Lionel TO-DAY in Jim the Penman YEAR 88; No. 261, UPTONS NOT YET CHARGED B Kingston Authorities the Napanee Charges Yet Laid. Sherwood Upton, Erwood Upton ehd Pred Bryant, the young men gathered in by the Kingston police, to face very serious charges, in one of the most sensational cases come before the local police court In jail, aw is right side of the |he was lodged for 'ears, are in the county jail, await-|t0 turn over to his rig | z , Magls- [road when the cars came close to-| Mathers and Kindred were called ing preliminary trial before trate Farrell. | gether, his front left wheel struck us|first declined to say what he had The Batter is now in the hands of immediately, | taken but later admitted taking bi- DroWh Attorney J. 1. Whiting. whol We | chloride of mercury tablets. He is re- is looking after the taking out of the various charges against the young| Were certainly on the proper side of|ported out of danger. o men. It is understood that the local Charges will be laid late Friday af- ternoon or Saturday. It was stated on Friday morning, that the charges made by the King- ston police will be taken up first, and afterwards the serious charges at Napanee will be heard. Following is the list of charges lodged by the crown at Napanee against the three young men: Murder .of Constable Richard Beard; breaking into J, W. Robin- Son's garage and stealing auto; at- tempting to break into Smith's jew- elry store. The Upton boys, who have been held at the police station since their arrest, were removed to the county Jall at 4 o'clock on Thursday after- noon, in the "Black Maria." The prisoners, who look to be mere boys, were handed over to Jailer Hawkey by Chief Robinson. Constables Thomas Mullinger and Vernon Campbell assisted in the removal of the prisoners, ' Bryant was taken to the jall some deys ago. The sensational round-up made by the local police is. still the talk of the city, and the coming trial- of the three young men is causing a great deal of interest. It was not known Friday noon when the young men would come for their preliminary hearing. ---- 39499004000 040044. L % MONTREAL AND MERCHANTS + 3 BANKS TO COMBINE +4 be * Montreal, Dec. 16. - | RX ie' Bia ot eas. + .% and Merchants Bank of Canada + # will bs announced soon, it is + said in financial cirles here. The combined capital stock would be thirty-two million five hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty-two 'millions 1s the capital of the Bank of Mon- real +* * +. + * * + * * EPG EPSPPG POP ALLEGED MURDERER + * * + i. J * $ > Removed From London Jail fo Await Murrells' Recapture, London, Ont.,. Dec. 16.--Prepara- tions are being made by the crown authorities to have Henry J. wil liams removed from the county jail to the penitentiary, where he will serve term for robbery with vio lenceand await the possible recap- ture of the Murrell urothers, who with Williams are charged with the murder of a Melbourne garage man Williams' trial was postponed from the last assizes because of the es- cape of the Murrells, but he will not be held here past the January as- sizes, Soon after his arrest he plead- ed guilty to the robbery charge, but scntence was deferred pending the murder trial: No very valuable clue has been received as to the where- abouts of the Murrells, though the police frequently receive informa- tion that warrants Investigation. -------------- CEP FROPPPCT P2000 * THE COMMONS ADOPTS THE IRISH TREATY London, Dec. 16.--The House of Commons to-day adopted the Anglo-Irish treaty and rejected the Unionist amendment to the address by a vote of 401 to 58. The House of Lords has also ap- proved the Irish treaty, reject- ing the Unionist amendment by 166 to 47. * o- + » » * > * * » -* * * PPE PELPIP EPPO HUSBAND AND WIFE My wife puts the eleeiric light in her bed to warm it--ILB.B, ; What Docs Your Wife Do ? FRMCARMSTRONG {Evidence For Defence Heard { Friday Morning Before Judge Lavell. | Dwight Frink, Odessa, against Mar- | shall Armstrong and G W. Boyd, { Kingston, was resumed before Judge | Lavell Friday morning. | Donald J. Cameron | witness 'called on behalf of the de- ifence, Mr. Cameron said ihere was | seating accommodation for four per- {sons in the car driven by Marshall { | Armstrong. "When we saw us," said witness, gether, "When the cars came to- and our car {but Frink's stopped car went ahead. {the road as our car could not be {moved. The trafic went between [the two damaged cars, I disagree | with Mr. Frink when he says the | Reo car kept going and swerved {around in rear of the Ford truck. I did not see any broken glass on the road. The wheel of the Reo car did not go over thg_fénder and axle of the truck. I was there when the Reo car was moved for the first time after the accident, Our car was pointing slightly to the south after the accident." Cross examined