MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922, THE DAILY BRITISH,WHIG. amusements | [A DANGEROUS BLAZE | SPORTING NEWS |. Harding Will Keep H | 1 Coming Attractions WAS CAUGHT IN TINE The five rinks representing the | Frank Coltiletti, the little New Off If Fair Railway Ser- i Fred Roney Acted Promptly local bowlers are off to Belleville to- | and Saved Building From {day to attend the tournament open- . York jockey who proved to be the Bad Fire. inug there this aftermoon. Skips H. | riding sensation of the winter rac- --_-- |W. Newman, Manahan, J. M El- Ing season at New Orleans, will be Through the quick action of Fred. lott, C. Crozier and Dr. R. E.| : bf seen at the Allen Theatre to-day, Roney, of the Roney & Co. gentle- [Sparks are taking rinks. The fol- vice Given. Tuesday and Wednesday during the | men's furnishing store, what might lowing are the rinks: | showing of "The Sporting Duchess. have been a serious fire was checked| C. C. Hodgins, W. Campbell, W. | Washington, D.C., Aug. 14.--Balk- | Alice Joyce is starred in the produc-{, =. = Upon receiving a phone [R. Givens, H. W. Newman, skip. ed agin in his latest peace moves, t0n: The racing scenes were taken| .,, 20 '0 Siiock on Sunday morn-| J. Newman, J. Baker, R. 8. Gra-| President Harding has decided to let |#t the fair grounds in New Orleans ing, he went to the store'and found ham; J. M. Elliott, skip. i ; the railroads and the 400,000 strik- | ¥D2en the racing season was at its smoke coming from the heating| Dr. Cartwright, N. Munsie, H. Ing eraftsmen fight It out themselves, | 2I8ht. Many of the scenes are of , 1c. 214 through the cracks in Angrove, T. Crozier, skip. 80 long 'as the railroad executives T®2! races and the crowds show real, "go ' " Roney quickly looked | G. A. Bateman, E. Johnston, W.| demonstrate their ability to maintain |SPOTting blood. "The race in which up the store hose and was able to H. Stevenson, Dr. R. E. Sparks, skip. | a service somewhere normal, Mr. |C!/Pstone wins the Derby was a spe- extinguish the blaze after some time.| J. McFarlane, J. Leckey, J. Newell, | Harding. will keep hands off. It the |C!8! attraction. Several well-known The damage was confined to the |M. Manahan, skip. | : re i . {horses and jockeys rode for the Vit- a z i 1 | transportation system shows signs basement, although smoke injurec | | The foregoing constitutes the mitted that it was a'real race and returns were: W. R. Givens 76, Dr. | present programme of the adminis. [that he only won by a close mar- Walsh 76, Dr. A. L. ClarRNg7;>Gen- Has No Objection What ever to Title. the head bartender of the province. { on : He is mistaken. I am willing to as- ire an ater COInN- ® are applied as now to further the | innings, second gama) iY {barges Kildonan, Hector and Whet- [cause of education, combat tuder-| nNowark 3, Rochesier 1 1 e a °® To Canoe Heroes--Dr. Taylor eck, cleared on Sunday for Mon- American, Washington 3, New York 2. of breaking down and both sides ob- | 38TaPh production. So thrilllng was| ,.. 2 |arge part of the stock. | Golf Medal Competition. durate, the president will ask con-|'N® race that many of the players | The Golf Club Medal competition tration, it was learned today, follow- gin as each of the other lockers Was eral Eimsley 78, Dr. MacDom Ing the collapse last night of the ne- |30Xious to show what he could do. J. M. McKee 80, Major Greer 82 Buckingham, Que., Aug. 14.--" The ; y | sume the title of head bartender IN MARINE CIRCLES ] provided the Quebec liquor act €On-| guiacuis §, Jersey City 4 culosis, promote colonization and game). and John McKay, Kings- treal. aid agriculture and good reads In| pocfester 5, ton, Took Part. | The steamer Kenora passed up on ' Chicago 9, St. Louis 3. Cleveland 3, Detroit 2. \ 7 Philadelphia-Boston (not sched- gress to sanction federal seizure of wanted to bet on the outcome. After | was held Saturday and a very excel- QUEBEC HEAD BARTENDER gotlations between the rairoad execu- [AMOng the well-known runners in S-- Winnett 82, C. G. Shannan 83, H. 7 leader of the opposition believes he | TABLET UNVEILED 4 § |tinues to act satisfactorily and the... this province." game) {Sunday morning from Montreal to uled). LET THEM FIGHT || AmGsements IT OUT ALONE ee Pd Comme Ci, Staint's Bridge, Brother McLean, Nominee and Toddler. In addition to Coltiletti, Jockeys Wida, Pitsz Erickson, Carroll, Mooney and King appeared in colors These boys gave real color to the picture and created a racing atmos- phere seldom found in the movies Ellis 86 | L| unions, and the administration on the second Harding peace proposal. To Go Before Congress. Washington, Aug 14.