ALLEN THURS, FRI, SAT. "MOLLY'0" LAST EDITION CITY THROWN 'IN DARKNESS 'By Electric Storm Sunday | Evening~-Campbell Pow- ALLEN Norma Talmadge LOVES REDEMPTION' cet, hr. / / = x YEAR 89; No, 42. TWENTY MILLION CASES : | OF TYPHUS IN RUSSIA . The Heroic Peasants Refuse to : MURDER ( ASE Ask Seed Grain Despite Hunger. - | New York, Feb. 20.--Grimly, sil-| ently battli agains h - Uptons And Bryant to Ap-|uny peice neon be er - pear At Supreme Court FORM A COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION The King Cabinet Aims to As- sist Farm Workers and Bar Some. Ottawa, Feb. 20.--Initia] steps to- ward the bringing down of an im- | migration policy during the coming | session of parliament have been tak- en in the appointment of a' sub-com- mittee of the cabinet to deal with | Zhe Daily B PASSES AWAY "55 5=%%*| BIG MISTAKE KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARI 1922. GEN. WATSON |™"" "ice or winoen DE VALERA'S | Delorme Will As All Im- portant. Direced Battle That Swept) cr = cvs 2 352 Collns Charges Him With Remnant of Germany the place. the murder of Raoul De- Presenting Deadly Arg | cases, in addition to the ravages of lorme was committed, are relying on {gaunt famine and other diseases Tuesday. The stage is all set for the opening of the Beard murder trial at the court house here on Tuesday after- noon, Court will open about 2.30 o'clock. Great interest is being tak- en in the trial, and judging by the fumber who intend to be on hand, and ills overriding the stricken land, | the health authorities of Russia's | Soviet government have combined | with the special commission sent by i the League of Nations to combat the | further spread of the epidemic, | This is the news brought to the {League of Nations' offices here in a report from the special mission in Army From Vimy. Quebee, Feb. 20.---Unique military honors are to be paid Tuesday after- noon to the late Major-General Sir David Watson, former G.0.C. of the fourih Canadian division in France, who died on Saturday evening, after a paralytic stroke which had not the genuineness of his will as all im- portant. The crown admits its inability to produce a single proof that the mur- der was committed at any given spot in Montreal. They have no one to produce who reported hearing revol- | ver shots fired anywhere in the elty | {or the outlying districts, on the night m . ments 'Against Ireland. Belfast, Feb. 20.--There are said to be 20,000 well-armed specials on the northern sidé of the border and an uncertain number of Irish Repub- lican soldiers on the southern side with British troops at Newry, Ennis- killen and elsewhere, Hence it is Hon, Charles Stewart, A. Low. the whole matter of immigration and report back to cabinet council, The sub-committee is minister of immigration; Hon. R. Dandurant, Hon, Hewitt 'Bostock and Hon. T }3- itr "im The committee will seek |; to lay down a policy which will bring er to the Rescue. Kingston was thrown into total composed of {darkness on Sunday evening about 30 o'clock, due to the heavy elec- fe storm. C. C. Folger, general anager of the civic utilities when speaking to the Whig, stated that he | had not heard where the Hydro trou- into Canada mien and women Wwho' hia hag tak lace, bu I will devote themselves to angricul- Jive power Bad place his he Sheds tural pursuits on thelr arrival here. | y100t damage would result from the The problem of securing suitable |gjactric storm. During the. after- immigration for settlement of the |,,,, the hydro power was shut off vacant lands still available In West- | 3,4 quring that time the Campbell ern Canada as well as for providing |poger from Kingston Mills carried farm labor for the more settled por- |p. load. 