- GODKIN DROVE ON BALE. Special Bargains (2 SHIRTS, XECKWEAR, CAFS and HATS Our best grades omly Collier's YEAR 88 : NO. 11. | FUR ROBBERS | . . | Testifies Against Birmingham And Shane, Who Are Committed. Magistrate Farrell on Friday morn- | fng committed Vernon Bermingham and Albert Shane to stand trigl be- fore a judge and jury, in connection with the robbery at George Mills & | { | | | + Company's fur store, early on the .- the automobile overtaken by Const- morning of November 6th, " James D. Godkin, who was driving ables Nicholas Timmerman, Leslie ¥ Ciark, and Harry Wilson, employed at Boyd's garage, was called as a wit- ness by J. L. Whiting, crown attor- ney, and swore that Birmingham and | Shane had been In the car, that on the morning of the robbery Birming- ham had come to his office and ask- | ed him to take him out for a run. He | got out his car, and as they weze | eaving, Shane got into the car too. | | Godkin said he drove the car near | - " Lesslle Clark started in 'pursuit of St. Mary's school, Brock street, | where Shane and Birmingham put a | bundle into the car. Afterwards God- | kin states %e was asked by Shane and | Birmingham to drive to Collin's Bay. The party then started for Culliw's | Bay, and were overtaken by the po- lice, Birmingham and Shane jumped out of the car on the Forty-Foot Road. Crown Attorney VW ¥ting conduct- ed the prosecution, and Ambrose | Shea appeared on behalf of the pri- sgoners. A crowd that taxed the police | court room to the limit, was present for the preliminary hearing. William Y. Mills was the first wit- ness called by Mr. Whiting. He told | ot the robbery at his store on the | morning of Nov. 6th, Entrance had | been secured through an attic win- dow. The store was robbed of nine fur coats and two fur muffs. Witness afterwards was shown goods in the police station by Sergt. Marshall Armstrong. -- Tells of the Chase. Harry Wilson, next called, said he was emploved at Boyd's garage, -on the night of the robbery. He heard a noise on the roof at Mill's store about 5 o'clock and also saw two men car- 1ving fur coats. Witness telephoned the police station to send a couple of 'constables. The men with the. coats want over Brock street to Bagot. Wit- got ana ~and- with Constables Nicholas Timmerman and the two men who had the coats. Witness then told of the auto chase up Johnson street, to Victoria, thence to the Bath Road and Forty-Foot Road. The car witness was in passed the other car, and Constable Timmer- man ordered the men in the other car to stop. They did not stop but while on the Forty-Foot Road witness could see a man in the car throwing out fur coats on to the roadway. From the Forty-Foot Road the chase continued to the York Road, and the car with the police overtook the other car at the far-side of Cataraqui. J. D. God- kin was driving this auto and there were two fur coats in the car when witness and the police made an in- spection. Police Sergeant Marshall Armstrong was on duty at the police station when the fur coats were brought in. He sald these coats were identified by William Mills, as belonging to George Mills & Company. J. D. Godkin's Evidence. James Delbert Godkin, who was driving the car overtaken by the po- lice, and who was arrested in connec- tion with the robbery, was called by Mr. Whiting. "Who had you in the car with you?" asked Mr. Whiting. "Birmingham and Shane," was the reply. "How did they come to be in your car?" "Birmingham came to my garage office about 5.20 o'clock on the morning of the robbery. I was asleep. He woke me up, and asked me if my car was In. I told him it was, and then he asked me if I would take him for a run. I said I would if it was not too far, as it would not be long be- fore I would have to feed my horses. "1 got dressed and got my car out. At this time, Birmingham did not tell me where he wanted 'to go. I got in to drive the car, and Birmingham | got in the back seat. As I was going { out the gate, Shane jumped on the #ide of the car. Birmingham then told me to drive over Clergy street on to Brock. Going down Brock street, we stopped at the lower corner of St. Mary's school. Birmingham and Shane jumped out of the car here, and picked up something and put it' in the back seat: There was nothing in the car up till this time. I did not seo what it was they put in the car. {than last seon. Then there was {difficulty in otting labor, this