ALLEN OW PLAYING THE BIRTH OF 'A NATION" British Whig N ALLEN NOW PLAYING! "THE OF A NATION" YEAR 88; No. 143. KINGSTON, ONTARIO. UEsDAY, JUNE 21, 1921. EAST EDITION NO GENERAL DRIFT BACK 0 THE MINES BY WORKERS British Industrial Situation Continues Chaotic--Miners' Lead | ers Said To Be Casting About For Fresh Open- ings For Peace Talks. London, Jung 21.--Although some of the collieries have re-opened and a considerable number of miners have reported for work, there has Leen no general drift back mines. The industrial situation continues as chaotic as ever, awaiting the test of the miners' . call for a general strike of unions threatened witn wage reductions. to the #0 definite move has been disclosed | as yet. -Endeavors to stop the men from returning to work and to defer ac- tion until they know the resultsofthe peal to other unions have been successful to some extent, reports showing that many miners were per- sunaded or otherwise. prevented froin going to work yesterday, The principal movements back Some of the min- | to the mines occurred in Derbyshire, ers' leaders, doubting that their pol- | N ottinghamshire and Staffordshire. icy will receive endorsement, are said to be casting about to find fresh openings for peace talks, but Apparently Scottish, Welsh and rorth country miners are standing firm, AGREE TO ENGAGE "KINGSTON LABOR The Di--ie Company, Toronto, State the Wages They Will Pay. At a conference held on Monday in the mayor's office with represent: atives of the Dickie Construction Company, Toronto, Ald. Stroud ana the mayor were present. Thé con- truction company advised the mayor that they were very anxious to em- ploy as much Kingston labor as pos- sible on the new General hospital building, .provided workers could be engaged on the same conditions as labor could be secured outside ct the city, as follows: Carpenters, 60 cents an hour and up, for eight hours. Masons and bricklayers, 75 cents an hour and up for eight hours. Laborers, 35 cents an hour up, nine and ten hours. The construction company re- gerve to themselves the right to en- gage any men they desire. They wiil engage with Ald. Stroud so that only those who are residents of Kingston will be given employment. A week shall consist of forty-eight hours. Some laborers were started on the Job Tuesday morning marking out the ground and cutting down six trees. It is the wish of the construction company to leave as much money in Kingston as possible. . The site of the new building. is be- side the present Empire wing and parallg) with it, but about forty feet away. It will connect with the ad- ministration building by a -passage- way. TWO AUTOS STOLEN; ° ONE WAS RECOVERED and One Car Reported Missing ' From the R.M.C. Grounds. J. Baxter, Pittsburg township, re- ported to the police on Monday night that his auto had been stolen from Barriefield. The car was discovered in Victoria Park on Tuesday morn- ing, where it had been deserted by the thieves. The car suffered some damage. A report was also received by the police: from - the Blue Garage that , one of their cars had been stulen from the R.M.C. grounds | on Monday night. HUSBAND AND WIFE My wife's wast always gaps at the back --F.G. What Does Your Wife Po BRIER FRE PT FPR GD 68 GERMANS KILLED BY MINE EXPLOSION Berlin, June 21.--Sixty-eight men were killed and seventy- three oth rs injured through an explosion, due to fire damp, which destroyed a geeat part of Mont Cenis mine, near Herne, Westphala, yesterday. Three hundred men were in the mine when the disaster oeccur- red. Bede bd de br + * v FEEPEPPPOPIP RPE PIRATES AFLOAT IN NORTH ATLANTIC Thought They Have Captured and Sunk Some Recently Missing Ships. IE EERE ERE EE 22 BE EJ Portland Maine, June 21.--The theory that pirates are afloat in the North Atlantic has found credence here. Belief in this explanation of the fate recently of missing ships has grown with the establishment of the fact that a message, picked up two months ago, north of Cape Hataras, purporting to explain the disap- pearance of the crew of the five- masted schooner C. A. Deering, the mystery ship of the Diamond shoals, was written by Henry Bates, a mem- ber of 'the crew. The question of its genuineness was settled by hand- writing = experts, who compared it with letters written by Bates. The message read: "Deering captured by oil burning boat, something like a chaser, Taking off everything, handcuffing crew. Crew hiding all over ship. No chance to make es- cape. Finder please