'On Sunday evening, when tions of the country is regarded as the hydro power was turned off for one of the greatest problems facing {4 gecond time, the Campbell power the country today. came to the rescué again, Were it There are no lack of people an- |, for the fact that the Campbéil xious to come to Canada, but among power was available, citizens at. those would-be Canadians there are (;.,qing worship in the city churches many thousands whose advent here would have had to go home in dark- would not be advantageous to the |... country but would lead simply 40 @ | gynocton felt the brunt of the flooding of the unskilled labor ranks. |o)o0t ric storm about 7.40 p.m. When The whole matter of immigration |) lightning was at {ts worst tha of agriculturists from the British Campbell power was being used to Isles and certain European countries | op, the ofty. It was very motice- as well as from the United States {able when the hydro power was turn- will, it is understood, be gone Into | 4 ov 204 the Campbell power went by the committee, whose decislons |, 1),¢ tne latter was a great desi are expected to be incorporated in better than the hydro. It was most amendment to the Immigration Act | 0.1 to be visited by a heavy: for the coming session. electrical storm on the 19th of Feb- BIRTH CONTROL OR WAR, | WHAT JAPAN MUST CHOOSE Head of American Birth Con- trol League Warns Against Population Increase considered important to get a liaison commissioner working whose busi- ness it would be to move about the border and keep peace. The com- mission, it is stated, will consist of | the British officers, two police offi- | cers representing the North and two 'Republican army officers represent- ing the South, {Russia. A tale of brave struggle | against overpowering odds is con- {tained in the message, which also brings news of co-operation between | the Russian health authorities and the League's commission in a sani- tation congress and in an anti-epi- demi#® agreement between the Rus- sian government and the contiguous cpuntries, } "The Russian peasantry," the re- {port continues, "has now decided to |stay and await next year's harvest. {it is indeed remarkable and truly (heroic that the peasants have used all the remainder of their corn for sowing purposes, and prefer to live through the dreadful winter in the hope of seeing meagre crops next year than to abandon live seeds in | been regarded as fatal until the last {of January 6th, or the morning of minute. Not less than ten geperals |January 6th. None of the clues in of the Canadian army are to be pres- | the case have aided the detectives on ent at the funeral. It is understood |!h® one point they are anxious to that General Sir Arthur Currnie, for- ,JTOVe. No one kmows where Raoul B h mer commander of the the the court room will not be able to agcommodate everyone. Justice Riddell is the presiding judge. Justice Logie will preside at the séssions of the supreme court, which will open in Napanee, at the same time, and it was learned on Monday morning that when the court opens . application will be made for the | transfer of the case of Fred Bryant, charged with murder, to the court at Kingston. Crown Attorney: U. M. Wilson, Napanee, will loek after this. W. 8. Herrington, K.C., Napa- née, will be the crown prosecutor at the Kingston court. It was stated that the Upton broth- ors and Fred Bryant are in good health, and are ready for their trial. It was feared that Erwqgod Upton's siokness might prevent him from at- the soll tilled by their own hands. Aending court, but dt is stated that 'he is all right now, and will be 'brought from the penitentiary, with To Name the Judges his brother, Sherwood Upton, to | . ' stand trial, T. J. Rigney is counsel To Hear Kingston S Ele:tion Protest for Bryant, -and A. B. Cunningham end C. M. Smith will appear for the * Upton boys. Bryant appeared to be quite cheer- Monday morning. He has on arty by his young Toronto, Feb, 20.--Chief Jus- . wife and members of his family and tice Mulock has called a meet- | also his lawyer. ing of judges for four o'clock © It is expected that quite a num- this afternoon to name two i Der of people frgm 'Napanee will | members of the high court _eome to Kingston to hear the case. bench to try the petition to set 5 witnesses from Noponee were aside the election of Brig.