CAPITOL TO-DAY Name The Man By sth HALL CAINE Gaily British Whi CAPITOL "HER TEMPORARY . . HUSBAND" A Comedy Drama -- YEAR 91; No.66. PEE 242 4224230428 i» 0 T A VOTING + MORE EVIDENCE FOR 81s # THE DELORME DEFENCE BILL PASSED The County Magistrates Must Go To the Cases. ATIORMEY-GENERAL ASKS > . That Infringements of His o . Notice Be Brought to His . Attention. Toronto, March 18.--The legisla- ture sitting less than two hours yes- terday advanced a few government bills and many private bills a stage nearer finished legislation. Third reading was given to the bill en- abling the government to take a vote on the liquor question. Second reading was given the bill preventing municipalities from bonusing indus- tries except by granting fixed assess- ments for a period of ten years, and then only after two-thirds of tne qualified electors have voted favor- ably on H. Hon. W. PF. Nickle, attorney- general, said that Quebec was hav- ing the same legislation made effec- tive, go that the province could offer advantages to locating manufactur- ers. In view of the fact that sev- eral municipalities are taking votes on bonuses within the next month or two, the attorney-general amended his bill so that its terms do not be- come effective until July 1st. Second reading was also given a bill empowering the government to Pay straight salaries to crown at- torneys in counties containing cities ot over 30,000 people. The attor- mey-general explained that: this 'was @ step towards getting away from the free system. J. A. Currie (Soutn- Bast Toronto), sald it would be a good thing if all crown attorneys were put on salary. He also thought interpreters Should be paid salaries, 48 many of them were a menace to the proper carrying out of justice, as they fooled foreigners. The attor- ney-general sald he knew this, and was bringing in a bill empowering police commissions to engage inter- preters under a salary for the work done, so they would be put beyond the reach of avarice, 4 a -- Proulx (Liberal, Prescott) ested against the system of hav- ig county magistrates Instead of Justices of the peace for the trying OF minor offences. He said that go- 'Iug forty or fifty miles to the county town for the trial of a minor case, Was very inconvenient to the people Of the rural districts. Moreover, People did not attend these county trials, and consequently did not get Jto know the law as well as they did In the days of justices of the peace. Hon. Mr. Nickle said he had given * Montreal, March 18.--The Delorme murder trial has been prolonged by the defence de- cision to call more evidence. When the Monday afternoon session opened Lucien Gend- ron, associate counsel for the accused, stated that the defence would not conclude {ts case © +» +> * * * * + * + 4 until Tuesday night. > o> > + + * + +» * * » + * > ° 00002 C00t0eN0S DEMAND 21 P.C. INCREASE. Rand Miners' Request for Conoilin- tion Board Refused. Johannesburg, March 18.--The minister of mines has definitely re- fused the Rand miners' application for a board of conciliation under the Transvaal Act of 1909, to consider their demand for a 21 per cent. in- crease of wages, based on the cost of living, which was refused by the Chamber of Mines. The miners' leaders contend that the minister, having sanctioned the use of the act last year, is now tak- ing an inconsistent, not to say illegal, attitude. The act, still being unre- pealed, the policy of the miners' un- fon is to take every legal step laid down by law resorting to other measures. The next step may. take the form of an application to the supreme court for an order compel- ling the minister to carry out the law, Man Wanted for Murder 8lain by Sheriff in Duel Casper Wyo., March 18.--Fred Van Gordon, aged 42, Casper real estate and insurance agent, was shot to death in a duel with Sheriff Albert Peyton, of Converse county at Doug- las, Wyo., when the officer entered a hotel, where Van Gorden had taken a room, to arrest him on charges of slaying his wife and 12-year-old son, Arthur, The body of Mrs. Pearl Van Gor- den, the wife, prominent society wo- man, was found floating in Dump Bridge creek, two miles east of Cas- per. The son's body has not been re- covered, -------- WASHINGTON IS MORE DRCMAEN THAN PAR Cause. Washington, March 18.