by Mr. Cunning- ham, witness said he was looking straight ahead and could see every- thing ahead, "and we were well over to the right side of the road. We | Were not going more than ten miles {an hour at the time of the accident," Marshall Armstrong, defendant, sald he Mas driving on his right hand Iside of the road and the Frink car which had very strong lights, | hugging the middle of the roa close that he had to slow down, 28 the collision was about to place he (Frink) steered his slightly to his own side of th said the witness. "The rays of light we, our glass. As a result of the accid- out it threw the front end of my car | slightly to the left and his car went jio the right hand side of the road, and the left front wheel of my car | was locked," said witness. "My car never went over the axle of the Ford truck." Witness claimed the scene of accident was not shown in the photographs presented by Mr Cunningham. "No rigs passed right side and all traf tween the two cars as there was plenty of room." On the night of the accident witness claimed that plain- tiff stated that neither of the drivers Was to blame. He further claimed that the jar of the collision stopped the engine of his car . "It cost 'me $142 to repair the Reo car," sald Mr. Armstrong. was d so Just car re as high as fic went be- Cross examined by Mr. Cunning- ham, witness said he had driven cars, for two years. He denied that he had told the police commissioners that he had taken out the car for the purpose of learning to drive. "I don't assume any responsibili- ty for the accident, as I was on my right side and 1 was burning my dimmer lights," said witness. George Boyd, owner of the car, sail he saw it the night of the accid- ent at the pldce where the acclaent took place. The rear seat woud hold two people his size or three ord- inary-sized people. "There was not sufficient room when Frink had four in the seal, which is three foot seven inches wide, for him to handle the car properly," said witness, Cross-examined br Mr. Cunning- ham, witness said it was possible to | move the Reo car a short distance. { 'May Armstrong, daughter o i defendant, said she noticed Frings car when a hundred yards away, aad could see the glaring. lights. "We were on our right side and the Frink car was coming towards us in the centre of 'he road. 1 never thougat oot any danger and I could not se? how it struck our car, went on ana angled, and then stopped. The Frink car changed its course when it came up to us and turned .to .the right. On. this occasion :Frink re- marked that both were to blame for the accident. Our right hand side of the road." Herbert Mascard, motor mechanic, said he found the Reo the sieering gear was locked." Mr. Decker, motor mechanic, said he found the Reo truck on the rignt band side and found no difficul'y :n passing it on thé left hand side Mr. Frink was recalled by Mr. Cuncinghan '¢ tell about the width of the seat in the truck. Witness de- nied the conversa'ion with Arm- strong about 'he blame for the as: cident. Roland Vanluven, when recalls, said the truck could not move back or forwards after it was hit. The court adjourned at 12.20 o'clock bu' resumed at 2 o'clock when counsel addressed the jury. + Senator Borah stated in New York that he would vote to cancel Europe's debt to the U.S. if Europe would revise the Versailles treaty so that the masses of poople could benefit. b¥...ear. on. tho. GSE TOOK POISON | -- : The hearing of the action of | was the first | | the | Constable Godfrey on a charge to|Frink car it was coming direct for |theft, | Mr. Frink started (son in the lock-up at Tweed where | |e threat which the Hon| W. L. |in the late days of | when he | years of age, married, and a returned RINGSTON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1921, IN LOCK-UP Leo Pearson, Tweed, Arrest- ed on Theft Charge--Out of Danger. (Special to The Whig) Tweed, Dec. 16.--Leo Parsons, arrested at Marlbank, Thursday, by of preferred at Guelph, took poi- the night. Drs. and edministered antidotes, He at Leo Pearson is about twenty-five soldier. He came to Tweed two months ago and announced his in- tention of opening a drug store. He was a. Tamworth yesterday and learning that a constable was looking for him, he fled towards Marlbank through the woods, but was overtak- en by the officer and taken into cus- tody. TO REVIEW ALL GIFTS MADE IN DYING HOURS Liberal Premier-Elect Will Act on His Warning to Meighen. Ottawa, Dec. 16.--It was no idle Mackenzie King gave expression to the campaign warned Premier Meighen DE VALERA DEFEATED AND WILL RESIGN Toronto, Dec. 16.--A Globe cable today announces that de Valera has met defeat in the se- cret session of the Dail and that he intends to resign. Hi: chief objection is to 'he form of the oath of allegiance. He proposes that instead of swearing allegi- ance, Ireland should contribute a share annually to the King's civil list, ENGLAND ALSO HAS DEVASTATED REGIONS Three Million Unemployed as Against Sixteen Thousand In France. Paris, Dec. 16.