ON SALE. peeing Bargains in SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, CAPS and HATS Our best grades only Collier's YEAR 87, NO. 305, The Japanese Explanation Of Massacres And Burnings Commission Addresses Letter to Canadian Missionaries in Manchuria--Gives Warning That the Good Under- standing Between Countries May Be Impaired. Tokio, Dec. Manchuria, has addressed a letfer to Canadian missionaries there, in answer to allegations of massacres and village burn- ings by Japanese troops. The letter says that the Japanese expedition to the district was the result of Chinese authorities co-operating with outlaws, and declares that churches and schools were burned on evidence incontestable that they had been used as "breeding places of iniquity." It was impossible to hold court-martials, and the troops exe the spot after a simple inquiry, which included the evidence of villagers. An indiscriminate massacre was avoided. The letter warns that assistance given by British mission- aries to Korean malcontents may impair the good understand- ing between the two countries. If British Christians assist Korean malcontents, the Japanese Buddhists are entitled to assist anti-British elements in India, the commission declares. Appeal to the Irish "Parliament" To Negotiate a Truce For Peace Dublin, Dec. 4.--Resolutions appealing to the Irish re- publican "parliament" to negotiate .a truce with a view securing an honorable peace were passed by the Galway county council, a republican body, yesterday. The resolutions L expressed the opinien that the British government should withdraw the ban on meetings of the Irish republican "parlia- ment" so that the latter might appoint delegates. They de- clared that the present reign of shooting and burnings, reprisals and counter-reprisals are detrimental to the inter- ests of both Britain and Ireland. It was ordered that this reso- lution should be sent to Premier Lloyd George, together with a resolution passed by Galway urban council, supporting the appeal of Roger N. Sweetman, Sinn Fein member of parlia- ment for North Wexford, suggesting a truce. CONSTANTINE NOT 80 ENTHUSIASTIC Ardor to Return to Greece at Earliest Possible Moment Has Cooled. Lucerne, | De¢. '4.--Constantine's ardor to retiirn to Greécé = at the earliest possible moment seems to have cooled, or perhaps the latest news from Athens is not so encour- aging as had been anticipated. There is certainly a hitch somewhere. Os- tenstbiy it is due to difficulties of travel. Several days ago a special envoy left here for the purpose of making arrangements with the Gov- ernment in Athens for the return in | % WILSON MAY VISIT » CONGRESS WITHOUT CANE * -- % Washington, Dec. 4-- President * Wilson may appear before con- % gress next week to deliver his # last annual message. The presjs % dent's health is reported improv- * ing rapidly. He has dispensed ¥ with his wheeled chair and may % be able to go t& the capitol % without using a cane. EET IEF e SEL | TORONTO AND HYDRO TO BUY INTERESTS 4.-»"The military commission at Chien Tao, | to | the event of the plebiscite favoring Of the Mackenzie Company if Tino's restoration, but nothing has beea heard of or from him since, de- &pite urgent telegraphic inquiries. The extenuating explanatibn offered is that ex-Queen Sophie is afraid a Toronto, Dec. 4.--The city of To- voyage on a battleship would be too | Tonto and the Hydro-Electric Com- trying for the ladies and the younger | mission are to buy out the Mackenzie members of the family, so everybody | interests for $32,734,000, if the tax- in Athens is busy searching for a | payers of Toronto at the municipal steamer so big and steady as to guar- | elections, on January 1st, endorse the Electors Give Consent. antee freedom from sea sickness. | the deal. The properties involved | are the Toronto Power Company, the | Electrical Development Company, | the Toronto Electric Light Company and the Radial railways in York county. The Toronto Railway Com- pany is.-not part.offthe deal. The provincial hydro ¢Bmmission, as the result of the transaction, becomes the largest generator and distributor of electricity in the world. In the meantime all the exiles, who, Including the family and" re- tinue, number 70, are: busy packing up three years' accumulation of per- sonal belongings. The hotel cofri- dors are becoming congested with huge new packing cases, all labelled "The baguage of His Majesty, the King of the Hellenes." Dying Empress Lingers Under Stimulants Doorn, Holland, Dec. 4.