TO-DAY "THE FIGHTING GUIDE" AND LARRY SEMON YEAR 89; 'No. 287. 7s of Town - Takes Duties, not notif as postr a of as --It Was One of the -- Is What the Fascisti Premier 1 e Fascisti remier at Cheeseboro last night about : midnight, The cause of the fire is probably someone had broken in tn finest and best equipped factories in L d j this vic 0 { RENFREW POSTMASTER. ' London, Dec. 9, --Hundreds of de-| Claridge's hotel to-day, as the cou- received fon of his appoint- him a Pascisti bodyguard. cholce of Mr. Stewart for the import- The meeting of the heads of the ant post is popular, Mr. Stewart has start el by Premier Bonar Law when he tary-treasurer and has held the post Fascisti premier, who has caught the ---- world's imagination as a statesmuu CLEMENCEAU ENCOURACED end Thrunis, of Belgium, went to- heard here as at Lausanne, althougn ! |W. J. LAPPAN'S CHEESE FACTORY IS BURNED Him "yr Ctieeseboro on Friday Night : Best. Gananoque, Dec. 9.--Fire totally | destroyed W. J. Lappan's cheese fac- of Italy Is Called. unknown. ~ Mr, Lappan visited the ---- -- factory yesterday, but had no fire of apy kind. As+the fire appears to A MOMENTOUS CONFERENCE have started upstairs, it is thought S ---- | take shelter there, Mr. Lappan will | . . !guffer considerable-loss, for though | Of h F B Allied P . Ne had some insurance, it will not t ¢ our 1g } . re {nearly cover it. It was one of tha miers Has Opened in tectives from Scotland Yard, some | Popular Resident disguised as waiters and cooks, | Over New guarded Premier Poinvare of France Renfrew, D 7 Wallace ahd Premier Mussolini of italy at Stewart, a p sident, has ference of Allled premiers ened. | ment ter for Renfrew, French secret service men were also' succeeding the late A. A, Wright, ex- cn the job hovering about Poincare, | M.P. There were a large number of whil® Mussolini had brought witu applicants fc the position. The governmetits of Britain, France, yt | had lengthy business experience, ely and Belgium, described by Amer-| entering the firm Stewart,. Ltd., ican Ambassador Harvey the most! owned by his father, James Stewart, | important since Versailles, was as a bookkeeper. He became secre-! invited Mussolini to a twenty-min-|for years. He has been an outstand-| ute private chat. Afterwards, Bonar | ing figure in community and philan-| Law eaw Poincare. All eyes fixed on | thropic work, and is held in high es- | the conference focus Mussolini, the teem by hig fellow townsmen. 'of a school all his own, He is hair ed as the "X of Allied Algebra." The conference was formally open 9 ed at neon when Poincare, Mussolini BY HARDING'S MESSAGE. gether to 10 Downing street, Ameri- | - can observers were to be present,| That He Hoped Other Peace and it had been reported the U nited | Pacts Would Soon Be States intended to make its voice Established. not participating actively in the work | of the parley. | Philadelphia, Dec. * 9.--Georges | Clemenceau, the "Tiger", today brought his fight for France to the | cradle of American liberty. The | eighty-one-year-old French war pre- | mier, is now on the last lap of his | strenuous campaign to return Amer- {ica to the counsels of Europe and | the side of France. He is undoubt- | ed! y feeling the strain of his impas-| | stoned pleas for his country but he| is passing it oft with indignant | {growls "through ' his sabre-toothed white moustache. The "Tiger" seem- | ed to be greatly encouraged by Presi-| | dent Ha®ding's statement in his mes- | |sage to Congress yesterday that he { hoped pacts to preserve peace, simi-| lar to the 'four power Pacific treaty | of the Washington. arms conference, would be established in other parts | of the world. . Clemenceau strongly | endorsed this statement in his speech | {at Washington yesterday, declaring] | there was more need for such a pact! | In Europe than in the Pacific. Clem-| | enceau will speak here today under | the auspices of the Forum. SIR RICHARD Es Prime Minister of New A d, Who has just returned from England, an nounces that negotiations will be en-| tered into soon for the erection of a| @per lant in that country to cost| Fist tod It will revoliitionize indus- rial life there, WELLAND BOOZE PARTY SHOCKS "DRY" DELEGATES A Night of Revelry at Hotel Where They Stay Shocks Them. Welland, Dec. 9.