ALLEN NOW PLAYING! COUN "THE FAIR," Featuring WESLEY BARRY The Daily Briti sh Whig RTI ALLEN MON, TUES, WED. " REPUTATION Featuring PRISCILLA DEAN YEAR 88: NO, 122, NO SIGN OF ACT T0 CLINCH VOTE Uafortmale Condition If Parliament Adjourns Without Action And the Supreme Court Rules Out Prohibition, ' Ottawa, May 26.--If parliament adjourns without passing legislation to legalize any formal errors made in connection with the referendum vot- ing, there is a possibility that the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta, Sas- katchewan and Nova Scotia may re- vert to the condition in which they ' were before voting under the Canada Témperafice Act last October. More- over, Ontario itself might be placed in the position that the whole toil- some business of stopping the impor- tation of liquor would have to be gone through with again. : ~The circumstances which would bring such a state of affairs would be & decision by the supreme court upholdfhig the contentions made in the Gold Seal liquor case, that the original proclamétion calling for a plebiscite should have stated the date on which prohibition would BO into effect if the plebiscite should fa- vor stopping importation. ere is aleo the contentien that the whole act is unconstitutional. If the supreme court should take that view, parliamentary action would make no difference, as the view of the court in such unlikely case would AAA AA asst arm... + * -> > * PPP 0 222000000 U. 8; AMMUNITION FOUND IN IRELAND #* London, May 26--Ammunition % m#bufactured in the United % States totalling-sixteen thousand # rounds, has beén captured in # Dublin district gince March 26, % last, Sir Hamar Greenwood, # chief secretary for Ireland. stat- : ed in the commons to-day. tee MAGISTRATES DECIDED THIS But It Required a Good Deal of Evidence to Prove Charge. PREP PEEV Ge Here are some posers for Thomas A. Edison, whe astounded scholars of two continents recently with a list of over one hundred impossible Questions to. be answered by college graduates in his employment: When is a man sober? When is a man intoxicated? When is a man "drunk? 4 Is a man sober if he takes a drink Which doesn't go to hjs head? Is a 'man intoxicated or drunk if he takes & drink and lolls in a buggy 'instead of sitting up like a sober man? These were questions thaf faced Justices of 'tlié Peace W. Y. Cannen and Alling6n 'at the court house on Thursday morning when N. Van-. Koughnett, a farmer of Sydenham district, was charged with being in- toxicated. Mre, Herbert McRorie, examined by C. R, Webster, testified that Van- Koughnett, who had come to borrow a wrench from her husband to, fix up a broken buggy wheel, slouched in the rig. Whereupon Mr, Webster concluded he was drunk, while Mrs. McRorle, cross-examined by C. M. Smith, appearing for VanKoughnett, stated that sbe had seen sober men sit the same way and Mr. Smith came to the opposite conclusion. A battle royal was almost staged, but the presenec of eight other wit- nesses and the approach of the lun- cheon 'hour hastened on the proceed- ings. The other witnesses were Ear] Walsworth, B. Harkin, Claude Mc Rorie, Mr, and Mrs. Herbert McRo- "ble, Wilson Silver, Waiter -Harker, Oliver Varette and B. Grant, Ten dollars and costs was the fine imposed. ~ Inhabitants = of Trans-Jordania, Asia Minor, have revolted against Ptince Zeid. * be that the British North America Act prevents the federal parliament legislating in a way to prevent the natural or manufactured products of any province having free access to any other. It is likely that the case will go to the privy council if the supreme court decides against the Gold Seal liquor claims, There is as yet no evidence of any intention on the part of the govern- ment to introduce further legislation to amend the Canada Temperance Act, although it is understood that the Ontario Government has made a direct appeal for such action to Prem- ler Meighen during the past few days. According 'to one interpretation placed on the Canada Temperance Act, although the chief e.ectoral offi- cer has issued his certificate, the ca- binet cannot determine when com- plete prohibition shall come into foree in Ontario till 60 days after the taking of the vote, in other words, till June 17th. If this iaterpretation of the act is correct.it will then be at