i 4 (ALLEN NOW PLAYING The Christian YEAR 90; No. 100, BETTING LAW PUT THROUGH No More News Respecting ~~ Wagers on Horse Races. CRNNAL CODE CHANGES The Budget May Be Brought ~ Down in Commons Next Thursday. Ottawa, April 28.--The clutch of the law is closing on bookmaking. Without a issenting voice and with but one critical observation, the "House of Commons last night gave a ., third reading to Sir Lomer Gouin's amendment of the criminal code to male illegal the publication, in any shape or form, other than on the race course during the progress of a meet, news or information respect ing betting on horse races. This amendment, exactly as proposed by the attorney-general of Ontario and designed to render effective the con- current provincial legislation, prac- tically makes impossible the busi- ness of handbooking in Canada. The House put in a routine day on government bills, featured by a di- vision on the copyright bill, on 'which the government was sustained by a 55 to 34 majority, the progres- wives voting with the Conservatives. Sir Lomer Gouin introduced amendments to the criminal code regarding offences against young girls. The bill to amend the bank- Tuptey act, and to introduce the Eng- lish system of administration of in. solvent estates by trustees selected by creditors, was brought The budget may be brought down next Thursday, Hon. 'W. S. Fielding informed Sir Henry Drayton. Fight Duel With Sabres; : Fascisti Leader Cut Up Rome, April 28.--A duel with cav- alry sabres was fought yesterday by \ Deputy Giuanta, secretary-general of iH be: | tion opens next month. 4 | ers at the Grand Fascist! Council, and sptain Forni, one of the military leaders of the Fascist, -resuiting in the latter béing so badly slashed that the attending doctors refused 10 permit the affair of honor to con- tinue beyond the second round. The opponents refused to be re- conciled, reserving the right to con- tinue thelr quarrel, the nature of ¥hich was not made public. $2,500,000 IN SILVER ORE. Will Be Taken From Yukon When Navigation Opens, Dawson City, Y.T., April 28. --Sil- | yer ore to the value of $2,500,000 will move down the Stewart River tu the coast smelters when naviga- More than 9,000 tons will await the first steam- Mayo landing. Four large sleamers and four¥een barges are being overhauled at Dawson and other winter quarters in readiness to move this record winter output. gy Bome of the ore will average $1,000 ton. GROCERY SHELVES FALL AND WOMAN IS KILLED Panic Ocdurs in Simcoe Store ~-8everal Shoppers Re- ceived Injuries. Simcoe, April 28.----Mrz Butler, aged abou' tKiriy-five years was fatally injured! Miss Misner, a middle-aged woman, was seriously kurt, the twelve-year-old son of isaac McAlley sustained severe cuts cn the forehead and hands, and sev- eral other persons suffered minor in- juries when heavily laden shelves in the grocery store of Oril W. Learn last nigh toppled over upon a crowd of shoppers, mostly women and E children, lined up at the counter. | Tins, bottles and packages | showered upon the heads of num- erous persons in the store, Panic followed. Mrs. Butler did not ~ regain consciousness and died late L last night at her home. Quebec and Summer Time. Quebec, April 28.--Interviewed Before he left for Montreal and ask- ed what course the government Would take should the Quebec city council adopt daylight saving time, mier Taschereau said: "The gov- irmment would necessarily follow the time set by the municipality for il departments of the admidistras on Le "Asked if this would include the bourts of justice, he answered af- firmatively. -- Author's Association. Toronto, April 28. Robert J. d, Ottawa, was yesterday elect president of the Canadian Auth- ". Association. down. | Gordon | were | ARSENE NOW PLAYING The Christian mirvrm-- img |canapa's TAXATION SYSTEM BURDENSOME ee -- {Must Undergo Radical Changes Before Business Will Be- come Normal. WOMEN BUSY That Is-the Labor Condition, | in England Now. Toronto, April 28.--Canada's tax~ ation system has become burden- some, is a detriment to business and must undergo some radical changes | before the country can get back to | normal business, is the opinion of | D. A. Cameron, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who addressed the Canadian tax conference here yesterday. He suggested that per- sonal income and company tax should be greatly reduced and that surtax and supertax should be re- moved entirely. USE LITTLE SUGAR | AND PRICE WILL DROP, -- Than There Are Women to Fill Them, Miss Beatrice Osmond Says. Montreal, April 28.