Radial car. Very Rev. J. P. Sargent, D.D., dean of the diocese of Qu'Appelle, died at the General Hospital, Regina, Sask., aged eighty. The dean e to Manitoba in 1880 as a missionary priest, A wireless message from the SS. Carmania, in collision on 'Wednes- day night with the steamer Mary- land, states that she has been delay- ed, and will not reach Halifax before nine to-night." -------------- WATCH U, 8. BORDER Russian Reds and Mexican LW. W.'s _. to be Kept Washington, Dec. 12. --~Immigra- tion officials onthe border were structed to-day by Anthony Caminet- ti commissioner general of immigra- tion, to forward a report on the threatened invasion trom Mexico of ty Russian Bolsheviki and 150 X LWW, Mr. 'ex ty. of the 3 migration omicials to 3 e Imm on with such a situation in view of sth of the U. S. troops on "0% Pprisonment; and Frank brought about by the cost enhancement by reason of tariff in this direction. tion. Necessaries of food (whether fresh, d fuel, including the | hich any thereof are in | ved or made, and such | time, to time by special 8 and medical supplies. | devoted attention were | but it will be seen that covered." { includes drug particularly a wide field, INSANE CONVICTS MAKE THEIR ESCAPE From Rockwood Asylum--One Gives Himself Up--The Others at Large. Three prisoners of the Per{smouth Penitentiary, who were judgéd to be insdne and were transferred to the Rockwood asylum in Portsmouth' re- cently, made their escape. One of them, John Gowans, who has served several terms, voluntarily returned to the asylum and gave himself up, but the: other two are still at large, and their whereabouts are unknown. They are Leo Cole, convicted of a serious offence against a girl under appeared that there is that early in the | | versi | ~~ | ay make representa~ | | i | | | | | Admiral Viscount Jellicoe ty of Toronio. The centr TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD Is Seat to New York By fhe Canadisn Government, 10 CHECK DEPRECIATION IN MONTREAL EXCHANGE AND MEET OBLIGATIONS. British Financiers Believe the Re- Britain's Favor. {Canadian Press Nespateh) 000,000 in gold to this city, it was announced to-day. The ship- ment, 'which is purely a Canadian Government matter, is sadd to be for fourteen years at Torontd, April 27th, 1917, and sentenced to ten years' i - TOON victed of burglary at Miiten on Janu- ary 10th, 1919, aad sentenced to six Years.. Cole was transferred to the asylum August 14th, 1919, upon cer- titicates of insanity verified by the alienists of 'the asylum. Frank Cassidy was transferred on October 24th, 1919, in the same manner, the purpose of meeting some obliga ren lore and als. to check the de Preciation In the Montreal exchange." Canadian exchange Yesterday under- went a sensational decline of 43.75 per thousand dollars which carried | the mate to $110, or premium of eleven per cent. on the dollar In Montreal the sale of Canadian grain | bills is believed to have accentuated | the weakness in the exchange rates. LEGACY TO SOLDIER FROM A MILLIONAIRE Sergt. Albert Driscoll Was | Batman to Wealthy Michi- | gan Man's Son. i The Whig learned on Friday that | there was no doubt that Sergt. Al- | bert Driscoll, now a patient at the Sydenham Hospital, had been left a legacy amounting to a lump sum of 000 and $1,000 a year for life. The article which appeared in Tuesday's issue stated that an old Suepman had left him the money. The Whig is informed that the money wag left. by W. Hudson, a million- alre, of Michigan city, who died re- cently. Sergt. Driscoll recently returned from overseas, where he served with the 2nd Battalion. While in France he acted us batman to Lieut, Hudson, son 'of the millionaire who recently dled. Thé Michigan court sits on Jandary 2nd, when the parties men- tioned in the will will present their claims, ; | ---- , The capture of Kharkov, in south- ern Russia, one of the bases of Gen. Denikine, is announced in a Moscow official despatch. Tne Bolsheviki also claim the occupation of Valki, twenty miles south-west of Kharkov. Detroit churches are to be opened to those who are suffering from the cold weather and lack'of fuel. Sweden has signed the interna- tional copyright convention. . {Row uppermost on the Chicago 43 ki; to $80 Id Britain's Favor. Montreal Star Cable. London, Dec. 12.