ere Ss mm Baily British Whig KINGSTON, UNTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1923. eet LN TO-DAY "Where the "W here th e North Begins" No LAST EDITION. THE COUNTY - HAS DEFICIT Two Years in Succession-- YEAR 90; No. 274. N EXPANDS rp HE DOES NOT EXPECT | BALDWII | G | ~ FOOD TAX LT || S LOSING LLOYD GEORGE TO WIN | ---- | elhJe denen ! ! (Leverhuime at New York Gives | 9 'Would Have Considered Offer | ON QUEEN E WOUNDED of Substantial Reciprocal 'WHE AT TRADE View on the British ! Preference. : Elections. -- -- | -- | mates, Alexander Bell, Joseph London, Nov. 23.--For Canada Hamilton Fans Bet 2 fo 1 Burns, Hiram Miller, Stewart Olm- As Result of Unrequited Love, he most interesting statement made ESCAPE FROM REFORMATORY. «| Five Members of Quarry Gang Make | Successful Dash. Guelph, Nov. 23.--Guards. from S| the Ontario Reformatory are scour- 8 ing the country surrounding Guelph | for five prisoners who made their T-- | escape from the institution. The In \ / | . | Liéverhulme, the British soap manu- Because of the Thirty Per! facturer, arriving' here yesterday on | the White Star liner ajestic, ex- And 8 to 5 en Tricolor. | Patterson wera | Premier Baldwin in his speech | TIGERS IN GOOD CONDITION, stead and William all members of the quarry gang, and | that the escape was well planned | was shown by the boldness with which the quintette made thhir dash for liberty. With guards standing around supervising the work in the stone pit, the five men/ cooly dropp- | ed their tools and started off at a | in London, Ont. 1 YOUNG MAN SHOOTS ONE lo) { at Reading was his reference to the | | dominions and food taxes. | | "You all remember Joseph Cham- | [ porlatn's proposals," he said. "There | has come no offer fsom the domin- | ions of preference to us Sependunt | «| on the imposition of food taxes in this country. Had there been an | Cent. Tari | Imposed. CAVADA GETTING BENEFT | pressed the belief that while he does jot expect Lloyd George to win at { the coming parliamentary elections, | he feels that the former British prime minister is returning to power. . Accompanied by ten members of | | | eps | New York, Nov. 23.--Viscount | f | | | | | Now Totals $10,000. WARN DEBATE I COOL Because of Bumper Yield of ig soap firm, Viscount Leverhulme Tax Rate Insufficient=~=Poor And Policeman's Bullet Ai offer of a favorable kind for the lively clip across the Reformatory | { will make a tour of the United And Their Coaches Say They! Will Give Queea's Hard | Battle. A despatch from Hamilton to-day "Tigers are ready. Bverything possible has been dene to fit Hamil- ton's gridiron athletics for the great struggle to-morrow in Kingston. If Tigers fall down it certainly will not | be due to lack of practice or condi- tion. | "They have put in the moet bene- ficial week of the season's campaign. | There 18 not an injured player in| the squad, and, therefore, there ecan- | not be any excuses. | "Coaches Marriott and Awrey, on | the ove of the tussle, announce them- salves as confident the jungle kings will provide the Intercollegiate | champions with the greatest battle they have had in two seasons. And that, while Queen's may win and bear out the predictions of raghy sxperts, the Tricolor will know they Deve been through sixty min- utes of the hardest kind of football | they have ever tackled. | "'Queen's are stout favorites even | in Hamilton. Odds of 2 to 1 and 8 | to 5 have been offered freely locally, without a great deal of fit 'being cov-| ered." : -- Not to Start in Game. On Friday morning W. P. Hughes, coach of Queen's senior rugby team, announced that "Red" McKelvey and "Chicks" Mundell would pot start in the game against Hamilton Tigers at the Richardson stadium on Saturday afternoon. It is the intention of the coach to have both players in uniform so that they can enter the conflict- at* any minute. Gilbert McKelvey, brother of "Red" MeKelvey, will replace Mundell on the half line, and Bert Airth will take McKelvey's place in the lire. "Coach Hughes, wheii speaking to 'the Whig, stated that he realized that Queen's would *be «weakened outfit for so an important game. The substitutes have had considerable perience and will give a good ac- cqunt of themselves, however. Phere d tered The Officials. Queen's Athletic Board of Cent trol was notified unofficially on Fri- day morning that Percy Roberts, president of the C.R.U. had chosen O'Brien of Montreal as referee, Ben Simpson of