Jicarrior CONSTANCE TALMADGE n "A DANGEROUS MAID" \ The Baily British 7 Whig CAPITOL MON., TUES., WED, YEAR 91; No. 20. CNR. LOAN IS TAKEN UP , a Canadian Syndicate Which Will Sell Here. BROS FOR $50,000.00 To Be Sold At 99 1-2~Can- ada Is Handling Her Own Finances. New York, Jan. 24.--Prior to the dr, and for some time after the war, Canada and her many promi- lent corporations dépended to a | ery large extent on outside bank- ers for tueir finances, The fact that Canadian jankers _ yasicrday CEPEPEPPEPPTICOS | SHY PPPPFPICEIPIPISEIIOS ) *® ; * PROPOSED CONFERENCE . *| $ */ + HAS FALLEN THROUGH London, Jan. 24.--The pro- posed conference between the railway managers and 'the en- ginemen for discussion of the issues involved in the present strike has fallen through. and J. Bromley, secretary of the Associated Society of Locomo- tive Engineers and Firemen, an- nounced this afternoon that he "regretted" that the strike % must continue. > +> <P "° 0829040000000 00000 APPOINTMENT CAUSED SURPRISE ALL ROUND Viscount Chelmsford Did Not Expect to Be First Lord of Admiralty. London, Jan. 24.-- Viscount Chelmsford, Conservative peer, whose appointment as first lord of the da alty has excited universal astonishment, reveals in: an inter- ere successful bladers for the $50, 00,000 National Radways' 1oau, | yable in Canadian funds, has | wn attention to the 'fact that] nadian bankers now are able to urchase and resell in their | Eountry practically all' the securities | essary to carry on their business, | compilation made by New York | fnker who were bidders on vais | ban brought out the interesting 1a t that for the last year Canada iid her own corporations. nave Orie '84 per cent. of their own un- icing, as compared with something rantee on interest and principa. . The present Canadian - National [allways issue marks the first time In history that a debenture 'issue 'for company has been handed by Canada alone. Previous debenture 8 had been fldaied in the Ameri- «market, althought last year an le of $22,600,000 of Canadian [National Railways equipment bonds |- ¥&8 sold in the Canadian market. In the case of the equipment issue : Was a security behind the is in the form of actual equ.pment irchased; in the case of a depew- issue, such ag.the present, the Iaith of the company is all the ty~--but this security is con- view that the offer of the post was as much of a surprise to him as his nomination has been to the public. He says he was approached only own | about ten days ago on behalf of Mr. Macdonald and up to which time he was entirely unaware such a proposal was in prospect. "I-had met Mr. Macdonald only once and that was more than twenty y ago when I was a member of the London county council," he said. . I Leonard Mosier Crosses From "Is. land With a Cutter Leonard Mosler, Wolfe Island, ¢rossed the harbor to the 'city ou Thursday morning with a horse ana cutter. He raportdd that the ice was fairly firm and it would only be FAIRLY FIRM NOW, open for heavy loads. On' Wednesda afternoon, Mr. Mosler, while attempting to drive out on the ice and meet the steamer the city wharf for a distance of about one mile, struck a thin placs in the ice 'and the horse broke through. After considerable work and with the use of a rope which dlosed off the animal's wind, the &d giit-edged, in view of the uitee on interest and principle horse was pulled out on firm lice. mts by the Dominion of Can- Successful Syndicate Bids were made by at least four Cate. groups. These syndicates composed of two American and { least two Canadian groups. The eriegn groups were composed of & Company, Jnc.,, and the Ch Securities Corporation, ana bther of Dillon, Read & Co., the Natlonal City Company, the Guar- | , Harris, Forbes & ny, the Bankers' Trust Com- + and others. The successful syndicate was composed ot Wood, Gunday & Company, the Dom- mion Securities Corporation, the Na- City Company of Canada, A, Ames & Company, the Bank of ontréal, the Royal Bank of Can- da, The Dominion Bank, and Har- ) Forbes & Company, (aiso of ). | The highest bid by an American 'oncern, made by the Dillon, Read Hod syndicate, was one of v4.13. : _ In making the award to the Can- 8roup, in prefereucé to the American bid, it was explain- that the operation of paying !n- Test and principal in New York funds would impose a Hability last- 30 years over the Canadian tor. exchange market, which would idutralize the advantage of a high 8 for the bonds. Offering of the ds will be made at 99 1-2; it 8 understood today, and interest Wil! be payable In Teronto, Moi: real and Ottawa, |Y Miss Margaret Bonfield is appoint- first woman parliamentary secre- y for the British Minister of bor. : President Coolidge has plans for inging relief to U.S, wheat sec- d igh ¢ 'Yo SOME MEN dress S Y attract WOMEN. | d, clothes, like The cold weather