CAPITOL TO-DAY Moate Blue, irene Rich "FLAMING PASSION" The Daily British YEAR 91; No. 72. RIVER SCHEME | NOT FAVORED Much ie of POWER IS GREAT NEED Of Eastern Ontario---Premier Investigation. Ottawa, March 25.--Initiated by | Joseph Archambault, Idberal .mem ber for Chambly-Vercheres, a dis- cussion on the St. Lawrence water- way route the establishment of dams on the St. Lawrence took place in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon. Most of the members who took part in the debate expressed their opposition to the proposed scheme, notably BE. C, St. Pere, Lib- eral member for Hochelaga, who stated that he spoke for all public bodies and the people of Montreal. A notable feature of the debate was the opposition expressed by John Millar, Progressive member for Qu'Appelle, who questioned the claim that water-routing to the sea would effect any saving in the carrying costs of western grain. Mr. Millar stated that slowness of travel through canal systems was a factor against their ecomomy, and that insurangb rates would be higher on vessels forced to traverse & great length of canal mileage. He urged caution and full investigation. The following Liberal members, J. BE. Fontaiine, Hull; Frank Cahill, Pontiac, and BE. A. Lapierre, Nipis- sing, all opposed the St. Lawrence development. They all favored the Georgian Bay canal scheme, while Mr. Cahill feared thas final lcss of her rights by Canada should she en- ter into a deal witha larger power, such as the United States. Even ter- ritorial rights might be jeopardiz- ed, he urged, which had been the history of areas traversed by inter- national canals. Eastern Ontario Wants Power. Three Conservative members epoke, Hon. Dr. Manion, Fort Wil. - A.B. Ross, Kipgston,. nry Drayton. Both Dr. Manion and . Ross favored the St. Lawrence development, while Sir Henry Dray- ton was non-committal. Dr. A. BE. Ross (Conservative, Kingston) said the problem of East- ern Ontario was not navigation, but power. Power was urgently needea and the province of Ontario was ready to provide it, without cost to any other government, if given the opportunity. The danger to the lake levels through diversion of water from the Upper Lakes was serious and, if diversion continued, wide- spread epidemics were probable. -- Premier Sums Up. The prime minister, in summing up the debate, spoke as follows: "I think I can say all that is to be Said on behalf of the Govern- ment on this motion in a few minu In i CAPITOL an expert technical board that will report on that particular phase. The Government has also appointed a small inter-departmental com- mittee, composed of officers of the Departments of Rallways and Canals, Marine and Fisheries, Pub- lic Works, Interior, Trade and Com- merce and Finance, to assemble such information as is contained in the departments of the Government, and also to go carefully into this project from the point of view of the knowledge which Government officials have in regard to it. These are all steps in the nature of cau- tion, and if anything more is needed, it will be found in my announce- ment the other day that the Gov- ernment would not think for a mo- ment of committing the country to any project as great as this, in- volving 0 much for both the pre- sent and the future, as this project does, without first submitting the whole matter to Parliament for its consideration." EPP FPPC ETLOSPSS RAFTING CEASES IN ST. JOHN RIVER Fredericton, N.B., March 25.--Because the St. John River Log Driving Company is going into ' liquidation the booms which have been annually hung on the St. John River above and below Fredericton, for seventy-five years or more, will not be placed this spring, and rafting operations will not be carried on at the customary rafting grounds. Shr PEEP P SPER PEP FEPPPLEPPIOPSS SETTLERS FOR CANADA. Many Travelling Under Canadian Bonus Scheme. London, March 25.--Including 300 Irish farm laborers who joined the liner at Queenstown, the Cunarder Lancastria, which sailed for Halifax, carries one thousand passengers, a majority of whom are travelling un- der the Canadian bonus scheme, The vessel also has several large con- ducted parties aboard, including one of Scandinavian farm laborers and another comprising boys drawn from various orphans' homes in Britain, their ages ranging up to 17 years. A number of men proceeding to Can- ada under a scheme of assured farm work are also aboard, "i1POSHAE- EMPLOYEES REPORTED SATISFIED Conference With Hon. OC. Stewart Had Good Result ----No Threat of Strike. - Ottdwa, March 25.