--No longer | does England resound with the cry: "What shall we do with our million | and a half surplus women?" And if! any deluded member of the male | Sex uses an expression much to the | a | fore a few years ago, 'superfluous,' Fre Lit, fe. Anh iti the women smile pityingly, that is issued late yesterday, urged all De-| all. They are too buy to take time troit housewives to conserve sugar| to argue over the matter, although and not to use the commodity at all, they know that if they did, the mis- except in cases where it was abso-!| Informed one could be effectively lutely necessary. The mayor, in his|s¢uelched without any difficulty. statement, refused to comment on|Superfluous, quite the revesse. In a the cause of a 100 per cent. increase| COUntry where unemployment has in sugar during the past six months, | 88sumed serious proportioms, it is but added that if people will con-|the men who are jobless, not the serve it, the supply will soon exceed | Women. And in domestic service, at the demand and a drop will result. | any rate, there are more openings than there are women to fill them. This, at least, is the opinion of Miss Beatrice Osmond, London, England, a member of the point par- liamentary council, who 1s in Mont- real for a day or two on her way home. after a five-months trip to Australia and New Zealand. A STRANGE ANIMAL HAUNTING A FARM Detroit Mayor Urges Women to Conserve and Fight High Price. U. 8. Must Participate Says Secretary Hughes Washington, D.C., April 28.---Par- 'ticipation by the United States in the permanent court of internation- al justice was advocated last night by Secretary Hughes in an address | before the American Society on In-| ternational Law as indispensable to! any plan for the prevention of war | [Size of a Horse, Has Great Eyes and Walks on Its Hind Legs. {and the promotion of peace, ie imino Windsor, April 28 --A strange | AMPLIFY His CHARGES animal, reported by 'a farmer named {Marentette to be haunting his farm jon the Grand Marais road in Sand- { | Against Premier Drury in the | Ontario Legislature Next Week. London, Ont., April 28.----Andrew Hieks, M:P.P.; South Huron, stands and walks on its hind legs. by his latest charges, "against a seen it iwice. thousand mren if necessary," he de- -------------- clared to a correspondent today. Mr. | Hicks declined to amplify his char-| MURDER AND SUICIDE. {ges at present, but intimated that! ------ he might do so in the legislature |The Verdict of Coroner's Jury Over next wee. Trappers' Tragedy. "I am up against big odds in this" Fort William, April 28. --Tha in- | he declares. "I'll have to prepare my quest on two French trappers found evidence carefully. I wouldn't have dead in a lonely shack near Sipux spoken but for the fact that the Lookout a few days ago was con- prime minister challenged me in the cluded with a verdict of murder and [house to substantiate my previous suicide against Morsette, It was charges. And there is more I could found he had shot Dulphiste and have told. The premier forgets! hen turned the gun on himself. The very quickly," sald Hicks with re- theory of the use of an axe in the Jotense to Mr. Drury's denial of the | murder Was scontod Moonshine | ¢ 1arges. The premier, he stated, |.) ickey is said tc have . been the was an able man, but too change- : able. Ernest. Ie foared, was not | Cause of the quarrel which ended in "in earnest.' {the dotible fatality, Mr. Hicks says he will stand for| 3 duri tr renomination in South Huron un- ne a YLIGHT SAVIN {NY {less his family insist that he stay | DAYLIGHT SAVING JN A.V. out. If he is not chosen, he will be|g i : Ss s ) § lay Aas satisfied to go back to farming. 1Ir/ Rants Nidnighy Siurcey am Lists elected he will sit as U.F.0. mem- York pi 28.-- Daylight ber but will never follow Premier | New vil in N 3 Drury again. |faving will commence in New York |at midnight on Saturday, timepieces {being moved anead one hour and MUNICH STREET BATTLE. will last until September 29th. | This will be the sixth year that | Gaylight saving time has been in [ wic township, successfully eluded {the Windsor and provincial police | yesterday who scoured 200 acres. Marentette says the animal is about the slze ol a 8 ow or with eyes as Sade Jal 4» He has Between Rival Factions of Socialists ~Four Men Wounded. Berlin, April 28.