In, {THE PROFTS FROM LIQUOR 7 ix --~-- t CAPITOL I NOW SHOWING THOMAS MEIGHAN in I PIED PIPER MALONE 1 ? a YEAR 91; No. 49. fis h Wh in 1 sam KINGSTON, UNTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1924. CAPITOL THURS, FRI, BAT. TOM MOORE LAST EDITION to attrsresevrravel » * 4 HOME BANK LOSSES ARE $6,250,000, FATAL COLLISION ON CNR. EAST OF MALLORYTOWN Freight Engineer And the Fireman of Each Train Met Their Death. Crash Occurred in Fog At 4 0'Clock Wednes- day Morn'ng--Iwo Other Railway Men Are Seriously Injured. Brockville, Feb. 27.--When the Canadian National eastbound passen- &er train No. 20 and freight train No. 490 met In a head-on collision at a point just east of Mallorytown station at 4 o'clock this morning, two em- ployees of the railroad were instantly killed, one died later in hospital here, and one was so gravely injured that his life is despaired of. The dead are: Neil Woodcock, Belleville, engineer of the freight train: James Ritchie, Belleville, fireman of the passenger train, and William Ker- rigan, fireman of the freight train. Albert Boyes, Belleville, engineer. of the passenger train is in a serious | condition in hospital apd is not expected to recover. Kerrigan died a few hours after reaching hospital. The accident occurred in a heavy fog. One of the cars on the freight train had suffered a broken truck earlier in the night when between Mallorytown and Lyn, and the engine was detached to proceed to Brock- ville to replenish its supply of water and fuel. Qn its return it proceeded to Mallorytown and was pulling the rear end of the train towards that + *| Terre *e Toronto, Feb. 27.--G. T. Clarkson, liquidator of - the Home Bank, examined yester- day afternoon hy W. T. J. Lee, K.C., upon his affidavit as to the losses of the bank; declared at the close of the hearing that the losses would total $7,000,- 000. Later he modifieq this statement, and declared that they would reach $6,250,000, anyway, exclusive of certain large accounts as to which in- formation was not vouchsafed.' These losses had been conser- vatively placed at $4,852,000 in Mr. Clarkson's affidavit, PERI IIPPIPEP hol hia hh 2 Th RR NR RAY CEP EP PHN P ESS ip. Denies Salvation Army in U. 8. to Quit Parent Body New York, Feb. 27.--Commission- er Thomas Estill, chief of the Sal- vation Army in the eastern States, to-day scouted reports of an fmpend- ing secession of the American organi- zation from the parent group in Eng- land over Gen. Bramwell Booths order prohibiting members from be- longing to secret societies. i The order, which directed all work- ers to cancel their memberships in lodges or other fraternities and to refrain from making new affiliations, admittedly affected many officers of the army in this country. Rumors TORONTO, F. B. EDMUN 3 an School Trus- President the tees' Assoclation. . A CONVENTION OF TRUSTEES Of the Urban' Schools of On- tario Being Held that a revolt from the international organization impended because of the, order were, however, characterized Sg by Commissioner Estill as "totally SECOND CLASS MAILS BURNED. irresponsible.' | Both engines were badly damaged and it was necessary to chop out the sides of the cabs to remove the bodies of the enginemen. A relief train, carrying physicians and nurses, was ordered Girls Are Forbidden Brockville and returned at seven o'clock with two injured railwaymen. To Wear Beeches) The baggage' car of the passenger train caught fire and all second class malls were burned. The lock mail bags were removed successtully. Both tracks of the main line are blocked as the result of the wreck. Coroner Dr. Fred Jackson will open an inquest at Mallorytown. TERMS HIN AN ACROBAT station, tender first, on the eastbound track, when the passenger train, travelling at a high rate of speed struck it. from St. Boniface, Man., Feb, 27.-- Knickerbockers for winter sports were forbidden to the women and girls of the St. Boniface Archdiocese In a sermon delivered Sunday by His Grace Archbishop Beliveau from the | pulpit of St. Boniface cathedral. The archbishop characterized the wearing of knickerbockers as "'dan- gerous and immodest." A warning in the matter of knick- erbockers was issued during the car- nival at St. Boniface rink last season. The warning now becomes a prohibi- tion, which must be obeyed by the feminine portion of the dlocese under penalty of church discipline. HL E---- m---- oe THE BUDGET T0 BALANCE This. Will Be the Liberals' ~~ decrease of $500,000 in race track receipts and he wondered whether Mr. Raney would suggest that the province take a greater rake-off or institute proceedings to stimulate the attendance 'Mr. Nickle said that profits from the liquor dispensaries had been milked by the late government to such dn extent that the profit this year would be almost negligible. tetas DISCOVERED AT KISH, Important Cuneiform Tablets of An. cient Babylon, Bagdad, Feb. 27.