--Pive delegates to the recent convention of the World League Against Alcohol in Toronto had an experience in a Welland hotel . this morning that will likely add to 'their strong abhorrence of intoxfeat- ing liquor and provide a subject of investigation for thé local police. The party of five included three women, and, according to the in- formation ascertained to-day, was registered at a hotel where a ban- quet was being held. i Liquer was partaken of freely by many of the guests at the banquet end men in an advanced state of in- toxication were very much in evi- dence. Several of the inebriates en- gaged In peripatetic exercise and one 'made his way into the room of one of the women guests, who claims that she was insulted. 'The entertainment at the gather- ing was of a varied nature, hut a feature was provided by young "men table dancers who are said to have been imported trom Buffalo for the occasion. Revelry reigned in its boisterous way. until early this morn- ing and the temperance delegates de- clared before leaving here to-day that they did not get to sleep umtil 3 am. - : Europe Needs Much Wheat. Washington, Dec. 9.---European requirements for wheat during the current cer? year will aggregate {about 640,0u.,000, according to ca~ | ble advices today to the U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce. Eastern Euro-| pean States will supply about three {per cent; of the needs of the Comn-| { tinent, it was stated. Before the war they supplied about 40 per cent. of the requirements. 2 Eller Defaxts Waliace, Toronto, Dec. 9.--Never before in all his career as boxer has "Bobby" Eber, Hamilton, administered a more decisive beating to an opponent, barr- ing knockouts, than he tendered to Patsy Wallace, Philadelphia, at the Colliseum last night. Dead at Age of 125, Edmonton, Alta, Dec. 9.--The death of William Kennedy, of Hold- fen, at the ripe old age of 125 years, has been reported to Donald Mackie, registrar of vital statistics, as hav- ing occurred Nov. 30th, DRURY TURNED DOWN THE LABOR NOMINEE For Workmen's Compensation Board Because of His Report on Hydro Radials. Hamilton, Dec. 9.--That Fred Bancroft, labor's representative on the Sutherland commission appoint- ed to investigate the Hyafo radials, was not considered for the work- men's compensation board because he brought in a minority report on on BE the project, was the statement made COPPELL 22292909 4a Dy George Halcrow, M.P.P. for East » ; » «| Hamilton, addressing 4 mass meet- # FLORIDA MOT BURNS & ing on the subject of Hydro radials : NEGRO AT STAKE. # here last night. Bancroft was the # | unanimous choice of the LL.P. for 8 & | position on the board, sald Halcrow, 8) but following the minority report, Premier Drury notified the members od of the labor group that Bancroft's + | name could not be considered for % | the position. . x # | The mew Franco-Canadfan ecom- «| mercial treaty was signed at Paris *esssersereane ou Friday, : Perry, Fla., Dec. 7.~--Charles 4+ Wright, negro, accused of the # # murder of Ruby Hendry, a 4 young school teacher, was tak- # en from the sheriff and burned # at a stake at the stene of the % crime early last night by a mob 2 of several thousand roen._ RI }oara-tap-wos empty, A Philadelphia | KINGSTON, ONTARIO. SWEEP DOWN ON RESERVE Royal Canadian | Mounted Pe- lice Arrest An lr Indian Ghief. WERE READY FOR A FIGHT) On Six 'Indians' Reserve But | the Chief Decided to Come Quietly. Brantford, Dec. 9.--The Royal] Canadian Mounted Police swept down i fupon the six Nations Indian reserve | in the grey dusk of this morning and a in Chief Robert: Henhawk. | Long before daylight, the mounties, | five of them, Sergt. Crease from ot-| tawa, two corporals and two troopers, | were on theirgway out to the Indian | Reserve. As guide and assistant, |Sheriff Fred Kerr, Brantford, a. companied them. It was a welrd ria | through the darkness, with the first | rays of the sun just faintly lighting | {the eastern horizon. Tales of Indian | fighting in days gone by, raids at the | break of day, tomahawks, war cries, |all floated through one's min at | this invasion of the stronghold of the six Nations Indians. It has been a |stronghold indeed for {rom April un- {til 1ast Thursday there has not been. {an officer of the law that has dared | iset his foot on the reserve The first place to be visited was the home of: Alberta Martin, the I |dlan who put up such a fight when {they raided him Thursday and seized | la still. To them then Martin said he | would never be captured alive. The | Mounties were all ready for a fight | !4f they had a second chance at him. {The cars were driven without lights for miles through the darkness, then stopped a quarter of a mile frosn the Marting house. Walking gilently and swiftly the two parties of the police | carefully eurrounded the house and | barn. A dog barked, all else was still. Demands for an entrance to the house were met with silence. | Finally an unlocked