h h FARR DAY. J sloppy. ALLEN NOW PLAYING! Pauline Frederick in "Roads of Destiny a aily Br KINGSTON, ONTARIO. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921. thish Whig REA INS ALLEN NOW PLAYING! Pauline Frederick in 'Roads of Destiny LAST EDITION. FOR VOTING A Very Large Vote on the Liquor Referendum Is Expected. Toronto, April 18.--From almost every point in Ontario came a 1aport of "fair and mild" weather to-day for the referandum voting. In the co.ntry districts in the southern parts of the province the roads .are It is rather hard sledding for the motors of the modern farm- er. However, on the whole the wea- ther throughout the province in town, city and coantry is one that should bring out a big vote of Old- man Ontario and his wife and sis- ters; and the latter is expected to be & big factor in to-day's result. The vote is definitely and entirely a ques- tion of importation of liquor into the provinge. If the majority vots is "Yes" the Dominion act forbidding importation will become operative on the proclamation of the governor- general and the provincial measure, known as "The Sandy Bill", prohib- iting delivery within the provines, of lignor manufectured in the province | will also become law. The sale of intoxicating liquor within tha prov- ince Is already illegal so that the oi- | fect of to-day"s balloting will be for "a bone-dry Ontario." Early reports from various points indicate quite a large poll of early morning voters, v The Vote in Kingston: The importation referendum is being fought out at the polls in Kingston with all the intensity of a political contest. Both the parties are well organized and the polls are well manned. It is expected that a very large vote will be ;polled. At an early hour on Monday mora- ing many women, who were working in the interests of the prohibition party, were at the polls waiting t) check off the voters' names. REJECTS THE SCHEME OF: COLLECTIVISM Italian Extreme Nationalist Makes an Appeal For True Democracy. 'Rome, April 18.--Planks in the platform of the Fascist, or extreme nationalist party, have been outlined in an appeal to the nation, which has been published throughout Italy asa part of the partisan activities which are marking the bitter electoral cam- paign now in progress. The appeal advocates abandonment of collectiv- ism and rejects the plan for partici- dation by workingmen in the man- agement of industrial plants. It de- clares that this would mean the em- bitterment of the class struggle in Italy. Agrarian problems should be solved in the "spirit of true demo- cracy, and not by absurd socialism," and the party is declared to favor de- centralization of the government, and free trade. Free trade, however, would not be made absolute, but would be in preparation to the neces- &itles of the country's industries. The appeal declares for the speedy settlement of the claims of all men wounded during the war, asks that a foreign policy be developed that will be directed chiefly to peaceful com- mercial expansion, which will freethe nation from "economic subjection to countries possessing raw material." The party supports the policy of Peace with all nations, but asserts that, unless the world situation chan- ges radically, it is indispensible that the army and navy be kept at a state of efficiency which will adequately make for the defence of the country. . . Strike Of Lumbermen. Fredericton, N.B.,, April 18.---A precedent which, if followed, may tie up the lumber industry of the valley of the St. John, was established last night when the union men employed by Fraser Bros. at Victoria Mills re- fused to accept the firm's decision to run hereafter on a ton-hour day sche- dule instead of nine, as at present, and declared a strike, which becomes effective today. No Longer AR Excise Outpost. Brockvillé, April 18.--The union of the customs and excise dapart- ments here has resulted in the posi- tion of this town as an excise out- post of Prescott being altered. The local office, under Capt. D. A. Ellis, now serveslthe majority of the mun- fcipalities of Leeds county. , Convict Newboro Residents, 'Brockville, Ont, April 18.--On charges preferred by H. J. Phillips, Smith's Falls, fishing inspector, sev- eral residents of Newboro have been convicted of illegal fishing through the ice at Rideau Lake last winter. Feed Potatoes to Stock. Brockville, April 18 --Farmers in the neighboring districts report that their potatoes are a drug. and they are feeding them to their stock. John Valad, a young farmer near Riversdale, Ont., was found dead in bis buggy. : Daniel Davis, for twenty-two years police magistrate of Cornwall, is dead, |MORE AMERICANS i TO CANADIAN WEST | Immigrants Both Wealthy and Numerous--British Are Fewer. Qttawa, April 18.