--The Dis- trict of Columbia is 300 per cent. more drunken than Paris and-2,000 per cent. more murderous than Lon- don, Representative Tinkham, Re- publican, Massachusetts, declared in a statement yesterday giving com- parative figures, Statistics on arrests here ag re- ported by the police department, Mr. Tinkham-said, "disclosed a civic de- instructions time and time again that the magistrates must go to the cases, and not have the cases brought to them. He invited mem- bers of the House to bring intringe- ments of this inctruction to his no- tice and they would be speedily In- vestigated. He admitted, too, that in not having the trials by justices . of the peace, no knowledge of "fire- side law' was being spread. In reply to questions, the premier #aid the replacement of Sheriff Sam Webster, of Halton, by A. McNab, Was a political move on the part of the former Premier Drury. Tha new Sovernment put Mr. Webster back in the position. Insurance Legislation, Hon. W. F. Nickle introduced a bill covering the whole sphere of in. surance In Ontario. The act, he sald, would be a monument to the industry and efficiency of Evan Gray, superintendent of insurance, who is quitting the government ser- vice on April 1st. Many of its clauses are left to the governor-in- counell to bring into effect. The clause of reciprocal insurance is sub- ject to this stipulation. Farmers' mutual companies are subject to an initial assessment of twenty-five per 'cent, where there is no reserve equal to fifty per cent. of the annual premiums. The bill was given first reading. 'The bill creating a legislative sec- _ Fetary for Northern Ontario passed ' through committee of the whole. JELLICOE RETURNING. -- Will Not' Extend Term as Governor General of NZ, Wellington, March 18.--It {sg offici- ally announced that His Excellency the Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, has declined to accept an extension of his term of office as Governor-General if New Zealand, and (will return to Eucla at the end of the year. The government asked Lord Jellicoe to ain, but received the reply that "Ahough he would like to remain, it Was necessary for family reasons that he should return home." : application for leave to ap- peal entered by J. M. Donahue on be 'of Sidney Murrell, condemn- urdered, at Osgoode Hall, To- pravity and social disintegration un- der present conditions and laws which are both appalling and unbe- lievable." Foremost causes 'for these amaz- ing and portentious phenomena of the American social decline," Repre- sentative Tinkham said, are the "loss of confidence in, and respect for con- by them," and the 'abdication of cer- from their spiritual direction and leadership and their assumption of Divorce in the United States, he sald, has Increased 100 per cent. in the last 10 years. London, with a population of 8§,- 000,000, Mr. Tinkham said, had 28 'murders in 1922, against 38 in the District of Columbia with a popula- tion of less than 600,000. In Paris Le sald, with a population of 3,000, 000, there were 16,000 arrests for drunkenness in 1923 against more than 8,000 arrests fqr drunkenness here. Boy Playfully Kills Sister. Constableville, March 18.--While at innocent play in the family home here yestefday, Carl Shultz, 14, came across an old-time shot gun and alm- ing at his sister, Geraldine, aged 2, pulled the trigger, sending nearly the entire shot fharge into her face and head, killing her instantly. The radio receiving set at the Vatican has been installed and Pope Plus already has . been "listening in" 7 eA AEE EEE EEE ERY) * + THREE ITALIANS BURNED TO DEATH ---------------------- Three Rivers, Que.,- March 18,--Eugenio Demarchi, Fran- cesco Calucl, and Luigi Mana- gatti were burned to death early this morning at La Ga- belle during a fire which de- stroyed the boarding house kept by one of their compat- riots, Ferraris. The victims were Italians employed by the St. Maurice Power Develop- ment Company. - Pree breeds $4906 90200040 * * 'has been set down for hearing , Mareh 20th. "0494 - P2022 200000000 gress and, therefore, for laws passed | political and legislative domination." ! KINGSTON, UNTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924, ------------ er ---- ANXIOUS FOR AN ELECTION Hon. Hugh Guthrie Challenges the Government 10.60 T0_ THE COUNTRY Hon. Dr. King Tells of the Growth of Business at Pert of Vancouver. Ottawa, March 18.