--Hypoder- mic Injections of a heart stimulant are being resorted to dally to con- serve the fast-waning strength of for- mer Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, A constant watch is being kept at her bedside and it is said hope for her recovery has been abandoned, al- though it is believed she may linger until a particularly severe attack ends her sufferings and life. Lights burn all night within the castle. Another Old Veteran Gone, London, Dec. 4.--John James, sur- vivor of the famous charge of Balac- lava in the Crimean war, has just died at the Chelsea Pensioners' Hos- pital of pneumonia, aged eighty-six. There are still over 'twenty veter- . ans of the Crimean campaign in the Chelsea institution. Their old-fash- foned scarlet tunics and quaint peak- ed caps used to be popular with ar-. tists, "Workers Not In Position to Accept Wage Reductions Ottawa, Dec, 4.---Tom Moore, at 8 meeting of the Allied Trades and Labor Council last night, declared that workers were not in a position of having to submit to a reduction of the wage standard, resulting from the ery that prices in general were falling. The depression, he sald, had been wilfully brought about by various combinations in order to try, and force labor to ac- cept a reduced wage. The execu- tive committee had brought in a report stating that employers throughout the country were em- barking on a campaign for a re- / duction X in wages and an increase in working hours. Russian Soviet Troops Have Captured Erivan London, Dec. 4.--Russian Soviet troops captured Erivan, the Arme- nidn capital, on Thursday, and Ar- menia has declaged itself a Soviet republic, it is asserted in a wireless despatch received from Moscow to- «lay. Troops of the old Armenian government have placed themselves at the disposal of the Soviet admin- istration, the despatch declares. Doherty's Amendment to Eliminate Article 10 Geneva, Dec. 4.--An amendment to the covenant of the League of Nations, eliminating article ten, the most mooted section of the pact, was introduced in the assembly of the league to-day by Hon. C. J. Doherty, minister of justice for Canada. The amendment will probably be referred to the committee on amendments, Must Serve Three Years. Marion, O., Dec. 4.--An election bet was paid here when Clarence H. Burk, Latrobe, Pa., enlisted in the army. Burk bet his brother tnat if Senator Harding proved the suc- cessful candidate for president, he would enlist for three years. It Gevernor Cox were elected his bro- ther was to enlist in th: navy for four years. A Mackenzie clean up has been ar- ranged at Toronto for $33,000,000. The provincial government has given its consent and agreed to guarantee the bonds. Grant Hall, vice-president of C.P.R., stated on Friday that nothing definite had been decided concerning the closing of the Angus shops. Gauthier, Liberal member for St. Hyacinthe, may come into the Mei- ghen government. . The bodies of twenty-one victims of the wrecked barge Pierre were re- covered and buried on the beach, near Cape Johnson, Oregon. > Joseph Gibson, Ingersoll, promi- nent 'in temperance, municipal, A.0. U.W., Methodist, athletic and poljti- cal affairs for many years, is dead. The Finish parliament ratified the peace treaty with Soviet Russia. leva in order to be in closer touch The Ottawa Citizen says that L. J, | FEELING FOR AN IRISH PEACE London, Dec. 4.--The Times gives prominence to a report that indirect negotiations are proceeding between members of government and Sinn Fein- There seems to be no { doubt, it says, that Arthur Hen- derson has an- informal man- | date to explore avenues which might lead to an Irish peace, | ie - WILL NOT GIVE WAY | TO LABOR NOMINEE | | Lanark County Labor Man Must Submit Himself to Convention. the ers, Brockville, Dec. 4.--The labor {party of Lanark county claims the | right to nominate a candidate to con- | general elections, and is asking the | | support of the U.F.0. D. H. Gem- | mill, of Smith's Falls, vice-chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men, son of a farmer, i8 said to have | {the unanimous support of the labor | {men in the riding. The communica- | tion of the labor party did not meet | with the approval of the Smith's {| Falls U.F.0. at its annual meeting. | W. L. Johnston, 'farmer M.P.P. for Lanark, claimed that Gemmill should submit himself to the convention, and if he did so and received the nomina- | tion, he (Johnston) would support [him. Mr. Johnston stated that he would oppose any proposal which {might be advanced in the legislature {at the next session with a view to [the inauguration of an eight-hour day in industrial establishments. WINNIPEG ELECTS BREAD MAKER MAYOR The Labor Party Failed to Se- cure City Council Majority. Winnipeg, Dec. 4.