--Though there Was a notable reduction in the num- ber of immigrants from the British { Isles to western Canada during the | fiscal year ended March 31st, 1920, |there was an increase in the number lot immigrants from tha United | States and also in the value of {stock and equipment and the wealth | brought over with them. | 'In 1918-19 there was a total of [19,115 settlers arrived in western {Canada from . the Unitad States. | These brought with them $2,169,856 {in stock and effects and $8,751.673 | in cash and wealth. In the next fiscal year the total number arriving had | increased to 23,300 with $3,335,135 lin stock effects and $10,487,085 in | cash and wealth. This information is given in the {annual report of the department of' | immigration and colonization, tabled lin the house of sommons by Hon. J. 1A. Calder. CHINAMAN MY DIE "OF GAS POISONING |He Was Almost Asphxiated When Found in Laundry Monday. | A Ohinaman, named Lee, who works in the Queen laundry at the corner of Princess and Division streets, is in a very critical condition at the General hospital as the result of being suffocated with gas. The | man went to his room over the lauu- dry at about six o'clock Monday | morning, and 'it is thought that he | turned off the gas stove which is in the room, and by some unknown means the gas was turned on again. | When he was found by other laun- | dry workers about twelve o'clock he was in an unconscious condition, and was rushed to the hospital 1n James Reid's ambulance. At the hospital it was not known if ha would recover. DECLINE IN FOODSTUFFS. Labor Department Figures for March Grow Less. Ottawa, April 18.--A further de- cline in thy gost of foodstuffs during the month of March 13 'recorded in the current issue of the Labor Gaz- ette, which states that the cost of thise weekly family budget of stapie foods averaged $13.23 at the begin- ning of March, as compared with $14.08 in February, $15.98 in March, 1920; $15.77 in March, 1919; and $7.86 in March, 1914. ------------------ Lose Billions of Dollars London, April 18.--The bad debts of English holders of foreign bonds amount to approximately $9,000,- 000,000, according to a report just issued by the Council of Foreign Bondholders, CHICAGO SEEKS MISSING MAN NAMED GEORGE COX Kingston Police Are Asked About the Mystery Man at Verona. The "Man of Mystery' held at Ver- ona, and who it was at first believed, was Ambrose J. Small, may be Geo. Cox, a well-known resident of Chi- cago, who has been missing for some time. This is the latest turn in the sen- satlonal case which has put Verona on the map, since the rounding up of the mysterious wanderer by Con- stable Tallon on Saturday morning. On Monday morning the Kingston police received a wire from the Chi- cago police, stating that a man nam- ed Cox was missing from Chicago, and asking that an investigatidn be made to see if the man held at Ver- ona is the man wanted in Chicago. Some special marks of identifica- tion were given to the police, conm- cerning the man wanted in Chicago, and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by Constable G. R. Horn- beck, of the provincial police force, who went out to Verona on Monday morning. QUEBEC CITY - IN A FLURR As It Thinks Garrison Artil- lery Company Is Coming. to Kingston. A Quebec dispatch sa "It is re" ported here that the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, including their band, will shortly be transferred from their quarters in Quebec citay del and permanently quartered at Kingston. The removal of the artil- lery would be a serious loss to the city and would be opposed by a large section of the population." Brig-Gen. King, when interviewed by The Whig, stated that the one company which is stationed at Que- bec would remain there, but Col Ogilvie, who commands thé Royal Canadian Artillery, was being moved the mand is quartered at time. present BRITISH RAILWAYS ARE LOSING MORE Returns For February Show Greater Adverse Balance Than Previous Month. British railways for the month of February shows a greater adverse balance than for the month of Janu- ary. While the inability of the railways to make a satisfactory financial show- ing may be accounted for by the gen- eral depression in trade, ther® is in the business depression and incident- ally accentuate the difficulties of the railways. It is generally agreed that any fur- ther increase in rates either for pds- sengers or freight would not felp the | railways, but Would rather decrease their gross earnings by putting an aa- ditional handicap upon internal traf< tic. that the railways would find it re- munerative to lower rates, and at favorable for a business rival. Perpetuate Armistice Day; Mowat's Notice of Motion Ottawa, April 18.