--The expedition to Kish on behalf of Oxford Univer- sity has discovered an important library of cuneiform tablets, consist- ing chiefly of grammars, dictlonarfes and commentaries on the Sumerian and Babylon languages. They have also uncovered a mag- nificent Sumerian palace, with pillars By the Late Govern- to Hon. W. F. Nickle. GET-ACQUAINTED SUPPER ' . la Red Room of Queen's Uni- versity luesday Evening I 5 a [Big Success. The fifth annual convention of the Urban School Trustees Association of the Province of Ontario got away to an auspicious start on Tuesday evening in the Red Room, new Arts building, Queen's University, with a "Get - Acquainted - Supper" thar achieved its purpose fully and put the visiting delegates on friend.y terms with one another at once. The handsome Red Room was just the right size for the - crowd that gathered, and about. ome hundred people sat down at the long tables, with the gathering given an even cheerfer aspect by the presence of the lady ¢ the wives of the ; i ging F. B. Edmunds, president of the association, directed the affairs of the head table and when the food and conversation and song had put those present into a receptive mood, took the occasion to speak on behaif of the association expressing ap- preciation of the manner {in which the trustees from all over the prov- ince were looked after by the King. ston committee and at their pleas- 1 + IMMIGRANTS COME * "ARMED TO TEETH. Calgary, Alta., Feb. 27. -- Canadian customs officials were severely criticized by Magis- trate Sanders in police court here yesterday for allowing im- migrants to enter Canada "armed to the teeth." The point arose when Wilhelm Laine, Fin- lander, was charged with being in possession of a heavy calibre revolver and a dagger, of which he was quite proud. SH PPPS SPIN ASAE EEE EE ETE 6000002400000 000%00 STARTS FIRE WITH GASOLINE James Gibson, of Newboro, is Ser. - iously Burned. Newboro, Feb. 27.--James Glb- 80.. met with a very severe accident on Sunday morning. As he was starting the fire he threw some gaso- line on the flame from a five gallon can in mistake for coal oil and the gasoline took fire and burst the can, quickly igniting Mr. Gibson's clothing. He called for help and his son and daughter ran to his as. sistance and put put the fire with th aid of blankets, but not before his clothing had been burnt from him and he had been frightfully burned about the body and face. On Monday, Mr, Gibson was taken to Brockville, where he is a patient in St. Vincent de Paul hospital. LABOR TO HAVE SEATS. Hertzog Makes Definite Statement on Coalition. Cape Town, Feb, 27.--General Hertzog has at last given a definite -answer to an often asked question when he declared in a speech at $4000 0ss0sttt eee ? */ ANOTHER ORDER RECEIVED BY LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY | Twenty Big Engines to Be Built For the Canadian National Railways. This Order Will Keep Busy Until Well Beyond of Next It was officially announced by the Canadian Locomotive Company man- agement on Wednesday morning that it had received a contract from the Canadian National Railway for twen. ty locomotives. The contract is for fifteen of the Mountain type turned out at the works last summer and five of the Santa Fe type. Work will be commenced on the new contract at once and it will keep the works busy uhtil well over the middle of the summer. There was great rejoicing in Kingston when it was learned that the Locomotive company had been awarded a contract to build twenty the the Midde Summer. have been all kinds of rumors to the 'effect that the company would re- ceive the contract, but the Whig re- frained from making any statement! until the official announcement was given out by the company. 2 For some time the works hava been operating with a greatly reduce ed staff, but the number of workmen will be rapidly increased until it is expected that it will again reach the five hundred mark at least. The work of building the new lo- comotives will be pushed along as quickly as possible, as the Canadian National Rallway when it gives an order, is very anxious to have the new rolling stoek turned out with out delay, : ' locomotives. For some time there Ceres: "Labor will have seats in the cabinet. We shall have to admit them In order to carry on the government." | The Nationalist leader thiis definitely | | commits himself to the principle of coalitiop, It means, as the Cape Times points out, that the National- ists have now definitely dropped the pretence that the compact with Labor merely relates to electoral arrange- | ments. Hertzog declared that Gen- eral Smuts had placed the interests of the Empire before the interests of South Africa while in London. Lawyer From Penitentiary. Toronto, Feb. 27.