notify Deering headquarters." PROBING VERONA FIRE, Fire Marshall Has Commenced an Investigation There, An officer from the office of Pro- .vincial Fire Marshal Heaton has ar- rived al Verona, and is conducting an investigation into the recent fire there. Evidence is being taken un- der oath. -------- i WOLFE ISLAND BAZAAR RECEIPTS OVER $7,000 Miss Baker, of Wolfe Island, Won Fifty Dollars in Gold, Father Fleming's bazaar at Wolfe Island last week was an unqualified success. When all returns are in it Is expected that the gross receipts will be over $7,000. The prizes that created the great- est interest were: $50 in gold, won by Miss Baker; $25 in gold, won by John Yott; a handsome clock, won hy Thomas Crawford; a beautiful china cabinet, won by Miss Greenwood. All the winners belong to Wolfe Island. The qnilt was won by Mrs. Arm- strong, and there were a number of minor prizes. Some have not yet been decided. The cattle to be raffled off have not yet been dispos- ed of, and many ticket-holders are looking for them. NN Sr mg heir estes Preparing For the Trp TL ~ To Beltast to Open the Irish Parliament bore pein a : No Confirmation of Will Make a . London, Sune 21.--King George d Queen Mary prepared this morn- to leave for a port on the Irish , where they will to-night go on rd a steamer which will take en to Bifast, du whieh clty thes de to-morrow at the state g of the parliament of north- by the police and the crown s in Belfast to insure the safety Taken to Insure Their Safety Rumor That Sinn Fein Peace Offer. of the King and Queen while th mn fhe Tu Their majesties will face a s ous round of functions to-mu for in addition to the opening of parliament, they will be called upon to preside at a levee at the Hall, where the King will ~ confer honors upon a number of, prominen Irishmen. Confirmation of the rumor the Sinn Fein will make a peace fer is as yet lacking. NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and Near Are Briefly Recounted. Lloyd George declares there will ls no renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty Cistasteful to the United | States. Rhodes may resign the speaker- | ship of the commons to become presi- | Jeut down the herds owing to the ab- Ulster | Angrove attended hm. The injury it Eamon #6 Valors oa. boss. ro {dent of the British-American Nickel { Company. Col. McLaren Hamilton, and Col. Martin, Ottawa, are appointed to the Temiskaming and Northern On- tario Railway Board. Traffic earnings of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for the | week ending June 14th were $3 207,000, as against $3,660,000 Jast 4 year. The suit taken by Lord Atholstan, proprietor of the Montreal Star, against the Tartes to recover some $62,000, loaned them when their paper, La Patrie, was in difficulties some years ago, was settled out of ! court on Monday. EARL KIDNAPPED IN COUNTY CORK Fourth Earl of Bandot, King's Lieutenant, Taken From His Castle. Cork, June 21.--James Francis Bernard, fourth Earl of Bandot, was kidnapped this morning from his re- sidence in Bantry, county Cork, by a band of armed men. Castle Bernard, his home, was set afire, and early thig afternoon was still burning. His whereabouts are unknown. The earl is seventy-one years of age, and has been king's lieutenant of county Cor! for many years. He is owner of about forty-on» thousand acres of land. The earl was kidnapped at five o'clock this morning, after which the castle was fired and virtually de- stroyed. Meanwhile Lady Bandoh and the servants had been locked in a room adjoining the stables. ALBERTA FARMERS HAPPY Crops Developing Rapidly and Pros pects. Bright. Calgary, Alb,, June 21.--The Cal- gary Herald in its fourth crop re- port, says: "Following the rains of Thursday night and Friday morning, which ap- pear to have been general over southern Alberta, farmers are in a most optimistic mood. Crops for this time of the year are well advane- ed and are developing rapidly, some portions of the province reporting that wheat will be heading out with- in 10 days or a couple of weeks. "There appears to be plenty of moisture in all districts to hold the crops until the end of June, and 'n very few cases has there been any damage due to the prevalence of cut- worms or grasshoppers. Where the latter have appeared organized caine paigns have been carried on for their extermination, with consider- able success, but with the crops =o far advanced there seems to be very little serious danger from now on in that respect. The next week or two is indicated as. the critical perio. and if this period is successfully passed there is every hope of a bump- er crop. '""There has been comparatively little soil-drifting in the province. Labor conditions are normal; bvas- ture is in good shape; cattle are sleek and fat, put the tendency is to normally low prices, both for dalry products and cattle generally." "DISOWNS" HIS FATHER: Bud Stillman Decides to Stick With other. 