tghtened the ice considerably since Wednes- RS ee + * a few days before traffic would be! Wolfe Islander which went out from | KINGSTON, UNTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 102%. Ramsay Macdonald Pleads For Reason ~. And Goodwill Between India And Brit Bombay, British India, Jan. 24. | Sage from Ramsay Macdbnald in which he plea & | Will between India and Britain, and asserts that 4 | be cowed by threats of force or by policies de ! . { MEDL to a standstill. If any Indian | that is not so, events w | | " { WHY TAXES Nearly Enough Populati carly Enough Population. | Lovernments, Kaiways And high axation and remedies ror the | these were prominent questions dis- | urer Association, which Opened here trom all-parts of Canada, | scruek by C. Howard Smith, Mon- : ihe coudidon in the dominion arose |r muse be iclentiically adjuster, tion assured berore any reduction "Our cvernead is too high," he [ era) and municipal governments to ARE SO HIGH FIFTY MILLION - PEOPLE | en Lusiaess Systems. | cussed touay at ga special genera: Ls MoriLng, About three hun- "Our axes at present are stag- | treal, presiueat of the Association, | he said, "ch.ewy because of the smai; | raised Or lowsred to meet the neeus In the taxation in the dominion | declared, "We have enough mach. people ingtead Because: Canada Has Not Could Be Served By Present Hamilton, Jan, 24.--The present | vam, tariff and its cause and effect, meewang of tee Canauwian Manutace- | ared dei€gates are in mtcénuance | gering," was Jthe, pupuiar nore in his aadress at the noon luncheon. ! popuiation. He hel that the tar- of industries, and proper immigra- could be expected. | Iney now in the dominion, proviu- Rave enough rau ways Our present system = oq, News off the Wires In Condensed Form | Dr. Robert Walker, Toronto, was found not guilty of the murder of Miss Ivy Patterson. Old age pensions, housing and unemployment are prominent on the British Labor programme. Bourassa endorses Britain's Rulr policy because he believes it is jut and also in the best interests of Canada. . Attorney-General Nickle is to ex tend the' inquiry into the enforce ment of the Ontario Temperance Act, The C.P.R. roundhouse at Schrie ber, Ont., with sixteen locomotive, was destrbyed by fire on Wednesda: Loss $200,000, The Canadian government stan] on the St. Lawrence. power projed has been sént to Washington but it, nature is not disclosed. The weather is very cold ii "the western provinces and the Ottaws Valley; elsewher it is moderate. I{ was fourteen de below zero a Ottawa on Wednesday night, sixtee at Winnipeg and 'ten at Calgary. Claim No License Secured A representative of the Magistrate Fagrell on around the city without a license. over till Monday to secure evidence in the case. The city treasurer gave evidence to the-effect that the Ruddy company had not taken out a license for bill posting. NN ------ u Said It, Marceline!" ==By MARCELINE #ALROY \On "Foils and Fools!" - Compliments her own--yes, As the LEAF is Complimentary © the ROSE, So women like nen ' Beside tiem, or surrounding tem, That SEI THEM OFF--for A MANwho dresses well Is a But the looks Shabby-is a FOOL; And shis MORTALLY afrai' Of wha people will say If SHE seen For Bill Posting In the City Ruddy Company was, summoned before Thursday morning on a charge of posting bills Magistrate Farrell laid the case | lanufacturing, banking ig and wholesaling wo Dr the wants of many 'ery little additiona) e 4X68 are only ton to our populati 183 and retail- uid provide miliions with Xpense. Qu high in propor- on," EE -------- CANADIANS ARE | OVER A CENTURY oLD -- The People Are Not So Now About Stating Their Ages. -- Ottawa, Jan. 24.--A bulletin on age. distribution, based on the las Cgnsus, issued to-day shows that at the'last census there were 243 per Sons per 100,000 who did not state their age, while at the previous cen- sus there were 509 per 100,000. In all, there were 21,277 persons too modest to state their age at the last census. Contrary to the popu- lar conception, males were in tne majprity, for males number 11,60) while females were 9,676. 4t the last census Canada had 183 cenenarians, compared with 120 in 1911. Ontario, with 57 centenartans, heals the lst. Nova Sootia coms nex' with 37. It shows that in 1921 Cazxada had 1,064 males to every f1,010 females. \ -- TIE LATE DR. CO. K. CLARKE. | The Funeral at Toronto on Wednes- day Afternoon. Toronto, Jan. 24.