LSS. TO-DAY Richard Barthelmens Dorothy Gish in 'THE BRIGHT SHAWL YEAR 90; No. 140. Baily vitish KINGSTON, ONTARIO. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1028. oY 9 TO-DAY Richard Bartheliness Peretsy Gish I» 'THE BRIGHT SHAWL' ------------------ LAST EDITION. "FOUR Woh ARE RUNNING In Field of 295 Candidates For the t Legislature. ONLY TWO - ACCLANATIONS W. F. Nickle in And Peter Heenan, Labor, in Kenora. Toronto, June 15.--With one ac- €lamation for the government and _ ©ne for the opposition, as a result of the nominations yesterday, the campaign for the election of the mext provincial legislature has now started on its official and final stage. The initial score of 1-1 has given an impetus to the various parties and it is expected that the fight from now on to the date of the elections, June 25th will be vig- brous and eveutful. 3 as Including Peter Heenan, Labor member and Drury Government sup- porter from Kenora, at the north- * western end of the province, and W. ¥. Nickle, K.C., Conservative lead- or's chief aide elected without op- ~ Position in Kingston, there are 295 candidates in the field for 111 seats dn the house. ' This is the - largest number of _ eandidates ever placed in nbmina. . 'tion for an Ontario legislature, and ~ indicates the tendency of the times _ towards three-vornered contests and dndependent ndbminations. > i ------ Bettlers' Candidate. A new feature in the independent * Xategory in the appearance of R. F. . Seymour as "settlers' candidate" for | Cochrane, in the northern clay belt. ~The revised lists of candidates by Parties show United Farmer Labor 23, Coaservatives 103, Lib- rals 77, Independent 18. Four women are included among: * Groves, United Farmer or "Drury- It is notable that Premiler Drury _ 'and every cabinet minister, as well _ 88 all the leaders of the opposition parties, excepting Mr. Nickle, will have to fight for their own consti- thencies. Sir Adam Beck, Conser- . vative and 'Hydro commission chair man, also has three candidates against him in London. As the resurt it is expected that | the leaders will spend much time in their own ridings between now and election day. 3 Liberal Disqualified. = Sault - Ste. Marie, June 18.~Dr. JA. G. Wallis, of Thessalon, Liber. sal nominee for Algoma, was dis- qualified, as his nomination papers ! evaot properly filed, his written 'Personal consent to the nomination Not 'being turned into the: returning 8 \ This leaves twa candidates in he fleld----Dr. J. M, Rodd, Con- and 'Thomas Higgine, U, . ad ra ee et -------------- SA SG What were you paying Madam for EY LAUNDRY s0aP? | _ Dttaws sas these ware the average | Prices early tn April: - ofefelidiot oltatnl IT I JR pg OR i off fof a ofl: Te fe fe fe Jo Jo Jo } a. x 75,' |WANTS INVESTIGATION | INTO SHIPBUILDING | | Canadian Manufacturers Age sociation Claims This a Vital Need. Toronto, Jume 15.--The Canadian Manufacturer's Association are go- ing to ask the Dominion govern- {ment to appoint a royal commission for the purpose of meking an inves- tigation into the shipbuilding and ship repairing industry in order to discover what measures are necés- sary to 'retain it in Canada. They will also ask the Dominion govern- ment to confer with the ments of the provinces for the pur- pocse of determining and agreeing upon & policy which will define the source of revenue to which the Dom- inion, Provincial and Municipal gov- ernments will be limited for taxm- tion purposes. The convention also went én re- cord that in ite opinion the Canad- jan customs tariff should be Immed- ately and substantially {nereased | on finished products and that "hen | higher rates of duty have been put into effect, Canada should endeavor to increase her export trade by mak- ing preferential tarig arrangements based on 'the principle of bargaining with other countries, particularly of the British Empire. 30,000 EX-SOLDIERS ARE SETTLED ON FARMS Over 100 Million Expended-- Land Settlement Commit- tee Justifies Itself. -- Montreal, June 15.--With 30,000 ex-soldiers settled on farms repres- enting a farm community of 130,«} 000 persons throughout the Domine fon, and eighty-five per eent. of them doing extremely well, the soldiers' land settlement committee has ade- - {has been gained already by the fact | RAY OF HOPE | "FOR QUEBEC French-Canadians Hope Rule 17 Will Be Abolished. G0 mm And lis Bearing on the School Question Is What In- | terests Quebec. Montreal, June 15.