year _ After putting in the bundle, Birming- ham and hane got into the car | again, and asked me to drive to Collin's Bay. We started for Collin's Bay and were overtaken by the po- bee. "Did you see these men throw any stuff out of the car?' asked Nr. Whiting. "No, I did not." "Where did they car?" wn "Op the Forty-Foot Road." "And tg t-was the last you saw of these men?" : "Yes," said the witness. get out of the | supper, but witnes "Yes," admitted the witness, who added that these coats had been put in the car by Birmingham and Shane. Other Evidence, William Birmingham, a brother of | Vernon Birmingham, was questioned by Mr. Whiting. He said Vernon Bir- Bingham had boarded at his place previous to the robbery. He had boarded with him about two years. The last time he had seen his broth- er prior to the time he was brought | here from Newark, was at supper the ight before the robb Mr. Whiting asked w brother had told him he intended go- ng away, whereupon the witness said kis brother would not be staying on with him. He took no extra clothes with him, and left a trunk containing { clothes in his house. Witness did not | see him leave the house on the night | of "the robbery. James Shane, father of Albert Shane, said that his son had been living at home, and that he did not | gee him on the night of the robbery. m we nid ome to had no intimation that he intended leaving the city. Chief of Police Robinson told about his trip to Newark, N.J., where he found the prisoners in jail on Nov- ember 27th. He said Shane was going under the name of Sweetman, and Lirmingham was using the name Clark, The evidence of Chief Robinson concluded the hearing, whereupon Magistrate Farrell committed Shane and Birmingham to stand trial That night, his ADVOCATES GRADING OF DAIRY PRODUCTS { Hon. Mr. Doherty Values On= mitteoto be allowed to examine his | tario's Production at $100,- 000,000 Yearly. London, Ont., Jan. 14.--Hon Man- ning Doherty, minister of agriculture, was the principal speaker | Western Ontario dairymen's annual {oo committee to demonstrate his { meeting. After a brief summary of | . | the progress of cairying in the pro- the stolen | yince .he mentioned that $100,000,- |. 000 worth of 'dairy products were produced in Ontario annually. He be- lieved this could be increased by fifty per cent. He declared that improved end standardized grading of dairy products is a necessity. Ontario must alco find an ddevelop new markets. One of the best methods of increas- ing milk production was by increas- ing the quality of herds. There was something radically wrong when the production of some herds only aver. aged 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of mil per annum, while many others gave 11,000 to 12,000 pounds. The cam- paign for better sires was bringing good results, he stated. Mr. Doherty advocated the establishment also of a system of rural credits as a means of keeping the younger sons'of farmers on the land. DOMINIONS TO SHARE IN CANTEEN PROFITS War Office Sets Aside $10, 000,000 to Meet Ex- pected Claims. London, Jan. 14.--To meet claims that are expected from the DJomin- fons, the British War Office Las tre- served £2,000,000 ($10,000,000) of the £7,000,000 profit which éccrued from expeditionary force cinteens during the war. This is the gist of an explination given in answer to complaint: by the United Service Fund trustees vho are administering the canteen pnfits on behalf of the ex-soldiers oganiza- tions in Britain. Of the total profits of £7,000,000, £5,000,000 were allotted to soldiers and their dependents, while :2,000,- 000 were to be devoted to tle com- fort of soldiers and sailors stil serv- ing. The complaint of the United Ser- vice Fund trustees was that aly £3,- 000,000 have been handed b them and they inquire why the Wa Office has invested the balance of 2,200,- 000 in the funding loan at fur per cent. To the explanation given abve the War Office adds that there ae pros- pective losses on the realisation of surplus canteen stocks whickmust bs considered prior to the prepration of a final balance sheet. WORK ON HIGHWA'S TOBE HURRIED ON | Provincial System to be Linker Up Within Fie Yeas. Ottawa, Ja. 14.