Hamilton, judge of play, and Col. Constantine of King- ston as head linesman for the game on Saturday afternoon: - ns + Seats Available. + On Friday morning the Hamil- ton Tigers notified Queen's authori- ties that one hundred and twenty- LJ tickets of the , five hundred which were sent to Hamilton were being returned. This will mean that there will be a number of grand stand tickets available and will be on sale on Saturday morning. It took ten tons of straw to cover the playing field at the Richardson stadium. The straw will not be - taken off until a few hours before the game is due to commence. A telephone message to the Whig office on Friday morning stated that it was pouring rain in Hamilton and the Hamilton players were anxious to hear if it was raining in King- ston. First Degred Murder, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 23.--Lor- enzo Savage, negro, known es a "loodoo dost r," has been found gulity of first degree murder. . He was tried for the murder of Miss Elsle Barthel, nurse. Savage killed the girl when she refused to pay him dor a love charm. grounds, and a minute later were lost in a dense wood, known as Barber's Bush, at the south end of the "farm." SAYS KOREANS BURNT ALIVE. ' Continentals Badly Treated by Japs Allege U. S. Friends. Washington, Nov. --Protest was filed with Secretary 'Hughes by the Friends of Korea in America, against what the society asserted wae the massacre of some 500 Kor- eans and the imprisonment of 15,- 000 others during the recent earth- quake and fire in Japan. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins, president of the society, who signed the pro- test, declared an eye witness, whom he named as "Captain Hedstrom, assistant dock superintendent at Yokohama, an American citizen," saw 250 Koreans "bound hand and foot in groups of five, placed on an old junk, covered with oil and Murn- ed alive." 0008992000 F0200 0 & Ww % GERMAN COMMUNIST +* PARTY. DISSOLVED, LJ -- Berlins Nov. °23.--General Von Sceckt, national comman- der of the Reischswehr, today ordered the dissolution of the German Communist party and the confiscation of its funds. His decree also prohibited the holding of Communists meet- ings and the publication of Communist newspapars. * > > > * + +* > > CLEP C EPP FIFRA ORO -- BANDITS ROB A BANK FOR- THE SECOND. TINE Gag @irt Manager and -Assist- ants and Get Away With $8,000. Montreal, Nov. 23.--Breaking into the branch of the Banque Nationale at St..Liboire, eight .miles from St. Hyacinthe, Que., early this morn- ing, three armed, masked men, forc- ed the girl manager to open the safe, knocked her brother, the guardian of the bank, uncenscious, took over $8,000 in cash from the safe and fled, leaving three occu- pants of the bank building "bound and gaged. This bank 000 several weeks ago by masked bandits. ------------ Jewels Worth $100,000 Missing. Philadelphia, Nov. 23.---Valuable gems, in rare antique setting, valu- od at between $75,000 and $100.- 000, aro miseing from the home of Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer at Camp Hill. Jewels valued at $250,. 000, the property of Mr. Van Ren- nselaer, were not touched, accord-| ing to the police chief. ------s C2222 300999 02200 00 MAYORALITY CONTEST 18 QUITE POSSIBLE. It is stated that there will a mayoralty contest, So far Ald. Charles Anglin is the only candidate who has an- nounced himself, but it is inti-, mated that if there is not a second candidato by tomorrow, Mayor Angrove, at the solici- tation of many citizens, will # offer himself for a second term. # 2222345000000 00000 - + * - > * > * * +> * PPPPPEP 4229040 On "One Woman and Another" We hear a lot ' About MANKIND, but Woman-KIND ?--Well, Not so much. Women know a LOT About worgen, And they don't knoy They SUSPECT Yes, women KNOW a lot, But there is ONE THING They NEVER KNOW And that is What it is that ' Women see A GREAT DEAL Of EACH OTHER, But not so much As MEN do; But there is one thing Women NEVER see ABOUT each other, And that is-- : The BEST And the WORST! A MAN sees in a woman ANGEL or DEVIL-- But what a WOMAN sees + | was robbed of $11 - | + ed At Him Fatally Hits Other Girl, London, Ont., Nov. 23.--Two girls were wounded, one fatally, in a | shooting affray at the home of Mr. jand Mrs. H. W. George Cook, York | f | manufactures of this country, an offer which in view might have led to an enormously increased export pirade, then it might have been pos- sible to lay it before the country and say: 'On the one hand this may | happen, and, on the other, that may | happen. Do you think it worth wiille making this change?" High Grade Wheat And Low Costs. Minneapolis, Nov. 23.