Whig 'BE RENEWED Between the Church Modern- ists And Conservatives. OnE CRYING FOR TRUTH And the New Prophets Will Not Be Quiet, Says New York, Dec. 26. Indications ( are that the 'Christmas truce" in the Protestant Episcopal church would end with the controversy be- tween modernists and conservatives raging with renewed vigor at the : took the form of a telegram printed expiration of the holidays. Bishop William T. Manning's re- % Quest for the "truce" was generally py nounced yesterday he ¥atism. 4 observed, but the controversy was re- | ferred to in printed copies of the ger. | mon delivered by Dr. Leighton Parks at Bt. Bartholomew's. last Bunday, and by Rev. Dr, William Norman Guthrie, pastor of St. Mark's-on-the Bouwerie in discussing the Bible. © Parishioners of 8t. Mark's-in-the- Bouwerie expect to hear next Sunday from Dr. Guthrie, a declcention of his creed and an exposition of his posi- tion in his tilt with Bishop Willlam T. Manning over,pagan dancing by parish girls in ancient Greek cos- tumes at church festivals. He an- would glve "No book," Dr. Guthrie sald, "is the word of God. Jesus Christ is the only word of God. / No book can be inspired." The appeal for the "Christmas | truce" was used by Rev. Charles | Francis Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian church, as the basis Of a renewed attack upon conser- them then. "There is No Peace." Rev. Mr. Potter, who in the first of 'Nis series of debates last Thursday against Rev. John Roach Stratton, _ pastor of Calvary Baptist church, d this 'was not the time for a , but for proclaiming aloud the tions 'of the. modernists, tis the use," he aeked, "of cry: 5 peace, peace, peace," when there ¥ dig uititudes are crying for the "truth" and to deny them now would be "treacherous," Rev. Mr, Potter sald. "No wonder," he added, "the blind priests of the older days want the new prophets to keep quiet, but they might as well try to dam the Migsissippl river with waste paper." Si { the orphanage, Te. N. R. CHRISTMAS ad] In Form of a Telegram to All Travel- ling on Trains. Montreal, Dec. 26.--The stack of a rallway train is neither | sufficiently large nor stationary to | allow Santa Claus to make a trip | through it to visit passengers who | are compelled to travel on Christmas { Eve and so, while they are on board | train, they have to be satisfied with- out gifts. But the spirit of Christ- mas crept in and diffused (itself through the sléeping cars of the Canadian National Rallways all over the system, from #ast to coast on Christmas Eve and welcomed travel lers when they awoke from sleep the following morning, Every passen- ger on board a sleeping car of the Canadian National Rallways recelv- ed a real cheery greeting when he awoke on Christmas morn. This on one of the specially decorated telegraph forms of the Canadian Na- tional Telegraphs. It was handed to each passenger in a sealed decorated envelope and read as follows: "To all passengers on board train, the officers and employees of the Canadian National Rallways wish you a very merry Christmas and a bright, happy and prosperous new year. (Signed) H. W. Thornton, president." PRIEST MEETS DEATH While Taking Oranges and Apples to Nome, Alaska, Dec, 26.--An Eski. mo mushed 756 miles in two days to tell Nome that Rev. F. J. Ruppert, 8.J., pastor of St, Joseph's Roman Catholic church In this city had yielded hie life to the cold while trying to take oranges, apples and Christmas greeting cards to the Hot Springs orphanage, near the Pilgrim River, north of here. Over Father Ruppert"s body when it was found, elght days ago, on the bank of the river, four miles from stood Mink, the leader of his dog team. Mink fero- cliously repelled those who came to carry his dead master to the orphan- | age, and had to be captured first. MANITOBA GOVERNMENY WINS TWD BYE-ELECTIONS People Rally to Bracken "Whose Ministers Receive Large Majorities, na. Winnipeg, Dee. 26.---Electors of Mountain. and Carillon * constituen- cles expressed their confidence in the Bracken administration with the re- turn of Hon, Charles Cannon, minis- ter of education, and Hon. Albert Prefontaine, provincial secretary, in the by-elections held Monday. The elections were necessitated by the elevation of these two members to KINGSTON, UNTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 Bi SCANDAL OVER LIQUOR A Swesitg Enquiry Is Like- At Washington. En LIST OF CUSTOMERS In US. Capital Follows Po- lice Raid=~May Connect | Banking Interests. Washington, Dec. 26.--The U. S. bootleg * scandal, which originated from a modest po- lice raid, gives promise of developing a sweeping inquiry into oft-repeated charges of Mquor drinking in high capital's biggest places, The sudden portentous list indications that the disappearance of a of customers taken during the raid resulted in insistent demands from several quarters to day for an explanation. There wets district attor- DAYLIGHT SAVING THORN IN THE FLESH Question Agitating Electors - Numerous Cities; Towns and Villages. Ottawa Dee. 26.