--In<line with the suggestions made before the spe- cial Parliamentary Committee on Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, H. M. Mowat (Parkdale) has filed a resolution asking the House of Com- mons to affirm that it is desirable to perpetuate the triumphant conclu- sion of the war by selecting the Mon- day in the week in which the elev- enth of November (Armistice Day) occurs each year as '""Armisticé Day," and that "general thanksgiving to Almighty God be proclaimed." Churchiil's Brother-in-law Found Dead in Paris Hotel Paris, April 18.--William Ogilvie Hozler, former Commander in the British navy and son of Col. Sir Hen- ry Hozier, brother of Mrs, Winston Churchill, was found shot through the head in'a room of a Paris hotel Friday night. While the case appeared to the au- thorities as one of suicide, no reason for such an act is known, To Divert Their Trains Through New Ontario Cobalt, April 18.--Accofding to re- ports here, changes coming immedi- ately in the T. & N. O. schedules will indicate that the Toronto-Winnipeg through train over the Grand Trunk will be routed in future via Capreol and the C.N.R., while the Montreal- Winnipeg: train, at present rugning Damages totalling $13,000 have been awarded to five Hamilton Ital- ian families. The body of the former Kaiserin has been sent to Potsdam for inter- | ment, Two Former Russian As CNR. Section ~~ Grant, Ont, April 18,--News has Just leaked out that two members of the old Russian nobility are employ- ed as section laborers on the Cana- dian National Railway between Hearst and Armstrong, The two princes lost all of their possessions early in the war, and Were exiled to Siberia, from where they escaped into Vladivostok, and trossed the Pacific as stowaways in a tramp steamer carrying a cargo of rice, Arriving in Vancouver, both se- cured employment as waiters on C. P, R. dining cars and worked east to Montreal, from where they shipped as laborers for the Canadian Nation- Princes Enjoy Work Hands -------- Near Hearst, Ont, Both men speak very highly ot their treatment in Canada, and are quite content to work as section- hands. They never felt bettercin their lives, they say, and hope they will never have to return to their old mode of living. These men have charge of from 10 to 12 miles of track. They are hous- ed comfortably in dwellings situated at the extreme end of the section During the fishing and hunting seasons the men enjoy themselves after working hours at the numerous trout streams which abound along the lides of the Canadian National Railway, or, trekking it through the bush looking for game. Frequent eve- nings are spent at neighboring sec- al Railways; finally landing in this territory. , ¥ tion houses in games and dancing, London, April 18.--The statement | of the receipts and expenditures of | some quarters a belie? that the in- | 3 Se 3 rates have helped to develop |Place on April f0th, when a company |tary, whose offer in the house In some quarters it is being urged : |canaDIAN SHIPS = MAY PLY THE LAKES |The Government Urged to | Compete Against Higher Freight Rates. Ottawa, April 18.--On account of the rise in freight rates on the great |lakes for the season just about to | commence, there is a growing pres- |sure on the government to bring |some of the smaller vessels of the Canadian government merchant ma- rine into the inland lake service for the season. Shippers had been. anticipating {loweg-freight rates on the lakes this {year in view of the lower ocean [freight and the need of business to |have every encouragement to ship {by lake routes." They were greatly surprised, however, to find that the | Canada Steamship Lines, Limited, is announcing higher rates. ernment. It has been practically de- i i | ernment representatives on the ques- | postponed owing to labor trouble. cided to bring some of the govern- | ment ships up to the great lakes. {How many has not yet been de- | cided. to Kingston, where most of his com- | FIGHTING BREAKS 00T ON IAN FRONTR (Afghan Leader Reappears-- He Is Leading the Hostile Tribesmen. Simla, India, April-18.-- Severe | fighting is reported in the Wana and Mushhud areas, on the northwestern | Indian frontier, as the result of the reappearance of the Afghan leader, Abdur Razak, who is carrying on anti-British propaganda and leading |a band of hostile Waglri and Mashud | tribesmen, The most serious engagement took |of the 20th Punjabis was heavily at- |tacked by 300 Mashuds, the British {losing 26 killed and 24 wounded. |The total British casualties, includ- |ing those in the earlier skirmishes, |have been 34 killed and 65 wouni- led. The tribesmen, the reports state, lost heavily. Fresh operations have been begun in the affected areas. I -------------- IY DEATHKNELL OF ALLIANCE British Miners Angry at Tri- ple Alliance-Labor For- ces Disrupted. London, April 18.