--J. H. Hoffman, formerly a Toronto solicitor, brought from Portsmbuth penitentiary, where he is serving a prison sentence for the forgery of a discharge of mort- gage, sat in the Supreme court yes. terday listening to the evidence given in an action directly the result of his wrong-deoing. LIVES SAVED INSISTS UPON OPEN ENQUIRY Into the Case of His Son At Military College. MAJOR ARNOLD'S DEMAND A Purely Military lavestiga- tion Will Not Do At .. All He Says. The court of enquiry appointed by the department of militia and de- fence to inquire into the facts of the Arnold case, met Wednesday morn- ing at the Royal Military college but have given out nothing as to the proceedings. The court is com- posed of: Col. Victor Anderson, D.S. Q., general staff officer, R.M.C., (chairman); Col. J. Sutherland the usual military enquiry is not at all adequate for the demands of the case. He is not only after a deci- sion on the case of his own son, but wishes also to bring out the cases of all recruits. He wishes it distinet- ly understood that he was making | no charges of any kind but intimated that nothing less than a full public enquiry, with members of the press present and, if possible, a represen- tative from the department of justice would satisfy him, "If only the military authorities are to be satisfied concerning the case," sald Major Arnold, "it is'hard. ly necessary to bring my son to Kingston. But, if the investigation Is of the nature I desire, one that will satisfy the public, then I shall cer- tainly bring the boy back." He intimated that he would leave Kingston tomorrow for New York to interview Cadet F.L.M. Arnold and Stated that he would very probab! bring him to Kingston, \ Under he circumstances, it is considered that the commandant would extend inde- finite leave of absence to the young recruit, -- Technically Soldiers. There seems to have been some doubt concerning the military stand- ing of the gentlemen cadets of the When they Tl 2B Kingston Works BY MOTHER [ure in coming to this fine old city . Browne, C.M.G., D.8.0., director of| Royal Military College, + Toronto, Feb 27.--Attorney-Gen« eral Nickle drew the attention of the legislature yesterday afternoon to the fact that Hon. Manning, when speaking on the budget, had charged that the present government had spent $28,000,000 in the last 3 1-2 months of the last fiscal year, while the former government had only spent $16,000,000. The attorney-general pointed out that the figures were transposed. Hon Mr. Doherty had made a mis- take of $12,000,000, or a relative mistake of $24,000,000. . } He stated that Mr. Doherty had the ability of an academic acrobat and the genius of a frenzied financier. He stated that he could not under- stand why Mr. Doherty had left his paternal farm to spend his life among the bulls and bears of a big city. . "The provincial treasurer says we have a deficit of $15,000,000. Have 'we or have we not? That is the question. We cannot hide it by a series of words if we haven't it, and We cannot make it in the same man- ner. Suffice to say we have a deficit of $15,000,000. Mr. Nickle said that today we have honest bookkeeping and that and flights of steps, and walls finely decorated and displaying the earliest known form of pictographie writing, Kish was the oldest capital of Babylonia, founded immediately after the flood. and was the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sar- gon, circa 2700 B.C., founder of the Empire of Agade. The present ruins show that the walls of the city com- prised a rectangular area, five miles long and two miles wide. Reply to Critics. INTEREST IN THE TARIFF Government Appears To Be Prepared to Implement Its Platform of 1919. Ottawa, Feb. 27.--Members are arriving at Ottawa 1p a fightiog mood. Conservatives, elated by the victoriessgained in Halifax and Kent, and encouraged by the speaking toar of Mr, Meighen, have a chip om thelr Shy ders and appear eager to as- sail the administration from dae start. Liberals, weary of ceing "on the defensive for two yoars, are de- termined to carry the fight into the enemy camp. There will be no silk gloves during the coming session from present indications. Charges of extravagancs will be thrown back in the face of Mr. Meighen and his party and refuted by a balanced budget. Taunts of breach of faith in the carrying out Spain's Withdrawal from Arms Parley Explained Rome, Feb. 27.