---That the Brit. ish Government could restore. the {pound to its normal value at any time such change is desired, statement made by prominent finan- cial men in London. The matter is the subject of common comment in the city. But for the present the Government believes the reduced value is all in Britain's favor, and, in authoritative circles, a further fall to $3.50 in New York is generally anticipated. The reason for this belief ds fairly obvious. Behind the 'withdrawal of Government support, which sustained the value of the pound during the war, is the desire to restore, as far as possible, a pre-war balance of . Britain owes immense sums to the United States, and with the pound reduced, importers here are discouraged in buying anything not absolutely necessary, because of (he premium demanded by exchange. With the pound so low Britain's debtors hasten to full bills, thus bringing money into the country. Foreign nations are also anxious to buy British manufactured goods, when it is possible to get what for- merly cost $4.86 for less than $4. In every way the lowered value of the pound js reacting in Britain's favor. : is the LOCAL MARKET PRICES Now Ruling, The Hide and Raw Fur The market on hides is weak, all 'previous prices quoted are cancelled. Heavy receipts, the effect of the coal strike, and tanners shutting down stimulates the weakness which is mar ket. Green Aides a voted at 20 cents per ree of bones. Calfskins: 5 cents per 1b; deacons $1.50 to $2; same as hides. Horse hides ps for large. Sheep pelts, 2 $P0940000080 0000 ire , - {an & at vi j prime at value. ;. according to size. r-- n, No. 1 prime, $3 to §6. alte. - prime, $2 to $4, up- ; + 'Mink, No. 1 prime, $6 to $10, vo- prime at value. : ] Beaver, No. 1 prime, large, $39 to 5 me at value. kunk, No, 1 he $15 per Ib. » 30 cents per rendered, cake, 15 1 duced Value of the Pound Is All in | New York, Dec. 12 --The Cana- | | dian Government is shipping $20,- Pr i 35 {il 50 Red Fox, No. 1 prime, $20 to 22, | unprime at value. saluting Mayo# Church. cayghtina unique snap e figure is MEN FORGETTING | WELLER'S ADVICE | War, Widows Are Catching | | Boys While Sweet Sixteen | is Desolate. London, Dee. 12. With more than i 2 million British lassies destined to | remain husbandless because of the shortage of men, there is some con- { demnation of the selfishness of war | { widows in making encroachments on the available supply of prospective | swains. | According to Sir Worthington | Evans, Minister of Pensions, one in| every five war widows has remarried, | {there being 216,000 war widows, and 38,664 have remarried, which, +s it | is pointed out to-day, indiézies that | | Samuel Weller's advice to his son to i beware of widows, has lost its punch. | ' . r igm | PATt to hoarding, In fact, scores of war widows have | The German Government Will Sign | married three times during the last five years, and one woman married | | four times. { What gives some spinsters an ad- i ditional grelvance is the discussion | SALUTING THE STUDENT BODY AT UNIVERSITY. Sn the student body of the Uni= GERMAN "PAPERS Peace: Treaty Be Signed. SAY THEY CANNOT BANK UPON PROMISES OF COUNTRIES ANY MORE. the Protocol at Once If Promise ARE ENG (About Allis Insisting That Protocol fo ALLIED Is | A NAVAL CHAPLAIN Kingston Units . Entered Germany One Yéar Ago It will be one year ago on Sat- urday, the 13th of December, Since the Canadian forces cross- ed the Rhine and entered Ger- many. The first division, in- cluding the 2nd Battalion of Kingston, crossed the river at Cologne. The second division, including the 21st, crossed the bridge at Bonn. The 21st was the 'first Canadian unit to cross over onto Germ ih ' DIES ON CORSICAN Rev. 8. D. Scammell Passes Peagetully Away in His Cn bin. St. John, N.B., Dec. 12.--Return- ing to his berth on Sunday night, Dec. 7th, after conducting the last service on board the steamer Corsi- can, which docked here, Rev. 8. D. Scammell, of Brantford, Ont,, passed peacefully away during the night. His death was discovered the next morning, when his daughter, Miss Laura Scammell, who was accom- panying him, called to him, and when he did not answer enteréd his cabin and found him sleeping his last sleep. Rev. Mr. Scammell, although se- venty-eight years of age, had served his country during the war as a naval chaplain. CANADA NICKEL +» FOR BRITISH COINS Reserve Supply to be Ordered By Lloyd George's Gov~ ernment. London, 'Dec. 12.--The question of substituting nickel coins or re- | | present | consideration by the ducing the quality of silver in the coinage has been under British Gov- ernment, and it is reported that the Mond Nickel Company of Canada will be given a contract for the provision of a reserve supply of nickel coins. It is understood that the company already has such a conttadt for French nickel coinage. Silver has been gro APE "Very : i i | Made That Marine Materials Will | Be Returned. Bérlin, Dec. 12.--The German i { i i Low proceeding in the columns of the | Government must be sure of the Al! | Daily Mail, as to whether or not mar- | ried women should have men friends, awhile in the Daily Express a. large | {part of a columi is almost daily de- | voted to the reasons why some men { consider it wiser to remain bachelors {in _these days of high cost of living and loving, a 10 CENTS APIECE THE CHEAPEST FOOD | So Says Prof. Graham of the { - = National Poultry Council At Guelph. ! Guelph, Dec. 12.