--While the de. bate on the address to the Speech from the Throne occupied the major part of yesterday afternoon in the House ot Commons, important an- nouncements by the prime minister on the development of the St. Law- rence deep waterways and on the Royal Commission investigating the affairs of the Home Bank over- shadowed the debate in importance. The prime minister made an ex- tended statement on action taken up to the present time by his Govern- ment on the St. Lawrence deep waterways' question, and in response to a query from Sir Henry Drayton replied that in the final analysis no action that would bind Canhda would be taken without the sanc- tion of the House of Commons. The Orders-in-Council dealing withi the Royal Commission investi- gating the Home Bank were tabled and disclose the interesting fnforma- | tion that thes~eommission will have power to inquire into action of de- positors who withdrew thelr . de- posits from the bank a short -time before its failure. This is a conces sion by the Government to the ®p- position, which, outside the House, has made certain charges against o member of the Government to the effect that he used certain informa- tion in his capacity as 'a member of the Government about the affairs of the Home Bank, and withdrew his deposit a few days before its fail- ure. In the near future an interest- ing debate will be staged In the House of Commons on the Home Bank failure, which will result, in all probability, in much dirty linex being washed in public. "Ane feature of 'address to the Speech from the Throne was a challenge from the Hon. Hugh Guthrie, former Min- ister of National Defense in tho Meighen Government, to Premier King to go to the country and test public opinion. Mr. Guthrie stated that the Liberal party would be so badly beaten that very few of their present followers would be returned to the House. Mr. Guthrie also chal- lenged the prime minister to create & vacancy to test public opinion if he did not believe that he had lost the confidence of the people of the dominion. He charged the Govern- ment with hanging on to office against the traditions of Britain, and in contrast to the fearless action of the former Conservative premier, Mr. Meighen. Mr. Guthrie dealt at length with | the question of the tariff and men- tioned particularly' the Canadian woollen industry, and the effect the tain sects ot the Christian church |iRcrease in the British preference | had had upon it, He stated that the exchange situation, combined with increased preference, had closéd out a number of big factories in Canada. Canada imported 3.8 square yards ot British woollen goods for every man, woman and child, and he felt sure | that these goods could be and should be made in Canada. Public Works. The Hon. Dr. J. Hing, ministe, of Public Works, who' comes from British Columbia, stated that there had been in his own department a careful scrutiny of expenditure, and argued that during the last decade the lowest axpenditures for public works, except for two years during the war, had been since the present Liberal Government had taken of- fice, * Dr. King gave some remarkable figures on the increase in export business through Vancouver pon dtring the past four years, and showed that while in the crop year of 1920 and 1921 approximately 7, 000,000 bushels of wheat had pass- ed through Vancouver, outward bound, he believed that during the present crop year the total export would amount to 50,000,000 bushels, the same applied to lumber, he stat- ed. It was due to the fact that Ca. nadians were beginning to realiza that it was a good thing to ship through the Panama canal. R. A. Hoey, Progressive member for Springfield, Man., and generally regarded as one of the most elo- quent members in the House of Commons, attacked the protectionist policy of the Conservative party, which he likened to "crying for more snow, while the free traders looked confidently to the spring." - A national lockout in British ship. building is the prospect this week if the men persist in refusing the em- ployers' terms. : the debate on the ; vr EAE EEE EERE EE REE ER % REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT STRONG IN PERSIA Paris, March 18.--The re- publican movement in Persia is assuming a serious aspect for the dynasty. Thirty-six former ministers of the crown, in the course of a meeting, pledged themselves to demand the abolition of the present re- glme and the creation of a re- public, * $ + -* +> * > % +* + | * +» + + + + » SEEPS IIIS AEE EEE EEX EX ~-- PUBLIC WILL JUDGE. . +2 Paris Theatres phun Press Critics on First Nights. Paris, March 18.