--This fs the height of the battledore and shutile- cock season for poor old daylight saving in Eastern Canada. Sporting organizations mothers' guilds, school boards and other institutions are busy passing the question on to the city councils, and city councils are knocking it back to the people at municipal elections. Perhaps, the Canadian parliament will unexpectedly take a hand in the matter during the coming session. It has been suggested that the Do- minion government may either pre- sent an act making daylight saving general throughout the dominion or provide an amendment to the erim- inal code making it {illegal for muni- cipalities, industrial goncerns or in- dividuals to meddle with standard time, . Indications at present are that various cities in Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces will bave a repetition during the summer of 1924 'of the clogk juggling, watch tinkering and gemeral inconvenience caused in recemt years by the vari- ance of time im train, town, country THE RETURN OF VENIZELOS To Study Situation in Greece At First Hand. REPUBLICANS PERPLEKED oo o . Say the Political Situation Is Not Correctly Reported to Him. Athens, Dec. 26.-----The decision of former Premier Venizelos to pay a visit to Greece without, however, returning to the political arena, as he says in his telegram announcing his prospective return, is variously commented upon in political eircles. The Liberals naturally are-highly gratified, believing Venizelos can be induced to take up once more the reins of government. The Republicans are perplexed, for they do not yet know the real pur- BLOWN BY DRAUGHT INTO RED HOT FLUE Body of Coal Passer Found in Power House of Pennsyl- vania Railway. New York, Dec. 26.--Burned al- most beyond recognition, the body of Ferrando Mendes, a coal passer, who disappeared Monday, was found Tuesday in a pit at the foot of a flue }- in the power house of the Pen. nsylvannia Railroad, Long Island City. J Martin Walzer, a water tender, found a small door leading into a flue on the third floor was open, the flues lead to the smoke stacks. Mendes apparently had entered the door and the strong draught had blown him from a ledge. The temperature in the flue was about 1,000 degrees, but the soot in which the body was buried pre- vented it from being cremated. The power house officials lessen. ed the heat and two firemen of Res- cue Squad No. 2, Manhatten, got the body. They wore fireproof suits and gas masks and had ropes tied around their waists, a |SAUSAGE FACTORIES MECCA FOR GERMANS { with the financing of the project, and lan inquiry already has been made that it belonged to Dr. subsequently produced permits show- ney's office, which has threatened to prosecute those whose names ap- peared on the list, would investigate thoroughly why the evidence vanish- ed into thin air, and that the de- mands for an inquiry would be tak- en up in Congress immediately after | the holiday recess. / i Under Investigation. ' Meantime both the financial back. ing of the bootlegger ring involved and the actual source of its liquor supply are under investigation by soveral agencies of the municipal government of the District of Co- lumbia. An effort will be made to connect prominent banking interests of the State Department as to the immupity of a liquor stock which the | police were prevented from seizing]: by the investigation of an official of a foreign legation. Some of the liquor suspected by police officials of belonging to the stock of the ring was stored In the i cellar of a private house here, bur when a police squad hroke into the place End were about to carry ihe |. wet. goods away, they were infidrmed | pi Venceslas first secretary of the Sokolowski, a Sokolowsfks | Polish Legation. Dr. ing that lguwor had been obtained by him through the regular channels provided in the law for insuring supplies to the representatives here of foreign governments, and church. are getting used to it. Brown, aged forty, and her Ansley, However, the people says that best In the wor! a) Mrs, A. E, Brown, Newburgh, Auto Collision, Dec. 26.--Mrs. A. B. son, aged sixteen, Newburgh, Toronto, (AMERICAN LIEUTENANT pose of his return. They say the political situation in Greece has not been correctly reported to the former premier, and they express satisfac- tion at the fact that he is to study the situatiop®at first hand and make sure of th relative strength of the parties. , Third of the Population Are Seeking Jobs There-- Plants Besieged. Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 26.-- About a third of the population of Serwany Jou been seeking jobs In sausage ories during the last | few TE oe particularly high meat manufacturers here. "My plant has been besieged day and night by men, women and chil- dren seeking work," one sausage maker reports, "and I may have to erect a barricade around my place to keep out the people who hope to get employment----and food--- in a face tory of this kind." Every sausage factory in Ham- burg ajid other German cities have stuck up "no help wanted" signs, but the job seekers disregard them and fight to get in any part of the plants which are not guarded. MAKES OVER $700,000 in Speculating in Wall Street Securities by Cable From Manila. New York, Dec. 26.