ALLEN TO-DAY ANITA STEWART "HER MAD BARGAIN" "| Th e Daily British 0 . ALLEN MON. TUES, WED, "The Child Thou Gavest Me" -- YEAR 89; No. 71. CUTS THINGS T0 THE BONE Fielding to Save the Country fist g5229] This Ottawa, March 25.--Hon. W, 8. jelding, Minister of Finance, plac- the estimates on the table of the Commons yesterday afternoon. A met decrease of these estimates from the total appropriations for the pre- peding year is $138,452,201.923 Buch is the amount this government thinks it can save for the country during the fiscal year, which be- gins April 1st next, There was no discussion and no comment in the House on the estimates. Likely something will be heard on this sub- Ject on Monday, Opinion around the lobbies is that Hon. Mr. Fielding has cut things to the bone. Indians Are Prosperous, Ottawa, March 25.--The Indians as a class are gelf-supporting, and, according to the annual report of the deputy superintendent-general of Indian affairs, which has been plac- ed before parliament by the minis ter of the interior, the proportion of Indinng indigent and in need of as- sletance is smaler than the corres- ponding class among the white po- pulation SON OF MILLIONAFRE LOSES FOURTEEN DOLLAR JOB Syracuse, N.Y, March 25.-- "Jimmy Sanford, son of the million- @ire turfman, Wiltlam Sanford, has Jost his $14-a~-week office boy job with a local typewriter manufactur- ing company. "I'm fired because they wanted to give the job to some- body that needed the money," Jimmy explained. So once more Jimmy is on the hunt for a job, and in the meantime is forced to fall back on &its $2,000, a year allowance to pay his bills at an expensive hotel where he continues to live. ' Bullock Wisely Changes His Place of Residence Toronto, '~March 25.--Matthew Bullock; who won his fight against deportation to North Carolina, has * disappeared from Toronto and. only {atimate friends know his where- abouts, Since leaving Haniilton he was employed af the Union station here, but reports that the Ku Klux Klan was on his trail suggested the wisdom of his changing his address. Divorce Committee Sits. Ottawa, March 26.-----The divorce mill has begun to grind. The first sitting of the senate divorce com- mittee was held yesterday, when halt a dozen application were deait with, Provision has been made for this committee to sit during adjourn- ment of the senate so that the hear- ing of the long list of cases may not . be delayed. Imports Fall Off. Ottawa, March 25.--Imports iuto Canada for the twelve months end- Ing February reached a total value of $761,026,261.00, as compared with $1,290,067,646 for the previous twelve-month period, and $9902,876,- 003 for the period preceding that. NOT SPEAKER'S DUTY 10 START THE PROBE Into That "Awful Last Night" Celebration in Legislative Buildings. ' enemas . Toronto, March 25.--As the result of repeated requests for an investl- gation into the "last awful night" celebration, which was held at the legislature in the spring of 1921, Hon. Nelson Parliament, speaker of * the house, has been at some pains to consult parliamentary precedents and authorities to 'discover who should start such a probe if one is demanded. Hig investigations have "convinced him that it is no part of the duties of the speaker, but that responsibility for initiating any such investigation rests on the shoulders of the house as a whole, 2 HUSBAND AND WIFE. | sport promoter, told the jury that a SIUISITIIVTIVIIITITIOY CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL DISPOSAL OF LIQUOR Toronto, March 25. --At- torney-General Raney's test cases in connection with the recent seizure of liquor ship- ments frem motor trucks on the Hamilton highway have been extended to include To- ronto distillers. The Good- erham and Worts firm has been .summoned to appear in police court today on a charge of {illegally selling liquor at its distillery, LE EES A EEA REE RENE RE a 224 tdti bbe $4etse 44422 err eer te PLAN TO STAMP OUT DISEASES OF CATTLE, The British Agricultural Head Favors the International Movement. London, March 25.