ALLEN WANDA HAWLEY ALLEN ENID BENNETT in "KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE" erer---------------------------- YEAR 89; No. 184, USED MAILS T0 DEFRAUD | $970,000,000 INCREASE IN COST OF LIVING In United States as Result of the McCumber Tariff Bill. SEEKS HELP Amer- | iportations' of cotton, wool and su- | KINGSTON, 4 | womEN WA * OF CONGRESS In Emergency Caused ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST RNED TO KEEP THEIR TOES Limp Sure to Result If Small- est Member Is Ampu- tated. Chicago, Aug. 9.--Announcement had been made that at a special clinic |of the National Association of Chiro- men would submit to the amputation of their fifth, or Mttle, toes. Osten- Podists yesterday, a number of wo- | 9, 1922, MAY RESULT IN RUPTURE | . Between France And COMING INTO VOGUE Pavillion at St. Catharines Puts on an Exhibition Per- formance. St. @& very noticeable difference in the style of dancing here this summer cver previous years, and the differ- ence is on the right side. The inde- cent posture is being frowned down Catharines, Aug. 9.--There is | LAST EDITION, COAL WORK TO PROCEED This is Probable in the . | Washington, D.C., Aug. 9 . . fea's cost of living bill 'will be in- Charge Against Bir . mingham Motor Co. gar in McCumber tariff bir, | ------ i Senator Gerry, Rhode 'Island, Demo- | the Other Allies. Illinois Coal Fields. |in all the outdoor pavilions and the | |dencers are being compelled to live up to the rules. Ld a By the Strikes. -- sibly, the idea was to do away with | annoying corns, but the real reason | créased approximately $970,000,000 N a result of the duties levied on cratic whip, charged in a statement | "Grand Jury at Washington _ Files Presentment---Pos- tal Inspectors' Charge. A special despatch from Washing-|ban sugar is $210,000,000, the wool 5 is $550,000,000 ! , i | on and the cotton bil is $110,000,000, {compose the threatening industrial ton, D.C., says, "A case of alleged | stock swindling was revealed Monday when the grand jury filed the Birmingham Motor .company's | presentment -in court on a charge of using the malls to defraud. | "The motor company's prospect- | uses told of the new "no-axle'" car| and from its impressive show rooms | prospective buyers of stock were tak- en on trips in a handsonie demonstra- tion car. An expert explained that the smooth riding qualities of the| machine were due to the 'no-axle' principle but postal inspectors said | it had been specially and expensively build at a cost exceeding the selling | price mentioned in the ¢ompany's lit- | erature." "Phis is the same company which attempted to sell stock in Kingston & month ago and concerning which | considerablé controversy arose. It was reported from Peterboro that| the assets of the company were in indicted: in the today. This figure, Gerry probably would ve doubled | . . | other duties affecting food and cloth- | S b Se ty | Submit Seniori ing were tabulated. The added ces. 84 per hundred pounds duty on Cu- clothing increase the senator asserted. Fourteen Revalutionists Are Sentenced to Death Moscow, Aug. 9.--Fourteen of thirty-four social revolutionists, ac- cused of high treason against the | Soviet government have been sent-|ther recess to awalt senate revolutionary condemned enced to death by a tribunal. Among those are several who turned informers. The remainder were given prison terms of from two to ten years 60 TO MONTREAL T0 BE REPAIRED al the hands of the sheriff and a tull| Fifty Crippled United States report from a staff reporter of the Whig trought out the salient potms/ of the varying assertions. | The upshot of the matter was. that | the Birmingham Motor Co. officials | left the city and this is. the first in-| formation that has come of their] activities. It was claimed that, m | addition to the $50,000 worth of| stock to be sold in Kingston, much | more was to be taken up in the Un-| ited States where the company ¢laim- | ed to have a plant at Jamestown, N. } ¥. It is believed that as a result] 01 statements appearing in prospect- uses issued to American buwers the Officials have been caught in the woils of the U. S. Post Office department. PLACED UNDER ARREST ON A CHARGE OF THEFT Alleged That Porter Bedour| Took Part in Sensational Robbery. | On a charge of having robbed | James Hollowood, a farmer Hving| near. Bharbot Lake, of about $1,000, Porter