-Gen. moned on Saturday to appear at | , pg poog 0g dominion member for Kingston. Gen. Ross has until March 1st to file a cross- petition against John M. Camp- bell, defeated Liberal candidate, fn the election. I : i Canadian | Delorme was murdered, and corps; Generals Sir Richard Turner, {crown has no proof on this phase of V.C.; Sir Henry Burstall; Arm-| case. strong; J. P. Landry, G.0.C., M. D., 5, and Tremblay, D.S.0., will be tre pall-bearers. In addition to a representative of his Excellency the Governor-General, Premier King and several Federal | Cabinet ministers will aitend tne funeral. All the local militia unils and the members of the Great War Veterans will attend. While the cor- | tege is on its way to Ohalmers church, where the funeral service will be held, thirteen guns will be fir- ed from the citadel. Funeral music will be provided by the artillery band, and the last volley over the grave at Mount Hermon cemetery wiil |' be fired by a detachment of the 22nd battalion. General Watson, who had suffered a paralytic stroke at tie Garrison club®*on Thursday last. Major-General Sir David Watson, soldier and newspaperman, was born in Quebec in 1871, a scion of hardy Soctish stock. He had but Mitle in way of advanced schooling when he first embarked, at"the age of twenty, on a newspaper career, joining in | 1891 the staff of the Quebec Chron- jcle, the newspaper that was tq claim a lifetime of activity, and of which he was managing director at the time of his death. In addition to his newspaper work he took an active interest in athletics and military matters. In his younger days he was one of the most brilliant Hockey and lacrosse players of his native province. He was one of the most enthusiastic members-of the §th Royal Rifles, and when war broks out was commanding officer of that regiment with the rank of Meutenaut. | colonel. . He fought with distinction at St. Eloi and at other place where tha Canadians were engaged, and then was advanced to command the ith Canadian division. Unde 'General Watson, this the last of the divisions to get overseas {ntact earned immontal fame. It cap- tured and hed Regina trench after weeks of bloody struggling in She mud of the Somme, but its great day came when the dawn of the battle of Arras broke and the 4th division ad- vanced to the attack of Vimy Ridge after months of weary waiting during which it had held the slopes and the Valley of Souchez, constantly over- looked by the Germans from the tall towers of the Lens pitheads, exposed to constant fire from snipers, incess- ant bombardments both by heavy ar- {flery and by trench mortars and ex- posed to al the rigors of a remark- ably bitter winter. De Valera Goes South, Dublin Feb. 20.--Eamonn de Va- lera 48 going to the strongholds of the south to tell the Republicans there what he thinks of the provi- slonal government and the Free State, and there are those among the Free State party who regard this as the begihning of an open move- ment to thoroughly organize against the treaty supporters, and, perhaps, to oppose them by force. It is expected that evidence will be furnished of the alleged coup d'etat planned by the Republicans as charged by Michael Collins. i i it De Valera's Mistake, Dublin, Feb. 20.--In referring to Mr. de Valera's activities, Mr. Col- lins, In an interview, said: "The most ' deadly arguments against Ireland's aspirations are be- ing fashioned not by Mr. Churchill, but by Mr, de Valera and the sup- porters of the -Royal Irish republic they aspire to have." . Referring to Mr, Churchill's state- ment in the House of Commons, that the Irish, by establishing the Free State would disestablish the Irish re- public, Mr, Collins said naturally that was Mr. Churchill's view. But he added that all the members of the British cabinet and parliament had denied that a republic has ever existed. , He ,stated that the only statement applicable to A... Church- {i's remarks was Parnell's dictum: Trouble in the Churches, When the hydro power' went off the choir of Sydenham Street Meth- odist church was singing the anthem. The singing had to cease owing to the organ, which is run by electric current, being unable to operate. Some of the officials got busy. and lighted a number of the gas lights in the choir loft. When the lights went out the second time, Rev. R, H. Bell was preachimg,and he went right on with his sermon. When the lights went out In Queen Street Methodist church, Rev. W. 8. Lennon, the pastor, had just commenced his sermon. The ocare- taker was able to secure & large coal jofl lamp and the pastor proceeded with his discourse. Just as the congregation was sing-, tug "From Every Stormy Wind that Blows" at Chalmers church on Sgn- day evening, the lights went out end the orgen was put out of business, but the members of the congregation' continued singing just as if hothing had occurred. As In the other ohurches, 'the lights would come on for a time and then go off, but the entire service was carried ous, LATE GRIN SIR DAVID WATSON Who died In Quebec 8 eH was pubuisner ot the Quebee Chronicle San. Francisco, Cal, Feb. 20.