'New York, June 21.--Bud Still- man, aged 17, has "disowned" his father, James A. Stillman, who is su- ing Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman for di- vorce. "It seems a hard thing to say, bunt I can no longer recognize as my fata- er the man who is attacking my mother," declared the boy to-day when he was interviewed in Mrs. Stillman's Fifth avenue apartment. "I left Milton academy during the Easter vacation to be near my mother," he continued. "Now I am studying like the deuce to pass my examinations. They begin to-mor- TOW. 3 "It is hard work but I am glad I came. I don't know whether I: have been of any use to mother but I just love to be near her. I wish I couid get in the thick of the fight with her. It's a big fight. She is winning and and I wish I could help her to win quicker and more complctely." A Lad Injured. George Hutchins, aged six years, was struck by an automobile at the corner of Wellington and William streets at one o'clock Tuesday after- noon, The little chap was near the 'crossing and could not get out of the way of the car in time. He was taken to the Hotel Dien in James Reid's ambulance, and Dr. Harold 'er | was found to be nothing morc then ta bruise. EAA {the authorities are convinced ithe number of entirely unnecessary accidents can be greatly reduced. At THE AIRMEN ARE MEETING Will Try to Prevent the Fool- ish Pastime of "Stunt- ing." Ottawa, June 21.--While flying ac- cidents in Canada have not been as prevalent as in some other countries, that the recommendation of the Air 4 Board a law prohibiting "stunting" was passed by the dominion govern- | ment over a year ago. In spite of | this law, cause have occurred, and the board have repeatedly urgetl the civilian authorities to punish the offenders and so discourage this foolish pastime. } If aviation is to be -allowed to play its proper part in the development of Canada it must be conducted on safe and sane lines. The training of for- mer pilots and the encouragement of recruiting for the Canadian Air Force as a basis for an efficient ate service will be one of the chief points of discussion at the Canadian Air Force Association convention at Camp Borden to-day and Wednesday. Delegations from all over Canada are in 'attendance to discuss matters of vital importance to the future of Canada's aviation policy. Much interest is being shown by former aviators in the result of the convention, and many were the words of advice handed to the provincial delegatjon before they left to attend. Lloyds Bets Paris Fete Will Not Have Rain Paris, June 21.--Lloyds of London is gambling 500,000 frances that it will not rain to-day in Paris. This sums up the term# of the unique in- surance by which Lloyds agrees to pay all expenses and a handsome pro- fit to the promoters of the Pavlova charity gala day if more than two millimeters of rain falls on the day of the fete. It is expected that June 21st will be one of the biggest days of the sea- son of social events of Paris' "great week," which will tepminate on June 27th with the 'grand prix." Shaw's Play Stopped In Theatres of Vienna Vienna, June 21.--The Austrian government has stopped all perform- ances here of George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," following re- peated demonstrations by Bulgarian students in Vienna and official re- monstrances by the Bulgarian min- ister in this capital. The Bulgarians declare the play is an insult to the Bulgarian nation, and that a continuation of it in Vi- enna would serve to estrange Aus- tria and Bulgaria, which were allies during the war, How Hogs Have Dropped. Cobourg, June 21.--A Durham county farmer, speaking of the way the farmer is hit by the slump in prices, states that a year ago he sold 11 hogs, each one weighing about 240 pounds, and received therefor a cheque for $567.60. Just recently he sold 11 more hogs, and the time his cheque was $217, leaving a difference of $350. BRANTFORD GIRL WEDS A BURGLAR Just Before He Was Sentenced to Term In Portsmouth Penitentiary. St. Catharines, June 21.