ALLEN TO-DAY One Clear Call ", he Dail British Whig YEAR 89; No. 185, STILL BIGGER RAIL STRIKE Of Engineers, Firemen, Conductors and Firemen In View of the Great Danger of Handling Defective Equipment. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. Gen- eral strike of the powerful Big Four 10,~ ! Transportation Brotherhoods, involv- . ploy sufficient forces * yolling stocks in good condition. * of 1000 members of the ing over two million threatened here to-day. The broth- erhoods, thelr officers made plain, would not join the striking shopmen in a sympathetic walkout, but for the following reasons men, was PEMEROKE OPIUM DEN : RAIDED BY POLICE Seize Drugs, Opium Pills, and Pipe--Chinese Inmate = Is Insensate. i Pembroke, Aug. 10.--During an early morning raid made at the 1Cro wn Cafe here the police discover. red a quantity of oplum and opium | pipes recently used, and a quantity | have | of other alleged drugs which sent to Ottawa for analysis. The raid | was made under a search warrant. The search at first revealed only | | | beer bottles and it was {two empty inot until the door of an upper room! | was burst open despite the claims cf |its tenants that there was "nothing {here and that 'the key has been | lost" that the drugs were found When the door was opened the po- lice were momentarily driven back | by the fumes of burning opium an: a Chinese man was found laid on a bed under the influence of the drug. A pail containing about four ounces of a thick brown substance, lan opium pipe, several packages {containing opium pills and some KINGSTON, ONTARIO. HAD ASKED FOR PAROLE Griffith Escapes While Enroute to 'West. The Negro Felt That the Trial Judge Had Been Prejudiced. Toroadéey Aug. 10.--Toronto police are still awaiting official notice of ithe escape of Walter Griffith color- ed convict, from a train while being transported with seventy-five other prisoners--including Myer Brenner, it is said-- from Kingston to Prince Albert. | Only two weeks ago | WALTER GRIFFITH The convict who escaped on Sunday «morning last near Burwash. ALLEN THEATRES, LTD. Creditors Ask That Receiving Order Be Set Aside. Griffith Toronto, Aug. 10.--Creditors of THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1922, TARIFF FIGHT IS SECTIONAL A Fight Between the East And West. U. S. Parties Divide Upon ~ Duty on Hides And Leather. Washington, D.C., Aug. 10 .- Neither political party can claim any jcredit for putting hides, leather, | boots and shoes on the free list. The | debate and vote in the senate demon- strated that party lines had been | completely broken down by geog- | raphical considerations. | Senators west of the | river, Republican and | i i Missics'ppi Democratic ALLEN | One Clear Cal « THE SCHEME T0 BE PUSHED | Montreal, Aug. 10 Twenty-five members of the imperial house of commons and three of the house of lords, will sail for Canada on August 21st on the S.S. Empress of India to | cross Canada in September withg the Montreal board of trade. Some "of these who will come are: Viscount | Bertie of Thane, M.P., J. A. R. Mar- { riott, M.P., for Oxford; ' Captain { Charles Ainsworth, M.P., for Bury; i W. G. Perring, M.P.,, for Padding- | ton; George Balfour, M.P_, for Hamp- i i stead; Polman Gregory, M.P., for| | Derbyshire; Lieut.-Col Hilder, M.P., | | Essex; Sir Edwin Cornwall, M.P., for | Bethnal Green, and his daughter Lord Strafford. LEADING BRITISHERS | ARE TO TOUR CANADA Twenty-five Members Houses of Commons and Lords Coming. St. Lawrence Water ways to Live On. A Campaign To Be Carried on For Western Canada Support. Ottawa Aug 10 There are signs discernable that the St. Law- rence deep waterway scheme may yet |play some considerable part in fed- eral politics. At present the hoet- ility of Montreal and Quebec imter- ests has effectually put a veto upon 1 encouragement of the scheme y the King government. When the subject was defeated {High Gasoline Price May Be Investigated any Washington, D.C., Aug. 10 Re 1. Threats made against the lives of their members by guards on duty {other drugs were found in the room. | at the railroad centres. i Charlie Hong, found in the bed- room, was arrested but was latef al- 2. Danger of loss of life due to handling defective equipment, caus- ed by inability of railroads to to maintain em- | lowed to go on paying $100 bail to {appear in police court when the re- sult of the analysis is received {wrote his counsel, W.. B. Horkins, lasking that a petition be started at | once to secure his release on parole. | | Although he had served only eight | {months of a three-year term for] housebreaking, he felt that his good character in the penitentiary entitl- the Allen Theatres, Limited, which {alike, spoke and voted for the duty was declared bankrupt on July 20h | of two cents per pound on green by a court order, met in the offices | ides and the compensatory duties of E. R. C. Clarkson and Sons, Hqui- | on jeather and boots and