-Highway con- struction thisyear im connection itness if his | ject for a ship canal down tha St. Lavrence to tidewater as impractical. KINGSTON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14; 1921 CANCER CURES NT PROVEN, Medical Cenmitee's Report "on Dr. Glver's Serum Is Disaypoirting. Toronto, Jan. 4 --'From the data as far as ofbtaird, tie committee 1 3 | has found no evience .0 warrant the | that he had no reason to believe that | hop, that a specic cire for cancer |Bitimate withdrawal of the | force was a matter "for future con- | | had been discoveed >y Dr. Glover, or that a cure hanbeen produced by | |the serum, in anicase definitely es- {tablished as cance.' i Such is the fining in the interim | report of the speal committee. of | FORCES IN GERMANY : ORDERED REDUCED U.. 8. War Department Calis for Cut From 15,000 to 8,000 Men. Washington, Jan. 14.--Reduction of the United States forces of occu- | pation in Germany from 15,000 to { 8,000 has been ordered by the War Department. Secretary Baker wrote to Repre- | | sentative Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, that the reduction already | was under way. He added that the entire | sideration." The cost of operating the force of 15,000 was approximately $75,000 a day, Mr. Baker said, but under the {terms of the must pay the maintenance costs. ithe Academy of Jedicine named to | ! i {investigate Dr. T.?. Glover's cancer| treatment. The was issued "last night, ®Hliovng a meeting ot the couneil o theacademy presided over by Dr. 1.H. MHliott | Another pragnph of the report |says: "The lata which your com- {mittee has ken able to obtain have aport | | | Inot convinced it that the results of, 1 {the treatmet obtained by use of Dr. {Glover's serm are better than thoss | methods intro- which the {obtaited bysimilar | duced by chers, and {ultimitely dsappointed entertiined or them." { The repot comments on the ze-| } | ifusal of Dr Glover 'to permit a {visit © his aboratories by r2presen- tative: of te committee," and 'his| {refusa of te "request of the com- | | cultures an( experimental material | a. preent vailable." | t ""He'has 10t acceded," says the | | port, "to the request of the com- | nittee to d:moustrate }is ability to | alture cancer ¢ells and organisms. | at the | ys hag not acceled to the request of | that disarmament resting' on | bility 10 prodize cancer by inoccula- {.on or to imminize animals against - Your _compittee, therefore, has fo evidence .o substantiate Dr. plover"s clains on the experimental | spect of .the juestion under investi- ation." OPE IF BRITAIN | LEADS THE WAY do Small Boast That the League Still Lives, Says Lord Cecil. | Londojl, Jan. 14--A mass meeting ie held in Albert Hall under the | apices of the League of Nations { ton to celebrate the anniversary of t formation of the league. The Mister of Education, H. A. L. Fier, presided. The speakers in- cled Lord Robert Cecil and Vis- cat Grey. here was a distinguished gather- inof prominent men, and all the | fogn embassies and legations were | ressented. A message was sent to thKing, expressing congratulations | fothe league's good start, and a meage from the Prime' Minister, MLloyd George, was read, in which heaid he was convinced the league wad be successful in proportion as it presented all nations and as the nations insisted upon fair and opédealings with each other. Ird Robert Cecil said that in con- sidation of the difficulties with | whi the league had been beset, it | waso small boast that it was still | livit He believed that if Great Brith would really lead the way towsds the publicity the premier memned, there was hope, amount- ing ' certainty of success. Viount Grey expressed the be- i lieZ at in the future pecple would no ore think of parting with the leagi than of exchanging civil gov- ernmnt for civil war. Inhe course of the meeting, the kingsent a reply to the union's messze, declaring -his faith that in the ague "lies the sure guaran- tee ¢ peace, and only in the fulfill- mendf its high ideals can the gen- eratins to come be saved from deso- latin wars." \ I Oswego Route For Canal. Alany, N.Y. Jan. 14.