--_The grievance of the postal clerks from the loss of their cost of living bonus which they have been bringing before the prima minister and members of the gov- ernment for the last week, is now In a fair way of being satisfied as a re- sult of a meeting between their re- presentatives and sthe acting post- master-general, Hon. Charles Stew- art, yesterday afternoon. At the conclusion of the audience Mr. Stewart stated that the delega- tion seemed satisfied with what the tes. The motion is entirely in ac- cord with the - Government's owe policy of getting as much informa- tion before proceeding in any offi- clal way with this great project, and also of having the public as fully {informed as possible on all the aspects and bearings of the question. Mr. Archambault, who has intro- duced the resolution, has spoken very emphatically of the many im- portant considerations which this country should take into account before concluding any treaty as far- reaching as a treaty. relating to the deepening of the St. Lawrence waterways would be. Mr. Cahil, who has just taken his seat, has made mention of one consideration, namely, the international complica- tions that may arise at any time, which also helps to illustrate how important it {s that every aspect and possible bearing on the question should be fully considered before anything fn the nature of finality is submitted to Parliament or is ac- cepted by the Government. It has been for that purpose that the Gov- ernment has decided to appoint a national committee to advise the Government on just such matters as have been referred to by hon. members who have spoken. The Government recognized that this is perhaps as large an under taking as the country has ever been called upon to consider, and our whole point of view is that there should ba an inquiry by a national committee of outstanding citizens of this country, in whom the public at large would have confidence, and to whom the Government may look for careful, thoughtful advice in regard to the different aspects of the Question. Expert Board. "The Government has agreed to refer to an ealarged joint engineer- ing board just such questions as Mr. . Archambault has mentioned, name- "ly, the practicability of this scheme, government is coing. The conclu- ston he drew from the discussion was that the postal clerks would be con- tent if the salary revision announced by the prime minister were put through without delay. There were two or three minor matters upon which representations were made which remained to be settled. Mr. Stewart said that no threat of a strike of the postal clerks had been made to him, and he was taking no steps in anticipation of 'such a de- velopment. Postal employees, after the con- terence, stated they expected to have the government's reply to thelr salary demands to-day. They say they asked for upward salary revision, effective from April 1st, 1924, ---------------- WILL VISIT CANADA. Sir Campbell Stuart to Sail April 9th on Annual Trip, London, March 25.--S8ir Campbell Stuart, of the London Times, will sail on April 9th for his annual visit to Canada. Sir Campbell denies em- phatically the statement made in a Toronto paper that he will accept a post in the Dominion Department of External Affairs, ---------- Late E. W. Billings. Brockville, March 25.--Word was received here of the death, at Port- age la Prairie, Manitoba, of Ernest Ww, Billings, son of Elkanah Billings, of. Elizabethtown, Deceased, who was forty-one years of age, was a victim of pneumonia. He had been employed as conductor in the Cana- dian National Rallways service. A wife and child survive. The body will be brought here to-day. i ---- Died in Newark Hospital. Newark, N.J., March 26.--Jack Bulger, manager of Mickey Walker, welterweight champlon of the world, died this morning in §t. Michael's Hospital from peritonitis which followed acute appendicitis. its cost, and particularly the effect upon the river levels. That will be Bulger underwent an operation last week, i FIFE PEAS ree re Ise KINGSTON, UNTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH TWENTY-ONE Re Terriers BILLS PASSED In the Ontario Legislature At Monday's Session, NICKEL MINE PROFITS The Reduction of That Tax Was Opposed By Hon. Manning Doherty + THE GREEK ASSEMBLY VOTES FOR REPUBLIC ¢ + Athens, March 25.