least thirty days later, or the middle of Jyly, before prohibition of impor- tation jnto Ontario actually comes in- to effect. A tpi os G.W.V.A. WOULD KEEP . THE D.S.C.R. PADRES Regards Chaplains as Invaly~ able and Asks For Their Retention. Brantford, May 26--Comrade Con- SEPIA SII SPIRES MAN WAS DRUNK roy's motion that a chaplain be ap- pointed met with opposition from Hatton of Penetanguishene, on the ground of "creed." Conroy then sug- gested that all "creeds" be repre- sented by honorary chaplains. . He told the delegates that the dominion executive are assigning an attractive contribution with a ritual upon fra- ternai lines. | , Comrade Jenkins stated that those forming the ritual were a Catholic, Protestant and rabbi. "From all sects good Lord deliver us," sald a dele- hgdte . ! President O'Flynn decided to turn the "motion down as it was unconsti- tutional 2 Comrade McKegney moved, and Comrade Foster, London, seconded the motion following: "Learning from press reports that it is proposed to cease the employ- ment of chaplains under the D.8S.C.R. we, the Ontario convertion of the G,W.V.A., considering the services of these men invaluable, urge that no such step be taken." The motion was carried. A resohition was passed requesting that imperial pensions to soldiers re- siding in Canada be paid at par value and that imperials who came to Chn- ada since the war and are attending D.S.C.R. hospitals should receive Canadian rates of pay. The resolu- tlon also urged the standardization of pay and allowances of ex-service 'men undergoing treatmen or train- ing under D.S.C.R. without regard to former rank. The provincial command placed it- self on record this morning as in favor of co-operation with other bodies of veterans. y ---------- _ The Late Mrs. Marrison Mrs. Sarah Ann Marrison, aged seventy-six years, passed away at her residence, 369 Alfred street, on Thursday morning. The deceased recently sustained an accident, be- ing knocked-down by & boy who was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk, and It is stated that the shoek hastened her end. ~ Expect to Win: Forty Seats Belfast, May 26.--Unionist leaders are already calculating on the pos- sibility of returning all their forty candidates to seats in the Ulster par- llament. m ' Torbnto, = May = 26.--Lieut.-Col. W. R. Mulloy, who lost his eyesight" In the South African war, appeared in the weekly court at Osgoode Hall terday, as plaintiff, along with ratepayers of the town of Iro- ols, seeking an injunction to re- strain 'the corporation council from akiig use of a new assessment. Col, H oy has his summer home at Iro- According to the affidavits in the | council, submitted a by- consolidate he floating debt Issue debentures for about to cover the amount. The Was defeated, those opposing: that the reason for the Was to enable the council to ¥ ction to Malloy Seeks to Restrain Iroquois Council From Using a New Assessment borrow more money to buy a trans former, which the plaintiff says was useless. When the bylaw was defeated, Assessor 'was then asked to revise the assessment roll, but he 3 completed his assessment, refused. He was dismissed and a new sases- there were two ts outstand- ing, the new one trebling and quadrupling the old. The action is for an injunction tiraining the use of the new assess: ment as a basis for fixing the rate, for an order quashing the law and setting aside the new asses: ment, and fora ry order to compel the use of the first assess 'ent. ri KINGSTON, ONTARIO. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1021. 'A BIG MAN INHUMAN GERMAN GETS SHORT TERM Leipzig, May 26.--Sergeant Heynen, aceused of having ill- treated British soldiers who were prisoners of war at Horne prison' camp, Westphalia, was sentenced to tem months im- prisonment by the nigh court here to-day. He was the first German soldier to be tried on criminal charges arising from the conduct of the war. NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and Near Are Briefly Recounted. Premier Drury protests to Ottawa against the Lake of the Woods bill. France must borrow thirty-two billion francs to cover this year's expenses, Thomas R. Carscadden, M.A, a teacher for fifty-one years, honored by Galt people. William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, the