--Repre- sentatives of railway labor following the collapse of Presiden. Harding's efforts to settle the rail strike are preparing to place the case of the striking shopmen before congress. ASEBAL SCORES SUNDAY GAMES, International. B first 110 tug Conqueror, with the (first (sacond the roads. the scene was finished Coltiletti ad- lent entry was secured. "The best ace 4 y Eagle, { : = ' gh tives, leaders of the fifteen railway | the race were Orderly, Grey Eagle |g. 10. Tachereau Says He Davis 55, G. Robertson 85, W. does me an injury when he calls me | AT SUGAR ISLAND | y revenues derived by the government Syracuse :, Jerssy City 2 | The Newark 1 This was a statement of Premier Reading 10, Buffalo 3. I 2) The American Canoe Association |!he head of the lakes. 1 with an impressive ceremony at Su- | The steamer City of Hamilton ar- gar Island, below Gananoque, Sat- {rived up from Montreal on Mondey { y a vi reight urday, unveiled a tablet in memory | morning, and celared with freigh of the members of the association | for Toronto and Hamilton. who gave up their lives in the great The steamer Brockville cleared on war. This is the permanent camp- | Sunday night with freight for Bay ing ground of the association, and {of Quinte ports. paddlers from many different states | The Steamer ganadies arrived of the Union and from Eastern Can- | from the head of the lakes on Sun- ada. The céremony was international | 42y morning, and cleared with pack- "in character, as the tablet is to the |28e freight for Montreal memory alike of both United States The steamer Kingston arrived and Canadian soldiers. Dr. R. Bruce | from Toronto and Rochester on Mon- Taylor, of Queen's University, King- day morning, and cleared for Pres- ston, officiated on behalf of the Can- |COtt. a adians, and Rev. Dr. Drummond, rec- | The steamer Edmonton is expec'- tor of the Episcopal church, Alexan- [ed at the Collingwood Shipbuilding ye. to- dria Bay, N.Y., for the Americans. |Company's drydock for repairs The tablet rests against a large 48). rock in front of the association head- | quarters, and was presented by C. A Spaulding of Buffalo, Commodore | John McKay, Kingston, receiving it | I Taschereau of Quebec at a meeting | pgjimore 6, Toronto 5. here last night. COAL LEADERS PREDICT PEACE ON WEDNESDAY prookiyn 3, Philadelphia 2. ---- Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh & (10 {Head of United Mine Workers nings). Optimistic of Quick | Settlement. National. New York 4, Boston 2. Chicago 16, St. Louis 5. in- Cleveland, Aug. 14. --The coal peace conference buckles into its sec- ond week tomorrow with union chiefs declaring that settlement of the bi- tuminous strike will be here by Wed- nesday. No meetings were held to- | day, but the wires have been busy. | Last night .John L. Lewis, national head of the United Mine Workers, said: |1eft Toronto this morning for Win- "I am optimistic that it will be | ipeg and the west there was no possible to reach an agreement with- great crowd such as went on Fri- on behalf of the AOA. ! ET {in the next 48 hours. We are hope- gay. On Friday the C. P. R.| Dr. Taylor spoke forcefully upon|And the City Oounclil Will [ty the conterehce todas will VT ER ers and he. the conditions of the world before | Consider the Matter This velop something definite along this Rg a like number. "To-day," say | the world war and of the conditions Evenin line. The developments of the last |ine ofetals 4 Gen ate-hardied bel - of the people"of the world. Then he 9. 12 hours: have heen Evatifyicg ek Reals Ea | Bpdke of the coming of the war aad portends an end of the long strike | more than fully realized." 'Forty Special Harvest Trains Will Now Be Cancelled a -----_-- a, A ---------- Toronto, Aug. 14.--When the first of to-day's four special trains This is an exceptional opportunity to secure your wants at a fraction of prevailing prices WANT CITY TO BUY QUANTITY OF COAL the closing of all the pleasures of the people and the change to slaugh- ter, He mentioned the effect that the sports had had upon the people and how it fitted them for any lite and what advantage it was to be athlete. He then mentioned the friendship of nations and noted the Americans and Canadians in the as- sociation, saying that it was incon- celvable that anything but friend- ship should exist between the two na- tions. Dr. Taylor closed his address with a fitting tribute to the dead and closed by saying, "What they did was not for themselves." Major Thomas Bovey then sang "In Flanders Fields" after which the tablet was unveiled by Miss Eliza- beth Wolters, an American girl, and Miss Doris McKay, Kingston, daugh- ter of Commodore McKay. Frank Blake played "Taps" during the un- veiling, followed by "The Last Post" by the buglar from the Boy Scouts of Gananoque. His Daily Walks Suspended. . Rome, Aug. 14.