--Edward Par- nell, bread manufacturer, the candi- date of the citizen's committee, was elected mayor yesterday, receiving | 15,115 votes against 14,014 cast for | S. J. Farmer, accountant, labor can- | didate. The aldermanic vote is on tLe proportional representation plan, and only first choices were counted last night, but it seemed that labor had failed to secure a majority in the city council. GROUND FOR PROPAGANDA Li Spreading the Doctrines vism Over the World. 5 The Hague, Déc. 4.--Absence lin' peace times, of any strict control' of danmigration in most South Amnierican countries, makes. it particularly easy.) the Associated Press correspondent was told by a member of the Brazil- ian diplomatic service, for Bolshevik couriers, sent out by Moscow, to reach South America, Recent investigations by the cor- respondent in several countries of Central Europe have indicted that a continuous eftort is through use of a courier and propa- ganda system that includes perhaps 45,000 Moscow paid workers, to spread the doctrine of Bolshevism throughout the world. In this effort, South and Central America are considered by the Bol- sheviki not only as excellent fields for local "missionary work" along the lines of strikes and political un- rest, but also as advanced field bases tor promoting Boishevism in North America, where stricter immigration laws prevail. being made, WOMAN FOR SENATE. Alberta Agitation in Favor of Mrs. Murphy. Edmonton, Dec. 4.--An effort, ac- cording to a rumor current here, is being made to secure the appoint- ment of Mrs. Emily Murphy, police magistrate of Edmonton, to the Sen- | ate as one of the representatives for | Alberta. Vigorous canvass is being | made of Premier Meighen and mem- bers of his cabinet as well as many { influential men both 'in eastern and western Canada in favor 'of this ap- pointment, Mrs, Murphy, as *"Janey Canuck," has won considerable recognition as a writer. She is president of the National Federation of Women's In- stitute and past president of the Can- adian Women's Press Club. MANNIX IS BARRED. Is Ordered to Keep Away from Liver. pool District. . London, Dec. 4.--Archbishop Man- nix, of Melbourne, Australia, has been forbidden to keep a speaking engage- ment at Bootle, a suburb of Liver- pool, Saturdays; and will not be al- lowed in thie Liverpool area, accord- ing to the Evening Standard. The Home Office and the military are re- sponsible for the prohibition. Officials of the Home Office, however, refuse to say anything concerning the arch- bishop. : . Moved to Geneva. Paris, Dec. 4.--European head- quarters of the International Com- mittee of the Young Men's Christian Association are being moved to Gen- with the many international organi- zations centered there and also be- Cause the communication facilities with the various centers of work are better there. z English Bride Badly Burned. Dorchester, N.B., Dec. 4.--While painting a stovepipe, Mrs. Samuel | Coleman placed the can of paint on the edge of a hot stove. An explo- sion foliowed, throwing the burning liquid over her clothing. She may die. Mrs. Coleman came from Eng- land as a bride on the return to Can- ada of her soldier-husband. Will Increase Stigends. London, Dec. 4.--The Baptist Union of Great. Britain has succeeded | In raising a quarter of a million | pounds sterling to increase minimum ah ow» of Bolshe. | stipenas in its missionary efforts. ON SALE. Special Bargains in SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, CAPS and HATS Our best grades oaly Collier's BRITISH PEERS FACE TROUBLE Accepted Hospitality of Am- erican Supporter of Ea- monn de' Valera. Washington, Dec. 4.