--The na- 4 # tional assembly, to-day, passed + # a resolution in favor of the 4 # overthrow of the Glucksburg + # dynasty and the establishment 4 * of a Greek repuklic, + * * * PEPE EEE PPPS OPIETS DIED OF STARVATION, Two Blind Brothers Pass When Sis- ter Dies. Chicago, March 25.--Death from starvation claimed Andre ang Theo- {dore Kloster, seventy and seventy- two years old, and blind since birth, when their sister, Anna Kloster, aged sixty-five, who had cared for them, died suddenly, according to the theory of terday found the bodies of the three in a building in which they had lived for fifty years, Toronto, March 24. --Twenty-one bills were given third reading in the legislature Yesterday, and are ready for the statute books. These included bills to establish a separate ministry of health; to appoint a legislative secretary for Northern Ontario; to | license saw, pulp, and paper mills; | to prevent bonusing of industries by municipalities; and to amend the mining tax act. The others were pri- vate bills and minor amendments to statutes, The mining tax bill was the only one bringing forth discussion. This bill, which reduces the tax on nickel mine profits to the same basis as that of other mines, was opposed by Hon. Manning Doherty, who stated that as there were no profits from nickel mines to tax now he thought the bill could wait. He could see no need for a change when nothing was to be gained. Hon. Charles McCrea, minister of mines, explalmed that the war had provided the great markets for nickel. Now the nickel miners were trying to find markets in the indus- trial world, and the reduction of the tax would assist in securing a greater interest. The bill was passed. Second reading was given a bill allowing cities to lower business taxes ~on downtown lots used as parking spaces. A bill providing that counties shall take over cemeteries where the owners are unknown also passed second reading. The act amending the pharmacy act, making matriculation standing necessary' for entrance to the school -------- of pharmacy, and giving the pharm- CPLPPEF EFFI C SISO acy council greater power in dealing ® with those of their profession infrin- + FOREIGNERS SHOOT ging the narcoflc drug and Ontario * IMMIGRATION OFFICER. Temperance Act, also passed sec- ---- Ppl - W® Niagara Falls "March 28" oo Hon. W. F. Nickle introduced a Gilbert Carter, customs and im- bill giving police commissions of migration officer at Lewiston cities over 50,000 the right to ap- N.Y. was shot five times and point interpreters with salaries. The seriously wounded by a party of amendments to the insurance act Toreigners early this morning when he challenged the men were considered in committee, who were landing from a boat on the United States side of the river, -- Gouin For The Senate? Quebec, March 256.--Private ip- formation received from Ottawa from a reliable source has it that Sir Lomer Goutn is to be appointed to the senate before the end of the Present federal session for La Salle division, which was rendered va- vant through the death of Senator Godbout, FOUR BANDITS GP" BIG SUN OF X Take Two Sacks of Mali taining Between $110, and $150,000. Chicago, March 25.--Four bandit. held up a postal messenger in Hur- ney suburb early to-day and es- caped with two sacks of mail re- ported to contain between $110,000 and $160,000 in currency consign- ed to manufacturing companies. The robbers intercepted William Russell, postoffice clerk, who was | carrying the mail sacks from ; the rallroad station to the postoffice, seized the two sacks containing the money and escaped in an automo- bile, L 4 Japan Will Make Targets Of Condemned Battleships Tokio, March 25.--Hulks of the battle craft condemned in conse- quence of the Washington naval treaty will be used as objects for target practice. The old battleship Iwami will be a target in April for a new triplane bomber recently com- pleted by the navy. Two-thousand pound bombs will be used. A few weeks later the battleships Aki and Satsuma, on which the first | stages of scrapping has been com- pleted, will be used to test the effec- tiveness of the 16-inch guns of the superdreadnoughts Nagato and Mut- su. > * * - > * * * * * * * * + * ° PEPLIPPP22 00000 0 ---------- Assets of Home Bank. Toronto, March 25.