--French theatrs managers are to give the general public the first taste of theatrica) productions and hereafter will allow critics t ohave their say only after theatre patrons have manifested their sentiment instead of inviting the critics to the first night's per- formance. Invitation to the theatres will be for the third of fourth per- formances: 1 Appeal has been made to the Paris Press Association to back the eritics in the resistance of such a measure their occupation, that of informing the public concerning new produc- tions. Taking the critics' view, the press association demands that man- agers allow the writers to have first chance to judge new pleces. M. Antoine, a retired manager. who is now one of the'leading critics, declares that the absemge of a prop- er opportunity for the'press to make immediate and impafjal review of theatrical performances is all that js needed to complete absolute commer- clalization of thé theatre. NO WATERWAY DEAL WITHOUT HOUSE SANCTION {Premier King So Informs Sir Henry Drayton in the Commons. Ottawa, March 18.--Premier Kiug in' the House yesterday explained why announcement of the agreement between Canada and the United States had been given out in Wasi- ington ahead of the announcement in Ottawa. The reason was, ne 1] J morning «that the announcement was being made in Washington. There had been an agreement between the two governments for an announce ment on the ' 14th, subject to comn- firmation by telegram, but no tele- gram had been received in Ottawa from Washington till Saturday. After this statement, the premier explained the arrangement between the two governments, under which the joint engineering board to ex- amine the project is to be enlarged from two members to six, three ro- presenting each country. The Cana- dian government had intimated to the authorittes at Washington that it was proposed to appoint a na- tional committee to advise the gov- ernment, The Americahs had in re- turn suggested that they should also appoint a hational committee, and that these two tommittees should confer to the joint engineering board. The Canadian government had pointed out that this would turn the national committee into an in- ternational body, and as a result it had been decided that each govern- ment should appoint one or two men to confer on the questions to be submitted to the engineers, this body being separate from the na- tional committees. The Canadian government had further appointed an inter-departmental committee :2 accumulate information and also to advise the national committee. The Canadian national committee had not yet been appointed. The {nter-departmental committee con- sisted of Col. 0. M. Biggar, K.C., as chairman ,and a representative from each of the departments of railways and canals, marine and fisheries, interior, public works, trade and commerce, and finance, Sir Henry Drayton asked whether the House of Commons would be consulted. "No action that will bind the country," was the prime minis. ter's reply, "will be taken without the sanction of the House." CROSSES THE FLOOR OF SUEY ht Regina, Sask., March 18.--For tha first time in the history "of Sas- katchewan, a legislative assembly Pmember of opposition _, yesterday crossed the floor of the house and took his seat om the right of the speaker as a supporter of the gov- ernment. W. H. McKinnon, __ Independent member for Wadena, achieved this distinction after expressing his "great admiration" for the clear, by Premier Dunning last week. DE r---------- Tr ------ which, the writers say, robs them of | BOND DEALER UNDER GRILL Made Loans Before Elections Without Even An LO.U. 1 W. CURRY A BORROWER Jocular Remarks About Cam- paign Fund---The Fat Pro- fit of D. K. Ridout. Toronto, March 18.--In pursuing last night the disposal by Dougia. K. Ridout of the $100,000 profit he made out of a province of Ontario $10,000,000 treasury bill transac- tion in New York, the public ac- counts committee of the Legislature established that on May 10th, 1923, Mr. Ridout made a personal loan CPP EFPEIPPIPPLIPPED * + UNIDENTIFIED MAN LEAPS INTO RAPIDS Niagara Falls, N.Y., March 18.--An unidentified man leap- ed 200 feet from the tower steel arch bridge - into the whirlpool rapids at midnight last night. A woman, who walked across the bridge soon after the man left the United States side, reported to the au- thorities that he climbed the 3 railing at the middle of the bridge and plunged into the # rapids. + > treet FESR Tere Earthquake Rocks An Island And Houses Are Demolished Tokio, March 18. -- Many houses were demolished Satur- day evening by a severe earth- quake which rocked the south- ern section of Saghalien island, off the east coast of Asia. Sev- eral persons were injured, but none were killed, : > * + 2 +> - + + +* > * + * * * +» +> * + +» * +* * + + + * of $3,000 to J. W. Curry, K.C., pres- ent registrar of deeds in Toronto, and former Liberal member for Southeast Toronto during the Drury