dators, and decided to ask that the |gonators from the great industrial teceiving order be set aside. | centres voted together for free hides A committes was named represent- | shoes. | During the search, the police found a bed made up on some empty strike | POXes in the cellar of the house and evidences that opium Following the sanctioned Big Four | * Brotherhoods employed by the El- | been carried on there. * gin, Joliet and { come orders issued : of the Rock Islami railroad to stay | Eastern railroad, - by the brother- hood chiefs to employees of the yards | smoking had | ed him to consideration. He felt that {the trial judge had been unreason- 'ably prejudiced in the housebreaking ing creditors to manage the estate if the court will set aside the order. The committee is composed of R. J. Bulkeley, Cleveland, ©hio; M. H. Ludwig, K.C., Toronto; G. F. Perkins, Montreal; Mr. Goldring, the Robert Simpson Company, and L. A. Kelley, Cttawa, | case because the accused had mers- 1yPkilled a man in Montreal. Evi- dently peeved because his former {pals had done nothing in his behalf, Griffith added: i 'You never who know your irrespective of their political affil-| iations. Senator Walsh, Democrat of | Massachusetts, who led the fight against the duty, was supported by | | his colleague, Senator Lodge, Repub- | lcan floor leader in the senate. The highest kind of 'high protection Re- | publicans, like Frelinghuysen of! New Jersey and Willis of Ohio, join-* commendations that a governmental {commission be established to regu- {late the oil industry may result from the senatorial investigation of high | gasoline prices. Some members of the committee are known to believe that only in this way can the public be protected against . exorbitant charges for gasoline 'his was indicated to-day as re- ports to the special committee tended to show that a 'tacit agreement' ex- isted among so-called standard pro-| ducers in regard to arbitrary price setting. out of the trouble scene at Joliet | where state militia men are on duty. This order virtually means that | f many employees of the Rock leis} will stop working. The situation on the Illinois Cent- | * ral rallway, one of the largest in the | { country, grew serious to-day. Union i leaders of the employees of the car- | i riers notifiel brotherhood chiefs ! here that they had been served with { the following ultimatum te striking | . miners: "Stop © message, carrying non-union coal or take the consequences." Immediately upon receipt of the the brotherhood . ot in touch with their representat- ives in Chicago. Whether or not a . strike will be authorized could not © be learned. | men, conductors and trainmen-- i EER ELF ES L4H The nation would see an unpar- alleled paralysis of industry in case the brotherhoods--engineers, ed the 400,000 shopmen in strike. -------------- $4220 brett rr ne 2 » * @ 4#THE TYPHOON DEATHS 4 NOW TOTAL 50,000, # Peking, Aug. 10.--Deaths in the typhoon of August 2nd at Swatow, 250 miles northeast of Hong Kong, now are estimated at fifty thousand, the United States consulate at Swatow has reported to the American lega- tion. The consulate said that one hundred thousand were homeless and relief was needed urgently, 2 * & | * | <« > * + + " * * LAA SAE EXER RRR BR RORY NTENSIFIES FEELING OF DESPAIR SAYS GREY In Referring to the Note of Balfour on the War Debts. London, Aug. 10.--Speaking at 'Oxford last night, Viscount Grey said the note issued by the Earl of Balfour on the subject of war debts had intensified the feeling of despair and tied the hands of the govern- ment themselves in the present con- ference, and had made a solution of European difficulties more difficult 'and more remote than ever. He de- clared that he longed to see a down- right conservative party formed as a healthy element in party politics. The labor party, too, he said, was often liable to be stamped by ex- treme men whose views, if carried to their logical conclusions, would produce great mischief. Obstruction' Removed. Belfast, Aug. 10.--A message ¢ from Waterford states that the ob- _ istruction, which had been placed in| Cork harbor by insurgents, has been | fremoved. §° Soft coal is being quoted to 'Syra- jouss, N.Y., coal dealers at $7.25 a ton at the mines, which means $9 90 delivered in Syracuse. The next annual meeting of Grand Encampment, 1.0.0.F., held in Peterboro. the will Hitt Add LAL ERX XX IN . + DOMES ACROSS : * WITH $500,000 + . -- * London, Aug. 10.--Under- ¢ ting members of Lloyds have # . presented the Prince of Wales # with balf a million dollars "as ¢ a slight recognition of your Royal Highness' great service to the empire," for the guaran- tee fund for the British Empire exhibition. » * + + + * * tonne ats EE EEE ERT leaders | fire- | join- | the strikes that will place the con- with a hammer by Willlam Dibble, the | troversies squarely! before the public | aged thirty-eight, a boarder at Kirk- * | | THE POWERS OF CONGRESS In Regard to the Strikes Are To Be Determin- | ed. | Washington, D.C., Aug. 10 Pres- {ident Harding today will confer with Republican congressional leaders to determine just what congress, after its members return next Tuesday, {can do to aid in meeting the critical | strike situation. At present it ap- | pears that congress can aid in only | two ways. 1.