--Matters af- fecting the assets of the Home Bank of Canada were under consideration by inspectors of the bank this morn- ing and this afternoon a general meeting of the depositors committee took up points in connection with the investigation to be conducted by Chief Justice McKeown of Naw Brunswick, -- Hover Between Life and Death, Oshawa, March 25. -- Kenneth Brooks and B. Barton, Whitby, are still hovering between life and death at Oshawa general hospital SPRING HAS ARRIVED IN WESTERN CANADA Manitoba Farmers Putting In ~ Wheat and Golfers Going to Links. car accident on the Kingston road early Saturday morning when they collided with « heavily-loaded motor truck. -- Lady Astor's Niece Weds. London, March 25.--Miss Alice Perkins, niece of Lady Astor, was married to Hon. Reginald Winn at St. James' Church, Piecadilly, yes- terday. Lady Astor held a reception at St. James Square after which the couple left for a honeymoon in Spain. Winnipeg, March 25.--Seeding and golf have opened their 1924 seasons in Manitoba. Abram Buhler, a farmer near Plum Coulee, has made a start at putting in his wheat. Scores of Winnipeg golfers made thelr way to the links Suaday, and for the most part found the courses in fair condition. Practically all the snow has gone. March has upheld the reputation of the entire winter for mildness and dryness. The average temperature in Winnipeg for the month to this date is 24 degrees, which is 7.1 higher than the average of March for six- teen years, and not once hag the thermometer descended to zero. Thig condition is representative of West- ern Canada generally. The total precipitation of rain and SNOW as registered in Winnipeg from November 1st, 1923, to March 23rd, Is only 2.05 inches, as compared with an average of 4.95 over a per. fod of 47 years. Thé fnches repre- sent moisture, ten inchés of snow counting as one inch of rain. Meantime there is a ding, the birds are coming , only shore fce is left in the Assiniboine, the Winnipeg police have discarded their furs and thousands of motor cars'are being taken from their win- ter storage. y ---------------- Canadian Pacific Railways earn- ings for the week ending March 21st Were 33,401,000; increase, $515, 000, Four Rum-Runners Perish. New York, March 25.--Four rum- runners perished when police boat bullets, caused an explosion which wrecked the motorboat. THE DEATH SENTENCE LIKELY T0 CONTINUE London, March 25.--"So far as my long parliamentary experiemca E0€s, there is very little evidence of any general public desire to abolish th'e death sentence," declared Home Secretary Henderson to a deputa- tion, to-day, urging the abolition or capital punishment. Mr. Henderson's Glctum was a surprise to the depu- tation which had felt encouraged in ed bud- : HOME BANK the police who yes- | 4 dlans as a people and, since so many from' injuries sustained in a motor' 25, 1924, DAY IS SET House of Commons to Discuss L Resalutions Thursday, INDUSTRIAL PROBLENS © Bi fo the C.N.R. Ottawa, March 25.--By designa- tion of the prime minister Thurs- day of this week is set apart as a sort of "Home Bank fleld day" for parliament. In the Commons yester- day afternoon Mr. King stated that on that day he would give right of way to the resolution of William Ir- vine (Labor, Calgary), which provid- es: For of "That, in the opinion of this house, a parliamentary committee should be appointed immediately to investigate the Home Bank failure, with a view to discovering any weak- nesses in the Bank Act which may be amended to prevent a similar oc- currence; to devise some means of protecting depositors generally, and to make recommendations as to the possibility of saving the Home Bank denositors from loss." ndustrial Problems, nergence the world over idustria. problems as peculiarly ate in national and interna- oi | Importance has not left Can- «da unaffected, and her parliament chortly may be obliged to recognize the fact. That much was admitted in the Commons last night when the prime minister, accepting a resolu- tion by J. 8S. Woodsworth (Labor, Winnipeg, Centre) which called for the appointment of a parliamentary committee on industrial matters, | suggested that there might be called | into activity a new committee, to be j known as that on "Industrial and International Problems." His suggestion met with immedi- ate favor from the prime minister, who not only welcomed the idea, but at once enlarged it. Internation- al problems, he said, were more and more forcing themselves upon Cana- of these problems were industrial, they might well be handed over to a committee such as that suggested. Two of the existing parliamentary conmittees might be merged, he inti- mated, to clear the way for forma- tion of the new one, -- C.N.R. Branch Line Bills. Hon. G. P. Graham, minister of railways, intends to bring down twenty-six separate bills for the branch lines prograinme of the Ca- nadian National Railways. Last year they were all covered in one bill, which was rejected by the sen- ate. By bringing down a separate bill for each line, there will be an opportunity for parliament to dis- criminate between the different LAST EDITION etre P et PrEILILILYSY & * ROUND-THE-WORLD "FLIGHT HAS BEGUN * * Liverpool, March 25.