--A somewhat | novel proposal was made in tne | House of Commons last night durifg | discussion of Board of Agriculture | estimates, namely, for International | co-operation in dealing with cattle ! diseases, especially the foot and mouth disease, | Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscaweu, president of the Board of Agricul- ture, declared that he. proposed to approach some of the Europeun governments, asking their assisc- ance in International research. He thought much would depend on th= French government's reception of thé scheme, but said if the various governments would pool their exper- fence and make comfiion use of any new discoveries, much could be done to combat cattle diseases. He there- fore would ask the assistance of the Foreign Office in the matter with a view to preventing a recurrence of such an epidemic as flourished among cattle recently. 2 Will Put End to Anxiety In Many Quarters London, March 25.--' Welcome news will put an end to anxiety in many quarters, lest the great results of the Washington conference shou!d be imperilled by invisiible accidents and contingencies of every day poli- ties, both within and outside the United States," says the Times to- day, commenting on the ratification of the four-power treaty by the uni- ted States senate, PETITION FOR RELEASE OF DOUGHTY 1S REFUSED Grounds Not Stated--Another Effort to Free Him Will Be Made. 2 Ottawa, March 25.--A petition for the release under license on the grounds of clemency of John Dough- ty, held in Portsmouth penitentiary for the theft of victory bonds belong- ing to the Ambrose Small estate, has been refused by his excellency the governor-gemeral, The grounds for the refusal are not, however, stated. The petitioners whoso names are not divulged, are understood to have based their request for release on the grounds that Doughty was the lawful custodian of the bonds in question, that he had been author- ized to so act by Ambrose Small, his employer, and that he would have been derelict in his duty had he handed them over to anybody but Small himself. The grounds are not considered sufficient here to justify release, es- pecially as Doughty has served but a small portion of his sentence, It has been rumored that applica- tion may later be made on Doughty's behalf upon representation that he is in a position, if protected, to give valuable evidence in connection with the Small case. This is at the pres- ent time a matter for the provincial authorities, to deal with, and no o@- cial" intimation of such a proposal has yet come before the clemency branch. FORD COMPANY ADOPTS FORTY-HOUR WEEK Will Close All Sa Saturday--Add 3,000 Men to the \ Force. Detroit, Mich., March 25.--Adop- tion of a forty-four week as a per- manent policy in all plants of the Ford Motor Car Company was an- nounced last night by Esdel B. Ford, president of the company. Under the new plans the factories will pe closed Saturday and Sunday ana about three thousand men will pe added to the force. The change will affect approximately fifty thousand employees; who will continue to re- {ceive a minimum of six dollars a day | wage, Defence Is An Alibi. ' New York, March 25.-- Opening the defence of Tex Rickard, charged with criminally assaciting 15-year- old Sarah Schoenfeld, counsel for the perfect alibi would be proved for No- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1922. : CONFER UPON : THE HORRORS Ish Goveragest Leaders Called to London. By Co-- lonial Office. London, March 25.--The Col- onial Office today received noti- fication that Arthur Griffith, preisdent of the Dail Eireann, and Eamon Duggan, minister of home affairs, would arrive in London Monday in response to a request for conference on the Ulster situation. Sir James Craig, Ulster premier, has also been invited. a - Profound Horror. London, March 25.--News- papers here express profound horror at the savage murders in Belfast of five members of the Owen MacMahon family and many of them in roundly de- nouncing the continuance of the murder campaign in Belfast, are disposed to hold the Northern government responsible for hav- ing failed to exercise sufficient repressive measures. The Daily Sketch quotes: Sir Nevil Mec- Cready, military commander of Ireland, as stating that the Ul- ster government is incompetent, HAS CHARMED LIFE. R.A.F. Corporal Survives His Fourth Disaster, London, March 25 Causlano, of-the Royal Air Force, seems to bear a charmed life. Yestor- day he survived his fourth air dis aster by jumping from a machine which nose dived to earth from a height of a thousand feet. McCaus- lano jumped when the aeroplare was twenty feet from the ground and was so little hurt that he walked round the wrecked machine after- wards. He escaped In similar fash- ion three times previously. The fly- ing officer who was in the machine with him today was terribly Injured and died in a few minutes. Coal Mining in Western Canada Stops April 1st Calgary, Alta, March 25. --Cessa- tion of work in all mines in district 18 of the United Mine Workers of America, comprising Alberta and Eastern British Columbia, will take place on April 1st, according to a statement made by Robert Livet, in- ternational board member, after re- ceiving | a letter from the Western Canada' Coal Operators Assoclation last night, Member of Party Had Feet Frozen. Renfrew, March 2§.