~Indications at the coming reparations sions, Britain will take her million unemployed. into tion, in spite of her feelings for France, was made by Lord Derby, the British ambassador, at a lunch- eon in his honor, His impression that England must find means of putting her men back to work, even it it means financial re-approach- ment with Germany, made a deep impression upon his French hearers, especially as Lord Derby is known to represent the most advanced pro- French opinion in his country. "We know you have suffered," said the ambassador, "We know of the devastated regions. But I will take any of you to my estate in northern England and show you tens, hundreds, thousands, of men-- here Lord Derby indicated Field Marshal French seated beside him-- who served under you French, and who are now walking the streets looking for work. "These are our devastated regions. If Mr. Lloyd George at the forth- that discus- three by letter that appointments reported then as being pushed through by a| |dying administration would be sub-| take | joot to review. | All appointments, whether to the | e road, senate or to the bench, and ' last- | minute payments and arrangements lof other kinds, will all be critically | Maritime province appointmen's! especially will pass under i | I the [These proposals included the scrap- | ping of sixty-six capital ships, with { vised by the incoming cabinet. Wherever the new government | feels there has been flagrant disre- | gard of political proprieties the work | of the last administration will be un- | done ff it is at all possible, review and the reason for the reported $3,- 000,000 advance to the Dominion Iron & Steel Company will be jsought, will be er given Hon. C. J. Doherty, lite minister of justice, and the relation between the appointment of Col. F. B. Black as senator and his purchase of the Standard, that Conservative paper in St. John which found grave fault 'with 'the Meighen edministra- tion until the transfer to Col. Black, when it became a subservient organ once again. THE GREAT POWERS REACH AGREEMENT To Scrap a Total of Sixty- Eight Capital Fighting Ships. Washington, D.C., Dec. 16.--The world's three greatest naval powers came to an agreement yesterday af- ternoon to scrap sixty-eight capital fighting ships with a total tonnage of 1,861,643, Great Britain, the Uni- ted States and Japan have made their final decision. In bulk these figures Go not differ greatly from the Hyghes proposals,- made when the CoRfer- ence on the Limitation of Arrfiament first met, four weeks ago Saturday. a total tonnage of 1,878,043. Sec- retary Hughes has won out with his famous 5-5-3 ratio. | | i "ar was on taa| car on tae | that no government could touch all right side of the road and the Ford |the underlying causes for unemploy- truck was partly in the ditch. "It was | ment. impossible to move the Reo car as Germany had practically no unem- ! | LLOYD GEORGE'S VIEW ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT No Government Could Touch] All the Underlying Causes, He Says. London, Dec. 16.--Lloyd George told a labor deputation last night He agreed that France and ployment, but said that in France half the population was employed on the land. Waiter Rathenau had told him that Germany would soon col- lapse if things went on as at present. ---- CCR P 40020000 MAY BAN CANADIAN POULTRY SHIPMENTS nr i ing neighbor Buffalo, N.Y, Dec. 16. Fowl received from Canada recently have been infected with croup, and a committee of the Western New York Veterinary Medical Associa- tion called today on the state and health officers to discuss the advisability of a tempor- ary embargo on poultry ship- ments. - PPP PFIIPEP PIES APPL ELI OEBRSR Epes EPRI ePPPEIIPIOELTS ' : coming discussions were to forget them, he would be acting falsely to- ward his country." The comparative magnitude these 'devastated regions" in land is a compelling motive in mai: .- taining British opposition to the French policy on reparations, Against the three million unemploy- ed in England, France has only 16,- 000. of A UNIQUE DIVISION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Government. Numbers .Oppos! reced ed Since Confederation. Toronto, Dec. 18.--With A. w. Neill, member-elect for Comox-Al- berni taking his seat as an Independ- ent Liberal the nex' houge following the election of a speaker, will theore- tically divide evenly, 117 on each side. Including the speaker, Hon. W. L. M. King will have 118 sup- porters in the next house. Not since confederation has the parliamentary situation been so curious. The near- est approach to it was in 1872 when, at the general elections of that year, 103 Conservatives and 97 Liberais were elected, or a Conservative ma- jority of only six. But there were then neither Progressives nor Inde- pendents in the house, ---------------- WOMAN FIGHTS BANDIT. Equal Mrs. Burgess, of Hamilton, Loses Furniture, But Beats Up Burgiar Hamilton, Dec. 16.