--Develop- ments of a highly piquant character, to say the least, may shortly ensue iu Great Britain in connection with the recent visit to North America of Lord Pirrie of Belfast and Lord Inverforth, British' Minister of Munitions and Supply, writes Frederic W. Wile. The two peers, who may still be in cuted insurgents on [test the riding at the next federal [NeW York or already en route to Eng- land, returned a week or ten days ago from Mexico. They went there as the guests of Edward L. Doheny, the California oil magnate, Doheny is the leading figure in the new Irish movement in the United States. While he was entertaining the two British peers on his private car and private yacht in Mexico and Mexi- can waters, Doheny was being elect- ed to Eamonn de Valera's newly-or- ganized American association for the recognition of the Irish Republic. Trouble is understood to be in store at home for the British noblemen, one of them a Minister of the Crown, for these conspicious and public hob- nobbings with the America. who is now the financial spearhead of the crusade to embroil the Upiw States in difficulties with the British Em- pire over Ireland. The British peers came here to In- spect the Doheny oil properties at Tampico, Mexico, because they have latterly become interested in the Bri- tish corporation which the Doheny interests have formed part of. The arrangement is understood in Wasn- ington to provide for special sup- plies of Tampico oil for the Cunard Line, in which Pirrie is largely inter- ested. In return it is said the Cunard combination is to furnish additional sinews for exploitation of the Doheny properties. SEEK AMENDMENT OF NURSES' REGULATIONS Which Would Close Up Hbs- pitals in;8ome Small ¥ Towns. GE Toro' ~, Dec. 4,--=A deputation of dogtors" and nursés from Fergus, Guelph, Kincardine and Orangeville, waited on Provincial Secretary Nixon and urged that the proposed regula- lions for.the regulation of nurses be amended. The deputation claimed there was discrimination against the smaller outside hospitals, the new "order" being very much to the ad- vantage of the hospitals in the cities. Judge Fisher, of Orangeville, de- clared that, if the regulations were carried out in the present form, they would practically have to close the hospital in Orangeville. Dr. Groves, of Fergus, stated that the smaller town hospitals simply could not af- ford to live up to the regulations in t: eir' present form, respecting cer- tain conditions under which nurses ar. obliged to receive training. Dr. Hobbs, of Guelph, spoke in a similar strain. Hon. Mr. Nixon assured the depu- tation that he would give the matter serious consideration. Dies of Sleeping Sickness. Regina, Sask, Dec. 4.--Lorne Inge, a soldier settler near Manor, Sask, whose relatives are believed to live near Charlottetown, P.E.1., is dead in Regina General Hospital of sleeping sickness, : POOR RELIEF FUND The annual meeting of the King- ston Poor Relief Association, held Thursday, revealed the some- what startling fact that the so- ciety's total) receipts for the year amounted to only $586.08. The city was asked to vote $600 toward the work, but granted only $300. The soclety's receipts are woefully in- adequate to cope with the demands upon it. = Five hundred dollars will not go' very far"in providing food and fuel for destitute families in these high-cost-of-living days. Dur- ing the past few years, when work was plentiful and wages were high, the amount of assistance required was at the minimuin, and the °so- ciety's small revenue was not a seri- cus drawback. Conditions are vastly different to-day. Hundreds of bread- winners are out of*work, and their number is bound to be augmented as the days go by. The society is appealing for addi- tional assistance. The civic finance committee has voted another $100, and Mayor Nickle suggests that, while help should be extended at | the Christmas season, the society should make arrangements to help the destitute families throughout the winter. That is sound advice. To do so, however, requires addi- tional funds and further contribu- tions of food, clothing, etc. The Whig will gladly receive and acknowledge all cash contributions to this worthy cause. The Poor Re- liet Society will investigate every case most thoroughly before assis- tance is extended, to tlfe end that the money may be wisely expended. Distress this winter is going to be much more widespread than ever before, and' additional help "is urgently needed. The Daily British Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1920. WORK PROMISED FOR VETERANS --irn = Ottawa, Dec. Meighen promised consideration to tions made at an interview last 4. --Premier the fullest , representa- night with J. Fred Marsh and i Herbert Capewell, of the Grand Army United Veterans, who pointed out that unemployment among the veterans was. ex- tremely serious, and requesting the government to take relief measures. Marsh subsequently stated that the premier had in- timated that public works will be gone on with as speedily as possible, in order to employ veterans, and other measures will be considered to meet the situation. COMMITTED SUICIDE IN EVENING GOWN Wealthy New York Woman Made Careful Preparation for Ending Life. ---- » Boston, Dec. 4.