--J. C. Bond is convalescing here with his sister, after having his two great toes am- putated in Cochrane Hospital as a result of having them badly frozen Mr. Bond is a member of the party that is surveying the new extension of the T. & N. O. Railway'to James Bay. The ice gave way with Mr. Bond while he was engaged in taking soundings of the Long Sault Rapids, and he was forced to walk two miles on snowshoes in his wet clothing with the result that both his feet were badly frozen. Contraband Firearms, Chlet Phillips and Provincial Con. stable Russell made a visit to sev- eral homes in Smith's Falls in quest of firearms. Homes visited were those of aliens--men born In foreign lands and not naturalized here. Shot- guns and rifles, also a dangerous- looking knife, were found. The fire- arms number eleven, some of taem being of a good class, while others are of an old type. All will be sent away to Toronto. The men from whom they were taken will be sum- moned to appear in police court. Drop in Tomato Prices. Cobourg, March 25. --Contracts for raising tomatoes are being made with farmers in different parts of Northumberland county at 35¢ per bushel. This is a drop of 5c on the general price paid a couple of years ago. Lloyd George Returns Monday. London, March 25.--Premier Lloyd George is expected to return to Downing street on Monday from Criccieth where he has been enjoy- ing a brief vacation, Brantford's New Mayor. Brantford, March 25.--C. J. Park- er won out over F. W. Billo in the mayorilty contest yesterday as suc- cessor to the late George Wedlake, by 3445 votes to 2294. Granites, of Toronto, amateur hockey meet Westminsters, U. 8S. St [in Huston. %n March 31st and Apri Canadian are to vember 12th, 1921, Hada el the alleged offence, Pussyfoot Johnston, + pin, A sod ri BRAZILIAN HELD ON A SMUGGLING CHARGE {U. 8. Agents Found Gems of Estimated Value of Over $100,000 on: Person. New York, March 25.--A fortune in diamonds, alleged to have been smuggled here from South America and estimated at $100,000 to $125,- 000, was found on Francisco Chamie, a rubber dealer of Brazil, and said to be well known there, who was ar- rested by special agents of the Treas- ury Department, According to the ents, Chamie had on his person eight envelopes containing diamonds, set and unset, including six large stones of 6 to 12 carats--almost per- fect blue-white stones. J In the Brazilian's hatband, the agents said, they found a number of smaller stones, and still more in his pockets, as well as some costly plat- inum medallions, Some of the jewel- lery appeared to have a French fin- ish, dccording to the agents, indicat- ing that it had been brought from France, presumably to be smuggled here by way of South America. Ohamie arrived here March Sth on the steamship Pecone, and was shad- | owed by the agents on a trip from | Rio de Janeiro, According to one of the special agents the man has made several | trips from Rio de Janeiro to this country, @G. N. GORDON, M.P. For West Peterboro, has been ap- pointed deputy speaker of the Hbuse of Commons. JEWELS-FQUND IN SEWER we - Five-Year-Old Boy Put Mother's Gems Down Drain Pipe. Paterson, N.J., March 25.--"Son- ny" Van Riter, the five-year-old son of Edward Van Riter, receiving tell- er of the Paterson National Bank found a chamois bag full of "shiny Ul" ol' rocks" in his mother's bureau seversl days ago. When Mrs. Van Riter came home she found $1,500 worth of precious stones missing. '"'Sonny" said he had thrown the "'ol' rocks' down a drain pipe in the Van Riter home. Mr. Van Riter notified Street Com- missioner Lawrence P. Ryan. Com- missioner Ryan had a. fine mesh screen put -across the seweér pipe In that district. Yesterday the jewels were found against the screen. SAYS PROHIBITION FAILURE New Brunswick Needs New System, Says Dr, McCurry. Fredericton, N.B., March, 25.