U.S. anti-saloon worker, will go to India in August. Robert H. McLean, proprietor of the Columbia theatre, St. Thomas, has purchased the Mason theatre at Ingersoll. KINGSTON MOTOR CLUB ACTIVITIES To Post Necessary Signs--The Orphans Are to Be Entertained. At a meeting of the Kingston Mo- tor Club on Wednesday afternoon, plans for the summer's activities were outlined. It was decided to er- ect six signs regarding parking areas and general traffic rules at the en- trances to the city on the Bath, York, Perth, and Monreal roads as well as the LaSalle causeway and the ferry wharf. A sign will also be er- ected on the market square bearing full information concerning the re- gulations in the city. On the main streets, the areas where cars are not allowed to park will be marked off by red paint on the curbs. Invitations for motorists to make use of the facilities of the Kingston Motor-@lub will be inserted im zi Jo- cal hotels as well as on the steam- boats carrying automobiles. The club is prepared to give a great variety of Information, including a list of hotels and garages in the United States where Canadian money is accepted at par on the presentation of a member- ship card. The club is going to make several campaigns among automobile own- {ers for the purpose of preventing ac- cidents. The attention gf motorists will be called to the danger of using "one-eyed" cars, and the club was also of the opinion that too many cars were being parked on Princess street during the day-time to the detriment of business. Efforts will alsa be made to have the bill boards at Princess street and the Bath road removed or changed, as they obstruct the view of motorists. Plans are also being made to have two picnics during July. On July 6th sixty children from the Orphans' Home will be taken to Sydenham where the motorists will provide them a good time, and on July 13th over a hundred children from St. Mary's orphanage will also be the guests of the club. . . A -------------- RED CROSS CAMPAIGN New Members Reported Up to Noon on Thursday ' At noon Thursday the following additional members of the Canadian Red Cross were reported: Reed, Mrs. Steacy, Miss Helen Stea- cy, Mrs. Kidd, Mrs. H Robinson, R. R. F. Harvey, Mrs. Tothill, Mr. /Bry- den, Mrs. J. H. Burkett, Samuel Green, Mr. O'Connor, Mrs, Grattan, sor appointed, with the result that | some instances | t Te- | M, Diamond, B. M, Thompson, Miss Swift, James Swift, J. F. MacMillan, Mrs. J. F. MacMillan, Dr, J. E. Kane, R. Crawford, F. J. Hoag, Miss E. A, Hunter, Mrs, R. Crawford, Miss Do- ris Crawford, B. J. Tierney, Mrs.Chil- derhose, Mrs. G. S. Rooney, Miss Alma Grattan, Miss Hilda McTier, Miss Bessie McTier, Miss Black, Mary E, Gallagher, Miss BE. J. Bowie, Miss May Bolger, 0, A. Lewis, Mrs. T. A. Kidd, T. M es, F, A. McGall, Mrs. H. Harvey, Mrs, W. H. Lyons, Mrs. E. Davidson, A. Whitehead, B. E. Barnum, 'Miss Jean Engilsh, H. Stevenson, Peter Lee, James Young, Dr. J L. McKee, J Turk, George Granger, Sydney Smith, J. E. Bes- wick; Mrs. W. H. Craig, Rev. W. T. G. Brown, Joseph Lee, Mildred Clough, Miss Ella Cook, James art, Mrs. Macallister, Col. J. Leslie, Mary Frances Hora, Henzy, 'W. C. McDonald, Dr. | Lawler, Nancy C. De St. James 4 IS NEEDED To Head Government Railway Board--G.TR. Award in July. Ottawa, May 26.--The. Grand Trunk shareholders having agreed to the conditions imposed by the gov- ernment {n respect to surrendering control of the road, an order-in- council will be passed this week ex- tending the time for the arbitration award and providing for resumption of the proceedings. The case will be re-opened in Montreal next ' week. probably on Monday or Tuesday. It is expected to finish by the end sf June. The company's side is practi- cally complete while that ef the gov- ernment has to be presented. An aw?rd is expected in July, but in all probability it will be appealed from. Even if this occurs, the con- trol meanwhile will have passed 'to the government. The arbitration board, of course, will be the same as before suspension of the proceedings. Bringing into operation the Cana- dian National Railway act will be provided for by order-in-couneil very shortly. Whes this is done all the government roads, including the Grand Trunk, will be unified under jone directorate. It is undecided yet as |to the size and