door was found, | Upstairs and dgwn stairs the house | was searched. ft was in vain. Only | {two old women were found. .Th@! Martin had noi | 1 {dared to come home: | Arrest Of Chief. Hurrying down the road towards | {| Ohsweken, the police next made an} {official visit to the home of Chief | | Robert Henhawk wanted on a war-| {rant which had been issued on a| {charge of assault and doing actual] |bodtly harm to a white man. Chief | | Honhawk was in bed. He took one look at the sherriff and the police land decided to come quietly. He got up and dressed and came. He did not even wait for breakfast. A couple of other places were| hed for Martin, but with no suc- | Then the police came back to | Brantford with their one prisoner] and after breakfast expect to get! away again by nine o'clock to try to! | execute other warrants on the re- serve. This is the third prisoner | {taken by the Royal Canadian Mount-| | ed Police, who are following the tra- (ditions of the old Northwest Mount- {ed Police, in the success with which (they are handling Indian troubles. | The detachment which is now working on the reserve are the first officers of the law to do anything with the Indians here since last spring, when a pitched battle was {staged by the Indians with the poirce of Brantford. Chief Henhawk will | be tried here in Brantford the begin- ning of the week and so will Alex- ander Hill, who was arrested yester- day on an old charge Of assault. { | |searc cess. WILD LIFE VANISHING. All Furs Raised in Captivity in Near Future. Winnipeg, Dec. 9. --Fur-bearing animals of all kinds are being killed s0 rapidly there is no doubt that in the near future all fur will have to be raised in captivity, today declared B, I. Rayner, breeder of siiyer foxes, Alberton, P.E.I, who was a recent visitor here after a trip through Western Canada. 8 After an inspection of many dis tricts, he declared that Manitoba, with its bright, dry winter climate, was eminently adapted for the rais- ing of silver foxes, The future of the silver fox ine dustry was exceedingly bright, Mr. Rayner stated. Raising of foxes was not a dificult matter. They ate any- thing that a dog would eat and neces- sary attention called for omly a few minutes a day. As an adjunct this for farmers, he said. i ---------- 3 Wirth Invited to U.S. Berlin, Dec. 9.--Former German Chancellor Dr. Joseph Wirth. today received an invitation to go.to the United States and deliver a series of Jectures during 1923. Householders In New York state must receive a certain mestic size anthracite under provi- sions of a general order issued by State Puel Administrator William Woodia, Je constitution or menace the Na- {viduals * | glaciers. { nier, business would be a very paying one & percentage of ; substitutes withe all deliveries of do- H fre) SATU RDAY, DEC. | WANTS «SUSPECT LAW? PASSED BY PARLIAMENT Hungarian Government Asks, Power to Intern Opponents . and Suppress' Newspapers. Vienng Dec. 9.-LThe notorious | sus] t law" of the French revolu- ion surpassed by a bill just in- trodu in the Hungarian parlia- {ment by the Berlin government, call- ing for * gre at protection of the pub- lic order.' Under the bill the government would receive power to banish, intern or send to the workhouse any person "whose attitude or activities are [ienttn from the point of view of ungary's foreign policy or public jue any suspact of being in sym- pathy with attompis to overthrow tional unity, or who offends religious feelings or undermines the authority or public officials The law would "also apply to indi- 'who describe conditions in Hungary in an unfavorable way.' The minfpter of the interior would recelve power to suppress all the j.newspapers, if he deemed the state's interests called for such actioh. Should the law be passed, newspaper. work for journalists met connected with the government will become impossible WINIER 10 BE WL ML SAYS CAPTAIN BERNIER | Reiterates His Sta Statement That' Canadian Climate Is Becom- ing 'Warmer. Quebec, Dec. 9.