--Dr. L. D. McCurry, St. John county, a member suporting the government, declared during the budget debate in the Legislature yesterday that tne time was here when, in the interest of progress, some new system of re: tail distribution of liquor in New Brungwick must be undertaken. Pro- hibition, he declared, was an aca- demic theory, impracticable of suc- cessful operation in the Interests «f temperance, as results in this prov- ince had shown. He said it was un- reasonable to expect that all doc- tors er all vendors would be one- sided enough to nail down the lid tight, and that a change would pro- duce better administration of the act, better general results, less con- sumption of liquor, better citizens and less hypocrisy. C. D. Richards, Opposition House leader, in a our speech in the budget debate, did not refer to the temperance question. His attack was along general lines, charging the government with extravagance, Grand National Steeplechase. Liverpool, March 25.--The Grand National Steeplechase, run here yes- terday, was won by Hugh Kershaw's Music Hall. "Joseph Widger's Drift- er was second, and J. C. Balteel's Taffytus was third. Thirty-two hor- ses started. 222420000000 0000 be) : © . * * , * * * + * * * » + * * * * $4088040000e0004 sesastescsssees GETTING MORE: "LIKE ARMENIA : The Belfast Capa of} Murder Roman Catholics Pass Resolution. Belfast, March 26.--A freight] train was held up near the city yes-| terday morning by twelve armed | men, who opened , the registered mail it was carrying and scattered the freight along the tracks. At a meeting Catholics here a resolution was passed protesting against *'the cam- palgn of murder against the Catho- lic community." The resolution al- leged that no attempt has been made by the authorities to check the at-| rocities, and assert that the legisla-| tion proposed by the Ulster Govern- | ment would merely result in legal- izing the work of the assassins, "The position of the Catholics in! des- es, Belfast Is dally becoming mor |perate," the resolution co {"and can only be paralleled by the {treatment meted out to the Ar- menians by the Turks. Just as the civilized governments felt compelled to take action then, so now we be- lieve they would take similar action! if the facts of the present situation were known." The resolution urges the inquiry into the situation. fullest Mulcahey's Warning. Dublin, March ¢5.- -Richard Mul- cahey, Minister of Defence in the Sinn Fein Cabinet, ish Provisional Goverrment, sued ¢ solemn warning to tne Re- publican faction that suLy attempt to! widen the breach between treaty and | anti-treaty parties through the hold- | ing of the proposed Republican army convention Sunday will be met with | drastic measures. "Any officer or man atterding the convention of the Republican section of the army on Sunday," he declared Thursday, with the I. R. A." Mulcahey charged that political friction in the army had been fo- mented from the outside. PROMISES GASOLINE CAR ON PICTON C.N.R.| In Place of Steam Train as Soon as One Can Be Built. Picton, March 25.--A deputation of business men and representatives of the Board of Trade, with Mayor Newman, waited on D. B. Hanna, President of the Canadian National Railways, with reference to better train service bétween Trenton and Picton, suggesting use of gasoline- propelled cars. The deputation urged need of be:- ter s:rvice, pointing out that, witn only two trains daily, &s at preseut, it took business men three days «0 make the trip to Toronto, 130 miles distant. Mr. Hanna stated to the deputa- tion that to give satisfactory services a two-unit gasoline was necessary for two midday trains a day, one car not being sufficient for express, baggage and passenger servica. Plans are not yet completed, he stat- ed, for this type of car, but he pro- mised to put on a gasoline car to take the place of the steam train aa soon as one could be built, \ A NUMBER EXECUTED UNDER BOLSHEVIKI Official London Thinks Actual Figure Much Smaller Than Estimated. London, March 25.--Although the British, as well as the other Al- lied governments, so far have been unable to obtain any definite dara as to the number of persons executed in Russia since the Bolsheviki came into power, no credence whatever is placed in reports which from time to time have estimated execu- tions at nearly two million and some- times five million. In the House of Comniens on Monday George Lam- bert asked if the government had any official information to show that 1,766,000 executions had taken place since October, 1917. This report had appeared a few days previously in a Paris newspaper. The disposition in official quarters here is to place much more trust in reports which have estimated the executions at pe- tween 3,000 and 4,000. Aged Woman Dies; Gives Life For Sister Cornwall, March 25.