personnel of the | board, but it is believed Sir Joseph Flavelle may remain on it, though not at the head. Considerable opposiiion is mani- fested to the idea of a sectional directorate as likely to lead to sec- tional considerations. If the view of some of the ministers predominatcs the board will consist of not more than five, largely railway operators with an outstanding personage at the head. Who that will be, is still the question, the pursuit of several hign up in the railway and financial world not having beén successful yet. It is believed that the minister of finance may go on the board as an ex-officio member having regard to the fact that parliament must do the financ- ing. Sir Thomas White is here in ¢on- nection with the re-bpening of the arbitration. SLES IT NCEA Se Ea We - ~ OFFICIAL MAJORITY FOR "DRYS" 166,835 Ottawa, May-26.--The final certificate of the result of the referendum of Canada Temper- ance act vote in Ontario on the 18th of April last shows 540,- 773 affirmative and 373,938 negative votes, a majority for the affirmative of 166,835.4t was officially announced yestérday afternoon. Eee CLP PPS b ee PRP PL IIE ere *Pe222200000 000 ---- THE PRESBYTERIANS GAVE MOST LIBERALLY | Their Donations in Canada For the Year Amounted $4,464,566. Toronto, May 26.--The givings of Presbyterians for the general work of the church during 1920 amount- ed to $4,464,566. This sum does not include interest from endowments, transfers from reserves or contri- butions for congregational purposes: It is made up as follows: Budget givings of con- gregations $1,065,636 Individual donations and payment on mainten- ance re Women's Missionary So- 45,762 370,548 'Movement thankoffering W.M.S.--East--Forward Movement Bequests (placed in re- serves anc endow- ments), . - 3 China 'Famine Fund 2,619,076 34,816 91,326 ate 237,504 Total ............ $4,464,566 The budget givings of congrega- tions of $1,065,636 show an increase of $18,304 over 1919, and $160,437 over 1918. gt Miss J. | THE POLISH PARTIES, ARE NOW UNITED Demand Ahnexation of All Industrial Region of Plebiscite Area. Berlin, May 26.--The Polish. Fed- eration of Labor has sent a memor- ial to parliament, it is known here, demanding that the government openly recoguize the Upper Silesian insurrection and the aims of the Pol- sh insurgents. The lining-up of :he workingmen on the side of the upris- ing places the whole nation virtual- ly behind Adelbert, Fo fanty ani his followers. 1A combination of practically ali parties in Poland is demanding an- nexation of all the Industrial region o fthe plebiscite area. Yesterday the question of an autonomous Upper Silesia arose in parliament, bt op- postion to it was so great that it was easily seen that even this compromise would never be accepted willingly by Poland. The #Polish newspapers, from the resctionary to the Socialist organs. within the Korfanty line, even General Pilsudski's mouthpiece, the Kurjerporannt and the Liberal Szeczpospolita, agree for once. Both extremes cof political thought which these journals represent see the Up- per Silesian question only in the fight of nationalism, and therefore, are urging a strong movement to force La definite conclusion. ? CHURCHES MUST DEAL WITH UNION Declaration by Bishop Clark in His Address to Niagara Synod. . Hamilton, - May 26.--One of the Vadost important features of Bishop Clark's annual charge at the opening of the Niagara synod yesterday was that dealing with church upion. He said that the appeal sent forth by the Lambeth conference for reunion must be dealt with by the various churches to whom it was addresgad. Regarding the attitude of tue a» > Church of Rome, Bishop. Clark said: "80' long as the Church of Rome insists that union can only come through cubmission, s6 long will the road to unity in that direction be barred, Rome condemns our orders. The. subject of Anglican orders has been ia land as they have been in Rome and with much more knowledge of the facts. Authorities of Rome have taught ludicrous fables about English orders, : "The last papal document, issued in 1896, cxhibited ignorance of which their own scholars and critics are as well aware as we." NOTABLES ABOARD EMPRESS OF FRANCE With Prominent People From Canada. Quebec, May 26.