--Practically ev- ery speaker at the twentieth banquet of the Guelph Poultry Association, | held in connection - with the winter { fair, voiced the complaint of all ex- { hibitors in every class of live stock [in asking for more room. According {to Thomas Simpson, president of the {local association, the poultry show {at the winter fair had grown in tne i past ten years to be one of the great- | est of its kind in the world. Prof. "Dick" Graham, |of the. National Poultry Council," in a briet'address, scored the manufac- turers of canned chicken, claiming that in too many cases this produc was mostly composed of veal. : Prof. Grabam'advised people to eat more c¢ggs. Even at ten cents each, he argued, eggs were one of the cheapest forms of food on the | { market to-day, as they contained | | substances to promote growth {found only in two other products: [eream and cod liver ofl: . f 1 president | THE WAY FOR THE SIGNING Grgan German - Government Tells le Entente Notes PAVING Are iliatory. * i { - Berlin, Dec. 12.--'"The Entente | notes are more conciliatory in "tone than has been previously assumed," says the Volks Zeitung. "They con- taly tangible concessions, the final cla of the protecol providing that the Emfente could at any time take military action against ' maty, has been d .-Negotia- tions also can take place regarding certain modifications inthe prote- col concerning the surrender of docks ' dry Ce i = te ------_---- Bn Lee for to-day by Detroit clearing house banks is $7 on each $100 of Can American goods or else con ed into Amerizan bills, | Hes' position on the surrender of | | docks and marine materials demand- ed as reparation for sinking of the Scapa Flow fleet, before it accepts the protocol, maine Zeitung declared yesterday. the Deutsche Allge- "We cannot rély upon the Ene tente's promise to return them lat- er," the newspaper declared. Vorwaerts agreed, declaring bit. terly: "We cannot bank upon Am- erica, France or England in the mat- ter of promises any more." The Pan-German press general took the attitude ly the Government Was responsible for Germany's dif- ficulties, The Cabinet yesterday decided ping men from Hanseatic cities Paris immediately. to | send a delegation of prominent ship- to This commis sion will carry a list of cranes, docks and other marine materials showing Germany's total tonnage is on clares the Allies demand, wou ly | 527,000 tons and that surrender of | the 400,000 tons which Germany de- id cripple German marine transporta- tion hopelessly. The commission will ask that the Alljes agree to grant retura of this material immediately, instead of: at some indefinite time, as indicated in the Allied note demanding Germany's sigature to the protocol. If this ultimatum succeeds in ob- taining a definite promise for im- mediate return of the marine mater- als, it was indicated, the Govern- ment will sign the protocol at once. THE KAISER BECOMES PERIL TO THE DUTCH ds len A Deputy Asks Government to Consider Question of His Extradition. The Hague, Dec. 12--1¢ previous- ly 'we have not regarded him as danger to our country, he is now proving to be a danger,' said Deputy Sannes in the Chamber of Deputi to-day, referring to former Emperor The deputy Ger- | was dealing with a book written by Carl Kautsky, a German Socialist, which Sannes declared showed that the former Emperor was the cause of the! world war. The data in Kaunt- sky's book are said to have been ob- "jtained from- official archives in William of Germany. Berlin. Deputy Sannes asked the Govern- question of of the ment to reconsider the the 'sojourn at Amerongen former Em consider the dition. serious anti-Kaiser movement 'oecur in the Dutch Parliamen bills, which can be | rounced that sold at a handrome ; nium on the , and seriously to question of his extra This fucldent constituted the tiret io i ! scarce in Britain, due io a great especially in India, and also to excess of paper money which has been issued. RESUME CONFERENCES Lloyd George and Clemencean Dis- cuss International Finauce, (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Dec, 12--Premier's Lloyd George and Clemenceau resumed their conferences on war problems early to-day. Earl Curzon of Kedles- ton secretary of state for foreign at- fairs, Sir Maurice Hankey, secretary of 'the war cabinet, and the French ambassador were present. Interna- tional finance was 'under discussion, Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer being called into con- ference, he having cancelled his speaking engagements. RIDICULOUS SITUATION. Canadians Cannot: Accept But Americans Can. London, Dec. 12.---Truth to-day commenting on the conferment by the Prince of Wales of titles during the American visit, whereas the Can- adian Parliament has vetoed accept- ance of such, says: 'Perhaps demo- cdacy in Canada is pot very. robust, but it does seem rather ridiculous that the King's own subjects there should be barred from honors which citizens of the republic over - the border can accept." -- GERMANY'S LATEST REPLY. Reciprocates Concilitary Tone of En- tente's Communication, {Canadian Press Disgatch) Berlin, Dec. 12. ny's reply to the last notes from the Supreme Council have been sent to Varsailles. Nothing has heen given out relative to its contents, aside from a hint that its gemeral tenor reciprocates the concilitory tose of the last communi: cation from the Entente. Honors, AID FOR UNIVERSITY. A Bill Will be Introduced in Quebec Quebec, Dec. 12.