---Canada is rapidly succeeding United States in the wheat and flour export trade be- But | cause of the bumper yields of high- tions for parliament, | street, London, early to-day, | . i. grade, low cost wheat and the dis Geraldine Durston, aged eighteen, | there has been nothing of the kind, | | of Watford, received two bullets In the abdomen from a gun in 'the hands of Clarence Topping, aged | twenty-three, her sweetheart, and Viola McNaughton, aged nineteen, ber chum was pierced through the chest with a bullet from the revo ver of Police Constable Walter Har- pur, 'who was on the scene at time and whose shot was directed to- ward Topping. Both girls were rushed to Victoria hospital. Miss Durston," though wounded seriously, is expected to recover, but {no hope is entertained for the re-|, | | covery of Miss McNaughton. Doctors | believe that the bullet may have plerced the lung. Both young ladies were given stimulants to overcome + | the shock as soon as they were ad-) | mitted to the hospital. Topping was | placed under arrest by Police Con- | stable Harpur and removed to po. { lice headquarters. In police court | this morning he was remanded for aj week. Unrequited | love is sald to have + | been the motive for Topping's act. | & Topping, according to Mr. and Mrs. | Cook, left their house soon after | two o'e¢lock this morning after his suit had been rejected by Miss Dur- ston. Love for another prompted her to refuse his pleadings. TWO BROTHERS DEAD; clare Third Dead--OCase for Surrogate ? [ -- Toronto, / Nov. 23.--The late Archibald' Campbell, Lakeport, Ont., left three sons and four daughters. According to the eldest child and daughter, one son died, another was killed in the great war, and a third disappeared from the west some years ago. This daughter, in an affi- davit, says that each of her three brothers had money in the office of the accountant at Osgoode Hall. The accountant reports that about $1,- j dit of the brother who is said have vanished. : Justice Wright has diemissed | the motion to declare the missing | ome presumed dead, on the ground | that the matter does not come with- in his jurisdiction. TH® suggestion is that the case is one for the surro- gate court. 'Persons have been de- clared dead, after long a e, but under the insurance legislation. The eldest sister says that she and the three others are entitled to their | three brothers' shares or property, as the brothers were bachelorsg Canada Steamship Lines Require No Financing | Montreal, Nov, 23.--Advice to the effect that Canada Steamship Lines earnings for the current year were extremely unlikely to be bet- ter than those of 1922, if as large, were sald in well informed circles yesterday to be largely guesswork. It was stated that it would-be impos- sible to tell at this time what the results of the season's work will be, as much depends upon the length of the period of navigation. A sudden closing or extension of the open sea- son would prove to be to a very large extent the deciding factor in that connection. While lake freight rates this year have been lower; it is stated that dispatch has been bet- ter, which will tend to offset the rates. It was denied that the com- pany was in need of additional funds. It is understood that the question of the resumption of divi- dend on the preferred shares will not be considered until after the close of the company's year. ---- SUSPENDED SENTENCE. Given the Men Who Made Aftack Belleville, Nov. 23.--Perey and Reuben Chard, Norman Seme; Roy Belshaw, William Tullock and the | {and something of that kind alone | fied us in taking thet step." i --e | advantage confronting American at the present time could have Justi- { millers through the 30 per cent. tar- | iff on import wheat, James 8S. | Craig, one of the leading millers of | protecti | States. After staying at the Plaza | for a few days the party will go to | Boston and then head west, with | Australia as the final destination. | They will study economic conditions. { "Lloyd George," viscount i sald, "cannot carry the coming elec- in my opinion, | I feel, however, that he is returning ito power." In reply to other questions, he "I am opposed tothe high ve tariff of the United States. | said: naking it difficult for Great f : | Great Britain, said to-day when he [It is n CEPPPPOPPOOIOIOLY e900 | Britain to pay her debt to this coun- .