--Captain J. E. | Bernier, the well-known Arctic ex- | | plover, predicts a mild winter, and in. giving his reasons pointed to the! gradual departure of the northern The speaker further ven- tured to say that the climatic con- ditions were changing with the | prospects of warmer winters in fut- the movement of the jce in the Hud- | son Bay Straits and the Straits of Belle Isle, and said that when he| went north on his last trip during the summer the steamer Arctic had | less diMculties to comtend with fiom ice than on previous voyages. Furthermore, he discovered an island southeast of Ellesmere Is- land, which had- Aedever heretofore been discovered, not even by Peary, which he named Stewart Island. This discovery, said Captain Ber- was due to the disappearance in comparison to the past He described the diminution in the | size of icebergs, and the fact that the'ice in..the mountain tops in the north was disappearing, in | proof of a change in the climatic condifions to bring warmer weather during the winter months to Can- ada, and further remarked that he had brought back part of a tree that had been uncovered, to streng- then the belief that trees grew on these mountains and that there was vegetation before the glacier | perfod perhaps thousands of years] ago. Captain Bernier next spoke of | Greenland, where the bergs all ga- | thered and flocked to the Straits of Belle Isle and syrrounded the banks of Newfoundland. He said the condi- tions were undergoing a tramsforma-. tion, and that he was fully convinc-: ed that people lived and thrived in Greenland over a thouband years ago, and that they had churches or plac- es of worship, as he himself had seen the ruins of a church in Greerland. {of ice Prize Steer Sold For $1.25 Pound. Chicago, Dec. 9.--Chenoweth Jock the grand champion steer at the In- ternational Live Stock Exposition, was auctiorfed for $1.25 a pound for Christmas Beef. The animal, which weighed 1,000 pounds, and won the honors for its owners, W. J. and B,/ A. Thomas, of Shelbyville, Ky. School Principal Dropped Dead. St. Catharines, Dee, 9.--Albert Tennyson Vardon, 56, principal of Merriton public schéol, dropped dead in a Niagara-8t. Catharines and Tor- onto car at the city terminal station yesterday morning, while preparing to proceed to his school. He for merly resided at Ingersoll. 'Status of Agents-General 9,1 922. PACIFIC PACT | ASA] MODEL For Europe Is Is Suggested By United States | President. HARDING MANES REPLY To Clemenceau And Declares, That America Has Not Shirked. Washington, Dec. 9.--Great signi- ficance js attached here to a phase of President Harding's address to Congress yesterday, which relates to world affairs. Lid {his purpose by telling the story which | abolishes probability of war on the Pacific, might be made a model "for like assurances wherever in the world any common interests are concerned." While the U.S dent does not specifically recom- mend the making of a pact like the four-power pact which would extend to European affairs or certain large phases of them, that this is intended to suggest an understanding. The possibility that this is the forerunner of an at-| tempt to call another international | reonference to be held in Washington, is believed by many to lie back of the president's words on this sub-| ject. President Harding answered Geor- ges Clemenceau and others who cri- ticize American aloofness. To them Mr. Harding said in effect that Am- | | erica had not shirked and would nat | shirk international obligations, nor | permit infringement of American rigs anywhere, but ies, of armed alliance, or "in any jcommitment where either a council | ure. He bases his prognostications on [or an assembly of leagued nations may chart our course." PROFESSOR JOHN MacNEILL The Minister of Education in the government of the Irish Free State. He leader. A DEFINITE DECISION WOULD CLEAR THE AIR Approaching Crown Still Unsettled. London, Dec. 9.--A conference is to be held betw®n the High Com- missioner and the agents-general jin London of the Canadian province: to discuss Dominion Government re- | of the pro- to communi- cognition of the claim vincial representatives cate direct with the Crown in mat- | ters directly affecting them. This old and vexed question, when, as stated by your correspondent pre- viously, has recently been taken up with Hon. P. C. Larkin, continues to disturb the harmony of the Cana- dian representation here. Regarding Canada's participation in the British Empire exhibition, for instance, the high commissioner has | been asked whether he will follow the example of the Australian nigh commissioner, 'who hes assoclated | the agents-general of the various states of the Commonwealth with him on the board advanced to Aus- tralian interests in connection with that enterprise. It is understood that F'. C. Wade, agent-general for British Columbia, has evidence regarding the Exhibi- tion management's purchase of tim- ber which it is desired to present at the forthcoming Government en- quiry in to the whole undertaking. Hon. Mr. Larkin has stated that > he considers the question of direct provincial access to the Crown 1s one to be discussed between the do- minion and the respective provineial governments, rather their representatives here. It is a tase where a definite decision would 'do much to clear the air. The secretary of the Ontario Motor League claims slaughter on | the streets is not due to speed for the most part, but to Inetficlency of | the person at the wheel of the car. C. B. McNaught has resigned tle :! Presidency of the City Dairy Com- pany. Torento, and is succeeded Ww. J. _Northgrave, the iia man- He declared his be-| lief that the four-power pact which | Presi- | it is the view here | such | that this gov-| ernment would not engage in treat-| new! in| than between | by |. 