Bedour, who lives at Sharbot Lake was .taken into custody on Tuesday night at his home by Pro- vineial Constable S. R. Marshall, as- " sisted by High County - Constable Tomlinson. The sensational robbery which took place on August 1st, will be re- called. A man visited the home of Mr. Hollowood, and after shooting the dog, threatened members of the family. The man searched the house and got away with a sum of money that will amount to about $1,000. The money has not yet been recover- ed, and a particularly sad part of the story is that the stolen money was made up of amounts received by Mrs. Hollowood on the death of her two Sons in the great war. The accused was brought before Justice of Peace Gordon, on Tues- "day night and given his preliminary 'hearing. He pleaded "not guilty" and was remanded. The prisoner is 'about thirty-four years of age, and as a wife and three children. The case of Freeman Newton, charged with arson at Ardendale, is also pending. Newton was placed under arrest by Provincial Constable Marshall, : Wc ------------ AFTERMATH OF ACCIDENT HEARD IN POLICE COURT w. Q. Corkey- Charged With Infraction of the Motor Vehicle Act. _ An aftermath of an accident, 'Which occurred on Montreal stree: Friday evening last, was heard the lice court on Wednesday orning, when W. G. Corkey appear- to answer to a charge of an in- ction of section 18, of the Ontario otor Vehicle act. It was alleged at Corkeéy, who was driving an to, hit a vehicle in which George worthy and his son George, were ving, and that he did not give hiy © and address to Mr. Coxworthy, and render every possible aid when found that Mr. Coxworthy had 'Been' injured. Both father and son 'were thrown out on the roadway, and received minor injuries. Corkey pleaded 'not guilty" to charge, and Ambrose Shea ap- red on his behalf, while C. M. ith, appeared ~ for Coxwortny. Ald. R. E. Kent was on the bench, in the absence of Magistrate Farrell, is on his vacation, and after hearing evidence, the acting magis- Locomotives Pass Through 8t. Thomas. St. Thomas, Aug. 9.--A train of fifty crippled locomotives, collected from all parts of the Wabash railway system' in the United States, passed through today enroute to Montreal shops for* repairs. It fis the first shipment of the kind since the United States shopmen's strike began. Canadian unions may object to doing the work. The train crews, however, did not objéct to handling the train. Aid For American Miners, Frankfort on Main, AWE -iTen thousand pounds sterling to aid Am- erican miners in the coal strike to be subscribed by various national miners' unions, was recommended by the congress of the International Miners' Organizations meeting bre. A resolution expressed s athy with the aims of the American strik- ers. The congress decided against estriction of cgal shipments to Am- erica. A Death From a Feud. New York, Aug. 9.--Death, to- day, claimed Jacob Goldstein, one of eight men shot down yesterday in an East side street, when they tried to halt four gunmen fleeing in an au- tomobile, after an attempt to kill Joseph Nassarieu, an outgrowth of what the police believe was a boot- leggers' feud. Refuse Reprieve to Assassins. London, Aug. 9.----A reprieve was refused by Home Secretary Shortt to-day to Joseph O'Sullivan and Re- ginald Dunn, sentenced to be hanged tomorrow for the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, ---------------- nt. Attack Buffalo Car. Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 9.--In the first daylight rioting for two weeks, a conductor was knocked senseless, a motor man cut with glass api twenty-two windows of an Interna- tional Railways car were broken late yesterday at East Ferry and Purdy streets. ------------ STOP TROUBLING ABOUT OUR POOR QUALITIES And Find the Best Ones Is the Advice of Lord. Shaw. San Francisco, \Cal., Aug. 9. Four men prominent in world pol- itics addressing the California branch of the English union, in ses- sion here yesterday, commended the Aim of the union in seeking to bring the English-speaking nations into closer harmony with view to foster- ing an international spirit of good- will. The four were William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the United States, Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, George Wickersham, formerly attor- ney general of United States, and John E. W. Davis, former