--What more partic interests French Canad- fang i the approaching general el- {ection in the province of Ontario, is (and have been tak an the bearing its result may have o ) | the Ontario school question, says 3 Presse in an "editomial. "Mr. Drury, the Progressive lead- er, is, according to the wobhds of{ Senator Belcourt, favorable to the | repeal of Rule XVII but he stays action until he'is sure of the sup- | port of his party. On the jother hand, Mr. Tolmie, one of the lleut- enants of Mr. Hay, Liberal leader, has openly pronounced himself in favor of the repeal of this rule. He has formally pledged Mmselr on this subject, The Orange element has in consequence been instructed by its party organ, the Semtinel/ to give dts support to Consermtive candidates, but it is impossible to predict what success such fnstrue- tions may have. In any even:, much | that two of the three parties, 'who | are fighting for power, have affirm- | ed that they are favorable to tae revocation of this Rule XVII, about quately » justified its existence, - de- clared Major John Barnett, Ot. tawa, chairman of that committee, in an address he delivered yesterday, before the members of the Kiwanis Club. Over $100,000,000, he said had been expended in arranging for | the settlement of the soldiers, ana | of this amount over $16,000,000 had bebn returned by the men to the public treasury. LEER ErPEPIPIORISIOPISOSG! ' * + BULGARIAN PREMIER . * A HAS BEEN KILLED % " » + + + Sofia, June 15.--Former Pre- + mier Stamboulisky of Bulgaria, # has been killed while % to esoape in the mountains. # The former Premier tried 4 to force King Boris to abdicate % in his favor so that he could 4 become King of Bulgaria him- 4 self. He planned to be crown- + > which the French-Canadian minor ity has just reason to omplain. This | is at least a ray of hope, and if the! Liberal party should triumph at the | polls, it is certain that we shall soon see the last of this rule, Limit to Draft of Boats Entering Welland Canal Port Colborne, June 15.--On and after the 12th Jume, 1923, and un- til further notice no vessels will be allowed to enter and pass. down through canal drawing: more than fourteen feet three in ches of water, and no vessel will be allowed to enter and pass up through the Welland canal drawing more than fourteen feet of water, by order of the superintendent enginéer. A Gold Strike Made On the Ghost Rover ------ % od in the Alexander Nevski ® Cathedral in Sofia as King 4 Alexander II. of Slavovitza on 4+ September 12th. +» SREP e ere * * * * + * + | | +>) *! LA EER RN EY Brick Shortage Stops New Building Work -- New York, June 15.--A drick shortage resulting from the decreas- ®% output of undermanned manu- facturing plants along the Hudson is | Interest adding to the seriousness of the bullding situation fh New York, Patrick J. Reville, superintendent of building, the Bronx, said yesterday. The plants are unable to hire sur: ficient laborers in competition with the high wages paid in the city, he sald. Work has been stopped on ap. proximately 315 or 450 buildings in the Bronx for which excavations Were made before April 1st, he de. WN rn -- TO REMOVE OFFICES. High Commission Going to Kinnaird House, Pall Mal]. London. June 15.-- The Canadfan high commies office will move on Dominion\Day from 19 Victoria street to Kinnaird House, Pall Mall Kinnaird House is described as only temporary premises, but agit is a rew building and centrally situatea near Trafalgar Square there is « possibility thet it may long remam cecupled by the Canadian authori- ties, who are understood to be an. xious to buy it outmight. { inches wide, splashed with gold was Iroquois Falls, June 15. -- The gold strike at Matheson is on the Ghost River, efghteen miles from Matheson. A quartz vein, several found. There is only a small out- crop. The rest is dveply covered with moss. Ther: is a possibility the find may be of value, but with such a small surface uncovered there is ne basis of estimate, Mathesonepeo- Ple have staked all thé moss in the neighborhood in hopes it may Prove valuable. The find lies in the general direction of Lightning riv- er. \ - ---- TO REAR A MONUMENT. To The Memory of German Oder Who Was Executed. Berlin, June 15.