--Any ship cana which is constructed between the reat Lakes and the Atlantic mustbe dug to follow the route of the )swego canal from Oswego Lo Oneia lake and thence along the iine f the canalized Mohawk river to tideater at Troy, State Engineer Frak M. Williams told the legisla- ture tonight in his annual report. At thesame time he condemned the pro- with the actgrantng twenty mil- lions of Fedral ad of forty per cent. of 'the otal wst promises to go ahead mh mere expeditiously no trouble « thal score is antid- pated. The progrs is such that there s no doubt othe various provinces finishing an linking up their sys tems 'withithe five years pre. scribed by © act. The estimated total cost (the entire Dominion- wide systenincluding federal and provincial tpenditures, is eighty- one millionollars. : In EasterCanada the main thor- oughfare w be from Windsor, On- tario, to Hfax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, by ¥ of Toronto, Montreal, "And when the police caught up to your car-there were two coats in it?" A Riviere duoup, Fredericton and St. John. Serious Driving Accident. Lindsay, Jan. 14.-- Wm. Fee, who is in the sixties, met with a serious accident at Omemee while exercis- ing his race horse. While driving through the village of Omemee he took a wheel oft his gig when pass- ing an automobile, He was thrown cut, and sustained a broken thigh, several fractured ribs, a bad gash in ihe face, and dislocation of the jaw. Although he is still conscious, .no hopes are entertained for his recov- ery. Mounted Police Quarantined, Regina, Jan. 14.--Following the discovery of a case of smallpox in the Roya! Mounted Police force here yesterday, the barracks, housing sev- | hopas | | | | have JEN. FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI German military expert, who dec m ( agreement must prove Hiusory. WORTH AS CITIZENS MAY BE DOUBTED Mississippi May Ask Treking Mennonites for Some Assurance. New York, Jan. 14.--The New York Sun commenting on the report- ed exodus of 30,000 Mennonites from Manitoba to the State of Mississippi, remarks: "A solid group of 30,000 persons, whose » ligious tenets makes them claim im- munity from the plain duty of a citi- zen as recognized by most of the sincere good faith and 'intslligenc: of people in every country, may not strike citizens of the United 3iates as a valuable acquisition for any par- ticular state. Especially in Mississip- pi citizens may demand that the would-be immigrants make a cogeat demonstration of their actua' worth as citizens or residents." Wife Sues Doughty, Claiming Alimony Jan. 14.--Mrs. Con- stance Ann Doughty has issued a writ against her husband, John Doughty. The writ begins an action for alimony. . Mrs. Doughty asks for $30 a week Interim alimony, and the usual court allowance. John Doughty, formerly secretary to Ambrose J. Small, is awaiting Toronto, the other of conspiring to kidnap Mr. Small. The Doughty case has been ad- journed for three weeks. URGE BORDEN AS VICEROY J. 8. Ewart, K.C., Thinks He De- . serves the Post. Ottawa, Jan. 14.--In a letter to a local paper, John S. Ewart, K.C., 'suggests the appointment of Sir Ro- bert Borden as governor-general of Canada : of hard, service of Canada," marks, right to be her first viceroy." Mr. Ewart adds that he proposed Sir Wilfrid Laurier as general when Sir Wilfred was alive but out of office. Sarnia Police Revenue Three Times That of 1919 conscientious work in the Mr. Ewart re- Sarnia, Jan, 14.--Police cc irt rev- enue from all sources durirg 1920 was three times greater than he rev- enue for 1919, according to the an- nual report of Chief Constable James Forbes submitted to the police com- mission. The total amount colliect- ed last year from all source: was $13,141.38, while the 1919 total was $4,367.86, an increase of $8,773.52. TO BLOW UP CAMPANIA Wreck of Former Cunarder a Danger 'go Navigation, London, Jan. 14.--The commis- sioners of the northern lighthcuses bive accepted the bid of a Sunder- land firm to blow ap the wreck in the Firth of Forth of the Campania, formerly of the Cunard Line. This is believed to be the largest job of its kind which has ever been undertiken The Campania, equipped as a sea- plan carrier, was damaged in a gale ir 1918 and sank off Burnt Island Harbor. She has 'mn abandoaed by eral hundred men, have beem quar- antined. the Admiralty and is now a danger to navigation. Ia armistice, Germany | ree trial on two charges, one of theft, | "He has done a great deal | "and has well earned the] governor- | REDS PLAN TO | SHASH RUNAN Over 2,000,000 Men to Re-| ¥ | sume Fighting Along Rus- sian Boundary. Paris, Jan. 14.