--If Japan continues its present. increase in population and does not resort to birth control, there will be but one result---war, was the declaration of Mrs, Margaret Sanger, president of the American' Birth Control League. She has been refused a passport vise by the Japanese consulate on order from Tokio, { "If, in barring, me from entering Japan, the Japaneses government is signifying iis refusal to consider the birth control idea.~ Japan leaves her- self open to. the suspicion that she is preparing for war," she sald. "I was invited by several members of the Japanese government and by the Kaizo group to go to Japan and de- liver 'five lectures on the birth 'con- {rol movement. "Then, with the aid of Baroness Ishmoto, who is in sym- pathy with my aims, I had planned | to establish a series of Birth control clinics throughout Japaw." Mrs. Sanger will continue her trip to the Orient, She hopes to be able | to enter Japan probably as a traveler, Failing that she will continue her trip to China end India, where she (has lecture engagements. EPISCOPAL LETTER. OPPOSES SUFFRAGE Says Votes For Women Hits at Faith of French Race. Montreal, Feb. 20.-----An episcopal letter congratulating the women 'of Quebec; who are epposing. 'the wo-|' 'No man hes the right to set a man's suffrage' phot, hig] botmdary to the march of a nation. pir Brie uta Jo th ae of + oc P. BE. Roy, coadfiitor of his Emin- Three Footballers Released. ence Cardinal. Begin, Mgr. Roy| Belfast, Feb. 20.-~Three mem- says in his letter that woman's suf-| bers of a football team, vapisrel ut frage is against the' fundamental Dromore, county Tyrone, last mon i traditions and faith of the French-|¥ere Teleased from Londonderry jail Canadian race, this morning in conformity with ord- : er issued last night by Viscount Fits- alan, viceory, 4 the court here. The alleged confession of the Up- fon brothers will play a bjg part in the prosecution, but it was rumored on Monday morning that the defence will endeayor to prove an alibi on their behalf. < 4 The préliminary hearing at Toronto was to have taken place to-day, but a new date will have to be fixed. : Daughter in the City. ] The trial of the Upton brothers _ #pd Fred Bryant, on a charge of |. murder, at the court house, on Tues- 'day afternoon, has a most sympa- jc touch, in that the young hter of,the late Constable Rich- | ard A. Beard, who was Murdered "garly on the morning of August 28th fast, while on duty, is lying in King- ston. The daughter has been resid- ing with relatives here for some AGREE TO MARRIAGE The Daughter of a Millionaire To Wed a Swiss. Chicago, Feb. 20.--Mathilde Mc- Cormick, the sixteen-year-old daugh- ter of Har 'd F. McCormick, and granddaughter of Jobm D. Rocke- { feller, today had permission of her | father to marry Max Oser, horseman nf Zurick, Switzerland, who is fifty- seven years of age. His right name 1s Mox Von Der Muehl. Women are allowed to vote in federal elections in Quebec, but not in provincial contests. Recently a delegation of women waited on Premier Taschereau at Quebec and asked for the provincial vote. The Premier expressed himself as op- posed to the vote for women, but announced that the government was divided on the subject. It has been hoped by the women behind the vote movement that a bill would be brought down giving them the pro- vincial franchise at the present ses- sion of the legislature. * rr GEN. J. LYONS BIGGAR DIES IN MONTREAL Attended Upper Canada OCol- lege and Began Military Career at 25. Montreal, Feb. 20.