--After fight- ing to save the life of her sister, Miss Susan Carr, aged fifty-five, an in- valid, who was burned to death m the destruction of their home, Miss Katie Carr, aged seventy, died yes- terday from burns. The fie was caused by the explosion of an of! stove, blazing oil being scattered over Miss Katie Carr. burns, she ran outside and called for help, and then returned to aid her sister. : of representative | acting for the Ir-| has is-| "will sever his connection | Despite ner | left jteveerreeveeneies HYDRO WAGES REDUCED 10 CENTS AN HOUR Toronto, March 25.--Con- struction workers employed by the Hydro-Electric Com- mission at Queenston have suffered a reduction in wages of ten cents an hour, it "be- came kpown yesterday when the labor organizers an- "nounced their intention of seeking an interview with the commission in the. hope of retaining the former wage rates. | " [o IE le EEE RE EE EEE EEE ER) EEE R Seb r ede re Yes {THINK SMALL WAS ATTACKED IN OFFICE | | Theatre Staff Recall Chair Leg | and Telephone Were | Broken. Toronto, March 25.---During the day's inquiries into the Ambrose Small mystery, it was stated that the day after Ambrose Small disappear- ed it was found that the telephone transmitter~in his office had been broken, and that following the oc- cupation of Mr, -Small's office by the Capital Trust Corporation officials, it was found necessary to put a new leg on Mr. Small's office chair. The office was closed by the police when they were first brought in. Mr. Cowan, manager of the the-| atre, cannot recall anything having |bappened to the chair, Around the | theatre the staff believe the chair | {may be evidence that Ambrose Small was attacked in his own office. THRILLER AT FALLS BARRED BY POLICE An English Girl irl Will Not Be Permitted Tight-Rope Feat. Niagara Falls, N.Y., March 25.-- {The English girl who has stated that jon June 5th she will walk across the i Niagara Gorge on a tight-rope will not do any such thing, Mayor Max- | well M. Thompson announced, yester- day. The mayor said that under no | circumstances would he issué a per- {mit for any attempts to duplicate Blondin's feat. After the tragic death of Charles Stephens, the English barber, who was killed last: August trying two shoot the falls in a barrel, the city authorities declared that every pre- caution will be taken to prevent fool- hardy feats of daring the vicinity of the falls. FOREIGN POLICY OF U.S. LARGELY SHAPED BY FEAR Feels 8he Would Be Worsted in Conflict With European Diplomacy. London, March 25.--J. A. Spen- | der, representative at Washington during the conference of the West: minster Gazette, the editorship of which he recently resigned, contri- buted to that paper an article on 'Some By-Products of Washington" in which he argues that the foreign policy of the United States is largely shaped by the fear of Americans that they will get the worst of it if they engage In Buvpean diplom- acy. . _becNevertheless, the action of Am- erica is suddenly putting in a claim for payment of expenses of her army on the Rhine is reminiscent of the old German diplomacy before the war, with its sudden incursions to remind the world that Germany was to be reckoned with. He writes: "It really is of great importance that we should understand the drift of American opinion which culmin- ated in the refusal of the United States government to go to Genoa, and in its sudden demand of £48,- 000,000 in payment of expenses of the American troops on the Rhine. These proceedings represent a very distinct setback from the sentiments that prevailed in Washington in the first days of the limitation of arme- ments conference." WILL GET REMUNERATION The Medical Staffs in British Hospi- tals to Benefit, London, March 25.