administration. It was established, and the point followed up vigorously by Govern- ment examiners, that although the loan was made on May 10th, 1923. Mr. Ridout had got Mr. Curry's promissory note for it only yester- | day. He never got anything at all for {the loan before yesterday, he stat- 1 ed, knowing that Mr. Curry, a per- | sonal friend, was good for it any | time. a -- Banker Creates Sensation, GQ. G. Adam, local manager of the Bank of Montreal, with whose of- fice Mr. Ridout made his transac tions subsequently to the discount. ing of the bills in New York creat- ed somewhat of a sensation by stat ing that Mr. Ridout in discussing the $100,000 profit with him had sald that if he had anything left after paying bills, and so forth, he might contribute something to "the fund." Mr. Adam stated that he was not a politician, but he understood it to mean some political fund. Cross-examined by Mr. Doherty on the subject, Mr. Adam stated, however, that Mr, Ridout had made the statement jocularly, and he AT HOE Sta aby Door ace 1s TE | The bank manager had simply com- mented that $100,000 was a lot of money for a young man to make to quickly, and he hoped he would spend is wisely, and Mr. Ridout had laughed and made the reply. Pre- viously in evidence Mr. Ridout hau stated that he divided his $100,000 profit with nobody. Mr. Adam told the committee that in discussing the $100,040 | profit he had remarked that it was a lot of money for the Province of Ontario to pay for the flotation of a $10,000,000 loan, Fh Made Fat Profit, In answer to the questions of Pro- vincial Treasurer Price, he said he thought one-sixteenth of 1 per cent. | would have been a fair profit: for | any broker or middleman to make on a deal of that kind, whereas Mr. Ridout's profit represented a full 1 per cent. In fact, Mr. Adam thought that tender offers would have shaded even that one-gsixteenth. One- sixteenth of 1 per cent. would have shown a profit of about $6,250. Another transaction of Mr. Ri- dout, of interest to the committee, made subsequent to his prout of $100,000 on the Province of On- tario Treasury bills, was the pur. chase of $20,000 worth of bearer bonds from L. C. Owen & Co. Mr. Ridout admitted to Mr. Price that they could have been tansferred to anybody. But Mr. Ridout said they had been cold, and he fixed the ap- proximate time of their sale at about two months ago. The committee de- cided to have produced the bank sheets covering Mr. Ridout's ae- count right up to ' date, "to see whether the $20,000 went back in the bank." i Nothing To Hide Toronto, March 18.--""I have no- thing to hide. I am ready to™fake the stand and tell all about it," said J. Walter Curry, city registrar of deeds, today'in regard to the testi- mony of D. K. Ridout before the public accounts committee that Mr. Curry had secured a loan of three thousand dollars from him shortly eter Mr. Ridout had made his hun- dred thousand dollars profit on ten million dollar treasury bill transac tions, $150,000 Fire Damage In La Tuque, Que. Quebec, March 18.--Fire, broke out at 6 o'clock last evening in the Page restaurant in La Tuque, menaced the whole town for a time and when controlled at eight o'clock, damage was estimated at $150,000, In addition to the Windsor hotel, the Page general store, the Clou- tier barber shop and the residence of 8. Calzo were completely destroyed. Two other small stores were also which |. Shocks are continuing end the inhabitants are in a state of terror. In places, eight-foot fissures have appeared in the earth. SENTENCE I8 IMPOSED ON JOHN WASHKALLIS Deported - From Penitentiary Faced Charge in States. Word was received in the city on Tuesday momning from the warden of the Weflern penitentiary, Pitfy- burg, Pa., that John Washkallis, alias Robert Kennedy, alias Bud Harding, was sentenced to from two to four years on a charge of escap- ing from the Western penitentiary in September! 1919. In addition, Washkallis will have to serve nearly five years of his sentence he was serving when he made his sensation. al escape. The prisoner was convicted in Qt- tawa on Dec. 13th, 1919, for burg- lary at the home of Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, Speaker of the House of Commons, Oftawa. ------ ENT my Hi [4] i COMMIT For the Same Reason as Caused Canada's Repre- sentatives to Protest. Paris, March 18.