--Lleut. Os- borne Cutler Wood, the twenty-six- year-old son of Governor-General Wood, of the Philippines, has admit- ted making between seven hundred thousand and eight hundred thou- gand dollars in speculation in Wall street securities conducted by cable from Manila, where he is an alde to his father, says a copyrighted des- the New York Times today. g Woods' streak ofgood tor- tune, says the despatch, began in September last year when he bought stock of the Standard Oil Company bf New Jersey just prior to its sen- sational rise of about sixty "points. His profits placed him in a position to make investments on a large scale. The Times says that Lieut. Wood will return to the United States soon TWELVE MURDERERS HEAR OHRISTMAS MUSIC in 8ing<8ing Pr Prison -- Had Chicken Dinner and Phono graph Programme. Ossinig, N.Y., Dec. 26.--- While twelve hundred Sing-Sing prisoners yesterday were entertained by Feo- dor Chaliapin, famous Russian sing. er, twelve slayers listened to a pho- nugraph in the death house. Chicken dinners were served to Worth $50,000, were both painfully injured Monday afternoon when an automobile dri- with the intention qf resigning his commission and entering the diplo- all prisoners at noon and last night a motivn picture programme 'was TAKE THER Own Troubles More Than Ever Before. : New York, Dec. 26.--Desponds ency, seemingly made more unbears able by the scene of Christmas cheer on all sides, caused eight persons to attempt suicide during the holiday. Five men inhaled gas, one woman leaped from a roof, another woman drank poison and an unidentified man threw himself beneath a subway train, railroad officials state. Five died immediately and others are said to be in a critical condition. Those who left notes explaining their acts referred to the bonis | carefree spirit of the people they saw on the streets going to their Christmas dinners, and said that this made them realize thelr own troubles more than ever before. EXPECT SUSPENSIONS Ottawa, Dec. 26. --Dismissals, stig pensions, fines and censures will 03- cur in a few days at Portsmouth penitentiary as a result of the repe of the investigation made into thi escape of "Red" Ryan and three p in September last. The superintendent of the p tentiary, Genera! W.8. Hughes, ) a comprehensive investigation 1 the case, and his conclusions r ly submitted h (ve been confirmed the minister of justice. - There was a variety of . circumstances in connection with case rather than positive proof. Si ficient has been elicited, hayeg: Justify the dismissal of three or fi guards and punishment of ' Action may be expected between now and New Year's. -- Warden J. C. Ponsford, when | terviewed by ths Whig, sisted a up until the present time no d action had been taken but he pected that things might happen the near future. \ ATTORNEY-GENERAL ENTERS AN Against County | Court Jury Hearing of Home Bank Case. Torouto, Dec. 26,--On the " that there is no jurisdiction in. high court to grant a m for the trial of the Home Bank rectors by a county judge and in granting the mandamus Ji Middleton erred in Jaw, the cabinet, following the reorgani- zation carried out by Premier John Bracken early in the month. George M. Fraser ,Comservative, who was defeated in Mountain by Mr. Cannon, saved his deposit by about thirty votes. Compléte re- turns from this constituency gave Mr. Cannon 1,633 and Mr, Fraser 8654. Maurice Duprey, former member of the legislature running as an In- dependent candidate, lost his de- posit in Carillon constituency, where he was rnaning against Mr. Prefon- taine, Latest returns available gave Mr. Prefontaine 1,130 votes, and Mr. Duprey 413, The stock whose seisure thus was intercepted was estimated by police officials to be worth $50,000, The police indicated that no further move on their part seemed possible, and both the Legation and the State Department a ed to regard the incident as closed. As a result the liquor actually taken into custody in the case amounts to exactly fifteen quarts, seized in an automobile which the police declare belonged to one of the runnbrs held in readiness by the ring to All rush orders, At head- quaiters of the organization in a dowhtown office building, however, police officials claim to have found sufficient documentary evidence to prove the exislence of a gigantic ven by Mrs Brown was struck by a Bay street car at Bay and Gerrard streets, Mrs. Browd's injuries are mainly facial, while her son is suf- fering from injuries to the lower limbs. It is not yet know whether he has a fractured pelvis. The fin. jured persons are in the General Hospital. In the collision the vesti. bule of the street car was damaged, and the auto was telescoped. Mrs. Brown was driving ler car west on Gerrard street when, at Bay street, she tried to cross in fromt of the southbound street car. The lighter vehicle was caught up by the car and thrown several feet after it had been wrecked. The car crew assisted the injured couple from the wreck and had them removed to the matic service. His father put an end to his financial investments when he heard of them. Lieut. Wood declared, according to the Times, that none of his tran. sactions had anything to do with the Philippines. Cabaret Proprietor Shot And Killed in Greenwich TENYEAR-DDD CALIBOGE 801 DROWNED IN RVER James McJdury the Vietim-- Drowns in Sight of His Father. James McJury, aged ten years, son of Robert 'Mclury, Calabogie, Jost his life by drowning on Mon- day morning between seven and eight o'clock. The young lad was up bright and early and went out on the ice in the river directly in fron: Better Trade. London, Dec. 26.