--Now tnat the system of exacting payment from all patients except those who are m- digent, has been generally adopted by the hospitals here as a means of meeting the financial stringency, a conference of medical men that was here under the auspices of the Brit- ish medical mission decided that tha medical staffs that give their ser- vices gratuitously for medical work, shall receive some remuneration tor the services 'they reader to paying patients. Several of the speakers at the con- ference said they would refuse to ac- cept payment from funds collected that way, but the supporters of the motion éxpressed the view that the time had passed when patients ex- treatment from the medical profession as an act of charity. It was finally decided that it should 02 tion should be personal or go tow- optional whether the remunera-{ LAST EDITION : WILL PLEAD NOT GUILTY 'Statement Made By Sir Mon- tague Allan And H. B. Macarow. Montreal, March 25.--Sir H. Mon-_ {tagu Allan, late president of the de- funct Merchants Bank, in a state- ment yesterday afternoon declared that he would plead not guilty to | the charge laid, against him by the Minister of Finance of having con- {curred in the submission of a false financial statement to the Federal au- thorities covering the bank's financial condition during the month of Oc~ tober last. Sir Montagu appeared before Judge Cusson at 2.30 o'clock yesterday ac- companied by two of his , counsel, Messrs. Aime.Geoffrion, K.C., and F. E. Meredith, K.C. As in D. C. Maca- {row's case, his preliminary hearing | will be held in the enquete court on March 31st. Following is the statement issued by Sir Montagu: "I do not consider myself guilty, and I will plead not guilty, but I am advised by my counsel that, in defer- {ence to the court, anything further {I have to say should be said before | the court at the proper time. | "Irrespective of the case, I would like to point out that if I had acted in any other manner than I did, | there would have been a run on the { bank and the situation of the share- { holders would have been worse." Interviewed Mr. Macarow said:-- "The charge has no foundation and I hope this case will afford the op- portunity to place the facts before the public in their true light. It would be unbecoming for me to add any- thing at the present juncture." At the hearing which was held in Judge Cusson's private chambers, C. A. Wilson, K.C.,, who is representing the complainants, was also present. Minister's Statement, Ottawa, March 26.--'"Instructions have been giveli for the prosecution of those who are being held liable for supplying false returns to the De- partment of Finance and the neces- sary steps are being taken in Mont- real to-day," Hon. W. 8. Fielding, Minister of Finance, informed the House of Commons yesterday after- noon when replying to questions by T. L. Church (Toronto North), en the Merchants Bank affair. Mr. Fielding said that the appli- cation for the merger of the Bank with the Bank of Montreal was ap- proved by the Government. Also re plying to Mr. Church he said that the loss sustained by the shareholds ers of the Merchants Bank was whol- ly based on what the respective share holders paid for their holdings. Shareholders purchasing at about par were not lable to sustain heavy loss- es, but those who purchased at high- er: prices would suffer more. Mr. Fielding stated that the gov- ernment's intention with regard to imposing further penalties on direc- tors, auditors and others responsible for mismanagement in the affairs of banks or other financial institutions, Was a matter for consideration, when the Bank Act was before the House. NEW ZEALAND MADE DIVORCE TOO EASY The Government Compelied By Public Opinion to Amend the Law, Wellington, March 25.--For two _ years New Zealand has had a divores - law almost as liberal as that of Reno, Nevada, in {ts bad old days. Now the government here is busy with amendments, Under the law which was rushed through Parliament in the closing hours of a session, any couple sep E% arted for any cause for three years from one another were entitled to a divorce. Hundreds got it. Then public opinion, which is old- fashioned in New Zealand on most matters, insisted on a change anda petitions signed by over 50,000 per. | sons poured in on the government. As a result the divorce law has now been amended so as to prevent any guilty party to a suit getting the benefit of the law of divoree, dealing with the three-year riod, It is expected that this will cheex fhe spread of divorce which has of late years been very marked in the Southern Dominlon, : Fight in Quebec City Quebec, March 25.--Daylight save the subject of an ardent newspaper controversy for some time past, promises to arouse a lively debate when it comes before He oliy coun~ of the change will injunction against the ards forming a fund for medical re- search and education. vent the new time from