--Gaston Vidal, under secretary of state, along with four other members of the Olympic committee, has resigned from the committee for the same reason that caused P. J. Mulqueen, Toronto, chairman of the Canadian Olympic committee, and other Canadians, to register a vigorous protest while at Chamonix recently. The protest of the Canadians was on the grounds that representatives of moras import- ant sports such as hockey, foothall, rowing and boxing, should have more votes on the eommittee thax representatives of non-Olymple sports. Also that points awarded te more important events should be greater than those awarded for ski- ing and bobsleighing. OFFERED POLICEMAN BRIBE. U. 8. Representative Is Held on a Serious Charge. Washington, D.C., March 18. John Wise, police officer, who as- sisted in the arrest of Representa- tive Knutson of Minnesota ani Le- roy M. Hull, government employee on March 9th, testified in court to- day that Knutson offered him a blank cheque and told him to name the amount, to settle the case out of court, Both men were found in a parked automobile outside the city and are held on serious charges. i ais 1s LAST EDITION THE NET DEBT OF KINGSTON Is Shown To Be Lite Over Na Million Dollars. THE CITY 1S FORTUNATE In Its Financial Position--lts Bonds Yield Highest Price in the Market. The civic budget, as prepared by | the finance committee, fixing the tax {rate at 35 mills as a general rate | and 1 mill for garbage collection and disposal was passed at a meeting of the city couneil held.on Monday night and a by-law passed sthiking the rate. The budget in detail appeared in Monday's Whig. As the result of a request made by Mayor Angrove, the members of | the council had before them a very important report from the city treas- user, O. V. Bartels, dealing with the bonded debt and municipal assets, ap~ plicable against the same. Mayor Angrove stated that he had asked for this report in view of state- ments which had been made in coun= cil, no doubt in good faith. It had been sald that the city was so heave ily in debt that it would be impos- sible to raise the taxes, The report would give the council an idea of the x city's standing. The report as pre- sented to Mayor Angrove by the city . treasurer, and read to council by the city clerk, follows: Net Debt of $240,000. Bonded debt, Dec. 31st, 1923, $2, 414,622. Less Utilities debt $619,600; own ers' portion L. I. debt $432,000; sink- ing fund $347,226. Total $1,398,- 826. Net debt paid by tax rate $1,016,« 7986. > Value of municipal assets, applic- able against the above, composed of public school property, city bufldings and markets, cereal building, House of Refuge, fair grounds, fire halls and miscellaneous property, $1,188, 723. § TT : Sey | $112,927. Utilities debt $619,600; value of plant and property as shown on the books. Old value. Electric $547,656; Bas works, $433.974; water works $464,000; sinking fund $77,400. To- tal $1,522,930. Showing surplus assets of $903,+ 330. Owners' portion Local ment debt, $432,000; less sinking fund, $192,000. Net debt $240,000. The above debt is paid by special annual rate levied.on property bene- fited. i 1 Improve- | -- Summary 1 Total value of municipal assets {n- cluding sinking fund, $3,260,879; total gross debt, $2,414,622; value of assets over liabilities $836,257. The present market value of the public utilities is at least one half million more than the figures shown above, as nothing has been added to the amount of the arbitration awards : made twenty or thirty years ago. i { City's Good Credit. | City Clerk Sands reviewed the! statement of the treasurer for the council, emphasizing the point that the sale of bonds was the best of any city in Ontario. Kingston city bonds also sold higher than dominion or One tario bonds. The reason tor this was that the city had good credit, There were large\ municipal assets applie- able against the debt. The eivic utilis ties were great revenue producers. The waterworks department was a great asset, (Cofitinued on Page 3.) ---------- "One half of the World Never knows How the Other half Lives . Whoever said that, Said--SOMETHING For MANY A MAN Has come to realize That, although he ic MARRIED, he can NEVER Be quite sure what - His OTHER HALF Is doing-- © And MANY WOMEN Are TROUBLED With the SAME though ' badly damaged hy fire 2nd smoke. + "You Said It, Marceline!" DY MARCELINE d'ALROY seme On "Knowing the Other Halt" Regarding their husban ig: I mean their HUSBAND. In these MODERN DAYS 5 Vith so MANY WOMEN in BUSINESS, And MARRIED PEOP! E Living in APARTMENTS, Both men and women SEE MORE of each other, And perhaps KNOW MORE Of each other, But | often wonder Do EITHER the men or The women THINK ANY MORE Of each other? Or--CAN'T THEY? Covrign, 1924, Premier Syodicsts, ioe.