ALLEN NOW PLAYING ous NEGRI n "THE SPANISH DANCER" Che Dail B tish Whig TE RINGBTON, UNTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, "1928, FHURS., FRL, SAT. "THE NET" With an All-Star Cast " LAST EDITION. AT CANTON Land Marines to Protect the Customs House. SON VAT SENS TRENT To Seize It Causes Action By Britaln, France, Japan And US. Hong Kong, Dec. 6.--Parties of nturires from foreign gunboats an- chored off Canton are reported to have taken possession of the Cus- tom house there. The troops , are said to be equipped with machine guns. ix foreign gunboats are known to be anchored off Shameun. They in- clude two American vessels, Asheville and the Pampanga, the British ships Cicala and Moorhen and the French. gunboats Maliciense and Craonne. A News Agency Hong Kong to-day says the action of the powers in sending marines ashore there was taken for the pur- pose of preventing Sun* Yat Sen from seizing the customs house as he had threatened. The British (flotilla sirengthen by the arrival of the gunboats Magnolia with Admiral Deveson aboard, and the Tarantula, according to later advices received here. The Japanese gunboat Matsu and the destroyer Sugi also have arriv- ed at Canton, the advices state. Ad- miral Frochat of the French navy is aboard the Craonne. ATTACKS MODERNIST METHODIST FACTION ---- Dr. Shields, of Toronto, Ex- plains Absence From Mc- : Master Platform. id © ---------- A Sf Now "York, : 'Dee. 6.--A Cenadian last night entered the controversy that is being waged in the Baptist denomination between the funda- mentalists and the so-called "mod- ernist'" factions. Dr. T, T. Shields; Toronto, presi- dent of the Baptist Union of North America, speaking at a fundamen talist meeting in Calvary church, de clared he had refused last week to attend the installation services of the new chancellor of McMaster University, Toronto, because Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, of Brown University, 'was among those to receive degrees. "I refused to stand on the same platform with one who would deny the divinity of Christ," said Dr. Shields, "I consider the conferring of the degree on Dr. Faunce a dis- honor to the university, and a dis- grace to the Baptist denomination." Dr. Shields attacked the whole ""modernist" group which included Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdyck. 'Certain critics question the auth- ority of the Bible as regards science and history," Dr. Shields said, "but I ask if Christ knew as much 'as Professor Harry Emerson Fosdyck? Can he be as wise as Dr. Faunce, of Brown University, and others?" Dr. Shields, who is a director of McMaster University, made it clear that the refusal to appear on the platform during the installation ser- vices was due entirely to the pres- ence of Dr. Faunce. He said he did not object to the others who receiv- 2d degrees, and among whom were 8ir Arthur Currie and Dr. E. Y. Mul- lis, of Louisville, president of the Baptist World Alliance. The modernists, who look upon themselves as progressives, are really reactionaries, Dr. Shields as- serted, and their influence can only despatch. from has been ar the | tions here to-day. Such modernists, clared, are anti- Christian, enemies of the Christian religion. "We must recognize that g he de- hell, not from Hea such as obtain in Russia} thos) who .deny the absolute sovereignty | of Christ get their Joyeseigay on { and THE BRITISH POLLING DAY "We might as well pin oe Be now as later on," he continued. "Christ must be put first in all the relations of life. This fundamental- ist move may be a heartbreaking! Qccurrence; the breaking up of the family is war, and unless we are wiling Me be wounded, to die if nec essary, had better not undertake The Voting Conant From | 8 am. To. 8 p.m. ANNOUNCING G OF RESULTS it may sometimes mean} "Consider the pibHeal oles of | the Creation, the Deluge, the actual | existence of Job, and all the other things. supported for my authority than the universal decision of the scholarship of the ages. TEACHER DECLARES SHE WAS KIDNAPPED Nell Austin, of Seattle, Recov= ers Consclousness in Van= couver Hospital. Vancouver, B.C Dac.. 6.