--Reports from | opposes divorce. {various parts of the country state | that consternation, not unmixed with | duction in cost of bread. | | { { anger, prevails among the miners at | the action of the other members of | diers are/settled on farms. The view wide- | y expressed in London is that the creases [split in the Triple Alliance will ac- | the Triple Alliance. 1 {strike. In any event, the invitation ference of the coal owners and gOvV- |tion of wages remains open . | Meantime, however, although there |are no indications of sympathetic | strikes, the government is taking no risks, and preparations are being con- tinued to deal with any emergency. Officials are engaged in perfecting plans for road transport and food | distribution, while the recruiting of | members for the defence force and volunteer motor drivers was contin- ued. The situation was summarized by a food ministry notice posted for the transport corps in Regent's Park, reading: "Carry on. Pay no attention to press statements regarding the situation. Act only on orders from headquarters." Curtail Railway Service. The railways announced that be- | services of the railways would be cur- {tailed a further ten per cent., begin- {ning Monday. Frank Hodges, the miners' secre- commons of a new basis for negotia- | tions precipitated the break in the | Triple Alliance, has cleared up the | reports that he had resigned. He stated that he had tendered his resignation in view of the decision of the miners' executive committee not | the largest tourist hotels on and their | Pacific coast. to act on his suggestions, | refusal to meet the mine owners and | representatives of the government to this summer in the St. hear further propositions. The comp- cause of the coal shortage the main | | |celerate a settlement .of the miners' | behind Irish independence. | to the miners to attend a joint con- and Port Arthur building trades. Hence the demand on the gov- | { of {since January 1st. | | { -- WS OFF THE WIRES RE _.. IN. CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and Near Are Briefly Recounted. NOT SMALL | Another rebellion, is about to start | in Mexico. a : _ : et yc dpa i'd. P Branigan Settled the Question When He Saw Arrested Man. Seeding started northwest of Re- There appears to be no doubt that gina. i the mysterious man who was arrested Rene Viviani will sail for France | Anglican Synod totally | next week. Montreal Drop in flour price may bring Te" | by Constable E. A. Tallon, Verona, at {Gull Creek, on Friday, is not Am- jbrose J. Small, the Toronto million- | aire, who has been missing from his teachers given salary "home since December 1919. This ounting to $7,500. { man, who gave his name as George Archbishop Mannix says Vatican is | cox, bears a striking resemblance to the missing millionaire, and answers Wage cuts likely in Fort Winn es the photographs which were sent out by the Toronto police. To a man Ar who had never seen Ambrose Small | but had seen the police circular, there {is no doubt that he would have said §|that the stranger at Verona is the her with being a spy. | missing man. D. P, Branigan, man- The funeral services for the for- ager of the Kingston Grand Opera mer German empress were held al | House, who for a number of years Doorn castle, Holland, Sunday. was associated with Mr. Small, was Premier Meighen in a speech at | called to Verona on Saturday to ideu- Toronto declared thére would be no! tify the man who is being held. As radical tariff reduction in Canada. |soon as he walked into the room Three and a half inches of snow where the stranger was sitting Mr fell in Toronto Sunday in the bliz Branigan remarked: "That gentle- zard. "No great damage was done. | man is not Ambrose J. Small!" Sir Henry Drayton introduced a | Mr. Branigan, when speaking to resolution in parliament providing |), Whig, stated that from the side for issuing a five cent nickel coin | view the man would answer to the Canada. | photographs of Mr. Small which were A Georgia woman has applied for | sent -out by the Toronto police, and divorce from her husband who is to one who had never seen Mr. Small, under sentence to be hanged in 60 it would be easy to mistake the so- days. called Mr. Cox for Mr. Small. Mr. At Tillsonburg, a man with his | Branigan on Friday, when he heard neck broken, lives on milk. He can- {that there was a man wandering in not swallow or talk but his limbs are | the district near Verona who answer- not paralyzed. |ed to the description of Ambrose Approximately 100,000 members | small, decided that he would go out of the United Mine Workers of Am-| and make a careful search. He went erica have not done a day's work | to Godfrey by train, where he met | Art Kenehan, Chester Godfrey and Hundreds of men with criminal | Ned Knight, the storekeeper, and