--~Major-Gen- eral J, Lyons Biggar, quarter-masg- ter genéral of the Canadian militia, died here at eight o'clock Saturday morning at his residence, 147 Bishop street. Death was due to a paralytic gtroke, The funeral will' be held privately in Toronto on Monday. 14,000 Still Remain. Dublin, Feb: 20.--Fournteen thous and British troops are now left in Ireland, according to a statement by the headquarters of the republican army. Fifty military barracks and 150 police barracks have been taken over by the provisional govermmen Delegates to the Ard Feis, whic meets tomorrow, are gathering here. The ostensible purpose of the conven- tion is to decide the future constitu- 'ion of the Sinn Fein movement, but. , by discussions and final vote will bo Minimum Rate for Subscriptions revealed the comparative strength of Fixed at $2. the supporters of de Valera and Grif- Toronto, Feb. 20.--In view of pre- fith among: the Sinn Fein clubs. sont day costs, the Danastan Woakly Newspapers' Association decided at | ' i its annual meeting that the minimum General James Lyons Biggar had rate for ' subscriptions to weekly |& long and distinguished career in papers should be $2 a year. Ottawa ithe service of Canada and the em- 0 th Afri- was fixed 4s the place of the associa- | PAT. A veteran of the Sou tion's convention next June, can war, August, 1914, found him COVERNOR " CAROLINA tor-general of transport and supplies CONTDENT OF RESPEC 100 FEET AND MEETS DEATH Hawkesbury, Feb, 20.--Emile Theoret, aged forty-four years, dled yesterday from terrible in- juries received Saturday in the explosion of a gasoline tank in a freight car which he was un- loading. He "entered the car with a lighted lamp and was hurled about one hundred feet in the air by an explosion which was heard several miles away. ome Relinquishes $47,000 for Husband. Syracuse, N.Y, Feb. 20.--Mrs. Minnie K. Perry, who before her marriage was Miss Minnie Arm- strong, Rose, by her marriage to W. E. Seamans of the Syracuse Dry- goods Company has relinquished control of $47,000, willed to her by her first husband, H. Brayton Perry, who died in October, 1917. The money left by her first husband re- verts to her daughter who is still a minor, D. C. MAGAROW MAY SUE FOR LIBEL 1S REPORTED Sensational Disclosures Con- cerning the Conduct of Af- fairs of Merchants Bank. Montreal, Feb, 20--Libel proceed- + WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS, Ask Carl Ahrens to Live And Work in Kitchener Kitchener, Feb. 20.--Oarl Ahrens, who was found not guilty- of 'the charge of murdering his and discharged by Justice Latehford Friday, will remain in Kitchener and resume his duties at the Do- minion Tire Company, according to information learned from a ¢lose friend of the exonerated man. The young man has a host bof friends in this city, apd * in their py English Tributes, London, Feb, 20.--Newspapers to- day pay, a grea! tribute to the mili- tary genius of Sir David Watson, who died at Quebec Saturday night, and to his ability as a journalist. Will Have Little or | No Bearing on Case : : ! NO "WAR OF REVENGE" : POSSIBLE FOR YEARS Ottawa, Feb. 20.--Questioned re- : ding the will of Raoul Delorme, said to have been sent to them for erification, the authorities at Otta- 'wa University refused to make a ment. It was intimated, how- r, that what knowledge they have jarding the document signed by the young student at the Water t Hospital on January 5th, Nor Will Germany Be Permit- ted to Evede Payment of Overdue Reparations. Paris, Feb. 20.--'German demo- cracy on the whole has shown itself honest and sincere, and it fs a pity MAN WHO WRONGED HER IS NOT IN CANADA in the militia department, His effic- fency in the transportation overseas of five Canadian divisions brought him promotion to -brigadder-general in August, 1916, and to major-gen= eral in March, 1918, with appoint His Family Are to Bury the Unfortunate Olive Rut- $21, will have little or no bearing the case, Won't Accept Wage Cut, London, Ont., Feb. 20.---8aturday lternoon the London Street Railway ympany was notified by officials of ings against Sir Montagu Allan, pres- ident of the Merchants Bank, by D. C. Macarow, erstwhile general mana- ger, are impending. Sir. Montagu, third president of the bank and in- cidentally third member of the Al- lan family to hold the presidency of the bank, levelled 'ye gravest of charges against Macarow---that of ledge. i Hamilton, Feb, 20.