4 | Che Daily British Whig TOLD A STORY "WHICH SENT MAN TO PRISON Burglar Gave Evidence Against Convict Now at Ports- mouth Penitentiary. 9. --A week ago of North Nor- Dec Bradley, Woodstoek, Faen Ivan » Api |burgiariz ing the store at Burford. {Harold Ingram appeared and gave levidence which convicted Bradley and sent him to Portsmouth penitentiary or two years. At the time Ingram {maintained that while he knew of the robbery he had nothing to do with it | Yesterday Ingram was charged with burglarizing the Burford store and {also two stores in Norwich.. A fourth lcharge of perjury was added, | When Ingram came up for tria! |e stated that he haa gone out t« Bradley and had accomplished {sent him to prison. He confessed 'c complicity in three robberies and was remanded to jail for sentence. Irish Peace in Five Years. New York, Dec. 8.--A prediction { that Ireland within five years will | become peaceful and prosperous un- {der the British flag, as South Africa is today, summed up the opinion ex- pressed by Sir Gilbert Parker, noted | author, regarding the recent events which have established the Irish Free State. Sir Gilbert is on a lec- ture tour in the United States, with | his _headquarters in New York. A SEASATIONAL MURDER TRIAL AT OLD BAILEY | | Widow of Victim Described as | Modern Lucrezia Borgia --Astounding Letters. London, Dec. 9.--A murder trial in which the prosecution represents {one of the two defendants as a mod- ern Lucrezia Borg ia, | | room. Women sitting without hats as though in a theatre, make up a large part of "the queue awaiting admission began to form in the street outside at 1 o'clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Edith Jesse Thompson, a wo- Iman of twenty-nine, and Frederick | Edward Franeis Bywaters, twenty- one years old, a steamship steward, ed with the murder of Mrs. Thamp- son's husband, Pércy Thompson, a shipping clerk. The actual 'killing was ordinary enough---a sudden stab in a dark street-- and public interest ¢entres rather in the picture that Solicitor- General Inskip, K.C,, is drawing of the relations of the defendants. In his opening address he read a ser- ies of remarkable "Netters Mrs. Thompson wrote to Bywaters, whila he was away on his voyages. In them she urged him to study the ef- fects of all sorts of poisons. The prosecution is asking the jury to be- feve that Mrs. Thompson was for | rid of her husband, with whom she was living on fairly good terms, and was egging on Bywaters to help to poison him. On the success of coun- {sel in establishing this view of the case the fate of the woman depends, {as there is no question of his having actually struck the fatal blow. Thompson was stabbed, in the early hours of October 4th, in a quiet street of Ilford, a London sub. urb, as he was returning from the theatre with his wife. Mrs. Thomp- | son In a statement to the police, de- clared that the man she recognized as Frederick Bywaters ran out, pushed her away and stabbed her husband. Bywaters, in a similar | statement, said he challenged | Thompson in the street because he knew he had {ll-uskd his wife, and in the course of the ensuing fight he drew his knife and Thompson "got the®*worst of it." Bywaters, it appears, had been for some time a close friend of the Thompsons. He went for a seasido holiday with them in 1921, anu found it convenient to board with | them when his ship was in port. He was in love with Mrs. Thompson and about. He said to the police: "The reason I fought with Thompson was Because he never acted like a man to his wife. He always seemed sev- eral degrees lower than a soak. 1 joved her, and could not see her go on leading that life. 1 did not in- tend to kill, I only meant to injure him." . So far the case seemed common- place enough. It was as Solicitor- General, Inskip read Mrs. Thomp- son's that intefest deepened. They were found In Bywaters' pocket and {in His "géity box" aboard his ship. They, | contended, put a very "much more sinister charge and {n particular {implicats ! Mrs. Thompson as the