--Pope Pius XI has contracted a cold, it was an- nounced here to-day, and the daily walks of the supreme pontiff in the Vatican gardens have been suspend- od during the heat wave. Baseball match, grocers and butch- ers' picnjc, Aug. 6th, fair ground. SASKATCHEWAN WOMAN RECOVERS Found Health by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound i Melaval, "Baskatchewan--"1 saw E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com. pound advertised for women's trou ) and when a friend recommended to me [ tried it and it has done me much good in the two years in ich .I have been taking it that .J find I am a different woman since Shen. 1 recommend your Vegetable x pound as much as I can and you Tay vse my letter as a testimonial" 2% Sam] L- Wa. J. Tuomas, Melaval, Saskatchewan. __ These letters recommending Lydia B. 'Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ought » convince women of the great worth this medicine in the treatment of ~ aflments to which they are often sub- Mrs. Thomas writes that she is a 3 nt woman now. If you are suf- : ng {yom troubles women often I or feel all run down, without ambition or energy for your work, take Lydia E. Pink 3 's Vegetable Compound. It is a | Datural restorative and should help medicine has been halping sick nearly fifty years--surely a long record of service. : | plaints have been made about the The city council at its special meet- ing this evening will deal with the coal situation and discuss a recom- mendation of the coal dealers, with whom the civic finance committee, conferred ten days ago, that the council should augment the dealers' efforts in endeavoring to secure three or four thousand tons of coal. Mayor Corbet* wishes to place the matter at once before the aldermen and de- cide upon some action. The effort might prove futile, but the mayor thinks that the council might at least try to help the coal dealers in their efforts to secure an adequate supply of fuel for the city as early as pos- sible. If the coal strike is settled by next week, it would likely be the middle of September before any hard coal could be secured here. now entering its twentieth week. "An important: development in re- | spect to the anthracite situation also has taken place to-day and I feel as- sured that a joint conference of op- erators and miners will be arranged and actually take place within a few days." ' Among the 150 union miners here checking out by Wednesday with the strike settled. The question of arbi- row. Michael Gallagher, president of the Pittsburgh Vein Qperators' as- sociation of Ohio, and Mr. Lewis have been striving to frame a plank on this. "Strike prevention" is the new term attached to the idea and the chief 'difficulty is in finding a formu- la which to the miners will not mean arbitration, and to. the bperators will look something like arbitration.. The miners, Mr. Lewis says, have not re- ceded one jot from their against arbitration. If MUST NOT SELL ICE CREAM ON SUNDAY Stated Two Cases to Follow Violation of Lord's Day Act. pected to be ordered back to the pits forthwith, the matter of a referen- dum vote to be taken up later. Opin- ion is it would be a mere formality. There is trouble in store for shop- keepers in the county who sell ice cream, soft drinks, tobacco, choco- lates and other things on Sunday. The Whig learned on Monday morning that special instructions have been issued from the attorney | general's department at Toronto, to {county constables, to be on the | watch for offenders; as several com- Operators Offer Old Wages. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14.