| *| >| °| + * STARVING PEOPLE ! BURNING CASTLE | , Berlin, Nov, 23.~The Siles- ian sky is ruddy with the glow from burning castles. Stoppage of food supplies caused the in- 3 | *| reached Minneapolis to attend the golden jubilee celebration of the Northwestern Miller, Minneapolis and the United States are being left out of the export ed. \ "Canada has the desirable quality vasion of the barons' domains by starving thousands, who are # | of wheat for milling purposes," Mr. 4 | Craig said, "and it can be purchas- | try. | paid. "In England, labor has a mis- taken idea. Through : a spirit of Nevertheless, the deg 'shall be 4 | trade altogether, Mr. Craig declar- |comradeship men are working ony half a day. This is wrong. All men {should work longer. If am not in | favor, either, of the dole system, which pays small sums to men who are unemployed. carrying the torch of incend- %| ed cheaply. The capacity of Canadian ONE HAS DISAPPEARED | * farism through the land. * wl PRIS PHPI0 SS 00 tes ® milling industry. There is very Ite. | alcohol poisons the system. ! COMPERS STILL THE FOF OF MOSCOW MONSTERS, |He Assaults the Hearst Cam- | paign for Recognition of Russian Soviet. | Washington, Nov. 23.--Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, made public al statement, last night, in which ha assatled, what he termed the "cam- paign for recognition of Soviets," being conductad , by William Ran- dolph Hearst. In his Statement Mr. Gompers id: 'he. was still lan "of what he called the "bloody monsters of Mos- cow." While his attack was direct- ed at Mr. Hearst, it was a striking denunciation of the Russian Soviet government. recent the flour mills has grown in years and they are a factor in tle exporting of American flour and Mr. Craig said that business con- itions in England and Scotland are disturbed by the unrest of labor. "Strikes of recent months have much to do with the conditions and there probably will be no great change until after the present elec- tions," he said. Want Higher Duty. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 23.--Declaring that as long as high prices of neces- | sities prevail as a result of duties "I am also against prohibition. A | sober man is the more efficient and But | approve letting a man see the faults | wheat being done proportionately." |of drinking and correcting himself | rather than inflicting prohibition on | him," LIBERALS, ECLIPSING OPPONENT ON PLATFORM Lloyd George Shows No Sign of Voice Fatigue--Bald- win Deficient. for protection of United States man- | ufactured goods, it is right to raise or equalize the tariff on farm pro- duats, delegates to the annual con- vention of the farmers' union asked in a resolution adopted late fo-day "That the tariff on whoat be inereased 50 cent a bushel. A --_---------- A WINNIPEG ELECTIONS. Candidates for Mayoralty--Public Large Leaf Plants Thrive: | Well Under Artificial Light] i ; Now-York, Nov. 23-- Artificial | |light as a means of hastening the | maturity of plants can be used most | succe:sfully with plants with large leaf areas, experiments recently conm- | { University and Peter Henderson an. Company, socedsmen, indicate. The experiments carried out un: | der the supervision of 73-year-old | Julius Heinrichs, veteran florist and landscape "gardenor, in a hothouse at Baldwin, N.Y., were said to be the most selentifically accurate ' so far attempted in this country, The utility of arificial light, used when sunlight is not available, us a means of maturing plants wu. | been kmown for many years, ac- | cording to horticulturists who assert- ed, however, that the experiments at Baldwin established the degres of utility. HJ. DALY 10 AP 10 ARRANGE HS BAL President of Suspended Home Bank Will Be in Assize Court Tuesday. Toronto, Nov. 23.-- It was an- nounced by crown authorities this morning that H. J. Daly, president of the suspended Il.me Bank, will ap- pear personally in the assize court newt Tuesday morning to have his bail of $100,000 arranged and his trial on charges of conspiracy and with making false returns to the government under the Bank Act, traversed till the January assizes. In thé meantime, Mr. Daly will be confined to St. Michael's Hospital, to which hoppital he has been re- ~ . Have Ceased Fasting. Dublin, Nov. 23.