---Britdln set it- dat to enjoy this Christmas, what- Sr may befall it next year. It has only just recovered from the elec- tions and political upheaval, and it has real appreliensions of what may Bappen when a Labor government 'takes office, but it has set all these otlons and fears behind and has rown itself determinedly into holi- ~making. ere is, Indeed, one legitimate for rejoicing. There seem to | real prospects of better trade. unemployment figures for the ending December 17th were yrtably down. They are still at Hone New York, Dec. 26.--Joseph Tom- asullo, aged forty-five, formerly a puiflist known as "Kid Thomas," and one of the owners of the "White Poodle" cabaret in Greenwich Vil- lage, was shot and killed early to- day as he left an apartment house on Hancock street. His assailant, PR TR the appalling total of 1,137,000, but ' 48,195 less than the week be- nd 349,978 less than on Janu. f 1st. But it would be vain to ~the great holiday public tor any of these things. It is Just to enjoy itself. fact that Christmas Tell this Tuesday has meant practical of the feast by an extra Most of the government offices their holiday on Saturday. "The rush to the country and sea- been, phenomenal. A CONDEM MAN 18 ATED UPON 8urgeon's Knife Used to Save Man from Death in Electric Ohalr, Ossining, Dec. 26.----Michael Jer- nakowski, of Buffalo, Monday be- came the wecond death house pris- oner within a year to undergo an operation for appendicitis 'at Sing Sing hospital. Dr. Amos O. Squire, the prison physician, pronounced the operation a success and guards were placed around the prisoner's bed to prevent possible suicide. Rutger. Warder, the other prisoner operated upon, was saved from the elactzie chiair by Governor Smith. Se -- I -- | syndicate. Romance de Luxe Alm of Not only had the customers' list found at headquarters' isappeared without trace to-day but officials in several branches ¢f the government were denying that it ever existed. Tourists in South Seas San Franelsco, Dee. 26. -- Romance dh luxe 1s promised 150 tourists who will Jeave here on the steamship Bu- ford on January 15th, bound for the Sonth Sea Islands, according to an announcement by the Alaska-Siber- ian Navigation Company. For sixty days the tourists will ander in and out of the Pol: ian as isiands. Living in Juxury a ha ship, more hardy am ent. will venture up rivers nd by few 'white persons and Into fropical nooks to Occidental mind. The company | the nature of an experiment and : Bually. the cruise is in Jot hospital. % DANISH PRINCE 10 WED MISS BOOTH OF OTTAWA Canadian Girl to to Take Royal Rank--The Engagement Announced. | Ottawa, Dec. Tei Al engagement | of international interest was offi- cially announced last night. Miss Lois Frances Booth, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Hh apn in olbraing . The Christmas | Tokio festive for the first time since who is unknown, escaped. The police believe the killing hand the result of a gamblers' fued. Radio to Broadcast Debates in Commons- Ottawa, Dec. 26.--Broadcasting throughout Canada of the proceed- gs of parliament while in session radio concerts on Canadian National Railway trains while travelling, to- gether with Important news an- nouncements, are brought immeasur- ably nearer with thé groject to estab. lish a powerful Canadian National of his home and must have struck a» weak place in the ice. His fat who was on. the shore, saw cha ha break through the ice, and gave an alarm but by the time assistance reached the piace the lad hed sunk. With the assistance of neighbors, the father was able to locate the body a short time later but life was extinct. The in plant of the Horton Steel Company, Bridgeburg, was de- stroyed by fire; loss $75,000. ; Brant U.F.0. is dissatisfied with Col. Fraser 'and wants his resigna- tion. General Nickle has filed notice of peal to the divisional court. In meantime, a temporary stay of p ceedings granted by Justice son stays any proceedings in matter in the county court until high gourt has decided whether hearing shall be restesined until the appeal has been disposed of. en ------ An .Bskimo travelled sevent) miles to Nome, Alaska, in two, a) with the news of a priest's R. G. Chamberlain, CPR, chief, died in Montreal on Mon Railway broadcasting station on the following an Speration. roof of the' Jackson building; one of the Capital's largest business blocks. ; Season Tokio, Dec. 26. Christmas found Girls used to be ' MEEK and MILD, Now many of them Are WEAK snd WILD; : They are SETTING the pace, the earthquake disaster last Septein- ber. The thousands of temporary jlicks sected Were dutorsind with CALLING the tune, i FAZLING the dunes, ana BD a Said It, Marceline! On "01d Yours Git ir iy | By the TAIL-- At least, they THINK | They have--the best of ft. The MODERN Gir! ls old-- TOO YOUNG. sud this means