--More than 2,000,- 000 men will be thrown into fighting | |aiong the boundary early | this spring, according to information | given out by French military experts her Russian e. heir advices indicate the | fighting front will extend from 200 to 250 miles The Bolsheviki are launch several major spring drives, the French authorities said. Meeting taem will be troops from several Bal- kan States rallying to the support of Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and perhaps the border states which expected to | The military strength of the coun- tries expected to enter the fighting | is Russia, 1,000,000 men; Poland, 1,-| 000,000 men; Rumania, 500,000 | men; Baltic states 200.000 men; Mi- : litary experts agree that the 1,000,-¢ | 00 men expected from Poland would { be her maximum strength while the | {willion ascribed to Russia was a mere beginning. That number, how- | | ever, in view of her ability to train | | and equip an army, is regarded as her | maximum for the spring campaign. | . They also added to the forces of | | the nations marked for attack by the | | Bolsheviki, men who might be ex-| | rected from Jugo-Slavia and Czecho- | Slovakia. France and Italy have not discuss- {ed their attitude but it is expected | | they will do so at the coming confer- | { ence of Premiers here. { Meanwhile active preparations for | { war is proceeding at a dozen scatter- | ed points in Europe. {HAS NOVEL SYSTEM FOR ASS&SSMENT a | Hotel With Telephone Classi=| fied as "De Luxe" for Taxation in France. Paris, Jan. 14.--The new French | luxury tax law divides hotels into two clasges--hotels de luxe and ordi- nary hotels, Hotels de luxe must pay | the government a tax on their re- LcRipla... was that the rich Frenchman | wealthy tourists who stopped at the palatial establishments could well af- ford to contribute to the support of | the government, whereas it was not desired: to tax th2 hotels used by less fortunate folk who lived permanently in smaller hoteis or who used them in their travels. However, the hotel proprictors of | the district of Mans complained to the government that the local wax au- thorities didn't know the difference between a hotel de luxe and an or-| dinary hotel. An investigation has re- | vealed what were the standards used | | by the local authorities ia deciding | what was a hotel de luxe. It was ruil- | ed ;that if a hotel had tolleis with | running water it was a hotel deluxe. | Another was put in the samo class because it had a telephore, Opposite | the name of a third hotel classed as taxable was written: "It has a direc- | tory." The agent responsible for tha clas- | sification, when asked where be ob- | tained his novel standards, said: "Well, I had :c fia] one huiel de | luxe in each istrict, or they would | have said I wasa't Jdeing my daty." | CITY IN FUEL BUSINESS Brantford Loses $21,000 and Civic | Employees Benefit. | Brantford, Jan. 14.--Littie light | was thrown upon the deficit of $21.- | 000 in connection with the city's en- | try into the fuel business, so far as! the evidence went, in the investiga- | tion begun by Judge Hardy, Ex-Ma-| {yor M. M. MacBride and City Trea- | gurer A. J. Bunnell were the chief | witnesses. It was shown that as a re- { ult of the city having no sheds to | protect its coal, the coal deteriorated | | and much of it was sold to city em- | | pioyees at a lower price than the mu- | | nicipality had paid for it. Mr. Mac- | Bride stated that these sales had | Leen made without orders from hirn- | self or the city council. ! The city lost comsiderable money | in handling wood ' because of bad measurement, witnesses stated. It rad been paid for as four-foo: wood, whereas much of it was oaly three feet in length. BUYS AN ESTATE. Duchess of Marlborough Will Reside Near Eze ' Paris, Jan. 14.--The Duchess of Marlborough, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Cappes, has bought a magnificent estate near Eze, on the outskirts of Monte Carlo, where, it is reported, she will reside, following her mar- riage to Jacques Balsan, the French sportsman. EE I] Bread Still Drops. St. Catharines, Jan. 14 Bread! took a further drop in price yester- day. The master bakers announced | that it would be cut down from 26] tc 24 cents. One bakery announces that its output will be 22: cents, and it is likely the rest will meet it. I i | partment for allowing, the men 'eave Rockaway Point without ade- | | convention of i The Baily British Whig sHAWL SLAP IN FACE FOR THE U.S. PUBLIC How New York Papers Regard | The Navy Balioonists' r Fracas. New York, Jan, 14.