--The Free Slate government announces that fi more Republicap hanger strikers in the Irish jails bave ceased fasting. ee ------------. SPE 0FVIRRLIFC OBO La X -. ¢ rship Chief Issue, Winnipeg, Nov. 23.--Keen inter- est has developed here in the elec- tion of Winnipeg's 1924 mayor to- | day. The candidates are 8. J. Far- | mer, mayor during the past year and | seeking re-election as the candidate of the Independent-Labor party, and Robert Jacob, running under 400 is in his department to the cre. |ucted for the Westinghouse Electric | the Thigsgation of a new organiza- to |Manufacturing Company, Columbia | tion knov 0 ; [ Both candidates are ssociation. enibers of the for a as 'the Civi Legislature, and Mr. Jacob short term was Attorney-General of | Manitoba under the premiership of Hon. T. C. Norris. ¢ The campaign has dey eloped many issues: The ' protection of Winnipeg's publicly-owned utilities, notably the hydro-electric system: the relations of the city to the Win- nipeg Electric Rallway; the plat- form of the Independent Labor Party and Mr. Farmer's relation thereto; and the general question of public versus private ownership. Mr. Farmer advocates that the cfty take over the street railway sys- tem on the expiration of the present franchise ~ in 1927, and suggests that Mr. Jacob's candidature is sup- ported by elements which are not favorable to the development of public utilities. Mr. Jacob declares that he would leave to the electors the solution of the street railway problem, that he would protect and develop the hydro system, and maintains that capital is kept away from Winnipeg because the city has In office as mayor one who is af- fillated with the Labor party. sin MONUMENT TO BONAR LAW. Plan to Erect One in Native Village p, N.B. Rexton, 8t. John, Nov. 23.--Premier P. J. Veniot, who was In the city yester- day had his attention called to the suggestion put forth by Dr. J. Clar- ence Webster, of Shediac, formerly of Chicago, who is a member of the Hjstoric Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, that the people of New Brunswick should show their ap- preclation of Andrew Bonar Law by erecting a granite monument to his memory in his native village of Rex- ton, Kent county. The premier thought the idea an excellent .one and said he would support by word and deed. and ask- ed that his subscription be taken. Dr. Webster heads the subscription placed fn Rexton for $1,000 to $1, 200. He na of list. He 'estimated that a splendid' boulder of New Brunswick granite | with suitable bronze tablet could be | London, Nov. 23.--The ecleetion | has. reached that stage where every- thing and everybody are being damned. Beasts, prophecies, denun- ciations, charges, inuendoes, person alitfes, braTn estimates wna political back«<chet--all are being flung about with abandon; with the consequence | that a dense mist of uncertainty has | settled over the campaign, On pa- { per--and the platform--the Liber- | their | | als are undoubtedly eclipsing | opponents. They are at a disadvan- jtage im having no real policy of their own and in having certain clear cold facts dead against them, yet there is a skiitiniuess and a zest and a momentum in\their speeches which catches the public imagine. tion. Lloyd George is at his best-- } Or worst. | voice fatigue of which he complain- ed in Canada, his phrases, imagery and epigrams pour out like red-hot { and giving the head-line writers in the newspapers precisely what they want, Mr. Baldwin, on the other hand, talks like an invoice. He is hope- lessly deficient in the Gladstonian gift of making figures vivid, and his lengthy arguments, while undoubt- edly sound and well-reasoned, decreasing space in the news- - ------------------ DEATH RATE OF INJURED PERSONS HAS DROPPED By Forty Per Cent.--A Re- markable Report Issued at Ottawa. * Ottawa, Nov. 23.--The death rate among insured lives In Canada, ac- eording to the report of the superin- tendent of insurance, has fallen over forty per cent. in the last five years. In 1917 the rate is given as 11.1, while for 1922 it was 6.7. The first year after 1917 showed a rise to 14.1 per cent.; but since that date the reduction has been steady. The death rate last year was the same as in the year infmédiately previous. The number of life fnsurance policies terminated by death in 1922 was 28.607. The total pumber of policies ex- posed to risk of termination by get papers. divided as follows: Active compan- ies, ordinary, 1,389,146 carried anf 7.833 terminated by death! active