ambassa- dor of United Statgs to Britain meet- ing of American bar association. Lord Shaw expressed the desire ta see a better understanding among English-speaking peoples. "When we stop troubling about our poorer qualities and find the best ones, we will all understand," he said. "That is what England has tried to do and it 1s succeeding so well that today I believe that Ireland is on the crest of a wave that will send it on to ite reserved his decision until 1 splendid achievements," 'Shop Crafts Workers Won't Question |to the consumer because of this 3i-] to Labor Board. | Washington, D.C., ed at every turn Aug. 9 Balk- in his efforts to | situation due to the coal and railroad strikes, President Harding is turning to congress to help him in®the crisis. I The president today let it be {known that he desires the house to jremain in regular session when it |returns from recess next Tuesday In- |stead of carrying out its plan of fur- action on {the tariff bill. Notice to that ef- | fect already has gone from the White House to Républican Leader Mondall {with the added suggestion that the | president desires a full attendance { The president desires the help of |econgress in the coal and railroad [strike problems now that all his ef. [forts at mediation have failed or are {about to fail, while the chiefs of all {the railroad workers' organizations lara speeding to Washington to dis- [cuss means of making the rail strike | more effective than ever, | Refuse Harding's Offer. { New York, Aug. 9 ~Twenty-fiva {thousand rail shop crafts workers, | through David Willlams, secretary of {the eastern strike committee, today isent a telegram to B. M Jewell, at Chicago, putting themselves on rec- pord as refusing to accept President | Harding's proposal for submitting |the seniority question to the railroad labor board. MEET IN MONTREAL Compulsory Arbitration For Municipal Disputes Will Be Urged. Montreal, Aug. 9.--~Nearly 200 de- legates representing 45,000 Catholic workmen of the province with repres- entatives also from Ottawa and Hawkesbury, Ont, will attend the first congress of the Catholic Work- ers {Federation of Canada, which opens here Saturday. The federation was inaugurated last September and aims at the establishment of trade federation within the dominion with complete autonomy of trades unfon- ism in Canada. Compulsory arbitra- tion for disputes in connection with public utilities especally for munici- pal employees will be urged at the coonvention, one of the foremost resolutions to be submitted asking for. an amendment in the * existing provineial law providing for com- pulsory arbitration with compulsory acceptance by both parties of the finding of the board. This step it will be urged is necessary for public welfare. Says He Killed Farmer While He Was Doped Winnipeg, Aug. 9.--Declaring that he had taken deliberate aim while under the influence of "moonshine", Ernest E. McTavish, aged nineteen, in a statement read at his prelimin- ary trial yesterday, confessed to kiil- ing Ernest Bralliard, farmer, who was found dead on his farm near Ashern on July 15th. McTavish said he believed he was doped and gave no reason for his act. British Warship Ashore Off Labrador Coast St. John's, Nfld. Aug. 9.--The British warship Raleigh, which has been cruising off the Labrador coast with Admiral Sir William Pakenham on board, is aground at Point Amour in the straits of Bell Isle. She struck last night and will probably be a total wreck. All on board reached shore safely. Mentioned as ; ble » . n i] : ead of the feet into smaller shoes. However, there was no general am- | putation. | cago, a chiropodist for thirty years, arose at the opening session and sounded & solemm warning agatns: sacrificing the little toe, "Cutting off your little toes will leave the fourth toe unprotected," he said. 'Nature has provided the Mitle toe with an especially tough skin to protect it, but when it is cut away it leaves the tender mate next Ao it unprotected and you are certain to have much trouble. "Furthermore, with the loss of the and undermine your health." THE CONVICTION OF LLOYD GEORGE Paris, Aug. 9.