--After arraping herself in a pink silk evening gown and satin slippers, Mrs! 'Mary [Eliz- abeth Fuller, a wealthy woman of LAST EDITION. The Crew of Burning Boat Had Just Time to Escape Fire Broke Out on the Schoolcralt at 11 ain, Friday Vessel Was Beached--Wireless Message Was Sent to the Barriefield Station. Schoolcraft, that was destroyed by fire after, being beached at the foot of Wolie Island, on Friday 'morn- ing, reached the city on the Cape steamer Mississquoi at 6 p.m., Fri- day, They were met on arrival by the immigration officials and Cap- tain John Donnelly ef the. Donnelly | Wrecking and Salvage Company, | The crew consisted of Captain | Willlam Cunningham, Mate Isaac Woolner, both of Midland, Mr. Dunn, chief engineer, and Thomas Sughrue, both of Kingston; ten men and one { woman, Mrs, Hicks, cook, all of Mid- land. +All are well, and experienced | no/ mishap, excépt the mate, Mr. | Woolner, who bears a slight scar on | the face from a bu when escaping | from thé v.ssel. "Hé™was in bed when | the fire: broke out. 1 | | { | The crew of the ill-fated steamer New York and Boston, climbed on a | According to Captain Cunningham, chair, tied a rope about her neck, | who, was interviewed by a Whig re- looped it over a curtain pole, then | presentative, fire broke out about 11 kicked the chair out from under her a.m. when the vessel was rounding feet and died from strangulation. |the foot of the island, and seeing that Her lifeless body was discovered yes- | {t was" beyond control he ran her terday 'in a suite of rooms in the Hotel Lennox. Beautiful and of a well-to-da-family in New York, Mrs. Fuller, who is about 35 years old, calmly registered at the Lennox as Mrs. Mary Wilson, 100 West 92nd street, New York, went to her room, | attired heérself®in her death robe of gay colors, wrote her will, about for a convenient:place to hang herself and then did sey Mrs. Fuller carried only a hand- bag when she arrived "at. the hotel; investigation showed that only a clothesline, a wood drill and a hook were in the bag. In the room she had engaged, she used the clothesline and part of a window cord and a portiere pole with which to fashion her gallows. Then wearing her pink silk gown and satin slippers she sat down at a desk and wrote hér will, addressing it to At- torney Frank P. Ryan, of Worcester. Concluding her writing the woman Cavidently carried the chair to a spot éneath the' curtain pole, stepped upon it, adjusted the noose about hey neck and kicked away the chair. USE IS MADE OF THE BARBED WIRE Which Was Left "on - the Battlefields of Europe-- Make Nails of It. Riga, Latvia, Dec. 4.--A usé has at last been found here for the vast quantities of barbed wire left on the béttlefields of Eastern Europe. Riga inventors have devised machinery for stamping nails out of the wire and hope by this melhod to relieve the shortage of nails in. the Balkan. states, 5 5 Riga has been the genter of so much fighting throughout the war that most of the lakes, Streaths ang roads about the city are thoroughly lined with barbed wire entanglements and great numbers of full spools of wire are lying about. The expense of collecting wire for. making nails {s thus made light. Many of the piers at this port are stacked high with wire suitable for nail making. FEAR FLOUR SHORTAGE. Newfoundland Importations Are Lower Than Usual. St. John's, Nfld., Dec. 4.--Owing to the falling markets and the gen- eral depressions prevailing here, | Newfoundland is faced with a serious | shortage of flour this m¢nth, before its end. Imports have been smaller than usual and the shortage of No- vember 30th amounted to 40,000-] barrels. Included in the imports were large shipments from Montreal, and the closing of navigation from there last week will considerably reduce future shipments. It is estimated that the shortage at the end of December will be about 100,000 barrels, as' compared with normal years. . Distributions around the extensive seaboard of this colony after New Year's Day will be diffi- cult and some remote settlements wil have but a meagre supply until spring. . ® More Power May Be Taken. Brockville, Dec. 4.