--Extremely larg and representative of the busy. Des, professional and education in. terests of the city and the province Was the attendance at the publi. funeral of the late Dr. Charles K. Clarke, held from Convocation hail Yestarday afternoon. A private ser- vice, attended only by relatives, was held'at the family residence, 34 Roxboro, street east, at 1.30. The remains were then taken to Convoes tion hall, where the casket rested in front of the dais. Representatives of the board of governors, s"nate and teaching staff of the university oc- cupied seats on the dais. Were the hospital staffs and the medical faculty represented. . The service was in charge of Canon Plumptre, of St. Jamés' Ca. thedral, and the address was given by Sir Robert Falconer, president of the University. ; Interment took place at Moun Pleasant cemetery. Canon Plamp. tre took the final service at the grave, har The pallbearers were the late doctor's four sons, Charlee M., Dr. Harold Clarke, of Bridgeport, .Conn., Herbert of Albany. and Dr. Bric K. Clarke, Thomas Fee of St.. Cathar ines and Dr. H. P. Deweiler of To- ronto, : Tae The monarchy ip Greece is on the verge of eclipse. VRE ge id. our pop; | newspaper prints a mes- ds for reason and good- "no party in Britian will signed to bring the govern- sections are under the delusion that ~--A Madras IH sadly disappoint them," he said. MOTOR TRUCKS MOVING EXPRESS IN ENGLAND The Service Is Proving 8uit- able and Satisfactory, Ac- = cording to Cables. | | | Montreal, Jan. 24.--As one result of the railway strike in Great Bri- tain, intercity express traffic is now | being moved largely by motor truck. | J. R. Martin, manager of foreign de- | partment. of the Dominion Express Company, stated hare to-day tha, | the express traffic now moves f | London to Liverpool and Southamp- | ton by the company's own trucks and | that the service is proving suitable and satisfactory. The London motor trunks are also picking up express shipments at more important inter- mediate points between Southampton and Liverpool and a special motor | Manchester and vicinity, a heavy ex- porting district, to Liverpool. No | interruption is anticipated through express service continent. English Laborers More Sober Than Professional Men from London, Jan. 24.--Laborers are | {more sober as a class than profes- | {sional men, declared Dr. H. M. Ver- | {non in a lecture before the society for the study of inebriety. "The death rate from alcoholism. he said, "is iwice as great among | professional men, clerks and shop- keepers, as among skilled and un- | skiiled- workmen, lawyers and doc- tors whose professional duties teach {them daily the evils: of alcoholism, | are among the greatest sinners. "Schoolmasters alone are com- parable in alcoholic festraint to the average skilled industrial worker." NO CAUSE FOR ALARM The Morrisburg Will Regulate the Flow of Water. | opening of his term of NEW CABINET NOT RADICAL (A Vista Full of Troubles Foros Premier Macdonald. SUBMISSION 1S DEMANDED Of All Plans And Policies to Labor Party For Discussion. London, Jan. 24.--The first move of the Labor left wing whereby they demand that the Labor ministry sub- mit all plans and policies to the party for discussion and supervision before presentation to pariameant, opens a vista full of troubles for the new premier, London press editor- lais are generally moderate in tone regarding the new munistry, which was expected. Most writers dwell on' the safety. valve character of the Commons Op- | : Home Bank hud entailed service has been established from | Position in preventing anything ot | enladied a very radical nature. The Times thinks that the names chosen inclusion of Lord Chelmsford lenas a certain cachet to the first Labor Government whose inexperie 2 Or official life is its inherent and per- haps most serious weakness, Arthur Henderson has already be- Eun an attempt to bring the railway strike to a settiement and has ap- proached both sides with a proposal for conference. It may be that Ne will be able to score a success at the office as Bromley, the head of the striking firemen, has already asked for a conference. The Dominions will dopbtless be relieved by the selection"~of J. H. Thomas, one of the sane-t of the La- bor chiefs as Colonial Secretary. NUCLEUS OF NAVY FOR S8OUTH AFRICA | British Squadron Commander Urges the Maintenance of a Lighter Cruiser. Cape Town, Jan, 24.--The visit of the British special service squadron to South Africa has been a memor- able event. The appeal of Vice-Ad- miral Field to the * people of South Toronto, Jan, 24.--Assurance was given yesterday by Fred Gaby, chiet cngineer of the Hydro-Electric Com- mission, that there was no cause for | anxiety on the part: of owners of {summer cottages along the shores {or on islands in Lake Ontario as to lany, ill-effects following tue cou- structicn of the proposed power ana bavigation dam at Morrisburg, by means of which the lake level woul: be raised two feet. 