--Freder- ick Mastone, a young man from Brantford, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Campbell to three years in penitentiary for trying to break into W. J. Elliott's residence in company with Joseph Cook. Mastone was ar- rested in Simcoe for a similar of- fence, and Crown Attorney Brennan showed records of previous convie- tions. Just before he was sentenced, Mas- tone was married to Irene Pearcey, a Brantford girl. The wedding took place in the grand jury room in the court house,.Rev. Canon L. W. B. Broughall conducting the ceremony. accidents due solely to this | U.S. MINISTER TO WED MARLBOROUGH Duke Unable to Get Church of England Clergyman to Officiate. Paris, June 21.--When the Duke of Marlborough marries Miss Gladys Deacon next Saturday the ceremony will be performed by an American pastor especially imported for the occasion. Under the rules of the church of England the guilty party in a divorce cannot remarry. On account of this the Duke failed to find a bishop or minister of his church who would perform the cere- mony. The identity of the American clergyman, who will wed the Dukes to the American sportswoman, and bridesmaid for the former Duchess, lis being kept secret. The wedding | will take place in the palatial home {of Eugene Higgins, a cousin of Miss | Deacon. The house is but a stone's {throw from the American embassy. The Duke has declared to friends that he intends to take up a perma- nent residence in Paris. THE. DEBT OF QUEBEC LESS THAN ONTARIO'S Premier Taschereau Defends His Government Against Tory Leader's Charges. Victoriaville, Que., June, K 21. Speaking here in answer to charges hrought against his government by Arthur Sauve, leader of the Conserv- ative opposition in the Quebec legls- iature, Hon. L. A. Taschereati, prem- ier of Quebec, took up the points raised by Mr. Sauve and replied to them. In regard to the finances of the province, which Mr. Sauve had said were in a deplorable condition, Premier Taschereau pointed to the fact that the financial position of the province was, from a stock market viewpoint, in better shape than that of Ontario, and that Quebec province lcans were priced higher than those of the neighbor province. Quebec had in 1920 declared a surplus of nearly $1,000,000, and on June 30th next would declare ong of more than $1,000,000. From the re- sources of the province the sum of $30,000,000 had been set aside for good roads; $5,000,000 for coloniza- tion, and $3,000,000 for universities; bridge and turnpike dues had. been repealed; 600 iron br Neos had been constructed, and the greatest dams in the world built. Aid to public teaching had been tripled and aid to agriculture quadrupled. From tha sole surplus of the province $13,000,- 000 had been paid off for provincial debt, which in 1919 stood officially at $18 per capita, against a per capita debt of $42 for Ontario, $61 British Columbia, $69.89 for Al- berta, and $83 for Manitoba. In connection with Mr. Sauve's charges: that members of the legis- lative assembly were interested in the liquor traffic, the premier point- ed out that Mr. Sauve, if he had car- ried out his intentions, would have had to stake his seat in the house against the truth of his charges Premier Taschereau sald he refused to take the risk of losing his ses- sional indemnity of $6,000, and had said he would not make any charges except before a royal commission presided over by a judge. Discussing the question of a La. bor or an United Farmers' party in Quebec, Premier Taschereau point- ed out tha* more than one-half the members of the legislative assembly were farmers or workmen, 'among these being also the minister of agriculture, Hon. Mr. Caron. As to what had been done by the Liberals in aid of agriculture, Premier Tas- chereau said that in 1895 when the Conservatives went out of power their budget for agriculture totalled $163,494. Last year the Liberals spent more than $2,500,000, omit- ting the good roads expenditure re- ferred to above. In 1905 there were only two domestic science schools in the province; to-day there are 53. Under the Conservative regime there was none. Fifty thousand dollars tad also been expended in the cre- ation of a complementary school 'of agriculture, while _. experimental farms had been set up throughout the province. The farmers of Halton county will enter the next political fight under a new. name, which will be *"The Halton People's Political Party." President Gompers announced at Denver, Colo., that he