-- The Spanish delegate to the League of Nations naval disarmament conference ex- plained that Spain's withdrawal from the deliberations last week was be-, cause the commission refuséd to ap- prove her demand for 105,000 tons of additional naval construction, of- fering instead to permit her 82,000 tons. Spain still maintains an ob- server at the proceedings. TRAVEL 1S HINDERED BY SNOW BLOCKED Rows Owners of Trotting Horses Face Difficulty in Trans- porting Entries to Races. ---------- Watertown, N.Y., Feb. 27.--~Trot- tinghorse owners having engage- ments for their charges at the Clay- ton ice races this week are finding difficulty in getting their animals to the Thotsang Islands terminal vil lage. The lieavy snowfall and gales of last week blocked the highways, which form the usual means of win- ter travel for race devotees. To com- plicate the situation, a namber of the Brhupectivs Tacely are assembled their accounts that should have been | 8¢. Alexandria Bay, where they gatn- left to the credit of the Conse ered for the opening meet of the government. winter circuit last week. oN : if \ Ale; ia Bay has no' railroad connections and omnibus and freight lines have thus far been unable to establish connections with the out. side world. ' Toward Clayton the eleven miles of road are piled high with drifts and at present the ice of the St Law. rence river's main channel between the two villages, piled so industri- usly by pleasure craft and freight. rs during the summer season, seems offer the hest means of traval r the horsemen, the province should have had it a quarter of a century ago. + Dealing with' reasyns why the de- ficit was so large, Nr. Nickle sald that the receipts for 1923 were $5,- 000,000 less than Peer Smith bad estimated would be elved. Addi- tional amounts had un piled up against the Conservative gov- ernment by the Juggling f the ac counts, by the y of pre-election pledges will be an- swered by tariff reforms of an im. portant character. Scandal talk win be replied to a proposal to irstitute an enquiry into the administra. tion of the business profits tax. That Liberal members in short, are prepared to pull together in the harness, is evident. And from pres. 'ent indications the spesch from the throne will be of such a char- acter as to revive the old fighting spirit in the government party and to secure heavy support from the un- official opposition. wy bey Deep interest is being manifssted in the tariff question. It appears to be taken for granted everywhero that the government are fpreparcd to implement to quite a considerable degree its tariff Platform of 1919... ------------------------ J. Read, Sidney, Dead. i Belleville, Feb. 27.--John Read, a well known and much respected far. mer of Sidney township, passed away on Monday morning. Deceased who Was fifty-five years of age, was born In England. For thirty-four years he had resided in Sidvey. For some {years he had been a member of tle ed the hooks on Oct. 31s the present government only 11 moaths. wis cession duties alone from the late Sir John Eaton the government had wrongfully applied $1,600,400 to -- Other Shortages, shortages formed by' ¢ ve government which hid been applied to the Drury go ment last year instead of creditin Con tive administratio; were as follows: - Py "astitations otor licenses . | Other "r++ $280,000 caiae a. 204000 Amusement tax .. .. ..., 136,000] - Corporations' Tax Art ..972,000 . Ho'alvo poiuted out fore was a {son survive, | 4 | Methodist church. A widow and ong! to transact their business. He men- tioned that representatives were present from as far west as Fort William and as far east at Ottawa. In graver tone he reminded the trustees of the responsibilities on their shoulders and of the import- ant part their work plays in the 1ifa of the community. Civic Welcome. Mayor Amgrove extendéd an of- ficial welcome to the delegates on behalf of the city of Kingston. He spokg of the fine Kingston Board of Edugation and of the co-operation bétween the members and the city ccupcil. Humorously he referred io the amount of money that a Board of [Education may demand from a 's finances and imparted the in- formation that, In Kingston last year, about one-third of the total revenue had een used for edusi- tional purposes. J. B. Cooke, chairman of the Kingston 3oard of Education, out- (Continued on Page 12.) THE WINDSOR. SMALLPOX "SCARE NOW MINNZED Rigid Precautions Are Being Taken in The Border Cities. Windsor, Feb. 27.