--Sir John Har- vey, noted English actor, and Lady Harvey sailed for Liverpool yester- day on the Empress of France, after their Canadian tour, Other #iGted passengers on the liner were Lady Maud MacIntosh, daughter of Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Duchess of Devonshire, Mayor R. H. Gale, Vancouver, and Mrs. Gale; Mr and Mrs. Stewart McClen- aghan, Ottawa; Major and Mrs. Thomgs Moss, and F. John Bell, To- ronto; George F. Driscoll, Montreal. Mr, Driscoll, who is vice-president of a Canadian theatrical enterprise, is going to London to book 'a number of English attractions €or Canadian theatres next season. STARVES HIMSELF TO DEATH. U 8. Service Dodger Becomes Recluse on Release From Jail, Selma, lowa," May 26.--Walter Oliver, son of a wealthy farmer, died yesterday on the sixtieth day of a self-imposed fast. Oliver was a con- scientious objector and was sent to Federal penitentiary when he refus- ed to don a uniform at Camp Dodge. became a recluse and later entered into a fast declaring: "I will not take food until the Lord blesses me." Chinese. rmmigration, Ottawa, May 26. -- The bill io amend the Chinese immigration act lwas given a final reading, without debate in the hduse of commons this . The DHl increases restrie- on the entry of Chinese to Can- | gone to press and almost everything JEaTously crutiized In' Hite. Steamer Sailed For Liverpool Upon his retun to his home here he. ¢ LAST EDITION GARFIELD ESCAPES Combeaied Woodstock Murderer Overpowers His Guard in Jail, Takes His Key And Walks Out Front Door to Freedom. Woodstock, May 26--Norman Gar- field, murderer of Ben Johnston, con- fectioner, condemned to die on June 20d, is at present a free man. He made his escape from the local jail at 5.256 o'clock yesterday afterncon after overpowering his guard, sscur- ing the keys from his pocket and then walking deliberately through the jail corridors and out the front door and away to freedom. This morning the condémned man had not been located, althpugh the -country has been scoured by police and auto parties for miles around. ¥'iz escape was effected in a comparatively sin ple manner, when it Js considered that Garfield was a condemned man and under guard continuously. The story, as told by officials and others, runs as follows: This after- noon Rev. Mr. Gaetz, Garfield's 'spi- ritual adviser, was paying the con- demned man his usual afternoon vi- sit. About 5.20 the minister dceided to go and called to the guard at the end- of the corridor to come and let him out. Guard Ball went to the tap corridor and making his way to Gar field's cell, unlocked the door and let the minister out. They had retraced their steps only a short distanca when the minister remembered leaving his hat in Garfield's cell. The guard went back into the cell and secured the hat. Rev. Mr. Gaetz then walked down the corfidor, leaving the guard standing just inside the eell door. He had reached the bottom floor and was waiting for the guard to'come down it SIR HENRY BURSTALL SPEAKS IN NEW. YORK With Sir Auckland Geddes at the British Universities Club Dinner. '¢ New York, May 26.--8ir Auck- land Geddes, speaking at the Em- pire day dinner of the British Schools and Universities Club of New York, reiterated Presideiit Harding's recent utterances against war. "We must not forget the evils of war," said the British ambassador. "Let. us resolve, as the president sald yesterday, that it must not be again. Another war cannot bg waged without horrors indescribable. New' weapons havk been devised, among them bacteria to spread diseasg too horrible to contemplate. It must not be' 1 ' Lieut.-General Sir Henry Burstall, K.C.B., inspector-general of the Ca- nadian forces, declared that the ga- thering of representatives of the two great English-speaking nations was concrete proof of the bond of friendship which existed and must continue to exist between them. Sir Henry spoke of the presence of United States citizens among the first Canadian troops to go overseas and said the men of the two goun- tries fighting side by side demon- strated the reality of the friendship existing between the nations. The part. played in the war by Canadian women was emphasized by the speaker, recalling the fact that nurses worked in the advanced area and braved death and danger the same as the soldiers, Lord of Appeal in' Ordinary. London, May 26.