---The man who is accused of being the father of the two children of Olive Rutledge, the young woman who threw Derself out of a seventh storey window of the Bank of Hamilton building, will not be at the inquest this evening. congratulations extended to him fol lowing his acquittal, they urged Rim to remain iu the city. It is under Stood Ahrens had+mno intention of leaving home. Bootleggers Oross 8 los that we Frenchmen manifest such skepticism toward everything Ger- man." With this declaration Raymond Hecouly, a writer and editor who has traveled much beyond the Rhine, be- gan a speech Wednesday night to an audience of students at the Ameri- can University Union. The general ence : Washington will act "with high re- spect for the State of North Caro- thew Bullock for Trial. mits Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 20.--Confid- that etate department at |' ment as quarter-master-general. ' DISBAND WOMEN POLICE, . Economy London, Feb. 20.---lLondon's wo- men police, who number 110, and Street Railway Men's Union that re would be no acceptance on h 1 of the proposed three-cent our reduction." \ And Choice Wines Vanish * Brockville, wines, ch having made loans to bank clients without knowledge of the hoard of directors, and of having misled t receive only 10s a week less than the made constables, will probably be dis- banded immediately, es the Home He is not in Hamilton; in fact, he is not in Canada. His friends state that he had been opinion seems to be that this was one of the most libéral speeches on Germany heard in Paris since the lina," in efforts to bring about the extradition from Canada of Matthew Feb. Bullock, was expressed in a state- addition to this the Som pure invited to a conference Te atives of the union, When Rdave planned for a gocd hi my always makes me i show with her. 3, Does Your Wife Do? directors regarding the status of number of accounts most involved with the bank, Mr. Macarow is silent, and has no Slacewnent to make In reply to the charges made against him by Sir Montagu. , His iawyer- one of the for the moment refuses to admit that he has heen engaged--hints a differ ent story. According to this lather. Perey tyan, the casa is to be brought to a fight--a fight which promises] sensational disclosures in the com- duct of the bank from the y ars of its solvency right to the moment of its insolvency. J niost famous in Montreal, and who| making payments to Miss Ruthledge but that she wamted an agreement under which a regular stated pay- ment would. be made. The lawyers were busy in drafting the agreement haa Miss Rutlédge committeed sui- | cide, . : ¢ The family of the man involved have intimated that they will con- tinue to do something for the chil- dren and they are paying the funeral | Peciared Doli Toronto, Feb. 20.--James G. Ray- | barn, Tweed, Ont., and Adam R. J. |& to find that the price of bread been boosted over the week-end, + ROW price is nine cents for a * Sat and eighteen cents for a lar loaf. The former prices were ei and sixteen cents respectively, ed at between $4,000 and $5,000 were stolen Friday night from the Wine cellar of the Calumet Island clubhouse, located among the Thous- suto- ice and f 5 In the opinion of the authorities, the theft was com- mitted, by bootleggers, ~~ ° war. M. Recouly did wot fail to touch on the bad 'as well as good points of Germany, "At the present moment, I think, the German government has solved the 'problems of order and bread in lan admirable way," he said. and practically no progress unsolved y tam ot hot 'since 1919. The germans show their ment given by Governor Morrison. is lodged In the United States gov- ernment and the state can have no communication or business with for eign statement. lock's extradition will be attended to "The conduct of all foreign affairs "The matter of Bul- Office has endorsed the recommen- dation to this effect in the report of the Geddes Economy Committes, In officials' quarters it is admitted that the womefi police have dome very valuable work, but it cannot be de- scribed as police work,