--Nell Austin, Seattle school teacher, yes- terday recovered consciousness in a hospital here sufficiently to talk, and declared that when she vanished on a Sunday evening after leaving her home to sing in a church choir, she was kidnapped by two, men. The following statement was giv- en out as having -been dictated by Miss Austin to police officials and to her sisters, Misses Leila and Geor- gia Austin, who came here whep she was found in a suburb Wednesday night last week. "1 left home at 6.30 Sunday night for church and on my way, within two blocks of the church, two men rushed after me and caught me by the arms." They threw me into a motor car. I tried to cry out, but they kept their hands over my mouth. From that time until I re- gained consciousness in the. Van- couver hospital, 1 remember no- thing. "I cannot account for the clothes I was wearing. When I left home 1 was wearing my black velvet dress. How I came to have my hiking suft on is a mystery to me," Miss Aun was too weak to talk Jdurther.. it. Was«announced, The teacher's. sisters had strenuously denfed assertions of the Seattle police that she left home voluntar- ily after a dispute with her sistors. A ADVISES UNIFORMITY IN DANGER SIGNS The Good Roads Conference Issues a Statement at Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Dec. 6.--The adoption of uniform standard types of danger and other warning signs by all the provinces of the Dominion was re- commended by a resolution passed by the Interprovincial Good Roads Conference in session here. This, it was declared if an official state- ment issued, is in the public inter- est, and the conference will recom- mend the adoption of certain stand- ards coveriig size, location, distance, visibility and design. A recommen- dation was approved emphasizing the advisability of provincial con- trol of all signs on the highways and disapproval of 'commercial signs, which obscure the vision and may be considered a menace to travel. The gross earnings of the Cana. dian National Railways for the week ending November 30th, 1923 were $7,112,394; being an increase of $274,665, or four per cent. as compared with corresponding week of 1922. Pancho Villa, world's flyweight champion, knocked out Donnie Mac- Kin in the fourth round at Toronto Wednesday night. Immigration to Canada is double that of last year and the majority threaten the development of condi- of settlers are British. ON "FINDING FAULTS" MEN are sometimes LOVED FOR their FAULTS But WOMEN are Generally loed IN SPITE OF theirs. A MAN'S faults are Generally so EIpICULOVS In the man she loves But--INDIFFERENCE. A WOMAN'S faults are mail But IRRITATING-- Like a PIN Pricking in one's Underwear. A MAN'S faults are Like a CUT--obvious But not FATAL. I had rather have the per Incarnate Word of God | 1a bill now being drawn by Will Be During the Evening | ==Chances of the Lead- ers Estimated. London, Dec. 6.--Popular opinion seems to be that, barring a land- slide for one of the parties, the Con- gervatvies are likely to lose sgverai seats and the Laborites gain several, while the prospects of the Liberals are nebulous, Regarding the individual -leaders, the chances of Rt. Hon. Herbert H. | Asquith in Paisley, where he has had a hard fight, aro regarded as doubtful. Prime Minister Baldwin is considered safe in Bewdley, an easy win is expected for Lloyd George in Carnarvon and Ramsay. MacDonald seems reasonably sure of victory > the Aberavon division of Glamor; ganshire. Polling opened at eight o'clock this morning and will close at eight o'clock tonight with the ex- ception of a few constituencies where the closing will be an hour later. The first results are expected before eleven o'clock. RIFTIANS KILL TEN Moroccan Rebel's Followers | Are Slain in a Raid by Tribesmen. Tetuan, Morocco, Dec. 6.--Sang- uinary revenge has been taken by Riffian tribesmen against the house- hold of Abdul Krim, chief of the Moroccan rebels who are at war with 'Spain. . Ten persons of the houdehold were killed, intluding Krim's guard, In an attack by the Rifflans.- The trouble grew out of the de-, tention by Krim of Amarjetu, = Riffilan tribal chief, who had called on the Moroccan rebel leader. When Amarjetu's brothers heard that Am- arjetu was being held captive they immediately gathered together 'a band of Bifans and attacked the home of Krim, slaughtered some of the inmates and liberated their bro- ther. ? On returning to their homes the Rifflans obtained reinforcements and offered battle to followers of Abdul Krim and routed them. VERDICT OF SUICIDE. James J. Cooper, Brockville, Drank Carbolic Acid. Brockville, Dec. 6.