-----~Conduct an investigation into and brMg public opinion to bear to force a settlement. 2 Provide legislation 'incident ta a seizure of the railroads or the | mines, 01. both. | ar | Northcliffe Holds Out | Against Mysterious Disease London, Aug. 10. Viscount | Northcliffe's condition was pronounc- ed as "grave but no worse' to-day. Intimates of the famous publisher expressed surprise that Northcliffe was able to hold out so long after | the ravages of the mysterious malady { with which he is stricken. He has | been reported 'dying' for nearly a week. Not In Accord. Montreal, 10 of the Pacific, | to-day issfed a statement on | mafter between the companies and the men over the Industrial Disput- es act, and declare that they are not {in accord with the, opinion of tae department of justice. At Cleveland, Ohio, the committee jot United Mine Workers of America lon Thureday voted to proceed with negotiations of wage scale agreement with operators of Ohio, Western Pen- nsylvanta, Indiana and Illinois who are there for joint conference, call- ed with a view of breaking the soft coal strilee. tle Leslie De Wolfe Had Following an accident in which he | had his right arm severed by a bind- er working in his father's field, two I miles from Elgin, Wednesday after- | noon, Leslie DeWolfe, the two and one-half year old and only son of {Mr. and Mrs. DeWolfe, died at the | General hospital here Wednesday |evening. | The child had, wnawares to rns | parents, wandered to where the har | vesting of the grain crop was going [on and fs thought to have fallan | asleep. The first warning the child | was in danger was when 'the father heard a scream 2s the child's arm was caught in the knives of the machine. The little fellow's right arm was severed below the elbow, and all that was possible was done io stop the flow of blood. Dr. Dunn was | summoned from Elgin and bound up the arm and the child was brought to the hospital about hine o'clock Executives | Canadian | Grand Trunk railways the | friends are until you get in here." Mr. Horkins replied that it was | rather early yet to start parole pro | ceedings, and advised his client to labide in patience for a few months | longer. Shortly afterwards came {word that Griffiths had leaped from a train near Sudbury. KILLED IN QUARREL; A HAMMER WAS USED | | Boarder Had "Quarrel With Man at Whose House He ! Stayed. | Montreal, Aug. 10.--In the course of a quarrel arising out of domestic | troubles here yesterday, John | Kirkpatrick, aged sixty-six years, | was struck repeatedly on the head |'patrick's house. Kirkpatrick died tshortly afterwards. Dibble is being held as a material witness. Hé said lhe struck Kirkpatrick in sell- | defence. Gone to Scene of Wreck. | Halifax, Aug. 10.--The U.S.8. "ing squadron, now in rort, sailed] | this morning for the scene of the] {stranding of H.M.S. Raleigh. Rear| {| Admiral McCulty, commanding the |squadron, was in command of the | Olympia. SIX LIVES WERE LOST WHEN WARSHIP CRASHED | The Raleigh Fatally Wrecked --S8hips Are Standing by Giving Aid. Halifax, Aug. 10.--S8ix lives were lost when the Raleigh, flagship of {the British Atlantic squadron, | crashed on the rocks near Point { Armour, according to a despatch re- |ceived here to-day. The first re- ports had stated that although the Raleigh was totally wrecked, there was no loss of life. The U.8.8. Olympia was under ordérs to steam out or Halifax port to-day to the rescue of the Raleigh. The British ships, Calcutta and Cape Town, are standing nearby the flagship giving aid. The Raleigh has been flooded to the water line, according to re- Olympia, of the United States train- ed with Senator Lodge in voting ! against the duty recommended by | the Republicans of the finance com- / mittee. | Pactically all the Democrats from THE EXPERTS HAVE FAILED British And French Premiers 'neon tie meet 5nd he vest. Are Trying to Effect Agreement. London, Aug. 10.--Lloyd George and Raymond Poincare conferred with their respective cabinets today to stave off, if possible, the impending col- | lapse of the allied economic | conference. FY | Financial experts and minis- | ters of the allies reported to the premiers that they were un- able to reach an agreement on a plan for dealing with the Ger- the cattle growing states voted for the duty on hides, and practically all the Republicans from the states The a | contain many shoe factories. !ed party lines in voting against the duty. New York State to Get | All the Coal It Needs New York, Aug. 10.