--New York evening papers, commenting on the arrival of the three United States naval bailoonists at Mattice from their agventures in the North coun- try after their balloon landed near | the Hudson Bay post of Moos® lac- tory, express disappointment that a tour so mfuch exploited shouid end ir melodrama. "It is unfortunate," says The Even- ling World," that the welcome back { to civilization of men who have been through such perils should bc mar- red by wrangling, and worse, Low one conducted himself under stress. "The country was ready to make herces of all three participants in this great adventure. The brawl be- tween Lieut. Farrell and Lieut. Hin- ton came as a slap in the face to a welcoming public. The kindest view is that men who have undergone ex- posure and privation are not im- n.ediately masters of themselves. They can more fairly be judged by tbeir later attitude." The World critizes the Naval De- quate food and maps, and concludes: "Investigation is no fitting end for high adventure Nke that of * Lieuts. | Kloor, Hinton and Farrell. But there | seems no may of avpiding one." According to The Evening Post the trip of the naval men "proved how easy it is for a combination of youth- ful recklessness, a balloon and a southeast wind to get a hundred mil- lion people agog over a matter of small importance." CHINESE DRESS REFORM Shanghai Police Chief Forbids Extra- vagant Styles. Vancouver, Jan. 14.--The craving for modern dress has hit China so forcibly that the police have decided to do something about it, atcording to the North China Mail, which has just reached here. It records that the | chief of police of Shanghai has issu- | ed an edict against extravagant sty- | | les now worn by Chinese women. It warns the women against aping fore- ign styles with the display or bare a:ms and silken ankles. "Women's wearing apparel," says the edict, "is mostly top short, per- mitting exposure of armg and ankles. $ i] HEH foreign The wearers are devoid of shame and fre- quent public streets without embar- ressment. In future all such women | will be arrested and fined." | Give New Shillelagh To Hon. Mr. Grant Hamilton, Jan. 14--Bearing visible marks of his recent encounter with two thugs in Toronto, when he wor- sted them and broke his came over the head of one, Hon. R, H. Grant, minister of education, was roundly cheered when he appeared béfore the the Urban School Trustees' Association of Ontario. On behalf of those present Trustee M. Cunningham made Hon. Mr. Grant the recipient of a handsome-- but stout--silver-mounted walking stick. "We did our best to obtain an Irish blackthorn, but the apparent embargo on them prevented our do- ing 80," said Mr. Cunningham, amid mingled laughter and cheers. The minister then recounted his adventure with the two thugs, "heft- ed" the cane, and thanked those pre- A A. | sent for their "useful gift." $3,000,000 Worth of Furs To be Auctioned at N.Y. New York, Jan. 14.--Prominent fur 'buyers from various parts of the United States and Canada were in this city to-day examining the skins, valued at close to $3,000,000, which are to be sold In the Masonic hall here next week, at the sixth an- nual winter auction of the New York Fur Auction Sales Corporation. The coming sale will be the first big auction of raw furs held in this | country since last April. Among the fancy furs to be sold next week the collections of blue fox, Fertfan lamb and broad-tail are said to especially . poteworthy. The offering of 330 dressed and dyed sealskins will be a feature of the sale. : Supplies From Speedwell To be Given to Indians Guelph, Jan. 14.--A. F. MacKen- zie of Ottawa, Secretary to the De- puty Minister of Indian Affairs, is spending a few days th the city ar- ranging for the transfer to his de- partment of supplies belonging to the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-es- tablishment at Speedwell, which will be distributed among the Indians of Eastern Canada. Left Estate of Fifty Million. Detroit, Jan. 14.--The will of Hor- ace E. Dodge, Detroit motor magnate, filed for probate, Teaves the bulk of | an estate estimated at $50,000,000 to iis widow, Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge. Upon the death of Mrs. Dodge the estate is to go to two children, Horace Dodge, jr., and Mrs. Delpb- ite Dodge Cromwell. be- | | tween two of them over the question to | ON SALE. S jai Bargains in SAIRTS. NECKWEAR, CAPS HATS Our best grades eosly Collier's WHEAT POOL IS APPROVED 'The Brandon Convention | Passes a Resolution Fav- oring Co-operative Plan. | Brandon, Man.,, Jan. 14.