--General Luden- dorff has etarted a movement for the erection of a monument to Albert Schlageter, former German army officer, who was recently executed ty the French at Duesseldort upva charges of sabotage against the forces of occupation in Ruhr. Schageter died, says Ludendo:m, in a manifesto. "worthy of his deeds in the world war as a soldier of the old army." "The memorial should be eresied," | the general declared, 'as a memento of how deeply we have sunk through and defencelessness." UNEARTHED IN EGYPT. Substantial Buildings Negotiations for the acquisition | { [of Cox's bank buikling have been fruitless. : ---------- Aemilius Jarvis & Co. Toronto, Were awarded the, City of Edmon- ton school board bonds, District No. + amoun at five and due August 1s: 19 one-half per cent. 63. Substantial Egyptian tag to 3150,000, 'bearing | the evidence of five centuries of oc ENGLAND SUFFERING | SERVANT SHORTAGE | | iia wares THE SOLDIER | ot por mas Ih Finglaud oku- By the Commons And Sent iug a domestic service inquiry in . On To Senate. London to find the reason. Canada £3 SE apparently can get English servants but is displaying, it is understood, Entailing Expenditare of 27 Million Announced By Min- cfficigl reluctance to take them. An agreement recently concluded be- ister of Railways. House of tween the Canadian and British gov- ernments called for assisted emigra- tion of * 5,000 English "domestics. They were ready enough to leave England, but, although the Canadian Immigration authorities here will make no statement, it is understood Commons bas now acquired the | settled habit of sitting ill after { midnight, but it 1s getting through considerable business. Yesterday in| | put out of the way practically all] the remaining budget resolutions ex- | cept the sales tax, and late iu the that the plan 'has suffered curtail- ment or postponement from Canada. Why is not known. The English public are not yet re- conciled to servantless conditions, * 2 h oO led of. Two. bills: to remedy the] and lodging, lack of recreation and | : ! | grievanges of returned soldiers were! educational facilities, wearing uni- | 87 i { form, and living in. | also taken through all their stage. | constructive sug- intense in- terest in the inquiry. Its results so One of the f and sent on to the senate. gestions is that the le class must The minister of railways has an- do away with evening dinner. a luctant to Accept This Class | BILLS PASSED of Immigrant. v Ottawa, June 15.--THs far, however, have been negative. The reasons for the unpopularity of domestic service given by maids are nounced, via a resolution on the or. der paper, a very. extensive pro- gramme of new construction for the C.N.R. It is spread over a very | wide area, Nova Scotia getting =» {large share, and will entail an ex- | | penditure in excess of 27 million dollars. Under "other circumstances it would certainly be hailed as the «| prelude to a general eléction, but { this is now impossible this summer. The orders of the day were bar- iren, and a bill giving effect to the {recommendations of the Ralston commission' for some minor changes {in the returned soldiers' Insurance act was put rapidly through all is stages without opposition. The house then considered a parallel measure } concerning the civil restablishment act, and Dr. Beland explained' that it set up appeal tribunals to which {men dissatisfied with the decisions '| of the pension board could resort. Want; Staff Reduced. Mr. Guthrie foretold a great in- | crease of staff from the innovation, ;| and pointed out that in 1922 out of the total vole, 38 per cent. had gone Day- salaries, 22 per cent for ad- ministration' and the balance had reached the soldiers which was, in his view, too small a proportion, He suggested that the time had come to lop off the outside institutions of this department and gradually ab- sorb it and the pensions board in the department of national defence. Local civil hospitals, as in Ottawa, might be induced to look after cases needing treatment, and thereby per- mit a decrease in the salary list. # he € Fixed Date for Easter. I.ondon, June 15.