---New York {under way to-day by a group of | bankers, who announced to Governor Miller their readiness to underwrite {all coal allotted to this state. The nan Yeparations Questions. | bankers will be repaid when the coal This was due to the demands of | 1s sold to the consumer. France that Germany, if grant- | 2 LETT RUMORS OF SETTLEMENT DESPITE THE DENIALS Following receipt of the re- | port, Poincare and Lloyd | London Expectant of Ap- proaching Settlement of George decided to carry their burdens to their respective cab- the Irish Question. inets. In the meantime the al lied conference stands adjourn- { ed. The British premier will | confer with his minister in per- | { London, Aug. son while Poincare will use the |of an approaching settlement be- telephone to consult his cabinet. {tween Ulster and the Irish Free The meeting at Paris was pre- |gi,¢e gtill persist, despite the official sided over by President Millef- |gjenials in London, Dublin, and Bei- and, an almost unprecedented fast. Premier Craig, of Ulster, re- event. turning to Belfast from London yes- terday, reiterated the denial made | there that negotiations to this end were going on. Lord Birkenhead, cellor, who has played a prominent |part in the Irish negotiations, has 10.--The rumors --y France Backs Poincare. Paris, Aug. 10.--The French cabinet at a special meeting held this morning is understood to have approved entirely the atti- tude taken by Premier Poin- care at the London conference on the reparations probe. Gets Order From Poland. New York, Aug. 10.__Baldwia Lo- comotive has received an order from Poland for twenty-five consolidation type engines to cost $1,000,000. The ville on urgent political business, it was learned to-day. It is asserted, however, that this business does not concern Ireland. The king has approved of the ap- lieutenant-governor of Burma. | cattle growing country nor does it| The | southern senators, therefore, follow- | the lord cnan-| been recalled to London from Deau-| The Soft Coal Strike Settle- ment Awaits Indiana And Illinois. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 10.--Presi- {dent John L. Lewis, of the United {Mine Workers, is determined the peace conference of Cleveland shall not meet the fate of certain European conclaves which reached state will have sufficient money to hasty decisions without sufficient re- plans. buy coal whether there is sufficient | Presentation to make them effective. coal or not, according to plans' put |Settlement of the soft coal walkout | once more awaited action by the In {diana and lllinois operators. If these groups reiterate their determination not to come in the miners' leader | may attempt an agreement with the proportionately small representation of owners now here. But Lewis has again postponed the conference, bent on giving the so-called 'insurgent' | operators, those holding out against {a settlement, every chance to come in and make the agreement nation- wide. It was uncertain early to-day whether the main party would start at 3 p.m. or would be subject to fur- ther postponement i More Boats Back on Lakes. Detroit, Aug. 10.--Three more freight steamers built for the United | States Shipping Board for service on | the ocean during the war, are com- | ing to the Great Lakes. are the Lake Gecrge and Cottonwood, purchased by Capt, James Davidson, at Bay City, and the Coulee, bought [by the G. A. Tomlinson Co., Cleve | land, Al are canal size, with engines al, which is standard for lake freight | ships. The three boats are en rouie to the lakes now, but probably will not en- iter traffic, until September 1st. It is | believed they will be used in Grain trade batween upper lake ports and i Montreal, -« is trio, of steamers makes six lake interests. recently bought | that Sullivan & Company, Chicago. ------------ WANT THEM ~ T0 COME IN { having boot and shoe factories voted | It was a fight be-| that | The boats | last session, {gifthe House of Com- mons, the chief support came from Ontario members whose ridings ad- Joined the course of the waterways. The Progressives were, for the most part, apathetic; some of them took the line that thé' finances of the country could not stand the expend- iture and several western members declared that the scheme could do no good to the western farmers. Obviously the conversion of west- {ern Canada to a belief in the echeme { was an indispensable prelude to any hope of active co-operation from the federal government and this task is now being vigorously - tackled. A fund has been collected, to which ap- parently 'pro-waterwag" organiza- tion, both of Canadian and Americ- an origin, have contributed, and a steady propaganda has been 'set on foot The services of J Haslam, the well known Regina publicist, hav {been enlisted to preach the water way gospel and he has been assign- {ed the duty of delivering a western delegation to parliament pledged to the early completion of the project. | His plans are laid to hold, during ithe present autumn and winter, two meetings in every federal constit- uency between the great lakes and the Rockies and to create a public opinion which will bring pressure to |bear on the logal members and com- {pel their earnest advocacy of the 8. American Flier Wins The Big Balloon Race | Geneva, Aug. 10.