real principal | in the extraordinary murder plot. Altogether there were sixty-five letters, and of these thirty-three | were put in as evidence. With them were also found about 50 mewspip- er cuttings, of which ten referred to poison cases. Canada's fuel Bupoly sufficient to jast the dominion for fifty Dttswa regort ;ared in court charged with | | is crowding | every inch in the Old Bailey Court | audience and a | stand side by side in the dock charg- | has long been a prominent Sinn Fein| Mouths plotting how she might gat | had seen her husband knock her | aspect on the! MON, TUES, WED. T HEODORA™ THRILLING STLPENDOUS MAGNIFICENT LAST EDITION, NATION'S LIFE -IS AT STAKE Irish Free State Government Must Take, Stervest Measures. RISH SENATE COMPLETE Four Wainer, Several Farm- ers And Traders Are Among the Members. Dublin, Dec. 9.---Richard Mulcahey the minister of defense, on behalf of the army counell, issued a proclama- tion in connection with the execution of Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellows, which read: "A, conspiracy exists to aseassin- ate the members of the nation's parliament, and has already claimed two victims. To safeguard the lives of the people's representatives, to safeguard the life of the nation it- self, the sternest-feasures are nec- essary." The Irish Senate, Dublin, Dec. 9.--Membership of the Free State senate has been com- pleted. It will have four women members, Dowager Countess Desart and Mrs. Wiess Power, nominated by 'the president of the Pail, Mrs. Green, the historian, and Mrs. Cous= tello, both of whom were elected by lower chamber. There is considerable democratic element in the selections made by the Dail, several members |being farmers and traders. One of the senators is a road maker. ' Expect More Murders, London, Dec. 9.--Expectation that yesterday's executions in Dub- lin will be followed by further shootings is expressed today by { some of Dublin despatches to Lon- | don newspapers. They are convinc- ed that a chain of reprisals will continue. The Daily Mall states that | there are at least one hundred des- | perate men in the city who, having no care for their own lives, will {pl- low the behest of their leaders and endeavor to assassinate members of the government and of the Irish pare llament. The authorities have in custody several leading repubiis cans including Tom Hales, brother of Sean Hales, shot dead Thursday, Michael Kilroy, Sean Russell and Tom Maguire, who were captured funder circumstances bringing them within the scope of the proclama- tion 'prescribing summary trial and execution for persons found with firearms, explosives. ote. ete. DR. WDOUGALD AS "OUR AMBASSADOR Report Is Is Current Montreal and Ogdens~ burg, N.Y. Ogdensburg, N.Y., Dec. 9.--Dr, W. L. McDougald, Ogdensburg and Montreal, is being prominently men- tioned in high government circles in = Canada for the post of Canadian am« bassador to the United States. If ap= pointed he will be the first diplo- matic representative to. this country from Canada. Dr. McDougald is today" one of the most influential fén in the domin= fon. He is well known in Ogdens- burg where he spends part of his time and is interested in various lo~ cal industries. He is a brother-ine law of John Hannan of this. city. When he was appointed ¢hairman of the Montreal harbor commission he | was the youngest man to have ever held the important position. In as editorial the Shipping and Exporting Register of Canada says: "The rumor has come to us sever. al times during the past few wesks | This in Dougald, present chairman of the | Montreal commission, is mentioned | In connection with the Canadian ame bassadorship to the United States. In our opinion he would make a splendid man for the place but his departure at this time from the sem vices of the harkor commissiys would almost be a calamity, "Mr. MeDougald has worked hard for the harbor of Montreal and we think that he has done the best that anyone could do. The two commige' sloners with Kim have also worked hard and in our opinion have done much to make the harbor of Monis real a better business orgzn!zation, » "We should disifke to see t present - 'machine break yp so soni, but although we have not ver | the rumor it would not surpriss those close to the Hon. Macken | King if Mr. McDougald became Cane ada's first permanent diplomatic reps | resentative to the United Slates." , President Harding apnounces purpose to invite the 'governors the states and territories to an conference with the federal tive authority with a view to ing definite Joficies at national | bis of Hy that thé name of Dr. W. L. Mee