-~The Foreign Office. has received a communication from the Vatican intimating that, al- though the proposal for a fixed date for Easter had not been received with any great enthusiasm, it was uader- stood that It had not been entirely iejected by the Roman church auth- orities. { chuckled. Dr. Beland while pointing out that many medical examiners had to be kept on the staff, agreed that his department should not be perman- ent and that the special hospitals o » should be closed as soon as possible. At. Nomination--Henry Pur=| This course was being followed, but cell, Colebrook, Has Voted | there was often severe local opposi- : { tion. After he had given . a pledge Sixty-Four Years, that he would appoint to the ap- peal board nominees of the various soldiers organizations, the bill was reported and given its third reading. The house then turned to the bud- get resolutions, and Mr. Fielding secured immediate adoption of the clause embodying. the new British preferential discount, also if a clause letting in fire brick free. Whén he ADDINGTON CANDIDATES AGREE NOT TO SPEAK The provincial nomination pro- ceedings for the county of Adding- ton; which were held at Yarker on Thursday afternoon, were very "tame." It had been expected that the two candidates .nominaied, viz. William H. J. Haines, Liberal, and W. D. Black, Conservative, would NEW YORK VERY WET "When Does Prohibition Become Ef- fective?" Visitor Asks. New York, June 15. -- Lord Cas- tieroose, son of Lord Kinmare, own- er of the Lakes of Killarney, sailad yesterday on the steamship France, and said he was going home to "'so- ber up." 3 "Really," he confided, "I never saw' so much liquor in America. Why I even got so I drank it before my '| meals for fear of losing some of it. Fardon me--but just when does this rrohibition law become effective?" Then assuming a more serious raien he declared he had found he could get liquor in any public place he had asked for it and in some places, he said, the waiters brought it as a matter of course. "lI suppose they did it because I have a face that is expressive," he "As for Al Smith -- blessed be his name--he is a grea: man and may yet save the Ameri- cans from dryness." Slayer of Two Policemen Quilty; Woman Acquitted Jersey City, N. J., June 15. Frank Sage was convicted by a jury | {fan wh < a lin Hudson county court of the first |" S Will make good as a mem degree murder of two policemen, slain May 22nd in an effort to cap- ture him in a barricaded house. Mae Miller, indicted and tried Jointly with him, was acquitted. The jury made ®i0 recommenda- tion in returning the verdict against Sage, who showed no trace of emo- tion. Although the court room was when the verdict was anncunced. The woman, who wept when sie learned she had beer acquitted, wa remanded to jail and it was said. sh Frobably would .not be brought to trial in connection with the murder of Patrolman Wear. Sage also was returned to jail to await sentence. Farmer's Wife Killed e | RANKIN AND CLARK MEET At the Nominations At Syden- ham Thursday Afternoon. CROWD WITH LE. MAK The Collin's Bay Road Diver. sion One of the Features of the Debate. G. A. B. Clarke, Frontenac nominations held at Syd: enham on Thursday afternoon was a revelation to" his friends. His mass Jot official information, his mastery of the problems confronting the ltrovinea and the ability he display. |¢d in his address, marked him ag a Speaking at the |Lter of the Ontario legislature, | Rad the hetter of the debate {A M. Rankin, and the audience Ha with show- ed its keen appreciation by punctu- ating his address with applause. Iz Was evident fron: the beginning that the majority in the audience were U.F.0. supporters. The old line Con- scrvatives cheered their candidate Mr. Olarka's supporters. Mr. Clarke came back strong oa ie Collin's Day diversion which he previously condomned. "I condemn- ed it last Saturday and I condemn it today because it does not eliminate - » When Horses Run Away Smith's Falls, June 15. Mrs. Willlam Jones of Montagus town- ship, whose hame was 0a a farm a short distance from Smith's Falls, met instant death Wednesday after- noon through being thrown from a wagon in on» ef the flelds on the James farm. She and her husband were seated on a lumber wagon Mi James handed us wife the reins and ivft the wagon, and a minute later the homes tok fright apd ran away. The wagon struck a plow. Mrs, James wa: killed instantly. a_i, SUNDAY TRAINS APPEAL. Manitoba Law May Go to Privy Cour © eil, Court Rules Winnipeg, June 15.