--The New York & Ontario Power Co., an American concern, in whith Col. J. Wesley Al- lison, of Morrisburg, and W..B. Con- nolly, Hamilton, are. interested, is preparing to make an' application to the Federal Power Commission at Al- bany, N.Y., for a permit to; proceed with its power development of from twenty thousand to thirty thousand horse-power at Waddington, which is near the site of the proposed great Hydro-Electric development of 'Ont- arip. ! ; Link With the Past, London, Dec. 4.--Miss Julia Alex- ander, who died on October 31st, within a few days of her ninety- fourth birthday, was the last survi- vor of the thirteen children of Henry Alexander, the celebrated oculist, who died in 1858, and among whose patients were included four Sover- eigns--George IIL, George 1V., Wil- lian IV,, and Queen Victoria. Cabinet Unfavorable, London, Dec. 4.--It is understood that the British admiralty estimates recommend building ome or more post-war dreadnoughts, but the be- lief is pretty general that the pro- position is viewed unfavorably by the cabinet as a whole. Quebec bakers have reduced prices, and Ottawa and Hull bakers have adopted mash basis x looked | ashore. All of thase forward lost | their personal belongings, but' the | crew. were more fortunate. Indeed | it was with great difficulty that those {forward escaped at all. The cause of the fire is unknown. Saat » {4+ LINDSAY CRAWFORD | dn REFUSED A'HEARING | $i -- #% Fredericton," N.B.,, Dec. 4.-- % Lindsay Crawford, Toronto, at- % tempted to address a meeting * last night on the Irish question, #% but a hearing "was refused, and # the audience 'dispersed, _ § | DAINTY LINGERIE | STREWS SHED FLOOR {Numerous Things Hidden on Persons of Women Found By Customs Officer. Windsor, Dec. 4.--Hundreds' of Windsor women, returning yesterday afternoon from shopping tours in De- troit, were searched at Windsor ferry dock by Mrs. Martha Ogilvie, a spec- ial officer assigned by the Dominion Government to break up the smuggl- ing habit among women at border points. Less than an hour after Mrs. Ogil- vie arrived unannounced, the freight shed of the Customs offices, where women shoppers were given 'thé Seats rrbrad The vessel was returning frc.. Mont- real, light, having taken a load of pulpwood on the down trip, and he had orders to berth at Kingston for the winter, The flames were first seen breaking out about the smoke stack, and all in front were in dan- ger of being cut off. After she was grounded all hands got away in the boats, and from the shore watched the flames burn her down to the water's edge. : Before'leaving the ship, a wireless was sent out telling of the fire and of his action. This was caught at the Barriefield station, from which point a call was made upcn Captain Care negie of the Mississquoi at Cape Vin- cent to come around the foot of the island and take the crew on for King- { ston. Captain Cunningham got into personal touch with the owner at Midland over the telephone immedi- | ately upon reaching Kingston, and the crew were lodged at'the Anglo- American hotel. i The Schoolcraft was 180 feet long, and carried 1,000 tons. She was constructed of wood, but three years ago was completely overhauled at an expense of $35,000. She: is owned by Manly Chew, Midland, and this season was a most successful one until this Jast trip. |LIVE HOGS BACK | TO PRE-WAR PRICE So U.S. Packers Report, But Retail Prices Are Not Keeping Pace. i Chicago, Dec. 4.--Hogs on the hoof have returned to what is prac tically thir 1913 prewar price, judg- ing" from. figurd obtained yesterday from the "big five" packers. Pork and pork produets at wholesale are on their way toward that same' leve) the monthly report of the Institute American Meat Packers indica and have reached the scale previy ing in April, 1917, when the Un States entered the war. - # Beef, also, is on the downy, path, the wholesale price of car beef having dropped 17 per since September 1st, according to dnstitute's figures. The biggest drop recorded, however, is in .live hog The packing-hcuse figures show pork. on the hoof brought eight cents pound in November, 1913. Du i the war the farmer was virtua guarantéed a minimum average of 17% cents. In July, 1919, the price en / | reached 23 cents a pound. Today | hogs are back around 1035 cents. Retail prices, however, have not "third degree" by Mrs. Ogilvie, was | kept pace with the falling wholesale strewn with dainty lingerie high top