--Although one more death, that of Merida Meloche, 29, wap reported within the past 24 hours, few new cffses of smallpox have been reported in the border cities, . Public schools of Windsor will be kept open but rigid precautions will be taken 'to prevent he spread of the disease. The Board of Education has engaged thrée extra nurses, one to be stationed in the Collegiate Institute and others in Prince Edward and As- ol -------- (ESP P 0229000000040 Telephoned Her Husband As She And Children Are . Overcome By Gas. Mrs. Ernest J. Cobb and her three small children, two girls and a boy, and one but an infant, had a mira- culous escape from déath on Tuesday afternoon when they were all over- come by illuminating gas in their bome at 68 Upper Charles street and only drew assistance by the use of the telephone. The family had noticed a slight smell of gas around the house but had paid little or no attention to it. Shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon one of the children went fast asleep and could not be awakened, As Mrs. Cobb was giving attention, another one of the children toppled over. The mother became alarmed and. ds she was be- ginning to feel the effects of the poison herself, went to the telephone to call her husband. While she was telephoning she was overcome. Mr. Cobb rushed to his home and found all the family unconscious. Dr. P. H. Huyck was called and the mother and her three little tots were rushed to the General Hospital where they were reported to be out of danger on Wednesday and progres- sing favorably, though still quite 111. Dr. Huyck had members of the staff of the public utilities make an inspection of the house and a serious leak was found in one of the gas pipes. Mrs. Cobb's action in going military operations and intelligence | enter they take an oath or declara- In Kingston district; Col. B. W.[tion which is very similar to that Browne, D.S.0., M.C., quarter-master| 2dministered to the enlisted private general of the district gtaff. of the permanent force, with the ex- Sir Archibald Macdonell, the com. | ception that "they are not amenable 'mandant, is not connected with the t0 court-martial. In all other mat- court in any way, except in such |ters they come under military regu- things as his testimony may be re-| lations and laws, technically, put quired. these are standing more as a moral Major Arnold, father of the boy! fect and there is no danger that Whose case Is to be settled, went to( 30 Of them would be carried out. the R.M.C. during the morning, and, -- after a short conference with the Premier Macdonald gets 67 Jou presiding officers of the enquiry, re- | rity in the British Commons over. turned to the city, where he €xpres- , the popular issue, with the Liberals sed himself as very much dissatisfied | ;, support. with the nature of the investigation. It is not likely that he will proceed ! any farther in the matter until a|¢# 4444464 ¢4900060¢4 more complete and public investiga-| > POPULACE STORMS R tion is instituted, + + KU KLux MEETING. & * a ta -- Wants Action. -- - When interviewed by members of (4 Waukesha, Wis., Feb. 27. v the press, Major Arnold voiced his | 4 Three thousand persons storm- + ideas in words tp this effect: | % ed the Commercial hotel, in the & "The members of the court are all | & heart of the downtown district & fine officers whose records of service % last night, put out the lights, & speak for themselves. But the court 4 smashed the windows, broke the * Itself does, not answer the purpose.' doors and disbanded an at- & I want an immediate decision on + tempted Ku Klux Klan organi- & this business and do not want it | » zation meeting, shelved." ad » The father of the boy stated that "P8204 940000000 0 to the telephone saved the lives of herself and her children. "The great national assembly on Tuesday voted confidence in the Ka- fandaris government. Four large buildings of the Wa- bash shops were destroyed by fire at Decatur, Hl. Loss $750,000. Samuel Russell, registrar, former- ly M.P.P. of East Hastings, died Tuesday afternoon at Belleviile. LIPE is a COLLECTION , Of ODDS and ENDS, © With MAN all the time PICKING UP THINGS ON THE SIDE. We have so much TIME, So much SPACE, And so LITTLE INTELLIGENCE. MANY: women clutter up USELESS THINGS, And STILL more Useicss ACQUAINTANCES, "You Said It, MARCELINE FALBOY. Marceline!" The things They can HOLD In their HANDS, And the WOMEN they can Hold in their ARMS, And FORGET that In the years to COME They are FORCED to Live with the things They have STORED UP In their HEARTS. Asd most MEN chase 3 > i