--With reser- yation that the Attorney-General of Canada be given the right to inter- vene; if he desires, tho Manitoba Court of Apreal yesterday granted the Lord's Day Alliance the right to appeal the Sunday Act, permitting the operation of excursions In this province on the Sabbath direct to the go~ fail Court of Privy Council, without ing bofore the Supreme Canada. Dn ---- The Mark Crashes London, June 14. -- A new and cataclysmic collapse of the German mark was recorded on the London exchange yesterday. Opening at 405,000 to the pound, a new low lark In two hours trading, fell to 426,000 to the pound, or nearly 100,- 000 to the dollar. RR ------ Calls Rodman to Join Trip Washington, June-15, -- Rear Ad. have spoken at considerable length, Lut at one o'clock the returning of- ficer, W. A. Martin, of Yarket, an- nounced that the two candidates had held a conference and had de- cided that in view of the absence of the hady voters no speeches would tuke place at that time, but public tieetings would be held between Thargday and election day in all parts of the county. A number of the old political "war horses" were om hand, fatroduced an amendment giving a drawback on artificial silk tops ani yarns, Mr. Guthrie, 8ir H. Drayton and Mr. Meighen made a vigorous plea for the manufacturers of linen yarn. Their protection had been de- creased to zero and their bounty was being abolished, with the resuit that they were contemplating migration to the United. States where they could get the benefit of a 35 per cent duty. Canadian Electric Firm Not Controlled in U. 8. Toronto, June 15.--Control of the Canadian General Electric com- pany, which hag large factories here | He declined to atacuss ed merger and assented. cupation, and two clear monumen tal | Paul Inscriptions of Seti I and Rameses 1 It was reported som miral Hugh Rodman, retired, one of the leading naval authorities on mat- ters concerning Alaska has been re- called to active service to accom- pany "President Harding on his forthcoming trip to the territory. ------ Elected President. Sackville, N.B.. June I15.-- _icey. E. H. Styles, pastor of Carnarvon street Methodist church, St. John, was by a large majority elected president of the New Brunswick ana Prince Edward Island Methodist conterence. | a---- PAN ON BURNING BUS "ENROUTE T0 THE RACE a G. A. B, CLARKE the level crossings on the railway tracks. What I wanted was. overs Lead crossings that could have been constructed at less expense and would have eliminated all ths dan- Rer presented by the present level ' Crossings," sail he amidst applause. J: Li: F. Sproulé, returning officer, received the nomination Papers filed for A. M. Rankin and G. A. B. Clarke. These papers each contained the sig« natures of more than 150 ratepayers, of ths 'constituency. He announced that Mr' Olarke's agent was Joba @G. Walker, Hartington, and Mr. Rane kin's, was J. 8. Sibbitt, Pittsburg. A. E. Weller is the election clerk. On a motion of A.' M. Rankin, seconded by G. A. B. Clarke, Mr. Sproule was elected chyirman. He announced that the candidates agreed that Mr. Rankin should speak fast for forty-five minutes, to be followed by Mr. Clarke who could sieak for an hour, and that Mr. Rankin would have fifteen minutes for. reply. oN '. ------ Mr. Renkin's Addvece, Mr. Rankin said: "It is my privile ége to stand before you tor, the fourth time and I feel that 1 should i give you an accoiint of my steward; : ship. 'We have in this district 'many interests of importance to agricul ture and I used my best efforts ale 'vays during the last three 'years of the Hearst administratio; , and since, for the bemefit 5 Frontenac county, During that tim: 1 have obtained your road grants, developed mining and drainage. "Some say that I had nothing to do with the allocating of the money, I received the petitions and dia my best to promote the intarest of ail irrespective of political afiliations, x: E0t $2,400 and $5.000 of a special vote for work at Desert Lake and ) $4,000 for Portland. township." So The speaker told bow the money was distributed, of bis bringing the minister td_the county to convinee him of the need f tha grents, and of securing' en Fi to inspect the sites and report om" posed. "This y & ; improvements.