market, the packing house officials shoes, and other "things too ium- erous to" mention, found 'concealed | rectly, on the ground that retailers ra. | might boycott his company, ! to be interviewed by reporters as to | Over 600 Refused Entry her methods of search. Women with | At Windsor in November stockings concealed in baby buggics, and wearing hats bearing the hall- said, but he declined to be quoted di= = mark of Detroit fashion shoas, were ordered into the sanctum of Mrs. Ogilvie, who searched them to de- termine whether or not thoy had duti- able goods concealed in their cloth- ing. One of the first women found smuggling was a relative of a former officer of the local Retail Merchants' 'Association, which organization has : several times protested to tha Gov- (ernment against amount of smug- gling going on at Windsor, Mrs. Ogilvie was no respecter of persons and this woman was compelled. to leave behind her smuggled merchan- dise after being warned that smug- gling is a serious offense. Mrs. Ogilvie, who is the widow of a former Collector of Customs at Aylmer, will remain here several days or longer if necessary, she said. |Says Couple Left Body a Of Infant in Berth Detroit, Dec." 4.--The Detroit po- lice are seeking a Syracuse couple, believed to have been occupants of a berth in a sleeper on the Wolver- ine express, In which the body of a murdered infant was, found yester- day at the Michigan Central depot here. The body, that of a baby girl apparently two weeks old, was dis- covered by a pullman porter as he began preparations to close the berth shortly before the arrival of the erack New York flyer at Detroit. Hay Touches Highest Price on Record, $40 the highest price on record in these parts yesterday, it was said, when it sold for $40 per ton. who brought loads in and sold them said that they received $76, $81 and $80, respectively, for them. When the snow comes the price of hay will be even higher than $40 per ton, was the opfuion hazarded by two of the farmers. Rural Presbyterians and Methodists Unite Renfrew, Dec. 4.--Members of the Pembroke District Conference in ses- sion here unanimously agreed to a plan for the amalgamation of the rural Methodist and Presbyterian congregations in the county so as to prevent overstepping. Ten Metho- dist circuits and Presbyterian con- gregations are affected. The plan will be submitted to quarterly boards of churches interested for ratifica- tion. This will release five ministers yo work in other fields. . Hamilton, Dec. 4.-----Hay reached Three farmers | Windsor, Dec. 4.--More than 600 persons were refused admission to Canada at this point during>Novem- ber, according to the monthly report. of Orval Adams, local inspector in charge of immigration. This is an inerease of more than 200 as com- pared with a year ago. Inspector Adams ascribes this condition to lack of employment in cities of the United States. A majority of those reject- ed could not comply with the regu- lation requiring them to have in their possession a certain amount of money. f Arrange to Deliver Mail - To Men of Canadian Navy 3 Ottawa, Dee. 4.--Arrangements have been made by the Department of the Naval Service for the delivery of mail addressed to officers, men and boys aboard H.M.C. ships Au- rora, Patriot and Patrician, the naval vessels recently presented by Great Britain, so that relatives and friends, of the many Canadians aboard these vessels of the navy will he able to communicate with their friends with out trouble, ' ---------------- Denver Sends Tallest Man. : New York, Bec. 4.--Denver has produced the tallest man in the Unit" ed States Marine Corps, recruiting officers here claim. He is Reuben A. Pratt, twenty-nine years old, who is six feet nine inches tall and weighs 287 pounds. - Cannot Continue As UF.0.-Labor, Premier Deciarzs Chatham, Dec. 4. -- Premiar Drury, addressing seven hundred' men and women at the Maple City Club banquet last night, is reporte as stating that the farmers and inde- pendent labor party cannot ontings as a U.F.O-Labor government fm" this province.' Perpetuation of the, union, he said, was not in line with} public opinion. The farmers of On tario, he said, did not want class legislation or administration. "If we are to continue in office," sald the . premier, "the UF.0. must branch out and broaden out. The old name will disappear of ity. I would christen it, not the ime party, but the people's progressive party, and take in every one." +