--The British round-the-world flight, + under Squadron Leader A. & % Stuart MacLaren, started this « # morning the plane taking off + from Calshot airdrom., near ¢ + here, shortly after noon. > * * tec v 00ers News off the Wires In Condensed Form ously {ll at Ottawa. Senator G. W. Fowler is danger- W. C. Good, M.P., predicts absorp- tion of Liberal party by Progressives, New attempt is launched to save Murrell and Williams from gallows. «The average weight of the Cana- dian farm hen is steadily Increasing. New Liskeard Creamery patrons ask government to operate plant an- other year, White salmon were painted red in Chicago and sold at four times the value of the white kind. Premier Mussolini of Italy, told Rumania to pay its debts or keep its king at home, Nationalist Meighen at Armand Lavergne, leader, acclaims Mr, Montreal banquet. Building is to start soon on the construction of a three-million dol- lar alloy steel plant at Sarnia. Reform of Senate will be urged by Senator Turiff when upper house re- Sumes, says the Ottawa Citizen. Relations between Dublin and London are not affected by the shooting 'at Queenstown, Ireland. Toronto street railway men seek better working conditions and five cents per hour increase for repairs staff, Chatham council fixed the tax rate at thirty and a halt mills, two and a half-mill reduction from the previ- ous year. The recovery of a stolen ring in| a Toronto pawnshop is expected to help clear up a number of recon: robberies in Galt. Wheat seeding was commenced in the Plum Coulee district, southern Manitoba, last Friday, The land is in excellent condition. The contract for the government grain elevator at Edmonton has been awarded to the firm of Carter-Halls- Aldinger, Winnipeg. Sergt. Coleridge, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, stationed at Dauphin, Man., has been missing for the past ten days. An interim. supply hill. gor $40, 871,970, being one-sixth of the esti- mates, was put through the House of Commons on Monday afternoon. Immigration this year has started off well, the arrivals during Febru- ary having been 6,106, an increase of 86 per cent. over that for the same month last year, An interim supply bill for $40 - 871,970, being one-sixth of the esti- mates, was put through all stages in a few minates in the House of Commons Monday afternoon There has been no decision relached regarding a third trial for Abbe Adelard Delorme and ther: will be none before Wednesday morning, when the Quebec Cabinet meets. branch lines, if so desired. In all bills, it is intimated, the three-year provision of last year will be includ- ed SLAYER OF COBBLER DIES ON THE GALLOWS Wilfrid Stonge Hanged at Montreal--Leaves Prayer Book to Jaller. Montreal, March 25. --Wildrid Stonge was hanged this morning for the murder of Nestor Gavrilviteh, a cobbler, whom he shot on the street near his shop on the night of April 1st, 1922. The hanging was per- formed without a hitcH. "Good day, thank you, goodbye for ever." With these words upon his lips the condemned man walked to the scaffold and the trap was sprung eleven seconds after he had left his cell. The attitude of indifference that he had assumed from day that he was sentenced to die was main- talned to the end. Upon the trap, as the black cap was about to be adjusted by Hang- man Ellis, he was heard to say in a steady voice, "God forgive me for any harm that I have done." Two minutes before the short pro- cession started for the seaffold, Stonge requested that his prayer- book be given to governor of the jail, on which he had written on the fly leat, "I leave this prayer book to the Hon. Nap Seguin, as a mark of gratitude and affection, given 25th March, 1924." The writing did not show the least bit of nervous- nées and was scribbled in a round boyish hand. The young man's parents were un- able to see him last night, owing to his mother being prostrated with grief. Stonge was twenty-one years of age. -- P. J. Barry, Prescott, died on Monday, aged seventy-two years. He