--In 3a single- handed battle with a bandit here Mrs. W. J. Burgess, wife of a well-known grocer, gave the man such a fight that he escaped before the police could get him. He is described as a burly burglar of 180 pounds, and he entered the house from a side door. Mrs. Bur- gess told him her money was in tho cupboard, and when he sought it sne grappled with him, and in the strug- gle tho bandit dropped his revolver. Continuing the fight with the furni- ture and anything in the crockery line she could lay her hands on she fought him upstairs, and made such a noise that the attention of a pass- brought immediate help. RUSH OF COAL ORDERS. British Mines Working Overtime and'| Prices Stiffen, London, "Dec. 16.--S8cottisk cna' mifle owners have a rush cf orders at present that has no: been equalled since pre-war days. Staemers are loading coal day and night and the miners are working overtime. The situation South Wales is similar to that at the Scat- tish mines. In consequence of the rush of busi- ness coal prices are stiffening con- siderablly. The increase in orders for coal is largely due to continental and other foreign ordérs. Purchased Right of Way Mines. Cobalt, Ont., Dec. 16.--It has been learned in Cobalt that the Righ® of Way Mines have been purchased ny E. J. Daly, Montreal. The company went into the hand of a receiver re- cently and arrangements have been in progress for some time to wina up i's affairs. The details in regard to the sale to Mr. Daly have not yet reached here. arian Tariff on feed. finds no friend among the farmers in session at Tor- considera- | Eng-| FOR TREATY Winston Churchill Declares the Terms Pay Britain's Debt to Ulster. London, Dec. 16.--During the de- bate in the House of Commons on the Irish agreement yesterday Bonar (Law, Unionist leader, announced himself in favor of hte agreement. The feature of the early proceed- ings was an address by former Pre- mier Asquith heartily commending the treaty for the acceptance of the house. Mr. Asquith declared the pact gave to Ireland the fullest measure of local autonomy and preserved to |all Irishmen their full share of free {citizenship throughout the British !empire. Winston Churchill, secretary for the colonies, declared it was Sir James Craig's courageous meeting with Eamonn de Valera which began the work of evolution of opinion on the Irish settlement in the British Cabinet and in the country. The treaty, In his view, paid fully the government's debt of loyalty to Ul- ster, ' . Ulster Stays Out, London, Dec. 16.--The Ulster cab- {inet's letter, definitely rejecting the British cabinet's invitation to enter the Irish Free State, was made pub- lic today at Mr. Lloyd George's offi- cial Downing street residence. The letter, despatched "y Premier Craig yesterday, protests, as was forecast, by an unofficial report in Belfast against Ulster"s interests be- ing involved in the Anglo-Irish Treaty without her being consulted. Sir James Craig opposed the tre- aty on the ground that Ulster does not receive by it equal rights with [the south of Ireland, Craig stated the treaty violates the 1920 Act. He sounds a vigorous protest against the revision of Ul- ster's boundaries. Craig Goes to London. Belfast, Dec. 16.--S8ir James Craig left suddenly for London yes- terday afternoon, He gave no ex- planation of his hurried departure but it was believed he intended to confer further with Premier Lloyd George on the Irish treaty, . Ulster's Boundaries. London, Dec. 16.--On his arrival here this morning Sir James Craig eaid he had come to discuss 'he quas- tion of Ulster's boundaries with the premier. "The present position ap- pears to throw us back to where we were in 1914," he declafed, adding that the boundary issue was a very serious matter. "Without that I might have been able to secure ap- proval of the treaty." WALES AND ULSTER HAVE SHARP BRUSH Encounter of Political Wits in British House Brings Some Views. London, Dec. 16.--A short and sharp encounter between the Welsh Liberal, Sir Robert Thomas, and the Ulstermefi enlivened the Irish de- bate in the House of Commons. 8ir Robert Thomas criticized Lord Carson's speech, 'to which he had listened in the House of Lords, as mischievous, and declared that if anyone ought to be impeached for high treason, it was his Lordship. The Ulstermen became very wroth and an uproar dnsued. The Ulster- {men cried out: "We don't trust a | Welshman anyway." Sir Robert gently mentioned that the premier was a Welshman, where- upon one Ulsterman shouted: "Not for long." Turning to the interrupt- er, Thomas said he would like to point out to him that there was a civilization in Wales when the inter- rupter's countrymen were running about in the woods with painted skins. 