--The {wheat pool proposed by the Cana- cian Council of Agriculture was en< doysed unanimously yesterday by the | United Farmers of Manitoba, at their | annual convention here. After con- |eiderable discussion, the delegates { passed the following resolution: { "That this convention endorse the | policy enunciated by the Canadian | Council of Agriculture with respeci! | to the co-operative selling of wheat." { Under the plan proposed by the | Council of Agriculture, the wheat | crop of the Dominion would be mark- |eted on a co-operative basis." The | plan will only become operative if at| | least sixty per cent. of the Canadian| {erop is' guarantecd to the pool under: | five-year contracts with the indivi dual producers. J. R. Murray, assistant general manager of the United Grain Grow- ers, opened the discussion on the pro- posed wheat pool at the morning ses- sion of the convention of the Uuited Farmers of Manitoba. He asked that the farmers do their, own thinking on the matter and not atlow others to tell them what to Ges, cide. Speaking of wha: he called the! "many proposed wheat pools," he said that the farmers should ba wills ing to accept any help from the dom- infon or provincial governments If it is to be a soludon of the market- ing problem o* westerfi Canada, it fist be a scheme naving control of at least sixty par cent. of the wheat produced, he said. The great need in the mafler was unity between individuals and the provinces. No one province could control the export of wheat. Any co- operative marketing plan must em- brace-all three western provinces he said. If the farmers in the movement co-operate they could solve this probe lem and not only this but many of {the big problems confronting the na- tion in other matters, he concluded. J. L. Brown was re-elected presi- dent of the United Farmers of Mani toba. PURE-BLOODED STOCK Tuberculosis Ravage Hits Dairymen. in 8t. Lawrence and Lewis. Countles. Watertown, N.Y., Jan. 14. -- Heavy death toll among cattle, en- tailing loss of a number of herds of pure blooded animals, is reported from St, Lawrence and Lewis coun- ties as a result of inspections now, being made through this territory by representatives of the state veterin- ary department. te . Several herds have been . found! afflicted with tuberculosis, it is said, and have been condemned and! slaughtered as a result. The state {allows compensation per head, but {the allowance does not take into! consideration breeding or value and! is as high for a grade animal as for a thoroughbred, . : Heavy losses are sustained by, owners of registered herds afflicted! with the disease, and there is no recourse : One herd of pure blooded Ayr+ shires near Dekalb Junction, 8t.! Lawrence county, was found to be afflicted with tuberculosis, the di- sease having been transmitted to the {entire stable, according to the state, tests. All'of the animals were slaughtered excepting one calf, A state veterinary is now working, in Lewis county, where several herds) have been condemned, including a| couple of valuable, high classi stables. : Dairies supplying milk to this city; are inspected by Dr. Frank J. Loo-! _ mis, city veterinary, at frequent in-| tervals, but the shipment of milk, from this territory to New York makes inspection of all dairies ne- cessary by the state veterinary de- partment, Scientist Ends Life Most Dramatically London, Jan. 14.--4Composing his own lethal gas, Constantine de Mere- schevsky, a chemist and botanist of international repute, former profes sor in the University of Petrograde, | committed suicide in a Geneva hotel | under dramatic ¢iréumstances. | Mereschevsky escaped om Russia | with a small fortune, which was ex- | hausted after two years' residence in | Geneva, where he continued his re- | search work and wrote scientifie | books. When his funds were gone was too proud to appeal for help. {preferred to die. He scraptilo paid all his debts and then special composition in a receptacle to {which he attached a. tube. Then binding himself to the bed released | the gas which was given off from the composition. He died from 'asphyxia- tion. Firemen had to wear smoke helmets to remove the body from the room. : 3 ------------ The Australian whedt harvest is es- timated at almost one hundred and fifty million bushels,