spent practically his whole life sail- J. N. Greenshields, K.C., Mont real, who 'defended Louis Riel in 1885, is in a Montreal hospital fol- lowing a slight hemorrhage of the brain. An early discussion of the resolu. tion in regard to the Singapore naval base, which was considered by the Imperial Conference, will take placa In the Canadian House of Com- mons. Over a million dollars worth of life insurance each day was the aver- age amount sold in Canada for the month of January. According to figures just published the sales for February were still on the increase. Soviet Russia has just notified the secretariat of the League ot Nations ' that she win sign the mutual guarantee pact and disarma- ment treaty recommended to all the powers by the last Assembly of the League. CLAIN HE AD RiGAT To Lewve the United States When Paroled As He Is a Canadian Citizen, Russell Graves, alias Russell Moul- len, who was re-arrested after being released from the Portsmouth penie tentiary, and who is wanted in the State of Michigan, will fight extra- dition. He made this known on Tuesday morning when he met fhe marshal sent here from Detroit, Mich., to take him back across the border and asked for a lawyer to take up his case. An interesting point has been raised in connection with the case and it is now a ques- tion as to whether the accused will 80 back to the States. It appears that the prisoner was arrested in Michigan and given ga sentence of from one to five years and that after serving a year he was allowed out on parole. Some time later he came to Canada, got into some trouble and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, He is a Canadian and a native of Toronto, Graves claims he finished his term across the border and as a Canadian he holds that he had a right to come over to his own country. He is not at all willing to go back to the States, where he is charged with vioe lating his parole, The marshal, who was sent here from Michigan, was at the police station on Tuesday morning, with United : States Con- sul F. 8. 8. Johnson and had a con~ sultation with the accused. ey Thirty Years in Prison, Montreal, March- 25.--Louls La- vigne, Montreal, has fust been liber ated from prison at Stillwater, Minn., for killing a man who betrayed his sister thirty years ago. He has ra- turned to Montreal and views auto- mobiles for the first time, i -------------- Revolutionists Control. Washington, March 25.--Hondun an révolutionists are in complete possession of the entire country, with the exception of Tegucigalpa, United States Minister Morales re! ported to-day to the state depart ment. Joseph McGrath, former minister of industry and commerce, will not resign from the Dail Bireann to- day, but will postpone action until to-morrow. Other deputies, whe were to resign, to-day, also postpone ed their resignation. The U. S. Congress will ADDIOPe riate $10,000,000 for the purchase of food supplies for destitute WO men and children in Germany. Cutting off of federal grant re. sults in.reduction of agricultural services in British Columbia. Turkey strengthening fortfica« tions on Bosphorus and making Sniyrna naval base, -------- 2442900030000 00000 A BELLEVILLE AUTO KILLS LITTLE BOY Belleville, March 25. -- Charles Henry Shaw, aged four years, was instantly killed this morning when he was struck by @& motor car driven by Wilbur Johnston, Belleville, while playing with several other children at his home, two miles from here. The boy was running across the road when struck, AEE ET ETT oh E2020020000094, 24999009000 0000 i ----. "You Said It, By MARCELINE d'ALROY: Marceline!" On "Speechless Love." REAL LOVE can't SPEAK-- It's PAST it-- BEYOND IT, But I think, NOWADAYS, ™ MODERN brand of LOVING More like "REEL" LOVE which Runs off its little evening's Entertainment and then BEGINS All OVER AGAIN to ANOTHER AUDIENCE, Sometimes 1 wonder IF We are not becoming INARTICU- LATE? We "Say it with flowers," And DO everything to MUSIC-- From our DAILY DOZEN st dawn To DINING and DANCING dawn, ing the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes. ; - man, Wat, Prone toni fon, Everything is JAZZED NOW, ° From the COURTSHIP To the WEDDING MARCH, And ev ng is SYNCO- PATER . Even the MARRIAGE LINES -- Or is it SYNTHETICIZED! Any way, I am TOLD, the modren version Is to "Love, Honor and O Boy; Till breath do depart." Yes, is HARD- BOI But the RICE-- And when that is se,' After « FEW YEARS Marriage is About as STIMULATING As a MILK PUDDING,