--Prime Minis- ter Lloyd George, last night, ex- pressed the.8pinion that a rup- ture in the entente was prob- able, if not inevitable, according to some of the French newgpap- er correspondents attending the Allied conference in London The British premier said that this was regrettable, both from English and' French viewpoints but that Premier Poincare's at- titude left no option. ------------ SIR LOMER GOUIN Minister of justice, is mentioned as a possible successor to Sir Auckland Geddes as British ambassador to Wash- ington. Kitchener Film Will Be Shown in America Washington, Aug. 9.--Customs authorities have decided to admit into the country for exhibition pur- poses the moving picture film "How Kitchener was Betrayed," which was protested by the British embassy, it v.as sald yesterday at the treasury. A showing of the film in New York, cfficials declared, revealed nothing improper in the picture and it was de- cided that it could be exhibited in this country with the insertion of a caption, stating that it was not bes- ed on historical fact so far as it por- trays high British officials. THE TRIP OF MATHILDE HAS BEEN POSTPONED Young Heiress to the McCor- mack ~Rockefeller Millions Hi in Paris. I ---- Paris, Aug. 9.--Mathilde MoCor- mick's trip to Switzerland to join Max Oser, her fiance, has been in- definitely postponed, it was learned on good authority to-day. Whether or not this means that the heiress of the McCormacks and Rockefellers, two of America's richest families, will never marry the middle-aged captain with whom she fell in love 'when he ran a livery stable in Zurich could not be learned. Mathilde, just seventeen, was reported confined to her hotel apartment because of {ll- ness, which, friends said, was part- {ally brought about by her incessant marriage. In the girl's room were thirty pictures of her fiance. es. McCormick refused to" comment on his daughter's affairs with Oser "OM man, in fairness to others, cannot tell you anything," is stock phrase he repeats to pondents outside the hdtel fore he roils away in a ¢l was to enable them to crowd i Dr. John Keniston, of Chi- | little toe you will lose your balanca | and will imp the rest of your life! If the French Drastic Pro- { posal Regarding Germany | Are Rejected. | London, Aug. 9.--England, Italy {and Belgium, hopelessly at odds with {| Premier Poincare"s programme of | drastic action toward Germany, hop- led to-day to break the deadlock of |the London allied conference by a | compromise granting the former en- |emy nation a short moratorium It | was understood that a majority of | the allied finance ministers and ex- | | perts, who have been conferring for two days on France's plan for deal- ing with Germany, have agreed with | Lloyd George that the plan would be| productive of the desired revenue, | but would kill Germany economical- tly. The finance ministers met again | to-day and drew up a report which lis expected to be presented soon to! the premiers. ! Rejection of the French propos- als, which include setting up of a! | . [customs barrier on the eastern bor-| The Government Co-operates |; {der of the occupied area, control of | forests and mines, and control of | German industries, may lead to a | rupture between France and the oth-J er allies, it was freely predicted. It, | was understood when Poincare went {into the conference that the only | conditions under which he would ac- cept a short moratorium was that his {pian be accepted. | Further Apart Than Ne in lation of the war as regards its 0p- | ] - London, Aug. 9.--Premier care of France and Premier: Lloyd George of Britain are apparently further apart on what is to be done with. Germany than before they met, and the conference of the allied statesmen is in danger of breaking up with Franco-British relations worse than they were and with no decision of moment on the repara- tions question. They may, however, agree to a short moratorium for Germany, Poincare has indicated 'to Lloyd George that things cannot go on as they are and that France may be compelled to take independent ac- tion. Premier Theunys, Belgium, is trying to bring 'the French and Brit- ish policies together. The three pre- miers breakfasted together in Lloyd George's residence this morning. The drafting committee of experts, after a meeting at the treasury lasting more than an hour, adjourned until the afternoon to consider certain de- tails. It was admitted that the situ- ation was very difficult, but all con- cerned, it was declared, were doing their best to prevent anything like a breakdown at the conference. Girl and Her Aunt Shot, Suitor Ends Own Life Hoboken, N.J., Aug. 9.