'Said to Have Four Wives Chatham, Dec, 16--Samuel Apple, a jew, is awaiting sentence of the court on a charge of beating hig wite. Apple is sixty years of age, is said to have no less than four wives. The one he is at present living with is 25 years of age, and in court this morning, she claimed that her aged husband whipped her every day. One of Apple's wives lives in Detroit, where he secured -a divorce accord- ing to the jewish law. His marriage to his present wife was also solemn- ized by the Jewish Rite. Another wife is said to live in Hamilton, and another in Toronto. Mrs. Apple was advised by the court to leave home, and an order will be drawn compel- ling Apple to support their two-year- old baby. At Milwaukee Wis. Pal Moore out- pointed the bantam weight champ- ion, Johnny Buff. James George, a farmer near Lon- don, Ont., is dead of sleeping sick- BONAR LAW _ "S555 or SHOW WAR DEBT | DOES NOT NOW EXIST | France Will Make Such Effort! If U. 8. Demands Pay- ment. | Paris, Deo. Should the Unit-! ed States demand payment of the! war debts, France may produce reas- {ons purporting to show that the debt | {does not exist ; | This startling assertion was made! yesterday by Pertinax, the famous | political expert of the Echo De Paris. !He intimates that France has not yet protested the debts because the Unit- {ed States has not yet demanded pay- | ment. | "It goes without saying," says | Pertinax, "that any settlement of in- |ter-allied debts would raise on the ipart- of France, certain observations {which we believe would be justly | founded." 2 Pertinax further observes that {Lloyd George's rumored - plan for {cancellation of the French debt to {Great Britain, providing France re- duces her share of the German in- jdemnity, is not acceptable to France. | The reason for the objection, he as- |serts, is that such a plan would" &h- |tall the payment of a part | 186. of | France's debt to the United States as [well as recognition that such debt | exists. |EVEN LORD NORTHCLIFFE CONGRATULATES KING Canada's Liberal Leader Ree ceives Messages From All' Over the World. ------ | Newmarket, Dec. 16.--Addressing | | hisconstituents in North York, Hon. | | W. L, Mackenzie King, premier-elect | |of the Dominjon, alluded to the | {large number of congratulatory let-| [ters and telegrams he had received. | Since a week ago, he said, between (1.500 and 2,Q00 telegrams had come {to hand, and between 7,000 and 8,- [000 letters. A tremendous number | came from North York. | He explained that he had not-%rad |a chance to read many of them yet, {though he would like to have sat {down and replied to every one of them. He had recelved cablegrams from many parts of the world--from parts as remote as. Singapore, from EBEur- ope, from Australia, from China, and 2 large number from England, which showed that not only the eyes of the Dominion, but the eyes of many parts of the world, were focused on Canada. The: aad" apore was fark fimrTthelifte, SCHOOL BOARDS AT LOGGERHEADS | London Separate School Board | to Develop Own Secondary Education System. London, Oat., Dec. 16.--A sensa- Lion h¥s been caused by today's deve- lopments in the situation existing be- tween separate school supporters and the board of education. The London separate school board has definitely withdrawn all conneg tion with the London board of edu- | cation, and hes forwarded a letter to | Becretary Tanner, stating that the separate school trustees wiil not ap- point. successors to Dr. 'W: T. Till man and Dr. Claude Brown, who re- | signed as high schoo] trustees this! year. A resolution was also forward- ed, in which the separate school | board complains of the anomalous | position of Roman Catholic ratepay- | ers in the matter of secondary educa- Ition, and of what they hold to be the | | undemocratic character of the repres i entation given the separate schoo! | supporters, | This action by the separate school board indicates also that they wiil develop their own system of second- ary education, and that such is al- | ready under way. The plan as now | being carried out is to establish con- | tinuation rather than separate high | schools, i 7 {@: T: R. Hearing Before : Privy Council Next Week { London, Dec. 16.--The petition of ers for leave to appeal to the privy | counetl from the award of the board of arbitration which fixed the price of the Grand Trunk property will he | heard by the judicial committee of | the privy council next Wednesday. | The board of arbitrations finding 1:- | clared that the common and prefer- | | ence stocks of the Grand Trunk rail- | way were valueless. Eminent coun- sel will be engaged in the appeal. - DOUGLAS Will Be Used by Admiralty Inseea] | Of Oregon Pine. Victoria, B. C., Dec. 16.