'The additional two feet," saia Africa to develop their young navy till it will be possible to man and- maintain a lght cruiser in these waters, has made a real impression. Vice-Admiral Field treated the al- ternative proposal for a large sub- marine cruiser as the main unit of the South African navy-to-be with the frankest consideration, but ex- plafned in public, courteously but firmly, why it would not do in comparison with a light cruiser, and he carried 'complete conviction to f Mr. Gaby, "will be above the | minimum léve?, which means that the water will be kept somewhere lear the present mean level which is 246 feet above the sea at New all impartial minds. The result of the visit may not, however, be immediately visible. In an increased provision in the next estimates for sea service there are York." A Edward Cousins, consulting en. gineer of the Toronto Harbor Comms mission, pointed out that the dam | would perform a very valuable ser- vice by regulating the flow, Al present the lake levels fluctuate five feet between high and low ex- (remes. ~~ With the dam working the fluctuations may. be reduced to four or. six inches, -- HORRIBLE SCANDAL, Austrian Nobles Revel in Tortures Meted to Children, Vienna, Jan. 24.--Exclusive Aus trian society is staggered by the dis- closure of the most horrible séandal in history, through wholesale ar Tests of members of the wealthiest owing the At Bldorado, Ark, on Wednesday, (Joe Lynch, bantam of the world, krocked out Parky Owen in the second round of a sohieduled tem-rouncs bo : SE ------------------ 000000000000 00 0000 - 5 $ » | Into its isolated security, and | anti-British prejudice of a certain "| ties of Indian immigration to thax colony are now published for com. h formidable obstacles in the way of the Union government. The "Back Veld" luxuriates in the belief that no enemy at sea can possibly break the section of educated South Africans of Dutch origin who know better, is invete'ste, especially In regard to the navy. Thus a Dutch daily news- paper published in Cape Town nev- er mentioned the presence of cotted all references to Speeches | made at official banquets. IMMIGRATION TO GUIANA. Deputation Reports on Prospects for British Indians, Delhi, Jan. 24.--Reponts by a de- putation which visited British Gui- ana in 1922 to examine the possibili- sideration by a committee of the central legislature. ' Two Indian members sign the re- port emphasizing Indian disabilities and the need for reform in labos conditions. Mr, Keatinge, the re maining member of the deputation, while agreeing with his Indian col- leagues that Indian settlement un- der safeguards gives promise of a prosperous Indian colony in Britien Sulsnh, - emphasise the present ec- onomic physical difficulties, and at the same time points out the dangers to an Indian community in the colony if immigration to Brit- ish Guiana is not re-opened Marconi Station for India. by | in' the Macdonald with two or three excep- | that the Government would take the n the | tions are those lately forseen. The | Whole matter into its earnest con. the tural and mining interests each pro- _| pose the formation of district poli- special service squadron, and boy | tical parties for the coming elections, ii di TET eO NO ° | * U. 8. GRAIN CANNOT * COMPETE WITH CANADA Winnipeg, Jan. 24.--That the U. S. Government commis ston, which . recently roured Canada investigating the cost of grain production, has decld- ed that the United States could not compete with Canada in thie respect, 1s the statement made here by L. H. Boyd, chair- man of the Board of Grain Commissioners. i i i + * * * i [+ | | * * * > * > > 4 J + +> * +* * » + < * vERIREPPRGOCOVIGIOGSY GET ANSWER WHEN PARLIAMENT. MEETS Premier King Would Not Make Promise to Home Bank Depositors. | | | Ottawa, Jan. 24.--At the conclus- ion of the Home Bafik depositors' Intervigw yesterday, Premier King refused to make any statement, leav. ing it to the members of the deputa- tion to give 'out what {information they desired. He did say to the Qe- The Provincial Force Is Now Under Investigation. SEASONS WAY DEVELOP Allegations Have to Do With Improper Relations With 0.F.A. Violators. Toronto; Jan. 24.--Possibility of a4 thorough shake-up of the proviu- cial police and license board ad- ministration is forecasted by the investigation which hes been con- ducted into certain phases of O.T. A. enforcement by these bodies, as & result of which Inspector Arthue Paxton of the police, but' on tem- butation before It dispersed that the porary loan to the Heense board, has Government was fully seized of the | 35ked permission to resign. . the | TeSignation is in the hands of At: hardship Which the failure of , and was jm every sympathy with the request which had been made. He promised sideration, SECTION OF THE TORIES SEEK BALDWIN'S SCALP | | | | | Agitation for Reorganization Js More Persistent as Labor Takes Office. London, Jan. 24.