--Dominick D"Ercoli called on his eweetheart, Emma Preni, yesterday and pleaded with her to return to the house where | At Lakeside park pavilion early in the season the dance manager stopped the music several times to point out that some of the dancers | vere clinging too closely, and that their steps were not in keeping with { The dancers | the rules of the place. very quickly saw the point and now there is nothing objectionable in tho dances, At Lakeside park Saturday night the management put on some exhibi- tion dances to show how dancing should be done. The old-fashioned waltz is back again and now there are nearly as many waltzes as trots, Peo- ple here who are interested in the welfare of the dance believe that the day of the indecent dance is over in St. Catharines and district 10 EXTEND THE TIME FOR GIVING OF HEADSTONES in the Burial of Ex-Ser- vice Men. Aug. 9.--Co-operativa Cttawa, and assistance by the Dcminfon Gov-| erument in the burial of ex-service men, who die from wounds or sick- ness contracted in the war, has n»wv | heen authorized by order-in-council. [The imperial Graves Commission. has | fixed August 31, 1921, as the termia- lerations, and that, therefore, death~ {occurring after that date are nut {covered by the authority of that con | mission or its Canadian agency. Spe. | |clul action has consequently been {made necessary by the Canadian au- | |thorities as regards wuir veteraus {who may die after that | wecands or illness contracted on se. [vice It is pointed out that the Cana- {dian Government. is already co-op>- Ating in 1Le matter of personal ir- » scriptions ic the exteat of beariaz ithe most ci such inscriptions rathe= [than have it borne by the relatiz:s| [ot the duceased soldier or sail vw |The action new authorized by ord»-- | in-council is that the Government of | Canada bear the cost of the erectinu {of a headstone for the grave in Caa aaa for each member of His Maja .- [ty's naval and military forces who: e | death has cecurred o1 shall oc»: |during the period between Septam ber 1, 1421, and Auguet, 31, 19, | under "uh circumstaaces and from {such cause. as would have brouzht [the death within the scope of (1. | operaticns of Impera! War Gra es | Commission up to August 31, 1921. {The ' cracr-in-council further | vides that the cost of the heads [is not to sxceed $50. |Nine-Year-Old Boy Drowned | From Dock. in 8t. Lawrence tone date frm | 5 pro-| Operators Are Gathering in | Chicago to Plan For Resuming Work. Chicago, Aug. 9.----A separates peace In the Illinois coal flelds was {foreshadowed to-day by a gathering of fifty operators of mines within {the state who were expected to draft a plan for resumption of work. The {predictions that the operators were {close to a settlement were given add- ed weight, by reports from ths coal |districts, that preparations are being {made to start work at the mines. A despatch from Marlon, centre of {the southern coal fields, declarsi that |several hundred men had been call.» {to Prefere five Willlamson county | mines for reopening. It was rI3pori= |€l that mules had been returnaj te {the stables at other minés; To Cor clude Settlement. | Cleveland, Ohfo, A d caders to v*hiclide a settiema1t of the "oft ccal strike with the opera- {tors wno lave gathered here tor the {Joint pec.ce conference Granted Leave of Absence, Ottawa, Aug. 9.--Hon. Walter ©. | Nichol, lieutenant-governor of Brite" ish Columbie, has been granted leave jof absence for four. monthe from Aug. { 29th, an order-in-couneil '0 that ef- | fect having been passed. Hon, James {A. Macdonald, chief justice of appeal |tor the province of British Columbia, {has been appointed administrator {during the Heutenant-governor's ab- | sence, ---- (P2242 4 40900000 4 |% LIOYD GEORGE AGREES 1¢ SOME PROPOSALS Aug. -~ Ad < London, 4 George Las agreed to ths Freurh ruggestion regari- ing t¥% collection of twenty. six per cent. of German ag. ports ar her frontiers, which would be paid into the repar: ations funds. He also agrest to the suggestion fortaking over fcrests and mPhes Wu German occupfed territory. 