-- Piloting the balloon "Uncle Sam' for 660 miles, |Capt. H. E. Honeywell, American, apparently, had won the James Gor- {don Bennett cup balloon race to-day. |The 'Uncle Sam' came down near Budapest. Only the balloon piloted by De Muyters, Belgium, is yet to be {accounted for. Capt. Honeywell, the likely win- ner of the James Gordon Bennett cup balloon race, won the Milwaukea balloon competition in June, flying a distance of 850 miles. BILL HART OF MOVIES SEPARATES FROM BRIDE Mysgery Surrounds Charges-- an't Live With Her "Cream Puff." Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 10.--"Big Bill" Hart, the two-fisted, two- gunned he-man of the movies, has separated from winsome Winifred Westover, who called him her "cream puff" when they were mar- ried last December. Hailed as one of the real love matches of the cels luloid world, it became known to- day that the romance was blasted pointment of Sir Harcourt Butler tu | from the Shipping Board, the other [three months ago when "Bill" went succeed Sir Reginald Craddock as|three having been purchased by D. back to sister and Winifred to moth- er. The man from the flickering bad lands played true to the role in CHILD'S ARM IS SEVERED BY A BINDER: LITTLE TOT DIES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL Shocking Accident Near Elgin Wednesday Afternoon--Lit- Harvesting Was Proceeding. order was on a cash basis and the engines will be shipped in the fail. Recent orders received by Baldwin include fifty from the B. and O., fif- ieen switching engines from INinois Central and six switching engines from Southern Railway, ---- There will be no fuel controller for the province ot Quebec, in the opinion of Premier Taschereau. ---- SEPP 00%0000000 0 * * + THE TWO s * RANGED THURSDAY 3 -- > London, Aug. 10.--Reginald + Duna and Joseph O'Sullivan, as- + .sassins of Sir Heary Wilson, were executed at eight o'clock this morning. An eleventh-hour effort to eave the lives of the two failed when the attor- ney-general refused to grant their appeal to the House of Lords. Names of prominent persons were included in the petition for the appeal, which bora 30,000 signatures. About fifty Irishmen and wo- men assembled outside the jail at séven o'clock, an hour before 4 the execution. sang hymns and prayed for the souls + & of the condemned men. ports received here. Wandered to Field Where Wedngsday evening. An operation was performed by Dr. Bogart but the child died during the attempt to save its life. As nearly three hours had elapsed before the child could be got to the hospital here by motor car, the clot from the wound had been caught by the circulation, causing death. The shock had also been very great. The stricken parents left for their home near Elgin with the body on Thursday, and the sympathy of the | whole community goes out to the family in the loss of their only child. The funeral took place from Mr. DeWolfe's father's home, which is a short distance from the scene of the accident, on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Mrs. DeWolte, the mother of the child, was formerly Miss Sinclair, - Gananoque. John Cornelius, undertaker, sent the re- mains to Elgin. SPEEDO breed POOP PEPEIPPOPSOPIOBPOS > ® 'eo P0909 9%00900000 MARCUS "President of Africa." rid of Harlem, New York. He plans an African negro and has established a black Star steamship line. which he is worshipped by millions of boys in America when he said | concerning the charges: ! "I can now appreciate the feeling of a 'man acoused of murder when he knows in his heart and soul he is innocent." "Big Bill" fumbled his hat with embarrassment when approached concerning the martial mishap. Mystery surrounds the charges that | Mrs. Hart, herseif an actress, has (confided to her attorneys and closest friends. She is quoted as saying jthat in spite of the fact that she | expects to become a4 mother in Sep- itember, she could no longer stand {Hfe with Hart. Hart said that he {had made ample provision for the !support of 'bis wife. "Mrs. Hart and {myself separatéd three months ago." | be said in a statement issued by hig |attorneys, "and a few days later {property contracts were executed | making ample provision for her | maintenance as well as for our ume {born child. Whether she conteme {plated divorce proceedings or mot I /Bave no knowledge." . | White flowers are no longer favor. {ites for funerals and white blossoms 20 are losing their popularity for wed- GARVEY. dings also, according to the conven ing in state through the slreets [tion of Canadian Florists and Gard nalion |oNers at Montreal. : * | Chief of Police Dickson, Toronta, 'wants bad boys publicly thrashed.