--Sir Edward Carson, who for many years had been the leader of the Ulster forces in Par- llament, has been appointed Lord of Appeal-in-Ordinary in succession to Baron Moulton, who died in March. and let him out. Soon he heard fonts steps approaching through the corri= dor. He looked around and there just behind him, stood Garfield. He ex- claimed: '"'Have you gone crazy Norman?" The latter did not answer, but pro ceeded to the main door about fif- teen feet away. Here he took the keys he had taken from the guard, and was in the act of unlocking the dour when the minister again approached him, ) ',"Have you gone clean crazy, Nor- man?" he'repeated. The answer was "stand back and with a sudden swing of his arm Garfield pushed Mr. Gaetz away. Be- fore the minister could recover him- 'self the murderer had unlocked the door and was away across the plot of grass in front of the jail and on into Victoria park. No one seems to have noticed him, and nothing has been heard of him since. He was dressed in his civilian clothes and cap. It is thought he sec« ured a motor car and made his ess cape from the city in it. It was the evidence of his brother, Denton Garfield, now in Portsmouth penitentiary serving a term of twen- ty years, that caused Norman's con- viction of the murder of the Wood- stock confectioner. Denton swore that Norman fired the fatal shot. The lat ter refused to see Denton to say fare- well when his brother was brought to the penitentiary a month ago. (Continued on Page 15.) \ TTT a "DR p Yi OR' Federal Oabinet May Protect . Ontario From Assaults in Law Courts. Ottawa, May 26.--It is rumored that the cabinet Is considering the introduction, before the close of the present session, of legislation with the object of "preserving the recent victory of the temperance forces in Ontario from any assaults that might be made on it in the courts. If the liquor forces wish to make a'legal fight there are said to be twe or th phases of the situatiop which they might regard as offer ing possibility of success, at least te the extent of perhaps a year's delay in the application of the bome dry legislation, particularly if they found any acquiescence on the part of the Dominion govermmer§. There ig th constitutional aspect also the pos sibility of technical irregularities, and finally the issue as to whether Ontario is a province in which there is a law "prohibiting the sale of ine toxicating liquor for beverage pur- poses," the last issue arising from the native wine situation. It is urged that the government might readily prevent any possibility of the will of the people as register- ed in the recent voting being thwart- ed even temporarily by, first, passiug the necessary order-in-council bring: ing into effect in Ontario the law against importation, and second, by passing a bill formally legalizing everything that has been done in connection with the referendum vot. 4 ing. The decisive character of thal vote is being urged as a reason why no possible loophole should be lets. a -- Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson is dead in London. . 4 i A Union Churches in Canada Now Number 375; But 150 Charges in West Have No Hea Toronto May 26, -- Indepen- dent union churches fn Can- ada, composed prigeipall of Methodists and Presb, ans, but not under one or the other, 150. churches, either with Presbyterian or Methodist minister In charge, 225, ; yi j Total] number of union churches, 375. ; X a ~The report of the church uniih committee, of which Sir po coner, president of the ve) Toronto. is chairman, will be assembly which opens its sessions<in St. James' square n the "blue book™ of the church had | is in readiness, Sir Robert Faleonar has called another A peculiar situation has arisew since the General Assembly first deult with the question, and then di the matter until after the war. In 150 charges have sprung up all ov: Canada. principally in the west, with no church head. Another 2 churches, a conservative estin have combined with either a Prest terian or Methodist parson in charge. The independent charges are ine creasing, as also are the co-operatiy churches, and the question to be {faced 1s. to have complete' is feelin sling hous to organic union, bis {favorable feeling to a project of co- 'operation as an introduction to