--A bill will be introduced this session of the legis- lature towards granting aid to the University of Montreal, the main building of which was recently de- stroyed by fire. It is probable {hat the bill will provide a substantial an- nual grant for & ngmber of years. ---------- pe -- Premier Drury will leave it to the U.F.0. convention to place Doherty and Raney in seats for parliament. ' LAST EDITION. CURTAILING OF | | OIL: PRODUCTION [15:2 Grave Menace to the 1.5. Merchini Marine. {CONST RESERES. SHORT AND THIS MAY PROVE VERY EMBARRASSING -- The Effect of Legal Interference ny Carranza--Mexico Has Not Repli ed To U, 8S. Notes. Washington, Dee. 12°--Curtail ment of oil production in the Tam- pico fields as the result of Mexican Government decrees has become sa serious that Chairman Payne, of the morandum on the subject for Pre- sident Wilson, Representative Gould, Republican, of New York, announc- ed after a conference with the Board chairman. Representative Gould also said Mr. Payne had written Secretary Lansing urgently pressing the im- portance of protecting the American supply of Mexican fuel ofl from *il-- legal interference by the Mexican Government." s Chairman Payne was quoted by Mr. Gould as saying that fuel oil re t a cessation of re- n oil for a very few weeks would .embarrass the opera tion of the Government merchant marine. Mr. Gould declared that the Car- ranza Government, through refusal. to permit the drilling of new wells and by other means, was "attempt- ing to force American oil ecompan- les to relinquish 'their properties in Mexico." His conference with © chairman Payne followed 'a call' at the Shipping Board by a delegation of representatives of American com- panies owning oil properties in Mex- ico, who presented the seriousness of the situation to Mr. Payne. They Stated that production of oil in Mex. i¢o practically has ceased as the re- sources of decrees promulgated by President Carranza and the general attitude of the Mexican Government toward foreign ofl conipanies. The delegation was headed by F. R. Kel- logg, of New York. Drilling of new wells in the Tam- pico district, from which. comes much of the world's oil supply, has been prohibited by the Mexican Gov- 'ernment, the oil men sald, and there have been difficulties with transpor- tation to seaports for shipments and other handicaps, . Shipping Board officials concedad that a situation as outlined by the oil men would have serfous effects for the American merchant marine, as the Board's supply. comes largely from the Mexican fields. The Board now is operating some 500 oil-burn- ing 'ships, and the stores mow on hand will not last more than twg months, Three notes protesting against in. tefference by the Carranza Govern. ment with the operations of Amer. fean oil properties in Mexico, and against the lack of protection afford: ed these properties by the authorities have been sent to Mexico within re. cent-months, it was learned here to- day. Mexico has made no reply to any of them. rr ----------------in & ~ MORE LIQUOR PRODUCED -- In Canada Yast Year Than in Yeas (Canasan Ottawa, Dee. Tate) four million proof gallond of spirits were produced in Canada during the fiseal year which closed on Mateh 31st Compared with three and a half mil lion proof gallons in the previous year, is the statement made in the annual report of the Inland Revenue Department. The revenue of the de- partment for the' year exceeded thirty million dollars, as compared with about twenty-seven million last year. Revenue from war taxes puched the twelve million mark, as against a little over two millions dur ing the previous year, : During the year the actual tobacea taken for consumption was nearly forty-seven million and a half pounds as compared with nearly forty-five million pounds during the previous year. ' tives of the Government of Esthonia, Letvia, Lithuania, Pol Ukraine and White Russia, in conference at Dorpat, have declared themselves m favor of a military and politics] eon: vention to defend their independ. ence. - - The Canadian dollar is now at @ Siscount of eleven per esnt. fn New in BULLETIN. ! C.P.R. stock declined on Thursday ten points to 126 3. English sterling exchange fis wiih falling in Npw York. = .. The U8. miners resumed work Thursday in many of the coal cen Leader Mackenzie King urges that Liberal candidates enter the fleld a possible. : . Several on the Atlantic definitly Shipping Board, has prepared a me- N " To Defend Independence. Ln London, Dee. 12. representa - stenmens" are still ashiors he