--A street battle In Munich yesterday between rival socialist factions is reported by the Chicago and several hundred cities newspapers. The national socialists and towns throughout the country |stormed a meeting of young social- |, t th : h » d : id. | ists in a restaurant. The appearance | 30% mostly In the eastern apd wig: of the police was a signal for the dle states, {nationalists firing thirty sbots and RE ota | four men were wounded. The Vor- United States Finds | waerts says that when the police Isolation Impracticable | were asked to use their weapons they replied: "We are not allowed to shoot." effect in New York. The law is a Permanent one in Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New York, April 28.- -People of the United States accept the view thal isolation is an impracticable ideal, Lord Robert Cecil, British proponent of the League of Nations, { declared last night before the Ro. manic Club in his farewell address in the Unfted States. He could not say, however, he added, that they -- -- i Germans Grateful New York, April 28.-- Germany is grateful to the United States for | releasing to alien owners their properties valued under $10,000 [which were seized by the wartime of the MEN JOBLESS, **-ss MORE DONESTIC OPENINGS Oded. saucers and a| property custodian, members of the German commission on war claims sald today, on returning from a trip to Berlin to report to their govern- | ment, ---- S000 0%0%0%0000%0 000 eo BASEBALL AT LIVERPOOL # ! . Liverpool, Eng., April 28. -- ¢ Baseball is becoming increas- ingly popular .in this district, ¢ < -- ready in existence. So enthus- &| iastically is the game being | taken up by schools in South ¢| Wales and Monmouthshire, $ that in many districts cricket 4 has been ousted: Efforts are ¢ being made to inaugurate an & international schoolboy base- $i ball match. *| * CPO PGOOIVOCQOOPIOGIPIOIORSS LES 2 2 2 2 ER Rarer where a baseball league is al- £00 of the 12,000 German students accepted the proposition League of Nations. Free and Easy Life Gone. Berlin, April 28.--College stu- dents in Germany have probably suf- fered more from the effects of the war than any other class. Instead of Lis pre-war existence of beer drink- ing and card playing, the student is now compelled to work his way through college. F!zures show tha! more than %,- are compelled to earn their living. Of this total about 5,000 work eight Lours a day and attend school in their spare time. Conswciate Closed Washington, April 28.--The Am- erican consulate at Vladivostok, through whioh the United States has maintained representation in Rus- YED MAY COME TO CANADA Premier of Holland Says That Emigration Is Being Con- sidered There. Amsterdam, April 38.--The Dutch premier states that the government is considering the matter of the emi- gration of unemployed people in Hol- land to Canada. One hundred men will leave Holland shortly for the Dominion. he Dutch government is grant- T Z £2,500 to the Dutch emigration {league with a view to encouraging | migration. | Britain Warns Russia To Free Sea Captain London, April 28.--The govern- ment announced in the House of Commons that a grave warning has been sent to the government of So- viat Russia, based on the imprison- ment of the captain of a British [trawler," who is accused of fishing in Kussian waters. The British repre- sentative will remain at Moscow to rress the appeal. + Labor memters cheered when Josiah Wedgewood asked whether the government was aware that the British people are not anxious to have another war. Romald McNeill, Under Seerétary for foreign affairs, replied that it was for that very rea- gon that the government was taking a strong line Moscow. -- in its no zr ARAN Ts 1 BUT Formerly a deputy, minister of rail- ways, believes that Alberta coal can be laid down in Ontario at nine dollars a ton next winter, a -- CHURCHES WILL HELP. Special Appeals in Connection With Forest Protection. Quebec, April 28.--On Sunday in the churches of the rural districts special appeals will be made to the parishioners by tke clergy in con- nection with the "Save the Forests" week. Hon. Honore Mercier, minister of lands . and forests, staied tonight that several weeks ago he had sent out a circular letter to the clergy of the province of Quebec asking them for their co-operation in the move- raent for the conservation of the for- ests, He said that Lad been very helpful, to the gov- ernment and there was no doubt that they would continue to assist by special prayers, by references in their sermons or by announcements, Big Coal NMyprger Pittsburg, April 28.