will be a can- didate for re-election in the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. - HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED ? raised in two weeks' time. it a liberal one. The aid of the local banks' elected president ot. the Irish re- public. fund, as will the All over Ontario a campaign is being carried on to raise funds for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Each city is doing ils utmost to raise the quota expected of it and the campaign workers are being kept incessantly at the task of making the drive a success. Kingston's share is about $2,500, a sum which should be |3% 1% be said that other cities of Ontario 2 Will it be said Kingston failed to do its part for a worthy caude ? If not, then do your part by sending in your contribution as soon as possible and make be behind the has been enlisted in this cam- paign and any one of them will ake eontribulions for the Whig Office, THE KING WILL RECEIVE A REAL IRISH WELCOME Inthe Present State of Politics No Statesman Has the Power of Appeal Which Is Possessed By the Sovereign. London, June <21.--Belfast des- patches say that the royal visit has already caught the popular imagina- tion in Ireland and the significance of the event is increased greatly by the fact that the king is accompanied by the queen and not by the prime mini- ster, for nothing could divorce Lloyd George from partyism in Irish eyes. Those who know Ireland best say that the scenes of enthusiasm for the sovereign and the empire will be like nothing witnessed since Victoria's diamond jubilee in London. The king's desire for reconéiliation with Ireland as a whole has been proved again and again, In the present state of politics no statesman whatever has the power of appeal which is possessed by the sovereign, What has been granted to never can be taken away. Orangemen, once turned Home Rulers, will be as invincibly tenaci- ous of their autonomy as any little people that the world has ever known. The Sinn Fein must com- promise with them or shatter itself. It can never break them. Separatism and republicanism are impotent henceforth to realize any genuine na- tional aims. The fate of Irish unity LONGEST DAY OF YEAR Tuesday, June 21 21st, Has a Few More Seconds of Daylight. Ulster The » Toronto, June 21.--Popularly to-day, June 21st, is the longest day of the year. Technically it is actuai- ly so, though only by a margin of a few seconds, As a matter of fact the longest day sometimes falls on June 22nd. The almanac compilers thus describe jt. "June 21. Sun enters the sign tf Cancer (summer solstice) 23 h. 38 m.--o0F 'n"other words at 24 minutes to midnight." It is all mace perfectly clear by tae following scientific explanation. Though there is but slight difference in the length of the interval betwecn sunrise and sunset on the days about June 21st, there is in general one of these days which is a few seconds longer than any other. This is the day on which the summer solstice falls, and at the end of a century is June 20th or 21st, whilst at the be- ginning it is a day later, and June 21st or 22nd is the longest day. The reason for this difference in date may be briefly stated. Because the tropical year is not an integral num- ber of days the solstice falls later in the calendar year by year by six hours nearly. It is not permitted tobe very late because the intercalation of the extra day in leap year brings it back one whole day. This whole day is too much, because the solstice is later yearly by not quite six hours, and hence, on the whole, it falls earl- ier in the calendar year as the cen- tury progresses, and the dates of the longest day at the beginning and end are as stated. In this year it hap- pens that the solstice occurs only twenty-four minutes before midnig:t of June 21st, and the difference in is now visibly as it always was really in the hands of the North, This is, indeed, the keynote of the Govern- ment's Irish policy. After an interval of a month or so for free discussion, the king will be able to give the meaning of the wel- come to Ulster's tacit acceptance of the task of reconciling the north-east with the south-west. Whatever Sinn Fein leaders may say at the moment, the king's words must leave an indelible impression on all reconcilable Irishmen and their number is far greater and more widespread than might at present ap- pear. J. L.. Gavin, himself an Irishman, says in the Observer that the mem-. bers of the Ulster parliament are ex-* pected