--Doug- | las fir will now be used instead of | Oregon pine by the British admiral.y | in dealing with timber orders, as al result of action taken by F. C. Wade, agont-general in London, Premier Oliver announced today. Director Navy Contracts' 0. R. Jenkins reports that a recent fir Li x. ber contract for the British navy was | awarded a cortrarctor who undertook that the material should come from British Columbia. | FIR FOR NAVY. from Bing-|! LANT EDITION. UFO. TARIFF PLANK STAYS Refuse to Amend [t---Joe Haycock Bobs Up in the Discussion. Toronto, Dec. 16.--At the U. I. ©, convention yesterday afternoon, Are thur Mohnen, Lynden, moved to amend the U. F. O. tariff plank ¢o provide that foodstuffs be free-listed, except agricultural products indigen~ ous to Canada but owing to a differ ence in season come on the Canad- ian market from other countries at an earlier period than "he domestic products and that on these a pro- téctive tariff be levied. He explained that he wanted early tomatoes or strawberries and such luxuries which "he rich folks insrsted on having. W. L. Smith: "We can't be so sel. fish as that, taxing all the consumers in the large centres of population, for tomatoes and strawberries are not luxuries; they are necessities of a well regulated life." Miss Agnes McPhail, M.P., also op- posed the motion, and she said the mover of the motion was talking like Sir Henry Drayton in trying to regu- late what people could eat. J. L. Haycook: "We can't denounce protection and then 'ask it. That would-be admitting that we could not hold our end up in the markets of the world." Though the chairman, President Burnaby, took a hand in the debate, and when the vote came not a single hand was raised for the motion. Northern Ontario's Complaint. : Northern Ontario farmers are ap- parently not very much pleased with their government. Yesterday after- noon a deputation of them, compris= ing members of the North Ontara U. F. 0, Club waited on Premier Drury and his cabinet to lay before them a series of complaints in cons nection with thé Ontario Temperance Act, educational matters and a res quest for a further extemsion of . rural] credits scheme. 2 Premier Drury welcomed the d putation in the reception room, an later excused himself and the Ho Mr. Mills on the ground that th had to leave to catch a train f North Oxford. 'You can apprec¢ how important that is," said the mijer. : The chief complaint of the. in the party was that 4 racer ons being allowed to tea in the Northern Ontario schools, They wanted graduates of a normal school. Hon. Mr. Grant, minister of educa tion ,assured them that the normal school was now crowded, but that they would have qualified teachers an soon as possible. b Tex: books also came in for & share of criticism, and it was points ed out that civics should be made & study. "The young people should know how the country is governed," said one of the ladies. DISGUISED AS A MAN, A Police Discovered Woman's Identity in Making Arrest. Boston, Mass., Dec. 16.--Pouce inspectors who arrested an alleged automobile thief in the financial dis= trict yesterday found that insteaa of la /young man they had takem into custody a woman. Further, they learned that tas woman, Ethel Kimball, in her gue as a young man of smart appearance; had married Louise Ackler, of Som# erville, on November 23rd. The name. she gave was James Hathaway. i The discovery of her sex was made ; when, after the captive attempted to escape, one of the officers started : | to strike her and the captive erfed: "Officer, you wouldn't hurt a woman, would you?" With tortoise-she os glasses, hat and overcoat removed if was plain that the prisoner was a, woman. To Take Definite Action. = Paris, Dec. 16.--The Allied repars ations commission agreed at morning's session that it will definite action on the request of many for extension of time to the next two instalments in fall And to be Handy With Stick he Grand Trunk Railway sharehold- | stead of referring the question the Allied governments, Curtis Receives the Patent. 3 New York, Dec. 16.--The United States circuit court of appeals ¥ held that Glen H. Curtiss was first person to invent and operats fying boat and {issued an ord awarding him a broad patent for dro aeroplanes, Cannot Meet Payments, Paris, Dec. 16.--The German ernment has informed the Alljed RB parations Commission thet ft will " "unable to meet fully" the repa tion payments due Jan, 15th and F: 15th, it was officially announced terday afternoon, - John Eecles Nixon, commander the British forces in Mesoptamis 1915 and 1916. is dead at St. R ael, Prance. ---------------- The world baseball series is to the seven game limit,