-- A coal merger involving $10,000,000 and representing an annual capacity of 6,000,000 tons from twenty mines in the important bituminous fields of the country, was consummatea here today with the formation of the Bertha Consumers' Company. John H. Jones is prestdent and the gen- eral offices will be located in Pitts- burg. Companies in the merger are the Bertha Coal Company, Consum- ers' Fuel Company, Consolidated ue! Company, Marshall Fuel Com- pany, Marshall Fuel Corporation and the Jewel Coal Company. CHANCELLOR CUNO, OF GERMANY Is between two fires in preparing his reparations note to the nations who signed the Versailles treaty. cilalists want him to make an noaest sia, has been ordered closed. estimate of what Germany can pay and the other side of the House opposes it. already the clergy * KINGSTON, ONTARIO. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923. IRISH REBELS OFFER PEACE 'Eamon de Valera Has Issued a Proclamation. WOULD CEASE. HOSTILIDES 'And Negotiate a Treaty With Free State on Certain Conditions. Dublin, April 28.--Suspension of | hostilities by the 'Irish republicans | against forces of the Free State gov- | ernment and an offer to negotiats peace with the Free State on certain conditions were proclaimed last night by Eamon de Valera, the re- publican leader, and his chief-of- staff, E. F. Aiken. De Valera's pro- clamation sets forth the general po- litical principles of the republicans and asserts that an ultimate court ot appeal for deciding disputed ques- tions is the majority vote of the peo- ple of Ireland; that resistance by violation should be excluded, but that adequate facilities should be afforded the people for proper pre- sentation of issues involved. Dublin, April 28.--Eamon de Va- lera's statement of conditions on which the Irish republicans are will- new light on the political situation, in the opinion of Free State govern- ment circles, although it does con- tain the definite order suspending hostilities as evidence of the irregu- lars 'good will." Commenting on the proclamation, that it is difficult to see anything sible for the government to grantor space for a re-organization of the forces that have been engaged in an attack upon the nation. The Irish Times says that the Free State cannot make terms which would compromise its security, but favors testing the feasibility of the "| proposals. Rebel Executed. Dublin, April 28.--Patrick Ma- honey, sentenced to death by mili- tary court at Ennis, was executed yesterday. He was charged with in an attack on national troops. } Not Welcome. | Sydney, Australia, April 28.---- { The Commonwealth government has intimated that immediate action will | be taken if Irish Republican envoys jire=attempt either | vately to raise money or obtain oth- | er support in Australia for rebels | in arms against the Irish Free State. To Bridge Differengs Dublin, April 28.--~The first con- | vention of the new political organ- 'ization supportng the present min- istry was held in the Mansion house yesterday, delegates being present from city and country, William Cosgrave, president of the. Free State cabinet, made a speech in which he declared his belief that the new organization would bridge tha differences between the repuulicans and the Free Staters. PREMIUM TO SETTLERS. Province Granting $4 Per Acre for Land Cleared. Quebec, April 28.--An order-in- council providing for a special pre- mium of $4 per acre.on land cleared by settlers, payable for a maximum of five acres per year, has been pass- ed by the provincial cabinet. This new move of the government to en- wourage the development of coloni- zation centres had been forecast a few days ago, and it was supported by the cabinet when presented by Hon. J. E. Peraul:, minister of colon- ization. One: of the conditions governing the award is that settlers must not cniy clear the land, but they must comply with all the regulations gov- erning protection against forest fires. For instance, they ara forbil- den to clear the land at certain per- ivds of the year, and never without special permits. -------- Memorial Trust Fund London, April 28.