to offer to meet the elected re- presentatives of the Dail Eireann in conference. If the latter are then prepared to accept a few fundamental" guarantees for the integrity of the United Kingdom, as seems quite pos- sible, no peddling of fiscal or finan- cial considerations would be allowed by the British parliament to stand in the way of a broad-based settlement. The alternative would be a crown colony government a.d interminable bloodshed; and who would profit by that? jength of the two days is scarcely ap= preciable. This acceleration of the date dur- ing the century is corrected by the omission of the intercalary day in the centennial year, which puts the date a day later. But this does more than is necessary, and a further com= pensation is made by making the fourth centennial year a leap year. Woman Caught Smuggling "Scotch™ New York, June 21.--When the Iolland-American liner Rotterdan docked at Hoboken Norman Fergn- son, a customs officer, noticed a young woman pass a coat across the fence to friends outside the enclos- ure. There was something about the coat that made Ferguson look twice, and the second glance revealad a quaft bottle of Scotch sewed in each sleeve, Sn ---------- THE KINGSTON ULSTER LOVALISTS CREETING To Sir James Oraig, Premier of the New Ulster Assembly. At a meeting of the Ulster loyals = ists in Kingston, the following re- solution was passed and cabled to Sir James Craig, premier Ulster parliament, Belfast, Ireland. "We desire to express to the Ul ter premier, Sir James Craig, Bart., our hearty congratulations on the opening of the new Ulster parliament, We pray that God will guide you in your determined efforts to remain within the empire. We shall watch with greater interest than ever the growth and prosperity of Ulster. Long live Lord Carson. God Save the King." 4 When Nearly One Hun9red Years of Age William Thompson Worked in the Fields s Lived in Sheffield and Kennebec -- When Eighty-five He Tired Out Three Men the Life of William Thompson, an inmate of the Home for the Aged, who on Mon- day celebrated the 101st anniver- sary of his birth is certainly not one of those who were credited with be- ing dissatisfied with the treatment received in the home, for when inter- viewdd on Monday afternoon by the Whig, he stated that after over a year's residence 'the institution had used him well." He further stated that previous to the present occas- jon he was in the home for eight months a few years ago, and he was glad to come back of his own free will. 4 Although the failure of his sight and hearing has necessarily mada moving about practically impossible, the old gentleman is still in very good health chair was able to speak in a remark- ably clear voice and showed an ex- cellent memory. Born in Fredericks burg, which at that time was known as "Secondtown," on June 20th, 1520, he lived there for fifteen years, later moving to Sheffield where he spent seventy years of his life in farming. At that time the methods of farming were very crude, and nes well remembers his father cutting the grain with a sickle. The roads were at that time few apd far be- tween and in very poor condition. At all times of jis life Mr. and sitting up In a fo on the Mower--S8aved His Child. Thompson had to word hard, and about twenty years ago he moved to Kennebec where he was engaged in lumbering. Mr. Thompson has always enjoyed the best of health and up to a year or two ago was able to do his day's work in the field until his eyesight began getting poors _ er, and prevented his getting about, but he was sure he could still do ilght work if he could see what he was doing. He told of one day when he was eighty-five years of age, he went out into the field and tired oat three men on the mower, thus show ing his remarkable strength. He stat ed that although for over fifty years he had been a smoker, one day hs fell asleep with his pipe in his mouth, and accidentally set fire to his whisk-* ers. That day he swore off smoking and has not smoked any since. This most people would seem almost impossible. Although not a sufferer from any disease, Mr. Thompson was unfortun- ate enough to have a largs tree fall across his back when he saved his child from probable death from the tree. To the present day he bears scarg on his face which he Toeslveil when struck down. Friends of Mr. Thompson wore exe tending their congratulations on Monday afternoon and expressing the wish that this remarkable mas might see more auniversaries. a 8 3s