9 --Lloyi { | | | oo» [se [+ [$4044 0000es0000ae -------------------------- NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and | Near Are Briefly Recounted, T. A. Talbot, member for la Ver- CLEC PRE RIPN Le andrye, is to be apeaker of the Man- itoba legislature, A tariff tate of 2.3 cents a pound {on sugar was approved to-day by {the U. S. senate by a vote of 37 w 35 B kv . -- i rockville, Ont, Aug. ). Rolling Governor Miller feels that he will {be "obliged" to call a special session they had both lived since she came | from Italy two months ago, She re- | Tom a dock at Assiniboine fused and D'Ercoli, drawing a pistol, fired five shots. One pierced his sweetheart's hand. Three others wounded her aunt, Alvina Montagna, who may die. The last went into his own brain, killing him instantly, ------ Professor Suddenly Loses Sight. Quebec, Aug. 9.--'"L'Action Catho- Hque, announces that Dr. Prender- past, professor of McGill University. Montreal, was suddenly stricken with total blindness at Kamouraska, where he and his sister are spending the summer. It appears that Dr. Prendergast retired one night feel- ing as well as usual, but on awaken- ing the following morning, about seven O'clock, he was surprised to find everything in darkness althougn he could hear his sister walking about the house. The gondition of Lord Northcliffe is unchanged. COL: ERIC BALL Of London, England, one of the lead- ers of the movement, now successful for ¥ games in that city. . r {the summer home of Sir Clifford | Sutton, Toronto, west of here, on the St. Lawrence, Roy Fennell, aged i nine, met death by drowning. The [child was missed by his mother, who | is employed at the Sifton residence, and his body was discovered by her [Im the water, | Although he _had been missing | barely fifteen minutes, efforts on the part of Sir Clifford and his son, as well as by physicians, proved iner- fectual in restoring life. The chi was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. | George Fennell, Brockville. ---- A CREDENCE IS PLACED INTHE GOUN REPORT [8ir Lomer Not Likely to Be- come Ambassador at Wash= ington. Ottawa, Aug, 9.--The report first published in Le Droit of Ottawa and subsequently broadcasted through- out Canada that Sir Lomer Gouin was likely to resign from the cabinet and go as British-Canadian ambas- tader to Washington, is not .receiv- €d with the slightest degree of cre- dence in the capital. It is an after- math of the prime minister's trip to Washington, during which it is sas- pected that he discussed the question of a Canadian diplomatic represent- stive at the American capital. Dit the objections are numerous. In ihe first place Sir Auckland Geddes t's still the occupant of the British em- bassy. He has spent the last fs weeks in Britain, but is now on the bigh seas to resume his duties. -------------- Succeeds Sir W. Thwaites. London, Aug. 9---Major-General J. T. Burnett-Stuart, commanding the 'military district of Madras, has been appointed director of military opera. tions at the wir office, succeeding General Sir William Thwaites, ' » [of the New York State legislature to deal with the coal etrike emergency, The Indiana Bitumfnous Coal Op- erators' association will not attend the Cleveland conference called by {John L. Lewis, president of the Un- ited Mine Workers. As the result of a three hour con- versation between Premier Poincare and Premier Lloyd George in Lone don, is was decided to refer back to the committee of experts Mr. Poin care"s plan for control of German finances, Fifteen hundred farmers of the county of Yamaska assembled Wed- n2éiay at St. Francols Du Lac, Que., for the purpose of organizing afi the parishes in the county for the Unite ed Farmers association of Quobec. The first large cargo--10,000 tons--of foreign mined coal to reach New York as the result of importers' efforts to stave off a fuel famme among public utilities rporations, was brought to New York Tuesday by the Itallan steamer Cherca, from Barry Wales. Stating that wheat cutting has al- ready started and that it wil be general in a week in many localities, another favorable crop report for the week ending Tuesday ds issued ®y the Agricultural Department of the Canadian Pacific Rallway at Winni- Peg. A ---------- EPP PFFB999000 0009 > * ; % QUAKE ROOKS HOUSES + felt here at two o'clock yester- day morning. Houses were rocked and a pile of lumber Was overturned in the centre of the town. A house fn St. Basile shifted from it founde- tions. Bt. Jacques, Green Riv- PEEP PPPS Tee + IN EDMUNSTON, NB. 4 SEP 02 0004 og ug. 9.--Virtag® ° ecision w:g reached to-day oy 12..n.. E