records have been found operating | secured a Ford car and started ou taxicabs in New York City as licensed | the chase. chauffeurs. = ° They visited the house of Milford Fire destroyed the on Echo Lake road and Hotel at Santa Barbara, Cal., one of | found that the mysterious man had the | heen there for two days. They them went to the store in Wagarville where plentiful | they found that the man had also Catharines {heen there. At the home of George district, as the cold snap has affect-| Clement, the mysterious man had More than 25,000 returned sol- Regin in Race meetings in England Sinn Feiners executed a podr pea- sant woman in Monaghan, chargin Ambassador | McCulla Cherries will not be so VERONA MAN | the same time make conditions more : mittee refused to accept his resignd- tion, and asked him to withdraw it when he did for the good "of our DISTILLERS BLOCK GOVERNMENT SALE Quebec Ministry's Plans Held ed the blossoms. A bill imposing a fine of not less than $50 or more than $100 on land- ts: 4 refuse to admit tendmts with children, has York Assembly. p supper there. At these three places the people, when shown the picture the missing Mr. Small, all stated hat he niust Be the man. by way of Fort Willlam, will be di- | verted to pass through Timiskaming. | Up Temporarily by Firms and Agencies. Montreal, April 18.--The tion of the provincial government to take over complete control of the spirituous liquor business in Quebec, importing, wholesaling and reailing has been temporarily blocked by a decision of the great distilleries in Scotland and Europe not to deal di- rect with the liquor commission, The distilleries are insisting that they can only do business with their agents in Montregl and Quebec. These agents are the big wholesale houses in Montreal and Quebec, which the government commission had expected to be able to displace. Mrs. ARTHUR MEIGHEN Wife of Canada's premier, who ac- companied him on many of his political journeys. HOUSES ARE BURNED TO AVENGE MURDER Reprisais For Death of Major Shot Down on Tralee Qolf Course. Cork, April 18--A dozen houses wer: burned Saturday in Ballynacel- ligott, County Kerry, including a presbytery, in which priests resided, following the shooting to death" of Major MacKinnon, commander of a company of auxiliaries on the Tralee govt course Friday afternoon. There ave been no reprisals in Tralee, where the military took charge of the town, All the shops have been clos- ed and business suspended. In Ballydwyer, a creamery, which previously had been burned and wrecked, was again burned. A young civilian. running on the approach of military lorries, was shot dead. Mexico City is unalarmed at the reported revolt of Gen. Gonzales. A bill in the U. 8. Congress seeks to prohibit the sale of medical beer, inten- | Labor forces of the United King- dom are fo-day apparently broken into two sections as a refusal of the National Union of Railwaymen and | the National Federation of Transport Workers to continue their support of the strike called by the Miners' | Federation of Great Britain on April | 1st. Opinion prevails in some quart- ere the action of the railroad work- ers and the transport men means the death warrant of the Tri This view is not held universally, but, without doubt the split which {developed will have a serious effect | upon the rank and file of labor. "Yesterday was the heaviest defeat | that has defaHen labor within the | memory of man," begins the laborite i Herald's comment on the sensational break-away of the railroad men and transport workers. "It is no use try- ing to minimize it. The workers have not stood together and they have reaped the reward." -- CLOSED PULP MILL. ple Alliance. Riordons Have $3,000,000 Supply ' and No Market. Ottawa, April 18.--Some 2,600 men will be out of work as a result of the closing down to-night of the Riordon, Limited, sulphide mills in the Timiskaming region. The an- nouncement of the closing down was made in a semi-official way. It was stated by an official that the company now had on hand some $5,000,000 worth of pulp for which it could find no market. As a result it was decided to close down till the market absorbed some of this over-production. that their man had been there 0d had dinner, but the people of th? house were not absolutely certain that the man tallied with the photo- | ats of Mr. Small. The wanderer | had also been at the home of J. A. tm | Cox and had stood around and talked As to Why the Great Sympa- | With the family for a while. Mrs. | George Crawford was positive that thy Stelke wus Called | the visitor was the missing Toronto | theatrical man, When the party ar- Pt woke | rived at Thanal Cox's residence, they London, Aprjl 18.