--As was fore- cast, Mr, Baldwin signed his own death warrant when he resigned the premiership. The Conservatives in the provinces in particular are urging the need or reorganization within the party. The probable successor of Mr. Baldwin will be Sir William Joynson Hicks, who has increased his popularity en- ormously during the past few | months, or Sir Robert Horne, unless | the die-hards get control of the po~ | litical machine, which seems exceed- ingly unlikely, OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL... .. IN RALWAY DISPUTE Efforts to Get in Touch With Managers. London, Jan. 24.--Last night the rail deadlock was unbroken, but hopetul. J. Bromley, Associated Society of Engineers ana Firemen, whose members struck at midnight Sunday against enforce | ment of wage reductions, made ef- forts to get in touch with the railway managers, Meanwhile, against the union statement that its position was ber. ter came an announcement from the railroad companies that they were moving more trains than they did during the first few days of the | strike, and that they were planning nereased services to various parts i the country, ELECTIONS IN RHODESIA. Farmers and Miners Pan to Form Political Parties, Buluwayo, Jan. 24.--The agricul- The. mining interests criticize the government for alteration of the gold belt land titles, but the govern- ment will stand by this as a vital point of their policy. It holds that the mining rights are safeguarded, but express willingness to consider legislation for the regulation of the vexed question of trading rights in mining areas. ' -------- Price of Shoes Due for Drop. Rhiladelphla, Jan, 24.--8hoe prices will decline in the next few years due to new processes and mew machines, J. J. Slater, treasurer of the National Shoe Retailers' Associa- tion, declared in an address before a convention of that body. Cementing, "instead of the pre- sent stitching, was cited by the speaker as one of the price reducing methods and would soon lower the cost of footwear, -------- London council decided to ask the legislature to permit the street railway to pay for its track allow- ance in ten annual instalments. CEE20400000 0000000 > the outlook was declared to be more | secretary of the | the attorney-gemeral. One case of a | { | posals of Ale This torney-General W. F. Nickle, who announced yesterday that it would not he accepted pending the cou- clusion 'of an official investigation, which will be held at once. Liceftse Inspector McCready, - of Hamilton, was in Toronto yesterday and appeared before Mr. Nickle and Mr. Hales in connection with the in- vestigation. - It is stated that some of the matter to be sifted has to do | with telephone calls between Pax- ton's home at Mimico and an alleg- ed liquor dealer at Hamilton. Pax- ton is said to have blamed a rela- tive, living in the house, for e, and to have claimed tha: when he learned about them he made him leave the place. -- Look For Revelations. The inquiry, it is intimated, will result in somewhat sensational ro- velations, providing, of course, alle- gations made should prove true. Matters under view in preliminary inquiry hark back to the Lennox charge before the Public Accounts Committee of a couple of years ago. The rald upon the Sutton Hotel ana debate between Hom. Mr. Ferguson and Hon. Mr. Raney at Fergus, are also involved. In both instances, irame-ups,'" "n_ which provineta: Police were made use of, are alleged to have been 'attempted. Although having enjoyed the con- fidence of Police Commissioner Gen. Willams and Chairman James Hal- es, of the license board, Inspector Paxton has been the subject of com- ment in provincial police circles for some time. Representations that he has had improper relations with O. T. A. violators have been made to | {Pamilton dealer is understood to ta Involved in the coming investiga- tion. i Vo Inspector Patton was formerly in the criminal investigation branch, and was some time ago transferred, against his own desire, to the O.T. A. squad, of which he was placed in charge under the license board. -------------- FOR BRITISH PREFERENCE. Urge Adoption of Confer. ence Proposals. Kingston, Jamajca, Jan. 24. The Jamaica Imperial Association is urging that on the opening of the legislature a resolution be moved asking the Labor Government at London to adopt the preference pro- Imperial Economic ° Conference of October last, insofar as the British West Indies are con- cerned. The association has sug- gested to the British West Indies Associated Chamber of Commerce, that the other legislatures of the British West Indies should be call- B.W.IL. ed to move similar resolutions. The ParHamentary committee is asked by the association to urge strongly upon the new London Government that West (ndian preference and -| stabilization are vitally necessary to the Interests of Imperial solidarity and West Indian welfare. the bench to-day by Judge J. Walk er Hanby, hearing the case. 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