--A verdict of suicide by carbollic acid poisoning was last night returned by the cor- onor's jury investigating the death of James J. Cooper, aged sixty-four, whose body was found underneath a loading platform adjoining the Whyte Packing Company's plant last Thursday. Evidence was offered to show that Cooper Lad. been much depressed because of fll-health and that he frequently expressed a wish tv be "out of the world." GETS NEWSPRINT HERE, Part-Owner of London Times Denies Election Statement. London, Dec. 6.--In a denial of the assertion made during the elec- tion campaign that the London Times obtained its newsprint from Germany, John Walters, one of its owners, stated that the Times gets 75 per oent. of its paper from Can- ada and Newfoundland, and the re- mainder from Scandinavia, and none from Germany, although Ger- man paper was oifered at very low prices. a i -- Brigands Capture Missionary. Pekin, Dec.? 6.--The American Consul telegraphs details of the capture of an American medical missionary, E. W. Schmalzreia, near the border of Schechwaan and Kwelchow Provinces op the 13th ultimo, but he is unable to report the present whereabout or safety of the prisoner, beyond that a ran- som "has been demanded from the Chamber of Commerce at Tungjen, where the medical mission is locat- ed. To Pension Mrs. Harding. Washington, Dec. 6.--Mrs. Hard- ing will be given $5,000 a year for. lite and free use of the mails under] tor Willls, Oblo, Republican. This is the same as to the widows of other TO LIBERATE CHIEF |? COUE FAILS TO CURE SLEEPING SICKNESS | Auto-suggestion" Unsuccess- ful in Case of London Woman. | London, Dec. 6.--Emile Coue | unsuccessfully a%tempted to cure | Mrs: J. G. Edwards by autosugges- | tion of. the sleeping sickness from | which she has suffered for four years. Accompanied by her hysbayd and nurse, the invalid was wheeled into the seance room at Lady Nobel's home. She was motionless except for a mechanical movement of the lower jaw. Coue looked fixedly at her a mo- ment and then asked her to try to believe she could walk, "Say 'I can, 1 can','" he urged again and again, and finally, "Now get up and walk." But no impression seemed to have been made on the patient. The nurse said she can understand what is said to her, but cannot make a con- scious answer. CRY E 2290000020000 ° ' 3 * 4 AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE ¢ + GOES 106 MILES AN HOUR Erie, Pa., Dec. 6.-- What is believed to be a new world's speed record for an electrically propelled railway locomotive was established here yesterday in the plant of the General Electric Co., before a gathering of foremost railroad officials and engineers of the United States. The locomotive attajn- ed a speed of 105 miles an hour. In a test the outpulled type of "tug-of-war" electric locomotive the latest Improved steam locomotive. PEIPPLL IEE r bree TD. oa SERPS E DP USIP PIP LIPO OP CLP PPRINPORPEIPRPOS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE He Does Not Think That In- creased Wheat Tariff Is Necessary. » Washington, Dec. 6.--President Coolidge addressed congress to-day be or and since ho became Adherence of the United States to the world court with reservations was endorsed, but Mr. Coolidge de- clared this was not & partisan ques- tion and should not assume an "artificial importanee." He declared he would not pose any change in the policy of declining to enter the League of Nations, but said that the United States recognized the obligation to help others, reserving the right to decide the time and place, ana method. Among the matters of particular interest to Canadians that were dealt with by Mr, Coolidge was the projected deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the sea. He advocat- ed the continuation of efforts to bring about the realization of this plan, "The great powes and navigalion project of the St. Lawrence river,' as he termed it, was one of the sev. eral waterways projects which le favored. He pointed out that "cffoats are now being made to secure the necessary treaty with Cauada," and declared that tbe watérways pro- jocts should have the immediate consideration of congress, '"'and be adopted as fast as plans can be ma- tured and funds become available." President Coolidge opposed the revision of the tariff except in cases where necessity for this was proven, but did not state his views in regara to the proposed increase of fifty per cent, in wheat tariff to shut out Cangdian wheat completely, By im- plication it was understood by nis hearers that lie does not consider this tariff incry asa essential, ge PORTS SET RECORD. Will Have Cleared 212,000,000 Bu- : shels by December 13th. Winnipeg, Dee. 6.