companies, industrial, 2,644,914 car- 108 terminated by death; nt and fraternal socleties, 232,634 carried, 2,689 terminated; non-active-dnd retired companies, 1,- 589 carried, 79 terminated. The rat- es of termination stand, ordinary companies, 5.6; industrial compan- ies, 6.9; assessment and fraternal so- cleties, 11.1; and retired compam- fes, 49.7. i W ried, 18, -- Charles Dingman, Editor of * the Showing no sign of that | lava, convulsing monster audiences | go | over the heads of his audience and | death during the year was 4,208,163, | Policy Some of the Reeves eclare. The Frontenac county council had a very warm debate for two houre jon Thursday afternoon with regard {to the county's financial standing. | Couneilior Hamilton introduced the | matter by asking how the county | would stand at the end of the finan- j cial year. Councillor, Guthrie, chair- {man of finance, read a statement showing that there was a deficit of | $3,907.27 carried over from last ° | year and that the deficit for 1928 |would be about $6,660, thus making [a total deficit of over $10,000 for [ue two years. Councillor Guthrie criticized the | couneil for not levying a rate of twelve mills last June as recome !"nended by the finance committee re- { port. Instead, a levy of eleven mills | was made and this was not sufficient. | At the very start an increased de- | ficit faced the county by the insuf- {ficient rate.' He was opposed to do- | ing business in that way and declar= {ed he was ashamed to go back to his | constituents and tell them that the | county council Mid-not know how to | do their business properly and that they had run the county behind' $10,000 in two years. Frontenac's expenses are no mora in proportion to those of other munig lities. The city of Kingston, -he said, 'made a practice of levying a tax rate suf- | ficient to cover the budget appropri- | ations, | The-cbuncil is supposed to be com- [ posed of intelligent men, capable of jrunning the county's business with |a clear sheet every year. He hoped { next year's council would do better. | No Extravagance. Councillor Storms asked what caused the extra expenditure. Whe had the-eouncil been "I voted against ificreasing = thé rate," said Councillor Storms, "but now I can see it would have been ' better to have made the rate twelve mills." In reply, Councillor Guthrie stats | ed that the council had been most | economical! but was ahort-sighied in { not providing for eting expendi- | ture that had to be met, Nine-tenths | of the county's expense were what |was called "uncontrollable" that is { the council could not by any means reduce them. : Counelllor Jamieson pointed out | that the road debentures were being | paid off and a sum paid this year | would not have to be met next. That would give some leeway for next year's council. There was no time to tax the people this year. "I real- ly think we have done well," said Councillor Jamieson, "and 1 look forward to some rémedy appearingy" Storrington, he claimed was taxed too heavily. . a -- Defends Low Tax Rate. Councillor Graham, the former | "Thunderer" of the Kingston city council, now depuly reeve of the township, gloried in the fact that he had opposed a twelve-mill tax rate for 1923. "I objected to raising the. tax rate," he declared, "for the farmers are taxed to death and. can not stand any more. They cannot make it go. We will have to find some other remedy for raising the money. I am in favor of borrowing the amount of the two years' deficit and issuing debentures. Let us keep the tax rate down until the farmers Tecover."" Councillor Jamieson remarked that perbaps the council next year could cut down some of its fixed grants, like that to the General Hos- pital. That would give some relief: "I'll try to keep the tax rate down to eleven mills or less if I'm here next year," he said. { | Councillor Guthrie said he was not 'impressed with the scheme of borrowing money and paying inters est on it In order to pay back what the county owed, when the counefl could keep its accounts straight each year by levying a sufficlent rate ¥ to cover its qurrent cxpenses. ? 1 A Clash, | "Councillors Graham should not make light of the address of the chairman of the finance committes,"® said Councillor Hamilton. : "I did not make light of it. 'Did ~~ I Mr. Warden. Answer me that?" « Warden Sibbitt said that was fiot an easy question for him to try to answer, but he thought that per ' (Continued on page 7.)