--At the close of | found that the constable and his a two hour conference of the Triple | party had arrested the mysterious Alliance executives at Unity House, | man some hours before and had ta- Robert Williams, secretary of the!ken him to Verona. They started for! transport workers federation, issued | home then, and Saturday morning! a statement in which he declared the | Mr. Branigan made his way to Veér- railwaymen and the transport work-| ona where he was able to satisfy ers had been compelled to cancel | himself that the man: under arrest their proposed strike in sympathy | was not Ambrose J. Small. with the miners because "no reason- | - able hope remained of securing the | ixcitement At Verona, spontaneous and united action of the | There was great excitement in the| three bodies which was so essential | Verona district on Friday night and! to give the miners' feGoratioh the as- Saturday as everyone was anxious to! sistance they sought." get a look at the man under arrest. A partial sympathetic strike would | The whole countryside were satisfied | have been ineffectual, the statement | that the long-missing millionaire was points out. Up to Thursday evening, [safely in custody. The constable is it continues, there was every hope | still holding the man until some of- "of a tremendous display of working | ficial from Toronto arrives to make a; class solidarity," but circumstances final identification. ! destroyed the firm ground on which| Constable E. A. Tallon is deserv-| the strike call was based. i (Continued Op Page 3) { The Triple Alliance conference, | added Mr. Williams, profoundly re- gretted the changed situation. nd \ Fred Bell, aged seven, of OrHla GIVE SHAKESPEARE IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH James K. Hackett and Fermin Genler to Play in Paris. was drowned off a raft in Lake Cou- chiching. A thousand Irish emigrants left The sleet storm which started on Saturday afterndon about 3 o'clock and lasted until Sunday evening did a great deal of damage in the Kings- ton district. Many telephone and tel- egraph wires were broken as a resu't of the storm. On Monday morning the Bell Telephone company reported that a great deal of damage had been done to poles and wires. In some places the poles were broken off clos: to the ground. Some people who live on Wolfe Island reported that a number of the telephone poles were broken off by the heavy weght of sce. The Canadian National Telegraph Company reported that the storm had not affected their lines around here. The Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company stated that the Kingston- Toronto llne was damaged between Kingston and Napanee, and any mes- sages received in the city had to be brought round by way of Montreal. It was expected that the damage would be repaired by uignt. Paris, April 18.--Plans for the ex~ { pansion of the Franco - American | Shakesperean production into two | performances at the government sub- | sidized theatre, the Odeon, have been {approved by the government. James K. Hackett, the American actor, with will present "Macbeth" in English June 6th. Fir- min Genier, Paris actor, managarand i president of the Shakesperean so- ciety, will, in this performance, play MacDuff, speaking in the French language. : On June 8th, Mr. Hackett will play one act of "Macbeth," Mr, Genier will present one act of the "Merchant of Venice" and both will combine in the third act of "Othello," in this act Mr. Hackett will play Othello, in English, and M. Genier will appear as lago, in French. i ! } Queenstown for the United States. | i Sleet Storm Does Great Deal of Damage To the Telephone / And Telegraph Wires The Bell Telephone Company re-|a0 English company, ports that the storm was decidedly severe. Thy line between Kingston and Napanee ig out of business: Along this line there were sixty polis broken off and the wires wera down on the road.On the Seeley's Bay line, which connects Kingston with Ot- tawa, seventeen poles are broken and the service is ont of business. On Sunday a large gang of menem- ployed by the company was busy clearing the broken poles from the roadway. Calls for help were sent to Montreal and Ottawa, and on Monday at an 'early hour two gangs of linemen arrived in the city and immediately commenced work. ------ Reels of emergency Cable were sent from Montreal, Brockville and Ottawa and this was put in place on Monday. It will take some weeks to replace the 'broken poles so the emergency cable will be put into service in the meantime. The large poles which were broken carried twenty pairs of wires, British Admiralty May Halifax, N. 8, April 18.--There is a possibility of the British Admirals ty purchasing Nova Scotia coal, gc cording to a cable'received to-day by Hon. E. H. Armstrong. I The Admiralty asks that the coal companies quote lowest prices and place of delivery. _