--aAn of- fer to end the anthracite strike by wgreeing to the wage scale in force when the strike was called, was re- ceived to-day by President Lewis, of the miners, from S. D. Warriner, head of the operators' scale commit- tee. He suggested a conference of operators and men's representatives in Philadelphia Wednesday. Mr. Lewis has accepted the invitation to the conference. |act being violated. | It is understood that two offen- {ders were caught on Sunday and | that they will be summoned before a {county magistrate. ! {Lady Passenger Injured { By Fall Aboard Boat While on her way to visit relativ- es in this city, Mrs. Hawley, Ogdens- burg, N.Y., met with a painful acci- {dent when she tripped on stairs on the steamer Kingston and was thrown to the déck, injuring her |knee. On the arrival of the steam- |er here, she was removed to the Gen- eral Hospital. The unfortunate wo- man fell about six steps and in doing so suffered a wound in her left knee. She was attended dy Dr. J. H. Pil- key of the General Hospital staff who was on the boat, and a wireless messige was sent for an ambulance to-meet the boat. While her injuries |are not serious, she will be confined to the hospital for some days. Early-closing By-law Of Renfrew Is Quashed In a judgment delivered on Sat- urday at Osgoode Hall, Justice Mowat quashed the early closing by- law of the town of Renfrew. The decision was given in the case of Pédlow vs. town of Renfrew and carried with it the stipulation that the defendant municipality should pay the costs of the action. Took Over Duties. R. F. Vair, the newly appointed sheriff, took over his duties a} the court house on Monday morning. He has the office formerly occupied by Judge Lavell and the sheriff's of- fice is being redecorated for the judge's chambers. Sheriff Dawson was acting in that capacity for about twenty-three years ang is now on «the superanmuation list. Walter Griffith, who escaped from the convict train and was later cap- tured at Montreal, arrived back Sat- urday afternoon and is now safe 1 After two visits to én undertaker the penitentiary. He will shortly [to discuss the expenses of a funeral, be charged for escaping while being {Ryerson Fallis, 45 years old, tock transferred. {his own life early Saturday dy Don't miss Comfort soap race at swallowing poison at the home of grocers and butchers' picale, Wed- his brother, Wesley Fallis, 830 Col- nesday, Aug. 16th, fair ground. burn place, Detroit, Mich, ------ the general talk is that they will be | tration is to be threshed out to-mor- | | thousand harvesters were called for | said the C.N.R. assistant superin- |tendent this morning, "and this inumber must have pretty well left {already . We expect that the special | ! trains will be cancelled in the course {of another day at most." Ready to Fight Action | For Breack of Promise Saratoga Springs, Aug. 14 --Law- | yers representing Cornelius Vander- | bilt Whitney, son of Harry Payne { Whitney, are already at work elabo- | rating his defense to the $1,000,000 | breach of promise suit brought against him in the supreme court here by Evan Burrows Fontaine, the Oriental dancer and moving picture {artist, who asserts that young Whit-! | ney is the father of her son, christen- ed Cornelius Vandebilt Whitney, bal position | settlement | terms are reached, the men are ex- | That Wheat Board. i Calgary, Ailta., Aug. 14.--Premier | {Greenfield has announced that the | chairmanship of the wheat board has | | been offered John McFarlane, presi- | {dent of the Alberta Elevator Com- | | pany, and the vice chairmanehip to | |Johr™"R_ Murray, assistant general | manager Of the United Grain Grow- | Off On X Fast Trip. | Paris, Aug. 14 \--A party of sixty- i three Americans, pall women except! three, started towdrd London to-day | in eight airplanes {n a pecord-break- | ing flight. Owi to the rouga! weather one of the)planes was driv- | en back. RESCLE TRAINS ARE BRINGING OUT TOURSIS Who Were Marooned on the! Desert Enroute to California. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 14.--An! attempt was to be made todas tol move another réscue train with | marooned passengers out of the des-| ert following the arrival at San| Bernardino yesterday of 250 unfort-| unate tourists. : The first train, on the Santa Fe, | made up of sixteen coaches, and! guarded by U. 8. marshals, is re-| ported to have reached San Bernarg- | ino late yesterday. On board were | several women reported near pros. tration as a result of spending many | hours in the broiling sun. i The rail situation here is unchang- | ed to-day. Two east bound Union| Pacific trains arrived yesterday but | no trains are leaving. The Southern Pacific is maintaining service with assurances from the railway brota- erhcod leaders that their man will | not quit unless the strike becomes | national, | Every article in the store is to be slaughtered 20% t0 30 % | 20% to 40% Off all Men's Suits 20% t040% off all furnishings Off all Boys' Suits SETmm---- Sale opens to-morrow TUESDAY, AUG. 15 Further prices and reductions in UTuesday's Paper 3 Princess Street