--Chalrman Leslie H. Boyd, of the board of grain commissioners, estimates that by Dec. 12th, when navigation clos- es, approximately 212,000,000 bu- shels of grain will have been cleared from the head of the lakes. This would constitute a record for the ports, pro- Fifteen stills with about ten thousand gallons of alcohol, valued At fifty thousand dollars, were seized in a Canal Street building in New York on Wednesday. - -------------- sessetiesasarrecs * : "ME FROM BURNS. + : 4 Hamilton, Der. re + 4 Hotrum and William ' 8 smalassen of iw Canadian Sul 4 ADDRESSES CONGRESS | MAKE MARX i German Chancellor Starts on Troubled Course. ONLY HOPE FOR REICHSTAG "Deeds Not Words" Sloga of Marx--German Es- pionage in Antwerp. Dec. 6.--The German reichstag is still considering an empowering' bill, launching Chancellor Marx on his troubled course with virtually dictatorial pow- ers. With Christmas coming on, | salaries badly needed, members of the reichstag preferred © making Marx a dictator to having ment dissolved and their pay stop- ped. The new. chancellor has chosen the not altogether original slogan, "Deeds, not words," as the. watch- | word of his government. His do- mestic programme will be one of economy, stability and hard work. If the reichstag declined to pass the empowering bill, Marx said, the government could only hope to | exist a few days. Berlin, Espionage Centres. Brussels, Dec. 6.--Several highly organized German espionage centres | bave been discovered in Antwerp, | says the newspaper Le Soir, under | the cover of commercial houses of apparently the highest respectabil- ity. The authorities, the newspaper as- serts, have found a man who, having membership in a German secret or- nization that centred in Cologne, as entrusted with an important mission in France, the success of which would have been followed by events of "extreme gravity." As this person has been appre. hended, adds Les Soir, there is no longer any danger. Coal Contracts. Duesseldorf, Dec: 6.~--The occu- pation authorities to-day elgned contracts with German owners of coal mines having a normal pro- duction of 6,500,000 tons annually, or eight per cent. of the total our- put of the Ruhr, it was announced at French headquarters. Elghty-six per cent. of the Ruhr mines are now under contract to work for the Franco-Belgians. To-day's contracts the payment of back coal amounting to $1,500,000. provide for taxes $2,000 TRUST FUND FOR OARE OF HORSE | Former U.S. . Brigadivor-Gen- eral Peck 80 Provides in His Will. New London, Conn., Dec. 4.--The will of former Brig.-Gen. Henry 8S. Peck, oldest active member of the Second Company, Governor's Foot- guard, who died in New Haven November 24th, was offered for Stamford, in Probate Court and a has been a signed for December 6th. The {nstrument, which was drawn up in 1920, disposes of an estate of more than $200,000 and contains a bequest of $2,600 to the Homa for the Friendles:, of New Haven; $2,600 to the Y.W.C.A.; $5500 to Fritz Johnson, an employee; one of $600 to the childrem of Tylor B Davidson, of Bethany, and a trust fund of $2,000, the income of which is to be used for the care and up. keep of my horse, Andy, such care to begin immediately after by death and after his death to provide for his burtal in some country place. And 1 expressly deside that said horse is not to be sold or other- wise disposed of, but be allowed to lve and die a natural death. pi Former Follies Girl Drops 8uit for Cash Chicago, Dec. 6.--Two suits for $100,000 each brought by Mary Lygo, former Follies girl, against Gordon C. Thorne, son of a deceased millionaire, on a charge of breach of promise, and against Thorne's mother, Mrs. Katherine Thorne Camp, on an allegation of allena- tion of affections, were dismissed to- # | day after a seltlement out of court. #{ It was reported that the sum of $75,000 was agreed on as a basis @ | for dropping both suits. i. Hastings Gets Off Easily. Belleville, Dec. 6.