--Three British 'students, three from from Cambridge snd three from Oxford, will study in Harvard, Yale and Princeton fo: one year each under the terms of a trust fund created by Mrs. H. P. Davidson in memory of her husband. former head of the American Red Cross and millionaire banker. The trust is similar to the Rhodes fund under which American students get scholarships to British universities. Christ Chaurch church, Strafford, by a vote of 64 to 5. has gone on record as opposed to organic churca union, ing to negotiate peace, sheds littls | the Freeman's Journal says to-day | in it but another manoeuvre design- | ed to extort terms which it is impos- | alternatively to procure a breathing | possessing arms - and participating | publicly or pri-| be Baily British Whig |ECHO OF OLD TROUBLE | WITH THE SIKHS | -------- | Those Rejected From Canada | in 1915 Are Fomenting { Unrest in India. { London, April 28.--An echo of the eld trouble between British Colum- {Lia and the Sikhs who tried to enter that province in 1915 on the Koma- | Igata Maru is to be found in the pre- | {sent serious unrest in the Punjab, jsuys the London Times' Simla corras- lspondent. He says murders commit- {ted in certain Punjab districts by Sikhs are believed to be the work ol the so-cal'ed Babar Akalis, who number about 200 and are compos- el of returned emigrants of Koma- gata Maru fame. The return to India on the Koma- gata Maru in the summer of 1915 of | the would-be emigrants to British | [Columbia after imbibing bitter anti- | British spirit was the potent. cause | of unrest with which the Punjab was fterwards afflicted. They scattered through the province and, though a {great majority were interned or kept within necessary restrictions during {the war by the strong hand of Sir {Michael O'Dwyer, they were not all |accounted for. The Rowlatt report of 1918 was | |emphatic in its testimony to the in- {jury done to the cause of peace and order by the Gadhr party, as the re- [turned emigrants were called. The {revolutionary paper "which is pub- {lished in America under the control (of Har Dayal had inflamed their hatred. They have been the leading {spirits in the more lawless activities lof the Akali Jathas, or bands of {volunteers seeking the reform of tha Sikh shrines, From which it would appear Can- |ada was well rid of them. | RUN SLEUTH LEADERS PREPARE TO BLOCKADE Buckland and Angell Lay Plans to Watch Water= ways and Roads. Watertown, N.Y., April 28.--Fed- |eral officers made ready to effectually |blockade the border lines of Jef- ferson county to meet the spring 'opening of illicit liquor trafc. Iol- {lowing a conference between Mark Buckland of the Syracuse enforce- ment office and Robert Angell; direc- {tor of, the Northern New York dis- {trict, held here, it became known [that plans for the first effectual sur- | {veillance of waterways and roads at- {tempted is being planned for this |territory. A represAntative from the New York head guartors of the federal {prohibition "bureau accompanied Mr: |Buckland. The party was here but la short time, going north, where it {1s understood they were to meet Pal- {mer Canfield, prohibition director, {who is reported on an inspection {tour through Franklin county, | Jefferson county has not figured extensively in the bootlegging news since the government launched its drive to close the northern border to | Tum runners. Capture of a consid- jerable cargo of liquor near Fox Creek |last fall, following its landing from {a power boat, revealed the fact that {importers were using the Jefferson county coast as a landing place and lit 1s understood that more attention is to be paid the local shore line this summer, { For the last two years liquor oper- ators have confined their travel {largely to Franklin and St. Lawrence {counties and Jefferson eounty high- {ways have had a respite from the {holdups that characterized the reign (of terror three years ago. Last sea- {gon bootleggers abandoned the main {improved roads and carried their {products over rough highways to lelude the officers. From St. Law- |rence county came many reports of {mysterious autos speeding over un- |frequented routes in the dark. A squad of federal agents is now | {located in this city ard the shore {line is to be put under surveilance, it is understood. Belleville Retailers. Belleville, April 28. --Retail mer- chants here yesterday reorganized the local branch and elected officers jas follows: President, C. E. Hanna; (Secretary, B. F. Jennings; Treas- urer, John Cook. -------- LAST EDITION. WONT IGNORE THE VETERAN ---- No Government Will Over look Him, Says Drary. CHAR IN THE URNERSTY For Drs. Ban'ing And Best Toronto, the Discoverers of lnsulm, 3. Toronto, April Premier Drury, in the legilature Yesterday flernoon introduced the (overn= at bill to provide Banting and Best, discoveries of insulin, with a chair in the University of Toronto, and a grant of $10,M%) a vear from Itbe Government for experimenta!' curvices. The bill reseiced its first (reading without discassion. Capt. J. Ramsden asted the prem- ier whether it was his intsntion to introduce a bil] giving returned {soldiers preference in the matter of employment. Premier Drury--*| suppose you |nean as far as the Civil Service is {eoncerned. That is already a mat- ter of policy. I do n»t think it would be wise to incorporate it in an Act." | | Won't Be Overlooked. It was a matter of policy to give | disabled returned men first, and re- [turned men second preference. Capt. Ramsden: "I want to be sure |of my ground. If the Liberals come into power they will be looked after. {I do not know what others will do." | Premier Drury: "No government {will overlook the returned men." | Sergt.-Major McNamara (River. (dale), stated credit should be given |the government for their care of re- turned men, [+ The bill to amend the Cemetery Act,, providing that cemetery boards may take over neglected plots, pass- led through committee. A bill to amend the Hydro-Elect- (ric Distribution Act came in for (some criticism from John Joynt, |Who stated that there was too much "red tape' in commection. rural power supply for farm or. : [Frutem should be eased 'up, he sald. | 'Any delay of that sort {is up to |the Yhunicipality," stated Col. Car- {michael. The bill passed the com= mittee. Another government {brought down prescribes {for medical practitioners through- {out the povince, requiring them to | file with the provincial treasurer, | thelr names, qualifications and a | statement of the healing which they profess. The House then went into commit- tee of supply. measure tandards Found No 8helks in Sahara; Women Are Disappointed New York, April 28.--Arriving on the steamship Olympic yesterday was Mrs. Edna Brush Perkins and Mrs, Charlotte H. Jordan, who have just completed a trip across tha Sahara degert from Biskra to Tim- buctoo. Th) two women laughingly said they were disappointed that thay found no sheiks on the desert and that a "really truly" sheik must be a movie conception. Nine Arabs made up the caravan with mules, camels and horses. The two women said the experience was no more es: |eiting than crossing the Mojave de~ gert in Southern California. EE -- WOULD PREVENT BRITISH SHIPS. RUM-ONNIG Suggest. Cancelling Clearance | Papers For Vessels Carry ing Liquor to States, | | Washington, April 28.--New re- [presentations 6n the subject of rom |smuggling have been made by thas {United States state department to the British government, which is re- Congregational! | {quested in friendly terms to co-0p= 0000690000000 0q¢ Flite in preventing vessels flying tiie o | British flag from engaging in liquor 4 traffic between United States and 4 foreign ports. ® Among the suliests taken up was #/the question of cancelling the Bri- * tish registry of rum vossels which # are found to be actually controlled * iby U. 8. interests. The British ame # | bassador also was asked to use his | good offices to obtain an agree bot- # ment between the U. 8. and Canada © + |by which the Dominion authorities Fn Rey Re Conservative use; Indianapolis, eos to vessels with liquor cargoes buying enough trom day to 4 [consigned to the United States. {# day; Texas (Dallas) curtail- ¢/ Still other iZiportant measures to | *# ing movement started; Chi- ¢ ®ifeguard against Hquor smuggling # cago, mayor endorses boycott; ¢ 2r¢ under discussion between the |# Kansas City, contemplates boy- 4 Eritish government and state de- |# cott; Boston urges boycott. 4 partment, but pending conclusion of * # the negotiations, the department fg 0000O0OOGS 900000 ithbolding any official statement. ® 4 BOYCOTTS AGAINST SUGAR PROFITEERS New York, April 28.--A boy- cott movement against sugar profiteers is under way in -sev- eral cities and Is contemplat- ed in other sections of the country. The movement is div- & ided as follows: Maryland (Baltimore) tert erro + { le The .