--Hastings county council's bill for provincial the operations have been going on, namely, $20,066.73, as against $45; A DICTATOR and | parlia- | probate by William E. Goulden, of | hearing upon edmission of the will | Pai uring Join 'hea 814.37 last year. The reason Is that MANITOBA'S FINANCES ARE TO BE EXAMINED Representative CommitteeWill | Go Through Expenditures --Government Consents. | { | Winnipeg, Dec. 6.--Following meeting of local financial men ~ and | members of the Bracken cabinet | here last pight, a committee of re- | presentative men from the province at large will be convened hy the | Winnipeg Board of Trade to 0 | through the expenditures of Hid | department of government, with a | | view to wiping but the provincial tn- | come tax, drastically reducing taxa- | | tion apd cutting down the expense-| of civil administration in Manitoba. It was announced to-day that the | Bracken Government had #onsented | to this method of examining the pro- vince's administrative financial pro- 'blems. | Criticism of the government's fin- | ancial policy was a feature of the; { gathering, Dr. Robert Magill, of the | Winnipeg Grain Exchange, likening [the present financial position of | the Government to that which pre- | | ceded the French Revolution. Pre- mier Bracken declared that if the income tax .was to be dropped the | business men of the province would | have to furnish the necessary con- | structive suggestions, | | | {Man Hawks Liquors | On New York Streets | New York, Dec. 6.---Hawking | bootleggers, carrying supplies of liquor in suitcases, have made {heir | | appearance on the streets. This was the allegation of Patrol- | {man Klub in police court yesterday when he brought in Joseph Manick, | arrested in Queens on a charge of | | violating the Volstead act. The pa-| {trolman arrested Manick after he is | | alleged to have cried his wares, not loudly, however, among pedestrians, | After watching Manick stop half a | dozen men and finally make a sale, | he investigated and found several | bottles left in the suitcase, he testi- | fied. ---------------------- TO KEQUEST M. J. HANEY 10 REFUND $30,000 or Payment of Money to Form ~~ Home Bank President Criticized. 6.~~Payment - of | Haney upon his | Toronto, Dec. $30,000 to M. J. retirement from the presidency of the Home Bank is causing much talk among depositors and other | creditors of the defunct bank. Fact that he will be requested to refund | the $30,000 is equally Interesting. | It has recently been disclosed that | through an arrangement with the! late General Manager J. Cooper | Mason, a sum of fifty thousand dol- { lars was to be paid Mr. Hapey in| annual instalments for five years | Thirty thousand dollars was actually | paid out in this way. | What some inquisitive depositors | would like to know is why did Mr | Haney get this large sum of money? | What peculiar service did he render | which entitled him to such a hand- | some honorarium for acting as presi- | dent for three years? In fact, the payment of the $30,000 fairly bris- tles with interrogation marks. It is understood that Mr. Haney | will be asked to refund the $30,000. GETS CANADIAN ORDERS. { Furness Shipbuilding Co. Secures | Contracts for Steamers. London, Dec. 6.--John McGovern, | mahaging director of the Furness Shipbullding Company of Middles-| boro, returned to England from | Canada on the Berengaria. In an| interview he stated that he had suc- ceeded in securing orders for the! construction of two steamers of 2,600 tons dead-weight for the Cana-! da Steamship Lines, Limited, and five ofl-carrying barges for the Im- | perial Oil Company, Toronto. The construction of these vessels will be commenced at Middlesboro immediately and should {mprove the employment outlgok. TORY CANDIDATE WINS: WICI0RY IN HALIFAX Redmond, Liberal, by a Large Majority. Halifax, Dec. 6.--Heading the | polls in Halifax, Dartmouth and county, W. A. Black. won the first Conservative victory in this con- stituency since 1917, and broke the ranks of "the solid sixteen" .Liberal representatives seat to Ottawa from Nova Scotia by the general election of 1921. Hé defeated his one op- t, George A. Redmond, Lib- candidate, by a majority of at least 1,794 votes. One or two isolat- | | "1até hour last n ght, but they could not 'change the resuit, Jul in Svery Waid in Haifa and tn | but all , tives | campaign. | eretive than usual, | they are baffled by the absence | cut levy | thinks it is almost THE CONTEST IS PUZILING ih Election | Experts More Baffled | Than Ever. "TIS NOW OR NEVER" Declares Lord Birkenhead in Kegard to the (uestion of Pr.tection. London, Dec. 6.-- About 21 000% { 000 voters in England, Scotland, | Wales and Ulster went to the polls { today to choose 564 members of the House of Commons, 0. I. White, | Liberal candidate in West Derby- | shire, died Tuesday of pneumonia, and, consequently, no election will be held in that constituency. Mr. White's Conservative opponent, Lord Hartington, son of the Duke of De- vonshire, will not need to be reno- minated for the by-election that is to come later, and will stand against any new candidates who may appear. The political experts still admit that they are baffled by the appar- ent closeness of the campaign. Plenty of guesses are being made, are more or less influenced , by partisan predictions and nothing like an unbiased, reliable forecast, Is available. Politically, all the prophecies concede the Conserva- more candidates than either | the Liberals or the Laborites, but doubt is widely expressed whether the number will prove large enough : to give Mr. Baldwin's party a ma- jority over the combined oppositions The expectation {s genera! that the Conservatives will lose several of the seats they had at the last elec: tion. a | A Puzzling Feature, How the vote of the women will be distributed continues to be one of the most puzzling features of the Another difficulty in es- timating the result is caused by the Tnabhiy of anyone to gauge the robable number of voters of both Liiim who will not cast their ballots. Tt is estimated that about 6,000,000 persons did not vote at the lest gen- eral election, but the organizers an: eanvassers have failed to get an ink ling of what will happen today, Reports from various sources sug- | gost that the electors are more se- which is one of the reasons why the.outcome of the manv three-cornered contests is particularly difficult to foresee. Some observers, perhaps because of definite indications, venture the opinion that there will be some big | surprises when the results are made known, some quarters suggesting the | possibility of a Labor landslide, al- | though it is dificult to say on what ground 'this is based. Capital Levy Worst of Evils. The way the issues cul across one another as far as the Liberals and Conservatives are concerned presents for those parties a difficulty from which the Laborites, with their clear aims, are free. The capital is an anathema to both Lib- - erals and Conservatives, but each party professes to be equally averse to protection and free trade, respec tively. Herbert Asquith, while abat~ ing nothing of his hostility toward protection, sald in an address last evening that bad as protection was, the proposed capital levy would be even more fatal. It would multiply unemployment a hundred fold and undermine the whole fabric of Brite ish credit. It Lord Birkenhead's opinion may be taken as that of the Conserva- tive party, It is apparent the latter a question of "now or never" for protection. Lord Birkenhead said that if tariff re- form did not succeed at the polls it probably would not be re-submitted to the people in the present genera= ' tion. Parties at Dissolution. London, Dec. 6.---The state of parties on the day of dissolution of the House of Commons was as fol<f = lows: Conservatives 342; Labor 144; United Liberals 118; 7; Vacant seals fo # SWISS JBaviNg CANADA. Geneva Says Colonists Are to Be patriated. London, Dec. §.--A cable Geneva states: It is reported settlement of Swiss colonists in ada has not given the results wh were expected and that it 1s Iki that nearly 800 Swiss who have igrated will be repatriated. On other hand & scheme is being w ed out with a view to enabling emigrants to buy some land in Ve zuela, where they form a co ony with the help ot the ¥ 2 government. ; Hi adian heavyweight, | hr